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k. .'t \ w St Circulation of Any Newspaper in the Fifth Congressional District of S. C. The ledger. SEMI-WEEKLY—PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 16, 1894 HAFFNEY. 8. O., TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1903. $1.00 A YEAB. MEN, V/OMEN AND CHILDREN BUTCHERED Atrocious Massacree of Jews at Kishineff MANY HOUSES WRECKED An Attack on Hebrew* by Anti-Jewlsh Itioter* Kesult In the Death of Many Men anil tlelpleHs Women anil Children anil the Wreck of House* anil Store*. The following graphic account of the Kiahincfl massacre ia from the pec of the special correspondent sent to Kishineff hy the London Standard : Kishineff, April 24—When I arrived here last evening, the Bessarabian capital presented ali the appearance of a city suddenly evacuated by its inhabitants and committed to the charge of ihe military. At eleven p. m. not a civilian was to be seen in the streets, but the alternating pa trols of infantry and cavalry were met with at intervals of a few hun dred yards. Under the terror of the last few days people of all classes and conditions carefully shutter and bar their windows after nightfall. My room attendant goes about his duties in a curiously dejected and perfunctory manner. I ask if he is fatigued, and then learned that be is a Jew who has lost two relatives in the murderous attact upon his co religionists. My early peregrinations of the city this morning were made under the fa vour of delightfully sunny and genial spring weather, whose brilliance en hanced, indeed, the glaring desolation of the scene of wreck and ruin in the Jewish quarters more especially, and in all she chief thoroughfares gen erally. I should say, at the outset, that Kishineff is for the nonce in a close siege. There are fifteen thous and troops in the city ; nine thousand are kept in barracks under arms, and six thousand, cavalry and in fantry, are on oatrol duty. All the infantry patrol and stationary pick ets carry fixed bayonets, and the cavalry carbines are loaded with ball cartridge. These precautions, after the terrible outbreaks of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday last appear to be unnecessarily excessive. The pop ular tumult and outrages ceased simultaneously with the receipt of the order from St. Petersburg author, izing the Governor and Commandant to fire upon the rioters. As a matter of fact, the military aid not fire a shot during the frightful melee. So fax as I can gather in the best-in formed quarters,gthere were fifty-six Jews, including three women and four children, and seven Russians killed in the emeute between Easter Sunday afternoon and Tuesday even ing. There are three hundred and thirty-nine injured people in hospital, the great majority of whom are Jews and Jewesses, including about forty young children. About seven hun dred arrests were made. I witnessed this morning the funerals of five vic tims who succumbed to their injuries yesterday. Added to the number given above, this makes a total of sixty-eight lives lost, and the fatal record is probably not yet complete. Altogether, some two thousand and four hundred shops, magazines, stores and booths were wrecked and the windows of private houses, public buildings, banks and commercial of ficers were wholly or partially shat tered. Street kiosk were overturned and smashed, and signboards torn down and used as batteringrams against shutters, windows and closed doors. The streets are still thickly strewn with the wreckage of all kinds of wares pillaged from the Jewish shops and booths Desperate attempts wer^ made upon the various banks and oanking agencies, but these were saved by the military, and are still under armed guards. In such lead Ing and fashionable thoroughfares as the Alexandrofskaya and Pushkins kaya. and in the immediate neighbor hood of the official residence of the governor, the mayor and the com mandant, there was any amount of destructive havoc. Every shop iu the block in which my hotel is situated is wrecked, and all the front windows of the hotel itself are shattered. It is in the Jewish quarters proper, bow ever—id the bazaars and the adjoin ing streets—that the full fury of the frenzied antl-Jewish rioters has left its desolating marks. Not a house or a shop was spared. The battered windows are now roughly nailed up with unsightly boards, which hide the looted Interior. To-day the Jews are ventaring out of doors, under the ubiquitous and protecting presence of the military. Here and there at courtyard gates and street corners, one sees small groups of sad and ter ror-stricken Jews and Jewesses, be moaning their bereavements and ma terial losses. The greater number appear with bandaged head or arm in splinta and slings. There can be no (manner of doubt that the outbreak took the form of a ravage and merciless attack upon the Jews. During the Easter-tideJ more especially, the ignorant and fanatic orthodox Slav is prone to revenge the Crucifixion of the Saviour upon his debrew neighbors; and once his pas sions, besotted or sober, are fully aroused, he becomes a wild animal. Alhough it is scarcely possible to jelL ve that there is the slightest l urther danger, or even posjibility of a renewal of the disturbances, not more than a score of shops in the whole city are open this afternoon. All the banks,commercial houses and other places of business remain closed and guarded. The cavalry patrols iave each been increased from thirty to fifty troopers, and the infantry patrols from single to double compa nies. I am this evening credibly informed that three of the Russian victims were constables, and that twenty- nine members of the force are under hospital treatment for serious inju ries. In the thick of the desperate fray in the Jewish quarter on Mon day night thirteen cavalry troopers were dragged trom their saddles and brutally beaten. The infantrymen came scathless out of their many struggles with the infuriated mobs, thanks to keeping their ranks well closed. Two more of thi Jews in hospital last night succumbed to their inju ries. This brings the death-roll to seventy, of which sixty-three were Jewish victims of the massacre. Just before nightfall yesterday I had an opportunity of penetrating, unmolested by the police or military patrols and pickets, more closely into the lanes and alleys of the purely Jew ish quarters. Whole streets and lanes, throughout their length, show nothing but sacked houses, shops and booths. The open doors and windows gape darkly like those of structutes gutted by fire. The contents of the shops and booths have been pillaged, and the furniture and fittings demolished, the private dwellings of the Jews meeting the same fate, It is a mystery to the spectator where the thousands of miserable refugees, thus despoiled, expropriated, and brutally abused, are hiding and herding. Some three or four thousand have fled to Benderi, Tiraspol and Oessa. Whichever way one turnss in the lower part of the city, the same scene meets the eye. There is one somewhat narrow street absolutely blocked between the trot- toirs by more than a score of over turned and looted booths. I found an opportunity this morn ing for a brief talk with a member of the medical staff of the hospital. He substantially confirmed the num ber of killed and seriously injured given iu my first dispatch. Concerning the reports of Jewish children having been torn limb from limb by some of the murderers, the doctor could only say that no such case or cases had come under his observations, but he admitted that many of the Jew ish victims were massacred outright, and some of those who subsequently died in hospital were badly muiilated. The Russian rioter seldom or never employs the knife. Small hatchets and stout wooden clubs, the latter frequently held by a wrist-strap, and stones, clutched in the hands, and usrd as battering weapons, are the chief features of the ruffian’s armory. The population of Kishineff now ap proximates one hundred and sixty thousand, and includes some sixty- five thousand Jews. April 27.—I am t-iis morning cred ibly informed that the Governor, Lieut. General von Raaben, as well as the policemaster, Colonel Khanz- heneff, the lavter’s chief of staff, and two or three other responsible local authorities are to be removed from their posts on account of their lack of promptitude, energy and de cision of action in the early and pre ventable stage of the dreadful emeute of last week. Altogether some ten thousand Jews have fled from the city. They are further alarmed, no doubt, by the sinister current reports of an intended and general popular outbreak against the Jews throughout the Province. The Roumanian eie meuts of Moidavlaos and Wallachb are very numerous in this city, and their inimical feelings toward the Jews are quite as rancorous and bit ter as those of the lower class Rus siaus. He Can Make an Knglne. Noah Gaston, a quaint, old time darkey from beyond the Broad, was in town Friday. He renewed his acquaintance with Lucius Randall while here. When asked if he knew Lucius, his countenance beamed, his eyes flashed, a smile began to steal over his face, Anally culminating in a grin that reached from ear to ear, as the old man said: “8ho I knows dat boy. I knowed Ms daddy afore Mm. Dat boy am pow’ful smart, he am. Why, he kin make an ingind, be kin, but I don’ no if be kin make it run alter he make it. But he am pow’ful imart, be am.” THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE. items of Interest of Passing Events. ALL OVER THE STATE. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. NEWS OF THE WEEK IN LOWER CHEROKEE From Our Correspondent at Etta Jane. i£v«ntH that Have Taken Place from One Knit of the State to the Other Culled from (exchange* for Quick Reading by Score* of na*y People. Henry Richardson, colored, of Lex ington county, who has been blind for 13 years, fell from the window of bis bouse the other day and broke his neck. Ed Gordon, a young man 18 years old and son of James Gordon, a prom inent farmer of the Donalds section,, died very suddenly this week. He was apparently in perfect health until he fell in the yard and in a few moments was dead. Lightning struck the front tower of the Colleton Cotton Mills during a thunder storm recently. Several hun dred brick were knocked off and a number of the electric lights were de stroyed. Seve r a 1 operatives w ere shocked, but no one w a s seriously hurt. War is on between the faculty of Columbian University and seven of the male students of this year’s 1 aw class over the awarding of the degree of doctor of civil law to M r a Emma Reba Bailey, formerly of South Caro lina, whom these students c 1 a i m is “mentally unqualified for such a high degree.” It was announced at the commence ment of the Kentucky Wesleyan Col lege that the honorary degree of doc tor of divinity has been conferred up on Rev. J. L. Stokes, pastor of the Methodist church at Yorkville. The literary addn ss was delivered hy Prof J B Henneman of the University of the South, but formerly of South Carolina. There was a rather serious freight wreck at Central, on the Southern railroad, Wednesday morning, which delayed travel some hours A freight train was heading into a siding iu the town when the engine left the track and after running a short distance on the cross ties it turned over, wrecking also several cars. No one was injured. The track was completely blocked by the wreck. Tuesday morning about 1 o’clock fire was discovered in the large three- story briofc tobacco plant of School- field, Boatright & Co., at Mullins. This plant is comprised of three large buildings, each separate, but connect ed by large fire doors. By much effort and bard work the fire was confited to one building, resulting in a loss of about $18,000, partly covered by in surance. The loss included about 100 hogsheads of tobacco. Lightning Wednesday night abou nine o’clock struck a house occupied by Jas Henderson, on Milan street in Spartanburg, and severely damaged one end of it. The house was set on fire by the balls of electricity which played about it, but was extinguished with a few buckets of water before the arrival of the hose reels. Mr. Hen derson was thrown out of bed by the force of thE sho ;k and was made senseless for a time, but subsequently recovered. Tuesday night at 10 o’clock as a team of Charles Gaines, of S e n e c a, came down Stump Horse Mountain road with a driver and a commercial traveler, they were overtaken by a se vere thunder storm. The drummer dismounted and preceded the team. At a curve in the road the driver drove too near a precipice and the haok and horses went over, the driver saving himself by swinging from the hack One horse was kilUd, while the other was apparently unhurt. A South Carolina teacher has been forced to give up his work in the Philippines on account of having writ ten letters to the Columbia State in which be described characteristics of the Fillipinos in a manner which was objectionable to the governor of the province. This same young Caro linian, R. D. Epps, of Williamsburg county, was the first to give to the people of the United Slates a pub lished story of the “water cure” hor rors inflicted upon • the Fillipino in surgents by the American soldiers. Winter Cantey was hung Friday morning at the county jail in Colum bia at 11 o’clock for the murder of Eliza Kershaw, on October 19th of last year. The trap was sprung at 10:44 and at 11:02 he was pronounced dead by the physicians present, and cut down. The arrangements worked perfectly, and to the last Cantey re mained firm, requiring little assist ance to mount the scaffold. Before the cap was adjusted be made a short speech, very disconnected, and offerea a sort of prayer, which was a half chant, after which be said he was resdy, and the trap was sprang. Interesting Paragraph* and Recent Hap pening* In Lower Section of the County Gathered L'p by Our Regular Correspon dent for Heneflt of Ledger Reader*. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, May 27.—Wp are pained to hear of the death of Mrs. Rev. C. A. B. Jennings, which took place last Thursday after a long and painful illness. Mrs. Jennings was well known to a large number of our Ledger readers, who will sympathize with her husband and little children in their great loss. S'.e was the daughter of the late Dr. Landrum, of Landrum, 8. C. She we* related to some of the best people in Cherokee county. Mr. Jennings is a great favor ite with our people and has rendered good service here for the Master. There will be a meeting of the stockholders of the Wilkinsvilie oil mill today for the purpose of prose cuting that work. Mr. Hamp Mitchell, of the Fork section of our county, had a child to die last Saturday after a long illness It was about seventeen months old. It was buried at Salem last Sabbath. Rev. Mr. Mitchell, who is traveling as jolporter for the Methodist church, preached lust Sabbath for Rev. A. H. Best, at Mesopotamia. On Wednesday of next week (June 3) the John Hames Chapter Daugh ters of the Confederacy, will present Southern Crosses of Honor to quite a number of U. C. veterans, who h m made application for them. Tnej are trying to raise a fund with which to erect a monument to the soldiers of the Confederacy who went from what was then U aion county, S. C. In this, Gowdysville and Drayton- ville townships, Cherokee county, should take much interest. Let all attend this meeting who can and give this worthy o'ject their support. Rev. Mr. White will preach at Salem the first Sabbath in June at 11 o’clock a. ra. j. l. s. MARRIAGE AT GASTONIA. Etta Jane, May 30.—If no disaster comes upon it the wheat crop will turn out better than was expected a short time ago, though it is by no means good. A child died on Mr. W. A. Whiso- nant’s place one day this week, of cholera infantum. Dr. L. R. Black was called to see it, but not until it was too late for him to render it any relief. I’ts straoge people will allow such to run so long before seeking medical advice. A physician can do no good after death sets iu. Just across Broad river, in sight of us, a severe storm of wind, rain and ball, occurred last Wednesday evening which did considerable damage ou the farm of Mr. John Robinson. One of our friends in Fairfield county who takes The Ledger says she can’t do without it, as she knows so many people and places she sees mentioned in it, and betides, she is interested in our new county. Another writer from Alabama says : ‘‘The dear old Ledger gives me about all then ews from South Carolina. It’s as a letter from home twice a week Every line of it is read by some one of our family.” We correspondents little appreciate how far and wide our efforts at journalism are scattered. Mr. Joe L. Estes is collecting delin quent taxes in this, Gowdysville, township. There seems to have been a great many who failed to pay their taxes last year. Our old friend and comrade, Mr. Sam Rippy, of the Mount Parau sec tion. went to the Confederate reunion in Columbia We haven’t seen or beard from him since bis return. About two or three years ago Uncle Sam opposed our proposition to make a canvass in order to find the laziest white man in Cherokee county for fear he might be the recipient of that honor. But he needn’t be afraid. No one who ever saw his tarm and his method of working it would think of giving it to him. And besides, we don’t think we will have to cross Broad river to find the deserving one. He has one of the finest orchards of fruits cf all kinds to be found in this Piedmont section. And more than that, his neighbors are more or less In the same fix. Mr. Will Westmoreland, who has been painting for Mr. C. W. Whiso- nant, finished yesterday and returned to his home at Hickory Grove today The Wilkinsvilie Cotton Seed Oil Company was organized last Wednes day with 0. W. Wbisonant president, and Frank MoOluney secretary and treasurer. j. l. s. Ml** Clttra Holland and Dr. P. R. Fall*, the Contracting Partie*. [Charlotte Observer.] Gastonia, May 28For quite awhile interest among Gastonia’s so ciety people lias been directed to the marriaee of Miss Clara Holland and Dr. P. R. Falls, tolemnized this even ing at 8 o’clock at the home of the bride on York street. Just before the bridal party entered, Miss Mabel Craig, accompanied by Mrs. J. Lee Robinson atjthe piano, very charming ly sang, “Your Lips Have Said You Loved M»,” at the completion of whi h the pianist began the wedding march. This was the signal for the entrance of the 12 young ladies who formed an aisle through which the bridal party passed to the place where stood the officiating minister, ll- v. M McG. Shields The young ladies com posing this party were Misses Lottie Blake, Marie Carroll, of Yorkville, S C. ; Nellie Roseman, of Lowell; Spark Torrence, Kathleen Boyce, Bright Torrence, Aria Friday, of Chariotie; Be-s Lindsay, of Chester, S. C; Mil dred Lineberger, Willie Falls, Marie Torrtnce, Miry Ragnu, all dresst-d in dainty gowns of white, and carrying over their shoulders garlands of smilax. First came Miss Srayre, who was gowned in white chiffon over white silk, and curried bridesmaid’s roses, Next came the groom, accompanisd by his best man, Mr. J. L. Falls. They were followed by the bride, who wore a handsome gown of white crepe de chine over white silk and carried a shower bouquet of bride’s roses, her veil being gracefully blos somed. She was accompanied by her sister and maid of honor, Miss Bess Holland, who wore white chiffon over white silk, and carried brides maid’s roses. Only the relatives and a f. w iuUrnate friends of thy con tracting na lies wiin -*<0 i cere mony. The presents were numerous and handsome, among them being a chest of silver from the family of the bride, a tea service from the groom’s family, a case of silver from the groom’s grandmother, and a mas sive cut glass vase, a gift of the book club of which Miss Holland was a member. At 8:30 o’clock the house, very beautifully decorated, with palms, smilax and roses, was thrown open for the wedding reception. Quite a large number of invitations had been issued. The out-of-town guests present were: Dr. and Mrs Garrett, of Gaffney: Mr. and Mrs. Giles VVilson. of Spartanburg, 6. C.; Dr. and Mrs. Hunter, of King’s Mountain ; Mrs. B. V. Miller, of Rich- burg, S. C.; Dr. and Mrs. L. N, Glenn, of McAdenville; Mr. M. S. Smyre, of Newton ; Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Norwood, of Charlotte, and Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Witherspoon, of Char lotte. The bride is a pretty and attractive daughter of Capt. and Mrs. J. O. Hol land. and has a large number of friends. The groom is oue of our most popular young men. He is an alumnus of the dental department of the University of Maryland, and has built up a large practice since locat ing here. They left to-night for a bridal trip to New York and other Northern points. [Dr. Falls has many friends in Gaff ney who extend to him and his bride their congratulations.—Ed ] IteHverdHin Brevities. Beayekdam, May 25:—Farmers are bt-ginning to harrow and chop cotton. They are pretty well through planting The wheat crop bids fair, now. The rust has not damaged it much, yet. On account of sickness, Rev. R. J. Tate failed to fill his appointment at Beaverdam Saturday and Sunday, but sent Rev. 0. M. Teal Sunday in his stead. We are having the best Sunday school at this place, now, that we have had for some time The people show more interest in this work than they have for some time. Mr. H S. Mullins and wife visited at Mt. Olive Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Va^sey visited in the State Line settlement Saturday and Sunday. Baylos. THROUGHOUT THE TAR HEEL STATE, From the Mountains to The Sea. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Letter to Carroll £ Co. Dear Sirs: Mr.Frank Robinson,Ti tusville. Pa, bought Devoe with a good deal of feeling against the whole tribe of mixed paints. Our agents there, Messrs. Kernochan & Co, got him to do it. He says : I am more than pleased with the job. I bad one-third of the paint left-over; I know of several otter jobs, a year old or more, painted with Devoe, that are wearing well. What a pity we have to all go through the same school, to find out what paint to put on a house! Ex perience teaches. Isn’t there any easier way to learn? Yours truly. 7 F W Devoe A Co Interesting Item* Concerning Onr Neigh bor* Beyond the Line Which May Prove Kutertalnlng Reading for Hundred* of Ledger Reader* During an electric storm Thursday night the barn and stables of Mr. R. E Lee, who lives in the northern part of Laurinburg, were destroyed by lightning. A valuable horse and cow were burned, together with a lot of corn, hay, etc. Decoration day was fittingly ob served in Asheville. The graves of both Federal and Confederate dead were covered with flags and flowers. General Julian S. Carr, of Durham, delivered the pritcipal address, and Prof J. J Britt also delivered an elo quent oration. Suit was instituted in the Superior Court at Greensboro by Col. J. A. Barringer, attorney for Mrs. Emma Stewart, of Winston, against the Southern Railway for $2 00U damages, alleged to have resulted from a wreck at Terra Cotta, in which Mrs. Stewart claims she was permanently injurddi The jury in the case of Griffin vs. Seaboard Air Line Railway returned a verdict at Wadesboro late Saturday afternoon in favor of Griffin for $5,000. The judge set the verdict aside as being excessive—and because it was claimed after the verdict that one of the jury was related to the plaintiff by marriage, in the eighth degree. Henrietta was visited Friday by quite a thunder er-o rH j n gtorm. The lightning srrio-- i- Henrietta Mills store, at the ouumeast corner, just at the roof and knocked off a lot of brick, but no serious damage was done. The lightning struck at several other, places in town and burned out a num ber of’phones. A hog or two was killed also. Emma Reese, the young white girl of Charlotte, who swallowed crushed glass last Tuesday, was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital Saturday, and her condition was improved. The ac count of the surroundings of the girl at her home on Middle street pro voked intense sympathy for the suf ferer, and a large number of citizens of Charlotte offered to contribute any amount that might be needed to care for the girl. Mr. Andrew Honeycutt, Stanley’s oldest citizen, died at his home six miles from Albermarle.last Friday, of old age. He was 9(j years old. In many respects he was a remarkable old gen tleman. Several weeks ago be had a premonition of early dissolution and began to arrange his earthly affairs for hi*s inevitable departure for the great beyond. Not wanting his rela tives to be troubled about his funeral arrangements, he made these himself, even going so far as to order his tomb stone for his grave, the same having been delivered to him abcut a month ago. Burglars got in their w^rk in the store owned by the Avalon Cotton Mill Company, at Avalon, on the Nor folk & Western road, near Mayodan Friday night. By the use of dynamite the safe in the store was blown open. The robbers secured two days’ sales, aggregating about $40, besides a^few articles of goods. The exact time of thej-obbery is not known, as the ex plosion was not heard by any of the mill people. The company has em ployed detectives who are at work on the case. Telegrams and telephone messages have been sent in every di rection. Manuel Penilla and Nuuo Fernan dez, two of the crew of the wrecked Portugues barkentine Vera Cruz, were tried before United States Commis sioner Hill at Newbern Friday tor vio lating section 2805, of the Revised Statutes of the United States. The law provides that any person with in tent to defraud the revenue of the United States by smuggling any goods, wares or merchandise subject to duty by law. or every such person who is his, her or their aider and abettor, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500. The government was not ready for trial, consequently the case was continued until Jane 11. The defendants were required to give a justified bond for $500, but being unable to do so, they were ordered to jail until their trials The Kentuckian*' Boa*t. Kentnckians boast their fast horses, fine whiskey and beautiful women, but every housekeeper in this city who uses Clifton Flour, made of na tive Kentucky wheat, knows that this great state possesses another produce of unexcelled merit. W. J. Wilkins & Co.