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v COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOMK INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IX VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items (fathered AH Around the
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County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
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Ehrhardt. May 3.?Several of our
town iolks have gone to Walterboro
< /-? toko in \iav wppt sights. and the
F , ball, to be given Mondav or Tuesday
night.
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The memorial this year is said to
* have been an enjoyable occasion.
Only one fight and a mule becoming
frightened and threw two ladies from
the buggy. Report had it that one
was killed, but later reports deny
this, and say that she was badly burt,
but is improving when last heard
from
rThe ball in Dannelly's hall last
^ week had an unusually large crowd,
jumping to the music given by a
Charleston band.
Mt. Pleasant Sunday-school will
hold their annual picnic on Ascension
day, which comes on the 20th of May.
g# - The public as usual is invited to attend
and enjoy the day with them.
Dock Kearse. and Frank Carter,
l;: colored, came to blows in town Saturday
and were arrested to-night.
They will have to tell their grievv%
. ^ ances to the council, who will decide
iV; what their fines or amount of labor
j|$j will be.
About thirty bales of cotton was
placed on the market at this place
last week. Not many more bales left
k ' > in this part of the country any more.
Some of our farmers say they have to
keep a few bales to know how it
%- looks. Some of the thirty bales were
from the crop of 1907.
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Some of the base ball nine here
. i state the reason why the Carlisle nine
beat them was on account of their
girls being present. Could not look
for the ball and at their girls at the
A-' '"pv.nroforrod trtntin?
same nme. i ucj piw^nvu
|iv- at their girls, so lost the game. Say
they will plav ball the next time.
P;.fe",'V
Mr. Charles Ehrhardt is having the
w paint brush applied to his dwelling.
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Mr. Frank H. Copeland is having
an addition put to his house in the
35'* . way of a piazza and bay window.
Fire feels good this morning. Look
out for 'possum ear cotton.
Mr. John D. Carter, Jr., of the
Viola section, killed a rattler last 1
week which had eleven rattles and a
button, in the edge of his cotton !
patch. Rather early for them to be
/ ' moving about. JEE.
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From Richard Carroll's Paper.
A couple of weeks ago Rev. Rich
ard Carroll was in Bamberg, ana in
y b'is paper, the Ploughman, he pub-,
^ lishes the following in regard to his
trip:
"The Baptist church at Bamberg,
>? S. C., has been in a stir for several
months, but things have quieted
down now and there is peace. The
church is now looking out for a
iv pastor. The editor or the Ploughman
visited the church a few days
ago. He was shrewd enough to say
/ nothing against the fo'rmer pastor
nor take sides with either faction,
^ r.. but he advised the church to make a
wise choice in getting another shepherd.
It is a real good church and
has some excellent material in it.
Mr. John Green, a deacon, is one of
the wealthiest negroes in the State.
While in Bamberg we stopped with
our old friends, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew
Stewart. They have a lovely
home and know how to entertain
strangers."
; "The editor of the Ploughman has
v many friends in Bamberg among
t , \ ' white and colored. Before he left
he was invited to the home of Mrs.
Frank Bamberg, wife of the late
General Frank Bamberg, and he
was given a check by three lady
members of the family respectively.
Mrs. Bamberg influenced two of her
dauahters to give each a check.
These are indeed good people. They
;> have been friends of the writer for
many years."
Two Arrests in JBatesburg.
Batesburg, April 28.?Mayor W. C.
Bates and Chief of Police John G.
Darby have been conducting investigations
for some time that resulted
in the arrest and jailing ot R. A.
Clark and W. T. McCarthy, two
young white men, residents of this
town. The technical charge on which
the parties are held is burglary and
larceny.
Some time ago the office of Mr. M.
E. Rutland was broken into and a
, few articles of small value carried
away. Since then two other burglaries
of minor nature have been rev
ported. In two instances, at least,
the indications were that larger
booty was expected.
No local charges were made out
against the parties, as the offenses
* alleged were of a nature to demand
the attention of the State courts.
The work of running down the
burglaries meets with the commendation
of the citizens generally, and a
purse was raised to defray expenses
in the work, which action on the part
of the citizens cstoie as a free will offering.
Attention is directed to the advertisement
of Winthrop College in this
issue. The entrance and^ch.olarship,
examinatidn win be heTcfat; the court
house here on Friday, July 2nd.
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XKWS FIJOM (JOVAX.
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A Xowsy letter from a \\ i<lo-A\vako
Correspondent.
Govan, May 3.?Such beautiful
spring days. Behold the gorgeous
! display of green everywhere! To the
weary pilgrim of life there is a presence
perhaps that the real beginning
of lite is beyond this sphere of short
existence, and the fetters that bind
j on? here below will soon be released
J and the life, like the presence of
spring, will be "quickened" in death
to perpetual spring of eternal life.
Can we hope (tuose who yearn for
imniortalit> > that tne heaveniy land
will be adonica with such beauty,
more beautiful even than our woodland
scenes whiv-.i we behoid advertently
wherever we may chance to
roam?
*1 just observed a picture of city
life, showing children handling green
shrubs, just plucked fresh and green
from the wild-wood. It is said in the
crowded tenements of that city the
children have not the opportunity to
see vernal spring in all her beauty.
Poor tyrants of life!
Perhaps though if they have a
yearning for the beauty of a great
spring, when the fleshy screen is
moved away, they will yet behold the
exquisite harmony of the heaven of
eternal spring! Shakespeare says:
"Such harmony is in immortal
souls. But whilst this muddy vesture
of decay doth grossly close it in, we
cannot hear it."
But while we feel the kindly message
of love manifest in spring, the
death knell rings out aloud! For,
too, "in the midst of life "we are in
death."
Sarah Mather Kennedy, daughter
of Geo. O. Mather and wife of J. E.
Kennedy, passed from her abode in
this life on Wednesday anernoon ai
2 o'clock. She leaves a husband and
little boy to mourn her departure. To
the sorrowing ones we extend sympathy.
The regular services of Georges
Creek Baptist church were held at
the school house Sunday and Saturday
before. The text for Sunday
morning's discourse was taken from
St. Luke: "Strive to enter in at the
straight gate, for many I say unto
you, will seek to enter in and shall
not be able." The service was doubtless
enjoyed by the goodly number
present.
Service was also held at prayer
meeting service, the subject for discussion
being "Woman's. Work." ,
The Go van school will close Thursday
coming. There will be a picnic
at Georges Creek church the next
day. We learn that there will be
some speeches made on education.
We are glad to note that Miss Lizzie
Collins is out again, being able to
perform her function at the piano at
Sunday service.
Owing to unprecedented duty
Rev. E. A. Wilkes did not hold
preaching service at Salem Methodist
church Sunday afternoon. His work
has increased since Olar church came
into the circuit. His services at the
latter church are held at night.
Dr. Leighton A. Hartzog is located
at present here. He has a fair practice
here now, and it is presumed
that he - will remain here. He has
just graduated from the Medical College
of South Carolina.
W. A. H.
Tailor Stabs with Shears.
Griffin, Ga., April 28.?After stabbing
and probably fatally wounding
Perrin Head, a young druggist, here
to-day, B. Venslove, a merchant
tailor, was hurried to Atlanta in an
autorrfobile, rumors having caused
the county officers to fear trouble.
Head had gone to Venslove's place of
business to demand retraction of
damaging report he charged Venslove
with circulating and Venslove
stabbed him with a pair of tailor's
shears, wounding him six times. His
condition is said to be desperate. He
is being attended at the local hospital.
WHERE MILLION'S ARE LOST.
America's Extravagance as Shown in
the Case of Highways.
The office of public roads under
the direction of Mr. Logan Waller
Page, has assembled some significant
| facts. Only about 150,000 of the
[2,100,000 miles of roads in the
, United States have been in any degree
improved. Almost 93 per cent,
of our public roads may be said to
be in a state of nature. This statement
in itself is not necessarily
startling. A man, even a congressman,
might make the laconic rejoinder,
"Well, what or it?" Just
this?if our public highways were as
good as those of France the gain to
American producers would exceed a
quarter of a billion dollars annually.
The average cost of hauling produce
in this country is 25 cents a
mile per ton. In France it is 12
J cents a mile per ton. Were our roads,
then, equal to those of France, there
! would be a gain to our farmers of 13
cents a mile, per ton. During the
crop year 1905-06 our more important
farm products, which were
hauled from places where they originator
tn shinnina Doints, weighed
in the aggregate S5.4S7 million
pounds. The average length of haul
of farm products in the United
States is 9.4 miles. Hence, a saving
of 13 cents a mile per ton would
have meant to our farmers a gain of
$58,900,000 on their more important
crops during the single crop year
1905-06. According to the freight
figures of the Inter-State commerce
commission about 250 million tons
are now annually hauled to points
of shipment. . Were o,ur roads equal
Fxance..the,annual gain-inhauling,
based on these figures,
would be $305,000,000.?Outlook,
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
j SOME OCCIHKKXCKS OF VAKIOl/S
KINDS IX SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Roiled Down for Quirk !
Heading;?Paragraphs About '
Men and Happenings. ]
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The anti-dispensaryites of Aiken
county held a meeting there last ]
.Monday and a permanent organiza- ,
tion was effected. Claude E. Saw- ,
yer was elected president, with G. L. ,
Toole and H. F. Rice vice presidents.
The organization will make an organ- J
ized fight on the dispensary at the
August election. (
The committee to investigate the i
charges against the asylum management
convened in Columbia last J
week, and it is said that a thorough 1
inirautiirotinn n-ill ho hnH SeriOllS
lit v ^ocigai.ivu iv <<? w ^? ?
charges have been filed, among them
being the charge that keepers are in- i
efficient and are often brutal to the ]
patients, and that whiskey intended
for patients has been used by the i
keepers. i
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Farmers' Telephone Line. !
A new farmers' telephone line, !
having eight subscribers, has just
been connected with the Denmark
exchange of the Southern Bell Tele- 1
phone Company. The line extends
six miles north of Denmark and fur- ]
nishes service to Mr. C. S. Folk and i
several of his well-known neighbors.
The subscribers on the line are (
now in constant telephonic commu- ;
nication with each other and i
through the Southern Bell exchange
with telephone users in Denmark.
The construction of this line and ,
its connection with telephone ex- 1
change here is another step in the i
progress of telephone development !
which is being made by the residents J
in the rural sections of Bamberg ]
county. Under the plan of the :
Southern Bell Company, farmers and
other rural dwellers are enabled to ]
secure telephone service on an eco- i
nomical basis. As a result, farmers '
| in all sections of the State are in- ]
I stalling telephones in their homes. '
Bad Accident. '
My sister, Mrs. L. M. O'Neal, and
her .grand daughter were on their
way to the memorial in a buggy,
driving a mule. Within a mile of ]
,the memorial grounds young Simms 1
and Rice, sons of Gilmore Simras and (
B. T. Rice, from Barnwell C. H. (I '
could not find out the given names '
of the young men) drove past these
ladies in such a reckless way as to *
cause the mule to run away with
buggy, hit a tree, broke the buggy, ?
and threw both the ladies out. Miss
Rush was not badly hurt, but Mrs. !
O'Neal is seriously hurt and came 1
very near dying from the shock J
caused by the fall, as she was thrown
fifteen feet from the buggy when it '
hit the tree. / j
Dr. Manning Brabham was a short 1
distance behind the ladies when the ?
accident occurred, and reached my 1
sister in a minute or two. Had not
the doctor been on hand it is be- <
lieved that Mrs. O'Neal would never
have survived. My sister was car- J
ried to Mrs. Ella Rush's and is now '
in a critical condition. I was inform- '
ed that the young men by their reck- 1
less driving which caused the acci- ?
dent did not even stop to render any \
assistance to the injured ladies or 1
apologize in any way. 1
M. A. MO YE. s
Fairfax, S. C.. May 2nd, 1909. '
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Does Not Blaine SonV Slayer. 1
Detroit, Mich.. May 3.?Hagood e
Gastanian, of Lynn. Mass., left for his *
Pnrrl.inrl linmQ t Vl ? C (JVOTlin? With
W uii^iauu uv/uiv vuiw v . -?
the body of his son, Harotoon' Gas- j
tanian, who was fatally shot Friday
in the Detroit police court by his
uncle. Dr. Garabed J. Boyajian. j
Speaking of the crime the dead j
youth's father said:
"Dr. Boyajian is nearer to me than j
a brother. 1 blame him not. even ,
though he has slain my son. 1 will j
do all I can to release him from pris- .
on. It is the will of God, and I bow
before it. 1 believe my boy was innocent.
but do not blame the doctor ,
for what he did, because he believed c
him guilt}-. When our people marry, K
they marry for good, not for a short j
time like the American people seem .
to do. Any offense against the home r
is punishable by death." ^
Dips After Summoning Aid. z
Montgomery, Ala., May 3.?A spe- f
cial to The Advertiser from Giles- t
county, Tennessee, says: i
"Eighteen funerals as a result of ;
the fearful storm of last week occur- i
red in this county to-day, six per- s
sons being buried in one grave. Four c
members of the McGraw family were ?
placed in another grave. i
"One of the McGraw children, al- s
though seriously injured, helped her c
father find and remove the bodies of t
the members of that family, and ?
after this had been done, she walked
a half mile to the nearest neighbors,
where she gave the alarm and asked
for help, saying that she would be
dead in a little while. Within a few .
minutes after uttering these words
she fell to the ground and expired." j
S
r arnifns mun.
The Farmers' Union will meet at s
the court house Saturday, May 8th, 1
at four o'clock p. m., to elect a presi- t
dent to fill the unexpired term- of D. c
H. -Riee*,-resigned.* ' ? * * **" t
R. W. MATHENY, s
Secretary. t
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slavs dkspoilui: or his iiomk.
Armenian Doctor at Detroit I'ses
Pistol in Court Itoom.
Detroit. Mich., April 30.?Dr. G.
K. Boyajian. an Armenian, to-day
shot and fatally wounded his
nephew. Harotoon Gastanian. while
the latter was being arraigned in police
court with his aunt, the physician's
wife, on a statutory charge.
Dr. Boyajian fired tour shots at
his nephew, three o: which found
their n;ark. He then turned the revolver
on his wife and fired the two
remaining bullets ai her. A newspaper
artist saved the woman's life by
pushing her into a vacant jury room.
Mrs. Boyajian. who is twentysight,
and her twenty-three-year-old
nephew were .arrested last night.
Boyajian told a remarkable story of
his discovery of the alleged relations
between his wife and nephew, whom
he had brought from his home at
Lynn. Mass. and was educating him
in a local medical college. His suspicions
were first aroused by hearing
his wife murmur his nephew's name
in her sleep. The doctor summoned
a lawyer and questioned her. He declares
that she made a full confession.
He then swore out warrants
for the couple's arrest. When the
case was called to-day. and Justice
Jeffries ordered Gastanian to rise,
Boyajian whipped out the revolver
and fired. One bullet entered the
young man's back; another penetrated
his wrist, and a third his
hand. He fell to the floor as the doctor
turned the revolver towards his
wife.
The wildest excitement prevailed
in the court room as bystanders and
officers jumped for the maddened
husband, who was arrested. Gastanian
died to-night.
Memorial at Rivers' Bridge.
Once more we are assembled upon
these sacred grounds, to do honor to
that little band that dared all, and
lost all (save honor), for their country's
cause. See here, their last resting
place, a modest marble slab
marks the spot. Fair and gentle
hands are dressing the graves with
ueauuiui uuvvcio.
These appropriate lines which you
3ee here engraved were suggested by
my esteemed and lamented friend,
the late Dr. Henry W. Kearse, who,
when he first commenced the practice
of medicine, was living with me
and my family at Buford's Bridge.
'Soldiers rest thy warfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not
waking
Dream of battlefields no more."
Each and every one should, and
no doubt does feel at perfect liberty,
to enjoy her or himself to the fullest
extent in a social and quiet way
while visiting these sacred grounds.
But let nothing be said or done
which would in any way mar the occasion
or show any disrespect .or
want of consideration for those that
slumber here.
Be it remembered they were not of
this State, but here they are with us,
n our care, far, far from their own
iear homes and fond ones. "Little
they'll wreck" to sleep on, and on, in
this quiet, lovely spot, where noble,
patriotic Carolinians have placed
them. Let the birds here sing their
sweetest songs, and their glad notes
nake merry the sylvan streams and
t'orests that hedge around these quiet
md lonely graves.
Mr. Alfred Chassereau arose and
torn the stage with clarion voice
cade the audience draw near under
the spacious camp shed. He anlounced
to our great regret and
sympathy that the chairman of this
issociation, the venerable and beoved
Dr. X. F. Kirkland, Sr., would
iot.be present with us, on account of
sickness. His devoted wife is extremely
ill. Dear friends, you are
sadly missed, and we think of you
tindlv.
The Rev. E. W. Peeples. who has
;o long and faithfully served his peocle,
was present and in his pleasant
words introduced the speaker, the
-Ion. M. L. Smith, who was the orator
of the day. A man of portly aplearance
and fine physique, strong
roice. clearly and distinctly he spoke.
Easily did the speaker hold the vast
tudience with marked attention to
lis glowing words and most eloquent
iddress. His fluent, classical words
eft an impression which sank deep
nto the minds and hearts of those
vho heard him. Most clearly did he
-indicate the "lost cause" and vivid
y did he picture the North and
south, how diametrically they op)osed
each other. Their political inerests
were so widely at variance,
hat there could be no reconciliation.
This constant turmoil had much to
lo in bringing on the civil war.
There is no other place like these
nemorial grounds. Here the' people
rom all this lower country can come
0 these annual congregations. Great
s the pleasure to meet your friends,
vhom you can seldom see other than
it this place, where you can meet in
1 pleasant social way and enjoy each
>ther's conversation. The great
Jalkehatchie may divide us from our
nother county, but never can it les;en
that warm friendship for those
>ver the line, whom we were pleased
0 meet and had sc well known in by
rone days. ,
L. N. BELLINGER.
Burned Barn to Save Name.
Knoxville, Tenn., May 3.?Accordng
to the confession of Laura Sutton,
1 domestic in the family of C. O.
3rowder. residing near Sweetwater,
;he set fire to the barn and destroyed
riu ~
> 1,500 worth or property, sue n<iu
itolen a pair of trousers from the
louse, containing $3.50, which had
>een found minus the money, and in
irder to give her an apportunity to '!
estore the moiiey she' states that she
itarted the fire to distract the atten- 1
ion of the family.
WILLIE CARTER HANGED
XKGJiO PAID DKATH PKXALTY
FOR Ml'RDKK OF WOMAN.
Confessed His Crime on the Scaffold.
Met Death Ciiconcerued, but Said
He Was Prepared.
Willie Carter, a negro, was hanged
in Bamberg last Friday lor the murder
of a negro woman named Shellie
Raysor. The crime occurred about a
year ago in the Hunter's Chapel section,
and Carter was tried at the
March term of court. Judge R. C.
Wntt? nr^sidine'. found eruiltv and
sentenced to death.
Carter met death without a tremor.
He had been visited by white and
colored ministers several times during
the last tew weeks, and he stated
to them that he had repented of his
3ins and was prepared to die. Several
colored ministers were present Friday
morning at the execution and
talked with Carter, but sb far as we
know he made no confession until he
was on the scaffold. At the trial
and thereafter he denied his guilt,
saying he was not at the woman's
house the night of the killing. However,
when he mounted the scaffold
Sheriff Hunter asked him if he wanted
to say anything about the killing,
and he replied that nobody else need
be hurt for the crime, and when the .
sheriff said to him, "Well, you did it,
then," or words to this effect, Carter
answered yes. Carter talked very
little, but expressed a desire to be
shaved shortly before he was taken
out of jail, and this request was complied
with.
While the gallows was erected in
the jail yard, the high fence made it
private, and only a few persons were
allowed inside, although a crowd of
negroes assembled outside. After
Carter was pronounced dead, the
sheriff allowed the crowd to come in
and view the body.
At 11 o'clock the black cap was adjusted,
the sheriff asked Carter if he
was ready, and he replied yes, when
the trap was sprung and he was pronounced
dead dn 17 minutes. There
was no sign of a struggle after the
trap was sprung. /
Our readers are familiar with the
details of Carter's crime. He stabbed
a negro woman to death because he
was jealous of other men visiting her,
although he had a wife. His body
was taken in charge by relatives for
burial in the section where he lived.
This is the first legal execution in
Bamberg county, those sentenced to
death heretofore having had their
sentences commuted to life Imprisonment.
LOVER SLAYS COLLEGE GIRL.
Porter Smith Kills Miss Helen Marden,
Student of Smith College.
Northampton, Mass., April 29.?
Enraged and temporarily insane, it is
believed, because of her refusal to
marry him, Porter Smith, who was
graduated from Dartmouth college
last June, to-day shot and fatally
wounded Miss Helen Ayer Marden, of
Somerville, Mass., a member of the
senior class at Smith College, and
then, turning the revolver on himself,
committed suicide.
Miss Marden was taken to the
Dockingson hospital, where she died
shortly before noon. She was the
daughter of Frederick M. Marden, a
Boston oil merchant, who lives in
Somerville.
Smith, whose home was in Chicago,
had been in Northampton for several
days, it is said that he had
persistently followed Miss Marden
and tried to force his attentions on
her. This forenoon Miss Marden
came out of the students' building,
where she roomed. She had gone
only a short distance when she met
Smith. Suddenly workmen not far
distant heard a shot, and a girl's
scream. Turning they saw Smith
standing beside the girl with a
smoking revolver in his^hand. Smith
raised the revolver and fired two
more shots at the girl.
.Miss .Marden sank to the ground
and Smith immediately placed the
muzzle of the weapon on his own
head and fired, falling dead beside
the young woman.
Epworth League Dots,
mi-io Vnn-nrth T-pa^np held its l'egu
lar business meeting Tuesday evening.
A splendid and interesting program
was arranged for our next
meeting, Tuesday the 11th. The
members who were sent to the
League Conference, which was held
in Rowesville on the 17th, 18th, and
19th of April, will give their reports,
and hope to make it interesting and
beneficial for the Leaguers.
Some special musical selections
will be given also, and we expect to
make the evening pleasant to all as
well as profitable. We cordially invite
every one to meet us.
Frank's Patriotic Jam.
Little Frank had been taken by his
father to hear the patriotic exercises
in the town hall and had been much
interested in it all. The singing had
delighted him, "Columbia, the Gem
of the Ocean," impressing him particularly.
The next day he sat in the kitchen
watching his mother make her gooseberry
jam.
"Mother," he said suddenly, "your
jam is made of gooseberries, isn't
it?"
"Yes, dear,'? said his mother. <
,. "Well," said Frank, "I was just
wondering what- Columbia, "the jam
of the ocean, is made from."?The
Delineator for May.
PIE IX ELECTRIC CHAIR.
Double Execution (irons out of I*ow?
. liutun
Horror.
Richmond, April 30.?John and
William Brown (colored), father
and son, went to their death in the
electric chair in the State penitenti- .
ary here to-day for their part in one
of the most infamous crimes in the
history of the State. They were the
first of five men to go to the death
chair for the robbery and murder of
Mrs. Mary E. Skipwith and Walter >
G. Johnson, of Powhatan county, on f
the night of February 12 last. After y&M
committing the robbery they burned the
house in order to hide the
crime. VThe
men implicated in the affair
all lived in the neighborhood and ^
some of them had not been beyond "-Sfifa
the borders of the county half a Jr-?1
dozen times u their lives. Some of
them were educated at the schools in vJS
the county, and all of them were men * *
of more than average intelligence for
negroes of the country sections. .
They were all farmers and had borne
good reputations. 4
John and William Brown were -*7?g
the men who entered into the plot ffwB
and who stood guard and threatened ^^9
to kill any one who gave any help or
went to the assistance of the man
and woman. Mrs. Skipwith was an |
aged woman, and Johnson and his
wife lived in the house with her,
looking after her farm. Robbery
was the object of the crime,
some of the plunder was found
the houses occupied by the negroes- * ffigsM
after the home place had been
All the five men, including John y&jip
and William Brown, were sentenced I
to 0ie to-day, but the governor re^
spited Isham and Joe Taylor, to
5 and Lewis Jenkins to May 7 to pre^PSq.^l
vent breaking the electrical machine
ery. The men have made partial
confessions, it is understood, but*
those have not been given out.
Militia CaUed Ont.
Chillicothe, O., April 28.?In a
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disorderly scenes throughout the day, '4rf?
at times bordering on riot, Ross coqa4-;-^8|t''4
ty to-day voted "wet" by a majority
estimated at 2,000. , v.&
During the day numerous conflicts 5^8 , J
occurred between partizans of the
two factions and also between CitK. Ja '-'iM
zens and the police. To restore or- vf^BB
der, Company H of the Fourth regi- ,-?JyS|
ment, Ohio National guard, was call-ed
out and a large force of special 4;^
deputies was alfeo sworn in. ThesefeffiBi.
carrying wagon spokes instead of
rifles., stood guard in the dlsturbeA^iijra^
quarter until the polls closed.
Negro Lynched at Bartow. '
Bartow, Fla., April 28.?Strung up
to a tree in which he sought refugei??aB||
and his body riddled with bulletL||^K||
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yesterday attempted to assault a lady^Sg ^
of Fort Myer, met a speedy death to^ -i^e^yS
day at .the hands of a posse of infuri- M
The posse stated out with blood^^g&jB
hounds on the ilegro's trail soon after
the crime became known and scoured ffiaraBj
the woods all night In a seclu<
spot the posse captured the negro to-,
day, finding him in the top of a tree, "
which a few minutes later served asJ$tf|KBj
his scaffold. The negro confessed
and without delay a rope was put "v^JjjaB
around his neck and he was drawn up ffig
to a limb. The posse then stood oft '^^1
and fired 20 shots into his body. >rgj
Burglaries in Greenville. , ^
Greenville, May 1.?Police herO'^SW^
are working on two cases of robbery
which occurred in the early hours
this morning. The safe at the
End drug store was rifled and the
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A clue is being followed, and it la
said some of the stolen goods have . T|h
Arrests will probably be made to-:
Meat Cannot be Sold. '\?i{
Greenville, May 3.?City Meat
spector Smith and City Attorney Mc- JCullough
were in conference this aft- 5^
ernoon with representatives of the v ' jJg
Swift Packing Company regarding
the disposition of the 70,000 pounds
of meat condemned Saturday, owing
to its having been soaked in sewage. '>||j
At a meeting of the board of health
held at 5 o'clock Dr. Smith reportedT?^S|^^
that the packing company would fe'BgwB
allowed to ship the meat, which is *J|
valued at over $4,000, to one of its -Vrjisa
soap plants, with the understanding \:$m
that the car be sealed here by the
spector and opened at the soap works \?|||
and consigned to the tank by a gov- '<
ernment inspector. ;;^.|S||
The condemning of the meat and:
its disposition have caused considerable
agitation here. When the pack
ing company's representative amvea
to-day at noon he gave out the state- '4?
ment that he was constrained to fol- ,
low any suggestion Inspector Smith
might make in the matter, but not- ^
withstanding the authorities will
take every precaution to see that the
inspector's orders are carried out to
the letter. Acting in the matter Dri
Smith not only had the local author!ties
behind him, but he was backed " .'--JIM
up by Dr. Williams, of the State J?
board. A number of towns in the -4^9
State wired in here to-day asking for
information concerning the disposi- -/
tion of the condemned meat. Spartanburg
and Columbia being among ' ;^B|
the cities to make inquiry. j
In an interview to-night G. W.
Chandler, manager of the Southern
business of Swift & Co., said that his
concern had no idea of endeavoring
to sell the meat which was condemn-!- .
ed here Saturday by Inspector Smith.' " S
He declared his willingness to make -iWL
any disposition of the meat that Is
desired by the city authorities. .$m