The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 13, 1902, Image 1
VOL XVII.
v
1)1 Kl) RXtKTllKR.
A Shocking Tragedy and a Revelation
in Omalio, Neb.
A PREACHER AND A MISSIONARY.
l-'numl in Diu li OiIioin Arms Colli in
l>entti in llir I'riMiclior'H Sludi
in Ileal* of the Chitrcli.
A most shocking tragedy was enact- i
edinOraaho. Nebraska, on Tuesday
night of last week. Clasped in each
other's arms, hing on the lloor of the
pastor's study in the Herman baptist
Church early Wednesday. Oscar llerndes,
janitor of the church, discovered
the dead bodies of the itev. vV. < >.
italic, pastor, and Augusta Ihiseh, a
missionary and assistant to the pas- ft
tor. Death had been caused by asphyxiation.
The room was tilled with
gas, a jet and a burner of a small .
stove being partly turned on. The
todies were lying on the lloor, the wo- j
man's head being pillowed on some |
cushions. They evident ly had lain in
that position for several hours. There j
seems to be little doubt that death
was accidental. It is believed that
the pair had fallen asleep, the stove
tlatnc blew out and the gas escaped. >
The bodies were rigid and death evidently
occurred during the early hours
of the previous evening.
Miss Itusch roomed at the home of
.lanitor Deludes and Mr. Italic at the
home of Harry Dirkscn. Miss Ituseh
went to the Dirkscn home yesterday
morning and remained there until
about h o'clock in the evening, engaged
in sewing. She left for her home
alone and it is thought probable that
Oltn M .... ? ?
diic un.:v> i?ii. i\(iuc mi niM" way aou
that the two went to his study in t he
rear of the church, where the t raged y
occurred. They had been good friends,
but no stronger feeling was apparent
to those who knew them.
Mrs. licrndes supposed the dead woman
was in her room until Miss Kchalker,
housekeeper for Mr. Italic, repor- j
ted that lie had not been at homc|
during the night. Then it was (lis
covered that Miss Ilusch had not occupied
her room and a search was
made for them this morning. The
janitor went to the pastor's study and
found the door locked and the key on
tiie inside and lie detected the escaping
gas. Quickly lie summoned a police
otlieer and the door was broken
open.
In the centre of the very small study
tiie bodies lay, the heads a few feet
from the doors. The woman's face
was covered with froth and had begun
to turn purple. One gas Jet above the
pastor's table was partly turned oil'
and from a stove gas was slowly escaping.
It was thoughtat lirst that the two
had committed suicide, for on the table
was an open letter, a neatly arranged
bouquet. Mr. Kabc's watch
and glasses and his hat, Miss Itusch's
gloves and handkerchief and folded
upun i>ne ?&?.'k m ;i hirair was ncr jacnet.
The letter was written in German
and when translated was found to he
an answer to another letter which Mr.
Kabe had received. There was nothing
in it to indicate that the two had
intended taking their lives.
Mr. Kahe was 51 years of age and
came to Omaha from liutl'alo, N. Y., j
when he was chosen pastor of the Gcr- |
man Ha ptist Church. In that State:
lie left a wife who is attending a mis-!
sionary school, and one son. lie was
held in high esteem by his congregation.
Miss lUisch was :tl years of age and
had been a missionary in Omaha bathe
last live years. She came here
from Chicago, sent by the Church
Missionary School. She, too, was held
in high esteem and was very popular.
)oy in an Anderson Home.
A dispatch from Anderson to The
State says the happiest man in Anderson
county at the present writing is
Mr. W. W. Moore, a prominent citizen
of the Piedmont section. Mr.
Moore was married in 1 s7<? just 2<>
years ago. He and his wife have
lived happily together ever since, but
no children had ever come to bless his
home. Mr. Moore is on the shady
side of the half century mark and his
wife is in her 50th year, lie r.ad
about made up his mind that the fates
had been unkind to him, and that he
would remain childless, hut it is a
long lane that has no turning, and
last Thursday night, Ids wife presented
him with twins a boy and a girl.
WUst list ^ l? * 1~ 1 ?
a iiu iiiuuiu'i <11111 iillii; uiit'ft uru hclliilk
along nicely, and Mr. Moore himself is
in good shape. These facts arc given
by people of that community, and
Mr. Moore himself was in the clty5
He is naturally overjoyed on account
of his great good fortune. "The people
of the city of Anderson are building
cotton mills and trolley lines," he
said, "but the piedmont side of the
county is not to be sneezed at. I
wouldn't swap my fortunes for all the
cotton mills and trolley lines in the
country."
Storm on Goltl Coast.
No less than eight mt n were drowned,
three vessels diiven ashore and
practically every lighter on the Nome
beach were wrecked in a storm that
commenced Tuesday, Nov. I, and cont
tlnued throughout the day. The facts
are given by Purser Robinson, on the
Ohio, who arrived Friday. A dozen or
more people thrown into the surf were
rescued by the life saving crews. The
schooner Louise, the steamer Klk and
the launch Fleet "Wing were among
the larger craft wrecked on I ho I reach.
In each instance tire crews were rescued
or managed to reach the shore.
The storm caused the water to back
up in Snake river and Dry creek, and
the Dry creek bridge was washed
away.
I
V
A TEXAS FIGHT.
Three Men Killed ill a Shooting
Affray at Orange.
Three men are dead as a result of a
shooting affray at Orange, Texas,
Wednesday and meat excitement prevails
In that community. The dead:
Jeff Chenault. Clty Marshal Jordan,
Tony Jones.
Had blood Is said to have existed
between ('henauit and Will Harris, a
well-known voting man, for some
time. Wednesday the two men met
and after a war of words Harris
secured a double-barrelled shut-gun
and killed Chenault. Harris ran to
escape the tire ot Chenault's brother,
but was apprehnded by City Marshal
.Jordan, who was close at hand. While
the otlicer was conducting young Harris
to jail lie was shot and killed and
nls prisoner escaped. It is not known
who killed Jordan, although there
were a large number of people on the
street at the time of the tragedy.
Will Harris was later arrested and
placed in jail. At this juncture his
brother, James Harris, started for a
near-by store, declaring that lie would
procure a weapon and take part in the
all'air. It is claimed that Tony Jones
handed Harris a gun, after which the
former jumped into a buggy. As he
was driving away ollleers appeared on
the scene and opened Pre on Jones,
indicting wounds from wnicli he died
a few minutes later.
The town was tin own'into a state
of intense ex it emeuand further
trouble was fe u- d. but ShcriiT Koberts
ordered that all saloons must close
until he ga ve t hem permission to open,
and announced that lie would rest ire
law find order at any cost. 't'liIs
statement had the desired elfect and
although the streets are crow ded t here
does not appear to be any I kelihood
of further trouble. Jordan was util)
recently appointed to succeed Marshall
.let t, who was killed in the dis1,1..
..
w.'Hh' *" ""1,1 .
a i'ior ( 'ii|m'in.
10. 11. I >eas, the Negro chairman of
the Itepuhlican parly in this Slate,
has at templed to stir up another sensation
in the (J. (). I'.. and has preferred
charges against District Attorney
John (I. Capers, Internal Uevenue
Collector Micah Jenkins and almost
every other federal ollice holder in the
State to Hie ctTect that they are guilty
of pernicious political activity and
have used their otllces in a way bound
to olTend the president. As a result
Mr. Fred 11. Wannatnaker, civil service
examiner, has been sent to Charleston
to investigate the charges and
spent, t lie ent ire day Wednesday taking
t lie testimony of Mr.Capers, boas'
charges are not regarded seriously by
any one and it is generally thought
that lie is feeling sore because he feels
the control of the party slipping from
his hands, lie is not consulted in the
matter of federal patronage any more,
and what he says is of no weight in
Washington. If is likely, therefore,
that after the hearing of the charges
authorities in Washington will dismiss
the whole matter. Just what
boas hopes to gain by this is a matter
of conjecture.
A Horrible Story,
A special from Columbus, Neb, tells
of the killing last Friday of a farmer
named Gerhard I lurchers, living several
miles northeast of Humphreys,
by Herman, a fourteen-year-old son,
who used a shotgun, which he had
purchased for that purpose. When
the help of two brothers, August
aged id, ana .lolin, aged 8 years, Herman
dragged the body of his father t<.
a strawstaek and set tire to it;. This
is t he story secured by Sheriff Ityrncs
from the three ctiildren, who are in
custody. Kacli of the children practically
told the same story, the only
variance being in the degree of culpability
in the killing accorded to
each. Herman, who is said to have
tired the gun that killed his father,
implicates Ids younger brother*
equally with himself, while they put
the blame on him. The only motive
for the crime given is that the father,
with whom the children had lived
alone since the mother's death, had
not treated them kindly. Neighbors
of the llorohers say they know of no
mistreatment on the part of the
father.
Amount ol t'otton (tinned.
A report issued by the census bureau
Wednesday places t he quantity of the
present crop of cotton which hart beer
ginned up to October 18 at r>,925,872
commercial bales, which is estimated
to lie a little more t han 00 per ccntol
the entire crop. These figures were
collected by the agents of the bureau
and 29,814 ginneries arc represented
by the returns. The following figures
represent, the amount ginned in eacli
State by hales: Alabama 585,783
Arkansas .'190,800, Florida 29,779,
Hcorgia 900,049, Indian Territory
201,019 Kentucky 284. Louisiana 309,
408, Mississippi 509,120, Missouri 14,903,
North Carolina 303,029 Okla
noma 84,(l?n, South Carolina 001,481,
Tennessee 121,1 si), Texas 1,781,707,
Virginia ."?,<?2.
A l>cnd (tent.
Mrs. Josephine Thornton of Indianapolis,
Ind., secured a divorce
from her husband on Friday, one of
her grounds of complaint being that,
though her husband was getting a
good salary, they had moved 110 t imes
since their marriage ten years ago
finding It cheaper to move than to
pay rent.
<*ot Their Deserts.
A well known society man of London
named Itarnard Fraser has been
sentenced to ten years penal servitude
and with him Arthur Thorold, the
son of a minister. Their offense was
corrupting youth.
to fl
CONWAY, S. (
MUST KK INSANE.
A Wealthy Young l'ostonian Accused
ot Committing
FIFTEEN MURDEROUS ASSAULTS
Two ol' TIumii ltt'HiiI((*<l Fatally. Mo
Mum Itoon Insane, Itut Wiin
llcloiiscd From Asylum
as <'lived.
A dispatch from Huston, Mass..
says in connection with the I"? murderous
assault cases which have occurred
ill Cambridge, HrooUliu, and Somervillc
within the last few months,
two of which resulted fatally, the
State police Wednesday arrested Alan
(t.Mason, of Huston. a well known and
wealthy business man. a member of
the piano manufacturing lirm of M;c
sou \ Ilamlin. a prominent club member
and a Harvard graduate. The poI
lice suspect, from evidence in their
hands, that. Mr. Mason has 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
victim Of mental trouble for which he
>s treated at the McLean asylum at
Wavcrly. About a year ago lie was
permitted t * leave the institution.
Since' h it time, i' is said, he litis
Icon permitted to go and come tit will
and the fact that he had been frequently
s'MMi about i he localities in
which the assaults occurred, led to
> suspicion against him.
The peculiar assault cases which
have terrorized Cambridge and vlcinit
\ as well as ot her suburban sections
begun last June. During the summer
there were half a dozen victims of an
unknown assailant each of which was
struck down and beaten with a blunt
instrument. Marly in October Miss
Agues Mcl'heo was assaulted in Somervillc
and died from her injuries, an
iron wrench was found and lived upon
as tile weapon used. During the same
month eight other eases followed, the
last, of which occurred last Saturday
night when Clara A. Morton, a laundress
at the McLean asylum, was ac
ousted on the grounds of that institution
and I tea to 11 with a hlunt instrument.
Miss Morton died Sunday.
Mr. Mason was taken into custody
at liis nfbthers home, on Newbury
street, lie made no objection and on
the way to police headquarters it is
said Mr. Mason admitted to the olllcers
that lie was in Somerville on the
night on which Miss Mel Mice was fatally
injured. The prisoner is about
ltd years of age and is the son of the
founder of the linn of Mason N liam'
tin. organ and piano manufacturers.
1 lie was graduated from Harvard in
Ihs<? and entered the linn of which
his father was the head. Mental
troubles developed within a few years
of his graduation and he went to t he
McLean asylum for t reatment. After
' a time lie showed improvement and
left the institution. A second time
it became necessary for him to return
hut he soon improved and he was released
a second time.
in llihl, 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, lie hud
threatened both and a petition was
tiled to have him sent away on the
ground of insanity and Mason was
sent to Wavorly for the third time.
The man himself protested against
( what lie termed an injustice ;md said
110 tV-ic nnrfnnMw ?iwl
W.iltv >IV ???*?? | ?V I IVyVUIJ DdllU (lllll ? V J11 11 1
. conduct himself as well as possible
| while he was there. He remained six
months. Since then he had been free
, and has been a stock taker at the Mason
& Hamlin organ factory at Cam(
bridge. Mason has a mother and three
brothers. Kdward 1'aimer Mason,Jlonrv
Lowell Mason and Daniel (ircgory
Mason. 1 le is a cousin of John Mason,
t he well known actor.
Mason was detained at the station
house until nearly o'clock, when he
I was tat en to Cambridge where be will
I remain under surveilance by insanity
experts for a time. Throughout the
examination he absolutely denied that
he knew anything about the assault
cases The police assert that four or
live witnesses declare positively that
they saw Mason in Waverly Saturday
i night.
Mason's brother says Alan is in bet
tor mental condition than he was some
: time ago but he realizes that Alan is
I an insane man. One fact considered
signitieantly by the police is the ad'
mission that it has been the habit of
i Alan Mason to take a car ride almost
I every evening before going to bed.The
1 ride was taken as usual Sunday cveni
ing but Mason declares he did not go
1 in the direction of Waverly.
Later developments in the case is
' very damaging to Mason. It. was
i announced that the watch of Miss
Clara Marton, Mason's last victim,
bad been found in a Cambridge street
i pawnshop where it had been pawned
i ) for $4 by a jonng colored man, and
I tills discovery at once led to a general
I search for this man by the entire
police force, hut without avail. Hut
later developments were far more
. sensational. When t he pawn broker's
memory had lieen jogged a little and
lie had had time to think over the
matter, lie remembered that the
' watch had been In ought to his otllce
! on last Saturday night between the
' ! hours of 11 and 12 o'clock by a white
man and olTorod in pawn. Owing
to the fact that It was after business
hours lie had refused to receive it and
i after expressing disappointment the
, man departed, taking the watch with
, him.
On Monday morning the same
watch was brought in by a colored
nvii ?
TIirUSDAV, NO1
! nmii about 21 years of age of whom
the pawn broker bought ii for *1. A
burly colored man, evidently a coin;
panion of the other, had been waiting
outside the shop while the trade was
being made and as soon as it was completed,
he entered ant1 took the money
which the proprietor passed over. Itoth
men then departed.
Continuing their investigations,
the olllecrs made start Pug discovery
which will have an important bearing
on the case, to the elTcot that the
watch of M iss Agnes MclMiee of Sonierville,
an other ".lack the Slugger" victim,
had been pawned at the same
Cambridge street shop on Oct. .'t, tinday
after her murder, by a white man
whose description tallied exactly with
that of the man who brought the Morton
watch to the pawnshop Saturday
infill. i lie descri pi Ions of I hese men
is Nai<I by the poller to a^ree to a
striking extent with that of the suspect
Mason, an<l the pawn Inoker will
he given :i eluinee tomorrow to identify
him, if possible, as his visitor.
COLUMBIA'S GLASS FACTOHY.
It Malum T<niNiir All Winds ?>l" Unities
Cnch Day.
hut few people realize the vast importance.
or even the extent of the
new glass factory that has been hut
recently established in Columbia,
bringing into the city manv desirable
families to make Columbia their
home. The industry is one of the
most important that lias come to Columbia,
and there is no plant here
that,is destined to attract more widespread
notice. Already it lias been
termed by experts who have seen it
the best ventilated and most
thoroughly modern plant in America
of its class, which is a very broad
statement. It has been started by
progressive young men who were assured
before they spent a dollar that
such a factory would be a paying investment,
and since the factory has
commenced operations they are more
t ban ever satisfied on this point. The
State retrained from giving many of
the details of this new and important
cini'i pi in?: u111ii itosiociu, .lonn .1.
Seibels of the company got everylIdng
thoroughly organized and working
smoothly. This has now been accomplished.
A few essential facts about
the factory will therefore hoof especial
Interest to Columbians and others.
The company that has established
this plant is capitalized at, $00,000.
and $15,000 has been invested in the
thoroughly up-to-date factory. It is
what is known as a 12 shop factory,
running II shops since it was put in
operat ion on the night of Sept. .'to.
The plant runs night and day, six
shops working in the day and live at
night. A shop consists of three men,
two blowing bottles, while one finishes
the neck, and there are live boys to
each shop, each bottle passing through
the hands of all before it is completed.
The men work in shifts alternately
each week by day and night and several
of the shops of the factory are
blowing 18 and 10 gross of bottles per
turn of 8 hours. It Is interesting to
note that one shop at the new factory
only a few days ago broke all records
for quart bottles ever blown in the
east, blowing 20 gross and 5 dozen,
which earned for the three blowers
about $12.50 a day each.
The factory shuts down at noon on
Saturdays, making the actual work
live 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 35 are high-priced and
skilled blowers, all carefully selected.
The capacity is .'h> blowers. The
factory is at present turning out
from II to 12 tons of glass a day of 24
lu.niv 1. I - >
in mi i n. iii 111^; Iiuiinuuil I I > ill 1U ? tn? g I'OSS
of bottles according to the size of the
ware, and giving a daily output work
on the market about $1,2~>0. The
class of goods now being manufactured
consists of coca-cola, soda water, mineral
water, beer and whiskey bottles.
The factory's payroll amounts to
about $1,000 a week.
The plant consumes 10 tons of coal
a day, and has been keeping a supply
without difficulty. Three cars of
sand a week are necessary. This
jomes from Killian's in this county
and is washed, screened and dried by
the Killian fire brick company. The
coke used in the lehrs for annealing
the ware after it, is blown is obtained
from the gas works here. Two carloads
of soda ash per week are used;
this comes from Syracuse, N. V. The
glassmakers' lime comes from Toledo,
()., and the manganese, arsenic, antimony
and other Ingredients come from
various portions of the west. The
factory runs with an improved system
of gas produces, and a uniform heat
of 4,000 degress (Karen licit.) The
box shop has a capacity of 1,000 boxes
per day, but, owing to the difficulty of
installing the electrical machinery it
has only been in operation for a few
days, turning out half its capacity.'
The box shop uses about three cars of
lumber a week when running full
capacity. The factory now has blown
on orders, ready for delivery, at the
factory, about 12,000 or 15,000 bottles,
which will be delivered to the
ourehasers as umn no tim wn wo
, -f/v.* i%D VM\y ?/\7AVn (? I i:
ready,
Vjynclieri lliui.
Sam Harris, a negro, entered the
homo of (?eo. Meadows, a prominent
planter, near Salem, Ala., on Monday
and struck Mrs. Meadows and her 18year-old
daughter on the head with
an axe, giving the former a mortal
wound and fracturing the skull of the
latter. The negro was arrested, hut
was taken from the oUlcers by 12f>
men and his body riddled with bullets.
it era 1
O
VKMllFdi IB, H)02.
Til K KliliCTION.
There Were No Great Surprises in
the Result.
REPUBLICANS WIN THE HOUSE,
lint (lit* I>emuerata Made lilt; (iaius
in Nearly All tip* States. TJ?e
Soutli Dium' More Solid.
The election on Tuesday, Hit instant.
resulted in no ureal surprises.
Ill New YilH. till. IN.ool.llon n .......if
date for governor claims his election
bv a small majority, which the I >? moerats
refuse to concede* The result
is so close that there will probably be
a contest. In almost, all- cities o! the
state of New York tin* Uepuhliean
party organizations went tosmash h<>lore
the assault of the labor vote. The
I I )e itinera Is win four congressmen in
i the Stat e.
Peiinypaeker has been elected governor
of Pennsylvania by a plurality
Of at least 105,000. This was done in
the laee of the bitterest campaign
that has racked the Keystone slate ill
recent years of hard lighting in the
race of discontent caused bv coal
I strike, and of a revolt in Alleghany
county, which, when the votes were
'counted, was found to have caused
oniplcte party chaos. Pennsylvania
will probably elect 21 Uepuhliean
! represent at-ives and eight Democratic
; representatives, t^uay has saved the
I legislature and, having won this victory,
is ready to retire from politics.
Connecticut has cone Uepublican by
probably 15,000 and it Is likely that
I not Only has Mr. Lilly. Uepublican
candidate for represent at ive at large,
been elected, in spite of his connction
j with the beef trust hut that all the
four dist ricts have been carried by the
' Ucpuhlicans.
In Ohio the Tom. Johnson ticket
has been snowed under by the combined
etforts of Senators llanna and
Poraker. Manna's home city went
Democratic. The Ucpuhlicans carry
Ohio by a greatly reduced majority.
In Wisconsin the Ucpuhlicans have
won in spite of themselves. The bitter
quarrel between (Jovernnr Lsii'oL
lette ?tnd Senator Spooner was carried
directly to the polls. The surprising
result Is that Lafollctto has been
elected governor and the legislature
is Republican insuring Spooncr's return
to the senate and ten of the
eleven congressional districts have
been carried hy the Republicans.
There was a light vote in Illinois,
hut the Republicans apparently held
their own. I ndications arc that the
Republicans will have the legislature,
insuring the election of Representative
Hopkins to the senate as the successors
of Will lain K. Mason.
Indiana remains Republican. The
legislature will be controlled by Republicans
and Senator Fairbanks will
succeed himself.
There have been heavy Democratic
gains in Massachusetts, but the Republican
state ticket has 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 reprcsentati
vs.
Deleware has probably been carried
by the Democrats and Houston has
been elected to congress. The legislature
is close, but is believed the Democrats
will control and elect two
11 id ted States senat ors.
In the far west the Republicans have
made gains. Colorado is believed to
be safely in their column.
Nevada has probably elected a liepublican
to congress.
The Pacific coast states arc generally
llepublican and the Republicans
in California have elected their state
ticket and six of the eight representatives.
liliode island lias elected a Democratic
governor and two Democrtlc
members of congress. This is a surprising
result and is due to the uprising
of labor in the cities of Providence
and Paw tucket.
" ;0 South is once more solid. The
Republicans carried very few congressional
districts in this section.
An Unexpected Victory.
The <Columbia State says the I >emocratic
victory in Rhode island was almost
entirely unexpected. If the
Democratic campaign managers made,
any claims of carrying that State they
were generally deemed too unimportant
for attention. Yet it seems that
the governor, the lieutenant governor
and the congressman are Democrats
while the lower house of the general
assembly is evenly divided between
l he two parties, the senate iieing still
strongly Republican. Rhode island
wjfs once considered a Democratic
Slate but of late years lias been
abandoned to the Republicans. It
may In; that this little victory is an
entering wedge for the Democratic
party in New Kngland, where it has
much to regain.
It III<*<l on tho Kail.
Herman A. Meyer, a Charleston
boy 19 years old, fell under the cars
at Kingville while stealing a ride
from Columbia to Charleston on Sunday
and had both legs cut off. He
died before reaching his widowed
mother in Charleston.
liil'e Ih Cheap.
Herbert Marble was convicted of
manslaughter at New Haven, Conn.,
on Thursday for killing a man by running
over him with his automobile
and was sentenced to one year In jail.
SHOT FROM THE REAR.
The VhniimhIii llud ITiiloultiedly l.nin
0
in AihIiiimIi for \ 'Ictliii.
N(? flew to the murderer (?f (iutfie
IU)iir<|ulu iitid Fieri Taylor, the old
ne^ro who w is killed with the planter
Wednesday near Savannah, as told of
in the newspapers, has heen discov,
erod.
( i\ vlvi t oil 1 I n> vi>.ni.i . .1' ii,.. i 111
' "Mil"
Iny al>out six miles from Savannah.
1 and marie every effort to yain a trace |
(it t lie imirrlerer. but wit,liout success.
Ituckshnt holes In the back of (lie
buyyy iii which Ikiurqiira body was
found, and In the bo ly Itself, showed
that lie had been shot from the rear,
' probably by some who bad lain in ambush.
The ucyro had Jumped from
the huyyv and run on the track of the
Seaboard Air Lin \ Ile was shot down
also, from the rear, and sometime afterwards
a train passed over Ids Ixxly. '
The conductor thought his train had
killed the man. and so reported.
(tuillemain Itourquin, one of the
sons of the murdered man, said of the
killing: "My father had a yrcat. deal
of trouble with pot hunters and ties-1
passers on his place, and I have no
doubt that some white man slew him.
1 do not believe It was the work of j
negroes. I have a clew that I will j
work on, and it may help me In solv- !
iny t Ids mystery."
Mr. Hounpiin was connected with
the oldest families of the state; In
fact , belny a descendant of some of
the original set tiers, lie was horn in
Savannah in IH.'tT. and had resided ,
there evor since. lie \>as connected
with I he Central railroad before the
war as cashier. After the war, with
the linn of (Jilliland Itourquin, he!
conducted a yrocerv and produce business.
The last twenty-live years of
his life had been spent as a rice planter
ami in lookiny after Ills extensive
holdings.
Mr. Itourquin leaves three sons; one
in Savannah,( uillemaln Itourquin,one
in Little Kock, Ark., and another
whose whereabouts is unknown, lie
| also leaves a sister, Miss Alice V.
Itourquin, a teacher in the public
i schools.
Mr. Itourquin was often in trouble
wuii nunters who trespassed on his
legal r?tangleinents was when he was
tried lor the murder of W. 1<\ Darrell
on I >eccmber .'10. ist)2. lie surrendered
himself to the authorities and gave
bond in the sum or $.">00 for shooting
and killing Furred, whom lie found
trespassing on his lands in the southwestern
section of the eountv. The
grand jury Indicted him on January
12, 181)2, and on June 22, of that year
he was tried and the grand jury found
him not guilty.
FAMINE IN PHILIPPINES.
Heroic Measures arc llcing Taken ?o
Kcllcve Situation in Archipelago.
A dispatch from Manila says the
Philippine commission has been forced
to take heroic measures to relieve the
famine conditions prevailing in the
aichipclugo. It has appropriated $2,000,000,
Mexican, to purchase rice and
to charter vessels to carry the supplies
to the different islands.
It Is proposed to sell the rice for
cash and to distribute it through the
elvll officials. It will be sold at not
less than actual cost, including duty,
transportation, shrinkage and storage,
thus not prejudicing legitimate competition;
but this will result in the
sulfercrs being able to purchase at
from one-third to one-half less than
the present cost, owing to the exorbitant.
coast wise rates that shippers are
obliged to pay. The lirst rice steamer
sailed for the provinces of the Camarines
Wednesday morning. The hulk
of the rice to be disposed of in this
manner will be purchased in Slam.
Reports from various places in the
archipelago show ;i general condition
of poverty and famine, resulting from
the insurrection, cholera and rinderpest.
The authorities of the Zainbales
provinces have appealed for aid in
introducing American agricultural machinery
and in importing carihaos
(water buffaloes) the rinderpest having
killed 2<i,(l00 of these animals tliis
year.
The sliippers have objected to the
government importing rice, and have
olTered (iovernor Taft a lengthy explanation
in justification of tlie prohlhitive
prices prevailing for rice. Tliey
say in elfect that the Philippine crop
is always Insuiliclent for the home demand,
and that the present crop in
Indo-China is a failure,the strain there
selling <r?0 percent, higher tlian it did
last year. The Asiatic growers have
issued a notice tiiat, no rice will 1m;
available between December and February.
i tic prices of Hemp caused the Filipinos
to neglect their scanty rice cultivation.
The shippers deny that
there is a pool to control prices, and
declare that the high freight rates are
the natural result of the fluctuating
currency. The price is enhanced by
the long quarantine, increased wages
and the high duty. They assert that
the local tonnage is sulllcient to handle
the business.
(fohloii Streets.
For some time past the authorities
of Altinnn In tlie Crlpple Creek district,
which enjoys the distinction of
being the highest Incorporated town
in the world have l>een paving the
streets with rock taken from the
waste dump of the Pharmacist mine.
Some of it looked so well that samples
were taken at random and assayed,
and the returns showed an average
value of $20 In gold a ton. As a re'
suit men tiegan hauling away the
street surface until stopped by the
police. The Pharmacist company has
i ceased giving away the dump, and is
hauling it to the reduction mills.
AN K\PLOSION
Causes a Frightful Disaster in the
Heart of a Crowd.
ELEVEN MEN KILLED OUTRIOHT
Ami I'lUy I iij ii!*???I. Many ??f tlieui
l-'atally. I'anlc and Stumpedu
I OIIHWIMI. r?0() I'ollCCIIiett
Culled Out.
11v ii series of explosions of pyrotechnic
homhs and other IIreworks Tuesday
night, amon^ tlx* vast multitude
gathered in Madison Square In New
York city In witness tlx' 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 Mfty injured, many
of (hem fatally.
It is estimated that at least it0,000
persons thronged the Square at the
time of t he explosions which were succeeded
by a frightful panic In which
hundreds were thrown down and
trampled under foot. Five hundred
policemen and all the ambulances In
the city were instantly summoned and
the dying and those most seriously
injured were removed to t he hospitals.
In addition to these many of the
wounded wore taken away by friends.
Nine men in charge of the llreworks
display were placed under arrest immediately
after the explosion.
The list of the dead is:
Policeman Dennis Shea.
Win. (i. Finley
(Jeorge Kit/..
Tharold liobley.
Five unknown men.
unknown colored man.
Unknown colored l>oy.
The densest portion of the throng
t hat packed the square was gathered
along Madison avenue close to the
place reserved for the discharge of
lireworks. Along the border of the
s<|uarc facing the avenue were
arranged three groups of the castiron
mortars, 20 in each group and loaded
with heavy bombs. A few minutes
after 10 o'clock the llrst row of mortars
was touched olT, but before the
discharge took place one of them fell
over on Its side and the next Instant * i
stant the bomb was shot into the
thickest of the crowd, whore it exploded
and hurled the people Into
heaps. The fall of tho mortar and
the concussion of the explosion knocked
down the rest of the row of mortars
and a thundering volley of huge
projectiles ploughed through the
crowd.
Almost Instantly tlie second group
of 20 mortars alxmt 100 feet further
up the avenue discharged their contents
into the crowd and a moment
later the third group, evidently ignited
by the showers of falling sparks,
exploded In the same manner.
In tlie panic that ensued thousands
ran blindly across the square, tripping
over the seats and benches and falling
were trampled upon. The police on
duty were carried along by the rush
and for half an hour tiie wildest confusion
reigned.
After the smoke of the exclusion
had cleared away 10 persons were
found lying on Madison avenue between
2.'Jrd and 25th streets. Scores
of injured were scattered about the
avenue and the square. Among the
dead was a policeman who was standing
close to the mortar and whoso
body was frightfully mangled.
A force of 500 policemen was soon
on the spot and upwards of 100 physicians
and 200 nurses were summoned
from the hospitals.
The True Cause.
The Columbia Record says Massachusetts
papers are trying to explain
why Hooker Washington's daughter
was forced to leave Wellesley college.
One paper attempts to explain it by
the fact that the Southern girls in
the college absolutely refused to asso- , ?
elate with her, and adds that some of
the Northern girls "took up" with
her. There is no disputing about
tastes generally, so the Northern girls
are welcome to theirs in this matter;
but the truth of it is that the
generality of Northern girls are not
much dilTerent from their Southern
sisters in tills respect. The faculty
of the college is acting very follishly
in trying to make it appear that anything
else than race prejudice, if you
please to call it that, caused her rejection
as a student after the experiment
had i>cen tried for one term.
Takes Her Own
A special dispatch from Lancaster
to The State says Miss Ida Craig, a
young lady about 20 years of age, living
about eight miles in the county,
put an end to her life by drinking
carbolic acid Tuesday morning about
.'1 o'clock. She had l?een using the
acid for tootchache, and the supposition
fsi t.ililt pot irlnn tg\- th? ?. *. V.
.u w..%?? wv/k iuvu II1(S &UI tlll> m^UU
she drank the contents of the Ixittle,
which was a small one with only a
small quantity of the acid diluted
therein. The young lady had been
complaining during the day and It Is
probable ner mind had become unbalanced
from 111 health.
In n HIk Hurry.
The State says Hon. G. Duncan
Bellinger, attorney general, has received
a letter from a nominee for office,
asking if he cannot Immediately
take charge of the ottlee to which he
has been elected. Mr. Bellinger says
that no result has yet been declared, 4
and the nominee has not been elected
until the result is declared by the
board of canvassers.