The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 10, 1913, Image 3
HONORS THE PAST
; REGULAR ARMY PAIS TRIBUTE TO
RESTING HEROES OF
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THE WAR OF SECESSION
As Forty-Eight Guns Sound Over Gettysburg
Professional Soldiers and
Volunteer Alike Stand in Solemn
Silence to Pay Token of Hespect to
Fallen Warriors.
ino regular army paid tribute 011
Friday, July 4, to the thousands who
sleep under%the hills of Gettysburg.
Somewhere down in the heart of the
tentel c"\v a bugle sang out in silver
sweet c: 11 that wandered over the
Held where Leo and Meade made history.
The big flag before the headquarters
of Gen. Liggett flashing in
sudden < urves of red, white and blue,
glorious in the sunshine of a perfect
July day, came slowly half way down
the shaft. !:i front of the tent,
shoulders sou ired, figure trim in
summer uniform of white, face towards
the flag, the general clicked
heels together and stood at attention.
Somewhere the guns of the Third
battery burst in staccato salute,
livery officer over the length and
breadth of the wide field, every enlisted
man, turned away from the duties
of the moment and faced the
flag, heels alight with the sentiment
of the hour.
As the last gun of the forty-eight
sent the heroes clattering about
Cemetery Ridge and Round Top
there was solemn silence, the hush of
peace. Old veterans who did not realize,
perhops, exactly at the beginning
what was going on stood silent under
the spell of tin' universal feeling that
seemed to sweep the field. Even the
clatter of pots and pans in the mess
tents was hushed, and the yells of
cooks about to dish up the midday
meal lowered to whispers. For live
minutes the camp was quiet. Then
the bugle spoke again in notes more
joyous. The silken (lag leaped up
the staff to its very pinnacle and the
noises 40,000 men can make resumed
their sway. The regular army's
tribute to the dead and to the flag of
a united nation was paid.
Only a few minutes before President
Wilson had spoken in the big
tent to the veterans in blue and gray,
^ and only a short time afterwards
thousands of those who were left began
their preparations for departure.
The president came into Gettysburg
shortly before 1 1 o'clock from
Baltimore. Through the narrow,
crooked streets of this war-famed
country town he motored out to
camp, with Gov. Tenor of Pennsylvania
and Representative Palmer of
Pennsylvania by his side. His appearance
at the station of Gettysburg
was the signal for a cheer and
from down in the Gettysburg college
grounds came the customary twentyone
guns salute. From the station
to the camp over the village streets
and gray roads the president was
driven while the Pennsylvania consta
binary, loosing business-like ana cmcient
in their slate-like pray uniforms,
guarded his automobile and
kept the trafllc clear.
At the entrance to the big tent
the president paused for a moment tc
let the cameras pop away as he stood
with head uncovered between a veteran
from either army. His entrance
into the tent to the strains of "Hai
to the Chief" brought the crowd
which estimates say numbered 10,
000, from their chairs with a cheer
The speakers' plaitform was ftllec
with the staff officers of governors
with men in Confederate gray and f
few in blue, with women in gaj
dresses and the president in his blacl
frock coat was a qiilqt figure.
Gov. Tener introduced him in i
dozen words. As he rose to speal
thero was another cheer.
HOY KILLED MOTHER
?
Young Man Arrested for Seriou
Crime at Abbeville.
On Wednesday at about 6 o'clocl
in the afternoon one Ben Ashwortl
at Calhoun Falls was accused of kill
ing his mother and was arrested an<
brought to the county jail at Abbe
ville that night. The jail was wel
guarded as a lynching was threaten
ed. The boy is about 20 years of age
Ashwortli himself asserts that h
went home drunk and that his moth
er asked, "Are you dfunk again?
and that he replied "Yes." Then h
claims that his mother remarked tha
< < ~ ^ I i . in
iuu u.i w 10 cause me 10 kii
myself," and at once reached unde
the bed, pulled out a pistol and trie
to shoot herself in his effort to pre
vent her the pistol was discharge
and the bullet entered her brain.
It is said that the boy and his fa
thor have been on a drunk nearly
year and that there is some doubt a
to the truthfulness of the boy's stc
ry.
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City Huns Ice Houses.
Seven non-union ice plants seize
by order of Mayor Hunt, of Cincir
nati, were operated Thursday by tb
* ? board of health in an effort to reliev
tho suffering caused by the strike <
the ice workers.
WHITE HOUSE ROMANCE
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DAUGHTER OF PRESIDENT WILSON
IS TO WED
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Engagement of Miss .Jessie Wilson,
Second Daughter of the President,
Has Reen Announced.
Thn nrncirlont n?.i ** ?? ?
K.vu,u?.it aiiu m.iB. VV 11UUI1, RI1nouacod
Wednesday night tho engagement
of their second daughter,
Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, to
Francis Bowes Sayre of Lancaster,
Pa. The wedding is expected to take
place next November at the White
11 ou80. Mr. Sayre is at present an attorney
in the ofllce of District Attorney
Whitman of New York.
While close friends of both families
have known of the engagement
for some time, announcement was
withheld until Wednesday, the first
anniversary of Mr. Wilson's nomination
at the Baltimore convention.
White House officials accompanied
the brief announcement with a biography
of Mr. Sayre. He is 2 8 years
of age and after preparing at the Hill
school at Pottstown, Pa., and the
Lawrenceville, N. J., graduated from
Williams college in 1909. He was
maager of tho football team there,
valedictorian of his class and interested
in'Y. M. C. A. work. He spent
two summers with Dr. Alfred T.
Grenfell in his missionary work on
(lie coast of Labrador and studied
law at Harvard low school where he
graduated last year "cum laude." He
has travelled extensively during his
vacations, spending summers in Alaska
and northern Siberia.
Mr. Sayre comes from a collegiate
family. His father was the late Robert
H. Sayre, for a long time president
of tho board of trustees of Lehigh
university and builder of the
Lehigh Valley railroad. His mother
was Martha Finley Nevin, a daughter
of John Williamson Nevin, theologian
and president of Franklin and Marshall
college at Lancaster, Pa. She is
aosoenaed irom Hugh Williamson of
North Carolina, one of the framers
of tlie constitution. She is a sister
of Robert J. Nevln head of the Am(^ican
church of Rome, Italy, and* a
first cousin of Ethelbert Nevin, the
composer.
Miss Wilson is 2 4 years of age. She
was educated at Goucher college, Raltimore
and has specialized in political
science. She has done much settlement
work in Philadelphia and has
been actively identified with the Y.
W. C. A., having recently made many
speeches in its behalf.
While Mr. Sayre is not known to
Washingtonians, he has made several
quiet visits to the White House in
recent months and was a frequent visitor
at the Wilson home at Princeton,
N. J. The announcement was received
with keen interest in capita!
social circles as the wedding starts
the winter season with an important
social function. Not since Miss Alice
Roosevelt and former Representative
Longworth of Ohio were married has
, there been a wedding at the White
House.
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i ENCASED IN CONCRETE.
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I Irak email in Wreck I^amls in Sand,
Cement and Water.
1
During the heavy downpour of rain
at Magnolia, W. Va., on the Ralti,
more and Ohio railroad, several cars
I of a freight train were derailed. Two
cars one containing sand and the
, other cement, were crushed together,
I and in the midst of the wreckage,
Brakeman Henry Blogge was pinned
. by the mass of cement, sand and
broken cars. Blogge had been rid1
ing on top of the car of cement when
the accident occurren.
t It was several hours after the acci7
dent before Blogge regained conc
sclousness. Then he found that he
was incased in wet cement and sand,
t which formed concrete.
c Blogge's head, shoulders and arms
were clear of the solid mass, but he
could not extricate himself because
of the wreckage piled on him. After
several attempts the imprisoned man
attracted the attention of members
s of the wrecking crew clearing away
the debris and they made an attempt
to relieve him.
{ It was many hours before they
^ were able to get to him. By this time
the concrete had set and Blogge was
encased tightly in the solid mass.
After several efforts to break up
\ the immense mass of concrete two
_ heavy cranes on the wreck train lift,
ed it aboard a car. The incased man
e was taken to the Martinsburg shop,
_ where the concrete was broken under
? a steam hammer and Blogge rescued
0 from his peculiar position.
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[j Tjeft Fortune to Work
r Utter weariness of being merely a
d millionare is the reason John O'Brien,
) of New York, Wednesday advanced
d in explination of his long absence
from the ken of his old friends.
i- He notoriously vanished at the end
a of his college year in 1910. Ho was
s found yesterday in Van Buren, Ark.,
>- where he is working as an assistant
engineer for a railraad.
Kills Wife and Commits Suicide
d Henry Dodd, a farmer of Oreenl
vale, Tenn., shot and killed his wife
e with a rifle Monday and then come
mitted suicide. Eleven children sur>f
vive. The cause of the tragedy Is
not known.
WILSON'S SPEECH
PRESIDENT DELIVERS INSPIRING
ADDRESS TO VETERANS
ASKS NATION TO SERVE
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Shows Tliut the Present Time Nee<lfj
Sacrifice and Valor in as True a
Sense as Was Needed Fifty Years
Ago?Appeals to All Might-Minded
Men for Aid.
A call to service for the reunited
mniuii iuui I'Tiuay through Its regular
army paid tribute to iho fallen
heroes of Gettysburg, blue and gray,
was the dominant note of the speech
of Woodrow Wilson, president of the
United States, at tht semi-centennial
reunion on the field where fifty years
ago the North and South strove for
the mastery. The struggle for supremacy,
said the president was forgotten,
except for the priceless memories
of heroism. Still, said the nation's
head, there exist opportunity
and need for service to the nation
which produced the men who faced
death and pain on the stricken field
fifty years ago.
The president said:
"Friends and Fellow Citizens: 1
need not tell you what the battle of
Gettysburg meant. These gallant
men in blue and gray sit all about us
bere. Many of them met here upon
this ground in grim and deadly struggle.
Upon these famous fields and
hillsides their comrades died about
them. In their presence it were an
impertinence to discourse upon how
the battle went, how it ended, what
it signified! Hut fifty years have
gone by since then, and 1 crave the
privilego of speaking to you for a
few minutes of what those fifty years
have meant.
"What havo they meant? They
have meant peace and union and vigor
and the maturity and might of a
great, nation. How wholesome and
healing the peace has been! We
have found one another again as
brothers and comrades in arms, enemies
no longer, generous friends
rather, our battles long past, the
quarrel forgotten?except that we
shall not fotget the splendid valor,
the manly devotion of the men then
arrayed against one another, now
grasping hands and smiling into each
other's eyes. How complete the union
has become and how dear to all
of us, how unquestioned, how benign
and majestic, as State after
State has been added to this our
great family of free men! How
handsomo the vigor, the maturity,
the might of the great nation we
love with undivided hearts; how full
of largo and confident promise that a
life will be wrought out that will
crown its strength with gracious justice
and with a happy welfare that
will touch all alike with deep contentment!
We are debtors to those
fifty crowded years; they have made
us heirs to a mighty heritage.
"Hut do we deem the nation complete
and finished? These venerable
men crowding here to this famous
field have set us a great example of
devotion and utter sacrifice. They
were willing to die that the people
might live. Hut their task is done,
Their day is turned into evening,
They look to us to perfect what they
established. Their work is handed
on to us, to be done in another way
but not in another spirit. Our day
is not over; it is upon us in full tide
"Have affairs naused? Does the
nation stand still? Is what flftj
years have wrought since those dayi
of battlefield finished, rounded out
and completed? Here is a great peo
pie great with every force that has
ever beaten in the Hfeblood of man
kind. And it is secure. There is nc
one within its borders, there is nc
power among the nations of the
earth, to make it afraid. Hut has i
yet squared itself with its own grea
standards set up at its birth, whei
it made that first noble, naive appea
to the moral judgment of mankinc
to take notice that a government ha<
now at last been established whlel
was to serve men, not matters? It i
secure in everything except the satis
faction that its life is right, adjustec
to the uttermost to the standards o
righeousness and humanity. Th
days of sacrifice and cleansing ar
not closed. We have harder thing
to do than were done in the heroi
days of war, because harder to se
clearly, requiring more vision, mor
calm balance of judgment, a mor
candid searching of the very spring
of right.
"Look around you upon the fiel
of Gettysburg! Picture the arraj
the fierce heats and agony of battle
column hurled against column, bal
tery bellowing to battery! Valor
Yes! Greater no man shall see i
war; and self-sacrifice, and loss t
the uttermost; the high recklessncE
a..aUa J -1 ^ii I. f . K .1
ui KXiiiuMi (invoiioH which noes nc
count the cost. We are made b
these tragic, epic things to kno'
what it costs to make a nation?th
blood and sacrifice of multitudes r
unknown men lifted to a great sta'
. ure in the view of all generations b
. knowing no limit to their manly wil
. ingness to serve. In armies thi
. marshalled from the ranks of frc
[Jmen you will see, as it were, a natio
embattled, the leaders and the lei
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WALLED UP IN HOUSE
YOl'NCi (illUi KKAIjKD AIJVK IX
st<>m:-k\( ia)si:i> tomii. i
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After Tearing OIV Blindfold Mason
W as Compelled at Point of Pistol
to Complete the Job.
The identity and fate of a young
girl who was walled up and left to '
die in a building near Barcelona,
Spain, has caused the Spanish authorities
to institute a rigid investigation.
Tho affair was made public through
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m?j> oitviuiumii oittae oy usteban Gutierrez,
a stone-mason, who tolls a
thrilling story of how he was compelled,
at the point of a revolver, to
do the work.
Gueierrcz declares that, after he
had advertised in a newspaper for
work, two well-dressed men called
at his address and asked him to accompany
them in a motor car into the
country a short distance to make
some urgent repairs.
Reaching a dense woods on the
outskirts of the city, the two men
and a chauffeur seized, hound and
blindfolded the stonemason, and a
few minutes later the car stopped in
front of a lonselv house.
The mason declares he was led inside
and ordered to wall up a narrow
aperture the stone and mortar being
in readiness. Gutierrez says he
heard some one sobbing, and, tearing
the bandage from his eyes, he saw
a young girl, bound with ropes and
wedged in the aperture.
Ho was promptly knocked down by
his captors, and when he arose, was
ordered to build a wall so as to enclose
the girl, and when he refused
was threatened with revolvers. The
mason declares that, at the points of
the guns, he was compelled to wall
up the young girl after which the
car conveyed him to a woods several
miles away, where he was unbound,
given $'J0 in silver and warned not
to speak of the Incident. Lost, he
wandered several hours before he
was discovered by a woodsman, and,
reacning Barcelona, tu> went, at once
to the police.
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and may know, if you will how little
except in form its action differs in
days of peace from its action in days ,
of war.
"May we break camp now and be
at ease? Are the forces that fight for
the nation dispersed, disbanded, gone
to their homes forgetful of the com- ,
mon cause? Aro out forces disorganized,
without constituted leaders
and the might of men consciously
united .because we contend, not with
armies, but with principalities and
powers and wickedness in high
places. Are we content to lie still?
Does our union mean sympathy, our
peaco contentment, our vigor right
action, our maturity self-comprehension
and a clear confidence in choosing
what we shall do? War fitted
us for action, and action never ceases.
"I have been chosen the leader of
the nation. I can not justify the
choice by any qualities of my own,
but so it has come about and here I
stand. Whom do I command? The
ghostly hosts who fought upon these
1 battlefields long ago and are gone?
These gallant gentlemen stricken in
years whose fighting days are over,
! their glory won? What are the orders
for them, and who rallies them?
I have in my mind another host,
whom these set freo of civil strife in
' order that they might work out in
days of peaco and setled order the
life of a great nation. That host is
the people themselves, the great and
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me Hiiiiiu, wuiiout ciass or mnerence
of kind or race or origin; and un*
divided in interest, if we have but the
* vision to guide and direct them and
order their lives aright in what we
* do. Our constitutions are their articles
of enlistment. The orders of the
} day are the laws upon our statute
} books. What we strive for is their
freedom, their right to lift themselves
1 from day to day and behold the
t things they have hoped for, and so
1 make way for still better days for
1 those whom they love who are to
1 come after them. The recruits are
1 the little children crowding in. The
1 quartermaster's stores are in the
8 mines and factories. Every day
something must be done to push the
* campaign forward; and it must be
^ done by plan and with an eye to
0 some great destiny.
0
"How shall we bold such thoughts
in our hearts and not bo moved. I
0
would not have you live even to-day
e wholly in the past, but would wish to
0 stand with you in the light that
streams upon us now out of that
great day gone by. Here is the nation
God has builded by our, hands.
What shall wo do with it? Who
r> stands to act again and always in the
5? spirit of this day of reunion and hope
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anu patriotic rervorr Tne <iay or our
' country's life lias but broadened into
11 morning. Do not put uniforms by.
? Put the harness of tlie present day
13 on. Lift your eyes to the great tracts
^ of life yet to he conquered in the in?
terest of righteous peace, of that
vv prosperity which lies in a people's
0 hearts and outlasts all wars and
errors of men. Come let us he comrades
and soldiers yet to servo our
y fellow men in quiet counsel, where
the blare of trumpets is neither
13 heard nor heeded and where the
!e things are done which make blessed
n the nations of the world in peace and
righteousness and love."
PICKETT'S CHARGE
REENACTED BY CONFEDERATES
ON CEMETERY RIDGE.
RECEIVED WITH CHEERS
Ity the 01<1 Defenders, a Philadelphia
llriKiulei When They Heach the
Stone Wall?<Jrays Climb Over to
Shake Hands ami llalk of the Days
That Were.
A handful of men in gray re-enicted
Thursday the charge of Plckott
icross the held of Gettysburg. Up
ho slope of Cemetery ridge, where
loath kept step with them in '03,
I f?0 veterans of the Virginia reglnents
of that immortal brigade
nado thoir slow parade.
Under the brow of the ridge in the
)loody angle, where the Philadelphia
>ridge was a handful in blue, scarcey
larger waited to meet the onslaught
of peace. There were no
lashing sabres, no belching guns, 011y
eyes that dimmed fast and kindly
aces behind the stone wall that
narks the angle. At the end, in
place of wound or prison or death,
.vero handshakes, speeches and ininging
cheers.
The veterans in gray marched for
1 quarter of a mile over the ground
hat they traversed during the
harge. They came up the slope in
jolumn of fours, irregular but responsive
to the commands of Ma J. W.
A', llentlev of the Twenty-four Virginia,
one of the few oillcors of either
Pickett's or the Philadelphia brigades
present. Ahead of them marched
.a band and well down the column
was a faded Confederate flag, its reel
Held pierced with many holes, Its
^ross bars dim and its shaft rolnrrwi
with tho swoat of many a man who
:1ied that it might fly high in tho last
lesporate offort to pierce tho Union
lines.
Its progress was slow and painful
("or the timothy in the field was high
and its plowed surface was not easy
for weady feet. Up to the very edge
of tho stone wall, covered now with
tangled vines, shaded by trees and
peaceful as a summer lane, they
marched in the hot sun while the
hand played "Dixie". There they
stood for half an hour whilo their
comrades in blue peered across at
them.
The blue line formed behind the
wall. Overhead floated a faded standard
of the Second army corps. Behind
them were the statutes of the Philadelphia
brigade and the Fourth United
States battery where Gen. Armistead
died.
As the men in gray formed in a
long line facing tho wall, the Stars
and Bars and tho flag of the Second
corps were crossed in amity; the
Stars and Stripes were unfurled and
the crowd that camo to watch burst
into a cheer. Rejresentative J.
Hampton Moore, of Pennsylvania,
mado a long speech and Maj. Bentley
answered him on behalf of the
South. The veterans in gray were
given a medal provided by John Wannamaker.
They crowded over the
stone wal, shook *ands and the
charge was over. There was many a
picturesque figure in the lino that
came up the slope. W. H. Turpin of
the Fifty-third Virginia appeared in
the uniform he wore on the day of
the charge. His feet were bound in
cloth, ho had an army blanket strapped
to his back and he calmly smoked
a long stemmed corn cob pipe.
There were fifteen regiments in
Pickett's division that day in 'G3, and
the histories say that 5,000 men
charged across the field. Every field
officer was killed or wounded except
one lieutenant colonel and two-thirds
of the line officers met the same fate
Of the 5,000 who charged, only about
I 2 000 returned to the Confederate position.
The Philadelphia brigade numbered
about 1,2 00 men and lost 4 53
In killed and wounded.
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Democrats Economical.
Uncle Sam closed the fiscal yeai
1912 with a surplus of $40,082,229
representing the excess of receiptt
over expenditures, exclusive of Pan
ama canal and public debt transac
tions. This exceeds last year's sur
plus by $2,750,000. The Pananu
canal expenditures and public debi
transactions, however, wiped out th<
surplus of ordinary receipts over or
dinary expenditures and created i
deficit for the year of $2,1 49,000.
Confesses Through Keniorse.
Tortured into sleeplessness by th<
knowledge that he had forged hii
employer's name to a check, H. D
llendle, a sixteen-year-old youth o
Cullman, Ala., surrendered himsol
at the Pulton county tower Wednes
day morning, with the request tha
he be locked up. His guilty con
science would not let him sleep, sai<
the boy.
(Jets Largo Damages.
Two hundred and fifty thousam
dollars and all the coats of the suit 1
the price the Marquis of Northamp
ton has agreed to pay to settle th
suit for breach of promise brough
against him by the London actresf
Miss Daisy Markham, whose rea
name is Violet Moes.
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AN UNUSUAL CASE
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MISTAKEN' IDENTITY CAUSED BY
TWO MISSING TOES. |
? Negro
Almost Convicted at Ilennettaville
When It Was Found That H?
Wan Not the Mail Wanted.
One of the most remarkable cases
of mistaken identity, caused bv slm
ilar peculiarities, happened at Hennettsvillo
in the trial of Neal Davis,
alias Tom High tower, for wife murder.
In 1904 Tom liightower, a negro
man, murdered his wife in a
most brutal way, severing her arms
and limbs from her body, cutting her
throat and otherwise brutally cutting
her. The different parts of the body
were buried at different places in a
bay. Tom liightower made his escape.
Last February a negro who was
raised in Marlboro county, was serving
a sentence at Easley and he reported
that another negro 011 the
gang at that place and at that time
was Tom liightower. The arrest was
made and the negro who claimed to
be Neal Davis was brought to Bennottsvillo.
The resemblance was
most striking. A striking feature of
the resemblance was that Tom Hightower
had lost a groat toe on the
left foot, as had the prisoner.
After being brought to Bonnettsville
I10 gave his name as that of
Neal Davis, stated that he was raised
in Pulaski county, Georgia, gave
names of citizens of that community.
Several negroes in this county who
had worked with Tom liightower
and knew him intimately, swore posi- 1
tively that the defendant 011 trial was
Tom liightower, one of them using
the expression, "If that is not Tom
liightower, ho is in Tom Hightower's
Hide." Two white men who also
knew liightower well, testified that
the defendant was liightower. Two
chaingang guards from Pickens county
had been brought to Hennettsvllle
by the State, and they testified that
Davis had told them he had murderI
ed his wife, that he had cut up her
body and burled it in different places.
The defence sought to weaken this
testimony by showing that these two
witnesses made no reference to the
confession when the sheriff went to
Easley for the prisoner, and that
they said nothing about it until some
| time afterwards, when all of the facts
had been published in tlie daily papers.
The State had also brought two
witnesses from Georgia. These two
men talked to Davis, and testified
that they were satisfied beyond all
doubt that the prisoner was not Tom
Hightower, but that ho was Neal
Davis; that ho worked under them
on their plantation several years
to 1 904 and left there in 1 904. Tom
Hightower had been in that county
and section several years prior to
the killing of his wife in 1 904.
The missing too of Hightower's
foot was cut off irregularly and raggedly,
and not smoothly. The statement
of Dr. Crosland was that the
toe on the negro's foot had been amputated
by a skilled surgeon, and
that It was as fine a piece of surgeary
of the kind as ho had evor
seen. Tt was altogether smooth. Two
other witnesses testified positively
that the defendant was not Tom
Hightower. After being out a few
minutes the jury returned a verdict
of not guilty.
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fUiOOl) SHED AT REUNION.
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Union Veteran Stabs Men Who Abased
Abraham Idncoln.
Seven men wore stabbed Wednesday
in a fight in the dining room of
HlA f v'tlim rtr I I r> > n I no n onoi.u n
v.. v/ vjvvvjumui h hwvvj1, (Wl U 1 CO Ull SJ L iV
fight, which started when several
i men aroused the anger of an old veteran
in blue, by abusing Lincoln.
, Several of the wounded men are in a
. serious condition at the Pennsflvania
State Hospital. The state constabul
lary are making desperate efforts to
find the men who did the stabbing.
According to all the information
the authorities could gather the fight
started suddenly and was over in a
, few minutes. It began shortly before
) seven o'clock, when the dining room
- was full of people, and caused a
- panic among the scores of guests.
- The veteran who was unhurt and disi
appeared in the melee was sitting
t near David Farbor and Edward J.
i Carroll, when he heard the slighting
- remarks about Lincoln. He jumped
i to his feet and began to defend the
martyred president and berated his
detractors.
The men who were stabbed, ac3
cording to the information the surs
geons gathered, jumped to the de.
fence of the veteran when the others
f In ly ? I i I- ~
1 tiuoun 111. ixuivt?n Yvciw uui ill a
f second and the room was thrown into
- an uyroar. It was all over before
t the rest of the men in the room
- could get their breath and the men
J responsible for it had fled.
Auto Wreck Fatal.
Samuel Stevens Sands, step-son of
d William K. Vanderbilt, was killed in
s an automobile accident near West
?- Hampton, H. T., Wednesday night,
e The machine ho was driving overt
turned when a tire burst. He lived
?, only long enough to tell who he was
il and to request that his wife be notice*.