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LYNCH1NGS Record (or 1909 Shows the Nimker to Be Sefeoty ^ 11 WHITES, 59 BLACKS Occurred in 19 State* and One Territory?As In I*rovk>us Years Crimes Against White Women Was the Cause of the Majority of the Executions. According to s rei>ort issued from Washington, D. C., a few days ago, lynching* in 1909 have numbered ?0, the highest, number recorded since 1904. The victims numbered * 0 ???V* I a n A IK n Ajre/vAU T K as II IT Ui BUM W r It'-'b V/"?. MV kyachinge occurred in 18 State* anil one territory?New Mexico. An in previous years, crime* or alleged crime* against white women and murders caused most of the?e summary executions. One case, occurring In Cairo, 111., combined both o&useu ant resulted in the placing of the city under military control for several days. The Cairo lynch lags were the only casi>a of the kind that occurred north of the Ohio river dairing the year. Several double lyncbings occurred at various points lu tho South, and Oklahoma furnished a quadruple lynching, with four cattlemen as the victims. In the following record the word "lynching" has been held to apply uly to the summary punishment inflicted by a mob or by any number of sitlzeiis on a person alleged to hare committed a crime. Hy States the TO lynching cases here recorded are classified as follows: Georgia 11 Texas 10 Florida t Mississippi 7 Louisiana 7 Alabama 6 Oklahoma 6 Kentucky 4 Arkansas 3 South Carolina 3 New Mexico 2 Illinois 2 Missouri 1 Wm( Virginia 1 The details record for 1909 la as follows. Jan. 6?Lexington, 8. C., unidentified negro, attempted criminal asutlt Jan. 8?Marthaville, L#a., Jim Gilbert, negro, accused of counterfeiting. Jan. 10?Poplarrtlle, Miss., Pink Willis, negro, attempted criminal assault. Jan. 18?Hope, Ark., Milliard, negre. insulting white woman. Jan. 23?Mobile, Ala., Douglass Robersou, negro, murder of a deputy sheriff. Jan. 24?Lelghton, Ala., Sam Davenport, negro, Incendiarism. fob. 7?Mexia, Ala., Will Parker, negro, criminal assault. Feb. 9?Houston, Miss., Roby Daskln, negro, murder of the Rev. W. T. Hudson. Feb. 13?Gainesville, Fla., Jake Wades, negro, criminal assault. Feb. 11?Hearn, Tox., Roily Wyatt, negro, shooting a white man. March 4?Blakely, Oa., John Fowler, negro, murder of deputy sheriff. Karen 7? Kosawaii, To*., Anderaom Kills, negro, attempted criminal assault. March 12?Eden, Miss., Joe Oordim, negro, shooting and blinding a white man. March 19?Elkins, W. Va., Joseph Brown, white, shooting chief of poUoe. March 25?Cuervo, N. M., Daniel Johnson, negro, and Manuel Bandoa Mexican, kidnapping young girl. . March 29?Dawson, Tex., Joe Reddoci, negro, insulting white woman. April 6?Pensacola, Fla., Dare Alexander, negro, murder of policenoma. April 9?Lafayette, Ky., Ben Bra me, negro, attempted criminal assault. April 11?Yazoo City, Mies., Howard Montgomery, negro, assaulting an officer. April 1 1?Arcadia, Fla., John Smith, negro, attempted criminal assault. April 19?Ada, Okla., J. D. Mtllor, It. D. Durrell, Jesse West and Joe Allen, all white, charged with mur ier. April 25?Ilessemer, Ala., John Thomas, negro, criminal assault. A n r 11 OS D ? - ? ? 1*1 _ i"i' i?i nm, ri?., v, * 11 h * flcarborough, negro, attempted criminal assault. April 30?Marshall, Tex., Creole Mote, Pie Hill and Mat Chase, negroes, murder. May 1?Tyler, Tex., Jim Hedges, negro, criminal assault. May ?Camden, Fla., Unldentlied negro, criminal assault. May 24?Llncolnton, Oa., Albert Aiken, negro, shooting white man. May 24?Pine Bluff, Ark., Llvett Deris, negro, attempted criminal asflg?K. May 28?Abilene, Tex., Tom BarMtt, white, shot to death in his wall, convicted of murder. Kay 80?Portland, Ark., J seep h Dl&keley, negro, threatening murder. Jub? S?Frankfort, Ky., John Maxey, negro, shooting white man. June 6?Tallahassee, Fla., Malk Morris, negro, convicted of murder. June 11?8moaks, 8. C., Qulllle Simmons and Frank Samuels, white, charged with marder. June 16?Arcadia. Fla., Unidentified negro, attempted criminal seaault. June It?Talbotton, Oa.. William Caneker, negro, murder. June 23?Talbotton, Ga., Joe Hardy, negro, charged with InAtlgaling murder. June 24?Cuthbert, Ga., Albert Reese, negro, HHsaultlng white woman. June 26?Wllburton, Okla., Syl vaster Stennlen, negro, murder ol deputy countable. July 1?Darwlck, Oa.. Unidontl fled negro, found hiding under * bed In the home of a white family July 20?Paris, Ky., Albert Uw on, negro, shooting a sheriff. July 20?-Gum Branch, Ga., Unidentified negro, attempting theft ol horse and buggy. July 20?Opolousaa, La., Onesime Thomas and Kmlle Autoine, negroes assault. July 21?Wellston, Oa., Sim Anderson, negro, peeping Into a white woman's bedroom. Aug. 2?Platte City, Mo., George Johnson, white, murder. Aug. 9?Cadiz, Ky., Joe Miller, negro, criminal assAult. Aug. 12?Greenville, Miss.. Will Robinson, negro, insulting white girl. Aug. 27?Tarrytown, Ga., John Sweeny, negro, aiding a negro murderer to escape. Sept. 4?Jackson, Ala., JoHh and Lewis BaUam, negroes, murdor of a deputy sheriff. Kept. 6?Clarkeadftle, Miss., Her n?n VI r? I1i? n In 1 a nnirrfl fl r>r> 11 u ?rl fif litV Inn concerned in a murder committed by his brother. Sept. 7?Mangharu, La., Henry Hill, negro, drowned by mob, attempted criminal assault. Sept. 26?Perry, Fla., ChArley Anderson, negro, murder. Oct. 6?Oreensburg, La., Ape Ard, nerro, murder. Oct. 21?Greenville, Tex., Frank Williams and "Louis," negroes, criminal assault. Nov. 12?Cairo, 111., Henry Saluner, white, charged with wife murder. and Will James, nogro, confessed assailant and murderer of a young white woman. Nav. 20?Delhi, La., James Estoa, negro, shooting city marshal. Nov. 25?Meehan, Miss., Morgan Chambers, negro, criminal aasault. Nov. 26?West Stareveport, La., Henry Rachel, negro, attempted criminal assault. I)ac. 1?Cochran, Gn., John Harvard. negro, burned at staka, shooting white man. The Southern War Claud. The American people do not get graatly stirred over the row wltli Zalaya of Nicaragua. The comic fares of South American government has been playod a good many years and the only thing that interests ui is the question whether American! are getting tho square deal. It i? a shame that these toy republic so throttle their own future by mak lng it next to Impossible for Amer lean business men to develop the country. But that la their own fu neral. It does not pay In the Ions run, either, for Americans trying t( do business down there to mix to< much la their dirty politics. Suet Interference Involves our govern ment to an extent that doss not pa) for what there is in it. It will b< a great many years before there wil be a stable government in Centra and South America. We could main tain it all right, but the tax bll would not be accompanied by cor responding returns. It's all right t( overawe the play armies down then by a sight of our war ships anc marines. A practice trip in Southeri waters will do them as much gooc as anything else that might tak< up their attention. But there an ways and ways of spanking tit presidents without going to wa about It. Zelaya has stepped dow? and out, but an example should b< made of him as a warning to othe tyrants that may attempt to Iml tate him. Negro Shot About Koo^e. A dispatch from fllko says then is quite a lively trade going on bo | tween Barnwell county thirsty folk and the dispensary at Salleys. T< avoid Sheriff Creech a number o parties get off at Ashleigh, small flag station betweon Black p! llo orwl Via rn ur<i1 I TV? ow Kelnor V\ I iiiv nuu Ii?i unvu. i ur.j LfliilfS VIJ liquor tn bags and satchels on foo across the country. Saturday nigh Cliff Williams and Gus Hallenques ' got Into an altercation on one n the liquor trips, when Williams drei a gun and shot Ilallenquest twice. f ... Given Fourteen Tears. John L. Collna, recently eonvlcte* ; at New Orleans of forging severs checks and charged by the police with heading a clever gang of swln dlers who have been operating tn th< South, waa Thursday sentenced tc serve fourteen years In th# State penitentiary. Collins was wanted on similar charges la a score or more o! | cities throughout the country. CLAIMS TO CURE CANCER1 WITHOUT OFKIIATION OR THK I'HK OF KN1FK IN ANY WAY. l>r. Arawtropg, of New York, Bay* His TmiUm ut Hum Itoea Buccessfully Tested. Dr. Thomas M. Armstrong, of New York, asserts bo has discovered an almost certain cure for cancer; other physicians aecoi to agn?e in this opinion. Dr. Armstrong, who lives at No i 160 West Thirty-sixth street. i\ev York City, insists that ho does not - seek uewspaper notoriety, but f^jla 1 bound, for the sake of Buffering hu manlty. to make his cute known. He wks graduated from the medical department of Toronto University ir. 1877 and has practiced inedielne iu f the Weat and in Now York. Twenty four years ago he began to Htud> ! cancer In the living patient and , microHOcpIeally and chemically. "1 found my cure nine years ago." said Dr. Armstrong a few days ago. 1 "Since then I hare treated thirtynine casea of true cancer, thirtyi six have been cured perfectly. The three failures, I believe, resulted be cause the physicians In immediate at tendance did not strlckly follow my method of treatment. Ninety days is the shortest period in which I have effected a cure; successful treatment has taken from three to live months on the average. "I never use the knife. My treatment is twofold. I use a lotion and a medicine taken Internally." It seema that Dr. Armstrong confides his treatment to other physicians, as the ethics of the medical profession require. He mentioned the names of several physicians in New York who he said have employed the treatment. One is Dr. P. W. Popham, No. 3 54 Schermerhorn Htreet, Brooklyn. "I am using Dr. Armstrong's treatment in two cases with excellent *e ults," said Dr. Popham. "One patient has a deep saucer of the back. Afher thnee months of treatment both patients are greatly improved. i mj ioq>on wnicn ur. Armstrong prescribes seems to eradjeato the diseased tissue; to dispel the cancerous growth." The reporter asked I)r. Popham If Dr. Armstrong keeps his treatment secret, and, If mot, to tell what It Is. "I do not know that he keeps it secret," said Dr. Popham. "It consists of phosphorus sulphate" Then pausing as if in second thought, Dr. Popham added: "No, I shall not tell you." "Do you know of a case which has been cured absolutely by this treatment?" "Yes, ene," said Dr. Popham; "a woman who was a patient of Dr. 1 Agnes Sparks, No. 140 South Port land avenue. This patient had been t treated for cancer for two years and was going from bad to worse After Dr. Sparks had treated her for 1 four months by Dr. Armstrong's * method she was cured as far as is ? possible to determine." i "1 do not care to talk to a news paper about my practice," said Dr. Agnes Sparks when asked about her ? patient. [ Fight to s Finish. ' The parliamentary struggle In > England ia naturally watched with 1 Jeep Interest in this country bscautv the principle at stake is the same ' that led to the rerolt of the thirteen J colonies from Great Britain?the 1 nrinc.inle of no tivullnn wlihnnt ? <???. r r-~ ~ ~ * *' V rosentatlon. The lords, which represents no one, want to dictate what 1 taxes shall be raised aid the metho 1 - of raising them; while the commons, > aa the direct representatives of the 5 people, assert that by virtue cf that 1 position they alone have 'ho rlgh, i to Impose and collect the tax.?s. In I such a contest the sympathies ol II Amerlcaus a'p i'sturally wen tin s commons, who, In our opinion, art i bound to win, which means the ber ginning of the end with the lords > The people of England havr* Ionji s wanted an excuse to abolish tin r House of Lords, and they will not - fail to Improve the present oppor tunlty. Dixie Most Popular. e "Dixie" has finally been officially - proclaimed first In American songs a and music In "patriotic popularity. 3 Such is the verdict of O. G. T. Son 1 neck, chief of the divlsslon of mush a In the library of congress, who hai - just Issued an exhaustive report oi P I four famnua Amarlpnu rtutalnal t positions. 1 t ? t Fatal IHs|int? Over Pool Game. ' A dispute over a pool game Thurs r day morning at Birmingham, Ala. resulted in Luther Smith, the 1 J* year-old son of 8. L. Smith, a Frisc< railroad conductor, shooting H. L i Martin, tower watchman of the trml 1 ntl, three times. The bulletta enter i ed the abdomen, inflicting niorta . wounds. 4 j see- ??? > Fire Die tw Home. Theodore Fredericks, his wife anl i three shildren were burned to deatt tn a Are whcth destroyed their bomv In Yonkera, K. Y., on Tuesday. PASS NEW STAMPACT ? ? t THK IaADIKH JOIN IN CAMPAIGN ( AGAIXHT W1IITK PUAGUK. I The Hocicty Wom? of Chicago Rale jj That Invitations Most Bear Con- i Huniptlon label. j 8oclety'H flr?t fun In the war ^ against tuberculosis In Chicago was fired at the Initial meeting of prornl 4 I .. 4 .. ... V. ^ 4 K . . I 4 IHHIl 11 W/ WUIlini W IIW LV7I IU lur; auxiliary committee that la to work | In conjunction with the Chicago Tuberculoses Institute In promoting the Hale of the lied Cross Christmas ' Stamp during the holidays, aa report- i e<l by the Chicago Record-Herald. , At tho suggestion of Mrs. Bryan Lathrop, who acted as chalran of the auxiliary committee, It was announced that during the winter all invitations to social functions of whatever nature, to be strictly "au fait," must wear upon the envelopes the Tied Cross Christmas Stamp. This announcement wan made In all seriousness, and It Is said will be eagerly accepted as law. Tho campaign comprises overtures i to tho leading clubs, theatres, restaurants, candy shops, railway stations, h/OH];ltaln and street railways, roqueRting that they take proper steps to advertise the Christma tamp. Chairmen were named to head tho committees that are to havo charge of this work. Al! loading theatres will be asked 1 to label with the Christmas stamp every program used on Christmas i and New Yeary's day. The large downtown candy shops will he ask od to instruct their clerks to ask each mi rrhnflor If th*>v rnnv attnrh to tho package containing tho pur ehnso one of these emblems. The railroads will bo approached for per ' mission to establish Rolling booths In the depots. The restaurants and clubs will be aaked to display the stamps on their menus. HELD ON SERIOUS CHARGK. Made His Friend Drunk and Took His Watch and Money. The Columbia Record aays Henry Fox, s white man living near North, ha3 been sent to the county Jail in default of bond of $500 to await I trial at the next term of the court of general sessions on the charge of highway robbery. Saturday evening Fox was In Co lumbia with a friend of his, W. Y. Gardner. It Is alleged that Fox placed his friend under the influence of whiskey and led him down into the rod light district. They entored the house of the notorlus negrosa, Carrie Baker, and there, Gardner j claims. Fox robbed him of his watch and some $85. ' , After the hour of the alleged robbery, it Is said, Fox spent money j freely. Fox Is said to have handed It out for this things and that anJ paying exorbitant prices for things that he bought. Detectives have succeeded In recovering $41.85 of the amount Gardner claims was stolen from him. The defendant, in answering to the charge of stealIn? the watch, stated that he bought the watch from a Main street pawnbroker's shop and paid $2.50 for It. OUTLAW KILVjKD HIMSELF When Surrounded and He 8avr no Avenue of Kaeape. The most thrilling man hunt which ever occurred In Henry county, Ala., terminated Monday afternoon, when Boy O'Haro, the young negro desperado, killed himself when sur rounded by a posse. Since Tuesday of last week when ths negro shot two officers, the chass has continued. Bloodhounds pursued him so closely that he shot ens of the 1 dogs. Ons mile south of Abbeville, Ala., at the entrance to the Choctawhatchle Bwamp a eordoa of i ' hundred men surrounded him. Wounded, barefooted and tired he saw that escape was Impossible. 5 Rather than fall Into the handa of his pursuers ho placed the barrol L of a shotgun to his breast and push ed the trigger with his toe. His body was tied to a buggy and dragged to Abbeville and placed In the court house where it lay for i several hour*. ^ - Fell From Train. William S?n?or1, a white man' 3 about 35 years of age. met his dea'h s Ave miles below Prosperity Tuesday 1 afternoon by falling from Colum" bla, Newberry & Baurens passenger No. 5 2, bound from Columbia to flreenvllls. Sanford wai going to -!-?? " ?* .irrv i y iu Tiau reiauvea. wnfn - bit relatives Uat beard from him he . was working in the Lexington cot ton mills. > ? . Fire Men Perish. At Shawnee. Okla., Are workmen * were killed and 17 others were in J lured Friday by the explosion of a locomotive boiler that wrecked the repair shop of the Chicago Rock Island 6 Pacific railroad. Railway ofI flclala say that only two are dead. ' although fragments of bodies found * In the wreckage make it almost certain that Are wars killed. 9 . jyi? 1 f Bank of ft OONWAl J Otpiui Rtock ft Orpoviu ft Total Ameto a . DIIIKC ft J. A. McDermott, Ji ft T. McNeill, B. O. C tlebaum, Hal. L. B ft The oldest Bank In llorr ni ollna. Associated with, the ra *Ihrt naat <1 <vn >t\" ___ I-?? - >? > ? v/ur. |H)lll'7 the "Independent Republic." f|j to our customer* every . reuse tent with sound banking. We A ?ls, firms and corporations. 4S D. A. 8PIVKY, Vice-President. BANK OF Coil wa^ CAPITAL STOCK SFRPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS.. 4ECURI I Y TO DEPOSITORS I) IRIX Robert B. Scarborough, II. L. Buck, i -eorge .). Holiday, Wetontim ? to j ay f> ])?r cent intere* t youraccount tOBKRT B. BCAHBOROUGI', H I'RICSIDkNT. \ [HE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWING MACHINE k JJGHT RUNNING ^ If too want either a Vibrating Hhuttie. ItotMf Hhuttio or a Hlngle Thrtad |fVmi? AtfOoAj Hewing Maehlne write to roc NEW NOME lEWINt MACHINE MMPAifft Orange, Mesa. If any Hwtnc machine* arc made to *e)t rcrardlaaa of quality, but the New Home it made to wcaa. Our guaranty never runt out. >>11 fejr aatboriied dealara aaly, rot ftajlb av llO tv oO 1JJXS CX)., l^ottway, H. C. MOKRBHIONAIi ( ARIMt. U. H. WOODWAKD tttarnar aaA Councilor At Law OOKWAV, 8. C. C. a. BT. AM AMD, Attorney At Uw 8. O. K. H. HCARHKOl'GH CONWAY, 8. O. Attorney at la?. V*'. K. MrCORlK Ht'lUiKON OKNTI8T. CONWAY, 8. O, Over (Unit of Horry a. 11. lll'|{HO('<iH8 I'hyntrian and Surgeon. CONWAY. S. O. n. WOFFOIIR WAIT. at la* CONWAY, 8. ?. Help Along the Town. Where one Uvea, make# hit domestic home, rears hie family and follows hie celling?there Is hit cItIc home. Tt le his duty to be true to that home even as he la to hit domestic home. He Is In duty bound to promote its Interests, to cheerfully perform the dnties of cltlsenship, and to rejoice in seeing It grow and prosper. What are you doing to help along your home townT A. \ Conway j . s. a y 900,000.00 100,000.00 41 200,000.00 A or TOII8 9r ^ no. C. Spivey, D. A oillns, C. P. Quat- ik uck, D. A. Spivey. y and a pioneer In Eastern Car- A pid progress of our County for A has been for the upbuilding of With this in view we extend ^ enable accommodation con* is- A solicit the accounts of individu- JK HAL. L DUCK, 4 Cashier. ? * *-' > IIOUHY, y. S, C. $ 50 000 10 ()00 50 OOP lioooe TORS W. R. Lewis, : W. A. Johnson, Will A Freeman* ton vtflrl) dejcsith. novt tolioL. BUCK, VILLA FHFRMAA ICR I'KKHIDKNT. . C'AHHIRR KILLED IN THF ST REFT m mm mm w* Haiti t TI1K KOREAN PREMIER ASSASHNATKI> WH1IJB KIDINii. Ills Attendant WfM Also Bubb?4 fajr the Assassin and Boon Died Worn the Wound. While riding along on? of the streets of Seaul on Tuesday, Prfyraior Yl, the head of the Korean cabinet, was stabbed and fatally wounded by a Korean, Yl Chanmi Yong. ? Premier Yl was formerly miaft* ter. He became prime minister I* May, 1909, when a reconRtruotioe of the cabinet followed a five-hour audience which Marquis Ito, the Japaueae resident, had witth tho emperor. Yl was regarded as a firm and competent officer, but hie effort* to carry out the policy of the mew administration met with continued and detorinined opposition from hia political adversaries. ^ The attack occurred at 10 o'oieck In the morning. The acsallant wu ^ a young Christian who was for many years a resident of the United States. The premier was riding In his jinrikBha when the asaasuta came up with a long kitchen knife In hl? hand. He drove this twice Into the abdomen of the premier and once Into the latter's lung. The assassin then turned on the premier's Jinriksha man, whom he stabbed and instantly killed. The assassin was immediately arrested. He ia a youth of about years and is believed to be a member of a political secret society. The promier was removed to the hospital. Yi was always credited with fmm tering anti-Japanese sentiment I* Korea. Ho bitterly opposed the faction among tha Koreans which favored annexation to Japaen and refused to present a petition for annexation to the Korean emperor. Notwithstanding YJ's known sentiments In regard to the relations between Japan and Korea, Marquis Ito regarded Y| as an honest and conscientloua patriot and refused to listen to the premier's repeated reni?est? that he be allowed to resign his office. It is believed that the assassinatlon is the result of political intrigue. HAVE FAITH IN (X>OK. His Neighbor** Take No Stock in ladoor Explorers. 4' Thoae who know Dr. Cook best stick the closest to him. A commitA _ ^ t- ? %- ? - - - - - - iw wnir.n was appointed by the Brooklyn neighbors of Dr Cook some months ago to ralre funds for the erection of a monument to the seploor, has decided to go on witfli the work, In spite of the cables frees Copenhagen. m "Dr. Cook," according to ? member of the committee, "la a <?- \ ble martyr. The rest of the world may take the word of those Indee? ^ Polar explorers over In Copenhagen, but his neighbors in old Bnshwiek know that Dr. Cook discovered the Pole, because he told us eo himself." The surest thing about a liar fa how Indignant it make? him to ha?? you know It -r /