The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, October 04, 1905, Image 1
/' the Lancaster News
LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 '
VOL. I. WO. I. S. C? OCTOBER. 4. 1905. PBICE?FIVE^ENTS PER COPY.
President Smith's Address.
i ** Powerful Appeal to the Farm\
crs to Hold Cotton for the
j Minimum Price Fixed by
i the Asheville Meeting.
\Mr. Editor :?It is known to
some of the readers of the Lan*
caster papers that the farmers
and planters of this county were
mvuieu witn aii address, by Mr.
E. C Smith, president of the
South Carolina cotton associa
tion, on last Saturday at the
j ] court house. There was a very
respectable number out to hear
him, who appreciated what was
said ; but 1 wish every man and
woman in the county could have
heard that address. It was
simply masterful and carried
with it conviction to every
hearer. In the first place, the
| speaker demonstrated a thorough
knowledge of the cotton question
in all its details?the
/ amount necessary to meet the
demand, the supply now on
hand, the estimate of the present
crop all over the south, how
the same is being marketed,
how the association is organized
in the west, and at what price
the great bulk of the cotton
./-*op all over the country is now
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.iig uciu uy tuo producers.
' r Smith discusses the whole
ect with a power of logic
eloquence that will distiui
h him as an orator of the
M'S rank in tho south.
^ showed that the raw cotton
p consumed at tho rate of 13,00,000
bales per annum, that
I present crop will not turn
iover 10,000,000 bales; that
I supply on hand is now
)ut exhausted ; that the coti
belt of tho south has prac-'ally
no competition ; that the
liber of the cotton raised in India,
China and other 'eastern
countries is so coarse and brittle
that it makes a very inferior
If" fabric; that on a reasonable cal
dilation some three or four million
bales will lie withheld from
the market for many months
! com0i hy producers who will
Vwiokl for an advanced price, and
^Sy speculators who see the pros
J.ect of making good money,
lie showed that, with these con/
ditions, and the west holding
Jl back their cotton as the south
\ is doing, if the producers will
! Tnow hold for 11 cents, here in
/ this section, the manufacturers
1 will bo in a week or two run
>g a' er the producer begging
if ton at this price, and the
prospect will be that it
li \ .1 go to or 13 cents and
f: tigher. Mr. Smith's appeal to
\e producers to stick together
\d stand firm, was most powIV
\il and effective. He claim
(f \ , that cotton was the currency
\ of tho south and controlling
other things. And what was
] pleasant and beautiful, he show
ied that the merchant, the hanker,
the manufacturer, the pro
fessional man?all were inter
^Ated in putting the price of
f j * ^ou to ** remunerative
%ie producer, and that there
I ,\ila no reason for antagonism
between any classes in the south,
j R. E. Allison. S
A Texas Horror.
Mother and Four Children
Brutally Murdered. The
Woman and her Daughter
First Made Victims of the
Unmentionable Crime.
Edna, Texas, September, 28.?
Mrs. A. J. Condit and four children,
a daughter of 13, and three
boys from 6 to 10 years old,
urara ?v-* n ??/l J L - - J 1
ttuio iiiuiuuicu iii uuill UlOOCl HI
their .home near here today.
The mother and daughter were
assaulted and their bodies brutally
disfigured.
A baby about 2 years old was
tho only one left alive. All of
them seemed to have been murdered
with some blunt instrument,
their heads were crushed
and their throats cut with a
knife or razor. The girl and
mother were killed in the houee,
the boys were killed about 100
yards away.
Mr. (Jondit was away working 1
in the Rice field. A negro boy
abjfrut 12 years old was ploughing
in a field near the^house at
the time of the killing and heard i
the children screaming; he saw a
man running alter a woman who
was running around the house. 1
Deing afraid to go to the house,
he ran to a neighbor's and told
wiiat he had seen.
The person informed ran to
the place and found the five
members of the family Killed.
Officers were informed at once
and the entire county is out in
posses in seach of the murderer.
It is supposed there were two ol
them. Dogs have been sent for.
NKOK0 CHARGED WITH THE WHOLESALE
MURDER. ARRESTED BUT
MANAGES TO ESCAPE.
Houston, Tex. Septembe 30.?
Monk Qibson, the negro arrested
yesterday in connection with the'
nini-ao. \ f*.. . r ^
iixiuQi mi iui?. ^v. j. uonait
and her children at Edna, Texas,
on Thursday, made a bold dash
last night and escaped from the
pot-ses having him in charge.
S. II. Beasley, father of Mrs.
Conditt, issued an appeal to the
people of the Edna community '
today. It was to the efleet that
the sheriff was criminally negligent
in allowing Gibson to es
cape, and declared Beaseley's intention
to take the negro from
the authorities when recaptured
to ''burn luin for a week,, if the
people would stand by him. A
large number of people rhouted
approval and yelled at the sheritl
''why didn't you handcuff the
negro?"
SherifT Kirg replied : Mi's easy
to ask that now, but it any of
you want to make a personal
matter ot it, just step out from
that crowd, and we will settle it
now."
The only development tonight
in the escape of Monk Gibson,
the negro, accused of the murder
of the Condit family, is the ar
rest of the lather, mother, siatera
ond brothers of Gibson. Ten ,
persons in all have been taken*'
into custody by the oflicers. f]
Fearful Tragedy.
Demented Mother Kills her
Children, Seven in Number
Then Takes her Own Life.
Rock Island, 111., Sept. 30 ?
Mrs. Clarence Markhatn of Cambridge,
near eere, in a fit ol
temporary insanity today killed
her seven children with an axe,
alter which she placed their
bodies on abed, saturated it with
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coal oil and set fire to it She
then hecked her throat and then
threw herself on the burning
bed. Neighbors rescued hsr, but
she was so badly burned that she
died soon after she had made a
confession. The oldest child was
nine years of age, the youngest,
a baby in arms.
Neighbors, attracted by the
smoKe ol thd burning dwelJing,
rushed 'to the rescue and found
Mrs. Markham coveree with blood
and badly burned.
Barely able to tell her story,
she at first declared the crime
had been committeed by a strange
man, but iater when fhe sheriff
arrivee she admitted that she had
Blain her children one by one
and attempted to destroy their
bodies and her own in the fire.
Soon afterward she died. When
the ruins of the home hooled, a
confirmation of her story was
hab in the finding of the charred |
pnrnuOQ nanl* ?' * t 1* % *? 1
V...J.UVO, vi?/ii nit.ii tin wtvuilcrUSIled.
Murderous Brute Cuts a
Prominent Lawyer's
Mother With a Razor.
Little Rock, Ark.. Sept. 30.?
John Mayes, a negro, this alter
noon entered the residence of
Mrs. Lehman Loeb, mother ol
Jose ph Loeb, a prominent attorney
of this city, and when discovered
attacked Airs Loeb with
a razor.
The negro slashed Mrs. Loeb't^
neck and narrowly nirssed the .
jugular vein. She is in a serious!
condition.
At I) o'clock tonight several
hundred indignant citizens are
congregated about the county jail1
where Meyes is supposed to be
con(ined. The talk of lynching
him is verv strong.
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Presbyterian College Will
Remain at Clinton.
Coin m b i a, Sep t. 20 ?
(Special to Greenville News.)
?Clinton will retain the Presbyterian
College. Th it fact was
settled today atter a long session
lasting through almost the entire
night and part of the dav, and it
resulted in a landslide lor Clinton,
with Chester second.
Five towns wanted the institution.
They were Hennet tsvillo.
Chester, Sumter, Yorkville and
Jlinton. The trustees met last
nigh! and heard the petitions and
iryumeuts from the various dele
nations, and while all were seem
ingly hopeful the delegation from
[Jlinton was always certain that j
the bur Presbyterian college of
ttio State would remain at that
town. Ami that is what happened.
Tho Lancaster News eight
pages, twice a week. $1.T>0
Head Crushed.
Frightful Condition of Young
Stranger Found Near Union.
Special to The State
Union, Oct. 1.?This morning
an unknown man apparently
about 28 years old waslound ua
conscious oesihe the Southern
railway tracks near the outskirts
of town. Ilis head is crushed in,
whether by falling from a train
or being cluhbed is uncertain,
though the iall is raoro likely.
In his pockets were found sever
al letters, one was addressed to
Mrs. L. M. Trevitt, No. 107
Morietta street, Atlanta, Ga.
Another from R. E. Eubauks,
Columbia, dated Sept. 25, urging
him to come immediately,
as a good territory was being
reserved for him in Columbia,
while some business cards indicated
that his name is L. M. Trevitt,
representing the National
Cleaning company. In a memorauduin
book was found these
word.-: "My address is Abingdon,
VTa." Persons hero say they saw
Trevitt here yesterdav. that 1>?
appeared to have been intoxicated,
and that he bought a bottle
ol Jamaica giuger(at a drug store,
but when touud physicians could
detect no luines ot whiskey on
him. His mysterious accident is
unsolved still and his recovery
is regarded as very doubtiul.
Shifting Engine Jumps Track
and Kills Three.
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 1.? j
A switch engine in the yards ol j
the Louisville and Nashville rail- j
road jumped the track at an |
early hour this morning and two
men were instantly killed and a
third died in the hospital a lew
hours luter.
The thvee men who were kill
V AHA oiftw.ll.-~
? noio ovnuuillg OH lllu I ro lit
-raining board\?t the switch engine
whion was giing at a high |
rate ot speed wiien suddenly the |
tront wheels jumped 'he track.!
Tlie iront ot the, engine struck
two cabooses on an adjacent track
and rolled over on its side. The !
bodies ot the men were terribly <
mangled.
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A Healthy Millionaire Takes
His Own Life.
Now York, Sept. 29.? William |
It. Travers, millionaire, man oil,
leisure, and son ot t he celebrated (
wit. and Wall street operator, ,
William It Travers, committed
suicide to lay by shooting himself!
through the head in his apart-1
ments on Madison avenue. The
suicide is a mystery, Mr. Travers
being in the prime ot liir,
lair health and tiio possessor ot a
large tori one. Mr. Travers
t >1 irrio.l VI 1 j j I . i I * ^ I I .i hmi >
auMiuwi idioo JJUV 11.1111(11.111^1
sister of Mrs. W. K. V.uulerbill, I,
.Jr. The couple eopiraled three
years ago, Mrs. Travers going to
Paris to live. lie left several ,
letters relating to Ins business, j
hut nothing giving a clue to the j
c ;u e of the deed.
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Henry Young, who shot and
killed John II Williamson at
Hamlet, in February 1003 , whs
recently trie I and convicted of
manslaughter. Ho was sentenced '
to the penitentiary tor 10 years.
?'The non-union or loyalist"
Bouitml tee of the Cumberland
Presbyteri in church has sent an
address to tho union committee
ot the N irfheru Cumberland
Presbyterian church m which it
strongly opposes union of the
two bodu 3.