The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 30, 1909, Image 4
LYNCH1NGS
Record (or 1909 Shows the Nimker
to Be Sefeoty
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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 ? <???.
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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
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> 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
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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
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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*.
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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
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.irrv i y iu Tiau reiauvea. wnfn
- bit relatives Uat beard from him he
. was working in the Lexington cot
ton mills.
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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 .
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If too want either a Vibrating Hhuttie. ItotMf
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If any Hwtnc machine* arc made to *e)t rcrardlaaa of
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Our guaranty never runt out.
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tttarnar aaA Councilor At Law
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Ht'lUiKON OKNTI8T.
CONWAY, 8. O,
Over (Unit of Horry
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I'hyntrian and Surgeon.
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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
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Conway j
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no. C. Spivey, D. A
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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
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Cashier. ? *
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IIOUHY,
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$ 50 000
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W. R. Lewis, :
W. A. Johnson,
Will A Freeman*
ton vtflrl) dejcsith. novt tolioL.
BUCK, VILLA FHFRMAA
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KILLED IN THF ST REFT
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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
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