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FATAL ACCIDENT PEEPLES KILLS COLUMBIA NEGRO UNINTENTIONALLY * ^ IN PUTTING UP PISTOL * Attorney Cienerul Explains to Coroner's Jury the Circumstances leading ui> to I>ei>lorahle AIYair?There Was No Diillculty ltetxveen Him and Dead Negro. Robert Marshall, colored, was killed Saturday night by Attorney General Thomas 11. Peepdes at the Elks' Club in Columbia, where the negro was employed as chef. According to those at the club the shooting was entirely accidental and Mr. Peoples is sorry beyond expression, at the happening. Sheriff McCain, of Richland county, was on hand personally at the club soon after the shooting and on the suggestion that Mr. Peoples get a good night's rest at the Mansion he sent a deputy with him. Sheriff McCain was heard to express the opinion that this was a matter of form, although the shooting was explained as accidental. The investigation by the coroner's jury was held Sunday night and resulted in the verdict that Robert Marshall, the negro cook at the Elks' Club, came to his death Saturday night from the accidental discharge of n pistol in the hands of Attorney General Thomas 11. Peoples. This means that the Attorney General will be brought to trial at the January term of court for accidental himicide. All the testimony brought out at the inquest tended to show that the shooting was an accident. Attorney General Peoples himself mado a statement to the jury in which ho explained the discharge of the pistol, his reason for having it and all tho matters leading up to the unfortunate occurrence at the club. In effect Mr. Peoples stated that ho had placed the pistol in his automobile Saturday when his mother went with her brother to Lexington. The return trip was made by Mrs. Peoples with a strange chauffeur and ho desired that she should have the pistol for protection. When ho wont to the Elks' Club at 10 o'clock Saturday night ho took the pistol out of the oar and carried it upstairs to the club rooms with tho intention of leaving it there. "I do not carry a pistol," said Mr. Peoples, "and wanted to leave the weapon at the club." lie said that as he walked behind the buffet to place the weapon near the cash register Capt. J. IT. Weaver, who was standing behind tho counter, asked him to let him see the pistol. Tie stated that he was handing it over when the pistol discharged, killing tlie negro cook, who was standing in front of the buffet at the monument. From tho testimony of other witnesses it was brought out that tho pistol was cocked. Mr. Peeples stated that he did not know of this. "My God, what have I done!" exclaimed Mr. Peeples when he saw tho negro fall after the discharge of tho gun. "I felt like blowing out my own brains," he said. All witnesses testified the Attorney General was distressed and Sheriff McCain said ho wept as he told him of the shooting a few minutes after it happened. The supposition is that tho hammer of the gun struck tho counter as Mr. Peoples handed the gun to Mr. Weaves, and it was thereby discharged. Sheriff McCain made an examination of the room that bore out the statements of witnesses with reference to the range of the bullet, and the doctor's testimony also confirmed this. A brother of the dead negro was present at the shooting. ITe afterwards stated that be had heard no words pass between bis brother and Mr. Peoples, and the first thing he Hnow was the pistol's report which he was very much surprised to hear. The brother is an employee of the club also. All witnesses agreed that no words passed between Mr. Peeples and the negro before the shooting. The other negro help in the club also testified to this. Capt. J. IT. Weaver, conductor on x i r% a y mo noutnern railway, noro out Mr. Pooples' statements with regard to the discharge of tho gun. Capt. Weaver says lie was standing right next to tho Attorney General. " Assistant Attorney General Fred H. Dominick appeared as counsel for Mr. Peoples and questioned witnesses briefly. Solicitor Wade Hampton Cobb appeared for the State. He will bo tho prosecuting officer at tho trial. ? ? ? Postmaster Suicides. Despondent because of ill-health and business reverses, Postmaster D. H. Kirkland, of TTomorvillo, Ga., who was also a prominent merchant, com^ mitted suicide Sunday night by shooting himself. * . Ihirned to Deatli. Znck Hoby, a tenant on the placfl v of Mr. C. H. Mathls, near Tflackvllle, was cremated ono night last weelt when tho house in which he was living burnt down. LOOK OUT FOR FAKES I ?+ ' Ql'ACK "REMEDIES" ARE FINDING A READY SALE. ? State Veterinarian Issues Warning Against Many So-Called "Sure I Cures Doing Advertised. A circular advising the farmers of South Carolina against the purchase of certain alleged "sure cure" for hog cholera has been Issued from Clemson College by M. Ray Powers, State veterinarian. "Hog cholera remedies," says the circular, "of all kinds, many of which are advertised as 'sure cures' aro finding ready sale throughout South Carolina. With the purpose of protecting our citizens from this form < of quackery the veterinary division i of Clemson college will upon request , of any citizens of this State test any of these so-called cures or remedies. A sealed package of the remedy to ! bo tested should accompany the re- ; quest." : Concerning one remedy offered for I sale in South Carolina the circular says: i "With this remedy, which was pur- i chased direct from tho manufactur- i ers, wo received a bountiful supply of testimonials and other Herature. i From these we quote the following extravagant statements: "'Properly handled, tho remedy will stamp the cholera out of the United States in five years. For with if 1'r.n r..... : - - / ?v ?? n v nii imoo i iii iii ii lit' |> 1 ?8 I rODl one generation to another, and there would be 110 material for the germ to work on.' "Jt, is also claimed that this wonderful remedy will save 02 per cent, to 05 per cent, of hogs in an infected herd if taken in time. The directions for treatment of sick hogs arc as follows: ' 'Keep hogs without food for tliir- 1 ty-six hours, then feed twice daily for a period of eight days, boiled corn over which the remedy has been spread. In addition these sick hogs are supposed to have sufficient appettite to consume, twice daily, slop containing this remedy.' Any 0110 familliar with hog cholera knows that the appetite is usually lost in the early stages of the disease, and hogs suf- : fering from the acute form of cholera are dead or near death .heforo eight days have elapsed. In tho printed directions, however, great stress is laid on the necessity for not giving more than the hogs will clean up 1 greedily and 'to go slow, keep I11111- ' gry.' Needless to say, we experienced considerable difllculty in giving this remedy." Refeering to another remedy offer? 1 ~ 11.- ?? - cu iui nan: lilt' I'ircil liir RilJ'8'. "If tho value of this preparation 1 could compare with the nerve of its manufacturers, it would undoubtedly be a specific for cholera. They offer to demonstrate at the company's ex- 1 pense, the efficiency of this wonderful ; remedy before any body of farmers or State experiment station. After test- 1 ing this remedy we wrote the manufacturers asking them to demonstrate to us the value of this preparation. Two men were sent to the college, ! and we outlined the following tests: "To prove the value of the remedy 1 as a preventive. Five or six susceptible pigs to be treated by the company's representatives for as long a time as they demand necessary to protect them from cholera. After ! treatment these pigs were to bo ex- : posed to the dlease. "Objection was made to this test on tho ground that the company did not make the positive claim that tho remedy would protect hogs from cholera. We, however, insisted upon this test, as tho company's literature was so worded as to leave tho impression that tho remedy was a prevnn tlvD "To prove that a majority of susof the remedy. Eight or ton susceptible pigs to be divided into equal lots. Lot No. 1, pigs to ho injected with virus and then turned over to the company's, representatives for them to demonstrate their ability to save these pigs. (It will he noted that we did not ask that treatment he deferred until pigs became sick. This should have been done to make the vcdi. v^wu v; I U91 V 6. ) IjOL ;\0. Z, plgS tO be exposed to sick hogs and as soon as they became sick the demonstra- ' tors were to cure them. Objection 1 was also raised to this test, but, as 1 tho manufacturers claimed that the i remedy would cure hogs affected with i cholera, their representatives wero obliged to agree to this test. "To prov th.it. a majority of sus- 1 ceptiblo pigs, exposed to cholera, 1 could be saved by the remedy. A sick hog to be placed In a disinfected pen with four or five susceptible pigs. ! All pigs to bo given tho remedy and the company's representatives to ; save as many as they could with their i remedy. This was the only test to which no objection was raised. "The company's representative wero informed that in order to pre- * vent the injection of suscoptible pigs with anti-hog cholera serum, it 1 would be necessary for us to keep the 1 pigs under constant supervision during the day and under lock and key at night. "Proposed test No. 3 was commenced tho first day. Tho writer left the college that evening with the < understanding that the other proposed tests were to bo undertaken the ; GAILLARD 1$ DEAD ? FAMOUS SOUTH CAROLINAN DIES AT BALTIMORE > CONQUEREli OF CULEBHA Horn at Winiisboro, David Dubosc Gnillard Becomes Oil? of (ho Foroniost of Army Kii^ineoi's and Was Largely ltesponsiglo for (ho Success at Panama. Lieut. Col. David Duboso Halliard, United States army, who directed the engineering work in tho Culebra Cut, w division of tho Panama canal, died lit John Hopkins hospital at Baltimore Friday. Lieut. Col. Gaillard had been a patient at the hospital since August 17 last, suffering from a growth in the head, tho result of seven years' arduous labor in (he tropical climate of the Canal Zone. lie failed gradually but steadily, and for the last two months had been in a state of coma, due to the pressure of the cranial growth upon the brain cells. Tho nhvslcians dnobinU some timo ago that an operation was useless and might hasten his death. Ho is survived 'by his widow and a son, Lieut. David P. Halliard, United States army. Both were at the bedside when the end came. Lieut. Col. Halliard was born at Winnsboro, S. C.t in 1 854. lie graduated from West Point Military Veademy in 1 854 and sinco that time had won many honors in the engineering service. A bill was introduced in congress last month promoting him to the rank of colonel in recognition of his distinguished services which culminated in the great engineering feat in the Culebra section of the Panama canal When Culebra Cut was flooded by the blasting of Gamboa dike on October 10 last Col. Halliard lay unconscious in his bed at the hospital. Col. Halliard's death is the culmination of a breakdown incurred by long hours of work and exposure in the Canal Zone, where he pitted his skill as an engineer against the shifting soil of the Culebra Cut. To him had been given the most difficult task in connection with the canal's construction, to master the landslides and quicksands which extended for eight miles along the lino of the Culebra out. During the early years of his contest with the landslides Col. Halliard never knew what a morning was to bring forth. Over night the mountains moved and covered with their deposit, the tracks, and even the cars, whhch were used to remove material. The C 111 ohm Cut rima v, v. v ? UI1U I HI \/U|^ll till" backbono of the American continent. Gaillard dug indomitably until hill after hill found its angle of repose and lie checked the landslides save at Hucuracha and points nearby. There the sliding was persistent, but bad visibly weakened, when the engineer was compelled to stop bis work and seek rest. For the greater period of his work on the Isthmus Col. Gaillard was without a chief assistant, lie wanted to save money. He gave his at tenlion not only to the great engineering problems, but to all the details of shovel work, train work and drainage. TIo checked up on the small things and once it was computed that by his careful oversight he had saved the government $ 17,000,000. Men who worked with him said that he gave twelve hours of each day to the Culebra Cut. In addition he had a voice in all matters pertaining to engineering work in the zone, to civil administration and to the general conduct of affairs. The hard work, the nervous strain, the worry and the tropical climate combined broke his health at the hour of his final triumph. There was little left thoro to be done but to remove the soft earth of the side of Cucuracha. MADM Ml'KDMKOrS ATTACK. ? Negro Named Oliver Adams Assaulted Mr. George Hughes. The Greenwood Index says Mr. George Hughes, a well known farmer who lives below New Market close to Lebanon church was murderously assaulted Tuesday morning by a negro named Oliver Adams. Oliver was a cropper on Mr. Hughes place. He did not come up Monday to attend to the work of attending to the stock r? ?* . 1 I.- ? ? mi,i wiiiiu iiu arm mt. iiugncs wore; weighing cotton Tuesday, Mr. Hughes reproved him for it. The negro resented it and picking up the stick which was used to hold up the steelyards for weighing struck Mr. Hughes several blows with it. Mr. Hughes had his right arm broken and several very painful cuts on the head and face. following morning. We regret to say that these tests were never completed, owing to tho fact that the company's representatives packed their belongings and left hv tho earliest train on the following morning." "Wo can truthfully say that tho injection of water would havo been equally beneficial," says the bulletin, regarding another remedy which was given a thorough test. FEAR HUERTA HAS TRICK I m:ui:vi: hukhta is phkiwkinu I TO Sl'HlMUSK Til KM. Federals Arc Ilelioved to Have Abandoned Outlying Districts in Onlcr t<? More Kft'ectively (inartl Interior to More KfTectively (aiianl Interior. The feeling has spread among rebel lenders that the lluerta government is preparing some sinister surprises in connection with the projected march of den. Francisco Villa's army toward Mexico City. That the Federal troops had abandoned nearly all of the northern part of the republic, after they had been beaten and forced to seek safety in the mountains or on the United States border, and that (Jen. Salvador Mercado, the Federal commander, had pronounced his forces bankrupt, was not accepted as indicating that the rebels will bo unresisted in their advance south. The idea prevailed that some of (?en. Salvador Mercado's federal troops, after evacuating Chihuahua, possibly might have left the main body and swung around to the north and west in an attempt to throw a force between Villa and his base at J uarez. Shnuld Villa lose his communication with Juarez he would he isolated in Chihuahua and thus be in the position of the federals before they evacuated that city. Direct communication with Villa's headquarters showed that no federals had been seen anywhere with Villa's slow progress towards the State capital was merely p recant ionary. Villa, himself, is convinced that the hurrying away of the federal generals without being put under fire was sufficient i 1> cl im irin <!> >< i: vui.iv>i ?im< l lll\\ .III' (I IHheartened and fearful of mutiny by tbo unpaid soldiers and in consequence no more Important fighting is to bo expected until the rebel army invades the territory south of Shihuahua. Meantime be is moving cautiously. The extension of their territory has placed new responsibilities upon the rebels. It consists in protecting the property which formerly they were engaged in destroying. Belief is expressed that the Federals had an object in evacuating Chihuahua and other isolated Federal garrisons, where it was impossible for them to do much more than defend themselves, and that their purpose in abandoning their post was to permit a more concerted and energetic. defence in the central and southern states, where forts are more numerous and communication Is easier. (Jen. Villa's intention to augment his present army of 7.000 by scattered bands about Torreon and Zacatecas, and to mass a solid force of 20,000 or more rebels on the march in a unique position. Heretofore they have been scattered, while the strength of the Federals was divided by their having to garrison the northern cities. As flie roluila ct'iin ii ? . hiuii n;i I uui y llll* relative positions of the Federals and rebels will bo reversed, the latter having to protect what they have won, while the Federals will be more at liberty for aggressivo lighting. It was this condition that led Villa to consider whether the government at Mexico City was not planning a campaign of considerable extent farther south and when the comparatively undisciplined rebel forces might have to contend with greater numbers and superior lighting machinery. Word came from the vicinity of Ojinaga, on the Texas border, that (Jen. Mereado and the other Federal ollieers and troops were moving slowly and that many of the civillians were on foot. The rebels had promised not toisturb them until the border was reached. The picturesque exodus of the people across the desert has attracted thousands of persons to Presidio, Texas, opposite Ojinaga. Somewhere behind tho refugees a bullion train is straggling across the desert with $2,r, 00.0 0 0 WOrlb of nw>( ?i1 <i. - .:i i i \mii i 111* nilvor mines of Parral. T'arral has been cut off from train service for months, and it was decided to bring the silver to tho border in wagons. ? ? ? MKTICOItIO SIIOWKItS. ('Iioriuv People Are Astounded by Itaro V isitation. At 10:30 o'clock Thursday night there was a meteoric shower near Sheraw. One aerolite hurst with a terrific noise, liko a clap of thunder, the shining fragments flying in all directions. Many persons In that town mistook tho crash, thinking something had fallen in their houses and lighted lamps to investigate. One family thought their mother had fallen out of bed and went to get her back in bed. Many supposed it was an earthquake and made for outdoors, badly frightened. However, they have settled back into their old habits, and no damage was done. litirned to Death. G. W. Clay of Cartersville, Cla., patient in a private sanitarium there, was burned to death early Thursday in a Are that destroyed a cottage in which ho and four others were housed. Ills room door had boon locked. BURNED TO DEATH TWENTY EIGHT MEN CAUGHT IN BOSTON DEATH TRAP * NO CHANCE TO ESCAPE ? Cheap Hotel in Tenement District is Quickly Consnine<l?Hack Hoonis Had Hern ltented for the Night and Inmates Ha<l Doors hocked, Proventing Access to Fire Mscapes. Twenty-flvo men were killed In a flro which swept through the upper floors i)f the Arcadia hotel, a lodging house in the south portion of Hoston Wednesday. Others Eire missing. Scores were taken to hospitals suffering from burns and injuries received in jumping from windows. Nearly all the bodies were terribly burned and mutilated, making identification impossible. The victims were men in poor circumstances who had resorted to the place for a night's lodging. Caught in the crowded bunks on the top floor of the five-story brick building and in the small rooms on the fourth lloor they were helpless. When they woro aroused the stairways woro in flames and there was a mad rush for the fire escapes at tho rear. Practically all the men were naked. Many were rescued by the firemen and police. Some escaped by walking a shaky plank stretched to an adjoining building or by jumping across a five-foot alloy to neighboring roofs. Tho property loss is only $2.r?,00 0. The Arcadia was located at tho corner of Washington and Paconia streets. The lower floors were occupied by stores. The fire apparently started in a luvllwnv nljiool i\n I 1.<> ......?~i ii mi W>1 Iiiu nuuiH liuur. 111(1 flames swept up the wooden stairways and burned through the roof. According to William Walsh, the night clerk, there were ITS lodgers in the building when the lire was discovered hy a passing newsboy. After turning in an alarm he rushed into the building, awakening the men with his shouts. The top floor was one large room filled with cots and hunks. On the fourth floor where the loss of life was heaviest, there were 30 tiny rooms, like cells, with two cots in each. A hallway ran through the center. Nearly all those occupying rooms on the front of the building perished. The men in the rear rooms, opening on the fire escape had locked the doors when they went to bed and those in front wore unable to reach the fire escape. When tho firemen arrived flames were shooting 20 feet in the air from tho windows on the fourth and fifth floors and tho fire escapes and tho roof were a mass of shrieking, struggling humanity. Despite shouts of assurance from below, three men jumped from the roof. Two were instantly killed. Tho third, who had wrapped a mattraess around himself, escaped with a few bruises. Life nets were quickly stretched by the firemen and many were rescued in this manner. Others were taken down ladders with tho flames sweeping about them. Tho intense heat soon drovo the firemen from their ladders and mndn u unnrsca.*.... "~1-1 >. iiv/V/CDnui ^ IU ll^Ill tho fire from the street and from the elevated railway structure running in front of tho building. It was nearly an hour after the firemen arrived before they were able to enter tho lodging house. The first man to asend a smoking ladder shouted: "My Clod, hoys, that placo is littered with dead." * I M Si .AL CASK. + Saluda (?irl Cots $1,<)<><> Damages for Mistreatment. On the ground that an agent of the Southern Railway company had encouraged others to attempt to hug) and kiss Miss Emma Kodgers, a 1 15- j year-old Saluda girl, a jury in the] court of common pleas at Saluda returned a verdict of $1,000 in favor) C A 1 ? ui urn? young woman. A motion for a now trial was overruled. It appears that Miss Rodgors, whilo in the passenger station at Ward In August last, was mistreated, and the allegation of the complaint was that the agent of defendant failed and neglected to give the protection to the young girl that the law requires and that, acting in concert T,.h 1. ~ * i ? ?mu oiuers, no aided and abetted and encouraged others to attempt to hug and kiss the plaintiff. Miss Rodgers is only about 10 years of ago and was on her way to (Jranitevlllo to visit relatives when the alleged misconduct and maltreatment occurred. A verdict for $1,000 was returned against the railroad. Farmer Drinks Poison. Despondency over (ho condition of his health Is said to have caused J. C. Tolleson, a well known farmer of Laurens county, to drink a sufficient quantity of carbolic acid to cause his death at a lute hour Thursday night. Forty-six Lives ls>st. Forty-six lives were lost Thursday by the foundering of the Swedish steamer Maiinberget off Itodo, Norway. I WILL HONOR GA1LLARD ?*? i WORK OF liATB CANAL ENCJI- 1 NKKU IS APPKKCIATKI). ? Congress Will Probably Cilvo Some KvMenco of Its Gratitude to Knginocr Who Ouvo up His I<ifc. Much sympathetic attention has been attracted in Washington by the collapso of Col. David DuRoae Gaillard, says a news-dispatch from that place, immediately after the close of his great work on the Panama canal, his illness resisting all the efforts of the ablest physicians and culminating in his death a few days ago. Col. (iaillurd, as nearly everybody knows, was in charge of the Culebra division of the canal. His problem was to dig the famous Culebra Cut and overcome the landslides. While there will lie slides from time to time at. various places along the route of tho interoceanic waterway, as the report of Col. Coethals warns, it is nevertheless, beyond question that tho main battle has been won and that the cessation of the slides 1s only a matter of time. The chief credit for this, as Washington sees tho matter, goes to the South Carolina eniri neer, whoso norvous system gave way irretrievably after tin* worst of tho stf111?* was over. Thero Is a peculiar pathos In tho manner in which Col. Halliard's breakdown lirst manifested Itself. He had just accomplished the solution of what was regarded as the last very difficult problem connected with tho completion of his division. He was taking a walk along the side or tho mighty excavation with a friend, contemplating the almost finished achievement, when all at onco he asked a question which started his companion by indicating utter ignorance that such a thing as the canal or Panama existed. In a few more minutes it was apparent that the colonel's memory was a blank with regard to everything that had occurred since ho had come to tho Isthmus. This remarkable condition never changed; though, for a while, strange to say, the stricken genius was able to recall clearly tho events and labors of his career previous to his assignment to Panama. All the circumstances of the case prove that the man sacrificed his life in this crowning work as certainly as ever a soldier did in battle -only in this instance the battle lasted for years. It is taken for granted that congress will suitably honor tho memory of (!aillard, but just what form the legislation will take remains to bo seen. If he had recovered ho would in all probability havo received promotion to the rank of brigadier general. Since his death, however, it is understood that if no member of tho South Carolina delegation in congress offers a bill to have the government take care of Mrs. Gaillard, one will ho so introduced by either Representative Austin of Tennessee or Representative Tavenner of Illinois immediately. It is desired, it is said, to havo Bomo South Carolina mombor 1nko tho initiative in tlie matter, but if thiH is not done then one of the other two just mentioned will probably propose to have the government pay Mrs. Gaillard $100 a month during her lifetime In recognition of the services of her distinguished husband. KILLED ON BORDER. ? Laurens Man, Attache<l to Cavalry, Meets Death at Post, On Sunday the funeral of the l.ate Joseph Wood, of Laurens county, member of the Fifteenth Cavalry, U. S. A., who was killed on tho Mexican border November 21, was held at Mount Bethel church, in the western part of that county, tho body having reached homo 011 Saturday. Young Wood was tho second son of Mr. and Mrs. N. 15. Wood of the Mount Bethel section and enlisted in tho United States service about two years ago. While out with a detachment of cavalry along tho Mexican border ho received fatal gunshot wounds, but tho particulars have not been obtained. * Admitted to tho Bar. Tho State board has recommended that tho following be admitted to the bar: J. C. McGowan, of Laurens; Paul s. Dodson, of Abbeville; Olin L. Etack, of Columbia; I). 10. Finley Jr., of Yorkville; W. A. Isgett, of St. Matthews; John T. Sloan, of Columbia; T. M. Munro, of Union; James M. Lynch, of Floronce. Smothered While Asleep. Eugeno Williams, a negro employed at tho Farmers' Oil Mill, of An! derson, was smothered to death Thursday when ho fell asleep near I tho overflow of a cotton seed flue. Tho seed poured on him as ho slept I Au?/1 U.f ^ - nun ouiure me otnor laborers noticed I the negroe's disappearance life waa exinct. Negro Suicides. Monday evening about 8 o'clock a negro named Foy Henderson, of Koek Hill, shot his wife in the shoulder and ran from the house, pursued by the police. Tressed closely ho ran into tho negro Baptist Church and turned his gun on himI self, blowing the top of his head off.*