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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKU5 W'-IM SAID mnwu B.'ease DefenuL Actions Bet?re a Large Crowd. TELLS ABOUT FELDER The Governor Describes His official Career and Tells Why He Did Cer tain Things.?He Discusses Many Other Things, on All of Which He Speaks Out Plainly. The Spartanburg Herald says Gov. Cole Blease addressed two im mense and enthusiastic audiences or cotton mill workers on Tuesday at Cowpens and Drayton Mills in Spar tanburg County. The following is a report of th9 speeches as we find them in the Spartanburg Herald: Gov. Blease began his address in a formal manner and then said that he would talk about anything his audience wanted and suggested that somebody give him a text: Someone shouted "Prohibition." "If you can show me hhere there is any prohibition in South Carolina,' said Gov. Blease, "I'll talk about It" He referred to prohibition again later in his address He said he had received requests from the au thorities of various counties to send State constables into these counties to enforce the liquor laws. But, said Blease, he told them that since they had voted to be dry they could eir force the liquor laws as best they could. The governor then switched from one topic to another rather abruptly. He told a story of a little boy whom he had taken into the govampr's of fice in the State house and Had tola him that it was his office, as well as that of Cole Blease, and followed up the story by saying that the State House and the governor's office were the property of all the citizens. "But by citizens," he saidj- "I mean white men?not apes and baboons." He then launched into a tirade against .negroes. The Caucausion race must dominate, he Daid, and if an inferior race got In the way it must he got out of the way in the most convenient manner. "And a little gunpowder and a few huckshot," he said, "are often the most effecMve remedy ". Later he said that on a previous oc casion he had made a statement which had been taken to mean that he favored lynching. He said he sa-w no reason why he should not be per fectly frank about it?that he did approve of lynching. And the reason, he said, why there had been no lynch ihgs in South Carolina during the six months in which he had been govern or was because the negroes knew that he would not call out the military to protect, them from lynching if they Insulted white women. Negroes, he said, are so fond of notoriety that often they are willing to make a sacrifice and take a chance of losing their lives In order to get their names emblazoned In the news papers. But they knew ,he said, that while he was governor there was no possible cance of their being saved from an infuriated mob. Gov. Blease said that if any women of his famiy was Insulted by a negro all he would ask was that the negro be caught; he would do the rest himself. Gov. Blease took up various of his official acts which have been criticis ed and defended them. The purpose of revoking the commissions of the notary public was to get rid of negro notaries. He now makes It a rule, he said, not to issue commissions to notaries without the recommendation of ia member of the legislative dele gftion of the county in which they live. Regarding his veto of appropria tion bills, he said that by so doing he saved the State $67,000 He declared the government of South Carolina was the most extravagant of any Stiate of the Union. He denounced the extravagance of the State edu cational institutions especially. Gov. Blease declared that there were men traveling in Ehrope and enjoying themselves and at the same time drawing salaries from the State as members of the faculty of some of the Stale educfetionaV i/nstitutions. He said the excuse for permitting them to travel in Europe was that they were being trained to teach. "But why the devil," he asked "were they employed to teach if they didn't know how already?" He said he had respect for the ed ucational institutions conducted by the State, and yet they had given no men to public office, whereas other colleges in South Carolina, notably Wofford College, had produced illus trious men. He mentioned that Wof ford had produced Senator E D. Smith, with whom he had ridden to Spartlanburg from Florence. "And Henry Synder," he said, re ferring to the president of Wofford college, "has more sense and educa tion than Dr. Mitchell has brains enough to learn." Speaking of his tilt with the Su preme Court over the appointment of special judges, Gov. Blease said that he did not intend to appoint special judges when regular circuit judges were sitting around in club rooms, drinking cocktails and playing pin ochle. And he added vehemently that he could prove that this had been the case. Concerning his liberal use of the pardoning power, he said that men ought not to be punished too severe r. ly for crimes committed in the heat of passion There was no excuse, he said, for premeditated rohberies, but when a man got into a quarrel and drew a pistol and killed his antag onist he ought not to be judged too ?severely. r "There are good men in the pen itentiary," he said, "men of good fam ilies as yours or mine. And there are a lot of. people in the penitentiary who ought to be out, and a lot who are out who ought to be in. "I am going to do something very soon," he continued, "which will cause me to be severely criticised in Spartanburg county. But gentlemen have you ever considered what a ter rible thing life imprisonment is?" Gov. Blease said it had been in sinuated that he sold pardons. In answer to that charge, he said, he desired to say that with the exception of Brigman of Florence, who had only had three more months to sorve any way, there was not a man whom he had released from the penitentiary who had money enough to ouy a nel suit of clothes after paying his railroad fare home. And, he added, a rich man went to the penitentiary not long ago, and he is going to stay there. With regard to the charges of bribery made against him by Col. Thomas B. Felder, of Atlanta, Gov. Blease said that if Tom*Felder would produce a letter asking a bribe or acknowledging the receipt of a .bribe, and any three men familiar with Blease's handwriting would say the writing of the letter was his, he would resign the governorship in 15 minutes. On the other hand, he said, if he could not prove that Felder had of fered a bribe to 'a State official, he would not only^consent to * esl?n the governorship, but would move to the Philippine Islands Gov. Blease said he was not averse to Felder's being given a change of venue if there was any doubt as to his being able to obtain justice in New berry County. Gov. Blease spoke at length about standing by his friends. Ke said ns loved his friends so much that 1 ? wanted to be with them after death, no matter where they were. He de clared that his enemies need expect nothing from him .He had been fold, he said, that this was not the proper spirit, and that he should consider the example of the Savior, who said of those who persecuted Him: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Gov. Blease said he had no for giveness for his enemies because they knew very well what they were do ing. He mentioned among his enemies the newspapers. He said the engi neer of a train could not stop his train to pay attention to the curs that ran out and .barked at the'rain. And neither, he said, could he stop for the snarling curs, the newspapers. He said he would like to call them by another termr but it would be un parliamentary. Chief among his newspaper ene mies, he considers the Columbia State and he said it was contro-led by Cu bans and they were foeu to organ ized government. One of their an cestors he said was exiled from Cuba I because he- was a foe to organized government. Gov. Blease also paid his respects to The Spartanburg Herald He as serted that this newspaper was own ed by The Columbia State, ana tnat the editor published nothing until he had telephoned to Columbia and had obtained permission. The Herald, he said, published an untrue story to the effect that the girls of. Winthrop college ha?9 asked that their diplomas be presented to them by somebody else than Govern or Blease. . This story was In'er found to be untrue, he said, but the Herald lacked the manhood to come out and admit it was unf:rue. He w<as warmly applaiMed and one man shouted that he had stopped his subscription to The Herald because of its unfair attitude towards Gov^ ernor Blease. /' Gov. Blease made slighting re marks about Northerners several times. He said that of 160 voters in a Newberry cotton mill 154 voted for him. "The other six," he said, "were the Yankee bossess " While speaking of the penitentiary he devoted sor.ie attention to the hosiery mill, which he proposed to abolish. He said that prisoners were put to work in the hosiery mill who knew nothing about making hosiery, but who were required co do just as much work as skilled operatives. They had to work ten hours a day, he said, and were kept standing the entire time. A lawyer, he said, might be put to work alongside a skilled worker. The lawyer would be gi**en the samt task as the other man. If the lawyer cause of his ignorance of the work, j failed to complete his task, even I though it was an impossibility, be !cause of his ignorance of the work, he was taken to the stocks, his arms j placed in it, his clott:ng removed to the waist, and the l?.?h applied Gov. Blease, in the course of his i speech, made several remarks about (Spartanburg men, which pleased the crowd. When Congressman Joseph T. Johnson came upon the rostrum he jsaid that a United States Senator had ? told him that Mr. Johnson had more sense than all the other South Car llina congressmen put together, and J this, he Said, confirmed his own judg ment. He said that his friend, Represen tative H K. Osborne, who was also on the rostrum, was coming his way, and if Spartanburg county sent Mr. ORANGEB CWAR1M AT1AIK GANG HOLDS UP AN:D BOLDLx BEATS SENATOR BILBO. Physician States Injured Man's Skull Fractured, But Wound Not Neces sarily Fatal. State Senator Theodore Bilbc*, can didate for Lieutenant governor of Mississippi, was attacked and severe ly beaten at Starkville, Miss., Thurs day by J. J. Henry, claim agent of the Mobile, Chicago & New Orleans railroad, and former penitentiary warden, the encounter coming as a di ect sequel to a campaign speech de livered by Senator Bilbo at Blue Mountain, Miss., recently in which Bilbo is credited with having vigor ously assailed Mr. Henry, impeaching his character. The affray occurred aboard a rail road train in which Mr. Bilbo was proceeding from Columbus to Stur gis, Miss., where he was to have spoken Thursday afternoon. Ross A. Collins, candidate for attorney genei al, who was accompanying State Sen ator Bilbo to Sturgis at the time of bis encounter with J. J. Henry, has given out the following statement: "When the train reached Starkville I was seated directly in front of Sen ator Bilbo, in the smoking compart ment, talking with Mr. Carruthers, of West Point. Carruthers left the train at Stakville and I was looking out of the window at about half a dozen people on the station platform when I heard a loud, dull lick. I heard a man groan and saw Senator Bilbo fall at the blow from a pistol. Immediate ly a man covered the cr0wd in the smoking car with a pistol, and I un derstand that another person stood guard with him. Everbody was made to vacate the car, and the two men prevented any one entering while J. J. Henry administered repeated blows upon Senator Bilbo's head and body with the bult of a pistol. Some peo ple on the outside of the car thinking Bilbo dead, begged Mr. Henry to stop which,vhe did after having inflicted probably 20 or 25 blows." Henry was a witness before the legislative investigation subsequent to the charges of Senator Bilbo that he had been paid a sum of money to forsawe ex-Governor James K. Var daman in the senatorir.l caucus of last year, which elected United States Senator Leroy Percy as the successor to the late Senator McLaurin. ?Following the legislative inquiry a court trial was had of a Percy sup porter in the senatorial campaign, and he was acquitted of the charges of bribery prefered by Bilbo. Dur ing the present political campaign charges and countercharges between several of the candidates have fol lowed fast and partisan feeling has reached a high tension. Reports as to the extent of Bilbo's injuries are conflicting. At first It was said that his wounds were not serious, but late this afternoon a des patch from Ackerman, in the immedi ate vicinity of Sturgis, quotes Dr. Murphy, who was* called to attend Bilbo, as saying that his skull is fractured, but he is not necessarily fatally hurt. Osborne to the legislature for a cou ple more terms he would probably be on che Blease platform by then. Blease had a kind word for the State detectives, John F. Miller and Robert E. Miller, and said that Dan Miles was the best supervisor in South Carolina. Gov. Blease spoke at some length of his fight for the governorship, which he said had been the crowding ambition of his life He said that when his father had been on his deathbed he had called him Cole and toid him that he wanted him to be Governor of his state, and that all his life and that every dollar he had /made had been devoted to attain the governorship. He said he was content with the Governorship, but conditions might ! arise which would make him a candi date for United States Senator. There has been talk of impeaching him, he said. But if the legislature, at its next session, should impeach him, he asserted, he would make a tour of the State which would result in his going to the senate as the suc cessor of Benjamin TC. Tfllman. In coucluding his speech Govern or Blease said there were six empty bedrooms in his manshlon at Colum jbia and though they were poorly fur |nished, he invited any of his audience jwho visited the capital to come to : the mansion and stop there. He declared that he owed his suc I cess in politics largely to the cot | ton mill men Gov. Blease was suc ceeded on the rostrum by Congress i man Johnson, who gave a short gen jeral talk on representative govern ment. Steam Shovel Fatal By the overturning of a steam shovel on the New Orleans, Mobile ond Chicago Railroad at Orchard, Ala., Wednesday evening, Engineer W. H. Doolittle and a negro named Lee Bonna were killed, and Ike Cot rell and a nervo named Wales were badly hurt The accident was due to an overload. Gave Life for Dog. In the vain effort to save the life of his dog C. L Grant, of Danville, Va., was struck by a Southern Rail way train Wednesday night and died an hour later at a hospital. Grant had cleared the tracks but had gone back for the dog. ?RG, S. C, SATURDAY, JUL FEDER SPMKS He Says Criminals Rale Sooth Carolina, Referiog lo Blease. READS A FEW LETTERS The Atlanta Attorney Gives Some In teresting Dope at Dublin, Ga., on Last Tuesday^?In the Letter He Read Citizens of this State Roast ed Governor Blease^ A dispatch from Dublin, Ga., says the barbecue and good roads rally held there on the .Fourth, was a big success. A large crowd was present, and all throughly enjoyed the address of Hon. Thomas B. Felder, of At lanta, a former Dublinite. Mr. Felder was greeted enthusias tically by the large crowd. Quite a number fram a distance came in au tomobiles to be present at the barbe cue, Macon sending a good delega tion The barbecue was held under the auspices of the Dublin chamber of commerce, and was the first pub lic function by that body. "I am unable to restrain a natural Impulse to refer to an episode in my life of recent occurence, which has brought me into unpleasant notoriety. If in doing so I trench upon the pro prieties of the occasion, I plead in ex cuse and extenuation the fact that I crave above all things the continued confiedence and friendship of the peo ple of Laurens county. It is not my purpose to tax audiences with the full details of this episode, but I mere ly desire to briefly advert to it that you may understand that I shall in the end receive"from you the welcome plaudit, 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant.' "About four years ago I was em ployed by the state of South Caroli na to assist her splendid attorney general in the Herculean task of cleaning out her Augean stables of their filth and corruption, I feel that I can in modesty say that the task was not only honorably and credita bly performed, but the services met with the approval of the best people of that state, resulting in the restitu tion to the treasury of that graft soaked and graft ridden people ap proximately, half million dollars, and in the indictment by the grand juries of the several counties thereof of more than a score of thieves and plunderers "In the last gubernatorial election he criminal element of that swte suc ceeded in electing one of their num ber to the governorship. I am in possession of evidence, written and oral, which in my judgment, would not only justify, but demand his Im peachment. If I could read in this presence the hundreds of letters from the good but graft-ridden people of that once glorious commonwealth in which their greatest acknowledge ments are tendered and their prayer ful God-speeds are wished me in the great work at hand in ridding them of this moral and political leper, his confederates and allies, I am sure I would receive from this andienet shouts of approval as would make the welkin ring I will detain you long enough to read you extracts from but a few of these letters:" Colonel Felder then read the fol lowing extracts from letters: "The offense which you have com mitted, which is grevious to the sight of our present governor, is the great success you have attained in expos ing him and his friends in crime." " 'Have you read with interest the proceedings in the controversy be tween yourself and our vagabond governor* * * *I want to say with Hub Evans, Blease and Fred Dominick right in Xewberry, and in control of things there they could convict most 'anybody they wanted to by picking a jury and the plunder bund of South Carolina, knowing that you are the man will go to any extent in perjury and forgery to convict ou, and Blease is making every effort to discre'dit you in this state and thus attempt to weaken the evidence you nroduce against him by declaring upon the ignorant rabble that he had you prosecuted for attempted bribery * * Governor Blease's requisi tion is heartily approved by every decent law-abiding citizen of South Carolina." "Permit me to say that while I do 'not approve of all you have said and jdone in this matter, yet it is impos jsible to escape the conviction that you I now hold .'n your hands very largely the State rf South Carolina for the next few years at least. It is to be presumed that you fully appreciate the gravity of the responsibility, which by reason of circumstances rests upon you at this time. There may not be with you the motive to j act that would move a citizen of this state, but many are hoping that you will justify the confidence placed in you by our people. "In conclusion permit me to say [that if the reprobate who occupies j the governor's chair can be induced to accept your challenge (which the good people of South Carolina feel sure you will never be able to do), to sue you for libel, it will give me pleasure to furnish you a list of 500 of the most prominent citizens resid ing in every portion of South Caro lina who will cheerfully swear that they know the general character of Blease, that his character is bad and from a knowledge of his character they would not believe him on oath." Y 8, 1911. THIS SfACE LMDS VALUABLE AGRICULTURAL STA TISTICS PUBLISHED. Value of Crops In South Carolina Per Square .Mile Reached Second of all the State*. Some interesting statistics on the agricultural situation in South Caro lina have been prepared by Commis sioner Watson from the recent federal census. As has been announced this State jumped from 21 to 13 points in rank in agriculture. The value of the agricultural pro ducts of the State increased by 28.4 per cent, in one year. The value of the crops in 1910 was $140,000,000, which was an Increase over 1909 of $31,000,000; an increase over 1906 of $62,288,000 and an increase of $88,685,000 over 1910, all of which shows that the value of the crops has increased over 100 per cent, du-ing te past decade. With reference to the value of the crops per square mile South Carolina ranked second of all the states with 34,518. Other States in comparison: Illinois, $5,122; Georgia, $3,743; Texas, $1,369 'All other Southern states show the value of crops per square mile to be less than $3,000. The cotton crop of the South ac coding oceo802EN.Plah-AGIVxzfiff.. cording to the statistics gleaned for 1910 went on the market for $963, 180,000. The crop of 1909 was worth $812,000,000 and for 190S, $ 81,23 0,000. It will be seen that the cotton crop of 1910 was worth $1,1,000,000 more than 1908. There are in the South 440,000,000 acres of land available for cotton and only one out of 12 acres is planted Of the cotton crop 19 per cent was con sumed in the United States; 49 per cent was exported and 35 per cent re mained in this country up to Feb ruary, 1911. Concening the value per bale of cotton the following comparison is given: Value per bale, 1910, $87, 15; value per bale, 1904, $50.37; value per bale, 1898, $30.22. It is pointed out that the sum of $604 was received for 20 bales of cotton in 1898 while the farmer re ceived $1,743 for the same number In 1910. In South Carolina there were in 1910 175,180 farms or an increase of 13 per cent over the proceeding decade. The value of the lands and buildings increased by 16.2 per cent; implements and machinery 112 per cent; landa 169 per cent; Increase in labor bill 76 per cent These statistics show that there were 20,825 farms added. There are 64,227 owners, or an increase of $4,810, and of these farms 14,987 are mortgaged. The tenants number 11, 097. The increase in the number of tenants during the decade was 16, 113, and ..he same in proceeding de cade, 26/100. PREDICTS DEMOCRATIC VICTORY Well Known Tennessean Says Re publicans Will Lose. It is the belief of Benton McMil lan, of Tennessee, for twenty years a leader among the Democrats in con gress that the party will sweep the nation next year and bake possession of every branch of the federal gov ernment. Mr. McMillan has been in Washington the past week, and he has conferred with Democratic lead ers in both the senate and house. "I wan an elector of the Tilden ticket," said Governor McMillan Mon day, "and I have participated in ev ery campaign from then' 'till now, but the party has not been in bet ter shape for a great many years. The situation today is the reverse of what it has been in past presidential contests. "In the past the Republican party has been united and the Democratic party divided. Today we are united and the Republicans divided hope lessly so. The division are not lo j cal, but general. The more advanced and enlightened Republicans have come to realize that in the language of President Taft, at Providence, the 'Chinese wall' has to come down." SUFFER IX CHICAGO. The Awful Heat Drives Folks from Their Crowded Homes The poor people of the large cities, who live in the crowded tenements, suffer greatly from the heat. A Chi cago dif.patch says thousands of peo ple spent Monday night in the parks or on the sidewalks in an effort to get relief from the intense heat. At midnight the thermometer was hov ering close to 90 and during the night i'-. did not get below 85. In the crowded West Side district early Tuesday the sidewalks were lined with people who found it impossible indoors. Twenty-two permits to bury bf.bies were issued Monday ana the. health authorities predict that the number will be largely increas ed if the heat continues. Xot So Sane After All. Revised figures on the number of deaths and injured in the United States indicate the celebration of 1911 cost 38 lives and 1,117 were injured, (as compared with 44 killed and 2,485 injured last year, and 62 killed and 3,345 injured in 1909. Fireworks claimed 18 victims; fire arms 12; gunpowder 5, and toy pis tols 3. HUNDREDS SUCCUMB THE HOT WAVE PLAYED HAVOC WITH THE PEOPLE. It Caused Over Five Hundred Deaths in Four Days in the North and West. The loss of more than 500 lives is to be credited to the general heat wave of Jury 1 to 5, 1911. The torrid period will be memorable in weather annals for Its wide extent, its lou*, duration, its record-breaking temper atures in many places and the long list of fatalities which it has caused The news dispatches which cities from the North Atlantic seaboard west to the Plains States have ex changed during those four days, ac count, according to a review Wednes day night for the death of 431 per sons. Incomplete as the record is from the failure at many points to report specifically the number of deaths, it is as sericus as shown, as remer bered for many years if not a record. The number of prostrations is still more difficult to compute, but it ap | pears that thousands have been seri ously overcome by the boat in the great cities. Scores of Deaths Reported. At New York, although the fore caster's prediction of "not quite so warm" was literally true Wednesday, the maximum temperature was only 1 degree of Tuesday's extreme heat. The exhausting effects of the hot wave were manifested in a record tally of heat prostrations. Thy day's list of deaths from heat in the metro politan district was thirty-six up to midnight^ A Boston dispatch says another day f excessive heat wilted New Englana ers Wednesday. More than forty deaths were reported in New England Wednesday, although the tempera ture was slightly lower than Tuesday, half a dozen degrees being reporteu, There were fifteen deaths due direct ly to the heat within the limits of Boston during the day. Heat killed thirty-two persons, in cluding twelve babies, and prostrated dozens fn Chicago Wednesday, the fifth day of the present heat wave. The temperature was recorded ".t 101.5 in the weather bureau at 2 30 Wednesday afternoon, equalling the high point registered Tuesday, while at the street level, and the mercury climbed to 108 degrees. A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, says a light breeze Wednesday morn ing caused the mercury to drop sev eral degrees, after it had reached 96 degrees in the weather .bureau and 102 at the street level. The deaths of eleven babies were attrib uted to the heat. At Baltimore three deaths from the heat and twenty-eight prostrations were recorded Wednesday The max imum official temperature was 97 degrees -t 4 P. M. At Philadelphia, Pa., twenty-nine deaths from heat were reported Wed nesday making a total of forty-one since the heat wave hegun. At Albany, N. Y , the official mer cury climbed to 98 at 3 o'clock Wed nesday and four deaths were report ed. DIED FROM A MOLE. Made Its Appearance on the Arm Al most One Year Ago. Augustus W. Mot.t, of New York, president of the Mott Iron Works, of which his grandfather was the founder and veil known as a yachts man, is dead at his home as the result of the development of an dis dinary pigmented mole into malig nant growth. The mole which was on IMr. (.Mutt's right arm showed the ; first signs of Irritation less than a j year apo. It developed rapidly intc j what is known as a molane sarcoma, j Medical science has no cure for this j disease. Mr Mott was not yet 50 [years old. Until the development ol I the malignant growth he had always enjoyed good health. This form ol disease Is '-ery rare. BLEASE SEES JOE BATES. IThe Governor Visits the Condemned Man in Jail. I While in Spartanburg Tuesday 'night Governor Blease visi'ed in the 'county jail .ice Battt. the former j Spartanburg police officer, under i sentence to hang on July 12. The [governor has recently been ufked to 'commute Bates' sentence to life im . prlsonment ami the lin'.icf is here he will do so Dates had 'o-cn sen tenced to hang on three different oc casions, but each time ois attorney^ have succeeded in having the sentence stayed. A commission appointed re cently to pass upon Dates' sanity I reported that Bates was not insane. He shot and killed a >^ung woman |.because she left him and f,et marri ed. Will Start a Feud. With the killing of Leslie Lynn at Sayre, Ala., Tuesday by his father-in law Alec Brewis, it fs believed that one of the most serious feuds ever engendered in the mountains of Ala bama has been precipitated. Four families are involved, including about 20 grown men, all of whom reside in and around the section known as Cat mountain 0 TWO CENTS PER COPY. USED HB^KMFE A Co King ?lEraj in Neu berry Coootj That Hay Result Fatally. TEILS STORY OF FIGHT Griffin Williams Cuts Andrew Daven port at Old Town in Newberry County.?According to the Story Williams Was Attacked.and Forced to Defend Himself. A dispatch from Wards says Mr Griffin Williams, of Newberry, who so seriously and perhaps ?atally cut Andrew" Davenport, a white man, at Old Town Tuesday went to Saluda Wednesday morning and placed him self in the custody of Sheriff Sample, awaiting the results of the trouble. From whit can be learned Williams tried hard to avoid trouble with Dav enport at Old Town, where a Fourth, of July barbe.ue was served. Old Town is just across the Saluda River in Newberry County; both men are Kewborriana. It appears that several days ago WiiliainB, who was working as a con stable in Saluda County, seized some whiskey found In the possession of Cary McCarthy, near Denny's. Last week, so the story goes, while Wil liams was at Silver Street, In New berry-County, Davenport approached him and stated that he, Williams, had gotten one of hie, Davenport's kins rien in trouble over in Saluda County, referring to the seizure of Cary Mc Carthy's liquor, and he tried to in volve Williams in a difficulty about it. It is said that Davenport cursed Williams on that occasion and said some pretty tough things on him. It is likewise stated that William? kept his head and although urged by some of his friends to resent what Davenport said, made the statement that inasmuch as he was an offcier ho would not ailow himself to be drawn into a difficulty Tuesday at Old Town, Davenport again approch ed Williams and rebuked-Mm for tak ing McCarthy's liquor and saying tha* inasmuch as one of his kinsmen had been gotten into trouble, Williams would have to get him into trouble. 1 The story goes that Williams trieft 1 to avoid any difficulty and quietly walked away, going to Chapman's store. It seems that 'Davenport fdl , lowed him, and after some words at ? tacked him. In the tussif both men ? went out of the store door in the I little plar-za at the front, here the ; fight was continued ah one of Wil ! Ham's legs got fastened between some ? slats nailed around as banisters, and swaying backward fell and Davenport i fell over him and out on the ground. ! While in this position, it is sard, ? that Davenport collared Williams and ' the latter reached for his knife and gashed him across the muscle of the I left arm and across the heart. As soon ? as he was cut Davenport, It seems, ! loosened his grip on Wiilliams and running a short distance fell; he bled ? profusely, and It was 'thought he ? would bleed to death before medical' - aid could be had. A telephone message from Newber ry stated that he was not dead, but was in a critical condition Williams came across Saluda River after the trouble and spent Tuesday night in ' Saluda County. Wednesday morning on hearing the Davenport was dead he came to Saluda and delivered hiru , self intc- the hand of Sheriff Sample , and Is now occupying a room at the i Herlong Hotel.' Williams is a brother-in-law to s Governor 'Blease, and until a few days ago was operating in Saluda ? County as a special constable. Upon ; being advised by the supervisor that ! a constable was not needed in the ? ounty both Williams and R. L. Werts ? who was also a constable, were dis . missed by Governor Blease. In case ! Davenport should die Williams will 1 at once surrender himself to Sheriff ! E.uford at Newberry. i ? ? ? A DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT Mr. Luther Hutchinson Meets Death From Scalding Steam. Luther E. Hutchinson, an employe of the Dargan Lumber company's planing mill at ?ffingham was fatally scalded by the bursting of a throttle early Friday morning, dying tha$ j night. The funeral, which was in jcarge of the Woodmen of te World, was he'd Saturday in the Presbyter ian church Rev. M. B. McLaughlin j conducting the services. Mr. Hutch inson is; survived by his wife and two children, Mrs. J. P. Moore arid Her ibert X. Hutchinson. He is also sur vived by his father and three broth ers. ? ? ? - Peculiar Accident. Policeman Horris, of the YorkvilJe force, was seriously wounded in a bi cycle-motorcycle collision Wednesday afternoon, and fears arc entertained for his life. It seems that Harris was riding a bicycle attached b/ a rope to a motorcycle ridden by a Mr. Fink, c-f that place. Just outside of Yorkvi.le a tire of the motorcycle burst c.nd threw Harris who was in the ref .r on the bicycle, broking' his collar-bone and causing the discharge of his pistol, the ball entering nea* the upper edge of the hip, and1 in flicting a serious and perhaps fatal, wound.