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JULIAN E. KAUFMANN, ALFRE
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From B&testarg.
' I A petition endorsing Mr. Alfred J.
Fox, of Lexington, for insurance commissioner;
was circulated in our town
lastj Saturday. Mr. Fox Has many i
friends in Batesburg who were glad'
to have the pleasure of showing their
? appreciation of his ability and fitness
for the position, by giving him their
personal endorsements. \
Dr. W. H. Tinsznerman, is able to
attend to business again, after being
confined' to bis room for several days
on account of sickness.
pol. Edwin F. Strother has been on
the sick list for several days, but is
up again. Several others hatfe been
buffering from the effects of the grippe
the past few weeks.
Mr. Eddie jHite, Son of Mr. W. B.
Hite, has been appointed a rural car*\r\
rnnrp R fiv?m t.hift rfiacft to fill
| . the vacancy brought about by the
$ resignation of Carrie Curtis D. Padg'
ett. '
Mr. 8. Pickens Derrick, carrier on
route 2 from Batesburg, has been us-'
iri& a regular mail wagon for the past
three months, and is well pleased with
the results. It jus the first vehicle of
its kind ever used by a mail carrier
f in this section and is a great improvement
over the buggy and cart.
- \ Mr. VT. L^Rawl went to Lexington
on business Tuesday. Mr. Rawl is
president of the Batesburg Lumber Co.
Mrs. W. P. Timraerman spent Saturday
with relatives in Johnston.
Mrs. E. D. Blakeney, of Kershaw,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. John Bell
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Miss Lenofa Dong, of Saluda, is
spending a few days with friends in
Batesburg.
Mr. C. J*. Jones ie( in New York this
-( week looking after business interests.
The roads and streets in our town
are being pnt in excellent condition
/ with the aid of the new road machine
t purchased by the town council.
Batesburg, March 3. A.
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case of grippe or acute cold that
a 25 cent box of preVentics will not j
break. How is this for an offer? The
Doctor's- supreme confidence in these
little Candy Cold Cure Tablets?Preventics?is^
certainly complete. Its a
, ./ $100, against 25 cents?pretty big odds.
And Preventics, remember, contain no
quinine, no laxative, nothing harsh nor !
sickening. Pneumonia would never
appear if early colds were always brok- j
pn. Safe and sure for feverish children j
48 Preventics 25c. Kauf mann Drug Co.
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To Make Test ia Orangeburg.
Congressman Lever has arranged
with the department of agriculture to
carry on some cotton seed selection
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1 worK in cne county 01 urangeourg.
/ All of the cotton breeding worts in
>"' the State is being carried on by Mr. j
L. E. Boykin, a graduate of Ciemson i
College and a citizen of Lee County;
His wor? at preseut iaconfined to the
northeast pairtioC^tfeet "State in Marlboro
and Barliijgteh-eounties. It is
Mr. Lever'8-idea to-have some of the
worfcdone iir Orahgebnrg, which is
the largeatcotton growing county in
the State, and to this end Mr. Boykin
will be directed to begin work in that
/ S ' L The^hiatter of seed selection is very
important to cotton growers. It enables
them to get rid of light, inferior
seed, and the cost of separation is
practically nothing. The experiments
so far made by the department
indicate that through proper seed selection
the yield can be increased
from 10 per cent: to 30 per cent, per
acre, ana this would mean for the entire
South an increase of 1,200,000
bales without any increase of labor or
- j* acreage, and this means, of course, a
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set increase m tne vaiae 01 tne cuty
4 ton crop of about $60,000,000 per annum.
Zinc Metal Hade into Oxide of
Zinc,
And then combined with white lead,
is used to make L. & M. PAINT.
v Zinc is imperishable and makes the
psint wear as long as pure linseed oil
' will hold it to a surface. The L. &M.
PAINT costs only about $1.20 per
gallon.
E* P. Derrick, Lexington.
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day. Then, you can write checks and
i Remember also that the loss of your
? if you lost your cash.
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D J. FOX, KARL F. OSWALD,
Cashier. i Asst. Cashier.
' State and General News.
W. J. Bouknight, a white man, was
sentenced to pay a fine of ?300 for
violation of the. dispensary law in the
; criminal court in Columbia on Friday.
Revenue officers in Greenville county
found a still located in a grist mill
on Friday. A lot of liquor was also
captured.
G. F. Milling, a white man, was
sentenced to serve a year in the county
jail by acting Recorder Collins in
Columbia Friday. Milling was charged
with the cruel treatment of his
wife. V
Safe blowers visited Blenheim, a
\ little station near Bennettsville, on
Friday night and blew open the 6afe
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W. P. Rogers, colored, was shot
three times by a police officer at
Florence on Sqnday while resisting
arrest. \
' Charles Scott, a-negro 18 years old,
was lynchod at Connie, Texas, on
Friday, for an attempted assault upon
a young- white girl; }
H. H. Rankin, a groceryman, was
shot in the leg by W. F. Dobey, a
prominent contractor, at Aiken on
Friday. The shooting was the outcome
of a quarrel over a small debt.
Robt. A. Randall was shot and killed
by Dock Parnell at Lamar, on
Monday. A dispute over a land line
was the cause af the tragedy.' Both
are prominent white men.
Tampa, Fla., was swept by a disastrous
lire Sunday. Fifty-live acres
were burned over, covering 18 blocks,
doing damage in the sum of $600,000.
Two fires in New York city on Sunday
destroyed property worth several
million dollars.
, Alexander Hamilton, a prominent
lawyer and chief counsel to the New
York Life Insurance company, was
found dead in bed at his home in
Buffalo, N. Y., Sunday morning.
1 ManZan Pile Remedy, Price 50c is
guaranteed Put up ready to use. One I
application prompt rejief to any form of
Hies. Soothes and heals. Sold by the
Kaufmann Drug Co.
Earmaa-Shepkerd.
A quiet, though none the less beautiful,
was the marriage of Miss Florrie
May Harman and Mr. John C. Shepherd,
which occurred at the residence
of Mr. G. M. Harman yesterday afternoon
at 5 o'clock. The marriage
ceremony was impressively performed
by the bride's pastor, Rev. W. H.
Hiller, of the Lutheran church. There
were only a few intimate friends present.
A delightful luncheon was served
the guests immediately after the cermony.
The bride was handsomely and gorgeously
gowned in point desprit over *
white silk, and carried a large bouquet
of white carnations. She wore a
necklace of peruvian pearls. The
groom was dressed in conventional
black. I
Mrs. Shepherd is the second daughter
of Mr. G. M. Harman, and has a
host of friends wh6 wish for her a life
of unalloyed happiness.
Mr. Shepherd comes from one of
the oldest and highly respected Charleston
families and has been connected
with the Charleston Orphan Home
for a number Of years, ana is a hightoned
Christian gentleman, and
extremely popular with the people of
his home city.
Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd may make
Lexington their home, where Mr.
Shepherd will add much to the social
and business affairs of the town. They
were the recipients of many handsome
and useful presents, which attest
to the high esteem in which
they are held.
Tickling or dry coughs will quickly
loosen when using Dr. Shoop's Cough
Cure. And it is so thoroughly harmless
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ing else, even for very young babies.
The wholesome greon leaves and tender
stems of a lung healing mountainous
shrub give the curative properties to
Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure. It calms the
cough, and heals the sensitive bronchial
memoranes. No opium, no chloroform,
nothing harsh used to injure or suppress.
Demand Dr. Shoop's. Take no
other. KaufmanD Drug Co.
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MRS. P. W. ELLISOR
BRUTALLY SLAIN.
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Horrible Crime of Ned and Brack
Toland Who Have Made a Complete
Confession to the Officers?Prisoners
in Penitentiary?Special Term
of Court Likely to be Ordered.
A murder that shocked the entire
country by its inhuman and coldblooded
atrocity and caused strong
men to forget themselves in their denunciation
of the perpetrators occurred
a mile and a half from New i
Brookland in this county on Wednesday
morning. I The body of Mrs. P.
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farmer, was found in a clothes basket
by the bed with her skull crushed in
as if by a blow from an axe and / with
clothes piled upon her dead body.
The discovery was made by her husband,
who returned home after an absence
of about three hours. The deed
was committed for the purpose of
robbery?a trunk was broken open, a
shotgun taken from the corner of the
room, and a box of shells missing?all
pointed to the motive for the ghastly
crime. The murderers fled after Covering
up the poor, frail bit of humanity.
At 7. o'clock. Wednesday morning
Mr. Ellisor left his wife to/ go into
New Brookland to sell some vegetables
and after finishing up his business
in that town started for home, arriving
at the house at 10 o'clock. When
he got home he found his daughter,
Mrs. Nora Anghtry, seated on the
steps and asked her why she had not
gone into the house to see his wife,
whom he had left at home three hours
before. His daughter told him that
the door was locked and the iwo then /
sat down on th$ steps for at least an
hour, thinking that Mrs. Ellisor had
left the hou^e for a short while and
would soon return. j
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uaugnter norrow siricKen.
Growing- suspicious, Mr. Ellisor finally
decided that he would get into
the house at once and broke the door
in. When he first entered the room,
on account of comingin from the fight
and the window shades being down,
he did not notice anything amiss except
that his wife did not answer
when her name was called. His-,
daughter, however, noticed that something
was not right in the condition
of the .room and the clothes basket at- .,
tracted her attention almost at once. '
The first quilt removed from the
top of the basket the woman drew
back with a cry of horror for the next
covering was smeared with blood.
The daughter could stand no more
and drew back and fell upon the bed,
the horrible suspicion of murder burst-.
ing upon her with sudden force. The
father with his 50 and more years of
experience in the world was made of
sterner stuff and yet when he drew
back the next covering from the cold
body of the woman he shuddered.
The body was lying almost at full
length in the basket the head crushed
in on the left side, the wound wrapped
around with cloth to hide the crime
until the murderers cbuld make good
their escape, with her arms across her
body. These were the sights that the
husband saw a9 he kneeled and examined
the body, to see if but the
faintest hope of life yet remained.
The news of the horrible murder
spread like wild fire and within one
hour more than two hundred men,
armed to the teeth, were on the scene,
among the number several negroes,
who seemed as eager to catch the perpetrators
as the whites.
*' The First Clue.
As the news 9pr.ead from person to
person, Mr. M. L. Fox, who runs a
Store in New Brookland, remembered
that he had bought a single barrel
- gun from two negroes about/10 o'clock
in the morning, and he immediately
carried the gun to Mr. Ellisor for
the purpose of ascertaining if the gun
wa9 the one missing from the house.
Mr. Ellisor at once recognized the
?un as that of his own, and thus the
rst clue was obtained. The Columbia
police were notified to be on the
watchout for the men, a9 wa9 the
sheriffs of Richland and Lexington.
Posses were soon scouring the whole
vicinity and blood hounds from the
penitentiary were carried to ' the
housed but were unable to pursue the
assassins. It was soon learned, however,
that two negroes answering the
description given by Mr. Fox, had
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railroad toward Newberry, and messages
were sent to all stations along
the line to be on the lookout and to
arrest all suspects.
The Capture.
As the C. N. & L. train arrived at
Hilton, about 8 o'clock in the evening,
two negroes got aboard. Conductor
McCain, who had heard of the
murder before leaving Columbia, had
the negroes placed under arrest and
turned over to Sheriff Buford of Newberry,
who happened to be a passenger
on the same train. The prisoners
were taken off at' Newberry, where
they were held for identification.
The authorities at Brookland were notified
of the capture of the suspects
and Mr. M. L. Fox, accompanied by
one or two others, took the early
morning train Thursday for Newberry.
At first sight Mr. Fox recognized the
negroes as the ones from whom he
had purchased the gun on Wednesday.
Lynching Narrowly Averted.
The negroes were placed in charge
of Mr. Fox and the return to Columbia
was begun. In the meantime
Capt. Griffith was communicated with
and arrangements were made to have
the two men taken off the train above
Columbia to evade the would-be
lynchers, who had gathered in great
numbers in Columbia and Brookland.
Under heavy guard the men were
harried to the penitentiary, thus
preventing a lynching which undoubtedly
would have occurred had
it not been for the alertness of the
officers.
They Confess.
On Friday the negroes made a complete
confession to Capt. Griffith, Coroner
Clark and others at the penitentiary,
and they testified as to the confession
at the inquest Friday evening.
The verdict of the jury was in effect
that Mrs. Ellisor came to her death
at the hands of Ned and Brack Toland.
The negroes are- from Prosperity
and are 17 and 19 years of age respectively.
Ned, the older of the two,
has a long criminal record behind
him.
An Early Trial.
i It is thought that a special term of
court will be ordered for the trial of
the culprits, within about three weeks.
Solicitor J?immerman is busily en
gaged at Edgefield this week, and it
will be impossible to have a legal
trial earlier than above stated. .
In the meantime the prisoners will
be kept in the penitentiary for safekeeping,
although a lynching would
be inevitable once the prisoners are
in the care of Lexington's brave and
manly sheriff, for he would defend
the men at the risk of his own life.
Burial of Mrs. Ellisor.
The remains of Mrs. Ellisor were
carried to Shady Grove church in the
Dutch Fork on Friday, where they
were interred in the church cemetery.
She is survived by her husband and
six children as follows: Mrs. Margaret
Berry, Mrs. Aurelia Geddings,
Mrs. George Aughtry, Mrs. Lester
Ferrell and Arthur and Fred Ellisor.
Treasurer's Office Bobbed.
Barnwell, March 2.?As a consequence
of the robbery of the county
treasurer's office last Sunday morning,
J. B. Ross and Earl Rouptree have
been arrested. The arrests were made
upon a warrant 9worn out by the
watchman, who was on duty at the
time the attempt at robbery was made.
He claims that he .recognized the two
men to be Ross and Rountree.
In this connection it will beinterestinn1
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last term of court here for the killing
of Johnson Pender and was acquitted.
Ross was tried twice on this charge.
The first trial resulted in a mistrial
and in the second he was acquitted.
30 Days' Trial $1.00 is the offer on Pinenles.
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Why do you paint your horn
Is it to protect the wood and
Is it to beautify the home ph
No matter for which or if for
House Paint you can buy, or any
We will sell it to you for an
per gallon. We have a fine line
good permanent colors/ And wit
Greens all the colors are the same
IP us your orders.
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