The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-08-02
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of More or Less Interest Con-
densed Outside of the State.

III
ande- Ward & Conover, narrowly
escaped death at the hands OF a man.
iac in the crowded exchange building
in the Chicago stock yards on Thurs
dav He was pursued through the
crowded building by the maniac car
rv;ne a knife. He had found Ward
in his Office. and. facing him. coolIy
vhetted his knife on his coat sleeve.
Ward immediately fled.
The body OF Joseph 7. Hammett,
2 private OF the 18th regiment, I. ;.
4. stationed at Fort Schuyler. \. y.
vas found in Westchester creek. and
few hours later Corporal Richard
NJ. Spencer, OF the same reglment'
was placed under arrest. Inc
wounds on Hammelt's body indicate
that he was murdered. Both men.
i -; said, were members OF wealthy
southern families and close trends.
Spencer was not arrested charged
with the murder. but was held IN coii-
rection with the case. He emphatl-
callv asserted his Innocence. lie
said he and Hammett were drinking
together in a Westchester saloon
when Hammett left with woman.
Lieutenant James Wilkinson
Clement Of South Carolina. who was
attached to the battleship kearsage,
died in hospital in Trieste. Austria,
on Thursday, OF typhoid fever. His
remains will be brought to America
on vessel OF war.
Howard Cleaton> of Norfolk, Va
IS wears of age, a son OF prominent
merchant. was shot and instantly kill
ed Thursday night by Henry Long
IS wears old. Long said Cleaton had
used vile language towards him, and
in his rage he shot him.
Patrick Campbell, paymaster OF
the Puritan. Pa, Coal company, and
Charles Hayes, his driver, were held
I'D bv highwaymen between Portage
and Puritan on Saturday morning,
the driver being killed and Campoell
perhaps fatally wounded. Campoell
had come to Portage to get three
thousand dollars to take to Puritan
for use on the first Of the month.
Shortly after the men left Portage
going back to Puritan they were hred
upon by highwaymen, who secured
the money. Buckshot was IN the
guns which were used.
It is reported from London that
Mrs Florence Maybrick, the Amerl-
can woman who served fifteen years
Imprisonment in London on the
charge of numbering her husband,
and who was recently released, has
been forced 70 abandon her proposed
American trip on account OF ner-
yous prostration. 1t is said her
mothers house at Rouen, France, is
literally beseiged by reporters Who
in behalf of London newspapers, pa
troll the neighborhood, watch the
house day and night and attempt to
scale the high walls of the garden
and otherwise force an entrance into
the grounds.
It is said that Russian Minister OF
the Interior Plehve had foreseen his
fate and in conversation shortly
prior to his assassination expressed
the fear that he would be the VIC
tim of such a fate, as nobody was
safe from unforeseeable contingent
cies.
The name of the assassin Of Rus
sian Minister of the Interior Won
Plehve is Porozef.
While Charlie J. Tyler, proral-
nent farmer Of Wilkes county, Ga
was at supper with his wife DR..
Thomas C. Burch emptied two loads
of buckshot from the window into
the body of Tyler, killing him in
stantly.
Henry Hodges. his wife and three
children. of Statesboro, Ga, were
brutally murdered on Friday night.
After the crime their home was
burned. Corpses found in the
debris showed that the skulls of the
GROWN people had been broken BY