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- ,e C -~ 4 ~cra till' - ~ EW5. VOL XLVI NO 1'3 NEWBERIRY~ S. Ut' TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 23~ 1909. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR TRIA. IN LAURENS. W. C. Pinson to be Arraigned on Charge of Killing His Friend, Thornwell Boyce. Laurens, Feb. 19.-In the court of general sessions which convenes here on tha second Monday in March will be tried a case which will doubtless prove one of the most sensational ever heard in Laurens. Young Wade Cothran Pinson will be arraigned for the killing of his friend. Thornwell Boyce, on the morning of November 7 of last year while the itwo. together with Miss Mary Brown, were on the way home from a party in the Cross Hill neighborhood of the county. Both young men were citizens of Cros Hill and were the best of friends; both are of excellent families with wide connections. Miss Brown is likewise of a good family. and stands prominently in the social af fairs of the community. She was the only eye-witness to the killing and her testimony will largely affect the verdict. It is recalled that the three young people were en route home from a party, in a buggy, when Boyce was shot by Pinson, who does not deny the act but claims an accident. Boyee was sitting on Pinson 's lap, who got out his pistol to "shoot and scare Miss Brown," as told by Pinson's father immediately after itihe shoot ing, to this correspondent. However, at the coroner's inquest Miss Brown teztified that Pinson was under the influence of whiskey and was hahav ing in a rude manner all the journey -home; and that he pulled out his pis itol and said, "I am going to shoot% like hell." The law firm of Cannon & Black weli has been retained to defend Pin k son, while Attorney W. R. Richey, Sr., will assist Solicitor Cooper in the , prosecution. Judge Geo. E. Prince, of Anderson will be the presiding judge at the trial. Methodist Banquet. On Wednesday, 24th inst.. night be ginning at 8.30 there will be held in the parlors of Central Methodist church a social occasion in the inter est of better church fellowship and social relations. All the men, mem bers of this 'li-urch as alsQ from Methodist families, and a few other friends are invited to attend. The commttee of arrangements consists of Mr. J. H. Wicker, Mr. J. M. Ward and Mr. R. L. Tarrant who, with a committee of ladies will have charge of all the plans for the feast. Beside some local speakers there will be present Rev. M. B. Kelly, of Greenwood, Judge J. Fuller Lyon, of Columbia, and Hon. C.~C. Feather stone, of Laurens. These invited guests will speak on subjects appro priate to the occasion. An oyster supper will be served and then a so eial bonr, the objeet in view being to ~bring the--men of thLe ehurch into more intimate relations andi better chm:eh work. SERMON TO RED MEN. Rev. C. W. Kelley Will Preach to Newberry Red Men Next Sun day Morning... Rev. C. WV. Kelley. of 0O'Neall treet church, is -also a member of the Independent Order of Red Men. and next Sunday morning at eleven o'clock will pre~ach a sermon especial ly for the Red Men in 0O'Neall Street church. All the members of Bergell Tribe o. 23 are requested to attend in a v and the Sachem request~ that they meet at their lodge iom at 10.30 so as to attend in a body. Mr. Kelley is a very eloquent andj earnest preacher and the members will be fully repaid for attending this service, and as it is especially for their benefit it is hoped that every member wll be there. Girls, Girls!, et''it Free Press. "Pa. M~iary's upstairs erying "'Wha't' s the matter this time. a?'' "'I can'i t just ma:ke o.ut whet her it's~ eause she 's :afraid Jim -won 't ask r to go to the theatrr- roightZi or erei she -hasni't anything fit to if he should.'' DEATH SENTENCE DAY AFTER CRIME Negro Who Assaulted Girl Thursday Condemned to Die-Execution Set for March 22. Roanoke, Va., Feb. 19.-Aurelius Christian, the negro who yesterday riminraliy tassulted and tihen mur dered Miss Mary Dobbs, the pretty 4-year-old daughter of a prominent Botetourt county farmer, was today entenced to die in the electric chair n the ,State penitentiary on March 2. Ohristian iras taken from Clifton Forge today :to Fineastle and tried at specia.l sitting of the court by Cir uit Judge Anders on, who a ccompan ed the negro and officers to Fineastle. hristian was indicted by tihe grand ury and .Judge Anderson appointed hree lawyers to defend him. At a onference between 'the lawyers and he .pri.soner. Christian made a con fession of the crime, which he later epeated in court to the judge. The ourt heard three witnesses, wiho es ablished the time and place of the rime. No jury was summoned. The udge aceepted C'hristian 's confession : n imposed the death sentence. The ero said he was hiding in the oods when Miss Dobbs passed by on er way to a store. He seized her and, aft?er assaulting her, cust her troat and stabbed 'her three times in rder to keep her from telling. Ciristian showed no signs of fright n court. Then sentence came within 24 hours fter the crime was committed, and 3hristian was sent to the Fineastle ail. The jail is being guarded to ight t>~ prevent any attack ithat ight be ne b.y a mob.. A mob athered last night near Clifton orge. but agreed not iso att-empt . to lneh Christian while he was a~t that lace. INJUSTICE TO MR. WHALEY? enator Otts 's Personal Privilege Statement Questioned. ews and Courier., Cohunbia. February 20.-Senator inkler arese to a question of per ou:l privilege in the sen.at2 today ma stated that he would like to make statement in regard to Sereftor tts as to Speaker Whaley, of the he evening. before. Senato:r. SinHer eferred to the remarks of Senator tss as to Speaker Whaley, of the ou... Senator Orts. who furniThed b~e News and Courier senater repor6 ter with a copy of his remarks ini his wn handwriting, said about Speak r Whaley: "I1 rare just been in formed by the speaker of the hounse that I -am responsibl.e for this gener 1 assembly not adjourning, sine die. on tomorrow. because I, this mon n refused to accede to the proposi tioni to take up the rate hill and dis ~uss it for two hours and then vote. need not tell this senate that such s untrue."' This statement and the emainder of Senator Otts's remarks appeared in the News and Courier to day. ~\0 Senator Sinkler stated that this was d:>irg Mr. -Whaley an injustice. The position of Mr. Whaley in the matter, as pointed out by Mr. Sink ler, was that the speaker of the house had merely spoken to Mr. Otts in the intarests of the facilitation of busi es, having told Mr. Otts, in eonver ation, that it might be best to ad journ Saturday evening and save the State of South Carolina. the expense of the prolonged session. Senator Sinkler also st.ated that Speaker Whaley made no cha:rge against Senator Otts or in any way desired to coerce him, and the news paper exploitation resulting there from was not desirable. It should be stated in this connection that Mr. )tts 's personal .privilege remarks were reduced to writing by 'himself ,md firniilhed to the News and Cour ieir senate reporter. This morning Senator Otts stated on the fSior of the senate that ihe wou:ld like in justice to himself and the speaker of the house ''to call at tention to an error in the published tatements as to t.he question of per onal privilege printed in many ,pa ers." Senator Otts stated: ''I have been nformed by t'he speaker that I am hargedl with <tihe failure to adjourn, te, (but in justice to the reporters Iwill say that I ''Ok'ed" the copy s published, and it was my arror in not correcting the copy.) but I am ure that 'the senate will recall that said I had been informed by the peaker and not that I was charged y the speaker." Mr. Otts also stated, after Senator Sinkler 's remarks. tihat he did not onsider the matter purely p)ersonial s he understood that an attempt had een made to 1hold him responsible for the failure to adjourn, and that 'I am sure is a question of public, mnd not p)rivate importanee."' TAFT BUYS SADDLE HORSE. resident-elect Makes Purchase Fro.. Tiate Sterrett of the Fassifern Farm. W\ashingtoni, Feb. 19.-Pre ident leet Taft ihas purchased from Tate Serrett of the Fas.sifern farm, Hot prings-. Va., a stalwart horse of good edigree for his personal use after e takes up his residence in the White -ouse. The animal is a. powerful lood bay gledinie, with black points, pears of age. He is the hunter type, 7 hands high and 1,250 pounds in eighbt and is described as an ideal eight carrier with the best of man ters. Mr. Taft rode him frequently uring his visit to Hot Springs last ummer. The president-elect has amed the 'horse ''Tate Sterrett." Applicants .for Rural Carrier. The secretary of t.he Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners. Mr. C. . Bowman, has been direeted to old an examination At Newberry for ural earriers, on S aturday. the 27tih, einningr a.t nine a. mn. Those desir ne to stand this examination will re >otto the secretary at the ps f e. LEGISLATURE BREAKS PRE CEDENT. House Was Ready and Anxious to Adjourn Saturday-What Has Been Done at the Present Session. Col hnbia. Febraary 21.-All prece dents have been broken by the length enin- of the legislative session be vond the 40 day limit contemplated by the constitution. Prior to the adoption of t.he new constitution, and icovering the period from 1876 to SIS95. when the new constitution was adoyptetl. there never was but one -ex ception, it is said, when the session lasted more than thirty days, and at that time the code was adopted by going through it the same as if it were a new Act. Then after the new constitution was adopted there were several long sessions to incorporate into statute law the provisions of the constitution. The general assembly last year returned to elect the suc eessor of Senator Latimer, but trans acted -no legislative work. This extension of the session in the year 1909 is, therefore, all the more extraordinary and unprecedented, as there was nothing of vital importance to hold the :session beyond the forty day limit, unless it be the hope of forcing the 'adoption of State-wide prohibtion, and then, perhaps, going home and regretting it. The House Disappointed. So far. as the house is concerned, jwhether there was fliibustering in that branch or not, the members had finished their work in ample time, and the 'adoption of the resolution of Mr. Fraser on Thursday that all sec ond reading bills be continued until next session is the strongest indica tion that the house really and truly expected that the senate would join hands and fix the adjournment for Saturday. Up to the very last the house thought the senate was bluffing, but when Senator Otts insisted on his objection to the consideration of the supply bill and invoked the orthodox rules of the senate by which that bill could not be considered when called up, the tired and weary .and home loving members of ,e house for the first time realized that the jig was up, a.nd that theyicould not get home, to remain there, on Saturday. Still they hoped that something could be' done to adjourn Saturday. Mr. Ruck er insisted and kept on insisting that the general appropriation and supply. bills had gotten over to t.he senate sooner than they had in years, and that if the adjournment was~ not had on the fortieth day the fault rested with the senate and not wit,h the house. That was ,not questioned, but the undertone was that the prohibi tionists, led by Mr. Otts, on the sen ate side, were going to force -a vote on State-wide prohibition this ses sion. The report was that some sort of vote had to be had, and then mem bers <realized for how many days they had held the matter in the house anid how easily the senate could hold the house until it was ready to say that zey woulid qnuit. Early in the session the senate was Ifar ahead of the house, but in the lat ter part of the session the talking was done over on the senate side. The lien law and the rate bill wvere dis cussed as long as any .proposition on the house side, in fact the M. L. ISmith rate bill did not consume ten minutes of the house time and the lien law discussion was brief. " If we have done nothing else at this session, we have killed the lien la.w and that is a plenty, is the way in which one member of the house looked at the situation. That much ha's been done. The general lien law has been killed, effective January 1, 1910. The .repeal of the lien law is a testimonial to the persistency of Mr. 'John G. R.riehards, of the Kershaw deleation. Next session Mr. Hydrick and Mr. Richards will try their hand at a revision of the chattel mortgage law. It is claimed that the mere re peal of the li-en law does not accomn pish all that is desired, and that a.s a companion Act the right to miort ga.e a crop will have to be amended before the full benefit of tl:e changed cOndition ca*n be aeco:nplishied. There are n'me who~ predie't that the demand will be So) st rng toa de len law will be .reaffirmed bef- re tihe HmykRieh'3rdls chat tel miortgag;eI law is ever enacted. Taxation and Compulsory Education. Two irems of importance in legis lation remain untouched and will not be acted upon at this session-taxa tion and compulsory education. There have been changes in the school law and efforts made to improve the school conditions, but nothing further has been done towards securing the attendance of the youth of the State, and the tax laws and particularly the matter of assessments remain in the present unsatisfactory condition, and what is worse will continue in that condition for some time. There was a suggestion of a com mission to study and suggest improve ments in the matter of -axation, but the general assembly declined the suggestion. In fact this was a pretty bad y,ar for .commissions, and the on ly commission suggestion that man aged to ran the gauntlet and find its way to the permanent records was the commission to investigate th-e Hospital for the Insane, and that would hardly have been enacted had the board of regents and offieials of the institution not asked for the in quiry. The suggestion of a building com mission,. to see what ought to he done to get more and needed room at the State house, was killed by the house. The suggestion of .a commission to look into the marsh land situation of the low country was deferred until next session. The suggestion of a commission to look into the best manner of "con serving the timber lands of the State" failed. The suggestion of a commission or committee to investigate the county dispensaries was killed in the senate, and such was the fate all along the line. In fact, the commission idea was so hard rapped that those who really thought there ought to be some changes -in the insurance laws sug gested a special committee to work on these lines, but provided that no pay was to follow, and the railroad commission was asked to look into the matter of rates, instead of having a legislative commission do so. Appropriation Bill. The chief items of difference be tween the house and senate on the ap propriation bill, presuming that the finance committee report will be idopted, as is always the case, is that the senate has cut out the $30,000 for. free books for school ihildren. The senate has inserted the $12,000 for the maintenance and suipport of the Confederate Home, which the house cut out and added to the general pen sion fund. The senate has.added $12, 340 for WintbLrop college-$2,308 for additional teachers occasioned by the enlarg-ement of tIhe institution; $3, 232 for laundry; .$2,000 for addition to barn: $800 for additional cows, and $4,000 for additions and renova tion of the heating plant. When these items are adopted in the sen:1te the revisin; bet.ween the house and senate will be done. An interesting item in the report of the finance committee is the pro vision of $1,200 as pay for Chief Jus tice T. J. Pope as a lecturer at theI Univesity of South Carolina in the law department of the institution. The first that the University authori ties knew of this gracious considera tion for the chief 'justice was when the report of the finance committee wis published, ini the Journial. Cotton Mill Inspectors. Those who have been disposed to agitate conditio:ts in cotton mills and t:.er industrial plants ought now to )e satisfied. The "'factory inspec tio"' bill of Senator Weston has )een ordered ratified, and provides for two inspectors who are to work1 under the direction of Commissioner Watson. There is very much work apped out for these two inspectors, and exactly how they are to do theI half of what is planned and do it with any degree of completeness re mains to be seen. Commissioner Wat son 's department remains untouched. T wo bills of more than unusual in terest that have been ordered rati fied are the bills of Mr. Browning, which prohibits the use of the credit of any corporation by any of its offi ers. and the bill of Mr. Kurtz P. ith nde .whieh any stockholder can, upon written request, secure a complete financial statement of the conditon of ihe company in which he happens to be a stockholder. Com plaint has been made that certain cor porations when asked for a financial statement found some excuse for not sanding the report, and under the terms of the K. P. Smith Act when ever a stockholder, in writing, asks for a statement it must be sent him. Such a statement need not give a list of creditors or go into affairs that ought not to be exploited to unwise stockholders. $5,000 for Silver Service. Two appropriations that have been passed in the tag end of the session is the allowance of $5,000 for the pur chase of a silver service to be present ed to the battle ship South Carolina in the name of the State. It may be within 'the range of possibilities to have the ceremonies inciHent to this presentation in the port of Charleston during the session of the general as sembly, and it may be so arranged that the assembly can witness the presentation. Another appropriation passed upon by th ehouse was an allowance of $7, 500 in the event that the people of the State raise $7,500, and with this $15,000 that -a monument be erected on the State house grounds to "The Women of the Confederacy." This movement was started by Mr. John G. Richards, and the passage of the bill was, largely due to his efforts. Nothing much was done in the mat ter of insurance legislation at this session, except to pass one of Com missioner McMaster's bills. This was to amend the present law in neces sary particulars. One of the bills the Cothran-Christensen, is pending. This bill provides for a manner of collecting back taxes from the insur ance companies. Adjournment. When will the genela assembly adjourn? Ask Mr. Otts or some oth er of the prohibition leaders. If they expect to force a full consideration of the State-wide prohibition bills, and the other side are unwilling to do so that there is no telling when an ad journment will be had. Over on the house side the question was whether the supply bill would be considered before the State-wide bills, and the same condition exists over on the sen ate side. When the senate returns here Tuesday by a majority vote the appropriation and supply bills can be taken up and passed upon or the pro hibition bills can be taken up. All of these bills will have been on the desks for the required time, and it will simply be a qtiestion of proce dure, and *hether or not there is to he any filibustering on one side or an other. In the meaun Kile the? 1;ae is ready and waiting to adjourn. The souse comnes back a day 1.ater tn*an the ssnate in the hope that by Wednesday evening the supply and appropriation bills will be out of the way. It would be a very easy matter to reach final adjournment by Thursday evening, provided, of course, the sen ate passes the supply and appropria tion bills and sends them to confer ence. Perhap~s tihe most unusual bill that has been passed at this session is the one prohibiting the publication of the name of a woman or girl who has been ravished or on whom such an attemp)t has been made. The newspapers will hereafter be compelled to use dot-s and dashes for names, and the serious question whether this will not arouse more inquiiry .and comment than if the full name were used in the pub lished accounts. Death of Mrs. E. M. Boyd. Mrs. E. M. Boyd. the mother of Mrs. M. E. Hoof, died on Feb. 19th, aged 70 years, 10 months -and 10 days. She was the daughter of Mr. Geo. and Mrs. Mary Eleazer. She married Mr. John E. Jacobs on December 9, 1858. He was killed in the Confed erate war in 1863. To them were born one daughter and two sons. She mar ried Capt. Thomas L. Boyd on April , 1874. He died August 22, 1880. In early life she was confirmed a member of St. Jacob 's Evangelical Lutheran church and remained a faithful member until death. She leaves three sisters, one brother, three hildren, and sixteen grandchildren. The funeral was conducted by Rev. Edward Fulenwider and the burial too plac in Rosemont cemetery.