The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1913-11-13
STATE and GENERAL
TOPICS
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

has sent any sort of "ultimatum'
to President Huerta of Mexico.
Bill Owens, negro living near
Bucksport, in Horny county, is in
Jail at Conway, charged with killing
his father, Simon Owens, Sunday
morning.
The Commercial Bank of Green
wood has been chartered with a
capital of 100000. This is the fifth
bank for the thriving little city OF
Greenwood.
In the New York election William
Sulzer, deposed Governor, was elect:
ed a member of the Lower House OF
the New York Legislature from the
Sixth district.
Mrs Elizabeth Blease, the STEP
mother of Governor Cole L Blease,
died at her home in Newberry Sun
day night, November 2, from the
effect of a stroke of paralysis.
Governor Felker of New Hamp-
shire has honored the requisltion of
the State of New York for the ex-
tradition of Harry K Thaw, which
means that the case is transferred to
the Federal courts, where writ of
habeas corpus on behalf of .Thaw is
pending.
President Wilson has notified
President Huerta that he must re-
sign the presidency of Mexico with
out loss of time and that he must
not name as his successor any men,
Der of his official family. This mott
fcation is taken to mean that the
United States will aid Carranza and
the insurgent forces in Mexico
agrinst Huerta and his government.
George R Rembert, Representa-
tive in the General Assembly from
Richland county and candidate for
Governor, died at his home in Co.
lumbia Saturday night, after an i'll
ness of several weeks.
Ed Sibley, of Chester county. is
under arrest charged with the kill
ing of ] Ross Tongue Friday night
of last week. The weapon used was
an axe and the details of the1 crime
are unusually brutal, the encounter
being the sequel of an old grudge
between the two men.
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WB Smith Whaley, formerly of
Charleston and Columbia, is promot-
ing the organization OF a company,
capitalized at $40, 100000, to build
at Oklahoma City a cotton mill of
6OO.O spindles and $1,000 looms, to
employ $500 persons, according to
a lengthy dispatch from Oklahoma
City to The Journal Of Commerce
and Commercial Bulletin, New York.
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Governor Blease has issued the
usual Thanksgiving proclamation
designating the 4th Thursday Of this
month as Thanksgiving day and
calls upon all the people to cease
from their daily occupations on that
day and to assemble in their accus-
toned places of worship, or in their
homes, and to give thanks to the
Giver of all good for the prosperity,
with which our State has been
blessed.
Mrs Ed Whooton, white woman
who lived near Sumter, was the
victim of horrible accident Sun
day morning, being burned to
death when she attempted to kindle
fire With the aid of can of kero-
sene. The accident happened early
in the morning and Mrs Whooton
lived until two o'clock in the after
noon, when death relieved her suf-
ferings. The unfortunate woman
had poured some oil from the can
on the wood, but it failed to ignite
and, she, thinking the fire had died
out, tilted the can to pour some
more, when the flames shot up the
spout of the can, which burst and
scattered burning oil all over her
clothing, burning every particle of
clothes off her body. Not piece of
skin was left on her body except on
the top of her head and the soles of
her feet. Her husband tried to save