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MOB HANGS NElO TAKES HIM FROM LAURENS JAIL TO HIS DEATH ATTACKED YOUNG LADY ly nchers Honiniii IM'af to Pica of Officers of the Law and Hatter Down Three Iron Doors, Securing Prisoner?Body, Diddled With Bullets, llangs From Trestle, llichard Puckett, a negro about twentv-fivfl Vnnru 1/Y uncnoni,.,! v ' ^ kvv%. M VIV4, AH having attacked with criminal intent a young white woman while she was driving to Laurens Monday morning, was taken from the jail at Laurens about 10:30 o'clock Monday night and lynched by a determined mob of at least 2,00 0 men. The crowd carried out its purpose despite the pleadings of Sheriff John D. Owings and Solictor R. A. Cooper that the law be allowed to take its course, the solicitor proming a speedy trial for the negro at an extra term of court. For two hours before the lynching these oilicials talked to tlie crowd in an effort to prevent the consummation of the latter's plans, but only deaf ears were turned to their entreaties. Puckett was taken to a point near the union depot, about three hundred yards from the jail, swung from a cross beam of the railroad trestle and his body riddled with bullets. After taking the life of the prisoner the mob, apparently satisfied, quietly dispersed, and half an hour afterwards the only thing to indicate that a tragedy had been enacted was the lifeless body of the negro swinging from the trestle. At one o'clock Tuesday morning it had not been removed. Soon after Puckett's arrest on suspicion there were signs of impending trouble, for which the sheriff prepared by swearing in a number of deputies, about ten in all, to guard the jail from the expected attack. The mob rapidly increased in numbers, and when it was decided to take the negro the oflicers were powerless to prevent. The mob first broke through nn Iron gate, thereby gaining entrance to the jail yard and sweeping the officers aside. They then ascended a flight of stairs leading from the yard to the second floor of the jail, where the nogro was locked in a cell. BTeaking through two steel doors and securing their prey was the work of but a short time for the hundreds of lynchers, and soon began the march to the scene of the lynching. Although it is said that Puckett confessed his guilt in the afternoon to Sheriff Owings, he denied all knowledge of the crime just before being sent into eternity. Puckett had been in trouble before, having served a term on the chain gang. The victim of the crime for which the life of the negro was taken is a young widow of prominent family connections in this county. She is about thirty years of ago and has a son a,bout Ave. She was on her way to Laurens to see a sister, who is ill at the hospital, when attacked. She is reported to be in a highly nervous state, due to fright, although her condition is not serious. WALKED IN HIS SLEEP Fell From a Third Story Window of His Charleston Home. Neale Rowe, walking in his sleep early Wednesday morning fell from the third story window of his home in Charleston and sustained injuries which are not expected to prove fatal, notwithstanding the distance that he fell. Mr. Rowe has the habit of walking in his sleep, and at the hospital he recalled the motive of his dream which induced him to leave his bed and accidentally take the tumble. He dreamed that his wife requested him to get her some water and with a pitcher of water in his hand lie took hia tnmhlo in a was partly broken by coming in contact with a banister rail, which Rowe probably seized in the course of his fall. ? ? ? Killed by Negro. Roy Jossey, a Lee County farmer, twenty-seven years old, was shot and hilled Monday night by Dock Matthews, a negro who escaped. Jossey was one of a party of young men who went to Matthews' homo to inquire as to a Winchester rifle in his possession. Jossey entered tho house and Matthews shot and killod him. / I To Develop Inland Waterway. A report was made to Congress Wednesday by. tho Secretary of War transmitting the recommendation of the board of engineers that an expenditure of $430,000 be made to provide an improved inland waterway between Columbia, Camden and Charleston, S. C. o Very often the reputation of some of the friends of a candidate drives away good people from him. ' ' k - i SL ? LOOKS LIKE MURDER IIODY or 1X)IjLKTON MAX FOl M) WITH 1IOLK IX HEAD. ? Discovered in Swamp by Searchers , After Failure to Return Home? Man in .Jail on Sustpicion. What may prove to bo a sensational and horriblo murder was brought to light late Sunday afternoon, when the body of Aquila Blocker, a young man of twenty-one years, was found in a small swamp, about six miles from Walterboro, with a gunshot wound in his head. I. M. Eemacks, another young man of the same community, has been committed to jail charged with the supposed crime. Mocker loft home on Saturday, it is said, with a considerable sum of money to purchase cattle. Me did not return that night, but his people were not alarmed until his mule and dog returned on Sunday morning. A search was immediately instituted. A lady in the community, it is said, remembered seeing Lemacks and Mocker enter a small swamp nearby and later heard a gun lire, which, at the time, she paid no attention to. The searchers, hearing this alleged statement, entered the swamp and found the body of Blocker, with a holo through his head. It was also brought out at the Inquest that Tiemacks was seen to enter tho swamp again on Sunday morning. Lemacks, on Sunday, had joined tho search, had visited at the home of Mocker's parents, and was present and testified at tho coroner's inquest held late Sunday night. The verdict of the jury at the inquest was that Blocker had come to his death by gunshot wounds at the hand of I. M. Lemacks, whereupon Lemacks, at an early hour Monday morning, was lodged in jail at Walterboro. Both young men are well known throughout the country, and both have large numbers of friends. FA KM EH HOLTS BANDIT. Drives Automobile Over Man Who Tric<l to Hold Him Uu. The State Chester correspondent says W. H. Ferguson, a well known planter of that county, while motoring homo in his touring car near Great Falls Wednesday, was approached by two highwaymen. He slowed his car down a little, but the men ordered him to stop. At llrst he refused. To stop a fusillade of whiskey and ginger ale bottles that were flying at him from the two men, he was forced to stop. As lie did so one of the highwaymen walked in front of the car and pointed a revolver in his face and told him that if he dared to run his car another foot ho would kill him. Apparently the highwayman believed that he had Mr. Ferguson now under control. After a slight lull in the man's speech, with lightning-like quickness Mr. Ferguson threw on all the speed his high powered car could command and in a second tlio highwayman had been hurled to the ground and run over by the car. His confederate escaped to the woods nearby. Realizing that the highwayman was hurt, Mr. Ferguson ran his car back to him, where ho was found to be in a serious condition. A physician was summoned and it was found that three of his ribs were broken and that ho had received severe bruises. He is still seriously ill. Ills name has not yet been ascertained. If he recovers ho will bo carried to jail. <? ? ? LIM) LANDS SAFELY. ? No Opposition is Met by Wilson's Special Messenger. Not the slightest opposition was planned by tho port authorities at Vera Cruz to tho landing of John Lind, who was expected to arrive on hoard the battleship New Hampshire about noon Tuesday. Awaiting Mr. Lind's arrival were the American Consul, Wm. W. Canada, and Dr. William Bayard Hale, personal representative of President Wilson. Mr. Lind proceeded casually to Mexico City, and there his reception was uneventful. The attitude of the authorities is taken generally as a reflection of what may be expected at tho Mexican capital. They regard Mr. Lind simply as a private traveler. The public discusses his coming languidly with no indication of resentment. ? Seven Are Drowned. Seven of twenty-three persons in a launch party were drowned in St. Louis bay near Duluth, Minn., Wednesday, when a canopy top, used for Reats on the launch Dauplaise, gave way and fourteen persons were thrown into the water. / ? ? Ammunition Near Fire. Within a few feet of two large boxes, In which more than 9,000 rounds or ammunition were stored, a slow fire burned a large hole In the roof of the auditorium armory at Atlanta, Wednesday. A WUNULKFUL PROCESS ? MAN SAYS HE CAN ARTIFICIALLY MATURE COTTON. ? Subjects Green Bolls to Chemical Treatment and in Few Hours Cotton is Fully Developed. Every now and then the world Is surprised by the perfection of some great invention, but wo feel sure thai none has been more wonderful than one claimed by Prof. John 11. Hall, of Philadelphia, in a talk at Barnwell. He came to Barnwell, referred to Col. Ilarry 1). Calhoun, by Commissioner E. J. Watson, in order to try bolls for experimental purposes jit his station in Pennsylvania. We copy tho following from The Hamwell People of Thursday in regard to his visit to that city: That with a new process that he has only recently perfected he can do In two hours what it takes Nature weeks to accomplish and do it better at that, was the assertion made by John B. Hall, of Philadelphia, to a number of planters and representative business men in the directors' room of the Home Hank of Harnwell Friday evening. For an hour or inoro Mr. Hall told of tho results that have been accomplished and it was like listening to a fairy tale, wherein tho good fairy waves her magic wand and unheard of things happen. Hut that ho was in earnest no one doubted. He was not trying to sell anything: ho had no apparent reason to wish to humbug any one; he was not asking for something for nothing? on the contrary, ho paid and was willing to pay well for what he wanted: i. c., green bolls of cotton. He bought several hundred pounds of short and long staple cotton bolls at from five to seven and a half cents a pound, depending on the variety of the cotton, and in addition made arrangements for the purchase of several thousand pounds more to he shipped to Philadelphia, where the experiments are being carried on at a government station. Mr. Hall exhibited a number of open bolls of cotton which he said were matured by his process. One of them was partly rotted, while another had been punctured by the boll weevil in several places. Yet they had opened and by dyeing the staple a part of it can ho used. The boll weevil has cost tho farmers of the southwest millions of dollars by destroying tho bolls before they have reached maturity. Mr. Hall claims that with his process the boll weevil will bo starved out. At present the experiments are being carried on secretly as letters patent have not yet been secured, but tho method of procedure is as follows: Instead of waiting until the bolls have fully opened and the cotton is damaged by the weather, the green bolls are picked "like roses". It doesn't matter if they are one, two, three, four or five weeks from maturity. They are then poured into an immense hopper and pass into the machine where tho maturing process is done. Then tho seed cotton is separated from tho .boll and is carried to the gin. Hut what is just as wonderful is that Mr. Hall states that the by-pro| ducts that can be made from bolls | and stalks are as valuable as the cotton itself. Ho stated that an excellent grado of rubber, paper pulp and gunpowder are among tho by-prod ucts. Now, if he can "make good" on his claims he is perhaps tho most wonderful man of tho age. Think a minute what it would mean. A saving of waste by eliminating immature or frost-bitten bolls and of the cotton that is blown off by tho wind after maturity. The saving of labor, for by picking the whole bill from the plant one workman could do the work of several. It now i:osts something like $100,000,000 a year to i 41. 44 - ~ m? uouon crop or the South and by cutting this in half there would ho a saving of $50,000,000 yearly. It is claimed that the plants could ho placed closer together and more grown to the aero than is now the case, and that tho farmers would he more careful in their seed selection. Now as to the texture of the staple that is artificially matured: Mr. Hall claims that it is far superior to the same grade of cotton naturally matured "because cotton as matured now on the field while waiting to be picked, is subjected to the dews or chill of the night followed by the heat of the sun next day or possibly some days of rain or climatic conditions of some kind, together with the dirt or dust blown on the cotton. The gloss on tho artificially matured cotton would he of a brilliancy and whiteness, free from all weather stains, far superior to that possible on any cotton naturally matured and i exposed to deteriorating weather con ditions. Tho fibre also would certntr?lv hn munU ofPAT>nmi> ~~ ~ ...? - j u. uvji nvi ungci jv/i hid mini t I reason." It is pointed out that by picking the bolls three weeks or a month before maturity the strength of the plant would would be increased and the remaining bolls would grow larger from the increased substance they would obtain from the plant, and in addition the bolls would be saved from the weather and Insect pests. The use of this process would also result in the saving of the top WIFE SLAYS HUSBAND 1 MOT! I Kit OF NINE KILLS HIM IN SELF-DEFENCE. I Herself Dangerously Wounded She says He Heat Her and Stabbed Her in Chest. Using the pistol with which her husband, Henry Clay Grubb, killed her brother, Obadiah Davis, eight years ago, Mrs. Grubb shot and killed Grubb early Saturday at the home of the couple, six miles from Salisbury, N. C. He was worth $500,000 and had had many strange adventures. The woman has not been arrested. She was dangerously wounded in what she says was an encounter forced on her by her husband. Accord- ( ing to her story lie returned home, drunk, soon after midnight, beat her, clipped off a pieco of her ear and stabbed her in the chest. To save her own life, she alleges, | she drew the pistol that had ended her brother's life and with it ended that of her brother's slayer. Her story is, the police state, partly corroborated by the stories of her children, of whom there are nine. Grubb was forty years old and until North Carolina went dry, was a distiller there. Then he moved his business to Florida and Virginia. lie was the leader in many fights in Boon? Township, the last "feudal" township in interior North Carolina, lie was acquitted of blame in the killing of his wife's brother. It was a duel. On the way home, just after Davis died, Grubb was shot by two negroes and was almost killed. Then his home was burned. lie ; once fought a street duel at Salisbury with Jim Green. lie also had attacked Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction when the latter was making a public address. Grubb was the wealthiest man in Davidson County. Face to Face. Sad mortal, couldst thou but know What truly it means to die, The wings of thy soul would glow, i And the hopes of thy heart beat high; Thou would turn from the Pyrrlionist schools, i And laugh their jargon to scorn, As the babble of midnight fools j Ere the morning of Truth be born: . I3ut I, earth's madness above, . In a kingdom of stormless breath? i I gaze on the glory of love 1 In tho unveiled face of Death. I tell thee his face is fair As the moon-bow's amber rings, And tho gleam in his unbound hair Like the flush of a thousand springs: His face is the fathomless beam Of the star-shine's sacred light, When the summers of Southland dream In the lap of holy night; , For I, earth's blindness above, , In a kingdom of halycon breath? i I gaze on the marvel of love In the unveiled face of Death. In his eyes a heaven there dwells, But they hold few mysteries now, ' And his pity for earth's farewells Half furrows that shining brow; Souls taken from Time's (jold tide He folds to his fostering breast. And the tears of their grief are dried , Ere they enter tho courts of rest; And still, earth's madness above, In a kingdom of stormless breath, I gaze on alight that is love In the unveiled face of Death. Through tho splendor of stars impearled In the glow of their far-off grace, lie is soaring world by world < With souls in his strong embrace; Lone ethers unstirred by a wind 1 i At tho passage of Death grow i sweet, t With the fragrance that floats behind The flash of his winged re'reat; < ! And I, earth's madness above, ] 'Mid a kingdom of tranquil breath, i Have gazed on a luster of love < In the unveiled face of Death. i Hut beyond the stars and the sun, I can follow him still on his way, . Till the pearl-white gates are won In the calm of the central day. , Far voices of fond acclaim Thrill down from the place of souls As Death, with a touch like flame, Uncloses the goal of goals; ( | And from heaven of heavens above, ' God speaketh with bateless breath: < My angel of perfect love Is the angel men call Death. ?Paul Hamilton Hayne. > First New Hale. The first bale of the 1013 crop was 1 sold at Barnwell Tuesday by R. IT. Lutz to J. A. Porter for 15 cents a ! pound. It was immediately shipped I by express to F. W. Wagener & Co., of Charleston. Mr. Uutz, a progressive planter, who lives a few miles i from Barnwell, has carried off first - bale honors a number of times. crop, which is so often killed by frost. The time consumed In maturing by the Hill process la said to be very short, ranging from two to three hours. It is estimated that one man can mature from six to ten bales a day, according to the size of the machine. V WILL NOT OLT ANY NATIONAL BANKS LtNDING MONEY FOR SPECULATION -? WILL GET NO CROP MONEY ? Policy Announced Shows That Government Money Will Go Only to Those Institutions That Intend to Use it as Contemplated by Treasury Department. Hanks that borrow or loan money for speculative purposes will be denied any portion of the $50,000,000 ui uuvernmeni iuikis about to bo doposited in national banks to assist in moving crops. The entire amount will go to institutions that earnestly strive to meet the currency demands of the agricultural sections. This policy of the treasury department was announced Tuesday, when Acting Comptroller of tho Currency Kane, in connection with a call for tho condition of national banks at the close of business August 9, asked every national hank in the country to report detailed information or all money loaned or borrowed. Upon the basis of this data, expected to be available in time for the distribution of the $50,000,000, the treasury department will aim to differentiate between banks that borrow or loan in connection with speculative operations or are chronic borrowers, and those that endeavor to relieve financial strain wherever it exists. Information of this character, it was announced, now will be regularly obtained by the comptroller of the currency as a feature of his calls for tho condition of national banks in order that tho treasury department may know what sections of the country are in need of additional circulation at various periods of the year. This innovation is a forerunner of other material changes in the character of information banks will be required in the future to furnish the Government. The forms which have been in use for years are being studied with a view to further steps to obtain detailed information. Acting Comptroller Kane issued this statement: "All banks have been requested to send in, on special forms furnished ror that purpose, detailed statements of all money loaned to other banks as well as all money borrowed from other banks in the form of rediscounts, bills payable or in any other manner. "The new form will enable the comptroller to more easily determine what sections of the country are in need of additional circulation at stated periods of the years, what banks accommodate their correspondents in such sections and, in addition, should also enablo tho comptroller to more easily ascertain what banks borrow in order to meet legitimate discounts and varying conditions, and what banks should be listed as chronic borrowers?that is, those which borrow to reloan in normal times. "This amplification of reports of the condition is in line with the policy to obtain from those reports as much information as possible to serve practical as well as statistical purposes. With this end in view the forms used by tho department are being analyzed and considered." One primary purpose in seeking detailed information is to discover which banks are borrowing for speculative purposes and which are borrowing to meet the legitimate financial needs of the country. The treasury department, it was said, wants to single out the institutions that are not using their resources to help the crop-moving period, so that it would be in a position to decline them special deposits of the Government to relieve stringency and place the money with banks that are sending currency to districts where it is needed. The Information collected probably will be available to Congress for use in connection with the question of amendment the pending currency bill. Many private documents belonging both to the Governor and to Mrs. Sulzer, have disappeared. BANK Oi Coriwa HAS LARGEST CAPITA!, AND SUP COUNTY. MORE THAN THE COMP ALL OTHER BANKS IN THE COU CAPITAL STOCK.. .. SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOC SECURITY OF DEPOSE DIRE( ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH. iM. L. ZUCK, GEORGE J. HOLIDAY. WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS AOC TIT.T T wuiiio w hjIj JUSTIFY, AND WE Robert B. Scarborough, D. President. THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY, S. C. MROFKHRIONAL CAR!^ K. H. WOODWAKI* 4ttr>rn?v aud Councilor * i ' ONWAV. H. ? i ?. AHDKOi ii> I ON V* A> , {*. uioraej at I it fit fttttoi'on* UJIll'Ull ana Surge*;. OfSWAl, s. I IV. U. McCORD, Dental Surgeon CONWAY, 5. C. RENE RAVENEL I*an<l Surveying and Drainage Spivey DuiIding Conway, H. O ?E WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE HT RUNNIN^^I Oyoa want cl t her n V1 bm 11 n r Shut tl&Rote^p WtMiUle or a Single Thread [C/tafn cHilcA} ( Sewing Machine write to Ml IEW HOME SEWINQ MACHINE COMPAM Orange, Muss. Hbayvewfnir macbine* ?rr made to sett rervrdleMflt.' #uiiitr, but the Kew Home is made to wuml Out guaranty never runs out. ? > MM fey uihorlictl dealers j v Sua SALS Ml I t ZACHRY CASE CONFUSED. Requisition Refused?Georgia Supreme Court Itevorsos Decision. Tho Supreme Court of Georgia Tuesday reversed the decision of Judge Hammond, of Augusta, awarding the two Zachry children to the , father, J. J. Zachry thereby further complicating the sensational case in. which requisition papers by Governor Dlease for Zachry were refused by Governor Slaton Tuesday. Acocrding to the ruling of the Supremo Court, the decision awarding the children to the father is reversed and remanded to Judge Hammond's Court for further hearing. The rilling further specifies his discretion in awarding tho custody of the children, which is contrary to the opinion rendered by Judge Hammond, who held previously that ho was forced to award the children to Zachry becauso of a previous judgment. Drowns While liathing. While in bathing Saturday afternoon in the Haile Gold Mine nond <? ? ? p three miles distant from Kershaw, Robert Love was drowned. Young Love swam to the head of the pond and was returning when lie went under from exhaustion. None of his companions would go to his rescue. Burned to Death. Geneva and Evelyn Braddy, 2 0 and 12 years old, respectively, were burned to death late Sunday night near Bartow Fla., when thier home was destroyed by fire. A younger child was also badly injured but will recover. ? HORRY, y. S, C. .PLUS OF ANY BANK IN IIORRY tINED CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OF NTY. $50,000 12,500 (HOLDERS. . .. 50,000 rORS 112,500 ;tors W. A. JOHNSON, "WILL A PUPTAW .... . ivrjrJMA'N, D. V. RICHARDSON. OMMODATION WHICH THEIR AC- 4 SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. T. Richardson, Will A. Vice-President n Cashier.