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f FOUND GUILTY Kennedy Convicted but Recoirv mended to the MIRCY OF THE COURT A Notable Trial at 1 turn well, Growing Out of tlie Assassination of l'erry I'ssery Last November Conies to an laid by the Conviction of Negroes anil White Man. A famous cu?e was ended at Hamwell on Thursday by the conviction of Chester Kennedy, a white man, for murder. The case went to the ' jury a little after 1 o'clock and after deliberating for seventeen hours they agreed upon a verdict of guilty with recommendation to j mercy. It is understood that all of the jurymen except one, wanted to fVitlvict f\11 t i* l \r )? t )*iit thai t ho ro wnu one man who would not .ugree to , a verdict of this kind. , The crime for which Kennedy lias been convicted is one that has at- ] tracted attention throughout the ( State since it was committed. Last f November Perry Ussery was shot . from ambush and instantly killed. At the time of the tragedy lie was ( in the company of Mr. Marvin llol- . land. The shooting occurred on the j carnival grounds almost in the heart of the town, about 1 1 o'clock at , night. ( It was on Saturday night and the ( carnival people were closing up to ( tear down their tents, etc., prepar- , atory for a move the next day. In , the midst of the excitement inci- t dent to this work, the loud report c of a shotgun rang out upon the air. f That shot, it has been proven, was t fired by Johnson and at the instiga- H tion of Grubbs and Kennedy in or- a der to kill Mr. Marvin Holland. n The assassin made his escape that p night, and it was several days be- p fore any definite clue could be had. f In the mean time, however, the &u- t thorities and citizens of the town p and community had been aroused by j the infamous deed, and were doing c all in their power to locate the man n or mn who had committed the crime. It was not long before material tl faots were picked up, and, when Do- fl tective Harry Killian, of the Pinker- u ton agency, arrived, he was enabled ti to start right In and get results. By d< the valuable aid given him by the T local authorities he was able to 01 weave a thread of testimony around e< the -guilty men, and ere they knew 01 - it, they were hold tight within the ai mesh of the law. el tttory of the Crime. tl ^ The story of the crime as it was s< ( developed on the witness stand, and hj Ik substantially as follows: On Sat- bi urday night, November 28, 1908, Mr. Perry Ussery was shot from am- tl bush by a negro, Quitman Johnson, ti and instantly killed, and Mr. Mar- SI via Holland, who was with Mr. iJs- T ?ery when he was killed, was also a wounded. The testimony went to 01 show that Johnson was trying to kill a Holland and shot the wrong man. Ferdinand Grubbs, a negro man past n< v the middle age of life, was John- ^ son's aid, and abetter. ti Johnson did not know Holland, and it was Grubbs who bought the gun with which the crime was com- w mitted, who pointed Holland out to w Johnson, who selected the place for fr the crime to be committed and placed the gun in concealment beside the screens, and who after the shooting ar mei jonnson just outside of town a in his buggy and took him to his home, and concealed him until he, s*' Johnson, could get to Aiken coun- ar ty. a The testimony brought out by the th State went to show that there was os ill feeling between Kennedy and sh Holland; that Kennedy was afraid ta for Holland to come to Barnwell to sh testify in a certain case at the No- an vember term of Court last year; that in order to shut Holland's mouth and keep this information he had to hired Grubbs to get this man John- loi son to assassinate Holland before dil court commenced; that in attempt- pit ^ ing to kill Holland on the Saturday tin night before the opening of court in? Johnson made a mistake and killed of Ussery instead. , fei Kennedy's defence was a general tui denial, backed up by proofs of alibies of in contradiction to statements made to in the confession by Johnson and tin statements made on the stand by ha Grubbs. Notwithstanding the hard is U.mm .1*# ukin. "y tut? ueience, u was Impos- frr sible to shatter the strong array of cai testimony put up by the State, and int Kennedy is today convicted by twelve th< of his peers. tin v Kennedy was not arrested until be< after the trial of Johnson and Grub- or bs held at the March term of court, ths when negroes were convicted for the se< killing. It will be remembered that lai they were convicted and Johnson of sentenced to bo hanged and Grubbs wi sent up for life. Th - st* j The reason a girl is sure a man *h? would like to marry her is some other grl also thinks she's the one. &e TEXAS FEVER TICKS HOW TO FHKK CATTLE AN1) PASTURES OF THE PESTS. Sonic Plain, Simple Directions Tliat Will be Found Effective if Given a Trial. There are four practical methods that may be employed in freeing cattle and pastures of Texas fever ticks: . ( 1 ) Pickling on 'brushing oft the ticks; (2) smearing or spraying the animals with a disinfecting solution; (3) dipping the "ticky" animals in a vat containing a solution capable of killing the ticks without j injury to the cattle; ( 1) a systematic pasture rotation whereby the i licks are eliminated by changing the cattle to one pasture after another, I allowing the ticks to drop off, and i preventing new ticks from getting ! on the cattle. In sections where there are largo j herds and ranches, dipping or spraying on a large scale has been successfully carried out, either alone or in conjunction with pasture ro lation, while in other sections, w hore j the cattle on farms consist of only i few head, hand dressing with oil ' lias been found to be the most praoieal plan. The methods above suggested, therefore, apply to different [ sections of the country, and the itockman or farmer should select . lie one which is best suited to his : articular case. kicking or Brushing OIV the Ticks. | Where the herd is small the ticks nay be picked off by hand or scrapid off with a dull knife or curry:0111b. This should be done at least hree times a week in oicier to relieve all the large tic?s before they nature and fall off, as by this sysem the smaller ticks which at first scape detection will be found heore they are fully developed. Afer removal the ticks should be detroyed, preferably by burning. Care hould be taken to go over the aniaals thoroughly, and after once gong over they should not he nog- 1 ucted, as ticks may he picked up rom time to time. If this work is 1 horoughly done and no ticks aljwed to fall off and lay eggs from 1 une 1 to the end of November, the 1 attle will be free from ticks and 1 tie pastures clean. < Smearing or Spray tag. 1 Greasing the animals all over < horoughly with cotton-seed oil, ! sh oil, or Beaumont crude petro ura will assist In preventing the 1 cka from getting upon them and * tsstroy ihe ticks already on them. * his method is practicable when 1 nly a few animals are to be treat- * i. A mixture of 1 gallon of kersene, 1 gallon t>f cotton-seed oil, 1 nd 1 pound of sulphur has proved 1 [fective when used two or three ( men a week during the tick sea- 1 >n. It should be applied with a ( )onge, syringe, brush, mop, or 1 room. ' Where a larger number of cat- ' e are to be treated, but not lough to warrant building a vat, ^raying has given good results, he necessary equipment consists of j force pump such as is used by "chardists for spraying trees, with barrel in a wagon or on a plat>rm and a hose with an ordinary 3zzlo. A 20 per cent emulsion ot eaumont oil or a 5 per cent soiu- 4 on of any of the standard coal-tar 1 ps may be used. The spraying a lould be continued throughout the * hole season and if thoroughly done a ill leave tho cattle and pastures ee for the following year. Dipping in a Vat. ^ Where a large number of animals e to be treated, dipping in a vat is ^ convenient and effective method. . mumont crude petroleum is con- , lered tho most satisfactory dip id may he used either alone or in _ 20 per cent emulsion. Animals at have been dipped in the oil, pecially during warm weather, 011 Id not be driven any great disnce immediately afterwards, and ould be provided with shade and abundance of water. Pasture Rotation. b, This system of eradication appeals 1,1 many farmers and should be fol- ^ ved whenever practicable or conions will permit. It consists In 2 icing ticky animals in a small pasre for a period of 20 days. Dur- 01 ; that time a considerable number 'r ticks will drop off. Then trans- ^ the cattle to a second small pas- ? re for anther 20 days, and if all the ticks have not dropped off, still another pasture. If the full ne has been used, 00 days will cs ve been consumed and the stock al then ready to be placed on tick- Si >o pasture. The object of moving dt ttle from pasture to pasture at II ervals of 20 days is to causo all i: 2 ticks to drop off and at the same ne to prevent the animals from coming infested again with young, seed, ticks. Twenty days is less n in the shortest time within which (]. cd ticks will appear from eggs h, d by ticks that drop off, and all in the ticks present on the animals _ 11 have dropped off In the 60 days, ti e young ticks, when hatched, will ai irve if no cattle are present in ti 5 pasture for them to get on. ai Full information as to how to ir t rid of the ticks, including direc- w | CHILD'S RESCUE Was More Th j? wo Hours in A Very Narrow well. FELL BACK TWICE Wlien She Was Almost Out, hut Finally Was Taken Out After a liemarkahle Singular ami Harrowing Kxperience, During Which the Litthe (*iii Showed Croat Courage. "W. K. H." the Fort Mill correslK)iulent of The State, gays word reached that place Monday morning of a harrowing accident, and a most remarkable escape from death, which Sunday afternoon befell the 8-vearold daughter of C. Cook, a white farmer of the Helair neighborhood, seven miles from Fort Hill. lie says the child was playing about the yard and in some way fell into the well, which is 80 feet deep, contains about eight feet of .vater, and is walled with IX-inch *erracotta piping. The child screame 1 while falling and her parents disc >veied at once that she was in the well. Intelligent effort was immediatedirected toward the rescue of 1 he U i 1.1 u ~ -i : - ? ? ? *. 111hi, ? ii11 u i.- pmyi'd 111 <* roinarKai'li' presence of mind, after sinking the depth of the eight foot of water and rising to the surface, of bracing her body with knees and hack on opposite sides of tlie piping to avoid drowning. A rope was quickly lowered and the child told to grasp it. This she did, but, when drawn to within a few feet of the mouth of the well the child's strength failed and she fell to the botton of the well a second time, but again rose to the surface of the water and grasped the rope. After the lapse of an hour or more the child was again persuaded to swing to the rope while her parents for the second time attemptfid to draw her from the well. Again, when almost within one arm's reach of t^ie parents, the child let go the rope and for the third time sank to the botton, but fortun- ( Italy rose to the surface of the wn'er as formerly. The rope was again quickly lowered and once more was n the haads of the child. This time, however, the child wa9 lot to be presuaded to undertake ha ascent?she was all but exhausted, but had sufficient strength left ' o hold to the rope and thereby save \erself from drowning. Another hour passed and littlo lope of rescuing the child was left. , finally a pair of steeyards was se:urod and tied to the end of a second ope. This was lowered and the * hild told to fasten one of the hooks 1 hf^r pint hlonf T ^ ~.wv.in Lina way sne was ( it last rescued, after facing death , or more than two hours. FIVE AT A BIIITH. V New Jersey Woman Breaks the Family Record. , Mrs. Thomas Renwick, 33 years ' >ld, of No. 72G Springfield avenue, . Newark, gave birth Wednesday f norning to five children. Although j ill horn prematurely, four of them, wo hoys and two girls, were alive ( ind continued to live 15 minutes, j 'he mother will recover. She had t ireviously had three normal chil- r Iren, all of whom are living. To ( )r. Peter F. Motzenbecer, of No. a SO High street, who attended her, a Irs. Renwick said that way hack in i er family on her mother's shin - Y here had been two sets of twins. t " v GOVERNORS TO HE AT HOARD, p billas Press Club Plans History- I making Dinner. A dispatch from Dallas, Texas, lys six governors are expected to e guests of honor at a gridiron diner to be given by the Dallas Press lub during the United States army ^ inrnament, in Dallas August 22 to -S( !). Those in charge predict that i' lis affair will be a history-making ri /ent. in the Southwest. Guests will i' iclude the governors of Arizona, f? rkansas, New Mexico, Louisiana, klahonia and Texas. In , . . 01 once Lived Here. Henry C. Worthington, who mie to South Carolina immediately jj 'tor the war to help reconstruct this ate, died in Washington on Thursly. Ho fled from the State when ampton was elected governor in f 57G. } Killed l>y Pitched Itall. During a game of ball between two iral teams at Hamer, Ala., Satur- ni ly, William Grantham was fatally Tt nrt when a pitched hall struck him i the temple. IIo died Monday. Pi t\ ons for the preparation of dips w id sprays, the arrangement of pas* oi ires, tc., may bo obtained free on $ pplieatlon to the Bureau of Animal ? iduotry, Department of Agriculture, T Washington, D. C. $ THE BLACK ROOT l)AMA(iK DIOlNti DON 10 IN GKOOlt GIA COTTON F HOLDS. Stato Entomologist Worsham Say? That Ii4>ss to DlantorH of State Will IU? Over Million Dollars. A dispatch from Atlanta says: "From the reports coining in from various sections of the State in regard to tlie increased damage done to the growing cotton crop by the black root disease, it now appears that this will cause a loss to the Georgia farmer of over a million dollars this year." This startling statement was made by State Entomologist K. L. Worsham in discussing the ravages of the black root which is proving so disastrous to the cotton crop throughout the State of Georgia. He is making a strong light for the appropriation of $10,000 asked for in the I bill by Repreeoiitatvc Henderson, of Irwin, oiio of the largest cotton growers in the South. Prof. Worshani says that black root is worse than the boll weevil in that when a stalk of cotton is attacked by black root the whole stalk dies, thereby losing all the product in cotton, while the boll weevil gets only a certain per cent of the bolls. With the appropriation asked for. Prof. Worshani believes that a resistant variety of cotton may ho secured and the department will he able to put more experts in the lleld to give the farmers first hand assistance. Any injury to the cotton crop deals the planters a double blow now, for not only does he lose in the price of the lleecy staple, but he also loses in thc products of the not ton -1 ?l- ' ' * x.v/nv/1. dvjuii, ?men nave come to be such a valuable part of the cotton crop. .Just now the cotton oil mills of the State are beginning their annual crush, turning out hundreds of gallons of cotton seed oil, which is finding ready sale at homo and abroad, and also thousands of tons of cotton seed meal, which is being consumed by the cattle of the State, for it is roadily acknowledged as | the first and foremost cattle feed on the market. The passage of this bill, which means so much to the Georgia farmer, is being awaited with interest. COMMITS SUICIDE. Stags as She (Joes to I loom to End Her IJfe. At Tarrytown, N. Y., after singing is she went to her room, appearRntly in the best of spirits, Mrs. Charles Konds, twenty-one years old, wife of the proprietor of the St. [Jeorgo hotel, in Depot square, swallowed two ounces of carbolic acid md died a few minutes later. Her lushand and friends are at a loss to ascribe a reason for tho tsui;ide. Mrs. Konda was married in White Plains, her former home, about a fear ago. She appeared to be hap>y, and she was a favorite with a arge circle of acquaintances. She ought the acid at a local drug store, laying she needed it for medical mi rposes. A half hour before swallowing the lrug Mrs. Konda conversed cheerfuly with friends and spoke enthuslasieally of an excursion she intended nuking the next day. She was heard 0 sing as she went to the room and 1 few minutes later her groaning ittracted attention. When her him >and ran to the room he found her writhing upon the floor. She was aken to the Tarrytown hospital, rhere she died a few minutes after ier arrival. jEGISLATOK DECLAHEI) INSANE. , Ion. Arthur K. Hunch, of Aiken, . Sent to Sanitarium. A dispatch from Aiken says Hon. rthur R. Rusch, of the Ellenton <, jction of tlie county, was adjudged j isano there last Saturday, and car- I ed to the hospital for the insane ( i Columbia. It seems from the I icts that can be gathered that Mr. i usch developed a violent c.'ise 01 , i isanity at. his home last week, and < a Friday liis relatives requested the < leriff to carry him to Aiken. I)rs. i . F. and J. F. Wyman examined and I renounced him dangerously insane, t o was thereupon carried to the ispital. Mr. It usch is a member of le legislature from Aiken county id served faithfully In that capacir. ( A Nice Pick-Up. Whet William Itobelin, a brakelan on the Long Island, N. Y.. f tilrond, the other day picked up a * >rgotten handbag, ho Incidentally 1 Icked up also $100 in money and ? vo complete outfits of clothing, two f eeks' vacation on full pay and an 1 (Ter of a life position at a salary of ' 100 a month as a reward from the 1 wner, Mrs. A. Schwab, of New York, he bag contained gems worth about ' 30,000. I FN as A SKULL Which Revaais a Brutal Mu.-dei itl AikOil Pmin4u ... xinwo VWUIM Ji ' SUSPECT S IN JAIL The Mat, Mail Can and Skull of ('. I j S. Print's, W ho Disappeared the First of July, Discovered in the Savannah Swamp, Where lie Was Murdered hy a Negro. A dispatch from Aiken to The State says the little town of KatItwood on the Southern edge of Aiken county Is stirred with excitement over what appears to he the most foul murder that community has ever known. Levi Chuvou*t, a ne' gro, was carried to the Aiken jail ! Thursday night and charged with the murder of C. S. Pringles, a white I man. I A hat hieiiftn.wi .... .... .4< u ??r> I I t <1 tin can used when fishing and a skull are the only remains of the apparently murdered man. These are now at the ollice of the clerk of court in Aiken, i Pringlos was missed from his home on July \\. It was thought that he had gone quietly away but , a few days ago some suspicion was aroused concerning him and a search , was instituted. C. II. Johns, a friend of the dead man, went into I the Savannah river swamp to search for him. Ills boat, for Pringlos was a flsh| orman, was found at its usual place and further search revealed a skull, the hat of I'ringles ami a can used by him for keeping bait in. Nothing further could bo found of the body or bones. They were found on the bank of the river and it is supposed that the rest of the bones were washed into the river or carried away by ho vulture?. That the man was murdered foully there remains little doubt. The skull is broken as with a club or other blunt instrument. Very little evidence is known against the negro. 1 Chavous left Kathwood about 20 I years ago and came back about three months ago. He is known to have had a quarrel with Pringles and was heard to make threats against him. It is said Chavous was hired to leave Kathwood because he was a witness in an important case. Pringles was a very quiet and peaceable man and is not known to have had any enemies with the possible exception of the negro. The community is aroused over the matter and a full investigation has been instituted. VOL'S!) BODY IN RIVKIl. * Miss Fnirchlld, Whom Sweetheart lilted, Drowns Herself. The body of Miss Ix>ttie Fairchild was found in the Ocmulgee river, a mile below Macon, CJa., a few days ago by W. M. I)iz, a white fisherman. Lottie Falrchild is the woman who disappeared Sunday and who left note saying that Hhe would drown herself because Len Leaver, a young man of the city, would not marry her, it is claimed, after he had promised to do so. 1 TYw. ~?-i - ? , kiii wan ik years or age, and > lived in East Macon. She left an 1 insurance policy and some cash rnon- < ey with t)ie people wtlh whom she i lived. { Leaver drives a wagon for the 5 Waggenstein bakery of Macon. He 1 is said to have denied the girl's state- ' ment that he had promised to marry ' her. * 1 TWO LADIES DROWN IN ROM). North Carolina Mountain Village / Scene of Tragedy. A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C.t say a news reached there a few nights | igo of the death by drowning at e Mortimer, an obscure village in s Caldwell county, of Miss Nannie 1 Jailey and Miss Jet/, in the mill a >ond of the Hitter Lumber Company I1 it that place. The victims were t laughters of officials of the lumber <l ompany, and were boating on the 1 ,w..w. i ne oouies were recovered. I ' t is impossible to secure details of Is ho tragedy. '' ti c HA 11 >101 > MOONSIIINR STILL. ? Mlieers Found Fires lluming When They Arrived. e A dispatch from Greenville says S t party of United States officers left ? hat city a few days ago and made i raid on a distillery near Cold ' Springs. Fire was still burning in 1 ho furnanco beneath the still when ho officers arrived. Several hunired gallons' of beer and a few galons of low wines were discovered. s The still is one of the largest that n he officers have raided in a long j time. 8 COCAINE HABIT <iltO\VI.n<? I'ast amond TIIK nk(,koi:s or tiik soi tii. AiiM'rint's Worst Drug llablt Has (ii'oat Inroads Willi More Menacing I'orlvnl Than \\ liiskey. A Chicago dispatch says tho inroads of the cocaine habit, which tho Currier commission bus found to bo tip. American curse as opium Is tho i cui'mo of China and hemp of India, ! have suddenly developed into a new and ominous phase of the race problem in the I'nited States, particularly in the South. "Cocaine now ranks with whiskey as the chief provocative of rape and its consequent lynching bee in tho South," declares Charles \V. Collins and John Day of the commission in a preliminary report just published in full by the Chicago magazine "Everyday Life." They said: "Already among the 'fiends' and tho policemen who have to deal with them, there is talk of 'the new field.' "The phase, with its commercial suggestion, comes from the dealers in the drugs, retailers and perhaps wholesalers also. Every 'fiend,' it should be added, is more than likely to be a peddler of the 'stuff.' taking ins commission in the same misery that lie distributes. This 'new Held' is among tho brutalized negroes of the South, who, denied easy access to liquor by the prohibitive movement, j.re turning to drugs as a substit ute." The commission quotes from i Hamilton's Magazine an article by | Judge Harris Dickson, of Yicksburg, .Miss., wh.o told of a contractor who ordered a pound of cocaine, to the astonishment of the salesman to whom the order was given, who expostulated saying: "No man on earth can possibly want that much cocaine." Tho contractor reiterated the order. "A man who deliberately puts cocaine into a negro is more dangerous than ho who would Inoculate a dog with hydrophobia," commented Judge Dickson. "The deadly drug arouses every evil passion, gives the negro superhuman strength, and destroys hie sense of fear. Yet the steamboat negro and the levee negro will not work without it. So the levee contractor makes his camp look like a crotts section of hell, but he gets his dirt moved." This cocaine habit is getting a strong hold on the negroes of South Carolina, and we believe it is responsible for many of the ticiidish crimes committed by them. The habit is a fearful curse, and if it is not stopped, will destroy the usefulness of many of tho negro race. When we legislate whiskey out, we should also legislate cocaine and other pernicious drugs out, or they will bo substituted for whiskey by mauy white people as well as negroes. Tho drug habit is worse than the whiskey habit. HAS IT COMK TO THIS? Wife Shoots II unbuild for flaying (Frnphophone. Decauro Lewis Kinwick, of Newport News, Va., insisted on playing his graphophono Monday he is in a hospital with a bullet wound in his leg and arm, and his wife, Josephine K. Rinwlek, is locked lip at the police station charged with the shooting. Kinwick awakened his wife in the morning by playing the graphophone and when he refused to stop Mrs. Kin wick, it is alleged, seized a rifle and shot him through the right inn. Physicians dressed the wound md Kinwick was able to walk around he house. Again Monday afternoon m started the machine up, and when ic refused to stop it, Mrs. Kinwick, t is charged, shot him in the right eg with a revolver. Yot:x<; lad roisoNioi). Ue Morphine and Soon Died From Its FtVects. The young son of Dr. James, a imminent physician of (Freer, filed arly Monday morning in most exruciating agony. The father hurriedy leaving homo Sunday afternoon ccidentally dropped a bottle of morhine on the porth floor and the title fellow picked it up and, when iscovered by his mother, had eaten ,.v- fii-'?icr part of the contents of he bottle. A physician was quickly ummoned and a stomach pump aplled. The poisoning had advanced no far to be overcome. The sad acident has cast a gloom over the /hole town. Pistol Tutor Killed. Richard Starke, a colored boy, acidentally shot and killed himself lunday niuht just after coming out f a church on Morrel Mill at Ridge-' /ay. The bullet entered the right eg severing the art* c. and he bled o death. Crazy Man Escapes. A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C., ays Moses Speaks, of Greensboro, ,n insane patient at the State hos>ttal for the insane there, escaped i few nights ago.