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4e'$ VOLIUNE XLIX, NUMBER 83. NEWMERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1911. "UNKNOWN PARTIES LYNCHED JACKSON CORONER HOLDS INQUEST OVER BULLET-PIERCED BODY, 3o Further Excitement at Honea 1ath Except That Negro is Whipped For Insulting Remark. Anderson, Oct. i1.-"Willis Jacksor came to his death from gunsho1 wounds at the hands of an unknown mob" was the verdict reachel by the coroner's jury at Honea Path today. The horribly mutifatea body was viewed by the jury, and then cu1 down from the telephone pole by Coroner Beasley. Tne mother of the negro refused to take the body, say ing she would not hO anything to do with a son of hers that would com mit such a crime. The negroes re lused to allow the body to be interred in their~ burial grounds, so it was ~buried at ithe.expense of the county. SeNleral fingers of the negro had been severed for souVenirs during the night, and the rope as' :t fell to 'the ground, was cut in pieces and distrib -uted among a large crowd that had -gathered to see- the negro cut from the pole. Coroner Beasley and Sheriff King . arrived on the scene at 9.30 o'clock this morning, and after experiencing a little trouble in getting a jury will ing to serve the inquest was begun 'The body was viewed, and the jury then repaired to the office of Magis tate Wilson to hear the testimony -ive or six witnessed were examined 'but it was 'impossible to locate any person who admitted seeing the lynch ing. EVerybody in the c6mmunit3 'was reticent, and the exami3lation 01 the witnesses required only a shor time. Sheriff King forwarded a short re -port from Honea Path to Gov. -Bleaso In the report he referred the governo. to' the newspaper accounts, whic 'the sheriff stated were correct in ev -ery particular, as far as he could de -termine. "Citizen" Josh Ashley was not a 'witness of the lynching, and neithei -was his son, Joe Ashley. These met left the mob with the negro before ths crowd reached Honea Path. At Hones 'Path Mayor Sullivan last night plead ed that the law be allowed to dis -pose of the negro. He read a tele -gram he had received from Gov ~Blease, asking that the mob allow the -law to take its course, stating thal he would order a special term of courn to try the negro within two weeks. Al: of the pleading was of no avail, how ever, for after taking the negro be fore the little girl for a second identi fication the crowd, proceeded to the -scene of the attack, a'nd there he was 'strung up by his left foot. The negro's body was literally rid died with bullets, not a spot as large -a a silver dollar -remaining wherE Sbullets did not pierce. Everything is quiet at Honea Paith -and no further demonstration will oc -cur. One negro man was dealt wit for making an insulting remark to a man looking on the body this morn ing. The remark was about blockina -the road. The negro was not injur ed, being only subjected to a lighi -whipping. All Quiet at Honea Path. Honea Path, Oct. 11.-Stiff 'and -stark, riddled with shot, the lifeless body of Willis Jackson was this morn ing hanging to a telephone post neai -the scene of the crime of yesterday morning. The crowd of angry met bas had its way. The tide of passion which swept all reason before it has passed, and this morning the town bad assumed its wonted quiet. Willis Jackson was arrested at firsi on suspicion, and because he met thE description which the outraged girl -gave of her assailant. When he wa-a taken before her she .positively and -without hesitation identified him. The negroes have maintained a Squiet and awed demeanor. A numbet of them went to view the body. The better class of them openly expressed thmnselves that the yhave no sympathy CL.U.M TO MILLIOS TI'OLD TO 200 WERTZS Rock Island (Ill.) Times, 7th. A document bearing the date of 1758 and said to have been written by King George 11. of 'England, was received at the Wertz family reunion by "Uncle Eilly' Wertz. of Newberry, South Car olina, this afternoon. The paper is haled as proof of the grant of 250 acres of land to Hans Jacob Werts in Holland. The paper is yellowed with age and parts of it can not be read. The sig nature of the king of England may be distinctly read, however, together with the more important parts of the docu mit. With this came the deed. Addressing 200 members o tne Wertz family in session at the Harper house, Mrs. Estelle Ryan Snyder this afternoon gave the family history and its claims to the Wertz millions. Mrs. Snyder said in part. "Whether we ever receive any of the millions of dollars that are said to be held by the Holland government across the seas, is a question I can not answer, but I do claim that without a doubt our gathering of this great family conclave will surely bear good fruit. I trust we shall all depart to out homes after a delightful visit to gether, imbued with the determination to keep in touch with the various members of our own great family cir cle. "I am proud to be able to tell you this afternoon .that in all my search for the Wertz family, during the last seven months, I have never heard of one of our blood that had lived an un worthy life or was engaged in any thing but an honorable profession. You scarcely realize the significance of that statement until you stop to think of the -hundrelis of Wertzs that are in America. On the contrar-v have found Wertzs - highest c m, tiol lor now parti Unite one o.1 tor an have i galore. fession favored clan. M. to do me tomobile prised not flying mac *but possibl3 How MIL "To begin of course ma iar with how Wertz million. -, motive was in searching for the various branches of the family whose where abouts were unknown. Sunday, Feb ruary 26, my mother, Mary Louise Wlertz Williams, called my attention to a cable dispatch in the Chicago Sunday Examiner. This dispatch bore the date of January 14, and purport ed to have been a cablegrami from Paris. I read the dispatch carefully and my mother and I discussed the probability of kinship between the General Wertz mentiohed in the cable gram and my mother's family. Moth er recalled the story of the great wealth in the Wertz family which had been told her many times in her younger days by her mother, who stat ed that if the Wertzs had what was coming to them, they would be enor mously rich. Upon being questioned why the Wertzs did not have the for tune spoken of by Grandmother Wertz (the widow Christopher Wertz) grand mother said that the estate was in the hands of the Holland government; that Holland had nlever relinquished it and would law the heirs to death, as they did not have the available nds to contest and fight such power FODIAL OPENING OF THE SEMINARY IUTHER.;NS FROM FOUR STATES ' GATIIER iN ('01IBIA. Handsome New Building Turned Over to Board of Directors-Interest inz Exercises. The'State, 12th. Yesterday was a notable day for the Lutherans of the Southern States. Hundreds of people gathered at the new seminary building at Eau Claire Ito hear the addresses and to witness I the ceremonies connected with the de livery of the keys to the board of di rctors, and the formal consecration of the building. Representative peo ple were here from at least four I States. At the morning hour the dean of the seminary, Dr. A. G. Voigt, pre sided.- Dr. 0. B. Mayer, of Newberry, as the chairman of the building com mittee, delivered the keys of the building, with a copy of the plans and specifications, to Dr. M. G. G. Scherer, of Charleston,' the president of the board. This Dr. Mayer did in a most appropriate manner. Dr. Mayer extended thanks to those who assisted in the erection of the' beautiful administration building of the seminary. He said that the erec tion of the administration building was an important event in the history of the Lutheran church in the South. "There is," said the speaker, "how ever, an 'unavoidable responsibility that goes with this privilege and hon or, 4nd that is they present it to their denominatiop. free of debt." as the government .V"' !dry, it for sev I just tory of ediat2 story been the see get hat er ng -- to go to Am .-amfl, Holland, and find out. -Let ers will niot do the work; the sum is too huge; the claim is too old. To interest people to do the square thing without robbing the Wertz heirs, if there is a possible chance to do so. "We do not want to create a fund to send an investigator to Holland or Germany to look up the will and Ja ob Wertz's ancestry unless it is really practical to do so. .I have proably a hundred letters offering to share the expense of any legitimate undertakig. This is the whole prob len in a nutshell: 'Is it practical to* raise money to fight this claim, or are we chasing a rainbow?' Can we ac tually recover legally what is said to be ours? That is the question." Before leaving the city for the east Mayor Harry M. Schriver appointed Commissioner Jonas Bear of public* property to welcome the members of the Wertz family. Mr. Bear in a short address today bade the family wel come, extending the hospitality of the citizens of Rock Island. The following were present from South Carolina: Will M. Werts, Mount vle; D. B. Werts, Newberry; C. G. Werts, M. W. Werts, Newberry, H. M. Maer, Nwberry. * * THE IDLER. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "From the pen anc press We mortals owe All we believe, And almost all we know." Again-"There is no h.!p for the man who does not read the news papers. No human use for him eith er." And yet I am told that there are some people in this enlightened age who do not even subscribe for their county paper. I wonder how they manage to get along. I reckon they borrow from their neighbors. And what do you think of the man who would borrow his neighbor's paper in stead of taking one for himself when the price is so low. And then another thing that puzzles me is how any one in Newberry can get along without my bits, of wisdom from week to week. -0 To be entirely frank it makes very little difference to me personally whether anybody reads what I write or not. When I have writ I have writ and I have discharged my duty to the community' and told the community what is for the best of the community aid if my admonitions are not heeded my responsibility has been discharged. And as 'the editor does not pay for my living expenses I am as independent as the famous March hare. -0 Talking about newspapers and their gubscription .accounts I read the fol lowing the other day from the Rich mond Times-,Dispatch. You will- see that I read the newspapers and I like to read those that are edited by men whom I have met or whom I know personally, and of course every South Carolinian has either met or heard of Major Hemphill. And by the way I see he is to leave the Times-Dispatch and come to Charlotte. But here is what I read: Who Wants An OwIT Is an owl good in trade for a year's subscription? That is the question which has worried the brain of the Bedford Bulletin, which says:. "We have taken wood, potatoes, corn, eggs, butter, onions, w,aonage, chick enS, stone, lumber, 1 bor, sa,nd, calico, sauer kraut, second-fi elothing, coon skins, bug juice, scrap iron, shoe negs, rawhides, chinquapins, tanbark, fice dogs, sorghum, seed, jugware and wheat straw on subscriptions, and now a man wants to know if we would end the paper for six months for a arge owl. We have no precedent for efusing, and if we can find a man who out of an owl pnd wants one we'll it. In the meantime, those sub 'ibers who pay in stovie wood are ified that we are out of wood." ut why does the Bulletin want d when it has bug juice and sor n? Those two things combined a Virginian-Pilot cocktail that 1 make an ice man warm. -0 An owl is a very useful animal and I should think would be of incalcula ble value to 'the average newspaper of fee unless all that I have heard about the animal is pure mytn. I have al ways understood that it was the bird of wisdom and if I am not badly mis informed such an animal would be of great benefit to the average newspaper shop, for most of them are in great need of the eommodity which the an! mal is noted for furnishing. Maybe, however, that wisdom is not necessary to the average newspaper shop, though my observation leads me to a contrary opinion. -0 The editor has sent me the follow ing additional communication from Uncle Briggs. I think I have fully answered all the points raised except possibly as to the o:Ner towns of the county. Of course I would be glad for all of them to provide rest rooms for the ladies from the country and if the county has any property in any of them that is a~s well adapted to the purpose as the old court house build ing I will advocate the county turning it over to the town for this purpose. Bi. you know the court house is the capital of the county and everybody coe to the court house. Now I am a countryman myself and believe in sticking to the country and have ab solutely no interest in any mercantile business in the town of Newberry or for that matter in any other -town in the county. And if Uncle Briggs will guarantee that he can get anything like a sufficient sum for the old court house to build a jail I will join him in a request for it to be sold forthwith and immediately. Here is his last de liverance: -0 Well, Mr. Idler, I know you are much older than I am and of course you had the advantages of an old time college education of which you had something to say recently. I am an old country man and cant' see how my last letter answered itself. Yes, I say sell the lot if the county has that right. If it belongs to the Coats estate turn if over to them. Why should Newberry try to just simply confiscate the property. Suppose the property was in Whitmire or Pomaria. What would Newberry say? Mr. Idler, you would be the first to raise a howl. Why not give the proceeds of the farm at the county home to maintain a 'est room at Pomaria or Whitmire. There are many, many women over the county that never get to Newberry. Then, do you think it right for the county to furnish building for a rest room for a few. We did not have ref erence to the ladies of Newberry, for they will never use it. Now, Mr. Idler, do you catch..my point. You seem to hav'e a greatAeal of leisure time, sup pose you look up the deed to the property and publish the exact word ing in reference to the use of the lot. If it belongs to the. county I want to see it sold and- u?e the proceeds In building and furnishIng a fjail and if any. surplus .let. it be applied on new court house debt. If the deed says lot must be used for court house then we have lost it by moving court house to another lot and the property should revert to the Coats estate. Let it go where it belongs. I hope the next leg islature Will do something for us. They never notice us poor old country folks until election year. I bet yoL they'll be out patting us on the back next summer. summer. Uncle Briggs. Uncle Brigge is gettiug restless. The editor has handed me the following from him. I did not receive his other in time to get it into the paper .before this issue. If Uncle Briggs can sell the old building for a sufficient sum to build a jail and pay off the debt on the new court house I say let him sell it at once and immediately. Further, if he can sell it for a sum sufficient to build a jail I say let him sell it. As to looking up the title to the land I have neither time nor inclination lacking mostly in inclination, because I am -sierse to' anything that resem bles labor.' Now I write as past time, because I lou~e to write and it does not require labor. There is one thing that Uncle. Briggs should bear in mind in the discussion of this matter, and that is that the people, of the town of Newberry are a part of the county and along about tax paying time they constitute about one-tnird of the county. But a great many Newberry people would like to see the old build ing go do.wn or up or in any direction to get it off the square. The fr. ow ing is the addition from Uncle Briggs: -0 Mr. Idler, you must have been sick or looking after Mr. Lan.gford's goats this week. I sent you an article and asked you to have it printed, but it failed to appear, though you fired away answering my questions, or tried to answer them. I haven't said a word about tearing old court house down. I said sell court house, and the lot-the land the court house sets on, and whatever else is included, one fourth, one-half or one acre. Now look up my article and ha-nd it to the edi tor. I know he will print it as I have seen so many editorials ne nmas written about newspaper men giving only one side. Now, Mr. Idler, lets be fair. There are hundreds that believe like I do, but we may be wrong. Uncle Briggs. -0 T think, however, that some years ag softe lawyer of Newberry NEW PRIZE UST FOR CORN SHOW A. D. HUDSON, PRESIDENT, WORK - ING FOR EXPOSITION. Over $10,000 and Several Trophy Cups Will be Given by South Caro lina People. The State, 11th. The prize list for the second South Carolina States Corn exposition to be held in Columbia during the week of December 11 is soon to be announced by A. D. Hudson, of Newberry, the president of the shoW. The prizes this year will aggregate ;10,000 and it is expected that there will be several thousand exhibits sent in by the farm ers of this and other States of the South. It has been decided to model the ex position after the National Corn show. That is the exposition will be made more educational. To this end Presi dent Hudson has secured the promise of exhibits from the agricultural ex periment stations -of North Carolina, Georgia and South Carolina. Mr. Hudson was among the visitors in the city yesterday in connection with the business of the exposition. He is delighted with the prospects for the next corn show. The place of holding the show has not been de cided upon by the mtanagement. It will very probably be. held at Craveu hall. The general assembly appropriated $3,000 for the exposition and Mr. Hud son has raised several thousand dol lars for additional prizes and several handsome trophy cups will be given for the best corn to be shown. THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Auto Speeding Must Stop-Mrs. Kb. ler Ill-Missionary Union to Meet. Prosperity, Oct. 12.-Mrs. A. H. Kohn, of Columbia, spent Tuesday with Mrs. E. E. Young, en route to Atlanta for a week's stay. Mr. T. A. Berley has returned from Greenwood. Rev, and Mrs. -L S. Caldw.ell and Miss Minnie Boyd Brown have gone to Bradley to attend the Woman's - Missionary union of the Second Pres bytery. Prof. J. E. Hunter spent the week end with Dr. G. Y. Hunter. iMrs. Lizzie Dewalt is visiting in - Newberry. Miss Bessie Lane spent Sunday with Mrs. C. T. Wyrche, returning on Monday to her home at Dillon. Miss Wyatt, who is teaching at Utopia spent the week-end with Miss Julia Schumpert. Prosperity Cotton Oil mill packed a bale of cotton for S. J. Kohn Wednes day weighing seven hnndred, and twen ty-three pounds. The following children have been called to the bedside of their mother, Mrs. Julia Kibler, who is seriously ill at the home of her daughter, Mi's. J. A. Simpson: Mesdames R. F. Bryant Iand W. A. Kinard, of Orangeburg and Sumter; Misses LillaanGsseKb ler, of Monroe, N. C., adAlna l so one sister, Mrs. M .Rw,o Lexington. Autoist speeding through Prosper ity will have to conform to auto speed limit which is as follows: Ten miles an hour, five miles an hour at corners with horn signal. Revs. E. W. Leslie, S. P. Koon and Y. von A. Riser attended the opening of the Lutheran Seminary in 'Colum bia on Wednesday. The Woman's Missionary union will meet Friday afternoon in Grace church. Communion services -will be administered in the same church on Sunday morning. St. Luke's school will open Monday, October 16. were paid a fee to look up this title, and may be they can tell Uncle Briggs about it. Possibly Mr. Geo. S. Mow er could enlighten him. The Idler. The Herald and News-Newherry's bes poar-.50 per year.