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ESTABLISHED TS 18 HELD FOR CONSPIRACY ALLEGED PLOT AGAINST WHITES DISCOVERED AT GREENWOOD. Blacks at Ninety-Six Said to Have Conspired to Kill Four Prominent White Citizens. Bieren negroes were brought to Greenwood Saturday, September 12, about noon, from Ninety-Six, in the ?custody of Sheriff McMillan and De puty Sheriff Charles Dukes, under a warrant charging them with con spiracy. The arrest of these negroes was the outcome of. an investigation on the part of the local authorities and certain citizens in Greenwood. Very little was known in Ninety-Six up to Saturday "morhing of the pro posed arrest or the cause therefor, hut several of "the leading citizens of Ninety-Six were fully aware of the situation, and the bringing of the. negroes to Greenwood was de cided upon as the best method toi proceed in a lawful and orderly man ner. Saturday ' evening another negro was arrested and brought there on the same charge. The negroes first arrested are: P. B. Dean, 6. T. Jackson, a preacher. Jas. Step hens, Anderson Stephens, Ed Har ris, Tom Bishop, Davego Williams, Waymaa Jackson, John Calhoun, Zeke Chappell. another preacher, and Wade Williams. The negro brought Saturday night was Press Goodwin. The investigation, which led up to the arrest of these negroes, started in Greenwood on Tuesday, Septem ber 8. On that day a certain negro! in Greenwood received by mistake a| letter' addressed to another negro in ] Qreenwood, and that letter, upon which the whole- case hangs, as it were, is the most important docu ment and development in the whole affair. The great question is, is the letter genuine or a fake? This, is the ietter: "Ninety-Six, September 7, 1903. "Mr. Hartie Harris, Greenwood, S. C: We want you not to give us j away in this me an Tom Bishop and Rev. Zeke Chappell is a committee to get up men to buy Winchesters, to tlx for white folks in a few days. We are going from house to house at night and shoot in. and they will' think it is Tolbert. Now. we want . you to see Sow many at Greenwood will hel.p. All of us who come up there to Tolbert Convention is in It, but Joe. Don't know anything about this. It is us, who is S. T. Jackson j there. We will be ready by Sunday! night to start if our men get back. I Don't tell anybody of this, and burn this letter up. Let me know who will come from there by Tuesday. ("Signed) Wade Williams." As stated above, this letter by mis- j take was received by another party i than the one to whohi it Was address- j ed. This party, a negro, states that he started to put the leter back in he postofflce, but realizing the seri s nature of* its contents, he turn it over to Chief of Police- Mc Jombs. The chief of police imme diately consulted with Sheriff McMil lan and these two with several other representative citizens began the in festation. The negro who had received the letter, having himself been a resi dent, of Ninety-Six was most closely nestioned. He let it be known that 9 knew something of what was or d" been going on among the color -peoplo at Ninety-Six. Expressing tar for his own safety he was reluc *nt to divulge anything. Repeated estloning finally brought out the stement that two negoe societies at "inety-Six had been indulging in in denciary talk against the whites in their secret orders lor some time. These talks had been more frequent and more violent since the recent trouble at Ninety-Six. as the result f the local election on the matter of ssuing bonds to build a school house. ?he negro did not connect any white person at all with these talks, but' stated that the Talks were original with the negroes and confined ex clusively to their own secret orders. He stated that the negro Odd Fel-I low's Lodge at Ninety-Six was tak ing an active interest in the matter, as were the members of another se .ret society among the negroes, known, as the "Knights of the Guid-j g Star of the East." He stated that Committee from each of these j dges had been appointed to have a j ference with each other as to the j chase of guns, and to do certain! er things, so he had been Inform-j Aftr-r considerable parleying he nsented to go to Ninety-Six and '? .tend the meeting of the negro Old | Fellows on Thursday night, this be-j ng their regular meeting to-night, j e stated before going that he did I ot know whether ho woutu be allow-j d to get in the lodge or not, as hol as behind in his dues. Money wa.=? 'ven him to pay up his dues and be ft Greenwood for Ninety-Six. On riday he returned and as proof of the fact that he had boon to Ninety-Six and bad attended the meet-, ing, he brought back with him his ?""tembcrship card on which tb>? pay nent of his dues had been receipted1 d dated at Ninety-Six the night hc-\ e, and countersigned by the re-1 ular officers of the lodge; who were residents of Ninety-Six. This negro reported to those who lad sent him that he attended the eeting of the lodge and that after regular business had been dis ed of in the lodge an executive on was called. That he asked 69. to be allowed tot remain to this ex ecutive session, but that he was not allowed to remain until he had made a fierce denunciatory speech against the whites. After that he was allow ed to take part in the executive ses sion. At this session all of the facts connected with the proposed beginn ing of the fight were discussed and four white citizens of Ninety-Six were named as victims. As was sug gested In the letter to Hartie Har ris, published above, it was stated that the white people of Ninety-Six would blame any shooting that might take place on the Tolberts, and that the negroes would not be suspected. The four men selected were well known citizens of Ninety-Six and it was stated that others might be chosen later, such developments de pending on the outcome of the first venture. It was also stated that the Rev. Jackscii, mentioned in the let ter, had raised a fund of $70 to wards buying a dozen Winchester rifle's in Savannah, Ga. The.plan of getf'-ig these rifles to Ninety-Six was aiso discussed. Some years ago some little excite ment was caused at Ninety-Six by the fact that some eight or ten negroes had ordered Winchester rifles. These negroes stated that they wished them for protection against rowdy members of their own race. They readily gave them up when the white people demanded them and thus tho matter ended. Having this enisode 1 mind the negroes stated that it would not be'safe to have any guns shipped to Ninety-Six. so it was pro posed to have a young negro, uamed Davega Williams, one of those now in jail, and a son of Wade Williams, the secretary of tue Odd Fellows' Lodge, go to Savannah to purchase the guns. Ostensibly be would go to Claflin University,' carrying a trunk. Instead of going to Claflin he would proceed to Savannah, buy the guns and return as far as Dyson's, which ..is the next station below Nine ty-Six towards Columbia. He would get off there with a" trunk in which the guns would have been safely packed, and in this way the guns could be distributed without any sus picion being aroused. The floods in-i tereferred with bis going to Savannah j and buck at the time first appointed. Whether or not any other guns were secured is not known. However, according to the negro, j informer, the first attack ,wa,s to have beeu made on Sunday night. Septem ber 1U, it being stated tkit the moon ?vould be about right so far as dark ness was concerned at that time. H all of this be truo-.lt seems pro vidential that the letter addressed to the Harris negro did not reach him, but fell into the hands of the sheriff through tho medium of another per son, for Saturday morning Sheriff McMillan started out with warrants for all of the ringleaders, and by noon had them safely lodged in the county jail. As stated in the begin ning only a few people at Ninety-Six knew anything about the matter, and it is possible that if all of the facts bad been known the eleven negroes might never have been allow ed to leave the town. However, the matter was well managed, and the negroes were brought there and put :u jail without any bodily harm be ing done to them. Saturday afternoon one of them called to the sheriff and stated that they did not want a preliminary hear ing then. This procedure .'if adhered to will mean that, the whole' dozen will remain in jail there nntil the next.term 0.t'..G?ui;t, of,.General Ses sions. A large number of white peo ple at Ninety Six think the whole thing is a fake. They think the in former is up to "spite work," and is simply trying to get the white people worked up against certain negro enemies of his. There is no excitement either here or at Ninety Six whatever. The affair has caus ed considerable talk, of course, but there is ho excitement whatever. CARD GAME CAUSES KILLING. One Negro Shoots Another in Woods Near Glenn Springs. ? ( As the result of a quarrel over a game of cards Well Woftord is dead at his home near Glenn Springs, hav ing been shot by Jim West. Iloth parties are colored. Last Sunday afternoon several negroes were en gaged in playing a game of cards in the woods, among them being Wof ford and West. They fought as to who was winner, and West drew a pistol and tired on Wofford, shoot ing him through the stomach. NEGRO CONSPIRACY A PAKE? People at ?inety-Kiv so Regard Af-' fair of the Negroes. There have been no further deve lopments in the matter of the negro conspiracy, so-called, at Ninety-Six. The prevailing opiuion at Greenwood and also at Ninety-Six, as ascertained by interviews, is that the thing is a "fake," a scheme hatched up by one negro to get revenge on other negro es for wrongs of his own. Cray for Rain. A dispatch from La Porte, Ind., says the drouth conditions are so se vere in Kankakee county, where the j fanners maintain daily and nightly viel:! to prevent their homes and farms from being swept away by fire that all day services for rain were held Wednesday in a number of churches. The conditions are so ser ious that the railroads have men de tailed to wntch the bridges to pro tect them in case of Are. ORANGEBUJKG, A BRYAN TIDAL WAVE WEST IN" REVOLT AGAINST RE PUBLICAN PARTY. I Guaranty of Rank Deposits Issue Making Thousands of Votes for De mocrats in the Agricultural States. J By WILLIS J. ABBOT. Certainly never was a national cam paign opened so tardily or pressed so' lazily. This criticism applies equally to the Republican and the Democratic organizations. Two hundred yards from the room in which I am writing , areJ/ho western headquarters of the Uerui'iliean national committee, estab lished with a hue comprehension of 1 the.fitness.01 things in the Harvester building, -owned by the harvester trust/ A whole floor of .this building Is occupied by Ute "branch" headqnar- ? ters. 11 is populated by typewriters and clerks, who sit all day swapping stories and smoking cigarettes. About once in ten days the Itinerant Hitch cock drops 111. looks wise, gives out au encouraging interview and rushes forth to Hot Springs or the Middle Bass club. Skeptics do say that this lethargy in the Republican headquar ters in Chicago is like the sleeves of Ah Sin's poker jacket planned "with Intent to deceive." Of the two rival organi/.alions the Democratic committee has made the greater udvunee. Its press bureau has been in active operation for a month, though it liiny properly be said that the national press bureau of Washington, though wholly unofficial, began nnder my maiuigemenl tins same work not loss than two years ago. The bureau of organization, under the direction of Hon. John W. Toinlinsoii of Alabama, has made notable progress in the or ganization of clubs throughout"'the country. And apropos of this matter of club organization I wish here to urge all Aviio desire 10 co-operate with the national committee to communicate with Mr. Toinllnson at the headquar ters in the Auditorium Annex, this city, and receive the necessary inftruclions and blnnks. A Financier's View. Don't (el the "big" bankers or the. "great metropolitan newspapers" which .pull chestnuts from the lire fur those banks delude you wild the idea that all financiers are against the Demo erotic plan for the guaranty of bunk deposits. For example, the president of the Bankers' National bank of Kan-1 fas City. Kan., addressed some time ago , letters to all the bankers of Kansas. | asking their opinion of the plan. Cp to Aug. '-*:! 127 blinkers had replied. Of 1 tliese eighty-seven, or three-fourths, wore in favor of the plan; seventeen were noncommittal, and only twenty five were opposed to II, No wonder the Republican state convention, in open j defiance of the Republican national ! convention, adopted il as its own. But more, (u a statement to the New York Times Mr. George II. Coffin, a former deputy comptroller of the currency, lakes sharp issue with (hat paper oti its attitude toward the plan for protecting the people's savings. As to the authorship of the measure he wrote: | And Mr. Rryr?n is not th?- only advocate, fcr t.l (tic l;isl :.??;?:???.>:. <?{ euflglVSS Mr. Fowler. Kcpi!bllp?n ? ?*? ctrmnn of ttie com iniiicv 0:1 b'.a\ifi,; and currency, iniro .Jtieo.l bill I2.C7. which nnwHeil ror the guarantee of "all individual d< i-o.-.itM. all bank notes. ????'A bank deposits and :i!l gov ernment deposits without discrimination or preference." This bill was referred to the banking and currency committee, with U.s Republican majority, and br it favorably reported to the boas- on Feb. CX. 1808. So Mr. Bryan is not unique In b?? advocacy of this bank deiwsit guar anty Idea. What Mr. Bryan, Mr. Fowler, merchant* and depositors generally want is some thing which will prevent A repetition of the financial catastrophe ut laut October, when tbo business oi the whole country was prostrated. You say that "not a sin gle depositor In any New York bank lost anything by the "embarrassment" of lasl October, but bow long did these depositors have their funds tied up when they could not use them? And who can meas ure the suffering und hardships enured by the huge bank falluivs In New York city last fall? Why tho West Revolts. This issue has made Its greatest ad vance in the great agricultural states of the middle west. To one who has studied the hlsloiy of the govern ggsHs. actifav dgrlnp.the twelve ds^s1 3. C FBI DAY. SEPUfiMB bank' panic ofTJcf?Tior, 1??T, tue "rea son for this western acclaim of a sys tem which will enable the depositor to gel his money when he wants It Is easily explicable. Senator Gore or Oklahoma, who, I am told at the sneakers' bureau of the national committee, is the speaker most In demand alter Mr. Bryan, has trav eled far and wide during the course of this political battle. But Gore is not only an orator; he is a very keen ob server of political conditions. This may Seem a strange thing to say of u man who through accident has been deprived of bis eyesight since be was eleven years old. But observation does not always proceed through the sight. In all other respects Senator Gore is beyond and above the average capacity of men for judging of a political situa tion. Itobust and self reliant, he travels all over the United States alone, car ing for himself. And f?o when he Came Into my office the other day to tell of the conditions he had found in the states in which he had spoken all the way from Oklahoma to Ohio be was listened to with notable respect Jby all present. He deelnres that, in Iiis opinion, the Bryan sentiment lias ceased to be an undercurrent, but is a tidal wave. And. like nearly all who have been out in the political work of the cam paign, he ascribes the foundation of this sentiment to the growing admira tion for Mr. Bryan's character and eth ics and the sudden outburst of enthu siasm for the Democratic ticket to the wider appreciation and knowledge of the merits of the sysletii of grhfcranty of bank;deposits urged by the Demo cratic parry. Curiously enough, as Senator Gore was talking on ibis sub ject a letter came In from n repre sentative of the national committee who has been touring Ohio. Flo re ported that the ostensible' reconcilia tion solemnized by a pcrfuncjory hand shake between Judge Taft and Senator Forakcr at Toledo was not regarded with any degree of enthusiasm by tbe followers of the latter. As the gentle mniVvxvho. JCi'ote hns been for probably forty years active in Ohio politics and as in this Hip he has visited every . county in the state, his opiuiori is of value. More than this, lie reported that a leading banker of Spriugiield. O.. W. S. Thompson, who had always been a Republican, was so impressed with the merits of the guaranty propo sition that he was making public speeches in its support. A Foraker Story. And. speaking of the senior senator from Ohio, here is a story about him the (ruth of which i will not vouch for, but which, after haviug watched his course iu the last two sessions of con gress, seems to me quite probable. Tbe narrative runs that a Democrat ran across Senator Forakcr on a ira'u in southern Ohio. Naturally the talk turned ?jK>n politics. Said Forakcr, j "What are your people up at Chicago j tloing by way of organizing the negro ' voteV" "i am afraid they an.* doing nothing," was the response. "I am told they are very short of fends." "Well." responded the senator, "you could do mailing better than to jump ou a train and go to Chicago atid tell i those fellows at Democratic headqttar- j lets to do thai work even If they have i to ro!> a ban!; to gel tbe funds." The story is characteristic, and it throws ; some light on the reality of the reeon- ! filiation of Furaker with the residuary J legatee of ['resident Roosevelt. Tb? Derr.cc.-atic Campcirn Book. I I have bad a long and rather regret ? fr.l ? -;. ?: e wilh campaign M'Xt j I 10 ?? in the l>c:iwe:ttlic organisation. Usually thej imiue out aboe.i the lime Ha- campaign is ended and even if prop* rly prepared would lie at lhal dale of uo value what soever. Those of 190b und I1HH set side by side with the Republican publication of Ihe same na ture \v< re enough to bring a blush even to I'm- hardened cheek of the Demo cratic politician, but the text book of this year was nut before that of the Republicans and is adm.'V.bly prepared aud edited. It is fair that credit should be given to the three memln-rs nf the text hook committee, lion. J. E. Lamb of Indiana. Ho:.. Josepbus Daniels of North Carolina and Mr. Richard L. Metcalfe, the managing editor of Mr. Bryan's Commoner. The book is in fact a text book and is packed full of meat for speakers, writers and stu dents of polities. It is a long, narrow volume of about .'100 pages, shaped bo as to go readily into the pocket No one who, purposes fakintr an aeHvo (Continued on Page Four.). ER 18, 190S ~ :?i ?Macauloy in New York World. AGAINST TH? STATE. i JUDGE PRITCHARD'S DECISION j UPHELD OX APPEAL. _- , The Court Says tue Dispensary Com missioners Held Dispensary Fnnds as Trustees for Creditors. The United Suites Circuit Court Df A..penis a* a decision handed down at Richmond. Va., on Wednes day sustained the opinion of Judge i. C. Friichard. in the famous case ol Fleischmann /& Co.. and others against the South Carolina dispen sary commission. The opinion was written by Judge James E. Doyd, of Greensboro, N. C, and was concur red in by his associates, Judge Ed mund Waddill and Chief Justice Ful ler. The opinion consumes more than forty pages of closely typewritten matter, a ? great part of which is de voted to a statement of the facts. In the opinion. Judge Boyd states: "There are two main propositions, the jurisdictional, which presents the question whether this a suit agaiust the State of South Carolina, and there fore forbidden by the eleventh amendment, and, second, whether the dispensary commission is ? court incapable of having its proceedings stayed by a writ of injunction, grant ed by a Federal court. Docs this case come within the limits present ed? In this connection it is neces sary to inquire; if the State has any present interest in the fund in contro versy, which can be divested, by a judicial determination of the amount, if any, justly duo the complainant, or haK the State, by an act of legisla ture, relinquished all right, if any existed, to enough of the fund to pay all just" debts of the State dis pensary. The fund being in the hands of the .commission, charged with the duty of abolishing the dis pensary, the State has no interest in so much thereof as is necessary to pay the just debts." "In what capacity:" asks ' the court, are the members of the com mission acting? Are they officers of the State of South Carolina or offi cers appointed under the act of the Legislature empowered to take pos session of a certain fund and direct ed to administer such fund in a cer tain manner? "We arc constrained to hold that the funds in their bauds are held in trust for payment of the debts men tioned, that the creditors of the dis pensary have a property in the funds In the hands of the commission to the extent that the debts are shown to be just, and that a judicial deter mination of the true amount of such debts can in no way effect the rights and interest of the State. "Having therefore determined the relation o:' the appellants to the funds in controversy, we answer the question propounded in the outset, that this is not a suit against the State, and that the complaint is not forbidden to maintain his action by the eleventh amendment of the con stitution of the United States. This sail is not against the State, nor is the State .an indispentdblo party. "7 ?( pMng the fund in the hands of' the "PI" Hani-; as a trust fund, and the duties of tie- trustees being clear ly defined, the trustees are not even a necessary partj to a s?.': Drought to compel the trustees to discharge their duties. Their position appears to be that the agents and represen tatives of the debtor should consti tute a tribunal absolute in its charac ter to arbitrarily pass upon what. i?' anything, is due an alleged creditor, and. if a claim be adjudged invalid, without further opportunity for re dress on the part of the creditor. To uphold such a contention would he to deprive such a creditoi of his property without due process of law." The court further announces that in tin; conception and adoption of the eleventh amendment, it never en tered the minds of the fminers of that amendment that a sovereign State could engage In the liquor business, and become a trader by buying and selling an article of com mon traffic, in competition with the citizens of the country. It may be questioned therefore, whether the State of South Carolina was exercis ing a governmental prerogative in performing a function necessarily or properly incident to its autonomy, as a StaVr. In reference to the provisions of the eleventh amendment, Judge Lloyd uses the following: "Undoubt edly, the eleventh amendment was intended to prevent the Federal court, in suits prosecuted by the citi zens of another State or citizens or subjects of a foreign State, from interfering with a State in the preser ation of its autonomy, in maintaining its own system of self-government. So long as such system is in har mony with the constitution of thv;J United States. To this end, thce-l fore, the funds of the Stute in its; treasury or held by . its officers ori agents for use In the administration of the governmental affairs of the State are not to he affected by the process of the Federal court, nor can such court entertain jurisdiction of nit action which has for its purpose the invasion of the rights of the State to manage and control its in ternal affairs, or of an action which will obstruct the State authority or impair the State instrumentalities in the discharge of legitimate func tions in the maintainance of the State's integrity." As to whether the commission is a court is briefly considered, Jialgp Doyd, citing the Constitution of South Carolina providing for the es tablishment of the different court, the court holding that while the com missioners were empowered to in vestigate the transactions, tftfey were net empowered to determine any issue of fact, enter any judgment, or conclude any party that might be investigated as to any right or interest involved, Judge Doyd then refers to the opinion of the Supreme Court or South Carolina deciding that a suit against the dispensary commission was a suit against the State. "The South Carolina Supreme Court," says the judge, "is entitled to and has our most profound respect, but wc do not feel entitled to adopt the construction given by that tribunal to the statute of South Carolina. "It is our conclusion, therefore, that the conclusion of the circuit court for the district of South Caro lina, appealed from, should be affirm ed." When Judge I Joy d finished read ing the opinion of the court, W. F. Stevenson.' of Bennettsville, asked that a reasonable stay be granted for preparation for an appeal in the case. He first asked for a stay of sixty days, but Judge Hoyd suggested that forty days would be ample time in which to get ready for a writ of cer torari to the Supreme Court of the United States, and an order was en tered directing that a stay of man date for that length of time be en tered. DRIVEN TO SUICIDE. Georgetown Boarding House Kecpcj Cut Bullet Through His Braiu. A dispatch from Georgetown, says Samuel M. Thompkins, 45 years of age, committed suicide Thursday morning at 6:30 o'clock by blowing out his brains with a" .32 calibre re volver. Mr. Thompkins kept a boarding house on the corner of Prince and King streets; he had a Tvlfe'and two children.'rt'daughtcr ot 14 and a son 12 years of age. Thompkins came to Georgetown about one year ago from Enterprise, a small village on the Waccamaw River, and previous to his residence there he had wor':ed very acceptably in the store of Messrs. Burroughs & Collins, at Conway, and had many friends at that place, and in Horry County. He was reared from a boy in Conway by Mr. W. R. Lewis, who married an elder siBter, and who gave him the benefit of a good com mon school education. But untowed circumstances followed the young man into later life, his health gave way and he has suffored recently from despondency. For the Dast six months he has been out of steady or remunerative employment, and thai fact seemed to prey upon his mind. After waiting upon his gueHts at the table Thursday morning he step ped in an adjoining room, when the inmates of the house wen: startled by a pistol shot. Rushing to the apart ment from whence the sound pro ceeded Thompkins was found lying upon the floor with a bullet hole in his head just above the right ear. Physicians were immediately sum moned, but the unfortunate man breathed his last bei ore their arriv al. ('RUSHED TO DEATH. Mot) Pushes Young Man in Front of ."Moving Train. Th'- wild rush of several hundred men and women, most of them re turning from a Sunday base ball game, to boabrd a train at Fair Hav en, Fa., at 9.30 o'clock Wednesday night, caused the death of Wallace Wilson, aged 27. who was pushed in front of the train as it pulled into the station, by the crowding mass ol people, endeavoring to board the (rain. The heroism of Miss McCleary, al most saved Wilson's life, the girl clinging to him to the very last min ute in an effort to save him iron: falling in front of the train. Stanley Dingo and Frank Goaria were also badly crushed by being pusned between two cars of the trait by the excited crowd. ?1.50 IPBB ANN?M NEGRO KILLS FARMER EMANUEL CARYEK SHOT DOWN IN COTTON FIELD. I First Reports that Negro Had Been Lynched by I'osse Prove False? lie is Lodged in Jail. Carver, a young white man about 30 years of age, living six miles I South of Saluda, was shot and in stantly killed Thursday afternoon by Will Herrin, colored. The killing took place in a held, where he wa?? picking cotton, and the negro, Herrin, who did the killing, it is claimed, was of unsound mind. Herrin went to Carvers field, and without warning I or notice, shot him down. Informa tion received is that after killing Carver he also tried to kill Carver's wife; who, it appears, was in the I field. Mrs. Carver grabbed the gun - Iand saved herself from a similar fate l to that of her husband. ' News of the shooting rapidly spread in the community, and a- posse was Quickly formed, and from the reports I just received they had captured the j negro, and it is supposed have lynch iecl him. Young Martin Matheney. states that he was informed that the j negro had been captured, and while I being pursued was shot, but not fatal ly. After he passed the Carver home j he heard a volley of guns and pis tols, and the supposition now is that I the negro has been killed. The killing of Mr. Carver was u most cold-blooded act. A brother of Herrin was in Saluda last that even ing looking for the Probate Judge, saying that a member of his family was crazy, and ho wanted to know what should be done about it. From all the reports It appears that Will Herrin shot Mr. Carver While the former's brother was then at Saluda looking for the Probate udge with a view of having him committed to the State Hospital for the Insane. It is also stated that Will Herrin attempted to kill two negroes that afternoon.Sheriff Sample was phoned and left soon after for the Carver home, the scene of the killing, and has not returned yet . &. later dispatch from Salrida. Sheriff Sample has just returned to Saluda with Will Herrin, who Thurs day afternon shot and killed Mr! Carver. The negro is suffering from several gunshot wounds inflicted in order to effect his capture. After shooting Mr. Carver down In the field Herrin broke his gun over Mr. Car ver's head, and went and armed him self with another gun. When the news of Mr. Carver's, death was made known, Mr. H. X Forrest, Mrr Banyan, Watson and others attempted to capture the ne gro, and while doing so were com pelled to lire on him to avoid being shot themselves. Herrin had hidden in the weeds near Mr. Carver's home, and when called upon by Mr. Forest and others to surrender he refused to do so, but instead attempted to fire upon them. One of the shots fired by the pursu ers took effect in the negro's eye and others in his body. Herrin is now in Saluda' jail suffering from his wounds. Sheriff Sample , .states that Mr. Carver's neighbors assured him that uo attempt would be made to lynch Herrin. They desire that the law take its course. At this hour' Sheriff Sample is un decided whether to take the negro to Columbiafor safek:.eping.The gentle men who captured the neggro could have easiTy lynched him had they so desired. After taking Herrin into custody no effort was made to harm him. and he was readily turned over to the sheriff. Sheriff Sample says that Herrin has as good sense as anybody and. so fav aa he can see, shows" no symptoms of insanitv. The negro says the reason he killed Mr. Carver was be cause of a difference arising out of a buggy trade. He wanted to buy the buggy, but Mr. Carv.-r asked him too much for it. KILLED FOR NOTHING* Man Killed Over Last. Drink of Water in Camp. \ dispatch from Bellefontaine. O.. says fighting over the last drink of water left in camp, the drought hav ing dried up all thewells and springs In the vicinity. Frank Dadish was shot and killed by two men at the Ohio Electric. Railway construction 'camo Wednesday. Dadish wanted the wZ lor his Wife, in the last two weeks it has become a serious propo sition to supply the camp with water it being necessary to tramp three L;llea to obtain a supply. Wednesday morning only enought water for a drink was left. Rulu and Darr lea arrived just as Dadish was pouring the last bit of water to carry to his wife The men demanded that he I divide and when he refused, a fight ensued- Daring the scuffle the water 'was spilled on the ground. Thieves Hid Victim's Wooden Leg Robbers who entered the house ol Oscar O'Harrah. railroad ticket agent at Colliers. W. Va., hid his wooden ,ee and when he awakened he had to lie helpless, on his bed. and watch SenTgo through his clothes and steal $125 in money and other valuables. When they had finished, the bur* Srs told their victim that he would find hie log downstairs.