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Happenings In The State^ ,
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As Chronicled by the Alert ('or
respondents of The Columbia
State. I
STAUHKl) TO THE HKAKT.
Beaufort, June 27.?At Old
Coosa w mines this morning at U '
o'clock Richard Cuthbert and Andrew
Porter, aged 14 and 15,
had a quarrel with i nother negro
named Thos. Holmes, and Cuthbert
stabbed Holmes to the heart.
The boys were arrested and
brought here tonight by Sheriff J
Porter and Deputy Mann.
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MI CH TOBACCO DKSTKOVKI). I
llartsville, Juno 27.?The far- '
mers in the Swift Creek section 11
estimate that tho recent hailstorm '
destroyed at least $30,000 worth c
of tobacco in their neighborhood, 1
to say nothing of the loss in the
other crops. Take it all in all, 1
tho outlook for a crop is not very t
cheering at present. '
A WOMAN KILLED BY LIOHTNINO. 1
Congaree, .June 27. ? During a
thunder storm yesterday after- 1
noon the wife of Grant lleed, col- 1
ored, on tho plantation of Mr. K. 1
A. Shoolbred beU<v here, was in- (
stantly killed by lightning. She
was standing in the window and N
her husband lying upon the bed
within three feet of her when she ^
fell. l'ho body was parched and
burned almost beyond recognition.
Her husband was not injured.
DOCTORS DIFFER WIT1I COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS.
Wallialla, .June 27.?The phy
sicians of Walhalla and Oconee
county are on a strike. Recently
the board of couuty commissioner*
decided that $3 would be .
sutlicient to pay physicians to
make a lunacy examination. The
doctors think that said amount is
c
uot sufficient. A prospective
inmate for the hospital for the (
insane is now in jail bore and has ^
not yet been sent to Columbia,
for the reason that no one can be c
made to make the necessary ex- ^
amination. Doubtless some adjustiuent
will be mad* in a short c
time. c
WORST or ALL SZPBR- 1
XBBf CBS &
Can anything be worse than to i
feel that every minute will be your
lust? Such was the experience of fc
Mrs. S. H. Newson, Decatur,
Ala. "For three years" sho writes, 1
"1 endured insufferable pain frcm *
indigestion, stomach and bowel
trouble. Death seemed inevitable t
when doctors and all remodies t
failed. At length 1 was induced to ^
try Electric Hiltere and the result
was miraculous. 1 improved at 1
once and now I'm completely re.> T
covered." For Livor, Kidney, 1
Stomach and Bowel troubles Flee- ,
trie Bitters is the only medicine. |
Only 50c. It's guaranteed by Funderburk
Pharmnacy, Crowford 1
Bros., and ,J. K. Mackoy & Co. 1
Druggists. i
According to records of lynch*
ings, as preserved by the Chicago
Tribune for 17 years, there are t
but four States ? Massachusetts, i
New Hampshire, iihode Island 'j
and Utah?in which mob von- t
geance has not prevailed. The \
south has furnished four-fifths ot c
the recorded lynchings, having (
executed 2,080 out of the 2,510 H
illegally killed. Of the total I
1,078 were negroes.?The State. 11
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JULIUS FOSTER, A 1
CELEBRATED CAS<4.
Negro Murderer Who Was Ar- (
rested in Massachusetts,
liiichunnn on '*Self Defense"? ,
Supremo Court Sustains His -j
Stiingcnt Application of the
Old Common Law in This a
Case. tl
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I'he State. ?
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.Julius r<>8tor will spend the ^
ost of his days in the penitential y
y. The supreme court yester-. ^
lay tiled a decision in the case, ^
md the exceptions in the appeal ^
iaye all been overruled. Asso-,
n
date Justice Woods dissents upon ^
>nc point.
,, . it
rostei is the negro who was arcsted
in Boston and over whom ^
jov. McSwecney expected trou- j.
>le. For just a fow days before .
iov. Crane of Massachusetts had ^
o
liade a lot of fuss over a North |
Carolina negro who had been ar-j.
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osted in Massachusetts and whoso !.
I(
terson was not turned over to the
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North Carolina authorities on ac- ^
sount of the alleged race feeling. ^
iut the South Carolina oflicials ^
vere permitted to take Julius
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Foster into custody, and last Norem
her he was tried and convict- ,
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id of having murdered Lewis ^
A'hite in Greenwood county on ^
he 29th of September, 1901. ^
L'he jury asked, for the mercy of
lie court and tho sentence was ,
<1
ixed at life imprisonment.
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The case was appealed on the
liarge of Judge Buchanan, parti ularlv
in that part in which he j
ietines self-defense. The supreme
:.)iirt sustains tho action of the .
ii
ower court. The dissent of As- ^
nciate Justice Woods is as to ,
t<
his paragraph of the charge of tho ^
lircuit judge:
1 'Self-defense is taking the life
>f a fellow being where it is ue:essary
to do so to protect your |
>wn person, and to make out a ^
:ase of self-defense you must
ihow ho was not guilty of any r
vrong in bringing about the diffi
uuty. tto must have no means
>f escape. If so, he must avail ^
limself of it. if he has any posiiblc
means of escape, there was
10 necessity."
Judge Woods declares that this
itatement is at variance with the ^
ittitudo of the supremo court on t
'oruier occasions. a
Julius Foster's attorneys claim 1
hat the judge erred in saying that v
he defendant must prove that he ^
,vas not guilty of ?'any wrong" r
n bringing about the difficulty, 11
vhereas he should have stated in v
lis charge that the defendant must c
Jiow that ho was "without fault." I
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Dm mo supreme court Holds that *n
either expression the defendant *
ruiat prove that he was not the u
iggressor.
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t. /{ quickly cures obi ulcers, scrof- ^
11 a. painful swellings, aches and *
mins in bones 01 joints, rheumatism, I
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mils, eczema, iiching skin or blood j
minors, eating, b ceding, festering '
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'hree Men Hanged
On The Same Tree
Jeorgia Mob Quietly Conducts n
Triple L y n c h i n g?Trick
Played On The Ja* lei*.
Mac >n, Gil., Juno 20.?At
ilbany, Ga., dispitch to The
'olograph says:
Baker county was the sceue oi
triple lynching about 2 o'clock
[lis morning when a mob of 51
eterminod men entered the town
f Newton and secured possesion
of Garfield McCoy, Wile}'
motto and George McKinney,
tiller county negroes, who' hat
een arrested anil lodged in jai
ir the murder last Saturday
ight of F. S. Bullaid, a promient
white farmer of the Seventh
istrict of Baker. The mannei
1 which the prisoners wero oblined
is unique and altogether
dtbout precedent. Jailer vVil
am Sciews, who resides near the
lit, was awakened ubout 12
'clock by Bailiff U. C. Tucker,
dio stated that ho had a prisonoi
j place in the lock up. The jai?
ir quickly donned his clothes and
roceeded to the jtyll. As sooi
s ho had unlocked the prison
oor he was suddenly surrounded
y a swarm of men with drawn
ovolvors who demanded that he
nloek the cell in which the Mil
ir county negroes were lodged
lo did as commanded under pro
ost una the three negroes won
ragged frqm the jail, the priso
er of Tucker making his escapi
uring the excitement. The tip
eals-for mercy were lost on the
lob, who began beating and slap
ing them with knives as soon a
hey had left the door of the jail.
The mob lost no time in leav
ig Newton with the negroes, unt
rhen about a milo west of the
own the three moo were halted,
ooses tied about their neck ant
mid the shouts of the mob th<
ten were strong up. The crowt
red several hundred shots intt
heir swaying bodies after whicl
hey quietly dispersed.
le Will Build a Modern City
Jeo. Vanderhilt Will Complete i
Before Any One Will Bo Al
lowed to Live There.
Asheville, N. O., Juno 2G.?
'he Citizeu says: It is reporter
hut George VV. Vaoderbilt hu
ccpured a large tract of land bo
ween Hendersonville and Bie
ard, N. C., about 30 miles frou
ksheville, and will shortly com
nencc the construction of a mode
nanufactnring town, ali of whicl
vill be completed and ready foi
iccupancy before any one will b?
)ermitted to settle in the nev
ity. A complete syston wf wa
erworks, electric lighting, hea
nd power will bj installed.
A perfect city will, it is said
>o created and given over to hah
tution.
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f) SCOTT'S EMULSION won t make *
\ hump back straight, neither will it make f
f a short leg long, but it feeds soO h.m? I
^ and heals diseased Lone and is amon-< (
* the few genuine means of recovery in t
3 rickets and bone consumption. ;
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i Lynching From Another
And Calmer Point of View
i Dr Burtlott Delivers a Noteworthy
Sermon on the Subject in a
Chicago Pulpit.
i Chicago, Juno 28.? <lI irn no
i advocate of lynching or of mob
law, but I would rather see a
f community wrought to the high?
; est pitch over crimes that would
? seem impossible this side of hell
i than to remain apathetic," was
the declaration of the Rev. Dr
W. A. Bart let t at the First Congregational
church today in a prel
lude on 4'Lynching From Another
I Point of View."
Dr. Bartlott said among other
things: "I have seen so many
sermons, editorials and resolutions
denouncing lynching and mob law
that one gets the impression that
the citizens who haug or burn the
destroyer of life, home and all
s that is held sacred by womanhood,
? are the race offenders rather than
the punisbers of the monster whom
they destroy.
"We seem to be so absorbed
I with the majesty of this vague
i term 'law' that the notion api
pears to prevail that tho real crini[
inals are those who do not wait
i for legal processes, and tho violator
of womanhood is tho abused
. party.
"We shudder at the torture of
.. the criminal who is burned, but
u apparently forgot to shudder for
. tho innocent irirl
<i uvkjv III^UIU!
0 and spiritual agony is tenfold
. greater than that of the tire. This
? is not a race problem except s<?
. far as one race are the offenders.
s The white man who commits the
same crime is just as guilty.
"The indignant uprising of a
1 community and some of the best
men in it to avenge a wrong of
t such awful magnitude may be
1 technically lawless, but the spirit
3 which causes the uprising is the
I reflection of a higher civilization.
) There are crimes so dreadful that
i the pure and the chivalrous and
the strong find it well nigh impossible
to endure the thought
( that such a degenerate should pollute
the earth by his presonce. It
is easy to theorize about the anarchy
of mob law, but the same
hand which penned the calm editorial
might be the first to grasp
the torch if it was a mother, wife
j or daughter who was the victim.
s "I say that when you look at a
lyucmog irom another view point
it is simply the bursttng forth of
^ an ioaignatiou and loathing that
will not be cheeked. In the Old
j Testament days they made short
i work of such an offender.
a
. "Lynching is certainly a bad
method and forms the habit of
disorder and makes men bloodthirsty.
Hut if it is to be avoided
t thoir certainly is called for a
more sure and speedy trial of
these wretches who often brazenly
' deny crime amid red tapo of legal
process, but confess abjectly when
fronted with determined men. It
!is useless to bring to trial good
men who rise up to protect their
(besides. The community will not
| bear it. If men object to being
* burned let them cease from crimes
which make a nation sick."
A steamship of b,000 tons capacity
and drawing twenty .sevon
? feei of water, arrived at the port
t of Charleston Friday. This is
the largest ship that ever entorod
a South Atlantic port.