The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 09, 1902, Image 1
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VOL XVII.
A RAG PICKER
Inherits Three Hundrod Thousand
Dollars from a Cousin.
WAS A SHIP WRECKED SAILOR, t
Tin* < >I?I Woman I<1 veil i?? il??* x*'i?rsC
Slums ot* Cork, li'dii n<l.
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Was llowili'oro 1 nl M r
Cloot! 1 uck.
A dispatch from London says it is
doubtful if a fortune ever tumbled
into the lap of a person less likeley to
use it to advantage than the $300,000
which the United States supreme
court recently awarded to Oo-year-old
Hannah Callaghan of Cork, as her
share in the estate of her cousin, John
Sullivan, who died intestate in Seat-!
tie, Wash.
Wrinkled, hazard, with a narrow,
pointed nose, thin lips, a hitter tongue
and an aggressive disposition, t he woman
who has just inherited $300,000
earned her living until a few days ago
as a rag picker. For years she has
made her home in a squalid little,
room for which she occasionally has
been able to pay a shilling a week
rent -in an narrow alley, appropriately
named "Crone lane," in (kirk's
worst slum. She began life as a crochet
woman and once earned as much
as $5 a week ?then she got to he a
scrub woman and made less, and of
late years she has collected lsincs and
sold fruit, and generally lived from
hand to mouth. She has lieen somewhat
part ial to gin.
When tf>e news reached Hannah
Callaghau the other day that, she had |
inherited half of .John Sullivan's for-1
tune?Edward Corcoran, a poor I>ublin
artisan, got the other half the old
woman was so bewildered that she
could hardly realize what It meant to
her. She heard that her cousin had
died intestate, hut had thought so little
of her own chances of getting a
share of his estate that when the
American lawyers came to her several
months ago and olTercd to push her
claim she made no trouble over signing
an agreement that they should
take half of any sum they succeeded
in getting awarded to her. 'Phis
doesn't mean, however, that the old
woman was fleeced by her American
attorneys.
Eor six months thy have worked
like beavers to get her inheritance,
and the enless trouble they took and
the ingenuity they manifested certainly
entitle them to a pretty sizable fee,
if not as large a one as they have
gained. Besides finding in the slums
of Irish cities the the two obscure people
who are John Sullivan's next of
kin, they turned up, after weeks of
searching certificates dating back as
^ far as 185J4, and even dug up the coff
lins that held the remains of Sullivan's
parents, in order to copy the inscriptions
on the plates. Meanwhile they
deposited to Hannah's credit in a
Cork bank $7f)0, allowing her to draw
$."> a week thereof?so sure did they
feel of success.
Since Hannah Callaghan became an
heiress a clergyman in her neighbor
hood has been looking after her, to
see that no one takes advantage of
her. The precaution Is necessary, fur
the old Irish woman who hasn't yet
decided to leave the dirty little room
in which she has lived for so long, is
being harried by folk who have suddenly
discovered themselves to be
"relatives" of hers, disinterested souls
who would be willing to assist her to
invest her money, as well as gallant
suitors who love her for heself alone.
Edward Corcoran, the Dublin man
who gets the other half of John Sullivan's
fortune, is a saddler. Like Hannah
Callaghan, he was Sullivan's first
- cousin. Like her, too, when approached
by the American lawyers, he signed
over to them a large share of his inheritance
in case he got it. No sooner
was he in possession of his legacy,
however, than Corcoran tried to get
his agreement set aside. lie has not
succeeded.
If anything isneeded to add romance
to the story of how these two old people,
having led lives of poverty, are
suddenly made rich, it can I>e found
in the strange career of John Sullivan
himself, the builder of the fortune
which Corcoran and Hannah Callaghan
have inherited. He was born in
the same Cork slum in which the old
rag and bone picker has lived so long.
He became a sailor and finally was
shipwrecked on the coast of the State
of Washington. Alone of the crew of
his ship, he was cast ashore alive.
He suffered terribly from cold and
lost several toes through frost bite,
but manged to keep alive through
killing and eating small animals and
birds. Then he built himself a cabin
and afterward a second one, which he
rented to a man who happend along.
Finally he had a whole village of shanties,
which he owned, but just as It
was beginning to bring in a little
something in the way of rent, the
whole settlement burned down.
Sullivan still owned the land, however.
and he rebuilt upon it,and eventdually
as one of the founders of Seattle
grew rich. Marie Carrau, the
woman who claimed Sullivan's estate
on the ground that the Irishman had
made it over to her by means of'a verbal
will, came near being left In undisturbed
possession of It. The superior
court of Washington admitted her
claim, but then the American lawyers
discovered Sullivan's next of kin. The
United States consul at Queenstown
held an Inquiry, in which whole loads
of evidence were taken, after considerV
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ii?vr it the supreme court handed
down the verdict raised two people
from wretched poverty to wealth.
John Sullivan visited Cork last year,
singularly enough, to collect a legacy
of ahout $1,000, which had been left
h in by his sister, hut it is significant
thai lie neither visited nor communicated
with either of the people who
have succeeded to his fortune.
STAGE COACH HELD UP
\ml (tie I'as.srngeiH Kohhetl in the
Ilcai't of New York.
A stage coach was held up and the
passengers rohbed right in the heart
of the State of New York on last
Wednesday. The stage coach
"Pioneer," which makes daily trips
between Warwick and (ioshen, was
held up and robbed by three masked
horsemen late Wednesday afternoon.
The coach was bowling along the
road two miles from Florida, and at
a lonely spot on t he road Clinton and
Horatio S. Wisner, who own the coach
and were on it, saw the men on horseback
suddenly emerge from the dense
woods which line the highway. Clinton
was driving. The robbers ordered
h i ifi to pull up nis horses. This ho refused
to do and the highway men
opened lire with revolvers. None of the
shots took ell'eot. but the shooting
had the cll'cct of compelling the whip
to bring his horses to a stop.
In the coach were Mrs. J. A. Chamberlin,
Mrs. Fred Webster, Mrs. .lames
Fuller, Mrs. Mart, Mrs. Fd. Johnson,
all of Florida. While two of the highwaymen
covered the Wisner brothers
with their revolvers, the third, using
many threats, compelled the passengers
to give up all their money and
valuables. After the robberv had been
completed the robbers spurred up their
horses and escaped. When news of
the hold-up became known the whole
section of Orange county was lirst
astounded and then excited. Posses
of armed men were hastily formed and
at once started a search for the highwaymen.
Clifton W. Wisner is president
of the village of Warwick.
A Magistrate Indicted.
Our readers are more or less familiar
with the facts in the case of
Magistrate Hoykin of Lamar in Darlington
county who it appears performed
the marriage ceremony uniting
in marriage a white man and a
mulatto girl, and also t he details of
the defense of his action as he has
made it. A few days ago the governor
instructed the clerk of court of
Darlington county to lay the case before
the grand jury of the county and
asked the solicitor to see that the fullest
investigation was made, pushing
the criminal prosecution if deserved.
Wednesday the governor .was advised
that the magistrate*had been arrested
and had waived a preliminary giving
bond for his appearance at the court
of sessions. This action having been
taken the governor acted in accordance
with the statute and suspended Magistrate
Itoykin until the final action of
the court in the matter.
Struck l>y l/iglit ning.
In Spartanburg one day last week
lightning struck a tree in the yard ot
Mr. 10. D. Dean. This oak is situated
15 feet from the rear pia/./.a of the
dwelling and Annie belle, the little
four-year-old daughter of Mr. Dean
was on this porch at the time. The
lightning bolt extended from the tree
to the piazza, striking the little one
and rendering her unconscious. She
remained in this condition for half an
hour, when the physicians who were
summoned instantly after the accident
resuscitated the child. She is considerably
weakened by the shock, but the
uooturs tn111k vnar< sue win recover.
In the tree which the lightning visited
were five sparrows and each was
killed. One of the five presented a
peculiar sight, all of its feathers being
burned off.
Many Drowned.
The steamer Moanabrings the news
of the loss of several Australian vessels
during gales in the South seas.
The schooner Sybil, of Sydney, a recruiting
vessel, left Solomon Islands in
April with 110 personson board foi
Queensland and was never heard of
again. The steamer Quirange, ol
Queensland, was lost on the Australian
coast with all hands, numbering
.'10, never having been heard of aftei
leaving Sydney, in inter oceanic trade,
was lost off the coast of Santos; fortunately
all hands were saved. The
schooner Kclipse was lost in the Solomon
Islands, and Father Uoulllalc,
the French priest, was drowned.
lloniKled to Death.
Ludwlg Hraun of Richmond Stater
Island, N. Y., committed suicide at
Orange* Texas, Wednesday, by taking
poison. He was walking along
the streets and suddenly fell. When
assistance reached him lie stated that
he had taken poison. Kvery effort to
save his life was made, hut without
avail. He told the physicians that lit
had been in the real estate hualnnea at
Richmond, but had left there In an effort
to escape prosecution and blackmail
on the part of a man whoso name
he did not divulge On his Ixxly waf
found a large sum of money, valuable
jewelry and a pass lxx>k on a bank al
Staple ton, N. Y., showing a credit ol
$1,000.
Scalded to l>eatti.
In a wreck on the St. Paul branch
of the Frisco system near Fayetteville,
Ark., Fireman Abraham waf
killed and Kngincr Thomas Kinnej
and (Conductor Horace Miller were
seriously scalded. The engine left the
track while backing.
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CONWAY, IS
A BETTER OUTLOOK.
KHtimatOM ot the Cotton Crop Iluvc
llcen Knitted.
Wednesday Director Bauer of the
South Carolina section of the climate
and crop service of the Doited Stales
weather bureau issued the following
bullet in of the condition of the crops
in the State during the past week, this
being the last bulletin of the season.
The week ending Monday, September
2Hth, was slightly warmer than
usual, with a mean temperature of
about 7<? degrees, a maximum of
degrees at Darlington on the 27th,
and a minimum of 50 degrees at Howman
and llennettsvilie. Sunshine
was slightly deficient, with more
cloudiness towards tile close of the
week, when showery conditions prevailed.
The rainfall was quite general over
the State, although below normal,
with a number oX localities that had
from one to two inches. The rain was
needed and trenetitted late cotton, late
corn, pens, gardens, cane, truck, and
put the soil into excllent condition (
for sowing oats, and, while it intere- :
fered with cotton picking, it did not I
damage the staple to any material extent.
Early and medium corn is being
housed, while very late corn is only
now ripening.
Early cotton is practically open,
and picked, except in numerous localities
where laborers are scarce. Some
fields have been picked out. Late cotton
is now opening freely, and is mostly
open, except the new fruitage that,
in a few localities, is heavy, but will
need a full month of favorable weather
to reach maturity; in most fields
there is no top corn, or else a very
small one. Estimates of yields have
been raised by some correspondents
and lowered by others, and from the
average of these estimates it appears
that t he yield for the State will probably
compare favorably with last year.
Sea-island cotton is a better crop than
usual, and although it, opened slowly
heretofore, is now opening rapidly.
The lint of both upland and sea-island
cotton is of a high grade, and very
little has been weather stained. In
general, picking is further advanced
than usual at this date, and will pro
bably be linished during October.
Rice harvest made favorable progress.
with May and June plantings
ripening and about ready to cut. The
rice crop is very satisfactory. Truck
crops are doing well. Peas vary greatly
in condition, butaverage a fair crop.
The same is true of grass for hay. A
moderate crop of both pcavine and
other hay has been saved in tine condition.
Oats sowing made slow progress,
but early sown oats are coming
up to good stands. Minor crops continue
to do well, but need more rain
in places.
* Woman in a Well.
A colored woman had quite a close
call in Spartanburg one night last,
week. While walking home she fell
into an uncovered well, which is situated
near a path on property near the
Wofford College baseball grounds. The
depth of this unused well is nearly JO
feet. The woman fell about JO feet,
landing on a rock abutment above the
' water. Her outcries brought to her
1 assistance Fred Talley, colored, who
! was passing by. He secured and nall
cd together three ladders, went Into
i the well and brought the helpless wo>
man out. She will recover from her
: fall, although she is badly bruised up.
Illcw Out Ills llritiiis.
Lieut. Commander Win. V. lironaugh
of the United States navy,
, committed suicide Wednesday on the
battleship Kcarsagc at the Hrooklyn
navy yard hy blowing out his brains
with a revolver. Friends of Commander
Hronaugh believe lie was very
i much worried over thv, manifold duties
of ids position as executive officer
which are considered to l>c more arduous
than those of any other position
f rank in the navy.
IIuiitiitK Oohl.
Considerable excitement has beojj
created in the eastern part of Knox J
ville, Tcnn., by parties digging in an
, isolated yard for several nights of
. late. It is stated that years ago a
- man died in the house on this proper>
ty, and that before he died lie had
, buried in the yard a small fortune in
. gold. lie failed to disclose to any one
. the identity of the spot where the
treasure was located. The recent midnight
diggers are reported to l?o
. searching for the old man's gold.
Engineer Mtoncd.
The Pennsylvania coal strike is still
on. While Engineer T. Hoffman was
on a Lehigh Valley locomotive at
Mount Carmel Thursday night he was
1 stoned bv a mob because he was run'
ning a car full of supplies into the soldiers'
encampment. The cat was al?
most, totally wrecked. Hoffman es
uuprti iiiiury oy lying uown. nerore
' the mob could jump on the engine a
detail of soldiers drove them away.
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An OI<l Bridegroom.
' What Is probably the most peculiar
" marriage license ever issued by a State
otlicial was prepared by the county
1 clerk of Gloucester county, V,a., Sat" I
J urday last. The peculiarity in this
! instance lies In the extreme age of the
j contracting parties, tin; matjj 'being.
102 years of age and his intended VI fe
80. The newly wedded pair are Solomon
Lewis and his wife, both respectable
colored people of that county.
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Another Htriko.
? The coal miners in Alabama have
' struck t>ccause the paymaster of the
! mines will not deduct $1 from the
s pay of each miner to help the
anthracite miners In Pennsylvania.
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THE BOODLERS
Of St. Louis Being Brought to Justice
in the Courts.
THE STORY AS BEING TOLD.
One Man Was Offered One Hundred
Thousand Dollars to Vote
and Work for Certain
HIIIh.
St. L'in is, Mo., has a most sensational
scandal on her hands, and it is
now being aired in the courts. 11
seems thai there has I won whole-sale
brilwry of her members of city council
to vote for certain st reet, car. lighting
and other franchises. The trial of
Robert M". Snyder, hanker and promo
n-1 . ini iiiit* cuargc III nnnci'V II) connection
with tin- passage of the Central
Traction bill, was commenced on
Thursday,'and some sensational tbines
have been unearthed. Frederick <i.
ITholT, who was a member of the fcity
council in April, 1898, was put on the
stand by the State.
In answer to questions pvt. by Circuit.
Attorney Folk, UtholT test!lied
that while a member ot the city council
in 181)8,when the North and South
Traction hills were pending Uohert
M. Snyder, called on him at his residence,
having been taken there by
Louis Dieckmann, by appointment.
11 tliolT continued:
"After talking socially alxiut half
an hour Snyder spoke of the Central
Traction hill I told him 1 did not
want to talk atxxit the matter. He
said we were both Masons and we
could discuss it the same as lodge
matters, lie said I ought to favor
him witli his lull.
"1 told him I had been approached
and offered $50,000 for my vote. 'I
will get that amount and send it. by
Dieckmann,1 said Snyder to ine."
Witness said Dicokman brought the
package next day.
IJthotV said lie next saw Snyder at
the Planters' hotel. At this meeting
Snyder talked of the Central Traction
hill and also of a gas hill. UtholT said
Snyder told witneji* Unit if lie would
introduce this gas hill as a "rider" to
the Central Traction bill, and work
for its passage as well as vote for the
Central Traction hill, he would give
witness $100,000.
"lie said he would give me $(50,000
next day." tJtholf explained, $15,000
when the gas hill was introduced and
$25,000 when the gas hill was passed.
"Then Snyder took up two handfuls
of hills," witness stated, "and said
I'tholT, here is $25,000. .Dieckmann is
on the lioor of the council with $10',000
more. I would have had $00,000
for you, hut Charlie Carroll got $15,000
from me today.
"UtholT said he refused to take any
of t he money then olTered him by the
promoter."
Witness next saw Snyder at the
Waldorf-Astoria in New York, where
defendant sain he had $5,000 belong*
ing to promoters which he was ready
to give IJtholT. lie got $2,500 on that
visit and $2,500 more three or four
months later. Witness told of Snyder's
attempts to get the $50,000 from
Meier. Snyder said he would turn it
: over to UtholT.
Circuit Attorney Folk then proceeded
to question the witness as to the
opposition to the Central Traction hill
which had developed, aivl sprung the
moat interesting bit of information
which the Snyder trial has yet discloses!,
involving the name of \Iohn
Scullin,' ex-street 'railroad magnate,
and Kdward JUi^ler, a local. millionaire
politician, in what the witness characterized
as an, attempt to defeat the
Central Traction measure 'by the use
of a big sum of money distributed in
relays of $5,000 each to the certain
counollmen every month.
"in March, 180K. Mr. Scullin gave
me a .bill to introduce called the United
Tractjon bill." UtholT stated. "It
was designed to head otT the Central
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1 I<1<JCI<JI1 Mill.
"I met/Mr. Scullen and he paid mc
$25,000 to dtish iiis l>i 11 ancfdefeat the
otiier one."
"'What did you do \vltlx the' money?"
"I returned it, to NJr.. Sculler
through Kd Hutle/."
After some'further testimony in the
course of which witness said Snydei
had Void him lie paid Councilman
Chas. ft. Carroll $1.1,000, Judge I'ricst,
ityr thePde(ense t<n>k tlie witness in
i hantl and tjegah _tbe. cross Cxaiiji nation.
Vtluyf ,tetjU%d under cross examination'tHatf
last'webk he and Scullin
were before the grand jury togcthei
and that he told the grand jury " that
Scullin gave -him <$25,000 to vote
against the Central Traction hill.
Louis Dieckmann, speaker of the
house of delegates, while the* Central
Traction bill was pending tcstltied
that Snyder asked him to assist in
getting tiie Central Traction bill passed
and Snyder said lie would sec that
any promise made 1$ George J. Kobusch
(president of the St. Louis Car
company) would be kept. George J.
Kobusch testified tiiat Snyder had told
him he paid 100,000 to UthofT to pa.su
the Central Traction bill.
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To Wreck Train.
An atUjjftpt to wreck the Coast
Xfne/ftfbtiAjPWii$t* have liccn
mado iWarNefti^trlf. O. sWuiiday night.
A lot of cross ft en waii pi?t on the track
just, a few miles' south Of the junction.
Train iVo, 32 struck ^hem wlille going
at a rapid gait and made kindling
wood of the obstruction. The engine
was not hurt. The supposition-Is that
It was the work of some malicious person
In deviltry or .somebody who Is not
up In the art of train wrecking?
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JCTOBER 1>, 11M>2.
AN OLD WOMAN.
lWnn a Sixteen Yenr Old <?lrl Win n
Washington Wan hlloolt'd.
There recently died in Laurens an
old negress by the name of Hannah
Mliner, whose claim to longevity Is
i)cyond doubt unparalleled in this
section. According to her reckoning
she was three years old when that
immortal paper, the Declaration of
Independence, was promulgated, a
"gar' of Hi when (lenrge Washington ;
ticca me presidsnt, or, in other words,
she wits born the last of October,
1773, and therefore had she survived
six weeks longer she would have attained
the great age of 129. < >f course
in the absence of any record there is
more or less doubt to her claim, but
there Is abundant evidence of her very
advandeed age. First of all she was
l>orn in Virginia, which accounts for
the fact t hat she dist inctly remembered
Washington as a general during
the Revolutionary war and then as
president, incidents which si o related
to those around her all through life
clear to the end, circumstance which
would have occurred considerably iv r
a hundred times if she had told itom>
one a year. She was probably brought
to South Carolina by the Milner fam'ly,
as she was tirst known, by the oldest
people now living in this section
as the property of Thos. Milner, a
slave owner who lived near The Knob,
tills county, many years ago.
"Cranny" Hannah, as she was generally
known, was the wife of Henry
Milner, a slave, and they had thirteen
children. Henry died long before the
civil war, an old man. Four of the
youngest children survive, a son and
three daughters. The youngest of
these is a great grand-mother herself,
almost an octogenarian. It is said
her oldest son died at. the country
home a few years ago at the age of
S?K. She lived to see four generatioi s
j of her own family and to this day they
are African blood pure and simple, old
j fashioned, polite and hard working.
.Martin Rurnsldes, aged ?I0, is one of
i the numerous grandchildren who live
i in the county, and he is a thrifty and
' respectable negro. "Old" Cranny lie
longed to the African McthodLt
-church ;i:xl her faith never deserted
her. Her health was all that could
have hoen expected up to within a
week or so before the dissolution. She
was hearty, could walk around some
and all her faculties mind, voice,
hearing and eyesight continued good
to the last. Most remarkable indeed,
but tills is tiie brief story of Hannah
Mliner's long, very long life.
limited lor Murder.
Theodore Smith and Thomas (}.
Falrcloth, the young white men who
killed the aged Lewis couple one
month ago were successfully executed
by Sheriff Sutton Wednesday morning
at llronson, Fla. Iioth men had wonderful
nerve and ascended the scaffold
with steady step. They had their coftins
opened and inspected and commented
on them. Falrcloth remarked
that they were all right, and both
men addressed the immense crowd
. with clear and unbroken voices. The
sons and daughters of Lewis witnessed
the execution. The bodies of the
hanged men were turned over to relatives
for interment. Smith had a
young wife and baby, Falrcloth was
, engaged to l>e married and Just before
the execution expressed a desire to
, have the ceremony performed, but the
| sherilT would not permit this to lie
. done.
1 A lliuik ltohbod.
Thfe Fort Mill Savings Hank, of
Fort Mill, S. C., was dynamited at an
early hour Tuesday morning and it is
! estimated that between six and ten
! thousand dollars were stolen. An cn1
trance was effected through the front
1 door of the bank and the vault and
safe doors successfully drilled and dy!
nami ted. A clock on the wall of the
hanklne room had stonnod :it
' Tuesday morning, evidently Indlcat1
ing the time of the explosion. The
bj&nk othdals refuse to make a state1
mcnt as to the extent of their loss. A
* large amount of paper money was
found torn to shreds by the force of
'the explosion. The robbers are thought
to have been professionals. There is
1 no clue to the perpetrators of the
deed.
ItcHult of Coal Strike.
! In tiiiancial difficulty as a result of
the coal strike Henry (J. Schecl, a coal
i merchant of New York, tried to kill
, himself Wednesday by shooting. The
doctors say there is little hope for
, him. Mr. Schecl is i"> years old. He
i lives with his wife and three children
in a handsome residence and generally
, has lieen thought to be prosperous. A
i relative of Mr. Schecl said he had a
large sum of money?about $200,000,
, Med up in litigation and that his business
was ids source of revenue. The
I disturbance in the coal market hud
O lilt! hiiclnnae *t. 1
...>ww/u a uunmtnn m; 1 iV'U.11Jf Uillinil^
him to become despondent.
' Mpltlemfc of WtiichlcM.
In commenting on the suicide of
Commander Hronaugh, of the United
States navy, Captain Harrington of
tiie ItriKiklyn navy yard says: There
' is an epidemic of suicides in tile navy
as surely as there was ever an epidemic
of fever. Such a thing may occur,
and cannot be explained. The man
' probably had been thinking of the
1 other suicides which are very sad affairs,
and then in an unguarded mo:
mfcnt the desiro to try it seized hlpa*
V-imd it was all over in a minute."
An AnnhnhIii Ijyuchod.
* Walter Sullivaft, a young negro, was
> lynched Wednesday at Portland, Ashe
ly county, Ark. Sullivan was charged
) with shooting 1). .1. Roody, a white
man, in the back.
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ANOTHER NEW YORK MURDER j
A VoiitiK <?lrl FoiiiiiI Iat?I In n Tciu'4
IIMMlt lloUNI'.
New York has a number of sensational
murders on her hands to solve.
Last week James II. Craft, a rich j
resident of Lou# Island, was murdered
iu a most luulal manner in a
saloon. All the evidence goes to show. /
thatCraft, who had been making the
rounds of the tenderloin, incautiously
displayed a Iftr^e amount of money in
the Umpire and wan killed by one of
the waiters known as Thomas Tobin,
mi i nt- |'u i |"im- hi nun) r i. i ill" police
also say that knock oat-drops were
lirst administered and that then lite ,
vict im was draped into the haseincnt
and killed with a cleaver. 1
The body ot Jennie Larson, a young i
Danish woman. 20 years old, was s
found in the apartment of Louise
Appleord, on the third lloor of a tenement
in Harlem Wednesday. She N
lias I Hie a dead f ir days, according to a t
medical expert: the Uidy was mu- <.
t dated and much decomiMised and gas
tilled tlie room where it was found.
Despite the gas and stench which tirst. 1
revealed the tragedy, Appleord, in a
da/.cd mental eon<htion, was in the ^
room when it was entered by the po- '
lice. Dr. D movan, who examined *
the body, found that the abdomen j
had been gashed in several places. He (
said lie believed the woman had been
dead live or six days, and it. was his 1
belief that she had been the victim of J
a criminal operation
Appleord was arrested as a suspiei- j
oils person and talon to the station.
It' was learned from Ids incoherent j
talk that the young woman was his |
niece. He had caused her to come from (
Denmark to days ago, ho said, lobe
his housekeeper. Appoloord is ft.'l
years old and a conductor on a line of
horse cars. .
('oroner Scholer's opinion is that the (
girl was strangled to death, lie did
not believe a criminal operation had 1
been performed. Appleord, when
questioned by the police would say '
little excepl that he had turned on
the gas in the room for the purpose of (
committing suicide. The police do
dot. accuse Aupleord of murdering tlie
young woman but think that lie ^
knows more aliout the ease than lie is
willing to tell.
Tlie Deadly Current. <
Within sight of 11is father and '
2,(>00 persons, lUchard I looser and I
his 0-year-old companion, Freddie I
Pcholo, of Woodhavcn. L. 1. Iiave
been killed by an electric, current.
I'eholo had climbed to the top of the
iron pole to recover his hat, which
had caught on the wire and was slowly
being burned. As lie reached out
for tlie cap Ids hand came in contact
witli the v/lre. The shock passed
through Ids body, killing him instantly,
and forming a circuit between the <
pole and tlie wire. Young 1 looser, i
believing ids comrade only stunned,
cliudied up tlie pole to release him and
carry him to thft ground. When he
reached tlie top he placed Ids arm
around tlie body holding last to the
pole witli tlie other hand. The current
from tlie body passed through
him, forming a second circuit witli
the pole. The ImkIIcs were badly
burned before tlie current could be
shut otY.
The Jewish New Year.
Wednesday afternoon at sundown
tlie Jewish people throughout the
world heiran the relii/iotis eolehrat ion
of the Jewish New Year. This is a
feast of marked significance in their
religious calendar and is observed by
all the congregations throughout tlie
world. The year that is ushered in
is It is the new year of tile
Old Testament, and in the Hebrew
tongue is known as Itosh Iloshana.
The day is a month latter this year
than usual. This is due to the fact that
the year 1002 is, according to the
Jewish caiandar, a Leap Year. As
the .lews use lunar time instead of
solar time, like the Christians, they
add one month to their year instead
of one rlay. This celebration extends
over a period of ten days, ending with
the feast of Yom Ivlppur, or Day of
Atonement, another most solemnly
observed holiday.
Clioloru KukIiikThe
Philippine Islands are l?eing
devastated by cholera. 11 is announced
that ft, 124 eases of cholera and 2,740
deaths from that disease were reported
in the provlnceof Iloilo, Island
of l'anay, on Monday. This is the
highest record for any district since
the outbreak of the disease, and exceeds
the total of Manila and many
of the provinces since the commencement.
Thd people are llceing to the
mountains, leaving the dead uriburled
and the dying uncared for. The
number of viut.ims msikos orrlir??ru
sanitary measures impossible. The
totals for all the provinces Monday
were 5,.'190 cases and 3,091 deaths.
Twelve Moron Killed.
The war in the Philippine don't
seem to l>c over yet. A dispatch from
Manila says the column under Capt.
I'crshing which went out against the
Machin Moros in Mindanao, has attacked
the enemy and captured three
of their forts. The Moros stood hut
a short time against the American
artillery tire. Twenty Moros were
killed and many were wounded. There
were no American casualties.
Forty Year's Torture.
To lie relieved from a torturing disease
after 40 years' torture might well
cause the gratitude of anyone. That
is what I>eWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
did for C. llaney, Geneva, (). He says:
"DcWItt's Witch Hazel Salve cured
me of piles after I had suffered 40
years." Cures cuts, burns, wounds,
skin diseases. Beware of counterfeits.
Dr. E. Norton.
A I'.li \ \ K MAN
All Alone Fights Five Well Armed,
Taring ' urglars
\ND PUTS THEM TO FLIGHT,
* - .< \
I'tri' Iv i 11 i 11 Ono mill Wound*
i ii K Two Others, ami is
Shot Twlro liy the*
Itohlir rs.
i
A brave man had a desperate li^ht
I'hursday nl^ht with tiv? m.iskc I and
Irspernto robtiers, who attempted to
ol> ilie safe of the Mountcrvlllc Pasen^er
Hallway station at Williams)ort,
I'a. In a battle with revolvers,
vhlch followed the attempt, one of
.ho desperadoes was killed and two
thers slightly wounded t?y Engineer
Mem lUy. who was shot twice by the
ob tiers.
Shortly before 2 o'clock, while Engineer
Alem lily was at work in the
lower house of the Montoursville I'asicngcr
llailway company, ho was
tartled by a terrillc crash, caused by
he front door of the huildlmr belnir
Mttered in wlt-h a heavy plank. lily
usbed to a desk which contained his
evolver, and as he turned to face the
ntrudcrs he was met with a fusillade
>f shots from the revolvers in the
lands of live men, who had the lower
>art of their faces covered with handkerchiefs.
< )ne of the shots struck
ily in the hip and another made a
lesh wound in the thigh. The
rvouiuls did not disable him, however,
uid he leveled Ills revolver and lirtd
it one of the burglars, who was several
*eet in advance of the others. The
Millet- pierced the heart of the desperado
and he fell dead.
The engineer kept tiring at the rest
>f the gang, who kept up a continumis
tire. Two of them were slightly
wounded. After bis revolver had
icen emptied Illy retreated through a
rear door and ran to a nearby factory
md aroused the wastchman who
aainded an alarm by blowing the factory
whistle. While Illy was absent
Lhe robbers dragged the body of their
lead companion outside the building,
where t hey left It and tied. Hp to a
hour Thursday night no trace of them
bad been found.
A National Concern.
The following was made public at
the White House Wednesday afternoon:
"The following telegrams arc the
result, of the conferences between
President Hoosevclt and the members
of ids cabinet, held Tuesday afternoon
and Wednesday:
"White House, Washington, Oetober
11. "George P. Itacr, president
Heading Hallway System, Philadelphia;
W. II. Truessclc, president
Delaware, Lackawana and Western
Company, New York; 10. It. Thomas,
chairman of board of lOrie Hail road
Company, New York; Thomas Pow
ler, president New York, Ontario
and Western Railroad Company,
New York: It: M. Oliphant, president
Delaware and Hudson, New
York; John Markle, New York:
"I should greatly like to see you on
Friday next, October II, at 11 a. m.,
in Washington, in regard to the failure
of the coal supply, which has become
a matter of vital concern to the
whole nation. I have sent a similar
dispatch to John Mitchell, president
of the United Mine Workers of
A merica.
"(Singed)
"TllKODOKK 1 toos K V K LT.1'
"John Mitchell, President United
Mine Workers of America, Wilkesbarre,
Pa.
"1 should greatly like to see you
Friday next, October J, at 11 a. m.,
in Washington, in regard to the failure
of the coal supply, which has become
a matter of vital concern to the
whole nation, 1 have sent a similar
dispatch to the presidents of the anthracite
companies.
(Signed)
TlIKODOIlK 11< H)SKV KLT.
Kx-Caov. Chamberlain.
Kx-Gov. I>. II. Chamberlain arrived
in Columbia last Wednesday. Mr.
Chamlterlain was up to a few years ago
the receiver of the old South Carolina
railroad, now mc Charleston division
of the Southern railway, and under
his management the road prospered
greatly. The State says when seen at
his hotel the ex-governor, who now
makes his home at West Hrook field,
Mass., said that his visit had no sivrniflounce
whatever, lie recently lost
his last son, who but 17 years of age.
Mr. Chamberlain felt the blow keenly,
so much so that he became completely
broken down from nervousness and
though apparently well, his physician
advised him to take a long and com
pieie rem rrom latior or ull kinds, and
said that he needed a change to a
milder climate, winter having already
l>egun In Massachusetts. Mr. Chamljerlain
himself preferred to come to
Columbia, and he stated last night
he intended to spend the entire winter
here. For several years past Mr.
Chamberlain has acted with the
Democrats in politics.
liook out for Dover.
Biliousness and liver disorders at
this season may Ik; prevented by
cleansing the system with l)eWitt's
Little Early Risers. These famous
little pills do not gripe. They move
the bowels gently, but copiously, and
by reason of the tonic properties, give
tone and strength to the glands.
I)r. E. Norton.