The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, November 28, 1900, Image 2
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WKI>N KsMAY, NOV KMIIF.R, 28, 1900.
Items l-Yeni tlio Kershaw Kru.
Horn to Mr. and Mr*, E. D.
Blukcney Monday, November 2 6
I !>< i", a daughter.
Mr. K L Soweil, who went to
the hospital at Charleston, as noted
..e *i._ p.. i? I
I"' nm? l?P!IO 111 lUO TJIH, ll!tb
rein nod Kin I ia now able to be out
again. H? bus had a long siege of
it, I jring been confined to his bed
for several months.
Polhnnan Catoeand Asst, poatinusier
SloTer last week received a
checK for #I.r?0, the amount of the
reward offered for the negro captor
d bv them near Capt S C Clyburo
- iw mill some weeks ago
who ivai wanted in Geergia for the
inur-h r of twi ot i#r negroes. He
was convicted of the crime.
1 V.. }? of l>onald McQueen.
Sort-in* to The News and Courie**.
Colombia, Xov25? Mr. Donald
McQueen, who was for fifteen or
t\\ JMii \ years agent of the South
Carolina Railroad in this city,
met with a kori ilde accident last
niltI?t which resulted in his death |
this afternoon. He was lying
on his hed reading, having a
metal kerosene lamp on a tahle at
the side of the bed He dropped
to sleep and doling his sleep the
lamp exploded. Mrs McQueen
and some of the children were in
another room and heard the ex
plosion. They rush'd in the room
and found Mr. McQueen enveloped
: _ ii
in names. manaets and other
article* to stifle tbo tirewere wrapped
around him, but before tha
flame* were extinguished ha was
fatally burned. His flesh from his
waist to the?4op of hia t^eud, waa
^ burned and blistered, and ha sufm
fered excruciating pain. PhysiW
ciana were callad in and they did
all that waa possible to alleviate
hia autFeringa, though it waa evident
that hia life must soon and.
He lived until thin afternoon about
4'elock when death brought relief.
Mr. McQueen was well known in
the State, and especially in railroad
circles. Whan the South
('arolina and Georgia Road was
leased by the Southern and the
offices of the two companies were
consolidated hare, Mr. McQueen
engaged in other business. He
was a Confederate veteran, and
was an actiTe and enthusiastic
mem her of Camp Hampton. He
married Miss Lynch, daughter of
the late Dr. Lynch, of thia city,
who, with six children, survives
him. He was a man of the highest
probity and honor, and hia death
will he generally regretted by his
hundred* of friends it the city
at d State.
Thettattle of Baguaon.
Manila, Nor 25?Particulars
hare just been received from
lloilo of the battle, Oct 30, a
Ba?*uson. Island of I'anav wh*n
w - - J 1
'200 Bolomen and f>0 riflemen attacked
the Americana who lust
three kdled, Lieut II M Koontz,
Sergt Kitchen and Corpl Burn*,
all of Company F Forty-fourth
infantry.
Corpl Burna was holoed while
reconnoitering and Lieut Koont/.
and Sergt Kitchen were pierced
by spears while going to relieve
an outpost.
When the gariiaon in front attacked
the rebels 40 of the latter
were killed. None of the other
parties of attacking natives made
much of a stand and the insurgents
lost 103 killed all told.
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From a Felon's Cell to the
Asylnm's Confines !
Strange Case of an Insane White i
Criminal Who Murdered Ilia i
Brother?in?Law. i
Eugene E Shirley, -white man ,
from Chester, will be pardoned
by the governor in a day or two.
The circumstances of the case
have a pathetic as well as a tragic
I aspect. Shirlev was p?nTir-t?d in
1S01 of killing his brother-in-law
in C hester county. He was sentenced
to 10 veurs in the penitentiary,
but owing to good conduct
his term was reduced under the
rules and he would hare been a
free man Dec 31. But it has developed
that he is insane, and
probably was when he committed
the crime. An inquiry was made
into his mental condition several J
months ago and it was decided .
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mm iuw man wab crR2,y. 1'nysi- I
cinns and friends who knew him
I '
before and at the time he commit^
ted the crime say that he mi
crazy and that he ought to he in
the hospital for the insane rather
than the penitentiary.
Solicitor Henry of Cheater, in 1
a letter to the governor, iecom-1
mends the pardon with a view of
having the tnuu placed in the hos,<
pital for the insane. He states
that Shirley's family are afraid to
have him come hack home, as they
fear personal danger at hiw hands.
Other people in the community in
which he lived make the same
statement.
Capt Griffith, superintendent of
in? penitentiary,connrms this view
of the matter, saying that Shirley
haa frequently explained his trouhie*
oa account of family troubles.
The prisoner has made threats as
to what he would do when he jjot
free.
Although mentally unbalanced
Shirley has been a most exemplary
prisoner as is shown by his earning
a reduction of his term.
The governor did not act in the
case yesterday, preferring to get
some legal advice, but he authorized
the statement that a pardon
would be issued, and that Shirley
i would n? nirn?d ov?r to the authorities
of th? hospital for th? in^
sane.
Officers Attacked bj Infuriated
Megro Mob.
Deputies Had Arr?st?d a Wif?
Murderer in Dorchester, But
He Was Taken from Th?m by
Viol?nco.
Th? Stat?, 27th inst.
(r?v. MeSweeney has received a
letter from St. (ieorge'e in which
I complaint >a made that a mob of
I negroes attacked K. W. Minna,
'Jr., daputy fheriff for Dorchester
couniy, and K. K. Einua, marshal
for tha town of St. George's
Tha officers of tha law had in
cuntodj Rufua Neal, who is wanted
on tha charge of murder. Tha moh
of negroes, with weapons drawn
managed to get tha negro crimi
nal away and as the officers ware
only lightly armed and could offer
no affective reaistance the prisoner
made good his escape.
The inhabitant* think if auch
high handed outrage in not dealt
with, that it will hare a very had i
effect and Gov. McSweeney haa
been called upon to offer a reward,
which in thought will anniat in bring
ing about the arreat of thoae who '
took part in the release of Neal '
and in the diaplay of violence. |
Neal ia a wife murderer for whoae
capture and conviction a reward
of $100 haa been offered. The
officera who were aanualted bad
been after him. They heard that
he was at Shady Grove eampmeeting,
and went there to make the
arrest. I
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Tho governor's informant of the
affair states that -'at soon at Neat
saw the officers he took to flighi.
calling loudly for help. A large
number of drunken and infuriated
negroes, armed with firearm*,
sticks and bludgeons, went to
Neat's assistance, attacked the
offiioera and wounded both serious
lv, aad actually took Neal from
the deputy seeriff, who had him
under arrest. Neal at the preaeut
time would undoubtedly have been
behind the bars had it not been
for the high handed interference
of the mob.
It is added that Neal has been
u:.. --i ?
iTiug iu iiik camn, and thai hv
has the sympathy of the negror?,.
Marshal Minus has since been nm laid
on the road and knocked acr.-.
loss by negroes.
Population By Counties Of The
Palmetto State.
Increase of 10.4 Per Cent in Ten
Tears Population of Town-.
Not Yet Announced.
Washington, Nov. 23.? The
population of South Carolina, as
officially announced toda\. is
1,340,316. against 1,151, ll'.t in
1890. This is an increase sim-e
1 coo icn 1t ? i /? '
<ii i air, l u I , l<r 10.4 pil' ('( III.
The population in 1880 wns
095,577, showing an increase of
155,572, or 15.6 per can*, from
1880 to 180?.
The population by towns ml!
not be ready for someday*.
The population by counties i.s
as follows:
Abbeville 4 no
Aiken :>*.?. o:>2
Anderson 55.72S
Bamberg 17,29 0
Barnwell .'15,50 1
Beaufort :i5,4 9.r>
Berkeley 4.'">1
Charleston 84,000
Cherokee ? .. . . 21
Chester 28,010
Chesterfield 2",40 1
Clarendon 28,1M
Colleton 8M.452
Darlington :12,.'18S
Dorchester 10.204
Kdgefield 25,4 7 s
Fairfield 20,42ft
Florence 28,474
Georgetown 22,8 46
Greenville f.3,40o
Greenwood 2 s 13 4
Hampton 23,738
Horry 23,364
Keruhaw 24,606
Lancaster 24,311
Laurens 37,382
Lexington 27,264
Marion ?>*, 1 c 1
' 1
Marlboro 27,639
Newberry 30,182
Oconee 23,644
Orangeburg 59,663
Pickene 19,374
Richland 45,589
Saluda 18,966
Spartanburg 65,560
Sumter 51,237
Union 25,501
W illiamaburg ^1,685
York 41,684
Richard Trailer Shot by Edward
Proctor.
I Special to The State.
St. George, Not. j|6.? A serioun,
and what may prove to be a
fatal, shooting affray occurred a
few mile* from town thin morning.
Mr. Richard Trailer and Mr.
fidward Procfcor, two young men,
ware in town Saturday and had a
difficulty. They met again this
morning near their home and re*
nawed the affair. They soon came
to blows, and during the altercation
Mr. Proctor drew his pistol
and shot Mr. Trailer twice?one
ball striking bins in the abdomen.
| Mr. Procter came into town
immediately and surrendered to
I Sheriff Varnedoe.
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l'ri Witiit**> for the Sint??
Sj? \ * Hp is t h? ^Itio Who K
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Yotkvillr. S C . Vffiiian.
W c Ipurn from % reliable *?urc?
ill*' 1 bp Unit ion tr a',
1' A NotiI father in IIIvv of thp
I lie ?i l llir'v > ISrotvti, and 1 he
principal wtneasfor the State in
the pros-cut ion, slate* thut Mr.
John S. Bat* >n is the nmn who
*hr>? *h\ I^'iwn. Mr Nr?l mad*
t hik admis-ion to Mr ,! !1. IV
,If?nkin? :ii <1 Knot her citizen of
H ?ck Hill. Mr. NVal ^uv? that
*d tic* he and heard Mr. John
BrttMon talk in the court room, he
is positive tti.it he is the man, and
not Mr rani Brat ton as many
suppose in spit* of Mr. John Bratton's
confeaiun. lie did not desire
this statement publicly inade because
iv?<* 1 i11_r for tho>e concern od,
and nc a re informed thnt re
quests have been made on that
account to have it suppressed. But,
in jtu.ice to Mr. I'atil K Bratton,
wo !>< ! !at. ?. ?l.~ ....IK- -1 I 1
... [ >u hi n: % nc mi in rie
given tho benefit of thin testimony
of his innocence; that this consideration
out-weighs the other.
The Presbyterian Creed
Revisionist Appear to have Carried
the Necessary Tao Thirds.
Pittsburg, Pa. Nov. 2It. ? W.
R. Crabbe, the Pittsburg number
of the revision committee of the
Presbyterian general assembly,
said tonight that all ef the pre*
hyteries have voted on the question
j of revision r>f the creed, resulting
in revisionists securing about 75
per cent, of she votes east. Of
the 1,007,(>89 members of the
church, 898,555 voted. The presbyteries
voting in favor of revi
aion Diniher 120, thoae against a
change 40. A two-thirds vote i*
required to make a change. The
committee will meet In Washington,
I>ec, 4, to tnke action.
ONLY $1.50.
--MARBLE AND GRANITE Monuments,
Tablets, tfead
Stones, Etc.
Children's #1.50, and upwards
Adults, $2.50, #3.00, and upwards.
Made of Pure Marble.
A. J. McNinch.
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| A Skull Probably Cracked, j
.Iuidah Fort Mill, in the
i nek I'p on Charge of Aaaault.
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,i hurlotte Observer.
Mr. .Famea Hognn, a citizen of |
Fort Mill, S O., wan lodged in the |
guard house I net night, on the;
chart:? of having assaulted ;
.luineH M. Cook, at the Atherton I
Miii. Hogan started out for home '
after durk, with a good stock of '
liquor in his buggy, in addition to j
tbo fuel which ho had already absorbed.
Driving by tha At her ton
mill, he got into a controversy .
with Mr. Conk, and sat upon him (
with a buggy whip, o*inff the butt
j and of it on Mr. Cook's head An
a result of bin blowa, Mr. Cook's
scalp waa severely lacerated and
. the two doctora who were called
I J
had to do a good deal of stitch- ,
I ing and plastering, iiogan would I
| not tell much about it last night, 1
and Cook could not, but Act- !
: ti
. mg mayor r ranann may be
able to pet the atraicht of the
business at tomorrow morning's .
session t?f the court, Tha doctors
j say that Cook in very badly hurt
rind may possibly ha suffering
j from n fractured aknll. Hogan'a
stock of original package* is in the
charge of Night Turnkey Sum*
merrow.
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Cracksmen Foiled in Mayesrilla.
' Special to The Stale.
Mayeaville, Not *23?The pro- '
fassional safe blowers aeam to
have reached our town and an at
I tempt was made to open the post j
office safe last night. Shortly
after midnight, the robbers?there
were three of them ? went to J F j
A r>. III--I :?i- ' *'
.inn iii;u-Mniiin suop and
took all I ha necessary tools and
tlion broke open the postnftice
door. They went right to work
and broke the combination, and
would have gotten the contents of
the safe but their noise on entor*
ing the building brought out some
of the citizens. The robbers ran
I out of the building and te the
| edge of town, then got in a bug
gy and made their escape. It is
believed that this is the same gang
that operated in Hamberg county
and elsewhere.
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Fatal Wreck at Green Pond.
Special to The State.
Charleston, Nor 24? A fatal
wreck occurred on the Plant Systorn
road at Green Pood this
morning at 4 o'clock. Passenger
train No. 73 ran into the tail end
of an extra freight train, overturning
the eDgine of the passenger
train and killing Engineer
Thaddeus N Jnn?* nf
and injuring Fireman Green.
Andrew Williams, the negro
who was convicted of the murder
of hie father a few days ago, wae
sentenced by Judge Buchanan to
hang on January 4, next. His
attorneys made a motion for new
trial, which was refused. James
Kelly, another negro will hang at
the name time. The county will
he spared the expense of the erection
of a gallows, as one now
staads in the jail yard, on which
four men have already been jerked
out of this world.
Some Young Huntern Caught
Strange Game Saturday Night.
Saturday night some young
nan while out hunting 'possums
up the Columbia and Greenville
railroad track, had a funny ex~
parience. Thay ran acroaa a nagro
who actad queerly. When he
walked off thay wara puzzled by
his peculiar shambling gait, until
they suspected that the negro waa
shackled. They immediately arrested
him and brought him to
town. The negro had a pistol and
a hatchet whan caught, lie had
escaped from soma convict camp
up the country, and in order to
prevent any complicationa the
young m?n repaired to Dr. J W
ltahcock, the vataran tnemy of
varioloid, and had him to inoculate
them with vaccina virus, for
it ia reported that there is some
smallpox in some of the jaila in
the up-country.?The State.
IIOW8 THIS !
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any crane of Catarrh that cannot
he cured hy Hall's Catarrh Cure.
K J CHENEY A CO., Props. Toledo,
O.
We the undersigned, have known
F J Hheney for the la*t 15 years, and
helieve him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able In carry out any obligations made
by their firm.
Wkht a Truax, Wholesale Druggist.
Toledo, O.
Wai.pino, Kinnan A Marvin
Wholesale Druirgists. Toledo. O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon tiie blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Price, 7ftc. per bottle Hold by all
DrutrglsU. Testimonials free.
Hall's Family Pills are the treat
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