The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-04-14
NEWS 7
Items of More of Lees Interest Con-
densed Outside the State.

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The three monuments at Apo
mattox. Va, erected to cornmemo-
rate the valor Of North Carolina
trooos in the war for southern indie
pendence, were unveiled on Monday.
The trial OF Nan Patterson on the
charge of killing Caesar Young, which
was to have been begun in the court
OF general sessions in New York on
Monday. was postponed for II week
upon request OF the prosecution.
r. 7. c. Howard. a representative III
the Kentucky legislature from the
seventy-first district. was shot and
killed on Monday in a saloon in Clay
county BY Tilford Benge. The men
had quarreled.
About 400 indictments charging the
Standard Oil company with failure
to take out peddlers' license, as re-
CURED by the Kentucky statutes, were
returned by the Franklin county, Ky,
grand jury on Tuesday.
Stewart Campion, manager OF a
plantation near Tuscaloosa, Ala, was
shot and killed while sitting before
a fire Folding his baby The shot was
fired through a window. The baby
was slightly wounded. Two negro
la5orers have been arrested.
But for the timely arrival OF a
heavy downpour OF rain on Tuesday
afternoon, Jacksontown, a colored
suburb of Lynchburg, Va. would have
been partially wiped out by a forest
fire. which was started by a locomo-
tive.
Two negro children were burned to
death in a house at Orlando, Fla,
this week. The father has not been
able to give a satisfactory account OF
his whereabouts at the time and has
been arrested. The house was IN
sured for $1,000
An explosion OF dynamite in Boss
burg. Ala, on Tuesday, wrecked the
houses Of a white miner and a color
ed min<7, both non-union men. The
white mans 1o-year-old daughter was
killed and two other children in the
same family were badly hurt.
! special from Springfield, Ark,
says it is reported there that Marquis
Meadam has made a ~dea:h-bed con-
fession to the murder several years
AGO of Dr.. C. C. Chantless, at Gen.
ter Ridge, for which Alexander
Brinkley was hanged at Merrllton.
The home OF Geo. T. Maull, in1
Clarksburg. w. Va, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire on Tuesday, and four
of his children were burned to death.
The parents, with a fifth child, were
barely in time to escape from the
burning building. The charred bod
les of the four children, were recov-
cred.
\. D. Pierson, a leading wholesale
merchant Of Scranton. Pa, sent two
bullets into his head on Monday
while a prisoner in the county jail.
Pierson was arrested a short time ago
charged with enticing young Polish
girls into his store for improper pur-
poses. He was about 90 years OF age
and leaves several grown children.
Chaplain Bradford, OF the Illinois
house of representatives. at the open
ing of the legislatures daily session
on Tuesday, offered a prayer for the
safety of President Roosevelt on the
presidents hunting rip through TIC
west aud southwest. He drew a PIC
ture of the dangers into which the
president was going and prayed for
his safe return.
Frank NJ. Payne, a prominent mer-
chant at Lone Oak, Va, was shot and
dangerously wounded on Sunday by
Bruce Land, Of Irisburg. Land met
Dana In the n11hlic road and demand |