Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WILD MAN HELD Arrested After Figbtiif a Whole Sectioa of Lcxiiftta Coutj. A MYSTERIOUS TERROR ^ A Ooal Black Nrgro, Who SMms to ^ Be an Odd Character Has Been Put < In Jail In Lexington.?No One' | Seems to Knows Where He Cum ' ( Prom. A dispatch from Lexington to The ! | ' State says the negro who has been < terrorizing the {neighborhood near I Lexington for nearly a week has at 1 last been captured and Is now be- 4 hind the prison barB In jail. Thurs- , day, after the officers had been in , search for him all day, aided by 4 0 ' or 50 citizens of the community, the , negro turned up at the home of Isaiah Llndler, a farmer, about five ! miles from the court house and ask- , ed for something to eat with the request that be be allowed to do some work In compensation for It. He remained there all day and Friday morning the officers were notified by 'phone that the man they had been hunting for for several days had been located. Sheriff Corley and Deputy Bheriff Miller went to the scene at once and carried the negro to jail. He Is evidently crazy for he can not tell what his name Is or where he halls from. He says that he has been all oveT the world; has crossed the ocean on boat and has viewed all the old countries. He says that his parents died when he was a child juBt beginning to walk and that he has been walking ever since. He Bays that the people call him so many different names that he real ly doeB not know what his right name is, but that he moBtly calls himself John Oraham or Jack Graham. Where the man came from is a myBtery, save that he came from Columbia on a wagon with some negroes who lire on the plantation of Mr. John Corley. He spent the night at one of the farm houses but left early next morning. Since then he has been turning up at first one house and then another, terrifying the entire community by his strange actions. I On Tuesday more than 50 people -were In pursuit of him and he was traced from one end of the territory to the other and at times the posse was almost upon him, but every time he would elude his pursuers. ^ He Is as black as the ace of epades and looks to be about 45 years of age. H1b forefinger on the right hand is off at the joint. He says that it was cut off by some of the children when he was himself a child. He was barefooted for the most of tho time, but when he arrived at the ja.ll ho had on a pair of shoes that had evidently seen better days. It is the general belief that the negro escaped from an Insane asylum some where, for it does not seem possible that anyone so demented would be allowed to roam about the country In any(such manner. The officers are making an effort to send him to the hospital for the insane at Columbia. Hp was examined hv Drs Derrick end Roberts, both of whom pronounced him Insane. The difficulty In placing him there, however, will arise from the fact that absolutely nothing is known of his people nor of himself, and it is impossible to give the usual desired information. It would doubtless be a great relief to the officers if those who know anything of the man would communicate with them at once. In the meantime the people of the community are now resting at ease, since the "wild man from Romeo," as he has been styled, is safe behind the prison bars. POSTMASTER SUICIDES. Act Followed Report of Inspector at Delnnd, Fla. David B. Hargraves, assistant postmaster at Deland, Fla., suicided Friday afternoon by shooting himself through the head, dying almost instantly. Hargraves' act followed the InvaatlirnMnn r?f thn nfflpc )>v SI nnst. ?Alee Inspector, who reported that he was short In his accounts. At the time of the Investigation Postmaster Allen was In attendance upon the postmasters* Convention at Ocala. The dead man leaves a wife and foi*r chlldren. Shot by Crazy Man. Frank Skala, an editor and mission worker of Pittsburg, Pa., was assassinated just after he had finished preaching a sermon and was ^ leaving the church. The man that did the shooting was crazy. Skala's oo-lahorer, John Gay, was also wounded by the same man. Burned to I>eath. In a fire which destroyed their home at Morgantown, W. Va., Saturday Luther C. Johnson and his 3year-old daughter were cremated. (Mrs. Johnson and her two-year-old on escaped. V \ FIGHT TO THE DEATH KILL EACH OTHER IN ROW OVER ROAD CROSSING. Two Families Meet in Open and Shoot Until Three of the Combatants Are" Killed. - i wo aeaa, one aying ana probably one or two others slightly wounded are the results of a Sunday afternoon battle In an Inter-family feud >f long standing, which was renewed Sunday afternoon near Emanuel. 3a. The dead are: E. S. Collins, road nverseer for his district, and a wellto-do farmer, and his son, William Collins, both of whom died during the progress of the tight. Alma LewIs is so badly wounded that he is expected to die at. any moment. The battle was between the family af Collins and the family of Lewis, and was the outcome of a dispute over a public road crossing. The two families reside less than a mile apart and the county line runs between their hemes. Fathers and sons met In a lane Sunday afternoon neRr the Lewis home. Just how the battle sta-rted is not known. The members of the Collins family were armed with pistols, while two shotguns were used on the otherslde. A number of persons watched the battle, which was fought In the open, both sides standing bravely up to the mark. Joseph I^ewls, father of Alma Lewis. Is alleged to have fired the shot that ended the irfe of the elder Collins. The sheriffs of both Tombs and Emanuel counties have gone to the scone of the trouble with physicians. As both families are well-to-do and well known, the shooting created a sensation In both counties. It was known thnt they were not on the best of terms. A dozen or more shots were fired and It was Rtated that the others who were wounded besides Alma Lewis are but little hurt. It was stated later that three arrests had been made of sirrvivors of the battle. BARELY MISSED DEATH. T L.K?.I.... r'.. ... iii^iiuiii4; mi in h \ imiiiiu>*ihmm r 11 ui* son's Ottlco. The records of the department of agriculture for the past five years came very near being destroyed late Saturday night when a bolt of lightning struck the state house at Columbia and passed down a ventilation pipe to the otfice of Commissioner Watson. The Commissioner had Just left his desk and would have been Instantly killed had he been seated. The pipe comes from the top of the building and passes down one corner of the room. Here are located the records of the office in shelves. The shelves are of wood. All wires in the office were burnt out. J list before the bolt struck Commissioner Watson left the office and walked to Main street to a drug store. On going out into the street, he saw a mass of (lames in his office. He rushed to the scene antf with the assistance of a water cooler extinguished the fire. CRAZY NEGRO SHOT. In a I desperate Street Battle at Marietta, Georgia. In a desperate street battie at Marietta, Ga.. Friday, Charles 1-loyd, an Insane negro, stabbed and seriously wounded Sheriff McKinney, of Cobb county, and Policeman Osborne. As the negro started to flee he was shot twice by McKinney, and when ho turned a corner of the street he was shot twice more by Chief of Police Grogan, who had just come upon the scene. The negro finally was overpowered and taken to jail. He is not expected to live. The fact that the negro was crazy was all that prevented a lynching. Assassin Caught. The Chief of Police of Augusta, Ga., has, as the result of his invesgation of Dr. C. VV. Hickman murder case, turned over to the solicitor general evidence, which he says, warratns the indictment and conviction of John Henry Mathis. This negro, three weeks ago. was caught in the act of trying to pawn the watch torn rrom the v st or nr. Hickmnn the night of the murder. * Good l-'ish Story. A dispatch from Columbus. Oa., says during a heavy rain and hailstorm Friday afternoon a trout four inches in length and very much alive was picked up in the business section of the town. Prominent citlTrtnc <-r?nrh for the statement thai the flsh was rained from the clouds IVath by Train. A distressingly sad accident oe curred at Belmont Saturday nlehi about 10 o'clock when Mr Iti.v Met calf of Bessemer. N. C.. was instant ly killed and his body horribly man gled by southbound freight No. 75 i It is thought he attempted to boar< the train and was thrown under it BURN AND LOOT Fareifi BaMif s ? Cktif Ska, Ckiaa,1 arc*Destrayed ky M. THE GOVERNOR KILLED The ChJneM OfSklmU Issued a Proclamation That They Were Unable to Protect Life and Property, and Thereupon Foreigners Made Haste to Leare the City at Once. All the foreUrn owned hnildtn?r? In Chang Sha, China, have been destroyed by Are with the exception of the Hritish consulate. The buildings rented by foreigners have been looted. The Chinese ofllcers issued a proclamation that they were unable to protect life and property, and thereupon foreigners made haste to leave the city. So far as is known, no foreigner has lost his life. The governor, Hu Nan of the province of Wu Tehung-i SIu, and his son, were killed and several other government officials fled. Even yet a section of the city is in flames. Six thousand foreign drilled soldiers are stationed there and a few of these protected the governor's house for a time, but soon all joined the rioters. The riots began on April 13, when the famine sufferers looted the rice shops. A captain of police was wounded while trying to restore order, but thousands crowded around him and his assistants, and he was obliged to flee to the yamen. The rioters followed him there and besieged the place all nfcght. The following day the disturbance became anti-foreign, this being a strong anti-foreign province. The China-Inland mission and the Norwegian and Catholic missions were burned. The other missions were destroyed on April 16th. Tho missionaries attached to the American Episcopalian missionary alliance, the United Exangelle church and the Wesleyan and Tale missions, numbering 41 In all, took refuge in foats. They left all of their effects. Tho destruction of all foreign property, including the Japanese consulate and the British warehouses followed. Tho fate of the Standard Oil ^company's newly erected tanks is unknown. The British consul detained two steamers for tho refugees, who innlnHn 7A T anonoon fBrino- KAmatrai* to the shortage of provisions and the hopelessness of the situation. It was decided to start for Hankow. .Thn official buildings were destroyed the same day, the troops Joined the rioters, who numbered not less than 24,000. Eight Germans attached to the I-iebenzoll mission were In Chang Sha when the trouble began. They (led from the city, and It Is reported that three of them proceeded to Hankow in a junk without lights were run down by the British gunboat Thistle and drowned. Another report says the men drowned were Americans but this Is not confirmed. The cause of the riots was the scarcity and high cost of rice. According to one report the governor of Hu Nan committed suicide after notifying the government that he was responsible for the rioting. SUSPECTED OF CHIME. Two Men Charged With Murdering Six Year Old Girl. At Chicago two men taken Into custody in connection with the murder of Alfreda Doverlska, 6 years I.A/l ?r will, n tiuac I'WUJ, HWiiiuijr ill (I I i Id ltd , was found In a shed Saturday afternoon. Sunday were Identified as having been seen in company with the murdered child shortly before she disappeared. The men are Harney Bizoska, a blacksmith's helper, and Jos. Pilarskl, a laborer. Blood stains were found on Bizoska's clothing Another girl told the police she was coming from a candy store with the Deverlska girl and was chased away by the men. Fatal Lightning Bolt. During a severe thunder storrr Sunday night at Salisbury, N. C., i lightning bolt descended upon tht fishing camp on the banks of t creek eight miles from the town, in stantly killing Charles Carroll, 1( years old, and knocking into uncon scionsness Floyd Host, a companion of the same age. The other two it the party escaped Injury. The In jnred lad has not regained conscious ness ana is not expeetea to recover Sleet Breaks Wires. At Grandgofks. N. I)., snow am Rlpet has broken down miles of tel egraph poles along the Great Nor thern railroad. Trains cannot b ' reached by the dispatchers and ar running without orders. Death of a Miser. f With a bank account of $250.00 - and owninsr several blue grass farm - In Kentucky. William M. Gold, wh - worked for several years on a fart for his board, is dead at Amarllh 1 Texas. Gold up to the time of hi death was believed to be poor. m . LYNCHED TWO NEGROES FIVE WHITE MEN ARE CHARGED WITH THE CRIME. Warrants Are Sworn Out for theLr Arrest by Two Negro Women and Sheriff Makes the" Arrest. Quite a sensation was created at Ashburn, Qa.t Friday when the news of the killing of two negro men near Ambroy. about four miles north of that place, was received there. Later on in the day warrants were sworn out by two negro women and chaTged Ave prominent white men in that section of the county with the lynching. The negroes who were killed were Albert Royal and Charley Jackson. iuB vt-rui-ji oi Lne coroner's jury w?a delivered sealed and nothing is known of Its action. The trouble Is Bald to have Btarted over an alleged criminal assault near Ashburn about two weeks ago. Charley Jackson, one of the negroeB, was arrested at the time charged with criminal assault on a white woman, but was released on ball. The other negro, Albert Royal, Is said to have signed the bond of the accussed man. After having kept silent about the matter for a time, the two negroes began to openly boast of the brutal deed and spoke of It with pride to their fellows. They kept up their talk until the matter was brought to the ears of several white men In that community. The two men were chased down and captured and then the killing Is said to have followed. The local population Is greatly rrclted over the matter. It is not I known whether or not the white men Implicated In the affair were exonerated by the coroner'B Jury. AWFUL STATU OF AFFAIRS. Thousands of School Children Debauched by CooAine. The different forms In which the drug cocaine is prepared fair sale to Its victims were exhibited to President Taft Thursday by Dr. Joseph H. Remlaeton, of Philadelphia, chairman of the committee on revision of the United States pharmacopeia, which holds Its next convention in this city May 10. Dr. Remington told the preBidest that the Illicit aalo of cocaine had grown to porportionB In this country that serlouBly threaten future citizenship. It has been discovered In Philadelphia. he said, that the drug was sold In large quantities to school children, hundreds of them having been debauched through Its agencies. Restrictive laws in cities and states were ineffective because the drug could be obtained by mail from other States. What was needed was national legislation under the Interstate commerce clause of the constitution that would forbid the handling or sale of the medicine except by licensed druggists and physicians. The president was appalled by the facts told him and propiised to give his aid in any way possible. KILLED HIMSELF. I>ulighter. Sitting on Porch Saw the Horrible I>eed. Sitting on the porch of her par, ents' home at Breckville, O.. Mrs. Alice Wehman, a bride of two weeks, , watched her fathor hang himself late Thursday, unaware until too late of what he was doing. The suicide, William Green, a retired farmer, had be?'n despondent ! through ill health for some time. Securing a rope and some tools, he ' went to an outhouse in full view of 1 Mrs. Wehman, saying he was going > to fix the dodlr which was loose. Not until her father had kicked a ? box from under his feet and was ac' tually in his death struggle, did the r young woman realize the meaning of his actions. Her screams aroused the neighborhood, but Green was dead when cut down. * i , IIKN ALIiKN FOUND. ) . . ^ i A Hoarder Arrested is Charged with . Killing the Man. Hen Allen, a white man. residing at No. 204 Hammett street, Green1 ville was found in hie ho/1 ThnroHsiv morning at 2 o'clock, with a bullet in his head. The coroner's jury re' turned a verdict that he came to hia death from a wound unknown to the jury. Rumors of suicide and mur[j del* were afloat, and late Thursday - afternoon a man named Lindley who boarded at Allen's house, wai e arrested charged with killing Aller e I,lndey denies his guilt. ' Attempts Murder. A sensation was caused In the pal 0 ace of the justice of Paris Thursdaj 8 when an anarchist, in revenge, flrec o four shots at M. Flory, the profes sor of the court, which found th? >. man qullty a year ago. Florey w.u Is not hit and the anarchist was ar rested. \ STORM SWEPT DestradiM tf Property FolUw ia the V.V. mt c ?r_j nmmm m JCfUc nmm. CROPS BADLY DAMAGED Georgia and Alabama Report Local Cydoara and Many Sections of These and Other States Report Damage* to Houses that Had Been Vnroofed by the Hurricane. One of the severest storms In recent years, assuming the proportoiis of torrential gales Is a number of localities. Bwept over the southern states east of the seaboard Friday, leaving its trail of damage, death and destruction. So far as known there have been only two fatalities, but it is feared that later reports will Bhow a still heavier toll of victims. The storm of wind, rain and hall, which swept through the lower potion of Tennessee Friday night, reached the Georgia line Saturday morning and passed towards Alabama. Tow,is of northern Georgia severely felt the effects of the hail, where the vegetation wag damaged. It Is also feared that the cold wave following close behind the rain and wind will do serious damage. The cold has already been felt In tbe trans-Mississippi states. Damage to fruit is reported as far west as New Mexico and western Texas. I?cal storms, which developed cyclonic proportions, were reported in a number of places, the most serious being at Gainsville, Ala., where a hot^l was unroofed and at Woodland, Ga., where a number of houses were unroofed and blown down. It Is thought that the damage will probably reach $750,000 or more. At Oakman, Ga., hall fell to a depth of five Inches Friday afternoon and drifted in places to 2 1-2 feet deep. The rain was terrlflc, and wind high, but no BeriouB damage from wind is reported. Hailstones were as large as hen eggs. The mountains are as white aB if covered with snow, and trees are stripped of all twigs and small limbs. All vegetation was beaten into the ?U. This was the heaviest hall ever known In that section. All crops that are up ar? ruined and will have be be planted a second time. lAt Dalton, Ga., a hall storm did great damage Friday afternoon. Wheat, cotton and corn was cut down by the hall stones, and several local merchants sustained several hundred dollars of loss from damaged goods the water In several Instances beating through the roofs. The peach orchards in the neighborhood were almost entirely stripped of fruit, and the crop In the immedikte vicinity of Dalton wll be practically nothing. Gardens were cut down and buried beneath the heavy fall of hail, which covered everything. In drifts the hall In some places measured at least six incheB In depth. A dispatch from Chatsworth, Ga., says the longest drouth ever known in that section was broken Friday afternoon by an unprecedented hail and rain storm of a few minutes duration. The ground was covered with hail stones as large as partridge es?s and drifted in places several inches deep, doing considerable damage to young crops. Manchester, Ga., experienced a destructive cyclone Friday afternoon, practically every house in the town being more or less seriously damaged. A number of stores were almost completely wrecked, as were nr? ci <ij leoiMCiircD rtiiu iirro were uprooted throughout the town. Several persons are reported seriously Injured. The railroad suffered heavy damago in the wrecking of two freight trains and a badly damaged track. When the blow struck Woodland, five cars of a side tracked fretcht were blown over onto the main lise and a moment later another freight dashed into them, making kindling wood of the box cars and tearing up the track for a distance of 100 yards. No member of the crews of the two trains were injured. Only Husband Ix*ft. With her husband, W. K. Oriflln, critically ill, Mrs. Maggie Oriflln, at Savannah was making arrangements Saturday to bury her little girl, Anna, who died Friday night, when she lay down on the bed to rest a few , minutes and died of heart failure. Wrecked by Storm. Greenala Hotel, half a dozen stcr, le8, many residences were wrecked J Saturday at Greenville, Alabama, by i the storm. At Forest Hume several ' houses were unroofed and two negroes were Injured. Killed by Train. r At Charlotte Doll Harris, a youn* 1 nozro man, was run ove.* by a South - ern train near the Carolina Oil Mil 9 Saturday night and both legs wert a horribly mutilated. It being necessary - to amputate them. The negro diet shortly after th? operation. BURIED BY LANDSiDE ?*? RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION CAMP WIPKD OUT. Not a Workmen in tb? Camp ed and Practically Kvery One in K f ' <* ' " * * in Working Gang Injured. An Immense landslide, started by a blast of dynamite early Friday, carried a score of men down the side of the steep hill and buried th* construction camp of the Ha Ha Bay Railway at St. Alfonso, Que., under tons of earth and rock. Not a workman In the camp escaped and practically every one In the working gang on the hill was more or less seriously Injured. Up to a late hour Friday afternoon a rescue party had taken out eight dead, including I.adlslas Gagne of St. Joseph, Que., chief engineer In charge of the work; his assistants William O'Hrien and Joseph Jennings of Toronto, Ont., and five laborers. Seven are miBsing. The men killed were asleep In the camp at the foot of the hill when the blast was set off. All the m^n in tho working gang who escaped serious Injury were at once ordered into a rescue party and word was sent to St. Alfonso for aid. It will take several days to reach all parts of the buried camp. TURNED ENGINE 1/OOKK. Tl>e Fiendish Work of Itandits Who Robbed a Train. The China-Japan mail, which left San Francisco over Southern Pacific for the East at 9 o'clock Saturday night was held up by two masked men at Spring, Cal., at 12.30 o'clock Sunday morning and robbed of nine /pouches of registered mail. The train carried no express mattor. Four or the pouches have been recovered, but the robbers rifled the others and are now in hiding in the hills and canyons between Martinez and Oakland. Sheriffs' posses from two counties, detectives and poetofflce inspectors on horses and in automobiles are engaged in the man- , hunt. The robbers were well armed, and a battle is expected. The passengers on the train were not disturbed, and several of them did not learn of the robbery until next morning. After getting the sacks, the robbers cut the engine and sent it wild, the throttle open, down the main track to the East. The engine was thrown Into a ditch in the nick of time to prevent it colliding with an east-hound train. The train robbery is the first in California In several years. It was planned and executed in a most daring manner. BEAUFORT MAN WOUNDED Shot In the Bark While in Ills Store By Unknown Assailant, Mr. Paul Rauch was shot in his back by an unknown party shortly after six o'clock Vriday sight, as he was standing in his stofre on the Port Royal Ferry road, near Gray's Hill, eight miles out of Beoufort. It is not now thought that the wound will be fatal. Thirty small shot were extracted' from his right side and arm. No arrest has yet been made, though the victim has strong suspicion against a negro, whom the sheriff expects to get. A Young Swindler. A thirteen year old white girl ha? been arrested in Greenville county for raising a two dollar bill to $20 and sending the money to Sears, Roebuck and Company and ordered false hair and some other articles. Her father put up bond for her appearance in court. Short on ('-ash. J. Alex Gordon, the allege! defaulting assistant cashier of tHe Ger mania .Savings bank of Charleston was arrested Friday afternoon on the charge of being short is his accounts to the extent of $10,520.27. The warrant was sworn out by State Bank Examiner Wilson. A White Unite. At Hampton. Va., Earl A. Vandyke. a white man. was convicted on Saturday of attempted criminal assault upon Rebecca Chandler, nineyear-old negro girl, and given 18 years in the penitentiary It was the first case in Virginia in which a white man was convicted of such crime. Costa Itica Quakes. Senor Calvo, minister to the United States from Costa Rica, received a cablegram Friday from San .lose stating that an earthquake shock had I been felt In all parts of the repub lie Thursday. Slight damage was reported from various sections but there were no fatalities. ; llrops IM lHl. At Columbus, Ga., Dr. C. S. Swan, 1 a negro physician, fell dead from J heart disease on the witness stand In f the city court Saturday morning, 1 causing some excitement and a long Interruption In the proceedings. *