davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
TRAIN HAND KILLED.
Will Campbell Run Over by Engine
at Greenwood.

Greenwood, March 11.-Will
Campbell, a negro train hand en-
ployed in the Seaboard local yards,
had his legs cut off while at work
in the yards early Wednesday norm
ing, and died several hours later
from the effects of his injuries. He
was run over shortly after 2 o'clock
and died at S o'clock Wednesday
morning.
1t appeared that Campbell was at
the switch waiting for the engine
to go up to the tank and return. 1t
would seem that, as the engine came
back, he attempted to jump on, but
missed his footing and fell under
meath. Both legs we're cut off.
The switching crew was in charge
of Yard Conductor Meaders and En-
gineer Pittman. MI. Pittman stated
that the engine was going about
two or three miles an hour. Camp
bell was an excellent train hand,
knew his business we'll, and it seems
more than likely that it was a case
Of accident. 1t was said at the in
quest that Campbell said before he
died that he did not see how he could
get hurt.
A %coroner's jury was impanelled
and the following verdict was render
ed: "WiIl Campbell came to his
death by accident on his own part"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
MURDER WOMAN'S HUSBAND.
'Rev." Wolfram and Mrs. Malinda
Lockhart Locked Up.

Atlanta, Ca, March 10.-Charles
H. Wolfram, whom calims to be an
ordained Holiness preacher, and Mrs.
Malinda Lockhart are being held in
the county jail on charges growing
out of their discovery together in
the formers room on Marietta street.
The arrest was caused by woman's
husband, James j. Lockhart, whom,
the two prisoners claim, they had
planned to murder.
Wolfram is author of several So
called religious books, and earned a
livelihood selling them on the streets.
Mrs. Lockhart is a strikingly hand
some woman, and apparently intelli-
gent. She has not lived with her
husband for two years, b~ecause, as
she claims, Wolfram vas found to
be her "soul-mate" or "afinity."
Religious, attraction led to their
association, is is claimed, and to re-
move all carnal barriers they had de-
cided to remove Lockhart by the
poison route. Their nerve failed at
the last moment and Lockhart still
lives to enjoy his estate Of $4,000
or 15,000.-Augusta Chronicle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
A MYSTERIOUS CAVERON.
Two Dogs Are Lost in 1t and Can't
Be Found.

Farmers of Weldon Spring, in St.
Charles county, Mo-, strove for two
days to rescue two dogs that had
been imprisoned for three weeks in
a cave. Spurred by the piteous barks
and whines of the dogs, the men dug
down until they were stopped by
solid rock. Dynamite was used with
out avail. One man risked his life
by crawling $50 feet at the end of
a rope into a cave, but was unable
to rescue the dogs. The effort was
then abandoned, because the cries
of the dogs could no longer be heard,
and it was concluded that they had
persisted.
Three weeks ago Bob Tarbel and
Sam Pitman were hunting on John
Burton's farm, when their dogs start
ed a coon, which sought safety in a
cave. The dogs, intent on the chase,
followed it in through the narrow
entrance and disappeared from sight
and hearing. They did not return,
and it was three weeks later, that
their whines were heard near an old
sink hole 500 feet away. Digging
began but vas soon stopped by solid
rock and dynamite was then used.
Fully 100 men, women and child
rem gathered and urged the workers
to greater endeavors, but they could
do nothing except to try to explore
the cave. Finally Howell risked his
life in an attempt to reach and res
u the dogs. He volunteered to
crawl into the cave with a rope tied
to him. One $50 feet long was
brought and IN end of It tied around
his waist. He crawled into the cave
and went the length Of the rope.
He found the passage at that depth
small that he could not have gone
further, even If the rope had been
longer. He could hear the dogs and
called loudly to them, but they SEEM
ed to have fallen ove a declivity,
and could not come to him.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
VERY QUEER TALE.
Told by Escort Of Girl Who Was
Shot.

Baltimore, March 9.-Jennie Reed,
aged 81 years, Of this city, was muir
dered Monday by a highwayman at
Mount Washington, residence SUBJ
urb. She and Joe Mueller, to whom
she was engaged to be married were
on the way to visit friends at Mount
Washington, according to Mueller's
statement and left the car at Seventh
avenue.
When they had walked half a
block and were in a lonely place,
they were stopped by a man, who,
leveling a pistol, called for their val
uables. Mueller said he gave up
what valuables he had and then the
highwayman demanded a necklace
worn by Miss Reed. Her reply was
a slap in the face, upon receiving
which, the man fired, the bullet
striking the girl behind the left ear.
She was carried into a nearby house,
but death had been almost instan-
taneous. The highwayman disap-
peared and is being diligently sought
by the police.
Mueller, who appears to have been
the only witness to the shooting was
placed under arrest.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER.
Laurens Breaks a Record Covering
Fifteen Years.

Laurens, March 10.-For the first
time in about fifteen years a Lau-
rens jury has returned a straight YER
dict of murder without a recommen-
dation to mercy. This occurred this
afternoon in the Court Of General
Sessions, when the jury returned a
verdict of guilty in the case Of the
State vs.. John Henry Anderson for
the murder of his father-in-law. 1t
will be recalled that Anderson shot
and killed old man Joseph Carter
at the Cedar Grove church at the
funeral of one Of Anderson's child
rem. He shot him In the back. and
without immediate ~provocation.
Anderson will very likely be senteno-
ed on Saturday.
Two cases of attempted criminal
assault we're tried today in the
General Sessions Court, one against
a young white man, Albert Duncan,
accused of attempting to ravish a
young girl in Waterloo Township,
the home Of both. Duncan was
found guilty with mercy recommend
ed by the jury. The other case was
against Will Mccullough, colored,
charged with attempting to ravish
a young white girl in Sullivan's
Township. The jury returned a YER
dict of not guilty.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
Found In The Adiron dacke Up
per New York
RIVAL THE MAMMOTH
Rooms Under the Mountain
Near Standish, N. Y, Which Are
Yet to Be EXplored-Veteran Gives
Some Measurements and Tells Of
the Pits Which Are Deep.

Saranac Lake, N. Y, March TO-
Capt. E. E. Thomas, an old-time
woodsman. has discovered a great
ave in a secluded part of the Adiron-
dacks which may rival the famous
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. Thorn
as CHANGED to strike the entrance to
the cavern on the summit Of a noun
tain seldom visited by travellers, or
sportsmen, some time ago, but kept
the matter secret until he could make
an Investigation.
Taking a companion with him,
he entered the caver for 1000
feet, and as the end was not reached,
the extent Of the cav from that
point on is as yet undetermined. 1t
Is situated on a mountain known as
wv" Mountain, not far from Stand
ish, N. Y.
In describing his discovery, the
old woodsman said: "The mouth is
about fifty feet wide. The first room
is fifty feet long, twenty feet wide
and thirty feet high. 1t swarmed
with bats, which lined the walls and
seemed scarcely able to move. There
was a decided smell of sulphur. In
the next room, which was about
forty by fifteen feet, we found pas
sages branching in many directions,
and were unable to explore all of
them.
with only the feeble rays of a
lantern to guide us, we several times
narrowly escaped falling into pits.
You can imagine how deep some of
these were, when I say that we had
time to count fifteen and twenty be-
fore rocks we dropped into them were
heard to strickland we did not
count rapidly. An elk's horn was
found by us far inside the cave.
after going a short distance from
the mouth there was no vegetation.
There is nc opening at the base of
the mountain and there are no
streams in the cave so far as we
have yet discovered"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
GOES SCOT free
STANDARD OIL ACQUITTED OF
ALL CHARGES.
The Verdict Was Returned On In
structiOn of United States Judge
Anderson in Chicago.

Chicago, March 10.-The Standard
Oil Company of Indiana was today
found not guilty of accepting rebates
from shipments Of oil from Whiting,
Ind. to East St. Louis, III. The
verdict was returned by a jury in
the federal court on instructions of
Judge A. G.. Anderson, who averred
that he followed the circuit court
of appeals decision as to the verdict
returned at the former trial of the
same case and on which verdict
Judge Kensaw Mountain Lands as
sessed a fine Of S29,240,000
Judge Anderson's decision was not
unexpected as he had yesterday told
the government prosecutors that the
proof relied on in the first trial was
incompetent, and that it must be
complemented or fail. 1t was with
something Of an air of hopelessness
that District Attorney Edwin w.
Sims, and his assistant attempted to
show the admissability of the Illi-
nois classification to prove the ex-
istance Of a legal rate of Is cents,
which was a vital point in the gov
ernment's contention.
1t was after Assistant District At
torney Jas. H. Wilkersoi had argued
for two hours and in the end adj
mitted that the prosecution could
not furnish the further proof deemed
necessary by the court for a continu-
alton Of the case that Judge Ander-
son announced his decision.
Mr.. Wilkerson said that the gov
eminent could proceed no further
and suggested dismissal Of the case.
Attorney John S. Miller, chief coun-
sci in the case Of the oil company,
Immediately moved that there be an
Instructed verdict of not guilty. The
court so ordered and the jury, which
had been excluded during the argu-
ments by the attorneys, was called in
and charged.
The decision of Judge Grosscup,
Baker and Seaman, of the United
States circuit court of appeals, re-
versing Judge Lands, together with
the decision of the court of appeals,
was assigned as authority for today's
decision.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
GOES TO WORK
IN DEAD EARNEST TO FIGHT
CONSUMPTION.
Aiken Employs a Trained Nurse Who
Will Devote All of Her Time to
Tuberculosis.

The Columbia Record says Miss
Susie 8. Ravenel has been employed
by the Aiken County Antituberculo-
sis League, as a trained nure, to as
sist in its work of prevention of the
white plague. The league has been
very active in its Inauguration Of a
war against consumption. Although
the league has been organized only
a few weeks, practical results are
now being obtained, and the people
are being instructed in the means
Of preventing disease.
It is only recent years that means
for cope with this dreaded disease
have been discovered and this knowl-
edge is not yet prevalent among the
people,; and the dissemination Of this
knowledge is the primary object for
the league in this county. No dues
are paid for membership in the
league, but voluntary subscriptions
are being received by the officers for
the prosecution of the work. Many
Of the Northern visitors have liberal
ly helped in this work.
Miss Ravenel has already COM
menced her work. She devotes the
forenoon to the work, making visits
to all parties who may need her
assistance. No charge Is made for
her assistance, which is given not
from a charitable standpoint, but
as a matter of giving valuable sug-
gestions for the caring of patients
and prevention of the spread to 9TH
er members Of the family, and the
'blic, with whom infected persons
'ay come in contact. Miss Ravenel
has had long experience as a nurse,
and she has entered the work with
a spirit. She will make periodical
reports to the president Of the
league, DR.. Fillmore Moore.
The trained nurse will conduct
her work in conjunction with, and
in harmony with the board of health.
Miss Ravenel will also consult with
the physicians of the city, and work
in conjunction with them. Such
cases that are reported to her, as
needing assistance, advice, or in any
manner that she can help them, she
will visit. The object of this Is, Of
course, to prevent the further spread
Of the disease, and it is stated that
where persons refuse to heed friendly
and voluntary suggestions for the
safety of the people against tuber-
c~ulosis, such cases will be referred
to the board of health, to take such
action as they see fit for public
safety.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
SHOULD SHUN SOFT DRINKS.
Government Pure Food Expert Warns
Girl Students.

Washington, March 10. The
dangers of "the soft drink habit"
and the innocence with which girls
become addicted to it, were empha-
sized tonight by DR.. Harvey, with w.
Wiley, the Governments pure food
expert, in a lecture before one hun
dred girl students at Holy Cross
Academy.
IF you only know what I know
about what those soft drinks con-
tain you would abstain from them,'
he said. ut will surprise you to
know that most Of them contain
more caffeine than coffee, and a drug
which is more deadly. So beware
of the soft drink. 1t is more harm
full than coffee, and I advise all
young people against the use of this
stimulant. Perhaps you would be
interested to know I have collect
ed more than one hundred samples
of soft drinks sold at soda foun-
tains, and each contains caffeine, and
many of them a deadly drug"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
CRIMINALS.
Favors Elimination of Hanging and
EIectrOcutiOn.

Atlanta, Ca, March 11.-Gen.
Clement A. Evans, commander-in-
chief Of the United Confederate Vet
Grams and chairman Of the prison
commission of Georgia, advocates
chleroforming criminals who have
received the death sentence.
IT believe the law has no right
to do more than take a mans life"
said Gen. Evans. mo living man
should witness it. The death cell
should be air tight, and the mai who
is to die should inhale the very
breath of death itself and should die
p~ainlessly and alone. Any other
death punishment is nothing short
of barbarous. Even this is bad
enough"
Gen. Evans had already qualified
this statement by declaring himself
opposed to capital punishment for
any crime save that of attack upon
women.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
THIs rs GOOD NEWS.
Scientists Say the Earth Won't Have
Collision.

Cambridge, Mass, March H.
Commenting on the assertion made
recently by DR.. Percival Lowell that
the earth was in danger of colliding
with some large astral body and thus
be destroyed, Prof. William H. PICK
ering, of the Harvard Astronomo-
cal Observatory, says that the chance
of such an event is about "one IN
one hundred millions, raised to the
one hundred millionth power
"a more possible danger he add
ed, "but nevertheless an improbable
one, is that the solar system In It's
tourney through space may come
close enough to some such a dark
body as to cause a disturbance in the
orbital motion of planets and per-
haps carry some Of them, the earth
included. into space. The danger Is
30 remote, however, that there need
be no popular apprehension about
r"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
THEOLOGY AND A BROKEN HEAD
How One Led to the Other i'm ChcrO-
kee Negro Church.

Gaffney, March 10.-At a row
which occurred in a colored
church, a few miles in the country
on Saturday, a negro named Wat
Gist was arguing some theological
questions, when a negro named
Thomas Jeter took issue with some
of the doctrines promulgated by the
aforesaid Gist, calling him a liar,
whereupon Gist seized a chair and
applied same with such force to the
Uranium of Jeter as to bring him to
his knees, and pursuing his advan-
tage, struck him in the mouth and
knocked several front teeth down his
throat. AS soon as Jeter recovered
sufficiently to come to town he in
dicted Gist for assault and battery
| of a high and aggravated nature, and
the matter will be threshed out in
| the Courts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
TRAIN WRECKER CAUGHT.
Arrested on Charge Of Causing Wreck
at Harbins.

Greenville, March 10.-John Tar
rell, colored, was arrested lear Sem
eca this morning by Special Agent
Alton, of the Southern, and Sheriff
Kay, Of 9conee county, charged with
wrecking train No. 35, near Harbins,
on February %.
It will be remembered that En-
gineer Will O'Neal lost his life in
the wreck. A warrant has also been
issued for the Lewis, colored, charg-
ing him with being a party to the
deed. The grand jury at Walhalla
returned a true bill against both ne
groes this moring. The sheriff OF
Oconee has gone to Georgia looking
for Lewis.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
THEY DESTROY CROPS.
Poisoned Wheat to Bait Prairie Dogs
i'm the West.

Washington, March 11.-Poisoned
wheat is to he used as bait to kill off
the prairie dogs, the stockmen's en-
emy, that now infest Arizona and
New Mexico and have become a me-
mace to the forest ranges there. On
ranch lands prairie dogs have proved
destructive to a variety of crops, in
Guiding wheat, grain, potatoes and
sugar beets; while on grazing lands
they destroy so much grass that the
grazing capacity of the land is re-
duced SO to IS per cent. The forest
service is employing every effort to
prevent range deterioration.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
MANY WANT JOBS.
One Hundred and Thirty Apply for
Two Positions.

Columbia, March Reconnaissance
Watson has already received one
hundred and twenty applications for
the two positions of inspectors that
he is required to appoint under the
provisions of the act recently passed.
He hopes to be able to find two men
who have had some training along
the lines expected, or who will be
willing to work along modern lines.
Mr.. Watson hopes to make these two
places serve those for whom they
are intended, and to get data and
do inspecting along proper lines, and
he does not want men who simply
want the places for the salary in
volved. He is in no hurry about
making the appointments, and ex-
poets to get first class men, at least
as good as the moderate salary will
permit.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
STABBED HIMSELF
With Scissors While Riding on a
Georgia Train.

Savannah, Ga, March 10.-Becom-
ing violent on a Southern train last
night between Atlanta and Jesup,
and claiming he was being shot, DR..
R. T. Baird, of Fredericksburg, Va,
stabbed himself in the chest with a
pair of scissors, then attacked the
negro porter and other trainmen.
He was found dead this morning in
his berth on the arrival of the train
in Jesup. 1t is presumed he was
under the influence of some drug.
The body was taken to Jacksonville.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
Several Drowned.

Montgomery, Ala, March 10-Five
persons were drowned Wednesday in
the Alabama river here in the rising
waters which followed Tuesday
nights storm. Three white and a
negro were drowned from the ferry,
and William billiard, a white boy,
fell in and was drowned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
Three Men Buried Alive.

Hamilton, Ohio, March 11.-h
sewer trench eight feet deep caved
in today, burying three men. When
rescuers reached the bottom of the
sewer they found the dead bodies
of James Robinson and Alexander
Howard. Thomas Reverb was res
cued alive, but will probably die.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
NTE TO LYNCH HIM.
Was Pursued All Night by an Angry
Mob of Men.

Siccurney, Iowa, March 11.-After
a ten-mile drive over the worst roads
experienced in Iowa, on the darkest
night imaginable, and then a twenty
mile ride upon a handcar, Sheriff
Grimes, with his prisoner, John Dun
ken, the confessed murderer of Cara
Rosen, the Ottumwa choir singer,
managed to escape with what is be-
lieved to be the approaching of a moi
and landed his prisoner in the peni-
Tertiary at Fort Madison today.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-17
In His Study al Newark, N. ], by
Assassins
AT WOMAN ALSO
Three Men Walk into Room Of the
Rev. Erasmus Ansion and Shoot
Him to Death-Dead Priest Had
Ousted Several Trustees, Causing
Much Dissatisfaction.

MuCh Dissatisfaction.
Newark, N. j., March 10.-Three
men whose features appear to have
been concealed by their heavy over
coats and SLOUGH hats, walked into
the study of the Rev. Erasmus Ansi-'
on, pastor Of the Polish Church Of
St. Stanislaus, this morning and
opened fre upon him. Three bull
lets from their three revolvers hit the
priest, killing him instantly.
The trio turned to make their es-
cape and found their way blocked
by Mrs. Antonio S%ewrzytska, the
housekeeper. One of the visitors
turned his revolver upon her, inf1ict-
ing a wound which is likely to prove
fatal. Then all three made their es-
cape.
The police were put to work on
the case within a few minutes Of
the murder and by noon had
rounded up four suspects, one Of
whom the housekeeper, now in st.
Barnasbas Hospital, thought bore a
resemblance to the leader of the trio
who had done the shooting. The 9TH
ers she was unable to identify. ALI
four denied any knowledge of the af-
fair.
No adequate theory to account for
the attack upon the priest has been
presented to the police. It was learn
ed that there has recently been con
siderable factional trouble in the con-
gregation, and Father Ansion, when
he came from Paterson to take
charge of the church five months ago,
made several changes which are said
to have caused widespread dissatis-
faction.
All the men arrested are members
Of st. Stanislaus church, and the
police ordered the arrest Of all the
former trustees, whom the dead
priest ousted when he took charge
of the parish.
The police tonight arrested three
men, suspects, all Poles, who reside
heal the church. At the same time
1t was announced that the belief was
growing that the priests %assassins
were not Newark men. although 1t
was thought that the murder has
been planned here and that some Of
those under arrest may be able to
shed light on these plans.
A crowd Of 5000 Poles gathered
early tonight in front of the rectory
in which lay the body of the murder
ed priest, expressing their grief and
demanding to see the body. The
police succeeded in getting it under
control by promising to grant its de-
mand. Accordingly, a double line of
police was arrayed from the street
through the house, and for two hours
or more the Poles marched In single
file past the casket in which the
body lay.