The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 27, 1909, Image 4

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CHASED NEGRO Sheriff Corley of Lexington County Shot by. A BLACK FARM HAND Shoots Through Window at Sheriff Who Had Warrant for I lis Arrest?Tho Sheriff is Badly Wounded, and Hundreds of Angry Citizens Pursue the Negro. Sheriff P. 11. Corley of Lexington was shot and dangerously wounded WpiIiii Kiiiiv hv a i.i'l'ni. Willie l!v mini, who at lust accounts is Hoeing for his own life in front of a posse of ueteriniued Lexington men. Sheriff Corky is wounded with No. 4 shot in tho hand and face, and is now at tho home of Air. 1). J. Caughman, a few miles from tho town of Lexington, where he is being aliened by Dr. Wingard. The shooting occurred Wednesday morning on Air. 1). J. Caughman's place, llynum was working a crop on that place, but a few days ago left his crop. In order to protect his interests, Mr. Caughman put a gang of laborers in the Helds, which liyuuni had deserted. The negro drove oil' the hands with a shotgun. Mr. Caughman went to town and swore out a warrant for liyuuni, which was placed in the hands of tho sheriff to serve, and Sheriff Corley, always ready to perform his ollicial duty, went at once to arrest the negro. He was found on the place of Air. Caughman, and as the sheriff approached his house, the negro lirod with the shotgun, part of the load tearing up the sheriff's baud and the rest lodging in his face. The sheriff was at once iarried to the home of Mr. Caughman and the physician summoned. At noon a telephone message from Lexington stated that the sheriff had not yet recovered from the shock of the wound, but hopes are entertained that the wounds will not prove fatal or serious. Tho negro Immediately made his escape, leaving his family on the place. HUs former home is north of the town of Lexington, but ho is said to have gono south toward the sandhill section, uad he is being followed in that direction by a large posse of Lexington citizens, with bloodhounds If pnntiirt'H mm ho donht less will be, it is not likely that he will ever be put in jail, lie is said to be a bad negro, and the citizens with whom ho worked last year stated to The Columbia Record that he had always given trouble. Sheriff Corley is one of the most popular men in Lexington county, and one of the best officers in the State, cool, determined and courageous. The town of Lexington was practically deserted Wednesday, as the men were all out hunting for the negro, and the whole surrounding country is being thoroughly sea relied. In the absence of Governor Ansel in New York, Secretary Bethea is energetically using the telephone wires to keep constantly in touch with the situation. If good judgment and diligence here can prevent it, there will be no lynching in Lexington. Mr. Bethea, however, is relying confidentially on the lawabiding element in Lexington to prevent a lynching. Not Yet Caught. A telephone message from Lexington to The Record at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon stated that the negro had been tracked by the posse to a point across the railroad. about three miles south of where the shooting took place, anil from signs it was evident that the negro had stopped for a rest at a log near a branch. The posse has gone on into the woods after Itho negro. The bloodhounds from the penitentiary and the county chaingang are 011 the trail and the men following are confident that they are on the right scent. The gentleman giving the information stated that it was not thought the men composing the posse would lynch the negro, but if he shows fight when cornered, as lie probably will, he will be killed in short order. The negro is said to have Indian blood in his makeup. The news of the sohoting in some mysterious way reached the home of the negro a few miles north of Lexington in a wonderfully short time, and it is reported in Lexington that the house of the negro's father is guarded by the negroes of the family. The negro has gone in the opposite direction from this place, but it may be his idea to circle around and reach his home, if he can evade me pussc. Sheriff Corley is at this hour said to bo in great pain, and the shot have not yet been extracted from h's wounds. Ho was bred on by the y negro from a window, with a shotgun loaded with No. 4 shot, the shot entering the right side of his face s ard neck, his breast and his right | | hand, the hand being badly wounded. : He was about 3 0 feet off when the I j negro fired, and saw that the negro ' was about to shoot, and had the i drop on him. The sheriff shot twice, 0 with his pistol, after he was wounded, but did not hit the n< gro. The j negro left his gun when he ran, but HELD IN A SHACK FOIl TI1KKI0 I>AYS AM) XUJHTS IIY TIIHKE HAD MEN. ^ * The Tcrrihlo Experieiwo of a Ytmnj; Iauly Slum W'orki'i' With lltiltians H Near Now York. Miss Emma Trotter, a missionary . Ii for tho Florence Critteuton circle ui Asbury Park, New York City, related her remarkable experience as a prisoner of three men, who after h:ivini' c:i 111 n ii ! I hi>r h:i/1 lirntnllv beaten and drugged her, holding her for three days. Following her escape Wednesday K night from the shack of her captors, I ? Miss Trotter made her way to the a Florence Critteuten mission at As- I v bury Park and was then so weak (l that she was sent to a hospital. 1 11 A telephone message requested Miss Trotter to call at a certain house ; ' in a good district of Asbury Park | early Saturday night in connection J ? with her work as a missionary. As j ( the door was opened sh<? was grabbed ' by three men who dragged her into i ? the house. I ^ There she says that the men demanded knowledge of the where- (" abouts of Charlotte Craves, a girlj'' who had been taken from them a | week before by the Florence Crit- * teuton circle and sent to a home. When she denied them the information they demanded, she said, 81 one of them threw his arm about her neck and opened her mouth j ? 1 11 while another poured a thug down her throat. It was not until Monday night 'S that she recovered consciousness. Miss Trotter reported, and then she found herself alone in the shack on '' the outskirts of the city with one of ' her captors. She prayed with this " man and caused him to so repent ** that he permitted her to escape late WVdnosday night. The police alter a hurried investigation and visits to the location, described by Mies Trotter, said that a there was no doubt that Miss Trot- a ter was telling the truth. ????????? (V PUBLICLY KXONKRATKS ? e A Young Mhn Who Served a Term s! iu State Prison. 8 h Twenty years ago Miss Mollie Lienhart prosecuted Elijah Fielding, ? her lover, for stealing her ring, ascording to a dispatch from Jasonville, lnd., to the Pittsbtirg Gazette- 'J Times. He was sent to prison protesting his innocence. He returned to Jasonville and the two, both of whom have remained single, have not spoken until a few days ago. The ring was found a few days ( ago near an old spring where Miss Lienhart had dropped it. She remembers having been at the spring the day she missed it. As soon as the ring was Pound she went to Fielding and bogged his forgiveness. Afterwards the neighbors gathered at her home "to meet Mr. Fielding." STANDARD OIL MAGNATE Dies Suddenly at His Home in NewYork City. it if o l _ < i i. . m 1 ii. ii. jvuugers, one 01 me oian- i (lard Oil magnates died in New York i ' (j on Wednesday. Mr. Itogel's died at his house at No. 3 East Seventyeighth street about 7 o'clock Wedii nesday morning. 1!<? arose about and about 15:30 he began to feel ill, ^ complaining of numbness and nausea. Before anything could be done, he sank and died. He went on Fri- ' day last to his country place at Fairhaven, Mass., and returned to New a York Tuesday. News of his death | came as a surprise to wall street. Mr. Rogvrs was at the ollice of the Standard Oil Company Tuesday and appeared to be in good spirits. MARRIED AT GINS' MIZZLES. cl " v: Clarendon Groom Carries llis Troub- 1 les to the Coventor. Claiming he had been marched tit 1 the muzzle of twenty-five shotguns in the hands of the woman's relatives, C. M. Holliday, a member of a Clarendon family, Wednesday appealed to the Governor's office for relief. Ho said the life of the Baptist preacher, J. R. Funderburk, who performed the ceremony against his inclination, was also threatened by the holders of tin* guns. Holliday says that the woman's relatives are ' now trying to kill him for refusing to live with the girl. Killed hy Lightning. Alex and Jack Rrown, two negro, boys, were instantly killed by light- i ning Thursday morning about 9:30 o'clock on the plantation of Mr. Wm. Toney, near Johnston. There were five in the one-room dwelling and ' all received a shock. 1 , i has his pistol with him, and it is ' expected that he will try to use it I if cornered. { There are from 100 to 150 men { in the party searching the whole 1 territory, and the negro will likely < 1 he caught or killed before dark.? t 1 Columbia Record. c GREAT OVATION iven President Taft on His Visit to Virginia AAKES GOOD SPEECH it Which lie Pays a High Tribute to the Confederate Soldier?Declares the Ceremonies Are Proof Conclusive of the I nitin^ for All Time of the Sections. President. Tnft Weil nesilii v \vji? thn uest of both Pennyslvania and Virinia when he delivered an address t Fort .Mahone, following the unfiling of a monument and statue of leneral John F. Ilartranft, erected 11 memory of Pennsylvania soldiers ho fell in the lighting about Petersurg during the war betw en the tates and later became the guest f Petersburg at a luncheon and reopt ion. The president's visit to Petersburg, nee the 'citadel of the Confederacy,' as had the city aflutter for more linn a month, and the plans for his ntertainment surpassed anything of lie sort ever undertaken here. The eeasion of Mr. Tail's lirst visit into lie South as president was taken dvantage of l?y the Virginians for a isplay of hospitality for which the action long has been noted. Upon his arrival shortly after 11 'clock the porsident was driven to lie old battlefield so rich in historic iterest. lie lirst witnessed at Fort todinan the unveiling of a tablet 'hieh stands on the spot where the liird division of the ninth army orps, commanded by (leneral Ilartiinft, later governor of Pennsylvaia, recaptured the works 011 March f>, 1 8G5, after they had been taken v Central John 11. Cordon and 100 iekod men before daybreak of the a me day. From Fort Stedman the president nd his party were driven the mile nd a half to Fort Mahone, wh* re the lartranft statute has been construc.t(1 at a cost of $50,000. Every inch f the way traversed by the chief xecutive witnessed bloody battles uring the siege of Petersburg. Old oldlers in blue and in gray rode ide by side from Stedman to Mn lone. At t lie unveiling of the Ilartranft tat no President Taft said: "We are met on the soil of Vir;inia to dedicate a memorial to the iravery of the sons of Pennsylvania, xhibited in a contest to death with he sons of Virginia and the South. Ve stand here in the center of the iloodest and most critical operations if the last year of the Civil War, illy a few miles distant form that Iramatic scene at Appomattox heween Grant and Lee, which marked I he great qualities of the heart and oul of each and which was the real ud of the terrific struggle between ho two sections. "Here, in and about Petersburg, he outwork of Richmond, the home if the Confederacy, were carried on hose besieging operations, begun ate in the spring of 1 804 and coninued with the courage and tenacity if purpose characteristic of the fed- I ral commander, for nearly a year, ml resisted with the bravery and trategy and the wealth of expedient if tlie Confederate leader, until the orces of the South, worn out by onstant assaults and incessant lianiuering, were compelled to yield to ;reater numbers and resources of the sorth." President Taft added: "It is 44 cars since the battle of Fort Steadnan. In that time the bitterness of he internecine struggle has passed way and we now treasure as a com11011 heritage of the country the bracry and valor of both sides in that :ontroversy." The president paid rihute to the Southern forces hy aying that a contest was given hy he Confederate soldiers which hy my other than the tried and seasoned veterans of Virginia would lave long before been abandoned. Ho continued: "We could not ledicate this beautiful and enduring nemorial to the volunteer soldiers )f Pennsylvania with such sense of ts justice and appropriateness had hey not been confronted by an eniiny capable of resisting their assaults with equal valor and fortitude." He said that the ceremonies of tolay were conclusive proof of the initing of,the sections and that all diat was done was well done. He *aid the Army of Northern Virginia fought for a principle they believed to be rigth. KILLED ItV TRAIN. Man \Va* Lying on Track When Engine Struck 111 in. The newa nf tV?? ?' titih v.iv iviiniif, KJL YY 111 Tate, colored, at Tlrzah, York county, was brought In a message to tho railroad commission at Columbia ruesday. The telegram states that Lho negro was lying with his head icross to the left side of the track ind that Engineer Cross saw him too ate to stop tho train. The man was lead when he was reached. The rain ran over him was No. 29, Couluctor Barxdell. STEAMSHIP LOST WAS SINKING WlllvN CREW PI SHED OFF IN BOAT. Tliey Hcaclicd I>and After Three Days and Nights Hard Work in Huging Seas. After having <*'%" n up all hopo cf ever seeing lan 1 hc'mii, Capt. Aroison and his crew of live of the Brit- j Ish steamer Roanoke, which went to pieces twenty-five miles off the Azores on March 26, arrived in New York on the steamship (lollia. Loaded down with a cargo of salt from Santa Paolo, Spain, for St. i John, X. P., the Roanoke ran into a hurricane when 150 miles off Fayal, : which cut her canvas into shreds. A jury sail was rigged and the ' cp w managed to get the sinking vessel to a point twenty-five miles from the Azores when the seas carried away the deck house. The only life-hoat on the Roanoke had been so damaged by the storm that it was necessary to repair it | with canvas. > As the Roanoke settled Capt. Aronson and his men got under way in a small boat. They rowed the ' twenty-live miles into Faval through raging seas, the work requiring three nights and three days. In that time they passed two steamers which did not reply to their flaring torches. At Faval they were sf> exhausted that they were kept in the hospital until the Gallia touched there and brought them to New York. KIMJ:I> IIIS itRihK To Whom He Was .Married Four I Days Only and Himself. That L. H. Worley killed his bride of four days and himself, was asserted by the police tonight. The bodies of Worley and his wife, who woas Miss Ruth Leltoy, of Lincoln, Neb., were found on Worley s farm ; near Redmond, Neb. Last Friday j and Saturday the house was closed. It was burned on Saturday. I Worley's letter addressed to a } | neighbor follows: "It is all a mistake. Ruth asid this morning she did not want to live with me and said she was going back east again. She robbed me of all my money and wa.s going to leave me. I could not stand it any longer, so think we both are better dead. "Before God, just found my purse in Ruth's stocking with all my money and she denied It. This is more than I can stand. "'I II WADI WV \uif^uvu; i J. 11. n ViUl/Tj 1 . The tragedy was discovered by two j men who went to the Worley farm to deliver a wedding present. On tho barn door they saw this sign: "Find me in the stable." Ml'KDKHKl) BY IIKlt HUSBAND. OitM'ps Into Wife's Boom and Cuts Her Throat. At Atlanta, (la., Mrs. (leorgo , liurge was murdered early Monday j by a man who crept to the side of her bed while she slept and cut her I throat with a razor. Her husband is under arrest charged with the I killing. A remarkable feature of the case is that the slayer, after killing the I woman, picked up her Ill-monthsold baby from its cradle and fervent- j lv kissed it. before running from the I room. It is alleged that liurge, who had separated from bis wife, threat- j ened her with violence if she did not give him custody of her baby. Tlll't'O lit hill' I'lil'lfl run r\f \t vj ! Kurge?all step-children of Kurge? wore asleep in tins room a I the time. Frank Kritton, the eldest of these, was slightly cut by his mother's slayer, whom he claims he recognized as his step-father. Hurge was arrested at his boarding house. The police claimed that he had blood on his shirt sleeve, but he said it was merely dirt. lie said that ho could prove an alibi. DHYKLOPH IIYPKOPHOKIA After Having Keen Ititton by a Dog Two Years. Those people who claim not to believe In hydrophobia will find it hard to explain the following case, which is reported from Winston Salem, N. C.: Miss Maude Wimel, 11> years old, daughter of a Forsyth farmer, who was bitten two years ago by a rabid dog and who for the past two days has been manifesting signs of hydrophobia, was declared Monday by attending physicians to bo suffering from that disease. It is said she can live but a few days. lining (iocs to Prison. At Flushing, N. Y., where he was tried, Capt. Peter C. Ilains was Mon day sentenced to serve an Indeterminate sentence of from eight to sixteen years In prison for the killing of William E. Annls. The sentence reads, "At hard labor in the State's prison." Women should remember that men can't be convinced by scolding. A knowledge of birth stones never helps a girl to acquire a solitaire. THAT OLD MYTH President Taft Talks About it at Charlotte IN A DIPLOMATIC WAY lie Keceivcd the Welcome of His J Life on Thursday While Visiting n Charlotte, Where lie Was Sit- L luted l>y Cannon and Met by Ini- r, posing Committee and Military. a President Taft's presence in Char- , h lotto Thursday lent notable interest tU> the annual celebration ol' the sign- u ing of the Mecklenburg declaration n of independence, which, it is claimed, s was the lirst sti p toward liberty tak- a en by the American colonists. The president's participation marks the r culmination of a three days' celo- 51 bration. 11 The Mecklenburg declaration long v has been the subject of a stubborn Y controversy. It is declared by its supporters to have antedated the a famous declaration of July 4, 1 771?, and lias been denounced as a "myth." " '1 lie difference between the upholders v of the Mecklenburg document and '' its critics long have been considered ? irreconcilable. it was with great 1 elation, however, that the people of 11 North Carolina secured the accept- ' ance of President Tal't to attend the ^ festivities of the closing day of the celebration of I'JU'J. 0 The president upon his arrival ? in Charlotte at 10:15 o'clock was s met at the railway station by an ini- s posing committee of citizens and eseorted ;it once to the Selwyn hotel. As the regular Southern railway A train bearing the president's car crossed the city limits, a presidential salute of 2 1 guns was llred by the ^ Charlotte artillery. Arriving at the hotel, the president held a reception * for one hour. At noon, with scores ^ of Union and Confederate veterans a for his escort, accompanied by Mrs. ^ "Stonewall" Jackson, lio proceeded to the reviewing stand, l'rom which he witnessed the passing of probably the most notable parade ever held ^ in Charlotte. The militay escort to the president during his stay in Charlotte consists of troop E of the Eleventh i United States cavalry, a battalion of the Seventeenth Infantry band. A detachment of the regulars headed the military division of the parade. * Altogether there were eight divis- r ions to the pageant as follows: ^ Industrial, floral, colonial, eques- a trian, farmers, fraternal societies c and secret orders, automobiles and a the fire department. Large detach- a ments of the National Guard of North and South Carolina were in 1 line. The industrial, colonial and 11 floral divisions were made up of e handsomely decorated floats. The president made two speeches a during his stay in Charlotte. Fol- () lowing a luncheon at 'J p. 111. he ad- *4 dressed the people at 4 o'clock. Gov- _ ernor Kitchen introduced the presi- 1 % dent on both occasions. At 5:30 4 he delivered an address especially z to the colored people and to the students of Middle university. At a o..?u me president dined and from 1 ?S to f>: it 0 held a second public rec- a ( option. The president left at 10:30 J1 o'clock Thursday night for Washington. ' Interest in the president's visit to " Charlotte centered in the attitude he would take toward the Mecklen- 11 burg declaration of independence. Presi^net Taft takes the position that regardless of the exact language of the declarations made in May, 177f>, a full year before the signing '1 i of the declaration at Philadelphia, July 4, 1770, the fact remains that j there was a declaration of independence on the part of the citizens of . North Carolina. "It. is not so material as to the s exact language used," said President 1 Taft, "The measure of the declara- * tion for the principles of civil liberty 1 and self government is not so much f the abuse or denunciation of the for- ? mer controlling power as provisions c made for the future form of govern- v ment. The impressive thing about N the North Carolina proposition is x the sensible way in which the people c of the State, after deciding to sever relations with Great Britain, went ' about the matter of setting up a government of their own." The president in his speech does not undertake to reconcile the long- rj existing differences. The important thing, after all, he points out, is the ability of the Anglo-Saxons to rule and the impressive way they have always gone about the setting 1 j up of simple and just forms of gov- c eminent and mean sof maintaining < civil lilierty. , j Hurled in Mine. 1 A telegram from Negaunee, Mich., i j says that Victor Norse and Edgar 1 Ylensen, miners, were buried alive ( ' In the Mary Charlotte mine. A large ( ' force of miners tunneled for the ( i men all day and recovered the dead bodies. Capt. Stoll Dead. ^ Capt. Samuel M. Stoll, formerly of i j Klngstree, a Pullman car conductor, | c with headquarters at Savannah, diod i f j a few days ago at his old home. 3 ^ t VTtVMa ^ tl'iMWI ' ? dlH / ATTACKED A NEGRO . II. SI'IUKS STABBED AND SKHIOrsLY INJURED. he Georgia Furuier Wits Savagely Assaulted Because He Tried to W, Collect a Debt. The Augusta Chronicle says Mr. . 11. Spires, one of the most promient white farmers of Lincoln comy, Ga., was savagely attacked by Jbert Aiken, a negro farm hand, "hursday and seriously if not fa-t11 y wounded. Air. spires was on ills way to sc? is mother, who 1 iv s about a mile rom liis own plantation, when k? . net the negro who was riding a mle. Mr. Spires was on foot and topped the negro to ask him about , small debt. Aiken became enraged and used ough language and when Mr. Spires pproacliod him he jumped off his lule and began stabbing Mr. Spires rith a large knife, indicting a deep round and cutting an ugly gash a oot long in the back, laying the ribs nd spine bare. Mr. Spires called for help and was card by his brother, J. CJ. Spires, .ho was plowing in a Held nearby, ut who arrived too late to lay hands n the negro, whom ho saw riding apidly off. lie picked his brother p from where he had fallen in the oad and carried him to his home and ave the alarm. A party of fifty men quickly formd, but Sheriff Wright got in ahead f them and caught the negro in a wamp where he had hidden. For ale keeping the negro has been sent ut of the county, for owing to Mr. piles' prominence feeling runs high ml lynching is feared. Fate Thursday night the physical announced that taero is not much lope for Mr. Spires. Two of his ibs are in two, one lung is carved n half, and there is a long gash in tis stomach, two incites deep, in ddition to the terrible gash down lis back. WHERE OI K PEOPLE LIVE. ^hiitPMi SUUos Hold One-Third of the Population. Of the 88,006,000 people in the Jnited Slates, Alaska included, about nc-thlrd live in the 13 original ' Hates, according to a report by the iureau of Statistics of the Departnent of Commerce and Labor, mother third live in the States crated from the territory ceded to the ommon union by the original States ud the remaining third in the area dded by purchase or annexation. While a large share of the terriorv in the United States has come mder cultivation or individual ownrship, the figures show that in 1908 ^ here were 704,895,000 acres of unppropriated and unreserved land, f which almost one-half was in Uaska, 61,1 77,000 acres in Nevada; 6,532,000 in Montana; 4 1,778,000 n New Mexico, and 42,709,000 in sow. Mexico, and 42,709,000 in Ariona. Of swamp and overflow lands there no about 75,000,000 acres in the ountry, of which IS,500,000 acres re in Florida, Ixniisiana coming iext with about half that amount. lie total number of immigrants nto the country since 1820, tlie year f earliest record, exceeds 2 6,000,',00. In 1 905, 1 900 and 1 907 the lumber averaged more than 1,000,'00 a year. * Sl'I/TAX'S IIA11KM MOVED. Turkish Oowds Witness Rehousing of HO Women. Eighty women from Abdul Ilamd's harem were driven through the treets of Constantinople, this week, indor escort of four eunuchs and a roop of cavalry. They went from he Yidiz palace, now being prepared for public use, to the ancient leraglio palace, which has not been >ccupied since 1824. The women vere all richly dressed and heavily 'elled. Following the carriages in vhich they rode was a train of wagins with baggage. The former sultan's slaves have ieen freed. KT1I.I. II AVfilV/i .....IMl.llI Puckish Soldiers Executed for Killing Ofllcers. The young Turks is certainly takng revenge on their enemies. The executions of the soldiers of the old Sultan goes on apace. Fivo more nen were hanged Monday morning n front of the building of the Pariament opposite the Mosque of St. Sophie, in Stamboul. They had been 'ound guilty by court martial of complicity in the murder of their iMcers in the revolotionary outbreak >f April 12. Hull Hushed Upstairs. Infuriated by a long red cloak vorn by one of the Shaker sisters n West Plttsfleld, Mass., a bull rushHi after her into a house and upstairs. He was shot by a lad 13 irears of age.