The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 11, 1910, Image 6
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' HOW MAY MOT BE OYER
gr'.J While People Attend Barbecne In
jL Another Part of Town, Trouble 1m
B \ Henewed Between Morton and
P a Rtheridge I'mnHles and Two Kthii?<\thors
Are Killed.
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V - Uhder request from Sheriff Brooks
f\ V>f Twiggy county, a company of military
left Macon, Ga., Friday night
H 9.48 for Grays Station. S. B. Bthidge
and his brother, Morris, are
Ing dead in front of the store of
Uther (Morton on the outskirts of
ruye and at Morton's mother's home
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K})o?k away he and three brothers,
&jL itII, Sam aad Tom, are iield by a
B posee sworn in by sheriff while I
sonneetions of the Bthridges who
ijere assembled in the little town for
A big reunion of Confederate vetert
*08 have, according to reports revived,
been threatened to revenge,
summarily, the killing. Sheriff
. Brooks wired tor troops early in the
afternoon. Two companies have left
Maoan.
While almost every one else was
at the barbecue in another section
of the little town, the two Bthridges
sod a eousin. Will Kitchlns, rode up
to the little store kept by Luther
Morton and an Interchange of iovecttvo
followed which terminated in
Win Morton leaving the bouse and
'ganging Clayton Kitchlns in a fls- I
fight. Tho fight waxed warm,
rfe rang out, perhaps nine or ten
. lowed In quick order. When the
ofce cleared away, the two KthJges,
who were standing between
e fighters and the door of Morton's
re, were lying on the ground. Half
the oldcr's face was shot away and
8 brother, Morris, was drilled
trough the heart.
Luther Morton was standing in the
oorway with a magazine shotgun
a his hand, according to an eye'
rP V?rt?
{witness of the bioouy aura/.
was a stampede of people to the
scene.
Sheriff Brooks entered the home
ot the Mortons, while over the dead
bodies of the Ethridges were beard
threatoiing mutterings from their
friends. Sheriff Brooks rushed his
prisoners to the home of their mother,
and at last reports received they
were still guarded there by a posse.
There has been a feud between
the families for some time. Three I
weeks ago shots were exchanged but
oo one was hurt.
Two companies, the Florida Hides
and JMacon Hussars, 100 strong, all
told, took the train under the peisonal
eointnaad of Col. W. A. Harris.
Capt. Wheeler im charge ot' the Hussars
and Copt. Shurinond of the
Florida Rifles. *
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TURN THKM OUT.
Bryan .Hajs latriuicr Demorrats Must
Be Retired.
?MiKllKhed it) his
in ?l KlUlCUlcuv pu
paper Friday, in reference to the
meeting heid recently in Lincoln, Illinois,
to protest against legislative
corruption, William J. Bryan declared
that the Democratic legislators,
jk^jL who voted to elect William Lorimer
JP to the United States Senate should l>e
read out o? the Democratic party.
"Any Democrat who voted for
Lorimer for 'patriotic* reasons ought
to be retired to private life and
kept there long enough to learn what
patriotism means," said Mr. Bryan.
"It is almost as dangerous to have
fa fool in the Legislature as a knave."
"A Democratic legislator, who
could be convinced that he was performing
a patriotic duty in voting
for Lorimer, could be persuaded to
do anything desired by a lobby, pio/
Tided the same patriotic arguments
? were used. He is not fit for any reeponsible
position; It is hardly safe
to allow him to run at large.
"Turn them out. The party cannot
pause to defend those who are
niiltv. or "who, if innocent, have
n .
aroused suspicion which can never
be removed." *
Gives Life for Child.
W. R. Miohaelis. publisher of the
Chicago Staats-Zeitung, was drownKy
cd at Oquaga, N. Y., Sunday . He
[ v. was out in a boat with his 8-yearold
daughter, who lost her hat and in
reaching out for it fell overboard.
The father jumped out after the girl
and catching hold of her he held
her out of the water until his power
failed. Parties in boats nearby got
the girl to safety, but the father sank
and was drowned.
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L Got Him at Last.
At Asheville, N. C., the Jury in the
case of John 1). Allison, charged with
the murder of Floyd McGhee on July
5 returned a# verdict of murder in
the first degree. Allison, who is 4 0
years old, has killed four men in
the last twelve years and three times
, i was set free on pleas of self-de:j
fense.
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MAY NOT RUN
FOR KK-KIJOCTION A-S GOVKRNOR
| OF tKXXKSMK^
The Resale of the Late Judiciary
Klfftion Had Blasted Governor
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Patterson's Hopes.
While Chairman Nathan Robertson
of the regular State Democratic
headquarters as Nashville, Tenn..
had given out no statement Friday,
the leaders of his, the Patterson faction,
practically admit that the Independent
judiciary ticket has carried
the state by 2G,000 majority.
Chairman V^trees, of the Independent
faction, in an unofficial statement.
said he saw no reasou for |
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changing his forecast made severai
days ago, of a majority of 40,000
in the Slate for the Independents.
Other Independent leaders place the
majority as high as 50,000 votes.
Returns irorn the outlying counties
are coming in slowly, and it will be
several days before the exact llgures
can be given.
Kast Tennessee, the Republican
stronghold in Tennessee, proved the
Waterloo of the regular Democratic
ticket. Advices from that section are
that the Republicans stood almost to
a man behind the independents.
Carter County, a rock ribbed Republican
county, and the former
home of Senator Robert L. Taylor,
rolled up a majority of two thousand
for the Independents.
According to advices from West
Tennessee, that division will show
a good majority for the independents
The race in Middle Tennessee is
close, in favor of the independents.
Wilsou county, the home of Chairman
Robertson, of the regular Democratic
committee, gave a majority
for the independents of 475. while
Chairman Vertrees, of the independents,
lost this, his county, by a large
I majorty.
It is claimed at Nashville that the
.u'arviu'ln.in? defeat of the regular
judiciary ticket throughout the State
| has blasted Uie hopes of Governor
Patterson for re-election and some
go so far as to predict that he will
withdraw from the race for Governor.
It is understood that in return
I for the assistance lent by the Rej
publicans in electing their judiciary
ticket the independents will solidly
i support the candidate named by the
| Republicans for Governor. *
! STAKTKD THOl'DLK; KILLKD.
Vouth Shot to Death After Wounding;
Three Men,
After a brief, but bloody running
battle, in which three men were
wounded, Hartey May, aged 22. was
?,* HAaih hv P.itroltnan Jacob
ilUUV v V ^ v v - -r f -
Gate* late Friday.
May who was a .hostler, started
trouble in a Main street saloon by
shooting at the bartender. He missed
the bartender, but shot George
Cllne, farmer, through the upper
portion of his chest. Going into the
street, May calmly reloaded his revolver
and shot Patrolman W. G.
Shaw through the breast, inflicting
a possible fatal wound. The youth
then fled down Main street and took
refuge in a private residence, where
a posse, led by Patrolman Gates,
found hi in.
May tired iirst, slightly wounding
Gates, but the latter, on his first shot
pierced the young's man's jugular
vein with a bullet, and the lad,
clutching his revolver, sank dying
to the doorstep, and died before he
could be removed. *
SKVKN PKKISIf IN KLWIKS.
Had Not Kven Fighting Chance for
Their IJves.
Seven lives were lost early Saturday
in a fire which destroyed a three
story lodging house in a foreign section
of Jamaica, L. I. The blaze
started in a hallway, the only exit,
and spread so rapidly that few of
the inmates had an opportunity to i
escape, I
The lodging nou.se was uccupieu
t'or the most part by poor workmen
employed in the neighborhood. The
owner. George Dunbeck, occupied
apartments with his family on the
ground tloor. He and his household
escaping safely in t.heir flight clothes
by climbing through the windows to
the street.
The dead, live men and two women,
were all foreigners. They were
asleep at the time and were ail suffocated
b> smoke as they lay in
their beds. The bla/.e was a small
one and a single company of flremtn
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Wlin OU0 Illi^ III mm*- cAiiiiKuioucM
it williin a few minutes of their arrive
1. The property loss was not
over $1,500.
Fears >1111 Trust.
Declaring that the Northern mills
will put 10,000 cotton buyers in the
Southern held, Hon. F. H. Hyatt
sounded a note of alarm and warned
the voters of Horry Friday that
a cotton mill trust is like ly to place
cotton where the tobacco trust has
placed tobacco.
SAD SEA TALE
Stripper ait BrWt Are Drmri T?I
ether.
WHEN THEIR SHIP SANK
Captain Pyne Last Seen bjr Crew
Holding His Bride, but IiOHing in
the Struggle With the Tempe*Sea.?Thirteen
of the Survivor*
Are llescued.
A thrilling tragedy of the sea as
described by twelve survivors of the
crew of t.he sailing ship Swanhilda
who reached Liverpool recently
from South America.
The Swanhllda, a vessel of 2,000
tous sailed from Cardiff on March
15. Captain Pyne, who had been
married two days before was accompanied
by his wife and the voyage
was to be their honeymoon trip.
Fair wiuds carried the ship under
full spread of canvas through the
Tropics. Then on the morning oi'
May lo, the officer in charge noticed
breakers ahead.
Almost at the moment when he
calhd the captain, the vessel strucK
a rock an I began to fill rapidly. She
had gone ashore on a small island ctl
Staten Island, which lies near the
South American coast.
So quickly did the Swanhilda settle
down that the port and starboard
lifeboats were launched simultaneously.
Hut the former boat, which
contained the captuin and his wife,
had scarcely touched the water when
it was capsized by a great breaker.
The tnen In the starboard boat
were unable to render any help, and
they saw Captain Pyne holding his
bride in h*s arms disappear beneath
the waves.
When the thirteen sailors surviving
out of a crew of twenty-live tried
to land on the island they found the
sen too rough and were compelled to
put out again.
The boat was at the mercy of he
sea lor some days, and they lived on
a little lain which they, collected
One man went mad and struggled ?.o
leap overboard, and although he was
restrained he died later from exhaustion.
When they had almost abandonee
hope they sighted a lighthouse off
the Argentine coast, and wore rescued
by the keepers. A wireless
message was sent to the mainland
and they were taken ashore by an
Argentne gunboat.
The gunboat afterwards went co
Staten island to search for any men
who migh have swam ashore when
the port lifeboat capsized. It discovered
the bodies of four men who
had died from starvation, and a survivor
who had been driven insam
by the terror of his experience was
found in a cave.
Eventually the man recovered.
He said that he and his comrades
lived for sometime on tins of grease
und ate shellfish when r.o more grass
remained. Apparently he had los.
his reason when he found the bod)
of Captain Pyne and his bride lock
ed in one another's arms washed to
| and fro by the waves.
HKLI) I imsUKRS AT BAY.
| Three Brothers Kill Young >lan Over
Crap Came.
Three young brothers named Alex
ander, after having slain the son of
a neighbor in the course of a picnic
near Kenton, Tenn., held the pursuing
crowd at bay until they made
their escape, but were afterwards
captured by deputy sherics and placed
in jail at Kenton, where they were
threatened with lynching by infuriated
neighbors Sunday night. fhe
affair grew out of a crap came. Robert
Simmons, Jr., having won all
the money, mounted his horse to
ride away, when one of tin; Alexan1
dors, it is said, seized the bridle,
j another stabbed Simmons, and when
he fell to the earth the third Alexander
rushed up and beat him with
a club. The picnickers rushed to
the resuce, but the three Alexanders
drew revolvers and got away for the
time. Fear of lynching has abated.
Children Crushed.
| Three children are reported crush
ed to death and throe more missing
in a cave-in of an excavation for a
building at Howard avenue and
Broadway, Brooklyn, Tuesday after
noon.
Twenty Are Iturnod.
Twenty persons were seriously
hurned in a lire destroying the Texas
Pacific pumping station at Sherman.
Texas, and caused a gasoline
tank to explode.
Accidentally Drowned.
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"Dick" Williams, a negro about
LM years old, was drowned at Hope's
ferry on the Saluda Sunday afternoon.
At a late .hour that night
his body has not been recovered.
Several Drowned.
At Munich, in Bavaria, nine young
men and six girls were drowned In
the lake of Traun, by the capsizing
of a barge in a storm Tuesday.
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SOME GOOD NEWS
AXTI-CAXXON HOl'KK PKKDIOTKII
BY STAND-PAT KDITOK.
**dd Bill" NelMoa, Owner of Kansas
City Star, Kxchanges Greeting
With Taft,
Col. William H. Nelson, owner of
the Kansas City Star, "dropped to '
on President Taft at Purgeas Poiut
Friday afternoon. On his way out to
the President's cottage the colonel
said he wasn't going to talk politics
if he couid help himself.
Subsequent reports indicated that
a hearty exchange of greetings was
quickly followed by an earnest discussion
of recent events in the political
world.
President Taft and "Old 0111** Nelson,
as he falilllarly refers to the
Missouri editor, have been friends a
long time.
"What about the result in Kansas?"
was the opening chorus from
the newspaper group.
"Oh," laughed the colonel, "my
.heart is no', broken."
"And Iowa?"
"Well I am managing to hold up
under that pretty well, too." he re
plied.
"What do you think of the possibilities
of the next house of representatives
being Democratic?"
"It looks as though it would either
be Democratic or Insurgent. At any
rate, you can bet it will be antiCannon."
"Kansas," added the Colonel, "is
filled with men who either made the
State or the sons of men who made
it. They think progressively out
there, and they act progressively.
People In the Bast don't understand
Kansas."
"Many Republicans," continued
Col. Nelson, "seem to think that the
Republican party is made up of a
majority of '!>. voters of this country.
In thai they are wrong. The
Democrats have never put up a candidate
for president who ought to
have won that they did not win. Take
Cleveland and Tilden for example. '
"All tnis doesn't mean that you
ire going to support Judson Harmon,
does it?" queried a venturesome
reporter.
"Not against Theodore Roosevelt.'
"Do you think Col. Roosevelt can
'come back'?"
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V./D1J1"" uucn. : aiiit^pcu i ur i.uii/uel.
"Why he would sweep the country.
Hut 1 do not think he will run
unless he -has to."
Col. Nelson then spoke of his
friendship for President. Tuft.
"Ho you thing -he will be elected?"
"Now, boys," laughed the colonel,
you must not ask me foolish ques:ion.s."
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MOULD'S SUPPLY SHOUT.
tmouiit in Stghf is 300,000 Haels
Behind.
Secretary Hester's statement of
the world's visible supply of cotton
uade up from special cable and telegraphic
advices compares the figures
| of the week ending August t>lh with
he same week last year and the year
>eforc. It shows a decrease for the
week just closed of 119,518 against
\ decrease of 197,230 last year and
i decrease of 121,151 year before
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lil ^ I .
The total visible is 1,796,062 as
against 1,195,580 last week; 2,285,159
last year and 1,950,3 07 year be'ore
last. Of this the total of American
cotton is 951,062 against 1
12 2.5.8 0 last week; 1, 729,459 last
ear and 1,250.261 year before last,
nd of all other kinds, including Kg*pt,
Brazil, India, etc., 845,000 as
gainst 895,000 last week; 556,000
aat year and 831,046 year before
last.
The world's total visible supply of
otton as above shows a decrease,
rontpared with last week of 119,518
i decrease, compared with last year,
of 4 89.397 and a decrease, compared
with year before last of 160,245.
Of t'no world's visible supply of
*ot I on as above there is now afloat
tnd held in Great Britain and conli|
netai Europe S70.000 against 1,647,*
0 00 last year and 1,1 26,000 year before
last; in Egypt 53,000 against
57,000 last year and 75,000 year before
last; in India 531,000 against
'63,000 last year and 4 43,000 year
before last; and in the United States
(MlO ;tc:iinst 5 18.000 last vear
I ?nd til 2,000 year before last. *
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Drowns at Tybo.
As his wife looked on, Robert
Croninbe'g of Savannn.h was drowned
at Tybee bench early Sunday
morning. It was stated that he had
not been married long. He walked
out from the beach, while talking
to his wife, stepped suddenly into a
hole and was unable to regain safety.
His body was recovered quickly,
but all efforts to resuscitate him
failed.
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Foolish Young Woman.
"1 will marry him or kill myself,
was the declaration of a prettj
brown-eyed girl in the register 01
deeds' ofllce at Klizabeth City, N. C.
that she was under arrest for trylnt
I to elope. Her father took .her home
FATAL MISHAP
Tr?i? Strikes Larfc Aalsaskilc Tkat
Wu Fall si Pesple.
MACHINE DEMOLISHED
Two of the Kleren Wew
Killed Outright ttnd Three Were
Fatuity Injured.?Most of the Injured
Were Young People Going
From lievssimer to Lake View.
Two were killed outright, three
fatally injured and two others may
die a? the result of an automobile accident
near West Lake, Ala., below
Bessemer, Sunday afternoon. The
casualties include:
J. H. Roden, chauffeur, killed outright.
Miss Augusta Klzer, aged sixteen
years, died after reaching hospital.
Miss Mary Fitzpatrick, aged 15
years, skull fractured and fatally
injured.
Miss Mamie Crenshaw, aged 16
years, skull fracturerd and fatally
burned.
Robert Black, skull fractured and
fatally injured.
Miss Kva Lou Crenshaw, thigh
broken, internally injured, may die.
Vernon Lee, arm and thigh broken,
internally injured and may die.
O. C. I)obbs, hand broken and
body badly bruised.
Two Purron brothers, 10 and 12
years old, badly bruised, not fatally
hurt.
W. H. Lennett, Jd.# 10 years old.
badly bruised, not fatally injured.
O. O. Garner was the only passenger
who escaped uninjured. He
jumped from the car before the engine
struck it.
The automobile maintains a regular
passenger schedule between
Bessemer and West Lake, and It was
carrying eleven passengers to the
lake Sunday afternoon. The machine
was struck by a fast passenger train
on the Southern Railway shortly after
4 o'clock, and was almost comnletelv
demolished.
There is a steep grade leading
down to the Southern tracks just before
West Lake is reached, and as
the highway is iu a cut, it was im-j
possible for the chauffeur to see the
locomotive or for the engineer to
see the automobile. hose of the
automobile passengers whe escaped
with injuries state that the locomotive
whistle was not blown for the
crossing.
The front wheels of the large automobile
had just run on to the railroad
tracks when the engine struck
it. The passenger train was running
at a high rate of speed and
ploughed its way through the forward
end of the machine.
As it was only 1 1-2 miles from
Bessemer, ambulances and physicians
were quickly summoned from
the city. The injured were all taken
to the Robinson Hospital in Bessemer.
CROP SFFFKllS FROM HKAT.
Cotton Ha* Not Made Much Progress
buiing Week.
The following cotton crop summary
was published by the Commercial
Appeal of Memphis, Tenn., on
Monday:
"Telegraphic replies from Texas
correspondents at six oclock Sunlay
night indicated that no rain of
consequence fell in that Sttae during
the week save in the Red Rvier
valley. As a result the cotton crop,
except a small area which has received
rain, has been deteriorating {o'
most instances as the limits of the
plants endurance had been reached
a week previously.
In southern and western Texas any
additional drought means a very
small yield of cotton. Generous rains
fell throughout Oklahoma and although
coiton suffered severely for a
few days just prior to the rain en
account of high temperatures, the
situation has been relieved and it is
believed that the crop will very
quickly recuperate.
"In other sections of the belt some
Improvement took place. The crop
has been laid by clean and the plant
has begun to form squares and
has begun to bloom freely and forir
squares. Grown bolls arc not num
erous, however, and the crop appears
to have regained only little of Its
lateness. The frost date will have
an important bearing on the oat.
turn.
"Except in Texas there is no complaint
of shedding hut the plant generally
has not reached the stage
w.here it is to be expected. GeneraU'
fair weather would help the cjrop
Mississippi and the Atlantic iftat''
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Many I tables Die.
One third of the babiea '
under one year of age b
this summer, according V
r collected by O. H. Sumnjr
f of the Iowa State boa*
, Cholera Infantum, in'
5 sis, poor milk and Id*
. given as causes.
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LONG RANGE FIGHT
WATSON AND HABDWICK ABlfHB
0\K ANOTHKR W?LL.
Tho Latt<H Head* a Letter CtMirginf
the Former With Selling Out U
the IkpublkMN.
At Thomson ,Cra., Thomas B.
Watson and Congressman Thomas
W. Hardwick Saturday fought a desperate
battle but it was one of
words and the verbal shrapnel was
hurled a distance of one mile, Mr.
Watson and his adherents gathering
in the Court house and the Hardwick
cohorts sweltering In a quiet
grove on the outskirts of town. In
spite of Mr. Watson's announced
fear of assasaination the dove of
peace hovered over the little town
throughout the day and prospects of
trouble dwindled to nothing.
Both speakers were bitterly personal
In their remarks. Mr. Hardwick
injected the only new feature
ia the controversy in the shape of a
letter from Congressman Charles H.
Burke of South Dakota in which be
charges that Watson in the summer
of 1900 conferred with bim and
nm nilnunl Danii hllouna n Urtiif h Ita.
Kota at the Palmer house, Chicago,
in reference to aiding the Republican
party in South Dakota for a financial
consideration.
Mr. Burke's letter said thsit bo arrangements
were made with Watson
for South Dakota but declared that
Watson did arrange with the late
Senator llanna to assist the Republican
cause.
Replying to the charges contained
in Congressman Burke's letter, Mr.
Watson made the following statement
:
"1 emphatically deny the who*e
story, which is false in every paiticular.
1 was not in Chicago dur
ing 1900, but spent the year here,
at home, doing literary work. 1 was
In Chicago for a short time In 190 4,
after the death of Mark Hanoa, stopping
while en route to Lincoln, Neb.,
and on the return trip east to Ne.w
York, where I spoke at Cooper Union.
I invite an inspection of the
Palmer house register during 1900,
which will prove the truth of my
statement.
Before he began his address Watson
was asked on what he based his
fears of assassination. His reply
was:
"I base them on the fact that
Mr. Hardwick has on several oceasI
*~v n t It i*4\?\ t r\n t Vr t 1 t a a no it In 4!/\ r _
man l 11 I vr CI. v v 11 "VI IVJ rv I II III r (1MU ruivi mation
of these threats has beer
brough t to me by friends from
Washington and Lincoln couties. I
thik my fears are well fouded.
Mr. Hard wick, when told Mr.
Watson's statement, seemed t.o enjoy
it immensely and commented:
"Watson Is in no greater danger
of beig assassinated than 1 am, and
my danger is about equal to that of
the man in the moon. I am ne assassin
and none of my friends murderers."
Watson, it is stated, had several
guards about .his home at Bights tor
the past several days.
SAVKI) MAX'S LIKH.
Conductor on Seaboard Risks Life
for Passenger.
On Monday afternoon when Sea
board train No. 63, which leaves Columbia
foi Savannah at 5.f?0 p. m.,
pulled into Gaston the train entered
the sidetrack to await for the Seaboards
limited train No. 84, going
north. A man, who then seemed to
be somewhat under the influence of
whiskey, stepped upon the track of
the main line. Conductor Williams,
w.ho was in charge of train No. 63*.
seeing that the man would be crush? . , '*
(Hi to death by the fast approaching
train, made a rush for him and sna.* <\
chad him trom the track just in tgg?< ^ "
to save his life. Had tt not beei^ ^
the brave act of Conductor Wll?\
the unfortunate man would ha^, -*?~*v
his death. Many of the pas ^ >
had turnod and looked aw^^ **T
the conductor made a daic * s
man. '*
DIED AT KIXKA
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a saloon at P
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self twice.;
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