"The Free Lance" Issue: May 1, 1903 part 1 SPARTANBURG BOY SUCCESSFUL In the competitive examination which closed in this city Saturday evening, Clyde R. ROBINSON of this county won the scholarship to the naval academy at Annapolis, Haskell DIAL of Laurens is first alternate with Wallace CARSON of Spartanburg second and S.M. WILLIAMS of Greenville third alternate. The examination was a most rigid one and consumed all of Friday and Saturday. The successful contestant is a Clemson College student and a member of the sophomore class. NEW TEACHER OF VIOLIN Miss Marie DENHAM has been elected by the trustees of Converse College to the position of teacher of violin. Miss DENHAM is from Boston but has been teaching recently in Nova Scotia. She was a pupil of Dr. ALLEN, the famous teacher of violin and is herself an artist of note. She succeeds Miss JOHNSON who resigned recently. MEMORIAL DAY CROSSES OF HONOR Memorial Day will be celebrated here this year by the bestowal of a number of crosses of honor upon Confederate Veterans by the local chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. The exercises will take place in Converse ***** auditorium on May 11, as May 10 falls on Sunday. The crosses will be bestowed upon the following: A. J. ABBOTT A.W. JONES J. G. BEACHAM Dudley MULLINS J. F. BROWN J. G. POOLE H. (?) C? CATHCART {second initial may be C.} S. B. REID T. R. CONCH Sanford REYNOLDS T. H. DODD W. A. ROGERS A. J. ELMORE J. M. STONE Warren FARMER J. M. STRIBLING C. B. FOSTER E. D. TUTTLE E. G. FOWLER T. H. WEST R. D. GALERAITH {this name is hard to read} J. L. WEST T. J. HALL P.D. WILLIS J. F. HARVEY J. L. WOFFORD J. F. JEFFREYS PACOLET: Mrs. Naomi KIRBY is quite ill at her home and her friends and loved ones are at her bedside expecting her death at any time. HOLLY SPRINGS NOTES: [April 25] --Farm work has been greatly retarded by excessive rains. --Rev. L. C. EZELL visited friends in this community last week. --B. F. HARLEY is attending court as Greenville this week. --Mr. and Mrs. S. J. BABB of Tucapau have been visiting friends this week at this place. "A smile and a frown come at the same price, but the former pays happy interest on the investment" GREENVILLE {Highlights} Henry SUDDATH was pardoned from the state penitentiary. He was convicted of rape. It was alleged that he had committed rape upon the person of his wife's sister, Jane CENTER. J. A. WRIGHT of the firm Wright & Patman, a local beef market, attempted suicide yesterday by cutting his throat and severing the veins in his arms. The act is said to be the result of despondency over financial circumstances. EXCITING RUNAWAY Coroner Foster had a very thrilling experience Wednesday at 10 o'clock while sitting in a chair in front of the office of his son, R. F. FOSTER on Magnolia street. A horse attached to a single buggy in which there was no driver at the time, broke away from a post in front of CUDD's stable on Magnolia street and dashed up towards the monument at a high rate of speed. Just as the animal reached a point opposite where Coroner FOSTER was sitting, it made a sudden turn and ran directly towards Mr. FOSTER. The coroner fell towards the left on the sidewalk in an effort to get out of the way. The animal slipped on the sidewalk and the buggy was wrecked. Charles CHRISTMAN who was standing near Mr. FOSTER saw that he was unable to get up, having only one arm and he accordingly went to the rescue and dragged Mr. FOSTER out of his perilous position just as the horse reached the spot where he was sitting. Mr. Foster was considerably shaken up by the accident but escaped serious injury. Had it not been for the presence of Mr. CHRISTMAN, the results as far as Mr. FOSTER is concerned might have been quite serious. [top portion of this cut off] . . . It appears that while murder mad form the effects of liquor YOUNG decided to kill himself, his wife and his two little children. He imagined that an act of this kind would solve all of his difficulties. The more liquor he drank the more firmly he became rooted to the conviction that the thing to do was to kill his wife and children first and to kill himself afterward. Possibly during the time he spent chasing his wife, armed with a butcher knife, the effects of the liquor began to die out and his naturally healthy mental faculties asserted themselves. At any rate, after inflicting a few flesh wounds upon the mother of his children and failing to accomplish his purpose a change seemed to come over him. He dropped the knife and was lost for a time in profound meditation. A happy idea flashed through his mind. Instead of killing his wife and children first and then killing himself , he decided to kill himself first and then but happily he did not pause to reason but went out and hanged himself. For this final act YOUNG deserves some measure of credit. He certainly did the right thing at the right time. Let all murderous lovers, husbands and fathers go and do likewise. {I'm not sure if this is local or not} free post Lisa