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Established in 1891.
STATE JIEWS ARRANGED _
rut! IJUIUK HbAUINU.
J. K. Owings, a carpenter at
work on the Glenn street school
building, Anderson, came near
losing his life when a Hying 40penny
wire nail struck him,
puncturing the jugular vein on
the left side of his neck.
Cape. Z. J. Drake, one of
Marlboro county's oldest and
most prominent citizens, is dead
at the age of 71 years. Capt.
Drake held the world's record
for having produced the greatest
yield of corn on one acre.
VV. A. O'Bryant, an Abbeville
liveryman, had two mules killed
and a wagon demolished by a
cave-in of dirt. The driver was
loading his wagon at the base of
a 20-foot embankment which
suddenly caved over on the
mules and wagon, completely
covering them.
A freak of nature that has
excited considerable curiosity
at Barnwell is a cabbage with
11} heads, which was grown by
R. A. Aull of Ulmer, The heads
are hard and perfectly formed.
The books of enrollment of all
the Democratic clubs in South
Carolina will close Tuesday.
July 28, as prescribed in the
constitution and rules adopted
by the State Democratic convon
in May.
A. I.. Powell, a Florence policeman.
is in a hospital, dangerously
wounded nnd an unknown n?._
gro, said to have lived at Sumter,
is dead, as the result of an exchange
of shots which occurred
Saturday afternoon when the
peace officer undertook to arrest
the negro for peddling cocaine.
Saturday afternoon about 1 o'
clock when a thunderstorm was
raging at Aiken the barn and
stables of C. Oliver Iselin, the
New York millionaire, were
struck by lightning and prae^tically
destroyed by fire. The
tP"building was fully covered with
insurance.
At the suggestion of Miss
Mary E. Frayser, of Winthrop
college, and an expert in the
extension work carried on by
that college and the United
States department of agriculture,
E. J. Watson, commissioner of
agriculture, will take up with
the management of the State
fair the advisability of holding
a baby contest during the fair.
The Georgia Hussars have
been denied permission by
(iovprnnr fn rvn\7<?l
South Carolina en route to the
State military encampment at
Augusta next month. The company
was to have heen routed by
way of Blackville. Military
authorities advise route must be
changed because of the governor's
attitude, which causes
no serious inconvenience.
Charleston has inaugurated a
campaign against rats by paying
three cents a head for the ro
dents, dead or alive. The campaign
is taken as a precaution
against the introduction of the
bubonic plague with which New
Orleans has been infected.
Thousands of dead rats are being
brought into the health department.
Sunday's papers carried the;
announcement t hat a merger had
been made of the Piedmont Trac-!
tion Co., operation between!
Charlotte and (iastonia, and the j
Greenville, ^ Spartanburg and |
Anderson railway, operating be- |
tvveen Spartanburg and Greenwood.
The Piedmont and Northern
Railway Co. will be the i
corporate name of the merged
interurban.
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Several auto parties of Fort
Mill people journeyed over to
Ebenezer township Sunday to
look over the territory visited
the previous Monday night by
- the heavy hail storm, and ail
* agreed that the newspaper reports
as to crop damage had not
been exagerated in the least.
There were still beds of packed
hail to be seen Sunday in shaded
gullies where the fall was
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Storm Damage Half a Million.
(Rock Hill Herald.)
The Herald's estimate of the
storm damage in York county is
that the storm covered about
one sixth of the county's area,
or about one hundred square
! miles. The total area of the
county is 669 square miles. One
hundred square miles is 64,000
acres, but doubtless not more
than half of this area was in
cultivation; and a considerable
i area reached by the storm was
only partially destroyed. The
Herald believes, however, that
the crops on 20,000 or more
acres of land were practically
wiped out. This being true, we
do not see how the loss can fall
below a half million dollars.
Various estimates of the number
of bales of cotton lost by the
storm have been made, ranging
all the way from four to ten
thousand bales. Some citizens
think that one-fourth of the
average cotton crop of the
county was destroyed, which
would amount to about ten
thousand bales. The Herald
believes this estimate too high.
This newspaper's estimate is
that the cotton crop will be cut
down from five to seven thousI
and bales hv the storm damage.
- Will
Lay Double Track.
Within tive years the management
of the Southern Railway
expects to have a double track
line the entire distance. 649
miles, from Washington to At
lama. i 'resident Harrison has
mado arrangements for financing
this great undertaking of immense
importance to the entire
South, and it is planned that the
work shall go forward as rapidly
as it is possible to carry it on
without interfering with the
heavy freight and passenger
t rathe wl ich moves over this
line.
The funds for this work will
be provided by the sale of
$20,000,000 of bonds of the Atlantic
and ?harlotte Air Line
Railway Company, the issue of
which has been authorized and
approved by the Georgia Railroad
Commission.
Our Gold Hill Letter.
Times Correspondence.
Before a large congregation
on last Sabbath. Rev. P. M.
Bailes delivered a strong and
appealing sermon in his usual
excellent way. We regret to
learn that Brother Bailes will be
unable to be with us in our
meeting which begins the first
Sunday in August.
"Have you any ripe watermelons?"
is a very common
question that is going the rounds
of our community now. Has
your neighbor been over to see
vou lately, if not, you can rest
assured that as soon as he finds
out that your melons are ripe he
will be over.
The good old "lay-by" time is
about here, and we farmers,
especially we young men, are
going about with big broad
smiles on our faces because of it.
Miss Ursula Blankenship and
brother, V. B. Blankenship and
his family, of Rock Hill, spent
Sunday with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. S. P. Blankenship.
We understand that Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Epps leave out for
their home in Tampa. Fla., this
morning.
Hon. J. R. Haile is in Yorkville
today on business.
Misses Lillian and Eula Cook
and Miss Miller, of Rock Hill,
spent a few days of the last
week in Gold Hill.
Mr. W. H. Windell is spending
today in Charlotte on business.
Miss Mary Garrison is visiting
near Rock Hill.
Jay gold.
Gold Hill, July 13.
Mr. W. S. Bailes Dead.
(Contributed.)
At the home of his son-in-law,
Mr. Enloe, Mr. W. S. Bailes
passed away at midnight, July
3rd and was buried in Clover, I
S. C.
Surviving him are his children,
Messrs. G. H. Bailes, ElIw.ft
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mvi u uuuvo, uiuiiuci Dcint's, viraciy
Bailes, Mesdames Rena Enloe
and Eunice Wilson, and Misses
Pearle, A/.alie and Edna Bailes.
See the big 5-reel picture.
"Victory," at the Majestic Theatre
tomorrow (Fridayi. ?adv.
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FORT MILL, S. C? THT
LYNCH NEGRO WOMAN
FOR MURDER OF CHILD
One of the most brutal crimes
ever perpetrated in Orangeburg:
county, committed midway between
Elloree and Vance late
Saturday afternoon in a dense
; bay near the Two Chop public
road, was brought to light Sun- ;
day morning when the body of
I little Miss Essie Bell, 12-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
Bell, was discovered after an all
night search, foully murdered
and carefully covered by the
confessed murderess, Rosa Richardson.
a negro woman about
35 years of age. A grim and
horrifying spectable was wit!
nessed Sunday in that community.
The body of little Essie
with her head beaten into a
pulp by a lightwood knot lay
prepared for burial in the quiet
home of Daniel Bell, while 200
yards away near the scene of
the crime swinging to a tree
was the body of her murderess,
Rosa Richardson, riddled with
bullets.
(iuilt was establiseed, the
murderess confessed and a volley
fired, in a short time. Thirty
negroes who gathered near the
scene of the crime would have
fired the volU;y if permitted, and
I went to console the grief-stricken
t'amiiy. While the crime cast a
pall .all over the community and
hundreds of people visited the
scene, there was no race feeling
whatever evident.
The murdered girl Saturday
afternoon went to graze the
family cow in a field on the public
road ix short distance from
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from view by a dense field of
corn. dust in front of this field
on the opposite side of the road
is the home of Rosa Richardson,
the negro murderess. Daniel
Bell was reading his newspaper
and the mother, Mrs. Bell, was
leaving with one of her sons to
board the afternoon train at
Vance for Charleston. Mr. Bell
was absorbed in reading and
presumed that little Essie had
gone to the station with her
mother and would return with
her brother. When the young
man returned home without his
sister, Mr. Bell inquired for
Essie and the young man told I
his father that she had gone to i
graze t he cow when he saw her
last. Mr. Bell immediately gave
i the alarm and searching parties
i were formed. The whole comj
munity was scoured and the
child's dead body was found as
stated early Sunday morning.
Dead From Poison.
Parties coming to Fort Mill
j Sunday morning from Rock Hill -i
; brought intelligence of the find- j
ing of the dead body of J. G. '
Enloe in a clump of bushes near
the Wymojo mill, that city. J
I Foul play was at first suspected, |
but an examination of the body j
established the fact that the |
man s death was due to poison.
Mr. Enloe was about 60 years of
! age and is survived by his wife
: and a number of children. He
I was accustomed to take a poison,
it was said, on account of a
chronic ailment. He was last
, seen Saturday morning by a
merchant on the outskirts of
Rock Hill from whom he bought
a bottle of a soft drink and he
seemed in good spirits and promised
to return the bottle. He
I evidently went to the grove and
took the drug with suicidal in-1
; tent.
Mr. Enloe was well known and j
held in esteem by the people of;
Fort Mill. He conducted the ;
boarding house at the Catawba |
power plant about one year ago
1 and was a frequent visitor to
this city for supplies for his
hostelry.
Pleasant Vallev Dots.
Times Correspondence.
The Ladies' Missionary society
will meet at Pleasant Hill church
Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. 0. P. Heath, who has!
been spending the week with
relatives, went home Sunday
afternoon.
Miss Mary Potts came home
from Chester Saturday, where
she has been visiting her sister.
Mrs. R. M. Bickett.
Mr. O. P. Heath spent Sunday
here, R. C. P. ,
Pksasant Valley, July li
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JRSDAY, JULY 16, 1914.
Bryan Will Quit After 1916.
William .Jennings Bryan, secretary
of State, will retire from
public life after March 4, 1916.
This information was obtained
by the Washington correspondent
of the Baltimore News from
a close personal friend of the
the secretary.
Not only is it stated that Mr.
Bryan has given up all hope of
being elected to the presidency
but that his first taste of life as
an administrative official has convinced
him that he does not want
a second one. In this, it is asserted
on good authority, the
secretary was largely intluenced
| by his his wife, who has become
more and more insistent that he
retire from the political arena.
"Victory."
This marvelous five-reel photoplay
will be seen by the people
of Fort Mill and vicinity tomorrow
(Friday), from 2:30 p. m.
to 11 o'clock. Speaking of this
great picture of naval warfare,
The Billboard, the leading
theatrical journal of the country
says in part.
"A film, in five masterful
parts, which has been heralded
as the world's greatest spectacu
lar war drama, is one of the few
films shown during the life of
motion pictures which has not
belied its heralding in one single
adjective. It is everything that
is claimed for it. and then some.
"What there has been omitted,
that might satisfy the appetites
of those who crave the exciting,
can not he imagined.
"The exploding of full-charge
harbor mines, throwing up
columns of water more than three
hundred feet into the air. the
destruction of the forts with
shot and shell, the hand-to-hand
encounters, are all most realistic.
"The film is a credit to the
producers, and it will be hard
for anyone to strike upon a more
popular subject for public appeal
for many days to come."
There has. so far as we know,
been nothing done toward the
laying of the mains for Fort
Mill's waterworks system. It
is understood that the contract
awarded several weeks ago calls
for the completion of the system
by September 1st, and if such
is the case, someone will have to
put a double shufiie on to finish
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Who Is
W. F. Stevenson?
(Political Advertisement.)
Come to the congressional campaign
meeting at Yorkville July
23. Fort Mill July 23, at night,
at McConnellsviile July 24, 11
a. m. and he will tell you.
Mr. W. F. Stevenson, who is
running for Congress in this district,
has been engaged in some
great legislation. He was employed
by the attorney general
to assist in the prosecution of
the dispensary grafters. We will
refer to only one of the great
trials of that series. This was
held at Chester. Solicitor Henry
was sick, but Mr. Mel,ure
acted for him. with credit to
himself and to the entire satisfaction
of the attorney general.
Mr. B. L. Abney was also for
the State. The defense presented
a brilliant array of counsel:
Weston & Aycock, R. H. Welch.
M. P. Howell. A. L. Gaston.
John M. Wise and Nelson, Nelson
& Gettys. Mr. W. O. Guy
was foreman of the jury, and J.
M. Wilson, J. W. Tavlor. John
Estes, Alex. Fraser, F. M. Hough
W. H. Caldwell, J. N. Calvin
and J. \V Suitman were the jury.
It had been affirmed that they
would not convict on the evidence
of the co-conspirators.
They should be enrolled on the
roll of honor. No such plea controlled
them. The trial lasted a
week. The case was ably argued
on all sides. Mr. Stevenson
closed for the State and his argument
has been more talked of
than any he has ever made. But
merely because of the occasion
and result Mr. Black was convicted.
and subsequently pardoned.
The correspondent of the
News & Courier said of the argument:
"Attorney Stevenson
made what has been commented
on as probably the most power-[
ful address heard in the court
house here in years. Sharp, keen
incisive, crowding a world of
facts into a small compass and
marshalling them with wonderful
generalship, adhering to the
issue and exposing the guilt."
The Chester Reporter said:
"There were some magnificent
speeches in the graft cases last
week, but the public is agreed
that it was the intensely forceful
speech of Mr. Stevenson, per5S5H
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MUST FILE PLEDGES
BY NOON,AUGUST 3
All county candidates must
file their assessment fees with
the county chairman on or before
noon of August 3. The date
was fixed at a meeting of the
county executive committee a
few days ago. The committee
also fixed the assessment fees
of the candidates for various
offices and arranged the itinerary
for the candidates.
The following assessment fees
were agreed upon:
House of representatives $7.50:
treasurer. $20; auditor, $20:
supervisor. $12:50; county commissioners.
$4; superintendent
of education, $10: coroner. $4.
Magistrates York. $10: Broad
River. $4; Ebenezer; $0; Fort
Mill, $7; King's Mountain. $4:
Bethel, $4; Catawba. $10; Bullock's
Creek. $4; Bethesda. $4.
All candidates for the office of
road supervisor in their respective
townships, will be assessed
the same amount, $2.50.
The itinerary for the candidates
was fixed as follows:
McConnellsville August 4.
Ogden ?August 5.
Tirzah ? August 7.
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Fort Mill August 11.
Forest Hill- August 12.
Clover?August ill.
Bethany?August 14.
Smyrna ? August 15.
Hickory Grove August IP.
Blairsville August 20.
Yorkville ?August 22.
The death of Engineer .1. M.
Easterby, who was killed at
Royster, 4 miles north of Columbia
the morning of July 3rd, was
found to have been purely accidental
by the coroner's jury.
Robert L. Kirby, engineer on
the shifter into which the passenger
train ran. was exonerated
of all blame. It was brought
out that Easterby had made a
mistake in reading his watch.
haps, more than any other, that
made the conviction of Black
possible. Mr. Stevenson rehearsed
the evidence item by item.
There was not a piece or parcel
missing. His irony went true
to the mark and laid bare the
rottenness."
Isn't there rottenness to be exposed
in Washington? Do we
want ability there?
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