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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1909
Page
1
To meet rising freight traffic between Georgetown and Columbia, the steamboat City of Columbia will be joined by the Burroughs from the Waccamaw line. The temporary rental aims to prevent fall delays as heavy shipments begin, while a new boat is planned to be built or purchased.
Miss Sarah Pardue aged forty of Ronda Wilkes County jumped from a passenger train near Elkins while it traveled at about thirty miles per hour. She had been returning from a visit and suffered serious if not fatal injuries after leaping to retrieve her baggage.
Classified notice seeking a tenant for a four room cot on Duke Street. Respond to Jos at 5 or doses "66" claimed to cure chills and fever. Asking price 25 cents.
A Chicago heiress wife born Eleanor Patterson married Count Gizycki in Washington. A Russian divorce and Czar decree followed after a child was born. Separations and alimony led to the Count fleeing with the baby. the mother regained custody in Vienna and returned to America. Earlier, near Lumpkin’s Ferry, Taylor was lynched by a mob after eluding police, ending a chain gang sentence.
Henry Taylor, an ex convict described as a negro, was seized by Wilcox County authorities and hanged between Lumpkin's Ferry and McRea after allegedly assaulting Mrs. Joseph Vickers and murdering her and her eight month old baby. The Vickers home was the scene of the crime and the bodies were later found in a nearby pond.
The Rev. Howard W. Benedict of East Norwalk suffered after being spanked by young women on his birthday on Saturday night. Barrel staves delivered powerful blows left him in pain and unable to preach. Witch hazel and remedies offered little relief as he recovered at home.
Judge Pritchard in Asheville North Carolina approves Freeman Norfolk bid after two interruptions by telegraphic offers. Freeman raises bid twice to 62000 dollars, order directs sale to his assignee Elizabeth Land and Lumber Company and sale confirmation.
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