The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 27, 1905, Image 4

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3' 'i URGE REWARDS Offered for Fiends Who Assassinated a Man and Daughter. GIRL FOUGHT HARJ) y People Are Oreaily Incensed Over the Horrible Crime. It Is Believed that the Young Lady Was Criminally Assaulted Before She Was Murdered. Citizens of Miami, Florida, and surrounding country, are greatly incensed over the brutal murder of C. E. Davis and his daughter, Miss Elsie Davis, which occurred recently. Howards have been offered by private parties, organizations and the citizens generally ranging from $100 to $1,000 for the llends and evidence to convict. Mr. Davis and his daughter lived about four miles west of Miami and were iri the habit of coming to Miami quite frequently, in fact almost daily. Mr. Davis was a nurseryman, having a fine grove of orange aud grape fruit trees, which yielded a good return for his labors in the past years and did quite an extensive business in budding and selling both nursery stock budded and in the seeding state, lie was a man of about 67 years of ago He was born in Delaware county, Ohio, and had lived in the vicinity of Miama for the past fourteen years. lie was well liked by the public generally, but It is thought that he must have had some enemies, as his fine patch of watermelon vines was totally destroyed some weeks ago by being pulled out of the ground No trace Of t.hft nArnot.rntnru iif.s ever been discovered. Miss Elsie Davis was an exceedingly attractive young lady; was about eighteen years of ago, rather small, with a lithesome, graceful figure, quite pretty, with blue eyes and light brown hair. Site was very bright and lively with a fondness for society and a decided talent for the amateur stage. She frequently appeared before the Miami public in amateur performances for the benefit of some local organization and always made a success of I her part. On Sunday Mr. M. S. Eur bank, a friend called at the Davis home and knocked, but securing no reply and seeing no one, concluded that the father and daughter were not at home, while at that frae their murdered bodies were wpltering in their blood in their respective bedrooms on the second floor. YOUNG MAN SUMMONS 1IBLP. lie went again 011 Suuoay afternoon, as he had to go on a trip with Mr. Davis, and to tell him that lie could not go. lie called a third time on Monday morning and still not see jujs any mil? went Lu iiiie noroe or 0116 of Mr. Davis' pops, who lived near, arid told him of the circumstances of his having called three tlinws and could tind no one at hems. Mr. Ed Dayls went with Mr. Burbank, and not biing welcomed as usual, he en tered the house, and to his horror he discovered the dead bodies of his loved ones. lie rushed back to Miami, told the terrible news and sought sympathetic friends, who hastened to the scene and found his surmise only too true, that his father and sister had been cruelly assassinated by an unknown foe. The sheriff, corner and other officials were at once notified and the news spread like wild fire throughout the city. Crowds visited the spot of the foulest murders that have ever been committed in Dade county. Mr. Davis was lying in bed with a bullet hole through his neck. From his peaoeful position It Is thought that he was shot while asleep and did not know what ended his earthly existence, though there are Indications that he was strangled, too; also that he was the first one murdered, as his daughter's room, which was quite near his, was in disorder, showing that there was a struggle. A large rug on the lloor was disturbed and the bed clothing in a tumbled condition. Miss Davis seemed to have been thrown on the bed with her head to ward the foot and her hair over her face. She had been shot In both breasts, one ball passing through her body and the mattress and 1 >dging In the lloor under the bed. It is the same number as that used by her father and his pistol which u uaily was kept on the tirst lloor cannot be found, therefore it is generally believ ed that the murderer or murderers used Mr. Davis' pistol to kill both himself and his beloved daughter. Nothing in the way of money, Jewelry or silver seems to have been removed from house and the supposition is that the obiect was criminal assault. Fonnd Negrt* in Room. A special from Athens, Qa , to the Augusta Chronicle says Will Howard, oolored, is in jail on the charge of having entered the house of Mr. John Basner. He was discovered past midnight by Mrs. Basner, who felt something touch her heels, and on waking found that this negro had Just entered the room through a window at the f/t/kfr. nf O)a hnH rpu? ? ' * iuvv v v.v wuu. JL lie urgru jumped out of the window and made off, but was oaptured and placed in jail. He said be had gone there to get some medicine for bis wife but tbe story Is not believed at all. What his motive was do one can tell, but it is thought -was bent on burglary. \ ^ TRAOKDY IN PEN8AC0LA. Clerk KIIIh Kmployor and WuundH Two Fellow Glcrka. At Pens&cola, Fla., crazed with drink and the thought that he was to be discharged, William F. Williams, a salesman in the clothing store of John White, late Tuesday afternoon walked up to the c ftlce, where Mr. White was Hitting reading, and shot him dead, lie turned ids revolver upon another salesman, Ed Dansby, and ir. 11 toted a mortal wound in the back, then ilred upon James White, the manager and son of the proprietor, the bullet passing through the lungs and causing a wound from which it is expected that he will die very soon. Another clerk was tired upon, hut the bullet went wide of the mark. All during the day Williams seemed nervous, and late in the afternoon he began to im bibo to such an extent that it was noticed about the store and some remark was made by the proprietor. This infuriated Williams, It seems, ? ,1 l A- I 4 1 I %?_ .1 i i ami wituuut a wuru ue wanted W) ins coat, took therefrom a new revolver and walking close up to Mr. White, tired, the bullet striking him near the right ear and passing out on the left side. White never moved, the paper tie wan reading dropped from tils grasp. Dansby, the wounded clerk, was waiting upon a customer and was bending over a trunk, when the crazed man turned and tired a shot Into tils back. James White leaped to tils fc t to defend his father, when the revolver was turned on him. After being shot he grappled with Williams in an eiTort to wrench the revolver, from his hand, hut could not do fo. Otllcers arrived and took the revolver, plaelng Williams in jail. The only statement made by Williams was that some one in the store was endeavoring to do him an injury, and that if White had attended to his own business lie would never have killed him. White was one of the most prominent business mon In the city, having engaged in the hadberdashery business thirty years ago. HliLD UP A TKA1N. Jaguar lOscapo from a Circus j and liaised Scare. More than 2,000 people and four passon 1/or t".r{rmsi on l.ho IOolornHr. VI lillo nrl railroad have been held at Tunnel No. I 0, two rallea west of Manltour Coloj rado, by a tierce South A merman jaguar Before he was captured the animal clawed Joseph Bennett, of Colorado Springs, cutting a severe gash across too right leg. Miss Delmont, a pas senger on oue of the trains, became frightened and In endeavoring to scale a high cliff fell a dlstai cd of twenty feet, breaking her left leg. The jaguar and a polar bear occupied two compartments in a large cage that was loaded upon a tlat car of the traiu belonging to a circus The cage was too high to enter the mouth of the tunnel, and as the cage struck the roof of the tunnel, It was torn off The keeper threw on the air brakes, stopping the traiu. lie threw rocks at the bear and tired blank cartridge* at the jaguar to keep them from escaping. The animal crawled under the car and during the efforts to drive it Into another cage Bennett received his injuries. The animal was finally driven into a small cage, but before the d jor could be closed the train started and the jaguar again leaped for liberty. It dashed through the tunnel, but upon emerging at the other end found It uoir In .. .... ? * ? - ? nvu hi a uaiiwn uuu. al lul a jllit; *jlfort the animal was again captured and placed in his cage. Th? Third Keg'merit. Nine companies of the Third South Carolina Regiment are now',in camp at Columbia under command of Col. II. Schacte. The following are the companies in camp: Company A, Sumter Guards, Charleston?Second Lieutenant A. H. SIlea. Company B, Washington Light In fan try, Cnarleston?Capt. G. H. E Sigwald. Company C, Irish Volunteers, Charleston?Capt J. M. Walsh. Company D, German Fusiliers,Charleston?Capt II. C. Woblers. Company E, Barnwell?Capt W. W. Moore. Company F, Rille Guards, Georgetown?Capt. A. L naselrien. Company G, Elloree?Capt. A. L. Sincrletary. Company I, Ilartsvllle?Lieutenant W. E. Law. J oh h IllllingM* Kcoript. Senator Tillman, in his address tc the graduates of the C >-educatlonal Institute at Eig? il Jd, saio: 'Tf making money is your idea of a sue CHSt'ul life, and that is to be your chief aim, I want to give you Josh Billing' receipt for miking money. It is this; 'Rise early and work late. Live on what you can't sell, and if you don't die rich and go to h?1 you can sue me for damages.' " That is very Tillmanesque, and it is also very true. A Bad Fell w II P. Coker, a young school teacher of Spartanburg, who taught in Union county last season, has been arrested on the charge of forging the name of W. H. Jeter of Carlisle to a check for $75 on a hank In Union. Died Suddenly. Just as he had finished a talk in the Green Street Methodist ohuroh in Spartanburg on Sunday night and asked some one to lead in prayer, D. F. Ballentlne was stricken with paralysis and died immediately. - _ ir' * ? / CAN THIS BK TKUM Cocaine Said to be Largely Eesponiible for Idle Negroes. Report To ltn Sent to Washington Will Show Fearful Inroads Made Upon ltaoe by Drun. The Atlanta Constitution says every report of Section Director Marbury in the weekly reports for the government for the state of Georgia. since the middle of June lias shown that cotton was in the fields going to ahso lute waste because of the inability of the farmers and planters to secure lab< r for the chopping of the cotton. This lack of labor is not confined to certain sections of Georgia, but is prevalent over the state and the entire ; southeast as well. The fearful cost resulting from this cause has been sufficient to attract the most serious attention of the government as well as the farmers and the mill men. Again and again wages of $1.25 have been offered with board and in some oasis $1,50, but complaints were made that the negroes Insisted on working but a day or two and then hurrying to the cities and towns, from whinh t.hev refused Cn uo t.n t.ha tieirlj even when wagons were sent and special dishes in the way of board promised. When hands were secured at the end of four or tive days they would pretend sickness or some other excuse and with their money leave the cotton fields but little better off than if they had not been visited by these negroes that pass from the country to the city iu a night. Careful investigations have been made and these will be incorporated in a report to the highest government officials according to certain figures. M re than this, it has b en reported that agents of the government have <!' ietly been making investigations on ilieir own hook and the great problem of securing labor in the south and the conditions as they exist today will be made to the proper authorities, and when made public will be of the most startling and sensational nature. '> It is believed that this report will ! *ent into Washington very soon. When given to tho newspapers the present rumor is that actual facts, figures and statistics will be included showing that a tremendous proportion of the wage earners and field hands of the south cannot be secured for labor these days because of the fact that toey are absolute slaves to cocaine. As slaves ot this drug and other diseases generally prevalent among negroes, it is expected that the report will show the conditions which exist today must be far worse with the Ui/roQHimr t\t f ho nrani Inn ? ogibauiug <>> vuv piauuvA W1UUI1IIW and that in less than live years the negroes will, comparatively speaking, be a lost quantity as laborers in the development of the south. Another feature expected in the report is that the system by which these dope slaves have been made fiends is through agents which have been noticed mingling among the colored people. Th.'se agents when questi >ned have always been quick to state that they represented insurance companies, especially the "funeral" Insurance which is so popular among the ne groes. Others have even carried books and avoiding suspicion in this way have mingled with the blacks, telling them stories of their oppression at the hands of the southerners and promis ing them that the day was at hand when the negroes would again come into their own and would be represented in every form of government, city, state and national. While proving themselves their "friends" in tnis way, thev have sold them cocaine administered in many ways and under many names. When the negroes were too poor to buy this white material, they were given enough to soon make them fiends in the worst possible way and once fiends they were quick to secure money enough in seme way to purchase more of the cocaine even if the money had to be secured at the greatest risk. This forthcoming report it is ex , pccted will also show some of the tremendous percentages made by these i agents. Purchasing cocaine In large quantities, other materials were used both for adulteration as well as for reducing the strength of the drug. Apparently, it was not necessary for these agents to remain more than a week or two in a territory. Upon their departure, Home white man, or In some cases, negroes, were left as their representatives. These representatives were supplied with cocaine at a fearful profit to the agent, the stuff being shiped under all kinds of names and oilier methods of deception. While the cities of the south have for a long time known that the cocaine practice was spreading rapidly, it is believed that the country districts have been more or less free from the scourge. It was only a year or two ago mat- luis rerusal on the part of the negroes to wo k at any price was first known. That the habit has spread beyond estimate will probably indicate the inability of the speoial commissioners to even arrive at an approximate either of the victims or of the amount of cocane which Is being shipped into the south from big oltles In the north and aooording to report, from Kansas City as one of the most Important of the big agencies of the country. While the railroad men, the mill men, the farmers and the oltlzens generally of the south are trying to arrive at some solution to the present soarolty of labor In the south, It Is believed that the oomlng report will be made public and that it will throw an entirely new light on the matter ? and one that Is oertain to make the k conditions Id the south far more com plicated thau at present. While very few, if any, people in the south are aware of the measures that are being taken by the government along these lines, it is believed that every word of the report can be substantiated by Georgians and this, too, without going very far out of their way, but rather examining closely the condl tions as they exist in almost every locality in the south today. One or two of those who are acquainted with some of the figures in the report say that the part played by this drug in staying the commercial and industrial development of the south may account for much, but its part in the spreading of crime, and the worst of all crimes particularly, menaces the s >uth iti a way requiring absolute and immediate action and a campaign which will be waged until every agent aud every representative has with the last of cocaine bten driven from the south in a way mak lng impossible any return. Homo I'latn Talk. The St. Petersburg Novoe Vremya prints the following statement of Russia's position, which is evidently Inspired: "Russia cau consent to such a peace only as will not affect the dignit., n. fkr. ,.U~1 < " * ? ~ - ' 11-. T.->? UIVJF KJl VllC Vlltll IlltOICHtH Ul LI1C I'i111 plre. To act otherwise would be fatal to Russia and would threaten all Europe. Europe 110 longer believes Japan's assurances that she will not restrict European interests in the Far East. Even in England and America voices can he heard favoring an indi rect Interference of the powers to moderate Japan's demands. Our plenipotentiaries must remember that they are to defend the interests not only of Russia but of the other can oassian powers and they will tind moral support In Berlin. Paris, Washington, and perhaps in L >ndou. Our army in the iield is much stronger than it was fifteen months ago." ftt< ti ctioiiHol'a Bachelor. You could never get a woman to take any interest in a business panic if the baby was cutting a new tooth. One of the hardest blows to a wo man is that after she marries a man she can't have him propose to her any more. The man who peers at other people through the wrong end of a spy-gla^-s never makes that mistake when looking at himself. A man gets off so many smart say ings when nobody is around that he can't do any when he is with people for trying to think them up. There is hardly enough flattery in the whole world to satisfy one man who believes he has a fine figure that must be dressed in the perfection of fashion. The Only Way to Cure. To cure a cold whet) you have no cough?to cure a cough when you have 1 no cold?to cure yourself when vou have both?take Kennedy's Laxative ; Honey and Tar. Acts on the bowels, i Best for coughs, colds, croup, whooping-cough, etc. Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar is the original Laxative Cough Syrup. It contains no opiates and cures by strengthening the lungs, throat and chest, expelling cold from system by gently moving the l*>wels, and an ideal remedy for young or old. Once used will be remembered as a sure cure. Sold by Dr. E. Norton. liuriiod in Hotel. At Wabash, Minn., six persons were burned to death in a fire which de stroyed the Depot Hotel Wednesday morning. The dead are: Mrs A. Hoffman and babv; Robert Johnson, expressman; Gertrude Stetsher, Re becca Herman, James Hunt. There may be other bodies in the ruins The fire was caused by the explosion of a gas tank used for illuminating. Mrs. Hoffman was owner of the Hotel. She and her baby and the other victims were burned to death in their rooms. Three Good and J tint. Caua ea. There are three reasons why mothers prefer One Minu e Cough Cure: First. It is absolutely harmless; Second, it tastes uood -children love it; Third, It cures Coughs, Croup and Whooping Cough when other remedies fail. Sola by Dr. E Norton Thruu ilaii*c< ci. At Memphis Tenn , Toots Taylor. M. Miles and Major Mills, three negro murderers were haDged Friday. Taylor and Mills ascended the scaffold together and when their bodies had been re moved Milles was executed. Tavlor murdered R ?b Gaines in August, 1904 Wife murder was the crime wuich cost Miles his life. Mills murdered his lather-in-law. Billious Bill was agitated, And was much debilitated. People said lie had consumption. That w;is everyone's presumption. When lie learned what was the matter, Bill made all the doctor's scatter. Now he is his own adviser, Swears by LITTLE EARLY RISERS. Dr. E. Norton. The Jfooket Nerve. The president informs us that the Chinese boyoott has touohed the conscience of Americans. The Spartan burg Journal says it has always suspected that the American carried his conscience in his pocket, and here is a proof of It. Poise tied Orange. Wilda Johnson of Owatonna, Minn., sent an orange with a quanity ol strychnine to Mrs. Lundstrum, a teacher, on Friday. Miss Johnson was desperately In love with a young man of the neighdorhood and had be come jealous of Mrs. Lundstrum, a widow. The orange was not eaten. BANK OF OON W A CAPITAL STOCK, $20,000.00 TOTAL ASSET: OFF1C B. G. COLLINS; President. C. P. QUATTLCTAUM, V-Pbes. Our Batik, ibeing a local instituti building of IIorify County and for the suing this policy we take pleasure in accommodation when consistent with With gratitude for tho liberal j cordially solicit your future business. Respectful D A. SPIVE llobt. B. Scarborough, II. I President. Vice-P BANK OF Conwa1 Capital Stock DIREC Robt. B. Scarborough, Hal L. Buck, George J. Holliday, We will pay you 5 per cent, inter ish savings banks to those wishing Try our plan for saving your nickles i these little banks and the interest we help yon. H0KK1HLE DEATH I Of Fifteen-Year-Old a Boy I'roiu tho Bite of a StranKO Cat. A dispatch from Macon, Go,, to Hit? Atlanta C institution, says Samuel Cook, ttir^ 16-year-old son of S E. Cook, a farmer living near Cross Keys, just outside the (ity limits, on the i east side of the rivtr, di id a most horrible death Wednrsiay after suffering about eight hours from rabbles, supposed to have been caused by a eat bite. Early Wednesday m< ruing the boy complained and asked t hat a physician be summoned to relieve him of a pi cullar sulTering which he was unable to t xplain. lie soon afterwards asked for a drink , of water, aud as soon as he had touched his lips, he hicime wild and was beyond the control of tils parents during the remainder of the time. Nearly a di Z8li physicians were called iu, and the general opinion was that the young man was guttering from hydrophobia, and every effort was made to relieve ' him, but wltb no avail He died Wed- . nesday afternoon after a day's suffering, the horrors of wnich are hides oribable About throe months ago he spent the night with an uncle on his ' farm, near tho home of his parents, and there he was bitten by a cat. He had assisted in milking the cows, and had gone < ut into the road to return to the house when he feu id a stray cat. He picked It up and strok ed it, and its seeming tun ger caused | the cat to lick his hand fresh from the " milk. The boy allowed the cat to get hold of his thumb, and in getting away a scratch from the cat's teeth caused , the blood to ilow. This Is supposed to hav^ caused the hydrophobia to set 1 in. No attention whs given the bite, and it soon healed. There was no evidence of rabies until Wednesday. liidiKOHtion Cured. 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K Well Known Cure for POei. Curea ebatlaate soras, chapped handa, eouma, akin diseases. Makes burna and scald* ?at leas. Wa could not Imprava the quality 4 paid double the prloa. The beat salv* hat axpeiianoa eaa produce ar that money sen buy. Cures Piles Permanently DeWltt'a fa the original And only pure and genuine Witch Hazel Sa!*s made. Look for the name Do WITT on every box. All otbeiO Era counterfeit. pa areas* n 1. e. DeWITT A CO.. CHIOACO. ' Dr. K. "N'<rtc>n. J Conwjy-BtaEtiore R R J DA ILT SDH EDU LE. Cjv MyrtJ? B*ec)i 7 a ,m \r Conwxv - ? s? I *V H, .HI LiV Conway 9:00 a. m kr Myrtte ltoaah 9:4ft a m M Lit MyrW? Beach 1:10 p m W ft.r Conway 3:1ft p. m .1 Lv Co* way 6:30 p. to M IrMjrleBeaeh 6:10 p. m M Pointed i'?r?f|r?pha. Every wise man takes his turn at (B icting foolish. IK Love is a disease Of' the head that , iffecta the heart. j A statement Isn't necessarily false V because you disbelieve it. A Dollars are more plentiful with Vi tome men than common sense. ?| What an admirable yoloe the aver- 11 ige woman has for destroying silence t f 1 The average wife believes anythiiig \ her husband says?except his ex plan a- g Hon of a long hair on his coat oollar. f