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* el|? Samhmj . ??????i t -o Established 189! BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1908 One Dollar a Year . *;. J\ NIGHT HIDED USE BEGUN FINAL CHAPTER OF REELFOOT LAKE MURDER BEGUN. Eight Men Charged With Killing Capt. Qnentin Rankin?No Demonstration During the Day. i Union City, Tenn., Dec. 14.? W^th both the prosecution and the t defense announcing ready for trial, the latter, however, under protest, the concluding chapter in the pros: ecution of a charge of murder i against the eight men held most responsible for the raids of the night rider band of the Reelfoot Lake ref - gion was begun this afternoon. The men on trial are: Garrett Johnson, Sam Applewhite, Roy Ran- j som, Bud Morris, Fred Pinion, 1 { Arthur Cloar, Tid Burton, and Job Huffman. With the court room crowded to its capacity and the sympathies of . those in attendance well divided, the \ day passed without any demonstration. Immediately after the men were : brought into court, the prosecution , v. announced itself ready, and formal- ; ly requested the court to select tne > jury venire. The defense asked j that the indictments returned at the j October term of court, charging an i Offense of a less serious nature, be j first disposed of and that the sheriff be permitted to select the jury . panel. j \ Judge Jones decided adversely to i the requests of Attorney Rice A. ' Pierce, who appeared for the de- 3 h ? fendants. Then the defense an- i nounced that they were ready for 1 Zvr-: trial. 1 Judge Jones announced that he j would summon 300 men to be pres- j ent at the opening of court Wed- 1 t nesday, at which time the work of ] selecting the trial jury will be- ] , ' The court said that any one who ] endeavored to disqualify himself for f H:. - jury service would be guilty of con- j .. tempt of court and a punishment in \ . accordance would be inflicted. fal1 \ During to-day's session Col. R. * Z. Taylor, the associate or uapr. Kvjfc Quentin Rankin, for whose murder ' the men are on trial, was seated difcfe rectly facing the accused. ?Lf-' The ordeal of the day passed without a show of emotion on the I part of the prisoners. With Col. Taylor were a number of his friends from Gibson, while many friends of . the alleged-night riders from the lake region were also present in numbers. ? Prize Georgia Hog. / ->The large hog exhibited at the Gdorgia-Caroliiia fair by Mr. W. C. f Sibley, and which won the blue rib, . bon, was killed last week at the Augusta abattoir and it was the record $ hog killed at this place since it opened. It took seven negroes to handle the hog after it had been killed, and they claim they had a hard job. Mr. y ' Sibley dried up 170 pounds of lard .'from the hog and made 172 pounds v of the finest sort of sausages. \ The hog lacked eight days of be- | ing a year old, and* while it was not ? % . '? weighed it is believed that it would i have tipped the scales at between < v 500 and 600 pounds. On account of t its b?ing so young all of the meat i * was as sweet and tender as chicken. ( ?-Augusta Chronicle. jj Mexican Laborers Flock to America. If.:- Washington, Dec. 14.?The attractiveness of the higher wage paid * .. to laborers in the United States has resulted in a considerable influx of jfc Mexicans, according to. a special bulletin isisued to-day by the bureau of labor. Only a few years ago, it is ft,, said, those immigrants were seldom I found more than a hundred milies from the border, but now they are working as unskilled laborers and Y. as section hands as far east as ChicaV% SO and as far north as Iowa, Wyoming and San Francisco. They are i said to be rapidly displacing Jap- 1 anese, Greeks, and Italians in some < > occupations. < Because of lack of education and < of natural initiative, the work of the 1 f Mexicans, it is said, is confined to the simple forms of unskilled labor, 1 yet it is pointed out that their im- f migration is having important eco- * Vnomic effects for Mexico as well as 1 the United States, and is becoming an agency of something approaching a serious revolution among the Mexican laboring classes. } These immigrants, it is stated, are j j mostly from the peon and from the . migratory labor class, from a region ( where agriculture and mining are i the chief employments. Work for i increasing numbers each year, it is said, has been furnished in the { f" mines, the cotton fields and in other , employment. { r - In most instances the bulletin f adds, these Mexican laborers are ( transients and on returning home ^ carry back a newer and higher standard -of living. The conclusion is j reached that under these circum- < | stances, Mexican labor immigration ^ is not likely to have much influence upon the United States except as it regulates the labor market in a , limited number of unskilled occupations and probably within a restrict- , c - ed area. ] Refused Hundred Proposals. , Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 11.? ] Levi Merrick Stewart, known as "El- ] der" Stewart, a millionaire bachelor, who celebrated his eighty-first birth- 1 * day yesterday, said that he had refused more than a hundred propos- 1 als of marriage during his life. He said that most of the would-be brides / he had turned down wanted his mon- ] ey more than they did his lote. ] * 1 rv" CARROLL ON NEGRO'S FUTURE, | [ Declares That His Prophecies of | Years Ago Have Been Fulfilled. J Washington, Dec. 14.?In the j opinion of the Rev. Richard Carroll, who has been in Washington twice during the past week, once paying a visit to the president, and being the only negro admitted to the Belasco theatre the other day when the president and Presidentelect Taft spoke, the outcome of the recent election will "be a benefit to the negro because it will take him out of politics; that is, he says, so far as the Southern negro is concerned. Carroll says he can now point to the fulfillment of his prophecies in this regard, which were to the effect thrft Taft would make a plea for the white voters of the South and would ignore the negro. Talking with me today, Carroll NAIil * Daiu "Mr. Taft's Southern policy as it has been outlined in his speeches since the election, proves that I am more of a political prophet than I have dreamed of. For the last ten years I have been noted as a man of 'visions.' As the Bible says, "Your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions." I delivered a lecture throughout South Carolina on 'A Vision of the Sunny South.' For ten years I have been telling the people that the Southern disfranchisement laws would* stand and that neither congress nor the supreme court would Interfere. I have also been teling them that the Republican party would as soon as possible unload the negro voters of the South, and that the negro had better give his attention to his development along other lines. Two months before election [ lectured in Calvary Baptist church In Columbia on the future policy of the Republican party towards the aegro in the South. About one ; month ago I spoke in the opera louse in Sumter along the same line. Now Mr. Taft's New York speech to the North Carolina society ' lustifies every word I have said for :he last ten years. "But his Southern policy will be . in untold blessing to the South. It will make two political parties, and !or the present neither one will ca:er to the negro vote. The negro will be relegated to the rear politi- j ?lly, but he will be benefited in the ] ma. Mr. ran s poncy win increase msiness in the South and help busiless enterprise, boom real estate md help develop the South, and the legro will be benefited in a financial vay if no other. "I'm glad to say that the negro rote has been divided in the North*, rhe masses of the negroes will no onger vote the Republican ticket; >ut while the negroes in the North nay continue to vote for one party >r the other and have their votes , counted, the colored people of the ' South will give their attention to the >ther things, for they are coming to ealize that they have not gained mything from politics." J Destructive Fire at Swansea. Lexington, Dec. 15.?A destructive J Ire visited the little town of Swan- i sea, in this county, early this morn- 1 ng, destroying several buildings and < causing a property loss of several ' ;housand dollars. The following ' juildings were destroyed with their < ;ontents: The Swansea Drug Com- 1 )any, J. W. and R. L. Librand, gen- 1 jral merchandise, Goodwin & Wil- ' iams, general merchants, the drug ] dor of Drs. Brooker & Brooker. 1 Senry Sharpe, beef market; M. L. SVilliams, grocery store; a restaur- i mt owned by J. W. and R. L. Li- < Drand, and the K. of P. hall. The ire was discovered in the office of J. ] 6V. and R. L. Librand, about 3 >'clock, and soon spread to adjoining < juildings. i Parker Buys Aetna Mills. 1 Greenville, Dec. 14.?At a meetng of the creditors of the Aetna cotion mills of Union held before Kef?ree Julius H. Heyward to-day the i creditors decided to accept the offer , )f Mr. Lewis W. Parker for the , property. , Details of the sale are not yet tnown, but a statement will probibly be made by Mr. Parker within ; i few days, stating for whom he , nought the property. , A Poser for Mother. Gustave Eberlein, the famous Gernan sculptor, said the other day in tfew York, that in beauty of face md figure the American woman ex- 1 jelled all others?that the American type of beauty approached almost ibsolute perfection. "In intelligence as well," the jculptor resumed, "the American croman excels. But now and then ' she has the defect of the intelligent ?she is over positive, she is overconfident. In that case I like to see tier taken down. "I once met a beautiful and brilliant American woman on shipboard. She talked splendidly, but she was very positive?positive, indeed. i " 'I am a good reader of faces,' . she said one day at luncheon. 'On < first sight of a person I form my 1 Dpinion of that person's character, md I am never wrong. I am positively never wrong.' " 'Mother,' her little boy called shrilly from the other end of the 1 long table, where he sat with his aurse. " 'Well, what is it, my son?' said the mother, indulgently. "And we all turned to hear what the little fellow had to say. " 'Mother,' he piped out, 'I want to know what was your opinion, < mother, when you first saw me?' "? New York Times. \ COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, Dec. 14.?Had a fine rain Friday night. Was needed, so the farmers say. Mrs. Eva Warren spent a day or two with Mrs. Jack Smith. Col. John F. Folk and wife spent Sunday night with her mother, Mrs. A. W. Ehrhardt. Rev. J. W. Ariail, the Methodist minister assigned to this charge, moved in last week. Mr. Jim Morris has some very fine turnips of the purple top variety. He sent us three, and each of them weighed three pounds. Rev. D. B. Groseclose will preach at Mt. Pleasant Lutheran church on Christmas day. All are invited. There will be communion at Ehr narat L?utneran cnurcn on me nrsi Sunday in January, with preparatory service on the Friday evening before. Mrs. Theacia Copeland died last week, and was laid to rest in Mt. Pleasant grave yard. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. D. B. Groseclose. Quite a crowd of relatives and friends witnessed her placed in her grave on Thursday morning about 11 o'clock. We will all miss her. Farmers are interested in trading and selling their cotton seed. Some prefer meal to seed, others prefer the seed?so it is and will be until the end of time. Successful men of different opinions as to which is of the most value as a fertilizer. JEE. School Entertainment at Olar. Olar, Dec. 14.?All the well wishers of the school of Olar are cordially invited to attend a Christmas entertainment in the high 3chool auditorium Wednesday, December 23rd, at 7:30 p. m. The exercises will consist of a Christmas Cantata and other selections by music and expression pupils under the instruction of Miss Lilla Quattlebaum. Reception after exercises. ' WM. M. OXNER, Principal. CASUALTY RECORD. $5,000 Killed and 2,000i000 Injured During Past Year. Washington, December 14.?'Between 30,000 and 35,000 deaths and 3,000,000 injured is the accident record in the United States during the past year among workingmen, according to a bulletin on accidents Issued to-day by the bureau of labor. Of those employed in factories and workshops it is stated that probably the most exposed class are the workers in iron and steel. Fatal accidents among electricians and electric linemen and coal miners are declared to be excessive, while railway trainmen were killed in the proportion of 7.46 death per 1,000 employees. The bulletin declares that much that could be done for the protection of the workingmen is neglected, though many and far reaching improvements have been introduced in factory practice during the last decade. It is pointed out that the possibilities for successful accident prevention have been clearly demon Btratea in tne experience 01 roreign countries. "Granting," the bulletin states, "that the underlying conditions in European countries are often quite different and that many of our industrial accidents may be the result of ignorance, recklessness, indifference, or carelessness, the fact remains that an immense amount of human life is wasted and a vast amount of injury is done to health and strength, with resulting physical impairment, which has a very considerable economic value to the nation as a whole." It is insisted that it should not be impossible to save at least onethird and perhaps one-half by intelli gent and rational metnoas or ractory inspection, legislation and control. THE STORY DENIED. J. Henry Garrison Has Not Gone to Penitentiary. Laurens, December 14.?The report in yesterday's daily papers that J. Henry Garrison had abandoned his appeal for a new trial and had already gone to the penitentiary to serve his sentence for the killing of J. Louis Williamson of the Bethesda neighborhood near Rock Hill, is erronous. ' This correspondent called today at the clerk's office and found that Garrison had not applied for commitment papers, which will be necessary before he could begin his sentence. Garrison was in Laurens Saturday. While it is understood generally, and the rumor is well founded that Mr. Garrison has abandoned his appeal and intends to Berve the sentence of two years imposed by Judge Memminger, he nevertheless has not taken any steps toward that end, and the correspondence from Rock Hill is an error. SANTA CLAUS IS REAL. "Old Tinier" Writes of the Friend of All Good Children. Kearse, December 14.?Only a few more days and Santa Claus will come with his sleigh loaded with toys and Christmas presents, driving his team of reindeer, their bells jingling at they prance and skip nimbly from home to home, bringing joy and gladness to many a little boy and girl, who on Christmas eve hang a stocking on the wall for old Santa Claus to place for each little tot what he sees best to give. What a pity so many of our little I folks doubt the old fairy, and the joy they lose by not hanging up a stocking for the old man to fill, and the keen delight on Christmas morning, crisp and cold, to jump out of a warm bed and run to see what Santa Claus left for them! Well does the writer remember with pride the pleasure of the happy time when old Santa brought him a nice pair of little black boots with red tops, placed by his stockings filled with fruits and candies to the tops. How he ran all over the place showing what he had received, and, joy of joys, the boots fitted to a tee! How proud when safely drawn on! How he looked at this foot, then on that; how he ran to tjie negro houses built on a line and forming a little street; how they all laughed and admired the little general as they called him! Yes, little folks, believe in old Santa, for it pays sometimes. Don't smile a sickly smile and say as some of the wise ones this age of materialism has produced, "I know," and by so doing lose many a pleasant memory in after years. Ask Ma and Pa and your school teacher about old Santa, and if they tell the little ones he is a myth and not a true old man, what then? Why they are an enemy of the old man and the little folks as well, and who are not their friends are an enemy of their race. Yes, little folks make ready for Santa Claus; talk and say good things about him for the next few days, and see if he does not come down the chimney and leave something for each of you. If you do not show your faith by hanging up your stocking, he will go by with perhaps a heavy heart to the next home; then see him smile as he gently goes down the chimney and on the wall he finds his little friend's stocking waiting for him. Don't be afraid as were two young men last week when they climbed on the top of a house just built and looking down the flues of a chimney, exclaimed: "Too small for Santa Claus to go down," for that made old Santa Claus mad and one of them took a slide and were it not for a scaffold below he would have gone to the ground, for small chimneys do not trouble him at all. Now, little folks, a merry Christmas and a big stocking full from old Santa Claus is the wish of your un Known rriena ul<ij timjuk. COULD READ WRITING. i Resented Action of Yankee in Writing Him a Printed Letter. [T. D. M. in Augusta Chronicle.] I have picked this out as very unique. It is clipped from an eastern paper. It was written by an old fellow down in the mountains of Kentucky to one of the largest woolen mills in New Jersey. It appears he does not like the typewriter letters sent him: "Jentlemen?I want you to understand that I ain't no dam fool when I bort that Bill from that red headed eagent of yours. He told me that you sent him all the way from cyncynnita to git that oyder. I thot he was lyin and I hort all my goods from the Jersey and he told me he sold the Jersey and would sell me just like he sold the Jersey. Now you writes me a printed letter and sez if I send you the munney you will send me the goods. I recon you will, most enny durn fool ud do that. I would not mind a Bit sendin the munney and risk gettin the goods, but when I recollect how you and your eagent done me I refuse to do it. If you would of treated me right and rit me letters in riting and not of sent me the newspaper printed letter like I was a dam fool and could not read riten I would have tuck the goods and pade the cash. Now I don't want no more of yore printed letters. I wont stand sich from no house. I am fifty-six years ole the last of next coming January and the , furst man has got to put my back on the ground yit. I may not. nay as mucii taming in grammar as you got but I can whip you or enny uther dam yanky that wants to try riten me a printed letter. "Yours truly it tt Another large cargo of salmon has been received in Charleston by direct shipment from the Pacific coast, the steamer Hawaiian, of the Hawaiian-American Steamship Company coming in last Monday afternoon with more than 30,000 cases, consigned to H. G. Leiding. It was only a few weeks ago that a cargo of nearly 60,000 cases was received by a similar direct shipment from Alaska, down the Pacific coast, over the isthmus of Tehuantepec and then up the Atlantic coast. The Hawaiian began to discharge her cargo Tuesday and with a large force of stevedores at work the salmon will be soon discharged and distributed among local dealers and shipped Into the interior States. * |IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The State Baptist Convention will meet in Anderson next year. A South Carolina fire Insurance company is to be organized in Greenville the first of January. The capital stock will be $450,000, and the organizers are prominent and wealthy business men of Greenville. A report reached Spartanburg that Col. T. C. Duncan, formerly of Union but now of Tennessee, had organized a company in that state and had purchased the Aetna cotton mills at Union. Col. Duncan was formerly president of the Buffalo and Union mills. A difficulty occurred in Lancaster Inst Sntiirrtav nieht between two young' farmers, Mr. Cleveland Gregory, son of the late Cicero Gregory, and Mr. Baise Steele, son of Mr. Reese Steele, in which the former used a knife, stabbing Mr. Steele in the neck. While the wound is serious, it is thought that the young man will recover. The trouble was about some turkeys. There is a considerable sensation on in Columbia just now over the pending investigationof the Seminole Securities Co., a concern whose assets seemed to have consisted chiefly of wind and alluring promises. Smooth fellows peddled the stock of this company all over South Carolina, and some mighty good business men got caught Some of the stock was sold to parties in Bamberg, so we understand. The plan of the concern we believe was to finance a life insurance company. Insurance Commissioner McMaster got after them, and now there is to be an investigation. BOOKER T. NOT RESPONSIBLE. Another Negro, not Washington, Secured Crurn's Appointment. Washington, December 13.?Richard Cairoll, of Columbia, to-day told The News and Courier corresnondent that Booker T. Washington had nothing to do either with Crnm's appointment or his recent reappointment as the collector of the port of Charleston, that statements charging him with influencing President Roosevelt in the matter were erroneous, and that another colored man of prominence and standing was responsible for the appointment. Carroll believes that because of certain publications in which Washington is charged with Crum's appointment, the former may get a cold reception when he goes to Charleston to lecture next month. He does not wish to give the name of the man who is responsible for the appointment, but would probably do so to protect Washington. HOT FEELING PREVAILS. Slayers of Druggist Taken to Savannah for Safety. Savannan, lia., jjecemDer ia.?oo intense was the feeling at Jesap, 6a., daring to-day and last night that, to prevent a very probable outbreak, Sheriff W. B. Lyens and his son, Archie, deputy sheriff of Wayne county, who killed M. Fleming Smith, a druggist, there Saturday night, were made prisoners by the coroner and hurried to Savannah for safekeeping. Men stood around the train with pistols in their pockets and tears of rage streaming down their faces. A small group of the sheriff's friends were prepared to stand by him at any cost, but the greater number of those at the depot were open in their expressions of anger because of the killing. It is declared that more than 20 pistol shots were fired at Smith, who was struck five times and then beaten down with the butt of a shotgun. Smith died in the arms of his fiance, begging her not to cry. A coroner's jury found that the sheriff and his son did "unlawfully and with mar.ce aforethought" slay Smith. STELL CAPTURED IN AIKEN. Constable Samuels Seizes "Tussle" Liquor and Apparatus. Aiken, December 13.?Constable Musco Samuels returned to tbe city Friday afternoon from the Wagener section, bringing with him a 16-gallon metal liquor still, which he captured on Wednesday six miles from Wagener, on the other side of the Edisto. The still, together with two barrels of mash, was found in the yard of Allan Jones, a white man. The still was covered up with sacks. A search of the house revealed a gallon of "tussic" liquor, a worm and cap for the still. No one was at home when the raid was made. The still was a small one and the indications are that is was used on the fireplace. This makes about the sixth or seventh still captured by Mr. Samuels in that vicinity recently. He is one of the most vigilant officers in the State and he is being warmly congratulated by the people of the county for his good work. He was assisted in this capture by Mr. J. Ray Gantt, the dispenser at Wagener. We are simply too busy to send out statements to subscribers, but we hope they will remember us just the same. FARMER'S HOUSE STORMED. Drunken Ruffians Shoot Georgia Woman and Assault Girl. Cartersville, Ga., Dec. 11.?That a band of drunken ruffians entered the home of J. A. Gibson, three miles from Cartersville Saturday night and perpetrated a series of dastardly outrages upon the members of that family, including the shooting of Mrs. Gibson and the criminal assault upon Lizzie Hardin, a 16-year-old girl, who lived with the Gibson family, la the substance of charges contained in warrants issued today for Bud Lanham, Steve Heath and Tom Col- y lier, three well known young men of this county. Lanham and Collier have been placed in jail, and efforts are being made to capture Heath. It is charged that the three men went to the Gibson home Saturday night, and after being refused admission, > one of them emptied the contents of a revolver into the house, one of the balls entering Mrs. Gibson's back and dangerously wounding her. The husband ran out to summon officers and the three men. it is said, enter ed the house with drawn revolvers, threatened the lives of Mrs. Gibson and her children and then two of the men dragged Miss Hardin oat of the house, and it is alleged assaulted v.% her. fa Following threats received by the Gibson family, who are in extremely meagre financial circumstances, 'P'ij Judge Fite today took steps to pro tect them. Indignation is high , against the alleged perpetrators of v the outrage. : WIDOW SEEKING PENSION. i; ; | Gave it Up Ten Years Ago Because She Wasn't in Need. . ' Detroit, December 12.?Having 'd voluntarily relinquished a pension of $8 a month ten years ago for no other reason than because she did. not feel she could conscientiously '?g say that she needed government aid, Mrs. Elizabeth Whitney, of Romeo, >;! Mich-, more than seventy years, is . now as King to De reswrtsu w iuq i . -. g2S pension rolls. - S Charles Myeates, a special pension examiner, is investigating the 4 case. Mrs. Whitney's husband, a civil war veteran, died in 1892, leav^ ? ing his widow with several small 'feff children. Friends and neighbors contributed funds to pay a mortgage : on her cottage home and in the early 90s the widow was granted a pension of $8 per month. ; In December, 1900, she stopped cashing the pension vouchers, despite the advice and dxplanationfe of friends, and her name was dropped .tv/J from the rolls. Her sons had grown up and were in a position to contribute liberally to the maintenance . J7*|| of their mother's home, while they now have families of their own. A tM TRAGEDY IX CHEROKEE COUNT* $gg| Monro Mize, of Ravenna, Shoots Hit Daughter's Husband. Gaffney, Decemoer 13.?une bum . ^ dead, one in jail, and two desolated families is the result of a tragedy which occurred at Ravenna, iir this county, about 3 o'clock this morn* ing. Munro Mize, who lives on Mr. T. G. Chalk's place, near Ravenna, is a fiddler, and was invited to go' to a dance at the house of William Reynolds to furnish music for the' ' occasion. John Gore, who married Mize's daughter, and who lived in the. house with Mr. and Mrs. Mize, ' v was also invited to attend with his banjo. Mr. Mize told The News and Courier correspondent that when he learned that Gore was to be of the party, he at first refused to go, as he knew there would be whiskey on the <jj5 premises, and that Gore was very i # quarrelsome when under its influ* ence. He allowed himself to be persuaded, however, and they went to- ^ the dance. Gore soon became in- ?!? toxicated and began fussing. Mize 'CI says that he stood it as long as he could, and finally left the house, Gore ; m following him, and that he (Mize) got away from him to avoid trouble, that, in going along a path, Gore m caught up with him and did cut his coat, whereupon he shot Gore, rHe thinks he fired three times. This ..|g,3 occurred near the barn of Mr. John fiM Fowler, who lives about one mile from Mize's .house. Persons who saw Gore's dead body say that he must have died instantly, and that only one shot penetrated his person, /> going through his heart. The coro- ' ? ner and the sheriff are on the scene conducting an inquest, but Mize i. 'M came, to jail with Mr. Wallace Thompson and was placed behind the bars by Deputy Sheriff Lipscomb. Mize's family consists of his wife and two children, both of whom are married. Gore had a wife and two children, one a babe in arms, and the .. other about two years of age. Persons who know Mize say that he is o.ie of the most peaceable men in the ? 1J Vina navav hafnro hpon In WUriUy All IX HOD UVTVA l/VWl V MW?* ,.Tr? any trouble, while the dead man had the reputation of ' being very disagreeable and combative while under the influence of whiskey. ? Tried to Lynch White Man. . V'J Danville, Ky., December 15.?A mob of a hundred men gathered at the jail early Monday and expressed the purpose of burning Elmer Hill, a young white man at stake but the authorities spirited the prisoner away befo/e the mob arrived. Hill 'M is charged with assaulting and murdering Nannie Womack, a pretty 12year-old girl and casting her body to wild hogs. The mob battered down the jail doors in the search for Hill. ?.L', M \ . V . ^