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FATALLY POISONFD YOUNG BANKER TAKES THE DRUG BY MISTAKE > ? CALMLY AWAITS DEATH The Doomed Man, AY ho Took the Poison a Week Ago, When Told He Must Die, Was Cheerful and Re marked That It Was "Hard Luck to Die Like This". A most wonderful fight for life has been going on at Macon, Ga., for the last week, but the latest accounts indicate that death will win at last, as the doctors now say it is only a question of a few hours when Ik Sanders Walker, a rich hanker, will die from the dose of bichloride of mercury he took by mistake last Wednesday night a week ago. For twelve hours after he swallowed the bichloride, Mr. Walker suffered great pain from irritation of the stomach. Then the pain left completely and the hanker thought he was over the effects of the dose. Then he learned that he was doomed, that the bichloride was being absorbed into his kidneys, and that no way of eliminating the fatal drug was known to science. lie got out of bed Friday night and attended a reception to the Georgia State Bankers' Association, where he made known to his friends his impending fate. Saturday lie made his will and after that he bade goodby to his family and calmly resigned himself. The doctors say his end will be painless. Although his doctors have steadfastly refused to give him any hope of recovery, Mr. Walker, knowing he is doomed, maintained his cheerful demeanor until evening, "when he told those who are staying constantly by him that "it is hard luck to die like this. I don't want to die; there must be some way to save my life." lie was told again there was none. Monday morning he asked how the University of Georgia base ball game with Georgia School of Technology, played Saturday, came out. Mr. Walker is an alumnus of the former institution. Although Tech won, ho was told that his alma mater had v- been returned victor. "That gives them an even break on the series, doesn't it?" he asked. For the last several days a flood of hundreds of telegrams from all over the country have been sent to the Walker home with suggestions as to h's posible relief. Not one was from a physician. Specialists in every large city in the United States have been communicated with, but not one would hold out any hope, They all say the stricken man is doomed. Mrs. Walker is making a fight that is the wonder of hor friends T n Uni* U 11 C'Ko r\ d 'n oAmrvn nir oK a r% r iu 11^1 imouuuu o v.wiu|/auj one nac been ever brave and cheerful. No1 once has she presented anything but a courageous front. Sho know* that everything is being done thai can be done for her husband, and she is trying to help out the wort of the doctors and nurses by being cheerful in his presence. Reports from Macon up to mid night Tuesday said the attending phy sicians, when read the Assoc'atei Press dispatch from Baltimore to tin effect that transplanting of kidneyi might save the life of B. Sanderi Walker stated that such a course ii the patient's condition would be im possible. "There is not the slightest doub that Mr. Walker will die," said Dr M. M. Stabler, one of the physician In charge of the case. "The poisoi has gone all through his system am is not confined to the kidneys. Evei if it were only in his kidneys h would die under anaesthetic. TTi pulse is 128, nearly double normal while respiration and teinperatur are at. 3 2 and 98.5, rcspectivelj m\. I ~ t m it. (tuuiu inn iiuii. i iiis is very uiisaut factory." Mr. Walker has been confined t his bed for the last twenty-four hour and has been half the time In state of coma. Physicians state tha he will either die while in a state c coma or under convulsions, and tha the end may come any hour nov Sweating processes has been indul* ed in, and, it is stated, have don much to prolong life as long as nov Telegrams have poured into th homo the last few days from doctoi all oved the United States sugges ing treatment, but the medical me in charge have not deviated fro: their original campaign of treatmen one which has been approved by tl hospital staffs of larger Eastern ii stitutions by wire. From the flri the doctors said there was no hoi for Mr. Walker. ? Finds Snake in Dining Room. A special to the Columbia Recoi from St. Matthews Wednesday mori ing says that Mrs. J. H. Hennega Tuesday night opened the drawer < a buffet in her dining room and pla ed her hand upon a deadly coppe head moccasin snake, which wi snugly coiled up among the tab cloths. Mrs. Hennegan was terrib A frightened when the reptile move but withdrew her hand before it hi time to strike. The snake was kille MINISTER HITS STUDENT j I * X FORT I" X A TK lHFKICTLTY AT siwktaxhciu;. ? Her. S. A. Nettle* Has Dispute With a Young Drencher About l'uint and Strikes llim a Mow. The Spartanburg Journal says Rev. S. A. Nettles, member of the South Carolina Methodist conference and publisher of tlie Southern Christian Advocate, in Greenville, was the principal part of a near-scrap in the rear of Wofford college Monday morning when ho exchanged blows with Rev. J. R. Chick, an ordained preacher of the Methodist church and senior classman at tho Wofford Fitting school. It was at 8:30 o'clock, and, so far as can be learned, there were only two witnesses to tho affair, A. O. Darby and John Dean, college boys. These, it is said, will be used by Mr. Chick, who is by trade a painter, of blame of the transaction should the district, conference, which convenes this week at Woodruff, probe tho matters. Mr. Chick is pursuing his studies at the Fitting school in an effort to fit himself for the pulpit, an applicant of which ho became when he successfully passed the examination. As a sideline he is steward at the white house, which is situated on Cleveland street and in the rear of the college. The building is the property of Mr. Nettles and it is said that Mr. Nettles came over to Spartanburg to check over the rent account and to make further contracts. There was a misunderstanding known only to tho participants when it is said Mr. Nettles accused Mr. Chick, who is by tade a painter, of having giving his brother an underhand deal in reference to some paints. Mr. Chick is said to have denied the charge, when Mr. Nettles said, "Well, when you insult my brother you insult me," and Mr. Chick, turning his head, was slapped on the side of his face, leaving, it is said, an ugly mark made from the contact sustained with the spectacle frames worn by him. After the disillusionment was passed it is said that Mr. Chick gave Mr. Nettles a short talk in real earnest as to the ethics of their high calling. It is said Mr. Nettles refused to make any apologies and Mr. Chick asserts that his friendship with the offending divine will cease and that he will not renew his contract for the next session. After tho affair Air. Nettles left the city for Greenville. Warrant for Mr. Nettles. The Spartanburg Journal says a warrant for the arrest of Rev. S. A. Nettles, publisher of the olllcial ' church organ of South Carolina Methodism, has been placed in the hands of a constable for service. When the 1 prosecutor in the action, Rev. J. 11. Chick, made application for the war' rant, he stated that he was not so do5 ing in an effort to get revenge for ' the humiliation he suffered in the assault made on him by Mr. Nettles, 5 but that he demanded an investiga" tion of the occurrence in order to get the matter in proper shape for future reference. Tho date for the ' hearing has not been set. MRS. APPELT ASKED TO RESIGN. i * 5 Not Giving Post Office Work Personal Attention. i A Washington dispatch says the - first assistant Postmaster General has called for the resignation of Mrs. Apt pelt as postmistress at Manning, be'. cause tho inspector's report shows s that she is not attending to the office n personally. This is carrying out the d policy recently announced by the n Postmaster General, that postmaster? e must give their personal attention tc s the business of their offices. It it I, stated that the resignation of Mrs e Appelt will be accepted, if tendered r, immediately. For some little tim( 5- the post ofllce department has beer conducting quiet investigations al 0 over the country to see If postmaster! s are paying the proper personal atten a tion to their work, and it is likelj it that there will be a good many othe: >f cases similar to that at Manning. Lt ? f. "FERTILIZER KING" DROWNED r. 1 + e E. O. Painter Falls From Ferry Tloa 7. i0 Into St. Jolin River. 'S E. O. Painter, "the Fertilize n King", was drowned at 9:110 Thura m day morning by falling from a ferr boat into the St. John's Itiver. Mr ie Painter was seized with a fit o coughing and fell from the boat sink ing immediately. He was a million >G aire and carried $f)00,000 insurance TTe had only applied Thursday morn ing for an additional $50,000. II was at the head of the big fertilize ,(l plant of E. O. Painter and Coinpanj a_ and half of the insurance is in favo of 4the firm, the remainder of th family. cr_ Great Ix>ss From Fires, [ig A dispatch from Warren, Pa., say lo the latest reports from the territor ly swept by forest fires indicate a loe d, of half a million. Flames swept.froi id Tidloute to Ludlow, burning over a d. area of two hundred square miles. BILL BECOMES LAW GOVERNOR JOHNSON PUTS h:S NAME TO THE NOTED ALIEN LAND LAW (Jovernor Johnson Issues a Statement in Which Ho Says That No Man Who Wishes an Alien Luml Law Will Siirn it I t <>f ITIMII I II 111 u v to TIiik I<n\v. California's alien land bill becamo 1 the law of the State Monday. Against 1 protests of Japan and representations of President Wilson and his personal envoy, Secretary of State Bryan, Gov- 1 ernor Johnson signed tlio bill, and ' ninety days after the adjournment of 1 the Legislature, or on August 10, the ' Act becomes operative. Within California the Act has en- 1 countered triple hostility, which may ' delay its operation until November 1, 1 1014. Democrats opposed State log- ' islatlon at this time, as a matter of 1 party regularity. Nevertheless, so 1 plain to them seems to be the do- ' niand for the bill that, after exhausting all parliamentary tactics, the 1 senate gave only one adverse Democratic vote and the assembly only two. As an expression of this opposition, Theodore Hell, late Democratic candidate for Governor and former chairman of the Democratic State central committee, has issued an invitation to his party to submit the issue to the people by invoking the referendum agaiitet the bill. Ho grounds his opposition on two contentions -one that the bill is insutlicientIv drastic, because it. permits leases running three years; and, second, because it embarrasses the National Administration. The Asiatic Exclusion League, an organization of which the president is Olaf A. Tveitmore. recently convicted of complicity in the "dynamite conspiracy," announced Sunday night that it would invoke the referendum purely because it opposed the bill as faint-hearted. Thirdly, the powerful Panama-Pacific Exposition Company, backed by many Chambers of Commerce, has placed itself on record in opposition to the bill on the ground that it is a violation of faith. In reply to this threatened hostility C.overnor Johnson said in signing the bill: "I repeat what I have before said: "That California for the first time is its history has an anti-alien law. Any man who wishes another kind of law may consistently invoke the initiative. No man who really wishes an alien law will sign a referndum as to this law. "If another law is sought it may be presented by means of the initiative and in the meantime the present law will be in operation. To tie up the present law means no law until November, 1914." The two visiting Japanese are Soroku Ebara, of the Constitutional party and a member of the House of Peers, and Ayao Hattori, of the Nationalist party, a member of the lower house. They make it plain th(^y came merely as representatives of their parties with a view to learning the acutal conditions and prevailing sentiment in California. Mr. Hattori said: "Our plans are somewhat indefiinate. We may see Governor Johnson and I expect to visit President Wilson at his summer home before I return. I was taking special work at Princeton when the President was lecturing there, and his course was one of those I attended. ! Brief statements were issued Mon* 1 day night by Ayao Hattori an Soruko * Ebara, the Japanese who arrived i Monday to inquire unofficially into the situation that brought about the ' California alien land legislation. Mr 5 Ebara's statement did not indicate 1 bis views upon the issue. Mr. Hat' tori's, however, was vigorous of pur3 pose. "I have come here," be said, "as J the representative of the Liberal party of Japan. The treaty we have with America is deticient and I advocate its revision. As to the land law ' question I think wo should secure the right of naturalization. With regard t to naturalization of the Japanese, it seems to me that Japan is almost unanimous in demanding the same, but r how to secure it is not decided yet." "I am a member of the Japanese v Peace Society. Wo hope to solve this ! problem peacefully and honorably." f Mr. Ebara's statement follows: "I have come here as the representativo of the Constitutional party, *' the majority party of Japan.: My ?- mission is in interest of establishing e a better understanding between the r United States and Japan. The peor' pie of Japan are in sympathy with r the Japanese in California and the> 0 are endeavoring to help them out oi trouble in a peaceable manner. At to the California question, I am nol yet in a position to speak, because ] s am not well versed in this problem y Before I make any statement I wish is to see and investigate the condition? n of the Japanese in California. I want n to study the cause of this agitation < I want to see and hear as much at THE DRUG THAT HE TOOK or MKICCTItY Is vkhy i>,\\<;i?;Kot s. ! Its Action is Slow, Ihit It Is Sure to he latal, When Taken in Sntlicient j I pliant ity. The case of Mr. Walker, the young Macon, (la., banker, who is slowly [lying from poisoning by bichloride of mercury, taken by mistake for headache powders, has attracted nationwide attention. Sunday the New York Herald published a long "story" ibout it, including a statement by Dr. James J. Walsh, a prominent physician, as to the effects of bichloride of mercury poisoning. l)r. . waisn s statement m part follows: | llichloride of mercury is one of the j few fatal poisons that are readily to | tie obtained because of its frequent s use in medicine and surgery. It is < i valuable antiseptic or germ killer, i but it is this very quality that makes it so dangerous to human beings. It < kills human cells as effectively as it < loos the one cell organisms or ml- t :*robes. Nothing can well replace it ? for certain purposes, but its use ; needs to be guarded with the minutest care. 1 A single grain of bichloride of mer- ] eury has been known to produce a ( fatal result in an adult. Two grains ( are invariably fatal if they once really enter the human system. The limits of its docage tor internal us? are from one-hundredth to one-'enth i f a grain. In large doses death may take place a few hours from the intense irritation and shock. In smaller doses death is delayed and the patient gets to feel quite comfortable, still the fatal effects of the drug are constantly advancing through the system. Sometimes it take ten days or even two weeks, before the fatal issue and the patient may find it hard to understand that a mortal process is at work. Once the poison is absorbed nothing can be done for the patient. Whites of eggs immediately or milk neutralize the poison, but it must he removed from the stomach at once with the pump or stomach tube. In accidental poisonings with the drug in hospitals, where every facility for treatment is at hand, the effort to save life is often in vain, so rapidly does it pet into the system beyond the reach of all treatment. It may be well for the pu.blic to profit from the 'Macon victim's awful tragedy by familiariing itself with the deadly character of the antiseptic tablet, so generally in use, when taken internally. JEWELLER IS MURDERED Woman Last Seen in His Store Taken in Custody. At Chicago Margaret Kennedy, known under a number of aliases, who was taken into custody Monday night with Isidore Goldstein, an alleged pickpocket, was identified by the police as the mysterious blonde woman seen in the offices of Joseph H. Logue, a jewel merchant, a short time before he was found murdered | in his ofiice in the McVicker Theatre Building. The murder was one of the most mysterious in the records of the police. A blonde woman was the last visitor at Logue's oflico before the crime was discovered. Stephen Durza, who was the jeweler's ofllce boy, said tho woman called about two o'clock on tho day of the murder, and tried to sell watches to him. An hour later he was found murdered. Durza was positive in Identifying the Kennedy woman. T,\\VVKI( SOMM ri.JHTI'.lf ? Knocked Out Five Men at Once and the Same Time. At Atlanta Mr. Burton Smith, well known attorney and brother of Senator Hoke Smith, on Tuesday afternoon thrashed five men who objected to him conversing in the corridors of the court rooms in the Thrower building with a woman witness in the famous Crawford will case. Two of the men, C. W. Walton, of'Buckhead, and W. H. Byrd, 4 1 West Twelfth Street, were badly beaten up, both showing back eyes and concussions on their faces where Smith struck them. The other three men also were given severe drubbings before friends and policemen separated the belligerents. Mr. Smith has only one arm. If the#protected interests had been willing to concede as much when the Republicans were in power as the> are willing to concede now, the> ! would not have aroused so much hos, tility among the consumers. , m # . | It makes the hearts of the Repub ( j licans in Congress bleed to see how r j the Democrats propose to treat the > j trusts. , t ! possible before I report to my party.' [ Mr. lObara, who is seventy-tw< . years old, is termed one of Japan'! i "grand old men". He is a Christiai t and a commoner. Kver since he com t manded a regiment in the revolutloi of 1868 he has taken a promlnen i part in public life. A GARRETT CAPTURED SLAYER OF CAMP3EI.LS CAUGHT IN SWAMP. SURPRISED BY A POSSE llio Daughter Had Previously (Time in and (lave Herself I'p, Telling the Sheriff Her Father Was Heavily Armed and Would Resist Capture to the Hitter Knd, M. L. Garrett, who killed his boiiin-law, Aaron Campbell, and the later's father, Jno. II. Campbell, la now in tho Lee County jail, having been placed there Monday morning by Sheriff K. 10. Muldrow Jr., of Leo bounty, and his aides, without furher bloodshed. Sheriff Muldrow, who went to the scene of the double killing immoliately upon notification, was unable lo track the slayer who was in the swamp with his daughter, until the arrival of Guard J. C. bobbins, of the State Penitentiary, with his dogs, 'Joe" and "lien". These dogs were placed on the trail about seven o'clock Sunday evening and immediately took the scent and the hunt began. The swamp had previously been surrounded as far as possible by m'Miv citizens who were assisting in the search. The dogs bayed the fugitive about dark and Sheriff Muldrow, pushing into the undergrowth, caught sight of the girl's dress and calling her by name, ordered her to come to him which she did, to the relief of all, as it was feared that she would also bo killed by her father. Gertie Campbell then informed the Sheriff thatiher father had forced her to accompany him by threatening her life; that lie was heavily armed, had a large supply of ammunition and had declared that he would dofend himself to the last and never be taken alive. It being then too dar> to proceed with the search, close guard was kept until daybreak. Sheriff Muldrow then took a dozen men with him and followed the dogs into (ho thick swamp. The sheriff and his aides, with the valuable assistance of the dogs, were soon upon the fugitive. Pressing forward rapidly, they came suddenly upon Garrett, who was apparently asleep, or seeking to hide because of the early morning light, where he was immediately overpowered and handcuffed. Garrett's record before the double killing was probably the darkest in the history of Lee County, he having been tried in Court there September 13, 1010, for an unnatural offence and entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced by Judge Geo. E. Prince to a period of two years in the Penitentiary. Ho served his time and returned to Lee County the latter part of July, 1912, and, it is said, resumed former relations with his daughter. He was again arrested and tried on several charges and sentenced to the Lee County gang for a period of five months. After serving two months of his time ho escaped and, it is said, he has since been living near Dalzell, in Sumter County. Hifj daughter has been staying with Relatives near Rose Hill since Garrett was first arrested, and last Friday she came to town with Aaron Campbell and secured a license and were married. Garrett is said to have made the threat that he would kill any one who married his daughter, and hearing of her marriage, it is said, he loaded his kuii w 1111 tsuiKH cilid ii ounuay morning made his way to the home of the Campbells. On his way he saw Mr. J. E. Brown, a white man, near the home where his son-in-law, Aaron Campbell, his daughter, Gertrude Campbell, and J. H. Campbell, the father of young Campbell, lived quietly together. Arriving there about one o'clock, it is said, he shot the old man in the abdomen, as he (Campbell) was standing in his piazza, and when the young man attempted to run in the door, Garrett shot the top of his head off, and forcing his daughter to gc with him, made his escape into th< swamp. The coroner held an inquesl and the jury brought in a verdict ir , accordance with the above. COLLISION OF MOTORCYCLES. ! One Young Lady Killed anil Thre< ! Other Persons Are Hurt. At Fort TMcrcn, Fla., Miss Ola Dan r iels is dead; her sister. Miss Ada Dan f iels, is at the point of death, Fret Jones has a broken leg and hip am Raymond Saunders is badly cut abou tho hip and is internally injure from the effects of a head-on colli slon, four miles north of that towr 3 late Saturday night. The boys an girls had been to a party at the Dar * iols home, and tho boys were rldin the girls over the fine roc 5 road when tho accident occurre< 3 Roth machines were going at a ral t of sixty miles an hour when they m< - in the shadow of an orange packin i house on tho road, head-on. The tw t boys and Miss Ada are not expectc to live. 1 RESULTS IN TRAGZDY +. IlOMKSTK' TlMU'IWi: ALLKUKD CM S!<: (?C I'.OW. Shooting Scrape on the North IvliNto Itiver Which May Result in Death of \V. II. Hoover. On Saturday night a serioint shooting affair occurred about three miles from Homes Bridge. o?? the North IOdisto River, which may cause tho death of W. H. Hoover, a young white man. He was shot hy M. L. Hawls. Sheriff Howard, of Alkon County, in company with Kural Policeman Holley, was notified of the shooting on Sunday and left for the scene. They mot Hawls in the road going toward Wagoner and arrested him and carried him to Aiken. Kawis was seen hy The News and Courier's correspondent and gave the following account of the shooting: Ho said that there had heen trou hie between him and Hoover, dating back to August, 1911, when Hoover ran away with his wife and took her to Florida, where they lived for s*rveral months. Hawls said that Hoover married his wife in Florida, that Hoover returned to Aiken county the last part of 1911, and later the woman returned; that ho (Hawls) and his wife remained separate 1, but at times she would he so *n with lloovor. The shooting happened at the home of J. C. Hoover, and, according to Hawls, they met there hy chance. Hawls went there to sec Albert Hartley, hut found Hoover and another man sitting on the front steps. As Hawls approached, it is said, lloovor, who was sitting near this gun, drew it on Hawls, and Hawls, believing he was about to he shot, fired first. Ho used a shot gun, loaded with No. 8 shot, but was so close to Hoover that the discharge literally tore off his left arm, and tho next shot took effort in Hoover's shouldor. Hoover's friends claim that ho was deliberately shot, and had no gun at the time. When itawls was asked why he carried a gun when he wont to moot Mr. Hartley, he said that ho carried a gun everywhere he went, as ho iiad been assaulted twice recently by other men, and the gun was his protection. A doctor had to amputate the stump of Hoover's arm, and it is stated that the wounded man cannot recover. Hoover is unmarried as far as is known bore. 1UCHA III >SON KXON KIIA'FKI>. ?. Seems to he Nothing in Oharge of Arson Against Him. A special dispatch from Aiken to Tho News and Courier says at a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Smoak, ('apt. J. Maxwell Richardson, a well known citizen of this place, who was arrested last Friday on a charge of arson and lodged behind the bars of the county Jail, was discharged and the charges against him dismissed, bearing out ins statement Friday, to The News and Courier's correspondent, that it would onlv hn a matter of a few days before ho would bo absolutely vindicated ol the charge, which ho characterized as a "frame-up" and political persecution. Capt. Richardson was charged literally with destroying his own property in order that he might collect the small sum of $t>00 for which it was insured. The warrant had been issued at the instigation of Insurance Commissioner McMaster's deputy, B. A. Wharton. Solicitor Robert L. Hunter was present in behalf of the State during the preliminary, while the defendant had as his counsel Col. Claude E. Sawyer and Messrs. Croft & Croft, The hearing was a tedious one. After all of the testimony was in it became quite clear that there was nothi ing whatsoever to substantiate the t rather serious charges pre.ferred against a man of Capt. Richardson's prominence. As a matter of fact, no . part of the entire testimony tended i in the slightest degreo to connect in s anywise Capt. Richardson with the > alleged incendiarism. ) , ? I HERO OF EPISODE (JONK. > _ # ) ^ Capt. Frank Wilson, Master of the J Hiiekman, Missing, Capt. Frank Wilson, who was formerly in command of the Alaska-Pacific passenger liner Ruckman, ha9 been missing for more than three '* months. On February 1 he left his home at San Francisco, saying lie would return in a few hours. Three days later he was seen in T.os Ange les, but no trace of him has been 1 found since. Wilson was the hero ot d the pirate episode on the Buckman t in 1910, when two robbers attemptd ed to seize gold treasure whon the I- vessel was off the coast of Oregon. Ofter Copt. Wood had been shot, Wild son, then mate, overcame the two i- pirates. g k Report Favorably on Woods. r A ravorhie report was made to the :e Senate Monday by the judiciary cornet mittee on the President's nomination g of Justice C. A. Woods, of the South o Carolina Supreme Court, to succeed id Senator Nathan Goff on the Fourth judicial circuit bench.