Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PURELY PERSONAL. The Movements of Many People: Newberrians and Those Who Visit Newberry. Miss Luna Gale, of Selma, Ala bama, who has been on an extended visit among friends in this city, re turned home on Tuesday. Mrs. F. A. Schumpert is visiting friends in Greenwood. Miss Mary Lou Bowers, who is teaching -school at Pomaria, spent several days this week with her par ents in this city. Mr. W. W. Bradley of Abbeville was in the city on Wednesday. Mr. R. C. Bruce of Camden has located in- Newberry. He is in the life insurance business. Mr. G. T. Bryan of Greenville was in the city last week oR railroad bus iness. Ex-Governor John Gary Evans spent Wednesday night in Newberry. Miss Mary Wicker is visiting friends in .Bamberg. Miss Euphemia McClintock of Co lumbia is visiting her father. Dr. E. P. McClintock, in this city. Senator Eugene S. Blease of Salu da was in the city yesterday. Mr. John Scott was in Columbia on Wednesday. Mr. F. Werber of Washington is viditing friends and relative's in this city. ~VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT. It is announced that Dr. A. G. *oigt will make the address of the occasion at the dedication of Holland Hall which will be held on the 31st of this month. Dr. Voigt is presi dent of the theological seminary at Mount Pleasant, and there is no man in the state better known in Newber ry than he. ,On Tuesday morning there was -a small fire in a carload of cotton at the Columbia, Newberry and Laur ens depot, in this city. An alarm was turned in and the fire department responded promptly, the new driver handling the horses in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. No general alarm was sounded anq the firc caused very little excitement. The cotton yard hose was already playing on the blaze when the fire depart -ment arrived. A few bales were scorched and the damage was only -nominal. The case on the docket of the pro bate court of a claim of. Alfred Dor voh against the estate of A. M. Reed er, brought up some time ago, had to be postponed on account of in jtues r-eceived. by Mr. Dorroh in a cutting scrape. It is reported that Mjr. pprroh continues to improve and it is probable that the case will be takcen up~ again in the near future. OnC Tuesday morning shortly after 'the first small fire in' the cotton car on the C., N. & L. thee. was another alarm turned in frem the same vicinity to which the Mempany again responded. The -{g proved to be' in an old tool shed near the depot, and nothing of v'lue was burned. A stream was piajed iqpon the building. There-was a meeting of Lodge No. g, of the Knights of Pythias, at eight o'clock 'fuesday night to confer the third rank upon several candidates for that honor. Eb. Martin, colored, one of the reg -ular hands at the Southern Cotton Oil mill met with a painful accident 'Monday evening when his arm was caught between a pulley and belt, while, he was attempting to adjust 'the two, and was dislocated. The machinery was running when he at tempted to slide the belt onto the pulley and in some way his arm was 'caught and whirled clear around the wheel. There will be a rummage sale con ducted by the ladies of the A. R. P. church, on Friday and Saturday, at the store-room next to R. C. Wil liams. The Newberry lodge K. of P. elected J. A. Blackwelder, Geo. S. Mower and W. H. Hunt delegates to the district meeting to be held in Columbia on 17th of this month. The corner stone of the new Luth eran church at Saluda, S. C., will be laid on Wedi1esday, November 2d, at II a. m. The address will be de livered by Rev. W. L. Seabrook of Newberry, S. C., and a number of o6ther Lutheran ministers will take -part in the services, which will in ~clude a sermon on Tuesday evening -nreceding. Dr. W. G. Houseal delivered a lec ture to the students of Newberry col lege. at twelve o'clock yesterday, in the college auditorium. He took as his subject the good and the evil of athletic sports. His lecture was highly interesting and listened to with attention by an appreciative au dience. The new store which Mr. J. W. White is erecting on his property on Caldwell street. is progressing fine ly. The brick walls are going sky ward and some lumber work is being begun. RURAL ROUTES. Rural Agent of Post-Office Depart ment in City To Establish Two New R. F. D. Routes. Rural Agent A. B. Veazy, of the post-office department. is in New berry this week, in pursuit of the es tablishment of two new rural free de livery routes in which the people of the county have been interested for some time and for which several pe titions have been sent in. Mr. Veazy has completed the maps .cf the two respective routes and states they will be established just as soon as the public- roads are made passable. He says that the govern ment expects the co-operation of the private cit'zens in the work, and such co-cperat:on necessarily means keep ing the local roads in a passable and proper -ondition. Both new routes will run out from the town of Newberry and will take in at least 150 new families. Route No. - will be divided and changed, making another route to be known as No. 7, and the other new route will run to -he north and wil be known a, No. 6. It is statd ; 'r. '' eazey th:at no < ne who is -'t; lo. 4 will be left out under the new ar r.m gemnent. The route to~the north, which will be k;- wn as No. 6, will run through Helena on the straight road, to the Robert A. Welch place. Thence it will cross over to the Thomas M. Lake property and from there will continue past Beth. Eden church to Dr. Carlisle's on the Whitmire road, and thence will go across to Crom er's by a private road. In that di rection it will go up to the Bun combe road as far as Cal. Baker's. Thence it will retrace as far as the Middle or Long Lane road, will go to H. H. Folk's,thencetoGlenn Rikard's. From Glenn Rikard's it will run to the mill known as "Aull's mill," and thence it will return to Newberry via the old tan yard and Mr. James A. Burton's. When route No. 4 is changed it will leave Newberry via the steel bridge road to G. B. Summer's and thence past Langford's mill to the J. H. Wicker place. Thence it will proceed to I. H. Boulware's place, along the Bouknight ferry road. It will run to the Nichols place, thence to Dead Fall. From there it will run to the G. F. Long place. From there it will go by a private road back to the steel bridge road and along that road will return to Newberry. The new route to be known as No. 7 will go out of Newberry on the Bouknight ferry road and proceed via that road to Julia postoffice. Thence it will run to the Croft place, and thence to the Riverside post-of fice. Thence it will run to the Les ter place on the Bush river road. It will continue along the same road to Schumpert's mill and thence will run to R. L. Schumpert's. From there it wvill go to the Paysinger place, and from there will run to the H. H. Evans' place. It will continue to John Cousin's and thence will come back to Newvberry along the direct road, via Ebenezer. Rusal Agent Veazey says that pe titions have been sent in for new R. F. D. routes to go out from Little Mountain. Pomaria, and Chappells and that he will remain here for a couple weeks yet, locating these routes. Mr. Veazey says the routes in Newberry are doing remarkably well in fact among the best in the dis trict. Sold at Private Sale. The H. Mv. Dominick place which was advertised for sale on the 22nd day of October, if not sold previous to that time at private sale, has been sold at private sale. COLD BLOODED MURDER. Chris Porter, Colored, Shot and Killed By Will Simpkins, Colored. Chris Porter. colored, was shot and killed on Tuesday evening, in a cot ton field on Mr. J. C .Hipp's place in this county, by Will Simpkins, also colored. Sheriff Buford was on the scene soon after the negro had died, but Simpkins had been allowed to walk away unhindered, and immediate pursuit was utterly useless. A hastily called jury was assembled in the field just as darkness set in, and there, gathered around the rigid d&astly thing which had been Chris Porter, by the lurid light of pine torches, it was found that another human being, fugitive from justice, had stamped his own face with the mark of Cain, and that a horrible and unjustified murder had been done. The testimony went to show that Simpkins had approached Porter with a petty quarrel over a most trivial matter, and with a heavy weapon pressed almost upon the vitals of the unarmed man had com mitted the most dastardly crime, save one, of which depraved mankind is capable. Though bo.h parties were negroes there is a great deal of comment on the deed because of its utter wantonness. The following testimony was heard: Elisha Dennis, being sworn, said: I live on the Fellers place, in New berry county. Saw the sh,oting. Will Simpkiis come into the field and asked Chris Porter why he had let his hogs chew up his, Simpkin's, quilt. Chris told him that Mr. Hipp hadn't said anything about the hogs being out, and that he, Will, had noth ing to do with it. Will Simpkins told him to "don't talk back to him" and came on to him and shot him. It happened at about four-thirty p. m., in Mr. John Hipp's field, near Ebe nezer church, on October 1I, 1904. Chris Porter lived about three quar ters of an hour after the shooting. Couldn't say whether thl deceased and Simpkins had ever fussed before. Simpkins walked away after the shooting. He previously cocked his pistol to shoot a second time but I told him to desist. (Signed) Elisha Dennis. Dan Gilder, being sworn, said: I live in Newberry. Was picking cot ton in the field with Chris Porter. Will Simnpkins came out in field and asked Chris Porter why was his hogs out and tearing up his, Simp kins', quilts. Porter told him that Mr. John Hipp hadn't said anything, and Simpkins told Chris he wanted none of his big talk about it. Simp kins walked to right down within four feet of Porter and shot him. Porter said after shooting, "Will, I ain't said nothing." Will Simpkins cocked the pistol again. I told him, "Don't shoot him." He turned and went on back across the field. It happened at about four-thirty. Simp kiis came from the direction of Mr. Hipp's house. Simpkins carried a pistol habitaually. He picked cotton until dinner of the day of shooting. He has lived on Hipp's place since December. (Signed.) Dan Gilder. The coroner's jury rendered a ver dit that Chris Porter came to his death from a pistol-shot wound, in the hands of Will Simpkins, from which he died. Said Chris Porter died on October 11, 194 in the coun ty of Newberry, state of South Caro lina. That the aforesaid Will Simp kins him the said Chris Porter, in the manner aforesaid, did then and I there feloniously kill against the peace and dignity of the same state' aforesaid. Death of a Child. Olin B'izhardt Norris, the little two-year-old son of Mr. J. T. Norris, of this county, died on Wednesday night. The child has been ill for a considerable length of time. The funeral services were held at three o'clock yesterday afternoon and interment was in Rosemnent cemetery. The Thrailkill Case. At the habeas corpus proceedings before Chief Justice Y. J. Pop.e yes terday. in the Thrailkill case, bond was granted the defendant in the sum THE REASON WHY. How It Happened That the Special Session was Cut Short. Considerable comment, on the part of the general public, was excited by the sudden and unlooked-for termination of the special session of the court of common pleas on last MIonday morning. As has been pre viously stated, it was ruled by the presiding judge. after considerable argument, that the jury drawn to 5erve for the first week was not com >etent to serve for the second. Nat .irally the question then came up as o why proper preparations for the :ontinuance of the court had not )een made. Clerk of Court J. C. 3oggans, who is the head of the jury :ommissioners. states that he drew :he one venire and proceeded in the -natter entirely under the law as he ;aw it and as it was interpreted to iim. Mr. Goggans says that the aw applying to the question was not mntirely clear in his own mind, and hat after studying it he interviewed 1is attorney, and then followed the aw as he understood it. The stat ites applicable to the question read is follows: Statutes at Large, Vol. 23, Acts 19o2-Page io6, Section 5. of ar act -elating to the selection, drawnag Lnd summoning of jurors in the cir :uit courts of the state. "That not ess than ten nor more thani twenty lays before the first day of each veek of any regular or special term )f the circuit courts the said county Luditor, the county treasurer and the :lerk of the court of common pleas, hail proceed in like manner to draw :hirty-six petit jurors to serve for uch week only: Provided, that when ver a jury shall be charged with a ase, such jury shall not be discharg d by reason of anything in this sec :io contained until a verdict shall )e found, or a mistrial ordered in ;uch case. Immediately after such )etit jurors are drawn the clerk of :he court of common pleas shall is ue his writ of venire facias, for such >etit jurors, requiring their attend nce on the first day of the week or which they have been drawn; and :he said writ of venire facias shall be ,orthwith delivered to the sheriff of :he county: Provided, that in case ny term of court is to be held with n less than twenty days after the ap >roval of this act, such petit jurors nay, nevertheless be drawn for such :erm of court." Section 11 of the same act reads s follows: "That no more than thirty-six per ons, to serve as petit jurors, shall e drawn and summoned to attend it one and the same time at any :ourt, unless the court shall 'so or :ler." Shears in Jail. At about ten o'clock Wednesday ight Sheriff Buford was called to the ront door of the jail by a knock and >pening the door he found the negro cnown as Bud Shears, who had cut Ben Chalmers in a row at Scott lown some time ago. Shears said 1e had heard that the sheriff was af :er him, and knowing it was no use :o flee or attempt to evade arrest, ue had taken the easiest way and :ome to give himself up. Immediately after the cutting hears decamped to Union. A war -ant for his arrest was sent there, md meanwhile he returned to New erry. Hearing that he had come >ack Deputy Sheriff Dtancan Johnson .vent to look for him Wednesday orning. He found where he could >e apprehended later and if Shears ad not given himself up vol:mntarily t is altogether probable that he ~vould have been caught in a few urs. It is said that Chalmers, the :olored man whom Shears cut, is in pretty bad condition. Small Blaze. There was a small blaze Wednesday norning at Prosperity when a few yales of cotton in the Hawkins Bros. varehouse caught fire and were some what damaged before they could be xtinguished. The warehouse is near :he Southern railroad and it is sup >osed that a spark from one of the mgines must have blo'wn in through 'he open door, thus originating the ;mal conflagation. The loss amount d to very little as the cotton was .athe scrchd than actually burn Negro Captured. Some time ago a warrant was sent to Sheriff Bufo-d for John Gary, a colored man wanted in Laurens coun ty for assault and battery and with intent to kill. The negro was cap tured in this county a few days ago and on Vednesdav morning he was turned over sto the -puty sheriff from Laurens who ca. ;d him back to answer to the charge. John Gray is the negro who shot Alex. Satterwhite through the chest several years ago, and that is the crime for which he is now wanted. For some reason the affair was not taken to court at that time. LIST OF JURORS. Jurors Drawn to Serve Out Regular November Term of Court The list of jurors drawn for the regular term of court of common pleas and general sessions, which opens on the last day of October, and is known as the November term, is as follows: J. B. Fellers. J. Daniel Oxner. R. S. Boozer. D. Cannon Reid. W. F. Ew art. W. I. Sease. A. H. Miller. C. W. Stoudenmeyer. J. A. Dominick. J. Marcus Lester. D. L. Noble. W. C. Sheely. M. 0. Livingstone. J. R. Livingstone. E. S. Fulmer. J. Will Wilson. Mark Rankin J. D. Salter. Jefferson Quattle'baum. keuben S. Hawkins. Garrett L. Moore. J. K. Andrews. Jefferson D. Boozer. Andrew P. Dominick. H. A.Ham. R. I. Stuck. Samuel B. Hawkins. I. Herbert Livingstone. W. E. Evans. Geo. B. Boozer. James A. Monts. H. S. Brown. James P. Setzler. J. Sydney Derrick. G. Fair Buford. Theo. N. Kibler. ANNOUNCEMENT. Dr. Van Smith is hereby announced as a candidate for Alderman from Ward 3, subject to the rules of the democratic primary. Henry B. Wells is hereby announe ed as a candidate for 4lderman from Ward 2, subject to tlg ruling of the democratic primary. J. B. Leonhardt is I 'eby announc ed as a candidate for A arman from Ward 5, subject to the rules of the democratic primary. I will run for Mayor at the next primary election. If elected, I will try to discharge the duties of the of-. fce faithfully and without fear or~ fa vor. Geo. B. Cromer. SPECIAL NOTICES. FOR RENT-Large room over Drug Store, admirably suited for office pur poses. Good ventilation. Possession given at once. W. E. Pelham & Son. Franklin's New Restaurant-Every thing fresh and first class. Square meal for 25 cents. Lunches io to 2o cents. Oyster stews 25 to 40 cents. Lower Main street. Look for sign. f-&-t-t-f WantedEverybody to know that I. am conducting a first class restau rant known as City Restaurant. Wmn. J. Bedenbaugh, i t a w tf. FOR SALE-Houses and Land for sale. Four residences and one store' house in Town of Newberry. One farm 1250 acres, in large or small tracts. One farm, 46 acres, two miles of town. 83 acres near Maybinton, S. C. For terms apply to M. A. Carlisle, National Baihk of Newebrry.