The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 28, 1911, Image 5
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I TAKE WO PART
Seaaltr Tillnaa Says He Is fliris Of
is the Race f ?r Civerisr.
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RUN FOR SENATE AGUN
Bairing Death, the Senator Says, He
Will lie In the Race, He AVill Make
Speeches Too, and Does Not Care
? Who or How Many Enter the
Field.
In an interview #with J. L. McWhorter
of the Augusta Chronicle,
printed in that newspaper on Friday,
^ Senator B. R. Tillman definitely an
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nounceu Hi a IUUBI Viuynauu na; kuui.
lie would run for the Senate again.
The Senator outlined his position
Inregard to the gubernatorial campaign.
In tnat race the Senator said
he would be hands off, and let Blease
and Jones fight it out.
He said he would be a candidate
for re-election to the United States
Senate if he was alive and not in articulo
mortis. He went on to say: I
believe if I am dead I'll let 'em vote
for me a little anyhow."
In most emphatic language Senator
Benjamin Ryan Tillman sets forever
at rest the cherished hopes of
some, and the doubts of others, as to
f whether he will be in the United
States Senatorial race next year.
At his farm near Trenton Thursday
Senator Tillman "talked the matter
over," with a staff representative
of The Chronicle, and in language
more or less Tillmanesque, as the
various phases demanded, stated that
he believed he would be elected again
without trouble.
"It has been said often, that I
could sit on my back porch and be
re-elected," said 'he. "I don't know
why they almays mention my back
porch, for the front porch is much
more cheerful and I use it the more,
tout I suppose they mean to imply
that I need not even show myself in
the campaign and that my friends In
South Carolina will see that I go
toack, if I want to." Senator TillP
man was busy on his farm, but he
. took time to say this much.
t To those who are familiar with
the oft-repeated statements as to his
falling health it may come as a surprise
to know that he sleeps well,
-eats heartily, gives the whole farm
his personal superivison by walking
and riding over it every day?in
fact, many times a day?dictates his
private and official letters to his sec*
retary, and that his mind is as clear
sis a bell, and his old-time fire of
speecli and manner blazes out at opportune
times.
The only real reminder of this
past affliction is the cane he carries
-?and he sometimes forgets that and
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It. Barring death, he will be In the
race, and he will make speeches too,
* and he says he doesn't care who or
how many enter the field. Any one
has a right to offer who wishes to.
"Senator, it has been more than
binted by some, that you are encouraging,
and will back, Gov. Blease for
re-election as governor next summer.
The Chronicle wants to know directly
from you if you will give It, how
<4 much truth there is in these hints
and rumors?" was the direct question
asked Senator Tillman by the
representative of The Chronicle.
"I am not going to help a soul in
that race. I am going to be strictly
^ hands-off and neutral, and, furthermore,
I have not given any one any
authority to say that I was for or
against either of the candidates who
have announced. I am not going to
mix in it or have anything to do with
It."
The Senator's attention was called
to the story in Thursday morning's
Chronicle, written by Col. Leon
Green, a former newspaper man in
South Carolina, in which it was stated
that Senator Tillman would be a
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did not see much in the story, but
that it was "probably written to draw
me out."
He said that he did not know who
inspired the story, but so far as the
J references to his being a factor was
concerned he could only repeat what
he had just said: That he was "not
going to be mixed up in it." Senator
Tillman, from his talk, is evidently,
of the opinion that neither Gov.
Blease nor Justice Jones will win In
a walk over the other. *
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Assassin to be Hanged.
A dispatch from Kjlew, Russia,
Bays Demitry Rogroff, the assassin of
Premier Stolypin, was tried Friday
by Court-martial and sentenced to
death by hanging. Rogroff is about
24 years of age and a graduate of
Kiev University. Ho was a member
of the secret police and also a revolu^
tionist, and is said to have been assigned
to the murderous task by the
revolutionary organization. *
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Three Shot to Death.
At Green Mountain, Tenn., Robert
McCay of the McCay Construction
company and two negroes were shot
to death on the road from Burnsvllle
to Newport, Tenn. The shooting
is alleged to have been done by
three young mountaineers, Parm,
Bob and Zeb Peterson.
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DRIVEN TO DEATH
AVIATOR BUKNtiD IN MIDAIR AS
THOUSANDS WATCH.
Tunk of (auHoline Kxplodes, and Machine
Drops Fifty Feet and Then
Fluid Ignites, Killing Frank Miller.
Forced into the air by the Jeers of
thousands who called him a coward,
Frank H. Miller, aged 23, a Toledo
aviator, took flight at twilight Friday
evening and at the height of 200
feet was burned to death before the
eyes of the terrified spectators on the
Miami county fair grounds at Troy,
Ohio.
Miller had circled the race track
and was just starting on a spiral
glide when it was seen that something
was wrong. The birdman could
be seen frantically attempting to get
his machine under control when suddenly
the whirring of the propeller
seased. Tne cran men aroppeu ime
a shot for a distance of fifty feet
when a tiny blue flame was seen coming
from the engine. An instant later
the gasoline tank exploded.
A large portion of the craft was
torn away by the impact and fragments
were hurled hundreds of feet
in all directions. Meanwhile the remainder
of the machine, with its
driver literally roasted, was dropping
rapidly to earth. It struck the ground
with great violence, Miller's already
badly burned body being buried under
the motor.
When the body was pulled from
under the wreckage Miller's clothing
was burned from his body and his
face was almost unrecognizable.
The framework of his machine was
aflame whon it struck the earth.
Rapid work of rescuers saved the
body of the aviator from total incineration.
visible cotton supply.
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Receipts Much Heavier Than For
Several Years.
Secretary Hester's New Orleans
Cotton Exchange statement, issued
before the close of business Friday,
on inppfiiiRfl in round fl cures in
the movement into sight of 133,000
bales over the seven days ending Sept
22 last year, an increase over the
same year before last of 70,000 and
an increase over the same time in
1908 of 83,000.
The amount brought into sight for
the week ending Friday afternoon is
tarted at 426,129 bales, against 292,686
for the seven days ending this
date last year, 456,328 year before
last and 343,294 same time in 1908.
This brings the total crop moved into
sight for the twnety-two days of the
new season to 962,732 bales, against
3 8,864 last year, 83 4,194 year be-j
fore last and 76,156 for the same
time in 1908.
The movement since September 1
shows receipts at all United States
ports 617,972 bales, against 488,765
lost year, 617,972 year before last
and 551,360 same time in 1908; ov
erland, across the Mississippi, unio
and Potomac rivers to Northern mills
and Canada 5,624, against 3,987 last
year. Prices will never improve as
long as cotton pours into sight.
SEABOARD BKAKKMAN KILLED.
Lawrence Williams Mangled in Fall
Between Cars.
Lawrence Williams, a negro brakeman
employed by the Seaboard Air
Line Railway, in Columbia, was fatally
injured Thursday morning by falling
between cars of a train on which
he worked. The accident occurred
while the negro was on his regular
run between Columbia and Hamlet.
Roth the negro's legs and his left
arm were removed by the car wheels,
and he died soon after being taken
to the negro hospital in that city.*
Williams was an industrious negro
and bore a good reputation, and was
a resident of Columbia. No inquest
was held by the coroner. *
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Queer Case for Divorce.
Mrs. Henry Schutz, of St. Paul,
Minn., on the ground that her husband
said he was a widower with
three children before the marriage,
whereas after the knot had been tied,
Mrs. Schulz was "shocked and surprised,
although fond of children, to
learn he had ten, ranging in age
from one to fifteen years."
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Kight Too Many.
Testerfying that a man never gets
too old to have affinities and charging
that her husband, Charles W.
Adams, who is sixty, had nine during
their married life, Mrs. Jennie M.
Adams was granted a divorce In the
court at Kansas City on Saturday.
She refused to accept more than $30
a month alimony.
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Many Rebels Killc<l.
It Is estimated that a total of two
thousand Chinese insurgents beseiging
Cheng-T.u have been killed. The
foreign residents have not yet been
able to leave the capital. *
Became Insane.
At San Jose, Calif., Rev. Thomas
Sherman, son of General Wm. T.
Sherman, has bee placed In the inasne
asylum. He Is a Catholic priest.*
HUNT HIM DOWN
Large Passe Searching far ike N gra
S'ayer if White Ha:
IN FAIKFIELD COUNTY
Bloodhounds Also on the Trail of
William Suber, BUmself Wounded,
Charged With Killing Newberry
Man Across Fairfield County Line,
at Blairs.
A dispatch to The News and Cour""
"" nnti/n rr?n nlln/1 Maw harrV SflY
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urday afternoon of the killing of
James Bouknight, a white man, by
Will Suber, a negro, at Blairs, just
across the line, in Fairfield County,
Saturday. The report seemed to indicate
that trouble was feared as a
result of the killing and that there
was a possibility of summary vengeance
being meted out upon the
negro.
The sheriff of Fairfield County teledhoned
Sheriff Buford to co-me to
the scene, the Fairfield sheriff saying
that he was leaving in an automobile.
Sheriff Buford immediately
sent Deputy Sheriff Pope Buford and
in a few minutes sent another deputy
In comoanv with S. K. Bouknight,
the father of the young man who was
killed. Constable Cannon G. Blease,
accompanied by several gentlemen,
left immediately in an automobile for
the purpose of seeking to prevent
further trouble.
Mr. Oxner, who carried Mr. Bouknight
and a deputy to the scene in
bis automobile, returned Saturday
night. He stated that he had not
crossed the river over to Blairs, but
the information which he had received
was to the effect that the difficulty
in which the negro shot Bouknight
occurred in Bouknight's blacksmith
shop at Blairs, and that the negro
was also wounded. The negro worked
on the .Miller plantation, several
miles this side of the river, and it
seems that Bouknight had been engaged
in work on this place for the
past several weeks, having returned
home Friday night.
Mr. Oxner said the Fairleld sheriff
and the Newberry officers were on
the sceae and the Fairfield officer
had brought bloodhounds with him.
Young Bouknight, the deceased, formerly
lived in Newberry and some
time ago moved to Blairs aud established
a blacksmith shop. He lived
on this side of the river, in Newberry
County, and his shop was in
Fairfield. Bouknight leaves a wife
and four children.
Munson Buford, a son of the sheriff,
who returned from near the scene
of the killing of James Bouknight
says the information in the community
is that Bouknight was gambling
with a crowd of negroes, Suber being
among them; that Bouknight
"went broke" and then went for the
police, and when he returned with
the police the shooting occurred, Suber
being wounded in the leg and
Bouknight killed.
The negro escaped up the river
and the Fairfield sheriff and deputy
sheriff are in search of him, and a
large posse is scouring the Fairfield
side of the river. It was the intenticn
of the Fairfield sheriff to take
V< Ponltnntiflrv if hfi
111*7 llCgl U LV 1,11V * v?ivv.i?.?. ,,
succeeded in catching him. Young
Mr. Ruford said Runson Ruford did
not cross the river into Rlairs, but
sa> s the facts given to him are generally
accepted by those with whom
he talked as accounting for the diflllolty.
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FALIiS FROM FOURTH STORY.
Tragic End of Wealthy Wisconsin
Man in Chicago.
Charles W. Allen, a wealthy Kenosha,
Wis., manufacturer, was killed
at Chicago late Friday afternoon,
when he fell from a fourth story window
at the rear of a downtown hotel.
Allen's body was found in a small alley;
near it was a chair, which apnnrpntlv
had fallen from Allen's I
room. The police declared Allen's
death was accidental, but Dr. P. M.
Gill, house physician at the hotel,
said he believed Allen jumped from
the window. Allen was last seen
alive at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, i
when a bell boy carried a pitcher of
water to his room. The bell boy told
the police Allen was then seated in a
chair near an open window. *
Another Pardon.
Gov. Please granted a parole Friday
to Wees Williams, who was convicted
in Newberry county in 1 908,
and sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary on the charge of manslaughter.
Since assuming ofTice of
governor has extended clemency in
23 3 cases, as follows: Paroles, 124;
pardons, 109. *
Fool Killer Needed.
John Schelllng, a well known resident
of Macon, Ga., came near losing
his life in fulfillment of an election
wager. The agreement was that
Schelllng was to jump into the Ocmulgee
river, fully attired, if he lost
the bet. Being unable to swim, he
was almost drowned before he was
rescued.
WILL SERVE TERM
COL. NORTON NOT SLATED FOR
COL. WATSON'S JOB.
Governor Blease Intimates That Present
Commissioner May Be Retained
in Office When Term Expires.
There will certainly be no change
in the office until the expiration of
Mr. Watson's term, and I doubt very
much if there ^ill be any then,"
said Gov. Blease Friday, when asked
about the rumor that has been
afloat in official circles during the
last few days that Mr. James Norton,
of Mullins, would be appointed
commissioner of agriculture, commerce
and industries, to succeed Col.
J. Watson, who has held the office
since March, 1904.
"I do not even know that Mr. Norton
is an applicant for the position."
said Gov. Hlease. "He was in my office
a few days ago, but merely shook
hands with me, and the office was not
mentioned at that time. I really
knew nothing whatever of the newspaper
accounts which have been sent
out about the appointment of Mr.
Norton to the office. Mr. Watson has
been doing very good work in his
present position, and I do not know
of flioro ill Ho nnv fhnncp fit nil.
so far as I can tell at present, when
Mr. Wlatson's term expires."
Governor Rlease said also that he
had thought of offering this position
to Mr. John G. Richards Jr.., but that
the latter had been appointed railroad
commissioner, and he had not
done so. Mr. Norton has been in Columbia
for the past few days and his
presence appears to have awakened
rumors which were afloat some
months ago, that he would be appointed
by Governor Blease to succeed
Col. Watson when the latter's
term expires in the early part of next
year.
'Mr. Norton is a former member of
Congress and was for seven years
Comptroller General of South Carolina.
He is at present editor of the
Messenger, published at Mullins.
When asked concerning the rumors
Mr. Norton said he thought it best
for him not to say anything for publication
at this time, and that the
rumors which were in circulation did
not originate from him. *
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I'assonger Train (1rasii Into Switch
Kngine an<l Car*.
Passengers aboard the Southern
railway train that collided with a
switch engine on Peachtree Creek
trestle near Atlanta Friday night
were forced to spend the night in
the coaches of the train at the scene
of the wreck. Marooned above the
creek were nearly 150 persons, many
of them injured, waiting for relief
which the inaccessibility of the place
rendered difficult.
All night long members of working
crews struggled to remove a mass
of scrap iron, once the switch esgine
which toppled over when struck by
the passenger train, to rescue the
mangled bodies of Engineer J. A.
Ferrie and Fireman N. M'. Robinson,
the only persons killed.
On one side of the passenger train
were the wrecked freight cars that
were attached to the switch engine.
A single plank across the deep, swift
running waters of the creek afforded
the only means of access to the train.
After crossing the plank a high bank,
had to be scaled before the train
could be reached.
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Crickets fluttling With People for
Possession of Austin.
A dispatch from Austin, Texas,
says millions of crickets took possession
of that city and are successfully
combating the rights of the original
residents. Friday morning
Austin awoke to find the business
district black with the plague. The
entire fire department was called out
to combat the bugs, and tons and
tons of water were being thrown on
walls and sidewalks, with a view to
drowning the crickets and to wash
them out the streets through the
storm sewers. For four hours the
principal business streets were several
inches in water and black with
crickets. In the residence section
the crickets remained unmolested
and arrogant. *
Chart iss Aviators Killed.
"Dare Devil" Castellane, a Curtiss
aviator, fell to instant death at
the Mansfield, Pa., park Friday. Ho
had started in an exhibition flight
and when three-quarters of a mile
from the ground his machine careened,
turned turtle and fell on a hillside.
Castellane was found hurled
heneath the wreckage of his engine
and plane. *
Hundreds Die in Typhoons.
Hundreds lost their lives and much
property was damaged by recent typhoons
in Formosa. Several towns
and villages were destroyed or submerged.
Acton, a large city, was demolished.
The total life loss is estimated
at several hundred, and thousands
are being fed at the military
concentration camp at Takao. *
AS HE SAW IT
Describes Chuges ii the Farm Metheds
ii the Weewil Scdiea.
THE CHANCES ARE MANY
A Letter From Prof. Barrow Describing
a Trip From South Carolina to
Texas That Will Be Head With Interest
by the Farmers of This
State.
A letter of Prof. D. N. Barrow In
The Progressive Farmer, describing
a trip from South Carolina to Texas,
is of intrest not only as giving an idea
of crop conditions but as portray
ing the effect or the Doll weevil in tne
Southwest.
"Forty-eight hours of railroad
travel have placed a thousand miles
between mo and South Carolina,"
writes Dr. Harrow. "On the roads
over from Clemson to Atlanta there
are nothing unusual, it is all Piedmont
and the crops are about the
same as in South Carolina. Next day
I saw the crops in the three States
of Alabama, Mississippi and Ivouisiana.
Many of the sections through
which I passed had had an abundance
of rain, and some even too much.
In traveling through western Alabama,
I was reminded of a similar
trip taken some few years ago. It
was in the spring when land was being
prepared, and I remember the
chief thing I noticed was the little
plows and light single mules that
were being used for this purpose. It
seemed to me that I could recollect
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some of the same fields in which 1
saw this preparation going on upon
this same trip; at least, some of the
crops I saw must have been on land
prepared with such an outfit. Isn't
it a strange trait in the make-up of
some human beings that will permit
them to go on year after year, making
the same old failure, and yet,
each year preparing their land exactly
as they had done for years before?
"Of course, I have no doubt that
many of these poor crops are the result
of the negro tenant, but I am
sure I also saw a good many white
men at work in the fiolds. On the
whole, the crops were pretty good,
however, and I saw frequent fields
that bore testimony to the fact that
brains and modern methods, properly
applied, would produce good crops
in eastern Alabama, ;/3 well as In
Piedmont Georgia and the Carolinas.
The same can be said of Mississippi.
Here the boll weevil was encountered
for the first time in my trip, and
his influence on the system of agriculture
was, it seemed to me, apparent.
There was not so much cotton
to be seen, but what there was, was
better and had apparently been better
cultivated. Corn was especially
good, and while the fodder was ripe,
I did no-t see a single man pulling it,
but on the contrary, saw quite a
quantity of it being cut and Bhocked.
"From Jackson, Miss., to Vicksburg,
we passed through what, in my
opinion, and that of a good many who
know them, are the richest soils in
the world. These are the bluff soils,
and an older alluvial than that of our
present valleys. When fresh they will
easily make a bale of cotton per acre,
and with any intelligent handling.
this productivity can he maintained]
indefinitely. But cotton is not all
they will produce?corn is at home
upon them?and if one does not care
to raise a cultivated crop, all he has
to do is to turn them out and nature
will immediately clothe them with
grass of all kinds. Bermuda, Japan
clover and the carpet grass, all grow
in profusion. That stamps this as
naturally a live stock country. That
the advent of the boll weevil has convinced
a good many people of this
fact, was amply attested to by the
large number of cattle to be seen
he route. Many of these herds showed
plainly that they had a large
sprinkling of good blood in them, and
it does not take a phophet to predict
that in a few years the scare over
the boll weevil will be a thing of the
ast in this section. I saw more grass
in 4his forty-mile ride than 1 have
setTi in weeks of travel in South Carolina,
and it was grass that spelled
money for its owner. Hut the boll
weevil is not driving these eople out
of cotton, as what cotton I saw was
better than usual.
"The effect of the boll weevil in
changing the system of agriculture
was probably more apparent in
Louisiana than in any other State.
From Vicksburg to Monroe is a
stretch of soils that for fertility are
not surpassed anywhere in the world.
These lands have produced cotton
continuously foi a century, and their
fertility is not in the least impaired
by the strain. Five years ago when
it was suggested to the owners of
these lands that the weevil would
make them plant, at least in part,
some other crops, they scouted the
idea. But to-day, where there used
to be one unbroken stretch of well
cultivated cotton fields, scarcely onethird
of the lands aru in this plant.
Corn was in abundance and we passed
through large fields of rice, some
of it already being harvested.
"What cotton was seen, was scarcely
up to what I am accustomed to in
this section. Tl^ere seemed to be a
pretty good bottom crop, but Tory lit
LAID TO NO ONE
MYSTERY OF MYRTLE HAWKINS'
DEATH UNSOLVED.
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Torn Fragment# of Paper Are Now
Authorities* Hope to Obtain due
to Identity of Guilty Persons.
A special dispatch to The State
from Hendersonville says the testimony
of fifty witnesses has not solved
the mystery of the death of Myrtle
Hawkins, whose body was found
in Osceola lake thirteen days ago,
but who was not drowned.
The coroner's jury Wednesday
round "from the testimony introduced
that she came to her death at the
.\unds of some unknown person or
persons in a manner and by means
unknown. This differs from the ver
diet in the first inquest by making
the case one of murder.
Immediately after the verdict was
rendered it was announced that the
Hawkins family offered a reward of
$5 00 for the arrest and conviction of
Miss Hawkins' slayers. Added to the
other rewards offered or promised,
this makes a total of $2,500.
Dr. W. R. Ivirk, coroner, said the
investigation would be continued, and
if any additional evidence is discovered
a special grand jury will be empaneled
to consider it.
There remains three possibilities
of new evidence. Torn fragments of
paper bearing an unfamiliar handwriting
were found in Miss Hawkins*
room and have been sent to Washington
to be put together. On the shore
of Osceola lake, near where the body
was found, there has been discovered
a piece of manila paper, blood-stained
and hearing finger prints. The
linger prnus may oe lueniinea as
those of somebody concerned in the
crime.
It is expected that Mrs. Bessie
Clark Gnice will be arrested as she is
thought to know something about
Miss Hawkins' death. A warrant has
been issued for Mrs. Guice in another
county, accusing her of having performed
the same kind of criminal
operation, as it is said was attempted
on Miss Hawkins. One of the principal
efforts of the inquest was directed
toward finding who was responsible
for Miss Hawkins' condition.
Testimony that she was seen with
George Bradley, a recently married
man, after she disappeared from
home was contradicted, as was the
testimony concerning other suspicious
circumstances.
MAN STUNG TO 1>EATH.
V(uunnit/w 111m Viu1?> Itndv ab
It Ijay in a Swamp.
The wreaking of terrible vengeance
upon a foe la beMeved to have been
the cause of the death of a white
man whose body was found in the
swamps of White Grass Island, In
the Gulf of Mexico, last week. The
hands and feet were bound by cords
to a stake driven into theearth. The
man had been dead for over a week.
Hunters say that in his nude condition
he must have been, stung to
death within a few hours.
The police believe that the man
was the victim of revenge. That pari
of the swamp where the body was
found is alive with unusually large
mosQuitos, and hunters who go there
for ducks must muflle their faces
and encase their hands in heavy mittens
to protect themselves.
The authorities, convinced that
the man was a victim of revenge,
have set about trying to solve the
mystery .and that, because of the exquisite
torture and extreme cruelty
to which the victim must have been
subjected before death relieved his
sufferings, there must have been a
woman concerned in the mysterious
death.
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CW'T Si(\41tK 1IKU.
Kansas Woman Threatens to l"se a
Shotgun on Knemies.
"If any one is going to molest me
for something I do not do, just come
on and I will sure give *>r. Patton a
job picking out a few shot.?Mrs.
Frank Hurtig." The above notice
appears in the Olipe Optimist, published
at Olpe, Kansas. Mrs. Hurtig
has received threats of violence if
she does not leave Olpe and takes the
above method of defying her enemies.
It is believed that some one suspected
her of having given information
to the county oflicers of violation of
the prohibiton law at Olpe.
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A Terrible Storm.
A terribel storm swept the Vesuvian
district of Italy on Friday causing
loss of life and great damage to
property. Twenty persons are known
to have been killed while the fate of
whole families is in debt.
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The Deadly <?in.
Noel Thompson, a well known farmer,
who lived twelve miles east of
Raleigh, N. C., died at a local hospital
as the result of being caught in a
cotton gin.
tie above. The crops were quite
grassy, so I judge that there had
been too much rain. There were
enough fallen squares In the middles
to make one sick at heart."
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