The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, February 17, 1906, Image 1
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 ,
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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 ,
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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. ^
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Bethel Items. q
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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.
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A Cotton Mill ir? Ptinrh.* A
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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 ' ?
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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.
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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
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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
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