(HE SAVED HIS COIN, BUT LOST HIS )VIF? Index Journal. A smooth band of swindlers have been operating in Greenwood according to a statement made yesterday bj Mr. W. H. Palmer, cashier of the Peoples Bank at Hodges, who was the means of saving one of the negrc customers from a loss of two hun. dred dollars. Mr. Palmer succeeded in saving the negro a nice wad of cash, but he couldnt save his wife who left him yesterday stating thai she "couldn't live wid no fool niggei who ain't got no more sense than tc let 'em take his money." The swindle seems to have been confined to the negro population and especially the unsuspecting negro farmer who cf late has been somewhat rolling in wealth. The game seems to h' ' be worked along this line; finding out that a certain negro has money in p the bank or cash in his pockets, he |^. is engaged in an ordinary conversation. As the two separate, the swind\ ler stoops and picks up a pocket-book, which he has previously laid nearby on the ground. He announces to the ?? victim that it has a $500 bill in it which he is willing to split fifty-fifty provided the matter is kept a secret. I The victim goes oil to get sumcieni coin to change the big bill in half which he turns over to the swindler who then tells him that he can get the $500 by caling at a certain place at a certain time. Of course the certair place and certain time turn out to be certain fiction and the negro is ou1 his half of the big bill. The Hodges negro had evidentlj run across one of the swindlers. H< went to the Peoples Bank where h< had a nice little sum stored away anc drew $200 stating to Mr. Palmer tha he would deposit $700 the next day After an explanation of how this wa done, Mr. Palmer persuaded him t< let the game alone, which he did. Hi vaved his money and lost his wife. The same game or one very simila | has been worked in several nearb; || towns with more or less degree o success. Several negroes in Union do Kb, nated a few hundred dolars to th r cause and in all probability some i f Greenwood have been c:.u_*.'v L.. Kp none but the one from Hodges ha | been heard of. W cashier of the Peoples Bank of Hod- the t ges. This brings to my mind a similar ted S 1 case which happened here at Abbe- in wi hville a few months ago when a negro mote ! farmer was skinned out of $85.00. ; In this case the negro crook picked ^WC ' up a pocket-book which he said to the unsuspecting negro near him that he ^ had just found a purse containing a t $100 bill and that he would change it W6T6 for him and say nothing about it , if he would diwy up with him. a^e 1 The old negro only had $85 which he gave him and the other negro in turn gave the negro farmer a a^QU. signed due bill on the Paving Com- gran pany and told him to present it to us &ST6 J the following morning and that it would be paid, as he was working for ? us and we owed him that amount. youn When the old negro presented the , bill to me the following morning, I told him that we did not have any ^reS such negro working for us and he realized then that he had been "flimflammed," and said he would have . i me. ost more had it not been for the jq fact that he gave the balance to his jjave wife only a few minutes before. _ i W. Coppinger. at tri 1 " T> i JOE BAILEY OF TEXAS fc IS TRYING TO COME BACK ^ , dead / A Gainesville Texas, special says: > Former Senator Joseph W. Bailey ?pec ; today formally announced his can1 didacy for the gubernatorial nominat tion in opposition to what have be=n were . termed "regular Democrats." s Mr. Bailey in his announcement ad- c^oc^ 3 dress excoriated "progressive Demc- ?rari j crats" and the national administra- ^er ! tion, branded the federal prohibition '^( r and woman suffrage amendment in-1 cluci:> y vasions of states rights and exf pressed opposition to the league of w^ei i- nations. 0 c^? e Expenditures of the national ad- ln? ' n | ministration were declared "extravagant" by Mr. Bailey, who said "they 21 y s are spending our money like drunken are sailors." To supply this money, he Bern said, taxation "is rapidly approaching the J I 1 ' / ? PRESS AND 11*1 Is now publist Thrice - a -W< he News wh ascription Price he Paper was ?$2 the Year. ,ND BANNEI All -11 O Abbeville, O. llllliiaiBHIIIIIHMBiaiiilitlliiiMliilMlii joint of confiscation." them in the Ba 'here are three funademntal and Both the Coj )erable objections to the league are prominent i ations," the former senator said. _____ ! first is that it surrenders a part BRITISH TOA lr sovereignty into the keeping a European council; the second at it will involve us so long as it s in European complication and London, Feb hird is that it obligates the Uni- Prominent Brit< trnoqfc lr itates to furnish spldfcrs for wars """ " hich we might not have . the re- his a*tern00n 1 st interest." 'one of the hel ______________ ace" and accla > COUSINS DIE reedom, humi FROM GUN WOUNDS ommon bonds )le. lendale, Feb. 23.?Alliex Cone, The occasion JO and Aubrey Cone, age 17 nemorating the instantly killed and John Brant, lent's birthda; 52, was slightly wounded in a narking the fi battle in the parlor of the home unctions in coi , P. Phillips, a prosperous far- entenary of th residing four miles from here, Viscount Bri< t 8 o'clock Sunday evening. John ambassador to t t and his brother, Earl B. Brant, posing the toasl 17, are under arrest. centary celebra e Cone boys were first cousins bration would b ?f the parties are prosperous ica and Hollanc g white men of this section. Al- .would be celebi *h the shooting occurred in the in England." ] :nce - of two ot Mr. .runups IWWVUS hters, upon whom the young common ideals were calling, details as to the *n war> an^ ca^ ; of the fight are quite conflict- ^ac^ ^a^ "the ] harder than tho hn Brant, it is said, claims to Lord Burnha killed both of the Cone boys, toast, affirmed ever, Miss Ruth Phillips testified derstanding not le coronet's inquest that John mind, but, abo\ t killed Aubrey Cone and that The Mayflow Brant killed Allie Cone. The ed, represented men were buried this afternoon, "concentrated power in the w< ial to The State. ' clared that the lirfax, Feb. 28.?Allie Cone and Washington rey Cone, sons of W. F. Cone, nianor would b< killed in the parlor of Edward temP^e to the * ips, near Sycamore, about 8 o'- The America : last night. John and Earle Davis, >n r? it, sons of Robert Brant, are un- vas no reaso irrest. Americans V :cording to testimony at the in-j"a?a*n ?ededica t the Cone boys went to the Phil-1 perpetuation of home and were in the parlor j Washington sto 1 the Brant boys came in about 8 j misguided men, ck and without many words fir-! declared the ai commenced. jmad and misgu )th of the Cone boys were under j^e aPPle dis ears old, and the Brant boys, too, i English speakin under 20 years of age. Sheriff j Lord Reading lett was notified and soon had ry Washingt Brant boys in custody and lodged the British i > banne led eek en it is is the san published X R COMP C. ?? rnwell county jail. [He characterize le and Brant families man who defea and well to do people, best men we e> The luncheon the lord mayor. r-1 ?-?17 xit Among the ] first president john w dayis) sador; the arch . 23.?Three hundred t^e bishop of L jns and Americans as an(j the Earl of ird mayor of London ambassadors to -,oasted Washington as gjr Auckland roes of the British national servict ,imed love of justice, g a. L. Fishei inity and peace as tion; Sir Georg uniting the two peo- dian high comr Andrew Fisher, was aluncheon com- missioner in I first American presi- Lipton, Viscour y anniversary and jjumham, Lor rst of a series of Riddell, Sir Wil inection with the ter- Admiral Harry e Mayflower's sailing. 0f the Americ :e, the former British European watei he United States, pro "Success to the ter- mr r(vers ( tions, said the ce e- wareH0I e celebrated in Amer1, and he hoped it ated no "less heartily News and Coui He declared that the j. Clifton Hi iust stand for fheir elected to succ in peace as they have q Smith, for i led attention to the jje was unoppc problems of peace are der> a. A. Rid se of war times." n0-t allowing hi m, in seconding this The eiection o: "what we need is un- a minute to be ; only of the eye and hg had been n _ 11 ~ ? 1.1.- 1 " rn an, vi me souj. er's manifest, he add- Bradford> of Y the greatest cargo of Ways and mean) essence of world T^e new wa] grid's history." He de- Was born at Mt reestablishment of the county> Januar i home on Sulgrave STraduated at { 3 the erection of "a sch?o1 in 1892 uture of mankind." ,e2e in 1894. : n ambassador, John E- of M- sponding, said there I*' *901. and n why Britons and children. Mr. re ry where may not mer in Chester! ite themselves to the anc* is one of 1 the ideals for which ,sts of his secti od. Of all the mad and T}le new con in the world today, annual salary < nbassador, he is most ided who would castj German surg scox'd between the two!being sold in tl I g nations." from 20 to 40 ] : proposed "the memo-jcan prices. The on and the friendship industry aeveio ind American peoples, j ing: the war. \ iiiiifliiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiHiiiiginiiB D IV % News ae as SemiANY *v \ d Washington as "the "What a Pi ted us and one , of the rer produced." But man is was presided over by did in ashes grave, solem principal guests were: deaths with ec the American ambas- ceremonies of bishop of Canterbury, 0f his nature, ondon, Viscount Brice Burial. Reading, both former : the United States: A SOLE Geddes, minister of e and reconstruction; Washington r, minister of educa- ment officials :e H. Perley, Cana-1 distributing s nissioner in London; to the houses Australian high com- great successjondon; Sir Thomas it Mersey, Viscount So this is the d Weardale, Baron atrocit liam Tyrrell and Rear Housewives S.Knapp, commander over cl an naval forces in Back from th :s. shack i Lord God < )F CHESTRFIELD me n(" JSE COMMISSIONER Think how we of the Now all its rier. 'ries t( vers was unanimously, chamber we eed the late Capt. W. you're i term of four years. "Unlimber >sed, his only conten-; in for _ ? . .. I v Larason, 01 uoiumoia. 1 s name to be offered, j Season, embal f Mr. Rivers took but. the sti s consummated, after Silly! Corn ominated by W. R.' corned I ork, chairman of the'Camouflage, r s committee. change rehouse commissioner! Old fish is . Croghan, Chesterfield throug y 27, 1876, and was Reinforce, nic ;he Chesterfield high daffodi and from Woffoi'd col-^ Stir it or s He married Miss Mary slum; t. Croghan, September It's a waste, j is the father of ten strong Rivers has been a far-' We're off t field county all his life come, -.he Iparlinp' acricultur-1 So mother (oi ?o o ? ? | . on. N i the bri imissioner receives an Food Shern )f $3,000. war wj If you fal fc ical instruments are may he ic United States at j The Sherma per cent below Anieri- of L! surgical instrument ped greatly here dur- The nations s now $37.20 t mnma . - . , . ' ' ? I m . - -m I. ?vn 'I I ?i | I- JjV3? ece of Work is Man!" I a noble animal, splen,and pompous in the mizing nativities and / jual lustrr, nor omitting ' bravery in the infamy ^ ?Thomas Browne: Urn HER'S LAMENT! i, D. C.?War Departstate that the plan for urplus Aritiy foodstuffs svives is meeting with ?News Item. latest in peace-timfe ies? are buying our left- . low! ie dead come the messmonstrosities, jf Battles, be good to v! worshipped the thought dining-room? charms are but mem) bless? prayed about, now a pining-room? intrenching tools, fall mess!" Im, resurrect or arrange iff? ed willy will still be bill, uffle, dye?you'll never the stuff, gold-fish?we've been h the mill! kcl-plate, perfume with 1, ihirr it, slumgullion is for the taste would be in a half a gill? he flavor for ages to wifey), you must bear int for me, lan meant when he said is hell; ir canned rations you ive to hunt for me, m for peace is the H. C. ?Home Sector. ;1 debt of Great Britain 5,000.000. .