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The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1908-09-11
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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
MET HORRIBLE DEATH.
Young Man Fastened Beneath Engine
and Fatally Scalded.

Mr.. n. w. Dunlap, a young man.
son &C Mr. Charles J.. Dunlap, of
Fort Lawn, met with horrible death
friday night says a news dispatch
from Lancaster. He was acting as
engineer on the railroad between
Fort Lawn and Great Falls. and while
running what is known as dinkey
engine yesterday afternoon, the en-
CINE collided with a box car and ov-
erturned, Mr.. Dunlap being pinioned
under his machine and fatally scald-
ed. his death ensuing several hours
later. The unfortunate young man
was fastened beneath his engine an
hour and a half before he could be
removed, being conscious all the
while.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
TELLS REMARKABLE STORY.
Young Woman Assaulted and Thrown
From Boat is Rescued.

a young woman, bruised, limp and
well-nigh exhausted, was found early
Monday clinging to the side of :.
floating pile driver at the foot of
F1ftieth street, Brooklyn, N. Y
When rescued her account of how
she came so near death was of a re-
markable outrage. She is Miss
Amelia Stechel, of Bay Ridge, and
she is at her home in a serious con-
dition.
Miss Stechel spent Saturday with
friend. On her way home in the
evening, she says two men, whom
she thinks were Italians, suddenly
seized her and threatened to murder
her if she screamed. She was drag
ged to dock and there she lost con-
sciousness. When she came too, she
says she found herself in boat with
the two men; that she struggled so
violently that the pair threw her
overheard and that she tried to
swim to the shore. Her strength
was then so spent that she could on
ly cling to the pile driver in hopes
of rescue.
A doctor who attended her says
she was undoubtedly assaulted. The
police are looking for her assailants.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
TESTED TORPEDO NETS.
Steel Mesh Withstands Shock of Tor

A dispatch from Newport, r. L..
says important secret tests were made
at Coddington Cove and in Buzzard' S
Bay Thursday with the new torpedo
nets, a steel mesh, which Is supposed
to be able to withstand the shock OF
torpedoes fired at close range.
In Coddington Cove the torpedo
boats Morris and Gwynn fired tor
pedoes at different ranges and differ
ent speedes at the nets, placed above
the water, while at BuZZard's Bay
the tests were made by firing orved-
oes under water. the second subma-
marine flotilla being engaged in the
experiments. 1t was said unofficially
that the tests were satisfactory.
The nets are designed to be placed
abord armored cruisers and torpedo
boats for protection in time of was
against torpedo attacks.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
BATTLES POLICE
TWO MEN CONCERNED IN THE
MURDER OF WOMAN.
Laborer Tells of Seeing Them Trying
to Burn Mattress Which Contained
Her. Body.

That at least two men were con
cerned In the murder of the unidenti
neu woman whose half-charre1 af
acid-scarred body was founu OIL tb,
Green Point avenue dumping ground
In Williamsburg. Brooklyn, n. Y
carry wednesday morning, was es-
tablished Thursday night.
Phllip O'Brien, a laborer of Green
foint, saw covered wagon driven
to the dump at dawn "Wednesday
Two men got out and lifted from the
wagon what the witness supposed to
be only an old mattress. He saw
the men pile heop of brush on the
mattress, pour oil over it and set
fire to 1t. Believing the mattress was
being destroyed because it was dis
ease-infected, the man avoided the
spot. There can be no doubt but
that the mattress was the one I'm
which the body of the murdered wo-
man was concealed.
This important development led to
the discovery that the wagon was
seen by several other persons and
the police now have a minute de-
scription of the two men who
were in it. They were foreigners.
Another startling feature of the
case was disclosed when Coroner s
Physician Wurst made a second au-
topsy on the corpse. His first autop-
sy revealed a deep cut across the
woman's throat. The second autop-
sy shows that this cut was made by
a person who is expert in surgery
Tie incision, says the coroner's
physician, is such as is made in des-
perate cases OF diphtheria. where II
is necessary to pierce the windpipe
to prevent strangulation. Whether
this wound caused death or not DR..
Wurst is unprepared to say.
DR.. Wurst will make a careful
analysis of the stomach to discover
whether a drug was administered to
the woman. Besides the incision in
the woman's throat her skull was
fractured and the police believe that
poison may have been used to make
thrice sure of her death.
Failure to identify the victim is
the greatest obstacle the police have
to overcome in solving the mystery.
A general alarm has been sent out
for Mrs. Mamie Muskovitch and her
husband, Stanley, who have disap-
peared.
There is a possibility that the muir
dered woman may be Mrs. Musko-
witch Muskovitch and his wife left
Green Point last Monday, supposed
ly for Stamford, Conn, and Mrs.
Muskovitch has not been seen since.
Her husband returned to Green
Point on Tuesday alone, it is said.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
KIDNAPPED AND DROWNED?
Authorities Unable to Account Other.
wise for Young Lady's Condition.

Late Friday night at Pittsburg. Pa.
Miss Clara Konter, Is years of age.
who, 1t is. believed, was kidnapped
and detained for twenty-four hours
by persons unknown, had not regain
ed consciousness.
The young woman left her home.
near Shousetown, about Is miles
from Pittsburg. Monday afternoon, to
make several purchasers. She failed
to return and while the entire COM
munity were searching for her, Mrs.
Konter, the girls mother, found her
lying across the bed of her room at
home.
Physicians have worked with the
girl since Tuesday night in an en-
deavor to bring her back to conscious
ness without success. According to
DIR. Kerr. Of Shousetown,. powerful
drug, the nature of which has not
yet been ascertained, was administer
ed.
Whether the girl was kidnapped
and mistreated is not definitely
known. .
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
CONVICT AGAINST CONVICT.
More Georgia Horrors and Irregular
tiles Disclosed

AT Atlanta, Ga, Geo. T. Hurt, tes-
tifying before the Legislative com
nittee investigating the conduct OF
the State prison board last week told
the committee of an incident in which
one convict armed with a pick was
set upon another convict similarly
armed in an effort to capture and
subdue him. During the encounter
this convict drove his pick into the
Insurgents face up to the hilt. tin
point of it penetrating the man S
lung. He afterwards died of pneu-
monia.
Lessees of convicts called to the
stand swore that members of the
Georgia prison commission knew that
they were paying extra salaries to
the States officers.
Wardens acknowledged ignoring
rules in reference to making out re-
ports of their camps and submitting
them under oath. They stated they
were never reprimanded by the pris-
on commission for these lapses. -
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
MILLS TO SHUT DOWN.

100000 Spindles i'm Spartanburg to
be Idle for Two Weeks or Longer.
Practically all the large cotton
mills in the Spartanburg section will
close August s for two weeks, some
of them for a longer period. The
mills that will close down are Tu-
capau. Enoree, Pacolet, Spartan Mills.
Arkwright and Whitney, of that
county, and Clinton and Watts Mills.
The Pacolet Mills will close for an
indefinite period, and will pay the
operatives half time and give them
free house rents while opration is
suspended. The other mills will fur
nish house rent free. The closing
down of the mills, August s, will be
the second time this summer the
mills have shut down. and will pro,
badly be the last. AS a result OF
the shut down. more than three hun,
dred thousand spindles in the coun
ty will be idle
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
DROWNED BY FLOOD.
HEAVY RAINS INEAsTERN NNoRrH
CAROLINA CAUSE FLOOD.
A"o Children Have Been Drowned
and Traffic Is Tied Up on Four
Lines of Railroads,

"A dispatch from Raleigh, N. g.
says TWO children drowned, traffic
ueo up on lat least four lines of rail.
road and most OF the nayigable riv.
ers, crops badly damaged and in tbr
iarse areas OF lowlands entirely de,
stroyed is the partial record of the
enect In Eastern North Carolina OF
the west Indian storm that ragged on
the Atlantic coast Thursday and NOV
cd inland Friday, accompanied by q
rainfall that was q record breaker In
some localities and amounted to 9.75
inches at Newbern, according to spe-
Gals Friday night to the News and
Observer from numerous points in
that section.
AT Kinston, nine inches of rain in
four days is reported, and in the citv
main streets are impossible to ped-
estrians. The Norfolk and Southern
railway bridge over Southwest creek
between Kinston and Caswell. is
submerged and traffic has been block
ed all day.
Traffic is tied up also on the Kins-
ton Snow Hill Railroad the track be-
ing washed away for some distance.
Trains on the Washington and
Vandemere Railroad are tied up by
washouts and river traffic and fishing
are at standstill.
The bridge of the Norfolk and
Southern Railway. between Morehead
City and Beaufort, recently built at a
cost of millions of dollars, is reported
unsafe, and no trains are crossing.
AT Roper two children are report
ed drowned on account of the flood.
The chief damage in inland sec
tcns has been caused by the torren-
tial rains.
Reports from Wilmington. More
head City and Beaufort are that the
storm has passed. and but little real
damage has been affected. =
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
PEACE MOVEMENT GAINING.
Congress Now in Session i'm London
Much Encouraged.

MANY signs of the increasing i'm
portance of the peace movement have
developed during the progress of the
Universal Peace Congress" said Ben
jamin F. Trueblood, of Boston, presi-
dent of the American Peace Society
and head of the American delegation
now in London, in an interview
First, we have seen the number of
| delegates grow until every civilized
nation of the world now is represent
ed at the Congress, and by men OF
standing In their own countries. The
meeting of the Congress have been
exceedingly we'll attended, and the
greatest interest has been displayed
the most important OF which was that
on the subject of ornaments.
Make 1t clear said Mr.. True.
blood. that we are not urging i'm.
mediate disarmament. but a scheme
by which the increased expenditure
for ornaments can be stopped.
Another incident showing the
growing Importance of the Congress.
was the recognition of the delegates
by King Edward, a precedent which
doubtless will be followed in the fu
ture. The British Government hai
ably seconed his Majesty by inviting
the delegates to the congress to
banquet Friday evening, there will b'
speeches which will advance th
cause which we have so much a
heart. These and other attention
We are receiving from the oficia
heads of Great Britain insure tn
success of the Congress IN the future
The discussions in the Congress
while thev are doing much good
have not had so much effect as tn
impressions we have received from
rulers and political leaders of coun
tries 90 vitally interested IL the main
ltensnce OF peace.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
IN DANGER FOR DAYS.
Captain and Crew Rescued from
Sinking Ships.

Capt. Foster and his crew of six
men were taken Monday from the
Inflated schooner Jose Oloverri
stranded on Bulls Island beach near
Charleston Thursday night. For
nearly. four days the captain and his
men were unable to leave the vessel
and were in constant danger of being
thrown into the sea from the break
ing of the pounding ship in a boil
ing surf. The loss of their small
boats prevented the seamen from
leaving the ship. Capt. Stevenson OF
the Bulls Island lighthouse succeed
ed in reaching the schooner, the sea
and wind having Gained down suffi-
ciently to allow him to approach her
The schooner, valued at about $25,-
100, and the cargo of cement. valu-
I'd at about $4,000, seem to be 8
.otal loss.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
QUICK JUSTICE IN JERSEY.
Blacksmith who Killed Preacher
July 10 Sentenced to Die.

A dispatch from New Brunswick.
n. j.. says Another example of
quick Jesrey justice was given Tues
day when Archie Heron, the form
er blacksmith, who shot and killed
the Rev. S. V. b. Prickett, MethO-
dist minister. on July Is, was con
victed of murder in the first degree
and was sentenced to be electrocut-
ed at Trenton on September Z.
Herron's trial began Monday and
the case was given to the jury Tues
day. 1t took but forty-five minutes
for the jurymen to bring IN ver-
dict of guilty. Heron shot the Rev.
Mr.. Prickett while his victim was
walking in the street. His motive is
believed to have been to revenge him.
self upon the minister, who, when
recorder of the Metuchen Court,
sentenced Heron to serve ten days
in jail for drunk enness and disorder
ly conduct.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
MATTERS POLITICAL.
Editor Norman Mack to Run Demo.
cratic Campaign.

Matters are still moving smooth,
In national democratic affairs. Nor.
man L. Mack of Buffalo. an edito,
ana man who has the confidence
OIL the party, and who is hard work.
er' has been made chairman of the
national committee, which means
that an effort is to be made to can
ture New York and lne New York
politicians think that the effort will
De successful. The choice of Mr.
Mack seems to give general satisfac-
ton.
Ihere Is every evidence of the
fact that the democratic committee
is leaving no stone untarned to get
the votes of the people and they are
making progress. They will try to
capture Chic by bagging the Forak-
er support, which seems probable
they Will sacrifice no principle. make
no promises that will bind the party
to anything Objectionable in doing
it.
Gov. Johnson will set out soon to
make some speeches for the ticket
which he aspired to lead. and is
great enough to help though he was
disappointed.
~ The republicans are also very busy
they are trying now to make terms
and this information comes from the
New York World, which is not very
favorable to the democratic partv
that the administration has surren-
dered to the Wall street capitalists
and rapid pool and will permit the
railroads in the west to raise their
rates, and will make it convenient to
have the employees of the road con-
vinced that their object in so doing
is to increase their wages. or prevent
their reduction, and that their hope
is in the republican party, the party
of the full diner pail.
The collections for the campaign
funds are growing very slowly. the
farmers do not respond as rapidly
to the apneal as was thought when
they realized that the election de-
pended on them and that it was
plainly up to them now, If they want
ed such government as they had been
for years demanding. they had to
support the workers in the field. sup
ply the ammunition for the batteries
and pay the bill.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
SEE NEGRO BURN.
Alleged Assailant of White Girl
Lynched by Citizens.

Tad" Smith. a negro boy IS
yeas old, charged with criminal as
sault on Miss Viola Delaney at Clay
ton, Hunt County. Texas, was cap
tured by officers Tuesday He was
taken before the young woman and
identified. The prisoner was then
hurried to the Greenville jail. Be-
fore arriving there, however, mob
of citizens overpowered the officers.
took the prisoner and burned him at
the stake. Fagots we're piled up In
the public square at Greenville and
the negro was placed thereon. kero-
sene oil was poured on and match
applied. Smith slowly burned to
death while a thousand people look
q on.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
DROWNED OR MURDERED?
Coroner's Jury Said Former But Wo.
man Was in Shallow Water.

man Was in Shallow Water
A sinister aspect was given to the
case of the drowning of Mr.. and Mrs
George A. Raisbeck, of New York
Monday night at Lake Sylvia. three
miles from Annandale, Mimi. when
IL became know Wednesday that Mrs
halsbeck's bobby had been fomd IN
ABOUT three feet of water in kneelin @
position, and that she had a Ions
oruise on he side of her face. which
cut her upper lip, and one extending
down on her throat under the ear
1t was also learned that there was
no water in her lungs. DR.. Ridge
way, who examined the woman's
body, said he believed that her death
was not caused by drowning.
The body of DR.. Raisbeck was
found farther out in the lake in about
twenty feet of waer. The supposi-
tion is that the woman was stunned
by blows and dragged or thrown into
the lake.
The boat in whcih the couple had
gone shing was found right side up
and fishing tackle in it in good or
der, thus indicating that the boat had
not been accidently overturned. Not
withstanding this the coroners YER
dict was that death had been caused
by drowning.
There were no witnesses. One
farmer living near the Raisbecks said
he had frequently heard them quar-
reling. but others say that their re-
lations were always harmonious. The
couple were last seen about their
cottage Monda ynight. .
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
FOUND MOTHER MURDERED.
Woman, Sixty Years of Age, Shot Six
Times by Unknown Party.

A dispatch from Tampa, Fla. says
Mrs. J. w. Platt, sixty years old, was
murdered by unknown persons Mon
day at noon at her home near Gil
christ Institute. Discovery of the
crime was made by her son. Walter
Platt. who. going home for dinner,
found his mothers body on the
kitchen floor with six bullet wounds
in her head. Her daughter, Miss
Matte Plat. teache.' at the Insti-
tute, had left home thirty minutes
before.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
Negro Lynched In Georgia.

Alfonso Williams. negro. who is
alleged to have assaulted Miss Clare
Brown last Friday night near Ohoo-
pee, Ga. was Wednesday night TAX
en- from the Tooms County jail by
mob. carried TO the woods nearby
and riddled with bullets. The sher-
If was placed under guard
While the mob broke into the jail and
took the negro away.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
KILLED by Train.

Two men were killed and six more
injured, one of them probably fatal
ly. on the Ontario and Western Road
at Mayfeld, Pa, Friday. The dead ::
Michael Duggon and Samuel Ander-
son. The men were repairing cars on
a siding when another train crashed
into them.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
SLIPPED OFF HER ROOF.
New York Woman Lost Balance, Fell
Six Stories and Was Killed.

In a moment of forgetfulness,
while sitting on the edge of the
roof of her home, Miss Annie Nc
Nulty, 10 years old, of 239 East
122nd street, New York stretcehd
out her arms in exercise. and losing
her balance, fell to the street. six
stories below. She died shortly after
reaching the hospital
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
Victims of the Undertow.

TWO deaths by drowning occurred
in Florida Monday. one at Amelia
Beach. near Fernandina. and the
other at Dayton Beach. Willie Beck
ham, of Windsor. Fla. while in bath
ing with a number of friends al
Amelia Beach was caught in the
undertow, and at Daytone J. 3
Bunch lost his life in a similar man
ner. Both bodies are still missing
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
COTTON CROPS CONDITION.
Government Reports Note Improve
ment Over Last Month.

The average condition of cotton
was S3 per cent on July 25, as
against 81.2 a month ago, and 75 a
wear ago. according to the report OF
the department of agriculture given
out on the first. The condition on
The condition of cotton on July 25
In 1906. 74.9 in 1906 and S14 foI
the past ten years.
The condition 70 cotton on July 2.
and the ten year averages respective
ly by States follows:
Indiana, 90 and %; North Caro-
lima, SO and 91; South Carolina, 81
and so; Georgia. IS and 81; Florida
85 and "a; Alabama. S5 and 81
Mississippi. Sc and so; Louisiana. s;
and SO; Texas. 80 and so; Arkan
sc and 50; Tennessee, SO and S4
Missouri. IS and S4; Oklahoma, 6,
and 65.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-08-06
NEGRO BRUTE 10 DIE.
Execution of John Finney Will BE
Virginia's First EIectrocution.

A dispatch from Roanoke. Va
says John Finney, the negro, who
two weeks ago beat eleven-year-old
Wary Jamison almost to death In
Franklin County. in an attempt tc
criminally assault her. was Friday
convicted in Court at Rocky Mount
The jury was out five minutes Fin
ney is the ,frst criminal sentenced tc
Ibe electrocuted IN Virginia