The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 14, 1911, Image 3
NOTED TRIAL
Elds ia Ciiiictin ef Rich Yaaeg Mai
** far Mirdeiiog His Yaarg Wife.
CASE WAS FOUGHT HARD
The Jury Which Was Composed of
4 Farmers Sought Divine Guidance
in lleaching Verdict?Prisoner and
His Attorney Gives Notice of Their
Intention to Appeal.
Twelve Virginia farmers knelt at
dusk Friday night in the obscurity of
the small jury room of Chesterfield
court house, praying fervently that
they might pass Judgment aright on
Henry Clay Beattle, Jr., Indicted for
the murder of hie wifeu Grimly
determined they arose a moment later
and silently, one by one, recorded
, a unanimous verdict of guilty.
Pausing in solemn contemplation
for 58 minutes, weighing carefully
the meaning of their decision and
once more on bended knees beseeching
divine assistance that they might
I not err, they filed into the hushed
stillness of a crowded court room and
with startling suddenness, 12 voices
dnAtAAd of the usual one of the fore
man, spoke the solemn word "guilt'y."
f It was almost a dhout.
The spectre of death which stalked
the Midlothian turnpike July 18,
last, when the life of Mrs. Louise
Owen Beattie was taken away with
the single report of a shotgun, stared
hard at the young husband and, ready
to claim Its victim of electrocution on
Friday, November 24th, next.But the
prisoner returned the gaze unswerving
and unafraid.
The court of appeals to be sure,
will be asked to grant a writ of error
and a lew trial. Young Beattie, cognizant
of the legal weapons yet at his
disposal, did not surrender. Instead
he consoled his broken down father,
white-haired and wrinkled, and comforted
him as he whispered, "I have
nrt lost yet, father."
Unusual as has been the tragedy
f and the grewsome stage where it oc>
curred, the 12 juymen did not hesi'
tate to admit to their friend that they
etood in judgment not only over th&
nnU klnn/lnJ milvjA* knit KnAn Vila
VUlU'l/iUVIUCU I iiuiuui I/U t u^/v/u ?t iu
martial Infidelity as well. It perhaift
was the dramatic climax of Virginia
justice Which in the last half century
has swiftly sent to death such famous
murderers as Cluverius, Phillips, and
McCue.
% At the close of a powerful argument
by L. O. Wendenburg, the voluntary
assistant of the Commonwealth
in the case, the suspense was
felt not alone in the court room but
in Richmond where thousands of people
waited the outcome.
The jury had for eleven days heard
evidence, for two days speeches, but
the "words of Wendenburg rang in
t their ears as they left the court room
to find their verdict.
"Let that man go free!" he crieu.
"What! Let that man go free! Why
the motherhood of Virginia, the womanhood
of this nation, will shudder
in terror as the security of its life is
threatened. Let this man go free!
The man who basked in the degraded
4 sunshine of another woman while at
his home a young wife nursed his
child?
"Gentlemen, I merely ask you in
the name of justice to do your duty."
Mr Wendenburg concluded his address
a few minutes after 5 p. m., a
* brief respite was given the jury, and
at 5:28 o'clock it began consideration
of the case. For 58 minutes they
were together in deep consultation, a
jury of farmers, who each morning
eanjg: hymns, and strove <to forget the
story of dissipation, with its filthy
chapters as related day after day on
the witness stand. What had been
generally predicted was true?their
minds were well made up before they
left the court room. W. L. Burgess,
a square jawed man with an earnest
41 face, was elected foreman. They balloted
and it was no surprise, they afterward
declared, that all voted for
conviction.
They prayed that 'they might not
take a life in vain, and they opened
| their consciences to one another for
nearly an hour, so that they might go
back to the court room firmly convinced
of their duty and of one mind.
In the court room sat Henry Clay
Benttie, Jr., the sporting page of a
newspaper spread before him. But
he did not read long. He folded the
paper and concealed his face in it.
T^ose who sat near the young man
of iron nerve observed a twitching of
his lips as though murmuring a
prayer as he sat with closed eyes
awaling the return of the jury. n?>
raised nis neaa ror a mummix, uiuir
ped the paper and again began reading.
Then he whispered a few words
to his father and brother. It was for
them he felt and to them he coiinsel1
ed cheerfulness.
^ It was nearly dark In the court
room when the Jury returned. Three
oil lamps gave meagre lustre to the
scene. Sunset's red rays still streaked
through the windows. On every
sill rested a telegraph Instrument and
operators tensely waited for the announcement
of the veiict. Masses
of upturned faces stared at the Jurymen.
Famous jurists looked down,
too, from fly-specked paintings. In
the minds of the eroir& remained the
thought of the powerful speeea
the prosecutor and his denounciation
of the man who exchanged the glow
of virtue for passion's ieeble taper."
The court asked the prisoner to
rise. He drew himself up calmly and
waited.
Have you gentlemen agreed on a
verdict?" asked Judge Watson.
"We have," said 'Mr. 'Burgess, the
foreman. ?
Ihe prisoner had confidently expected
a hung jury, nor acquittal nor
conviction. The court requested the
audience not to manifest its approval
or disapproval, whatever the verdict.
"And what is your verdict?" asked
Judge Watson turning again to Mr.
Burgess.
"Guilty," answered Burgees, but
his voice was swelled by the shout of
11 others. Unversed in the law or
forms of murder trials the jurymen
had not specified what degree of murder.
Asked what degree, Mr. Burgess
answered simply, "guilty as indicted."
Under Virginia practice murder
is presumed to be second degee
unless otherwise specified. It was incumbent
on the Jury to fix the degree
so Judge Watson addressed the Jurymen
to confer again on the point
and seven minutes later they conformed
this time with the verdict of
"murder in the first degree."
The prisoner stood erect and motionless.
His face, in color yellowish
green throughout the day, was immobile.
The light of the lamp cast a dreary
shadow on his upturned chin as he
faced the jury. His eyelids sagged but
'11 ^ Va 11 n lr T r\ aloorltr OQ o A ho foot ?
UJU UUt U1 1 II IV All O tV/ClU J gunv i<\> l?*0bened
his eyes on the faces of the 12
men who had pronounced his punishment
as If to penetrate their minds
and determine the reason why.
It was not a resentful expression,
however, and when the court asked
if the pisoner had anything to say he
answered: "I have nothing to say."
Then he sat down. ,
The perfunctory motions for a new
trial were made by counsel for the
defense. The usual granting of permission
even to argue the point was
denied, as Judge Watson, in a stern
voire declared that all rulings of the
court were on comparatively unimpotant
details and in no way could
have influenced the verdict. A stay
of execution of 90 days was granted,
however, in order to give counsel an i
opportunity to apply for writ of error i
when the court of appeals meets in <
November. * ]
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SAVED TWO LIVES IN STORM. !
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Ladies Rescued in Storm Give Proof
of Their Gratitude.
The News and Courier says to
show their appreciation of his services
Mrs. S. Eloesser and her daughter,
Miss Rosabel Eloesser, of St.
Matthews, S. C., have presented 'Mr.
A. H. Aimers, Jr., of No. 402 Meeting
street, with a pair of gold cuff
buttons and a monogram scarf pin.
Mr. Aimers saved the lives of these
two ladies when the Mount Pleasant
Ferry bridge was washed away dur- 1
img the storm. i
It will be remembered that the
Consolidated Ferry boat Lawrence
left Charleston at 6 o'clock Sunday
evening to bring a second load or passengers
from the Island, but after
reaching Mount Pleasant th? officers
of the boat found it impossible to
return. Mrs. Eloesser and her daughter
were among those who had boarded
the Lawrence in the hopse of being
brought back to the city. When
the alarm was sounded that the Ferry
bridge was going there was a mad
rush to the shore. Mr. Aimers, noticing
that Mrs. Eloesser and her 1
daughter were among the last and
might be too late to cross, picked
them up in his arms and rushed over
the bridge. Just as they left the
bridge it gave way behind them. Mr.
Aimers carried the ladies from house
to house on 'Mount Pleasant, until
finally they were taken in and given
shelter at the home of Mr. G. H.
Darby.
The buttons and pin presented to
Mr. Aimers are of the finest Quality.
The tokens were accompanied by a
note, in which both mother and
daughter reiterated their thanks to
Mr. Aimers.
Mr. Aimers, being a very modest
'young man, nothing would ever have
been known by the public of his heroic
service on the night of the
storm had not a personal friend told
of the incident and exhibited the token
to a reporter.
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v Mistaken for llurglar. (
At Annlston, Ala., Dr. T. L. Smith,
a well known dentist was shot an^
probably fatally wounded early Fr
day by his roommate Joe S. Thom|
son, who mistook him for a bu
glar. Thompson was asleep wh<
Smith returned from an entertain
nient and fired before he recognized
him.
Negroes Go to Liberia.
Becase he believes that under present
conditions it is impossible for
the negro to prosper in southern Ok
lahomn, since- the recent race trouble
there, Dovey Costner, a negro farmer,
has announced that he will head a
band of fifty negroes in an expedition
to colonize in Liberia.
Price Has Been Fixed.
The National Farmers' Union has
fixed the price of cotton for the
months of September and October at
14 cents, and 15 cents for the balance
of the crop not sold in those months.
Now let ws all pull to carry out the
wishes of the fanners as expressed
by the Farmers' Union.
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LIQUOR FIGURES
MORE BEER DRANK THAN WAS
EVER DRANK BEFORE.
Hud It Not Iken for the Prohibition
Movement It Might Have Been
Worse.
There is mighty little encouragement
for radical legislative temperance
avocates to be derived from
the recent figures given out by the
internal revenue omce. rviiowing
the high mark of 1907 there was a
decline for a couple of years and it
appeared that the great areas oi legislatively
dry territory were having
some effect upon the traffic.
Then the tide changed the other
way and for the fiscal year that ended
on the 30th of June reached the
enormous total of 134,600,193 gallone
of whiskey, an increase over
the preceding year of more than 8,000,000
gallons.
The consumption of heer increased
from 59,544,775 barrels in 1910
to 63,216,851 barrels in 1911 ?
making a total combined increase for
the year 121,049,823 gallons. Not
only is the aggregate consumption
greater but the per capita consumption
would have been but for the ardent
efforts of the prohibitions and
those who think temperance is to be
promoted by legislation of that character,
no one can tell. It might have
been more, though we are rather inclined
to think that the law-making
has been without appreciable effect,
upon the whole.
It may have been salutary and
beneficial in some communities and
it may have been just the reverse in
others. This much is certain, if the
sumptuary legislation has reduced
consumption in the area to which it
applies, the folks beyond its reach
have suddenly developed an appetite
and capacity for ardent spirits that
is little short of alarming.
Because of the increased per capita
consumption this latter conclusion
does not seem reasonable and in
accordance with the facts. We know,
of course, the figures are sometimes
misleading but in this Instance we
can see nothing in them more striking
that the suggestion with which
this article started, that there is
mighty little in them that is encouraging
to the advocates of extreme
legislative temperance measures.
REASON THEY WON'T SERVE.
Women l?alk at Being Locked Up as
Jurors With Met.
A dispatch from Seattle, Wash.,
says mere men in those parts are
jumping to the conclusion that the
cause of woman suffrage gave itself
an awful wallop because out of
Uia f nr^ntv.U>raa nrnman whn ti n r n
vug w TT I-1AI VV TV TV i?vy '? VI V
drawn for jury duty In King County
twenty-two avoided ae:vice on the
ground that their sex permitted that
they be exempt. Seattle men are saying
that the women seek the glory of
the ballot but don't want to assume
its responsibilities. The women objected
to being locked up all night
with men jurors.
The one woman out of twenty-three
who was game did jury duty for
three days. She said frankly she
needed the pay that a juror receives
She was excused after several days
because the court found it inconvenient
to lock her up with her eleven
male colleagues.
The woman jury system has been
inaugurated in the State of Washington
nevertheless. Out in the country
the women are not called on to any
?reat extent as yet because the time
intervening between the election
which qualified them as jurors and
the installment of the new system has
not been attended by an election
through which the names of women
voters were placed in the general roll
from which the names of jurors are
drawn.
In Tacoma the jury room has been
divided by a curtain which does duty
at night. In some of the other cities
the men and the women have been
escorted to separate rooms at night.
In Gellingham the six men and six
women chosen for a case were evenly
divided on a verdict and after holding
them for a day or so they were
dismissed.
Perisli in Collapse.
The restaurant connected with the
Eldorado, the largest theatre in Nice,
France, collapsed Friday night burying
a number of Italians in the debris.
Late that night 11 dead and 16
severely injured persons had been
taken from the ruins, but it was feared
more persons still remained beneath
the wreckage. It is said the
building in which reinforced concrete
was used was being hurried by the
contractors, who were liable to a
t K1 * ~ Jnli. ?kA<. AVAAA/1
IH'livy iu:u iui enun uivy iiicj1 cAtccued
the contract time for finishing the
structure.
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Charge Attempted Assault.
Huford Young, a prominent young
armer of the Walnut Grove section of
Spartanburg county, charged with attempted
criminal assault on a girl 14
years of age, was granted bail by
Judge Hydrick of the supreme court
Friday. Young spent last night in
jail here, having been arrested on a
warrant Issued by Magistrate J. Walter
West of Walnut Grove.
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BREAKS THE RECORD
TWICE AS MUCH COTTON GINNED
NOW AS LAST YEAR THIS TIME.
Continued Hot and Dry Weather in
Southeastern Section of Belt Responsible
for Increase.
The first cotton ginning report of
the season, isued Friday by Director
E. Dana Durand, of the bureau of the
census, department of Commerce and
Labor, shows that 771,415 bales,
counting round as half bales, had
been ginned from the growth of 1911,
to Sentember 1. com oared with 3 53.
Oil bales of the growth of 1911,
ginned to September 1, 1910, 388,242
for 1909, and 402,229 bales for
1908.
Round bales this year are 6,994,
compared with 10,976 for 1910, 11,
587 for 1910 and 20,862 for 1908.
The number of sea island bales included
Is 539 for 1911, 218 for 1910,
1,236 for 1909 and 1,221 for 1908.
Comparisons of the number of
bales, counting round bales as half
bales, ginned to September 1, for the
past four years follows: Alabama,
40,5000; Arkansas, 170; Flerida, 3,764;
Georgia, 134,075; Louisiana, 7,616;
Mississippi, 1,849; North Carolina,
1,209; Oklahoma, 4,205; South
to oat . Tt ^ ^ r . m ?
/Uiuiiuu. io,9vi, Jtfiiueasee, i>, ic&uj,
559,114; other states, 1.
The ginning of cotton of the growth
of 1911 was carried on more actively
throughout the cotton belt to September
1 this year than in any similar
period in the history of the industry,
at least as far as accurate ginnings
records have been kept. This
is shown by the first ginning reports
of the season compiled by the census
bureau from reports of its correspondents
in the cotton growing States. A
total of 7 71,415 bales has been ginned
up to a week ago. This is greater
by almost 300,000 bales than the previous
record made in 1905.
The continued hot and dry weather
in a greater portion of the belt, especially
in Texas, was chiefly responsible
for the Increase. These conditions
meant the early maturing of the
crop, but this alone is considered a
cause of greater ginning. Farmers
have been more active in getting their
crop to the ginneries and, it is said,
in some counties of Texas, where the
bulk of the increased ginning was reported,
the entire crop practically already
has been ginned.
Little relaxation appears to exist,
acording to the census bureau experts
between the size of the crop and the
quantity of cotton ginned during any
period of the season. This is shown
in the bis: cron of 1904. 1906 and
1908, each of which produced more
than 13,000,000 bales. In these years
the percentage of the total crop iginned
to Sept. 1 was 2.8, 3.1, and 3.1
per cent respectively, while in 1905
when the crop was 10,800,000, 4.5
per cent of it was ginned by September
1. Last year 3.1 per cent of the
total crop was ginned to September 1.
CLAIMS TWO MORE VICTIMS.
Aeroplane Tank E.xplodqp Killing
Two in Mid Air.
Two more names were added to
the long roll of persons killed this
year in aeroplane accidents. Lieut.
Newman, a German military aviator,
started from Mulhansen, Germany,
inursaay morning in me airecuuu 01
Strassburg, carrying a passenger M.
Leconte, a French aeronaut. The
aeroplane hardly had gone 15 miles
when the gasoline tank exploded. The
report of the explosion was audible
for a distance of several miles. The
machine dropped at Blizheim from
an altitude of 60 feet and both aviators
were instantly killed. Their
skulls were 'broken and they were
frightfully injured about the body. *
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GAVE MORPHINE FOR QUININE.
The Wrong Medicine Proved Fatal to
Young Woman,
Miss Hattie Stogner, about 18
years old, daughter of J. W. Stogner,
a well-known citizen of the Tabernacle
section of Lancaster county,
died Thursday evening from the effects
of morphine given her by mistake
for quinine by her father, the
quantity given being about four
igrains. The girl had complained of
not feeling well and her father
thought that a dose of quinine would
relieve her. Unfortunately, however,
he got hold of the wrong powder,
which caused the deplorable accident.
Reveals Secret in Sleep.
At Oklahoma City, Okla., by talk
ing In his sleep, Walter Hamilton revealed
that he was an escaped convict
and was arrested Friday. He escaped
from the penitentiary at Huntville,
Texas, five years ago, and has
been living here for two years under
the name of Jack Rogers.
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Mills Close Down.
A dispatch from Fall River, Mass.,
says the cotton manufacturing plants
closed until September 11. Seven
mills were Idle tl}is week and others
are on short time. The total curtailment
tMs week amounted to 295,000
per cent of the usual output.
THEY OPPOSE TAFT
CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED FOK SEXATOD
LA FOLLETTE.
Democrats Will Carry Minnesota if
the President is Denominated, Said
One of the Speakers.
Senator La Follette found an ard nt
champion and President Taft an
avenging insurgent In Congressman
Lenroot of Wisconsin at a banquet
of'Minnesota Progressive Republicans
at Minneapolis Thursday night. The
Wisconsin congressman and Prof. C.
E. Merriam, of Ch'cago, late Republican
candidate for mayor of that city,
were the principal speakers, although
State Senator Ole O. Sageng, of Ottertial
County, "a La Follette man.'
stood in the lime light long enough
to say that a "clean Democrat in all
probability would carry Minnesota if
Taft were renominated."
The banquet formaly opened the
La Follette campaign in Minnesota
for the nomination for president on
the Republican ticket.
"The United States senate for
years," said Congresman Lenroot in
the course of his address, "has been
looked upon as the very citadel of
special privileges."
Having paid exalted tribute to Senator
La Follette as a constructive
statesman and an indefatigable foe of
"the interests." the sneaker said;
"Great progress has been made,
but it has been under difficulty."
Here he arraigned President Taft
for alleged unfaithfulness to the people.
"Since March 4, 1909,'" he said,
"it has been difficult to tell who was
the president of the United States or
where he should be placed."
"Elected as a progressive Republican,
President Taft chose a reactionary
cabinet. Before election he condemned
reactionaries and espoused
the Roosevelt policies. After election
he appointed IValliniger and retired
Garfield and Pinchot. Every
progressive Republican in the senate
and the house incurred his displeasure,
and Aldrich and Cannon became
his advisers.
"He then attempted to punish the
progressive Republicans in the house
and senate by depriving them of- all
control over federal patronage. This
act conclusively shows how little conception
the president has for the
character of the progressive Republi
cans and what they are lighting for.
If any progressive Republican had
been coerced by this attempt of the
president he would have been a traitor
to the country."
WOMAN RUNS GAMING HOUSE
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Minneapolis Society Ladies Lose
Large Sums in Resort.
At Minneapolis. Minn., an ultra
fashionable gambling house has been
closed by the police, after running
for sevral weeks, during whilh time
hundreds of women have been squandering
their time and money in the
place.
A highly respectable society woman
of the city ran the place. She was
sitccesful in her enterprise and the
curb at 723 Nicollet avenue was constantly
lined with limousines and the
town cars of the rich women. All
sorts of games were played, the police
say, a general raid would have been
made, but for the select quality of
the customers of the placo.
The closing of the house was caused
by the wrath of an irate well-to-do
grocer at the city, who discovered
that his wife had disipated a large
portion of his bank .account In the
beautifully furnished rooms at 723
Nichollet avenue. The owner was
"brought up on the carpet" immediately,
and closed the doors of the establishment
to avoid troulbe with the
police.
FARMERS FIX COTTON PRICE.
Fourteen Cents Until November and
Then Fifteen Cent*.
This year's cotton crop will be sold
for 14 cents during September and
October, 15 cents after that. This
was the agreement reached Tuesday
night by the cotton growers of the
South attending the National Farmers
union meeting at Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Little of the proceedings of
the union was made public, although
the price the farmers ask for their
cotton, good roads, parcels post and
dabbling in cotton futures were discussed
by the convention.
Shot Four Times.
At Natchez, Miss., Fred Dyers, a
married man was shot and killed at 2
o'clock Friday morning by L. C. Spencer
at the latter's home. Spencer re
turned from Mobile unexpectedly and
when he reached home he found Dyers
in a room with his wife. He shot
four times, each ball taking effect.
Dyers' wife and daughter are visiting
his brother in Washington, D. C.
Stranded Steamer Saved.
The steamer Lexicon, which was
driven ashore at the mouth of the
Edisto River, in the hurricane of last
week has been floated by tugs and
is now in a safe position. She had
not taken any water and is not believed
to be seriously damaged.
ATTACK PURSER
Big Ape Firieasljr Fights Officer the
Deck ef the Steaaihip.
CUMGS TO MAN'S NECK
Sneaking I'p Stealthily, Orang-Outang
Leaps on Man, and Is Strangling
Him When Aid Comes.?
Brute's Skull Crushed Before Its
Paws Can lie Ix>osened.
The New York World says an
orang-outang four and a half feet
tall, whose arms reached down to
its ankles, made a savage attempt
to choke the life out of Purser Pedd'y
of the British freight steamship
Pathan on the voyage which ended
Saturday, when the vessel docked in
South Brooklyn. The fierce brute
relaxed its strangling hold on the
[ purser's neck only when it was killed.
The Pathan touched at several
ports in the Far East, and in the cargo
she took on were boxes and crates
containing wild animals. In a crate
was the orang-outang, fierce but sullen,
seemingly brooding on revenge
on those who had torn it from its
jungle in Borneo.
The Pathan steamed through the
Suez Canal and t \e Mediterranean,
then ran into a gale on the Atlantic
soon after passing Gibraltar. As
she pitched and rolled the crate prisoning
the orang-outang was thrown
across the hold and smashed. The
anthropoid ape found itself at liberty.
l.VIore silently than ever moved hu
mtiii aoDtionui, tut; ftit'ai iiiuiiKuy uru[>t
to the deck, where the purser was
standing. Stealing up behind him,
the ape sprang on him.
"The first I knew that the orang
had escaped was when its big, hairy
paws closed around my neck," said
Mr. Pedday Saturday. "I had just
time to yell for help when the brute
clutched me so tightly that it shut
oft my wind. Second Officer Wilcox
and some of the crew rushed to
my rescue, but before they could
reach me the orang had thrown >me
on the deck and was strangling me.
The instant Mr. Wilcox reached
the deck he had grabbed an Iron bar
and brought It down with all his
strength on the orang-outang's head.
Even such a terrific blow did not
make the monkey relax its hold.
Making fierce noises and snapping its
bared teeth it held on until Mr. Wilcox
caved in its skull with the bar.
We threw its body overboard."
The purser said his throat was
badly bruised and cut by the orang's
paws and nails and was sore for
days. Besides, the attack was so
sudden, so demoniac, that he suffered
from shock for awhile. *
ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN.
Obstruction on Track Between LatU
and IHUon.
A bold attempt was made to wreck
a through passenger train on the
short cut division of the Coast Line
Wednesday night at or near the Buck
Swamp aiding, between Latta and Dillon,
where about six years ago Train
8 6, the Palmetto Limited, northbound,
was completely wrecked. The
switch light had been put out and a
log chain was found wrapped around
the rail and fastened to the ties. Had
any of the trains hit the obstruction
they would have been derailed and
wrecked. At that point all trains
usually speed along at about fifty
miles the hour. The obstruction was
found by the switch tender, he having
noticed that the switch light was
out and went to relight it. The Coast
Line officials have ordered all trains
to reduce speed and for engineers to
run slowly between Dillon and Latta
until further orders, and to keep a
sharp lookout for obstructions on the
track.
Woman Badly Burned.
At Sumerton a negro woman was
horibly and perhaps fatally burned
Thursday afternoon in the explosion
of a kerosene can which she had in
her hand while starting a fire in the
stove at the home of J. W Lesesne,
for whom she cooked. Enveloped in
flames the woman ran screaming to
a cabin 150 yards away, where the
flames were extinguished after about
half the surface of the skin of her
body had been burned. The house
of Mr.Lesesne was saved from burn- 0
ing only by hard work.
Cause of Pellagra.
The Buffalo gnat has been fixed
upon by Henry Gar man, a government
bacterologist and entomologist,
as the cause of pellagra. Just how
the great communicates the disease
is not known, but scientists believe
they are on the right track 8nd eventually
will find a cure for the disease
The Buffalo gnat exists in great numbers
all through the South.
Train (Joes Through Trestle.
A train load of pipe, en route from
Bessemer, Ala., to San Diego, Cal.,
went through a 60-foot treetle on the
Frisco railroad, near Cardova, Ala..
Thursday and killed a brakeman and
injured other trainmen. The treetle
was demolished, as well aa a large
portion of the pipe. %