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ESTABLISHED 1865 - --- - _ .BERRY, .. C.T irn.n nn ., I nI TWICMT E A WUSD RK.. EECMBE A TR A nzvnv AIp.p L ur LYNCHED TOGETHER. THE MURDERERS OF W. K. JAY, NEAR TROY, ABBEVILLB COUNTY. Negroes Captured While Attempting to Escape-They Died Accusing Each Other of the Crime--Account of Murder and Lynching. Greenwood, Dec. 27.- Will K. Jay, one of the most prominent young farme:e of the Troy sction of this county, was foully mura.,red in his own yard Friday evening between 6 and 7 o'clock by either Oliver Wide man or his wife, two negroee living on his place. Both negroes were made to pay the death penalty for their deed by an infuriated crowd of Mr. Jay's neighbors and friends. From all accounts, many of which differ, the following is offered as the most nearly correct of how the kill ing occurred: Mr. Jay lives in a new house about three and one half miles from Troy. This place has never been inclosed and the negro cabin formerly occu pied by the negroes is within about 25 or 80 yards of the residence. Mr. Jay was returning to his house after attending to some business in the neighborhood and when close to his house he heard the negroes making considerable disturbance in the cabin It seems that the man was abusing or - fighting his wife and she was both quarreling and resisting. It. was to stop this disturbance that led Mr. Jay to their home, which as stated, is only about 30 yards from his own house. On his arrival he ordered the negroes to be quiet-that if they could not be quiet they could not stay on his place. Immediately after this Mrs. Jay, who was in her house heard the report of a gun. She ran to the door and looked out and saw the two negroes, man and wife, running away from their cabin. Calling to them, she asked what was the matter, but the negroes made no answer and kept on running. Fail ing to get any response from them she called loudly to her husband. There was no response. She was then wild with fear and began look. ing over. the yard, and in a short while found him dead in a pool of his own blood. Almost his entie head had been blown off. Death was instantaneous. The alarm was at once given and the immediate neighbors ruhhed in. The news of the horrible murder spread rapidly. Carriages st'arted in all directions. A telephone fur ~nished the news to Troy and nearby towns, and the whole country for muiles.around was soon being literally scoured for the murderers. A party of men coming towards the place from a section of the com-i munity a few miles near Mr. Jay's home, met two negroes in the road, a man and a woman. The party did not know the negrues, but arrested t.hem on suspicion and carried them back to the place of inquest. They were the guilty ones. When exam ined both acknowledged th deed, but accused each other of commit. ting it --the man said the womfan did it and the woman said the man did it. They neyerschanged from this, but died acdusing' each other of the crime. The gun with which the murder was committed was carried to old Bill Wideman's house, the father of therman, and left there while the two starte4. .out in flight. They wvere going towardeEdgefied ~ when caught. Afier the inquest the t wo negroes were turned over to the constable, who started to jail with them At the Winterseat bridge they were stopped by a crowd of infnriated friends and neighbors and lynched. The lynching occurred about miid. night. The burial of Mr. Jay will take place at Tray tomorrow at 11 o'clock. A number of friends and members of, the Masonic fraternity will go down from Greenwood to attend~ the fu neral. Mr. Jay was a prominent Mason. He was worshipful master of Stone wall lodge of Tray, A.' F. M., and was also 'a member of Greenwood .ohant&. No 27 II A.. Her- e sentea bonewall lodge in the grand lodge of South Carolina, and for two years had held the office of grand junior warden in that august body. Mr. Jay was a nephew of J. S. Jay of this city. He was a son of D. W. Jay of Troy. He married some years ago Miss Eva Mullinax, of Troy. She with four little children are left to mourn his untimely death. JAY's FUNERAL. Greenwood, Dec. 28.-The burial of W. K. Jay took place at Troy to day with Masonic ceremonies. The funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. H. B Blakely of the Associate Reform Presbyterian church. Over a thousand people were present. Further details today of the mur der and lynching only confirm yes. terday's story in the main. It is stated that the negroes had been or dered to move by Mr. Jay and had been grumbling about it sometime before the killing. Mr. Jay had made them quiet down, and about sundown was talking to Dr. A. W Wideman and Tom Charles, neigh. bors, about the installation of offi cers which was to take place in their lodge on the following night. Dr. Wideman says he noticed the unruly temper of the negroes and suggested that they stay with Mr. Jay. Mr. Jay did not anticipate any trouble and they left. They had not gone a mile from the house before the mur der was committed. The story of the capture of the negroes is interesting. Messrs. Seig ler and John W. Cailes were hurry ing to the scene of the murder when they met a negro man and woman in the road. They did not know who had killed Mr. Jay, but thought it prudent to halt the two negroes. As they did so-the man said: "I'm not scared of anybody." This remark strengthened the suspicions. When ordered to turn ,round and go back the man refused and the woman be gan to cry. They were forced to go at the point of the gun. Mr. Siegler had only one shell in his gun and Mr. Cailes was not armed. The ne groes did not attempt to break away although at one time Mr. Siegler stumbled and dropped his gun. At first the negroes denied to their cap tors that they knew anything of the murder; the man said he had heard of it. Just before they reached the place they confessed in a way, the woman accused the man and the man aocused the woman. At the inquest the woman stopped nrying and seemed not at all alarmed. After the inquest they were placed in the house they had foruwerly occu pied and a deputy was appointed to bring them to jail. When he went to get his prisoners the house was empty. A volley of guns not long after told what had happened. The two wet-e carried to the Winterseat bridge over Hard Labor creek and given one last chance to tell which had fired the fatal shot. Both refused, still accusing each other. Tbey were tied to two trees standing close to gether and literally, shot to pieces. The spot is very near that on which seven negroes were shot to death in 1876 for the. murder of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon. . *. Several years ago Tom Pgrrin, a wh.ite farmer who lived alone, was. knocked in, the head by, a negro for the purpose of robbery, and although the negro was caught he was ac quitted at Abbeville when put on trial. The people of the community seemed t.o feel that the courts would again fail to punish and they did not choose to run the risk of allowing the perpetrators of so horrible a mur der to go unpunished. JUDGB BUCIHANAN'S FUTURE. Will Probably PractIce Law at Washing ton--Has Niot DefinItely DecIded. [lNews and Courior] Columbia, December 27.---Judge 0. W. Buchanan was in Columbia to. day on business, He is as yet unde cided where he will practice law, but he has his eye on Washington and will go to that cit.y to look over the field. He would much rather re main in South Carolina, he says, hut he thinks the opportunities are bet ter at the National capital. He has not positively decided to settie there, however. Tih PRBSIDEnS' WIVBS AND AMOTHERS. Bill Arp Gives More History on This Inter" esting Topic and Other Themes. (Atlanta Cgnetitution.) Dr. Conway is right about Jaages Madison's mother, She was NeW. Conway and not Fanny Taylor, Fan. ny was his - grandmtil.,. But , the, good doctor is wrong about Thomas Jefferson. He did not marry Miss Martha Skelton, for she was a widow and her maiden name was Martha Wales, as I said. Neither did An drew Jackson marry Miss Rachel Robards. She was not a miss, but a divorced wife and her maiden name was Rachel Donelson. Jackson had to marry her twice in different States to comply with the law. Of course George Washington married the widow Custis. Everybody knows that. It was the typo that made it Curtis. Dr. Conway says that Mil lard Filnore never married. He is mistaken. His first wife was Abi gail Powers and his second was Car. oline McIntosh. It is singular how many of the Presidents married wid ows. Madison's wife, Dolly Payne, was a widow Todd. Her maiden name was Dorothy Coles. I reckon we will get this matter straightened out after a while. Mr. Thaxton of Tennessee, writes me that the full list of mothers and wives can be found in the" Worid Almanac" for 1894 Friend Thaxton is not mad, but he is grieved that I said Johnson's par ents wEre too poor and ignorant to be named in the biography. That was not my assertion, but was a bit of sarcasm on the compiler, who makes special mention of their pov erty and lack of education, and re cords that Andrew and his mother and stepfather moved from Raleigh, N. C., to Greenville, Tenn., in a two wheeled cart drawn by a blind pony, but does not give their names. Mr. Thaxton says his wife's father was an own cousin to Andrew John. son,aid Andrew's mother's name was Mary McDonough. Who did Mary marry the second time? The bio graphy in Appleton was written by James Phelan, editor of The Mem phis Avalanche, and seems to be very fair and favorable to Johnson and his wife and children. It says that Johnson's father died when An drew was only four years old and Mr. Thaxton says his mother had many more children. Mr. Phelan says that Andrew.learned his alpha bet on the tailor's benoh, and his wife, Elisa McCardle, taught him to read. My friend Thaxton says that he did not know that poverty and ig norance were tied together. As a general rule they are. That second husband must have been both shift. less and ignorant if he couldn't pro vide any better transportation for his wife and stepson than a two wheel cart and a blind pony. for a long journey. If Mr. Thaxton was to see such a cavalcade as that com ing down the big road now he would say that poverty and ignorance were tramping along together. Bnt this much we have learned from Mr. Thaxton-that Andrew Johnson's mother's maiden name was Mary Mc Donough. All honor to him who rose from poverty and obsourity and all honor to his devoted wife and to his accomplished daughter, Mrs. Patterson, who presided so worthily in the White House. And Roosevelt married twie that's right! He ought to have a good woman at his elbow all of the time. I reckon he must have been a widower when he wrote those sland ers against Jefferson Davis and the people of the Sonth. I am still wait inig for him to re'tract and to apolo gizo. But now he is a candidate and is scheming for the solid Northern vote and the S>utniherni negroes thrown in, he won't retract. If he is to be elected President, I want Miles to be coupled with him on the ticket for vice president. 'The champion chai ner and the champion defamer ought to be0 aired. One to work on live men anud the other on dead ones. And bore is a letter from Mrs. Lucy Harrison Gay Whitfield, of Siddonsville. Ala., who informs me that William Henry Harrison's moth. or was Elizabeth Bassett. She is Mrs. Whitfield's great great great grandmother and was the wife of Ben Harrison, who signed the Declaration of Independence. His mother was Anne Carter, an aunt of Robert Lee, I believe that supplies all the miss iug links. I've been enjoying some rich and racy reading-the reply of Horace Greely to the committee who sum moned him to trial for signing the bail bond of Jefferson Davis that re leased him from prison. There were twentyone who signed it, but Gree by was the first and the only Re publican abolitionist. He volunteer ed to do it and did it willingly, go. ing from New York to Richmond for that purpose, and it raised a howl all over New York and New,England. The Northern extremists demanded that Mr. Davis be tried and hung for treason, or for the assassination of Lincoln, or for something or any thing, so he was hung. Greeley be longed to the Union League Club of New York, a powerful organization, and they were'outraged and enraged at his signing that bond and cited pim for trial. His reply is a long one and some parts of it are most delightful sarcasm. "You say you will give me reason sble time for reflection. I want none por shall I attend your meeting. It is not my habit to take part in any discusion that may arise among oth ?r gentlemen as to my fitness to en joy their society. That is their af. fair, and to them I leave it. No, I shall not attend your meeting this evening. I have an engagement out of town and shall keep it I do not recognize you as capable of judging me. You regard me as a weak sen timentalist. I arraign you as a set of narrow minded block- heads, who would like to be useful,- but don't know how. Your attempt to base an etlcluring party on hate and wrath is like planting a colony on an iceberg that had drifted into a tropical sea. The signing of that bail bond will do more for freedom and humanity than you all can do though you have to the age of Methuselah. I ask nothing of you but that you proceed in a frank, manly way. Don't slide off into a -cold resolution of censure, but make your expulsions. Make it a square stand-up fight and record your judgment by yeas and nays. I dare you and I defy you, and I pro pose to light it out on the line I have had ever since General Lee's surren der. I give you full notice that I shall urge the pardon and reenfran qhisement of all those engaged in the rebellion and those now in exile." Well, they did not expel him nor censure him. They were afraid. The pamphlet to which I have heretofore alluded is now ready. It contains Henry R. Jackson's great speech on the "Wanderer " and Daniel Web ster's speech at Caron Springs, Va., the last and greatest he ever made. There is also a brief biography of Qeneral Jackson by Joe M. Brown and a few remarks by myself. There is enough in this little pamphlet to establish the faith and stimulate the pride of every Southern man. Ac cording to Jackson, the South was not responsible for slavery, and ac cording to Webster we were justified in seceding. And so the Northern saints were in the wrong for violating the constitution and precipitating that most unrighteous war, and ought to make apolog'y and restitu - tion to us. They owe to our people millions and billions of dollars. They owe to me right now $20,000 dam ages, and if Roosevelt don't retract and apologize, I think I will attach his trunks and his bear guns when he comes in reach, Hie did niot do the stealhng, but he is an accessory aftrr the fact, and that is is just as bad. Now, I have no interest in the sale of that pamphlet, hut I want every young man and woman to have one. The price is only 25 cents, postpaid. Apply to my friend, Ed. Holland, Atlanta, Ga, care of Franklin Print ing Company. But I have a book in press-a new and handsome hook-my Inst and best. It contains my letters rumina tions from the uncivil war to dlate 1861-1903 Price, postpaid, $1.25. Write to C P. Byrd, Atlanta, Ga. Bill Arn. THE HEROISM OF A WOMAN. The Honor of Her Husband's Name Greater Than All Bise. A Confederate soldier. belonging to the Army of Northern Virginia, was on trial before a Military court for desertion. His name was Ed ward Cooper, and when he rose to plead he answered " Not Guilty." The judge advocate asked, "Who is your counsel ?" He replied, "I have no counsel." Supposing it was Cooper's purpose to represent him. self before the court, the judge advo cate was instructed to proceed. Every charge and specification against the prisoner was sustained. The prisoner was then told to in troduce his witnesses. He said, "I have none." Aktonished with the calmness with which he seemed to be submitting to what he regarded as inevitable fate, the judge advocate said to him; "Have you no defense ? Is it possible that you abandoned your comrades and deserted your col ore in the presence of the enemy without any reason ?" He answer. ed, "There was a reason, but it will not avail me before a military court." The jur'ge then said: "Perhaps you are mistaken, you are charged with the highest crime known to military law, and it is your duty to make known the causes that influenced your actions." For the first time Cooper's manly form trembled, and his eyes swam in tears. Approaching the president of the court he present ed a letter; as he did so, "There geni eral, is what did it." General Bat. tle opened the letter, and in a mo his eyes illed with tears It was pass ed from one to another of the cour. until all had seen it, and those stern warriors who had passed with Stone. wall Jackson through a score of battles, wept like children. As soon as the president rpcovered his self. possession he read the letter as the defense of the prisoner. It was in these words: "Dear Edward-I have always been proud of you. Since your con nection with the Confederate army I have been prouder of you than ever before. I would not have you do anytling wrong for the world, but before God, Edward, unless you come home we must die! Last night I was atoused by little Eddie's cry ing, '0, mama, I am so hungry!' And Lucy, Edward, your darling Lucy, never complains, but grows thinner and-thinner every day, and before God, Edward, unless you come home we must die. "Your Mary." Turning to the prisoner, Gen. Bat tie asked, "What did you do when you received this letter ?" He re plied: "I made application for a fur. lough, and it was rejected. I made another application and it was re jected; a third time I made applica tion and it was rejected, and that night as I wandered backward and forward in the camp thinking of my home, the wild eyes of Lucy, looking up to me, the burning words of Mary sinking in my brain, I was no long. er the Confederate soldier; I was the father of Lucy, and the husband of my Mars, and I would have passed those lines if every gun of the bat tery had been fired on me. When I arrived home Mary ran out to meet me, and embraced me and whispered: '0, Edward, I am so happy; Iam so glad you got your furlough'* She must have felt me shudder, for she turned as pale as dleath, and catch ing her breath with every word she said: 'Have you come without your furlough ? 0, Edward, go back! Go back! Let mno and the children go down to the grave together, but for heaven's sake save the honor of your name;, and here I am, gentlemen; niot b)rouight here by military power, but ini obedidnce to the command of Mary to abide the sentence of your court." Evary oficer of the courtmartial felt the force of the prisoner's words. Before thorn stood in beautiful vision' the pleader for a husband's anid a father's wrong; but they had been trained by the great leader, Rtobert E Lee, lightning flash scorched the ground beneath their feet, arid each in his turn pronounced the verdict, "Guilty." Fortunately for humanity the p)roceedings of the court were re viewed by the commanding general and upon the record was written: "The finding of the court approv ed The prisoner is pardoned and will report to his company. R. E. Le, Gna l." TWENTY-EIGHT KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK. PACIFIC EXPRESS RUNS INTO FREIGHT AT WANSTBAD, ONTARIO. Believed to Have Been Due to Telegraph Operator's Error-Heroic Work of the Uninjured Passengers to Rescue the Wounded. London, Ont., Dec. 27.-The most frightful railroad accident in the i nnala of the past decade hap. pened a short distance from the little station of Wanstead, on the Sarnia branch of the Grand Trunk Rail. way, last night. The trains in col. lision were the Pacific express and a freight. The express was nearly two hours late and was making fast time. The freight was endeavoring to make a Riding to get clear of the express, but failed by a minute or two. There was a dreadful crash, the loeomotives reared up and fell over in a ditch, the baggage car of the express telescoped the smoker and in an instant the shrieks and cries of the wounded and the dying filled the air. The loss of life is twenty. eight. The injured will number considerably more, and many of these may die. Many of the dead were terribly mutilated. Heads were cut off, legs wrenched from the bodies and the level stretch of snow became crimu sot with the blood of the victims. The responsibility for the accident has not been definitely fixed, but it is believed to have been due to a tel egraph operator's error. There was not a house at hand to which the injured could be carried. Fortunately, however, the two Pull. man cars on the train did not sue tain any damage. They were warm and comfortable and were converted into a temporary hospital. The in jured were placed in the berths and everything possible to ease their suf ferings was done. The dead and wounded are nearly all from Onta rio, a few being from Chicago and places in Michigan. The Pacific express, which was late and endeavoring to make up time, was made up of two Pullman cars, two day coaches and two bag. gage cars. The engineer opened wide his throttle as he pulled out of Watford at 9:58 o'clock. A bliz zard was raging and the air was thick with swirling %now. The train was crowded with people returning from holiday trips. No. 5 was running fully fifty, miles an hour through the blhzzard, when at the Wanstead siding the headlight of the freight engine loomed up through the snow. It was impossible to see a hundred feet ahead becausq. of the snow, and the trains crashed together almost be fore the engine crews realized that a collision was imminent. The im pact threw the two engines clear of the track on the right hand side. The two day coaches of the ex press were bet ween the heavily loaded baggage cars and the weighty Pullmans. With a terrific grinding crash the rear baggage car was driven into the front coach for three fourths of its length and in a twink ling a score of the occupants were dead aind two score more were pinned down in the wreckage and mangled The horror of fire was mercifully spared the suffering persons buried in the wreck. A little flame broke out, but the uninjured passengers extinguished it with snow before it could gain any headway. The occu pants of the two Pullman cars and the second day coach swarmed out of their cars to the rescue. A per. feet bedlam of noises greeted then.. The hies of escaping steam from the wrecked engines mingled with the piteous cries of the unfortunates pinned clown in the ruins. The bit. ter cold wind and snow added to tbeir sufferings. Volunteer rescue parties were Immediately formed and did heroic work. Meanwhile a brakeman had rushed tl brough the storm to the telegraph office and notified both London and Sarnia officials of the accident. Re lief trains with surgeons and wreck. ingr cars were on their way -tn the scene from both P' ds of the divisiotn in the shortest possible time. W i1li they were steaming at grcateat;pee. the work of resene was carried .a by the uninjured passengers. They delved into the heap of debris and, guided by the moans and cries, found the sufferers, pried and chop, pod them out and carried them to the two Pullman cars, which were trrnsformed into temporary hospit. als. Tenderly the wounded forms we " carried tW the bQpital cars and giv en what attention was possible be fore the surgeons arrived. There was scarcely any water to be had, and the volunteer uufees melted quantities of snow, with which they slaked the feverish thirst of the suf fering. DBLINQUBNT TAXPAYBRS. Most ot Those Who have Been Waiting For an Extension Have Now Paid up. [News and Courier.) Columbia, December 27.-Gover. nor McSweeney announced to-da) that taxes had been paid in about sufficient amount to guarantee that there would be no trouble about meeting obligations the first of next month. This would indicate that those who have been waiting for an extension have paid up though sugb is not the case in Richland. The county treasurer has charged up for coll'- tion $158,000, and of that amount only $45,000 has been paid in. The treasurer says the only railroad that has paid in this county is the Coast Line. The State Treas urer understood, however, from a leteter from the Southern, that its taxes had been paid in all the counties, but the amount due here had not arrived up to this time. The Department of Commerce. (Augusta Chronicle) In the president's message there was a recommendation in favor of the proposed Department of Com merce to be presided over by another mem1"er of the cabinet. There seems to be no sufficient amount of work in the immediate field of commerce for a governmental department, and the friends of the measure are foraging on the other departments, trying to capture a bureau here and there with which to furnish the empty halls of the new department. The Springfield Republican says of it: "The measure which has passed the senate andt is now before the house reveals no natural demand for such a department. It reflects the necessity of creating such a depart arbitrarily,if it is created of a respec table size andl comsequence. It has had to skirmish around among tue other branches of the executive ser. vice and seize a bureau here, a com. mission there, and a board in some other place. And the existing do. partments, thus robbed, one and all protest. The treasury department ob. jects to the taking over of its bureau of statistics and bureau of navaga tion, since they have become closely interwoven with the customs work of the treasury. The commissioner of patents objects to the transfer of that office to the proposed department, an d the secretary of state objects to any plan of divided departmental jurisdiction over the consular service. And so it goes all along the line of the raid through existing depart ments to gat her togather a depa.rt. mont of commerce. "This means simply that no need whatever is felt to exist for the new department, in the executive service of the government as now organized. Shall one, then be arbitrarily created nerely for the sake of providing a new cabinet office to which the pres ident may appoint his excellent pra vate secretary, Mr. Cortelyou ?" It has been published, whether by authority or not, that Mr. Cortelyou is slated for this new cabinet port folio, but it is perhaps a litle ex treme to charge that the department is being establi,bed for the purpose of fixing a place for Mr. Cortelyou. lBut without going to this enlrem.i we may challenge the need for the department. It is true t, at ouroom merce has grown to mammoth pro. portions, but judging fron the onu. willingness of the present depart ments to surrender a bureau, there is no insuperable reason why the work of the proposed department of commerce cannot be dlone in one of the department.s alreay existim.