The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 25, 1912, Image 1
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Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 25,1912. One Dollar and a Half a Year.
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HAS 01VEN AWAY $6,000,000
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PHILANTHROPIST GAVE AWAY I
HIS ENTIRE FORTUNE.
Dr. I). K. Pearsons, of Chicago, the r
"Prince of Givers," Now Dead 2
Broke, But Happy.
are bright, his cheeks have aQoui
the right amount of color in them,
and he is happy. "I am much better
than I was a year ago," he chuckled.
"Within the last three months I r
gained pounds. The only thing that t
> > bothers me is a touch of rheuma- I
tism in my knees. t
"And I don't owe a cent to any- I
body. Every pledge I made has s
been paid. It's a big relief to know j
you haven't got a lot of money to t
give away. I'm not an open giver t
^ any more. I haven't any cares now. \
I have the satisfaction of knowing
that my money is elevating humanity.
There is not a penny of it that
N . is not doing good." ^
The doctor then spoke of the '
The bulk of Pearsons's fortune was \
made on timber land speculations. 1
The philanthropist favors votes for c
women. He believes women eventu- c
ally will vote, and that it will be a
good thing for the country.
"There is just one favor I wish
you'd do for me," said the doctor to
the reporter. "I wish you to mention
I have no more money to give
away. I still get about a dozen letters
a day from people who want J
money. I read them if I haven't
anything else to do, and then throw
them in the basket. I'm broke?yes, '
sir, broke?but I'm happy!"
ANOTHER NEGRO NAMED.
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rW. C. Matthews Appointed Special
United States Attorney.
Boston, April 23.?William C.
Matthews, a negro lawyer, was sworn t
in to-day as special assistant United }
States attorney at Boston. He is the j
second negro to be appointed to the j
assistant district attorneyship within
the past half dozen years, William
H. Lewis, an old Harvard football t
man, having been given a similar ap- 1
nointmpnt bv President Roosevelt. 1
Girl Appears for Negro. <
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New York. April 23.?Miss Lu- I
cilia Pugh, of North Carolina, be- i
? came the first feminine counsel ever i
seen in New York at a murder trial t
when she appeared in court to-day <
. to defend Leroy h'omaexier, a negro, i
accused of shooting Thomas Brown I
after a quarrel in a game of dice. 1
By chance the last talesman ex- j
amined was Robert Lee, a descend- 1
( ant of the Virginia Lees, whom she <
at once accepted. ?
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Dr. D. K. Pearsons, Chicago phi- *
lanthropist, who has given his entire
fortune of more than $6,000,000 to
educational institutions, celebrated
his 92nd anniversary last Saturday.
At the Hinsdale sanitarium, where
he resides, he held an all-dav reception.
It was just a year ago that the
man whom Carnegie called "the
prince of givers" announced he had
given away the last dollar of his once
great fortune. He spent twenty-two
years in distributing the money. Today
ended his first year of complete
rest.
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> "My! but I feel tine," saia rearsons.
He looked the part. His eyes c
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method he had taken in disposing of
his estate. "I suppose it does look t
, funny for a man to spend years accumulating
a big fortune and turn t
around and spend twenty-two years
in giving it away," he agreed. "But ^
it was the wisest thing to do. The ^
colleges would not get so much if I
i had left the money for a lot of peo- j
pie to quarrel over."
Two years ago Pearsons gave an
institution $250,0O0 on condition ^
that it pay him a per cent, annual
income on the sum during his lifetime.
It is his on'y support and ^
, from the $5,000 a year he still is t
able to aid needy persons.
"I gave one man $500 to-day," he
said. "This person is sick and has .
lost his property. He helped me ^
many years ago, and it gives me
great pleasure to be able to repay j
him if only in a nominal way." ,
Pearsons is confident he is going
to live to be 100 years old. "Our ^
family always has been long on ^
longevity," he explained. "My moth- ^
er lived to be 95 years old, and her
mother was 96 when she died. I attribute
my age to the regularity of
my life."
"I used tobacco a great deal until i
I was 70. I quit it about four months e
ago. I stopped all bad habits. I'm c
doing everything I can to prolong i
j my ilef." I
Were at Dance When Sliip Sank.
New York, April 19.?First cabin '
eassengers on the Titanic were warned
of the doom of their ship as they
lanced in the grand salon of the
nonster vessel. A ball had been in ;
jrogress for more than an hour
vhen the ship crashed into the ice.
rhe music ceased with a wild dis:ord,
and the dancers dashed to the
leek.
Feared His Lawyer.
A young lawyer had been appointed
by the court to defend a man
,'harged with larceny. In his argunent
to the jury he.pleaded for the
icquittal of his client. He told of
lis innocent boyhood days, of the
jood character of his father, mother
md brothers. In short, he launched
'orth into family history.
The prisoner, an old darkey, had
istened with growing uneasiness to
lis counsel's plea and as the attorney
vent on without a hint of stopping,
;he negro was driven to desperation,
lumping to his feet, he yelled to the
?ourt:
"I'se guilty, yo' honoah, I'se guil- ,
;y! De jury can't do moah dan send .
ne to jail fo' six months, but if dat
'ool lawyer doan stop dey'll hang
ne, fo' suah."?Judge.
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A dastardly attempt was made on ;
:he night of the 1 t?th to burn the j
aw office of Warren & Warren, at | :
Hampton. Kerosene was put on the i
'ront porch and under the front door !
tnd matches applied. A strip of 1 in- j:
ileum just under the door is sup-!;
iosed to have prevented the matches j
'rom igniting. Robbery was not the j :
notive, as nothing was missing from j
he office. Major E. F. Warren has j
iffered a reward of one hundred dol- j
F '-v?? nvon f f A PnTH'l'ht tllD Q'lliltV 1
dlS 1U1 J/IUUl lu VV-t. . ivv VI.V ,
person or persons, and the mayor of
Hampton has offered a like reward.
number of fires have occurred in
:hat town within the last few years.
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3 it is now supposed that several ,
ire the work of an incendiary. :
>ints of "Dooze. mis manes a iu(
al of 460 half pints of liquor that j
he officers have seized here in the
>ast week. ,
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Only Half Guilty. 1
Senator Williams in an address in j
fazoo, said of a movement he op>osed:
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"These men try to apologize for ,
heir course, but their apology re- .
ninds me of that of the Yazoo office
>oy.
"A business man, looking up
rom an important business letter he
vas drafting, said to this boy testily r
" 'Don't whistle at your work, Calioun.'
" 'I ain't workin', sir,' Calhoun
1
mswered. 'I'm only just whistin'.'
"?Cincinnati Enquirer. '
The question of home supplies is {
>ne that will not down. It must be '
aken into consideration. Where will 1
be food for your household and for
rour stock come from? Will it come
nainly from your own farm, or will ;
t come from the West? Will the
bod for your table come mostly from 1
japer casks and tin cans? How far
s your corn crib from your house?
s it within easy walking distance,
>r is it somewhere between 600 and
1,000 miles? What about hay for
he stock? Do you raise it, or do
*ou buy it??Farmers' Union Sun.
FIRE IX McSWEEX STORE. jj
)ver $30,000 Loss by Fire and j
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Water at Tiniuionsville. j J
Timnionsville, April 21.?Fire to-j
light at about 10:30 o'clock dam-| (
iged the store and stock of goods of j
he John J. McSween Company to |
he extent of $30,000 to $40,000.
<o opinion as to the origin of the
lames is expressed. The blaze was
liscovered by the night policeman 1
md the alarm given. In a very short
vhile it had made alarming headvay,
but effective work of the fire ]
lepartment and the efficiency of the 1
lew water-works system made it pos- 1
;ible to save the magnificent store
milding. The greatest damage was i
lone by the water. 1
The McSween Company, as is well j
mown, conducts one of the largest
general merchandise businesses in j
Sastem Carolina, carrying a stock of ]
joods valued at between $150,000 <
o $200,000. Mr. John J. McSween, ,
>f this town, is president of the
lompany.
Beer Seizures in Barnwell. '
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Barnwell, April 18.?In a raid j
nade early yesterday morning on
he home of Mace Jeffcoat, Sheriff ,
r. H. Creech and his deputies cap- ,
ured about 200 half pints of whis- .
:ey. Another raid on the black- .
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;mith shop of Jeffcoat netted 17 half
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS I
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
state News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
The State Sunday-school convention
decided to meet in Sumter next
year.
The $7,000 yacht Geisha was completely
wrecked at its wharf in Charleston
on Saturday by a sudden and
violent windstorm.
Sheriff Creech of Barnwell seems
to be something of a raider of blind
tigers in that town. He has seized
i lot of whiskey and beer recently.
A special term of court is soon to
be held at. Barnwell, and the governor
has appointed Chas. Carroll
Simms, Esq., as special judge to preside.
John Gary, colored, was shot and
killed with a shotgun on Sunday afternoon
at Alcolu, Clarendon county,
by John Barfield, white. No cause is
?iven for the killing.
The coal chute at Hodges, on the
Southern Railway, burned Friday
night with a thousand tons of coal
and three box cars, causing a loss of
about six thousand dollars.
Dr. J. H. E. Milhous, a prominent
pitizen of Blackville, died suddenly
last Thursday. He had practiced
Jentistry for a number of years, and
bad many friends who regret his untimely
death.
Rev. J. D. Chapman, D. D., former
Dastor of the First Baptist church of
A.nderson, now pastor of a church in
3cala, Fla., has accepted the position
3f financial agent of the Greenville
female college.
One of the striking features of the
State Sunday-school conveniton,
which met in Greenwood last week,
was the parade. Over two thousand
persons were in line, each man with
a Bible under his arm.
Eighty-two new indictments were
handed out on Monday by Solicitor
Otts at the Spartanburg court. The
sases brought over from the previous
^ourt bring the number of cases on
the criminal docket up to 114.
Jesse Clifton Penny, Associated
Press operator in the office of the
News and Courier, committed suicide
in his room in Charleston on Saturday.
He was 30 years old and a fine
young man. No cause is assigned.
He was originally from Abbeville.
Furman and Love Brown, white
and brothers, shot and mortally
wounded John Johnson, at Barnes
Station, Anderson county, on Saturday,
shooting 12 times in the presence
of many bystanders, five shots
taking effect. The cause is not stated.
Immediately after the shooting
the brothers fled over into Georgia.
Politics in Charleston are under
going rapid changes tnese aays. |
Some time ago L. C. A. Roessler announced
that he would run for sheriff
against J. Elmore Martin, who
now holds the office. Later he withdrew
and Jno. P. DeVeaux entered
the race, both Roessle:* and DeVeaux
being allied with the Grace forces in
Charleston. Now DeVeaux has withdrawn
and the field is open for Capt.
Martin. They do some queer things
in political circles in Charleston, but
what is behind these many changes
no one seems to know.
Tornado Near St. George.
St. George, April 22.?A tornado
swept within a few miles of St.
George to-day shortly after noon,
causing loss of life and wrecking a
number of houses. Two lives are
known to have been lost, while other
injuries are reported. A son of Mr.
Weathers is reported killed, wrhile
two other children of Mr. Weathers
are said to have suffered broken
limbs. John Hunter is said to have
been severely injured. A negro
man, whose name could not be learned.
was killed.
The cyclone spent its force before
reaching St. George, and no damage
is reported in the town.
The storm is said to have swept
the town of Reevesville and Badham
and extended to Aiken. Much damage
is believed to have been left in
the path of the terrific blow, while
several other lives are believed to
have been lost in addition to those
reported near here.
' " ?? ...nl.ft r.1/1 Viar- !
I UU *.'<*11 llianc wju luinitm-c nui
mon:ze with new surroundings by
applying one coat of Campbell's Varnish
Stain. These stains are transparent
and impart a fine color and
finish without obscuring the grain
of the wood. Any inexperienced person
can use them. Apply to G. O.
Simmons for color card.
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BANDITS LOOT SLEEPER.
Force Nine Passengers to Hand Over
Money.
Chicago, April 21.?Nine persons
were robbed of money or valuables,
or both by three masked hold-up
men who went through the sleeper
Nottingham, of the Rock Island
west-bound Golden State Limited, a
few minutes after last midnight, at
Sheffield, 111., forty miles east of Moline.
After the robbers had finished
their work they shot holes in the
air signal tube connected with the
engine, thus bringing the train to a
standstill, and quickly made their
escape.
Under cover of three revolvers
the porter was forced to point out to
the outlaws the berths that were occupied.
As soon as the robbers entered
the Pullman they forced the
porter to lock the doors. Only the
occupants of one Pullman were disturbed.
The Victims.
Those who were robbed are: W.
L. LeBlanc, New York, $5 and railroad
ticket; Mary Herron, Chicago,
$96; O. T. Benton, Oberlin, Kas.,
gold watch and diamond, valued at
$150, and $250 cash; D. A. McFuller
and wife, Fort Wayne, Ind., $95
and two watches valued at $60; J.
B. Gomand, Phoenix, Ariz., $85.
The presence on the train of the
three robbers has not been accounted
for. It is thought perhaps the
men boarded the limited at the crossing
of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad near which a Burlington
train was held up some time
ago.
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nuilflft >"5LUp X imu.
After the desperados had taker
their loot they commanded the portei
to pull the air tube as a signal for
the engineer to stop the train. Wher
the porter demurred the men punctured
the tube with bullets fron
their pistols. The firing of the revolvers
was the only noise connected
with the hold-up.
It was stated at the general offices
of the Rock Island here to-daj
that a good description of the robbers
was obtained, and it was furthei
said that there were hopes of run
ning them down.
Many Towns Wiped Out.
The following summary of th<
flood situation in the Mississippi val
ley was given out Wednesday morn
ing:
Parts of thirteen parishes 11
Northeastern Louisiana are to-da:
facing a deluge unparalleled in th<
history of disastrous floods of thi
lower Mississippi valley. Numerous
small towns in East Carroll and Mad
ison parishes are already wiped out
vast stretches of valley lands ar<
covered by from six to twenty fee
of water, and a wall of the devastat
ing flood waters twenty feet higl
and more than a mile wide is rush
ing through the great Dog Tai
crevasse near Alastia, La.
Already thousands are homeless
and destitute. What will be the tol
when the waters from the Panthei
Forest and Red Fork crevasses, n
Arkansas, join with the sea of watei
pouring through the Dog Tail bread
no one can say. Parts of thirteei
Louisiana parishes and two Arkan
sas counties will be under water
and a conservative estimate is thai
the homeless in that territory wil
toll at least 50,000, probably 75,
000. It is believed that territory 16(
miles in length and from eight t(
six miles in width will be inundated
Rain and Wind in Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga., April 22.?Torrential
rains, accompanied by high winds
ranging from 60" to 90 miles an hour
swept parts of Alabama and almosl
all of Georgia early to-day. Sever
persons are known to have been killed
and scores injured. The damage
to live stock and other property is
reported severe. Streams are out ol
their banks in south Georgia, and in
many places railroad schedules have
been disarranged.
At Newborn, Ga., six persons were
killed when a cyclone swept th&t ter
ritory. At Brookside, near Birmingham,
Ala., a negro was killed when
a house fell in on him.
From Bowden, Carroll county,
Georgia, come reports of 20 injured,
several fatally, when their homes
were blown down over their heads.
Reports from Quitman, Ga.. state
that streams are overflowing as a result
of continuous heavy rains. Railroad
tracks have ben washed away,
and all service on the Georgia Southern
Railroad south of Quitman has
been discontinued.
Damages from the storm also are
reported from Athens, Ga., Gainesville,
Pendergrass and other points
in nortn ueorgia.
| FLOOD'S Fl'liV NOT TEMPERED.
j Many Towns Inundated?Much Suffering
Among Refugees.
New Orleans, April 21.?News
from the flooded area of the Mississippi
Valley in Arkansas, Mississippi
and Louisiana continued to-day to be
increasingly grave. Thousands of
people, who were compelled to flee
to higher places when the yellow
flood invaded heir homes, have been
cared for, but there are still many
more who are in imperative need of
aid. As the waters continue on their
destructive way more appeals for
help are being received by those in
charge of the relief work. /
It is estimated there are fifty
towns and villages that have so far
felt the effect of the flood. Some
j MEN FACE FEARFUL CHARGE
i THREE MEN ALLEGED TO HAVE
COMMITTED BRUTAL ATTACK.
Men Lodged in Jail at Spartanburg
After Being Captured Near
Greer.
Spartanburg, April 22.?Caught in
a dragnet which was thrown far and
wide around Greer, three of four
i white men accused of an atrocious
i attack on a white woman of near that
, place were lodged in the county jail
1 by Sheriff W. J. White to-night. The
prisoners are Ben Littlefield, Boyce
Littlefield and Claude Wright. The
i fourth man, Robert McCarter, escap
ed after being pursued to Tayfors,
Greenville county. The chase will
: be renewed to-morrow.
With unparalleled boldness the
four stormed the home of Henry
Rollins on Saturday night, it is
charged, during his absence, tore a
shotgun from the grasp of Ernest
Rollins and drove him away, wrecked
, the house and subjected the alleged
, woman victim to unmentionable
; abuse. Three of them attacked her in
the house she says and the fourth,
Claude Wright, after his companions
, had fallen over in a drunken stupor,
compelled her to accompany him into
i the nearby woods, where he detained
her the rest of the night. Mrs. Rol>
lins, pursued part of the way by one
of the boys, fled to the home of her
[ brother-in-law, Robert Rollins, fath.
er of Ernest. Robert and Ernest say
i they were afraid to attempt the rescue
of the other woman.
A telegram was sent to Greenville
l Sunday night. The local telegraph
offices were closed but Sheriff White
> was communicated with by long disl
tance telephone this morning and
. took the first train to Greer. In the
i torrential downpour this morning
. the chase was started. The alleged
- crime had stirred the community
and Sheriff White had many offers
- of assistance. The posse was diviar
ed into groups of two and three and
- the country was scoured as with a
r fine comb. Wright and the Little
field boys were found in a patch of
woods by J. B. Stansell and Russell
Deshields, to wbom they surrendered
without ado. McCarter was started
up in a cotton mill village where
' he took to his heels and outdistanced
his pursuers. Sheriff White followed
him on foot as far as Taylors,
where the trail was lost.
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7 Pointed Paragraphs.
* It is always the open season for
3 killing time.
s The smaller the bribe the greater
- the disgrace.
? How much does it cost you each
3 year to be sarcastic?
t It is human nature to blame others
- for most of our meanness.
1 The small boy by any other name
- would be just as strenuous.
1 One good term deserves another
?as any officeholder will tell you.
3 Very soon after some engagements
1 are announced they are denounced,
r The average excuse is so thin that
i even a blind man ought to see
r through it.
i Many a young man's interest in an
i heiress is the kind that looks like 6
- per cent.
> As a matter of fact, there isn't any
t one on earth to-day who is better
1 than you should be.
A man isn't necessarily crooked
> because he walks as if he were fol>
lowing the line of a rail fence.
ctror.ir i i ty-1 n o man ccdq q fflehinn
JJVC1 J U AMMU v~
plate in a woman's magazine he is
glad that his wife doesn't look any
thing like it.
A girl should never marry until
? she is fully competent to support a
t husband, and then she shouldn't
i marry any kind of a man.
A man who is crazy for medals to
' show his importance needs a heap
5 more than he gets to do it.
. "Dry" Trains in Ohio.
i Passenger officials of Ohio railroads
are in a quandary and it is
; not at all improbable that the sale
of drinks in dining cars in this State
will soon be a thing of the past. The
law prevents the service of drinks in
a dining car while passing through a
, "dry" county or territory.
There are now forty-six "dry"
i counties in Ohio, eleven have not
voted on county option and have sa
loons, while thirty-one counties are
"wet." As a temporary expedient
the passenger agents of the principal
lines have been furnished with maps
of Ohio showing the "wet" and
i "dry" counties in the State. The
railroad officials have about come to
i the conclusion that the sale of liquor i
on trains, as handicapped by this
i situation, is unprofitable and a liability
rather than an asset.
places are from two to fifteen feet
under water, with little prospects of
an early recession.
Reports as to the loss of life differ.
Those known to have perished
total ten, all but one negroes. It is
believed, however, that the list will
be much larger when the interior of
the affected district is penetrated by
rescue parties.
Conditions in the country overflowed
by the Beulah, Miss., break,
are extremely serious. High places
in Bolivar county, never before inundated,
are covered with three to four ,
feet of water. All women and children
in that district have been taken
to Greenville and Vicksburg. Much
relief work remains to be done in
that section, as appeals for help from
both white and black inhabitants are
continually being received at Vickshiirsr.
where the headauarters of the
relief bureau are established. Over
a dozen towns have already been inundated
from the Beulah break.
At Nibletts, Miss., four miles
south of the Beulah crevasse, where
some alarm was felt for a portion
of the levee Saturday, a large force
of men is working day and night and
it is believed a break will be averted.
Great damage has been done to
railroads running through the flooded
countries.
The distribution of supplies to?
hundreds of victims marooned on
plantations and in settlements in
the neighborhood of Tallulah, La.,,
began to-day.
There is practically no change in
the levee situation south of Vicksburg.
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Freak Squall Hits Charleston. -:'l
Charleston, April 22.?Additional
reports yesterday from all sections
| of the water front and from the city
in general brought out little that was
new in the way of damage from the
severe and sudden storm that struck
Charleston last Saturday afternoon,,
the wind for about ten minutes blowing
at the rate of 66 miles an hourThe
principal damage done was tt>
small boats along the eastern water
front, the most exposed point being
the Yacht Club pier, where a number
of the finest yachts and gasoline
launches owned in the city were
moored. Reports from Sullivan's Island
yesterday indicated little damage
from the squall. At Station 26 Vz
a large outbuilding on the premises
owned by Mr. H. O. Strohecker was
blown down. A number of trees
were badly damaged by the high
wind and several fences demolished.
The wind did little or no damage
at the Navy Yard. None of the boats
were disturbed, and officers at the
yard expressed surprise at the dam- '
age wrought in the city, especially
the destruction of the Geisha off the
Yacht Club pier and the injury of
other small craft.
The squall of Saturday will go on
record as a freak storm. There was
a heavy rainfall from early morning.
All day the barometer fluctuated, and
at 5 o'clock in the afternoon the mercury
began behaving in a manner
most extraordinary, dropping in less
than half an hour .32 of an inch, and
then rising as suddenly 18.
For about ten minutes the wind
blew 66 miles an hour from the
southeast, spreading dismay along
the eastern water front. The yacht
Geisha was reduced to kindling wood,
the Waterwitch was badly damaged,
several small boats were turned over,
one lost her jib-boom and another
her figurehead. The crisis came
suddenly, and it took prompt and decisive
action on the part of those
who happened to be aboard to save
their craft. The army dredges Sumter
and Winyah Bay rode the storm
out on the bay rather than run the
risk of being pounded at the wharves,
as was the case during the hurricane
last August when one of them was
badly damaged.
Monroe Cauthen, an 80-year-old
Confederate veteran, was run over
and killed by a Southern freight
train in Lancaster on Thursday.