The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 23, 1911, Page 3, Image 3
SALUDA MAN SHOOTS BROTHER.
At a Distance of Two Hundred Yards
v Sends Buckshot Into Temple.
Saluda, Feb. 15.?Jimmie Gillion
j-v.- this morning fired upon his brother,
r Allen, at a distance of something like
200 yards, with a shotgun loaded
with buckshot, and succeded in landing
one of them in the side of Al,
len's head, just above the left ejye,
and but for the fact that it struck
Ihim somewhat glancing there is no
question that it would have burrowed
its way into the brain and death
would have resulted. It appears that
the brothers have recently had some
little differences and Jimmie had
given Allen orders not to enter on the
premises he has in charge. This
r morning Allen Gillion and his father
crossed a fence, about 200 yards from
Jimmie's home. He went immediately
and got his gun, and drawing a
bead, hollered to his father to "squat
down, I am going to shoot him," and
immediately fired. At the crack of
the gun Allen fell, face downward,
and a small stream of blood was seen
to be spurting from near the left
temple. He was brought to Saluda
and the bullet, a buckshot, was cut
out by Dr. Smith.
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The Torrens System.
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favorable report has been made
v by the house committee on the Torrens
land registration bill and it is
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? hoped that the measure will be passed
I without quibbling if possible, but anyhow
that it will be passed, because
the need for such a bill is plainly
V evident. Adoption of the Torrens system
simply means the abolishing of
antiquated way for improved, modern
procedure. It means safety
g.* ground for the owners of property,
and such protection is really the main
feature, though there are mahy other
good features about the bill, and
they cannot help from being appreciated
if one will but stop to think
nw thp nast and Dresent way of
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searching deeds and the recording of
if
same. But, besides protection of a
title against the world, it will save
the fear of defective titles and will
also save money and much time.
The Torrent system has been in
vogue now for some time in a number
of States and has proved a success,
It gets its name from Robert
Richard Torrens and comes, like oth1
er good things for public use have
come, notably a fine ballot system,
* from Australia, where it has been in
use for nearly three score years.
Boiled down it is meant to provide a
way for a man to permanently regisv
ter his land, so that such registration
may act as a bar against the world
^ to future claims of any person. The
wisdom of this can be seen, because
now years after a person nas naa
land and even paid taxes, other peo
pie step in and a big lawsuit ensues.
Records for years and years back
* have to be searched and often are
i. found to be defective. -The registraf
tion system is a bar to all this, afI*
ter the courts have made a careful
search upon petition of a man who
desires to register his land, and after
all parties concerned and the world
p ^ " is given sufficient notice. When it
is validly registered why then the
owner is, protected, and he" need not
fear the loss of old court house records,
or that some lawyer happened
to make a mistake during a lengthy,
woarv rrmstv. search of a great vol
^ ume of old records, or .that should
r '. his title be attacked the death of
people who knew all about it will
? v prevent him from presenting needed
testimony .about his ownership, or
P widow or children are sued after he
has passed from this life. Such a
system will do away with the necessity
of having a deed searched, dating
back to the long ago, every time
a transfer of property is made or a
mortgage given. The registration
book will tell it all, at about a
glance, and will keep the matter
straight while a very short form
^ mortgage, without descriptions of
property and a lq? of unnecessary
language having to be included. It
will save fees, time, and uncertainty
of title. It is bound to help the property
owner and the business man?
that is, if it works like it does in
other States, and there is no reason
* why it should not work well in North
Carolina. It is thought so well of
that it has been indorsed by the State
Bankers' association, the North Carolina
building and loan associations
and the farmers' union of North
Carolina, and there has been a gentral
expression of approval by others/
^ There really seems no logical argument
that could be advanced against
it, especially as the matter of registration
is voluntary; no one need
have it apply to his property if he
does not desire u su iv uu.
At the last session of the North
Carolina general assembly a committee
was appointed to investigate the
need of such a system as that of the
Torrens for North Carolina. The
committee seemingly performed its
work well, and has filed a statement
of its investigations with the legislature,
together with advocacy of the
Gotten bill. In making its report
the committee cites some very logii
WHIPPING FOR BUCK NEGRO.
Mayor Lee Imposes Another Odd Sen
tence>?His Record.
Spartanburg, Feb. 16.?Mayor J
B. Lee, of this city, sentenced a bis
healthy negro man to take 90 lashe*
at the hands of a healthy member ol
the Spartanburg police torce or serve
time on the chain gang. When Baxter
Moss, the defendant, appearec
before the mayor for being drunl
about the sixth time this sentence
was imposed. Among the othei
unique sentences handed out bj
Spartanburg's mayor are as follows:
Fines a man $16,600 or sentenced
him to serve about 14 years on the
chain gang for having in his possession
166 pints of whiskey. A separate
case was made out for each pint. He
also sentenced three confirmed olc
drunkards to go to church every Sunday
for three weeks, on one occasion,
and on still another he sentenced
a negro woman to take ?
bath every day for a week. H?
fined a man guilty of shooting ir
the city limits in four separate cases
because the man fired a pistol foui
times. But the last one is perhaps
the most peculiar of all.
Some Other for Him.
He was a professional politiciar
and knew more about "grafting*
than Luther Burbank himself. As
he was walking from the city hall tc
the bank an automobile struck him
amidships. He was rushed to th?
nearest hospital and three surgeons
stopped playing pinochle and triec
to locate the politician's liver, which
had been driven up under his righl
lung.
"Compound fracture of one rib
and we'll have to probe for splinters,"
said the head dissector.
"All right, as long as it isn't ?
grand jury probe," groaned the sufferer.
Half an hour later the politiciar
came out of etncr.
"Where am I?" he asked dazedly
"In the City Relief hospital, Ward
9," answered the nurse, pleasantly.
"Gimme my clothes!" he screamed.
"The Ninth ward is Republican."?Lippincott's.
cal reasons in favor of the Torrern
system, as advanced by Gov. Russell,
of Massachusetts in 1891, when he
urged the legislature of his State tc
pass it, and Massachusetts did adopt
the system and found it profitable,
The committee also states, which
sounds decidedly reasonable and
should certainly strongly appeal tc
property owners who do not want tc
always be be-deviled.
"The present system of passing and
securing titles to land in North Carolina
is the result of 200 years'
growth and legislation, much oi
which is unsuited to our present condition,
and will become more so as
we grow in population and industrial
development. The records of oui
courts show a painful uncertainty
whether the statutory requiremtns
in regard to the probate by the many
f rv folrA nrnnf
UiUUtJI b glVCU auiuui llj iu lane I>iwui
and make orders for registration
have been complied with. Later defects,
often escaping the most carefull
examiner, lurk in our records,
frequently discovered when, by reason
of death, destruction of records
and long lapse of time, it is too late
to remedy them. Errors in copying
deeds and seals confuse and render
uncertain titles, frequetnly involving
long and expensive litigation. Our
statutes are filled with curative and
validating acts, generally drawn to
meet special cases* and of doubtful
meaning and application. After a
most careful and generally expensive
examination of indexes, record
evidence, the examiner is unable to
advise with reasonable certainty respecting
the title, because of facts
affecting it outside the record. It is
only within recent years that a deed
was required to be recorded for the
protection of purchasers and creditors.
As said by Gov. Russell: "If
any man's title to a piece of land is
questioned or attacked by a particular
person, the commonwealth has
provided courts'* with appropriate
jurisdiction in which the owner can
have his rights ascertained and established
as against that person.
But it has failed to provide any
method by which one can have his
title ascertained and established
against all the world. Under our
practice a new examination of the
titles is usually made upon each sale
or mortgage of a piece of land, in
spite of the fact that sufficient examination
may have been made in
former transactions."
Although many owners of land
find, when their titles are attacked or
become involved in litigation, that
they must rely for their defense upon
the statutes of limitation, which are
based upon possession, there is no
means provided in our law by which
a land owner, on his own initiative,
can have his possession ascertained
and made a matter of record to avail
him, his heirs or his assigns, in future
litigation when the witnesses
upon whom he relied to establish his
possession have died."?Wilmington
Dispatch.
THOUGHT CORPSE WAS ALIVE.
. Negroes Frightened by Moisture
Gathered on Coffin Glass.
Spartanburg, Feb. 16.?"Hey,
r boss, come quick; John is done come
5 back to life."
f An excited relative of a negro, who
? lay dead in his coffin, rushed into
. the undertaking establishment of J.
1 F. Floyd, in this city, and startled all
. by making the above statement,
i Other negroes soon entered and upr
held the first one in his most re7
markable statement.
Phvsicians at once hurried to the
I scene and examined the body, it
? was cold in death. On account of
. the difference in temperature in the
; room and that of the body moisture
x gathered on the inner side of the
I glass. The negroes thought that
. this was caused by the breath of the
. dead negro. The funeral services
. were held as scheduled.
t ?
i Martyrdom of the Russian Jew.
i
As a matter of fact, the policy
of the Russian government toward
> the Jew is brutal, tyrannical and
cruel. In three decades one and a
half million Jews were forced to
leave the Empire. In a series of terrible
"pogroms," or anti-Jewish riots
I ?outbreaks stimulated and countenanced
by subtle government policy
?thousands of helpless Jews have
' been murdered, many more thous'
ands crippled or wounded, and robbery
or destruction of the property
' of the victims has left their widows
and children destitute.
| There are, of course, a few wealthy
Jews who buy completely immunity
?everything is for sale in Russia?
' and these few live in peace. But the
masses of the Russian Jewish population
of over five millions are very
1 poor. For the most part the Jews
are herded together in the cities of
the provinces known as the Palo,
1 They *may not live in the country
districts, nor buy, laese, or manage
' .real estate therein. Those who, because
of their occupations, have under
the law been privileged to reside
in cities outside the Pale now,
after years of legal residence, find
, the privilege withdrawn through
5 some arbitrary distortion of the law,
and are suddendly driven from their
? homes. The Jew is almost excluded
> from State service. I<egally, the call
ing of judge is not barred to the Jew;
yet, in spite of the great number
! of Jewish jurists, there is in the
[ whole empire one Jewish judge, a
, relic of former years, while the few
, Jews who were formerly employed
o+frtwnavo r?nn.r+ inetippR
CIS O L-CL LC abtUlUCJD V/l j UW.VVnow
belong to the history of the past.'
. Similar is the relation of Jews to
1 public instruction. Execepting the
I teachers of Jewish religion, there
. are no Jewish teachers in the prii
mary, secondary or high schools.
Equally "free from Jews" are the
. various professorships; and of the
' Jewish lecturers who succeeded in
j establishing themselves during the
more liberal era, but few remain.
Jews are taxed, and heavily taxed,
for education, but only a small per,
centage of their children may enter
. the Russian schools. No Jew may
enter the navy, the frontier or quar,
antine service, or the gendarmerie.
Jews may serve in the army?
, in fact, they furnish 30 to 40 per
cent, more soldiers than their proper
allotment?but no Jew may become
an officer. The Jew may die
' 1UI nuiv xvua&ia, uui uc uc^u iwun
for no reward. Sixty thousand Jews
, served in the war with Japan. A
ukase of 1904 promised a general
right of residence within and with.
out the Pale to all of those who
should be found to have served worthily.
But the Russian government
is bound by no promises. Thi3
privilege was denied even the Jewish
volunteers who endured privations
and sustained wounds in the defense
of Port Arthur.
In municipal affairs the Jew must
bear the heaviest burdens of taxation
without receiving the ordinary |
rights of citizenship. Under a de- .
grading law of 1892, no Jew can ,
either vote for, or be elected, alderman
mhA er>vernors of the Drov- 1
inces comprising the Pale of Jewish j
Settlement are empowered to select ]
from the Jewish inhabitants of each ]
city several representatives for the
municipal assembly. Their number |
must not exceed one-tenth of the
whole body, and is usually fixed by
the Minister of the Interior. Even
in cities where the Jews constitute
three- fourths oi the population they :
have in reality neither a direct nor "
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a U lllUli CUl v V/ IVC 1U mv > Vbuiuvivu v?
municipal affairs. In such places illiterates
and drunkards, in virtue of .
the fact that they are not Jews, often <
rule over an intellectual and wellconducted
populace. Those Jews who ]
are appointed to the assembly by the
governor, far from being representa- \
tive, are likely to be men of inferior .
character out of all sympathy with
the governed.?Herman Rosenthal in 3
"The Outlook."
i ]
If your business demands printing
of the better class, give your work i
to The Herald office.
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GREENVILLE POLICEMAN SHOT.
"Uncle Tommy" Cureton May Die
from Drunken Man's Bullet.
Greenville, Feb. 15.?Upon entering
a room in a house near Jackson
and Broad streets, this morning, for
the purpose of arresting G. W. Stonecypher,
who had, it is said, been raising
a disturbance in a druken spree.
Thomas J. Cureton, familiarly known
as "Uncle Tommy," a 70-year-old
policeman and the oldest man in
point of service on the Greenville
police force, was shot in the head by
the man he was attempting to arrest,
and probably fatally wounded.
Between 10:30 and 11 o'clock a
call came into the police station from
the above mentioned house, requesting
that an officer be sent to the
scene to arrest Stonecypher, who
was drunk and raising a general disturbance
with his pistol. The only
officers at the station at the time
nroro nhipf of Police R. H. Kennedy
and Mr. Cureton who for years has
been serving as desk sergeant. Chief
Kennedy and Cureton responded to
the call. Upon reaching the house
from which the call came,' the officers
made a search of the premises,
but failed to discover Stonecypher.
Occupants of the house, who had fled
the scene, then informed the officers
that the drunken man had fastened
himself in a small room in a secluded
part of the house and had been
firing his pistol in there for some
time. The officers went once again
into the house and to the designated
.room. Chief Kennedy approached
one door and Mr. Cureton the other,
both intending to enter at the same
time and close in on Stonecypher.
The chief found the door locked, but
Mr. Cureton found the door to which
he went unlocked, and went in.
While Chief Kennedy was attempting
to break through the door he
heard Mr. Cureton say: "Don't you
do that." At this moment the door
gave way and the chief saw Mr. Cureton
grasp the hand of Stonecypher,
who was gripping a pistol. About
this time the pistol was discharged
and Mr. Cureton fell back, the ball
having entered his head, just below
the right eye. Chief Kennedy drew
his pfstol and clapped the barrel of
it to Stonecyphcr's 'head, which
caused the drunken man to cry for
mercy. Chief Kennedy overpowered
the man and sent him to the guard
house. Mr. Cureton was rushed to
B'ack's Sanitarium, where he was
given medical attention. The faithful
officer suffered terribly ail day
and to-night attending physicians
state that his chances of recovery are
extremely doubtful.
When news of the affair spread
over the city, expressions of the
greatest indignation were heard and
for a while the temper of the crowds
assumed ugly proportions, for "Uncle
Tommy" is widely and prominently
connected, and is deeply beloved
throughout the city.
Fearing that trouble might arise,
communication was established with
Governor Blease and he ordered the
prisoner brought to Columbia for
safekeeping. Sheriff J. Perry Poole
left with his prisoner on the C. and
W. C. train at 12:20 o'clock this af
ternoon.
Fish That Shoot Flies.
In Queensland some of the most
interesting forms of animal life are
to be found. The duck-billed platypus
(with the web feet of a duck,
which lays eggs and suckles young, X
the lung fish, the walking perch and
many other queer creatures might
be mentioned in confirmation of this.
A remarkable little fish is the rifle
fish, which lives in the far northern
rivers of Queensland. A full-grwon
specimen (writes a correspondent)
measures about ten inches in lengtn
and averages one and a half pounds
in weight. The rifle fish derives,
its name from the fact that it shoots
its food. It swims leisurley about
the stream, a few inches below the
surface, and is always on the lookout
for flies and other insects that
settle on the floating leaves and
twigs or on the surface of water
plants. On getting close enough to
its victim it discharges a tiny jet or
ball of water, which, if shot straight,
knocks the fly into the stream, where
it is instantly gathered in by the
shooter.?London Globe.
Her Heal Reason.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the government's
food expert, was discussing in
nrnr.V,ino4nn + Vl o foil in tVlP TlTiee Of
WaOUlUgLV/li tUV/ XUXA A AA V*-W x
meat. "
"The reasons given for this fall
are ludicrous," said Dr. Wiley.
'They are as ludicrous as the young
woman's reason for avoiding tight
lacing.
" 'Is tight lacing very unwise?' her
teacher asked this young woman in
a physiology lesson.
" 'Yes, it is very unwise, was the
reply.
" 'Why is it unwise?' the teacher
pursued.
" 'Because it bursts the corset,'
said the young woman."?Nashville
rennessean.
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come early.
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