Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ESTABLISHED EST 18 ATTACK YOUNG LADY. .'BOLD EFFORT OF UNKNOWN MAN AT ROCK HILL. Citizens Aroused- at Dastardly At tempt at Assault on Young Lady? ? No Clue to Assailant. An attempt at crime occurred at Rock Hill Wednesday evening which for its ! boldness is unheard of in that section. A young lady, living 4n west Main street, was grabbed ?and gagged while on the back porch ?of her home. Fortunately her as sailant was frightened away without any serious harm being done if such wag hi3 purpose. As to the intent of assault no one can say. The young lady, who is the highly respected young dauguter of one of the best citizens, is in a highly nerv ous condition but could tell quite ?clearly of the occurrence. About 10.30 o'clock she stepped out upon the back porch to get a drink of water. She had walked to the spigot and was in the act of raising the dipper when she heard a slight noise behind her. .When.she raised her head to see what it was she saw a man, quite a good deal taller than she, by her. Before she could scream he had thrown the towel he had in his hand?and which had hung on the porch?over her head and stifled the attempted scream. She was thrown to the floor bat in the scuffle managed dto get the towel from her mouth and began calling for her father, then for her mother. The latter was in the room quite close to the porch, heard her and ran out, but not before the man had gone. He had run at the young lady's first call, but before she had suc ceeded in making any one hear. She thinks that he heard her mother moving around m the room. The young lady thinks she heard the ?chain of the garden gate rattle as he ran away and he could reach the street by going that way. When the mother got out on the porch she found her daughter lying with her feet on the porch and her head on the second or third' step. She held the towel in her tight grasp and was half dead from fright. A ring which -she wore was found at the foot of the steps and her combs were found further in the yard. The neighbors were aroused and a search was made of the premises but without result "When the police arrived the garden 'was/ ?o trampled by the . searchers that it was impossible to tell whether the assailant had gone that way. Only one clue, or seeming clue, has been found. Mr. Joe Crow, an engineer on the Charleston division, was coming home about the time the assault oc curred. He lives quite near the home of the young lady and when lie was within a block of his home on Main street he met a rather tall man who was walking very fast or half running' and who gave him a wide berth when they passed each other. The , man, who was white seemed to wish to avoid being seen. Mr. Crow did not know him, but thinks he would be able to identify the man he met should he see him again. The young lady could not say whether the man was white or black. She could only say that he was tall ?nd wore a black coat. The people are much stirred up over the affair, and whatever his intention, would like to see the man caught. The young lady, who is a stenographer, -was badly frightened and was so hysterical as to require the attention of a physician, but was not seriously hurt. QUICK JUSTICE IN JERSEY. Blacksmith who Killed Preacher July 15 Sentenced to Die. A dispatclr from New Brunswick, J*. J., saya Another example of o,uick Jesrey justice was given Tues day when Archie Herron, the form ier blacksmith, who shot and killed the Rev. S. V. B. Prickett, a Metho dist minister, on July 15, was con ?victed of murder in the flrBt degree and was sentenced to be electrocut ed at Trenton on September 7. Herron's trial began Monday and the case was given to the jury Tues day. It took but forty-five minutes for the jurymen to bring in a ver dict of guilty. Herron shot the Rev. Mr. Prickett while his victim was walking in the street. His motive is believed to have been to revenge him self upon the minister, who. when recorder of the Metuchen Court, sentenced Herron to serve ten days in jail for drunkenness and disorder ly conduct. SEK NEGRO BURN. Alleged Assailant of White Girl Lynched by Citizens. "Tad" Smith, a negro boy IS yeas old, charged with criminal as sault on Miss Viola Delancey at Clay ton, Hunt County, Texas., was cap tured by officers Tuesday. He was taken before the young woman and identified. The prisoner was then hurried to the Greenville jail. Be fore arriving there, however, a mob ?of citizens overpowered the officers, took the prisoner and burned him at the stake. Fagots were piled up in the public square at Greenville and the negro was placed thereon, kero sene oil was poured on and a match applied. Smith slowly burned to death while a thousand people look Ad on. 169. MATTERS' POLITICAL. Editor Norman Mack to Ron Demo cratic Campaign. Matters are" still moving smoothly in national democratic affairs. Nor man E. Mack of Buffalo, an editor and a man who has the confidence of the party, and who is a hard work er, has been made chairman of the national committee, which means that an effort Is to be made to cap ture New York and tue . New York politicians think that the effort will be successful. The choice of Mr. Mack seems to give general satisfac tion There is every evidence of the fact that the democratic committee is leaving no stone unturned to get the votes of the pe'opie and they are making progress. They will try to capture Ohio by bagging the Forak er support, which seems probable, they will sacrifice no principle, make no promises that will bind the party to anything objectionable in doing it Gov. Johnson will set out soon to make some speeches for the ticket which he aspired to lead, and is great enough to help though he was disappointed. The republicans are also very busy they are trying now to make terms, and this information comes from the New York World, which is not very favorable to the democratic party, that the administration has surren dered to the Wall street capitalists and rapid pool and will permit the railroads in the west to raise their rates, and will maie it convenient to have the employes of the road con vinced that their object in so doing is to increase their wages, or prevent their reduction, and that their hope is in the Tepublcan party, the party of the full diner pail. The collections for the campaign funds are growing very slowly, the farmers do not respond j as rapidly to the appeal as was thought when they realized that the election de pended on them and that it was plainly up to them now, if they want ed such government as they had been for years demanding, they had to support the workers In the field, sup ply the amunition for the batteries and pay the bill. FOUGHT ABOUT BALL GAME. Young White Man Stabs and Cuts Another at Gaffney. A dispatch to The News and Cour ier from Gaffney, says Joe Camp and Dock Parris, two young white men, got into a difficulty Tnesday about a ball game between Gaffney; and Greer, which resulted in Camp being fearfully stabbed and cut in fifteen places by a knife in the hands of Parris. At the beginning of the difficulty Parris, the larger of the two, had a knife, and was told by Camp that if he would give it up he would fight fair. He gave the knife up, but had another concealed oh Ms person, with which he did the carving. Camp is a grandson of the late Auditor Camp. Parris works at the Gaffney Manufacturing Com pany, a cotton mill.- The physicians who atended the wounded man say that there is a chance for his recov ery. MILLS TO SHUT DOWN. 300,000 Spindles in Spartantrarg to be Idle for Two Weeks or Longer. Practically all the large cotton mills in the Spartanburg section will close August 8 for two weeks, some of them for a longer period. The mills that will close down are Tu capau, Enoree, Pacolet, Spartan Mills, Arkwright and Whitney, of that county, and Clinton and Wats Mills. The Pacolet. Mills will close for an indefinite period, and will pay the operatives half time and give them free house rents while opration is suspended. The other mills will fur nish house rent free. The closing down of the mills, August 8, will be the second time this summer the mills have shut down, and will pro bably be the last. As a result of the shut down, more than three hun dred thousand spindlp- in the coun ty will be idle. STRIKE RIOT AT BOMBAY. Twenty Thonsand Men Out?British Troops Disperse Them. At Bombay, Twenty thousand mill hands who struck Thursday became riotous Friday and a detachment of British infantry was called out. They fired, killing one native and wounding six. Several Europeans nnd natives of the police force sus tained injuries. ! The rioters were dispersed. The strikers are out in sympathy for Tilak, the nationalist leader and editor who was sentenced to trans portation for six years on a charge of sedition. FOUND MOTHER MURDERED. Woman, Sixty Years of Age, Shot Six Times by Unknown Party. A dispatch from Tampa, Fla, says Mrs. J. W. Platt, sixty years old, was murdered by unknown persons Mon day at noon at her home near Gil christ Institute. Discovery of the crime was made by her son, Walter Platt, who, going home for dinner, found his mother's body on the kitchen floor with six bullet wounds in her head. Her daughter, Miss Mattie Platt, a teacher at the Insti tute, had left home thirty minutes before, i m es ORAKGBBUj HE \ STREWN WITH FISH. POISONED BETWEEN CLEAR WATER AND SAVANNAH RIVER. / i People in Neighborhood Aroused and Are Anxious to See Guilty Parties Punished. A special dispatch from Aiken to The State says thousands of fish, including every size, have been kill ed in Horse creek between Clear water and the Savannah river, by being, poisoned. What is now the Seminole Manufacturing company was until a few months ago the Clearwater pleachery, and the bleachctry, used large tanks of chemi cals that" were poisonous. ". A'* few-day*<ago a-force of -work men wfere ordered to empty one of these tanks in the creek and wash It out. It is said that they warned the officials that the contents of the tank would kill the fish in the creek. But notwithstanding the warning they were forced to empty it. As a result fish of all sizes and kinds have been slaughtered all the way to the Savannah river and persons fishing at the point where the creek empties into the river report hundreds of dead fish floating. - Another evidence of the quantity of fish killed is the dreadful odor throughout the entire distance to the river. The matter was promptly reported to Game Warden Shaw at Langley, and he soon olaced the re sponsibility. Warrapts have been Issued by Magistrate S. S. Lee, at Langley, for five parties and the preliminary examination will be held on Tuesday. From what yonr correspondent can gather, the feeling of the peo ple in that community has been aroused and they are anxious to see the guilty parties punished. The State, It is alleged, will be somewhat handicapped in the pro secution, for the reason that the witnesses are employes of the mill and are arfaid tc testify to the truth for fear of losing their jobs. DEER HELD UP TRAIN. Doe And Fawns Scattered But Buck Charged Engine And Was Killed. A passenger train which left New Haven Thursday night for Middle ton, was held up near Durham,Conn., in a most unusual manner. Four deer, a doe, two fawns and a buck stood" on the tracks as the train approached. When the en gineer blew his whistle, all of the deer, with the exception of the buck, leaped aside. The buck was run down and kill ed as he stood challenging the loco motive. BAGGAGEMAN HELD UP. Two Men Rob Train of Mail Pouch, Waith and Money. Two men held up a baggageman late Thursday night on the Ulster anri Delaware passenger train be tween South Gilhea and Stamford. N. Y. They helped themselves to the mail pouch, the baggageman's gold watch and $18 in cash. They dis appeared from the train as it slowed down at Stamford. Chinaman Endows a Church Through the murder of Lee Chit in the Chinese quarters of Phladel phia it has become public that he provided in his will for funds to erect a Chinese Baptist church, the first Chinese Christian church in the United States. * Minstrel-Revivalist Disappears. Probably demented, "Billy" Wil liams, a former minstrel star, but more recently a revivalist, has dis appeared from Des Moines, Ind., leaving his family destitute. ? R?, S. C FRIDAY, JULI iAS FORGOTTEN THE COASBINA THE END OF TIME HOW THE WORLD WILL COME TO AN END. Shall the Blow Come From Over Population, Heat or Cold, or a Second Flood? Below we publish the views of several scientists on- the subject of how this world will come to an end: By Sir William Ramsay England's most celebrated scien tist calls attention to the dangers of over population. N We have been threatened with all sorts of catastrophes, ranging from the entire submersion of the land surface of the globe* owjng, to the steady Inroads ; of the sea; down to the eniinction of man through lack of water. The ..former theory is, I think, un tenable. With regard to the other, we are threatened with a much more serious and more urgent danger than lack of water, which at any rate, is not likely to occur for many millions of years. This is simply the danger brought on us by over population? not extinction by thirst, but by hung er. I refer, of course, to the wheat problem, which is a much more seri ous affair than is generally believed. In a few generations?five or six, at the most?the position will be acute, and, after all, one ought to be more interested in a great great great great grandchild than in a possible descendant who is about 50,000,000 years away S? By D. S. Landis. Scientist of United States weather bureau writes of the danger of gases from a colliding comet. Many persons have discussed the possibility of the destruction of the earth in a collision with some comet ?for instance some body nice the Daniels comet. It was visible most of last summer. As a matter of fact the physical contact?the blow from a comet would not itself destroy the earth, rne point of meeting would probably not be greater than a big Texas coun ty, and at that spot the earth struck would possibly be raised to an in candescent heat and life thereabout destroyed. But there is an awful danger to be met with outside of a mere colli sion. The great danger of a comet to the earth is in the fact that a large hydrocarbon comet dashed to earth would be raised to such heat as to be vaporized. The diffusion of the heavy noxious gases would so vitate the atmos phere as to render it unfit for breath ing. The result is evident. Thus might the ocasion and hu man habitations escape unharmed, not even a man be killed by the comet, coming in contact with the earth, yet with the deadly gases drifting over th<* surface of the earth, enveloping the whole world, all breathing creatures would soon be suffocated, silenced in death by the choking bane of hydrocarbon gas 'combinations (lowing :outward and downward about the earth from pole to equator, from east to west, ever sinking closer to earth and waters, a vast black death flood, strangling and stifling all life. By Sir Win. Hugffins. Great Astronomer says the Blow May He Dealt by Heat or Cold. The candle of the sun is burning down, but long before it reaches the socket all terrestial life will have be come impossible from cold. Even now a sun may be on its way to collision with out sun?a possible event most graphically described by Newcomb?when every living thing would be destroyed by the fervent heat. He would be a bold manwho would dare to prophesy by what event, in that dies irae, the end of all life I 31, 1908. TION. ?Do Mar in Philadelphia Record. CONDEMN THE CZAR. MEMBERS OF BRITISH PARLIA MENT CRITICISE THE KING. V - They Declare His Visit to Russian Ruler Was Out of Place?Trying to Obtain Accurate News. Radical members of the British parliament are arranging tp obtain and circulate news about Russian oppression to arouse feeling through out the civilized world against the wholesale butchery of innocent men and women now being carried on un der Stolypin's rule, with the sanc tion of the Czar. Other members of parliament are loud in their cen sure of the viBit_of King Edward to (he Russian ruler at-Reveal recently. They declare their belief in Tolstoi's recent indictment of the Czar, charg ing blood guiltiness. William Watson has recently pub lished in the Liberal press an article in which he vehemently contends the whole effect of Tolstoi's letter is to show that the criminality of the Rus sian bureaucracy reaches its culmi nation in the person of the Czar him self, who is the apex of the Russian system. "That potentate," charges Mr. Wafison, "is the arch-murder end supreme torturer. The bloody bar barity gradually, ascends from the lowest hangman, step by step in de gree of infamy, until seen in all its perfection of wickedness on the im perial throne. The whole newspaper press of this country expressed only a few days ago its entire satisfaction with the visit of the king to this un equaled miscreant, this murderer, torturer and ruffian, without a liv ing peer Iniquity." ? upon the earth will be brought about. By Prof. E. J. Garwood. Distinguished Geologist and Mineral ogist Shows How a Second Flood Might End All. Two great forces affecting the surface of the continents are denuda tion and earth movements, either se cular upheaval, earth folding, or volcanic outpouring. All our posi tive knowledge is that the earth is cooling. As it cools, the crust har dens and thickens, and it may be that, when the crust becomes thick enough to prevent further cracking and mountains folding, and water no longer percolate through to the heated interior, there will be no up heaval, no folding of the earth's sur face to counteract the denudation constantly going on over the surface. To produce an upheaval there must be heat and water. And if wat er cannot sink through the earth's crust to reach the interior of the earth, then this volcanic action will not take place. This heing so, the land surface of the earth will gradually wear away, and be smoothed down, until it is a more or less flat plain on a level with the sea. The sea would then slowly cover up the land, which might sink to the depth of a hun dred feet or so below the level of the water, leaving only a few isolat ed mountain tops showiiiKaliovt- wat er. "Walking Joe" at Savannah. "Walking Joe," on his way from the Golden Gate to Boston, limped Into Savannah Monday night with ragged shoes. They will be offered for sale at auction. He struck tent showers on his way from a point ton miles outside of Savannah to the city limits. This breaks the county's weather records. The walker will remain here for two weeks. He has a year and five months in which to reach Boston. Under the conditions of his wager, that caused his long walk, he must accept no gratitutios on his trip and must walk every step of the way. He visited Tybee today, and walked the 18 miles over marsh es and sand and back. A HANGING POSTPONED. Got. Ansel Grants Respite to Con demned Greenwood Negro. A dispatch from Greenwood, says Lawrence Hampton did not hang Friday. The scaffold was ready, new clothing had been bought for Hamp ton, the condemned negro himself was ready, that is he thought he was, as he was sure he was going to be hanged, but a respite by tele gram from Governor Ansel postpon ed the hanging until Friday, Aug. 28. It is supposed a stronger effort will be made to get his sentence commuted. The other two negroes in the row were given life sentences and Hampton was the only one con victed without recommendation to mercy. His crime was the killing of Ro bert White, another negro, at a ne-| gro church near Callison in 1906. All of the negroes seemed to have been drinking and rows and fusses were very common around this particular church, but no one had been killed until this time. There were not many people in town Friday. A few negroes from tne country came in. They did not know of the "respite, or course, as' the message was not received there until that morning, and thy could not see anything more than the top of the scaffold, but they had the morbid curosity to be near the spot. The scaffold will not be taken down, pending the final outcome of the case. TELLS REMARKABLE STORY. Young Woman Assaulted and Thrown j From Boat is Rescued. A young woman, bruised, limp and well-nigh exhausted, was found early Monday clinging to the side of h floating pile driver at the foot of Fiftieth street, Brooklyn, N. Y When rescued her account of how she came so near death was of a re markable outrage. She is Miss Amelia Stechel, of Bay Ridge, and she Is at her home in a serious con dition. Miss Stechel spent Saturday with a friend. On her way home In the evening, she says two men, whom she thinks were Italians, suddenly seized her and threatened to murder her if she screamed. She was drag-j ged to a dock and there she lost con sciousness. When she came too, ahe| says she found herself in a boat with the two men; that she struggled so violently that the pair threw her I overboard and that she tried to) swim to the shore. Her strength was then so spent that she could on ly cling to the pile driver in hopes of rescue. , A doctor who attended her says she was undoubtedly assaulted. The j police are looking for her assailants. IN DANGER FOR DAYS. Captain ,and Crew Rescued from Sinking Ships. Capt. Foster and his crew of six men were taken Monday from the ill-fated schooner Jose Oloverri, stranded on Bull's Island beach near Charleston Thursday night. For nearly four days the captain and his men were unable to leave the vessel and were in constant danger of being thrown into the sea from the break ing of the pounding ship in a boil ing surf. The loss of their small boats prevented the seamen from | leaving the ship. Capt. Stevensen of | the Bull's Island lighthouse succeed ed in reaching the schooner, the sea and wind having calmed down suffi ciently to allow him to approach her. The schooner, valued at about $25, 000, and the cargo of cement, valu-| ed at about $8?000, seem to be a j total loss. LAMPS AS POLICEMEN. Police Judge Severe on Boys Who j Breaks Street Lights. Every street lamp is a policeman and a good one, too, said Judge De lacy, when he assessed a fine of $1 each against Percy and Samuel Welch and Vivian Fatt, 13-yearald stone throwers of Washington, who had been convicted of breaking electric lights. "Street lamps prevent just as much crime as policemen do, and every time one of them is broken it only allows crime to thrive all the more. Crime lurks in darkness. TYPHOON HITS HONG KONG. A Number of Chinese Drowned and Much Property Destroyed. A typhoon struck Hong Kong shortly before 12 o'clock Monday night, causing unusually high seas to run. A number of Chinese were drowned. Members of the crew of the British cruiserAstraea with asearch light started out in a cutter to re scue thirteen who were fighting for life against the angry wave:-,. They succeeded in rescuing six of them, the others being drowned. The pro perty loss on shore is very heavy. SLIPPED OFF HER ROOF. Now York Woman Ixwt Balance, Fell Six Stories and Was Killed. In a moment of forgetfulness. while sitting on the edge of the roof of her home, Miss Annie Mc Nulty, 19 years old, of 239 East 12 2nd street. New York stretcehd out her arms In exercise, and losing her balance, fell to the street, six stories below. She died shortly after reaching the hospital. ?1.50 pee Airaron. TAFT NOTIFIED. REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE AC CEPTS LEADERSHIP. Attacks Bryan, Democrats and Their Platform and Avows Allegiance to Roosevelt Policies. Officially notified Tuesday of his nomination for the presidency by the Republican party, William H. Taft, standing on the portico of his broth er's home in Cincinatti the city of his nativity, "formally accepted the honor, pledged anew his allegiance to the policies of Pres.? '-ut Roose velt and declared that i . ,ief func tion of the next Republican adinu. istration will be to clinch what has already been accomplished by the pre sent occupant of the White House. In saying this however, Mr. Taft pointed out in what is regarded as a conservative note in his address that there will be serious and diffi cult work to do, principally "to de vise ways and means by which the high level of business integrity and obedience to law which he (Presi dent Roosevelt) has established may be maintained and departures from it restrained without undue inter ference with legitimate business." Mr. Taft attacked the Democra tic platform, asserting that most of its declarations either are inconsist ent or disingenuous. Mr. Bryan's policies were held up as destructive. The vast audience that heard the candidate was responsive to Mr. Taft's every mood, and there were loud cries of "No, no," when he said: "I submit to those most interested, to wage earners, to farmers and to business men whether the Introduc tion into power of the Democratic party, with Mr. Bryan at its head, and with the business destruction that it openly advocates as a remedy for present evils, will bring about the needed confidence for the restoration of prosperity." Because of the intense heat, which he appeared to feel, he cut his enun ciation of principles in many places, explaining his course and the reason therefor in order that his hearers might read the entire speecn cs it was givn out for publicaifji?. Mr. Taft denounced the Democratic anti-injunction plank as "vague and ambiguous" In contrast to the Re publican declaration, which, he said, was "clear and unequivocal." Labor and the rights of labor came in for extensive coqsiderafion by Mr. Taft. As to the publicity of contributions for the purpose of carrying on cam paigns the candidate declared that the selection of a treasurer from the State of New York, bound by the laws of that State as to the publica tion of such expenditure's, assured the position of the Republicans, as against the mere declaration of their opponents. Judge Taft also discussed trusts, injunctions, the physical valuation of railroads, the currency, postal savings banks, which, he declared, wero preferable to the Democratic plan of government guarantee of deposits, and all other Issues which he regarded as pertinent in the com ing campaign. He concluded with the declaration that as between the two old parties the difference con sisted of ^the.fact that with Republi can victory there would beprosperity; with Democratic victory, business disaster. The enthusiasm of the greatcrowd. gathered in the Taft front yard and filling the surrounding streets, was volatile: When Judge Taft first ap peared on the platform wearing his reading spectacles the throng broke into applause and cheering, which the candidate smilingly acknowledg ed. Senator Warner's speech of notifi cation was brief, and when he con cluded speaking there was an enthu siastic outburst of cheering as Judge Taft stepped forward. Time and again the demonstration was reach ed, finding its crest when Judge Taft, acknowledging the nomination and the responsibilties it imposed upon him, launched into his speech of acceptance. The early mention of President Roosevelt's name and praise of his policies and administra tion called out constantly recurring applause. Following the delivery of his speech of acceptance, Mr. Taft was called upon to review a parade of local and visiting malitia and poli tical marching clubs. Practically half of those in line were colored members of Taft clubs organized in this and neighboring States. The parade was notable for the numbe? of bands it contained, the crash of martial music being continuous dur ing the passage of all of the eight crowded divisions. From an improved reviewing stand on the sidewalk Judge Taft reviewed the passing hosts. Automobile rides this afternoon, a reception for the visiting politicians at the Cincina ri Country dub and an elaborate fireworks display brought the cere monies of notification day to a close. From a brilliantly lighted river steamer Mr. Taft, surrounded by visiting politicians and a host or his friends, witnessed the display. Victims of the Undertow. Two deaths by drowning occurred In Florida Mondoy. one at Amelia Beach, near Fernandina, and the other at Dayton Beach. Willie Beck ham, of Windsor. Fla, while in bath ing with a number of friends at Amelia Beach, was caught in the undertow, and at Daytona J. B. Bunch lost his life in a similar man ner. Both bodies are still missing*