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The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09

ARABS SHAY EUROPEANS.
Many Killed as Result Of EXtcrminu-
ton Doctrine.

DR.. Merle, who has arrived at Tan
gicr, OF a German ship which brought
a number OF Jews and other refugees
from Casablanca. is the bearer of a
report showing that the slaughter of
Europeans in Casablanca vas the
outcome Of Il holy wal preached by
Arabs for the determination of the
Europeans.
On Monday a number Of Arabs
chiefs entered CaSablanca and de-
mandcd that the harbor Improvement
works ceased and cited the natives to
cXtcrminatc the Europeans On
Tuesday the natives began the at
tack by stoning IL European who was
hacked to pieces. This was the sig
nal for Il general attack. At least s
were murdered.
While the Jews and Europeans
we're taking refuge on board the Ger
man ship. the MOSSulmanS began to
attack the laborcrs employed on the
harbor works. They killed several
mon whose bodies subsequently were
burned
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09

CHARGES CONSPIRACY.
Woman Says She Wasn't Cheating
Indians, But Helping Them.

Arrested recently and placed in
jail at Billings, Mont, charged with
obtaining money from the Crow In
dians under false pretencc, Mrs. Hell
en- Pierce Cray, who claims to be a
newspaper and magazine writer, says
she is glad she has been arrested.
She was sent to Jail in default Of
$1,000 bonds. She sayss she is the
victim of a conspiracy.
Mrs. Gray admits hat she obtain
ed several hundred dollars from the
Grow indians. This amount she said
she used TO pay her expenses to
Washington .aSt year, where she
went to place her story exposing the
wrongs of the Indians before the
President and the officers Of the IN
terror department.
She said as a result of her trip,
Secretary Garfcld'S private secretary
vas sent to the reservation to invcS-
tigatc the charges that the consent
Of the Indians to the opening Of L.
100000 acres OF the reservation was
obtained by forgery. She thinks her
cause will now attract more attcn-
ton.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
VICTIMS
Found After Tenement III Now
YORK Was Burned. S
BLACK HAND OUTRAGE

HfU.." E-s.a
Fire Started In tho store and Spread
With Such Rap;dity that Score Met
Death and as Many Badly Burned.
The Bodies Of the Dead We're
Found in Many Unexpected Places
Among the Ruins.
a shocking loss Of human life and
the destruction of property worth
more than one million dollars, We're
caused by fires in New York and It's
immediate vicinity in the "a hours
ending at eight o'clock Sunday morn
ing.
h fire wave struck Coney Island
and before it subsidized Steeple Chase
park, a score OF hotels and many
amusement attractions were in ruins
and many persons homeless.
-Four women were discovered dead
In a closet where they had rushed to
hide from the flames. The body of a
woman was found lying over a child
as though she had tried to protect
1t from the flames. Five bodies were
i''"' aEnHnn one IGGr"ay
on the top floor. showing that they
had been struck down while trying
to escape. :
After an all night search of the
ruins of six story tenement on Chris
tie street, burned shortly after mid
night, the police announced that
there were twenty victims of the
fire.
The bodies of the dead were found
In all sorts Of unexpected places to
which the people had fed when the
fire broke out. Almost all OF the
bodies were burned beyond recogni-
ton, many to such an extent that it
was impossible to distinguish the
sex. a majority Of victims, the po-
lice believe, were women and chill
dren.
The burned building was a tene+
ment common to the east side, with
a store on the ground floor and apart
ments up stairs crowded with ten
ants, mainly Italians.
The fire started in the store and
swept through the building with such
rapidity that a fifth OF the 100 ten
ants met Il horrible death, another
score, though they escaped, were
more or less burned.
1t is thought the fire was caused
by an explosion, a citizen reported
that he heard a loud report and saw
the store window crack and fall to
If this is true 1T is possible
that8the great lossSof life is due to a.
Black hand" outrage.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
WHO VAS a N
One Is Being Sought in Connection
With Actress Suicide.

That q man had something to DO
with driving Miss Helen Bailey Trow-
bridge to suicide is believed by Pitts
burg authorities. The woman was an
actress and ended her life by cutting
her throat at the American house,
Pittsburg, a few nights ago. Near
her body was found an extract from
Riley's poem, "The Blues" Before
her death she had frequented the new
morgue and seemed to take a NOR
bid interest in the bodies exhibited
there.
The woman's body was covered
with marks, believed to have been
inflicted by some person, possibly her
lover, With whom she might have
q%Uarreled. j, is said she tried ear
lier on the evening of her suicide to
jump, from a third-story window. In
vestigation is being made in Butler,
PittsburgPa,, from which place she
went to Pittsburg. Chicago relatives
have taken her body.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
JAILED As A WITCH
indiana Woman Accused of Caus-
ing ChiId'S Death.
1t is Alleged She Has Forctold and
Caused Every Calamity That Has
Bcfallcn Evansville. Ind.

The filing OF surety OF the peace
proceedings against Mrs. Margaret
Gilmore, Of Evansville, Ind, makes
the latest case in which the law has
been invoked against anyone accused
of practicing witchcraft. The speci-
Tic charge vas the causing Of the
death of n two-year-old son Of John
Paris, and the incident lead to tho
unfolding of the history OF the aged
woman.
In the last ten years she has been
transformed in the public mind from
Il motherly old woman into a vicious
minister of evil, whose chief delight
Is TO harass her neighbors and fiji
with awe on account of her
predictions Of calamitics. In the i'm
mediate neighborhood of Mrs. Gil
more's shack nothing is too terrible
10 be believed about her. The way
ing OF Il broom from her front door is
enough to drive all the children in
the community into their homes in
abject fear.
e years ago Mrs. Gilmore. now
so years of age was known as an ex-
~coptionally good nurse and was pop-
ular in the community. She was
poorer than NEST of her nciEhH0r:;
but managed to make her living by
selling vegetables she raised in her
garden and by raising chickens for
the market. AS she grew older she
withdrew from intercourse with her
neighbOrS and then stories Of her &C.
c~cntriciticS began to crop out. She
was alleged to have seen visions: 20
have predicted storms and inunda-
lions, sudden deaths and unhappy
marriages, and in fact every calamity
that bcfcll the people individually
and collectively. She never proressed
to be a clairVOyant or a neCrOmanCer,
but her reputation was mado by pop
ular talk.
The incident that led to the recent
proceedings was caused by the kill
ing OF a chicken. The Paris family
lives in the same ne~ighb0rhood as
Mrs. Gilmore and her chickens annoy
ed them. One day the son threw Il
stone and injured a pullet, and Mrs.
Gilmore is alleged to have said that
If the chicken died one OF the Paris
children would contract whooping
cough and died within two days. The
chicken died in s hours and the day
one Of the Paris children
was smittcn with whooping cough
and died within the specified time.
Tho incident caused much comment
and finally the action brought by the
father.
The court ignored the charge, say
ing that these are not the days in
which Salem witch m~assacres are
possible. The authorities have also
arranged to give the woman special
against any possible hos
tility on The part Of the incensed
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09

KILLED by a TELEl LONE.
Shocked to Death While Holding II
Receiver to His Far.

conductor on the Citizens Electric
railroad, at Newburyport, Mass, was
instantly killed the other morning
at Headquarters by receiving a shock
Of electricity from d telephone. He
had hardly pushed up the receiver
when the shock came. He was un-
able to drop the receiver and scream
ed for help.
Superintendent Files rushed to his
assistance and cut the wire when had
been crossed by an electric light wire.
Crouch fell dead.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
DISGUSTED WITH FILIPINOS
Election of DR.. Gomez Dissappoints
Washington Officials.

The Filipino elections have been a
great disappointment to the authOri-
tes showing that the masses OF the
people are still as little fitted for
self-gOvernment as n lot Of %irrespon-
Siblc children.
One of their selections for the To-
cal Legislature was the notorious DR..
DOmmadOr Gomez, a man who has
been convicted Of fraud, is a revOlu-
zionist and sentenced to the penitcn-
tiary.
lie is out now only under a stay of
execution. His right to a seat in the
assembly will he contested if the Jail
does not get him first. There is re-
nowed talk among the natives OF in
deDendence..
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
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DREADED SEIERA ALTON.
Devoted Girl Friends Tried to End
Their Lives Together.

Threatened with being separated
from each other, the Misses Louise
Ondrc and Nottic Day, two beautiful
.l9-ycar-old girls Of Atlanta, Ga,
tried to end their lives by jumping
into the Chattahoochcc river. Locked
in each others arms they sprang into
the water. They were seen by two
men, who plunged after them and
saved them.
Both girls belong to good families
in Atlanta. Miss Ondre is a striking
brunette and Miss Day Is a perfect
blonde and rather frail. Miss Ondrc
always alluded to Miss Day as "My
little blonde sweetheart. The girls
are madly infatuated with each other
and say they do not care to live un-
less they Il be together.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09

BtCKED AT CHAIN GANG.
Prefers TO BE Punished For Deserving
From the Navy.

Rather than serve thirty days on
tho roads, James Williams, at Sails
bury, n. c., declared that he is a dc
cation from Washington verified his
statement. He had served eighteen
months on the Franklin, Of the re-
duircd four years. The Washington
authorities Will send for him.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
"
TWENTY-EIGHT CHILDREN.
Father II Methodist Preacher Who Is
Hale and Hearty.

The Rev. Abraham C. Ruebush, a
o~ne-legged Confederate veteran, Of
Port Lavaca, Tex, in charge of a
Methodist church there, is the father
OF IL boys and l6 girls, baby No. 2S
having Just arrived, Ruebush, who
comes from Virginia stock and be-
lieves in large American families, is
now 66 years offage, and has had Two
wives. He is active, strong and Wig
Orous.
His first wife, now deceased, was
Miss Angelilie NJ. Davis, OF Augusta
county, Va, who bore HIM six boys
and girls. His second wife was
Miss Anne G. Adams, a Louisiana
girl, who is now AZ years old and the
mother Of six boys and nine girls.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
Fatal
Philadelphia Banker Met Death in
Swimming Pool.

President r. Watson, OF the North
crn National bank, of Philadelphia,
Pa, was instantly killed in a swim
ming pool at the Columbia club. n
OF the most prominent social organi-
cations in tho city. 1T is believed he
met death by striking his head
against the concrete side Of the tank
while diving.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
SENATOR'S HAVE THIRST.
spent Zig Sum for DrinkalicS al the
Last Session.

The annual report Of the secretary
of the United States senate is in some
ways Il queer document. \ good
many Of its items might lead one to
think that the senator's are an cXpen-
Sivc luxury.
For instance the sum Of $1,000
was spent during the last session Of
Congress 10 provide the members
with %drinkablCS, such as various
mineral waters and lemonade. or
this amount $3S was spent for lem
OnS and sugar.
Besides these items. there arc
many other curious things mention
ed. Nearly $4,000 waS paid for sta
tionmry and engraving, and even for
such articles as gloves and tobacco
cases. Among the other items were
an old trunk Il dollar mouse trap,
altar OF roses, quininc, hair vigOr,
Snuii n castor oil.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
CAUSE TERROR.
\ Band Of Robbers i'm Maryland who
Rob Homes.

A dispatch from Cumberland, Md,
says the whole eastern section Of the
county adjoining Pennsylvania. West
Virginia is suffering Il reign Of terror
caused by depredations OF an organic
ed gang Of robbers. Armed men arc
standing guard over their homes. Not
a night passes without several rob
berries and no clue is left. Heavy re-
wards arc offered, but without aus
ing reSultS.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
MOURNED AS DEAD.
For Fii.y Years But Turns Up TO
Greet Friends.

Mr.. and Mrs. w. ID. Smith, Of Ar
mory, Miss, are visiting relatives at
Naldosta, Ga. Mr.. Smith has the dis
tinction Of having been mourncd rs
dead for fifty years and after that
time turning up at his old home to
meet his relatives those who were
alive.
He left home in TwiggS county
when he was IS years Of age and
went West. Ills sisters. two OF whom
i've in I.owncs and one in Bcrricn
.ounty, moved away with the Family
aud he lost track Of them until last
year.
He is now ST years OF age and is
'Ialo and hearty. Ills meeting viii
his sisters after such n long Sppcra'
ion was Il very happy occasion.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09

AGAINST COAST LINE.
Case Can't BE Carried 60 the Federal
Court.

In an important decision filed on
Thursday Judge Gary Of the circuit
court decides in the case of w. G..
Gcraty, Of Charleston against the
Atlantic Coast Line Road, that the
Coast Line cannot carry the case into
the federal courts on the ground that
IL is q foreign corporation. The de-
cision says that the road Is cstoppcd
from ~contcnding hat ii is 4 foreign
corporation because under the conSti-
tuition all railroads must be domcsti-
Gated and if It is not domcsticatcd 1t
is operated unlawfully.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
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NORTH SEA TRAGEDIES.
Schooner Wrecked and British and
Natives Fight.

The steamer Manuka from AuStral-
in, with news Of fighting in the New
lIcbridcs, has reached Victoria, Is.
c.. In an encounter between lie
brides blacks and Il punitive cNpcdi-
ton landed from the British cruiser
Cambridge. to HNcngc the murder ol
Il European trader, the blacks killed
one bluciackct OF the landing party
and wounded another b~lucjackct.
The news WAS brought from TN"
Caroline group that the trading
schooner Charles and ELLA t|ound"r"d
in a hurricane. Cant. Warner and :
of his crew were drowned.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09

A RIVER AT HIS PLEASURE.
Tobacco Magnatc Pumps Raritan AL
most Dry for His Park.

In an effort to make his two thous-
and acre park like fairyland, with
gushing fountains, cascades and
beautiful lakes, for his bride during
their honeymoon, James Is. Duke,
president OF the American Tobacco
Company, has pumped the Raritan
river at ~Sumerville, N. j., nearly dry.
Duke has on his estate artificial
lakes covering an area or seVeral
hundred acres, besides innumeral
fountains and waterfalls and these
are supplied from the Raritan river
by a pumping station.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09

KiiItSiIAW KEEPS DISPENSAlN


The state board Of ~canvaS*crs nm
aninpusly decided Thursday the ap-
peal in the KcrShaw diSpcnSarN clcc-
ton in favor Of the dispcnSary, find
inE chat the election. was illegal ON
account OF irregularities.
This rcvcrscs the finding OF tn"
county board, which found that pro
hibition had. carried by 81 votes. and
II keeps the dispcnsaricS open. tn"
prohbitiomists will take the case to
the Supreme Court ON ccrtiorari
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09

FOUND CHOKED.
The Bodies of Two More Women Are
Found.

New York has All epidemic Of muir
ders. Two young women were found
choked to death Monday and We'd
nesday. The bodies are at the NOR
que unclaimed. One has been iden-
tilted as that OF Sophie Kohrer Of
Buffalo. The identity of the other
Is unknown.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
WHIPPED ALMOST TO DEATH
severely dashed for Telling Tobacco
Growing Secrets.

John Lockert was severely whip
ned by unknown parties at Guthrie,
Ky, early this week. Switches were
used, the flesh being gashed II
pieces of his clothing driven into his
flesh. He is in a %precarious condition.
The men told Lockert that he had
done a little too much talking last
year aoout the time the tobacco plant
beds we're scraped, and they had
come for a settlement.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
AGED MURDERER.
An Old Man Elcctrocuted in New
York Prison.

Charles Bonier, aged seventy-eight
years, old and white headed, was
electrocuted for the murder Of Franz
and Johanna Freheir at Auburn, N.
Y, Wednesday,. The old man walk
ed to his death without a culver,
although the authorities had feared a
breakdown. Twice the fatal current
was turned on before the doctors
were satisfied.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09

EXPLODES.
Three Men Killed and a Fourth Dying
In Consequence.

Three men were killed and q
is dying, as the result of the
blowing up OF a burlington locomo-
tive, drawing a freight train east of
Breckenbridge, No, Thursday.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
KOREAN ARMY DISARMED.
The Japanese Killed Forty Koreans
In the Operation.

a dispatch received at the State
Department from Seoul, Korea, says
forty Koreans were killed or wound
cd in a fight precipitated by disarm-
ament OF the Korean army. The cas-
ualties on the Japanese side were
SLIGHT
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09

BOILER
Kills -Four People and Wrecks Two
Railway Trains.

At Milan, Tenn, four persons we're
killed outright, another fatally in
jured and ten seriously hurt by an
explosion of the boiler Of an engine
on tho Illinois Central fast fruit
train. The explosion wrecked the
train as well as another freight IN
a parallel siding. Both trains caught
fire and were destroyed. The dead
are the engineer and fireman and two
tramDS.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
INSANE MAN
Tried to Throw His Child From a
Moving Train.

Frederick Ford, Of Philadelphia,
became insane in a New York Cen
trail Express train after leaving AL
bany, N. Y.,fand made several eff
forts to kill his two year old daught-
or by throwing her from the window
Of the train as it was speeding along
but was prevented by passengers. He
also tried to make away with himself
by leaping from the train, but was
restrained, and held captive by mem
hers Of the train crew until New York
was reached, when he was sent to
Bellevue Hospital.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-09
MOTHER SUICIDES.
~DcSpondcnt over the Death
Of Her Son.

Mrs. Mary Sykes, Il well-knOwn and
prominent lady Of Greensboro. N. c.,
committed suicide Thursday by fir
ing two pistol bullets into her body.
About Il ycar ago Mrs. sykes Young
est son died, after Il long Illness. and
ever since she has been very dcspon-
,ln,t
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-08-22
EQUITY IN BUSINESS.
Practice Of Live-and.Let.Llvs Prinel.
Piles Most Desirable.

Too frequently II is noticed that In
the struggle to attain wealth tie
rights OF the individual are ignored.
Fair dealing is a desirable thing as
we'll as most simple and It requires
only common honesty to practice st.
Not alone is there honesty involved
in the matter OF selling but also in
the matter Of buying. II is quite as
dishonorable for the purchaser to ex.
act that the seller receive no profit on
an article sold as It is for the seller
to demand an exorbitant price for his
goods
There is much sound philosophy in
the live-andlet-live gospel This is
nothing more than an observance OF
the Golden Rule that has found ex.
preston in all ages OF enlightenment
from the time of GautamR down 90
the present. In every day dealings IL
is apparent that there is too much OF
exaggerated selhshness in evidence.
too great a struggle for the vantage.
There should be spirit OF Christian
cooperation that would be just to all
alike. Whole communities suffer
sometimes from the lack OF this sense
OF equity on the part OF merchants
and their customers.
How often is the complaint heard in
rural districts that the storekeepers
OF town charge too high prices for
what they have to sell? How often is
II noticed that where this feeling dom
mates the people that the home
town suffers as consequence? II is
short sightedness on parts OF mer-
more than what may be considered a
legitimate and just profit. In fact. 1t
is poor business policy to follow out
a plan Of this kind. There are many
towns whose growth has been pre-
vented through a grasping tendency
Of the merchants to make all they pos
sibly can in few short years, and to
give the people as small an amount OF
goods as they will take for their
money. The natural result of a pol.
icy of this kind is that the people
seek other towns in which to do their
trading and quite often buy from the
distant mail-order house.
Habits once formed are hard TO
break. 1t is quite as difficult for the
merchant to recover from the hab!t
of making exorbitant profits as II is
for the patron of the mail-order house
to turn his trade to the home stores.
Should both the merchants and their
customers calmly consider principles
that enter into commerce, and both
determine to practice equity in their
dealings, the merchant to sell honest
goods at honest profits and the Gus
toner to give patronage to merchants
who would practice this principle, II
would be wholesome not alone for
the home towns. but for all the com
| niunities.