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12 NEGROES HELD FOR CONSPIRACY PLOT AGAINST WHITES DISCOVERED AT GREENWOOD. Blacks at Ninety Six Said to Havo Conspired i:o Kill Foi.? Prominent White Citizens. (ireenwood. Sept. 14.-- Kj'.-jven negroes were bought. here .Saturday, September 12, about noon from NineI' Six, in the custody of Sheriff McMillan and Peput.v S. eriff Charles J)uke>, piiilor a warrant charging them v. ;!i conspiracy. T!?c arred of tliest; Ik ? rocs x-as the outcome ol' an invest it?:iI ion ??ti i:.c? pari of I e local au11ior:| i cs and certain ci'./.jns in <??'eeuw I. Very li 11?? was known in Ninety Six up to Satur'J.iv niorninj? <>f Hie proposed arrest or I lie cause therefor, but several of the loading citizens of Ninety Six were fully aware of I lie situation, and the bringing ol the negroes to (ireenwood was decided upon us the best method to proceed in ;i lawful and orderly manner. Saturday evening; mother negro was arrested and brought here on the same charge. The negroes first arrested are: P. It. Dean, S. T. Jackson, a preacher, Jas. Stephens, Anderson Stephens, Ed. Harris, Tom Bishop, bavego Williams, Wayinan lackson, John Calhoun. Zeke Cluippell, another preacher. and Wade W illiaius. I'lie negro brought Saturday night was Press (loodwin. I'lie investigation, which led up to the arrest of these negroes, started mi (ireenwood on Tuesday. Scplcuiber S. (>n thai day a certain negro in (ireenwood received by mislake a: letter addressed to another negro in (ireenwood. and that letter, upon which the whole cause hangs, as it were, is the most important docu-! menl and development in the whole' i'ltnir. fl.e great question is, is the letter genuine or a fake? This is the' letter: I "Ninety Six. September 7. I !?l?S. ''Mr. Ilartie Harris, (ireenwood, S. ( .: \\ c want you u<d Id give us away in this me and Toiu l>ishop and be\. /eke ( happell is a committee jo get up men to by Winchesters, to 1*ix for white folks in a few days. We are going front 'house to house at night and shoot in, and they will think it is Tolhcrl. Now, we want you lo see how many at (ireenwood will help. All o| us who come up there to Tolbert convention is in it, but Joe. Don't know any! Iiing about this. I| is us. who is S. T. Jackson 1 here. We will be 'ready bv Sunday night t<? start if our men get back. Don'I tell anybody of this, and burn "Hiis letter up. I,el me know who will vorne from there by Thur-dav. (Signed) Wade Williams." A> slated above, this letter by mistake was received by another parlv! than the one to whom il was addressed. I his party, a negro, states that be started to put the letter back in the letter back in the po>to|liee, but realizing the serious nature of its contents, be turned it over to Chief of Police Mct 'onibs. The chief of police immediately consulted with Sheriff McMillan and llu'-e two with several' other representative citi/.ciis began! (lie i u \ e>t igat ion. I lie negro who had received the lelier having him-.-If been a resident' of Ninety Six. was t,o,t .dos.dy quol ioued. lie lei it It.- known that be knew something ol what was ??r { liad been going on anio'.ig tin* odor- j ed people at Ninety Si\. Kxpres>jng ! fear I'm- his ow n >afct v lie was re- j lucianl to divulge anything. We-j jieated quest ioniiig finally brought ; out the statement that two negro societies al Ninety Six had been in-, dulging in incciuliary talk against i the whites in their secret orders for some lime. These talks had been' more frequent and more violent since' the recent trouble at Ninety Six. as \ he result, ol the local election on the matter of issuing bonds to build a school house. The negro did not connect any white person at all with these talks, but stated that the talks wore original with the negroes and confined exclusively to their own secret orders, lie stated that the nevgro Odd 1' eUows' 1/odge at Ninety Six was taking an active interest in the matter as were the members of another secret society among the no-j groes, known as the "Knights of the Guiding Star of the East." lie stated t'hat a committee from each of these lodges had been appointed to have a conference with each other as to the purchase of guns, and to do certain other things, so he had been informed. After considerable parleying he consented to go to Ninety Six and attend the meeting oC-Mie negro Odd Fellows on Thursday night, this being their regular meeting night. lie slated before going that ho did not / jknow whether he would be allowed Jo get in the lodge or not, as lie was behind in <liis dues. Money was given ] him to pay up his dues and he left Greenwood for Ninety Six. On Friday he returned und as proof of the faet that he had been to Ninety Six and had attended the meeting, he I. brought back with 'him his member- i ship card on which the payment of c his dues had been receipted and c dated at Ninety Six the night before, t and countersigned by the regular of- I ticcrs of the lodge, who wore rcsi- ' dents of Ninety Six. ~ u 'I'llis* negro reported to those who * had sent him that he attended the meeting of the lodge and that after S the -regular business had been disposed ol in I Ik* lodge an executive session was called. That fie asfced {o ? be allowed lo remain to this executive session, but tuat lie was not allowed to remain until lie had nmle a fierce denunciatory speech against the whites. After that he was allowed to take part in the executive session. n At this session all of the facts connected with the proposed beginning of the fight were discussed and four w.Iiile citizens of Ninety Six were ,! 11 *nicd as victims. As was suggested i:i the letter to llarlie Harris, pub- " lislied above, if was stated that the n while people of Ninety Six would n blame any shooting that might lake v place on tlie Talberts, and that the negroes would not be suspected. The s lour men selected were well known !l citizens of Ninety Six and it. was staled that others might be chosen ' later, such developments depending ^ "u (lie outcome of the first venture. ? II was also slated thai the Ifev. Jack- f> son. iiiciiI ioned in fhe letter; had ' laiscd a I und oi .'jwO towards buying \ a dozen Winchester rifles in Savan- '' nali, t?a. I h(i plan of gel Hug these rifles to Ninety Six was also discuss- '' ed. ?*< Some years ago some, little excite- V mcnl was caused at Ninety Six Jby V the fact th-at some, eight or ten negroes had ordered Winchester rifles. I lie.se negroes slated that they wished them lor protection against rowdy !' members of their own race. Thev readily gave them up when the white ' people demanded them and thus the matter ended. Having this episode in mind the negroes staled that it would not be safe to have any guns shipped lo Ninety Six, so it was pro- ? posed to have a young negro, named , l)av? ga Williams, one. of those now i in jail, and a son of Wade Williams, I the secretary of the Odd Fellows' I'"due, go to Savannah to purchase the guns. Ostensibly he would go to < liif 1 i 11 I niversily, carrying a trunk. Instead of going to Clal'liu he would s'. proceed to Savannaili, Imv the guns S and return as far as Dysons, which is the next station below Ninetv Six '' toward Columbia. lie would get olT there with a trunk in which the guns would have been safely packed, and in this way the guns could be distributed without any suspicion being '! aroused. The floods interfered with ('i ais going to Savannah and back at i II"' lime first appointed. Whether ??r not any other gnus were secured /i is not known. ii 01 However, according to the negro in former, the first attack was to have ;ll been mad" on Sunday night, Seplem- || I '' being slated tint the moon j; would be about right so far as dark- |< concerned al that lime. II all oi 1 his. he true it seems pro- si vi.Initial that the letter addressed to b ihe Harris negro did not reach liiin, ei l"11 l'?'" into th<> hands of the sheriff si through the medium of another per- ti s'M. tor Saturday morning Sheriff McMillan started out with warrants all ol Hie ringleaders, and bv noon had them safely lodged in the "'in.y jail. As staled in Ihe begin- b ninu only a few people al Ninety ^ Six knew anything about Ihe matter, S| and it is possible that if all of the I a ei. s had been known (lie eleven negroes might never have been allowed Si to leave the town. However, the matter was well managed, and Mie 0 negroes were brought here and put c in jail without any bodily harm being done lo them. ' n Saturday afternoon one of them called to the sheriff and stated that fl they did not want a preliminary hear- o ing then. This procedure if adhered e to will mean I hat the whole dozen will remain in jail here until the next term ol courl of general sessions. A large number of while people at Ninety Six think fhe whole 1 hiny is a fake. They think fhe in- ? former is up to "spile work," and " is simply trying to get the white !' people worked up against certain ne- . gro enemies of his. There is no ex- 1 eitement either here or at Ninetv Six whatever. The affair has caused " ed considerable talk, of course, but ' there is no excitement whatever. s The wife in Abyssinia always owns ii the house and contents. ] NEGRO CONSPIRACY A FAKE? People at Ninety Six so Regard Af- ^ fair in Which Twelve Negroes ? Wero Arrested. P Greenwood, Sept. 15.?There ha\fe <1 >cen 110 further developments in the natter of the negro conspiracy, so- ? lulled, at Ninety Six. The prevailing pinion hero and also at Ninety Six II his afternoon, as ascertained by inerviews, is that the thing is a 'fake," a scheme hatched up by one legro to get revenge on other negroes ti or wrongs of his own. I SENATOR TILLMAN SIGHS FOR HOME learched London Over For Some Real Corn Meal, and Got it, Too. M A dispatch from Londan to the few York Herald says Senator Tilllan, of South Carolina, who is makug his first European tour, likes A london very much, though he sighs u vain for the delicacies of the uhle of "down South." ? '1 Young man," said the sonafor I liis morning, "if you will only foil 1 le where 1 can go! some real corn leal in this town, you will make me our debtor for life," d A friend who was standing near upplicd the information and the sen- fl lor was effusive in his thanks. U "Well, sir, I've had a hard time tn 0 net something to eat over here, 'i on know a man jtsed all his life to m- Southern cooking naturally eravs for something that has corn in if. 1) don'! en I beef ami 1 have I lie hard <1 lime everywhere 1 have been frvig fo explain whal 1 meant by break- ie asf bacon, but as for corn bread and st ominy grils, why, sir, T haven't been t] hie fo find a I race of I hem any 'here, so I us| tbought if I could l'( nlv find somebody to (ell nie where | could get some corn meal I would { ?ke il to my slopping place and show lie cook how to make a nice yellow one of corn bread or an asheake. tromplon road, did you say? I am erlainlv much obliged." ~ She Collected. ^ The clerk at a branch post office in lie city looked up in surprise the ti: thcr day when a pretty young Rns- fe inn girl appeared at the grated win- of ow and announced, in extremely roken English that he owed her V). rninly did he declare that he had Ci ever seen her before; she was mild & nd polite, but determined to have ie money. Her father she said, had 111 Id her not fo leave the olliee until ie obtained it. dc "Where is your father?" asked the t, u/.zlod clerk. ^ " I n f lie con nl ry.'' Then he wrote l<> you about it ^ '' Yes.'' ? I? inally, after more questioning, if. |> pea red that she had the letter with 1/ or. Reluctantly, with evident- fear "ill some trick would be played upon er, she was persuaded to show the 'Her to the clerk. Tn it he found 12 ?e solution o the mystery?a money 'dor nn the olW*e for $f>. * he "Wight you are," he said, smiliu" 01 1 l,M' l>o'-]>lexed girl; "1 do owo you ca money, and here if is, l,?f 1 cor- ')e thought first that it was some S< U1,l "I :i liohl-up game." ^ I'he girl probably didn't under- ?? <? '?' word in ten of his remark f "I *ho saw the money and that was "Migh. I Seaming with satisfaction, ,M'1 11 " efully in |,er purse and "iPI'ed awav. ? Sailor's Life Hard. P ( up!. IVitehard of the record J leaking Maurotania I old a group of 1 'in erica ns on a recent voyage that a on * life was a hard one. or It Ti nU H is not so hard as it used to be etore the coming of steam," he "" !li(l' ">>?* still fearfully hard, >"< "I- all that. I? fuel, I never heard 5! t but. one man who had a decent ^ xcuse for going to sea. an ''And who was he, captain? said M Chicagoan. Noah," the captain answered. I*or if flie old fellow had remained < n shore he would have been drownd."?Washington Star. Clean Food. ti it ? a good deal more important. Sf liaf |o(.d shall not ca.vy the germs Si I disease than that it shall be die- C( 'i*'sdly 1 nre. Table, salt for example, li nay contain some soda salts other ^ han the chloride and still be perfect- " \ health I ul. Corn bread is loss loathful when made from pure corn- I' leal than when it has some admixure of wheat flour. Hut food that is ff lot clean may bo more dangerous han any adulterated food product old today provided the adulterated J. irticle carries no disease germs.? A Boston Advertiser. \ as ~ d ? pl.CO tj *"3 r-^ P* gS?^X^O|jo2 ?3 3.q:B??3' tx* ! g f U I " K3 P * , 9Q Irs. Alice Robertson, TEACHER OF oice, Piano and Harmony. Studio Over Mower's Store. Opens Sept. 1st. VIOLIN MUSIC: liss Carrie Pool will give instruction on the Violin, beginning September the 14th. ddress: 1727 Harrington Streef. Phone: No. 78. 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