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_ _ _ T _ wvrr-.v , V r$ /?v . . \ /"-/' .sjr> ' ^ * ' * i * ^ I*. - ??, Wl\t - ?nncnsl^r f^ilfjw* spr;. ? ::=======?iisr.?. -z-sn.. . ?r ? r^r-^rrrr"?il.. tt; ~-r~ ---r?n-. ,, ?z=^-^3^T^r,^srf"( { ^^t?wSV /T(9*#pr)jKr : r^wifcc fVy.naCfac* efShe J\>liM(x^ r!Lcirc4, ^p^aaeyia nfl ?uuxw?? | ^ ^^LwJtsaL^ J " T"KLY L A N O A ft 1 E iw. 6. O. S E V T E M 11 E R 23, 1903 FX i a iii.isSS iHP Verdict Not Guilty. The School Teacher lieu hen Pitts Acquitted of Murder of Edward Foster. Spartanburg, Sept. 10.?The trial of Ilouhen 11 Pitts, charged with the murder of Edward Foster resulted in the acquittal of the defendant. Tbis morning argument was made by Judge G. W. Nichols and Mr. Stauyarne Wilson for the deN fence and Solicitor Seaso for the state. At 1:30 Judge Gary churged the jury in a clear and concise manner, bearing on all points of the case About 2 p. m. Judge Gary gave the case to the jury and at 4:15 p. m. that body returned with a verdict of not guilty. * The scene in the court room as the verdict was announced by the clerk was a dramatic one. As "Not guilty" was read out, the defendant bowed hi* bead on the desk inside the railing, where the members of the bar and their j frionds sit. His sister, Mrs. C. j C. Featherstone, who was sitting; nearby, threw up her hands and shouted in a paroxysm of joy and. gratitude, relieving the nervous tension, under which she had been laboring. Rev. J. D. Pitts, father of the defendant, was also forcibly moved as were several of the attorneys for tho defense in the case. The announcement of "Not guilty" was tho occasion of tho hundreds of spectators to cheer aud applaud. Penalty Fits The Crime. Twelve months in jail and a tine of $1,000 was the sentence passed by the Court of General Sessions in Spartanburg on a man who plead guilty of operating a slot machine. Tho penalty might seem unuiually sevoro, but it is claimed that thoro was no way Uy which tho prisoner could escape it under the Stato law. Without going into the merits of tho Spui'v tanburg offense, the law must he commended, when we remember that the slot machine is the most pernicious form of gambling It is a device which cannot be beaten by any player. It is robbery of th") worst kind. It is within constant reach of children, who often steal to play it, and there is no possible chance by which they can recover even a part of the losses. A few months ago the , municipal authorities of Philadelphia decided that^ie scheme 1iad to go, aard after a raid by the police nachines valued at $25,000 were burned at a public bon fire. Other cities have adopted the same methods and they saw the necess* lty of it when the evil was spreading so rapidly.?Greenville News. writ zs x.xra ? In the last analysis nobody knows, but we do know that it is under strict law. Ahuso thai invo Abuse that law even slightly, pain results. Irregular living means derangement of the organs, resulting in Constipation, Headache or Liver trouble. Dr. King's New Life Pills quickly re-adjusts this. It's gentlp, yet thorough. (July 25c at Carwford Bros. J. F. Mackoy & Co. and Funderburk Drug Store. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bear, the Signature of t+LafyX | ' '.K ' 1 ' Happenings In "'he State, As Chronicled by the Alert Cor respondents of The Columbia State. COLUMBIA NEURO LOSES HIS LIFE. Helton, Sept. 18.?The dead body ot u negro supposed to be John Robinson, of Columbia, wat found early yesterday morning lying by the side of the C. & G, li. R. track about 300 yards from the depot. It was found by Iht section hands as they were leaving for their %y's work. The sup position is that he had attemptec to board the south bound passenger train that passes here at 9:1E r>. m.. and had hm % , - ? - ? UI9 JLV/WVIII^ and was knocked down with thf above result. The train had not passed over any part of his body but one side of his skull was crushed, a leg broken and quite a number of bruises were on variout parts of his body. The negroes here say he had finished a term ic the Georgia penitentiary and was "hoboing" his way back home. ECHOE8 OF FACoLET DISASTER. Jonesville, Sept. 18.?Magistrate J. M. Bates went out with t wagon day before yesterday foi the Facolet Manufacturing conn pany and "pulled" a load of clotl for the company. Some of tin cloth bad been mude into garment! and bed?clothes, the latter beinj takeu also. It is understood tin company is still about three thou sand bales of cotton short for the Fauolt't and Clifton comnanies mw il is supposed most of this cottor is covered by saud and rafts a'on* the Pacolat river. VOl*NG MAN KILLS HIMSELF. Pickens, tlcpt. 18.?Now: reached hero this afternoon o: the suicide of Robert .Jones, whe lived in the upper part of the county in the Ducusvillo section The suicide was effected by laud anum, the seemingly favoritt dcath-deuling drug of those beni upon self destruction. No cause is assigned for the act. A fen years ago rhe deceased married the daughter of Mr. J. D. M, Keith, one of the best citizens oi the Oolenoy section of the county. MOST DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT. Manning, Sept. 20.?A fifteen year-old son of W. 1. Hudnsll was accidentally shot with a Winchester rifle and killed this morning near Manning by his friend, the young son of D. E. Hodge, whom Hudnall was visiting. Tliej did not think the gun was loaded, and young Hodge pulled the triggor, when it discharged, shooting Hudnall through the neck. KOR SELLING DISEASED MEATS. Anderson. Sent. Qft Hhnri , 1? ? """ I Dorr and Arch Lewis, two white men of the city, will be tried it the mayor's cout;t tomorrow morning on a charge of violating the city ordinance relating todiseasec meats. Some days ago Judge oi Probate Nance bad a sick cowanc not knowing how to proscribe for the animal, sold it to Dorr, whr is a cow trader and who said thai he could effect a cure. Dorr afterwards sold the animal to Lowis, informing him at the time of its condition. The next thing heard of the matter was that Lewis wa< peddling the beef over the city. Lewis gives a different version of the affair from that of Dorr. The chai go is a serious one, and will be fully investigated in the may. or's court. I More Abo it Rural Police. ^ Tho Yorkvillo Enquirer believes the matter of establishing a rural police is worthy of the serious con- ( sidoration of tho law makers of the state. The need of the system may not appear pressing, because ' the country is in a comparatively 5 quiet condition, but undoubtedly ? * certain crimes would not have been : committed had tho system been in 0 ' existence. As to the composition ,j 1 and cost of the force, the Enqirr- , * er says: t > "It has occurred to us that it c * might be a very good jdea to es-< ' tablish a rural police system e throughout the state on a basis of ^ ' one mounted man for each a ' I township. The various county c 5. systems might very well be put D 'j under the control of the lespect- e ive sheriffs, and the sheriffs 8 * might be charged with thorospon- v 1 sibility of organizing their respect- ^ ' ive forces so as to keep them em v 1 ployed individually or collectively 0 1 and always ready for effective ser- n 5 vice in whatever emergency. j, "Of course, such a system j jwouiu cost something; but we ^ j have an idea that if the whole Q matter were carefully studied ouc ^ * it could be established without a <] " groat deal of expense to the ^ - present machinery. For v it instance, for one thing the rural f 3 policemen might be required to do ^ s constabulary work for the raagis? tratos; and then again they .might j 3 bo required to serve ull legal pro- a - cess thai now pass through the ^ 3 hands of the slier ill's. There are j lj still other duties for which the a 1 | public has to pay that may bo r C / transferred to them, and we have ? no doubt that tlie whole thing can v bo worked out without additional j expense to the taxpayer." ? s The suggested plan seems prac- (] f ticable, and it is to bo hoped that ) newsnaners crenernllv will tni-n nr. - . o 1 "1' I ) tbo subject, so us to bring it pro- b . minently before the people. With a - greater security in the rural dis- ^ ) tricts from crime there will bo -v t more inducement for farmorb to 3 remain on the farms. Intending ^ r immigrants also will bo more in- f clined to look with favor upon c , the idea of settling here and tak- y f ing advantage of our natural re- a , sources when they know that their j, lives and property will be as safe as if they were in cities or towns. ^ Not that there is any particular I evidence of lawlessness in rural ^ districts now or has been in the y A. L.-A - 1 ? * uui me Knowledge tbat in ? the future should any disorder C manifest itself it could be nipped ? r in the bud by the presence of of- ? ticors on the ground would have a a reassuring and beneficial effect, t , ?Columbia Record. n FBARFU L. ODDSc AOAINST HIM! p Bedridden, alona and destitute. 1 r Such, in brief was the condition a j of an old soldier by name of J. J. 1 Havens, Versailles, O. For years E he was troubled with Kidney dis- E * ease and neither doctors nor med| icines gave him relief. At length A | he tried Electric Bitters. It put him on his feet in short order and ' now bo testifies. "I'm on the road t to complete recovery." Best on ) earth for Liver and Kidney ^ troubles and all forms of Stomach * and Bowel Complaints. Only 50c. t; 1 Guaranteed by Crawford Bros. J. d 1 F. Mackey & Co. and Funderburk 1 Druggist. J OAOTCmiA. t( j B.iari tho /y Kind You Ibvfl Always Bought , ; 7 I banner' salve r | th? moat Mating salve In tho world. 4 ireenville Jury Has Done It's Duty. iunnolls Faces n Ten Year SonWilliin n WnoLr of il.? . *v??u m ?? <uv ?> U1 lliu Commission of His Foul Crime. 'pecial to The Stato. Greenville, Sept. 10. ? Thotrial f Robert T. Gunnells, white, inicted for the rape of u 4-year^ id negro girl, began at 10 o'clock his morning and ended at 0 'clock this afternoon. The evidence against the accusd was altogether circumstantial, ut it was strong and convincing nd the only weak link in the bain of evidence was whether or ot the rape had beon accomplish d. The injury to the child was erious and loft no doubt as to that was the intention of the bru ftl ussault but the actual crime jus not proven and the blood up n the man's lingor nails, when rrested a few hours aftcrwads adicated the manner of the inury to the child. The jury must ihvg taken this view of the case 8 after an hour s deliberation the erdict was rendered of guilty unler the secodd count of the inlictmont which was an assault vith intent to ravish, the penalty or which is not exceeding ten '4ars imprisonment. The prisoner was representor if the trial by Blytho <fc Blytho, ,nd tho theory of the defqpse was hat Gunnel Is is an irratnmal am; rresponsible man, not knowing t times tho difference between igkt ami wrong, and that his nental condition was duo to ser ice in the Phil limine* iiffiM nviittff - - i t >y tho injuries received ti few uonths ago when he was struct n the head by a trolley car. The rincipal witnesses for the deenso wero his father, mother am ister, who concurred very full} s to the disordered condition 01 lis mind and related a number o: stances to illustrate. Gunnells is '29 years old ant as been working, at the fertilizer actory. He has a vacant,distlesi ountenance and is not at al right. His victim will recovei nd the terrible wounds are lical g slowly. i BOY'l wIbl>HIDK FOH liirifi' With family around expectiof im to die, and a son riding foi ife 18 miles, to get Dr. King's lew Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, W. II* Brown, f Leevillo. Ind , endured death's gonies from asthma;but this wonorful medicine guve instant reliel nd soon cured him. He writes: 'I now sleep soundly everv ight." Like marvelous cures ol Consumption, Pneumonia, Bronhitis, Coughs, Colds and Grif rove its matchless merit for all 'hroat and Lung troubles. Guarnteed bottles 60c and $1.00. 'rial bottles free at Crawfort Iros. J. F. Mackey & Co. an? 'underburk drug store. 'hree Men Convicted of Murdei at Greenville Court. rreenville News, 19th iust. Will Norton, Sol Norton, am 'oinsott Go9nell wore found guil y in the general sessions yesteray of the murder of Nin Goanoll, 'ho jury recommended them tt lie mercy of the court. The at [>rneys for tho defense gave no ice of a motion for a now trial, 'ho other defendants who were deluded in the indictment, Moris Gosnoll, Uufus Staton anc Liner Gosnell, were acquitted. Reckless Sheriff Rhoden. : I Not only Refused to Allow the j Coroner Take his Place, hut Refused to he Locked Up in .Jail and Discharged the .Jailer. i Special to News and Courier. j ^oiumum, sept. in. ? Uover | nor Hevwanl received the follow- I iog letter this afternoon from Mr. ; Jacob Gibson, coroner of Saluda 1 County: < Saluda, S. C., September 10, I ' 1903. Governor D, C. lleyward, Co- i lumbia, S. C ?Dear Sir: Last j week 1 officiallv notified you by i wire that the sheriff of this coun < ty was under arrest, charged .vith I tho crime of murder, and that ho 1 refused to turn over his office to i me as coroner, and asked for dir- i ections. 1 received your reply that you < had not been officially notified aud I that nothing was iu your office < for you to act on. s 1 now niako official notification ' of the affairs. On Saturday night, I September 5, 11)013, Robert Crane, l a negro, was shot on the public i street in the town of Saluda, and I after inquisition by 1110 as coro- < ner the jury returned a verdict 1 1 that the negro came to his death < ^ by a gunshot wound in the hands l of W. L. Hhodon and Mat Berry, ' thereupon I caused the said Rho- i den and Berry to bo arrested and i [ .1. committed them to custody. In pursuance to the law 1 do* 1 manded that the otlicc of sheriff be turned over to me, but the sheriff refused, and ordered me I I from the jail, where he refused to l>o locked up, and discharg - 1 ed his jailer, who is my son, and appointed another jailer, from ' , whom 1 took a receipt for the two I t prisoners. ^ The jailer has moved out of the jail and there is no one legally in 1 charge of affairs of that olliee. ' The sheriff has since been released ' /. 1~~ 1- -1 ? ' iiuui uuatuujr uuwci uuuuutj COI'? pus proceedings and still continues j to discharge the dutes of shoriil, which, in my opinion, is contrary to the law. I wish that you would advise me in the premises, as 1 have a prisoner that must be I delivered and put in custody. Your prompt attention will ob\ 'ig0Jacob Gibson, Coronor, ?&c. 5 This is, perhaps, the first case of its kind in the history of the i State, and as thero was no precedJent of guide Governor Hey ward lurned the whole matter over !. to Attorney General Gunter. I'n I til tin opinion is rendered in the . ease Governor Heyward can do ) nothing. ' A NEW J Kit SKY EDI* TOR'S TESTIMONIAL* . M. T. Lynch, Editor of the Phtlipsburg, N. J. Daily Post, writes: "1 have used many kinds . of medicines for coughs and colds in my family but never anything so good us Foloy's Honey and Tar. I cannot say too much in praiso of it.'' T. Eugene Fun1 dorburk. Cornelius Vanderbilt Makes $10,. 000,000 on Wall Street. } New York, Sept. 18.?Among ' the heaviest winners in the recent " bear raid on Wall street, it became known today, was Cornelius Vanderbilt. II is declared that [ his protits amounted to $10,000,(000. lew Road System In Pickens \ftor .January 1 Kvcry Public Koad in tho County will be Let by Contract at so Much Per Mile. Special to News and Courier. Pickons, Sept. 10. ?A change n the manner of working tho public roads of this couuty jvill i)0 made at tho beginning of tho year 1094. The system in vogue tor some time has been found piite unsatisfactory. Convicts Have been employed for several years, but have been found injutlieiont to keep the roads in i^ood condition, because they cannot operate rapidly enough. Some sxeellent work, however, has been accomplished under the connet system, and it is a fact that iomo of the roads in the county iro in the best shape for years. The county commissioners have concluded to try the contract sys- % tern. Every public road in tho county will bo let by contract at jo much per mile, and no one will be restricted as to the number of miles ho bids in, so the bidder is responsible. Eids are (lot to includo tho keeping up of bridges, as tho board will indivi lually look after the county's in* terest in this particular. The county papers this week will contain the advertisements of the board, which will be the first in* formation the public at large will receive of this important change. New Order Issued to the Dispensary Constables. The following Circular No. t> lias been issued to dispensary constables: To State Constables: ^ ou are, jf course, familiar with contents jf Circular No. 4, which relates to tho use of intoxicating liquors by State constables. This is to ldviso you that, effective this date, tho following will bo strictly ailknt'Oil A mi* ? -.1 ~ 1 l - ? - juivit I.W. auy (JUUSIUOIU WUO V01intarily accepts the hospitality of i person who is suspected of violating tho dispensary law, or ac cepts treats or drinks, cigars, loans of money, etc., will bo dis. liissed from the service. This is not to forbid constables auying whiskey, otc., from an illicit whiskey dealer when they find it necessary to do so, in order to Hake a case against tho party in Court: provided they pay full price for what they receive and lccept no favors. A violation of this order will necessitate the discharge of the afliccr so offending. U. B. Hanmielt, Chief Constable. FRETSWOOLKM TO IM>1 K\SK SIZE. "1 had kidney trouble so bad that I could not work," says J. J. Cox of Valley View, K., 'uny feet were swollen to immense size and I was contined to my bed and physicians wore unable to give mo any relief. My doctor finally prescribed Foley's Kidney Cure which mude a well man of mo." 1'. Kugeno Funderburk. Curtis Jott, charged with the assassination of James Cockrill at Jackson, Ivy., declares his readi> ness to make a confession, provided ho is saved front the fallows. Take Laxative liromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. VV. Grove's signaluro is on each ' ox 25c.