The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 09, 1913, Image 3
BLEW UP BUILDINGS
AID OF M'NAHABAS IWNS UP TO
HIS DEVILMENT
TELLS OF THEIB PLANS
Union Iron Worker Arrested in New
York Samo as (ioorgo O'Donnell,
Who Figured in Kyun's Trial?llis
Confession Loads to Arrest of
Some Others.
Dynamite outrages that rivallod
the exploits of tlio MeNamara brothers
and Ortio McManigal Thursday
were confessed by (Jeorge E. Davis,
a union Iron worker. Davis, who was
arrested at New York Thursday, was
the Gcorgo O'Donnell who iigurod in
the trial at Indianapolis that resulted
In the conviction of Frank M.
llyan, president of tho International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, and thirty-sovon of
hia associates. Ilia arrest and
its consoqucncea wound up the work
tho Foleral government atartsd mora
than two yoara ago, whon the dynamiting
of bridges and steel frama
buildings all orer tho country becamo
a national scandal.
All tho explosions that Davis says
ho caused wore touched on and testified
to at tho dynamiters' trial in
Indianapolis, but the fact that Davis
caused them remained unrevcaled
until ho himself told of it. Davis*
confession resulted in the arrest in
Indianapolis of Harry Jones, secretary-treasurer
of the Iron Workers'
Union. His confession supplements
the evidence presented at the Indianapolis
trial and constitutes fresh
charges against some of tho men now
in prison. Some of his revelations
concern President Ryan, who now is
out on bail pending appeal from a
prison sentence of seven years.
Davis says bo was tho man chosen
to kill Walter Drew, attorney for tho
National Erectors' Association, in
December, 1911, after Drew was
charged with kidnapping John J.
McXamara. It also was suggested
that he try to "got" William J.
Burns, (ho detective employed to unearth
the dynamite conspiracy. The
price 011 Drew's head at that time,
Davis said, was $.">,000. Davis consented
to return to Indianapolis without
extradition. His bail was fixed
at $10,000.
Tho conspiracy thought to have
been broken up by tho conviction of
It,van and nthnrn cstill ovloto
ing to Davis' confession. With the
exception of Harry Jones, the men he
mentions in connection with his various
dynamite jobs already have
been arrested. The apprehension of
Davis was due to Robert Foster, a
Louisville detective. Several weeks
ago, when Davis was displeased with
his treatment by the union, Foster
persuaded him to make a full confession.
This was on September 16. For ?
week Davis had been working in
Pittsburg for the Thompson-Starrett
Company. Then the local delegate
of the Iron Workers' Union told him
he must pay a $2 6 initiation fee to
the local union or quit work. Davis
quit. The detective told him lie
knew all about his deeds anyway and
Davis, feeling that the union had doserted
him, accompanied Foster to
New York# Here, in the presence of
representatives of the Federal district
attorney and the National Erectors'
Association, he dictated and
swore to the detailed confession given
out by the district attorney's office.
Davis said ho had been an iron
worker since 1 000. In the early day#
ho was a member of the entertainA
t 0/\ tW H t ^ U 1- ? ' ' '
linill, tulllllUHC?, W IIUBl! lllllj, lit! Sillll,
was to assault non-union workers.
ITo began his eareeras a dynamiter
at Trenton. NT. J. The confession desoribos
how Davis blew up, or tried
to blow up, buildings and bridges in
various cities and towns of the Feast.
It was during his preparation of
plans to destroy a new building at
Fall Ttiver, April 2G, 190S, that Davis
first came into communication with
Harry Jones. lie says he got Jones
at Indianapolis on the telephono and
asked him for money, Jones , he
adds, sent $.r>0. Davis asserts that
Jones was familiar with the work he
was doing.
t'nder the name of O'Donnell, Davis
was arrested for tho Fall IUver
job and served two years in prison.
After he left prison officers of the
union gave him money and he went
to his home in Coffeyville, Kan. The
arrest, or me MCNamaras followed
soon and on advice of President
Ryan, Davis claims ho returned
East. One of his latest exploits was
dynamiting a bridge at Mount Vernon
under the direction of Frank C.
Webb, a New York member of the
executive committee of the union,
now serving six years in prison.
A feature of Davis' statement was
a story of a gigantic scheme to set
off simultaneously explosions In
Omaha, San Francisco, St. Louis and
New York city, while the McNamaras
were in Jail. This was to create the
impression that the McNamara brothers
were hv no means responsible for
all the dynamiting in the country.
The consummation of the plot was
nipped by the confession of the McNamaras.
NEW COTTON GINNED
CKXSL'S BHPOBT SHOW* TOTAL
OF .1,837,851 BALKS.
(iiuuiua Statistics Prior to September
85, by States With Compartsou of
Last Tsar's Condition.
Tho second cotton ginning report
of tho census bureau, Issued at teu
o'clock Thursday, announced that 3.237,85
1 bales of cotton of ike growth
of 1913 had been ginned pi ior to
September 25, counting round as
half bales. To that date last year
3,005,934 bales, or 22.3 per cent, of
t.he entire crop, bad boen ginned; In
1911, to that date, 3,376,594 bales,
or 2 3.6 per cent, had boon ginned;
in 19U8, to that date, 2,5 90,63 9
bales, or 19.3 per cent, of the entire
crop had beon ginned, aiul In 1906,
to that date, 2,057,283 bales, or 15.8
per cent, of the crop had been ginned.
Included In the total ginulngs were
27,3 2 4 round bales, compared with
1 9,57 4 round bales ginned to Sopbales
in 191 1, 38,028 round bales la
19 10 and 48,070 round bales In 1 909.
Tho number of bales of sea Island
cotton Included was 10,555 bales,
compared with 8,051 bale# last year,
11,807 bales In 1911, 13,882 bales in
19 0 9 and 1 1,457 bales In 1 903.
C5innings prior to September 2 5, by
tates, wcomputations for last
year and other big crop yearn, and
with the percentage of tho entlro crop
ginned to that dato in previous years,
follow:
Alabama.
( innings. Per Cent.
1 913 3 2 2,6 02 1 4.5
19 12 190,310 11.5
1 911 3*10,2 4 4 2 1.2
1 9 0S 310,349 23.7
1 906 . . 221,85 I 1 7.9
Arkansas.
1 9 13 69,603 ....
1 912 4 1,4 3 8 5.4
1 911 4 3,626 4.8,.
1 908 80,4 65 8.1
1906 35,837 4.0
Florida.
19 13 16,21 6 ....
1 9 1 2 9,7 7 0 16.6
1 91 1 21,510 22.8
1 908 16,657 23.6
1 906 10,179 1 7.0
< ieergia.
191 3 491,093 ....
1 91 2 272,335 15.0
1 911 765,697 27.4
1 908 514,898 26.0
1906 281,585 1 7.2
Louisiana.
1 9 13 7 7.3 4 9 ....
1 912 73,992 1 9.7
. 1 911 89,069 23.4
1 908 79,04 2 1 6.9
1 906 139,5 11 14.6
Mississippi.
19 13 12 0,015 ....
1 912 5 6,056 5.6
19 11 nr. Q'?o e >
1 90S 100,001 12.0
1 006 1 f> 0,5 7 3 1 0.G
North ('nrolina.
1013 4 9,5 2 5
1 012 101,083 11.2
1011 150,390 13.0
1 008 80,003 13.0
1 006 14,877 7.0
Oklahoma.
1 013 14 8,550 ....
1 012 77,394 7.7
1011 116.32S 11.4
1 008 5,705 0.8
1006 17,570 2.0
South Carolina.
10 13 1 0 2,304 ....
1 012 1 74,251 1 4.2
1 011 338,000 20.0
1 908 289.060 23.8
1 006 131,262 1 4.4
Tennessee.
1013 18,34 1
1 012 900 -0.4
1011 15,541 3.6
1 008 28,100 8.4
1006 7,3 04 2.5
Texas.
1 01 3 1,726,630
1 012 2,002,97 5 4 3.1
1 011 1,667,875 4 0.6
1 0 0 8 96 6,607 26.6
1 006 1,008,856 25.5
All Other Stales.
1013 5,617
1 01 2 2,7 4 0 3.0
1 011 5,305 3.9
1 008 4,774 6.5
1 006 1,488 2.2
Tho ginning of sea island cotton
prior to September 2.", by states, follows:
Florida, Cleorgia. S. C.
1012 4,058 6,41 0 78
1 01 2 1,600 1,258 1 08
1 01 1 4,281 7,405 21
1000 6,122 7,64 9 50
I 008 5,082 5,024 450
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Negro Sin in by Mob.
A mob of citizens visited the Jail
at. Litchfield, Ky., about one o'clock
Friday morning, overpowered the
jailer, took Joe Richardson, a negro,
from his cell and hanged him to a
tree in the public square. Richardson
was charged with assaulting an
eleven-year-old girl as she was on her
way to a school in the country near
Litchfield Tuesday morning.
? ?
neat 11iin to Drnth.
Blows dealt Karl ITolst, of Paxton,
111., an Insane patient, seventy-eight
years old, so that ho suffered six
broken ribs and later died, were the
means employed to keep Hoist In bed
at the Kankakee, 111., State hospital
for the Insane, according to a confession
made Wednesday by William
Wolfe, a former hospital attendant.*
TARIFF BILL BEADY
? ?
HAS ADVANCED TO LAST CONGRESSIONAL
STAGE
N8W UP TO THE SENATE
?
House Approves livery tiling Fxcept <
CoUoti Kniiun's Tux, Itul SmithLevor
Auiendinent Is Addotl As a '
Conipromise After h Warm Fight i
a*<1 a (T(ts? Vote.
The Democratic tariff revision bill,
first on tho program of reforms mapped
out vrhon President Wilson came 1
Into office has advanced to its last :
congressional stage and has been 1
sent back to the Senate from tho
House.
The Democratic tariff revision bill
left the House of Representatives
Tuesday night on what the party
leaders hoped would be Its last journey
to tho Senate. After many hours
of debate the House adopted the main
conference agreement on the bill, 25A
to 10.1, almost a strict party vote, and
by this action gave its endorsement
to everything In the measure except
the cotton futures tax.
Leaders in both Houses of congress
were confident Monday night that the
bill, now practically complete, would
bo signed by President Wilson before
tho end of this week. It scarcely
will leave the cent.ro of the stage before
tho currency bill will he forced
to the front, and coincident with its
pnnyidurnlinii ? i 1 1 tim.ln ?.? ... 1
x w . . w ? ? . Ill IVI1 ?> ??? l/v III*.* (IM 111 111
tration work on tho anti-trust and
railroad control programs which arc
to bo brought forward when tho Decent
bor season opens.
President Wilson is satisfied that
with the tariff bill out of the way,
congress will take up the currency
question, prepared to dispose of it
.before adjournment. Tho course to
he followed ill the Senate has tiol.
been mapped out, but there is a
growing belit f among supporters of
the administration bill that the Senate
will take up the currency question
at an early date, even though its
hanking and currency committee has
not settled the details of the bill.
The tariff conference report went
to the House .Monday soon after that
body convened at noon. During the
morning the full conference committee,
convened by Chairman Simmons,
had given the reports its formal ap!
proval.
Senators Simmons, Williams. Johnson
and Shivcly and Representatives
i'nderwood, Kitehin, Dixon and
Uainey, tlie Democrats who have adjusted
all differences between tho
Senate and House excepting only tlie
cotton futures tax proposition, signed
tho final report, while the Itepubli- '
can and Progressive members decllu- <
ed to sign.
Tho cotton future tax bill is In dist\
1 1 I I l/\UOO Ii.ll II rr t ' ? v 4 1
mv; i iuuou i i;i unillfj LU iHXt* [J I
11?o so-called Clarke amendment
adopted by the Senate. Uxpressions
from the White Houso, and from cungresslonal
leaders Monday, however,
indicated that in the tlnal conference
over this feature the whole plan
might be dropped from the tariff bill
and taken up as a separate measure
next* winter.
However when the House convened
tho measure was introduced as an
amendment to tho tariff bill. At tho
end of a short but hitter fight, that
followed tho adoption of tho report,
Representative Underwood, the Democratic
leader, succeeded in carrying
through tho Smith-Lever cotton futures
tax amendment by a voto of 17 1
to 161. Democrats and Republicans
alike voted on this without regard to
party ond a large portion of the Democratic
membership from Southern
States joined in the vigorous demand
that the whole subjec t be carried over
to another session of congress.
Tho cotton futures tax question
now rests entirely with the Senate.
The House concurred with the Clarko
amendment put into the tariff bill by
the Senate, hut added the Smith-Lever-Underwood
plan as another
amendment. Unless the Senate will
accept this change, which has the endorsement
of the President, the whole
cotton futures plan again will have
to ho considered in the joint conference
committee and again reported to
both houses for action.
The cotton futures tax dominated
the day's fight in the House, although
hut littlo lima was actually given to
its consideration The history of the
compromise amendment became a
matter of record before the day onded.
Representative Underwood said
President Wilson had given i,t to him.
Representative Lever added that the
basis of the plan was a bill introduced
repeatedly in the Senate by Senator
Ellison D. Smith, of South Carolina;
that he had asked the agrlcul
mrai aepan.men i 10 put tuo matter
into shape for the tariff bill, and that
Postmaster Ceneral Burleson had
perfected the amendment and given
it to the President.
.
Aviator Killed.
Another French military aviator
was killed when Lieut. Auguste Souleilland
of the Thirteenth rifle regiment
fell 150 feet when endeavoring
to glido to the ground with his monoplane
at Oujda, Morocco on Wednesday.
GIVES CREDIT TO SMITH
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FOH OKKHXATING TIIK (X>TTOX
FI TI KI: A>11: XI >M KX T.
Representative I<ever (icnerouMy Acknowledges
That I'Vnturcs of McHvSbio
Came Front Junior Scu?t??r.
South Carolina figured conspicuously
in tho llvoly struggle in the
House of Representatives Tuesday
night over tho Clarke cotton futures
amendment (o the tariff bill, for
which tho lower chamber substituted
tho Smith-Lover proposition. Tho
Democratic floor leader, Mr. ITidorwood,
in ado a statement declaring
that the first ho had over heard of
tho principles embodied in the substitute
was when Senator Smtlh, of
South Carolina, introduced last year
a bill of which they they wore the
feature. Mr. Underwood announced
that ho would give all of his time in
the debate over the Smlth-Ti?vor
amendment to Representative A. F.
Lever.
The chairman of the committee on
agriculture madfl a clcnr and strong
speech In behalf of the substitute
and took occasion to ear that while
the measure Just Introduced by Mr.
I'ndarwood, and directly approved by
President Wilson, was drawn at his
(Mr. Lever's! suggestion, after conferences
with experts and consultation
with the Secretary of Agriculture
and the Postmaster General, a
hill embodying the fundamental principles
of the House substitute for the
Clarke amendment was introduced
last year in the Senate by "a man
who has given not one day or one
year, but twenty years to the study
of this subject, the junior Senator
from South Carolina, Senator Smith",
The South Carolina delegation voted
en masse for the Smith-Lever
amendment. All were present, except
Mr. Kin ley, who was paired.
The Republicans throw their strongth
almost solidly on the side of the
Clarke amendment, hoping to embarrass
the Democrats, and came near
succeeding. It is the opinion of the
shrewdest observers that the day was
saved by the authoritative announcement
that President Wilson was in
favor of the Smith-Lever amendment.
Now the whole cotton futnres subject
will very likely go over to the next
session.
-JAPAN TO LIGHT KIKSI.A.
It Seems That Mongolia Will l>e Their
Next Battle (hound.
A special London dispatch says:
"Japan is preparing to make. China a
battle ground. Her rivalry with
Russia ns as not settled by the late
war. No Russo-Japanese agreement
wuaievor exists covering Mongolia.
Tho Japanese policy has been devoted
to preserving tho status c|iio in
Manchuria, thus leaving her free to
take any necessary contervaillng
steps. Tho Japanese policy in China,
summed up, means the planting cf
garrisons without territorial leases,
thereby guaranteeing the Integrity of
China by forestalling others.
"At Hankow tho garrison of 2,000
men will he retained. Another probably
v. ill he planted at the great Tayeh
iron mines nearby. Special Japanese
concessions under police control
will be demanded at Nanking.
This policy #\vill be repealed elsewhere.
in case of trouble, the railways
in which it was hoped that British
capital will he Interested, also will
he demanded. The Japanese naval
interests in Chinese waters will he
increased. There will he no danger
to British Interests If Croat Britain
displays her usual flexibility.
"Peking Is no longer the Capital
in tbe old sense. The loss of Mongolia
and tho absence of tbe usual Intercourse
have rendered it impotent
and have transferred tho power to
the South. Japan, with practically
the whole Chinese revolutionary party
under lock and key in Tokio, holds
out her hand to England, knowing
that tho alliance is more important
and necessary than ever "
FfjOODS IN I/Ol ISI W\\.
Section /\roa11< 1 (.nke Charles Inundated
and Crops DanuiKcd.
Floods ii\ southwest Liuistana
reached serious proportions Monday.
Lake (!liarles Monday night was in
darkness as the electric powor plant
was closed because of high water;
no street cars aro running, many
houses in the lower sections of the
city are flooded and rain still is falling.
Tho Southern Pacific Railroad
has annulled all trains bound for
VJ \wt Orlnonu on/I 1? . -~n
. ... v/> iv.iiua mill IIIIUU IHUllCIl I" 111 1 road
lines running Into hake Charles
have suspended operations The Calcasieu
Hirer was reported higher
than ever before. Various estimates
of damage to the rice crop havo been
made. Conservative calculations are
that unless the rain ceased within a
day not more than half a crop will
be gathered. A largo percentage of
the crop is in the fields because of
previous lack of labor.
Coleman Convicted.
ITarry Coleman was found guilty
of the murder of his father, Robert
D. Coleman, by a jury at Union
Thursday. He received a sentence of
life imprisonment.
CRAZED WITH DRUGS
TW0 MULATTO BOYS SHOOT UP
HARRISON, MISS.
KILL SEVERAL PEOPLE
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Three NTIiito Men, Threo Colored Men
nn<! One Colored Woman i* Sled
l>nvrn by the Drug ( la/nl FiemlH
lleforo Tliey Are Cornered in u
Mouse and Killed.
Two drug-crazed mulatto boys,
brothers, began a reign of murder at
Harrison, Miss., early Sunday morning
that ended only after three white
men, three negro nu'vi and a negro
woman had been shot to death, several
wounded and the two boys
lynched. 1'lie trouble started at about
two o'clock Sunday morning and continued
intermittently until ten
oYAoek Sunday, when Walter Jones,
tbe elder of the two boys, who started
the firing, was lyncl.o 1 ju t after
the soldiers arrived. Ills brother,
Will, had been shot by citizens earlier
in tbe day. Soon afterwards persons
is ho had barricaded themselves
in their honn s began to emerge cautiously
from their hiding places, and
by noon the town was (juiet. No
more trouble is feared.
Tito dead: Sheriff G. It. Hammett,
of Jefferson County, shot as ho was
loading a posse to where tie- negroes
were hiding; former Constable Frank
Keinstly, shot at bis home after being
called to a door; Claude Freeman,
white, of Fayette, shot at railway
station while waiting fv>r a train;
Johanna Aiken, Tom Weeks, Jesse
Thompson and The,ad Clrayson, negroes,
killed during promiscuous
shooting; Walter and Will Jones, noi
roes, lynched.
Wounded: Orrin Cillls, former
sheriff, shot in shoulder and may die,
10. It. Appleby, conductor of the
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad,
shot in breast, log and arm,
dangerous; William McCalob, shot in
leg and thigh; William Keinstly, son
of Frank, shot in hand; William Dennis,
shot in leg; W. C. Bond, shot in
log.
After it was assumed the death
list was six the body of Teller Warren,
a negro, was found in a hut in
the negro quarter where Walter
Jones IIrat began firing. lOviden'ly
Warren was one of the first victims
but just when he was shot it is not
known. Twenty persons were injur
ed, sixteen of them being negroes
None of the negroes were dangerous
ly hurt.
The shooting was started by Walter
Jones in the negro quarter, where
the negro woman and Thead Cray son
were shot and killed. Walter then
went to the lininn of lily mnllinr oi,,i
aroused his brother, a boy eighteen
years old. Together they went
through the main street of the little
town firing at every one in sight. Citizens
aroused from their slumber by
the shots peered out of the windows
and then hastened to cover.
The two boys, soon after leaving
their home, went to the home of former
Constable Frank Keinstly, who,
when lie replied to their call, was
shot through the bead by Walter
Jones. Death was instantaneous.
Keinstly's son, William, grabbed for
a gun when he saw his father fall.
Before he could fire he received a bullet
in one of bis hands.
The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
depot is near the Keinstly home and
the two negroes walked in that direction.
A train bad arrived from
Natchez just a few moments before |
and E. B. Appleby, the conductor,
was standing tit the station talking
to W. C. Bond, the flagmara Without
warning the two negroes fired on
them and both fell.
The boys then directed their fire at
Claude Freeman, who was waiting
for a train to take him to his home
at Fayette, Miss. lie was killed.
The negroes turned to the train, firing.
into the cars. Passengers became
pa . ic-str icken. A sleeping ear from
rhoz left standing at the star
until the through train from Memphis
to New Orleans arrived, was a
target for the fire of the negroes.
muij> wiuuowb wore Dronen but no
one In the car was hurt. The two
slayers made their way to a cotton
seed house nearby. It Is believed
they then realised the wholesale killing
could not long continue without
opposition, and determined to make
their luf t stand at the seed house.
Frightened citizens by this time
had telephoned for Sheriff Hamhiett
at Fayette. Summoning former Sheriff
flills to accompany him, TIammett
Clf fl rt 41/1 for t I n - ? - - 1 * *
.,i?. i.;? ivn 11<i11 innii on nurseoaoK,
; arriving about five o'clo; k. A small
crowd of men were firing into the
seed house, but no one had ventured
1 to lead the posso to the plaoo. Taking
a few men with him Sheriff Ham!
mett started toward the building.
Seeing this move, It is believed, Walter
Jones crept to tall grass nearby,
and as Hammett appeared the negro
fired, killing him iristantlv. \ shot
from the seed house brought down
Gillis.
By this time the countryside had
been aroused and farmers csme pouring
in from every direction. Every
one opened fire on the seed house. A
1 j call was sent to Governor Brewer for
troops. Finding his hiding placa too
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COTTQN CROP CONDITION I
IHtOl'S i : POINTS DIKING THK I
MONTH OF Al'GPST. 1
Willi an Average Date ??f September fl
lit Journal of Commerce Figures. jj|!
Show Condition to be 07.1. H
The condition of cotton, an compll- nj
cd from nearly 1.900 replies of spe- is]
clal correspondents of the Journal nfl
if Commerce of New York, bearing I
an average date of Heptemb r 23, la I
1 I per cent., compared with 7 1.4 I
per cent, a month ago, or a decline of* I
l 3 points. This compares with 70.3: I
per cent. a year ar<>. 70.8 In 1911* I
C>5.7 in 1910 and 69.5 in 1909. The* I
year is t; v:: p.-r cent.,
whilo the average decline for tho i'y
Biimo period is 5.3 points. ,k
Deterioration occurred in all
states, but was most severe In Louis- ?
lana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Misaourk
and Oklahoma, aT7 of which lost 10? !
points and over. Texas nearly held '
its own, losing only 0.5 point. DetaiIs
by states follow: C
Oct. Sept. 10 12. 1911 I
N'. Carolina .74.3 SO.2 70.8 77.0>
S. Carolina 74.0 77.5 f?f?.7 73.4
(lootpia 7 0.x 70.0 (5.7. S 77.."> I
Florida 77.9 79.4 66.7 70.7 I
Alahati i (5 2 72 '5 (10.0 73.L I
Mi i i ppi 1 (5(5.7 0 7. 1 I
1 .on i ia na . .(5 2 t 7 2 i (50. I ?5 1.2- I
Tex a . (5 I ; ;; . r. 7 0.2 I
A: . '? ?5 7 10 (5 7. S I
Tennessee. .68.0 S1.0 70.2 75.S
Missouri . . 52.8 0(5.8 7 2.0 X3 <fc
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id\ i: stock flans.
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(rullnuay Ivsplahis Scheme to llel|>
Sunt 11 ( ; I ( ! i ca.
Congressman A. F. Lover is in re?
i 1 >t of a lot t r from A -bat ant Seerotary
(lalloway outlining the plan.
I'oi op.( oni n ; livo . or U . rotiuetion
in Sout h Carolina. Tho plan ? ontfitnplates
tho selection of about fifteen
\
' oil II t l< V. to To tllo : roa I 1 ill t ol'OHt
is being manitested in live stock, audi
the loci ion of two good live stock,
men " it h to eight counties each I
to handle tho work in co-operation
wit h Clenisnn college an! tho present
farm demonstration work in the>
St i o 't'! i" ! i:" 'i \< i i: m i/o live I
> < < k ;i * i i ..o various I
countios and then elect a ulhclent I
number <-i live stock demon trators I
to her vii it< d by State experts when- I
? . r pract ica hie. .1 ust as soon as t he I
two experts can he procured work I
will begin In earnest. ;
Mr. Lover expresses himself as being
highly gratified with the beginning
of the undertaking and feels
satisfied that the plan agreed upon is
the best arrangement possible to be
had undue the circumstances Announcement
was made at Washington
Thursday that some one from tho department
of agriculture will be detailed
to deliver an address in connection
with tho exhibit of the South
Carolina poultry association at the
State fair. Mr. Lever took this matter
tip with the department, at tho
request of Mr. Thompson, president
of tiie poultry association.
precarious Will Jones started to ruft
towards a coal shute nearby, but had
gone only a few steps when a bullet,
ended his life. A rope was placed
around the body, it was strung up to
a telegraph pole near the scene am!
became a target for every one not
shooting at tho seed house.
Soon after Will was killed WaLter,
with deadly aim, picked Tom
Weeks, a negro, off tho coal chute.
Kither the bullet wound or tho fall
would have killed him.
Not long after Weeks was killed
tin' special train bearing the Natchez.
Guardsmen arrived and this seemed
to have cowed the desperado. Asthey
were detraining the crowd rushed
the. seed house. Not a shot grooted
them, and as tlie leaders went into
the place with dra r weapons they
saw Jones completely unnerved but
not injured. They quickly placed a.
rope around his neck and rushed him
to tho coal chute.
Tho rope was too smnll and as tho
negro was drawn up the rope broko
and ho fell heavily to the ground.
Not a word or act of protest came
from Jones as a larger rope was
drawn around his neck and again ho
was pulled up and tho crowd looked
on as the drug-saturated body writhed
until life was extinct.
The crowd then went to the home*
of the negroes, where they found two
negro men, and were about to lyncli
them, but were dissuaded by olllcers.
It seems certain that the Jones negroes
had planned details of their*
murderous night, as they were well
arme l and had plenty of ammunition.
Their mother said one of them hartremarked
that he #as going to "shoot,
up" the town, but she thought hewas
joking. Whether the two nocrm?L
found there and who were arrested
know of any plans, is not known.
As there was no evidence that
there would bo more trouble afterWalter
Jones was lynched the?
Natchez Guardsmen returned home.
Generally the negro population was
as much incensed at the Jones brothers
as wore the whites. They felt noindignation
at the lynching. The
two bodies still were hanging in the*
coal chute and probably will swing
there all night. Authorities have decided
not to hold a coroner's inquest.