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VOL. 4. NO. 64. SEM1-W1 __ I EVERE STORM IN 1ICHU m. | ?: * >ild^ Killed if* Home by ilighWlng?Many Barns J Fired by Electric Bolts >Detroit, Mioh , April 7.?A severe rain and electrical Btorin wbioh swept over lower Michigan early last night was followed by Windstorm of unusual violence I and many aotfdentfe and at least y one death hare been reported. Near Ionlfe lightning shot into a farm housVtelong a telephone A) wun anf) tillrwl. Q_??aa? D. "*?? ?u? no)* oafuiu ucujM" miu Helmer and severely shocked | two other children. Dozens of barns in Eastern Michigan were ' b?t fire by lightning The wind b'ns averaged from fifty miles an hour iu the western part of the* State to as high M as sixty-nix miles in this city, f One child was severely injured on Michigan avenue here by a sign blowing down on her. ,?>*. ... / * _ | Tornado in Mississippi-Fire Persons Killed. Aberdeen, Miss, April 7.? Five persons are knowu to have been killed, four others injured .and still others others are buried 'Under Ihedobris of the Illinois XJenfal depot, which was demolished .iy a tornado which swept through the city of Aberdeen to. Bight. Wmml. . : The Horm, ?rtitle of short du1 ration, was of great velocity, and Resides demolishing the depot damaged a number of other build - mgs. ' Hurricane and Lightning do Damage in Ohio. Toledo, O, April 7.? Hundreds of men ont of work, thousands of dollars damage done and many petsons slightly injured are the results of a hurricane that visited Toledo and vicinity today. In small towns near Toledo considerable damage was done. Many houses were struck by lightning and the occupants stunned, but there are no reports of fatalities. II UK RICA N K IN ONTARIO Ixindon, Ontario, April 7.? Six persons were injured, one fatally, a financial loss of tully 50.000 WSH nntailei hv a. r*nrlh_ west hurricane which passed ovf * thi? city today. At the Aber-, ?/ deen public school a tall chimh ney crashed through the roof. | \ imprisoning 300 pupils and 1 creating a panic. Mary Labur-' tis, aired 9 years, wss (atally injured, and four other pupils were ; severely hurt. >. ) Young Ladies in Runaway ^ at Fort Mill. Fort Mill Times :?A runaway scrape In which Misses Loma /Howie, Minnie Baile* and Mamie! McKaiu narrowly escaped terio* I us injury took place Saturday afternoon near the Millfort mill. The younfr ladies were out for an Afternoon ride and upon reaching a point near t:?e mill the horse became frightened and made a da-h up Railroad street. The young ladies were thrown from the hnggy and Misses Howie and McKain were considerably braised, while Mies Bailes sustained a *p rained ankle. The buggy was demolished. EEKLY. ' Chester's Wife Slayer Cap- HI(>U(it tured in Alabama?Now in Chester Jail. Prosperous Chester Lam era: Deputy Sher- chant F< ill Dye went to Opelika. Ala., on Horrible 41 Sunday night and came b?ck jars prg this morning with the ne*ro n A ... .... <>.? murderer James Stevenson u. 11 ? i , . afternoon the Stevenson had hired on ^a larra i there and the sheriff of Loe coun- j ^ve ^ * omit ? ai t t aj i ^ u 1 murder of J. ty, Ala., J. L. Moon, had been Breeland a\n 1 ' tipped off abou' him by some railroad people and he notified rou-''t in > Sheriff Colvin. Deputy Dye ar- j ^rsl degry i ... .. . ... 1 he verdict rived with the prisoner this i morning and lodged him in jail. ^ lie was the one arrested at Uol- ount, a pi . ~ , ot Tickiaw, w. utuhus, Ga.. and turned loose., ' He will be kept. atrictlv confined ! ?^ar8e of ' , i Breeland, Mr* and held lor trial. U .1 . U . latter'* daught Stevenson says (hat he tar, . . , , .. ette, and wa? nod around anu near the scene ' . . . .. ... . . separate mdi of the crime and the second day ? , ' ? i . . , . , i>. , . . Breelau J'-i kil bought a ticket at Islaekstock _ i /i i u- n I The killing ; aud went via Columbia He i would not talk much. It will Iant *er be recalled that he killed his m< St ori' e ? , i . , .. mitted in the wile and wounded her father a ; lew weeks ago in the Rosgyille i ^ "ccurrer neighborhood and escaped. She lctk riff Cclyin and Deputy Sheriff 80 jt 0 .P11* ! M . . . aud his wife * Dye have kept up a persistent \ hunt lor him and like they al- laughter, *r . , ^ , her former hi i ways do land the criminals final-1 ly. They are both doing mighty .p*"*!1 '0 '17' ' I ifkf;iw Mr i good work and in their hands the . '' \ ~ . , . . bund had b< aiiairs ot the country are safe. K.noneu a lei land was shot Butlers Convicted. w"on l00t" were riding in According t Former United States Sena- ,tatem(.nli / tor irom North Carolina c bv and His Brother Found then leveled p Guilty of Criminal Libel. iand and herd Winston-Salem, ?i. C., April held heryoun i?Former Uiutetl Siates Sei.a- lhfJ elder woi lor Marion Butler ;tnd his broth- i?nd killed. ?r, Lister Bu'ler, were convict- ^ie naean tin ed in Guilford superior court to 'he ft sassitis I day ol criminally libeling Re- 'he. publican State Chairman S. B. Her ?uppii Adams by the Dublieation in suited in the The Caucasian, a weekly news j from her arms paper owned and operated bv roadside. T1 the Butlers, ol serious allegations shot to death against Adams' integrity and * honesty. Judge T. J. # Adams' acts as chief justice JudgeTh'-n of the Indian court iu Oklahoma was judge of in 1906 were severely condemn- coit during k<] ed by the paper ia its fight ia a Washing against Adams' reelect ion ?s neaday night. chairman of the Republican Sta'e fact, Mr. Z ?o executive committee. The trial umbia State's lasted six days, was hard (ought r-RnfinrlB11? anil created widespread interest. ' , 1 ... . A . idled, from a Judge Long imposed a tine of . ' $50 J upon Marion Butler and . Jf'ct pov r $250 upon Lester Bu'ler. A sion of $20 ai motion for a new trial was over- ed t?? be about ruled and notice of appeal to (he Judge Mac supreme court was giveu, ibe caded, uctivel defendants being released on ton in the me bond in the sum of $1,000 each, j ()f '70. H? * ??> - three wars?I Alabama's Prohibition Law a"(1 w Upheld by Courts. !)hscl1'lhe Tsneri' K ' WVU*; ?hat ins name Montgomery, Ala., April 7.? (he old iron p The Supreme Court h:<s declared house gr the State prohibition law valid, mpmora,f"4 '^ I, . . , . inetto regimei al! the judges concurring in the opinion. This is the second time (he court has upheld the Killed Her Statewide act of the past lienis- R >anoke, V lature. it was attacked 00 sev- j ry W. Amos. era) constitutional grounds. inese man, w The Alabama State-wide pro today by bin hibition law went into effect William Cam] January 1- It in understood now home a" a rf that the officers will begin a quarrel, campaign for the enforcement of ??. the act. Heretofore/they have Do yon have t been very lax, because of the fr?M doubt about its falidity. Tbe opinion was rendered by Justice orgrtpo. /oc mailt loo., Honton, Mail Anderson. oi*i armou. ' "" LANCASTER, S. C., APRIL 10, 1909. Convicted. ' "Giving and Tithing" Louisiana Mer- Ex-Mayor W. C. Thomson's ound Guilty of Excellent Address Before J _ Crime?Particu- a Large Audience in Cam igedy Recalled. den. y, April 7.? This Water?? Moh^ukoi. juiv in the case ol Mr. W. U. lhniugon, ol Lancharged with the ;ca8ter' delivered ?n address in 1>. Breeland. Mrs 1,16 l*rtPti?t church Sunday night ' Mrs. Joe Everette,;to a larK** a,l J appreciative and- 1 rerdict of guilty in ionce on the subject ol giving ,c and tithing. Mr. Thomson is carries ihe death | held in high esteem by all who know hini, and he was listened ' osperous merchant10 w th peculiar interest because 4B indicted on the ot hi< real worth, and believes ' nurdering "Bur" absolutely what he preaches. In ' . Breeland and the his a,ldress Sunday night he laid 1 ter, Mrs. Joe Ever- down several very distinct princitried first on the P,e" uPon ,hifl important subject, ictmeut of "Buz" he took the position that j, Iling every oue was due God one day j : of the Breelands oul seven ; second, every one I1 'ette was one of the * as due tjod at least ten per j crimes ever com- cen' their ineieaBe. Any less j State The ?rage- WM8 ,0 roh Him.It was the duty I n the ni ght of Jan. ? every one to pay to God ten Jaw, several miles : Per ceut.,and anything in excess e City. Breeland "f this Wft8 givi?g- 1 ou do not fere bringing their K've anything until you have 8. Kyereite, from tirf" Paitl tei1 Per cent These )me in Livingston 8'atements were clear-cut and a with them uear WPre backed up by the Bible, e. Everetie's bus- '^r- Thomson al?o spoke of the nnn killer) Kn Kun manner of raibin" rrmi.??v for Bisier-in-raw, airs. Following its demise hii etlorl pbell, in the lalter's I wan made to organize another >?njf ot a domestic association, known as the National Cotton association, of ? ?? ?which Mr. Jordan is president, hat dark biownr t&Mt? in but which he states is inactive moraiBK wh?>n you wake? io?? and bouid uhP two now. and doeB not know when wllktS the will be called ft meeting of ? if? - its executive committee or its L Otawford Uroa , Npe4?-74 membership. -Vv.j .. ?. ^ \ r days belore. Hree ^od'a work, such as church lairs, from ambush. He baa iars and the like, and he connd the two women demned these methods. ihey a bugey. were not the right methods, as 0 Breeland's dying he 'dearly pointed out. The adtTery RiQUDt_ ac- dre-9 throughout was one of the some other person, rao't practical along tins line un. OD Mrs. wf ever listened to and . . we teel surrt it will be productive lauchter The latter ot good?just what Mr. Thorns? g baby in her arms. I desires it shall he. There is n< nan was tirst fdiot one heller qualiti id to speak . Mrs. Kvereile, in upon such a subject within tin1 te, was beseeching ran^e rot ?,,r WC(l',a fhan , . , , >s Mr. Th >mson, f<?r lie has folto -pare her baby'. relul?u,ly thls (;<lllr9e lor j a number of years, cations finally re- ? child". being taken Congressman Lever Wins , and l.id by the F.ght Upon Potash Tax. ie mother was then ... , . . , . . _ Washington special in the Columbia Record: After a week of diplomatic activity, Ropreseu- j Mackey Dead. tative Lc-ver of South Carolina i?sJ. Mackey, who .today won a decided victory for this judicial cir- farmers of his State and the Itadical day.". died Sou"'' F"?owinK bla repreeenton hospital Wed t,tion!1 "" t0 the effect ,heP?-' . . . tential duty of 20 per cent on. li? noting the . . , . . T potash and potash salts, the ways < ee, the Co an(] means committee today 1 Washington cor promised Mr. Lever to remove says "the judge by committee amendments the II appearances, in ; offensive paragraph from the hill. y. He got a pen- The victory of the South Caro-; nonth, which seem- liniau will mean somethiug over t all he had." tt quarter of a million dollars a key, it will he re- ' year to the farmers of South y s"pported Hamp-; Carolina alone, while to the South - : ~~ ~ U.I .11 uiv/moit; c'liupiiiu'i ! ,,t' n wudib 11 \%iii mean more > va? a veteian o> than ?2,000,000. Mexican, SeminoU 1 ??? hile on his ae??th- jordan Says Cotton Assoh e indue reques'ed . . . ? he engraved "upon Clation IS Dead. 11 met to tree or. the | Atlanta April 8? According ootids, which coin- |or?)er President Ilarvie Jore deeds of the Pal ' , ? ,, dan. the Southern Cotton a-so. at. ciation, which created such widet I spread interest throughout the Brother-in-law. ^outj, *ome ijme asro. is dead, a., April 7.? Hen- and has been since its last ineeta Buena Viata bus-J inif, in Dallas, Tex., in January,) ras shot and killed 1008. - <p >, v PI Death in Rock Hill ot Mrs. W. M. Gregory, a Native ol Lancaster County. pr ltoek ll;ll I3< raid: Mrs. Era inn Gresniv, wiin ol Mr. Wil. liH.n M. Gregory, of this city, died about 7 :30 o'clock Satur- < clay morning after a very t>rie.' illness, neuralgia boiug the J^a cause ol death. Mrs. Gregory 81 rt had been complaining lor :? le^v r un Java but her c mdition did not oVl become at all serious until about 24 hour* before her death. She prj whs about 4b years of a^e and Qo beside? her husband, leaves two th? children, Mr. W. 0. and G. W Fe Gregory, who run a confection- ani ery store 011 railroad avenue PP1 Mrs. Gregory was a native of em Lancaster county and is surviv- of ed by one Mister residing in that for county, Mrs. Jensie Mungo. Mr The funeral exercises were conducted at the h<une on Kay jH| ctieet Sundav atternoon at 5 :15 o'clock bv Kev. R. T. M*rsh, \n pastor ol the deceased. The burial H was in Laurel wood cemetery. P" ? - tra Unjust Criticism tnt w li Prominent Citizen Being B 1 Censured Under Misap- .,0 prehension on Part of Pub- a? lie?Matter Fully Explain- an ed. art *OI We learn that Mr W C, j ' Thomson is being criticised b\ j Q some citxeus for leasing as se cretnrv and treasurer of tlu Lancaster Cotton mills a plot of land outside the corporate ne limits to the 4,Grea Georgia re? United Shows" for use next eu week fur exhibition purposes jjh We happen to he familiar *itr the facts and we unhesilauiiely co eay thai in our judgment ?he ^ criticism ot Mr. Thomson i* .?1to^etber unjust. Before rominv i lie lot to i he show people he M had n distinctl> ?n I clearly un ,M der tood ih?t the show in ew ha particular must be clean, tie em and uiiobjHC'ionable from anyiQ standpoint ? no immoral conduct nor K&mblin^ devices to be allowed . After hearing however, that there was some objection >o ill* show e ct mint: to Lancaster a1 a I, Mr. Thomson endeavored to re get 'he show companv to agree ie to cancel tlie lease of the lot, o! telegraphiuir the parties in rela- nj tion thereto and asking them lor t what consideration would 'hey consent to do so. The parties I I ?>/-> t i II ?>il tin* 1 * 1 .Vvii?vv. uuv ioiicwou tueir f<i pledges as the good character bl of the performances, as will be aeon from the following extract t|, from their letter, written from Be-semer City. N. t": ' Your telegram received and te of course you received my ana. th wer tli Mr Thomson. I can most as cn -.uredly and honestly wr.te you that we have no objectionabl* shows nor games with u?. No te girl shows, nor any snake eating ?t sliow. What we have, vou can of at.e your mother, wife or ?hiid th io see with perfect safety and la propriety. VVe have a gooddi electric and vaudeville show, handled bv ladies and gentlemen; n good, clean and uplouate plantation show ; a good, *mall animal eho* which is instructive for both young and old. Then we have a good snake * exhibit. (No eating show ) Now what objection coold "Sc there be to such as ihatf For r( wames. hav? runt, ^nrl ? ?_ -.-V. ? se nailery, aud such as 'hat. And ( a tin type gallery. I am sure you could tind nothi: g * voiu in i ne them We are playiug under j th the auspices of the Baud here." th Mr. Thomson is going to see Ht) that the parlies carry out strictly er their contract and assurances as ro the uoobjeclionableness of the *>a hows. G n '3 * 1 JICE 6 CENTS PER COPY kfir 1 t TA r? . nuirn^ rnAL IU i\4KMfcK\ esident Harris o! Farmers' Union Urges Members to Diversity Crops. olumhia special in Thursday's arlotte Observer: President irris, of the State Farmers' lion, today issued a strong foment to the member* of the i in and the farmers generally ;r the State urging diversitican of crops as a cure for lowced cotton, the remedy which ngressman Lever, a member of i agricultural committee of the deral House of Representative?, il the Federal Agricultural ex. rts have been arguing for bot. iI years, and which the pre** a _ 1 - 1 * V..V uiaiic lint UCPIl over a quarter of a century. \ Harris urges the planting of least 35 per cent of cotton ids in food crop*. He show-1 detail how the farmer who has en buying coru has been swap. ?g $1 for 50 cento on a cash tnsacfion and $1 for 25 centa linn basts. He says he has ?t ov?*r ti ty farmers recently io had raised coru for 35 centnishel and as many as fifteen io laid raised it for less that cents a bushel. Mr. Harris is expert live stock man himself, d he contends that mules which ? now selling for from $200 to >0 cau be raised in South Caroa for $100, and hog meat which brinuing 12$ cents can be proced for 3 cents on S >utb Caro a iarms. tie says he took diur with ft South Carolina farmer seutly who fed him on Armonr red bacon, tmnatoes canned in iltnnore and turnip green* tight elsewhnre. This was ? rton planter. A similar planter saw go into a grocery store id pay $1 10 for corn, $7 .Pora rrel of tl >tir, 12^ cents a pound r bacon and $23 for a ton of . < > ?\) eorgia Boy's Attempt to Blackmail Wealthy Citizen of Atlanta. * a Atlanta, Ga, April 7.?"If is just a tool notion 1 got from adtmi dime novels," said I>anl W. Johnson, dr.. the 18-vear d boy who wa? j tiled here last ght for having attempted to exrt $35,000 from Asa G. Caner, prominent banker andGeora's wealthiest citizen, through ack hand methods. The young man at first told e poiico that he had been forcI by three strangers to write letrs <o Mr. Candler, demanding e money. He now admits that e scheme was of his owi) eonc'ion. .lohnson wrote the second letr S'liui.tv rmiffttiiicf loo broo?. J . ? ?" "? ?death to Mr. Candler in case his non complian e, And weut en to church and look his regufplace in Mr. Candler's Sun,> school class. ocky Creek Plant to be Completed next Week. Mr. W T Jackson, of Great ills, who is in the city today, v s some or the employes ol the mthern Power company at the x'ky O eeh plant have been rv^d with notice to the effect at their services will not be eded alter the 15th irntant, an e plant is to he completed by at dale. A great many o* the iployes ou the works and sev- * al members of the offioe force ve secured positions at Jack won, i.?Chester Reporter. , .r' . - /