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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-05
Farmers Wife and Her Servant
Victims of a Brute
WHO HAD FIRED BARN
While the Men Of the kamily Were
Fighting Flames the Negro Tried
to Pillage the House, and When
the Women Came on the Scene
the Brute Attacked Them With
An Axe

the brute Attacked Them With
An Axe.
The people of the North are fast
finding out the vicious negro, and in
consequence they are loosng their
sympathy for the whole race. They
must not judge the whole negro ra ce
by the black fiends who committed
the crime described below. We are
glad to say that such robbers and
murderers does not fairly represent
the negroes of the South. large
majority of whom are hard wol king
honest citizens. But still we can't
blame the people OF the North for
Judging the negro race by those who
go up to live among them.
A dispatch from Camden, N. J.,
says Mrs. Frances Horner, aged 81
years, wife of Edward Horner, far
mer on the Browning road near Mer-
chantsville, and Mrs. Victoria Napoli.
a servant. were chopped to death
Wednesday in their home, il Is charg-
ed, by Charles Gibson, a negro who
was formerly employed on the farm.
The assassin first set fire to the
Horner barn. While Horner and
Mrs. Napoli's husband were trying to
rescue some of the horses from the
barn Mrs. Horner and her servant
came upon the negro in the act of
robbing the house. The robber at
tackled the women with an axe and
practically cut them to pieces.
Mrs. Horner's head was severed
and Mrs Napoli's head was crushed
in and her body covered with gashes
Horner and others, who were at the
fire returned to the house, found the
body of Mrs. Horner lying nearby in
a pool of blood, and Mrs. Napoli still
alive was lying nearby covered with
blood. She died without regaining
consciousness shortly after being ad-
mitted to hospital in the city.
Two gold watches and a sum of
money had been taken from the
house, and the police located the
watches in pawn shop in Philadel-
phia, where they had been pledged by
negro. The pawnbroker, according
to the police, identified Gibson as the
negro who pawned the watches, and
he was arrested. Tickets for the
time pieces were found in his pos
session.
Steven Dorsey, another negro, who
was with Gibson when it is alleged he
pawned the watches, was also arrest
ed, through the police do not believe
he had anything to do with the muir
der. Gibson, who was discharged by
Horner some time ago, applied for
work at the farm yesterday and was
told he could sleep in the barn and
start work in the morning.
Early this morning the farmers
who were running to the fire declare
that they saw the negro fleeing from
the Horner home. Gibson refused to
make any statement regarding the
murder, and his supposed connection
with 1t, but when one of the watches
recovered from the pawn shop, and
which was marked with the name
''Horner" was shown to him, and he
was asked IL he knew the owner, ne
is said to have replied: Yes, I'm
sorry for him."
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-05
BURNED HIS MONEY.
Then Killed Himself i'm the Presence
of a Crowd.

A special from Webster City, Iowa,
to the Record-Herald says: In sight
of an astonisned crowd Carl PRESLEY
an actor, maze bonfire in the street
of his paper money; threw his jeweiy
in the sewer and then announced to
a group of friends that he was going
TO kill himself. He drew a revolver
from his pocket, walked across the
street and, calling to number OF
persons in the vicinity to watch him
die. fred a bullet into his brain.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-05
DRUGGED GIRLS.
A Man Arrested ON Description Given
BY Victim.

AT New York Abraham Brakeman
was held on 5000 bail In Coney Is
land court. He is charged with be-
inY one OF the men who drugged and
attacked Adele Roberts and Anna
RuAsel. The girls were picked up in
theI roadway unconscious. Blakeman
waA arrested on a description given
BY kbe girls and was positive,- iden-
tihYl BY them.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-05

Proceeded Falling OF Structure.
A section of the new bridge across
the st. Lawrence River, five miles
below Quebec. Canada, collapsed
late Thursday, carrying scores of
bridge workers and mechanics into
the water. 1t is estimated that the
loss is more than sixty and may ex-
ceed that number by twenty.
The bridge was about a mile and
half in length and half of it, from
the south shore to mid stream, crum-
pied up and dropped into the water.
Ninety men were at work on this sec
tion of the structure and the whistle
had just blown at $3.50 for the men
to quit work for the day, when there
came grinding sound from the
bridge mid-stream.
The men turned to see what had
happened and an instant later the
cry went up, THE bridge is falling -
The men made rush shoreward, but
the distance was too great for them
to escape. The fallen section of the
bridge dragged others after 1t, the
swapping girders and cables booming
like crash of artillery.
Terror lent fieetness to the feet of
the frightened workmen as they sped
shoreward, but only a few of them
reached safety before the last piece
of iron work on the south shore was
dragged into the water.
Near the shore the wreckage nf the
l..fd hn
of the water and eight workmcn.
were rescued and taken to the hospi-
tai at Lewis.
The steamer Glenmont had just
cleared the bridge when the first sec
tion fell The water thrown up by
the debris went clear over the bridge
of the steamer.
The captain at once lowered boats.
The small boats piled backward and
toward over the sunken wreckage for
half an hour, but there were no signs
of life. The twisted iron and steel
had it's victims in terrible death
grip. A few floating timbers and
broken stems of the bridge toward
the north shore were the only signs
that anything unusual had happened.
There was not ripple on the
smooth surface of the st. Lawrence
as 1t swept along toward the gulf.
All the men drowned were employees
of the Phoenixville Bridge Company
and sub-contractors of Quebebc and
Montreal.
At ten O'Clock Thursday night 16
bodies had been picked up and the 3
men in the hospital two are not ex-
pected to live throughout the night
The Quebec bridge was begun
about seven years ago and 1t was TO
be finished in 1900. Subsidies had
been granted by the Federal aud Pro-
vinical Governments and the city of
Quebec and the estimated cost of the
work was $1O.0O0.000.
The Phoenixville Bridge Company
OF Pennsylvania, had the contract for
the construction of the bridge aud
were working from both sides of the
river.
The horror of the situation is in
creased by the. fact that there are &
number OF wounded men pinned n
the wreckage near the shore. Their
groans and shrieks can be herrd
plainly by the crowds who have gath
cred at the waters edge, but nothing
so far can be done to relieve theil
sufferings.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-05
BRIDGE FALLS.
Carrying Sixty or Eighty Persons
to Their Death.
TERRIBLE DISASTER.

Unsuspecting Workmen Are Swept to
Their Doom by Collapsing of Half
of Long Bridge Over the st. Law
renee River-Mene Had Just Quit
Work for the Day-Grinding Crash
Proceeded Falling OF Structure.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-02-20
Both Wives of Convicted Bigamist
Rugged Him.

The Louisville-C Courier Journal of
Saturday says:
With two wives and wealthy and
| influential parents at Munice, Ind,
Harry Dunken, who says he is twenty
three years old, but is believed to be
younger, was accepted at the Indiana
Reformatory in Jeffersonville to be-
gin "a sentence of from two to five
years on a conviction to the charge
of bigamy A peculiar part of the
transaction is that neither wife want
ed him convicted, and Robert Monroe,
! Prosecuting Attorney, was lenient
with the accused. Judge Letter, who
tried the case, turned a deaf ear to
the pleadings and said he regretted
that it was not in his power to send
Dunken to prison for twenty-five
years
During the trial the two wives Oc-
cupied chairs side by side in the
court room and wept in unison while
the testimony was being given. At
ter sentence had been passed Dunken
was permitted to go into an ante
room, where the two women were
locked in each others arms, weeping
bitterly. They both embraced him,
almost smothered him with kisses and
came near fainting when the prison
er- was taken away from them BY a
Deputy Sheriff.
Some two years ago Dunken was
married to Miss Edith Lanney, a pref
ty young woman with whom he had
gone to school and they lived hap
PLY for a year Dunken then met
Miss Maude Bowyer another handsome
young woman, and fell in love with
her, deserving his lawful wife last
August. Later on he told Miss Bow
yer he had obtained a divorce from
his first wife and, going to an adj
joining county. they were married
From Muncie they went to Robinson,
H., where the second wife learned
month ago that Dunken had not been
divorced. She returned to Muncie
and was followed by Dunken, who was
arrested and forced into trial.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-02-20
HartfOrd'S New Enterprise.

The Concrete Burial Vault Company
filed articles of Incorporation yestey-
day. The purpose OF the company is
to manufacture and sell the Egyptian
cement vaults i'm Ohio county These
vaults are made under a patent, and
the company has secured the right
in Ohio county r. II. Black, +. H.
Birkhead and G. b. Likens are the
principal stockholders. Mr.. Isaac
Foster has been engaged by the COM
pany to do the mechanical part of the
work for the present. He will leave
for Louisville tomorrow, to take some
practical lessons i'm the art of con-
structing these wonderful vaults.
Black Il Birkhead will have the man
agement of the company's offices and
they expect to have a number of the
vaults finished in about two weeks.
\ small model Of the patent Egyp-
tian vault can he seen at The Herald
office.
\ number of the most substantial
citizens of the county will take stool,
i'm the company and it is believed a
long-felt want will be filled by the
manufacture of these vaults right at
home.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-02-20
Bowling Green Woman to Preside
at jamestown.

Norfolk, Va, February 1S.-The
most beautiful woman of Kentucky.
who shall represent the Common
wealth as hostess of the State Build
ing at the jamestown Exposition, has
at last been named by the commits
sion. She is Mrs. Cora Pace Petrie,
Of Bowling Green. Stately, handsome,
gracious, pleasing in manner. natur-
al i'm bearing-these are some of the
attributes credited to her. She is a
widow, unincumbered. and has been
so for 10 years. Though her hair is
prematurely gray, it is said, this
does not detract from its comeliness.
Mrs. Petrie comes of Virginia stock.
One of her ancestors was the savior
of the jamestown colony from mas
sacre by Indians. according to the
story told in Lyon Tyler Gardeners
Cradle of the Republic" about Rich
ard Pace.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-02-20
Miners of District 3 Elect New
Officers.

Central City, KY, Feb. 17.--One of
the most important elections occurr-
ed in Muhlenberg county was held
in Central City yesterday to select
officers for District No. %. United
Mine Workers of America. This dis
trict is composed of Muhlenberg, Hop
kins, Union. Webster, Daviess, Hen
derson, Ohio, Mclean and Christian
counties, so that the election affects
the whole of Western Kentucky.
Returns show that w. j. Campbell,
of Drakesboro, was elected National
board member; w. o. Smith, of Cen
trail City, elected president; ]. Il.
Names, of Render, Ohio county, elect
ed vice president, and C. M. Carter,
of Central City, elected secretary
treasurer. These officers will COM
mence their term of office on April
l, of this year, and continue in office
for one year.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-02-20
To Inspect Militia.

Frankfort, Ky, Feb. 16.-Informa-
ton received to-day at the State mil
itary department from the War De
partment is that Mai John C. f. Till
son, of the Fourth Infantry, has been
detailed to come to Kentucky and
make the annual inspection of State
militia for the department. The in
spection will be begun on the evening
of April / next, beginning with the
company at Leitchfield. Col. Marvin
Parent Assistant Adjutant General,
will accompany Major Tillson and
make the inspection upon the part OF
the State department.
The itinerary for the inspection pro-
vides for inspection first of the com
panies of the Third Regiment, com
manded by Col. Jouett Henry. ofHop-
kinsville; then the First Regiment
commanded by Col. w. b. Haldeman,
and lastly the Second Regiment, COM
manded by Col. j. Embry Allen, of
Lexington. The first ten days of
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-02-20
Unwritten Law of the Desert.

Douglas, ArZ.. Feb lS.-One man
WAS killed and another wounded over
q canteen Of water, and a desert jury
mold the survivors justified for their
part in the shooting.
sill and Lynn Despair, prospecting
for placer gold i'm the Colorado dea-
eT, became lost i'm the trackless
sweep of sands. In their Wanderings
they came half-crazed from thirst, up
ou a well beside the adobe hut of Ar
,hur Jones, a grizzled hermit of the
waste.
The Despains became nearly frantic
with joy, for Bears well, the noNt
watering place, was a hard days ride
distant. But when they asked to fill
canteen, Jones refused.
The prospectors began to draw wa
ter from the well anyway, when Jones
opened fire on them from the door
of his abode. Bill Despair fell with
4 bullet in his hip.
Before Jones could fire again lynn
Despair had shot him dead Then
Despair dragged his brother into the
hut and went for help. Bill Despair
VIII recover.
Neither prospector was arrested,
pending the decision of the Coroner's
jury generating them.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-02-20
THE LATEST NEWS.

Phoebe A. Sparkman, the oldest pen
sioner on the rolls, who was 10 on
her last birthday has been granted
an increase by special act of Con-
gress
Mrs. Jenny Strong saturated her
clothes with coal oil at her home,
near Jackson, and then set fire to the
clothing. She was burned to a crisp
before aid reached her.
After an Intellectual attempt BY Mr..
Burton to eliminate the provision for
two monster battleships, the House
passed the Naval Appropriation Bill
carrying approximately S9G,O000OO
Jessamine county has granted a
franchise through the county for an
interurban traction line to be built
between Nicholasville and Lexington
and work will begin within few
weeks.
What is believed to be the skull
of Pearl Bryan, who was murdered in
1895 by two Cincinnati medical stu
dents, was found by workmen who
We're eXcavating between Newport and
Dayton, Ky.
Twenty dead and more than a hun
dred seriously injured is the result of
the wreck of an electric train on the
New York Central Saturday night,
An official inquiry into the cause of
the disaster is being made.
Augustus f. Wilson, of Louisville,
will, in a few days, it is said, make
formal announcement of his candida
cy for the nomination for Governor
on the Republican ticket. He will be
the first candidate in the field.
President Roosevelt will--leave
Washington late this week for a brief
visit to his sons. who are studying
At Harvard University and the Gro
ton School in Massachusetts. He will
spend Saturday at Harvard and Sun
day at GrotOn.
Articles were filed in the office of
the Daviess County Clerk incorpo-
rating the Phillips Signal and Flee
tric Company, with $4,000 capital
stock. All of the stockholders are
Greensboro men. The purpose of the
corporation. as set out i'm the articles
is to own. handle, manufacture, de-
velop, install and deal in signal de-
vices for the prevention of accidents
on railroads.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-02-20
STATE CONVENTION
For Republicans, June 10
Senator Bennett Wins
for Secretary.

The Republican State convention for
the purpose of nominating State
ticket will be held in Louisville We'd
nesday June 10. Mass county con-
ventions for the purpose of selecting
delegates to the State convention will
be held Saturday, June 10, and the
basis of representation in the State
convention will be one delegate for
each 100 or fraction over 80 votes
cast for Roosevelt electors at the
1904 election This was the decision
of the Republican State Central Com
mittee, which met at the Gait House
in Louisville last Thursday
While there has been considerable
talk of an early convention, espec-
tally among the leading Republicans
of the large cities in the State, yet
when the members of the committee
heard from the committee and Repub-
lican leaders out in the State, they
readily agreed to fix the convention
date during the latter part of June.
Outside of Dr. 7. II. Baker, who
appeared before the committee, most
all the Louisville politicians were in
favor of an early date. DR.. Baker was
of the opinion that owing to the utter
Generalization of the party, plenty of
time should be given to induce Re-
publicans to stand for nominations on
the ticket. He did not think there
were over three actual available can
didates for the nomination for Gov
ernor in the State.
The open meeting OF the commit
tee in which the political leaders were
asked to express their views in re-
gard to the date of the convention
was the feature of the entire meeting.
Mai. a T. Wood, pension agent. Gre
ated quite a furry in his defense of
the Federal officeholders. He de-
nounced the newspapers that were
contending that Federal officeholders
,should keep hands off this conven-
ton. He intimated that the Federal
officeholders were the main source of
supply of campaign funds and general
campaign thunder and why should
they not take a prominent part in
the nomination of candidates? He said
that no paddock could be put on his
mouth because he held a Federal Of
flee and that he intended to take part
i'm the coming campaign no matter
if his commission as a Federal office
holder had to be surrendered.
Senator A. s. Bennett, of Ohio
county. was unanimously elected sec
rotary OF the committee to succeed
Thomas L. Walker, who has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Lexington. Nj.
Walker will leave the office March
/ when the new secretary assumes the
duties of the position. James Aeon
yers, United States Commissioner at
Glasgow, was the most formidable OPP
ponent that Senator Bennett had for
the place. but his name was not
placed before the committee. Other
candidates for the place were j. NJ,
Coldwell and J. T. Bashaw, of Louis
vile. The members of the COMMITTEES
seemed to think that Senator Ben
nett was the only logical candidate.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-02-20
For Sale,

A good stock farm of ISL acres on
the turn pike, one mile from Beaver
Dam and three miles from Hartford,
between the new railroad and the /.
c. r. r., both good shipping points
1t has about so acres fine bottom
30 acres level upland and 81 acres Of
hill land. About 80 acres of un-
cleared land with plenty of timber
to supply the farm. 1t is the best wat
cred farm on the pike, being abund-
antly supplied with soft water.
1t is adapted to all kinds of stock
raised here, also to wheat, corn, oats,
grass and tobacco.
On it is a nice new dwelling cost
ing about $1,000, also a good ten
ant house and two large barns and
300 feet lumber to build another.
Being a minister of the gospel and
finding that l can't attend to both,
will sell the farm and give my entire
time to the ministry again. Call on
or address j. n. Jarnagin,
5-t4 Beaver Eam, Ky.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-02-20
McHENRY.
Especial to THE HERALD.


Feb. lS.-The infant son of Harry
Draper Of Render Mines, died We'd
nesday night Feb. 13, and was bur-
led at the Render burying grounds,
FRIDAY. Mr.. Draper was in Illinois
at the time of his child's death and
did not arrive until Saturday.
Nj James Mcconnell has secured
employment at Luzern.
Mr.. ). j. Tichenor left one day last
week for Texas, to be gone some time.
Mr.. Robert Pollock and wife left
here Wednesday for Central City to
be absent several days.
Mrs. 5. j. Tichenor is on the sick
list
Uncle Allen Sharp and daughter,
Miss Laura. visited relatives and
friends at Horse Branch from We'd
nesday until Saturday.
"Kit" Barnaby. of Central City,
made a business trip here Friday.
Bro. Virgins is somewhat indis-
posed at this writing.
JOS Perkins, who has been en-
ployed by the McIIenry Coal Co., was
called to Central City Saturday. He
will be absent several days.
Mrs Ida Render and bright lit
tie daughter, Miss Ollie, who have
been visiting Mr.. W. b. Chinn and
family. have returned to Linton, Ind.
Mr.. X. w, Wedding has beef-ofl-- iic
sick list for some two weeks.
We learn that Miss Mary Render,
youngest daughter OF Elijah Granger
Render. who has been attending
school at Paducah, will succeed Miss
Geneva Ashby as bookkeeper Tor S.
j. TichenOr.
Deputy Sheriff Bratcher was in our
mids Friday.
On Sunday evening the death angel
came and knocked at the home of
our brother and sister, Mr.. and Mrs.
William b. Phelps, and took away
their precious darling daughter, Er-
mer. who was nearly five years Of
age Parents, weep not for your darl-
ing, for she has gone to a brighter
home. No one can tell how she SUI
fered All that tender hands could
do t. relieve her was done, but all
in vain, for Jesus loved her best and
ook her from earth TO heaven. Dear
lir-le Ermer was loved by all who
knew her She was kind and affec-
ionate and will be greatly missed by
her little associates She was laid
% rest in the family graveyard. There
was a hest of relatives and friends
U sent at the burial.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-02-20
Youngest White Girl Ever Indicted

Lexington. Ky, February 15.-By
finding one bill against Georgia Roth
aged II years. the Fayette County
Grand Jury to-day indicted on the
charge of grand larceny the youngest
white girl ever indicted in this county
and in all probability in the state
The child is accused of taking from
the office OF Dr.. w. S. Montgomery "a
pocketbook containing a large sum OF
money. She was placed in the custody
of the Juvenile Court, and it was the
desire of County Judge b. A. Bullock
that she be sent to the Reform
School, but on the protest of he
mother, the case was reported to the
grand jury ami the indictment found
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-02-20

April will be taken up with the Third
Regiment, the inspecting officers Wis
iting the companies in the. following
order: Leitchfield, Hartford, Central
City, Greensboro, Henderson Madi-
sonville, Darlington. Hopkinsville and
Bowling Green.
The officers will arrive in Louis
vile on April II and remain there two
days, inspecting the nine companies
hospital corps and band. The inspec-
ton of the companies of the Second
Regiment will begin on April 10, as
follows: Lawreuceburg, Danville Bar
bourville, Pinaville, Mddlesboro.
Whitesburg, Lexington and Frankfort.
The inspection will be completed APP
ril % here a, Frankfort.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-02-20
BrOi e Jail at greensboro.

Elliott Berry, Guy Wright and Ben
ny Dean, all negroes, broke Jail at
Greensboro Friday night and made
their escape. They did it by con
cealing themselves in the corridor at
the time when they should have been
in their cells and, later, completing
the saving of an iron bar in a win
dow at the northwest corner After
saving one side they bent if back
and crawled Out and dropped to the
ground outside.
Berry was i'm for robbing a man at
night on West Main street. and Dean
and Wright for robbing a saloon on
East Fourth street.
Later-All three of the negroes were
run down and captured at Sebree City
but Berry a2d Wright escaped again.