Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-05
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been in prison SeNerai DAYS III CoiihSS
ton with the case, asserted mat ne set
fire to the Nissen building where
Sawyer's store; was located because OF
offers of money and threats which
SAWYER made. Chatmon alleges that
SAWYER mapped out the plans, told
how the gasoline should be poured over
intammable material and how Chat
mon was to escape after the fire
started.
Harry c. Hammit, claim agent for
the Southern railway in Atlanta, was
found dead Saturday, in his room at
the Hotel Pennsylvania, in New YORK.
tOn a table near his body was bottle
containing poison and several letters
in which Hammit said his suicide was
caused by a prominent society glrl Oh
Rome, Ga.,q and her family. To TINS
girl whose name the medical examiner
withheld, Hammit left note saying
he hoped to meet her in heaven. Other
letters prepared for mailing were ad-
dressed to his mother, Mrs. Ella II.
.Hammit of Bristol, Va, Miss 1de Pat
sten, Judge Harper Hamilton and Mrs.
George G. Stiles of Rome, Ga. There
also was a written request that the
recorders of the Shriner temples IN
New York and Knoxville, Tenn, be
notified.
- jackson, California, Sept. 3: Gold,
for years the principal product OF TINS
region, has all but been forgotten IN
the effort being made to reach the
AZ men who since last Sunday night
have been entombed in the lower levels
of the Argonaut mine. IL was an
nounced today by officials in charge
of the rescue work that 60 feet of green
stone and about 10 feet of virgin
hafyynpn the J. 2DU
foot level of the Argonaut mine shaft
and the eXcavators who are working
in a tunnel which once connected the
KENNEDY mine with the Argonaut. 1t
was estimated that it would require
another week of continuous labor TO
reach the entombed men, although con-
siderable headway was made yesterday.
An ANALYSIS of gases in the ArSonaut
mine; shows there has beenia reduction
in the amount of Injurious gas from 3
to 81 per cent. This Indicated,
chemists said, that fresh air from some
source was getting into the Argonaut
mine. Fear was expressed that when
the first men were entornbed there
may have been i'm the mine too much
gas to permit them to survive.
Jim Reed Long, negro, who was
5a-arrested early Saturday for striking
Miss Violet Wood, 19-ycar- daugh-
ter of Rev. John II. Wood, of Rome,
Ga, over the head with an iron bar
when she screamed on finding him in
the act of burglarizing the house of
her aunt, Miss Pearl Saunders, Of
yWinder, Ga, whom she was visiting,
was taken from Sheriff Camp, just out
of Winder, late Saturday by q mob,
strung up on the limb Of a pine tree
and lynched. Sheriff Camp had been
successful in spiriting the negro from
the Barrow county Jail in Winder
where large mob gathered and
was in the act OF taking the negro
to Atlanta for safe keeping under the
orders of Judge Blanton Fortson, Of
rthe superior circuit court, when the
road was blocked and the negro was
taken from the sheriff. 1t is said that
the lynching was conducted in an or
derby manner and that no more trouble
is anticipated. Hundreds of automo-
biles have gathered since the lynching
was carried out and many curious
spectators are said to be looking at
:the bullet-riddled body of the negro.
- JACKSON, Miss, Sept. 8: James X.
Vardaman, former United States SEN
ator and Hubert d. Stephens, former
congressman, candidates for the DEM
ocratic nomination in neXt Tuesdays
runoff primary for the seal TO be va
Gated next March by Senator John
Sharp Williams, prepared today to
bring their whirlwind campaign to a
close tomorrow. Rallies and meetings
throughout the state were scheduled
to be held during the day and tomor-
row night. Strenuous efforts have
-been made by both candidates and
their supporters to bring out the de-
hnquent vote, which Is estimated at
10000 to 10000, and to secure an ad-
vantage by polling q majority of the
$4,000 votes cast for Miss Belle Kear-
ney, eliminated in the first primary on
August Is. Miss Kearney has since
announced her support of Mr.. Stephens.
Mr.. Vardaman has visited all parts OF
the state during his campaign, but has
made few speeches. Numerous friends,
however, among them former Gov. Il.
G. Bilbo, have delivered addresses in
his behalf Mr. Stephens has led his
own speech making forces, carrying his
campaign to all corners Of the state.
Among others who ha Ie assisted him
is Seuator Pat Harrison.
- The body of Frank B. DuPre the
19-year- old youth who was hanged
in Atlanta on Friday for the murder
of Detective Walker, when he tried
10 rob the jewelry store of Nat
Kaiser, was brought here on the Sea-
board train at an early hour Saturday
morning and taken to the home Of his
aunt Mrs. j. G, Cox where funeral eXer-
cises were held at l O'Clock today, says
an Abbevillc dispatch of Saturday. a
large number of relatives and friends
of DuPre and of NJ. and Mrs. Cox at
tended the funeral and an unusually
large number Of beautiful floral tri-
butes were sent in. Services were con-
Quoted by Rev. Howard Weeks, assist
ed by the Rev. G. J. Tyler, a young
minister from Atlanta, VINO had been
constantly with the young man. His
father, brother and Mrs. &. j. Osborn
of Atlanta, accompanied the body here.
Rev. MIR. Tyler in reciting the CONVEX
sion and recent life of the young man
brought forth tears from the audience
Frank was known by many people
in Ahbevi!lc, hayinG been Il frequent
visitor to his aunt, Mrs. J. c. Cox. A
large number signed the petition for
his pardon or communication. Great
sympathy is felt here for the relatives
of the young man.
- The boil weevil destroyer of poten-
tial wealth in cotton and bugaboo of
the cotton grower, had a record year
and did itself proud in thc fields Of
the South last year by preventing pro-
duCtiOn Of G,277000 bales of cotton,
MI tbn that un,rII b,,n b,rp