The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-12-09

was that he had been kidnapped and
robbed OF some valuable family
Jewels. and that he enlisted in the
army while suffering from the effects
OF a drug given him by the kid
nappcrS.
Deputy Sheriff McCamey, OF An
derson county, Tenn, and a man
named Massingill are dead as the re-
suit OF fight over dog. The Of
ticer's wife was the only witness to
the tragedy.
\ bill has been introduced in con-
gress providing for the celebration Of
the founding OF Jamestown, Va, and
appropriating S5,ooo,ooo.
James Noble Tyner, Of Indiana,
once postmaster general, died Of
paralysis at his home in Washington
on Monday. The sensational climax
to Mr.. Tyner's official career occurred
in April. 1908, when he was summar-
ily removed by Postmaster General
Payne. following the taking by Mrs.
Tyner and Mrs. Barrett of papers
from the safe in the office of the as
sistant attorney general, Of which
Mr.. Tyner was then the head.
The four-lnasted schooner Quine-
baug, from Savannah for New York,
has been lost at sea with all on board.
The schooner is thought to have foun-
dered in a severe gale of last month.
Walter Smith, prominent naval
stores operator, was shot and killed
by Walter Foreacre, of near Edith,
in Clinct county, Ga. 1t is said that
Foreacre, who was under the in
fuence of liquor, was brandishing his
gun when Smith endeavored to quiet
him. Finally Smith tried to take
the gun from Foreacre, when the lat
ter suddenly shot the former.
Cracksmen entered the Fort Worth.
Texas. postofice at the stock yards
on Monday, blew open the safe with
dynamite and rihed it, taking SIoo
in cash and $50 in money. Nine reg
istered letters were also taken
Ten persons were injured in New
York on Monday and a quarter Of a
million dollars worth OF property
DESTROYED as the result of explosions
caused by spark leaping from a gas
oline machine on which a chauffeur
was working. Forty automobiles
we're destroyed or badly damaged and
so rapid was the progress of the fire
that men working in the second story
of the building had no opportunity
to escape by way of the stairways and
were forced to leap from the win
dows
The city council of Richmond
adopted a resolution appointing
committee of fifteen to go to Wash
ington and invite the president to
stop in Richmond on his contempla-
ted southern tour.
A Wells Fargo Express car on an
Atchjson, Topeka and Santa Fe over
land passenger train, west-bound, was
entered on Monday, somewhere be-
tween Needles and Daggett, Cal., and
Evan O. Roberts. express messenger
was shot and probably fatally wound
ed. The way safe was rihed, but the
main safe, said to contain 100000
in pension money, was not robbed,
so far as known. Officers of the ex-
press company say the robber OBJ
tanned about $500 and that the main
safe was not opened. The bandit is
believed to be negro.
ONLY the most determined efforts
OF white men prevented the lynching
Of William Vaughn, colored, at the
hands of negro mob in Russell
county. Ala. Vaughn confessed that
he robbed his wife's grandmother.
set fire to her house, murdered her
and threw her bleeding body into
the flames few days ago.
John Wainwright, 50 years Old,
shot his wife and daughter. Mrs.
Frank S. Lindlcy. in he parlor OF his