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The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1873 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL I. NO. 81. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C? JULY 18. 1906. PRICE-FIVE CENTS PER COPY. North Carolina Horror 1 Four Members of a Family Butchered and House Set on Fire?Several Negroes in Jail?Confession by One of the Prisoners. Barber Junction N. O., J"'y 14.?Special to New - nod (Jour j ier. One of the mo t horrib'e tragedies in the hihiorv of His county was corami.t d near this; station this morning let ween U ithours of 1 and 2 o'clock. An unknown person entered the house of Mr. Ike Lyerlv, a well known farmer, while its occupants were asleep, killing Mr. Lyerlv, his wile and little son, Johnnie, and wounding their infant baby, Alice. The two parents and two children were sleeping in the front room on the first floor, there being three elder daughters sleeping upstairs, who were unmolested, and were awakened by the smoke and flames from below, the criminal haying set fire to the house. on. :-i- J J --> xuc buiccnnicr fill in uusuciueu the stairs to awake their father * ?*nd mother. On reaching the lower room a most horrible and appalling scene, their lather, mother and the children, still in their beds, all save the youngest, in cold death, their heads being crushed and faces badly disfigured. Through courageous and heroic efforts the elder daughters, Mary and Addie, ages 18 and 16, respectively, r. anaged to carry the dead bodies from the house and extinguished the flames, whereupon they ran to their nearest neighbor, Mr. \V. P. Barber, and told the awlul story of the tragedy. TUB CRI MB IS CONKKSSK1). Barber Junction, N. C., July 14.?At 8 i\ M. the latest development in the Lyerly family assassination up to this hour, is the finding of the coroner's jury as follows : ' That Isaac Lye?ly, his wife, Augusta, and little son. Jhonnie, camo to their deaths by blows from an axe or axes in the hands of Neise Graham, or Gillespie, his f-on, John Gillespie, .lack I Dillingham and wife. George | Cifclrwin and Henry Lee." All the above mentioned are negroes and have been lodged, in the county jail at Salisbury. A Since the arrest of these no-1 groes Gillespie's son has made a! full confef ion that Gillespie,) the father, and son, John Gilles- I pint, killed Mr. Lyorl.v, bis wife a^d the little boy, Johnnie and injured the little girl, who died -'/this evening, and that Ihe other named negroes were implicated "in the commission of the tragedy, lie told a plain story as to how they entered tho house at an early hour in the morning, carrying with them two axes to do the bloody work with, and Dreyfus's Vindication. c I Facts in Notable Case Recalled by Decision of Supreme Court of France. ^ e Charlotte Observer: The Su- j preme Court of France has an- a nulled the condemnation oi Capt. Alfied Drevius. ?! iin? Pi-em'h army, comple'elv vtnd cati g ' 1 ^ u him and entitling him to ie->oration in 'h?* army a- though lie had never been accused,v.ith the1 rmiv of brit;ulier genera1. j Dreyius is really innocent, as the highest court inFrance finds, he was a most grossly persecuted ^ man and nothing the French government c?n now do will re- f pay iiim for the suffering he has doubtless undergone. Dreyfus ^ vras first arrested on October 13, 1894, on the charge of treason in ^ having furnished copies of certain documents in the Ministry f tir - oi ?v ar to agents of a foreign government. The first trial began ^ behind closed doors on December 19, 1894, and Dreyfus was r convicted and eentenced to be publicly degraded and to spend the remainder of his life on Devil's Island, a barren rock off j French Guinea. On January 6, 1895,he was publicly degraded ^ in front of one of the largest military schools, his uniform j stripped of every insignia of rank and his sword broken across , the knee of a non-commissioued officer. On April 13 Dreylus, under the eye of six guards, began j life on Devil's Island. After remaining there four years he was ^ taken back to France and given a public trial at Reunes, where j he was found guilt.v "with extenuating circumstances," and a y pardon was granted, but Dreyfus was not satisfied. Said he the day after lie was freed : "The government of the republic has ^ given me ba-k my liberty. This j is nothing to me without honor. ^ Beginning to day, I shad unremittingly s'rive for the reparation ot the (rightful judicial er I ror of which I am still the victim." And now he has won his . victory, which i.vis-t indeed brine great joy t > h m d i friends. The case has mi racked world-wide attenfion, and sonti- )( nient has all along l?een strong lv in favor ol Dreyfus save in 4\ France. ?A special term of court has been ordered for Ihe trial of the s negroes in Charlotte jail charged t with the murder of the Lyerlys, c an account of which ippears else .S where. a ! 11 after c .mmit'ing the deed, set ' ting fire to the l>"d clothing, puwun^ Kerosene on on the bed clothfngfrom a lamp and leaving j the house to be burned with the p dead parents and children, with C the mention that the remaining ? three children, who were asleep upstairs,should be burned alive '' The prisoner* were taken to Charlotte Saturday night lor v safe keeping. fc Children's Day in Kersha Baptist Church-?Progra of the Occasion. Lep ?* I'd or The N<?ws. Tliere were Children's L) xercises at the Baptist cliur ulv 15th. The programme w s follows : Song?by school. Opening hymn?(June, Ann ;a.) Responsive reading. Paraphrase?loci by pastor. Song?bv primary class, VVc erlnl Word of life. English Version of the Bibb Translations of the Psalter y Frank Powers. Wycliffe translation, New T imenl?by Fred Falkenberry Tyndale's New Testament y Callie Falkenberry. Mills Coyerdales translated lie Bible?by Mamie Whitley The Geneva?by Ethel Gai er. The authorized version? hila Ingram. The New Testament?by Li Iregory. Singing by school. Three recitations: The incomparable Treas? .ois Grenorv. What the fool hath said? Mara Oroxton. Ilow God hath spoken? ,ilie Powers. A song selected by Super endent llecitation : Give praise for Jesu*? 'auline Edgworth. Within the solemn temple y May Edge worth. 'Tis Children's Day?by Mi ngram. The making of a rose? V'ilien Croxton. Song?by a quartette of you romen, ^tuiie, Swanee Kiver) Recitations; H?nv to save 1 Vorld?by four children: Robl )urhnm. E^t^lle Gregory, Arc' tlackmon an<l Eva Copeland. ihx lacts lor six Boys: The Books of the Bible? 'ready Whitley. The Language?by Lee Ealki erry. The Eighty Eighth meeting hull Jones. The Book Ever Printed?] hile Gregory. The lirsi in America? lary Blackmon. A short sermon?by Jan iozman. The children did well and I access oi the occasion is tine hose who had charge of i inldren, who were Mrs. B. erugtia, .Mrs. Dr. Brasin?t< ticl Mjnrt Clara Croxton. i lie anist lor the day was M Irasinclon. Subscriber, Kershaw, July 1 (>. ?Prof. W. A. Dunn, of I acksonham seel h>ii , who has be rincipal of Olarkton Institute larkton, N. C., lor two yea pent a few (lays of last we ere at Mrs. JVl. J. McCain's, is recently been elected to t rincipalship of a high school lma, Ala., and will leave t reek for that place.?Waxh Enterprise. iwl Lancaster County Wins. m i In the Morrison Damage Suit the Supreme Court Reverses Order of Judge Gage ch Transferring Case to York as for Trial. From Columbia Record: Br By an opinion tiled this morning, the supreme court placed the famous Morrison lynching case, in which the heirs of the man lynched sued Lancaster county lor $50,000 damages, just , where it was last fall. It will now either be dropped or will come up in due course for trial r before the Lancaster court of common pleas. Upon representation ot plainQn titfs that they could not secure a fair trial of their cn.uaa in l,nn r(j caster county, Judge (Jage granted a change of venue to York ^ county, whereupon the defendant county, through its counsel, , Mr. W. C. Hough and Mr. Ernest Moore, appealed. After considering the papers and argu meats in the case, the supreme ky court has held that in granting the change of venue Judge Gage ky exceeded his power. His order, therefore, is reversed. Under the code ot civil pro cedure there are ju^t three cases - in which the place of trial may be changed: W.ien the county designated lor that purpose in the complaint is not the proper county; when , there is reason to believe that an impartial trial cannot be had trv therein, and when the convenience ot witnesses and the ends by of justice would be promoted by the change. .Judge Gage based his order solely on his belief that the, l,e "ends of justice would bo promo^je ted by the change." Ijje I The supreme court holds that I the conjunction "and" h -re may | not be construed as it it were by u?r'M anc* Rinco it was not made to appear that the convenience 0n. of witnesses would he promoted, the existence of tlio second rea son is not sufficient reason lor a change of venue. K<*- The opinion in the case was I written bv Mr. Jns'iee Jones, .^y | Mi. J ustice Gary dissent nig. i lie attornev lor the plaintiffs is les Mr. W. II. Nowbobl, while County Attorney W. C, Hough ' ,e and Mr. Krnest Moore represent tlie defendant countv. Tiie title tlie . r a [of tlie ease is: W. T. (Castles, as )n administrator, vs. Lancaster or- County. rs. I ..... ? Vacation for R. F. D. Carriers. lie Congressman Wyatt Aiken ten writes the daily papers as fol at lows: Having had inquiries from rs, R. F. I), carriers in different tek parts ol the state as t<> leave ol He absence with pay I will state lor he the information of those interest at od that carriers will be allowed his 15 d iys leave with pay after aw they have served twelve months, eliective July firstinstant. Kills Two Men. Desperate Tennesseean and His Desperate Father. Knoxville, Tetin, July 15.? Jolm Mcpherson, .aged 24, is & fugitive from .justice with two posses pursuing him, charged with the murder of Grant SmithT a former merchant of this cityr and the latal wounding of Deputy Sheriff Wm. Waimer, whfl attempted to arrest him. McPherson shot and killed Smith in the house of Nettie Hall, appearentiy without provocation. McPherson was accompanied bv his father. Dr. Huek McPherson, at the time, and thf two left I lie city in a buggy, going towards the mountains. Three mile9 out their bugg? collided wit!) one driven by Di Joseph Waddell, breaking ? shaft, which so enraged yonnf McPherson that he pulled th? physician from the buggy hu< beat him seriously. Waddell went to Sheriff Walmer's horn* and the two pursued the McPhersons. One mile lurther out thej met Walmer demanded the surrender of young McPherson and was shot through the right long, and as a result Walmer will dieYoung McPherson continued into the mountains, while hie father returned here und surrendered and is now in jail. Reward* have been otTered tor young Mcpherson's arrest, und posses ar* pursuing him. Dr. McPherson shot and killed a fellow physician some eifiht years ago and served five years, of a seven years' sentence before he was pardoned. Mr. Pollock Operated On. I ' Condition of Prominent Chesterfield Man Believed to be Improved. Columbia, July 15?Special to News and Courier: Mr. W 1 I >. .1 I * - i I i wmiLK wim u|ieraiea on to-Mat ! hv Dr (iuerrv for ann'Midiciti* | at tiio Coluni i? Hospital. 11 i& condition bus boon critical to? | sever d dr.-, bu' win l-ottor ? >day. lie stood the operation ver.* well and unless there should i* some cotnplication, his physicians are very hopeful ol' the favorable result of the operation Owing to the condition of the appendix an operation was not deemed safe nil1 1 'n-Iay. Mr ! Pollock stO'd the operation finely, and everyone is to ni^bi enj conraged i Schedule of Kershaw Campaign. The following appointment* | have boon made for the county I candidates in Iter haw : Beaver Dam. August 7th. Blaney. August 8th. Bethune, August 21si Ivirkl?-.. .-Mill, Augu'i 22ud. Westvilh, August 23rd. Camden. August 25th.