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VOL. XVII. __ANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JULY 8.1903. NO. 42 AN ASSASSIN DIES. The People of Norway Hangs the Doer of a Dastardly Crime. AN OLD SOLDIER ASSASSINATED. A Horrible Scene at a Supper Table, Which Worked the People Up to Fever Heat and Desperate. As was predicted the people of Nor way avenged the brutal assassination of Mr. John T. Phillips, ~an old Con federate soldier, early Wednesday morning by lynching Charles Evans, a mulatto negro who along with his brother, Jim Evans, are known all over the community as two bad men. In addition to the lynching, the best citizens of the place agreed that it was only right and proper to teach a lesson to several negroes who came within the environments of the village armed and threatening, and they took them out just before Evans was lynch ed and severely beat them. Mr. Ran dolph Smith, who was sent to the scene of the trouble to report the af fair for the State says "whatever may be the merits or demerits of lynch law there perhaps never was an instance before where the circumstanceps came so near justiflying the crime." LIKE A sTORIED ROMANCE. The whole tragic incident is more like the chapter from.a romance of some feudal time than a page from life in the twentieth century. The old soldier who is fatally wounded and cannot live through the night, accord ing to his physician, is utterly blame less of having injured the negroes in any way and says he has personally done nothing to excite their ire. The trouble dates back to last Saturday mnorning, June 27, and, as is usual in such cases, started over a comparative ly small matter. The negroes in the -vicinity of Norway have been very tri iMing and impertinent for some time *apast. Many of them have positively refused to work in the fields, and the ,crops have suffered not a little in con sequence. So on Saturday as above stated when Lorenzo Williams, a ne gro with a bad reputation, swore at Addie Phillips, a son of .Tohn T. Phil lips, Phillips spoke to some of his friends and they all agreed that this was going a trifle too far, and advised him to whip the negro. This the Phillips boy, with the aid of his broth er, "Judge" Phillips, attempted to do. They secured a buggy whip and sum moned the negro to them. Then they proceeded to give him--what every body in the community said that he deserved-a thrashing. The two Evans negroes are friends of the Wil liams negro. When they learned that he was to be punished they followed him to the scene of action. When the elder Phillips boy began to lay on the lash they protested, and the Phillips .boys warned them away, telling them .that unless they minded their business ~they would get into trouble 4them selves. The negroes surlily took their .departure, and nothing was seen of them on the following day, Sunday, by the white people of the village. Some of the negsoes who are inclined to be loyal to their employes, however, say that both of the Evans negroes came back to the outskirts of the town on Saturday evening, and openly made threats against the whole Phillips family, women and children included. How these threats were carried out is the after story "EDUCATED NEGROEs," THESE. Tbe Evans negroes were both edu cated. They could not onir read and write but it is said had a knowledge of literatnre and read a number of northern newspapers. The Phillips family and the other residents of Nor way paid no attention to the threats. In fact it seems that they simply re garded them as threats and no atten tion was paid to them. Everybody in the village now regrets that the proper respect was not paid to these threats. The Phillips house is a mod .est home about a half mile from the xailroad and on the outskirts of the -village. At the south side is a big cotton patch, skirted by woods and so situated that any one approaching sceross the field can readily be seen from the dining room of the Phillips home. It was not yet dark--a few minutes before 8 o'clock- -on Monday evening, when many of the people about the village were at supper, that a shot rang out ir the village. When the smoke cla.red away two figures, evidentl those of negroes, were seen runjning across the big cotton field, and cries of help were heard from the 'Phillips homa. - SCEE OF OH~STLY CIME. The Rev. D. Ii. Crsland, whose home is just neIt to the Phillips house, was the first one to get to the stricken family. .There a scene met his eyes that was tinged with a hor ror that the community had never known. The aged Mr. Phillips was half leaning, half reclining on the arm of his 9-year-old son, Lee, The sup per table, which had just been apread, was literally covered with the blood of the old soldier who had served through the Civil war only to die at the hands of a negro. Through the window pane of the porch window, happened to be down, there were 11 bullet holes that told the story of how heavily charged the gun had been. which aroused the whole village and brought them to the scene. Five of thest shots had entered the back 01 Mr. Phillips, two in the head, one at top of the spinal column and one un der each shoulder. Another shol grazed the top of R~uby Phillips' head wounding her painfully but not dan gerouslyi and another wounded thE wrist of another daughter, Miss Mag gic Phillips. about 19 years old. HIER BABY IN HER ARMS. Mrs. Phillips was sitting at the head of the table with her baby it her arms. The whole table was coy .ered with pools of blood and the fami were for the most part panic stricken There were two notable exceptions There was not a sigh of emotion abou .e c-hild Lee and as he supported hi: father be expressed te opmuiou that one of the Evans negroes had com mitted the crime. The child, Ruby, who was wounded, surprised the peo ple who quickly assembled at the house, by her actions, and it was found after some investigation that she was running about the house try ing to ind an old pistol that she might kill. as she said, her fath-r's slayer. Mrs. Phillips was in such a condition of nervous prostiation that the entire village sat up to nurse and care for ner and try and save her husband who, it seems, was the greatest favorite in the town, and much respected because of his valiant service during the war. A MAN OF IRON. Dr. C. I. Abels, who was called in to examine the wounds of the old sol dier, said that he could live but a few hours and when night came Tuesday and the old man was still alive no one could understand it. The doctor said that it was simly his wonderful con stitution that had kept hi m alive, and that beyond the peradventure of a doubt he would die before morning. That he had lived as long as he had, the physician said, was one of the most remarkable things that he had ever encouniered in his practice but at the same time pointed out that the old raan had a constitution second to none that he had ever known. To bear out this statement Dr. Abels pointed to the arm dangling at Mr. Phillips' side. It was almost shot away at the battle of Deep Water. Va., and has since hung practically by the skin, every connection with the bone below the shoulder having been severed. Then again, said the magnificent physique of the old man was illustrated by his family which has numbered two wives and 19 chil dren, 13 of whom are living. All this was known to the village people and the farmers for miles around, and they watched and waited around the bed of the old man, hoping against hope that in some miraculous way his life would be spared. It was first warm weather that the county has known this year and the house was open so that any one in the village could come and go at will and wit ness the death struggle of the veteran who lay dying by the hand of a mis creant negro. There may have been thought of other things through the long. long dreary watch of Monday night but there was no action. "WHERE IS THE MURDERER?" It was on Tuesday morning, when all hope of Mr. Phillips' life was given up that the leading men began to consider the advisability of trying to ascertain the name of the assassin an assassin of a character that made 1 the wholb community reek with hor ror. Then the Phillips boys and oth ers began to put two and two together and two together and recall that they had heard that Evans bad been mak ing threats. It was brought to mind that the two negro brothers had made the threats and that they had not been seen about the place since Satur day. Inquiries were made and it was learned that they had both been seen near the dam across the railroad from the village, armed with twO guns. A prominent citizen of the town sent to Bamberg and got some bloodhounds that bels ng to the chaingang there. They were put on what was supposedi to be the trail but the ground was so dry that they could do nothing. Fur-1 ther inquiries were made and the con fession was forced out of a negro that< he bad seen the two black despera-i does hiding behind the dam with their guns. The men who obtained this< confession are two of the most prom-) inent citizens in the whole communi ty and their word could not be gain said. But every one wanted to make sure and nothing was said in public because it was known that the young farmers in the vicinity were angry,i and not inclined to wait for the slow process of the law. Several of them inally determined to get evidencei themselves, and they went to the, Phillips house and began .to pry 1 around the premises for some clues that would lead them to make arrests. A VERY LEADING CLUE. The very dry ground that had1 thrown the bounds off the scent helped the young farmers. Near the Phil lips house they found the tracks of two negroes-negroes presumably for1 the reason that all of the race living in the immediate vicinity, even to the educated Evans brothers wore a peculiar shoe that was bought at one store in the village. They followed these tracks across the cotton field and on to the dam. There other tracks were found, leading across the road and over the cotton field--a nearer way to the Phillips household. Coupled with the story of the man who had seen the Evans boys hiding behind the dama with their guns this was deemed suflicient evidence to ar rest Charles, the other brother hav ing disappeared. He was taken with out great difficulty not far from his home and the spirit of bragadocio with which he denied his guilt did as much to arouse suspicion as the tell tale tracks across the fields. Further inuries developed the fact that It was only a half an hour before the tragedy that the Evans's were seen hiding behind the dam. THE FIEND JAILED A-r LAST. Chas. Evans was lodged in the guard house early Trues-lay morning and the news began to spread around the neighborhood. The crime was not dis torted, not exaggerated, ministers and other prominent citizens said Tuesday that farmers and others said little or nothing about the trouble they have been experiencing with the negros in years past. They did not even recall the fact that when two white men at tempted to justly punish a negro who had been impertinent beyond question, they were interfered with by two of the very worst characters in the whole territory roundabout. They simply wanted to know. It was not long after Evans was safely placed in the guard house, which is simply a wooden building en tirely insecure, that the people from all the country about began to arrive~ in number. They were quiet and or derly and all they asked what was to be done. When they learned that Evans was jailed they all agreed that it was best to leave the "mnan to the law" and they began to send out j scouts to find the other brother. Hie could not be found and telegrams were sent to all the stations in thel (A VE HIMSELF UP. A Man Convicted of Killing His Brother Admitted to Prison. STRANGE STORY OF TEE CRIME. Pinckney W. Hutto Gives Himself Up After Supreme Court Has Denied His Motion for New Trial. The State says Pinckney W. Hutto, convicted of having taken the life of his brother, E. Worth Hutto, came to Columbia Tuesday and entered upon a servitude of three years in the State. prison. The brand of Cain is upon his brow, but with an earnestness which is impressive he begins his life as a convict with the declaration thvat he is innocent. His curious story is per haps without a parallel, and if it be true, as every evidence judicates, he has been sinned against rather than being the sinner. According to the story of Pinckney, or "Plum" Hutto, as he was a called by his neighbors, Worth Hutto was a dangerous man and had been getting into a good many scrapes. Indeed he had made way with what little prop erty he had had, and "Plum" Hutto bad given him work in a wheelwright's shop at Norway. But Worth Hutto kept up his drnking and other miscon duct to such an extent that the older brother was forced to discharge him at the end of a year's employment. IN A DANGEROUS MOOD. The very next day Worth Hutto went to Livingston, the nearest dis pensary town, and after nightfall came back to Norway in a very dangerous mood. Going to the home of his older brother he abused him terribly and "Plum" Hutto with the assistance of bis grown son, S. J. Hutto, got the bad brother out of the house. The latter brought a shot gun with him, it seems, and left it on the portch, for as soon as he got out of the house he fired the shot gun by the window of Pinck ney Hutto's house. The latter, after be had placed his wife on the right way of the Seaboard Air Line railroad, where he seemed to think she would be safe from the wild range of the young brother, went In search of the town marshal. When Pinckney Hutto and the mar shal arrived, the latter went to the tome of Worth Hutto about 50 yards from the home of the older brother. In response to the calls of the mar hal, Worth Hutto appeared in the doorway with his double-barrelled shot gun. He was heard to exclaim, "I will get those fellows now," and there pon fired. Pinckney Hutto, fearing that the marshal would be killed, threw up his right hand in a gesture f imprecation to his brother. PINCKNEY HUTTO WOUNDED. The gun was fired just at that mo ment and one barrel was emptied into Pinckney Hutto's right hand, 18 small shot taking effect. The latter was standing at his own gate considerably in the rear of the town marshal who iisappeared from the scene about that time. Tihe crazed brother advanced with his shot gun and fired again. Ihe second shot struck Pinckney Hut to fairly in the breast but on account o the distance and on account of the Dhickness of his vest, none of the shot entered his body. Still advancing threateningly, Worth Hutto made another attempt to take his brother's life, emptying both barrels of his gun at short range, but the older brother escaped further burt than the disabling of his right band. A TRAGIC SCENE. It was a tragic scene. The older brother is now 51 years old, and was at that time nearing 50, a man quiet almost to gentleness with a repu tation for being peaceable and law abiding and law-fearing citizen. He is small and frail and disabled as he was no match for his brother, a Her cules in strength, towering 6 feet 4 and weighing 240 pounds, one of the most reckless and most powerful men in that whole country. Almost at the feet of the two broth ers lay the wife of the wounded man, groveling in the snow in her anguish and mingling her screams with the convulsive wailing of her terrified lit tle one who just a moment before had been held. in the father's arms with its head under his coat to shut out the oise and the sight of the encounter hich had been expected between the the town marshal and the younger brother. It was amid such scenes of excite ment that the fatal shot was fired. Up to this point Hutto's narrative is indeed convincing. But as to the cli max of the situation he speaks rather evasively, declaring each time that he is questioned that he is innocent, and, oeing innocent, that he will suf fer an unrighteous condemnation. THE FATAL SHOT. He declares that his brother, having exhausted his supply of gun shells, reached in his right front trousers pocket for his revolver. There was some delay in getting the weapon out and the latter was accidentally dis charged, the fire from the pistol indi cating that it had been pointed in the direction taken by the fatal bullet. Hutto declares that he thought to himself at the time that if his brother had not wounded himself he had come very near it. The bullet went in near the right side of the abdomen and ranged across, perforating some of the intestines. When this shot was fired, Worth Hutto got his pistol out of his pocket and in a half listless way as if he were hurt discharged another ball at his brother. With that he went on toward his own home, and Pinckney Hutto expected him to return with more ammunition, until the town mar shal came up and arrested Pinckney for having shot his brother. HAD) A PIsTOL HISELF. There was one point in the narra tive upon which he did not speak with freedom, and that was in regard to his having a pistol himself. He ad mit that the prosecution pointed out that there was no powder burn on his rothr's clothing at the place where the ball entered and e states that he did indeed have a pistol and that he tired it once to frighten his brother, but that he did not point it at Worth Hutto, for had he cared to do so he could have shot every button off of his coat. Pinckney Hutto was not in the habit of carrying a pistol, and this weapon is one which his son had laid on the mantel after having come in from the farm that afternoon. When the excitement started Pinck ney Hutto slipped the revolver into his pocket, but he assertsstoutly that the fatal bullet did not come from his pistol. CONVICTED AND SENTENCED. His brother lingered a day or so longer, but never seemed to regain possession of-his mental faculties, for he was full of opiates all of the time. Pinckney Hutto and his son were ar rested, charged with having killed Worth Hutto. The young man was acquitted, but Pinckney Hutto, al though represented by Senator Ray sor. was convicted and sentenced to serve three years in the penitentiary. The appeal to the supreme court was overruled and Hlutto, seeing in The State a notice of the action of the supreme court, came to Columbia at the same time writing to SherilT Dukes of OrangLaurg that he was coming. As yet his commitment pa pers have not been received, but Supt. Grit1ith has adm;,ted Ilutto to the State prison. "Plum" Hutto speaks with sorrow of his dead brothaer, and there are certain episodes in the life of the de ceased which were mentioned not with ill feeling, but merely to show what tolerance had been exhibited by the man who is now to wear the liv ery of crlme-while other men more criminal in deed and in thought have met with a more kindlpate. A prom inent Columbia merchant who once lived in that section states that the deceased had the reputation of having been a dangerous man, while the con victed brother was known as a mau of peace and an industrious eitizen. SAVED HIS BROTHER'FROM DISGRACE. "We are not brothers in size," is the homely way in which he expresses their difference in physical appear ance. Pinckney Hlutto is small and slender, with a kind blue eye and with a quiet and pleasant air. He de clares shamefacedly that on one occa sion he saved his brother from dis grace at Denmark, when he had been convicted of hog stealing. The elder brother paid the fine and paid the fee of the lawyer, who was very much outraged by Hutto's action after the trial and would have shot Worth Hut to, perhaps, except for the interven tion of the older brother. Another instance he relates with some show of sorrow and shame is that his brother sent outrageous mes sages to the postmater at Norway, Mr. Brooks, who had sent a bill to Worth Rutto for small purchases out of his store. His older brother found this out one day when he went to sweep some sshavings off of the work bench of the deceased. A pistol fell out of the shavings upon the floor. The older brother chided the younger for having the revolver lying around in that fashion, and the latter replied with a menace that Pinckney Hutto had better replace the pistol and the shavings as he had found them. He then declared defiantly that he was ready for the man Brooks. In order to settle the trouble, Pinckney Hutto paid the bill and had .the matter dropped. BEGGED MARSHAL NOT TO SHOOT. He declares futhermore that on that fatal December night when he left his wife sitt'ng in the snow be-i side the Seaboard Air Line and went in search of the town marshal to ar rest the brother who had cursed so outrageously in his home and has fired his shot gun threateningly under his very window, with these exciting cir cumstances harrassing his mind he went to the officer of the town and begged him not to hurt the younger brother. Upon arriving in the city, Hutto called upon Gov. Heyward, Mr. W. F. Furtick and other well known citizens of Columbia with whom he had pre vious acquaintance or to whom he had letters of introduction. HAD) M3T BEFORE. When he stepped upon the porch of the guard room of the State prison Tuesday afternoon he was greeted pleasantly by Capt. D. J. Griffith, the superintendent. "Well, Captain, I have come to accept your invitation, but not in the manner I had expected," said Hutto, recalling an invitation extended by Capt. Griff1th a year or so ago when the latter was down in that section and stopped over night at the hotel at Norway kept by Hutto. "I thought I might run up to Colum bia some time and thought I might come and take a look at the penit~en tiary," said Hutto, "but 1 never thought I would come to this." He was treated with every kindness and consideration by Capt. Grit11th and Capt. Adams, the captain of the peni tentiary guard,,and the convicted man commenc'es his sentence with the re assuring words that three years is a short sentence compared with some and that three years will get by in a hurry. -dovrmuhe "1 can't dovr uhworki,"h said apologetically, "for I am 51 years old and have not done much hard work lately anyway." It is indeed a sad plight in which he finds himself, for at home he works about 15 or 18 hands on his farm in addition to other laborers. lHe has the air of~a man of affairs and family whose name he bears is well .known in Aiken and Barwell counties. Hlutto enters the prison with a stronger hope than a great many men have in facing the same future. For the judge gave him a very light sentence, indicating that there was a great deal of evidence in his favor, and he says that at the prop er time he can produce a petition for pardon signed by leading men of Orangeburg county who have already expressed to him their belief in his innocence. SAFETY OF HIs FAMILY. In one particular he was very much worried-that Is in regard to the safe ty of his family. It will be recalled that The State Tuesday printed a story of the terrible homicide at Nor way. Mr. John T. Phillips was shot In the back of the head and instantly killed while at supper Monday night. Hutto left Norway in the afternoon efoe the terrible tragedy and knows neighborbood, and even the trains on the Seaboard were searched as they passed in the hope of- finding Jim Evans who was at first thought to be the ringleader. All efforts were futile. THE THRONGED INCREASEs. This made the crowds of farmers and villagers anxious. The popula tion of the town is but over 200 and it boasts the fact that there has not been a drunken man within its borders within three years, but the throng in Dreased to over 500, and every hour brought in more strangers, for runners about the country had carried the news that the negroes were arming themselves and were about to make rurther trouble. As the farmers came in with their shotguns and rifles slung cross their shoulders. they laughed it the idea of the negroes making more trouble and said that tney would aot leave the place until "the law had Laken its course." The time, they aid, for negro impertinence to cease .iad come and they wondered whether )r not there would be any trouble if hey hauled Evans out of the jail and ;wung him up to a nearby tree. But )lder heads cautioned the heated ouths and told them that they were dl law abiding citizens and that any casb act would bring down censure on ;heir heads. The farmers with guns .istened to the wise counsel and they were kept away from the Phillips sorne, where it was known that the ;ufferings of the wounded man would urther incense them. A MESSAGE OF INSOLENCE. All went well until about I I o'clock. hen a negro c'urier came into town md said that if the farmers wantr d a man they could come down to the utskirts of the town and get one." Rad the proverbial bombshell explod d in the midst of the crowd it could aot have created a greater sensation han this impertinent message, add ng insult to the already great injury. rhe counsel of the older men prevail d again, however, and the hot heads vere persuaded upon to remain in the entre of the village and protect the vomen and children while some 15 or o of the town's oldest and best citi ens went out to meet the negroes who lad sent the impertinent message. rhey were soon in their midst. The ght of the armed white men coming oward them with their determined !aces and glistening arms seemed for a noment to awe them. THREATENING ATrITUDE SHOWN. The negroes bore a threatening atti ude at first, but when they saw the letermination written In every line )f their adversaries faces most of them ay down their arms when they. were )dden to do so. Three, John Felder, ,lysses Johnson and Pink Hartwell, lid not have the good sense to do this. Chey showed fight and the men rush .d up to them and took their -guns tway from them after no little ditii :ulty. Had it not been for the arm yer of the whites they would have un loubtedly bad difticulty with Johnson ;vho notonly declined to give up his ,un but resisted when it was taken rom him. The three negroes who bad his daring were promptly marched ff to the guard house, where they 'ere place in separate rooms under trong guard. - BLOOD ON THE MOON. But this incident had served to more ~reatly incite the anger of every one ssembled in the the village and even ,he most prominent men in the town egan to shake their heads and won ler what was coming next. The after oon and the early part of the night assed under stress of the greatest ex ~itement in the whole community. den who know the populace like a )00k say that it is only the Providence >f God that kept the lire of 'the rounded Philips hanging by a thread lU day. Had he died there is but ittle doubt but that there would have een a race war, for negroes, who eemed to have no prudence under the >remises, continued to arrive in town n numbers and. it was known that any of them were armed with pis ols. When it was seen that they had weapons they were promptly disarmed tnd told that unless they kept the eace they would be dealt with in a way that would furnish a lesson for all heir kind for a long time to come. 'his salutary advice had its effect ith some and with others it had ione. In the late evening there were nany sullen negro faces about the lace and the crowd was much in ~ensed when it was rumored about ,he village that some of the negroes 1ad gotten together at the planing nill a short distance from the town Ld passed resolutions that no lynch ng bee be permitted. FRBIGT TRAINs BROUGHT MEN. Some of the freight trains that ~ame in during the early evening rought little grdups, of armed men 'rom Blackville, Denmark, Fairfax nd other points along the line of the road. When midnight arrived there as a goodly crowd around the station md the negroes had by this time been ,ntimidated sio that there were but ew of them who dared to show their races. The crowd discussed the trou l~e long and seriously. The events of Ihe past few hours were reviewed at ~reat length. The daredevil acts, the peculations and the desperate deeds f the negroes for years past were re alled by the crowd. The good coun sel prevailed against all these argu ments until a long, lanky South Caro inian whose name is legion for all the ountry around about as a "square and fair man," got up and called at tention to the fact tha; the negro t.vans had shot an old man in the back for no rhyme or reason, and that it was by the merest accdent that a southern woman with her babe in her arms had not been killed by the same miscreant that sent her aged husband to his death. CROWD READY FOR A.CTION. That latter the argument and the crowd began to make preparations. One or two of the best men in the communty insisted that an innocent man should not be killed and addition-| al proof was asked for. A plan was then adopted that proved to be suc cessful so far as discovering who the guiltfhegro'was. The crowd waited until nearly 2 o'clock before anything was done and then the action was summary. There was a guard around. the jail addition to the town marshall, B. D. H. Ph in. The guard was told to stand aside. So was Phin. This he at tirst declined to do and he posi Continued on page 4. none of the details but he is very much affected, for he fears an upris ing of the negroes and his wife is out in the country. Last Saturday and Sunday a negro had said to him that "a strong wind is coming out of the east," by which metaphor Hutto thinks the negro meaut to convey the idea that the negroes would rise up and avenge the public chastisement given a negro by one of Mr. Phillips' sons who had been cursed outrageously by the negro and had at the first opportunity whipped the negro on thr streets of Norway. The elder Mr. Phillips, who was a Confederate soldier and disabled in one arm, threw a rock at one of the negroes and this is supposed to be his part of the revenge. Mr. Hutto has an idea who com mitted the dastardly crime but he doe.s not care to express himself at this distance from the crime, for he might bein error. White Man Found Dead. The Columbia State says Coroner Green deputized Magistrate Davis of the upper part of the county to hold the inquest over the body of the white man found dead beside the Southern railway track Tuesday. As yet the grave ,f this poor fellow will be mark ed "unknown," for there was nothing to give a clue to his identity. lie had parts of cotton mill machinery in his pocket and evidently was a mill opera tive. But decomposition had been so rapid that, +.xcept for his bair, it would have been impossible to tell whether be was a white 'man or a ne ro. There was nothing to indicate the cause of death, whether sunstroke or whether he had been "beating" his way on a train and had fallen off. They.Cheated. The Charleston county board of education has thrown out the ex aminatiun papers of thirty negro men and women who sought to be teach ers in the public schools because, as the board alleges, the applicants "cheated" in the preparation.of their papers. The examination was held May 22nd and the board has just an nounced that certificates will be re fused to thirty of the thirty-five ap plicants for the reason assigned. County Superintenderit of Education' Miligan said that he saw the irregu larities being practiced and warned the applicants that their papers wouid be thrown out if they did not desist. But this warning had no effect. Knighthood Still in Flower. Chivalry still lives, and its home is in the mountains of North Caro lina-. On Quaker mountain the other day a neighborhood quarrel resulted in a pitched battle. In the midst of the hostilities a picnic party appeared moving along the road that separated the enemies. As soon as the fighters saw the pinickers one of them called out, "Boys, stop shooting until these young ladies and gentlemen pass." At once the firing ceased and the young ladies and gentlem passed in safety. Could there have been finer chivalry, even in the days when knighthood was in flower? A Strenuous Game. Baseball is a little more strenuous in Georgia than elsewhere. A dispatch from Atlant.ta gives an account of a game between rival negro teams near hat city in which a base runner was shot in the act of attempting a "slide." He was carried to one side and the ame proceeded, the wounded man dy ing bdfore the finish. When the score was tied in the last inning the umpire made a decision which caused him to be killed in his tracks. The murderers escaped and the team for which they made the gun play is gallantly pulling for the pennant. Two Nights in Tights. Miss Florence Hall, *a beautiful young woman of Memphis, Tena., has quit the stage after two nights in tights. She has more than a local reputation as a singer, and signed a contract with the Lyceum Opera com pany at the Lyceum theatre for the summer, but has broken her contract. Miss Hall gave as her reason that she ad discovered that things were not what they seemed behind the foot light. She alleged that the actresses drank, smoked and swore and that two days' association with them so disgusted her that she quit. Great Invention. A Moscow dentist has invented asys tem whereby false teeth can be made to grow into the gums as firmly as natural ones. After a few months' use it is just as bard to extract them as it is to dislodge the genuine molar, made on the premises. Soon, possibly, this tooth grafting Moscovite will achieve ~,uggests, The London Globe, the gid diest height to which the dentist can soar, the manufacture of false teeth that ache. A Runaway Horse. A runaway horse created intense excitement in C. F. Jones & Co.'s store in Anderson recently. The an imal became frightened from some cause, broke loose from its fastenings in the rear of the store of H. G. John son & Son, dashed through this store and then across the street. It ran up a flight of steps and through a partly oen door into the rear room of Jones store, which was occupied by the dress making department. Bitten by a Snake. A dispatch from Chesterfield says Wednesday morning Mrs. .Fannie Funderburk, wife of the Rev. B. S. Funderburk, while reaching in a~ bar rel of meal in a barn to get some for her cow, was bitten by a rattlesnake pilit. Medical aid was summoned and Mrs. Funderburk is now getting along very well, but~ she has suffered ago ies. Northern Ontrages. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal makes a formidable presentation of "northern outrages" against the negro during the last three months. in 21 cases attempts, more or less successful, Lave been made by mobs to hang and burn negroes in the States of Indiana, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Missouri. Don't Want Them. Almost unanimous opinion of -the alumni of Charleston college is against theadmissiori of girls and the faculty, including President Randolph, are opposed. There Is little hope, there fore, for anadnatin WASHINGTON SPEAKS. Great Negro Educator Delivers Ad dress in Louisville. A dispatch from Louisville Friday night says: Before an immense au dience Booker T. Washington. bead of the Tuskegee Institute, delivered an address. He said that recent re grettable events in connection with the race question went to show that the lynch law is not confined to any one section of the country. These events, he said tend to simplify the race problem by making it national. le appealed to the negro to be calm and to exercise self control. Among the other speakers was W. 11. Lewis, assistant district attorney of Massachusetts, who vas appointed several months ago by President Roose velt. Principal Wcshington said in part: "In the present season of anxiety and almost of despair, which possesses an element of the race, there are two things I wish to say as strongly as I may: First. Let no man of the race be come discouraged or hopeless. There are in this country, North and South, men who mean to see that justice is meted out to the race. Such a man is Judge Jones of Alabama, to whom more credit should be given for blott ing out the infamous system of peon age than to any other man. "Second. Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exceptin every rece or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trials and persecution. "No one should seek to close his eyes to the fact that the race is pass ing through a very serious and trying period of its development, a period that calls for the use of our ripest thought and sober judgment. "Let nothing lead us intosextremes of utterance or action. It is, in the long run, th - race or the individual that exercises the most patience, for bearance and self-control in-the midst of trying conditions that wins its cause. Let nothing induce us to de scend to the level of the mob. In ad vocating this policy I am not asking that the negro act the coward; we are not cowards. The part we have played in defending the flag of our country is sufficient evidence of our courage. "The outbreaks of the mob emplha size two lessons, one for our race and one for the other citizens of our coun try, south and north; for it is to be noted that the work of the lynchers is not confined to one section of -the country. The lesson for us is that we should see to it that sogar as influence of parent, school or pulpit is concerned no effort be spared to impress on our own people that idleness and crime should cease. We should let the world know on all proper occasions that we consider no legal punishment too severe for the wretch of any race who attempts to outrage a.woman. "The lesson for the other portion of the nation to learn is that both in the making and in the execution the same law should be madeto apply to the 1 negro as to the white man.1 "There should be meted out equal justice to the black man and the white'man. Whenever the nation for gets, or is tempted to forget, its basis principle, the whole fabric or govern ment for both the white man and the black man is threatened with destruc tion. This is true whether it relates to conditions in Texas, in Indiana or Delaware. It is with a nation as with an individual whatever we sow, that shall we also reap. If we sow crime we shall reap lawlessness." Shot His Rival. Because Edward May, went to see a young lady near the mouth of Big Ugly Creek. in Lincoln County, W. Va., he got the enmity of Beamer Adkins, of the neighborhood, who wanted him to cease visiting the girl. He went Thursday evening to see the young lady and was followed by Ad kins who ran him off the preniises with a big revolver, shooting him in the right side above the hip, probably fatally. Adkios is in jail at -Hamlin, and the young lady is prostrated over the affair, Adkins was rejected by the girl some time since, when he made threats, it is alleged, to kill any other suitor for her hand. A Good Way. In Norway drunkenness is punished by imprisonment. As soon as a man is incarcerated the delinquent has a loaf and wine morning and evening. 'The bread is served in a wooden bowl full of wine, in which it has been soaked for an hour. The first day the drunk ard swallows his allowance willing enough. The second day it seem less pleasing. At the en~d of eight or ten days -prisoners have been known to obstain altogether from the food thus pitilessly presented. This course of treatment tinished, the drunkard, ex cept in rare instances, is radically cured. Killed by Tornado. Eight person are known to have been killed in a tornado which swept Jackson County, Minn., Thursday evening. The dead are Mrs. Jos. Fritzer and two children of Heron Lake, Daniel, Ella and Nettie Gallag her, of Wilder, Minn., and two uni dentiied men. The storm first struck four miles northwest of Wilder. then turned eastward, laying bare a strip fty rods wide and twelve miles long. The damage to farm buildings is heavy. A Thousand Men Killed. Dispatch from London says the war tice today received a. dispatch from Col. Rochfort, one of the British otticers serving with the Adyssinian forces in Somalililand, which says the Abyssinians, May 31,after a series of forced marches, struck the Mad Mul la's forces near Jeyd, surprising themf at dawn and killing 1,000 spearmenl and capturing almost all their cattle and sheep and 1,000 camels. Far Better Schools. 1 Greenville voted on Tuesday by 271 to 34 to issue $20,000 in bonds for im provelets in the city school facihi ties. A handsome new building is to be erected and repairs will be made on the present buildings. - AWFUL CALAMITY. Che Worst Disaster Ever Occurred in the History of Yoming. WER TWO HUNDRED KITLED I Terrific Explosion in a Mine of Fire Damp. Shut Them Up Like Rats in a Trap. Hanna, Wyoming, was the scene Tuesday. of a terrible disaster-the worst in the history of Wyoming-at 1.30 a. m., when an explosion of fire lamp in mine No. 1 of the Union Pa :ific Coal company snuffed out the ives o?- 234 men, injured scores of thers and caused the destruction of a vast amount of property. The mine was not fired, as was tated in the earlier reports, but the plosion was terrific and completely.-, ,hattered the timbers of the main haft and numerous entrances, filling he working pit with debris, and those )f the miners that were not killed out- Z-1-- - ight by the explosion were buried Llive. The explosion was heard for nany miles around and attracted peo >le from the adjoining settlements. Juge timbers ;ind raillroad iron were iurled 300 feet from the mouth of the haft. Supt. E. S. Brooks and a large orce of men began the work of remov ng the debris from the shaft, that bey might reach the entombed niners. Their progress into the mine was blocked by the foul glasses and ieveral times they were forced to re urn to the surface. All day the rescuing party worked, he force being increased from time to Aime by the arrival of ranchmen and ythers from nearby settlements and g )y those of a relief t' sent ont prom Rawlins, which ar at 2 'clock in the afternoon. A 'clock Tuesday afternoon four were taken out alive and a half hour atsr they were followed by 42 others. 'Iny we:re unconscious and bad to be arried from the workings. Several re in a serious condition, but it is )elieved all will recover. Two hundred and eighty-two men went down in the mine at 7 o'clock ednesday morning and up to a late iour Wednesday night only 48 hav >een accounted for. Of this number wo are dead. It was some time after he explosion occurred that the first nan was brought to the surface. He was followed by others until 1 o'clock: when the last of the-48 was brought mt. The rescuers were unable to >enetrate further into the mine as it, was necessary to make another open-" ng to permit fresh air to reach the, ower levels. Horses and scrapers were put at work hauling debris away from the haft. The work is progressing slow , owing to the narrow space in which he rescuers are compelled to operate, 7ut by daylight the mines should be pened sufficiently to permit of deep ixplorations and the rescue of the lead bodies. Late Wednesday night i party of rescuers reached four mules hat were alive and this caused renew d hope. It is a faint hope, however, -~ or experienced mine bosses and niners say that when the imprisoned en are reached, all will be found lead. Some of the miners who escap ad say they saw '20 dead bodies in mtry No. 17. They reported that many of the men were crazed by the xplosion and ran hither and thither n the mine. Many of these could Lave escaped but they lay down buried their faces in their hands and gave up the fight. Of the 234 dead about 175 were married, and leave large families. About 100 were Finlanders, 50 were colored and the rest were Americans. The Hanna mines are among the best on the Union Pacific system, be ing established in 1878. The town - was named for Senator Mark Hanna when he was a member of the Union Pacific Coal company. Mine No 1. is practically a new property. It has 26 entries, 15 miles of workings and a main incline shaft of one and one-half miles in length. The mine has been recognized as a dangerous property for some time on account of the large amount of gas, but the system of ventilation has beenso good that an accident was not anticipated. Eaten By H~ogs. Cynthia Johnson, an aged widow, who lived near Kinnison, Indian Ter ritory, was attacked by an unknown party with a club Thursday night and beaten almost to death. The unknown, man shot her twice and sne fell dead. Ee left the house and is hiding in the rush and is a stillatlarge. Mrs. Johh son was a widow of some means and money was found in her home un molested. She had a son and daughter. who resided with her, but they were tway at the time of the killing and when the daughter, who came home rst, arrived at the gate she found heir -mother dead in the yard. Hogs 2ad attacked her and had eaten her orpse until it was beyond recognition. Farmers Combine. The North Louisiana Cotton Plan Ser's Association, at its meeting at hreveport last week, adopted the ollowing. It is further stipulated, greed and understood by the parties. So this organization that all the cot Soni seed raised or controlled by the nembers of this association- during she season of 1903 and 1904 shall be isposed of by or under the sanction Ld supervision of the executive coun il of said association. Killed in Church. Lightning struck the Presbyterian hurch at New Concord. Ohio, during :hildren's service and a panic ensued. . H. Alexander was killed, his body yeing thrown some distance. Shoes were torn from the feet of C. L. Alli on and his clothes were badly torn, nd he was rendered unconscious. Kiss Rose Paden was also rendered in ensible, as well as Miss Mary Alex aer, dnahter of the man killed.