The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 23, 1913, Image 5
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Ild special meet
THE STATE FARMER'S ONION MET
IN COLOMBIA,
BUSINESS TRANSACTED
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fhrt Wmr<fhou?? Rill Ut DLhcuhhrd.?January
30 uFarraon<' Union
?nd *?numry 31 "Education
Dmf" mt Corn Exposition I)P.
IN**? Endorsed for Secretary of
Agriculture.
The special meeting of the State
Fanners' Union was called to order
Thursday afternoon at three o'clock
in Columbia. President E. VV. Dabbs
was in the chair. Alter prayer by
the chaplain, W. E. ftodio, the president
introduced Dr. S. C. Mitchell,
president of the State University,
who made a short address of welcome.
He expressed to the union his
appreciation of the presence of this
body of organized farmers and stated
that ho was glad to have them
meeting in one of the University
buildings. Ho extended to thorn a
cordial invitation to bo present at as
i much of the exercises of Founders'
Day as thoy could spare the time to
attend, particularly the reception at
five p. m. and the addresses in the
evening.
The following officers were present:
E. VV. Dabbs, president; It. F.
Keller, vice-president; J. Whitner
Koid, secretary; \V. E. Hodic, ebap
lam; vv. Mioor, conuue.ior; it. m.
Cooper, executive committee.
The roll of counties was then called
and the (following delegates were
found to be present:
Anderson?J. P. Johnson, Polzer.
Barnwell? It. 10. Woodward, Wiltiston.
(Chester?J. G. L. White, Chester.
Chesterfield ? F. W. Hi vers, Chesterfield;
Ii. C. Rivers, Ruby.
Clarendon?O. A. McFaddin, Manning.
(Jolleton ?
Dorchester?Cyrus Minis, Harleyville;
J. H. Whetseil, Bowman.
Florence?R. 10. Currin, Florence;
W. P. Gause, Coward.
Greenville?A. B. Black, Taylors.
Laurens?O. P. Goodwin, Laurens.
Lee-?W. A. Sturkey, Bishopville.
Lexington?T. H. Shull, Gilbert;
O. W. Smith, Chapin.
(Marion?The Rev. O. T. Gresham,
TOulonia; Douglas Mclntyre, Marion.
Newberry?Alan Johnstone, Newberry.
Oconee?->T. D. Alexander, Walhalla.
Orangeburg?J. II. ClalTy, Orangeburg;
L. A. Carson, Holly Ilill; \V.
\V. Culler, Orangeburg.
Pickents?J. FR. Hendricks, Liberty.
Richland?C. W. Suber, Columbia.
Saluda?M. D. Miller, Prosperity;
IW. E. Bodie, Wards.
Spartanburg? Rnoch Lawrence,
In man.
Sumter?J. M. Brogdon, Sumter;
J. F. Williams, Sumter.
Union?L. J. (Browning, Union.
i()n motion of W. A. Stuckey the
,union proceeded to take up the discussion
of the warehouse bill. President.
PaJ>bs called Vice-President
Xellor to the chair and took the floor
to present the report of the committee
which had prepared the bill.
The warehouse bill was then taken
up and read by sections. The discussion
of this was continued until
six p. m., when the union adjourned
to meet 9:.10 a. m. Friday.
Friday Morning,
i After the usual opening eerernoniea
the president made several
announcements. January .10 is to
be known as Farmers' Union Day and
January .11 as Education Pay during
(the Corn Exposition. The full program
for these days w*iI be announced
later.
J A letter Worn O. H. Stevenson, secIretary
of the Corn Expositon, was
/read, extending to the State Union
an invitation to visit the Exposition
grounds.
The disctission of the warehouse
/bill was then taken up and continued.
It was finally decided to
kiave t.ho president appoint three <
I embers to bo added to tho commito
to make tho changes authorized
r the union and still further preiro
tho bill and put it tn chape to bo
troducod in tho Senate and tho
:>u?e of Representatives.
Tho committee now consists of
esldout E. W. Dabbs of Sumter; '
tin Ij. McLaurin, Senator from
irlboro; I). 'McQueen, Representaro
from Marlboro; Lowndes J. 1
owning, of Union; J. If. daffy, of 1
angeburg.
The following resolution offered
R. E. Currin of Florence County, 1
is adopted.
Wbereas, the position of Secretary
Agriculture is ono in which tho
)st vital interests of the South are i
scorned, especially so sinco tho enuragemiont
of our development in
eduction and economy has recoivattention
from tho department i
which this official presides, and,
Whereas, the South has, through
s development, been the greatest <
itributor to fho wealth of tlie naa,
we feel that tho interests of
South are worthy of every coneration
by those in power in the i
MUST USE GALLERIES
?
VISITORS DKXIKD ADMISSION TO
FLOOR OF HOUSK.
At Least, Resolution Passed Friday
so Provides.?Kvea "Lobbyists**
Must Keep Out.
How long It will last is the question.
Friday the House adopted a
resolution, the intent and purpose of
| which is to clear the door and back
Aui^ ~ m -11 a - --
uioju vi tin except BiemDers. under
the rules State officers, Judges, former
members, Senators, trustees and
officers of State colleges are permitted
on the floor of me House. Friday
the old-time custom of permitting
delegations, interested parties
and perhaps "lobbyists" access to the
floor was put under the ban.
No women, except one, the State
librarian, under the Welch resolution,
will be entitled to admission to
the main floor of the House. The
House then went a step further and
requested the Speaker not to exerciso
his privilege of issuing cards of
admission. Alter it was all over.
Speaker Smith thanked the members
for their consideration in relieving
him of tho difficulty of determining
who should be granted cards and
who should not be.
Tills is not intended to mean that
the House will not want visitors, nor
that it will not want audiences to
hear the oratory of its gifted members?not
at all. it wants audiences
and wants them reuularlv. but it
wants tliQin in tho galleries, and to
that end, as soon as the ban was
placed on visitors on the lloor of the
House, a resolution was adopted authorizing
the purchase ol" plenty of
chairs, cushioned ones if need be,
but they are to be distributed in the
gallery.
The real difiiculty is that the
acoustics of tho House are vile and
H,c members who have rear seats'
can make themselves heard with difI
hot'Ji}, and they want to get rid of;
the groups of enthusiastic talkers, J
who hold daily conferences on tho
progress of tho campaign for theirj
candidate for this or that otlice. If j
there bo real "lobbyists", they know |
pretty well how to see those they j
might want to see without interrupting
tho work of the House.
Administration; and,
Whereas, this development of tho j
South agriculturally is us yet only
in its infancy, and must, for the
good both of this section and of tho
nation, be faaterod by a department
that will be in sympathy with tho
work that has produced the marvellous
results;
Therefore, we, the members of the
Farmers Union of South Carolina;
representing the only organization of j
the agricultural interests, believing j
that we have the right, and the duty
rests upon us, to urge the selection \
of such a man for the position of Sec- j
rotary of Agriculture of whose interests
and sympathy there is no doubt, J
and that real interests rather thana
politics should he consulted in this
case, the more that we do see already
the evidence of the. greed of tho politician
and the hand of the wire puller
in this matter so that we must
speak unqualifiedly and positively.
He it resolved, That we urge upon
the newly elected President of the
United States, whom we know to
have tho interestst or tno farmers of
the South and of tho whole country
at heart, when those interests are
made plain to hiny, tho appointment
of the Hon. Walter II. Pago, the chief
aid and support of Dr. Seaman Knapp
in his work, which has been the
means of securing such results in the
South. We feel that in this appointment
the agricultural interests of the
South and of the whole country will
receive the most intelligent and effective
aid, because of the experience
of I)r. Page in this work, and that
ho will honor the people of the
South in the selection of a son of
North Carolina, a man whoso greatest
work has been constantly and
unflagging'ly devloitcd to the real
problem ot the masses of the people
and the development of the farm,
the elevation of the farmer and the
whole people of the country.
We urge him as a national character,
whose work has been confined to
no section of the country, nor to any
particular people.
Tho following resolution was
adopted:
Resolved, That the State Farmers'
Union earnestly endorses the request
of the State Plant Breeders' Asso- i
elation made of the General Assembly
to make an appropriation of $1,500
for tho furtherance of tho work
of this Association, which promises
so much to the development of tho
agricultural industry of tho State.
The following resolution was i
adopted:
Resolved: that the legislative com- 1
mittee of the State Farmers' Union 1
of South Carolina be instructed to 1
risk the Legislature to enact a law
providing for the State of South Carolina
to purchase the GafTney Lime
Works at GafTney, S. and work
same with State convict labor, and
tc be operated so that the State shall
receive a small profit from the proceeds.
The State Union, without adjourn- i
ing sine die, receded from business to
reassemble at the call of the Stato
president.
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AN HEIRESS STOLtN
YOUNG LADY IS BOLDLY TAKEN
FROM HER HOME
JOUBNED IN A TAXICAB
Hold Kidnapers Almost Succeed in
Daring Plan, Hut is Foiled by the i
Driver, Who Heads the Automobile
for the Police Station, and
Kidnapers Are Arrested. ;
Facing a sentence of life imprisonment
at Alletitown, Pa., for the
attempted kidnaping of an heiress to
millions, Samuel Sinclair Jr., and It.
Walter Star Jr., have put forward a
novel plea for their defense. Sinclair,
the principal in the bold plot, 1
insists that the alleged kidnaping of 1
Miss Anna A. Stockel, the daughter '
of a retired millionaire business man \
of that city, was not a kidnaping at '
all, but an elopement plot which was 1
to result in him marrying the pretty *
society girl. The indignant denial 1
entered by Miss Steckel against this '
story is blandly explained by Sinclair
who says that the girl got ^
"cold feet" and is now trying to 1
place him in prison to save herself. 1
"Elopement, nothing!" declares '
the aged father of the girl. "I saw (
my daughter being dragged out of
her own home .by these two men, 1
and when I protested the only an- ?'
swer I received was ro 'shut up'. I 1
am too old to have offered any vio- i
lent objection to the kidnaping, but 1
I will spend half my money to have <
them properly punished.' iThe
attempted kidnaping of Miss 1
Steckel was one of the boldest crimes i
of its sort the east has record of for i
a number of years. Sho was return- <
it.tr tit i liti i1 <i t i ti 1 linniii r\ f lint' f'i ti. I
111^ IV/ lUV/ I'Ullllllll IIWIIIl/ ? II VI I lit 11 *
er from a shopping trip, and whun 1
she turned in at the gate noticed a
taxicab standing by the curb, but
thought nothing of it. She opened
the front door and stepped into the
vestibule when she was grabbed ,by
Sinclair and Star.
Thinking the whole affair a joke
at first, for sho knew the two young
men, sho began laughing, but the
mirth turned to shrieks when she
found herself being dragged down
the walk toward the waiting cab.
When, she screamed for help, one of
the men placed his nand over her
mouth, and thus gagged she was
thrust into the waiting automobile.
The chauffeur, who told the police
that his cab had been engaged "for
a wedding,'' became suspicious at
the actions of the men, and when i
the men followed the girl into the j
car and told him to drive on, he do- i
termined to turn the entire party
over to the police. lie drove at ?
break-neck speed, and, in turning a
corner, crashed into a monument, f
disabling the car and badly shaking )
up the occupants. Hefore any one \
could recover, a policeman had tak- ^
en charge of the two men and the ^
girl, who was found on the floor of '
the wrecked taxi, her arms pinioned
and a blanket thrown over her.
The two young men in the case
are members of promment Philadel- (
phia families. Sinclair, the leader in
the alleged kidnaping, had been a
suitor of Miss Steckofs for months,
but his love making had bean discouraged
by the young lady and his 1
presence in the house barred by her '
father. Star declares he knew nothing
of any kidnaping, but believed s
he was to help in an elopement.
The pretty victim in the case was (
handled so roughly by the men in attempting
to keep her quiet, that she ^
is still in bed. She constantly asks
tor a guard to protect iter, now that ,
the two men in the case have been
set at liberty 011 bail, declaring that ^
she fears Sinclair will make another
attempt to get her or do her bodily !
injury.
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SLAUGHTER OF LEPERS.
?
Chinese Officials Shoot and Rum
Rand of Outcasts.
Thirty-nine lepers recently were
put to death in an atrocious manner
by order cf the provincial authorities
of NauV'ng, province of Hwang Pi. J
Tr.j cuffVurc* from the dread disease
first were shot and the ntheir bodies
wo"i furred in a huge trench. A
Catholic mission had sought permission
to build at its own expense a J
sion to build at its own expense a
lazaretto for the lepers, and the provincial
authorities, pretending to
consent, dug a pit, in which was >
placed wood, soaked with keposene. c
At the -nolnt of the havonrvt the tcnera r
then were driven into tho pit and t
Rhot and the pyre was lighted and a
their bodies burned *n tho presence ?
of a large crowd. The authorities t
offered rewards for the discovery of I
other lepers and this resulted in the i
shooting of one more man afflicted '
with the disease. *
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Two Killed in Auto. i
At St. Louis Russell Havis Clove- .1
land, secretary to Mrs. Rrltton, own- t
or of the St. Louis Nationals, and i
William Walters of St. Ltuis, presi- f
dent of tho Novelty Company, wore f
killed in an automobile accident Fri- r
day when their machine struck a 1
water plug. * I
MISS BROWN WAS SICK
ABSENCE OF THE YOUNG TEACHER
EXPLAINED.
Kb# VI.si ted Friends at Jonefcrille
During Holidays, Was Taken 111
and Unable to Return.
A letter from Hartsrille says ther*
was no mystery or sensation at all.
i? appears about the absence er socalled
disappearance of Miss Scotta
Rrown, of Kershaw, who teaches the
Flinn's Crossroads school near
Hartsvillo, and who did not report
back for duty at the expiration of
I ha Chrlutmaa hnllda va If haa hoan
LHV V/M ? IUVUIMU Ul A V AAIAKF WVVU
j raattor of much distress and mortification
to the you?K tady that any
public comment was made about it
it all. Miss Brown's statement of
Lhe matter is as follows:
She left her home in Kershaw on
Lhe 31st of December to go via Camion
to visit a friend, Miss Haley, at
McBeo, until the opening of her
3chool on the 6th of January. While
in Camden between trains she mot a
friend and college mate. Miss Turner,
of Hamlet, who was then on her
nay to Jonesvillo to visit a married
piste r, Mrs. W. F. Jenkins. Miss
Fui'ner persuaded her to accompany
lier t? J< nesville for a few d \ys'
risit rMei which she inte i?le 1 t? go
o McHee, as planned, and thence to
Hartsville in time for her opening
?xercisos at school.
On January 2 Miss Brown was
taken seriously sick at Jonesville,
md was in bed. constantly attended
L?y a physician until the 10th. Immediately
on being taken sick she
>vrote to the trustees advising them
if the fact and warning them that
die might not get back in time. This
ettor has never come, however, and
t was in consequence of no word
'roni her and her not appearing for
luty that the trustees made inquiry
ibout her and the thing given pubicity.
On getting better Miss Brown wir^d
an assistant to say she was bet.er,
but still unable to come, and to
?arry things along at the school a
pew days longer, unconscious of the
'act that her first Tetter had been
est. On her recovery she went to
IJnrtsville immediately and was sur)rised
and mortified to find that her
unavoidable illness and detention
vad been made into a sensation, of
vhich she had not known a word
mtil her arrival at Hartsvillo.
rhese aro the facts in the case, with
lames and dates which may be easily
mbstanttated.
In answer to a wire Miss Brown
?ent to Jonesville for confirmation
if her illness and detention thero,
the following telegram is self-explanatory:
deceived at 9:40.
Jonesville, S. C., 1t>.
diss Scottn Brown, Tlartsvllle, S. 0.
Your message delayed. 'Miss
5cotta A. Brown was visiting at my
mine and was sick in bed from January
2 until January 10. Unable to
?o to her school. The letter she
vrote to trustees was mailed.
* W. F. Jenkins.
IjITTIiK CHILD'S BODY FOUND.
dmttooga River Gives up its Road
and Solves Mystery.
A dispatch from Walhalla says the
nystery of tho disappearance of the
little four-year-old child from tho
c,ine Mountain, Co., section has been
lolved.
Last Monday week the little body
was washed to the banks of the
Chattooga river, and it was discovered
by people in that section, who,
hough having given up active search
or tho child, were still alert for any
due that might lead to its finding,
f. C. Powell, of tho Russell section,
was in Walhalla Tuesday, and reported
the facts as above given. The
jody, it is said, was in a fair state
>f preservation, though it is now
Jiree weeks since the. child disappeared.
While the mystery of the whore11
vouts of the child is cfeared up, still
t is causo for wonder and speculaion
as to how the little one got ino
the river, as tho Chattooga is hereon
two and two and a half miles,
it its nearest point from the home
pf the child's father, John Owens.
WINNSHOKO MAN OFFICIATES.
+.
dev. Oliver Johnson Acts as Chap
lain of the Senate.
Rev. Oliver Johnson, pastor of the
Nsflociftte Reformed Presbyterian
hurrh at Winnsboro, officiated as
haplain Thursday in tho senato of
ho United Statos. The invitation
vas extended at the suggestion of
Senator Tillman and carried with it
he privileges of the floor for the day.
t was in tho early days of hifi ea err
in Washington when Senator
Hitman was familiarly known as
Pitchfork Ron" and was popularly
uipposed to be somewhat savage and
mtained that he introduced Dr.
lohnson to friends on the floor of
he senate as a specimen of a "civilzed"
South Carolinian and elicited
rom Mr. Chandler, then a senator
rom New Hampshire, the pleasant
ejoinder that Senator Tillman was
limself beginning to show signs of
)Ccoming "civilized".
LAST DAYSJN JAIi
AN OLD HAN TALKS PITIFULLY 0
HIS OVN CASE
WANT TO PAY FOR CRIMI
Ho Hays His Hands Are Stained Wit]
the Rlood of His Oldest Son Whon
He Slew, and He Wants to Suffe
for the Crime That He Has Com
n% It# ^wl
illlilCU*
An Atlanta dispatch says "Uncl<
Hob" Davis, bent and oroken, hair ai
white as the driven snow, .but hii
bands stained crimson with the blooc
of his son Hewlett, has taken hii
place in "murderer's" row", at th<
convict camp near Milledgeville, Ga
Ho went through Atlanta on hii
way from his home in the peacefu
valley of Mill creek Wednesday
morning. There were no shacklei
on his arms nor feet. "Uncle 'Hob'
is 75 years old, and carries one o
Sherman's bullets in his legs. H<
wouldn't run away if he had i
chance. His hands are stained wit!
the blood of his son, Hewlett, hii
first born, and he owes a debt to Goc
#
and fellow man.
"Only punishment can wipe aw a:
my sin," Uncle Hob says. "I iuus
first square myself with man am
then I'll get right with the Lord.''
"Uncle Hob" killed a thing he lov
ed. It was a clear case of self-de
fense, but "Uncle Hob" did not trj
to evade the law. It was on Decern
her 11. lie was killing hogs whei
ins son Hewlett came through tin
gate. The old man ordered (he boj
away from the premises. Then his
heart softened, and he asked him t(
go on into the house. The son pick
ed up a stick, and the old man flee
into the house and went where Ik
had his shotgun handy. When Ik
came out on the porch, the son wai
there. He raised the stick. Ther<
was a sharp report. The son fel
over dead.
"Uncle Hob" had trouble with hii
wife. They had lived happily on th<
farm in the Mill creek valley. Sin
left to go to the homo of her sor
and grandchildren. That was wha
started the trouble. It put murdoi
in the heart of the old man. A
least, that is the way he explains tin
tragic occurrences.
"I would heap rattier it be I," he
said. "I loved the boy and I lovec
his children. 1 didn't mean to kil
him. When I aimed the gun, it waf
at his feet. I jest wanted ter keei
him from me. My hands are stainec
with blood and I want to pay foi
what 1 have done. There is nothing
here for me."
"Uncle Hob" will probably spent
the balance of his days behind tin
prison walls at Milledgeville. Judge
Kite sentenced him to serve five
years for manslaughter. Five years
is longer than "Uncle Hob" evei
hopes to live. The prospect of dying
behind the walls has no terror foi
him.
"1 hope I'il live to pay the debt,'
he says.
"Uncle Hob'' was granted a ne*
trial by Judge Augustus Flte, ir
Whitfield county, and his attorney
Georgo C. Glenn, believes that Ik
would have been acquitted on tin
second trial.
"The blood is 011 my handB," Un
cle Hob said, as ho was led unshackled
to prison.
Ho believes that by serving time
ho can wash away the blood. He
wants to be alone, in confinement.
"Uncle Hob" asked that the for
nullities of the law be set aside, aiu
that George C. Glenn, bis attorney
be allowed to take him to prison.
He leaves a wife and ten children
with whom he lived in his mountair
borne. Ho wants to servo out his
sentence like a man and return some
day to the hills of dear old Whit
fluid.
"Uncle Hob" followed Loo aiu
Jackson through during the stirrinc
days of the sixties.
There is not a man nor woman ir
the country who is not willing to dc
all tlrey can for "Uncle Hob" but h(
won't let them interfere.
"My hnads are stained,*' lie says
"Sorrow and tears alone can maki
them white." 4
MAX WALKS OX HOT IRON.
. .
To Prove Ho Immortal Trle<l tc
Rat Some Hot Metal.
Declaring that he had come to the
world after a regeneration and that
he was Infallible and immortal, William
Prios, a steel worker of Cambria
City, Pa., tried to prove his asn<-rtlon
unit othnr p-nsnol flnlms to n
crowd of follow workmen. Shouting
In an inipassioned voice that nothing
could harm him, Fries, minus shoes
and socks, deliberately ran over several
hot masses of pigiron. Although
he declared that he felt no pain it
was evident that he was suffering intensely.
The jibes of the workmen
angered Fries and he snatched up n
red hot rod and tried to force it
down his throat. The other men,
however, interfered. When a policeman
was called, Fries bit him on
the no6#.
THE CORN CLUB BOYS .
.
MANY OP THRM WILL SPEND
F WEEK IN WASHINGTON.
.
All Star Bo/ Farmers From AH Parte
n of the Country to Visit the Nation*
al Capitol.
A dispatch from Washington says
h I details were comDleted Saturday by
the department of agriculture offl0
cials for the entertainment of the
"all star" crop-growing boys from
the South and 'North who will spend
- all next week in Wasnlngton. The
program includes a visit to President
Taft, the receipt or diplomas
from the Secretary of Agriculture,
visits to the government departments
9 and probable appearance before the
3 agricultural committee of the House
1 of Representatives.
s In charge of Prof. O. B. Martin,
3 assistant in the office of the farmers'
* co-operative demonstration work. 19
* boys from Southern States will be en1
tertained. They are:
f Alabama?J. P. Leach, Union
3 Grove, and Willie Atcnison, McCalla.
Arkansas?Lester Garrard, Magf
nolia, Robert Cunnally, Mona, and
^ Horace Calhoun, Scott.
* Florida?Walter Miller, Raker.
i ni - n.i nn...
virui ^ia >> auui 111 lu^ro, L/an *
son, and Byron Bolton, Zeigler.
1 Louisiana?John M. Cobb, Vowells
Mill.
y Mississippi ? Carious Reddock,
t Summerland.
1 North Carolina?George E. West,
Kinston, and Herbert Allen, Pungo.
Oklahoma?Elston Coleman, New
kirk and Urn est Worthy.
y South Carolina?Ernest M. Joye,
- Venters, and Edgar S. iBurry, Taylor,
i Tennessee ? Herbert McKibbon,
3 Cullecka.
y Texas?Earl Davis, Grapeland.
s Virginia?Frank G. Brockman,
) Amherst.
Twenty-three Northern boys will
1 be entertained at the same time. Ex3
cellent records in crop growing were
3 turned in by the boys. In Mississippi
* 4 2 produced more than 100 bushels
3 of corn to the acre; in Alabama,
1 130; in South Carolina, 75; in North
Carolina, 75, and in Georgia, 66.
a The corn crop of the twelve Southern
5 States in 1912 was more than 200,3
000,000 bushels greater than in
! 1 909, when the late I>r. S. A. Knapp
t started the systematic plan of orr
ganlzing and encouraging the boys
t of tho South in corn growing.
5 (
IiOVK WINS OVER VOWS.
3
* Priest Places Love for Woman Above
1
) Churchly Duties.
| Lovo won in a long bout with a
, priest's vow of celibacy when the
Rev. Father Daniel J. Gallagher, as'
sistant rector of the Cathedral of the
Assumption, in Louisville, Ky., and
' Miss Florence Layer, a pretty train*
ed nurse of the same city, were unit>
ed in marriage in St. Louis by tae
> rector of an Episcopal church. For
* two years the priest was torn by a
cinflict with his breast, weighing
' bis churchly duties and nis vows of
celibacy against his love for a woman.
The love for tho woman won
and they are now in Seattle, where
they expect to make their future
r home.
1 Father Gallagher had been eon'
nected with tho Cathedral of the Assumption
in Louisville for about six
years. Two years ago he first met
Miss Layer when she was persuaded
to embrace Catholicism. Tho young
woman went to Father Gallagher for
Instruction. Their acquaintance be5
came friendship, then rove. Father
5 Gallagher fought his battle alone.
m ? i. r\ J
i wcj uii>s utiiurii v.uriMimuH mitUH
" his first, call at tho Layer homo, declared
his love, gave Miss Layer an
' engagement ring and departed.
Miss Layer admitted she loved tho
? priest, but was devout "In her adopt1
ed faith. She did not want him to
* make the sacrifice, for she knew that
5 he would have to give up his church.
" She consented, however, after being
told by Father Ciallagher that he had
I already gone so far that he could no
' Ijonger ibo assistant rector at the
cathedral whether she married him
1 or not.
} Miss Layer and her lover then left
? for St. Ivouis, where they were united
in marriage by a clergyman of
. the Protestant Episcopal church.
> (Mrs. Layer was one of the witnesses
1 of the ceremony, and declares that
her daughter and the former priest
declare they are satisfied they have
chosen wisely and that they will be
> happy.
?
TITANIC HORRORS RKTOWL
/
i
Claims Amounting to Over Five Million
Dollars Flle<l.
Ct At*i aq /\ f /Ion i K onffnrin/f o r* A
VJlV/i |V-X> Ul ou IIVI lllf) (111 VI JIUI "
i manent physical injuria; accounts
; of utter financial destitution and re;
citals of loss of costly gems and
i incos and gowns are to bo found act
forth In the normal phrasing of tho
i law in tho 2 79 claims thus far filed
with the United States commissioner
Gilchrist at New York for damages
duo to the Titanic disaster. Tho
. total amount is $f>,r>00,000. IVath
claims constitute tho larger part of
, this sum. Then follow claims for
loss of baggage and personal effects.
Many European countries and most
States of the Union are represented.