The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 21, 1911, Image 3
A QUEER STORY
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BEGGED TO BE KILLED
Two Members of a Religious Sect
^ Gave Deadly Drug to an III Sister
of the Sect, From the Effects of
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They Think They I>id Hight.
Sister Sadie L. Marchant, a member
of a Shaker colony located near
k Klssimee, Fla., died, or "passed out
of the body," as the members of that
altruistic society calls it, on August
22 last.
Sister Elizabeth Sears and Brother
Egbert B. Gillette, Shakers, too
characterized like all their fellows by
the attempt of perfect purity in
thought, word and act, by gentleness,
honesty and obedience to law, are
accused of Sister Sadie's murder.
For seeing her death was inevitable
from consumption, pitying her
0 frightful sufferings, Sister Elizabeth
and Brother Gillette administered
chloroform to Sister Sadie; made her
physical tortures to end in euthanasia,
in a peaceful, painless death.
^ And it was at Sister Sadie's prayer
that her loving, sympathetic friends
administered the anesthetic under
under which she passed from unconsciousness
into the hereafter.
"Before God I think I did right"
calmly said Brother Gillette to a
correspondent. "My conscience is
perfectly at ease. If the act was unwise
only my great feeling for her
prompted me to commit it. Oh! how
she suffered!"
After a formal hearing Sister Elizabeth
and Brother Gillette were held
en the charge of murder. Yet Judge
G ,P. Parker took an unprecedented
step and admitted them to bail; Sister
Elizabeth In $2,000, Brother Gillottee
in $5,000. Other members of
the colony furnished the bond. They
g may be tried but never convicted is
the general opinion of the people of
^ Kissimee and surrounding country.
There is no doubt that Sister Elizabeth
and Birother Gillette consulted,
prayed together before they yielded
to Sister Sadie's prayers to end her
misery. Probably they consulted with
others of the colony, but Brother Gil1
pft? implicated no one?if iniDlicat
ed is the word under all the circum^
stances?in the statement he made.
"Sister Sadie L. Marchant came to
our colony six years and three
months ago," said Brother Gillette
while he waited in jail for bail to be
given for him. "She was doomed to
death from consumption. One of her
lungs had been destroyed. She has
been suffering terribly for several
weeks and we all knew the time was
0 short before she would be called to
her final reward. The climax came on
August 20. She was seized with chills
hemorrhage and other eymptons
which every one knows mean that
the end on any one with consumption
is near.
"Sister Sadie has always told us to
let her die in peace and without pain
^ and asked Sister Elizabeth that day
to let her get out of the body. Sister
Sadie refused to eat anything more
after that. On Sunday night the 20th,
she was in agony and toward morni?
g begged us to kill her. She said
she was at peace with God and with
^ all on earth, and was ready to go.
*'I went to St. Cloud at daylight
Monday morning to get some opiates
to ease her, and gt#ve her all I
brought. They seemed to relieve her.
I went to St. Cloud for more, and
when I gave them to her she could
not keep them on her stomach. She
suffered so until Tuesday noon that I
went to St. Cloud to get two ounces
of chloroform which I gave lo her on
a cloth, and she went to sleep.
| "I went to St. Cloud again about 3
o'clock and got six or eight ounces
more of chloroform in a bottle and
v-hen I returned home I found she
had come out from under the influence
of the first I had given her and
J 1 gave her anothor dose. She passed
out about ten minutes before 6
o'clock.
"Every time I gave her anything I
naked her, 'Sadie, do you want this?'
.And sho would say 'Yes.' She was
suffering so she did not want to live,
Before giving her the last sleeping
portion I made it a special point to
tell her that if she wanted to wait
longer and suffer, we would do everything
we posibly could to help her.
She wanted us to do as we did, and
Implored us to give her the chloroform.
"It was not the first time she had
grown discouraged and asked her to
let her get out of the body. I had
often encouraged and asked her to
1 remain with us as long as she could.
I fear I was selfish, for our number
^ time one has ever been called on to
answer a criminal charge. They are
supposed to tell the truth always and
under any circumstances, no matter
what the result may be; so no one
doubts that Brother Oillett is telling
the truth now. The Shakers take no
part in politics and treat all people
With respect.
unless excused.
In the years the Shakers have lived
in the community this Is the first
and all attend the religious services
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MAY FASTEN CRIME
MPKTLE HAWKINS* DEATH BEING
INVESTIGATED.
Coucliiimii'N Story involves Five or
Six People, But They All Deny
Their Guilt.
The death of Myrtle Hawkins at
Hendersonville, N. C.. is being thoroughly
investigated. On Thursday
the feature of the inqueBt was the
production of a letter found in Myrtle's
room by her sister. Mrs. J. 13.
Thomas. It was written to her mother
by Myrtle, and said:
"Dear IMother: I promised Dady
to write and tell you of my misfortune.
but I have not the face to tell
you the name of the man who is responsible
for it. He is not entirely
to blame, however, for he has done
all he caii to help me. I am going
away so that I will not b? any more
trouble to you. Tell them that I have
gone to Atlas, good-bye."
The "Atlas" referred to Is the
name of a girl friend who lives at
Concord, N. C. It was stated tonight
that unless the case takes a more decided
turn there is little probability
of any arrests being made. There
was moisture in the eyes of many
when the wretched girl's brave little,
note, showing so clearly her despair
hut withal her unselfishness, was
read and introduced in evidence.
The State's star witness was Robert
Waddell, coachman for Daniel
McCall, who lived in the latter's
house, which is near the house occupied
jointly by Mr. and Mrs. A. M.
McCall and Mr. and Mrs. George
Bradley, and not far from Osceola
lake. Ills testimony tended to incriminate
George Bradley, a young
married man, and several others.
Bradley was asked by the coroner
if he was responsible for the girl's
condition and if he did not conspire
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plumbing establishment, A. M. iMcCall
and the latter's wife, Mrs. Heatrice
McCall, Myrtle's most intimate
friend, and Mrs. McCall's father,
Oaniel McCall, and a strange woman
from Asheville, to perform the operation,
and if Myrtle did not die under
the chloroform,1 and if her body
was not concealed for a time in one
barn and then removed to another
and kept there until midnight, and if
three men did not place it on a plank
and then carry it to the lake and
throw it In.
All five of those named steadfastly
maintained their complete ignorance
of the alleged circumstances adduced
in support of the theory, and so un
falteringly returned the withering
fire of questions and cross-questions
as to leave the mystery as far from
solution as ever, in the opinion of
raapy of those who attended the inquest.
'Many believe that the mystery
will soon be solved now. *
Is growing so few that our ministry
is losing heart and want to sell our
place here and move north.
"I call my maker to witness that I
thought I was doing right." Brother
Gillette repeated solemnly, "My conscience
is at peace.
The manner of Sister Sadie's death
did not impress the Shakers as so remarkable
that they talked of it in the
world outside their colony. So days
passed before it was known here even
that a physician had not attended
her. 'But Sheriff Brevatt here, the
seat of Osceola County, heard rumors
that convinced him he should investigate
the cause of death, so he and
Judge Parker moved to the colony.
Without the slightest hesitation
Sister Elizabeth and Brother Gillette
told them just what is told here. Even
then the sheriff did not take the
"sister" and "brother" in custody as
he would any other person who confessed
to have taken a human life.
The Sheriff and Judge Parker returned
here, pondered the case and decided
it was the sheriff's duty to arrest
the two Shakers. So the latter returned
to the colony and brought Sister
Elizabeth and Brother Gillette
here and placed them in the county
jail.
The Shakers at the colony have
been growing fewer and fewer; they
are most industrious, "Hands to work
and hearts to God," is their motto.
Yet they have not prospered. At the
colony the women and men live
apart. They do not marry. The members
of a "family" all arise at the
same time, eat together. All must labor
under the direction of the elders
Wanted the Hoodie.
Run ice Murphy, of Valentine, Neb.,
the girl accused of having incited a
mob to hang her fiance in order that
she might inherit his life insurance
has been held by the District Court.
The presiding judge declared that
Miss Murphy is just as guilty as the
men who took her sweetheart to a
tree and hanged him.
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Half a Million Iioss.
Damage of more than $500,000
was done to New England crops by a
heavy frost during the early hours
Thursday. With the weather forecaster
predicting continued cold
weather farmers in that section are
discouraged.
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Destructive Cloudburst.
A hundred thousand dollars damage
was done and a number of lives
are reported lost In a cloudburst over
Btna, Sharpsburg, and Millvale, Pa.
STONE A WOMAN
4ad Drift Her Fria Tewa Because Sk*
Wet Accifd ( Witchcraft.
SAID SHE WAS A WITCH
Cruelties of the Salem Witchcraft
Days Revived in This Enlightened
Age in Allentown, Pa.?Unfortunate
New York Invalid Compelled
to Submit to Many Indignities.
The cruel old days of witchcraft
that once disgraced Salem, Mass.,
seems to have been revived in Allentown,
Pa., where Mrs. Meta Immerman,
a poor seamstress from New
York was stoned, put in jail and driven
out of town accused of being a
witch. The following is the remarkable
story as told by a correspondent
of the New York World.
In the week she was there Mrs. Immerman
was insulted and mocked,
her baggage was thrown out her
lodgings and she was stoned, arrested
and thrown in jail. Mrs. Immerman
came to Allentown to take the
Kneipp barefoot treatment in the
hope of restoring her eyes, almost
destroyed by overwork.
She took the treatment under John
KI0S8, who lives in a hut near town.
She gave her address as No. 34 9 Central
Park, New York.
The Y. W. C. A. sent her to the
home of George Kipp, a butcher at
No. 207 South Thirteenth street. In
the house were also John Sobers and
his young wife, soon to become a
mother.
Mrs. I miner man was tall and angular
hair just a shade of red, and iher
faded gray eyes peered through very
thick glasses.
On the fourth day John Sobers
came home suffering from indigestion.
He consulted a "pow-wow"
doctor, one of the many in Allentown
who told him that he was the victim
of an evil spirit.
Then the Kipps and the Soberses
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membered Mrs. Immerman's strange
diet of raw eggs and nuts and her
nightly excursions to the city parks
to take the barefoot treatment in- the
downy grass.
That night, when the Kipps went
upstairs to bed, they passed Mrs. Immerman's
room. The door was open
and she was in bed. Kipp says her
eyes burned like a cat's.
News like this travels. The next
slay the neighbors were saying that
Mrs. Immerman was a witch and
could make fire flash from her fingers.
They had seen the electric
flashlight she carried at night to help
her near-sighted eyes, but didn't
know what it was.
That day little Winnie Klpp didn't
feel well. When Mrs. Immerman
came home she found a note on her
bureau ordering her to leave the
house. She could not afford to do so
until the week she had paid for was
up.
Next day she was hooted on the
streets. At dusk she returned to
find her trunk on the porch. She
pounded on the door because she
wanted the trunk key that was in her
room.
The' Kipps called the police. The
crowd yelled "Witch!" as she was
taken away, and the boys began to
throw stones at her. She was in
1a.il 48 hours. In this city of 50,000
there are twelve Dutch "pow-wow"
feed on the superstitions of their followers.
Mrs. Sobers baby cried the first
week of its existence?another proof
it was bewitched. Soberses now
wear charms made of sawdust and
broken needles. Cabalistic crosses
are now chalked above each door
in the Kipp Home. On the front
door are seven crosses with mysterious
quirks about their intersecting
points.
PKOIMilS akmost DltOWX.
Five Million Callous of Molasses Hun
in the Streets.
The sweetest thing that ever happened
in New Orleans, La., occurred
this week when tanks containing 5,000,000
gallons of molasses burst in
the warehouse of the Planters' Storage
Company. Part of the commercial
district was flooded with a
stream of molasses so deep that many
persona had narrow escapes rrom
drowning in the sticky stuff.
The people in the street adjoining
the burst tanks had to wade through
molasses up to their waists, or even
to their chins in some instances. Sevpcrsons
tried to swim in the molasses
but it was like the antics of a fly
on gummy fly paper, and they had
to be rescued.
To repair the breaks in the tanks
it was necessarry to row boats into
the warehouse on the surface of the
sticky flood. The loss is estimated at
$200,000.
Beauties of Divorce,
Edward Foster Oatman, of Dunbar
Wisconsin, has made application for
a license to wed Miss Hazel 'Brasee, of
Omro. Although the groom is 25 and
the bride 22, their marriage will be
i their third matrimonial venture. Both
have been married twice and divorced.
HAVE A CLOSE CALL
SOUTHERN ENGINE CRASHES INTO
STREET CAR.
Seven People Were Injured and Many
Had Narow Kara pew From a Horrible
Death.
The State says ten persons narrowly
escaped death Friday morning: at
the deadly Taylor street grade crossing.
For the third time in three
years these accidents have occurred.
Seven were injured when a Southern
railway pasenger engine was backing
into the Union station crashed
through the guard gate and crumpled
an outbound Waverly car. The
street car had been released by the
watdhman at the crossing.
The injured are:
Mrs. W. L. MefTord, 2409 Laurel
street. Severely bruised on leg and
thought to be Internally Injured.
W. D. Munn, Edgewoed, cut with
glass about the face and body and
bruised.
Isabel Bradley, a negro woman residing
on East Senate street, bruised.
May Brantley, a negro woman residing
om the Garner's Ferry road,
bruised.
I. A. Attaway, motorman of the
car, cut by glass and bruised.
Charles Jaggers, bruised about the
body.
All of the injured were carried to
their respective homes. It was stated
that none of the injuries will
prove fatal. The car was in charge
of W. L. Webb, conductor. He was
not injured.
The accident occurred Friday afternoon
at 6:10 o'clock. There were
only ten persons aboard the car at
the time of the acident, according to
Conductor Web.
The street car, number 75, a payas-you-enter
model, is operated between
Shandon and Waverly and is
a heavy double-truck car. The large
passenger engine struck the car in
Ihe center.
The car was almost folded up by
the impact of the heavy engine. It
was thrown from the track for ten
feet, snapping two electric poles. The
heavy steel girders were twisted and
the sides broken in. All windows
were shattered and practically all
passengers were cut by the flying
glass.
According to Conductor Webb, the
car stopped within several feet of the
crossing after the gates had been
nulled up and the guards to the railroad
track let down. Mrs. H. J. Hardy
left the car at this point. The
^ar moved on to cross the tracks.
Mrs. Hardy turned and saw the engine
approaching. She jumped
down gn embankment and.narrowly
escaped being crushed to death under
the car. She was injured by her
fall, but her Injuries are not considered
serious.
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AT I jA NT A GI11L RHSCUED.
Enticed From Home By Promises of
Work and Big Fay.
n i i ..i~i?ai c
v. milling u. viuiuiiuu ui luc rcucial
statute, which seeks to prohibit
the trafllcing in girls, L. Athanasaw
was placed under $1,?00 bond at Atlanta
on a warrant sworn out by the
Woman's Home and Hospital.
Athanasaw is proprietor of the Imperial
Theatre in Ybor City, Fla. It
is a vaudeville house with wine
rooms attached. The specific charge
made against him is that through
an advertisement in an Atlanta paper
he interested young girls of that
city and surrounding country to come
here and go on the stage at a fancy
salary.
The name of Miss Agnes Couch appears
in the warrant. She has been
living in Atlanta, but her home is at
Senoia, Ga. She was rescued by the
superintendent of the Woman's
Home and Hospital. Five other Atlanta
girls answered the advertisenents,
but none of them went to work
after visiting the place.
Aliss Couch said she was employed
by an agent in Atlanta, who paid her
fare. She told the authorities she
was forced to smoke cigarettes, drink
and importune men to drink, and to
submit to other indignities. *
GHOST CAME WITH A CRASH.
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Fell Through Skylight in Nightshirt
and Terrified.
Three young women operators in
the Pittston, Pa., telephone exchange
were badly frightened Wednesday
morning when a man, clad only in
his nightshirt, jumped through the
glass skylight of the operating room
at throe o'clock and stood bleeding
and torn before them. They shrieked
for help and dashed panic-stricken
into the street, shouting that they
had seen a ghost. The police found
the man was James Roach, while
delirious from fever, had gotten out
of his bedroom, climbed over the
roof of his houso and passed over
two other roofs had fallen into the
exchange. He was severely injured.
Killed by Baseball.
Struck in the head by a baseball
while umpiring a game Thursday in
Boston, Meyer Sohlesburg, died at a
hospital at that place.
AUTO RACE TOLL
Car Crasb lata Spectators and Nine ?(
lb : Were Fatally Hart
MANY OTHERS INJURED
At Syracuse, New York, Fair Grounds
lire on An Auto Bursts and tlie
Car Leaves Stretch, Crashing into
Grand Stand With the Awful Results
Above Stated.
At Syracuse New York, nine persons
were killed and fourteen hurt,
several of them seriously as the result
of an accident in the fifty mile
automobile race at the State Fair
track Saturday afternoon.
A Knox racing car driven by Lee
Oldfleld crashed through the fence on
the turn after leaving the stretch in
front of the grandstand and ploughed
for some distance into the crowd,
causing the casualties. Oldfleld was
not seriously hurt. The blowing of a
lire on uiarieia s mac nine was responsible
for the accident.
The dead are,
Claude Hamil, New York.
Fred J. Arnold, Syracuse.
Charles Hallentine, Syracuse, N. Y.
James Coin, Alexander Bay,N.Y.
Fayette Funk, Farleyville, N. Y.
.Leo Hal pin. Syracuse, N. Y.
Unknown man, GO years old.
Unknown man, 25 years old.
Unknown boy, 10 years old.
Every ambulance in Syracuse was
rushed to the scene and vehicles at
the park were also pressed into service
to aid in the relief work.
The woman's building was turned
into an emergency hospital. The accident
happened during the forty-seventh
mile of the race. Oldfield was a
lap behind Ralph DePalma and run
ning with him. Oldlield had a bad tire
on his car for over 27 miles, but it
did not blow out until the race was
within three miles of the finish.
At the time it exploded DePalma
and Oldfield were neck to neck.They
had just taken the turn at terrific
speed that had the spectators almost
in a frenay. Then came a crash that
was heard all over the field, followed
by the screams of women and
children in the stand, the paddock
and inside of the track.
Efforts were amde by prominent
Syracusans to stop the meet at once.
Starter Fred J. Wagner, of New York
however refused to stop the race. He
started another race, the last one of
the day, wihin five minutes after the
track had been cleared.
The list of. dead may increase as
it is belived that several of the injured
are so badly hurt that they they
cannot live. Oldfield is among the .injured.
The accident came as the fatal termination
of the biggest day of the
State Fair has ever had in point of
attonHfln an urnll an In ithu matfor
of attractions.
The honored guest of the Pair was
President Taft. It was but a short
time after he had left the grounds
that the tragedy occurred.
Just before he left President Taft
took a short ride in an automobile on
the track, which was wet to settle
the dust for the President and his
party.
This wetting was such as to cause
drivers, who were in the fifty mile
event to protest.
When the race was called Ralph
DePalma and Rob Burman, who had
driven in preceeding races refused to
go on because of the condition of the
track, saying the water had made it
too dangerous to take chances. There
was a delay during which the track
dried somewhat, and DePalma and
Burman were both entrants along
with Oldfleld and six others.
The accident happened in the 43d
mile, DePalma was leading by a lap
with Oldfleld trailing him as they
entered the first quarter of that mile.
The big cars, travelling it is esti
mated, at 75 miles an hour, were
running side by side as they swung
around the turn, after passing -the
grand stand.
As they took the turn there was a
report. The car drvien by Oldfield
leaped in the air. Then it swerved
to the outer side and crashed through
the fence. The crippled machine, beyond
the control of the driver,
ploughing through hundreds of persons
lining along the fence.
For more than twenty miles, spectators
declared Oldfield had been
driving his car wifW one of the shoes
flapping, in the hope of beating out
DoPalma. However, his manager, instead
of stopping him, it is said, urged
him to increase speed.
In spite of the fact that it quickly
ItAPnnip known Ihsit innnv tmd boon
killed and injured, the o'llcials in
charge refused to call off the race,
and the last few miles were run while
hundreds throned the track.
Oldfield, the driver, who is in a
hospital is being guarded by an ofllcer
and as soon as he recovers will be arrested.
Lovc<l Her llooze.
Sued for divorce, William Schwab,
of Fremont, O., has filed a cross petition
declaring his wife drank six
j quarts of whiskey in four days, then
threw a glass at him when he remonstrated
with her.
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FARMERS MEETING
WILL HE ASKED TO RATIFY ACTIOX
OF CONGRESS.
They Recently Met at Montgomery,
Alu., to Get at the Truth About
The Cot on Crop.
Col. E. J. Watson, commissioner
or agriculture, and E. W. Dabbs,
president of the South Carolina Farmers'
Union., returned last night from
the Montgomery Cotton Convention
held recently. Both are very much
pleased at the results. The businesslike
manner in which the Congress
got down to business and the unanimity
of all its proceedings mark a
new era dn the cotton situation. It
is no longer the disorganized farmers
but it is the organized farmers and
the organized bankers, and the oranized
Chaml>er of Commerce and
boards of trade; in fact the allied
commercial interests of ("he South de
ici uiiiiuu t u ai kTuuvu 9 ft i Ctti
pie shall be a blesing to the South
and the nation, by business like
methods of handling it.
In acord with the other commissioners
of agriculture Col. Watson
will probably call a State meeting at
Columbia during the Red Shirt Reunion
to ratify the work done and to
enlarge upon it. Leading up to this
meeting, President Dabbs hopes to
put several workers in the field just
as soon as he can arrange a series of
meetings. Part of the expense of
this work is provided by a fund given
the National Union by sympathizers
at Montgomery, and all friends in
this State are given the opportunity
to contribute. All sums large or
small will be acknowledged for and
received by Secretary Reid, Columbia
or President Dabbs, Mayesville.
Presidents of County Unions and
business men are requested by the
ofllcials to secure the largest possible
attendance on the meetings. Volunteers
from occupation who can
present the needs of the hour will be
gladly used as far as possLble within
the funds of expenses, and should
comunicate with State President
Dabbs that he may make assignments
to the work. He is counting on the
Senators and Congressmen and other
oflicials, bankers, mercants and profesisonal
men and farmers, too, for
time and money to carry on this important
work.
"He that giveth quickyly giveth
twice," says Mr. Dabbs. This
is the need of the hour and it depends
on how the people respond as
to how soon we will be reaping from
the seeds sown at the Montgomery
Congress. South Carolina was signally
honored in having Us able com
mlssioner permanent president and in
having this permanent organization
grow out of the work of the Sumter
County Farmers' Union.
National President Barrett wishes
to have the aid of Col. Watson and
Senator Smith from this State in a
quick trip across the cotton belt to
arouse the people In the large centres
just as the State authoriies hope to
do in the counites.
HAI) SKELETON IN HOX.
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Negro Garbage Hauler Wanted the
Dig Case llurned.
A large box was carried to the Sacremento,
Cal., crematory by a negro
ghrbage hauler with the request that
it bo burned. The crematory authorities
became suspicious and upon
opening the box found the skeleton of
a woman.
The box had been intrusted to the
garbage hauler by the local manager
of the Wells-Fargo Express Company.
According to otlicials of that company
the box had been consigned ro a Mrs.
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Brown, of Waco, Texas. Mrs. Wilson
has been dead for sometime. Local
ofllcials are awaiting news of the
shipping of the box trom Waco to determine
whether the body had been
lawfully exhumed.
A dispatch from Waco. Texas, says
the body of a 'Mrs. Wilson, who died
here, was sent seven years aso to another
Mrs. Wilson at Sacramento,
Cal., and remained in the freight depot
of the Southern Pacific, Mrs. Wilson,
of Sacramento, having refused
to receive it or pay charges.
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Many llorses Died.
That many horses and mules have
been killed by forage poisoning in
the Hilton Head section of Beaufort
county is the substance of the report
that has been filed at the State department
of Agriculture by Dr. E.
Burnett, special veteranarian sent by
the nepartment to make an investigation
of the situation. *
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DicMl I'rom l-Tlgnt.
Augusta Lawskowska, aged 15,
died of fright at South Bend. Ind.,
while on her way home with a companion.
The girls saw two young
men and evidently thinking she was
to? he attacked, Augusta fainted. She
died without recovering consciousness.
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Terrorised Prisoners.
A bolt of lightning struck the Somerset
county, Pa., jail this week,
stunning 3 2 prisoners. Terror reigned
among the prisoners when they regained
their senses. Some of them
beat their heads aginst the doors un*
til they were nearly unconscious.
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