The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 15, 1906, Image 3
i HEARST LOSES
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Bat Balance of Democratic State
Ticket is Elected. *
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FRAUD IS CHARGED
8j the Democrat!, As the Retains Were
Held Back la the Republican
Strongholds la the Ceaaty
Districts Pot Some Purpose
Or Other.
A dispatch from New York under
date of November says ao cording to \
incomplete returns from all over the
State received up to 10 30 o'c^^r tonight,
Charles K. Hughes, the ozjpublloan
candidate, has been elected governor
of the State over William Randolph
Hearst the nominee of the Demooratio
party and the Independeuoe
league, by approximately a plurality
Of 40,000 Two yea/s ego Got. Higgins
was elcoted ou the Republican
ticket by 80,660.
There was some doubt expressed tonight
at to the fate of the Democratic
and Independence league tickets outside
of Sir. Hearst, several of the
New York newspapers which have
been supporting Mr. Hughes, declaring
that there was a chance that the
subordinate officers of the I ooratie
and Independence league oona^nation
had been elcoted.
Tne latest figures seem to indicate
that Mr Hughes' plurality above the
Bronx will exceed 116,000. To offset/
this Mr. Hearst's plurality in Great
er New York will probably be from
*75,000 to 80,000. In Brooklyn,
where Son&tor Patrick H. McOarren
made a bitter light against Hearst,
the latter o&rrled tho borough by a
small plurality, probably, 4,000. At
one time it seemed that Hughes had
been successful In Brooklyn, but the
1 o f.a vatiivnu niAVA ll of vnr\?*l o fe i?a?
AOVVJ awwiaiuo nwo fliu oviuuKi/ iu in vui
of the Democratic candidate.
Mr. Ilaarst ban been given a major
ltyof nearly 70,000 In Manhattan and
the Bronx. (4 teens county, which In
eludes Long island City, has gone for
Hearst by from 6,000 to 8,000 and
Richmond (Staten Island) has also
given the Democratic candidate a
plurality.
ALL GISTS IN BUT IIKARST.
With the official vote of but three
oouaties missing Thursday night,
Lewis Stuyvesant Ohanler apparently
is elected lieutenant governor of the
Democratic-Independence league ticket
by a plurality approximating 1,700
votes over M. Linn Bruoe, Republican.
To arrive at those figures
Bruoe's probable pluralities lu the
counties of Essex, Ontario and
Niagara are based on the vote for the
Republican gubernatlonal candidate.
Fulton county is also missing excepting
a statement of Bruoe's plurality
over Ohanler. While slight
changes may be made in the returns
from several counties, it is not believed
they will materially reuuoe \
flhanler'a lead, hut on the contrary <
may lnorease it It appears that
all the other candidates cn the
Democratic State ticket are elected
by small pluralities. '
THINKS HKAB8T WILL WIN.
Chairman Connors of the Democratic
State oommittee Thursday
Issued a call for a meeting of the
full oommittee to be helo Friday.
The object of the meeting is to devise
plans "to safeguard the interests
of the Democratic State ticket."
"I decided early today to call the |
Democratic State oommitte together
to proteot the interests of the State
ticket," said Chairman Oonners.
"From telegrams I have received it is
plain that the Republican machine is
resorting to its olrft iievish knavery
}n order to beat oufQubket. There is
Absolutely no. doubt that the ticket
Is eleoted with the exoeption of Mr.
Hoarst.
There is also absolutely no doubt
that the returns are being held back.
There is no doubt that Bruoe is running
behind Hughes up the State 1
firmly believe that sufficient Independence
league votes have not been
oounted in many counties to deorease
greatly the pluralities of Hughes and
possibly eleot Mr. Hearst.
"We are going to get an honest
count of the vote and we are not only
going to proteot the men making the
canvas next Tuescuv, but we are going
to get right to -)ork now on the
matter." '
Blew Oat the Gm.
At Pensaoola, Fla., a man partially
Identified as W. E. Roger, of Luoe
dale, Miss., li dead and hia wife is In
a dying oondition m the result of m
phyxiatlon. The oouple oooupied a
room a Wright street boarding house.
Failing to appear the door of the room
was foroed open and the man found
dead. The woman is still unconscious.
Letters in deceased's pockets appear
to ideneif> him. There were also found
upon his person two revolvers, a dirk
and brass knuckles and $350 sewed in
the lining of his "lothes.
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Mrs. LeHa I. Sinolalr, 93 years old,
widow of Commander Arthur Sin*
olalr of the United States and Confederate
navies, died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Walter Blaklstone,
1810 North Calvert street,
Baltimore.,
W
GOT HOKBSK*.
rim iiw?mai?b umi to
WOttUD
31aim That This ft Wtrt Misrepresented
to them Stfort they
Came Orer,
Claiming that the conditions here
were not at bad been represented to
Ihem by Immigration agents in their
Suropaan home, fifty of the Immigrants
who eame orer on the Witte*
clod and were tent to Darlington
Honday morning left there Thursday
ifternoon for Columbia. These immigrants
were tent to Darlington at
bht request of Mr. O. 0. Twltty, gen*
iral manager of the Darlington Manu'aeturlng
company and president of
the Hartsville ootton mills, to work
Intheootton mills. After reaching
Darlington they deolarsd that they
tied been told they would get $1.60 a
lay, house rent and board free, and
would bo allowed to cultivate free of
renl for five years a small traot of
land, the land to become thelr's If they
remained for that length of time.
When they found that these conditions
did not prevail in the mills here
they did not oare to stay. Mr. Twitt?y
tried In a try way to induoe them
to remain, but his efforts were univalllng.
They would not spend the
light In the houses provided for
ihem nor would thev go to resturants
ind boarding houses, at whioh Mr.
rwitty offered to defray their expenses
until they could be sent elsewhere,
or until they cared to go to
vork. They said that they would
kcoept no favors, and spent the night
n the waiting room of the Atlantlo
Jo&st Line passenger station.
Mayor MoCullough, Mr. Henry
3euulng and other% citizens opened
legotiatlons with * them, offering
ihom all sorts of inducements to get
ihem to do work other than in the
lotton mill, but all propositions were
ejeoted. Hearing that some of their
ellow immigrants were in Columbia,
hey left the station about X o'clock
o walk to that city, but Mayor Mc-?
lulloegh head thorn off and promised
o give them transportation on the
rain. Tnls offer was accepted and
hey left for Columbia on the 6 29
rain. They are very homeslok, an^
leolare they are going back to their
ild homes, but it is hoped that they
fill become satisfied and oontented
n Columbia, or wherever they may
ocate.
As to the Immigrants, being brought
0 this country through false repreentations.
Col. Watson absolutely
epudlates any suoh suggestion, Ool.
Watson says that not only was he
rery careful himself not to paint any
also plotures; not only waa all literature
used by the department oonser
native and truthful; not only were all
the agents employed by the depart
nent Instructed to tell prospective
mmlgrants the exact truth, but he
llmaelf were about among the 1mm!
grants before the Wltteklnd sailed
rom Bremen and satisfied himself
ihat they were acquainted with Just
vhat they might expect upon reaohlng
ihis country.
The Immigrants who went to Darington
are Austrlans. Col. Watson
think that the whole trouble is that
they got up to Darlington, were out
from anybody they knew and
;ot frightened and very homesick. He
sxpeots to take the matter up and to
luiokly smooth their troubles for
them, providing them with homes
ind work which they will find to their
notion.
dinners ltoport.
The amount of the cotton orop of
1906 ginned up to November 1, ao
3v rdlug to a bulletin issued Thursdav
by the oensus bureau, was 6 865 697
oales, oountlng round bales as ha<;
>ales against 6,457,595 last year
T it number of active ginneries Is
<iven as 27,481 against 27,802 last
ear. The amount of ootton bales
tinned follows: Alabama 682,810
trVanaaa VAX 494 TlnrM* 44 ?ui
* * -? ?rv? ? AUHUN W, W I
Georgia 1,001,124, Indian Territory
190 576, K^ntuoky 671, Loulslanns
438 800, Mississippi 582,430, Missouri
13 879, North Carolina 311,516, Ok
thoma 116,243, South Carolina, 660
568, Tennessee 94 283, Texas 3,535,
678, Virginia 5 421.
Dynamite Kxplosion.
t Pittsburg. Thursday one man
was killed, two fatally injured and
sixteen othan seriously hurt in a dynamite
explosion shortly after noor?
Thursday. Ths men are all foreign
rs. They wert seated about a fire
sating lunoh when a dosen stloks of
dynamite, plaoed near the fire to
thaw, exploited One man was blown
to pieces, another lost a leg and th<
ana* A# a a>a?a Klaan f - .
J Vif Vi ? ? *' w T ? 'I'l " I JL '
were so badly injured that they will
die.
ABIjc One.
The largest marine gasolene engine
In the wor'd Is about to be shipped
from Baltimore to Russia. It la of
1,600 horse power, and Is one of four
ordered by the cxar's government a 2
a oost of $100,000 from White & Mid
die ton to go Into Lake submarine
torpedo boats. The firm Is expecting
s'mtlar orders from the German gov
erment.
The home of Bsv. A. R. Ay res,
pastor of the Second United Brethren
Ohuroh at York, Pa., was entered by
burglars and $200 worth of valuablei
iwere taken. The houee was ransacked
from the garret to the oellar.
THEY MOST GO.
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Negro Soldiers Dismissed in Disgrace
from the Army
BY THE PRESIDENT,
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And the White Officers Arc ts he Ceart artlaled.
For the First Tiae la
History ef A nay Has Sach
aa Order Beta
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Issaed.
Unpreoed&htod in the history of
the army of the 8totes, la the
aotion of the president, 1'?t announoed,
In dismissing in dlsgraoe from the
army an entire battalion of oC'ored
troops because of tholr failure to disclose
the identity of some of their
number who had been guilty of
violence and murder. Ah aa evldenca.
however, of his Intention to be fair 1
to the colored troops, the president
has aooompanleri this action by an
order wbloh amount to the court
martial of a white army officer of
high grade who was ohargod with
having oast ilurs upon the colored
troops. The story of both actions is
told in the following official correspondence
made publio by the military
secretary:
PRESIDENT'S OHDElt.
"The report of au investigation i
made by Brigadier General E. A 1
Garlington, inspector general or the 1
army rolative to the riotous disturbance
that occurred at Brownsvile.
Texas, on the night of August 13,
1006, and that resulted in the death
of one aDd the wounding of another
oltizen of that city, has been con
sldortd and acted upon by tho presi- '
dent. Following are his instructions ,
with regard to the matter: y
"The Wuite House, Washington, <
Nov. 5.?The Secretary of War: I \
have road through General Garltngton's
report, date! October 221, sub- r
mlttod to me by you. I direct that y
the recommendations of General Gar- ,
llngton be complied with and that <
at the same time the concluding por- ,
t-.ls.n n* Kin U- ?l 1
vtuu ui Uio lupuiu UO |JUU1JBUUU Willi (
our sanction as giving the reasons for (
the aotlon. k
"Theodore Roosevelt.'' ]
OKNEUAL QAKLINGTON'a llKPOltT. *
"Following is the oonoludlng portion
of General Garlington's report, j
which embodies the reojmmendatlonB ,
that, by direotlon of the president, ,
will be carried into effect immediate k
ly by the war department:
"I reoommend that orders be issued ,
as soon as praotloable, discharging, ,
without honor, every man in Oom- <
panies B, O and D of the Twenty
tifth infantry, serving at Fort Brown, j
Texas, on the night of August 13 ,
1006, and forever debarring them ,
from re-enlisting in the army or navy ,
of the United States as well as from
employment in any olrll capacity under
the government. In making this
recommendation, 1 recognize the fact i
that a number of men who have no
direct knowledge as to the identity of
the men of the Twenty-fifth infantry
who aotually fired the shots on the
night of the 13ih of August 1906,
will lnoure this extreme penalty.
BEFU8KD TO TKLL.
"It has been established by a careful
investigation beyond reasonable
doubt that the firing into the houses
of the oltiz'ms of Brownsville while
the inhabitants thereof were pursu
log their pcaoeful vocations or sleeping,
and by whioh one olt'zsn was
allied and the chief of polloe so seriously
wounded that he lost an arm,
? * auufl oy eniisiwa men 01 tne
Twenty-fifth Infantry, belonging to a
battalion stationed at Fort Brown.
After due opportunity and notice,
<jbe enlisted men of the Twenty-fifth
infantry have failed to tell all that it
is reasonable to believe they know
concerning the shooting. If they
nad done so; if they had been willing
o relate all the oircuinstances?instances
preliminary to the trouble?
it is extremely probable that a due
sufficiently definite to lead to results
would have been disolosed. They appear
to stand together in a determination
to resist ths detection of the
guilty; therefore, they should stand
together when the penalty falls. A
foroeful lesson should be given to the
army at large, and especially to the
non-commissioned officers, that their
duty does not cease upon the drill
ground, with the oalllng of the company
rolls, making oheok inspections
and other duty of formal character;
but that their responsibilities of office
accompany them everywhere and at
all times; that it is their duty to be
oome vnozougniy acquainted wnn me
individual members of Ihelr respective
units to know their characteristics;
to be abie at all times to gauge
i their temper, in order to discover the
beginning of disoontent or of mutii
nous intentions, and to anticipate
any organized act of disorder; that
they must notify their cffloers at odoc
of any such conditions; moreover, the
Maryland's contribution through
the Bed Cross Society for tho California
earthquake vlotlms was larger.
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. in proportion to its population, than
that of any other state.
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pueplu off the Umtted6tm*e?,
the? lire, must fool assured that th*
m ??irlD| the oBlfortD tf the army
are thair protectors and tot midnight <
anaasln* or rloe on dMurtoera of the
P'Mi of the community In which
they mar he t?ntl nrd
CVT OUT TBI MBMKOW
Oitober 5, 1006, 4 squadron
of the Ninth oavalr , orgai ution
of colored troop* reported at F >rt
S^ertdan near Ohio-go I'l , u deorders
from the war departmen'
saslgnlog them to dutv there. Soon
after this asslgnm* nt there appears
io the publio press the following so
oount of a statement alleged to hav
been made with regard to the matter
by Colonel Wl'ltanr I* Pitcher
Twenfcv-aereP*h Infantry:
11 'Tbt negro troops would never
hare been quartered at Fort Sheridan
without a protest if 1 was to remain
in com stand here,' said Oolonfl Pitcher.
'I merer liked them and the far
ther away f rom me they are kept the
better it pleases me F >r the life of
m? 1 oannot see why the Uniic*
States should try to make soldiers out
of them Certainly there are enough
flue white young men in this big
oouotry to make soldiers of without
recruiting from ?uoh a i^u'oa '
ritKBIDKNT 8COKK8 COLONEL.
Washington, Nov, tt.?"This alleged
stai.emsnt by Col. Pitoher having
bean brought to the attention of the
president, the folllwiug oommunioa
tlou with regard to it was sent to the '
war department by Seoretary Loeb: (
"The president dlrcots that an Immediate
report be oalled for from Ool.
Pitohor to know whether or not hf \* 1
oorreotly quoted in the enolosed clip
ping; sod If he is oorreotly quoted *
the president directs that proceedings 1
he taken against him for Buoh punish
ment as can be indicted. The presi
dent thinks that suoh conduct is but s
little better than that of the cffand s
Ing negro troops themselves. 1
"Very Truly Yours, *
"Wm. Loeb, Jr., c
"Secretary to t.'?e P^Bldent."
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Ijjohtiiic in UourKls> l
Jet Hicks, a negro, was lynohod i
rhuraday night at Salt City for the >
nurder of John Akridga. Hlcka
was arrested Wednesday at Vienna, ?
whence be was brought to Moultrie r'
3y Sheriff Forehand, of Dooly County, n
nd Dr W. W. Stevens, of SMe City
The negro was held temporarily ins
fory stable, whence he was spirited *
iway by Sheriff Forehand and Dr n
Jtevens when uews came that a mob
*as gathering. They started for Sale 4
Jity with the negro, but Information ?
lamo from that place that & moo was 1
fathering there to intercept them. 6
[fifforts to tind the party and apprise
ihem of this foot failed. The Moul- J!
trie Rltics, commanded by Capt.
Adams, left at onoe for Sale City and
Dapl. Adams telephoned that the "
military arrived too late, for upon 0
the arrival of the negro and his "
guards Illoks had been placed In the
)ity guard house. The guard house *
was Btormed by a mob whloli took *
the prisoner out and lynched blm. Ij
Saturday night week IHcks killed Mr i
Abridge. A reward of $400 for his
irrest had been effyred. Thursday 153
lear Palham Bloke's wife and another J
jegro were shot to death by persons
iuknown. 11
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Fight With Burgler. ]
An unknown negro attempted to i
burglarize the residence of W. H.
Bridges, a farmer living in the upper ,
part of Greenville oounty Thursday,
and was shot and slightly wounded t
by the farmers 14 year old son. There ,
was no one at home at the time but .
the small bov. The negro was in the (
act of rifling the content of a drawer ,
when discovered. With a great deal
of pluck the boy attacked the neg'b
first with a knife, but being held off {
by the negro, who slashed at him (
with a razor, young Bridges secured ,
a gun and put the burglar to flight,
wounding him with small shot. The
negro has not been captursd.
Killed In nod, I
District Judge Stanley Welsh was
assassinated Wednesday night In his
bed at Rio Grande City, Texas, where
he was holding oonrt. There Is no clue
to the assassin. There has been great
excitement recently over the election
and it Is presumed the assassination
grew out of this in some war.
Doctor Killed by Congressman.
H. L. Favrot, who Wednesday was
eleoted to Congress on the i> mooratlo
ticket, Wednesday njght shot and
killed Dr H. H. Aldrich at Baton
R)uge. The shooting followed en argument
over the oampalgn whloh
Favrot had won.
Plonty CJold.
The production of gold in the mines
of South Afrloa for the month of J une
shows the largest product ever record
ed. In the first six months of the
current year the production was near
1) 90,000 000 greater then la tne o >r
responding time lest year.
The High-Dire Care.
Id Revere, Minn., they take drunk*
ards and give them what la looally
called the "high diva cure'" by duck
log them Id a tank of water situated
Id a convenient looattoo In town. A
couple of dips Is all that baa been required
In any case yet, and one ohron
lo offender Walnut Grove who was
loo messed one evening hap never
shown up In Revere slnoe.
The Reading Iron Company has deelded
to raise the wages of It > 3,000
employes.
An alleged robber oaught In Frederick,
Md , proved a wizard wltb
handcuffs, getting out of them easily.
k P A C?*H. ,
U v VIC I r TO I^TENDBD TO UBT A
I IVOHOkJ
Am Ag 'd * an Vht Wanted Pom*
One to 1 ove, bat Found
it PxpentiTO.
Hiram P II ltn ? < f West nurlei,
U ster County. N York, begun at
to ">n In the Sopr me Court against
Corn 11 u? D i M nd, a polltlolan, o
cover $600 which, he says, he p^lc
M'h Slat> r upon oondttion tha* tie
tec a divorce and marry blm. He al
it^re* conspiracy and false preter oet.
Holmes ib iity neven years old anr
a widower Wnlle In eearoh of a house?eeper
a year ago, he Bays, he wa?
u-ged to m* M's S)at? r, who, he wan
bold, wan mmtrried and whose rea
name was Qr%ol* Ellsworth H? sa\>
it wag pr p sed that If Mrs. Salter
would marry an oate for him hi
mouiJ ;mv,) her 000 ** hlB death.
He acoepUd . _
Then he ?eoeivod A Uis??r fr()DQ yra
3le saying that she waft inaTrlen. %j .*
wanted $600 to go?a divoroe Holm *
*ays he p*ld the money to Du Mo*i*V
who pas*ed it on to M.S. S.*t?r. La
?er, he Hays, the woman deo'ared hI.b
w .uld bring no divoroe aoMou, nevrr
Blended to bring it and that ?he an*1
ler hunhand hid the money where h?
jould ni'ver find It.
Mrs Slater wayH she Is pro'ecte 1 h,
.he following agreement, whtoh 11 1
new enter* d into:
"This agreement, en^rod In o tv 1i
id day or January, 1906, between 11
r. iiuhu' n iiu'i i*raoie Mi iswortn a
er: 1 do hereby make tier a prese..
f $600, which Ih to oe her o*n, t
ipend or do with as sho may see it,
die prom'fllnK to b oo me my h u*
temper and o mpnnlon. 1 also >ur
lo furnish her with money for i ic
ilothes and otter necessary exp ose*,
tod, provMlr wo are ho h sutlnlle<.
! promise to ptvo her $500 moro. ati
f she remains whh me through* ut
ife 1 promise *'cr after my deav.ii a!
hat I own. I i o\s? of any dissent
aotU-n, then 1 demand this a^r-e
nent and nothing more, she to k ?
he $500, but make no further d
aauds."
8r>e went to work for Holmes o>
anuary 14, and within live mlnu
he says, discovered that the
nan po-8'tsod more than a plat.Ool
IT otIon fo' her. But she almlts slu
Kreed to marry him, provided she ob
alned a divorce. S re still Is willing
r\ Att VVU All f V\AW AAnfwa wK bUa /IaaU ?
u vauj uuv uci uunviuI bud iicum'
S.
Previous to the agreement there
ras much correspondenoe. nolm^s*
rst letter to Grao'e was addressed to
'Kind Ltdy." "I am all aljne," he
^rote, I am tired of doing m
wn cooking. I am a good and kln^
au, no bad habits, living a Christian
ifc. I will further say that if yoi
rish to make a change and be tru
,nd faithful to me, I will make ove0
you over $1 000 in cash after 1 g t
hrough with it."
Grade replied that she was "but
irlsed." But she continued. "It would
eem awful nioe to have a nice onst
lomo of your own and some one to
ove you. As for cooking or bakiny
'ou can ask my Missus. She tell* m
. am Al, and I thluk myself I am
rery good at it."
Mrs. Slater can neither read nnr
vrite, and the letter was written b\
Ou M nd at her dictation.
Holmes got down to business in Mlext
letter, which la addressed to "My
Dsar Lidy Friend," and oontinues:
'You say before you will oonsent t>
jo me I must promise to give over to
vcu $500 When I told you what yon
will get when I get through with it,
L certainly oannot draw out my money
bo give to any one to spend before "ny
ayes. It Is my honest dollars that I
have saved. You say your age it
twenty-nine. You wanted to know
my age. I am twenty two years oldsr
(In his complaint he swears to being
sixty-seven years old.) My age does
not hurt me. I feel just as good as ii
1 was twenty years.
"Why, dear la y, I am very tender
over a wife; do anything to please
hor. The one 1 lost almost killed me
and If I oon accomplish getting sooth
er one, why I would almost think you
were an angel of heaven coma untc
me."
UornU Dy Mad Steor
jl mi'jt'i iii m |jcu >uu u?umiu|{ lul
bis lifo with a maddened long-bore
Colorado steer, Meyer Mintz, a oatt'1
driver, employed by the United Dress
cd Beof Company, at the abater a
Forty-fourth street and First avenue,
was gored many Mime before he wu
rescued, and he Is in a orltloal condi
tton in Flower Hospital. Mints, wh<
is fifty three years of age, lives with
his family at No. 808 First avenue.
New t uei Mrlok,
A superior fuel brlok of equal parti
or peat ano ooai nag oeen envoivefl at
a Bremen brickyard. The mixture re
suited from many experiment*, and
after fa'lure to put the peat to Uic
for paving brink*.
Hauie With Kubbera,
Marshal Glover and Deputy Sharif]
Lake were kl'lei on Friday li a
with two men who had robbed twc
stores In Ktnnewiok, Me. One of th(
robbers wag also killed and the othei
was captured
Dynamite was used In an attemp
to wreck a coal tipple near Wheeling
W. Va., as a result of labor trouble?
A Pi'nnslyvanla pair got a mai
rtage Uoense In Cumberland, returns
to their own state and were mat
rled.
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FOULPLAV. *
Evident in the Mysterious Death
Of a Preacher Who
1>IHPIN THIS WOODS
Near Crhlg's Crossing Just Off Augusta,
Gs. Family R fuses to Accept Body
of Rev, A. E. Rojahu After It
Had Been Ideatified by
Forty* one People,
The Augusta Herald says the mystery
surround'ng the death of Rev. .
K R Jabn Is being oloared, and it de/elop*.
d Thursday that there Is an ugr
shadow in the back ground that
vtll probably never take a definite
form.
It was noticed, as the supposed
irktillh who died in tho woods near
Oralg'a Growing, on tho Sunday afteriO
)U of Ojf/bar 28 lav at undertakug
eetaolihhm^nlof Mr. R E Klllott,
hat there was an ugly bruise upon
Is nose, and that two of his front
eeth were out.
At the tlmo, tho marks being upon
he body of a supposed Insignificant
ramp, no suspicions were arouied.
FT jwever a chain of ev.denoe developd
since to tue that the man
tad been severely beaten, and tho
nystery of his being in the woods has
o*en Holvad.
Were it not for an unusual hsppen'iK,
the death of R :v. A. E R J vhn.
n ap:8tollc mlniMtor, would have been
'orever an unsolved problem to the
general public and most especially to
lis 0 etc at Langley, who waited in
/a'n for his oomlug.
After being ldeutlflsd by f>rty-one
n tin hers of the apostollo faith, who
o n uoted the funeral service at the
un >ort.'klnu establishment last Sunay
afternoon, to? body was sent to
Dallaston, Pa , all expenses necessary
avlng beeu tclegr\p >?d by a brother
f ? h t dead pre?on> r R ^cently Mr. R.
10 Elliott was mystified by the reipu
of the folio wing telegram from
D kllaston, Pa.:
'This is not the body of A. K. RoJ
ihn. advise disposition Produoe body
or return money. ,
( hgnod ) "Frank Uojahn."
Rw. J. H Ibiituu, wf Ltugtey, S.
U , was in the oity Thursday mornrw
and statod that he was unable to
nxplatu the strange ciroumstanoos.
' IT >rty people have Identified him,"
? olared Mr Bjqbod. "lit was a olose
friend of mine, and 1 can produoe
many people who saw the body and
<*ho knew It to ho R v A E R- Jihn,
f Dillastown, Pi. 1 have tetters In
my pookot from him, and I have
V. 4 ? I W -a TN-*
vuvt/vu ijiuj uuujuora ui nmofl Kb uai?biowq,
many of tho letters being
' >rwarii*d to him at otUer places."
Mr. Hanson took from his pocket
t e key to the mystery surrounding
t le death of the humble minister, who
ilstrlbuted his m ney among the poor
*nd never took up a collection. A portion
of the letter is as follows:
"My bead feels a little sore today,
lut I ana glad that I can say that I
was kn eked down for the truth and
for J. bus' sake. I told the man when
ne hit me the iirst lick baok of the
head that I was willing to die for Jesus.
A negro tried to take htm awAy."
Tue letter was written from li ok
ngham, N. C , and bire the date of
September 28, one mouth from the
time he was found dead In the woods
Mr. B?ns>n Is sure that the severe
seating caused insanity, and that the
man wandered In the woods until he
died. T< e letter further stated bhat
ne was knooked down because he declared
that swearing was of the devil,
Mr. Benson stated that the unfortunate
minister assisted him In a re,
vival at Lrngley last Aptfll, and made
, hosts of friends, so many that he was
. invited to return. He was probablv
on his wav, wheu he beoame Involved
{ in the d ffloulty.
A pathetic circumstance lnoldent to
the death oc :urred when he was dying
In the lonely wood, some klndhoarted
. person winning mm a tramp offered
aim a oup of ocff .6, for whton be cff'
ored la payment his last nlokel.
It Is not known why his family refused
big b:dy.
Wimtn Kouud Mudornd.
1 Mrs, E . nest Gib ion was found murdered
In her coal shed In Llndale, Ga.,
i Wednesday afternoon. Her husband
and Miss Matilda Brewer, employed
by the Gibsons as a nurse i<lrl and
housekeeper, are sugpeotcd of the
1 crime and are held in oustody, pend'
log the result of the coroner's Investigation.
Mrs. Gibson returned home
I to her baby at noon and Miss Brewer
> reported finding ber body en hour
later. Mrs. Hayes, a neighbor, told
the coroner that she saw Gibson run
from ihe coil shed and tbrow away a
f club a few minutes before Miss Brewer
[> reported finding the t ody. The con)
dltion of the body indioates that the
; woman had been beaten to death with
r a club Gibson is known to have been
vory attentive to Miss Brewer.
t Sir William Henry Perkin, disco?f,
* *
, erer of aniline dyes, arrived In Balti
more, and will receive the degree of/
J doctor of laws from John Hopkiiy
Unlversity? /
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