The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 18, 1910, Image 8
SHOT HIM DOWN |
Jbyor Gaynor of New York Fired oo by
Former City Employee
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SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
The Mayor Waa Standing On the
Deck of an Ocean Steamer Chatting
With Several Friends Who
Had Called to See llim Oil' on a
Trip to Kurope.
Msyor William J. Gaynor, of New
York, was f-hot in the neck and badly
wounded Tuesday morning by Jas.
J. Gallagher, a discharged employe
of the city dock department. The
r.cr trknU nkop on the deck of
PUUUtltAV, 1
the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm tier
Grosse, lying at her pier in Hobo- |
ken, N. J., on which the mayor was
on the point of sailing for a month's
vacation abroad. Gallagher was a:
once arrested.
The bullet entered just below the
right ear, passing through the mastoid
and traveling from right to left
and slightly downward. Gallagher
evidently has a fancied grievance
against Mayor Gaynor. He declared
after the shooting that the mayor
had deprived him of his "bread and
butter." Gallagher was mobbed and
his life was threatened before the
police could lodge him in jail.
Three shots were fired at the may<"?T
Twr* nf thorn missed and the
third lodged in the fleshy portion of
the left side of the neck. Blood
gushed from the wound and the first
hasty examinations led to the belief
of serious and perhaps fatal consequences.
The mayor retained odn ciousness
and later examination by
the physicians when the mayor was
taken to the hospital gave a hopeful
outlook.
Mayor Gaynor and city officials
were standing in a group about to
have their pictures taken when the
shooting began. Blood spurted from
the wound in the neck as the mayor
fell to the deck. Officer Fitzgering,
one of the guard of the North Ger
man Lloyd line, was standing near
at the time.
He had in his hand a small police
club, with which he hit the assailant
a blow on the head, felling
him to the deck. The man was seized
by officers. In the scuffle his hat
fell off, disclosing the initials "H.
C. G." Throughout the strugggle
the man retained a pipe in his hand.
Meantime there was intense excitement
on the deck of the steamer.
The Mayor's secretary, Mr. Adamson,
lifted the stricken executive to
his feet and with the assistance of
others carried him to a state room.
Later he was conveyed to the hospital.
The revolver used by the assassin
was found to contain four empty
shells.
As Mayor Gaynor was being borne
by his friends he remarked simple:
"Say goodbye to the people."
At the city hall it is believed that
Gallagher Is the man who had been
soticed loitering in city hall park for !
several weeks apparently trying to
see Mayor Gaynor. The attendants (
at the city hall, however, prevented '<
the man reaching the mayor.
Mayor Gaynor's administration, '
which began on January 1, last, had
been so drastic in its reforms and
he had condemned so many persons
and parties in such strong terms that
he became the subject of many
threats. In municipal offices ho
made many bitter enemies and a
number of powerful organizations
were uncompromisingly against him.
Several months ago an armed vis- ]
itor at tlm city hall was found try- ]
fng to approach Mayor Gaynor and
he was removed. Robert Adamson,
secretary to the mayor, was quoted
as saying he feared a crank might
sometime attempt to klil the mayor.
Mayor Gaynor was sailing on the
first vacation ho had since taking
office on January 1. lie has been
at work from 14 to 16 hours a day
and imperltlvely felt the need or a
rest. In order to be out of reach of
the affaire of his office it was his
intention to avoid all the European
cities to take a jaunt through the
North Sea to the coast of Norway.
He expected to be absent about one
month
Gallagher was appointed a watchman
in the New York City Dock department
April 7, 1903. He was
discharged July 19, 1910, after having
been found guilty of neglect of
duty and misconduct. Among his
other transgressions was the fact
that he had failed to punch the dial
on the time clock that recorded his
presence. He was also charged with
using insulting language to an inspector.
Since his discharge Gallan
gher has been writing letters to the
Mayor.
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Jury Cleared Him.
"Justfflcable homicide" was the
verdict of the coroner's jury at Columbus,
Ga., in the case of James H.
Knowles, a white express employe,
who shot to death Ben Tillman, a negro,
as the latter was advancing on
him with a hatchet at the Union
I station, following a heated controversy.
CRUSHED TO DEATH
TRAIN STRIKES AUTO KILLING
FIVE PEOPLE.
Every Person in the Automobile Was
Instantly Killed by Heing Terribly
I
Crushed.
Five persons were crushed to death
Tuesday night when an express train
on the Pennsylvania railroad struck
an automobile at Mill Lane Crossing,
on the West Jersey and Seashore
itailroad.
T.he dead are: Frederick W. Feidner
and wife; Fritz Mergenthaler
and wife; M. C. Jones, chauffeur, all
of Baltimore. Mergenthaler was the
son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Feidner. I
The party had been spending a few
days in Atlantic City and that afternoon
left for an automobile ride to
Cape May.
As they approached the tracks the
express was hidden from view by a
corn field and it was impossible for
the chauffeur to see the train- until
he was within a few feet of the
track*,.
As the automobile bore down toward
the tracks, (Mrs. Thomas McNeill,
who resides close to the crossI
cow tho rnniftlv n nnrnach ill er ox
| n*h i X' X' - --o
press, and waved her hand for the
automobile driver to stop his car,
but the man either did not see the
danger or thought he could cross the
tracks before the train reached him,
and dashed on to the road just as
the train reached the crossing.
The train struck the automobile
squarely between the wheels, and
threw it and all of the occupants
clear of the tracks. All five of the
riders were instantly kiled and badly
cut and bruised.
The bodies were quickly gathered
together and a physician hurriedly
summoned, but a glance at the mangled
forms showed plainly no need
for medical aid.
So severe was the impact that
pieces of the machine were driven
I on the piston rod.
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bile squarely between the wJieels and
threw it and all the occupants clear
of the tracks. All five of the riders
were instantly killed. Coroner
Reeves reached the scene a few minutes
after the accident occurrd. He
took charge of the five bodies and
had them carried to the morgue.
TIMBER KILLS SAWYER.
Colored Man Meets With Fatal Mishap
at Saw Mill.
A colored man employed at the
Pen.iL Lumber Company, at Sumter,
suffered a horrible death Monday. A
sharp piece of wood entered his eye
with terrific force, completely penetrating
his head and causing almost
instant death. Singleton held the
position of sawyer at the lumber
yard, and when hit by the timber, be 1
was running what is know as the '
"rip" saw. Ho v/as ripping the 1
rough edge off a board, and when i
the edge was off the saw, in some <
unaccountable way, jecked it back, <
sending it oil its deathdealing mis- >
sion. Singleton was rushed to the ^
Sumter hospital, where an operation a
was hurriedly performed, but with- 1
out success. The patient lived but
\ few minutes after the operation s
bad been completed. No inquest was li
held. 1
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SLAVED HIS imOTllTK. s
Whom lie Hud Mistaken for a Hob- j!
l?er of Their Home. ^
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Relieving he was shooting at a e
burglar, Ivy Land, aged 22, after
midnight Monday morning, shot and a
killed his brother, Quintus Land, 20, c
years of age at Albany, Oa. Ivy e
was aroused by the screaming of a
woman in the neighborhood and with
his shotgun ran to hey assistance.
Shortly afterwards he heard another
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woman screaming In the direction of ^
his own home. He ran back just in ^
time to see his younger brother, who {
also had been aroused and was hurrying
to investigate the cause of the
trouble, leap from a window of their
home. Ho lired, killing bis brother
instantly. ^
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DAMAGED HY FI/OOD.
TKnnvaiwIi; in .lumin \l iwlo 11 < kill<>1 I
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by Water.
The devastation wrought throughout
many districts in Japan by the recent
floodss is appalling. Whole
villages and towns have been washed
away and many lives have been lost.
In the lower sections of Tokio
alone 30,000 houses were submerged.
Communication by railroad
throughout the flooded area has been
interrupted. There is much suffering
and in many places the inhabitats
are destitute and threatened
with starvation. The loss amounts
to millions of dollars.
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Collier Hunk.
The naval collier Marcellus, lieB
at the bottom of the ocean, in latitude
36, longitude 74.8, having sunk
in ten hours after she was struck by
the Norwegian fruit steamer, S. Rosario
di Giorgio, last Tuesday
WANTED HIS MONEY
A MOST HOI HUB J CBIME BY A
. F ABM KB PKKAC1IKB.
Cliai'Kod With Murdering Youth foi
Insurance Money and Then Setting
Fire to the House.
The supposed murder of a youH
to secure $2,500 insurance 011 hi!
life, the gutting of Hie Rock Sprint
hotel, a combination hotel and lodg
ing house on the wharf, the arrest o
J. C. Holly, about 4 0 years old, pro
prietor of the house, erst whil<
preacher of Uie Janctiflcation faith
constituted the sensational of a trag
ic lire which occurred in Wilming
ton, X. C., says a dispatch to Tin
State.
Edward Cromwell, 19 years old
said to have come to Wilmington foui
months ago from an orphan home ii
Charleston, and was cook at the ho
tel, was found lying on the lloor ol
his room, in his night clotlies, nearlj
an hour after the iirse was discov
ered.
Capt. W. P. Monroe, assistant
chief of the fire department, who was
the first to enter the room, testified
at the coroner's investigation thai
the body was lying parallel with the
bed, which sJiowed no evidence of
having been disturbed, his feet toward
the head of the bed, thus exploding
the theory that the youtn
fell from the bed.
The mattress, he testified, was saturuated
with kerosene oil and under
the head of the dead youth was
found a counterpane also saturated
with oil, while two large empty oil
cans were found in an adjoining
room. Other witnesses testified to
hearing a noise as if a struggle about
midnight in the youth's room.
J. H. Scull testified that on Monday,
acting as notary public he signed
certificate of transfer of insurance
policy for $2,500 from Cromwell to
Holly, the premium on which he was
informed was paid by Holly, who had
applied foi insurance to tiie amount
of $5,000, the company refusing more
than $2,500. This is supposed tc
have furnished the motive for the
crime that is believed to have been
committeod.
The most important development
was discovered by Dr. W. C. Bell, coroner,
that L. B. Sasser, a druggist
sold to J. C. Holly, proprietor of the
hotel, sixteen ounces of Bateman'e
drops, containing laudanum, etc., al
about ten o'clock Tuesday night, and
tJie subsequent finding by the physician
of the bottle in the hotel with
le*ss than a teaspoonful of the drug
in it. /
WOULD SAVE HIMSELF.
Gov. Patterson Sees Handwriting on
the Wall.
As an outcome of the recent judicial
election in Tennessee, in which
the regular Democratic nominee,
which he suported were defeated i>y
ndependents who had the active aid
>g the Republican organization. Govjrnor
Patterson has issued a state-,
nent expressing a willingness to
vaive the Democratic nomination for
i third term, which he has already
eceived and again test the question
if the choice of Democracy in any
ort of a primary. Thus he would
lope, .he says, to save the State to
)emocracy.
The address among other things
ays:
The pernicious inter-meddling of
Republican President with the afairs
of the Democratic party in our
Itate should be resented and his well
aid plan to Republicanize it thwartd
before it is too late.
"Those Democrats who are active! \
iding and abetting his efforts exuse
their treason by saying that it
s necessary in order to eliminate me
rom politics.
"If t.his is true, why not bring it
iDont in a way that will restore harnony
and not destroy Democratic as
pendancy? If the majority of the
Jemocrats are opposed to me as it
s claimed, I should not represent
hem as their candidate for Governor."
The Governor then offers to enter
\ new primary and adds:
"The only condition 1 make is that
the successful nominee shall he supported
in the November election by
all who participate in the primary."
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CONDITION FAVORABLE.
Official lluInlet ins Cheerful.?Sleeping
Well.
Expressions of encouragement on
the part of all the watchers by Mayor
William J. Gaynor's bedside ushered
in the fourth day of his fight for recovery.
An official bulletin at 7.10
o'clock Friday morning said "Mayor
Gaynor passed a very good night. He
slept seven hours. He is comfortable
this morning and is is excellent
general conditions. His temperature
is 100; pulse 70; respiration 16."
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Died in the Surf.
'William J. Day, a young man aged
19 of Richmond, Va., was drowned
while bathing Sunday at Ocean View.
The body has not been recovered.
Several girl friends saw young Day
drown, but were powerless to aid
him.
A
BREAK SOLID SOUn
k president wants to patch up
POIilTICAL trouble.
r Tuft Summons to Beverly the Reputv
; Means from Tennessee to Discust
Matters in that State.
i President Talf and President Had
3 ley of Yale were in conference al
? Beverly in regard to the personnel
of the commission which is to be ap1
pointed to inquire into the proposed
" regulations of the issues of stock*
1 and bonds by railroads.
While Mr. Hadley has not yet defi
" nitely accepted t.he tendered positioi;
" of chairman of the commission, lie
5 is giving the president all the assist
ance he can in formulating a plan oJ
? work, and it is believed that evenr
tually he will take the chairmanship
1 Mr. Taft is strongly urging the mat"
ter upon him.
f An effort is being made to have
r the commission represent all phrase*
" of the work. The so-called "progressive"
sentiment of the republican
^ party is to be represented.
5 President Taft and his poliitcal ad
1 visers believe that the republican
: party has a good opportunity to car'
ry Tennessee this fall and thus make
a break in the "Solid South"?one
of the president's ambitions.
With this in view Mr. Taft has in1
vited a number of the party leaders
in Tennessee to Beverly in order to
' see if the republicans cannot adjust
their differences of the pass and go
; into the coming campaign in harmony.
The Tenneseeans lunched Friday
with the President. Among them
were Representative Sanders and
Judge G. M. Henderson.
The Republican hope as viewed
from Beverley is based on the split
in the democratic party and the re1
cent overwhelming victory of the in1
dependent judicial ticket, which won
1 by from 45.000 to 50,000 majority.
In addition to a governor, there is
- to be elected this fall a legislature,
! which will name a successor to Sen1
ator Frazier.
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i CELEBRATE THEIR BIRTHDAY.
Senator Tillman and I)r. Bubcock
Dined Together.
i Thursday was the birthday of two
exceedingly well known South CaroI
linians, Benjamin Ryan Tillman, an
. unique figure in the United States
senate, and Dr. James Woods Babcock,
one of the leading alienists of
the country.
While in many respects vastly different
from each other, tJie sena/or
and the doctor are intimate personal
friends and have many tastes in common.
Each in his sphere has rendered
distinguished service to his
state. The senator Thursday entered
his 64 bh year, the doctor his 55th.
Dr. Babcock was in a good berth
with a large asylum in the North
when Senator Tillman sought him
out and brought him South to take
charge of bhe State Hospital for the
insane at Columbia and the soundness
of this choice has been amply
vindicated by the career of Dr. Babcock
since that time.
The two friends had planned a
little dinner last Sunday at Senator
Tillman's plantation home at Tren
on, as a sort of anticipatory celebration
of the birth lays, but urgent odiritil
business kept Dr. Habcock in
Columbia that clay, but the two (lined
together on Thursday.
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I'KO.M I'TLY I.YX<'IIKi{ HIM.
Negro Kutered (jiiT.s Itoom and Tlien
the Nevt World.
Jim Toler, a negro, was lynched at
one o'clock Thursday morning at Alma,
(Ja., by a mob of over 100 men
for having entered the room of two
daughters of a prominent plater of
Montgomery county Tuesday night,
while the girls were in bed asleep.
It is stated that one of uie gins was
awakened by Toler when he raised
the mosquito netting over the bed
and that her screams frightened him
away. Search for the negro began
at once and the next afternoon a
posse of men came upon Toler working
in a corn field and aoused him
of the crime. He confessed his
guilt and was tied to a tree and shot
to death
RUN OVER BY TRAIN.
Young Man Killed on C., C. and O.
Near Spartanburg.
Vernon Jolley, 19 years old, son
of Stephen Jolley, a well known and
highly respected farmer living six
miles west of Chester in Spartanburg
1 County, was run over and killed early
Thursday morning on the C., C.
and O., about ono mile above the
1 Chesney depot. He was killed by
the excursion train which had taken
a party to Johnson City, and was returning
to Bostic after putting off
I the passengers at Spartanburg. The
I accident happened at 12.30 a. mM
. and the body was not discovered un
til after sunrise, when Mr. Black well,
who lives near the scene of the acci]
dent, happened to be going down the
drack.
| FIRST NATK
A CONAVA
? CAPITAL STOCK
' ? SURPLUS PROFITS
, /|y TOTAL ASSESTS
f 1)1 RFC
J. A. MeDermott, John (
t J|W H. G. CoJlins, H. L. I
[ lb M. Burroughs, C. P. Qui
Successor to the Bank 01
' lb Horry County, and a pioneer
? vlJ ]y allied with the recent dev
/jft Republic. Backed by the
- it United States Bonds, we are i
1 & toniers any reasonable aeconu
J /fit H. A. SPIVEY,
1 $ Cashier.
bankTOI
k
Conwa
Has largest capital and surplus of a
than the combined capital and surp
! CAPITAL STOCK
SURPLUS
LIABILITIES OF STOCK
SECURITY OF DEPOSIT!
DIRE(
Robert B. Scarborough,
H. L. Buck,
George J. Holiday,
We offer our customers every acc<
will justify, and we i
ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH, D
i'kkhidkm.
We continue to pay 5 pel
PROFESSIONAL. CARDS.
H. H. WOODWARD
Attorney and Councelor At La*.
CONWAY, 8. O.
R. B. SCARBKOUGH
CONWAY, S. C.
Attorney at Law.
H. H. BURROUGHS
(Physician and Surgeoi.
CONWAY, 8. C.
B. WOFFORD WAIT.
Attorney at Yi?
Rank of Horry Ruilding.
I CONWAY, 8. O.
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THE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWING MACHINE
a feLIGHT RUNNING ^
ffyon want either a Vibrating Shuttle, Rotary
buttle or a Mingle Thread (Cham Stitch}
Be wing Machine write to
THE MEW HUH SEWINC MACHINE OCMPANT
Orange, Mass.
Clear sewing machines are made to sett recardtees Sf
auaiitr. but the New JRonao is made to weac.
Our ruaraatr never runt out
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roe seta av y
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Conway, B. C.
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Attacked by Gamecock.
Everett Tlusse Weber, a five-yearold
boy, was attacked and badly Injured
at Chicago Monday by a thoroughbred
game rooster. The child
was unconscious when the bird was
driven from him. The rooster jumped
at the boy's head and inflicted
several gashes in his forehead. In
one a blood vessel was bursted.
' Four Men Dead.
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Four men were killed and six otaers
injured when an equipment train
bucko into a moving yard engine in
, the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
i yards at llandley, W. Va., Saturday
night.
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DNAL BANK |J
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. . $25,000.00 ^ B
2,500.00 rfS m
125,000.00 P
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3. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, K
luck, W. H. Lewis, I). jgk fl
attlebaum, I). A. Spivey. 9
f Conway, t.he oldest Hank in JjL fi
in Wastern Carolina. Close- J* IE
elopnient of the Independent Ijj
Government' and secured by JIL 9
irepared to extend to our cub- JL g
modations. KwS B
H. O. COLLINS,
President. ^ jgj
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v. SL c. ^1
jw i
ny bank in Horry county. More
lus of all other banks in the county.
$50,00?
12,500
HOLDERS . . . . 50,000
DRS 112,500
;tors j
D. V. Richardson, i
W. A. Johnson, l
"Will A. Freeman. 1
Dmmodation which their accounts
solicit your business.
. V. Richardson, will a.'fbekmae 1
Vice Pk?:8idknt. Cashiee a
r cent, on yearly deposits. flj
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CENSUS WILL REVEAL 1
(NATION'S POPULATION ABOUT I
NINETY MILLIONS. J
liclipved Tluit Tliis This lie Figute
Shown by Thirteenth Census.? .
Tiio Counting. fl
It will be October before the peo- 1
pie of the United States learn their fl
true numbers as revealed by the ofli- I
cial count of the 1:1th census. It is fl
generally believed that tJie number I
will be about 90,000,000, and certsus fl
eilicials are known to share in this fl
general belief, although they know fl
nothing about this. 1
This belief is based on the fact 1
that an increase slightly in excess I
oi the 13,000,000 increase during J
the previous deeade would bring the 1
population in 1910 to the 90,000.000 fl
in; rk. About 300 of the more than fl
IN,000 census clerks an-* eompMii g fl
population figures, while the oth- fl
?T8 are working on other statistics. fl
V/Oil I I'll ry I O lilt; giMH'iiii U|UIHUU, .ii*
Mie counting of the people is done
>.y clerks, the tabulating machines
being used only in classification as
to race, sex and other conditions. m
Enumeration figures will continue fl
to he given out day by day for the
next two months or more, while the 4|H
sociological and industrial figures S
will come later. All enumerated lig- M
ures are counted from three to
times and an investigation is order- '"ii
ed if there is any sugggestion of or
ror. In two cases evidence of fraud
had been discovered and in one, that
of Great Falls, Mont., a prosecution 1
has been undertaken for fraudulent u
enumeration.
The intention of Director Durand
is to tabulate first the population of
the large cities, after which the figures
for the States will he given out |
as they are ascertained, the returns
for all counties in the State being
announced at the same time as the
figures for the State. I
IXCKE A SEI> ACCIDENTS.
Xumber Killed During First Quarter
Eleven Hundred.
A considerable increase in the |
number of persons killed and injur- |
ed on the railways of the United fl
States during the months of January, J
February and'March, 1910, is shown m
over the corresponding period of
year. The total number killed dur-^
ing the quarter was 1,100 and 21,- |j
323 were injured. This was an in- ^
crease of 466 killed and 6,110 in
jured, as compared with the corres- ^
ponding period last year. There were 9
19 killed on electric railways and |
669 injured. The figures were made |
public by the interstate commerce
commission from reports submitted
by railroads as required by law.
Policeman Suicides. ,
Jaso D. Shockney aged 43, police- i
man at Centennial Park, Nashville, A
Tenn. committed suicide at his homo^fl
by shooting himself with a revolver.^?
| No cause is known for his dead.
Meat is higher again. The trusJHj
has to get its money back somehow,
since no one eats any meat now but tj
the iiired girl. 9