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vj ??? WANTED TO ARREST DAUGHTER L*v" t; * .. Spartanburg Mother-in-Law Brings Trouble Into Court. Spartanburg, Jan. 14.?One of the saddest cases in the annals of law in Spartanburg came up at the last term of court. George Shaver was the defendant in an action brought by his mother-in-law*. The woman alleged that Shaver sold her pianc and sewing machine and familj J _ 1 o -n H Dime CH1U a liuuiuei ui yiuiuieo a.iiu other household goods when she was away for a Christmas vacation. She caused him to be arrested. The people are well-to-do white people, but Shaver has been in the courts on numerous other occasions. He married a 14-year-old girl, and when he was arrested she agreed with him in saying that she herself had sold the goods. He was found not guilty. Then the mother-in-law came before Magistrate A. H. Kirby and wanted to have her own daughter arrested and placed behind the bars, charged with breach of trust. The good old magistrate tried in every manner to persuade her not to take such an action, but she persisted until it became necessary for him to flatly refuse, without consulting law Eyers. The woman was indignant when advised not take such a course. New Daily Falls Through. In regard to reports in circulation in Columbia that it is indefinite as to when the first issue of The Morning News, the proposed new daily, would appear, Mr. Geo. R. Koester, one of lM ' the promoters of said paper, stated. I ''As ggme of those whose support is necessary to establish the new paper objected to working with me for political reasons, which I do not care to discuss at pregefit, 1 have agreed to withdraw from any connection With any effort to establish a newmorning paper in Columbia and I understand that this has caused deferring of the movement until newplans can be made." Reapportionment Bill Reported. Washington, Jan. 11.?The Crumpacker congressional re-apportionment bill, fixing the house membership at 433, exclusive of Arizona and New Mexico, was ordered favorably reported to the house to-day by the census committee on motion of Representative Burleigh, of Maine. The bill will be brought up in the house at the earliest opportunity. The bill was amended in committee so as to provide that the re-apportionment should be made by the legislatures of the State, a provision * usually made in the re-apportionment bills but omitted from this one be \ > cause or conmcung legmmuuii m oc?eral States covering the matter. The measure will provoke a lively discussion when it comes up on the floor of the house, for there are Ife many different views as to the repp! apportionment. The 433 'was fixed by the committee as the lowest number which would avoid reducing the numerical representation of any pS. State. Escaped With His Life. "Twenty-one years ago I faced an [1; awful death," writes, H. B. Martin, Port Harrelson, S. C. "Doctors said I had consumption and the dreadful cough I had looked like it, sure v enough. I tried everything, I could f hear of, for my cough, and was under the treatment of the best doctor in Georgetown, S. C., for a year, but could get no relief. A friend advised me to try Dr. King's New Discovery. I did so and was completely cured. I feel that I owe my life to this great thoat and lung cure." Its positively guaranteeed for coughs, colds, and all bronchial affections. 50c. and A' $1.00. Trial bottle free at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Legislature Will Pass on Liquor. ^ Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 13.?With the appointment of committees on both sides of the legislature this af ternoon the organization was perfected and disDosition was shown in both senate and the house to encour:j age legislation of a character profitable to the State by drawing as few l&; lines as possible between the victors and the vanquished. Great interest centred in the makeup of the committees on temperance in the two houses. This committee, it is known, will have to pass on the most vital question that will be brought before the legislature and it was ior inese committees mat tuc Anti-Saloon leaguers made their fight. In the senate the members were about equally divided between local optionists, dispensary advocates and absolute prohibitionists, while in the house the local optionists prevail to a great extent. Senator Frank S. Moody is made chairman in the senate. He is a dispensary advocate. In the house John V. Smith is chairman. He is a local optionist. Parson's Poem a Gem. From Rev. H. Stubenvoll, Allison, la., in praise of Dr. King's New Life Pills: "They're such a health necessity, In every home these pills should be. If other kinds you've tried in vain, use Dr. King's and be well again. Only 25c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg S. C. - - .. . ' * : rC\-' . , ; .J-* TOWARD CHURCH UNION. ? Methodist Bodies of Chattanooga Agree to Come Together. i wmmmm?mmm ' Chattanooga, Jan. 12.?A long : step was taken here to-day in the i organic union of Methodism in ; America when Centenary Methodist i Episcopal church, South, and the > Methodist Episcopal church (North' ern branch) agreed to consolidate I and build one great church and be one people. A meeting of interest to American Methodism as a whole was held in this city to-day at noon. Twentyfive representatives of each branch of the church discussed the future of Methodism in a frank fraternal way. Separate 65 Years, \ Members of these two churches which separated in IS45 on acount of political and ecclesiastical differ: ences declared themselves one in ?5 + on*-? nrhi 1 o ram^ni7.iner lovaltv "i"1 41 OUU " "??V ? v%/w0_ O V I to their respective denominations, every speaker showed himself in favor of a reunion of the Methodist family in America. John A. Patten and Bishop William Anderson, both members of the committee on organic union, participated in the discussion. John H. Race, president of Chattanooga university, made a strong appeal for union. Consider Both Sides. The joint conference committee of the two Chattanooga churches, composed of representatives from the First Methodist Episcopal church and from Centenary Methodist Episcopal church, South, after consideration of the returns of the two churches represented in the conference, th? following conclusions were reached. "1? Thfe fW() churches were plant-1 ed in proximity to each other, each | representing its respective denomi-i nation and each undertaking to occupy the most advantageous position for serving its own constituency* They have grown side by side in numbers, in influence and in strength, and the fraternal relations between the two have constantly grown and strengthened until they have become one in spirit. In Union Lies Strength. "2. It is agreed by the conference committee that in order to conserve the resources of both churches, and to utilize the forces of both denominations that only one church should be constructed, and that the two denominations could be made one for the common cause of Methodism. "3. To the end that unity of spirit may come into unity* of service, the committee has agreed to that all fraternal and kindly relations between the two churches should be fostered by bringing the people together in religious exercises, and by co-operating one with the other in a very good work. Good Site for Fortress. "4. The site selected is an advantageous and strategic location for our common Methodism to occupy. "5. Confidently anticipating that the joint commission created by the respective general conferences of Methodism will speedily formulate a plan for unification of all the Methodist forces in America, we are agreed that our plans for new church buildings should be held in abeyance as far as consistent with the interests involved pending the final adjustment of the whole problem by the constituted authorities of the denominations." Smith Wants Action. Washington, Jan. 10.?Senator E. D. Smith expects in a day or two to introduce in the Senate some form of resolution, designed to bring out the facts in the potash situation which has been growing more acute for several days. He will go to the White House to-morrow to confer with the president and will probably take prompt action to get the situation into the hands of the senate. O'ViA t-onotAP ctotoa that thft whole X ULO OV^UU l/Vl WVMVVM vmwv ??v matter resolves itself into the question whether or not Germany proposes to place a penalty upon potash and kainit exported to Aemrica under contracts made before the penalty law was passed by the reich Stag. The Southern farmer, he says, is interested only in the price he has to pay for his fertilizer. He thinks the United States should take a more aggressive attitude than has been assumed thus far by the State department. Held Up by Negroes. Seneca, Jan. 11.?Kimsey Redmond was in Seneca last evening and collected eighteen hundred and sixty dollars, leaving just about dark for his son-in-law's, wno lives near mcn-j ' land. When about two miles out three negToes called for his money. Two black and one a mulatto is the description given by Redmond. As he is a man of very limited means, some doubt his story. He has always claimed to have money somewhere coming to him, and it is possibly the truth. Efforts were made by his son-in. law to locate the negroes, but to no purpose yet. v- ' ' . .. GUNS AND PISTOLS USED. Spartanburg County Scene of Battle of Farmers. Spartanburg, Jan. 12. ? News reached Spartanburg to-night of a battle near Cashville Wednesday morning between a farmer armed with a pistol and two of his neighn'ifVi oViftforiino Tliroo UU1 S ai 111V5U n 1111 guvL^uii^. 1 Hi persons were seriously, 'though not fatally, wounded. Bad Blood. There has been bad blood for severan weeks between N. G. Alverson, a brother of Sergt. Alverson of the Spartanburg police department, and Talley Norris, who has an adjoining plantation. It started in a dispute over a house. Further particulars as to the cause of the quarrel could not be learned. The quarrel became more and more bitter, harsh words' were exchanged, threats made and when the neighbors met Wednesday morning they were apparently prepared for violence. Mr. Alverson came to the boundary line between his and Mr. Norris's plantation alone. Mr. Norris was accompanied by his two sons, one of whom was named Alexander. Opened Fire. From the accounts heard, Mr. Al? aw/nm +s.a flw/v at\ Tlfn Tirith VCIBUU uycucu uic UU 1UI. A-,VUIO niw a .32 calibre revolver, shooting him in the hip. The Norrisses were standing on their own property, but only 15 or 20 feet from Mr. Alverson. Alexander Norris, it is said, fired at Mr. Alverson with a shotgun. The shot struck him, putting out his left i eye and passing through bis nose. Other shots filled his face and neck. Mr. Alverson fell to the ground, but managed to fire at Alexander, shooting him in the calf of the leg and breaking a bone, Hit in the Stomach* Mr. Norfis'a Other SOU then fired at Mr. Alver60fi from farther away than Alexander had been. The shot struck Mr. Alverson in the stomach. He .returned the fire while still lying on the ground and sent a bullet through the other's trousers leg. The Norrises then retired. Mr. Alverson, though vreak and in great pain from the loss of his eye, got on his feet and walked a distant nf 500 v?rds hack to his home. VMUV/V V A. - v v ^ Drs. Posey and Alexander were called from Woodruff and are attending to all of the injured. Mr. Alverson's wounds are said to be the most serious. All three are in bed, but are likely to recover. No arrests have been made. Anti-Saloon League Busy. Barnwell, Jan. 11.?Steps are being taken by the Barnwell County Anti-Saloon league looKing 10 me better enforcement of the dispensary law in this county. A call has been issued by the executive committee to send delegates to a convention to be held at Barnwell on Thursday, January 19, for the purpose of memoralizing the legislature to enact a law that will furnish the means by which the law with reference to the illicit sale of whiskey may * be enforced by having a percentage of the fines imposed used for the enforcement of the present law. Ootto OTiiH FloflHIv T>rinlr_ VJU W V/ ^ vr?- - Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 13.?Arrested as she claimed her trunk at the New York Central Station to-day, Mrs. Edith Melber, widow, who says she is 23 years old, of Shenectady, confessed to-night according to the Rochester police, that in a swamp near Albany last Friday afternoon she gave her 5-year-old son, George, carbolic acid, from the effect of which he died. She was then locked up on a charge of murder in the first degree and will be taken to Albany in the morning. In explanation of her crime, the police say, Mrs. Melber asserts that she has been a widow four years, during which time she has had a struggle to care for herself and her child, and that this battle for an existence drove her to take her baby's life. She is an attractive young woman. At the end of her examination wao nnnprved and weeDing txv/u oav ?? mm mmmv t ? ? - ? w hysterically. When she made her confession, according to the police, Mrs. Melber said that she gave the child the acid when he asked for a drink. Sumter Liquor Dealers Arrested. Sumter, Jan. 13.?To-day being a combination of unlucky days the city government sprang a surprise on the liquor dealers. It seems that a detective has been at work here for the past three weeks and to-day's arrests was the result. Arrests were made of many, the whites being G. P. Mc Kagen, K. S. Grimn, a. w. ijeuingham, and the negroes being C. C. Moore, Joe Hodge, Laura Boyce, Marcus Bossard, Maud Miller, Rees James, Calhoun Gardner, Henry Sumter, Bella Hodge and Gus Cooper. Warrants are out for more. Trials began at midday, several of the colored defendants being first up. 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