The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 03, 1908, Image 3
VOTE IN DETAIL
L (an's Plurality in South Caro- 1
Una Over 58,000.
RETURNS CANVASSED
_____ <
ltryau ami Kern lUnvivod (12,1289
Votes; Tuft ami Shermuu, 8,817;
liugcn ami (iinvoti, 1T>; Debs ami <
Snooks, 191?Spartanburg County ,
Jlittvo the [jurgest Democratic Vote.
?etT
*+errV0*um,)'a' ^ov- :L>*, ?According to
vt\o' ofllci?il returns as tabulated and
declared Monday by the State board
of canvassers, the total vote for the
Democratic electoral ticket at the
election of November 3, 1908, was
62,2 89; for the Republican ticket,
2,847; for the Independence League
ticket, 42, and for the Socialist
ticket, 101. This is a total vote cf
about 67,000, slightly more than
half the total number of votes cast
in the Democratic primary election
in AugiiBt.
The largest Republican vote was
' 'n Orangeburg county, 4 05, with
4!ftrlest.on second, 347; Beaufort,
HMiird, 272; Richland, fourth, 23?;
Berkeley, fifth, 225. This shows
that the strength of the Republican
party in this State is now as always
since the war in the counties where
there is the largest negro population,
the main constituency of the party
in this State being colored.
The largest Democratic vote was
cast by Spartanburg, 4,162; with
Greenville second, 2,77 4; Orangeburg
third, 2,687; Lexington, fourth.
2,508, and Anderson, Laurens and
Marion each casting over two thousand
votes for the Democratic ticket.
Here again the same thing is illustrated?the
strength of the Democratic
party lies principally in the
white counties of the Piedmont, the
same thing being proved by the primary
returns of the primary election.
In the Congressional election, the
largest, vote was cast in the 4th district
and the second largest in the
3rd district, these two districts embracing
the heavy white dount.ies
and the Democratic Congressional
nominees having no opposition.
Electoral Vote by Counties.
Democratic Republican *
Abbeville 1,4 81 9
Aiken 1,9 0 0 4 8
Anderson 2,000 . . .
Hani berg 8 4 8 32
^\lla rn well 1,4 07 8 8
'ilea u fort 522 27 2 1
Herkeley 609 23 5 '
Calhoun 669 54
Chalreston 1,814 34 7
Cherokee 1,506 6 6
Chester 1,368 3 7
Cliesterfield 1,4 58 4 7
Clarendon 1,091 62
Colleton 1,399 91
Darlington 1,279 21
Dorchester S83 103'
Edgefield 1,0 9 7 8
Fairfield 830 12
Florence 1,4 60 2 8
Georgetown 54 4 1 08
Greenville 2,77 4 1 76
Greenwood 1,765 18
Hampton 1,138 ...
Horry 1,2 4 7 56
Kershaw 92 2 4 5
ijunciisier 1*4 wif ?>o
Tjfturens 2,1 <10 61
Deo 903 58
Rexlngt.on 2,508 80
Marion 2,007 91
Marlboro 910 16
Newberry 1,0.81 4 4
Oconee 1,120 172
Orangeburg . . . . 2,087 405
vj Pickens 1,241 50
y Richland 1,75 0 236
, Saluda .. 1,385 8
/ Spartanburg .. .. 4,162 225
Sumter 1,228 175
Union 1,3 89 4 9
Williamsburg .. .. 1,550 1 80
York 1,606 29
Total 62,289 3,847
? hlv. ,91a mfwy mfwypp
Tlisgen and Graves, Hearst's candidates,
received seven votes in
Charleston and seven votes in Greenville;
Dorchester gave them five
votes. in no other county did th "
n receive over three votes. Their total
tol/ vote was forty-five in the State.
Delis and Snooks, Socialist, got
nearly all their ninety-seven votes
in Charleston, Greenville, Richland
and Greenwood, which counties seem
to he Socialists headquarters in this
State.
The Congressional Election.
In the Congressional election tinlargest
Republican vole was cast in
the 7th district, where Richardson,
the Republican candidate, received
908 votes, against 9,950 for Congressman
Lever. The justly celebrated
Aaron Prioleau, the Republican
candidate in the 1st district,
received 631 votes, against 5,759 ioi
Congressman Legaro.
The vote (by Congressional districts
wns as follows:
1st district. Legare, Prioleau.
\ Berkeley 622 211
Charleston 1,808 217
Clarendon .. .. ...1,037 73
Colleton 1,399 51
Dorchester 893 79
Total 5,759 631
2d district Patterson. Myers.
Aiken 1,950
Bamberg 872 26
Beaufort 2559
Famwell 1,424 27
ttdgefleld 1,103 ...
Hr iptou 1,148 ...
Saluda 1.3 9 1 5 j
Total 8,4 4 S 58
3d district Aiken
Abbeville 1,4 86
Anderson 2,970
Ureenwood 1,7 75
Newborry 1,662
Oconee 1,083
IMckeua 1,298 ,
Total 10,27 4
4th district Johnson.
Greenville 2,991
Laurens 2,078
Spartanburg 4.32 4
Union 1,113
Total 10,8u0
5th district. iuley. I
Cherokee 1,519 <
Uuestor 1,3 7 2 ^
Chesterfield 1,668
Fairfield 6ui '
Kershaw 9oJ 1
Lancaster 1,7 4 3 |
York 1.611
Total 9,4 68
6th district. Kllerbe.
Georgetown o 4 >
Florence 1,5 2 S
Horry 1,288 j
Marion 2.0;;:;
Marlboro 9 16 ,
Darlington 1,2?>..
Willainsburg 1,4 4 1
Total 9.03 5
7lti 1
...a ivi, 1J\ 1 \ 1 . I Vl\ il(ll VIOUil |
Lexington 2,5 4 9 86
Lee 9 06 68
Orangeburg 2,7 10 38S
Kichland 1,819 18T> ,
Calhoun 075 94
Sumter 1,231 177
Total 9,959 998
10XDS ?II1S 1,1 FM.
Well Known Sumter Mini Commits
Suicide by Shooting.
A special dispatch to The Stale
says the citizens of Sumter were
shocked early Friday morning by
the discovery that Mr. \\ . A. Mi: I
Ilwaine had taken his own lift i
yesterday by shooting himself in
Ihe mouth in a small house at the I
rear of O'Donnel & Co.'s store. M \ 1
Mcllwaino had been missing from i
his home since 10 o'clock yeste?l:i
v ninrninir i l,< I i,? > , ? ?? '
>. vy >| l?r). 1 l\ 111 (1 *?11* I I
manner before leaving home. De i
left his watch and keys at home and i
look his revolver with him. t
No trace of the missing man could 1
be had and suicide was feared, as i
lie had been very despondent of late t
^ver his continued ill health. This I
morning his body was found. I
.Mr. William A. Mcllwaine was <
horn and reared in Sumter countv i
and was one of Sumter's most highly j
respected and dear citizens and he I
was among the last who would have ]
boon suspicioned of taking his own
life. He was 40 year of age. He j
was in the employ of O'Donnoli ]
Co. for years and was one of their
most popular and trusted men in <
their dry goods department.
He was a man of affable dispo- |
sition and courteous address and had i
hundreds of friends who were pained '
md shocked at his untimely and
tragic death. Ho is survived by h:-?
wife, who was Miss Fannie McKagen (
of Sumter, and one child. Doceased
was a very consistent Chris
tian and a church man; regular in
his habits and sober and refined ,
and cultured and a man of hign
integrity.
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WItKCK TO BK KAISHI). (
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Federal Warship Sunk During the
I
War to he Ilcmoved.
Charleston, Nov. 24.?The wreck
of the famous Federal warship
Housatonic is to he removed from if*
position near t ho mouth of Charleston
harbor. Iiids have been submit- ^
ted to the United States engineers
department for the removal. The <
Federal ship was sunk by the torpedo
boat David which slipped through
the inlet between Sullivan's Island (
and Tsle of Palms in the early morning
and sunk the big ship. The lit- (
tie boat was sunk in the explosion
and her gallant crew were all lost ,
in the mere shell of a craft in which
they were enclosed.
MOHS COMK Mldll.
Spartanburg Trouble Cost Over One
Thousand Dollars. i
Columbia, Nov. 26.?The State* ,
says the pay warrants for the mem- (
hers of the militia who were on duty
at. the time of the near-riot in
Spartanburg when an attempt was
made to lynch John Irby, have been
sent out by Adjutant General Boyd.
The total expenses of the department
amounted to $1,375, which included
the pay for the companies at Spartanburg,
Clifton and Laurens. The
authorities consider the money well
spent, however, as the majority of
the members responded promptly
and had it not been for the guards
there would have undoubtedly been
further bloodshed.
It's usually the things you haven t
that would seem to make life worth
living.
OFFICER SLAIN
Und Three Negroes Were Quietly
Strung Up for the
DASTARDLY CRIME
l'hroo llrothors Kohistc^i Aimt for
IHsturhiug l'uhltc Wocvhip, Kill* j
ing Onu OiYiccr autl
Wounding Another? Murderers
Uuught, Tried ttutl KxeruttMi.
Union City, Tenn., Nov. 24.?Tha
llttlo town of Tiptonvillo, bordorlng
:>n Heel Foot Lake, which has 1k?mi
the scone of many stirring incidents
the past month, witnessed tlit* hanging
late this afternoon of three n *groes
who were arrested this morning
for murdering Special Deputy
Sheriff Richard Rurrnss, and fatal'?
wounding Johu Hall, a deputy
sheriff.
The negroes names are Marshall
Stlnebeck, Edward Stlnebeck aad
Jim Stlnebeck. The brothers created
a disturbance at a religious meeting
near Tiptonvillo Saturday night,
and when the two officers went, to
arrest them, a fight ensued in whle.i
the negroes shot down the oUlcers
and made their escane.
It was barely daylight Sunday
morning before a posse of citizens
from Tiptoiiville aiul the surrounding
country were in pursuit of the negroes,
hut they successfully eluded
the white men until S o'clock this
morning when they were surrounded
and captured in a little swamp near
the village of Uidgely.
Once captured, the murderer*
were quietly landed in Jail at Tiptoiiville.
The news of their capture
spread rapidly to the surrounding
territory and in addition to several
hundred members of the posse men
began arriving by every road and
soon the jail was surrounded by a
mob which had no hesitancy in
threatening a lynching quickly and
surely.
In fact It was feared at noon that
the best towns people could not present
the lynching from taking place
11 broad daylight.
One of the first citizens to moun*
he steps of the jail and make an ap
)eai to the mob was J. T. Hurneti,
i well wnown lawyer. He recalled |
lie recent night rider outrages which
iac^ disgraced the vicintiy. He adnonlshed
his hearers not to do anyhing
desperate, and to let the law (
ake its course, at the same time
iromising that full justice would be
lone the throe black men. This
net with a long growl of disapproval
and Mr. Burnett, evidently seeing
that his remarks were of no aval-, ,
lileaded with the men that if they
were determined to lynch the negroes
to at least await until night
had fallen.
Taylor Hall, a brother of the
wounded deputy sheriff, followed Mr.
Burnett. He said in effect that a
postponement of the lynching until
night would be satisfactory to him.
The mob, however, was very restless
and it was soon seen that i'.
would be impossible to stem the tide
of feeling.
As a last resort S. .T. Caldwell
a townsman, and Sheriff Haynes
went before Justice Lee Davis and
explained the situation, tolling of th"
menacing attitude of the crowd,
which thronged the streets leading
Lo the jail. Justice Davis agreed lo
open his court at once, and at X
o'clock summoned a jury of 12 men
and allowed the negroes, after all
evidence that could be adduced wiuheard,
to he duly sentenced to death.
Meanwhile Governor Patterson
w<m cm\ iist*<i dv iciopnone or the situation
and ordered a company ol
militia in this city to porceed with
till haste to secure the negroes and
conduct them to a place of safety.
The troops were started at once,
I)ut failed to arrive in time to prevent
the hanging.
At the trial only the evidence of
those who had seen the killing was
heard, and in an incredibly short
Lime the ease was given to the jury
who, in a few minutes, returned a
verdict of guilty and fixing the penalty
at death.
The sentence had barely been passed
on the three negroes when the
mob, with a whoop and a yell,
swarmed into the court room, and
seizing the negroes, rushed them *.o
a large tree near the edge of town
and hanged them, firing volley aff r
volley into the air as the bodies wore
J raw 11 up from the earth.
SCAltKD TO DEATH.
A Woman's Heart Htoppcd When
She Saw a Mouse.
Florence, N. J., Nov. 24.?Miss
Mary Mead died Sunday evening
from fright at the sight of a mouse.
Miss Mead saw her pet cat was
bringing in a mouse. Shrieking, she
leaned over to draw up her skirts
Suddenly she stood up, complaining
of a pain in her heart. In less than
a minute she was dead. The attending
physician said she had succumbed
to valvular heart trouble,
death being hastened by fright.
TEACHERS MEETING
an imsially im i:iu:sti\<;
PKOGILVM A lilt A
Sovonil Prominent KducntorN ami
Patrons of l-lducntion Will Atldrcns
tho Association.
Tho next meeting of the Stat1
Teachers' Association will be held
in Columbia, December 30 and 31.
und January 1, and it promises t?
break all records for attendance.
Holiday rates will be in force, an i
it is expected that every live teacher,
principal and superintendent in th
Statu will be present.
The program of the general sessions
and the several departments
have been practically completed and
will be published in about tpii days.
Rome of the best speakers in South
Carolina have consented to maVe addresses,
among whom are Senator
11. it. Tillman, Dr. S. C. Mitche :,
President of tlie I'niversity of South
Carolina; Col. O. J. Bond, superintendent
of the South Carolina Military
Academy; Rev. J. Henry Harms,
President of Newberry College1; Superintendent-elect
Judge George \V.
Gage, of Chester; Dr. William Burdell
and other well known pubiic
men and educators. Miss Nance of
the School Improvement Association,
has just secured the consent of Prof.
P. P. Clnxton, of the University of
Tennessee, to make the leading address
before that organization.
Besides the general program of
the association, each of the affiliateo
organizations and departments have
arranged attractive programs.
Superintendent O. B. Martin, of tinAssociation
of Columbia; Prof. \V.
iv. Tate, head of the Association of
Town and City Superintendents; I >r.
P. II. Moll, president of the Association
of Colleges; Miss Minnie Mac
Peat, president of the Kindergarten
Association, and Miss Pope, president
of the primary department, have a ;
secured the best available material
for their respective programs.
The halls and lobbies of the State
House will be used for the occasion.
The school exhibit will he displayed
in the lobby on the second floor,
and here also will be located the
headquarters of the asociation,
where each teacher is requested to
report upon arrival and secure a
membership card and badge.
Tl.? - " ...
I in- HIX|IUUII will IK' I I'lKIP rP(I tilt""
visiting: teachers by the teachers of
the schools and colleges of Colninhia.
Thursday afternoon, December 30,
in the lobby and library. Music will
form tin interesting part of each
evening program. Misses Nance and
Sol by have been appointed {it the
head of the committee of the afternoon
reception and music, while Col.
A. R. Ranks heads the general reception
committee. Although the
crowd will he largo ample accommodations
{it reasonable rates lists
been provided. Col. Ranks will take
pleasure in armnging hoard in {id- I
vance for sill who will write hi in.
TWO LAWYERS SCRAP.
C. C. Featherstone ami C. I*. Sims
Fight in Open (Viiu-t.
Columbia, Nov. 2a.?The time of
the State board of canvassers was
taken up Monday with the hearing
of contests in the Laurens dispensary
election case, and the election
in the 1st, 2nd and 7th Congressional
districts.
The Laurens contest was the principal
thing before the hoard in importance
{ind tho argument of counsel
became {it one point acrimonious
and led to a personal encounter between
the opposing counsel, C. C.
Featherstono, of Laurens, and C. P
Sims, of Spartanburg. During the
argument of Mr. Sims, representing
the contestant, he referred several
times to the "crazy Prohibitionists,'
who, he said, could not see the facts
except in their own way, intimating
it seemed, that they were so blinded
by prejudice as not to be able ic
tell the truth, lie was referring par
tlcularly to the meeting of citizens
held at the call of the supervisor
to ascertain whether onefourth
the number of voters had
signed the petition for an election.
Mr. Featherstono, representing the
Prohibitionists, requ sted Mr. Sinu
to ptielc to the record and discontinue
his references to the "crazy Prohibitionists."
Mr. Sims replied thai
he would settle with Mr. Featherstone.
outside afterwards, whereupon
Mr. Featherstono said he would hi itle
right then, and the two attorney:;
wore Instantly in combat. Both an
heavy of build and muscular. Mr.
Featherstone, In . his youth, having
boon a base bnll player of note; and
the light, though short, was vigorous
When the two were separated, M.\
Sims was bleeding about the face and
Mr. Featherstone had a slight bruise
on his neck. Both apologized to the
board.
Killed by Train.
Pittsburg, Nov. 2i?.?During a
dense' fog Monday, Miss Lillian McKce,
supervisor of art in the Northside
High School, was instantly
killed and W. S. Bell, a well known,
wealthy photographer, seriously injured
by a fast passenger train at
Rossliuo station, a suburb.
PEOPLE KILLED
By Tornadoes in Northwestern
Part of Arkansas.
TOWNS DEMOLISHED
Stricken Arm holnlrd and I Mails
I '
of t Ik* Disaster Hard to < <-(, j
Itut Meagre l{c|H>rls Marly Moudia , 1
1
Indicate t.reat Dost rut t ???n of <
Lives and l*ru|?ei'ty.
Fort Smith, Ark., Nov. 26.?Ac- '
t
cording to meagre reports received '
Monday night from a score of towns
in northwestern Arkansas, 2a pet- ,
sons were killed, aO injured in \ i
tornado which swept through a strip *
of country two miles wide and 7t? :
miles long. The force of the storm j
was greatest near Ozark, Ark , tlm
small town of (iravens, four miles
west, being wifted out.
Four persons were killed there and
three fatally injured. The dead are
Mr. and Mrs. John Rosin and two
children. The injured are Dr. and
Mrs. Hill, who were caught in tin'
collapse of their house and crushed
A grocery in which several persons
i ..o. a? > ' *
iiim-ii i < i !!*,? mown m piccr and
all (ho occupants were injured
Dr. (). Orokor, c?r I,enall, Ark., was
slightly hurt. Three men, two women
and three children are reported
missing from (leavens.
At Knoxville, Ark., the storm
crossed over the Arkansas river at
(lie mouth of Pine Creek, demolishing
everything in its path. Twenty
persons were injured and several are
reported missing.
Calls for doctors have been s? nt
from Parr. Physicians went to tne
stricken town on a handcar. Parr is
almost destroyed. The country between
Knoxville and Par is in waste
and farm houses are shattered. The
path of destruction in some places is
four miles wide.
The damage at Perryville was confined
mostly to stores and churches.
The storm came up from the west
at 2: 1 a o'clock and lasted hut a few
minutes. The Methodist church was
wreck (1 and the parsonage was dam
aged.
I 'l*h?? lOnUlot ,.l. ?. ?
. ... i'iii'vici > mill u ril|llMit WilS
blown 1 T?0 foot away. A telegram
from Knoxvlllo, Ark., states that the <
tornado passed through Uussellvlllo
and killed If* persons and injured
a score. This report cannot be confirmed.
i
All means of communication were <
destroyed and only Indefinite reports ]
have as yet been reported from din- i
tricts visited by the tornado. From |
latest reports received, at least 30 ,
lives were lost. The property loss ,
will reach hundreds of thousands |
of dollars. ,
According to advices received the
storm was at its h,eight when it
swept through Piney, a (Jerman set- ;
tlement on the Iron Mountain Railroad
between Knoxville and London
Late reports from Russellville, the
nearest town with which communication
can bo had is that between 1 (i
and 13 persons were killed and 30
injured at that place.
Five lives are also reported to
have been lost 10 miles from Mulberry.
Practically all telegraph and
telephone lines in western Arkansas '
are prostrated. Only at an earlj
hour Monday wore several lines put
in operation and those carried only
unsatisfactory reports of conditions
in the western portion of the State.
1)1 I-:L TO T1110 I >10 ATI I.
Two Women flight Over a Trival
Family AfYair.
(Jainesville, Mo., Nov. 24.?A duel
to the death with knives was fought
Saturday l?y Mrs. James Crahtree an 1
Mrs. Frank Graham, .sisters-in-law,
in a lonely spor in tiie Ozark woods,
southwest of Gainesville.
Mrs. Graham's throat was cut, dying
instantly, and Mrs. Ciabtree is
in custody. The place and hour
were fixed, and the sisters-in-law met
alone according to appointment, on
a lonely mountain-side and fougiu
out their duel.
Th y had quarreled some days ago,
following a trival dispute over fam- i
ily affairs, and one challenged the
other to meet her at the spot where
the killing occurred. The two worn
en were well known in the commu- 1
nity and the du 1 will probably result
in further trouble.
CI If IT IV 'PI 11.' in.' ">
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An Actor Killed While Acting as
William Tell.
London, Nov. 2d.?Herbert Lee, a
music hall porfomror, (lied In tlrs
city Tuesday from the effects of a
wound in the head received during
a performance of a "William Tell"
act at a local hall last night. Lee
had a ball on his head at which
Madame Clementine shot at at a distance
of f?0 feet. Madame Cleme\?
tine surrendered to the police. Mr.
Loo had boon given this act for a
period of IS yen? ? without having
met with any accident.
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THE BOOOLE FUND
ItAIMKI) It V Til K KKPI'HLICAN
CAMPAIGN COM MI r r K K.
Total Amount of Money Admitted
to Have IWmmi Csed Over One
Million and a Half Dollars.
Albany, N. Y., Nov. 2d.?(Jeorge
It. Sheldon, treasurer of the Ke
ublican National campaign Comniftee
Monday tiled the list of contrIbutlonH
for the recent national
Minpaign. It shows 12,330 conributors,
many of them covering \
vumber of lesser contributions. The
otal amount contributed was $ I.' 79.078.27.
The names of individual contributors
are given without specifying adIress
or locality, this being the
method of entering them when re elved,
but addresses have be* n inserted
as far as available.
The following are the names of tho
larger contributors:
$110,000. C. IV Tuft, Cincinnati.
$34,777. Union League, New York.
$22,500, Union League, Philadelphia.
$25,000, Larz Anderson, Boston,
(?. A. (Jarretson, treasurer.
$20,000, Andrew Carnegie, New
York.
$20,000, J. I\ Morgan. New York.
$15,000, Alex. Smith Cochran,
.New York.
$15,000, J. N. Bagley, Chairman.
M ichigan.
$15,000, Win. Nelson Cromwell,
New York.
$10,000, M. C. I >. Borden, New
York.
$10,000, Frank A. Munsey, N? w
York.
$10,000, Fred I'. Smith, Michigan.
$10,000, ICdith Agnes Corbln,
Washington.
$10,000, W. J. Bohan, treasurer,
Washington.
$0,000, S. Vail and associates
Washington.
$!i,000, II. N. Coo, Chairman.
$7,500, Mark T. Cox, Now York.
$7,000, It. C. Korons, St. l.ouis.
$0,000, Win. Barl)Our, Paterson.
MFMOIUAI, TO < AltM.W K.
"ionu? Admirers I'ay Tribute to the
Dead Statesman.
Memphis, Tonn., Nov. 2-1.?John
Sharp Williams, United States s<>nitor;
former Senator Thomas II.
Turley and ether friends and admirers
p:ii<1 tributes to the memory
if the late Senator Carinack at a
monster memorial service held a*
the Jefferson theatre Sunday afternoon.
At the conclusion of the exercises
iesolution? were adopted inlorsing
the cnuae for which the "doparted
shed his martyr's blood," con
looming lawlessness in the State,
and calling upon the authorities
"to bring to justice all the conspirators
who aided and abetted in the
foul assassination."
SAW TWO PftKKI DENTS SIIOT.
Hie Unique Experience of Mr. E. n.
Kennedy.
Alton, III., Nov. 24.?E. S. Kennedy,
of East Alton, has sworn oft
calling on presidents for he is probably
the only man in the t'nited
States who has seen two presidents
of the United States assassinated.
When President (Jarfleld was shot b>
Charles CJiteau Mr. Kennedy was
standing within a few feet of t ae
chief executive and ran to his aid.
"I was right on the spot when
President McKinley \va- assassinated.
I was in the line of people who were
shaking hands with the president.
I saw a fellow with his arm in a
sling. I was looking right at hlin
when ho shot the president.
"I didn't see Roosevelt just beP!|
IICO I '> ?j f i'mI.I I - * 1
- . ...... miitiii i uii&iii ? v .t 1101 ner
president, killed."
MACHIVK i:.\ I'liODMS.
One Man Kille<l and Four Women
Hadly Hurt.
Chicago, Nov. 2 0.?One man may
lie and four women have Miffored
serious injuries ns a result of an explosion
of a moving picture machine,
causing a fire and panic in a flvo
cent theatre Monday right.
Nick Maros. r?n?>r;?tnr r*t ~
- , %'l *41 XJ II |?l ~
chino, may dto. Grace Norman,
Agnes O'Connell, Mrs. Jerry Dailoy
and Pauline Hampton were badly injured.
The theatre was crow<V ' with a
large Sunday night audZ-noe when
the film suddenly took fire and the
picture machine exploded. The entire
front of the theatre was in
flames. The property damage was
slight.
Finds (lis Life.
Florence, Nov. 2G.?John Haines,
3;? years old, ended his life wit.h a
shotgun Monday. Mr. Haines lived
about six miles from Florence. Ho
had just returned from a trip to
Florida, where he had expected to
locate. He leaves a widow and several
children.