Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f ALL WIPED OUT Aa Ilah'aa Fam InJ is Supnid af arderiag u Ealire Faaily. I: . KILLED FOUR PEOPLE The Bodies Were Not Found Until Twenty-four Hours After the Horrible Crime Had llcen Committed, But a Bloodstained Hatchet Tells How It Was Done. Some time between last Tuesday noon and evening, an Italian farm band of de Freestvllle, a Ressenlaer county hamlet six miles from Albany, N. Y., is believed by the police to have slain Mrs. Conrad Morner, a widow, and her daughters, Edith, aged 20, and Blanche, aged 17 and her 28-year-old son, Arthur. The bodies of the three women were discovered late last night in the cow barn, on the Morner farm, where they had been so hacked that the murderer had been able to crush all three of them into a small manure pit on one side of the stable. Arthur Morner's body was missing and trace also is lacking of the farm hand who was known as Ed Dennis. A blood-stained hatchet and a fourfoot ball stick were found in the pit near the three bodies and with these the murderer first felled and then murdered his victims, the police believe. Motive for the crime seems to be lacking. What money there was in the house before the murder was found intact. Indications, the authorities say, point to the murderer as being insane. The body of Arthur Morner, muti- j lated and with the throat cut, was found early Thursday under another part of the barn floor. The police are searching for an r Italian farm hand known as Ed Den^ nis, who had .been employed by the Morners since last September. Little ?s known concerning him. The tragedy was not discovered for more than twenty-four hours after it occurred, when a neighbor remarked the failure of Arthur Morner to bring to him, according to daily custom, milk for shipment to market. MASONIC GRAND LODGE!, Blect* Officers for the Next Year, and Then Adjourns. The grand lodge of Ancient Free Masons of South Carolina concluded Its 135th annual communication at 2 o'clock Wednesday and was called off to meet again next year in the city I of Charleston. At high noon Wednesday the grand lodge elected offlcere, and these and their appointees were duly installed. The officers for the ensuing year are as follows: Orand master, George S. Mower of XWhnrmr' Hnnilfv PrnTlfi master. GeO. n UC* A J , UVA/ v? VJ o - ?. ? , T. Bryan of Greenville; senior grand warden, R. A. Cooper of Laurens; junior grand warden, W. W. Wannamaker of Orangeburg; grand treasurer, W. H. Prioleau of Charleston; grand secretary, O. F. Ilart of Columbia; grand chaplin, Rev. W. P. Smith of Spartanburg; senior grand deacons, J. P. Duckett of Anderson and J. F. Kinney of Bennettsville; junior grand deacons, S. T. D. Lancaster of Pauline and L. I. Parrott of Sumter; grand stewards, C. IC. Chreltzberg of Hock Hill and A. J. Thackston of Orangeburg; grand marshal, John Kennerly of Edgefield ,' grand pursuivant, J. E. Cogswell of Charleston; grand tiler, W. A. Winkler of Charleston. Djstrict deputy grand masters are as follows; First district, W. G. Mazyck; Second, J. H. Peurifoy; Third, A. Patterson; Fourth, W. A. Giles; Fifth, B. E. Nicholson: Sixth, Kenneth Baker; Seventh, W. A. Hud-j I gins; Eighth, O. R. Doyle; Ninth, A. I S. Rowell; Tenth, W. B. Patton; I Eleventh, Van Smith; Twelfth, M. H. I Sandifer; Thirteenth, Joseph LindI say; Fourteenth, J. B. Wallace; FifI teenth, I. S. Jones; Sixteenth, W. E. I James; Seventh, J. C. Sellers; Eigh| teenth, W. L. Glaze. I TCTVWAV flTftOtfO Poll Wit AON. - t GoTernor of Now Jersey Heartily Inf dorsed. Students of Purman University at [ Greenville Wednesday organized a Woodrow Wilson club. The studonl J body of Furman University is anxious to help the candidacy of Gov. Wilsor in every way. The officers of th< Woodrow Wilson club of Furmai j University are: C. D. Boyd, presl I dent; P. M. uaies, vice iirceiucm | William Craig, secretary. Prof. Dan I tela spoke heartily In behalf of th movement. James Allan, Jr., of th University of South Carolina, ad dressed the organization meetinj m flaying among other things tha Woodrow Wilson's conception of put B lie service is the true conceptionII that of obeying the people and nc ' the machine. |k, - Fearful Bomb Explosion. |HAt Dlggs, Bolhtum, a bomb expl< ^Kpgfon during a clnomatographic e: RklUhltion, Tuesday caused two deatl Bif^hjjBjured 63 persons. Eight of tt Kflnini had their legs amputated. NONE LEFT AllVE NO HOPE FOR THE MEN IN CROSS MOUNTAIN PIT. Forty-Five Bodies Have Been Recovered, But Flames Break Out Anew Giving Much Trouble. Hope for the rescue of the flftyodd men still unaccounted for in the Cross Mountain Mine near Briceville, Tenn., has been about abandoned. The report Tuesday that three more survivors had been located brought ! the whole population or tne town 10 the mine. When they found that the report was untrue they were greatly disappointed. Progress in the search was obstructed by a smouldering fire, which raged from early Tuesday until 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon in left cross entry No. 17, requiring the efforts of half of the government crew to extinguish it. /Barrel after barrel of water was rolled into the mine in cars and pumped on the Are. For a time it threatened to cause serious trouble, but finally was subdued. Whether the fire was started by the explosion or from a miner's lamp is a matter of dispute. The body of Horace Irish, aged 60, boss of the gang, rescued alive Monday night, was known to be in the vicinity, and it is said that those with him when he was killed by the explosion left a lighted lamp beside the body when they were forced to another chamber by bad air. Irish's body has not been recovered. Forty-five bodies had been brought out up to nightfall, and several more had beon located. The owners ofll cially announced Wednesday there were 85 men in the mine when the explosion took place. Friends and relatives of miners unaccounted for are manifesting great impatience because rescuers are not making faster headway. There are 20 miles of mine to explore, and less than 25 oxygen helmet men who can penetrate to all corners. Canary birds are being used to detect the presence of poisonous gases with great success, and miners who at first were disposed to scoff at them are beginning to realize their value. Miners without helmets are not permitted to enter chambers in which the birds can not live. Ernest P. Bicknell, director of the i American Red Cross, arrived Wednesday to investigate the situation. He expressed approval of the relief meas- ( ures already taken and indicated that ?X. X X V? ^ l/vr?nl A/\TYI m A f f A A TXT Q Q XI6 XIIU U ?3 II C Cllt? 1UC A 4 ill 111 A t v> tv (*u competent to take care of any fam- | ilies made destitute by the explosion. J , ? ? A )ASTARDLY DEED FOR ROBBERY. North Carolina Farmer and His Wife Killed by Thieves. News reached Charlotte Wednesday of the murder of John Dixon, a prominent farmer of Cleveland County, N. C., and his wife late Tuesday night. Robbery is said to have been the motive of the crime. Two men are said tc have gone to the borne of the murdered man Tuesday night and asked for assistance in releasing a toam from a djtch in which it had fallen. The farmer went to the aid of the men and was killed. The two men thon rotnrnnd to Dixon's house and beat the wife until it was thought she was dead. She survived, however, and was able to relate the affair Wednesday morning. She died later. The farmer is said to have sold some cotton a day or two ago in Sheldon, twelve miles from his home, and the men are thought to have been in serach of money believed to be in the home. A child one year old was i found jn the home of its slain parents unharmed, but bespattered with blood, about its clothing. Posses of men and boys are scourging the country near the scene of the crime, and It is believed that a lynching will occur if the guilty men are apprehended. Two negroes were arrested late Wednesday night, but their identity has not been estab-l llshed. ' CONFESSES TO MU 111)1311. J ? An Ohl Man AdvntlJ* tftvAt He Killed Hi$ Wife When Drunk. At MaCon, Ga., Roger L. >McCall, i aged 7 0 years, and one of the be/c t known men in that section, pleaded ? g .ilty in the superior court Tuesday l to the murder of his wife and was 3 sentenced to serve for the remainder i of his life -in the State penitentiary, - He shot his wifo in tho back with a ; shotgun while she lay sick and asleep in ,bcd, the crime being com e mitted while ho was under tne mini e ence of liquor. When the old man'i I- plea was entered, the scone was ai I, affecting one, as the judge, prosecut it ing attorney, jurors and spectator! >- all burst into tears. - ? >t Double Trngedy at Bradford. At Bradford, Pa., while discussini arrangements for their honeymooi trip to follow the wedding schedule > for next week, Miss Grace Cable an i- her intended husband, Anthony Koh is nen, were shot and instantly killed a ie the Woman's Home soon after mid night on Tuesday. v SERIOUS CHAREG ? Firmr Amy Ckiplaia Accased il lafttigatiag ExpUsitas. LOST PLACE BY DRINK Confession of Private Quirk Leads to Arrest of Rev. Charles M. Brewer, * Who Alleged that Ex-Chaplain, for Revenge, Instigated Dynamiting of Government Property. A dispatch from Junction City, Kansas, says the Rev. Charles M. Brewer, formerly a chaplain In the United States army, now a pastor of a Baptist Church in Olustee, Okla., has been accused in a confession by Private Michael Quirk of implication in a mysterious series of explosions, which havo baffled authorities at Fort Riley for six months. United States Commissioner Chase stated Brewer had been arrested at Olusteo and was being held for United States marshals. Mrs. Anna Jordan, of Kansas City, also implicated in Quirk's confession, was arrested in Kansas City as a result of a telegram to the police. Quirk, in his confession, which was made to Col. Eli D. Hoyle, 6th field artillery, commandant at Fort Riley, said he blew up the bridge across Kaw River, June 24 last, and the cavalry stable, June 30, when 25 cavalry horses were burned to death. He said also that he blew up the water main which supplied the post with water. Quirk declared he committed these crimes at the instigation of Brewer, who sought revenge because he had been Court-martialled and dismissed from the service for conduce unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Mrs. Anna Jordan, implicated by Quirk, is the wife of a convict in the Federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth. She was arrested here several months ago for aiding her husband to escape from the guard house. Ho was recaptured and sent to the Federal penitentiary. Mrs. Jordan was released. Quirk has been in the guard house an suspicion of connection with the explosions for nearly a month. Last night he sent for Col. Hoyle and made the confession, at Fort Riley. Explosions and fire at Fort Riley within six months have destroyed Government property valued at $500,000. A big storehouse on the manoeuvre grounds burned with a loss of |200,0Q0f Since Quirk's arrest there have been no fires. It waB said at the post that others have been implicated and that more ? HI *-11 M Vx rvMrt arresis win roiiow. uaewni was uum in Alabama 34 years ago. He became chaplain in the United States army in 19 07. He is married and has several children. Brewer was chaplain of the 6th field artillery stationed at Fort Riley until he was dismissed from the army June 21 last, after conviction by Court-martial of charges of having been intoxicated at an enlisted men's dance at the fort, and with behaving in an ungentlemanly manner in the presence of enlisted men and their wives, iMarch 31 last. Army officers at Fort Riley saia the Federal authorities had under o.bseivation several persons implicated in the recent dynamite explosions at Fort Riley and that additional arrests might be expected. It was said the persons under surveillance are prominent. SAYS INDIANA IS LOS1. Republican Chairman Says Taft Can't Carry the State. Edwin M. Lee, chairman of the Indiana Republican State committee, issued a statement at Washington, in which ho declared his State would be lost to the Republican party if Mr, Taft were renominated, Taft can hot carry Indiana," Said Mi*. Lee. "If he is the Republican nominee our fight is lost before a gun is fired. As one of his original friends who labored for him night and day, I have been driven to this knowledge with extreme reluctance." Mr. Lee added his conclusion was reached only after a searching inquiry through his present committeemen and in person. What two months ago was passively 01; the part of the voters, he says, now had been transformed into "dissatisfaction." ? ' Fell Dead in Store. The Augusta Chronicle says Mr 1 Jesso C. Griilln, one of the most prom 1 inent planters and merchants o " Robins, S. C., a station on tho For " Royal division of the C. & W. C 3 railway, 2 9 miles from Augusts 1 dropped dead in his store at tlia ~ place Tuesday shortly after the ai 8 rival of tho train at that station fror Augusta. ? Was Over a Hundred Years, g At tho age of 117 years, which i n said to bo well authenticated, Clar d Gentry, a negro woman, died at St d vannah on Tuesday. She was bor i- 1794, was a native of Georgia an X spent most of her life in this stab I- She retained her faculties until wltl in a short time of her death. ilNOINEER AND FIREMAN KILLED Crushed Under Engine Which Falls From Coal Shute. At Anderson Engineer Lawrence Maddox and the colored fireman or a local freight train, on the Southern Railway, between Columbia and Ireenvllle, were Instantly killed at Pelzer, Tuesday afternoon, when their ongine fell from a coal chute. The engine was placing several cars on the chute and the brakes, when applied, failed to work. Both men realized their danger and leaped from the cab to save their lives. As the tender of. the engine, filled with coal, turned over it leu upon mo men, horribly mangling them. The section gang was called from the Pelzer yards, and within two hours the mangled bodies of the two men were extricated. ? ? COMBS FROM CUBA TO JAIL. J. W. Harper Killed Sumter Hackman Last Christmas. A dispatch from Sumter to The State says it became known Tuesday that Friday J. W. Harper had quietly surrendered himself to Jailer Owens and is now in jail. Harper killed Eddie Boss, a negro hackman, last Christmas night. He made his es"oxa nia cot.n.wflv nmn slnnln tr n ?io ovv ?t ? great deal of talk and a police investigation by a committee of council. Harper subsequently wrote the sheriff, under a postmark in Cuba, that he would come to Sumter for trial, but nothing more was heard of him until he secretly surrendered FYiday. His attorneys have notified Solicitor Stoll that they will apply to Judge Gary Thursday for bail. ? ? ? INSANE BOY KILLS FATHER. Old Barnwell County Negro Shot by Halfwitted Son. A Barnwell dispatch says Dan Hayes, an old negro man, a tenant on a place owned by Mrs. Lena Davies, was shot and fatally wounded Wednesday night by his half-witted son, Clarence. The entire load of the shotgun took effect in his left side and death resulted Thursday morning. Clarence was arrested Wednesday night by the sheriff and lodged in jail. It is said that Clarence, who, at no time is in his right mind, was raving all day Wednesday, imagining that his brother, Caesar Hayes, was trying to kill him. When Dan arrived home Clarence opened fire on him, thinking that it was Caesar who had come to kill him. VETERANS OF LOST CAUSE. They Are Rapidly Passing Away in State of Texas. A Houston, Texas, dispatch says at the rate the Confederate veterans and pensioners are (lying throughout the State, it will not be many years before there will be no more need for an appropriation for Confederate pensions. According to the manner of determining the deaths by the denartmpnt. there has been an average f between 200 and 300 deaths among the veterans during each three months. For the present quarter, however, the number of deaths has reached 700 or more. SEARCH FOR DEAD BODIES. Four Workmen Killed in Collapse of Concrete Building. At Indianapolis under the glare of searchlights police and firemen Wednesday night sought bodies of four persons caught in the wreckage of a three-story concrete building which collapsed Wednesday at noon, killing four workmen and injuring twenty-one. The contractor believes owing to the recent cold weather the concrete had not set properly. The building collapsed at the noon lunch hour, when most of the workmen were not in the structure. Most of those caught in the debris were seated about the building eating their lunches. ? CLEAN VV ALL TRASII. \ ? ? I Merchants nn<l 011101*8 Are Urged to Do So At Once. During tho Christmas holidays when fireworks are more or less set off by old and young, It is well to have all trash removed, not only from , tho streets, but from tho yards of , residents and stores as well The . lots In rear of stores should receive special attention, and all trash and ther combustible matter carefully renoved from them. ? Woman Gets Twenty Years. I Sobbing piteously, Mrs. R. L. Rotate bins was sentenced to serve twenty ; years in the penitentiary by Judge L Parker In superior court at Val Dosta t Ga., Wednesday for the murder oi L her neighbor, Miss Belle Smith n Neighborhood quarrels caused th< killing which occurred last July. Democrats Sweep Arizona. Is The first State election in Arizona e has resulted In a sweeping Demo i- cratlc victory, according to p.dmis n sions of Republican leadors at Phoe d nix. The constitutional amendmen e. eliminating the recall of judges, be i- lieved to assure Statehood, passed al most unanimously. BANK OE Conwa; Has largest capita) and surplus of a than the combined capital and surp CAPITAL STOCK... .. v SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT DIREC Robert B. Scarborough, EL L. Buck, Gteorge J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc< will justify, and we i robert b. scarborough, D President. We continue to pay 5 pel f FIRST NATK ^ oonwa ^ capital stock , hi ottdnr ita dpniritq yyy *?ux%x ju/uu x iwv iam ^ TOTAL, ASSESTS {DIRECT] J. A. McDermott, John C B. G. Collins, H. L. B M. Burroughs, C. P. Qua Successor to the Bank of Horry County, and a pioneer ly allied with the recent <iev< Republic. Backed by the C United States Bonds, we are p toinerg any reasonable acoomn & H. A. SPIVEY, r|\ Cashier. TtiDY TO THE FORE WAR BREAKS OUT IN THE REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE. Roosevelt's Friends Start the Trouble by Opposing Tuft's Choice for Head . of Campaign. A dispatch from Washington eays hostilities of an unexpected character and from an unlooked for quarter developed Tuesday among members of the Republican national committee and other prominent party leaders who are here in connection with the meeting to fix the time and place for the presidential nomination convention next summer. Opposition to Col. Harry S. New of Indiana, the administration's candidate for chairman of the subcom mittee oil convention arrangements, was responsible for the ill feeling engendered. No settlement was reached, but some of President Taft's closest friends announce that they not only would Insist upon the election of Mr. New, but upon naming a majority of the committee. Only less interesting than the unbolted for controversy over the control of the subcommittee in charge of the convention was the exploitation throughout the day of Col. Theodore Roosevelt as the possible candidate for the presidential nomination. The advocacy of Col. Roosevelt, but thinly veiled Monday, was open and promiscuously procleamed Tuesday. The advocates of Col. Roosevelt's nomination apparently based their arguments in his behalf upon the fact that at no time had the former president announced that he would not accept tho nomination if it were tendered to him, It was recognized that he would not openly become a candidate, they said, hut they wore busy sounding members of tho national committee and other prominent Republicans as to their sentiment in regard to "forcing" tho nomination upon the colonel. There were many who connected the open advocacy of Col. Roosevelt's nomination with tho opposition to I naming a committee of arrangements dominated by administration men. It was apparent throughout the day that friends of Col. Roosevelt were endeavoring in every way possible to postpone action by the national committee which would definitely commit anybody to any man's candidacy. Tho Roosevelt enthusiastics frankly stated their hope lay in working up a demand for Col. Roosevelt to be ' it-- * 1^^ Uanlf expressou in mu uuavuiuiuu uocui ? ? A<JEI) MAN KILLED I1Y TRAIN. f j John Ferguson Struck Dead by Sen ? board Passenger Engine. C At Rock Hill John Ferguson, sixty 3 nine years old, who lived near Cataw ba Junction, was killed Tuesday af ternoon by being run over by a Sea board passenger train. Mr. Fergu i son lived near the Seaboard tracks o - the plantation of John T. Spencei i- and* for some reason or other wa t- coming along the track. Just wher t he was walking there is said to be i- very sharp curve, and as the trair 1- running at a good rate of speec turned this curve, it was close upo : v HORRY, y. S, C. ny bank in Horry county. More lus of all other banks in the county* 950,000 d 12,500 holders .. . . 60,000 0R8 * *.112,600 ;tors D. V. Richardson, W. A. J ohnBon, Will A. Freeman. ammodation which their accounts & solicit your business. . V. Richardson, will a/fbeemab Vice Pbesident. .Cashisb * r cent, on yearly deposits. '&&999&&*999&A^ )NAL BANK | r, s. c. 125,000.00 J? . . . 2,500.00 125,000.00 m r?RS: -J !. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, & uck, W. R. Lewis, D. h|> .ttlebaum, D. A. Spivey. ^ Conway, the oldest Bank In In Eastern Carolina. Cloioslopment of the Independent Mr rovemment and securod by yjf repared to extend to our cu*- ^ lodationg. jy B. O. COLLINS, X President. ^ PROFESSIONAL CARDS. EL H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councilor At L?l? f CONWAYi S. C. R, B. SCARBROUGH ) # " I CONWAY, S. G, Attorney at Law. ? . K - , 1 ' ? ' 1 WL H. BURROUGHS >v. in r: "" " '?*> Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, S. O. > f B. WOFFOK1) WAIT. Attorney at La;, Bank of Horry Building. ' n CONWAY, S. O. KMN'K HAVKMOIi i^und Surveying and Drainage Spivey Building Conway, S. O. ^ ME WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE - - ? j/ JLIGHT RUNNING ffifOQ want et ther a Vlbrat I n* Sh uttte, Rotnf AfeatUeor aBingieThrcad [ChcrinStUckI y Bowing Machine write to 4| MStWHOM! SEW I HQ MACHINE COMPJUB, Orange* Mass. ^ ? fSfcapaewfiig machines are made to sett rerwrdleeglj gnllty* hut the New Home U made to vea > Oar guaranty never rum out. ? irti If aatfeorl?e4 Mat eafp^ 4 L X**ta*?rx -fjj BURROUGHS & COLLINS CO., Conway, S. C. Mr. Ferguson. Ileing very deaf he did not hear the whistle and waa " struck and almost instantly killed. ? ? ' Diploma Given to Hoys, n James Wilson, secretary of agrip, culture, presented diplomas of mdrit s to twenty-one boys from the Southe orn States, who have won prises for a raising large crops of corn aad whose i, trip to the national capital la part of 1, the award given to them by the n States from which they eame.