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GREEN WOOD NEWS.
The Arrest of Incendiaries-Threa
ened Lynching-ElectiO Talk
Greenwood. S. c., Sept. IA, 1896.

Greenwood. S. c., Sept. IA, 1885,
The hot dry and dusty weather continues
least one-haif 1t will all be- open by the first
Of October unless IL rains soon. have had q
good opportunity TO form An opinion.
weeR ms' we Te s%b se sen Of s@sh
Donnal1s. heads the list He pick ed In one
day 474 pounds. l ate dinner one day with
his children picked a bale per day. One OF
his little daughters, about II or IL years old,
said that she had picked over lou pounds that
day by dinner. Another said she could pick
The election Is over. I did not get all In
that voted for, but accept the result and
will abide by 1t and do my duty by all elect
ed. Earle was nominated by majority OF
heretofore Tlllmauites decide for themselves
who 10 vote for. They have taken one
step in the direction of reform. have heard
severa! use the expression that Tillman
popped his whip one time too much. IL
seems that there was some forgery done In
the ss nature to the petition to rllmhn. ask
ing him To tell the people who TO vote for.
Stuckhouse, Latimer, and Josh Ashley say
they never signed the thing and never au.
lhorized any one to sign II for them. John
! Gary Evans says Ben Iillman signed Latl.
| such business? The idea OF man getting
up a petition asking himself to do something
Last Friday night when l arrived home,
Of high excitement. Mr.. J. A. Milling, !
miles from Greenwood, had just had the mis-.
| fortune OF luoseiug bis large and handsome
dwelling by fire the night before, or Friday
morning about 3 o'clock. 1t Will be remein:
bered that some one burned his barn and
stables last Spring, together with all OF his
| horses and mules except one. MIR. Mining
| had suspicioned certain negroes OF this hre
and when his dwelling was burnt his friends
and neighbors from all over the country as
sembled at once at the scene OF ashes. Clr-
cumstancial evidence was so strong against
| nn, md Inhn
| the crowd Of friends arrested them at once.
| Captain Austin went 10 Mr.. Millings and
held an Investigation and found the evidence
sufficient to biud them over " court. They
aprehendIng danger Of them being lynched
telegraphed the Governor the situation and
he ordered out the Maxwell Guards to pro.
tSusan's @ daughterj and John Watts were
arrested and brought to greenwood. BY
nine or ten O'Clock the crowd began TO gather
and continued until we had our square
crowded with white men and negroes.
! When 1t became known that Susan Daubs
and her son John Chiles had made comics.
sion to the burning, excitement ran high. A
number OF our leading citizens got together
and advised and worked To prevent a lynch
ing. 1t wus determined 10 send the four
prisoners TO jail. TO prevent them from
being seized between Greenwood and Aboe'
detachment of his men, together with Sheriff
Nance and his deputy LEFT on the 5.So train
pretending to 20 TO Columbia to foil the
crowd They went as far Us Clinton and took
| The night train back to Abbeville jail. After
| they mad left, another negro Willis Richard
son was arrested ON suspicion and lodged In
our guardhouse. There are still others
suspected. Some of the Maxwell Guards
| were up without sleep for lorty-five hours.
This is very tough Oh young men that are
not used TO such work. l have not heard The
amount of Mr.. Milling's loss, but learned
that he sa we'd very little out. OF his house. l
hear his insurance was very small. We ad.
vised the crowd to walt and let the court
have q chance to do its duty and If II failed
then we would plead no more. Their room
In our comm unity, is worth more than their
presence. | hope no lawyer will 60 beyond
reason in defending them. 1t seems there
has been clan of them In that community
for q long time that resorted 10 the torch Tor
| trivial offences. Court convenes In about tWo
weeks. 1 will walt until. then for further
criticism.
Our Presbyterian brethren have had several
preachers 10 come aud preach 10 them with
view 10 call. Rev. DoggeL has been conduct
! Ing q meeting for them the past week.
heard him Sunday night and was pleased
with his sermon. They will have q congre-
gatlonal meeting next Sunday morning for
the purpose Of eectlng pastor.
| At the horse sale last Saturday, ~ horses
were sold ut prices ranging from $s2 to s9'
dollars. NJ. II.