The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 11, 1913, Image 3
FATAL ACCIDENT
PEEPLES KILLS COLUMBIA NEGRO
UNINTENTIONALLY
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IN PUTTING UP PISTOL
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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.
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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. *
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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
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Ql'ACK "REMEDIES" ARE FINDING
A READY SALE.
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State Veterinarian Issues Warning
Against Many So-Called "Sure
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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
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FAMOUS SOUTH CAROLINAN DIES
AT BALTIMORE
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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NO CHANCE TO ESCAPE
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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
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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
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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.
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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)
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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
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?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.
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WILL HONOR GA1LLARD
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WORK OF liATB CANAL ENCJI- 1
NKKU IS APPKKCIATKI).
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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.
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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.*