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VOL. XXII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1908 NO.23
HEAD CUTOPEN.
An Aged Woman Brained by Negrc
With an Axe.
OVER IN LEXINGTON.
Sitting Alone in Her Room, Near
Caye, Mrs. Paul D. Ellisor Has Her
Skull Split Open by Assassin Who
Crept Upon Her From Behind
Body Concealed in Clothes Bas
ket.
Sitting in her home, two miles west
of Cayce, nf Lexington County, Wed
nesday morning. white-haired Mrs.
Paul D. Ellisor was suddenly struck
down from behind by a negro burg
lar armed with her husband's axe.
The heavy weapon sank down into
the skull and death was probably in
stantaneous.
His fiendish work done, the assas
sin strove to cover up the evidence
so that the crime would not be dis
.overed until he had made good his
escape. Catching up the pitiful,
wasted body he forced it into a
clothes basket near at hand and tuss
ed over it the quilts from the bed.
Then catching- up Mr. Ellisor's shot
gun and one of his coats the murder
er fled.
The crime was not discovered until
an hour or more afterward. Mr. El
lisor had gone to New Brookland at
an early hour to sell vegetables, leav
ing Mrs. Ellisor alone in the little 3
room house. The supposition is that
the murderer, seeing the master of
the house drive away, supposed the
house to be empty. Mr. Ellisor re
turned to the house at about 9:30
o'clock and found his daughter and
several friends sitting upon the door
step awaiting his return.
The house was locked up. and ail
supposed that Mrs. Ellisor had clos
ed it to run over to a neighbor's Af
ter waiting around the premises for
some time they became alarmed and
forced the door to find the reality
far worse than anything they could
have feared. The alarm was quick
ly given, and within the hour men
were searching for the murderer.
Within a few minutes after the
alarm was given Mr. Steygert, con
stable for Magistrate Bachman, of
New Brookland, was on the scene. He
took charge of the premises and un
der Mr. Bachman's direction empan
elled a jury, which viewed the re
mains. The inquest was then ad
journed. The body remains at the
home.
The Columbia correspondent of
The News and Courier, who furnishes
the above facts to his paper, says it
is believed that the murderer went
direct to Columbia hoping to elude
pursuit in the criminal quarters' of
the city. The police were not notinied
of the murder until nearly two hours
after it had ben discovered. Mrs.
Ellisor leaves her husband, an aged
farmer much respected in- the com
munity, and six children, four mar
rIed daughters and two grown sons.
TADIPERED WTH SWTCH.
A Southern Passenger Train Partly
Derailed at Kingsville.
Train No. 17, ,from Charleston
was wrecked at Kingsville at 9.15
Tuesday night at a switch about 100
yards north of the Congaree River.
The two passenger coaches were de
railed but none of the passengers were
hurt beyond a bruise or a good shak
ing up.
The trainmen conducted an inves
tigation and found that the switch
had been tampered with.. The engine
and the mail and the express cars
passed over the switch in safety but
the coach for colored passengers
which followed, left the rails and
carried the coach for white passen
gers with it.
The two coaches struck a string of
box cars which were standing on the
siding, turning over two or three of
them and w . ecking the interior of the
negro coach, which, at the time was
occupied only by one passenger and
the condector, neither of whom was
hurt. Ti.. coach for whites was turn
ed partly -er, but was not damaged
The track r about a hundred feet
was torn ul-.
After an hour and a quarter the
passengers were put aboard the ex
press car and a caboose, and were
carried on to Columbia, reaching
there at 11.20.
ROTATE YOUR CROPS.
Good Advice to Farmers From One
of Their Number.
Cow peas. $2.00 per bushel; vel
low turnips, $1 .00: sweet potatoes
$1.25; seed oats. $1.00: seed wheat
$1.40: common hay, $1.00 per hun
dred and corn no doubt will brinl
$1.00 on time in this State. Any onl
or all of these crops can be grown it
great abundance on any farm i~
South Carolina without the use o
common fertilizers.
Twelve to fifteen cents cotton1
not in it along with these crops, say
Mr. J. C. Stribling. You are comn
pelled to hold and fight for nlfteel
cents cotton. We are now gettmn
the above prices without holding o
fighting for it. Besides more net prc
fts on some of. these crops, cow peas
hay, smali grain and turnips all lear
the land richer irn humus after th
crops come off than before plantins
Now here, listen, if you don't rc
tate your crops moure, you will hav
to rotate yourself by moving off th
farm or starve out yourself alon
with your lands. Surely you ca
change y ur way of farming easi~
han you can move out.
BRUTES CONFESS.
The Tojand Negroes Tall of Fou
Killing in Lexington.
They Make a Full Confession of the
Murder of Mrs. Paul W. Ellisor.
Near Columbia.
A dispatch from Columbia says
Ned and Brack Toland, negroes, age.1
17 and 19 *years, respectfully, late
Friday afternoon made a full con
fession of the murder of Mrs. Paul
W. Ellisor, the aged woman who liv
ed just across the river from Colum
bia.
Brack, the youngest of the broth
ers, said that Mrs. Ellisor suspected
something as soon as they entered the
house. When they got inside Brack
said he caught the old woman and
held her while his brother knocked
her in the head with an axe.
They put her.body in a basket and
Ned struck her two more blows. They
then proceeded to rob the honue, tak
ing a gun and a number of articles
of wearing apparel. No money was
found.
These negroes were arrested on
the train going to Newberry the day
after the brutal murder and brought
back , lumbia. There was a big
crowd Ba .n at the train when they
arrived and had it not been for the
presence of several officers an at
tempt to Iynch them would have been.
made. The two fiends are now in
the penit i! tiary for safe keeping.
A dispatch from Prosperity says
Ned Toland bears a bad reputation,
having been in a number of scrapes.
About six years ago he broke into
ligh's stcre, at Sligh's Station, and
robbed the postoffice. He served a
sentence in the United States prison
in Atlanta for this crime. He has
been on the chain gang several times
at different places.
Brack was working in the oil mill
and was enticed away by Ned. They
left Prosperity walking Monday.
Some of the hands in the oil mill
warned Brack that Ned would get
him in trouble. Ned's wife had gone
to Columbia on the morning Colum
bia, Newberry and Laurens train.
RE-ENROLLMENT BILL PASSED.
Text of Measure Providing for Reg
istration of Voters.
One of the most important meas
ures the general assembly has passed
is a bill to provide for the re-enroll
ment and registration of the qualified
electors of this State during the year
1908, and to provde compensation
for the supervisors of registration as
follows.
Section One. That the sup
rvisors of registration in each
ounty of the State are required to
re-enroll all the qualified electors in
.s State during the year 1908.
Section 2. That the same time the
said supervisors shall register all per
ons who may make application there
for and who may be entitled thereto.
Section 3. That for the purpose of
such enrolment and registration the
said supervisors shall keep the books
f registration open at the several
ounty seats every day (Sundays ex
epted) between the hours of 9 a. m.
and 6 p. m. during the months of
July and August 1908;and i~n addi
tion thereto they shall attend, during
the month of September, 1908, at
least 1 day in each township in their
respective counties, of whicn at least
ten day's notice shall be given by ad
e'tisement in a newspaper publish
d in the county, and in counties con
taining fifty thousand inhabitants
they shall attend in each city, town
or industral community containing
three hundred or more inhabitants at
least one day upon similar notice;
Provided that the provisions of this
section shall only apply to the re-en
rolment and registration for the year
1908.
Section 4. That for the purpose of
said reenrolment the secretary of
state shall furnish the supervisors of
registration with all the necessary
books, and the sum of five hundred
dollars shall be appropriated for sup
plying said books.
Section 5. That the supervisors of
registration shall each receive for
their services during the year 1908.
the sum of two hundred dollars. to be
p Id by the State qjuarterly, as other
State officers are paid. except in the
counties of AndersOn. Charleston,
Greenville, Sumter, Orangeburg.
Riclanid, where they shall receive
ceive two hundred and fifty dollars
for the year 1908: Provided, that in
Spartanurg county they shall receive
this year three hundred dollars. to be
paid as above provided. That aftei
the year 1908 the supervisors of reg*
istration shall each receive fifty dol
lrs per annum in off years and one
hundred dollars in general electiol
years, except in the above named
counties. where they shall each re
ceive seventy-flye dollars per annurr
in off years and in general electior
years they shall receive two hundrec
dollars per annum, including th4
county of Spartanhurg.
:TACKLED WRONG 3LAN.
Robber Shot and Killed in an At
tempted Hold Up.
In Chicago Herman Becker, an al
leged highwayman. was shot and in
stanty killed Tuesday night at Six
reenth~ and Forty-second avenue b;
Frank Daverock, an optician. Dave
rck w as on his way home when h'
w as intercepted by two men. One o
ethem pointed a Pistol at Daveroci
and told him to throw up his handl
-Daverock had his hands in his over
coat and in one hand had a pistol. H
eanswered the robber's command wit
a shot through his coat pocket. Th
abullet struck Becker in the stomac
-an he fell to the ground. His con
nanion ~d
ANOTHER VICTIM
Of the Fatal Quarrel In theKer
shaw Barber Shop.
MOBLEY IS MURDERED
By Grover Welch, a Brother of Steve
Welch, Who Was Killed in the De
cember Shooting Scrape, When
Young Clyburn Was Also Killed,
and Mobley Was Badly Wounded.
Welch in Jail.
A dispatch from Lancaster says
Berry B. Mobley, the young man who
was desperately wounded in the Ker
shaw double tragedy just before
Christmas, in which Steven Welch
and Thomas Clyburn lost their lives,
was shot and instantly killed, on the
Southern railway north-bound train
Monday night, by Grover Welch, a
brother of the late Steven Welch. The
men were passengers coming to Lan
caster on the Southern Railway train.
Mobley's body was taken off the
train at Pleasant Hill to have the
inquest held. Welch came on to Lan
caster and surrendered. He is now
in jail. Mobley was about 32 years
old and leaves a widow and five chil
dren. Welch is unmarried. He is
about 25 years of age. He had an
interest in the Heath Supply com
pany, of which his late brother was
the president.
Mobley was accompanied by his un
cle, Z. L. Robertson, of Oakhurst,
and was going to Lancaster to consult
his attorney about his approaching
trial. Welch was accompanied by his
uncle, W. U. Clyburn, of Haile Gold
Mine, father of the young Cylburn
killed in the Kershaw affair.
The shooting occurred just as the
train was slowing up at Pleasant
Hill. Several shots were fired. Three
bullets struck Mobley in the head,
causing instant death. Mobir::*3 pis
tol showed one empty ch:mn" ::' af
ter the shooting, it is said. It is also
stated that no words v ere passed be
tween the parties.
Mobley left Kershaw Monday af
ternoon and drove to Heath Springs,
there boarding the Southern train for
Lancaster. The trouble between the
two men was apprehended. They
naturally had little love for each oth
er, and it is known that Mobley has
avoided meeting Welch, but no
threats have been known to pass be
tween them. It is thought that Mob
ley may have driven to Heath Springs,
instead of taking the train at -Ker
[shaw, for the very purpose of evad
ing an encounter with Welch, not ex
pecting Welch would board the train
also.
e Columbia Record says Monday
nights tragedy is the aftermath of a
pistol duel which took place in Wil
son's barbarshop at Kershaw on the
night of Saturday, December 21st
las. On that occasion Steven Welch,
Thomas Clyburn and Berry Mobley,
all armed and all drinking to some
extent, met in the place in the eve
ning.
Anger engendered by whiskey and
by the irritation surviving from a pre
Ivious quarrel precipitated the trou
ble. Berry Mobley remarked that it
was a good thing the previous diffi
culty had been patched up, as the
parties were all good friends.
At tbis stage, Steven Welch drew
his pistol and struck Mobley over
the head with it, then stepping. back
and began firing. Clyburn, his cous
in, rushed forward to prevent the
impending homicide, and himself re
ceived the first three bullets from
Welch's revolver. He dropped to the
floor and expired instantly.
Meanwhile Berry Mobley, regain
ing his wits after the blow from
Welch's pistol-butt, had gotten his
own gun out. He fired ':wo or three
times and Welch also fell, expiring
at once. Mobley then turned aside,
himself hit in three places and with
his coat ablaze and walked into the
offce of Dr. Twitty, whIch adjoins
the barbershop. Bullets from Welch's
pistol had struck him in the right
breast. th~e shoulder and the neck.
Ever since then. Mobley has been
more or less disabled. For a long
time he hovered between life and
death, and it has not been three
weeks since he has been able to leave
his bed.
Mobley was head clerk at the store
of Carson & Co. He leaves a wife
and five children. His aged father,
Capt. W. C. Mobley, is a resident of
the town of Lancaster.
Steven W. Welch was president of
the Heath Supply Company. He was
a son of the late Capt. Jas. V. Welch,
of Kershaw county; was 28S years old
and unmarried.
Thos. L. Ciyburn was president of
the Clyburn Mule company. He had
been a Clemson student. His father
is Capt. W. U7. Clyburn, of the Haile
Gold Mines. His mother wa in Char
lotte at the time of the tragedy. Mr.
Clyburn left a widow. Mrs. Dors
Cunningham Clyburn. They had beer
married less than a year.
Two women widowed and five lit
tie children orphaned is one of the
reults of that pistol duel Decembel
1t and its aftermath of Monda:
scalded to lIwathi.
-~ At Geensboro, N. C. on Friday
p w chldren of Thomas Hardin an<
.one hild of his brother met a fright
a ul deth while playing in imitatioi
fof hog kiliing"' around a pot o
oilig tar, which was over turn
a ' Wash Huniter Convicted.
Wash Hunter, who killed Elber
e Copelad in Laureus county over
ayear ago. was convicted of mau
slaughter~ at Greenwood on Wednes
NEW CONTRACT LAW
As It Finally Passed the Legisla.
ture On Last Day.
Farmers and Others Interested in
ThIs Law Should Read It Over
Carefully.
Among the few important acts of
general application passed by the
legislature which has just completed
its strictly legislative duties is that
on the subject of farm labor, which
reads as follows:
Section 1. That any person who
shall hereafter contract with another
to render him personal service of any
kind, and shall thereafter fraudu
lently, or with malicious intent to
injure his employer, fall or refuse to
render such service as agreed upon,
shall be deemed guilty of a misde
meanor.
Sec. 2. That any person who shall
hereafter contract to receive from an
other personal service of any kind,
and to compensate him therefor, and
shall thereafter fraudently, or with
malicious intent to injure his em
ploye, fail or refuse to make com
pensation as agreed upon shall -be
deemed gailty of a. misdemeanor.
Sec. 3. That the failure of either
party to such contract to perform the
obligation assumed by him thereun
der, without sufficient cause, and to
the injury of the other shall be prima
facie evidence, In prosecutions under
sections 1 and 2, that he violated
such contract fraudently and with
malicious Intent to injure the other
party.
Sec. 4. That any person who shall
hereafter contract with another to
render personal servL. of any kind
to him, and shall thereafter fraudent
ly, or with malicious intent to injure
the employer, procure advances, in
money or other things of value, from
him, with intent not to render the
service agreed upon, and who shall
thereafter, with like intent, fail or
refuse to perform the service agreed
upon, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor. Proof of the fact that
the employ. entered into the con
tract, procured advances, and failed
or refused to complete the contract,
without sufficient cause, to the injury
of the employer, shall be prima facie
evidence of the offense herein de
scribed and declared a misdemeanor.
Sec. 5. That any person who shall
hereafter contract with another to re
ceive from him personal service of
any kind, to compensate him there
for, and to make advances to him,
and shall, thereafter fratidently, or
with malicious intent to injure the
employe, receive the benefit of such
service, in whole or in part, and with
like intent fail or refuse to make
th compensation or advances agreed
upon shall be deemed guilty of a mis
demeanor. Proof of the fact that
the employer entered into the con
tract, received the benefit of the em
poye's services, in whole or in part,
and failed to make the compensation
agreed upon, without sufficient
cause, to the injury of the emiploye,
shall be prima facde evidence of the
offense herein described and declar
ed a misdemeanor.
Sec. 6. The contracts referred to
in this Act may be either. verbal or
in writing; they must be executed
with the formalities required by Sec.
tion 355, Criminal Code, A. D. 1902;
if verbal, they must be witnessed by
at least two disinterested witnesses,
ot related by blood or marriage with_
in the sixth degree, to either party;
and the term of service contracted
for must be for a definite time, not
exceeding one year. All such con
tracts shall be valid only between the
original parties thereto; and any at
tempted transfer or assignment of
any rights thereunder shall be null
and void.
Sec. 7. That If either party to any
written contract herein referred to
desires to avail hims'~lf of the bene
fits of this Act against third parties
hsacue the same to be indexed
in thal ofaiceof the Register of Mesne
Conveyances or the clerk of the
Court (where the office of Register
of Mesne Conveyance does not ex
ist) of the county in which said la
Ibor or service is to be performed,
within ten days from the date of
the cotnract; and such indexing shall
constitute notice to all third parties.
Such index shall show the names of
the employer and the laborer, the
Idate of the contract and date of its
termination, and the location and
name of the place or places whereon
the said service or labor is to be per
formed. The clerk of the court, or
the Register of Mesne Conveyances,
as the case may be, shall end rse his
official certificate, and the date of
filing to be indexed upon every such
contract filed under the provisions
of this Act and his only fee for the
same shall be five cents for each
contract. And the clerks of court
or Registers of Conveyances, as the
case may be, in all the counties of
the State, shall provide a book for
indexing such contracts, which shall
be plainly labeled "'Index Labor Con
tracts."
Sec. 8. That upon conviction in a
court of competent jurisdiction of
any person charged with any viola
zion of this Act, the person so con
victed shall be punished by a fine not
less than twenty-five dollars and not
exceeding one hundred dollars, or by
imprisonment not less than twenty
day s and not exceeding thirty days
for each offense: Provided, That there
shall be no prosecution under thi:
Act unless the arrest warrant shall b(
issued w'ithin thirty days from th4
commission of the offense.
Sec. 9. That this Act is not in
tended and shall not be construed tc
protect any of the parties to, or pun
ish the violationl of, any' contract o1
mater connected therewith, wher<
the inducement or consideration o
such contract is money or other thinj
'of value, advanced to or for the em
po e prior to the commencement o
serv ice thereunder. All such contract
are hereby prohibited and declare<
null and void.
Sec 10. Tat all Acts and part
"HOG AND HOMINY."
Is The Only Safety of the South
sin Farmer.
No Cotton Being Held by the Texas
Farmers, Says E. L. Archer, of
Spartanburg.
The Spartaaburg Herald says: E.
L. Archer, president of the County
Cotton Growers' Association was in
the city recently. Mr. Archer is just
back from Dallas, Texas, where he
attended as a. delegate the big con
vention of the Southern Cotton Grow
ers' Association. When asked by a
representative of The Herald con
cerning the convention, Mr. Archer
said: "There were delegates from
every Southe:rn State and they all
stressed the necessity of reduction of
acreage by diversification. They also
advocated taking better care of cot
ton, and giving more thought to the
marketing of the product, rather than
to increase the number of bales.
"As a result of my visit to Dallas
I wish to say specially to the farm
ers, that I saw very few patches of
small grain-no fields. The Texas
tennant is no better off that the ten
nant here. Ee is naturally a cotton
farmer, and he buys his bread and
meat in town, likewise the corn for
his mule. I saw no barns or corn
cribs and very poor houses.
"All the cotton made by tennants
is sold as soon as gathered to satis
fy the store account. I saw very
little cotton; none at the gins, none
at the depots. All I saw of the sta
ple was a few baleslying on the
ground in fenced lots, which are the
Texas warehouses."
When asked how much cotton the
Texas farmers were holding, Mr.
Archer replied:
"Virtually none. There is more
land than anything else in Texas.
There is no help to be expected from
that quarter so far as the holding
movement is concerned. Last year
she planted one million and three
hundred thousand acres more in
cotton than in 1966. OKxahoma
planted 668,000 more acres in cot
ton in 1907 than in 1906; Georgia
667,00 more; South Carolina, 140,
000 more. Ead not the boll weevil
and the dry weather ruined the Tex
as qrop thei would have been a
thirty million bale output.
"I wish to warn the farmers to
reduce the cotton acreage," said Mr.
Archer. "If it is not done generally
cotton will be sold next fall for eight
cents or less. No organization can
make a farmer succeed who will not
raise home supplies.
"For forty years the farmers have
been submissive slaves for the think
ing man by buying such things as
were not necessary, or things that
he could have made at home. It is
time that the chains of slavery be
broken, and the only way to break
them is to raise more hog and homi
HARD MAN TO HILL.
Lives With His Head Nearly Severed
With Heavy Axe.
With his head nearly severed, W.
S. Smith ran half a mile to a physi
can at Sumrall, Miss, Friday, was
treated, and will soon be out again.
The case is one of the most singular
in surgical annals. Doctors who
performed the opeyration declare that
tepatient's neck is tougher than
leather. Smith and a man named
Hardy quarreled over a bill. Hardy
felled his adversary with an axe, and
tried to cut off his head. He evident
ly thought he had decapitated his
victim for he dragged the body 40
feet into a patch of underbush and
went to hide his axe. *
SOUTH CAROLINIAN DEAD.
Judge John A. Edison, Wofford Man,
Dies in Texas.
The Spartanburg Herald says Judge
. A. Edison, formerly of South Car
olina, and a graduate of Wofford
College, died in Hamilton, Texas,
Iseveral days ago. He was considered
by many one of the ablest lawyers In
Texas. He was appointed associate
justice of court of appals by Governor
Lanaham of Texas, another Wofford
boy. Mr. Edison graduated from
Wofford soon after the war, having
served through the latter part of the
war.
DESTROYED PUBLIC RECORD
Government Clerks in the Patent Of
fice Face Serious Charge.
New W. Barton, an assistant of
the patent ofice, at Washington, Har
ry E. Everding, a patent attorney of
Philaedphia and John A. Heany, an
inventor, were indicted by the grand
jury and arretsed on a charge of
destroying public records.
The indictment charges the three
with, intent to steal and to destroy,"
and that they carried away from the
patent office letters, specifications and
amendments, and unlaw~fully and wil
fully destroying them.
STREET FIGHT.
Contractor Shoots Merchant Over in
Ithe Town of Aiken.
At Aiken on Friday, W. F. Doby,
a prominent contractor, had an al
tercation with H. H. Rankin, a groc
er, ab)out a small account he owed
Rank in. Dloby invited Rankin to the
stetand words passed. Rankin
struck Doby, who pulled a pistol,
shooting Rankin in the hip, painfully
Iinjuring him. The wound is not nec
essarily fatal. The shooting created
some excitement.
of Acts inconsistent with this Act be
and the same are hereby repealed.
iSec. 11. That this Act shall go in
to effect immediately upon the ap
I prova of the governor.
AWFUL RECORD.
Nearly One Homicide Each Day
lI South Carolina.
DURING LAST YEAR.
The Rev. Louis :. Bristow Presents
Some Interesting Figures Compiled
by Him from the Reports Made to
the Attorney General by the Solici
tors of the Various Circuits in this
State.
A recent letter to the press of the
State, in whch I gave the number of
homicides committed In South Caro
lina during the last six months of
1907, caused a number of papers
both In this state and others to ask
for a record of the convictions for
murder during the same time. A
careful study of the report of the
Attorney General reveals th follow
ing facts:
There were In South Carolina in
1907 346 cases In which the defend
ants were charged with murder. Of
these, ten defendants were convict
ed of the charge and sentenced to
death; 30 were convicted, but were
recommended to the mercy of the
Court, which under the statute, re
duced the penalty to a life term in
the penitentiary; 44 were convicted
of man-slaughter and given short
terms in the Penitentiary or on the
county chain gangs. Besides these
there were 15 convictions reported
from the 2d judicial circuit wherein
no record of degree of guilt or of
sentence was given, and 8 in Chero
kee, and 3 in Union. The total num
ber of convictions thus was 110.
There were no murder trials In
Pickens or Oconee counties. In other
counties they were as follows:
First Circuit-Berkeley, 8; George
town, 5; Dorchester, 20; Orangeburg,
15; total 48. Death penalty, George
town, 1; Orangeburg, 1; Dorchester,
1. Life term, Georgetown, 1; Or
angeburg, 2. Short terms, Berkeley,
2; Dorchester, 7; Orangeburg, 6.
Total convictions, 21.
Second Circuit-Aiken, 14; Bam
berg, 12; Barnwell, 12; Hampton, z;
total, 40. Convictions, 15, but no re
cord of sentence.
Third Circuit-Clarendon, 4; Flor
ence, 3 (1 manslaughter;) Lee, 6;
Sumter, 3; Williamsburg, 2 (man
slaughter;) total, 18. Death penalty,
none. Life term, Sumter, 1; Wil
liamsburg, 2; Clarendon 1. Short
terms, Lee, 1; Clarendon, 3; Sum
ter, 1. Total convictions, 9.
Fourth Circuit-Chesterield, 2;
Darlington, 2; Horry, 1; Marlboro,
8; MarIon, 4; total, 17. Death pen
alty, 1 in Miarlboro. Life term, Marl
boro, 1. Short terms, Chesterfield,
2; Marlboro, 2; Marion, 1. Total
convictr's, 7.
Fifth Circuit-Edgeield, 10 (1
manslaughter;) Kershaw 6, (2 man
slaughter;) Legington, 7 (1 .man
slaughter;) Richland, 11 (3 man
slaughter;) total, 34. Death pen
alty, none. Life term, Richland,
1; Edgenield, 1. Short terms, Edge
feld, 1; Kershaw, 2. Total convic
tions, 5 (and 2 in Richland County
in which new trials were granted by
trial Judge.)
Sixth Circuit-Chester, 11; Fair
feld, 4; Lancaster, 6; York, 9; to
tal, 30. Death penalty, Chester, 2;
FaIrfield, 1. Life term, Chester, 3.
Short terms, Chester, 5; Lancaster,
3; Fairfield, 1; York, 2. Total con
victions, 17. (It Is worthy of note
here that of Chester's 11 cases there
were 10 convictions.
Seventh Cifrcuit-Cherokee, 8;
Spartanburg, 8; Union, 6; total, 22.
Death penalty, none. Life term,
Spartanburg, 2. Short terms, Spar
tanburg, 3. Total, 5. (There are no
records for Cherokee and Union.)
Eighth Circuit-Abbeville, 7 (2
manslaughter; Greenwood, 4; Lau
rens, 30 (7 manslaughter;) Newher
ry, 11 (4 manslaughter;) Saluda, 11
4~ manslaughter;) total, 63. Death
sentence, Greenwood, 1. LIfe term,
Laurens, 6; Newberry, 1; Saluda, 2.
Shr terms, Abbeville, 2; Green
wood, 1; Laurens, 7; Newberry, 4;
Saluda, 1. Total convictions, 25.
Ninth Circult-Beaufort, 1; Colle
ton, 6 (1 mansiaughter) Charleston,
27 (3 manslaughter;) total 34.
Death penalty, none. Life term, Char
lesten, 2. Short terms, Colleton, 1;
Charleston, 3. Total convIctions, 6.
Tenth Circuit-Anderson, 17:
Greenville, 13: Oconee, none; Pick
ens, none; total, 30. Death penalty,
none. Life term, Anderson, 6. Short
terms,. Anderson, 2; Greenville, 5.
Total convictions, 13.
I have simply given the figuree as
compiled by the solicitors for the At
torney General. They need no com
ment further than to say that out
of 346 cases tried there were only
110 convictions. Of course, It does
not follow that the other 236 men
were guilty of murder and "got off."
But these figures reveal the fact that
the taking of human life in Soutb
Carolina Is not often considered a
erime against society.
One other matter: While of the
346, no less than 40 were convicted
by as many juries of felonious and
wilful murder, 30 of these juries de
clined to permit the murderers to be
executed for their crimes. I have of~
ten said that more than 50 per cent
of the people of South Carolina are
opposed to capital punishment; 75
per cent of these juries wore.
Louis Bristow.
1 Col. Youmians Dead.
A dispatch from Barnwell says Col.
Lawrence W. Youmans died at for
o'clock Wednesday morning at the
hospital In Savannah, where he was
taken several days ago for treatmeni
I for a cancerous affection. The news
of his death was received throughoul
th ate with universal regret.
TRIED TO KILL HIM.
Two Bombs Thrown at the Shah's
Automobile, In Which
He Was Supposed to be Biding, but,
Fearing Assassination, He Was Bid
Ing in a Carriage.
A dispatch from Teheren, Persia,
says an attempt was made in that
city Friday afternoon to assassinate
the Shah of Persia by a bomb. His
Majesty was not hurt. Three of the
outriders. who were accompanying
him at the time were killed.
The Shah owes his escape. to the
precautions taken to protect him
from just such an attempt. He was
on his way to a nearby town, where
he intended to pass a few days. The
procession had left the palace, and
wa traversing a narrow street, when
bombs were hurled down as If
... the roof of a house.
One exploded in the air, but the
other struck the ground near the
Shah's auomobile. This 'missile in
exploding killed the three outriders,
wounded the chaffeur and a score of
bystanders and shattered the vehicle.
The Shah, however, was not in his
automobile. He had taken the pre
caution to send the motor car on
ahead and ride himself in a carriage
further in the rear of the procession.
The motor car was a closed one and
it was thought the sovereign was in
side.
As soon as the Shah heard the ex
plosion he alighted hurriedly from
his carriage and entered a neighbor
ing house. Here he remained quiet
ly while his attendants sent word for
a detailment of troops.
The soldiers were hurried to the
scene and formed in front of. the
house where the.Shah was. He then
came out, surrounded by a big body
guard, and returned to the palace.
The house from which the bombs
were thrown, and the buildings near
by were searched, but no arrests were
made.
CHANGES IN POLITICS.
Gov. Ansel Seems to Have Become
Very Unpopular.
The State says there has been a
marked change during the last 10
days in the outlook for the grberna
torial campaign. Ten days ago there
had scarcely been heard a whisper of
opposition - to Gov. Ansel. It was
quite generally conceded that he
would have no opposition for reelec
tion, but there has been a change, al
though it is somewhat difficult to
locate the starting point or to Ind
the reason.
There are evidences of a good deal
of quiet activity on the part of pro
hibitionists, and it is quite evident,
too, that the majority of the general
assembly is "anti-Ansel." Why this
is true is not so clear, for a majority
stood with him a year ago on the
dispensary issue. It Is said, however,
that the governor does not consult
members as freely as they like, and
that he takes very few into his confi
dence. They prefer It to be other
wise.
But the lack of support on the
part of the legislature does not alto
gether explain the sudden change In
th uentorial situation. The fact
is that a couple of months ago when
it was rumored that Gov. Ansel might
be a candidate for the United States
senate, he was importuned from many
quarters to remain in the guberna
torial chair for another term; Indi
viduals and newspapers assumed that
reelection was his for the asking.
GEN. CAXTON DEAD.
Was Stationed in South Carolina
Right After the War.
Brigadier-General Rufus Saxton,
U. S. A., retired, dropped dead at
Washington Tuesday of heart disease.
He entered the army from Massachu
setts in 1855 as a first lieutenant of
the Third Artillery; received a con
gressional medal f~r bravery in the
~defense of Harper's Ferry, and was
retired April 23, 1904. General Sax
ton was born 84 years ago.
During and after the war Gen.
Saxton was stationed on the isalnds
about Charleston and Beaufort,
where he was very active in oppress
ing white people for the benefit of
the freed slaves. He was in charge
of the confiscated lands of the plant
ers, which he distributea largely
among the negroes who own It yet.
QUITE A WARM TIME.
A Pole Wedding at Chicago Ends in
a Fatal Fight.
Three men are reported dying from
stab wounds at the county hospital,
and 18 persons were injured in a
riot and free for all battle with
Iknives at the close of a Polish wed
ding celebration held over the saloon
of Joseph Kuza, 73 Front street, on
the North Side, Chicago.
The three most seriously injured,
who are expected to die, are John
Wadvo, brother of the bride, ear cut
off and face and body severely stab
bed in ten places; Stanley Wudasek,
stabbed in 20 places, about the head,
face and body; James Grim, cut and
slashed abolt the cheeks head and
breast.
AWFUL DEATH.
A Woman Pours Kerosene Over Her
self and Fires It.
Choosing fire as a medium of
death, Miss Emma Fink, of Slating
ton, Pa., committed suicide at Slate
dale in a most tragic manner. Stand*
ing where she could see the ruins of
her old home, which was destroyed
Iby fire about a- year ago, she poured
coal oil over her clothing and ther
TAKES A HAND.
United States Court Assumes Jur
isdiction in Dispensary Matter.
STATE WILL APPEAL,
Lyon Suggests That the Judge Wait
Until Question of Jurisdiction Is
Settled Finally-He Says He Has
No Intention of Provoking Conflict.
-Pritchard Declares He Has No
Doubt of His Accuracy.
It looks like the United States
Court will at last take a hand in
winding up the affairs of the old
State dispensary. At Asheville, N.
C., on Saturday the matter was again
brought up in that court on a recent
order of Judge Pritchard's, signed on
motion of the WilsoniDistiling Com
pany commission of South' Carolina
to appear and show cause why a re
ceiver should* not be' appointed to
take charge of the $800,000 funds
now in the hands.of the commission
for the payment of the just liabilities
of the old dispensary.
Prior to the hearing of the Wilson
case Judge Pritchard informally re
ferred to the recent hearing in the
matter of the Fleishmann C6m'pany
against the dispensary commission.
The complainants in this case also
applied for -a receiver.
The application for a receiver was
denied and argument had on the
question of jurisdiction, the court
reserving its decision. Saturday
morning Judge Pritchard stated that
he hadn't completed his forr 1 1 opin
ion and decision, but that in view of
the coming on of the Wilson case he
thought it best to indicate what his
decision would be.
"The suit is not a suit against the
State," said Judge Pritchard. "I have
considered carefully this whole mat
ter and had I any doubt I would give
the defendants the benefit of that
doubt and rule in favor of the State.
There is no doubt in my mind, how
ever, and therefore the court takes
jurisdiction."
Judge Pritchard said It was his
purpose to appoint two special mas
ters It is stated that these masters
will be named next Mo day, when the
defendants make formal answer.
The defendants announced that
they would appeal from the decision
of the court.
Attorney General Lyon in referring
to thedeterninationof the State to ap
peal suggested to the court in effect
that in order to avoid any unseemly
clash-between the State and Federal
authorities that "your honor refrain
from ordering any specific acts to be
done until the question of jurisdic
tion is settled."
Judge Pritchard to this suggestion"
made reply: "That this court is not
going to do anything t~o provoke a
conflict but at the same time the
court is going ahead and do Its
duty."
Judge Pritchard said there was
no necessity or reason for a recur
rence of the unfortunate incidents
which occurred in North Carolina
last year. He said that "this court
Is as much a South Carolina court
as any court and Incidentally that it
is presided over by a southern man."
A hearing of the receivorship pro
ceedings will be held on Saturday.
PREDRITS HIS ASSASSINATION.
A Catholic Priest Says He Is a Mark
"A murder will be committed in
Chicago within one month similar to
the Denver assassination, where
Father- Leo Heinriches was shot
down;" asserted Chancellor E. M.
Dunne, of Chicago, arch-diocese Wed
nesday night.
"I am positive that anarchsts, anti
:lercals or watever they ca thora
selves, have preparred lists of priests
and clergymen to be kille-i and 1 am
certain that some Chicago man has
been marked," he said. "I am the
most logical man for the assassmna
ton, and altnough I have thousands
of friends in the Italian colony, L
also have many bitter enemies."
HANGING AT ST. AUGUSTINE.
Two Thousand Persons See Negro Er
ecuted for Murder.
Charlie Powers, colored, was hang
ed in the county jail yard at St.
Augustine, Fla., at 10:3 0 o'clock Fri
day morning for the murder of John
Rogers. also colored. As the trap
was sprung the rope parted, but not
before Power's neck had been brok
en. Powers was so frightened that
he gave way entirely and had to be
carried to the scaffold. He was too
limp to stand, and a board was se
cured and fastened to his back. Two
thousand persons witnessed the hang
ing.
MURDER IN SPARTANBUTRG
The Passing of the Lie Causes Anoth
er Killng.
A dispatch from Spartanburg says
Sullivan Hughes, a young white man
who killed John Franklin in the low
er part of the county Saturday, has
-not been arrested though the y-oung
man's father says he will have him
surrender to the sheriff. Hughes
shot Franklin In the head with a pis
tol. The difficulty was about a
"damned lie" beIng passed.
Shot While He Slep
At Clinton, Iowa, Fred Dolph,
about 60 years old, was shot to death
Saturday night while he slept. His
head was blown off with a shotgun
placed against his cheek. Mrs. Dolph
ai nder arrest..