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T1E PICKENS SENTINEI:JOUINAL Entered April 23, 1903 at Pickens, S. C. as second clams matter, under act of Congress of March 3, 1879 39th Year PICKENS. S. C., JULY, 15, 1909. Number 15 State News 1 fl C.tid XatwsN from Zy A. M. Gasque. aged 71 years, died at his home in Marion of paralysis. Pinckiev C. Way, a well known citizen of Holly Hill is dead at his home. The Atlantic Coast Line will erect Y. M. C. A. b:.'.ligs at Florence and Charleston. Two colored men were killed by a Southern railway train at Banber. Ben Deane, an operative em ployed at the Lydia mills, Clin ton, is nissing from his home. Foul play is suspeted. William H1erriot of Charleston was fired on from ambush at Mt. Pleasant. The bullet struck him in the temple inflicting a Serious wound. C(o L. Bh'as has announced that he will e a candidate for governo0r Next year. H is platform will be "Let Clemson alone," and against compulsory educa tion. Fra.k Bennett, colored, has been arrested in Bamberg on the charge of robbery. He is accus ed of breaking into H. M. Brab ham's store ad stealing ;400. T ~ from ity this season h a good. The value of berries and vegetables sent north from that section is equal to 1,000 bales of cotton. Capt. John G. Capers, commis sioner of internal revenue, is at the Capeer's cottage on Cedar Mountain, where he will spend some time reuperating from his recent illness. The total receipts at the Char leston postohce during the fiscal year which has just closed aggre gate the sum of $151,538.20, the largest receipts in the history of the Charleston office, being a gain of .7.071.67 over the receipts of 1908. The fiscal year in Charleston closed with a large increase in the receipts of both the customs and the postoffice department. The receipts at the custom house aggregate $103,000, the largest in sixteen years and with the growing business, the figures will make a still better showing next year. The increased business of the port !s one of the most en couragidng evidences of the in creasing trade of Charleston. Gov. Ansel on Monday wired Sheriff McMillan to stop a cock fight at Dyson in Greenwood countyv. It was learned that the fight would be on and Gov. An sel promptly ordered that the same not take place. There is a state law with a heavy penalty attached, prohibiting cock fight ing in South Carolina. The Spartanburg Gun Club held its annual shoot at Fairfield Park, July 9. For many years past the club has been giving its shoots on July 4, but this year it was dlecided to hold the shoot on July 9. A large numbler of sportsmen from var1ious5 sections of the state participated in the shoot. G angs are busv impoving the ro)ad bed of the Southern Rail way fro:: B3ranchville to Augus. ta. Th is pa)rt ion of tihe road has been laid with light rails, and now the he2 is being' equipped with the heavy rails, which will make thte road be I mucnh smooth e;'. The gangs have ailready laid the rails fr" m Augusta to Aiken and the railk are now on the ground to) ' omplete the improve mnent to Branchville, where it will coinn ct with the Charles ton-Columbia djivisionl, whfic'h is already, equined with the h'eavy rai'\.JWhqn t his is ('ONm Pleted, tn road will be inexel Paragraphed. The store of H. J. Brabhan, Jr., at Bamberg was broken in to and robbed of $400 in cash and a lot of shoes, clothing and other merchandise. Fire destroyed the store build ing of I. M. Johnson and a house owned b.t C. C. Twitty at Harts ville. Robert Barron, colored, em ployed as lineman by the light and power company at Rock Hill, was killed by a live wire. The congregation of the Sec ond Presbyterian church at Greenville is erecting a $20,000 church building. Charlie Gillam was stabbed in the breast with an ice pick by Jim Stevens at Lancaster. It is thought that the wound will prove fatal. The state iardon board is in session in Columbia for the pur pose of considering applications for pardons that have been re ferred to the board. A. L. and C. P. Lindsay. well known citizens of Camden, are being tried on the charge of making an aggravated assault on a trav U-g man in the hotel in Ca en. e Aiken and Lancaster de tached militia companies will be used in the coast defense exer cises at Charleston according to telegram from the war depart ment. Gen. Boyd will later add two other companies and organ ize a battalion of artillery. R. E. Hill, who investigated the affairs of Colleton county under a special act of the legis lature, has filed his report, find ing ex-County D. L. Smith short $5,144 and severely criticising other officers for looseness in methods. There is a young man in the Cherokee county jail charged with a most terrible crime. His name is Bascomb Brant. His sister, who is a cripple, anid is on ly about 16 years of age, gave birth to a child a few nights ago, and upon being questioned in re gard to the paternity of the in fant, said that her brother, Bas comb, was its father. Brant was arrested and committed to jail the next day under the charge of incest. It is said that the girl says now that she was out of her head when she made the statement implicating her brother. The Brants live at the Hamrick Mills village, and have not been residents of Gaff ney very long. The United States bureau of soils will shortly take up the re juvenation of the famous Pud ding Swamp tobacco area in Clarendon county, Commis sioner Watson has had the mat ter up with the federal experts for some time, and a letter re ceived states that as soon as the appropriation is available this will be one of the counties in the United States to receive atten tion. This will mean much to the planters of that section, said to be one of the richest in the country for the development of tobacco raising. Commissioner Watson will deliver an address at Manning on July 14. when he will explain the work. He will b acconmpanied by Prof Harper. who who talk on tobacco. Monday afternoon Mr. Cliar ence Duncan of Johnston, a boy about 16 years of age, fastened a pair of climbers. s-uch as tele phone linemen use, on his legs and proceeded to climb the large telehone pole at Khodens sta tion. When about half way up the pole the hooks broke loose and lhe fell to the ground, a dis tace :.f tw~entyv feet. b)reaking het h armos hetween the wrists andI elbows. D)r. Rushton set the broken limbs and no serious conr plications are anticipated. J. H. Stevens, a Confederate veteran of Cheraw is dead at his home. The citizens of Lexington are discussing the question of in stalling an electric light and wa terwooks plant. Daniel T. Black, a Confed erate veteran of Union, is dead at his home. W. H. Cannon, a well known Young man of Florence, is dead at his home. Dr. W. W. Fennell 'narrowly escaped death by drowning in a swollen stream near Rock Hill. Two Augusta youths were ar rested at Lexington yesterday for beatiga ride on a passenger traini. J. Q. Cousart, engineer of the Walterboro Cotton Mill, died as the result of burns he received several days ago. Frank Aiken, colored, who made a savage attack on Mr. C. L. Townsend, a prominent far mer living near Ninety Six the other day, has been arrested and logded in jail in Greenwood. Rev. John Lake, who, though in faroff China, is greatly belov ed throughout Edgefield county, is to be married early in July to Miss Carrie Bostic. Miss Bostic is from Greenville but has been engaged in mission work in China during the past seven years. Word has just recently been received by Mrs. A. Z. Strange of SouthUnion that her two sons Robert and Thadd, who are in the United States army. and at present on Corregida island, near I Manila, in the Phillippines, are in good health and doing well. Union Progress. Magistrate J. T. Easterling of Columbia is charged with mal feasance in office. He is' charged with collecting 828 from a prisoner and keeping 822 for himself. The Laurens Furniture Fac tory, at Laurens was sold at auction this week. The plant was purchased by J. E. Minter, E. P. Minter, S. M. and E. H. Wilkes and J. P. Dunlap for the. sum of $30,000. Thomas Huggins, colored, was killed at Spartanburg Friday afternoon by catching hold of a* guy wire from a telephone pole which was in contact with a live electric light wire. ThomasI Walker, aiso colored, attempted to rescue the negro and received a shock that may cause his death, Huggins was badly burned. Huggins andl Walker were talk ing to a negro andl t.he former reached up and caught hold of a wire that ran from a telephone pole to a post in the ground near The spirit of theft does not seem to hesitate even at the door of the church. Some time Sun lay the collection box placed at the entrance of the Baptist* church in Bamberg city was broken into. andl had1 it not hap penedl that the money had been removed a short while beforethe contents would have doubtless been stolen. Disputing ov-er a horse race which they had1 just witnessed. three white men became engag ed in an altercation near Tren ton Edgefield1 county. about 7 oclock Satur<iay night, and two of them received wounds which may prove fatal. The injured men are Albert Berkely, a rail road1 frireman living at Edgefield, and a farmer named Bob Murrel. "Ab" Jackson did the shooting, wounding Berkeley four i times and Murrell twice. After the fracas Jackson made(b his escape and has not been captured. With a shotgun Murrell return Ied Jackson's fire. but without effect. The men were returning to Trenton after attending the rae at a track ab)out three miles from Tren ton when the dlifficulty took place. Murrell and Jack The trustees of the South Car olina University are considering plans for the erection of a science hall. The new postoffice building at Chester has been completed and will be occupied the latter part of this week. The annual convention of the Palmetto State Stenographer's association will be held at the Isle of Palms. August 6-7. South Carolina will be repre sented by nineteen delegates at the National Irrigation congress to be held at Spokane, August 6-14, Announcement was made Sat urday by Mr. Richard I. Mann ing of Sumter that he has ac cepted a life trusteeship on the Clemson college board. Mr. Manning was offered the place some weeks ago but would not accept it until he had made a thorough examination of the will of the late Thos. G. Clemson and the various conditions that go with a position of this kind. After a conference with Mr. Alan Johnstone, the president of the board of trustees, several days ago, Mr Manning stated that he had accepted the trusteeship af ter careful consideration but did not care to give out a statement on the subject. Alexander Jopp, a white man employed at the works of the Winnsboro Granite corporation was injured at Winnsboro in the central portion of the town by being struck by a south-bound freight train, and died shortly afterwards from his injuries. It seems that the man was sitting in a drunken condition at the side of the track, and in some way was struck and drawn un der the the passing cars, both legs being cut off above the knee. He was carried into a nearby house and given medical atten tion, but died in a few hours. Jopp was a native of Scotland and had but recently come to this countrV and located at the granite quarry at Rion together with a number of others. A special form Charlotte says: Authentic news reached Char otte today from Rock Hill, that D. S. May, forl11years city clerk and treasurer of that town, has lefaulted in the sum of $6,100. The announcement of the short age came as a complete surprise several days ago when May con essed that he had been appro priating the city's money to hi.s own use. As soon as the short age was discovered May's bonds men, wvho had secured him in the sum of $5,000 made good his bond and the remainder of the 1,100. Mr. J. M. Cherry, vice president of the National Union Bank, has had charge of the city's finances since May's con ession of his irregularities. Ex pert accountants from Atlanta Ga., have been at work on the books for the past several days and will make a formal report showing the exact 'amount of the shortage, within the next few days. May has not been arrested, Mr. P. F. Parker, one of the guards on the Barnwell chain gang, had a narrow escape last Thursday afternoon. On Wed nesday a negro was sent to the gang by one of the magistrates. He complained of the work that was given him, that of picking rocks, and asked for easier work. ie was not chained and on Thursday afternoon Mr. Parker was seated by the road watching the convicts. His attention was attracted to the new negro and he turned just in time to see him with a heavy stick raised to strike him in the head. In an instant the guard coveredi the distance between him and the convict with one leap and at the same time catching his throat and forcing him backward to the ground. Had it not been for Mr. Parker's quick move, the negro would doubtless have kill e him. DR. P. H. MELL RESIGNS Trustee- Have Not Yet Taken Any Action. The meeting oi the board of trustees of Clemson College ad journed last Saturday morning without taking any action on the resignation of President Mell other than announcing that it will be considered at a called meeting of the board to be held at college on August 12th. The resignation was submitted to the board and with it Dr. Mcll presented a statement explain ing why he resigned, three main causes being given. The first cause named by Dr. Mell was the frequent interference in the administration of his dutis by the trustees, the second vas the plan of selecting faculty mem bers without allowing the pre:i dent a large influence and the third was the need of reorgan: zation of the military (pai ment. The latter cause was re sponsible for the ruptures of the past year between Dr. Mell and Commandant Minus. Besides approving the annual budget for the coining year and attendin to other matters of more or less importance, the board took action as f)llows: Dr. H. R. Barrow, director of agriculture, elected one year ago, resigned to take affect Sep tember 1st. His successor will be elected in August. Mr. John Hook, of chair of assistant professor in engineer ing department, resigned. Prof. A. B. Gardner of the same de partment was promoted to suc ceed Mr Hook. Mr. J. D. Little john, graduate of Clemson, 1908, was elected assistant professor in engineering department to succeed Mr. Gardner. Dr. H. C. Shattuck, professor of botany and forestry, resigned to accept a similar position with University of Idaho. This chair will be filled in August. Prof. D. D. Folling of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, was elected to the chair of horticulture in the agriculture department. This chair has been vacant some time. Mr. F. R. Sweeney, a gradu ate of Clemson 1906, was elected assistant instructor in the civil engineering department. The board placed the studies of German and book-keeping optional with the student. The printing office recently established at the college was placed on a firm financial basis. A linotype machine will be in stalled and printing will be taught as suggested by several newspapers of the state. The office will do all the college print ing. Prof. A. M. Burgess was grant ed several months' leave of ab sence to take a special course in a prominent university in an imal h usband1ry'. According to the ruilinig of the board of all members of faculty and employs of the colleg~e are elected for one ve:ur, iad as soon as the first year's service expires the board considers the names for permanent election. Under this ruling the following elections were made permanent. Dr. R. 0. Seeley, assistant state veterinarian uder Br. M. Ray Powvers. Prof. G. G+. Ainsioy. chair of entomiolo:. Mr. WV. A. Thomas. (enolo gist. Mr. S. W. Evans. assistant bookkeeper B. A. Hall, assistant chemist. L. A. Sease, head of prepara tory devartment. L. 0. Watson, assistant pro fessor of chemistty. Mr. Richard I. Manning of Sumter, recently a life trustee, was present and took an active part in all the deliberations of the board. He is going to be a valuable asset to the b)oard and to the college. Some of the newspapers had a statement a few days ago to the head of the engineering depart ment, might be elected as Dr. Mell's successor. Prof. Riggs made the follow ing statement in regard to the matter: "I am not now and never have been an applicant for the presi dency of Clemson College. I would not be willing to forsake my profession for the calling of a college president here or else where." Prof. Riggs is the efficient direc tor of the engineering depart ment of the college. He is a mechanical and electrical engin eer of marked ability and is widely known and recognized as such. He is yet a young man and is wedded to his profession. Out-Ran a Train Mr. Murry Riley made some thing of a record in motor-cy cling on a trip to and from Greenville yesterday. He left Anderson about 8 o'clock in the morning and, after getting lost several -times, arrived in Green ville about 10 o'clock. On his return trip he left Greenville at the same time as train No. 16, which leaves there at 4:20 p. m., and arrived in the city at 5;50p. m., or 25minutes before this train was due. Mr. Riley, in speaking of his trip, states that his best time was made outside of the city limits, he conforming to the 5-mile per hour regulation re specting the speed of automobiles in the city. Mr. Riley made no attempt at making a record in covering the distance to Green ville, but took the road leisurely, stopping several times going and coming.-Anderson Mail. Travel to Mountains The excessive warm weather in the lower part of the State is driving hundreds of people to the hill country and the mountains of Western North Carolina. During the last few days the trains from Charleston and Co lumbia have been crowded with people on their route to the re sorts in the up-country. The heavy travel is not confined to people from the lower section of the State, as a large number of people from New Orleans, Ala bama and Georgia are hurrying through Spartanburg to the cool mountain resorts to escape the hot weather in their home town. As the summer advances travel will increase.-Spartanburg Journal. Peach-Growing Section. That this section of the coun try is well adapted to the grow ing of neaches is evidenced by the fact that Mr. J. L. Vaughn, a prominent farmer on the Chick Springs road, eleven miles from Greenville, has sold in Greenville yesterday and today $42 worth of peaches. He yesterday sold something over eight bushels of Carmen peaches at ten and fif teen cents a dozen and today he sold over eight bushels at the same prices. On his farm he has something over 900 peach trees arnd they are all,.loaded down with good fruit. He has a num ber of varieties of peaches that ripen until the middle of October. -Greenville Piedmont. The railroad ccmmission has received the following report from the Atlantic Coast Line: "We have to report that the body of a white man was found by engineer of south-bound pas senger train, Second 85, just south of Mar's Bluff, S. C., at 5:22 a. m. June 30, very badly mangled. Party's name is supposed to have been M. C. Geornean, white who was beat ing his way on northbound through freight train No. 208, and fell through botton of color ed car. A man by name of Daughtery claims also to have been on train No. 208, and that this man was in the same car with him, and that he dropped off to sleep, and when he awoke Gornean. was missing. Proper authorities were notified, and remains were turned over to Florence county for buial." DR. J. L. WILSON DEAD He Had Been Pastor of Abbeville Pres byterian Church 23 Years Rev. Dr. J. Lowrie Wilson died at his home at Abbeville last Friday night the 9th after a brief illness, at the age of about 73 years. Dr. Wilson was one of the leading Presbyterian ministers of the state and had been pastor of the Abbeville church for about 23 years. He was an able minister, a consecrated Christian man, and loved alike by all de nominations. At the.time of his death Dr. Wilson had been actively engag ed in preaching for about 41 years, though he never held but two pastorates, his first being at Bethesda Presbyterian church in York county, where he preached for 18 years, and it was with great reluctance that he was giv en up by this church to Abbeville 23 years ago. Dr. Wilson was born in India about 73 years ago. his parents being missionaries. When he was a mere boy, he in company with four brothers, was brought to Akron, Ohio, by their mother and placed in school, she return ing to India to resume her work as a missionary, and he intend ing later to return and join them in the work. He entered the Confederate army at Knoxville, Tenn., and served with distinction through out the struggle with the excep tion of the time that he was laid up with wounds, having been shot thrice in a single day, one of which wounds caused the loss of a foot. Another was in the right temple, and the4iird in the side. At the close of the war Dr. Wilson taught school for a time in the Bethesda section of York county. From there he went to the Columbia Theological Semi nary, and after graduation, re turned to take up the pastorate of Bethesda church, which posi tion he filled until he was called to Abbeville 23 years ago. Although Dr. Wilson was seriously ill but a short while be fore his death his health had been bad for some time, and it was realized that his death might be expected at almost any time. However, when the an nouncement came Saturday it was a great shock to his friends. An Old Newspaper Miss Willie Stetson, of this city has in her possession an issue of The Columbia (S. C.) Guardian of September 6, 1864. This newspaper tells of the battle of Gainesville, Fla., which showed the remarkable bravery of the late Gen. J. J. Dickinson. Dickinson, with but one hun dred and sixty men, and all fight ers, defeated the federals. num bering several hundred. Only two Confederates were killed, while twenty-three federals were slain and a large number injur ed. The Confederates also cap tured the lieutenants and two hundred and two privates. The paper above mentioned gave Dickinson credit for the great victory.-Florida Times Union.____ __ Using Much Cement The Charleston division of the Southern railroad is quite busy these days hauling cement for the NinetyNine Island develop-* ment. Altogether the develop ment will require 700 carloads of cement, and up to this time the rrilroad has been able to deliver only about twenty cars a day. The capacity from Charleston to Kingville is forty cars, but this capacity is diminished one half on the upper end. The un derstanding is that the contrac tors at the island are using the cement as fast as it arrives. Yorkville Enquirer. The Very Best IThe biggest advertisement Spartanburg county ever had will be the anfrouncement that ihas voted $400,0t00 for good roads.-Spartanbur9Journal.