The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 31, 1906, Image 5
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ALMOST A FIGHT.
Mr. Lyon Says Major Black
Threatened To Kill Him.
M4J BLACKS S1DF.
He Sate Lyon In Mad Because He Is Not
Allowed to Run the Dispensary and
Is Trying to Dam His Private
1
Character B y Unfair
V
) Means and Methods,
There was quite a sensation in Co
lumbia ou Friday mornlD^ when it
became known that Mr. Ly> n, a member
of the legislative dispensary In
vebtigatlng committee, had stated to
the full committee that Maj >r B ack,
a member of the ?State B ard of Control,
had that morning u.vci very 1
violent language to wares him, aud :
then rcucdiug.ctT tiling i yy telling
him that he "had a not! 'fl^then and
there to nhoot" him apcl "blow him
up" on the spot. Wo publish what
Mr. Lyon says below.
We also give Mpjor Black's version,
who makes some damagrig statements
about Mr. Lyon's nosing about and
prying Into private mat ers in his ef
forts to damage his (BLek' ) private
character because he woutd u<!t al
low Lyon and Christens 11 to run the
dispensary to suit themselves.
Mil, LYON'8 8TATKMKNT.
"Mr. Chairman, 1,1 ore has a matter
come up Friday mon.irg that ' deem
it my duty, though unpicas.* ns to
call to the attention of this commit- 1
tee. 1 aiso will stf ic .t,lyJ too part 1
of it that aiTects me perMnaliy 1 dc
not consider, but t! at part of it Li at
affects the welfare rf our committee ]
1 do consider, and I deem it impor
tant to the final particular determlna- 1
tion of our inves'lgation that It be !
brought forward to the atten lon of
lids ojmmittce.
"This morning In cemJnp fr m my 1
room, which is aoove the | otel, ovei 1
the store of Glrsdeau & Marshall, I
was stopped by Mr. Sujumm, who if. 1
the agent of the Big Creek Distilling 1
uompany, or bavunnan, ora. ne was
talking to me ab< ut sume accounts
which the comiiufft has held up. 1
Thebe are accounts clue by tfie dls '
peusary. We have hud some conversation
about this master before aud '
he renewed the conversation there '
and wished mc to give him some de- ^
iinite information about when we |
could reach it.
"As 1 was s1 audlng there talking to 1
him, Mr. Bijck, of the dispensary
board of directors, appeared before
me. I realh could not srate from 1
what direction he came. 1 could not
say whether f om me front or rear. 1 '
was intent with my conversation with
Mr. Solomon. Mr. Black's fice show- 1
ed deoided argjrand housed rone 1
very insultiug language towards uae.
lie said thaw he understood that I 1
had been spying out on him?on his
private life -ai d things of that kind, (
and that it v. as nis purpose to kill me 1
on the spot. 1
"I do not cue to use any of the par
ticular language he used on that occasion,
but tie ia>d that be had a notion
then and there to snoot me ana blow
me up on tbe spot?to u>?e his expression.
There wan in his company a per- 1
son that 1 do not know to have seen
before. M / ieoolleotiori is that there
v<-as a peri^n in his company with a
blue fruit c f clothes, red mustache and
straw hat While he was making his
threats against me and daring me to 1
Investiga e his i IT *irs he also used very
violent language against Senator 1
Ohristenseo, which I suppose was lr?
the njture of a recuse to me for at
tending such a ptr&cn about the
streets.
MI remarked that there were tliree
of them there* that I did not care to
discuss the matter with them; that I
was Investigating M e dispensary and
expected to continue to do so. He was
so impetuous, though, that I scarcely
had an opportunity of putting In a
word, a: d boffeving that he intended
to maki an attack cn me and in put
ting his hands about his person thai he
intended to do violence, I turned and
walked back to my room, and he useo
some very unpleasant epithets towards
me and told me that 1 might
i/n and arm rnvself.
"I returned to my rcnm and shortly
afterwards returned to Wright's
Hotel. As I passed the Columbia
Hotel I dlcf not tee Mr. Black or t le
gentleman with him. I presume, Mr.
Chairman, that Mr. Black exhibited,
or attempted to txhibit, a letter from
Manning, which 1 understand was
from Mr. Black's former home?Walterboro
It wag., I found it nrcessar>
to go to Warfeiboro a few days since
for the reason that 1 had heard?and
1 can rec8gn>7.3 the ditlicultles thai
It is likely ro piace us iu?I heard j
that Mr. Black and Mr. II. 11. Evans
had oein parties to bribing a member
of the General Assembly who lives in (
the town of Wa'terboro. 1 do not
know the facte in that oase. I had
some information along that line and
I went there to get some additional
Information in regard to the matter.
That was the object of my visit to
Walterboro, and I presume that Mr.
Black has been Informed by those of
whom 1 inquired there of the purpose
of my vlgtt.
j I wlslPto say this: That 1 did go i
, /* * to Walterboro for the purpose of in- i
f hi ve Jigatlng Mr. Black and Mr. H. H.
Evans and this member of the General
Assembly, whoee Dime 1 do not
care to mention, as I do not think it
is proper, as he Is out a party t) thU
transaction. 1 want to say this,
that I do not know how the commit
tee feels about a thing of this sort,
but so far as I am Individually o >n
cerned I shall emtio as to investigate
Mr. Black and Mr. Evans, an i auyeUe
woo Is on there aud If It Is neccess&ry
to be blown up in this mattei
Mr. Black or somebooy will have It tc
o."
WHAT MAJOll SLACK SAY8
After learning what Mr. Lycn
stated to the hoard, which *s printed
above, Major Blsck sali that be had
never heard anything about tire allegata
n that he said Evans had attempted
to bribe a representative from
Colleton. He said he was Incensed at
Mr. Lyon because It appeared to him
Mr. Lvon was attempting to hound
aim aown and blacken his personal
character, because be had refused t?i
allow Mr. Lyon to run the Sta*e dis
p?nsary to sort himself. When he
went to the di;p?nsary he fcund the
Institution a half million dollars In
debt for whiskey for which It had no
use. He had wiped cut a large
amount of this dt bt, by forcing a nuni
her of houses to take back t.hler uu
salable whisk y ai.d had done ti.L
against the proie.t of Lyou and Chrhtensen,
whic v tl.vey telegraphed from
the West. Toev wanted the whiskey
kept to suit thier convenience. Trey also
hid been unable to force him to buy
at a )? ss to the State, from firms they
favored lie l ad blocked their little
game to force the board to buy from
their henchmen and let them usuru
t ie powers the Legislature had niveu
to the State boaio.
When the> louud It impossible to
K?t auythh g Against h s ttllclal record,
to gratify their spite, tliey en
rteavorea to blacken uls personal character.
lie had acjpyof the taking
of testimony in Cincinnati, in which
tills attempt wm mode and in which
they attempted to black' n Supreme
Ui art Justices and Circuit Judge?
ol tills State by asking if they had
received prc.jeni s of whiskey or other
tl :ngs freir a house he had onoe represented
in a chrioil wa>. Maj r
B.ack <.ald he had always tried to live
% clean life and his < lllJlal record as
d erlff, major and In other capacities
would show he had never done auytl
inp dishonest in his life, 11 is cnaridter
was Lis proudest possession and
the best thing he could hand down to
hie children was a clean name, lis bad
oo intention uf permitilug anybody to
o: cken it to grat.f/ tiielr personal
spite.
Major Black said the letter referred
to was from his brother, H. W. Black
Jr., of Walteruoio, in which be said:
"1 am toid Friday morning that Lyon,
3f the investigating committee, was
here Saturday last. F.om wiiat I can
learu ho is trying to tirid out something
about a conversation Walker
had with his wife ( ver the long distance
'phone the uignt of your election."
That conversation was a per
re.otly private conversation between a
man ai-d his wife, la wh ch the former
said he wan w'lad that black was
^leoteri, as he was his friend and had
belpul him and wculd help him with
tils personal inlluenoe Incase he ran for
solicitor. Mjjor Black said this was a
purely personal and private conversation,
in which he had no part and
when lie heard that Lyon was in
tjulrlng into such matters it confirm
ed his belief that Lyon was willing to
KO any length to try and dnd some
mud to put on Ills personal character
Major Black says he was perfectly
willing for luilcst investigation of his
record as a puouc servant, but wcu'.d
never submit to an attempt to
besmirch his private character. As a
member of the State board he had not
tried to pleas-r Lyon, but to do what
was right, and Chairman Hay and
Governor Hey ward could both testify
that he had consulted them and was
earnest in h:s endeavor to know and
Jo the rltfht thing. Mr. Mobley, the
clerk, had been Meet to see Cuaiiman
llay about home cf toe problem* of
the State toaid, and his ackv.ce had
been taken.
Major lllack said the board was
wining to do anything for the Investigatlug
committee as a whole, out
they were eh cted to run the Srate
dispensary aud were not going to turn
over tne running of the institution to
either the whole Investigating committee
or a part of It. Finally, Majoi
ihaek said: ' When my peraouai
character is as ailed I am willing to
die by It. I would rather go home ti
my family d iad than go home alive,
but robbed of mv character."
Tried to Kooap .
A dlspu oh from Greensboro, N. O.,
says John B. McMillan, 23 year* old,
woo wan c invicted in tuat city f01
forgery and sentenced to two yearf
imprisonment on the county road*
was shot to death near there early
rnursaay morning, while making ?
sensational da^h for liberty McMIIUl
with four other onviots got away
from the guards, wno opened Art
upon them killing J -;sse Thomas, a
negro, instantly, and mortally wound
lug McMillan. The latter was taker
to the hospital At High Point, when
he died several hours later. Hefort
his death be admitted tnat his right
name was not McMillan but Brent A
Morey, the hod of a prominent citizen
if Lexington. Kv.
Another Tratct <ly.
At New York John KltrovlcF, whe
represented that he was employed at
the Metrople house, shot a woman
with whom she had been living ae
wife at 45 7 West 44 h street Friday
morning and thou sent a bullet
througn bis own Drain, dying Insrantly.
The woman, woo gave her name
as Oela M Garry, is pronounced In a
serious condition. Jealousy is given as
the cause.
: CAME TOO LATE.
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, After Being Caught In His Ras>
cality Thackston
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' BECOMES PENITENT :
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I And Curves Out the Dispensary Law, |
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Charging it With Making Him a <
i Grafter. Dispenser Allsbrook
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i Has His Letters Re .d to i
The Public. t
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The Legislative Dispensary Lnvestl1
gating Committee reiuand its sit- f
titles in Columbia last week. AmonK 1
the witnesses eAmlned was T. F. *
ThaekHtou of Spartanburg, who seems i
to have b^ea a star witness. lie Is ?
reported t<> have *-atd after the com- *
mlttre had examined him and made
him confess that he was guilty of several
rascalities: *T know I wish 1 *
bad never seen a dispensary, because
It is the greatest cur--? we have ever 1
had on the Slate. I am sorry 1 ever
got my hands stained with It. Well
* I I ho WO TiAltc * l/n.\r.ir^ - ^ 4 1" 1 1
?. ir(?Tl> IJVUI f\UV'?*IJ i\ UidM UlJIj 11(VC1 I
anything to do with it that the poo1
pie dl 1 not think less of him." 1
Th&ckston Is not the first m\n that
has become penitent after heinvr
oaught up with. His deliverance on
the dispensary is Pimply a new version t
?>f the old saw, that no rogue ever felt t
t.he halter draw with a go?<d opinion
cf law. As long as he was not defected
In his sharp practices he said noth- ,
irg, but Just as soon as he is caught ,
up with ue b am?s the law for making
t i m a grafter Tne truth of the mattor
is Thack*tou was a grafter b fore
iie became a dispenser. All he wanted
was an opportunity to put ills
grafting talent to use and it cvme
when he was made a beer dispenser.
1 He wculd have done the same tiling
' in a bank or any other place of trust.
A dishonest man is a dishonest man.
Mr J. I). Alsbrot k, the dispenser at .
Manning, was also put through a
course of investigation, but he seem
ed to liave had a had memory as he
1 e uld not remember many tiling oon- \
ntcoed with his cllics It was pitiable
to see this man douging and Insisting t
that he could not remember; that he
oould not deny nor could he tlll-m
that he liad asked for pap beoause he J"
was a dispenser. To the very last lie
could not recollect and then finally
Mr. Lyon pulled on him three letters; .
which were read as follows:
TIIE AL8HKOOK LETTKItS. 11
Manning, S. C , November 13, 19C5. n
DutTy's M ilr. Whiskey Company, n
ftochesfcer, N. Y.?Dear Sirs: Your t
letter of November (i is to hand, and ^
in reply will say the advertisements t
are pasted, as you indicate in your let- 1?
ter, *t six different places, all of t
which, 1 think, are very good, but this v
will accomplish nothing unless you can t
get the county dispensers to haudle t
the goods. t
I am dispenser here, and have been t
handling Duff-'s Malt Wolskey ever f
since 1 have been dispenser, hut it is n
hard to get it at times?and besides, f
if you want the goods sold, communi- d
cate with the county dlepensar of each t
county and let him know what he may Iexpect,
If anything, for special cour o
testes. I1
It Is an old proverb, as true as Holy n
writ: "Whose bread I eat, woose song
I sing." The county dlsoensers order
what they want, and sell what they
get. A hinv. to the wise is sufficient? j
and ttils is given confidentially.
1 have sold during the p?st twelve
months about 8C cases DufT/'s Malt,
out have not bad any shipped me since
last August.
Since receiving your lettpr of Saturday,
11th lnstaut, I ordered several
i cases, but do not know If the goods
...til k. okl 1 ? ?- -
vtih uc Binppcu me or nuL. i snail ex y
peot to hear from yju airatn in the '
next few days, and expect to continue
i to sell some of your goods. Yours very
i truly, J. D. Alsbrook,
Dispenser.
Manning, S. G., November 28, 1905. '
i Duffy's Malt Whiskey Company, ^
\ Rochester, N. Y.?Dear Sir: Since
? wilting to you on the 13ih instant 1
have secured a few cases of your wh's
kev and hav? sent in an order for .
more, which I hope will be shipped to t
ue, but would like to hear from you .
at once before placing mv order for
the Christmas holidays. Yours very ;
r truly, J. D. Alsbrook, '
k Dispenser. }
? Manning, S. C., December 12, 1905.
Duff'y Malt Whiskey Company,
k Rochester, N. Y.?Dear Sirs. On No J
1 vember 10, we sent you statement, fl
MiuwiuK oo cases your goocis sold, uo
* November 15 we received 1 /> cas^s, H
L and on the 29th 20 cases more wblob
stock Is being rapidly sold. We can ,
> handle the goods alright If the proper
5 quid pro quo Is forthcoming.
The case of goods was received to'*
day In gdod order, and we desire to ^
express to you many thanks for thus ^
1 remembering us during the Christmas
holidays.
Witn best wishes for you and yours,
( and with greetings for the season, we
are, yours truly, J. D. Alsbrook.
Dispenser. j
, thackston's change ok iika kt. v
When the committee was In Spar- '
, tanburg several months ago tney *
worked Thackston for all they could
> and he swore that never a cent did he 1
i give any one for his job, never a cent
i lid be get, and butter could melt In
ids mouth, but he now tells a differ- c
ent story because he knew the men
behind the work had the documents
on him. He 'fessed up to petting 1550
from the Augusta Brewery with which
to buy Mp J ?b froiu the Spartanburg
County Btfc'd and then that he kept
the money he got to buy his job on
this. The sub-oommttteo had doubts,
but the check and letter were o^nclu
slve ihat he got $550 frooo the Brewery,
on the representation that he
needed the money to buy his pr sltion
and the brewery folks knew the tricks.
Thev expected to pay l.'JOO licuce this
letter:
"Yours of the 26th Inst., received
and regret to see this squeezing game
jrolng on. We thought three plunks
would cover the bill, one each, however
when you told me It would take
tivo. I was ready to swallow the pill.
Now if you are able to sell as mauv
is 12 oars of beet the Ikst vpar, and
we get your trade the sec or (1 year If
e elected, we will bo satisfied to the
>no half pulk. We are ready to put
lp when vou are ready."
Thackston utteGv denied this sev
ual months ago and now Solloitor
Sease will handle his ca*e He takes
he position that the $f>50 was sent
dr. Becker and by Mr. B cker given
lira and that was his jurisdiction for
laying he got no money. Ho Insists
bat be uR'^d the fund blmself, but
tdded that he asked the brewery to
io'p blm with cash in his second eltclon.
It Is said that AUsbrook will be
irosecuted t io >?v the State.
HO OH ON liblAORS.
ofthrt C*llirg and Ii duel
c?* Tliny Wield.
Governor Hooh, of Kansas, says
diure Is no better lnd< x to a town
.ban Its newspaper. If It is well
jrinted, attraotiv* in its make-up.
ellable in its news columns, strong
n editorial crmiiful, but, above all
iberal in advertising paironaue, do
jsud uooti it, nine cases out of ten,
dial town is an entr rprlslng, up tolate
town, but if t.no paper looks
thabby, depend upon it tne town Is
ihabby, for a newspaper Is every
vhere ana always a town's best
nirror.
Brethren of the ountry press, I
xalt your station. You are tne rea1
anus and <1 reena. Your throne may
>e a rickety chair and your soepter
ilie stub of a lead pencil but you
ule the world just the same. Local
jollttclaus may blf ot to despise you.
rut they await the appearance of your I
taper each week wlih fear and trem- 1
>iinu. E /U doers may try to belittle
our intluence, but they dread the <
mbllcity of your c 'Jumna vastly more I
ban they will anraH. The Influence i
,nd power of the old home paper can '
lot well he overestimated. It enters <
nto the very warp and woof of the <
hildren's llvjs and unconsciously <
nolds much of their character. To
ny mind there Is no more desirable, '
to more enviable occupation than <
hat of the c >untry editor. To own i
ils own plant, to have a medium for 1
he expression of his honest views, to
jck up his l ill lie every cvenlutf and to I
ie able to u'O nome aad keep company
trlth his family and with his books, i
o return next morning to the cilice, i
o meet the people whom he serves, ]
o j ?t down the thoughts that occur (
o tils mind, to tear oil the wrappers
roin his ?xohan^eH and uot In com- <
niinlnn vtli.h ai nor uHlt/.rj /-?
.. v? v>* t* ?vu vwni/i uu ^JTfl J
orm the thousand arcl one little \
luties that come to hlni every day, *
o be a power in his onornunity, as i
le may be >?nd usually 1h, to be bib i
wo boss? o my mind, this Is tne 1
deal life, more to be desired than the i
QObt txJuri political elation.
KILL THK1K BAB1K8. ,
lorribWn Story of H uinaii Sacrifice to
I in ?Kl>'*ry Ci i?(l.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg,
iissla says the most atrocious crime
lnat has occurred Id Sloeria since the
aracui case of the brothers Kalaschlu
coir is at) jut to he in vestlgated in Tojoisk.
Seven pervitin of the netghwring
village of K ibulfka and three
vomea are about lo be put on trial on
k charge of sacrificing a number of
duldren lnorocr to appease the wrath
it an imaginary gud of pestilence
Cho Siberian plague had destroyed the
rlllagera' cai tie vear after year. The
tillage was reduced to poverty, anh
uany of Its Inhabitants were ooliga;ed
to migrate to the towns.
A IocaI quack, wlio earned a living
>y making children ''Invulnerable to
ihe evlleye," advised the muzhiks that
'until blood has been shed and a
ihuroh raised upon it" the village
vould continue to b3 visited by pes/llence
aud?no hinted?even worse
icrrors. The panic stricken peasants
inderstood this to mean that a church
ihould be built upon a foundation of
luman beings, au was done by their
mentors in heathen times.
A map- named Giaz inoff offered to
laoiflce one of his seven children,
lihI his cximple was followed by the
ocal b'acicsm.th. The two children
vere killid at night aud a rude woodin
chapel hurriedly built over their
emalns. Wneu the story became
cnown the muzhiks from a neighbor*
ng village raided the culprits' homes,
jurncd them down ana nearly killed
ihe murderers.
New iiitifiopM.
The Goneral Conference of the
tfethodlst Eplsoopal Church, South,
vhlch recently met at Bhm ngham,
Via., la t week elected turee new
>ishops as follows:
Dr. Seth Ward, assistant missionary
secretary of the ohuio 1.
Dr. John T. Tigert, book edltbr.
Dr. Jameo Atkins, Sunday school
dltor.
wM m
WHO SHOT HER?
A Lady Assassinated While
Asleep in Her Bed
BY UNKNOWN FlfeNDS
Circumstantial Evidence Against a Negro
Under Arrest and Confined in
Jail for Safe Keeping. The
Woman's husband Also
Under Suspicion.
The Augusta Chronicle says Mrs.
Kb S. Wilson of Hetch Island was shot
at 2 o'clock Thursday morning and
so fatally wounded that she died some
hours afterward. Hill Lumford,
colored, lies In the Richmond oounty
Jill, with circumstantial evidence
pointing to him as the murderer.
Tout Williams, another r.egro, is
locked up under susp.clon, as an aocomplice
to tLtTerlme. The o*a>e was
worked up by D^l'-ctlve Howard of
the Augu-daclty police.
At Oho lime of the tragedy Mrs.
Wilson was sleeping In her bed, alone,
in one of iho rooms of the house Iler
husband, Mr. Wilson, was In another
apartment. At about 2 o'clock the
night winds carried far and wide the
sc.10 of a pistol shot. Mrs. Wilson
lay on her oed in a pool of blood,
mortally wounded.
Early In the night Mr. Wilson had
seen a strange negro loitering around
hU premises. Having asked the man
ills business and received no saMsfao
tory answer, ho drove him ctT tne
nlaoe. It is believed that this uegio
w .a Hill Lumford, and that he returned.
Incitement and indignatiou
ran rife on Beech Island. As
soon as the sad story was heard from
Mr. Wilson's lips every etTirt was
made by friends and neighbors to aoeotuplisii
the capture of the guilty
party.
The trail was warm, and It lei, apparently,
to BUI Ljmford. The
tracks of a man who wore rubbernr.eied
( hoes were followed without a
break from the Wilson place to the
arolloa side of the Hamburg bridge.
Defective Howard, following other
[Mies, had arrested Lumford. The
prisoner's shoes were taken from him,
irid Detective Howard personally
went across the river to see whether
3r not tney tit the tracks So far as
x>uld be ascertained in the road, they
lid.
The imprint of the rubber heels
was damaging circumstantial evidence.
To make assurance doubly
mre, the shoes were given to Mr. P.
H: Page, a friend of Mr. Wllsou's,
who tirst brought the news of the
iragedy to Augusta, and Mr. Page
will tit them to the still clearer ImirpNUifitisi
In t.hn 1 nnon /-I ^ -
r* VUU*WM? m-mv Ml v>n; I V/WiJU ^ IUUUU UU
,he WjIbod place. Up 10 a late hour
VI r. Page had nut reported the result
jf this experiment
Other minor but Important points
jonvergo to the aauie center. Bill
Liumford and 'iom Williams are Spur
,anburg county negroes. After the
trrest it was stated that they had
ipjnt the night In Augusta at the
nouse of a negro woman named Meta.
Meta herself declartd that they had
dept at her house from tne middle of
the night until morning. Investlgati
n developed that Meta herself, accompanied
by her husband, had been
all nlg.it across the river at some
negro family gathering or wake. Iler
story was olsorcdlted.
Furthermore, responsible parties
are reported to have seen two negroes
wnose description corresponds to that
of the prisoners, crossing the Ilam
ourg oridge in the gray dawn of Me
morning, tbelr clothing covered with
dust. lo Iti ?aid that Mr. Wilson
would he able to Identify the negro
whom he ordered off his place. Up
to a late hour Thursday night Mr.
Wilson had not come to the city, nor
could It he ascertained at wuat time
he would arrive.
The members of the family gave
the following account of the tragedy:
When the shot was Ured, Mrs. Wilson
jumped from her bed and screamed
' i have been shot. Somebody has
klilen me," and ran Into her hus
oand's room, where she fell. She
afterward became conscious, and staled
that Hhe had no Idea who shot her;
that she was asleep at the lim;.
Liter sue lapsed into semi-consciousuehs
and lingered until Thursday
night, when sue died.
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JL lit. l.tlUI 9HUU TT tfcr) IIIUU au ?'i UlMSC
a range that, the llesh showtd the
powder-marks. Tne bullet entered
under t ie iignt snoulder, and rented
down L > the left Hide, penetrating the
dlap lragm. It had evidently be^n
tired through the or)face caused by a
oroken pane of glass. A board plac
ed against the hole on trie outside had
been removed by the assassin.
SENSATION FOLLOWS SENSATION.
A dispaioa from Augusta to The
State says sensation followed upon
senHatiori Thursday night and this
afternoon in the Wilson murder tragedy.
Shoes worn by the negro Lumford
were taken to the scene of the
crime during the forenoon and found
to tit exactly the tracks around the
house and through the ditoh near the
house. Lumford is still being held in
Jail there, but Mr. Wilson has not been
to the olty to identify him as the man
seen late In the afternoon before the
murder. ?
J. L. brown, a brother-In-law of
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Wilson's was arreaW^nAngurar
Thursday evening uo1?r the lnfl ieiyin
r'f liquor and "held li#JatL ffipa ti mirto
prevent personal 1 rm* 'The man
ftaclared l?3u?jw ofeMBtfluway to l*>eoh
Island for tnf r*nri#>H^ of kiiTng' WUson,
whom he declariM:had ktll?A Mrfy
Wilson, sayIn* he Intended after ^didposing
rf Wilson to kill himself.
After making this statement, and
saying to show that he was In earnest,
he drew a packet knife and slashed
his owd throat, lufllctlig a shallow
llesh wound.
NKW8 KItOM A I K KM.
A dispatch from Aiken to The State
says It Is said there that relatives of
Mrs. Wilson have demanded the arrest#
of Mr. Wilson himself, whom they
allege killed his wife It Is further
said that these relatives charge Wilson
with gross cruelty to his wife.
They say that Wilson Is a hard drinker
and that several times while under
the influence of drink he has beaten
her unmercifully. A short time ago
her brothers retaliated upon him by
administering a sound thrashing.
That the Wilsons were not a peaceful
family seems to have been known by
the neighbors generally. It cannot
be learned here yet whether Mr. Wilson
has been arrested or net. Mrs.
Ed Wilson was a niece t f ex-Clerk of
(Jourt John N. Ilanklnson, who now
reNldes at Whitepond. Soe was an
est'enable lady and highly regarded In
hi^r c.nmmiinltv
BROK < UP MEETING.
Two Uoorci* KarniorH Shoot K?oh
< >i tier 10 I > h,
A special message to the Augusta
(Jhronicle says resulting from bad
blood, which has existed for some
time, Joe Hasty, a farmer, who lived
about two mile* from Chlpley, Gi.,
was shot to death In a pistol duel at
that place Wednesday at a political
meeting, and Sam Irving, who shot
Hasty, was killed a few uimutes afterward
bv a erowd who gave chase as ha
ran from the scene.
The UrBt shooting ooourred on the
outer eige of a grove where an audience
was listening to a speoch being
made by Hon. IIoka Smith, candidate
for governor. The crowd immediately
left the grove and Mr.
Smith was compelled to discontinue
his speech, being unable later to resume.
It is stated that the bad blood
which existed batweou Hasty and
Irvln was due to an alleged debt of
fifteen oents. The two men met at
the politioal gathering and renewed
the quarrel, when thero was an exchange
of heated words. The town
marshal Interfered and smoothed the
difference over for a time, but shortly
Hasty and lrvln came together again
and began to shoot. Almost with
the tirst shnt. Hr?>rt lloat u foil # >??.
_ M?vv* ? Mil u j AUli KVi Ll'O
ground mortally wounded, and died
In a few minutes.
No sooner had Ilasty fallen than
Irvln ran and was pursued by a number
of people from the audience, immediately
there was a fusillade of
bullets, and before Irvin had gone
three blocks he fell dead from bullets
tired by some one in the party of pursuers,
who is not known.
There were about 05 shots tired
during the excitement. Two speotaxors,
standing to one side of the
audlenoe, were hit by stray bulleta
and slightly wounded.
Died of iUbblee.
A special to The Augusta Chronicle
s*y*, Bernard the four year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. Buxton, of
Girard, Ga , died at the Pastuer Insoitute
in Atlanta about 4 o'clock
Thursday morning. He was carried
mere for treatment for a mad-dog
bite that occurred about a month ago.
At the time the little led jw was bitten,
no one thought the dog mad and
little attention was paid to the wound.
Wednesday the dog showed signs of
cue rabolcs and his father carried him
to Atlanta for treatment. His dsatu
was a sad snook to his parents who
uave tne sympathy of all in wheir bereavement
lloiqiio SfMitmiOH.
Probably the m>so unique sentence
ever imposed by a couio of law in
Kansas, says Tue Kvnsas City Star,
was ordered in tue case of Joe Transler,
who was before Police Judge
Herr on the charge of being drunk.
Transler is an old off inder, and w len
he was brougnt into court Judge Ilsrr
Liued him $2 and ordered mat hi ba
con lined to ills bed for a week. Marshal
H jrath took Tratisier home aul
put him to lied and the culprit's family
was instruct id to notify t ie c ?urt
if Translei showed a disposition to
ieave the bed before tue wee* was
out.
Jumped Too Noon.
To avoid a wrtc* whloo did not occur,
Scott Gillespie, of Somerset. K j..
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a louoiJQ >Uve euglnser, jumped liom
alB locomotive at Now River bridge,
one of tne highest in the world, and
was killed. John (Joiyar, the lire man,
also leaped In tne river, and la not expected
10 live. Tne men became
alarmed when one of the trucks of
the locinottve left the rails, believing
it would fall from the structure, but
It was stopped on tne bridge by a second
looomotive.
Fatal Kxplotlun.
John Saunders was lnsun'ly killed
and seven other men were n ore or less
irjured by an explosion of dynamite
on tue Tide watt-r Rtliroad construetton
work near R >anoke, Va., Friday
evening Saunders was removing the
tamping from a hole wbeu the explosive
went i if. Among the injured
are: Allen Harris, leg broken, cut
and burued on ftoi and body; J. W.
I Berry and E. Ferret were slightly
hurt.