The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-20

| saturday. While playing with a dyna-
| mite cartridge. which he had been told was
| harmless. II exploded and tore of the tips
| OF two Of his fingers. The accident while
painful is not serious.
! A charter has been issued to the BAN
| berg Spoke and Handle Company Of Bam-
berg. The officers Of the company are;
! President, John May; manager and treas
| urer, w. o; Tatum; secretary, l. T. Levin;
| Murray and Lewis g. Wood.
| A commission for a charter has been is
| sued TO the Marshall-We scoat Company
| of Charleston The company proposes do
ing general hardware business in
| Charleston. The corporators named are:
5. r. Marshall; Benz; Greig' julius w.
Sanders and John V. McNamee.
At a meeting of the taxpayers Of the
| Elloree school district, In Orangeburg
| county, held Friday afternoon, tax of
1 3i2 mills was almost unanimously levied
/ for the support of the graded schools-only
| five votes being against IL, and they voted
| for mills.
A commission has been issued TO the
| Hampton Cotton Mills. The corporators
are; W +. Cummings, w. j. Goodings,
A: a. Browning, Frank Johnson, J. A.
| Lightsey, w H. Maudin, J. w. Moore, NJ
| h. Insolvency.. w. S. Tillinghast, a. NJ
| Ruth and W. Fl. Tuten. The capital stock
| Is 10000, divided into 800 shares Of 500
| each.
man named Hotchldss, foreman of
| Goschs sash, blind and door factory at
! Eutawville, had his left forearm horribly
/
| two ago, necessitating amputation near
| the elbow. Three days previous 70 this ac-
| cident young negro man, John West, had
| his leg crushed by cogs at the Santee
! River Cypress Lumber Company, six miles
| from Eutawville, losing the limb at the
| knee joint.
! As Lineman Thweatt of the Western
| Union Telegraph Company was at work
| near Calhoun on Tuesday, A. ID. HOke OF
| Greenville, driving by in buggy, stopped
| and offered 70 help him in adjusting wire
/ 10Th Nv ha
! swapping and falling of wire and at
| tempted to run away. Mr.. Hoke caught
/ the animal, but as he did 50 was tangled
/ in the wire and thrown under the wheels
| Of his buggy. As they passed over him
| they struck "A revolver in one of his peck
| cts, and caused It to explode, the bullet
/ barely missing him. Mr.. Hoke escaped
/ without injury.
Ed Baskins, Of the Bishopville section
| Of Sumter county shot q negro in North
! Carolina Thursday, and IL is reported
| killed him. The negro entered the stable
! of Mr.. Baskins Monday night. taking a
| mule, harness and buggy. Tuesday Mr..
Baskin set out IN pursuit of the thief.
| who had gone in the direction of North
| Carolina. Nothing was heard from Mr.
l'Baskins until Thursday afternoon. Then
a telegram was received at Bishopville
| stating that the thief had been overtaken
! In North Carolina and the mule and buggy
| recovered. The thief resisted and was
! shot
a motion for a new trial upon newly dis
| covered evidence was made in the case
| of the state VS.. jefferson NJ. Way i'm the
| court of general sessions at Orangeburg
! Wednesday This is a case Of considera-
| bic celebrity. Way was convicted in May
| 1892, of the murder of Elliott Whcatstone
| at the town of Norway on Christmas day
| 1891. The case has been taken on appeal
| to the supreme court three times. and the
prisoner has been sentenced to death twice
| After hearing full argument from Glaze &
Herbert, Raysor Summers and Mr.
/ Mayfield for the motion, and from Solic-
itor Jervey against IT, the court granted
| the new trial, and the case will come up
at the next term
Friday night dispensary constables went
out a few miles in the country from Spar-
| tanburg TO intercept n wagon thav under
stood was loaded with whisky which they
understood was being brought TO town.
| The mountain schooner was being navi-
gated by two negroes Pat Burnett and
| Jim Emerson. About six miles from town.
the constables met the wagon and demand
ed that the negroes give up the whisky
| and surrender themselves. Burnett be-
teVing that under the recent decision Of
the courts he had right to haul the whis-
| Ky, refused to surrender and at once open
cd ire on the constables. Murphy and Car
| roll. They returned the fire and when the
miniature battle was over, it was found
| that burnett had received two bullets one
| IN his head and one in his side, while
| Emerson was shot several times in the
abdomen. Burnetts wounds are proba-
| bly, fatal and his physicians say there is
| no possibility of his recovery. The con-
| stables were unhurt
i on Tuesday evening about seventv-fve
| eXcursionists left Rarnwell deDot for An
gusta by way of Allendale and the port
Royal and Augusta railroad. Tickets We're
| sold at 81 and $l.50 which would entitle
each eXcursionist to admission to the opert
| house to hear "Iolanthe" there that night
| A large number went up from Allendale
and other points along the line They did
not get back to BarnWen until about \
| o'clock next morning. They took supper
| at the Arlington and started from Augusta
| on their return at II o'clock. Before arriv-
to n4 na1g Il
eject disorderiy excursionist, when it
was discovered that the trestle over a mill
pond was on fire If they had not been
fortunately detained, by the effects of
Georgia liquor six carloads of passengers
| would have been precipitated to the bot
tom of the mill pond. which is eight or ten
feet deep. The passengers spent the night
under the depot shed until next morning
| when cars were sent to their relief from
Allendale.
There were two remarkable features of
! the recent term of the court of general
| sessions in Georgetown county, a which
Judge Ernest Gary presided. Albert e.
| Simpson, white man. was tried for a
| murder that was committed thirteen years
| ago. Sampson, at the age OF IT, killed a
negro. After the crime he ran away and
| went to Texas. the negroes at the time
| threatening to lynch him. Last week he
came back, delivered himself up and asked
to be tried for the alleged murder. Only
four witnesses were put on the stand, the
defense putting up none at all. They all
tesuned that they would have acted as
sampson qua under rne C1rCumSta noes
Sampson was therefore promptly acquit-
| ted. At the same term of court two white
men were convicted of burglary and lar
| ceny. This is the first time in twenty-five
| years that white man has been con.
| victed of this offense in Georgetown coun-
| ty. There were three in a regularly or
! ganized gang. All of them were wound
ed and caught in that way. The third was
| so badly wounded that he could not be
| tried al this term.
The Varnville Enterprise prints the fol-
| lowing account of the fire at that place
| which Is fuller than that already printed
| in the Morning News telegraphic col
| umns: AT II 80 O'Clock Tuesday night the
dwelling of Mr. F. N Murdaugh Was dis
covered to be on FIRE The family had lust
| retired and were aroused by the roaring
/ of the flames The alarm was instantly
| given and the citizens turned out in full
| force and used every eXeEtion to suppress
| the flames and save property But the
| HANGS spread RAPIDLY to the adjacent build
| ings and were beyond control The dwell
| ing was thanked on one side by the post
| office and on the other by a large two-storv
| wooden building the lower story of which
| was used as a store. All of these buildings
| were soon in flames and the heat became
] so intense that il was difficult TO approach
Next the store u F. NJ. Smoak, then the