The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, May 03, 1905, Image 2
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IHCItLOW S. CARTER,
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Lancaster, S C., May 1st, 1905.
Thfc Fhico at Lancaster.
That was a remarkable fiasco
in the preliminary hearing at Lancaster
in the case brought against
al'egeil lynchers of .John Mm risen
Wo confess to an inability
to understand the full inwardness
of tho judici: I investigation It
is quite conceivable that tho solicitor
should have unwittingly
employed disreputable agents to
secure evidence against the lynchers
of Morrison. That the s > 1 ic ?
itor should dcsiio to bring lynchers
to justice, regardless of their
personnel, is most commendable;
and a8 long as the guilt of any
man or body of men were truly
established the manner of securing
the evidence was of secondary
consideration in the eyes of the
law. The most astonishing pai t
of the proceedings is that a man
as unknown to Solicitor Henry ? s
Howie appears to have been ? and
one who would not have improved
on acquaintance?should have
been entrusted with the executive
part of such an important case.
It is incomprehensible that the
arrest of a batch of citizens on mi
serious a charge should have been
mado without evidence against
t hem.
Wo lack explanation as to why
Howie and tlio alleged State's
witnesses were absent from ti hear
ing adverti sed far in advance.
Hut when the solicitor arrived ho
was prepared to admit having
^ made a blunder; ho appears to
have then realized that he had
been victimized. In justice to
the*accused, the charges should
have been immediately withdrawn
in acknowledgment of the ubsence
of foundation for the prosecution.
?The State, 1st inst.
TlIK WAR.
The world is still waiting for
the promised battle between the
fleets of the Admirals Rojestvensky
and Togo, but is now more
in the dark regarding their positions
than a week ago. All that
is positively known is that the
Russian vessels have disappeared
from Kamranh Ray, about which
they apparently hovered for some
days after, getting outside the
three-mile limit, and it is believed
in some quarters that they will
enter the Pacific and endeavor to
reach Vladivostock. Admiral Rojestvensky
is apparently delaying
his movements to allow the squadron
under Admiral Niebogatoff to
join him before Togo makes his
attack. Where the Japanese vessels
arc at this time is apparently
a complete mystery. They are
doubtless not far from the Russians,
but where is unknown.
The news from Manchuria continues
to chronicle insignificant
clashes of a more or less severe
character, but the land forces are
apparently still waiting fcr the
battle of the ironclads of Togo
and Rojcstvensky.?Charlotte Observer.
President's Party ?Kill Four lions
in One Day.
Glenwood Springs, Colo., April
28.?Secretary Loeb today re- ,
ceived a telephone message from
a ranch house two miles from the
uiiuuiii n Willi j*. 11113 uiunDn^v
was dictated by the president. It
aid: "We got f<jur bears yesterday.
We aro all well."
I'USII LANCASTER.
To Sell Court House.
Sumter, April A matter
I that is exciting considerable interest
in this county now i3 the
proposed sale of the Court House
and Court House square and the
erection of a new Court House.
The Court House square is situated
on the west side of North Main
street in the centre of the business
district and contains one acre.
The Court House itself is antiquated
and there has been complaint
for years that the noise from
the street interfered with the dispatch
of the business of the Court.
For these reasons it is desired to
erect a large and modern Court
House in a more quiet locality.
W'ithin tlw* tricf
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county board of commissioners
has leceivcd an offer of $60,000
for the Court House square, and
public sentiment is strongly in
favor of the acceptance of the offer,
inasmuch as another lot can
be purchased and the new Court
House erected for the price received
for the old lot. The grand
jury, in its presentment yesterday
afternoon, recommended the sale.
I Texas Rivers and Streams Greatly
Swollen By Rains.
Houston, Tex., April 30.?The
reports which come tonight are to
the effect that the Brazos river
approaches the danger point at
Waco, the Little Brazos and Bosque
are out of their banks; the
Guadalupe is slowly rising at Victoria
and below with the small
streams backing out over the low
lands. The Colorado is tearing
down from the mountains and is
already greatly swollen along the
lower'courses. The Trinity is carrying
more water than for the
past several years and the farmers
along its course arc getting cattle
and hogs out of the bottoms.
Wasp, Tex. k April 30.?At ijl
o'clockUonight the Brazos river Er
30 feet-deep, two feet below the
high water point reached in the
great flood.
It is out of its bank at low |
places and negro tenants have
been driven out. The Bosque is
out of its banks for many miles
and a great deal of corn and cotton
land has been overflowed. A
big rise is reported coming
down.
The Moon This Month.
New moon occurs at n a m
on the 4th, first quarter at 2 am
on the 12th, full moon at 5 p m
on the 18th, and last quarter at
10 p m on the 20th. The moon
is nearest us on the 16th, and
fartherest away on the 1st and
29th. She is in conjunction with
Mercury and Venus on the third,
Jupiter on the 4th, Mars on the
17th, Saturn on? the 24th, and
Venus again on the 30th. The
conjunction with Satnrn is quite
close;
Two J.ads Drown While Bathing
Near Cheraw.
(Jhertiw, S C., May 1.? May
4 ... & 1 1 1 rv ti 1
:\riuur iuki .1 ij nooKH, nrotners,
aged 11 and 8 years, were dro^n
t'd Dear hero while bathing with
a party of ooys. The younger
boy got over his depth i nd his
brother noticing it, went to his
res-cue, and both wore drowned.
The bodies were recovered and
taken to Wadesooro, N. C., for
burial.
OASTORZai..
Bean th# s9Kind You Hare Always Bouy
T*
Charleston was visited by a
severe wind, hail and rain Thursday
night. The wind reached a
velocity of 4(> miles an hour and
I many window panes wore broken
' by the hail.
mmamt
Chicago Strike Worse.
Employer* Huy 1,000 Rifles?
Strikers Make More Frequent
and Vicious Attacks on
Non-Union Men.
Chicago, May i.?Conditions
in the teamsters' strike were worse
today than at any preceding time.
The strikers were in uglier mood,
the rioting was more open and
vicious, and the attacks, on nonunion
men were more frequent and
daring than at any time since the
beginning of the strike. The
chref cause for the increased belligerency
on the part of the strikers
and their friends is the fact
that the Employers' Teaming Association
today brought 1,500
men into Chicago to take the
places of strikers, and 500 more
are said to be now on the way
and will arrive within twelve
hours. These men will receive
the full pay of union men, and it
has been guaranteed to them that
their positions will be permanent.
Among the strike-breakers arc
200 farmer boys.
To-morrow, whenever a wagon
of the Employers' Teaming. Association
goes through the streets
a rifle will be carried on each
wagon in open view. Dnring the
last week there has been much
complaint on the part of the strike
sympathizers of the readiness with
which non-union men, particularly
negroes, have used revolvers.
A number of strike-breakers were
arrested on a charge of carrying
concealed weapons, and today the
attorneys for the Employer' Teaming
Association called on Chief of
Police O'Neill and asked if their
men had not the right to carry
weapons, provided they were held
in open view. Chief of Police
O'Neill replied that there was no
law against it, and arrangements
were promptly made by the em^s'^^rs
to place riflc^jg^n every
one of their wagons.
Over 1,000 rifles were purchased
today, and during the latter part
of the afternoon a number of wagons
went through the streets with
a rifle lying across the knees of
the driver and his assistant.
When Mayor Dunne was informed
of the fact that rifles would
be carried by non-union men he
was visibly disturbed, and he declared
that the police would not
be permitted to authorize the carrying
of arms by any one, whether
in the employment of the Employers'
Teaming Association or
affiliated with the strikers.
There was a report late this afternoon
that Mayor Dunne was
about to force an adjustment of
the trouble, but this, he declared
tonight, was incorrect.
Five men were seriously hurt
during the fights today, and many
outers were nurt.
Sentenced to Death.
Sumter, April 29.?John Henderson,
a young negro of perhaps
20 years, was today sentenced by
Judge Klugh to be haaged on
Friday, June 2. The crime for
which he will pay the death pen
alty was the brutal murder of hi*
wife, Marj Heyderaon, on
.Vashington street, this city on
the night of December 7. Henderson
used a butcherkuife and the
woman was horribly mutilated
Henderson admitted his guiltwhen
captuied in Leu County more than
two months after the murder, and
made no excuse, except to say thai
ho did not think he had hurl her
enough to kill.
Foley's Honey and Tar contains
no opiutes, and will not constipate
liko nearly all other cough
medicines. Refuse Substitutes
Sold by Funderburk Pharmacy.
BJtWWER S A L V k.
His most hosting salvo In tl?? wort*'
Jordan Confident
Farmer* Arc Heing Unjustly
Criticised Average Has Keen
Red need.
Atlanta, Ga., May i:?The
farmers of tire South are now and
have been for several months unjustly
criticised by a class of people
who are engaged in other
lines of business. In December
the business and speculatvie world
said the cotton growers would not
hold their cotton in the face of an
enormous overproduction of the
staple and a rapidly declining
market. Yet the facts show that
the spot market was absolutely
tied up for several months and
the price of the downward tendency
of the staple checked and
advanced back fully two cents
per pound, netting from twentyfive
to thirty million dollars on
the amount of cotton unsold up
to December 3, I904.
The heavy sales made during
the past 60 days would never
have taken place if proper storage
facilities had been provided to
keep the staple in sound condition.
The farmers whipped that
fight, which cannot be denied.
It is now reported that the cotton
acreage reduction will not mate
riali/.e and that an increased
amount of guano has been sold.
Farmers all over the cotton belt
testify that the cotton acreage has
been materially reduced and it is
now an undeniable fact that the
actual sales of guano have fallen
short from 20 to 40 per cent less
than last year. The fertilizer people
themselves do not deny this.
I am convinced that the farmers
are honest and have lived up to
their pledges and know that the
facts will substantiate this statement.
The general public is not giving
them credit for either honesty
or ability to stand by their pledges
or promises. It is unfair and unjlist
to discredit Southern farmers
in the eyes of the business world
when they heve during the past
few months proven themselves so
capable of doing great things, and
when they have by their co-opcrtion
and persistence saved the
whole South from financial depression
and ruin. The truth
must live, but the present bearish
literature that is being published
and sent out broadcast that tbe
farmers have failed to reduce their
cotton acreage and use of guano
will have a speedy death in the
near future.
Ilarvie Jordan,
Pres. Southern Cotton A^so.
100 Shot Down At Wnr>(nv.
Warsaw, May 1.?Nearly one
hundred persons were killed or
wounded in disturbances in various
quarters of Warsaw today.
The troops apparently were oncon
Irollable, and violated all orders to
act with moderation They fired
into crowds of demonstrators, and
workmen, in retaliation, rosor'ed
to the use of firearms und bombs
Many women and children are
among the dead and dying Whet
approaches uteign of teror exist#
tonight; tho city present a most
gl??omy aspect and tho temper of
the entire community augurs ill.
?John Sims, col., a trustee
and cook for the guards of the
Orangeburg chuin-gang attempted
to poison thom last Thursday by
putting some kin<l of poison in
the (.l inking water. One of the
guards, Mr ICd Hoover, drank of
the water and called attention to
its peculiar taste which kept the
? tbers from drinking. He soon
becamo very ill an 1 dospitn all
physicians could do came near
dying. iSims escaped and has not
boon captured.
Pen ".ion ninn.lcM and Fraud*
? . V .*
Tlit State pension board wilj
i meet some time t ext week for the
purpose ?>| filing over the appli '
J cations which veto returned to |1
jthe respective counties for eonec- J
tion i<r revision. l he uumoei of j |
mistakes made |>y the county
j hoards 'his ye n were ni sch larger i
J than tistial. In Richland, for instance.
the entire batch of anpli ,
I "
cations had to he sent hack he- ,
cause the countv hoard had en
dorscd them all in the wrong ; (
'place. In addition to mistakes [
like these, which are technical, it j
'
; was shown that there was a great ;
| deal of carelessness in some of the '
|
counties in passing and recom-j
j mending pensions to persons who j '
i were not entitled to them. The j
1 - , . !
{State board tries as much as it j.
can to stop these fraudulent pen- !
sions, for they are so known in j
law, but all of them cannot be ! J
caught and there are no doubt 1
many receiving pcns:otis w ho are j
not entitled to them.?Columbia i.
Cor News and Courier. i
- rvs# Transferred
to the Pen.
! i
The county board of commission
crs has decided to transfer Belle
and Teeter, the bigamists, to the
penitentiary. Lt develops that 1
Bells has friends on the outside (
who may attempt his release if he
remains on the chaingang, and in
view of the fact that this contin : J
gcncy might call for extra guards ' ,
it is thought best to just send both |
to the penitentiary.?Yorkville j,
Knquirer.
Dr Kcnyon Y Millard Not Yet I
Out of Jail. t
Oangcburg, April 27.?The (
preliminary hearing set for today :
in the case of Dr Kcnyon V Mil- I
lard, who is confined in the county
j.iil here on the charge of bigamy,
was postponed by Magistrate
Hrunson at the request of
the attorneys for the prosecution
until next Thursday, May 4 (
t
Lotior to J. J. Owen. i
Lunaistcr, ,S L
O vir Sir : Hero's something ]
every psint.-r and builder ought ,
to know. 1
Mr. J. J. Mall, Shedidd, Pa., ]
painted two butt- s. f> years ago, (
lead .Ifid <:;i ; ? ? ?fc 40 gallons.
L ist ) ear, hh painted Devon ; i
bought 40 gallju - ; li id 10 lrft. ]
1111 is one of thousand*. The
knowledge 1 ; getting about <
pretty g uer lie, that D v ;e ,
goes !urt.ier ? h j'. any? tug else. 1:
ll'ivi?yuu lound it. out in \uur!j
o w 11 < x 1 ' i i'Mieu ? i
'I s muoU ft* .ion ?
8tl ppOSv a jo' 1 Iff "51 n s m 10,- ; '
000 m|UjWm fn ! ; li.?-.v milC.ll loss '*
D- von eoul1 you bu\ ?
Is if. as raw to p-.int? Dots,
it com aii) tu we or ler,s to put oti 1'
by the gallon than anything j
else? ho .% luin.ti?
If it eo<ts no tnore to put-on
Devon by ihrgai! o i t 1 s l^gq
by the fool, \uu r. n-i . ; (or the j'
gallon dot * tnoiat feet. How j
much titj yt,u find it, for
w ages ? 1
Last. s>l\ , twice as l-ofg ; tilfc
is tin- owner's gain : but perhaps
you reckon it jours; some do.
The titim, when that convp-in,
is w on! lie gives out t i" next
job.
\V ir? g**fs it ?
Yours truly,
58 F. \V Dkvok ife Co.
Lane-ft' r Mercantile Co. sell
our paint.
Wo S? li. vo ilmt if u!l tho states
do !is well a* North Carolina in
the reduction of tli oo'ioo acreago
iu proportion to the mm- imt
t wised n grout deul will he aeeon
, pli.shed this your for the benefit of
the fanner, hut tho indications
1 now ute thut our people will had
i in keeping the agreement made,
i Unless there is substantia! reduction
eviywheio throughout tho
cotton belt we will e- live cent
cotton next fall. It hehooqcs tho
' small farmer therefore to tli versify.?Raleigh
Post.
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^ ?i &' >>A-JV ?V? <(l?ldMMI
? Bom, tc? Mi and Mrs 1 M
Inches, April 27, 1 905. ? daughcr.
?lJio-l, 0:1 Friday, April 21,
100;. Beanie, ll1.'- infant son of
Mr .mil Mrs J T McMurray, aged
l^j IU?l!lIlS.
-?Aboili $25 was realized from
lie "sock party" at the A R P
larsonagc last Friday evening.
? I will exchange a good plug
mile f r a mule or horse colt.
C L McManas,
;t Lancaster, R F 13 No 2.
?Miss Mary Mobicy of Coltim>ia,
and Miss Sue McCrorey of
xichburg, visited Mrs J 1* King
lie past week.
?Magistrate W P Caskey spent
Monday in Columbia.
? An infant child of Mr Sam
iSurns died last Saturday at this
dace, aged about two months.
?20 Bushels genuiuc Spanish
v.-ed Peanuts for sale at Lem
inonds Fruit Stand.
? Dr Chajimun I b ath, of Ilichiiond.
Ivy , visited hi* brother,
\lr A W 1 lentil, hero lust week.
? A'nxhitw Knterprtso.
? R-v I*11111 Frej-slei will assist
a- pi*tor in ? meeting nt flick
r\ Grove this week.
? K'-v S N WutM>n of llortth
springs pi"iiehed the commenceneiit
s<nnon nt the ceuimoncenent
of the \V jugate school last
Sunday*
Mr W .1 Roil ley of Rock
mil run contracted 'or 11 o o reckon
of n $18 000 reniilr uco in that
jily.
?Jersey cow, with young calf,
for sill.'. Apply to
.1 K Craig,
Lancaster R F O No 1.
?Miss Minnie Caskcy, (laugher
of Mr J II Caskey. left Mon3ay
for Columbia where she en:ered
the training school to prepare
to become a trained nurse.
?The Lancaster Chapter
Daughters of the Confederacy will
neet at 5 p. in.*, tomorrow in the
lew library rooms up-stairs in
Masonic building. Full attendance
iesired.
?MLs Julia Simpson of Rock
llill, who was formerly with the
Heath?Jones Co., has accepted a
josition with the Williams?I Iughcs
Zo., where she will be glad to
<crvc her friends and customers
n the line of millinery or dress
joods.
? Mrs Addiu Fmilkn-r, of the
lacksonham section f Lnncnslor
snuniy, spent. Friday night at
Mrs M .1 Mev'u li's and went to
[Hail;ton Saturday to be present
it the closing excreises of tho
?chooi thero, of which her son,
Frof \V A Dunn, is principal ?
Waxh iw Enterprise
A meeting at the Methodist
church was begun last Sunday and
will continue at least through this
week. Services daily at 4 p. m.,
and 8 p. in. sharp. Rev Mr Watson,
who was to assist, failed to
get here 011 account of sickness in
his family, but Rev Mr Turnipseed
will have help.
? Mrs (* W Jordan mid her
little babe left the city Thursday
fur Wcstville, whore they will
spend a fow days with Mrs Jordan's
father, Mr 'n M Tiuo.*del.
Sin1 expects id return to Kershaw
where she will conduct a boarding
house after her vi*it t'? her father
? Rock Hill Herald.
?The meeting in progress at
the Baptist church for tlie past
two weeks closed Friday night
and ])i Adams of Charlotte, who
preached such instructive sermons
during the meeting, returned
to his home Saturday. Sunday
night 1)r Bbldridge received
twentv nine into the church by
baptism. Our community has
been greatly benefitted by this
meeting.
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