The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, November 12, 1902, Image 1
The Batesburg Advocate.
VOL II. BATESBURG, S. C., WEDNESDAY, N0VEMBE11 12, 1902. NO. 43- !
DIED TOdETHKK.
A Shocking Tragedy and a Revela
^ tion in Omaho, Neb.
A PREACHER AND A MISSIONARY
Found in Facli Others Arms Cold ii
Ileal li in I lie Preacher's Kiiuly
in Hear ol't lie Church.
A most shocking tragedy was enact
cd in Omaho, Nebraska, i?:i Tuesday
night of last week. Clasped in eacl
other's arms, lying on the llnor of tin
pastor's study in the (Jerinan Maptisi
Church early Wednesday. Oscar Item
des, janitor of the church, discoverci
the dead tiodies of the llcv. \Y. (>
ltabe, pastor, and Augusta llusch, :
missionary and assistant to the pas
tor. Death had been caused by as
phyxiation. The room was tilled wit!
gas, a jet and a burner of a smal
stove being partly turned on. Tin
bodies were lying on t lie Moor, the wo
man's head being pillowed on somi
cushions. i ucy oviacnuy mid lain ii
that position for several hours. Then
seems to be little doubt that deal I
was accidental, it is believed tha
the pair had fallen asleep, the stovi
llame blew out and the. jras escaped
The bodies were riyid and death evi
dently occurred during the early hour
of the previous evening.
Miss iUiscli roomed at the home h
Janitor lleindcs and Mr. Kabe at tin
home of Harry Dirkseti. Miss l'.usel
went to the Dirksen home yesterda;
morning and remained there unti
about 9 o'clock in tlie evening, enirae
ed in sewing. She left for her hour
alone and it is thought probable tha
she met Mr. Uabc on her way am
that the two went to his study in th
rear of the church, where the traced
occurred. They had been ^ood friends
but no stronger feeiiun wasapparen
IU tllUftl.: ? llll It III" W 1111*112.
Mrs. lterndcs supposed the dead w.
man was in her mom until Miss Sclial
ker, housekeeper for Mr. llahe. rep ?r
ted that he had not been at hum
during the night. Then it was di>
covcred that >1 iss Itusch had not oc
cupled her room and a search \va
made for them tliis morning. 'I'll
janitor went to the pastor's study am
found the door locked and the key 01
the inside and he detected the escnp
_ ing gas. Quickly he summoned a p<j
lice otticcr and the door was broki'i
open.
In tlie centre of the very small stud
the bodies lay, the heads a few fee
from the doors. The woman's fao
... _ was eovcied " l*h froth r.ml had Ixgui
j to turn purple. One gas Jet above th
1 pastor's table was partly turned ol
I ~ and from a stove gas was slowly es
| caping.
1 - it was thought at first that the t \v?
had committed suicide, for on the ta
ble was an open letter, a neatly ar
ranged bouquet. Mr. Katie's watel
and glasses and his hat. Miss Muse!;'
f gloves and handkerchief and foldei
upon the hack of a chair was her jack
et. The letter was written in Ccimai
and when translated was found to b
an answer to another letter which Mr
llahe had received. There was notli
ing in it to indicate that the two ha<
intended taking their lives.
Mr. llahe was ."i I years of age am
came to Omaha from UutT.ilo. N. V.
when lie was chosen pastor of the tier
man Baptist Church. Iii that Stat
lie left a wife who is attending a mis
sionary school, and one son. lie wa
held in high esteem by his congrega
tion.
Miss Itusch was .'tl years of age an
had been a missionary in Omaha fu
the last live years. She came her
from Chicago, sent hy t he Clinic
Missionary School. She. was liel
iii liitfh esteem and was very p.pulai
loy in au Anderson Home.
A dispatch from Anderson to Th
State says the happiest man in Andci
son county at the present writing i
Mr. W. W. Moore, a prominent citi
7.en of the Piedmont section. Mi
Moore was married in isTti just 2
years a^o. lie and his wife ha\
lived happily together ever since, tm
no children had ever come to hless hi
home. Mr. Moore is on the shad
side of the half century mark and hi
wife is in her f?Oth year. He r.a<
alKiut marie up his mind that thefati
.. had been unkind to him. and that h
would remain childless, but it is
lonu lane that has no turnitnr. an
last Thursday night his wife present
ed him with twins a I my and a eii
The mother and lit t le ones are get tin
along nicely, and Mr. Mere hiais? If
in good shape. These facts ai give:
by people of that community, an
Mr. Moore himst If was in the cits
lie is naturally overjoyed on ace in
of his threat good fortune. "The i><
pie of the city of Amler- o . n 1..ji!
ing cotton mills and trolley lines." 1
sjiid, "huL the piedmont sid. ol tl
county is not * to Ik- snee/.cd at.
wouldn't swap my fortunes for ail II
cotton mills and trolley Ii11< s in tl
country."
Storm on t?11111 i >jo?l.
No less than ei lit m< n we-e mowi
ed, three vessels driven ashoi a
practically every lighter on the N
beach were wrecked in : t i >n tl.
.commenced Tuesday. Nov l.ai'deo
tinned throughout i he da v. The i ic
are given by I'm er holm . u. on t
Ohio, who arriv al l i idav \ d 1/? n <
more people tin w n lot l be sort v.ei
rescued by the life saving crews. Tl
HchtMHier Louise, t ste.i 01 : 1. k at
tlic launch Fleet \\ ing w< 1 ainoi
the larger craft wiccked 1 u lie bead
In each instance the crews were re
cued or managed to reach tlieshor
The storm caused thewatci to hac
up in Snake river and l?ry creek, ai
the 1 ?ry creek bridge was waslu
away.
li
A TEXAS FIGHT.
Three Moil Killed in n Shooting
Aft'ray at Orange.
Three men are dead as a result of a
shooting a (Tray at Orange, Texas,
Wednesday and great excitement pre- '
vails in that community. The dead:
' .led Chenault. City Marshal Jordan, ,
I Tony Jones.
I Sad blood is said to have existed
hot ween Chenault and Will Harris, a
. well-known young man, for some
time. Wednesday the two men met
,! and after a war of words Harris
J secured a double-barrelled shot-nun
l i and killed Chenault. Harris ran to >
_ escape the tire of Chenanlt's brother, i
I hut was apprehndcd by City Marshal i
Jordan, who was close at hand. While <
t the otllcer was conducting young liar- i
. l is h> jail lie was shot and killed and !
. his prisoner escaped. It is not. known (
j who killed Jordan, although there '
1 were a large number of people on the i
, street at the time of the tragedy. ?
Will Harris was later arrested and I
2 placed in jail. At this juncture his ]
, i brother, James Harris, started for a I
. i near-by store, declaring that lie would
, i procure a weapon and take part in the i
1 alTair. It is claimed that Tony Jones
L, handed Harris a gun, after which the i
'former jumped into a buggy. As lie
. ' was driving away odlcers appeared on
s| the scene and opened tire on Jones,
j indicting wounds from waich lie died
f i a few minutes later. !
2 1 The town was thiown into a state 1
j of intense excitement and further ;
^ t rouble was feared, but SherilT liob- (
1 erts ordered that all saloons must close
. until lie gave them permission to open, ;
2 and announced tli.it lie would restore
i law and order at any cost. 'Phis |
1 statement had tin- desired effect and i
although the si ivets are erowded there !
v does not appear to be any likelihood j
of further trouble. Jordan was only i
j recently appointed to succeed Mar- :
shall Jett. who was killed in the disi_
charge of his duty.
A I'ler ('alters.
I '. 11. Heas, the Negro chairman of .
' the ltcpiiblican party in this State,
lias attempted to st ir up anot her senj
sat ion in the (J. o. J'., and has pre- ,
* i ferred charges against Dist rict Attor- (
lj ncy John O. Capers, Internal Revenue
! Collector Mica'n Jenkins and almost
1 every other federal otllee holder in the
State to the effect that they are guilty
of pernicious political activity and
I have used their oilices in a way bound ]
to ofteiul the president. As a result
i j Mr. Fred II. Wanuamaker, civil serv- ,
ice examiner, lias been sent to Char- j
^ | lestou to investigate the charges und ,
II spent, the entire day Wednesday tak- (
; ing the testimony of Mr.Capers. Dens' ;
j charges are not regarded seriously by
I any one. and it is generally thought ]
that lie is reeling sore because he feels
I 11lie control of the party slipping from
his hands, lie is not consulted in the |
mat ter of federal pat ronage any more, (
land what he says is of no weight in ,
II Washington. It is likely, the re ."ore.
: t hat after the hearing of the charges ,
" | ant horlties in Washington will dis1
miss the whole matter, .lust what
1 I teas hopes to gain by this is a matter
of conjecture.
A Horrible Story.
A special from Columbus, Neb. tells
I ol the killing last Friday of a farmer
named (Jerhard llorehers, living several
miles northeast of Humphreys,
l" hy Herman, a fourteen-year-old son.
who used a shotgun, which he had
s purchased for that purpose. When
" the help of two brothers, August
aged 10, and John, aged ts years, llerman
dragged the body of his father to
II a strawstaek and set tire to it. This
is the stor\ secured l?y SherilT Uyrnes
" from the tluee children, who are in
ewsi.nov. r. ii'ii ??i Lili' <-1111(1 I t'll prucil eally
told the .same stor.v, the only
j variance heinn in the decree of cul0
; pubility in the killing accorded to
.. each. Herman, who is said to have
s liivd tlie mm that killed his father,
I*, implicates his younger brothers
equally with himself, while they put
the hlame on him. The only motive
j for I he eriine piven istliat the fat her.
, with whom the children had lived
alone since the mother's death, had
v not t reated tliein kindly. Neighbors
s of the 1 lurchers say they know of no
1 I mistreatment on the part of the
,s fat her.
Annum! <>l ('olton (>iinie?l.
:i : A report issued h> t ho census bureau
! Wednesday places the quantity of the
present crop of cotton which had been
iniimed up to October is at 5,1*25,872
r i commercial hales, which is estimated
ls to he a little more than iil> per cent of
" the entire crop. These (inures were
p collected hy the agents of the bureau
^' and 2t?.ai I nhineries are represented
ll by the returns. The followinn lijiures
'represent the amount ninned in each
r State by bales: Alabama 685,783
\rkansas ai?0,8U0, Florida 2M.77'.i.
Hernia '.'0i;,?? lt?. Indian Territory
20I.0P.1 Kentucky 2*1. Louisiana 3i?lt,
" tos, Mississippi 550, 12U, Missouri 11."
'.iiia. Nort h Carolina ana.020 <>klaj
hoina v l.ii'.m South Carolina <?ul,-iai,
I'c iulessee 121,180, Texas 1,781,707,
. Virginia >,1525. i
A lM-nii limit.
Mrs. Josephine Thornton of 111''
dianapolis. I ml.. refund a divoice
from her hush.uul <>ii | riday, ?nic> of
her grounds of ?i*iphi1111 heinu t hat, i
though li< 1 hiishaud was i;cttinu a
11 vf? k u 1 salary. I hey had moved do times i
' siuee their marriage leu vears arr<>
Undine it 1 lieaper h> move than to
1,1 pa \ rent.
( <il Their Hcwerls.
s- A well known s(M-i(>ty man of Lou-j
e. don named halliard 1'iaser has heen
k .M-nti need I 1 ten years pimal servit ude
id and v\i111 him Arthur Thorold, the
d sou of a minister. Their oiTense was
corrupting youth.
MUST BE INSANE.
A Wealthy Young Postonian Accused
ot Committing
FIFTEEN MURDEROUS ASSAULTS
Two of Them Kcsulted Fatally, lit*
Has Ili-cii Insane, Hut Was
Kt'lrascd From .\Hyliim
ttH t'urnl.
A dispatch from ltoston, Mass.,
tays in connection with the 1"> murderous
assault cases wliich hate occurred
in Cambridge, Hrooklln, and Som rville
within the last few months,
two of which resulted fatally, the
state police Wednesday arrested Alan
II.Mason, of lioston, a well known and
wealthv business man. a member of
Hie piani) manufacturing tirm of Ma*
<011 .S; Hamlin, a prominent c!u!? member
and a Harvard graduate. The police
suspect, from evidence in their
liands. that Mr. Mason lias been involved
in nearly all the cases referred
to as the circumstances of each have
been very similar. Mr. Mason is a
middle-aged man but he has been a
vict im of mental trouble for which he
was treated at the McLean asylum at
Waverlv. About a year am> be was 1
permitted t leave Hie institution, i
Since that time, it is said, he lias!
been permitted to po and come at will
and tlie fact that be had been fre-j
juently seen almut the localities in
which the assaults occurred, led to i
suspicion against him.
The peculiar assault cases which j
have terrorized Hamlnidjre and vicin-1
ity as well as other suburban sections
hca'an last June. During the summer
there were half a do/en victims of an
unknown assailant each of which was
struck down and ) tea ten with a blunt
instrument. Kariy in October Miss
Amies Mel'liee was assaulted it. Soni rville
and died from her injuries an
iron wrench was found and lived iiihiii
is the weapon used. I Hiring tin * same
month eiulit other cases followed, ilit.* t
last of which occurred last Saturday j
iiiuht when Clara A. Morton, a laun- j
Iress at the McLean asylum, was ac- i
. ostcd on the grounds of that institution
and lieaten with a blunt instrument.
Miss Morton died Sunday.
Mr. Mason was taken into custody
it his mothers home, oil Newbury
street. He made no objection and on
the way to police headquarters it is
said Mr. Mas* m ad milled to the oili-j
era that lie was In Soinerville on tin* j
iiitflit, on which Miss Mol'huo u-at fu.-1
tally injured. The prisoner isaliuutj
!U years of aye and is the son of the
founder of the linn of Mason & Hamlin,
or^an and piano manufacturers.
He was graduated from Harvard in
issti and entered tin* tirin of which
his father was the head. Mental
[roubles developed within a few .ears,
nf his gradual io.'i and he went to the j
McLean asylum for treatment. After
a time he showed improvement and i
left the institution. A second time
it became necessary for him lo rciurn
hut he soon improved ami lie was released
a second time.
In I'.Ml. however, symptoms more
serious than any previous ones developed
and his mother and brother
found it unsafe to he with him at
their Newbury street home. He had
threatened both and a petition was
tiled to have liini sent away on the
ground of insanity and Mason was
sent to Wavcrly for the third time.
The man himself protested against
what he termed an injustice and said
that lie was perfectly sane ami would
conduct himself as well as possible
while lie was there. He remained six
months. Since then he had been free
and has been a stock taker at the Mason
vt Hamlin or^an factory at Cam
bridge. Mason has a mother and three,
brothers, Edward Palmer Mason,Henry
Lowell Mason and l'aniel (Jregnrv
Mason. I le is a cousin of John Mason.
1 he well known actor.
Mason was detained at the station
house until nearly :t o'clock, when he
was taken to Cambridge where he will
remain under surveilancc by insanity
experts for a time. Throughout the
examinat ion he absolutely denied that
he knew anything about the assault
eases The police assert that four or
live witnesses declare positively that
they saw Mason in Waverly Saturday
night.
Mason's brother says Alan is in better
mental condition t ban lie was some
time ago hut he realizes that Alan is
an insane man. One fact considered
significantly by the police is the admission
that it has been the habit of
Alan Mason to take a car ride almost
every evening before going to bed.The
ride was taken as usual Sunday evening
but Mason declares lie did not go
in the direction of Waverly.
Later developments in the case is
ilnm'i.rl.... I.. \l....... It ....
announced that the watch ot Miss
Clara Marlon. Mason's last, victim,
had been found in a Cambridge street
pawnshop where it had been pawned
for *1 by a uhiii/ colored man, and
this discovery at once led to a general
search for this man by the entire
police force, hut without avail, but
later developments were far more
sensational. When the pawn broker's
memory had been i?u,;ida little and
lie hi I had lime t ? think over the
matter, lie remembered that the
watch had been t?i? icht to his otlice
on iasl Saturday i H'ht between the
hours of II and IJ o'clock liy a white
man and ottered in pawn. <>winn
to the i'a? ' l ha' it was after business
hours he had n fused to receive it ami
after expressing di .appoint ar.ent tin
man departed, taking the watch with
illll).
(>n Monday morning the saint
wat/Ch was brought in l?y a colored
[
man about 21 years of ago of whom
the pawn broker bought It for *1. A
hurly colored man. evidently cdinpanion
of the other, had lieen waiting,
outside the shop while the tr.ule was
being made and as soon as it' wasoompleted.
he entered and took the money
which the proprietor passed over, hotii
men then departed.
Continuing their investigations,
the ollieers made stnrtJing discovery
which will have an important bearing
on tin1 case, lo tin- elfect that tlie
Watch of Miss Ag* es McL'hee ofSomcrville,
an other ".' irk the Shelter" victim,
had been pawned at the same
Cambridge street shop on Oct. ."t, the
day after lier murder, hy a white man
whose description tallied^exactly with
that, of the fnan who hronphr the-Mort/on
watch to "the pawnshop Saturday
night. The descriptions of these men
is said hy the police to agree to a
striking extent with that of the siisni'rt
\l:knii mill t lu> iviwii ItitiL'or will
be given achanee tomorrow to idcoti- ;
fy hira, if possible, as bis visitor.
COLUMBIA'S GLASS FACTORY.
Si Mit kcs TotitMil* All Kinds of (lot t leu !
Kucli Day.
llut few people realize the vast iiuportanee,
or even the extent of tbe
new glass factory that lias been but
recently established in Columbia,
bringing into the cit-v many desirable
families to make Columbia their
home. The industry is one of ihe
most important that has con to to Columbia,
and there is no plant here!
that, is destined to attract more wide- j
spread notice. Already it has been j
termed by experts who have seen it !
tiie host ventilated and most
thoroughly modern plant in America!
ol its class, which is a very broad i
statement. It has been blurted by
progressive young men who were as
sured before they spent a dollar that1
such a factory would he a paying in-!
vestment, and since the factory ha>
commenced operations lhe> are more
than ever sat isiied on tills point. The I
State refrained from giving many of!
the details of this new and important
enterprise until i'resident John J.
Scibels of the company got everything
thoroughly organized ami working
smoothly. This has now been accomplished.
A few essential facts about
the factory will then lore neof especial
interest to Columbians and others.
The company that has established
this plant is capitalized at $00,000.
and sMfi.ooo lists been invested in the j
thoroughly up-tn-date factory It is. ,
what is knawn.itsa I-shop npJtnry. i
running 11 shops since is was put in j
operation on tile night of Sept.'lto. !
The plant runs night and day, six j
shops working in the day and live at 1
night A sltop consists of three men. !
tun blowing bottles, w hi le one finishes j
the neck, and there arc live jmys to
caeli shop, each hntt le passing t lirongh i
the hands of all before it is completed.
The men work in shifts alternately i
each week by day and night and sev- 1
oral of the shops of the factory arej
blowing is and IP gross of bottles per
turn of s hours. It is interesting to
note that one shop at the new factory '
only a few days ago broke all records j
for quart l?ottles ever blown in the
east. blow ing 20 gross and do/en,
which earned for the three blowers'
a I toti l $12. o() a day each.
The factory shuts down at noon on '
Saturdays, making the actual work
I five days and nights and a half day
extra each week. The half holiday is
necessary in order to blow out the tunnels
and keep the plant thoroughly
cleaned.
The plant employs 120 men and
boys, of whom ltd arc high-priced and
skilled blowers, all can fully selected. |
The capacity is 110 blowers. The
factory is at present turning out
from II to 12 tons of glass a day of 21
hours, being between I To and 2oo gross
of bottles according to the si/.e til tinware,
and giving a daily output work
on the market almut $!,2.*?o. The
class of pn('ds now beinp manufactured
consists of coca-cola, soda water, mineral
water, beer and whiskey 1 Kittles.
The factory's payroll amounts to
about*I,000 a week, ,
The plant consumes 10 tons of coal
i a day. and lias been keeping a supply
! without, ditliculty. Three cars of
sand a week are necessary. This
mines from Killian's in tliis county
and is washed, screened and dried by
i tiie Killian Fire Itrick company. The
coke used in the lelirs for annealing
the ware after it is I down is obtained
I from the pas works here. Two earloads
of soda ash per week are used;
tliis comes from Syracuse, N. V. The
plassmakers' litue comes from Toledo,
(>.. and the manpancsc, arsenic, anti.
niony and other ingredients come from
I various portions of the west. The
factory runs with an improved system
jot pas produces, and a uniform lieat
of -t,uoo depress (Fare ihcit.l Tlic
1k?n shop has a capacity of l.ooo boxes
per da.\. but owinp to 1 tie ditlieolty of
installing i he electrical machinery it
lias only been in operation for a few
'days, turning out half its capacity.
1 The box simp uses about three ears of
i lumber a week when running lull
! capacity. The factory now has blown
on orders, ready for delivery, at the
factory, aUiut 12.000 or l."?,ooo buttles.
which will be delivered to the
purchasers as soon as the box \s are
ready.
I<> lie licit II int.
Sain Ihirris. a neyro, entered I lie
home ot i ieo Mc allows, a prominent
planter, near Salem. Ala., on Monday
ami struck Mrs. Meadows and her 1Kyear
old daughter on tlie head with
, an axe. yi\iiy the former a inorta
| wound and fracturing the skull of tin
latter. The myro was arrested, toil
. was taken from the officers by 12"
. THE ELECTION.
Ther.; Were No Great Surprises in
the Result.
REPUBLICANS WIN THE IiOUSE.
Hut tin* Democrat* Mailt) Hi** (jaitiK
In Nearly All tin* States. T?i *
South Once More Solid.
'IM 1 A ! ? '*
i in- uicutiiiii i?n ruesnay, 4iii instant,
resulted in no preat surprises.
In New Vork the Republican eandidate
for governor claims his election
by a small majority, which the Democrats
refuse to concede. The result
is so close that there will probably be
a contest. In almost all cities of the
state of New York the Republican
party organizations went to smash before
the assault of the labor vote. The
Democrats win four congressmen in
the Stale.
I'cnuypaoLer has been elected governor
of lVmisylvania by a plurality
of at least li?">,000. This was done in
the face of the bitterest campaign
that has raclo-d the Keystone state in
recent years of hard ti^htin^ in the
race of discontent caused by coal
stride. and of a revolt in Alleghany
county, which, when the voles were
counted, was found to have caused
complete party chaos. Pennsylvania
will probably cleet 21 Republican
representatives and eiyht Democratic
representatives. i,?uay lias saved the
letr: slat lire and, having won tliis victory,
Is ready to retire from politics.
(onneelicut has ^one Republic an by
probably 15,00 ) an I it is likely tout
not only lias Mr. Lilly. Republican
candidate lor rcpu-ucnt.iiive at luiye. j
been elected, in spite ol Ids connction
with tlio lreef trust but that all the
four districts have been carried by the 1
Republicans.
In Ohio the Tom. .lohnson ticket
has been snowed under by the combined
ctl'orLs of Senators ' Manna and
Koraker. Manna's home-city went
Democratic. The Republicans c my
* ?iihi uy a gre.u ly reduced majority
Jit Wisconsin tlie Republicans hate
wijii In spite of themselves. The hittor
iiuarivl lietwecn (lovcrnor Lafollettcand
Senator Rpoouer was carried
directly to the polls. The surprising
result is -thai LufoUelte- has been
elected governor and the legislature
is Republican insuring Spooner's return
to thd senate and ten ol tlic
eleven eongWtsfoua! districts have
been carried hy the Republicans.
There w:us a light vote in Illinois,
hut tite Republicans apparently held
theirown. indications are that the
Republicans will have the legislature,
insuring the election of Represent ative
Hopkins to the senate as the successors
of William K. Mason.
Indiana remains Republican. Tim
legislature will Iri controlled hy Republicans
and Senator Fairbanks will
succeed himself.
There have been heavy Democratic
(tains in Massachusetts, hut the llepublican
state ticket lias been elected
by a fair majority.
it is probable that three or four
members of congress have been elected.
but the Democrats of Maryland
which now has six Republican representatives
have elected four ropresenlativs.
Deli*ware has probably been carried
hy the Democrats and Houston has
been elected to congress. The legislature
is close, but is believed the Democrats
will control and elect two
I'idled States senators.
In the far west the Republicans have
made gains. Colorado is believed to
he safely in their column.
Nevada lias probably elected a Re;
publican to congress.
The Pacific coast states are generally*
I Ii-lillbl ii:i 11 Mini lbi? I!??ni 11 il ii*:i iw
I in California have elected their state
; ticket and six of the eight representaI
lives.
Rhode island has elected a Hcnio ratio
governor and two Democrtie
members of congress. This is a surprising
result and is due to the upi
rising of labor. in tbii cities of I'rovij
deuce and Raw tucket.
The .South is once more solid. The
Republicans curried very few congres|
siunal districts in this section.
An I" nexp?*ct<*?l Victory.
The Columbia State says the Democratic
victory in Rhode Island was almost
entirely unexpected. If the
Democratic campaign managers made
any claims of carrying that State they
j were generally deemed too unimportant
tor attention. Yet it seems that
| the governor, t he lieutenant governoi
I and the congressman are Democrat.*
while the lower house of the general
assembly is evenly divided between
i tho Lv>i? parties, the senate heing still
strongly Republican. Rhode Island
was once considered a Democratic
State but of late years has beoi
abandoned to the Republicans. II
'maybe that this little \ict??ry is at
entering wed^e lor the Deinocratk
parl.v in New Holland. where it ha;
much to regain.
I\ill< (I on I lie ivilli.
Merman A. Meyer, a Charlestor
1 >\ I*.i years old, fell under IIle oar
-i 1 Ivinnvillc while stealing a ridi
lidin ( ( luinhia to < liarleslon on Sun
day and had hoth leiis cut ell. II
oied before leaching his widowei
mother in <'harlcston.
I ,i le In I 'lieap.
Herbert Marble was convicted <>
' | manslaughter at New 1 laven, ('onn.
i on Thursday for killing a man by run
' nin^ over him with his automobil
and was sentenced to one year in jail
SHOT FROM THE REAR.
The Annans In Had I'mloulitei I .ah
in AiiiIiiihIi I'nr Vioiiin.
No clew to the murderer of Ou^rit
itour<|uin and Fred . Taylor, tho oki
iiejrro w!jo was killed with the planter
Wednesday near Savaiinah, as told ol
in the newspapers, has been discovered.
onieers visited the scene of the ki 11in>r
alioub six miles from Savannah,
and made every ell ut to gain a trace
of the murderer, hut without success,
ltucksbot holes in the hack of the
butftfy in which l??urqin's body -was
found, and in the ho ly itself, showed
that lie had <lw,t fn.m 11?,. ........
probably ??y some who had lain in atni?ush.
The negro had jumped from
the buggy and run on the track or the
Seaboard Air Line. Me was shot down
also, from the rear, and sometime afterwards
a train passed over his Ixwly.
The conductor thought his train had
killed the man, and so reported.
Muillemain Huurquiu, one of the
sons of the murdered man, said of the
killing: "My father had a great deal
of trouble with pot hunters-and trespassers
oil his place, and I have no
doubt that some white man slew him.
1 do not believe it was the work of
negroes. 1 have a clew that I will
work on, and it may help me in solving
tiiis mystery."
Mr. Hourquln was connected with
i the oldest families of the state; in
tact, being a descendant of some of
the original settlers, lie was horn In
| Savannah in is.'tT. and had resided
there ever since, lie was connected
with the Central railroad before the
war as cashier. After the war, with
the tirm of Cilliland A' llourquin, lie
(conducted a grocery and produce business.
The last twenty-five years of
his life had been spen' as a rice plant( rand
i:i looking ai't-er his extensive
j holdings.
I Mi. liouniuln leaves li:ro<- sons: one
iu Savannah.'iuiil.-luaiu liour<iuin,one
in Little Rock, Ark., and another
> whose whereabouts is uuknowu. lie
J also leaves a sister, Miss Alice \".
! itoui piin. a teacher in tlie public
Mr. 1 ><?t*r<111i11 was often in trouble
wi'.h hunters \v,.<> trespassed on liis
: i tl .itanglmn n's was wlicn lie was
cried tor tiie murder of \V. F. Darrell
i "ii lieccmber JO, ls'.i2. lie surrender'
ed himself to Liic authorities and gave
I lmnd in the sum <<f *100 for shooting
and killing Farrell. 'whom he found
trespassing on lus lands in the south'
western section of the county. The
grand jury indicted !ii;n on January
12. 18!>2, and on June 22. of that year
hi" vus tried and the grand Jury found
| lit in not guilty.
FAMINE IN PHILIPPINES.
Heroic Meiisnrrn :?? ? ISciitgTuk.cn i?i
Ih'lifve Situation in Archipelago.
A dispatch from Manila says the
roiiippinc ctunmission has been forced
j to lake heroic measures to relieve the
i famine conditions prevailing in the
1 aichipi lag ). It has appropriated $2,ooo.iUHi,
Mexican, to purchase rice and
lo charter vessels to carry the supplier
[to the different islands.
it is proposed to sell the rice foi
I cash and u? distribute it through the
civil officials, it will lie sold at not
less than actual cost, including duty,
transportation, shrinkage and storage
thus not prejudicing legitimate com
petition: hut this will result in tin
sufferers 'icing able to purchase at
, troin one-third to one-half less that
I the present cost, owing to tlie exorbi
\ tant coastwise rates that shippers an
I obliged to pay. The tirst riec s tea me
{sailed for the provinces of the Carna
rith'k Woflnoul!! v ninrttinir Imll
j of lhi' rice to bo disposed of in thi:
! manner will be purchased in Siam.
Hi-ports from various places in tin
I archipola^n show a general conditioi
of poverty and famine, resulting Iron
t in- insurrection, cholera and rinder
. pest. The authorities of the/.aml>a
j li s provinces have appealed for aid ii
introducing American agricultural ma
ichincry and in importing carihao:
(water l*tTalncs) the riutferpf.-Jf bavin)
killed of these aiutdals thi
I year.
The shippers have objected to tin
I government importing rice, and hav
otTered Governor Taft a lengthy expln
| nation in justification of the prohibi
j tive prices prevailing for rice. The
say in etTect that the Philippine cro
is always insutlicient for the home dc
i maud, and that the present crop ii
1 udo-China is a failure.the era in thcr
, selling ."<0 per cent, higher than it dii
| last year. The Asiatic growers hav
. I issued a notice that no rice will h
I available between December and Del
: ruary. . ..
J The prices of hemp caused the Fill
I pinos to neglect their scanty rice cul
i itivation. The shippers deny tha
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INI II I .1 l'U<M IU euOlOIl JUKI'S, it 11
declare that the hitfh freight rates ar
tin* natural result of the tluctuatin
, currency. The price is enhanced li
the long quarantine, increased wage
, and the high dutv. They assert tha
. , the local tonnage is sutlicient to liai
, die the business.
<ii>l)leu Streets.
I'or seine time past the aulhorilk
of Altman in the Cripple Creek dis
i i trict, which enjoys the distinction <
s hcing the highest incorporated tow
' in tin- world have been paving til
- streets with roek taken from tit
e waste dump of the I'harmaeist mint
I Some of it looked so well t hat sampb
were taken at random and assayet
and the returns showed an averaj.
value of $20 in gold a ton. As a r
f suit men began hauling away tl
, street surface until stopped by tl
- police. The Pharmacist company h;
e ceased giving away the dump, and
. | hauling it to the reduction mills.
AN EXPLOSION
I
Causes a Frightful Disaster in the
Heart of a Crowd.
1
ELEVEN MEN KILLED OUTRIGHT
And Fitly Injured, Many of them
Fatally. Punic and Htaiup?Mle
Followed, r.oo Policemen
Fulled Out.
ft *
by a series of explosioos of pyroteeliuic
bombs and other Hreworks Tuesday
night, amoiiK the v:ist multitude
gathered in Madison Square in New
York City to witness the ascension of
an airship and the display of the election
returns, eleven persons were killed
outright, many being blown almost to
pieces and at least iifty injured, many
of them fatally.
iu is estimated tuat at least .10,000
persons thronged the Square at the
time of ti>c explosions which were succeeded
hy a frightful panic In which
hundreds were thrown down and
trampled under foot. Five hundred
policemen and ail the ambulances in
fclie city were instantly summoned and
the dying and those most seriously
injured were removed to the hospitals,
in addition to these many of the
wounded were taken away by friends.
Nine met) in charge of the fireworks
display were placed under arrest Immediately
after the explosion.
The list of the dead is: - .
Policeman liennls Shea.
Wra. (i. Finley
(icorge Ritz.
Tharold Itobley,
Five unknown men.
1'nknown colored man.
Fnknown colored boy.
The densest portion of the throng
that packed lite square was gathered
along Madison avenue close to the
plaeo reserved for the discharge of
fireworks. Aloug the border of the
square facing the avenue were
arranged three groups of the cast iron
mortars, 20 in each group and loaded
with heavy bombs. A few minutes
after 10 o'clock the first row of mortars
was touched off, but before the
discharge took place one of them fell
over on its side and the next instant
slant the bomb was shot into the
thickest of the crowd, where-it exploded
and hurled the people into
heaps. The fall of ttie mortar and _ _
the concussion of the explosion knocked
down the rest of the row of mortal's
and a thundering volley of huge
projectiles ploughed through the
crowd.
Almost instantly the second group
of 20 mortars about 100 feet further
up the avenue discharged their contents
into the crowd and a moment
later the third group, evidently lgnlt!
ed hy the showers of falling sparks,
exploded in the same manner.
In the panic that ensued thousands
I ran blindly across thesuuare. triuDinu
over Hie seats and benches and falling
' were trampled upon. The police on
duty were carried along by the rush
and for half an hour the wildest confusion
reigned. ....
After tlie smoke of the explosion
1 had cleared away 16 persons were
found lying on Madison avenue between
2:ird and 26th streets. Scores
- of injured were scattered about the
1 avenue and the square. Among the
1 dead was a policeman who was stand"
ing close to the mortar and whose
body was frightfully mangled.
1 A force of 500 policemen was soon .
" on the spot and upwards of 100 physik
cians aitfl 200 nurses were summoned
s from the hospitals.
The True Cauue. i ? *
' The Columbia Ilecord says Massa1
clmsetls papers are trying to explain
why Hooker Washington's daughter
was forced to leave Wellesley college.
1 One paper attempts td explain It by
* the fact that the Southern girts "in'
* the college absolutely refused to asso5
cjate. with heT, and adds that some of ' v
the' Northern girls-"took up", with
her. There Js no disputing . al>out
tastes generally, so the Northern girls
e are welcome to theirs in this matter;
* but the truth of it is that the
generality of Northern girls are not
v much different from their Southern
l> sisters in this respect. The faculty
of the college is acting very follishly
,l in trying to make it appear that any1
t llliur aIkA t.li'in n
I r ^ iuw J/IUJUUIVt, 11 )UU "
plexse to call it that, caused her re1
jection as a student after the experi|
mcnt had l>ccn tried for one term.
Tuk.cn Her Own I,in*.
1 A special dispatch from Lancaster
to The State says Miss Ida Craig, a
, young lady about 20 years of age, liv'
ing about eight miles in the county,
put an end to her life by drinking
carbolic acid Tuesday morning aUrnt
v ;i o'clock. She had been using the
* acid for tootchache, and the supposition
istliat after retiring for the night
she drank the contents of the bottle,
which was a small one with only a
small quantity of the acid diluted
s therein. The young lady had lieen
complaining during the day and it is
t prohahle Her mind liad lieeome unn
iialnnced from ill health.
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[C' lu u Itig Hurry.
i4. The State says Hon. 0. Duncan
... ll.Ulimr.tr !,lti,rn<,? ????. ?
I, eeiveil a letter from a nominee for oftu
lire, asking if lie cannot iniinediately
e? take eharne of the oillcc to which he
le has been elected. Mr. HoMingersays
ic that no result has yet licen declared,
a.s and the nominee has not been elected
is until the result is declared by the
iioard of canvassers,