Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ . ( * nomical, "Br i3 w# ?1 Bak Royal Is SHOULD SWING " ~ \ Escaped Convict Criminally Assaults Aged White Woman A IC eilAT BV MTCIfTlK 1J dtlUJL Ul Vl l iviiiiu I When Surrounded by Officers Negro ^ Attempts to Shoot Hut Officers Get \ First Shot?Bullet Pierced Negro's (' c Thigh.?Mob of Angry Citizens t s Outwitted. ' ; r Escaping from a turpentine camp c ix miles from Tampa, Fla., where he was detained as a convict, Roland 0 Flowers, a negro, went to the home F of Mrs. Jane Ellerbee, a prominently p connected white woman, two miles d away, at two o'clock Thursday after- t boon, arnVfti the point of a gun fore- 1 ed tho frightened woman to submit P to an assault. As soon as the negro c left, the woman ran a distance of two miles, with no shoes on her feet R and but the scant attire the brute t had left on her and gave the alarm, h Ofllcer8 from Tampa hastened to d the scene in automobiles, and secur- b ing bloodhounds were soon 011 the e trail of the negro. Half a hundred ' men on horseback also took up the 0 chase, but the sheriff's posse was first to sight the fugitive, which prob- c ably saved summary punishment be- e ing visisted on him. When sighted S the negro had a gun which be had * taken from the Ellerbee hoin^. When 1 4. commanded to halt, he storied *0 | t shoot, but the officers fired first, one ' of the bullets piercing his thigh. | c Another went through the twj barrels of the gun. rnl' " " ? ?t n on nlltn. ^ X I1C I U w tin |iiav/Cu in uu u u wv/ I mobile and hurried to Harr.ey, a small station several miles discr.ut. Anticipating that the roads wou. l be watched by the angered citizens, who J outnumbered the officers ten to one, the latter took a wide detour aid arrived at Tampa with their prisoner six o'clock and lodged him In the jail. He Is now under heavy guard and it is hardly probable that any violence will bo attempted, for the , present at least. Mrs. Ellerbee tells a story revolt- . lug in detail. She was in the yard j at the time the negro arrived, and was the only person about the house. | The negro asked for a drink of water ( and permission to sit down and rest. He walked into the house to sit down and when Mrs. Ellerbee pro- , tested he forced her to go into the house also, pointing a gun which he ] found in the house at her. Mrs. El- , lerbee is about 54 years old and lives with her son in a small farm house, j DEATH OF AX OLI) WOMAN. ? Said to Have Been One Hundred and I Sixteen Years Old. i "Aunt" Mary Cain, reported to 1 have been 116 years old, died recently near Durham, N. C. This old mammy, whatever age she had, was an n interesting character and until her 1 decline, dating from last year, had a clear mind that enabled her to talk entertainingly of Judge Thomas Ruffln, believed by many lawyers to have been the greatest judge of his day. She was a friend of Judge Cameron and the nurse of his son, Paul Cameron. These facts alone sustain the claim of .great age, but she was nearly a grown girl when the war of 1 fil ') Krnlfn Milt and oh r> fnllrnrt n f that date to a finish. She could recall well the soldiers and their doings In those days and any date within 100 years, it appears she remembered quite well. ^ Manning for Governor. ? Another gubernatorial boom has been launched recently, that of Hon. R. I. Manning, who made such a good race in 1906, and of whom, even his opponents had nothing but the highest praise. Mr. Manning states posir ' tively that he will be in the race, and be would run on a broad platform. | i m [any mixtures are offered s substitutes for Royal, hem is the same in eomi Lveness, so wholesome a nor will make such fin ing Pow AEssoButofy Putre the only Baking Powdi toyal Grape Cream ot 1 WORK OF HIGH TARIFF I ANY HUNGRY CHILDREN IX SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO. it Least That Is What Mr. Shoop Superintendent of Chicago Schools, Says Is tlio Case. Five thousand children who attend he public schools in Chicago are habtually hungry, and 10,000 other hildren in that city are not sutil iently nourished according to a leter from the superintendent of t.'ie chools of Ciiicago from which Repesentative Henry of Texas read e\ernts In th<> Mnnco U'oflnno^ 1.? "Texas," declared Mr. Henry, veil y in g to a recent speech in defense >f the new tariff law, delivered I,} tepresentative Boutell of Illinois, "is rosperous in spite of the Payne-Alrich tariff bill. If that law had a rollings to do with the prosperity of 'exas, why does it not bring pr:>serity to Chicago and other great ities of this country. Again replying to Mr. Boiitell's pk'ech, Mr. Henry said he did not hink the price of cotton wan t(o igh, nor were any other far n princts too high, on the farm. Cot.on eing on the free list, was not afi'ectd by the tarifT, he declared, but ts price was fixed by the markets f the world. "Yet," he added, "cotton ties and otton bagging are taxed for the benfit of the steel trust." Referring to high prices, Mr. lenry was interrupted by Mr. Bonell who said that with prime heavy >eof selling on the hoof in Texas at >10, he did not see how the people >f Chicago could buy them at $6 on ho hoof. "Does the gentleman from Texas van! to reduce the tariff on cattle?" nquired Mr. Boutell. "I will repeal the duty on beef if .he gentleman from Illinois will help ?ut every member of the beef trust n the pen," retorted Mr. Henry. 4 4 TA tir h /\ m /loon Y% * 1 " ? - i vi n iiuiu uuca liic fjUIlllUIUilll rt1" 'er?" asked Mr. Boubell. "To the Reef Trust." "But to whom does the gentleman *efer?" "Ibon't you know?" asked Mr floury. "Then the 1 5,000 hungry children in the public schools of Chicago should haunt the gen-.leman from Illinois." Mr. noutell replying to statement" by Mr. Henry declared th it today there were no hungry child on in the public school of Chicago, rhat ant statement applied only to conditions attending the panic of 19)7. A Chicago dispatch says the statement that 5,000 Chicago children eo to school hungry each day and Hut 10,000 more are not prop* ly nourished was verified by Assistant Superintendent John D. Shoop. 'I am certain the figures are a. t overdrawn," said Mr. Shoop. "I know from personal observation th li many children do not make progress 'n school because they d i d u receive good nourishing food." TOO MUCH SOFT SOAP. Queer Accident to the Sewer Pipes at Orange, N. ?T. The bursting of a tank of hot soap a few days ago has given the sewer department of Orange, N. J., the biggest job of sewer cleaning that it has had since the system was completed years ago. The soap was almost boiled when the tank burst, and there Is no telling how many tons of the sticky mass got Into the sever pipes. The low temperature cooled the soap and It congealed on the inside of the pipes, stopping the mains completely. For a mile along the line of the sewer away from the factory men arc working at each manhole day and night trying to pierce the viscid mass. The soap is as hard as it would be if it had dried for weeks, and Is being taken out of the plpet in chunks. It lpoks as if there wat a long Job ahead of the department and plenty of work for the Board ol Health if it is delayed very long. >osition nd cco- ' c^SiHr ic food. k der Jlf BOILER EXPLODES SIX MEN KILLED AND SEVERAL OTHERS INJURED. Accident Caused by Turning Cold Water in n Hot Roller When Water Was I/o\v. At Bay City, Mich., six men wort instantly killed and a number o others seriously, if not fatally injur ed, when the boiler in Princings Sav Mill at Crump exploded Thursday wrecking the mill and scattering tin debris 100 feet in all directions. The accident is believed to hav< been caused by forcing cold watei into the boiler when the water was low, causing excess of steam. The accident happened during th< noon hour while the men were ii the boiler room of the mill warming themselves and waiting for the whistle to blow to start the second half ol the day's work. Two of the dead men, William Coppersmith and Oscar Shoup were married. The others killed are Geo, l)e Witt, Ward Amidon, Chris Johnson and John Flood, all single. WALKS INTO NIAGARA. Woman I'lunges to Her Death Ove? the Great Falls. Miss Beatrice R. Snyder of Buffalo committed suicide Tuesday by wad ing into the river just above Prospect Point and going over Niagart Falls. As her body swept over th< brink of the cataract she turned hei face toward her would-be rescuer! and smiled a farewell to them. Without a moment's hesitatioi Miss Snyder waded into the stream She turned once and smiled towardi the men who were calling to he to stop and continued to move rapid ly into deep water. In an install she was whisked from her feet am carried rapidly toward the brink o the falls. On the bank was found a handbaj and in it this note: "Mamma and Papa: Oh, you botl forgive me for bringing this awfu disgrace upon you in these years o your life. Also may our Heavenl; Father forgive all my sins. But have been very good, thank God. Yoi will find a slip for the money unde your dresser scarf. With my hear I full of love for .ill your kindness am tender love, good-bye. Lovingly Beatrice." Miss Snyder was chief clerk in : Buffalo tea store. She had been de jectod since the death of her fiance (jeorge F. Myers. They were to hav been married in a few months. Sh worked Tuesday morning. THE DEADLY KEROSENE. Tried to Kindle Fire With It and Wa Blown Up. At. Spencer, N. C., Julia, the tei year old daughter of Mr. and Mr* J. W. Trent, was seriously burned a tholr home there on Monday wnii kindling a fire in the kitchen Ftovt Kerosene oil was used to sta't tb fire when a combustion occurred am the girl was enveloped in flame* i: an instant. Her face, neck, arm and upper part of her body wei frightfully burned before the flame could be extinguished. Her hai* wa also badly burned, leaving tho ho a in a blister. To add to the sennit ness of the tragedy she had a pi in her mouth and in tho oYPttnmnn following the fire, which came nea ending her life, sho swallowed th pin which lodged in the windpipe Physicians who were promptly sun moned are doing all that is posslbl i to save the child, hut it is feared th fire got in its deadly work. Shot. Daughters Escort. W. F. Itoddy is dying at the honi 1 of his brother from a pistol sh( ; wound received in Columbus, Ga , having been shot by the father of ( young woman with whom he was 01 i riding. Roddy was shot through th ' throat and tongue and is therefoi f unable to give his version of th affair. Roddy is from Greenville. v . ,-t > AFRAID OF HARMAN , ATTOKNKY-UKXKKAIj KLIJS KHSKiXS HIS OFFICE j Will Heroine Head of Ohio Kcpnldi- i can State Executive Committee . and Head C"omiii^ Campaign. j After several conferences at the / White House Monday Wacle II. HI- i lis of Ohio resigned his position as assistant to the attorney general in ' the department of justice to ace pt ' the chairmanship of the Republican ; executive committee of Ohio and to assume charge of the Ohio campaign this fall. 4 Regarding the resignation of Mr. / Ml 1 is. the following statement was t given out at the White House late i Monday: "Mr. Vorys, the mem her of the national committee from Ohio; Walter Brown, the chairman of the Republican State central committee, and Henry A. Williams, chairman of the State executive committee, have been among the Republicans of Ohio to determine who should succeed Mr. Williams upon the resigna- , tion which he is obliged to tender. "After a visit to Washington and full conference with the senators, the conclusion was reached that the man best qualified to assume the cares of the ofllce as chairman of the execuI live committee at this time was Mr. lOllis, and therefore the president was . applied to to consent to Mr. I'M 1 is resignation from his position as assistant to the attorney general to 3 take the duties of the chairmanship j. of the committee, "The president was very loath to , lose the services of Mr. lOllis from the department of Justice where be | is engaged in important work, but as Mr. Ellis was willing to make the sacrifice, the president did not feel that ho could insist on retaining r him." The Ohio political situation bus been giving the president much concern and has been the subject of a number of conferences at the white ' house during the past few weeks. ' With the expected renomination of Gov. rtarman, the Republican party faces a hard light this fall, and the 1 president has been anxious that factional trouble should be eliminated ' as much as possible. He believes that Mr. Ellis will be able to do more to secure this result than any one else who could have been designated to take charge of*the coining campaign. Mr. Ellis has been known as one of the famous "trust busters" of the administration and at the present > time was engaged in much important work. Senators Burton and Dick of Oh.o i had a long conference with the pres' ident Monday morning. Later in the r day Senator Dick returned to the i Whito House, accompanied by Mr. Ellis and Walter Brown. It was foli lowing their visit that Mr. Ellis an. nounced his resignation and the b statement above was given out. r it was stated at the White House - Monday night that Mr. Ellis, despite t his resignation, will continue to re1 present the government in its prosef cution of the "beef trust." ? ALLEGED LUNATIC HELD. j Aiken Officers Arrest .Man Who Acts * Queerly. y 1 At Aiken W. C. Stone, who claims 1 to bo a lieutenant in the United V " States army, and alleged to he an j escaped lunatic, from the Richard , Grundy home, Catonsville, Md., was arresfled Wednesday, and the Marya land authorities have been notihed. - letters which he carried indicated ', that he is a member of a prominent e family. Stone was arrested after ene teringi a private residence, and asking for dinner, the food sot before him being angrily thrown to the floor, because it did not suit him. Stone said Ire- had been illegally des tained at the Maryland institution, and would fight extradition. ? 1)1 ICS AFTER BOUT. i, t Boxer Succumbs to Injuries Received e >. in Fight. 'j At Chicago Albert Wilkowski died at a hospital Wednesday night, fols lowing injuries receive in a 10-round boxing match. The police took into s custody pending the outcome of a 8 coroner's jury, Harry Gilmore, the ,j veteran pugilist, Joseph McCarthy, [. and George Leatham. The bout took n place in Gilmore's Boxing Academy, t with McCarthy as Wilkowski's oppor nent. Leatham was one of the sece onds. The men founght with two3, ounce gloves. The rounds were fast i- and furious. At the tenth round the! e men finished in apparently good cone dltion, but shortly afterwards Wilkowski collapsed. His death follow eel twentyfour hours later. e No Use for Jail. >t It seems that Alloghany county, N. C., has little use for a jail except a as a place of abode for the Jailor, it Last year it paid that officer only te $2.83 as jail foes. And It looks like e the Jailer would have just as little le use for the office did it not give him a home free of cost. * f Bank of tS CONWAY Capitol Stork I? I)<'|H?sitM V Tl>t*l AflM'tM MIIUM/ \ J. A. McDermott, J1 A^ T. McNeill, H. G. C uJ tlchaum, Hal. L. H The ohlcst Hank in llorr; IV olina. Associated with, (he ra av the past docadi1. (Mir. policy the "Independent liepiiltlie." p*V to our customers cvccy . rcnso 1|Y tout will) souikI hanking. Wo ! ^ a!s, (irins and corporations. IS 1). A. SPIM.V, /|i Vice-President. BANK OF Conwa^ CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITY OK STOCKHOLDERS. SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS 1)1 KIT Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George .1. Iloliclay, We continue to j ay f) per cent intcre it youraceount ROBERT B. 8CAHBORO10II, H I'll KB 1 DENT. ALLEGE) UCAKIST I ( Aum:sTi<:i> in anii is now in aikion j ail. Dr. .1. II. Wwks of \Vngenoi' Who Desert oil Ills WIIV Some Years Ago lias lleen Caught. The Augusta Chronicle says Dr. .1. II. Weeks, alleged bigamist of VVagener, was in Augusta Saturday! night in the custody of an ollieer en route to his old home alter an absence of nearly three yoras. it is stated that Dr. Weeks, who was a respected medical practitioner of Aiken county before his trouble, confesses his guilt. The facts in the cas" as stated by Mr. J. H. Tyler, a well known lumber dealer of Leesburg, (}a., are that Weeks was working in a drug store at Morgan, (la., tilts county seat of Calhoun county. Tyler, who knew Weeks, when he lived at Wagoner, says that he happened to bo in the store in which Wks was working one day, not long since, and address d him by name. Weeks denied that such was his name, and gave a fictitious one. i It is stated that Weeks several years ago, while a young man and in the beginning of his career, which was at that time full of promise, married a Miss Whit lock, a daughter of one of the most prominent men of Aiken county. He Is said to have practiced his profession of medicine and lived in happiness with his wife for a number of years, and during that time four children were born to them. A young milliner, from Spartanburg, came to the town who it is said to have caused an alienation of the affections of the physician from his wife and familv J. ? V JO mini (,?? have left his family, and joined the milliner in Spartanburg, where they went through a marriage ceremony, in which he used the name of Hamilton. It was "Miss Smith" wedding "Mr. Hamilton." They drifted westward and went to Mexico, New Mexico, Texas, and finally came hack to Georgia. One child was horn of this union, but died and on the 22nd of January last, "Mrs. Hamilton" or Mrs. Weeks, and formerly "Miss Smith," also died. Several days afterward an old acquaintance from Aiken county happened to he in the drug store, located in Morgan, the county seat of CalhouQ county, recognized Weeks and declared him to he the deserter of his wife and children. One hundred dollars is claimed as the reward for his arrest, said to have been offered by the governor of South Carolina. Weeks is a man of slight build and seems to be of a quiet temperment. He will face the charge of bigamy in the Aiken county court. Ills wife and children are I said to be still in Wagener, S. C. ? ratal Shooting Scrape. In a pistol duel on tho streets of Graham, Alabama, Sunday night Doc .Tnhna/kft ItIIIajI v.?? ?- ' ?* nuivvi mo ouii-iii-iuw, nenry Komp, and was himself fatally shot. Pour shots took effect in each of the participants. Three weeks ago Kemp eloped with Johnson's daughter and the father of the girl was never reconciled to the union. iMany seem to think that the mark of a level-headed man Is that he has thrown away his heart. Conway ^ $00,000.00 1.10,000.00 WfS 1200,000.00 /A rous 2? no. C. Splvey, D. /I\ n1IU. f 1? " Wiiiuct, V/. I . uck, I). A. Splvey. jlc V mik) a pioneer in l aslcni Car- 4ft pid progress of our County for hits iieen for (lie upbuilding of juL Willi this in view wv extend W niiltlo iteeonnnodtil Ion cousin* solicit I ln? a< counts of individuHAL. L. llt'CK, 4S Cashier. HOKllY, y, s, c. $ 50 000 10 000 50 000 110 000 MORS \V. R. I/ewis, W. A. .Johnson, Will A. Freeman. bt od ycarlv deposits, arid we nolicL. BUCK, WILL A. KHKKMAN Vice I'hkbidfnt. Cashieb HCHKOITCIIS ^ COLLINS CO., Comvuy, H. O. I'ltOCKSSlONAL OAKD8. 11. 11. WOODUAKD Attorney and Councillor At Law, CONWAY, S. C. C. K. ST. AM AND, Attorney at I .aw Conway, 8. C. K. B. HCAIUtHOtUH CONWAY, 8. C Attorney at law. W. K. McCORD, 8UBOEON DENT181 CONWAY, 8. O. Over Bank of ilorry a. 1ft. liCKHOUOliS Physician and SurgeoK. .... ^ jOk CONWAY, 8. C. J, B. WOFFORD WAIT. Attorney at CONWAY, 8. C. THE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE k JLIGHT RUNNING ^ ; Jfyoa wantelthera VlhmtlngHhuttle, Rotary Mfcuttleor a Hinrle Thread ((VwiirnStfMeAJ Bcwlup Machine write to THE NEW HOME SEWIN0 MACHINE COMPANY Orange, Mass* Many sewing machine* are made to sell regardless ot Quality, hut the New Maine is made to wear. Our guaranty never runs out |?M by ant hertzes! tkalent only* ron sals by ] Voted it Down. Antagonism to Halo and Allen bills which propose to give the rank of Roar admiral to Cammander Robert K. Peary and retire him on full pay, ' was shown by a sub committee of the Honge committee On naval affairs, when the six members of tho sub-committee voted unanimously against bestowing that honor upon Peary, * You cannot tell much about % man's bank account in heaven by his ability to coin pious phrases.