The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-05-17
AFFAIRS IN AUGUSTA.
NIystsl irus Death ard Suspe cted Po;son.
lng-~ShOcking Death.


AUGUSTA, May 6.-Prof. w. B. Dill
lon, principal of the Central Gram.
mar School, died this morning at S
O'Clock under singular circumstances.
Prof. Dillon went fishing on Nav Day,
it being holiday in the schools. and has
not been very we'll since. He missed
two days ut school, but yesterday left
homo in apparently coed condition. He
told his wife he Was going to see q friend
out on the Sand Hills. and if he came
back at all it would bo 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 no
news he went out to look for him.
About 2 o'clock he looked in the
school building and found Prof. Dillon
leaning back in his chair unconscious.
Az S O'Clock he died, having spoken but
once. There was evidence of a tempor
ary resuscitation and DR.. Doughty ask ed:
"How do you feel, Ben? He replied:
| Never BETTER" and then relapsed into
unconsclousncss, from which he aid not
again recover. At the coroner's inquest
the physicians declined TO give any uosi
tive theory OF the Cause OF death and an
autopsy was ordered, but the result has
not yet been reached.
The autopsy, as far rs carried on TO-.
night, did not chow any gross lesion or
disease of any Of the organs of the
body. Tho doctors who were with him
before death say tho symptoms pre-
sented were not such as would fit any
usual disease or common poison. The
organs were all found normal and IN q
fairly healthy condition. DR.. Holiday,
who performed the autopsy, gave il as
his evidence that he WAS unable TO deter.
mino tho cause OF death, but the con.
tents OF the stomach had bcen taken out
and preserved for examination by com.
patent chemist, which may reveal the
lrue cause Of death. The verdict of the
jury was that The cause of death was un-
known until the stomach was examined
by chemist. Failure &C far to find the
cause of Prof. Dllon's death makes If q
sensational mystery. Professor Dillon
was very CAPABLE, q line disciplinarian
ana beloved by his school. He leaves a
wlte and no children. lie was married
ABOUT year ago, and was 81 years old.
1e was Mason, an 0 Id Fellow, n
Knight OF PhYthlas and junior second
lieutenant OF the Clinch Riff ss.
Another deplorable occurrence wn.
the burning this afternoon of little Annie
Is. lenry, the eight-year- old ,;ster tfl
mr. mr.. 700 llenry, of Savannah, and Mr..
Thomas 2. Henry, tho newspaper mar,
now OF New York. This little daughter
OF Mrs. Mary Henry was playing IN
neighbor's yard with several other cbll..
aren. They hadmatchcs and were light
ing llghtwood torch whom Annie's
clothing caught. Her acreams attracted
the wIte of Policeman .Trommerhauser.
who ran TO tho CHI ld's assistance and sejs
ing her in her arms, tried to smother the
flames by holdiug tho child close to her.
Mr.. Henry Kennedy followed close be-
hind Mrs. rrommerhauser and lust as
the latter's clothes were catching seized
the child from her, tearing the
child's clothes open in the back
he. stripped them from her, but
she was already 80 nadly burned
that the skln came or with the clothing.
Her Internal burns seemed to have de-
stroyed or benumbed her nerves, and
though conscious she seems to suffer no
pam. She will probably die.--News and
Courier.