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NEGRO TELLS STRANGE STORY.
James Freeman Claims to Have Been
Shot by Mob in Colleton.
Aiken, Sept. 30.?Bearing a scar
which he says he received from shots
fired at him by a mob of white men.
^ James Joe Freeman, alias Buddie
Moore, is in the city jail here as a
suspicious character. Freeman was
arrested by Policeman W. B. Raborn.
The negro is scarred and battered
up, but all of the wounds are
healed now. He alleges that he received
his rough treatment a few
weeks since at Williams, in Colleton
county.
? He says that a crowd or mob of
white men came to his home at that
place while he was away from home.
They took his wife out and beat her.
he alleges, and about that time he
and another negro came up to the
house. He begged the mob not to
kill his wife, whereupon the moo
\ fired upon him. one or two shots
striking him, making the scar on
his arm and side. His companion,
he says turned upon the crowed and
fired once, the shot striking a prominent
physician. They escaped the
mob and hid out in a swamp for
some time. Another crowd of about
100 men hunted the swamp for him,
he says, but he finally escaped them,
l coming to Aiken county. He says he
has not been back to his old home
again, and he has never heard from
the wounded physician.
The police do not credit his story
much and are inclined to believe he
has been guilty of some serious
crime and are holding him as a suspicious
character, there being no
charge against him here. The negro
is about 40 years old, weighs 160
pounds, five feet six inches in height,
has heavy moustache for negro, is
ginger-cake color. He bears a scar
on his left arm and side, made by
gunshot, has scar of cut on forehead,
has scar over right eye and another
under right eye, and still another
on his nose. He has three teeth out.
Military Power in China.
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China's army is the subject of a
good deal of interest, not that it is
formidable, but because of the importance
of China as a factor in oriental
politics, and of the possibilities
* that lie in the development of her
military strength. The army is said
to include, all told, and as it now
stands, between 500,000 and 600,000
men. Most of them, however,
are poorly trained and poorly equipped,
and ineffective except for sup*
pressing uprisings of unarmed naA
tives. Nevertheless, there are in
China probably 160.000 effective soldiers,
trained in military maneuvers
and practices, and armed with modern
rifles and rapid fire artillery.
They are somewhat intelligent, can
read and write, and really knowsomething
of modern warfare. What
is of still more importance, they are
hv mPTi who have studied in
military colleges abroad or those in
China in which foreign instructors
are employed. But even if China
had an effective army of a millon
men it would be of no service to her
under present conditions. To render
good service an army must be easily
handled and able to be at the right
place at the right time. This is impossible
now, owing to the lack of
transportation facilities. The Chinese
government now plans to construct,
within the next ten years a
{ network of railways which will not
- only develop the country, but also
facilitate the handing of troops. It
plans also to have an effective army
of 400,000 men by 1913, and one of
1,185,000 by 1920.
A Hard Head.
A bricklayer once hired a new
helper. This chap was renowned for
his hard head. The bricklayer
thought he would test him, so, the
first morning, while the helper was
filling his pipe at the bottom of the
ladder the bricklayerupon the eighth
floor flicked a bit of mortar down
on his pate.
The helper never noticed it at all.
The bricklayer took a brick and
dropped that down. Bang! It land
ed square oil the helper's head.
The helper took his pipe out of his
mouth and scowled up at the bricklayer:
"Say!" he growled, "be careful
where you dropppin' that there mortar!"?St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
Trolley Line Coming.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 30.?The first
spike in the construction of the Atlanta
& Carolina Electric Railway, to
be built from Atlanta to Augusta and
thence to Columbia or Charleston, S.
C., was driven here to-day by Miss
Evelyn Mason, daughter of Matthew
Mason, vice-president and general
manager of the line. Work on the
roadbed will be rushed and the officials
predict that the road will be
completed to Augusta within IS
months.
i Capt. James W. English, a well
known Atlanta capitalist, is president
of the new line and the board
of directors includes other men of
financial prominence in the State.
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GIVES r. S. HIS CRUTCHES.
i Col. Mosby Deposits His Uniform in
National Museum.
Washington, Sept. 24.?Col. John
i S. Mosby, the famous cavalry leader
, of the Confederacy, to-day presented
the United States National Museum
the pair of crutches which he used
i when wounded during the Civil War.
They were made by a slave belonging
to his father.
These crutches were twice in the
headquarters of Gen. Robert E.
Lee, and on each occasion under the
arms of Mosby. When Colonel
Mosby alighted from an ambulance
and hobbled toward headquarters on
crutches, General Lee came out in
company with General Longstreet,
and introuduced Longstreet to Mosby.
Then, eyeing the crutches. General
Lee said: "The only fault I
have to find with your conduct, Col
cnel Mosby, is that you are always
; getting wounded."
The crutches are plainly made,
consisting of unvarnished sticks of
wood, fitted into arm-bars at the
top, and one of them is covered with
calico fitted over padding. The pad
ding is worn off the other crutch.
On one crutch is a metal plate bear,
ing the words:
' John S. Mosby, 1SG3-1S64."
Wrapped around the crutches.
> which are tied together, is a sheet
of paper on which, in the handwriting
of Colonel Mosby, is the follow
Hlg Sldicuitui.
"These crutches were made for me
; during the war by a slave named
. Isaac, who belonged to my father,
i They were first used in August, IS63
, when I went home wounded. My
mother kept them for me, and I
again used them in September, 1S64
i and December, 1S64.
Jno. S. Mosby."
He has his mother to thank for
saving these crutches and she valued
them highly. Colonel Mosby
said:
"I have often told my mother that
she was never so happy as she was
during the war when she was reading
the newspaper accouns of my
adventures. The thought never
i seemed to enter her head that I was
in danger of being killed. I have
told her often that if she had comi
manded the Army of Northern Vir'
ginia, the South would have won its
independence or it would be fighting
now."
The Mosby crutches wil be placed
, in the museum with his other gifts,
which include a bust of himself,
made the year after the war by Valentine;
Mosby's hat and the military
"jacket" he wore at the end of the
war. This jacket bears the three
stars of a Confederate colonel.
"One night during the last winter
of the war," said Colonel Mosby,
"the night of December 21, 1864, I
was at a house over there in Virginia
getting supper. The house
was surrounded by about 400 New
York cavalrymen. They fired
through the windows. One bullet
i went through a pane of glass, struck
me in the left" side just above the
waist, ran around the front of my
body and lodged in my right side.
"The Yankees ran in. I pretended
to be dying. They stripped me of
my clothing. I gave them a fictitious
name, but before they got into
the room I had removed my jacket
containing the three stars indicating
my rank, and had thrown it
quickly under a bureau. I told them
I was a lieutenant, knowing my
pants were too good for them to believe
me a private. They took my
hat, overcoat and cape. They
brought along a Yankee surgeon,
who leaned over to examine me. I
pretended to be dying, and the surgeon
said: "Yes, he has been shot
through the heart," locating my
heart down about my stomach.
"Afterward, when the affair be1
came known, it was gossiped about
! the camps that I was the man in the
i house, and the Yankees returned to
capture me. But by that time the
bird had flown."
Cotton Crop Deteriorates.
New York, Sept. 30.?The condition
of cotton, on an average date of
September 23, as ascertained by over
is.000 sDecial correspondents of the
Journal of Commerce and Commercial
Bulletin, was 65.7 per cent,
against 70.7 per cent last month and
59.5 per cent, a year ago at this time.
This is a drop of 5 points, being
less than in any of the past ten years,
except in 1905, when deterioration
amounted to only 3 points. The average
deterioration for the past ten
years, according to these special reports,
is 6.7 points, while the average
10-year condition is 67 per cent.
The heavy depreciation in Oklahoma,
of 18.9 points, was due chiefly
to dry, hot winds and the boll
worms.
Texas passed through the month
1 with only a loss of 2.3 points, owing
to the comparative absence of the
H/^n tvaovii nmn^ht. however, caus
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ed premature opening. Arkansas,
Louisiana and Mississippi lost 10.5
points, 8.3 points and 7.1 points, respectively,
owing largely to the boll
weevil and hot, dry weather.
NEW ASYLUM SITE.
Commission Decides on 1,500 Acres
Xear Columbia.
Columbia, Sept. 30.?The new
asylum to be erected for negroes,
giving in South Carolina for the first
time the segregation of the races, will
be built in Richland county. Tonight
Dr. James W. Babcock, chairman
of the asylum commission, announced
that the commission at a
lengthy session to-day, had unanimously
decided to make the purchase
of the new site in this county,
Fifteen hundred acres, or thereabouts,
will be secured, the land lying
a few miles from the present site
of thp old asylum. The location has
not yet been made public. The preliminary
arrangements looking to the
purchase of the land have been
made and at a meeting of the commission.
to be held next Friday afternoon
at '1 o'clock, the commission
will complete arrangements and will
announce the exact location of the
land.
Out of more than <ju sites that
\\< re offered, the Richland land was
selected unanimously by the members
of the commission. Dr. Babcock remarked
to-night that the action of
the committee throughout has been
unanimous. Sites were offered from
many counties in .the State and a
number were included in the list of
those offered in this county. No
Charleston sites were offered, but
Charleston men were interested in
some of the sites offered.
The commission has been at work
several months in the matter and
have given careful thought to the
work of selecting a site. When the
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commission met lu-u<iv mac v?ao a
trip out into the country and more
land was looked over. In addition
to this new sites were offered from
other parts of the State. The list
had been cut down to a few sites at
the last meeting.
The commission was not limited to
any particular number of acres, as
had been erroneously represented
from time to time.
The resolution passed at the last
session of the general assembly says
the commission shall purchase lands,
but does not say how much. The selection
of a site in this county will
eliminate the necessity of an absolute
division of the State Hospital
for the Insane. There will be two
asylums, it is true, the old one for
the white and the new asyluum for
the negroes, but both will be in this
county. At a former meeting the
commission decided it would be impracticable
to move the present
asylum and the buildings thereon are
being improved and two new ones
erected. This relieves for the time
being the overcrowded condition of
the asylum.
At another meeting also the commission
decided that the new site
should be utilized for the negroes,
so that there would be a segregation
of the races. This has been one of
Dr. Babcock's efforts for many years.
The segregation of the whites and
negroes has been aimed at for a long
time. It will now be accomplished.
The commission has $100,000 avail
able under the resolution. The land,
although no purchase price has yet
been given out for publication, probably
cost in the neighborhood of
$15,000. That would leave about
$85,000 for the erection of the buildings.
The purchase price mentioned
here is only speculation, to show the
amount available for the new buildings
to be erected on the site.
When the commission meets next
week more definite details v;ith regard
to the purchase will be given
out. All members of commission
were present to-day as follows: Dr.
James W. Babcock, chairman; Dr.
Robert Wilson, Jr., of Charleston;
Col. Leroy Springs, of Lancaster;
Judge R. O. Purdv, of Sumter, and
Dr. George B. Cromer, of Newberry.
Freeman Carried to Walterboro.
Aiken, S. C., Oct. 1.?A deputy
from Colleton county came to Aiken
this afternoon and carried Joe Freeman
to Walterboro for the shooting
of Dr. Kinsey, a prominent physician
of Williams, Colleton county. The
deputy said Freeman was a dangerous
negro and carried him away
handcuffed, shackled and strapped.
Nothing here is known of the affair
in which Dr. Kinsey was shot. He
has since recovered. When an attempt
to arrest Freeman was made
he fired on the posse and in the tumult
escaped. He was seen in Aiken
several weeks ago and was arrested
here Thursday as a suspicious character.
The Colleton authorities read
the account of the negro's arrest in
the papers. It is said that the negro
is also wanted in Dublin, Ga., on a
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cnarge <jl imiiuc:. nc aumiw im^e,
in Dublin some time ago.
Whitlock Found Not Guilty.
Spartanburg, Sept. 30.?Wallace
Whitlock, the Spartanburg junction
merchant, charged with violating the
dispensary law and conducting a
blind tiger on a large scale at the
junction, was acquitted to-day after
a trial lasting three days.
Solicitor Ott said it was "hardly
necessary to try any more beer cases
in view of the acquital of Whitlock."
RAIX SAVED BUILDING.
School House at Manning: Struck 1)
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Lightning.
.Manning, Sept. 30.?During a St
vere electric storm, which passe
over this place about 7 o'clock las
evening, lightning struck the ol
graded school guilding tearing off
lot of shingles and weather boardin
and setting the building afire. Th
house is quite large, constructed c
heart pine, and would have made
huge blaze but for the heavy rai
that held the flames in check unt
assistance arrived. The fire depar
nipnt resnnnded tn the alarm onlv t
find the fire under control. Th
proximity of the old building to th
new one causes great risk to the la
ter from fire.
Khrhardt High School Opens
| Ehrhardt. Sept. 30.?The Eh
hardt High School opened its dooi
on .Monday morning and exercist
appropriate to the occasion wei
he'd. Two of the 1 astors of t'r
town, the Revs. D. B. Erase dose an
.1. E. Freeman, \ere present an
made short but encouraging and ii
structive talks to the pupils an
patrons assembled. The attendance
so far is fairly good and a brigl
prospect is before the school. Fc
the past few years the school hz
been under the efficient managemei
of Mr. W. . Hiers and a good scho<
has been built up. This year tt
principal is Chas. J. Shealey, a recei
graduate of Newberry College. A
able corps of assistants will assii
him in the work.
Expect Big Things.
Washington, Oct. 1,?If the posts
banks prove in any measure tt
success which President Taft an
Secretary MacVeagh expect no moi
Panama canal bonds are likely to t
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with money loaned to the governmei
by the depositors on postal bonds.
After conferences with the pres
dent, Secretary MacVeagh has d
cided that the treasury will take a<
vantage of the portion of the post;
bank which allows the issue of post
bonds for replenishing the treasur
Under the law, 65 per cent, of a
the postal savings banks deposits me
be invested by the president in bone
or other securities of the Unit?
States "when, in his judgment, tl
general welfare and the interest <
the United States so require."
The Old Time Surgeon.
Before anaesthetics were know
the surgeon's only expedient was 1
abridge his patient's sufferings 1
working rapidly. In this the old tin
surgeons did wonders. They had
control and a surety in their ham
that are now seldom found. One d?
the celebrated surgeon Maisonneui
had to amputate the leg of a po<
devil, who began to howl in advanc
"I'll give you my watch," said tl
surgeon, "if the operation lasts moi
than a minute." The man accept?
the offer, but was obliged to forej
the handsome watch, as the oper;
tion took less than it requires to d
scribe. To amputate an arm at tl
shoulder is a most difficult oper
tion. Dr. Langeback, of German
did it in two minutes. A your
physician who came to see him pe
form the operation adjusted h
spectacles to his nose so as not 1
lose a single movement, but when tl
spectacles were in place the oper;
tion was over and the severed ar
lay on the floor. Times have chan;
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MARRIED* MARRIED MAX.
Knew it, So Bigamy Charge Won
Hold, Says Judge.
Spartanburg, Sept. 28.?Whe
Paul Taylor was being tried here ye
terday afternoon on a charge of bi|
amy, Judge Robert Aldrich, rule
that one cannot be convicted of th
offense if the woman that he marrie
the second, or any time afterwarc
is aware of the fact that the man a
ready, had one living wife. It w?
clearly evident that Taylor was gui
ty and all expected a verdict accor<
ingly by the jury. However, whe
his second wife was put on the stan<
she told the court the that she kne
Taylor was already married, an
even in the face of this accepted h
proposal.
Judge Aldrich took the view tin
this did not constitute bigamy an
Solicitor Otts disagreed with hin
The judge said that the second cen
mony in the face of the evidence
was a mere meaningless form. N<
tice was given by the solicitor th?
the case would be carried to the si
preme court.
Mr. Patterson in Washington.
Washington, Sept. 29.?Congress
man Patterson, of Barnwell, has ai
rived in Washington to attend to
number of important matters of ir
terest to the people of his distric
Mr. Patterson is feeling the effect
of the strenuous campaign throug
which he recently went and wi
probably go to Tate Springs, Tenn
after leaving Washington.
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