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The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. I. NO 13 SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C., NOVEMBER. 15. 1905. PRICE?FIVE CENTS PER CORY. Women Stripped By Chi= nese Mob. Details of Atrocities Committed on American Women Show Them To Have Been More Horrifying Than They Were at First Reported. Hongkong, November 1 1 ? Dr. Machle, the American miseionary who escaped the massacre at Lienchow, confirming the pre vious accounts of (lie outbreak, add* horrtlying details of the atrocities committed on tiie American women. When the disturbances commenced the mob seized M sChestnut and Mrs. Machle ami exposed them to public view in the Chinese temple Amy Machle, ti e doctor's 10-year old child, was c irri *?i ?>fT and flung alive into too river. The rioter stripped M.s8 Chestnut, naked and flung tier into the liver. While the two w re struggling in the water three Chinamen I . . ....... ] 6peared them. Aliss (Jhestnnt's body and Amy Machle's herd wore pierced. Mrs Machle ap pe.de 1 lo the rioters, but the m< b st' lie i i?er brains out, snipped the body and llung it into the river. The mob then captured Air. I and Mrs. iVnle, stripped the in naked, exposed them lor fifteen ^r, umiuttH, clubbed Mr. Peale l<> death hi his wife's presence and subsequently killed Mrs. i'eale in the same hrulal fashion. I A Coming Marriage Mr. John Gregg Chatee, formerly of Lancaster, and Miss Nan Withers, of Cam- j den, to Wed on the 29th j Instant. Cards are out announcing the approaching marriage ot Mr. John Gregtr Chafee, of Langl".v. | and Miss Nan Shannon Wither-, I of Camden. The c ;< inonv will be performed on Wednesday ' evening, November tiie 29th, al home ol the prospective bride's mother, Mrs. William Randolph Withers. Mr. (Jhal'ee, as is well known, 1 w.i i I) irn and r isod in Lancaster. " I being a son o! the late . N.CI IJ V Cliatee lie is a young mm of exceptionally line character and 1 i most pleasing personality, II" has been auccesslully engaged in ' tlJi! mercantile business at Lang> tey tj?r some years. 4 Tx\* charming young lady wly$rn Mr. C ha tee i* to wed is (ur?/ ? v.'ii rvnun 11 in iiifn uuiuiiiiiiii ty, having many friends and admirers here, where she occasionally visited her aunt, Mrs. J. Al. Heath, during the hitter's residence jii Lancaster. The Lanca^r News eight pages, twice st'week, $1.50 ; *. i The Library Associition. Important Public Meeting Friday Night?Addresses by Notable Speakers?An Oyster Feast Also. Owing to t'w 'in e neney of the veiliher, ihe l,h?a\ Association did net have iib e- iii lust Fri lav night, hut jrn.ed same uuhl Friday nigh "i t'lisweek, when it will cert tov it held. Tim public gener./.lv \s invited o Htien<l to Im <?r the addresses to t>e delivered by Dr. !-???I?1 ri?l ami Mayor Wyhe, as well as 10 partake ol some nice oysters which t he ladies are f?oin?r to serve lor the benefit of the libary lund. As has been previously noted by The News, the library association is doinu a most commenda ole work in th s community hiim its efl'.rts should be liberally en couru.ed by the people cenerally Cheer For Jeff Davis P? i rp J? ? ' ' wciuacu a i agcuy in vv men Three Men were Killed and Three Others Wounded. Naugatuck, W V., Nov. 11.? A cheer lor Jeff Davie, uttered by a drunken man on Deny- v Creek on the Kentucky side o! tho river today, resulted in a bloody tiagedy in wlnich tliree men were klled and three others wounded. There had been much dunking alter the election on Tuesday. Con Kslep, an old exConfederate soldier, was among the men v. h" became ntoxicated When tie yelled V'1I urr in l>??* J .-ll i/.ivis, i'jliter, a .vounj; man in the ciowd, lold Estep to "sun t p or lie w. 111 o kill b:in " Enelio Bent lev, in nii??r momb-r <>! -no crowd, told Rvop lo "'ourrah for anyon- lie plea ed " Prater turn mi on B .mil emp'ied Ills pistol $ I. short range, all live shots I tiki i:?? i ll'ect. A t< r h<hud (alien, Bent ley shot ami kill ed Prater. lvnbe Morgan, a Iriend of Prater's who loot sltol Bv lit ley alter the '.liter had lallen, tired at 'J' >m and .John Bowling, friends nt Estep, and then lied, but he was shot and mortally wounded by the Bowlings. Bently died s< on alter the shooting and Morgan died two hours later During the light I .lohn Sadler, belonging ?o the Prater grang, was dangerousl\ wounded. The Bowlings were both hit, but not fatally hurt. An election bet had caused hard leei inga between Eatep and Prater. The excitement over the tragedy is intense and another clash oi the tactions is expected. aii inttii.y [Jiii im in (lie rtUSU'rtlian continent bae farming has become a profitable and popular occupation. There are at present over 250,000 hives in Australia producing from 10,000,000 pounds to 15,000,000 pounds annually. ? ? Scores Secretary Wilson. ; Secretary Cheatham, of the Cotton Association Denounces Wilson's Novem-j ber Report as a "Piece of i Spite." N?'w Y.?rk, November 11 ? Richard Cheatham, ol Atlanta, secretary ??; the Southern Cotton Association, is quoted by the Herald as having last night severely c.riiii is <1 the report ol the cotton crop . >?ued yesterday Irom Washington. 111 which the con nition oI tho crop on November 1 was stated to be GS 8. Mr. Cheat hatn, who in s'opping in this city, said, amond other t hings: "The most abmrd piece of work ver attempted was the issuing >t the crop report on Friday by Mr. Wilson, tlie Secretary of Agriculture. In this report, lie announces I he condilion at G8.8. Now, there is no sane man who ver saw a cotton stalk who does not know that, on November 1 and November 10 it is not only far hey .mo t tie muling or bearing stage, but. in nearly every case is entirely void ol loliage ot every Uittfl It ?Mloorwl n, IIUQ I ill Ut'VilllU tne increasing stage. Its condjtton, fo tar as renditions arc recognized in reports, is the same as on Oc'ober ] previously .For Secretary Wilson to make a re port on'condition'of November 1 is to assist in the operations ot he bear speculators to hammer down the price of cotton. "I say to Mr. Wilson, 'shame, J I shame, shame' on him and the men who assislod him in this a'tempt it soi'e work against tie cotton product rs ot thefcvuth It j i s a liual effort to l<ret even,' and' tlte t'empt wid result in sine disc inlit ore lor the department t?T : gricnlliire b-tore ttie nex' session oi Congress is far idvauc | ed. Th it there will b> an i.iresf .a' ioo o! litis depirimeti' by (Jointress and an it C'veii ig | lot in >iiers now concealed, helms which ..11 previous di closure* -vi11 |i;i e in tnsi^aificalire, I do not ' r ; 11 in*!ant don i '' Tit - .S ujMutii l.'ott hi A' socia j | lion, in its btiih'tsii ol ill:-! crop, issued October 31, estimated tin | crop lor J 1)05 at 9.444.314 bales,' a Km iller production than yester- 1 day's estimate ot (>8.8 would I promise. I Texas Mob Hang Three Negroes Henderson, Tex., Nov. 12.? Thirty minutes a^o a mob ol 2()0 moo broke into Mie j ?ii Ucre and ' overpowered the officers, took .John Ueece, Robert Askew and ..%/ W...V1 IM U H MWIil I I I t" v Mil' now hanging in the public square. The negroes were arrested with two others a lew (lays ago lor the murder ol a farmer about ten miles from this place. The other two negroes wore not molested, members of the mob claiming they were only accomplices aud uot priucipals. Died at Eighty=Three. The Venerable Mother of Messrs. L. C. and G. F. Payseur, of Lancaster Passes Away at her Home in Lincolnton, N. C. Mrs II met Payseur, mother of our fellow townmen Messrs. L. 'it (1 (i. V. Payseur, died Oil J iif Ttii iii^iri nt . t lio?' ~ J ~ in Lincolnton, N (J. She was the widow of J. W. Payseur and was 83 years of age. The ira mediate* cause of death was an attack of pneumonia Mrs. Payseur was a most es timable, lovable, christian lady and tier death is lamented by a large circle of friends and relat ives. She was a devout mem ber of the Methodist church. Besides the Mes-rs. l'ayseur ot Lancaster, Mrs Payseur leav es one other son, Mr. William Paj'seur, of liutherfordton, N. and t?\o daughters, Mrs. A S. Coon, of Heepsville, N. C., and Mrs. Addie Hodge, of Rutherfordton. Wade Hampton Society. Good Debate by Members of the Literary Organization of the Graded School. The Wade Hampton Literary S'?ctotv of the graded school, which is composed o! member, ol the 71 i?, Stli i)th nnd loth ^radt^, had an unu&uaily interesting meeting Friday afternoon. The leading teat are ot the programme was r debate on the sub ject, *Ke?olv?'d,"that country life is heller ;<?r the < i.iid than toxxi. orcitv lilvi." Trie you <r d" batcr* were: Affirmative?li t Cook, M mraret Mmne, John 1) Wxlb, .'d rv Ma-sex; Negative Etta Sk } ) or, C >niiuie 1't unison, Hope (J i-jrory. N innie J thuson. All it h debaters made hiuhl > ? edit a ote ariium ml s.The decision ot Hi.* jnd ^es xx is in lavor ol the .lllinnai ive sulo?country tile. !'h-v society meets ..eain next Friday. The First National Bank of Lancaster?Its Remarkable Success. The official report of the First Na'ional Bank of Lancaster published in today's paper shows that popular youna li nancal institution to be in ex ceptionally fine condition lis iccord of success is truly phenoni 'nal and \v?* doub; if has a parallel in the st te. But a little more than two nr n'lis ago the First National Bank, with a capital of 011I3' *}. . \ f)(W I t I ? /?* * /i? 1 t J the public, and yet its volume o: business today is as largo as that <>t many 1 anks after years of operation. The bank's deposits are now practically $118,000., showing that its management has the full confidence of the public?a confidence, by the way, that is eminently deserved. Presidents' Meeting County Presidents of the Cotton Association Hold Meeting in Columbia. The Stale, Nov. 11. Although but 4S hours notice of a meeting of '.he county presidents ot this State's division of (he Southern Cotton association had been given, 21 county presidents were here yesterday to attend the meeting. This is truly a most remarkable showing and it is plain that the movement must be ot unusual interest and import, for to lew other calls would these men have so readily responded. Many of those who were not. able to bo present sent let ters ol regret. The object, ol this meeting was io see that 3 cent hale tax will be collect, d to eaun county. Kach count;. p: i iei?? appoints a collector for oacli t wnship, .vho serves in ? ! t<11 >n m> the county orgaiiz*jr. 1' i- tax together with the layman's lee will support the great organizitiott in every other Sia'e 111 the uih, as well as in 6oLt.ii Carolina. Another subject, diseusse i ami then sell led upon was the appointment of a general organ zer ami superintendent tor this State, who will act as financial agent and also supervise the erection and maintenance of warehouses. President K. I). Smith of tho South Carolina division, who presided at the meeting yesterday will make the appointment before he leaves l< r the west next weeK. A tiorrible Accident. A Mother,While Holding her Baby in her Arms, Faints and Falls into the Fire? Both Fearfully Burned and their Recovery Doubtful. A shocking accident occurred a few morniiters airo at the home of Mr. John Hiuson, who lives on the plantation of Mr J. K Gre gory in the Taxnhaw neiuiitmrhood. The will; <?! Mr iii eon, Mrs. Alrnetta llinson, wtio is a daughter of Mr Butler Starues, arose early ami, alter making a lire, was standing by i;, vanning, holding her baby in he'* irrns, when she sudden.y lainitd and j fell into the lire, the baby tailing into t he flames al -o i l lie cries ol i Iu-i mi.tn ?irou ed Air. llinson and Mrs. 1:1 in son's brother, Mr. Dick Starnes, who had nol got inn out of the bed. They rushed In (he rescue ot tlie uidori Innate mother and her child, but they did not reach them in time 11o save I Ik m t^nm serious injury, I l-.il. l ? 1 ~ iijimii ueiug iiuirioiy Durne<l. It is doubtful whether either will recover. Fletcher Byrd, co o.? J, wa? i hanged in Greenvill Friday for the murder ot Magistrate William J. Cox.