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C The Lexington Dispatch. Wednesday, Jnty 3.1907. i - i i 1 SXXFUS WILLIAMS HELD WITHOUT BAIL Extreme Penalty For Crime Charged Against Him?Columbia Attorneys Will Go to Texas. San Antonia, Tex., Jane 26.?Rufus F. Williams of Colombia, S. C., is still . in jail here and is held without bail. The charge formerly made against him is one of the most serious under the Texas statutes, that of "highway robbery with firearms," the extreme penalty for which is death. Williams made a complete confession of the robbery of Mrs. Gibson on the day of his arrest and told of how he faulted her with a stick and tried j to drown her. He repeated this story i to the officials and newspaper men | and others and did not appear to realise the enormity of the crime and tbstin lteteltis alUkisgiBgofrense. j Williams has employed counsel here gf and now seems to think that the thing for him to do is to fight the case. Mrs. Sallie Gibson, the woman whom { Williams assaulted and robbed, was ~ placed in the hospital here and has! been under the constant care of competent physicians. She is not now considered in any danger as a result of Williams' attack and will probably lie discharged from the care of physiclans. Mrs. Gibson is about 50 years of age. She and Williams reached San j Antonia together, on the same train. | She had with her in a small grip $61.000 in cash, $11,000 of it in gold and 50 $1,000 bills. According to Mrs. i Gibson she sold all of her property in and near Columbia, S. C. Before . leaving that city Mrs. Gibson got] New York exchange for $61,000. She and Williams left Columbia together. She says that Williams persuaded her to convert the exchange into cash and it was paid to her as stated above, in gold and large bills. With this fortune in ready cash they came to Texas for the purpose of investing in southwest Texas lands. On arrival at San Antonia Williams persuaded her to take a drive in a buggy in order to look at the land around San Antonia. After getting out ten miles they got out of the buggy and sat down on the side of a scream. , Whjle Mrs. Gibson's back was tamed Williams struck her over the head with a heavy stiek or a pistol and then threw her unconscious body Into the river. He then got into the boggy and drove to the city. Fortunately the water revived her and ah e was able to crawl to the bank. After gaining strength sh6 walked to , m Haaican cottage, and was brought to tfce city. She told her story to the officers and gave a description of JmUiams. Williams was arrested oiva Southern ; Pacific sleeping car. r He had pcnv chased a ticket to New Orleans and | |;, all of the money was found in his possession. He did not deny committing the robbery. His statement of the affair differs slightly from that made by Mrd. Gibson. : (Williams7 statement is identically the same as the one published in The Dispatch at the time of the occurrence. Ed. The Dispatch.) Williams Writes to His Wife. Wr. Williams has written his wife, who lives with her four daughters in Brookland, just across the river from Columbia, telling her to look after his business interests in Lexington county and in Columbia. Mr. Williams' brother is attending to his livery stable at 916 Gervais street. Local attorneys have been employed to assist Mr. Williams' San Antonia attorneys in defending him. Williams is about 35 years of age and has a wife and four children. It is not known whether he is a man of much means. A statement attributed to him appeared in Texas papers to the effect that he was himself worth $35,000, but this is thought to be a mistake.?The State, June 27th. a ifawiavnltla i in tt XX XU.Ciuuiauic Juaj . One of the days we remember with pleasure, as well as with profit to our. health, is the one on which we became acquainted, with Dr. King's New Life Pills, the painless purifiers that cure headache and biliousness, and keep the -bowels right. 25c. at Kaufmann Drug Co. and Derrick's Drug Store. A London doctor, lecturing, said it was useless to tell a dyspeptic woman not to drink tea. The only thing to do was tb give her some harmless stuff in a bottle to bq ; taken every three horirs, with strict instructions that she was not to have any tea for four hours before or four hours after each dose. Misses Ruby Carr and Mattie Dennis, young ladies, were drowned while bathing at Taylorsville, Miss., last Wednesday. L. W. Perrin, a prominent member of the bar, dijd suddenly while sitting in a buggy watching a baseball game at his heme in Abbeville on Tuesday. < Obituary. After an illness of a few days Miss Agnes, the loving daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vastine Taylor of Batesburg, died Sunday afternoon, June 16, 1907, making her stay on this sorrowing earth 22 yea^ i, 2 months and 9 days. Her body was laid to rest in the Salem cemetery in the presence 01 a large congregation of sorrowing relatives and friends, who came to pay their last respects to their departed friend. This is the third daughter our Heavenly Father has seen fit to call from this household in less than a year. She leaves to mourn her departure a kind father and a loving mother; four brothers and two little sisters, with hosts of other relatives and friends. She was a kind and affectionate girl, loved by all who knew her. Weep not, fond parents, for we know Agnes is resting peacefully in our Saviour's arms. We must be true and make ready that we may meet her in Heaven, where no death can ' enter neither sorrow nor despair. She is gone but not forgotten, Never will her memory fade; ? ? * ' Ml 11 Loving tnougnra win ever linger -Round the grave where dear Agnes is laid. God has recalled His own, Whence thy meek smile is gone; Bnt oh! a brighter home than ours, In Heaven is now thine own. The golden gates were opened wide, A gentle voice s&id come; And angel's from the other side, Welcomed dear Agnes home. LENA ADDY. Leesville, S. C. The Doctor Away from Home when Most Needed. People are often very much disappointed to find that their family physician is away from home when they most need his services. Diseases like cramp colic and cholera morbus require prompt treatment, and have in many instances proven fatal before medicine could be procured or aphvsician summoned. The right way is to keep at hand a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. No physician can prescribe a better medicine for these diseases. By having it in the house you escape much pain and suffering and allrisk. Buy it now; it may save life. For sale by Kaufmann Drug Co. Sit 1)7 Belt While Driving Sail. Greenville, S. C., June 27.?Boden Kilter, a white carpenter of this city while-at work on a building in the western part of the city this afternoon was knocked insensible by lightning. His arm severely burned and the shoe on his right foot knocked off. He revived some minutes afterward and is not considered in a serious condition. He was driving a nail in an outside wall when the bolt came. Steamer Burns; Three Perish. St. John, N. B., Jnne 21.?Three menperished, stewardess and several other women escaped with severe injuries Srystal Steam caught fire today at Upriver opint. Most of the steamer is a total loss and there is little hope of finding the remainder of the bodies of those burned to death. 6. B. Burhams Testifies After Four Years. G. B. Burhams, of Carlisle Center, N. Y., writes: "About four years ago I wrote you stating that I had been entirely cured of a severe kidney trouble by taking less than two bottles of Foley's Kidney Cure. It entirely stopped the brick dust sediment, and pain and symptoms of kidney disease disappeared. I am glad to say that I have never had a return of any of those symptoms during the four years that have elapsed and I am evidently cured to stay cured, and heartily recommend Foley's Kidney Cure to any one suffering from kidney or bladder trouble." Sold by The Kaufmann Drug Co. Es-State Treasurer Dead. Mr. William J. Laval, for four terms State Treasurer of South Carolina, died at his home in Columbia Thursday at the advanced age of 84 years. iMnasnaBHHHHBavBnBaBBUHH 7 c Yn?rl Hair Sick? That's too bad! We had no-1 ticed it was looking pretty thin g ; and rough of late, but naturally I did not like to speak of it. By | the way, Ayer's Hair Vigor is R I a regular hair grower, a per-1 feet hair tonic. The hair stops I coming our, grows rasrcr,| keeps soft and smooth. Ayer's ] Hair Vigor cures sick hair, makes it strong and healthy. The best kind of a testimonial? " Sold for over sixty years." SaSMRHMRnBMHMNMHIMMBMIVVIMPWi M Mad? by J. C. Ayer Co., Low?ll, Mam. y? Also nunu&otann of JmM 9 SARSAPARILLA. &Ji lj?TS CHERRY PECTORAL. NATURE PROVIDES FOR SICK WOMEN a more potent remedy in the root; and herbs of the field than was evei produced from drug's. In the good old-fashioned days o1 our grandmothers few drugs were used in medicines and Lydia E, Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., in hei study of roots and herbs and theii power over disease discovered anc gave to the women of the world s remedy for their peculiar ills more potent and efficacious than anj combination of drugs. Lydia E. Pinkham's^ is an honest, tried and true remedy < During- its record of more than cures of those serious ills peculiar to Vegetable Compound to the respect person and erery thinking woman. : When women are troubled w weakness, displacements, ulcerati i flatulency, general debility, indigc should remember there is one trie< I ham's Vegetable Compound. No other remedy in the count female ills, and thousands of womei t v States,bear wiUing testimony to the ham's Vegetable compound and whi Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick wo guided thousands to health. Fcr tw< sick women free of charge. She is tl ham and as her assistant for years 1 ; I immediate direction. Address, Lyi Cotton Will So Cotton. "Cotton will be cotton this fall and also next spring, in my opinion," was the way Representative Moon, of * M ? ! _ Tennessee, expressed ic wnue in Washington last week, when asked about the crop situation in his state. "And I have my judgment on the unusual condition of the weather of the border southern states. In fact the condition of cotton is far below the normal in most all of the states of the South. Even with the most favorable weather from now till the time of gathering the crop the result will be far. below the normal amount. This of itself would naturally cause an increase in the price of that commodity." He further said: "We can only judge the future by the past cold, spring. For we have, as yet, virtually had no summer weather; so the prospect is that we have early frosts in the fall, and in that case it naturally will make cotton take another and higher jump in price. I do not wish to appear as an alarmist in any sense, but I should advise all cotton growers to hold their cotton as long as they can before disposing of it next fall, if they wish to get the highest price for that article." Judge Moon was one of the representatives, appointed by Speaker Cannon, to accompany the remains of Senator Morgan to their last resting place at Selma, Alabama. Long Live The King! is the popular cry throughout European countries; while in America, the cry of the preeent day is "Long.live Dr. King's tv! ww? .J mt i. JT new msoovery, iving 01 xnroai auu Lung Romedies!" of which Mrs. Julia Ryder Paine, Truro, Mass., says: "It never fails to give immediate relief and to quickly cure a cough or cold." Mrs. Paine's opinion is shared by a majority of the inhabitants of this country. New Discovery cures weak lungs and sore throats after all other remedies have failed; and for coughs and colds it's the only sure cure. Guaranteed by Kaufmann Drug Co. and Derrick's Drug Store. 50c and $1.00 Trial bottle free. Sen's Fatal Feck. Anderson, June 27.?As a result of being pecked on the hand by a setting hen last week, Joseph B. Bryan, aged sixty-nine, a? retired contractor died of blood poisoning which developed. Take the Postmaster's Word for It. Mr. E. M. Hamilton, postmaster at Cherryvale, Ind., keeps also a stock of general merchandise and patent medicines. He says: ' Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is standard here in its line. It never fails to give satisfaction and we could hardly afford to be without it." For sale by Kaufmann Drug Co. Allaying Her Fear. Sand Bar Ferry, near Augusta, Ga., is a flat-boat affair, frail and rickety. i wo umia laaies, mesn-ating u> cross, plied the negro boatman with questions about it. "And are you perfectly sure no one has ever been lost here?" they demanded. "No*, missus," replied the ferryman; "no one ain't never been los' here. Marse Jake Bristow done got Bpilled out and drowned last week, but dey found 'im agin nex' day. We ain't never los' nobody; no, ma'am." ?Youth's Companion. The cadets of the South Carolina military academy are at Jamestown, and their commencement exercises svere held there last week. Pinenles are for the Kidneys and Blad ler. They bring quick relief to backache, rheumatism, lumbago, tired worn rut feeling. They produce natural ac:ion of the kidneys in filtering waste natter out of the blood, 30 days treatment $1.00. Money refunded if Pineries are not satisfactory. Sold by Kaufmann Drug Co. Vegetable Compound I of unquestionable therapeutic value. I thirty years, its long list of actual I women, entitles Lydia S. Pink ham's I and confidence of every fair minded I ith irregular or painful functions, ion or inflammation, backache, sstion or nerrous prostration, they i and true remedy, Lydia E. Pinkry has such a record of cures of 1 residing- in every part of the United i wonderful virtue of Lydj^ E. Pinkit it has done for them, men to write her for advice. She has enty-five years she has been advising le daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkbefore her decease advised under her in, Mass. Great Victory for Prohibition. Cartersville, Ga., June 21.?With women praying and singing, children marching, church bells ringing and banners flying, the men of Cartersville and Bartow countv yesterday gave their unqualified indorsement to prohibition that has been in force here for more than twenty-two years. Outof 1,721 votes cast in the county only 94 were for the sale of liquor. The vote in Cartersville was 620 to 25, in favor?of prohibition, and ih several precincts of the county there was not a liquor vote polled. Promptly at the opening of the polls there appeared a large majority of the women in the city, who took determined stands upon the court house grounds, ready to sing and pray and plead with the men to vote for the women and little children. A sumptuous repast had been prepared for the voters. At 10 o'clock more than 400 children formed in line and with banners bearing patriotic inscriptions, marched over the city and to the n_ T7i i-~ il-o. puns. Hivery vuic uuaii was uaov iui prohibition was roundly applauded and was greeted with the campaign song, "Bartow's Going Dry." A touching incident occurred when the venerable Dr. W. H. Felton appeared at the polls in his carriage. The trembling old statesman was given three rousing cheers and many shouts came from the throats of admirers for "the grand old man of Bartow" and his famous wife, upon whose arm he was leaning. When the result of the election was announced a large mass meeting was held on the court house grounds in the mooniight, at which the victory was celebrated. The Charming Woman is not necessarily one of perfect form and features. Many a plain woman who could never serve as an artist's model, possesses those rare qualities that all the world admires: neatness, clear eyes, clean smooth skin and that sprightliness of step and action that accompany good health.. Aj>hysically weak woman is never attractive, not even to herself. Electric Bitters restore weak women, give strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth, velvety skin, beautiful complexion. Guaranteed at Kaufmann Drug Co. and Derrick's Drug Store. Unclaimed Hail. "List, of 1 otters remaining nncalled for in this office for the week ending June 24, 1907: Males: Boest, W. E. Davis, James. Derrick, Perry. Roof, E. W. Females: Gardener, Leila. Jackson, Mrs. G. A. Stephens, Avy. These letters will be sent to the dead letter office July 6, 1907, if not delivered before. In calling for the above, please say "advertised," giving date of list. S. J. Leaphart, Postmaster. Was in Poor Health for Years Ira W. Kelley, of Mansfield, Pa., writes: "I was in poor health for two years, suffering from kidney and bladder trouble, and spent considerable money consulting physicians without obtaining any marked benefit, but was cured by Foley's Kidney Cure, and I desire to add my testimoney that it may be the cause of restoring the health of others." Refuse substitutes. Sold by The Kaufmann Drug Co. Three Hanged on Same Gallows Jefferson City, Mo., June 27.?Harry Harahan, Edward Raymond and Geo. Ryan were hanged in the Cole county jail at 5:35 o'clock this morning. A single pull of the lever sent the three men to their death. The execution was successful and without accident. Constipation. For constipation there is noting quite ou IJLIL c ?o uiuuiaui aiiu Liver Tablets. They always produce a pleasant movement of bowels without any disagreeble effect. Price, 25 cents. Samples free. Kaufmann Drug Co. J. D. Gregory,an insurance solicitor of Louisville, Ky., committed suicide last Wednesday by cutting his throat. Quick Relief for Asthma Sufferers. Foley's Houcy and Tar affords immediate relief to asthma sufferers in the worst stages and if taken in time will effect a cure. Sold by The Kaufmann Drug Co. i P~ > WHOLESA FITZMAURICE'S ?AND? I Three Arch Store. I RETAn ? v ? COLUMBIA New Spring and Arriving by the carload every day and v DRV GOODS, IWIIOI * * To be seen anywhere. We are offering 100 j 5c per yard. This is positively the grandest 5,000 yards of Good Sea Island at 4c per yi 1,000 yards 4x4 Madras at 10c?the 15c kin Our Black Goods Department is full up w: cilans. Our 54 inch Mohairs at 50c is the ni want Black Goods see us. Our 86 inch Taffeta Silk at $1.00 per yard, buying a new dress from us. Money back il Grand Sale of 4( 5,000 yards of 40 inch Shear White Lawn. 5,000 yardg fine Cambric Percale at 10 and NOTICE?Value for your money in any a: McCall's Patterns in stock at all times. We prepay charges on $5.00 worth of good a 0. BROWI 1730 MAIN STREET, I Is where you can find one ! ?PHI* jj OF ALL E DOORS, SA! BLINDS | LIME AND ;j CABINET Id |!| Call or write for Prices. FURNT W. H. SOWELL Fl COLUMBIA, We especially invite yon to come to see us Beds, Lounges, Stores, Lace Curtains, Side I 80 DATS SALE?FUKNI W. H. SOWELL, FUBMTUI Opposite Y. M. C. THE WHITE ROTARY: The design and finish of the s1 to equal it has yet appeared on tl STEADY, SWIFT Has a very large Bobbin?Hold BALL BE. A LIGHT RUNNER?STRONG and dure (White SHUTTLE Machine lias been in u The NEW HOME stands at the top of SHI Always on hand good Second Hand Mac. machine attachments, shuttles, belts and the J. H. BERRY, 1802 Main f HARMAN'S SI "Where Quality and Post Office Block, f SOUTHERN I - __? 4 LE | FITZMAURIGE'S | g c | Three Arch Store. \ Summer Goods re are showing the strongest line of IS and CLOTHING rieces Solid and Plaid Chamhray at value ever shown here, ard. d. ith the Best Black Mohairs and Sciscest value you ever saw. If you Every yard warranted. No risk in I not satisfied. D inch Lawn. The value for 15c, only 10c. L 12?c, 86 inch, rticle we sell. s bought and paid for. _T_ COLUMBIA, S. C., | i of the best stocks of ij[ ITS^ INDS. | 3H I & GLASS. * :< CEMENT. | [ANTLES. ji runST JRNITURE GO., s. c. , for jour Furniture, Cheap Suites, Iro? boards, Hall Backs. SH YOUR HOUSE. IE C0? 1231 Main Street A. Building. SEWING MACHINE and is unexcelled. Nothing Le market v AND SURE. s more thread than any other. ARING, ible. It is sometliing new. . se twenty-five years.) CJTTLE machines. I have the latest, hines. Needles for all machines and , ! best pure SPERM OIL. w.l? J Unexcelled Dining I i Through Pullman Sleeping ^ Convenient Schedules >AV _ * j.: ? or luu lniormaxion as jaw consult nearest Southern Ra: (15 R. W. HUNT, D. P fj^JJROOKS MORGAN, A. G.: Itreet, Colombia, 3. C. ioes: i save you money on your * id Summer Shoes. I|* and wear they will give tisfaction to every wearer, nedium and heavy weight ?s a speciality, and the 1 please you. All fresh > * IOE STORE, Price Counts." COLUMBIA. S. C. tAILWAY. | jar service, J ; Cars on all Trains, * on Local Trains. ^ to rates, routes, etc. ilway Ticket Agent, or yy . A., Charleston, S. C. P. A, Atlanta, Ga. & ' r v