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" r. ADBOYLSIONIS CONVICTED RECEIVES LIFE SENTENCE FOR MURDER OF CLEYE FANNING. Jury Deliberates Two Hours and Re turns Verdict of Guilty with Recommendation to Mercy. Barnwell, July 31.?After a few witnesses had been put on the stand this morning to corroborate a part of the defense's testimony and the State v had put up a few in rebuttal to certain testimony by the defense, the t ICSLiUlUllJ nao tiunu auu vuv ments commenced in the case of the State against Ad Boyleston, charged with the murder of Cleveland Fanning, near the town of Williston, in the month of June. The arguments were opened by C. A. Best for the State. He was followI'.< f ed by Senator G- H. Bates for the de4/ fense. Mr. Bates was followed by Jas. E. Davis, Esq., for the State. Then followed C. C. Simms, Esq., for the defense and Solicitor Byrnes for ^ the State. The arguments were forceful and often rang with eloquence. The arguments lasted until 1 o'clock and then Judge Sease, in a clear-cut and forceful manner charged the jury with the law in regard to the case. Two Hours* Deliberation. About 1:30 the indictment was handed to the foreman and- the jury filed into their room. After deliberating for a little more than two hours they reentered the court room with their verdict, "Guilty, with recommendation to the mercy of the court." While the jury was out deliberatjr*'* ing on the Boylston case the attorneys for Kennedy made a motion for a new trial and argument for the 1 granting of their motion was resisted by the solicitor. After the argu- j |VfV ments had been made the judge an-! nounced that he could not grant the new trial and Kennedy was told to stand up and receive his sentence. Judge Sease stated that he would ||f make no remarks to the prisoner because in cas& he got a new trial it 1 might influence the case one way or the other and sentenced him to life imprisonment in the State penitenti- 1 Bg| ary at hard labor. 1 Afterwards an order was passed : staying the sentence of the court ' pending an appeal to the supreme ( court. ( ' Ad Boylston was then told to stand ;1 up to receive his sentence. In an-1i Iswer to the usual question if he had I anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, Boylston stated that all he had to say was that > 1 he was innocent and had not committed the crime with which he was charged and of which he had been convictedA Memorable Week. This week has been a memorable one in the annals of the courts of this county. Two white men, both connected with, some of the best families in this county, have gone before Xv a judge and 12 of their peers and, afX . ter having had fair and impartial trials, have been convicted for two of the most cowardly crimes committed y in this part of the State in years. . The. public at large feels that manhood and justice are reasserting themselves and that the cowardly asgfev sassin from now on is to be tracked to to.. his lair and pulled from thence and have justice meted out to him; that the courts of this county will protect a man and his family from the coward who lurks around under the cover of darkness to do that which he *;iv has not the manhood to do in open ? daylight and in the face of his enemy. The general opinion is that there will 1 be a more healthy sentiment in favor s of peace and good order from now on. 1 Judge Sease left on the afternoon c train for his home in Spartanburg, 1 after having made a friend of every f one who met him or heard him con- Q duct court here. Solicitor Byrnes al- ? '; V-, so left for his home in Aiken this aft- t & , ernoon, after having done on of the ^ , best week's work of his life. t Weds to Qualify Wife as Citizen. f New York, July 29.?Because the , board of immigration refused to allow his sweetheart, Matilda Kuhl- j mann, to land in the United States j Henry Thons, a prosperous farmer, j " * A ?"* * ? rr?i f V* Vl Qr OI ?>ail -AIllUUiU, l ei.cx&, aaus nuu xxw to-day for Bremen on the vessel on which she is being deported. While Thons was in Hanover, Ger- j many, he met the young lady and proposed marriage. He was accepted, and when it was found that legal formalities would require several weeks 1 before they could be married, they 1 sailed for this Country, intending to ( be married here. But the immigra- 1 tion authorities do not approve of the .] landing of unmarried women here, i and as they have recently become ( very strict, they would not even per- 1 mit Thons to marry her here so that i she could enter the country. Thons, < therefore, purchased transportation on the ship on which she is being de- ] ported, and when they arrive in Ger- < many they will be married and then J come to this country to live on < Thons's Texas farm. .f l , FLIES STOPPED A TRAIN. Peculiar Cause that Brought an Engine in Canada to a Standstill. A few days ago the Grand Trunk flyer going East was in hard luck, says the Baltimore American. At Xapenee the steam box on the big engine got over worked, or something. and refused to continue the journey. The timely arrival of a freight train helped. The cars were shunted to the siding and the freight engine brought into commission on the express, taking it as far as Brockville, when another large engine was secured. Now comes the peculiar part of the troubles of that train. When about 20 miles out of Cornwall it ran into a sea of peculiar flies. There were millions of them?perhaps billions, but the train was going so fast it was impossible, to count them. The cars became quite dark as the train plowed through the mass of insects, and then the train came to another sudden stop. The engine was full of flies. The little things were ground into a mass in the driving rod. They were in everything on the engine. The train had been plowing through the flies at a mile a minute for several miles. The track was covered with crushed insects and the engine wheels balked at going round on it. After a little persuasion and a lot of cleaning up, the train went iinnn itc urav ajrain 4VW " On arrival at Montreal the .^ngine presented a truly curious spectacle. The bars of the cowcatcher were filled right up with flies. On the front of the engine they were several innches thick. TRAIN WRECK NEAR FLORENCE. Serious Accident Narrowly Averted : on Coast Line. I Florence, July 30.?Atlantic Coast , Line "Shoo Fly" passenger train No. , 48, from Orangeburg and Sumter, was wrecked just about one mile 30uth of the city limits as it was nearing Florence to-day at 1 o'clock. , The train, in charge of Engineer Capelle and Conductor Walter J. Mor- . ?an, was speeding along at a 40-mile- j an-hour rate, having just passed over ; Jeffrey's creek trestle. At the road j crossing, just this side of the creek, t Dne of the brake beams under the front truck of the baggage car went j iown and derailed the front truck. ^ The train was running at such a , jpeed that it was impossible for the ( mgineer to slack up, and the derailed :ar, with its wheels on the ties, ran tor more than four hundred yards :hat way. The result was that the :rack was badly torn up the entire iistance, and the car came very near :urning turtle in the ditch. Had it. ?one over a very serious wreck would lave been the result, and no doubt nany of the passengers would have >een injured. All that saved a bad j vreck was the fact that the coupling ( \afiroQti tVia *or>der and the derailed . yvwrr VVU bUV ? jaggage car continued to hold until ifter the train came to a standstill. The engine was cut loose and came >n to the city and a coach was sent :o the scene of the wreck for the pas;engers and they were brought into .he city. The wrecking train with a force of lands was dispatched to the scene at >nce, and the track was cleared by Wrecking Master Sessoms in time for he departure of the afternoon train, sTo. 47. Horse Cuts Its Throat. On last Tuesday morning Mr. T. W. c )ukes lost a very fine mare by being t magged to death on a stump. c It seems that Mr. Dukes rode the t lorse down to one of his fields and { >n the way was frightened by a huge c noccasin that ran across the road in i ront. The horse thereon jumped < luickly to one side of the road and itruck its head on a sharp stump c hat was close to the road side. It 1 vas snagged in the neck, and bled i .0 death in a few minutes before any < lid could be secured or anything done i or the suffering animal. The horse y vas a very valuable one and was i vorth over $200. This loss is very 1 leavy on Mr. Dukes for such an ani- 1 nal is valuable.?Branchville Jour- t lal. t CARXEGIE HERO KILLED. < I Vlan Who Saved 15 Lives in Slocum ] Disaster Has Tragic End. ( With a Carnegie hero medal still pinned to his coat, the body of Law- j -ence Halloran lies in the morgue at Dzone park, Long Island, N. Y., near ( vhere he was knocked from a rail- < -oad train. Halloran was on the back ( platform of a train when his hat blew , < pff and in trying to catch it he leaned ] :>ut and his head struck a post, hurl- j ng him from the platform, and causing his death. As the engineer of a tugboat in the t East river, Halloran saved the lives j pf at least 18 children when the j steamer General Slocum was on fire | June 15, 1904. For this heroism he ( vas given a Carnegie medal. I FIVE SISTERS WED BROTHERS. Brides Maids are Sisters and Grooms- 1 men are Brothers. More than 50 immediate relatives of the brides and bridegrooms were i in attendance at the marriage ceio- . mony in Kent county, Ky., recently ? which united five sisters to five ! brothers. Misses Maud, Nellie, Kate, Anna and Susie Martin were married to < John, Dan, Hugh, Jack and Dick Hill, ? five sisters acted as bridemaids, and 1 five brothers of the grooms acted as i best men. Mothers, grandmothers, fathers, grandfathers, nephews, nieces, granddaughters and grand- 1 sons were present, in addition to nu- i merous cousins, aunts, uncles, friends '< and relatives of the brides and bride- i grooms. 1 Red Shirt Reunion. ] Anderson, July 27.?The commit- 1 tee to select speakers for the Red Shirt reunion to be held in Anderson, August 25th, announced to-day that Senator Tillman, Former Gov- 1 ernor Sheppard and Judge Robert J Aldrich had accepted invitations to g be present and make addresses. Each i of these took prominent parts in or- t ganizing and leading the Red Shirt j companies in '76. c ^ i . \ Cfranorlofl fn TWnth r KJXtM. MUQ4VV* VW V M.lwaukee, Wis., July 27.?His neck wedged between the pickets of a fence, the body of William. Lenz, aged 45 years, for thirty years a coachman for August F. Gallun, a rich tanner, was found in front of his employer's residence yesterday. Lenz evidently had been strangled. The head projected between the pickets and the arms were resting upon the fence. The knees had crumpled from under, leaving the body suspended by the neck. The police say he probably leaned over the fence to rest for a while, fell asleep and as his throat caught between the pickets, slowly strangled. Prohibition in the South. On the main line of the Southern railway from Washington to New Or- r leans there is not a town or city in c which a man can buy a glass of beer * legitimately. But if the train tarries c for half an hour, almost anywhere, 1 tie can refresh himself and take 8 something along to refresh himself c igain before reaching his destination. * From his seat in the Pulman car hel* package of any size in almost every * way station filled with kegs, cases, e lemijohns and jugs, for the shipment * 5f liquor into the desert is the big in- 1 iustry to-day. The same traveler, if ^ ai8 name is John Smith, can find a e package of any sizez in almost every r express office. As most of it is ship ?ed C. O. D. he can pay, sign and u :ake it. The conditions are far from r deal, but the saloon has been voted * jut by the people or the legislature 8 without regard to consequences. a VIeanwhile there is the usual amount 3 >f drinking on the part of those who 11 jan afford it and who know how. c Seeing the opportunity which would Q 39 offered, brewers began to work & lay and night to supply the demand d 'or near beer, which is supposed to 6 jontain less than 2 per cent, of alco- n 10I.. But in the near beer saloons, ilmost without exception, the real irticle is sold. Practically every r lealer has a United States license, * md most of them will mix a drink of ^ ?... * d whiskey or else serve u straignt.? ~ \.ugusta Chronicle. P ^ 11 Can These Things Be True? ? An investigation of the present * :onditions in the United States in- d licates that we are rapidly losing ^ >ur right to be called a Christian na:ion. Out of a population of about 10,000,000, 20,000,000 are members )f other sects while, there are yet "V >8,000,000 not afflicted with h ihurches. d In our nation there are 1,752,187 ? ;hild slaves, mostly white children, b There are more than half a million, a wage earners killed and wounded ii ivery year in our various industrial s pursuits, the greater number of t which "acidents" could be prevented v f individuals were not so much more e lighly valued than human lives. Ten b per cent, of our population are in dis- = ;ress all the time; 6,000 children go J :o school hungry all the time in New Fork; 125,000 families own one-third >f the property in the Union and 30,300,000 people own nothing. Ten per cent, of the people who live in t )ur richest city go to the potter's b ield. b In the South one-third of the na- ? :ive whites over ten years of age are lnnhlp to read anrl write. In our own T State there are between the ages of :en and fourteen 51,536 children who :an neither read nor write. There ire 625,000 people in South Caro- * ina, one-fifth of whom are in the ? nill districts. South Carolina has S( L 41 cotton mills, eight knitting mills, n L09 cotton seed oil mills, besides fer- 1 0 :ilizer and other manufacturing e plants. Columbia, S. C., ranks next f( ;o Lowell, Mass., in textile manufac- a :ures. There are within the bounds p pf our State 100,000 people not affiliated with churches. COTTON* CROP WILL BE SMALL. Ginners' Report Estimates Yield at 11.000,000 Bales. Memphis, Term., July 28.?The report made 0:1 v-j.Ton condition up tc July 25, by the . at.onai Ginners' Association th.s aiternoon gives the general average at 71.7. The average by States follows: Alabama 70, Arkansas 76, Florida 35, Georgia 79, Louisiana 62, Missis jippi 64, Missouri ?i, .\ortn Carolina 73, South Carolina 77, Oklahoma 79, Tennessee 77, Texas 66. The report says: "This is the lowest condition ever snown at this season of the year and ndicates a crop of around 11,000,000 ind unless good rains fall in the lext week throughout almost the en:ire belt, but more especially in Texas, southern and western Oklaloma and Mississippi, the crop will ae under that figure." Preacher Favors Dispensary. "Prohibition?a Force or a Farce," vas the subject of an able discourse ast Sunday "night by the Rev. Dr. Howard L. Jones, at the Citadel Square Baptist church, Charleston, in vhich the minister advised his congregation to support the dispensary it the election next month, as he inended to do, as under the existing :ircumstances of the blind tigers vorking for prohibition, the cause >f temperance would be given a set>ack, and the lesser of the two evils vas to be preferred. It was a bold position for Dr. Jones o take. He is at heart a strong prolibitionist and recently spoke in fa-or of prohibition in Berkeley couny. He will deliver several other iDeeches in support of prohibition luring the present campaign, and for his reason, his advocacy of the dis>ensary in Charleston county, as op>osed to prohibition, is doubtless the nore significant, and his support of he dispensary will doubtless wield a jreat influence in the election. In aking the position in favor of the lispensary for Charleston county, Dr. tones made it clear that he did so lecause he thought this system of the egulation of the liquor traffic is beter for the cause of morality. Don't Want Negro Troops. Washington, July 28.?A howl has eached the war department here, oming from the wilds, if wilds they ie, of Vermont, over the quartering if a troop of negro soldiers at Fort Sthan Allen. The citizens of that ection, which is in the immediate viinity of the city of Burlington, are ery much incensed that the colored roops should be sent there. They tave been quick to criticize, whenver possible, the South's attitude toward the negro, and to express beief in various forms of "equality," tut it makes a great deal of differnce, it seems, when the question is eally brought home to them. Reports are that the white people f Burlington refuse to patronize estaurants at which the colored roops are served, and there is coniderable comment in favor of separ,te cars for the accommodation of uch of the twelve hundred troops as aay desire to use the trolleys. The ity of Burlington recently had a liuor election, and voted "wet." This as not added to the satisfactory conition of affairs, now that the colord troops are on hand, as they are ot unlike troops of another color in he use of intoxicants sometimes. But there is not likely to be any elief from the war department for he long distance philanthropists of rermont who have preached race quality for the South, and the peole around Fort Ethan Allen are ikely to learn more of the race queslon in the next few months than hey have learned in the past hunred years, and to preach less about t as well. Sees Husband Kill Himself. Washington, Ga., July 29.?Mrs. Villiam Cox, not dreaming of her usband's desperate intentions, toay saw him place a revolver to his emple and pull the trigger. Cox had een in bad health for some time and rising this morning complained of asomnia. Without another word he ecured his revolver and fired the fail shot, dying almost instantly. He *1* A n*Arwi'?Ar(f fo rm _ i els uue ui luc musi y i urniucu l iaiuirs in the county. He leaves, besides is widow, three children. 3BNEST E. BITTER Attorney-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. Respectfully offers his services to he people of Bamberg county, and y giving faithful attention to all usiness trusts to merit a portion of he legal work, and assures in adance his sincere appreciation. Offices upstairs over Bamberg lanking Co. LETTERS DISMISSORY. On Monday, August 16th, 1909, at 1 o'clock a. m., I will apply to Geo. Harmon, Judge of Probate for tamberg county, for letters dismisory as executor of the estate of Ana E. Guess, deceased, at which time will file my final accounting as such xecutor. All claims against said state must be presented on or beore the date mentioned, and all mounts owing said estate must be aid by that time. GEO. W. GOOLSBY, Executor. Bamberg, S. C., July 24th, 1909. ' CLIFFORD SEMINARY ; An i^ool Virtrrm en>inr?l fnr <rli?1a 4n Piedmont hplt of Smith Carolina. "u 4UV"" uwulv' avuuvi *v* 0"?? * ? ? - ? ? ?l Gives individual attention to each student. School family limited to 40. v Seven instructors. Confers A. B. degree accredited by State Board of Education. Climate unsurpassed. Building comfortable. Modern con1 veniences. One hundred and thirty-six dollars paj's all charges for one ' *1 j year?room., table board, and literary tuition. For catalogue address ' 4 Rev. B. G. Clifford, D. D., -Jspi txiox. S. c. ^|| ^ us book tod fop to.morrow. H ' I J. R. KINARD & GO. I jrn The Liveryman. Bamberg, 8. C. fA&^n^Jpwtnnit^l^enh^cificCoa^%^ Alaska-Yokon Exposition 11; m The best and most inexpensive way to see the Pacific Coast and the Great Western Country this summer, and take in the Alaska*. Yukon Exposition opened June 1st, is to "GO AS YOU PLEASE* M; l&jfe PAY AS YOU GO, STAY AS LONG AS OCTOBER 31st, IF YOU m DESIRE." Why not spend your own money? Why not plan m your own trip and go in comfort, and when it suits you? Thfcr may be done by pinning your trip over the Southern Railway Wm* in connection with an individual party leaving the Carolinas July -I 3rd, on the INDIVIDUAL EXPENSE PLAN, which will cost you about half as much as a fixed expensive excursion tour. fl July 3rd, Route llK Southern Railway?Goldsboro to Harriman Junction. I ' Queen & Crescent?Harriman Junction to Danville, Ky. Southern Railway?Danville, Ky., to St. Louis, Mo. H Wabash R. R.?St. Louis to Kansas City, Mo. M? Union Pacific?Kansas City to Denver. I Denver & Rio Grande?Denver to Salt Lake City. I S. P. L. A. & S. L.?Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. I Round Trip Railroad Rates fijl Going via any ticketing route selected and returning via any 8 ticketing route as desired. I Via Portland, Seattle and San Francisco or vice versa, going or . returning one way via Portland and Seattle. 8 FROM FROM SW8| Goldsboro.' $99.75 Anderson 96.10 ?/||p| niuuuiciwtwi 00.75 Raleiuh....... $99*75 8 Vii WUOI/VAV* > ? ? - - ? u _ Durham 99.75 Salisbury 99.75 Spartanburg 97.45 Charlotte 99.75 ' Columbia 98.20 Greenville 96.65 .{ 9ran?eb"8 **> - 8!?S?v.? Greenwood 96.65 Chester 98.35 = Rock Hill 98.35 Sumter 99.75 % Rates quoted from other points on application. Tickets limited to October 81st, 1909, and permit STOP- ?Ajg|?5 OVERS at all points west of Chicago or St. Louis. Tickets on , ?!?? sale daily to September 29th, 1909. LOWER ROUND TRIP RATES TO and from CALIFORNIA quoted on application. Before completing arrangements for your trip give us an opportunIity to talk with you about the details of it, quote you best rates '^c and tell you of the most interesting points, and the best and cheapest way to see them. 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