Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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City of Union and Suburbs Has T|^ J~ T "fl ' T 1|T T /""^ |% 7 rW} T Wif lifT^I City of Union and Suburbs Has Fire Large Cotton Mills, One Knitting I I I J J I I | | I I [M / | J Five Graded Schools, Water Wor V?, and Spinning Mill with Dye Plant, Oil mill ml I I \ml I ll Sewerage System, Electric Lighta, Thr, >e Mill ^Furniture Manufacturing and | | J ' | "J I W | I W \ M I I V I I'jL/a Banks with aggregate capital of $250,000 \ Lumber Yards, Female Seminary. _ _. JL M A X ^ - _ V/ X 1 -M_ , JLVX JLJ FV ' Electric Railway. Population 7,000. rwerk of Court ' ' "' m"*"*"'w|MWEt== "** VOL. LIV. NO. 34. UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRJCAX, AUGUST 19, 1904; .#1.00 A YEAR: - . ?, ???-? ==^lli^WP' . ? - - AVOID C< Executors, Adm dians and others leas confusion f of private and tri ing separate accc Drop ia and let i "^1 you about this ii Wm. A. NICHOLSi ENRAGED BUKIVIS Overpowers Milit HideousPe e * Soldiers on Guard with LI Hands of Crazed c Sheriff Kendrick P Disperse but N - Stacesboro Ga., Aug. 16.? With clothing saturated with kerosine, writhing and twisting in their agony, screaming to heaven for the mercy that the mob would not show, Paul Reed and Will Cato, negroes, two of the principals in the dastardly murder and burning of Henry Hodges and 1 i.1 _l.il .1. ! wiie ana tnree cnnaren six mues from Statesboro three weeks ago-i were burned at stake today. This afternoon at 1:21 o'clock a determined mob charged upon the court house, overpowered the military guard, secured Cato and Reed, who had been found guilty after a legal trial and sentenced to be hanged, took them two miles from Statesboro and there executed the fearful penalty. The forenoon passed quietly, the trial of Paul Reid, the ringleader in the murder, being con. eluded and a verdict of guilty rendered. Sentence was imposed upon both him ar.Ji Will Cato, sentenced the day before, and September 9 was fixed as the date for the execution. The crowd assembled about the court house was not so large as yesterday. Nor was it so threatening, though, for that matter, there was never much parade, There was a quiet about the crowd that augured the worsl and the determination of th< countrymen who came in fron miles around for the trial was never to be doubted. Up to the noon hour there was no intimation that so soon wai to be enacted the terrible climax v . In the trial of Reed little delaj was caused and upon its conclu sion the prisoners, as before were hustled intd the witnes room where a strong guard o military was mounted over them THE AGITATION BEGINS. In the corriders the agitatio begun. The spectators left th court room and from the law outside Tnany entered the hall ways. Shortly before 1 o'cloc' the crowd was addressed by tall man who seemed to inflam it greatly. He called on thos about him to follow him. The Capt. Hitch of the Oglethorp Light Infantry, who was in corr mand of the forces, realized tha the situation was desperate. H posted guards on each of th stairways that led to the floe ' g D NFUSION. a p dnistrator?, Guar" h a may avoid end- lc rom tine mingling tl ustfunds byopen- ai )untsat this Bank.' 01 as talk further with & nportant matter. F( )N & SOM, Bankers. MOB | CONVICTS I Jl c< ia at Statesboro, z ondemned Men. j rformances. | m ~n nloaded Guns Helpless in ind Bloody Populace. m leaded with them to to no Avail. n< fe st i above where the prisoners were J confined. ' ly 'J With fixed bayonets but un1 loaded rifles the guards stood. The mob surged towards them al i but were repulsed several times, bi The determined effort was yet to 81 be made. At the rear stairway the gravest dinger threatened. p] Prominent in the crowd was Rev. w afr.-Hvdgetfr unfetter or me inur-1 v? dered man, who sprang to the I jj front to address its members. w He begged them to disperse. h< i Sheriff Kendrick was in the m Pi crowd. He cautioned the crowd against violence and pleaded with <j( . them to disperse. "I am your h< > friend" he said. "I beg you to m do nothing that will reflect upon gl us as well as on the community. w Disperse and let the law take its ^ course. We need these men. There are others to be brought^ " ' justice and only from the infor- a i mation to be gained from Cato tc and Reed can we bring the right ' "J i ones to justice. I can almost fc - promise you that when the case 8i is finally sifted there will be five tt i parties who are equally guilty." 81 THEIR FRIEND KENDRICK. w "We know you are our friend, | u, Kendrick," some one shouted, l, ? but promise us that you will let a t these men stay in the Statesbcpro ; J i jail and not be taken back to Sa- ( ti l vannah. Then we will disperse, j j not until then." i 11 There was a shout and cheer-' | 81 3 ing and Kendrick could not re-; p s ply. "Promise us that," they j P shouted, "you will not take them A j away from Statesboro.'' A com- n motion to the front drew the t, crewd there. This was but tern- h 3 porary. Presently they were, c f back at the rear and some 25 men 1 i.1 J- T, ' uuwucu aruunu uie guarus. x>e- o fore they could be prevented they 0 had caught two of the guards, t( n wrestled their * weapons from T( e them ?ind thrown open the breech a n locks. The weapons were empty, b I- That was what the crowd wanted k to acertain. The troops had been B a given orders not to load their ri- a e fles. e The captured soldiers were held * n prisoners. The same policy was tj e followed with others of the sol- ? i- diers. Man after man, caught 1 it isolated, was relieved of his rifle J e after a struggle. ie At the front a member of the ? >r mob crept along the wall until he d ot close to the guards. He hrew himself upon them. In le breach thus formed his comanions threw themselves. Two undred wildly cheering men fol>wed him and soon the soldiers, lough they fought desperately ad inflicted bayonet, wounds upa some of their assailants, were /erpowered. ? The State. ollowlng Is the Story of the Tragedy and the Trial of the Negroes, Cato and Reld, who were Burned at the Stake. Statesboro, Ga., August 16.?Will ato, the negro Jointly indicted with aul Reid for the murder of the Hodes family, was found guilty last night he jury was out Just eight minutes, 'turning the verdict at 7:18 o'clock, ndge Daly adjourned court until toay without passing sentence on the risoner. Paul Reid was placed on trial when >urt convened this morning. Court opened yesterday afternoon ith the railing around the Bar coved with soldlhrs from Savannah. The owd was so dense that for a oonderahle time hnsTneca woo /v-krr>r?i suspended. One indictment was re. irned again Reid and Cato for thn' urdor of Henry R. Hodges alone itnedlately after the court operted. The ;groea are both mulattoes, or have : least considerable white blood in , icir veins. Cato appeared tofbe the ? ost intelligent. He was thX. first raigned. It was a matte%of surprise to those )t familiar with the courts to see how w Jurors were-, disqualified, but for ? rikes of the defense thd jury could ive been selected from the first 15. imeg called. The number was eastobtained from the panel of 48. Woodcock, the first witness, saw the re which destroyed the Hodges' home >out 10 o'clock. He rang the bell- to arm the neighbors. The house was irned down when he arrivedv He iw two' of the burned bodie\ J. C. Deal was the next witness. He ltd bedding appeared to have been aced on the body of Mr. Hodges. The itness explained a diagram of the tClrioB.- - 1tv oa n iVit tiacit "Ui ATI S. fc edges.- She came from her house id where she ran to the house she asfollowed by one track pursuing jr. He saw a pool of blood and arks on the ground of a struggle, rom there to the house there were lly two tracks as if carrying a burin. Drops of blood reached to the )use. He found a pair of old misatchod shoes about 150 yards from le house. There was blood on the toes. On one was the hair of a hito woman stuck to it by turpentine lm. "I had seen Paul Reid with shoes ke the ones found," declared the rtness. The shoes were tied up with calico string: that was found similar t'the strip In the house of Paul Reld. iieard Paul Reld admit that they were Is shoes. A coat and shoe were tund in Cato's house. This shoe was milar to the one that made one of le tracks. There was blood on the loe and blood on the coat. The witness said he also found under, ear which Cato admitted belonged to Im, with blood stains on it. The nderwear was in the wash tub. He said Reld and Cato lived about mile and a half from the Hodges ome. Neither of them went to the limed house until carried there. All le other neighbors, came. Sam Smith found the shoes. The rst shoe found had blood on It. Tho ther had hair of a woman's head tuck to It by gum turpentine. Renver eal found a knife near the log where aul Reld's shoes were found. Isaac .kins. H. H. Moore and Pleasant Bran, en Identified the shoes as Paul Reld's. Harriett Reld, who made the con?ssIon soon after the murder that her usband, Paul Reld, and Will Cato ommitted the crime, was pThced on tie .stand. She said In part: "Cato lived about a half mile from ur house. He came to see us often, in the night of the murder he came > the house about 8 o'clock. <Ha rent out with my husband In the dl* ection of the Hodges' home. Soon >. - -J ??*- * lei nam HQ IOIU1UCU Willi IUy J1US- I and. "Cato did not come Into the house, ly husband said they only wanted | ome matches and were going out gain. "The two men returned again beween 1 and 2 o'clock In the morn- i ag. Cato told me they had killed be Hodges family and burned up the ouse. Cato said Held killed Mr. lodges, but he himself slow Mrs. lodges and the children, except one Ittle girl, whom they missed. "Realizing that there was a little ;lrl left to tell the tale, the two men [ecldcd to go back and Rill Her. "The-ftWW'glrl wi| found hidden behind a'trunk.. They then killed her with h lamp. "My husband and Cato had plaun^j to Kill the family the Saturday nlg^ previous, but became frightened. * At that time they went to look for the pot of gold which they believed Mr. Hodges had burled In his yard. My husband told me Mr. Hodges heard them In the yard and they made up an excuse for being there. They said Cato had been snake bitten and they had oome to get some turpentine. "Mr. Hodges gave them Che turpentine. and thay left the plaoa. After wards Cato daolared he Intended to have that money If he had to kill Mr. Bodges "I showed Mr. Fordham the trach Cato made going through the potato patch. Cato told me they found the -money and Mr. Hodges took It fronj him. Mr. Hodges ther mlled his. "felfe and gave It to her. His wife eime out of the house with a lamp in bar hand to receive the money.'. When placed on the stand, Cato made tho following brief stAtoment denying his guilt: "I didn't go to Mr. Hodges' "house at all. JPaul Reld and threo others went." Trouble Imminent. "Savannah, Ga., August 16.?A special from Statesboro says trouble Is Imminent. Some soldiers riie?ri?ori by citizens. A riot call may be sounded in Savannah for the military. Mob Seize* Telegraph Office. Atlanta, Ga., August 1G.?The officials of the Western Union Telegraph oompany have been advised by the Imager of their company at Savanh that the molj at Statesboro has seized the Western Union office operator there and closed the telegraph of.flee at Statesboro. It is now impossible to communicate with Statesboro *by telegraph. MAN PARALYZED, MULE KILLED. Live Wire Does Deadly Work on the 8treets of Augusta. Augusta, Ga., August 16.?A mul< klfied and a white man.completely par alyzed below the waist and in a very serious condition, is the result of ths rai rTT\K of &' IlVd wiro laa tailfl wikj .it toil* day. Just after a heavy rainstorm, a live electric wire fell from one ol the poles on Ellis street, between Campbell and Cummlng, striking th? back of the mule of the delivery car of the Augusta Brewing company. The driver, a whit eman by the namfl of Joe Weekly, grabbed the wire in an effort to throw it off the mule's bacR, but the current had passed through the body of the animal, killing him Instantly. It was thought at first that Weekly had also been killed, but when Dr. Wright arrived on the scene it was found that he was not killed, but had been severely shocked and was completely paralyzed in the lower limbs. The upper portion of the body and heart were tshneUe/i on,i Hon affected. The man is in a dam gerous condition. WATSON'S CAMPAIGN. _ ? H Populist Candidate Will Fire First Gun In Atlanta. Augusta, Ga., August 16.-?Majot Charles McGregor, of Warrenton, reached Augusta Monday after having traveled extensively over the east and west In company with Thomas El Watson, tho Populist nominee for the presidency, of the United States. Ma Jor McGregor said: "Mr. Watson is going to accept ths nomination in New York on the 18th, and he Is there now preparing hil speech in answer to the notification committee. He will not accept th? nomination in a half-hearted way, hot in all sincerity, and for the pur OOM of rnaklnsr at trrAnt tain principles that are very dear U his heart and to a great many peopl? throughout the Country. "You can also say that Mr. Wat son is going to wage a very aggro# sire campaign, and that his next speech after the notification will be la Atlanta, on Sept. 1." ONE KILLED; 8EVERAL INJURED. Trolley Car Overturns With Patal Re. suits. Camden, N. J., August 16.?One pen son was killed and several slightly In. I Jured this morning by tlie overturning ; of a car on the Camden-TrenTon trol< ley line at Hatch's corner near De lair, N. J. As the car approached the sharp curve the brake chain broke. The taT Jumped the Crack ami top pled over. Conductor Robert Hollo way fell underneath the car and was crushed to death. The Injuries to the passengers eonslated of slight bruises and cuts from flying glass. I P. M. Farh, President. k^jlfterctiants and Plai (?) tbc largest Bank on < etafid" successfully, thirty-two years. t It is the OLDEST bank in I It is the only NATIONAL 1 It has a capital and surplus c It pays FOUli per cent, inte It has paid dividends amount It has Burglar-proof vault, ai It is the only Bank in Union It pays more taxes than ALL We solicit your business, howt the courtesies that are usually extei conducted Bank. f ?????? RUSSIAN CRUISER PALLADA WAS SUNK Torpedoed In the Naval Battle of August 10. THE ENTllTE CREW PERISHED. It Was at First Thought that ths Pallada Escaped, but It Now Seams Certain that the Vessel Went Down with All on Board. Tokio, August 16.?Noon.?It seems certain that the Russian protected cruiser Pallada was torpedoed and sunk during the naval battle of Aug. 10. _ She failed to return to Port Arthur, and has not been reported since Admiral Togo's fleet departed on various missions the night of Aug. 10, when the Russians retreated. Delayed reports from various officials continue to reach Admiral Togo. The Japanese dj^troyers and torpedo boats made a series of attacks during the pursuit of the Russian warships. One destroyer reports that she hit a vessel of the Pallada type and it is thought the vessel foundered, and it is believed to be probable the entire : crew were either killed or drowned. Admiral Togo says that K. appears certain that the Pallada was sunk. It W OO VUV/MfgM. _ escaped southward with the novlk and Askold. and the admiral believed she was concealed in the vicinity of the Yang Tse river. Whatever her fate, it soon will be learned. If s"he is afloat, she will speedily be reported, and if destroyed, it Is probable that some of her wreckage will be found. RUSSIA'S PROTEST. Japanese Violation of Chinese Neutrality at Che Foo. Paris, August 16.?Russia's protest against the Japanese violation of the Chinese neutrality at Che Foo has been transmitted to the mikadoes government by the French legation at Tokio, acting as the intermediary of Russia. which has not made any represent tatlons to Franc? on the subject. The latter, as a neutral power, is not directly concerned and has no idea ol intervening in any manner at the pres- I ?nt time. The impression In well-In* 1 formed circle* here In that the whole question Is not urgent and that ft will be solved diplomatically. The news that the Ruaslan legation at Pekin has protested to the Chinese government on account of the letter's permitting a breach of neutrality In its territory iJ officially confirmed. The St. Petersburg government as* serts that the Japanese had no right even to examine the Ryeshltelnl to determine whether she was dismantled without first obtaining the permission of the Chinese admiral. So far as can be learned. Lord Lansdowne will mere, ly acknowledge the receipt of the protest, reserving possible action on the part of Great Britain until all the facts are ascertained. There Is reason to believe that the Inquiry commenced by the Russian authorities after the capture of the Ryeshltelnl has been extended so as to tahe lh the entire question of how the belligerents have observed the neiitrnfftv China RUSSIAN CASUALTIES Number Killed In Attack* on Port An thur Fortress. St. Petersburg. August 16.?The Official Messenger published a dispatch from Llao Yang, which says news from Port Arthur announces the Russian casualties there in the attacks on the fortress July 26, 27 and 28, as follows: Killed: Two officers and 248 men. Wounded: Thirty-five officers and 1,558 men Prisoners: One officer and 83 men. Flight hospital assistants. At the Thanksgiving service for the birth of Alexis held In Llao Yang Sun. ( day, the officials were Invited to dins [ at headquarters by General Kuronat V J. D. Arthur, Cashier. HE liters National Bank earth, but it continues to do business as it has been doing for the past Jnion, bank in Union, >f $100,000, rest on deposits, .ins? to $-21)0,400, nd Safe with Time-lock, inspected by an Officer, j the Banks in Union combined. iver large or small, promising all nded by an obliging and carefully | kin. Recurring to the Ryeshitelni affair, the Novoe Vremya demands that the Askold, Oror.oTol or any other Rnsslan ships now taking refuge in Chinese ports, shall not be dismantled but shall retain their aTmftments so they may be in readiness to repel Japanese attacks from which, the paper declared, neutral Chinese waters afford no protection. 8evere Engagement Expected. Che Foo. August 16.?6 p. m.?The Russian shin* nt *>?.-? *-?v ?.? ? >"i. miuur maafl a sortie early today. They are now being pursued by the Japanese. A severe engagement Is expected. Treatment Compared. Tokio, Atfgust 16.?The Japanese generally are comparing the treatment accorded the crew of the RurlK to that accorded by the Vladlvostock squadron to those on board the transport Hitachi, which the squadron sank on June 15 during its flrst raid. A prominent official said to the Associated Press today: "Japan has avenged the Hitachi. Admiral Ramlmura rescued and succored those who aided in sinking the Hitachi and who sailed away from hundreds of drowning victims. We offer their living tor out dead." CHICAGO STRIKE. Despite Mayor's Intervention, Peace Chicago. *9Bi WBprttr itio mayor's ir.terv ntion prospects for peace in tlie packinghouse s'^ke were far frbm reassuring today. The packers, at a meeting held last night in Swift & Co.'3 offices, had a committee to represent them at a conference with the mayor, but today an official of one of the big company's passed cold water on fhe enterprise, declaring thqj. there wa9 nothing on earth the mayor could do to bring about a settlement. The packers' at. I titude was that while nothlncr nf hpn#. fit could rer.ttft from a meeting with the mayor. It would not do to refuse to go to the city hall. On the other hand, the strike leaders were equally antagonistic. President Donnelly declared he did not expect to be present at the time the conference was to meet. President Donnelly said his reason was That at the hour named he had to address fho Hog Butchers' union. "And the hog butchers are a great deal more Important to me than the mayor," said the head of the strikers. "Harrison was too long getting In. He has heard our say for fair police treatment arid has Ignored It. He need not think that now he can snap his Angers or whistle and have us come to do his bidding." 8EVERE BATTLE REPORTED. German Troops Engage the Hereros In Southwest Africa. Berlin, August 16.?Four columns of German troops attacked the Hereroe near Hamackari. German southwest Africa, on the night of Aug. IT. The fighting continued all day of Aug. 12. The natives were defeated with a Heavy IOSB. Tlve German officers, including Count Von Arnlm and 19 men, were killed. Six officers, among them Bar. en Von Watter ,and 52 men, were wounded. General Von Trotha, dispatching the particulars of the battle from Ham* ackari, adds that his soldiers fought with the greatest bravery. I? ' : JOE JEFFERSON ILL. Famous Actor Has Been Indlspoaad. Reported Better. Buzzard's Bay, Mass., August 16.?* Joeeph Jefferson, the actor, has been <11 *? - -?? ? ? i> mi a. uhj or iwo At urow's Nest, his summer home here. A doctor called from Boston stated that the trouble wai a severe attaok of indigestion, whiuh remedies soon relieved. This morn In* Mr. Jefferson vu said 1 to be much improved. \