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. 4.I E ~ T A L L S H D 1 6 5 . J ~ w J ~ E R R Y S . . , R I D A Y P N O V E M B E R 1 1 9 .r ~ ~A WE K 1 ~ b A V I ~ A i Met me. a1 Minagb's Swinging al and get others I after is to make increasing sales and can always can lose money SHOE business that the lowest I COpemSelli A bale of 5c cottc No matter what prices RIOT IN A HOTBED OF REPUBLICANISM, LOWD 8WPIE AT PHOENIX, TEN -01M EAWAi FROM GREEN WOOD. Tite Negnen Ntar-t,o Troublk PY SootiIng owls a White Man-Tite Story Told in lh tail by tolse Wht WRa Prese,t -11el ativen of the Iepublican Nitate cinlr'anat, shot-A Very olI. oun A fralr--Further Troo ble Aity Hesult. (Special to The State.) Oreenwood, Nov. 8.-At Phoenix, teo miles below- this place, today tb W,r41 a most seriMus occurre4ce Un connection.with the election. Giles 0. Etheredge was killed instantly, Thomqs P. Tolbert, Jr., wa badly wounded and several negroi s were hurt. There is great feeling about Phoenix and throughout the county, and the probabilities are strouigly fa vorable to one or more lynchings. About 4 o'clock this morning Giles 0. Etheredge and R. C. Cliatham, citizens of the Phoenix sectioi, went to the store of J. W. Watson, where the State and federal eloc tions were being held, and at the in tance of several citizens, repi onched T. P. Tolbert for the unutiiA-d pro needing he was evidently oirecting. On the small piazza in frot. t of the store Tolbert had an ordinary look. ing ballot box, and in it he wvas di reeting all the :Republicans who had no registration certificates to drop a certificate, marked "Blank No. 3," reading as follows: DLANK Nd. 3. STATE OF SOUTHI cARoLINA, - -- - - County. This ciertifies that the underiigned, , being over the age of 21, mi:le resi dent of the voting precinct - - - of Ward - - and legally qualified to register and vote therein, (did, on _on this, the 8th day of November, :1 ,present himself at the said Svotin ~rcinct to vote for R1. R. Tolbert, an upon his atte mpting to -- rte wasf nied theo right to so vote.an hi vo-o husoiYredto the )ropnr ofiecors was V,jocted. A And the undersignI furthrstates bit prIor to such an att\nmpt to vote,1 dis as regnired by statui 2, he had -plied for registration, but had been Ifeied and derg-[h o reg ter; and he fur~ a a''he d beens permitted to register an' -vote at said election, he would ave votedi for R. R. Tolbert, the lRe ublican candidate for con:Cross in paid district. Witness. APER8oNiALLy appeared - - - - Notary Public. Nov. 8th, 1898. Ether edge demanded of Tolbert his right to carry on such a sido elec tion, being closely followed byv Cheat hamn and aeveral vonng)C me, TO!. Jan ead of all records :o come. As a res this the ONE SAl mean anything, t. get on the insidE on everything I sE in this section, ar .o all, largest stocl Never before in the history in9 selling haveo we offo~rod such Fi(, low pricos. 10() Plush Capes, o you $3.00 and $3.50, Mitnnaug $1-74. Thee is but one plact them cheaply, and that is at Mi in will buy more honest E are quoted to you at ban Mimna bort struck Etherkdge in the face, and at about the same time some one lealt him a horrible blow with an iron rod. Ahnost at the same in 'itanco a pistol was fired, and Ether. edge fell dead with a bullet in the centre of his forehead. Then thero was excitement and fury amounting almost to distraction, and rapid and goomingly inditcriminato firing com menced. By the time the men up stairs at the boxes got down, Tolbert and all the negroes prefent L-dattered and got away. Those who did the firing were mainly young men, and their aim w's had. Tolbert 'was the only man, it seemq, who was serious. ly hurt. Several negroes were hit, but the wounds were not sufflicient to stop the flight of any one. Twenty-two men had been refused the privilege of voting when the kill ing took place, two being white Dem ocrats. Eighteen negroes had do posited in Tolbert's box, the certifi cato being copiel. The news was quickly telephoned to Greenwood and all other points in reach. Armed men immediately started for Phoenix. Over 100 fully I armet. men, embracing nany of the level he;.ded and beat citizens of the city, we'1t dowvn. At 4 p. m. they wvort ?d~ gathering at Gr'eonwood, I Ninety-Six, Kirksey, Bradley and the i entire country side, including the r upper part of Edgefield County.. | Among those gathbered at Phoenix ' there was little passion expressedl, t but there was that tense expression c that moans vengeance. "Bose" Ethoredgo, as the slain' man was known, was one of the best v citizens of that mection. lie was a I bravo, calm, pub!)ic-spirited citizen, as was shown on more than one try- 'h ing occasion. Ho w'as a favorite wit hi n all the people, an industrious farmer, e a member of the Baptist church, a v school trustee and in every way iden tified with (lie best inter-ests of the ki community. He was 38 y-oars 01(d. a Your cor-respondent was with the o mon at Phoenix until 3:30 and talked C to the eye witnesses of the tr-agedy t< andi to many representative citizens. 'I The talk of tho crowd wvas surpris- J ingly dispassionate, 1:ut there was no p disguise of the fact that it was in- n tended that the slayers of Etheredge eC and the authors of the mischief, two( white men, should (lie whenever til enght,vhenever guilt wvas fixed. ti i the evidence taken by Coro- 1 nor Deary' at the ingnuest this after- hi neon,'the fogowing facts appear con- h crning the kiiligig: n Tom P. Tolbert, ,Jr., who is a rela. a 'tive of Rt. Rt. Tolbert, the Republican ni candidate for congress in the third ii district, had for Hover-al diay a past it boon posting the negroes as to voting. ci When he appeared at the Watson (1 store with his~ protest bOX ho was a closely followed by a ve-y tall, black a negro, saidl to be Joe Circuit, who re-. g sides several mites froma Phoenix. ti Ahnui. 9:15~ E~theredlg( appe'ared to n les. --there is nothing ult folks are talk -E STORE OF [N his store is full of when buying. I and still keep d I'm doing it. I < to select from. of Capo- Ieavy Unbleached Hoti liculously School children can bu: thors ask 20,000 yards tine Sea I ch's price I00) yards host Drilli to buy 14,000 yards Shirting I anaugh's. 300 dozen full seamless 400 yards Bed Ticking, )ry Goods and Shoes at krupt sales, or ten or tw .uh M akO his remonstrance, no throa being heard. Tolbert rose from a sent and ma(le i quick blow at -Eth oredge, striking hit)) in) the face. It seemns tIho I-low vas not returned. Then the deadly blow with the iron, itself sulicient to cause death, fol lowed by the immediate discharge of a pistol. One or two witnesses say I. G. Cheatham was shot at, but. he was not hurt. Then followed the ihooting-probably 100 shoti--and .he escape of Tolbort and his backers. Young Rush, Mr. Willinas and inother young man were th,e positive witnesse. Rush.pi.ked up off the floor of the piazza, at the spot this :all negro, Joe Circuit, was noticed :0 stand, a red memorandun book inving in it the inscription "J. F. Dircuit" and some illegible scrawling. rwo witnesses testify that this book el out of Joe Circuit's pocki t, and hat it fell out as he drew a pistol. ['hero is positive testimony by two >oys that Joe Circuit fired the shot hat killed Et.herodge. These are about all the po sitive tatements in direct relation to ths hooting, and the coronor's jury F.o enderod a verdict. Tolbert wias hit by somnebody's shot .nd somec other- wore hit. In an lour, a party of negroes, most~ of hemn armed, gathered about a- half tilo from Phoenix. Later they iovedl presumlalbly to Rehoboth hurch, two miles dlistant. When he Girveenwod dle'gat ion, a hun red cool men with guns arrived1, the >Ian of following the negros and ispersing themt was talked of, bult it 'as decided to refer everything to The gathering at the store could ardly be caliled a mnob, as there wais o wild talk and no p)ronhounced ex itoment. Among the iment present, 'ho, while expressing (leep indligna-r oni and determninat ion to avenge the illing of their fellow citizen, wero'r gaintst hasty action, even against rganizat ion, were Senator J1. Milton e aines, who lives near by, Postmas -j r L. M. Moore of Greeenwood, Prof. . M. Wright, Mr. J. W. Watson, c V. Duilie and others of high re ite and known grit. Seinater Gaines e aturally becamo the leadler, anmd his e >ol course kept dlown fury. Behind this death aind t routble I tore is a black story. For two or I iree woeks paist Tom~ Tloloert and t .P. Henderson, a young white man i rertofore esteemed in this section, c ave been holding meetings with the e agroes-sometimes at woiird placos i aid un holy hours. A part y of young a ten attemp)ted to locate these meet- r igs to break them up, but the meet igs woere always held and the parti- f pants gone before they could bo. v sfinitely located. At one meeting v l)Damascms, RI. P. He(nderison madoe a a incendiary speech, telling the no- a roes that Greenwvood county was u ioirs, that Phoenix and Ninety.Six ould be carried by the Repblns. I MMI we like better t ing all around a IEWBERRY, and things people w I'm satisfied wit :pen doors. I ce -lere it is-lowest MIMNAUGH se 10spin, worth Oc per yard, cut to r Tablets from us it 50 each, others e0 4land, ol her ask you 5c, our price - ng, slightly wator-stained, only - 'rints, others ask you 5c, Mimnaugh't Ladi03' and Missos' H ,se, worth .100 other stores will ask you 8c, our pric this store than when it enty-five per cent. disc 'THE HUSTLER This was "niggor newi," but today shows that was real news. Henderson is a relative of the Tol berts and had becomo seized with ambition to hold office. Ho waa about to h appointed postniaster at Edgefield and had promised to ap poinit a negro, some say Jon Circuit, as the clerk, but lie Edgeliild peo ple notified him that this meant death. He is quite ,a young man. During the sad veenes at Kirksey's today his mother, a noble Christian lady, was buried at Damascus church, near the negro church of Damascus, where some of the meetings with negroes had been held. Tom Tolbert, like all the Tolborts, is a good citizen with this one fatal oxception of tempting the negroes. He is about thirty-five years old. M. L. S. FURTH1ER DETAILS-REPORTED THAT TOL BERT AND 1118 SON HAVE BEEN SHoT. Greenwood, Nov. 8.-The sequel o the tragedy of this morning at Phoenix, the pleasant little village ten niles away, d6veloped this after ioon. So many rumors come, so 1Iny inquires are mado; so many rorsions of the disquieting event ow transpir-ing comle to this pla5ce hat it is hardly possible to relate the tory with confidence or certamnty. Thore has b)een a riot near Phoonix 11nd Tom Tolbert, the fore most figure >f the day's work, is probablo (lead. ['here was a collision this afternoon mad the telephone reports are that L'olbort and his son wvere shot, the enior being mortally wvound1ed. It s reported Tolbort is dleal, but it is~ ~ot known hero if the report is true. The truth is Grenwovod county is xcited, pain fully d. sperately ex - ited. There is a large negro p)opula ion in this county and1( the sectioun urrounding Phoenix p)robably ave ages three blacks to one whito. boe negros have been instructed nd they aro armed. The white people1 of Greenwood ounty will not sleep much tonight. bhey (10 not know what ma~y happen. John R. Tolbort, the veteran loader f t.he Republicans of upper CJaro inn, was dahnger-ously wounldd ab)out undlown. WVith his. nephew, the on1 of Charle-s Tf,!bo~rt, he was on is way from Bradley's home when e was fired( on from the roadside. In was daingerously wvounuded aind bo boy was killed. A party of rmned negroes were following their bd leader Aind they returned the fire f the white men who did thie shoot ig. Some one was hurt, but t he amom cannot bo0 *.scortanfd at 8 p. Three yonng white men returning romi Phoenix tonight about (lark ero fired on from ambush, and rore bladly wounded. Dr. (1. P. Neil nd1 Dr. B. W. Cobb are with them, 1nd the citizens aire making a st ron. ons hunt for the bushwhackers. M. J. Younger, a young merchant ore, was wennded in the foot INAU 'han saving you n bout the new buE we're steaming C ant. We have p1i h small profits, b ime here to build : prices, best goo uls it for less. largo Ro efacth for then. retail price 24c pvr yd. now only - - - "( - -- - tAo Cott on bil sold for loc. We are wi ount sales, we will alway Mine "MI111 Crosswell F,l,ming, a )romiient young farmer was badly hurt. Stuart Miller, a member of Co. "A." First, South Carolina voluntary inllfauitry, a son of Col. G. Mc). Miller, was wounded. Thoeo young men m-e at Mr. A. C. Stockman's six fles from town. M)l. L. S. Greenwood, Nov. 8.---Ttday at 12 o'clock, a telephono mossage came from Ninoty-Six asking for a un dred armed mon on the down train. Only a few could be mustored, the available men being at Phoenix. The Ninety-Six message simply said that the negroes were making a bold defiant stand at the polls and that trouble was expected. It seems now, however, that Ninety-Six pulled through without anything more serious than a srllen truce and an insignificant fight. All ii quiet there tonight an(d all interest, seems to be centered on the Phoenix trouble. M. L. S. TILE w1IEs CUT. I-Spocal to The State.] Greenwood. Nov. 8.---Tolophone communiication has been cut of'. The men will not attempt to return to Groenwook tonight. T'hings appa rontly quietmng down. Company has bleeni organized for general pro tect ion. Out Cooglea Onangler. The followinug bi)t o.f interesting blan1k verse is from an article rec(ent ly published in a (Georgia pape~r: "I would flee from thle city's rule and1 law- freom its fashions and forms cut loose--and go whlero the straw berry grows on ths straw and the goosborry grows on the goose; whero the catn ip t ree is elimbed by the c,at as she clut ches for bior pirey --ho i gu iloloqs and( i I unspoet ing rat on~ the ratten bushl at play ; I willI catch with ease thle saffron cow and thle cowvlet in their glee, as they leap in joy from b)ough to b)ough on the top) of a c -wslip tro(', and1( list while the partridlgf drumis his druim and( thme wvoodchmuck chnuks his wood, and thle dlog devours t he dogwood plum in the primitive solitude. ''0, let me dinkL I from thme moss grown pulmp, that was hewn from the pumpkin tree! Eat mush and( milk from a rural stump, from folly and fashions free--now gathoired1 mush fromi the mushslroom vine, anid milk from thme miulkwoodl swoet--with the pineanpple from the pine. And then to the whitoewashedl dairy PIl turn, where the dairymiaid hastning h ies, her ruddy and golden.-red bunt - ter' to churn from the milk of her buItteryflieq; anid I'll rise at morn with the earliest bird, to the fragranit farmyard puews, and watch while thme farmer turns his herd of grashop pers out to gramus." fW alG ioney. People kr oiness we're gettir ihead more than enty of money to ecause the storei up the biggest D] is for least mone os! Sboes! igs -1 centsor l cs'i, our GO) t iling to sell cheap, as we 's be lower. Lnaugh. BRAVO FOR NORTH CAROLINA WIlITI1 11 lN S WIII' ili W1 TI 1 41 I; E1.1ItU A 'Til)A I, WA Vl. Feromi i i ntmutmm 1.. ! tit 4 1 . .1in, I lit . LIk4i l1rother mmtiill irii-t1% A l, the Ithick ilornst-1 talit ThreAts-me 4 1 let] Ita1I.-.- Feifty -I hotIM141n41 Vos to it.m,v-re.cl Frm i t he le..inmjm. lAti ily 11ie Denmllieritle. Psrly lin thi11# (SpWcial to News and Courier.) fialoigh, Nov. 8.-Spocialsi to th Morning Post from all over tho st itt toll a thrilling story of tronondous Democratic gains from mountiain t son. It im at grout tidal wave. Nows from far wost,ern coities, wher whito Republicans aro nuel011rous, fall in lino and 1h(111) swoll tho majorily. Thoro his beon a chango of proim. bly fifty thousand ovor tho vletion of '90. This (Wak) county, which gavo tho Fullsionits 1,200 majority two-- yen1 lgO, went. Democratic by3' over 500. lUpnpbliciIanS it ) o'clock conce1do Ch.1 county by 00 to tho Domovrat s. DemocratII and wi hit0 p-oplo aro greatly rejoicing. A thosnd young mn11l and boys are.fq masrching up) ami down. then prinici ple st roots, each with1 a tin hiorn andu baLssoon and1 lini dlrolm, mal<n1g a1 fearful dlin. No) troublo aIt piolls I hero or ainywhero as8 yc.t reported. Tillt VlcTolsy coIlPiLi;'rg. Charlott e, N. C , Nov. 8. ---The cloctions ini NorthI CaIro)lina1 today r sultedi ini t.he greatst D emocrat ic victory on record iln the Statelc. (Gainis are roted0( from overy counIi ty. c'specially fromr the eausteirn sec Lion. Thecro woro no dist urbanivces of anly eiccs enece. TIhe D)omoc'ratie judciciail Iicket is (electe-d by abhout :30,000) malSjoril VP ITh Leg islatr 11Is 01 (ve r wheclmi)Ingly Demnocraitic.j Trho fol lowing Ccngressmenrr arc elected: Fist diist,rict, J ohn 1i . ti Small, D)omocrat ; 2 1, (Ooorgo~c ll. W hiito, (coleci,) ite publ ic., ; 3i, C~harlo4s ILit homa, D enmocr-at ; -It.h, 1list: 5thI, Wt ill iamn Wi. Ki(tcheun, Domuo- 12 crait; 0th, .John D). Iso,lila my, Dmo~fc- C erat ; '7th, ThIeodorm 1. KloIt Iz, Dom:n ocrt; St h, ltomrilis Z. I,ilnloy, Ito. c pumblican: 9th1, Ws. T1. Crawfoird, I hem o Ocrat. t4 A twaiter waIs endmorsedc by th li D)emocrats an maclissy be erociitecd I to thait columnii. So tlithemopublienns c got on ly two out. orf tho nino Con gressmen~l froms thiis Stat1e. b c WVA NTED) I Agents for "Ilistory of Ihle Spanish A.meicricani Wa1r," hy ion )III[en ry o Wattersonm. A comr iete, authenticitm a h)istory ; illust81ratedc with over 'l$ full t2 pago'( half1 tones and1( manly richly 'I soloredi pictunres. Large royal octa1 lvo y volume, superb ount fit, post pidc for Ii ancly (0 cenths (stam1,ps tamkenu). M~ost i libterall Iterms given. Theo greatest | )pport unit,y of the yoar, Address: |A The WVerner Comunn, Airmon, 0. 0: F here Uou are VaUs welcome lowing this come g. What we are ever this fall. If run our business sn't my living. I :Y GOODS AND y, one price and two thousand doll w1o11 lh of SI4OIS, bolught at, lit, on tih dollar, to 1)1 oIned upI) this wl..c. We are sa-ing )4010ole lots of big 1*0ro1d dollars. \( never bef,-r ,.rved( tho people So we. WV I ether t ho Sold. buy closer than others. FIGHT FOR CONGRESS WON. I)ICl (2CI4Ais WI -, (ONTIMO1. TIE 114)0'- I OI'' RI C.PIC 4CstCN A1vl y S. rlsey tivi'v Ti ty-evol nimhcr;4, I his A111kthig atCilljsgno ormNove,ity-r,itir Votb#4., 4211l-I 14,C14,1g1 ti I-Aitiriy wVill,, Olit liM 11 I t's% tul h ote a Alaijarily li6td tq U.la., lI he 1114. ) 1114ler,6t ito 1'.44 t Iitei Speakeor wid14 Orgain. Iz, I lle Holl"e. (Special to N1ws and Couritr.) Wislhington, Novvi1bor8.----Chair 111111 Korr, at Demoiratic Con ( ressional liedIquarters, claims a Doemlocratio majority in the 'net House. At midnight ho says re intblo return1s recived s1how that ,ho Demoeratti have olected 18(i mem )ers, a gain of 37 over the present niOmber.s1hip). Later roturns may mikm a few changes one way or tho timr, but niot, vilough to proveit 1hli )emiocrats froimo colntrolling tho or alliuzat.ion of I ho i-onso. Chairma K%rr says that. the prin :ipal D1m1o.1cirtic gailns ar111 1do inl %iow Ymrk (1, Pens% Ivania 7, MaIry m1111 2, Alibama 2, Ill1inoi. 5, lowa , K0111IMky' 3, M[aSHMa11tinstt 2 ouIw JeIsmy 2, North arolina 2, lirgina 1, West Virginia 1, Milnnes ta* 1, WiosNconIsIiri 1, Ohio 2, 1101 010 , Peoninsylvaia I. At leiiuli hueaud<inarter.s Chazir 11a1n UblIcock p-)rsi1stent0 ly elsima thtat lhe lhpub)licains wvill retain control f the ne(xt linse, buiit. I) imi ot lving ont ainy figures. Wheni COI. rointa41lv wi thie detailed gains Ii lnned by) thte I )(mocrats Mr. Unhl )ck simp0~ ly siled awtil sai.1"hos nries4) will 1i114rgo a~( de(lcide I liuinige beofore t ih oflicial returuns are lai 5Jpit of' the4 li4'pulicani claIims 1 is be(le ihat th liepubI)ilic ans aive lost. ti o Ilionse b y a na11rrowv mljority, tad thlis belie.f was te raphe t14o P res2idenit McK inley fromo 14) Wh'ite1'11)4 lit ati midInighit, whenICi 4) reaciCol 'I'y'roine, P a. , o)n hi s waly niek to Wahin igtoni fromi (Canton, II along thle rontoe Pre) 2Isidenit as kept ialviseo d of t he e-eCtion re ir0nI lit (very 81t"pJ)ing pilace. lie as5 not)iied of( 0Col ~ 2. lio 0-Ool t,'s vijc. >ry' ini N1'ow Yor)k beifor o 14eaici(hd y'ronoiE. The S4'abloardo A ir ino hasl~i issuied 1ls HealsO[i thoree loisore liit]i, 1 blookIets, "'Winoter l'Aeuirsions "' oide."' The1se are4 no0w ready for i sibut11 on1 m1104 wVill 1)4 501nt, free iCOSt.t o any addreiss. Tlhier"'Wii -r NXCeurions" gives full iniforma-n 4)n m1 regaird to lfatos aond liontes >14 thebest. WVint4'r ltosorts in the >anit ry. [Te "Sp ortsmanI's (Guhi.'" one4 of the handi(son,.est and1( mlost )1"'plete oi0!oks o f its kid om(ver seen' y us. Its inako upj is artistic froom >ve'r to cover 1and4 it contaIinis roto011 il nforimation ini regardI to hunating round1(1, guides, dog~S, Hotel rates, e., but. a1 di0gst of the Game Ljaw5 114h) Staites covered by it anld SOme et na1 Xl)pnences of hunters along oc hn11 of the 4)1holordl Air Lme. lhe "'Southern P~iines" booklot- is als8(> ['ry artilstient 1ly got teni up, and ( the f.ormailtion contalinIed coVers overy ol. Any or all of these will bio nle(d ulpono apIplication to Mr. TV. .J. undorson, Generatl Passenger Agent, 'ortsmnoth, Vii. -& e t