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. The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. I. NO. 99. SEMI-WEEKLY. Lm? . VTER. S. C., SEPTEMBER 19. 1906. PRICE?FiVE CENTS' PER COPY. i Developing Anthony Shoals The Fitzpatrick Brothers, Formerly of Lancaster but now in Washington, [Ga., Making Progress with their Great Water Power and Railroad Enterprises. From the Washington GazetteOhronicle. Mr. T. M. Fitzpatrick return ed home on Monday Irom a very pleasant and successful trip to New York, and informs us that the arrangements for financing the great enterprise of develop ing Anthony Shoals and building the two railroads from Washington to the Shoals and to Lincolnton are moving along as smoothly as could be desired. The financiers who have been approached in regard to the matter are as fully convinced of the great possibilities of the undertaking as the many other people who have bean investing worth n ( n; - & ...ib wtiguinceiu power lor the past several years. Several 'ot the best engineers in the United States have made survey of these shoals, and all with one accord agree that an immense power can he developed at a.low cost as any where in this count rv. Mr. Lester, the civil engineer who was employed by Messrs, T. M. Fhzpatrick & Bro. has spent many months at the shoals TY1 ?l I.' 1 ti r* onrwnita " ' * 1 .......ou.Ycjn, hiiu inwse nave been more thorough than any tliat have }?oue before. The more thoroughly t.iese shoals are furveyed and the power calculated the more convinced all are of the great value of the power as a commercial laclor. We learn that when t*he jjreat dam is conducted, the water impounded will he the second or third largest volume in this ^ A r. ? ' -- country. n win k>rrn a lake nbout twenty miles lornr, and in some places two or three miles wide. The writer ottaa has the question asked hi in if these shoals are going to hw developed by tho'e gentlarnen wlio now have this enterprise in haad. We ?*) can not speak ex cathedra, but from what we have seen and learned about till* move ment, and the work and expense that have bran fcrnfrh, we are convinced heyatvd aW question of donbt tlmt i4is power will bo harnearad Mtiliaed lor commercial puposes just us soon as so gran' aa aadertaking can be earned i*r ward * com pletion. Ins value to t>k? parties who are interested as weK as to this en tiro section ( the aountrycan not be estiaiatad. > , ? , , Tom Watson is goiag t? establish a weekly newpuf?r in Augusta, to be called ''The JatforBO*iian."; t, Tragic Death of a Young School Teacher- -Thrown by a Mule. Chester Reporter ; Mr. John W Jeflares, Feasterville, in Fairfield County, a well known young tencher, was thrown from his mule Saturday afternoon about three miles from the city, and from the injuries thus received he died yesterday morning. The animal which he was riding became frightened at some children by the roadside and making a sudden lunge threw his rider to the ground. Mr. JefTares was a graduate of Clemson College, having com pleted the course in civil engineering at that institution in 1899 lie afterwards took a post graduate course at the University of Nashville. He had taught several schools in Chester and raiment counties, and at the tune of iiis death lie was prepar ing to take charge of the Wright school in this county. Another Lynching in the State Narrowly Averted. Augusta, Cia., Sept. 16.?Bob Simpkins, a Ridge Springs negro, came near passing out of existence via the rope route last iinrht at Wards, a sma 1 station half way bet wet n Columbia and Augusta on tlie Southern Simpkins insulted Mrs. Robert Kirkland, wile of a well-to-do Ridge Springs man, as the lady was walking along the street yesterday afternoon. The boldness of the negro was more in the na (ure ot an insulting remark than an advance toward an attack. Mrs. Kirkland's presence ot mind saved her. She promptly reported the matter and (he neuro was hustled off on tlie train and transferred to Saluda jail. A crowd of armed men gathered at Wards to lynch Simpkins but the otlicers were loo quick lor the mob. Shot at Another Man's Wife i .i n anu uien oomnrmteci Ouicide. Macon, (ta.t Sop'. 15 ?Charles Uaismar, one "I tlie largest I retail grocers in this city, shot Mrs. K. B. Iver, al her home in Atlanta this morning about 8 o'clock, shuttering the bene of her thumbs ami then blew out his brains It seems that (Jcsi I mar was infatuated with I lie | woman and went to her home | last .night and was refused adjmittmce, and the tragedy tollow ! ad this morning Mrs. Ivev, until recently, lias lived in tnis oily and was well knilMil. lit J- llliull.l I..1 mi .. , - v% " ??r (ill I extensive business here. After moving to At hints Geismar Uas visited the family, haying dined ivith them hist Sunday. Mr. It. N. N-iflbet, of Waxhaw, is visiting Ins brother, Mr. J. F. -Nisbet. Tabernacle Happenings. * 1 Farmers Busy Gathering Crops?School Matters?Exodus of Boys and Girls r to College--A Delightful f Social Event. v . c ^ f Mr. Editor : Please allow me ^ space in the columns of your valuable paper for a few dots c from this section. We are now entering upon I the busiest season of the farmer with his crops. Fodder pulling 1 has been the order of the day for the past two weeks, and now | the picking of the tleecy staple is in full blast. Corn is generally good but cotton will be a short 9 crop. The Tabernacle School, taught by Profs. Ilamel and Rowell, . ha5 closed tor the usual fall vacation ot about six weeks. The worK done has been very grali- ^ tying to all concerned Tim school sends six young men lo 1 Wofford College, one to Furman University and one to the University ot South Carolina. Can any other school in the county beat tl>is? Prof. Hamel is a graduate of Wofford College and is a man of unusual intellectua' r attainments , A very enjoyable social event v was given by Miss Odessa Ply ^ ler last Friday night at the home | of her father, Mr.'Simeon Ply- s ler. Refreshments were served, v to the enjoyment of all present, a The event was given eompli- | mentary to the young men and | young ladies who are to leave j this week for college. N Misses Minnie and Georgia v IMyler and Miss Dessie Stewart c will leave in a lew days to re ? I s 11 me their studies in the Col- t | umbia Female College. Messrs t Geosge Carnes, Charles How ell, \ Harnev Stewart, Gabe Ingraham j and Capers and Simeon Hlyler v will leave tomorrow (Tuesday) ^ for Wotlord College. We wish i the b >ys and girls great success ? in life. o Mies Eva Funderburk, who [ has been visiting relatives in \ this section and is now visiting in Chesterfield county, will re- s turn in a few days to her home 1 | in Birmingham, Alabama. Well, Mr Editor, the elec- ^ tions are now a thine of the past. Some of the candidates will have to go home for unoth or two years at least. We ex- I tend sympathy to defeated ran-in j didates, and our congratulations a to Hlio successful ones. h Yours etc., h Farm Hand. In o. K., s. t'. ! n m l | A freight engine was overturned Saturday night near I I ? * ' * ?* inmie, tdtrin!; up several feel i of track and delaying the niornmg trains for several hours. A '1 aeirro hreakman had a lo;.' broken <1 in the catastrophe.?(Jtae?ter Re- e porter. It I Startling Increase in Immigration. 3 Washington special in Monlay's Charlotte Observer: I mnigration to the United Stales rorn foreign countries is increas ng at a startling rate. Where it vill cease is a problem which is nnfronting the officials of the ountry. Already the facilities S or the handling of immigrants t t the various large ports in the r' ountry are taxed to the utmost 11 nd, within a few months, it has ^ income necessary to enlarge ^ hese facilities in order that ah- , n olnte hardship shall not be vorked on the incoming aliens. n Jlans have been prepared for j, arge additions to the accomoda- s ions of the great immigration t itation on Ellis Island, New e fork bay. Those additions can- r mt be made without authority 11 rom Congress, hut it is expected 0 hat, at its next session. Con- v :re88 will authorize the exetnli ure of, approximately, $200.(K>0 ^ n increasing the facilities at lie Ellis Islaiul station. \ Citizen of Monroe Stabbed in t Chester. 1 r i Chester Reporter : It. L. Mills, a >f Monroe, N. C., a member of a i rew of Western Union linemen, f vho have been making this city d lieir headquarters for the last r ew days, was badly cut. and ^ itllbborl tlm < A ' . . t ' -\y>? m v VUG ?*\ . 1 J, ll^pOl Saturday night by Frank Blake, v mother member ot t kin party. * 'rom what can be learned ot , r lie affair it seems i hat Mills was yitig on the ground near the pri ,, n?le car, ill which the party Ira j rel, engaged in twitting Blake c in some trival subject, when a uddenly the latter to the sur- . v irise ot the company leaped on I lie recumbent man and began P 0 hack and slab with a kniie. v ntlictia^ several dangerous vounds. Dr. J. M. Brice was 8 ummoned at once and found ^ he wounded man suffering from , 1 bad slash in the right arm, a a ut in the throat, a stab in the j, uick and a long wound extend ng nearly all the way across s< be back About twenty-live n titidies were required to sew up he wounds. B VLan Missing Near Macon f< is Fou*d Murdered. ? h Macon, Cm, "eptember lfi.? lebert JJeore, who been ti lissinir twe days, \t?s fonm i in 1 sffinip near Tillnaa's Ferry. ielo\v M-aro*. nix bullet b oles im ni* body and letters h*<1 loner wi *t? p*?k*t? Ne elue to J I" lurderer. dfvavy Frrst k"> Northerp New York. n tiallston, >?. T , Kopt. 15.? t "he mercury dropped 10 decrees c urinsr the nirbt and wa* follow-' k d by the first hoary frost of \ he season. e Crazed by Religion ^our Negroes Cause Trot&e? in Anderson?Whites A?-? tacked--One of the Negraeat Killed. Greenville special in Observ-ecc uffering from emotional insn.tr>-* V, superinduced it is believed bf eligion, four of the bent neirri ? u Anderson county late yet-teeny afternoon became violeiL ulled one white man from ki* orse and forced him to flee f<7fr ia life, wantonly destroyed ?. nail box belonging to a wfez-o nan, stoned the white mar. lis wile, when they offered wistance, and finally barricade hemselves in their well furniaSkd cottage where they Bttrcirlg esisted all efforts to arrest iikm intil yesterday morning. U m f the four negroes wat> ?kti .u_i * * i iinc mi iiien:>u8e ana uiea v?erday. The other three b*~er teen lodged in the jail in Andiron. Keed Anderson, 65 years of ?.r* Villiam Anderson, Elsie And^ on and Aaron Anderson, aK<if he same family, were the f<sur icgroes. They together o v-t nore than 200 acres of fine fHr/n? ng land and generally regard**! is the most respectable uegreen n the county. All four of tbero lecame violently insane Thnrn* lay evening and met Mr. It'll age Merritt, who was pu.'i.vf romjhis horse and forced to 4 w or his life. Later the uegcoti vent down the road and came vi U ? 1 ?! >?_ I- * uc iiictce ui .nr. oanies L.ong ?*i ore down his mail boy. Vbmi dr. and Mrs. I/mg ordered t'>T* iway, they stoned the fp.rkjt.?*v. nd his wife was out by the 'J;y* ng missiles. The negroes r.err. aptured and tied hut they brake ,way and went to their cottta?-, rhere they barricaded the door*. A large crowd of white pe.ejiC** ;athered about the hous<i sad raited outside, it being evicwvit hat the crazed negroes w?r* rnied. l)r. W. A. Tripp, hnfwatf 0 administer some potion to .cilice sleep, finally gained sdBi.n^ ance but was shot in the Sw? nd hurled through the doer, hw 1 not seriouly hurt. Finally Sheriff Scott, of Anderon county, was admitted i?y .;?* egroes and the mamaes * ?; ?* i? j * * ttiniuuiit'u. npeu Anderson vat 'lot in the melee and die-i. >thers of the negroes were *?f erinii from brumes and cute .ail tie other may die. Mrs. Long not sertc&tlr ti rt by the rooks. The affair created iivtonse e:vc:N> uent, but there were no effort* lade at lynching .?? the negmet tore very favorably known f.:.1 t wa^easilv seen Hint reason \*i ieen dethroned. Cilled by Thrown Pockrt Knife. St. Augustine, Fla., So^'. 4? ? Robert While and iunch, well conmocted * *?' iten, engaged in a .j^iar^r -t+wr oday oyer an alleged del ents. While threw '? nife with irr^a1 force, ;lw .-AtM end rating Buach'n heart lad. ausing his death.