The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 26, 1914, Image 3
Tl) CONFIR AGAIN
Hl'EltTA HEADY TO OPEN XEKOTIATIOXS
WITH LINI).
wm mrnrn plan
??
llojns, Huerta's Minister, Confers
With hind?ElTort.s Are Made for
heerecy Hut Mexican t apitnl
Thinks Financial Hlockade lias
Uroiiuht IIneita to His Knees.
Forced by the increasing serious
noss of the financial situation in Alex
ica, President liuerta at last appears
ready to resume negotiations with
.lghn Lind, President Wilson's per.
sonal representative, which were
broken off last August, if reports current
in the Mexican capital Wednesday
night are true.
Jose Lopez Portillo y Rojas, minuter
of foreign affairs, has been directed
to reopen the unofficial diplomatic
exchanges with Air. Lind, according
to the report and for thai
purpose went to Vera Cruz Wednesday.
Where lie will meet Mr. Lind
la not liiinwn lO.vorv offnrl liua hnun
made to keep the meeting a secret,
and should it fail to take place, the
government could repeat the explanation
already given that the minister
is taking the trip to celebrate Saints'
day.
President Huerta Wednesday sum.
moned to the national palace sixty of
the wealthiest Mexicans residing in
the capital and intimated that indirect
financial support would he highly
agreeable. He reminded them
that a decree Issued several months
apo, calling on owners of haciendas
to equip and maintain ten men for
purposes of self-defense, never has
been complied with. Such compliance
would mean, according to the official
figures, the maintenance of about
60U.000 men, as it is estimated that
linrn n pn 9 rtAA Vionlon/lnt! o n /I a i? 11
B \ ( I < ? u , w v V II uv i V inuin (ill vi Ollldil
er ranches within Federal jurisdiction.
President Huerta nlso requested
these men to furnish him with horses
for 120 cannon expected to arrive
soon from .Inpan and Furope. He
asked their moral support, suggesting
tiint tiiev form a sort of military
society, not for actual fighting, but
that insignia ho worn by the members
to identify them as being loyal
to the government.
The United States government
says a Washington dispatch, will welcome
a reopening of negotiations
with the Huerta government or the
constitutionalists and will be glad to
consider any proposal that will tend
to draw the various factions together
into a plan for the restoration of
peace in Mexico. This is the attitude
of President Wilson revealed Thurs_
day. after reports received at Washington
saying Senor Portillo y Rojas,
minister for foreign affairs in the
Huerta cab'net. had gone to meet
John hind, Mr. Wilson's personal representative,
to seek a resumption of
the peace parleys.
Senor Rojas has been mentioned
as the man who would succeed Huor
ta if ho retired, and the object of the
visit to Mr. Kind, it has been reported,
was to acquaint the president's
envoy with his personality. Incidentally
the president in talking with,
callers, while remarking that he had
had no ofTicial report of any new parleys,
spoke in complimentary terms
of the Mexican minister of foreign
affairs as a man of high character.
What the president emphasizes is
his informal discussion on the Mexican
situation is that he, as president
of the United States, has never
sought to approve or disapprove of
individuals who may aspire to the
presidency of Mexico, and that he has
no list of men whom ho holds under
a so-called ban because of alleged
complicity in the assassination of Ma.
dero.
His refusal to recognize Huerta, it
may he stated on the highest authority,
was not based on any personal
Antagonism to Huerta, but on the
ground that the constitutionalists
would never be reconciled to the man
who had overthrown Madero and
Buarez and that governments set up
by arbitrary force and not reflecting
the popular will should not be dealt
with by the United States.
I-ikcwise, in tlie consideration of
individuals who might seek recognition
by the Unted States, the principle
President Wilson has been working
en is that recognition extended to
any one set up in the presidency
without some popular expression or
without the Indorsement of all factions
could not lead to peace.
In considering peace proposals
from the Huerta government the
United States, it is known now, will
do all that it can to forward a peaceful
settlement, but the conviction is
as strong with the president Thursday
as it was when he sent his instructions
to John Lind last summer
that peace in Mexico in the last analysis
is dependent upon terms that
will be acceptable alike to the constitutionalists
and the Huerta administration.
One of the suggestions made to
President Wilson lately contemplates
the sending of a commission of
Americana of prominence to investigate
conditions in Mexico. Unofficial
CALLS HIM DOWN
WILSON RESENTS 1NTIM VTION or
SENATOR JONES.
?
Says He Was "Skating on Thin lco"
in Asserting Hritisli Minister Influenced
Free Tolls Message.
President Wilson told Senutoi
Jones, Republican, of Washington,
Thursday that he was "skating on
thin ice" in his speech Wednesday,
which broadly intimated that the
president had not decided to read a
message to congress on the Panama
canal tolls question until after Sir
Linonel Carden, British minister to
Mexico, visited the White House.
The senator went to discuss with
the president certain regulations of a
j pending fisheries bill affecting the
salmon industry in the northwest
but Mr. Wilson turned the conversation
to the senator's speech.
The president told callers after,
ward that he could not got a surges
lion on the Mexican question out ot
Sir Lionel "with a corkscrew", and
that the conference was purely for information
on the general situation in
Mexico. The president had written
his tolls message and decided to read
it before he saw Sir Lionel. Officials
said neither the tolls questions nor
any suggestions for future policy in
ihe Mexican situation came up in the
talk with Sir Lionel.
Senator Jones returned to the Capitol
and gave the senate the president's
unqualified denial. "The president
assures me,' said Mr. Jones,
"that there was no basis of fact in the
articles 1 referred to, to warrant the
iwiiiiuniuiin nun 1 I'^ill U IU IIIIS gOV_
ornment and its relatione with Great
Britain in the matter. 1 think I was
misunderstood in that 1 did not draw
the conclusions myself but took them
from newspaper reports."
Senator Jones declared the lncident
served to illustrate the necessity
for more information on the toll
exemption and again urged his reso.
lution calling upon the president lor
information as to what governments
had protested against exemptions for
American ships.
Senator Jones contended it was imperative
that the Senate, before it
un'dertook to act upon President Wilson's
request, should he informed as
to the interests of the foreign nations
in the matter. He pointed out that
the resolution only requested information
which the president deemed
advisable to give.
Senators who agree with the president's
views on the repeal ipsue hold
that the chief executive communicated
to congress in his recent message
all ho desiied to say regarding the
matter and for this reason oppose the
resolution as unnecessary.
Won't Heed President's Advice.
Independent Democrats of Tennessee
Tuesday passed the following resolution:
"We endorse the administration
of President Wilson, but we
regret that he listened to the ininor
funitles of certain representatives of
the national government with reference
to purely local and State affairs."
Sponsor for Veterans.
Miss Corinne Hampton, granddaughter
of (Ion. Wade Hampton, has
neen appointed and accepted the
sponsorship for the South of the
United Confederate veterans, the appointment
having been made by Gen.
I It. H. Young.
Plans .Motorcycle Campaign.
1 Representative Hobson of Alabama,
who is running against Oscar W.
Underwood for senator, will make a
ten day's motorcycle tour of the State
on the last days of the campaign.
He plans 20 speeches a day.
Woman lirutally Slain.
Uecause she nagged him about his
habits Prank Sticks, nirorl >'? m
Cleveland, Ohio, tied Mrs. Anna Padop
11, a god 4 0, to a bed post and cut
her to pieces on Thursday. The police
think him insane.
Another White Mouse Wedding.
Formal announcement was made
at the White Mouse Saturday of the
engagement of Miss Eleanor Wilson
the president's youngest daughter, to
Wm. O. McAdoo, a member of the
president's cabinet.
Color l,in<> in Delaware.
Democrats of Kent County, Delaware,
have decided that none but
white persons shall he allowed to
vote at future nrlmnrtns nf tlio i\?? ??
reports have had It that both Carrnn/.a
and Iluerta would receive such
a commission.
President Wilson Is carefully considering
the suggestion, said to have
been made originally hv Oscar 3. [
Straus, former ambassador to Turkey. I
prominent in the cause of world
peace. The president. It Is known, I
would he glad to send such a com- i
mission. If It could assist the Mexi- I
can factions In arriving at an agree- I
mont, but it Is believed he feels that \
actual pence proposals must neces. 1
sarllv originate with the Mexican fac- t
tlons nn<J that unless the cammisslon i
were invited to go to Mexico, its er- 1
rand would be fruitless, mediation of I
the same sort having previously been 1
rejected by both Mexican factions. 1
WIPLS Hill FAMIL1
insane c;koiu;i.\n kills M il I
am) two childkkn.
FIENDISH ACT INHUMAN
?.
Willi Ax, llhwlc ami Itullot Furmci
Slaughters Wile ami Two Chihlroi
? Iliirus Outhouses? (iocs t(
Neighbors, Tolls Story of Murder,
and Suicides.
Diabolical in its inception, fiendish
in execution and horrifying in detail,
a goulish crime, through which an
utile family was exterminated, was
oinniitted near Oak Park, in Email
uel county (la., Thursday night. With
blade, bullet and ax James A., Euhanks,
a farmer, murdered his youn
wife, Mrs. Mattie Eubanks, slaughtered
his two children, both girls, as
they slept, then, after calmly survey'ng
his bloody work, set fir to ihe
outhouses on his place and, going to
the home of a neighbor, related what
he had done and then shot himself
through the head.
Only an abandoned brain could
have planned so maniacal a deed as
was executed in the llttls farmhouse,
and which has shocked and terrified
the half of two counties It is believed
that Eubanks was insane when he
set about to exterminate his own
tlesli and blood. A brother, CI. \V.
Eubanks, says that J. A. Eubanks'
mind has been unbalanced fo?* years.
Except that lie did not burn his
homo, thus providing a funeral pjrr
for the ho.lies of his slain wife and
children, Eubanks evidently deliberately
planned the crime which was
carried out to its minutest detail
That ho intended that the flames
should destroy the bodies after he
had destroyed life was apparent, for
when the bodies of Mrs. Eubanks and
her two children were found in the
home Fridny they lay in the middle
of Jhe floor of the bedroom covered
with bed clothing, cardboard, pine
splinters and rubbish. Several of the
splinters had been ignited, but failed
to burn.
Mrs. Eubanks was killed with an
ax, and the throat of the older child,
a girl of three and a half years of
age, was slashed with a razor. The
younger child, six months old, was
stabbed through the forehead with a
pocket knife.
Eubanks had been to Oak Park
Thursday afternoon. Ho left the
town about 0 o'clock to return to his
home. It is supposed thnt he went to
bed, sleeping with his older child.
Mrs. Eubanks and the younger child
occupied an adjoining room.
Sometime after midnight Eubanks
entered his wife's room, opened her
trunk, and, piece by piece, burned all
her clothing. Mrs. Eubanks awoke
and remonstrated with him. lie
struck her in the forehead with hiclosed
pocket knife, knocking liesenseless.
The woman fell back upon
the bed, and while she lay unconscious
ho man went into the back
vard, returning with a club ax.
Pulling his wife's senseless form t<the
floor, Eubanks swung the ax, severing
her head almost from her body
and another blow crushed her skull
Probably maddened at the sigt of hiswife's
blood, the little girl asleep in
the bed was dragged by its hair from
the bed to the floor and the fathe*
slashed the little throat with his-a/or,
which was afterwards found in
his pocket wrapped in a handkerchief
Eubanks went again into the yard
and leaned the blood-stained av
against a tree, where it was found
Friday. With savage instinct he then
re-f ntered the house and, going into
his own room, plunged the blade of
his pocket knife up to the hilt
through the head of the sleeping sixmonths-old
babv.
Intending to burn the bodies of his
victims, the hrshnnd and lather then
dragged the bodies of bis wife and
older child to his own bedroom and
placed them in the middle of the
floor. Upon them he pileo everything
within reach, lied clothing, pine snlinters,
cord wood, light pieces of furniture,
discarded paper boxes and rubbish.
This he ignited.
To complete his work of extermination
Eubanks then fired his barn,
stable and cotton house, all near th*
dwelling, and left the premises after
A 111 ~ ~ it- - " 11
mug up urn in out n or i no won and
destroying the bucket, to prevent any
one drawing water to fivht the fire.
The household of the Pago family,
living nearhv, were alarmed about 3
o'clock Friday morning when thev
heard Eubnnks calling for without
Young Mr. Page went out Into the
yard," meeting Eubnnks. They went
to the cotton house and sat upon the
door sill. There Eubnnks detailed
his horrible deed, detaining the
young man until he had told his
bloody story, saving that he has lived
In torment and trouble for five ycarfi
and wcfo'? to die and take his family
to destruction with him, hut giving
no other Indication of what he intended
to do further to comnlete his
work of extermination. At length he
told voung Page to go Into the house
and bring his father out, adding that
lie wanted to tell him the storv.
Young Page started toward the
house, hut he had proceeded only a
few steps before behind him he heard
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POSTMASTER IS KILLED \
"lllllvK MKXIO.WS (IIOSS IlOUI>1:11
TO KOIl AM) SLAV.
Peeling Runs High us Martial Law L
Practically Dcclatrd in Yicinit) ot
<"alitor niu Tow n.
Although no proclamation was is- .
nod martial law existed In effect
Tonday along the border for miles
ach side of Tecato, Cal., following
Ire destruction by lire of 'he general
tore containing the I'nited Stall's
ost ofllce and customs ollice and the
nurder of Postmaster Prank V. Johnston
Saturday by three men, declared
o be Mexicans.
All Sunday night the border was '
atrolled by American troops from
Port Rosen ans. Across the line, not
nany hundred feet away, Mexican
urates performed guard duty. Pver\
nan within a radius of ten miles of 1
I'ecate is fully armed and rides and
immunition have been ordered.
Gov. Johnson was asked Monday to
make formal demand on Gov. Pratiisco
Pasquez, of Lower California, 1
or the delivery of tho Mexicans sus- 1
pected of having killed Johnston.
Major W. C. Davis, commander at
Port Rosecrans, received instructions
from Washington to lend any assist- '
nice to the immigration and customs
dllciuls and keep the department informed
of conditions.
'Villi ennon nf I l?n nvolf ^
A IIV vtuiov v i i tiu UAV i tuun ii t ? <i r>
?1111 iiiocl In a report to Washington, '
| which said: "Three or more Mexi- '
iins armed with revolvers crossed the
national line at Tecate, killing one 1
ivllian and wounding another seri- '
j )usly, and burning a store, Including
the body of the civilian. The Mexi- 1
cans escaped, but one was recognized '
as a member of a railroad construetton
gang working a few miles ^outh
if Tecate."
A dispatch from Ran Diego, Cel.,
says extradition of the Mexican ban1
its Saturday night who killed Krank
V. .Johnston and assaulted Werimr 1
Wiedenbeck in an attempted robbery 1
of the Mountain Commercial com- 1
panv's store at Tecate Saturday night '
was urged on Gov. Johnson by the 1
district attorney's otlice at Ran Diego.
Wiedenbeck is positive as to his iden- :
tilication of one of the outlaws, but '
the name was withheld. He escaped '
hack into Mexico.
Thoops sent from Fort Rosecrans '
to the scene by Maj. W. C. Davis.
commander of tho fort, remained 5
'here Monday to prevent disorders. 1
Davis Ivor Informed the department '
at Washington and Major General
Arthur Murray, commander of '.he '
Western Department at San Fran- '
isco, of the circumstances and has
instructions to maintain vigilance and 1
keep the war department informed of
levelopments. Feeling along tho boiler
in the vicinity is bitter.
Couldn't Prevent His Death.
Coleman Flannigan of Lumpkin, 1
Ta., was Jailed Monday on account of ^
lttempted suicide. Undaunted, he
nlnced his head between the foot and
prlngs of his cot, turned a somor- 1
i\ult and broke his neck.
\
Charleston Wins.
In securing the South Atlantic
Lighthouse service depot Charleston
won out over Wilmington, Savannah,
"trunswick, Fcrnandina and Jacksonville.
Congress appropriated $ln,0Uu
for the depot Friday.
SherilV Feared Lynching.
Mack Minis escaped from the Edge (
field chain gang and shot J. IL W t
-niith, a farmer Saturday. He wat F
aptured and lodged in the State pen- (
itentiary because of the feeling .
against him. {
Man Shoots Girl and Self. s
The bodies of Miss Clara Folk, aged i
10, and Dr. John Stringer, ager 42. t
Sunday were found at Oakvale, Miss r
The girl bad been killed by I)r t
Stringer, who had sent a bullet inte
Ills brain r
? t
Picked Grave Just, in Time. I
M. K. Vogan of Grove City, Pa., <
Sunday predicting that lie would die I
In 2 4 hours, went to the cemetery and *
nicked out Ms prave. Ten minutes ^
later his heart failed. ?
Agricultural I > i 11 Passes House. /
The agricultural appropriation hill, '
carrying $19.00(1.000, passed the 1
House of Representatives late Satur- l
day. (
the report of a revolver and. turning, '
saw that Eubanks had shot himself s
mrougn the head with a 44-caltber k
revolver. Tho man who had taken ^
throo lives and then his own foil in a 9
heap upon the cotton shod, but lie T
was still alive, and everything possible
was done to save his life. He "
died about 1 1 o'clock. The bullet '
entered over bis right ear. coming '
out directly over bis left ear. He '
was never conscious after shooting ^
himself. ('
r
Mrs. Eubanks was only 21 years
ef aire Fuhanks was ftO. His men- f
tal derangement is said to have re- ?
suited from ill-henlthr, and bis broth- fl
or declares it has been apparent for ^
several vears A note, left by Eubank?
near the place his wife and
children were killed, said their domestic
life had heen unhappy, but T
made no reference to his ill health. o
nmm suffkaoe
?i:\\i; Wllilj NOT SIIIMIT MMTlOlt
TO TIIK ST \TKS.
KAVUKtU l!V MAJUHITK
?
>\ *>1111111 SlllllngO .\ IIM'lHlllU'llt Voted
I??i- by Tluity-ll\e Senators and Opposed
It) Thirty-four?Suffragists
Jubilant Over What They Consider
a (ileal \ ictory.
Woman suffrage advocates Thurs-I
lay lost their fight in tho United
>tales Senate for a resolution pro- '
using an amendment to the Federal
onstitution giving women the balot.
The vote was 3f? lor tin; meas.
ire to 34 against it, a two-thirds afirmativo
vote being required for passage,
and when it was over suffragist
eaders jubilantly pointed to the niatority
of one as conc lusive proof that
heir cause had scored a triumph in
leieat, and was immeasurably
hunger than its opponents ever had
icon willing to concede.
Thursday's action, following weeks
>f debate on the floor of the Senate,
luring which time leaders In the suffrage
movement pleaded for postlonement
of the final vote, marked
lie climax of a spirited campaign
aunched the day before the inauguration
of President Wilson.
The resolution defeated Thursday
iVas the first introduced in the pres nt
congress. It was presented by
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, and
he woman suffrage committee later
uithoii'/vd Senator Asliurst to repoi?
t favorably.
Though otherwise the vote virtual
y was non-part Isnn, the Southern
senators, all Democrats, lined np almost
solidly against the amendment.
Phoy contended it would complicate
lur negro f|uestlon in the states. Of I
he Southerners only Senator Ransloll
of l.ouisiana. Sheppard of Texas
111(1 1 .PJi of Ton noaann v/Urwl ff"' !???
resolution.
Senator Vnrdnman led a movement
\mong tlie friends of woman suffrage
ti the South to repeal the fifteenth
unondment to the constitution, hy
A'hich the states are prohibited from
'enying negroes the right to vote.
tVlth the nepro nueston removed, ho
vid, he favored tlie granting of suffrage
to women. His proposal was
'efentod, 49 to 19, and a proposition
>y Senator Williams to give the ballot
to white women only was defeat3d,
4 4 to 21.
The vote was proce led hy a threehours'
kaleidoscopic debate on the
various phases of suffrage. Senator
Martine of New .Jersey was the only
member who said he was opposed to
vorni'ii suffrage on principle. He de lared
the participation of women in
politics had failed to purify the balot,
and that ft would he a sad and
lorry day for both women and men
vhon they were given tlie ballot universally.
The speeches of suffrage
senators, ho added, had excited in his
uind tho wonder if they found objecion
to tho "Saviour for not choosing
dx of the apostles from among the
vomcn",
Senator Newlands declared he fnvtrrd
making this a white man's i
;ountry, so as to slmt out the Japa_
lose, an well as the nnuro, but quosionod
the propriety of doing that on
i woman suffrage, proposition. Mrs.
dodill McOormlck, chairman of the
mngressonal committee of the Naiona)
American Woman Suffrage association,
issued a statement Thurslay
night claiming the majority vote
is a victory. "For the first time in
lft.y years," she said, "the women of
vmerca demonstrated their impresdon
upon the United States Senate,
t is a sign of the times and it pop
ends that all womanhood in this ,
ountry will be emancipated within
his generation."
Senators who voted for the Vardannn
resolution proposing repeal of
lie fifteenth amendment were:
lrvnn, Williams, Vardaman, Rans1**11.
Lea of Tennessee, Lee of Marv
nnd. Shields, Overman, Smith of
tonth Carolina, Smith of Georgia,
rVest, Tillman, Sheppard, Martin.
>\van8on, Myers, Gage nnd Reed.
The senators voting for the
kshurst resolution, which would
lave required a two-thirds vote to
?nss, were: Ashurst, Brady, Brls-i
ow, Burton, Chamberlain, Clapp,
Mark of Wyoming, Gallinger. Oronia,
llnllis, Hughes. Jones. Kenvon.
.aKolletto, I aim, Lea, Myers, N'elon,
Newlnnds, Norris, Owen. Perins,
Poindexter, Ransdell, Shafroth,
iheppard, Sherman. Smoot, Stephenon,
Sterling, Sutherland, Thomas, I
'hompvon. Town..end. Works?35.
Senators voting against the amendment
were: Rankhead, Rorah.
trndlov, Rrandegoe, Rrvan, Catron.
Mlllnpham, Dupont, Core, James,
olinnon, Lee of Maryland, Lodge.
leCumber. McLean, Martin, Martine,
)llvor, Overman. Page, Pittman,
onierene, Rood, Shields. Smith of
leorgia. Smith of Maryland. Smith
f South Carolina. Swnnson, Thorn-1
on. Tillman. Vardaman, Week<? i
Vest, Williams?34.
Mail I)ok Itites Cows.
Five dairy cows of Ponchatoula.
..v. had to he killed Friday because
f hltes by a mad dog.
YOUNG MEN LEAVE TOWN
sorcirr foi? oi tkagk on two
OIULS OF f'MNTKAIi.
st;?t<? Should be Made Wry Hot for
IIh'Ih if They Can Mvcr be Brought
to .1 list ire.
According to Information received
in Sonera Saturday morning, three
prominent young men of Central are
being sought by the police and fathers
of two outraged young girls are
following every cluo to help locate
these perpetrators of an unmentionable
crime. News of the atrocious
affair reached the fathers of the two
girls concerned about two weeks ago,
but facts connected with the occurrence
have been kept quiet and little
information has yet been given to the
public.
It Is alleged that three young men,
all about 21 years of ago, left Central
one Saturday night recently with two
young girls, neither of which Is more
than I I years old, going In the direction
of Pendleton. It seems that the
plans for the night were arranged before
they left Central. In Pendleton
the party was Joined by a fourth man,
who, It is understood, had been paying
court to one of the young girls
for some time. Information which
appears to be authentic Is to the effect
that the four men and two girls
snont the night in one of the merchandise
stores in the town of Pendleton.
Whether one of the men carried a
key to the store or entrance was forcibly
made is not yet known. Before
leaving the store the girls were furnished
with an entire change of clothing
and given money with which to 1
leave on the first train from town.
From Pendleton they wont to Piedmont,
whore they were found by their
parent8 several days later.
After the Saturday night trip tho
voting men returned to their respective
homes in Central. Search was at
once started for the missing girls.
Heali'/lng that they would ho found
within a short time and that they
would bo immediately connected with
the awful affair, the men left tho
town and have not been heard from
since. After the girls returned to
their homes it is said that they told
the story of the runaway from the
minute they left, giving the names of
those in the party and the one who
planned the trip.
HAS NOV 10 Ij I DMA.
Congressman Wants Northern Mexico
for Negroes to Colonize.
Something In the nature of a curiosity
with reference to the Mexican
situation was Introduced in the
House Saturday by Representative
Pnrk of CJeorgla in the shape of a
joint resolution directing the president
to "acquire by purchase, treaty
or conquest nil of the territory of
Mexico above the 20th degree of latl- v,
tudo, comprising the States of lower
California, Sonora, Slnaloa, Chihuahua,
Durango, Coahuilo, Zaoatecas,
Neuvo Leon, Taniaullpas, San Luis
Potosi and Tertepig, from the authorities
of the republic of Mexico, to be
reserved and used as territories of
the United States for the colonization
and the pre-emption of homesteads
hv the color races inhabiting the
United States.
Convicts Oiler Reward.
Forty-eight convicts of Smith conn- /
ty, Texas, have offered a reward of
$26, to be taken from their wages,
for the capture of two prisoners who
broke parole Friday and escaped.
Woman Iturncd to Death.
With her body completely enveloped
In (lames, Mrs. R. L. Edwards
of Albany, La., rushed screaming out
in the yard of her home Thursday
afternoon and fell dead.
Sheriff Accidentally Shot.
Hurrying upstairs in the Salisbury
county, N. C., jail Monday to quiet a
crazy woman. Sheriff McKenste dropped
his pistol, which exploded,
wounding him in the log.
I )|<*S Mt Age of f I I.
Isaac Cooley died Sunday at Ponsacola.
Fla., at the age of i14 years,
and la survived by over 100 children
and grandchildren. He was born in
South Carolina in 1800.
Charleston Man Asphyxiated.
Frank Rion. agent of the Philadelphia
l.Ife Insurance Co., at Charleston
was found In his room dead Monday.
The eas was on presumably
through an accident.
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Wagon and Car Collide.
Two mules were killed and thelf
driver seriously Injured in Greenville.
Saturday, when an electric car
hit them. <
Hoy Killed While at Play.
Using an "unloaded" pistol in an
"Indian" game, Robert Are?or of
Richmond, Va., Friday, accidentally
shot and killed Ernest McDonald.
Yeggnirn (jet $MOO,
Yeggmen blew a safe at OrlflV.i,
Oa., late Saturday night and secured
fSOO, No clew was left behind. J