Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MOB LYNCHES A Biiud Ti|er Raider Employed by h / v * Auti-Satoou League VICTIM MADE SPEECH The IHxire of the Juil and the Young Infective, Who Shot Kestaurant Keeper, Taken Out and Hanged. Writes Personal Letters Home White Mob Storms Jail. Carl Etheriugton, 22 years old, employed Thursday night by the State Anti-Saloon League as a blind tiger raider, was lynched here at 10.36 tonight, following a day of almost continuous rioting. The heavy doors of vthe-Licking county jail were battered down and Etherlngton was dragged from his cell. He ??"?> ir i/>if txA anH bruised be <f as DUUbf navuvw w ? w w fore the street was reached and the \ finish followed quickly. Etherington, early In the evening confessed he killed William Howard, proprietor of the "Last Chance" restaurant and former chelf of police in a raid of alleged "speak easles." In a raiding scuffle at 1.30 this afternoon and narrowly escaped being lynched at the time. When news from the iiospital that Howard had died passed over the city at 9 o'clock tonight the fury or the mob took definite form. Large battering rams were directed upon the doors of the Licking county jail, but the deputies were powerless. The dooia fell after nearly an hour's attack. Cryingly piteoualy, Etherington, a curly headed Kentuckian, who has been serving aa a. strike breaker since he was released from marine service three months ago, was dragged forth. "I didn't mean to do it," , he wailed. Hts cries fell upon deaf ears. Fearing'that the mob spirit would '' not be satisfied by one victim, Sheriff Llnke immediately asked Adju- ' tant Genera! Weybrecht for troops to protect six other "dry raiders" * held at the city prison, in another section of the town. A hurried guard was thrown out in their defense. The mob after the first taste 1 of blood seemed quiet but it is fear- v ed that they will attack the city pris- s on before the night is finished. \ - -L ii.. r Ktherlngton's last momenta, wnue he heard the mob battering down the doers; were spent in praying and v writing a note to his parents, farmers residing near Willisburg, Ky. Howard, it is charged, did not resist the detectives when they entered his place on the outskirts of Newark. He, it is said, however, put his arms about Ktherington, as if t# hold him, whereupon the officer fired a bullet into Howard's head. Striking Baltimore and Ohio rail- ^ way employers declare the Ttheringtoti recently came to Newark as a strike-breaker, and the ill feeling 1 growing out of the strike was inten- g fltfied by the slaying. * Friday night a strike-breaker was 1 pkrsued through the street for sev- a oral blocks. He saved himself by * jumping through a window of a 1 laundry. r The detectives arrived next morn- ' i?c with search and seizure warrants J procured from the mayor of Gran- r vllle, a nearby village. One of the v first saloons visited was that of f Louis Belton, where a bartender, Kdward McKenna, was hit over the H f iiead with brass knuckles. The de- 1 c J tectivc who hit him was pursued by a crowd that quickly assembled. The * detective was rescued by the police with difficulty. The officers with the * prisoner were followed by the mob ^ to the pail. c While the raob was batteries down the doors, Ktherington was in his cell. In an attempt to commit suicide he smothered his head in his cdat and set fire to it. He was caught in time. In the melee as the mob was leaving the jail eight prisoners, held ? for petty offenses, escaped. One u ^ refused to leave. c As Ktherington mounted the 1 block ready for the swing he was 1 asked to make a speech. t "I want to warn all young fellows t not to try to make a living the way h I have done-?by strike breaking and taking jobs like this." he declared. 11 "I had better have worked and I a wounldn't be here now." k The swing of the rope cut him ? short. He hung there for an hour while the crowd quietly left. After the first exctement there was no disorder. At the finish there were n hundreds of women and little c.hil- o dren in the crowd, all eager to ac- v complish his death. No member of h the mob was masked and no at- F tempt was made to conceal their a identity. The leaders were personal r friends of the dead man. \* College Girls Drown. Near Wellesley, Mass., Florence Jennlson and Mary Polmer, class- s mates and chums in Wellesley col- n lege, were drowned Saturday, Miss ti . Jennison giving her life in an un- t successful effort to save her friend, a Both were residents of Wellesley and d were 18 and 19 years old, respect-J h ^vely. g njpf M % BRUTAL ASSAULT XKUKO CLCBS WIIK>W OF Mt'RDKUKD MAX. Hurried Aw#y from Scene of Brutal Deed to Escape Excited Crowd.? Hurried to Police Station. A brutal assault with a stick of wood was male Friday upon Mrs. Lubelsky, the widow of the Jewish merchant, who was clubbed to death in his store on King street, Charleston, in broad daylight two weeks ago, and Daniel Duncan, a black negro, 2 2 years of age, was arrested and charged with the crime. Again the midday hour seems to have been chosen for the dastardly deed. About eleven o'clock Mrs. Lubelsky ran out of the store of her husband in which she has been trying to make her living, with blood streaming from her face and calling for assistance. Just then a negro emerged, and two men, Isaac Goodman and Mosos Needle, who were passing, gave chase of the negro. He was caught a few blocks distant and promptly turned over to Police Officer Stanley and Detective Levy, who had also taken up the chase. Protesting his innocence and declaring that another negro had attempted to kill the woman, Daniels was taken to the station house amidst great excitement and. the patrol wagon did not roll off any too soon from th& excited neighborhood of the scene. Daniels was identified by Mrs. Lubelsky before being taken to the station house. The negro was put 1 through the "third degree," but with what success of making him admit 1 any connection with the assault on Mrs. Lubelsky or the murder of her 1 husband it is not knowu. An old negro, John Shuler, of the neighborhood identified Danish? as having ' been seen in Lubelsky's store on the ' morning that the man was killed. ' This is the most important testimony '* yet secured and made public in Ihe s :;as . Mrs. Lubelsky was very nervous * ind excited, and about all that she 0 would say was that the negro had mtered the store and attacked her s c ind that she was struck several ' imes In dodging the blows and mak- v ag her escape from the store. The ,l )iece of wood was similar to that !l vhich was used on the .husband and similar pieces were found on the >remises on which Duncan resided. v V number of negroes have been ar- 1 ested as witnesses. Mrs. Lubelsky's f vounds in the lace had to be stitch- 11 d. She is not seriously hurt. * m m # u DIVOKCK KVIL ALA1CM1NG. 9 ^ t r?-oigiu Judge to Make Apjx'al for " V Stricter Laws. o An appeal for stricter divorce laws n Georgia will be made by Judge V. D. Kills, of the Fulton county u peri or court, before the general tidiciary committee of the legislature. Judge Kllis considers th* . growth of the divorce evil in> Georgia, and particularly in that terriory where he has jurisdiction, so ilarming as to call for new laws, le made the statement of his inten- i' ion to the jury in his court Friday norning just before the court adourned for the week. Both the udge and the jury had Just com- i >leted the July divorce calendar on o. n vhich there were seventy undefend- n >d cases. 0 Judge Kills believes that the eslential weakness of the present law v s that it permits verdicts in unde- ^ ended cases on uncorroborated tes- ^ lmony, either the husband or wife. le thinks if corroborating testimony \ .... i l * i. ? i i .1 v. - vcic itri|inir?u nir t:wi m/uiu lit? n greatly ameliorated and the number q if divorces made less. * \ c FOUGHT THF PRIKSTS. ,j * I'hree .Masked Burglar* Caught Kob> t bing the Ilectoiy. Tlnee masked burglars, intent on ii :etting $5 00 in cash and other val- 1 labies belonging to the church, were aught a-t work in the rectory of St. * Leonard's Roman Catholic church in * Brooklyn'. Three priests attacked tl he trio. Thugs and churchmen bat- ti led tor more than a quarter of a a our. As a result of the encounter 'athers Konig and Oppel are sufferiig from bruises on the head and t] rms, and Father Sanders has a long o nife cut in the hand. The thieves o scaped. o j) Wins $1 but Funeral Follows. To win a bet of $1 which he had tl lade with a friend, Peter Smith, f Newark, N. J., drank seventeen -hiskies and died as a result. Smith nd been drinking in a saloon early o 'riday morning when an argument h a irnc u nu/u^ liiu I IUWII an IU IIH'11 eepective drinking abilities. The S rager and death followed. * g si fdghtniiig Strikes Tree. if During a very severe elect rilol > torm at Abbeville Thursday lighting struck one of the large cedar rees in the Episcopal church yard, paring the tree from top to bottom n nd breaking out two of the win- C ows. One of the windows demol- a ?.hod was a very handsome stained n lass. n CALLS FOR PEAC1 Senator Robt. L. Taylor Urges Teniei see Deaocntfs to Write. DECLINES TO SPEAK For Governor Patterson as Promised, Becuita* of Friend's Protest Says Ills Advice is Itejwteil and He W'ilJ Therefore Keep Out oi the Fight. Saying that he saw with dismay that the Democracy of Tennessee is rushing madly to destruction through l.lttn* O t ?? ~ 1 A I miiui umm iHiuuB, OVliaiUI UUIIfl I l,. Taylor Saturday at Washington gave out a statement withdrawing his promise to stump the State in the interest of the "regular" judiciary ticket. The senator says his action is taken because he can not inflict his advice where it is rejected in advance. Senator Taylor had agreed to speaK for Gov. Patterson and his judiciary ticket. This announcement a roused a storm of protest from friends of the senator who said they did not care to hear him on that subject. Senator Taylor made this statement on the eve of leaving for a Western, lecture trip. "I have seen with sorrow and dismay that the Democracy of Tennessee is rushing madly to destruction through its bitterness and dissensions, and my impulse was to tiy to It and by eutreaty and persuasion induce Democrats, if I could, to waive their pasvsions and differences, ind reuuite against their old-ti.ne snemy, but 1 have been con ,r?c. J >y most everwhelming evidences 'rom hundreds of men of all persuasions, all over Tennessee, tht. :ny services iu that role are not wic'el, ind that, Instead of accomplishing jood, I would add fuel to the flamei ind widen the breach. "I am. therefore, constrained vithdraw my promise to canvass H e Jtate, for I can not inflict my au ice where it is rejected in a ? ? ind when I am insured it .* " do tarin Instead ol u. "I am Angled ui of ell rats in Tennessee and threatened nth political destruction, no mater what I do or uo not do, and now am ready for the sacrifice, for if ny tenure of the -high office the peole have bestowed upon me depends ipon ar.d requires that I shall jo*.) ither faction of Democrats to he other I will lay it down g!u?! v nd retire with a* 'e*^t a const i.-rc? oid of any offense against my party r my people. "This must 11 t be ta'un as reeding in any respect from the pom Lion I have announced, for there an be no safety except in organiation and in obediance to continued uthority. Signed "Robert L. Taylor. *' #250,000 FIRM. 'Tames Sweep Five Business Fstablishments in (-harleston. Fire which broke out Friday afernoon in Charleston completely ;uttod five large wholesale establishments on Meeting street, and threatned the Charleston hotel, just acoss the street, and caused a loss >'hich is estimated at $2 50,000. The luildings gutted are t.he Paul K. 'rouche company, the Bniley-Lebby ompany, T. A. Wilbur & Sons, the larshalFWescoat Hardware com any and two buildings of the A. R. 'homlinson company. The big new epartment store of Louis Cohen & !o., was saved only as the resu't of esporate work on the part of the irenian. The flames for a time hreatened to get beyond the conrol of the firemen and to destroy he block, whic.h is one of the most mportant in the city. Two firemen nd one telephone lineman were ovrcome by smoke, but recovered conciousness. A heavy rain, which et in at about 10:30 o'clock, helped he (itemed get the flames under conrol. * Relic Hunters Busy. The telephone pole from which he detective was hung at Neward, >hio, is guarded from the ravages f reMe hunters, but before the city flic in Is encased it in sheet iron, the ole hail been hacked half through y those who sougM mementoes of le night's grewsome work. Drops Into River. Dropping 7f? feet, A. L. Pfitizner, f Hamniondsport, N. Y.. landed with is Burgess biplane in tiie Plum Isind river, near New.burypart, Mass., ntnrdnv Ha moHAM/t in le himself and get ashore, severely laken up and bruised, but not ser>usly hurt. T4te machine was badr damaged. Illew I'p Safe. Robbers Sunday morning dynalited the safe of the Central of leorgia Railroad at Sumter, Cla., iiil afterwards robbed the local ostoffice. It is not known just how luch money was secured. ? DENIES ALL CHARGES J THK AIKEN CAMPAIGN MEETIXC V A LIVELY ONE. Lyon Cited tlie Kecords to I*?<ov? Evans' Stories False.?Other Can didates Warmed I'p. A sensation was sprung at the campaign meeting at Aiken on Saturday when Chairman Henderson, following the speech of Mr. li. B. Ev1 ans, arose and declared that Attor, ney General Lyon did not employ hiin to appear before the United States Supreme Court, the South Carolina Congressman employing an attorney. Mr Henderann uuid that Mr. Lyon's argument before this high court was good and that he was an able lawyer. Mr. Evans then arose and attempted to speak. He was cheered and hissed. "Let hLm speak," requested Mr. Lyon, but Mr. Evans sat down. "If there is any person in this audience," said Mr. Lyon, "who is so simple or foolish as to believe a single thing; Harney tells you, he will go and laugh at you." Mr. Lyon received an ovation, as he told the large audience that Mr. Evans does not believe his fairy tales himself. With tfie brief time allowed to him, Mr. Evans took up one by one the charges made by Mr. Evans. He proved by the State 'treasurer, the clerk of Richland county court, the Comptroller General, the chairman of the dispensary winding-up commission and others the falsity of the charges. "And yet," declared Mr. Lyon, "Harvey has the gall to stand up and tell you tJhat Lyon misused your money. T.he merger case Is on the Richland county, docket, set for trial t'nis fail. Mr. Lyon said he employed a detective to root out a crowd of grafters. "And I came near getting Harney's Cousin Hub Evans. Would Harney prosecute his Cousin Hub? I don't think so." Here Mr. Lyon took up his opponent's record and declared that his most important I case in the Supreme Court was concerning a "pointer pup." "And he lost that." He has had nine cases In all, and has lost seven, losing several of these because he did not know how to draw his pleadings. Mr. Lyon declared amid great applause that outside his own word Mr. Evans couldn't prove a single j charge that he has made. Mr. Evans made practically the same charges of incompetentcy and extravagance that he has made heretofore. A few persons-in the audience shouted encouragement as he spoke. "Gve it to him, Evans!" they cried. When Mr. Evans concluded a part of the crowd cheered and a few hissed. Air. Lyon had a bundle of affidavits. which he referred to briefly proving by them that every state[ ment made by .his opponent wa-s false. Another mild sensation was sprung when Oapt. W. W. Moore, candidate for adjutant general, replied to alleged insinuations made by his opponent, Capt. Richardson. He drew the record of the adjutant general to show that Richardson's men had been, guilty of insulvordination. Capt. Richardson had taken him to task in regard to his stay at the Cidadel, alleging that his opponent -had left the Impression that he was a graduate. This was Richardson's home town and he received much applause. ? - ? KIIJaS WIFK AND HIMSFI.F. ^ Real Hstate Aprnt Shoots Wife, Son and Himself. Charles Desforges, a real estate agent, shot and killed his wife, probably fatally wounded his 17-year-old son, and then blew .his own brains out at New Orleans Thursday. Dosforges and his wife were seperated several months ago. That night the man went to the house where Mrs. Deforges and the son were living and at onco began a revolver lire upon the two, who were sitting on the gallery. After they had fallen Desforges turned his weapon upon himself. Both he and his wife immediately died. At the hospital to which the son was taken It was said he was probably mortally wounded.* Three Thieves Injured. While Col. H. P. Hope, vice prosident of the Carnegie .-Steel company, was attending a baseball game in Forbes field, Pittsburg, three automobile thieves stole his touring car. They were getting away until they collided with a smokestack in a street m lid the P!ir tnrnoH Un?Uo John Miller and A. (?. Lucas will die and Charels Ha.vs is seriously injure! as the remit of the attempted robhery. killed in Storm. One person was killed and several injured by a terrific wind and electrical storm whic.h swept over Hillsboro, Texas, late Monday night. Considerable damage was done to buildings and growing crops. A child of Henry Mitchell was killed when his home near Maseey was destroyed by the storm. ^ I " ENDSjIER LIFE After Shooting aod Killing Her Hosbaii and Her Little Girl. * TOOK CARBOLIC ACID ' In Letters She Wrote She Gave as a Reason for Her Acts the BruUlity of Her Husband.?lion-owed Revolver from Her Father for Alleged Protection. At Ph l/*(l OTA An T??*t /I??O Vf no ilAnsu ? ? V v/??iVC?f^v VU A i ilia/ iTi I 9* liUUl Mulsaw, goaded to desperation by the alleged brutality and unfaithful ness of -her husband, a street ca\ conductor, shot and fatally wounded the latter and their three-year-old daughter, and then killed herself by taking carbolic acid. Mrs. Mulsaw borrowed a revolver from her father alleging that she needed it for protection when her husband worked at night. Then she wrote letters to her parents, her mother-in-law and to the public. In these she declared that she had been a good and faithful wife, but that Mulsaw spent his spare time with other womeji and often bet her. j Mulsaw is alleged to have |been with another woman until 4 o'clock Thursday morning, when he returned to his home. According to the police he began abusing his wife, seizing her by the hair and kicking her. She then drew the revolver aud shot him in the abdomen, lie fell to the floor and she sent another bullet into his back. She went to her bedroom and fired a bullet into the body of her little daughter. Satisfied that both were dead she completed t.he traged by taking poison. That she kissed her child after taking the poison is shown by the marks on the child's face. BRUTAL ASSAULT. Janitor Fired Five Shots into Body of Patrol Wagon Driver. Stealthily approaching his victim from the rear, J. B. Allison, aged 4 5, a former janitor at the city hall, fired live shots in the body of F. M. McOhee, driver of the city patrol wagon Tuesday afternoon at Ashevilie, every bullet taking effect. After his victim had fallen, Allison beat out the former's brains with a 10-pound hammer. Allison surrendered and is now in jail. Indignation runs high abong the citizenship, and there is some talk of lynching. The killing according to the prisoner's statement, is the outcome of an old quarrel concerning a wo? man. SUICIDE AT WASHINGTON. Southerner Reduced to His Lust Nickel Through Illness. Reduced to his last nickel by illness. J. C. Bean, aged forty-seven, of Hattiesburg, Miss., ended his life at Washington Friday by drinking curbolic acid. His body was found by a park policeman in a clump of bushes on the mall. A small empty bottle was found near the body. Written on the tty leaf of a note book in the dead man's pocket was the following: "My brother's name is E. \V. Dean, Q. and C. freight depot. Meridan, Miss." The only articles of value found in the pockets wore a dollar watch and a five-cent piece. Dean had been stopping at a local hotel for the past two weeks and appeared ill and despondent. * (X>W A MONEY MAKER. Iowa Farmer Avers rih? Cleared During Past Year. James Patterson, of Kossuth. Iowa. Jias a cow that is a profit-maker. She Is a Jersey-Shorthorn cross, and during the last year she has made Patterson $165 in clear cash, after deducting all expenses of her keep. And that, too. In selling milk at five cents a quart, while others were selling it at from six to eight cents. This cow gave 10,458.74 pounds of milk, or 4.804 quarts. This was sold for $243. The keep of the cow amounted to $80. Kveryt.hing in connection with ihis test was under the latest approved methods. 4 * Choose English Language. The Chinese throne approving a recommendation of the board of ed ncat ion, decrees that English shall I he the official language, for scientific and technical education. The study of English is made compulsory in all provincial scientific high schools. ? ? Chair Caused Death of Negro. A row on July 4th at Columbia over a broken chair resulted fatally for Austin Townyell. a negro boy, whose skull was fractured by a blow with a bat in the hands of Alexander Hrooks, an 18-year-old-negro. DISASTER AVERTED BAND PLAYS WH1LK THK BOAT ' IS BURNING. Ix>?k Like a Repetition of Slocum Kxcui'sion. ? Thousands ' Watched Blazing Vessel. The old wooden three-decker. Grand Republic, sister ship of the ill-fated excursion j4.eaai.er, Oen. Slocum. caught lire Wednesday af? 1 . i ici nwuii vwiue passing mrougu me narrows In New York harbor, on her way to that city from Far Rockaway, and hurried full steam ahead her whistle blowing a continuous succession of short, nervous blasts and a plume of smoke trailing behind her, for the Cresent Athletic Club pier on the Brooklyn shores. Her 245 passengers were all landed safely and the tire extinguished with $2,500 damage, but there was no little alarm in the city and on the harbor until the full details we't known. Everybody remembered how a little more than six years ago, the Slocuin, caught tire in the East riv er, when crowded with 1,500 pleasure seekers, mostly women and children, and was burned to the waters edge with 93 8 drowned, crushed, or baked alive. Wednesday, as then, the tire started, nobody knows how, in the galley Just abaft the starboard paddle wheel and spread quickly through the wooden superstructure. There was no panic. The women were badly frightened, but the crew had no trouble in keeping them in hand, and the children were so pleased with the music of the band, that they kept playing through the dash for shore, that they never knew their danger. The calls for aid from the Grand Republic brought fire boats, tupp steamers and a Brooklyn lire engine to the pier and the passengers were quickly put on shore and the fire, extinguished. rrt 1 - - * i nuiiMiiiiuH or people naa garnered along the shores to watch the blazing vessel. Capt. Carmen, when the tire was discovered, directed the engineer, who was sticking to his post, ' in a smoke-filled engine room, to keep up as much steam as possible and put on full speed. Capt. Carmen and Purser John Mc Conaghey, by prompt attention, quelled what seemed for a few minutes would develop into a panic. Men and women began to scream for help,' but as the shores, at the point where the fire was discovered were close by, the fears of the passengers were quieted. Life preserves were handcJ' out 10 the people as fast as they could be taken from the racks, and for a time it looked as if many of those woo had life preservers would jump overboard. Children were lost In the general excitement, but were readied to their parents after the vesse* had docked. Capt. Carmen ordered the band to play until told to stop. The work of getting the people off the boat was done quickly aud without mishap. , ft UltOKHX NKCK KI(;HTVft). Surgeon* Save Coal Miner'* I.tff Bjr Hare Operation. By a bloodless surgical operation Jack Powers, a coal miner of Xelsonville, O., was cured of a broken neck. Four weeks ago he fell and frawtured and dislocated the vertebr t* of u!? neck and was unable to move his head though he could walk and talk. ne was unable to sleep because he could not rest comfortably an4 was in imminent peril of paralysis and death. An X-ray examination revealed to the doctors that his* nbck could be restored to his normal condition by hand manipulations. The operation was made and an hour later the man was talking and laughing, with full power of sensation and muscular movement. * Kills Two Negroes. Two negroes were killed and a third wounded by H. Y. ICvana, a white man at Knoka, about 19 mile* from Lake Providence, La., Monday. It is reported that K vans' brother was being beaten by a negro bartender when Kvans opened Are, killing the negro. A second negro, who interferred, met a like fate, and a negreBS was struck by a stray bullet. Killed l?y Lightning. Geo. G. Wilson, a prominent young man of Mayodan, N. C., was struck by lightning on Friday afternoon and instantly killed. Mr. Wilson wan standing near the chimney flue in the store of his brother, where he worked. A bolt from a passing thunder storm struck this flue and in some way was communicated to Mr. Wilson. a Negro Killed by Train. r;a itogers, a negro man. about 2.r> years old. was found dead Tuesday night near the track of the Atlantic Coast Line railway near Rennettsville. A coroners jury rendered a verdict to the effect that Rogers was killed accidentally by the Atlantic Coast Line train and that the railroad company was blameless. v