The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 16, 1911, Image 3
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LECrUittS PREACHERS
Rather Than ('all Out Militia to Sate
Culprit, Coventor Doclares to
^ Thousand of "My Friends," He
Would llave Resigned His Ofllce
and Heroine Lyncher-in-Cltief.
In response to an invitation extended
by several friends, Governor
Blease made an address on Court
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MOUSO Square Siuuruaj' Hivviuwuu ?v
fore a thousand people. His subject
waa left to the Governor and he spoke
for more than one hour, dwelling on
many things of interest to the people
f the State.
He stated that on Friday he was
requested by the president of the
State Farmers' Union to issue a proclamation,
calling upon the farfers
of the State to hold their cotton, and
also to ask the Governors of the other !
ootton States to issue similar proclamations.
This he refused to do, he
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explained, because he is no farmer
and does not profess to knovr what
is the best for the farmers to do under
the circumstances. In his opinr
ion, the solution is left with the farmera
themselves, and he urges that
ther organize and get in position to
put a price on their crop. |
He called attention to the fact that
the lawyers, the doctors, etc., had all
organized and agreed upon prices
for their services and he thinks the
farmers should do likewise. He
places the blame of the low price of
cotton upon the cotton mill mergers
and prophesies that the fergers will
Boon cut down the wages of mill employees,
after they have finished pulling
down the price of cotton.
Governor Blease made a plea to the
i 'ill people, and to all the people, to
secure registration certificates before
it is too late. The newspapers
are trying, he said, to disfranchise a
largo portion of white men by makii.g
a registration certificate a ret
<,uirement in the primary election,
f He stated that he would veto any
bill passed by the Legislature making
tiny special requirefent, but the danger
lies with the Democratic Convention
next May, when he will not be in
position to look out for the interests
of the people. He thinks the Con
vention will be asked to adopt a resolution
requiring the certificates. For
this reason he urges all persons,
whether friends of his or not, to register
and put themselaes in position
to vote, no matter what the Convenetion
does.
Governor Blease reiterated his position
with regard to lynching. He
said again that when a negro puts his
hands upon the person of a white
g'rl, the sooner the negro is put six
* feet under the ground the better. He
afntoH th'jt rut th*? ntfht nf t h TTr>n?n
Path lynching the solicior of this circuit
called upon him to order out the
militia, and that he told the solicitor
he would send two telegrams. "One
of these telegrams," said the Governor,
"was addressed to Sheriff King
here.
^ "In that telegram I told him to
hoop In touch with the affairs, and to
make a report to me next morning
of what was going on. The sheriff
received fy telegram and he understood
it, for next morning I received
a report from him, telling what had
^ transpired."
The speaker stated that rathei
than use the office of Governor in
ordering out troops to defend a negro
brute and require these troops to fire
on white citizens, he would have re
signed from the office to which he
had been elected and would have
caught the train to Honea Path and
led the mod.
The Governor then criticised the
ministers of the local union, who had
^ drrfted resolutions condemning him,
" and everything and everybody connected
with the lynching. Ho said
that ho knew some preachers in this
State to have more negro blood in
heir veins than did the negro who
^ was lynched, and that he did not
pionose to be dictated to by any
preacher or set of preachers. Tie
also expressed his belief that there
are not twelve men in Anderson
County who would bring in a verdict
of conviction against any mofber of
the mob who did the work; "and if
there wero twelve men who would do
to and a verdict of guilty was returned,
I would wire pardons to those
convicted," he Raid.
Governor IN ease att acked the
newspapers, giving especial attention
to "the Columbia State and its editor."
He charged that the newspapers
are not tellying why and under
what circumstances he is extending
executive clemency, and he asks that
<he public read the accounts of his
actions and leave plenty of room in
^ (their minds to hear his side.
The Governor made it plain that
tie intends always to stand by his
friends. He stated tha't a person coming
to him for any consideration must
he one of his friends or fust be endorsed
by one of his friends, and he
oautioned the people hearing him
against putting their names te petition#
addressed to him if they did
DEATH FROM STORM j
DESTRUCTION AND WANT LEFT
IN THE WAKE OF WIND.
Itain, Sleet and Snow Increases Property
Damage and Suffering of the
Survivors.
Reports received at Chicago Sun*
I day night by the Associated Press indicate
that cyclonic storms, coming
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between the abnormally warf period
and the following <cold wave, have
csused death and widespread destruction
in Southern Wisconsin. Eastern
Iowa and Illinois Saturday.
Fourteen dead, several dying and
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scores or injured are reporieu to o?
lving in the wake of the storms and
suffering because of their terror.
Southern Wisconsin was hardest
hit, according to early reports. Near
Oxfordville, Hock County, five persons
are known to be dead and it is
reported the list may reach twelve.
In the village of Virginia, 111., several
were found seriously, perhaps,
fatally, and fifty others slightly injured.
In Iowa, a 50-degree drop in
temperature, accompanied by a driving
storm of sleet, tied up traillc
many hours.
Property loss mounted up rapidly
in the path of the cyclonic blizzard.
Nearly every public building in Virginia,
111., was demolished, farmers'
hofes were wiped out in Wisconsin
and the damage was increased by the
heavy downpour of rain, sleet and
snow.
Severe weather conditions are reported
all the way from the Rocky
Mountain8. In Chicago the wind
blew 44 miles an hour, and in Yellowstone
Park and at Helena, Mont.,
thermometer? registered 8 degrees
below zero.
At least seven lives were lost and
scores of persons injured, some fatally,
in a tornado which swept Rock
County, Wis., at dusk Saturday night.
Hundreds ?f thousands of dollars
damage was done. Saturday night
dozens of families found themselves
without a roof and because the flooded
roads made travel impossible, were
forced to pass the night in the open
fields. A cold wave followed the
storm and snow and sleet added to
the misery.
At Orfordville Mrs. John Clowder,
7 0 years old, was killed, as were also
a father and two daughters of a family
whose surname is Smith, and a
Mrs. Breed. At Milton one person,
as yet unidentified, is reported dead.
A tii>v l^arhon ol <rhf vni t-u r\ P titra
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was killed when her home, juat north
of Janesville, was demolished. Footvllle,
Magnolia, Pewaukee and other
villages also are reported to have suffered
severely.
MKKTS DEATH <)N KAILS.
Whiskey Itottle Near Ikxly Probably
Tells Tale.
Sim Gilliam, a negro 25 years old,
was run over and killed by an engine
on the Southern Railway, near
Kiblere Bridge, Newberry county,
last night. The body was found by
the crew of the westbound passenger
train Friday morning, the head being
crusheh in and the right arm cut
off. An empty wiskey bottle was
found near the body. It is supposed
that Gilliam, having imbibed too freely,
went to sleep 011 the track and
thus met his death. Coroner Chappell
went to the scene and held the
inquest the same afternoon, the verdict
being in accordance with the
above facts.
not want these things petitioned to
occur. He said that ho know some
people who had jut their names on
petitions for pardons and that after
the pardons had been granted they
would stand around 011 the streets
and complain.
He said that the supervisor of Anderson
County had just stated to him
that he had two prisoners on the
chain gang who wore burdens to the
county and were not earning their
bread. He promised to send paroles
for these fen at once and theroby save
the people the expense of keeping up
two persons.
Governor Blease stated that he intends
coining before the people next
summer to give an account of what
he has done as their Governor, and
ask them to reelect him to that high
office; that it was true lie worked at
a livery stable when a boy and was
proud of the fact, all the criticisms
of new:-,papers and enemies to the
contrary. He had lived a clean life,
lie said; had worked up to the office
and gratified his ambition; his life
had been spent so that he can look
any ma nin the face and say he Is
good as any man. His ambition now
is to serve his friends, and he intends
to serve them "by the help of the Alfighty."
Refore the Governor left the hotel
for the Court House he was sercn;.ded
by the 1st Regiment Rand; a
great crowd had gathered In front of
the hotel and when the Governor
made his appearance he was greeted
with cheers. The band played before
the speech was begun and afterwards.
The speech was Interspersed with
loud cheering and yells for "Cole"
and "Our Governor," and it could be
easily soen that he was addressing
an audience composed of friends and
followers.
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SHOWS NO MERCY
Nercilss Sliofhter tf Chiacse hy the
Nuchas at Nrokisg
A HORRIBLE PICTURE
Great Portion of the City Was
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men and Children, as Well as Men,
"Were Massacred by the Blood
Thirsty Manchus.
A cablegram from Nanking, China,
under date of last Friday, said that.
city was desolate. The cablegram
went on to say that fully a thousand
of Its inhabitants lie massacred and
numerous business houses and dwell- j
ings have been looted and burned.
Seventy thousand persons have already
fled the city and still others are
joining in the exodus. Along the
railway leading from the city a great
lino of humanity is trudging.
It was the hand of the Manchus
that brought the devastation. While
the Republicans were in camp three
miles away, awaiting ammunition and
reinforcements, the Manchus began
tho work of carnage. Men, women
and children were slaughtered. Neither
youth nor age was taken Into account,
while, the emblem of the revolution
marked Its wearers for instant
death.
Chinamen with white shoes, a sign
of mourning among them, or even a
white handkerchief, were ruthlessly
slain. At historic Nanking, Friday
afternoon, the sun set upon a scene
of fire, rapine, desolation and butchery
unrecorded in modern history.
Friday night 12,000 Manchu and
Imperial old-style soldiers held Purple
Hill, where they are entrenched,
while from beneath their stronghold
they are driving before them hordes
of Chinese out of the city. Innocent
uninese, aesuiuie, are neenift 101 iwistricken
to the shelter at the rear
of the reform forces. The latter,
numbering between 20,000 and 30,000,
are impotent to check the
slaughter or avenge the 3lain, because
of their lack of ammunition.
Friday night the revolutionists
made a demonstration, but did little
shooting and there were few fatalities.
The main body of the reformers
remained in camp three miles distant
from the city, awaiting the arrival
of ammunition. Reform reinforcements
are coming from every
direction. They are raw and ragged
recruits, but are determined. Foreigners
are receiving utmost consideration.
When the city gates were
opened Friday morning the people
thronged toward the country, driven
by the Imperialists. Soon afterwards
the carnage began.
Since the night of November 8,
when the first attack was made by the
raKola tho Tartar o-onornl Vina tvlpH
lo terrorize the inhabitants by wholesale
executions. Those whose queue
had been cut off were beheaded, but
Friday when the order for a general
slaughter was given the whole native
city was invaded by the Manchu
soldiers, who massacred men, women
and children. Even the aged and
babes in arms were shown no mercy.
Thousands of Chinese poured from
the gates. At noon it was estimated
fully 70,000 persons had fled. Before
nightfall 20,000 more, representing
every class, had escaped.
Meanwhile the 'Manchus scoured the
narrow city streets. Houses of
wealthy merchants were sacked. Any
queueless victinv was behoaded iin^
mediately.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press saw several women executed
and their children stabbed and
trampled under foot. The order appeared
to be that any one wearing
white, which suggested the white
badge worn by the reformers, must
be killed forthwith. A white pocket
handkerchief, worn by the Chinese as
a sign of mourning, was the signal
for the execution of the wearer.
An attempt to estimate the number
of innocents and combatants
slain would be futile. The Chinaman
found wearing foreign clothing immediately
fell a victim to his advanced
taste, but foreigners were not
molested. Their protest against the
massacres, however, were laughed at.
Correspondents for the Associated
Press worked uninterruptedly Within
the outer walls of the city. Fires
ppr onpup everywhere. A large seclion
of the native city was burned.
Friday night the Manchu, driven to
hay and glutted with blood, watches
the flaming city from the height of
Purple Mountain and awaits the morrow.
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l>lo<I in a Little Pond.
Thomas Estridge, a white man,
about 4 5 years old, committed suicide
Friday by drowning, jumping into a
pond near the Lancaster cotton mills.
A party saw him when he jumped
into the water and attempted to rescue
him. He was in the last stages
of pellagra. He leaves a blind wife.
Democrat Succeeds Democrat.
Kenneth McKellar, Democratic nominee,
was elected to congress as representative
from the Tenth Tennessee
district to complete the unexpired
term of the late Gen. George W. Gordon.
PAID LICENSE FEES
AMOUNT COLLECTED PROM THE
CORPORATIONS.
The Report of Comptroller General
Jones Shows That They Paid Over
One Hundred Thousand Dollars.
The domestic and foreign corporation
license fees as collected by A.
W. Jones, comptroller general, dur
ing tne year amounted to ?iu/,724.40.
This is an increase of over
$50,00 in five years, which goes to
show that much new capital has been
invested in South Carolina during
that period.
The fees were collected on an investment
of $1 19,695,3 62. The license
is one-half of 1 mill. The following
amounts have been collected
during the past several years:
1905 $63,345.20
1 906 69,298.32
1907 78,382.83
1 908 84,149.71
1 909 89,592.85
1 91 0 96,704.43
1911 107,925.40
The following is a schedule of
moneys received during the year by
the jcomptroller general from corporations
for fees imposed in pur
suance of the act of 1 904:
From banking corporations?Capital
paid in, $10,878,095; license feo,
$5,488.42.
From cotton mill corporations?
Capital paid in, $55,127,900; license
fee, $27,568.3 6.
From building and loan corporations?Capital
paid in, $3,237,201;
license fee, $1,71 6.
From cottonseed oil mill corporations?Capital
paid in, $1,850,255;
license fee, $929.1 1.
From fertilizer corporations?Capital
paid in, $6,632,740: license fee.
$3,316.37.
From miscellaneous domestic corporations-?Capital
paid in, $41,969,518;
license fee, $24,023.79.
Total domestic corporations?Capital
paid in, $119,695,769; license
fee, $63,040.05.
From foreign corporations?Capital
paid in, $14,384,593; license fee,
$7,21 0.44.
From $100 statutory tax?License
fee, $300.
Total of all corporations?Capital *
paid in, $13 4,080,362; license fee, !
$71,1 60.49.
The following is the grand capitulation,
showing corporation license
fees collected. i
Domestic corporations?Capital
paid in, $1 19,695,769; fees collected, '
$63,650.05.
Foreign corporations?Representing
property used, $14,376,093; fees
collected, $7,510.44.
Public utility corporations?inter- i
state receipts, $12,295,142; fees col- 1
lected, $36,763.91. ?
Total receipts, $ 1 07,924.40. *
POUND I)KAI> IN RIVER.
Could Not Tell Whether Man Was
White or Black.
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A badly decomposed body was
found floating down Pee-Dee river ,
Friday morning, opposite Society (
Hill. The negro ferryman say it as
he started across the river and it be- i
ing near the Marlboro side, he
brought it out to the bank in this
county. Coroner T. F. McRae held
an inquest Friday afternoon and
fho iiirv rAtnrnoH n varHl^t Jhot + >1?
deceased, unknown to the jury, came
to his death in a manner unknown
to the jury. It was the opinion that
the body ras that of a young negro (
man. It was clothed in-a suit of blue ;
overalls and a pair of fairly good ]
lace shoes. The hair had disappeared ]
and the skin had slipped from the
body. There were some indications that
death had been caused by drown- i
ing. ]
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HIS MKMOKY COMKS HACK. (
Florida Hotel Owner Finds Himself 1
in New Orleans. t
"T am Charles C*. Rybolt and I was
one time manager of the Lackawanna ,
Springs and Hotel company, Clearwater,
Fla. I discovered it after .
thinking a long, long time." This .
discovery appeared to ease the mind
of the man who said he was Rybolt,
as he lay on a bed in a lodging house
in the French quarter at New Orleans
Thursday, convalescing from a blow <
on the forehead, which lie said he
remembered he sustained while in a
slponiiiP' nnr vvliinh hnai-Hod of
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Clearwater several days ago Rybolt ,
says he remembered nothing until he j
regained consciousness In a New Or- .
leans hotel. .
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Trains Meet in a Fog. >
At Dalton, Ca., Engineer P. V. c
Rhodes of Atlanta was killed and En- 1
gineer T. L. Hamby of Smyrna, and f
Fireman Harney Rridges of Rocky S
Face, were injured when two freights t
collided head-on near that place i
Thursday morning on the Western & c
Atlantic railroad.
Farmers Holding Cotton.
Many counties are making reports *
to the State Farmers' union at Co- c
lumbia on the cotton holding plan. 1
A score of farmers report that 602 t
bales of cotton have been pledged in c
Anderson county. i
TAFT IS A LOAD
RtpobKcais Fear ti Gt lata Ike Next
Elecfiea With Bin as CaiUate
AFRAID HE WOULD LOOSE
I*resident to Re Sidetracked and
Hughes to Re Made the Candidate.
It is Said in Washington That Such
a Movement is on Foot?Among
L?oaders.
A big potent silent influences within
the Republican party are organizing
a movement to displace President
Taft as the party's presidential candidate,
and to substantiate lor him
no less person than Supreme Court
Justice Charles E. Hughes, says Judson
C. Welliver, in The Washington
Times.
The Hughes proposal is not a boom
and it is not intended to be a boom.
It is being kept just as quiet as possible.
More is talked and known
about it in New York than anywhere
else, yet it gets no publicity in New
York. In New England it is recognized
as a well developed propaganda,
yet tho public prints know it not.
In political circles in the Middle
West it is talked, but quietly and under
tho rose. The time is not come
to give it notoriety. That time may
never come; but the people operat
the scene-shifting devi,ces believe
they will be able before three more
months to turn the calcium suddenly
on the center of the stage and reveal
a new figure there.
Fearing that Mr. Taft cannot be
elected If nominated, and that Mr.
Wilson's nomination can not be prevented,
the conservative interests in
politics, which in general are nonpartisan,
are casting about for a
means to secure control through the
nomination of a different Republican.
A year ago the conservative plan
was to let Mr. Taft be nominated, and
then bo defeated by Mr. Harmon.
That plan has been spoiled by the
rise of Mr. Wilson. iMr. Wilson is
regarded by the old-time Republicans
and the Parker sort of Democrats
as no better than Mr. Rryan.
so it nas uecome necessary to transfer
allegiance back to the Republican
party, in the hope of displacing Mr.
Taft by some man whom it will be
safe to support as against Mr. Wilson.
Justice Hughes, all things considered,
has appealed as the man most
likely to win at both convention and
palls. It is calculated that Mr. Taft
is now so far broken down under the
assaults of tke Progressive schism
Bhould develop in the East, he would
scon be forced out of serious consideration.
And Justice Hughes is the
man now being tried out in the larger
considerations of strategy and tactics.
Can Justice Hughes be induced to
permit the use of his name? That
is the big question at this moment.
The people who are engineering the
deaf for him don't care, they would
not ask him; they would go ahead
and put over their plan and feel secure
in the conviction that no man
is going to refuse his party's nomination
for president.
There is, however, a disturbing report
that when Mr. Justice Hughes
was named for the supreme bench,
hn J<1 in cnhcfnnnn nlnriirml It I m cnl P
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not to interfere with the future of
Mr. Taft. The story?and it is related
on such high authority that it
will not be denied with a show of
confirmatory documents?that when
Mr. Hughes was tendered the judicial
post he now holds, it was through a
letter which in substance said:
"Having heard that you intend to
withdraw entirely from political activities,
the president would be
pleased to know whether a tender of
x position 011 the supreme bench,"
etc., etc.
That, it is declared by people who
issume to have learned the substantial
contents of the letter, amounted
:o a commitment of Mr. Hughes to
<eep out of politics. Accepting the
>roffer on that condition, 'Mr.
Hughes , it is maintained, Is now
^stopped, in honor, from violating
ho implied pledge to "withdraw enirely
from political activities."
SUGGS A11DUCTK1) A GIKL.
Vrrostod in Darlington and Carried
Hack <0 Florence.
Winston L. 'Suggs, a white man
ibout 2 8 years of age, was arrested
11 Darlington Tuesday, charged with
ibducting a young white girl who is
1 member of a well known family of
Florence. Suggs was taken up on a
varrant issued by the mother of tho
'hild, and taken to Florence for a
learing. A preliminary was held be'oro
'Magistrate MeClenegan, and
Suggs was committed to Jail to await
rial. It is stated that Suggs marked
into a prominent family in Flor;npe.
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Dotles IHease's Parole.
At Columbia Mayor Gibbes took islue
with the governor of South Carilina
by refusing to release Bratton <
Pettigrew, who was paroled, having
>een convicted in the recorder's court i
>n a charge of drunkenness. Pettijrew
was a frequent offender; * 1
THEY REtlttED FOOD
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ENTIRE FAMILY STARVES TO
PURGE THEIR SOULS.
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A Father and Mother, Followers ef
Self Promulgated Creed, Dies Witfe
Their Son.
Details of a ghastly suicide cemI
act involving a whole family were
brought out by the Chicago poljjce following
the discovery of the emaciated
forms of Herman Detach, his wife
Anna and their 12-year-old sea. AH
had been dead several days.
Followers of a religious creed, selfpromulgated,
the parents had forced
themselves and their son te do without
food to "purge their sinful seuls
of lust," until starvation wiped eut
the whole family. From physicians
examinations, it was evident the boy
had been the first to die.
On a bed was a black shroud,
bearing a note reading: "This gown
is for our son Herman wliea ho is
dressed for his coftin."
Apparently the parents had beentoo
weak to put the gown 01 the
starved form of the boy when death
came, but weakened by hunger, had
Iain on the floor near each other,
waiting for the death which came
several days later for the mother, and
a week later, apparently for the fathfather.
A long and rambling letter in German
criticised churches and church
people, and named a Chicago church
and pastor. This pastor told the polie
that until about four months ago
the family attended church each Sunday,
always contributing $t. They
ceased coining, and when the pastor
asked Letsch about it, Letsch, he said
shouted, "All right, I'll get out of
the church, but a new appearan^oo of
God will blast you for It."
The rambling letter said no minis
ter was to appear at their funerals,
the determination to die, is said, ran
back for three years and last 'March
17 was the day first selected for their
talcing off.
An illness of the boy, neighbors
said, must have delayed the suicide.
The last of the three to die, the father
died three days before discovery,
physicians said.
WAS NOT GAFFNKY PASTOR.
Man Arrested in Atlanta Was Net the
Itev. W. A. Ferrell.
An Atlanta dispatch says aaether
person had used his name in an
swering an advertisement a few days
ago and posing as a "romantic young
minister looking for a wife," according
to the Rev. W. A. Ferrell, a Methodist
minister of Gaffney, S. C., who
called on Recorder Nash Rroylea Friday
to learn if possible who had imposed
on him.
"This scamp's prank has gat me
into a mess," he told the recorder.
"The stor'y has created something of
a sensation in my State. My congregation
has become stirred up and I
have been the target for all manner
of guying at the hands of my friends.
I can assure you I have been having
a lively time of it."
The recorder did all he could to
help Mr. Ferrell by giving him a letter
explaining that he was not the
man who was tried in police court
under the name of "Rev. W. A. Ferrell."
KILLED IN GIN SHAFTING.
A Pickens Man Caught and Crashed
to Death at Gin.
Mr. Riley Porter, of the Mountain
View section of Pickens county, was
killed Thursday by being caught in a
lino shaft at his brother's gin. Mr.
Porter was working at the gin at the
time of the accident. He went to
put a belt on a wheel and his right
arm was caught and broken off above
his elbow. He was carried twice
around the shaft, and received inter
nal injuries. He lived about seven
hours, and remained conscious until
he died.
WAS KILLED IN GIN.
Two 1 trotli ers Met Death at Different
Tomes Same Way.
Mr. Wyatt II. Wiggins, a prosperous
farmer and a prominent citizen
of Coats, N. C., was killed instantly
Wednesday, when he was caught on
the line-shaft of his gin. Mr. Wiggins
was working near the gin and
in sonic manner his clothing was
caught in the shafting and he was
hurried to his death before the ma?'
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Wiggins, a brother of the deceased,
was killed in Georgia about twenty
years ago in exaitly the same manner.
A Fatal Pistol Duel.
At Monroe, La., in a pistol duel
in a drug store Chas. B. Wolfson of
Monroe, solicitor for a Cincinnati life
insurance company, was shot and
killed by Noah Gladden, a physician
of that city. A dispute about the
business dealings of another representative
of the insurance company
resulted in ill feeling between the
two men.