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2 III KNi;i>, ? OTIIHHS KILLED Hy slu'i ??'H Posse in duly County, (Ja.-Two Whites Wounded. IMakoly, Ga., Dec. 30.-Four ne- | groes were shot to death, two ne- i ?roes burned alive, two whlto men seriously wounded and others slight ly wounded in a series of battles fought In Early county late to-day in an effort to capture the slayers of ! Henry Vtlliplgue, lunn overseer on a plantation owned hy 10. H. Coach-j mun, of Clearwater, Fla. Sheriff Howell was In charge of a posse that burned a negro house in . which Craiilson Goolsby, negro far- I mor, and his two sons wore barricad ed with ot lier negroes, this afternoon. Goolsby and another negro were shot j dead In trying to escape from tho flames. Two white men were wound- ; ed by the negroes. Go'jlsby'a sons sought refuge in an- I other cabin, which also was fired by the posse and the sheriff and bis deputies brought back tho news to-1 night that both of these negroes ! -were burned to death. They faced certain death to attempt to escape. | Several posses, each with forty or more men, have been hunting the ne-**) groes throughout the day. Two seri- | ons gun tights have occurred, two ne groes being killed in each battle. Villipiguo was killed In the pres- I once of his wife by three negroes.' presumably becacse he had chastised n negro boy on the night before, He was shot in the back with a 1 "rung" shell, Ulled willi large shot, a terrible hole being torn In his body. ! Villipiguo lived only ten minutes. Other shots were (Ired, some of them barely missing Airs. Villipiguo. Gra dison Goolsby, a negro, and his two sous, who resided on Col. A. .1. j Singlotnry's plantation, were accused of tho shooting, and posses started out in pursuit of them as soon as news of the shooting spread. The sheriff of Early county also was in charge of a posse bent upon captor- ' lng the three accused men. Not until Vlllipigno's body was on its Avny to his former home In Griffin, j Ga., did the posse come upon the ne- ! groes suspected of the shooting. Negroes Fire on I'osscc. As one posse surrounded two ne- i groes the latter opened fire, and the ' fire was returned with deadly effect, j Only a few rounds were exchanged when the negroes ceased shooting. ? Doth negroes were found dead. They vero Identified as Farly Ilightower, | a cousin of the Goolsbys, and Jim Murt?n. They were not implicated In tho killing of Overseer Villipiguo, lt was stated, and the posse continued the chase. During this afternoon the negroes were located in a hons?' on Dick Ser mon's plantation. They were barri caded there and heavily armed. The posse closed in on the house and de manded the surrender of the negroes. The negroes fired and then shut themselves In, More daring ones of the posse stole up at one side of the house where there were no windows, and set lire to tho building. When tho flames were upon them the ne groes made a dash for the open. They tired Into the posse and two white men--Olive Iludseth and Sam Dil u?an-fell wounded. Hundreds of shots were fired at tho negroes by members of the posse and Gradison Goolsby, the loader of the negroes, fell dead, ns did another negro, whose name bas not been obtained. "(Jen." Covey to Hun for Senator. Columbus. Ohio. Dec. 30.-"Cen." Jacob S. Coxey, wealthy manufactu rer of Massailon. Ohio, who led tho "army of the commonweal" to Wash ington in 1804, outlined to-day plans for his campaign as an Idepondenl candidate for United States Senator from Ohio, to succeed Senator Po me rell e next year. Ile said he would run on a platform demanding that Congress authorize an Issue of $1, 000,000,000 legal tender currency, half of which is to be used in creat ing a merchant marine, and half for naval equipment ol' coast defenses. Memorial to Col. A. .1. SH ton. (Anderson Mail.) The congregation of the Pendleton Baptist church have a new parson age, tho gift, of Mrs. H. A. Sittoa as a memorial to her late husband, Col. A. J. Sitton. Tho parsonage and lot on which it stands were given by Mrs. Sitton when the building was recently completed. For Children's Cough. You cannot use anything bettor for your child's cough and cold than Dr. King'B New Discovery. It ls propared from pine tar, mixed with healing and soothing balsams, It does not con tain anything harmful and is slightly laxative, Just enough to expel the poisons from the system. Dr. King's New Discovery is antiseptic-kills tho cold germs-raises tho phlegm-loos ens the cough and soothes tho irrita? Hon. Don't put off treatment. Coughs and colds often lead to serious lung troubles, lt is also good for adults and tho aged. Get a bottlo to-day. All druggists.- Adv. 3. MOTH STAUT ANEW IN S. W. <iA. ! Two Moro Negree? Killed-Fourth Negro liorigo Has lieen Set on Fire. Blakely, Ga., Dec. 31.-Two ne groes were killed and four negro lodge buildings wore burned to-day in a renewal of clashes between the ! whites and negroes In the western portion of this (Karly) county, ac cording to reports reaching here to night. Reports that negroes, In re taliation, were threatening the lives of white fanners caused numbers of armed men to leave here for the scene, and lt was said that others j were en route from the Alabama side j of the Chattahoochee river, on which 1 Karly county borders. Seven negroes were reported killed yesterday hy white posses which sought to capture Qrandlson Ooolsby and his sons, Mike and Ulysoes, charged with hilling Henry J. Villl pigue, a white overseer, who had thrashed one of the younger Gools bys. To-day's mob scoured the river country on bearing rumors that Coolsby's sons had not been burned to death in a negro cabin, as report ed, but had escaped. Delegated to Kill. Reports that members of these mobs found on thc person of a negro killed yesterday a lodge book show ing that a negro organization had del egated (Joolshy and his sons to kill Villi pigue because he thrashed one of the younger Goolsbys, wore said to have caused the hurtling of the negro lodge building. Thc elder Coolshy w??s Known as one of the leading spirits in negro Mason and Odd Fel low lodges in bis section of Karly county, and also to be a member of other lodges. To-night a negro lodge building near the Alabama line was reported destroyed by lire. Early to-day a negro Masonic lodge building and a negro Odd Kellows' lodge building bad been burned, and later a building known aa tho Negro Supreme Circle lodge building was said to have been burned. Two Negroes Slain. Fd Law, a negro nccused of aiding thc younger (?oolsbys to escape, was said to have been killed late to-day with his son, known as "Precious" Law. The Goolsbys, lt was said, were aided by these negroes to reach a train going to Montgomery, Ala. In retaliation negroes were said to have surrounded the home of H. 'H. Giimsley, a white farmer, threatening to kill him and his wife and children. The mob dispersed, however, before Sheriff Howell and a posse reached the Grimsley home. The negro Supreme Dodge Circle at Pleasant Grove was burned early in the day and the negro Masonic and negro Odd Follows' hall in Blakely were burned hy the mob later, and to-night another negro lodge build ing, near the Chattahoochee river, at Hilton, was binned. Grimsley ls Rescued. In retaliation thc negroes were re ported to have surrounded the home of ll. H. Grimsley and had threatened him and his family. Sheriff Howell and deptuics and help from the Ala bama side ol' the river hurried to the scene and found that the negroes had dispersed, according to late reports roaching boro. Automobiles lilied with armed men have been leaving the city every few minutes through out t he evening, Grndlson Goolshy, negro, killed yes terday, was at the head of the Su preme Circle Lodge in his own settle ment and master of the negro Ma sonic lodge at Ula kel y. Ninety l?ales on Six-Horse Farm. ( Laurens Advertiser.) About 90 bales of cotton from a six-horse farm will be the record made on tho Watts place, north of the city, this year. This particular record is made on (bat part of tho pince cultivated by T. I. Swyjcert and Bill Fisher, with lt. M. .Mills as over seer. Mr. Mills stated Saturday that, he had already ginned S7 bale; and expected to gin several mort;, bring ing the total up to about 90 bales. Minnesota'? Governor Dead. Clinton, Lo., Dec. 30.-Governor \V. S. Hammond, of Minnesota, died suddenly In a hotel here early to-day from a stroke of apoplexy, which phy sicians state apparently had been su perinduced by a recent attack of ptomaine poisoning. He was stricken while in the lavatory of the hotel and died before physicians could arrive. 15 Killed; 20 Injured. Laredo, Texas, Dec. 31.-Fifteen persons were instantly killed, a score of others Injured, some probably fa tally; many railroad cars wore de molished and othor property damage effected In Monterey, Mexico, yester day at noon wheiv box cars contain ing dynamite and hand grenades for the Carranza army were destroyod by an explosion. Iceland hold? the record for cente narians. (Clip this out THE KEOWEE COURIER, Walhalla, S. C. Gentlemen:-Enclosed find \ mi / nu per your special offer, enter me for THE KEOWEE COURIER ) THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER > THE HOUSEWIFE ) Name. Post Office R. F. D. OF INTEREST TO FARMERS. Comparative Peed Values of Cotton Hood Mool, Corn and Shorts, Editor Keowee Courier: lt may be of Interest to many of our farmers and users of cotton seed meal for feed purposes to know what the ac tual feed values are of the above. Protein, carbohydrates and fats are not obtainable alone, except in occa sional instances, eane molasses being almost wholly carbohydrates. Feeds vary In value for different kinds of live .stock. For example: Wheat bran is a good cow feed, but a poor pig feed, being too bulky for pigs. If users ol' cotton seed meal desire to tone down the high protein value of thc meal by mixing shorts or bran, we say that bran should be used in preference to shorts and can be ob tained for less money. '.''he following statement shows the feed value of standard cotton seed meal: ' Protein .30 Per cent. Fat . 6 Per cent. Carbohydrates . . . .29 Percent. Crude Fiber.12 Percent. The analysis of shorts gives the following result: Protein .15 Per cent. Fat . 5 Per cent. Carbohydrates .. . . 50 Per cent. Fiber. 7 Per cent. (Shorts figured at a value of $30 per ton, cotton seed meal at $40 |>er ton, shelled corn at $!i2 per ton, or 90c. per bushel. ) We wrote E. J. Watson, Commis sioner of Agriculture, giving bim the figures as above and asked bim how they compared. Under date of De cember 10th, we received the follow ing information addressed to us by his department : "I will say that, using analyses and prices quoted by Mr. Marett, (cotton seed meal at $40 per ton, corn at $32, shorts at $30.) for $1. you can buy Ibo following value lu nutrients: Cotton seed meal.$1.00 worth. (Join.S 7 worth. Shorts.8 2 worth. "Therefore, to get the same nutri ent value per dollar, valuing cotton seed meal at $10, corn would have to be $27.4 1 and shorts $20.52. "Nutrient in corn is 13 per cent and shorts 18 per cent more expen sive." Cotton seed meal ought to sell for $4 5 per ton, and lt is a fact that cot ton seed meal will run over the guar anteed analysis as a rule more than most of the other foods sold in this territory. If you want to buy some thing to mix with cotton seed meal, you should buy wheat bran or some other cheap, bulky feed running high in carbohydrates. Corn contains 0 per cent protein, fat f? per cent, and carbohydrates 70 per cent. The trouble you will have with corn is that it does not furnish the bulk that is necessary in cow f(Od. Therefore wheat bran is pref erable. K. W. Marett. Westminster, Dec. 28, 1015. Pneumonia and (?rip Kill Many. Philadelphia, Dec. 3 1.-Pneumo nia and grip, which have been epi demic here for several weeks, caused a record number of deaths during the week ending yesterday. Thc to tal for tho week was 071, nearly 50 per cent being ascribed by tho at tending physicians to these diseases. For last Monday tho report to the bureau of vital statistics showed 202 deaths, the greatest number ever reached by the bureau in a single day. The weekly death rate usually averages 4 22. Many Industrial plants and busi ness olllces have been seriously crip pled by the enforced absence of em ployees suffering from grip, which in many cases havo developed Into pneumonia. Wann $50,000 for State Militia. An appropriation of $50,000 to $60,000 will bo urged by Adjutant General W. W. Mooro In his annual report to the General Assembly. The fund will be used for the maintenance of the National Guard, making up the deficiency In the F?deral funds and allowing of general Improvement of the State camp in Lexington county. t and use it?) 191 anehyCokrder i 'or $i.6o. for which, as a full year's subscription to A year's rending f<.:* the Whole Family for only 13 cents a month. State I7?,:i?'.l WOK li FOR GOVERNMENT Coniiietttlve Examination Rules Ap ply to Nearly :$()(>,ooo of Them. Washington, Dee. 30.-More than 17"),OOO officers and employees, or, to be exact, 476,363, are on the gov ernment pay roll at the present time, according to information conveyed in thc annual report of the Civil Service Commission, just made public here. Of this large army of government workers 29 2,000 held positions sub ject to competitive examinations un d the civil service rules. Of the IS 1,000 whose positions are not sub ject to such rules more than 10,000 were Presidential appointees, 8,000 being postmasters of the first, second and third classes, fi,000 clerks in charge of contract postal stations, 72,000 clerks in third and fourth class post offices, 8,000 mail messen gers, 12.U00 star route, steamboat and screen wagon contractors. To properly examine applications for pensions there is required alone ? total of 4,500 surgeons. Panama canal work calls for 20, 000, and there are 27,000 unclassi fied laborers scattered throughout the country whose names are on the government pay roll. Last year the number examined for entrance into the classified service reached a total of 166,000, which is 30,000 less than the number ex amined the previous year, the de crease being due to the fact that many large examinations, including that for the railway mail service, were postponed. On June 30, 1915, there were 47. 000 fourth-class post offices in the United States, and at the same time there was a total of 4 3,000 rural free delivery routes in operation. Although the report does not show what percentage of the total number of employees were women, it is safe to say they made up half the total. These half million men and wo men are working for Uncle Sam both in tills and continental countries-in fact, wherever the flag of the Stars and Stripes is found floating. While it is true that the pay they receive is not large-though generally ade quate in each particular case-Uncle Sam is a good paymaster and there is nev r an excuse to complain of slow pay. Robbers Make Rig Haul. Wilmington, Del., Dec. 25.-Four hundred thousand dollars in stock certificates were stolen from a regis tered mail pouch late last night while in transit in a covered wagon from the Wilmington post office to the Pennsylvania railroad station. The bag contained stock certificates of the Dupont, Hercules and Atlas pow der companies. General Motors Com pany and railroad companies to value of $750,000, but $350,000 of the securities were subsequently found hidden in the vehicle. Albert Johnson and Earl Johnson, negro drivers of the wagon, were arrested and held in default of bail for hearings next Thursday. Tho men are believed to have permitted the robbers to ride in the wagon from the post office to the station, during which time they were able to cut open the mali pouches and select the negotiable securities. The negroes were employed by the Arm which has the contract for carrying the mails between the post office and the rail road station. Tlie stock, some of which belongs to tho Dupont Compnny and some to New York brokers, was en route to New York. Chicago in Grip of Influenza. Chicngo, Dec. 22.-Approximately 85,000 pupils of tho public schools are absent on account of Influenza, according to reports of school physi cians rondo to the health department. The health department has considered the epidemic so fierions that an inves tigation has been ordored. Five Dlo from Eating Cmuly. Boston, Dec. 31.-- The death of five children In Boston since Christmas, after eating candy containing too much acid, will be probed. Burial of tho five has been suspended until Monday pending a post mortem ex amination. Arrests are expected. NOVEL APPEAL TO U. S. COURT. Negro Wauls Reversal RceauHe There Were No Hincks on His Jury. (Atlanta Constitution, Dec. 31.) Attorney General Clifford Walker will leave in the next day or so for Washington, D. C., where he will rep resent the State of Georgia before the United States Supreme Court in the case ol' Robert Kitchens vs. J. C. Hamilton, sheriff of Washington county, Georgia. This ease ls one of the most re markable ever sent up to the high Federal trtbuanl from the Southern States, and, it is said, if the high court upholds Kitchens' plea, will mean either a large percentage of negroes on every jury that trios a ne gro or a beaten path to the United States Supreme Court every time a negro loses a case and can lind mean? to appeal his case. Claim ol' Kitchens. Kitchens is a negro and his appeal is based upon the allegation that ne groes were excluded from service upon the jury which convicted him, and that he was thereby deprived of bis rights under the "due process of law" clause of the fourteenth amend ment to the Federal Constitution. It is said to be a fact thal there were no names of negroes appearing on the lists from which the jury was selected which convicted Kitchens, but tho State will claim that this fact docs not arise out of discrimi nation against negroes, lt is also stated that there are few counties in the State ol* Georgia which have ne groes from which to select juries. Kitchens was convicted of thc mur der or H. A. 'Brantley, in Washington Superior Court, April li), 1013, and was sentenced to death. He was re fused a new trial and appealed and again lost. On May 14, 1915, Kitch ens applied for a writ of habeas cor pus before Judge Lambdin, of the Southern Georgia Federal District, but the petition was denied. In this petition Kitchens alleged for the first time that the commissioners of Wash ington county "failed to select and did exclude all colored persons of Af rican descent, because of their race and color, known as negroes, to serve on said juries, although there were a number of colored men In the coun ty who were well qualified to serve." Point Not Raised. This point was not raised In any of the State Courts, and lt is unusual for the United States Supremo Court to review a case in which all points have not been reviewed by the State Courts. The case, however, ls in the high Federal Court, an appeal having been entered and a supersedeas granted. Kitchens will claim before the Su preme Court that the reason he had not raised the point as to the exclu sion of negroes from his jury in the courts of Georgia was "fear and dan ger of mob violence and on account of the great prejudice that existed at the time of the trial between the two races," although the State will claim that there was not during his trial any evidence of impending mob vio lence. The United States Supreme Court has in former decisions ruled that a negro may be excluded from a jury or jury lists simply on account of his race or color. Wool Production in U. S. Washington, Dec. 30.-Wool pro duction in the United States during 1915 was estimated to-day hy the Department of Agriculture at 2S8, 777,0U0 pounds. Its value was $67, 573,818, or $14,000,000 moro than last year. The price of unwashed wool paid lo producers bas averaged 23.4 cents por pound, compared with 18.4 cents last year and 15.7 cents in 1913. Rig Country School Roy. Fremont, Ohio, Dec. 31.- F. I. Gahn, of Rich township, ls perhaps the biggest country school boy in Ohio, if not in the United States. He is 1(! years of age and weighs 200 pounds. Gahn attends the Glaser school, north of Fremont, and ls one of the brightest pupils in his class. The hammer used at tho salo of German prise ships in London was the snme as that used In 1856, when the enemy's ships seized were sold. At tho close of this sale tho auc tioneer presented this hammer to thc marshal of the admiralty, II. W. Lovell. A gold-lettored Inscription on the hammer recalled the Crimean war. Tobacco. (Penn State Froth.) Tobacco ls a dirty weed, I like lt. It satisfies no normal need, I like it. It makes you thin, lt makes you lean, lt takes tho hair right off your bonn. It's the worst dam stuff I'veoverseen. I like lt. j Italians who liave become natural ized In Switzerland are liable to mili tary service in both countries. imiTIKIl WARSHIP DESTROYED. Cruiser Natal Blown to Pieces While in Port-About 300 Perished. Loudon, Dee. 31.-The British ar mored cruiser Natal has been sunk alter an explosion. Officiai announce ment to this effect was made here to day. The Natal was sunk yesterday afternoon while in harbor as the re sult of an internal explosion. There are about 4 00 survivors. The Natal's sinking: is the severest loss which the British navy has sus tained in several months. No British naval vessels of importance had been sunk since last May when the Tri umph and Majestic were torpedoed at the Dardanelles. The Natal, although a powerful man of war, was laid down eleven years ago, and her displace ment was only about one-half of the largest British sea fighters. The Na tal's complement was 704 men. Her displacement was 13,660 tons. She was 480 feet long and 73 feet of beam. Her largest guns were 9.2-inch. Of these she carried three forward and three aft. She was armed also with four 7.5-inch guns, twenty-four 3-pounders and three tor pedo tubes. Accidentally Killed Wife. Wasley. Dec. 30.- C. C. Galloway, of Eisley, accidentally shot and in stantly killed his wife in their home at 1 0.?10 o'clock this morning. Mr. Galloway bad just come In from town and was inspecting a pistol which he had at bis bouse. Not knowing that it was loaded, he pulled the trigger, the ball taking effect In the throat of his wife, who was stand ing directly in front of the pistol. Medical aid was summoned immedi ately, but life was extinct before the physician could reach the sceno. Mrs. Galloway before ber i arrlage was Miss Mcllaffey, of Easley. Be sides her husband she is survived by five children, the youngest being only six months of age. Taxable Property in tho State. The total value of all taxable prop erty in South Carolina in 1915 was $310,907,101, according to reports to the Comptroller General by the coun ty auditors of the State. The table showing the values in each county ls contained in the first annual report of the Tax Commission, which has been mailed to the members of the Legislature. This is an increase ov<;r last year! Some facts taken from the table are as follows: Acres land taxed. 18,615,297 Value of lands.| 75,014,146 -Valr^ of buildings . . .$ 18,816,536 Value of all real estate in cities, towns and villages.$ 08,974.4X2 Total value, real estate.. $103,336,389 Value of personal prop erty .$ 44,765,668 Cap'u Holton for Presidency. Chicago, Dec. 30.-The name of Richmond P. Hobson, of Alabama, was among those mentioned as Presi dential nominee possll littles ai a con ference of Prohibition party leadors summoned here by the executive committee of the national committee of that party to-day. The discussion of candidates was informal. Other names mentioned were those of J. Frank Hanley, former Governor of Indiana; William Sulzer, former Gov ernor of New York, and Eugene Foss, former Governor of Massachusetts. The date for the national convention was tentatively sot by the national committee for July 19 and 20 at Min neapolis, Minn. Killed While Pleading. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 29.-Claude Suggs, who killed bis father-in-law, John James, Monday near Jackson ville, bas been removed to Newborn, N. C., for safe keeping. Suggs turned the gun and shot James whllo tho latter was pleading for bis son. Feel ing is high. FREE FLOWER SEEDS Hastings Catalogue Tells You All About Them No matter whether you farm or only plant vegetables or flowers in a small lot you need Hastings 191G Catalogue. It ls filled (100 pages) from cover to cover with useful farm and garden infor mation. It tells of seeds of kind and quality that you enn't buy from your merchant or druggist, seeds that cost no more but give you real satisfaction and a real gar den. 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