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^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.
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PIMPLES:
wir? had plmpln on h?r fatr, but 'e
he km Deem itklnr CASCARETS mad they
have aU disappeared. I had been troubled
with constipation lor some time, but after tak A
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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/
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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. ^
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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.
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ould not stay with my friends on
arth, I would meet my absent
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id vised to get Dr. King's New Dislovery
for Consumption, Coughs
md Colds. I gave it atrial, took
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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. ^
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\loI> Law Anarchy Means DisinJ
no
test ation of Society?TbeSelection
of the Postmaster was ^
Wrong, but This Does not
Excuse the Murderers.
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Special to Greenville News.
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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
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