Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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NEGRO IS LYNCHER | FOR SHOOTING MAN WHILE ROBBING HIS STORE DRAGGED FROM SWAMP Cieorgiu Merchant lleco?iiizes Negro in His Store ami Calls to Him to Como Out?lturglar Ix>uds Hitie, Steps Out and Fires Twice, Wounding White Man. After an all day's search for a negro burglar, who Saturday midnight shot down J. F. Hammock, a merchant of Dunbar, fifteen miles mouth of Macon, Ga., a posse Sunday night captured the negro In a swamp at Wellston, and after taking him back to Dunbar, strung him to a pole in the heart of a negro establishment and riddled his body with bullets. Mr. Hammock was carried to Macon and lies in a critical condition at the Williams Sanitorium, suffering from gunshot wounds in ills wrist and breast. Mr. Hammock heard a noise in his store Saturday at midnight and leaving his house, nearby, investigated. Ho saw a man working inside and commanded him to come out. The negro loaded a shotgun inside the store and came forth, shooting two charges into the body of Mr. Hammock. The merchant fell to the ground. He recognized the negro. Persons rushing to the scene, atatraetod by the shooting, were given a description of the burglar and started at once on the hunt. The nosse trained in sizo until thn onninro was made, there were more than a hundred in the p.nrty. The pursuers had heen led into Houston County by bloodhounds that were placed on the trail. Not far from Wellston, some fifteen miles from the scene of the crime, the dogs came to a halt at the water's edge of the swamp. Members of the posse waded into the wafer with tlieir drawn revolvers. There i.i water nearly up to the negro's neck they found him. The negro was dragged from the swamp, pi a red in one of the automobiles used by the nursuers, and taken to Hunbar. where the lynching occurred. Several hundred shots were fired into the body of (lie negro. The negro's name was John Shake, about fifty years old, who, according to Dunbar people, has caused much trouble in the past and it is said has been caught in the act of attempting to break into this same store before. ? SMITH MAY MEET 15LEASE. Both Are Invited to Speak at Filbert in August. What is looked forward to as promising to be an important political meeting will be held at Filbert, in York county, on Friday, August 1. The occasion will be the community's annual picnic. Governor Blease, Senator McLaurin, Representative Geo. R. Rembert and others will .be in attendance and make speeches. An invitation has been extended to United States Senator E. D. Smith to be present and make a speech. Should Senator Smith attend it will be the first meeting with Governor Rlease on the stump since the latter has announced his candidacy for the former's seat. The presence of those two will likely overshadow the other political aspects of the occasion, although several of those who are expected to offer for governor next year will address the voters. Train Kills Unknown Man. An unknown white man was run over by tfie north-bound Seaboard Air Line flyer near Dixanna, a few miles south of Columbia, late Saturday afternoon and fatally wounded. He was placed aboard the train and rushed to Columbia and taken to a hospital, where, in spite of the best medical attention, there was no hope of saving him. . | Returns to Prison. Returning voluntarily to the State penitentiary at Frankfort, Ky., from which he escaped twenty-one years ago, Geo. Koors, aged fifty-four, Friday sought out the warden and asked to be allowed to complete his life term, ten years of which had been served when he escaped. Oar Inspector Killed. John McKenzie, car inspector for 4 1 r? . m % ? -.1 nit; aoumern Hallway, was caught between two cars at Spartanburg junction while detaching an air hose Saturday morning, and received injuries from which he died two hours later at the Spartanburg Hospital. | ?? May l)io from llitos. Tlraden O. Oms, of Pitcairn, Pa., is in a hospital, his life despaired of, as the result of a battle with a giant bug, as "large as a pigean". Oms struggled with the bug for half an hour. He was bitten on the arm and side of his body. ? Shoots Stepmother; Kills Self. Martin Strasburger, of Knox, Tnd., shot his stepmother in the head, then committed suicide. f: MAN BEGS FOR DEATH I ??. knoinkkk asks i mi:\i>s to f KM) ims AOONY. l'innod I'mlor His Inn'oniotivc Suffering Kinully Cuts Throat With 11 is l*cn Knife. Pinned under an overturned locomotive in the Louisville and Nashville yards in Decatur, Ala., Huston CJ. Fleming, an engineer, killed himself with his pocket knife to bring reuei rrom the agony he was suffering. "For God shake kill me and put me out of this living hell," cried the doomed engineer immediately after the wreck, as he sank back after i frantic efforts to pull himself from under the mass of steel and fire. Witnesses, many of them friends i of the pinioned man, struggled madly with tiie diminutive wreck car, whose crane could not budge the massive engine. I "Haven't any of you the nerve?" cried Fleming in a final appeal. Then, with his half paralzed hand, he drew a knife from his coat pocket, opened the blade with his teeth and severed his jugular vein, dying within a few minutes. Fleming and an air inspector were testing a new Mallet locomotive in the Louisville and Nashville yards and were making good speed when a shifter jumped a switch and crashed into the big machipe. The ocomotive was thrown from the track, killing the inspector instantly. Fleming was caught in the wreck, ltoth his legs were crushed, an arm was broken and hot water and steam were sizzling over his body, causing the pain he wished to escape. Fleming was to have been married within a week after the day of the accident. It was partially in recognition of his ability as an engineer and partly as a wedding present that lie was given charge of the big Mallet 1 t- 5 ? 1 - * * * unuer wnicn no perisneu. Crizzled railroad men, who had worked with Fleming' all his Jife, were made heartsick from the awful sight and gave as their excuse for not ending their comrade's misery the claim that they loved him too well to end his life as long as the slightest hope of rescue remained. ? SKM) TILLMAN PltAYKIl. ? Chicago Broker Furnishes Text for Appropriate Thanksgiving. Senator Tillman has received a largo number of letters relating to his recent alleged utterances on the poor finality of Washington chicken, but the one which seems to have amused him most is the following, from a broker in Chicago: "Senator B. It. Tillman, Washington, D. C.?Dear Sir: After reading in the papers of the great supply of fried chicken that had been sent you by some of Washington's fairest cooks, a prayer offered by Capt. Ben W. Tibbey, of the Associated Copper Company, of Arizona, seems very appriate for use: " 'O I.ord! we bless Thee for chicken young and chicken old, Chicken hot and chicken cold, Chicken tender and chicken tough; Wo thank Thee, O Lord, we've had chicken enough! Amen.' "Trusting that this may be of some service to you, I beg to remain, very truly yours, etc." ? Cows Cause Wreck. William Nicholson, a motorman, of Uniontown, Pa., was killed and 15 passengers were injured when a trolley car hit four cows, two at a time, iu f ( h I n 1 AO font Ttin nnr li 1 in rr ounr a 20-foot embankment after being derailed, throwing the remainder of the passengers in a wild state of fear. Two of the cows were killed. Eats Poisonous Pills. Jane, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. C. B. Caldwell, of Pittsburg, found her father's pill case and started to play doctor. She divided a bottle of morphine tablets with two playmates. Later she said she was sleepy, and went to sleep, never to awaken. The others wore very sick, but have recovered. Rescues Husband Prom Bull. Ous Anderson, of Boise, Idaho, owes his life to the bravery of his wife. He had gone out to milk, when he was attacked by a bull. His wife heard his cries and, setting the dog to worry the animal, dragged her husband from the corral. Mr. Anderson is in a serious condition. ? Hired Negro to Kill Wife. Rriro Rr?ir>r>r Tr r\t A n rl n 111 al a A In has boon found guilty of murdering bia wife, and has been sentenced to life imprisonment. He is "barged with having hired his negro chauffeur to kill Mrs. Spicer, then, it was testified, lie led a mob, a few hours later, that lynched the negro. ? Bites Off Nose and Ears. The three-year-old daughter of R. C. Goods, of New Orleans, had her nose and ears bitten off by a mad bull dog. Godde seized tho animal and literally cut off its head with a clasp knife. The child is in a serious con> dltion. BLEASE IS CURBED ?. rHE SECRETARY OF WAR PUT THE HALTER ON HIM MADE KIM VERY GENTLE Pho Augusta Chronicle Tells in an Interesting Way Why the (iovernor lUnkled t?? Secretary (iarrison as lie lias Done After lleing so FireKating With llim at the Start. Many of the newspapers out of the State are guying Governor Mease for unconditionally surrendering to Secretary of War Harrison after being so insulting and insolent to the War Department of the United States. The following from The Augusta Chronicle will give our readers an idea of what they are saying about the Coventor's back-down: We had begun to think it was impossible that the irrepressible Colo I'.lease, of South Carolina, must be permitted to wend his fiery way undisturbed and undismayed?but, tit last, the man has been found who could put a curb on him, and bring him to his haunches as tame as you please. Not only has the Mease posed,] these several years past, as no respecter of persons?in fact, a downright disrespecter of persons?except, of course, the wool-hat voters of his own State?but, more recently, he undertook to let the war department of those United States know exactly what he thought of it, and of the standing army, national guard and the government in general. Not so many weeks ago, as commander-in-chief of the army and navy of South Carolina, he point-blank refused to do certain things?and to permit the South Carolina national guard to do certain things?-roniilrcd by the military laws of the country, even going so far as to defy the war department in printed language of a characteristic sort. And this is the way the diplomatic TUease went about it?the same being a part of his otllcial communication to the war department on the subject: "June 24, 1012. "lion. Lindlcy M. Garrison, Secretary of War, Washington, I). O. "Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of June 12, in which you state: " 'After careful consideration of your communication (letter of June 11), I am forced to the conclusion that you leave the war department no other course to pursue, than to withdraw all federal assistance to the organized militia of South Carolina, and it is with great regret that I have to inform you that such action will be immediately taken.' "This announcement is very pleasant to me; I fought this Dick law when I was in the Senate, and I have seen the wisdom of my opposition since, and nothing gives mo more pleasure than to see South Carolina relieved from its iniquitous provisions. "Thanking you on behalf of myself, I am, very respectfully, "Cole Ti. Rlease, "Governor." But it so happens that the present head of the war department, one Garrison, of New Jersey, is a man who, if all reports be true, even the president of the United States can't intimidate a little bit; so, when a mere gov ernor tried it?even though he he a hold, had governor, like Mease?this Secretary Garrison went back at him in a way that left him no room for misunderstanding. Inasmuch as the commander-inchief of the army and navy of South Carolina had defiantly refused to recognize the authority of the war department, or to permit the South Carolina national guard to conform to certain established rules and regulations, the secretary of war politely informed the recalcitrant commander-in-chief that, unler the circumstances, all federal aid would he withdrawn from the South Carolina military; that there would be no State encampment at the government's expense, etc. Which was putting it up to the Mease in a way that even he could understand; and he also understood that to cut the South Carolina military out of their annual encampment by his own crazy act would cost him several thousand good Carolina votes when he gets ready ro run against cotton" smith for the United States senate. So the llleaso forthwith sought a peace with the war department; in short, "caved" in a fashion of which few thought him capable. Tint, in the letter, if not in the spirit, of the thfng, he made amends for his official misconduct; with the result that, out of consideration for the troops more than for the commander-inchief, the war department relented and ordered the encampments held. It later turned out, however, that some of the South Carolina companies didn't come up to specifications, so to speak?as to number of men on their roll, etc.?hence they were ordered back homo after they reached camp; or, at least, were informed that they could remain in camp only MYSTERIOUS WOUND SOl'TII CAROLINA WOM \ N DVINCi IN ArCil'STA HOSPITAL. Husband Says She Shot Herself, llut Dying Woman's Relatives Are Dissatisfied with explanation. Her brain grazed by a bullet wbieb passed through her head, the wifo of ;i ni'oniinniit mwl uoiil t ?... ? ? - ? ?? \r v uvu v uii\i puivi i u i;\; i wealthy South Carolina farmer, lies at the point of death at Margaret Wright Hospital in Augusta. Mr. ,T. N. Allston, the husband, says the hospital physicians have told him the case is hopeless, and that his wife will die from the wound. He is disinclined to talk about the case, hut insists that the details "will all come out in the Inquest", if it is necessary to hold one. Sunday, July 13, Mrs. Allston, who is past middle age, was brought to Augusta on a stretcher and hurried from the depot to Margaret Wright hospital in an ambulance. A special nurse was secured at the hospital, and physicians began at once to battle against almost certain death. Her condition was considered critical, it pistol wound in Iter head. The bullet had entered just in front of the right ear and on a line from the top of the ear to the eye. In crashing through her head it ranged slightly upward, grazing the brain, ami came out about the crown of the head. Mr. Allston stated that he and bis son were in a room at their home near McCormick, S. C., when his wife entered in a fit of hysterics, which he declined to explain or give any cause for. Suddenly picking up a revolver which lay in sight, he says bis wife turned the muzzle to her head, and pulled the trigger. He did not say that he had any conversation with his wife, but from bis statement it is thought that Mrs. Allston fired the bullet, evidently with suicidal intent, before be had an opportunity to question her. He gave no other reason for her action. Mr. Allston made no secret of the fact that Mrs. Allston's people are not satisfied with the explanation he has given of the facts in the case. Tie insisted, however, that his little boy was in the room when bis mother shot herself, and was an eye-witness. "I can't understand it," he said. He added that for some reason her neonle ATA oven more anxious than bo is to keep tliP matter quiet. "It is awful," the husband kept repeating, "and worse on the little fellow," indicating the sleeping hoy, "than it is on me; but it will all come out at the inquest, if it is necessary to hold one." REMORSE LKI> TO SUICIDE. ? Unable to Hear the f>a/.e of Mother, Whoso Child lie Killed. The accusing gaze of a woman whose child met death under his engine, led Louis Faber, of Philadelphia, to take his own life. Faber, who shot himself after making an attempt upon the lives of his wife and children, was an engineer on the Reading railroad. After her son, John, was killed by Faber's engine, Mrs. Rose Crocowicz made daily visit to the scene of the accident just at the timo when Faber was passing. She stood near the track, her eyes riveted to those of the engineer, to whom she cried, "(live mo my child." The mother's grief and presence so worked upon Faber that ho became subject to strange hallucinations and his mind gave way. at their own expense, which they didn't do. Naturally, the commander-in-chief's heart was moved for his men?ho had previously shown them such great consideration, when he came so near knocking them out of their encampment entirely, through his defiant and unseemly attitude to\V n r ft ttlO war flnnnrtmnnt or, 1 .. v. V..V/ .1 Ml MV|/MI tlllVyllt OV II V? 1UOI no time in making another political play, by "appealing" to this same war department, which he had so recently defied, to give these companies another chance, l>y permitting them to go hack into camp with the Second Regiment, etc. And here is his appealing communication on that subject: "I, therefore, write to request that you allow these three companies to come into camp with the Second Regiment, N. O. S. C., at Camp Wilie Jones. If you can consistently do this, I am satisfied that the members of these companies will appreciate your kindness very much indeed, and will be eager to come up to the standard required more so than if they had been left in their regular place in the Aiken encampment." Oodzooks! Can it be the same Tllease? And if so, what has come over the spirit of bis dreams??his nightmares. "I, therefore, write to request" . . . "will appreciate 1.|M ? ? -A ymu niiiuiitJHS, t'ic. Verily, there was never yet foaled a man was not born to ride him. And, a horse?or a jackass, either?that in this particular instance, the secretary of war, the Hon. L. M. fJarrison, of New Jersey, seems to he the man. Verily, also, the Rlease appears to somewhat betted advantage with a curb between his teeth. We congratulate all concerned. RAISE LIVE STOCK GOVERNMENT TO AID THROUGH CO OPERATIVE PLAN * i WILL SEND AN EXPERT ? Lover Secures Arrangement From Do- I partincnt of Agriculture hy Which , Cattle Kaisers in This State Will ' llavo Fxcellcnt Opportunity to lint- i < tor Their Condition. . Representative Rover Friday com- ' pleted arrangements with the dopart- ' mont of agriculture by which live 1 stock raising is soon to be begun in South Carolina. The department, in pursuance of ' the plan agreed to, will at once send an expert to St. Matthews to confer with .1. A. Ranks of that place, one of tho best known advocates of live 1 stock raising in South Carolina, on tho possibility of forming co-operative organizations to increase interest ' in live stock and bring into use the best methods of animal husbandry. Tho department's idea is that the best results can be obtained through a self-governing organization, with the aid and advice of experts to be supplied by the government. Assistant. Secretary Calloway's letter to Mr. Lever, explaining the plan, follows: "We are very much interested in this proposition of yours to encourage the greater production of animals in South Carolina. I have discussed the matter somewhat fully with the secretary, and he is of the opinion that much can be done toward stimulating interest in the subject of animal husbandry and has made a number of suggestions as to how the work might he carried out. "As I understand it, your plan is to encourage the production of live stock by organizing co-operative livestock societies or associations and have them develop the work on a community basis. "Such a co-operative society, while making live stock the central feature, would, of course, necessarily have to PfUlci/lnr M ! ? ?/? S <n 1 1 %r r? 1 1 ?>. 1 ? " P ~ ? I |M in I n HIIJ .111 (III iirn-M 1)1 ?Krieultlire?rotation of crops, kinds of crops to grow, marketing, rural credits and so forth. Mr. Lover is enthusiastic at having been able to direct the attention of the department to the great problem, as ho expressed it, "of reinforcing our cotton crop with a strong right arm". "The live stock industry, not only cattle, but hog raising, has boon woefully neglected in the South, due to the character of our labor and to the mistaken idea that it is more profitable to grow cotton and buy meats and other home necessaries than it is to supplement the cotton crop by the production of those essential necessaries to every farmer," is the way Mr. Lever argues the proposition. "The meat supply of the nation is failing to keep pace with the number of mouths to be supplied, and we are up against the proposition either of eating less meat or growing more of it. Our oxport trade in beef has practically ceased, and we can no longer depend for our beef upon the large ranches of the West. This will continue to supply a large part of the demand, which can not bo supplied under present conditions. The older settled communities which heretofore have depended upon the West for their meat supply must be taught to supply this. The Eastern and Southern farmers must be made to become entirely self-sustaining if they are to be developed to their full capacity of productivity. "I am firmly of the opinion that with the rapid eradication of the cattle tick and the introduction of the serum for the prevention of hog chol era, the South and Bast will shortly find themselves ablo to supply fully the demands of their people for meats. The necessity for our people to get away from the ono crop idea is accentuated and emphasized by the rapid approach of the boll weevil upon our borders?this pest .being now within striking, distance of tho Georgia line. No way of checking its advance has been found, and it is my opinion that the Carollnas and Georgia must make up their minds that if cotton is continued to be grown, means must be found of growing it under the boll weevil conditions. We are face to face with a very serious problem, and wo can not afford to shut our eyes to tho facts. Wo must reinforce our cotton crop, and wo can do it most profitably with tho introduction of llvo stock raising, and I think this must bo built up through the co-operative methods Oil oeroof O/l htf A rt nl M * O ^ ? * nufshmicu ujr nDmsmill owicilliy UUlloway.,, Saves Haby Ton Days. After having kept her baby nlive for ton days, by breathing in its mouth wbon it was sinking, Mrs. J. H. Spaulding, of Oklahoma City, finally lost tho child. Tt was six weeka old and had an affection of tho heart. ? ? TIarry Rckhardt, of Peckham, Col., had his shovel he was carrying torn from his hands by lightning, and sent 100 feet away from him. Eckhardt was unhurt. AMERICAN IS SHOT , mi:\i< \\ m:di:i;\ls woi \d r. s. I.M.MHiltATK>\ INSrKCTOIt. ? He Had II?nmi Sent into Inure/ on Official IluainoHM ? Invest ij?at in i.iri.u^ ui ? / ? u nut- nmu' * usrs. Charles B. Dixon of San Diego, United States Immigration inspector, ,vas given "ley ruega" by Mexican 'ederal soldiers Saturday. He was jhot in the hack and may die. Dixon was iti Jaurez on official busness. investigating "white slave" ases. when ho was arrested by a >and of federals, who started marching him away from the city in the lirootion of the foothills, where many executions have occurred. Dixon started to run and after getling a block away was fired on and liit in the back. Dixon's father lives in Wharton, Texas. Dixon made a statement Saturday afternoon in .Inure/ to American officials that lie believed the Mexicans were marching him out to shoot him when he ran. lfe says the Mexican soldiers were drunk. Dixon was sent by a superior to Jaure/, to see a negro in connection with a "white slave" case being probed there. Ho says he believes the negro bought drinks for the soldiers and induced them to arrest him. F. W. Berkshire, supervising inspector of the United States immigration service on the Mexican border, at once went to .laurez, accompanied by Clarence flatley, an inspector, to look after Dixon. Both were arrested and detained at the military barracks for a. short time but later were released. They took up the matter with Miguel Dibold, inspector of Mexican consulates in 101 Paso, with a view of having Dixon removed to 101 Paso. "It. looks like a serious case. We will do whatever is necessary," said Secretary Bryan Saturday night in commenting on the shooting of Dixon. Tie telegraphed American Consul TOdwards for an immediate investigation. While immigration officials on the border frequently have had their troubles with Mexicans, ofllcials being detained until tiieir identity could he established, no incident so serious as the affair at Jaurez could he recalled in ofllcial circles Saturday night. It was apparent that the state department would call upon the do facto government in Mexico City, whose troops are garrisoned in Jaurez, to punish the offenders, though no one would authorize any statement of the course lo he pursued. The most drastic representations in phraseology that have been made since tho present American Administration came into power, were made to the Huerta Government in Mexico Monday. The United States Government demanded not only the prompt arrest, court-martial and punishment of the Mexican Federal soldiers who shot Charles D. Dixon, an American immigration ofllcial, at Jaurez, Mexico, but the immediate release of Charles Uissell and Bernard McDonald, mining managers, imprisoned by Federal soldiers at Chihuahua City, and said to he threatened with execution. $1,500,000 IN FREE LABOR. Missouri Governor Fixes Holiday for Work on Roads. Gov. Major, of Missouri, issued a proclamation setting apart Wednesday and Thursday, August 20 and 21, as public holidays, to be known as "Good Roads Days". Every able-bodied man in the rural districts and cities of the State is asked to put in theso days working on tho public highways. Tho Governor requests that all ordinary business he suspended. Every county court in the State is asked to issue a sunole mental proclamation. The women in the country are requested to aid by furnishing the volunteer workers i with lunches. The Governor estimates that work approximating $1,500,000 in value will result. Heat Hp Husband's Affinity. The District court of Milwaukee has ruled that an attack on an "affinity" by a wife, is not a case of assault and battery. Mrs. E. D. Mlckle was discharged from court, and Miss Annette C. Meyers, who had the wife arrested, was banished from the city. The arrest bad taken place after a rough and tumble fight on a street in the center of the city. ? Under Serious Charge. True bills, charging complicity In Incendiary fires, were voted Friday by the grand jury of Chicago against Joseph Fish, wealthy clubman and head of Joseph Fish & Co., public fire insurance adjusters, and nine others, two of whom are reported to be women. | Shot Defendant Church. John Cahill, a New York city policeman, was murdered while protecting a Catholic church in ttrooklyn, against robbery. Ho had evidently surprised the burglars at work, and had attacked them. TTo was stabbed in the breast and shot in the temple.