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' * # The Lancaster News i LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. 2. NO. 2. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C., OCTOBER 10. 1906 PRICE?FIVE CENTS PER COPY. Tillman's Solution ' ( Of Race Problem?Advocates i Passport System?'W ould j Require Every Person to ^ have Certificate of Good , Character. ? i Augusta, Ga , special in Sunday's Columbia State: Senator' B. R. Tillman's description tonight of the jn'oblem which con fronts the South wa? passionate and throbbing with intense and burning eloquence. It glowed j j with the lurid lire which made] I "pitchlork Tillman" famous. But i his sug es'ed >o utiou ot tiie problem was 'he cool, sober, peaceable and impactful ate ut- I terancetif i irreat Southerner and a statesman. , flM 1 ... i ne sciurne proposed tonight in i lie senator's !edure was orig iiia 1 with Senator Tillman, and his speech in Augusta marked its first public enunciation Whether or not it is practical the people ol the Southern States will decide. That plan is the establishment of the European passport system, compelling every person to have a certificate of good character before being allowed either to move away from a residence, or home, or to move into a new section, compelling every person to have bona fide niea??s of support, etc., and promptly arresting anv one who aonears in anv eiiinmnnitv without the necessary passport. This, Sen a'or Tillman brieves, will hold iu < hpck ihe lawless, loafing, fiendish negro criminal cla's whose members are respon sible for the awful (lander which stalks abroad, a menace to every Sou hern woman. In speaking of the burning question Senator Tillman said : 4,I am not an alarmist and have been a close student of conditions* in the South for the last -40 years. 1 have had experiences such as few men have had, extending back to the old pla tition days before the war and coming down through Reconstruction and the -ubseu uent overflow ol :he carpeting regime in South Carolina 1 have been i an active participant, in those j race riots I have watched tliei evolution up and down of the! negro race through these varying phases and I express the opinion calmly and deliberately that we are lace to lace with a crisrs which means much to hotli black and white in the South, and it1 will be nothing less than criminal i! we continue to blindly grope our way and drift as we have been doing for the last 35 years or more. I may he in error, but 1 make the prediction that in less than 10 yearH, I fear in less than five, there will be an immense number of bloody j riots. North and South, beside which the Atlanta race riot will pale into insignificance. The passport system is the very tiling, and if it hurts a white man lie is the man we want to get rid of. We don't need such trash. We don't need such trash. We must al! stand together, and I believe mat this is the most feasible p'an. It there is any other advanced 1 will gladly consider it and see if we can do anything with i?. This lias proven to be a good rule in Europe, and it will here " Another Account of the Sharp-Walker Nuptials. As announced in Saturday's issue of The News, the Rev. R. E. Sharp, ot Van wye k, was m ?r ried in Yorkville last Wednesday. Kuriher particulars ?>t the event are thus given in the last issue ot the Yorkville Enquirer: Miss Alma Iv-oise Walker, eldest daughter of Dr and Mrs. M. J. Walker, and Rev. Robert Euuene Sharp were united in marriage Wednesday morning, October 3. 1900, at 8 o'clock. Rev. Dr. .J. L Stokes ofliciaied, assisted by Dr. S. A. We* er. When the hour arrived. Mrs. S. J. Si fiord of (Jastonia. N. C., be gan Mendelssohn's wedding march. The bride and her maid of honor, Mi6s Strauss Walker, issued from one room, while the groom and his best man, Rev. E. K. Hardin came from another. They met at the parlor door, the maid ot honor and the hest man going in lirst lolloved by the bride and groom. The room was simply, but beautifully decorated with terns, palms and cut llowers. Tne bride wore a going-awav cown ot green plaid with hat and gloves to match IIjv. and Mrs. Sharp left on the C. Ar N. W. lor Honea Path, to visit the home o\ the groom. The bride received many pretty, useful presents. Race Trouble in ArkansasNegroes Kill White Man and Wound his Son. Argenta, Ark., <'c''. >?Two L'olum brothers, negro undertakers, are birric aded in their store here, across Arkansas river Irom Little Kock, and detv the police. Policeman Lindsay of Argenta is lying in front ot the store badly wounded, with his fat her dead beside him. The Lindsays are white and shot by the Colnms. Some time hl'o a brothur Af tlio I 'i?l 11 ?Wij I w. W VWIUUI3 Vf cS.^ IMIIfH liuring a fmlit, which occurred during aii inquest over a negro who had been killed by a white man. In this fight a brother ot Policeman Lindsay was shot seriously and is now confined to his bed. Po-ses are being organized to take the negroes now. The Colum Bros.' establishment, in which the brothers were barricaded, has been dynamited. The neirroes escaped and a mob is searching for them. A dou hie lynching is probable. Do you take The News? Court Proceedings Several Cases Disposed o and Others to be TriedTwo Homicide Cases Se for Today. The court of general session' convened here Monday morning, Judge Geo. K. 1'rince presiding this being his honor's first tern i.i Lancaster. Solicitor 1 lenr1 and Stenographer McL'aw are a their respective posts of duty. Grand Juror J. It. Suture wat excused Monday morning for tin t* rm. Ju lge Prince's charge to thegram jury va* both interesting am forceful, and it evidently made i deep impression on all who heart it.In addition to theusuulmatter touched upon in such charges the Judge directed the attennm <>i ine trranu )ur rto the fae that it is a part of their duties t look aftoi tlie welfare of YIn schools of the county, to see thn they are properly conducted am that trustees and the superinten dent of education are doiug thei duty. The following cases have thui far been disposed of: Jamei lteed pleaded guilty tothecharg of house breaking and larceir and received a three year sen tence. Capers Can then pleadei guilty to violation of dispensar; law and was sentenced to 3 mot hard labor on public work or t pay a line of $100 Charles Liar mon, charged w.tti assault and battery with intent to kill, wa tried and convicted of simple as sault. llis sentence was 30 day or $50. He naid the fii>o < Terry was otmvicted of attemp to commit criminal assault am sentenced to 10 years in peniter tiary. Fraser Hummcnd, charge* with similar offense, was acquit tod. True hills have been found 11 following other cases : Doss Sims Sylvester Small and Dock Small assault and battery withinten to kill and carrying concealet weapons? case continued ; Caper Oauthen, another case I??r viola ing dispensary law ; Frank IVter son, murder ; Judge Clifton, mur der ; E. K. 1'hiIlips and W. T. W11 liams, a-sault ind batrerv witl intent to kill and carrying con oealed weapons. Bill* w??re han !e< 1 out in fol lowing other cases : Kras?r Ham mond, assaulr and battery witl intent to kill; W. G. A. Porter Manly J. Porter and (J. L. Mc Mauus, assault ami battery will intent to kill; -Joe and Louvinii Rice, larceny; Colli lis Jones, as aauIt and battery with intent ti kill; Robert Cunningham, lar cenv. No bill was found in case o Messrs Porter and MrManu* noted above. The two homicidi capes are set for trial today. Agent a. Ark., Oct. 7.?As i sequel to the killing of Joli< Lindsay and wounding of his son Policeman Milton Lindsay, her' last n'ght, presumably by Garret Colum and (diaries Colum, ne groes, H. Blackburn, a negro was lynched tonight at lOoVlocl I at 'lie corner of Sixth and Man ^ streets. The Crop Outlook in MissF sippi?Cotton Sprouting i j Bolls and Corn Rotting. t Dr. T. J. Strait is in receipt o a letter from his kinsman, th K-v. J. L. Cooper. I). 1),, of Mil sissippi,, irom whicti it appeal ^ tliat the crop outlook in that stat is indeetl blue. Dr. Cooper, wh has a large farming interest i t Mississippi, is at present in Moi treat, N. C., and it is from th , latter point that lie writes 1) Strait, his information as to cro conditions at home being base* upon letters received by hit iron) there. In his letter to D j Strait, written last Friday, Di j Cooper says: ''Since writin * it ? "hove we havo several lettei I from our place, and it appear , that after 10 days' constant rai it. is still raining and the cotto i-; n ?r only spr uiting in the boll: f but the middle crop is puchin (i open the halt' open bo'la b sprouts putting out, an?1 the f write us that nil that is left u j it' the rains stop, is the grow bolls now on the stalks. The cor is also blown down and is rottin r . as it lies. This is alarming, a it looks like ruin." 3 5 e Negro Charged with Attack v ing Ten-year-Old Girl. 1 Nortolk, Va, Oct. 6.?A sp< j cial to the Norfolk Ledaer-Di 0 patch Irom Suffolk, Va., fcoda . says: 1 There are threats ot lynch:n s at Myrtle, Va. This morning negro by the name ot Underwoo h attacked 10-year-old Lois Laii; lord, daughter of W. .J. Langton j The negro told her if she screen ed wouhl kill her. She screan j ed nevertheless. Her cries friuh ened the negro, who ran. Tli attack was made back o! the !i i tie girl's home. The negro e: i, caped into the near by woods. , It the negro is captured i' i ' thought he wdl be lynched. 1 . Negro Shoots Two Youn - Men in Macon. " l Macon, Ga.. O *t. 0? \boi j 10 o'c ock tonight I lnrle I A lams and William Solomot prominent young white met I were - hot uy a negro ami ferioui h lv injure at the lair ground, ' where night shown were givin j pertorinances. The Midway w? ' thronged with hundreds ol youn 1! people. Ad 'ins and Solomo w to escorting two young ladiei D J . j when a negro, m a very offer sive manner, forced his \j?,\ 1 between the couples, separatin ' them. A remonstrance trom tli e j young men led to an eneounfp when the negro whipped out a revolver and opened lire o a I Adams and Solomon, both r< i, ceiving wounds in the stomacl b Adams wis not so seriousl t i wounded, but Solomon's cond u tion causes much apprehensioi , The negro was-promptly arreste k ' and nlaced in iai'. ?i : Read The News. A Serious Difficulty. n One Party Stabbed and the Other Shot, the Latter also if e Breaking his Leg. 3 A serious difficulty occurred :e at, tlie Lancaster Cotton Mills o last Monday morning. It ap, I pears from what we can learn I ej that Hie engineer, .Mr. II. C. r S^ttlerneyer. was discharged by p Superintendent O. U Skipper for d assaulting a young man named Threa' in 'he engine room, tlie r assault bei' g reported to the ' superintendent bv the e ppmm Meitui, Mr. Frank Sett ietneyer. son r jot the engineer An hour or two after the engineer had been 11 n di -missed and e :le>i with, the B set'lenvn' being mad' wi'h >ut a any unpleasant ne-s. Capt. S<ipv per and Mr. L. G. 1) ;u. o'i were y standing talking in 'lie side door s, of the c mpanv's olliee build ne, 11 when, heariugsomeoue apptoachn ing throurh the n|?Ve, Capf. ^ Skipper turned his head to see L? who it was. and just [as he did so he rec gnized trie engineer, Mr Set'hni-yer, who inst>ntly stabbed Sk pper with a knife, the blade entering the left ear, making a serious wound Tho 3- blow Knocked Mr. Skipper out 3 the door on to Hie -'epi. As soon y as lie recovered his equilibrium Mr. Skipper drew bis pistol and fired at his assail tut, who in the ~ niean'inie. it i< sa'd, lo-d made a i ?ick wrh bis knife at Mr Dobson, w:io doilneJ the blow, i'lie bullet irom the jh'o1 struck Mr. Settleinver in the hand, and upj_ on receiving the wound he turned and went back through ie the ollioe. On reaching the piazza lie undertook to jump to the s ground and in doing so lell ai d broke his leg. He was removed . to his resident, where bis injjurie* ^ere attend-d t ? by Drs. K li >tt and McDaw. Capt Skipper's wound was 8 j dre sseil by Drs. Crawford and j Brown, ind later in the day Dr. I'ryor of Chester wis brought ,, over to c insult with them. Capt. ,s Skippet lost considerable blood i f re the doctors fin all v r-ue j i (seeded in taking up some cut s-'veins. l'ne uniortunate allair is 110 doubt creatlv regretted by all fr pirlies concerned. r> i 18 j ^' Coming Meeting of A. R. 'P. n: Presbytery. '* y \ - rkville N \v h a: Tlie first g Presbytery of tbe Associate Iiee formed Presbyterian Synod of the r, | South will meet Oct. 30th at ;i j "Miaron, me lirst session be.no n j held at 10 o'clock. >-1 The opening sermon will be i. preached by the retiring moderay tor, Uev. William Duncan ot tire i-; First A. R. 1*. church of Charlotte, 11. or his alternate, the Rev. W. C. ' 1 Ewart ot this place The session j will Ho presided over by the moderator-elect, Rev. .1. M. [ White. i