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MOW BARRAGE I
AT NEGRO DANCE
NINE REPOTRED WOUNDED IN
McCDRMICKr?LIGHT GOES
OUT ON SECOND COTILLION
AND MANY SHOTS FIRED AT
RANDOM.
McCormick Nov. 25.?As a climax
to the Thanksgiving day celebration
of 15 or 20 middle-aged negroes,
who gathered at a vacant house on
the farm of F. A. Pruitt, near Mt.
Carmel, in the upper section of McCormick
county, last night, nine negroes
are reported by Sheriff Milton
/ R. LeRoy to be in a more or less serious
condition, , suffering from
wounds inflicted by weapons of every
kind and description in the hands of
parties unknown. It seems that in
order to fittingly observe the day,
the negroes assembled in a vacant
tenant house on the farm of Mr.
Pruitrt- for the purpose of having
plenty of room to dance the old
fashioned square dance of days gone
'by, when it took more room than it
does for the modem times. In addition
to the musical instruments,
many seemed to have carried wea-i
pons customarily used at hot sup-i
pers. Sheriff LeRoy was on the scene
early this morning, not upon special
request of any one, but upon infor-j
mation leading him to believe that a
celebration had taken place in that
vicinity last nght. He sought in vain j
to elicit from those in bed suffering i
from gunshot, pistol and rifle |
wounds, some of whom are reported
to be just alive, to get them to say
who some of those in the party who
did some of the shooting were, but
none seems to know. One negro, who
was badly wunded, told the sheriff
that during the second cotillion some
one blew out the light and with an!
oath some some one began shooting
hot lead across the room when others
joined in the shotoing and soon
every one in the room had been hit
either with birdshot, a pistol or
rifle ball, some slightly and others
seriously wounded but no one blames
any one else with the shooting1 as
they all say that they do not know
who is to blame. At any rate nine
negroes of that section of the
county are shot and Sheriff LeRoy
has gone .back this afternoon to
make further investigation and is
likely to bring back with him some
of those attending the party.
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LOST?Navy blue overcoat, be- J
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FOR SALE?Delightful Greenville
Street home-made candy 60 cents
per pound at Austin-Perrin Drug
Store. 11, 25.c.
TRESPASS NOTICES, for sale at
Press and Banner office. Post your
land against hunting. i
BLACK FRUIT CAKE?Any size at j
65 cents a pound. Give me yourj
order early. Phone no. 1,
Mrs. D. A. Rogers. tf.
TRESPASS NOTICE?All persons
are warned not to fish, hunt any
kind of game, or to trespass in any
way on lands of estate of Mrs. E.
A. Robertson. J. T. Robertson,
Executor. 3t. pd.
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ELEVEN AWING !
DEATH SENTENCE
NEW RECORD FOR STATE SAID I
TO BE MADE?ELECTROCUTIONS
SCHEDULED, BUT SUPREME
COURT MUST HEAR
CASES BEFORE ACTION.
Columbia, Nov. 26.?Eleven men,
six white and five negroes, are now I
under death sentence in' South Caro- t
lina. Th's is said to establish a record li
for the Palmetto state in the num- o
ber of death penalties passed upon e
criminals at any one period of time.
The fact that the whites outnumber jj
the negroes is also considered a new ^
record for the state. f
Practically all of the men are c
awaiting appeals to the supreme g
court and it may be another year be- n
fore any^of them pay the penalty, u
Two negroes are scheduled to die g
next Friday, December 2, but the 1;
governor may prevent one and the t
I other is still undecided. These two li
cases are Abraham Mays and Tillman
Choice or Rose. Mays, or Williams c
as he is sometimes called, was to a
have been electrocuted October 28,
but the governor granted a reprieve n
because there was some question in c
the case and this reprieve expires (j
next Friday. Choice or Rose was sen- S1
tenced several weeks ago in Spartan- g
burg to die December 2, but he has u
never been brought to the penitenti- e
ary, and it is not known here whether
or not he has appealed. a
The 11 men now under death sen- a
tence are C. 0. Fox, Jesse Gappins, J
S. J. Kirby, J .C. Wallace, Edmund
Bigham and Cliff Hawkins, all white, a
and Will Hood, El Culbreath, Tillman c.
Choice or Ro?e, Abraham Mays or li
Williams and William Thompson, ne- w
groes. lc
In addition to these men, there are e
a large number of safekeepers at the w
penitentiary that are" yet to be tried 11
or have not had their cases settled. * Ci
The supreme courtrwilI in all probability
adjourn this week and the in- v
dications are now that neither the w
Fox, Gappins nor Kirby appeals will e:
be heard at this term. The next term S
will be held next April. The appeal ^31
of Cliff Hawkins has already been.J'
heard by the court and that of Ed- "
mund D. Bigham will be the last case n
coming before the court at this term.
J. C. Wallace was not sentenced until. **
two weeks ago and his appeal will
not come up until next year.
As for the negroes the appeals of i ^
Culbreath and Hood will not reach:
the court until next year, if at all J
I
while that of Thompson is still undecided.
The other two, Tillman
I sj
Choice or Rose and Abraham Mays|
or Williams, will also be decided Hat- p:
a
Of the 11 men under death sen- ^
tence, eight are in the penitentiary
and three are in county jails. Wallace
is in Sumter. Choic/S or Rose is,
~A I r<
in Spartanburg and Will Hood is in (
Greenville. The death house at the '
penitentiary will accommodate' only
six persons and the other prisoners ^
are in- the cell building. Gappins, ^
Fox, Kirby and Bigham are in the
gi
death house.
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NEGRO ATTACKS sc
WOMAN IN AIKEN
Prisoner Brought To State PenJtentiary?Victim
Badly g.
Hurt?Arm Broken.
Aiken, Nov. 28?Curtis Franklin, K
negro, was arrested near Wagener this
afternoon and rushed to the ll
penitentiary for safe keeping. V
Franklin is charged with criminally 5]
assaulting a young white woman yesterday
afternoon. All last night and J
this morning Franklin was sought fl
'by many persons, and to prevent possible
mob violence, the prisoner was
hurried away immediately after his
arrest. Franklin was apprehended
by Mike Knotts, chief of police of
Wagener. The negro is about 35
years old.
The^victim is in a serious condition.
One arm is broken and she was
also btten in face and otheerwise
badly bruised about the body.
Money For Live Stock.
Washington, Nov. 27.?Approval
of 57 advances for agricultural and ^
live stock purchases aggregating $2,505,000
was announced tonight by
the war finance corporation. They
included: South Carolina, $87,000 {]
and Georgia $99,000. S
SMALL TO FIGHT "
IN TWO COURTS
LLINOIS GOVERNOR INVOLVED
IN LEGAL BATTLES?SUITS
FOR ACCOUNTING BEGUN
AGAINST FIVE FORMER STATE
TREASURERS AND BONDSMEN
Springfield, 111., Nov^ 26.?Gov.
,en Small, with his record as state
reasurer under fire, tonight faced
sgal battles in two courts as the year
f his administration approaches its
nd.
Charged with embezzlement of pubic
funds'and conspiracy to defraud
he state, Governor Small is conronted
with a criminal trial in Lake
ounty. In suits for accounting beun
by Attorney General E. J. Brunage
against five former state treasvprs
and their bondsmen today, the
overnor is charged with manipuiting
state loans until he diverted
o private channels a million dolirs
or more belonging to the people.
Lieut. Gov. Fred Sterling) faces
harges almost identical to those
gainst the governor.
December, the month when Goveror
Small's fight for freedom from
riminal charges begins, will bring
tie service of summons in the civil
aits on him, Lieutenant Governor
terling, State Auditor Russell, Wilam
Ryan, Jr., and Edward E. MitchII?all
former treasurers.
The civil suits alleging shortages
pproximating $2,500,000 in treasury
ccounts are scheduled to begin next
anuary.
Demurrers against the civil suits
nd motions to quash the criminal
harges form the governor's first
ne of defense. Losing in both it
rould mean trial at Waukegan and a
>ng court battle in Springfield where
ventually the Illinois supreme court
'ill probably write finis to the state's
lost sensational court war of politial
origin.
Disclosures made through the in
estigation of the state treasury,
hich resulted in indictment of GovLT.or
Small, ^Lieutenant Governor
terling and Vernon Curtis, banking
ssociate of Governor Small, last
lily furnished the evidence on which
le civil suits were based, the attorey
general's office announced.
IPE OF PEACE
SMOKED BY FOCH
larshal of France Share* Joy With
Indian Chief in North
Dakota.
Bismarck, N. D., Nov. 27.?Marlal
Ferdinand Foch smoked the
ipe of peace here today with Chief
ed Tomahawk, cementing forever
ie friendship of Dakota's Sioux Inians
and the French nation.
The presentation of the pipe of
eace was part of the tumultuous
jception given the French soldier
y thousands of persons from many
>wns in western North Dakota.
After his trip through the popuius
East, Marshal Foch expressed
imself deeply impressed by the
reat prairie. "Its grandeur is altost
overpowering," he said. Billigs,
Mont., is the next stop on his
:hedule.
An effort is being made to orga
ize the farm women in the United
tates.
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