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I y ^ c;y l| - < ;*c SHERIFF GRAHAM DOES HIS DUTY WELL. ~ Ki Spent a Night m the Black River bei Swamp and Thereby Saved a he Prisoner Who Ilad Murdered qa a Popular Liveryman. lot The State. 27th met. tht The sheriff of Williamsburg is ha a man sworn to do his duty, and he intends to perform that dnty. thi r ? i_i L- 1 ? it ? juuHi mgut uw urriTBU in mis city ^ with a prisoner whom twice he etl( had rescued from the hands of hu mobs. . th< The clutches of the enraged j0j people had almost settled upon th< the negro when the sheriff saved jGj his life and protected the honor of Th Williamsburg county. The charge 0n was murder and not the crime for i)1( which people sometimes seek to pr justify mob violence "Felonious gU murder" the coroner's jury stig- th< matized the crime. The first intimation received tet here of the condition of affairs at th\ | Kingstree was a telegram to the hi| j governor from Sheriff George G. Graham announcing that an at* th< tempt had been made to lynch, a sw negro. He appealed to the gov- i)V ernor for instructions. The orders of the executive officers were Hh< for Sheriff Graham to go to Char r?| leston with his prisoner and la^jr to bring him to the penitentiary un for safe keeping. Ito Sheriff Graham and hia npi?ni>- ? 1 en er arrived io the city last nighty Bt 9:30 and the murderer is now in bii safe keeping at the State prison. ne When they got off the train the ho negro was handcuffed and his arms were tied behind him with u mi stout rope, which the humane wl sheriff released just enough to tec permit the negro to eat a sand- Tl wich which the officer bought. Gi While the prisoner was break* he ing his fast the sheriff very mod- pr estly related the details of the be terrible crime and the subsequen* excitement. Cato Williams had So bought a male from Mr. S. B. He McGee, a liveryman at Lake City he After working the mule for aov- Li eral months he brought it back and wanted to get from Mr. McGee the partial payment which Cato had made. This was refus ed and the negro acted so persistently and showed such signs of ^ removing the muie hy force that j the liveryman struck Cato and or- ^ dered him from the premises. ^ Mr. McGee walked to rh?fr..n* ? ? Th door of the stable and turned to 0_. QUI see if the negro had left. Aa he did so the negro fired into Mr. McGee at abort range, one ball QQ atriking just to the left of the na- gta val and the other below the left fe] nipple. Either shot would have gQ proved fatal. The purauit of the Wfl fleeing negro commenced almost ,m instantly, and he attempted to fir# ^ upon the town marshal and upon the latendant, Mr. Askins. Fin allv a party of mounted men rode the negro down and the captive was placed in the lockup of Lake Qfl City. a f Sheriff Graham was notified and reached Lake City about dark y i Wednesday night. He was in* formed by the intendent of the WQ town that a mob was after the ne- eta gro at the time, and that the pri- F. soner had been spirited away fi ora *u the guard house and was locked up in a barn. The sheriff took his prisoner down the road in a bug no gy and boarded the Coast Line at ab* a point between Lake City ?and coi Kingstree, where he had arranged sal meet the train which had been irched carefully at Lake City. Thursday the sheriff noted in ngstree the presence of a numr of people from Lake City and became auspicious when he saw itc a number of vehicles in the bohind one of tho storos. Thereupon he decided to remove 3 prisoner and not five minutes d elapsed after he had got out the jail before tho party from ike City was there demanding a keys. Sheriff Graham and 5 town marshal of Lake City had ch shown no little knowledge ef man nature, for they knew that 3 place of imprisonment was be2; watohed and they knew that 3 watching party would leave to n the main body ef lynchers, le right moment was seized up in each instance and thereby 3 negro's life was saved. The isoner was hardly out of the ard house at Lake City before 3 mob was there looking for him d no soener had the sheriff got1 out of the jail at Kingstree in the mob was there looking gk and low for the prisoner. Thursday night was spent in 3 [.depth uf the Black river amp by Sheriff Graham and his ist?ner. "Wasn't it quite cold," the srif wns asked and to this lis plied: "Well, I kept moving around dor the trees and managed to up nam, out tnis prisoner was Id. He didn't have any shoes, it when tbey arrivod in Cokimi Cato was wearing a pair oi w shoes which the sheriff had light him. Sheriff Graham is a very quiet ! but he has the air of a man 10 will stop at nothing to prozt a prisoner in his keeping, le negro at lirst thought Sherifl raham was a lyncher, but when i learned that bis life was beinj otected his gratitude knew ac tunds. Sheriff Grahatn came in on th< luthern as the system has nc is in Williamsburg county and did not wish to pass through ike City on the Coast Line. Coming Soouer or Later. Charleston special to Atlantf mrnal: It is safe to prodict at the state of South Carolim 11 in the next two years go into 3 fertilizer business just as il s gone into the liquor business. ie question was discussed at the )8ion of the legislature just ssed and it could be seen fro a 3 trend of the talk that it woulc ly be a matter of time when the ite would deal in phosphate and 'tilizer in competition with the called trust. A commission is appointed to examino into the lount of phosphate now in the ds of navigable streams in th? tte. IT SAVED HIS LEG. P. A. Danford of LaGrango, Buffered for six mouths with !rightful running sore on his but writes that Bucklen's nica Salve wholly cured it in e days. For Ulcers, Wounds, ies, it's the best salve in the ?rld. Cure guaranteod. Only 25 i. Sold by Crawford Bros., J. Mackoy & Co., and T. Eugene nderburk druggist. ^ 18 counties in North Carolina w have dispensaries, 55 have solute prohibition and only 26 inties have granted license to oons. Guilty As to All Four. The Jury After Being Out Nine Hours Convicts All the Defend nuts in the Famous Postofti?:o Conspiracy Case. Washington, Feb. 26. ? "Guilty as iudicted" was the verdict announced by Carl Peterson, the foreman of the jury in the now famous postoflice conspiracy trial, shortly after 8 o'clock tonight, stating at the same timo that this was the verdict as to all four defendants, August W. Machen, late general superintendent of the ru ral free delivery division; George E. Lorenz, of Toledo, and Samuel A. and Diler B. Greff, of this r>ifw Tha Ko/1 V-* V.VJ . JLUV JU? J lIMVi UUU11 UUl IIIIIO hours, although the verdict was reached in eight hours and twenty-five minutes. In the dimlylighted room sat the four defendants, who, after the case was givon to the jury, had been placed in the custody of the United States marshal and confined to the limits of tho city hall. With impressive dignity the juryman rose and as I ho words, "Guilty as indicted'' fell frera his lips, the defondants and their counsel seemed appalled. The defendants had given expression to the belief that each hour the jury spent in discussing the case brought them nearer to an acquittal. There was very general astonishment that the jury had included in the conviction Samuel r A. Groff, the policeman and in* ^ ventor of the Grog iastener, a.s to whom Holmes Conrad, special counsel for the government, yes* terday informed the jury he did 1 uot expect a conviction and that he personally did not believe in ^ his guilt. Five ballots in all were taken. 1 On the first bullot the vote stood seven to five for conviction, on 1 the second eight te four, on the third nine to throe, on the fourth 5 ten to two, and on the fifth the } vote was unanimous. Immediately after the verdict 1 was rendered Charles A. Douglass, in behalf of all four defend, ants, filed motions for a new trial, for an arrest of judgement, and also for an appeal for the 1 purpose of having the defendants admitted to bail Bail "as then 1 fixed at $20,000 each, the bond of Loreuz and the two Groffs being ^ increased from $10,000 to that sum. Bonds were furnish d and 5 the defendants released from cus^ tody. I ? - 1 MORE RIOT8, Disturbances of strikers are not nearly as grave as an individual disorder of the systom. Overwork, loss of sleep, nervous tension will be followed by utter collapse, unless a reliable remedy is immediately employed. There's nothing so efficient to cure disorders of the Liver or Kidneys as Electric Bitters. It's a wonderful tonic, and effective nervine and the greatest all around medicine for run down systems. It dispels Nervousness, Rheumatism and Neuralgia and expels Malaria germs. 50c, and satisfaction guaranteed by Crawford Bros., J. F. Mackey & Co., and T. Eugene Funderburk, Druggist. Sentence to Two Years. Washington, Feb. 27.?Machen, Lorenz and Deller B. (irofT, the postoffice offondors, were sontenod this afternoon to two years in the penitentiary and pay a fine of $10,000. Will York's Dispensary be Voted Out. As to whether there will be an effort to socuro a vote on the question of removing tho dispensary from York county under tho provisions of the Brice bill, we iiio uui |HU|uiruii i? say. in too first placo the proposition to impose an extra tax is unjust, and in the second place there is no nse to deny the fact that it would influence many votes against riuioval. If the law had been so worded as to provide for the use of the extra half mill levy that is to be imposed in the event of the dispensary's removal, for the maintainanco of a rural police to enforce the law, under the jurisdiction of our own people, wc don't beliovo there would be much ground for complaint. On the contrary, we are of the opinion that the people of York county would be willing to vote to go out of the liquor business at once. But the animus of the oxtra levy provision is so evident, that our people would look for nothing else than to have the extra tax misappropriated, while the illicit dealers would lie allowed to have things their own way. But notwithstanding the difficulties and stumbling blocks by which the whiskey interests in Columbia have sought to guard their power and influence, we shall he pleased to see York county express herself under the law as it stands. It will ho interesting to know how many votors there are in the county with principles which cannot he intimidated either by bribes or force.?Yorkville Enquirer. TRAGEDY AVERTED 'Just in tho nick of time our little boy was snved" writes Mrs. W. Catkins of Pleasant City, Ohio. 4 'Pneumonia had played sad havnc with him and a terrible cough set in besides. Doctors treated him, but he grew worse every day. At length we tried Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, and our darling was saved. He's now sound, and well." Everybody ought to know, it's the only sure cure for Cehghs, Colds and all Lung diseases. Guaranteed by Crawford Bros., J. F. Mackey & Co., and T. Eugene Funderburk. Druggist. Price 50c and $1.00 Trial battles free. Sheriff of Lexington Aftor Mur* derers of Mectzo The sheriff of Lexington is making an effort to apprehend the murderers ot John Meetee and it is understood that fire arrests have been made,all of them being negroes. The negro woman, Minnie Wise, who was also shot has been placed under arrest as an accessory to the crime, but her condition is such that at proserit she cannot be moved from Brookland as some of the shot have not been taken out of her body yet. The physicians, however, say that she will be all right in a short time. ?Columbia Record. WORKING^) VERTI Ht:. Eight hour laws are ignored by thnna tirfllfiHM. lit.t.ln wnrk?r??Dr Kiag'a Now Life Pills. Millions are always at work, ntght and day, curing Indigestion, Biliousness, Constipation, Sick Headache and all Stomach, Liver and Bowel troubles. Easj, pleasant, safe, 'sure. Only25eat Crawford Bros., J. F. Mackey & Co., and T. Eugene Fundeeburk, drug store. ?Eggs, full Plymoth Rock, 50 cts per setting. J. N. Crocket.