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P|p - ' " it THIRTY-ONE YEARS ON GANG. Interesting History of a Richmond County, Georgia, Mule. To the convicts and guards at the * Richmond county stockade, there is no animal that approaches anywheres near to old "Rock" in their affections. Rock is a mule thirtyfive years of age, and thirty-one v,;o lrwntr 1 ifo has hppn snpnt JCaiO VI UIO IVU^ i*4V AAU.W V with the convicts of Richmond county. When a four-year-old and one of the smoothest mules ever seen in this city, he was carried to the coun> ty farm and has remained there ever since, although for the past ten months he has done nothing except eat, drink and sleep. Superintendent Stringer thinks too much of Rock to make him work now, and the mule has a most interesting history. The late Captain George Dixon, superintendent of the stockade, had a great affection for Rock and when, / twenty-one years ago, Rock had a case of glanders and was ordered by a veterinary to be killed, Captain Dixon took him out from the camp and, two miles away in the woods, tied him. Food and water was carried Rock three times a day for four weeks, and at the end of that time he was well again, and was taken > back to the camp. He was a popular favorite from that time and as his years increased he became even more popular. He has had several remarkable accidents during his career as a "County Mule." He fell on one occasion and broke his tail, and it is crooked now, while on another occasion he fell through a rotten bridge and was injured, although he recovered fully from it. Rock is now fat and is enjoying life much better than his contempor aries on the gang, who have to a raw loads of gravel and pull road machines six days in the week, while Hock is calmly munching his hay -and oats and reflecting over his accomplishments in the long ago.?Augusta Chronicle. Timber King of Two Million Acres. A plain, quiet, sixty-year-old citizen, of Minneapolis, is reputed to be richer in timber lands than Frederick Weyerhauser, who is reputed to be "richer than Rockefeller." This V > latest initiate into the Richer-Thanv Club is Thomas Barlow Walker. In his own three-ply name he holds seven hundred and fifty thousf and acres of the finest sugar pine and yellow pine on the upper Sierra Nevada mountains, in northern California, and his holdings in Minnesota > make upward of a million acres. Mr. y Walker in truth, his friends say, is - the real timber king, but he objects to this title and insists that he is ? "?* - simply a Minneapolis ci uzeu. He began life in the town of Xenia, Ohio, and thence by the process of berry-picking, selling newspapers, clerking, going on the road > as a traveling salesman for Berea grindstones, and taking a college course at Baldwin university, in Ohio, he at last arrived at his real job in life, says Hampton's Magazine for January. At nineteen he started on his first lumber enterprise. He went to Paris, Illinois, and without capital, without friends, and without credit , he contracted to furnish the Terre Haute and St. Louis Railroad Company with cross-ties and other lum-ber. He managed to build up a good business, and would have made a big success of it had it not been for the failure of the railroad company eighteen months later. Not discouraged by this, he "went to teaching school f until something better could be found. The something better was a surveyor's job with the St. Paul and , Pacific railroad, and he worked most of the time at surveying until after his marriage, in 1863, to Miss Harriet G. Hulet, the daughter of his former employer. Mr. Walker's settling in Minneapolis was a mere accident. Some rtrpBtpd that he might find em ployment in the "new town," ten miles north of St. Paul, and, mQre for curiosity than anything else, he took the boat that was starting there and within an hour after reaching ? Minneapolis he was being aided in his search for employment by James J. Hill, who was then a wharf clerk. He decided to make that city his permanent home. He was among the pioneers who saw the vast possibilities in timber lanl investment in the northwest and now he owns more trees than Theodore Roosevelt could shake a big stick at. His five sons are running the Walker business business now, while the father goes in for such un-Aiqerican things as rest, picture-collecting, ' and pottery connoisseuring. Famous Church Case Settled. Nashville, Tenn., .April 3.?The Cumberland Presbyterian church in Tennessee this afternoon won the noted church case with which the Tennessee supreme court has been * wrestling for two years. The supreme court holds that the steps ought to be taken by a portion of the Cumberland Presbyterian church in uniting with the Presbyterian church, U. S. A., are not effective, that the Cumberland Presbyterian church still exists and its members still retain its creed, doctrines, etc. It held that the unionists allied themselves with a different church and doctrine. The Cumberlands* are given the church property and Unionists will not have right or title to it. Hardly a Sanctified Odor. * Ambassador Lloyd Griscom, at a dinner that he gave to a party of Philadelphians visiting Rome, praised the well-known American veneration for antiquity. "It is seldom enough," said Mr. Griscom, "that we find an American phlegmatic before the treasures of Rome's past. I have only found one such person. "He is a Southerner, and I gave a day to showing him about. The first church we visited was, I think, the Ara Coeli, on the Capitoline Hill. v " 'This church, Calhoun,' said I, 'is 800 years old.' " " 'Humph,' said he, 'it smells a lot older!' " S?i V . ;:M. DEATH UNDER WHEELS. J Traveling Man Commits Suicide in j Spectacular Manner. [Columbia State, Sunday April 4.] Much sorrow was caused in this j1 city yesterday by the announcement * that Mr. J. W. Livingston had been 5 killed at Batesburg by being run over 1 by a train. Mr. Livingston is a cou- 1 sin of Mr. J. F. Livingston, of the At- < lantic Coast Line and son-in-law of 1 CaDt. Edmund Bacon. Having been 1 a traveling man for several years, he t has friends in all parts of the State. 1 The deceased was a son of the ? late J. W. Livingston, of Seneca. Mrs. i John C. Carey, formerly of Lockhart, < but now of Greenville, is a sister, '< and Messrs. W. K. Livingston, of ? Seneca, and J. F. Livingston, of J Cordele, Ga., are brothers. '< The inquest was held at Batesburg last night. A number of friends and relatives from Columbia left here in automobiles to attend the inquest. The following special from Batesburg J was received last night: "J. W. Livingston, of Columbia, was killed one-half mile south of Batesburg this morning by Southern < Railway train No. 8, which was com- i ing into Batesburg on time and was \ in full view of the passengers wait- ] ing at the depot when the accident t occurred. i "Mr. Livingston was unconscious i and made no statement before death about one hour later. He was brought J into town and Dr. W. P. Timmerman < 1 J J. ? V.A i was called, DUt COUld UUt revive me . injured man. Train was in charge of 1 Conductor James Weaver and Engin- i eer Alexander. ] "No solution has been found. En- 1 gineer Alexander stated that Mr. Liv- 1 ingston was walking in the track, i meeting the train. The signals were i made, but instead of getting off the track the deceased stopped and just before the engine struck him turned around as if to meet the shock. His legs and one arm were broken and ' probably internal injuries were sus- ' tained. j "The deceased once lived at Sen- ' eca. but lately, it is understood, he 1 has been living in Columbia. He ; comes of a well known family, anc^ his wife, who was a Columbia lady, | is connected with a prominent fam ily. The local authorities have the < matter in charge and everything pos- < sible is being done to clear up the mystery?which probably will neyer be done. An inquest will be held this 1 evening as soon as the coroner can * arrive to take charge of the re- 1 mains. "The deceased is a stranger in this 1 section, having never been seen here < before to-day." 1 Policeman Kills Negro. The inquest over the body of John Walker, the negro who was killed < last night by Constable "Bun" Duna- , way, was held this afternoon, the ' jury returning a verdict that "the deceased came to his death by a grin- 1 shot wound at the hands of Bud ( Dunaway." Dunaway was committed to jail, later securing bond. ! The details of the shooting are : very interesting: j The negroes have been behaving : badly in the neighborhood of the ? ? 1 ? ... n -in.... J iayior mauuiaciunug x^uiuyauj auu Dunaway and two deputized constables went there last night to round up the whole lot of them. At the first dash three of the party surrendered and some ran. John Walker made a defiant stand, and cut at Constable Dunaway with a knife. It is claimed by Dunaway that his clothing was cut in several places. Coroner Walker stated that he found the cut places on the clothing to be as described. The negro's knife was taken away and it was found that he had also a brick in a crocus sack. After being marched out of the shack, the negro made a grab for an axe and as he did so the officer fired. There was but one shot, and it had almost immediately fatal effect, for the ball entered about the middle part of the back and a little to the left of the spinal column. Coroner Walker had no autopsy last night, but he thinks the ball went through the heart. ?, The deceased negro was employed at ixie Taylor Manufacturing Company, and the officers say that while . he was a good workman he had a j reputation for fighting.?Columbia j special to News and Courier. ^ m , Aged Negro Burned. i Laurens, S. C., April 3.?News has ( just reached the city of a horrible oc- 1 currence on the Wadsworth place, t some seven or eight miles southeast i of here. An old negro woman, seven- ' ty-five years of age, was burned to 1 death while burning up trash and 1 stubble in a field. The old woman, J Robertson by name, was alone in the i field and her clothing caught fire; i she tried to run home, but fell on the way. It is said that one of her legs was burned completely off, and the entire body fearfully charred. . 4 INSANE ASYLUM BURNS. 1 ] Six Hundred Lives Imperilled at 1 Woodward, Oklahoma. < Woodward, Okla., April 4.?Six ( hundred insane persons were in dan- i ger of death to-day when flames starting from a prairie fire destroyed several buildings or tne state Asyium at Fort Supply. The fire broke out in the laundry building shortly after the inmates had returned to their quarters from the noon meal. The asylum fire department was ordered out and every effort was made to conceal from the patients the fact that the building ; was burning. A woman, seeing the fire, however, excitedly gave the alarm. Attendants then rushed among their charges and narrowly ] averted a panic. The fire spread < from the laundry to the pharmacy ] supply building and threatened the j asylum itself. The inmates yielded 3 to the entreaties of the attehdants i and kept good order when the dan- < ger was the greatest. ] By hard work, the firemen saved ] the various ward buildings. There j was no loss of life. The stables, . laundry, pharmacy and employees' 1 quarters were destroyed. The loss is 1 $75,000. POUR CHARGED WITH MURDER. \rrested in Connection WTith Disappearance at McRae, Ga. McRae, Ga., April 3.?Four men ire under arrest here as a result of :he disappearance of Austin Morrison. a former county official, who has seen missing a number of days. It s charged that Morrison was murdered and his body hidden in the svoods, in a grave hastily dug, alter a ?oker game. When last seen Morrison had several hundred dollars in lis pocket. A suit of bloody clothing, said to have been worn by one of the men under arrest, is in the possession county officers. The men under irrest are Clayton Browning and his Jon, Claude, Tobe Kinchen, former marshal at Helena, Morrison's home, ind Henry Smith, of Alamo. Ga. SULLY TOURING THE SOUTH. Perfecting Plans for Handling and Marketing Cotton. Atlanta, April 1.?Daniel J. Sully, ?nce known as the "Cotton King," 8 in Atlanta beginning a tour of the South, which, he says, is for the purpose of perfecting plans which contemplate the conservative revolutionizing of the manner in which cotton is handled and marketed. "My plan when worked out," he idded, "will substitute for the pressnt unsuccessful and sometimes extortionate middle man a factor, whose role will be very much that of in agent who stands between and represents both the seller and the investor in bonds and securities. And we will go before the farmer with Vv + 3ucn evidence iuai ue uauuuc uuuuc In which direction his interests lie." Labor Troubles in Chicago. Chicago, April 3.?Violent demonstrations which required the pressnce of the police to quell marked two of the labor disturbances prevalent here to-day. The most serious trouble occurred in the down town district, when a force of striking 'white wings" attacked the street sweepers who had taken their places. Bricks were thrown' through winlows and broom handles were wieldsd by the infuriated strikers. Several were injured. The second riot gi*ew out of the tile layers' strike. Employes of Dawson Bros., tile flooring company, were besieged by a force of union pickets. J. C. Sawson, the head of the firm, with a drawn revolver, kept the pickets from entering the building until the police siTived. Negro Tiger Makes Escape. Mullins, April 3.?Officers this afternoon made a successful raid on a legro, John Collins. After searching lis place the liquor was found and Jollins placed under arrest. He made i dash to a cluster of bushes and succeeded in getting away. The deputies eturned to Mullins, but later went lack and continued their search, inally locating Collins in a negro louse covered up in bed. Deputy Jas. Norton pulled him out and started to ;own, when the negro whipped out a 44 Colts, threw it in the deputy's lace and commanded him to get back n his buggy and get down the road. There was nothing to do but to comply. Mr. Norton came back to town ind soon a posse of citizens was organized and in pursuit of the negro. They searched the woods until after lark and returned home. Collins is a notorious character. He is the same negro who was shot recently by his wife and had to be carried to the hospital in Sumter for :reatment. In addition to being a familiar figure in the municipal court le is reputed to be an all-round irook, gambler, blind tiger and thief ind generally regarded as a bad nejro. The citizens here are Incensed iver the occurrence of .the day and hope that he will be caught and given i just sentence. Other towns are isked to be on the lookout for him. His home is supposed to be Darlington or Sumter. \ Swept Over Niagara. This terrible calamity often happens because a careless boatman iglores the river's warnings?growing ipples and faster current?nature's earnings are kind. That dull pain or iche in the back warns you the kidleys need attention if you would ?S2ape fatal maladies?dropsy, diajetes or Bright's disease. Take Elec;ric Bitters at once and see backache 3y and all your best feelings return. 'After long suffering from weak kidleys and lame back, one $1.00 bottle vholly cured me," writes J. R. * * Hnlr DianKensmp, ui jd^ia, x^uu. ysmj 50c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, 3. C. Charged With Child Murder. Greenville, April 2.?A warrant was sworn out to-day for Mrs. Palmsr Corn and Tom Childs, charging them with the murder of Bonnie Louise Corn, the 2-year-old daughter of the former. The warrant was sworn out by Palmer Corn, husband 3f the woman. Corn alleges that his svife deserted him and is living with Childs and that Childs had been beard to say that he intended to make away with the child. The man alleges that the little girl :an not be located and that she is lead. Corn lives in North Carolina aow and his wife and child are in the upper section of this county. Ti?ATV RTT/TS MTTRPERER. Negro Struck by Locomotive After Crime of Revenge. Augusta, Ga., April 4.?During last night Will Frederick, colored, cut Frank Dougherty, colored, killing him. At daybreak, Frederick, trying to make his escape, was struck by a railroad train and killed. The body tvas brought, back to the city and the coroner held inquests over the bodies practically at the same time. Wifclesses to the cutting unquestionably put the stabbing crime on Frederick. A. year ago Dougherty cut Frederick severely and the Saturday night stabping was Frederick's revenge for the L908 assault upon him. - ' > w ' &c -i. >'???;-?iS? * 1 ! Stile fnr Fvfirv Henri 1 VIJIU IUI kVUI J IIUUU That our new hats styles fully deserve the enthusiastic praise we have been giving them in our announcements is gra.tifyingly shown by the unprecedented demands we have had for them thus far. New supply of latest styles just arrived, and more to come. Whatever our price you can depend upon its buying the best that can be produced for the money. We invite a careful inspection of Spring Hats, .quality of material, and excellence in workmanship. Our Millinery Department is under the supervision of a trimmer of talent and experience. We can promise the very best to be had in any markets. Fair and courteous treatment to all. Large and select line of the famous American Beauty Corsets just received. Come and make your selection early. Yours to serve, Mrs, P. Copeland lEHBHABD^^^^^^OOTHCAROUir^l |14 PER CENT. AND SAFETY | * * This bank gives yon protection for your savings and * 2 a pays yon 4 per cent, interest for the privilege of serving a 2 a yon. When yon hoard your money it earns yon nothing, f 3 2 and yon assume all risk of loss from carelessness, C 2 2 thieves, fire and poor investment. Which is the better 2 X S way?to bring your savings here where they will be ab- j! K 13 solntely safe and earn yon an income, or put them away ^ 2 2 in some place of fancied security where they will bring . ij 9 fill yon in nothing but worry? . ijn| J | EHEHARDT BANKING CO., Ehrhardt, S. C. | Ii h^TVEI^OV&DI I have moved my hardware store into the ? brick store next to the Peoples Bank, on ? Main street. Have just received a new ? line of all kinds of Hardware, Tools, ? Farm Supplies, etc., and can save you ? money. Don't fail to see me before buy- ? ing anything in my line. ? T A TT TT Iff T P. P. @ sjj The Hardware Man Bamberg, S. C. ^ I! DON'T THROW IT AWAY f I > HI* ?? t? That broken gun or pistol, or perhaps ? tp it's a bicycle that is not in working 3? ! ? order. Don't throw it away, but let 3? iff me repair it so that it will give you as ? tp much service as though it were new. t j t? I am fully prepared to execute repair t j t? work promptly and satisfactorily, ? f and solicit your patronage. w fj. b. brickleI >4 ?? ;; The Bepair Man Bamberg, S. 0. ; i The Sprmg Season ? ? is near at hand, and you will soon want a new ? ? buggy and set of harness, for this is i;he time of ? ? vear when one Wants to ride around a great deal. ? I We have a mighty nice line of buggies, both open ? and top, fine harness, lap robes, whips, etc., and ? will be glad if you will come to see us before you ? buy a new buggy. Also full line one and two- ? horse wagons. ? Fancy Driving Horses 1 If you want a fancy driving horse, we can suit jg you. They have the looks and the speed, and if jg you want a turnout that will be just a little better * and a little faster than the other fellow's, come jx here and let us hook up one of our fancy steppers * to an elegant new buggy. Also a good lot of mules x on hand. x i n.ii I mis mms 1 * Bamberg, South Carolina * f 4 - - ' y&jt " ' ' '< : M t,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, | J. F. CARTES | I $ Attorney-at-Law 5 BAMBERG, S. C. J [ J Settlement of estates and inves- J[ X tigation of titles a specialty. J Office over Bamberg Banking Co. ^ vs J. Aldrich Wyman E. H. Henderson Wyman & Henderson Attorneys-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. General Practice. Loans Negotiated ERNEST E. HITTER ,|l] Attorney-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. Respectfully offers his services to ' :jj| the people of Bamberg county, and yi by giving faithful attention to all f YM business trusts to merit a portion of the legal work, and assures in advance his sincere appreciation. Offices upstairs over Bamberg Banking Co. ; H. M. GRAHAM Jgij Attorney-at-Law < BAMBERG, S. C. v Practices in all Courts of this State, n Offices in The Herald Building. Jas. M. Brailsford. J. P. Matheny. Brailsford & Matheny 1 Attorneys-at-Law 1 No. 20 Church St., Orangeburg, 8.0. Will practice in all the courts South Carolina. ^ Owners and managers - of tb? Edisto Real Estate & Mortgage Co. j|p|B|j ?q* MOra#Dira ;; insurance agent ; ![ WILL WRITE ANYTHING ' \ |j|Si o Fire, Tornado, Accident, Ida- ? ^ bility, Casualty, in the J | o strongest and most re- < <> liable companies. < ' J 'Phone No. 10-B. Bamberg, S. C. J jfSti If yon need a safe that is a % safe see me before buying' 5 J. D. FELDER J BAMBERG, . . . S. C. Agent Victor Safe & Lock Co. ^jjj Anything in Safes Cincinnati, O. Shoe & Harness Repairing I have moved Into the store lately co- " cupled by The Bamberg Herald, where I am better prepared to serve you than ever. All sorts of harness and shoes re- ,/ - -^HPa paired and satisfaction guaranteed. I ' manufacture harness of all kinds, bridles y v'^WH halters, etc. Give me a trial. v&g H. W. JOHNSON, ^ BAMBERG, S. C. / CriFp^'loZwitier"*" cwiug IWmk 1 "* ^fsBl I Ooom Ctmm Conpui* 1 . ' vffflB? ' N ?j2Hv t? Why it Succeeds ;?:Jfl Because it's for One Thing Only, and J^fSpj T* 1 TS 1- ?^^-nnlnen *>?< - ' ~t*jt uamwerg rw;pic aypiwiHw Nothing can be good for- every- ,^-J Doing one thing well brings si^ A Doan's Kidney Pills do one thing "%M They cure sick kidneys. \j They cure backache, every kidney % Here is Bamberg evidence to prove R. M. Zeigler, Bamberg, S. C., fS says: "I am recommending Do&n'f Kidney Pills in the hope that other J persons afflicted with kidney complaint will use them. I was pothered ^ by attacks of backache for more than a year. My kidneys were also badly disordered and at times I had \r* considerable difficulty in passing the .'?rSi kidney secretions. Learning of Doan's Kidney Pills, I went to the Peoples Drug Co. and procured a ':/Sj supply. They have given me great " relief. Since using them the pain has disappeared from my back, my -ftl kidneys are performing their fnno* tions properly, and I feel better in - ; $? every way." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents: Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the /J? United States. Remember the name?Doan's? and take no other. jjjjj PORTABLE AND STATIONARY Engines i ANDBOILERS ~ | | Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills Injectors Pumps and Fittings, wood Saws,Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, Belting, Gasoline Engines , LAR0E3TOCK LOMBARD J-fm Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works, Supply Store "'M AUGUSTA, GA.