The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 08, 1910, Image 5
BANDIT KILLED
JUdc ai Attempt to Bold Dp Passenger
Trail oo Vestera Road,
KNOCKED DOWN BY ROCK
Thrown by the Bruve Engineer Afte*
He Wa8 Shot in tlie Leg by the
liohber, Who Was Iiuttantly Killed
by the Blow.?Body Has Not
U<*n Identified.
In a desperate attempt to hold up
westbound Colorado Midland train
No. 3, four miles west of Divide,
Cal., early Friday morning, an unknown
bandit was instantly killed
by a rock thrown by Engineer Frank
Stewart after he had shot the engineer
in the leg.
Two young men who were found
near the scene of the hold-up, are
held for investigation as to their
complicity in the robbery. One was
slightly wounded in the head by
a bullet.
The highwaymen crawled over the
tender as the train slowed up at a
siding to meet an eastbotind train.
As he stopped the train, Stewart
turned to see his fireman, Paul
Bachman, standing with his hands
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above his head ana nearu lu? iuuber
say: "Put up your hands or I'll
jblow your head off." The robber
then forced both men to leave the
engine and marched them before
him to the express car. .
According to the story told by
6tewart, who was brought to a hospital,
the robber ordered them to
tell the express messenger they were
In peril of their lives, that the train
bad been held up and that the robber
was determined to have the
money in the express car. Stewart
states that the robber fired several
ahots at the heads of passengers
who looked out to see what was
happening.
"When we got to the express car,"
Baid Stewart, "my fireman dashed
under the car and crawled to the
other side. The robber leaned under
the car to shoot at him, and when
lie took his eyes off me, I struck [
him with all my strength with a
rock I had picked up as I jumped
off the tender. As I did so, he
whirled and shot at me, the bullet
striking me in the leg. Guess my
blow finished him, for he never moved
after the rock hit him. I must
have fainted then, for the next 1
knew the conductor and express
messenger and a group of excired
passenger were standing about me. '
(When the remainder of the train
crew heard the shots they seized
weapons and rushed to the head of
the train, firing as they came.
Stewart was given immediate medical
attention by physicians who were
on board the train, and was brought
to Colorada Springs. Ilis condition
la not serious.
Shortly after the hold-lip Sheriff
?ha
Von Puhl ana a posse m-uuieu c.?c
country near the scene of the attempted
holdup and discovered the
two unknown men hiding in the
brush. One was dazed by a bullet
wound in the head. He Is out on
parole from tho State reformatory.
The men claim they were riding the
blind baggage and were beating their
^ way to Grand Junction. They say
Jpone was struck by a stray bullet
from the bandits' gun. They are
held for investigation.
The, dead robber wore a cloth
mask and a gunnysack tied about '
his neck. He has been identified
There was no unusual shipment of
money in the express car, but the
bandit told the fireman as they
marched along the train that lie intended
to rifle the passengers as well
as the We s-r a.?,'? box. *
I AUTO TIRE HURST.
( y^On<> Mail Killed ami Four Others
| Painfully Hurt.
A bursted fire caused a touring
car, in which five men were riding, |
a Knmersault Sunday on a |
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part of the grand prize race course,
near Savannah, and almost instantly
killed Mike Jones, a well known
retail furniture merchant in Savannah.
The four other men were badly
bruised, hut not seriously hurt.
Jones, was picked up by an autot
mobile, which had followed the party,
and was hurried to a hospital, but
died just as he reached the building.
He was the owner of the wrecked
automobile, and was at the wheel
when the accident occurred.
The machine was torn to pieces.
It was stated that Jones's head was
caught by the steering wheel as the
car turned over, and his neck was
broken. Otherwise, he was not even
very badly bruised.
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SUNDERS SQUELCHED
CERTAIN REPORTS ABOUT
FEATHEK8TONE DENIED.
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Prominent Bu?ine<M Men of IwiureuM
and Members of His Church Testify
to His Character.
To the General Public:
It having come to our notice that
rumors to the contrary are current,
we, the undersigned citizens and
business men of the city of Laurens,
desire to bear testimony to the moral
character, business ability and
integrity of C. C. Featherstone.
.Having Known nun in uusumss
and socially for over twenty five
years, beg to say that he is a man
of capacity, of correct habits, of a
high sense of honor, whose word
is as good as a bond, * and whose
ideas represent the highest and heat
type of citizenship. He is progressive,
public-spirited and loyal to all
that he believes to be true. He has
worked his way up in spite of the
handicap of modest pecuniary endowments
by the practice of perseverance,
industry and self-education
in the school of experience. The
breath of scandal can annoy but not
besmirch a record such as his.
To counteract the gross injustice
that some would do him, we feel
called upon to bear witness to facts
whereof we know. We, his neighbors,
know nothing and are satisfied
there is nothing against his habits,
character or standing that would
make him an unworthy occupant of
the responsible position to which he
aspires. We are satisfied, that if
elected, he will always conduct him
8<i 1 f in such a way as to reflect credit
upon himself, his family, his country
and the entire State.
YY\ A. Watts, president of People's
Loan and Exchange Hank.
O. B. Simmons, president of Hank of
La urens.
N. B. Dial, president of Enterprise
Hank.
J. J. Pluss, president of Palmetto
Bank.
C. VV. Tune, secretary and treasurer
of' Laurens Trust Company.
I). A. Davis, president of Davis-Roper
company.
S. M. Wilkes of S. M. & E. H. Wilkes
com pa ny.
H. K. Aiken of the Laurens Drug
company.
P. A. Simpson, of Todd, Simpson &
Co.
R. E. Babb, of Simpson, Cooper &
Hal>l>.
J. C. Owings, of Owings and Bolio.
it. A. Cooper, solicitor Eighth circuit.
W. L. Gray, of Laurens Hardware
com pany.
John W. Ferguson, attorney.
John F. Bolt, clerk of court.
L. P. McGheo, pastor of First Methodist
church. (I have known him
for some ten years. Have known
him personally for nearly a year.
W. E. Thayer, pastor of First Baptist
churcn. (I have known him
personally for nearly three years.)
C. F. Rankin, pastor of First Pros
byterian church. (1 have known
Mr. Feathorsto.-? for two and o?uhalf
years and heartily indorse the
paper above, i
From Hoard of Stewards.
Whereas, certain defamatory reports
are being circulated in Colum
bia, Spartanburg and elsewhere (
throughout the State derogatory to |
the moral and Christian character
of t'. C. Featherstone:
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1 UtM til Ul tT, l>U It ii'nui i 1:11, i 11 it
we, the board of stewards of the
First M. KJ-. Church, South, of l,aurens,
S. C.t of which Mr. Featherstone
is a member, do hereby take
pleasure in asserting.
That we have been intimately associated
with C. C. Featherston? as J
a member of our board for ovr.
twenty years, and that his character'
has been that of an upright Chris-j
tian gentleman, and consistent and
loyal member of our church.
That he has been for 15 years
superintendent of our Sunday school
and twice in the last ten years a
delegate to the general conference
of the M. 10. Church, South, as the
representative of his church from
South Carolina.
That we brand as maliciously false
any and all reports circulated inconsistent
with the above resolution.
John F. Holt, chairman of the board;
W. L. Gray, J. F. Tolbert, H. Tor%
ry, J. .1. Pluss, O. B. Simmons, G.
G. Halle, .Jr., Aug. Huff, It. K.
Babb, S. G. McDanlel, J. L. Hopkins.
Laurens, S. C., Sept. 1, 1010.
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Died from Carbolic Acid.
John Schlute, a brother of Frank I
Schlute, the outfleelder of the Chicago
National baseball club, was'
found dead in bed in a hotel in Les-1
tershire Monday. Death was due|
to carbolic acid taken with suicidal j
intent, according to thee coroners
inquest.
BRIBE HI
BOLD BANDITS
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Hold Up aid Jlnrter Paymaster Aod
His Companion Aid Guard.
THE ROBBERS ESCAPE
The liohl Murder ami Robbery Occurred
in Sight of the Brick Factory,
to Which the Victims Were
Ooiiig With Money to Pay Off the
Workmen There.
Masked robbers sprang: out of the
bushes alongside of a lonely road
near Hudson, N\ Y., Saturday afternoon,
held up Dent Fowler, paymaster
of the Atlas Brick Company, and
his negro driver, shot the driver
dead, wounded Fowler mortally and
made off with a chest of pay envelopes
containing $5,000. George
Kagsdale, the driver, died instantly;
his head was torn away by two 4 4caliber
bullets. He was GO years old
and a trusted employe. Fowler was
wounded over the heart and died
without regaining lull consciousness.
He was 2 1 years old. The robbers
escaped.
-Saturday is pay day at the yards
of the Atlas Brick Company and, according
to custom Fowler called at .
the Newburgh bank for bis pay mon-j
ey, sorted it out into the properi
amounts, ticketed tbe envelopes and
started back to the yards, half a
mile out of town on the banks of
the Hudson river. He went armed
as paymasters do and for further .
protection took with him Kagsdale, |
who was stable boss at the yards, j
It was raining and thev rode with'
the buggy top up, the hoot well rais-i
ed in front and their heads far hack |
in the hood. That made it easy for!
the robbers. |
.J list what happened when the
hold-up came will never be known .
until the murderers are caught and |
confess. Fowler died before he could .
utter more than a few unintelligible
words. j
Although the shooting wrts done
within three hundred yards of the,
State Firemen's Home and within j
sight of the yards themselves, it was
neither seen nor heard. The police
have to piece together a theory of
the crime from bullet holes and footprints.
Five shots were fired. Two
of them tore away the side of Itagsdale's
head. A third struck the paymaster
above the heart. The fourth
and fifth passed through the hack of
the raised buggy top. From the
size of the holes it would appear that
the robbers used regulation army 4 4calibro
revolvers. From the foot
prints there seem to have been live
in the band.
The hold-up and the shooting must'
have followed each other almost with
the rapidity of the shots themselves.
It can be seen that somebody grabbed
hold of the horse's bridle. If a
demand for the paymaster's box was
made he never had time to refuse or
comply. There is no evidence that j
he attempted to defend himself. His;
revolver is still clean. Huddled in.
the buggy top. muffled in the boot, I
he must have been shot down like a 1
traoned animal. From this unreas-1
oiling haste the police deduce that J
the robbers were desperately tend-!
fled.
The police are inclined to believe
that the holdup was a professional
job. The robbers carried with them
the small pay chest. It has not been
recovered and may have been weighted
down and thrown into the river.
Five sets of tracks led northward
from the scene of the murder. At
a short distance from the roadside
New York Central detectives and the
Hudson police found where the trails
seperated, but they have no other
clue and no description.
It was variously reported that the
murderers got $15,000 and $7,500,
but advices from Newburgh, where
the money was drawn, place the
amount at $5,000.
Killed by Lightning.
NYilie Sherill, a white man, living
on the place of \\\ B. Hrunson,
in the Antioeh section of Darlington
county, was killed by lightning Friday
afternoon about four o'clock and
Dr. VV. A. Carrigan, of Society Mill
was severely shocked. The men
were working on a horse at the time
which was also killed by the bolt.
Mr. Sherill was about thirty-five {
vnaru '.i o'rfi nt\il Inn vnu *2 m i 1 v
Killed l?y His Friend.
While several small boys were
playin g on the hack porch at the
home of A. H. Whitesides, a dairy
wagon driver, in Atlanta, Saturday
afternoon, Harold Whitesides shot
and instantly killed "Son" Hewett,
ap;ed 12, the bullet passing through,
the boy's head. It was said at the
Whitesides home, that the shooting
was accidental.
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CHOLERA IN RUSSIA
8EVBNTY THOV8AXI) HAVE DIED
WITH THE DISEASE.
Situation throws More Serious Hut
the Government Is Working Hard
to Stay the Epidemic.
The cholera situation in Russia
steadily grows more alarming. Already
figures show that there have
been more than 70,000 deaths from
the plague, and new points of infection
are reported daily.
The best estimates now place the
number of cases at 65,000, and the
death rate has so far been fully 50
per cent.
The output of coal in the Donetz
I't^irinn him nwl ncnil liv (.It tw-M*
cent., and a partial paralysis of railway
and industrial operations has set
in. The ignorance of the peasants,
coupled with the awful lack of proper
medical and sanitary organization,
makes the task of coping with the
unprecedented epidemic well-nigh
desperate.
Prof. Rein and a numerous medical
staff have gone south with instructions
from the government to
take every measure to arrest the
progress of the cholera, especially iti
the colliery districts. The action is
somewhat tardy. The epidemic h is
already laid low 4,000 miners and
thousands of others have tied to their
homes, spreading contagion in the
I villages in the central and southern
1 districts.
The Novoe Vreinya depicts the situation
in the gloomiest colors. It
fears that cholera riots on a lat-te
scale will take palce. The local authorities
have decreed severe pains
and penalties for concealment of
cases, or for offering resistance to
the sanitary detatchments. .Nevertheless
tiie lives of the doctors and
nurses are in constant peril, for the
benighted peasants are persuaded
that they sow the germs of the disease.
The Novoe Vremya points out that
agriculture is suffering severely he
cause of lack of hands to harvest th?
crops and convey the grain to the
railways. A coal famine Is imminent.
Empty trucks are accumulating
at wayside stations. Prices
are rising rapidly.
A DEADLY SIN DAY.
Three Drowned and One Suicide in
Tampa, Florida.
Three drownings and one suicide
were the tragic events in Tampa,
Florida, last Sunday:
Harry T. Cole, London, sailor on
steamship Cayo Manzanillo, drowned
at Seaboard terminals.
Hubert Stainm, n rem em, fireman
on stoamsbin St .lohann. drowned u\
Port Tampa.
Herman, Knoll, Rremem, fireman
on steamship* St. Johann, drowned
at Prot Tain pa.
C. R. lOvans, collector, suicide.
Stamm and Knoll were in swimming;
at Port Tampa. Knoll, the
younger of the two, could not swim,
and when he reached water over his
head called for help. Stamm went to
his assistance and both were drowned.
Cole was in swimming near the
Seaboard terminals, when he was
seized with cramps. His body has
not been recovered.
lOvans* body was found in the
grass 011 Nebraska avenue by a nePTo
mull :i ml hiv; ? ! I'o ivuc ;?
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bottle half filled with whiskey and
morphine. Me was a collector for a
local loan association and was recently
married.
>IA\ KILLS IIIS WIFK.
After the Rental Deed He Dared Any
to Follow Him.
With a foul oath, Alinon Rains
shot and killed his wife, Stella Rains,
at Friendship, a lumber siding two
miles below Apex, N. 0., Saturday
morning. He used a breech loading
shotgun, which he borrowed from a
neighbor for the purpose. He flred
a load stjuarely in her eye, tearing
off the top of her head. Death was
instantaneous. Loading the gun
again he dared and to follow him.
He came to Apex and caught a north*
I M J I 1 I I U j P<1 onl ll I I I ' I I I I . \ I 1 I 11*11 II Ivo
along tho line were notified to look
out for him. No cause is assigned
for this rash act. Tho woman killed
had a had reputation.
Peculiar Accident.
Oscar 11. Kason, a young white
man. was literally hanged by a plank
over the Chattohoochie River, near
Columbus, (la., on Saturday. He was
at work on a dam. which is being
built, across the river, when a plank
struck against his neck and pinned
him to some timbers. His neck was
broken, and when the plank slipped
away he dropped into tho river.
THE HI
SIZES OP TEDDY
Speeches tf Roosevelt Severely Criticised
by Wn. Banes, Jr.
TWO ROGUES FALL OUT
New York Republican leader Declare#
in Statement that MHysteria
Ha# Run Riot Throughout
this Country" and Inferrentlally
Places Responsibility.
The old adage that when rogues
fall out honest men will get their
dues, is on the way to verification
In the State of New York, where
the Republican leaders are gunnipg
for Teddy, who has fallen like a
firebrand in their midst. It is to
be hoped that the fight will be a
veritable kilkenny cat affair. The
people would be benefited.
Win. Barnes, Jr., Republican Stato
committeeman and leader of Albany
issued a statement Friday night, in
which he declares that "hysteria has
run riot throughout this country, '
and that the question to be decided
at the coming Republican State Convention
at Saratoga, is "whether tho
Republican party will fight, the disease
or succumb in the interests of
politicians seeking ollice or temporary
acclaim..'
The character of the recent ad
dresses of Theodore Roosevelt in
the Weyt, he says, "has startled all
thoughtful men and impressed them
with the frightful danger which lies
in his political ascendency."
When he talked with Col. Roosevelt,
after the meeting that selected
Mr. Sherman temporary chairman of
the Convention over the Colonel
and learned his attitude toward
public matters." Mr. Barnes says he
told the former President he never
could have voted for him. 'Mr.
Barnes' statement in part says:
"At the coining Convention it will
be determined whether the Republican
party of this State, otlicially,
through its chosen representatives
In Convention, intends to^ bow its
head to the political agitation of the
hour, which is the cause of the palsy
overhanging the business world today
or will stand firmly and in unmistakeable
terms by its rock-ribbed
conservative principles, which have
when it is in power, given confidence
to the business world and encouraged
enterprises.
"Hysteria has run riot throughout
this country, expressing itself ?n
one form or another, such as 'direct
nominations,' the 'initiative and referendum,'
the initiative and recall'
?it matters little what particular
form hysteria takes-?the ? question
to be decided at Saratoga is whether
the Republican party will fight
the disease or succumb in the interests
of the politicians seeking office
or temporary acclaim.
"The recent attack on the Supreme
Court of the United States by
a keen witted and aspiring citizen
could not have been made without
a purpose well considered. It was
an appeal to passion. If this appeal
against judicial decision is popular
and not rebuked there is no reason
whatsoever, if a direct primary law
should be enacte din this state, why
candidates for judicial offices, compelled
to run the gauntlet of a district
or Statewide primary, would
not, in order to appeal to the temporary
sentiments of the moment,
declare in advance their attitude upon
matters which come before them
for judicial review. Instead of men
of long legal experience and judicial
training, there would be as candidates
for the Bench lawyers who
would not hesitate to make that
kind of appeal to the people, which
would be a disgrace to their profession."
Takes Cp For Teddy.
When Mr. Barnes' statement was
communicated to Lloyd C. Ciriseom,
president of the New York county
Republican committee, at his country
place at Fairlleld, Conn., Friday
night, he dictated the following reply:
"Mr. Barnes is trying by words to
make the public forget he and his
closest associates have recently been
caught in an ugly and deceitful at
tempt to obtain control of the coming
Republican State Convention.
The Republican party in New York
State will have a welcome opportunity
at the Convention to reprove
such methods." *
Killed in Runaway.
Mrs. Wesley Miller, the widow
who was injured Friday near Zeb,
three miles from Salisbury, X. C., bv
'
being thrown from a wagon occupied
by herself and two children, the mule
running away, died at the Whitehead
Stokes sanitarium Saturday, never
having regained consciousness.
A
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COTTON CROP REPORT
SOUTH CAROLINA CROP 18 PUT
AT SKVENTYVTHREK.
Tl?e Crop Reporters for the Government
I mm ue a Statement of Cotton
on Condition.
The crop reporting board of the
1/fjJrt i i mcii i ui s\ |j> i iv. u 11 u i c rn mtiaiv o
that the average condition of the
cotton crop on August 25 was 72.1
as compared with 75.5 on July 25,
1910; 63.7 on August 25, 1909; 76.1
on Auig-ust 25,1908; and 73.1 the
average of the past ten years on
August 25.
'Comparisons of conditions on August
25 follows: 10-Year
States 19 1 0 1909 Average
Virginia 82 73 79
North Carolina..76 73 76
South Carolina..73 74 76
Georgia 7 1 73 7 6
Florida 7 4 75 7 8
Alabama 7.2 66 7 2
Mississippi 7 1 61 7 5
Louisiana 6 0 4 8 7 1
Texas 69 59 69
Arkansas 7 8 6 0 7 3
Tennessee 7 8 7 5 8 1
Missouri 7 8 8 0 Sf>
Oklahoma 85 56 75
California . . . . 95
United States... 72.1 63.7 73.1
While the average condition of
cotton on August 25, according to
the figures of the crop reporting
board of the Department is 8.4 per
cent, better than it was at the corresponding
date last year, it is lowered
by 3.4 per cent, that 't was a
month ago. It is I per cent, lower
than it was at tins time in Ji?us, ana
is 1 per cent, below tho average for
the last ten years.
Officials of the Department of Agriculture
declined to estimate the effect
of the (lures made by the crop
reporting board. The old crop of
I cotton, by reason of existing high
prices, has been practically exhausted.
"Twenty-cent cotton" has called
substantially every bale of spot cotton
from its hiding place, according
to tho views of the department officials.
Just now the new crop is beginning
to come into the market. In
Southern Texas the crop is being
picked and ginned as rapidly as possible
and from now on the crop marketed
will continue to increase for
several months.
TRAIN CLAIMS THREE VICTIMS.
Two Men and One Woman Killed at
Different Points.
Two killed at a distance of twenty
miles apart is the record mad?
by the Southern Passejiger train No.
8 7 Saturday as it passed through Rowan
and Carbarus counties, N. C.
At Lin wood, near Spencer, an unidentified
peddler was struck and instantly
killed as he stepped out of
the way of a freight and was struck
by the fast vestibule. At Concord
Mrs. Florence Hatley, while endeavoring
to lead her cow off on the
south-bound track was killed as was
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naewise i lie row, i\u uiuuie was
attached to the train crew on acscount
of the accidents.
Near Lexington Frank Hillings, a
farmer, was struck and instantly
killed by train No. 3 7. He was walking
on one of the tracks when northhound
train No. 4 4, approached and
he stepped over on the Southbound
track and was killed by No. 3 7.
WORK OF A OKAZY MAX.
Shut His Wife Vp in a Cave With
Two Huge Snakes.
That her husband had Imprisoned
her in a cave in which there were
two huge snakes, from which she
barely escaped with her life, and
that later he attempted to tie her
hands and feet and place her on a
red-hot stove, was the testimony given
by Mrs. Fannie S. Wood, of Denver,
Oal., in the district court in her
suit for divorce from Chester L.
Wood yesterday. She secured her
decree. Wood became insane several
months ago and when officers came
to take him in charge took refuge
in a culvert half tilled with water,
where for several hours he put up
a desperate flg.ht, finally overcome
after he had received severe injuries.
Auto Turned Over.
Turning turtle near Camp Opeeche
Saturday an automobile flung a party
of eight men and women into the
road, instantly killed Mrs. \V. C.
Sears, wife of a prominent lumberman
of llvannis.
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Deadly Lightning.
During a terrific electric storm
which passed over the Southern section
of Rowan county, N. C., Saturday
afternoon Ferric (lihson, colored.
used 1 M years, was instantly killed
by lightning.
RAID