Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GIVEN GOOD TERMS. Two Scoundrels Sent to fha Peni tentiary From Lexington. For Twenty-Fivo Yeara Roch For Assaulting a Man ami Attempting a Worst Crime ou a Woman. At the term of tho Lexington Court lust week tho two negroes who some months ugo committed un at troci? us assault on Mr. and Mrs. Bickley, of that county, were tried and convicted hy Judge Wilson to twenty-live years In tho Penitentiary One night the l\vo negroes went to thoc ountry store kept hy thc Bick leys, and while ono of thom asked Mr. Bickley to Como oui sido and aoll him some whiskey, the other remained in the store, whore Mrs. Hinkley also stayed. A gua was tired and Mr. Hinkley was shot. At the sound of tho gun tho negro Inside seized Mrs. Bick loy and attempted a horrible crtm o. While his wife was In tho clutches of this brute, Mr. Bickley, wounded and bleeding, staggered Into tho ?tore and reached for his shotgun lu tho corner. The negro hm do his es cupe, however. The alarm was given and tho two negroes were sought all ovor that territory for days. When dually captured son limo tit against them was still high, but a lynching was prevented. Al the trial each negro denied any knowl edge of the presence of tho other that night, and told a story quite different from tho evidence put up hy the Slate. Kaoh ol' thom was indicted on two counts, assault with intent to kill Mr. Bickley and assault, with in tent to ravish Mis. Hit kiev, ami holli wo. o convicted en bel h counts. Judge Wilson, in passing sentence, congratulated tho county of Lexing ton that a lynching had been averted under strong provocation and that justice had been done, regardless o' tho fact brought out in Hie evidence that tho Bickleys themselves were violators of tho law In selling liquor. Must Ton thc Mark. The Democratic party will not try the disastrous experiment of 1904 again in 1908. This isclearly indica ted by the Hat failure of the attempt to hold a conference of Democrats for the purpose of harmonizing par ty differences by eliminating Bryan through the patent I rick of adopting were so suspicious of its purpose ?V*hat they declined to take part in it. They would not have anything to do with a movement, that coull ! even be suspected of an anti-Bryan flavor. The meeting has been postponed to a later date 'in order to avoid mis construction.' That is to say it will never be held. Yet, as we remarked the other day. some of thc promoters, of the confeten :o were candid enough to admit that party harmony could not be promoted by antagoni sing Mr. Bryan, Their inconsisten cy lay in supposing that they could differentiate the man and the plat form and repudiate one without of fending the other. If the Democrat ic party gets together, it. ought to be obvious by this time, it. will have to harmonize on a radical platform or not tit till. Any other compro mise would lead to a second defeat as disastrous as that of 1901." CAPERS, the Republican boss of South Carolina, refers to Prioleau, the boss of the ('harleston Republi cans as a "heinous baboon." This ijj.a clear case of keith4 calling pot t.aek. Tino Hon. James Norton must ex pect to be a candidate for Congress this Fall. lb* ia whooping up the loin law in the name ot' thc poor man, which is a good indication that, he wants something better than be has._ AT a hotel in Binfield, Va., Sun % day a man from Ohio offered to bet f ('?^.(000 against.$10 thal Gov. Glenn j. .mid be assassinated before Christ mas but there were no Inkers lo his bet. Thc fellow, no doubt, was an irresponsible lunatic, who was just airing the fantansics of his weak brain. IE the State Supreme Court 's de cision declaring valid the disfran chisement of voters is taken to the United States Supreme Court, when that eminent body of ?earned and impartial lawyers get through with it, it will be punched so full of holes that the authors of it would hardly recognize it. CAPERS, tho dispenser of Republi can pie in South Carolina does not seem to have much respect for his colored fellow Republicans. He re cently called ono of them a "hein ous baboon." Really that is what Capers thinks every negro in the State is, but. he is afraid to say so. ThA right oar is gonorally largor than th? lott. ATTACKED BY FLAMES Portland and Caltimore Suffer Big Losses From Fire. For Second Timo Witttin Weck Snino Two Cities ?ive Strenuous Battle to Hie Fire Fiend. A dispatch from Portland, Mo., says n Uro of undertormined origin started early today in tho brick block, Nos. 154 to 1G0 Midd lo street, occupied hy Milliken, Cotisons & Co., wholesale drygoodo, and A. F. COX & Co., Wholesale hoots and simes. After a desperate tight of more than three hours tho combined fire departments of Portland. lilddcford, Lewiston and Math had the situation Well in hand when tho (lames broke out anew and before they could be checked, had gained such rapid head way that tho men found themselves again helpless and In order to save the remnant of tho business section, summoned aid from Posion. Tho fire, it is estimated, at eight o'clock Monday morning, had dono damage of more than $1,000,000. Tho burning bloCk is lu tho very center of the down-town wholesale district. A heavy rain shortly after midnight gave tho flro fighters groat aid and it was thought tho flames wore umbu- cont roi whon suddenly out of tho blinding smoko a groat tongue of lire shot up and five min utes hitor the entire sido was in flames. Fire in Ihdtlmoro. A dispatch from Rainmore under dttto of Modnny says lire is raging in the immense tunks of the Standard Oil Company nt Kl'St avenue and Fifth street, in the south eastern portion of the city. Thousands of gallons of oil have already been burned. Tho fire th ron tens the large refinery and other properly nearby. THIEVES lt ll'Lld) SA FM And (?ot Nearly One Hundred Thous and Dollars Out of lt. The Columbia Record says three young men of (he Olympia mill vil lage Claude Lawhorno, Marshall Parker and Tom tl ri tn sloy are in tin" county jail, charged with break ing h.to the store (d' .Magistrale S. I. Hiby on tho HI ll ff road, and laking from the s: fe the .sum of $870 leav ing behind tie' amount of $74.50 in silver. Lawhorno has been oin ployed at (tie ?in. ' ......., .wm ,i iiiuir,, among i others, the keys to tho door of the .lore. Sunday hight, as he was slatting to Church, these keys were brought to him by Marshall Parker, who claimed Hitit he and Tom Clums ley had found them near tho reser voir. Mr. lilley pocketed tho keys and wont on to church. Whon he gol horne that during the evening some one had entered the store, unlocking the sith; door, and had robbed tho safo of $S7ti, gaining outrance to back home he was informed by Law IsllOd by a line ol not more Mian Hie si rong box by operating the com bination, Instead of blowing li open yoggmen fashion. un-; NFAV PIS roi, LAW. Tlio Hill Fixing Sly.? of Gun a Ma? .fay Carry. The new pistol bill, which will be come a law before (he Legislature adjourns provides that from and af ter the flrsl day of .Inly, I Ou?t, ii shall be unlawful for any ono to carry about the person, whether cou coaled or not, any pistol less limn twenty inches long and Hire,, pounds in weight, nd it shall be UUlaV'fll) for any person, tit ni or cOrporilllon to manufacture, sell or offer for sale, lease, rent, barter, exchange or trims pori, for sahi or into this State, any pistol of less len;;!h and Weight. Any violation of this section shall he pun one hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than thirty days; ami in case ol' a sale by a person, linn or corporation, the faun ol' one hundred dollars shall be forfeited to and for the use of Hie school fund ol' the county wherein the violation lakes place, in he recovered as oilier lines and forfeitures. TU HY (?OT TUM CASH. TWO Men With Revolvers Riddled Mail Wagon in Street. At New Orleans two while men willi drawn revolvers held np the United States, mall Wagon, No. 10, Monday evening about 8.55 o'clock near tho Northeastern depot. The wagon was rilled of lt? contents. Five or six dotOCtlVOS from tho main ofllco aro searching for tho robbers. There always ls something of tho boy in Hut man who can lead men. Sympathy Is a key thal fitu the lock of any heart. Preaching down to folks doog not 'Hit thom up. WORK OF A FIEND Young Giri Assaulted After Negro Had Tied Her Brother. A l'osw With Bloodhounds Ar? Pur suing thc Scoundrel *nd it Ho I? Caught Ho Will Ho Lynched. A upechil dispatch from Augusta, Qa., to tho Atlanta Journal, says Miss Flora Cowley, the flftoen-year old daughter of Sam Cawley, a far mer living near Hath, On., In Rich mond County, was attacked Wednes day hy a negro and left unconscious in her homo. Tho girl's mother ls dead, and she keens house for the family. While her father was orr at work, and she wns at home with her youiui brother, a negro entend the home, hound the lad hand and foot, and attacked the girl. The girl was not criminally as saulted. After knocking the girl down with a Stick, tho negro was frightened tiff. County Bailiffs Stratford and Gay, togother with a posse, are scouring tho country in an effort to catch tho negro. Bloodhounds are on the trail and a lynching is imminent if the right, negro is caught. The brother of the girl described the negro and ll is thought ho caine from a saw mill, which is in opera tion a mile away from the home. DISh lt AN'CIUStC.MMNT LIX* AL. At Least, So Decides Hie State Su preme Co u ii. The State Supremo Couti has de cided unanimously thal tho disfran chisement of the voters who were not allowed to vote in the Calhoun Conni y election was legal and thal those voters have practically no re dress so far as tho courts of thia Stale are concerned. On Monday tho couti dismissed tho writ of certiorari, which was argu ed last week, and thus upholds the validity Of the election lo establish Calhoun County. Tho judgment of tho Court is unanimous. The Court's decision is not given in roll and the reason- will bo flied later, bul the decision ls handed down promptly perhaps for the reason that the Court realizes that to delay would ho lo nrev, m tl... ' . .v.., ............. ...... ui uer; The record in this case was certi fied up to this- Court and has been duly considered. There is no error. Hence the writ is dismissed. The reasons f?r this Judgment will be stated al a later time V. J. Pope, Chief Justice. Kngone H. (?arv, A. .1. Ira H. Jonjea, A. J. 0 A. Wood?, A J. Till Kl) TO O KT HIM. A Mob Threatened to Lynch ?n Assa* sin in Virginia. Prank Couthorn, the young white Ulan who last week shot and killed j Mrs. Jones In hnr homo at Christians hiirg, Va., and thou Riirrendorod to ?ho authorities, saying he si<?w tho Wo ll) a tl because he loved her a.ul she married another, wan carried to Roanoke Monday night for safe keep Ihg, ? lynching having boon threat ened at Christbinsburg. S KV KN AH 10 CHlOMATIOi). Collapse of House Causes Flame? to Destroy Whole Family. By tho collapse Of tho house or Anthony Franklin, a negro of Bed ford Cit. Va., the building wa. "rod and destroyed tho whole family, cotutliini of himself, wife and live children, burned to death. The fam ily was sitting with tho eorjlfiO Of a child lliel died oil Sunday when tho building foll In. Negro Killed in Manning. Walter Davis, colored, ivas killed at Manning Kr ida y night at a negro dance, although lhere Wile ipiite a liUmhcr in attendance no one seemed to know how the killing was done. The coroner empanelled a jury and tho testimony was heard, but the jury though) ii advIsalilo lo postpone Its Undings. t The kentucky Deadlock, The joint assembly of Kentucky took one ballot for United States sen ator on Friday, which resulted HP fol lows: Beckham r? 8 ; Bradley, &7; Allon 7. . t Heavy Damage Deported. A cyclone ia reported to have done damage over a territory of consider able extent north of Brookhaven, Misa., on last Friday. ' t t's hard shirking tho conscience thal I? undor tho nureotl? of money. Soul health will not come hy tak ing religion as a dos?. J DESERTS HUSBAND And Marries a Very Old Man in New York City. A Colored Woman From OraugcLurg Figures hi n Queer Murringo Cere monjr L'p North. It soonio tliat n colored woman from Orangeburg lina taken one hus band too much, which may got her In trouble. Tho following ls tho story as it ls told by tho New York correspondent of the Washington Herald: City Clork Scully got tho biggest surprise lie bas bad since be wont Into tho murringo license business when an aged negro, dressed In cleri cal garb walked up to tho desk this afternoon with a young negro woman (dinging to his arm, and sn td he wanted to get a license just as soon as possible, because be was in a hurry to bo married. Clerk Scully took no interest when tho old person gave his na ino as Wil liam Brooks Mason mid said he was a clergyman, but when on being asked his age, lu? said, "I am I3K years obi. and can show you my Hilde nt home lo prove il." the city clerk dropped his pen in astonishment. " This is a serious thing." the (derk said, "Von know you're under oath. Brother Mason, and if you don't tell me the truth about your agc. I may refuse to give yoi the license." "Say, brother," replied the clergy man, "how do you-all suppose 1 could havo hold George Washington's horse al Yorktown il I ain't ?is old as I say I am?" The crowd of waiting applicants began to grow so large at this stage that Clerk Scaly lilied out the li cense ;unl bd ?t go at that. The wo rn..n gave her nanni as lilla Hines, of GS West 122rd street, and said she was twenty-eight years old. Then the cou|de hunted np Alderman .las. .1. Smith, and were married in short order. News of Hie aged minister's wed Banlel Hines, with whom the bride ding got to the bouse of her brothel has been stopping for a few weeks before the brid? and groom did, and Mrs. Hines, who was running Hie Mount Calvary Union Baptist mission in the front, part, or on the second floor, dbi ?ot .-." gentleman, avid I've boon trying to tidl him ?ill about her, but 1 didn't get ?i (hame to collect him. My husband was going lo tell him, too. but, he's kind ol' slow and didn't think it was coming so soon. "Lord bless you, I don't know whether Hider Mason is 1.18 years obi, but he says he is. We didn't know him until two weeks ago." When Brother Hines arrived home from work late in the afternoon, he expressed himself in no uncertain terms about the marriage "You just wait until I set; Hider Mason," Bil id Brother Hines. "He's a religious man. and l know how to talk io him about marrying my sister when she's ?tlready got a husband and family I'll just get right behind him, and I'll kum him up v. ii h my words." Th?! old preacher who looks like a well preserved man of about eighty, said thal lils mother married an In dian in Cuba, and that when he was young he went to Virginia with his father, who was a sailor. Ile hap pen- id to be in Yorktown when (len ora I Washington Wits there, and that is how il came about thal Im held Washington's horse while he talked willi Cornwallis. kider Mason ?ah? he was in the ten-year war in Cuba, and was a sail or en thc gunboat Lancaster dining Hie i ?vii war 1 le had an eye shot om on the Lancaster, bul he can see With his other eye without the aid of : pectaclCS. II?' Bllid that his, rath er WIIH 14 2 years old when he died. his grandmother 1 1:5 :U1(1 Mis mo,ner 1 Ile smokes, but he said Hie reason he is so husky at 138 is that he never takes anything with sugar in ii. and lives according to the lenchIllgS of the Hilde. it is also said the aged clergyman used to be a pbliceman in Washing loll.. tOKNABO IN TKNNKSRKK. Ono Man Killed, Several Hurl ami Two Homes Destroyed. A tornado swept over Pond Creek Valley, Tennessee, late Saturday night, killing .lames M. Cassidy and Injuring live other persons. Cassidy's homo, which was al Hine Springs, 8 mile; from Sweetwater, was demol ished. His wile was among the in Jurod. Tho homo of Kdward Hvorctt, at Pond Creek, four milos from Sweet water, was Swept away. Three ol' lils children and his wdfo wore Injured, ? vor Ott himself escaped unhurt Damage was also donn at Phlladol jibia. Tonn Several homes in thc path of tho storm were damaged, 'flu I tornado moved in a uorthoasterl) I direction. KI ^&?M HISTORIC MEETING Of Senatur Tillman and Rocke feller on a Pullman Car. The Trao Version of the Mooting as (liven hy the Senior Senator Him self for Publication? Mr. Zack McGee, tho Washington correspondent of tho Columbia State sends to that paper the true version of tiie historic meeting between Sen ator Tillman and John I). Rockefel ler on a Pullman car. Mr. McGee says the Senator has Just returned to Washington and tells about the meeting enthusiastically. Rockefel ler sough! tho Interview. Senator Tillman wants this clearly understood because some of his colleagues in tho senate, who road the dispatches libotlt th meting have boon twitting tho Senator about hobnobbling with plutocracy, Hore is tho way tho In terview happened as told by the Sen ator h i m sol f. "A fellow cunio to my seat in a Pullman car," explained Me senator, "and spoke to me. He had sunshine in his race, and I said to myself this follow whoever he is is an optimist, l supposed it was some fellow who hud hoard nie speak in the senate or ?at some of tho chautauquas. "I'm .Mr. Rockefeller," ho said very simply. Of course, I recognized him. ?ami ol* course I invited him to lal<o a I seal beside me. lie sat down and wo talked until I reached my sta tion, which was about an h mr I should say. "Mr Rockefeller did not mention legislation, the recent pani-) nor 111 any way intimate that In- had any money than I had, and you may be sure I did not say anything about it. 1 say this because tho stol y sent out about our meeting did Mr Rockefeller an injustice. "1 got in some talk, though, on my own hook. Mr. Rockefeller seemed lo bo Interested in the coun try through which we were passing and he plied me willi questions as to the value ol' the land and the character of the people. That was : iny Opportunity. 1 rCmombor?d that .he had I.? en credited with giving ?away $35,000,000 for educational j purposes last year, and 1 called at ?viio wore living there povety strick en and Ignorant, poor because of their ignorance, and that the North olm millionaires never thought of helping them. Mr. Rockefeller scorn ed to be interested and I wanned up lo the subject injecting some vitriolic Tillmnnisms into the conversation here and there." The senator paused in his story in order to complete a laugh Hutt inter fered with his How of language. He was exploding like a gasoline motoi exhause as he continued: "You know, Mr. Rockefeller is so used to giving orders that he just exclaimed in au ordinnrj tom*, as if there was all lhere was to it: " 'That will have to he romldicd, Such a condition must not lie.' "Well, sir, I sounded so much like Theodore Roosevelt that I couldn't lulp thinking how much I'd like io ?get those tWO follows together. "Wc w.-ni on talking and 1 told him how tin.- New York moneyed crowd run our Southern railroad. I had a chance to gel in a good rap at the comltl?h ot' the Southern at the Junction near Aken, S. C. The traill conies doun lhere with Pullman cars for the millionaires hound for Aiken ami da> coaches for the poor people going on down the lue. The poor people gel out ami sit around an old way station while tho train carries the millionaires I think I called theta (l billionaires n talking to Mr. Hoi kei feller on to Aiken. Then the train comes back and picks np the poor people. The (rain is scheduled lo run righi through and tho railroad folders do md announce this discrimination in favor Ol tho rich folks. "We talked on. Mr. Rockefeller seemingly Interested, until I reached my Hint loll. I "<>t out and that is the last 1 saw of him. I didn't mon t ion Standard Ol I ami neill or did he." (?OT A MOW, ON IM. Tornado Made a Si? . .an Hun For llb! I .le. A lorn: 1 -wept thfOUgh the northeast! portion of Blowah j Count- .tallama, Sunday night. Whi'e .. lives were lost, much dam ai- as done to property. At Coato'a I ad, several dwellings were destroy er The home ol' Hid McCurdy was si ruck ?un? crumbled like an egg shell. A 75-year-old bachelor, broth er of McCurdy, was on what was thought to bo his death bed. In fear the sick man jumped up and fled from the house and got out of the way of harm. Thorn aro nearly 26,000,000 wid ows in India. SHOT Br A NEGRO. A Young White Man is Seriously Wounded in a Row. Mr. Walter Boyleston, While on lila Wny Homo From th Ls City, Has an A It?rent ion With I sa ne Clover. Mr. Walter Boyleston, a youug white man about twenty years of age, was shot and perhaps seriously wounded at half-past 0 o'clock Tuos day night by Isaac Glover, a negro who had been employed on the sow er work now in progress in this city. The shooting occurred just en tho other side ot the lOdlsto River. uUOUt a milo from Orangeburg, while Mr. Roy lesion was on his way homo from tho city. There is evidence of only ono shot having taken effect and from V. ni can be learned no others wore fired. The hall entered til the bottom of the neck just ubov- no junction of the collar and bi ? .ist bones. Soon after the shooting the wo .od ed man was brought into the oitj and taken to Hie Wnnnamaker Manufac turing Coi .(?any's Drug Store, where an examination was made hy Drs. D. D. Salley and L. C. Shecut. lt was deemed advisable to send Royleslon to the Columbia Hospital on the eight o'clock train, and hence tho doctors did not ha vi? time in wihch to make a thorough examination to locate the ball. Up to tho time for leaving for Columbia Boyleston was cheerful and the loss of blood did not seem to have affected his strength to any extent. He was conscious the whole, time, and was willing lo talk about the affair as much as the doctors would allow him on account of the uncertainty of his real condition and the possibility of bis being fatal ly wounded. It was thought best to have Boy leston make an ante-mortem state ment, which, after lt had been writ ten down, be signed in the pr?seme of a number of witnesses. The state ment is substantially as follows. "I was going home in my buggy alone and had just crossed tho first bridge on the causeway beyond Hie river when I hollered, 'Heigh,' just for fun; I did not see the negro, who ?.-.... ;...r r.-,,ni Hie opposite direc m HIV hip pocket, but ma... attempt to draw it. My pistol was not in my pocket after tho shot was tired. 1 saw no one until Mr. Win Hartnett and Mr. Lowery drove up." Mr. Hartnett says that he passed In his buggy and saw Royleslon and the negro rowing and after driving ja littlo further he heard ono shot. Ho turned around and came hack towards the city and found Royles toh in tho ditch with a bullet wound in his neck. He put the wounded nmn In his buggy and brought him to town for medical attention. Royleslon says also that if the negro used his ( Royleston's) pistol ho doesn't know bow he got it, but thinks lt must have fallen from his pocket when he fell. He said that tho negro appeared to him to be drunk. The police immediately commenced a search for Clover. They wen? in formed by ti young bro!her of tho negro wdio did the shooting that Clover stated that he shot with Boyleston's pistol and was going to Sheriff Duke's to lake the pistol and surrender. This he did at 1 1 o'clock that night and was placed in jail. Ho also delivered up a 28-calibre Smith & Wesson pistol. Young Boyleston is the son of Mr. .lohn A. Boyleston, a prominent far mer living just tl few miles from town. He has been employed In tho city and is considered a quiet and peaceable yoting man, and his ft i ??ids hopo that I ts wound will not provo serious. V e take the above account of the trimble from the News and Coill'ler. lt was furnished by tho Orangeburg correspondent of that paper. Orangeburg Times and Dem ocrat. ACCl'SKD Oh' SWINDLING. Datent Medicino Man Hold By Police at Greenwood, The police at Greenwood have a man on their hands who they believe ls wanted m many other towns of tho Stale, especially those with cot ton mill population. He gives his name as C. H. Lawrence, claims to represent the Choctaw Medicine Com pany, of Cincinnati, and has been selling bl? medicine to mill people, giving thom written promises of new Bock Hill buggies. Mason & Hamlin organs, pianos, etc., all for tho sum of one dollar. He has caught many. Tho un mo man, it is alleged, was Ibero last year offering a set of china with each order for a dollar bottle of hair tonic. lt is believed that ho has reaped a rich harvest among tho nilli pooplo all over the Slate. A tologram to his alleged house was re turned undelivered