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vai.itwf i.. \CMBEB 98. NEWBEBBY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, XOYEHTBER 22, 1912. TBiri . ? r irrit* A wxii, fUf 1 IXUL ' ! t ' Negro Lynchec County 0\ "''aatr iiiif MASKED MUb xuui mm FROM THE CONSTABLE % LYNCHING WAS 14 MILES ABOVE NEWBERRY. Will Thomas, the Negro, Was Charged With Murder of Mr. Spurgeon Johnson. Will Thomas, a negro, was taken +>nm a magistrate's constable by a j 5 - _ party of masked men at a point about | fourteen miles above Newberry at about 10 o'clock on Friday night, and was chained to a tree and his body riddled with bullets. The negro was being brought to the Newberry jail by Constable Cary G. Johnson, on a warrant charging Thomas with the mur~ o'VifA morj der of Spurgeon Jonnson, a W UllC rnuu, I who was assassinated in the upper section of the county, near the Laurens line, during the first of October. The warrant had been issued by Magistrate William Dorroh," and the negro j * was arrested in the community in j which Johnson was killed. Constable Johnson was halted by x "Amo thiot woods the inob at a pomi m xu.vu .. just beyond Little River bridge. He says when the mob approached hin they demanded the prisoner, and that he refused to deliver him over and shot off his pistol, thinking to "bluff" the mob. He ?ays he was told that if he did that again he would be killed, and that he was then eaitirely surrounded by the masked men and had to surrenhim tn der. He said tne mou mcu wlu ~ ? .get down the road quickly, and ihat he obeyed. They struck his mule, he says, and before he had got very far he heard tht firing of guns and pistols. He says he thinks he heard over a Vinn/lrpri shots. He and Magistrate Dorroh went lo the scene on Saturday aiorning and i'ound the dead body of the negro still chained to the tree, the same chain being used with which Constable Johnson had the negro secured on the journey to Newberry. Magistrate Dor? - ??!" nrtHfior? Sheriff roh tiien lmmeuitiLCi* UWlAAVV* _ Buford. The sheriff had just returned ; from a trip in the lower part of the couoty, and in and around Peak, where there was considerable disturb ance Friday night, and in company with Constable Cannon G. Blease, Mr. - T~> AT Ti^. R. C. Eoyleston ana jar. n.. . marsh, he left immediately for the | scene. It was impossible to elicit any v further facts than those given by the magistrate's constable. Coroner John Henry Chappell held an inquest, the verdict being that the negro came to his death at the hands of unknown parnes. Following is the testimony of Constable Johnson at the inquest: "C. G. Johnson, sworn, says: I am constable for William Dorroh, aud had a warrant given to get Billy Thomas to convey him to jail for the murder Onnro-onn Tnhnson. and when I got y <-?? ~ , to th.ts spot a party of masked men ? -halted me and demanded the prisoner who I had arrested. I refused and j ? shot off my pistol, thinking that I could bluff them off. They told me that if I did that again they would .shoot me. I was then entirely surrounded by masked men and had to surrender. They then told me to get down the road quick and I obeyed. They struck my mule and I heard the shot of guns aac pistols before I had got very far aii<] Magistrate Dorroh and myself ccme * over here this morning and found Billy Thomas dead. I did not know any of the masked men. This was about 10 o'clock last night. It was 111 N wberry county, S. C." It will be recalled that Spurgeon j Johnson, the white maa with hose murder Thomas was cnar^e:!, was shot through a window of his home, after nightfall, as he was sitting in a room with his family. On the day following the shooting, while Sheriff Buford was investigating it, he examined Thomas, the negro who was lynched on Friday night, bat released him when it appeared that Thomas had been out (COXTIXl'HD ON PAGE 2}. I in This n Friday Night The Presidential Election. The last election was remarkable in several respects. It was a landslide in favor of Democracy rarely or never known before. And contrary in ejections of recent years, the successful candidate was not aided by large amounts of money, either from wealthy individuals or corporations. Then, too, the president-elect is a Southerner by birth, and most of his life spent in j Dixie. During the earlier years of the j republic the South furnished occupants j for the White House, but it has been j sixtv years since our section furnished i I a president? * counting Andy Johnson. The Scu. therefore, has good reason to be jubilant. Wilson carried) his own adopted State, antl Taft's, Roosevelt's and Johnson's. But about half of Wilson's vote came from Northern and Western States. This is the best evidence of the passing of section ?1,,^ ^ nnnntrv Vioo ovnpripnfpd ansin iahxi mc wuuwj ? since the war. During the campaign little Governor Johnson tried to revive sectionalism, but failed signally. I hope third-terrnism has been bv ried never to be resurrected; and that no future president will be charged with trying to Africanize the South Atlantic States as was Mr. Roosevelt. Is the colonel permanently retired to private life? I fear not. If he can i mount a popular wave, xuun. iui juita hat to be in the ring four years hence, fie was born for his race, but he narrowed his mind and gave up to Tedy what was meant for mankind. He is no quitter. He is able, ambitious, magnetic and unscrupulous, and the most dangerous man in the United States. I repeat, therefore, that we ought to rejoice that he has been snowed under. Wilson was nominated and elected by white men. but his election means no hurt or injury to any class, race or previous condition. I am only sorry that Mr. Taft did not out-strip the colonel in Tuesday's race. Mr. Taft is a good man, and has treated the South with more consideration than any other Republican president. In the language of Mr. Wilson, ana a greater of Woodrow Wilson, we thank God and take courage. " "" T T-> O II'.ll I But What aDOUl W. J. nryau: wen, he is one of the greatest men alive. But for him Wilson would not have been elected. If Mr. Clay would rather have been right than president, Bryan more so if possible. The men who followed strange idols in the last election I hope will return to the Democratic fold, which sheltered their fathers, before another elec tion. South Carolina's political salvation depends upon the whites standing together. Democrat. The Firemen Were Dry. "In the days of the old volunteer fire department there was more quenching of thirst than quenching j of conflagrations," said Fire Chief Kenion. of New \~ 'k. "The volunteer firemen, I'm afraid, were a sad lot of roysters. There's a story they tell about a fire back in 1S69. "It was a fire at an outlying farm, and when the firemen arrived with* engine and hose, the buildings were pretty well destroyed. " 'No use yer eomin' in, boys. There hain't a drop o 'water within two mile of us.' "But the firemen, mindful of the usual merrymaking that accompanied every fire, pushed right on with their apparatus. " 4Oh. that's all right,' they said heartily. 'We don't mind drinking it j straight.' " Humanity. Old Hand (to new ticket Seller at State fair)?Ever been on th wicket before1 in a crush? Xope. Thought not? Why not? You give change first and tickets afterwards. What isthe difference? Hundreds of dollars, my boy. No I one ever passes in and forgets his' ticket. i <$> <e> <s> RATS. <$> <S> <$> riomcAii Fvt^nsinn Work.?Ar- <$ v V*V?i?..v.? A. ? . <4> tide 93. $ i <$> <$> At about this time of year when the chilly nights begin to give hints of colder weather to follow, the barns and the house as well often Decome infested with rats and mice seking warmer quarters for the winter and the problem of how to get rid of these pests is soon under consideration. Many means of killing these vermin are open to the householders, but also many of these while effective are impractical from one cause or another. The two means to be considered are primarily the use of trap and the use of poison. Traps are useful, but in preparing these they should be handled with gloves rather than bare hands to avoid the warning human odor. They may be baited with bread or better with a piece of toasted cheese and placed near the openings where the rats or mice enter rooms. The wire spring traps are very effective form as they are flat and inconspicuous and have nothing particularly suspicious in their general appearance. For mice, the above traps also answer very well WHere ootamaoie, me new type ui j glass jar traps which have recently been put on the market appear very desirable. In poisoning, especially about the house, there are certain considerations which should be taken into account. Firstr such strong poisons as strychnine, while it will kill the pests, is a source of danger to mankind?especially to young children who might be - - - - ? - J V ? rP Vv A Jri pOiSSOUCU uy duuiucuu i iicic clu\j another fault with many of the strong poisons due to the fact that the animal is killed too quickly, thus dying inside the house, frequently dying between the walls or in other inaccessible places and causing a stench which will be a source of great discomfort or possibly of disease. A poison which acts slowly, allowing the animal time to get outside the buildings in its frant-in c.Qor?/'.V? Tiro for* tr? voliovp itfi afyOTlV HV Otaiv-U WI TTC4.VW W A V* ~ is thus much better than those quickly acting poisons so often used. Many patented compounds are upon the market which are said to be prepared with this idea in view, but every householder may rapidly prepare his own and at less expense. The poison mo?t generally recommended for this purpose is ^ if ie wnrn I ua.ruuna.ie ui uanuui vi as u. nvi ^ j commonly called "barytes." This may be bought in powdered form at most drug stores and is relatively cheap in price. For preparing, the most common method is to mix up one part of the barytes and six parts of corn meal ! or oat meal with enough water to form a thick dough* This dough is placed where the pests can readily get at it ; and left to do its work. The barytes has no taste or odor and kills very siowiy, orien requiring several nours, i during which time the animal will i leave the house to seek water. Another ! point in regard to this poison is that in the proportions used it is compara! tively harmless to higher animals. The method of use may be varied by mixing the barvtes with grated particles of toasted cheese, etc., or some other palatable material. M. P. Somes. A Poor Confession. "George has told me all the secrete of his past." "Mercy! What did you think of them?" ' "I am awfully disappointed."? Cleveland Plain DeaLer. .Measurements of Resources. "Why didn't you call fcf a police 1 Z.S i? L J ?>!' man wnen uie iuovyau iuuucu juu: "What would have been the use?" asktd the man who has an exaggerated idea of metropolitan iniquity. "After the footpad got through with me ther wasn't anything left for the polirnmnn "?Washington Star. .Judge. "I presume you never quarrel with wife? Certainly not! repliedskinny little Mr. Hennypeck. I am merely a husband. not a lion tamer. The summer szirl has resigned in f-.'.v jr of the cuddlesnrae girl. SEA WATEH LIKE BLOOD. ! injections of Undiluted Saline Solution Kelieve Anemic Conditions. Chicago Examiner. A remarkable cure for anemia, cases of lowered vitality, insomnia and other diseases where the blood needs a J decided tonic, has been found in the i i injection into the veins or pure sea j water from the depths of the Pacific j ocean. Dr. F. C. Keck, the pioneer in the use of sea water, has made an announcement of his experiments before I the members of the San Francisco Medical society. It caused much discussion among the physicians, for while saline solutions have been used ! in many ways, Dr. Keck is the nrst physician to advocate the full strength ocean water. "My experiments have, been carried * ' >? K on during the last eignt years, a. said: "1 have used it on dogs and rabbits, and recently very freely ou patients at the city and county ho pital. 1 may say that its effect is re-! markable. In cases of rundown constitutions we can notice an improvement in twenty-four hours. Twenty five to thirty treatments constitute a cure. "I obtained my water 1,000 miles out in the ocean, at a depth of fifty feet. I have analvzed the water from other oceans and from the North and Mediterranean seas and I find the Pacific water is the strongest in mineral character and best adapted for this purpose. "It builds up the system the same as the' human blood. In fact ,it is found that water obtained at this depth and distance from land is almost the same as human blood. Thus where there is * * * ?3 ^KIaaiI it insufficient oiouu ui \> uiwu i fills the want immediately. An injection is from fifty to 150 centimeters, depending upon the size of the body. "One remarkable use for the injection has been found in the cases of infants who are unable to nurse or to retain food. Four or five injections of pure sea water improves the baby's condition so much that it is able at once to take milk. "They have used diluted sea waters in Paris for ten or twelve years, but j I am the first to use it in its full strength. It will do a good deal toward correcting human ills." *>Yhen I Am Laid Below the Hill." Chicago Past. When I am laid below the hill I pray you, friend, that you shall not Increase my virtues, if you will, hTe Nor let my faults be all forgot. But think of me as with you yet The good and bad ther is of me? - - " -< * * i For tiuly I snan noi luiget In whatsoever place I be. Nor tears, nor sighs, that I am dead; But rather that you sing and smile And tell some favored jest, instead, As though I heard you all the while. For I shall hear you, and shall see And know if you be blithe or sad, " * 11 ' J u/ifti rr> o For l snan Keep, ?*uu uuiu , The golden moments we have had. But you will miss? Aye, forsooth, The very thing I'd have you do, For in that stranger land, in truth, ; I also shall be. missing you. Yet life is such a goodly thing, Blent of the bitter ana the sweet, j That I would rathr we should cling J Tr> oil thp sladness we may meet. When I am laid below the hill ] Bo back as though I walk with you, And sing our brave old ballads still. And laugh as we are wont to do, Across the little gap that bars I shall take this fair memory? A^^ tVio atare And. you UltJ uliici aiuc cuvWill then still be the friend of me. Th? Crooked Way. iDistrict Attorney Whitman, of New j York, was talking about the sad case of a Western banker who had stolen a great sum from the depositors. "rT,L " irl WTiitnian "lived i 1 IIS IHUII, SdlU LIU. T! utviuiw., beyond his means?motor cars, a house with 11 baths, son at college, daughter coining out, wife hungry for diamonds. The inevitable result followed." Mr. Whitmar smiled and ended: "The unfortunate fellow got stra;r : ened, so be became crooked/*?Wast- r higion-Star. ^ t Blooay Battle 1 Hold-up New* of Prosperity. Prosperity, Nov. 2o.?Mr. Hart Kohn, of Columbia, spent several days last week with relatives. Mr. rt. J. Kawl nas returned from Charleston, where he has been on a J visit to his brother. Miss Mary Lizzie Wise, of the Columbia college/ spent the week-end at home. Miss Edith Wiflis, of Saluda, will; spend the winter here with her aunt,! a. FT D *\7inh-a-r i>li n. it. ** iv/ivvi. i Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Schumpert have returned from several days' stay in Columbia. Messrs. S. Birge and A. G. Wise were business visitors in Newberry Monday. Mr. Olin Bobb, of Columbia, spent the week-end at the home of his father, | Mr. F. Bobb. Dr. C. K. Wheeler has returned from Chester, where he successiuny passea the South Carolina Pharmaceutical State board, and has accepted a position with the Prosperity Drug company to the delight of his many friends. Mr. Geo. Bobb, of Columbia, spent Sunday with Mrs. Jno. Crosson. A?rs. A. G. Wise has been called to Columbia on account of the serious illness of Mr. A. Stork. Mr. Ira Nates has returned to Columbia, after a "^sit to his father, Mr. A. A. Nates. The Prosperity Drug company has purchased a National cash register which shows what a progressive town Prosperity is.^ Love. (St. John XIV. 15. "Not if ye fear me," the Master plead, Writes the one of His special love, Not if ye fear the wrath to come; Not to gain a Heaven above. / "Oh, not because of duty alone By itself but a cold, harsh thing? Or from gratitude?as it were to pay? Do I ask thee thy tribute to bring. "Oh, not because of anything That mere reason can comprehend But because of a sweet, deep mystery Do I beg thee thy lives to amend.' "Keep my commandments"?why then? Ah, Just because ye love me? Oh, 'give me thy hearts, my children, Naught else need I ask then of thee," "For love that is fervent and faithful Is the motive alone that can give Life to dead works, obedience dead, rioad faith?and make them to live." As some foul pool the moon reflects As truly as the moon the. sun, So ma/ we Thy love give Thee back; To the Lord holiness; and hear "well done." Then give us, Lord the grace to love? To love Thee for Thyself alone; To love The, just because twas love, that mnvpri Thee to atone. r ui ud ***v ~ ? For our deep guilt by suffering such As we can never comprehend? Oh, fill our hearts with love to Thee Our Savior?our Eternal Friend. Jno. B. Adger Mullally. Pendleton, S. C., Nov. 3, 1912. Equal to tne occasion. "VVre insist." said the suffragist speaker, her eyes flashing fire, "that we women have a natural and inalienable right to say who shall govern us, as iuen have!" " - U "Poh! Poh!" exciaimea a ruuga looking man in the audience. "Which only shows," rejoined the suffragist, her stern features softening into a smile, "how treu the scriptures are in saying that the pooher we have oitx-Qvc with us."?Cincinnati Enquirer. Ofcl Cincinnati Enquirer. Gabe?What was the original payas-you enter car? Steve?The Roosevelt band wagon. As a girl grows older she becomes and quits wearing so many pins i:i the vivi::iry cf her waist line. Follows y of Magistrate Mcron ufac mien. ilLUllU I! A J MLLLIS, WHITE MEN INJURED MAGISTRATE ELLESOR BOBBED BELOW Pi*)SPEEITY. Battle Between Negro Suspects aid Posse Occurred Little later at Peak. A pitched battle in which there waa at least one fatality, and in which two others were injured, took place at Peak on Friday night between a posse of whitp mpn and two neernes whom. the posse was seeking to arrest for the hold-up and robbery of Magistrate P. B. Ellesor, which occurred just below j Prosperity, as Magistrate Ellesor was returning home on Friday afternoon. Richard Sparks, one of the negroes, received a wound from which he died : on Saturday. The other negro either escaped or was drowned in Broad riv- * er. He was tracked to the riv&* bank, J&S and it is not known whether he got across the river or not Some of those who were on the scene say that tracks on the other side of the river showed that he had got across. Others seem to think he was drowned. Two white men, J. E. Epting, pro i prietor of the Peak hotel, and J. T. Gai? lagher, foreman of a construction gang on the Southern railway, wer^ injured.. It is not thought their wounds are vary serious. Magistrate Elisor *as retaralLg home from Prosperity, alone in hia ! buggy, when he was met by two negroes, who covered him with piat )la and demanded his money, forci?i? hiui to I give up twenty dollars The neyrjes jthen made Mr. Ellesor ger. oi.t of t!ie buggy, and they drove down the road ; about a half mile, where they started the mule back towards Prosperity with, the empty buggy. They caught a freight at^Prosperity and went od to . Pomaria. The people at Pomaria had ; been notified and were on the lookout, : but the negroes managed to get off the freight and rode on a switch engine to Peak, just across the Newberry line, in. i Lexington county. Word had also tyeen sent to Peak to be on the lookout for the negroes, and when the posse of white men attempted to arrest them. here, they fired upon the posse. The flre was returned, and in the melee the negro received a bullet wound through /r'Q| his body, Mr. Gallagher was shot in the left shoulder and Mr. Epting was shot in the left arm. Sheriff Buford left for the scene as | scon as he/ was notified, accompanied | by Constable Cannon G. Blease and ! Policeman Tom Berley. in Mr. Blease's automobile. On the way they were joined by the chief of police of Prosperity. The shooting havi.ig occurred i in Lexington county, Sheriff Buford j notified the sheriff of Lexington that the wounded negro would be held at Peak for him. The negro, however, died at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning. \ ml . JC_ - i ue lunuwiiig dcuuuui ui cue a^air, ; which differs in some details from the account given above, is from the Lex- , ingtoi: correspondent of the daily ! newspapers: Another Account. Lexington, Nov. 23.?The little town. ; of Peak in the Dutch Fork was the ' scene of a bloody battle last night i ahnnt 7 Qfi U'hon on CifFrirt nroa I UUVUb I.VV VX V/iVVIV, ?i an VUV& b TTCM9 j made by a number of citizens to arrest two negroes, who, it was thought, held up P. B. Ellesor, an aged and highly respected farmer on the public ; highway a few miks from Prosperity, jin Newberry county, yesterday afternoon. As a result of the battle one negro is dead and two white men are suffering from pistol shot wounds re* ceived when the negroes opened fire on their would-be captors. The second iit'gro is probably floating in the wat1 ers of Broad river, as he was traced i along a ditch after the firing to the ; river's bank, where all signs of the trail was lost by the hounds that werei placed on his track soon after the shooting. That he was wounded is evi(CONTINUED OX PAGE 2). /