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*<•!« ■ w QRSSirviLLE IS TBS HBABT OF EASTERN WORTH CAROLINA. IT HAS A' POPULATION OF FOUR THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED AND ONE, AND IS SUR ROUNDED BY THE BEST FARMING COUNTRY. INDUSTRIES OF ALL KINDS ARE INVITED TO LOCATE HERE FOR WE UA VE EVERYTHING TO OFFER TEE WAY OF LABOR, CAPITAL AND TRIBUTARY FACILITIES. WE HAVE AN UP-TO-DATE JOB AND NEWSPAPER PLANT. m ■ s* A^rfcultore Is the Kost Ceefnl, the Most HealthfnL the Most Noble Employment of Mwu—George WMklagtoo. WE HAVE A CIRCULA TION OF TWELVE HUN DRED AMONG THE BEST PEOPLE IN THE EASTERN PART OF NORTH CARO LINA AND INVITE THOSE WHO WISH TO GET BET TER ACQUAINTED WITH THESE GOOD PEOPLE IN 4 BUSINESS WAY TO TAKE 4 FEW INCHES SPACE AND TELL THEM WHAT YOU HA i I. TO BRING TO THEIR ATTENTION. OUR ADVERTISING HATES ARE LOW AND CAN BE HAD UPON APPLICA TION. VOLUME XXXIT. (JIIEEXVILLE, S. C., FHIDAY ATKUN<M)>, JAM’ABY 30, 1911. M'MBEK 32. Wendell Mob Lynches Jim Wilson For Brutal People Jire Gomplaliiing of Easl Driving Over tlie il-Kno Usks “iliat Oath Oi a Graiid Juror Murder of Mrs. Lynch County Bridge lake?” Negro Confesses the Crime to the Olticers Is the Report ililllEil NEBRO ARil[S1ED Wilson Accnsed of Being Im plicated in the Murder is Buslied to Kuleigli for Safe Ke<ping. WENDKLL, Jan. 27—Jim Wilson, a istrangp negro of essentially gorilla guilty man. type, lies dead in a swamp three milcd j Kiilcish troops wore speedinK trom’ Wendell tonight. He was sliot ^ toward the place. They had been to death about 2:00 o’clock this alter-| bloeked miles away by a blow-out on I O — —o to a limb, but it was too clastic and v.'ould not lift him from the ground. The otiier is that he was placed near the tree. One story goes that he gave a signal for speech and the men be hind the guns stopped to listen. He may. or may not have con ■ J fessed a crime greater than murder Certain it is that the man who heard him isn’t bragging about it now. Ir la unquestionably true that Wilson admitted the murder and there is no doubt in tho minds of the people ht're that tho mob murdered th( bridge that clicfkod thoir advinir.'. As they came upon the orrat o! a liiP two miles away, they heard a volley. Wilson's boay reccnved it. He was jtl'.rown at the foot of a tree iind lli^ phone and heard the approach of the. «hots and bullets noon by a mob of undisguised men the friends of Mrs. William R. Liynch, ■whom he murdered Saturday night. Wilson’s Ui'st minutes with a mob. which prolited by long distance tele- Ciilitia, are a subject of strange con troversy here. Tiiat he confessed a murder- of the most atrocious eircum- etancod, is undenled, but there is no body to tell you that he heard it. Scores hoard other scores and the story is the undisputed circumstance atti'udiug tho mob's violence today. The spot chosen by the mob af forded perfect protection fi'oin attack frnm without. Had the n’.i'.!t*a br,'?u a few yardi.^! away it could have pre vented no shooting. Groat trees were between them and the men famina" with tlio swiunp. Still undisguised and .'\pparontly without fear of de- tertion. the men went about with One inc-ouse(|uential incident is the ab-sence of sullicient rope for a hang-; ="''1 '‘'f*- fo: ii'g- Worth Sanders, whom \Vils(ui ac cusi'd iinally of compliciiy in the kill ing, was released and relatises of tiier(' would have been in a I'o r Ueud woman coun.Uuued bitterly that i one accused as Samlers was should | tlieir home.s. .An hour later all e.\- ritfmi'iit had gone and at sun-down, Wilson'M hniiy lay in the suaiiip with littl.' public interest in what it was h:;\o ■..■acaped the I'oiuiality of a mob'o j investijaticn. Tonight a story came | ' to Weudell t'.iat Sanders had been taken aeioss ilie country to Sehr.a and from there to li.ii.'igli iu in peniteiii.ary I'ur S'liiei placed in the keeping. The mob that slow Wilson was yuiet e;iough, according to Wendeli people today, when Wilson came upi in an automobile attended by Johnston county ollicer's. The people, men and boys, Vith a few women, gatheri-t, at a house in which Wilson was be ing detained preparatory to a pre liminary hearing to develop such tes timony as they had. Wilson had been brought from Selma. He spent the night there and in that jail iuipli- eated Janies Rnott, Worth Sanders. Cephas Jackson, Petersburg Marcus, and Sam Cheatham. l^att r in the morning he absolved all from guilt except Sanders. And still later in the afternoon Sanders was freed ane w'eut about the place without moles tation. The trial was nearly ready to pro ceed. Mallie H. Griflin, Wake coun ty's representative in the General Assembly, E. V. Ilichardwon anti Jesse Hillard implored the mob to preserve its ti'uiper. They deelave : that th'3 State has been without lyncli ings six years and that there is ma chinery enough within the lav,' f; I-i.ni'.-h all olTenses and offenders. The people listened polittly. There was no move then. Soon the Middlesex nii- eanie. It did not stop to par ky, It split the street, according to Wendell people and the effect they declare was that of swatting a hor net’s nest with a baseball bat. Tele phone messages announced the com ing of other troops. Kvidently the irob ioet its own nerve. It broke the bonds, caught Wilson up, slammed him in the automobile and dashed bim across the Helds to the pines in the «wamps. A rope of a few feet was about ■Wilson's neck and here the historians fall out. One says he was pulled up ) A re'v people went to tlip place onir!;o!if thi- a;ter;ioon and a.“ many of tlu”.-;e were froei afar a.s |-i -'ir. 'rii:'t f iiroslty that atten'la all speetaiiilar eiiji’i-'.^ tiii- ■ prars to have been absent hi're tlii.- Por some time past The Reflectoi- haa -been asked by both town and out of town people to enter com plaint of the fast driving of auto- billea across the county bridge at the foot of Pitt Street. When the bridge was built a sign board was placed on each end of It warning all persons that a fine of $5.00 would be Imposed for fast driv ing across .said bridge. This warning has no doubt been seen by every car driver that has occassion to pass that way and yet a majority of them are not disposed to obey the laws. Very often ladies coming in or go- i.ng out of town with horse and buggy are overtaken on the bride by oar drivers, and very often the horse they iire driving becomes frightened. And irany instances the cheuffer disre gards the position of tho occupants of the vehicle and speedily goes on. Xothing serious has occurred so far, but who knows how soon some one may be injured or killed by a frigh tened animal. The car drivers should not only be anxluo, to observe the county laws, tout should take into pany Makes Hit in Florida Hanrahan, N. C., Jan. 27, 1!I14. lOvery paper that conies to us from Editor Keflector; towns and cities where the Atlantic WMiat oath does a grand juror take? Coast Realty Company has conducted In fact, is it not this? “I will keep sales has nothing but piaise for the inviolate all matters coming befor? company. During their recent trip us partaining to the state and Iier through Florida several papers com- interest, to-wit; we will not publlah, nientcj upon the gentile manner in the names of offenders who true which they conduct their sales. The bills have been found against before i following is taken from the Plant they have been arrested and impris-|city Courier. oned for safe keeping or relea'scd on a justified bond.” \ow in the face of this most sol emn oath I see that the grand jury who served last week in Pitt coun ty, in tlieir earnest desire to serve The most eucceasful auction saU. of lots Conducted in Plant City in .several years was that of tho Grinim- wold sub-division by the Atlantic Coast Realty Company last Friday. The sales company have their own their state and county and in theif|band, and a good one it was. Tlie great zeal to bring before the bar various agents of the company arriv- of justice offenders of the law, have ; ed in Plant City in their own private found u true bill against W. Ij. Me-! car Friday morning. Lawhorn, W. A. Forbes and Dr. P. I>, | Seventy-five lots and live parcel? Loftin, stating that the offense was ■ of truck land were sold in three or a grave one Now if these three men | four hours, 'i'he lots brought prices have perpetrated a grave offense j ranging from $(I0 to ¥100 whicii con- agalnst the peace and dignity of the I sidering the beautiful .situation- of state why should this august body j the property i« considered very rea.‘-- HEAVY ME DIENCiiEO m PACIFIC COAST Steady downpour For ^'ore frtan Iwenty-Four Hours LOSS OVES Million ir.lternoon. Sunday was never quiet- I men never appeared to have been i: oi-(? sober. Tho friends of tlie dead I womr.n's faiiiily merely referred to the su';imp as "down tliere where the killing took T>lace.’’ The morbid memory of the dead brute will be imparted to nobody more than can be helped. A muscu lar, young, powerful fellow, one speculates upon the possibility of his having committed the double capital crime. But shot to pieces, nmtilate.l and dismembpred in part, there If but the renninnt of the man, just the stigeestion of the fellow alive. The father of Mrs. Lynch and the hu.^band talked freely of the crime of Saturd.-iy night, but little of the 1;.neliing. They expressed no feeling in the matter further than one of tho unutterable grief of father for child and husband for wife. .<Tr. Albert KlcJiardson, the ather, livcw within half a mile of the lynch- !ig scene. The husband lives nearly a quarter of a mile nearer W’endell. Mrs. Lynch had gone to her father’s homo and had also gone to the store near !)oth homes. She returned to biT own home with a promise to ct)me back soon again. Mr. Lynch v.-ent (o his home but did not find Mrs. Lynch there. He ate .supper and went out to find her. The family does not think it could have been later than 6;30 in tho even- it g when Mrs. Lynch must have gone to her homo. They do not believe it could have been twenty minutes Ijiter when she had been murdered. Mr. Lynch set out among the neigh bors to find his wife. He returned to her father’s but the home people said she had gone home. He went to variou'3 houses but had no clue. Hearing that Mra. Lynch's broth ers had gone to Wendell and that her i.irr; .MAI)l(^(J.\, W is.. .Inn. 2,'(.— Tlie Wis eoii; jii Conntry Life t'onferencc, one of the lirst organizations of its kind formeii in the I'nited State?;, met at tl)(^ College of Agriculture today and began its fourth annual meeting. A largo and representative attendance gavo evidence of the keen interesi that has been aroused in this state in the niovenient to better the condi tion's of rural life. The sessions of th(' conference will continue three days. The program has among its leading features ad dresses to be delivered by Prof. Gra- liam Taylor of Chicago on “Tho So cial Functions of thi' Rural Church." and l’'.-hop Webb, of Milwaukee, who will be Iieard on the su!)j«’ct of "('niii inunity Responsibility a:id the Uar- al Cluirch”. of Interpreters of the law, in the enable prices. face of their oath, publish the names | The fair open metliods of the rep- of these three men before they have! resentatives of tho Atlantic Coast Realty Company won tho outspok en approval of Plant City people and the confidence that this spriit cn- t.endered liad a great deal to do witii You jurors have given these men the suoees's of tho sale, a chance to escape, -and not bej i> Privett, the advertising maii- brouglit to justice if the.v are guilty d c, .iimies, tin* engineri ol so grave an oflense as your ac-,;., ci|;,rp;e of fl:e work ol laying oui ' Orcmhed and peltid tiie tion would signily. j ;,nd beaiitil'ying the proiierty both j pac-ilic coast from tiu- t'aii.-idUm to •Now, .Mr, tirand .nirors, will you j conducted tisf'niselves in a manner, tiu- Mi,-xi(-au lUi>' ami <-auM'd l.-.-.-i p'l’ii'.-e answer wiiy ; in niarkid eontiast to the tui tii s ;it l»'ast "'iilit liM-.- v, -re r. KXO. jsoiue an.-tiin einnj'aiiy v i'r--.--eii!-.i-|toilav. ((!:' eniirse if any niember of the'tives. i j-iuuiv ii-irs wr/-- r.-eent grand ,iury w;inta lo reply toj jf ,i,,, ..\ti,-!rtie t';.--) :;.-;ilty (',):)) ! !.;.ek ivio eia > o.r.'M '; ,iud !.niul>ei)ri I'love it is liis privilege to ilo ^ ,)a;i y slii'n.lij Imld aiU'tiii'r siiie hereto, p-r.soris wi'o hr-.'- 'n-t u drivi i; it 'I lie Ueileetor will sny in ad- ;,,,y I'ntnt-e lime it j.-; cuite cc; t.-iin ' i hit^Ii vv.iter -ivrit- r--- consideration that often the lives of - arrested and imprisoned or re- others are endangered, and I'li tlier | j-jstilied bond Why not more they should show tiie proper n.pse men on an e<iual foot rcspect that is due to the ladies and ^vith other ciiminals t'leir fi'llovv man. •New tills reckles's driving may con tinue. but if the ])roi)cr aiithoritiev viould enforce the law in t!iis ea.>o and impose a fine on tlie g '.ilty p;irt- ies for this ofi'cn';:o it will lie stopped. Si.\ Train Luud)« of ,Ua. rooned. Washouts Seriou‘-('i t'ripple Overland Trans portation. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27.— Win. sev en persons drowned, all forms u! ov erland transportation handicapped, six train loads of passengers ina (looncd and this .section of the stuti daniasa d to lii: extent of moi ; ilj.'in a million dollars by Ktorms, t-ros- poets of relief briglitened with tiie appearance of the tun today. The rainfall for the 21 houiv i-nd- iiig at midnight was 2.9C iu hes. making the total fi';' the season irichcs. More rain l< 1! ye.^terd.;.' the total for t!ie !fi:i s*asou to Jan uary 27. At Santa i’.arbara, \\hi-re the i.i'-at- e.-:t daniiige was done, a heavy vain was falling tins nioruiiig. Stonn>< Siile-iding. SA.V FRA.N'CISCO, Cal., Jan 7 — sisti'r was ill there. Mr. Lynch con cluded that she bad gone up town. That suggestion was followed but without avail. Then he returned home and with her father they be gun to 'search about the premises Near the fodder stack they found a hood. It had a drop of blood on it They c(mtinued the search and Mr. Uichardson discovered his daughter in a brush-heap with one foot stick ing out, her body covered with leaves. Later a colored woman said she had heard Mrs. Lynch call for hev hu'.-iband, but it did not appear to be a cry of distress. She thought noth ing of it. What it was nobody will ever know. The story of W'ilson himself nuiy be partly true. To Johnston olTiceriS he said he and Sanders went to tho lionwe and that Wilson carried fodder for Mrs. Lynch. Wilson asked her for something to eat. Mrs. Lynch said: "Have I got to get eupper for all of you?” Sanders said: "It mat ters not a G—d—n about that,” and struck Mrs. Lynch with the axe. TO IHS( I SS ! Li I .:i;. SO. vaiiec tliat tlie granil jury hnd notU-- t'ley won’id be coi'diiilly rece'v<--l nig to do with the nuitfcr iieiiig p:ib-|i,\ fiant Citv people. 1i--:'ied. When tlie report of tin- grand i jnrv was filed in court it becauie a ^ matter of record whi'-li any onej could see who dei;ir«'d t.o do so, and | in keeping ^^ith its custom The Re- fli'ctor copii'd the report and pub lished it, just as is done at tho close of everv term of criminal court. V.'luit ‘T. Kno" says alioiit tli(! grand jurors and tlieir oath is withouf roiindation.—The Reflector.) To !»iseiiss Anti-Trust La«. WASHINGTON. 1). C.. Jan. 2S.— rlioiough iliscussion ot 'in; Sherniaii anti-tnist law and the regulation of (orporate activity, with particular rel'i'i'enres to the view;- i-'pressed by l'rr.iidi-nt Wilson in lii.s K'eent sj.i <■- I'.il '.U'-.'Sagf to congri--:--, it is to be ii:ej at tlio second anneal meeting of il'' N.itioiial Clianil'-t-r r.f Commerce, v.iiieh is to be lu-hl ir, this city next nii^.'ith. Nearly live hnndred coni- nieieial organizations representing the business inten-.sls of tin; <"nliri' country will be repr .'i-nt.'d at th; nieetiiig. Om' Ilf tie- prini-ipal fi'a- tures of tlie meetii'fr will be an ;:d- dres'.-<s b.v Secret;mv Wilson of the l»i-partment of l abor, who will spi-ak on "’riie itelatien o!' the I'l'partiie*!'.! i)f Labor Id !ne;i D ii's and ('om- n:erce." .liintiai -Meeting nf Penii'i.vhaniu .'•tatr Board of Agriculture. HARRISP.IRG, Pa., Jan. 2S.—If sciontifi.' farming is to bo promoted and rur'il life improved through dis- i’ussiou and the interchange of views then iiiar'i* (I advance along both lines may bo expected to follow the an nual meeting of tho Pennsylvania State Hoard of Agrionlture, which assembled at the capitol loilay for a three days’ session. Tliose in eliarg-- u:ni t J t;.' ir heui- ■ The s’ :;i il.ikei-i-ite Id. evei. i I- - '.ini--d eritii :'.l. Property uai:i;-pe ii; !'■ !U(.(< i- gion has be-n Ir-.uy esv."-<'iai).T ii' tile lowi-r |::irt of ('uliftirniri ai'w .*■ ' vada lir.ve bi'eu iripi'lcd. but »er.'li- tions were iniprnviug tc.day, Rainfall yt»st<'id.iy i;i the sooUnni part of the state was trenu-niiuuv. At Pasadena the total for forty. hours amounted to nearly live inthes. The Ventura river is <iii a ranip!;g''. Hridges vvlutse i on-^truetion ani.-iint- ed to liavi' bf'-vi w.if^ln-d away. Several touii--- Iiavi- bi-eo pani.^’ly stibinerf.cil. Ihiiidrr.Is ei' persi>i,« liv- lo\vl:M'a'-- h.ivi- l.( 1 I) t( ■ , :J t its ing in tin ol' the niectif..; have prepared a pro-!,,, .tram v\;,i(-h call's for nu're than one’ w;ti| )|,. Ki- u ri'.t-;- er.t nun;i!V i i-ap.-rs and addr.'fses, ca.-h J .n„, ^.,,atinuiii. ih.- ■ to 111' 1 I'l .-e.ili-d b\ an expert wl''f^ j atioii '.vas re^ranb d a--: i ritii ,il to- i; Wi ll {|iialiiie-.l to speaU ('!i tlie snb-i|| ,j.^ close wat li is niaiiitaiiH on ii'Ct ■is‘,|,;ni-(l h’m. in addition tolj. , till- farming '-'.P'.- is till-'.-nii'akers will I i' elude tbi- li-ao.s ol iinnierous stat-’ ,.j, njan ilu' inudatttii of departments and biinans. who will;T„„o(m acres i f rrain near Hanford Coloraili) V. r. A. .Meeling. DKNVl'lj, Coll.. Jan. 2S.—Denver lui'.s completed elaborate arrunge- mentsfer the recejition and entertain ment of the deb'gates to the twenty- sixth annual convention of the Col orado Young Men's Christian Asso ciations. The convention sessions wil^ begin tomorrow and continue over Sunday. Several speakers of national reputation will be here to address the meeting. report to the meeting on matters of particuh'.r i;'t''rest to those engngi'd in agricnli'iieal pursuits. Armour's Portrait in Hall of Fante, rUP.ANA, 111., Jan. 2>v (I ■ the lati' Philip I >. Armour, jiresent- ed to the I'niversity of Illinois by L. (igdeu Armour, fen of the I'ain- ou'.i Chicago packer and merchant was formally plaeed in the Illinois Farmei's' hall of fame today. The The bai kiioli - of the tiforiii haK bet u broken north of tlio Ti hiw.ipt r ountains. The S.",cramento and San Jo;i<iii;n rivers hr.ve eleav'd tlw-m- selvcs of an overplus ot \vatev her :i while cause-l ti av f:'r tho A portrait j nf severul tovvi;.-i. At Pacrainoi.to the ri',er elindicd rilmoff to twenty- eifjht t'eet. the highest since li'fl*. Waf houts have disrupted traiu fi r- vii-e in various jiarts of tho stale Through •servii e between San Vran- riseo and Los Angeles haa heea Im- pi esentation was accompanied by in-j pnssil b' for 4S hours. Heavy mow ti resting exercises. Addresses were falls .iiid washouts have tied up tr.'if delivered by President James of the liiiversity of Illinoi.'s, Henry A Wheeler, president of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. Frank W. Gufeaulus, president of Armour Institute. The portrait was unveiled by Miss Lolita Armour fie in part’.-^ of Nevada. A SoBthcrn Pai itic train i.s stalled lietwee* W;v- buska and Huzen. Several miles of track were ewepv. away by hight water on the Notada, Color.Tdo and Oregon roadK. Tt«np» on the Virginia and TruchUt Line granddaughter of Philip D. Armour, have cut off Virginia City.
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