The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 30, 1909, Image 6
TURNEDLOOSE
Jury Says Jas. S. Farnnm is Not Gaihy of
Charge of Bribery in
ALLEGED GRAFT CASES
"Ikvr1 Kh?g" Knew Another Charge
of Bribery and is Impliented in
Two Other Cases?John Blaek,
Former Dispensary Director, to
He Tried This Week.
James S. Farnuni. on trial at Columbia
for several days on the charge
of bribery in connection with the
alleged dispensary "Graft," walked
from the Iiichland county court
house Saturday afternoon a free man,
the Jury, after six hours deliberation
having returned a verdict of "not
guilty."
lie is charged in several other
indictments, but unless he is tried
along with others on a charge of
conspiracy his case will not come
up at this term of court.
Thus has ended one of the most
brilliant legal combats it) the history
of jurisprudence In South Carolina.
Of special signiilcance is the
fact also that the State has not made
good on the first of the alleged
dispensary graft cases that was
awaited with so much Interest.
The jury took only one ballot
and stood at first 1 1 for acquittal
and one for conviction, according
to the statement of one of the Jurors.
Thn lostm* of t tn? ft rut c:iso will not
deter the State from pushing the
charges against the others that are
indicted according to an intimation
by Attorney General Lyon.
Attorney General Lyon when asked
converning the trial shortly after
the verdict had been rendered by
the jury he said: "I have nothing
to say, the testimony in the case
speaks for itself."
Ho made no definito statement as
to the future action of the State
other than to state that the case
against John Hlack, charged with accepting
a brtbe would very probably
be called on Wednesday. This
statement was made in the court
Saturday afternoon on the request
of Judge Memminger, who had previously
asked that other cases be
tried during next week other than
the "remaining one against Farnum.
Not talking officially, the attorney
general however, intimated that the
first defeat would not deter the
course of the State in reference to
the other indictment in the alleged
dispensary "graft."
When pressed for an official statement.
the attorney general said. "I
have heard It rumored that the jury
declined to bring in a verdict against
the defendant because they would
not convict on the testimony of an
accomplice. If this rule is to be followed
it will always be a practical
impossibility to ever convict one for
bribery, for testimony in such cases
must always come from an accomplice."
The attorneys for the defense were
naturally very much gratified at
the result of the trial. *
EATS FROM HOY'S HAND.
Reptile Nibbles Bread in Fist of
Sleeping Child.
A Chicago dispatch says Mr. J.
Martin Grant, of K. F. I). No. 2,
who was in the city Friday, told of
a thrilling adventure at Mr. A. Ross
Durham's Friday night, in which Mr.
Durham's little son, Charlie, was
subjected to great peril from the
presence of a deadly snake. It
seems that the little fellow had gone
asleep on the porch after supper with
a biscuit in his hand, when Mrs.
Durham who had been attracted to
the porch, was horrified to see a
tremendous highland moccasin nibbling
at the biscuit and endeavoring
to wrench it away. With a scream
she Jerked the boy back and a colored
domestic dispatched tho snake
with a hoe. The reptile was intent
on the bread, and after the child was
drawn away, went quietly on eating
the bread, which had been left on
the floor. *
AUTO TUHXS OVER.
Kills Lady and Catches Fire, Roast
ing ? Man Alive.
One person was burned to death,
another Instantly killed and a third
burned, when an automobile, driven
by John McLendon, ran off an eightfoot
embankment near Americas,
On., on last Friday. McLendon and
Miss Viola Herman, one of his companions,
were pinioned beneath the
wrecked car, which caught fire.
Ethel Ililt, another member of the
party, although severely burned, ran
screaming to Ai.ierlcus two miles distant
to give the alarm. Miss Herman's
neck was broken by the fall
and death was instantaneous, but
McLendon was literally roasted
alive.
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Rsnd the rack track man: "Of
the making of many books there is
1 bo end."
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SCHOOL TAX DKFKATKI>.
The* "Unknown Tongue*" Vote*
AgHinNt Public SchoolH.
A dispatch from Laurens pays
quit? a lively election was held Saturday
at the Look Branch school
in which the advocates of the "Unknown
Tongues" religion played
quite a conspicuous part, winning the
election for themselves, it is alleged
by voting a negro. It is recalled
that this school was the occasion
of considerable public comment some
months ago when the county board of
education dismissed the board of
trustees for employing a teacher who
was not properly qualified and who
consumed much of the school time
teaching the unknown tongue.
The election Saturday was on the
question of voting a social tax for
the schools in that district. All j
those who are believers in the unknown
tongue religion and who withdrew
their patronage of the school
last spring when the old board was
dismissed and a new teacher employed.
were oppose to the tax, according
to the statment of the managers
of the election, who were at Laurens
a few days after and reported the
matter to Superintendent Pitts.
The final vote was a tie, 1 4 to
11, but only after late in the day,
one Preston Plakely, colored, cast
his ballot against the tax. The
proposed levy was therefore defeated.
but another petition will at once
be circulated. However, it is feared
that since one negro voted this
time, doubtless more will be Influenced
at the next election.
WHO WAS Tin: LOSER?
Will Some (i<mh1 MatFnnctlcian Solve
This Problem.
There is an old saying that figures
won't lie, and most of us believe
it, but there are times when they
come mighty close to telling fibs
The problem presented below is a
case In point. Will some one who
is good at solving problems work out
the one below and send us the
answer. Here is the problem:
"A banker going home to dinner
unu' n llfl hill r?n thn purlmlnnp M ?
picked it up, noted the number, find
went home to dinner. While nt
home his wife remarked that the
butcher had sent a bill amounting
to $10. The only money he had was
the bill he had found, which he gave
to her and she paid the butcher.
The butcher paid it to a farmer for
a calf, the farmer to the merchant,
who in turn paid it to a washerwoman
and she owing the banker
a note of $10 went to the bank and
paid the note. The banker recognized
the bill as the one he had found,
and which to that time had paid
$P?0 worth of d<tyts. On careful
examination he discovered that the
lull was counterfeit. Now what was
lost in the transaction and by
whom?"
SHOOTS HIS IHNXKK GUKNT.
?$. F. Iloarclier Resents Upsetting of
Coffee on Tablecloth.
Some of the folks of Lawrenceburg,
Ind., must have queer ideas-about
hospitality. Recently T. F.
Ritzie was Jnvlted to eat dinner
at the home of J. F. Poarcher and
a few minutes after entering the
house he was carried out with five
bullet holes in his body. Ho accidentally
turned over a cup of coffee
on the table cloth and resented
reproval of the act of his host.
Boarchher not his revolver and emptied
the five chambers in Uitzle's
body, and he is now at a hospital
in a dying condition. Boarcher escaped.
People who dine at Boarcher's
must be careful about their coffee.
*
Saw Steamer on Fire.
The British steamer Harlow, Capt.
Bruce, from Newport News on .Tune
14 for Port Natal a*nd Manila, reports
that on July 7, while ISO miles from
Durban, she passed a steamer afire.
The vessel whose name it was impossible
to make out, was shortly
afterward destroyed by an explosion.
It is supposed that this steamier
was the missing British steamer
Waratah, which with BOO persons on
board has not been heard from since
July 2f>.
Woman Brutally Treated.
Attacked in the yard at her farm
homo near Marlton, N. J., and beaten
into insensibility, carried to the
house, gagged, bound hand and foot
and then placed between two bods
on the second floor, Mrs. William II.
Mortland, thirty years old, was thus
brutally treated a few days ngo by
Samuel T.nvflelH n nnurft oinnlnvnn
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of tho farm.
A Woman Farmer.
Mrs. Mary Crowell farms several
hundred acres near llyron, 111., and
makes a specialty of hogs. For six
years she has carried off first prizes
with her hogs In the State Agricultural
Fair, and there are many
good judges who say she raises the
best hoes in Illinois. The other day
she sold a drove of fifty porkers to
n Chicago packing house.
The man who falls never claims
to he a gclf-made man.
JEFFERSON DAVIS
A JI NT TRIBl'TK PAID HIM IIV A
NOHTIIKHN PAPKK.
Comment on the New Huveu Register's
Generous Reply to The News
and Courier's Challenge.
A short time ago It was announced
that the State of Mississippi was
preparing to present a statute of Jef
I
ferson Davis to the Statuary Hall in
Washington as one of the great Mis- j
sixsippians entitled to a place In that
Temple of Fame, says the New Or- J
leans States. Sonic of the news- j
papers of the South, however, ex- ;
pressed the opinion that this step
should come from Kentucky, the
native State of both Jefferson and
Abraham Lincoln, which, if was said,
contemplated presenting together .
the statutes of her two most ill us- |
trious sons. In commenting on the j
project to give the President of the;
Southern Confederacy a place in Stat- i
nary Hall, The Charleston News and
Courier took occasion to express surprise
at the silence of the Rochester,
N\ Y.. Democrat and Chronicle and
also the fact that it had failed to
say something very ugly about the
ma t tor.
The remarks of The News and
Courier were in the nature of a challenge,
which has been accepted by
the New Haven Register with the
declaration that there is something
to say about Jefferson Davis and his
admission to the National Temple
of Fame, and it should l>e said. H
is high time, the Register asserts,
that "the mist which fo?* half a century
has distorted the North's view
oi mis son oi ino tsoiiTii snouni no
c eared away," and that tho man who
in liis day suffered more than - y
other Southerner for the cause In
which he believed, should "cease to
he reckoned a coward and a traitor
and esteemed for what he was?n
brave, true Southern gentleman."
To this statement the New Haven
Register adds the following eloquent
tribute to Mr. Davis:
"Rut the South will never cease
to admire and honor the man of
iron nerve, of dauntless courage, of
ceaseless loyalty, of unsullied honor,
of tireless energy, of peerless chivalry,
who suffered and dared Rnd
all but died for the cause he loved
and lost. Of that host of true men
who gave their best and their all
for the Confederacy because in their
deepest hearts they believed they
were doing right, none were more
sincere than he. Of that multitude
who lined up for the struggle against
their brothers of the North, none
was braver and none was nobler.
His sacrifice was as extreme as it
was sincere, and his treatment by
the victors after the crash came was
sore medicine for a heart that was
breaking.
"It is a century and a year since
Jefferson Davis was horn. I.t Ms
near in nan a century since nis rnuso
was lost. It is twenty years since
his death. What better time could
there be to signify, by the placing
of his statute in the Nation's Capitol,
that in the blood of brothers shed
the Union is forever cemented on
a foundation that standeth sure.
There let his presentment stand,
erect, noble, commanding, impressive,
as he stood in the days when
he was master of the destinies of
half a nation. Let it there remind
the South that it was mistaken and
the North that it misunderstood. Let
it picture a martyr to a cause that
though lost, was not wholly in vain,
since it taught brothers to appreciate
a relatlonsii.p they were in danger
of forgetting."
Twenty-five years ago It would
have been dangerous for a New
England newspaper to pay such a
tribute to the memory of the great
martyr of the Lost Cause, and it
Indicates what tremendous strides
| have been taken toward a completely
reunited country in little more
than a couple of decades. We are
in perfect agreement with the statement
of The News and Courier that
"nothing finer than that has been
done on either side of the old line
of sectional feeling and sectional distrust."
It will be vastly pleasing to
the people of the South, because it
was so unexpected and so magnificently
generous and patriotic. Hut
there is a lesson to be learned from
the tribute, and that is the honesthearted
people of New England are
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vuunj c^'iai ui^ int" nuinr I'llil IUI'*
tor and groat worth of Jefferson davis,
and thoy have the manly courage'
to do him tho justice which has
boon so long denied him by those
who possess neither the sense of righ'
nor the sense of justice.
Killed by Auto.
One man was fatally Injured,
another probably so and twelve other
persons, several of whom were
young women, received painful injuries
Tuesday when a largo automobile
crashed into a farm wagon
containing a straw-ride party from
the Windsor Terraco Methodist
church, Brooklyn, at Avenue I) and
Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn. John M.
Andrews, the chauffeur, of Ridgewood,
died at the hospital; Charles
Cook and Edward Sullivan, policemen,
wero badly injured.
WARNING TO THE PUBLIC
1>H. 1LOEHTON, OF FLOKKNCK,
W1UTKH OF 1'KLCAUltA.
lU-lh'VL's it Can He Communicated
uiul Civet* a Warning in Ilegard to
School Chi idem and Other Matters.
I)r. Ilderton writes an interesting
article on pellagra to the Florence
Times. He pays he seldom appears
in print, but thinks at this time a
few words on pellagra justifiable, as
the physicians only know that there
is a disease called pellagra and but
few physicians have had the opportunity
of see in tr a ease, and n verv
limited number would recognize
pellagra, and the whole people are
much concerned, but like appendicitis.
pellagra is getting worse every
day and the specific cause is not
known to any man. I)r . Ilderton
says:
"1 have never seen an acute attack,
the lesions on the hand, face,
and neck present theroeslves in the
advanced stage of the disease, but
the object of the profession should
be to diagnose the symptoms of this
disease in the early stages and stop
the progress, but if the physicians are
careless and allow the invasion for
a time, what else can we expect but
an advanced stage, when perhaps but
little can be done, like the case at j
the poor farm that died a few days
ago?
"I have under observation and
under treatment three cases at the
present time, three eas-es, all white
and females. I have been treating
one case 16 years, one f> years, one j
about one month. Two cases died,
one on the poor farm, and the oth
er rase from information took typhoid
fever and died. One of the |
eases undor treatment at pros-eat
has a train of peculiar symptoms
for several years, now the lesions
having made their appearance with ,
cerebral symptoms Ordering on in- <
sanity. I have called all the leading
physicians in consultation, by
which wo may better post ourselves.
The other cases under treatment have
improved wonderfully since stopping
them for moating grists and
meal.
"I would so advise that through
the winter months grists and meal
may be a hotter diet than in summer
months. To take up the reasons why,
would take up too much time and
printing. Where you can use the
grain grown at 'home cured property
you had better eat them. I have
seen pellagra and appendicitis in the
same subject and it is certain that
one of the principal causes of appendicitis
is intestinal fermentation,
and it is reasonable to believe that
pellagra is brought on the same way,
but of its on peculiar toxemea.
"I have observed uwd treated pellagra
for 1 or 1 8 years, not knowing
what it was, hut noted that peculiar
type, likewise the hook worm, hut
only a few years ago has it been
known what these two maladies were.
I,et tho physicians trace hack in
their minds how many cases of
youthful and middle age persons who
have died with dropsy. Sencoeythemia.
pernicious anemia, chronic diarroheas.
gastric troubles, constipation
of the bowels, so called Hright's
disease, and the medical sciences r.t
the present time pointing out to
the general practician wherein we
may have been mistaken.
"I believe it is an infectious disease.
and dormant in its first states,
shaking hands with people with the
disease setting some excretion on
your hand that may have a lesion as
putting your finge, in your mouth
may plant the disease in you for
many years before developments,
therefore T commend the returning
home of all pupils in schools with
skin or mouth diseases. There has
been and Is still that tendency to
place nil such diseases and tho causes
thereof to the poor, but let me
Inform you that the cases 1 have
had tho majority of them are well j
to do people. Only two eases being J
ordinarily called poor people. The j
hygiene was fairly good with all the
cases except one, so the rich and the j
cleanly need not think they are ex- |
cepted, but people should know that J
all things must be equal in the world j
and make good.
Now. Mr. Editor, in conclusion !
you will find appendicitis, cancer,
hookworm and pellagra, the scaveng- j
ers and the millions are in the path. I
From time to time will give you |
what information I can iget-, but
watch, leprosy is the great dread, i
but time will prove that pellagra is j
the greatest. Mr. Editor, cat and j
drink to yourself, handle not and
touch not anything unclean, diseas<><1
nr ui\nllc<rl
"Dr. Ilderton."
Woman Dies of Pellagra.
Mrs. Huena Dlnkins died nt. Charlotte.
N. C., Monday morning of pellagra,
the eighth victim of the disease
since its presence was announced
in that community. The woman
was taken ill a year ago, with what ;
p-oemed to be diarrohoa. Later erup
tions appeared on arms, hands, feet j
and ankles, then followed internal .
inflammation and swollen tongue. !
She suffered no pain, hut was emaci- i
ated and very weak. Physicians are
nonplussed. Seven other cases are j
now under treatment.
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CRASH jO DEATH
Four French Aeronants Die When a Mili
tary Balloon Bursts.
A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT
When the Ihilloon IluiM it Was Ovei
Five Hundred Feet High, and Wit I
Knvelope ColU?|>sod Car Speeds
Downward at IJulitiiinf
Crushing Occupants.
There was a most horrible ftcci
.lent over in France 011 Saturday
While passing over the national roac
which leads from Paris to Antihei
at a height of between f>00 and G0(
feet, the French drigible military
balloon, Kepubliquc, exploded Satur
day morning and fell to the ground
The four men on board were killed
They were: Capt. Marchal, Lieut
Phaure and Sub-Lieuls. Vicenot am
Helix.
It was the intention of Capt
Marchal, who wan in charge of tin
airship, to stop at Nevres, and ai
automobile containing mechanicam
was following the balloon. It wai
almost directly beneath it when tin
accident occurred. The car fel
straight down, carrying the flutter
ing remnants of the envelope, an*
the occupants were buried beueatt
the wreckage.
All were dead except Lieut
Phaure, but he lived only a few
minutes after being removed. Tin
bodies were transferred to tin
Chateau D'Averilly, the property ol
the Marquis de Chavalines.
Lieut. Tixicr, who was in the ail
tomoblle, says that the balloon burs!
and collapsed. It seemed to oscillate
violently for a moment prioi
to this, as though it had been struck
and it fell with the rapidity of h
stone. When he reached the wreckage
the car was completely covered
with the envelope and not a sound
came from beneath. With the aid
of Marquis de Chavannes and peas
ants who hurried front the surrounding
fields the envelope was removed
The spectacle was appalling. The
car had been literally crushed, ami
amid the mass of tangled steel and
wire every man except Phaure could
he seen at his post. Capt. Marcha
was in a sitting posture, his bodj
thrown back and his eyes wide open
The bodies of the sub-lieutenant la\
mangled beneath the cylinder of tlu
motor. Phaure's /body was lying
half outside, as if possibly he had
tried to jump during the descent
Apparently the death in the cast
of the three men had been instan
taneous from the shock when thej
p-truck the earth and the weight o!
the heavy rigj^ing above. Capt
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tMciiriirti ? WIVIIII was 11 iioiii ii.
An examination disclosed the cans'
of the accident. Tho axle of tin
right propeller had broken and thf
propeller had passed through the
envelope falling in a Held about Iftt
yards away.
A careful investigation of the accident.
will he hold but tho fact thai
the propeller which was found was
enwrapped with twisted wire is complete
confirmation that it flew of!
and punctured the balloon.
The loss of the Uepublique assumes
the magnitude of a national
calamity, especially as- the French
had come to bellevo that the semirigid
type which is the system em
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rapid progrosa of our County Cor
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isonnhlo uccoimuodnt ion winds- f|\
'v solicit tho accounts of iiuMvidu- /IV
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Cashier. *?
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1 ployed in the construction of their
dirigibles was superior to the rigid
type which has been adopted by
Count Zeppelin of Germany.
President Fallieres aud Gen. Hrun,
minister of war. who were informed
- of the catastrophe while engaged iu
the inauguration of the lirst international
exhibition of aerial locomotion
at the grand palace, were much
affected and left the building immediately.
The president directed
Gen. Hrun to send the condolences of
the government to the families of tho.
victims.
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