1 V-.- f '' i -y- . ' . - " '*!' ? "'" '^jlf Ullje $amhmj Ifmtlii gstaMfelwd 1991 ~ BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1907 One DollaraYwf?| M TIE EAUEITO STATE WM? OF VAJWOUS ftjftftt t* SOUTH CAM&UKA, MUte New* ?rtfe* O^w* Pw wee W?V| that has been made on this settlement in the past few months, In the hrstraid 27 officers, armed to the teeth, descended on the settlement and after a fierce bstttie with Wtocbesterseaptyredseyeraj meom^mers mi broke up mm/ stills, A short time ago a second raid by a large party was made with somewhat similar result, Smtthtown is the most Robonoos settlement of blockade distillers in the State and has long thrived because of the desperate character of its inhabitants, Hendricks was one of the mast poplar officers hi the service and was a native of Etkin, N, C, C^flws Sw^wTr Rcjwft Washington, Dec, 20 ?The census bureau today issued a bulletin showing that the total amotmt of cotton of this year's growth in the United States ginned tip to Dec, 12 last was 9,281,077 as compared with 11,112,7^9 for the same period last year and 9,297,819 for the same period in 1905, The total number of active ginneries was 27,152, In this bulletin round bales are counted as half hales, The number of round bales included 167,485 for 1907, 242,096 * ?*va/> J ATA lAff M 1AA? jot iswe una w ww, island included 65,145 for 1907, 40,' 361 to 1006 and 00,836 to 1006,, The total crop of 1006 was 12,983, 201 and to W6 was 10,495,105, The per cent, of crop ginned to D?i. 13 was 86,6 to 1^6 and 88,6 to 1006, For 1007 there were ginned to Dec, 1, 8,343.396 hales. In the total of this year's growth girmed to Dec, 13 the running hales, counting round as half hales and excluding linters, are distributed by States as follows; Alabama062,022 bales, 3,421 active ginneries; Arkansas 672,106 hales, 2,086 ginneries; Florida 46,747hales, 242 ginneries; Kentucky 1,103 hales, 2 ginneries; Louisiana 602,001 bales, lj21 ginneries; Mississippi 1,110,244 hides, 3,487 ginneries; Missouri 23,' 674 hides, 73 ginneries; New Mexico 66 hales, 2 ginneries; North Carolina 622,017 bales, 2.600 ginneries; Oklahoma ftfitf.078 mIm. 966 fffnneries; South Carolina 1,014,711 bales, 3,156 ginneries; Tennessee 204,267 bales, 6?ljginneries; Texas 1,987,781 bales, 3,957 ginneries, and Virginia 6,787 bales, 97 ginneries, nw on rroffMi* romb, ga,, Dec, 23,?During the performance of "Daniel Boone" at the opera house Miss Leona Leslie and Oscar O'Shea, who take leading parts, were badly injured on the stage by a huge wolf. The actress and actor were in the scene where Daniel Boone rescues his sweetheart from the den of wolves into which the Indian "Black Fish" had thrown her. When Miss Leslie was thrown info the den the great wolf attacked her and tore her arm and side. The fori screamed, and O'Shea leaped into den and tore the girl from the wolf. The animal then turned on O'Shea and tore his leg. Bob Harris, a real Catawba Indian, who was standing near, -rushed to their assistance and drove the animal back into his den. The audience witnessed the scene, and was stampeded when it realized that the attack of the wolf was a real one. Their injuries will keep Miss Leslie and Oscar O'Shea from acting for some days. The wolf had never been violent before. will sell cotton direct. Farmer*' Union Establishes Marketing Bureau at New Orleans. New Orleans, Dec. 20?The movement of cotton planters in Louisiana, Mississippi and Eastern Texas to sell direct from their fields to European markets caused the organization nere tonight of a co-operative committee of the Farmers' Union, which announced that a compress will be leased here immediately and that a working force such as cotton factors employ will be hired. It is planned to - i? i **11 incorporate mis oureau. ine executive committee to-morrow will continue its preparations. Negro Cute Wife's Throat. Edgefield, Dec. 23.-Lee Hightower, a young negro man who has lost one arm and wears spectacles, entered the yard of Col. James T. Bacon here tonight and cut his wife's throat. The extent of the woman's injuries is not known. The negro has tried several times before to kill his wife. No cause for theattack tonight is known. , -i t. ...'.. ; MOST fHtfilBLE TRASEM TWO HEM KILLED W SHOOTING AFFAIR AT K?RStf AW. FEgfet Starts io Barter Step- Third /las Actteg as Peacemaker Shot j: aad IfBrd j i Kjorshaw, Dec. 22.?What is cod- j ceded to be the saddest tragedy ever j j enacted m Kershaw occurred w ooei of the barber shops at a late hour ] Saturday night. With Christmas approaching and:, everybody makmg preparations and j. entertaining bright hopes and pleas-] i ant antmpatxms lor a merry goooi ; time, a sad gloom is cast oyer the 1 community tiiat time only can efface; j by die killing' of two of the most prominent young business men and < the wounding of a third, ( There was an altercation between ( Mr, S,W, Welsh and Mr, Berry Mob- , ley in whkh pistols were used freely, , Mr, Welsh shot six times with a j Colt's revolver and Mr, Mobley shot , three times with a Smith 4 Wesson, While the shooting was m progress < Mr, T, L, CJyburn sought to interfere as peacemaker with the result that be and Mr, Welsh are both dead and Mr, Mobley seriously wounded, Mr, Qyburn was killed accidentally, Mr, S, W, Welsh was a member of and manager of the Heath Supply company, a son of the late Capt, /, V, Welsh and was unmarried, Mr, T, L, Clyburn was a member ; of and president ot true wytmrn Mute company and leaves a wife, who was Miss Dora Cunningham, and was the son of Hon W, U, Clyburn of this county, , These young men possessed keen' business qualifications and had well , merited the confidence of their associates and friends, They have large and Influential connections InLancaster and Kershaw counties, who wflj ' hear with sad hearts of the sudden taking away of their lives in the ' prime of manhood. Their familiar faces and pleasant \ associations will be sadly mused by their legion of friends here and else- , where. The shooting was all done at short range and death was Instantaneous witnboth, Mr, Mobley Is connected with J, M, Carson & Co,, and has friends galore, He has a wife and Ave children, who are prostrated with grief. No one regrets the affair more than he, Whllene Is very seriously wound* ed, Dr, W, C, Twitty, the attending physician, gave out the statement that hopes were entertained for his recovery, / Tbenquest was held to-day and the jury rendered the following verdict: idm nil now wmic w mn> death by gunshot wound# inflicted by Berry Mobley. and Mr. T. L. Cly- * barn came to bis death by a gunshot wound inflicted by Mr. 8. W. Welsh." Messrs. Welsh and Clyburn were first cousins and were especially warm friends. Immigrants Coma In Diseased, New York. Dec. 20.?Immigrants afflicted with contagious diseases are coming into New York faster than the health authorities can care for them. One day recently ninety-nine iramigcants suffering from contagious diseases were turned over to the local authorities by the Federal health inspectors.. The government pays the local board $22 a day for each such patient cared for. but the board has reached . a stare where the accommodations are not equal to the demand. The board 6f aldermen is to be asked for $15,000 to purchase portable cottages for use in such cases. All the hospitals that accept contagious cases are overcrowded and Dr. Darlington, commissioner of health, says that the increase of such cases among arriving immigrants is assuming alarming proportions. Train Shot Dp by Negro. Baton Rouge, La., December 22? Robert Wesson, a negro of West Feliciana parish, was brought to Baton Rouge today and placed in the State penitentiary for safe keeping, charged with shooting up a passenger train on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad. As a result of Wesson's wild rampage Adonis K. Wridert, a young cadet at the Louisiana State university, is dead at his home at Bavou Sara, La., and the coaches of the train also bear witness to the reckless shooting of the negro. The shooting occurred during the nijfht. Wesson, who says he was drinking at the time and did not know what he was doing, got off the train at Powell's station, about five miles from Bayou Sara. Drawing a heavy calibre revolver, he began to fire into the train. One of the bullets crashed through a window and wounded young Wridert in the neck. He died shortly after the train arrived at Bayou Sara. He was the son of Town Alderman Wridert of Bayou Sara and was on his way home for Christmas. A posse which started irt search of Wesson had little difficulty in arresting him. Owing to the danger of his being lynched by enraged citizens, he was brought here by the officers. * - ..7... Vv LIQUOR FIGHT IN UNION HOT. PirnMIWtioiB Force* JUdaf aa Extra+r4kmtHy Zemtom CampilrH. Union, Deeeoaber 19.?The campaign being waged by the prohibition forces against die dispensary continues to wax more and more zealous. Haas meetings are being field all over the county and forceful addresses are being made by prohibition orators, mduding several leadbag attorneys and minsters. A programme has been mapped out whereby every portion of the wacty will be visited by ibese speakers before tbe day of tbe election, which takes place on tbe 29ib inst., comes. And tbe ladies seem to be taking a warm' interest m these efforts to arouse public sentiment against tbe dispensary. At tbe meeting held at Grace Methodist Episcopal church, and whkh was addressed by tbe preachers of every denomination in the eity, an organization of women was effected, tbe purpose being to use ?? f**vr?r rA nwitihL HKU U> *eak thief J and all-round rasc&L The sbootmg J occurred at the freight depot of the j Southern Hallway, and was the culmination of a series of thefts wirieb | have been going: on from the depot - *< tor a long ume. i Brown was just off the county chain gang, where he had been senrl ing a sentence for sheafing a pistol, and this was not the first time he had \ been in trouble. He has a bad rape- 1 tatkm generally. On Thursday some ] time during the day Mr. Edgar Dick- ' mson was having some freight hauled . and a box Jrf sausage checked up i short. Looking around the depot it j was found under the house, and it j was left there by order of the agent j as it was thought the thief would J come hack for it after dark. Sure : I enough he did and the shooting fol- j Jowel J John Minmgan, the colored porter * at the depot, was placed to wateh ] for the thief but he got cold and asked j Wesley Banks, who was not employed \ at the depot, to watch for him while- * he went to warm. Banks agreed to \ oblige Minmgan, and went and borrowed a pistol to stand guard. Mr. j Charles D. Felder, the telegraph 1 operator, relieved llimrigan while he went for Banks. Basks had been on guard only a short while when several pistol shots rang out and to those who hurried to the scene Banks explained that, he was shot and that Preston Brown had shot him. He was at once taken to his boarding place and physicians summoned. It was found that two bullets had taken effect, one in the center of bis breast which went through one of his hums, and the other struck him in the forehead and ranged around the malmy a slight wound, a* the bullet seemed to glance. The wound in the body is the dangerous one, and whfle it was feared this would prove fatal, be is doing verv well at this writing (Tuesday) and hopes are entertained for j his recovery. His white friends have j rendered him every attention pos- j able, and he is being skilfully attend- j ed and carefully nursed.. \ Banks's statement is that Brown i came and picked up the sausage and < that he stepped out from behind the ] Si liar where he was standing and as i rown started off be called to him to stop, not to carry the box off. That i Brown turned and fired on 1dm, the \ first bullet strikinghim in the breast 1 After firing one or two more shots ] very rapidly Brown ran off. Banks i fired one rime, but did not hit Brown. ] He is a fine shot and had he not let Brown get the drop on him there i ' - - ? ?r?A ?a: 4 would nave oeen a amereni enumg i to the affair. But Banks had no in- i tention to shoot Brown, and would ] not have fired at all had he not been j shot. i A crowd of citizens quickly gather- j ed and Brown waft located in a field ] not far from the depot, but in the J darkness he got away. The blood j hounds from the jail were put on his < trail, but it was lost. \ He was arrested the following < night in a house on Mr. C. A. Milhous's place, about two miles from town. He was in the house of a i negro named Tuck Sellers. Mr. C. C. i Rowell in company with Andrew Ben- 1 nett, John Mmnigan, and Empress < Lee (the three last being colored) ? went out and brought him in. An- i drew had been at .work on the case i ever since the shooting. i When the nartv urot to the house ] Brown woul J not come out, but Mr. , Rowell made all the others get out ] of the house and told Brown he i would shoot the house to pieces or ] buri) it down and he might as well j come out and surrender. Upon be- < ing assured that he would be pro- i tected by Mr. Rowell he came out 1 and surrendered. His pistol, a cheap 38 calibre, was gotten out of the < house. > i Brown did not seem to care much 1 about the affair or be worried over i it. He asked if Banks was dead, l and showed a scratch on his head < where he said Banks had shot him, but Mr. Rowell says it was onto a j scratch he no doubt received vmile j getting away the night before. i He was brought here and put in jail, where he will remain uijtU' the t Map/th jvMirt pnnvpnpfi He evident- ] ATAU1 Vtl VV*4* V VV?* f v??ww> ? - . ly thinks he is not. in much trouble, i as he sent a negro to a gentleman in 1 town asking that he go on his bond < and he would work for him. Of ] course he would not be allowed tb give bond until Banks gets better, t The matter will go hard with him, 1 even if Banks should recover, and this is earnestly hoped by all the white people. Not only has, Banks i the sympathy of the white citizens i because he was shot down in the 1 discharge of dnty. but be has always i respected himself, lived a straight : : ' * * ... . . ? .: .: ' . - i, ad honest life, and soeh comfort is :,:\ippredatesL In this connection, too math praise sxrart be given the colored people rbo did ail in their power to effect # he capture of Brown and pne iff ^ formation as to Ins whereabouts, ft s unfortunate, however, that mk '.'jM few negroes endeavored to aid hifli la * shading the officers or to warn hisa af heir approach, as wdl as to fir mads like they wished it had *een a white man instead of Ranks md that he deserved no sympathy Fhese sort of negrouai< a menace to '-&m he peace & the authorities to believe Geiger / . mentally unbalanced, , Geiger owed the Oliphant com*. ' ; may five thousand dollars and had--*;;, '% been asked to settle. He called at % the office and after explaining thatK r :?. be could not meet the obligations* asked for more credit The pro* , : position was refused and the shoot* :r/% tng followed. The offices ofJamas H. Oliphant and Co. are loeated at 20 Broad street, the center of the financial district and the shooting ', \.M caused a sensation in the street ana temporarily interrupted the business af the curb traders. % Beaufort, S. C., December 20. ~ Charles A. Geiger, who shot J. Oliphant in New York today, lived here for two years. Each day he ex- - changed telegrams with his*broker; James H. Oliphant, except durihg v"'":h the telegraphers' strike, when he ' went to New York, returning as soon ; r as it was over. On Tuesday last left here, saying he was going Atlanta. He was uncommunicative/ never drank and seemed to live a ; H rirtuous, simple and regular *Kfe. He was born in Roswell,Ga., in 1862. / His father was at one time .a phjrsi* v>?lH nan at Baltimore, Ma. nis mower . z&m was Miss Helen H. Barnwell of Bean- . fort. He spent many years abroad arid, m comingbackto Beaufort in Jan-: < nary, 1906, he told friends here that ie was at one time court physician ^ to King- Menelik of Abyssinia arid a Vf > 'M friend of Count Szechenyi, the fiance, ' I rf Miss Vanderbilt. ^ In his room here are many photo- v* graphs of himself and the count, aken together in Abyssinia^ as well is many curios collected in Africa. He said that he served also as phy- '^ rician at the court of the sultan of v$ Morocco. To 'the very few with, .vhom he talked he showed himself to be a man of culture, broad-mind-. ?d, widely traveled and a skilful . - ihysician. : T% He has a sister, Miss Carrie Geigeri - *:-'M said to bev living in New York, but HS 10 oilier immediate relatives. * 11 . Henry McPherson, a negro, was ihot and killed by S. F. Hough, a magistrate's constable, at Kershaw -' last Saturday. Hough went to arrest the negro, who refused to be arrested ami started to draw a pistol. ^jjij