Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A FIEND CAUGHT \ And Narrowly Escaped Lynching For an Attempted Assaolt ON A LEXINGTON LADY The Fh'ud Watched the Homo of the laidy Vnttl Her Husband Left for His Work, Whou Ho Attacked Her in the Yard and Knocked Her Down and Choked Her. A dispatch from Lexington says Coot Lever, the negro who attempted to criminally assault the young wife of a prominent Dutch Fork farmer, at her home near Piney Woods Church Monday afternoon, between the hours of 1 and 2 o'clock, was lodged in the Lexington jail by Deputy 8horiff LMillor Tuesday - morning about 2 o'clock, after the most exciting race that officer has, ever known. I^ever was captured in the house of another negro near the town of Chapiu. The train for Columbia was soon Suo and It was the first intention of the officer to carry his man by rail, but before the truln arrived Mr. Miller heard the posse coming on horseback and ho at once secreted the negro until a buggy could be secured. In the meantime the angry crowd was scouring the whole ne'ghborhood round about, seeking tinwhereabouts of the deputy. Ah soon as possible Constable L. 1,. Hoof hitched up his horse and met Mr. Miller a few hundred yards away and the journey of fourteen miles to the court house was begun. As the party rode over the rought hills of Dutch Fork, they often imagined that they heard the sound of horses' feet right behind, and by the use of the whip the horse was made to increase his speed. When the river was reached, it was found that the ferryman, Mr. James Wise, had gone 'possum hunting. Realizing that no time must be lost, Mr. Miller told the wife of the ferryman that he wpuld leave the llat on the other side, and the river was crossed. Almost before the officers had crossed, however, they heard the crowd ride up to the banks of the river on the opposite side. Dut the flat was gone, and their plans were again foiled for the time being. Hy the time tho parties on horseback crossed the river, the. officers had almost reached Lexington. However, in the hope of overtaking the men with the negro, eight of the party rode on to Lexington, arriving there about fifteen minutes aft'v the officers. They rode up to the * ? J ^*.1.^.1 jail armed (o me leem, anci hskuu about the negro, but no attempt at violence was shown. While Deputy Sheriff Miller was talking to the ctv>wd, ConsVible Hoof had Lever hid away In the garden, the posse arriving before the negro could be placed in a ceil. Some of the horseback riders had come the whole distance of eighteen miles bareback, so determined were they to bring vengeance upon the assailant's head. The negro was kept in the jail until news was received that a mob was fornfcing, when he was removed to the Penitentiary just in time to avert an attack upon the jail. Story of the (Ytme, Monday between 12 and 1 o'clock, tho negro was seen to walk quietly by the home of the woman, but no attention was paid to this at the time. As soon as the husband of the woman had gone to the Held to [dough, file negro returned and made his way into the yard, where the woman was hanging up clothes. He made a most vicious attack, knocking the woman down by a severe blow with his fist. He grabbed her around the throat, and choked her down, the finger nails of the brute bringing the blood front her neck. With almost superhuman effort the woman cried aloud to her husband, and the negro left before accomplishing his fiendish purpose. To the officers Lever has confessed, laying the blame to what he calls a "Hoot Doctor." He says that he owed the doctor a bill, and being unable to pay it, the doctor told him that he would cause him to got in trouble. He says that he wat "conjured," and could not help it, Lever is of a light gingereako color, and 1h under 3 0. He has been working for different people in tin community, last for Mr. Chas. P Robinson, of Chapin, where he turned up later. * Five Men Katen. Rear Admiral Sebree reports tha wnen the United States Pacific flee touched at Admiralty Islands it wa learned that recently cannibals fron the Islands captured a boat contain ing three Englishmen and threi Chinese. One *>f the Englishmei who escaped through the connivanc< of a friendly tribe said that his com panions had been killed and eaten Pointed Paragraphs. You can tell how insincere a gir is by how sincere she seems. The Lord made man the ruler o the world and woman the ruler o nan. a'' ' ** FIGHTING THE FARMER iVllAT A lAUMUK'S I'MON 1WPKK SAYS AHOl'T T1IK MILLS. Shutting Down, mid (lalniN That It { In an KffoH to Kh'|i the Out ton Cirower Don n. The following articles from the Fanners' Union News, of Union City, Oft., brings out some things j about the mill curtailment that we ! never heard before. The first article sa y s' The presidents, vice presidents : * - '.A' ..%!ll.. hr./xn.rb i JUKI u ^ urin ui V.UUUII miii^ uuu out the South are organize d into | what Is called the American Cotton ' Manufacturers Association. Such I men as S. 11. Tanner and 1). A. | Tompkins of Charlotte, N. C., K. A. Smythe of Greenville, S. C., and others, who wore worth no more than the rest of us, estimated at least in this world's worldly goods, until the recent rise of cotton mills this side of Mason and I>ixon's line. They were Some of the pioneers in this fabulously prosperous Held of business. Their cotton mills and others have paid enormous dividends, in many cases as much as from ten to forty per cent profit on highly watered stock. And yet the present president of the A. C. M. A., Mr. Lewis W. Parker of Greenville, S. C., at the instance I of Smythe, Tompkins and Tanner, I has just called a meeting of the board, of governors for the purpose! of fighting t lie increase in the price t of cotton to thirteen cents, by shutting down the mills, or at least running them on half or quarter f time. Some of these men whose! fortunes are increasing by leaps < and bounds as a result of their manufacturing cotton, ride in autouiombiles live in the most luxurious homes, and even spend their summers abroad, enjoying all the very .best things of life, while wo producers of the raw material, the basis of their income, struggle from early morn until dewy eve in order to keep body and soul together. And when we get together for the mere purpose of securing a fair price, yes, the mere cost of producing cotton, they prepare to tight us tooth and nail, in this brutal fashion. Hut this is not the first instance. Mr. Dante Aikenside Tompkins of Charlotte, then president of the A. C. M. A., went abroad in 1907, with the present president of the A. C. M. A., got up a conference of Kuropean cotton manufacturers for the purpose of diverting foreign immigration to the South in order to break the back of the Farmers' Union and increase the supply ot' cotton produced, so that only mere existance price for the raw materials would prevail. Yes, Mr. Sniythe, Mr. Parker and other mill men of South Carolina even raised some twenty odd thousand dollars to send Commissioner \Yntjson of South Cni^jlina abroad to bring in two cargoes of foreigners for this purpose. (lenilemen, gentlemen, you live among us. your lives and your faml lies and your property is mingled with ours, and your prosperity, and your daily walks are among us, l'roni whose humble ranks you have risen upon our industry and toil. There is such a tiling as having none of the milk of human kindness and being absolutely unsympathetic and calous to the struggling masses, their sorrows and hardships, around you, but have care, lest you kill the geese that are laying your golden eggs. If any one doubts our statement let him but read that well-known manufacturers' magazine. The Textile Record, August, 1908, published by Lord and Nagle, Boston and Xew York, page 588, where is printed a summary of Mr. Tompkins' speech, and it is stated among other things that Mr. Tompkins told the European manufacturers plainly what was and is tin only way to increase adequately tin world's supply of cotton, namely, t( stimulate and divert foreign imnii grants by the wholesale to the South em States. They Join Forces. In another article The Farmers ; Union News goes on to say: I The Northern cotton mill mer have responded to the suggest! >r i of the Southern cotton mill met that the mills be closed down In or aer 10 t'li 't'in ino production 01 101 i ton goods, a'l.l thereby decraaj'^ >h< ? coiiHuniptlon of ruw cotton thui depressing the price of cotton nn< I showing the Farmers' Union tha they cannot hope for decent price for their crop. In response to tin suggestion of the Americ ia Cotroi Manufacturers' Association, whicj 1 is a strictly Southern organization 1 tlio executive committee of the Cot K ton Manufacturers' Association 1 which takes in all the Northern cot ton mills, lias met and decided t< have the production of cotton good 1 greatly curtailed shortly. '' At the meeting, as at the board o governors' meeting of the Americai ' Cotton Manufacturers' Association at Charlotte, on the 8th, every pos sihle device for fighting the Farm 1 ers' Union's proper marketing ant holding of the crop for better prlc f es, was fully discussed and plani f were proposed, going even to th< i extent of shutting down the mill! and starving the farmers out. You have organized and banded together for your own mutual protection and selfish interests, and having made enormous prollts and drawn fancy salaries, you now be- J grudge us the same privilege and plan to break up and thwart our efforts to get merely a fair price for the products of our sweat, our labor and the toil of our own. Your eyes and efforts ought not to score the "base degrees" by which you came into your own, and your hearts ought to beat with a little less antagonism and greediness that these unworthy actions and sittii tide indicate. Play the? game fairly, don't try to form any such dastardly conspiracy as Dante Aiken I ? rl* .vl. I ?.? I 'P l)nel/or 1*1 ?l CM 1 t > 111 111\ I II it III! t. j'. t in nil tried to hatch out \slth the Furopcan cotton mill men In the summer of i 19?>7. Don't go to the President of the United States, as those very two I went to Theodore Roosevelt, In Junull ry, 1907, when the immigration bill was pending and try to insult any one else's intelligence by telling them there is not good money in the cotton mill business unless the Farmers' Union's back Is broken by stimulating foreign immigration to the Southland. ' The thirty thousand of those very men raised to bring two Wittekind cargoes of foreigners to South Carolina had much better been spent in helping rather than trying te cWe?** the farmers in their humane efforts to properly regulate the production, marketing and selling of their cotton. South Carolina acted at the I united demand of the farmers of the Old South State, abolished the State bureau of immigration, and specifically enacted, March 4, last: "The commissioner of agriculture shall not, directly or in lirectly, attempt to bring immigrants into this] State." Laws are meant to curb unfair practices, the taking of foul advantages of your fellowmen, and we warn you, gentlemen, that conditions have changed. Able, fearless officials, backed by intelligently organized effort, arc on guard, and will meet you half way in whatever you will, fair or foul, and quickly, too. The farmer and especially the cotton planter, has been worked and farmed by every one from the usurious money lender to the cotton speculator. but the time when those parasites could steal from under his very nose his very all, has passed away, never to return again. Have a care, play fair, and keep little, just a little, of the milk of human kindness and sweetness of manly sympathy in your soul, gentlemen, for it will pay a thousand fold. SHOT IN THK IlKAI). j One Hoy Shoots Another Hoy Whh a Harmless Parlor ltille. A dispatch from Columbia says "Little David Doweli, of Winnsboro, is lingering at the Columbia hospital with a title wound in his head. Tieboy, who is only 12 years of age. was accident ly shot by Warren I.M...... II, ... Iw. >1 i. > t i ,i ir I 1 I?* 11 II I t\ ? . I , n IIU \j \ iv )> uin uih with a 22-eallbre riH<?. near Winnsboro, at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon. David was carried to Columbia by Dr. Lindsay Friday to bo operated i on by Dr. Cluerry, of Columbia. David I )o well was going to bring the cows home Friday afternoon and the ball from the rifle of Warren Flenniken struck him as he passed within 100 yards of the young hunter. Flenniken is 1 1 years of ago. From the time the wound was ini dieted young Dowell remained tin| conscious. His older brother and j Dr. Lindsay took the train for Columbia shortly after the shooting. I J bringing the boy here for the operation." The wonder is that more such accidents do not happen. Too many careless boys are allowed to handle guns. KILLS FOlt MAKKIIOI) PKOPLIO. i i Kansas City Spiritualist Outlines . Flan for Domestic Peace. A dispatch from St. Louis. Mo., says "Tho man who thinks he is going to be happy in heaven, playing a harp of a thousand strings while his wife down here on earth Is playing a washboard in the key of high O to support the live or six children he left unprotected is ceri tninly going to be fooled." This ? is what A. Scott Klodsoe of Kansas i City in a lecture at the State spirit ualist convention said. MY. IVl-edsoe's rule for keeping 3 "one's self unspotted from th< ? world," as applied to women was 1 "Make your husband think he knowt t it all. Don't nag him. Man, accord8 ing to a scientist, Is or should be w only a good nnlnial. You can dc ii more by making him comfortabU ii than by all the nagging in th( i? world." To men his advice was, "Nevei i. do anything you wouldn't want youi - wife to do; never say anything yoi o would not want your wifo to say ? never go anywhere yon wouldn't wan a rrui? ...ill | your wilt; to ko* i mn w in ivui j f you unspotted from tho world." i 000 Speak 1 iiR of days gone by, we ar< - reminded that knights also aro f thing of the past. i It is well to remember that ever - a left-handed pugilist has his rights 8 Is the whiskey firm's deliverj 5 wo^n what you would call a "pony" 9 cart* SEVEN ESCAPE Prisoners Break Out of the Greenville Jail and Six Get Away KEEPER IS OVERPOWERED Warden l'tiillins. Who Whs the Only Otllcor in the Jail When the Ih'livery T?n>k Place, Was Badly Bruised in Attempting to Stop the I'iSeaping .Men. Seven negro prisoners, severul of whom wore under life sentences, escaped from the Greenville Jail Monday night and six of them got away, knocking Warden Phillips down and running out of the back door into the streets. The delivery occurred about ti.MO o'clock, there being no officer in the jail at the time with the exception of Warden Phillips. The latter is badly bruised but suf u i h iiu humous uun. Onc of the prisoners,' Will McCullough, was captured soon after the occurrence by Koubeh Gosnoll, a constable for one of the magistrates. The jailer and several ofllcers have gone in pursuit of the remaining six, but at last reports none of them have been captured. Those prisoners who escaped were on tlm upper floor. Their names are: Daniel Gambrel, John Guflie, Sounie Hull, Frank I)oal, Arthur Johnson, Hilbert Henry and Will McCullough. John Guflie was under sentence to be hanged for the murder of his wife, execution of this sentence having been postponed until the supreme court could decide upon the uppeal. which has been made in the case. It is stated that about G: JO o'clock some one brought up some food or other stuff for the prisoners. They were taken up to the second floor of the jail and in order to carry the goods into the ward where the prisoners were Mr. Phillips, before unlocking the outer door, ordered the prisoners who were inside to go into their cells. Some of the prisoners did so. and Mr. Phillips thinking that all had gone in, opened the door. It had grown very dark, in the corridors ana the turtner enu oi t no null 111 which the prisoners had boon could not be distinctly seen. The seven prisoners secreted themselves in this end af the corridor and answered to the jailer, who thought they were nil in the cells. He opened the door and when inside. As he walked up the corridor he was suddenly seized by Arthur Johnson and slung backward toward the corridor. The remaining prisoners immediately made a break for the door and succeeded in reaching the street. Johnson attempted to follow them, but he was held by the jailer, and in his hurry to get away he dragged the latt. r half way down the stairs before he was released. All reached the street through the i.~ i. . 1 .... I v. ...l : . i)?i ( h uour Mini .u? v. u i ioim 11, wno, n seems, took a different route from the others, ran up toward Main street. He was captured within ten minutes after escaping. Til K SOl'Tll AS A I'KKDITOK. ^ What a (kKxl Price for Cotton Does For This Section. 'Idle New York Journal of Commerce of recent issue contained the following: 1 "The New York correspondent of Southern banks, according to statepients made yesterday, dur'ng the past two weeks have rece d many requests from below Mas and Dixon's line for the purch e of commercial paper in appreciable quantities. One large bank here within a week lias received more than a dozen such requests, some of them aggregating as much as $260,000. The bankers here point out that thitis an unusual condition in the South, in other years at this season, when the cotton crop is moving, the bank* of this section have been hard put to it to find enough money to sup ply the pressing needs of their customers. The high price of cottor . prevailing and the prosperity in tht ; iron and steel Industry are prlncipa reasons for the strong financial sit uation in the South, according ti findings of thoso who have investl , gated." Tills shows how important it i: \ for all of us, cotton mills included . to do all we can to keep the pric< of cotton up as high as wc can ) A good price for cotton means pros } perity for all interests In the South . Then whv should anv Southern in terest undertake to bear the cottoi r market. r , Scalded to Death. ; A dispatch has been received b; t friends at Hock Hill from Dr. J. P ) Crawford of Nashville, Tenn., con veying the sad intelligence of th death of the letter's oldest child ) Edward. A few days ago, while sit 1 ting at the supper table, he in som< way overturned a pot of boiling tei ? on himself and was severely burned . dying from the effects. r ' The playwright naturally is pu j out if the players play wrong. i ii m i i i mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammrnmu j, 5 Bank of A CON W A3 ^ Capital Stock HrS Deposit* /K Total AnseU) 1)1 It FX J A. MoDermott, J T. McNeill. B. G. ( tlebaum, Hal. L. 1 /l\ The oldest Bank in Hon | olina. Associated with, then the past diKudc. Our. polirj the "ImlriHMidcnt Republic." CTy to our cusUuncrw every . reus* /K tent with sound baukiui;. Wo fnls, (IrniH and cor)H>rutioiis. I>. A. 8PIVKY, Vice-President. K N K OF t oiiwa JAPITAL STOCK H(JRHLU8 LIABILITY OF STOl h HOLDERS ^KCLHI I Y TO DEPOSITORS mm Robert B. ^oarborough H. I. Buck, eoT/^e .1. Holiday, Wi <ortiinc t< | a> |? i ivm ?ntere it v? uraeeounl KOHL'UT B. PCABBOHOt'OP, H I ' U Lc IIiL v n a iti mi'i-n i, THE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE k J.IGHT RUNNING ^ NjggE m m \ 1 Ifyon want cithern VlbrntlngKhnttte. Rotary Shuttle or a SlnKla Thread (Chain Stitch J Be wing Machine write to THE NEW HOME SEWINQ MACHINE COMPANY Oranae. Mass. Many sewing machine* are made to sMl regardless of Quality, but the Mew Home is made to wear. Our guaranty never runs out. Mold by aiitliorlxcd tlenlers only* kor SAI.K ny IU HICOI <,!?> i.v COLLINS CO., Conway, S. C. I'UOFKSSIONAL CAKOS. H. II. \VOOI>WAItl? Attorney and Councelor At Lav. CONWAY, H. C. C. K. HT. AMA.N1>, Attorney ai Law Conway, B. O. K. n. ttCAllllIlOlTC.H CONWAY, 8. O. Attorney at Law. W. K. McCOIUL 81'KOFON IlKNTIBT. CONWAY, 8. O. Over Bank of llorry B. H. BURROUGHS m Physician and Burgeon. CONWAY. 8. C. B. WOFFOHD WAIT. p attorney at law. OONWAY, S. O. i A Cannon Hursts. At Savannah, Oa., in firing a say into to Taft while he was going down the river two men, Charles Hanson, - and Cornelius Hanjilton, colored, r were badly injured by a cannon exf plosion. Hanson will probably lose - an eye, and the negro a hand. Part e? of the cannon passed over the revei nue cutter on which the president f had taken passage. The night of the ball is pleasanter t than the morning )after the high ball. * / Conway $ 1\ s. o. w #."(0,000.00 130,000.00 230,000.00 jk rrofw T no. C. Spivey, D. JollinB, C. P. Quat- Ml kick, D. A. Spivey. ry mid a pioneer in Kits tern Car- fl\ ?pi<l proKrcHH of our County for jL f IlllAS hfk<kll fill* tlfeii mihiiililivxr s\t u* With this in view we extend ^ unable accommodation con wis- /IN solicit the accounts of iadividu* HAL. I* BUCK, Cashier. niokry, y. C. $ 60 000 10 000 60 000 110 000 : i ors W. R. I/ewi?t W. A. ?Joliiinon. Will A Freeman, t-t oi< yearly deposits. aiidve eolic l buck, b1l1. a. fbkrjlan Vice President. .Cashikb I SENTENCED TO BE HANGED. For ? (Yiine Committed in Berkeley Nino \oai*s Ago. JnrnoH Edwards was convicted of the murder of his wife at Mount Holly in Berkeley county about nlue years ago in the Court of General Sessions at Monck's Corner on last Monday and sentenced to be hanged on the second Friday in December. The crime of which Edwards was found guilty is said to have been a horrible one, in that it is alleged that Mrs. Edwards was shot while she was cooking the dinner, falling into the tire and being partially . burned. , < j Following the killing Edwards left Berkeley countv, and was not hoard from until about six months ago, w hen his address was leai nod by Sheriff Causey through some letters which he wrote to persons living in Itcrki'K'v pniinlv It woo 1 ? - --- - J . I n un II.1V I lailicu that ho was living In Jacksonville, had mnrriod again and had several children by his second wife, and was working hard and living comfortably, although ho is said to have been rather shiftless before he dis' ippear-'d from Berkeley. He was >rought back by Sheriff Causey, who ^ ;s credited with some clever work in the matter, and the case was brough* for trial at the ,ast term of Coil'", hut was continue 1. Edwards is a man about id years of age. It is not anticipated that an appeal will he taken. He was represented at the trial by John O. Edwards, Esq., while Solicitor Hildebrand handled the case for the State. What It Means. One often hears t ho expression. "In a minute." A minute seems a very small and unimportant fraction of lime, and b-cause of that idea most people waste a good many of the course of a day. Yet think whit, can he done in the short space of a minute. Take traveling as an t xaniple. In a minute the average pedestrain walks sixteen rods, a tdbtting horse and an ocean "greyhound" cover half a mile and an express train clips off u mile. Thst Is pretty fast traveling hut nothing to what this old world is doing in one minutes it whirls us around on the outside of the earth by is' diurnal moton sonic thirteen mi'es. and it snoods us on in th?? ?ur??o num.. ? ? - -- *. ?? W n|/UV* of time 1,0S0 miles on its grand tour around the sun. Hut ovan thai is alow work compared with what a ray of light does, for in one short minute it flashes through 11,000,000 miles. A minute is a good deal after all. So let us take care ol' each one as it comes along. | Ilride-Elect Kills Herself. Miss Maggie Windham, daughter of a prominent planter residing near I Heidelberg. Miss., died hit#. _ ? .? - .? * iUP.T n? the result of pistol wounds which sho inflicted upon herself with suicldnl intent. Thursday. Miss Windham left ft note to her mother bogging j forgiveness. She was to have been I married within a few weeks. No cause for the act is known. * | Foot ball goes on in spite of the fatalities that it causes. The managements know that the spice of ^ , danger in the game helps to Bwell the gate reciepts, and what is a life , or two, if by sacrificing them dividends are increased to owuers of parks. ? ? The theatrical manager frequently goes to the artificial hair dealer for act. tresses. *