HHBK ^ ~~~~ ~" '7*1 '"V ">* c^si ; ?TP"TT1" t. i --.. V-. -^'t.- i-w 1^-J-^Z-TT? *?*" ?, -' 7 ? Vi ,. SUSBBC^SSSsijfctSEBEBBSBSBBCBSSSS SZ^mStBSSSSSST^ZTZZZSBSZrTTX .'. ' . __-- . ? '**"~i.'.". _ ' ? ? ^ n>ytwAMP 1 ^ 111 ?>??! ! Ill n fill i ii? J 4ftaw^iwai^ ** ^Id^EKKLY LAN 'J A bTE Sf 0.. MARCH, 15, 1905 ===: rJ ;.s | a Ii M s? 1 iSlffll White Mao to BODg Which tried him was composed of OvfllM KfifiOS His Wnrd Tftl f?Pn tfnrAnoil/in Dam^. In:_ *. ^ ? for Negro's Murder. Boh Small Sentenced to Dio Within Two Months. ? Negro to bo Hanged Same Day. + Special to The State. Darlington, March 11.--This morning the two white men convicted yesterday of the murder of 1 Frank Scott, colored, were form-' i ally sentenced. John Noll, who was x'ound \ guilty and recommendod to mer- J sy, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary and the date of execution of Boh Small, who was found guilty wiiHom recommendHtion to mercy wus fixed by the court for the 5th of May. Senator Geo W Brown, council for the defendants, made a most determined effort in behalf of his clients, pitched on a high plane, and on every hand one hoars him commended for the Manner in which ho looked after their interests. Moreover, there are some wh^ claim to think the verdict too severe. They are, however, decidedly in tha minority, for in all probability tar the greater number of those who listened to the evidence are teady and willing to pronounca the verdict to bo absolutely just and righteous. .John Noll, the defendant sentenced to life imprisonment, is but a boy, scarcely out of bis teens. Small and Noll were from North Carolina and worked at Harper's saw mill, nine miles from Darlington. Thev cnm? town on Monday, Feb 6lb, each bringing a shot gnn After staying in town several hours, ai.d, it is said, drinking heavily, they began their homeward march. All along the road they are said to ( have been boisterous and abusive ( to passersby, shooting at travel- ; ers, horses and mules. Finally they met this negro on a load of , cotton seed for his employer, W ( P Do Urge, with whom he has been working for 12 years, which is a testimonial to his good character. Bob Small hailed the ne gro and after a tew words shot him. His companion, Noll, drew ^ his (rnn to uhnnt ?1 n ... ......... Willi ngttlU, WUPU | U F Howi?, county treasurer, traveling this road, came up in his buggy. Knowing the negio, he protested against the act and Noll turned his gun on How/e and tired, hitting liim in the face with one shot and the horse receiving the balance of the load in his head and neck. They continued their onwArd march to their shanties at the saw mill. Mr. Howie cared for the negro and drpve hack to town for the sheriff, who, with his deputies pursued the men, captured them at 1'o'clockMonday night in tbeir shanties at the mill, tied them and U. Ll 1? ... uruugui. itiuiu to JMI. | The negro was a peaceable, reliable workman. E r THE 8AM MARKS CASK 8am Marks, tbe negro, wbo ^ was tried at tbe summer term of f court for the murder of Hill Langston, a white man, und who web found guilty, was resentenced today, the supreme court having c denied bim a new trial. The dale a of bis execution was also fixed for D the 5th of May. Popular eymj patby is, however, very ranch with Marks?at lea^t hore in the ^ town of Darlington. The jury exceedingly good men, hut > popular fueling ran high at the time iu some sections of county, and it will he remembered Iho ] Slate militia was called upon to ! protect the defendant. The impression seems to ho that all this had its weight with the jury, unconsciously perliups. Scoiou of ] good men, familiar with all tho i circumstances, can tic found to assort that the negro is guilty of < no more than manslaughter, if 1 even that. Tho prevailing senti- |i ment in tho town of Darlings j ton is that this is a ca-o in which < the govornor might well exercise his executive clemency. i MOSE HAM FREE. i M ose Ham, another negro, was! indicted along with Sam Marks, 1 chaiged *Mth heing an accessory ( to tho killing. In his case the f jury, the same as,that which found 1 Sam Marks guilty, hesitated for 1 hours us to whether to find him guilty or guilty with rocomuienda tion to mercy, finally taking the latter course. Upon uppeul to tho supreme court, that tribunal ' remanded tho case against Muse Hum for u now trial, stating that there was absolutely no evidence against him. In vie?> of this Solicitor Johnson today no! prossed his case. This is doubly inter * eating as beat ing upon the circuit)- * stances under which Murks was convicted. ^ b Happenings in the State. ! i As Chronicled by the Alert Cor- i respondents of The Columbia ( State and tho Charleston v Nows and Courier. I n (Specials to The State.) c Killed With a Rock. (j Belton, March 12. ?Ellis Greer v and Sam Brenzeale, negrose, ho ? catno involved in a row last Sun- u [lay /vhich resulted in Sam strik o ing Ellis in the forehead with a f< rock, crushing in the skull from a the effects of which Ellis died Fri o jay evening. ii * ? r; Nfecro Killed in Eibrefifild ?Two f. -???-?( Sent to Penitontiary for Life. t< Edgefield, March 10.?Several w miIes ahovo here Mr Lemuel si Dorloy was yesterday forced to c sill a negro, named Jim Lumer. Mr. Corloy ia one ot the coun- d ,y chamgang overseers. Ho was ipproached hy said negro saying ni le wanted to seo one of the coniricts. Ho was armed with a shot51m. Oorley asked him what the veapon conttined; heunswered hy J oj aising his gun and saying ho tr vould shoot him, thereupon Mr. is Jorloy, quick as a flash, shot the hi jegro dead with his rifle. ^ Charles and Arthur Holloway, )oth negroes who have for two Jays been on triul horo, charged e\ vith the killing of Spencer Barn- m >s, another negro, at I'leasunt jrove church, threo miles from . is ?dgefield, on Agust 1st, were tolight convicted of murder with j ecommendation to the mercy of he court. Life imprisonment in ? he penitentiary will likely bo the ate of theso negros. .Notice to the Public. I will hold all inquests in the ounty. Phono to my residence t Pleasant Hill for me when oeded. J. Montgomery Ca^kcy, opt. 2d?tf Coroner L, O. iAMriBw" s*;.vt Shi meet Ntllivfiahi In wo?m? ? - u r- ,,w4" ,v His Hungry Troops. Mukden Whs Entered on Sched nlo Time, iho .hips Capturing Enormous War Supplies Tokio, March 10, 8 p. m.?- . b'ield Marshal Oyamu telegraphs r is f< llows under today's date: "We occupied Mukden at 10 Vclock this morning. g "Our surrounding: movement, 8 in which we have boon engaged j for some days past, lias now ( jompletelv succeeded. 1 _ o "The fiercest fighting continues' n . a it several places in the vicinity of t Mukden. u " .Vo captured a great number t ?f prisoners, enormous quantities ^ >f arms, ammunition, provisions ^ ind other war supplies. There is ^ it present no time to investigate he number of these. . Losses Suffered by Russia 11 P i fc* billed and Wounded Estimated at; 90,000 and Prisoners at Over j ^ tO,000 ? Spoils Include 60, 1 000 ltitles and 60 Guns. Tokio, March 12, 7 p m.? Meld Marshal Oynmu, reporting oday, says: "Prisoners, spoils and the ^ inomy's estimated casualties ^ iguiost all our forces in the Shakle direction follow, hut the pristncrs, guns and spoils are iucre&f- ' \ ng momentarily. The prisoners i:. lumber over 40,000, including j on Nachmoss. The killed and w rounded are estimated at 90,000. The enemy's dead left on the field lumber 26,500. The spoils inhide two flags, ahout 60 guns, ? 10,000 rifles, 150 ammunition ragons, 1,000 carts, 200,000 6f hells, 25,000,000 rounds of small 6 AG rms ammunition: 75 ,000 bushels cc f ceroids, 275,000 bundles of VI udder, 45 miles of light railway nd 2,000 horses, 23 cart loads 811 f maps, 1,000 car loads of clothig and Accoutrements, 1,000,000 ^ atious of bread, 75,000 tuns of ^ nel, and 60 tons of hay; besides jols, tents, bullocks, telegraph ^ dres and poles, timber, bods, ^ loves ami numerous other prop- . rty. CO 4'No report from tbo Singkiog ^ iroction has been received." The battle has been officially nmn.l I (Tl.~ w.uww xuo oHiuo or MiiKdon." < an ? 1 CO GOT OFF CHEAP Sti Ho may well think, he has got '6I tf cheap, who, after having conacted constipation or indigestion, still able tn perfectly restore Is health. Nothing will do this P? nt Dr. King's Now Life Pills. ^ quick, pleasant, and certain cure r,' >r headache, constipation, etc. 5c at Crawford Bros, J. F. Mack? & Co's and Funderhurk Phar. acy. hi of It is Haiti that Generul Oyama pr taking pass after pass with the 0g )nchulunco or' a ro-clectod state giulator.? Detroit Journal. OVERWORKED KIDNEYS itfnriray'H liuchu, (tin and Jun Iper ir* pre-oilbed and endorsed by eminent physicians. 11 curea when all elat fails Prevents Kidney disease,Dropsy,hrights disease, etc At all druggists $100 A BOTTLE Or Diriot From M urray Drug Co, Columbia, H (J uvu, 1YU1 VyiUMll ItCbl^llb. hikes all lllame for Defeat We Makes no Excuse Save That the Strength of the Japanese Was Miscalculated. St Petersburg, March 13, 2:15 i. in. ? General Ktiropntkin has ent in his resignation to the Em>etor. General Knropatkin has telo;rnphed to Empeior Nicholis, as tuning himself all the rcsponsi ility for his defeat, making no xcuses except that the strength f the Japanese was miscalculated, nd refusing to placo any of tho lame upon the council of generals pon whoso advice he determined [i give buttlo. His reputation as n ( ffensive strategist is gone, ml though tho Emperor's military dvisers know not whore to look or a hotter General, his resignaion will ho accepted. In losing General Kuropatkin, ho army will lose the idol of the rivate soldiers, an officer who, in pite of the intrigues of his generis and his failures to win a bnttle, as won their confidence and afoction. Baltic bleot to Face Togo. St. Petersburg, March 13, 2:l0 . m.?The immediate answer of 10 Russian goverment to the de)at at Mukden is the announcelent that a new army wiii be lised, and the forces in tho far art re-organized; that Vice Adliial Rojestuensky will be order1 to sail on and try conclusions ith Togo, and that the war will 3 prosecuted to tho bitter end. This is the present temper of t mperor Nicholas and his domi- ' ?nt advisers. Should tho island < npire choose tho 'moderate" i rms and recognize its adversary i tho power in the far East,peace I iuld be easily arranged; but tho < ews of her diplomats in various irtn of Ibo world indicate that ie is not ready to with the full agnitude of the disaster at Mukin still undetermined, hut with e 1905 campaign seemingly alady hopelessly compromised, re. aat to Harbin inevitable and ladivostock practically lost, deires that the time has not yet me when Russia can be forced surrender herself. ATTACKED BY A MOB d beaten, in a labor riot, until vered with scares, a Chicugo reet car conductor applied Buck a's Arnica Sab e, and was soon und and well. "1 use it in my mily," writes G. J. Welch of ikonshA, Mich., "and find it irfect." Simply great for cuts d burns Only 25c at Crawford os\, J. F. Mackey & Co's and mderburk Pharmacv. t * I ? For letterheads, noteheads, 1 llheads, circulars and all kinds 1 printing neatly and quickly ( inted; send your work to this ( ice. Roy S Strait. 1 ?Subscribe to Tho Ledger. | ??????????? \ MURRIU Y'8 IRON 1 MIXTURE No is the time to take a spring r tonic. By fat the best thing to Uke is Murray's Iron M'Xture. It makes pure blood and e yets rid of that tired feeling. At , all drug store-. " ROcABOTTLE 1 8 Or Direct From The Murray Drug Co, Columbia, H C a uis Liie sacnnced to save * His Whiskey. i \ An Employe of Sellers Killed l>y I a Flying Train.?A Trugic End to a Long Trip for Shipment of Illicit Liquor. Tho State, 11th inst. i As tho result of tho effort of < W. H. Sellers, tho blind tiger i king of Columbia, to ovado tho 1 dispensary constables during tho I dark hours of night, one of Ium henchmen, Charles Thompson, is i dead killed by tho Seaboard's fly- 1 ing "Florida Limited;" another of his hirelings, Elias Waiters, I is languishing in jail; the whiskey ' and waiters' mules and wagon 1 have been seized by tho constable, and tho mules and wagon of tho ' dead man arc destroyed ? by the name train which in an insiant i ended tho life of their owner. The accident in which Thorn p? 1 son was killed happened uhout f 300 yards beyond Wed loll, a > small station on tho Seaboard Air ' Line, nine miles north of Col tun- ( bia. Tho time of its occurrence N was 9,53 o'clock on Thursday * night. r Sellers expected a shipment of } whiskey from tho Caiolina Dis- 1 tilling Company of Hamlet, N. C., 1 to ho delivered at lllaney that !l night. This point is on tho Sea? board just across the iino in Ivor- f shaw couuty uud is 21 miles from n Columbia. The whiskey arrived and Thompson and an unknown d helper wero there with a two t mule team to receive and bring it h to Columbia or whatever place it tl was to bo stored. The shipment ? consisted of 1,000 half pints of o tho celebrated "King's Choico" ai corn whiskey and six kegs, con- tl taining five gallons of corn each t< Tho half pin?s wore packed in livo L barrels, containing 200 bottlos w each. w Thompson loaded tho stuff on tl his wagon and started on his wav P toward Columbia. It. was dark I Mid raining. All went woll until tl tbo party neured Wcddell, 12 S ailes from the sturtiug place. $ About 300 yards beyond Wedlell from Columbia the wagon road crosses the railroad. This road, instead of crossing the track squarely, approaches it ^ gradually and crosses it at an icute angle. There is a small ^ brulgo 121 feet wide over the ^ iitch besido the roadbed. The , bt Jitch is about two foet wide and w two feet deep at this point. Whon ^ Thomson approached this bridge, u Iriving through the rain anddark, ^ lie cut his team to cross the bridge j( just a little too soon. The front wheels passed ovor safely, but the ^ [jack wheels, of course, did not ItA/ilr 1 ~ ' * 1 ' * uir llUlll OI1U liTKl I lift buck I b wheel on the inside of the turn , b missed the end of the bridge and .. n tl Jroppcd into the ditch. The pre- c( iicument was a serious one; the ' e< wagon could not possibly be inov)d backward or forward until tho . k< oad was removed, and tho mules ' 01 were standing directly on the ^ *ail road rack. This was tho situation when tho y Florida Limited" chiiio in sight ^ unning as fast as sho could turn . * in wheel on a pioco of truck as traight as an arrow and down a ' . . 'in eavy grade. It is evident from ho indications ?and tho whole lory is clear to those who saw jj hem?that Thompson already . ( nxious ovor his responsibility and l() exeti by his dilemma, wnen ho by aw the train bearing down upon tim, realized that it meant the cms of his valuable team and vagon and of his employer's troperty entrusted to nib care uness the train was stopped. TRIED TO STOP THE TRAIN. With a reckless disregard of consequences he rushed along tho side of the track toward the oncoining train in a vain effort to llag it down with his hat. Ilo bad gone about 50 feet up tho [rnek when the thundering train was upon him, and heforo ho could realize his danger it had struck tiim and hurled him fully 40 feet iwny, dashed I ho wagon and its load aside like a wisp of straw itid crushed both mules into a lifeless and mangled mass. The train was brought to a stand 3l 111 and remained there until it was seen that no aid could be rendered News of what had happened readied Division chief Osborno ibout 1.15 o'clock. Ho immodately detailed Constables Haring, Peguos and Poland to go at >nco to the scene and seize what vhiskoy they could find. They vore soon on their way, and cached there about 3 o'clock 'esterday morning. The illicit iquor had been carried away, but ho constables nosed their game nd wore soon away in hot puruit. Seller's other employos, uithful to their employer, had otifiod him of tho accident, idlers left the city such a short istuncc ahead of tlie constables hat thoy saw his buggy about a lock away. It is statod by them liut ho wui accompanied by it li celcy, a well known blind tiger 11 lower Main street. As soon 3 they arrived at tho scene of the ragedy preparations wore begun i get the booze out of the way. ilias Waiters, a negro farmer ho lives nearby, was employed ith his horse and wagon to do 10 work, and, as he himself ex* resscs it, was promised good pay. ho statement was volunteered on ic