The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 29, 1901, Image 2
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* THE QB'J.itY RECORD,
Published Every Thursday
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UN08TREE. SOUTH CAROLINA.
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0. w. WOLFE .
Editor and Proprietor.
Dnm TVml nnnnrpntlr wnnis lnimnn
Ity to stagger some more before be Is
satisfied with the price of the Boer
"war.
The Indian Witness says that \f is
safe to assume that 100.000,000 of the
population of India have an average
annual income of not more than ;;
head. -
"To-day it is literally true.'' raya
the London Daily Mail, "they arc selling
American cottons in Manchester,
pig iron in Lancashire and steel i"l
Sheffield." The quantities, it is true,
are still small, hut they are increasing
rt a tremendous rate, and the mere
fact that they are imported into
land at all is significant.
The British Government has announced
its naval program for the
n? If iirnvhles for tb
vui'""n ,
hnildinp of 154 new warships o." all
clashes, including live submarine
ijoats and ten torpedo-boat destroyers.
All of them are to be equipped with
wireless telegraph apparatus. When
these additions arc made to it the
Eritish Navy will number 570 Cshtiay
chips.
It is estimated that the annual consumption
of milk in the United States
is about 100 quarts per capita annually.
This does not refer to the milk
alone that is used in the form of ral'.b,
out it includes all the mill; rrom
which is made our butter aud choose.
The food products of milk arc growing
in popularityevery year. The
preseut low consumption indicates tc
some extent the possibilities iu tlia
field of dairying.
French scientists have been making
experiments in regard to the offec. of
certain perfumes upon the voice. Many
?f the most successful teachers oi
singing have cautioned their pupils
stringently against the use of strong
wfnmps or the nroximity of odorous
flowers. Souie masters go so far as
to forbid their pupils the use of any
perfume at all. and if one of them is
detected wearing a hunch of violets
the lesson is postponed. The perfume
of the violet has been found to b?
particularly injurious to the voice.
Whether the condensed food of the
future will be in the form of tablets,
to be dropped into a cup of hot water,
or in the shape of plasters, to be
slapped on the skin (which is able to
Absorb the nutritious qualities), is still
to be determined. The present tendency
is clearly toward tabloid preparations.
On the other hand, by the
use of plasters mankind would escape
all the multiple forms of indigestion,
facetiously observes the Philadelphia
Record. The object of the American
being to work as much as possible, it
would be a boon to him If be could
simply put on a plaster for dinner and
go on with his affairs. That the
scheme is reasonable has been shown
in the case of a woman patient in a
Ch Icago hospital, who has been kept
alive and strong for a year on beeftea
baths twice a day.
In the uew appliances that enter into
common life, the automobile, the telephone.
the portable camera, the phonograph.
the electric car. the typewriter,
the elevator, the manufacture of machine
tools, the American makers are
far ahead of the British aud in some
cases have a practical monopoly of
the business. When the British Postoffice
took up the telephone service It
intended to use British material, but
was obliged to go to America for its
instruments, greatly against its will,
because it could not get what it needed
in England. So with printing machines;
"the American makers are absolute
masters of the iield. No flrstt-lsss
daily or weekly paper to-day
would think of having any but American
presses." "American machinery,
in almost every business, saves time,
turns out more, and put muo&f -ffe-'tltt1
pocket of the man who buys it."
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4NUIKtR LY.NCtflNG
Follows Assault and Murder of a He*
sp.ctabi^ White Woman.
Chattanooga. Special.?A special io
The Times from Winchester. Tcnn..
says: Henry Noles, the negro who
criminally assaulted and shot to death
Mrs. Chas. Williams, wife of a prominent
farmer near Winchester, Teuu.,
last Friday, was captured early Sunday
at Water Tank, near Cowan.
Tenu. He was carried to Winchester
by his captors and placed in the county
jail. Sheriff Stewart attempted to
barricade the jail and protect his
prisoner. A mob of several hundred
gathered about the jail. Assistant Attorney
General Matt N. Whittaker appeared
at the jail and made a speech
to the infuriated citizens. He appealed
to the citizens to assist him in allaying
excitement and upholding the ma
jesty of the law. He promised to ro
convene the grand jury tomorrow to
promptly indict the negro and have
him speedily tried at the present tern*,
of court, assuring the crowd that his
conviction and legal execution was a
foregone conclusion. This appeal was
supplemented by Judge J. J. Lynch,
Foster Ramsay and others. No sooner
had their appeals been made than several
hundred citizens of the neighborhood
where the crime was committed
came up and augmented the crowd to
thousands. They swept forward
upon the jail, overpowered the sheriff
and his deputies, secured the prisoner
and started for the scene of the crime,
12 miles distant, at 10:15 a. m.
The mob was orderly but determined.
It senied that the whole population
for miles around had turned out
to see the fate of the wretch. A procession
marched to the Williams
home. Ariiving at a point in sight of
the crime, the negro was placed on a
stump and given a chance to make a
statement. He mounted the stump
stolidly and laughed as he began his
statement. He said:
"Tell all my sisters and brothers to
meet me in glory. I am going to make
that my home. Tell my mother to
meet me where parting will be no
more."
4 He was then asked a number of
questions. Interrogated as to whetner
or not any one else was implicated
in the crime, .\oies siaiea empuancally
there was no one implicated but
himself.
"Why did you kill Mr;. Williams?"
was asked.
"I just done that because I had
nothing else to do."
He was taken from the stump, earned
to a tree near-by, bound to the
tree by chains and his body saturated
with oil. At 1:40 p. m. a match was
applied and instantly the quivering
body was tmvoloped in flames. Kails
wore pitched about the burning body
and soon life was extinct. The negro
made no outcry at any time and died
as stolidly as a stoic. There were no
disorderly scenes about the burning
body. At least 6.000 people witnessed
the horrible fate of the negro.
Many remained until nightfall, aug
menting the btaze until the body was
completely consumed. They then departed
ior their homes quietly.
Lying on the floor of the family
room with her face splashed with
clotted blood and the oaken planks
stained with the same drops, Clias.
Williams found his young wife Friday
afternoon when he returned from
marketing his wheat in the little town
of Maxwell. A bullet had crashed
through her head and life was comnwaiv
ovtinpt. Two baby children
witnessed the crime alone. The oldest
boy. aged 5. told what had occurred.
The young mother had been
shot and killed by Henry Noles, a
negro hand upon Williams' place. As
the mortally wounded woman sank to
the floor. Noles fired again, barely
grazing the child's head. The negro
fled to the woods. On receipt of the
news the sheriff departed with bloodhounds.
A posse of determined citizens.
well armed and provided with
a rope was also on Noles' trail. It is
reported that the motive was robbery
and $L'0 was obtained by the murder.
Mr. Williams is a fanner, well-to-do.
and one of the most prominent residents
of his section of Tranklin county.
The dead woman was a member
of one of the oldest and most respect
ed families in the county.
Train Rtns Into a Washout.
Atlanta. Special.?A Constitution
special from Valdosta. Ga.. siys: "The
south-bound pasenger train on the
Georgia Southern ? Florida Railroad
ran into a washout nearWhite Springs.
Fla.. Friday night. The rear coach
turned on its side and was dragged
along on the ground for some distan e.
The 15 or 20 passengers in the coach
were considerably bruised and sha\o:i
up, but no one w23 seriously injuitJ.
Wreck on Seaboard Air Line.
Columbia, S. C., Special.?The Florida
& Metropolitan limited train of the
Seaboard Air Line was totally wrecked
Sunday night at 10:25 o'clock seven
mile3 south of Cheraw, cue to a sand
bank washout. The killed ami
wounded are: Fireman Rosemoud,
crushed to death: Engineer Muse,
shoulder and leg injured: Tom Cleary,
another engineer, injured in knees
and legs; postal clerk messenger,
name unknown, slightly bruised. The
Igu^fcpgers escaped wit h a sever#
shaking up. I
THE SCHLEY CASE, j
Agreement Concerning th: Statitf^rK
fiowison. ,
HIS COMPETENCY I.ErT TO' COURT.
Reply of the Department to Schley's
Letter, Inclbsing a Clipping From a
Newspaper.
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.Vary Department gave out the corns- i
popdence with Admiral Schley relative
to opinions said to have been expressed
by Admiral Howison. a mem- I
ber of the court of inquiry. The closing [
letter of the Acting Secretary of the |
Navy states that it will be irregular i
for the Navy Department to hear and J
determine questions affecting the com- J
petency of members of the court, an i
advises Admiral Schley that the quesr
tion of Admiral Howison's compet.n y
will be left to the court of iaquiiy itself.
The correspondence follows:
Washington. D. C.. Aug. 19, 1991.
To Secretary of the Navy:
Sir:?I have honor to enclose
herewith a newspaper clipping in
which Rear Admiral Henry L. Howlson.
(who has been selected to fill tv?
vacancy caused by the relief of Rear |
Admiral L. A. Kimberly, from the |
court of inquiry), is represented to i
ha^e expressed certain op.nions. If th s
statement, taken from The Boston
Record, be true. It would. In the Judgment
of my counsel, disqualify him for (
sorving in this inquiry, I respectfully
request that a copy of this letter, with
thi3 enclosure be submitted to Rear
Admiral Howison for his consideration,
and I would further request that
I may be favored with a copy of hl?
answer. I have entertained high personal
regard for Rear Admiral Howison.
throughout a long professional
service, so that I feel sure that, if the ,
statements exDrcssed in the enclosed j
clipping are true. Rec.r Admiral How- I
ison would not be willing to serve as
a judge under sik^H circumstances. 1
he.vs the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
W. S. SCHLEY,
Rear Admiral. U. S. N.
(The newspaper clipping referred to
is enclosed in Admiral Schley's letter.)
Navy Deaprtment,
Washington. D. C.. Aug. 20. 1901.
Rear Admiral W. S. Schley, W. S. N.,
Washington. D. C.:
Dear Sir:?Your leter of the 19th
inst.. enclosing newspaper clipping in
regard to alleged statements of Hear
Admiral Henry L. Lowison. was received
by mail this morning. Soon after its
receipt Capt. James Parker, one of
your counsel, called at the Department
9> \ stated that he intended to go to
Boston on Saturday to make a further
investigation in the premises, and
wished that no step be taken by the
Department until the result of his visit
could be communicated to the Department.
The Department would be pleased
to learn immediately if it be your
desire that action be withheld for tha
present.
Respectfully,
F. \V. HAUhbn,
Acting Secretary.
The Arlington,
Washington. D. C.. Aug. 20, 1901.
Sir:?In reply to the Department's
letter of this date referring to clipping
containing alleged statement of
Rear Admiral Henry L. Howison. I
would say that I believe i-hat the action
requested should not be withheld, as
its purpose was to avoid any delay in
the court after its session had begun.
2. I beg, therefore, that thp request
of my letter of yesterday may b? communicated
to Admiral Howison.
Very respectfully.
W. S. SCHLEY.
Rear Admiral U. S. N.
To the Secretary of the Navy, Washington,
D. C.
Sir:?In reply to your letter of 19;h
inst.. inclosed a newspaper clipping
and requesting the Department to send
u tn Roar Admiral Hiwison. together
with a copy of your letter, you are Informed
that the appointment of ReT
Admiral Howison as a member of the
court of inquiry was ac^mpl'shed oi'y
after taking great pains to insure absolute
impartiality in the officer selected.
To a question unofficially put as
to hl3 availability.in case the Department
should require h.s service. Rear
Admiral Howison replied: ' I know of
no reason why I should not b-^ available
for such duty should the Department
so decide. I have made no puhl'c
utcrance relating to the s'lb'ec1 and I
have seen none of the off'cial reports
and paners bearing upon t^e questions
to be decided by the court."
Your counsel. Cant. Parker. hef.->--?
the appointment had h *-? amornev'
mentioned to the Acting Secretary tv
names of certain rear admka's. ?nr
one of whom, he said, would b? p^r?
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reotiy sausiaciurjr tu i AUiU..u.
Schley. One of the names so mentionel
was that of Rear Admiral Howison. It
may be added that of tour officers onsuited
by the Department, the narr.ps
of three were upon the list thus mentioned
by your counsel. This much has
been detailed in order to remind you
of the fact that a fair-minded officer
of excellent reputation and of unblemished
character had been found in the
person of Rear Admiral Howison who.
at the date of his apointment appears
to have enjoyed the confidence of both
the Department and yourself. Your request
is based upon a newspaper clipping
that purports to contain state- j
ments in regard to the truth of which j
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you do not yourself express an on'n'm.
.You ask the Depa-tmcnt to lay before
R<\ir Admiral Howison a stiiement.
wholly unsubstantiated, that ap
.pears to have been made by seme person
unknown at a time and pla~e likewise
unknown. The Department is unable
to view your request in any other
light than that of a preliminary challenge
of the ftness of Rear Admiral
Howison to serve as a member of the
court. It will be treated as is usual n
cases of courts of inquiry. The established
practice in the military as well
aa in the naval semes has fixed the
methods in which the right o-f challenge
before court-martial and cotir s
of inquiry shall be exercised.
The Department, having constituted
the court, should not at this s'age of
the proceedings undertake to haT anl
determine questions that may arise reon?/>tinir
tVio nofpnpv nf its m^m
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bers. Such a proceeding would be irregular.
a':! questions of this nature being
left to the determination of the
court itself. This correspondence wi'l
be taken to the president of the court
for information.
Resnectfully.
F. W. HAOKETT,
Acting Secreta.y.
To Rear Adiniral Schley. U. S. N.
Science healers Arrested.
Dayton. Fla.. Special.?Helen Post,
her husband. Colonel C. C. Post, and '
her son-in-law. C. F. Burgman, were
arrested on information sworn to by j
Postoffice Inspector Fred D. Peer.
charging them with using the mails
for fraudulent purposes. The three .
were taken to Jacksonville, where they !
will have a preliminary hearing befoic
United States Commissioner William
Archibald, tomorrow morning. The |
offense alleged consisted in sending !
through the mails circulars professing I
to cure patients at a distance by mean;
of mental science.
Norfolk & Western Deal.
Philadelphia, Special.?A high olTl
rial of the Pennsylvania Railroad stat- j
ed that there Is absolutely no foundation
in fact for the report that Gcuic |
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interests have secured concroi 01 mi |
Norfolk & Western. The oficial added
that nobody need worry about Pennsylvania's
poeitioon in regard to the
Norfolk & Western?that the Pennsylvania
has had control for some tii e ol ;
the Norfolk t Western and still : old>
that control. ,
Dead in a Bath Tub.
New York. Special.?James W. Lyall, j
C3 years of age, a wealthy manufacturer
of cotton goods, was found d:ad n
a bath tub at his home in this city i
with the gas turned on. The theory
of the family is that Mr. Lyall bad
been overcome by faintness and fel!. j
stinking the gas bracket in falling and
so turned on the gas. They siy t' a: t
he had no reason to commit suicide so !
far as they know.
To Exchange Crop Reports.
Washington. Special.?John Hyde, '
the statistician of the Agricultural De- j
partment, returned from a tour 01 me i
countries of Europe, where he went for I
the purpose of arranging a system fcr
the exchange of telegraphic crop re- ,
ports. He announces that his trip was I
a complete success and that in the J
n?ar future the crop reports of the j
wheat-producing countries of the world
will be exchanged by te.egraph.
Investigation Under Way.
Washington. D. C.. Special.?General
Bates, comanaing the Department of
Missouri, telegraphed the War Department
a report of the premature
explosion of a shell irr a siege gun at
Fort Riley, yesterday by which a sddier
was killed and a number of oth- j
ers wounded. He says the commsn'.- j
Ing ottiee;* oi me pus. ?as
investigation. An officer of the ordnance
department has b?on srnt t)
Fort Riley to make an investigation
for the ordnance bureau.
Philippines Surrender.
Manila. Special.?Word was rec?ived
Sunday that the insurgent
colonel, Loreel, with 17 officers
and 13 men. surrendered yesterday
to Copt. Brown of the
Fourth Infantry, at Talisay. Toe
surrender of numerous other smaller t
contingents last week brings the tntil
to more than 200. Governor Taft i3
expected to return to Manila Tuesday |
after having appointed civil official* ;
throughout a'l northern Luzon.
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l'ortnial'? r<ipi|i*r Qurrn.
The Queen of Portugal is one of the
most popular of reigning sovereigns;
so that anything like a revolution in
Portugal is absolutely out of the question.
The recent act of heroism
through which she saved a fisherman
fmm Hmwnini? will not diminish that
popularity. The fisherman was in a
boat which capsized, and was in a very
bad way indeed, when her majesty,
who happened to be near, fiung herself
into the water, swam to the rescue
and brought him safe to shore.
Anyone who has ever tried to swim
with his or her clothes on will realize
the pluck of the young queen, and as
it turned out that the fisherman's leg
was Droken her act deserves all the
more wonder and admiration.
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EXPLOSION KILLS 5.
Dangerous Fire Fighting Among tha
Burning 0;l Tanks.
MANY FIREMEN MERE IN PERIL
The Great Oil Reservoirs a Mass ot
Raging, Roaring Flames? HeroicWork.
Philadelphia, Special.?Five persons
are known to have been killed by the
the Atlantic Refining Company's QUA
works nt Point Rrppto at mirinic^H?
The dead are: John McCullom. Engine
Company 49; James Falls, Engine
Company 49; John Dougherty,
Truck Company No. 9, and a fireman
and an employe of the refining company,
too badly burned to be recognized.
When the explosion occnrred the
firemen of Engine Company 49, and
employes of the Atlantic Refining
Company, in all about 50 men, were
at work in the pumping house drawing
o:f oil from the I timing tanks. The
flair.es fhot liiyh in the atr and the
lU'oping house was almost completely
demolished. The fietnen. who had
been playing streams on the othc.'
ttnks, the?i directed their attention tothe
rescue of the men who had been
imprisoned in the pumping house. It
Wjs nearly an hout before the men
could be reached. Meanwhile a score
of streams of water were pouring
upon the ruins of the pumping house.
The promptness with which the firemen
turned their attention to the rescue
of the men undoubtedly saved a.
conro nf livpc
Since eariy morning the flames have
spread to five additional tanks, makj
ing 13 that have been destroyed. The
fire is by no means under control and
although mosc cI the tanks not yet on
flre a-o more or less isolated from
tho?e that are hurting, there is constant
fear of the flames reaching some
of those that have thus far escaped.
The almost exhausted firemen are
paying no aUention to the burning
tanks, devoting their endeavors to
saving the tanks and other property
not on fire. The heat is so fierce that
they have been driven away from the
hose. A device is used that will hold
the nozzle stationary and in a position
to throw water 0:1 the sides of thetanks
and the fire-fighters "retired to
a sale distance to observe their machine:?
?t woik. Meanwhile the oil
in th? tanks nearest those cn fire is
being pumped to the most distant
tanks. The big coper shop was od
fire at one time but the flames were
extinguished before the structure wan
much damaged. As usual, the officials
of the company refuse to give any estimate
of the loss. Those in position
to know estimate it at from 3500.000tc
31.000.000. The Point Breeze Oil
Works has been devastated by fire on
t-.i ..a. i-o a cm ji
several occasions, r.icvci _
fire started which burned fiercely for
three divs, destroying much property
and causing heavy loss. Seventeen
years ago the>e was another fire
which defied tie efforts of the firemen
for six Jays.
Ugly Bus'ness in Missouri
Pierce City. Mo., Special.?For nearly
15 hours, ending about coon, this
town of 3,000 people has been in the
hands of a mob of armed whites, determined
to drive every negro from its
precincts. In addition to the lynching
last night of William Godley, accused ^
of the wanton murder of Miss Gaze'le
Wilde, and the shooting to death of his
grandfather, French Godley. the mob
cremated Pete Hampton, an aged
negro, in his home, set the torch to the
houses of five blacks an l with the aid
of Statu militia rifles, stolen ;ro:n u>e
local company's armory, drove dozens
of negroes from town. At noon Lbe
excitement died down, the ir.)!i gradually
dispersing more from lack of negroes
upon whom to wreak their
hatred than for any other causa.
Profitable Peach Growing
Rome. Special.?The last of the El6er;a
peach crop has been shir pel,
and fruit growers have time now to
pause and count pr: fits. The bulk of
the crop v as shipped las: week, but
many ?ars went to market this week.
The rains did not injure cr ine.rero
with shipments tnl s?owers are jubilant
as a c*n equ nee. It is s imatcd
that COO to 600 cars were snipped
out of Floyd, Bar.ow. Gordon,
Polk and Chattooga counties. Of th s
amount Floyd sent out about loO.
While the crop was not so large as
expected the prices obtained core
than offset this. Growers mile more
tnis j ear than any year since the ii>
dustry began.
Fire at /"lobile.
Mobile, Ala., Special?Fire destroyed
the boiler house, office and some machinery
of the Ollinger Dry D>ck Company,
also the office of the National
Dredging Company, entailing a'together
a loss of several thousand dollars.
A lot of lumber was also burned.
Several small vessels lying near
by escaped by moving up the river.
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