The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 30, 1906, Image 3
WORK OF FIEND.
Two Youhg Ladies Attacked
Near Their Home byji
BRLVTJS OF A MGRO.
A P
I ^
They Were Gathering WildjFlowers When
Attached by the Brute, Who Knock* ?
ed Out One' Eye and Broke the
Arm of One of the
Ladles.
The Atlanta Journal Bays: Miss
Ethel Lawrence, sister of W. 0.
Lawranoe, is believed to be dying,
and Miss Mabel Lawranoe, her niece,
is prostrated as a result of a singularly
brutal and atrocious attempt at
orlmlnal assault made upon the two
young women by a negro near the
Lawrence home on Johnson's road, a
mile fivim the end of the Highland
avenue oar line, early Monday morn*
ing.
inol sausnea witn rracturing ner i
skull, gouging out one of her eyes
and breaking hor arm, the negro at
tempted to strangle her with a ro e,
and would have done so had not the
niece interferred and given the alarm.
The negro 1 ed, and Miss Ethel Lawrencs
*w put In an automobile and
hurried to the city. Her niece escap
ed with bruises on the head, arms and
back, which the negro administered
with a stlok with which he beat both
women.
At tho Wesley Memorial hospital
where Miss Ethel Lawrence was
taken, i'w was laid Monday afternoon
that her condition was critical, and
that she would lose one of her eyes as
a result of the attack of the negro.
It was arided that there was some
hope of the young woman's recovery,
although the outcome was doubwfu).
The Lawrences are among the most
influential peop?e of this neighbor
hood. Mr. Lawrence is manager cf
the Weatvlew Fioral company. Ills
sibter, who is now believed to be
Hotnir ?;Rv rtn n vtftlt. hnrA from T.nri.
don, Esgiard. Sue 1h 27 years old,
and her niece, the daughter of Mr.
Lawrence, in 14 yeare old.
The Lawrences lives In a pretty
home one mile beyond the end of the
Copenhill trolley line. The neighborhood
is tb.nly settled, and across the
road from the b? use is a narrow but
dense strip of wa>ds, well titled with
the seoulslon it fliers for the crime
attempted there Monday morning.
It was into these woods that Miss
Ethel Lawrence, fond of the country
after living in the city, and unac
quainted with the danger which
menaces southern women in lonely
'jjburuan locahttes, weno with her
niece about 9 30 o'clock Monday
morning.
The girls prooeeded along a brook,
and picked feint from she l?anks Doing
so, they were confronted unexpectedly
by a tall, slender an 1 very black
negio. Apparently he had walked
ont from concealment in ?>he bushes
The girls drew back in fright. They
stood near tne remuaat of some old
breastworks.
"Gjme here, little girl," the negro
said, addressing the niece. The girl,
now frightened in earnest, turned to
run to her aunt. The negro followed
her. With a stick he carried, he gave
her a stinging blow across the back.
Ha struck her again across the arms
and upon the head, and she fell, cry
ing:
"Oh, 1 am dead 1 1 am dead 1"
Tills was & ruse tb'divert the atten
tlou of the negro, and he, abandoning
bis punishmeDt nf the prostrate girl
devoted himself to the aunt, who had
run to the protection of her niece.
The brutality of bis attack upon her
scarcely seems creditable. He struck
her with the stick and with his bony
lists. He fraotured her skull, almost
gouged out one of her eyes, broke
her nose at the base and broke her
right arm.
Not satisfied with this, the negro
brought out a rope, &ud slipped it
around the girl's neck. By this time,
however, the niece had come to her
aunt's assistance. There then ensued
a struggle that will be remembered
by tne younger Tiri, and by the
aunt, If she survives, ks long as they
live. Ttiey kicked and struck the
negro with all their delicate, strength,
trying to keep him from choking Miss
Lawrcnoe with the rope.
Tne younger ^Irl, seeming that
their comblm d strength would be &h
nothing against the negro's, broke
aw&y fr >m tne struggle, ?nd ran toward
har homo, seeking to give the
alarm au.l bring help. She ran at the
top of tier speed to the house of 0.
W. Hunter, proprietor of the Rock
Spring dairy, and gave the alarm.
Mr. Hunter ran buck to the woods
with the girl. Tne negro, however,
had seen Miss Maoei run towards the
house. He had abandoned his attack
on Miss Lawrence and lied. The condition
of Miss Lar wrenoe was pitiable.
Hunter and his companion lifted her
gently and bore her to her house. An
amoulanoe was summoned from the
undertaking establishment of liarolay
^ Hhootlnit Horape.
?A'dispa*.c 1 from Spartanburg sayi
Henry Seay and C larlte Revar, broth
erg-in law, became involved in a diffl
oulbv about sund >wa Thursday neai
Arkwright nill and tne former shot
the later. Tae ball entered Rtvar'i
3c Brandon.
The news meantime had been
'phoned to town, and sn automobile,
dr.'vwi by E. P. Stelnbauer and William
Humphries of the Atlanta Au
tomoblle company, appeared on the
scene about the same time as the ambulanoe.
Because the machine oould
be driven at greater speed than the
ambulance, and as It was feared that
Miss Lawrenoe would die. she was
placed on a stretcher and this was
laid across the seats of the motor oar.
Mr. Lawrence boarded the auto with
the two drivers, h ldlng his umbrella
above the strlokeo girl, and they
drove to town.
Miss Mabel Lawrence, exhausted by
her terrific struggle, ard hysterloal,
was taken to the Lawrenoe home and
Dr. M. L. Fisher, who had bandaged
the wounds of Miss Lawrenoe, attended
to hers also. She reported later as
being out of danger.
The news spread with amazing
quickness. Not only was the neighborhood
qulokly informed of the attack,
but all the oountry around. By
the time the county and olty polloe
with the sheriff's deputies had arrlv
ed, fifty men were armed and eager
for the searoh.
This band of determined men was
augmented by arrivals from the olty,
from Decatur and all the surrounding
territory, who had dropped business
in the hope that the perpetrator of
this orime should not escape.
Bloodhounds had been secured from
Qnnnvirtfr nrlftnt
uuyvilUIK/UUDUII XUIU 1/UIM1UOUU O
oamp. They were led to the breastworks,
aud Immediately took the
trail. They leaped over the breastworks
and took a northerly dlreotion.
The negro was oaught and Is now
in jail at Atlanta. lie will be tried
and puished.
NEW COTTON PICK ICE.
That Is Doing Good Work Out in the
West.
The Augusta Chronicle says Mr.
Elbert W. Cramer, of E.k City, Oklahoma,
was in the city for a short time
Thursday and was drawn into a conversation
by several local planters rs
garding the scarcity of negro laborers
and the unwillingness of the average
negro to work six days out of seven at
this time of the year.
Mr. Cramer tells and interesting
story of a new invention of a friend
of his In the west which has already
been successfully tried and
which bids fair to revolutionize the
work of cotton picking. It is a machine
to pick cotton says Mr. Cramer.
The principle of the machine is
chat of the ?&cum or the pneumatio
tube. Tae cotton bolls are
sucked through the tube and loaded
directly into a wagon. The tube that
receives the cotton reminds one of
a kangaroo.
The tube Is a piece of large-sized
hose made of a tine grade of rubber
ooverfd with wire netting. There is a
n zzle is 1 ned with a series of fins or
liugera. The operator holds the ncz
z e within a few Inches of the cotton
oolls. Suction causes the bool to be
drawn into the nozzle, where the fins
catch and hold lo for the fraction of
a second and till the cotton is gently
pulled a v. ay from the boll.
The maohine is desigued to be
aster ed to a platform on the rear
end of a wagon. The machine rests
on an iron stand four feet high. It
cooslst8 0fa tpeclally made vacuum
ran. it can be operated by a small
gasoline motor ^r by hand-power,
one man turnidg It crank and another
directing the nczzle.
A number of successful tests have
oeen made with the machine, Five
tores of coUon were picked near Eik
Oity, this year by one of the machines
la competition with fifteen negroes
picking by hand. The maohine picked
five acres a*, a cost cf 03 oents ar
acre against 91 68 an acre for hand
picking.
Another Fiend.
A negro in BlufTton committed s
criminal assault on a colored woman,
the wife of Isaao Garyey, & respectable
negro, on Saturday night. H*
fled and was caught Tuesday in th<
neighborhood of Foot Point. He w&j
given a preliminary hearing before i
magistrate Wednesday and was bounc
over to the circuit court. A con
stable put him In a buggy hand-cuffc)C
?nd started for Buckingham ferry
there to take the steamer for Beau
fort. When about sevao miles out oi
Bluff ton, the prisoner leaped out oi
the buggy and over a barb wire fence
The constable tired four times bui
missed. A posse is new hunting him
The negro beat and severely injurec
his viotlm.
Commit Suicide.
Two aged women of Brooklyn end
ed their lives Thursday night?one bi
hanging, the other by gas. Mrs
Catnerine Iloer. seventy-five, of No
325 Stagg street, wan found bangtni
from a trausom in her room. She ha<
hten 111 for several weeks and ha<
been closely watohed until Thursda;
night. Mrs. Emily Eisner, sixty six
of No. 845 IIanoock street, grieving
the police say, over qaarrels betweei
her two sons, had often threatens
suicide. The young men quarrelle<
again Thursday and the mother wen
to the bathroom, closed the window
and door, turned on the gas, and then
wrapping herself in a blanket, la,
i down in the tub. She was found ther
dead.
stomach and the wound is consider*
i serious. Seay surredded and is no
In the county jail. Seay Is a men
ber of the fire department and Is wc
> known here. It is said family diff
5 inoew provoked the trouble betwec
j them.
9
THEY SHOT HIM.
Negro Boy Who Entered a Residence
at Badham
TAKEN 4.NI) LYNCHED.
Was Taken from Jail Soon Aftei Belnj
Arrested by the Sheriff, and Shot
to Pieces After Identification
By a Littte Girl of the
House He Entered.
About twelve o'clock Thursday at
the town of Badham, which is about
two miles weat of St. Georges, Mr. S.
L. Connor, who is the manager of
Doroheater Lumber company's stores,
was notified by a negro who came Into
the store that he had seen a negro
run away from the residence of Mr.
Connor, whloh is about 150 yards from
the main store of the Dorchester
Lumber company. The view from
the store to the house is obstructed to
to a considerable extent by a large
field of sugar cane, whloh is growing
between tbom. The negro upon running
away from the residence of Mr.
Connor was seen by the negro who in |
formed Mr. Connor, dodging into the
sugar cane endeavoring to oonce&l
himself.
Mr. Connor, knowing that there
was no one at the house at the time
rxoApt his 11-year old daughter, went
towards the house and went through
the sugar cane Held, and came upon
the negro hiding among the sugar
cane, getting within three feet of the
uegro txifore the negro saw him. He
laid hands upon the negro, but the
clothes of the negro were rotten and
his hold was broken and the negro Immediately
offered to give battle to
Mr. Connor. Whereupon Mr. Connor
struck the negro on the head with his
ti?t, breaking several bones in his
hand without visibly wounding the
negro. When Mr. Connor hit him,
the negro rolled about in the sugar
oane and ran out of the Held into the
adjoining woods ana was soon lost
signt of. Mr. Connor was severely
wohnded In his hand.
Men in the vicinity where this affair
happened Immediately formed a
?>osse who went In search of the negro.
They also telephoned to St. Georges
and & town posse left on horseback
for the soene of the trouble. After
scouring the country In the vicinity
of Badham for about two hours, they
located the negro, whose name was
Willie Spain, and brought him
through the town of Badham on tc
St. Georges under Roiara The ne
gro was delivered Into the custody of
Sheriff Llmehouse, who placed him in
r jail.
The prisoner had not been In jail
more than 30 minutes when, without
warning a lever car on the Southern
railway, which runs within 150 feet
of the county jail, was stopped, and a
crowd of determined men went into
the j ill and took the prlsonc out,
placed him upon the haud car and
aped away. It Is not known how many
persons were present when the pris
oner was rescued from the sheriff or
, whether any of them or not participated
In the lynohlng.
The negro did not protest his innocence,
but admitted that he had gone
to the residence of Mr. Connor and
J intended to enter the house, but was
, frightened away by the sore&ms of
, Mr. Connor's little daughter, who
t saw him approaching through the
I window, and by a buggy passing along
road, whloh is quite near the residence.
Tne admission upon the part of tne
prisoner evidently satisfied those who
bad him in custody that he was the
guilty part, but out of abundunoe of
1, oautlon he was taken by the parties
> who had secured him from the sheriff
i baok to the house and he was posli
tlvely identified by the little girl.
L After this nothing was known of
) the affair until a volley of perhaps 500
shots rang out just west of the town
I of Badham, anu when the sheriff arrived
upon the scene the lynouing
\ party had all departed, and there re
I malned nothing to tell the tale but
r the lifeless body of Willie Spain,
hanging on a limb of a small oak tree,
[ shot beyond recognition In the faoo.
_ Were it not for the hair upon his
j scalp and tattered clothes upon hlu
form, it would take somewhat olose
investigation to satisfy one's self that
a human being had there died.
Immediately upon losing his prisony
er at the hands of the determined
crowd, Sheriff L'.mehonse called up
Governor Heyward over the long dis
\ tance telephone and told him of the
3 occurrence and the governor instruct\
ed tne sheriff to do all In his power tc
y prevent the lynohing, but evidently
at that time the lynching party tiac
parformed Its work. Sheriff Lime
a house pressed in a few deputies and
-j went in pursuit of the lynohing party
j only to Had the body of Spain and tin
t parties who killed him not to bt
v found.
i, This negro Spain was a stranger ir
y this locality, and had worked for th<
e Dorohester Lumber company, at Bad
ham, a short while at Intervals. Ill
d Loafer* Put to Flight.
w The Augusta Chronicle says tt
jj | crusade agalast loafers, loiterers an
r. "easemen" oontluues successful, an
m the polloe are slowly but surely wee<
that objaotionable class out of tt
claimed that ha came from North
Carolina. Ha was about 21 years of
ago, and was said to be a sullen,
worthless negro. What the purpose
ot the negro was In his endeavor to
enter the residence of Mr. Connor
can be imagined without slating it In
full In this report, for he was loafing
around the w?n of Bad ham anc
evidently knew that thore was no one
at Mr. Connor's house except his
little daughter. The mother of the
little girl and the other children of
the family are spending a while at
Hendersonvllle, N. C.
Gov. Heyward, Immediately upon
reoelpt of Information that trouble
was expeoted, wired Solicitor Hlldebrand
at Orangeburg;
"Sheriff Llmehouse of Dorohester
county has informed me, from Summerville,
by 'phone, that about 15
men took a prisoner from him about
an hour ago and oarrled him off. 1
have Instructed the sheriff to swear
in deputies, follow and reoapture the
prisoner. 1 would request that you
go to the soene as soon as possible
and take all steps in your power to
uphold the law.*'
Solloltor HUdebrand missed the afternoon
train by Just a few minutes
and went to Summervllle Thursday
night. Gov. Heyward Instructed
Sheriff Llmehouse to suspend the Inquest
until the arrival of the solicitor.
The coroner was not!tied by
wire to the same effect. In the last
talk over the 'phone with Sheriff
Llmehouse, Gov. Ileyward received
the Information that the names of
some of the lynchers sre known to
the sheriff.
Why Go To College.
Why chop all day with a dull ax?
Take an hour off and grind your ax.
You will accomplish more by nightfall.
Why work all your life with
an untrained mind? Why not bake
time to educate, discipline, and train
yourself for the work before you?
The college trains for leadership.
What is your purpose? To be a thirdrate
or second rate man or woman in
your life work? Why not be llrst
rate? Llxsent statistics show that the
oollege graduate, in the work of life,
lias by two hundred times the advantage
over the person whose eduoation
stops with the common sohool, while
the oollege graduate has a tenfold bet
ter chance of eminent success than
the high school graduate of the same
profession or business.
Agotl Couple Parts,
Mrs. Elizabeth L. Bryan, aged
seventy who was to have married
Daniel DeB Keim, aged seventy-tive,
at Asbury Park, N. J., Thursday,
will remain a widow awhile longer
because of the intended bride groom's
backdown when the appointed time
for the ceremony arrived. Mr.
Kelm's refusal to marry the widow
was due to the fact that while at
luncheon with his intended bride he
Is said to have discovered that she
had surreptitiously dosed his glass of
milk with wine. Keim wrote a ourt
note saying the marriage must be
called off. lie would not knowingly
touch wine and under no circumstances
could he bring himself to risk
being tempted again, for he feared if
he did his old longing for drink would
return to him.
Prohibitionist Fight,
At the oampaign meeting at Greenville
on Tuesday, angered at some re
mark made by Mr. Joel E Brunson,
candidate for Governor, Mr. A. C.
lnnno grhn la mnntnn fnr tho mmmm
v \/uva n in/ tu i uiiiuu^ ivi vug oweLuai
offloe, left the speaker's stand and
walking up to his opponent and brother
prohibitionist, deliberately slapped
Mr. B/unson's face. Mr. Brunson
has but one hand and before he could
gather himself together in self-defence,
half adc/.in men stepped In and
Mr. J on os was arrested by two policemen,
and burred oil the stand. La
ter he furnished nominal bond and
was released. B >th Jones and Bruuson
are avowed prohibitionists anc
the little difference can't be laid tc
the dispensary, as th<> tight took place
i In a so called prohibition county.
Who Hays It D.m't i'ay ?
W. FI. Mobr, a prosperous resident
> of Long Island (Jity, says aNiw Yorl
, dispatch, hung a valuable rug ous 01
his window to air a few days ago, anc
somebody stole It. Mohr put an ad
vertlsement in the looal papsrs that
the thief was known and he woulc
save much trouble by returning th(
rug. When Mohr opened his dooi
the morning after the advertisement
appeared to take In the milk and th<
i moiniug paper he found two larg?
bundles awaiting him. One contain
| ed his own rug and the other contain
't ed another rug. "Yes, it pays to ad
vertlse,'' said Mohr. Yet, scmo o
our merchants ol&im tha.. advertising
does not pay. They ought to oon
, suit Mr. Mohr.
H.Jill J it litu; loliuM.
1 A dispatch from St. Louis, M).
says Hazsl Jiokson, eigatcen vean
' old, and Mamie Cross, nineteen, an
both ill at the Jackson home as thi
1 result of having been attacked by i
' dczsn men in a desolate place li
1 Broadway, south of the city limits
Trie girls were bound, gagged an
i carried forcibly into a grove. Nin
i men have bean arrested In ooonectloi
with tho case, and warrants ohartflni
i assault were Issued Wednesday a^aina
5 six of them. Miss Cross, still pal
- and haggard from recent llluest
a told the story of the attack.
community, or at least reduotng 1
te presence to a minimum Thursd;
4 two Carolina hoboes sheok toe dust
their native state into the Savaum
a . river and alighthd on Georgia so
i-! They had not been here long enoui
ie | to ask for a drink when Otli;or J oh
TO KILL BABIES.
The Torch Applied to Little Carriages
by Insane or
REVENGEFUL ENEMY.
Left in Dark Hallways Parents, in Two
Cases, Had Luckily Changed Plans,
and Removed the Infants or
They Would Have Been
Burned.
The most oruel attempt at revenge
or the strangest manifestation of In*
sanity probably aver dealt with by the
New York Polioe 1 Apartment was
brought to public notice Wednesday
night, when It was learned that twice
in four days efforts have bean made to
burn Infants In their carriages at Nos.
530 and 540 West One Hundred and
Twenty fiffell street, the block known
as "Baby Carriage Row," where,
every day. two hundred and tifty
helpless Infants are aeen. Because of
the work of the manlao, child hater
or vengeful orimlnal?whatever he 1h
?polloemen were stationed all Tuosday
night on the blook, and now
mothers will not let their smaller
children out of their sight.
In No. 540 West One Hundred and
Twenty-tlf111 street there are forty
families. Thirty-two babies unable
to walk are in the structure. It wa*
there the second attempt at murder,
brutal as any oonoolvable was made
late on Monday night. The lives of
the thirty-two little ones were endangered.
Mr. and Mrs. James CL^er, who
live in the building, had been spending
a vacation In Massachusetts.
They returned Monday night. Tnelr
six-month-old baby Myrtes was
wheeled through the hallway, after
the family had been cheerily greeted
by the little army of neighbors and
children who always throng the crowded
street. The Carters Intended to
return to the street after they had
changed their olothes. Mrs. Carter
pushed the carriage into a nook where
the hall light would not shine in the
child's eyes. Then she ohanged her
mind about leaving the infant there
aud took hor upstairs.
The Carters live three illghts up.
The wife said she would wash baby
and then place her in the carriage
again. Carter changed his olothes,
and just as he opened the door to go
downstairs, he smelled smoke. The
odor was wafted through the corridors.
and Carter, without malrlncr mt
disturbance to cause panic, quickly
traced it.
lie found the carriage, In which a
fewminutea before his only ohlld had
been, blazing In the nook under the
stairway.
The man, horror-stricken at the
thougnt of what would happened had
not his wife changed her mind about
leaving Myrtes in the hallway, yelled.
Neighbors weno to his aid, but before
the 11 tmes oould be extinguished the
vehicle was a charred mass.
1 No ordinary tire, caused by spontaneous
combustion or a lighted
matoh, oould have so qulokly communicated
Itself to every part of the
j carriage. It was obvious that tho
vehicle was ignited at half a dozw
, points.
In live minutes the news had been
flung from one end of the row to the
| other, and mothers immediately displayed
mothers' agitation. Many
, scurried to their roomB, others deter
mined that not for a minute of the
' day would they lose sight of theli
' cherubs.
Investigation by the police showed
that even the woodwork in the hallt,
way niche had been scorched badly
. It had not had time to ignite, how
f ever. Detective were hurried to the
I scene and several were placed upoc
. the case because of what had occurred
. on Saturday night at No. 536. There
I a similar dastardly attempt to incln
} erate a baby had been made,
r As in the case of the Garters, the
I Incendiary did not make make sure
> that his prey was where he believec
? it. A Mrs. Parker had left a babj
. "arriago under the hall stairs, as Mrs
. Garter had, and -he, too, took the
. precaution 01 carrying ner onna t<
f her apartments. It was ouly a few
, mtnu&es after the Infant bad beer
. olaced in its erlb tbat smoke trepan t(
tiller through the halls and tenant!
traced the sutfjcating odor to the car
riage, which was ablazj. At thai
, time It was not thought anyone hac
r intentionally tried to destroy thi
* carriage and its supposed occupant
3 But when Monday night's occurrenci
i was related none doubted that thi
m two tires were started by the sami
i. hand, and with the same intent.
i The pollc-) believe that ttie lncen
e diary is a maniac, whose insanit;
n takes this frightful form. They di
if nr\t. hno/outir (muni >.h? r.hr^iru t.'iu
f* "V") UV '* M- ?V? VMV/Vi/ V 1M
t the burnings may have beeu du
e to a thirst for revouge, bui what th
i, connections between tho Carters an
Parkers is, so far as enemies are col
ts son nabbed them. They will be trli
ay on Friday. The vegetable gard<
of is beckoning. Negroes and loafors
ah all racssaie beglnniug to learn th
il they must work If they waot to at
<h around Augusta. If they perslster
n- ly refuse it Is "23" or theohaingar
oerned, o to not be conjectured.
Detectives Gilbert and Boxigh
Wednesday night paid a visit to every
apartment In the buildings where the
two tires have ocourred In a search for
olews; but found nothing that would
warrant making an arrest. They did,
however, arrive at a certain theory
and promised that an arrest mignt be
expeoted soon.
It was stated that a tenant with*
out children In the building In whloh
the Carters lived had frequently complained
of the little ones and bad re*
oently been asked by the agents to remove
from the promises.
"I cannot believe any one tried to
murder my baby," said Mrs. Carter
Wednesday night. "I think It was
all a mlstako. I have heard there
has been enmity between two families
living In this building. In one of the
families there Is a small b&by. Oh,
how glad I am I took little Myrtes
from the oarrtage when 1 came up
stairs. Hid she been sleeping In the
carriage she would oertalnly have
been killed.
"The police have been here. They
are puzz'ed over the aff ilr and are In
vestlgatlng through the entire block.
The burning of the carriage list Saturday,
when we were miles away, of
course adds mystery to the affair."
WANTS A LYNCHING.
Atlanta Now* OtT\>rn One Thousand
Dollarti lor One.
The Atlanta Evening News, whloh
Is owned by Col. J.N. English, Jr.,
who Is Gov. Terrell's chief of staff,
Friday afternoon editorially commends
the South Carolina mob for
lynching the negro Hob Davis In the
presence of Governor Heyward, and
offers $1,000 reward for similar treatment
of a negro committing an
assault upon a white woman In Atlanta.
Tne News says:
"Hurrah for South Carolina. Throe
cheers and a 'tiger' for the brave men
of that State. They have vindicated
the honor of at least one community
in Carolina, even in the presence of
the governor of the State. They
have done their duty, and done It
well. A black brute, whom the State
exeoutivo appropriately called a devil
aud a tiend of hell, who perpetrated
the most lnf&m >us crime abuvo a
burning hell?that of assaulting a
defenseless white girl?went to his
fate and doom at the hands of a public
court of patriots, and today South
Carolina stands at the forefront of
Southern patriotism. Tomorrow
Georgia may claim the honor. Those
Carolina men upheld the honor and
tradition of their great State."
The News then offers a thousand
dollars for a lynching In Atlanta for
a similar crime, and says:
"Four white women have recently
been outraged In Atlanta bv negroes,
*uu uul iwo 01 uie assailants were
caught. Two cut of the four blaok
devils e oaped, and are still at large,
roaming wherever they will, to attaok
and outrage other white women
whom they may tlnd In their path.
Shall th ise brutes In human form be
allowed to devour the white womanhood
of this neighborhood? There
should bo a placard posted on almost
overy tree post and corner of this
country in large, black letters, putting
th#:*e imps of hell tire on notice
that an awful doom awaits them if
they p t their lingers on the white
skin of any decent woman In this
country,"
Htruck 1 >v IjiKlunliiK.
Lightning struck and kllleJ a horse
on the farm of Alonza E. Brown a few
miles from this city on last Thursday
afternoon. The horse was hitched to
a wagon and was standing near a fodder
pile when the stroke came. Brown
1 and his little four year old son, who
bad just gotten out of the wagon were
badly shocked and knocked senseless,
where they laid for sometime before
; regaining consciousness. When they
oame to themselves they found the
horse dead and the wagon badly shat1
tered by the stroke. Brown is badly
burned about the left side from his
' mouth down to the knees. Brown
' and his little boy had a marvelous es'
cape from death, and he says he
1 thanks God fervently for preservieg
1 his life and that of his little son.
5
Wage* of Sin.
Jeremiah Thomas, sixty years old,
i a well-known whiskey agent of Wash}
ington, K. J., and who was until rel
cently proprietor of the only hotel la
f Oiford Furnace, committed suicide
. uy sendlug a bullet into his head lo
3 the barn connected with Councilman
> Walter D Giillck's lumber yards.
i Wnila conducting the Oiford Hotel a
1 year ago Too mis eloped with K la,
) the wife of Elish Teeter, a farmer.
* They were gone several months, and
upon returning to this neighborhood
b Teeter sued Tnomas for damages and
1 also began proc?fdlnir for a dlvoroe.
1 Tried to Kill All.
9 In a tit of Insanity, Emll Homer, a
9 mechanlo of Hatavla, Illinois, mura
dared his hrnt,h?r-ln lair Prnrtiik
Franz30. by outting his throat with a
- razor, slashed Mrs. Burner so severely
y that she will die, then cut his throat
o and died within a few moments. The
t tragedy was unacted at the berner
e home, Homer had been ill for three
e | weeks, and at times delirious, but no
d symptoms of violent insanity had been
i- previously notlcsd.
sd Tiik United States District Attor^
ney has taden steos to prosecute th *
xt two bucket shops which aided an I
ay abetted Paying Teller Chisolm to emit
bt/zle ilr>0,000 from the First Naiuuitf
al Hank of Blrminham, Ala.