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THE LEDGER. TIWRIOW S. CARTliR, EDITOR AND MANAGER. HSIK1> WKONKSDAY AND 8A1 i'HDAY. SUBSCRIPTION S60PF.P YE\K SATURDAY, JI NK 25th, 1004. Celebroted Aiken Murder Trial Now in Progress. Columbia Record, 22. In Aiken today the case of the State vs. Lee Green, who is charged with the murder of the Jew peddler, Abrani Surasky, on nr f*hnil tl hfi 1 01 h nf loaf .lulv wnu taken up. Tho details of tbis case are familar to nil, as what could he learned of tho facts at the time showed that Surasky had been killed in a most horrible manner. Mr. Surasky was ono of the five brothers engaged in business r n at Aiken. Abrnm Suraiky made weekly trips through the country with his pack of goods in his waggon. Tho section in which he was murdered was ono in which he traveled frequently, and so fains known he never lias reason to believe that he wa; in danger. On Tuesday of tho week of his last trio, he went to the Hawthorn ' I ? """ and Silverton neighborhood and was never seen alive. On Friday news was brought to Aiken that that he had been murdered. Iiis body had been found seated in his pedler's cart with gunshot wound in his back and mutilations made with an axe or other instrument. Coroner lMunket hold an inquest ci! the remains, which had been lolt in the woods from Wednesday until Saturday and were m u horrible state of decomposision. His horso also had been left tied to a tree to starve, but tho animal had broken loose and wandered away. The coroner's jury, after hearing the evidence charged two young white men George Toole and Leo Green with the murder, and Toole was arrested and brought to jail. 1 ? .i i i .mute proven Jin auui un? urcen was left to shoulder the awful crime alone. Ho was arrested four weeks later by the sheriff, Detective Arthur and a posse. Bloods stains on the floor of Gieen's house, a bloody axe under his house and other facts pointed to this young man of 21 years of age as being the perpetrator of ouo of the most horrible crimes that cror occured in Aiken Count v. Only two persons, Henry Drayton and his wife, Mary, could be found who knew much of the lacts. Thcso two negroos lived noar Green and their tcsti mony was of such importance that they wero arrested and put in jail for safe keeping. From the first Lee Green has r contended that the roason why he shot the Jew peddler, chopped his body so barbarously with an axe and then left the remains to rot in the woods,was becauseSurasky in ultcd bis wite. This is the argu ? ment so far followed by the do feueo. OAVF. THE BEAR A CHASE. Chesterfield, June 13.?Quite a littlo excitement was canscd among the "sporting blood" this afternoon, when Mr. L. H. Davis phoned from his home, about threo or four miles from town, saying that a boar had been trackA'l n o o i? Kiu nlnoA - ^ a! ? WV4 UVIII AJIS ['Hut, UUIIll' III 1I1U ' sports" went out with (legs and guns to have a race. The hear was tracked for lOor 12 milos, hut ro thin had heen scon of him win n the returned homo tonight. ^\Il those who saw the tracks are positive that it is a hear and they think that ho was making for the swamps on the I'eo Doe river. fc, . Iloyt Hayes Will Hang. iSupre neCourt Passes On The ease ?The Famous Wulhalla Case Settled at Last. Columbia Record,23. Iloyt Hayes will hang unless theio is intorforonce by tho chief executive. The Supremo Court today rendered a decision of this famous Walhallu case, which sustained the docisiun of the low* er court, and dismissed the ap*. peal of the attorneys for the dofonso. Hayes was a whito man from Oconee County, who lived not far from tho county seat, haying married a younur woman about a year l>efmo Iho killing. On April 'JG, 1003, the womau was found dead in her bed, her head being blown oil" by a load of shot from a double-barrel shot gun. Tho alarm was given by Hoyt Hayes, who went over to his brother's house and stated that his wife Lut lu, had killed herself, llayes claimed that ho went out in the cow lot to fasten up the cows, and while out t iero heard the report of agnn. Ho hurried back and found her dead in bed with near ly half of her head blown off. The story of the suicide was accepted for some time, but 'finally upon some of the relatives digging up several bloody clothes, and upon an expert examination of the direction of some of the shot whice entered the headboard of the bed, Hayes was arrested and put on trial. A jury found him guilty and sentence was suspended pending an Appeal to ihe Supreme Court In the appeal printed for the Supreme Court are several unusual exhibits,a picture of Hayes and his wife shown, the note alleged to have been written by Mrs. Hayes just before she killed herself, as claimed before by the defense, several pieces of poetry written by Hayes, and other such exhibits. This is probably the first time a picture of this kind has been shown in aSupreme Court appeal. It is understood now that a petition for tho commutation of the sentence to life imprisonment will be presented. Unless this is acted on favorably ho will be hanged us soon us sentence is passed at the reconvening of court at Wa'.halla. Negro Lynched by Negroes. Sfclmn, Ala., June 23.?Incited by jealousy, Samuel Houston, a negro, attacked and was killed yesterday by Joe Scott, also a negro, who was afterwards killed by a mob near Randolph, iiibb county, and Joe Smitherman, a white man, was painfully injured. Ilou&te.n tired and the load mis sing Scott struck Smitherman's left hand. Scott then drew his pistol and shot Houston to death. To avenge Houston's death his friends and relatives, it is reported lynched Scott, riddling him with bullets. Commander Kellog Killed. Norfolk, Va., June 24.?Commander A. G. Kellog, U.S. N., fell from a fourth story window in tbo Monroe hotel in Portsmouth | ut 'J o'clock tonight, to the sidewalk below, sustaining injuries from which he died an hour and a half later at the naval hospital, lie had been in bad health for some timo It is thought that Commander Kellog during an attack of vertigo lost his balance and fell from the window atuhich ho was sitting. His wife and married daughter were with him when ho died. I Subsenoo to The Ledge-. \ it is Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Republican Convention End* After Nominating Candidates.? Everything was done by Acclamation. Chicago, June 23.- Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for the Presidency by the National Republican convention today. United States Senator Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indiana was named as the running mate. There was no opposition to Fairbanks and both nominations were by acclamation. Former Governor Black, of Now York, made nominating speech and Harry S Cummings, n Maryland negro was among those to second it. The convention adjourned sir.o die at 2.25 p. m. NOTIFICATION ON JULY 27. Tho formal notification to President Roosevelt of his nomination wi1! be made at Oyster Bay on July 27. Speaker Cannon will he chairman of notification committee. Senutor Fairbanks will be notified a week later at Indianapolis. Former Secretary Root will ho chairman of tho committee. After the convention adjourned the national committee met aud made George B. Cortelyou chair man. Mr. Cortelyou assumed the duties at once and hegan to lay plans for a vigorous campaign East and West. Ho has resigned his cabinet oflioe. Happenings in The State. As Chronicled by the Alert Correspondents of Too Coiuuihiu State. DIED AT BREAKFAST TABLE. Wulhalla, June 22.?Mr. A. Lay died yesterday morning at his home 8 miles north of this place. Although he had been in bad health for sometime,his death was unexpected. The end came while he was at breakfast KILI.EI) nr LIGHTNING. Elloree, Juno 22.?During a heavy thunder storm bete yester. day a negro name Sank Gil more, who was ploughing in his Held, was strucd by lightning. Both negro and mule were killed instantly. STRUCK THE STEEPLE Sumters June.-A heavy shower of rain fell hero yesterday afternoon. The African Methodist episcopal steeple torn to pieces by a bolt of lightning. A house in the southern part of the city was also damaged by a bolt of lightning. Kir.T.ED THREE COWfi. Winnsboro, Juno 22? Lightning killed three cows for Mr. Doty ono mile from town yesterday evening. They were standing under some trees. There has not been enough rain hero to lay the dust yet and gardens are suffering. JBAI.OUS NEGRESS KILLS IIATED RIVAL. Greenville, Juno 22.-A Victim of jealousy, Little Gray, a negro woman, was shot and instantly killed by Roxy Suggos, another woman, today at noon. The affair occurcd in the western suburbs of the city, the Sugges woman going to the other's house and shooting her while I 1 uwuui uor wurrt. After ihe shooting the Sugges woman fled, and was pursued hy Sheriff Gilroath and two doputies on horseback. The woman was captured about three miles from the city and together with her supposed husband,,!im Sugges,has been jailed. A WORI IT A I Is what we art * _ itors and our aii interest of ever1 giving him or h< money. 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