Five Life Prisoners Pardoned in South Carolina
Governor Ansel granted pardons to five life imprisonment inmates from Charleston and Beaufort after board recommendations. Names include Samuel Smaths George Simmons Thomas Rivers and John Martin with varying charges. One man Herbert Boyles paroled after house-breaking and larceny verdicts in 1908.
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Columbia
Samuel Smaths
George Simmons
Thomas Rivers
Charleston
State
Ansel
State Board of Pardons
PW. R. Cade
Willamaturg
King
Board of Pardons
John Martin
Beaufort
Herbert Boyles
Tumberg
Hayles Tay
Newberry Lady Burned In House Fire Ordeal
Mrs Mamie Richardson wife of Henry Richardson suffered severe burns last Saturday when her dress ignited in the Newberry dining room while she baked for Sunday preparations. Henry Richardson acted quickly tearing at her clothing but burned his hand. He doused the flames with water yet Mrs Richardson was burned from the waist down and hair on the back of her head singed.
Red Men Debate Admission Over Whiskey Odor
At the Great Council of Red Men of South Carolina in Spartanburg a motion by S. B. Tiner from Pacolet to bar those with whiskey odor at the door was defeated. The order is strictly temperate and banquets avoid wine intoxicants, but the proposed rule to bar a member for no drink was rejected.
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Spartanburg
Great Council of Red Men
South Carolina
S. 8
Tiner
Pacolet
Ordor
Tivor
Taw and Order Fexgne
Paco
Couple Die on Same Day Lantens Special
News reached Lantens Wednesday of the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Brown Whitmire at their home near Youre's Crossroads three miles east of Clintey. He died Tuesday afternoon and she followed a few hours later. They were about 50 years old. Funeral services were held at Hurricane church.
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Lantens
Brown Whittwire
Youre’s Crossroads
Clintey
Whitmire
Poniffs
Collings Bent Up For Life In Murder Verdict
John Callins a white man from Spartanburg was convicted in the General Sessions court on murder. The jury returned a swift verdict with recommendation to mercy and he faces life imprisonment. Attorney J W Mansfield announced no motion for a new trial. News from Columbia reports a deliberate wheel of Seaboard train No 43 near Denmark injured several and derailed the train. passengers were taken to the city and detoured no 51 ran to Denmark to inspect the wreck.
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Columbia
Sperial
Seaboard
Denmark
Southern
Boy Dies After Saw Mill Accident In Palmetto
The six year old son of Mr Pitts of Palmetto sustained a head injury when a saw cut through skull into the brain at a local saw mill. He was brought to the infirmary in Florence for treatment but died Saturday evening after remaining unconscious since the incident last Friday.
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Florence
Pitts
Palmetto
Fire at Coast Line shops destroys oil and paint room
Spontaneous combustion sparked a blaze in Florencee Florence at the Atlantic Coast Line oil storage and paint department on Monday night. The fire damaged the oil and paint room and several box cars. Firefighters and the Inens department helped save side track cars, which were moved by a switch engine. All railroad property losses are insured. The yard workers lost all of the walls stored in a dead car that burned.
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Florence
Spevinl
Atlantic Coast Line
Coast Line
Inens
Shooting At Hampton Leaves Three Wounded
Tampon specat ur, Ww. BR Maus, clerk of Coun for this county, and Mr Jesse Sheppard were shot here Saturday night by a negro man known as Pee Lee Highes. One victim was shot through the body and to be treated in Auguste. Sheppard received a bullet in the right arm, removed Sunday. Hughes arrested Sunday morning and turned over to sheriffs for safekeeping. Hughes has served time in the Penitentiary.
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Maus
Coun
Jesse Sheppard
Hampton
Pee Lee Highes
Peta
Auguste
Sheppard
Hughes
D. A. Re
Light= Bey
Depuy
Anderson
Columbia
Special-Election Ordered on Florence Sewer Bond Issue
Florence council has ordered a special election for May to decide on issuing 80,000 in bonds for sewerage and water mains extension. Voters at the municipal polls will choose on 65,000 for sewerage and 15,000 for water mains, with a separate box for property holders to cast ballots.
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Florence
Thority Council of
Seventh Smallpox Victim Dies in Yorkville Outskirts
Peter McFadden, colored, the seventh smallpox victim out of twelve cases since the outbreak at York Cotton Mill, died Friday afternoon at his home. He had been a fireman at the mill and is believed to have contracted the disease from Kirby Pogh.
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Yorkville
Peter — McFadden
York
McFadden
Kirby Pogh
TWO AMERICANS SLAIN AND TENSIONS IN ADANA
Readable fragments describe killings near Adana with Americans and locals seeking safety in consulates. A British warship is warned, a deputation visits barracks, and leaders push for order while mission staff face danger and appeals for protection amid reports of mass casualties at Tarsus.
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Paranes
Moodna
Kanes
Ivasin
Mualenv
Conant
Meri
Julie Doles
Musto
Chisbey
Leopaties
Mbephins
Alana
Owhana
Avani
Hun
SGM
Tarsus
Fire destroys Black's Livery Stable in Andes
A serious blaze in Charlotte, N C, razed Black's Livery Stable in Andes damaging nearby K C McManus and A W Whitaker stables. About six horses perished. total losses estimated around 25 000 with further losses at adjacent properties and collapsed brick walls causing additional damage.
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Black
Andes
Charlotte
N.C
K. C. McManus
A.W. Whitaker
Heweark
Cuba to Have an Army in Havana by Calle
A translated fragment notes Cuba plans a national army for defense and governance, with ongoing reforms. It states the army will be a key instrument for preserving power and that progress is underway, with sizable portions of the fire brigade or forces already contested and rapid work in Crile’s area proceeding.
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Cuba
Havana
Calle
Congress
Crile
Highwayman Captured After San Francisco Robbery
James M. Thompson, vice president of the Thompson Bridge Company, entered his home with a sack containing 3200 dollars when two masked men attacked. One fired a shot to the chest, wounding him seriously, and the bandits escaped with the money but were later captured. During the commotion William Roseburg received a stray bullet but was not seriously injured.
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San Francisco
Syn l
James M. Thompson
Thompson Bridge Company
William Roseburg
Revival in Marion Promises 110 Conversions
A Black preacher in Marion North Carolina holds a revival claiming 110 conversions in the past month. A certificate proclaims a sister’s birth into God’s kingdom and charges participants 50 coins to join the path to glory.
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Crooks
Marion
N.C. Sperial
Jane Dunce
Wheat Flurry Subsided After Patten Panic
Chicago markets eased after a memorable speculative surge in wheat. The ticker, hailed as a good fight, was received at noon Saturday with relief from board of trade men and a large lay public drawn in by James A. Patten and his followers. Patten withdrew from the market as the crowd moved to influence the scene.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
James A. Patten
Patten
Confederate Cavalry General Butler Dies at 75 in Columbia
General Matthew Calbeaith Butler, famed Confederate cavalry commander and former United States Senator from South Carolina, died at Erle Field near the convention hall. He served in the Spanish American War as a major general and left a complex legacy as a war leader and later political figure. In 1876 he was elected to the United States Senate amid partisan protest.
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South
Carol
Columbia
Matthew Calbeaith Butler
Erlefield
Confeder
Jocat
Gonna Mather
Buller
General Butler
United Stars Senate
United States Army
Peavey Commission
Theres Chiledren
M.C. Ruthin
Butler
Ann. McNeely
Arkansas
South Caroline
Iss
Wis
A. P. Butler
Edgefigla
South Carolina College
Iat
Maria
Guvernne B. W. Pickens
Hampton
Legion
Manassas
Northern Virginia
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Williamsburg
Culumel
South Carolin Cavey
Tampton
Serond Manageses
Marviant Sampaien
Monavaey Bride
Stuart
Chambersbury
Toenmeher
Brandy Station
Enemrg
Seit
Conver
Eiupten
Wilderness
Spottsyle Yania
Teninond
Opport
Henry Sheritan
Sheritan
Butloe
Howe's Shay
Cob Harbor
Mt Trevilion
Sheridan
Sherman
Carolinas
Haredoo
Cheraw
Eaval
Joe Wheeler
Wade Hampton
Yirefernhis 'O Ohana
Wade Tampton
United States Senate
Kenilworth Inn Burns in Asheville Fire Tragedy
Fire swept the Kenilworth Inn in Asheville before dawn destroying the 16 year old hotel valued at 510000 with 74000 in insurance. Owner Mr Gazam narrowly escaped with life as guests were sheltered by local doctors and homes. Firefighters said the blaze spread quickly, two chimneys remained, and rebuilding is doubtful while the loss disrupted social groups including Young Women’s Christian associations and the Young People’s Mission.
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Gazzam
Asheville
N.C
Koniteworth Tym
Me Gazama
Inzzam
Tom Foster
Foster
Poe
Kermiard
Bernard
198 & Rédort
Wome i
Chratinn Association
Asi
Iozzam
Suparco
Big Rochester Fire and Wind Crisis Reverberates City
A massive blaze in Rochester causes widespread damage with estimates around 500000. Mayor Kewertin orders relief for the destitute housed in makeshift quarters as the storm adds fatalities and injuries. Separate reports note a fatal wind incident in Pittsburgh where Mildred Felton perished when debris struck a residence.
Liquors Will be Returned in Mobile Prohibition Case
In Mobile Alabama the inferior criminal court before Judge Alford sustained defense motions to quash affidavits and warrants for insufficiency. The judge ordered all feats held under prior orders returned to the parties in possession at seizure time.
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Mobile
Ala
Inferior Criminal Court
Alford
World and regional briefs from scattered reports
A fused roundup of incidents and events including a store annex collapse in Metversburg, a Virginia tragedy by suicide, a Parkersburg lodging death, a Kenilworth Lin fire loss, a councilman confession hints, a Laconia test tragedy, Patten’s wheat price impact, a Columbia paint purchase, frost damage in Virginia and Norfolk, a Sawyers fire fatality, Lenox fire casualties, Mississippi Easter immersion, a Lyons murder acquittal, Minnesota anti-cigarette bill signing, an Ossining execution, a St Louis kidnapping, and various local bond and crime notes from the era.
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Chesterfield
Charleston
Virginia
Norfolk
Armistead Yuille
Sawyer's
Campbell County
Lenox
Massachusetts
St. Louis
Colored Baptist Church
Georgia Allyen Sampson
Lyons
N. Yonre
Governor Johnson
Minnesota
Bill Como
Bornard Carlin
Ossining
Tomes Cabaanne
Lor Pansen
Penneylvania
Chinmor
Parkersbury
W.va
Dastoweek
Andre Clow
Frederick Counery
N-Low
North
Hopkinevilly
TM Farner
Mise Truth Gee
Williamee
Floyne Mightower
Atlanta
Hood
Sherman
Washington Notes and Tariff Debates across Congress
Secretary Mayer will enter the Mississippi to receive the silver service. the Democratic Senate conference limited itself to one amendment, an income tax. Aldrich believes his bill will fund government. Taft visits Beverly cottage as tensions rise over tariffs. Union veterans retain positions. Cuba reassured on independence. Payne Tariff bill passes House 217 to 101 with four Louisiana Democrats voting yes. embargo of frost list advances. Ethan Hitchcock dies in Washington. President backs interdenominational drives for foreign missions.
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Mayer
Mississippi
Nafehex
Aldrich
Taft
Tole Stetson
Beverly
Cuba
America
House
Louisiana
Ethan A. Hitchcock
Secretary of the Interior
Washington
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