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Happenings In The State.
\.8 Chronicled by the Alert Cor
rosp indents of Tho Columbia
State.
MK. ANDHKWs' 1N.IUK1KB FATAL.
Ureenwood, June 30. ? Mr.
lames L. Andrews, who was so
leriously wounded last Saturday
>y being thrown from a freight
;ar while it was in motion, died
lus morning in a hospital in Anjusta
where he was carried yesorday
for treatment.
TWO MUKDKRS IN MABION.
Marion. .Ildv ft lnhmn#?l
, J - )oro,
colored, celebrated the
'Glorious Fourth" with a party
>f negroes near Pee Doe bridge,
ibout eight miles froai Marion,
>ut ho elebrated the "gloomy
ifth*' in tho county jail, with a
mrty of prisoners, he being
:harged with murder.
Information in regard 10 the
billing is meagre, but it seems
hat a Mars BluiT negro was in j
he party of excursionists or pic- j
lickers. He became engaged in i
i difficulty with Scarboro and
ried to cut the latter with a
rnifo, whereupon Scarboro grub)ed
a brick and struck his antagolist
in the* bead, crushing the
tkull and killing him almost initantly.
Another killing, the details of
yhich are keeping shy of the
jourt hotn>e, took place at Nich-1
)ls. Tink McDuffee is a fuodtiv?l
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from justico and one Morris, n
white man, is dead as a result of
i quarrel the two men had. The
;auso of the murder cannot he
learned at this time, hut after a
row between them, tho negro told
the white man not to enter tho
former's house, upon penalty of
leath. Morris disregarded MeDutfee's
warning anil threat and
went into the house. Just as he
crossed the throshold McDutFee
ihot him in the head, killing him
instantly. Tho negro skipped.
Sheriff Mullins was telegraphed
for, but McDuffee has not vet
been apprehended.
HELD FOR A HORRIHI.E CRIME.
Hamburg, July 2. ? Abraham
\ncrum, a negro living somewhere
lear Springtown, is in jail here
charged with a horrible and revolting
crime. It is said that he
ias beaten his 14-year-old daughter
to death, and while the testi-.
uony as given at the coroner's inquest
held over the dead body of
the girl has not yet been filed with
'Jlerk of Court Free, enough of
the facts are known to warrant the
ibove statement.
USED KEKOSKNK TO 8TAKT FIRE IN
T1IE STOVE.
Swansea, July 4. ? Mrs. .J. 13.
Hunt was attempting to start a
fire in the cook-stove yesterday
K \r % \am ? ??'< * 1
uj I'umiiig IVVIUSUI1U OH Oil 1110
wood. She did not know of any
tiro in the Ktove. The oil ignited
and can exploded with n loud report.
The oil saturated her clothing,
which took tire and she was
terribly burned about the body.
At this writing hor condition is
critical in the extreme.
nmrjtm rue v on ft 7* and Work* fto
thu Cold.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
ets cure a cold irt one day. No
Uore, No Pay. Prico, 25c.
Foley's Kidney Cure
makes kidneys and bladder right
witU the lace question went to
show that the lynch law is not m(
confined to any one section of the ,/e|
country. These events, ho said, gr
tend to simplify the race problem
by making it national. Ho ap r j
pealed to the negro to be calm and j(()
to exercise self control. ni)
Principal Washington said in
part: "In the present season of
anxiety and almost of despair, ?
which possosses an element of the
race, there are two things I wish ^
to say as strongly as I may: .?
"First. Let no man of the
race become discouraged or hope- ^
less. There are in this country,
north and south, men who mean ( ^
to sec that justice is meted out to
the race. Such a man is Judge
Jones of Alabama, to whom more ^
credit should be given for blotting
out the infamous system of
peonage than to any other man.
"Second. . Let us keep before
us the fact that, almost without rft
exception every ruco or nation
that has ever got upon its toet ^
has done so through struggle and
trials and persecution. ,?
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"No one should seek to close jn
his eyes to the fact that the race rj
is passing through u very serious m
ami trying period of its development,
a period that calls for the
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uso of our ripest thought and soher
judgment.
"Let nothing load us into ex- th
tremes of utterance or action. It iu,
is, in the long run, the race or the pi
individual that exercises the most jt
patience, forbearance and self w,
control in the midst of trying con- fir
dilions that wins its cause. Let Atl
nothing induce us to descend to XI
the level of the mob. In advocat- Wi
ing this policy I am not asking to
that the negro act the coward; we th
are not cowards. The part we jn
have played in defending the flag pl
of our country is sufficient evid* th
ence of our courage. X'l
"The outbreaks of the mob en
emphasize two lessons, one for our til
race and one for the other citizens th
of our country, south and north; se
for it is to be noted that the work fa
of the lyncher is not contined to w
one section of the country. The hi
lesson for us is that we should see y<
to it that so far as influence of tu
parent, school or pulpit is con- tli
cernod, no eflort bo spared to im- h
press on our own people that idle- a
ness and crime should cease. Woj h
should let the world know on all V
proper occasions that wo consider
no legal punishnunt toosovere for J
the wretch of any race who at- #
tempts to outrage a woman. J
" The lesson for the other por- #
tion of the nation to learn is that ?
both in the making and in the ex- ?
edition the same law should lie ?
made to apply to the negro as to r
the white man ?
"There should be meted out ?
equal justice to the black man and ?
the white man. Whenever the |
nation iorgets, or is tempted to .j,
forget, its basic principle, the
wholo fabric of goverment for
both t^o white man and the black 2
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Booker Washington
Advises Blacks. \l
In
Timely and Truthful Remarks nfl
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Ma<Je by a Ne^ro Who in ^
Working for IIis Race. sj,
Louisville, Ky., July 2.? liefore
an immense audience Booker
T. Washington, homl of the Tub- t(J
kcgoe institute, tonight delivered
an address. He said that recent
regrettable events in connection
an is threatened with destruo
in. This is true whether it retea
to conditions in Texas, in
dinna or Delaware, it is with a
,tion as with an individual;
liatover we sow, that shall we
>*o reap. If we sow crime we
all reap lawlessness."
Mob Lynched Negro
ihn Osborne Pays Penalty For
Crime?Ho Vssaultcd a Wo
man Sixty Years Old.
Charlotte, N. C., July 3.?A
jb of three hundred white citi 8
lynched .John Osborne, a ne~
o, early this morning. Osborne
is arrested for assaulting Mrs.
'///ao Went/., aged sixty, at her
me in Union county, Sunday
>ht. He was captured at Inin
trail yesterday and deputies
.re taking him to the Monroe
!. There was a preliminary
aring, and when it was learned
1 o'clock this morning that the
icers had not arrived at Monroe
ave fears were entertained as to
e negro's safety.
Osborne was taken from the
icers by the mob. lie was
rung to a limb and his body was
ewed by crowds of people this
Lernoon.
A Bashful Man
Ono of our town dudes, who is
thcr bashful, and is "sparking"
young lady a few miles from
wn, called a few nftern >ons ago
spend the evening with her.
'hile there it commenced raing
and the girl's father asked
in to remain over night. The
>xt morning when he was invited
a seat at the breakfast table he
luctantly accepted. He was very
irvous and agitated, lie sat opisite
the mirror and discovered
at he had forgotten to comb his
lir. Then he dropped his fork on
e tloor and as he stooped to pick
up be upset his coffee. Matters
cut from had to worse, until
nilly the young man quit eating
id put his hands under the table.
:ie loose end of the tablecloth
as lying in his lap and when lie
uched it he turned pale. He
ought it was his shirt and that
his nervous excitement while
essing he had forgotten to put
e garment inside his trousers.
Iiis accounted for the smiles and
nharrassmcnt. There was no
uie to lose. He hutriedly stuffed
e supposed shirt inside his tfours.
Two minutes later when,the
.niily arose from the table there
as a crash. The dishes lay in a
roken mass on the floor. The
jung man pulled three feet of
tblecloth out of his breeches and
ad through the door. He is now
iding, and the girl is looking for
less bashful lover, who can tell
is sbirttail from a tablecloth.?
fireglass Blade.
We like best to call S
SCOTT'S EMULSION ^
a food because it stands so em- 5
piratically for perfe<-t nutrition. 5
And yet in the matter of rcstoring
appetite, of giving new
stlength to the tissues, especially <?
to the nerves, its action is that <7
! of a medicine. *
Send lor free .imrV (t
SCOT r & HOW N C'.- 4
409-41$ IV.irl Street, ' New York. /
50c andjf 1.00;
Take Laxative Hromo Quinine
ablets. All druggists refund
lonoy if it fuils to cure. 10. W.
trove's signature is on each box
5c.
The Story of a Blighted Life.
Virginian Rumbled for TwentyNine
Yours Till Ho Landed
in u Carolina l'oorhouso
? Happy Sequel.
Special to The Statu.
Wnllutllu, duly 4. -Some ten
days ago Mr. 1*. F. Lucy, an aged
baker of Seneca, became an in
mate of the homo for the poor of
Oconee comity. When his oM
age and straightened circumstances
forced him upon the public
charities lie told a friend in Seno
ca us he was leaving for the poor
farm a secret which he had kept
for 21) years. The story as reported
is about as follows: Twenty-nine
years ago he was living
in Lynchburg, Ya , where he had
a good business, but owing to
some trivial misunderstanding
with his family he sold out his business,
placed ?1, lot) in the hands
of his wife and told her to take
it for support of herself and three
children and then turned away.
For nine years he was in the
Fni'ed States army and after that
he has wandered about aimlessly
till he came to Seneca several
years ago.
Lucy's friend thought he would
see if there was anything in the
story, so ho wrote to the postmaster
unit chiof of police at
Lynchburg, stating the circumstances
and asked for information.
Replies came at once.
Telegrams were sor t, talks over
the long distance 'phono were
held. Money for a ticket and all
other expenses were telegraphed
by the old gentleman's son-inlaw,
who is a prosperous citizen
in Lynchburg, ami urged his
father-in-law to hasten back
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where a plenty of this world's
goods and a most hearty welcome
awaited him.
On yesterday Messrs. ,1. 1'.
Dillurd and Idle Cox of Seneca
came for him and today ho leaves
for his former home.
J. M. M.
Storms In Texas.
Many Lives Lost and Much Property
Destroyed by Floods.
Dallas, Tex., duly ."b?The
Hood situation at Gainesville is
greatly improved this morning.
The rain has stopped and the
waters are rapidly receding. No
loss of life is reported from
Gainesville and the property
damage is confined to small stores,
outhouses and truck gardens.
Reports from the southwestern
portion of the state indicate that
yesterday's storm is most severe.
Probably tifteen Mexican farm
hands lost their lives, and the
damage to farming interests, railJ
roads and county roads and
bridges* will bo heavy. The waters
are now falling.
The loss generally over the
state to railroad and other property
will be very heavy.
Train No. <>, northbound, on
the Santa Fe road, went through
a bridge ten miles south of Gainesville
during last night's storm.
Engineer John Boyee was killed,
and several passengers are report
ed hurt.
1 San Antonio, Tex., .July 3 ? A
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uiwiiu imii pi juwiumiiy ciiwfsuu mo
death of ii number of persons and
entailed heavy property losx.