p r ." ' 1 / v' ;i;i ?l)c (Count t| 2toffc ' VOL. XIII. KINGSTltEE, SOI Til CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1W7. NO.-9. liilf loijisi.) A COLUMN OF Nf WS PICKED UP AROUND TOWN And Put Into Short Paragraphs.! For Quick Reading By Busy People. Miss Beatrice Graham went up t?> Dariingtou ta>t Monday. Mr. Charles J. Lese^ne spent | several (leys in Manning thi?j -week. * | Kditor \V. I)?vid Shaw, of Lake j City, spent Saturday in Kings- j \ V , r. tree. . . . Dr. K. J. M .v. AN INCIPIENT FIRE. The Residence of Dr. McCabe Slightly Damaged.. About one oViock? last Satur \ day afternoon ihe residence of I>r j li J.McCabe was found to be on ; fire, b.ui t lie prompt action of 1 lit'; citizens prevented what might j have been a serious conflagra j tion. < j The fire evident !v cnughf from sparks from ihe stove chimney, j as the roof was in a blaze near the } Hue, but not immediately around ' it. When.discovered, the fire had probablv been burning but a verv short while, as only a small place jn the rooj'i was damaged. As Dr.McCabe's buildings the first of a long range ol' wooden structured, there can lie no doubt that the entire block would have burned had the fire not been checked in its incipieney, and it is well that it was discovered in time to prevent a conflagration. Another Fire. Information reached here on Monday that the residence of Mr. Hugh McCutehen, who lives in the Indiantowu neighborhood, to ' gel her with its entire contents. " had been totally destroyed by lire ' about midnight Sunday night. $ * ' Mr. and.Mrs. McCutchen were 1 both in ltingstree all day Sunday. ' returning to Indiantown late in r the afternoon. No tire had been 1 i-n the house for several hours, and ( it is supposed that the liatpes 1 originated from matches stolen* by ' rats. Every effort was made to ' obtain reliable information as to r the amount of Mr. McCulchen's v loss, but nothing definite could be 1 found out. It was told us upon ^ jood authority that there was no A insurance whatever upon any of 1 the property, and the loss will fall 1 heavily upon Mr. McCutchen. Cheap Rates to Wilmington. t The Atlantic Coast Line will v sell round-trip tickets to YVilming- s 'on, N. C., oil account of the Southern Baptist Convention, at \ he rate of one first-class tare for s lie round, trip, which from Kings- * ree will be #4 Do. Tickets will v >e on sale from May 3rd to the t rth, inclusive, with final limit J fifteen days from date of sale, t Parties desiring to make a longer v ;tav in Wilmington' wihl deposit e lheir tickets with the Atlantic a [ oast Line agent at Wilmington o prior to May 15th and an ex- 11 tension af fifteen days will be ti liven. Alrealv several parties t have signified an intention of at- ^ tending the convention, and no o ioubt several more will take ad- 11 vantage of the cheap rales and c attend. Hotel Ariyvals. s The following is a list of the arrivals ( it the Coleman Hotel for the past j week: M. E. McDonald, Mrs. A S Cheek, v W. W, Zachy, J. M. Atkinson, W. 1 romlinson,T. H. McEachern, J. W. I Corey, Tom Sudlow, ~F. Prcssley t Barron,B. F.Jones, MackKoshland, s M. H. Bird, W. S. Camlin Jr, S. H. J Alspaugh, C. J Cooper, J. W.Coward S. McB. Scott, N. D. Lesesne, W I Partridge, J. W. .losey, A. H. Breed- t en, Mrs. D. J. Pipkin, It. B. Smith e A. W. Montgomery, W. R. Scott' J. | N. Hammet, Jno. C. Lanham, C. J. j Lesesne, II. G. Askins, W. E. Cook, Edwin C. Epps, John. Epps, A. S. Barnhill. 1 Tho snnPiTKArs nf Williams- * burs; and Florence counties will 1 meet at Johnson's l'erry, Lynches < river, on May the 4th, for the j purpose ot letting the contract lor building a bridge across the stream. See advertisement elsewhere. . ( , # 4 116*1 111! TWO APPARENTLY HARMLESS MEN KILLED NEAR HERE. 3oth thfe Murderers and the Motive Unknown,?Three Negroes Arrested on Suspicion. I Vrl?;i |?n I lie mo I dastardly deed ever committed on Wdhamsbur;: f'oirtri v soil was t lie double mnriier, J cao.-in^the death of two apparently harmless Italians, ? hieli occurred about four 'miles below Ivinestree. near Suiters, last Sat unlay night. Both the murdered men and the murderers are un known. , The murder was discovered by Mr. Ed. McClarv, a young farmer, aIio lives near Salters, about. 7 rclock Sunday morning. Mr. MeUlary was passing the scene, lotalv unaware of any terrible ciime laving been committed, when his Jog began a loud barking and lowling near'a ditch. Mr. McCIa v went over to the ditch to see vhat. was attracting the dog's at entior., and was horrfied to see ying in the ditch the body of a .vtiite man, cold and stifFin death. ? % ? ? * - J J l! 1 yjr. Jicuiary mirrieG tooaners ana eported his discovery. At once i large crowd went to the scene uid viewed the remains of the unorlunate foreigner. The crowd apidly increased in numbers, alliost e\erv one being armed. One )f the party strolled into the edge >T 'he woo Is near by, and there ound Another dead body, that of tn old man, with gray beard. 1m nediately a search for more bodies vas instituted, but, of course, none vere found. By this time all was excitement. *so one seemed to know just what o do." The murdered men were otal strangers, and sesmed to be ramps and no motive could be ound for the murder. It was af erwards learned that the men f. iere peddlers and had been ,een with a peddler's pack. In the search for more bodies, a 'alise was' found. This was decribed to us by Magistrate Lifroge, vho held the inquest, as ua can*ass covered telescope, about fifeen bv twenty four inches in size.1' ['his was near a rail' fence, in a hick portion of the woods. The alise had been opened and nearly verytbing talien away. A coat, i pair of gloves and one or two ther little articles were found iear by. A certified copy of nat- 1 iralization papccs was found in | he valise, bearing the name Terge riregeneo,which probably was one fthe murdered men, bfit there is lOlhing whatever to show which if the men the papers belonged to About lour o'clock Sunday afyrnoon Magistrate J. G. Lif'rage ummoned a jury an't held an in[uest. The atopsy was made by Jr. I. N. Boyd. His testimony vas ail that was brought out before he coroner's jury. The exaniina ion showed that the young man's hroat was cut "in three places, his ;kull was fractured, and a rifle ball iad passed through the body, tiercing the heart. The old man s hroat had been cut from ear to ;ar. t.he head being almost severed rom the body The jury returned he following verdict: "We, the jury, find that twoun inown men came to their death, >ne from a gun-shot wound, and he other from having his throat ;ut, by parties unknown to the ury." In the meantime, posses had 3een organized and sent in every lirection to search for the inur ' I jderers. The sheriff was notified, jand lie wired to Florence lor blood I hounds, but, for some reason, did ! not fret tliem. As soon as the news of th? horrible murder reached Kings! ree, scores of our citizens went to the scene and viewed the bodies. Almost every roan in the enormous [crowd around the murdered men was heavily armed. Suspicion was attached to three strange negroes, who had committed other criminal acts around Sailers, and a description of them was telegraphed in every direction. Armed men watched I lie streets nl Sailers. Kings!ree and Lake City .nil ol Sunday night, but t lie murderers then had a twenty-four hours'start on lheir (light. Three negroes, lilling the description of the supposed murderers, passed through Lake City early Sunday morning, but no one there knew at that time anything of the murder. About two o'clock M?n<>av afternoon operator Grimsley, of Lake City, wired .Mr. II. A. Graham that three negroes had just been arrested there on suspicion. As soon as the fact was made known to sheriff Daniel ',he wired mayor Severance to hold the prisoners until he could send for them. Mr. Daniel, accompanied by Mr. H. ti. Askins, a special deputy, and a reporter for The .County Record, . went to Lake City Monday eve ning., and the negroes were brought to Ringstree Monday night. A large crowd met the sheriff at the l depot upon his return with the| prisoners. Threats of lynching if the negroes ptoved to be the right parties were heard here Monday, but the crowd at the depot was very orderly and quiet. Our reporter interviewed several prominent men in Lake City, and was told by ail of them that the prisoners were not the three men seen there Sunday. Opon being interrogated, the negroes gave us ineir names, ages ana aadresses as follows: Oscar Simmons, age 17, 10 Short street; Nat Phelphs, age 17, 26 Burns lane, and Joseph Richardson, age 19,16 Market street, all of Charleston. They all told pretty much the same tale, which was prepared for publicationjbut was left out after an interview with Mr. M. J. McManus, of the Charleston detective force. Sheriff Daniel received a telegram from. Mr. J. Elmore Martin, chief of Charleston's police forcei telling him that the negroes were wanted in Hiarleston. Mr. McManus was sent un Tuesday after noon, and interviewed the three boys. When seen by The County Record man, Mr. McManus said that Simmons was wanted for rob bing a house on Savage street, in Charleston, two months ago. Richard and Simmons have not long been released from prison in Richmond, Va. All three boys are well known to the the Charleston police. When questioned as to what Phelphs and Richardson did in Charleston that he should want them, the detective smiled and replied dryly that he did not want them, they were only "needed ; there at times. While the detective talked freely on some points., he was non committal on others. On evidence discovered yesterday, the authorities here decided to hold the prisoners, and the Char lestcn detective returned alone. The negroes claim they were in Charleston Friday: Sam Nelson, a colored man Jiving near Salter?, [Continued on page five.] )/' ABEIIFILffll. NUPTIALS OF DR. BAKER AND MISS HEMMINGWAY. A Beautiful Wedding Cemony Performed in Union Church Makes The 1 wo One. Tilt* inosl notable even? that has transpired in the social domain of this community in many a day was the marriage of Br. II: L. Baker to Miss LWlle Hemmingway which took pfaceat Union church on the evening of the 14th inst, the Rev. Geo. W. Davis officiating. Promptly at 8:30 o'clock, to the measured strains of the wedding ? ? I 1 1 niarcn, Deaunitniv renuercu uv Mrs. Ceo. Hemmingway, the bridal party, preceeded by Messrs. W. K Cook, of Sera 111on, and W. J. Duranl, of Kome, ushers, filed in in regular order and toook their respective positions. The bride and groom came down the aisle, immediately preceeded by two lit tic flower girls, and assumed their proper place. ~ The ceremony was then read in the most solemn and impressive manner by the officiating clergyman, making the two man arid wife. The church was brilliantly lighted and beautifully decorated for the occasion. A beautiful floral arch was constructed over the place the place the bride and groom stood, and suspended from this was a heart, nia./ia/^ Kit I chilft Thfl 1111. pj^l cvu AJJ v- u |>iva u oiiumi ? ... tial letters, "B. H. to H. B.," of golden foil were attached to the top of the arch. After the marriage the bridal party and the invited goes! repair ed to the hospitable home of Oapt. W. C. Hemingway, the brides fath er, where a reception was tendered, A sumptuous (upper was served, and after refreshing the inner man, the guest were charmingly enter tained by some line selection of music beautifully rendered b^ some of the young ladies and the Messrs. Johnson. The bride was the recipient of many handsome and useful presents. We regret that lack of the desired data prevents us from giving a more ade quale description of this occasion. Our best wishes are extended the happy couple. Fribitd. We havs a lot of old babbit metal on hand for sale at 10 cents per pound. The County ltecord. Damage to the Lower Bridge, The "lower" bridge across Black river was almost totally destroyed last Friday by a raft of logs. Mr. J. A. Ferrell, of Salters, was in town the day on which the bridge was damaged, and he said that he saw two rafts of logs floating down the river, with no' one guiding them. The first of the rafts passed under the bridge, but the next one struck the piles and knocked the foundation from under about fifty feet of the bridge, and almost the entire structure fell into the 9tream. There is a law on the statute books of South Carolina prohibiting rafts being floated down navigfcble water ways' without someone to gnide them, and this matchrt.iM ho InnboH intn hv thp IVI C'UVUIU W JW??vx? V VJ w proper authorities, and the guilty parties made to repaid the damage. All the lates styles in job printing'can now be done in The Couny Kecard office. i The County Record, $1 a year. ' r i r MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES. - >? ? . ' i The Tenth of May to be Observed l*? gjfm Kingstree. "Memorial Day" will be appropriately observed in Kintalree. Recitations, speeches, etc. will be delivered, and a large crowd is expected to be present. Messrs. j S. P. II. Elwell, Louis Jacobs and E. 0. Dennis compose the oat- M mittee on arrangements, and this fact, of itself, assures the success- \ tnl carrying out of all plans. An invitation will be extended camp Presslev, U. 0. V., and and to ^ the Luke City Light Dragoons, and it is hoped that every veteran and every member of the com- 3S panv will be present. , A most interesting programme has been prepared, and will be J published in doe time. "Memo- M rial Day" is just a little over two -M weeks off, and everyone in the county who can possibly do sot should arrange to attend the exercises in Kingstree. . Joe Flemming, the negro charg- - | .J .M _.LL! J* Oi a. a jj eu wnn roooing dispenser oiuus, u was given a preliminary hearing - -i before Magistrate Brown . last Thursday, and was committed ; to jail to await trial at the May term of the Conrt General Ses- s j sjon, -/M Supervisor B. B. Chandler is in Florence to day looking after the chains, guns, etc. lor'the county chain-gang. Mr. Chandler say* there are several convicts from this county who are now in the penitentiary, whom he can have brought here to serve on the chain-gang, so he will not want, JS for material to organise^ a squad. . 9 The only trouble he anticipates is in getting a suitable man to act . J as guard. This man murft be' ' *| made of the right sort of MstnflT,n -"S arid Mr. Chandler says he connot decide upon one. . While in Town don't fail to call and ex- /v amine our goods before buying elsewhere. We n have what you< need and at prices that no house will attempt to beat. Cotton-chopingis at band and we have a nice lot of T-ioch > solid steel goose-neck hoes which < are going at 30 cents; a big supply of genuine Orangeburg sweeps of sizes at lowest possible prices. Barnes from 25cents, up,- and the j best curry-comb ever, offered for a dime. Our stock of shoes is complete ; Oxfords going from 50 c. to .; $2, and a pair of our uIodeslrucli- /. ble" ladies' shoes will save you money in this line. Our oil-grain plow shoes are the best made, and < satisfaction i9 guaranteed. Arfull line of straw hats, first-class gro * , ceries, and a big lot of tobaccos-^ plug, pound, or box?are going at extremely low figures. f LESKSNC tfe KPM. Old papers for sale at this of- ^ fice. iiiDimij S^GEO. PI. BABR, .Ifaaafer^! i ' tr 3: [? I U HUMSB REASONABLE RATES, 3 I . . ? i I FIHST-CLASS UfflTT i Stable in Connection J 1; GIVE US A TRIAL, -si ' m*# * - ' * '