The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 03, 1902, Image 6
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Does Serious Damage to Property h
Pittsburg
FORTY PEOPLE BADLY INJURED
4 Wrecks a Church During Servic s
and a Panic Results? heavy Damages.
Pittsburg, Special.?Oone cf the
fiercest wind storms ever known in
this section struck tbe city just before
noon Sunday and did almost incalculable
damage to property and inJued
many people, some cf whom may
die from the effects of their woniuis
Scores of houses were unroofed, many
trees were blown dov.-a, mill stacka
toppled over and telegraph and telephone
wires generally disabled. The
most serious accident reported up to 9
o'clock was the unroofing of the Knoxvllle
Presbyterian church, in Knoxviile.
The church was filled with an
Easter congregation numbering about
600 persons. While the minister was
In the midst of his sermon, a strong
gust of wind blew over the iarye
chimney, and lifted a portion of the
roof off the building. The bricks from
the chimney crushed through the roof
and carried a huge piece of the ceiling,
measuring about 40 by 20 feet,
down upon the worshipers in the
pews. An indescribable panic ensued
and a frantic rush was made for
the doors and windows. The excitement
was soon quieted and the work
of rescue begun. At least 40 persons
were caught by the wreckage end
more or less injured. Of this number
five may not recover. The more seriously
injured axe:
Dr. R. J. Phllipps, aged 40. concus
sltm of brain, may die; cuius nay
McKnight, 4 years old, internal injuries,
both legs crushed, probably
fatal; Clarence McNulty, aged 17, |
internal injuries, badly crushed, may
die; Fletcher Bryon, fracture at the
base of the brain, serious; David
6mith, 32. arm broken, head cut and !
badly battered, serious; Joseph I
Adams, 21. badly crushed; Albert j
Schmidt, 14. both arras broken and j
head cut; John Meyer. 17. head an 1
face cut; Thomas Meherlin, 18. arms
and head cut; Evan Jones, 22. scii- j
ous scalp wounds; Mrs. Rachael
Schultz, 35. arms broken. None of the
other Injured are seriously hurt.
In none of the other accidents reported
throughout the city were there
any serious injuries to persons,
though many narrow escapes arc recorded.
The iowboat. Belle McGov/au.
was blown over in the Ohio river opposite
Mill Run and completely wrecked.
Her crew narrowly escaped
drowning, but all were finally rescued
by harbor boats. The corrugated iron
roof of the union bridge at the point,
was lifted from its fastenings by the
wind and portions of it carried a (lis
tance or a miie. me n miner oiwj>,
near Mount Washington,, was unroofed
and its walls badly twisted.
Jones & Laughlin's had 14 of their
furnanee stacks blown down, necessitating
the shut-down of a portion
of their plant for weeks. Reports from
near-by towns are not coming iu,
probably on account of the crippled
condition of the wires. It is feared
that much damage has been done in
those places.
As Rev. J. W. English, pastor of the
Robinson Run Union Protestant
church, near McDonald, was raising
his arms to pronounce the benediction,
lightning struck the church spire
and it toppled upon the roof, crushing
It and injuring a number of worshipers,
two of whom will die. The injured
are: Robert Patterson, aged 10,
skull fractured, will die; Leon AverilJ.
11, skull fractured, will die. Mrs.
John Patterson, mother of Robert,
severely bruised about body; Mis.
Mary Patterson, arm broken and
badly bruised; Miss Mary G. Wallace,
badly bruised; Mrs. Averill,
mother of Leon, head and arms cut
and bruised.
The spire and portions of the roof
of the Union Protestant church at
McDonald was torn off and the buildlnc
considerably damaged, but nooue
was injured. The Noblestown Presbyterian
church was also unroofed, but
the congregation escaped injury.
The Forest Oil Company had between
200 and 300 derricks blown
down in its McDonald region and considerable
damage was sustained by
Its pipe system.
The offices of the Monongahela Con
necting ttanroaa, on secuuu avcuuu,
this city, were destroyed by fire during
the afternoon, because no alarm
could be sent in either by telephone
or telegraph. The Armstrong Cork
Company's plant on Liberty avenue,
between Twenty-fifth and TwentyBixth
streets, was unroofed and much
damage dene to machine ry and stock.
Reports from the different railroads
tonight show that all suiTered more
or less from broken telegraph poles
and crippled service. All. however,
were in good shape and trains running
by 8 o'clock.
The baseball park in Allegheny
lost one of its fences and a portion
of the grand stand roof. More than
2.500 lights of glass in the Philipps'
conservatory were broken. The Montana
apartment house at Pennsylvania
avenue and Fairmont street.
East End. and the Idaho building,
which adjoins it, were partially destroyed.
The damage in the Monon
1 gahela and Turtle creek valleys trill
reach thousands of dollars, but no
. specially bad individual loss is reported.
Almost the entire eastern uis|
trict of this city is in darkness tonight.
the electric lighting system
having been put out of commission by
the storm. The down-town portic: s
were repiarcd early in the afternoon.
The storm, which came upon the city
very suddenly, came up through the
Ohio valley and passed on eastward.
It lasted only about SO minutes, only
five minutes cf which was at a velocity
unusually high. In that five
minutes prctically all the damago
done was accomplished.
Tired of Rebellion.
! Manila. By Cable.?Ruflno. who has
spent $30,000 in his efforts to incite
rebellion in the province of Misamis.
Island of Mindanao, now says he is
tired of rebellion and has offered to
! surrender, with 73 rifles, to the native
constabulary. General Chaffee will
leave Manila April 10. on a tour of inspection
to the island of Saniar. Hi
, will visit every port ih the island, and
1 will witness the surrender there or
i April 13, of the insurgent general.
Guevr.rra, After this surrender, the
American garrisons in Samar will bi
largely reduced.
Not After Atlantic Coast L:ne.
Wilmington. N. C.. Special.?It is
known almost to a certainty here that
i there is no truth in the report that the
j Pennsylvania Railroad h3s purchased
the Atlantic Coast Line. Railroad authorities
here are disposed to ties:
the rurmor lightly and will not discuss
the matter for publication. It Is beI
1:?"?rl UrttvAVA*. fVani n 'WAvorrprt let r.n
fool for a joint operation of the Plant
System by the Atlantic Coast Line ana
Southern.
Confederate Battle Abbey.
Atlanta. Ga.. Special.?Trustees of
1 the Confederate Memorial Association
at a meeting held in this city last
week definitely determined upon Richmond.
Va.. as the place to build the
j Confederate Museum. One hundred
thousand dollars was donated by the
late Charles Broadway Rouss toward
the founding of a Eattle Abbey in the
South, provided a like sum could be
raised by popular subscription. In the
! report submitted by the treasurer of
the association it was shown that all
of th.? additional amount had been obtained
and pledged.
Owns a Whole Town.
Raleigh. N. C., Special.?The Supreme
Court decides the interesting
! case cf Mrs. Scott vs. Ingram, involving
the title to the whole town of Star,
in Montgomery county. Mrs. Scoft, a
married woman, living in South Carolinr.
sold the land on which the town
now stands, for a tri.lc. it seems. The
town was built, and ic is said the land
i Is now worth $70,000 or thereabouts.
The Supreme Court decides in favor of
Mrs. Scot.: and so the property owners
lose it. |
Gigantic Mour Combine.
Chicago, Special.?The final steps
in the formation cf the National Miller's
Federation representing a total
capital of $-100,000,000. and an annual
' flour output cf 100.000,000 barrels,
were taken at a meeting held here.
1 The federation is the national or
: gamzation 01 me various aiaie as;
sociations and in addition it will in'
elude the National Millers' Association
and the National Winter Wheat
Millers' Association.
An U?:ly Ccrtoon.
Berlin By Cable? Sinplicissimus an
illustrated journal noted for the
brutality of its cartcons, and which ha3 1
often been confiscated by the police j
because of its irreverence toward high '
personages, appears Tuesday with a I
drawing representing MiS3 Alice Roosevelt
at sea in an open boat jn immense
fat hog in one end of the boat and
1 Miss Roosevelt standing in the otner
: holding a pig wrapped in the Stars and
i Stripes. The drawing is inscribed: !
"We received your Prince; you must '
admit our hogs."
Favor a Genera! Surrender
Wolve Iloeck, Orange River Colony,
j By Cable.?The train having on board
; Acting Presiednt Schalkburger and his
i party passed through this place cn its
i way to Kroonstadt Tuesday. The
| Transvaal government officials vere ;
accompanied by Captain Marker, Lord
; Kitchener's aide-de-camp, and Ave oth- 1
' er members of the staff of the British
commander-in-chief in South Africa,
j The impression here is that the Transvaalers
fawor a general surrender of the
Boer forces.
Four Generations of Soldiers.
Soldiering seems to run in the blood
! of certain families. A typical instance
| of this is furnished in the person of
Mr. William Smith, chief janitor at the
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Smith's
i father was a soldier, he himself and
four of his brothers "took the shilling"
one after another, and he has
! given four sons and a grandson to the
army. This, therefore, is a case of
"soldiering" carried through four successive
generations, and the youngest
of them all is able to make the proud,
perhaps the unique, boast that not only
his great-grandfather, his grandfather,
and his father, but four granduncles
and three uncles, all served their
sovereign in the ranks.?London Telegraph.
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PATRICK IS GUILTY,
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yiiiiK Agreement ui jury iu riiiuuu>
Case.
Ml'RDERED MILLIONAIRE RICE.
The Object of the Crime Was to Qet
Possession of the Old flan's Valuable
Estate.
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New Ycrk, Special.?Albert Patrick.
lawyer, was convicted of tie mur- ,
der on September 23, 1900. of the ased
; millionaire recluse, William Marsh ,
I Rice. The peniltv under the statute is
' death in the electric chair.
A s^ant three hours of deliberation at
the close of a trial prolonged for nine j
weeks and replete with sensational interest
sufficed to enable the jury to I
| reach their verdict. The issue of the j
trial establishes the charee that Pat- \
rick consipred with Mr. Rice's valet, 1
Charles F. Jones, to obtain possession
of the need Texan's estate, estimated at ;
?7.000.000. and that Jcnes killed his em- j
plover hy the administration of chloro- ;
form at the direct instigation of Pat- j
rick. At the close of Reorder Goffs
charge, which occupied the morning;
session of the court, the Jury retired. |
This was at 1:30 p. m. At 5:55 they no- j
tifiej the officer in charge that they '
! were ready to return to court; rather
more than an hour of the intervening
time having been devoted to luncheon.
In anticipation of a scene of excitement
in the event of a verdict of guilty, the
j unusual step was taken of ordering all
women to leave the court room. Among
them were the prisoner's two sisters
i and Mrs. Francis, with whom he j
; boarded. j
With grave faces the members of;
the jury filed into their places and .
some minutes of painful tension
elapsed while messengers were endeav- j
orlng to find the counsel, who had dc-1
parted net expecting a verdict for many ;
hours. i
Calm as ever and with confidence |
seemingly unshaken, the prisoner was
escorted in the court room. He walked
rapidly and took his stand facing the
jury with head erect, and hands loosely
clasned behind his back. At the
word "guilty" pronounced by Foreman
Machell, in <i tone low. but distinct
enough to be beard throughout the
court not the slightest change passed
over Patrick's i*3ce and he remained !
standing in almost listless attitude
while th? customary noil of the jury
v.t.3 being taken. His ag"d father.
i-l._i-.-_ ** _ i ? 1 ? -l.i! 1
uaptain rairicK, siuin^ near nim, ai:j i (
straining to catch the statement of the j :
foreman, started for an instant as its
import reached him.
1 A smile of triumph lit up the face of s
Assistant District Attorney Osborne, '
i who hastened from the court imirmdi- |
| ately after the recorder had. at the request
of the prisoner's counsel, fixed on
a week from Monday as the day on
which to pronounce sentence. The verdict
was fcnown almost immediately in
the corridor where the women relatives
and friends of the prisoner were waiting.
and a scene of excitement ensued, j
Screaming hysterically, the prisoner's
oldest sister ran about the corridor,
, begging to be allowed to see hex
j brother.
Mrs. Francis faited and on recovering
broke from the attendants and
rushed into the court room, from which
Patrick had just been removed. There
she again sr/ooned. Both, women were
removed to an ante-room and were seal
home In a carriage. Captain Patrick i
took leave of his son who was led back s
to the Tombs. He would only say: "It (
is hard: we'll have to try again." ! 1
None of the jurors could be induced i
to reaveal how the verdict had been '
reached, an agreement having been i
made to tell nothing. A motion will be | 1
made for a new trial when the prisoner <
Is arranged for sentence. <
DEATMOF CECIL RHODES. i !
Universal /"lournlng In Cape Town ic '
Consequence.
Cape Town, By Cable.?Cecil j
Rhodes died peacefully at 5:57 p. m. t
Wednesday. He slept during the ,
morning and again in the afternoon ! <
but his breathing became more dith- ! .
cult and his strength perceptibly dl-! t
minished until he passed away. The (
government has decided to give Cecil ?
Rhodes a public funeral. His remains '
will be brought here from Grootes- ]
chuur, for the burial service, which i
I will be held in the cathedral. The
tody will then be taken back to y
Grootesehuur and will eventually be
interred at Matoppo Hills. The news
of his death spread through Cape ,
Town between 7 and 8 o'clock Wed- j
nesday evening and caused profound
grief. All places of amusement were
immediately closed. An open-air concert
was stopped and the audience
uncovered, while the band played
"The Dead March." The people then
silently dispersed.
News in Paragraphs.
A Manila dispatch says: "The outbreak
of cholera here does not create
alarm. No white persons have been
stricken with the disease. According
to the report of the medical authorities
made up to noon today, there
have been all told 26 cases and 21
deaths."
A Newport News, Va., dispatch
says: "James llrigg3, the negro proprietor
of a crap joint in Hampton,
died from wounds received in a pistol
fight between a posse and a score of
negro crap-shooters. Constable Roy
Sinclair received a bullet in the head
which may cause his death, and Constable
John Tignor was wounded in
the arm."
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SERf iiUS SOUTHERN PLOODS.
High Water Does Damege in Many
Piaces.
Meridian. Miss.. Special.?Meridian
is entirely cut off from the outside
world, except that two Western Union
wires are still in operation, and not a
train is moving with 50 miles of the
city. A fast freight on the Northeastern
Railroad is C feet under water ard
the crew is in danger of being swept
away. Efforts to reach the train by
boats have been futile, owing to the
swift current. Two relief parties started
to swim and wt.de streams, but nothing
has been heard from them since
Thursday night. Water at Enterprise.
12 miles south, is rising at the rate of
18 inches an hour. There is no prospect
for t.he resumption of traffic for two or
three days. The southern section of this
city has been under 3 feet of water for
24 hours and many families have been
forced to leave their homes in the low
lands and escape to higher ground.
New Orleans. Special.?The wind
and rain storm which has prevailed
over southern Mississippi for the pa3t
48 hours has demoralized all railway
traffic and telegraphic communication
The town of Hazlehurst, Miss., has
been completely isolated for the past
two days on account of the heavy rains.
Many streams in the country overflowed
their banks and all traffic from the
country has been stopped, with no
trains or mails. The rainfall has caused
great damage by flood at Newton, Miss
and there Is little probability of the
trains running through for several
days. About ten miles east the water is
running over the railroad tracks six
feet deep and four or five miles wide
and two miles of track have been swept
away. Telegraphic lines are prostrated
on all locations. No mail has been received
over the star routes since tho
rain.
Mobile. Ala., Special.?The vain
Vl O 4 Vl rt i ? A ltf r AF? A1?(l fi AA/1w
3iui ui mat :iaj l auoiu ocuuuo uuuua
in the upper country set in here Friday
with steady "but not heavy rain and
Rind. The outer bar is reported as exceedingly
rough. No vessels have attempted
its passage since Thursday
light and no vessels passed through
the ship channel since this morning,
rhe coast steamer Alpha, which is the
last to arrive, reports a very rough exlerience
on the bar. The Louisville &
Nashville Railroad is operating as
isual, no -'amagc being reported. The
Southern is also operating. The Molile
& Ohio is tied up at various points.
Jackson. Miss., Special.?The flood
situation is somewhat improved so fa:
is the railroads are concerned, but
raffic has not yet been resumed from
New Orleans. Vicksburg or Meridian.
Mail from the North arrived Friday 3d
lours late, but no mail has come in
irom the South in two days. Pearl rir?r
continues to rise and is now spread
mt ovf<r a wide portion of country in
:he vicinity of Jackson. The flood from
:he upper country is being felt here
tnd Pearl river has already backed up
:o within 100 feet of the old capitol.
Scores of families moved to high
jroxmd. So far there has been no loss
if life.
Meridian, Miss.. Special.?Eleven inches
of rain has fallen here during the
last 43 hours. The streams are raging
md many farms are under tvater.
iridges have been washed away and
-ailway traffic in this vicinity is at a
standstill. An Alabama Great Southern
freight went into a washout near
Newark, Friday night. Two trains
were lost on the Alabama & Vicksburg
his morning, and on the New Orleans
ind Northwestern. 20 miles south of
Meridian. No trains have entered or
Jpparted from Meridian since Thursday
afternoon. Several serious washluts
are reiorted. Many telegraph
wires are down and some points are
;ntirely cut off.
Mobile, Ala., Special.?Traffic on the
Mobile & Ohio Railroad in Mississippi
has been seriously interfered with by
:he floods of the Inst two days. Friday
light a trestle 20 feet long, just south
if Shuqulak, Miss., was washed cut
ind the track is under water from Por:erville.
Miss., to Iron Bridge, a disance
of two miles. Minor washouts
ire ruso repnriea Deiween Artesia ana
rusenloosa. The passenger train which
elt Mobile last night was turned
jack at Enterprise.
Decatur, Ala., Special.?A very serere
wind and rain storm accompain?d
hy a heavy fall of hail, struck here
ibout 4 o'clock Friday afternoon, lastng
one hour. Heavy damage was done
md severe and serious washouts wore
ncarred hy roads. Haywood Roberts,
i white man, and Tom Evan3. colored,
vere killed by live electric wires which
vere bl^wn down. Wires fell down
icross street car tracks and killed two
nuies attached to a car, the passengers
jeing severely shocked.
Valuable Jewels Stolen.
Washington, Special.?The police of
:he various cities cn the Southern
ilailway between Washington and
Jacksonville are mystified over the
disappearance cf a $3,000 pearl neckace,
the property of a passenger cn
i Southern train out of Jacksonville !
jn March 7. The necklace was
missed from a traveling bag, at
Charleston. It was set in heavy gold
md in graduated order. The jewel
vas manufactured by a Philadelphia
Irm and on the clasps were engraved
:he letters "H. S. B." The necklace is [
jelieved to be the property of some i
veil-known Washingtcnian, whose j
dentity is not disclosed.
1 PALMETTO GLEANINGS
A Desperate Negro.
There is a ne&ro desperado running
loose in Horry county, terriiying lu<7
poople over there. anJ the governor
has offered $100 for the recapture of _
I the negro, who is really an escapted
i convict and should be arrested by the
county supervisor without payment of
reward. However, the governor con!
sidercd that the matter is a serious
one and deserving of official notice,
i In a letter from Col. D. A. Spivey,
a prominent young banker, the gov1
ernor is fully Informed of the conditions.
The letter is endorsed by Senator
McDermott. The facts are that
John Harrell was sentenced to IS
months on the chaingang for some
misdemeanor. After two days of servitude
he escaped and not only has
he remained at large but it appears
that no efforts are being made to rej
capture him. The county supervisoris
credited with saying that he is pow
erless to act; the sheriff says it is none
of his business, and the stockade guard
says he cannot leave the chaining to
go in pursuit of the escaped convict
Col. Splvey continues that the negro
is in hiding within a mile of Conway,
and is lying in ambush. He has made
threats against the livc-3 of some of the
best citizens of the county, including
the lntendant, the magistrat?, and
clerk cf tjie court, the deputy sheriff
and others.
He wanted to knew if it is not somebody's
business to capture this desperado.
The offering of a reward was
not asked for. but it will no doubt
bring the negro out of his hiding place.
?Columbia State.
The governor is in a quandary in the
matter of paying the lawyers who are
called In to preside over special terms
of court. The law provides that these
acting judges shall be paid $10 a day
and expenses; but it does not provide
whence the pay shall come. Heretofore
the governor has been paying
' these expenses out of his contingent
fund. The amount promises to becoms
so large this year by reason of theunusually
large number of special
terms so Held tftat tie does not Know
whether to pay these expenses or to
let the claims go to the legislature. The
reason why so many counties are seeking
to have special terms of court isi
because the court dockets were congested
by reason of the fact that thej
old jury law was declared unconstiI
tutional.
Governor McSweeney receives daily
from half a dozen to a score of Ietttererecommending
parties for appointment,
to place on the State constabulary
The governor has on file applications
from 100 or more strenuous eitizens
who would like to catch the wicked
gleam of the baleful eye of the blind
tiger.
Mr. Sheppard Nash, clerk of thecourt
of Sumter county, ha3 written
the governor that on account of ill
health he wants to take a trip. In accordance
with the requirements of law
he was given permission to ge beyond
the borders of the State.
A special term of court will bo held
at Florence Monday for the purpose of
trying the negro recently arrested for
assault on a white woman la that
county. Judge Purdy will preside.
Sale of Fertilizers Very Heavy.
| The State has received from the
privilege tax J64.S28.55 since the first
of the year against J76.950.6S for the
same time last year. This would appear
to be a falling off in the amount
of fertilizer being used, but last year
the sales were phenomenal.
For the same time in 1900 the sales,
amounted to $03,937.60, which is less
than for the first three months of thisyear.
Therefore it will be seen that
the sales this year are about on a par*
with the sales of an average year.
The total amount for last year from*
this tax was $54,073.43, showing that
but $7,000 came in after the first of
April. If the amount is yet to be- \
added to the income for 1902 the re- f
ceipts for this year may approximate$72,000.
Thi3 is about $12,000 short of
last year, but is ample for Clemson
college's running expenses.
The State exacts a license of 25cents
on every ton of manufactured
fertilizer, on the ground that such a.
fee is necessary in order to pay the
expense of making chemcial examination
of the manufactured product. The income
fro mthis source is given toClemson
college and is always ?on
amount large enough for the necessities
of the college.
One of the officials in the State treasurer's
office said that the farmers
would not need .30 much commercial
fertilizer if they understood
the adaptation cf soils to the use of
fertilizer. 1-Ie also called attention to
the fact that too many farmers neglect
their opportunity and waste thomeans
and material for making splendid
fertilizer at no cost at all. They
are gradually displaying more energy
along this line, but meanwhile thesale
of commercial fertilizers continues.
Thirteen-Year-Old flurderer.
Toledo, O., Special.?Danny RoseDbecker,
13-years-old, was arrested'
Sunday for the murder of 7-year-old
Arthur Shanteau. The parents of, the
boys live on adjoining farm3, twomiles
from this city. Rosenbecker
says that while he and Shanteau
were hunting yesterday the latter
called him a name and attempted tostrike
him with a club, whereupon he
retaliated by striking Shanteau with
a butcher knife until he was dead. lie
then dragged the body among some
bushes where it was found later.
Rcsenbeck has not shed a tear, orshown
any remorse for the crime.