The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-05-16
AFFAIRS IN AUGUSTA.
Nj 2st ri Jus ID Daath and Suapected Poison
iEg-shocklug Death.

AUGUSTA, May 6.-Prof. ". 8. Dill.
len, principal of the Central Gram.
mar School, died this morning at 5
O'Clock under singular circumstances.
Prof. Dillon went fishing on May Day,
It being holiday in the schools. aud has
not been very we'll since. He missed
two days at school, bat yesterday left
home 10 apparently coed condition. He
told bis wife he was going to see friend
cut oa the Sand Hills. aud if he came
back at all it would be late. lie did not
return home last night, and when his
father.in-law, Mr...B. B. Lester, returned
from church today and still there was 70
news he vent ou5 TO look for him.
About 2 O'Clock be looked ia the
school building and found Prof. Dillon
leaning back in his chair unconscious.
At o'clock he died, having spoken but
once. There was evidence Of a tempor
ary resuscitation and DR.. Doughty asked:
"How do you feel, Ben? He replied:
Never better," and then relapsed into
unconscl0usness, from which be did not
agan recover. At the coroner's inquest
the physicians declined to give any rosi
tive theory of the cause OF death and an
autopsy was ordered, but the result has
u0t yet been reached
The autopsy, as far as carried on to-
night, did not show any gross lesion or
disease OF an7 Of the organs Of the
body. The dociG-5 VITO were With him
before death say the symptoms pre-
seated we're not sucb as would IL any
usGal disease or coGu10u poison. The
organs were all found normal and IN a
iairly healthy condition. DR.. Holiday,
vino performed the autopsy, gave it as
MS evidence that be was unable 10 deter
mne toe cause Of "eath, but the con
tents Of The stomach had been taken oul
and preserved fyr examIo alton By com
pe.ent chemist, which NAV reveal the
true cause Of death. The verdict Of the
Jury vas that the cause Of deaIh was un-
knOwn until the stomach was examined
By chcmi9t. Failure sc far to ind the
Cause IF Prot. Dnlon's death makes 1t a
sensational mystery. Professor Dillon
WAS very caDable, a dle Gisclplinarlan
and beloved by ris school. He leaves a
wife aud no children. He was married
about a year ago, and was 81 years old.
He was a Mason, an 0 ID Fellow. a
Knight of Pnylhla8 and junior second
lieutenant Of the CliDch Riffs.
Another deplorable occurrence was
:he burning this afternoon OF little Annie
B. Henry, TIE eight-year-old sister OF
Mr.. Joe Henry, Of Savannah, and Mr..
Thomas 2. Henry, the newspaper man,
DOW of New Y York. This little daughter
Of Ms. Mary Henry was playing IN e
nelghbor's yard with several other chill
dcen. They had matches and were light
ing q lightwood torch when Annie's
clothing caught. Her screams attracted
the VIE Of Policeman Trommerhauser,
who ran to the chlld's assistance and seiz.
ing her il her arms, tried to smother the
flames by holding the child close to her.
Mr.. Henry Kennedy followed close be-
hind Mrs. rrommerhauser. and just as
the latter's clothes were catching seized
the child from her, tearing the
child's clothes cpcn in the back
he stripped them from her, but
she was already 80 radly burned
that the skin came of With the clothing.
Her i1terral burns seemed to have de-
stroyed or benumbed her nerves, and
though conscious she seems to suffer no
pam. Sic will probably die.-News and
Courier.