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MILAM CONVICTED OF AS88AULT. Lmbdm County Man Who Shot Wih Ham Irbjr, Found Guilty. Laurens. March 15.?In the criminal court, now in session here. Parrott Milam, the young farmer who hot and almost fatally wounded William M. Irby. as the latter was returning from Sunday-school on November 7 last, was this afternoon convicted of assault and battery with Hltent #a Vltl TV? 1 ? Immmm? w ?iu. iuc jury ITIU' ucu & verdict of "guilty in eleven minutes. Fending- notice of motion for new trial, sentence was not passed. Thus ends, at this term at least, one of the most Important cases, as well as veil as one of the greatest interest, that win oome up at this session. - the trial of this case was entered Into during the morning and was concluded this afternoon. From first to hit the court room was literally pUthsd. Richey 6 Richey conducted the .defence, while Solicitor Cooper appeared tor the 8tate. 8ix witnesses, Including two physicians and Hr. Irby himself, were put up by the Slats. The defence introduced four, kla p- iMuermuu uiviuer, Gg \' lad an ancle, John P. May. For the provocation It wis shown that Milam accosted Irby as he was K'f \ 9Mlh| the Milam home In a boggy. P< laughter, the defendant coming out v?';!^ with shotgon In ****** and declaring tired of Irby running II Sfe Mr his folks, and that he was going r. ' pgr > la kS h!mr and instantly carried his threat into execution. Irby was shot II J'fiPr- ^ ^ ^ ^ charge tearing away IflP Hp entire ecalp and fracturing the akulL As Irby realised what was |g v eiimlag, he leaned forward to protect 10- thababy and cried to Milam not to Wh gfe ' tit contention of the defence was Is, the elect that Irby called Milam KErafc'- he the road and, after cursing him, ? he was going 'to frail the life I ii> that Milam told htm he I .Rgi - iwiwtad no trouble, bat got hie gun. thinking the act would cause Irby to in on; tkit when Irby started to 8R-Er ??t a pistol bo then fired to ? wen himself. ' |P ^ L' m -Wen on a town ait atrikinflj ttloatnted lor tka worklnga of tka prokikl0ea law in Wilmington, tke leading Wjk^: " Haatk Carolina aaaport, laat year. law went Iqto effeet tkere JanBlBfy ?My and urtapa In no otkor H^^^lMaA* Tka raanlta nit that tka ^ ' tammed** year before; in apite of ' aaota of tnaanlty; bank dtpoalta ahew ? tka remarkable lacunae from $Tr ig;1. HMH to IMMiW for tka tingle Eposter this tor any Mtten dty except Is abo prohibition); ntfldlng permits sad 1 a $100 license tax x for ahooli), the I itdaeed I cents on ag rid of th? +hlsstW suffers from it lalmitilii lesdsrshlp a jj^es^"*^ProgrbHtre va, MarellS.?Ftrs the State Industrial it lato open revolt threatened to dodings, mi? Battle matron, telephoned stored when eight BKrV |M^ twitw of tki Institution, wore locked ?p for ten days in the Polk || county Jail otter pleading to rioting end destroying Stole property. Detent to the lost the girlo declared that they would rather be ioeprteoned in a dirty eqalid Jail than to Ure in the eare of Woo Hattie Oarrison. superintendent of the reformatory. Got. Oorroll to-night ordered an inquiry of the oehoch'i management. InTIti Pines ITl?fif te. Stotier. police judge in Wellington, Kan., arraigned himself in his own oonrt this week on a charge of dbtnrbiag the pence after he hod taught with J. L Ferguson, a tailor, | In the street Immediately after the fight Stotier summoned himself to $ eonrt -Hare yon been fighting?" he naked himself. "Tea," he answered himself. "But, v lodge, I"? "Tut, tot," interrupted the judge, "in fine yon $5 and costs." Ferguson was then arraigned by Judge 8totler, and fined the same amosat The fight started orer a t ^ wivw i About Forenoon. I CHARLESTON TO BE OIL STATION One of Seven Where Oil Burning Boat* Will Replenish. Washington, March 16.?It was announced at the navy department to-day that plans had been pefected 1.11 -1. 1 - - ? " tur roiaousiung seven on stations in anticipations of the new vessels of the navy, which will use oil as fuel hereafter. These seven stations are to be located at Charleston. San Diego. Norfolk. Bradford. R. I., Key West. San Juan, and Guantanamo. The installation of these stations is under the bureau of y rds and docks. They will be big oil tanks, such as are used for the commercial storage of crude oil. They will set far enough Inland to protect them from attack by sea and will be connected with the water front by an underground pipe line, so that a vessel can hitch on and take her supply of fuel like a baby at a nursing bottle. The oil will either flow by gravity or there wiU be a pumping station to force it Into the vessel's tanks, The scheme of using oil originated with the British navy ten years ago. 8everal British torpedo boats were equipped for oil burning. It was found that the steaming radius was increased about 10 per cent, at full speed and 15 per cent at ordinary cruising speed. There were a number of rtM? w tween vessels equipped with oil and coal from Gibraltar to Plymouth. Theee races included the time taken in coalinc and ollinf. It is proposed to put these seven stations in operations as soon as possible. v News from Barnwell. [Barnwell. Sentinel.] Mr. H. D. Free, of Bamberg, was here on business last Friday. Capt Russell Wright and Ueut Bamberg, of Bamberg, were in town on business last Thursday. Col W. 0. Tatum, of Orangeburg, and Capt. Russel Wright, of Bamberg, have been in the city for a few days on business. We understand that the committee appointed to select a site for the new hotel has not as yet made any definite decision, but that they will have a report ready for the directors within the nest few days. Architects and contractors were here on Monday to confer with the oftdals of the Home Bank in regard to the new bank building. 80 far as we can learn no bid has been accepted while several have been received. It is thought however that work on the new bank building will begin within the very near future. Hon. and Mrs. J. O. Patterson re turned from Florida on Tuesday, where they both went for the benefit of their health. Mr. Pattoraon called oa na Toeeday afternoon looking as well as we ever saw him, and be stated to ns that the few days refit he had been able to secure had been of inestimable benefit to him. He states that he feels as well as he ever did and that he was not near so sick when the grippe had him as some of the Washington correspondents to the dally papers made it appear. He says that he Is In fine trim for work for the balance of the aeesk>s and that he will return to Washington In the near future. It win be a source of tench gratification to his host of friends and admirers thronghoat the district to know that he la now In enceOent health. A M?* "Famine. It is coming, in feet it is already in sight, hearing and feeling. Western dealers say that the hogs on the foot will soon sell for It cents per pound. The total stock of pure lard In 5 western points Is about 54.000 tierces leas than last year. The stock of meats averages from one-quarter to one-half | of what was reported last year at this time. The shortage of live hogs amounts?to nearly 7,000,000. while the shortage in hogs killed since Nov. 1st, is about S.000,000. - Where They Got Down. /'Among the gambling stories that the late Pat Sheedy used to tell in his art shop,** said a New York reporter, "was one about a jackpot. "A beautiful young bride, the story ran, entered a corner grocery one morning and said: " 'Have von cot any iaekoota. Mr. Sands.' 'No ma'am,' 8and8 answered, and he hid a smile behind his hand. 'I've got teapots and coffee pots, bat jackpots I don't stock.' *"0h, dear!' mid the bride. A frown wrinkled her smooth and beautiful brow. 'I'm so sorry! Yon see, Mr. Sands, my husband's mother used to cook for him. and nearly every night be talks in his sleep about a jackpot So I thought I'd get one. for. since be mention* it an often he must be used to it Coald you tell me, Mr. Sands, what they cook in Jackpots?' "4Greens, ma'am/ wan the quick answer.'"?Detroit Free Press. NEGROES BURNED TO DEATH. Flames Destroy Main Baildirg of Harbesoa College at Abbeville. Abbeville. March 17.?Three negro boys perished this morning in a fire, evidently of incendiary origin, which totally destroyed the main building of Harbeson <*oh?ge. The fire began about 3 f'cloct About 40 of the b'js siept in this building. Most of tnem escaped by jumping from the second story windows, but three were burned to death before they could make their escape. They were: Carl Duckett, of Charlotte, N. C.; Sam Jenkins, of Carlisle, and Ed DuBose, of Lamar. Five others were seriously injured. Three have broken arms and two broken legs. President Young of the college says the building was falling in before any one got to it or knew of the Are. All say that the fumes of kerosene were all about. The home of President Young also was set on fire, the back door and ; steps being considerably charred. Kerosene had been thrown all oyer the door and steps. This Are was put by the boys after they escaped from < the other Are. Drs. Oambrell and Neuffer were 'phoned for while the Are was going : on and were the Arst white people on tho iMtia wtwww wi jfwyiv IUITC been out to tee the mine and all eon- < demn the deed in the strongest terms. < Harbeson college is a school for negroes, controlled and financed by < white people of Pittsburg. Pa. Some years ago there was trouble here with ! a former president of the school, but ; since Young has been here everything < has been working smoothly. The fire of this morning Is the 1 worst thing that has happened in this community In years and every effort 1 is being made to apprehend the guil- ! ty parties. 1 Insurance Commissioner McMaster < has been communicated with by tele- 1 phone and has promised to send his deputy here at once. I At a mass meeting of 150 citizens, i resolutions expressing sympathy for 1 the college authorities and condemn- i ing the burning of the building were 1 passed. The meeting also formally < offered the assistance of citizens in apprehending the fire fiend, and requested that city council offer a reward for the capture of the criminal. ] The resolution concluded with the direction that the chairman appoint a committee to solicit subscriptions for 1 the employment of a detective to t track down the perpetrator, and for 1 the employment of a guard to protect the remaining buildings as long 1 as may be necessary.. The meeting was presided over by 1 W. W. Bradley, who appointed on the ; committee of three J. Hayne McDill, 1 F. B. Gary, and 8heriff Lyon. 1 City council has offered a reward of 1 9100, which will be raised by private 1 subscription to $300. Gov. Ansel will 1 be asked to offer a $1,000 reward. Shot Bride mad fftiaertf Cincinnati, March 17.?"When they wouldn't let me kin my baby, that settled it Then I fired." Thus Albert Scherer explained why he shot his 17-year-old bride to-day as she lay in bed at the home of her mother, Mrs. Charles Wnerster, here. The victim probably will die as one bullet entered her head just back of the left ear. The other bullet entered her left arm. Scherer claims he also tried to end his own life but failed because the bullets glanced off his head. An abrasion of the left forehead and powdermarks, as well as a bullet hole through his hat, indicates that the man did try to commit suicide. \ The shooting is the culmination of uasiy maxn&ge. 1 Bertha Wuerster was not yet 17 and had known 8oherrer who, is 22, bnt a week when they were married a little over a year afo. "Sharper Thaw a Serpent's Tooth." An irritable old farmer and his ungainly, slouching son were busy grubbing sprouts one hot, sultry day, when the old man suddenly stumbled ore? a small stump. "Gosh durn that ererlastin* stump!" he exclaimed. "I wish it was in hell!" The son slowly straightened up from his work and gazed reproachfully at his father. "Why, you oughtn't to say that pap." he drawled. "You might stumble ore.- that stump ag'in some day." ?Everybody's. Spectacular Suicide. Indianapolis, March 17.?As Mrs. Rnv TlmKnlt waitAil mm ?Ka ._ii. wm VH VUO MUC W AAH | in front of the National hotel for her < husband to come down stairs, he < dived from a fourth floor window and 1 struck head first on the flagging in a front of her. last night. i The woman did not swoon, hut a stood stock still, staring aU the crumpled bleeding body. Men hurried to i raise Umholt, but he was dead. His a wife said he had been morose and t often had threatened suidde. i WILL INVESTIGATE FIRE. Insurance Depot; Wharton Sent to Abbeville. Columbia. March 18.?Commissioner McMastcr has notified B. A. Wharton, insurance deputy, to go to Abbeville and investigate the causes of the fire there early yesterday. Mayor Pro-tem Henry phoned Mr. McMaster, and stated he thought the fire was of incendiary origin. Mr. Wharton, who was at home, on account of sickness in his family, will leave for Abbeville some time to-day, to look into the situation there. At the fire in Abbeville vesterrUv the College there was burned and three students were cremated. It is thought some one set the building on lire. m MEAN LIQUOR; TWO DEAD. Railroad Workmen Shot to Pieces In Fatal Pistol Duel. Marion. March 19.?Kit Williams and John Glenn, two negro workmen, are dead as a result of a duel near Zion. about eight miles from Marion. At that place there is a construction camp for the North and South Carolina Railroad, which is being built from Hamlet to Mullins, and a great many negroes are employed on the work. On yesterday a large quantity of whiskey was shipped into the camp, and as a result the negroes became drunk, and in an altercation between Kit Williams and John Glenn, both parties were literally shot to pieces. At the inquest it was found that each man had been struck ? from four to six times, and that the calibre of the pistols were 38 and 41. It seems that there were no eyewitnesses to the tragedy, the participants having gone some distance from the camp before the shooting began. For some time negro women of loose character have been coming into the camp, and it is supposed that these. rf+K ttia m?v ueuwue vi uie iiifuur, were the direct cause of the double killing. All negroes examined at the Inquest denied any knowledege of the affair, and no arrests hare been made, as it appears that no one bolides the two victims were connected with the shooting. BECOMING RECKLESS. Present Generation Now is Sold to Have Foresworn Thrift. We hare ceased to be thrifty. The s nearest approach most of us make to that virtue is to get our banks to let us overdraw our accounts. The fathers have eaten grapes and the children are eating grapefruit We used to buy apples by the barrel; now we buy them as we would buy lewels, each in its separate wrapper. We used to eat pot roasts; now we must have porterhouse steaka Our wives used to help the general housework girl with the cooking; now we need two maids, a laundress and a man to wash windows. When we were boys we did chores and wore >ur father's old clothes; nowadays the American boy needs an allowance, dockings that match his neckties and l tuxedo Jacket We used to think it an extravagance to keep a hunIred-and-fifty dollar horse and a hundred-dollar buggy; now we buy in automobile and mortgage our house to pay for it "Easy come, easy go," was the old - - - souui hi; come, gone oerore it comes," is the modern. One chief cause of high prices is trust?our creditor's trust Everybody wants to sell us something and charge it to our account So we accommodate them and acquire a habit >f reckless expenditure. What difference does it make whether eggs are E5 cents or 80 cents a dosen, if we to not have to pay cash for them? We are spendthrifts in the midst of a credit system orgy. When we sober ip prices will come down. Mill Engineer Killed. 8partanburg, March 17.?R. W. Rogers, engineer at the mill of the Valley Palls Manufacturing company, lied this morning at 6 o'clock as the result of a wound in the head with a rock thrown by Emory Bishop Wedlesday evening. Bishop and his crother-in-law. Andy Teague, fled immediately upon the occurrence of the aragedy and have not been seen since. Iftrmmf J fi Ttirtia. ?.?* w. w> miuvi Weill IAI > anc/ Palls this morning and held an ininest over the dead body of Rogers. _ The testimony is that Wednesday nrening when the mill closed down at 1.20 o'clock, Rogers and Andy q reagne came oat of the mill together. 4 rhey were fussing about an account ^ reagne owed Rogers, Rogers claim- tl ng that it was about 50 cents and n Teague claiming that it was not so 5, nuch. About this time Emery Bish- n >p. a brother-in-law of Teague's, 4 ime out of the mill. When he saw a iow the fuss was going he picked up -g i rock and threw it at Rogers. The 4, t>ck struck Rogers in the left temple 8j ind felled him to the earth. m Rogers was a hard working, highly espected man. He leaves a wife and isversl children. He was insured in tl he Woodmen of the World and car- al led some other protection. m jNo More T % with that automobile, bicycle, gun c A have me to put it in flnt-dan repair j prepared to do your work aa anyone V cities, and my prices are about twice A also have in stock a well selected lin J AUTOMOBILE & BICYC j which I will sell to you at closest pri 41 what you need I will get it for you i if, the next one. When in need of any g ' don't forgfet me. \I1 work goarante Jj. B. BRI< 2 The Repair Kan. I = X COTT( The ginning hmob Is now about over, have the engine and boiler and ginning Hon for next season's work so that then "starting op" with the first bale. Let Works take yonr plant in hand, patting it 1 and save yon dollars and trouble both, paying oat the caah for the work when 4 about It, and, "ton to one," they win mai the work done before the rash, and pay ft do no haras to inqnire abont It anyway. The Denmark Machine Works, Denmark ^M^HSsas^ paefT??IT???Md%W jemhhmwjwi Bargains in Real E Farms in small and large tra< ^ residences, mercantile mill sites, sale stables, propositions, at low figures terms. Descriptive list sent tion. Call on or write, J. T. O'NE || Seal Estate Agent, - - - fa*??age Bae=s9BBBBBBBEaEsrsaaBSBSss=s9EaB9easssBBaBsa Q ?? Tkp (qmII lUtwbAnr it W#Imiv IK uHU vCpmVI O fiCKvn A hwiwfl ?IV n?to ulre e b a doses Urge ones. This lo owe c urgtBg tee mi ok unutra mii to mem with m m t^wii ?H cloiee> whether the bei Wo Pay Poor per eewL htowt ot ! H PgQFLB8BAMg - - - I inr sit III r I ic? Md a I We win eeed mo?d the tee ?fn oebe < 1 bone wfll be OPEN ALL THE TIME, Hi I will always ted in?nee reedy ?d mloi I HAY! HA\ | I also sell No. 1 Timothy Hey at the ice I le need of ?ithlag la my Hate ceD^oe or 1 I SMOAK'S SALE AND LH I J. J. 8MOAK, Freprtete r Hoover's Dru We beg to cell your Ktertto to fountain, which we have ittmtilf have also ores healed our entire i ?da It lathing to the Boot feetirti We hate a well selected Une of Va Sole agents for the fiimnns Hnjrler1 Our Patent Medicines. Drug and & PRESCRIPTION WORK A 8f HOOVER'S DRU< nw???????? Doc Gonrtaef Wanted. Where Orangeburg. March 18. ? Doc A ttory ourtney, a young white man of this ** ity, has disappeared from town. 1? M excb lias Sallie Enalow. a daughter of the She waa uperintendent of the Orange cotton it *** her tills, is also missing. A warrant has r*l*tlves. een sworn out before C. P. Brunson. crowds laristrate, charging Courtney with ^er over s bduction. The warrant was taken ** patlentl; at by the father of the girl. The asked Irl who is alleged to have been ab- *er awhile ucted Is under 16 years of age. Con- fauntlet < Abies are trying to locate Courtney Uncle Tom ad bring him hack to this city. y?u ou* Outside The young folks had a dance in shook her le town hall last Friday evening, she said. " tter the entertainment at the graded And U? hooL and did nc *, v t rouble f r pistol if you will 9 . I am Just as weO ^ outside the larger J ? as reasonable. I 9 e of Ap LE SUPPLIES f ces. If I haven*t jf lust as prompt as 9 thing in my line ckleI .. -Bamberg, 8. 0, p ===EBaai dn! 1 ' mtiany put In w< I ? will be no delay In I If you do not fool fflos | kmc, see or write Umh I iage it to yoa caa btvi I ^ or it ant ML It wfB I Jut write aboat It to I , 8. a I -E3r XJ " " il :i state, etc. S IJ 9jtf[ rta, town lots businesses, pole and tie and on easy " ? ; on appUca Si A 4 3 -. SAL, j| Bamberg, 8. 0. | = ie at Tlis Badk! g |<*r ovraMMfer :V^ fiaaanl Mb badit it !b ov panose daw be hmu or SavteC Deporite - BambergfS.O. agQ it bad elected am tea to Hj dele aad Uicrjf I expect to haiitee tea n. I aai ia the bad* t ik iW m novt nws r a share of year pat* | 29 aatebf oafrtoe best ie potftteet of esrvtee. ever? dap. aad the tea qr aad Wight, aad pea a to serve job. . < > 1 ' 'pbOBB IBB iJL TOY STABLE xvnyuuav ?v B g Storel 'ZJsmT* I rton ud ktvf I ' fi scum. I 3 STOREI S?gg?? I I She Drew the Ltee. ' of t llttl* mtidM ?Ha erted her rights is related ange. : 1 i only three years old. sad first visit to 4 number of Aunts, uncles and cone* ed around her and hissed nd over again. 8he stood r and gave every kiss that for without demur. Af? (, when she had ran the of affectionate relatives, said. "Now, baby. Ill take see the cow." the door she stopped and little head. "Uncle Tom," 'I won't kiss the cow!" cie Tom took pity on her it insist