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AA VOT.~ TC E A WE X~O XL. 7O.8S1. NEWBERRY. S. C) USAY -k'('t:-T 2. 1904 TIEAWE.S 5AYA GENERAL SESSIONS COURT. Regular Term Convened Yesterday Special judge James Y. Culbreath Presiding. The regular term of the court (i gneral session for Newberry county convened vesterdav mrning. Special Judge James Y. Culbreath. of th< Newberry har. presiding. in the ab sence of the regular judge. who is ir bad health. Solicitor Thomas S. Sease and Stenographer L. L. Motte were or hand at the opening of the court and ready for the business of the session. Judge Culbreath's commission as special judge was read and the court immediately proceeded wirh the business before it. Referee Fred H. Dominick sub mitted :o the court his report on the chain gang investigation, instituted at the suggestion of the grand jury contained in their final presentment at the last term of the court. The testimony contains forty-six typewrit ten pages. The report of Refrec Dominick accompanying it has al ready been published. This repor was read to the grand jury and was submitted to them. accompanied by the testimony. It wa ordered thai the grand jury. with tAe testimony before them. investigate the matter. examining such other witnesses as they saw fit, and if they came to the conclusion that indictments should be made. that thev recommend same to the solicitor. Solicitor Sease handed out a num ber of indictments. including two foi murder, several for housebreaking and larceny. buglary and larceny. violation of the dispensary law, and one for -ssaa-,lt with intent to ravish. Judge Cuilbreath took up each oi the indictmems separately and charg ed the jury as to the course to be pursued in the consideration of each of the charges. H!s charge was both as to their general and specific duties and was clear and forcible. Mr. Cul breath presides with ease and dignity and expedites the business of the court. His clear legal mind, his in cisive reasoning anld his cainm judg ment eminently qualify him to wear the judicial ermine. Judge Culbreath charged the jury as to their general duties as follows: "Gentlemen of ihe grand jury, vot were charged up *n your general du ties at the last -rm of court. and consequemtly my charge will be short. *Gentlemen of :he jrry you are the grand inqiuisito'rs of ths internal af lairs of our go'vernment. You have mo re jurisaietion im that matter than the presiding judge. th-: solicitor. or the governor of the state. You are he grand inquest of the county. You e the great m'.tive p''wer that p)uts mfotioni any part~ of the machin.ry -tcounty g'overnment that ha~ toppLi.an fu:rnishes thie axle. grease that ca u-.s all the county- ma chinery t. movi-e smothly. And the county- of Neuberry is to be congrat ulated the t.here has not beeni a de. falcation in the public offices of the county- in twemyv-tve y-ears, and what I have said - to y-ou on this point is in no way intended to retiect upon any of our county otficers. Now~ it remains for me to charge you upor the particular bills of indictment that wil be handed oujt by the solicitor and your otlice, gentlemen of the rand jury, is ,.a :enifce of accusation sbeen well termed by the an aw writers. You accuse upon le cause, ex parte testimony, petit jury tries upon the mer e case. It is nOt y-our duty the case- You receive the testimony-. and if the crime committed and the prison bar is connected with it sc se a probability of guilt, is you r duty to render a true ne of the indictments handed out the solicitor w~as for violation of dispensary law, and this question e in for some special remarks hy Judge Cuilbreath as follows: The dispensarv law. gentlemen thle jury. has been placed on the statute books of South Carolina. It is the duty of all parties to obey it. It has met with consirerable oppo 1 ition. and is still meeting with con siderable opposition. but our Savior taught us i,goo years ago to render ut'' Caesar the things that are Caesar's. and sonsequently everybody ought to obey it." True Bills. The following true bills were re turned by the grand jury up until the dinner recess: State vs. Pervery Jackson-burg lary and larceny. State vs. Mel. Williams-conceal ing himself in house and larceny therefrom. State vs. Mcl. Williams-house breaking and larceny. State vs. Becky Neel-murder. State vs. John Reeder-murder. The cases were disposed of as fol lows: Pervery Jackson pleaded guilty to the charge of burglary and larceny. He was represented by Hunt. Hunt & Hunter. Mel. Williams pleaded not guilty to the charge contained in the first indictment against him. and the case was continued. He pleaded guilty to the charge in the second indictment. The case against Becky Neel. charged with murder was taken up. The. woman was arraigned and her case set for Wednesday morning. The case against John Reeder. on the same charge. was disposed of in -ze same manner. When court convened in the after non at 3 o'clock John Hiller. color ed. pleaded guilty to a charge of as sault and was sentenced to pay a inne of S5 or to serve thirty days. The grand .i:ry v terday ater noon1 brought in a true bill against Wheeler. colored, on the charge of assault with intent to ravish. and the case was set for this morning. The case against T. R. Sanders. white. and Drayton Rutherford. col red. charged with assault. was con :inued n a certiticate from Dr. W. D. Sen. scating that Mr. Sanders \w%as ick CONVICT SUICIDES. Negro In Penitentary Plunged a Knife Into His Own Throat. C ilumbia. July 31.-Fred Brown. a c'ooredt convict at the State Peniten itarv. com~nmit ted suicide un Thunrs Brown was sent to the p)enitentary irom Lexington county and wvas serv 1ng a life sentence. H-e had served mrore than thirteen years andl no :ioub thought this as goo a time as -my other to end( his earthly t roubles. Ilrown had been enmployed in the e-king department of the peenitenti ary and Thursday he had a fight with Ione of his fellow p)risoners. After the fighters had bceen separated Brown. knowing that he would probably be n:.nished fe:- such an infraction of the rules. plun:::ed the knife which he used in his kitchen work into his throat and killed himself ir stantly. Brown was 41 years of age and it is tho"rcht that he was temporarily ina:'r he would not have had the igPz, nor cut his throat. i'!rown was convicted of killing a col red friend named Jackson. The two men were together at a frolic when the killing occurred. Tt is a very rare thing for a prisoner to com mit suicide. Fred Brown did nor die instantly. but died from the self-inflicting but died from the self-inflicted wounds. A. K. Wewill probably never have eno ugh money to enable us to set aside a hero fund. and even if we do have., enough we wouldn't do it. WVe'll set aside a fund to reward the Igirls who can bake better bread than Itheir nv.thers. PROSPERITY NEWS. The Comings and Goings Of The People of Newberry's Sis ter City. Prosperity. August '.--iss Kate Wheeler. of Columbia. is visiting the lliss's Bohh for a few days. Mlr. SS. . Birge is visiting his sister. Mrs. S. S. Birge. in the Indian Terri tory. He expects to spend a few days at the Exposition while on the way there and while coming back. Mizs Lottie Ridgell and brother. Mr. F. Ridgell. of Batesburg. return ed home Saturday. Rev. W. A. Lutz is off on his sum rner vacation to a visit in North Car olina and Virginia. Mrs. J. L. Wise entertained a few of her friends on Thursday evening in honor of her visitors. Mr. F. and Miss Lottie Ridgell. of Batesburg. AMrs. J. F. Browne is visiting 'Miss Mamie Jordon, in Winnsboro. Messrs. J. B. Bedenbaugh. V. B. Wise. H. J. Rawis. and A. B. Wise went to the annual picnic at Barre's Landing Thursday. 'Mrs. J. S. Barre is visiting her par enct in Johnston There was a barbecue in town on Friday. and four picnics and barbe becuez within four or five miles of he:re Saturdav. Miss Joe Langford. of Swansea. is ,isiting relatives in town. The S(iuthern railway has put up a new cotton platf,rm wlere the old one was. Mr. Godfrey H. Geiger. of the An derson bar. visited his sister for a few dav last week. Mr. C. S. filler, of Coltimbia. is up a few days. Mi- .. May Everett. -f Atlanta. is VI. :t1ng friends in this community. Mrs. G. Y. Hiniter ret;urned oa Fri (ay from Asheville. where she has bcen for the past month. Mr. and Mrs. ) V. Pwland have ret rn ed frmi n a two week-' v it to ls!eof Palms. PENNSYLVANIA HOLDUP. Pa.rastcr of Coal C.-n-.iny and his Driver Shot and Robbed. P,.ritan. Pa.. August i.-Patrick Campbell. paymaster of the Puritan. Pa.. Coal ciompainy. and his driver. Charle Haves. were going from Por to) Puritan carrying three thous :md dillars of the companys money fruse to'day, when they were held 'bad ohed. Haves being killed mand Campbelli perhaps fat ally wound (d. The ment carried about th ree thusand dollars 'if the coal com 'any-iv miney. which was secur-:d by :hie b)r igands. The guns were loaded ''ithn buckshi t, The country aroundi was imeiattel V aroused. andI on' th 'uand men engaged in 'pursuit of thne highl'waymen. It has been gather ed from .such statements as Camp hi.ll hasm been able to make that there were Lhree men engag.d in the roh ber. ranmd that :hey- were foreigners. YeN -rday it was thioug:- they- were 1::in in Cedar swa~mp. abo- t seven miles from Portage. The search was kept up all (lay. Three men were :een running across the sv.amp and :-efused to halt when ordered to do so,. They wvere tired upon, and .ne fell but was carried off by his com rades. To Protect Murderers. Savannah. Ga.. Augtust 1.-Will Cato and Paul Reed. negroes suspec ed of the murder and burning of the Hodges family near Statesboro. were brought here Sunday morning for safe-keeping. Evidence has developed that tends to :how a still more heinous crime was committed upon the person of Mrs. Hodges and her 9-year-old daughter. Kittie. befi re they were killed. That robbery wats not the prime motive of the crime is shown by tihe fnding of a purse containing several dollars near where'the body of Mrs. Hodge was discovered. RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR. Big Battle in Progress Yesterday at 1 Hai Cheng-Death of Min ister Plehve's Assassin. St. Petersburg. August r.-A big hattle is in progress at Hai Cheng. s the rendezvous of the Russian forces r ,nder General Kuropatkin. 5 Three Japanese armies nder Gen- s erals Oku. Nodzu and Kuroki are ad- i vancing on the Russian forces. Ir General Count Keller. commanding the Russian forces in action. has been I killed. t St. Petersburg. August i.-General Kuropatkin's report to the Czar, re marking on the fight at Hai Cheng. c leaves the result of the fight in v doubt. Probably the fight is still in progress. The report does not men- c tion the death of General Keller. I The report states that on July Tst i the Japanese armies simultaneously renewed their advance on the Rus- I ;ian ;outliern front. The Russian t rear guard. seeing the enemy were greatly superior in strength. slowly r retired in the direction of Hai Cheng. The Russian divisjion near Simun cheng successfully checked the ad vance of the enemy, which pre-zed towards the Russian right flank. The Japanese main blow. sas the Tr-_port. was delivered by the army s t-nder the comman(d of General Oku. btween Simuncheng and Hai Cheng. The report includes the statement , that the Japanese are also advanc i g against the Russian troop5 east laikiaze. London. Atugust .-The Renter I ,Telegram cimpany has a dispa-tch stating that Kuropatkin's right flank has been turned by the Japanese. St. Petersburg. August i.-The as- e ;.aJ.sin of Minister of the Interior Plihve died today. as the result of t injuries sustainedl when he threw the K bomb which ended Minister Plehve's life. The assassin ma(le no disclosures bt-fore he died. MEAT PACKERS STRIKE. Situation Was Quiet Yesterday Not withstanding the Riots of Sun,"ay. t Chicag,. Augtst i.-Qui"tuie marked the qpening hours o,f te twenty-[rst day f the big stoc k yardis strike. T1his quiewduce was despite the antic patt'in of troubIle which it wa though~lt would comP'e. dte to the intita tie in riots taken y-esterd!ay evening. when a htundred policemeni and a mnb ofthree thou,and strikers foug~ht a1 Iandl toi hand bat tle nea r Forty-t~h ird and Wood streets. Fifty persons I :ere arraigned ini the stock y'ard'- po liee court this m rning as a resuilt o the affair. c.mnuted to arrive at tihe yards from other cities this morning. There was no interference with these men. The receints this morning were heavy, being twenty-live thousand cattle. thirty-eight thousand hogs. and seventeen thousand sheep. WVash.ington. August t.-President Roosevelt has no intention of inter fering ill the beef strike, and unless the trouble spreads to other trades and becomes general. or causes a meat famine. so that the situation would take on the aspect of a national dis aster. like the coal strike, he will con tinue to maintain this stand-off poli cy. t This decision was not reached to- e day. but is merely the exp ession of t his settled convictions, formed some I time ago.-t Man, it appears, is never too old to t marry or run for ofnlce.--Woodbury IMessenger. Bodily pain loses its terror if t votu've a bottle of Dr. Thomas' Ech :trie Oil in the house. Instant relief ill cases of burns, cuts, sprains. accient of anv' sort. LATIMER IN CHARLOTTE. Vhile in Charlotte Talks of National And South Carolina Pclitics. Charl,itte. N. C.. July 30.-Senator L C. Latimer. of South Carolina. pent a short while in the city last ight on his return fr.m Rock Hill. . C.. where he had delivered a peech. The senator spoke with in .rest to an Observer reporter of the aional campaign. saying that dem cratic prospects for victory were etter than they have been at any me since the civil war. He also iscussed what would probably en age most prominen-Ely the attention f the approaching congress. which ill meet in December. "There is very little stirring in outh Carolina politics." said Senatop atimer. "for the only contest of note for the railroad commissionership. 'here are five candidates for the lace. I am especially gratified over he national outlook. Parker .by his old telegram, put on his side many ioneyed interests, which otherwise, 1ight have feared him. Roosevelt surely at odds with republican :aders. whereas Parker has a setting armonv w%ith the leaders as well as hi rank and fie. "The democrats will put up a trong light for a revision of the tariff t the next congress.- the senator aid. "Th-.re xvill b a consideration f the Appalachian Forest Reverse ill. ; which I am a hearty support r. Congressman Wadsworth. of :e-. York. chairman in charge, is pj)osed to it as. indeed, he is to verythiIng tending to th'! benefit of riCitural interests. Other impor ant matters t. come up are the poli v to he nursued in building the anama Canal. and the attitu. C t). he government towards the 1: - ls. The question of immnigration i .teresting. as is also the proposition a increase the navy." WHISKEY IN WILMINGTON. aloons Triumphed Over Dispensary In Election Yesterday. \\'iimui.ign. N. C.. Ijly .".-In he municipal electin here Thursday nider the \Vatts' state law upon the Cesto of the establishnient of a spensary' in the city and the opera 4n of dxsti!llries within the corpo ate limits. the anti-di;spensary advo ates won by a ma.io rity of 690 in a 'tal vote of 1.912 and on the opera ion of the distilleries there was a ma The lad!ies took an active part by erigrefreshments from improvis d bo .ths ne'ar the po!!ing places to li dip-:nsa -v workers. In the morn ngz there was a paradle of boys by he riolls carrying h:mners proclaim. : gain-t the saloon. The prohibi ion eh.menit favored the dispensary s agai5st the saloons. A Record Breaker. \'ashington Star. Three fellow travelers in the smok aig room at a tast train were discuss aig the speed of trains. says Harper's Veek lv. "I was in a train once," said the rst man. 'that b)eat everything I ever ode~ in for speed. WVhy, it went so ast that the telegraph poles at -The ide of the track looked like an im rense fine toothed comb." "That's nothing " said the second raveler: "I remember riding in an xpress on the and hat went at such a gait that the tele 'raph poles looked like a solid board ence. The third man made an exclama oi of impatience. "Ah. you fellows don't know what igh speed on a railroad is. WVhv. I raveled wvest from Chicago last aunth in a train that went at such a ace that when we passed so~me alter tate nields of corn and beans they' oked like succotash!"