The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 24, 1907, Image 5
MASS OFJIUINS.
Kingston, Jamaica, Destroyed
by Terrible Earthquake.
HAVOC AN1) HORROR.
^ Conseasos of Report is to the Effect
That the Death List is Enormous,
and That Flames Added to
Devastating Work of
Srismic Shake.
The city of Kingston on the Island
of Jamaica, which nail a population of
about fifty thousand people, one half
of whom were colored, was devastated
oo Monday morning of last weak by a
terrible eortt.ql ike, which was followed
by a destructive tire, in which
scores of people were roasted alive.
A dispatch Bays one terrific shock
that sent buildings tumbling into
piles of blaziug ruins, crushing men,
women aud children to death, coming
without an instant's warning, destroyed
a great part of the city of Kingston,
Jamaica.
From 100 to 1,000 persons, according
to varylDg reports, are dead In
the ruins. Scores, trapped In the
debris, were roasted to death in the
damos that swept over the ruined
oity.
Four more shocks quiokly followed
the first, and then came a trembling
of the earth that gradually subsided,
but the great destruction had been
caused by the fir shook.
Panic came off the heels of the
earthquake crash. Mobs, frenzied by
fear, rushed through the shaking
streets for the suburbs, unheeding
the orles of angulnh and appeals for
help from those crushed and dylDg in
the blazing ruins.
The military hospital was among
the buildings that went down with a
crash. More than thirty soldiers were
burled in the ruins and ware roasted
to death in the fire that was soon
spreading through the city.
The greatest destruction oocurred
in the business section of the city, the
central part where business houses
and dwellings alike fell into piles.
Ab the greater part of the buildingB
cf the city were wooden, the tire
spread with incredible rapidity. The
Are department was demoralized and
for a time useless. In a short time
bands of robbers were at work, and,
with the dames roaring around them,
' began pillaging wrecked buildings and
homes from which the occupants had
fled.
The negro population added to the
wildness of the scene, as thev seemed
orazed with fear and rushed to and
fro, soreamlng frantically and hindering
thosb who had recovered their
wits and sought to aid the injured.
Many had died in the orush of the
fcnmhllniv mil*
nana, auu umu/ UUUOIB T?13IC
killed by being caught in the taDgle
of live electric wires.
A dibpa?oh from Kingston on Wednesday
said the cifcy was still a smouldering
lire. Everywhere the wounded
are lying in agony. The estimates of
the dead are varying and as high as
1,000. In the frenzy that followed
the horror, the survivors wore orazad
with fear. The soldiers had to beat
the delirious mobs v^ith the butts of
their guns to restore a semblance of
order.
Thieves organized into large bands
and In looting the orinolpal residences,
resisted the polloe and troops. Groups
of marauders were shot down by vol
IY leys from the military. Many aots of
\ thrilling heroism marked the rescues.
Scores of women and children were
I , < dragged from burning timbers under
whlon they were pinned.
Tne Henah is described as awful.
There is no fodder for animals and
famine is imminent. Money ia useless.
The banks have been burned,
but the vaults are supposed to be safe.
The misery on all sides is lode
aorible. Rich and poor alike are
<g2u>mal6ss. Provisions of all kinds are
urgently needed. It Is impossible to
nmj wuoic muy uuu y uau utJ iuuuu.
Sir James Ferguson, vice chairman
of the Royal Mall Steamship Company,
Is among the killed. The loss
of life Is very great, but the exact
numbers are not yet known.
The dead are burled under the
smouldering ruins. The mercantile
oommunlty suffered most severely,
warehouses falling upon them. Many
professional men are dead or injured.
The negroes are looting. Ghastly
scenes are being witnessed. All the
shops have been destroyed, and all the
buildings in and around Klngstou are
in ruins. Vary few of them are safe
to live in.
i. _ j Do?iti of Or. WotHlrow.
Dr. James Woodrow, solentist, educator,
theologlolan, publicist, bank
er and businessman, diedJn Columbia
Thursday morning aftena lingering
illness. He was born in Carlisle,
England, on May 30, 1828, being a son
of a Scotch clergyman. His parents
oame to Canada In 1836 and to the
United States In 1837.
Chicago's health commissioner avers
that if the provisions of the pure food
v ^ / law are rigorously carried out boiled
^ dee will be the only food that can be
J| Vll}\ ^
BAR ASSOCIATION
Had Interesting Meeting In Columbia
Lisst Week.
The Bar Association bad a moot
la teres turn ssMticg in Columbia last
weak, la was decided to recommend
that tne ?! *? of the chief justice of
the supreme court be made 16,000 a
year ana tne salaries of the associate
justices ne mane 96.600. There was j
much disouss'on on the resolution and j
It was generally agreed that the present
salaries are entirely out of keep
lng with the dignity of the ofboeB.
THE OFFICERS.
The following is the liBt of oflloers
looted:
President?J. H. Hudson.
Vice presidents, one from each Judicial
circuit: First T. M. Utysor; seo
ond, Gao. H. Bates; third, T. G. MoLeod;
fourth, J. II. Coggeshall; tlftb,
N. G. Evans; sixth, A. L Gaston;
seventh, C. P. Sanders; eight, Walter
II. nuot; ulnth, B H- Itutledge, Jr.,
tenth, R. T. Jaynes.
Secretary?John J. Earie.
Tre&auier -W. S. Nelson. .
First District ?T. M. Rayaor, L S.
Weeks and Robert Llde.
Seoond District?Geo. H. Bates, II.
S. Dowllng, J. S. DivU.
Third district?T. G. MoLeod,
Hugh Hayoesworbh, J. B. McLaughlin.
Fourth district?J. R Coggeshall,
Henry Buok. T. W. Bouohier.
Fifth district?N. G. Evans. W. H.
Sharpe, J. W. Thomas.
Sixth district?A. L. Gaston. J. L.
Glenn, J. H. Foster.
Seventh district?O. P. Sanders, V.
E. DePass, II. L Bomar.
Eighth district?Walter II, Hunt,
1C W Ahlf>B .1 !<' WraBor
Ninth district?B U Rutledge,
Jr.. B, A. Hagood, J E. Plnckney.
Tenth district?R. T. Jaynes, T.
J. Mauldin, J. S. McSwaln
Exeoutive oommittes?F. Tomp
kins, P. A. Wilocx, J. B. Wlngard,
John J. Earle, W. S. Nelson.
IKNKIUL COUNCIL
One from o&oh judicial circuit,
Darned in order: D. O. Herbert, T.
G. Croft, Charlton DuRant, W. P.
Pollock. M. L. Smith, T. G. McLeod,
W. S Hall, Jr., D. A. G. Outzj, W.
B. Gruber, E. M. Ruoker. The president
and secretary are also members.
itobort K. Leo.
Born Westmoreland county, Virginia,
January, 1807.
Son of *'Light Horse Harry" Lee.
revolutionary leader.
Entered West Point 1825, appointed
by Gen. Andrew Jackson.
Graduated 1829, seoond in his class.
Second lieutenant In engineering
corps till 1134.
Married 1831, Mary Randolph Custls.
granddaughter of Martha Washington.
Promoted to oaptaln and staff of
chief engineer.
At tattles of Vera Cruz, Cerro
UV1UU| UUV1UUUOUU MUU ULUIIJUirai'OU
lo Mexican war, earning promotions.
Appointed superintendent of West
Point, 1852.
Lieutenant oolonel of cavalry In
Texas Indian campaigns. Suppress
ed John Brown's raid in 1859,
Rejected command of United States
army In 1161.
Became brigadier general in Confederate
army, 1861.
Given direction of the Confederate
military operations In March, 1862.
Surrendered with his army to General
Grant at Appomattox April 9,
1865.
Installed as president of Washington
college, Lexington, Y*., 1865.
Died October 12, 1870.
A Human mounter.
Reports from Selouan, south of Me1111a,
where the Moroccan pretender
has his oamp, Indicate that his follow
ers, since the appearance of the Sultan's
troops at Tangier, are growing
lukewarm, and that an energetio
movement probably would soon ilnlsh
the rebellion whloh the pretender has
oeen conducting for several years.
Stories of cruelties with which he terrorized
the Inhabitants are almost incredible.
Thoee even suspected of
disloyalty have been dragged to Selouan
in chains and subjected to tortures.
Sometime ago a Kebdana suspect
was bound at the mouth of a
cannon and blown to pieces. Another,
who had been obliged to give hospitality
to a soouting party of B1 Guebbas
troops was tied to a horse and
rider and at full speed dragged
through the oamp and villages as a
warning.
Arrested Murderers.
Mike Smith and his son Charles, 17
years old, have been arrested ,an1 will
be tried for murder next week at
Troy, N. 0., on the oharge of killing
Milton Bunnell, a Oojfederate veteran,
for his money last week. Bunnell
called at the homo of the Smiths and
exhibited some gold ooins. When he
i started nome ine smiths, according to
t ie sod's story, planned to kill and rob
him. They followed Bunnell and
when they caught up with hlm.Obar*
les Smith struck him with an aie.
They then riflad Bunnell's pooketsand
plaoed the body an the railroad track,
where a train ran oyer it. Mike Smith
denies participation in the crime.
Gov; Ansel will assume the high
office to which he has been called this
week, and it is the duty of every citizen
of the state to hold up his hands
and help him make his administration
a grand sucoess..
WHO IS FOE?
Unknown Person Has Attempted
to Kill Mother and Son.
M IRKED FOR DEATH
Pol?oo, Dynamite and Fire Have Been
Usid In Attempts to Annihilate
a South Georgia Family by
Some Secret Enemy
or Enemies.
Marked for death by an unknown
foe, Mrs. Alice Futoh and her son.
Allen Futoh, are momentarily expecting
assise!nation In their home Id the
lower part of Tnomas county, Ga.,
says a dispatch to the Atlanta Journal.
Nine times the hidden hand of
mysterious death has been raised
against mother and son, poison, dynamite
and tire falling in each Instance
to aocomplish its fiendish execution.
Secrot service ofiloers, county oftlolais,
private detectives and the comblned
efforts of the law, augmented
by sympathetic and zealous friends,
have bsen foiled lo their strenuous
efforts to deteot the man and the motive
and todav the terror-Btrioken and
sole Inhabitants of the old Futoh
homeate&Ji are calmly awaiting what
they fear mav be complete annihilation.
Recounting their terrible experience,
young Allen Futoh, the son,
twenty-cne years of age, dramatically
.J
uAuiniiiiQu iiuuMjr:
"It la the prcteotlou of the Lord
that has saved me and my mother
from death!"
"Yes, it's providenoe alone," the
mother Interposed.
And to those who have watched the
plot thicken, It seems apparent that
more than human agencies have been
brought to their asslstanoe to counteract
the execution of nine diabolical
attempts to take their lives.
"Another attempt will be made
upon the lives of these lnnooent people,"
said Hon. Fondren Mitchell,
member of the Georgia legislature,
who has been employed as special
counsel to aid the solicitor of Thomas
oounty in running the assassin to
oover.
For Beven months a veritable terror
reign has ruled over the Futoh home.
When the two members of the
family were away, poison wo aid be
plaoed In their food, in the milk and
even In the well; when they were at
home they were targets for dynamite
bomb6 and the assassin's bullets. Go
or stay, their lives have been In peril
slnoe early in last June.
What violous motive has driven an
enemy to such extremes? Ask the
trembling woman, and she only shakes
her head. Ask the young son who remains
constantly by her side and he
o&nnnt annwp.r
"They haven't an enemy in the
world, made so by an aot of their
own," declares Attorney Mitchell.
"It's all mystery, deep, weird and up
to the present impenetrable. I am
moving heaven arid earth to tind the
guilty man. Others are doing the
same thing. We all have theories,
but the faots are still beyond our
reach."
The population of the lowe>- half of
Thomas county Is busily engaged in
speculating upon this strange case,
and gossip has oonnected many per
sons with the crime, in which Romanoe,
Love and Jealousy figure In
sensational human Interest, but the
evidence is lacking.
On June 4th, last year, Mrs. Futch
and Allen were suddenly seized with
desperate illness. That they were
spared seemed almost miraculous. It
was believed their illness was due to
acute indigestion. As a matter of fact
they were poisoned,but it was not unt l
the third attempt had been made that
they realized a fiendish plot had been
laid for their assassination. The first
attempt was made by putting either
arsenio or rough on rata in the water
bucket and ooffee pot.
On June 10th a second attempt was
maae, ana inn time the mother and
son were again In the shadow of death.
On July 5th the chloken at the
noon meal was saturated with poison,
and mother and son again were desperately
ill.
July 10th the assassin returned and
poisoned Mrs. Futoh.
The condition of Mrs. Futoh grew
constantly more orttloal, and on July
i:nh Dr. Taylor, the family pbysioian,
Ret. T. A. White, the pastor of the
First Baptist church at Metcalf, and
other friends and relatives were summoned.
There were twenty-one persons in
uuu iiuutte uu bum u?y sua nous were
spared by the unknown hand that
sprinkled poison wholesale In the supper.
11 twenty-one wete poisoned.
The physlolan, called to safe Mrs.
jfutoh, almost lost his own life, and
the minister was for hours at the
point of death. 3fc . .1 r
Others, including friends and servants,
were desperately ill, but all recovered.
David Graham Phillips declares |
that one per cent of the people of the
United States control 99 per cent of
the wealth. And the one per cent
seems to think Its membershi^^^ a
vested right In the 99 per cen'
r*.'... j\ *' * ' '
Ox July 23 another attempt wan
made and Mrs Futoh, Allen end John
were victims.
With the arrest of Laura and Ollle
Cunningham, negroes employed on the
Vutoh estate, the attempts ceased
until January 7th, when the assassin
grew more hold and discarded poison
and resorted to dynamite
Sunday night, January 7th, the en
amy crawled under the house, bored
holes through the floor under the bed
in which Allen Futoh was Bleeping,
oblseled out a hole with a sharp In
itrument and pushed a dynamite
bomb Into the room, lighted the fuse
and fled.
Tracks were found in the b&ok yard
leading to the woods In the rear of
the house.
The bomb exploded, but again super
human hands seemed to Interpose
and the assassin was foiled.
T.ie boomb shook the house from cellar
to garret, hurled Allen Futch
'rum bis bid and set the house atire.
'I rushed Into Allen's room," said
Mrs. Futoh, "and was blinded by the
light aod flames. I expeoted to see
my boy torn Into fragments, but he
was unhurt. Wo threw water on the
tUmea anu saved the house and thon
I was so thankful that we had been
spared, that 1 threw my arms around
Allon aud orled: "Tnank God; Thank
God 1 "
1c is taken for grautod by all that
the attempts are too ounnlng to be
planned by a negro.
"It la the work of a white man,"
says Allen. "Why, when I got myself
together from the shock of the iyna
mite bomb, I rushed out of the house,
shooting, to give the alarm to the
negroes who were sleeping In the
quarters.
"To mv astonishment, the dogs
wore gone!
"Wo have three dogs whloh we
keep In the yard for added proteotlon.
One of the negroes came running up
about this time and I told him to
hurry to the barn and saddle my
horse, as I wanted to go to Thomasvills
to get the sheriff and bloodhounds.
"My horse was gone.
"The horse returned about two
hours later and with him camu the
dogs."
The theory advanoed is that the
assassin first went to tho barn and
mounted Alien s horse, knowing the
dogs would follow the horse.
"My dogs will follow that horse
day or night, without question or suspicion
" Allen says.
The horse was ridden about a quarter
of a mile away, tied and left behind,
and with him, It Is believed,
the dogs waited out In the woods.
The assassin, and the traoks In the
newly plowed ground olearly establishes
this, returned to the house,
orept under the building out his hole
through the lloor and put the dynamite
bomb into the room, lighted the
fuse and fled.
The bomb exploded at 11.23 o'olook
Sunday night and within ten minutes
the negro servants and tenants on the
plaoe had bsen thoroughly aroused
and were at the home.
"When 1 found the horse and dogs
gone," says Allen, "1 ordered one of
the negroes to hurry to a house a
quarter of a mile away, for more
assistance
"In a few minutes the negro oame
running back, badly frightened. He
told me he had Just seen a man on
my horc riding through the woods.
"This man was, beyond queitlon,
the assawin, who had hurried to the
woods where he had left my horse,
mounted it and was escaping. Tracks
the next day showed the negro's
statement to bp true. The horse re
turned alone, with reins gone, In
about two hours.
"Everything oonneoted with this
awful o&se Indicates the work to bs
that of a ounning white man who is
thoroughly familiar with the place;
so familiar, in faot, that he oould
lrcate the exact position of my bed,
though he was under the house."
The ninth attempt was made last
Sunday night, and but for the alert
ncss of Night Guard Judson Fewell,
might have been successful.
I KIIIKD TO KILL 1IIM.
Guard Fewell went on duty last
Sunday night at dark. Mrs. Futoh
and Allen were In the house, with
shotguns and revolvers In reach.
"1 had a presentment," saysJMrs.
Futoh, "that there would be trouble,
and I told Judson to watoh everything
and Investigate the least noise.
I told him not to shoot anyone coming
in at the front gate, as John
might be oomlng home."
Shortly after ? o'clock Fewell
heard a noise.
He was in the rear of the house at
the time, but quickly orawled over
the deep sand on his all fours, to the
front.
He heard the latoh of the gate
drop into its socket and then was
silhouetted the form of a man,
whether white or black Powell did
not know, la the darkness.
'I cried to him to 'Halt!' but he
turned and sprang behind a tree,"
says Fewell. ''The next .moment he
started to run, and 1 tired point
blank and I tired to kill, but missed
the man as It was dark. He got
away, but we followed hlstraoks into
the woods for some distance."
Sinoe Sunday night the house has
been oonstantly guarded, day and
night.
Thk "trust-busting" goes on but we
haven't heard of any trust retiring
from business. They seem to have
the nine lives of a cat and when you
think you have the "critter" killed it
V 1 . ^ fMif, I \? r
KL1CT1D OFFICERS.
And the Work Will Now Bo 1'unhcd
to Completion.
The South Carolina Publlo Servioe |
corporation has advanced another
stop in its progress towards beginning
work; in the development of ltB great
enterprise.
The preliminary meeting required
by the statute to be held for tbe purpose
of obtaining subscriptions to tbe
stock and for the eleotlon of the board
of dlreotors and officers was held on
Wednesday of last week at the Kdlsto
building, where the offices of ths l
company have been loosted.
Ths meeting was attended b> a
large number of gentlemen interested
In the enterprise, and the necessary
subscription of 1275,000. required as
a preliminary to the granting of the
o artor, was promptly made, and the
necessary cash payments given to the
treasurer.
The following officers wore elected: H
President, Joseph J. Tlmmes; vloa .
president and general manager, Charles
It Vau Etten; secretary'the treas 1
urer, John P. Honney.
The following directors of the corporation
were elected: Joseph J. Tim
mes, O. R Van Ktten, John P. Honcey,
Joseph Hernial, Lawrence M.
Plckney, John 0. Lott, Dow S. Smith
Frederick W. Sohroeder and Robert
H. Jennings.
The tinal step in incorporating and
perfecting the company's plan for bo
ginning business will be taken Jan.
18, when the formal papers will bo
tiled on the expiration of the satutorv i
notice, and fchn iPC.rntArv nf atufcn ?HU
be naked to issue tho oharier, acoord- i
lng to law.
All tbe directors except Messrs.
Plnokney and Jennings are from New
York, and represent tbe capitalists of
tbat city who are interested In tbe i
enterprise. Mr. Plnokney Is from
Charleston and Mr. Jennings Is from
this city, Tbe company Is now fully
organized and ready lo enter upon
the building of tbe net work of railways
they have in view.
l-iiuorHon Found Guilty.
At Anderson last week tbe jury In
the ease of tbe state vs. Allen Emerson,
oharged with tbe murder of T.
F Drake, returned a verdict of guilty
of murder with recommendation to
mercy Friday night, after deliberating
about one hour. The defendant
displayed little If any emjtion when |
the verdict was read. Thomas Allen
of oouosel for tbe defense gave notice
of intention to apply for a new trial
Emerson, who was a guard on the
county chalngang, killed T. F. Drake j
In tbe borne of tbe latter on the night
of tbe 11th of last August. Emerson
was in tbe room with one of Drake's ]
daughters, and Drake oame In tbe (
room on tbem with his pistol in his
hand. He fired one shot at Emerson, j
who fired two shots, the latter killing .
Drake lnBtantly. The plea was self- ,
defense. Emerson and the woman had
h*Otl Infirm* t-o fn? n?nA?*l J
uwuli lumvono 1U1 DDVD1A1 /OAIB) SIIU
Drake bad forbidden Emerson to come
to the bouse.
Nino Victims.
A dispatch from Noafolk, Va., nays 1
nine victims?seven ohildren and two
policemen?bitten Saturday by a supposed
mad dog, whose brain, after a
miscropic examination, has been pronounced
by the government medical
experts at Washington to have Bhown
signs of rabies, are now in Rlohmond
for Pasteur treatment, having been
sent lience at a cost of 91,200 which
will be defrayed by publlo subscription
now being raised in Norfolk. The
last six victims, children ranging
from four to eleven years, were sent
to Richmond this morning, the other
ohildren having gone on before as a
precaution.
Found l)oad on Itallroad Track,
Thursday a force of section hands
found the body of a dead negro man
at Saxon, a small station this side of
Charleston on the Northeastern road.
The dead man was lying near the
trink and hart a lari/n crash in hl? hat/i
and bis left leg was pretty badly mangled.
He wii well dressed but there
was nothing found about bis clothes
i by wbiob be could be identified, and
it is not known whether be was killed
hy the train or is the victim of foul
play.
Hick Man Murdered.
News reaches Charlotte, N. 0., of
the atrooious murder of John Stamper
by his stepson, Clinton Weaver, in
the Muddy Creek seotion of Ashe
County, N. C., the most remote vllage
of the State. Weaver, while
lntoxloated, entered Stamper's room,
where the latter lay seriously 111, and
cut Stamper's throat from ear to ear,
WIIKn.. WI ? ?
m.iiiiuK uiui iuB??ubijr. rveaver wu
arrested. The orlme was unprovoked.
For Free Distribution.
So much interost has been shown <
in the Williamson method of (trow* <
log oorn that the E'Jwan Fertilizer <
oompany of Charleston has gotten up ]
a booklet, Riving the method in de i
tail, and is seudlnR this V merchants |
for distributions, and will be glad to i
send a copy to anyone who may care
for It and will drop a postal.
Itoslfcnutlon Accepted. <
Governor Ansel transmitted to the
senate the resignation of Judge R. O.
Purdy on Wednesday and asked that
provision be made for the election of '
his successor in the Joint assembly. i
i Thk Kentucky farmer who bought!
a man at public auction and paid a'
t dollar for his services for Ave mq'v 7N
i will probably wish befor
; j through with AM1
WENTTOSTEAL
Lead Pipe But Met Death in a
Water Cistern.
THE COKPSE POUND.
The Negro Evidently Intended to Stent
Lend Pipe, Lout His Balance in
the Darkness nnd Was Drowned.
Woman Pled When
Body Appenred.
The Charleston Post tells of a grualOrne
tind In that city. It says the
jody of William Campbell, a negro
'orty-tive years of age, a wnttewasher
ind thief by occupation, ws.s fouud In
iho olstern of an empty honse, No.
539 ICtat liav street. Wodoeaday
morning by W. H M irray, an old colored
man.
Indications are that Campbell was
?oiog down Into the cistern to steal
lead pips, found the water of a greater
aepth than he thought, lost his
head, and was drowned In the terrible
darkness of the death trap. The water
Id the olstern wu ov';: feet In
depth. Campbell's height was not
much more than this. There Is no
suspicion of foul play in the death of
trie negro.
Old ?nan Murray, who ha* worked
thirty days for Mr. T. G. Main, the
owner of the houH? where Campbell
name to hiB miserable end, was in
charge of whitewash? and cleaners
putting this house into condition for
renting. IIo found the door leading
into the piazza of the house open, and
later discovered that the oistero cover
was off. He nearly fell into the hole
hlmsolf, as the room where the cistern
is, was dark. Murray only saved
himself by olluping on to the door
knob which he held by a luoky chance.
Of oourse the old man was lnate
over the carelessness as he thought of
the women or men under him In leaving
the door open, and the cistern
cover off. They all denied knowledge
of it. Then he took the depth of the
water with an eve to cleaning the cistern
out. Down went the piece of
goard he used, lie came in contact
with something soft. The thing fell
like a body.
Old man Murray was frightened he
pulled the board out of the water,
drove a nail into one ond, and pushed
down again. He bold the excited women
about him to stand baok, while
he pulled heavy thing up. A woolv
head appeared, and further exertion
showed the body of William Campbell.
The women Had screaming. Old
Murray shook like a leaf, and called
for help.
The And was reported to the coroner
and the police. Deputy Coroner
Oonnelley with Policeman Duncan and
/. )aly pulled the body out of the cistern,
and It was sent to the hospital.
Joseph Perry, who was seen with
Campbell Wednesday at the houso was
arrested as a witness.
From what oould be learned It was
evident that Campbell was trying to
steal the lead of the cistern pump.
He had already made way with the
outside pnrt of the pine. Murray said,
and yesterday the pump and /.Ino
about the chimney of the house were
stolen. Campbell must have returned
to the house Wednesday night,
and making his way through the
room leading to the passage way between
the front part of the house and
the kitchen, tried to get Into the olstern.
In the darkness he lifted the
pieces of board and heavy stone from
over the cistern, squeezed through the
narrow hole, and dropped into ohllly
water almost over his head. The Inquest
Into his death was held thii
afternoon at three o'olook at Roper
Hospital.
The lead for which the negro gave
hlS life Wftllld h?.VA Vi*nnnrV??-.
? _ ?>% uiwu^u* uiui iaw
cents from a lunk dealer.
Tried Him Twioe.
At Danville. Va., In the Corporation
oourt Monday tiettle L. Bos well
was granted an absolute dlvoroe from
her husband, John L. Bos well, on the
grounds of oruel treatment and unfaithfulness.
This makes the seoood
time Mrs. Bos well was granted a divorce.
Several years after the first
deoree she married Boewell upon his
promise to do better, but after a few
months It was the same old story
again, she alleged.
Ansel's First Appointment*
The first appointment made by
ur jvornor martin ? . Ansel was that
of John S. Latimer, of Greenville, as
jhlef ojnstable of the State oonstabuary
to succeed U. B. Hamraett, who
resigned some time ago to accept a
position in the internal revenue serrloe.
Over Hundred LWea Lost,
The islands of Leyte and Samar,
were swept by a typhoon on January
10. One hundred lives were lost in
Leyte. Barracks and quarters at East
Pas Samar were destroyed. The storm
was the worst ever known. No damage
to shipping.
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