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.. The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. 2. NO. 15. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C., NOVEMBER 2B. 1906 PRICE?FIVE CENTS PER COPY. Unfortunate Affair in N. C. r v Quarrel Between a Minister 8 and a Farmer About For 1 mer Hunting on Latter's 11 Land Results in Serious li Difficulty. v 8i Newton special in Charlotte ? Observer : As a r.j.-ult of a qua*"rel which tnllnwe 1 upon his hav- g ing forbidden Rev. J. J. Pav?eur p to hunt upou his lands, Mr. Erell p Burke, a Catawba county farmer, e was shot in the face by Mr. Pay- p suer today, receiving both bar 8] rels of a shot gun in his face. u His wounds are 6erious, but are l( ^ not considered fatal. li The incident which resulted h so seriously occurred this afternoon about 4 o'clock near Maid- u en, a bmall town ten miles from t Mewton and Lincolnton. Mr. Payseur, according to iuforma r tion received here to-night, wps s( hunting upon Mr. Burke's lanQ6, when the latter gentleman ap j, peared and lodged a pro'est. u Hot words followed thi-'. Then 8i it was, so the story runs, that a Mr. Payseur raised his gun and vs fired both barrels at Mr. Burke, iy who received the loads in his ^ face. Medical aid was procured as soon aspos>ible and the wounds / of the injured man dressed. The trial of Mr. Payseur, it 'j is understood, will be held to j, morrow morning at 10 o'clock, presumably at Maiden. ^ Mr. Payseur is p. Baptist min- n isfer and was until recently the n principal of South Foik Insti w A. a. - . 1 _ 1 ' i - - > rn I ? * I mte, a nign scnooi. ;inis scnooi ;l is not running tins fall. Mr. Pay- y seur wa9 principal of Matthews high school, in Mecklenburg j, county, about eight years ago,and f( is known in that section. Subse u quently he taught in the eastern part of the State, returning later \ to the west. He is married. B >th men are about 30 years ot age. 1 Another Version of the Pay- Ji seur-Burke Affair. n w From Monday's Charlotte Ob ( server: Mr. Burke had given fo o Mr. Payseur permission to hunt ^ on his land, and had hunted ^ with him. Mr. 1'ayseur and his p little 10 year old boy, Pritchard, C along with Charley Parker, a 16year-old boy, was hunting near Burke's house. Burke sent New- ? h ton with a pistol to the far side r of the field, while Mr. Burke a:- \ saulted Mr Payaeur. approach- a iug from toward Burke's house. I Mr. Burke shot at Mr. 1'ayseur, * taking aim with elbow resting f on his knee. Mr. 1'ayseur heard Burke call to him to leave field and cursed him violently. Mr. 1'ayseur turned from c shooting birds, having just shot d one bird and shot at another, s He called to Mr. Burke and told d him that he had given permis b sion to hunt ; that he was leav- I ing his field; that he did not S mean to offend him. Burke a came over to Mr. Paygeur, took a him by the collar and phot him n with his ritle, Mr. Payeeur, try- F ing to the las' to get Burke to \ eason lor a moment, but li rould not do it. When Mr. IV eur saw that Burke ivaly men ? shoot htm, he struck him wit is gun and knocked hitn wit lis left hand. Mr. Burke's she ras aimed directly at Mr. Pa} eur's head, t ut the latter thre1 p Itis hand and the shot aid n< o Us deadly work. Mr. Pa} eur was alraid to turn from Mi furke until he had gone off, lc furke shot at him as he approacl d from his house at the first an 'ayseur was afraid he woul hoot him. Mr. Newton cam p with a pistol and accompat ?d Mr. Burke, Payseur with h: ittle boy wenton by Mr. Burke ouse to his home. Both Burke and Payseur at mder bond of $100 each. Th rial will take place at Maide londay at 2 p. m. Burke hi etained Mr. Feimster and Paj eur Self A: Whitener. Dr. Youut, of Newton, ha ust made a critical examinalio i Burke's cut on the head an ays that it was not a shot, bu bruise. Mr. Payseur hit hin rith his gun. It seems fcha Ir. Burke was very much t lame. P. tenth of Mm. Thomas Camett. Mrs. Nannie Games, wite ot M D Garues,died yesterday mort ig,their at home in theWild Ct action. She had been in failin ealth for some time. Iier maide ame was Bialey, and she was ?ei<Ient of Rock Uill when sli as married to Mr.Games, aboi year ago. She wan about 3 ears of age. Mrs. Carnes was an estimabl idy and leaves a large circle < elatives and friends to lamer er untimely death. Ir. l> lieece It'ittiumn to he Mat riedtn Clinton thin After noon. As previously announced i 'he News, Mr D. Reece Wi tarns, one of the leading youu rembers of the Lancaster bai 'ill be married this afternoo j Miss Rosa E. Bailey,daughte f Mr. and Mr?. I'u'sy Silas Ba iy, of Clinton. The ceremon rill be performed at 5 o'c'ock 11 the Presbyterian church c Minton. Mr. VVilliams left here ye: erday morning for Clinton, at ompanied by the following r< itivee and friends: Mr. J. O ar Williams, Col. and Mrs. '1 r Williams, Mrs. T. M. Hugh* nd little daughter, Miss Ilelei )r. R C. Brown and Mr. Geor^i lout ll Vhere Lnncnster Members Itn/ tint Convention tire belnu K* tertnlned. The Baptist State Oonventic onvened in Spartanburg yeste ay and will probably be in se ion several days. Ministers an elegates bom Lancaster ha\ eeu assigned homes as follow? )r. J. H. Boldridge, with 0. 1 anders; Messrs. I). A. Willsan nd W. C. Thomson, with Ilov rd Chapman ; Rev. R. J. Blacl ion, with M B Kzell; J. I 'underburk with W. W. Fain Villiam Cook with M. B. Ezel 'his road is being largely boy-1 ofcted of late on account ot these j 'eep hills. i'eople go miles around to shun hese bad hills,which are on the aain road that leads by Dixie, )wight, Carnes school house, radesville, Dudley, and is the lain road from Lancaster to :hesterHe!d. To improve these ills will bring thousands ot ollars of trade to Lancaster anually. If this last section of Dad is taken up and improvd, I will do all the surveying nd engineering free and will ersonally inspect, the work e "Why Can't we Do It ?" 1 7- C. . . u Timely Question Surveyor s ll Belk Propounds to all Inh terested in Good Roads? t ?t The Macadamizing of One n r- or Two Miles Next Year E w Suggested?Mr.Belk's Lib- 1 ,t eral Proposition. ! n 7 Mr Editor: Why can't our coun-J | ty build one or two miles of ! , ' (1 . macadam road the coming year? i n j The chain-gang has been cut j out of the county's expenses with _ a saving to our county of about i? ? a , two and one-half thousand dolP lars annually, and with the inL 8 ^ >8 come upon our hired criminals added our county is about three _ thousand dollars better off each e c e Why can't we u-e this amount, a or a part of it, to build better 18 O roads? J So far as I know, our county , d has not a yard of graded and macadamized road outside of town n t , limits, while Mecklenburg Cound ? ti ty, IS. C., just a little north of ? us, has 243 miles of graded, ma H t 0 cadamized roads?more than ? 1 of that county's entire public 1 road mileage. Why can't we e make a beginning some time? Of course we can, but why not now? ll our County Board can see 1 its way clear financially to spend 11 a lew thousand dollars even on 1 ^ better roads, 1 would like to n suggest one of two places to be gin. First, the Redfield road rj e from town limit to McDow place; h 11 and second, the Gills Creek hills f !0 on the Chesterfield road. }l The first named section of one I * and one-fourth (1 j) miles is the Sj levelest and perhaps more travel i( ed than any road leading out 0 ot town, and would just beaconliuuance of the macadamized b work that was recently done on p Fast End to town limit. This h it section ol road has but one hill s< !- that would have to be cut down p g ?the McDow hill?ami could r, be shaped and macadamized i, Irom town limit to the parting >r of the Red field and Chesterfie'd i- roads lor about two thousand v dollars. There could be one-liall ,U. I L-l .11 , me i???u ueu macadamized and the other hall left . dirt lor dry weather ; or it could all he macadamized as the '* j. hoard saw fit. s- The second section comprises 8 P three bad hills on Gills creek 5 '-s miles east ot town and the ? * stiaiiihteuing of the road and te . e e the making ol a new road to les> $ swi the tirade lor about | of a >- mile. Two of these hills lie west *" of Gills Creek and one hill just 1 east of said creek, which is on ^ ' 1 the Chesterfield road just, east r ii ol Gills Creek church. 8 i I 11 Each of these hills could ho cut down and the valleys filled p 0 . n in and the road straight? ed and ' ' the steep tirades reduced one^ tl U 1 t Alt lit A t*A #l 1 I fAt. ? A ' 1' r?u \'i uaui^i an iui i:usl <)I 1H II perhaps less than one thousand v' dollars. These aro the worst hills 1 k* of any road leading out of town h t. lor a radius of five milea. 11 I; These hills are dreaded by ii 1. everybody that trave's this road ( time or two each week while lie work is being done and ssist the county in any way I an to make a success of the fork. I might add, that the lands ot ur county (about 350 thousand cres) were assessed about li ollars higher 1 his year than ver before and this will cause lie land owners ot our county [) pay in this year about ten liousaud dollars more tax mony than usual, and we would ke to see the country benefitd by a part of this money. I ask every one who reads liis article the question : Why an't we do it? T. M. Belk. .ittle iioj/ Accidentally Calf* his Sister with an A.re. There came near being a seious, if not fatal, accident at the ome of Dr. J. E. Rutledge, in last End, late last Saturday fternoon. One of his little sons, loss was splitting up some plinters and the lad's little sis ?r, Annie Bertha, was stooping ver picking them up, when the xe suddenly shipped from the ?y's hands and struck the child, he blade striking and cutting er behind the ear. Though not prious, the wound bled protusev. The child is all right now. v auccetinfiu social Kcent^-T/ie j Itaxket Sii/titer ntJone* Crow* \ Koada. The basket supper at Jones X toads school house last Friday ight was an unqualified success 1 every particular. The attend nee was good, all present highly "j?yed themselves and a nice urn, $37. was realized from the *le of the baskets, which were ut up at auction, the Hon. reo. W Jones acting as anctioner. A handsome caae brought 14 75. It was a prize offered to he most popular young lady , lie matter being determined by allot. Miss Bessie Beckham, of jancaster, received the largest umber of votes and was accordugly awarded the cake. The proceeds of the entertainnent will be used to purchase a ibrary for the school. The peo>le of the Jones Cross Roads comnunity are to be congratulated ipon the interests they are maniesting in their school, which is io doubt greatly encouraging to Is excellent teacher, Miss Bessie Jryder. 9 Homicide in the County. Ben Hood, a Thrifty Colored Farmer, Shot and Killed at his Home on Weisenfield Place. Two Young White Men, Book Agents, Charged with the Deed?One of them Wounded in the Difficulty. l>en Hood, a well to-do colored f i nter, a tenant on Col. T. Y? Williams's Weisenl'eld place, about ten miles north of Lancaster, was Bhot and killed at his home on that plantation last Monday. Two young white men, J. II. Lance and K. O. Lambert, book agents, representing C. II. Kobinson Co., of Charlotte, are charged with the killing. Hood was shot through the heart, ~ > * - - nilii <t jnsiui oau, ana tiled instantly. One of the young men, Lance, was shot in the left arm, with a shot gun. Immediately after the shooting the young men hurriedly lett, crossing the North Carolina line and going to the home of Mr. J. E. Austin, who lives in the vicinity of the town of Waxhaw, where Sheriff Hunter, who went in search of the parties as soon as lie heard of the homicide, found Lance, the wounded man, Monday night. Lambert had left Mr. Austin's before the arrival of Sheriff Hunter. Owing to the seiious nature of Lance's wound, the Sheriff was unable to briuir him to Lancaster. Physicians in attendance said that Lance could not be removed even 011 a mattress. S-leriti* iluuter, therefore, had to return here yesterday morning without his man, but before leaving him made arrangements for his safe keeping. Magistrate J. D Griffin, acting coroner, held an inquest over the body ot Ilood Monday night. The verdict of tlie jury charges Lance and Lambert with the killing. The trouble between Hood and the book agents was about a claim the latter went to the former's house to collect. It is said that the difficulty began when one of the anen's went to the mantlepieee to take down a clock. Lance clauns that Hood shot at him first, the load striking him in the arm, and that he then tired 011 Hood in self-defense. Hood's widow however, i: is reported, says that her husbmddid not shoot at all?that Lance was shot by his companion, Lambert. The real tacts will pr bably not be known until later. Mrs. Susan McGuirt, widow of the late Mr Gumewall McGuirt, who moved from this county to Gaston county ?.bout a year ago, h nl the misfortune to lose Iter col ton house and about seventyfive hundred pounds of seed cotton by fire a few days ?go. ? Monroe Knquirer. Mr. J. B. Westbrook lias been appointed clerk of court in Chester, to succeed Clerk McFadden, who resigned.