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< mwm ' f < ** I ~j , > I' ' - I -' ' '. V;S' * _ 4 / The Fort Mill Times. Established in 1891. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1913. 11.25 Par v*ar ? ENTIRE FAMILY MURDERED IN LEXIN6T0N COUNTY! A Little Mountain special to! The State Sunday reported the I discovery of six bodies in a half burned farm house two miles from Peak, disclosing: what seems to have been wholesale murder committed late Friday night or early Saturday morning. The family of John D. Jacobs, a well known farmer, has been wiped out. The husband, wife, and four children lost their lives. The dead are: John D. Jacobs, 49; Mrs. John D. Jacobs, 40; * Miss Ellen Jacobs, 22; Lesslie Jacobs, 18; Hugh Jacobs, 15; Orin Jacobs, 12. A f A QA /\'n1/\nlr CJof ?v? /xt i.uv u Liutr\. oai*uiuaj uiuur ing neighbors saw the Jacobs' home, in the Dutch Fork section of Lexington county, in flames and hurrying to the scene found the home burning, but no sign of the family. When the fire had spent itself the six charred bodies were found in the ashes and debris. Examination of the bodies disclosed that the skulls of three were crushed and in moving the bodies blood was found under and upon the murdered persons. Mr. and Mrs, Jacobs, Miss Jacobs and the youngest son were found on the spring mattresses of their beds, indicating that they were murdered as they slept and that the house was subsequently fired. One of the boys was found beside his mattress and the other in the dining room which adjoined the boys' room. Four gUns and an axe were found in the house. One of the guns had sheils in both barrels. One shell had been fired while the other was loaded. r Magistrate Frick held an inquest. at noon. A jury, of which W. M. Wilson of Peak was foreman, could reach no conclusion ^ other than that: "The deceased came to their death at the hands O ^ 1/\C ii r\ b M ^/\ U ? r. ui |^ai lies uiinuuwii lu Wilis ? . jury." Mr. Jacobs was a highly respected farmer who had succeeded in his life's work. Mrs. Jacobs before marriage was Miss Elizabeth Counts. The eldest child, Miss Ellen Jacobs, was graduated from Winthrop college in the class of 1910 and for two years had been assistant at *the i Little Mountain high school, i Leslie Jacobs, the 18-year-old son, was a student in the Little Mountain high schhol, as were the two younger lads. The home was situated in the Dutch Fork section of Lexington county, three miles from Peak and seven miles from Little Mountain. Good News for the Firmer. A market news service for farmers and truck gardeners, who raise perishable products, may be established by the recently created office of markets of the national department of agriculture. The feasibility of such a service is to be studied by a specialist of the office who also will take up the best way of j making statistics of demand and 1 supply useful to the farmer. 1 rni : ii ? xne prices received dv producers, ! the cost of transportation and Storage, profits and other useful elements will be investigated in this connection. The service would be invaluable to trucki producers of the Atlantic Coast States. Other specialists, it was an-! nounced, are to give attention to cooperative organizations of producers and consumers and will assist in the formation of new cooperative enterprises. An ex- j pert in cooperative accounting will assist such organizations to keep their books and records effectively, to establish cost systems and follow-up methods of handling goods. Specialists in transportation will assist producers to secure equitable freight rates and will discuss questions of extending facilities, determination of rates, i routing and other matters con-1 cerned with the speedy and cheap moving of produce. The milling, marketing and utilization of cotton seed will be given special attention. 9 St f Sik ?i . ? JK , Court Decides Against Vaughn. ] That T. U. Vaughn, former superintendent of the Odd Fellows' orphanage at Greenville, who at his trial in Greenville confessed to having criminally mistreated youug girls under his d care, and who was condemned h to die by electrocution on De- l, cember 30, but appealed his case J q to the supreme court in a de- g cision announced Monday after- | noon by the supreme court will ,, have to pay the supreme penalty J1 of the law. His case will be ~ remanded to Greenville for re- t sentence. The opinion was <3 written by Chief Justice Eugene r B. Gary and was concurred in f by Associate Justices Hydrick, a Watts and Fraser. The next g term of the court of general sessions for Greenville county u will be held during the month v of October. 8 a That the attorneys for Vaughn, c in their exceptions, failed to show that the presiding judge I ? abused the discretion of the court., and that the right to insist ^ upon the errors assigned was t waived when the defendent ij withdrew the plea of "not r guilty," is the opinion of the high court. Concerning the penalty imposed upon Vaugh, the opinion t says that the same question has 1 been decided in the case of the ^ State against Malloy. The court S refused to sustain this exception a to the sentence providing for a electrocution. a - t For the Protection of Birds. n g Regulations for the protection a of migratory birds in the United t States have just been completed t by the national Department of u Agriculture and will become ^ effective October 1, or as soon s thereafter as President Wilson approves them. A bill to pro- s tect such birds was passed f March 4. ? A closed season of almost five c years, until September 1, 1918, ? has been established on certain n game birds, "which have been hunted beyond the margin of n safety." Migratory insectivorous ( t birds, incuding the robin, lark, reed birds and rice birds, already protected in many States, may . not be killed, except reed and t rice birds in Delaware, Virginia, South Carolina and the District of Columbia from September 1 to November 1. Hearings will be heid, if asked ^ for, before the regulations go t into effect. Dr. T. S. Palmer of the biological survey, was chairman of the committee which ' prepared the rules. Morgan Money Estimated. t The whole of the.T P Mnman _ - ?" * u estate has a value of about j, $100,000,000, according to an un- official report credited to Thcmas E< Rush, counsel to State Comptroller Sohmer, who has been in Europe the past month examining ii the books of the Morgan houses [ in London and Paris to determine 0 the value of the late financier's ( holdings. j The European assets are found ^ to approximate $15,000,000. If ^ the $100,000,000 estimate%'or the v whole estate is correct it is said v this will be the biggest estate to t pay an inheritance . tax in America. New York State will i be enriched nearly $4,000,000 q it is estimated, by a tax of 4 per t cent on a greater part of* the t estate. 0 Short Items of Local interest. The Rev. S. P. Hair, of the r local Baptist church, spent Satur-; r day in Chester in attendance g upon the meeting of the Chester c Baptist Sunday School associa- ii tion. Mr. Hair delivered a b vigorous message before the a association upon 'The Sunday k School and Soul Saving." S Just three Fort Mill soldiers, r so far as The Times is able to ? learn, are attending the celebra- i J] tion this week in Gettysburg, Pa. These are J. W. Ardrey. James Potts and J. P. A. Davidson. An end is in sight to the hot I L-? ? wave umi nas neia sway over 8 the Central and Southern States C for several days. In its weekly C bulletin the national weather bu- fi reau predicted that the extreme l< heat wave would be broken in \ the Plain State3 Monday or Tues- 1 day and that a cool wave then p would move slowly eastward. | v Little Change During As Regards the St Following a conference Satur- .f lay of the State's miltia heads, r leld in the governor's office, a t engthy statement.was issued by reneral Wylie Jones, brigadier :eneral, and Colonels Lewis, ? Jpscomb and Cogswell, the of- ^ icers upheld Governor Blease in J he controversy brought about " ?y the war department with- ? [rawing its support of the State \ nilitia because the governor re- ? used to muster out 13 companies 1 s recommended by the adjutant c :eneral. I The officers say they think it { infair, unjust and illegal for the * var department to withdraw its ( linnnrf fmm 97 PAmnonino I t ?.rrv. v vviupuiuco UC- I ause 13 companies failed to 1 neasure up to the standard re- J luired. * General Jones and Colonel Cogswell will go to Washington * o confer with the South Caro- * ina congressmen relative to the T nilitary situation. In a statement issued Saturday c .earing upon the military situa- t ion, Governor Blease says he is \ billing for the adjutant general, \ lecretary of War Garrison, or : nybody else in authority to set . limit, say 90 days or six months, ^ nd give the military companies hat were recommended to be nustered out time to put them- I elves in thorough condition, and 1 t the end of that time for them j i o go through the proper inspec-1 ion, and if they fail to measure ip to the standard required, that hey then be mustered out of the " ervice. In his statement the governor t ays that one reason why he re- t used to muster out the 13 com- t anies, as recommended, was beause they are located in the T 'black belt," where armed white i len are needed. In a paragraph of his state- : lent. Governor Blease assails t he Dick military law. c Governor Blease has accepted, 'without regrets," the resignaion nf -I F. Rnc?;oll v. ?.. i^vuTfvu, mot ucuenant, U. S. A., as aide-de- t amp. Governor's staff, with 1 ank of lieutenant colonel. The c ;overnor in his letter to Lieuten- \ nt Boswell said he was satisfied 1 hat the lieutenant has been in a \ neasure tesponsible for the re- 1: luest that a large number of the r ompanies in the State be mus- * ered out. 1 Lieutenant Boswell was at- t ached to the adjutant general's s ffice in December as inspector- ? nstructor. He has been relieved 1 Ed Caton Again Faces Court. E. C. Caton was Monday mornng tried before Magistrate J. i ^andrum Brown upon the charge 1 if retailing, according to the ? charlotte Observer of Tuesday, udgment was withheld in order c hat an important witness might s >e brought before the court, ? yhose testimony it was thought \ voujd have great bearing upon v he case. J Much interest is manifested in ^ his case because of the fact that t 'aton has been in the peniten- l iary once; from which institu- ^ ion he was pardoned by Govern- I r Kitchin after serving about 8 hree months of an 18-months' c erm. As a pardoned convict is egarded as a prisoner unon nn ole, infraction of the law is rearded as sufficient reason to ause him to complete the orig- c lal sentence should the offence e serious enough. The citizens f rose en masse against him the f ist time, and appeared before t uperior court to complin.' He I an, but was later captured. A \ ock-fight which was raided at is place was the cause of his f ownfall last time. Leiture at Kethodist Church. * Friday evening, July 1th, at t o'clock at the Methodist church f )apt. Herbert Young of the a Charlotte branch of the Salvation t Lrmy will give an illustrated t ecture on the life work of Gen. i V. Booth. An admission fee of 0 cents will be collected, the roceeds to be used for charity I vork by the Salvationists. I [ the Last Week ate Militia Muddle. 1 rom duty s;nce the war departnent has withdrawn all aid from he State militia. - 1 In discussing the withdrawal >f FedeVal support from the 1 State militia, Governor Blease J lad the following, in part, to say: "I am satisfied that the Wilson 1 idministration, through the inluence of its Cuban leader in South Carolina, is now and has )een since the fourth of March, loing evervthinir within its jower to injure my administraion in order to try to defeat me 'or the United States senate be;ause I was not a Wilson man in 1 ;he last May convention, and jecause I was against his nomi- 1 lation for the presidency of the Jnited States. "I think the people of South ' Carolina can clearly see the talian hand behind this movenent, as well as the Cuban in- ; luence, and I am willing to eave it to them whether this is a ! novement for the best interests >f the State, or whether it is a >olitical scheme headed by cerain people in Columbia and in | Washington in order to try to njure me politically. "As to that matter, I am will- i ng to take my chances, as I have ! i lone heretofore, before the peo- ( )le of this State. I have no ; ipology to make to Yankee , General Mills, to Secretary of | War Garrison, to the adjutant | general, or to anybody else. I , im pleased with the matter as it i itands, and under no conditions . >r circumstances will I alter my I, lecision. I would not muster not i hose companies and reflect upon hose young men without giving ! hem an opportunity to be heard, ind to prove themselves, as I , mow them to be. true Caro- ( inians, for all of the money in he United States treasury, for ; f they are given the opportunity j j hey will meet all the military , equirements and all the special >rders of the adjutant general. 11 A Washington dispatch says ; hat members of the South Caro-1 ina delegation in Congress, ac- j ; cm pai lied by Brigadier General ; Vylie Jones of the South Caro-j ina militia, Monday went to the : var department to talk with 1 Secretary Garrison about a re- 1 tewal of Federal aid for the or- I ranized militia of this State, i The secretary informed his call- j ?rs that if Governor Blease him- j ielf would make application lor i continuance of Fee era 1 support le would consider it. 11 Regular Stamps on Parcel Post. Special parcel post stamps are to longer required. Beginning Tuesday, July 1, the regular and ipecial stamps became inter- ' changeable, and with the dispo- ! lition of the special parcel post itamps now in the hands of the ' tostmasters, the regular stamps ! i vill be used entirely. The C. O. j J. service went into effect on | j Tuesday, as did also the regula- ; ion reducing the insurance on a': tackage of not more than $25, i ralue from 10 cents to 5 cents. j Jackages of the value of $25 to: \ 150 will pay an insurance of 10 ents, which amount was formerly charged for $25 value. The Court House Bonds. j The Enquirer, Friday: The ! ourt house commissioners met i m yesterday for the purpose of i urther considering the resale of I he court house bonds, and final- I y agreed to a proposition from j dr. C* L. Cobb to this effect: j 'Let me have the matter in hand or thirty days, during which ' ime I will undertake to get all ! he offers I can, which offers I i vill submit to you. If you ac- j ept one of these offers, then all j he compensation I will ask will >e that you deposit the entire 1 um in the Peoples National hank 1 o be checked out as needed, and i he bank will pay you 4 per cent, i nterest on average balances." Miss Annie Lou White, of Tarleyville. is a guest of Miss -ula Haile in this city. Fort Hill's Alfalfa Crop. | Sam F. Massey, of Columbia, who is in Fort Mill visiting relatives, writes The State as follows: The weather is hot enough to t make cotton grow and there is t enough moisture from recent r rains. Most farmers have the ? situation well in hand. Some f cotton blooms have been found. 1 The weed in places is nearly I Knee nigh, then it gradually lessens down to the ground. 1 Fred Nims, two miles south of t this place, has four acres of | alfalfa (it is in York county) * from which he has obtained 12 1 tons of hay at two cuttings; and ( he expects to cut it twice more. A It was sown last fall. He is pre- 1 paring to sow more. His pea sowing is extensive. On the five or six horse farm he has 30 t acres of cotton, which he says A must bring a bale per acre to r pay expenses. If the other two ^ cuttings of alfalfa yield well, * there will be a product of be- j tween five and six tons to the 1 acre. Five tons are worth $100. ( When well established one sowing lasts for years. Raise More Hogs. 3 In an effort to encourage ?. Southern farmers to raise more ^ hogs, the Southern Railway, *r through its Live Stock Depart- ( ment, has issued a booklet en- . titled, "Hog Production and Con- ' ditions for Success in the South," a copy of which will be furnished on request by F. L. Word, Live! i Stock Agent, Atlanta, Ga. The \ booklet contains much practical < and valuable information as to ( the care and feeding of hogs, t selection of breeds, treatment of s diseases, and cutting and curing f meat. Chapters on each subject j have been supplied by experts. l That the South consumes more v pork and raises less than any other part of the United States despite the fact that pork can be t produced more cheaply in the ?. South than in the North or West, < is a well known fact and a con- ^ dition that greatly impedes the j progress of the section. The , long open season and the great t variety of food crops at his command give the Southern farmer the opportunity to make more IJ monev raisinu- ho?rs thun ia i - sible in any other territory. i OKcSSSBRBSjjSra?kf285r23>SSj!KaB^VR v: m 1 The Very Li I Has Ju Fancy Handbags in all match your dresses. Spec 25c and 50c each, in light black, purple, in fact, mos wish for. These are made tassle, and you will be su sight. If you can't come, I will select one lor you. SPEC Ladies' Ready-made Ginghfl $1 25. for this week only. Boys' Wash Suits, regular pri Special for Saturd The best Turkish Bath Towel Saturday and Monday onl Good 15c Towels, two for E. W. Kin "The Place Whore m JITS OF INTERESTING NEWS THROUGHOUT THE STATE In an election held at Lancaa;er the last week the voters of ;hat city decided by a decisive najority .to issue bonds to the imount of $70,000 for a complete .ewerage and waterworks system md street improvements. The 39th annual meeting of ;he State Press association came o a close Friday evening after a ,wo days' session at the Isle of ?alms. E. H. DeCamp, of Gaffley, was elected president, suc:eeding H. L. Watson, of Greenvood. The association meets lext summer at Chick Springs. Mack Smith, assistant superinendent, and W. L. Hames, veave room boss, of Glendnlft nills, Stfhrtanburg, were convicted Saturday of working their imployes longer each day than he law permits and were sen.enced to pay a fine of $50 each >r serve 20 days. Charles J. Purcell, postmaster it Newberry for the past 11 fears, has been requested by he postmaster general to resign. No charges were made igainst him. The reason of the equest was that Mr. Purcell lid not give sufficient personal presence and attention to the vork of the office. S. H. Browne, one of the leadng farmers of Anderson county, lad the misfortune of losing his sntire oat crop by fire. The >ats were being threshed when he oat straw caught fire from a spark from the engine. The lames spread so quickly that in i few minutes the entire crop of jetwcen 1.000 and 1,500 bushels vere destroyed. Chester is much interested in he renewal of the rumor from Spartanburg, that Col. Leroy Springs may consider a proposition to extend his railroad, the juncaster and Chester, now runting between Chester and Lan:aster, to Spartanburg. FOUND ?On the streets of Fort dill bunch of keys with patent holder. un si-iuri' name ny calling at I'hc Times office and paying 25 cents 'or tliis advertisement. mffimmmw&m&m itest Fad I st Arrivedi tho different shades to ial price, while they last, i 8 blue, navy blue, pink, t a $t any color you could 5 ? of Silk, with cord and t * re to want one at first 3 just 'phono us and we 3 IAL I im Drosses, regular price 1 ! each 75c 3 ce $1.00, now only 75c 9 ay and Monday, j s, 22x24. a 25c value, for y, each 19c ibrell Co., I Quality Counts." ?jjB ' ' ' ' >t