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~ ' ' 9 JU i Abbeville Press and Banner f $1.50 ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1916. established a year. ' 1844 ? ' ? M'CORMICK COUNTY PASSES COURT IES1 LEGALITY OF ITS ERECTION IS SUSTAINED AT EN BANC SESSION. Columbia, S. C., April 13.?The election providing for the establishment of McCormick County was declared yesterday by an en banc session of the supreme court to have been legally held. There are now 45 couniies in South Carolina, the new unit having been recognized by an act of the legislature. The decision by the court means that all constitutional requirements have been met for the creation of the new county. The en banc session of the supreme court was attended yesterday by a large number of advocates of the new county. The new unit will be made up from parts of Edgefield, Abbeville and Greenwood counties. The new county movement has been carried after a fight extending over a period of 20 years. Citizens of the new county are making arrangements for a celebration at McCormick today. Yesterday they extended an invitation to Gov. Manning to attend the celebration. The governor was forced to decline because of other engagements. The election was held last year. An appeal was taken to the State board of canvassers and the election was declared to have been legally held. Then the case was carried on to the supreme court. After hearing the arguments and giving the matter much consideration the five justices of the supreme court failed to agree and the circuit judges o 1 the State were called to their assistance. The majority opinion was written by Associate Justice Hydrick and was concurred in by Associate Justice Fraser and Circuit Judges Prince, Shipp, Sease, Rice, Bowman, liauldin, Smith and Peurifoy. The dissenting opinion was written by Chief Justice Gary and concurred in . by Judge DeVore. A separate dissenting opinion was written by Associate Justice Watts and concurred in by Associate Justice Gage and Circuit Judge Wilson and Frank B. Gary. Another dissenting opinion was written by Judge Ernest Moore. The McCormick county advocates were represented yesterday at the hearine by R. H. Welch of the Co lurabia bar. William N. Graydon and J. B. Park represented the petitioners. The case was that of T. A. Robinson and others against R. M. McCown and other members of the State board of canvassers. In 1905 an election was held and carried by a majority of four to one in favor of McCormick county, but the opponents won out in the courts because the required area was lacking. At another election in 1914 the new county agitators won by a vote of six to one, but for the second time it was set aside by the courts. The last in 1915 won out by a big majority. McCormick, the county seat of the new county, is located on the Charleston & Western Carolina railway, 43 miles above Augusta and 25 miles from Abbeville, Greenwood and THREE DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. Augusta, Ga., April 14.?Fire of unknown origin in a warehouse on that part of "cotton row" which escaped the five million dollar conflagration March 22, destroyed nearly live hundred bales of cotton here tonight. The flames threatened to spread to the Broad street business blocks that escaped before. The loss tonight is estimated al twenty-^ight thousand dollars. The entire fire department was called be/\ k1n**A woe rtAnfrftllorl 1VIC UlU Uia^c nao vv/uuvtivui $200,000 Loss in Fire That Destroyed Lumber Plant at Jacksonville. Jacksonville, Fla., April 14.? Sparks from a turpentine retort started a fire which consumed the lumber mill of the Gress Manufacturing company, here today. The loss is two hundred thousand dollars. Sixteen Houses Go Up in Flagies at Woodside Mill Near Greenville. Greenville, April 14.? The worst fire that Woodside mill has ever known, began at 20 minutes past 11 o'clock today, near the west end oi fifth street and swept up each side of the street burning sixteen houses in the short time of one hour and ten minutes. The houses were fully covered by insurance, carried by the mil] company, though it is reliably reported that practically no insurance was earned on the household goods. Nc personal injuries are reported as a result of the fire. The fire-swept path was about a hundred yards from the mill building and as the wind was blowing in opposite direction this structure did not appear to be in imminent danger, The houses destroyed were frame structures, fifteen of them being foui room houses and one a six room house. Most of the houses were each occupied by two families and these people are homeless this afternoon, though the mill management immediately began steps to provide them with temporary homes until permanent arrangements can be made. 7 Lili 4 maaa*?aaaaaaa< WAS BODY OF VILLA : TAKENFROMGRAVE? ; DID CARLOS CARRANZA FIND VILLA DEAD AND BURIED? REPORT SAYS SO. i Mexico City, April 16.?Villa's . body has been dug up of a two weeks/ i old grave by Carlos Carranza, nei phew of Gen. Carranza, the first ! chief of the constitutionalists, and is i now being brought by him and an escort of soldiers to the city of Chihuahua. i This information was contained in . a telegram received by the war de, partment late this afternoon, t According to dispatches thus far I received Villa's death was due to the amputation of one of his legs made necessary by wounds received in the fighting near Guerrero in the State of Chihuahua. After being desperately , wounded he was carried by his followers to the town of Temosachic, 1 where the amputation was performed by a village doctor. | As soon as the bandit chief could be moved he was carried south to the | town of Cusihuirachic, 39 miles dis1 tant. Here, according to the story, ' he lingered for a few davs before . death.0" . The identity of the wounded had ! been kept secret from the villagers and he was buried at night so as to attract as little attention as possible. In the escort that carried the wound1 ed chieftain from Temosachic to Cusihuirachic was a colonel who later . was surrounded by constitutional ; forces and surrendered himself and [ his command. He asked for amnesty .! and promised to lead the constitu, 'tionalists to the grave of Villa. Young Carranza and an escort were detailed to accompany him and a | UVUjr wao u U5 Mjr UAAU uiiu^ V.M0 t to a telegram, was identified as that of Pancho Villa. ; The body, it is announced, will be publicly exhibited at Chihuahua City. Gen. Obregon, minister of war, : when asked by the Associated Press > regarding the report of the bandit's ; death, said: 1 "I can not yet confirm the report of Villa's death. Late this afterl noon the war department received a telegram from Gen. Gavira saying s that Villa's body had been recovered. > "Later information that the body khad been disinterred through information furnished by a Villista colonel t'was received. I have telegraphed : for information that will leave no ! doubt regarding the report. At pres: j ent I do not care to express an opin. lion as to its truth or falsity." DIED ON TRAIN. It was learned here this afternoon that a citizen of Calhoun Falls, nam, ed Weinraub, returning home from j Augusta, died on the C. & W. C. pasi; senger train this afternoon just be fore the train reached McCorraick.? Greenwood Journal, April 14. ies for the Hoi1 ' O EARTH, upon thy breas By the soft winds cares Bring all thy blossoms: From dusky wood and dell Sweet herb and lily bell To ornament his holy Easter COUNTY TRACK TO BE HELD S. Athletic Part Field Day P Carried Out Here Satun Urged to Send Repre The Athletic part of the County, which had to be postponed on aceoun April 7th, is to be carried out on Satu school in the county may enter. It will school that they enter two thirds of t] nounced last wreek. Prizes have been offered by the n each being equal in value to $1.00. races have been cut out and also the a other events of the program will be ca sion fee of 25c. and 15c. will be char^ held at .2 o'clock at the Fair Grounds enter as many events as he wishes. A card announcing this meet has 1 er of the county and it is hoped that the county will send representatives. A LUCKY ESCAPE. TAKING Dote Smith came down street Sat- Messrs, urday afternoon to receive the con- "av? inv< gratulations of his friends on his es- ?an" carj cape from the Asylum. hearts of girls. i A. M. St( DR. NEUFFER PRESIDENT. the Overl Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Neuffer left LE Monday for Charleston, where they go to attend the meeting of the State Dr. W. Medical Association. While in Char- leaving leston they will be the guests of Mr. Greenwot and Mrs. Hayne Wannamaker. As their honr President of the Association, Dr. Cord can: Neuffer will have many pleasant at- from Con tentions shown him. nstry nei cellent d< BACK IN HIS OLD HOME. ou^ her neigh Capt. E. M. Penney has moved with regr back to Abbeville and is at work on the Seaboard Road. He has lived G for several years at Lancaster and stood well with the people of that Mrs. Vr city and with the managers of the Ruth and road. His friends are glad to have ey, N. C, him and his interesting family come on the G back home. the Carej Stevens a uate and THE COMING PRESIDENTS. "0 teke p sion. Pompadour hair is coming back in . < style, that is among the school boys, in tneir s from the first grade boys on up and interestec the drug store men and the barbers ville was are kept busy these days. There staff of t has been a heavy run on pomade and Howie an there is a regiment of sweet smell- Killingsw ing boys around town just now. A tors, young hero of ten years told us a day or two ago that you "could make HE! your hair stand up fine in a week's time if you put pomade on it in the Mr. J. day, and slept with an old stocking in the ci tied around your head at night." legal mat y Easter Day W ^-/* J? 'W/yX- -MP'i^- ^ t, s't, forth in bright array, .' ^ ' ' ?*/ Day. , meet CARRANZA \turday m| rogram Will Be de facto gc lay?Schools mexico wani . .. TROOPS W1 sentatwes ? Washington, Api quarters it was sta1 Field Day program ican troops will no t of the bad weather ^s^ne jj'bdng d rday, April 22lld. Any Carranza the purs not be required of each b.andits will b? pu* lie contests as was an- vlgor* . . Washington, Api lerchants of Abbeville The two fifty yard sentation to Secrel Lpple race. All the for the withdraw rried out. An admis- note raSs' jed. The meet will be situation already : 5. Any contestant may the outcome of w J reticent to predict gone over the com Deen sent to each teach- fully and consider most of the schools of United States will To End N = The note was se THE OVERLAND ROUTE. . Henry and Sam Carlisle isted in a handsome Over- nf frnini ] 'man? o'f'olfr TretWounl occupation of the hey purchased the car from ?.??pi ane the talkative a^ent for Par^y having been and at this nlace Emphasis is laid ana at tms place. the Amencan eXp6) AVING ABBEVILLE. taken under a misi though acting in g E. McCord and family are claration is made Abbeville this week for States has interpre >d, where they will make the defacto gov iv. n> M?_line a definite agree ItJ III U1C 1UVU1C. JUX AUV- ^ ie to Abbeville a year ago two nations. But iway and has practiced Den- the defacto govern e since then. He is an ex- expedition should b jntist and an affable man until terms and cc ?eople regret that he is leav- to an agreement w rs. McCord is popular with Want* Diacuaai bors and they give her up The note declarc et. in consequence of i . having been reache OING TO CAREY. of the treaty to ref cal passage of tro r. G. Stevens and Misses "the Mexican gove Victoria Howie are at Car- convenient to susp< this week in attendance ent all discussion c ommencement exercises of this particular, or r school. Messrs. Rodney circumstances that nd Sanford Howie will grad- sent by the United their people have gone up ment to pursue Vill iart in the interesting occa- dation in virtue of of a previous agre< young men have done well definite." ichool and their friends are What was intend I in their success. Abbe- March 10, it is po well represented on the submit a proposal " ~ * " 1- * -1- XL. J? he School Journal, Messrs. wmcn me iuixcs d Stevens and Miss Lillian other country co ortn being among the edi- cross the dividing ] bandits if unfortun be repeated along HE FROM DONALDS. like those committe The note, adds ho H. Brock, of Donalds, was beginnig the Mex ty Monday looking after ters. (Continued < STRICT GUARD KEPT nwcDimnn/iAM irnrn UVLI\ IIUIYIHI1 LLrtn ISOLATED FROM HUMANITY EXCEPT FOR HER HUSBAND WHO IS WAITING UPON HER. 'k Columbia, April 14.?Special: Confined in a house near McCormick, isolated from humanity except for her \ husband, and kept under shotgun guard, is a negro woman leper. She is kept in one room of the house and in the adjoining room is her husband* who is waiting on her. The county officials furnish the leper and her husband with supplies, and there she ? . is in lonely confinement, as completely isolated as if she were on one of fthe islands of the South Sea. s The negro woman was sent from a Abbeville County to the State Hoe- . ^ 1 pital for the Insane, supposedly M because she was insane. When she arrived at the State Hospital Super% intendent Williams, always careful, noticed the peculiarity of the skin disease and had her isolated for ex- , c amination. Several examinations and tests were made, and finally the Hoe utai authorities called in Dr. Lynch, of the State Medical College staff, -I who was doing some research work ; at the State Hospital, and after a ; most careful and painstaking exami ; nation and investigation the woman was pronounced a leper. Immediately the officials of the State Hospital I for the Insane, notified the board of ' j health that the negro woman was not I insane, but was suffering from lepro sy, and that they could not keep her, ! as she was not insane. s. i Could Not Go On Tjjjwm N The question then r~7fjTJ? to do with the negro wojmuL' ing from a fully develo^W leprosy. She could not be^MnuiaM back to Abbeville on the there is a special rule of the Styra board of -health forbidding the txiuM* portation on trains of people su4cr? ing with leprosy. The Abbeville an. thorities were consulted, and finally it was determined to transport the woman back to her home by automobile. It is said that the supervisor of Abbeville arranged for an auto|.nTr mobile, and in this the woman was Ml II L carried back through the country to 111 111 her home and there confined in an Ill/IL isolated house, closely guarded day . _ ^and night It is said her husband llflll HO IF lives in the adjoining room to his lirVV IWI It" w**e an(* wa^te on ^er, and that the I fLf lUUUL guards place supplies for them at convenient points, which is gotten by the husband, who is caring entirely for the wants of his wife. )VERNMENT IN it js that the automobile in rc AMFPirAW which the negro woman was taken / from here to Abbeville County was [THDRAWN. burned along with the clothes worn by the men who took her back. Abbeville County has been guard il 13.?In official ing the woman and furinshing the ted that the Amer-! supplies, it is said, but now the burt be withdrawn, at! den will be transferred to the newly ind that while the formed county of McCormick, for it iscussed with Gen. is said that the woman is confined in uit of the Villa a house in that section and within shed with renewed the bounds of the new county. It was on the first of the present month that the woman leper was reril 13.?Gen. Car- moved from the State Hospital to her hich arrived at his home in McCormick County. The { today, for pre- news of this situation first reached iary Lansing, asks the ears of this correspondent some al of American days ago, but it was only to-day that 3- . the facts were confirmed sufficiently a new issue in a justify publication. Dr. C. Fred much complexed, Williams, superintendent of the State hich officials are Hospital for the Insane, this mornuntil they have jng admitted the fact that the negro munication care-jwoman }ja(j been pronounced a leper ed what reply the an j taken back by automobile to her make. former home. . It is said that the people of Abbeegotiations. yjjjg an(j McCormick counties are nt to Eliseo Arre- much concerned over the fact that a nza representative leper is in their section, but every;h instructions for body has manifested a reluctance to etary Lansing "so talking about the case. is fir a reciprocal| ? ,nd asking for dis- ILL-FATED AUGUSTA territory occupied SUFFERS NEW FIRE 5 in view of Villa's destroved." a 17 A whkh^^ol'e out'atT^O bit iition was under njgjjf, jn basement of the Har AmftlS ni!" i rison building is now believed to be &o+ TTni*t?/i under control and the total damage ited the first note !3 es"n;atekd at "f0"1' 5100.000. and ernment as effect- ?''?,d to be I""*1* covered b* In8ur" >m#>nt between the. a.. a.v_ j;ns ii. ^ the "intention ofL ?! ,U1? v* . ,, , the fire which began in a compartment was that no . * 6" , y v F j y~? ment of a basement barber shop and Editions relative WJSJ!?. about half w?? th^-gh raro HpfinpH ithe building, the fire fighters were ?? c?.n<.njlj heavily handicapped in finding the ?s therefore that exact location of the flames. They 10 final agreement succeeded, however, in keeping the >d as to the terms ifire from "aching elevator shafts mlate the recipro-iand spreading above the first floor of ods over the line the building. rmyionf init t^e 700 block on Broad street >nH for the ores the Harrison building are locator negotiations in ed of the principal retail housfounded on the es ?f the. thes% concerns, tocether with the nrofessional people tne expedition - , , . r States govern- iwho were recently burned out in the la is without foun-lfire which destroyed more than 30 tho nnn-p*i?st<?nrp 'blocks and since located in the Hariment formil and J*50" buildi"S> were busy for seTeral : hours making ready to move what ed by the note of couM*be handled from the district inted out, was to ' Early this morning one small house "by means of on outskirts of the city was comof one and the Pletely destroyed and another badly uld reciDrocallv damaged, it is said, before the fireline in pursuit of men could control the blaze. "the border^ acts E BOOK CLUB. ;d in Columbus." 1 -Oftftl, wever: "f rom tnej me rcguiai meeting ? ican government Club will be held at the home of Mrs. E. R. Thomson this morning at; jn page 7.) eleven o'clock. t - ' . 1. - I _ . J Yturf&ii