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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-30
Compliment That Touched.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds was
painting the portrait of Mrs. Billing
ton tan enhancing singer in her day)
In the character of ST Cecilia listen
Ing to the celestial music on high. she
look with her the great composer.
haydn, and showed him the picture.
1T is like" said Haydn, but there is
strange mistake" What is that?"
hastily asked Reynolds. you have
painted her listening to the angels:
you ought to have painted the angels
listening to her" MRS. Ellington
sprang up and threw her arms around
my neck" added Haydn. What WON
an with soul in her would MOI. anu
have elnchsd It With . hearty hug7
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-30

Nothing will look after itself more
carefully and more cautiously and
more successfully than a dollar. unless
i be two dollars.-Canfield, "The Col
lege Student"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-30

The Methodist Episcopal Church prop
erty in this country is now worth about
$l87, 900. 900, on which there is an in
debtedness of SIP, l27, PAS.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-30
Sad Reelection

1t happens quite frequently that the
self made man has son who Is simply
tailor made.-Puck.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-30

GRAHAM ROBERTS,
z F. .. 5 Abinadon, Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-30

sog2syI
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
KILLED HIMSELF.
An Old Man Follows Advice of br.
OSler.

When a man after an active life
finds himself without an opportunity
to continue his activity and through
reverse fortune is without means Of
livelihood to retain honor and pre-
vent himself from becoming burden
on his fellowmen, it is desirab bic that
he follow the proposition attributed
to Osler. l. therefore. deem Il ex-
pedient to do So"
The above abstract from Il letter
found on the body % Joseph Child,
who committed suicide Tuesday at
his boarding house in J.7th street.
in Chicago, by inhaling illuminating
gas explains his reason for his deed
Sixty-tive years ola without friends
or relatives, out OF employment and
with no prospect of finding work and
with his little savings rapidly dwind-
Ing away, Child chose to so to sui
cide's grave rather than become a
burden on the community.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
Towns Within a Radius of Eighteen
Miles Damaged.

Many men were reported killed.
several fatally injured and a number
missing in an explosion early Tues
day morning at the Aetna mills Of the
Dupont Powder company. near, Mil
lers. Ind.
The shock of the explosion was
heard Is miles away.
The wrecked plant employed from
$50 to 200 men in the day time, but
the full force was not at work when
the disaster occurred
The night shift had just completed
its task when the death-dealing blast
startled the town. Houses were dis
mantled and windows broken hun
dreds of yards away from the scene.
At Chesterton, Ind, harbor, Gary
nd Dane Park. dozen or more miles
distant, citizens thought an earth
quake was upon them.
Physicians and nurses were hur-
ried to the scene. A number of the
injured were removed to the new hos
pital at Gary on trains over the Lake
Shore, and Baltimore and Ohio. and
Wabash.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
LOST BOTH LEGS.
The Very Sad Fate of An Augusta
Georgia, Boy.

The Augusta Herald says Tracy
Owens, an 11-year-old white boy, was
run over the other morning in the
upper Harrisonville yards of the Geor-
gia railroad. at the north end. Both
legs were severed from his body. He
was at once carried to the city hos
pital, where an operation was per-
formed, and he may recover although
it is considered quite doubtful.
The Georgia railroad officials state
that engine five was in the act OF
taking the cab from the engine in
order to leave il on seperate track.
when Owens. who is said to hang
around the place often endeavored to
swing aboard the cab. His footing
slipped and legs were severed.
The cab was at once connected up
and heboy sent to the hospital. 1t
is stated that young Owens had been
frequently warned to stay away from
the place.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
DON'T WANT TAFT.
Negro Bishop Creates Great Sensa-
tion i'm New York

Bishop Alexander Walters, head of
the African Methodist Episcopal Zion
church in New York city, created
something like a sensation among
the colored worshipers of his denom-
ination Tuesday by delivering himself
of bitter attack on Predident Roose-
welt for the part he has played in
the Brownsville o. air, and declar-
ing that Taft was unfit to be the ne
Sros candidate for the presidency be-
cause he was with Roosevelt, a party
to what the bishop termed "a DELHI
crate plot to discredit the negro race
for political purposes
That the bishops denunciation OF
the president and Secretary Taft did
not fall on ears altogether apprecia-
tive was evidenced before the last
clause of his letter had been read.
Several of those present allowed them
selves the privilege of groans of dis
approval, and at the end Rev. DR..
Parks, chairman of the meeting, call
ed attention as delicately as he could
to the fact that the meeting was not
to discuss politics, but to consider the
| education of the members of the
race.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23

the operation of the law and to
place themselves in direct opposition
to the well defined moral policy of
the State.
Under such circumstances, / do
not believe that my candidacy this
year would be productive of good to
the prohibition cause and / will not
be a candidate.
Whether the State Democratic
Convention will be asked to permit a
direct vote upon the question in the
primary this summer, I am not now
prepared to say. / have my own
personal views upon this subject, but
before any definite conclusion is
reached 1t may be necessary to have
a conference of the prohibitionists
| am seeking to do what is best for
the ultimate good of the cause
Personally, ] shall continue to go
into different sections of the State
and advocate prohibition | shall
offer my services to any section that
may desire them. whether it be TO
make speeches generally throughout
the State or in counties where cam
paigns are being made under the pres
ent law.
THE fight is on and the prohibi-
tionists expect to keep it up until
they stop the legalized sale of liquor
lin South Carolina" .
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
LEAPED FROM TRAIN.
MIR. ELY e. SMYTH OF HARTS-
VILE COMMITS SUICIDE.
Jumped Out of Window Without
Warming and Died After Being
Carried to Columbia.

The State says as train No. So
on the Atlantic Coast Line reached
the 17-mile post, nearing Columbia
Tuesday morning, Ely e. Smith, de-
mented and under escort to the State
Hospital for the Insane, raised him
self cut of the seat in the smoking
car and dashed out of the window.
The act was done before any of
the Mortified passengers could stop
the unfortunate man and when the
train was stopped and the body re-
covered 1T was seen that there was
very little chance of recovery. With
In a few minutes after arrival in Col
umbia he died and his body was at
once shipped back to his home in
Hartsville.
Mr.. Smith has for two years had
mental trouble, being injured by
fall from a building. He never re-
covered from the result of the in
juries received by this fall and while
not violent his mind gradually grew
weaker ard it was decided to place
him in the State Hospital for the In
sane.
He was carried to Columbia, es-
corted by the chief of police of the
town, p. II. kirkpatrick, and by DR..
j. l.. Powe, who was on his way to
the meeting of the State Medical as
sociation in Anderson. The man was
always quiet, although his two COM
panions deemed it best to keep a close
watch on his movements. When
Chief kirkpatrick left his seat for
minute a stranger who came into
the car took his place beside the lun-
attic and a second later Smith had
raised himself out of the car and dis
appeared out of the open window.
Railroad Commissioner Earle, who
was on the car, had the train stopped
and short distance back the body
was found. The man was uncons-
cious and hasty examination show
ed that he had no chance for recov-
cry. On arrival at columbia he was
given medical attention but died with
in a few minutes OF removal from the
train. The body was shipped back to
Hartsville to the family for inter
ment. Chief Kirkpatrick and DIR.
Powe regret the affair very much but
according TO the statement of those
who witnessed the suicide nothing
could have stopped the unfortunate
man from his deed
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
A New York Woman Found Stabbed
In Her Bed.

Mrs. Isaac Lieberman, described
by her neighbors as the most beauti-
full woman in the Bronx, was murder
ed in bed at her home. No 7O6
Courtlandt avenue. New York, Tues
day. Her husband, who conducts a
shirtwaist store at No. 759 Melrose
avenue, block away, is under ar
rest on supicion.
Mrs. Lieberman was stabbed twice
as she slept. with a long dagger
welded by a powerful arm One OF
the wounds is through her throat.
The other is through her breast. pen
etrating both lungs. The knife was
driven in from the left side of her
body as she lay on her right side in
slumbe
Lieberman and his wife occupied
fiat on the second floor of an apart
ment house at the Courtlandt avenue
address. They we're childless and
kept no servant. According to other
tenants in the house they appeared
to be as happy as the average man
I'D wife.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
FIENDISH BRUTE.
ATTEMPTED AN ASSAULT ON A
BRAVE LEXINGTON WOMAN.
hSe Chased the Scoundrel With n
Gun to Perry, Where He Was Ar.


rested.
Inc State says Chief of Police Sal
ley' or Perry carried to Colum bia
Wednesday night and lodged in the
state penitentiary Alex. Hall. colored
charged with attempting criminal
assault upon Lexington county wo-
man Sunday afternoon.
The negro was arrested at Perry
MONDAY night by Chief Salley and
wednesday he was taken to the Aiken
county Jail. 1t was deemed wise tn
place the negro in the penitentiarv
however, and officer Salley carried
him to Columbia Wednes,la ay night
and he will remain here fer safe
Keeping until the opening of the regu-
lar term of criminal court in Lexinr-
ton.
sunday afternoon Hall stopped at
the home of Mr.. C.. Wint Soy at
Edmunds, about 10 miles from Lex
ington. Mrs. Sox was the only per-
son at home. He asked her for a
drink OF water and she started to get
1t for him, when he turned and ey-
claimed: You are what I want. not
the water" AT the same time he
made dash for Mrs. Sox. but she
grabbed a hammerless gun and at
tempted to shoot him, whereupon he
dashed out of the house. She did not
know how to operate the gun, other
wise she would have been able to fill
him with lead before he could have
possibly escaped. Mrs. Sox gave the
alarm Immediately and a number of
nearby citizens started in pursuit of
the negro.
Chief of Police Salley of Perry was
Informed over the telephone about
the attempted assault and was asked
to keep lookout for the negro. Mon
day afternoon he located a negro an
swering the description and held him
for Identification. 1t is said that the
negro feared the result OF having
Mrs. Sox come to Perry to identify
him and admitted that he was the
man, requesting that he be taken to
the Aiken jail.
Sheriff Corley of Lexington was in
formed of the arrest of Hall and ex-
pected to send his deputy to Aiken
for the purpose OF transferring him
to the Lexington jail, but the negro
is now in the penitentiary and will
remain there until the regular term
of the criminal court for Lexington
county convenes.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
Two Shot to Death.

A dispatch from Krasnoyarsk. ST.
IBERIA says lieutenant of the army
named Masloff and a sergeant were
shot to death there Friday after hav-
ing been found guilty by a courtmar-
tial on the charge that they had led
the attack which took place last June
on the guard house and detention
prison prison at Krasnoyarsk. This
attack was continued for several days
by revolutionists on the one side and
the prison guard on the other.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
Mines Resume Work,

The Ross Run Iron mines in Bath
County. KY, owned by Alabama and
Mississippi capitalists, have resumed
work, after a shutdown during the
financial stringency. This gives work
to about two hundred men. many OF
whom had spent almost their last dol
lar for food since the suspension.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
DIED IN PRAIRIE FIRE.
An Awful Death Overtakes Family i'm
North Dakota.

Louis Orian, his wife and five chill
dren perished in prairie fire which
swept the country II miles west of
Cogswell. North Dakota. Orian hur-
ried his family into a wagon, but lost
in a race with the fiafes. The fire
was spread all over the country by
a wind which travelled at 40 miles
an hour. Dozens of farmers lost
barnes and granaries. Live stock
was burned on several farms. Ser
geant country has never known so
destructive a fire .
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
Mother Forgets Baby.

AS the clerks in a 14th street dry
goods store of New York were put
ting away their stocks for the day
Friday they we're aroused by the wall
ing of baby. Search in the nur-
sery revealed a three-monts-old in
fant girl, who had evidently been for
gotten by it's mother in the haste OF
closing her days shopping.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
KILLS HIMSELF
After Shooting His Sixteen Year
Old Daughter Twice.
SHOCKING TRAGEDY

Part I'm April Fool Joke and her
Father visits her at School, Shoots
Her,and then Commits Suicide.
A terrible tragedy was enacted at
Asheviiie. N. c.. on Wednesday. En-
ragged at his 16-year-old daughter
Nellie, because OF harmless school,
girl prank, DR.. d. o. Swinney who
recently went to Asheville, from New
York. fired two shots at her. fatally
wounding her, and then turning ,n.
revolver on himself. he placed ,uu
muzzle in his mouth and pulled rho
trigger, dying almost instantly
Badly wounded as she was, with two
bullets embedded In her skull Miss
Swinney ran from the room up-stairs
to the principals room before she
fell.
The tragedy occurned In the recon-
tion room OF the Normal and Collep-
school for girls. where Miss Swinnev
mad been pupil for the past session
Just what occurred prior to the shoot
ing is not known as there were no
witnesses and the girl, while still
conscious could give but vague
account. DR.. Swinney. who. up to
lew years ago, had been promi-
ntne physician in New York CITY.
mas been in poor health. and of late
IL is alleged his mind has been un-
balanced.
Recently his daughter was one of
a number of school girls. who, as an
April FOOLS joke, absented them
selves from school, and the father
brooded over the little escapade un-
I'll Ii assumed to him the proportions
or actual wrong-doing. When DR..
Swinney called on his daughter at
the school this afternoon about 3
O'Clock he was shown into the recep-
ton room, and a few minutes later
his daughter came down and went
into the room. closing the door be-
hind her. She sat down at the piano,
her father sitting beside her.
Half an hour later girls and teach
ers were startled by four shots ring
ing out and few seconds afterwards
Miss Swinney. with blood streaming
from the wounds in her head, came
rushing from the room. In few
minutes later the widest confusion
reigned, school girls and women
teachers ran here and there, but Miss
Robinson, the principal. speedily re-
stored order and hastily summoned
a physician. Miss Swinney was des-
perately wounded and there is .ittle
chance for her recovery.
The room in which the tragedy oc-
Cured showed signs of hard strug-
gle; chairs were overturned and the
piano stool, with one leg broken, was
lying in the middle of the room The
father was lying on the floor, at one
side of the room, face downward,
with the revolver with four chambers
empty under him. The attempted
murder and suicide were evidently
deliberately planned, as before going
to the school DR.. SwInney purshased
a revolver and two rounds of cart
ridges at pawn shop.
Although. it is said, his mind has
been unbalanced for some time he
had never been violent and his fami-
ly were totally unprepared for the
fearful tragedy. He was father-in-
law of Dr.. j. A. Sinclair, a prominent
dentist of that city. and since his re-
turn from New York few weeks ago
had made his home with him.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
MORE BODIES FOUND.
Death List of Chelsea Fire Now Num-
her Thirteen.

Two more bodies were found in
the ruins of the Chelsea fire of last
Sunday, making the total number re-
covered IL, and the known victims
13, which includes two who died in
hospitals.
The bodies found were both males.
The first found was recovered at 20
Marlboro street. where search was
made through the efforts OF sister
of man who lived at that number
and who has been missing. The body
was identified by means of watch
and teeth as that of Harry Lewis.
aged AZ years. employed as mes
senger in Boston.
The second body recovered was
found at Poplar street and was that
of a male adult The list OF missing
persons is still large and 1t is feared
many OF them perished.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
SIXTY-FINE KILLED
By Landslide in Canon on Southern
Pacific Railroad.

Sixty-five Japanese laborers en-
ployed by the Canadian Pacific rail-
road lost their lives in one of the
worst land slides in the history of
Canada, in a canon of the Alberta
mountains. The roar Of the thous-
ands of tons of snow, ice and rock
carrying before 1t debris of all kinds
and swapping off large trees as If
they were twigs, could be heard for
miles. Telegraph wires were carried
down by the slide. Only five bodies
have been recovered. -
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
Machines Are Demolished.

At Pittsburg. Pa. Friday sixty
eight steel machines, confscated by
the police upon complaint that they
were used to operate games of chance
were demolished. About 1000 pen.
MES were taken from the machines
and added to the police pension fund
of that city. .
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
WITH BRYAN
And a Strong Running Mate WH
Certainly Win Says
SENATOR TILLMAN.

He Thinks the Democrats Have a
Magnificent Chance to Win in No.
vember-In the Northwest Ho
Found Thousands OF Republicans,
Who Will Vote for Bryan Becauso
Ho Is With Roosevelt on Reform,
A special dispatch from Atlanta IN
the Charleston Post says Senator
Tillman is much improved at the san
itarium. but is still weak. In an In.
terview he says:
The Democrats have a magnificent
chance to win. There is spirit of un-
rest and discomfort in the Republican
party. With Bryan and a strong
mate We can win.
everything now points to Taft as
the Republican nominee. He is sun
posed to typify Rooseveltism. but
oelieve he would be a different man
as President. l do not believe Roose-
welt or any other man could control
him.
In the Northwest / found thous-
ands of Republicans who will vote for
Bryan because they know he stands
Tor the things Roosevelt stands for.
or course, the old conservative DEM
ocrats would probably go to the Re-
publican nominee
Senator Tillman expects to sail for
Europe in few weeks. He may de-
eide to take a cattle steamer for the
long slow trip and ocean air. lie is
able to take short walks
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
CHURCH THIEF.
Woman Arrested for RObbing Wor-
shippers While at Prayer.

AS she rose from her knees, cross
ed herself devoutly aud walked out
of st. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic
church. in Chicago on Sunday, May
O'Hara, alias May Miller, was ar
rested by police sergeant and three
worshippers. The woman's rooms.
which she occupies with Frank Cum
ningham. a former pockey, were
found to contain between forty and
fifty purses and handbags, all of
which are supposed to have been stol-
en- by May O'Hara while she was pre-
tending to be in prayer and was in
reality searching the seats in front
Of her for plunder.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-23
INHALED POISONOUS FUMES
Three Employees OF Guano Company
Dead and -Four LII.

Dcau anu FOur Ill.
Three colored employees of the Roy
ster Guano Company at Macon, Ga.
came to their death last week from
inhaling poisonous gases while at
work in the acid chamber of the COM
pany's factory and four more are i'll
from the same cause, one probably
fatally. The coroner empaneled a
jury and held an inquest on one of
the negroes for all OF the victims.
The verdict of the jury is that John
Gilmore came to his death while in
the discharge of his duty in employ
of the Royster Guano company. due
to the incompetency OF Superinten-
dent Stamps and Foreman Gonsal-
ves." .
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-11

WANTED-A good white girl for
general house work. Mrs. d. P.
Morgan. 515 W. Main st
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-11
MEASLES
Among the Children at Bridge
port but School May
Not Suspend.

BRIDGEPORT. April li-cbar,es
L. Craig and family have returned
from ST, Joe, No, where they snent
the winter months guests. OF M.
craig's mother.
Arthur Gather, OF clarkSburg Il
q sirans4efing bllisaess here today.
ri Prof. Aaeorgen N Holden ana wife
areat Graasalli where they we're siIuiiLL
fn6ned on account df the giInass NJ
Mrs HOlden's mother. Sullkrintend-
ent c. Efwebp Is Supplying Fof pfIn-
eipsr. diaep dpsine the latter's alb
1llts. Nanfse y. sandnsEy was in
.CItrksburg recently attendinSs IA b,,sis
mess relative TO the estatel a. hAr lafa
husband, James B. Sanduskv. !.
Miss Hoftense Stout, daaehter, OF
Rev. Benjamin Stout, is sefioiisly nj
with pulmonary trouble.
Carl Lawson, who Is a student at
the Fairmont normal, was al home
Monday for the primary election,
George Radabuag, Of Simpson. was
the guest OF his Uncle Henry this
week.
Jasper N. Wilkinson has been con-
fined TO his room for several DAYS
on account OF a severe cold.
Thaymer Tyson, who was RECENTLY
married. to Miss Phoebe Slaughter,
has gone TO housekeeping at the Ty-
son homsteade near Green Valley.
Messrs. Ed. Thunps0n, John Cav
throp and John W. Bailey were bust
ness visitors TO Clarksburg this week
Charles w. Worcester, Of Clarks-
burg. was there today in the interest
rOf his IRE insurance agency.
Miss Irene Mcdonald has returned
from Wheeling Where she purchased
large stoe3S, OF millinery goods for
the Easter trader. =
There viii be box supper and fesz
tiVal at the K. OF p. half Friday
night. April II, for the benefit Of the
band boys. fpfs
Z Several of the school. children. have
the measles, 1t IL not Thought how
ever, thatyit win be necessary toscl0se
1.-THE school temporary. Shf
Superintendent Cyrus F.. Webb will
teach q summer school here for the
benefit of those who are preparing to
enter the profession of teaching. The
term Will open about the first OF
May. and the indications point to a
large enrolment. Mr.. Webb stands
high In Stire tnching profession and
all who .o6nio,sto receive instruction
win be greatly benefited.
Captain Hurry and Joe Johnson
were business visitors in Clarksburg
recently.
The band boys are rehearslng for
a play entitled Little Buck Shot. .
which they Will present In the near
future. They. played Strife" last
fall which was n big success; so we
may expect something equally good
this time. So r