The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-03-11
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State and General News.


The cotton warehouse belonging to
the Spartan mills at Spartanburg,
with several hundred bales of cotton,
curtailing loss of $4,000, was de-
stroyed by fire on Friday. Mr.. w. S.
Montgomery, president of the mill,
was painfully injured by a bale of
cotton falling on him.
The Southern's depot at Carlisle
was totally destroyed by fire on Thurs
day night. The origin of the ire IS
not known.
Charles Mitchell, at Suffolk, Va,
shot and instantly killed Mrs. William
Christian on Friday while the latter
was preparing supper. He then
placed the revolver to his head and
fired, inflicting a severe wound.
Mitchell was placed in Jail. Jealousy
was the cause of the tragedy.
Fred Elleger, a negro charged with
criminally assaulting the little 7-year-
old daughter of Mr.. Mack Gambrell
at Princeton, Laurens county, on Fri
day, was hurried to the penitentiary
for safe-keeping. The excitement
against the negro was intense The
Little girl was seriously injured and
her permanent recovery is doubtful.
AS the result of an attempt to burn
the house of a negro woman followed
by fusilade of shots into the house
and an attack on the home of Joe
Daniel, in Rome, Ga, on Sunday, Joe
Daniel was killed, Jim Snow slightly
injured, the house of Jane Pou partly
destroyed by fire, and Charles and
Louis Fain and Henry Berry were
lodged in Jail charged with murder
and arson. All parties are negroes.
While boating on a. mill pond, near
Greer, on Sunday afternoon, three
young women were drowned. There
were ten people in the boat when it
capsized, and it was only through the
most desperate efforts of the two men
in the party, that those who escaped
were saved. The entire party was
connected with the Appalachion mills.
A drunken negro tried to shoot up
store in Charleston Saturday night
and in the MELEE that followed the
proprietor was painfully, if not fatally,
injured. ~
The supreme court on Saturday
handed down decision affirming the
finding of the lower court in the case
of Daniel Zimm erman, the aged Co.
lumbar, who was convicted and SEN
fenced to term Of three years in the
penitentiary for the part he played in
the bonds stolen from the State
treasurers Office. He will now begin
his sentence.
Jim Caldwell, a negro, while unload
ing car of coal in the yard of the
Columbia, Newberry and .Laurens
railroad at Newberry, was knocked
from the car by passing train and
instantly killed.
+ Mr.. w. P. Tenant, well-known
contractor of Florence, was seriously
injured by a negro workman on Sat
urday. The negro lad been dis
charged early in the morning and in
the afternoon he hid behind a stair
case and when Mr.. Tenant came by
he was struck from behind with an
ADJ. He was arrested and lodged in
Jail.
Between 2 and 3 O'Clock Sunday af-
ternoon, James Davis, colored, shot
and killed another negro by the name
OF Murrell, in Sumter county. Davis
drug his victim cut into the woods
and left for parts unknown.
Guy Gunter, the famous baseball
PLAYER, has created sensation by
breaking verbal contract with the
Sumter club and signing a contract
with Rock Hill.
The legislature appropriated S100 to
be used in having suitable photo
graph of the late Senator Latimer
painted and hung in the hall Of the
house of representatives.
Mr.. E. D. TilIman, rural mail car
rier at Lancaster, was found by the
road side on Thursday, having been
stricken with paralysis. He was
speechless and died few hours later.
Mr.. Joseph Ward, one of the Oldest
and most highly respected citizens OF
Ridge Spring, died of pneumonia on
Friday.
Congressman Meyer of louisiana,
died at his home in New Orleans on
Saturday, the cause of his death being
due to heart disease. He had been
too i'll to attend congress during the
last several months.
The nude body of a negro male
child, with the head gone, was found
near the Wofford college ball park by
the students on Sunday. Evidently