The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 28, 1910, Page 2, Image 2
SQUABBLING SAVES A LIFE
ALMOST A LYNCHING IN NEWBERRY
COUNTY.
Disagreement Among Members of
Mob as to How Man Should be
Lynched Averts Deed.
Newberry, July 21.?Disagreement
as to the manner in which the proposed
victim should be put to a
speedy death, and the lack of a leader
following the disagreement, prevented
a lynching in the Silver street
section of Newberry county on Wednesday
night or during the early
hours of Thursday morning, it is
stated bv those in authority and in a
position to know the facts.
Thomas Yarbrough was the object
of the vengeance of the crowd which
numbered between 18 and 20 determined
people. While the mob
was deliberating Magistrate J. W.
Hendrix got in communication with
Sheriff Buford, at 3:45 on Thursday
morning, and at 4 o'clock Sheriff
Buford, accompanied by his son and
deputy Pope L. Buford, was on his
way to Yarbrough's home. Yarbrough,
who has been working a
one-horse farm on the Spearman
place since February, when he left
the Mollohon Mill, was found at work
in his field when the sheriff reached
his home. He was arrested and
brought to Newberry and lodged in
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jail.
Acting on advices received from
the community as to the feeling
, there, including a letter from Magistrate
Hendrix, Sheriff Buford was in
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office on Thursday morning, and in
view of all the circumstances it was
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. deemed advisable to take Yarbrougb
to Columbia to the State penitentiary
for safe keeping, which was done on
the 3:20 train on Thursday afternoon.
Yarbrough is accused of attempting
criminal assault on a seven-yearold
white child of the community.
The crime is alleged to have been
committed on July 2. It is alleged
> that it was committed in a path in a
secluded part of the section, and the
youthfulness of the victim is the reason
assigned for its not having come
to light sooner. An interesting story
is involved in the manner in which
U J- it reached the ears of the community.
It is said that Yarbrough's
wife wrote a leter to the mother of
the child telling her if she knew what
had happend she would not let the
child travel alone the path which
, she had been in the habit of travel5
ing. This letter, it is said, led to
t the investigation, which resulted in
the excitement and the arrest of Yarbrough
and lodging him in the State
. L penitentiary for safe keeping.
Mob Disagrees.
It is said that when the crowd
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ip.-S,1/ first proposition was to go for Yarbrough,
secure him, swing him to a
limb over the river, riddle his body
with bullets, then cut him down and
let his body float down the river.
Others, it is said, wanted to swing
him to a limb in the woods, and let
bis body remain as a warning. A
third portion of the crowd, it is said,
wanted to give him a whipping which
would teach him a lesson and then
p - : / let him leave the community. The
crowd could not get together, it is
learned.
Magistrate J. W. Hendrix was in
touch with the situation and he got
Sheriff Buford over the telephone at
3:40 o'clock on Thursday morning
Wt. and within fifteen minutes Sheriff
Zy~ - Buford, as stated above was on the
road to the scene, accompanied by
Deputy Sheriff Pope Buford. He
went to Yarbrough's home first and
found him there at work in the field.
Yarbrough readily surrendered and
consented to come to Newberry, sayI:
. ing that he knew nothing whatever
of the charges against him.
Yarbrough readily consented to
talk, proclaiming his absolute innocence
throughout his conversation.
He gave his age as 45, saying that
he was 45 years of age about a
month ago. He said that he was
born in Montgomery county, North
Carolina. He left home when he was
about 22 years of age. While at
home he had been engaged in farming
and mill work. After leaving
home he spent some years in North
Carolina working in the mills at
Charlotte and Wilmington. From
Wilmington he came to Darlington
in this State and worked in Darlington
a year or more, from Darlington
he went to Charleston, where he was
engaged at work at the navy yard,!
and other places for about two years.
From Charleston he went to Clinton,
where he worked in the Clinton cotF"
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ton mills for four years. From Clin&
ton he came to Newberry and worked
in the Mollohon Mill here three or
frtnr vonrs lpflvine here in February,
of this year to go to farming. He
rented a farm from Mr. Walter S.
Spearman, in the Spearman section
of the county, near Silver street. He
was running a one-horse farm.
Yarbrough said that he knew
| nothing of the charges against him
? until he was arrested and that the
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child lived in about a half mile of
him and that she had always been
friendly to him and that he had always
liked her, and had frequently
played with her as would a man his
age with a girl of seven years, but
as to any criminal intent, he said that
such a thought had never entered his
mind.
Yarbrough has now his third wife.
His first wife died soon after marriage.
leaving no children. By his
second wife he has one chiid, a boy
about 17 years of age. By his third
wife, who is still living, he has four
children, two boys and two girls, the
oldest of whom is eight years of age.
The five children have Deen living
with him and his wife.
"Prejudice," Cause of Charge.
Before leaving for Columbia this
afternoon Yarbrough had Sheriff Buford
to send a message to his home,
telling his wife to come to Columbia
to see him. He said he knew nothing
of the alleged letter written by
his wife to the mother of the alleged
victim, which, it is said, brought oa
the trouble. He said, however, that
he had heard his wife say that the
girl had been using "bad language"
in company with her children, and
that she wanted this stopped. He
said that he could assign no reason
for the charge except prejudice.
Yarbrough was entirely willing to
go to Columbia, saying he had no
doubt that as soon as the feeling
subsided his innocence would be
realized.
The advices upon which Sheriff
Buford acted in communicating with
the governor's office included, as
stated above, not only the 'phone
message from Magistrate Hendrix,
acting upon which the sheriff went to
Spearman's and arrested Yarbrough,
but also a letter from the magistrate
after Yarbrough was lodged in jail,
which the magistrate said that he
thought, in view of the feeling of the
community, following the happening
of Wednesday night, he felt that it
would not be advisable to keep Yarbrough
in Newberry.
It is not alleged that Yarbrough
accomplished his purpose. Under a
recent act of the legislature the crime
charged is a capital, offence in this
State, unless the jury should recommend
to mercy in case of conviction.
Arrives in Columbia.
Columbia, July 21.?Thomas Yarbrough,
the white man from Newberry
county, charged with an attempted
criminal assault upon a
white girl seven years of age, was
brought to the penitentiary to-night
for safekeeping by the sheriff of Newberry
county.
Yarbrough was brought here following
a long distance call to the
governor's office. Governor Ansel
was out of the city, being at Walhalla
to-day. J
The announcement here this afternoon
created much interest when it
was learned that the man would be
brought here.
The Weekly Papers and Fradulent
Advertising.
There is no better evidence of the
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new spirit mm is auiuau iu mc ^uuw
than the active support the county
papers are giving to the colleges of
agriculture and the experiment stations,
and the interest these papers
are taking in getting matter of agricultural
interest for their columns.
The county papers can help greatly
by wise selections of such matter,
avoiding the sensational fakers as a
matter of course.
But one of the most unfortunate
things connected with the weekly
county papers is the fact that most
of them seem to think that filling
their pages with ads. of patent medi-J
cines is necessary for their existence.
In our town two weekly papers
publish columns of local news items
in short paragraphs, but each alternate
paragraph is a puff of some
nostrum worked right in the columns
that people are sure to read. In
fact, many of these weekly papers
get most of their living from patent
medicine fraud and cannot be induced
to drop the business. The
county paper and the church paper
are relied upon by the makers of
these nostrums more than are any
other sheets.?Progressive Farmer.
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"An infant in a Pullman car set up
a loud wail, and would not be comforted,"
narrates a high railroad official,
"and I came forward and told
the young mother that I had helped to
raise five, and that I thought I could
secure a quietus. I put the little turn
turn across my knees, and with a gentle
jogging achieved beautiful results.
"Instead of giving me the credit
I deserved some drummers in the car
showed stern disapproval of my "butting
in."
At 2 a. m. the baby woke up and
staid awake, and kept every one else
in the car awake. Finally a gruff
voice asked:
" 'Where's that damn fool that put
it to sleep this afternoon, I wonder?'
"?New York Times.
SHE GETS REVENGE.
Xegro Woman Splits Her Husband's
Head with Axe.
Edgefield, Jul}* 22.?Grant Brunson,
a negro of the Cleora section of
the county, lies in a desperate condition,
suffering from a wound in the
head, inflicted by his wife. It seems
that Grant had whipped his wife In
the afternoon, and she planned to get
even with him. While Grant was sitting
at the supper table the woman
slipped up behind and struck him
with the blade of a club axe, cutting
the occipital bone wide open
from the crown of the head over twothirds
the bone's length, dividing the
brain in that locality.
The attending physician is authority
for the statement that he
lost a considerable quantity of brain
substance before the wound was
closed.
The Dairy Industry of the United
States.
According to the last year book of
the department of agriculture, there
are 21,720,000 milch cows in the
United States, and these are worth
$702,945,000.00. The magniture of
the industry can perhaps be best understood
when it is considered that
these cows produce yearly about
$1,000,000,000.00 worth of dairy
products.
There is no other branch of diversified
agriculture so important to the
progress of a community. The fertility
of the soil can best be maintained
by the liberal use of* barn
vara manure ana uie uaii.> uciu uui
only makes this possible, but dairying
is also more remunerative than
other branches of farming when
properly carried on.
Dairying has made wonderful
progress since the advent of the
modern creamery and the consumer
of butter has not only been benefitted
by being furnished a more wholesome
and palatable article of food,
but the wife in the farm home has
been relieved of the drudgery incident
to making butter on the farm.
Where formerly the cream was ripened
and churned into butter under
conditions not conductive to fine
quality in the finished product and in
the majority of cases by unskilled
hands, now the most of the milk or
cream is delivered to a modern
creamery where conditions are suited
to the purpose of making butter,
and the result has been wonderful
improvement in the quality of our
dairy products. As the quantity has
improved consumption has increased
and the progress of dairying has
been remarkable during the past decade.
The perpetuity of the country's
greatness depends upon increasing
the production of farm products
from year to year, a result which not
only furnishes our people with food
but maintains the prosperity of our
farming communities. Increase in
production can only come through
improved methods of agriculture and
soil improvements. When it is considered
that the dairy cow is the
foundation for soil improvement and
farming prosperity, her importance is
best understood, and interest in her
should not be confined to her owner.
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SD6 IS an important, lactui m tuc ucvelopment
and prosperity of our
country.
Soldiers Play at War.
Chattanooga, Tenn., June 30.?
Throughout the month of July the
god of battle will hold sway at
Chickamauga park, where twelve
thousand militiamen from Tennessee,
Mississippi, Florida, Georgia and
North and South Carolina, with two
thousand regulars, will engage in
mimic warfare.
The battle of the civil war, which
made this section histroic, will be
fought over, and while the fighting
will be bloodless, it will lose none of
its spectacular features.
A new feature which is sure to attract
many to the maneuvers will be
the use of the war aeroplane. The
war department expects to get valuable
information as to the usefulness
of the air fighting craft during these
maneuvers.
In order to enable people from all
over the South to witness these most
thrilling sights, the railroads have
made special rates which will make
the trip so low in cost as to be in
the reach of all.
According to the present plans, the
second and third regiments of the
South Carolina militia will encamp
at Chickamauga and take part in the
maneuvers.
Beginning with the opening of the
new cotton season on September 1st,
cotton will be bought and sold in
Anderson strictly on grade. The system
of buying and selling at an average
price, which has been in vogue
for several years, has been abolished
by an agreement reached between
the Farmers' Union, the chamber of
commerce and the local cotton mill
men.
NEGRO >L\\ DROWNED.
Samuel James Believed to Have Committed
Suicide.
Orangeburg. July 21.?Samuel
James, colored, was found drowned
in the Edisto river late this afternoon
by Wiliam Pearson, a white
fisherman of this city. James's body
was found lodged upon a log. the
head and chest being above the water.
The drowned man could be seen
from the large bridge crossing the
river at the foot of Russell street.
James was a sufferer from consumption
and it is thought that he
drowned himself. James formerly
lived in Florida and desired 10 return.
Owing to his bad health he
was unable to do so and on last
Monday he told his sister he was going
to the river. She stated that she
searched for him but that he has
been missing since last Monday until
found in the river this afternoon.
The inquest will probably be held
later this afternoon and the body removed
from the river.
A Frightful Wreck
of train, automobile or buggy may
cause cuts, bruises, abrasions, sprains
or wounds that demand Bucklen's
Arnica Salve?earth's greatest healer.
Quick relief and prompt cure
results. For burns, boils, sores of all
kinds, eczema, chapped hands and
lips, sore eyes or corns, its supreme.
Sure pile cure. 25c at People's Drug
Co., Bamberg, S. C.
Money Found in Cave.
Thos. L. Rodgers, of High Point,
X. C., has published a statement to
the effect that he recently found $90,000
in gold coin in what is known as
the Rock House cave, on the Clinch
river in Hancock county, Tennessee.
Rodgers states that the information
that such a sum of money was
in the cave was revealed to him in a
dream. As he relates it, he went
from his North Carolina home to his
childhood home in Hancock county to
explore the cave and with a lantern
made the exploration alone, and
found in a large chamber, many feet
from the entrance, an uDturned ket
tie, under which was stacked the
gold.
Around the old kettle were found
rusty bayonets, canteens and other
things, indicating that the cave was
used as a place of refuge during the
civil war.
Beside the kettle was found a skeleton
of a man and upon a slate stone
slab nearby was an inscription telling
of the gold and directing the
finder to take charge of it upon condition
that he bury the body of the
owner in a designated spot on the
summit of the mountain in which
the cave is located.
Rodgers says he complied with the
terms of the inscription and left the
cave with the money in his possession.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
inflamed condition of the mucous lining
of the eustachian tube. When this
tube is inflamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed, deafness is
the result, and unless the inflammation
can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing
will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inflamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars
for any case of deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars
free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
Tnledn. O.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The Tax of Bad Roads.
One of the heaviest taxes farmers
pay in many sections is the tax imposed
by bad roads in the loss of
time, the wear and tear of vehicles
and the breaking down of horses.
Add to this the loss in value of
real estate bordering on bad roads,
as shown by the immediate rise in
value of real estate when good roads
are made in any district.
The Atlanta Constitution cites the
case of a farmer in Georgia who refused
to contribute a strip of his
farm for a good road because he did
not believe in goods roads on princil_?_
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pie. out ilie ruau v\aa umuc an
same, and that farmer was offered
ten dollars an acre more for his 300
acres than he had asked before the
road was built. Queer sort of principle,
his.
Wherever a good road is built
there is usually no more kicking,
but people off the road soon want
one in their neighborhood, so that
one well-built road is the means of
getting more, as has been the case
in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina,
where good roads are the rule
rather than the exception, and the
people are making more of them all
the time.
There is no better investment a
farmer can make than a liberal tax
for a first-class road.?Progressive
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Take care of the nickels and dimes
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also week-end tickets to be sold on Saturday
trains, beginning Saturday, May 28th, final lii
inidnicht the following Tuesday.
Also cheap Sunday excursion tickets sc
trains, good returning on last train leaving
day night.
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agents or address,
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Charleston, S. C.