Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SPARTANBURG JURY CONVICTS PUTNAM Verdict of Manslaughter in Murder Trial?Given Twelve Years Spartanburg, April 30.?After de liberating for three hours and twen ty-two minutes the jury at 4:28 o'clock this afternoon brought a ver * diet of guilty of manslaughter in the case of George Putnam, who on De cember 17 shot and killed B. A. Buckheister superintendent of the street railway. Judge Greene sen " tenced Putnam to hard labor for 12 T- : fk. years, in passing scurenvc vn defendent, Judge Greene said: "I dtd not know anything that I could say to you. The jury thought that you did not plan this crime, but flew into a rage. If you had not been carrying a pistol contrary to the law of the land, you would not have been brought here for trial, but would have fought man to man and it would have been a police case. As it is one man is dead and you are in trouble. Your previous (record is - good. You have had little trouble : before. I know your people?some of them?and they are good people; . not much money but it does not take . money to make good-pepole. Human -life is entirely too cheap' in South " Carolina. I do not feel like I would | be doing right to give you a light sentence. Personally, I would much . prefer to give you a lighter sentence ' than I am going to give to you. The sentence of the court is that you . serve a period of 12 years at hard labor on the public works of the . county or ,a like period in the state penitentiary.' Interest in the case has been in tense from the moment the prisoner was arraigned until the Verdict was rendered, and the court room has been packed during the entire trial. The prisoner was calm when the ver ' diet was rendered, and after a con . ference with his attorneys decided v-that he .would not ask for a new trial but his attorneys did ask for a light sentence for him. The defendant is 37 years of age, and his attorney- in asking for a . Hcht RAntpnra arcniP/4 that most nf his life was already spent, and a long term would work a hardship on the man and his family. The court then asked for his expectancy, ac cording to the mortality table. He then imposed the sentence of 12 years. JOHN ROBINSON CLAIMED BY DEATH Former Circus Owner Victim of Bronchitis?Dies at Miami Home. Miami,JFla., April 30.?John F. Robinson, retired circus owner died at his winter home this evening nf chronic bronchitis. He was 77 years of age. Mr. Robinson had been subject to bronchitis for a number of years. The last attack overtook him about two years ago. He failed rapidly and his advanced age proved to be a bar rier to recovery. John Robinson, Jr., his son, arriv .ed yesterday from Cincinnati and with Mrs. H. F. Stevens, a daughter, was at the bedside when death came. The body will be sent to Cincinnati tomorrow morning. The funeral will be conducted there. . , Mr. Robinson was born November 4> 1843 in Linden, Ala., not two hun dred yards frofri his father's show. At the age of 18 months he entered ; the sawdust ring on a career as per former which ultimately made him one of the largest circus owners ii^ the w&rld. At 18 years he had ac cumulated enough with the aid of his father to start on the road with a circus of his own. This expanded until after the Confederate war it became so cumbersome to transport about the rough country in wagons that Robinson conceived the idea of carrying it by train. * It was the first time a circus had traveled the cars. Today the John Robinson circus is traversing the country and requires 58 cars to carry it. During the Confederate war Mr. Robinson was an officer in the Fed eral navy. He spent much time an J money in the years that followed i?1 rebuilding the devastated sections. Mr. Robinson was one of our me" who organized the United States Playing Ca^d corporation of Cincin nati, of which he was a director ?! his death. He also was a director of the United States Lithographin ~ BELIEVE LAND IS ACCURSED French Workmen Refuse to Complete Building of Structure Which They Assert Is Haunted. ' % Comer sites are usually at a pre mium In any great city, but Paris has one that has remained unoccupied for nearly 30 years simply because French carpenters, bricklayers and masons re fuse to complete a structure which was begun there and which they de clare Is haunted. The corner is the rue de la Villette. In 1892 thQ owner of the plot de cided to build a three-story brick apartment nouse, out nanny uuu hui& started on the walls when workmen found the body of a woman who had been cut into pieces and burled in a bnsket. The laborers threw down their tools and refused to work. A new crew was hired, but the first day they were at work a scaffold fell, killiug one of the workmen and In juring another. This convinced the superstitious ones in the force that the place was haunted and they in duced the contractor to give up the Job. For 22 years the construction work was halted and tJien another con-* tTac.tor tried the task, but the fol lowing day the war began, and the contract was recalled. Since then the owners of the property have refused to go near the site, although they are willing to sell It if a buyer can be found who will assume ull the risks. BEAD BIBLE TO GET PENNIES Woman in State of Washington Has Found That Scripture Study May Be Purchased. There Is complaint that people no longer read their Bibles. Mrs! Gachea of La Conner haa found a way to pop ularize Bible reading. A few weeks -ago she offered to pay a penny a verse to every child or adult who com muted tn nipmnrv verses from certain chapters in the Bible. And now she Is receiving the heaviest mall In La Conner?reports fr#ra the children and brethren who have earned their pennies and want them at once, Qlen M. Foley writes In the Seattle Poat Intelllgencer. It would require one person's time to answer all the letters nnd mall, pennies. Bequests have come from all parts of the United States and there have even been ap plications from foreign countries. Hence, general Bible reading, w? note, is only a matter of going out and buying it. Mr. Rockefeller and others of his fatness might make Bible reading the avocation of the whole country by detaching a few million dollars and turning them into pennies. But will that variety of Bible reading do any good? Will it stimulate the readers who are after pennies to fol low the Christian life? Or is it Sim ply estimated that nobody can read much in the Bible without some of it sticking to him? How to Use Violets. Violet time Is at hand. In addition to bouquet making these flowers have a number of uses which might well be more widely known. We are told that the blossom is a cough remedy, a? emollient and a medicine for Increasing the perspiration. It Is also used in the treatment of various inflammatory Ill nesses. A hair tonic may be made from violets by slowly pouring over Hipm oil nf sweet almonds, which ab sorbs their fragrance, and mixing this with a quarter of Its volume of 80 per cent alcohol." This; emulsion is said to prevent the hair from coming out if used, daily. To perfume linen: Detach the violets from their stems and puti them in a small bottle in alternate layers of violets and table salt. When the bottle is half full, seal it hermeti cally and put it in a corner of the kitchen near the stove. At the end of three weeks the stopper may be drawn and the bottle placed among your linen, will infuse the garments with the fragrance of violets. The next day take the bottle out and re cork It. The process may then be re peated whenever your linen needs per fuming.?From L? Petit Parisien. Coal on Parma. The United States uses about 100, 000,000 cords of wood annually for fuel, of which 80 per cent is consumed in the rural districts. In spite of the fact that most oi our farm woodlands occur in the sev enteen states making up Kew England and the Jake states, the fanners and rural population of this section aunu ally use in excess of 18,000,000 tons of If by substituting wood one-quarter less coal could be burned on farms and one-tenth less in villages, the total saving would amount to nearly 8,000, 000 tons, or between 05,000 and 70,00(J carloads. Puzzled Expert As two friends were conversing an old college professor passed them In the street. "The professor is a wonderful man." one of them remarked. "He's a great mathematician and boasts that he can figure out any problem." "Not any more." returr.ed his friend, 'The landlord boosted his rent and has him sitting up nights trying to I solve the housing problem."?'ToI<Mc j Blade. J Considered a Freak/ The Tainpn Tribune says that a girl must choose between dressing sonslhly | and attracting attention. In some cir cles, bwiher, It'u the girl who dresset sensibly who attracts the most atten tion.?Boston Transcript. WEEKLY COTTON REVIEW New York, April 30.?The cotton market has shown considerable ir regularity during the past week, but flucuations have been comparative ly narrow and trading restricted by the continuation of the British coal strike, the uncertainty of an agree mat* TonQ^ofirmc an/4 ronnrfc iiiUiiu vn an. ii^aiawvaj anu that Southern spot holders showed a disposition to sell a little more freely on advances. On declines of ferings from that source have been little in evidence, however, while un favorable weather for the new crop start has restricted speculative sell ing and helped the general under tone of the market. The first May notices, estimated at between 6,000, and 7,000 bales were readily stopped at a premium of from 58 to 64-points on July and it is reported that hedges against the local stock have now been al most all transferred to the later de liveries. As May liquidation subsided the market steadied up during the middle of the week on reports of bet ter prospects for a settlement of the coal mine dispute in England and of an agreement on reparations but later in the week' the news from both these quarters was less, favor able. Notwithstanding the * labor troubles, trade advices from Man chester have been generally encour aging. A good business is said to be in prospect there as soon as it is pos sible for Lancashire spinners to nanfe the definite dates for de liveries and British, trade interests were credited with buying early new crop months. The less-favorable view of the sit uation as to reparations had com paratively little effect unless it has been to restrict the volume of busi uaaraiziifiiiiUiniiiifiiiiL ij [ i This week ] ll tko riiiodl | j the que^t Ei fn hnilrl p ij . , [] It is your cli j J Abbeville Sh jj , ' . h the bonds j] You nave I i j board of [i follow th< i j schools ? i W. M. BA W. A. CA J. D. KER C. H. Mcfl A city is ju n sigi uancmcinociciciBH HARDING APPEALS FOR EFFICIENT NAVY Hampton Roads, Va., April 28.? The United States seek;} no territory no payment and no tr.bute, Presi dent Harding today told the officers of the Atlantic fleet on the quarter deck of the flagship Pennsylvania here, bat said, "this country seeks that that is righteously its own and by the eternals we mean to have it." "Officers of the navy, I bid you make ours the most efficient, con scientious and effective navy in the world," said the President, "and I pledge you in return the conscience and confidence of 11,000,(3OD people. The Council of Six Nations Indi ans has decided to appeal to King George of Great Britain against the proposed enfranchisement of Indi ans in Canada. It desires to retain its tribal form of government and is appealing on grounds of "sacred agreement" between King George III and Josph Brant. ness. Exports for the present week exceeded the movement for the cor responding week last year and local statisticians expect them to run rela i tively heavy as compared with last year's during the balance of the sea son. Last year exports fell off sharp ly after May 1, while reports have been reaching the trade here recent ly of preparations to ship consider able cotton to Europe on consign ment. Private reports so far issued have pointed to a decrease of about 30 *per c rat in acreage and indicates that the prospect for an.?rarly new crop start has been materially modi fied by recent unfavorable weather. magaaaaaaraaa Know and Hel petitions are bein ion of issuing bo i New High Sch lty and privilege 5 to sign this pe ? I the following re] rn *C\rn A, ^ A ^ 1/"/% *r T irusicca. /mc y iir wise leadlersh lRNWELL, Chairma lLVERT R MURRAY E. R. TV dged by the schools it ghtful place as the "At n! RSlfiSifiififfiifiifilfiifitfiifiy WILL REOPEN BANK Anderson, April 30.?At-a meet- ' ing of the directors and stockholders of the Fanners* and Merchants bank this morning, a plan was pre sented by James H. Craig, state bank examiner, which wa3 adopted, and.it is believed the bank will re open in 30 days. During the 30 days the bankxwill be in charge of Mr. Craig. Representatives of two large Eastern banks were sent to the stockholders' meeting with power to act. It is understood that these men offered credit to the Farmers & Merchants' bank, and the Farmers'! Loan & Trust 'Co., which is under! the same management if they should need it. Mf ?.l *?1 - !_?__ Yvaicn ine uoei on your paper. Plumbir - REASONABLE PRICES Ralph itfgiararanii^fziaiaignuiUiL [p our Schools g circulated for ar nds not to excee jol as a citizen and f tition and ca?t y Dresentative citize ou not willing ai jp in the upbuilc n J.C.THOMS ALBERT HE R. S. LINK H. R. 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