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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.
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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.
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