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15THYEAR. FORT MILL. 8. C., TOURSDAY, AUGUST 23,1906. NO. 21.
PALMETTO AFFAIRS
Occurrences of Interest from
All Over South Carolina
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MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS
A Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover
mg a Wide Range?What is Going
Oa in Our State.
Columbia Cotton Market.
Tin* cotton market was steady.
Low middling- II
St rid low middling 0 1-2
Strict low middling 51 2-4
Middling ltl 1-H
Strict middling 11) '1-8
Good middling 10 1-2
Charlotte Cotton Market.
(Jood middling 10 1-4
Strict middling 10 1-4
Middling.. ..' 10 1-8
Tinges and stains 7 1-2 to !) 1-2
State News Briefs.
Petition Ii?is been tceeived front the
hiir ??1 Hnrnwell asking for a special
term of civil court to lust three weeks
beginning in October. There are said
t be a large number of eases on the
tloeU'd.
A eoimiiission was issued to the
Carolina-Honduras Mining Company,
wliieb will have its principal office in
Charleston and do business on a eapiial
of $Ti.OUU. The eompanv will
develop certain gold mining: property
it lias acquired ami \\>j. Sehirmer
. ml W. F. Jordan are the ineorporatoi
s.
tiovernor Hoy ward has received a
letter ft<un the sj?eeial eommission
appointed to survey the line between
Kdgt hi ill and Aiken counties stating
thai the appropriation for the work
was too small and asking to be relieved
of their duties. This will probably
affect the efforts now being made
to establish a new countv out of the
territory in that section.
Died'at Age of 103.
Aiken. Special.?Mr. Micael Anderson
died at his home in Glo^ersville
a few days ago a! the ape oL' .103
years. It was stated in a previous report
that Mr. Cass Weatherford, who
died at the ape of 07 years, was the
oldest man in Aiken county; but that
was a mistake. The correspondent
did not know of Mr. Anderson at
the time that report was written.
Mr. Anderson was veteran of threo
wars, lie was married twiee and was
the father of 23 children, now scattered
all over the State. Mr. Anderson
was an honest, sober, patriotic
and industerious citizen, and was re!lV
till wltA ITio
remains were buried in I lie* Langley
cemetery in tin: presence of a large
iiiiiuIhm* of friends and relatives. Mr.
Anderson's long life can most probably
tie attributed to the tempurnte
habits and simple manner of living.
Cut Guard's Throat, Escape.
I'hnrlestou, Special.?Feigning illness,
three negroes, Alonzo Godwin.
Jlammond Wilson and George Kenny,
eo;.v f ts serving long terms on the
chain gang of the sanitary and drainage
commission work nca,r Ashley
?lnet ion stopped in the stockade having
asked tor water, seized and overpowered
II. ('. Stello, the white guard,
ami cut. his throat with n butcher
"knite Two '"trusties" at the stock
adc wo 10 locked in by the men, who
ransacked the guard's rooms, donned
ei\iiian clothes* and escaped into the
nearby swamps. The moil contrary
l?> rules, were not chained on the
.-lockade. The trusties broke out and
s, -ead the alarm. A sheriff's posse is
scouring the woods with bloodhounds.
From Bounded Warehouses.
The state board of dispensary directors
adjourned after a two-days' session.
Ma.j. John Black was not able
to attend the meetings on account of
sickness. The board decided ?to put
into affect, a resolution adopted some
time ago to buy goods in bulk from
bonded warehouses. The advertisements
for purchases for this quarter
will contain a notice to that effect.
New Rural Route.
Mayesvillo, Sp rial. ?Tin* postoihce
department lia> ordered tin- establishment
<>f a niral free delivery route
out from this olliee, service beginning
October 1. This route will eover tlie
"round now covered by a star route
except that > will go further down
towards Sardii a, as far as tli?> old
Cooper place. It will eanse the closing
of,the Goodwill postolllee. This
route was worked out by the present
postmaster of Goodwill in wliieb he
was greatly helped by oiir hustling
congressman, Mr. A. F. Fever. The
examination for carrier will be held
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EARTHQUAKE LOSS HEAVY
Property Loss is Even Placed as High
as $'250,000,000. or More Than Every
Stick and Stone of v;he Community
Can Possible Be Worth?
Known Dead Placed by Refugee at
100. But Figures Still Run as High
as 2.000.
There continues confusion of statements
as to the inagnittide of the
disaster to Valparaiso caused by the
earthquake shocks which bewail oil
Thursday, August J(?, ami continued
at frequent intervals throughout that
ami the uevi two days.
1 >ispalehes I mm \ :?I j?;?r:ii?*?? ro the.
Assoeiated Press state dial a moderatc
estimate o| the fatalities is 2,000
and tiiai the properly loss may be as
high as $2*>0.()On.OOO. which latter is
as ureal as the loss sustained 1>\ San
Francisco in eonsepnenee of the earthqualcv
and fire devastated that city
last A pi il.
A refugee who has arrived at Santiago
plaees the known Valparaiso
dead at 100. and other messages' iudieate
that lirst reports of damages
and easualiies were greatly exaggcrated.
Dispatehes to the State |)epartineut
at Washington place the
fatalities at about 500. These eontlietinu
statements eniuiot at this time
be adjusted. It is evident that eveh
yet eon fusion and panie prevail at
. Valparaiso and until order is restored
it will he impossible to ascertain with
j ac.'uraev the loss to life and property.
The dwelling* in the eity have
..mi (piiii-iaunn<ioui'<i IIV llH' uihahitaiits,
who are existing as best
tlit'v can in tin- plazas ami street.of
ilie city ami the bills adjacent to
it. without shelter from storm ami
sun ami wit h J amine confront ittg
them. Food is already scarce and
high, water for drinking purposes is
lacking. and disease is feared. The
government is doing all it eatt to
bring in relief. The evipplutg of the
railroads leading into Valparaiso continues
a factor in the situation for
an indefinite period, belief supplies
can only be obtained through other
metias of transportation, the seaboard
affording the best of these.
At Santiago many of the best public
and private buildings were wreck td.
The loss of life there was augmented
by the panic which seized the
people, many of whom threw themselves
fro nitIm balconies of theit
homes. The destructive force of the
earthquake was experienced over a
large extent of the country, many
towns sustaining serious damage.
Facts Ahntif Vo1??mI??
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The capital of the province of Valparaiso,
Chile, ami the chief seaport
of the republic, is situated on a base
of the Pacific. (?S miles 11IB miles by
rail) west northwest of Santiago,
with which il is connected by rail.
The older and business portion of the
city extends along; the shore of the
bay, while on the slope of the surrounding
hills are the liner residence
suhhurbs. Vina del Mar, a few miles
to the cast. i> a noted suburb and seashore
resort. Valparaiso enjoys a
mild and equable climate, the. average
temperature being 58 degrees F., the
average for January t>3 degrees and
for .Inly 53. The average animal
rainfall is 'about 13.5 inches. The
town has some well const meted
streets, and a square with many monuments
The more important monuments
include statues of Columhus,
William Whcelright. who built the
first railroad in South America, Thomas
Cochrane (tenth Karle of Dundouahl),
who organized the Chilean
navy, and a tine monument to the
im>Vt surmounted by a statue ot Admirnl
Pratt. The fort is strongly fortified,
and the government maintains
a large naval arsenal. The chief
manufactures are cotton goods, machinery
and iron works; other interests
are the manufacture of tobacco,
bottling of mineral water, sugar refining,
brewing and distilling. The
harbor is very aceesseble and has a
complete system of docks, warehouses
and shipyards.
Valparaiso has been the port foi
Santiago since lSf>4. It was visited
by a terrible earthquake in 1H.V? and
bombarded by a Spanish lleet in lStiti.
During the civil war of 1S!> 1 is was
taken and partly sacked by the congressional
troops. The population in
11)00 was ld."?,()7-l, of whom 1*J,000
were foreigners.
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$50,000 Lumber Mill Fire in Georr^ia.
Mil con, I in.. SjK'cinl.?A special to
The Telegraph from Ocaillu. (la., says
the plant of the Ocilla Lumber Company,
one of the largest in the State,
was totally destroyed by lire Sunday
morning; loss, $.">0,000. Dry kiln,
millions of feet of lumber, laths, shingles
and other material destroyed.
Citizens made a great eflort to extinguish
Haines without avail and then
turned their attention to saving adjoining
property, which was successful.
Very small insurance on property.
Mills will at once be rcbult.
Origin of lire unknown.
HE PLEAD IN VAIN
Governor Heyward's fruitless
Effort to Stop Lynching
NEGRO RAPIST SHOT TO PIECES
In Broad Daylight and Almost Within
Sight of the Chief Executive of
South Carolina, Bob Davis, Who
Assaulted and Nearly Killed Greenwood
Girl is Literally Riddled With
Bullets.
Columbia. S. Special.?Within
the shadow of the home of his victim.
Miss Jennie Brooks, alter having been
identified by her, and after Governor
]). lleyward. who went to the
scene of the trouble had addressed
the mob in vain, Boh Davis, the negro
who on Monday murderously attacked
Miss Brooks with intent to commit
assault and who afterwards outraged
a tiftgro girl 14 years old, was lynched
about 7.30 oVIoek Friday evening.
tiovernor lleyward reached the
scene shortly ; fter the negro hail
been captured. A platform was erected
in a fence corner o the premises
of the victim's father from which
tiovernor lleyward addi 'swd the mob
n an effort to prevent.the lynching.
The tiovernor heseeehed the mob not
to lynch Davis, but in vain. At the
conclusion of his speech tlie Governor
was vociferously cheered. The mob
i lieu removed the prisoner from the
view of the Governor and within a
short distance of the home of his victim
the negro was riddled with bullets.
It is impossible to estimate t ic
crowd, as the citizens from several
counties had gthered at the scene and
for two days hud been in pursuit of
the tiend, but. it is certain that hundreds
of bullets were sent thr^ncA*
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his body.
The militia in that seetion of the
State is uow encamped at Chickaaaauga
and there were no near-by
troops to be called upon. The Governor's
Guards and the Kiehlnnd Volunteers
of this city had been ordered
to bold themselves in readiness in the
event their services were needed,
but the mob was determined and it is
doubtful it' the presenee of soldiers
could have prevented the lynching.
Mob Furnished Platform.
The mob erected a platform near
the homo of Miss Brooks for the Governor
to address them. He pleaded
with the mob not to stain the fair
name of Greenwood county and the
State of South Carolina. His words
were cheered lustily and when he
had finished the mob took their prisoner
a few hundred yards away and
shot him to death. Governor Heyward
viewed the horrible spectacle
from a distance.
The negro was captured in a creek,
tied hand and foot and brought to
the homo of his victim for idcntilication.
When they arrived at the gate
of the Brooks home a great crowd
gathered there. "Lets wash his l'aee,
boys, before we take him to the
house," said some one. but the cmwil
was too impatient. Four men were
delegated to escort him to the house.
The young lady was lying on her bed
with a deep gash in her throat, turned
her eyes toward the negro as he stood
there between his captors, his hands
tightly bound with a rope, his jet
black faoe all in a blaze, his blear
eyes rolling from right to left.
"That's the scroundrel," she said.
"I know him by his eyes."
Oovernor's Appeal.
The negro was removed outside the
house, where the platform had been
erected for the Governor. "Hear the
Governor," said some one, and he be-1
gan in his clear voice a most impassioned
appeal. "I kuow." he said
"that nothing could take place that
could keep you from hearing the
Governor of South Carolina." The
crowd r'liAKi'Oil ln?2?iU? 1
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their liands in admiration. "I oome
here alone." lie continued, "not
bringing any troops; only two newspaper
men came with me. and they as
well as 1 are South Carolinians, just
as you are, with like feelings. You
are my friends. Here 1 am not alone
as your Governor, but as your friend.
"But it is my duty to enforce ihe
laws of South Carolina. Don't elieer.
men, this is a solemn occasion and J
am very much in earnest, and besides
I understand it excites the ladies and
this is a consideration that appeals to
all South Carolinians. (The residence
was but forty feet away). I come
to appeal to your manhood. The
question is. Shall the people be allowed
to be ruled by their passions
and prejudices or shnll the supremacy
and the majesty of the law be upheld?
1 promise yon on my honor that as
speedy trial a.-- the law allows shall
he held. 1 wjuld not object to cutting
tl.n mm 1 ?
I 4X'|M i?r ??*?- tutu M^uuiiurea pro- |
I vided the law says so." '
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SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS
Condition of South Carolina Crops
For Week Ending Monday, An% 20
1906, as Given Out by tha DeBartme^t.
The sunsliiite was much below norinaL
there havinjy been one clear day
n lI f interior; on the coast from two
o six days were clear.
The temperatures nveraiM'd slightly
inovi' normal and was romnrkiiiu}'
tpiable. with unusually small <1 itT?*r nees
iii the itaily temperatures from
lie mountaiiis to the roast. 7lie higli >t
maximum temperature was !>7 degrees
at Blaekville ou the 13th. There
was very little variation in the night
temperatures t lnoughtout Ihe week;
lie extreme miuiimun was H."> degrgfs
u tireenville on the 13th.
The preeipitat ion was copious over
he great or portion of the State, hut
was much below normal in a few h? alilies.
most of whieh were in the
astern eonnties. The greatest loeal
unoiuil was .'{..'hi inches at Catawba.
Nearly aM "he north central eounti".*
tail e.\e 1 amounts on one or more
lays 1 setl tluo.ls on the smaller
dream*. .Many thunderstorms oeenrvd
in, the western half of the Slate
jiul some of them were aeeompauied
l?y high winds.
Narrow Escape From Death.
I Ufll! ?^?| P?l I I *1 II till 1 i; Ml * ^ .
T. C. Williams. .Jr.. Willinui H.
I.yics, of Columbia ami Mr. 'I'uton
it' <ireen\ille. while touring the ninuutsiiiis
in an automobile, had a narrow
?scape from death a few days ago.
when their iarge maehine tumbled
over a lo-foot ledge. The fael that
tin- machine landed light side up nc oinils
for l lie minor injuries and
iruises which the occupants sustain?d
instead of perhaps fatal injuries.
The machine was a complete wreck.
Survey of Heyward County.
Aiken, Special. The commissioners
appointed in the new county mattei
met here. .Messrs.. L. \V. Reese, R. A.
Cochran and T. O. Croft, Jr., being
present. Owing to sickness, Mr. II.
M. Cassells was unable to attend the
meeting. The survey has been completed
and blue prints of the survey
were handed to the commissioners
Mr. (ieorge T. Jackson appeared in
hchalf of the promoters of the new
county and requested that the com
Mission mant permission to change
(lie boundaries set forth in their petition
to t he governor.
Sold Whiskey at Church.
Anderson, Special. There are nc
developments in the negro shoot ins
affray that occurred at Shihdi churc!
in which seven negroes were shot
The deputies went to the scene will
instructions to arrest any of the participants
in the shooting, but rioiu
put in appearance. The deputies returned
and state that they have gathered
additional evidence and tin
names of several more negroes win
took part in the shooting and thej
will make arrests later oil. One negro
was caught selling liquor at the
church and Magistrate .lackson gave
him .'!!> da , ^ or .fl(M) and the negro b
on the gang. The wounded negroe?
are still living, but two or three ol
them are in ? serious condition.
Good Work For Sumter Firm.
Sumter, Special. -The Sumter Railway
and Mill Supply Company Inn
M'cured contracts for furnishing t?
llie I'lrted States government a con
..ideal le amount of supplies to hf
ue.-d in constructing the navy yard
and dry dock at Charleston, and lun
been asked to make bids on suppliet
for government work at Savannah
Columbia and I'ensacola. This wholesale
linn, which deals largely in al
kinds of piping, mill supplies, am
general hardware, has recently moved
into its new stone warehouse on Soutl
I Harviu street. It is gratifying t<
Sumter people to know that a Sumter
linn is extending its trade terri
u?ry m niuercni southern Mates.
Nurserymen in Convention.
Lookout Mountain, Special.?The
Southern Nurserymen's Association
met in convention here, with representatives
front all the States south ol
Mason and Dixon's line present. It
will continue, and will diseuss main
| important questions of iuttrnst to
fruit growers and nurserymen,
President Orlando Harrison, of Berlin,
Md., opened the session with u
short talk, in which he outlined the
objects of the association and called
upon all present to give their best efforts
to the furtherance of thew
ends.
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ANOTHER LYNCHING
Assailant of Little Girl is Shot
to Pieces
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CONFESSED THE AWFUL CRIME
Perpetrator of Brutal Attempt to Assault
7-Year-Old Daughter of Saluda
County Farmer is Captured
by Victim's Father, Who Was Taking
Him to Scene of Crime to Shoot
Him When Met by Mob?Placed on
Dry Goods Box, and After Admitting
His Guilt. Riddled With Bulleets?Little
Girl May Survive.
Columbia. S. ('. Special.?Boh Etheridgc
was shot to death by a mob
nine miles t'roiu Suuituerland, Monday
night.
It was the intention of the father
of the child upon whom he made a
brutal attempt to assault on Thursday
last to take him to the scene of
his crime and there shoot him to
death but lie was overtaken by the
mob. Kthpidge was placed upon a
dry goods box and asked if he had
anything to say. He refused to talk
further tahn to say lhat he was guilty.
The mob then prooeded to riddle him
with bullets. The mob iiwuihered 200
men.
Kthridge. on Thursday last, attempted
to erimiually assault the 7year-old
daughter ot' T. H. West, a
well-to-do farmer of the Mount Willing
section of Saluda.
Dead Body in Marl Hole.
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banished .Sunday J.voin St. Jr'eterslmnr
: alone and tlmt 7500 were placed on
trains bound for the interior.
G. A. R. on the Increase.
Minneapolis, Minn., Special.-- The
total membership of the Grand Army
is declared in the rejjort of Adjutant
General TweedtJe to be 2.15,82.'$, an
increase of .1,368 during: the last six
[ months, lxisses by death for the
year ended Dee. 11 last were 0,205.
; First North Carolina Bale New Cotton
Morven.N.C., Special?The first bale
| new cotton raised in the State was
I niartreted in Morven Friday. It was
1 grown by Mr. l\ II. RatlifF, a proi
gressive farmer of Anson county, and
' was purchased by T. V. Ilardison, a
well-known merchant and cotton buyer
of Morven. The bale weighed 45"
pounds and brought 11 cents a pound.
j Hundred Thousand Homeless.
i London, By Cable.?In a dispatch
from Vnlopraiso without date, the
correspondent of tho Daily Mail says:
"Sixty per cent of this city lias
, been oomph fely destroyed. The
death roll i?- \ y heavy. There \va'
eighty-two during Thursday
L ni^lit and tl a > 1 in *800 since
, then. The tremors still continue. One
I hundred thousand people are honie.
less and destitute. Water is giving
s out. Surrounding towns have been
deVoyed and the railroads have
b>?ji out."
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| MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST i :
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One person was' killed and fouw
others prostrated by foul gases from
a tanning vat near Asheville, N. C.
The South Carolina cotton manufacturers
have decitled on various
changes with respect to freight allowances
and other conditions.
It was stated that President Stenslaud.
of the defunct Chicago hank,
made cure tin 1 preparation for tlight,
even tafiing a silver dinner set.
The subcommittee of the International
American Conference on th?
Drago doctrine agreed on a resolution
even more general than the onu
on the program.
,1. It ay nor Storrs Wells, the wealthy
young man who entered the
navy, is under arrest at the Norfolk
Navy Yard and threatened with
court-martial for overstaying hia
leave.
William J. Bryan is to make a trip
to Australia after the November election
and will be absent 10 weeks.
King Edward left for Germany and
will confer with Emperor William on
the Husian situation.
Maj.-Gen. Sir Reginald Pole-Curew,
prominent in African and other campaigns,
lias been retired.
The creation of a separate governor
generalship for the mining region of
Russia shows how seriously the condition
there is?regarded.
Defying tho labor black list,
Speaker Cannon is so certain of reeleotioh
tnat he will not canvass hi*
own district.
Grand t)uke Nicholas Nicholatetcli
declined the military dictatorip
of Russia and recommended
tneral Liuevitch for the poet.
Secretary Bonaparte's mail is full
letters in regard to his Cumber:nd
speech on anarchy. %
The Sultan of Turkey ia bcttev
fter his attack of iiinc&n.
Though Henry H. Lippart bid
-">,000 less, the contract for 40,000
rmy blankets was awarded to the
American Woolen Company, the socalled
Woolen Trust.
Terrille rains caused great damage
1 Norfolk nnd vicinity.
William Butler, of Keyser, W. V*.,
as killed by a Baltimore and Ohio
rain at Paw-Paw, W. Ya.
The cruiser Minneapolis reached
Norfolk with 300 seasick Brooklyn
laval reserves.
The National Firemen's Associa*
ion is holding a convention in Koao>ke.
John Colliue, a miner, was murder*
d for bis money near Fairmont, W.
k'a.
Hard work was done bj- tbe Fourth
in id Fifth Regiments at Mount Uret|ia.
The annual encampment of the
irand Army of the Republic has
taken 100,000 visitors to Minneapolis
[Minn.
William J. Bryan renewed tbe 1
fight against Democratic National
Committeeman Roger Sullivan, of /?)
Illinois, charging misuse of funds.
Four persons were shot, three perhaps
fatally, at Coney Island by a
man who made his escapo after holding
his pursuers at bay with a revolver.
Officials of the First National
Bank of Birmingham, Ala., nuuonnefctl
1 lint Alex. R. (Chisolir*, paying .
teller, is $100,000 short in his accounts,
and he was arrested on hi*
return from'a vacation trip.
A census of divorces is being lnk*>a
in New York, and it is feared that
many family secrets buried in sealed
court records will be laid bare.
The committe on insurance laws of
the American liar Association recommended
certain changes Li the laws.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
stopped its surface lines to
Coney Island at (? P. M.. in -mite mt
all protests.
George Hill, a white ex-convict,
wus found guilty of participation in
flic lynching of tliree negroes at
Salisbury. N. last Monday night
and was sentenced to 15 years in tho
penitentiary.
Indictments on charges of giving
and i'4#iving rrljates were returned
hyitin; {fraud jury of Jamestown, N.
V., against the Pennsylvania Railroad
and the Standard and Vacuum
Oil < 'omponiesi
William Lop, Jr., secretary to
President Roosevelt, was sued for
$50,000 damages by Nadage Doree,.
, a<Jewish writer, o:'t a charge of falso
I ovvnel