Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FIEND LYNCHED __ ^ He Attempted to Assault a Lacy in Lexington SHERIFF WOUNDED Deed Committed About !>afk Wednesday Night?Screams of the Woman Frightened Ncgra Oil", but Bloodhounds Truilcd lliin Down, t' and lie is Shot. ^Lexington, Jan. G.-?One of the most brutal crimes that lias ever shocked tho people of Lexington county occurred about four miles north of Lexington about dark toil ight, when a negro attempted 10 criminally assault Mrs. Thomas Wingard, the wife of a most liiirhlv respected farmer. It is reported here tonight that the negro has been captured and lynched. It is also stated that Sheriff P. II. Cor ley received a bullet wound in the leg from the assailant's weapon. Those returning from ^ v*? scene refuse to say anything about the capture, and it is safe to say that the negro lias been killed. Mrs. Wingard, who is about flftythree years of age, was in the water closet, and just as sue stepped outside of the door the negro grabbed her and throw her to the ground. She screamed and the negro ran off. The news of the outrage spread like wildfire, and it was not long before the whole country was aroused. Sheriff Corley was notified at once and tie left immediately with his hloodnounds. It is said that the negro who committed the crime was a stranger. HP VOLITION It IOPOKTIOI). Stated That Nicaragua, Salvador and (iiiatenmln Arc Against Honduras. Now Orleans, Jan. 4.?The TimesDemocrat publishes today a story based on reports received from Central America which are to this effect : "Nicaragua is marching troops from the frontier into the vicinity of Cholucteca of Miguel Davilla, president of Honduras. It is reported that the Nicaraguan, Dr. Arrias, has recently received almost $40,000 in army supplies, medicines, etc., shipped by secret agents of Zelaya in this city, and that all preparations are being made for a long campaign. "The informants of The TimesDemocrat stated that it was general ly understood that the revolution was a four-cornered affair, with the llonduran malcontents attacking the Zelaya forces, backed by supplies and men from Salvador. It is also alleged that the Guatemalan government had supplied men and arm*." The consular represientaltives in Now Orleans of the governments concerned deny any knowledge of the movement reported. SHOT AT NKGKO. Was Attacking Two Ladies When Drove Off at Pistol's Point. Rome, Ga., Jan. 4.?At the point of a pistol, Mrs. Rradloy drove off and fired at a negro here today, who was atenipting to assault Mrs. R. i) CamplK^p and her daughter, Lilly. The jpvo women were on tlie back veranda of their home when the negro came into the yard, lie seized Mrs. Campbell's dress and pulled Kn? f -1- ' ' iiv-i 11(mii im; (m?ii'ii <1 iKi aiso lior daughter. Both screamed, which attracted the attention of Mrs Bradley, a next door neighbor, who seized a pistol, went to the rescue. Pointing the pistol at t lie negro, she ordered him to leave the place. Not going fast enough, she fired at him several times, none of the shots taking effect. A posse was soon organized and is cno 1*/. ir lllA 4 u - ? - ?,v ,,, v.,.. ^ v.io nuuus iui liiu negro. Ono n'dJo was arrested by the mob and viuught before the two ladies, who said that lie was not the man. Serious trouble is feared if he la caught. 1 CAROLINA'S BUMPER CROPS. I Labor Commissioner Watson CJRrs s ! Account of Farm Products. ! % ^.Columbia, Jan. 6.?Advance ( proofs from Commissioner Watson's report to the Legislature, out today, shows that the year juat closed brought bumper crops to the State in cotton, corn and tobacco. The corn yield is 29 260,000 bush- 1 els, wJiioh is 3,500,000 ahead of 1 1907, ""hisich itself was 0,250,000 ahead o? ibest previous yield. The tobacco yield - put down ?t ' slightly over 25.000,000 pounds, while cotton is placed at 1,12-1,00u bales. The value of all farm productc J ^!a $118,000,000, exclusive of cotton i and live stock, and live stock ' products. I 4 I CHIEF JUSTICE RESIGNS. Judge Young J. l'o|?f Will Retire on April ?5. Columbia, Jan. 7.?Toung J. Pope, chief Justice of the South CuioUbm supreme court, yesterday sent to Governor Ansel his resignation to take effect ou April lo. The resignation is given in the following letter to the governor: "To His Excellency, Martin E. Ansel. Governor of the State of South Carolina: "Realizing that my time of active service is drawing to a close and conceiving it to be my duty to retire from office, I hereby tender my resignation as chief justice of the supreme court of South Carolina 10 take effect April 15, 1909. "With love for all the people of our State, Yours truly, "Y. J. Pope." The news of the resignation came as a surprise, not only to the governor, but to the associate justice. It has been known that for some time Chief Justice Pope has been in failing health, due primarily to the wounds received during the war, but mis remarkable vitality has kept him in active service and his decisions have been as clear as usual. His resignation, therefore, comes as a shock to the bench and bar of the Statu and will bo received with much regret everywhere. I'lllKST MAY 1110 INFKOCKIOD. .Mysteriously l>isnp|x*Hi'ed With a Young (aii'l. Newark, X. J., Jan. G.?Rev. Filomena Siani, assistant priest a. St. Roccos Roman Catholic church, this city, and Julia Lesta, 17 year old. disappeared simultaneously last Thursday and today the girl's father received a letter from the prie.u stating that they had been married in New York, and would not be heard from again. Rev. Father Siani had been a curate in the church for two years. He had heard confessions offered the sacred of the mass daily. He had heard many times the confessions o* the girl with whom he eloped and had called frequently at her home. Rev. James Zuccorell, rector of the church, said today ho would take steps to have the eloping priest unfrocked. Bishop O'Connor has been informed. KILLF.D BY WOl'.NDKI) OFKK. Wounded Buck and His Victim Found Near Together. Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 6.?That F. R. Swindell was killed by a wounded deer was the verdict of the coroner's jury at the close of an ivestigation into the death of a prominent citizen of Beaufort county, whose body kiuiiu in hooui i iirce loot of \vator in a crook near loo spot whore ho suddenly disappeared from a party of hunters Wednesday near Broad Greek. Hundreds of men had searched for two days for the? missing man whose body was located by blood hounds in a mill pond, a largo buck-door lK*ing fouiM near him, wounded. A numher of cuts and bruises on the body and head of the man were found. Fight Officers. Ran Diego, Cal., Jan. 4.?Advices just, received from Mesa Grand, for ty miles from here, tell of a pitched battle thirty miles from there, between a gang of cattle rustlers and members of a vigilance committee. Two Mexicans, an Indian and a white man, all members of the band, were shot and killed, and one vigilant was seriously wounded. May Bridge the Santee. A dispatch from Washington says the house has just passed a hill recently introduced by Representative Lever, for Mr. J-.egarge, authorizing the Han tee River Cypress Lumber Co to erect a bridge over the Santee river, near Ferguson, in K.u'keley county. The bridge will be close to the mill of the company aud wi'.l prove a considerable convenience. Had ills Throat ( ut. Thomasville, (?a., Jan. 5.?B. P. Aikridgo was found 011 the street with his throat cut. Aikridge says he was attacked by a crowd of men ut Deblock nee river. He declares die men would not ten him the rea- , ion for the attempt on his life. He says that they held him and with rifles pointed at his heart, one mot. Mit his throat. Ilo says further that hoy threatened to lynch him. Wife Was Busy, Too. i Brockton, Mass., Jan. 6.?Twcn- ! iy-two years after leaving her a 1 poor man, Albert Moore has returned rich to find that his wife tiad secured a divorce, re-married ind is now a widow. Ho will take nor to his new home in vjalifornia. Atlanta's New Mayor Installed. Atlanta, Ha., Jan. 4.?Robert F. Maddox, who was recently elected nayor of Atlanta, defeating the reg>lnr primary nominee, was installed n ofllco tonight. V WORK OF RESCUE. UKItOIC HE LI El-' K'AKTIKH STHUG(iLE NIGHT AND DAY. King and (Jure* of Italy Hhart* I n tliiieliingly la Daugvi'uas rhiI llcMil-hirMklat; Tank. Messina, Jan. 6.?Although confused and without system, the work of rescue has been carried oa brave- ) ly by night as well as by day. Seach lights on the warships flood the ruins with their rays and give light t.> i the salvage parties. < The king and queen of Italy, on < board the battleship Kegina Elena, i nave given a notable example of de- ; votion. The king, with some of his . | ministers at his side, has been directing and suprevising the relief work, yet he has found time to visit the field hospitals and speak words ( of encouragement to his stricken subjects. The queen has been spending 15 hours a day beside the sick beds on the Kegina Elena, attending and 1 consoling and encouraging. < The brunt of the work of rescue ! has fallen on the sailors, foreigners i as well as Italians, and all have done i their duty nobly. Praise of the ltus- t slans are on every lip. They hesitated before no danger, digging un- i der tottering walls or entering tne ] unsafest shells when asked to do .-'o ; by some frantic woman who had not ? lost all hope that husband or child i was still alive. j Although the air in Messina is heavy with the stench of petrifying ! bodies several groups of Sicilians t have camped out in the cleared spac- t es of the city and obstinately refuse i the invitation of the authorities to move away. \ The survivors of the disaster are \ so dazed and worn out that they are i quite incapable of describing their j oxperinces connectedly, but the ac- l counts of all agree that the devas- < tation was accomplished in less than | one minute. The strata below the strait slipped, then a tidal wave rush- l <d in and out and all was over. 1 Those capable of expressing their sensations say that as the shock came \ they felt an upward thrust of the r earth. This was followed by an o oscillary motion and the crust of i the earth vibrated. Few of the survivors are able d to explain how they escaped. They o know only thai amid falling plaster c and mansonry they managed to '1 jump safely from windows or turn- < bled down crumbling stairways. ; I YOUNG MAN KIIXKD. t Much Feeling Against Those Uliarg( o<l With the Deed. 1 Walhalla, Jan. 4.?Mann Phillips, a young white man, was found deed two miles south of WalhaPa yesterday afternoon. Ofllcers and an immense crowd rushed to the scene. . It was seen at once that young Phillips had been murdered and a nue was started I hat led to the arrest { last night of two young men, DeWitt and Cleo Van diver of Westminster. It is believed that Phillips was killed Thursday night and carried dead or dying to the place where ho was found, as tracks of several others were seen there. The only wound was a stab into the heart. Young Phillips had on his overcoat and heavy driving gloves and no knife or pistol was found upon his person. i This murder hns Rtirrml r iminitv, as it has never been stirred I before and wild rumors of sensation a'. * nature are afloat everywhere. s Mann Phillips formerly lived here and is well connected. The- Vandl- 1 vers, are among the most promincn.t ' people in the county. v a TOOK IIKIt OWN LIFE. 1 A Young Atlanta Wife Drink** Carln>lic Aral and Dies. \ Atlanta, Jan. 0.?Brooding own- ^ her unhappy wedded life and sepa- ^ ration from her husband, Mrs. Ellen 0 Stokes, the attractive yaung wife ^ of N. ft. Stokes, a young carpenter. ? who resides at Bell wood, drank an ounce of carbolic acid on Mnmi.iv ? " s afternoon, shortly after 12 o'clock, n and died shorty thoreaftor at tin* g Grady hospital, whither she was taken for treatment. On Monday afternoon Mrs. Stoke-loft her homo at 2f>G Hell wood ave- ^ line, where she has been residing with friends, and went to East End. where her husband was engaged in ? work upon a house. She asked bin to take a wain with her, which for ^ some time he refused to do. Finally J he consented, and husband and wife . walked away. ^ During the walk she asked hint if he was going to come hack and llv Thirty-four Drowned. ^ Odessa, Jan. 0.?The Russian n steamer Sviatoslav with a crew of ti lhlrty-elght, came into collision near n N'ovorosslski with 'the Greek steamer h Poseidon. The Sviatoslav sank with- 11 In three minutes. Thirty-four of h ner crew were lost. a TOOK HIS CASH AND TURN HOW KD T1IKMSFLYFS Ol'T OF STORK. Two Polite Thh'vt'H An AtIuiiIm IMiurumeisl ami Rob linn While lie Smiles. Atlanta, Jan. ?Not even when knighthood was in Mower and chivalry flourished like a green hay tree by the brook side could a more courtely conduct hold-up have been managed than the one practiced upan Dr. James Q. Mcltae, proprietor jf the Capital avenue pharmacy, ,?t the pharmacy building, 3S Capital ?venue, about 9:30 o'clock on Mon lay night, says the Journal of thi.:ity Aa Dr. Mcltae was busied at hilesk in the front room of tno pharmacy on Monday night, two white 1 men came into the store apparently o escape a heavy downpour of rain mi the outside. Dr. Mcltae aros?> hoin liin desk and walked forward ( o wait upon ids supposed customers here being no other person besides ( he three in the whole building. "Hello, Doc!" came the salutiion, from Inn., the men, who ap- 1 yea red very friendly and polite. S'ot to be o tdone in courtosv bj I uiy one, the doctor responded in s. < ike affable manner, prepared to entoy a friendly cnat. ' "It's a hold-np, Doc," insisted the 1 ower of the two men, while the dotor continued to lentil and en |oy his apparent'.y unceremonious greeting. Then the rubber of shorter staiire, who was the leader in the work, vhipped out a revolver and shoved t Into the face of the astonished iharmacist, while the second rob>er followed suit and both called nit "(Jet 'en' up! Get 'em lip, Joe"?still politely. J Dr. MeItae realized at last that 1 le was tlie victim of a nold-up and > aised his liands in obedience to tlie , oinmands of the hignwaymen. lie vas still not to be outdone in point >f good humor and courtesy, and lontinued smiling until the end of ( no episode. While one of the men kept the loctor covered, the other rifled tin1 ( ash register and secured an amount ' >f money ranging from $20 to Then coming hack he joined hi., ' companion who was still smiling it the genial and obliging doctor ! rom behind a revolver. "Now, Doc, if they ask you about ills, tell them that two chaps from s'ew York ca ne around to see yot: < o get a little cash." With this they >oth moved away to tne door, cal.,? ,r K.. -.1- t- D - KSj uauR in im* uocior us i noy puss*1 out, "Good night. Doc." The . loctor responded, feeling ilint a haul >f all his day's cash would insure , hem pleasant slum Iter, with a heary "Good night," which closed the . icene. Dr. McRae immediately phone.1 he police station, his call being inswercd hy Olfieers Fain and Barield. Two men were arrested near >y, hut neither was identified hy Doc- , or Mcltae. One of the men, says ( he doctor, was much ?owor than the | >thor, being feet 6 inches, while In* other must have been nearly (I eet tall. Made Solemn Pledge. I Cleveland, O., Jan. 4.?A niovonent which has been in the course d preparation for several weeks was nit into effect here today when 1 ,tOO young people pledged them- * elves to "live as Christ would have ived." The pledges were made at * he Kpworth Memorial church, win n. 1 ltindreds of members of the lOp- ' vorth League, Christian lOndeavor nd Baptist Young People's Society net. '1 Itnbies From Ilorse. Nowburg, Ala., Jan. 4. ? Miss tuby Green, daughter of a well nown farmer, died yesterday after0011 from hydrophobia contracted in ' n unusual manner. A mad dog re- ( ently bit a horse owned by Mr. (1 ireen, father of the young woman. " 'he horse later went mad and was 1 hot. Miss Green had a slight abra- 8 ion on her left wrist and in some lanner this became infected while n iiu was around me norse. ' c Against Decision. Rcranton, Pa., Jan. 4.?The ('en- ' al Labor Union, representing 7f>.- 1 00 workmen, today adopted resolu- 1 ons anent the decision of Justice /right, protesting against the proosed imprisonment of Compels, lorrison and Mitchell, and appealig to President Roosevelt to use is office "to maintain the integri d t of the constitution.*' S ii . i a Killed Ifimseir. f Americus, Ga., Jan. 4.? Col. Jos. I !. Roney, for twenty years post- a taster here, shot himself through '1 tie brain with a pistol early this '1 lorning, dying as his wife who o card the shot, reached his bedside, b Iness and the. fear of increased bad ealth is believed to have caused his ct. n SOI Tirs FRIENDLY ATTITl'DH rintircly Misliilciiirclt'd l?y I'rosldonl* Elect Taft. Washington, Jan. 6.?That Judge I'aft has mistaken the sentiment of the people of the South, and that no could not export political preferment as against the principles of the people of taut section is the statement made by Representative Jair.es I lay, of Virginia. Mr. liny declared the South the '.and of Democrats, and he assures the Republicans that it is as it; possible to cnang:? the prlncipl here? as it is to change the spots ?t the leopard. "The attitude of Mr. Taft toward tln.? people Cv the South is a matter of surprise and disappointment to all self respecting Southern men.' said Mr. Hay. "The people of the South, tis well as peop'.e elsewhere, have principles to whtcn tiuy ndhvi because they believe them to b* right; but Mr. Taft seems to think that bv the promise of political prof it in t'ii t ho can persuade our poop! to closert principles hi which l? ? > believe. "Is Mr. Taft a Hepiihlican bo cause ho lias boon able to get sop e thing by being one? What pel y does Mr. Taft advocate which will make for the material prosperity of the South7 The South began t.> prosper when it threw oft Republican rule over twenty-five years ago; it lias prospered ever since under Democratic State governments and oouhi not have prospered wltnont them, mid will not prosper* with Republican State? governments." KLAIX FROM AMIirsil. North Carolina Farmer Killed .After X ight full. Danville, Va., Jan. 4.?Charles Hrown, a widely known farmer of near Selma, N. C., was ho, and instantly killed last night near his home, supposedly from ambush b> i party lying in waiting for him. lbwas returning home from a visit to ti tenant on his plantation, when !he report of a gun followed by a cry, "1 am killed," was heard. Hrown was found by neighbors in .? lying condition. His assailant escaped and today bloodhounds wen placed on the trail, ao motive f >r he shooting is known, though there ire rumors that there is a woman n the case. The dead man was between 3 5 and -in years of age, ami eaves a widow and seven children. I'KIKST CA TCI IKS lURCDAK. Covers Intruder Willi IMstol and l'll'vcnts Robbery. Now York, Jan. G.?While sealed ri his study reading, the Rev. Father Rotor I). Dill, of West ,sew Yurie, J., neard tin burglar alarm whieli protects the altar and poor boxes n St. Marys Roman Catholic churn.?. ringing. Arming himself with a revolver i ho priest quietly slipped into the rdinrch, where lie found a man tampering with the boxes. With little ado the priest covered the intruder with the revolver and lull hi in a prisoner until the police arrived. SIMNt.U; Mil,!, Ill UN'MI). Damage Will Amount to About $ 1 I ."?,()< IP. Rellinpham, Wash. Jan. I.?The ilant of the Rnget Sound Mills and Timber Company, said to be i he biggest shingle mill in the worl I, birnJd last, night. The damage was ibout $4 1 a.OoO, with insurance of |i 150,000. \V. Ij Cleveland, a saw iler, was burned to death, and several persons had narrow escapes. The fire started from a hot box Try This One. Among those who like lo mingle bought with their sports a pleasant lour may bo spent transforming >ne word to anotiior by the changing if a single letter at a time. For exmple, one of the company writes ipon the board the word "beef" am1 ays it is to lie changed to "pork."' ^ second person goes to the board ind by tiie change of one letter nakes it beet. The third person hanges it to beat, so by each one's ! hanging one better it becomes sucessively; lleef, beet, beat, peat, ?ert, port and pork. Or changes lose to hand thus: Nose, hose, , lost, hast, hart, hurt, hint, hind, ( land. i j Itooscvclt Defies Senate. Washington, Jan. ti.?The I'resient in a special message to tiie i iennte today declines to permit the ttorney general to say why he has < ailed to bring action against the ] "nited States Steel Corporation on ccount of the absorption of the < "ennesseo Coal and Iron Company, 'ho message is in response to a res- ] 1 ntIon introduced by Senator Cul- 1 orson. < Tiie owenr of a smart dog does itost of trie harkintg. CRUELY SIM Methodist Minister Murdered in His Own Church HE HAD N3 EN:M3| < 'rime liiM iiven il by u Man \\ ho Sought Itefuge in 1110 t'hurch I'roin a i*??!?! Wind?I he Disuicntlicrnl body Found Partially I (II III t III ( 11?? Cllllt'ch Sto\os. Detroit, Mich., Jan. tj.--The dismembered body of the Ri-v. John J Curmietiael, a Methodist minister, was found today partially consumed near Columbus in the southwestern part of St. Clair County. Investigation was begun at once to clear away a temporary uncertainty as to the identity of the victim, and to obtain clues regarding the murder, and the motive for the crime. Identification of the dead clergyman was soon effected by Orvllle Lindsay, who was sent through the county for that purpose by Mrs. Carmlchael, who had been in great distress since her nushand failed to return home as expected last evening. and who surmised that the minister was the victim as soon as sno heard the report that some one had been murdered in tne (Xdumbus church. lint dues of the murderer and his motive were more difficult to obtain. There was a rumor that a strange man had left a train at llickey let ill tie- afternoon, nnil had 1 ? m directed to tho Columbus church, and tluro were other rumorse indicating tliat two men worn implicated in the crime. The fact thai several coins were found in the clothing of the dead man and in i he ashes in the stoves precluded the theory of roldiery and at tho time of his death ik was not known that the murdered minister had tin enemy i 11 t lie world. The Rev. Cartnichael had been in .Michigan about ten years, and for two years had been pastor of three churches at Columbus, Adair and China. With his wife and three children, he resided at Adair. Leaving home yes{ei day molding be tout Mrs. Carmicliael that lie was going to Columbus to arrange for a series of revival meetings there, lie waved his hand affectionately to a group of children as lie drove out of tlie village of Adair and from that moment all trace of him is lost. Myron Brown, who lives near tho scene of tin- tragedy, was the first to discover the crime today. Whilo he was waiting at ihe cross-roads to keep an appointment, the cold wind drove him to seek shelter iti tbi church. lie was surprised to find the church doors unlocked and upon opening them, was terrified to seo the church floor tlx. in.u-u -...-i _ _ , . .. |/? ?? o ?I .??* ?- > VII tli Communion table daubed with blood and fragments of bloody clothing scattered all around. 10\ldently tin- clergyman, who was f>t> years old and of athletic build, had made a terrillc si niggle for his life. Without Invent ingsti infwllobery Without investigating further, drown fled to his home where he lia I a key to the church. lie returned and locked the doors and hurried to the village of Hickey, from which pkice he notiiiod the sheriff's office at Port Huron. The authorities on their arrival at the church found parts of the dismembered body in the two stoves located respectively at the front and rear, and discovered apparently a new hatched, the handle of which had been burned off. A dirk was also found in the church, and tt is believed that the dirk served for the murder, while the hatchet was used to eut the body to pieces. The minister's horse was found today tied to it tree in the village of Pino River, the dead man's overcoat being discovered in the buggy. Pino River is a small village near Thornton, on the main line of the Grand Trunk Railroad, and fully twenty miles from the scene of the murder AMI! It I CANS CII.AKTKR ST F, AM Kit. secure Austrian Lloyd Liner Oceania to Aid Sniveling Italians. Home, Jan. 4.? Ambassador Gris om and the mom hers of the American relief committee have chartered for two weeks the Austrian Lloyd dcamship Oceania. The steamer can accommodate i .ton ^ ~ . v v ?- ?.v * ? ngc ii UU l()0 first class passengers. She is now being fitted out. Ambassador Griscom today delivered to Count Taverna, head of the Italian Red Cross, $250,OoO from the American Red Cross. Count Taverna was overwhelmed and said ho would make an exception to the rule, which forbids the distribution of money through any but Hod Cross channels, and returned to tho ambassador $2,000, which he had contributed to the expense of tho relief ship.