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COTTON MARKET - Corrected by Nat Gist. Good Middling. .14% B r . . Strict Middling. ..-14% X1iddling . . . . . . 14%/ By Robt. %eC. Holmes. - Good Middling. . .14%e Strict Middling. .. .14% g. Middling. . . . . .14/2 Cotton seed 30 cents. TOLTUE XLTIMI UIEER 58. NEWBERRY9 SOUTH CAROLINA,4FRIDAY, JULY 22,9 1910. TIIAWl I ER 0 Lynching in t Was Nai CROWD DISAGREED AS TO MODE OF DEATH WHITE MAN WAS OBJECT OF TENGENANCE. Thomas Yarbrough Accused of At tempted Criminal Assault-Taken to Penitentiary. Disagreement as to the manner in which .the proposed victim should be put to a speedy death, and the lack of a leader following the disagree ment, prevented a lynching in the Silver Street section of Newberry county on Wednesday night or dur ing the early hours of Thursday morning, it is stated by those in au thority and in a position to know the Thomas Yarbrough was the object of the vengeance of the crowd which had gathered. The crowd, it is stat ed, numbered, between 18 and 20 de termined people. While the mob was deliberating, Magistrate J. W. Hen drix got in communication with Sher iff Buford at 3.45 on Thursday morn ing, and at 4 o'clock Sheriff Buford, accompanied 'by his son and deputy, Mr. Pope L. Buford, was on his way to Yarbrough's home. - Yarbrough, -who hias been working a one-horse farm on the Spearman place since February, when he left the Mollohon mill, was found at work in his field when the sheriff reached his home. Ee was arrested and brought to New berry and lodged in jail. Acting on a6ices received from the community as to the feeling there, including a letter from- Magistrate Hendrix, Sheriff Buford was in com munication with the governor's of fiee on Thursday morning, and in view of all the circumstances it was deemed advisable to take Yarbrough to Columbia to the State penitentiary, for safe keeping, which was done on the 3.20 train on Thursday afternoon. .Yarbrough is accused of attempted criminal assault on a seven-year-old white girl child of the community. The crime is alleged to have been committed on July 2. It is alleged that it was committed in a path in a secluded part of the section, and the youthfulness of the victim is the rea son assigned for its not having come to light sooner. It is charged that it happened in a secluded path, near Tarbrough's home. An interesting story is involved in the manner in -which it reached the ears of the born mnunity. It is said that Yarbrough's 'wife wrote a letter to the mother of the child telling her that if she knew 'what had happened she would not let the child travel alone the path which she had been in the habit of travel ing. This letter, it is said, led to the investig,ation, which resulted in the ~excitement and the arrest of Yar brough and lodging him in the State penitentiary for safe-keeping. It is said that when the crowd -gathered on Wednesday gight the first proposition was to go for Yarbrough, secure him, swing him to a limb over the river, riddle his body with bullets, then cut him down and let his body float down the river. Others, it is said, wanted to swing him to a limb in the woods and let his body remain as a warning. A third portion of the crowd, it is said, want4d to give him a whipping which would teach him a lesson, and then let him leave the ommunity. The crowd could not get together, it is learned. Magistrate J. W. Hendrix was in ouch with the situation, and he got heriff Buford over the telephone at 3.45 o'clock on Thursday morning. Within fifteen minutes Sheriff Bu ford, as stated above, was on the road to the scene. Accompanied by De puty Sheriff Pope Buford, he went to Yarbrough's home first, and found him there at work in his field. Yar brough readily surrendered and con sMn ed ta come to Newberry, saying that he knew nothing wh.atever of the charges against him. Shortly before being taken to Co De Countv rrowly Missed, cell in the jail by a representative of The Herald and News. Yarbrough readily consented to talk, proclaim Ing his absolute innocence through out his conversation. Yarbrough gave his age at 45, say ing that he was 45 years of age about a month ago. He said that he was born in Montgomery county, North Caflina. He left home when he was about 22 years of age. While at home he had been engaged in farming and mill work. After leaving home he spent some years in North Carolina, working in the mills in Charlotte and Wilmington.~ From Wilmington he came to Darlington, in this State, and worked in Darlington a year or mores, From Darlington he went to Charles ton, where he was engaged at work in the navy yard and other places for about two years. From Charleston he went to Clinton, where he worked in the Clinton cotton mill for four years. From Clinton he came to Newberry and worked in the Mollo hon mill here three or four years, leaving here in February of this year to go to farming. He rented a farm from Mr. Walter S. Spearman, in the Spearman section of the county, near Silver street. He was running a one horse farm, and said that he had about 21 acres in cotton and about nine in corn. Yarbrough said that he knew noth ing of the charges against him until he was arrested, and that the cild lived in about a half mile of him, and that she had always been friendly to him, and that he had always liked her, and had frequently played with her, as would a man his age with a girl of seven years, but as to any criminal intent, he said that such a thought had never entered his mind. Yarbrough has now his third wife. His first wife died soon after mar riage, leaving no children. By his second wife he has one child, a boy, about 17 years of age. By his third wife, who is still living, he has four children, two boys and two girls, the oldest of whom is eight years of age. The five children have been living with him and his wife. Before leaving for Columbia yes terday afternoon Yarbrough had Sher iff Buford to send a message to his home telling his wife to come to Co lumbia to see him. He said that he knew nothing of the alleged letter written by his wife to the mother of the alleged victim, which it is said brougiht on the trouble. He said, however, that he had heard his wife say that the girl had been using "bad language" in company with her children, and that she wanted this~ stopped. He said th~at he could as sign no reason for the charge except "prejudice. At the time the representative cf The Herald a 6 News talked to him Yarbrough bad not secured a lawyer. Hie was onti12ely willing to go to Co lumbia, saying he had no doubt that as soon as tile feeling subsided his innocence would be realized. The advices upon which Sheriff Bu ford acted in communicating with the governor's office and in taking the prisoner to Columbia, included, as stated above, not only the phone mes sage from Magistrate Hendrix, acting upon which the sheriff went to Spear man's and arrested Yarbrough, but al so a letter from the magistrate after Yarbrough was- lodge in jail, in which the magistrate said that he thought, in view of the feeling of the commu nity, following the happenings of Wednesday night, he felt that it would not be advisable to keep Yarbrough in Newberry. It is not alleged that Yarbrough ac complished his purpose. Under a recent act of the legisla ture the crime charg d is a capital offence in this State, unless the jury should recommend to mercy, in case of conviction. The crime being charged to have been committed on July 2, and noth ing having been done in regard to it until Wednesday night, has started an inquiry as to the reason for the delay. It is stated that it came to light through an investigation result ing from Mrs. Yarbrough's letter to 'the fiother of the alleged victim, and that nothing was known of it until THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. rhe Guests Are There and Everybody I is Having Good Time-Death of Mr. Bedenbaugh. Prosperity, July 21.-All is finished ind at last has come the beginning a f the ten days of festival gaieties. t] I'hey are here. The opening reception was given b >y Misses Schumpert, Lester, Browne, n Wheeler, Moseley at Mr. W. A. Mos ley's residence Wednesday evening, S Tuly 20, in compliment to Prosper- E ty's visiting college friends. The ,uests were received at the door by C Vir. and Mrs. Moseley, and taken in -T %harge by Mrs. D. E. Ridgell, Misses Annie Mae Bedenbaugh and Lillie s: qae Russell, who saw that each one' passed a happy evening. Refreshing c; ?unch, ices and cake were served. t< Miss Annie Moseley has as her fh uests Misses Joe Kinard, Ninety Six; Pearl McCrackin, Newberry; Louise n Brockington, Manning; Bessie Lee ,heatham, Abbeville; Hattie Arram, r 3ishopville. c Miss Marie Schumpert Misses Maud b ivingston, Chappells; Bessie Durant, a 3ishopville. I d Miss Lena Lester-Misses Grace n lUdgell, Batesburg; Mary Cureton, 'reenwood; Annie Laurie Lester, Co- t< umbia. Miss Mary Willis-Misses Ruth ti Plerry, Newberry; Marie Dent, Co umbia. b b Miss Julia Schumpert-Misses s 7erna Suxmmer, Lucy Hill, Banna t] Xreen, Newberry. b Miss Mary Wheeler-Misses Sudie )ennis, Marguerite Burton, Newberry. b Miss Willie Mae Wise-Misses Myr- t ie Lybrand, Wagener; Mary Lathan, ittle Mountain; Cornelia Capers, Nashington. it Miss Clara Gibson.-Misses Hannah 3arton, Charleston; Blanch Gallman, qewberry. Miss Minnie Boyd Brown-Misses ia Iosa Caldwell, Due West; Florence 3owman, Lizzie Neal, Newberry; May Foulkner, Charlotte; Florrie Beats; t, .hester; Norvice and Ola Brown, h iewberry. f< Miss * Janie Russell-Miss Mae 3oozer, Lexington. Mrs. E. B. Kibler-Misses Myrtle 3uber and Bessie McCarley, Whit nire. Mrs. J. A. Simpson-Miss Blossie Kreps, Columbia.. Mr. Allen Lester-Messrs. J. K. Durst, Jr., Greenwood; J. W. Wallace, a Kinards. Mr. Granville Wyche-Messrs. W- d I. Graydon, Abbeville; Chitty, Barn- a perg. Mr. Pat Mitchell-Mr. Kellers y hell, Columbia. d Mr. Jno. Pat Wise--Messrs. V. B. t Sease, E. S. Kohn, Little Mountain; e Grady Goggans, Tom Wicker, New- i, aerry; T. H. Houch, J. H. Hydrick, r 3rangeburg;, C. A. Misenheimer, 3harlotte Mr. Young Brown-Messrs. W. C. v 3rowther, Abbeville; Willie Childs, Ib 3reenwood; Ralph Brown, Atlanta. 1 Mr. Robert Wise-Messrs. Hal 3 Kohn, Columbia; James Calmes, D Americus, Ga. Mr. Walter Wise-Messrs. Metts a Fant, Whitmire; Ernest Dousher, Charleston. Mr. McFall Wise-Messrs. A. N. Kieffer, Savannah, Ga.; J. B. Smeltz-I r, Columbia; W. A. Berritt, Mullins; S. B. Houch, Orangeburg. Mr. Marks Simpson-Messrs. A. C. Garlington, J. A. Burton, Jr., New berry; R. R. Rugheimer, Charleston. t Miss Essie Black, of Saluda, is visit !ng her mother, Mr. L. A. Black. Messrs. Marks Simpson and Gran- o yille Wyche have returned home from v~ Abbeville, S. C. Dr. T. F. Little.john, of Inman, spent il Sunday in town. There will be a public missionary' t: service in Grace Lutheran churdh Sunday evening at 8.30. Sermon by Rev. Edw. Fulenwider, of Newberry. Mrs. I. S. Caldwell has as her b guests Mesdames Hastings, Charlotte, N. C.; Garrett, Birmingham, Ala.; t Carlisle, Newberry. Dr. Jack Kinard, of Ninety Six, was r in town Wednesday. Lawyer C. C. Wyche has returned to his home in Spartanburg, after a. 'T isit to his parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Wyche. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Sease, of Clem son college, are visiting Dr. G. Y. b {u nt er. BANKS AND MLLS. 'rogress the Watchword as Written by Excelsior Correspondent Personal and Otherwise. Excelsior, July 21.-Sunday school nd preaching Sunday afternoon at ] ie usual hour. The hardest rains this season fell ere Saturday and Monday, doing mch. damage to crops. Mrs. J. D. Stone and children spent unday with her sister, Mrs. Thomas :pps. Mrs. Geiger and little daughter, of olumbia, have been on a visit to Mr. D. Lorick's family. Mr. Charlie Kibler is visiting his ster, Mrs. A. A. Singley. Mrs. Pearl Rikard and 8hildren ame over from Atlanta on Saturday > spend sdme time with her father's f Lmily, Mr. A. M. Counts. a While in Prosperity Saturday we s oticed work on the new bank was t rogressing nicely and will soon be mady for business. The president, shier, and directors of the new ank are a set of good business men t id the bank is bound to prosper and t o a good business. Glad to see the t ew enterprise spring up and we ish it well, as, it means much for the )wn. Everybody~speaks in favor of a cot )n mill for Prosperity, and the time 1 not far distant when the mill will I e built. Let every fellow put his ( oulder to the wheel and push for e e erection of the mill. With three C anks, a cotton mill, cotton seed oil t dill, along with other enterprises of 3 usiness going on, when a fellow goes' Prosperity he will feel like he is in t ewherry, Judging from the hum of 8 usiness going on all sides. So mote I be. Excelsior school will open next [onday morning with Prof. Fairance oland teacher. Let the school have good opening. Sigma. C t Lnburg, is spending this month with g er parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Lang- t )rd. t Mrs. J. A. Dominick has as her t uest Mrs. Jane Cook. Mrs. J. W. Mathews, of Mountville, t ; visiting Mrs. J. M. Werts. t Miss Lillie Mae Russell spent Wed-( esday in Columbia Mr. A. G. Wise has returned home fter a week's stay at Glenn Springs. Mr. G. D. Harmon, Jr., left Wednes ay to visit friends in Ware Shoals t nd Greenville. One of Prosperity's oldest citizens, I [r. E. K. Bedenbaugh, died very sud efly Monday, while at the dinner e 3ble. Mr. Bedenbaugh was 63 years t ld. He served in the Civil war, en- c sting in Co. D, 4th South Carolina t giment. Coming from the army he a arried Miss Mattie Rodgers, and < ettled in Prosperity. Their home c ras blessed with four children, three ( oys and one girl, all of whom sre c ving-Alonzo, Lester, Dudley and i fiss Lola Bedenbaugh, all of Pros- t erity: He has a surviving brother, 1 Ir. Frank Bedenbaugh, of Columbia, a nd two sisters, Mrs. Jno. Rikard, oft atesburg, and Mrs. Jno. Williams, of ] ewberry. Mr. Bedenbaugh was a1 id and affectionate father and Pros- 1 erity may well feel the loss of one f its staunchest citizens.4 Mlone in the Field. The Saturday Evening Post tells A young Chicago man went to a Vestern town in th.e first days of the1 il excitement out there to see what as stirring.1 The day after he arrived he went ato a restaurant to get his breakfast and found an old friend sitting at de table to which he was assigned. "Hello!" said the man at the table. When did you come in Jim?" "I got here yesterday. How long ave you been here?" "Six months. What are you going a do?" "Oh, just look around and try to 1ake an honest dollar." "Well," said the six-months' man, you ought to make your fortune, you ron't have any competition." A Soft Answer. Footpad-Your watch, mister, and e quick about it.I County's .Cror Yi Following ,STIMATES PLACE THE PERCENTAGE BELOW 75 IEPORTS FROM VARIOUS SEC TIONS OF THE COUNTY. lain of Monday Night One of Heav lest and Most Destructive In New. berry in Many Years. A careful estimate of crop condi ions in Newberry county, as -made rom reports requested and received rom planters throughout the county nd others in a position to . judge, hows that the average f6r this coun y as compared with the general aver ge for a number of years past is be ween 67 and 75 per cent., most of he reports placing it in the neighbor .ood of 75 per cent., but many of hem going below that. In a letter received by Mr. A. D. ludson, of this county, from Mr. A. I. Smith, government expect, with eadquarters in Columbia, Mr. Smith laces the crop conditions in South arolina. at seventy-five per cent, his stimate being made upon 'personal bservition by himself throughout he State during the past several reeks and reports received by him. t will be seen that the Newberry es imate, as compiled by The Herald .nd News shows the conditions in Tewberry county to be about the ame as Celsewhere throughout the ;tate, as estimated by Mr. Smith. This estimate was compiled by The ferald and News following the rains >f the past two weeks, and -especially he very heavy rain of Monday after Loon. Of course it took some time to et in communication with people in ouch with the -situation throughout he county, and. even yet in some sec ions of the county the farmers are Lot able to estimate the damage done y the very heavy rain of Monday af ernoon. Monday afternoon's rain in the city f Newberry was one of the heaviest nd most destructive which has fallen ere in a number of years. Scott's reek was raging, being out of . its anks and over the city bridges for he second time in about twenty-five ears, and flooding the "bottoms" ear the railroads. The rain throughout the county was rratic. In some portions of the coun y it was as heavy as lai Newberry and .d a great deal of damage. This was rue in many sections of the county, .n! yet in nearly every section of the ounty nearby the sections where amage was done were places where nly a light rain fell which did the rops good. For this reason it has een especially hard to make an es imate of the damage which was done, >ut the estimate given above repre ents the consensus of opinion of hose in position to know whom The Ierald and News has been able to in erview, personally and by letters and y telephone. Mr. J. L. Wise, at Prosperity, stat d that Monday night's rain was one >f the hardest seen in that section in tnumber of years, and that it was mpossible as yet to estimate the dam Lge. In the upper section of the county, etween Newberry and Greenwood, dir. A. D. Hudson, whose farm has een placed this year under the su ervision of the government experts, ays that his section, at Spearmans, rear Silver Street, did not receive an xcessively heavy rain, and, in fact, 1 more than was needed. He esti nates that the cotton crop Is one hird, or 33 1-3 per cent. off in his ection, but says that more corn will e made, according to present condi ons, than last year. Mr. Hudson stated to The Herald Lnd News that he had just received a etter from Mr. A. G. Smith, who is onnected with the government de artment, with headquarters in Co umia, to the effect that his estimate > crop conditions in South Carolina, s comnpiled from -personal observa-: if.r from trips in the State and re orts moeired by him,~ Wasthat cot P Conditions Recent Rains. per cent. off, the average being about seventy-five per cent. It may be remarked, in this connec tion, that Mr. Smith has on several occasions been up to see Mr. Hudson's farm, this farm being worked this year under government supervision, and that Mr. Hudson has one of the finest farms in the South according to the government experts. At Pomaria, in the lower section of. of the county, Mr. Jno. C. Aull re ports that the rain of Monday night was not as damaging to crcps in that community as the rains for two weeks preceding, the rain o? Mc.day n1g'at not being as heavy in that section as in the city and othe: s(ctIons of the county. 'Mr. Aull sz. d he theught ths irop zonoitions were a vott the sa ra as last year, but that the per cent. of the usual general average for the past several years was only about seventy. At Little Mountain Monday night's rain, according to Mr. Claude F. La than's estimate, did not seriously af feet conditions, the rain of Monday night amounting in that section to only a nice shower. He, however, re ported damage from the rain on Thursdax night of last week, and 'ie estimated that the crops in his sec tion were from twenty-five to thirty per cent. off, as compared with the. general average for the county In years gone by. While the crop was late, he .felt that there was a good chance to make a fair crop in his sec tion. Mr. C. W. Buford reported an ex ceedingly heavy rain, with much dam age to crops, in the community of the "Shack," near the Laurens line, to the right of Kinards, on Monddy night Monday night's rains at Jalapa and Kinards were a benefit rather than a damage to the crops. Mr. S. M. Dun can, who is- in charge of the govern ment demonstration work for this county, said that the heavy rain felt by Newberry had gone ab^ut six miles up the Jalapa road, but that the Ja lapa section, seven miles above New berry, had been benefited rather than damaged. He said that Kinards had also been benefited rather than damaged by the rain of Monday night. -At Mr. B. B. Leitzsey's place, about five miles north-east of Newberry, there was a very heavy ra;~n on Mon day night, which did much damage to crops, but the report from that sec tion is that the exceedingly heavy rain did not extend- as far as the Caldwell place, but that out in that section there was only an ordinary down-pour, doing little damage to crops.- #- - - Mr. J. W. Henderson, who lives about three miles from Newberry, near the O'Neall bridge, said that the rain was not heavy at his place-In fact, no more than was needed-and that up at the Lewie place, a couple miles beyond, that there .was not enough rain to stop plowing next day. Mr. W. B. Graham, who lives two miles from Walton, and about, four miles to the right of Mt. Pleasant, in the eastern portion of the county, says that In hie' section the rain of Monday night was light. He estimat es the crop conditions in this county as at about 25 per cent. off. Mr. H. M. Wicker, -'who lives on the Ashford Ferry road, about ten miles and a half from Newberry suffered very little from the heavy rain of Monday night, though he estimates crop conditions In the county as off about thirty per cent. Mr. Monroe '9arris, who lives near New Hope church, some five miles from Pom.aria, and between Mount Pleasant and Pomaria estimates crop conditions as only between ten and twelve per cent. off. This, of course, does not cover the county entirely, but It gives a fair in dication of crop conditions at,ti time. Mr. J. W. Scott, of the $Vhitmire section, says that the rain in his sec tion of the county was not as hard as in Newberry, but he estimates that crop conditions are badly off, placing the cotton percentage down towards -. Corn cnditions_ he says, are not