Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PURELY PERSONAL. The Movements of Many People, Newberrians and Those Who Visit Newberry. Mr. . G. Brown spent Sunday in Cross Hill. Dr. C. D. Wecks went to Atlanta on Friday. Mr. Lewie Lane, who has been on a- visit to his parents returned to At lanta on Friday. Mr. R. C. Wyche of Greenville, representing the Brewer printing company, was in the city last week. Mr. A. B. Peterson of the Mollohon is in Spartanburg on a business trip of several days' duration. Miss Annie Davis of Little Moun tain is visiting friends and relatives in the city. Prof. B. L. Jones. principal of the Laurens graded schools, was in the city on Saturday. Mrs. Nannie Fox. who has been on an extended visit aonng relatives in Columbia. has returned home. Mrs. J. A. Blackwelder has been called to Concord, N. C., by the ser ious illness of her brother. Mrs. E. S. Werts, and family, have returned to Newberry after an ex tended visit among relatives in the county. Miss Alice Corry of Cokesburg is visiting Mrs. Lambert W. Jones, in this city. Hon. Cole. L. Blease has gone to McCall, to institute a lodge of Odd Fellows. Mrs. P. C. Kyle of Washington, Iowa, arrived in Helena November izth, to spend the winter with her mother, Mrs. E. V. Chalmers. Clever Capture. Pink Harrington, a negro under sixty days sentence on the county chaingang, escaped on Thursday, and Friday after dinner, was captured by Mr. T. 0 .Stewart and Policeman S. G. Carter. Harrington is wanted on other charges than the one he is serv ing sentence for. The negro, after escaping from the gang, came to town to collect some money which was owing to him. He hid himself in the pine brush behind the Pope residence and sent a boy to town to collect the money. Messrs. Stewart and Carter heard of the mat ter and after concealing themselves in the hosewagon of the fire depart ment, had the vehicle driven to the woods where Harrington was con cealed. He saw the colored driver, but not the officers, and came out into the road to converse. The rest was easy. A TALL STORY. Wasp With Two Stingers, One Over A Half Inch Long. While awaiting the train at the C., N. & L. depot on one day last week, a young marn of the town felt some kind of a varmint crawling around on the back of his neck, and brushing it hastily to the ground was surprised to find it a wasp of unusually large proportions. It was brightly colored, looking very differen~t from the or dinary variety, so he killed it and made a closer inspection. He found one stinger of the usual size, but be low it, at the place where the stinger really ought to be, he discovered a projecting spike, pointed and as hard as a horseshoe nail, and over a half inch in length. He rubbed the por tion of his anatomy on which the in sect had been crawling, and thanked the Lord that he had discovered the stinger after the wasp was dead. The thing looker like a needle with two razor edges. The reported doesn't expect anyone to believe the story. He would not believe it himself if he had not happened to see it with his own eyes. Sheriff Buford Returned. Sheriff Buford returned Friday - Sheriff Buford returned yesterday from Virginia with the negro Wood son, wanted in Union for murder. An1 account of the chase through several states has already been published. Sheriff Buford says the negro told an interesting story of his continued and prolonged flight from justice. He had been continually on the move and visited many states. Woodson seems not to be a really bad negro, and he says that night after night he dreamed of the murdered man, and was in continued agony for fear of eapture. VARIOUS AND A.L ABOUT. The carnival did very little on Sat urday on account of the rain. The exhibitions were kept running, low ever. and some little money was taken in. The company left town on Sun day morning. Tom Jones. a worthless negro who has been hanging around the streets of Newberry for some time past. was hauled before the mayor on Saturday morning and fined ten dollars for idling and loafing, and another ten for being drunk and disorderly. Dr. Maddox, the famous Atlanta optician, a member of the Hawkes firm, is in the city examining eyes free and fitting glasses. He is at the Pelham drug store. Some malicious person slashed the canvas of one of the carnival tents with a knife, on Friday night. Severat gashes were made from the outside. The evil-doer was not caught. Presiding Elder Jno. 0. Willson. of the Methodist church, held quar terly conference in Newberry on Sat urday night, and preached at the Mol lohon on Sunday, filling the pulpit which otherwise would have been oes cupied by the Rev. J. H. Graves. The date for the meeting of the li brary association has been changed, and will be announced later. Sunday was the most miserably. cold, wet, and dreary day of the sea, son. The attendance was not large at any of the local churches. Dr. Jas. Copes of Orangeburg has accepted a position as prescription clerk at the Pelham drug store. He is a very pleasant gentleman and an efficient druggist. On Saturday night the up C., N. & L. train, while between the two cross ings struck a horse and buggy, which was partly on the track. The team I was knocked aside without injury to the horse or driver. The buggy shafts were broken. The dancing school which Mr. H. T. Renwick has been conducting for the past several weeks, was broken up on Friday night by a pleasant and informal final german. at which there were present many young people. The public schools of the county were opened yesterday. pursuant to an order issued by Superintendent Eu gene S. Werts, which should have appeared in this paper, and which,' through some error for which Mr. Werts was not .responsible, did not come out. Miss Bessie Schumpert has resign ed her position as private stenogra pher for Manager R. G. Spearman, to accept a similar position at the Na tional bank. Mr. Spearmant in speak of Miss Schumpe'rt, says she is quick, energetic and accurate. She was graduated from the business depart ment of Elizabeth college, last spring at the head of her class. Shortly af ar nine o'clock yesterday morning an alarm of fire was turned in and the company responded as usual. The blaze proved to be in the small house owned by Mr. E. Y. Mor ris,'which he rents, and wvhich is sit uate near the jail. The fire caught from one of the fire-places. The damages were very slight. Quattlebaum and Schumpert have just received a car load of buggies and would be pleased to have their friends call and examine the stock. Prices right. Quality the best. Their warerooms at Prosperity. If you want anything in their line they can interest you. The Cash store quotes prices in this issue which will be interesting to the cash buyers. Willie Wilson, the colored boy who stole some money a short time ago frm the drawer of the Southern Oil mill company, was brought before Magistrate Chappeli yesterday and sentenced to pay a fine of forty dollars or to serve thirty days on the county chaingang. It snowed in Newberry on Sun day; not a regular blinding storm but "so as you could notice it" very -dis tinctly. Several people in the town noticed an irregular fall at times dur ing the earlier part of the morning, and a gentleman from a few miles east of Newberry states that it snow ed at his home for over half and hour. Last year, if we remember rightly, the first snow was at Thanksgiving. There always will be difficulties about the Bible if you grasp it by the COMMON PLEAS COURT. Adjourned Saturday Evening-Suits Against the Glenn Lowry Company. The rcgiular session of the common pleas court. Judge Ernest Gary of Abbeville presiding, was adjourned on Saturday evening. There were only two cases argued, both of them being damage suits in which the Glenn Lowry Manufacturing com pany figured as the defendant. The sealed verdict in the case of the T. Wilce company, of Chicago, against the Glenn Lowry manufactur ing company. was read Friday morn ing, awarding the plaintiff the sum of $700. Defendant made motion for new trial. Attorneys for plaintiff stated that thev also had intended to make a similar motion, their desire being to recover damages in the full amount. The jury in the case of Robert Wat kins against the Glenn Lowry manu facturing company, to recover dam ages in the amount of five thousand dollars for personal injuries received, it is alleged, through the negiligence of the defendant in providing the proper kind of buckle for a certain piece of belting. brought in a verd:t at about five o'clock on Saturday evening, awarding the plaintiff dam ages in the amount of two thousand. The jury had remained out during the whole of the afternoon. Watkins was represented by V. E. DePass. of Union: B. F. Townsend, of Union; and Cole. L. Blease, of Newberry. The defendant was rep resented by Mordecai & Gadsden, of Charleston: Simeon Hyde, of Char leston: and Mower & Bynuni, of this city. On the hearing of the verdict a motion was made by counsel for de fendant for a new trial. The motion will be argued before Judge Gary. on next Wednesday, in Greenwood. Immediately after the conclusion of this case the court was adjourned. THRILLING STORY. How Two Young Men Were Held Up and Robbed. On Wednesday night .two students of Newberry college. while walking in the lower portion of the town, were held up by two men at the point of a revolver and robbed of watches, coats, and overcoats. It seems that the two thieves had been in hiding be hind a hedge-row in waiting for the young men. Just as they reached the hedge revolvers were shoved into their faces and they were ordered to hald. They halted. They were compell-, ed tosurrender their coats, overcoats and watches. One of the young men was by that time so thoroughly frighten ed that he enquired in pitiful tones of the "tman behind the gun" if there was anything elese he wanted. The coat less youths were conmmnanded to light out for town, and they lit. A search party wvas organized and with the assistance of an officer they went back to make investigations. Now comes the strange part of the story. Before the party had gone ten paces two class-mates of the plunder ed boys appeared bearing the stolen goods. The unkind part of it is that one of the robbed had been placed in the confidence of the robbers be forehand, the search-part'y was onto the joke, and it is rumored that even the officer was not as 3-'rpathetic as he should have been under the cir cumstances. A Correction. It was stated some days ago in this paper that a warrant had been sworn out by Mr. George Hill for the arrest of Jordan Coleman, colored, who had shot a colored woman in a buggy to the northwest of Newberry, to which occurrance Mr. Hill was a witness. The information was received through apparently reliable channels, but there was rnistake. Mr. Hi!! had issued no warrant, and the war rant for the arrest of Coleman had been issued by Mr. Decatur Boozer, before Magistrate Ropp, of No. 7 township. George-Are you quite sure that you really love me? Bessie-Oh, yes; certain of it. 1 never knew any one that could make me so furiously angry at time !-De TROUBLE OVER. Never Was Any Real Danger That Perry Would Be Lynched. News from Saluda received in New-! bIrv yesterday contirmed the report currem Sunday that there was consid erable fceling against Johnnie Perry, who killed Joe Denny Wills some days ag(. and who was confined in the county jail. Telegrams have been sent to Columbia, and the gov ernor has sent orders for the swear :ng in of deputies and the protecting of the prisoner at any cost. The Co limbia end of the story appears as follows, in this morning's state: There seems to be some feeling in Saluda county against John Perry, who killed another young white man there on the day of the general elec t.on. Gov. Heyw..rd was communi cated with yesterday morning, but he did not order the prisoner brought to Columbia unless such action should be absolutely necessary. Saluda is iS miles from the nearest railroad station and a sheriff would have no little trouble to get a prisoner trom jail to the railroad. Gov. Hey ward received a telegram from E. S. Blease, senator-elect from that coun ty. at io o'clock yesterday morning, but co1ld not get a reply through im mediately as the office at Saluda had closed and there was no way to get a 'phone message through. Conse quently Gov. Heyward was in a state of suspense last night. The messages received and sent yesterday are as folows: Gov. D. C. Heyward. Wire sheriff at once to carry John Perry. o-harged with the murder of Joe Denny Wills. to penitentiary. Un safe here. Danger of lynching. Full particulars by first mail. Eugene S. Blease. Sheriff Rhoden. Saluda, S. C. Mr. Bleace wires danger of lynch ing Perry. Asks he be brought to penitentiary. You must decide. Swear in deputies necessary and protect prisoner. See no lynching occurs. Communicate with me at any time. D. C. Heyward, Governor. Hon. E. S. Blease, Saluda, S. C. Telegram received and have wired sheriff. Confer with him. D. C. Heyward, Governor. Negro Shot. Will Hill, a colored man of No. 7 township, who works on the planta tions of Messrs. Prestoa Dominick and Godfrey Harmon, was shot through the head, on Friday evening, at Mr. Mad. Longshore's ginnery. It is alleged and commonly reported that the shooting was done by Mr. Ben Amick, a young white man of No. 7 township. The bullet entered below the eye and ranged downward coming out of the back of the head. At four o'clock this morning the ne gro was still alive. Three shots were fired, only one taking effect. The difficulty between the two men seems to have been of long standing. It is alleged that when they met on Friday evening at Mr. Longshore's gin. Amick picked up a broom and beat the negro oveP the head. A struggle ensued during which the ne gro attempted to seize the broom. During the row it is said that Amick drew his revolver and inflicted the wound described above. Minnesota is Noted For Fish. "Minnesota is noted all over the country as a fisrh state," said Charles H. Stevenson, of Washington, D. C., agent of the bureau of fisheries of the department of commerce. "Few states have better facilities and pre servation of fish, and in few are the natural resources, including streams and lakes, better adapted for this pur pose." Another Patterson Witness. John Latour, a prisoner in the Tombs, in New York city, has come forward as a new witness for "Nan" Patterson. He says he is the man who jumped on the step of the cab and saw the pistol in Young's hand. To read them o'er I love to pause, Those poems in the magazine, They really soothe me more because I never know just what they mean. LUTHERAN SYNOD. Annual Business Session, Held This Year at Orangeburg, Ad journed on Saturday. The annual busineSs session of the Lutheran synod of South Carolina, which met this year in Orangeburg, adjourned on Saturday night, the pastors remaining in the city ov-r Sunday, many of them filling local pulpits. Rev. W. L. Seabrook, Dr. J. A. B. Scherer, Rev. J. A. Bowers, and several other Newberry Luther ans were in attendance. The report of the board of trus tees of Newberry college was encour aging. This school of the synod had the best opening recently in the history of the institution. Under the consideration of pas tors. districts Beth Eden, St. James and Colony were constituted a pat torate. A pastor will be put at Mayer Memorial. who shall also look after our interests at the Mollohon mill. These churches are all in and around Newberry. This brought earnest and sincere debate. There were very few changes made in the personnel of the board of trus tees for Newberry college and of the executive comimttee of home mis Zions. The treasurer of the Bachman en dowment fund made his report. Thf following indicates what this means to synod: The total amount now invested and bearing interest in $12,239.01. The last year is $816.72. ThC fund seems to be safely invested and the interest promptly collected. ANNOUNCEMENT. A. T. Brown is hereby announced a candidate for mayor and will abide 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 fice faithfully and without fear or fa vor. Geo. B. Cromer. 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 announc ed as a candidate for Alderman from Ward 2, subject to the ruling of the democratic primary. Chas. Wesson is hereby announc ed as a candidate for Alderman from Ward 5 and will abide rules of the democratic party. J. B..Leonhardt is hereby announc ed as a candidate for Alderman from Ward 5, subject to the5 rules of the democratic primary.. SPECIAL NOTICES. ARMOUR'S GUANO AND ACID, for wheat and oats. Mosely Bros. Grain Drills and Harrows Cheap. J. W. White, Newberry, S. C. LOST OR STRAYED-On Novem ber 1, 1904, one liver colored point er bitch; about 4 months old. Please return to Herald and News effice and get reward. FOR SALE-47 7-8 Acres of land owned by James Wood. Bounded by lands of Walt. Stuckman, Berley Hawkins, Pink Cromer and others -First Monday of November. Jas. Wood. Franklin's New Restaurant-Every thing fresh and first class. Square meal for 25 cents. Lunches 1o to 20 cents. Oyster stews 25 to 40 cents. Lower Main street. Look for sign. f-&-t-t-f WANTED-roo cords dry pine wood. Apply Herald and News office. STRAYED-One hound puppy, 4 months old, black-tan legs. Re-. ward if returned to I. 0. Burton. WANTED-A Complete. set. South Carolina Reports. Law and Equity. Highest Cash Prices Paid. E. H. Aull, Newberry, S. C. tf WANTED-Several Good Men who want to make money. Apply at The Herald and News office, New berry, S. C. WANTED-Those subscribers nend to pa in wood to do so now