The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 27, 1913, Image 3
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STORM HITS OMAHA
HOME THAN ONE THOUSAND PERSONS
KILLED
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FIRES BREAK OUT TOO
Many Persons Not Injured by Colltqis1
ing Building Trampled to Death.?
Firemen Unable to lies pond to
Alarms.?iJoiiiiiiuiiicauon tut uir
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Front Out?i<lo World.
Omaha, chief city of Nebraska,
storm wrecked and fire swept, was so
effectually cut off from thfe remainder
of the world Monday morning that
only meagre estimates of the death
list and damage could be obtained.
Brief dispatches forced through by
devious routes, indicated that between
900 and 1,100 persons perished
and hundreds of others injured.
Special trains and troops are rushing
to the scene.
Early Sunday evening a series of
equinoxial gales of varying intensity
began sweeping through the Missouri
Valley and middle west, leaving
ruin in their path. At least six
states sustained heavy damage. Ter
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re nuuie, jiiuiuiul, iepuit? ti ucum
list in that vicinity which may reach
50. Towns in Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma
and Missouri were affected.
Wire communication with Omaha
was broken shortly after six o'clock
Sunday evening and since that time
only a few dispatches could be sent
over roundabout routes. That the
city and suburbs sustained great
damage is certain. One of the dispatches
received via Lincoln described
the path of the tornado as being
"eight miles long and from four to
Bix blocks wide". United States
troops from Fort Omaha were immediately
called out, it was said, and
the stricken zone put under practi
cal martial law.
The National Red Cross has volunteered
its services for the injured
and Gov. Morehead, of Nebraska,
left Lincoln early Monday personally
to aid in the relief work. Railroad
bridges are down, however, and train
schedules demoralized. Hysterical
passengers ariving at Lincoln from
Omaha were unable to give any connected
account of the disaster except
to say that the residential portion
of the city suffered most.
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BRYAN GIVES HIS VIEWS.
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^Secretary of State Agrees With the
President.
Secretary of State Bryan Thursday
said he was entirely in sympathy with
President Wilson in the latter's attitude
on the proposed Chinese loan.
Ho declared also he was unable to
agree with what former Assistant
Secretary Huntington Wilson had to
say concerning the six-power agreement.
"t nr?f nf r?nnrse. airree with
the former Assistant Secretary," said
Mr. Bryan, "in what he says concerning
the six-power agreement. The
representatives of a group of bankers
were heard and the matter was considered
by the President. The principles
involved were such that it did
not require any great length of time
for the President to understand or
act upon them.
"The Assistant Secretary handed
in his resignation when President
Wilson took the oath of office and expected
to sail for Europe last Tuesday.
Having to leave the city for a
few days, I asked him to delay his
departure until I returned. This he
consented to do, but he seems to have
felt that the change of policy prevented
his remaining. He looked at the
Chinese loan proposition from the
standpoint that former President Taft
'* and the late Secretary Knox did.
"I have no doubt that in the matter
of the Chinese loan, the late President
and retiring Secretary and Assistant
Secretary did what they
thought best for our country and
China, but I am entirely in sympathy
with the attitude of President Wilson
and heartily endorse both the
position taken and the language employed
by him, and I may add that I
am sure Europe will approve of the
change in policy. I am equally confident
that China will rejoice at our
nation's attitude.
"My associations with the Assistant
Secretary, Mr.'Wilson, have been
very pleasant. I have found him
courteous and helpful during my connection
with the department."
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Death In a Water Tank.
, A dispatch from Thomasville, Ga.,
stlys with one end of a rope tied
around her neck and the other end
fastened to a smoothing iron, Mrs. C
Jj. Whitney, wife of a local farmer,
was found dead in a water tank ai
the Whitney home by her husband
Saturday. The woman, aged 60, had
been in ill health for some time. The
Whitneys came to Georgia two yeari
ago from Ohio.
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Shot the Wrong Man.
A Shanghai cable says former mln
Ister of education of China Chin
bhung was assassinated by a Man
churian, when arrested the assassii
showed distress saying "Made a grea
mistake and wish to apologize. I in
tended to kill General Hasing."
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MANY LIVES ARE LOST
WINI> STORM VISITS SEVERAL
WESTERN STATES.
Doing Great Damage to Property and
Causing the I>e?th or Injury of
Many People.
A dispatch from Chicago says a terriflc
wind storm, causing widespread
destruction and loss of life and practically
wrecking the already demoralized
telegraph service, rdged over
the Central West and Middle States
luttt ShikIhv UAnnrtn frnm Nftliraska.
I Kansas and Iowa and Indiana indiIjcate
heavy damage but owing to the
wrecking of the telegraph lines the
reports are fragmentary and lacking
in detail.
Omaha, Berlin, Ashland and Yutan,
Nebraska?the latter towns near
Omaha ? Marshalltown, Ackley,
Woodbine, and Carroll, Iowa; Terne
Haute, Ind., and Abilene, Kan., are
places from which scattering messages
carrying the news of grave destruction
have been received. The
death list at Yutan was placed at fifteen
and the injured at fifty.
For more than four hours no word
was received^ from the stricken city
of Omaha. Bate bulletins report that
half the city was swept by a tornado.
All wires were down and Berlin, a
neighboring town, was said to be in
flames. The message was received
over a single long distance telephone
wire, which worked at intervals.
First reports from Nebraska were
that the towns visited by the storm
had been wiped out and that the
wreckage was on fire. Trains loaded
with rescuers, nurses and physicians
were struggling toward the scene,
being compelled to feel their way
without running orders, owing to paralysis
of the telegraphic service.
Loss of life and severe property
damage was caused by a tornado
which wiped out the southern part
of Terre Haute at 10 o'clock Sunday
night.
At 12 o'clock seven bodies had
been recovered. Scores were injured
and property damage will reach into
the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
All wires were blown down in the
district affected. This prevented rescue
work, although every available
fireman and policeman was rushed to
the stricken district.
It is expected the death list will be
increased. With no warning the terrific
gale swept down upon the district.
Parts of the Root Glass Company's
plant were flattened. The end
of the foundary room of the Garland
factory, a solid brick wall eighteen
Inches thick, was caved In. Brick
and stone structures suffered alike.
Lighting set fire to many houses.
Men, women and children were
crushed to death in bed. Some escaped
to the cellars. Whole structures
were blown away by the force
of the wind.
Difficulty was experienced in obtaining
doctors and the firemen were
unable to cope with the flames, which
swept the dsitrict. The heavy downpour
of rain is all that prevented
scores of injured from being burned
in the debris of their homes.
SHACK BLOWN ACUOSS RIVER.
A Storm Strikes Duncan, in Spartanburg
County.
A violent wind storm struck the
town of Duncan at half-past 8 o'clock
Friday morning and did much damage.
The roof of a rough frame
structure, used as a boarding house
by negro employees of the Greenville,
Spartanburg and Anderson Railway,
was picked up and blown across the
Middle Tiger River. The negroes fell
upon their knees to pray, and while
thus engaged the shack collapsed,
and two of them were painfully injured.
The barn of iB. F. Gordon was
blown down and a cow crippled. P.
E. Chapman's barn, at Mount Zion,
was demolished and a mule killed.
Many telephone poles and trees were
uprooted. The banks of the Middle
Tiger were denuded of large water
oaks.
Children on their way to school
were knocked down, and even adults
were severely buffeted. Magistrate
J. M. Dean was hurled against a
fence by a particularly violent gust.
The storm was at its greatest fury
for only a few minutes, and did the
most damage in a narrow strip of
country about an eighth of a mile
long.
Five bodies Recovered From Iluins.
YVorkmen Thursday continued
their work to recover bodies believed
to have been buried beneath wreck[
age of the Malcolm Canning Co.'s
[ main building at Medicine Hat Alberta,
when it was destroyed by fire
and a gas explosion late Wednesday.
; Only five bodies have been found, but
I there wore persistent rumors that 30
I employees were in the building when
? the walls fell. A small blaze started
) after a broken gas main filled the
main building with fumes. Property
loss has been estimated as high ae
$100,000. ( jj
Sixteen Killed by Snow.
At Christiana, Norway, sixteen per
1 sons were killed by an avalanoh<
t which overwhelmed three armies ii
- the Guddbrands valley in Southen
Norway Thursday.
DOES NOT AGREE WITH PRESIDENT
ABOUT THE
CHINESE LOAN MATTER
Assistant Secretary of State's Request
That His Resignation be Immediately
Accepted, Respected by
President Wilson, Who Acts Accordingly.?Had
Agreed to Serve
Until Successor Could be Named.
Huntington Wilson, Assistant and
Acting Secretary of State, has resigned
that office and insisted upon immediate
acceptance of the resignation
because of his radical difference of
opinion with the administration regarding
its Chinese policies.
President Wilson immediately ac'
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Mr. Wilson, like all assistant secretaries
in the various departments,
tendered resignation as a matter of
form to President Wilson directly upon
the latter's assumption of oilice.
Mr. Wilson was requested to continue
in his place until it should 'be convenient
for the President to name his
successor. He consented to do so to
accomodate Secretary Bryan in his
desire to make his present visit to
Lincoln, Neb.
The issuing of the statement from
the White House defining the administration's
attitude regarding the Chinese
loan negoiations is believed to
have been regarded by Assistant Secretary
Wilson as sufficient to Justify
him in requesting to be relieved at
once from duty.
After telegraphic notice to secretary
Bryan of his intentions, Mr. Wilson
late Thursday afternoon dispatched
a note to the White House
terminating his own service, and
President Wilson at once designated
Second Assistant Secretary Adee to
act as Secretary of State during Secretary
Bryan's present absence.
A pro.bable result of the resignation
will be the immediate appointment,
under a recess commission, of
John iBassett Moore as counsellor of
the department of State with authority
to act as secretary.
In a thousand word letter to President
Wilson the former Acting Secretary
of State set forth that wher he
consented to continue for a time with
the new administration he did not
understand there were to be any radical
changes of policy for which he
would be called upon to act as
spokesman. The letter continued in
part:
"It to-day becomes the duty of the
Acting Secretary of State, in dispatching
instructions to the repre
sentatives of this Government abroad
and as the channel of communication
with the representatives of foreign
Governments at Washington, to be
the spokesman of the President in regard
to a new far Eastern policy
which is apparently deduciblo from
your Statement issued to the ipress
last night.
"Inasmuch as I find myself entirely
out of harmony with this radical
change of policy as I understand it, I
trust that you will sympathize with
the view that it was not appropriate
that I should longer retain the responsibilities
of the office which I
have now relinquished.
"I had no reason to suppose that
the officials now on duty at the department
of State would learn first
from the newspapers of a declaration
of policy which I think shows on its
face the inadequacy of the considera
tion given to the facts and theories
involved and the failure clearly to
apprehend the motives to and the
purposes of the policy superseded. I
had no reason to suppose that the
fate of negotiations which had so
long had the studious attention of the
foreign oflices of six great Powers
would be abruptly determined with
such quite unnecessary haste and in
so unusual a manner.
"These methods, against which 1
respectfully protest, are the very extraordinary
circumstances which I
feel vitiate my understanding with
Mr. Bryan and completely relieve mc
rxf nnu fnrthor nhliention ill til C
premises:
President Wilson replied:
"My Dear Sir: Allow me to acknowledge
the receipt of your iettei
of yesterday, and to say that I ac
cept your resignation, as you suggest
as of the present date."
The correspondence was given oui
at the White House Friday. Mr. Wil
son's letter of resignation was datec
Thursday. The President's accept
ance was dated Friday.
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i Buried Musty Corn."
"I have totally destroyed seven 2
horse wagonloads of damaged corr
and foodstuffs during thd past waek,'
1 said Commissioner Watson at Col am
1 bia Saturday. The products wen
1 seized by the inspectors of the stat<
department of agriculture during th<
1 year 1912. The seized stufT was bur
led on the asylum farm.
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Associate Justice C. A. Woods, o
- the State Supreme Court, stands i
b good chance of being appointed i
i United States Judge. He would mak
i an able one, and we hope he will b
appointed.
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WARNED AGAINST BECKER
MAYOR OAYNOR WAS TOLD HE
WAS A VERY BAP MAX.
The Condemned Man's Brother-inLaw
Gives Him a Very Bad Ileeord
All Around.
At New York on iFriday letters
read .before the Aldermanic committee
Investigating police graft showed
that Mayor Gaynor and Police Commissioner
Waldo were warned
against the character of Police Lieut.
Charles Becker as far back as August,
1911. John F. Lynch, brotherin-law
of Becker, bitterly denounced
the former police officer in a letter to
the mayor. The letter was referred
to Commissioner Waldo, who told the
Mayor that "this seems to be a family
row", and "Becker is doing excellent
work."
"One of my sisters is, unfortunately
his wife. She works for him,
teaches school," Lynch wrote of
Becker, "and he, hero-like, takes her
money. She being away, he asked
another of my sisters to come to his
house yesterday to cook, but immediately
attempted to assault her.
She successfully resisted him, threatening
to cut his throat with a knife,
whereupon he got his revolver and
shouted that he would shoot her.
"By yelling 'murder' she was able
to get out. He threatened her with
arrest and said he would get one of
his squad (the 'strong arm' squad)
to catch her 011 the street some night
and lock her up for soliciting. She
came home crying and with her waist
torn."
In a postscript to his letter to the
mayor, Lynch said:
"As further evidence of his character,
I would say that he has frequently
expressed the sentiment regarding
your misfortune of a year
ago that Gallagher should be electrocuted
for not having killed you."
The Gallagher referred to was the
man who shot Mayor Gaynor aboard
a steamship at Hoboken.
Another letter, written to the mayor
last March by one Henry Williams,
asked that Becker be investigated
"He is getting more money than a
former chief of police," the writesaid,
naming the chief. This missive
was sent by Mayor Gaynor to police
headquarters; there it was turned over
to Becker himself, the record
showed, "for investigation and. renort".
'Becker's report was that be
had assigned a detective to find the
writer and that the detective haa failed
to do so.
PRESS GANG WILL MEET.
At the Isle of Palms and Take Trip to
New York l?y Water.
The executive committee of the
State Press Association met in Columbia
Friday night and selected
Thursday and Friday, June 19 and
20, as the dates for the annual meeting,
which will be held at the Isle of
Palms, Charleston. It was decided
to take a trip to New York following
the meeting, the party to sail from
Charleston on Saturday morning
Juno 21.
It was only after much correspondence
and hard work on the part of
President Watson that the Clyde Line
consented to make a rate of $2 0 for
the round trip from Charleston to
New York, provided as many as
oo^iirnfl fnr fhp trill. Tilt'
dftlllj' *> CIC otvuivu ivi I...V V.
$20 will include fare both ways,
meals and berth, and the committee
felt that the president had been forltil.ate
in securing so reasonable a
rate.
The matter of securing 1111 orator
for the annual meeting war left with
the president, and he was empowered
to complete any arrangements necessary
for the annual meeting. The
1 master printers of the State will
probably hold their annual Convention
in Charleston two days previous
to the meeting of the Press Association.
Reservations for the trip to New
York should be made at once, and
those desiring to go should communicate
with H. L. Watson, of Green|
wood. Those attending the meeting
, Friday night were: Robert Lathan,
J E. H. DeCamp, A. R Jordan, II. L.
Watson, J. L?. Sims, A. H. Seats and
W. F. Caldwell.
THREE MEN HAXGBl).
' Mftdero's Friends Have No Show in
t Bloody Old Mexico.
I Hanging from railway telegraph
poles at Sauz, between Chihauhat
City and the border are the bodiej
of Mariano Rodriguez, former chief
of Juarez, and Hahel Esquir, an aget
newspaper vendor of the two bordei
towns. On the band of the hat worr
1 by Esquir, who was credited with re
' llgious fanaticism, are printed tin
- strange words: "Solado do par"a
soldier of peace.
e Taunting their victims with thI
e motto, Mexican troops last Wednes
day removed Esquir and Rodriguo
from the Jaurez jail. They had beei
held for "political offenses." It wa
f explained that Equir had writtei
a for a weekly newspaper blamini
a Gen. Huerta for the slaying of Ma
e dero. An unidentified political pria
e oner also was hanged, say person
arriving from the scene.
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ACTED VERY BADLY
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HAD A HOT TIME IN A POVERTY
FLAT AT UNION
TALKS OF MARTIAL LAW
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C. I). Fortner, a Member of the Legislature
From Spartanburg and a
Commissioned Constable of Governor
lUease Created Excitement at
Union and Was Kuocked Down.
The following from The Union
Times will be read with interest:
There was quite a stir in Union
Saturday night, near midnight, and
in Poverty Flat. C. D. Fortner, a
member of the legislature from Snar
tan burg and a man named Forbes
have been operating in Union as detectives
for Gov. Blease.
Fortner came to Union Tuesday
and gave liis name to Chief of Police
Evans as "Smith", representing the
Virginia Life Insurance Co. lie asked
Chief Evans questions about Geo.
Fowler Jr., and the breaking in the
U. G. S. depot. Chief Evans soon
found that "Smith" was operating
under an assumed name. Forbes
claimed to be acting as detective in
the Coleman and Edge murder casus.
On Saturday night Fortner was
acting badly in the Flat. The trouble
commenced at Purcell's alley;
Forbes was rolling on the alley.
Fortner was holding his coat. Fortner
was cursing so that Mr. Purcell
had to call him down. Mr. Painter
also called him down. He continued
cursing until a policeman was sent
for. When he found out that a policeman
had been sent for he said he
would search Will Estes' place that
night; that Estes had liquor stored
tliere and he was going to get it;
that Estes had made his threats he
was going to show him wat he could
no.
He went out and met Policeman J.
B. May; told him he was going to
search Will Estes' place and to come
on with him. He was talking in a
loud tone of voice: "I'm going to
search the place or put the whole
town under martial law." He came
to police headquarters and met iM.
M. Stroud; deputized Stroud to go
with him and raid Estes. When
Stroud refused to go, stating he could
not leave, then he tried to force
Stroud to go, Stroud knocked him
down. He then deputized Policeman
Hix, the latter refusing to go
without orders from Chief.
"Where can I get him?"
"Over the telephone," he was told.
Chief's telephone rang just as he
got home. Fortner phoned Chief
Evans: "I am Fortner, Chief, State
detective." Said he wanted to raid
some places in town; that he had
found a lot of liquor there, and he
wanted to raid them.
"How long have you been in Union?"
asked Chief Evans.
"One week," was the reply.
"You are the man I met at the depot;
then why did you not make
yourself known before?"
Ho answered, "For reasons best
known to myself. Governor sent me.
I want you to come and assist in
these raids."
Chief Evans found him at Will
Estes' place with Sheriff Fant. A
large crowd had gathered. This was
11:30 Saturday night.
Forbes was standing at the foot of
the steps. Chief Evans called Fortner
down and told him he would have
to cease cursing, and asked to be
shown his commission. Pulled out
one, 1913, signed by Gov. Please.
Chief Evans asked him what he
wanted. He said he wanted to go in
that building.
Chief Evans said: "I could not
break down any door without a warrant.'
lie then asked for a State
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Forbes and Chief Evans went to
Magistrate Puckett and got out a
warrant. In their absence Will Estes
came and said ho had no objection
to the sheriff or Chief Evans
searching, but did olxiect to having
Fortner, "A d? rascal and spy,"
searching his place.
Fant said: "I have already searched."
They went through again. No
whiskey was found. In the meantime
Estes was arrested by the sheriff
and put under $200 cash bond.
On Sunday before this same building
was searched, but nothing exi
cept a few empty bottles was found.
Fortner came out after the search.
He then searched Purcell's place
, without any warrant; said he did not
''""o Pnrr?r?ll called Sergeant
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} Wood and told him to search the
f place, but that ho did not want this
I follow Fortner to search. That he
r had been kicking up a racket all
x night. Purcell swore out a warranl
for disorderly conduct against Fort
3 c.er.
No ono appeared against Stroud.
The detectives left Sunday foi
? Chester. Fortner has notified partiei
.. in Union that he will return ane
z stand trial upon the charge of disor
1 derly conduct.
x Killed l?y Falling Tree.
g James Brown, a white tenant liv
ing on a farm near here, was strucl
i- by a falling tree during a terrifl
s windstorm Saturday and killed. Th
mule he was riding was also killed
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TALKS OF HIS DEFEAT II
THINKS IT MAY HAVE BEEN
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PROVIDENTIAL. |
But Senator Tillman Can't Under*
stand How Martin Jumped Over
His Head to Become a Progressive.
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The Augusta Chronicle says while
in Augusta Saturday Senator B K.
Tillman, with characteristic vigor
and his old time fire had some snappy
and terse comments to make upon
the recent Democratic caucus in
Washington. He repeated his warning
against what he considers the
"ravenous scramble for office" in
which the Democrats are indulging.
Senator Tillman's utterances came
as a suggested afterthought to his
sensational speech, delivered before
the caucus, in which he yielded his
contention for chairmanship of the
appropriations committee which, by
right of seniority, he claimed should
have fallen upon his slioulderB but
was given by the steering committee
to Senator Martin, of Virginia. This
surrender, the Senator told the caucus,
was made for the sake of party
harmony.
Asked what had been the effect of
what he considered a gross injustice
and a violation of the rule of seniority,
that has obtained for so long in
the Senate, and also what effect it
would have on his attitude to the
Wilson adminisration, Senator Tillman
said:
"I am not brooding over it. I am
not unhappy about it.
"Perhaps it was a special providence
to keep mo from killing myself
at work for the success of the Woodrow
Wilson administration. ,
"What puzzles me," the Senator
said, "is how Martin jumped over my
head to become a Progressive, and if
he was not progressive enough to be
made chairman of the caucus, why he
should have been made chairman of
the appropriations committee." Then
as if to dismiss that thought, he
added, "Rut I more earnestly desire
Wilson's success as president, and
the realization of the hopes of the
country, than anything for myself.
My name in history is made; my
fame is secure.
"If anybody thinks the upheaval
in politics last November was brought
about by the people solely to turn
out Republicans and put in office
hungry Democrats they are damned
badly mistaken. Only when a Democrat
is efficient, or can soon become
so, should a Republican be turned
out to make room for an appointment.
"I believe there are enough Democrats
to fill the offices and they ought
to have them as soon as we are certain
we have the right man for the
place, but it is unwise as well as unpatriotic
to turn efficient and honest
Republicans out just to turn green
and hungry Democrats in. The first
care should bo for efficiency of government,
and I hope and believe that
will ho Proairlflnf Wilson's nollov."
Although asked for an expression
of opinion 011 the political situations
in South Carolina, Senator Tillman \
would not discuss State politics, except
to say: "I am holding my nose
every time I think of the situation
and wishing I was strong enough to
get 011 the stump again and talk to
the people about it."
Senator Tillman, however, intimated
that ho expected to explode a
bomb in the political camp in his
State, although he refused to say
what it was. "You may just say,"
ho said, "that I am incubating something
for South Carolina people
which I will let off before I return to
Washington."
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DEATH OF FOUR A MYSTERY.
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Farm House Tragedy So Far Haft'les
New Jersey Coroner.
Lying in the cellar of their ruined
home, tho bodies of Lee Wharton,
3 8 years old, his wife, Mary, 3 2, and
their six-year-old daughter, Lillian,
were discovered following a mysterious
lire early Saturday which destroyed
tho Uttlo farm house, about
ten miles from Glassboro, N. J.
The body of Johnson Hemphill, 4 2
years old, a farm hand on a neighboring
farm, was found in a shed
behind the house with a load of shot
through his heart. Mystery surrounds
the four deaths.
What occurred uip to the time
Hemphill was shot; how he was
shot and the house set afire, are details
which Coroner Stultz has valni
ly endeavored to ascertain. The bod
ies of the victims were so badly burned
that it was impossible to deter.
mine whether or not they had been
; 8ll0t.
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I Took Acid in a Crowd,
t Grace Stiiley, a young woman of
- High Point. N. C., who drank the
contents of a two-ounce vial of carbolic
acid in the Greenaboro passenr
ger station in the presence of a num3
ber of passenger?, was removed to a
I local hospital, and it is reported, can
not live.
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Evidences of Sea Tragedy.
Fragments of wreckage picked up
- Monday on the coast of Norway gave
* conclusive evidence that the German
c steamer Peruvla, with It? crew of 28
e officers and men, was lost in a storm
I. there some time ago.