Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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AND ?Factory Prices! |Sasy Payments] $S. monthly to $10. monthly $2. monthly ans $5. monthly Or 30 days free trial in youi Own home. Sheet Music 4cts a copy. Send for Catalog. MUSIC HOUSE. Augusta, - - Ga. >niH M-M?M?M TH 11-M The Planter's Loan and Savings Bank Augusta, Ca. Pays interest on Deposits, J* Accounts Solicited. LC. HAYNF, CHAS. C. HOWARD, PKEslDEiN-T. OASmfitt. RESOURCES OVER $1,000,000. K-M-M-M-M 'M l I I l-l rn ! 1 nov/ represent a strong line of Fire Insurance jj Companies and can insure your property. Your patronage will be appreciated. UL A. SMITH. GROCERIES. Full supply of Fancy and Staple Groceries always on hand. Let me supply your table Ice cold soft drinks al ways on hand. Fu supply of Bagging ard Ties cn hand for the farmers. Your patronage solicited. J. M. (MTS. TIM MO ?VS & CORLEY, SURGEON DENTISTS, Appointments at Trenton on Wednesdays. Crown and Bridge Work a Special ?-1 Walter C. Milter, DentaB Surgeon, 731 Green St, Augusta, Ga. Thone 87. SOUTH CAROLI Neys of interest Gleaned Fro Arranged for Court Martial at Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Special.-Privates C. Mac Quinn. Lester Holt and W. A. Holt, members of Company I. 1st regiment, South Carolina National Guard, pleaded guilty before a court martial here last week. Mac Quinn and Lester Holt pleading guilty to the charge of desertion 'and W. A. Holt to the charge of disobeying or ders. Privates W. S. Rogers, James Wilds and Clarence Cobb, who were court martialed on thc charge of de sertion, pleaded not guilty and were tried, the case taking up the entire day. H. L. Bomar appeared for the defendants. The officers of the court were Capt. P. K. McCulley, Capt. P. C. Hundley, Capt. F. I. Watson and Capt. J. Frost Walker, Judge Advo cate. The trial attracted great inter est, the chamber of commerce rooms where the court was held being crowd ed with military men and private citizens. It Avas the first military trial ever held in Spartanburg and the first of the kind ever held in the State. Thc Court martial was ordered by Col. Lewis, commander of the 1st South Carolina regiment, and was the result of the above named privates refusing to respond when Company I was called out to protect the jail on October 10, when a mob attempted to storm the jail and lynch John Irby, colored, charged with at tempting to rape Miss Leila Demp sey. Irby has since been convicted and sentenced to serve thirty years in the penitentiary. When the court convened the privates, under charges, all of whom were in uniform, to gether with the witnesses were brought into court. Privates Lester Holt and ?LMac Quinn pleaded guilty to the charge of desertion, and W. A. Holt entered a plea of guilty to the charge of disobedience. Quinn in making his plea of guilty broke down and cried. He said -that it was his intention to respond, and that he went to the armory for his uniform and arms, but found the armory locked. Privates. Cobb, Wilds and Rogers in their defense claimed that they ?were of the opinion that their term of en listment expired October 1, and that they had turned in their uniforms and equipment and were not there fore subject to call to arms. The po sition of <rke "company was that since ?they had not received written dis charge from the colonel of the regi ment they were subject to duty at any time. The court adjourned and the papers and findings of the court will be forwarded to Col. Lewis, com mander of the 1st regiment. It will be ten days before Col. Lewis will make a report on the case. Monarch Mill Meeting Held. Union, Special.-The stockholders of the Monarch Cotton Mills met .here -S. M. Milliken and his party of nothern capitalists being present. H. A. Hatch, of New York city, son-in law of Mr. Milliken, was chosen pres ident, in succession to P. E. Fait, deceased, and Mr. Nicholson, of this city, was reelected treasurer and gen eral manager. A semi-annual divi dend of 3 per cent was ordered paid on January 1. Geologists Gathering tfata. Blacksburg, Speciai.-Mr. A. L. Steritt, of the geological survey, is here with Prof. Sloan, gathering data of this quadrangle to fill in the map of this section being made by the geological survey. The topographi cal men were here in 1906 and they have the map all ready now except ing the geological data. When that is worked up the map will be com plete. Heavy Sentence Given. Spartanburg. Special.-The heav iest sentence ever imposed in this county for conviction on the charge of selling liquor was that imposed by Judge Klough on Cel. Aaron Thompson of this county, who was convicted on three accounts. He was given a fine of $1,500 or eighteen months in the penitentiary or at hard labor on the public works of the county. The case will bc appealed. Motion was made for a new trial but was refused by the court. Milliner Violates Game Law. 'Spartanburg, Special.-J. M. Good let, proprietor of a fashionable mil linery store, recently arrested on thc charge of violating the game laws of the State by displaying a hat trimmed with the plume of an egret a non-game bird, in his store win dow, appeared before Magistrate Coan and pleaded guiltv. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $2. Thc case against Mr. Goodlet was brought by the Audobin Society. Got Alcohol For Liquor. Anderson, Special.-M. B. Wil liams, a well known man of this city, died from laking wood alcohol. He had been drinking for several days and liad been in his room since Mon day. It is said tba! he mistook tho bottle containing thc poison for one containing whiskey. Williams was about 00 years old and a Mason. For the past foin years he had been working as assistant to a well known dentist of thc city. m AS? Sections of thc State and Busy Readers Report on Insurance. Columbia, Special.-In his forth coming' first annual report to the Leg islature Mr. McMaster, the new State Insurance Commissioner, will have some interesting and encouraging re marks to make concerning domestic mutual insurance doing n fire busi ness, showing the remarkable saving to policy-holders on both city and country property these concerns char tered under the "mutual protective association act" have made over "old line" insurance. They "tell a story of honesty and fratenity that entirely over shadows the failures of the few which have attempted to cover the whole Stale." Mr. Mc Master mentions one Charleston com pany, the Carolina Mutual, which is 57 years old, has .$130,000 in cash and investments. It weathered the great Charleston fire of 1861, through the loyalty of its members meeting all its heavy losses then, which have been fully saved back to them in re duced insurance since. He also men tions favorably the Hibernian Mu tual," the Germania Mutual and the Merchants' Mutual, all Charleston companies confining themselves to Charleston City property. These Charleston companies, the report says, "have been the means of sav ing, I believe without exaggeration, hundreds of thousands of dollars to the citizens of Charleston." Mr. McMaster's comments are most en couraging to the movement that has started in the South to do the South's insurance business at home at less cost to policy-holders and keeping all the money at home. Cern Contest Not Decided. Gaffney, Special.-A large number of farmers came to Gaffney on the date fixed for deciding the corn' con test which has excited so much in terest among the farmers of Cherokee county this season. A number of them was disappointed, however, as the committees were not ready io re port as to the yield for the reason that some of the contestants have not finished gathering their product. The farmers were met by Mr. C. L. Good rich, from the office of farm manage ment of Washington, D. C.; Mr. C. P. Hartley, of* Washington, who is in charge of corn investigation from the bunrau of plant industry, and Mr. Ira .Williams, also of the bureau of plant industry. These gentlemen spoke entertainingly and instructively along their particular lines, and after the speaking Mr. Goodrich awarded the prize of $5 to Mr. T. C. Petty for the best display of seed corn. The prize offered by the Merchants a?(^ Planters' Bank for the largest yield will be awarded later after the various committees on measurements, etc., have reported. Mill Meeting Held. Spartanburg. Special.-The annual meeting of "the Spartan Mills, Lock hart Mills and the Gainesville Cotton Mills were held last week. The old hoard of directors and officers of ali three of the mills were re-elected and the usual dividends declared. The meetings were attended by S. M. Milliken and party of New York mil lionaires, who are making their-an nual trip of inspection to the mills in this section, in which they are in terested. Fire in Bamberg Cotton Oil Mill. Columbia, Special.-Fire destroy ed the gin house and erasing mill of the Bamberg Cotton Oil Mill, causing a loss of approximately $70,000, par tially covered by insurance. The buildings arid machinery of the mill are valued at $36,000 and the raw material destroyed at about $40, 000. The insurance as stated by Mr. W. B. Brabham, manager of the mill, is about $35,000. Explosion at Rock Hill. Rock Hill, Special.-The mangle in the Rock Hill Steam Laundry explod ed, wrecking the rest of the machin ery, blew a hole eight feet square in the side of the brick building, forced out ail the doors and shattered the glass in the windows. ? No one was in the building except Mr. Farthing, the manager. He was badly stunned, but not otherwise hurt. Thc damage to the machinery is estimated at about fifteen hundred dollars, hut that to thc building was not estimated. Ar. Unusual Find, in Branchville. Branchville, Spccial.-rWhilc dig ging a well on the place of Mrs. M. E. Murray in Branchville a few days ago, some rare geological specimens' were discovered. Thc well had bien dug about 15 or 20 feet wini a sub stance was found that was in sink ing contrast to the remaining soil. On examination it was found to be a bcd of phosphate rock, intermixed with shark's teeth, fossils cud hones of prehistoric animals. Cotton Burned on Railroad Platform. Anderson, Special.-Fire which is believed to have been started by a spark from an engine burned 25 hales of cotton and damaged many more on the Blue Ridge Railroad platform at Pendleton, fourteen miles north of Anderson. The railroad will bc the loser as the codon had been billed' for shipment. President Roosevelt declares foi thc "open door" plicy for labor and capital alike at thc White House. CHANGE AT WATTS MILLS Resignation of ULr. Hammett Accept ed and Successor Named. Laurens, Special.-At a mecling of the directors of the Watts mills Mr. J. Adger Smythe, of Pelzer was elected to succeed Mr. W. D. Ham mett, of Honea Path, resigned. The resignation of Mr. Hammett4 was made necessary because of his recent election to the presidency of the two Anderson mills, malani; his duties too i arduous. Mt. Smythe will at an early date move his family to Lau rens. It is understood that the mat ter if issuing some preferred stock was considered at the meeting last week. Upon,-suggestion of Mr. Smy the it was decided not to issue any inore stock. Incendiarism Alleged. Lexington, Special.-Sheriff Corby was informed (hat the barn of Mi. .Limes Oswald; - who resides near Steadman, a little station on the old line of the Carolina Midland rail road, had been burned on Thursdnv night about ,]2 'o,clock and that i' .var thought that the fire was the -jct pf an incendiary. Sheriff Cori ey im mediately sent Deputy Sheriff Mil ler to the scene to make an investi gation. State News Items. Gen. J. C. Boyd said recently that the cost of the militia for defending thc negro, John Irby, at Spartanburg, would mount up into several hundred dollars. Geri. Boyd thinks that Gov. Ansel did exactly right. On account of'the conditions immediately follow ing the crime, he thinks that Gov. Ansel woulchjhave done wrong had he failed to provide protection. Bet ter to have too much protection than none at all. The expenses will be $1.50 per day for each militiaman on duty, in additi' to traveling ex penses of Lan?, company to and from Spartanburg on two occasion? and the squad to Columbia aud re turn. Comptroller General Jones and the State superintendent of education. Mr. O. B. Martin, are at work on their annual reports and. will have them ready for the printers soon. Gov. Ansel has not yet commenced work on his annual message but -viii begin shortly. There is much specu lation as to his attitude on prohi bition since three of the counties vot ing out the dispensary makes the State exactly divided in number and representation on the question. It is probable that the governor may re new his recommendation of last year. He has the matter now under advise ment. The Rutledge county commission ers have been appointed with the ex ception of one from Clarendon and _one. frorni^lorence opposed to thc proposition. R. B. Smith, of Kings tree is the commissioner from Wil liamsburg opposed to the plan. J. J. Eaddy,' of Leo, Williamsburg county, J. H. Prosser, of Hannah, Florence county and W. D. McFadden of Lake City, R. F. D. No. 1, Clarendon coun ty, are the commissioners favorable, to formation. Gov. Ansel has not as yet made any decision on the petition for Hie pardon of Mrs. Carson, thc white woman who is serving a life sentence from Spartanburg on the charge of killing her husband 13 years ago. He has the petition under advisement and may render a decision or mn\ ref::r it to the State pardon board. Gov. Ansel has not yet appointed two members of thc State dispensary commission lo fill the vacancies creat ed by the resignation of B. F. Ar thur and C. K. Henderson, who are receivers for the dispensary fund. The governor has the matter under advisement and may make his ap pointments later. Gov. Ansel has appointed on the Calhoun dispensary board T. T. liane, vice W. G. Peterkin, resigned. Haue was recommended by the commis sioners. Gov. Ansel has appointer A. T. Johnson of Talatha magistrate for Aiken county, vice Jesse Green, re signed. Green was recently elected supervisor for Aiken. Johnson was recommended by the delegation. Comptroller General Jones is send ing out through The State printing office thc blanks and books to be used in connection with the paying of taxes. Mr. C. C. Muller, manager of the printing office, states that all records as to early delivery have been broken. Mr. R. W. D. Rowell, auditor and county superintendent of education of Bamberg county, was' in Colum bia as the messenger for the cleef ion commissioners. He paid an official visit to Comptroller General Jones. The supreme court will meet on November 24 with a very large, long list of appeal cases. Briefs of General News. Owing to the sudden dea!h of Gen eral Count Hhelsen-Hnesler, Emper or William has deferred until' later the audience with Chancellor von Bu clow. , Thomas James, a locomotive engi neer, killed himself .in a Petersburg, Va., hotel. Receivers of thc Jamestown Expo sition bought several huillines hack, in hope of selling to the Government. President-elect Taft, who spent Sunday with President Roosevelt at the White House, announces that he will certainly call Congress in special session to revise the tariff. The Daughters of the Confederacy elected officers and decided to merl in Houston, Texas, next year. President Roosevelt calls upon the farmers all over the conni ry I" meet and set forth what can be done to improve farm life. Senator Foraker issued a state ment explaining his Standard Oil af filiation. i y PALM IO COTTAGE Mayor Torn L Johnston Goes Into Bankruptcy HE WAS ONCE VERY WEALTHY Mayor of Cleveland, For Years Credited With Fossessing a Large Fortune, Announces That He Has Lost Everything and Will Be Com pelled to Move Into Smaller and Less Expensive Quarters. Cleveland, 0., Special.-Mayor Tom L. Johnson, who for years has been accredited with possessing a very large fortune announced that he bad lost everything and would be compelled to give up his beautiful home on Euclid avenue and move in to smaller and less expensive quar ;crs. The mayor also stated that he ivould give up his automobiles and :)ther luxuries, as he could no longer afford to keep them. His fortune .vas wrecked, the mayor declared, by his devotion to affairs of the estate jf his dead brother, Albert, who was heavily interested in traction prop ?rty in the East. After Albert's death a question .vas put up to him whether he should resign his oflice as mayor and take 2p thc management of Albert's es tate. "I decided that I would not. I had sntered the fight in this city with ?ertain ideals before me. I wanted :o fight privilege and special interest, md I had already decided to give up working for dollars. So I concluded to stay right here and do what I 20uld to help my brother's children at long istauce. "Why did I choose the course I did ? I'll tell you. I wanted happi ness and nothing else when I closed ap my business affairs and took up ?ivic activity? ^'And I've been happy, too. "I'm going to be happy yet, loo. We may have to go back to a cot tage, but that's ^hc-way wc started, and we can Icok upon life just as joyfully there as we did in the big house on Euclid avenue. "They tell rae my enemies are planning to bring financial trouble upon me. I've been expecting it. "My enemies arc cauable of doing that. One may expect nothing else from special privilege. Let them make any sort of attack upon me that they choose. I'll never give up and they'll' always find me at the front. "If I had been a coward-if I had ruii away fro mthis fight for the.peo ple of Cleveland-I could have saved my fortune and built it up. But I had chosen my course. I haven't been laboring as mayor with the ex pectation of being rewarded by the gratitude of the people. One cannot count on that. It's pleasure in doing work that I like that has kept me in the fight. "I have never made a single penny out of the street railways since I be came mayor. I don't feel discourag ed. I'm a free man, and. that means a great deal to mc. Don't you sup pose it will be worth something to me to have my friends realize that I entered the mayor's office rich and left it poor? "I'm going to keep on just as I've started. I'm going to be a candidate for mayor again when this term is over. ' ' Chauffeur Killed in Auto Crash. Washington, Special.-Noble Davis a chauffeur, was killed and several others were injured by thc overturn ing of an automobile near Hyatts ville, Md. The automobile was own ed by Joseph Strasburger, a mer chant of this city, and Daivs, who was his chauffeur, had taken out a party of his friends in thc machine. Famous Federal Scout Dies at Mount Vernon, N. Y. Mount Vernon, N. Y., Special. Col. John C. Babcock, who was one of the principal scouts for the army of the Potomac during the Civil war, died at his home here. Colonel Bab cock was 72 years of age. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted at Chicago in thc Sturgis Rifles. He was later assigned to thc secret serv ice of thc army under Majori Allen, and it was he who discovered Gen eral Lee's forward movement which ended at Gettysburg. "Fighting Beb" ?v?,r)<-- to Become a Builder of It.-.ilrcads. Los Angeles. Cal., Special. "Fighting Huh" Evans is to heccrnc a builder of railroads and a develop er of harbor waterways. This beean? known when it was announced thal he had been chosen ( ''.airman of tin directorate of the Los Angeles Har bor < 'cuipany, which is building f railway system from San Polio har bor to points in Southern California Officials of thc harbor company later (hal Admiral Evans is expected ti assura'1 ic? H-H I"M"M"M"M"I IMM"H THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA, AUGUSTA, GA. L. C. HAYNE, CHAS. R. CLARK, President. . Cashier CAPITAL $250,000.00. Surplus & Profits $190,000.00. Tho business of our out-of-town friend* receives the same careful attention as that of our local depositors. Tho accounts of careful consowative people solicited. Savings D Pays 4 % interest on all ace compounded every six mor Capital and Surph HAULING Before insuring elsewhere Old Line C nipanies. kt The Farmers ] ? THE I.H:C. an engine that runs like a top, smoothly and uninterrupt edly. If an engine balks or stops and you have to fool away your time to find out the cause, yon don't want that engine because it means a Waste of time and energy. -:- -:- -:- - E. J. N Coal Heaters, Cook We also carry sto sortments of cook Our grandfathers used to say that many a man digs his grave with his teeth INSURANCE When placing your Insure ance give me a call. I rep-! resent a very strong line of; FIRE Insurance Companies, Agent for the largest LIPEJ - - - Insurance Co. I will ap preciate a share of yourbusi ness. 1 can be found at my office-Office No. a---over Hank of Edgcneld. j James TT, ?JIM%$| i Light Saw, Lathe and Shin gie Mills, Engines, Boile* , Supplies and repairs, P -r^a qle , Steam and Gasoline En gines, Saw Teeth, Files, Belts and Pipes. WOOD SAWS and SPLITTERS. Gins and Press Repairs, Try LOMBAKD, AUGUSTA. GA. V. A. HEMSTREET &BR0. Garns, P?sSoSs, ^Knives. CARTKflEBGES. [First CBass BSepaarang. 655 Broad Street, Augusta. Ga Near Georgia Railroad Bank. rs:ia DA, QA. apartment :ounts in this department, iths, January and July. is $550,000.00. SEE & BYRD , Wegrepresent the Best & BYRD* 3ank of Edgefield . ENGINE1 I. H. C engines are so prac tical and so simple that when you start them they run until you stop them whether you aro watching or not Never out of fep?fir; don't waste fu?L Caji on. us and we will gladly explain the good points of the I. H. C. engin*. -.- -:- ?*> -i- -. "I orri@9 Stoves in all sizes.? ve pipe, full as ing utensils, etc. Janies A. Dolley, DENTAL SURGEON, Johnston, S. C. Office ever News-Mcnitor Office. JAS. S. BYRD. SURGEON DENTIST, EDGEFIELD, S. C. ?aSTOffice ov?r Post-Office.