Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.'(fi ! The iWarlbor^b Democrat r "DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY PO&KBSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." VOL XXXI i f BENN ETTS V ILL E. S. CMIFRTD AY, M ARCH 6, 1908 NO. IO ~~ TAKES A HAND. United States Court Assumes Jur isdiction in Dispensary Matter. STATE WILL APPEAL. Lyon Suggests Timi, tin* Judge Walt ('IIM1 Question ot' Jurisdiction Is Settled Finally-Ile Says Ile Mas No Intention of Provoking Conflict. -Pritchard Declares Ile Has No Doubt of His Accuracy. , It looks like the United Stutts Court will at last take a hand in Winding up the affairs of the old Slate dispensary. At Asheville, N. C.. on Saturday the mattel- was again brought up in that court on a recent order ol' Judge Pritchard's, signed on motion of tho Wilson Distilling Com pany commission of South Carolina to appear and show cause why a re coiver should md ho appointed to take charge of tho $K 00,000 funds ( . now in tho luinds of tho commission - for tho payment of tho just liabilities of tho old dispensary. Prior to the hearing of tho wilson case judge Pritchard informally re ferred to (ho recent hearing in the matter of the Klctshmnnn Company against tho dispensary commission. Th'.' Cphlplnlnants in this case also applied foi' a receiver. The application for a receiver wa;; don led am! argument had on the Question of Jurisdiction, tho court reserving its decision. Saturday morning .lodge Pi Hobard-staled thal lie hadn't completed his forn|il opin ion ami decision, hut. (hat in view ol' tho coming on ol' the Wilson case lie thought il host to indicate what his decision would he. "The suit is not a suit against the Unto," said Judge Pritchard, "l have onsidered carefully this whole mat er and had 1 any doubt I would give ho d?tordants the benefit of that doubt and rule in favor of tho Si ali . There ls no doubt in my mimi, how ever, and th Oro foro tho court takes jurisdiction." Judge Pritchard said it was his purpose to appoint two Special mas ters ll is slated that thoso masters Wf?'ill bo named next Mo day, when Hie defendants muk o f?rihal answer. The defendants announced that they would appeal from the dei ?sion of the courl. Attorney Cenernl Lyon in refeiring to tliedclorninnllonol tho State to ap peal suggested to tho court in effect thai in order lo avoid any unseemly clash between Hu- stale and Federal authorities that "your honor refrain from ordering any spool lie acts to lie dom- until the question of jurisdic tion ls settled.'' judge Pritchard lo this suggestion mode reply: "Thal this court is not going to do anything tb provoke n ?Ol? ll iel but lit tho same lime the court, ls going ahead and do its duty." Judge Pritchard said ibero was no m-cessiiy or reason for .1 recur? renee ol' the 1111 for t ii 11 a I o Incidents which occurred in North Carolina las! year. Ile said thal "this (amit is as much a South Carolina court as any court and incidentally thal il ls presided over by a Southern man." A hearing <d' Hu- receivership pro ceedings will ho bold on Saturday. HAD TO?' MAW KF.YS. Why a .'.Hanger is Now Under Arrest in Uh renee. At Florence P. W. Boswell, ono of three while mell who wore found loitering on (ho sluts at an early hour Siinday morning' and acting in J??-yory Ul i ? ions manner, was arrest ! \ j'l by Olin--I- Cain. The ot h Ol' two mon made good their scape. After hoing arrested., tidswell was searched and a inigo bunch id' skeleton and various other kinds of keys were tak en' flotU his pockets. Chief Koopnian now thinks that I los Wot I Is one of tho n en who blew Ibo salo In Mr. J. J. Hood's store ?it Monheim on Fri day night. IIAHD MAN TO KIDD. Dives Willi His Head Nearly Severed Willi Heavy Axe. With his head nearly severed. W. S. Smith ran half a milo lo a physi cian at SumrnTl, Miss, Friday, was treated, and will soon he ont again. The case ls one of Hu; mord singular In surgical annals. Doctors who performed the operation declare Iba? tho patient's neck is tougher than leather. Smith and a man named Hardy quarreled over a hill. Hardy felled his adversary willi au axe, and tiled to cul off his head. Ho evident ly I hough! he had decapitated his vieilli for he dragged the body 4 0 feid into a patch of underbush and went to lilde his axo. DEADLY AVALANCHE Demolishes Hotel Building and In jures Thirty People. Uttlo Children Lose Their Lives in Vainly Trying to Save the Live? of Others. An awful and deadly avalanche de Bcemled Sunday nour tho village of Gopponstein In Switzerland. Tho enormous atmospheric pressure de molished n hold at tho mouth of tho Loctschenthal tunnel works, killing thirteen persons and Injuring Hf teen ol hors. Tho occupants of the hotel, num bering thirty, were surprised while seated at the table by sinister rum blings. Almost Immediately two children rushed into tho dining room and screamed: "An avalanche, nu avalanche." There was a rush to escape, but thu building, which was or a tempor ary nat ure, collapsed, without warn ing, linth of thu children wore Kill ed alon;: with ninnj of those they had sought to savo. Among tho others killed was an American engineer named Morvnrt, who was installing American machin ery to bo used for a I itUUCl. Tho hotel had been elected hy the tunnel contractors for tho conven ience of tho engineers and others en gaged in construction work. There wore no tourists there. The villano postolllce and police station wore seriously damaged by tho air WUVO and were keeled over to a anide of AU degrees, malting oc cupancy impossible. The tunnel works were not damaged. WI I 'M SK M 'S. Mother ol' Two Lillie Girls Guns Away Willi a Man She Loves. Sending her two tittie girls io bed at 10 o'clock Sunday night, and leav ing a note behind saying that IHM household effect H may he sold to pay all debts incurred, Mrs. C. A. Clrick landj ol' the Olympia ndll viPage, on tho outskirts of Columbia, ran away from her home with a man she loved at IL! o'clock Sunday night, while her ?ni: hand is in North Carolina, and sentenced to the penitentiary tor IS months for bigamy. The little girls are ten and twelve years ol' age and lived with their mother in the Olympia mill village. Only the small family of three were together in the house, so whn Mrs. Strickland blt, the children were thrown upon lu.' mercy (d' tho world. Tin? front door was left open as the motlier ol' the lillie jMrls and Hie man lo whom she was engaged or married lied iindercovorof darkness In the dead ol' the night. Some neigh bors lhere Wore, however, who pos sibly heard I he creak of the door am' saw the pair as they stole out into the world ami away from two tiny mor?ais, Hie flesh and blood of a de serting mother. Karly Monday morning Iwo mar ried sisters of the lillie ones, who lived ne\t door, ont prod the home and found lo their utter surprise and horror, the note thal told the Incred ible story. The children were taken io their Bator's home ami will h< eared for until th? mot IHM1 rei urns, If she so decides lo ?lo : 6. Tho elder girl works in Hi mill and the note contained Informal toil that the mother would return on pa; day to gel her daughter's salary. About forty days hgo, the husband (d' Mis. Strickland was tried in Norm Carolina for bigamy and senteiu' . I for IS months, t'poil some after dis covered e\ ?dent e, however, Gov. (denn granted bini a reprieve for (JO days, but that lime bas not yet ex pired. MANGING AT ST. .MCI'STIM . j two Thousand Persons See Negro Rx? rented for Murder. ("bai lie Cowers, colored, was- hang ed in the County jail yard al St. 1 Augustine, i'la , at IO:SO o'clock Cri day morning for the murder ol' John Hogers, also colored. As the trap was spruhg the rope parted, hut liol Indore hower s neck bad been brok en. Powers was so frightened that he gave way entirely and had to be carried to tie scaffold. Ile was too Ump lo Stand, and a board WUK se cured and fastened lo his back. Two thousand persons witnessed the bang AWIdl, DRAT IL A Wotlian Pours Kerosene Over Her self Olid Tires lt. Choosing lire as a medium of death, Miss Kmma Kink, of Shiling ton, l'a., committed suicide at. Slate dale in a most tragic manner. Stand ing where she could ?feo the ruins of her old home, willoh was destroyed by lire about a year ago. she poured COrtl oil over ber clothing and thea set fire to her skirt. ANOTHER VICTIM Of the Fatal Quarrel in the Ker shaw Barber Shop. MOSLEY IS MURDERED By Grovel' Welch, a Brother of Steve Welch, Who Was Killed in the De cember Shooting Scrape, When Young Clyburn Was .Also Killed, ami Mobloy Wc. Badly Wounded. Welch in Jail. A dispatch from Lancaster says [Jorry ll, Mobloy, tho Nonn1, man who was desperately wounded In the Ker shaw double tragedy .inst before Chris! mas, in windi Steven Welch ami Thomas Clyburn lost their lives, was shot and instantly killed, on the Southern railway north bound train Monday night, by Crover Welch, a brother of (lie late Steven Welch. The men were passengers coming to Lan caster on Hie Southern Ha Iwny train. Mobley's body was talion off the train at Pleasant lim to have the inquest held. Welch came on to Lan caster and surrendered, lie is now in jail. Mobloy was about years old and leaves a widow and live chil dren. Welch is unmarried, ile is about 2fi years cd' age. Ho had an interest in (he Heal h Supply com pany, of which his lute brother was the president. Mobloy was accompanied by his un cle, /.. li. Robertson, of Oakhurst, and was going to Lancaster io consult his attorney about his approaching nial. Welch was accompanied by his uncle, W. H. Clyburn, ol' Halie Cold .Mine, father ol' tho young Cylburn killed in the Kershaw affair. Tho shooting occurred just as the .rain was "Mowing up al. Pleasant. Hill. Several shots were fired. Three bullets sirmk Mobloy in the head, causing instant death. Mobley's pis tol showed om- empty chamber af ter Hie shooting, it is said, lt is also stilted thai m> words wore passed be tween Hie parties. Mobloy left Kersh HU Monday af ternoon ami drove io I loath Springs, lhere boarding the Southern train for Lancaster. The tronido between (lib two mon \\;is apprehended. They naturally had lillie love tor each oth er, and it ls known that. .Mobloy has avoided molding Welch, but no threats have been known to pass be tween them, lt is IhoUglit that Mob le? may have driven lo Heat h Springs. Inst etui ol taking Hip train at Ker shaw, for thi- very purpose of evad ing an encounter willi Widt h, not oxu Meting Welch would board Hu; train also. Th?' Columbia Record says Monday lights tragedy is the aftermath of a ilstol dm l which look place in W'il ;on's harbarsho|t at Ker. haw on the ilghl oi Saturday, December 21 st last. Oh thal occa. ion So ven Welch. Thomas Clyburn and Corry Mohley, all armed and all drinking to sonic extent, met in the place in tho eve ning Anger engendered by whiskey and by Hie Irritation surviving from a pre vious quarrel precipitated tho Iroli llie. Ilerry M ? bl ey remarked that li wa.; a good thing I he erosions dilli na I ly had boon patc.lt? (I Up, as the pa 11 les were all good friends. At Hiis stage, SteVeti Welch drew ills' pistol and sirUok Mobloy over Hie head with it, then step,, lg back and lu gan Iii dug. Clyburn, his cous in, rushed forward to prevent tho impending homicide, and himself re en. .1 I l?o hi st three bullets from Wi lek's revolver. Ile dropped lo tho libbi' rind expired Instantly. Meanwhile Corry Mol,loy, regain ing his wits after the blow from Welchs plstol-butl, had gotten his own gun out. He (ired two or three tim.', and Welch also fell, expiring at once. Mobloy then (urned aside, him:.'If hit in three places ami willi his coal ablaze and walUed into the otlice of I ir. Twit I y. Which adjoins the barbershop. Bullets from Welch's pistol had Struck him in Hie righi breast, the shoulder and the neck. lOver since then, Mohley has been more or IcSS disabled. Cor a long lime he hovered between lifo and death, and it has liol been three weeks since he has Leon able to leave his bed. Mohley was head cb rk al Hie storr of Carson fy Co- He leaves, a wife and (ive children. His figed father Capt. W. C. Mohley, ls a residen! ol the town of I .ancaster. I Steven W. Welch' was president ol Hie Heath Supply Company. He 'ni a son of the late Capt. .las. V. Welch of Kershaw county; was 28 years ok and unmarried. i Thos. ].. Clyburn was president o (he Clyburn Mule company. He ha< boen a Clemson student. His fat hoi An A^ied Woman Brained by Negro ' I With an Axe. OVER IM LEXINGTON. MUing Alone in Her Hoom, Near' ?'].. I <"Ji'i Mrs. Tuul I). lOllisor lln.s Her Skull Spilt Open hy Assassin Who Cn ,,t Upon Her ['rom Behind Body Concealed in Clothes lins" kef. Sitting in her home, two miles wesl of Ciiyco, nf Lexington County, Wed nesday morning, white-haired Mrs. Paul' 1). Bllisor was suddenly struck dowhifrom behind hy a nemo burg lar rained with her hushand's axe. The' heavy weapon sank down into tho skull and death was probably in stantaneous. Hi ', fiendish work d ?no, the nssns shr.strove to cover up the evidence so that t,ho clime would not bo dis covered until he had nindc good his escape.^ Catching U|> the pitiful, wafted body he forced it into a clothes basket near at hand and toss ed over ll tho quilts from tho bed. Then catching up Mr. Klllsor's shot gun ;>nd oue ?if his coats the murder er fled. The crime was not discovered until an hour or more afterward. Mr. l'.l Msor Sad gone to New Brookland at an early hour to sell veg? ta Ides, leav ing Mrs. Klllsor alone in the little room house. The supposition i.; that tho nuirderor, seeing tie master of tho ."house drive aw ay, supposed tho house lo he empty. Mr. Kllisor re turned to the house at about 9:30 o'clock and found his daughter and several friends sitting upon the door step'awaiting bis return. The house was locked up, and ail supposed that Mrs. Kllisor had (dos ed it u over to a neighbor's Af . Mil around the premises for fKxtCi ".hey became alarmed and foi (>e(j the rdoor to find the reality far Vivi so than anything they could have reared. The alarm was quick ly given, and within tho hour men were searching for the murderer. WUhin a lew minutes after the alarm was given Mr. Stcygort, con stable for Magistrate B (lehman, of New Brookland, was on the scene. ?Ie took charge of the premises and un der Mr. Ruchthan's direction empan elled a jury, which viewed tb?' rc lunlns. The inquest was then ad journed. The body remains at the hollie. Tim Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier, w ho furnishes Hie above facts to his paper, says il is believed that the murderer wont direct to Columbia boping to (dude pursuit in the criminal nunrtors of the city. The police were not notified of Hie murder until nearly two hours after it had ben discovered. Mrs. lOllisor leaves her husband, an ngOll farmer nundi respected bi Ult com munity, and six children, four mar ried daughters and two grown sons. TA.MPKKKB WT? SW i ( ll. A Southern Passenger Train Partly Dei oded ai Kingsville. Train No. 17. ,froni Charleston was wrecked at Kingsville at 3,10 Tuesday night at a sw itch about 100 yards nort ii of the Con ga ree uiver. I The (wo passenger couch?s were de railed but m ne cd Hie pnssong< rs were 'hurt beyond a bruise or a good .bak ing np. Tin- trainmen conducted an hives I Ligation and found that Ibo switch had .cen tampered with.. Tho engine 'and ihO mail and the expi?! s cars passen over the switch in safely bul the conch for colored passengers Which followed, left the rails and carried (ho cottell for white passen gers with il. I The two coaches struck a string of ' box ears which were standing on Hie Siding, turning over two or Hine ol' them and wrecking the Interior ot' the ?negro conch, which, al the lime was 'occupied ?oily by one pnssong?r and the conductor, neither Of whom was hurt. The coach for whites was turn ed partly over, but was md damaged The track for about a hundred feet was loin up. After rm hour and a quarter the passengers were put aboard the ex i press enr and a caboose, and were carried on to Columbia, rea? liing, , there al 1 I .20. , is Capt. W. II. Clyburn, of the Hnlh ' <;,dd Mines. His mother was InChar lotte at the time of the tragedy. Mr : Clyburn b fi a widow, Mrs. Horn : CunillUghd ? Clyburn. They had boOl . mar rbi' H Iban a yea. I Two Women widowed and live lit He children orphaned is one of tin f result-' of that pistol duel in.m he 1 "l-l an,' Its Oftormath of Monda: M night. BRUTES CONFESS. The Tojand Negroes Tell of Foul Killing In Lexington. They link? a Full Confession of the Murder of Mrs. Paul W. Elllsor. Nour Columbia. A dispatch from Columbia say? Nod and Bruck Toland, negroes? a KO I 17 and lit years, respectfully, late Friday afternoon made a full con fession of the murdor of Mrs. Paul W. lOllisor, tho aged woman who liv ed just across the river from Colum bia. Brack, thc youngest of tho broth ers, said that Mrs. Elllsor suspected sonielhitiK as soon as they entered tito house. When they got inside Drack said he caught the old woman and held her while his brother knocked her in the head with an axe. They put her body in a basket and Nod Struck her two more blows. They then proceeded to rob tho hotUO, tak ing a KIHI and a number ol" articles of wearing apparel. No money was round. Thoso nogroos were arrested on the train going to Newberry the day nftOr the biuial murder and brought buck to Columbia. Thoro was a big crowd of men at thc train when they arrived and had it not. been for tho pic: < nce of several oilicors an at tempt to lynch thom would have been ?lade. Tho two bends are now in Hie penitentiary lor sate beeping. A dispatch from Prosperity says Ned Toland bears a bad reputation, luivhig been in a number of scrapes. About six years ago lu? broke into Sligh'fi store, at Bligh's Station, and robbed the poatOfllce. lb" served a sentence in tin- UUitod Slates prison in Allanta for this crime. Ile has boen on the chain gang sever.".1 times at dig?rent places. , Drack was working in the oil mill and was enticed away by Ned. They left Prosperity walking Monday, nonie of tiie hands in tim oil mil! ?warned Drack that Ned would get 'him in trouble. Ned's wife had gone to Columbia on tho morning Colum bia, Newberry and Laurens train. NUG KO VOt \ I)S MN IO. I ired upon Crowd of Five Hundred < 'hii'vli-d'ocrs. Al Richmond, Va., Sunday night, a woman and a man were shot and fatally wounded and seven other per son.- were seriously WoUndd by .Rob ert Faulkner, a negro thief, supposed to be insane, who fired promiscously into a crowd of 500 people on their way to (lunch. Faulkner curly in the ovening broke hito T.tgnor's gUnshop, on F.ast Franklin si reel, and stole a double barreled shotgun and a supply of Um HUH IOU. Ile left the shop just as tho croud ol' church gOOl'8 were passing, and wi; bout warning, be bo gati firing, keeping up a fusilado into the throhg until sixteen shots had been bred, nearly every shot (indlng a binna., target. 'I he shrieks of I |id wound'id and tho sounds ol' the fir ing called sis policemen hurriedly to the scelle, where by Ibis lime nearly a lllOUiilind people had con?; re?; a I ed. Tlie policeman lound lb-' ney.ro .-lowly rei real in'-;, but holding the crowd at buy with bis gun. They immediately opened lire on bini and he foll with live bull?is ill his body and Willi bis b broken. In d?bame ot' (be demand of the mob that Ibo Uogi'0 be lynched, the policemen quickly hurried bini to (he pulce station, from whence ho was transferred to a hospital; A iiit'AVK TI:I.I,I:K. Robbers' Pistols Had No Terror Por Him. Masked robbers mndondosporatont templ lo rob the Canadian Rank of Commerce ai winnipeg, Manitoba, Saturday night. Freeman Sm: ex, thc paying teller, was skol through thc arms and two of the bandits also still at l?rgO wen' wounded. As ls OUStOinory, the bank wm open Saturday evening from 7 until ?i o'clock. Shortly after tho open ing Sussex was disturbed nt his work by a gruff command of "Hands-up.' Two band il s bad him covered witl bin revolvers. ..Why," he asked, to gain time. The answer was lo hurry up will his hands or die. "Shoot." yelled Hie only ontployi . In the bank at the time and (he rob ? hors complying emptied their pistol, . in all Idroctlons. Tho first bullo struck Sussex in the arni. Susse i started shooting from the teller cace and emptied Illa revolver at th - robbers. Tho robbers cscapd In tho (kimi f dian Pacific railroad yards. The ban >' officials Sunday announced that Stu i,ex would be rewarded. BOLTED PARTY. Four Assistant Repubiicans De feat Democratic Nominee. STABS THEIR PARTY. Deadlock in Kentucky Legislature Broken, Four So"Called Democrats doing Over to the Republican* andi Electing Their Candidato for tho United States Senntoiship.- I,(?oks Very Much Like a Sharp Bargain. Tho deadlock of the Kentucky Leg islature has - been broken at lust. Former Governor P. o. Bradley, the Republican candidate, was elected on [Friday to the United States Senate after an exciting joint sitting of tito Gonoral Assombly, receiving 0 4 votes, four of which were Democratic. The Republicans voted solidly for 13 rad ley, the caucus nominee. It had boon held from the beginning of the contest (over six weeks UKO) that a majority of a quorum was su (liaient for an election and with lL't? ment hol's present it required 64 votes to elect. The votes of tin; four Democrats who have steadily refused to vote for former Govornor Heck hain were transferred to Bradley from the var ions Democratic opponents of Beck j ham. i Bradley received rn rotea to co for Beckham, ono for Allen and one for Blackburn. The Democrats left tho hall in an attempt to break the vote, lint later returned and the voto . was rall Hod. Senators McNlltl and Charlton and. 'Representative .duller, ol Louisville. 'ami Representativo Lillard, of Boyle, were the Democrats who voted with j the Republicans for Bradley. A scene ol wildest excitement pro I vailed before the result was announc |ed, after tho Democrats demanded ? recapitulation. Beckman '"cunio on the (lour and released the Dem?crata from their primary nomination pledge. .Many Democrats sought to cha UKO Itheir votes, the majority going to Congressman .lames. A strong effort was math; to induce I the four recalcitrant Democrats to leave (hadley ami vote for some Deni - I ocra I. '??ie ???any changes of VOICB made tin? capitulation slow and ... I also developed an additional vote, lint die vote foi- Bradley remained unchauged, still being a majority of all members pro.-w-nt and voling. Tho Speaker dually announced that Brad ley had received a majority ol' tho vote and was elected. The luuibuncment that Bradley had I boen elected Senator was made after nearly all tin? Democrats had chang ed their votes. The four who voted for Bradley resisted the strongest ap-' peals from the leaders of all their party factions, declaring it was too > late. in a speech accepting his election Bradley promised lo use every ef fort as Senator to procure the re peal ol' the ?-COnt tax on tobacco. Represen I a ti ve Lillord wai- the 'only one of the four Democrats to explain his vote for Bradley Ko said he thought the time had coin? io "throw oil' party shackles ami to break np (lie machine," and. al Ihough he did support the Democrat ic ticket for 40 years, he believed bis vote tor Bradley "was the best Dem ocratic vote he ever cast." DUOS IN ST. LOUIS. Underwent Operation So As ile Could Enlist in Army. A dispatch from St. Louis to Tho Slate says (Moules ll. Smith of Town yllJo died there Sunday as the result of an operation. Mr. Smith wished to enlist in tho army and the recruit ing station accepted him on condition that he undergo an operation. Tho depot surgeon at Jefferson barracks performed the oporntlon on Wednes day with great success and the pa th-lit svas in very good condition un til he rose from his bed and walked ncc ross the room without aid. Tho ? exertion of walking broke the stiches. causing injuries which resulted in his ; death. Col. Younuins Dead. A dispatch from Barnwell says Col. Lawrence W. Youmana died ut four , o'clock Wednesday morning at the hospital in Savannah, where he was . taken several days ago for treatment. for a cancerous affection. Tho news H of lils death was received throughout t I tho slide with universal regret. a Shot While J?0 Slop. 6 At Clinton, Iowa, Fred Dolph, about 60 years old, was shot to death i- Saturday night while ho slept. His k hoad was blown off with a shotgun >- placed against his check. Mrs. Dolph . ls under arrest.