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Newspaper
The Times And Democrat
Location
Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1908
Page
1
Louis Pratt and followers militants in a street battle wound 2 police and kill a 13-year-old girl Lula Pratt. Leader James Sharp eluded capture after disarming himself in a saloon, while Mrs Pratt and Mrs Sharp described a nomadic life preaching beliefs across several states and Canada.
President Roosevelt told Lakes-to-the-Goil Deep Waterway Association members that if critics of Panama Canal acquisition and construction can be reached for criminal libel he would pursue them. He praised canal work and urged irrigation and waterways development linking Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes.
Kansas City reports four dead after a Tuesday battle between religious fanatics and police. Louis Pratt died at General Hospital at 45, Michael Mullane, a police officer, died at St. Joseph's Hospital an hour later. Mullane refused to shoot a woman, sheltering behind a wagon as Mrs. Sharp fired.
James Chesire, a well known Cuthbert resident serving as a Randolph superior court juror, was run over by Central of Georgia passenger No. 6 at Bell's pond crossing one half mile north of the depot and died hours later.
Reports from Valdosta Georgia describe a negro desperado storming the Belote home during the night firing at Fisher Belote and his sick daughter while the wife armed a rifle. The son fired but missed. Pursuers tracked the suspect toward Grand Bay but he vanished. Local belief holds he was killed or executed if captured.
Tom Collier is jailed on charges tied to a gang that fired on the Gibson home wounding Mrs. Gibson and assaulting her. Warrants issued for Bud Lanham and Steve Heath as officers seek the suspects. Lanham dragged Lizzie Hardy by the hair from the house and assaulted her. other assailants attempted to attack Mrs. Gibson.
Clarence M. Benson aged 18 son of Robert Benson an electrical engineer was killed in Mobile Alabama when a stick with a sharp paper file end pierced his brain during a game with companions in the Barton academy yard. Authorities cannot locate the boy who threw the stick.
Dec 11 reports James Sharp, the onslaught leader, remains uncaptured. Mrs Pratt and her four children are held at police headquarters. She says Sharp was a false prophet and laments leaving the Baptist church where she felt safer. Her husband died in the riot.
A premature dynamite explosion at Bas Obispo near Colon today killed ten laborers and injured fifty others. Eleven bodies were found and many workers remained missing as debris and rock collapsed around the 22 tons of dynamite that exploded. Officials cited possible causes including a passing steam shovel and poor wiring. Relief trains sent to the scene reported 45 injured were transported to Ancon hospital.
Spartanburg South Carolina December 10 Luther Thompson an 85 year old farmer from Inman was found dead in his buggy by family. He had fallen forward with his head over the dash and is believed strangled to death after returning from a trip to a still in North Carolina. He was said to be intoxicated when the incident occurred.
Raleigh dec 10 the supreme court found no error in the trial and upheld a sentence of thirty years in the penitentiary for Lute Banner former state legislator town postmaster and internal revenue officer of Wantauga county for the murder of Ambrose Cline insanity defense denied with no evidence of insanity.
Four men from the country who had never ridden a train before tumbled from a moving train near Baton Rouge as it traveled thirty miles an hour. They leaped after the porter shouted “All off for Baton Rouge.” None were seriously hurt.
Washington reports reveal Col Bramwell testified he tore down the Mall depot on a written presidential order. The appropriations subcommittee questioned legality and authority for acting without statutory sanction while examining franking use by the country life commission.
William Jennings Bryan and three companions were arrested by a Texas game warden at Lake Surprise in Chambers county for violating the state game law by killing more than 25 fowls per person within 24 hours. Evidence included over 150 dead ducks. Moody and two others pleaded guilty and paid a $25 fine each.
H G Worthington a former Nevada representative suffered a second stroke in the House and was taken to his home as physicians attended him He is a long time Washington resident and the sole surviving pallbearer of Abraham Lincoln A prominent Reconstruction era politician he also held the Charleston collectorship in South Carolina.
In Duluth on December 10 Edward Hines of Chicago William O Brine of St Paul and W H Cook of Duluth meet in conferences aiming to unite Northwest and West lumber holdings under a giant combination. The St Paul and Duluth leaders are pine kings with Hines backing the Weirhauser interests. The main clash over the plan unfolds tomorrow as Cook contends against it but faces likely overruling.
The Grand Lodge of Masons of South Carolina ended its 132nd annual gathering in Charleston after a peaceful week. Officers were reappointed, district deputies named, and a memorial to John R. Bellinger noted. A 10 percent penalty for late returns was set and the next meeting planned for December 1909 in Charleston.
In Cartersville Georgia on December 10 Hamp Harris was shot and killed by Walt Boozer at a black community dance Wednesday night near Stilesboro. Both men are identified as African American. The incident is reported as a fatal shooting with details from the event location.
A House resolution proposes a five member committee to study the Presidents annual message on the Secret Service in the Treasury Department. It calls for reporting possible actions to the House regarding the administration and investigation rights of federal agents and Congress members.
In Memphis on December 11 William Latura, a white saloon keeper, opened fire after an argument with a crowd of negro billiards players near Beale Street. He killed three men, wounded four others including a woman, and was taken into custody.
Joseph H Panter a 30 year old botanist at the National Museum and his 16 year old companion Robert Wallace were drowned today in the Potomac near Stubblefield falls ten miles north of Washington while canoeing to shoot rapids. The men residents of Washington were in a small canoe that overturned after striking a rock and the bodies have not been recovered.
In Williamsburg last night ten residents were saved from a burning tenement. Mary Kilcorne awakened and handed two young children to two policemen at a window. Zeigler, his father aged five, and the elderly wife of 80 were overcome but saved, as was the McDermott family found unconscious and later rescued.
The Berlin Heights Trolly Roller organization, about 200 members, was ordered to disband by angry locals. Organizers Jacob Hoppinger and D K C Deecken of Buffalo New York were served notices to leave the community.
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