The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 13, 1910, Image 4
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TOTAL WRECK"
Cars M the llliaeis Tractiea System
Clash With Dire Resak
THIRTY SEVEN KILLED
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Disregard of Orders Cause a Coll is- J
ion.?l^irs Art; Completely I>emolish(H),
and the Passengers, Enable
t?> Escape, Flung in Every Position
and Mutilated Terribly.
Thirty-seven persons were killed
and from sixteen to twenty-five injured
in a collision on the Illinois
Traction system, two miles north of
Staunton, Illinois, late Tuesday evening.
Three of the injured will die
and maybe more.
The collision occurred between local
train No. 14, north-bound, and
an excursion train, No. 73, headed
toward St. Louis and loaded with
passengers on their way to view the
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parade 01 toe \eiieu rropufie m 01.
Kouis. The accident, it is said, was
due entirely to the disregard of orders
by the crew of the local, which
was in charge of \1. A. Leonard,
conductor, and John Lieiman, of
Staunton, motorman.
Train No. 14 had orders to pass
train 7 3 at Staunton. The .latter
train was running in two sections
and the orders given to No. 1 4 were
explicit that it should pass both, sections
of"' the south bound train at
Staunton. The first section of 73
, pulled out on the main track and
started north.
At a sharp turn in the road at the
bottom of a decline, the two tram
came together in a splintering eras.
Train No. 14 and the second sec-tioi
of 73 were both on the down gradand
moving at a speed of aboir
forty miles an hour when they im-!
The crew of No. 14 and the cre\
of No. 7 3, which was composed o
W. V. Duncan, conductor, and E. ).
Young:, motorman, both of Springfield,
Illinois, leaped for their lives
as soon as they saw the collision
was inevitable, and all four escaped
without serious injury. They were
badly ?haken up, but were able to
lend a.s?iKtance to the injured an
instant later.
None of the passengers had any
chance t? escape, as the crash between
the cars followed immediately
the cries of warning issued by the
conductors and motormcn as they
jumped from the trains. The cars
came together with a terrific crash,,
and both were demolished and piled
in one huge mass of wreckage,
through which the bodies of the dead
and wounded were scattered. It is
certain that by far the larger portion
of the passengers on both cars
were either killed outright or desperately
Injured. The two trains were
so closely twisted together that it
was a marvel that anybody escaped
death or injury.
A6 quickly as possible word of
the accident was telephoned Springfield
and Peoria, and a special car
was immediately rushed from these
points. Other cars were also sent
north from Granite City, 111. These
hist took many of the injured and
hurried them back to Granite City,
where they were placed in hospitals.
As fast <us the dead were extricated
they were placed in one of the cars
sent from Springfield. In a short
time a car was containing twentyeight
bodies, and it was sent to Carlinsville,
where they were placed in
an undertaking establishment. Late
Tuesday night only three bodies had
been den tilled.
General manager Chubbuck, of the
Traction Company, was in Peoria
when the news of the wreck was received.
Accompanied by minor officials,
ho started at once for the
wreck. At Springfield all the available
physicians were placed on Mr.
Chubbuck's special car and hurried
to Staunton.
Within a few minutes after the
collision occurred farmers from the
surrounding country and nearly every
man in Staunton was en route
to the scene of the accident to render
whatever assistance was possible.
The early comers were greeted
with a spectacle such as was never
before seen in that part of the
country.
The two cars had come together
with such awful force that they were
not only telescoped, but they were
actually battered out of all semblance
of their original shape. They
were simpiy a mass oi splintered |
?oou ami twisted iron and 8te?:l eight
feet high. In this pile of wreckage
the (lead and wounded were flung
in every conceivable position and every
imaginable form of mutilation.
Some of the bodies of the dead
were torn apart, and streams of
blood flowed down the debris in a
dozen places. The farmers and the
citizens of Staunton worked with desperate
haste, however, and in a short
time had taken from the wreckage
all of the living and most of the
dead.
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Passengers Hobbod.
Passengers on a Pullman car attached
to a Hook Island westbound
passenger train that arrived at Pueblo,
Cal., Wednesday were robbed of
$8,000 in cash, drafts, checks and
Jewels after leaving Chicago.
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Why Not This?
Have you ever been delayed for
hours In a railroad station and com
pe'led to remain in the dreary plao*
without a companion, with nothing
but old papers and magazines for diversion?
Few persons who travel
nave not encountered this situation.
Why can not a bulletin be printed
to indicate places of Interest in the
city or town, with directions as to how
to reach those places, and those signs
be hung in plain view in the stations?
7'his is work which could be done by
? '? ?? ..Uii Oflon
(DC women h l iiiun in n vii.t . v/iwu
one has a long, tedious wait, and it
would, indeed, be pleasant to get out
into the city and see one, if no more,
of the Important places, and of print
ed instructions were right in view
the timid would not hesitate to go out.
(live us also the names of respectable
restaurants. One might get these
places to advertise on the bulletin,
which would pay for printing it. How
many strange women alone or with
children know where to go for a
luncheon in a strange city? Some go
into the nearest place around the depot,
not always the most cleanly
places, and often in not very respectable
districts. A timid traveler will
suffer in silence before asking questions,
and it seems this bulletin could
be made so very useful that it would
be a good plan to have such a one
printed and placed in every station
where waits are possible. One of the
dreariest days 1 ever spent in my life
was at a station with nothing to read
but a copy of the Johnstown flood, a
backless book discovered in the operator's
desk. Yet there was a library
within ten'minutes' car ride, and not
an official at the station or any of
the loungers knew where it was lo
cated. 1 doubt if some of them knew
(be city had a library at all.
Oranqe Layer Cake.
Cream four ounces of butter with
four ounces of sugar, then add gradually
four well beaten eggs, sift in
half a pound of flour and one teaspoonful
of baking powder, then add
be grated rind of one orange and
:\%o tablespoonfuls of milk. Mix
well and divide Into buttered and
doured layer tins, spread evenly and
quickly and bake in a hot oven for
about fifteen minutes. Turn out to
nool.
Now take the strained juice of
half an orange and half a lemon, put
them into a small saucepan, ad'V a
level tnhlespoonful of cornstau h,
moistened with one gill of cold watt.'.
Add the grated rind of half an orauge
and four heaping tablespoonfuls
of sugar. Stir over the fire till they
thicken. When cool spread between
the two pieces of cake.
| Then ice with orange icing. To
I .nake the orange frosting, pare the
rind very thinly from one orange and
soak it in the juice for one nour and
a half. Sift eignt ounces of confectioners'
sugar into a basin, add the
strained juice. Beat for a few minutes
and spread on the cake. Out in
to neat squares or triangles.
To Clear Vinegar Cruets.
To keep a vinegar cruet shining
<?nd clean is not easy, as many a
housewife can testify. The neck of
Ine cruei ueuig uai iuh, u>u?ii mime
cleaning methods are futile.
Alter washing the bottle with hot
-oapsuds and rinsing thoroughly a
few hard beans can be inserted in the
beetle, which is then almost tilled
with water, to which a tew drops of
ammonia have been added. Shaking
th?* beans around u ill remove inerus-'
tation from the sides.
A long-handled paint brush with a
f' 11. thick but not broad brush, is ex
client to clean out cruets. It ca/
oe dipped in a solution of soda or
borax.
One housekeeper saves and diies
ner egg shells and puts them in her
cruets, which are half tilled with
soapy water. After shaking thoroughly.
until the bottles are clean,
the cruets are washed and rinsed
with cold water, followed by hot wa
ter.
Pictures for the Nursery.
Pictures for the nursery should tr*
bright, though not too much so. On*
can get pretty prints in pink, blue
Drown and yellow. It is possible to
got baby pictures of great beauty and
they only need a passe-partout bind
ing to make them suitable for dew
rating a room. It would be a gooe
Idea to have a kodak and take thr
children's pictures in everyday ai
tire, in their Sunday best, at play, at
work, asleep and wide awake, pouting.
laughing and in every mood, ih?.n
use these pictures as a frieze in the
room. They can all be done in koda?
colors, or made into blue prints. The
latter is not so lasting, vet 'ook pretty
on a while-papered wall.
Cat Christening.
Now what do you think of having
a cat christening? You might think
more of it, especially when you hear
that the kitten is valued at $f>0. Well,
the day he was christened and was
made to henceforth take the name of
"Tiptoes," the owner's various
friends were invited in. Tip-toes was
the center of attraction of course, and
the recipient of several ribbons, bells
and a little milk bowl.
Pineapple Pie.
Line a pie plate with pastry. Mil
lightly together the well beaten yolks
of four ?*ggs, one cupful of granulated
sugar, one cupful of grated pineapple
and the stilly beaten whites of
two eggs. Hake till ready in a moderate
oven. Cover with a meringue
made with the whites of hree eggs
stiflly beaten and three '.ahlespoohfuls
of sugar added. Serve hot or cold
ATTENTION FARMERS
THE SOUTH ATLANTIC OOItN EXPOSITION
WILL HE
Held In Colombia, at Which Eight
Thousand Dollurs in Prices Will
He Offoivd.
Eight thousand dollars will be offered
in prizes lor the best corn at
the South Atlantic Corn Exposition
held in Columbia December 5?3.
The South Carolina Corn Breeders
Association, who have been promoting
the exposition met in the State
House Thursday and completed
plans for the exposition. The organization
was perfected and prominent
I tinners win ?ni as supt'i ?im-nein?
in the various deportments and promote
the exhibition of corn from the
in various districts of North Carolina.
South Carolina and Georgia.
Prizes were arranged for each
county in South Carolina, for the
congressional districts in South Carolina
and for the three zones of
each North Carolina and Georgia.
Sweep-Stakes will be offered for the
best 10 ears of yellow corn, prolific
white corn, single ear variety white
corn, single ear and bushel lots,
from all the States. . All these exhibits
will come together in Grand
Sweep-Stake and Grand Champion
Sweep-Stake classes.
The largest prize has been ofTere.d
for the best 10 ears of corn grown
in any of the three States. The winner
of the Grand Champion Sweepstake
prize for 10 ears of corn will
receive as his reward prizes approximating
$4 00. This is intened to
bring out the best corn that can he
produced in the South Atlantic
States and $400 for the best 10 e,vs
will cause the farmers to put forth
I fheir verv best efforts in making this
exhibit the finest that can be secured.
It is said this exhibit will carry
great honor with it for an exhioit
of 10 ears of corn that are the be .-p.
that can be grown by any one exhibitor
in any of the three states v4'
South Carolina, North Carolina ana
Georgia, will within itself be a prize
worthy of the highest consideration.
A separate department will be set
apart for the Hoys' Club and the
boys' exhibits. These will have special
prizes and will be under the direct
supervision of the officers of the
Farm Demonstration Work in Sou^n
Carolina.
An important feature of the ex
position will be the individual displays,
There being prizes offered f o*
the best individual display in each of
the three states and also tor
Grand Champion individual display.
The one who wins the individual display
in either of these Slates will
receive prizes to the value of
and the one making the best display
at the exposition will receive an additional
prize of $f>0 in cash, thus,
rewarding the exhibitor who makes
the best display. In order to ma^e
this premium list as large as it is
the South Carolina Legislature, last
j winter, enacted a bill providing
$luou ni casn lo De onoreu hs prizes
to tlie exhibitors of South Carolina
alone. At the same time $500 was
appropriated for the use of the Co n
i Breeders' Association in furthering
its cause. Various machinery houses,
fertilizer concerns, newspapers, and
business enterprises have contributed
large prizes. The International!
Harvester Co., alone has contributed
approximately $000 and the John
Deere Plow Co., has made liberal donations.
The South Carolina Cotton Seed
Crushers' Association has also appropriated
$'100 in cash to be used for
the best corn exhibits made from
South Carolina. In the beginning it
was intended to raise only $ 1,000 in
prizes, together with the $1,000, ippropriated
by the State Legislature
would make $5,000, but the enthusiasm
in the exposition has been so
widespread, the interest in corn
pro wing in the South Atlantic States
so groat and the liberality of the
varied interests of the South Atlantic
States so marked that larger
prizes have been secured 11 n*i! the
total with aggregate $8,000 in machinery,
fertilizer cash, etc. W'irk
on the premium list has been completed,
and it will come from the
press in a few days and be ready for
distribution.
At a meeting of the Corn Breeders
Association Thursday the following
organization was completed:
'President and General Manager ?
A. I). Hudson, Newberry, S. C.
Secretary and Treasurer?R. K.
Hayes, Pages Mill, S. C.
Superintendent of Entries?Malcolm
Miller, Columbia, S. C.
Superintendent of Judges?A. G.
Smith Columbia, S. C.
Superintendent of Exhibits - A. P.
Hudson, Newberry, S. C.
Superintendent of Roys' Exhi -It? I.
T. IlnUop Ulahonvlllo S (1
Superintendent of Exhibit* ti:
district, James Reeves, TurbevilK .
Second District \7. T. Walker, Black
ville; Third District, W. C. Br ?vi
Newberry; Fourth District, P. i5
Bailey, Laurens; Fifth District . Iv
A. Brown, Camden; Sixth District
R. K. Hayes, Pages' Mill; Seven 1
District, W. McD. Green, 0> ' . rrr?.
Superintendent of North Car<7in
exhibits- W. J. McKlnnon, L> kes
SAILORS AIIK DROWNED. I
I
Well I/oaded Tender Round for a
Battleship.
Several sailors from the battleship
New Hampshire were drownded
by the upsetting of a tender in
the North River off One Hundred
and Fifty-second street at New York
Saturday night. Estimates of the j
dead vary from three to as high
as 12, but as no official count lias
been made of the number aboard
the tender and as many men have
shore leave, it was impossible accurately
to fix the list of missing. I
The sailors were returning to the
New Hampshire after shore leave
and more than 100 of them, it is
estimated, had crowded aboard tlx
tender, which was being lowed to the
battleship. About 2 00 yards off
1 * v v* f i 1? - J
snore me rraii eimer iinipuu wi
was upset and the entire load of sailors
was precipitated into the water.
TYPHOON SWKKPS ISLANDS.
Thousands of People An1 llomelesAud
the Crops Much Damaged.
At Manila. P. I., a typhoon of un
usual severity swept over the vall?>
of the Cayagan river in the provinces
of Cayagan and Isabella, north
em Luzon, on September 24. Foui
towns, including Ilugan, the capita,
of Isabella province, were practically
demolished. A thousand persons
are still homeless and destitute, but
the dispatches so far received indicate
that there wore no casualties.
The tobacco crop was seriously
damaged. The government ifmaking
relief plans.
Heats t*<>!<! .Mini's.
Two hundred millions of dollars
is the value placed on the cotton and
corn crop produced in Georgia during
the past year, in the report of
the commissioner of agriculture just
issued. The cotton crop was valued
at nearly $150,000,000, which is approximately
one-fifth of the value
of the entire crop produced in the
eleven states comprising the cotton
belt.
killed l>y Kngine.
At Charleston Albert L. Kniekmeyer,
callman on a fire crew, was
knocked down and fatally injured,
dying two hours later, by the new
automobile engine which bad responded
to an alarm of lire at an
early hour Thursday morning.
land, S. C.
Superintendent of Georgia exhibits?W.
F. Cleveland, llidgeland,
C.
Superintendent of .Machinery?L.
C. Chappell, Lykesland, S. C.
Mr. Hamby, Secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, was also
present at the meeting to arrange for
the work of the Columbia Chamber
of Commerce in connection with the
exposition. Craven Hall has been
secured and the Chamber of Comnw.rr'O
1 V? irh V I T* IV 1 11 lttnW
after the securing of the railroad
rates, the decoration of the hall, the
conducting of the Information Bureau
for the benefit of the visitors
and will look after the printing of
the tickets and the caring of the
gate receipts.
In connection with the .exposition
there will he a corn judging contest
and an institute program upon
which there will be some of the best
speakers in the country upon agricultural
subjects. These will be under
the direction of the Extension
Department of Clemson College.
So enthusiastic and so confident
were the members of the Corn Breeders
Association and the exposition
officials of the success of the exposition,
plans are already set on foot
to make the exposition a permanent
affair. Messrs. A. D. Hudson, R. K.
Hayes, T,. L. Baker. E. J. Watson,
I). X. Barrow, W. R. Perkins, Ira W.
Williams, A. (.?. Smith and J. X. Harper
were appointed as a committee
to draw up plans for forming a permanent
organization. This committee
will report at the next meeting
of the Corn Breeders' Association and
provide for holding an exposition annually.
The committee was also instructed
to confer with representatives from
all the Southern States looking to
tho organization of an Interstate
Corn Exposition that would serve as
a climax for the various expositions.
Plans were also made for carrying
on of the work of the Corn Breeders
Association this fall mid next year.
The Columbia State has offored $ 1
AAA nxlono frt* V. r* Knot on r>r?
UUU III JJI U.VP lui mv. iiv ot vui > ui^uu
ing done in South Carolina; $500 to
become available in 1911, and $500
in 1912. It was arranged so that
anyone wishing to compete for this
prize could secure the assistance of
the Farm Demonstration Agent in
'a'.s county or the adjoining county,
and tlun next year carry on the work
under the direction of the Special
i ('presentalive of tlie Corn Breedors
Asso< i:. ii; n..
Kvery membor was vory enthuslas*
ic over the out'ook of the exposii<
n, and judging i;u;.i the premium
:Vt. the co-ouei at'on of the farmers
ind interest mr.niusted Thursday, it
will not only bo the first corn exposition
ever held in the South, but
one of the greatest e<!u: ational meet
m over boM r ? ,vc benefit of
the Southern farmers.
HOARDS OF COIN
IN POSTAL BANKS
Millions to Be Put Into Circulation
Again.
POSSIBLE EFFECTS NUMEROUS
i
People's Fund Under New Law May
Become Financial Prop of National
Tr???i,ru In Times of Necessity?Re
funding of Current Bond Issues Is
Discussed by Bankers.
A recent circular of a Now York
bank In discussing the possible benefits
to the federal treasury of the op
eration of the new postal savings bank
low says:
In lis bearings upon treasury affairs
the new postal savings bank law is
praetieally a government fin a nee bilL
The law is one whleh will operate in
various directions if Its workings
prove measurably Justifiable of the
theory on which It was constructed
and on which it was advocated by the
president and members of the administration.
It Is expected that Its first effect
will be to call from Its hiding places
considerable money that Is now hoarded
by persons who have not yet learned
to have confidence In the established
hanking institutions of the commiinitles
in which they five. There Is
I Aruw pr.'junti i/i rhitt the air
gregate of such sums reaches well Into
the million*
V?at Sum to Appear.
Whatever the sum. nearly all this
money will he put promptly at work
under the new law. It will constitute
a new source of hanking deposits. The
law requires that f> per cent of the
postal savings funds shall he held In
the fulled States treasury as a reserve.
permits the investment of 30
per cent In government bonds or other
securities and spindHeally declares
Its intent t ? keep the remaining GT? per
cent t?n deposit hi the national and
| state hanks of the communities of
origin, although there is a provision
under which even this may he invested
in government securities upon the
decision by the president that the general
welfare or the interests of the
government demand it.
But there are several distinct ways
in which the accumulation of postal
savings may serve the United States
treasury at rimes when financing operations
are necessary. for some
months the treasury has been sailing
very rinse to flic wind, with the prospect
of having to face an issue of bonds
or other securities at almost any time.
By careful work and with the assistance
of the corporation lax. which is
now coming In. it is expected that any
financing operations will be postponed
at least until fall, after the general
elections. With an issue of canal
bonds proper out of consideration the
IK)Ktal savings bank law affords a
source of relief which it now seems
probable will be utilized as soon as the
new system has provided a sufficient
amount of funds.
The new law1 authorizes a special Issue
of 2Vy per cent bonds, which by
specific provision do not carry the circulation
privilege. This rate of infer
est would hardly give them an investment
basis, but it Is provided that the
postal savings funds may be Invested
In theiu. lTnder this provision llie way
lies open for the reimbursement of the
treasury for these heavy canal expend
Itures as soon as the postal banks
have attracted sufficient deposits. This
is the most material and practical
means of relieving the treasury which
the new law affords.
Refunding Is Possible.
Another possibility is that the
OOO.OfiO of 3 per cent 1iK)8-18 .bonds now
outstanding might bo refunded by tlio
now 2\ii per cents. The throes are pay*
able, and tho now law specifically pro
Tides that whenever any outstanding
bonds arc subject to call they may bo
replaced bv the new authorized 2\j per
cents.
A third possibility is one which may
yet have a profound effect on the na
tionai banks of the country. In attempting
to establish a central hank
one of tho first and most difficult prob
lems to be solved would be that of providing
for the national banknotes now
outstanding. In order to make satisfactory
provision for them some means
must be found for taking care of the
$(>85,000,000 of 2 per cent bonds now
pledged by the national banks as so
curity for circulation and public do
posits.
The new law authorizes the investment
of postal savings funds In the 2
per cent bonds. By purchasing those
bonds from national banks for account
of the postal savings system corresponding
national bank circulation
would be retired and the way would
be paved for the issue of that amount
of notes by the now central bank.
Windsor Canada's Front Door.
Consul Harry A. Conoot calls Windsor
the front door into Canada from
the United States. The number of
neonle entering there in the fiscal
year ended March 31. 1010, was greater
than via any other port, and the
volume of shipping was proportionately
great.
Moving Pictures Aid Pastor.
A minister of Limn, O.. advertise
bis Sunday sermons In moving pic"
theaters.
I BOLL WKKVII ON TIIK M4|nS|
Work of tlio Kxinrt* i* IiWecttv'jJ ??
the West. ^ I
The following statement
weevil dispersion up to SoptemBeqH
15, 1910, is made by W. Dwight^H
Pierce, bureau ot entomology, l/nit-|H
ed States Governm* ot laboratory/
Dallas, Texas: H
No work has boen done upon lhe.^1
line of infection of Ok ahcma. TheM
infested line in Arkansas has fallen H
back about fifteen miles off the wes-M
torn corner but slightly passes the H
1909 line in the vicinity of Little?
Hock, and from there coincides with [
the 1909 line until it reach^B~*La- I
mont, in Bolivar County, Jn Mississ-. I
ippi. The line runs on a diagonal, J
from Lament to the southwestern ?
line of Sunflower County, thence (o I
Deelake, in Holmes County, thence* I
to Lexington through Ballis, In At
i imt(, Coiiiitv. then turns abruptly
'south at Plattsburg, in Winston I
| County, and then passes three miles I
east of Newton, in Newton Cohiwy I
half-way between Heidelburg and I
Stringer, in Jasper County, crosses I
into Wayne County directly east of I
Bllisvlile Junction, and pTD btf.flh 1
leaves the State of Mississippi dt
Statoline. In Alabama the infestu- ,
tion crosses the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad at Km ltd ale, in Washington
County, turning south passing:
east of Citronelle to the head of Mo- '
bile Ray.
The line is moving so rapidly eastward
that even at the present writ-\|
ing it has probably moved twenty or ^
more miles further. A statement <
of this nature will be issued as soon* *
as possible following the 15th of
each month until the dispersion is
ended. *
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WARNS THK SOUTH,
Pinchof Kays Our Wafer Powers Arc
Already Gone.
Gifford Pinchot, ?at the Initial
meeting of (he Souther* Conservation
congress at Atlanta, Friday, declared
that the South is as vitaily M
concerned with the movement for *5]
the conservation of the nation's nat- l|
ural resources as any section of the -ji
country, and ho warned the South- ^
erners that the big corporations already
were actively working to so- J
cure monopoly of the resources of j'
this section.
"Your water power resources 1
here in the south are so completely fj
in the hands of the Duke interest"
and of the General Electric company's
interest," he said, "that it will
be almost impossible for independ- j
ents to break into the water power
market."
"In the North we have not understood
how fully the Spirit which
governs the insurgent movement is
the same as dominates the movement
in the South. It is a fight for <
political independence on the part of J
the vtoers. I am not advocating a
new political party. The lines of j
"I"" V? ,x ?. fi HO ri/it h/it U/^AMl '
rit'iiv liunctfl I *HTT nvrv uvvn V ? (
Republican and Democrat. They arc
between the men who believe the law
should be ad ministered for the good
of special interests of humanity." * !
K'-TIU'lt Jl J TT^tTtnZi^tTP
DEATH 1'KNAl/rV INKDICTKI).
Dunk Sherod Hangs for the Murder ,
of a (^onsUibie.
For the murder of Special Constable
K. O. Waldrop at Piedmonr i
about two months ago, Frank Sherard
Friday morning paid tho dea'lt
penalty on the gallows at the county j
Jail in Greenville. This is Lho first
infliction of the death sentence in
that county in a number of years.
The negro was convicted at tin
last session of tlie Criminal CourA
'and sentenced by Judge flary tt>
hang on the first Friday in October.
Only a few spectators saw the melancholy
event besides the county officers,
as prescribed by the State
laws. During his trial Sherard denied
his guilt, but later made a full
confession of the crime to the attorneys
appointed to defend him.
AValdrop was killed while attempting
to arrest Shekard. A party of ^
me oincers nau run upon a group
of crap shooters, ami in the melee
Sherod frod a shot gun into the side
of the constable. A posse of citizens
seaehed for the negro for two days,
and it is probable that lynching was
only averted by the capture of the
negro by sheriff's party.
Had Case of Cholera Alxmrd.
The steamship Sant 'Anna, from
French and Italian ports, now detained
at quarantine, off New York, has
a case of cholera aboard. Tho victim,
a man in the steerage, died on
September 15, and was buried at
sea. Two other cases of intestinal
trouble are under observation. Meanwhile
tho Sant Anna, carrying 224
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them prominent Americans, and
1,072 In the steerage, is held as a
possible "cholera carrior," pending
further investigation.
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They Need. Help.
Gov. Eberhardt, of Minnesota, as
president of the State Rod Cross society,
Saturday issued a proclamation
calling upon the citizens of the
State for contributions of money,
provisions and clothing, for sufferers
from the forest fires in the northern
part of the State.