The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 28, 1910, Image 4
I HOW DID HE DIE?"
A Ra3rtt(l Presideot Shot to Death
Mysteriously io His Hone.
SUICIDE OR MURDER
Family Claim Hurglar Did Shoot- ^
ing.?1'os.sible Fraud Implicatioi '
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and Fear of Disgrace Advanced as s
Theory for Suicide.?Dead Man's (
Associate Not Surprised.. i
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Ira G. Rawn, president of the
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville C
Railroad (the Monoa Route,) died a
of a bullet wound, at his summer 0
c
residence in Winnetka, fifteen miles ;
north of Chicago, early Wednesday s
morning. 1
Members of Mr. Rawn's family *
say he was killed by a burglar. The
police are working on a theory that r
Mr. Rawn killed himself. As a bas- c
is of their suicide theory, the police *
advance the following reasons: j
They point to the fact that Mr.
Rawn was operating vice president .
of the Illinois Central Railroad at ,
the time fraudulent car repair con- (
tracts were put through and that j
recently he was drawn into the 11- |
linois Central graft investigation as ,
a chief witness. {
They saw that the action of Mr. (
Rawn's relatives in refusing to aid ,
the Chicago detective department to ,
search for the alleged murderer is
suspicious. I
They declare that there exists a j
lack of convincing evidence that an
intruder had actually been in the
Rawni residence.
Mrs. Rawn, wife of the dead man;
R. G. Coburn, his son-in-law; Mrs.
Cohurn and two children, and three
maids were in the house when the
tragedy occurred.
Mrs. Rawn says that her husband
was aroused from sleep at half past
one o'clock in the morning by a
noise on the first floor of the residence.
She says Mr. Rawn picked
up a revolver in his room on me
second floor and started down-stairs
and was down in the hall when two
shots were fired. A minutes search
of the front hall and adjoining rooms
of the residence, however, show but
one bullet, that fired from the revolver
of Mr. Rawn and which apparently
had passed through Mr.
Hawn's body just below the heart.
Coroner Peter Hoffman took personal
charge of the investigation into
the death. He refused to say
whether he thought the case was one
of murder or suicide. He stated,
hjowever, that powder marks had
been found on Mr. Rown's night J
gown, indicating that the bullet
which killed Mr. Rawn was fired at
close range. '
Friends and business associates of
the dead man say that he has been
looking badly for several weeks c
Some attributed Mr. Rawn's worried 1
expression to the investigation of the
conspiracy by which the Illinois- (
Central claims it was mulched out a
of hundreds of thousands of dollars. ;
This is now going on in court.
On two successive days last week 11
Mr. Rawn begged for and secured a 11
postponement of his examination as 8
a witness on Uie plea that his wife v
was ill.
His examination was scheduled to
be taken up again next Tuesday.
Mr. Rawr left the Illinois Central f
Railroad 111 iNovemoer, nua, ami uu- i
came president of the Monon. Early 1
this Spring the Illinois Central fraud t
came to light. Though the investi- i
gation is not in such shape that any 1
criminal responsibility for the frauds \
is fixed, it is declared that the rep- c
utation of some persons involved c
would lie ruined and their future (
practically blotted out.
At the first hearing before Master (
in Chancery Thomas J. Taylor, Jr., I
Mr. Rawn testified that t.he car re- i
pair contracts all came under his i
supervision. Ho admitted that he i
was responsible for farming out the '
cars to the various repair committees.
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2t)c Cotton Says Hudson.
Twenty cent cotton this fall was
predicted Tuesday by State Commissioner
of Agriculture Thos. G. Hudson,
who addressed the Farmer's
Union at Union City. Ga. He prer
dictod that there would he only half
a crop, and that this, combined with
business conditions and a holding
Tjjb movement by farmers throughout the
South, would reduce the high price.
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Killed by Lightning.
Geo. G. Wilson, a prominent young
man of Mayodan, N. C., was struck
by lightning on Friday afternoon
and instantly killed. Mr. Wilson was
standing near the chimney flue in
the store of his brother, where he
worked. A hoit from a passing thun
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dor storm sinii'H mih iiuu auu m
some way was communicated to Mr
Wilson.
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The State of South Carolina has
2029 automobiles. And the News
and Courier suggests that she would
have so mo air ships if Charleston
was not so near heaven.
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TAXES WILL BE LOWER
ITATE BOARD RKDUCKS MILL
ASSBSSM KN TS.
?r?ni a Sixty Per Cent. Basis to a
Fifty Per Cent. Basis by Big Majority.
As its meeting in Columbia on
Vednesday the State board of equalzation
decided by a vote to 33 to 8
0 assess cotton mills, cotton oil mills
md fertilizer plants on- a fifty per
ent. basis, instead of GO per cent as
formerly. This action was taken
ipon motion of Mr. John Shuler, of
Jrangeburg, following the argument
jarlier in the day of Mr. F. Helton
Jrier, and several speeches in the
iftermoon on the matter. There was
1 proposition to make the assessment
in a 40 per cent, basis, but tnis was
vithdrawn as was the proposition to
issess the corporations on the same
msis as heretofore with the underl
itanding that on improvements the
jasis should be 50 per cent.
Mr. Grier represented the cotton
nills of the State, through the Asso;iation,
which the mills are not fully
latisfied with the 50 per cent basis,
t is realized that this was the best
hat could be had.
The most vigorous argument
igainst the action taken by the board
vas that of Mr. Jeremiah Smith, !
)f Horry, who said that the coastal '
ands are assessed enough now; that
;here is much real estate that is val-|
neless to the farmer on account of:
jwamp lands and other property that'
toes not produce anything, and that '
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the farmer is now bearing suflicieut
taxes.
Mr. Smith, who made a proposition
at a former meeting that 100
per rent be the basis and over whose
protest the 6 0 per cent basis was
adopted, declaring that although the
land values have been increased the
same has not been true of the property
under discussion. He made an
impassioned plea that the motion of
50 per cent basis be killed. The
vote on the Shuler motion resulted.
Yeas?Ivomax, Courtney, Clinkscales,
Johnson, Verdier, Turner,
Hafner, Godfrey, Davis, Von Lehe,
T ? *? n ? ^ n /I ^ r* T V* ni nenr> tt i trli f
VJCtUOUCH, IHIUIU^UVJl! miin..
Cochran, Spence, McKensie, Goodwin,
Alton, Dekay, McLeod, Edwards,
Pegus, Floyd, Shuler, llollin,
Coleman, Vernon, McLaurin, H. K.
Smith, Funk, T. L. Johnson, Evans
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Nays?Guess, Reaves, Rend, Kittles,
Jeremiah, Smith, Zimmerman,
O'Dell, Adair.?8.
WILL BE IN THE RACE.
An Emphatic Statement Made by
Speaker Cannon.
Joseph G. Cannon will not take
himself out of the race for the
Speakership, of the next House of
Representatives. This he made plain
lear the conclusion of his speech at
Bmporia, Kan., Monday afternoon,
le said he wouJd abide by the will
>f the Republican caucus if the Reniblicans
control the next Congress,
>ut that no "muckraking magazine"
ould make him say he would not be
, candidate. In other words, he
aid, he would not make an effort to
/in the Speakership; yet the emhasis
with which he spoke made it
lain that if the Republican caucus
hould nominate him he would be
'illinsr SPrVfi.
There Is Much to Learn.
Prom all accounts tho average
armor in this country does not more
han half farm his land. That is,
ie does not get from the land more
han one half of what he would get
f the land were properly cultivated,
t is said that the yield per acre of
vheats, oats and other crops is not
me half of what the European farm;r
gets. Some may say that this is
lue to difference of climate and soil.
But that does not account for it
considering that in almost any district
in this land experience shows
that a farm systematically and thoroughly
cultivated will produce often
twice as much as the adjoining farm.
The one remedy, apparently, is to
get hack to the land, have smaller
farms and go in for intensive farming.
This plan is being adopted by
many fnrmers wjith profitable results.
Made Fast Tine.
With contract requirements calling
for a speed of only 2 8 knots an hour,
the torpedo boat destroyer. Roe made
21 j knots in standardization [tests
off tho Delaware breakwater course
according to a report received at the
navy department from tho hoard of
inspection. She burns oil as fuel.
Saved by Trees.
An aeronaut named Andrews fell
100 feet when his balloon burst at j
Lake Manawa, five miles south of
Council Pluffs, Io., but was saved
from deat.h by falling into the
branches of a large tree. Aside from
scratches and bruises he was unhurt.
Twentieth Child.
The twentieth baby has been born
into t.he family of Mr. and Mrs. Maxim
Marconiller, of Menominee, Wis.
The father is 50 and the mother 4(?,
and both are healthy and prosperous.
FIGURES CAUSE ALARM.
Among Republicans Because They
Help (he South.
The Washington correspondent of i
The News and Courier says because
the population figures of a few of
the Southern towns, taken under the
pew census, have shown big increases
over the figures of 1900, leading
men in the Republican party have
become thoroughly alarmed, and
have begun a movement to keep the
representation from the Southern ,
States in the 63d Congress from being
increased.
Two places in Virginia, Lynchburg
and Christiansburg, have
shown big increases and the same
it tine or two ueorgia towns, nu<gerald
and Hawkinsville. In Texas
nearly all of the fifteen or twenty
counties, which have had their population
figures made public, show
big gains. The same is true of Oklahoma
and Tennessee.
It is said that these, being widely
scattered, indicate that the general
growth all over the South has
been large; in fact, much greater
than any one expected, and that if
the same ratio is kept up representation
from that section must of
necessity be increased. To forestall
such an increase in membership
U is proposed to begin the downward
movement now.
Efforts made to ascertain whether
or not President Taft was interested
ir the movement failed to disclose
anything tending to show that he
was cognizant of it, but it is understood
that Congressman Bennett, of
New York, and others, who are leading
in the proposed cut, made him
acquainted with their plans before
he went to Beverly. That the movement
is on in earnest is not denied
SENATOR TILLMAN DECLINES.
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Unable to Accept the Invitation at
the Present.
Senator Tillman is unable now to
accept the invitation of the board
cf commissioners or suinvan s island
to spend some time at the seashore
as the guest of the township
board, and Mrs. Tillman and members
of the family, who were also
invited, will, of course, not come
alone. In aletter to Mr. Wilbur
chairman of the board, Senator Tillman
writes that later in the season
he may be able to spend a week at
the island. Private business he gives
as the cause of his inability to accept
the invitation at present. Senator
Tillman also expresses his
thanks for the invitation'.
BUN DOWN BY TRAIN.
North Carolinian's Body Is Found
Horribly Mangled.
T.he remains of a white man
supposed to have been those of W.
M George, of Charlotte, were found
on the Southern railway Tuesday
by a section foreman a mile and a
quarter south of Lexington, N C.
it is thought that the man was beating
his way on a train and fe 11. The
head was battered off and portions
of the body scattered for more than
100 yards up the track. On the
clothes cf t'u man were found a ,
gold watch, smashed flat, a post card
signed by W. M. George, a prescription
whitten for Mrs. W. M. George
by Dr. J. W. Summers of Charlotte.
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HAVIO NAKKOW KSCAPK.
Family Just Vacated I'orcli When
Lightning Struck.
A peculiar freak of lightning is {
reported from Belvedere, in Aiken ,
county. At the home of Walter Harris,
a well-known citizen at that
place, the family were sitting on the
front porch, when a small thunder
storm came up. As the storm approached,
the family got up from
the porch and went into the house.
Just as they were closing the door
the lightning struck a tree in the
front yard. The bolt ran from the
tree to the porch, and knocked over
the chairs, which had been vacated
only a moment before. Had the
lighting been a moment earlier, they
would have been struck. The escape
was a very narrow one.
Mother mid Babe Burned.
Trapped in bed with her week-old
baby, Mrs. Grade Wilson, of Granu
ltapids, Mich., was burned to death
Thursday afternoon when fire destroyed
tlie old Ledyard block at the
corner of South Division street and
Fourth avenue. A nurse, Mrs. Amelia
Heeney, who tried to rescue the
mother and babe, received burns
i whw-h nmvmt fntnl nn hour later, and
the babe is dying in the hospital.
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The Cotton Tare Case.
In fewer words perhaps than li i
has taken the Supreme Court to tcl
of much less important eases, that
tribunal Thursday evening in an j
opinion being banded down by Justice
lOugene H. Cray dismisses the appeal
of YV. Q. Mullins in the now
famous cotton tare case involving
nearly two million lollara.
John T. Duncan ought to get some
votes in Spartanburg, lie aided n.a-j
I torially in the immigration move- j
moot to this city.?Spartanburg
Journal. i
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DUG UP BONES "
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\o OM Cemetarj is Dog Into by Ditch j
Diggers in Charleston.
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SKELETONS ARE FOUND '
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The Hones of a Man of Huge Stat- 1
tire Discovered in One of Several
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GottLns that Were Found.?In
Another Place Several Old Can- i
non Halls Were Dug l'p.
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No one would suppose that there
was mystery or any tinge
of romance in the work of the hardv
ditch-diggers who are laying the
sewerage pines in various st/eels in
the city of Charleston, says the News
and Courier, but mystery and romance
have a way of turning up
where they are least expected, and
only the other day one of the gangs
ran into something that made the
negroes who wield the pick and shov- ,
el feel nervous and apprehensive of J
what might follow as the result of I
interfering with the long sleep of
those who .had passed from earth
many years ago.
The News and Courier then goes
on to relate the following: On
Queen street, between Franklin and
Logan, just opposite the Medical College,
the pickmen found a grave yard
about four feet beneath the surface,
and being compelled to stick to their
work, for the sewer pipes must be
laid, grave yard or no grave yard,
and in spite of the danger of rousing
the wrath of ghosts, they unearthed
before long seven coflins. All
these were badly decayed and fell
apart as soon as an attempt was
made to lift them to the surface.
Of the bodies that they had once
contained only the skeletons were
left, and these quickly decomposed
011 coming in contact with the air.
yi of tho skeletons were those
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of children or iinel! wom.^n, bti*
there was one especially that filled
the laborers with wonder as they
looked upon it. It was the skeleton
of a man, and such a man! More
than six feet four inches tall, with
shoulders of wonderful breadth and
big bones that made up a frame of
remarkable streagth, iie must have
been well-nigh a giant.
The negroes looked at the white
bones and wondered; and white men
who saw the crumbling 'vestiges of
what must have been one of the finest
specimens of physical manhood
in the South, were curious to know
w.hether some record of this Hercules
who had been laid to rest in this
forgotten cemetery long ago, might
not be found somewhere and the history
of the man brought back to
mind.
On Ashe street the diggers came
across cannon balls that had evidentaJly
been fired during the Revolutionary
war. They were of a
kind unknown during t.he War Retween
the States, and were evidently
much more ancient, each of them
weighing not more than four or five
pounds. In addition to these several
smaller grape-shot were unearthed
DltlG l SKI) I'PON iiliili. I
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lly An I'liknown Intruder Into Iler
Home at Night.
Fnnny May Pryor, the fourteenrear-o!d
daughter of Owen \V. Pryoi,
i prominent resident of Mobile, Ala.,
lied early Wednesday from the efforts
of chloroform administered to
the child Tuesday night by an unknown
intruder who succeeded in
making his escape.
The girl was found in an unconscious
condition by her mother in
a room that was almost stilling from
the effects of the drug. A man
wearing a black shirt and black
trousers was seen to jump t.ho fence
about 1.45 o'clock by Mrs. Pyor, but
his color could not be distinguished.
The entrance was made through a
roar window.
Examination by physicia: s who
were summoned showed that the girl
had not been assaulted, and why she
was chloroformed can not be explained.
The gir! was sleeping with
her little baby brother.
MI ST QUT COI NTHY.
That's the ficrinnii Belief and Merman's
Not Allowed,
Ilerr Dalwitz, Prussian minister
of the interior, upon recommendation
of the political police, says a
Berlin dispatch, has signed orders
for the expulsion of twenty-one Mormon
missionaries, fost of \\ hom aro
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Americans or imikiisiikmi <t.iu 11117 1
will 1)0 conducted to the frontier.
The missionaries had assembled from
various parts of Germany at the Mormon
.headquarters 011 the Fast Side
to meet Superintendent, McKay, an
American usually resident in Switzerland.
They were holding a service
when an agent of the political
lice who was seated in the audI
ience, rose and declaied the gathering
dissolved. *
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vagrants, white or black, loaf'^k
about the streets should be
made to move on.
fFIRST NATIC
? CONWA1
P CAPITAL STOCK
1> SURPLUS PROFITS
TOTAL ASSESTS
IK DIRECT]
J. A. McDermott, John C
Mw B. G. Collins, H. L. B
& M. Burroughs, C. P. Qua
Successor to the Bank of
? Horry County, and a pioneer
ly allied with the recent dev*
M Republic. Backed by the C
bfahm uoiwIr W0 hl'e i)
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turners any reasonable acoonui
|k H. A. SPIVEY,
$ Cashier.
BAiNK OF
Con wa
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Has largest capital and surplus of a
than the combined capital and surp!
CAPITAL STOCK
SURPLUS
LIABILITIES OK STOCK
SECURITY OK DEPOSIT*
DIREC
Robert B. S (arborough,
H. L. Buck,
George J. Holiday,
We offer our customers every aco
will just fy, and we i
ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH, D
Br FS II)K NT.
We continue to pay 5 pe
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
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H. H. W'OOUWAKD
Attorney and Councilor At La*
CONWAY, tf. O.
R. B. HCARBKOUOU
OONWAY, S. C.
Attorney at Law.
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tf. H. BUHROUOU8
Physician and Hirgooa
CX>NWAY. ft. O.
B. WOFFORD WAIT.
Attorney at Va
Rank of Horry IluiltJiiig.
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Every decent, law abiding person,
ud that means the great majority,
must ardently hope that the nation
has endured the last disgrace of a
prize fight. Apparently the days of
the prize ring are numbered. One
cannot conceive of a more disgusting
and brutal spectacle than that
of two men pommeling each other
black and blue, for the sake of the
money that is in it. When two men
fight because of some quarrel, then,
however much we may deplore the
act, some palliation may be made
for it. Hut there Is none for a prize
fight or prize fighters. It. Is simply
a brutal exhibition for money and tc
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$25,000.00
2,500.00 /IS
125,000.00 A
TORS: jP
!. Splvey, D. T. McNeil),
uck, W. R. Lewis, 1). jk
ttlebaum, D. A. Spivey.
Conway, t.he oldest Hank in ML ,
in Eastern Carolina. Closeelopnient
of the Independent nlj
rovernment and secured ?by yg^
repared to extend to onr cus- jUL
nodatioiiB.
It. G. COLLINS, it
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President. f
' HOUltY,
y. S, C.
ny bank in Horry county. More
lus of all other banks in the county.
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HOLDERS . . . . 50.000
3RS J 12.500
;iors
D. V. Richardson,
W. A. JoiiiiBon,
W ill A. i rteman
ommodation which their accounts
solicit your business.
. V. Richardson, will a. frkkm/k
Vice President. Cashiee
r cent, on yearly deposits.
Who Is H m?m(HTHt?
The New York Tribune, President
Taft's chief organ says:
"Champ Clark says he wants to
see the Democrats win. If be is in
earnest, he can assure the party's
success by going abroad and keeping
his mouth shut for about four
months."
This hit at Mr. Clark calls forth,
the following comment from the
Richmond Times-Dispatch, a Republican
paper that hasn't the courage
of its convictions:
"Mr. *Clark can hardly be exacted
to welcome party success If it
is to be achieved only at the cost
of such self-suppression. The Constitution
itself deprecates the lnlliction
of cruel and unusual punishments,
even on politicians."
The Columbia State says "the
Democrats in the lower house of
Congress elected Mr. Clark leader
and they represent the tremendous
mainritv nf tlu> ni-mruTnfu In I hu
United States. If the Richmond
Times-Dispatch has been endowed
either by nature or training with
wisdom to advise the Democrats of
this Republic, signs of its gift have
been strangely lacking. Nevertheless
it is one of those wearing the Democratic
insignia on the lapel of Its
coat and therefore is of constant
.hand in ess to Republican newspapers.
Were Mr. Clark and Democrats
whom he represents to withdraw
from active participation in party affairs
and deliver the party to The
Times-Dispatch and the coterie who
think with it. the arrangement would
be promptly ratified by the New _ .
York Tribune and approved by old v
Taft."
The Probable Result.
How much good, if any, insults
from the Pan-American conference
being held at Buenos Aires remains
to be seen. The prospect for any
practical outcome is not very encouraging.
Doubtless there will be some
sentimental resolutions passed and
some eloquent after dinner speeches
made, but that will probably he the
sum total of results. The fact is,
and it car,not be disguised, that some t
of the Central American states are
avowedly hostile to this country, and ^
that several others are jealous and
suspicious of its motives. Greatly
as this is to he deplored such a feeling
is not unnatural. Small powers
U r A HCjlinllv cnanlnimio f "
vr v?? \?M?* j uuwj/IViVHD \J L rt ^ I fl L
power, especially if that power over
shadows in every respect the total
of the smaller powers. Then, too,
differences of race. speech and cus
torn accenuate this feeling. Hecause
of these and other causes it ^
is not reasonable to expect that the /?
Conference will have muc.h practical
value. Doubtless in time the present
aloofness will disappear, hut no
nation can force it. To attempt it
would work untold mischief. It is
only by a better understanding resulting
from a freer and fuller intercourse
with each other that suspicions
are allayed and confidence promoted.
Hy and by the Latin-American
states will realize that this nation
has no sinister motives in seekinstance.
In the last few years great
improvement has been made along
flint 1 f tl/? llna l? 1
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yield more than double. Not long
ago an old and very succcssfful farmer
told uh t.hat he had just begun
to farm, although he had been farmin
r f >r forty years. This was true,
and he has yet much to learn.