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m>4 - VV E.-K LY LANOA.8TEK, 8. O.. M A K C 11 2, 1904 ^ ESTABLISHED 1852
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Go to the
LANCASTER HARBLE
AND
GRANITE .WORKS,
For Good Work and Low Prices.
A. J. McNinch,
LANCASTER, S. C. '
MONEY TO LOAN
I have m<*de arrangements by which
I can negotiate loans of $300 00 and
onwards on first mortgages on improved
cotton farms at 7 ptr cent In*
terest on sums of $!,0(H) CO and over,
and 8 per cent inteiest on sums of less
than $1,000
JSo commission charged, only a reaqsanule
fee for abstract of title.
R. E. WYLFE,
LANCASTER AND CHESTER
RAILWAY.
oohednle in effect Nov 29, 1002.
(Dally except Sunday)
WESTBOUND.
Lv Lancaster, 7 15am 5 00pm
Lv Fort Lawn, 7 34 am 5 80pm
Lv Basconville, 7 44 am 5 45pm
Lv Rlohburg, 7 50 am 6 00pm
A r Chester, 815am 6 30pm
Ar Charlotte, So R 9 55 a m 9 00pm
Ar Columbia, BoRllOOam 115 am
A r Atlanta, s a I, r 4 60 pm
Ar Yorkv'.CAN W 9 35 a ra
Ar Gastonia.CN W io 30 a m
Ar Lenoir. oAn.r2 05om 6 00 am
BASTBoUNL.
Lv Lsn.lr, c A n, r 2 30pm
Iiv Gastonia " 5 30 p ra
Lv YorkvHIe 6 23 pm
Lv Atlanta, s a 1, r 100pm
Ijv Columbia, So R 6 10a m 6 85 pm
Lv Charlotte, So H 8 40 am 6 26 p m
Lv Chester, 10 00am 825pm
Lt JZichburg, 10 45 a m 8 49 p m
Lv Baaoomvllle, 11 00am 8 55 pm
Lv Fort Lawn 1116am 006 pm
Ar Lancaster, 11 45 a in 9 25 p m
CONNECTIONS.
Chester?Southern, Seaboard and
Carolina A Northwestern railways.
Lancaster?Southern Railway.
A P 3/cLURB, Superintendent,
LEROY SPRINGS. President..
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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.
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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.