The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, September 29, 1900, Image 2
THE LEDGER.
Th nrlow S. Carter, :
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
SATURDAY8KPTKMHER 29, 1900.
Anti Lynch Law no Good
A C'.iso Twice Tried in South
t ... j t v 4- * *
v<m'iiui? VIMII l!>, UUCH .A g ill II SI
the Victim'8 Heirs.
Charleston, S C, Sept '27?The
anti lynching law of tins State, j
making the county responsible for
damages to the family of the vie
tim, has received another black
eye. On January 4, ISO7, Isaac
Brown, a negro, was handged to
ti\e railroad crossing at Stillton, ,
Orangeburg county, his neck
broken and his body riddled with !
bullets. Brown's father brought!
suit against the county for dam- j
ages last year, tint the jury j
promptly brought in a verdict for
the county. The verdict was set !
aside by Judge Gage, and another !
trial of the same case has been j
bad, this week, and another ver?;
diet rendered for the county of .
Orangeburg.
The Sheriff Explains
That Beaufort Murder Case and
the Reason for Inaction. jl
I
Sherill R K Jenkins of Beaufort '
writes the governor as follows I
about ihe case in which complaint
was made to the governor a few i
days ago. t
Your excellency: Your favor i
of the 24th inst. to hand. 1 had u
intended writing you today in i
reference to Mr. R M Fuller's f
letter in the News and Courier of t
Sept 23d feeling that 1 should do \
so in justice of myself. The L
' quick delivery" letter which
reached Beaufort on 10:15 train \
was received *s the outgoing train J
was leaeing the station at 12:45. i
The telegram came also as stated, i
but too late for me to act that day, i
especially as I was told by Mr. j
Fuller that the man had fled. 1
wrote the authorities in Savannah,
Charleston and Augusta imme- '
diately; have had men out in five
localities anx offered a reward of
$10 myself for the capture of
Smalls. I assure you 1 have in ,!
this, us in all other cases, since "I 1
have been sheriff, endeavored to *
do my whole duty. I am making ^
every effort to locate the man, h
and hope soon to rrport his cap- <>
ture. Hoping my explanation is I
satisfactory. 1 remain, etc. v
t
W J Keller has been appointed
magistrate at Feasterville, Fairfield 0
county, to succeed 11 A Stevenson y
who was killed during a political h
row. f
I ne Dillion Herald is figuring
I
out how, in the event of the election
of Bryan, Senator Tillman
will he made secretary of the *
navy, Governor MeSweeney will c
succeed to the senate, and Jim
Tillman will become governor.
It is strange how some people are H
always conjuring up such terrible ^
nightmares ?Yorkville Enquirer. *
i r
The mayor or Y\ ilkesbarre, I'a. ,
got out of an embarrassing pre- j
dicament the other day in a Solo- I
monic way. Two women came ,
. t
before him on account of some
h
<lisagreement. They both insisted |
on talking at the same time, and |
would talk in spite of his etTorta
to aeep one quiet while the other
talked. In despair he ordered 1
notn locked up in n room, l>y 1
themselves, until their desire to
talk subsided. At the end of N
three hours they had talked them- ^
aelres out, and came out silent n
and good fiends. P
Cure CoTd^lr^HfeadT- a
Kermott* Chocolate* I.aeative Quinine *auy t.
to take and <juick to cure cold in head and aore u
throat. "
Tillman in Wisconsin.
South Carolina Senator Argues
with Republicans Against
Imperialism.
United States Senator Benjamin ]
R Tillman addressed a Democratic
gathering of 1,600 persons at the
South Side Turner hall. Mil win ~
ker, lust Thursday night, confining
his remarks chiefly to imperialism.
Me whs frequently applauded.
"One burning question," he
suid, "is to determine whether or
not you will return a republic to
live under or whether you will set
up a military despotism."
The Porto Rican tarilT law he
characterized as "a damnable act,
for which you will rise up and
call the Republicans to account "
These people, he said, were
promised that thoy should receive
all the rights and guarantees that
the constitution calls for, but the
Republican party has from the
start denied them their rights.
He dwelt at length upon the
Philipines and ridiculed tho statement
of Republicans that the war
was over in those islands; and
stated that in the face of such re- |
ports messages wore being sent '
to Washington almost daily containing
news ot the killing of
,r ? r*
many of our soldiers. He quoted 1
Admiral Dewey to the effect that <
the Filipinos were better able to i
govern themselves than the Cubans <
who were given their liberty while
the Filipinos remain slaves. 1
He urged his hearers to ariso <
ibove party and vote for principle r
md liberty; that they were to f,
lecide whether the constitution t
ind the llag were to go together, i
Taking up the argument of "the (
nil dinner pail," the speaker t
old his listeners to toll the lie- t
mhlicuns that 4'slaves heretofore \
lave had full dinner pails."
Senator Tillman closed by in t
'iting the audience to rote of (
iryan, and predicted defe t of a
he Republican party in Novem
>er.
Over at Last.
c
k ^
'he Transvaal War is Really .
Ended Now.
r
London, Sep. li?>.?"The war
L
i completely ended," said the j
Lorenzo Marque/, correspondent
o The Daily Telegraph. Many
-una have l>een destroyed and '
undreds of wagons and thousands ,
? f
f tons of stores of everv deacrip
0
ion have been burned, Burning .
rreckage liea in every dirrct'on in
he Hectorapruit district. ^
"Any good police force of 20,??
i00 men can elTect the complete
acification of the country. It will ^
>e impossible for the Boers in the ^
uture to mass a force exceeding i
,1)00. They are sick of the war. /
rish-American and other moreen ^
,ries are clam ring for payment I
,nd they threaten the Boer offi- i
ials." It
" 11
All the cotton manufacturers 1
; c
,re united in an effort to raise the ,
?rice of their products. The cot? ! ^
on manufacturers constitute a ^
towerful combination, and it may ^
afely be assumed that they will ^
ucceed in their object. If conumers
of cotton goods are wise, {
hey will take the cue from the 1 t
dilation and buy their supplies ^
iefore the inevitable advance is |
, . c
ompleted?Yorkville Enquirer. j
PASTOIIIA.
Bean the /i !*> Kind You Have Always Bought c
VANTEli?ACTIVE MAN of good
liMiavter ?o deliver and collect in ?
toutli Carolina for old tHtabliahed '
nan 11 laetwring wl.olp-nle hoime $!?(K) ?
y?ar aure pay. Honesty more than
xperienee required. Out reference,
ny (tank in any city. Kn Close self- J
ddressed stamped envelope. Maiiu*
iCturers, Third Floor, 3i4 Dearlioru ,
t., Chicago.
Prompted by Jealousy.
Yourg M:in Shoots h Girl suit her
(toiler Through W indow.
Raleigh, N. C., Sept. 24 ?At
\Yilliamston early Saturday night
i young nian named .Joseph
Rennett shot Miss .Jennie Moore,
daughter of a prominent lawyer,
? .1 !>..! 1 I ! I.l. - - e .i
illHl UIMHIMI IIOIIIIS, SOU OI l(]f
clerk of court.
Hobbs was calling at her home.
Soon after he went in a noise was
heard near .lie window and the
young lady went out to investigate.
She returned und in a few
minutes the noise was heard again.
She then asked Hobbs to ?_;o with
her to find the can e. A few feet
from the door four pistols shots
were tired. One ball struck Miss
Moore and passed through her
hint's. The wound may prove
fatol. Hobbs received a flesh
wound in the hip.
Bennett escaped No cause
can lie assigned for the deed ex
cept jealousy.
Mormon Elders.
Meat With Very Severe Treatment
in Florida.
Mariunna, Fin., Sept 2G? Reports
come from the western portion
of the county that Mormon
alders who have been at work all
summer there have been run out
if the county by angered men.
Three families woro packed up
to go with them, consisting of
sight women and girls and two
uen. when a mob r.o
fathered, stripped and whipped
he eiders, and at the muzzle* of
?')ot<funs escorted them ncros* the
rounty line, warning them thut
hey would be killed if they reurned.
One of the man converts
trs also severely beaten.
Another report says that one of
he elders were killed and three
tthers covered with tar and cotton
ind set on tire.
Crop Bulletin tor the State.
Columbia, S C, Sept 25?The
rop bulletin for South Carolina
or this week reports that cotton
s nearly all open and picking has
ntde rapid progress, to the extent
hat from some fields nil has been
fathered. The bulk of the crop
ins been picked. The yields have
lot improved, although the pros*
>eets for s small top crop are
food in a few localities if an earlv
rost does not kill it. Sea Islan 1
iotton has improved slightly and
ieaufort county will yield an
iverage crop. The blight coninues
in the Charleston district.
The Anderson NJuil is disposed
o net like the tiaditional dog in
he manger. At the election in
November the people of South
Jarolina will vote on a proposition
o amend the constition so as to
dlow Charleston, Columbia,
Florence, Kock Mill and (ieorge?
own to lion<l themselves beyond
he constitutional limit of 8 per
ent. Those cities want to so
wnd themselves and have asked
or the amendment. As the adop*
ion of the amendment will affect
hem, and affect (hem alone, it in'
. I
lard to see nny reason for any
ippoHition to the amendment hy i
he Anderson Mail. Kven after
he amendment is passed, as we
rust and believe it will he, there
an be no increase of the bonded i
ndebtednes* of any one of those :
ities without tho consent of itc
itizena.?Columbia Record.
800 Horaea Drowned.
London, Sept 25?Tho trana>ort
Suffolk war. wrecked on Cape
it. Francia, off the South African
oast, today. Fight hundred
lorees were drowned.
gy" Subscribe to The Ledges.
Shot Through ths Brain.
Victim Comes Kleven Miles to
Columbia Before Dying.
Columbia Record
The coroner held an inquest
yesterday over the dead body of
j Frank Washington, col., who was i
killed at Rig Lake, in the county, '
j by Pilgram Flowers. Both are '
' colored men.
j They were in a gambling game
when the homicide occurred,
j This w as Sunday morning at 6
i o'clock. The bullet was fired into
| Washington's face and it passed
through his head, lodging under
the skin in the back of his
cranium.
i Notwithstanding the bullet went
through his brain, Washington
was able to drive to Columbia for
medical assistance. He died Mon |
day morning at 1 o'clock.
! Pilgram Flowers fled and has j
not yet been arrested.
m , m . _
Dogs Versus Sheep,
(ireenville News.
Mr A L Kwhank received a letter
yesterday from the pastor of
the l'r? shy tori an church at (ireors
which contains a very valuable
lesson if ? nr people and legislators
will only learn it.
In view of all the facts in the
cio-e, it is littlo abort of criminul
folly that a State legislature
should hesitate for a moment to
do so plain a duty as to pass a 'aw
that would encourage one of the
best paying industries of the 1
country.
Here is :i copy of tho letter:
"Pear Sir:
"Your article in today's News
leads me to say that 1 have recently
been written to by parties '
out of tho State to know if sheep
were protected by a dog law in
South Carolina. This with a '
view of investing either in the '
Piedmont o?* in Florida.
t(I am sure if such a law can
be secured it will add wealth and
industry to our State.
"T. C. Potter.
"Greets, SC, Sept 24, 1000."
Little ('lassies.
He thought as a sage, though he
felt as a man. ? Beattie.
Though authority he a stubborn
bear, it is often led by the nose
with gold. ?Shakespeuro.
Young men think old men fools;
but old men know young men are
fools.?George Chapman.
The diseases of the mind are
more destructive and in greater
number than those of tli?
Cicero.
Of tho animals which tly in the
air, walk on tho ground, or swim
in the aea, the most foolish is
man. ? Boileau.
My living in Yorkshire was so
far out of the way that it was
actually 12 nules from a lemon ?
Sydney Smith.
Those pasaionato persons who
carry their months are rather to
be pitied than feared. Their
threatening* serve no other purpose
than to forearm him that is
threatened. ? Fuller.
Gen. Palmer Dead.
Springtield, 111, Sept 25.?(ien
,J M Palmer, ex-United States
senator and Gold Democratic
ranmuaie ror president in 1896, '
died at his residence this morn
WO?l>0 NI Oil T AND
DAY
The busiest and mightiest little
thing that ever was made is Dr.
King's New Life Pills. Kvery
pill is a sugar-coated globule of
nealth, that changes weakness in*
to strength, listlessnes* into ener*
py, brain-fag into mental power.
They're wonderful in building up
the health. Only 25c per box.
Sold by Crawford Bros.
Howard Convicted.
A Kentucky .Jury Says that He
Murdered Goebel? Death will
1)? the Penalty.
Frankfort, Sept 20?Jim Howard,
who has been on trial here,
churned with tho killing of Gov.
Gonlml. wnu thin m**rninrr
, guilty
of murder in the first degree.
The jury fixed the penalty at death.
It is suit! the first ballot was ten
to two for conviction.
The fact that the jury had deliberated
all of yesterday afternoon
without rendering a verdict
led to the belief that it was hopelessly
divided, and this fact made
the verdi t a shock to Howard
and those who hoped for his ultimate
acquittal.
Howard did not lose his composure
when the extreme penalty
of the law was read in the crowded
court room. He glanced at
hi- attorneys, who sat beside him,
and smiled and said nothing. After
the jury had been discharged
Howard was taaen back to jail and
here for the first time he betrayed
emotion. He called for a pen and
paper and wrote a long letter to
his wife, during which tears
coursed down his cheeks. Ho was
joined later by his attorneys, who
spent a good part of the day in
conference with him in regard to
the motion for a new trial which
will he filed tomorrow and other
matters in connection with the
case.
\V H Culton. who iw nn<l*r in
dictment as an accessory to the
Goehel murder, and who pave
damaging evidence ngainst both
Howard and Caleb Powers, was
released on bail this afternoon and
his case was continued until the
January term. His bond was
tixed at $10,000, and his brotherin-law,
E E Hogg of Owsley
county, and J F Halcomb and
John Johnson of Jackson county
became his sureties.
Howard and bis friends are
very bitter in their denunciation of
witnesses who, it is charged, ware
in the conspiracy to murder Goehel
and who have since been manufacturing
testimony against others
in order to obtain immunity for
themselves.
"Jim" Howard, as ho is commonly
known in the mountains, is
a airiaingiy nanasome man, 44
years of age, and would ho one of
the last to he pointed out hv
h stranger us tho man on tiial.
He has the record, however, of
being tho leader of the Hownrd- |
White faction in the Baker-Howard
feud in Clay county, in which
numerous lives were taken. He
had killed George Baker and was
suspected of the assassination of
Tom Baker, who was killed aftor ,
the same fashion as Goehel, and ,
Howard's friends believe that
those facts had vory much to do
with tho making of tho verdict
sentencing him t? the gallows.
The trial of Henry E Youtsey j
Newport will be called next Monti
ay at Georgetown.
Col. Hoyt, Jr., Resigns.
Clll -ln?i A 1I/1V( If ?'!>" 1'""
vw. c v. ' ? ? * v j c i j r? ij\7 iirta
been a member of tho governor's
military stuff, resigned today.
The governor has tendered the
appointment as hin successor to
Mr I) A Spivey, of Conway, a
prominent voung man of that
town ami cashier of the hank
there. Col Hoyt was ono of the
prominent managers of his father's
canvass in the recent gubernatorial
campaign, but the person al
friendship between the governor
and himself has not been severed*
?Columbia Record.
There ere 1 000 i>auii nt tfall.>i?
fever under treatment in Habanna.
Pay your aubcription to
Ledokb!
t .iv r rv r\ k nn
"Equal Rights To All,"
If bar fixtures are to bo seized
in Greenville, *rhy not in Charleston?
The up-country tigers should
demand equal rights to all and apeIcial
privilogeBto none.?The State
I A'otioe to I>ebtor?.
All ..o -4 ww, ,?,1.1.4..1 4
I |'?1 uvn IIIUUUICU IVi HIC tt! U
. requested to settle at the earliest
opportunity as I need all the
: money due inc. Respectfully,
?J E ltutledge, Dentist.
I New Restaurant.
I have opened up a tirst class
restaurant on the corner opposite
Pong & Harper's ginnery. Meals
served at all hours of the day. No
di inking allowed in my establishment.
I also keep a line of heavy
and fancy groceries. Call in
when you come to town,
i 5^Tr*llighcst price paid for
eggs and all country produce.
S. Cherrv.
Sept 14, lbOO.
Notice to Debtors ami Creditors
of 1* M IMylcr, Deceased
A 1-1. Persons iiMlebleil In the estate
/if 1? M 1*1. I"- 1 _t.l
... . , ... . . i nn, \icrrnnr?i will
come forward at once ami make ?ett lenient
with the undersigned Pernors
having c'hIiiih hi ainst m -* i< I estate will
present them, duly verified, to the
under-dgnt d.
\V 11 1*1. YI ER,
G? e. W. PI YI.KR.
Kxecu'ors.
NOTICE !
To the taxpayers of Lancaster county.
The Treasurer's office will he open
for the collection of taxes lor the fiscal
\ ear l!KHl, on the 15th day of October
and will clone the it I at day of December,
15HKI
TIIK l.KVV la AS FoLI.OWa,
State h ini!If.
t ounty 5 "
Hp. eial ((' A c K It) 3
Sinking Fund (' ?fc 0 It It) J "
Cotiaiitutional Hobo 1 Tax X "
Total 1 "
LOCAI. I.KVV,
Cane Creek Township (?; C ?fc
C It Itl 4J '
Gills Creek Township (C t.
c it it) 5j
Pleasant Hill Township (C C
?fe ( R R) 3 '
I.OCAI. I.KVV KOH SCHOOL DISTRICTS,
Lancaster 4 "
Jones X Roads 2 "
Heath .Spring 3 "
Oak buret 4 "
TOTAL I.KVV IIV DISTRICTS.
Indian l.und "
Waxliaw lHj '
\ a ne v. reeK HI} "
(1 railed ?chool 25] *'
" Jones X Boads 23$ *
Gills ('reek 22 *'
Graded sehool 26 "
" Jones X Roads 24 "
Rufurd in] "
Fiat Creek ^ * in) "
" Kershaw 16* "
I'teasant Hill 10) "
" Kershaw 10} '
" Heath Spring 22* "
OikhuiMt 23) "
Jones X Roads 21) "
Cedar Creek in] "
" Jones X (loads IS) *'
Ue?peelfully.
W C CAUTHBN.
? o Treasurer.
HEADQUARTERS
For Best Virginia Lime, Cement,
PI aster Paris and
Plastering Hair
T. H. DAVIS'
LAHCASTEB BAKERY
HORSES!
HORSES!
HORSES!
We have JuHt ri eeiveil a carload of
number one horwn from Atlauta,ever>
animal having been carefully felec ed
1 in iiprunn liu our \i r ?? -
. ~j ?. .'ii. iviiniii. in me
] lot are eonae of the flne*t horaea ever
brought to tliia market. If you want
u good Saddler, or a good Driver, or a
I good combination borne, now i* your
time to get it. We now have just what
you want and uaed. ( all and nee for
yourself. We take pleasure in ex*
hiblting our stock, an well an Vehicle*.
Ill will either nell or swap, and
Mm Q will sell either for the cash
VV w <>r Rood paper.
ELLIOTT &
CRAWFORD
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