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SV t ' ' I The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 18"? ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL.3. NO. 15. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C., NOVEMBER 27. 1907 PRICE-FIVE CENTS PER COPY. n, TV . .? f ^ ! ? - iragic j^eatn 01 iNortn Carolina Farmer?"Was in Wagon with Family When Struck by Train. Wadesboro special in the Charlotte Observer: This morning about 8 o'clock a passenger train going south struck the covered wagon at the Concord road crossing,between Wadesboioand Polk ton,in which A. S. Uoneycutt, his wife and two chllren were re turning to their home in the up per part of this country from n visit to relatives in South Carolina. The husband was instantly killed and the wife was seri ously injured. The two sons, 2 and 10 years of age, escaped without injuries. The mother was taken on the train to the hospital in Monroe, where her wounds were treated. The t?) children were left with the body of their father at Polk ton by the train which demolished their wagon and killed their father. > The awful accident was proba uiy aue to tne ract mat U>e lamily was in a covered wagon, thereby failing to hear the approaching train, which struck the wagou about the centre. Honeycut was a respectable white farmer, living in Burneviile township, and was liked by all wlu> knew him. Gets Thirty Years for Kiiling His Cousin. Asheville special in Charlotte Observer: The trial ol Hugh Postell for the murder of his lira! cousin, Ed Edwards, here during August, ended abruptly this afternoon shortly atter 4 o'clock by the prosecution's accepting a plea of murder in the second degree. Judge Guion sentenced Posted to 3d years in the State prison. There is no appeal and the prisoner will be taken to Raleigh next week. The death of Ed Edwards'a' the hands of Posted and the sentencing of Posted to 30 years at. hard labor, ended trag ically two love affairs. Both the young men were to have been married. Edwards, it is learned, was engaged to be married to an Asheville lady only a few days from the day ot the murder, while Polled was to have been married about New Year's L).?y. Former Pastor of a Lancaster Church Resigns Birmingham Charge. Rock Hill Herald: Rev. J. W. 0. Johnson, who lias been rector of one of . the Episcopal churches ot Birmingham Ala., for several years, resigned that position a few days ago, nnd is considering a call that has been extended him hy the Episcopal church at Charles La. Rey. Mr. Johnson is now in Louisiana looking over the field and, perhaps will reach a decision in a Vn lew days. Colored YVfoman Dies in Columbia of Hydrophobia. i , The State : Ella Cornish, a negro woimn who lived on Lincoln Btr-et in the district called "Whitetown," died yesterday from hydrophobia. The woman was bitten by a mad dog abont seven weeks ago and showed si (?T1? nf t.llO rahloa n - - ...w . ...<iun It tYCOIV ItgU, The disease-Tusuallv requires from three to nine weeks to develop and in some cases it may go for a longer time without any manifestation. When the first symptoms oi rahies came upon the woman, she thought she was "conjured" and also had an idea that some one had tried to poison her. She had been bitten in the arm and t he usual cardiac failure or paralysis followed when thrf poison got spread through the system. Rabies is a rare disease and the physicians are cautious in pronouncing a case. This woman showed all the symptoms, however, and there was no cliauee to save her lite. The muscles ot the. throat contracted and she was unable te swallow. North Carolinian Crushed to Death by Falling Tree. Keidsville special in Charlotte Observer: Mr. J. F. Ward, a former sec'iou master of the Danville & Western Railroad, met with a frightful dea'h yesterday morning ubout 0 o'clock, while engaged m cutting down a large tree for use ot timber at Martin's sawmill, near Stokeslatid. The tragedy occurred in the woods near the saw plant, and Mr. Ward was caught under the main body of the tree and crushed to death in an instant. A number of other laborers were at work at. the time and had finished the cutting down of the tree, which fell on tiie opposite side ot the stump, irom which it was expected. Mr. Ward was struck on his shoulders and home to the ground. Nearly every bone in his back and shoulders wer^ broken. lie scarcely had time to ren.li-x? whii* struck him before beiug killed The victim of the accident was about 40 years of age and was well known throughout the Stokesland neighborhood, where he had a large number of friends, lie is survived by a wife and tour small children. Advertised Letters. II. W. Gamer, Johnnie Kelly, Abe Miller, J. L. Mcllwain, My re Burt, Pearl Pagice, Mayland Tiller, Ulyasi Penn, E. L. Rawlins, Ella Seimmons, Ida Thompson, Dave Threat, Maggie Write Cerry Warker, Bunny Watts, William Waters, Meto Lunden, James Black, Earle Babridge, Brenuy Crawford, F. C. Edgeworth, (two). T T? TT i - o a*, r . nunier. P. M. j The L. & C. Railroad. Chairman of R. R. Commission Makes Interesting i Report of His Inspection i of Lancaster's Local Road, which He Found in Good Condition?Many Improvements Noted. Chairman Oaughman has made tho following report lo the railroad commission of his recent inspection of the Lancaster and Chester Railroad: Gentlemen: On the 19th I inspected the Lancaster and Chester Road on a motor car owned by Superintendent McClure and Roadmaster Hardin. I am g'ad to report I found this line of railwav, which is twenty-eight miles in length, in good condition, considerable im- < provement having been made this year and still going on; such as fills and lowering and raising i of grade. I find surface and lin- < ing of this track good, with 60- i pound rail already laid and i quite a number of now ties with I a goodly number of others to be I put in in the next three we^ks, s amounting in all, 1 am told by i the superintendent, to 12,000 ties within the last six in( nths i having been placed on this 1 road. 1 find the trestle at Cane Creek recently filled, 600 feet in length, 411/1 n fQ 1 n' ? 1 ""?" 1 ' moi V.i<?nn uuiVUri U i 1 dOF same 6x6 feet. At Willow Branch 1 find what is called a triple tres- i tie, all filled and the main culvert there 8x12 feet. This I consider sufficient to carry off the water. The total of these three trestles is 1,000 loet, filled and raised a maximum of 12 ft. At Grace, 24 mile post, the ' t rack is lowered six feet, and ' | curve at the west end of this { | urade is being taken out. which I 1 consider of great importance. They are also lowering grade f near 25-mile post, 6 feet, which is quite an improvement. At Cooler Branch they are about ' ready to fill in trestle of 200 leet. The superintendent informed mf^Wie additional waiting room at Richburg would soon be built 1 in accordance with previous instructions from the commi sion. ' The improvements made 'his ' year I consider quite creditable j on the part of the Lancaster and " f Chester Railway Company. All ot which is respectfully 1 submitted. B. L. Caughman, Chairman. | I Plastering Fell on Her. ^ p Rock Hill Herald : A very e painful accident befell Miss fi Mattie Mathews, of Old Point, t la9t Tuesday. A piece of plas- s tering about two feet wide and d three feet long fell, striking her on the head and cutting a gash n about three and one-half or four n inches long, which necessitated r six stitches being takon. t Plan of Farmers' Union to Control Price of CottonAcreage to be Reduced. New Orleans, November 23.? A plan to reduce the acreage of cotton next year in an elForl to control its price was arranged tonight by the board of directors of the Farmers' Educational and Protective Union of Amer ioa. A meeting was called to be held in Memphis on January 7 next to lay this plan before the cotton farmers of the South. The proposed reduction in acreage of cotton is to fix the minimum price of cotton at about fifteen cents per pound. "The Union controls six million bales today," said President U.S. Barrett, of (Jreorgia, of the Union, "and we are ^confident that at least, G5 per cent of this can easily be held off the market, without any suffering resulting to the farmer through lack o: sufficient lunds and supplies from sther crops. I shall be greatly surprised if we do not 6ee cotton selling at filteen cents a pound before January 1, lbC8, but be- 1 lieve that a reduced acr*ace uro. season will make it even highar." It is proposed to establish agencies at Galveston, New Orleans and Savannah to enable farmers to keep in close touch with the spinner and save the middleman's profit. The directors announced that their reports estimated the present crop at 11,000,000 bales. News Over the State Line. Monroe Enquirer: Some missrennt shot a thirteen year old laughter of George Ashcraft, jolored, who lives on Mr. J. H. 3uten's farm near VVingato, last. Saturday night. The girl was standing just outside a door when the shot was fired. Some if the shots struck the girl just , ibove the left eye ami glanced ( iff, making a slight flesh wound. I is not known who did the shooting, but George thinks it tv*s some enemy of his whomisook the girl for her father. Miss Anna Patterson, a sister ?f Mrs. L. C. Cuthbertson of Monroe, was horribly burned at i<*r home in Jefferson Hitv ?J , rennlast Saturday. Miss I 'a Lerson was standing by the lire vhen the flames reached her ilothinp. It is thought that the / )urns will prove fatal. Miss 1 Patterson formerly lived at Wax- j iaw. ] A tenant house on one of Mr. t rasper Helms' farms near Win- > ;ate, and occupied by Sam Biv- < n?, colored, was destroyed by i ire last Thursday about, sunset, t i.bout a bale of cotton in the eed was in the house and was t lestroyed. t Mr. Wyatt. Dees, who farms 1 in Mr. T. O. Lee's place two t ailes and a half east of Monroe, f nade 6,200 pounds of sped cotton his year on four acres of.land. News in Brief. W. P. Inirati, one of Atlanta's wealthiest citizens, died Friday . . . . Grover Cleveland is again reported to be seriously ill... . R. A. Brown, a well known contractor of Concord, N. C., died Sunday.... Maude Hondbrson, a little girl of Union, this state, died Friday night from taking laudanum Uir me? ? ..-.v.... Iiu-iunc iur COUiZU syrup....W. B. Kineaid, of Spartanburg, has boon appointed railroad agent at Fort Mill.. . . The 4th annual conference of the Y. W. C. A. of the Carolinas will convene in Rock Hill tomorrow Garfield Hill, 20 years old, was stabbed and instantly killed by his companion, Nathan Dixon, Sunday, at Birchwood, Tenn. The trouble waa about one boy b owing out the other's matches.... Frederick Linderraeir was killed in New York Sunday by his young son, Peter, in defense of his mother, who was being beaten by the father. . . . A fight for prohibition has begun in New Orleans. . . . Harry Thaw's second trial in New York [for ti e murder ofStanlord White, which was set for next Monday, has been postponed until January. . . . W". P. Caldwell, a well-known citizen of Chester, is going to Bennet! sville to become managing editor of the Pee-Dee Advocate ... .Chief of Police Goforth of Newton, N. C., was shot and fatally wounded by a burglar Saturday morning before daylight . . . .Charlie Croker, a young white man, was shot and killed by Lewis Simmons Sunday afternoon in Spartanburg county. They fell out about, a mule belonging to another man ... Eight persons were injured in a railroad wreck Monday near Laurel, Miss. .. 1 . Thirteen persons perished in the burning of a tenement house in New York early Monday morning. . . . Miss Ella Pryor, an 18-year-old girl, was called out of the residence of her mothor near IIuntersville, N. C., Moutlay night and shot to death hy an unknown person. It is that she was killed by a lover in a lit of jealousy. Lancaster's Streets and Pavements?Chief of Police not iw.oj?uu^iun; lur meir v^on? dition. Mr. Editor: There has been 1 good deal said lately about our Dad, muddy streets and sidewalks ind I am frequently asked why [ do not have'them worked, parties saying that they thought it ,vas my duty to have them workid, as I am chief of police. I vould like to state to the public hat the present Council appointid a street committee and a man o superintend the working of he streets and that I have not. lad anything whatever to do with 1 ~ c *' ... iic wuimiik ui me Rtroeis in ibout two years. I. T. Hunter, Chief of Police.