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I'l " I il / C . ' ' ~~ . f J . c/ ?bc 3uimastrc l^tlgee. * ' 1 ' 9 riSSm^lL^'S!^ja^L% I A >Wiiy Xtv>*p*p<w : /br CA? RromotUm ufOe Political, Am*U, Agricultural amd Commercial hUamU. J ^tiiVII-WE^KLY tDinoW. LANCASTER, S. 0.. APbOg ih9<J, ESTftBLIsTO~i852 A Hefiro's Horrihlfi firime. ism HftSR nip? at tup! u? >-- '* - - A Farmer's Wife the Victim of a Uniformed Black Fiend. . No Mercy to be W Shown. Spocial to The State. ^ Greenville, April 22.?Green- j villo has unusual excitement tonight, with fair prospects of a lynching. Not far from the city the wife of Silas Williams, an in- ^ duslrious white farmer living on tho White Horse road, was bru- ftf tally assaulted betweon 5 and o' *hi8 afternoon by a negro dressed in uniforfi, who suddenly appeared in the house where Mrs ^ r( Williams was engaged in ironing. j The negro seized her and in com. . mitting the assault he choked kor n severely and bruised her right arm. Ri The negro vanished at once, and was afterwards seen on the roadto Piedmont before the alarm was given in the neighborhood. Wil- ^ liams had started to town, and was only a short distance from home wheu the assault on his wife e\ was made. He was quickly informed, and, after returning home, he came galloping to town ^ for a physician and for assistance to catch the wretch who had in- rp vaded his home. j In a few minutes men were ? m mounted, and it was not long un. ^ til the road to Williams' home . was thronged with riders, the number from the city alone being c( estimated at auur while the neighWoih for miles around joined in 130 search. Kfi Tho capture of the negro will end beyond question in a lynch- nj ing. His blue uniform and a peculiar hat will easily identify him. ? et THAT THKOBBINO P HEADACHK tt Would quickly leave you, if ai you used Dr. King's New Life ct Pills. Thousands of sufferers have proved their matchless merit tc for Sick and Nervous Headaches. 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Kkbd W a htm am. 6T0S German town Art, Philadelphia, Pa th CANDY M CATHARTIC I Vl mWVvWVVWw v, MAM ^ o5rs^.aasr?-'.irs ?vs*^x.r ... cum CMOTIWTIOi. ... M-THM Sisunm&iusr P< - , i ,i " 4.1: ua IBM UVWU 1S1JLJU n i III Hi STAKE. eorgia Vengeance as Horrible as That at Paris, Tex. earfully Tortured-Tho Wretch's ftody Mutilated Before thelFaggots were Set on Fire. Ncwnan, Ga., April 23.? In le presence of nearly 2,COO pcoe who sent aloft yells of defiance id shouts of joy, Sam Hose, a jgro who committed two of the isest acts known to ' rime, was irned at the stake in a public >ad ono and one half miles from >ro this afternoon. Before the >rch was applied to the pyre, the ;gro was deprived of his ears, igers and other portions of his latomy. The negro pleaded pitully for his life while the mutition was going on, but stood the "deal of fire with surprising forkude. Before the body was cool was cut to pieces, tho bones ere crushed into small bits and ren the tree upon which the retch met his fate, was torn up id disposed of as souvenirs, he negro's heart was cut in sev al pieces, as was also his liver. bos? unable to obtain these lastly relics direct, paid their lore fortunate possessors extravjant sums for them. Small ieces of bone went for 25 cents, id a bit of the liver, crisply loked, sold for 10 cents. One f tho men who lifted the can of srosene to the negro's head is iid to be a native of the commonealth of Pennsylvania. His line is known to those who were ith him, but they refuse to diulge it. The mob was compos1 of citizens of Newnan, Griffin, almetto and other little towns in le country round about Newnan, id of all tho farmers who had re* lived word that tho burning was > take place. Hose confessed to killing Cran >rd, but denied that he had outiged Mrs. Cranford. Before aing put to death tho negro stat1 that he had been paid $12 by Lige" Strickland a negro reacher at Palmetto, to kill ranford. Tonight a mob of citens is scouring tho country for trickland, who has left his home id will be lynched if caught. Sam Hose killed Alfred Crin* >rd, a white farmer near Pal met i and outrag< d his wife, ten days jo. Since that time business in lat part of the state has been ispended, the entire population irninrv /\i ? ?n ?? % ^ ii wui in inj cuui i 11/ O80. MPAIN'S ? KKATKST > KKI) Mr. R. P. Olivia, of Barcelona, pain, spends his winters at ilcen, S. C. Weak nerves hail anted severe paint in the hack of head. On using Klectric Hit rs, America's greatest Blood id Nerve Remedy, all pain soon ft him. lie says this grand roedine is what his country needs. II A I aL - ii y\inerira Knows mai it euros per and kidney trouble, purifies e blood, tones up the stomach, rengthons the nerves, puts vim, gor and now life into every uncle, nerve and organ of the xly. If weak, tired or ailing >11 need it. Kvery bottle guaraned, only 50 conts. Sold by rawford Bros' Druggist. Subscribe to the Ledger id keep posted on what is hap. >ning in the State and connty. ncftiu ritidciier tiaogea. i Ilo Protested His Innocence?The Indignant Citizens After Another Fiend Who Will ' Meet the Same Fate. Palmetto, (_ia., April 24.?Rev. Ligo Strickland, who paid Sam ^ Hose twenty dollars to kill Alfred Cranford, was hanged by the same 1 mob last night that burned Hose ii hero yesterday. b The mob is still after Hewitt. 0 All night the lynchers sat at court o on the first public square here, I and then at one o'clock this morn- t ing tidings of possible interfere ence by stute troops having t reached here, they adjourned to 8 the wildwood. 0 The prcncher was taken out of C town deep among pines where a llliorn lumfirui! l!~Ll 1 "" - WU..UI vo 1II11I13IIUU HgUL UUU )' warmth. The white hairo<l min t ister, weeping with an appeal to v the throue of grace, wm tied to a I tree, while his counsel proceeded h to defend him before the mob i ii court. The negro bears an un-jt sarory reputation. He piot6sted!f constantly that he was not guilty, calling on God to witness his in- t nocence and pleading for mercy. * He was a picture of abject terror, j NO NEGROES THERE. A Denial of a Telegraph Story ' From New York. ^ c New York, Apiil 21.?In the e account of the Jefferson dinner ? by the Chicago platform Demo ^ crats in this city on the night of ^ April 15th, the statement was c made and telegraphed that colored c men were present. Thi9, it is n stated, is entirely incorrect, and c that no colored man was seated at . the dinner table. When the speakiog commenced a colored ? man aud his son appeared on the r platform, and upon this fact was f based the statement that colored H people were present and guests ( of the dinner, which the managing committee of the banquet state is not the fact. Attorneys' Costs. ^ J. S. Br ice, Esq., holds 6rmly 10 nis original conviction as to attorneys' costs, and although for * personal reasons would prefer to f ho turned down, has no idea of ' giving up until the supremo court says he is wrong. In con versa- c tion with the reporter, he put it * this way: * "The act of 1892 repealed all ' costs with certain exceptions, did 1 it not? "If those exceptions had been re ' pealed afterward, then the result * would have been the wiping out * of all costs, would it not? ( "Well, the act of 1897 repealed 1 everything that had been enacted f in 189 J, and that included the ex- * ceptions. In other words, the ' atvui icii a pari ol the act * of 1882, and the act of 1897 1 wi|H?d out that part, leaving noth- 1 ing of the original act or any other relating to coats. 11 ( And so the vexed queation ( stands unsett'ed. Most .of the members of the local bar are on the side of Messrs. Spencer and Hart. Any of them can easily convince a layman of the correctness of their position. The npin~ ion of the subreme court, therefore, will be of especial interest. ?Yorkville Enquirer. j iess Time Lost Than With A Lynching. , . > *. I unhand Overtakes and Slays His Wife's Insulter. Broke .' llis Skull With A Stick. ipecial lo Tho State. Pied&ont, April 22. ? "Bob" Jridgea, formerly a section hand n the weave room at the mills ; lere 4l?d this morning at 4 'clock? from the effect of a blow r blows of a stick in the hands of )ick Howard late yesterday af. ernoon. ^ i I It lsfeported that ho went to he home of Dick Howard, a mall farmer who lives about a aile from Piedmont, in Anderson bounty, finding Howard's wife i s- i ? iouo iu uiu nouso ne made im> troper ^ oposals to her. She ran o the : field where her husband iras at Work and gave the alarm, loward at once started for the louse to find Bridges, and meetng him in tho yard crushed in 1 he left side of his head with u une. stick. Howard was placed under arrest ty Magistrate Mitchell pending he investigation of the coroner's ury. ANAItKOW KSIAI'K. 1 Thankful words written by drs. A<la E. Hart, of Gronton, >. D. "W as taken with a bad old which settled on my lungs; ough set in and finally terminate A in Consumption Four Doctors ;ave ra r up, saying 1 could live >ut a sh( rt time. I gave myself ip to my Savior, determined if I ould not stay with my friends on arth, I would meet my absent ines above. My husband was id vised to get Dr. King's New Dislovery for Consumption, Coughs md Colds. I gave it atrial, took n all eight bottles. It has cured ne, and thank God, 1 am saved ,nd now a well and healthy wonan.,, Trial bottles freo at Craw** ord Bro's Drug Store. Regular ize 50c. and $1.00. Guaranteed ?r prico refunded. THE JUDGE FORCED TO SHED SOME TEARS. iVhen Referring to the Horror of the Lako City Crime. Charleston, \pril 21.?The ^ako City lynching ease was, pven to the jury in Judge Braw ey's court this afternoon. Judge Braw ley in delivering :harge to the jury shod tears vhen referring to the horror of he crime and the outrago of tho aw and shame incurred by the Kiople of Lake City. Among other ?hings Judge Srawley said: "If it bo true his postmaster was an incompeent negro, a stranger and a resilent of another county, the comnunity that he was appointed to terve had grave and just grounds j 'or complaint and those responsi-' lie for his appointmont^cannot es? :apo condemnation of fair-minded non of the wrong done. But this not the issue in this case." At midnight the jury was still >ut and is said to stand seven for :onviction. Am Old Idea. Every day strengthen* the belief of emt> neat pbyiMui that impure blood is the eeoee of the nwgority ef oar dieeeeea. Twenty-fire years h* this theory wee eeed ? baeia fee the formula of Browne' Iron Bitters. The many remarkable euree effected by thle fiunoM eld heneihold remedy are nMeel to prere that the theory ieeorreeh. Broer*? Iron Bitten ie eeid b* all dealcea. tJT Have you forgotten to pay your subscription to ledger ! MISTRIAL RESULTED. at coi The Lake City Case Ends.-- iyt Brawley's Splendid Talk. ^ ! V. .. |llc \loI> Law Anarchy Means DisinJ no test ation of Society?TbeSelection of the Postmaster was ^ Wrong, but This Does not Excuse the Murderers. m< 7" pe Special to Greenville News. 1 ar< Charleston, April 22.- When tej the Lake City jury was brought tin into court at 10 o'clock this morn- of ing, Foreman McCullough an- us nounced, in response to the usual it, question from the clerk, that the pr jurors had been unable to agree or noon a verdict Judge Brawloy made a most impressive address to the jury before ordering that a mistrial b? g1 placed on the record. co Ho said, in part; "The persons wt who selected the postmaster and placed him in power can not escape ^01 some measure of responsibility* This, of course, does not excuse the murder nor does it absolve the people of the town from some pc measure of responsibility. "I am one of those who believe that the world is growing better and look on the bright side of things; but there is much in the condition of affairs in j0 South Carolina calculated to raise a doubt as to whether we are co] really improving in those things un that make for civilization. We Lf are spending more money upon jK1 our public schools and institutions ^ of learning, but are we getting satisfactory results! no "Tboro has been a great development of cotton manufactures, but has the**e been a real improve- ne inent in agriculture, the predominating interests and occupation of br our people? There has hcen great to increase in facilities of eommuni an Cg cation, but swift railways, whirl- . ing machinery and crowded factories, desirable as they may be in themselves, are infinitely re inadequate to the true glory of a qu people. ha "Are our morals standing sei higher! Are our representative to men more refined and enlightened St and of a typo for the emulation of au our children? Is thero a higher ne respect for law and greater so reverence mr sacred inmgs; Are i (Jf our manners and morals iniprov- bl< ing? mi " These are questions of great j v' concern. Those of us who have j hr passed the meridian of life are. of perhaps more concerned for our .to children than for ourselves; hut wo ought at least to leave the | th Stato to them in as good condi- ! pi tion as we found it; and it he-1L* hooves us to take heed lest we j en fail. It is not a pleasant thing to j co say, and much may he said in ex - <lc tenuation; hut is it not a fact that, he res|>ect for the law has diminished among us? That human life is ne less sacred, that those restraints ly which, among all truly civilized p< people, curb tho rude passions by gl fear of punishment are growing w fainter and fainter, and has not I rc brought about a weakening of tc the moral fibre? oi 44 L fear, sometimes, that this is n so and that it may l>e true of all ^ races. Among the blacks, there is a notable increase of crimes of x violence. A few years ago, it K was a very rare thing to fine a >< Negro accused of murder of arson or rape or burglary or any crime 2 an aggravated nature. Look the records of our criminal irts now. Forty years ago, iching was a thing unheard, it a mob would undertake the lress of grievances hy putting in to death without trial was t dreamed of. Look at our lord now and see how dark and >ody it is. "do to your homes, better in, and impress it upon your ople that mob law means an;hy; that it means the disin-* 'ration of society; that it moans 5 crumbling of the fair edifice State-hood that our fathers left and that so long as we tolerate we can not hope to make real ogress in all that makes for /ili/.ation. The restoration of r nristino virtues is tlm ?-o.>i lite mans burden.'' The prisoners were required to ve new bonds before leaving the urt ami tho case against thetn is re entered upon the docket be tried over again at another rm. QUAY COMES CLEAR. rthwith Appointed United States Senator to Succeed Himself. Philadelphia, Pa., April 21.? Bitthew Stanley Quay was today clared by a jury of his peers to not guilty of the charge of aspiring to use for his own lawful gain and profit the funds the State of Pennsylvania debited in the Peoples bank of is city. Immediately upon hearing the ws at Harrisburg, Governor one appointed Mr. Quay United ate.-> senator to serve until the xt legislature. Great crowds of Quay's friends oke through the court guards grasp the ex-senator's hand d on tho streets the news was ught up and flashed over the ;y amid wild cheers and shouts. Let us hero in South Carolina joice over Senator Quay's acittal. If the Philadelphia jury d established the precedent of ndinc a United Kfjitns tho penitentiary for using ate property without lawful thority there might have l>een rious mental suffering and pcrnal peril in the ranks of South irolina statesmanship. Our noe leader Benjamin Ryan Tilinn has himself used S\ato con-, ets, commissary stores aud icks, while Quay was accused using State money on deposit speculate with. If we recolct correctly, the difference is at Quay returned the money omntlv. whereas Our Noble aader has been restrained by eirimstauces from gratifying his mtitually burning and ardent isiro to pay the State for what t got belonging to her. For the sake of the several )ble leaders who are unplcaaantinvolved in the South Carolina 5nitontiary scandals, wo are lad Quay escapes. Incidentally, o feel impelled to warn esteemed iform contemporaries not to bo >o fierce in iheir denunciations f Quay, lest they perchance stop idelv unon some distinguished >es near home.?Greenville News Beauty la Ulood Deep, dean blood means a clean akin. No sauty without it. Caacareta, Candy Catharc clean your blood and keep it clean, by irring up th? laxy liver and driving all imjritiea from the body. Begin today to iniah pimplas, boils, blotches, blackheads, id that mekly bilioaa complexion by taking *ascarete,?beauty for ten centa. All drugel^ satisfaction guaranteed# liic# |0c<