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Nwrtoo ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S.C..- FRIDAY,.ARL'5 92___TIEAWE.$.0AYA MURDER AT NEW ROHS A SHOCKING CRIME. YOUNG WIFE FELLED WIrH CLUB AND THRO%T VUV On Anniv6'rx"y of Wedding-Watch Given by HUsband that Morning Stolen. Peop e Greatly F xelted-One Man Arreated [Special to The State.] Mrs. W. W. Jones, wife of See tion Master W. W. Joues, about 25 years of age, was foully murdered at her home at New Roads, a flag sta tion between Ravenels and Adams Ruu, about 10 o'clock yesterda) morning. Mrs. J. E. Chinis and a oolored girl went to call on Mrs. Jones. Walking about the yard they saw Mrs. Jones in a dog house with her throat cut from ear to ear. It seems that the murderer used a club about three and one half feet long in knocking Mrs. Jones down, and seeing a scythe lying near by, used it and almost severed the head from the body. CAIN FORD ARRESTED. Cain Ford, colored was arrested IAst night on suspicion of complicity in the murder of Mrs. Jones and was today brought before Magistrate Behling. -Never have the people in this section been more aroused than they were today. About 150 per sons were present at the coroner's iaquest over the remains of the dead woman and several tim.s it seemed that the negro would bu taken trom the oficers and lynched, but cooler heads prevented this, and Deputy Sheriff Arnett was al!owed to, carry the prisoner to jail at Walterboro. If the testimony against Ford had been at all positive he would have been awung to a litnb in a very few minutes THE OBJECT WAS ROBBERY. The object of the murder was a!"rly robbery. Mr. Jones the sec ion master, had been paid off only a few days. After the crime the trunks Ia the house were found broken open ad the robbers left with a pistol, rasor and a gold watch and chain. Dr. J. T. Taylor in his testimony, declared that Mrs. Jones was not as saulted. It is thought tbat Jim *Black, a notorious negro in this comn inanity, is the murderer and that Ford knows something of the crime. -One witness today ti*stified t bst he saw Jim Black near the scene of the murder, hurrying through the woods with a pistol. Deputy Sheriff Ar nett and the citizens of the commu nity will leave nothing undone to capture the guilty parties. ON ANNIVERSARY 0F MARRIAGE. Kr. an3 Mrs. Jones were married one year ago yesterday, and before the former started to his work in the morning, he gave his wife the gold watch and chain. The section master is greatly wrought up over t he horrible deed and is almost distracted with grief and excitement. SEARCHING IN CHARLESTON FoR MURDER ERs. Charleston, April 22.-Sheriff J. Elmore Martin sent a posse of depu ties today to Bulow's phosphate mines for the protection of the white people and property, on account of reports received h3ere that notorious negro criminals of that section had determined to clean out the place. The r.egroes were worked up over the reports of the white posses hunt ing for the negro murderers of the wife of Section Master WV. WV. Jones, of the Plant System, at Ravenel. The killing of Mrs. Jones was a par ticularly brutal tragedy and the white people are naturally very much worked up over it and purpose to follow the murderers to their last stand. A telegram was received here to day stating that a negro named Cain Ford had been captured. He ad mitted complicity, but said that his only connection was to watch while another negro butchered Mrs. Jones and searched the house for the valu ables, which were carried off. Ford is safe in the toils but the feeling is said to be running high tonight. The posses are close on to the other suspectd.r negroes and it is not im probable that the whole bunch will stretch himp, if they are caught. The Charleston authorities are main taining a strict vigilance in the su burbs for the suspects, and if caught, they will be turned over to the Col leton County authorities. The negroes in the bottom lands in the suburbs of the city do not take kindly to the search for the suspected negroes of the Ravenel tragedy and they are behaving ugly. Capt. Mar tin is, however, the wrong man for them to run up against, as they have found out in the prompt dispatch of the posse today to the phosphate settlement. His instructions were positive and the deputies have gone prepared to preserve the peace and do their full duty. r.KETCHuq.S OF ARMY LIFE. Int,ereoting Incidents of the Civil War Re. lated by EX. Con Fed" a Member of Third S. C. Regiment, SKETCHES OF HOSPITAL LIFE. I wish I was competent to write of the kind ladies of Charlottsville, but I feel that I am incompetent to do them justice. I will speak of them any way. There was Miss Carrie Randolph, Miss Lizzie Davis, two Misses Bosses, Misses Bailey, Miss Susie Brown, Mrs. Alexander, Miss Lucy Jones and Mrs Montgomery, of Baltimore All these ministered to our wants day by day, bringing us from their own homes, eggs, chick ens, strawberries and other delicacies. There were other ladies whose sweet faces I remember but whose names I have forgotten, who read to us, wrote letters home for us, looked after our beds being kept in order, &c. I can only say, God bless them fqr their kindness to the poor sol diers. Tben the little girls would come in and sing for us. Then our grand orpse of physicians. How -Rell do I remember their kind faces. How kind and attentive they were to us, doing all in their power rr our wel fare. Dr. I. L. Cabel, physician in harge; Dr. J. S. Davis, division sur geon; Dr. Bronaugh, our ward sur geon. Drs. Davis, Cabel and Bron ugh have long ago passed over the river, but Dr. Haws is now a noted physician living at 745 Lexington vnue N. Y. Then we had a jolly set in the ward. We had only two fficers in our ward, Lieut. Lamp bll, now treasurer of Richiand coun y, since dead, and a handsome lieu enant from Charleston. Then what a set of boys we had with us. Many ied, but as I was swung up to the joist for weeks, they would gather around my bed and how we would njoy our pipes and talk. Dr. Bird, f Clinton, died by my side, Thorn on, of Georgia, shot through the bowels, lived for weeks but finally passed over the river. An Irishman, just in front of me, shot through the lngs, soon recovered. What fun we had with a member of the 37th Va. Battalion for complaining so much over a slight wound in the hand. I arrived home in October, and in Feb ruary, 1865, I was sent papers to be put on the retired list. I had to go to Columbia to be examined, the doctors refused to retire me, but tried to keep me in Columbia. I re fused to stay and got a Captain of the 8th regiment to get my papers. Tbe railroad had washed away and I left Columbia just a few days before Sherman arrived, on Mr. Wade Har mon's wagon. Just before we left the main road to Prosperity two citizens of Newberry passed us in a carriage and I asked for a ride with them to Prosperity. They refused. I was left at a very wealthy man's house by Mr. Harmon a few miles below Prosperity. I[ was sent to him by his two- sons in Columbia. He refused to send me to Prosperity and would not let me spend the night and I had to walk on crutches several miles to Prosperity. A few days later this man's house was burned by the yankees and I did not shed a tear over it. At Prosperity I was taken in by Rev. Bailey, my wound was dressed, and I was given a niee supper and that night placed on the train and sent to Newberry and my trouble was over. WAR TAX REPEALED. No More Stamp Taxes on Inwtrumenti, Papers or Documents after Juily 1st. [Columbia Special to News & Courier.] Collector of Internal Revenue Koester has received from the treas ury department a circular calling attention to the passage of the Act to repeal war revenue taxation. This Act, as far as it relates to internal revenue, takes effect on July 1, 1902. For the benefit of the public Col lector Koester makes public the fol lowing summary of the effect of the tax repealing Act. On and after July 1, 1902 the special taxes on the following are re pealed: Bankers, brckers, dealers in grain, securities, etc., under para graph 3, Section 8, Act of March 2, 1901; pawn brokers, custom house brokers, proprietors of theatres, cir cuses, public exhibitions or shows for money, bowling alleys or billiard rooms, dealers in tobacco and leaf tobacco, manufacturers of tobacco and cigars. On and after that date there will be no more stamp taxes on instru ments, papers or docum.ents; deliver ies or transfers of stock, and sales and agreements to sell stocks, pro ducts of merchandise, wines and seats in palace cars and berths in sleeping cars. Taxes on legacies and distributive shares of personal property are also abolished and likew se excise taxes on persons, firms, companies and cor porations engaged ia refining petrol eum and sugar. The tax on fermented liqnors is re duced to $1 per barrel. On snuff and tobacco the tax is re duced to six cents per pound. The tax on cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per thousand is reduced to $3 per thousand. A drawback or rebate, is allowed on all original and unbroken factory packages of smoking and manufac tured tobacco and snuff held by man ufacturers or dealers on July 1, 1902 to the amount of difference between the higher rate paid and the tax im posed by this Act. No discount is allowed on sale of stamps for fermented liquors, or for tobacco or snuff. The provisions of the present law relative to mixed flour remain un canged, except a slight change is made in the definition of mixed flour. Rights accrued or liabilities incur red prior to the repeal are not af fected. The estates of all persons dying prior to July 1, 1901, will be subject to the legacy tax, even if the distri bution is not made until after that date. In this connection, Collector Koes ter desires to state that shortly after e went into office all claims for re bate on tobacco under the last Re duction Act were forwarded to Wash ington and Congress has made pro vision for their payment. He has received notice that warrants to pay these claims are being prepared and will shortly be sent to the claimants. OUR MONUMENT INJURED. Recent Winds at hickamanga Field Played Havoc. [The State, 17th.] The Chattanooga Times a few days ago contained the following: "The recent storms have caused much damage to the handsome Southb Carolina monument at Chickamanga park. The monument erected to the South Carolinians who participated in the battle of Chickanmanga con sists of a huge bronze palmetto tree on a marble base. The winds and storms have stripped the bronze leaves and broken off'three limbs of the tree. Part of the brouza is lying on the ground by the mon ument, while the~ rest of it has evi detly been carried away. The mair ble esplanade around the monument has also been cracked and seriously damaged. Unless repairs are made at once the handsome monument erected only a short time ago will be ruined." The Governor's attention has been called to the matter, and has taken it up with Gen. Walker and other mmbers of the commission. HORSE CREEK LOCKOUT sr.jTFEENT OF MILL OWNERS AND Q EMPLOYES The Etnployes Write to the Mill Owners Prole?,ting at Being Locked Oat on Ac counit of the Strike In Angusta-The MIl Ownerm Reply that the Strike In Augusta was Only an Enter- y Ing Wedge and that If it Succeeded the Employes in Horse Creek Hills Would Strike Also. [Special to News and Courier.] s Aiken, April 21.-The condition 0 of the 6,000 locked-out operatives t] of the Horse Creek Valley is serious b and foreboding. At the time there a are no indications that the mill own b ers will abandon their position so long as the strike at the King Mills b of Augusta continues. V The credit of many of the factory hands at Langle%, Bath, Warrenville "t and Graniteville has been exhausted, r numbers of them are reduced to the fr extremity of begging for their daily ti food, and many have abandoned their homes and gone to other States M in search of employment. a In reply to the recent communica g tion of the operatives to the mill p presidents protesting against the un- c( fair treatment in closing the mills at a, Langley, NV arrenville, Bath and A Graniteville by reason of the Au M gusta strike, Mr. T. I. Hickman, president of the Graniteville Manu- v facturing Company, authorizes the R following statement for publicaton: t April 17, 1902. 8 We have your communication of the 12th and in reply beg to say that la the posting of the notices of the clos G ing of our mills was done with the belief and information that if the i1 King Mill in Augusta was compelled tt by the strike of its operatives, their H sympathizers and those who are asso- a ciated with them, to advance its rates al of wages 10 per cent., that this ki would immediately force all the mills C in Horse Creek Valley to meet the O same demand. The rate of wages t paid now by the King Mill is the same as is paid by all the mills in It the Augusta mill district, therefore L we regret that it will be impossible It for any of the mills to meet this de- L mand, because their earnings last A year were comparatively nothing, and the wages which are paid by the Horse Creek Valley mills are already ~ substantially higher than the wages A paid by other Southern mills who A A are their direct competitors.v We will be pleased to receive any communication or suggestion from you that will tend to bring about an amicable settlement of the present difficulties. (Signed) The Graniteville Mfg Co. The comnmittee of the mill opera tives reply to this.statement today. Among other things the reply to Mr. ~ Hickman contains the following:t "It appears that your mill, and n the others situate in this county, t have been induced to close down under the belief on the part of the b; mill presidents that if the strike on ~ the part of the operatives of the King P Mill were successful in obtaining an advance of 10 per cent. in wages, that would immediately force all of 1i the mills in the Horse Creek Valley P to meet the same demands. If such ~ is your belief we beg to state that it C is absolutely without any foundation 5S in fact. The operatives of your mill ' had nothing to do with the strike in v the King Mill, and there is no under- ~ standing or intent ou their part to h make a demand for increased wages C in your miil, no matter what may be ' the result of the strike in the King f Mill. We were working contented a with the wages that were p~aid us, and we now say we are willing to resumie work at the same rate of ~ wages. * * *We do not think ~ it right tbat you should throw out of employment contented labor simply because the president of the mill in Georgia desires ai.d in defeating a strike in his mill."8 This reply to President Hickman n is signed by John Rearden, chair- g man, and Charles S. Hatcher, secre- h tary, of the committee, representing e the operatives at Granmteville. tl These two statements present sub- 'I tially the contention of the parties il The further reply of the mill men is il awoaite with interest. If it is ad- ti rerse, and the lock-out contines. i )robable that the operatives will 1 eed against the mill owners for Iress in the courts of the State. s alleged by the laborers that Eing Mill operatives were pai )wer rate of wages than those in alley. S. D. L Jalapa Notes. Farm work is progressing nict >me have finished planting corn wl thers are beginning to plant cottor Exceedingly fine weather prevai irough most of March with considE le rain and a little cold weather iddle of the month. The fruit is safe so far and it is to oped we will have a bountiful crop Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sligh,- of N< erry, is visiting their father, 7. C. Sligh. Miss Carrie Aull, who has been vi ig her brother, Mr. S. B. Aull, J Aturned to Newberry. Miss Janie Chalmers has returt -om Charleston and rtsumed her i es in the school room. Mrs. S. B. Aull is visiting her sist [r3. L. W. Floyd. Mr. G. W. Eddy, of Whitmire's, I cepted a position with Mr. Edw. ipp as overseer on the McWlir ace near Jalapa. Mr. Eddy is a s esful and an energetic farmer and -e pleased to have him in our midst Mr. S. B Aull left last Saturday nderson to visit his brother-in-li r. Russel, who is quite sick. Misses Mamie and Hattie E sited in the neighborhood of Bt iver recently and report quite a ht me. MissFlorence Waters, of Goldvil ient Saturday and Sunday at home A special train was run to Colum st Sunday to give all who desired > so a chance attend the burial en. Wade Hampton. The death angel has again visil our community. On the morning ie 8th instant the spirit of Mr. T. armon passed quietly away. He lea, bright testimony tbat all was w hen the hour came to go. -He v ways brave, yet so thoughtful a nd. He was a member of the M. burch in which he spent his last dt usefulness. He leaves a brother a o sisters which has the sympathy ie entire community. [Me is a shadow, like a passing day dawns and glows and fades away, ike the morning it dawneth at Dc 'tis in blast Sthe evening it fadeth, at night past; ife is a shadow that soon will be c od its cares and heart aches will us no more; see from that happy land a faint lig gleam, es, life is a shadow and earth i dream." mid the many mansions waiting us on high, t home once more together, re'll never say good-bye. April 18, 1902. J. C RESIDENT PROFiTs BY HiS TRIP CAROLINA. Ill Reappoint Yorkville's Splendid Pi mistress-Will Act in Marshal's Case. [Special to The State.] Washington, April 15-Because formation gained on his Chari n trip P resident Roosevelt will >min ate Miss Maggie M. Moore te postoffice at Yorkville, S. [iss Moore was originally appoinl y President Cleveland in 1893. S as not endorsed by the State .I ublican machine. President Roosevelt will soon e the fight that the old line Repi cans are making against the ret ointment of Lawson D. Melton nited States marshal for Soi arolina. Charges were filed h >me time ago against Melt 7hile in Charleston President Roc sit received advices concerning arshalship and it is understoodt e is now considering Postmas nningham of Charleston, forme arshal in Harrison's dministrat i r tbe place. If Cunninghami ppointed to succeed Melton an >rL will be made to land fort ssistant District Attorney Ber iin Hagood, or former~ Postmas lowry, in the Charleston postoff Miss Stone on Lecture Platform. [Special to The Daily News.] Boston, April 21.-Miss Ellen tone, the missionary who was k~ apped and held for ransom by 1 ands, makes her debut as a lectu ere tonight. Miss Stone has bf ngaged to deliver 100 lec: ures e leading cities of the coun 'he entire proceeds from the lecti :is said, will be devoted to rett 2g her ransom money, $90,000, o he miEsinar work. "s DALLAS IS CROWDED )ro e FAR BEYOND COMFORT. it the OVER ONE HUNDRED TIOU4AND VIS. I a IFORS IN THE TOWN. the Attending Reunion of ionredt-80.O0o Men Steeping in the City of Tents 12,090 '.1reakfast at One Time Optning Exeicisem. Dalllas, Tex., April 22.-With the Confederate reunion officially 12 hours old and unofficially considera led bly older, it is estimated that there ra- are 125,000 visitors in Dallas. From the early this morning until late tonight be the streets were thronged, as it is said by men in a position to base w- close calculations that there were 30, Jr. 000 visitors at the camp in the fair sit- grounds alone. ias "The crowd is too large to com mand", said Col. Slaughter to an As ied sociated Press representative today. lu- "Thousanas who have no right to do so are sleeping at the camp and eat er, at the stables. Some of the old as veterans had to fighb for their places, R. but they seemed to be as capable of ter a tussle as they were years ago. We uc- will have affairs better in hand to we morrow." for An additional influx of visitors w, is expected tomorrow, the attraction dy being the Kaliphs parade. ish Tonight the. younger element and ge many of the veterans rounded out the days pleasure with a ball at the le, camp. The function was given by the Sons of Veterans and an im bt mense crowd-too great for comfort of -were present. While thousands of visitors did ed not leave the business section of the of city, Camp Johnston, two miles dis L. tant,where the opening exercises 7es ell were held, was crowded to the limit. 7as Delegation after delegation from the nd four corners of the eountry reported E. und were assigned to their divisions ys in the vast city of tents. of The great mess shed, seating 12, 000, was opened at 10 o'clock. An ar-y of cooks and waiters worked like beavers, while the veterans, with ona hunger born of anight in the open, tis did their best in an able m-mner to 'er keep the cooks busy. eX DIDNT WAIT FOR CoMMANDER. ht The convention was compelled to 3 a open with Gen. Gordon, tbe com mander in chief absent. Hon. John M. Allen, the orator of the day, was not present when the convention began. Gov. Say ers and the Hon G. B. Gerald, how ever appeared at the last moment and were vociferously cheered. a~t- Among those on the stage were Judge John H. Reagan, the only surviving member of the Davis of cabinet; W. L. Cabell; Gen. Steph een D. Lee, a cousin of R. E. Lee; re- Gov. Heard, of Louisanna; Mayor tco Capdeville of New Orleans; Col. Lee C. Crandall, who was on "Stonewall Led Jackson's staff Miss Lucy Lee Hill he of Chicago, the sponeer in chief, and e- Miss Virginia Paddock of Fort Wortb, Tex., the chief maid of hion et- or. 1b- When the convetntion opened the p.veteraus, many of them comparing as the bounteous plenty of 'heir break ith fasts with the starvation they were ere often called upon to endure during .the war, were in high good humor. i.The building seating about 9,000 the people, was filled to the topmost row, asoon after the convention was called rto order by Gen. K. M Van Zandt, r> resident of the Texas Reunion as sociation. From pillar to post hung is hunting and flags and pictures of fold Confederate chieftains. The ner - - --_ _ 153Mi rs sufficient to ndelicious tea ir Royal Baking '":rected. A pur< crowds were composed not alone of veterans, but of their sons and wives and daughters. Maids of honor and sponsers, some-notably those from Louisiana-in brass buttons iand Confederate gray, but the ma jority in cool white-lent an air of ornamentation to the scene. Following the opening of the meeting by General Van Zandt, Chaplain Young of Texas delivered a touching invocation. Gen. Joseph D. Sayers, on behalf of the State of Texas, then welcomed the visitors to the State. He was then followed by Ben. E. Cabell, mayor of Dallas, who gave the veter ans the freedom of the city. Fairview Dots. It has been a little cool the past few days. Planting is the order of the day. Small grain is looking very sorry. Gardens are somewhat backward. Mr. E. Y. Morris and family visited his mother last Sunday. Mr. M. C. Morris and baby spent a few days with relatives around Fair view recently. Misses Lula Bedenbaugh and Lillie Merchant spent last Sunday with Miss Ida Baker. Mr. Mason DoLninick occupies the Warner house. Miss Mary Jane Long is very ill with that dreadful disease consump tion. Measles, mumps and whooping cough are prevailing in this section. Misses Ida and Lizzie Moore will come home from the Newberry Cotton Mills in a few days and spend the sum mer at home. The Lord's Supper was adminstered to a large crqwd at Macedonia on last Sunday. A large crowd is expected to be pres ent at St. Peter's (P. W.) church ihe first Sunday in May. Children's day exercises at Zion church Saturday before the Third Sun day in May. There will be children's day at Bethel church some time in July. Mr. Supervisor, our roads are getting in bad condition. How about it? The bodies of the negroes that was drownded in Saluda river some time ago have all been found. Mr. F'ate Dominick has moved into his new dwelling. We will have up our new mail boxes i a few days, also every day mail which will be much advantage to us farmers. Mr. Charley Farr has moved from Mr. Eddie Fulmer's place back to Mr. Sim Conelly's place near Macedonia. Tbe colored folks have built -a.new church - near the Dominiek bridge where the old one stood, known as Michem. - They are also preparing to build a new church near the Harmon old place. Died, on Tuesday, April 15, 1902, M r. J. Wilson Long who made his ad vent into this world about 77 years ago, was summoned from his home near Fairview, Newberry Co., to his heaven ly reward. Mr. Long was a consistent member of Macedonia Lutheran church for many years, and was ever ready to work in his Lord's vineyard. He leaves a wife and four children, of which two preceeded him to the grave, and many relatives and friends to mourn his death. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. K. Efird assisted by Rev. Nease, at Macedonia, in the presence of a large concourse of friends. "I hear him singing sweetly singing, Singing in an undertone; Singing as if God had taught him, It is better farther on. 'Night and day he sings the sonnet, Sings it while he sits alone; Sings so that the heart may hear him, It is better farther on. "Sits upon the grave and sings it; Sings it while the heart would groan, Sings it when the shadows darken, It is better farther on. "Father on--oh! how much farther; Count the milestones one by one, No, no counting, only trusting; It is better farther on." A pril 18, 1902. J. M. M. rmutes ive you most biscuit using Powder as di ,true leavener.