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WHISKEY FIRM COMES ACROSS. Grabfelder & Co. Admit Overcharg^ ing Dispensary and Pay $15,000. Practically admitting that they had overcharged the State to the extent of thousands of dollars, Grabfelder & Co., a whiskey firm of Louisville, has abandoned its injunction proceedings and will pay the sum of $15,000 to the dispensary commission. The tuuiyauj was &cci\iug iu yciumuiuv ly enjoin the commission from holding the sum of $18,000 due from the several county dispensaries. Compromise Reached. A few days after the argument in the Grabfelder case before Judge Shipp, in which Judge Shipp delayed deciding the case for three days, at PMr. Hough's request, to enable him to file his authorities, which he said ' he wanted to do, Mr. Hough, who is the immediate legal representative of S. Grabfelder & Co., and the leading counsel in the case, requested Gov. Sheppard to communicate with the attorney general and ascertain if the State would entertain a proposition to settle the case. The attorney general (advised Gov. Sheppard that the case could be settled upon terms which were satisfactory to the State commission. The amount of money which was in the hands of the dispensary boards amounted to something over $18,000, s and the attorney general stated that he believed the State dispensary comsion would accept $15,000, upon the payment of the costs and expenses which had attached in the case, and which were considerable, and which had to come out of this $18,000. This proposition was then made to the commission and accepted. The business cn which these overcharges were made, according to the ? ? -J! r-\ O- nii+Q_ ^ Claim 01 o. urauieiuci oc , emendated 1906. The settlement, there fore, practically took up the amounts which the commission had held up. Refused First Offer. ? Grabfelder & Co., through their representative, offered first to settle the claim of the State at $9,000, , which was refused by the commission, and just prior to the argument - of the case before Judge Shipp Mr. Hough increased the offer to $10,000, which was also refused, and it was immediately after the argument of the case before Judge Shipp that * ? they agreed to come to terms agreeable to the commission, which was the .payment of $15,000 and the costs and expenses incident to the litigation. This case involves the constitutionality of the act of 1910, which 'l provided that the funds owing sundry liquor houses by county dispensaries should be first applied to the payment of claims in favor of the State found to be due by the commission. The abandonment of the litigation by Grabfelder & Co., and settlement i*i aoonrHance with the views of the ft/ commission would seem to indicate i that the attorneys for Grabfelder re. gard the act as valid, although this ly . question is yet to be determined by Z.' the supreme court in another case. The conclusion of this case leaves > little to be collected under the provisions of the act of 1910, except the Carolina Glass company matter, in which is involved the sum of several * thousand dollars. ?? New Hotel for Greenville. Greenville, Nov. 2.?More than half the stock for a new hotel has been raised in less than four days of active work, and the balance of the ?T funds to finance the building of a $200,000 structure is now practically assured. i The movement for the new hotel was started some weeks ago by A. > A. Gates and the structure will occupy a site on McBee avenue, now -r owned by Mr. Gates. The building will be six stories, of fire-proof coni struction throughout, and will be thoroughly modern in every respect. When the building is finished ' Greenville will be, for a while at ^ least, amply provided with hotel far cilities. As it is now there is hardly room for the transient custom to get a place to stay. New Motor Car at Greenville. Greenville, Nov. 3.?Coming all the way from Omaha, Neb., by means of } its own engine, the Southern Railway's new motor car for the Greenville-Anderson run, arrived in this city Tuesday morning, and begins its services this week, replacing the "gas-electric" car which has been in use for several months past. The new car is about seventy feet long, has a seating capacity of about f eighty passengers, and with its six cylinder 200-horse power engine, can make a speed of 80 miles per hour. It is well equipped in the most modern style, and will receive a warm welcome by travelers over this section of the road. Differing essenti^ ally from the old car, the new motor car has no electrical parts, but is driven directly from a gasoline engine, in a manner similar to an auto^ mobile. The car is made by the McKeen Motor Car Company, of Omaha, Nebraska, and was driven a distance of 1,200 miles to reach Greenville. NEGRO STABBED TO DEATH. Stepping on Toes Appears to Have * Led to Homicide. Harleyville, Nov. 3.?George Washington, a negro residing about two c miles from here, was stabbed to death * by Sing Williams, also colored, last n Saturday night at a negro camp meet- s ing. v It seems that a crowd was standing 0 around a large fire when Williams a stepped on Washington's foot, where- t{ upon Washington asked Williams not * to do so again. Williams told Wash- t ington if he did not like it to step off in the dark, which Washington did, when Williams, without further s words, stabbed him in the left breast, r wounding the lung. He died Wednesday morning. ' c P. L. Kizer, coroner, was notified, P and the inquest was held late t Wednesday evening. At last reports d Williams was not caught, but it is f thought that he is somewhere near c and will be captured. 0 Both negroes are young men, Wil- ^ liams being 18 years old, and Wash- * ington 20 years old. d mm es Victim Dies of Wounds. v a Union City, Tenn., Nov. 6.?J. San- d ders, an employe of a tent show play- C( ihg, here who was shot and fatally t< wounded by R. A. Pierce, Jr., here p late last night following a quarrel, /vf V*io TTTA1ir?/1o VaIITIO* U1CU WUO.I \JL 1110 nuuuuu. i VUUQ y\ Pierce is a son of former Congress- t< man R. A. Pierce of the Ninth dis- M trict of Tennessee. He surrendered s to the police and was released on p bond. n Negro Kills His Baby. s< S] Gerogetown, Nov. 7.?James Sher- 0 rell, a negro man about 25 years of s age, is in jail here charged with the v mured of his 8-months-old baby. The negro's wife is in a critical con- gl dition as a resun, of knife wounds in- d flicteu by her husband. The woman, it is alleged, was holding the baby in n her arms, when her husbind attacked d V her. One of the knife strokes intended for her landed on tie baby's head, the knife burying itself in the infant's brain. Death was instantaneous. S It is charged that this morning about 9 o'clock this man, who is a native of Parkersville, a negro village situated on Waccamaw Neck across v the Waccamaw river from George- " town, attempted to persuade his wife c< oonftmnonv film hnr?lr tn thptr jl IV aV/VUUi yuu; lllUi VM.VU vw VMV.. home, but she refused to go with k him, whereupon he commenced to carve her up with a pocket knife, tl The fact that the woman held their 1< 8-months-old child in her arms was k no deterrent to the onslaught and one n of his strokes intended for the wife C cought the infant in the top of the H head and the knife buried itself in v the brain of the child, death being in- S stantaneous. After his deed the ne- k gro ran down one of the principal b residential streets of the city and a threw his knife over into the yard of b a prominent white citizen, where it b was found by the police a little later, o After a short chase the man was cap- P tured and is now safely behind the b bars of the county jail. c Upon inquiry it was ascertained d that the man is not of the depraved P class from which it might have been h expected one guilty of such an in- d human act would have come. To tl the contrary he is a graduate of the Howard graded school and is a car- b 'penter by trade. His father has been g a school teacher. He also has a\i tl uncle who was a school teacher, but P this uncle got into trouble with the ^ federal government, having been too fi much interested in securing pensions, ^ and is now in a federal prison serv- ? ing out his term. The prisoner says that he did not intend to kill the baby but says that J he intended to Jkill his wife. The wo- b man's chances for recovery are a slight. C k Girl Frightens Workmen. C e; Washington, Nov. 7.?Totally ig- n norant of the danger that surround- ii ed her and under the impression that ^ she was carrying water, 11-year-old Mildred Anderson to-day tripped p along in each hand a pail of nitro- c< glycerine, which had been prepared jj for shooting an oil well on the Came- p ron farm near here. As she careless- e ly swung the pails half a dozen oil ci drillers stood breathless 100 yards T away, fearing every moment to see the child hurled into eternity. At a quiet command from her si father, the child set the pails down and was taken out of danger. The men, unnerved, suspended work. i ti A suit for $10,000 damage against p William S. Glenn was filed in Spart- v anburg last Saturday by Joseph My- r ers, a tenant on the former's farm on the Howard gap road near that city. I t] The case arose out of a fight that i took place between the two men last j tl month. During the fight Myers was j c cut rather severely across the head a - x ? 1 ? 1 - ? ^ 1 A lfA I wmi a uuggy wnip. jii. uicuu awu i has a suit against Myers for selling a tl part of his crop (half of which be- is longed to Mr. Glenn) without the b former's consent. c ; v "J: V'iVv; ' } ' h ' ' . , / j GLAD SHE WASN'T STOUT. oitunate That Customs Men Looke< at Plump Daughter. "Reports of customs official an distantly emphasizing the fact tha hey have to watch women mucl nore closely than men to preven muggling. For some reason man; romen are not convinced of the righ f the government to charge a dut: nd smuggling does not seem to then 0 be wrong." Henry A. Guilder, o iew Orleans, made this statement a he Shoreham. "But," he continued 1 doubt whether many women tr: o get by' more than once. One goo( care should be enough to prevent < epetition of the attempt. "I know of one woman who sue essfully managed one smuggling ex edition, but I'm sure she wouldn' ry it again if she lives to be a hun An wr, a1/^ CVia i a + Vi o wife of i 1 CU _) uai 3 UIU. UU^ IO blA\/ ?? 11V v?A riend of mine, and she is a devou hurchwoman. But she was temptet n this one occasion and fell. Sh< ought a beautiful tablecloth ii lexico. It was a remarkable piece o rawn work and cost her $200. T< scape paying a heavy duty she impro ised a petticoat of the tablecloth. Ai part of her costume, it would escap< etection, she was sure. She was ac ompanied by her 20-year-old daugh &r, a young woman of much amplei hysique than her mother. "When they reached El Paso the: ere detained, as usual, by the cus 3ms inspectors. Peculiarly enogh i as her daughter who aroused th< uspicions of the officials. To b< lain, she was plump, and they wen ot sure that she wasn't swathed ii ome dutiable fabric. The woman in pector examined her clothing thor ughly, but found no evidence o muggling. All this time the mothei ,as almost paralyzed with fright uckily for her, the inspectors let hei o, and she got the tablecloth througl uty free. But she vowed then tha be offense would be her last and th< ext time she would gladly pay all th< uty that might be assessed."? Washington Post. ALLEGE BOY CONFESSED. partanburg Police Charge Marioi Wilcox With Jewelry Robbery. Spartanburg, November 2.?Marioi Wilcox, a 17-year-old boy of this city j in jail and is said to have made t omplete confession to robbing th< jwelry store of Arthur W. Biber, 01 ist Saturday night. Wilcox was suspected at first b} be officers, who have been on th< >okout for him ever since. He hai ept himself in hiding and only to ight did the officers catch him apt. Moss Haynes, of the local po ce department, and private Deasoi fere waiting for the boy at th< outhern station to-night, havin$ earned that he was scheduled to pasi y on foot. The plans werd right nd Wilcox was hailed on the tracki y the officers. He denied his guil ut a search revealed that he hac ver $400 worth of jewelry on his erson when arrested. It consisted o racelets, lockets, watch chains harms, etc., many of them witl iamond settings. When taken t< olice headquarters the officers sa: e made a complete confession, anc id not implicate any one else, saying bat he did the deed single handed. The reward of $200, which ha( een offered for the arrest of th< uilty parties, will be paid over t< be officers in a day or two. > Th< olice department did admirable ork on this case, and even went s< ar as to send a man to Columbia rhere Wilcox was supposed to be. """"""""" $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will b< leased to learn that there is at leas ne dreaded disease that science ha: een able to cure in all its stages nd that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrl lure is the only positive cure nov nown to the medical fraternity latarrh being a constitutional dis ase, requires a constitutional treat lent. Hall's Catarrh Cure i^takei iternally, acting directly upon th< lood and mucous surfaces of the sys ?m, thereby destroying the founda ion of .the disease, and giving th( atient strength by building up th< onstitution and assisting nature ii oing its work. The proprietor) ave so much faith in its curativ< owers that they offer One Hundrec lollars for any case that it fails t< are. Sena ror 11st or icsumoniais. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO. oledo, O. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for con tipation. _ Sunday Newspapers Illegal. Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 7.?Con racts for advertising by newspapers ublished on Sunday were declarec oid by Judge J. M. Johnson in th< tansas City court of appeals to-day The Sunday labor laws of Missouri tie court held, were violated wher uch newspapers were printed and herefore, any contract for work ir onection with the publication woulc Iso necessarily be illegal. The decision was handed down ii he case of the owners of the St. Lou ; Republican against Jeremiah Cul erts, president of an exploitatior ompany. TAX NOTICE. j The treasurer's office will be open 1 for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the 15th day of October, 191u, until the 15th day of March, 191i, inclusive. 3 From the 1st day of January, t 1911, until the 31st day of January, 1911, a penalty of one per cent will 1 be added to all unpaid taxes. From t the 1st day of February, 1911, until ir the 28th day of February, 1911, a t penalty of 2 per cent will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of March, 1911, until the 15th i day of March, 1911, a penalty of 7 f per cent, will be added to all unpaid t taxes. THE LEVY. > ^ or State purposes 5 3-4 mills r For County purposes 5 1-2 mills i Constitutional school tax....5 mills Total 14 1-4 mills SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. - Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills - Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills t Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills " Colston, No. 18 2 mills i Cuffle Creek, No. 17 2 mills t Denmark, No. 21 6 1-2 mills i Ehrhardt, No. 22 4 mills Govan, No. 11 4 mills 3 Hutto, No. 6 2 mills i Hampton, No. 3 2 mills f Heyward, No. 24 2 mills Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 1 3 mills " Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 1 mill s Lees, No. 23 4 mills 3 Midway, No. 2 2 mills ~ Oak Grove, No. 20 2, mills Olar, No. 8 4 mills " St. John's, No. 10 2 mills * r Salem, No. 9 3 mills Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills % All persons between the ages of ? twenty-one. and sixty years of age, g " except Confederate soldiers and sail- | t ers. who are exempt at 50 years of I 3 age are liable to a poll tax of one 2 a dollar. 2 Capitation dog tax 50 cents. > 3 All persons who are twenty-one 2 i years of age on or before the 1st day ? . of January, 1910, are liable to a ? poll tax of one dollar, and all per- 2 " sons who have not made returns ? f to the Auditor, are requested to do ? r so on or before the 1st of January, g 1911, and thereby save the penalty 2 'r and costs. ? I . will receive the commutation 2 1 road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from . ? t the 15th day of October, 1910, until ? * the 1st day of March, 1911. 2 1 JOHN F. FOLK, ? Treasurer Bamberg County. % FOR FRESH MEATS j 2 such as beef, port:, dressed chick- % ens, and the like, you will do jus- X tice to both yonr appetite and to 2 yonr pocket to hunt for the S market opposite the artesian 1 . well, second door to Copeland's 2 warehouse. We only handle the ? best meats that money can bay. 2 ? We also pay the highest prices 2 i for beef cattle, pork hogs, chick- I > ens and eggs. Restaurant in con- 2 1 nection, where you can get hot ? meals at all times. I A. W. BRONSON, j 3 BAMBERG, S. O. ! 3 ? I - jj ; j ^ i l UITMT'Q riTRF ! HWil x u VV11AJ j I | ^ Guaranteed Cure for all = ' SKIN DISEASE f i 1 ) AT ALL DRUG STORES, 50c. J > 1 A. B. Richards Medicine Co., * Sherman, Tex. 1 a j Sold by Peoples Drug Co. j Bamberg, S. C. a ^^_ ) * - Yon wish to enjoy the National ' Feast Day?Thanksgiving? and, you 3 can do so even if you have digestive ? troubles for ANTIFERMENT prepa1 ration for digestive disorders is cer} tain to place your stomach in a splendid order if it is taken per instructions. All we ask if you're a doubter, is to allow us to name a few of the persons who have taken it. . HOOVER'S DRUG STORE = j BAMBERG, S. C. 1 ? ; G. MOYE DICKINSON INSURANCE AGENT '| WILL WRITE AXYTIILw , Fire, Tornado, Accident, Lia! bility. Casualty, in the . strongest and most reliable companies. , 'Phone No. 10-B. Bamberg, S. C. I ===? I See me before trading your cotton I i seed. W. G. HUTTO at Copeland's I tore. J I f/" .* O-* . -' r,. ? i 1: ili il; gi gi giiliil; ili ?r? tli C ffigitligj ft iji gigljjj {Ready for Yout T-f * ? It ? 4? ?? It Our fall stock is here, and we have a most complete 'J". |* assortment. If you don't believe it, come and see. We * J tf bought early, at low prices, and can save you money. % If |a Our old customers know our goods and prices, and we ja Jl want to show them our new fall and winter line. We ? ? ^ J7 M m *^??2 ! also want to welcome many new customers. We have * * gi> 11 i Drv Goods. Clothing. Shoes. Hats. Extra 2i \7 * 7 T9J ~ ' ' ' ? i: Trousers, Dress Goods, Notions, Under- $ IJ wear for men, women, children, Trunks, 1 i? a .? and many other things for men, women, and children J ;; to wear. Our line of Clothing for men and boys con- 11 | ? tains some special bargains. A call will convince you Z ' J that we can suit your pocket book in all our lines. 3 T Irubin&peskenJ i I BAMBERG, S. C. J ^Jjj g^g[jSHSHS8SiS8S8SHSHSHaigHS8SHSBSiSH?8SH?H5B8giSg' ?l ini Horses & Mules 19 | Buggies & Wagons: f J Full Stock in Our line I on hand at all times. J | See us before you buy. j J A few Fancy Driving | 3 j Horses on Hand.*.*.*.*.'/. 11 M I JONES BROS., j BAMBERG, S. C. -j ?? "Is There Any Freight lor Me?" i If you had a telephone on your Farm a. con- ^?5 versation like this would save you a long and probably useless trip: "Hello! Is this the depot (or express) Agent?" |g|j I "This is Mr. Johnson on Rural Route No. 5. Is there any freight for me today ?" *lM "No, it hasn t come yet." "Thanks. I will call you tomorrow." If you want to know how to have a tele phone on your h arm, at small cosi, wmc iui um ^ tree booklet Address ^|||M Farmers Line Department SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE Iff m\ & TELEGRAPH COMPANY South Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. ;/JjH [ EHRHARDT BANKING COMPANY.| Wt Ehrhardt, S. C. I II CAPITAL STOCK $20,000.00. I We do a general banking business, and solicit your account. I We are backed by a strong board of directors, insuring you I every safety. Wo allow you 4 per cent, on deposits in our sav ings department. We extend to our customers every courtesy . I consistent with good banking. We receive accounts of individu- I " ?J ? ? ?? ^nvAMlila terms and shall be | ais, nrms, diiu curpur<tuuiid uu iavviuu?v ?? _ pleased to meet or correspond with those who contemplate mak- 5 ing changes or opening new accounts. I J. L. COPELAND, J. C. KINARD, A. F. HENDERSON, I &c-:: / . ... -