The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 22, 1906, Image 5
FORTY-SIX DIE
> : From a Railroad Collision Which
Caused a Wreck,
WIRE FOREIGNERS.
i
The Wreckage Took Fire and AH of the
Dead Except Two Are Burned Beyond
Recognition. Blunder
of the Employes of
the Road.
More than one-half the passengers
on an immigrant train on the Baltimore
and Ohio road were killed or 1
injured in a collision Tuesday
between the passenger train and a
freight near Woodville, Ind.
One hundred and sixty-five passengers
were on the train. Of these 47
were either killed outright or were
. n In n ii.n tU - l 1 1- -
uuxuuu w uuaiu in a. uiu cniiu uroKe
out in the wreckage immediately af- 1
ter the collision. The names of all of
the dead will probably never be
known, as 45 of the bodies were con- (
sumed in-the ilames or were so badly
burned that identification will be
out of the question. Thirty-eight
people were injured and several will
die. Eigty others escaped unhurt but
lost all their baggage and clothing,
The disaster was caused by a blunder
of some employe of the railroad i
company, but just where the blame
lies has not as yet been determined.
The passenger train, which was load- 1
ed with Russian Jews, Servian ? i
Poles, all of the recent arrivals iny I
country, and bound for CJhicago or
points in the Northwest, waa the i
second secti ^n of a through train from
Baltimore. The engineer of the
freight train, No. 90 on instructions ,
received at McCool, Ind., waited at
a siding at Babcock, lnd , to allow 1
the immigrant train to pass. 1
One report is that the engineer of
the freight train had not been in- )
fnrmp.rl that thp. nasRpnorp.r train was i
running in two sections; the other is
that the lirst section of the passenger
tra'n carried no lights or signals of
any kind indicating that a second section
was close behind. As soon as the
lirst section of the immigrant train
had passed the switch at Babcock. the
freight train started eastward.A l'ght
snow was falling, which increased the
darkness of the early morning and as
the freight was rounding a sharp curve
just west of Woodville, the second
section of the immigrant train came
into sight a short distance away,
tearing toward Chicago at the rate of
40 miles an hour. The two trains
came together with unslakening speed
and in the crash six passenger coaches
and several freight cars were knocked
into kindling wood and together with
the locomotives went rolling down
the 10-foot embankment.
Fire broke out almost immediately
in the wreckage, and although a number
of the injured were saved by the
desperate efforts of the train crew and
surviving passengers, the greater part
of those who were pinned aown under
the debris was burned to death.
The flames spread through the
wreckage so rapidly that it was impossible
to save a number of people
who were only slightly hurt, but were
held fast by timbers that weighted
them down. These were burned in
plain sight of the throng that stood j
around the scene of the disaster, utterly
unable to lend asissstance in any
way. The Are continped iMntil all of
the shattered cars wewNsntirely consumed
and of the 4a people whose
death followed the collision 45 were
burned to ashes.
The crash of the #01118100 was so
great that a number qf farmers and
other lesidents of tUf Taeigborhood
came hastening to thesofce, but they
could do nothing except lend assistance
to the injured who had already
been taken from the wreck. All of the
six cars of the immigrant train were
knocked into kindling wood, as were
three freight cars.
Relief trains were sent at once from
South Chicago and from Valparaiso,
Ind., with every availabe physicsan,
and every possible aid was given to
the injured.
They Mast be Closed.
dispatch from Topeka, Kansas,
NJD UWIUK IU ?UO KICAII U>ll|(OI K.J
both human and animal life caused
by the abandoned shafts in the Kansas
and Missouri zinc fields steps will
immediately be taken to bare them
oloeed up. In some parts of this State
there are areas of acres in extent
where the shafts are not more than
twenty feet apart, and, owing to the
way they are covered with grass,
weeds and shrubs are extremely dan*
Serous to life. As the Iswb of the
State eemand It publlo sentiment wl_
oompel the offlolals to order the own*
ners of the property to close up the
shafts. It is generality believed in this
State that horses and cattle adver*
tlsed as stolen have been lest In the
shafts and the opinion is also prevalent
that a very large number of personswho
have been de?crlbed from time
time as "missing" met their deaths
4M _ ? &L. . ? ? 04.4.. 1
> iu vuciu, m uio twu oww vo uuuey
eombed with them In several plaoss.
Travel Through Air*
Santo-Dumont, since the sucoessful 1
flight of his aeroplane, "The Bird of (
Prey," prediots the early approach of .
the day when all mankind will be .
navigating the air and when flying
machines will be more common than j
automobiles. Indeed he thinks, that (
the flying maoblne will eventually be- .
come the "poor note's automobile.''
It will be safer, faster and oheaper.
He said that next year people will
be able to go to the seashore on their i
aeroplanes. It will become the fad ]
and oommenoement of an Industry. ]
SAD STUDY
of a young man at salisbury.
n. o.
Who Btole Fiftoon Thousand Dollars '
From tho Xxpross Company
and loft.
Tho Columbia Record says Super*
Id ten dent O. M. Sadler, of tho South
orn Express company, has been In
Salisbury for several days, lnvestiga* {
ting the disappoaranoo of W. S. Gray,
tho young night clerk at Salisbury,
who absoondod Sunday night with all
his oolleotlon from tbo afternoon and
night trains, aggregating a total
which the oompany has not yet been
able to estimate exactly but whloh it ,
Is feared will ran upwards of $15,000.
Gray is well known in Columbia, enpeoially
among the expressmen and 1i
railroad oirolos. He Is only about sev*
on teen, but has been in tho employ of
tho Southern Express oompany for ,
several years. How muoh confidence
his superiors had In him Is shown by j
tho foot that he was entirely In oharge ,
of the money shlpmonts at night, and
these ran Into fabulous sums now and
then, at a junctional point on a m&ln
trunk line, suoh as Salisbury. Many ,
of the parools of money are In locked
and sealed pouches and the olerk oan
only guess at their value, but ofteo he ,
la perfectly aware of the faot that
currency, Jewels or securities **f enor* (
rnous worth are in his keeping.
Gray has the appearanoe of a man
twentyone years old, and is about j
five and a half feet In height, with
light hair and eyes and bad oomplcx ,
Iod. Four of his front teeth are out.
He writes with his left hand in a very ,
peculiar way. When last seen by com- ,
pany officials he was wearing a dark j
suit of clothes and a gray sweater with ,
a black slouch hat. He took with him, \
In addition to the missing $15,000 or (
more in niJlh n??lnnknn ir
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ardson revolver and a small diamond j
pin. He is a native of Greensboro, ,
where be has prominent relatives, and ,
was looked upon by the oompany as a j
promising and strictly reliable young (
man. I
Gray absconded Sunday night, after (
meeting No 35, his last train, and <
the money In his possession was miss* j
ad shortly afterward, but until Wed- ,
aeuday afternoon the cffioials kept the
matter quiet, pushing an investigation
and trying to got some clue as to
Gray's whereabout? Gray was bonded
with a surety h? pany, but it is
oot known whetnS-< the amount fs
luffloient to cover his shortage- He
gave receipts for all packages entrust
ad to him, and it is only in having all
the messengers who passed through
Salisbury Sunday night report their
receipts and from these traoing the
packages to the sending offices that
thn exact amount of the young olerk's
iefaloation oan be ascertained. Half
i dozen Important main line trains,
til of whloh carry heavy express shipments,
passsd Salisbury during Sunday
night, and Gray made exchanges with
til of them, probably getting money
soosignments from most of them. One
Columbia express messenger handled
under similar oircumstanoes on a resent
night's work ourrenoy, greenbacks
and securities whloh he knew
amounted to annrn*inn?.fcAlv il 9.no.
)00. ~ " "" "
SPEAK KINDLY. ;
Be Oareful Whet Yon Say to All <
About You, 1
Never speak words that are calcu- ;
ated to unnecessarily wound the feel- J
ings of any one. If you have an ene <
ny, do not say harsh or unkind words
to him. It will only make blm a great- 1
jr enemy. Life is not long and his '
?nmity cannon last long, and that
probably that next time you see him 1
ie will be oold in death. Then you 1
will wish you had not said hard things "
to him. Don't speak unkindly to your 1
Friend for fear you make an enemy out (
>f him. You need all the friendships <
pou oan make in this world.
If you have a mother, never say an
mklnd or slight word to her but re- .
member that for you she his toiled
ind labored and suffered; her constant
thoughts have been employed for you; .
per most earnest prayers have been offered
for you; her love for you will (
last though all the world may be
igainst you. If you have children. .
ipeak Dot unkindly to them. You can
win And keep their love better by
Kindness than by barsh woids.
If you have a wife that you love, 4
tay not one outtlng or unkind word .
}0 her Say not a word that would
rave tue least tendency to wound her
feelings, cause a pang of sorrow or one :
noment of sad reflection, for If you
lo, you my drive away the oonfldenoa ,
ihe has lo you and cause her wounds
fchat time oan never heal. We should
be cautious in what we say to those
whom we love and whom heaven has
ziven tifl fcn hA nnr n?n Nnt o??n i
lastingly should we say that whloh i
will make the slightest wounds, for <
iometimes even words, jestingly or i
carelessly spoken leave a sting that <
last forever. 1
Family Tragedy. j
Milton Pitts, a prosperous farmer |
nz noiles.fr ^.Griffin, Ga., shot and ,
rilled his f ?flier, Charles, 61 years
)ld. The elder brother, Ben, then
turned his weapon upon himself,
lending a bullet through his heart. ,
fealousy caused the double tragedy. 1
tfrs. Milton Pitts having been observ- j
)d speaking to Charles after her huscand
had warned her not to do so. 1
Negro Hanged. I
Charles E. Grant, a negro, whe
nurdered a negro woman named Eva i
Barnes was hanged at Washington, I
D. 0. on Friday. <
WAV* OT CRIME OM
No CeaMtlon In K?I(d of LawleMDCM
at PltUbarg, P?.
With detectives from oitles of
neighboring states who are there in the
hope of finding orooks of national reputation,
there haa been no apparent
oeiisatlon in Crimea that have etlrred
Pittsburg within the past two weeks.
During Wednesday and early Thursday
morning soores of people were arrested
on the streets is suspootcd
oharacters.
Shortly after midnight Thursday a
negro who entered the home of David
Honey, Perryvllle Ave. Alleghehy,
was heard In the lower portion of the
house by a maid, who immediately
notified Mr. Honoy. Mr. Honey fired
several shotu but the negro osoaped.
Honey's home is located to a row of
ten house nine of whloh have been
robbed during the past two evenings.
Dispatobes to the Associated Press J
Thursday night from neighboring i
towns says the reign of lawlessness has ,
never b jfore been equalled in these
suburbs. At South Sharon, Meroar .
County, the police found John Mo
Donald lying in an alley, almost dead 1
from exposure and fraoiured skull. At
Washington, Pa., bloodhounds have
started on the trail of robbers who
assaulted Mrs. Cole, wife of the tax
collector of Green County, whose condition
is precarious.
At Beaver Falls, Pa., a thief entersn
the home of Mrs. Mary MoMlller
and failing to find money ohooked her
early to death. The woman finally
broke away from her assailant and
graeping an iron poker struok him
several times over the head. Three
white men were arrested Thursday
Qlgbt at Somerset, Pa., charged with
stealing 9260 and several hundred dol '
lars worth of government stamps from I
the wife of a government revenue ool- <
leotor while she was riding on a street 1
car In Greensburg, Pa., Thursday. 1
At New Brighton two men were 1
held-up and assaulted Thursday
ight by highwaymen. Both men were
seriously Injured. A general manhunt
Is In progress at MoKeesport, Pa., sevsral
miles from here, In an endeavor
to capture James Taylor, who murder3d
Isaac Carter Monday evening. At
Swlssvllle, a suburb, extra polioe were
idded to the force Thursday night at
i special meeting of the oounoll.
KILLING IN LAUREN8.
\ Young Man Shot From Ambush
at Uoldvlllu.
A dispatch from Laurens to The
News and Courier says news was revived
there Sunday morning of the
tilling at Goldvllle Saturday night
)f the killing of John Atkinson, a
fcung mill operative at the Banna
Jotton Mill, located at Goldvllle.
Particulars of the affair axe vary
meagre, but it is reported that At
rlQBon was shot Saturday night, as
he was passing between the mill
building and the railroad on his way
home. One report is that he was In
bompany of two other young men and
was fired upon by someone ooncealed
behind a building. On the other
band, it Is stated that Atkinson was
ilone when the assassin got in his
work.
Young Atkinson killed his father, 1
John Atkinson, Sr., at Goldvllle 1
fcbout two years ago while the old
man, who In a drunken rage was 1
whipping Mrs. Atkinson, his wife and
mother of young Atklnsoi . At the
rollowlng term of Oourt. The grand 1
jury returned "no bill" against Atkinson.
He had a wife and two :
children.
Sheriff Duokett and his deputy
have gone to the scene and the Inquest
will he held this afternoon.
The killing of Atkinson last night
makes the fourth murder oommlted
In Hunter Township since last spring
?two white and two colored?and
the third assasinatlon in Laurens
bounty within the last two months?
me white and two colored.
Hotel By ill* Own Petard.
One of two burglars who attempted
ho break open a safe In the cffioe of a
large manufacturer at Bsrln, Ger, has
met with a singular death. He and
his accomplice, finding their tools
iot sharp enough or tempered enough,
letermined to hiirnt nnan th? aaf* 1
with lome explosive. The? stuffed ]
&he look full with the explosive, pre- <
mmably gunpowder, and attaching ]
in Ignited fuse, waited for the result, i
As the fuse burned slowly one of the ]
robbers approaohed the safe to has i
ien matters. At that moment the ]
run powder exploded, and the door of |
ibe safe flew open, smashing in the
ikull of the burglar, His acoomplloe 1
escaped, and as the explosion made (
lardly any noise nothing was known i
)t the affair till next morning.
Piot to Kill King? j
The police of Rome, Italy, have .
seen informed that several people ,
who are in the habit of renting win- lows
along the route usually taken by |
royal prooeeslons, have been approaoh- .
:u m/ lujoraiiuun yoiauua wuu W1IU 1
bo rent not only windows, but entire .
rooma for the day when the King of j
Gtreeoe arrives at Rome. The polloe |
oeletve this to be an evidence of an (
inarohlst plot. 1
Burned to Death. .
At Aiken on Thursday afternoon {
little Ryan, the 4-year-old son of Mr. j
S.. J. Haight, was so severely burned \
that death resulted Friday morning \
it 5 o'olock. The ohild's clothes be- ,
same Ignited and before it was res- j
sued it was burned fatally. The body j
was oarrled to Blaokvllle for Inter- j
ment. Mr. and Mrs. Haight have
the slnoerest sympathy of all In their \
tad bereavement. ,
GIVEN A ROAST.
Some Scathing Comments in the
Recent Elections.
ANENT COBTLEYOU.
The New York Press Contrasts His
Treatment by President Rosscvelt
With the Defeat of Congress*
man Babcock by the People
of His District.
It ought not, says the New York
Press, to be neoessary to use a steam
irill to drive into the heads of Be
publ'oans the lesson taught by the
iefeat of Representative Baboook In
Wisconsin. The Press there goea on
bo say:
In a dlstrlot whioh is normally Republican
by several thousands of
rotes, and which gives a handsome
plurality to the victorious, Republican
candidate for Governor Babcock
has been beaten for re election. And
this despite the faot that be was
chairman of the Congress campaign
committee, a powerful member of the
system in the House, and oould command
resources not available to the
ordinary Congress oandidate.
Babcock was beaten beoaupe he was
in partnership with the life insurance
Tl. tnrtlr A O KAA
u? nuurn f?,vvv llUUi atUD
despoilers of the widows' and orphans'
fund and spent It to maintain that
part of the Congress machine C7er
which he was in oommand in 1904.
rhe fact was widely published in the
Armstrong committee testimony. It
was familiar to the voters in Bab*
jock's dlstrlot, and it overshadowed
questions of tariff and trusts and the
like. Nothing counted muoh in the
campaign but the incident of Babcook
taking 92,600 from McCurdy to
Unanoe the political maohlneof whloh
tie was the engineer. The voters of
the 3d Wisconsin district decided that
i man who would take money which
tie knew he had no right to take was
sot tit to look after their interests or
these of the country, and they have
returned Babcook to private life.
Now, does not the fate of Repretentative
Baboock suggest larger
possibilities of danger to National
Republicanism? Consider the case
)f Oortelyou. It is like Babcook's
inly worse.
All the yellow dog funds oontrlputed
large sums to Cortelyou, and
ie fattened the funds of the National
Rppublioan committee with them.
Babocck took cents where Oortelyou
book dollars. But the actions of the
two men were identical in that eaoh
icoepted moneys whloh did not belong
to the givers, In that each knew
bhe contributions did not belong to
bhese who made them, in that eaoh
Muvnuou ?u? hi a w BB UBIUlUliy BH
the evidence of an? felony, and in
kbat both Cortelyou and Baboook
jpent tbe money in the further debauchery
of American politics.
The similarity in the offences of
bhe ohairman of the National Republican
committee and tbe ohairman of
the Republican Congress campaign
Dommittee stops there. It is when
we come to the treatment of the two
men that the big difference occurs.
Representative Baboook, not being
% member of the Cabinet, but being
In oharge of the Congress campaign
aommittee, and not daring to faoe a
canvass of the oountry in behalf of a
Republican House with the $2,600
iteal staring the voters in the faoe,
be is retired from the chairmanship.
Then when be goes back to his district
for a "vindication" the hobnails
of publio opinion are applied vigorously
where they will do the most
good. No very high standard of
morals is required ordinarily for
membership in the House, as is prov
sd by the fact that Baboook oould
20 there after he had been caught
kt.nff? i- ? J ? ? ?4? 1
juumuK vuu uimio wiuu liBUKOlt |WIM1
matter * during railroad weighing
time, and as demonstrated by the
presenoe in Congress for a long time
)f some men who belonged In Jail anl
nave since either been started In that
direction or are already in prison.
But the 3d Wisconsin distriot drew
the line at being represented by a
man who helped MoOuray to skin the
policy-holders of the Mutual.
xiow uorseiyou was created lor doit
g on a larger scale what Baboook
iid waa advertised to the oountry,
lod particularly to the State of New
Fork, a few days before the balloting,
which eleoted to the Governorship
ihe man most Instrumental in exposing
the partnership of Gortelyou
ind Baboook with the dispensers of
fellow Dog funds. For his share
in the dirty business Baboook is wip)d
off the map of the system at
Wellington. For hi* part in the
plunder Gortelyou is not retired from
lis position as Postmaster General,
[)ut is raised of all things to the ohair
>f Alexander Hamilton. The man
who would spend In a oladestlne manler
trust funds belonging to mem*rs
of one political party to promote
the fortunes of another political party
s not punished but rewarded. And
to aggravate the outrage the reward
<o him for his failure to observe comnon
honesty in the handling of other
people's money is his promotion to
ihe post where he is in oharge of the
funds of the whole nation 1
Suoh is the difference between the
treatment of Baboock by the voters
if his home district and the treat*
ment of Oorteljou bj President
Roosevelt, although the offsnoe commltteed
by the two men differed only
In degree, and to that extent the
wrong done by the Cabinet officer Is
greater than the blooding of the Representative.
The American people have longed
looked upon the 'vindication" of
Paul Morton from the aelf-oonfessel
charge of criminal rebating as the
topmost point of absurdity reaohed In
Amerloan administrative Government.
This height of folly Is scaled
by the promotion of Secretary Co'tel
you to (he Treasury, and the fact is
all the more emphasized by the beating
the voters have given to Oortelyou'd
confederate In the 3d Wisconsin
district.
FIII 1)8 A PSARL.
While Eating Haw Oysters In a Now
York Gate.
At New York William H Bloom,
manager of the Ohio Brass oompsny'a
works In Mansfield, Ohio, struck a
mine of pearls in an oyster in the
Cafe Savarln Thursday. Mr. Bloom
Is staying in the Hotel Breslln.
Thursday he want down town and
dropped into the Savarln for a bite to
eat. Mr Bloom thought he would
like some raw oysters. So the man
opened him half a dozon.
With four of these oysters this
story has nothing to do, The fifth
oyster was the one that oonoealed
mvpn hAtnflfnl no*?)a -*
vw.uo.tui |>va?io fMtUWi mv vuuu.
If he swallowed them whole, Mr.
Bloom would have returned to his
nappy Ohio home Ignorant former,
perhaps, of how muoh he was worth i
himself ; inside. But in Manstield (
they ohew their oysters. As Mr.
Bloom bit into the fifth cyater he
felt something round between his
teeth.
They have failed to properly manicure
these oysters" he said, and pjeo
ted the gritty ob*eot from his mcuth.
It was a luscious pearl. In qulok
succession he produced six more
pearls.
"I presume that when you serve
oyBters on the half shell all that comes
in the shell belongs to the guest ?" in
quired Mr. Bloom, of Waltor Qustav.
Oustav admitted that such was the
rule.
"Well, you should have some reward,"
said Mr. Bloom as he picked
up one of the pearls. ,%I shall leave
yoh the remaining oyster."
And he wrapped up all the pearls
and told Gustav to thank Mr. Savar
in for him on account of Mr. Savarln'H
kindness and uflnnnmitn
I I hwmw* vw?V/ Hliu TV VUk'
away.
GIRL KILLED HEK8ELF. ;d
Did Not|Want to Go to Hohool wm tho
Cause.
At Oonoord, Ga., rather than go to
school against her wishes, Miss Mary
Stwdford, pretty and vivaolous, sent
a bullet crashing through her head
Tuesday morning of last week at 9
o'clock at her home In Gonoord, Ga.,
dying Instantly.
The young girl left home for sohool
under protest; declaring she did not
want to study. Instead of going to
the sohool hou e, however, she re
traced her steps Into the house, secured
her father's pistol and hurried unobserved
to the barn, where she deliberately
placed the weapon against
her ear and pulled the trigger.
A net ro heard the mulled report of
the weapon, but thought nothing of
the matter until two hours later when
the body was found by the girls
father.
Miss Stanford was noted for her
beauty and from earliest ohlldhood
bed been admired by all her friends
and companions, Bv nature she
was of the happiest disposition and
until her reoent ill health nu th*
leader In the in the younger aoolal
oircle of whioh ahe was the charming
oenter.
She waa the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. E J. Stanford, one of the moat
prominent families In the town.
Her father is a large land owner and
Uvea on the rent from hla several
plantations. Henry Stanford of Atlanta
is a brother of the young girl.
He has been wired of the tragedy.
Explosion Of Powder.
A powder magazine owned by the
E. I. Dupont Company and situated
at Tlnley park, about thirty miles
from Chicago, exploded Thursday
with suoh foroe that window panes
were broken in the home of the Midlothian
Club, three miles distant. One
man employed to watch the magazine
was killed, but no other lives were
lost. The cause of the explosion Is
QOt known.
President R^r vlt sv,ruld call
thft &t.t.Antlnn nf tho EiMrst * ?*
w ? ? i.o< amiawiiib
Postmaster-General to fche Republican ,
campaign book In whloh it is deolared '
that the ooat of living haa not In- 1
creased percept'bl-. That hardly aggrees
with the otttolal request for In- 1
creased pay for postal olerks due to 1
the Inorease In the cost of Hying. 1
Those who are paying high trust
prices* oan hardly have muoh faith In !
Republican statements whloh have
evidently been manufactured to de- 1
oelve them.
i
Tub Atlanta Georgian printed a :
oompllmentary reference to Senator 1
Tillman and waked up the Charleston .
Post and Columbia State, and according
to the Spartanburg Journal these
performed the same old stunts they
have been doing for 16 years only
proving that a prophet Is not without 1
honor ezoept in his own country.
BROODISe OVBB LOSS.
A Ltdy Attempted to. Kill Herself
With Poison,
la a fit of despondency Mrs. Joe
Stelne, wife of the heaviest loser in
the reoent fire at Warren tun, Oa.,
made a desperate attempt to ?commit
suicide Thursday at noon In Augusta
by drinking poison.
She had been visiting friends In
that olty hoping to overoome the
strain which has resulted from the
great lots b> the fire of last week.
The Stelne store and building suffered
a loss of twenty thousand dollsrsby
Are and there was only six
thousand dollars Insurance, which It
seems was not muoh more than
enough to pay outstanding obligations.
Mrs. Stelne was stopping at 914
Broad street and some one happened to
observe her as she took the deadly
dose of poison and promptly summoned
Olty Physician MoLaws, who sue*
oeeded In pumping up most of the
poison and giving counteracting doses,
whloh put Mrs. Stelne out of danger
after the employment of stringent
means.
In a statement to the physician
and others present she said she wishto
die as the work of a lifetime had
been destroyed In a few short moments
by the flames and she did not
feel able to begin anew the struggle.
She Is reported as resting very well
now and out of all danger from her
desperate aotlon.
The family is well known throughout
that Beotlon of the state and numerous
friends have expressed their
sympathy over the loss of their prop*
rty.
A
Another Death*
Mr. Harold Forest Holley, of Aiken
Oountv, a student of the South Carolina
University In Columbia, died
Sunday morning of tvphold fever.
This Is the neoond death at the University
in the last two weeks from
typhoid fever. Mr. Holley was a
bright and promising young man. He
was the sen of Mr. B. F. Holley, of
Alkon, and was regarded as a fine
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bwuucuv *uu uinliijr ;uuu|{ lonuw,
Tbero have been no new oases In
twelve days now, and the medioal
authorities give assurances that
danger Is over. The use of well
water for a row days, during a break
in tho regular oity supply, is regarded
as tho cause of the oases of typhoid.
The Columbia correspondent of The
News and Courier savs as the well
water is no longer used and there
have been no new oases in a fortnight,
the fear of further trouble is regarded
as over. The authorities have the
best of trained nurses and physiolani
attending the voung men who are
sick?all are now about well.
Tired ol Life.
Mr, William B. Odgen, bookkeeper
in the Charlotte branch tflloe of the
Philip Carey Manufacturing Co. committed
suioide here early Thursday
night by asphyxiation. The aot was
a most deliberate one. After writing
a d( zm or more notes to his father,
wile, several relatives and frlenda, he
drew the shades In the effioe, made a
pallet on the floor wtiha pillow of excelsior,
out the gas tube leading to
the small heator and tied the free end
to his neck. After turning on the
gas he threw a felt blanket over hie
bead and was dead in a very short
time. He leaves a wife and two
ohlldren. Profound melanoholla,
brought about. by poor eyesight, Is
said to have been the oause of the rash
deed. In a note to his brother, Mr,
E. P. Tlngsley he said:
"I am afraid of myself. Sometimes
I have been tempted to take all
the folks with me, but have resisted
the feeling, I do oot think I can do
so any longer."
Picture Poet Garcia.
Notwithstanding the faot of the
enormous popularity of the ploture
post-card a recent order of the PoalOffioe
department Is likely to make
these little mall souvenirs even more
sought after than ever. This order
will make lawful a post*card upon
whloh there is a spaoe upon the address
side for written messages. This
will enable the sender to keep the
ploture un mar red and yet write a
message upon the left hand side of
the oard, the whole of which side has
been in the past reserved for the address
only. This agreement was
reached at the session of the universal
postal congress during the pa?t
summer. This style of post*oard has
been In use for some time in foreign
countries. The admission of it to
American malls promises to lnorease
the number now handled by several
millions. A peculiar feature of the
post-card Is, that although It Is sent
for one cent, their use has lnoreased
the revcuues of the department.
Graft Seandals.
It now appears that many sums of
money large and small, that were
tent from different States to San
Franolsoofor the relief of sufferers
from the oalamity never reached the
relief oommlttee. Some of these
imounts, whloh aggreated large sums
were mailed to the oare of Mayor
Sflhmtnz. IT- -T
? . - . uwv/ I VOWWITO
William Burns and about 105 governmcnt
egents hate been making an Investigation.
President Roosevelt Is
tbe moving spirit behind the Inquiry,
and he deolares that no man guilty of
diverting the relief funds shall escape
lustloe. The oases oome within
juried lotion of the Federal authorities
because of the interstate character of
the postal servioe whieh it Is alleged,
was orlmlnally tampered with. It Is
said that in the aggregate the stealings
will amount of ll'.OOD.OOO,
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