ACCEPT RESULT GRACEFULLY.
Barnwell County Prohibitionists
Won't Contest Liquor Election.
Barnwell, August 21.?There will
be no contest on the result of the
dispensary election held in this county
on Tuesday. This was definitely
announced yesterday morning, after
it was learned that the dispensary
had been voted back by such an overwhelming
majority.
The Rev. A. E. Evinson, one of the
prohibition leaders, said:
"The sie of the dispensary vote in
this county makes it unmistakenlv
evident that the people want the dispensary.
As a contest of the election,
if made, could have no ultimate effect
in changing that decision, it
seems the better part of wisdom to
acquiesce with as good grace as can
be mustered up.
"It would be an excellent thing to
secure a Court ruling on the issues
involved, but I am not so personally
interested in that as to feel justified
in spending much money to secure
it."
BARELY ESCAPES WITH LIFE.
Mr. T. W. Woods, of Chester, Has
Close Call When Home Burns.
Chester, August 22.?Fire, which
was discovered about 2.30 o'clock
this morning, completely destroyed
Mr. W. T. Woods's home, on Reedy
street. Mr. Woods, who was alone
in the house, barely escaped with his
life. Practically all of the household
goods, in addition to the building,
were destroyed. Mr. Woods carried
$900 insurance on his home and
$600 on his furniture, which it is
claimed, will not nearly cover his
loss.
FALLS FROM SECOND STORY.
Mrs. Seldon G. Bryan Seriously Injured
at Kingstree.
Kingstree, August 23.?Thursday
morning, about 9 o'clock, Mrs. Seldon
G. Bryan, daughter of Mr. Jas.
Epps, with whom she makes. her
home, fell from the second story
window of her room and received
serious if not fatal injuries. Mrs.
Bryan is about 30 years of age and
widow of the late S. G. Bryan, of
Salters. She arose as usual and is
supposed to have been leaning out of
the window washing her teeth when
overcome by an attack of vertigo.
Her toothbrush and mug were on
the ground when she was discovered.
It is supposed that her injuries are
internal. It is reported this morning
that Mrs. Bryan's condition is slightly
improved, she having regained
consciousness.
LIKELY TO REFORMATORY.
Probable Disposition of White Boys
Charged with Stealing.
Lexington, August 23.?That Guy
Horton and Telvie Shirah, the two
white boys from Columbia, who, it is
alleged, entered the home of Jacob
Kleckley, a well-known farmer near
Lexington on Tuesday of this week,
will be sent to the reformatory, seems
now a certainty. Solicitor Timmerman
has taken the matter up with
Governor Blease with a view to this
end, ana Sheriff Miller has been in
communication with the parents of
the boys.
The crime with which the boys
are charged was committed Tuesday
morning and they do not deny their
guilt, it is understood. The boys, it
is said, entered the home while Mrs.
Kleckley was in the garden, securing
vegetables tor tne noon meai, ana
took a single barrel shot gun. They
also ransacked bureau drawers, it is
said, but nothing but the gun was
found to be missing. Sheriff Miller
was summoned and it was not long before
the capture was made, although
the boys ran for a considerable distance.
One of the boys is 14 years of
age, the other 12. The father of
one of the boys is dead and his
mother says, according to the officers,
that she is in no position to help him
and agrees that he be sent to the
reformatory.
KILLED MAX WHO SAVED HIM.
Posse Searching Ohio River Bottoms
For Lewis Phillips.
Taylorsville, Ky., August 24.?A
posse to-night is searching the Ohio
River bottoms for Lewis Phillips,
who is accused of the cold-blooded
and unexplained murder of William
Zurelbry, committed only a short
time after Zuelbry had saved Phillips
from drowning.
.1 1
.fUlliips cixiu uuici men
were pitched into the river last night
when their skiff overturned. Zureiki
ry, an aged man, who witnessed the
accident, swam in and rescued Phillips,
who could not swim. Xot long
afterward, it is said. Phillips went to
Zurelbry's home armed with a rifle,
entered the house and asked whether
Zurelbry was his rescuer. Upon receiving
an affirmative answer, Phillips
is said to have shot the old man
through the heart. Phillips, though
fired upon by a posse which quickly
formed, escaped across the river.
KILLED HIS WIFE OX STREET.
Key West Man Shoots Woman While
She Pleads for Mercy.
Tampa, Fla., August 21.?While
cn her knees pleading pitifully for
ber life, Mrs. Ethel Denson, of Key
West, was shot to death on the street
here to-night by her husband, Bennie
Denson. Two negroes, who
claim to be eye-witnesses to the
tragedy, were afraid to interfere.
Denson, who followed his wife
from Key west nere several weens
ago, discovered her working in a restaurant
on Franklin street. It is
said that he threatened to kill her
if she did not return with him.
When Mrs. Denson started home her
husband was waiting just outside the
door, and started after her. She outran
him three blocks, but fell on her
knees exhausted. Denson rushed up,
and without a word, fired two shots,
either of which would have been fatal,
physicians say. Denson has not
been captured.
KILLED AT RAILROAD CROSSING.
Karl F. Taylor's Automobile Was
Struck by Train.
Cheraw, Aug. 21.?Karl F. Taylor,
of Chesterfield County, whose tragic
death occurred on the C. and N. W.
railroad crossing near Newton, N. C.,
yesterday, was buried at Antioch
Church, near Hornsboro, this county,
this afternoon with Masonic honors
in the presence of a tremendous
crowd.
-Air. Taylor was coming nome irom
Blowing Rock in a small car. Witnesses
say that he was not racing,
but had curtains and windshield up.He
was struck and hurled thirty feet
upon a pile of crossties and had his
skull crushed.
Mill Men Charged With Coercion.
Aiken, S. C., August 19.?Marion
Bell, a special deputy for the Aiken
Manufacturing company at Clearwater,
between here and Augusta,
and Lucius Snelling have been arrested,
charged in effect with coercion
and administering, it is stated,
a severe whipping to a white man
by the name of Scott, who with four
or five of his children had been employed
at the Clearwater mill. It is
alleged that Bell did the whipping
while Snelling held the cowed man at
the point of a revolver. Rural Policeman
Busbee had the warrant issued
for the arrest of Bell and Snelling.
Details of the affair have not been
made known; but it is generally rumored
that Scott was whipped because
Tie took his children from the
employ of the mill, and as he did
so he also quit his work, demanding
payment for the time put in by himself
and family. It is further rumored
that after Scott was whipped
he was then given money and a railroad
ticket and told to get out of the
mill village at once.
The matter reached the ears of
Sheriff Howard, who immediately
took a hand. The sheriff intercepted
Scott before the cowed man could
get completely away, and brought
him to Aiken, where he has been ad-:
monished not to talk.
When the matter is investigated
Scott will tell his story, and it is
stated that if it is proven that coercion
of employes is practiced other
charges will follow.
OFFICERS ELUDE THE MOB.
Maryland Negro Charged With Assault
Spirited to Jail.
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l^cX[JlCll<X, -U U., AUgUOl, vptu','
threatening a lynching, scores of
farmers, carrying pitchforks, guns
and rope, beat through the woods of
Charles County last night and today
in a hunt for William Thomas, a
negro, 23 years old, charged with a
brutal attack on Mrs. Samuel Boswell,
wife of a farmer near Indian's
Head.
Thomas was captured by Constable
Carpenter late to-day, about ten
miles from where the assault took
place, was placed in an automobile
and hurried to Laplata roads to avoid
the searching parties of farmers.
The negro's incarceration in the
jail here did not become known until
late to-night, and officials express
confidence that no attack will be
made uDon the jail.
~ I
According to a statement by Contable
Carpenter, Thomas entered the
Boswell home yesterday during the
absence of Mr. Boswell. In the presence
of her three small children Mrs.
Boswell struggled with the powerfully
built negro for half an hour and
just as her strength was about to
give out the husband rushed in. A
fight ensued between the two men.
Boswell was badly worsted by the
n acrr*r\
Thomas is said to have then tried
to carry out his purpose in Mrs.
Boswell's husband's presence. He
made a break for the kitchen and
grabbing a carving knife returned to
the living room, where Thomas stood,
and the negro, when he saw the
knife, ran from the house.
GREENVILLE COUNTY MAN-HUNT
Crowd Looks for Negro who Frightened
White Woman
Greenville, Aug. 22.?The section
of Greenville county neighboring
upon Simpsonville was up in arms
this afternoon in an effort to capture
the negro or white man who accosted
and badly frightened the wife of a
w ell-known farmer of that section
this morning. A large number of
1 - * A orv An f
citizens iook tneir guns duu
several hours in search this afternoon,
but it was unavailing. The
woman, it is claimed, had gone from
the house to a corn patch this morn[
ing about 10 o'clock. She states
! that suddenly a man, who was very
j ragged, dirty, and looked as if he
had painted his face in some way,
stepped out from behind a bush
and spoke to her, making as if to =
take hold of her. Very much frightened,
she screamed and ran back to
the house, and the party disappeared.
The woman is about 50 years old.
She could not say positively whether
the man was a white man or a mulatto.
Sheriff Rector took bloodhounds to
the scene this morning, but his
search was unsuccessful. His party
arrested one white man, but when he
was brought before the woman she
I declared that he was not the party
wanted. In spite of the fact that the
woman was not assaulted, there was
much excitment in the Simpsonville
section, and it was feared that if the
man had been captured he might
not have been brought to Greenville
alive.
Aiming at Sparrows Wounds Girl.
Rockingham, X. C. August 20.?
t .Miss Ruth Liles, one of the most attractive
young women of this city,
was accidentally shot and seriously
wounded by her father, Mr. S. F.
Liles, this morning as he was aiming
at sparrows with a shotgun.
The accident occurred at the Liles
home on Washington Heights just before
the noon hour. Mr. Liles was
on the back porch intending to kill
some sparrows which were on a
chicken coop in the yard. Miss Liles,
in coming around the corner of the house,
was hidden from her father,
who was on the end of the porch,
resting the gun on the railing.
Just as she rounded the corner, he
saw that the gun's muzzle was within
four feet of her head and aimed
directly at her, but the trigger had
already been pulled. The load of
small shot took effect in the back of
the girl's head, near the base of the
brain.
For several hours it was thought
she was fatally wounded. Late this
evening she regained consciousness to i
a slight degree, and the attending
physicians hold out some hope of her
recovery, although it is considered al
most miraculous tnat sne esuayeu instant
death.
The father is prostrated. The
whole town has forgotten everything
else in its anxiety and sympathy for
the charming young girl and her
family.
Weavers Object to Negroes.
Laurens, Aug, 21.?About 400
looms are idle at the Laurens cotton
mills because of a walk-out of 37
weavers?14 women and 23 men?
one or two of whom have returnea
to work. The strikers were paid off
by the mill and in the meantime efforts
to fill the places vacated are be
ing made by tne management.
According to a statement made by
representatives of the party that quit
their jobs, the walk-out was the diiect
result of the dismissal of two
men who refused to work in the mill
with the negro help employed. Objection
was raised to the negro help
in the weave room only, the negroes
being employed here to clean off the
looms and lay up filling for the use
of the white weavers. This work the
weavers considered a white person's
job, and complained to the managej
ment of the existing conditions, but r
j no relief was given, so they claim.
In all about twenty negroes have been
in the employ of the mill, in different
capacities, as scrubbers, loom cleaners,
sweepers, water carriers, pickerroom
laborers, scavenger drivers,
boiler firemen, etc. Most of the negro
help occupied the company's cottages.
Tninrnv AT PRPfi\TAbL.
Wood row Moorer, 2, Killed by His
Brother, Ernest, 5. .
Pregnall, August 21.?Woodrow,
the two-year-old son of Postmaster
William M. Moorer, was the victim of
a fearful accident here about 8
o'clock this morning. It seems that
the dead child and his five-year-old
brother, Ernest, were playing in a
room at their home when Ernest got
hold of a gun. resulting in the discharge
of the weapon and almost instant
death of the younger child. The
parents, who were in another part of
the house, heard the report, and rushing
to the room where the children
were, found little Woodrow dying.
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