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bVOL LIV WINNSBORO. 8, C., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1899. NO. 6
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THE WAGES OF SIN."
A Young Man Ends His Life Rather
than Face Charge.
WAS ACCUSED OF STEALING.
As an Officer Was About to Arrest
Him He Placed a Pis
to! to His Breast
and Fired.
> J. Horace Wood, aged seventeen,
x shot and almost instantly killed himself
Wednesday night at about 8 o'clock
in the office of JR. G. Dun & Co., on
the second floorj}f the j'Erchange bank
building, Macon, Ga. The young man
? chos~ death rather than the disgrace of
arrest on the charge of stealing about
$20 worth of postage stamps.
Wood was formerly employed in the
office, but was discharged early in August,
having worked for about fivp.
months as clerk. Prior to his discharge
the number of postage stamps used in
the office had increased to such an extent
as to cause first surprise and then
suspicion ou the part of the local man.
ager Mr. Logan Douglas. Suspicion
pointed to young Wood but nothing
fixed upon him until last night.
After his discharge the stamps continued
to disappear too rapidly to be
accounted for on the score of letters
mailed. The watchman of the bank,
Warren Mosely, was notified and last
night Mr. Douglas himself decided to
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waccn ioruie tmei.
He was seated at his desk in a corner
of the office without a light and the outer
door locked when someone came up
the elevator and walked to the door,
called to ask if anyone was in Mr. Doag_
las made no reply. The visitor then
knocked and said that someone downstairs
wanted to see the chief clerk. He
I received no reply and immediately af
terwards Mr. Douglas heard a key turned
in the lock and Horace Wood entered,
passing through the railing and approaching
the stamp drawer he saw Mr.
Douglas, who rose and said;
"Well, Horace I have you now."
"Yf>s Mr. Dnnffla*/' answered the
I boy, "you have me now.':
Mr. Douglas, troubled because of the
discovery which he has more thaD half
expected to make, asked Wood what he
out to do with him.
"I don't know," he replied.
"I have no right to ask a favor of you
but if you will overlook it and say nothing
I will leave town tonight never to
return.
"Rnf Mr Termor! oa fnlrl him tTlflf', hp.
must pay for the stamps he had abp
stracted and asked him if his father
would not pay for them, but to this
proposition the boy would not listen.
He said that he had rather die than
- have his father know anything about
it.
At this time Mr. Clem Steed, the
f lawyer who has offices nearby, appeared
and ?Mr. Douglas told him the discovery
and asked Mr. Steed to go to
the window and call a policeman.
Mosely, the watchman, who says he
saw the young man go up the stairs was,
iiowever, in waiting ana entered tne
BP office. Mr. Douglas told him also, aad
together they talk the matter over.
Finally Mr. Doudas told Mosely to
take Wood to the barracks and he would
meanwhile see what could be done
about it.
As Mosely approached Wood drew a
pistol from his pocket and said:
"T'll ?d if vnn ever take me to
the barracks,"
At the same time holdidg the weapon
in front of his breast and pointing towards'Mosely.
The watchman spoke gently to him,
edging up close, and when within reach
tried to knock the pistol down, but as
he did so "Wood turned the weapon on
himself and fired.
The ball entered about the region of
the heart. Mo?ely seized him and
walked with him down the passage towards
the elevator. After a few steps
the unfortunate youth tottered and
sank .in the officer's arms, exclaiming:
"I am done for, tell all my folks good
bye."
In a few minutes afterward he died.
The body was taken to Wood's under
taking establishment.
Young Wood was the son of Mr. J.
W. Wood, a most respected man, who
i3 well known by the business men as
eminently trustworthy and highly respectable.
He has been employed by
the Central Railroad and now holds a
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r position ot trust witn tne jbiod Jianufacturing
company.
The young man has been ^.little wild
and since his discharge by the Dunn
^^ompany he has been out of employgraHfnent.
War and Tobacco.
It sounds almost ludicrous in these
enlightened days to hear of a church
body whech denounces the use of tobacco
as wicked and sinful and proposed
to enforce an ancient church blue
law against th*; weed. Yet there was
considerable row in the Methodist conference
at Newport, Ky., the other day
because several of the ministers were
reported to be users of tobacco. There
- isn't any question about the chewing of
B tobacco being a filthy habit, and the
jjL smoking of cigars being a costly one.
Killed bv a Spider.
The Pacslet correspondent of The
r State says: '"Mrs. John Kirby who last
I Wednesday morning while putting on
her shoes was bitten on the toe by a
? small brown spider. Her sufferings
onrl oil
M were uiuii rAuiuuouu^ uuu
fi medical skill, she died Thursday morn[
ing. Her remains were laid to rest ia
W the Baptist cemetcry Friday, her pastor,
Rev. S. A. Nettles, conducting the
funeral exercises.1'
Will be Pardoned.
* The Paris correspondent of the London
Daily Chronicle claims to have good
authority for the statement that Drey?
fus will be pardoned although President
Loubet will not exercise his prerogative
until after the meeting of the council of
revision. He adds that Capt. Beauvais
and Maj. Breon were the only two members
of the courtmartial who voted foi
acquittal and it is was Capt. Parfall
who insisted-upon the^proviso regarding
extenuating circumstances.
TROUBLE IN THE CAMP.
The Leaders of the Grand Old Partj
Can't Ae^ree.
Senators Hoar, Wellington and Mason,
all Republicans, are openly opposed
to the Hanna-McKinley expansion
business. And now comes Senator
Foraker and announces against imperialism.
He has written a letter to
Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow, of Connecti
cut and the minister makes it a basis
for a sermon. We are informed that
this letter contains a confidential intimation
that he will head the anti-imperialist
wing of the senate ia the next
congress and being intended for publication
is a semi-official announcement
of the senator's position on this main
issue of the nest national campaign.
With the opening of the session he will
find the first gun. The letter closes
with a hearty note of commendation for
^"L - ? ? ?1- ? ~i n 4- / ?
lae wurik. wmju Litis uccu iu m\,
cause of anti-imperiilism by the Economic
Club, and declares in underscored
type that the senator "is with the
cause."
'A special point is made in Senator
Foraker's letter of the appeal which
Isabel Artacho, former partner of
A Vioo f.rt thp AmPTl
can Republic, Artacho, who is spoken
of as a man of wealth and influence,
has ju-t taken an oath of allegiance to
the Uaited States government. He
protests that he has always been a loyal
citiz-n. He rails at what he characterizes
as :the mean and spurious affectation'
of the leaders of the present rebellion.
He declares that tb( United
States alone can restore peace and prosperity
to the islands.
' 'Behold, what an honorable ally
the president has taken to himself,'
argues the senator. 'Isabel Artacho,
the meanest man the islands have ever
produced, as little as Arnold without
Arnold's fire. Since the American occupation
of the city he has - passed in
and out as freely as before. Doubtless,
he had his useful sides. Bat that he
should be brought forward as a-clincher,
that his simple statement should be
thought sufficient to blacken the character
of the man, who, whatever may be
said of him, is still making a pretty
stiff fight for his country?this is laughable.
There were to be had at aay time
during our own war for independence
50 Tories who would swear before the
.British parliament that Washington
was a mere self elected usurper, leading
a handful of atrociously merciless
banditti. Artacho's evidence lis worse
than useless.
This government welcoming a traitor
was more than Foraker could stand.
In old days, the senator was very fierce
against southern "Rebils." He is now
on the warpath against his own party.
Members who are bringing reproach
upon the constitution, the Union and
the flag.
A Brutal Parent.
Beckville, Panola County, Texas, is
excited over a triple tragedy. James
Forsythe, a highly respected young
man, and Ollie Simpson, a belle of the
neighborhood, eloped and were married
Saturday night. When Andrew Simpson,
the girl's father, learned of the
wedding last evening he started after
the couple on horseback. As he rode
up to Forthe's home he saw his son-inlaw
fleeing through the orchard. He
brought him down with seven buckshot
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in tne groin, leaving niui j.ur ueau.
King EL Forsythe, father of James,
came out of the house unarmed to see
what the trouble was, and was instantly
killed with a load of buckshot in
abdomen. Simpson then dismounted
and ran into the house with hi3 pistol,
saying he would kill his daughter, but
voucg Forsythe's mother seized-and
held his pistol until the girl escapedSimpson
then walk out and put the pis.
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toi to 111s loreneaa, Killing mm sen instantly.
Young Forsythe may recover.
Business in Beckville is suspended on
account of the tragedy.
Great Demand for Yarns.
A Boston dispatch to the Ntw York
Commercial asserts that cotton yarn
manufacturers are having in their way
"the same kind of boom as the producers
of pig iron." That is, they are
getting mere orders thaa they can possibly
fill, even by working overtime,
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and in many instances aouoie time.
'They are overwhelmed with contracts,'
the dispatch goes on, / 'and are quoting
prices which equal those at which similar
goods can be imported, and are refusing
orders in many instances." One
manager of many years' experience says
he never saw the mills pushed as they
are at present. Nevertheless the price
of raw cotton remains very, very low,
because spinners do not have to pay an
advanced price to get what they want,
being able to get it at their own price.
Most Bloody Murder.
Mrs. Jane Barber and her two sons,
Wilfiv and Levi, were murdered bv un
knotfn robbers in a cross roads station,
six miles from Pieasanton, Texas. They
were killed with a hatchet, their heads
having been smashed to a pulp. A sack
containing $100 in silver was secured by
the robbers. Foot tracks in the sand
indicated that there were three men
implicated in the crime and that they
left in the direction of San Antonio.
Runners have been sent to all parts of
the county and a close search has begun
for the murderers.
Texans Won't Visit Paris.
Judging from the preliminary movement
being made in different places in
Texas, the State will boycott the Paris
exposition as a result of the Dreyfus
verdict. A movement has already been
set on foot in Galveston and San Antonio
to secure pledges from the people to
stay away from the exposition and a
similar movement has been started in
Austin. Reports from north Texas are
that ^similar movements are working
there.
The Leading Names.
British census reports of family
names give for England and Wales
253,GOG Smiths, 242,100 Joneses and
Williams, Taylor, Davies and Brown
following in order. For Scotland,
Smith leads, followed by McDonald,
Brown, Thompson, Robertson, Stewart
and Campbell. Murphy is ahead in
Ireland, there being 62,000 of them;
then come Kelley, 55,900; Sullivan,
43,600: Walsh, 41.700: Smith, 37,000:
O'Brien, 33,400; Byrne, 33,000; Ryan,
32.000; Connor, 31.200; O'Xeil, 29,100,
and Reilly 29,000.
" LIES, BASE LIES,
That Is What a London Concern is
Telling on the South.
A SCURRILOUS DOCUMENT,
The Howard Association Caps the
Climax of a Series of Libels
on the Southern
States.
The Howard association, of London,
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a concern engaged in circulating aeiamatcry
literature about the southerc
people, has recently issued a documenl
whicn cap3 the climax in a series of
wholesale noeis or me conim sia?.cs.
The fall text appears below:
The noble spirit of sympathy, with
the victims of Spanish tyranny in Cuba
and the Philippines, which has lately
been manifested by the great nation of
the U cited States, has successfully removed
an incubus which had long
weighed terribly on those splendid islands.
May it now be hoped that a
similarly humane feeling will as determinedly
grapple with a stili more extensive
form of oppression in the southern
portions of the United States themselves?
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JUariDg tne past year tae nowaru association
has on various occasions received
from nhose southero states very
grievous accounts of cruelties inflicted
both upon prisoners and others of the
colored race, and, in particular, in the
convict camps and chaingangs, where
a shocking condition of affairs exists.
There are comparatively very few
prison buildings in the south. Offenders
are chiefly leased out for open-air
work to contractors or bidders, who pay
for their labor so much a head to the
state or couaty, and then become absolute
masters of such Drisoners, so that
the taxpayer is entirely relieved from
the burden of criminals, who actually
become a source of large revenue to the
state and to individuals. This may at
first sight seem to be a great advance
upon the general systems of the north
and of Europe, which are so costly to
the community. Bat in reality the
lease system produces the most terrible
sufferings and fatalities to many thousands
annually.
It is practically a revival of slavery,
and on a very extensive scale. In Florida
public sale of convicts (most of
whom are Negroes) occasionally take
place, when they are sold by auction to
t-ho fnr various periods
up to four years. Usually the sentences
in the south (on colored perple),
even for minor offenses, such as stealing
eggs, are for very long periods.
There are several classcs of leased
convicts. Firstly, those under -the immediate
supervision of the state, in
camps, or farms, corresponding somewhat
to British convict establishments.
These, though open to grave objection,
are comparatively free from the grossest
evils, and have of late years undergone
considerable improvement in several of
the states. Secondly, there are the
county camps, which are worse. And,
lastly, and worst of all, theie are the
numerous gangs farmed out to private
sub contractors or bidders, who in
many cases "sweat" their victims to
death by excessive labor, wretched food,
brutal violence and the grossest neglect
of sanitary reqairements. And, of
course, religious and moral obligations
are utterly ignored in most instances.
Tn f>ip nrisons of the northern
states, as in New York state (at Elmira),
Massachusetts (at Concord Junction
and Sherbone), Illinois (at Joliet
and Pontiac), Ohio (at Columbus), Minnesota
(at Stillwater) and in Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Rhode Island and other
states, the reformation of the prisoner
is, at least, earnestly attempted, and
often successfully achieved. But in
the southern camps and chaingangs it is
the very reverse.
The "captains" employed bythesubconcractors
are often of the class depicted
in "Legree," in "Uncle Tom's
Cabin." Their conduct to the female
convicts is indescribable. A large number
of illegitimate births take place in
these camps. The wretched children
born in them are, in some instances,
permanently retained as slaves. And
the breeding of such has become au
avowed purpose, at least in one state.
Woe to the women and girls who are
sent to such camps! Their life is and
must be an inferno. Men and women
frequently run away and are then chased
with bloodhounds and guns?those
killed being sometimes registered as
"escaped."
The colored population furnishes
about nine-tenths of the southern con"
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considerable portion of them are either
quite innocent or are panished by long
sentences for the most trifliag offenses,
are frequently on merely trumped-up
charges. It is to the interest of the local
officials and contractors that the
number of convicts should be as large
as possible and their detention as prolonged
as it can be made.
A very sad feature in the chaingangs
n i *n i_ .
is the cumber ot young cnnaren beiu iu
them. A leading philanthropist of
Baltimore, Mr. G. S. Griffith, president
of the Maryland Society for the Protection
of Children, wa3 pained to find in
the gangs so many children from nine
yearsof age and upward! In one of the
better class of chaingangs in North
Carolina He found fifty-five prisoners,
including three women and one boy of
> eleven years of age. And he says:
"These, men romen and boys all sleep
under a tent 70x24 feet." This promiscious
and most demoralizing association
of the various ages and sexes, by
day and night, is the usual feature of
the private camps, and sometimes even
' of the state establishments.
! Judee Candler, of Georgia, says:
'\My experience is that when a boy i:
sent to the chaingang, lie is ruined.'1
Judge Berry, of Atlanta, says: "I have
; seen too many cases where boys have
been ruined by being sent to the chaingangs."
Then what must it be foi
girls?
Fearful brutalities are perpetrated bj
, the ''captains'' in the lonely remote
places where many of the gangs are located,
as in forests and mines. Sometimes
convicts have been flayed alive!
On one prisoner's corpse forty injuries
were found. He had been literally
beaten to pieces. Another had been
disgustingly dismembered by kicks, and
there was a great hole gaping ir
his side. A young white girl oi
17 years, after being repeatedly outraged
by the officers of a camp, flee
? to the woods. She was overtaked bj
* bloodhounds, her clothes stripped ofi
and she was then flogged in the presence
of jeering men. Another pooi
I <rit-1 similstrlv treited. cave birth to a
child, but both mother and offspring
were speedily relieved by death. Women
and girls are - habitually subjected
to the grossest indecencies andcxposur5
es. In one camp was found a woman
who had had seven children whilst there,
and another had had six there. And
such cases are legion!
Christian America sends hundreds of
missionaries to Asia and Africa. But
is there not a vast mission field for effort
and influence?
The states of Mississippi, Arkansas
t and the Carolinas all need great reforms
; in this matter; but especially Florida and
' Georgia. Their forest turpentine worss
and their phosphate mines are often awful
spots morally and physically. Loul
isiana is making some special efforts at
, improvement. Alabama and Texas are
*\a*hor\n vva+fa-r f.vion "farm^rl tr vpf, o
JJ\ZlJLLO>yO k/vWtVl wuu u v* wv* AJ . A v. W
! prison chaplain in Texas writes to tbe
Howard association (189S): "Practically
there has been no advance in the least
system of our convicts. It can only be
i an evil."
The Howard association has also received,
in connection with these sad aci
counts of southern camps and chaingangs,
much information showing that
they form but ?ne portion of a still vaster
system of oppression of the colored
race generally in the southern states.
The voice of Missions (Atlanta, December,
1898) contains a long and terrible
; indictment of the white race for the
: treatment of the colored people since
1865.
It says: "The Cuban war and its results
and the Armenian massacres are
nothing when compared with the thirty
years of 'whitecapping,' chasing by
bloodhounds, murdering, burning at the
stake, lynching, flaying, swindling, robbing,
defamation of character-injustice,
false imprisonment and oppression
which the colored people of Atlanta
have passed through and are still undergoing.
This year 300 have been lynched
and murdered by our white Christian
friends, and no voice but our own weak
cry has been raised in protest." Many
Negroes were shot by the white Democrats
in North and South Carolina dur
ing the November elections of 1898.
Recently, aldo. many uaoffending colored
people have been driven away from
their homes and farms in the south by
violent and covetous white neighbors.
The same journal complains of the silence
of the pulpit, both north and
orvnf-Ti rocnf?of.incrt.Vipse fivils. and re
marks that even the United States supreme
court at Washington has always
turned the scale against the colored
race. Also that several of the southern
states have disfranchised the JNegroes
by wholesale, in violation of the federal
constitution, whilst returning them
all as voters for the purposes of their
own proportionate represanlation in congress.
It is known that some prominent
politicians and legislators at
Washington have made large fortunes
as convict contractors.
In The Richmond Planet (Jnly 23rd,
1S98,) a bishop is quoted as saying:
"Enough colored men have been lynched
to dsath to reach a mile high, if
laid one upon another, and nearly as
many more women and children to make
a simizar pile."
These lynchings are defended by
many persons on the ground of their
necessity for protecting white women
from Negro assaults. No doubt occasional
crimes of this kind have been committed
by them, but they have been
immensely outnumbered by similar outrages
by whites upon the females of the
| weaker race.
The colored people have need to clear
themselves from complicity with such
crime and also to cultivate more honesty
and truthfulness. Nor can they expect
to be much respected until they
manifest more seif-respect and become
less characterized, as a people, by their
everlasting grin and giggle. Lord
Chesterfield said: "I never knew a
'Merry Andrew' a respected man."
Bat the colored people are too often such
fools, and until, as a race, they manage
to make themselves both respected and
feared, they are not likely to get the
instlfp whifih is due to them. Buffoons
will be despised.
I /en the aggregate of the lynchings
is very smajl in comparion with the enormous
mortality of the convicts in the
camps and chaingangs. Whereas in
English prisons the death rate is under
7 per 1,000 per annum, it ranges in
these camps from 75 to over 200 Tper
1,000 yearly.
The Voice of Missions mournfully remarks:
'There are no advocates of human
rights in the United States todav.
Charles Summer is dead, Abraham Lincoln
is gone, "Wendel Philips, Wm.
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Loyd Harrison, i redenctc .uougias ana
Harriet Beecher Stovre have all passed
away: aodwith them went the last great
advocates of humm rights." This complaint
is, however, too pessimistic.
Yet even the Society of Friends
(Quakers) in America, once the foremost
champieDs of the negro, through
their J. G. Whittier, Thomas Garrett,
1 t " t ___ n?rc_
Isaac n. nepper, juevi v^uuiu, X lauwo
T. King and other good men have of
late years become strangely silent and
apparently apathetic as to the oppressed
race.
However, a people of twelve millions
. ought no longer to be mainly dependendent
upon, or looking to others for their
own protection. They must now chiefly
> turn to schemes of self-help or remain
; oppressed.
i An American correspondent of the
Howard association writes (lS99):"The
Negro trouble has become so great that
I fear the difficulty can never be set'
tied but with blood."
1 The problem is indeed a vast one and
of pressing import to the United States,
: both north and south. Is the ChrisJ
tianity of that great nation to remain
impotent for the solution? Are the
* colored people to be driven to what now
1 appears to be their only means of re
lief?by selfhelp, through imitating the
methods of their adversaries in the formation
of secret societies and powerful
' and compact organized unions for de:
fence and offense? Is it only thus that
they can-make themselves what they
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muse De, someaow?respeutcu auu icm!
ed as a race? But what else are they
i to do unless the white race bestirs it'
self for other efforts than continuing
i oppression?
There are nearly twelve million coli
i ored people in the United Stal
F They are increasing in numbers, in
telligence and in wealth. It is sta
! that more than half of them can n
r and that their property is worth eigl
^ million pounds, or four hundred mill
dollars. The idea of emigrating snc
' multitude is utterly visionary. T1
i must be dealt with in America its<
; Nor is foreign interposition for a i
ment to be thought of. Such a mu
fiia nro r>11 lrn 1T7 fn nilf nn with t.h
i>uu& aig uui> ixbl\*AJ vv jj/uw u p imvb WU
oppression indefinitely. Nor on;
i they to.
Must it be left again to the comp
sion of national disaster to solve t
great problem and so to bring about
' suits which may far better and far m
effectually be secured-by volunteer 1
manity and peaceful wisdom?
SWEPT BY A CYCLONE.
Mticli Damage Done to Private a
Public Property.
A cyclone swept over Bermuda
land Wednesday night. Houses wi
blown down and others were unroofi
Ihe storm raecd the whole night,
lives were los^ but heavy damage v
done to public; and private proper
fruit and cedax trees. The cause*
was badly injured and the governing
home was damaged. The storm v
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me wursL jLuuyni tucic oiuuc iuu uui
cane of 1880. In fact many of the
habitants say it exceeded tne gaie
1880 in violence. Information fn
the dock yard says the damage dc
there is very seriou3. < The breakwa
is badly damaged. Oa Ireland a
Boaz islands everything is moie or 1<
injured. The damage is roughly es
mated at ?100,000. At Somerset
the boats and small crafts were destr<
ed, the trees demolished and houses x
slated, or otherwise dtmaged.
Prospect Camp the damage is estimal
at ?3,000. More than half a mile
the causeway connecting the mainla
with St. George's is totally destroy*
It will cost ?12,000 to ?15,000 to
pair it. News from St. Georges rece
ed by a whale boat says serious dams
has been done there to trees, hous
etc. All the boats have been destrc
ed or are badly iojured. Reports fr
outlying parishes are slowly coming:
They all show there has been great?
straction of trees and serious injury
houses and other property. Bat, so i
as can be learned here, there has be
no loss of life. It is a curious coin
dence that the great gale of 1839 occ
red September 11 and 12 and this ?
on September 12 and 13. No corn
estimate of the amount of damage
private property can at present be <
tained, but it will be fully ?100,000.
DON CAMERON'S ANGER.
It Caused Him to Pay $850 for Wh
r
ping a Jewish Merchant.
viia a^amatj n??r?or<s1 "Rollim
YY ULUC .XJLCCIVA VftVsuw***
was in Bjaufort this '^eek he made
argument in a case of unusual intere
Some time ago Don Cameron sever*
horse-whipped a Jewish merchs
named David Schein, whom he char?
with selling liquor to Negroes up
his preserves near Beaufort. Sch<
brought suit against his promin*
chastiser for $10,000 damages. 1
jury after hearing the case in det
rendered a verdict f:>r $850 in Schei
favor. The jury was composed entir<
of white men. Mr. Thomas Talbird a
Attorney General Bellinger represent
Schein and the latter drew a vn
word picture of the introduction
French methods a la Dreyfus in Sou
Carolina. Messrs. Elliott & Elliott r<
resented the distinguished defendai
The story of the affair was to the i
feet that Mr. Cameron while drivi
along the shell road headed for the (
pot came across a crowd of Negrc
who seemed to be drunk and they ye
ed at him. He then came across a 2*
gro who had rented some of his pre
erty to Schein; he gave the Negro
whipping and then drove up to Scheii
place. He got Schein in a fence c<
ner, driving his buggy and horse
that a pen was made. Then he charg
Schein with selling the Negroes liqu<
and proceeded to whip him with ]
~ - /? - n_ j?
buggy whip, scnein was nnauy iorc
to tear away [some palings before
could escape the lashes of his assa
aot's whip. This is the story as heai
Schein brougnt suit as stated abc
? J L Jowoiroa A f f-Vip fimp
&I1U sPOc/u uv.?v
the whipping it is said Mr. Camer
told Schein to leave the neighborho
and he did as ordered.?The State.
(Jets an Old i
Col. Jas. H. Tillma.- .f South C;
olina, a nephew of 5 * '.tor Tillms
was at the white house -v'ednesday a
asked the president in- authorize t
organization of an inde^c iient compa
of Indian scouts for service in t
Philippines. It is proposed to ma
r"1- ? ~i?i +
Mr. Tinman, wau was uuiuuci m .
First South Carolina during the Spa
ish war, captain of the company, a
Joseph H. Woodburry, "Hole-in-tl
day," the chief of the Chippewa India
of Minnesota, first lieutenant, n.nd somember
of tho regiment of "Rou
Riders" second lieutenant. It is sz
that many more than a company
Chippewas are ready to enlist in a
they are allowed to go to the Phil
pines as an independent organizatic
It is understood that the president
forred his callers to the secretary
war. A later disp-tch says that t
President has promised Col. Tilltn
. the position he seeks
- Sentenced to Death.
A dispatch from Manila says the
cal papers assert that Corporal Da
hoffer and Private Conine, of Co.
Sixteenth infantry, have been sentei
ed to death by courtmartial, and tl
Private McBennethas been condemn
to 20 years imprisonment tor tiavi
criminally assaulted native women
Manila a month ago. The crimes,
is said, greatly aroused the nativ
The papers assert also that Gen. 0
has recommended that President >
Kinley approve the sentence and tl
he desires a public execution of the m
sentenced to death as a warning agai?
a repetition of the crime.
Built His Coffin.
In Maryland there is a man who 1
built a coffin for himself, aad he 1
down in it for a short time each day a
smokes. He says he is "getting use
to the coffin. Maybe he smokes in
because he expects to smoke hereaf
also, and is getting used to that at I
same time.
fns: A BAD GANG.
ted
jad
bty A Regular Band of Robbers'Near
ion
ta Charleston.
ley
jlf.
no- COMPOSED OF CONVICTS.
ItiAir
A [Dozen Outrageous Cases Cited
to Show the State of Affairs
his
re- Where the Robbers
ore
iu- Operate.
A serious state of affairs is reported
from St. Andrew's Parish. From all
accounts lawlessness is running ram pint
across the Ashley River and every day
nd that the' maurauders enjoy enjoy immunity
from the law the bolder grow
- * ...j_
tiieir depreciations ana me more auuajs.
cious become the actors in the play that
ere is going on. A radius of two miles
3(j. from New Bridge seems to be regularly
terrorized by a gang of outlaw Negroes,
^as who are doing the Jesse James act on
ky the highways, robbing stores and malray
treating all who are so rash as to oppose
any objection for ,the sake of order or
?as self-defence. For several months this
Tj_ disorder and lawlessness has been going
An in ?> Tnn?t }iii>'h-'har-dr>d manner, and
in- v" ** ?e 7 - ,
0f unless the officials responsible for the
3m preservation of order do something
ine themselves to stem the tide of crime or
ter call on some one who will there is no
Q(j telling where the matter will stop. It
3gs is now unsafe to travel the roadways at
night and residence in that section may
ajj soon become daDgerous if more strin3y_
gent methods are not adopted to relQ.
store good order.
As said before this lawlessness is
;e(j caused by a band of Negroes?the exact
'0f number not being known?all of whom
n(j are fugitives from justice. These Ne+>|a
1 Aorta r
gIUC3 <3.1 C Vl^aUi^wU I?.uv*v/A VMV
"Te[ ship of a ^egro Darned Henry, but who
jv_ prefers to travel under the intimidattge
ing cognomen of "Wild Bill."
es "Wild William" and his gang are a
sweet set of jail birds that would be
om perfectly at home in the State Peniten[n
tiary, and some of them have been senjel
tencea there, but escaped before sentx.
Ariftps Dassed on them could be execut
?ar ed. As a sample of the character of
:en "Wile Bill" it is only necessary to
ci_ state that he is wanted for criminal asQr_
sault on Edisto Island, and a bunch of
ras constables from that place went to St.
3Cfc Andrew's after him last week, but after
't0 loafing around the woods for a few days
returned without him Another man
supposed to be connected with the
gang is Henry Haynes. Haynes killed
Constable Oliver at Ten Mile Hill, was
convicted of manslaughter and sentenced
to the penitentiary. While conlP"
;i at.
Jiueu ill tue tuuuij J6U uv, w
caped.
To show the hardihood of these Ne?er
gro outlaws it is only necessary to rean
cite a few of the crimes they have comsk
mitted. It was impossible to secure
the names, but the facts were given to
inJ1 a reporter for The News and Courier
!ec* by one of the most prominent lawyers
'?n in Charleston, who has property in St.
5in Andrew's, and v/hu has studied the sit^
uation.
Lewis's store, about a mile from New
a,K Bridge, was robbed by the gang in broad
?js daylight. They just walked in and
5iy lipid nn thp nrnnrifttor. Mr. Lewis verv
, -v.- ?- x JC - - ? - r
naturally objected and sought to onpose
them and in the scuffle that ensued had
ric* his arm broken by the Negroes. After
?* helping themselves to all that they
needed the gang left for the woods.
5P" A few nights after Mr. Dapont's
store was entered and the clerk, who
e*" sleeps upstairs hearing the noise started
nS down to see what was the matter. A
le" Negro with a gun made him come to a
standstill, and the clerk was informed
i~" that he had better not interfere. The
,e' clerk was powerless and the Negroes
)P" after helping themselves made off.
,a The store of Mr. Wigger, in Marya
s ville, was the next place of attack. The
3r" gang tore off a strip of weather boardrt
1 1 . _ T___x P J
mg irom tnis piace, dud jquuo. mey
e(* could not enter, so went around to another
si le and endeavored to force a
u| window. Mr. Wigger was waiting for
them on the inside with a well loaded
?e shotgun, but unfortunately, in working
about for position, made a noise which
'd* frightened the gang oft.
,v? The clerk in Gadsden's store wa - held
?* up one rainy afternoon bv a single
?? Negro, supposed to be Wild Bill. Foroc*
tunately, while the clerk was looking
down the barrel of the pistol, a party of
ladies drove up to the store to take shelter
frnm tlie rain. The Neero. not
ar" knowing the invading party was of
in' feminine gender, jumped out of the
t" back door and took to the woods.
e Another dastardly case of violence of
which "Wild Bill and his gang are guilty
k? is the serious whipping administered to
the town marshal of Maryvilic, a .Negra
e named Robertson. A few weeks ago
^ Robertson had occasion to arrest a reD
lative of one of the gang, and at the
ie~ time was threatened with violence.
ns Robertson paid no attention to the
threat, because he -always went well
armed, but as is usually the case, he
111? finally threw aside precantioa. One
0 day he was driving along the shell road
-se in a wagon and had left his pistol in
the bottom of the wagon body, where it
)n* was unhandy to get at. Before he
knew what he was about a Negro rose
r up out of the bushes on each side of the
rjad and ordered him to throw up his |
an hands. As the working ends of two
pistols pointed right at him. there was
nothing to do but obey orders. and up
10_ went his "^feeders." Robertson was
m_ then jerked from the wagon seat by a
g bunch og Negroes, some of whom camc
acl out of the bushes after the hold-up.
iat and was unmercifully beaten. The
ec| cries of Rob?rtson reached the ears of
Dg Mr. Ivracke and another white nun
in who were driving along the road in a
it buggy, returning to the city from Mr.
es Kracke's farai. As the buggy aptjs
proached the sjene of the difficulty
I0. Kobertson was released and his asiat
sailants made good their escape.
ien Another case of highway robbery was
inflicted on a collector from Charleston.
The Reporter's informant did not re?.
(Ynntln-nion's nlimn hilt CJlld
Illi;111 SCI L11V* ^
the collector was held up on the public
ias highway by three Xegiocs, supposed to
ies be Wild Bill and two of his pals, and
,nd relieved of $25 in cash.
id" Xear Daniel's Church an old Xegro
t it man was held up and relieved of a new
ter pair of shoes and a few cents in cash.
;Jie A colored man named Williams, weli
known as a butcher in Maryviile, tells
of a strange experience he had while I
driving along the road. He said a Ne- *
gro, armed with two pistols and a
rifle, stopped him and began to talk
about the robberies that had been re- A
t TTfMI* Mil.
cently perpetrated, vvmiamg saicune
Negro asked him if the white folks were
making any efforts to catch the robbers,
etc. It is thought that the unknown
Xegro was "Wild Bill himself, endeav- B
oring to find out if the climate of St.
Andrew's was getting too hot for him.
Trial Justice Rivers is in charge of L
this side of St Andrew's district, and on
him and his constables it devolves to
rid the settlement of tae marauders.The
thing has been going on for some
time now, and the people affected are
beginning to wonder where the trouble
will Ar>fl. Tfc is believed bv some white 5?
men that if the gang is ever roun<?e 1 up ^
some of the many fugitive murderers of .
Charleston will be found.?News and .1D
Courier.
I TEE SCATTERED NATION. J><
I b(
W;
The Jews Are Discriminated Asrainst in
ro
All Over the "World. w;
w?
The Dreyfus case has served to call
attention to the status of the Jews in wthe
various countries of the world.
Anti-Semitic feeling in France is or
stronger than it has been for many tr
years past, but there are many other gt
lands in which the Jews are subject to n.
severe discriminations and rabid prejudices.
In fact the United States and y
England are about the only countries or
in which the Jews may be said to enjoy pj
an absolutely open field and fair chance.
Both here and in England Jews have e(j
filled many positions of high distinction te
and prejudice against them exists in a w;
far lighter degree than it does elsewhere.
kj
The Jew has shown a wonderfal abil- p(
ity to take care of himself even under
the most adverse conditions. His busi- _0
ness success is undonbtedly one of the
main reasons of the discriminations m"
against him and the attempts to beat ^
him down. ^
But he has prospered even under persecution
and will continue to do so. f0
Tnere is no prospect that the Zionist jj
movement, the plan of collecting all the ^
Jews in Palestine and the restoration m
to them of distinct national power, will jn
ever amount to much. V
They are scattered over the face of ^
the earth, and scattered they will re- j1(
main until the end of time. jj
The Jews are so prominent in aSairs,
especially in commerce, for which they W|
have shown a genius unsurpassed by ^
any other people that ever existed, that
most persons believe they are more
numerous than they really are. js
According to the best information f0
there are not more than 6,200,000 Jews j),
in all the world?not a great many ^
more than the population of the state aE
of New York. Of the total Jewish cr
population 5; 000,000 are in Europe, or
chiefly in Russia. There are 200,000 a,
in Asia, 700,000 m Africa, 300,000 in ar
America and 20,000 in Australia. In 0?
European Russia there are 2,600,000. ^
The next greatest numbers are iD Austro-Hun^ary,
the figures being put at ^
1,400,000, leaving 1,000,000 to be divided
among the other European countries.
' There
are 130,000 Jews in the British
islands and not more than 200,000
in France. In the whole of Palestine ^
there are about 40,000 and in Jerusalem at
20,000.
The fact that there are only 300,000
Jews in America will surprise the average
reader. These 300,000 Jews seem a?
to be so many more than they are be- *
cause they make themselves felt in fa'
every community where they live, be- .
a n>
cause tney are active, eutcii'ixoiug >uu
thoroughly live factors ia our complex J?
civilizatson.
Three hundred thousand such people
easily become a power even among
75,000,000.
Will Not Go. of
se:
Indignation over the outcomc of the vo
Dreyfus trial has caused a party of over i
700 Chicagoans who were going to the
fair in a body to abandon their trip.
Louis Halle, who is the treasurer of the Qt
party, and who, since the scheme was ^
* T-?. ?Q
maugurateu, ~<x uao u^vu jceiving
weekly remittances from those ,ia
who proposed going, Tuesday issued p
notices to the members to call at his
office and get their money. Immediate- 1
ly after the verdict in the Dreyfus trial ,
Mr. ^lalle commenced receiving letters
from members of the party saying that
under no circumstances would they visit ^
France. So many of these letters were ,
i .1 Li re,1
received ttiat a meeting executive uum- ^
mittee was called and it was deemed
advisable to call the entire trip offA
Deadly Weapon.
The Mauser pistol is a new arm that
Tmc l'nek Vioon rmf. tn TVrartti al test for Tio
JIA-JV UVV" f ? ,
the government. Human cadavers vji
were used to test the effects of the bul- an
lets upon human tissue.-.. The pistol e(j
has an effectual range of 500 yards, and fr(
is said to be the most deadly weapon of ^
its kind ever invented. At 500 yards jH,
the bullets went entirely through the
cadavers. It is probable that the arm
will be adopted by the army. It is now W(
in use in Germany. It is the costliest j0(
pistol made for army use. the price each
in large contracts lots being $32.84.
The cartridges cost four cents. Smokeless
powder is used. The calibre is 30.
The bullets have a lead core and a nickel-plated
copper jacket, the weight of
each projectile being 85 grains.
be
Want the Convention- st:
po
Buffalo, Milwaukee, St. Louis and pr
two or three other cities are each anxi- j10
ous to have the Democratic national 0E
convention next year, and several of
them are takiDg subscriptions of funds
to be used in securing the convention.
^ 11 y-v 1 nn rrr\ r/imoinc QATATIP
iJJLCdLl Y1UJUC ViHV/fl.fV luuiuiuu ? w,
feeling sure that there isn't any other
city than herself in which the Chicago
platform could be readopted with so y
xuch effect
An Unusual Case. an
The jury of condemnation appointed
at the instates of the Seaboard Air
Line for the purpose <>f fixing a valuation
on some 4.") acres of the lands of 32
Mr. J. 15. Den:; some distance from the s\i
city, has alinwxi him a total of $2,<573, di:
which is said to be a higher price than SV
Mr. Dent himself asked for the land.
It is understood that the Seaboard will er
appeal from the valuation of the jury. c*!
The road takes a right of way through re
the land 100 feet wide for a distance of *ei
5 miles.? The State. a?
IIGHWAY ROBBML
White Man of Augusta Held Up
- " 'v*
and Robbed.
RICKS THROWN AT POLICE.
"
23
ost HisTPocket Book and AH
the Money He Had Together
With His Vaiise.
A bold highway'robbery was comitted
on last Thursday near Augusta,
a. The Chronicle of Friday says:
Mr. W. H. Foster, a white maa liv:g
at 1336 Ellis street, w&s held up
id robbed on the Mghway Thursday
ternoon by a negro. Mr. Foster had
jen over in Carolina, about five miles
iyond the line to visit his father and
A * ? * ? TTa
as returning to -a-ii^usta. j_ic
a house near the South Carolina railad
track to get a drink of waler and
bile there asked what the time of day
as
When he started *out a negro man
ho was there said he guessed it was
cue for him to'be going, and started
i ahead. A short distance down the
ack from the house the negro had
opped and waited until Foster caught
) with him, when he asked Foster if
i had anything to drimk. Foster told
m he had not, and the man said he
ight to have. * He then pulled out a
stol and, putting it right up to Fosr'fi
fane?nlnse enoueh to touch?ask
I him if lie had a pistol, to which Fosr
replied in the negative. Foster
is then made to open a valise which
i had with him. The negro then told
m to pass over his money, which Mr.
jster did. After this the negro made
m pull off his coat, saying he had a
>od mind to take that, too, and pawn
He shook it to see if there was any
oney in it and then handed it back,
it kept the pocket book, which conined
$2.40 and the valise..
Mr. Foster then took a back course
r three miles until he reached the
orse creek road and came by that way
Augusta, going he says five miles or
ore out of his way to keep from passg
the negro again. Mr. Foster was
:ry much frightened when he reached
e city, but went at once to police
:adquarters and reported the matter,
e described the man as being a large
ack negro, 35 or 40 years old, and
taring blue overalls. He said he
ought the negro weigned about 140 or
>0 pounds.
Whether he was in this crowd or not
not known, but just before the time
r the relief to go out last night Officer
imish went over to the city bridge to
- -? nan all T"ierVlfr fVlprfl
C 11 CVCIJ nutlg, n<H au -
;d found several negroes shooting
aps. When they saw the officer they'
>ened a broadside on him on him with
shower of brickbats that came down
ound him like the falling of hail The ficer
brought his pistol into view and
e negroes, after hearing the tone of
i voice twice, scattered in the direc)n
of Hamburg at a lively pace.
Challenges Esterhazv,
The following challenge to mortal
mbatwag cabled Thursday morning
Count Ferdinand Walsin-Ekterhazy,
hi* address in London:
"Sir:?Believing you to be answere
for the misery and humiliation of
iptain Dreyfus of the French army,
d he, Captain Dreyfus, not being
le to call on you personally for satisction,
las an American, {freeborn, /
ring liberty, do volunteer in my own
;ht to meet you on the field of honor
behalf of Captain Dreyfus at' any'
ne and place agreeable to yon. ; . J?
(Signed^)
"PAUL E. AYER,
"Arderson, S. C."
Ayer is a s on of the late General Ayer
the Confederate army, and was a
pwant of the First South Carolina
lunteers in the Spanish war.
Slain on the Highway.
A special from Batesbnrg to The
ate says: ' 'Larkin*McCarthy was killat
Langley Saturday night by Wilim
Goodwin. They were brother-inw,
and some domestic trouble preeded
the shooting. McCarthy's body
is brought here and taken to his faths
for burial. ' All parties live near
re. in Saluda - county. Beports say
>odwin borrowed a shotgun, loaded ifc
th large shot and awaited his victim
the roadside and emptied both barIs,
riddling the body and killing Mcirthy
instantly. Goodwin was capred
and is now in the Aiken county
il."
; %
Killed Father and Mother.
A double murder occurred late Wed
sday night near trie manuiacranng
Hage of Fiskdale, Mass. John King
d his wife, an *ged coupla, were killby
their son Peter, who was crazed
jm-the excessive use of liquor. The
ulls,of both were crushed by a heavy
strument. The murderer also atmpted
to kill his brother Thomas,
t only succeeded in inflicting severe
rands. Peter is now confined in the
jkup. He is in an unconscious contion
and may die.
The Porto Bican Sufferers, v
The governor has received a letter
)m the secretary of war stating that
ere were yet thousands of persons to
fed and clothed in porto Rico. He
ited that a committee had been apinted
to see that all contributions are
operly distributed and expressed the
ipe that tbere wo aid be no relaxation
the part of citizens to aid taem.
Death of a Vanderbilt.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, eldest son of
e late William E. Vanderbilt and
andson of the old commodore, founder
the family, died suddenly in New
>rk Wednesday morning in his magnient
residence at Fifty-seventh street
d Fifth avenue.
Gen. Wheeler Disgusted.
Special from Manila, via Hong Kong'
ys: Gen. Wheeler only obtained asjnment
to active duty aftei' a serious
spute with Gen. Otis, who wanted to
ietrack the veteran fighter by sending
m to some obscure post in the southn
islands. Gen. Wheeler now deares
he will apply for permission to
turn to the United States soon, un55
there is some change in the manemont
of affairs in tk? Philippines.