The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 20, 1911, Image 3
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MUST TOE MARK
All At Ctaatj Ditftmij barfs Bear
^ Fraai Gareratr Bleatc.
SUE VERY PLAIN TALE
He Say* He Underatonds That They
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Are Patronizing Liquor Houses
That Defrauded the State, and
That Thev Must Cease to Do So. or
Suffer Removal.
"It is my positive intention to remove
members of County boards of
control who have bought goods from
houses that defrauded the State under
the State dispensary system, unless
these members can show some
very sound excuse," said Governor
Blease Friday afternoon, when asked
about a letter he had dispatched to
the chairmen of the six county dispensary
.boards. Inquiring whether
they were dealing with houses shown
tip in an unfavorable light by dispensary
investigations.
Gov^nor Blease reinforced this
letter, of date July 10, by a further
^ message Friday, which was forwarded
by telegraph except in the case of
the Richland board, to whom it was
mailed. This second message reads:
f "In my opinion you should not purchase
goods from any house that ad)
mits it defrauded the State under the
"State dispensary system, and I request
that you do not. 'A word to
f the wise should be sufficient.' "
Governor Blease said Friday: "I
tiave called on Dispensary Auditor M.
v II. Mobley to furnish me with the
names of the members of the county
boards of control, a report of their
purchases and a list of those houses
that admitted defrauding the State in
| connection with the old State dispensary.
The boards of Aiken, Rlcnland
and Charleston have been heard
from. iMembers of the Georgetown
board called at my office Thursday,
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board of education and could not see
them. They left, saying they would
f Teport by mail. I have heard nothIng
from Beaufort or Florence. iMem*
T)es of the Richland hoard say they
have complied with the law and conducted
their business strictly and
honestly. The Charleston board
says It has been guided rigidly by the
law as interpreted by County Attorney
J. N. Nathans and have 'conscientiously
done their duty, having received
no rebates.' If any further
^ purchases are made by any county
board from houses that admitted defrauding
the State and paid back the
money, I shall immediately remove
the members of such board unless
sufficient excuse la given."
The letter which first indicated the
governor's attitude in the matter was
as follows:
Gentlemen: I am informed that
t almost all of your purchases are
made from houses which have heretofore
been proven guilty of robbing
or at least defrauding South Carolina.
I know that some of those
from whom you purchase have admitted
that they defrauded the State
of South Carolina and made good for
at least a part of what they had defrauded
her out of. I understand
that you are purchasing from houses
represented by Roy Early, Sigo Myers,
Trager, M. H. Myers, Wylie and
othes. If you make purchases fr^m
these houses, knowing the facts, I
feel that it Is my duty to remove you
^ from office, unless you can give a
satisfactory explanation therefor. If
these men defrauded the State and
confessed it, why will they not rob
vour county and confess it? If they
rebated the State board, as some of
them swore, will they not rebate
you, if you will accept It? From
complaints coming to nie, there are
people who believe you will accept
it. Why lay yourselves open to these
criticisms, when it could be so easily
1 avoided? Why put my administrate
in the position of being criticised,
as it is being criticised, by such
actions on your part?
Please give me such Information as
you have along this line, and I hope
l that it will be satisfactorily to the
* public. If you think it will not be
satisfactory, your resignation will
save your removal.
Very respectfully,
Cole L. Please, Governor.
The Richland County dispensary
board Is composed of Messrs. John J.
Cain, Jos. D. Mlot and W. H. Gaston.
The Charleston board is composed of
Messrs. B. H. Rutledge, Arthur
Lynch and John Marshall.
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Negro Died In Jail.
At Bennettsville, "Son" Currle, a
negro who was convicted at the recent
term of court, charged with assault
and battery with Intent to kill,
and sentenced to the public roads for
> 12 months, died in the county Jail,
^ Friday morning whth Appendicitis.
( His father took his body, which was
buried by the county.
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She Was Ijocked Up.
Because she said she "wanted to
discuss the hookworm disease with
President Taft," and acted queerly,
Mrs. Emily Peterson, whose home is
believed to be in New Tork City, is
held at Washington by the police for
examination into her sanity.
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TflE WAGES OF SIN
VOUNG MAN WHO ROBS UNCLE
SAM LANUS IN PEN.
Stole Fort/ Thousand Dollars From
Battleship Georgia, oa Which He
Was Clerk.
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After a meteoric career, Whose lavish
expenditures rivaled the fabled
prodigality of "Coal Oil Johnny," Edward
Valentine Lee, erstwhile paymaster's
clerk on board the United
States battleship Georgia, having
confessed his crime, will soon take up
his residence in the federal prison at
Atlanta to serve a term of several
years.
By a strange irony of fate, Lee,
who only three months ago, startled
Atlanta as a young Croesus, living in
a palatial suite at Atlanta's best
hotel, showering Jewels, dinners, theatre
parties and auto rides on a pretty
manacure girl, will now return to
this very city to be clothed In convict
gray and expiate in a cell at the
federal ipenitentiiary the crime by
which he obtained the gold thai
burned his fingers.
Lee's career as a spendthrift has
few parallels in criinonology.
Scarce had he looted the cruiser's
safe on Feb. 17 and disappeared from
the fleet before a mysterious individual
of the name o A. W. Carmichael
commenced a meteoric career as
"prince of spenders" in the cities of
"prince o spenders" in the cities of
the Southern Atlantic seaboard. This
seeming millionaire endeared himself
to the hearts of hotel waitresses,
bellboys and chauffers by passing out
$100 bills as though they were cigar
coupons.
Early in his wanderings he turned
up in Atlanta, Ga., where in a few
short days he distributed sufficient
money to make him known throughout
the continent. He presented a
lady manacuri8t with a $1,000 bank
note for the pleasure of her company
during a taxacab ride and tipped
the chauffer with the comparative
moderate sum of $100. The waiter
who served his table received $50 after
each meal as an incentive *o
prompt service. A bellboy with a jug
of ice water invariably drew a $20
bank note for his trip upstairs.
The publicity that this lavishness
brought him made a quick move nee
essary, and young Lee, with the Government
detectives one jump in the
rear, changed his quarters successively
to Washington, New York,
Philadelphia and several Southern
cities, .becoming acquainted on the
route with a Miss Audrey Kelsey,
who consented to share the young
spendthrift's fortune.
In March they went to Europe,
where he was easily trailed by the
readiness with which he dispensed
his spoils. On June 8 he sailed for
Quebec, where he and his companion
spent several days in sight-seeing.
A little later Miss Kelsey evinced a
desire to visit her parents in Buffalo,
and Carmichael, with a recklessness
that had characterized his.
course after the theft, accompanied
her. He was arrested in Buffalo on
June 21, and a few days later was
married to the young woman who had
been his companion during his extensive
wanderings.
HIDDEN MONEY FOUND.
Gaynor and Greene Concealed Nearly
a Million.
Three quarters of a million dollars
has been recovered from the concealed
assets of Gaynor and Greene, who
defrauded the government of two
million dollars In Savannah harbor
dredging contracts in 1897 according
to a dispatch from Washington. E. I.
Johnson, an expert accounta'nt, and
United states JLMSlTlCl AUorney unarion
Erwin of Savannah, Georgia, are
responsible for the recovery. Most
of the funds recovered were In bonds
and stocks. More than $2,000,000
was In cash. These assets were found
In New York, Philadelphia, Chicago
and Denver. Some bonds were located
in Paris, but they could not be
recovered. Johnson and Erwin have
been searching for these assets for
12 years. *
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Booze Under Straw.
Being suspicious of the looks of a
wagon filled with straw which was
passing his front gate, at Dalton, Ga.,
Tursday, Police Chief Fincher called
to the driver to stop. He then made
a thorugh examination of the contents
of the wagon and found a goodly
supply of old mountain corn whiskey
covered up under the straw. *
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Honey Bee Wrecks Auto.
While drivin an automobile near
Hartford, Conn., a little honey bee
lighted on the nose of George Steel
and used his stinger to good advantage.
Steel let go the wlieel with
both hands and a moment later was
lying under his car at the side of the
road.
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Three Rescuers Drowned.
The wireless operator at Surf, Cal.,
received a message at 10.15 p. m.
Friday night from the Centralla saying
that the second mate and two
seamen of the Helen P. Drew were
drowned while attempting to take a
life line to the Santa Rosa. *
WHAT WAS DONE
Th* Citatii Tntttei Fils Vacua**
ail Create* New Chair*.
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CHANCES AT COLLEGE
Board of V isitors -Elected and Other
Itusin?w Transacted. . Financial
Statement for the Fiscal Year.
Branch School In the Pee Dee Section
Referred to Committee.
The annual meeting of the board
of trustees was held at Clemson on
Tuesday and Wednesday of last week.
The budget of expenditures for the
fiscal year beginning July 1 was acted
upon and other business transact
ed.
Dr. R. N. Brackett, who has been,
acting director of the chemical departmet
during, the past year, since
the retirement of Col. Hardin, was
elected director.
Prof. D. H. Henry was elected associate
professor of chemistry.
Prof. S. B. Earle, who succeeded
the engineering department was
elected director of the engineering
department.
Prof. E. T. Dargan, who has been
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
was elected professor of electrical
engineering.
The title of consulting professor of
engineering was conferred upon President
Riggs.
Mr. J. A. Dew, a graduate of Clemso,
class '11, was elected assistant in
entomology.
Mr. F. E. Tar.box was elected assistant
to the agronomist of the experiment
station, and Mr. W. B. Aull,
who has been conducting the seed
analytical work of the department
of agriculture, was elected assistant
to the botanist of the experiment
station to assist, in the new "Adams
problem, The Cause and Prevention
of Cotton Shedding."
The following new positions were
created:
Military assistant to the commander
at a salary of $1,000.
Second assistant to the State veteinarian
at a salary of $1,200.
Assistant in agronomy and farmmachinery,
salary of $1,200.
Assistant in horticulture, who is
to assist with the extension work,
$1,200.
Prof. R. E. Lee was appointed as
the official architect for the college.
The contract entered into by the
president with the Farmer's Co-operative
Demonstration Work for cooperative
corn club work was approved
and thereby made a permanent
arrangement.
A committee of the board of trustees,
consisting of Messrs. Bradley,
Evans and Hughes, was appointed to
pass upon the scholarship certificates
of financial inability.
The matter of locating a branch exexperiment
station in the Pee Dee
sertion was referred to the agricultural
committee of which (Mr. J. E.
Wannamaker is the chairman. This
committee, together with Prof. J.
N. Harper, director of the experiment
station, and Prof. W. R. Perkins,
director of the agricultural department
is to take under consideration
the propositions that have been
received, visit the various sites proposed,
in order to judge (their suitability
in regard to location, soil, and
climate, and report to the board at a
meeting to be held in Columbia during
the State fair.
The thanks of the hoard was extended
to the Southern Railway, the
Atlantic Coast Dine and the Seaboard
Railway for (their assistance ifl Operating
the live stock train.
This being the regular time for the
election of a board of visitors, the following
were elected by the board:
First district, J. Elmore Martin,
Charleston.
Second district, Wm. T. Walton,
Johnston.
Third district, J. J. Ballinger, Sen
Fourth district, Thomas F. Parker,
Greenville.
Fifth district, George K. Laney,
Chesterfield.
Sixth district, David R. Coker,
Hartsville.
Seventh district, R. O. Murdy, Sumter.
The appropriations for the public
State work was increased In order to
extend to the citizens of the State the
hog cholera serum treatment and to
f ive more service along veterinary entomological
and botanical lines Apropriations
were made to operate the
live stock train again next winter,
and to carry on the farmer's institutes
during the summer.
The appropriations for the year
beginning July 1 are approximately
as follows:
For public state work, $99,320
from the fertilizer tax, and $30,000
for the South Carolina exepriment
station from Federal appropriations.
The budget for the operation of the
College was approximately $155,000
and the amount to be expended for
buildings and permanent improve*ments
during the current year, about
$50,000.
The following financial statement
was presented to the board, covering
the fiscal year ending June 3 0, 1911.
Extended for public State.
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TRAIN OF COFFINS
FOR FIRE VICTIMS IN THE PORCUPINE
DISTRICT.
The Awful Agony and Intense Suffering
Experienred by Those Who
Escaped Death.
A dispatch from Toronto, Canada,
says coincident with the arrival of
more survivors of Porcupine's great
disaster early Friday morning, a
trainload of 350 coffins left for the
northern country. The survivors
brought additional stories of the horror
and recounted many miraculous
escapes.
The number dead in the districts
remain largely a matter of conjecture.
About 90 bodies either have
been burned or designed for shipment
in the coffins now being rushed
northward by the carload. How
many of the hundreds living in comparative
isolation have perished only
days of work by the organized relief
parties can reveal.
Men, women and ohildren, thinly
clad and bearing marks of the aw?
ful fight aainst the flames and smothering
smoke are still flocking into
the large towns In this vicinity and
at North Bay. Those escaping with
slight injuries or none have gone
through to North bay to be carried
free of charge by the Canadian Pacific
raliroad and Grand Trunk railway
to their destination.
The foreigners were put to work
stamping out the smouldering fires
at Golden City and Pottsville. One
was shot at Pottsville when caught
going through the clothes of a dead
man.
R. H. Webber, of Lock port, N. Y.,
one of the survivors, escaped from
the Dome mine, where 100 were
burned to death by wading Into the
lake up to his neck.
The wave of heat sweeping over
the water burned his face badly.
"There were 4 00 people in the lake"
said he, "and I 3aw 20 drown."
Several thousand dollars in currency
was saved by J. J. Noss,, of
Reno, Nev., by canoeing out into the
lake.
A. H. cramton ana josepn Meaiy, j
manager and Suerintendent of the
Imperial mines, escaed with IS employes
by a run of six miles around
the lake They stumbled over bodies
along the route and saw a woman
pick up a skull and put it in her
handbag.
George Disk, a rosector, near the
West Dome, saw his brother and
partner burn to death. Penned in by
all sides by the flames they sought
safety in a small stream. As the fire
swept over the stream Disk saw his
two companions die, while he rolled
on his back in the shallow water near
the bank.
CARLOADS OF SNAKES.
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Shipped From the Southwest to the
East and Europe*.
Southern Pacific freight officials
have just handled out of Eastern
New Mexico and Western Texas, a
ehipment of five carloads of live
snakes delivered to Baltimore, Chicago,
Cincinnati and Boston and also
to New York for reshipment to Eurepean
points.
The snakes numbered 1,700 and
represented 24 different species. In
length they are all the way from 5
to 25 eet. The majority of the reptiles
were classed as deadly and were
so marked on the boxes.
The shipment represented about
ten months work on the part of the
consignors, who are said to be famous
snake collectors of the valley of
the Rio Grand. It cost $800 per car
to ship them.
SINKING OF STEAMER.
Thirty-two
Passengers Below Decks
Go Down With Her.
A dispatch from Port Limon', Costa
Rica, the Times reports that 32
passengers and several of the crew
of the steamer Irma were drowned
or crushed to death when the vessel
was sunk in a collision, during a
storm in the Estuary of the San Juan
river. The colliding steamer is
given as the Diamante and the news
is said to have reached Port Limon
from Bluefields.
Most of the passengers of the Irma
were below when the collision occurred
because of the heavy weather
and to this fact the despatch says
is due the heavy loss of life. The
Diamante was damaged, it Is said,
but l'ept afloat.
A Deadly Stroke.
During a severe thunderstorm Friday
Frank Greeson was killed by
lightning near the home of R. O.
Robertson, about nine miles from
Calhoun, Ga. Mr. Greeson was a
young man and leaves a wife and
two Children.
work $89,598.09
For additional shop and
labratory equipment .. 15,387.77
For buildings vand permanent
improvements. . . . 42,7rl.36
For real estate 16,825.50
For operating expenses of
the College 155,453.43
Total $312,056.15
PLANS PROBE
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Attcnty Ccaeral Wickerskaa, Afaiait
WWa tkm Arc Charges.
WILL IE LOOKED INTO
Delegate Wickesham, of Alaska
Charges That Department of Jus*
tice Delayed Prosecutions in Alleged
Criminal Cases Until Statute
of Limitations Expired.
Official circles in Washington has
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UHUlut'i HvnuuH vua 150 a^aiuoi a jiuulic
official to speculate on until it is
thoroughly investigated and decided
one way or the other.
After secret consideration of
charges made by Delegate Wickersham,
of Alaska, that Attorney-^*ueral
Wickersham deliberately permitted
the Statute of Limitations to run
against agents of the Alaska Syndicate,
the House of Representatives
judiciary committee has determined
to report favorably a resolution of
inquiry offered by Delegate Wickersham.
The Attorney-General, when seen
Thursday night, denied all the charges.
His friends intimated that the
charges were old.
The resolution would call upon the
Attorney-General to furnish the
House with all documents, affidavits
and testimony in his possession relating
to an affidavit submitted to
him more than a year ago and sworn
to by H. J. Douglas, former auditor
of the Alaska Syndicate, In 1908.
Delegate Wickersham startled the
committee, when, in executive session,
ho produced a copy of an affidavit
relating to an alleged criminal
act committed by Capt. D. H. Jarvis,
of the Alaska Syndicate, as the one
formerly sent to the Government service
June 23, the day following the
introduction of the Wickersham resolution.
Through connivance of these men,
it was charged that the Government
was defrauded of coal lands and
that evidence to that effect was permitted
to remain unacted upon in
the Attorney-General's office for more
than a year, until the Statute of Limitations
expired last (May.
Delegate Wickersham furnished
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to D. H. Jarvis, admitting the expenditure
of money to control Government
witnesses in the Hazel murder
trial, in 1908, wherein an agent of
the Alaska Syndicate was accused of
murdering laborers employed by rival
interests.
A photograph of an expense account
for $1,33.40, of M. B. Morrissey,
employed by the syndicate, it is
claimed to entertain Government witnesses
and jurymen in that connection,
also was submitted to the committee.
This evidence, Delegate
Wickersham declared, also is in the
possession of the Attorney General.
Delegate Wickersham urged on
the judiciary committee the Douglas
affidavit, involving the representatives
of the (Northwestern Commercial
company, one of the Alaska syndicate
concerns, and the Sesnon Coal
Company.
"On May 24, 1910," said he, "I
sent to Attorney General Wickersham
a copy of the affidavit, calling his astention
to the fact that the Government
had been defrauded of $50,000
by perjury and a combination o tli^e
two concerns."
"What do you mean by the Alaska
Syndicate," Chairman Clayton inquired.
"I refer to the Alaska syndicate,
composed of J. P. Morgan, the Gug- j
enheim brothers, Kuhn, Loeb and
Co., Jacob H. Schiff and Graves."
"What do you mean by the Guggenheim
brothers?" asked Mr. Norris
o? Nebraska.
"Senator Guggenheim and his six
brothers."
I "Who is Graves?"
"He represents Close Brothers, the
English Syndicate, and other English
concerns.
"Capt. Jarvis," added the delegate,
"was the confidential agent of Morgan,
In charge of the syndicate in Seattle."
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SHOT HTM TO DEATH.
White Man Kills Negro Who Insulted
His Wife.
After follawing him for 4 miles a
white man named Bragg put a load
of shot in the breast and another load
tore off the top of the head of Ed
Brown, a negro, at Jimps, Ga., Friday
night. It is said the negro wrote
B.ragg's wife a letter and after handing
it to her himself, started off in
the direction of Jimps with a white
man named Waters. Bragg was
away from home at the time and
when he returned his wife gave him
the letter. He got his gun and started
out after the negro and after following
him for 4 miles found him at
the station and later the negro was
found in a pile of crossties with his
head blown off.
Snake from Clouds.
During the hardest rain that has
fallen 1 Ovett, Mo., for months, moccasin
three feet long, fell from the
clouds and was killed in the street.
NEAR BEAR S01D_
CONDITION IN UNION AND DAR?
LJNOTON BAD.
Govenor Blwwe Says He is Doing All
He Can to Uphold law, But Can't
Do It AU.
"Near' beer'saloons have been Introduced
into the State and they *rn
as bad as the fake social clubs/' said
Governor Blease, Friday. "Conditions
at Union and Darlington appear
to be particularly bad. I am doing
all I can to uphold the law, but
I cannot do it all."
The governor directed attention to
a displayed article in the Union
Times of Friday, which he said set
forth the situation in Union as it was
described to him. The arttcte fs
headed "Governor Blease orders
Sheriff Long to close down on nearbeer."
The article follows:
"Govenor Blease has ordered
Sheriff Long to close down on the
near-beer establishments in Union
and Union county. Constable D. R.
Kitchens has also received instructions
from the governor to coopepate
in this movement. It is to be hoped
that this work will be thoroughly
! done by the officers.
It is stated on good authority that
the city council has issued more
than a dozen licenses to near-beer establishments
and of course the city
council could not logically suppress
the creations of its own hands. In
the meantime the worst condition exists
in Union now that we have eve*
seen.
Gambling dens and blind tigers,
masquerading under the name of
near-beer saloons are rife. It is
rumored that cany young lads are
patronizing these places. The tiger9
are not even blind. They are Arguseyed.
For vulgar flaunting of lawlessness
we give the palm to Union
town. We have never seen anything
like it.
Some of the members of the police
force are reported as being regular
patrons of places of illicit liquor
selling. It is certain that they make
no effort to put down these Institutions.
A blind man can see that. If
Governor Blease will continue his
effort to put down these places of
iniquity he will receve the approbation
of every law abiding citizen of
this town.
SEVKXTKKN YKAIt IiOCUSTS.
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Witli Voiceless Wives Appear After a
Ijong Time.
What is understood to be the 17
year locust has appeared in Crisp
county in large numbers on the farm
of Mr. A. C. Fraseur, near Cordele,
Ga. The insects are devouring the *
leaves of the cotton plants ana va*
! rious trees and there are also large
quantities of them on the shade trees
and shrubbery in Sunny Side cemetery.
These curious pests emerged from
little holes in the ground on schedule
tinift. climed the trees and filled
the air with deafening songs. It is
doubtless known that when they
have arrived they will lay their eggs
and the larvae will burrow into tho
earth for another long dark vigil underground
until 1928, just as they
have now waited since their last appearance
in the year 18 94.
Our records of the appearence of
the locusts run back to the year 1634
when they were first observed by the
pilgrims of Plymouth. Thejir appearence
at periodcal intervals of
17 years was observed by the American
Indians long before the coming
of the white man and made
known to the early settlers of this
country. They were also known to
the ancient Greeks.
The male sings his song of love
and dies first. The female deposits
her eggs and also dies. It is all over
in less than six weeks after 17 years
of preparation.
CAUSED BY WHISKEY.
Two Drunken Men Get in Tussle and
One is Killed.
A secial dispatch to the News and
Courier says Paylau Kelley, aged 23,
of the Keeleytown neighborhod, six
miles from Hartsville, was shot
through the heart and Instantly killed
at nine o'clock by his couscln,
Lenoir Kelley. The fighting took
place at the home of William Tyner,
where the two young men had gone
in an entoxicated condition and was
the result of a lriendly tussle, which
develoed into a fight In which a shot
gun, a knife, and a pistol in the
hands of the two parties were used.
Kelley was shot five times; three
times through the heart and twice
in the left arm. His slayer was said
to have been sut. He has surrendered
to the officers.
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Hard on Horses.
Twelve hundred horses died from
heat in New York during 11 days.
The total loss in horseflesh throughout
the country as a result of the
heat is estimated at $1,000,000.
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Hits Five Houses
Ricochetting from house to house
until five had been struck, lightning
injured six persons in L/ouisviUe, Ky.
The hilt shot a clear sky.
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