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VOL. 14.
THE SAD END
Of Robert Keith Dargan, of Darlington
Who Deliberately
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Mid Brother Said to Have Been Present
Whan lis* TnftL tba Dnlanii Ho
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Left a Written Statement of
the Cause of the Act.
And a Letter.
A dispatch from D&rllngbon to The
State says Mr. Robert Keith Dargan,
formerly president of the Independent
OH company and of the Darlington
Trust oompany, comrnifced suicide betweed
8 and t) o'clock on Tuesday night
, of last week by taking carbolic acid.
Mr. Dargan was on th3 streets Tuesday
aftornoon and appeared In this
usual manner. He had been reticent
since the recent trouble of the large
oonoerns of which he had been the
head, and Tuesday afternoon ho made
appointments to meet several gentle
men later in the evening, one of these
being Mr. W. F. Dargan, who states
that Mr. R. K. Dargan told him he
would go to Mr. W. F. Dargan's ofllce
within an hour from the time they
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A dispatch to The State says there
were no developments at Darlington
Wednesday following the tragic death
of Mr. Robert Keith Dargan by his
own hand Friday night. The tragedy,
and the circumstances leading up to
it, were the almost sole topic of con
versatlon on tho streets, in stores and
?dices during the entire day. It has
been raining all day long and business
seems to be almost at a standstill. In
almost every protected place can be
seen a group of men, all discussing in
hushed voices the one subjeot that
seems to be on all minds. The coroner'H
Inquest, which wjs to haye been held
Wednesday morning, was postponed
until Thursday morning at 0 o'clock
in'order that Mr. Pegram Dargan, the
most important witness, would not be
required to leave the house of mourning
until after the funeral.
The circumstances of the sulolde
all Indicate that it was most deliberately
planned. There has been no testimony
ar.d no statement concerning
what transpired in the law ctllce where
Mr. Dargan took his life has been given
out, but the facts, as gathered from
reliable men, are that Mr. Pegram
Dargan went into the drug store of L
R Phillips some time between 1 and
0 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and
bought the four ounces of carbolic
acid. He was alone and did not go In
the direction of the law ottlce when he
left. The two brothers, Mr. Pegram
Dargan and Mr. Robert Keith Dargan,
went to the law otlice of their father
opposite the Darlington Guards armory
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UU1IU1LIK UOIUIO o u UJUJR auu 1WHCU
themselves la. One of them poured
out most of the four ounces of add In
a Klaus and the rest he poured in a
small bowl and mixed about a gill of
rye whiskey with It. This concoction
was to be used to deaden the pain from
the raw acid but only a part of it, if
any, was taken, as the bowl, which Is
in the possession of the coroner, still
contains a small quantity.
After a portion had been taken, Mr.
Dargan remained In the room with hit,
brother until life was extlnot and then
notified their cousin, Mr. W. F. Dargan,
who in turn quickly oalled Dr.
Edwards, but their arrival was too
late for human aid. The suicide had
left a brief statement which stated
that ho had end. d his own life and
that his brother had prooured the (here
he made a dash) and that he may have
mismanaged but he was not a coward,
lie also left a letter which was not addressed
but is said to have been for his
wife. Robert Keith Dargan was born
In 1800. He was a son of Mr. PI. Keith
Dargan, the dean of the Darlington
I bar, a successful lawyer and a man of
the highest character, a Confederate
soldier who served as an oftlcer of artillery
In the corps of Stonewall Jackson.
The mother of Mr. R. K. Dargan
beRre her marriage was Miss
Elizabeth Woods, a sister of Associate
Justice C. A. Woods of the supreme
oourt. The sutjact of this sketch
graduated from WofTord college and
was afterwards admitted to the bar
and practiced for a short time with
his father. After an Interim of retire
ment from active business on aocount
of a nervous breakdown, he accepted
a olerloal position with the Darlington
Phosphate oomp&ny and exhibited
such a remarkable capaolty for bus!
ncss that he was made general manag?
er of the oompany.
> A Mountain Horror.
John and Dave Phipps, young white
IJI... nnn. LliltUr Tflnf, 1 1T?
men, rettium^ umi
being hunted in the mountains along
the border of North Carolina and Tennessee
Monday night by a posse of fifty
armed men, who have sworn to
take them deaa or alive. The Phtpps
boys are charged with one of the
bloodiest murders ever committed in
this mountain section, when, according
to reports reaching Bristol on Sunday
afternoon, they used an axe to
obop the body of William Ranklns to
pieces, and so wounded with the same
weapon Filmore Moreland that he will
in all probability die. The trouble
occurred at a place called Doevllle and
Is said to be largely the result of mean
liquor Illicitly distilled in that imme
dlate locality. All the parties are
white and well known in the mountains.
He Liked It.
About a year ago a Kansas dootoi
lost a wallet containing a large sum
of money. He offered a liberal reward
for Its return, but the party whc
found It thought the whole thing
was better than the reward. Tht
other day the d.otor entered hli
ooal htuie, and the first thing h<
saw wad his empty wallet, and pro
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LOCATED AT LAST.
Murphy, the Murderer of Treasurer
Copes, in the Army.
Penitentiary Authorities to Make
Inquiries. Brief ltesume of
the Crime anil Kscape.
The murder of Treasurer Copes, of
Orangeburg, in the year 1806, has
passed from the memory of the public
now, although it created an Immense
sensation In the state at the time. It
Is recalled at this time by the report,
which is more or less well authenticated,
that Murphy, white, who was
convicted of the crime is now in the
Philippines, a private in the army,
though what regiment or company he
is a member of is not known.
A former penitentiary guard told a
Columbia Record reporter that a relative
of Murphy told him that, now
that the wholo thing was over, he
would say that Murphy was in the
Pnillppines, though his e xact where
a bouts In the Islands he did not know.
Superintendent Griffith said he had
never heard the report until informed
of it by a newspaper man, but said he
would make some inquiries, though it
is hardly probable that anything will
come of them, as Murphy most likely
is living under an assumed name, and
possibly has so ohanged in personal
appearance that it would be diilljult
to identify him.
Treasurer Copes was killed about
1896, having been on a tax oollccting
tour through the country. He was
shot with a shotgun at a lonely place
on the public road some miles from
Orangeburg, and for sometime there
was no clue whatever to the criminal.
Finally, Murphy, a somewhat worthless
white man, was arrested and ac
cused of the crime. A great deal of
the evidence against him was circumstantial,
but he was convicted. His
case went to the supreme court, was
sent back, as the circumstances are
recalled, and a second conviction was
had. Murphy was sentenced to be
hanged. His aged father, however,
succeeded in enlisting the services of
Mr. M. P. Carroll, a prominent lawyer
in Augusta, who secured a great deal
of circumstantial evidence going to
prove an alibi. Much of this evidence
was considered worthless by those
who knew the source of it, but oer
sonal appeals added to the alleged
evidence induced Governor Hllerbe to
commute the sentence to life imprisonment.
Murphy was during appeal taken to
the penitentiary for Bafe keeping previous
to final action. The governor
visited him in his cell once or twfci.
Newspaper men were frequent callers
and penitentiary authorities were constantly
on the alert and made fre
quent endeavors to get Murphy to
talk about the crime. Further than
deny ids guilt he would say nothing,
and either tried t.n annear lmhec.ilfe
or was actually a personage on that
order, though it was evident that he
was a man of such menthl capacity as
to be accountable for any crime he
may have committed.
After the commutation he was put
to work about the penitentiary and
his life was no different from that of
other conviots in the yard. He was
placed in a cell in the old building
with a white convict named Cullom,
sent down from Oconee for highway
robbery. Their cell was on the second
floor, facing a long portico running
around the building. By some
means they managed to secret flies
and other tools about their persons or
in their cell, and after what must
have been long and tedious and con
stantly interrupted work they were
enabled to open the cell door.
One dark night about four or five
years ago, watohing when the guard
was elsewhere they opened the cell
door, crawled, likely, to the end of
the portico, sliding down one of the
supporting columns to the ground.
The penitentiary yard is brilliantly
lighted by electricity and a very high,
smooth brick wall surrounds the
building. Notwithstanding this the
two men succeeded in escaping the
eye of the guards and scaling the walls
and securing their liberty. Before
leaving one of them, at least, showed
that he possessed the sense of humor
to some degree. With charcoal written
on the walls were sentences like
the following: "Sorry to leave you."
"God l>e with you till we meet again."
"Good bye, we are bound fcr South
America - mere were some inner*
on a similar order mingled with obsoenlty.
Every effort was made to recapture
the men, but they successfully eluded
detection and never were heard of until
a few weeks ago, when the report
that Murphy was in the Philippines
reaohed Columbia. Penitentiary authorities
had forgotten tho circumstance
along with everybody else. No
Information has ever been received as
to Gullom. He may be in the Pacific
islands too, but as his crime was not
so serious as that of his cell partner,
perhaps he did not think it necessary
to get so far away from home.
Home Clixxl In Them.
The State says all Pannsly v solans
are not incurable boodlers, however
strongly the Philadelphia Reoord may
uphold the theory. The other day
Gapt.' J. R- Brlcker of Warwick, Pa.,
received an umbrella that was "borrowed,"
July 4, 1876. Attached to
the handle was a note asking that
needed repairs be made as the gentlemen
in whose possession it had been
for 20 years might need it again. A
State where men return umbrellas,
tvar after the lapse of nearly the
third of KRAntnrv punnnt. ha mhnllii
bad.
A Confederate Monumnnt.
The survivors of the Jaokson
Grays, a noted company of Confederate
Infantry, reoruited in the Pleasant
Gro?e;distriot of Norfolk oounty
at the breaking out of the civil war,
Tueeday unveiled a handsome granite I
' monument erected near Pleasant
! Grove baptist Churoh on the spot
1 where theoompany was drat lined up
> fourty-four years ago.
I Balls for Philippines.
i The steamer Manohuria, having
i aboard Seoretary of War Taft, Miss
Alioe Roosevelt and a large party of
f United States senators r.nd congress
rhf
con
TWELVE KILLED.
Wholesale Murder by a Negro on
Schooner Olympia.
ONE WOMAN ESCAPED
Miss Elsie Morgan, After Being Shot and
Beaten, Jumps Overboard and Swims
to the Shore. The Murderer
Captured and lie May Be
Lynched bv Crowd.
One of the most shocking stories of
murder with robbery as a motive in
the annals of crime was brought to
New Orleans Wednesday by Capt.
Hans Holm of the Norwegian fruiter
Hratben, which plies between New
Orleans and Ilondurancan ports. It
was subsequently contirmed by the
orticcrs of the fruit steamer Roslna,
which came in later in the evening
with additional details.
The little island of Utllla, lying off
the Ilondurancan coast, whose popu
lation is an indiscriminate mixture of
white, Caymanltes and Carlbs, was
the scene of the tragedy In which 12
lives were sacritlced. The captain of
the little trading schooner Olympia
was about to make a trip to Ru&t&o,
Truxlllo and Hell/.3. She had about
$1,400 to buy cattle at Truxlllo
to sell at iiellze. She carried a crew
of four and quite a number of passengers,
making the total list of people
aboard number 13. Among these
were two women and two ohildren.
The vessel left ths harbor of Utilla
at 11 o'clock Friday night, June 30,
and after she had been under way less
than an hour everybody was aroused
by a shot and ruHhtng on deck found
a negro armed with a Winchester rltie
shooting down the men, one after another.
Tills negro was Robert McGill
and, as it afterwards developed,
be had stowed himself away aboard
with the intention of robbing the
captain and then swimming ashore.
After he had killed all lut one of
them he ordered the last survivor to
go below and scuttle the ship. When
the unfortunate reappeared on deck
and reprn^d, the negro shot him to
death.
He tl^But the two women, Miss
Klsle I^Van and her sister, Mrs
Walter ^^&e, in the dory with the
Mrs. H^^^six- week old Infant and
left ttn^^K, steering for the main
land. ^^Khanged his mind about
allowlr^^H women to live and killed
Mrs. Ij^^Kad her infant. Then he
begat^^^^ug at Miss Morgan and
woun^^M^the arm. She jump
started to swim
uacK He tired at her
his ammunition evi
for he promised her
im^^HHS,. harm if she would
oome^^^^^Hfe dory. She started
back thin oar's length he
stru^^^^HKo head with an oar
stun^^^^^^Hfaellevlng she was dead
he towards the mainback
to the is
lanc^^^^^^^HT was thrown on the
bed^J^^^^^Kves in an exhausted
eared that the negro
so she hid in the
hu^H^^^^Bwo days she suffered
froa^^^^HKt and exposure, until
fm^^HF<iman 'rom l,er neighborhoj^^Hffescued
from starvation. In
thq^Hanttme the dory had been
wasJRl ashore and there was excitemo.
on the island, as It was believed
the Olympla had gone down with all
hands. When Miss Morgan told her
story an immediate search was iDSti
tuted for McGlll and the authorities
on the mainland were notified.
They caught him at El Portvinir, a
little town on the road to (Jeiba, and
there was quite a demonstration, but
he was protected. Iiis life was saved
through the presence on the coast of
President Bonilla, who was on an in
speotlon tour. The Honduranean
warship Ta Tumba, which has figured
in so many revolutions, was brought
Into service and the murderer placed
aboard and sent back to the island.
IJp to last Sunday he was still alive,
though it is firmly believed that he
will be tortured to death. The laws
of Honduras prohibit capital punishment,
but the people will take the
case Into their own hands. Miss Elsie
Morgan, the only survivor of the terrible
experience visited New Orleans
three years ago and is a well educated,
refined younj woman of 25 years.
finder Liook and Key.
A dispatch from Washington says
the new system of preparing the
monthly crop report, devised since the
cotton investigation began, was put
in force Tuesday. That report was
made publlo late Tuesday afternoon
and the secretary balleves that the
steps taken are perfect. Early in the
day Assltant Secretary Hayes, Chief
Statistician Hyde and several experts
of the department were placed in a
room under look and key.and they
were not u> oe permitted to oome out
until four o'clock In the afternoon.
The telepones In the room were disconnected,
and & careful scrutiny was
kept of the windows to avoid the possibility
of a leak through private signals.
Poor Old Call.
Former Senator Wilkinson Gall, of
Florida, hat declared himself as a
Roosevelt man and organized a Roosevelt
olub at Ortegas, a suburb of
Jacksonville. Mr. Gall was a Democratic
Senator from Florida for three
terms, covering a period of eighteen
years. He has little, If any, political
Intluenoe left, and It does not matter
very much whether he Is for or against
Mr. Roosevelt.
Ooatly Blaze In Cotton.
Fire at an early hour Friday morning
destroyed the building of the
Gulf Compress company at Meridian,
Miss. Over 14,000 bales of cotton
were In storage and about 6,000 balec
Ml O UT
WAY, S. C., THUR
CHEATHAM CHARGES
Hyde With Being Just as Guilty as
Holmes Was.
Hn M?vu V V 11 ? ?
J - J " "??" ?iu?nni
In I*rloe to Turn Attention
Away From Hyde.
The Atlanta Journal says according
to Secretary Richard Cheatham, of
the Southern Cotton Association, who
made the charge of fraud against the
, United States department of agriculture,
relating to advance information
being given out, Statistician Hyde and
liis private secretary are just as guilty
of the offense of giving away department
secrets as Holmes, the man who
/discharged.
Mr. Cheatham says further that
Secretary Wilson brought the name
of Theodore Price into the affair to
turn the attention from Hyde. Every
effort was made, according to Mr.
Cheatham, to bring Theodore Price
into the affair, but these elforts failed,
and now his belief Is that the department
of agrioulture has rung Price
into it to shield other favored employes.
Secretary Cheatham returned to
Atlanta Monday afternoon. Since he
first got evidence of the leakage in
the department he has been hard at
work securing evidence to present to
the department of agriculture. Now
he has fully convinced the department
officials as well as the whole world
that the department had been tampered
with, that the secrets of the de
partmcnt were sold to Wall street
speclators, who played the tickers on
the advance information received, and
and made thousands of dollars.
Mr. Cheatham was in charge of a
number of the government secret ser
vice men, and they went right out after
all the necessary evidence. When
they got it and turned it over to Secretary
Wilson Holmes was promptly
fired out, and, in the opinion of Secretary
Cheatham, Hyde and his private
secretary should go too, for they were
Just as much in on the deal as Holmes
was. And Mr. Cheatham discovered
further that this leakage had been
going on for some time.
When President Jordan, of the
Southern Cotton Assoclatien, returns
to the city Mr. Cheatham will present
the evidence which he has against
Hyde and his secretary, and will re
quest President Harvlc Jordan to lay
the whole matter in the hands of
President Roosevelt. In that event,
Mr. Cheatham believes that the in
vestlgation will result not only In the
further dismissal of Ilyde and his
seoretary, but of Secretary Wilson
also. In telling of the status of the
case Mr. Cheatham said:
"We found a terrible state of affairs.
You known that Holmes ha*
been dismissed for his duplicity in the
matter, but, in my opinion, Hyde and
his seoretary should also go. The evidence
against them is strong, and if
Mr. Jordan will take the matter to
President Roosevelt, I believe that
even Secretary Wilson will be dropped.
This thing has been going on for a
number of years. After we showed
our hand and told what we know
there was considerable excitement in
the department. And when the report
of the secret service agents were
made you never Raw such excitement
as there was in Washington.
"Secretary Wilson lias brought
Theodore Price into this thing fur the
purpose of shielding Hyde and his sec
retary. We did our best to tind some
evidence against Price, as we wanted
to show, if possible, that he had been
getting rich out of speculating on ad
vanoe information furnished by officials
of the department of agriculture,
but we couldn't get enough evidence
to connect him with the affair. While
we have no love for Price, and while
we would have liked the best in the
world to have gotten him mixed In
this affair, yet we do not think Secretary
Wilson has done the fair thing,
and believe that he is using it as a
blind altogether."
A CIomo Call.
During a severe thunder storm at
Kingstrce Saturday evening lightning
struck the offioe of the Peach ltiyer
Cypress Mills, of which Mr. P. P.
Thorne is the proprietor. At the time
a heavy rain was falling and the cilice
was crowded with hands from t.ha mill
waiting to be paid off. The iluld struck
the brick flue, tearing it completely
away, tore off the weather boards on
one side, knocked four holes through
the floor and tumbled the negroes over
right and left, burning two them bad
ly, but miraoulously all escaping with
their lives. Mr. Thome, sitting at
his desk ten feet away, experienced
no shock whatever. A pile of silver
on the desk was scattered, the lamp
put out and the inkstand upset. The
setter dog lying on the floor was
stunned and blinded in one eye. By
Sunday morning none was the worse
for the experience, except the dog,
which Is still blind.
Fixed trie J nry.
A dispatch from Raleigh, N, 0.,
says J. Rowan R gers and L. P. Sorrell,
who are now in jail serving a
sentence of 30 days for contempt of
ocurt in influencing jurors in favor of
President Kllgoof Trinity colledge
and B N Duke of the American To
bacoo company, during their trial on
the charge of malioious libel against
T. J. Gattls a Methodist minister
Thursday nleaded oulltv In nnon
court to embracery. The entire
Jury fn the case against Duke and Kll
go has been summoned before the
grand jury to see if other parties are
involved.
Xhlrtjr-Nlne Killed.
A fire has broken out in the Dorusia
coal mine, Prussia, caused by the oareless
handling of a lamp by boys. The
lamp exploded, igniting the timbers
of the shaft whioh burned rapidly.
Two hunbred and fifty miners escaped
through an air shaft, but 39 were cut
off and thter death is regarded as certain.
Fooling With * Pistol.
George and Wesley Prloe, colored
i children aged seven and eight, were
\ playlmg with a pistol at Johnston on
SDAY, JULY 20, U
HEAT VICTIMS.
Two Infants Perish in Their Mothers'
Arms in Street.
TWENTY-ONE DEATHS
The Passengers "on a Crowded Elevated
Train See a Victim Fall in the Car
and Die. Over Fifty Prostra- ^
tions in One Day.
According to tho New York Ameri
can Monday of last week 4n that city
was a day of terrible, overpowing heat
whloh rolled up an appalling list of
dead and prostrated, was checked and
tempered only for a time In the after
noon by a violent storm, whlcn Hooded
cellars, sowers and Subway, and
left a trail of disaster and ruin in its
wake. At night it was again Intolerably
hot. Nineteen persons, most of
them children, were killed by the
sun's merciless rays and stilling hu
midity. Scores of others were over
come, and at midnight new cases were
still being reported.
First it was the extremely high
temperature which assailed the city
almost at break of day. At 0 a. m.
70 degrees, and from that time on the
mercury kept climbing steadily. The
climax came at 2 p. m., when 89 was
reached. Hut it was the extraordinary
degree of humidity which caused most
of the distress. At 8 a. m. the density
of the air registered the very high
mark of 89. Relief oame in the afternoon
when the heavy rainstorm sent
the mercury tumbling 10 degrees In
less than an houe. The raiufall in
that time was 1 20 inches.
Lightning also came along with the
rain and struck the City Hall lUg
stair in Brooklyn, cutting a spiral 1
ribbon from it. The bolt tore the
Hag to pieces, Hung down the eagle
surmountiog it shocked tlfty persons
in the building, besides cutting out I
the clectrio switch board and extin- <
gulshing all of the lights. I
The rain came so suddenly and in i
sucli blinding volumes that the streets 1
were speedily converted into running '
streams. For the Urst time in a good
many days lower Manhatten received !
a good, refreshing drcnohing.
At Kim and Centre streets the s
heavy on rush of waters swept back i
from the clogged sewers and tilled the 1
adjoining cellars. The back waters t
swept down the streets and over the I
side walks, and within Uftcen minutes (
there was two feet of water in the I
basement of the Criminal Courts (
Building. For a time it seemed as if
the engine room would be swamped *
and the elevators shut down.
At the South Ferry terminal of the
Subway the water poured over the
curbing and down the entrances in s
Niagara like volumes. The sudden
cessation of the rain alone saved serl
ous trouble. As it was, it took the
pumps over an hour to dear the tube. (
But the worst phase of the storm developed
at Elm and Duane streets ,
where fifteen men were entombed in '
the collapse of an excavation under- 1
mined by the heavy rainfall.
In New Jersey and various other ,
sections of outlying and adjoining
suburbs lightning struck in several 1
places, but no one was killed. At (
Ellis Island two bolts struck the ad- t
ministration building and the last one .
tore out ten feet of the roof, besides
demolishing the skylights.
Yet, despite this disastrous effect,
the storm was welcomed as few storms '
have been welcomed this summer.
The exoursionists who had left New '
York on Saturday and Sunday and '
had congratulated themselves on the
manner in which they had escaped
the heat, came back only to find con
dltlons worse than those from which 1
they fled. 1
The suffering, of course, was the <
keenest on the crowded East Side, it
always Is. Yesterday the sidewalks
were paeked with suffering, panting 1
men, women and children, In all states
of dress and undress, trying to find !
relief, that was not to be found. It 1
was to these sections that the ambulances
were kept going most frequently,
and it was from the ranks of the
suffering Kist Slders that death and
the hospitals gained their largest list
of recruits. The deadly rapidity with 1
which babies succumbed was heart
rending.
Two infants died in the arms of '
their mothers before the seriousness of
their condition was realized. Another
baby died in the carriage in front of
the door, where it had been tempora
rlly left standing. In almost every (
instance the end came so swiftly that
parents had little or no warning. (
Whereas the children predominated
in the list of fatal cases, the grownups
praotioally comprise the entire
roll of prostrations. Brooklyn suffered
equally with Manhattan, and in
both boroughs ambulances were kept
busy taking the stricken ones to the
hospitals. The majority of those
overcome in Manhatten went to the
Hudson Street Hospital. Tnere
almost every oot was filled before
night,'and several physicians themselves
narrowly escaped falling ex
hausted from their exertions, lleat
vlotlms fell unconscious on the streets
In the Subway and on the elevated
trains.
John Falvy, formerly a foreman of
Fire Department Truck No. 14, located
on Kist One Hundred and
Twenty Fifth street died In a Third
avenue elevated train. Mr. Falvy,
who weighed over two hundred pounds
had given his seat to an agod woman
and a few moments later he fell to
the floor. At Thirty-fourth street he
was carried to the station, where an
ambulance was oalled, but he was
dead when the surgeon arrived. He
had been In the lire department for
27 years.
Probably the most dramatlo lnci
)05.
His attempt was made only a few
blocks above the spot where another
man who had been driven insane by
the heat tried to kill himself In a
similar manner on Sunday night.
Kaeslck had been wandering along
the wharfs for some hours when he
suddenly jumped over the bulkhead
between Piers 39 and 40. Then fol
lowed a dramatic struggle to bring
him to shore by a longshoreman who
had seen him make the leap and had
dived after him. Finally, when it
seemed that the heat craxed man
must carry his would be rescuer down
with him, Patrolman Ilagati, of the
MoDoug&l street station, reached the
almost exhausted longshoreman with
a rope. Both men wore brought to
shore, and Kaeslck was sent to Bellevue
Hospital.
Not among the least of tluse who
suffered intensely from the ovcrcharg
ed atmosphere were the cats and d( gs
In some sections Jthese animals wen
almost entirely exterminated and
policemen were frequently called to
shoot those which it was foared had
gone mad. One of the districts said
to have been almost depopulated in
this regard Monday was the vicinity
covered by the West Forty seventh
street police station.
BRIBING DISPENSERS
To I'iihIi Certain llramlH of Whiskey
In Tliiu State.
A dispatch from Columbia suvs a
special system opening up large possibilities
of graft has been r covered
by Commissioner Tatumat Lhu whole
sale dispensary In Columbia and he
has written a letter to the state di
rectors calling their attention to the
fnctfi and requesting that thoy buy no
more whiskey from the houses that
have been guilty. It seems that some
time there has been a disposition by
certain retail dispensers to push certain
orands of goods. Orders were
constantly comiug in from certain
dispensers for these goods while at
other dispensaries there was no sale
at all for the same goods.
About the same time letters began
to come in from some of the dispensers
stating that these brands of goods
contained too many bottles to the
case. As a result Commissioner IV
tum had nearly every case of goods at
the wholesale dispensary opened and
found nearly *3,000 worth of certaiz.
brands over and above what had been
ordered. TJiese extra bottles had
been placed in the cases and should
the dispenser push tills brand the ex- "
tra botties belonged to himself and he <
was that much In on its sale.
Some of the dispensers were not
?low to see the scheme and took ad <
vantage of It. Others eltl or did not I
see It or would not, as a result Com I
nlssloncr Tatum found them out i
He has written the board and here I
ifter all cases will bo examined before
jhey are shipped out. All tags or I
sards or extra bottles that might seem <
io be an Inducement to push the salt <
if any certain brand will bo removed *
L'he state Is In, however, about $3,000 I
is a result of the discovery. i
LOST ON A YACHT. ,
Sunk in tlio HiuIhoii ltlvor l>y Nor- *
welgian Tramp Steamer.
Three lives were lost by the sinking
)f the steam yacht Normar.dle, which 1
van run down Wednesday night In the
tludsoD river of Dobbs Ferry by tin
Nerwegian tramp steamer Volund
rhose who perished were Miss Gladys
Dodge of New York, a guest aboar
the yacht, the captain William Siorj (
of Hyde Dark, N. Y., arid the englicer
Stewart Oracle of Hrooklyn
rnelr bodies were not recovered.
John II. Rudd, who chartered th(
ooat, his guest John 10. Greene and
Joseph Hannlgan, the deck hand ol
the yacht, managed to keep alloat bj
dinging to wreckage until they wert
picked up by a boat from tho Volund
Mr. Hucid made a statement today it
which he said that as the NormandU
was running down stream in the middle
of the river, a tramp steamer war
seen coming up, head on, about 600
yards away.
Tne pilot of the yacht gave onr
whistle but the steamer continued to
come until within 150 feet of the yachl
whou she whistled twice and then
swerved to port striking the Normau
die amidships. An explosion followed
immediately and the yatch went down
within five seconds.
Coroner Frank Russell of Westchester
county visited the wreck of the
yacht Weduesdav and found long
strands of hair streaming from one of
the port holes. Coroner Russell WedncoHq
u nlriht. aqiiqoH t\Vio ?frnof /G
UVOVIW/ Ui^iiu vwunuu uuu Ml 1 onu v/l
JoHtph Ilannlgan, the deck hand, and
Issued an order for the arrest of Mr
Rudd.
Riot lii Havana,
Two deaths have resulted from the
conflicts at Havana between Cuban
artillerymen and oiviltans. The first
conflict occurred between artillerymen
and polloemen and the toughs who infest
the locality. Then the company
of soldiers who were sent to restore
order mutinied and tired on the Police.
General Freye Andrade, secre
tary of the interior, is rigidly Inquir
ing into the idontity of the official
who ordered the company of artillory
men to that district and is also en
dcavorlng to dud out who is respon
sible for the lack of discipline.
Down on Tohaooo.
"Tae very fumes of burning fcobaooo
aro an incentive to Immoral and
pernicious conduot," said Mr. Robert
L. Reamy, of Baltimore, In an address
to the Epwortli Leaguers the
other day. "Asmoke laden room" he
continued "Is more harmful by far
than the smokers Imagine, and it inspires
a spirit in those who inhale the
smoke which Is the doorstep to sin."
GMyo The in a Heat.
Give all horses on the place at
least a three weeks' vacation in the
fields. The grass will bo good for
their feet and as a feed will help to
get all the old grain out of their system,
besides giving them a good rest.
Horses that aro worked evor? day
BANK OF
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CAPITAL STOCK, $20,000.00
TOTAL ASSftTi
OFFIC
15. O. COLLINS, President.
C. P. QUATTLEBAUM, V-Pres.
Our Bank, being a local instituti
building of llorry County and for the
suing this policy wo take pleasure in
accommodation when consistent with
With gratitude for the liberal j;
cordially solicit your future business.
Respectful
D A. SPIVE
Robt. B. Scarborough, II. L
President. Viee-l'j
BANK OF
Conwaj
Capital Stock
DiREC']
Robt. B. Scarborough,
1 Inl L. Buck,
George J. HoUiday,
W o will pay you 5 per cent, inter*
ish savings banks to those wishing
Try our plan for saving your nickles a
these little banks and the interest wo '
help yon.
THE CATAWBA WRECK.
Arrest of (JeorKO Owane ClurKod
With Wrcokinit the Train,
The arrest of George Owens noar
Osceola, S. C., Monday by Sheriff B.
A. 11 )rn of Union county and Mr. W.
R. Newman of Chester, S. 0., is ex- ,
pected to result In the olearing up of
the mystery that has surrounded the
catastrophe which occurred near Catawba
Junction early on the morning
of September 9 h of last year, when
passenger train No. 41 of the Seaboard
Air Line was precipitated from a
sinking bridge 30 feet to the ground J
below, falling with a fearful crash. ^
Only a few minutes later, to add to the
terrible confusion that already i
prevailed, an extra freight came
thundering along and was hurled
headlong upon the debris of the passenger
train. As a result of the accident
tive lives were lost and more ?.
than 3f> wero Injured. 1
This doub'.e wreck was said to be J
1ue to a tampered track. Ever since
the accident occurred the oflloeis have
oeen working on the case. A week or ^
more ago the wife of George Owens,
n a tit of jealousy, disclosed the seoret
which had been so long sought for.
)wens wai at once arrested and is
lew behind the bars of Union
iounty Jail. The warrant on ?
which lie was taken was net /
that of train wrecking, but for I
the robbery of Mr. B. A. Beaton's
itore at Stouts. All the facts have
not yet been secured to oonnrct. Owens
with the wrecking of No. 41, but the letectlves
have the case in hand and j
the developments are expected very "
shortly. In the meantime Owens refuses
to speak and is resting safe and
secure behind the bars.
Hfiot 11 i in I)oao,
Major General Count Shouvaloff,
prefect of police of Moscow, Russia,
*nd formerly attached to the ministry .
of the interior, was assassinated Wed- f
oesday while receiving petltious.
One of the petitioners drew a revolver
and lired three times at the prefect, ,
Jihn foil riaarl 'Pho auuuaufn w/ao -
rested. The assassin, who was dressed
as a peasant, has not been idcntlti
ed. lie was recently arrested as a <.
political suspect, put escaped from the t
police station before his examination. I
The assassin awaited in the ante- 1
room of the prefecture till the other ]
petitioners had been received and
then entered the audience room. He ,
advanced towards Count Shouvaloil (
and tired three shots at close range. ]
The bullets passed through the body l
of the prefect. 1
Death Valley Tragedies. '
Nine men dead and their bones
bleaching on the Nevada desert, two
unknown men found wandering naked
raving mad from thirst and heat
while trying to walk from.Los Angeles
to Indlo, picked up by a passenger
train which he stopped by standing J
on the traok; two prospectors, them- 1
selves nearly dead from thirst, finding .
the skeleton of one who died on the
lesert a year ago. These are some of (
the horrors reported from the desert 1
during the last three weeks. (
Three Ciootl and Just Causes. I
There arc three reasons why moth- '
ers prefer One Minu e Cough Cure:
First. It Is absolutely harmless; Second,
It tastes good- children love it:
Third, It cures troughs, Croup and
Whooping Cough when other remedies
fail. Sola by
Dr. E. Norton.
Twenty Killed.
At Warsaw, Poland, three bloody
encounters between troops and strik- \
Ing shoemakers, in which about twen ]
ty persons were killed or wounded, oc- i
curred Tusday. The Strikers were |
marching through the city from house '<
to house demanding the lowering of '
rent by 20 per cent. Many proprietors
out of fear complied with the de?
mands of the strikers.
lteraedy Found.
In South Africa thousands of oattle j
'lieevery year from a fever caused by '
tne bite of the tsetse fly. Prof. Robert
Koch, the eminent bacteriologist,
telegraphs from German South Africa
that he has discovered In the fly thr
infusoria that causes the disease in
the oattle. This, it is thought, will
result in the perfecting at an early
day of a sped lie for the fever.
A Smooth Artlol6?
When you llnd it necessary to ude
DcWitt's Witch Ilazel Salle. It is
the purest, and best for Sow, Burns,
Bolls, Eczema, Blind, Blcedw, Itching
or Protruding Piles. GcBho gen
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SUURPLUS FUND, $20,000.
3, $180,000.00. ^ ^
F.RS- ^ m
D. A. SPIVEY, Cash irk.
M. W. COLLINS, ASST. Caihiii.
on, lias always striven for th? up- i
betterment of her citizens. In per- j
extending to our customer? ?very *
sound banking.
atronage recoivod in the past, w? \
ly yours
CashIER
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. Buck, Will A. Freeman, J!
resident. Cashier.
HORRY,
r. S, C.
|25,000
rOltS;
W. R Lewis,
W. A. Johnson,
Will A. Freeman *
sst on yearly deposits. Will furnto
open small accounts with tie.
nd dimes, and you will find that
will pay you on your savings will
Professional Cards.
^XlTMcCordT
SURGEON DENTIST,
MULLINSe S. G.
^UUOEQjnJa
Physician and SurV
Conway, Si
HT SCARBRCfflH|
CONWAY, s. c; J|
lttorney at law a
IIToodVhI
Attorney and OounssllM
CONWAY. Sj^
Uonwav Mark, v
Fresh Meats and Sausago
always on hand.
Orders aro taken and
promptly delivered J
every day.
Geo. Ii. Marshu J
Proprctor. ||
The Only Way to Cure.
To cure a cold when you have no |
sough?to cure a cough when you have
10 cold?to cure yourself when you '
lave both?take Kennedy's Laxative
floney and Tar. Acts on the tx>wr"
Best for coughs, colds, croup, Wli
ng-cough, etc. Kennedy's Laxr\ 1
Honey and Tar is the original LaV 1
:,ive Cough Syrup. It contains v \
ipiat.es and cures by strengthening t?
lungs, throat and chest, expelling ogr
'rom system by gently moving a
bowels, and an Ideal remedy for yoinb.
ir old. Once used will be remember
id as a sure cure. Sold by ?' ^
Dr. K. Norton. Si
Will Be HMaed.A iJjj
After having remained
the sand beneath ten feet of
for five years an effort is now
made to rescue the cargo oMp|||||
ichooner Minnie B. Bergen, v?|||||p
was wrecked near ChlocmooomloflHpiB
C. The oargo consists of 200 tonMH|j|g
iteel rails, a locomotive and otheWll
machinery. Capt. John Whealton, of^H
Washington, N. O., will build a wharf Mi
lut to the wreck, and by the use of * VI
mnd pump remove the sand and save E||
the cargo. |fl|
Inillicostlon Unreel.
There is no case of Indigestion, Dyspepsia
or Stomach Trouble that will ^S|
not yield to the digestive and streng- |||
thening influence of Kodol Dyspepsi^^H
Jure. This remedy takes the gt|||S|i||
>ff the stomach by digesting
?at and allowing it to rest unn^j^H
rrows strong again. Kodol Dyspepsia
Jure afTords (prick and permanent re-,. MS
lief from Indigestion and all stomaoh^^H
.roiiiii/'s. hiilldn un the system and soi^Bi
jurifles that disease can not attaoiAgg
md gain a foot-hold as when in
vcakencd condition. Sold by jjggsE
[>r K. Norton.
The German Way.
The other day a Berlin miller, mEHh
ongue loosened in ojnvlvlal compaqjMQE
emarked : "All is not SolomoitiMdfi^BB
iom that drops from the ISthptii^HH
ips." And now for three|])^^H|
months in the seclusion of prison B?Kra
miller will have opportunity { to jqMjagg
the blessing of Amerloan free segji^H?&
For, as the State says, evenjuhSoSHH
reign of the Great and GoodfrBMHfl^H
it is possible to whisper a dqdHnl|^H9
11 vine inspiration without
the look-up
Billions Hill was agitated
And was much debllitaUj&^^HH^Hflg
People said he had couaumpHHsHB^^H
That was everyone's pnflwBfflffiB
When he learned what was
Bill made all the doctor's sea
Now he is his oj|m^^^,