The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 17, 1908, Image 6
1 OUR SCI
1 PAPER t
5 1IY PROF. WIIX1
iSr* wxm mx+j*
Short School Tonus?As has al- '
ready been noted, the average length
of the white schools of the State last (
year was less than six months. To]
bo exact, the average for the town
and rural schools was 117 days; the
rural schools alone 110 days. While
this is a better showing than we (
made a very lew years ago, still
our schools are in session a little 1
less than two-thirds of our own
standard school year of 1 SO days, or
nine months. In other wosds, the
white people of the State are giving
their children less than two-thirds
of the schooling which they declare 1
a child ought to have.
More again is a lack of school
funds, which our people, I insist,
are aide to provide. In many rather
thickly settled and prosperous districts
the schools close after six
or seven months because the funds'
are exhausted, yet not a dollar of I
local school tax is collected. I know
districts with from T>0 to C>0 white
children, which depend upon the
pittance of to $:ILT? to run their
schools. Is it reasonable to expect
such a district to keep its school
open or to keep competent, teachers?
In some of these very communities
I have been told, with a tinge of resentment.
that 1le* schools are better
than those to which the fathers and
mothers went. That may he true,
and it may also be true that these
same fathers and mothers are hewers
of wood and drawers of water today,
simply because they are unahle
to cope with those who have been
better schooled. lb1 is a very dispicable
parent who is willing to
withold schooling from his child on
the ground that he himself had few
or no advantages.
However, short school terms are
by no means entirely due to lack of
money. Strange, as it may seem,
there are many districts which close
their schools at the end of six, five J
and even four months, with half as
much money left in the county treasury
as they spent on their schools.
I Unnw vvliicK lini'o U,,.!,.
credit enough money to run theni
twice as long as they have boon run
any year within tho past fivo. in
fact, so mo entire counties are making
what the officials call a pood
financial showing, at the expense of.
the school children. For instance,
Florence county had on hand, .Tune
fit), 1907, a balance of $:>5,SfiS to the'
credit of the school fund, while she J
had spent. only $27.0r?(> on her
schools that year. In other words,
the schools had at the close of the J
scholastic year a balance of $8,78.8 j
more than the entire cost of the
schools that year. Financially that
may he a good showing; how is it
educationally? l?et us see; Florence
county kept her white schools
open last year six months; she paid
her teachers an average of $2f>0 a
year; she gave each white teacher
an average of fi?> puHls to teach.
Chester county ifiakes hut little better
showing. She kept her white
schools open seven and one-fourth
months, paid her white teachers
an average of $296 a year, and
o.i onek t no *
r,..?x * ttvil IVIU IIV' I (III IIMTI URi; Wl ?> I
pupils to teach. Yet Chester county
closed these schools with a balance
larger than the total expenditure
that year. I believe in running the
schools strictly on a cash basis, and
I know it is necessary to doe the
books on the 30th of June with
onough balance to run the schools
until the next tax collection has
been made. Hut is it sound business
or common sense to cut off
the school year, pay beggarly salaries.
and give each teacher too many
pupils to teach, in order to show
a money balance? Of course under
such policy our school hoards can
boast of having money on hand. As
1 see it, we have more need for money
on the children. A man could
doubtless make a fortune on a salary
of $r>00 a year, if he were to go
naked and hungry, and keep all his
earnings at ten per cent compound
interest; but what would he bo getting?
After all, do our people wish to
keep the schools open nine months
in the year? Repeatedly I have had
fathe.rs (mothers very rarely) op]x>sa
the attempt to lengthen their
school beyond six months. Their
contention is that the children can
not be spared from the farms and
the mills for a longer period. Except
in case of extreme poverty in
the homes of very unfortunate
people, tills argument means nothing
less than that the child is looked
upon as a bread-winner. The parent
is either too short-sighted or
too selfish to give his child the opportunity
to become even a breadwinnor,
save in the humblest callings.
Such a parent needs to be
shown how his child may be trained
until he becomes a master of something,
and a citizen useful to the
State. Every child should be taught
to work?to work Intelligently and
profitably, but his ultimate success
and usefulness should not be sacrificed
to immediate selfish gain.
Poor School Houses and Poor
Kqnlpment-?There are at least two
very distinct kindR of poor school
houses: The building Itself may be
worthless; a good building may be
unfit for school purposes, tl Is pos Ibbto
to Invest a modest sum of
mis. *
10.3. |
1AM II. HAND. S
money In a good school building.
What wo know as school architecture
is yet in a very crude and undeveloped
state, if we are to judge
from some of our recent school
buildings. Some of even the larger
towns of the State have taxed themselves
liberally to erect new school
buildings, and have very inferior
ones. Not one cent of public money
should be permitted to be used in
a school house until the plans of the
building have been favorably passed
upon by some thoroughly competent
person. Some of the most common
defects In our school buildings are
small class rooms, low ceilings, insufficient
window space, windows set
in front and to the right of the pupils
when seated, tops of the windows
too far from the ceiling, poor
heating, and poor ventilation. Those
defects are found in the town building
and in the rural buildings.
Wo have some excellent school
houses. Among the larger towns
the buildings in Florence. Darlington,
and (Joorgetown. together with
t lie latest buildings in (Jreenville,
eel lent in almost every detail. The
Spartanburg, and Sumter, are excellent
in almost everything. The
Taylor school. in Columbia, is
another excellent building, but I
am forced to add that ibis is Columbia's
only public school building
worthy of the name. A number of
the smaller towns have relatively
excellent buildings, notably St.
C.eorge and Sunimerton. Helton,
Hrunson, Chesterfield, Fountain Inn.
Manning and Seneca each will soon
have a new building of modesn type.
On the other hand, some of the
towns have very poor buildings.
There are in this State four towns
whose taxable property combined
was returned last year at $1,400,000,
in round figures, and whose four
school houses for white children
would not sell at auction for more
than $ 1,50ft. Of course these buildings
cost much more than their present
value, but they are almost worthless
to-day us school houses. In
these same towns are beautiful
homes, good stores, good banks, attractive
churches, and even good
barns for the horses and cattle.
Can the citizens of these places make
themselves believe that they are not
discounting schools? They can not
make other people believe it, I am
sure.
The rural school houses are relatively
inferior to those in the towns,
.Many of them are little better than
dingy shells, unpainted, ugly in appearance,
poorly lighted, poorly
heated, and miserably equipped
.Many of these houses a r<
not ceiled on the walls 01
overhead. When they are ceiled
that overhead is often so low that
the tallest boys can reach it with
their heads. Not one building in
three has enough window spact
properly distributed. The window*
are small and placed equidistant
from the floor and celling. It is no
uncommon thing to find a room ol
children sitting with their face*
toward one, and even two, open windows,
while the room at their hack*
s comparatively dark. In 1 90f>, the
State Superintendent of Kducatior
issued a pamphlet giving design*
for modern school houses, which ha*
done much towards improving their
character.
Very few of our schools an
equipped as they should be. Hun
tis?*os ?>i n<)C(l ciesKS liavt' noen |)lll 111
within the past five years, hut then
are yet scores of school houses seated
with the most clumsy and unsightly
and uncomfortable desk*
known to suffering hacks and limbs
The blackboards are too few in
number, made of the cheapest material.
and the surface is no loncei
black. In many of our schoolrooms
is not seen a map or a chart
from September to June. Kven
the famous charts have been relegated
to some closet of plunder
Were it not for the genius of mj
friend, Mr. Hughes, of flreenville
many of our school houses would b?
absolutely without any kind of globe
The State litis very wisely provided
hundreds of schools with small li
braries. In most places these libra
ries are used much and well cared
ior, inn in unogeuier ion mail)
places the books are torn to pieces
soirio scattered through the neigh
borhood, and some lost. What ois<
can be expected when the schoo
house stands open to every body and
everything.
A dirty school house is inexcusable,
and is a disgrace to a community.
Here the teacher is chief l>
responsible. Any teacher, man 01
woman, who keeps a dirty school
house Is rather poorly fitted to train
children. Yon can not readily refine
the tastes of a child who b
compelled to sit five hours a day in
the midst of filth and utter.
WILLIAM II. HAND.
University of South Carolina.
You ran measure any creed by its
fruits in character.
After all. our bread doesn't fall
"butter side down" more than half
the time.
It is permissible to blow your own
horn If you are a member of a brass
band.
FELL FROM TRAIN l
c
1
i
YOUNG MAN GOING FHOM
OllANGF.Ill'KG
?
1
<
KcccIvimI Injuries ?t Itidgcvillc Front '
\
WIticli lie Dbsl in it Charleston y
Hospital. |
Accidentally falling from Train 1
No. 14 of tho Southern Railway, run
ning at the rate of from 20 to 20 (
miles an hour, about a half of one '
mile west of Rldgeville, at about l? '
o'clock Wednesday evening, a young '
man named Roisy Harris, who
lioarded the train at Orangeburg,
was fatally injured as a result, and
and died Thursday morning at 7
o'clock at the Saint Francis Xavior
Infirmary, in Charleston, after a
twelve hours' struggle between life
and death. A compound fracture
of the skull was the immediate
cause of death, although many other
parts of the body were severely
bruised and scratched by the hard
fall which the youth had sustained,
immediately on his arrival in the
city an operation was performed on
the young man, but Harris was then
already beyond human aid.
The News and Courier says an
inquest, was held over the body of
young Harris Thursday aft< moon,
and resulted in a verdict ? I "death
due to .accidentally falling from
Train No. 14, of the Southern Railway,
near Ridgevillo, while a passenger
of said train, etc." Although
it Ls reported that there was an actual
eye-witness of the accident the
,Mimui in l|lieSUOU COIlKI l'(>' !)
found, either by tho coroner or lieollioials
of the railway. The vouuk
man, .lames Rood, who is said to '
bo a cousin of tho deceased, had
left the train upon its arrival in
Charleston and left for parts unknown
before the news of Harris'
death could be sent him.
The first witness examined by
the coroner and jury was Conductor
\V. H. Keck ley, who was in
charge of the train at the time of
occurrence. His testimony was as
follows: "The accident happened at
X:T>0 p. m., about one-fourth inile
west of Ridgeville, just as tho train
was pulling into that station. When
the engineer pulled the station
blow for Ridgevillo I got up and announced
the name of the town in
the colored car, going towards the
rear of the train. I stopped in the
smoking end of the same car, where
this young man (Harris) was sitting,
and tohl him that the next
station was the one for him to get
off at. I turned and went into the
i white car, and shortly afterwards a
young white man. who had been sit'
ting with Harris, ran up to me and
told me that the latter had jumped
' off the train. I reached for and
' pu!lei the emergency cord, bringing
. the train to a stop almost immediately,
and sent my flagman, T. I),
i Shire*, hack to look for the man. at
in*- same iime baciuug the train up.
' He was soon found lying between
? the main line and the siding. lie
was carried to the express ear and
1 1 afterwards called I)r. \\\ It. Way,
of Uidgeville, in attendance, who
: accompanied the wounded hoy to
Charleston." Several questions were
' asked by the jury and .answered by
' .Mr. Keck ley. In reply to the ques1
tion as to what Harris was doing
1 in the colored smoking section of
1 the car at that time the conductor
answered that the colored passenger
traflic is very light through that part
of the country at this time of the
year and that white and colored men
i often used the same apartment to
smoke in.
Mr. T. I). Shirer, who was flagman
on Train No. 1 4 last Wednesday
; night, was the next witness and
. gave the following testimony before
i the coroner and jury:
"When we ilea red Uidgeville I
went through the train, as is usually
the custom, and cried out the name
of the town. The train was then
i about three-quarters of a mile from
- Uidgeville. I saw Hoisy Harris sit.
ting in the colored smoking apart
meat with his hands crossed. When
, I had reached the last car of the
> train I felt the emergency brakes go
. down and immediately ran forward
1 to ask the conductor what the
trouble was. The latter then told
- me that Harris had jumped off and
I requested me to go back and look
r for the young man. A short dis,
tance in the rear of the train I first
- found his hat, and after some
searching found the boy himself l.vI
ing on his face on the right side
1 of the track. I spoke to him, hut
did not receive any answer, al
though he was breathing very hoav
ily. When the train had backed tip
' the required distance I help place
the wounded boy in the baggage
I car." 1
i Several questions were also asked
of Mr. Shirer by the jury. He
> stated that he had asked James
tieevea, a cousin of the deceased boy,
and who, together with another gentleman
named K. K. Sweat, who
were the only people occupying the
smoking apartment with Harris at !
that time, for some particulars of 1
the case, and that Reeves had |
thought that Harris had only left
his sseat to procure a drink of wa- i
ter in the rear of the car. Seeing 1
him open the door rather hurriedly 1
he followed the young man and <
reached the end of the car just in j
time to see Harris step off. Whether i
, the young man had wished to leave \
ho train before its arrival at Ridgi1- I
ilia aiul had miscalculated the speed
>f the train, or whether he had deliberately
invited death Reeves was
inable to say.
Conductor Keek ley stated Frl- t
lay that young Harris had board'd
his train at Orangeburg and he
lad been requested to put him olt
it Ridgeville when ho handed in
lis ticket. He was dressed in a
.vorktngmun's clot lies and apparently '
A'as about 17 years of age. Harris
loomed to have full control of his
faculties at the time and the conluctor
was,almost positive that the
young man had not touched a drop
>f liquor. The young man's home
lias as yet not boon ascertained, but '
It is thought that he lives at Cot- '
Lageville or vicinity. * I
TIIK RATI.CSS < ! Rl<.
We Welcome Her and Hope She Will
Ride A wee.
Wo do not know?we almost fear
to hope whether it is the setting in
of a new fashion, this charming ens- ,
torn of girls going about bat less, but
if it is let us welcome it with exceeding
joy. She is becoming ubiquitous,
this girl without a hat, and in the
?treel or in the stores, iti the parks,
wherever she may bo, she adds
beauty to the landscape and picture- (
souonoss to t ho view.
More welcome too will the newold
custom of the fair sex be if one
of its results is the dethroning of
that awful monstrosity, the "Merry
Widow" bat, that dire shape of
straw that mows a swath of discomfort
through our througlifares and
... 1, S..K I > -I ?- - i ? '
?ui' ii n<ir> iitmi'u tu in*." iMiiiifiits in ;i
torrid summer.
1 ^?*t us hope that, the now stylo of
eniinine bareheadness has coino about
through fotnalo recognition of the
eternal verity of tho poet who declared
that tin* crowning glory of a
woman is her hair.
It may ho that tho girls who are
braving convention, declaring their
freedom from the thralls of the milliner
and making life more beautiful
by discarding their hats noed encouragement.
For heaven's sake let
us sill get together and praise the sex
for its good sense. We should say sit
a rough estimate that the matrimonial
chances of the girl without si hat
as against the girl with a "Merrv
Widow" were sit least 100 to 1, sind
that should help some if its trouth
csin lie proved. All hail to the sensible
American girl and her crown of
glorious hsiir!
Wll.l* HA IKK OTIIKH CHOPS.
Fanners May <^uit Cotton in Koll
Weevil Kelt.
A movement has been put on foot
among the farmers in thut section of
southwest .VI ississippi infested by
the Mexican boll weevil to point si
minimum cotton acerage next year,
and devote the major portion of ti 11able
land to corn, oats, forage crops
and truck products.
The movement has the hacking of
the Fsirniers' I'nion and is commended
by the special sigents of the
Fnited Stsites department of agricul
i ..it-, >> mi are cmpioyod til that section
of the state and who hold that
a rotation of crops is imperative as
one of the measures for the suppression
of the pest.
The weevil has played havoc, with
the crop in the counties of Jefferson,
Amite, Adams, Wilkinson and
Franklin, and it is predicted that before
the ed of the present month it
will enter the counties of Hinds,
Lincoln, Pike and Copiah. 1
This is the condition in Mississippi,
but it is only a question of a short
time when the same condition will 1
have to be faced by South Carolina 1
farmers. The boll weevil is steadily
marching; this way and it will not '
be lonjr before he will be knocking 1
at our door. So our farmers may
as well get ready for the pest by i
planting something else besides cot- 1
ton. The boll weevil has come to <
stay. I
I t
KKYAN-TAFT MFKTI.VCi OFF. I
Republican Nominee Will Not Attend
<
Chicago J templet.
The contemplated meeting of '
Judge Taft and W. J. Bryan at a '
banquet in Chicago October 7 has 1
fallen through, according to a state- (
ment by Chairman Dixon, of the '
speakers' bureau. >
'Mudgo Taft on September '2.1 will ?
address the Independent Railway '
Men's Taft Club in Chicago," said '
Mr. Dixon, "but bis itinerary will 1
not allow of his speaking at Chicago '
October 7." '
It is said that it was Judge Taft's
wish to speak at the banquet, but <
that the speakers' bureau was not j
consulted official lv in mnl/in<? ? 1
engagement. i
Mr. Iiryan, however, will attend I
the banquet which will be given by i
the Chicago Association of Com- <
merce. * i
Cray for Ituin. ]
A dispatch *rom La Porte, Ind., 1
says the drouth conditions are so se- 1
rere in Kankakee county, whore the i
farmers maintain daily and nightly i
vigil to prevent their homes and i
farms from being swept away by l
fire that all day services for rain i
were held Wednesday in a number of 1
fhurehes. The conditions aro so sor- i
Ions that the railroads have men do- i
failed to watch the bridges to protect
them in case of fire. 1
\
hitLD FOR CONSPIRACY
4
VLLKGFI) PLOT AGAINST WHITES
DIHCOVKItKl) AT GKKKNWOOD.
r.lucks at Niueiy-Six Said to Have
Conspired to Kill Four Prominent
White Citizens.
Eleven negroes were brought to
[greenwood Saturday, September 12,
ibout noon, from Ninety-Six, in the
custody of Sheriff McMillan and Deputy
Sheriff Charles Dukes, under a
warrant charging thetn with conspiracy.
The arrest of these negroes
was the outcome of an Investigation
on the part of the local authorities
and certain citizens in Greenwood.
Very little was known in Ninety-Six
up to Saturday morning of the proposed
arrest or the cause therefor.
Dut several of the leading citizens
of Ninety-Six were fully aware of
the situation, and the bringing of
the negroes to Greenwood was decided
upon as the best method to
proceed in a lawful and orderly manner.
Saturday evening another
negro was arrested and brought there
on the same charge. The negroes
fire. I iiri'iiutii'l it-..' I? l? '> '
. ... . v.?? < m 111 \ . i . i ?. i M'tiii, n.
T. Jackson, a preacher, Jas. Stophens,
Anderson Stephens, Kd Harris,
Tom Hishop, Davego Williams,
W'ayman Jackson, John Calhoun,
Zeke Chappeil, another preacher, and
Wane W illiams. The neyro brought
Saturday night was Press Goodwin.
The investigation, which led up to
the arrest of these negroes, started
in Greenwood on Tuesday, September
S. On that day a certain negro
m (Ireenwood received by mistake a
letter addressed to another negro in
(Jreenwood, and that let tor, upon
which the whole case hangs, as it
were, is the most important document
and development in the whole
affair. The great question is, is the
letter genuine or a take? This is the
letter:
"Ninety-Six. September 7. 190S.
"Mr. Hartie Harris, Greenwood, S.
C.: We want you not to give us
away in this me an Tom Hishop and
Rev. Zeke Chopped is a committee
to get up men to buy Winchesters, to
fix for white folks in a few days.
We are going from house to house at
night and shoot in, and they will
think it is Tolbert. Now, we want
you to see how many at (Jreenwood
will hel.p. All of us who come up
there to Tolbert Convention is in it.]
but Joe. Don't know anything about
this. It is us, who is S. T. Jackson
there. We will be ready by Sunday
night to start if our men get hack.
Don't toll illivlllflv of tlif-j ;i?i/1 lmt'ti
this let tor up. Let me know who
will mint' from there by Tues 'ay.
("Signed) Wade Williams."
As stated above, this letter by mistake
was received by another party
than the out* to whom it was addressed.
This party, a negro, states that
he started to put the letor back in
the postofhoe, but realizing the serious
nature of its contents, he turned
it over to Chief of Police MeCombs.
The chief of police immediately
consulted with Sheriff McMillan
and these two with several other
representative citizens began the investigation.
The negro who had received the
letter, having himself been a resident
of Ninety-Six was most closely
questioned. He let it be known that
lie knew something of what was or
had been going on among the colored
people at Ninety-Six. Expressing
fear for his own safety he was reluctant
to divulge anything. Repeated
questioning finally brought out the
statement that two negoe societies at
Ninety-Six had been indulging in inilencinry
talk against the whites in
their secret orders for some time.
Thoso talks had been more frequent]
find more violent since the recent!
trouble at Ninety-Six, as the result
if the local election on the matter of
issuing bonds to build a school house.
The negro did not connect any white
person at all with these talks, but
stated that the talks were original
with the negroes and confined ex-'
dusivolv to their own secret orders.
He stated that the negro Odd Fellow's
Lodge at Ninety-Six was taking
an active interest in the matter,
is were the members of another secret
society among the negroes,
known, as the "Knights of the Guiding
Star of the East." He stated that
x committee from each of these
lodges had been appointed to have a
conference with each other as to the
purchase of guns, and to do certain
ither things, so he had been informed.
After considerable parleying he
consented to go to Ninety-Six nnd
ittend the meeting of the negro Old
Fellows on Thursday night, this beng
their regular meeting to-night.
He stated before going that he did
lot know whether he wou.u be nllow?d
to get in the lodge or not, as he
was behind in his dues. Money was
;iven him to pay up his dues and he
eft Greenwood for Ninety-Six. On
Friday he returned nnd as proof of the
fact that he had been to* Ninety-Six
ind had attended the meet
ng, ho brought book with him his
uemborshlp card on which the paynent
of his duos had boon rocoiptod
ind datod at Ninety-Six the night bolore,
and countersigned by the regular
officers of the lodge, who were
residents of Ninety-Six.
This negro reported to those who
lad sent him that he attendod the
meeting of the lodge and that after
the regular business had been disposed
of in the lodge an executive
session was called. That he asked
to bo allowed to remain to ttlis executive
session, but that hc^was not
allowed to remain until he had mud**
a tierce denunciatory speech against
the whites. After that he was allowed
to take part in the executive session.
At this session all of th?* facts
connected with the proposed beginn- ,
ing of the light were discussed and
four white citizens of Ninety-Six
were named as victims. A wua 'ingested
in the letter to liartie M
lis, published above, 11 \?as stateu
that the white people of Ninety-Six
would Idame any shooting that might
take place on the Tolberts, and that
the negroes would not be suspected.
The four men selected were well
known citizens of Nin??t'>Si\ and if
was stated that others? might be
chosen later, such developments depending
on the outcome of the first
venture. It was also stated that the
Itev. Jackson, men'lotted in the letter,
had raised a fund of $7t> towards
buying a dozen Winchester
rifles in Savannah, (la. The plan of
getting these rilles to Ninety-Six was
aiso discussed.
Some VOill'S HIm cnm.1 1{??1~ :
? uwiin uiui- ? a n
mcnt was caused at Ninety-Six by tin?
fact that some eight or ten negroes
had ordered Winchester rides.
These negroes stated that they wished
then) for protection aistinst rowdy
members of their own \jiire. They
readily gave them up when the white
people demanded them and thus the
matter ended. Having this episode
mind the negroes stated that ii
would not he sale to have any guns
shipped to Ninety-Six, so it was proposed
to have a young negro, named
Davega Williams, one of those now
in jail, and a son of Wade Williams,
the secretary of the Odd Fellows'
Lodge, go to Savannah to purchase
the guns. Ostensibly he would go
to Clallin University. carrying a
j trunk. Instead of going to Claflin he
would proceed to Savannah, buy the
I guns and return as far as Dyson's,
(which is the next station below Ninety-Six
owards Columbia. He would
t get off there with a trunk in which
the guns would have been safely
packed, and in this way the guns
could he distributed without any suspicion
being aroused. The floods iu-..
tercforred with his going to Savannah
and hack at the time first appointed.
Whether or not any other guns were
secured is not. known.
However, according to the negro
informer, the first attack was to have
been made on Sunday night. September
1 :t. it being stated that the moon
I would he about right so far as darkness
was concerned at that time
If all of this be true it seems providential
that the letter addressed to
the Harris negro did not road^.hini,.
11.111 nil iiiio me 11 Mil (Is of t l?o shT'rir'f
through the medium of another poison.
for Saturday morning Sheriff
McMillan started out with warrants
for all of the ringleaders, and by
noon had them safely lodged in the
county jail. As stated in the beginning
only a few people at Ninety-Six
knew anything about the matter,
[and it is possible that if all of the
[facts had been known the eleven
I negroes might never have been allowed
to leave the town. However, the
I matter was well managed, and the
negroes were brought there and put
't jail without any bodily barn; being
done to them.
Saturday afternoon one of them
/ ailed to the sheriff and stated that
they did not want a preliminary hearing
then. This procedure if adhered
to will mean that the whole dozen
will remain in jail there until the
next term of Court of Ceneral Sessions.
A large number of white people
at Ninety Six think the whole
thing is a fake. They think the informer
is up to "spite work." and is
simply trying to get. the white people
worked tip against certain negro
enemies of hi^A /There is no
excitement either here or at NinetySix
whatever. The affair has caused
considerable talk, of course, but
there is no excitement whatever.
Cltl'KIIKD TO DKATH.
M..I. V. >* ?
, ii.-^ht n imih^ .mui in r n>rn <>l
Moving Train.
The wild rush of several hundred
men and women, most of them returning
from a Sunday base ball
game, to boabrd a train at Fair Haven,
Pa., at 9.30 o^lo.ck Wednesday
night, caused the, death of Wallace
Wilson, aged 27, who was pushed in
front of the train as it pulled into
the station, by the crowding mass of
people, endeavoring to board the
train.
The heroism of Miss MeCleary. almost
saved Wilson's life, the girl
clinging to him to the very last minute
in an effort to save him from
falling in front of the train.
Stanley Dingo and Frank Goaria
were also badly crushed by beh?
pushed between two cars of the traik.
by the excited crowd.
WANT TAFT DKFFATKD.
Mehlgan State Federation of Labor
iviioun^s Him.
At Lousing, Mich., resolutions denouncing
William H. Taft, as an
enemy of labor and local prohibition
as an invasion of the personal
reports of ctizens were adopted by
the State Federation of Labor in session
Thursday. Only one dissenting
vote was received when the antiTafter's
name was offered.
i
/