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SERIOUS CHARGE Four White Men Arrested for Whipping a Negro Man to Death MAN WAS ILL AND DIED The Law Abiding Citizens Are Yoi*y Mudi Aroused and the Governor Called 1'jhui to Art?The Evidence is Not Convincing That the Whipping Caused Death. The State says a report by a proin-j incut citizen of Greenwood county to Gov. Ansel's ofliee reveals a state of affairs at Dyson, near Ninety-Six, that demands immediate investigation. According to this report a negro died as a result of injuries inflicted by a severe whipping, and the magistrate, James Rogers, held an inquest at which a verdict of "death from natural causes" or ?lw t i- * i. livn I l W I !">? ?! il ts IMUlIglll 111. The ease as reported to Secretary Bethea, Gov. Ansel being out of the city, was that the negro, who had worked for Henry Williamson, a fanner, had been arrested charged with violation of contract and taken to Greenwood jail. Last Saturday he was taken back by the men who placed him there and Saturday night the negro died. Some of the law-abiding citizens in the community determined to take up the matter with the State authorities and as a result Mr. Bethea, on hearing of the facts, at once telephoned Sheriff McMillan. The sheriff stated that he knew nothing of the arrival or depart tire of the prisoner. He promised to investigate the matter at once. The particulars of the whipping is given in a dispatch from Greenwood to The State. The dispatch says four white men, Henry It. Williamson, Sloan Williamson, Ashby King and Sam \V. Cooper, were arrested and lodged in jail by Sheriff McMillan on the charge of having caused fhe death of a negro, Gus Gilcrease, near Dyson's last Friday by whipping him. An inquest was held Saturday by Magistrate James Rogers of NinetySix. An old negro named Robinson testified at the inquest, but stated that he knew nothing of the matter. I)r. John Lvon of Nlnntv-fitv examined the body, with Magistrate Rogers, and saw the marks of whipping, but nothing further developed. However, later the old negro Robinton came to Cip?. James Rogers, the magistrate, and told him that he hail not told the i?uth, that he kno v he was a dead man if he to id the truth, but he had to tell the truth. He then told that the four men above named had whipped the dead negro and that he afterwards dropped dead. Magistrate Rogers sent the old negro on to Greenwood and he is now in jail. Gov. Ansel wired Sheriff McMillan to look into the matter with all possible diligence and also wired Magistrate Rogers. Sheriff McMillan went to Ninety-Six and MaJ. S. P. Brooks, foreman of the grand jury, also went down to Ninety-Six, and they consulted with Magistrate Rogers and other citizens there, and Sheriff McMillan placed the Williamtons under arrest -there. Ashby King and Sam Cooper were in town and were arrested here. Henry R. Williamson is the young man who had to serve two years in the penitentiary for the whipping of J. H. Wertz, now living in Greenwood, then a neighbor of Williamson's. The correspondent interviewed all four men now under arrest and they deny the charge made against them. They state that they did not whip the negro. Two of them, Cooper and King, say they were not with the Williamsons but a short time, having met them in the road, that the negro got out of the buggy and started to the field to work and dropped, that Henry Williamson went to him and asked him what was the matter and the negro said he was sick; that the negro got up and started off again and dropped again, that they carried him to his sister's house and that Henry Williamson sent for a doctor, hut the negro died ^ soon after. Henry Williamson had tho negro under contract but he ran away about three months ago. He gave a description of him to different chiefs of police in adjoining towns and last Thursday the negro was arrested in Greenwood by Chief McCombs. Williamson was in town Friday on bis way home from a show at Abbeville and was told by Chief McCombs that the negro was there. He carried the negro on homo with him on the train and says that he told the negro if he wanted to go back to work it would be all right. He was met at Dyson by his buggy, driven by the negro, Robert Robinson. The four drove off in the buggy and he says that the death of the negro occurred as above stated. ChJef McOombs says the negro was sick while at Greenwood, that he was staggering as he walked, that when he offered him some dinner the negro told him he was too sick to eat and told him what was tho matter with him, and that he was in a mighty bad fix. He said that in THOSE AWFUL HATS Tin: I.ADIKS AHK NOW WEAKIXG WILL SOON BIO (iOXK. The Fall Styles An* a Hi? Improvement in Looks anil Comfort on tlu* I'rcM'iit Style. It is with a High of relief that most women will hail the new fall hats, whirh are conservative in shape and almost brimlcss. Turbons and toques replace the monstrous ami ungainly huge hats of the preceding seaams. Except for dress occasion the la rue hat can rest on its laurels won last season and this summer. For the first time in many months the hack of the neck is to be visible, | and women no longer wear their hats ! sweeping below the shoulders and j looking periously as if (hey were humpbacked. The new fall models are to be worn squarely and firmly on the head. Historic periods are evidenced in the newest models, for we see the ttubman of Marie Antoinette with its soft draperies and the double bouffant crown of Henry IV., with its somewhat wider brim. The tricorne hat of Revolutionary days is one of the most popular shapes of the fall. It sits straight on the head and in most instances is vnt'v cintiih' I rim mini veil it <> iww L *? \ . ? I or huge cobuchon. A pretty feature of the new style* is the matching of dress materials with which the hat is covered on | crown and top brim," to be faced under the brim with black velvet. In nearly every instance the black velvet facing is seen. It is soft and as a rule, becoming. The to<ilies and turbans are very tall and look topheavy. The trimmings for the most part is simple ? arranged to the side and back. Aigrettes were never so popular and never so much to be worn, in spite, it would seem, of the Audubonists. Feathers abound, the uncurled and willow plumes leading in popularity and the ostrich, as always, holding its own place. Hugo bows of lace and chiffon or malines trim satin, velvet and fur hats and rich laces of gold and silver embroidery are appliqued Hat on the brims of many of the heavier and fuzzy materials. Nearly all the trimmings used lies flat against the crown or brim. Tucks, plaits and fold* art? flattened and are not wired to stick out at angles which destroy the shape of the hat. In many of the models the trimmings is so arranged that finding the front of tin; hat is lilo placing a picture puzzle. This has its advantages, however, as the hat can be worn perfectly in several positions. Morie ribbon | and morie silks are used almost more than any other material and often these are covered with a coarse net of the same shade. Altogether the newest hats give cause for rejoicing, and are extremely pretty, serviceable, and lit the head closely, and are therefore comi fortable styles. ? ST I DION T DISA 1'1'IOA ItS. New llampsliii'e Lad, In School at Aslievllle, Missing. A dispatch from Asheville say* an appeal to the chief of police of that city by the anxious parents of Gray Churchward, of Hampton, New Hampshire, a few days ago developed the fact that the lad, a student at an Asheville school, had mysteriously disappeared from that insti tut ion September 19, ana has not since been heard of. The school authorities state that the boy had been missed on the date mentioned and after his departure a fellow student had given out the information that young Churchward had told him that he intended to go to New York. The boy's father is now in New York using every means to locate his missing son. ? ? ? Coon Frightened Iter to Dentil. An aged negress, living on the plantation of .). Y. West brook, near (Ireensboro, Ala., was frightened to death this week by a racoon which she saw crawling across her bed. The raccoon was killed and eaten by a grandson to prevent any more of his family from perishing. ^ ^ a Husband Defused Wife Shoes. That her husband had purchased her only one pair of shoes in the four years of their married life was one of the reasons given by Mrs. Margaret Dando, of Chicago, 111., for desiring a divorce from William Dando. carrying him to the Jail the negro could hardly get along. Dr. John Lyon's testimony at the 11111 it<'m was sunsiamiaiiy as ioitows* "Upon examining I found deceased suffering from a foul disease. Ho had bruises apparently from whipping. I do not think the bruises were 8uflicient too cause death in it.-elf. I think the deceased died primarily from septic fever. The immediate cause was probably from exhaustion. The bruises on the body were caused inside of 4 8 hours ot death." Ho further says ho saw no blood on the clothing and no other evidence of violence except the bruises referred to above. . #. ^ li \NK Ol Con wa JA4MTAL STOCK StfttPLl'S LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDER! SKCUR11 Y TO DEPOSITORS 1)1 RL I* I % C 1 l i rvoijeri n. ^carDorougn, I H. L. Buck, } O?orgo .1. Holiday, ; We oontiiitifc to ] uy b jxr cent intei i it youraccount ROBKUT B. SCARBonorCIi, ] 1'K KB IDE NT. if Bank of A CON W.1 *9 (>it|>Rnl JiteH'k A I>eo(N<t(9 A Total AhhCn ^ OIHK M\ J. A. MeDermott, Jl T. McNeill, 11. G iT tlehaum, Hal. L. t flY n^i? _ i a ? - iiit* tmn'.Mi nun k ill iioi /A oliua. Associated with, (lie i the past decade. Our. polic the "Independent llepuhlic." fH to our customers every . ren> tent with sound hanking. \\'i /iv al.s, firms and corporations. 4S i). a. srivisv, Vice-President. F1 UMi CAPTI'KFH 15V (iliUi. Turned Over to Some Men Who Let the Unseal Kscnpe. After having been captured hy the brave daughter of a fanner, eight miles from Statesboro, Cia., during the late hours of Monday night, after he had broken her room and attacked her, Otis Hendricks, a burly negro, later escaped from the men in whose custody lie was placed and is at large. The news of the attempted assault and Hendriek's peculiar escape reached Statesboro Tuesday morning. It is said the young woman the negro attacked is large and unusually athletic for a woman, and the negro had no chance to get away after he attacked her before her cries for help brought several men to the room. The men took him Into the nearby woods, it is said, to wait for morn* I ing before taking him to Statesboro. | They built a big lire and were all standing around it when Hendricks disappeared. The negro's shoes, hat and coat were found on the premises of the farmer's home, where he had placed them before entering the young woman's room. siifjiiff oi'twits moil Florida Officer Saves Three Negroes From Lynching. From Pensacola comes the news that, evading a mob bent upon lynching his prisoner. Sheriff Hayes Lewis, of Marianna, .Jackson county, reached there early Thursday morning, having in custody three negroes, Dan Davis, Gary Gray and Robert Gray, who were arrested Monday for tlm murder of .John Dukes, a planter, of that county. After the negroes had boon placed {,. lull f. TVTo, - Hi JCIK til, it I CI 1 I Mild ?> 1 I f I I I 1 < I > II I II I '< I mob was formed about midnight and doiuaudod entrance. Concealing the negroes, the mob was admitted l>v the jailor, and after failing to tin<i the prisoners, quietly left the jail, later learning of the rule by which they had been outwitted, the citizens formed again and prepared to attack the jail a second time. The sheriff, however, succeeded in getting the prisoners away without being molested. Dukes, it is said, was murdered in a brutal manner, the body being horribly mutilated. His wife, who was a Mrs. King before their i marriage, is prostrated, her first husj band having been murdered in a simi ilar manner by negroes. Indicted for Deserting Child. I A dispatch from Spartanburg says the grand Jury returned a true bill against II. A. Sack and wife, charged i with deserting their three weeks' 'old infant at Southern Station las' Saturday night. They were arrested in Columbia, but Mrs. Sack was not I able to return to Spartanburg on j account of being ill. Shoots Himself. At Winston-Salem, N. C., Albert C. Wharton, one of tin? most promi1 nent citizens of that section, com1 I 1 1 ~ - * ? I milieu suH iiit: a lew days uro Dv shooting through th? head. Ho had been suffering from melancholia for several weeks. * lumps the Track. Near Huntington, W. Va., one man , was killed and four others injured, | one probably fatally, when a Chesaj peake & Ohio, engine jumped the track and turned over into a ditch j Friday. Kngineer O. W. Perry died shortly after being taken to the hospital. llOKKY, iy. IS, C. $ 5<HXHt ; ioi*xt S 50 IXXi 110000 C'lORS W. R. 143wis, \V. A. Johnson, Will A. Froaniun. -et-t on yenr 1 \ de]>ob)t&, bLOwe hollo[1 L. HUOK, WILL A. KHKEMAX VllK l'K KSILKNT. .CASHIEB S-S-sfS-SS ' Conway J IV. s. c. W *ao,aao.o? V tao.ooo.oo A A icrroRg ? Jno. C. Sptvey, F). Ay , Collins, ('. P. QutW- jfc Iluck, I). A. Spivey. ^ *ry and a pioneer in Kustern Car- iw> 'lipid progress of our (Xiunt# for y lias been for tlio upbuilding of Willi this in view we extend vf ?onalile aeeoinmodnt ion cousin' solicit the accounts of iudividu- /?> I VIAL. L. BUCK, < 'luliier. m Hit by Ball Bat. Fifteen-year-old Joseph Good man, who lived with his parents at No. 1 17 Anes street, East New York, was watching a number of boys playing hall near his homo. He was standing close behind Max Meyering, also fifteen years old. The batter swung back his bat wtih all His might and accidentally struck Goodman in the stomach. They carried the boy to a drug store, but by the time an ambulance arrived from St. Mary's hospital Goodman was dead. v PHOFKHHIONAL CABDH. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councelor At L?a% CONWAY, ft. O. O. K. ST. AMAMD, AOerney al Anv Genwap, M. A R. B. 8CARBVHNICH oonwat, n. m. Attorney at Law. W. E. Me COR?. SURGEON l)KN'l 1ST. CONWAY, H. . Over Hank of llorry I H. H. BURROUGHS Physician ami Surgeon. CONWAY, S. O. R. WOKFORH XVAIT. Attorni'i at Law. CONWAY, S. O. THE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE | k J.IGHT RUNNING ^ fegE If von wa nt?111 ler a VI bra ting Hhu 1t1 e, Rota ry Hhuttlo or a Single Thread |Chain tUitcfi] Hewintc Machine write to THE NEW HOME SEWINQ MACHINE COMPANY Orange, Mass. Many sewlnc machine* are made to tell recardlew of quality, but the li?W lloua* It made to wear. ! Our guaranty never runt out. Seld by autharlied dealer* inly. I ron tAut av BURROUGHS A COLLINS CO., 1 J Conway, 8. C. INSECT DAMAGE TO CHOI'S. Destroy Over Eighteen Million 1>oIlal'N Each Year. Few people of the State realize the great damage that is done to all crops of tho State annually by the insects. Within the past several years the peach orchards have been practically wiped out by the San Jose scale and the ravage of th^ wire worm down in Colleton is a very striking example of insect damage to crops. Whole peach orchards have been destroyed and abandoned J by the owners. However, within the past, year several orchards have been I planted and are doing remarkably well by the use of the various kinds 1 of sprays, especially so in the Ridge section of the State. The birds are most effective in 1 lighting the insect plague. By statistics it is shown that the birds in South Carolina destroy over 100,000 bushels of insects every year and savo the State millions of dollars. According to statistics it is shown that the insects destroyed over $18,000.000 worth of crops of the State during the past year. The Audubon society is doing very effective work in protecting the birds and the people are beginning to learn their value to mankind and join in the work of protecting them. Commissioner Watson has prepared some very interesting data concerning the amount destroyed last j | year by the insects in the State. fnsePt damage to crops in South Carol ina: Cotton, $5,000,000; Cereals, wheat, barley, $800,000; tobacco. $250,000; truck. $2,000,000; corn, $2,560,000; hay, $1 10,000; rice. $100,000; total damage $11,210.000. Poultry, etc.. $200,000. Dim-I age to forests $5.000.00ft. Products in storage. $2,000,000. Gran t total $ 1 S. 170.000. There is no estimate made for fruits as there are no figures as to totals * JOHN BLACK OX TKI.VL. Former Member <?t* South Carolina Dispensary Hoard. At Columbia John Black, former member of the State dispensary board, was put on trial a few days ago for having received a bribe of $2,500 from John T. lOarly, representing Fleischmann & Co., a Cincinnati firm. The transaction is alleged to have occurred in 1906. There was sensational testimony when Joe B. Wylie, a member of the same board, testified that there was an agreement between the whiskey salesmen and members of the board by which certain houses wore to lie favored. Wylie submitted in evidence his private memoranda alleged to have been made when the board was in session in March, 1906. Attorney General Lyon put in evidence check for $2. .">00 from John T. lOarly, and for $5,000 from M. A. Goodman, both payable to Black. Defendant will try to show that these U'lil'fi OuPl'no onlnomn u L/? " * ? V- IWI o\ I ? I vv cir? oci IV OIIKIU UL"" fore election on the board. The Black case is the only remaining one of the series in connection with alleged frauds in the old State dispensary which will be tried at this term. SKXATOK TILLMAN AMl'SKI) To See Mow Little Was Made Out of Wylie's Confession. Senator Tillman was in Columbia on Monday on his way to the country trom his home in Trenton, stopping over between trains to do a bit of personal blinking busine.-s. "What do you think of the vorlict in the Karnuni ease?" he was asked, as he boarded a street hack 51 lid ordornd t ilrtvnr i It liiii',.\r i It the Southern train. "Haven't thought very much about it one way or the other," lie said, ordering the driver to "go on. "It has tickled me no little to see how some people are worrying about it. And it has surprised and amused me to see how little the prosecution got out of its little game of bamboozling that fellow Wylie into ai confession." Hy that time the Sen-j ator was making hio way rapidly toward the depot. He told a friend that it was his intention to do no lecturing this year, that he was going home and stay there till Congress opened, devoting his attention to farming. ? (Jilt L OI'TKAUKI) AM) SHOT. Young laxly Dies at Haul I'Y as Itesult of Terrible Crime, A most horrible erimme was recently committed near Saijt. I'Y, N. M. A dispatch says as a result of being criminally attacked and shot last Tuesday, while on the outskirts ' in mo inw 111 uermrucie Montgomery, who wont thoro from Shreveport, La., whero she taught in collogo for fivo yeara, died in that city Monday. Misa Montgomery was not found until Sunday, when, awakening from her stupor, she tried to crawl to a water hole to quench her thirst and was seen hy a littlo girl, who gave the alarm. Three convicts at work on the highway in that vicinity have been arrested. COTTON PICKER INVENTED BY A BENNETTS VI LJL.E MAN IS A 8UCC10S8. Operated by Seven Hands and Will # Pick From Four to Six Thousands Pounds Per Day. For years the genius of the South has been trying to solve the problem of labor saving in the cotton fields with especial reference to the picking of the cotton, the great bug-a-boo of the planter. Mason of Sumter and otuers have made partially successf ill experiments, but nothing has yet been found practical. A Bennettsville genius now thinks he has solved the problem. The Advocate of that town in speaking of the invention says: A few days ago Angus Campbell, representing Theodore Price, the well known New York Cotton man and speculator, was in Bennettsvllle for the purpose of securing a field of cotton for the demonstration of Mr. Campbell's cotton picker, in which Mr. Price and others are interested. It was announced that the cotton would remain in the field till about the first of October, when Mr. Price and his associates would come to Bennettsville and try the machine in the field of cotton, which was obtained from Mr. Price's friend, exSenator John b. Mcbaurin. v irw u;iys auer air. Campbell was horo, a telegram was received from Now York, announcing that the factory which was making the cotton picker had been burned down, and that the demonstration would have to be called off. While the people of this section will not have the anticipated pleasure of seeing tin* Campbell-Price picker demonstrated here .they will be able to see one invented and manufactured by a Hennettsville num. J. M. Itrasington, the inventor and manufacturer of the Star pea lniller, and other valuable farm machinery of his own invention. He expects to have it ready for a practical trial in the Held within the next few weeks. Mr. Hrasington's picker will be operated on the suction principle. It will have six arms and when owe of them touches an open hole of cotton, the staple will be drawn from the boll and up the hollow arm into receptacle. The principle is the same as that by which cotton is \ sucked up from a stall or wagon into a ginnery. The machine will be propelled and operated by a gasoline engine. The wheels will run in the middle of the rows and the machine will be high enough to move over the to|> of the stalks. The arms will be directed to the open bolls by hand. There will be an operator for each arm, one on each side of the row. and three rows will be picked at a time. The arm will merely touch M the boll, when the cotton will be instantly sucked out and will be k passing up into the receptacle while ^ the arm is being moved to the next boll. Mr. Ilrasington has tried the machine by taking stalks of cotton to it in the factory here. It picks the cotton clean, and he is convinced that a practical demonstration in the field will prove it to be a success. He estimates thnt u nmfhiim V % itlM^lllUVy will pick from 4,000 to 0,000 pounds a clay. It will require seven hands six to operate the arms, and an engineer. Theg machine will he so constructed that the engineer can ^ regulate the speed for thick or thin cotton. *' ltriiIN(? ON COTTON WKIGIIKKS. fudge (iary Kcnders Opinion m Case From Bethune. A decision rendered hy Judge Finest Gary on the duties of the cotton weighers at Bethune, in the cas3 of Sydney Bartleld. nlalntiff mi??a on several important points that will he of local interest. Tlio motion raises substantially three questions: Whether or not the act of 1900, entitled "An act to provide for the election of a cotton weigher at Beth tine, S. C., and to describe their i duties and fix their compensations," shall make it mandatory for the I cotton weigher to weigh all cotton | brought to the market for sale, or | whether that provi.-ion in the act is merely directory. Judge 'Clary holds on this question that the language of the statute, "It shall be the ^ duty of the said weigher to weigh all cotton brought to the said town for sale fairly and promptly. ism j i.ig a ticket therefor, which shows I the weight of each hale," Is plain I and explicit in its meaning that the 1 cotton weigher shall weigh all cotton j brought to said cotton market. A i second question is raised, whether or not the act in so far as it may seek to exclude buyers and sellers from agreeing upon private arrangements for weighing cotton, which is mutually agreeable to both, is repugnant to the constitution of this State, and an infringmcnt upon the liberties of the citizen, and therefore is null and void. The judge holds in ths question that the act is a proper exercise of the police power of the State. About the hardest thing to do is to get any enjoyment out of the enjoyments you carefully plan. ^