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The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. I* NO. 39. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C.? FEBRUARY 17. 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS PER CODY Charlotte Gets First Whack E at Ballard. Difference in the Laws of A North and South Carolina in Relation to Larceny. Sheriff Hunter, who went to Charlotte this week alter John Ballard, wanted here on a charge oi larceny, as noted in Wednes day's News, did not, bring his man back with him, for the rea C( son that the North Carolina authorities wanted him to guaranrr tee the safe return of Kallard to ^ Charlotte atter the courts here had gotten through with him, ^ which of course the sheriff de clined to do. The negro will be tried at the court now in session Ci in Charlotte, upon the charge oi stealing an overcoat, valued at . $28 ; and if convicted he will , D likely languish for several years in the North Carolina penitentiary, for larceny is regarded as no small matter in the Tar . ie Heel State, greatly to the credit of onr friends on the north. ,, , . - ~ 0 jLuuy ao uot araw any nne dis- e( tinction between grand and petit ^ larceny, as is done in South Carolina. Stealing is stealing in the eyes oi a North Carolinian, j\ whether it be an old wool hat p or a cotton mill. The taking of j ^ any old thing in North Carolina belonging to another is consider- ^ ed a grave offense. The value ^ of the thing taken seems to cut no ice. Many of our older read- g ers will recall the fact that , la about twenty five years ago a ^ colored driver for a Lancaster .. >i merchant stole in Charlotte a ^ pair of shears with which to shear his boss' mules, for which ofteneo he served three years in the North Carolina penitentiary. ? Had the crime been committed this side of the state line the | punishment would not havo ex a ceeded thirty days in jail. ^ m Bethel Items. q ?(. Reported for The News. The First Quarterly confer 8 ence of the Tabernacle circuit " was held at Bethel church Sat- 1? urday and Sunday. Our new y< presiding eider. Rev.R.E.Stack- ?' house, preached a very tine ser n< 1 -i. 1 1 - ? ' ? ?: uiwu oaiuruay ap 11 o cioCK, ana PJ afterwards dinner wa9 served. w ^ He also preached a line sermon 11 Sunday. hi Miss Roxie Carnes, teacher of fo Wild (^at school, spent Saturday Ml1 and Sunday at home. h< Messrs William Nivon and E.i- bt 1 gene Kriminger, of Monroe,N.C., , spent Sunday with Misses Vir- th ginia and Eunice Sapp. ei Mrs. E. K. Plyler has been d< very ill for several days, but we ta are glad to say she is very much sa improved. p( Mrs. D. F. Sapp left Tuesday for her old home at Mount Airy, N.C. After spending some time there, she will visit relatives at Statesville, Salisbury and Con- hi cord, N. 0. | w van Williams Assassinate ed! . Brave Old Confederate Veteran Who Moved from Lancaster to Texas W aylaid and Murdered near Harlingen, Texas, by a Mexican?Particulars of the Shocking Crime. The many friends and old war jmrades in Lancaster county of [r. E. M. L. Williams, who loved from here to Texas about ventv years ago, will be pained nd shocked to hear of his tragic eatli, which occurred a few ays ago in the state of his adplion, he being the victim of a jwardly assassin's bullet. Mr. Williams was a 6on of the ite Stephen Williams, and a rother of the late Eli Williams nd the late James Williams, nd was about 63 years old. lJe as a gallant Confederate soldir, serving in that famous regilent of fighters, tho 12th South arolina. He was twice wound1 in battle, and was once capired by the enemy and confin1 for a while in a northern rison. After the war Mr. Wilams was married to Miss Bettie ,iddle, sister of Mai. Riddle, of ancaster, and Mr. T. S. Riddle, f Dixie, who died before Mr. /illiams's removal to Texas, hree children by the the raarri ?g are left surviving, Mrs. tenry Gulp and Mrs. Alice Bal irJ, of this county, and Mr. harles Williams, of Texas. Mr. Williams also leaves a sister in lis county, Mrs. F. M. Stogner. We have received the lollowig clipping from a Texas paper iving the particulars of Mr. Williams's foul murder: A telegram was received here ist night by Chas. Williams anouncing that his father, E. [. L. Williams, had been killed ear there yesterday and re uested that he come there as >on as possible. This morning a telegram was mt to Harlingen asking f r lurter particulars when i was arned that Mr. Williams ssterduy morning early wont at in search of his cows, and at returning home, some busicion was aroused and a party ent out in search of him about I o'clock. About noon the I'eless body of Williams was iund in the chaparral bv th do of the road with a bullet jle in it. He had evidently ?en dead some hours. About this time it was learned lat Luis Medina, a sheep herdon the Dix ranch, had sud inly disappeared that morning, king with him a good horse, iddlo aud Winchester and had me in the direction where ^illiams's body was later found. A diligent search for the exican was at once instituted, it at last accounts at noon he as still at largo with a com pany of rangers on his trail and capture seems certain. yhe rangers have in the meantime arrested on suspicion a white man who is well known in this section. Mr. Williams was a former rosident of Corpus Christi, where he was well and favorably known, being engaged in the truck business here for some time, as well as in other business. For the past several years lie has made his home in the lower country and made many friends wherever known. His son, Ohas. Williams, who is ticket agent of the TexasMexican and St. L., B. & M. | roads here, left this morning for Qarlingen. His tragic death is deeply deplored by all aud it is hoped the foul assassin will be speedily captured and given his dues. I Kershaw Happenings. ______ A Cotton Mill ir? Ptinrh.* A AAA ?TI Recent Marriage. Reported for The News. Editor News: It affords us much pleasure to say that I now believe the feasibility of the construction of a cotton mill at this place within the near future is almost an assured fact. Our citizens seem to be in dead earnest. There is only a very small a11 m \7f>t tn 0nU?A-;U-J ' ? ...... , V.V vvr uo ClUUJUUUeU tu 111 sure the undertaking. It is to be capitalized at $100,000 to $150,000. Mr. Tom McCary, one of Richburg's most successful business men, came down Wednesday last, and carried away one of our most estimable young ladies, Miss Emma Jones, daughter of the late Col. Burwell Jones. The ceremony was solemnized in the presence of a small circle of relatives and friends at the homo of the bride's mother, Mrs. llamit Jones. The happy couple boarded the 1 30 train for Richburg. The hosts of friends here extend congratulations and wish them all the happiness and prosperity possible. Omega. Congress to Increase Appro priations for Experiment Stations. Washington, Feb. 15.?'lhe "morning hour" prevailed in the house today until after 5 o'clock. The net result was the passage of a bill to increase to $30,000 a year the federal appropriation to each State and territory for the support of agricultural experiment stations and of a hill repealing the present law granting American register to foreign ships wrecked and repaired on the American coast in the discretion of the secretary of department of commerce and labor and requiring a special act of congress to grant such register. The Legislature. I The House Kills Biennial Sessions Resolution-?No Dispensary Legislation Probable. Columbia special to News and Courer: The House today fell down on the biennial session resolutions, ( which it ordered a special com- \ mission of its members to pre- j pare. A year ago the members , came here with a vote of the i people of the]JState in favor ot ; biennial sessions. The people of the state had expressed themselves in favor of biennial sessions. Constitutional lawyers said that the proposed resolutions were not sufficient and that other resolutions amending the constitution relative to taxation and other matters were necessary. Then a commission was appointed to prepare everything that was needed. Even men ttio Houso was not asked to pass the bienuial session amendment to the constitution as the people had asked for, but the resolutions proposed a vote on the subject next November. There was no idea that the resolutions submitting the issue to the voters next winter would be killed, but they were killed to day for the lack of five votes. Seventy eight members voted , tor the resolution, but under the i constitution eighty-three votes ( are needed?a two-thirds vote? and the resolutions failed and , nothing whatever lias been or or can now be done. The Sen- , ate adopted the resolutions with , out discussion and by a practical- , I lv iinntti tv* aiio J V4...H.HII1UUO VUIO, I I The House and (lie Senate are getting wider and wider apart on the dispensary legislation. To , day the House passed Hie Ruck , er bill, which simply abolishes the State dispensary and then provides for county dispensaries , in counties wliere the dispensary ( is now in operation. Under the , Uucker bill, which was adopted in the House, there is no option , except between county dispenea , rios and prohibition. The dispensary advocates fought the bill , as hard as they could, but the , House is "agin" the Slate dis pensary and says so on every ( opportunity, and has now given ( the Senate another bill in lieu of the Morgan bill, which it has killed. 1 The House seems determined j , to give the Senate ample to do and ir em hers are freely saying , that the Itaysoi-Manning Tillman bill is really worse than the present statute and that no good, except delay, can come of it. The House agreed to increase ( the salaries of solicitors and after April 1 all solicitors' salaries are to he fixed at $1,700. Mrs. Leroy Springs is expected home from New York today. The Lancaster News, 8 pages twice a week, $1.50. Proceedings oi (lie Legisla* tore \s Reported for The News by Representative Hamel ?Many Measures of More or Less Interest. A bill (o provide for the paricipation of South Carolina in the James'own Centennial exposition, to be held near 11 a nipton Roads, Va., next year, has been introduced in the senate by Senutor Brown, oi Darlington. A bill has passed the house and senate reducing the time of making analysis of fertilizers to thirty days. Mr. Irbv has introduced a cowcurrent resolution calling upon the joint committees on printing in the house and senate to investigate and see if there has not. been conspiracy to defraud the state in the matter of public printing. The ten hour labor law was killed in the house Thursday. The vote in favor ol the measure has grown some since last year. Mr. Talbert has introduced in the senate a very important measure requiring the supervisors of registration to revise their bookB. This should be done, as a great deal of confusiou has been caused the past year on account of the condition of the registration books in several counties. Senator Blease has introduced in the senate a bill providing that no money, fee or salary shall be paid by the state to any person acting in place of any state oflicer, judge or solicitor. A constitutional amendment providing for an additional juslice of the supreme court was defeated. Mr. Foster's bill requiring the Southern road to build a new depot at Lancaster, which passed the house lad woek, has been reported favorably in the seriate with an nmondment providing that it shall be completed by January 1, 1907. A bill has passed the house giving the city council of Charleston control of the city water front and empowering jA them to on act ordinances for government of same. (MS The reformatory bill introduc- 1 21 in the house has already been much amended in (ho sonate. It may not pass. All of Mr. Talbert's measures O... 1 ... niu .unending or changing of the dispensary law, wero killed in tho senate Wednesday. The pay of court stenographers has been raised to $1,500. The eil'ort was made to give them $1,600. A great many bills authorizing the issuo of bonds lor the building of new school houses have been passed by this legislaContinued on Eighth Page.