The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 07, 1901, Image 2
THE COUNTY RECORD.
Pabliehed Every Thursday
? AT?
1INGSTREE. SOUTH CAROLINA.
?Br?
C. W. WOLFE .
Editor and Proprietor.
Colonel Higginson says that Longfellow
wus the first Harvard professor to
address his'Students as "Mr."?a custom
now in vogue at all colleges.
Camille Flaramarion, who is something
of a star-gazer, declares that
the planet Mars is not trying to attract
the attention of the people of
the earth. That being the case, tiie
earth can move on.
Eecausc of geographical position and
relative importance iD the future commerce
of the world the three great
financial cChtres of the twentieth century
will ue New York City, London
and San Francisco.
Within its own borders the United
States now produces eight-tenths of
all the world's cotton and corn, onequarter
of all Its wheat, one-third of
all its coal, more gold than any other
country save Africa, and more manufactured
goods than England, France
and Germany combined.
Everybody in the world who is oM
enough to know what the word spells
either has at some time been in love or
expects at some time to be in love.
This generalization embraces even the
most pronounced woman-hater, who, if
( he be not a hypocrite, is assurediy a
man with a past, philosophizes the
New York Press.
When the American army was in
Cuba the island was almost depleted
of cattle, a vast number of animals
having been killed for food. Now the
ranchmen and larmers are busy stocking
up again, and have made heavy
drafts on Florida, which, as a consequence,
has about been stripped of
its better grades of cattle.
The increase of commerce on the
Great Lakes is suggestively Illustrated
in the fact that during the year 19ou
the several shipyards located on these
inland seas turned out a tonnage of
130,011 tons. 58,433 tons more than ail
the vessels built on the New England
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coast in the same period. In fact, the
shipyards of the Groat Lakes turned
out one-third of all the new shipping
constructed in the United States during
the year.
Lord Curzon says that "while the
n crows fat and the Frenchman
wallers the Englishman plays lawn
tenuis under a tropical sun." Its effete
ou the American lias not yet fccen
noted, the data being insufficient.
Dewey eauic back from the Philippines
fatter than before he went there, but
the average American is of somewhat
too pronounced a nervous temperament
to get the best advantages of
residence in a tropical climate.
It is a dull week in medical activity
that does not produce a new consumption
cure. Of two divulged within a
recent week, one, a Chicago Invention,
reiies mainly on the therapeutic qualities
of fresh air. while the other, ira
ported from Denmark via Brooklyn,
exploits anew the old efficacy of lightin
this case "decomposed ligbt"-*-as a
powerful agent in averting the progress
of the disease. Tne time is at
hand when no general practitioner
will he considered to have won his
spurs till he has devised a sure preventive
of tuberculosis.
Waiter Crane thinks that "woman's
dress has greatly improved during the
last few years. One sees simple gowns
adapted to the lines of the figure and
not distorting It, whereas distortion
more or less has ruled the present century
since the early empire days. But
jus* for the moment there is no exaggeration,
unless in the hat. and that
liSS r.iwajs ueen auunauu*, eveu ai
matinees. As to the man?well, in
society lie has always been ruled by
tii? clubman, whose canon is correctj
Or.? of the redeeming features
of a commonplace era. as it has been
called, is the tendency to uniformity
j? masculine attire, for which we have
\j thank the rcr.Jy-niade-clotbing man.
A HORRIBLE FATE.
Lynching and Burning of a Negro In
Indiana.
Tcrre Haute, In J.. Special.?Punishfnei'
uvift ar.J tent hie wa^ mcied ojt
to Gi org?" Ward, the uegr> who murdered
MLre Ida Finkelitein, the school
| K\k her. by shooting her with a shotgun
ai.'d cutting her throat. A few
hours after his arrest .an angry mob
battered down the doors of the jail,
dragged the prisoner to the TVaba^h
bridge, severa! squares away, and
hanged him to the bridge draw. Not
content with the hanging, the crowd
cut the corp-ue down, anO laying it on
i a eind bar under the bridge kindled a
firs and cremated the remains, it
was the first lynching that Terre
Haute ever experienced.
"Ward was arrested at 10 o'clock at
th? car works, where he was employed
as a laborer, and after being fully
identified by two citizens, made a confession.
HLs only excuse for the murder
was that Miss Finkel.vte'n call'd j
him "a dirty nigger" and slapped hint
in the face. Sheriff Kasirg ccmmunLcaitod
with Governor Durbin, but til?
mob accomplished its work before the
; militia could be ordered out. The Gov- j
ernor had wired Captain Thomas, of
Company B, to place his company,
fully armed, in readiness ior uuij.
At noon the crowd outside the jail,
numbering several hundred, "including
men, women and boys, battered down
the iron doors, but were driven baric
by Jailer Lawrence O'Donnell. woo
fired over the heads of the mob. Deputy
Sheriffs Cooper, Hessiek and l,dForge
were dtruck by scattering shot
and slightly Injured, but nobody in iiie
crowd was hurt. A detail cf police
vainly tried to disperse the crowd.
At 12:30 o'clock another crowd ba tered
down the outer doors of the jail,
secured possession of the keys and entered
the ceil room. The side door was
opened for the rest of the crowd. The
cell was quickly opened and Ward was
dragged forth. He fought with desperation
and with ferocity. He was dragged
out to the streot, still fighting with
! all his strength, but a blow from a
! heavy hammer foiled him to the
ground.
A nocse was quickly adjusted to iii s
neck and the mob smarted with its victim
itxjwand the Wa'bash (bridge. Tae
feeble resistance made by tfc wretched
creature after that blow with the
hammer was soon quieted by -the sav:
age blows of the mob. Face down,
ward, he was dragged through the
j street to ?*re bridge and across '.he
j roug planking cf the driveway to the
i drawbridge. Many are of fhe opinion
| that the fellow was dead brfore the
I fvene of the hanging was reached,
j However, the rope was throw n over
I one of the upper beams ahd the bo.1v
1 drawn up.
Then burning at the stake was
agreed on unanimously ard a fire was
quickly kindled on the bank of the
river just south of the wst end 01 tne
bridge, and into -the fire the body,
(bearing no sign of life, wa-thrown, and
faggots were piled upon it. The stake
was omitted. The Ixody was in a horij
zontal position, the feet protruding at
| one end and the head at the other. A
j can of turpentine was poured on the
j eager flames. After that combustible
oils seemed to flow spontaneously to*
ward the fire and the flames leapei
high while the bcdy of the nrgro was
rapidly consumed. None of .he mob
attempted disguise. When the body
was 'taken down to be carried to the
fire the bridge wes: of the draw was
barricaded, but the cast bank of the
river and the bridge on the city side
of the draw was crowded with thousands
cf men, women and children,
gazing at the awful spectacle. With
grim determination the mob fed the
flames and watched the flesh shrivel to
cinders and the bones crumble and
burrv.
As the bones begun to crumble and
fall apart fragments were taken from
the Are and carried away. At 3 o'clock
there was nothing left of the body except
a small section cf the irunk and
the back of the head. Busy hand?
kept the burning faggots piled upon
'he roasting segment. Women came to
the scene by scores. At about 2:30
o'clock the barricade was removed an)
the crowd surrounded the fire. ,
Denounces the British.
London, By Cable.?Not finee the
days cf the Romans, said Mr. ?John
Dillon, Irish National'st, in the debate
on the address to the throne, "had an
array made a habit of capturing women
and children as the British generals
in South Africa were doing." To
I wnmcn r\n half rat'ons Le
cause their husbands had not surrendered',
as was the practice. 'he said,
was worthy of the worst brigands of
Sicily and Greece. Mr. Dillon said that
4n .treaohery and cruelty the balance
was against the British. He congratulated
the Boers on having a different
record.
News Briefs.
Great excitement has been caused in
Pensacola, Fla., by virgin gold in considerable
quantities being pumped
from a well in the suburbs of the city.
Tony Moran. of New York, won one
of the smartest and blood est lightweight
fights ever seen in Savannah,
Ga., from Shanty Jenkins, in the 13to ;
i, round.
SHOT WIFE AND SELF
A Horrible Deed Committed By An
Insane Doctor.
NO CAUSE HAS BEEN ASSIGN,D.
Dr. W. F. Aiken, a Leading Specialist,
I Kills liis Wife and Then Blows Out
His Own Brains.
Savannah, (la.. Special.?Dr. W. F.
Aiken, a leading specialist, shot and
killed his wife in their bedroom at an
early hour Wednesday morning. The
rc;.ort of the pis ol av.akened their little
son. aged S years. In his night
clothes and barefooted the child ran
in the street to call a policeman.
When the officer entered the house he
fcur.d Mrs. Aiken dead on the bed
with a bullet hole through her head
and Dr. Aiken with a pistol in his hand
lying on the floor, dead. After shooting
his wife he had placed the weapon
to his own head and eent a bullet
through his brain The child said that
he had htard his father couat, "one.
two. threel" and then the pistol shot.
k was developed at the coroner's
inquest that Dr. Aiken was about 38
years old. He was born in New York
| and was graduated at Yale at the age
of 20 years Arter graduating nc wo.-* |
oonoected for a time with the health j
i department of the city of New York. I
then he took a special course in disea
sea o: the eye and ear, and came
South to settle. He married Miss An;
r.a K. Porter, daughter of the Rev.
J A. C. Porter, a clergyman of NewBedford,
Mass Rev. Dr. Porter was
a clcse personal friend of Ralph Waldo
Cmerson. A brother of Mrs. Aikoj!.
Afifrtd C. Porter, is now librarian
cf Harvard University. This brother
has been telegraphed for. and will ari
rive to take charge of the bodies and
| remove them to Massachusetles for
j interment.
tUft. i ??q v u-n?j rlfv.
AO cause I CM l lie Iiagw; ?
i velcped at the inquest.lt was brought
j out that Dr. Aiken was a cigaretei
exoker to excess, and that he was of
j an extremely nervous temperament,
j Two weeks or so ago he had to have
| the sei vices of physicians in what was
j believed to be morphine poisoning and
I it was rumored at the time that he had
atempted suicide, but the atending
physician says that was improbable.
Lately his friends had noticed an ex
I treme abstraction and irritability.
Dr. Aiken was devoted to science,
ar.d was an inventor of some note.
He is the originator of many opthalmalogiea!
instruments that are now in
common use ail <ver the country. He
refused to patent his inventions, saying
they were for the benefit of mankind..
He had a very large and lu
crative practice, anu was iu iuuci.rcudent
circumstnces. Mrs. Aiken was
a lady of great beauty and many accomplishments
They leave four little
children.
$5,500 Found By a Boy.
Charleston. S. C., Special.?Carl Sanberg.
while playing on a city dump
pile at West Point Mill, on the bauk
of the Cooper river, in this city, found
$5,000 in money and certified checks.
The little boy found a package of letters
from Rock Hill, S. C.. and opened
them through curiosity. As soon a;
he came across the money he went to
his grandfather. Charles Colson. who
reported the facts 'and delivered thi
letters to the postal authorities here.
The package of letters is supposed to
have been carelessly dropped at the
poatoffice here and swept out as rubbish.
Two of he largest certified
checks were for $2,600 and $1,800 respective,'}-.
An investigation of the
matter is now being held by Postmaster
Cunningham.
Militin Ordered Out.
I
Griffin, Ga., Speria!.?On orders from
Governor Candler one company of
militia was put on duty around a
home here and another ordered to
hoid itself in readiness to put down
any disorder which may arise through
the efforts of a mob to lynch H. F. B.
Booth, superintendent of the Griffin
Knitting Mills. Booth had some
trouble last Monday wiiuh. 'Mrs. La
vinia .Mcone. one 01 x-ae opereuvm, uu-i
was warned to leave tha city, but
lie appeared at the mill for duty. At
mi/night It Is believed efforts at
violence have been given up.
Tri-State Medical Society.
Richmond, Special.?The Tri-State
Medical Association adjourned after
electing the following officers: President.
Dr. J. N. TJpihur, Richmond;
vice president, for North Carolina. Dr.
J. W. Long. Salisbury; vice president
for Sou til Carolina. Dr. A. C. Baker,
Sumter; vice president for Virginia,
Dr. Hugh W. Taylor, Richmond; sec- 1
retary and treasurer. Dr. H. A. Roys- !
tor Raleteh N. Q. j
PICKS UP COURAGE.
England Hopes Soon to End South
African War.
lxinrton. ly cable?The war in South
Africa has again reached a stage
which the British newspaper critics
are please:! to call the eve o* the ter
mir.ation . The rumors of the surender
of Genera! Ilothi and the collapse
of al! Co:;- resi.iarfci flourish, to the
great hcne.1t cf South Africa stocks.
Thee ir.es: rc ponsible for carrying
on the war do not share this optimism.
The new con ::;;ravion of troops at the
fror.: is only one of many steps for
which Genera! Kitchener has so long
b-.cn preparing. That it will lead to
the complete disintegration of the
more important ltcer unites and possible
to the personal surrender of Central
DcWit and Botha, the British
War Office earnestly hopes. But it
rots not go so far as to expect it.
Corral Kitchener is almost as reticent
tOAT-ds his chiefs in Pall Mall
as to he general public.
The mcf 'T.r of General Kitchener
and Sir Alfred Milner, at Pretoria,
probably recurring Sundry, is taken
generally as likely to result in the establishment
of a more permanent
ferm of uvil government, in which
the severities of martial law will be
j-omewhr* tempered in several sections
cf tit" country. But neither in Ivonc'on
or in South Africa are the British
' ffiria's shutting their eyes to the fict
;>f-v have a lone task ahead of
f.hem which can only be lightened and
by no mean* solved through the victc:io
o/er the Boer unites.
The glory which the British press
some time ago showered on General
lJoWet ha- pirfed from him. In dispatches
and editorials he is now belittled
r ? a disappointed raider, deserted
by his own men and venting his fruitless
angpr by sjambocking his reluctar:
handful c* followers. Calmer ohser?
?-s are inclined to fear the elusive
Bosr leader is merely under a temporary
cloud, from whith he may be expected
at n~y moment to emerge accompanied
by a force which, though
rot fcrmcble in numbers, will be particularly
formable in execution. The
false announcement of General Botha's
.surrender Thursday, will be a
matter for discussion in the House of
Commons, especially the fact, which
ar anipanied the enervation. that i:
was offirld.
Government of the Philippines.
Washington. I). C., Special?The
President will issue an executive orfiw
rf.-sruch? fieneral MacArthur
and all the ether officers of the present
military government in the Philippines
to administer all military, civil
and judicial powers necessary to
govern the Philippine Islands. The ex
isting government will continue under
a new designation of authority from
the President, until arrangements can
be made "for the establishment of civil
government and for maintaining and
protecting the inhabitants of said Islands
in the free enjoyment of their
liberty, property and religion." This
is simply a precaution against legal or
international computations. A general
plan of civil government has been
, formula ted by the Secretary of War
and referred to the Philippine commission
for its consideration. It will
be for th9 President to determine
when and how the government shall
be inaugurated. It seems to be settled
that Judge Taft will be the first civil
governor of the Philippines and that
General Chaffe wtll have command o/
the military forces.
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Lived as a Man.
Ixjndan. by Cable.?A remarkable
story of male impersonation was revealed
in a police court here. In eon
o 'tr U 11GtTfvl
I U^TUlsIl w au au uiiooi
money frauds. The prisoner, named
Catherine Coombs, aged 66. described
as a house decorator appeared in court
in male attire. For 40 years Catherine
impersonated a man and worked on
board peninsula and Oriental s.earners,
in various capacities and also for London
firms. She says she was married
at 15, taught school and then thought
there were better chances of advance!
meat as a man. She married a lady
j with whom she lived for 14 years.
I
A Lawyer Suicides.
Macon, Ga., Special.?Solicitor Genj
per 100 kilos. The difference between
; Court, and one of the most prominent
j men of the State, was found dead in
his room at the court house Saturday.
! A bullet wound was found in his head.
The shot had penetrated his brain. All
| the gas in the room was turned on,
i indicating suicide.
Cuban Tarlf Changes.
Washington, D. C., Special.?The
President has issued an executive oder,
making two important changes in
the Cuban tariff, which will become
operative April 1, next. The. duty on
refined mineral oils is increased to St
per 100 kilos. The difference beatwcea
the crude and the refined will make
the cost of oil in Cuba about the samt
as it is in the raited States. Also in
section 111. regard ng eottor.s. tissues
j measuring not o.er Cj centimeters in
width and weighing eight kilograms
or more per 100 .square meters, art
granted the same rate as that formerj
ly applied to weights of 10 kilograms,
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DEAD IN COAL MINE
Thirty-Six Miners Burned to Death
By Explosion.
AWFUL RESULT OF CARlLESSNESS.
A Fire in a Coal Mine in Diamondviile,
Wyo., Burns to Death All the
Miners in One Shaft With a Single '
Exception. ^
Cheyenne, Wyo., Special?The worst
disaster in the history of coal mining
in Wyoming since the Ainry horor,
eight years ago, occurred at Diaraondville
Monday night. Thirty-six
men are believed to have perished in
a fire which started in Mine Nol, of
the Diamondville Coal and Coke Company.
The blaze was first discovered shortly
after the night shift commenced
work. It is thought to have originated
from a careless miner's lamp in
the oil room. The flames made such
progress that only one man escaped
from the two entires in which it was
confined His name 13 Jno. Aiexan
der and he was frightfully burned in
running the gauntlet of the flames. He
was suddenly confronted by a wall of
fire -and smoke and wrapping his bead
in an overcoat he ran In the direction
of the main entrance. He fell unconscious,
and was carried to the mouth
of the mine. The alarm was sounded
and hundreds of miners at work in
the mines and on. the outside rushed
to the rescue of their imprisoned comrades.
The fire bad by this time made
such progress that it was impossible
to einter the rooms of flames. The entire
night was spent in confining the
fire to the two entries and this morning
it was necessary to seal them up to
prevent the flames from spreading to
other parts of the mine. This step was
only decided upon after all hope of
saving the lives of the men had been
abandoned. Nothing could live five
minutes in the fire, which was in
creasing in nercsncae e\eij
The plugging of the two entries will
smother the fire, but it may be several
days before the barricades can be removed
and the chambers explored.
The exact total of men entombed is
not yet known as a number are miss- '
ing, some on sick leave and others in
the hospital, suffering from burns received
while fighting the -flames, so
that an accurate count s at present
impossible.
The scenes at the mouth of the mine
during the night and day were heart- ^
rendering. Relatives and friends of the J
a niehcl +r\ tho mlTlP
tUllftflUl UtXl Iiiuucio iuouvu bv ihmv ?
frantically waving their hands and
crying to the mine officials and miners
to save their dear ones. Many of the
women and children were slightly
injured in the crowd and by falling
over obstacles in the darkness.
Diamondville has been the scene ot
a number of disastrous fires since the
coal mines were opened there, ten
years ago, but the conflagrations were
never attended with serious loss of
life.
The mine is owned by the Oregon
Short Line Railroad. Its output is
about 175,000 tons of coal per year an6
upwards of 700 miners are employed.
Horror of Horrors.
Versailles, Ind., Special.?George
James and his four young daughters
were burned to death iu their farm
house, four miles from Versallies ear
ly Saturday awning. A son, 12 years
old, made a desperaiie eflarh to get his
father end sisters otic from the burning
house, but failed. The son, who
been sleeping with his father, escaped
through a rear door, and finding it impossible
to get back owing to the rapid
spread of the fire, rushed to a window
of his father's room and broke the
glass in with his fist. He bogged his
father and sisters to climb through the
broken sash, but they made no reply.
In a few minutes the whole struetcure
fell, burying the five inmate*.
The Seaboard to Knoxville.
Brunswick, Ga., Special.?It is reported
here that negotiations are
pending for the purchase of .the Tallulah
Falls railroad by the Southern Air
Line and eventually resulting in a line #
from Athens, Ga., to Knoxville, Tenn.
The purpose of the new line, fct is said,
is to bring in reaoh the undeveloped
rolinaationoionofl -hetinao m cmfw m
mineral and timber lands of North
Georgia, North Carolina and Eaet
Tennessee. George L. Prentiss, of New
York, who Is considered a leading
promoted- of the undertaking, was here
but would neither deny or affirm the
rumor.
Goes to Ashevilin.
Chicago, Special?John T. McOutelieon,
the war correspondent-artist,who
was with Admiral Dewey at the battle
of Manila, was taken to-day on a special
car to Asheville, N. C.. where It is
hoped his health, seriously affected bymalaria
contracted in the Philippines,
and an attack of typhoid pneumonia
In Chicago, wall be regained.
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