The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 25, 1912, Image 3
TALKS OF TICKS
Ciu<l iillim ?f MUr* Us* I* (Jie
Farmer* at the Stralk
SHOULD BE WIPED OUT
Iaetter Received by Commissioner
Wat won and 1'resiUent l)ahbs of the
State Farmers' Luin ou the Means
of Exterminating the l'est That
Kills Cattle.
Declaring that tho Stato cf South
Carolina is losing over $l,u00,000
annually and that the loss to tell
South is $40,000,000 by tho cattle
tick, E. M .Nighbert, inspector of the
United States department of agriculture,
has addressed a letter to Commissioner
Watson and President
Dabbs of the Stato Farmers Union,
suggesting certain methods of eradication.
Tho suggestions were indorsed
by the State Farmer?/ union
at tho recent meeting held hero.
"The State is suffering," says tho
inspector, "the ban of quarantine on
account of the splenetic fever of cattle,
which is produced and transmitted
by the cattle tick. Tho presence
of this tick makes breeding,
feeding and market ng of cattle unprofitable
and hazardous. The losses,
conservatively estimated, the result
of this disease producing and bloodsucking
jarasite, arc $1,100,000 annually
to the State of South Carolina
and $ 10,000,000 to the entire South.
"Tho feasibility of complete extermination
of this disease prod cing
parasite from every plantation, farm
and cowl ot, has been know i for 15
years and confirmed by every Southern
State. 13y a thorough knowledge
of this condition, individual effort
and concerted action, this menace to
your cattle industry may be removed
from every plantation, farm and cow
lot within the short period of from
A I O i /I mm.lliu
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"South Carolina is strictly a farming
section. Your worthy citizens
and coworkers arc now laboring with
a condition that is adverse to their
interest. You are intereste 1 in tho
production of tho most valuable crop
and byproduct cattle feed in the
world. You are countenancing the
shipping of the greater per cent, of
this feed to other States and nations,
all to the detriment of the live stock
industry and up-building of South
Carolina. Your knowledge, individual
effort and active support in removing
this great agricultural handicap,
is imperative. Your action on
this matter will he fostering your
own interests in the way of a cattle
idnustry in the most favored section
of tho nation. The cattle industry
in tho State is at low ebb, on account
of inferior quality and the presence
of disease.
"The future agricultural development
and prosperity of the citizens of
your State largely depend on cattle
and other live stock. This menace
to the cattle industry should he removed
from tho entire State. It's up
to you and your associates. It is a
business proposition and will pay.
"Under the direction of the departmr>iif
r.f votorinnrv science of vour
most worthy institution, the Clemson
agricultural college, four counties,
viz., Oconee, Pickens, Greenville and
Anderson, have been freed of the cattle
tick and released from quarantine.
Might, other counties and parts of
counties have been freed of ticks under
the direction of Dr. M. R. Powers,
State veterinarian, and .the cooperation
of this bureau, the past
year, and the territory has been recommended
for release from quarantine.
This work alone so far
achieved demonstrates that tlie plans
adopted are feasible
"It seems to be that there will
never he a better opportunity to bring
this subject of the eradication of tho
cattle tick before the people end urge
early action on their part, in order
that the work may he. completed at
the earliest date possible.
"The fact that it h is been plainly
demonstrated and this work is feasible,
I am now recommending and
urging oflleials an ! citizens interested
to make this movement a State-wide
proposition. You well understand
and know that a caUle industry must,
be fostered and encouraged in any j
form of agriculture. The work of
tick eradication has long passed the
crpcrimevtal stage, it is today strictly
a business proposition and should
be handled as such because it will ,
pay. It may not be possible to conduct
active work in the remainder of
the Ptato in its entirety now, but a
general educational campaign should
be inaugurated in each county, which
may be easily accomplished through
your recommendation and active support.
"The work of tick eradication is
far-reaching, if wii' solve many of j
the problems of the one crop cotton, i
It will pay to complete the work at
the earliest possible date, in order
that breeders and feeders and the
people generally may receive the benefits
of a free and unrestricted cattle
traffic and a chance to Improve homo
cattle. Every calf dropped In the
presence of tick 3-affers from splenetic
fever and is stunted in growth
throughout Its life. For that reason
such cattle are never profitable for
the dalry? the feed lot or the butch
r's block.
"The mala idea pre Tailing with the
South Carolina planter le te feed oabtle
from 90 to 120 days in winter,
mainly for the manure produoed;
that plan la probably profitable, aimply
from a fertilizer standpoint, but
moat feeders are better satisfied when
they get at least all oaah back and
the manure for the profit when the
cattle are sold.
"The losses under the above plan,
financially, have 1 nthe pasr been
enormous and will eontlnue as long
as apleuotic fever and the quarantine
restrictions aro maintained, because
the market prlco of all cattle
In the Infected area below the national
quarantine iine, Is at a lower
rate, no matter what the quality, and
this price prevails right at tin home
markots, oven if the cattlo compare
favorably in quality with cattle on
the market above the lino. So there
you are?good eatilo soiling lower
than the same quality of cattle in
the best markets of the country, all
on account of the cattle tick and
quarantine restrictions. Can this
situation and condition bo relieved?
No, not until the cattlo ticks have
been eradicated in every country and
the territory released from national
quarantine.
"The reasons for this are simple.
Cattlo of the infected area, quarantined
on account of splenetic fever,
which is transmitted by the common
cattle tick, when sold either at home
or on the best markets of the country
at large, are sold as 'exposed,'
'infected,' 'southern' or 'quarantined'
cattle, and the price is fixed lower,
because the cattle shipped interstate
to the best markets of the country,
must be sold for immediate slaughter
or held and treated under rigid restrictions,
which adds expense.
"The feature of the business disr-oiirniros
(bo winter feeder, because
ho is knifed from two sides The
hou(li Carolina feeder, in order to
get a good grade of cattle that may
ho fed profitably, must go above the
quarantine lino in territory already
freed of tricks to purchase them,
then he pays above the line price.
The seller above the line lias the
advantage, he can ship his feeders
anywhere to the best markets without
restrictions or sell to a good advantage
at home, so he does not care
a snap for the South Carolina feeders'
business. The South Carolina
feeder is stung by paying a long price
and selling for a short one. Re- j
member now, it makes no difference
how good our cattle are in South
Carolina, so long as the tick is present
and the quarantine ?s on, they
will sell for a low figure. The difference
in price being from 1-4 to
1-2 cents per pound in favor of catlie
in the territory freed of ticks
above the quarantine line.
"It is time now that the people
should act and it is believed that
through your sympathy, mor il and
active support would be a mighty
factor in making these points well
understood.
"While the work of tick eradication
so far accomplished in ?nc Stare,
under the old law, the law has found
to he inadequate, and I am urging
a revision of same.
"The present law gives authority
to enter premises and quarantine
animals infested with or exposed to
the fever tick, but does not authorize
enforcement of disinfection of such
animals, therefore it is readily observed
that the work is at a disadvantage
and valuable time and excessivo
sums of money are wasted,
experience lias shown that it is an
easy matter to get all intelligent cit
izens to accompiisn 1110 wont on ineir
premises in the sh 31 test time possible,
whilo a small per cent, of in-j
different individuals must be time,
and again visited, persuaded and
coaxed lo do the work. Tnis condition
prolongs tho work in a county 1
two or three years that could be!
completed within 12 to 18 months.
Experience lias also demonstrated
the importance of securing 1 oca 1
funds from tho county treasury, individuals
or associations. This
brings tho work closer homo and
establishes an interest and local responsibility.
Such a law is operating
successfully and satisfactorily In the1
State of Georgia and several other
States Interested.
"It would be pleased for you to
give this matter careful consideration
and urge your Influence in a revised
law, greater appropriations and a
State-wide movement in the work.
"The completion of this work will
save the State thousands of dollars
and at the same time give all interested
encouragement in feeding and
breeding cattle. It makes 110 difference
what tiie work of tick eradication
costs, the early completion of
the work will return v/W and over
every dollar spent.. I would be
pleased to have the honor of hearing
from you and an opportunity iu personally
confer on this subject."
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Father of Ln*?>c Family.
John \V. Guy, TO years jf age, la
dead In Mel fa, V'a He wap married
three times and was the father
o* 32 children. His last marriage
occurred when he was 65 years of
n^e, and that wife bore him seven
children.
Stole Five Million Dollars.
A Philadelphia cutlery Importer,
whose name is withheld, has confessed
frauds by which the Government
has lost $5,000,000. Oflers for
settlement upon the payment of $1.000,000
have oeen made and reftmed
VERY FAST WORK
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At Acrt *f Patoi Laul Ptagked ia Fur
aui 0a? Q?*iltr MiiaUs
BY TRACTION ENGINE
liTawlug a Group of Five Ploughs
in a liluo?44I Am Glad to have
Un?n Till* Dnv." Shvs Prcvilrittikt
Stone of Perdue University Afterward.
When three-oil-fed traction engines
can pull a plo jgh across a Held,
turning up a strip of earth sixty feet
wide and ploughing an acre in four
minutes and liftem seconds, it must
ho confessed that lli3 day of the Iloosier
farmer, who was represented as
continually chewing straw and saying
"by gum," is forever past, says
i letter from Lafayette, Indiana.
The formal test of this sixty-foot
p'ough, tho biggest and most successful
ever put together, was mado
on ilie grounds of Purdue University.
Several hundred farmers and
touchers were there to witness the
tost, and when it succeeded, President
Stone of tho University, voiced
lie sentiment of th* others when he
rem a rked:
"I am glad to have seen this day."
Tho plough was built in units of
five, that is, five ploughs were built
abreast and attached to a single
frame. They were so arranged that
they could bo drawn over tho roads
0110 behind tho other, thus making it
easy to take them through any farm
gates.
When It was desired to assemblo
them a movement resembling tho military
one of "squads 011 left into lino"
was executed. That is to say, the socond
unit moved up to the left of tho
first 0110 and was attached, the third
moving to tho second one in the samo
way, and so on until tho entire ten
sections formed in a line.
This lino was oblique to tho general
direction in an anglo of 45 degrees,
so as to make it easy to turn
the corners. The engines were hooked
one at each end and 0110 in the
middle, adjustable chains an 1 pulleys
making it bo they could pull abreast.
Behind tho ploughs was a running
board. Each share was connected
with a systom of It vers so it could
bo taken out of tho ground for a
stump or any other obstruction or
rould be sunk deeper for a gully in
tho field.
The power reservoirs of tho engine
were filled with a distillato of kerosene
of low grade, costing about four
cents a gallon. At tho signal the engineers
started their machines simultaneously
and a man moved along iho
running board, setting tho points.
And so tho great device moved across
the ground, ripping up tho soil in a
wide swath.
Tho four minutes and fifteen seconds
required to plough an acre set
a new world's record. Clang ploughs
drawn by traction engines are not
new and for several years there have
been multiple plough experiments in
the West. Tho previous record was
made by B. G. Baker In a contest at
Brandon, Kan., who turned over an
acre in seven minutes and thirty-five
seconds w'th a 14-point plough in
1909. Baker used a 25 horse-power
ergino which ho ran without governors.
The largest mould-hoard plough
heretofore) built was one with a 16point
ploughing base and a flexible
frame for light soils. Small gang
ploughs have been chained together,
too, in combination of thirty to fortysix,
but nothing so largo as the one
tried out at Purdue.
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MINERS KILLED IN MINE.
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Four Are Known to Ilavo Perished
in the Explosion.
Near Central City, Ky., four persons
are knowr to have been killed
ai d another is believed to be dead,
as the result of an explosion in a
mine of the Central City Coal and
Iron Company ab >ut 5 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon. 1'our bodies havo
been removed. Tee explosion occurred
just after the day men had
come out. The cause is unknown.
The mine is not badly damaged. Two
hundred men usually are at work
in the mine, but ?.ho explosion came
soon after the day shift had come
(Mit and before the night men had
gene down. The Pve victims were.
doing extra work. 11. 1). Jones, assistant
State mine inspector, is on
tne ground.
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NKLKO ADMITS CHIME.
And Implicates a White Man in the
Terrible Murder.
At Shelby, N. C., John Ross, one
of a trio of negroes charged with (ho
murder of Mr. and Mrs. John Dixon
of Cleveland county on December 13,
Wednesday confessed to the crime,
implicating Frank Gladden, a white
man, who was employed on the Dixon
farm. Ross declares Gladden gave
him $100 to kill Dixon, while Glad-'
den simultaneously killed Mrs. Dixon.
Robbery was the motive. Ross was
oA?>tonced Thursday and the court at
once took up tke ease of Gladden.
COTTON Mil L STRIK
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CAUSBS ?B1?K)(JS DWORDIB (LSI
KIOTO TUESDAY.
liiwes Poaoe Talk and Crowd Oat*
side JULse* lit Wrath Wheu Speaker
a Urgo Against Violonoo.
Eight companies of State militia,
Including one field battery, commanded
by Col. E. Lorry Sweetzor,
placed the mill district of Lawrence,
Mass., under martial law Tuesday
night after a day cr rioting duo to
the strike of 15,000 operatives in the
big cotton aud woolen mills.
At least 15,^00 other hands were
thrown out of work by the stopping
o' machinery and the attacks 011 the
mills by the strikers. In one instance,
a. company of militia had to charge a
mob with fixed bayonets, otio boy
being probably fatuiiy hurt. Thirtylive
arrests of armed riotorg wore
made during the day.
Although tho strike was originally
instituted in protest against a reduction
in pay because of the operation
of tho new 54-hour law making
tiie working week two hours shorter,
1110 strikers now declare that they
will not return without a 15 percent
increase and other concessions, including
double pay lor overtime work
and the abolition of the premium or
bonus system.
This decision of the strikers was
made known at a conference between
strike leaders and members of the
city government this atcernoon.
Throughout llio day there wero outbreaks
in rapid succession, the police
finding tho strikers and their
sympathizers particularly bard to
deal with because of the man nationalities
represented. No less than 45
tongues are spoken by employes of
Lawrence mills.
The opening of the mills at 7
o'clock was tho signal for the first
outbreak, when strikers stoned tho
gates of tho Wood, Washington,
Prospect and other mills. They wore
repulsed by police and mill omp!oyos
with streams of water, but
their tactics resulted in tho closing
down of nearly two-thirds of tho
plants.
Later there were clashes between
strikers and the soldiers and mill officials
about the Lower Pacific, Atlantic
and Arlington and other mills.
Shots were exchanged and several
persons were slightly injured. Tho
police fired Info the air to frighten
the riotors, but tli3 fire hoso proved
more effective.
Unawed by the shower of ice, however,
tho strikers pressed forward.
Capt. Ranlett ordered his men to fix
bayonets and charged. In tho charge
several persons were injured, a Sicilian
boy, Dominic Rapasa, being so
badly hurt that ho probably will dio.
Polico from other cities arrived tonight
to aid tho forces already here.
Judge Mahoney of the local court
held a session tonight when 2 7 rioters
were placed on trial and found
guilty. Threo were sentenced to two
years In the house of correction and
tho other 2 4 were given one year
sntences.
Fourteen hundred strikers attended
tho mass meeting tonight in tho
city hall and twice that number assembled
outside unable to gain admittance.
The speakers urged the
strikers to stand together, to avoid
rioting and to do all in their power to
keep others from "eporting tor duty
in tho morning. The same speakers
spoke outside at an overflow meeting
and their suggestion of peaceful
methods were met with hisses.
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PASSED OVFK TIIE VETO.
Five Pills Pccoine laws in Spite of
Governor Please.
Wednesday morning in the House
four acts were passed over the Governor's
veto, and one act, which he
had vetoed, was killed.
The four acts which the house
passed and sent to tho senate were
tl o following:
To provide for an assistant county
superintendent of education in
Spartanburg count>. Passed by a
veto of 77 to 22.
To provide for rural polico in
Cherokee county. Passed by a veto
oI 88 to 2.
To provide for 1 oidlng elections on
I he (|uosuon 01 corunission lorni 01
g< vernment in cities of more than
I 000 and less than 1 0,000 inhabitants.
Passed by a vote of 72 to 20.
An act relating t3 road inspectors
in Newberry county. Passed by a
vote of 8 0 to *1.
Tlio act upon wnich the veto of the
governor was sustained provided for
certain exceptions from jury duty.
The tight fhr sustaining tlio veto was
or the grounds that the act made
ministers of the gospel liable for jury
service. The house upheld the veto
of the governor by a vote of 7 0 to 30.
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Found Dead in the Snow.
The Columbia Slate says L. M.
Mlranip, a white man about thirty
years of age, was found dead Monday
morning beside the embankment
j' the Southern Railway, in the vicinity
of McCreery's pasture, with
his neck dislocated. Previous to this
the dead man's brother, W. M
Minims, was found almost frozen
about a quarter oi a mile from the
place where the deal man was found
|SOM? NtW ONES
New Peeple Are Feood in (he Far Off
Free en NtrtJi by Exaltren.
SLYER SAW WHITf FOLK
Expedition Making a Tour ol Exploration
for tike American Museum
of Xatuiul History ami (Geological
Survey of Canadian Government
Claim to Have *ouu<l Now Race.
? From tlio far North, In the neighborhood
of Coronation Gulf and Victoria
Island, have eoino messages
from Stofansson an l Anderson, leadis
of tlio Arctic expedition, now mak
lug a tour of exploration for the
1 American Museum of Natural History
and the Geological Survey of the
Canadian government.
"We have covered the last mile
geographically th.it we act out to cover
and havo found what we set out
to find?a new people, more numerous
than any one thought possible,"
says 'Mr. Stefansson in his reports
forwarded from the expedition's
headquarters 011 the barren grounds
of Upper Deaso River.
1 The Stefansson-Andcrson expedition
has been absent from New York
1 for about three years, and has covered
a region compai at ively unknown
and hitherto unvisited by white men.
Several times the members of this
band have faced starvation.
Most interesting perhaps of their
experiences are the discoveries of
several races of "new people" and
ruined villages formerly occupied by
Fskimos, and apparently abandoned
f. om twenty-five to fifty years ago.
The inhabitants of these villages en
gaged in whaling judging from the
bcnes of whales scattered about.
At Cape Dexley last May the explorers
came upon a village of about
forty snow houso3, which apparently
had recently been abandoned. Sled
trails lod north toward Victoria Land
which is visible across the strait everywhere
east of Point Wise.
"As the explorers of the Inst century
never found people near hero,
I suppose village and trail evidence
of visit of Victoria Land people, who
bad coino across the strait to get
driftwood," says one of tho expedition
party in an amount of the trip.
Later tho expedition discovered another
village in tho snowy region or
the north, and people out sealing in
the middle of Dolphin and Union
Strait.
One of tho messengers of the expedition
then approached tho newly
discovered people and after a narrow
escape of being knifed by one of the
party friendly negotiations were under
ta ken.
There were thirty-nine 111 ambers of
the group, a small part of the A-luili-a-kat-tag-mi-ut.
According to the
explorers neither they nor their forefathers
had ever seen a whi;e man.
The winter homo of these people
Is in the middle or the trail north
of Capo Dexley, but in the summer
they hunt inland south of the cape.
It was discovered by members of
the expedition that of the 1,000 Ks
kimos on the two sides of Coronation
Gulf aiul Dolphin and Union straits
not more than twenty men had ever
seen a white man, thus representing
less contact with the white raco than
the people of any other part of tho
exploited Arctics.
Tho Capt. Peary region, full of
game sixty years ago, is 110>7 gameless
and deserted, and tho Coppermine
region has nor 10 per cent of
the number of caifbou of Ilichardson's
time. It is estimated that in
ten years it will be practically Impossible
to live on the conmry while
traveling in these remote wilds.
In May Stafa'inson crossed over
to Victoria Land, where ho discovered
a ScandinaviaiUiko peoole called
tho Ha-ne-rag-nii-ut. They are described
as a North European people.
One of tho Alaskan Eskimo guides'
said in commenting upon their appearance:
"They are not Eskimo, they are
(o'c'slo men. Two of thorn bad chin
beards described as light and turning
to red and all had light eyebrows."
Specimens of rich iron ore from
Victoria Land, north of Cape Hexley,
have been gathered by tho ex
pedition, and copper is picked up fre-I
quenily by the natives iir the Coronation
Culf district.
Mr. Stefannson spent several
months on tbo lower Ilorton river
and about the same time on the Coppermine.
He thinks that the Ilorton
river is fully as large a stream as the
Coppermine. A survey has been
made of Ilorton river from the place
nearest Langton 13ay to within seventy
miles of Hear Lake.
It Is the present plan of tho expedition
to remain in the field another
year because of tbo great op-'
portunities for the pursuit ot their ,
work. That there is a possibility of
Franklin's men having survived for
a time is suggested in tbo evidence
?t various places of people bearing
tho names of white men. In most
of the communities somo of tho na
I tives are named 44Nerk," which transIn
ted from Eskimo to English is
"Ned."
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HDRDEK MAMS |
TEN THOUSAND KILLED IN 8IIBN
SI DISTRICT.
The Imperial Arm/ Advancing, Has
Pushed Its Way Within Sixty Miles
of Sian Fa Province.
Tho roported massacre of 10,000
Manchus by rebels la the She 1 Si district
is confirmed. The Kan Su imperial
army, after much fighting, has
succeeded in pushing its way to within
60 miles of Sian Fu. Thj entire
province of Shen Si is in a turmoil.
.Many towns have been looted and deserted.
Conditions in the interior of China
are graphically described in an interview
with Adoiph Herman, who
went to Tai Yuan ! u to rescue women
and children of tho China inland mission.
Ho says:
"The impressions secured from tho
rebels was far from favorable. There
was 110 responsible head, and some
2 0 men in various kinds of uniforms
had possession of the railroad station
at Cliing Using" Or. oiiowing my
passports and papsrs from the United
States legation written In Chinese I
was escorted to tho commander nearby.
This olllcer had several hundred
soldiers with no two uniforms alike
and various kinds of rilies.
"The city of Tai Yuan Fu showed
row after row of empty stores in the
lust business quarters of the city. Oil
reaching the olUcials' quarters, wo
were inforfed that a party of 2 1 foreigners
.mostly women, were soon to
be there. We went to Suan Chan to
meet them.
"On the night of December 10 a,
train with 20 v.ounded passed
through to Tai Yuan Fu a id during
the night 500 cavalrymen entrained
without horses anl went out to tho
scene of the lighting.
"On tho next afternoon a general
retreat began. The first train contained
Gen. Yao, commander at Nian
Tsu Kwan, who has with him about
4 00 men. Tho other trainloads contained
Gen. Yao, commander at Nian
Tsu Kwan, who has with him about
4 00 fen. The other trainloads contained
in all about 2,000 troops
passed in succession.
"All day long stragglers arrived at
Van Chang and wo apprehended
trouble, but a train came from Tal
Yuan Fu to meet them. Towards
evening two of the stragglers fired
their rifles near t'113 station and the
men in the cars supposing the imperialists
wore advancing made a gen1
eral scramble for the nearest hills.
Only after discovering that their
comrades had caused the firing did
they return with great caution and
get on board the train which speedily
departed for Tai Yuan Fu.
"On the fourth we made our departure
for the east and 'after the
Nian F11 Wang were sent through to
haiar Clial Chwang unmolested. The
rebels complained that the range of
their guns was too short and so they
had to llec before the imperialists.
Some of their recruits did not even
know how to handle their ri!les and
others of them were armed with
spears."
The provinces of Shell Si and Sh in
Si from which the reported massacre
cf 10,000 Manchus by the rebels is
new confirmed, have been hotbeds
of (he revolution for some months.
On December 8 news was received oy
messenger from Sian Fu, the capital
cf Shan Si, that 8,000 Manehus had
been slain in the pt evince u?> to that
date. A column of imperialist troops
had ben operating in the district ro
ir.g of tiie Mnnchus has continued
suppress the rebellion, but the slaysteadily.
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1SHI0AKS LONG SILKNC15.
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Ccupio Had Not Spoken to Much Oth
it for M tny Years.
For twenty-live years Lo?ii3 Raser
and his wife lived in tho same houso
a* Mayesvillo, Ivy., without speaking
to each other. Last Sunday,
without any apparent reason, the wifo
broke the silence by asking her husband
to have a cum of coffee, lie
replied: "I believe T will."
Hardly had ho uttered the remark
thah ho was attacked with heart
trouble and died.
Tho incident leading to the tragic
climax was not disclosed until Thursday,
when his will was made public.
The dead man, who was a large property
owner, willed everything to his
wife. His bodyV was cremated and
Ids ashes cast to the wind from tho
Cincinnati Suspension Itridge.
SHOOTINC
XV COLIMIUA.
John It. Harris Shot Sunday Night
by William ! '. Martin.
John H. Harris, an electrician,
about it5 years of age, employed by
tl o Columbia Tdgrit and Power Company,
was mortally wounded while
participating in a card game in a
boarding house at 1409 Assembly
stret, Columbia, a! 10:30 o'clock
Sunday night by William F. Martin,
a farmor, who resides on the Bluff
road and who conducted a livery
stable on Washington street for a
number of years, (t is said that the j
shooting was not a result of the game
of cards. Martin was arrest* 1 by the
I police and looked up