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* lamltprj iSipralfi i Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1909 One Dollar a Year ?^ I COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS, " News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. . Ehrhardt, March. 22.?Farmers are getting anxious about their fertilizers, that is those'that gave late orders. It seems as if the supply of kainit is about "Shipped out, and it iS too late to give orders for more. Several want to commence putting out their fertilizer and plant corn. Col. John F. Folk, wife, and ri*iiarhter. Louise, spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. A. D. Ehrhardt. ; Some talk of the memorial next month at "River's Bridge grounds. NO date has been positively advertised as yet. Sunday was a pretty day after the shower in the morning. The young folks had a promenade Sunday afternoon, telling yarns, etc., to each other. k Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Ehrhardt went up the country last Thursday morning,. returning'on'Saturday. Little Winston D. Copeland, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. D. Copeland, was buried in Ehrhardt cemetery on Friday of last week. The little fellow was about five months old. The bereaved parents have our sympathy in their bereavement. The fishing crew of last week don't say much about the fish they caught. .... . J + They taiR aDout meir riuct> UU lUti gasoline boats, so we infer that they could have ridden about nearer home and perhaps at less expense. They say, however, that they got enough out of the traps to eat while there. Mr. Eli Carter, Mr. Caleb Carter's father, died this morning. Will be buried at Hampton, S. C. He was about eighty years old or more?one of our old land marks. The family has the sympathy of their numerous ^ friends. JEE. News from Kearse. Kearse, March 22.?The Timrod Literary Society held its regular meeting last Friday evening. It being a pleasant evening we had a full attendance and several visitors. The following program was .carried out: Current Events?Mr. Quintus Brabham. Instrumental Solo?Miss Pearl Breland. Essay?Mr. W. H. Ritter. < Reading?Miss Sudie Ritter. Mr. W. H. Ritter's essay on "The Salkehatchie River" was much enjoyed by all. The constitution drawn up and 1 read by Miss Cresida Breland was adopted by the society. Now that we have at last gotten our constitution straight we hope for good order or a "fat" treasury. On next Friday evening, the 26th, the public are cordially invited to attend our meeting, begining at 8.30. The following program is arranged: ?Missps Vena. Pearl, and WV44Q ? , ? Cressida Breland. Etti? and Mell ? Kearse, Messrs. W. H. and G. E. Ritter, Merrick Kinard, and Horace Kearse. Reading?Miss Vena Breland. Music?By local band. Recitation?Miss Evelyn Brabham. Music? Debate?'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Affirmative: Mr. Stacy Kearse, Mrs. O. M. Chitty. Negative: Mr. H. A. Kearse and Miss Aline Kearse. * " Music? Play?Interupted Proposal?Mr. W. H. Ritter, Miss Leila Folk, Miss Vena Breland, Miss Pearl Breland, Miss Mell Kearse, Messrs. Ennis Breland and Stacy Kearse. We hope to have a full house on that occasion. Come and bring your friends. There is lots of sickness, colds and 'grip' in our community at present and plenty heavy rains. We were all glad to have Miss ^ Cressie Breiand with us again after several weeks of severe illness. Mr. Jno. F. Breeland, who has been very sick, is slowly improving. Colston Cullings. v Colston, March 23.?We had plenty of rain last Saturday and Sunday - and right smart of thunder and lightning with it. > Mr. G. C. Padgett and Miss Letitia Bishop were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Clayton last Sunday. Little Blanche Arant spent last Saturday and Sunday with little Ida Bishop. Mr. and Mrs. Joe C. Bishop and family, from Ehrhardt, were theguests of Mr. and Mrs. Abner Fender last Sunday. T J o T, rl Mr. J. u. JtYirK.1a.11u auu uiuiuci auu little sister, Hattie, visited Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Folk last week. Mr. Clyde Padgett and sister, Miss Leila, and Miss Annie Bishop visited I friends and relatives at Clear Pon? last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Fender visited their daughter, Mrs. Laurie Clayton, last Sunday. Miss Minnie Fender is spending some time with friends and relatives in the Ehrhardt section. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Rentz went to Bamberg Monday. A. L. B. A The regular meeting of the Loyal Temperance Legion will be held in the Sunday-school room of the Methodist church on Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Let there be a good attendance, and be prompt! A PROGRESSIVE AGE. "Old Tinier" Writes of Motor Cars and Other Things. Kearse, March 22.?Less than two hundred years have passed since the savage Indian with his bow; and arrows passed up what is now known as the Barnwell road, then a trail used by them going to and from the low country.' After him came the line of stage coaches with its driver in his box drawing the reins over lour to six horses with relays at certain places and the stage horn with its musical notes echoed through the miles of pine forests, and the frightened deer scampered away from its sOirndi with tiie packs of howling wolves to make the night hideous with their howls made tfay before the sturdy pioneer with his ox cart with his rawr hide traces, then the wagon, buggy and carriage, drawn as n rulp hv thA natient. mule, tueeine away through the deep sand with his load. Now, he too, will soon be a thing of the past?the sand covered with a blanket of clay and the horn of the motor car to echo in the pastures of the swamps along the line. Only last week a party came down this old historic road driving one. The first to use this road but not last, causing consternation all along the line. One old colored woman past eighty ran like a frightened doe until she met some one. Nearly out of breath she called in a wheezing tone: "Say, what de debil is dat ting, nohow. I'se ole, but neber see nutten lack dat befo. i declare to de lawd I neber been so scared. Sho, man, lemme git away befo dat ting come back." Soon all that will change, for they will soon be as common as wagons are now, only to be laid aside for something better, for this is an age of progress, only to be halted by the downfall of the people as a whole, and each era on the stage of life finds ways and means to suit the necessities of the times. Perhaps the time is not far off before a man can take his air ship after daylight and leave his home twenty miles from your town and eat an early breakfast, then do his shop ping, get back and do nearly a full day's work on his farm. Who knows? Soon this slipshod style of farming will have to go and a new regime rule. In fact, it is nearly here already, when a brighter day will dawn for the farmer, and his boys and girls will no longer look with longing eyes to some other place for better homes. Let the good work once begin and no one knows where it will end. We have many implements on the farm now, yet others are sadly needed. Some machine with power other than the mule or horse, that can go over fifteen to twenty or more acres in a day, a cotton picker, and many others before farming will be what it can and will be. is the belief of OLD TIMER. QUARTETTE AND BELL RINGERS. The Otterbein Male Quartette Company and Bell Ringers Has Been Secured for a Concert Here Next Tuesday Evening. Another treat in the way of music is in store for Bamberg. The Otterbein Male Quartette Company and Bell Ringers has been secured by the local lyceum management for a concert on next Tuesday, March 30th. The Otterbein is considered one of the best male quartettes touring the country to-day, and is certainly the most expensive that has been booked here under the present management. It was only possible to secure them because they had an off night in this section. Here's what the Bristol, Tenn., Herald says of them: "The Otterbein Male Quartette, admitted to be one of the best quartettes in the country, rendered sevlections that brought forth hearty applause. Finer voices have never been heard in this city and they harmonize perfectly." Dr. T. Byron Caldwell, pastor Tabernacle Baptist Church, Syracuse, N. Y., writes: "'The Otterbein Male Quartette Bell Ringers greatly delighted a large audience at the Tabernacle Baptist Church. The company is composed of real artists. In every song there is life and action, as well as sweet music and perfect harmony. They are simply great. The solo work was excellent. As a reader and impersonator, Mr. Engle greatly excels. He kept his audience in a roar of laughter. The bell ringing was superb, and proved to be one of the most pleasing and entertaining features of the evening. Again and again they were encored, the audience seeming never to lag or tire or get enough. Should the Otterbeins come again to this city, a most enthusiastic reception awaits them." Tickets for this concert at regular rates?50 cents. A full house should greet them. Thirteenth Census Will be Taken This Year. Washington, March 18.?The first piece of legislation acted on by the house during its special session was a bill providing for taking the thirteenth census, which was passed. In its present form the measure gives to the civil service commission jurisdiction over the appointments and provides for the printing of reports by the government printing office. As enacted last session, the bill stripped civil service commission of such authority and there is a provision allowing some printing by private concerns because of which President Roosevelt vetoed it. A further amendment is made whereby the appointments will be apportioned pro rata among the States. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs Ahont Men and Happenings. Sumter county has already contributed $309.75 to the fund to erect a monument to the women of the Confederacy. ... .. * James McDowell, a young white man of Greenville cojunty, has been missing for ten days./ When last seen he had $100 jn his pockets and it is feared he has met with foul play. C. C. Featherstone, Esq., of Laurens. has been aDDointed sDecial judge to preside at the Abbeville term of court, in place of Judge Prince, who is ill at his home in Anderson. A solid train of strawberries and other early fruits passed through Columbia the other day,en route North from Florida, via the Southern. The cargo was in charge of the Southern Express Company. Governor Ansel has refused to pardon Pat Carroll, a white man of Charleston, who was sent to jail for three months for contempt of court. Carroll was enjoined from dealing in liquor by the supreme court. A fine mare belonging to Willie (Coot) Johnson, a colored farmer of Lancaster, died of what is supposed to be hydrophobia! Several supposedly mad dogs have lately traversed, that community, but the mare was not known to have been bitten. Johnson is quite unfortunate, having lost a good mule by drowning, last fall. Congressman George Legare, of Charleston, has gone to New Mexico for the benefit of his health. He is suffering from tuberculosis, and it is doubtful if he will ever again occupy his seat in the national house. He has been one of the most valuable representatives this State has had in congress in recent years, gifted, popular and energetic. KIDNAPPED CHILD RESTORED. Willie Whitla, of Sharon, Returned to Anxious Parents. Cleveland, Ohio, March 22.?Little Willie Whitla, who has caused the police of the entire country endless worry since he was kidnapped from school in Sharon, Pa., last Thursday, was returned to his father at the Hotel Hollenden at 8 o'clock tonight. In compliance with an agreement entered into between the kidnapped boy's father and an agent of the kidnappers here to-day, the boy was placed on a street car on the outskirts of the city and started to the hotel shortly after 8 o'clock. Two boys, G. W. Ramsey and Edward Mahoney, recognized the lad on the car and taking him in charge, conducted him to his father, who was in waiting. The boy wandered about the hotel lobby unannounced for several minutes, asking bellboys for his father, before the latter knew his son was in the foyer. The moment the anxious parent heard that a strange boy was in the hotel he rushed across the lobby, grasped him in his arms and smothered his face with kisses. An attempt had been made to disguise the lad. He wore a pair of smoked glasses and a large tan cap, which was pulled down over his ears, and the father said it would have been difficult to have recognized the boy in such garb had he passed him on the street. In Perfect Health. Willie is in perfect health. He says that he has been well treated and ever since his capture has been constantly indoors. He believes he was taken from Sharon to Warren and thence to Newcastle, Pa. It is his opinion, expressed in a happy school boy way, that he was in Ashtabula on Saturday night at the time his father was to leave his $10,000 in Flatiron park. Whitia senior refused to state whether he had paid the ransom or not. He said that he received a letter to-day from the kidnappers at his home in Sharon, saying that if he called at a confectionery store in the east end of Cleveland he would be told how to secure his boy unharmed and "well fed." Shortly after noon he left Sharon for Cleveland. He was unaccompanied. His immediate family and the private detectives he had in his emDloy he apprised of the pro posed secret meeting, but insisted that he make the trip alone. Everyone of them was warned that he must be allowed to go unheralded, and no attempt at the capture of the kidnappers now be made. Whitla was certain that if he spoiled the plans of hils son's captors to-night he would never see the lad again. His experience at Ashtabula served as a warning. About 2 o'clock this afternoon he went to a candy store in the east end. With him he carried the $10,000, expecting that it would be demanded of him there. He was met by a woman, who detailed to him the terms of the kidnappers. With all the eagerness of a distracted parent, Whitla agree 1 to them immediately. Detectives in his employ say that he paid the money, but on this point the father declines to commit himself. Half an hour later he returned to the Hollenden hotel and awaited his son. See the new ad. of C. R. Brab-J ham's Sons in this issue. They have the nicest stock of furnishings for J men in the town, and the ladies can j also be suited there. SHERIFF AND SOX GUILTY. Georgia Jury Convicts Father and Son of Murder. Jesup, Ga., March 20.?The jury in the Lyens murder case returned to their room at 2:20 o'clock this aiternooa and after being out one hour and five minutes returned'.with a verdict of guilty with a recommendation to the mercy of the . court. Judge Parker at once passed a life sentence on Former Sheriff WV B. Lyons, and his son, Archie. The defendants in the case stood on their feet with Attorney James B. Thomas between them and received the sentence in silence. Almost universal satisfaction prevails and excitement is not so high as at one time. This is the biggest case ever tried in Wayne county. Excitement has been higher during the progress* of this trial than at any other time in the history of the county. Every inch of ground was contested. Fund to Prosecute.' The , men . were indicted for the murder of Fleming Smith/ on December 12th, of last year. The case which ended to-day was called for trial Tuesday morning of this week, about two days were consumed in getting a jury. This was because of the long list of subscribers to a fund for the prosecution of the case which made it hard for jurors to qualify because of relationship. A day and a half were consumed in getting in the evidence and the argument began at noon yesterday. Judge R. E. Dart, of Brunswick, opened the case for the State. He was followed by Dave M. Parker, a local lawyer, who opened the case for' the defense, then Col. L. L. Thomas spoke for the defense, followed by Col. W. W. Bennett and Solicitor General J. ti. Thomas, then spoke for the State. The leading counsel for the defense, Col. James B. Thomas, then closed, and ex-Solcitor General John W. Bennett closed for the State. Many Women Attend. A great many women and children attended the trial all the way through and interest and excitement never subsided until the verdict was reached this afternoon. Attorneys for the defense made a motion for a new trial. It will be hoard at- WnvornsR fia.. Mav 8th. be fore Judge Parker. At Trinity Sunday-School. V Next Sunday afternoon will be known as Temperance Day at Trinity Methodist Sunday-school, and the exercises will be filled with interest for everyone, young and old; little and big. Whoever misses the session of the school will miss something worth while. The Loyal Temperance Legion, under the supervision of Miss Bessie Lee Black, will render some special music and recitations bearing on the practical side of this question. Parents are especially invited tp be present. Last Sunday was Missionary Day, and the program was carried out. with that single idea in view. Mis sions was the tbeme, ana several papers were read giving information on the subject of one of the greatest missionaries of modern times, Dr. Young J. Allen. The exercises were taken part in by some fifteen different people and the singing was participated in by practically all present. A special offering for missions was announced and this will be brought in on Sunday. The beautiful little badges bearing the words "Trinity Sunday-school" have proved to be quite popular, and the children especially seem to like the idea. On Sunday, the 28th, another beautiful design will be presented to those making an offering to missions. The Sabbath-school is growing rapidly. The bone fide enrollment is over the two hundred and thirty-five mark, and is increasing. The average attendance is about one hundred and seventy-five, but often the two hundred mark is reached. Following is the program for Temperance Sunday: Opening song?"Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel"?by choir. Responsive Reading?by school. Prayer?by the pastor. Roll call of teachers, j Song?"Where There's Drink There's Danger"?by Legioners. Recitation?"Vote As You Pray, Brother"?by Carey Graham. Song?"Sing a Song of Prohibition"?by Legioners. Lesson. Reading?"Character Study of Hon. Neal Dow"?by B. L. Black. Recitation?"Never Make Friends With the Drink"?by Marie Ducker. | Song?"Some Glad Day"?by! choir. Report of secretary. Song?"Be Brave, be Steadfast, and be True"?by Legioners. Closing song?"Crown Him King of Kings"?by choir. Dismiss with Sabbath-school prayer. Come, friends, one and all! Let your presence be an inspiration to those especially who take an active part. Won't you come with your monies, ready to give to the master for this noble cause?the effort to forever drive out from our State the abominable legalized liquor traffic? Senator Smith's CommitteesWashington, March 22.?Senator Smith received his committee assignments to-day and is exceedingly well pleased. He is on the agricultural committee, upon which he was most anxious to get. He goes on the newly created committee on "conservation of natural resources." His other committees are immigration, patents, geological survey and examination for several branches of civil service. i THE COOPERS CONVICTED. RIGHTEOUS VERDICT OF JURY IN CARMACK CASE. Given Twenty Years Imprisonment. Appeal Was Taken and Bond Given. : Nashville, : Tenn.,? '^larch 20.? Guilty of murder .in the second degVee?punishnlent of 20 years' imprisonment?was the unexpected verdict rendered by t}ie jury against Col. Duncan B. Cooper and Robin J. Cooper when court opened to-day. The jury yesterday acquitted John D. Sharp, indicted with the Coopers for the slaying of Former United States rr* Txr oeua.IUI Hi. yy . vyaiuiav.iv. Everything moved ; swiftly from the moment' the verdict was rendered. Immediately the defense moved to set it aside because of the verdict of- disagreement of yesterday and asked the court to declare it a mistrial. Judge Hart said he would listen to argument on this motion later, probably next week. ..He then fixed the defendants'/ bonds at $25,000 each. Although Judge Hart fixed the bond at $25,000, there was a rush to sign it on the part of wealthy citizens of Nashville, which fairly swamped the clerk of the criminal court. In vain he protested over and over again that more than enough sureties had signed, but the invariable answer was, "We want to put our name on that bond too." It seemed as though every friend of the Coopers; considered it incumbent upon him to sign the bond. When there was no more room for names at the foot of the document, the new bondsmen indorsed it across the face until it was difficult co decipher the signatures. When filed the bond totaled nearly $1,500,000. The Coopers returned to the jail this afternoon late afid removed their personal effects. For the present Col. Cooper will make his home with Mrs. Burch and Robin will return to his old quarters with his uncle, John C. Bradford. To-night the father and son retired to the home of Judge J. C. Bradford and discussed the next move in the case. Large Crowd Present. Various and insistent rumors that the jury had agreed were responsi ble for a crowded court room this morning and for the presence of attorneys on both sides long before the usual hour fot convening. " As soon as Judge. Hart entered court and after he removed his coat he ordered the defendants and the jury brought into court. "I understand they have agreed," he remarked to the press table, "and am sending to see." In almost a moment, at 9:25, to be exact, the 12 men entered the room and took the same seats they have occupied for nearly nine weeks. "Have you agreed upon a verdict, gentlemen?" asked Judge Hart. "We have," replied Foreman E. M. Burke, hoarsely. "Advance, Mr. Foreman, and read the verdict." "We, the jury, find tne defendants, Duncan B. Cooper and Robin J. Cooper, guilty of murder in the second degree, and assess their punishment at confinement in the State penitentiary for a period of 20 years." "So say you all, gentlemen?" "So say we all," in chorus. "I thank you, gentlemen," said the court, "for your patience and devo tion to the State and dismiss you to your homes and to your personal employment." At the conclusion of this remark the entire 12 sprang from their seats as one man and hurriedly left the court room. The verdict, coming as it did upon the heels of Foreman Burke's declaration yesterday "that we are hopelessly tied up as to the Coopers," was a decided surprise. The defendants took it coolly?almost without emotion. In a second after Judge Hart ceased dismissing the jury, Judge Anderson, of the defense, was on his feet exclaiming: Hold It a Mistrial. "Your honor, we believe that the case should be declared a mistrial because of verdict; we contend' that yesterday's verdict was the only one, and that it acquitted John Sharp, but declared a disagreement on the other defendants. We also ask that the defendants be admitted to bond at once." "The verdict of the jury makes it a bailable case," was the court's retort, "hence I will fix the bond of each at $25,000 unless there be some objection. In that event I will hear argument." "It is satisfactory to us," said Attorney General McCarn. 0 "And to us," retorted Judge AnHprsr?n "There seems to be nothing left but for the court to pass sentence," added Judge Hart. "I do not think that necessary," said Judge Anderson. "We move that judgment be suspended and that we be given a new trial. We will be prepared to argue the motion later ?probably next week." "All right Judge," remarked the court. "I know you will not delay unnecessarily and I will take it up at your own convenience." "Bring in the bond book," said Judge Anderson. It was brought and the defendants signed the bond and returned for a few minutes with their relatives and friends to the room they have occupied in the jail building. As the verdict was announced Mrs. Burch and Mrs. Wilson, the (Continued on page four 3rd col.) FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER. Alleged Slayers of Perry Ussery, at Barnwell, Convicted. Barnwell, March 20.?After a trial lasting three days Quitman Johnson and Ferdinand Grubbs, charged with the assassination of Mr. W. Perry Ussery here last November, were today found guilty of murder, a recommendation for mercy for Grubbs accompanying the verdict. The case has caused widespread interest throughout the trial, and at all times the court room has been crowded to overflowing. The State put up about thirty witnesses and made out a strong case. Solicitor Byrnes conducted the case in an able manner and was assisted by J. A. Willis, Esq., and J. Emile Harley, > I Esq. The defendants were represented by A. H. Ninestein, Esq., and R. P. Searson, Jr., Esq. The counsel for the defense was appointed by the &?! court The two most interesting witnesses were the co-defendants. Each claimed that he knew nothing of the shooting, but happened to be la 4 Barnwell on business and was ao- ? % companied by the other. Johnson claimed that Mr. Chester Kennedy, a y? young white man, who, previous-to the Ussery killing, was shot up by . r Mr.^ Marvin Holland, at Dunbarton, said he did the shooting and got the wrong man, as he wanted Holland. Grubbs stated that Johnson told him that he did the shooting for Mr. Chester Kennedy. After, hearing the testimony and argument by counsel the jury retired and returned in about one hour ' * % with a verdict of guilty of murder, -.3|g but with a recommendation (or Jgg mercy as to Grubbs. Sentence was -Vv not passed on the prisoners to-day. Much credit is due Mr. J. A. Willis, . 0 mayor of Barnwell; Supervisor J. B. Morris, Sheriff Creech and other of- , ficials, together with Mr. H. N. Kflman and Mr. W. G. Hilliard, of the Pinkerton detective force, in ferret" ing out the case and bringing the I-j^MB guilty parties to justice. The verdiet meets with general approval. hitttuiv /Mr nm?CTT\Wfr X II ili.HA.l Ull XlA*rlVJQOll/CJll At Expresses Opinion of Roosevelt In Characteristic Style. Augusta, Ga., March 20.?Senator :''Z?SeA Tillman was in 'Augusta a short while to-day passing through on his '^;*S way to Trenton. He .took occasion >!?zj while here to pay his respects to t^e ^j|M retiring president in his character- ; istic style. Mr. Tillman said that Mr. Roosevelt was a decided failure and ^ that he had collected much data to show that Roosevelt had no regard ^ ftrr the truth, but he would not in- f|| troduce the same at the last moment -->f| because the people would say he was doing it out of malice. ? J Mr/ Tillman was very much worried over the manner in which the Democrats bolted at the opening of ' Vi';J the extra session. He said: "Those fellows ought to be beheaded when they appear for reelection. They >v:if will, not do to be classed with the ' ^ Democrats of to-day. We had the situation in our own hands, but threw it down." Mr. Tillman has a very high re- .vya gard for Mr. Taft and says that he ^ will do much to restore "quiet" in ^ j-3 the White House. While talking of the acts of the ex-president, he worked himself up 7 M to a high point and some of his pitchfork sayings were brought into v %J| use. STABBED BY SON-IN-LAW. * | Mrs. J. W. Easter!ing Probably Fatal* Iy Wounded Defending Daughter. Waycross, Ga.f March 22.?Mrs. J.. . vjl W. Easterling lies dying at her home in Pierce county from the effects of injuries inflicted with a 10-inch dirk knife by her son-in-law, J. D. Hendry. Hendry married Miss Macie Easterling nine months ago, the couple moving to the West. Mrs. Hendry returned to the parental roof a few . | days ago, and entered suit for divorce. Hendry appeared at the 7 7^ Easterling home to-day and attacked Mrs. Easterling, it is stated, because she defended her daughter. , Hendry escaped to the river swamp, where he is being pursued by* a posse. Feeling runs high against the man, as Mrs. Easterling belongs to one of the most prominent families of Pierce county. The deed is described as particularly atrocious. . Shooting Affray at Piedmont. Jack Fisher was shot and probably >; fatally wounded at Piedmont Satur- V7 r^crhf hv r D. Chastain. The uaj uifjin ?. shooting occurred near the mill village and according to Chastain resulted from a general row. Both men are mill operatives. According to Chastain, who was . . % lodged in the county jail Sunday night by Sheriff Poole, Fisher and some other fellows were in a fight and he attempted to separate them. I Fisher, he claims, then turned upon him as did the others and he was [forced to shoot. Fisher's condition is considered critical by the physicians and little hope is entertained for his recovery. He was shot through the head, the bullet entering near his nose. Chastain is about 28 years of age and Fisher is said to be about the same age. The former did not seem to be worried over the affair when seen at the jail yesterday. He said that he harbored no malice towards the wounded man and was sorry that he had been forced to shoot. Expressed the hope that Fisher's wounds would not prove fatal. Chastain made no effort to escape after the shooting.?Greenville News. 1 ' I