The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, October 12, 1911, Image 1
PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY.
FIEND LYNCHED
Tie Brat?! Assault oa a"\Jiey tT J
Girl at Honea Path Avenged. j
BRUTE HUNG AND. SHOT
0 ?
Taken from Officers After Exciting
Chase Through Several Counties,
the Fiend was Taken to the Scene
of His Crime, Hung and Riddled
With Bullets. *
A negro boy, ft bout seventeen
years, old, committed a criminal as
sault on a twelve year old white
girl at Honea Path on Tuesday
morning. The .brutal assault occur
red- about half-past seven o'clock
some three hundred yards from the
limits of the town, where the little
girl had gone to put a cow in a
pasture.
According to the little jgirl, she
was attacked from the rear ,whi!e she
?was going to'a pasture with cows, the
attack being made within three hun
dred yards of the incorporated lim
its of Honea Path, and after drag
ging his little victim about seventy
five yards into a patch of woods he
accomplished his dasstardly purpose
behind a dead log. The little girl
emerged from the woods, attracted
the attention of a passerby and gave
the alarm.
The neuro then passed through the
town to a butcher shop where he
worked. He v>3 found later at the
shop by Constable Haynes, who took
him before the girl, and after she
had positively identified him, the
?constable, with two other citizens,
hurried the negro to the jail at An
derson In an automobile. The infur
iated citizens were searching the
woods during the Avhile and did not
learn that the negro had. been ap
prehended until he was on his way
to the, jail.
As soon as the dastardly outrage
became known the people of Honea
Path gathered and began a rigid
search as above stated for the fiend.
As soon as it was learned that the
negro had been caught and taken to
Anderson, a crowd left Honea Path
for that place, bent on lynching the
fiend if trey could get him in their
hands.
A dispatch from Anderson says
?:flT?re than" a hundred-heavily armed "
men arrived there at eleven o'clock
from Honea Path. Some came on
trolley cars, others on the train, and
the remainder in automobiles. Fif
teen minutes before the .crowd ar
rived at Anderson thenegro had been
taken in a fast automobile and was
speeding to the Greenville jail, thirty
six miles away.
The P.onea Path citizens followed
in pursuit. They left Anderson in
about ten automobiles The men
with the prisoner arrived in Green
ville at ten minutes to two o'clock.
The car they left in was a fast one,
but when it departei from Anderson
it had no chains on the wheels. It
had been raining all night and the
roads were muddy, heavy and slip
pery.
dinarunae*aboi/?rivb..fielddflurfat,emo
At 1.50 o'clock the Anderson au
tomobile dashed through the streets
of Greenville and up to the county
jail door. At the jaii the sheriff had
received a telephone message from
Sheriff Xing, at Anderson to spirit
?the ne-7.ro off to Spartanburg. A
change of automobiles was made at
the jail and* the flight to Spartanburg
taken up.
Within ten minutes after the auto
mobile .bearing the r.egro had depart
ed, a big Anderson touring car, con
taining Josh Ashley and four other
men, steamed through Main street.
"Citizen" Josh clutched a Winches
ter rifle in his hands and eagerly in
quired where the ne;i.ro had been
taken. Upon being told that the par
ty had proceeded to Spartanburg, the
word of/command was given and the
big auto dashed on up the street.
Within five minutes another An
derson car steamed into the city,
closely followed by still another ma
chine. The mud-tespattered occu
pants, upon being readily informed
by Greenville eitizchs which way
the negro had been carried, applied
the power to their machines and
dashed on. At Greenville the pur
suers divided, some going one road
and some another.
Tn the depths of a forest six miles
north of Greenville, an armed mob
of twenty-five men, headed by "Cit
izen ' John Ashley, of Honea Path, a
member of Anderson County's legis
lative delegation overpowered Dep
uty iSheriff Van 'R. .Martin, of Ander
son County, and Sheriff J. Perry
Poole, of Greenville County, and took
the fiend from their custody.
The trenibling n^gro was placed in
the car in which Ashley and four
other men rode and followed by a
train of several automobiles from [
Anderson /and Greenville counties,!
loaded with determined men and
bristling with shotguns and rifles, the
ringleaders turned in their fury and
started toward Honea Path. Prom
ises were made the sheriffs that the
negro would be carried back to the
scene of his crime and the "older
heads" of the town consulted as to
what should be done with him.
The negro was carried to the iden
tical spot where the crime was com
mitted and from there was taken to
the nearest telephone pole and swung
up by one foot. Four hundred shots,
as near as can be estimated were
-BRYAN DARES TAFT
COMMONER CHALLENGES . THE
. ^"?RESIDENT TO PUBLISH
M4 _,_
The Names of the Men on "Whose Re
commendation He Appointed Su
preme Court v Judges.
In editorial appearing in The
Commoner this week Mr. 3ryan chal
lenges President Taft to make public
the written and verbal recommenda
tions on which he appointed Justice
White to the .position of chief justice
over Justice Harlan and recommen
dations, written and verbai, on which
he appointed the juftticet. whom he
bas placed on the supreme bench.
The editorial says in part:
"At Cherryville, Kan., the presi
dent repeated the challenge he issued
at Detroit to Mr. Bryan to produce
an example of restraint ol trade that
would not come within the scope of
the supreme court decisions in the
Standard Oil and Tobr.cco Trust
cases.
"He spoke of the criticism as iglib.
It would be a reflection on tre presi
dent's intelligence to assum* that he
expects his remarks on the trust
question to be taken seriously.
"He knows that Mr. Bryan has
only reiterated the criticisms contain
ed in his dissenting opin on of Jus
tice Harlan and in the report of the
senate judiciary committee filed by
'Senator Nelson three years ago.
"Justice Harlan and Senator Nel
son pointed out that the amendment
written into the law by ihe supreme
iCOUTt practically nullified the crimi
nal clause of the anti-trusi law.. Re
plying on the authorities cited by Jus
tice Harlan and Senator Nelson, Mr.
Bryan has asserted snd asserts again
that it will be found practically im
possible to convict a trust magnate*
in a criminal court.
?"Does the president believe a
criminal conviction possibie? If so,
why does he hesitate to prosecute
the officials of (the Standard Oil and
Tobacco companies?
"Mr. Bryan challenges Mr. Taft to
make public the written rind verbal
recommendations upon which he ap
pointed Justice Wlhlte to the position
of chief justice over Justice Harlan
and the recommendations, written
and verbal, on which he appointed
the justices whom he had placed on
the supreme bench. Did he know
how they stood on trust questions or
was it purely accidental '.hat ail of
his appointees took the trust side of
the question?"
FIGHTING IN PORTUGAL.
Catholic Priests and Others Trying to
Re-Enthrone the King.
A cablegram from Lisbon, Portu
gal, says Portugese Roya'ists, after
their defeat at Vinhaes, where they
lost fifty men, entreched themselves
in the rough country and are await
ing the arrival of anothor column
under Capt. Couciere. It ds reported
they have eight field pieces and four
Maxim guns.
A party of Monarchists "commanded
by a priest attacked an express train
carrying troops to the north near
Monsanto. They placed an obstruc
tion on the tracks which was discov
ered by the engineer, who stopped
his train when it was within fifty
yards of the pile of stones and rail
road ties. The troops responded and
drove oc the Royalists.
Priests are taking an active part in
the organization of guerilla bands
and are leading them in the combat
with uplifted crucifixes. Monarchist
flags are flying over churches at Cas
tello Branco, and Santo Thryso. The
government is finding difficulty in
handling the cavalry and infantry In
the mountainous districts.
Traffic in Unripe Fruit.
Gov. Blease referred to Commis
sioner Watson a communication re
ceived at his office from Florida ask
in? that he co-o-pcrate with Florida
officials in confiscating unripe fruit
imported through the ports. Gov.
Blease said he attached little impor
tance to the matter, considering it
incidental to the rivalry between the
fruit companies.
fired into his body. Winchester ri
fles, magazine pistols, revolvers and
shotguns bein;? the weapons of death
used. Thus ended one of the most
sensational man chases that section
of the State has ever known.
Three negro men were carried be
fore tre little girl who lived with
her stepmother. She identified the
last nne, Willis Jackson, as the fiend
who had attacked her. She said she
was sure that neither of the first
two was the brute, hut she readily
recognized the third one, and the
universal opinion is that the negro
who committted the outrage was the
one hung and shot to death at Honea
Path Tuesday night, several hours
after the commission of the awful
crime.
The little girl is in a critical con
dition. She was badly bruised, ter
rbly lacerated and was greatly
shocked. 'Sre displayed an cnusual
amount of nerve, hovever, in look
ing at the three negroes .brought be
fore her for identification. The fath
er of the lass is engaged in the lum
ber business in Southwest Georgia,
and was away from homn at the
time. The mother of the little girl
is dead, having been accidentally
shot by her husband some years ago.
ORANGEBU
AS HE SEES IT
Commissioner Watson Says ike Far
mers Host Bold Cotton.
HOW IT APPEARS TO HIM
Tells of His Observations on a Trip
. .Through the South, and Gives it
I . .as His Opinion that the Farmers
[ Are staking a Mistake to Sell
Their Cotton Now.
"I dor.'t hesitate to say that the
man who is now taking his cotton
to market is the most gigantic fool
that the world has any record of, and,
speaking in all seriousness, there
ought to be some law that would pun
ish him for deliberately robbing his
wife and children from what they are:
entitled by the law of supply and de-1
mand."
This statement was made- recently
by E. J. Watson, commissioner of ag
riculture of South Carolina and pres
ident of the permanent cotton con
gress of ;:he South, in discussing the
situation in reference to the market
ing of cotton. He is of the opinion
that the cotton caterpillar is a bless
ing in disguise.
"To me, as president of the South
ern Cotton congress," said Mr. Wat
son, "in the last week, while cotton
has been falling in price to the vicin
ity of nine cents, have come many
and varied communications bearing;
upon the situation. On top of it all
has come the appearance of the cot
ton boll worm, commonly known as
the cotton caterplilar, and mistaken
ly described as the "army worm."
This last I regard as a blessing in
disguise. Why the farmers of the
State should become panic stricken
over the appearance of the worm at
this stage of the game, when he can
not possibly cause a loss of over $50,
000 for the entire State in his work
upon late planted cotton, while two
such counties as Orangeburg and
Xewberry can cause a greater loss by
their farmers taking their cotton to |
market at this time, is something'
that it i:> hard to understand from
the standpoint of business.
"I regard the appearance of the
cotton worm as a blessing, in that iij
shows how quickly the farmer will
respond ;o a present moment danger]
when it ?ippe'ars'upon his own door
ster>. Multiply the cotton boll worm
thousands of times and set him upon
the doorstep of the average farmer
and perhaps you will see a realization
of what it means to play into the'
hands of the bears, upon perfectly
natural lines, and give away $25 per
bale on cotton by taking it to market
at present. I don't hesitate to say
that the man who is now taking his
cotton to market is the most gigantic:
fool that the world has any record of,
and, speaking in all seriousness, there
ought to be some law that would
punish him for deliberately robbing;
his wife and children from what they,
are entitled to by the law of supply:
and demand. It is indeed a pitiable j
spectacle that a lot of ignorant and;
frightened farmers are making of1
themselves and their country by rush-j
in? their cotton to market.
"The hears in New Pork, most of i
them Southern men, I am sorry to
say, who are traitors for money, to f
their country, and I mean the nation J
at large, have simply done what in-:
telligent men would do. They have,
taken advantage of the fact that the'
crop has opened all over the belt!
three weeks earlier than ever known
and they had good sense enough to
put their buyers in the field and show
to the world larger receipts at inter
ior points and ports than have ever
been krown before. Watch them
reach the harvest on the spots just
obtained in this way. And you can't
blame them. Any man would have
done the same thing.
"They know full well that the
world demands at present 10,000,000
bales of cotton, and they have sim
ply collected the premium on ignor
ance that the Southern producer has
up to this time ever been ready and
willing ?-0 pay. The truth of the
I matter is that the average farmer
doesn't give a continental about the
economic side of his crop. Me don't
even know what becomes of it when
he sells it to a cotton buyer at an av
erage of two grade less than it really
is, and the pity of it all he doesn't
care. He believes any lie that is sent:
out from any old cotton firm, and ij
don't hesitate to say it, from even:
the United States government, as wit
nessed by recent reports, and doesn't
give the snap of his Inger aDout the
business end of the proposition.
"I picked up the New York Ameri
can of Sunday and looked at Ranlett's
[summary of the cotton situation. The
head lines told the story, saying 'sell
ing by the South alone responsible for
decline in the last few months.' Mr.
Ranlett, very properly, charges the
South itself with being alone respon
sible for the decline in price in the
last few month, and the Southern
producer ought to hang his head in
shame at the cowardice he has dis
played in rushing his cotton to mar
ket.
"Over in Montgomery, the other
day, several thousand men?Southern
men?interested in cotton assembled
to take action looking to an intelli
gent marketing of the crop. At that
time it was not even partially appar
ent that cotton would open three
weeks earlier than it has ever been
known to do, a.nd that the situation
RG. S. C, THURSDAY, OCTC
that exists today would develop in
spite of any retractive movement, no
matter how intelligent or forceful it
might be. A wise policy was decided
upon and it was determined to apply
Southern brain to the financing of the
distressed cotton. The latter, how
ever, could not be done all in the
twinkling of an eye, arad the opening,
occurred earlier than anybody could
expect. Every man there knew that
there was a certain proportion of dis
tressed cotton that would either have
to go to market or be financed. This
cotton has about all gone to the mar
ket, and the effect of it has been re
flected in the phenomenal drop in
price; that drop on its face seems
alarming, but It is not frightening
those who are handling, to the best of
their ability, the situation. I don't
know whether Mr. Barrett is going to
be able to secure the French-English
loan or not, but I do know that if
every man in the South, who can at
this moment possibly hold a bale of
cotton, even his own house, or front
yard, will do so proper price for cot
ton is as certain to be obtained as the
sun shines, for as I have said, the
world demand at tifls moment is for,
16,000,000 bales, and nothing stands
between an honest price, regulated
by the law of supply and demand,
but dense ignorance on the part of
the producer coupled with the
shrewdness of the bear gambler in
Wall street and New Orleans. In its
late analysis the whole thing is noth
ing more or less than a holdim;?. prop
osition.
"And speaking of holding T wish to
say that I have just, been through the
country, across the Slates of Virginia,
North Carolina and South Carolina,
and 1 believe, honestly, that the.plain
farmer has been awakening to the
situation. All the way from Virgin
ia to Edgefield county in this State,
I passed only six farm "wagons loaded
with cotton gofng to market. We
found some gigantic fools on public
squares willing to rob their own flesh
and blood, but this condition was
rare. All along the road from Salis
burg, N. C, via Charlotte, Lancaster,
Kershaw and Camden, while not
more than 3Q|.,per cent, of the cotton
had been picked, I found farmer after
farmer stacking up his cotton in his
front yard. From 10 to 25 bales was
an average. I found also that these
men were using the piazzas of their
homes, and in a score of instances one
or two rooms of their residences for
the storage of picked but as yet u<n
ginned cotton. In other words, there
is every evidence that the distressed
cotton, which tit is necessary to take
to market at a given time, has already
been sold, and sold at that under
stimulation of bear influence, to the
material interest of those who natur
ally would hammer down the price of
eo'.tcn. I understand thac this is
the situation ;;t this n.omer-l all over
the cotton belt, tnd as fa* as I have
been advised the determination now
to hold cotton for self-protection is
general all the way from the Atlan
tic to Texas. I hcve but one word of
advice and that is to tell every man
who can by any means whatsoever
hold a bale of cotton to do U. Even
if he runds insurance risk it is his
hounden duty for the protection of
his own family to hold every bale
that he possibly can. I don't think
that I have exaggerated or enlarged
upon the condition. We are face to I
face with a crisis in the South. It is
useless to wait for federal interfer-|
ence. It is, therefore, as T said at
Montgomery, up to the individuall
farmer to handle this situation to a
plain, buisness-like, manly way. If
he doesn't do it, then the bears are
the bosses and he is the slave, allot
ted for the marketing of America's
great momopoly crop can prevent the
scheme of robbery that those who are
conducting it are justified in practic-.
ing."
FELL ASLEEP IX SHIP'S HOLD.
And Narrowly Missed Being Carried
to Liverpool.
Nothing but the courtesy of Capt.
Steinbridge, master of the English
cotton steamer Berwinmoor, prevent
ed Alfred Stiles, colored, of Savan
nah, from becoming a temporary
subject of King George, of England.
Stiles fell asleep in the hold of the
steamer Pathan, which sailed from
Savannah for Liverpool on October 1
and did not awak until the following
day when the steamer was 200 miles
at sea. After hard work he forced
his way out of the vessel's hold
through the battened hatches and
told his story to the captain.
[ The Berwinmoor was signalled in
passing; a small boat put out from
the Pathon carrying Stiles to the Ber
winmoor. There was some difficulty
in making the transfer on account of
the rough seas. But Stiles was land
ed at Newport News, Va., where he
wired Savannah for funds to return.
The Pathan continued to Livepool.
Charged With Attempted Assault.
Two negroes, Charles Gaines and
I Raymond Vraigwell, wore put in jail
at Murphysboro, 111-, fin cpnjectfton
with the attempted assault on a young
I woman last week. While the sheriff
i denies that one of the negroes has
' been identified as the man who grab
bed the girl, it is currently reported
that he is the man.
Manacled Prisoner Escapes.
Saturday night, while he was tak
ing Samuel Ridyeway, a negro, want
in Williamsburg county for murder,
to the Sumter county jail for safe
keeping. Jailer W. D. Owens was as
saulted by his prisoner, who managed
to escape. Ridgeway knocked the
jailer down with the manacles he had
on his hands.
)BER 12, 1911.
THE MAN TO WIN
Bryan Favors Wilson as The Democrat
tic Candidate for President
BIS FRIENDS AT WORE
Edward F. Goltra, of St. Louis, Will
Be in Charge of AVilson Campaign.
?Is Princeton Man.?Group of
Princeton Men to Have Charge of
the Financial Side of Campaign.
News comes from Washington that
William Jennings Bryan is for Wood
row Wilson for the Democratic nomi
nation.
He believes Wilson will win, has
told many of his followers so in the
last few days, and has given his gen
eral indorsement to Wilson as the
sort of man who should lead the par
ty.
The Wilson campaign is to be
largely in the hands of Edward F.
Coltra, of St. Louis, who in the next
few weeks will be elected national
Democratic committeeinan from Mis
souri.
Goltra is a former classmate of
Bryan and also a Princeton man, im
bued with all the Princeton loyalty
to Wilson.
His selection as commirteeman for
Missouri is made with the acquies
cence of Joseph W. Folk, who, if the
deal goes through, is likely to be the
candidate for Vice-President with
Wilson.
W>ilson headquarters are to be op
ened this week at 42 Broadway, New
York, with Mr. Goltra in general
charge, and with a group of wealthy
Princeton men looking after the im
portant buisness of raising money to
manage the preconvention plan.
This is the substance of the story
brought back by politioians who were
present at the National Convention
Congress at Kansas City. Mr. Byran
spoke there,, spending most of a day
and night. Durimj his stop in Kan
sas City he confored with many
Democratic leaders. In substance, he
said fo all of them, according to all
accounts:
"It iis not my desire to discourage
any man's ambitions: I am certainly
not going to be put in the position of
appearing to attempt dictation. You
gentlemen go right ahead with your
plans and ambitions. But Wilson is
the man who is going to be nominat
ed. It's .just as good as fixed."
That Mr. Bryan is. for W.lsuti in
stead of Champ Clark is regarded as
the most important development. The
differences between the Nebraskan
and the Speaker are commonly re
ferred hack to the Underwood-Bryan
incident, and to umbrage Mr. Bryan
is alleged to have taken because Mr.
Clark did not stand for the Bryan
ideas in connection with the wool and
steel schedules. At any rate, the de
fection of Bryan from Clark is ac
cepted as very well established.
The recent death of Col. Mose Wet
more, the St. Louis tobacco million
aire and friend of Bryan, opened the
way to the selection of a new national
commltteeman from that State.
The most difficult part of the pres
ent story to accept is that Goltra is
to be made the new Missouri eom
mitleeman. He is frankly a Wilson
man, and his selection would be in ef
fect a repudiation of both Folk and
Clark.
Champ Clark is not in position to
oppose Folk's dispositions, because
be was chairman of the convention
which endorsed Folk for Missouri's
Presidential choice.
STANDS BY HIS PARDONS.
Gov. Blense Says He Has Xo Apolo
gies to Make For Them.
The Spartanburg correspondent of
The News and Courier says Gov.
I'.lease in speaking of the pardons
that he had granted, said that he had
no apologies to make in that respect,
fc>r when he looked into it and found,
i'i his judgment, the pr.rty w."s worthy
of being pardoned he would turn
them loose. He also told of an inter
esting case of a little girl who wanted
him to free her brother from the Re
formatory to help provide a living for
her mother, who was an invalid. Gov.
Hler.se said rather than to have turn
ed that girl down he would have re
signed from the Governor's chair. He
stated that he was not through par
doning convicts yet: that there were
many others in the Penitentiary that
he intended to free.
Soldier Shoots a Xegro.
Daniel Simpson. 20 years old. a
negro driver, was fatally shot in the
abdomen by Sergt. Hardsow, guard
in charge of the ?,Mi!l Creek post" on
Fort Monroe. It is said that the ne
gro insulted several women and drew
a revolver on Ser:f. Hardsaw when
the latter attempted to arrest him.
Blew Up Four Men.
Four Men were killed and six in
jured by a dynamite explosion sinty
feet under ground in a shaft under
Central Park, in New York, where
they were working on an acqueduct
for the water system.
Ten Killed in Cave-In.
Ten persons were killed and others
injured by a cave-in at a Canadian
Northwestern construction camp near
Colwood, Southeast of Vancouver,
PiMCrUSGS A BUBBLE
CURRENT EVENTS SET RIGHT BY
NEWBERRY OBSERVER.
Showes That a Majority of the Farms
in South Carolina are Owned by
"White People. ?
We have seen it stated in several
newspapers that a. majority of the
farms in South Carolina were owned
by negroes, and that they were still
buying land in large quantities. We
could not understand how this could
be true and intended to hunt the
matter p, but the Newberry Observer
has fore stalled us by getting the
facts much better than we could have
done. Here is what the Observer
says on the matter:
"Current Events"?described in its
title as "a condensed newspaper,
weekly, for use in public and private
schools"?published at Spring-field,
Mass., and Chicago, 111., contains
some very startling information for
the boys and girls of this great coun
try. "Current Events" has been in
existence for 11 years and, accord
ing to its own statement, "has a lar
ger circulation than any other school
paper in the world"; and in an ex
cellent school journal, though it does
blunder sometimes, as in this in
i stance, when it says, in its issue of
Sept. 29:
"Negroes are. buying] many farms
throughout the South and especially
in South Carolina. From 1900 to
1010 the farms owned by negroes in
creased by 11,295. There are now
176,1 SO farms in that state. More
than half of them , or 96,696, are
owned by the colored people."
This big blunder is no doubt occa
sioned by mistaking the meaning of
"farms operated'" as reported in the
census.
The Observer has not seen the agri
cultral censu for 1910 but has the
census of 1900; from which we take
the following statistices as to> per
cent of "farms operated" by whites
and colored in the Sothern states at
that time:
White. Colored.
Vir-.'.ina.J3 27
North Carolina .... 76 24
South Carolina. 45 55
Georgia.63 37
Florida.67 33
Alabama. 58 32
Mississippi. 42 58
Louisana.50 50
Arkansas.74 26
Texas.SI 19
The census of 1900 also says that
of the 155,355 farms in the Southern
states 69,954 are "operated by whites
and S5.401 are "operated" by color
ed that is 45 per cent by whites and
55 by colored. It is qui.e likely that
I he figures of the 1910 census do not
differ greatly from those of 1900.
The editor of "Current Events"
has carelessly fallen into the error of
confusing 'operated' with owned."
We notice in the census of 1900
that only 24 per cent of the farms
"owned" 'by them; which would
' operated" by colored farmers were
mean somewhere about 13 per cent
of the wtole number of farms.
Another fact stated in the census
must be taken into consideration;
namely, that of the farms "operated"
by whites and negroes respectively,
those "operated" by whites averaged
161 acres, while those "operated" by
colored averaged only 51 acres. So
that, making the proper calculations,
we find that colored people "owned"
about four per cent of the land in
South Carolina in 1900; and they pro
bably own about the same per cent
now; possibly a little more.
We do not say this to depreciate
the achievements of the colored race,
for many uf them have done well in
accumulatin;.': property .biyndsutry ra
accumulating property by indulstry
and economy. Mut a newspaper pub
lished for "use in public and private
schools" and having "a larger circu
lation than any other school paper in
the world", ought to be better in-1
formed than to publish such "facts"
as those embraced in the above clip
ping.
FOUR MEN WERE KILLED.
Dynamite Exploded Sixty Feet Umie
the Ground by Drill.
Four men were killed and six In? I
jured Monday by an enplosion of dy
namite sixty feet under ground in a|
shaft under Central Park, where they
were working on the acqueduct for
the Catskill water system.
The dead men were all Italian
laborers. .Michael Kearney, fore
men of the gang, and John Waco, aj
workman, may die. Kearney and
John W. Marlin, the nij;ht supcrin-l
tendent of the work, were arrested
on charges of criminal negligence. !
The shaft where the explosion oc-j
curred is being drilled and blasted
through solid rock and is about 161
feet in diameter. A drill in charge
of one of the men struck the explo
sive and immediately tons of rock
shot into the air, crushing the men.
Found Killed in Saloon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kraft, propri
etors of a road house seven miles
from Detroit, were murdered in their
saloon Saturday night, and the police
are searching for Charles Fuller, a
former employe. A daughter of the
murdered couple claims Fuller shot
at her and missed and then killed her
parents. The tragedy followed a
quarrel between the girl and Fuller.
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HIT AT OLD BEN
Got. Blease Doubts (be Trothfolofss of
Senator TilfmaD's
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LETTER TO BOSE CREWS
Governor Blease Says He Believes
. .Senator Tillman Was in a Combi?
nation With Richards to Bring
Out Chief Justice Jones for Gover
nor in the Next Election.
The ?partanfcurg Herald says sur
rounded by a constantly argumented
throni? of admirers at the Argyle
hotel Friday night, Governor Cole L.
Blease freely expressed his views on
different subjects to a reporter for
the Herald and disclosed something
of his plans.
He made it plain that notwithstand
ing Senator B. R. Tillman s denial,
he believed there was truth in the
story published by W. T. Crew3, edi
tor of the Greenwood News-Scimitar,
to the effect that Senator Tillman
and Maj. John G. Richards, Jr., had
plotted to bring out Cheif Justice
Ira, B. Jones, of the supreme court,
as a candidate to defeat him for gov
ernor.
He said he believed the program
had been to elect Maj. Richards lieu
tenant governor. Then, if Senator
Tillman was compelled for any rea
son to give up his seat in the Senate,
Justice Jones would take his place
and Maj. Richards would step into
step in-?.c--U. .. . etaoi shrdluu
the governor's chair.
Expects to Beat Jones.
"I am going to bo reelected," said
Governor Blease, when asked if he
would say anything concerning poli
tices. "I will beat Jones by a bigger
majority than the one ,by which I de
feated Featherstone, and if Tillman's
man Richards is a candidate I will
beat them both."
Another interesting statement of
?the governor was that he intended to
remedy conditions at the hosiery mill
of the State penitentiary throuijh leg
islation to be enacted by the general
assembly at its approaching session.
Bris.ling up at the suggestion that
the legislature might not be amend
able to his wishes, he said:
"They better had. That's all I
have to say".
Continuing, Governor Blease said
"that little grand jury" in Richland
county, which found the hoisery mill,
to be sanitary, had set itself against
fome of the best physicians in the
State. He memtioned physicians who
lie said, declared the hoisery mill was
a disease breeder, and said he was
marshalling his facts for submission
to the legislature.
It was foolish the governor said,
for laymen to set themselves against
experts. For instance, he said, the
floors and walls and ceiling of the Ar
gyle hotel seemed to be clean and
sanitary. But suppose, he suggested
that expert physicians should say
that the walls and ceiling were in
fested with disease germs; would a
reasonable layman attempt to contra
dict them? This, he sad, was the
case with the hosiery mill.
Speaking of legislation which he
would commend 'to the general asem
bly, Governor Blease said he would
try to obtain the passage of a law
establishing two cents a mile as a flat
rate for passenger transportation on
the steam railroads of the State.
This, he said, would obviate the mile
age nuisance and made it possible
for poor people to 'travel short dis
tances as cheaply as wealthy people.
Under the law he proposes, he said,
a passenger who was traveling ten
miles could buy a ticket for 20(eents,
or give the conductor I1) cents or give
the conductor ten miles of mileage,
r.s was most convenient. If the rail
people did net trust, their conductors,
re asserted, they ought to discharge
them and get men whom they could
trust; and if he were a conductor
and his employers did not trust him
he would quit his position.
The governor said he would also
recommend to the legislature all the
measures he recommended before
which were not passed.
Fiend Will He Lynched.
A dispatch from Coatesville, Fa.,
says another lynching is threatened
in that county as a result of a brutal
attack made upon a student at the
Coatesville school by an unknown
negro. The populace has not been
wrought to such a fever of excite
ment since the lynching of Zack
Walker on Snday, August 13. The
flend will be lynched if caught.
Deadly Hot Supper Begin.
Walter Cobb, colored, lies at the
point, of death as the result of four
pistol shot wounds received at the
hands of ono Jim Howland, also col
ored. The shooting occurred Satur
day night some two or three miles
south of Aiken, and followed a, dis
pute which had arisen at a hot sup
per at the home of Howland.
Ship and Crew Lost^
The sinking of an' unidentified
British barkentine said to have hail
ed from Bridgeton, N. S., off the en
tance to the Bay of Fundy, on "Sep
tember 30, with all on board,was re
ported by Capt, Goodwin, of the fish
ing schooner Good. Luck. The crew of
the barkentine UP generally thirty oj)
more men. 1