Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Vf* =; A mm PLUNGE h .< / A Huge Touring Car Coes Into River, Drowning Several 4T V F- * HEAR WOMEN SCREAM 3r ~~ A* the Huge Automobile Leaped From the Bridge While Going ai High Speed, and iu the Mud . Under the Water Willi Its Otcupants. f ' %t Search for the bodies of the ocl, ,-cupants of the automobll) which plunged into the Chicago ; ivoi at the east approach of the Jackson Boulevard bridge Sunday night, was resumed Monday by members oi* the > police force at the city lire boats. They were aided in their efforts by a diver in the employ of the city. * The identity of the victims, and the number of persons who lost their lives, however, are still unknown. was at llrst thought that the / tif-x^titomobile belonged td James K. 'Cosgriff, of Salt Lake City, Utah, l-v'yr* who left the Congress hotel with a ' ijk''s'party of friends ft short time before 9.^ the accident ocurred, on the way to JP^r-.the Union station, but it was later ( V" l^Srned that the Cosgriff party was ^ Baio and that the machine belonged yf to J. \V. Schrefller. It is said to be one of two machines he lias for hire and was in charge of Ernest Camp. *t; $ir-. Schrelller was unable to locate the car today, and feared that the Machine belonged to him. The car. it is claimed, was hired j Vfc)in the saloon of William KraejKP'r, on Van Huron street, but it ]ff*as impossible to learn who wore the .^occupants. The car was traced by Sf its number, 12o0 Illinois?which was Undiscovered by a driver during the I Jppight. r The most plausible theory regardlug the accident now is that Camp, , whose stand was at Van Huron street Michigan avenue, had been enJ* gaged by a party to make a sightseeing trip of the city and that while on the way to the west side "of the city had driven the car into ? the river. Camp's home was in the > squth side and it was learned that - "his mother was expected here next week to live with him. The accident is similar to two preXl vious ones which have occurred here w^ithln the last few years and which fresulted in the loss of four lives. (>n August 17, 1904, a car containing a woman and three men plunged f'DV^r the south abutment of the Rush & street bridge. All were rescued, but L ouo of the victims subsequently died. The following year a car containing five persons went into the river at the same bridge from the north side, k Throe of the party were drowned, ir The touring car plunged into the river at Jackson boulevard from the & '-east approach of the bridge shortly after 10 o'clock Sunday night while the bridge was turned. A man and Z \ *. a woman were seen to come to the surface and float down-stream, the -r-" ' man endeavoring to save the woman y,, *' 'by carrying her on his back. After ' drifting more than a block both sank I 'Jf nr 11K Iiil'I /)nu,ialpinor ppinc for Imln r* + t* mi moi tiv oj/uu \y i iv. o iv/t uvi|/, ?/ / That three others, perhaps four went down with the automobile is the belief of the bridge tenders at the bridge at Jackson and at Van.//>buren street and of other witnesses iof the tragedy. The other victims, It is believed, are under the ma 'ohine at the bottom of the river. "It was speeding at 2T> miles an hour and when it struck the water, dove , Into the mud on the river bed. ' The screams most clearly distinguishable as the big ear went over "are declared by witnesses to have I been those of women and the conviction was reached by them that i more than two of the occupants of *Vthe automobile were women. The Limousine prevented the occupants ^ being clearly discerned as the car (kished up. *" .Dr. Adolph E. Bertling, who had k stopped in his automobile at the abtrtment of the bridge when he ' heard the signal for the bridge to reopen, saw the accident. "When the bridge opened,' said ^Dr. Bertling. "I saw a big touring car approaching, but could not tell how many occupants wore in the car. The driver failed to slow up and I called, frantically to him to stop. I Either he did not honr me, or he I nnnM not Htmt t ho c.'ir. for :i second r later tho machine toppled over the ^ 1 edge of the abutment. Then I heard screams. "I am certain that I saw two men and a woman struggling in the waH ten. I ran for policemen, but could And none. When I returned to the I h'cene ihe bodies that had come to ^^ athe surface had drifted down the * Ivor and people on the passing boat had, alarmed the bridge tenders, one of whom threw out life preservers, II but it was too late." t. Colleton County Election. Jr In the primary election for mem^^ ^her of the house of representatives, held in Colleton county Tuesday, 23 out of 30 boxes gives: I). H. Towles, 341; II. L. Smith, 349; W. ^ j C. Brant, 221. The other seven box?s can not alter the result and v Messrs. Towels and Smith will run over, "ir rW U-L BOY SHOOTS OLD MAN ] WILLIAM M. IHBY SHOT DOWN A BY YOUNG 1* ABBOT MILAM. There Seems to llave Been Trouble lk't\vo?ni Mr. Irby and the .Milam Family for Some Time. At 6 o'clock Sunday afternoon on the public road oa>t of Laurens, Wil: I in 111 M. Irby, was seriously, though j not necessarily fatally, shot by Pur! rr.t VI i 1 ;l 111 fi vnnno U'liit.i ??> >>, t lifl j son of J as. Milam of the county. ** The entire load of shot from a doublebarrel breech loader took effect in | the face and head of Mr. Irby, fear- | I fully tearing the scalp and fraetur- ,] i ing the skull slightly. It is not \ 'thought that any of the shot entered v the head and the chances of recovery (| ! are good, although at this time it is j j impossible to state the outcome. ; Young Milam was arrested by ^ i Sheriff Owens a short w hile after the s j shooting; he was met in the road near his home. Milam is in jail s awaiting the result of the wounds. t It is possible that bail will be ap- , plied for before .judge Ship. It seems that there has been bad f I blood between Mr. Irby and the Mil- c am family for some time. Sunday afternoon, Mr. Irby was returning j I from Sunday school with his little f I girl in the buggy vith him. As they \ were passing the Milam home, young j Parrot Milam came walking out of j the house with his shotgun in hand. , "Don't shoot mv child." said Mr. j Irby, bending slightly sideways to ( j shield the child from the leveled I gun. Milam fired and the load was N | received in the face and head. Mr. , lrbv is receiving careful medical at- j ! tention and there may be a chance ! for recovery. I Mr. Irby is familiarly known . {among his friends as "Dig Dill," he , | being a powerful man ami of unusual ( : largo size. Ho is the son of the late .las. lrby, and a nephew of the lat<* ? Senator .lolin L. M. lrby. He is a s substantial fanner. Milam is a ( j young man, possibly 2 0 years of j age. KIM,Kl> BY TIIKH: Al TOS. \ a Prominent Business .Man of Atlanta }j 1 is the Yiethn. K At Atlanta automobile week claim- h ed its first victim Monday night, 1 when Harvey L. Anderson, a promi- c nent business man and president of the Anderson Hardware Company, a was run over by three cars and kill- h ed. The man was not dead when v picked up, but died shortly after t being "ushed to the St. Joseph's Infirmary. He never regained con- >' sci-ousness. t Mr. Anderson's wife was an oc- >i cupant of one of the cars which ran over him. She had been tit the an- ^ tomobile show as the guest of Mr. h F. J. Seely, the publisher of the At- a lanta Georgian, and Mrs. Seely. Mr. Anderson could not go, owing to a pressing business engagement which kept him late at the store. H His work finished, Mr. Anderson went honu\ and not finding his wife there, concluded that she had gone home with the Sonifwycnifwyfwypp to walk over to their house on c Peaohtree street and, it seems, was 0 walking in the middle of the street ^ when the accident occurred. Harvei K Hill, a well known attorney, was (' the first person to identify the iniured man. It wns in Mr UiU'w auto that ho was carried to the in- c firmary. ? ? ? c HIIIXGS IIKit A IIISUANI). " t fi Wo<ls Man Who Found ller ( aid in ( Case of Whiskey. t s A romance which began three . vears ago when .Miss Beatrice Atkin- ? it son of Windsor was employed in the s bottling room of the Walkerville distillery culminated at Detroit, Mich., ? the other night when she became the bride of George (J. Kenick, of Green (l Castle, Ind. In a spirit of fun and j partially as a result of a dare from a number of her girl friends, she placed a card bearing her name in a case of whiskey. The prank was nearly forgotten. ^ About two years ago Miss Atkinson received a Itter from Kenick. soliciting correspondence. Several month later Kenick called on Miss > Atkinson, and when he left for his t home the young lady informed her *> friends that she was satisfied with p the result of the episode. 8 The marriage has been expected a for some time, and the announce- j ment did not come as a surprise to v] her friends. Immediately after the t ceremony the newly wedded couple t left for Green Castle, where they r will make their home, the groom v being employed there as a carriage n I builder. IK1 ? ? X Out on Largo Itimd, r Charles L. Warriner, the Cincinnati treasurer of tho Big Four railroad, whose alleged shortage in accounts created a sensation, was re- r leased on $20,000 ball. Detoctlvos i are looking for the persons named j by Warriner in connection with the r shortage. t Any girl with ruby lips and gold- r en hair ought to be a treasure worth j striving for. t FOUND IN ALLEY i Young Woman's Desperate Fight for Her Life Did Not Save Her MURDERED BY BRUTES tits of Tom Cloth Tell Pathetic Story of the Voting Woman's CJallant ltut I'navailing Struggle to Save llcr Life and Her Honor in a Dark Alley. . ,iv I v; (,1 rill I'M lll'llll'iu ill V. ill TO. llnois, over tho finding of the dead tody of a young white woman in a lark alley of the eity. evidences hat the young woman, whose name cas Annie Ivl.t}, who workul in a Iry goods s'.o'e, fought terv'flenily >efore succumbing to brutal assailmts Tuesday r'ght was diso>v_>red Vednesday by the police in trying to olvo her murder. By means of bits of torn clothing trewn along an alley, children found ter d'shgured body. These t.iuie videnees of the girl's love life ind purity showed that she lo ight igainst murderers for a eity block >r more. Her light was destined to be a osing one, for the slayer had earaully prepared a gag and heavy ?dcth )ands with which her cries were stiled and her strength overcome. .Miss Vlley was a country girl of rather inusual strength and the police brieve that more than one person ataeked her. The victim of the crime was 2 1 ears old. She went to Cairo a few nontlis ago from Anna. 111., and was iving with a married sifter. Be ause of ln-r frequent habit of spendng the night with girl friends, no ear was felt by her relatives when diss Pel ley failed to return home he night before. She was on her way to take a ear or home from work in a dry goods tore when last seen by friends, and arly in the evening, probably 12 lours before the body was found. Miss Pel ley had with her 11 yards if red cloth for a dress, and an aligator hand bag, both of which re missing. Her parasol was found tent and the handle was missing, "he band used by the assailant re emDii'S a slip noose and may have eon thrown about the girls nock ike a lasso. The gag had been arefullv prepared from a towel. Four negroes, one a woman, were rrested and placed in jail. Different loodhounds followed a trail to the ,'oman's home on eight successive] rails. Mayor George Parsons offered .? eward of $1,000 for conviction of he slayer, and a fund is subscribes by citizens. The latest evidence indicates that liss Pelb*y was attacked in front of or home and dragged nearly a block ml a half to the alley. ? ? ? MFPKWI, KXPKKTS HAFFLKI). ly the Strange (?sc of a Young Man of Virginia. A Richmond dispatch says medial experts are Interested in the ase of nineteen-year-old Aubrey Wilson, of Nottoway county, Yirinia, who is totally blind in the ay but can see like a cat in the ark. This young man can speed a biynle when the night is so dark that rdinarv people have to walk with | aution, hut in the day he gropes] bout, able only vaguely to distin;uish any object, and with no (lis-1 riinination as to colors. Because of his peculiar infirmity, ho young man is noted as a "posum hunter." He can distinguish he aniamls in the trees in toe dark s readily as a dog can follow the cent. All his life Wilson has suffered rom this defect. He says it grows in oi loo much light entering the yo. It is called the "albino eye," i? says. All) ITHKIUTI/OSIS WAR. forth Cafolina 1'reaohors Asked to Deliver Sermons. Every minister of the State of forth Carolina has been appealed o l>y I)r. Chas. A. Julian, assistant secretary for the State board ' of loalth, to preach a special health erinon 011 the subject of tuberculois on Sunday, November 28. I)r. ulian asks the Ministers to stir ip the people of North Carolina to ho dangers of the white plague and o explain to them how this fatal nalady may be wiped out by proontive measures. Hy riveting the ittontlon of all clnss?*s upon this ne subject on the same day he hopes o introduce a "new and iefTective nethod for fighting the disease. ? ? ^ Jumped Oft' tl?e flattery. A whit? woman attempted to comnit suicide Monday off the Battery n Charleston, but she was rescued >y a police officer. No arrest was nade and the woman was permitted o take her departure without a record of her name having been nade. The police officer contented limsolf with simply taking her from he water. AN OLD WAR RELIC A LOADKB BOMBSIIKLL FOUND 1MBKDK1) IN A WALL Which If ltd Probably Been Sliot Into Atlanta Krom Sherman's Batteries When llo Bombarded That City. A loaded bombshell, weighing 10 pounds, with its brass-rimmed cap intact and its nose blunted by its crashing contact with hard masonry, was found a day or two ago, by negro workmen, imbeded in the brick foundation wall of an old structure at No. 0 North Forsyth street. \tlanta, which was being demolished to make way for the new Atlanta Journal building. The Journal says Tom Walker was the negro whose pick (inearthed the war-like relic. It amused him until he turned it over and saw the brass exploding cap, but then he precipitately vacated the premises. Later he told a carpenter about it. Mr. J. K. CJryder by name, and Mr. Gryder thought it would make a nice mantelpiece ornament for his little home but after poking it over, he decided he would "pass it up." The contracting engineers refused to let the thing lie around where they were working, so it was presented as a precious gift to Mr. J. P. Hunter, proprietor of a near-beer saloon, at No. 11 North Forsyth street. Mr. Hunter bravely kept it in an iron safe, behind the bar for two whole days, but the weight ot its 10 pounds began to weigh heavily upon his conscience, and he commenced to feel that he owed a certain duty to his wife and family, despite the fact that his life is heavily insured. So lie tried to give it to a friend who is a collector of curios. The friend looked it over, and hogged to he excused. Then somebody from the saloon sent ;i message to Tin * Journal office. "You can have it if you come and get it." lie sai,d. "and welcome. The denied old thing belongs to you, anyway." So a reporter was sent to take it in charge and write a "story" about it. When the reporter got there and < looked it over he wished he had been given some other assignment, but its he hugged the 1!? pounds of annihilation tightly, tenderly to his bosom, with his finger nails dug into its rusty metallic sides, and staggered back toward The Journal ofllce, he could not help thinking how much better it "story" it would make if 1 he should happen to drop it on the hard brick pavement. The city editor didn't take kindly to the idea, however, the lady reporter shivered, and the staff photographer refused pointblank to snap , his camera at it. lOven the jokewriter who had first offered to take it and use it for a sinker the next time he went fishing for perch, backed out when he saw It and pleaded that the piscatorial season had closi-d. ; Happily, however, The Journal has 0110 dved-in-the-wool hero, a Spanish\ American war veteran who regards death-dealing implements of war- ( fare as mere children's toys, and he saved the situation by acceptt ing the bombshell to use as a paperweight on his desk. He even suggested wearing it on his watch fob. but the oflice wouldn't stand for 1 that. rKWl'Ih ITALIANS I'llltlSII. , Iron Bars Trap lOight of Tliem in a 1 Deadly ( V>nflngrat ion. ; Iron barred windows prevented the escape from death by lire of eight workers in Kobert Morrison & Sons' comb factory in Brooklyn Monday and five other men probably were fatally injured in making their escape from the building. William Morrison, son of the owner of the plant, lost his life in the flames while trying to reach the safe and close its doors. His father was | among the injured. Luckily there were only 4 0 employes i nthe factory when the fire started, for the spread of the flames was rapid. Many men jumped from the third floor windows and were injured. Those who rushed to the rear found the windows barred and there met their doom. Nearly all of the victims were Italians. Murder Mystery. An autopsy on the body of Doro- ] thy Byrnes, a young girl of a well known Brooklyn family, who died in the Hlackwell's Island hospital Tuesday, brought to light another , murder mystery. The girl admitted before her death that sh<> was in ( a motor ear with strange men and , was forced by their treatment to jump for her life. In jumping she ( fractured her skull. I>H\v Applies to Corporations. < That the law requiring dealers in oleomargarine to make returns of their business also applies to corporations, was held by the United States supreme court at Washington, In deciding in favor of the government in the case of the United States against the Union Supply Company of Camden, N. J. ? ? ? And some peopln seem to think it naughty to be nice. CAN'T BE FOUND Dr. G. C. Bigham, Convicted of Helping to Murder His Young Wife. HAS BROKEN HIS BOND Avant, who, With Hicham, Was ('onvirtod of .Manslaughter at (icorgetou 11 Recently tot1 Killing .Mrs. liigliam. (iivcs Himself l'p, I Hut t!i?* Husband is Missing. A dispatch from Georgetown to The News and Courier says from developments within the past t?w day# if serins likely that l?r. G. t'. Hicham, who with W. 11 Avant was con vieted at the last term of court of manslaughter for the killing of Mrs. ltigham on Murrel's Island, will yet escape the penally of three and n| half years' hard labor in the penitentiary, imposed by Judge Watts. The notice of appeal made by the defendant's attorney, J. \V. Kagsdale. not having been tiled within the ten days allowed by law, Solicitor Wells wired Sheriff Scurry to apprehend the convicted parties at once, they being out on a $l,.r>00 bond. On Saturday Avant, learning ot his being wanted by the sheriff, went i to Georgetown from bis home at Harpers and surrendered himself He is now in the county jail. Sheriff Scurry wired Sheriff March of Florence county, to arrest Dr j Itigham Immediately, but from infor- | mation so far received if soeiue th;it i ho cannot bo found. The surmise i> (lint he has fled the State. There seems to have been some inconsistencies in the bonds required by Digliam and A v.int. When the men were first arrested on the warrants issued by tin; coroner, the bonds were fixed at $500 each, being later raised, at the instance of (lie solicitor, to $2,500, under which amount they appeared tor trial. After'conviction and sentence the men were turned loose under a bond of only $1,500 each, pending the result of an appeal to the supreme court. It is said that as Dr. Digham's family are well-to-do, the forfeiture of the bond is of small consequence. i>ko\vm:i> in ska dihahtkh. Two Done Survivors of an Ocean Tragedy i.s Picked up at Sea. Delated news of a disaster at sea in which probably 1 1 lives were lost was brought to New York Tuesday. r>ix members of the crew of barkontino John S. llonnett hound from New York to Halifax, with a cargo >f coal, were drowned early Monday morning when the vessel was sunk n a collision off Dlock Island with i four-masted schooner, supposed to >e the Merrill C. Hart of Thomaston, Me. The schooner also is believed to have been lost with all her crew if five men. Wreckage bearing the name of the Merrill C. Hart floated ashore near the scene of the collision, indicating hat the Maine schooner played the second part in the accident. Meagre details of the disaster were brought to New York by Captain Dullock of the schooner William lones, which picked up two Filipino sailors of the Dennett, the crew of which numbered in all ?'ight men. Captain Dullock said that at 1 aclock Monday morning as he was passing Block Island he made out the lights of a vessel, the captain of which hailed him and asked for assistance, saying that his harkentine had been in collision and was sinking. Bullock immediately came about and made ready for the request, but before a small boat could be put over the harkentine had vanished beneath the surface. Nearby the searching in the small boat came across the Filipinos clinging to a dory and picked them up. The Filipinos said tin? Merrill C. Hart sank soon after the two vessels collided. ? ? A TltlFLINO KASCAL ? Being Sought by the Wife He Basely Deserted. A dispatch from Atlanta to the Augusta Chronicle says corning from Augusta without a cent in search of tier husband, whom she says is with Barnum and Bailey's circus there, Mrs. Bessie Brooks reached th?ere an a Georgia railroad train without the formality of a ticket Wedneslay. In her arms she carried a baby of a few months. She is only twenty years old and claims to have married at Whitmire, S. C., about a year ago. A short time after the baby was born he left her and she was told that he had joined the firms. Sho immediately went to Augusta in search of him, but not finding him there, she followed the circus on to Atlanta. Endorses Printers' Isabel The Farmers' Educational and Co- | operativo Union of Tennessee, in annual convention at Jackson recently, unanimously passed a resolution instructing officers of the State union to use the union label on all printed matter. / GOOD HARD SENSE '' IJOTTF.lt FROM AN F.DITOIt TO ALL TIIK FAItMFK HOYS. ? He Tells Th?tn Why They sboukl Iteniuin on rhe Farm nod IkHoute Imfepcndent. The editor of the Progressive Farmer, in a letter to the farmer hoys, says ru> mail ever makes big success in anything by accident. If somebody has stuffed your head with the idea that men r.ueee. 1 in this world by luck, you may Just put it down that that somebody doesn't know what ly is talking about. Whether you are go i n g to be a farmer or a college pr-'-mlent., you must tit yourself for w hat iver you art; going to he. No matter what sort of work you are doing, try to tlo it a little L?* tf ;** than the other fellow. Kmerson suys sonwwhtirt! that if a man ran do anything supremely well, no mater ?C he live in a wilderness, the vorltl will maku a bra tun path to his door. And this is very true. I rode i ? > other day to s? o a farmer who live* not many miles from where I am writing and found that the Governor of the State had just been there to see his eorn er-op, and a groat nuirvher of other men had roue* mi leu and miles to see this man's farittv And why? Simply berau.-e h? had done more wtih an aero thai; any oiler man in the county. ft jour hrot her wants to g> to town to v-ieik .t a. store and . i.sure raliro as somelKxly else's hir- ! m; n, let tiiiii go. Yon stay on tie- farm whore you ran bo indepenih nt. living under your own vine and lig tree, and where you can tal;< part in all these great, movements that, are going to eount for so nuidi in human progress and in the world's development these l?e\t titty >' .'US. W <! have had too many farmer hoys already who have made secondrate merchants and clerks who might have made prominent farmers and men of influence in their eountina. It is a great ileal better and noro honorable to raise South* rn meat I tin n if iw tn v.-II Ui'nOiii'ii >>.. .? 11 is a great deal better and more useful to be a leader in showing h >\v to make more ?otton per aero than it is to merely measure oft a eertain number of yards of cotton goods when a buyer wants it. Don't give up the independence of farm life. In the city shops ami stores only a small proportion of the workers own their own homes or have any chance to do work that counts for much in these great progressive movements wo have bean discussing. The boy who is shut up in a factory in the South has only one chance of usefulness and independence for twenty that you and other fartrfer boys have. * WILL NOT IlKVOLT. Labor Will Accomplish It.s I'm peso Through Involution. "We are not going to he drawn into a revolution,' said President (Jumpers, responding to a welcome extended him at the labor meeting in Toronto, Out., Monday. "The American labor movement is a rational movement and we are going to hold together. We realize the wrongs of the past and the present. We do not under estimate the power of our opponents, hut we propose to work out our emancipation in our own way, not by a revolution, but evolution, and if there, he a wrong done by any class ia society, the men of organized labor will be found defending themselves and not bo the aggressor, whoever may be wrong. The labor movement must always ho right." ? ? FKiltT TO THK DIOATH. Two Foolish Men Itave Pa till light About Whiskey. A Huntsvillc, Ala., dispatch saya Too Webb and John Clark. both farmers living near Mint Springs, Ala., are dead as the result of a shooting affray which occurred near their homes Monday morning. Tho shooting followed a quarrel over th? possession of a bottle of liquor, Itot.h fired simultaneously, Webb dying almost instantly, while Clark walked a short distance to his home, v. hero he died a few minutes later. A number of others with whom the dead men had been drinking are said to havo been involved In the affray. Webb was clark's father-in-law. Condemns Ferrer's Death. A dispatch from Toronto. Canada, says council of the Federation of I** t>or recommended that the convention express a vigorous protest against the execution of Francisco Ferrer, of Spain, who was trmed, "another martyr to the cause of free speech, free press and tree education." ? Negro Woman Kills Herself. In Savannah, Ga., Tuesday afternoon, Evelina Johnson, colored, aged thirty-one years, drank the contents of a two-ounce bottio of carbolic acid, from the effects of which she died in agony a short time afterwards. The negro woman was a , laundress.