Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, June 21, 1911, Image 2
SHOUT CASHIER KILLS HIMSELF.
Another Official of Hank In Juli on
thargo of Misapplication.
Tarboro, N. C., Juno 14.-Luther
V. Hart, cashier of the Hank of Tar
boro. ls dead, and E. H. Hussey, as
sistant cashier, ls In jail charged
with complicity In the misapplica
tion of $50,000 In bank funds as a
result pf a visit to the bank this
niling >,y .j. K. Houghton, State
bank examine,-. Hart died from a
self-inflicted platt* wu..?.i. iUUi the
arrest o? Hussey followed when o?..u .
official* and Mr. Dough ton made a
hasty investigation of the bank
books.
This morning Mr. Do u gb ton called
at the bank for the purpose of mak
ing his regular Inspection of the af
fairs of tho Institution. The exami
nation was deferred until noon, and
Hart remained at his post until tho
regular dinner hour. Going home for
dinner, he went directly to his room,
and a few minutes later his wife was
startled to hear the report of a pis
tol. Hushing to tho room, sho found
Hart lying across the bed with a bul
let hole through his bead. He died
two hours later without having re
gained consciousness.
The misapplication, it is believed,
will not exceed $50,000. Hart had
recently been Involved In numerous
business transactions, and lt is be
lieved a series of failures was re
sponsible for bis act.
Following the exposure the affairs
of the bank were placed In charge of
State officials, and they immediately
closed Hs doors pending further In
vestigation. Tho Institution ls capi
talized at $20,000. Its deposits ag
gregate more than $200,000.
Hart was about 35 years old, and
was a member of one of the most
prominent families In Eastern North
Carolina.
Shortage May Amount to $100,000.
Tarboro, N. C., June 16.-J- K.
. a??io bank examiner, re
ported to-day afu>r a uuiwi? cx?ml
nation that tho shortago of Luther
V. Hart, cashier of the flank of Tar
boro, who committed suicide yester
day, and E. H. Hussen, assistant
cashier, who is in Jail In default of
bond, will probably reach $100,000
and may run considerably In excess
of that sum.
The bank ls said to be practically
. - lr- ; /. , - . . ty?), ncr be' * m-*\
i
\i.|i>ihiov took \c" i.?'dt
Developments to-day showed t?at
Hart premeditated committing sui
cide. He told his wife some timo ago
that men whom he had accommodat
ed by permitting them to overdraw
their accounts woro leaving him to
bear the brunt. She urged him to
take her property and square himself
with the bank, but this he refused to
(io, saying he would take his medi
cino when caught. The letter ad-'
dressed to his wlfo, which was found
on the body, was typewritten at tho
hank yesterday prior to tho suicide.
Hussey is still in Jail unable to fur
nish ball.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
C ASTOR I A
Fourteen on Ono Ticket.
(Brooklyn Citizen.)
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott, of High
land, Kans., are seeking a home in
Oklahoma, with plenty of land. They
will need it, for, although they havo
been married not quito ten years,
they aro the parents of nineteen chil
dren, all boys, and thirteen of them
aro living. They hold the record for
triplets, having five sets to their
? redit, and two sets of twins. All of
the thirteen boys are under 5 years.
Recently the Scotts, deciding that
they must find more land, went to
Alberta, Canada. They were not sat
isfied there and returned. On the
return trip Mrs. Scott and her thir
teen children nil rode on one first
class tieket. At Omaha tho conduc
tor made ;i vigorous protest.
"Madam, yon cannot carry a winde
Sunday school along with you on
thal one thket," he said, "and yon
need not <<ii me mose are all yours.
Von will have te pay for some of
them."
"The ml.'s of this railroad pro
vide that a child under 5 years may
lido free when accompanied by its
parent with a first-class ticket, don't
they?" retorted Mrs. Scott.
"They do, but you will have lo
show me."
Mrs. Scott dug down into her va
llso and brought ont the family lii
bk< in which were recorded tho
names and ages of each of the chil
dren. Tho conductor had to glvo In,
Tho mother and children occupied
five douhlo seats In tho homeseekors'
ear and paid for only one.
Heavy, Impure blood makes a mud
dy, pimply complexion, headaches,
nausea, Indigestion, Thin blood
makes you weak, palo, sickly. Bur
dock Blood Bitters makes the blood
'.''h. red, pure-iT.<; fores perfect
health.
TA LE OF BARBAROUS CRUELTY.
Woman Died from Boating ?Ivon by
Husband-Murd?** Held.
Spartanburg, Juno li.-Because
she objected to ber husband's selling
whiskey, Mrs. Mary Lawler, who re
cently came to Arlington, in a re
mote section of this county, from
near Saluda, N. C., was so severely
beaten by him with a hickory stick
that she died from the effects of it,
according to the Unding of the coro
ner's jury, which rendered this ver
dict at tho inquest held by Coroner
s 8. Turner Tuesday evening: "We,
the ^,ryt flnji according to the evi
dence, tit?? Mary Lawter came to her
death from a whipping at the hands
of Andy Lawtor, husband."
Lawter was at oiiv,, arrested and
committed to jail. As ?ho alleged
whipping occuired In Polk county,
North Carolina, the authority, 0f
that county have been notified, a,<|
Lawter will be held here until the
sheriff of Polk county comes for him.
The witnesses told a tale of bar
barous cruelty on the part of Lawter.
Ho whipped his wife several times,
they said, and onco seized a gun and
tried to kill her, but was restrained.
Mrs. Lawter finally left him, saying
she would live on dry bread and
water before she would live with her
husband and take tho beatings such
as he had been giving her. She went
to live with her sister, Mrs. Lucy
Owens, at Arlington, and it was at
her homo that she suddenly died last
Tuesday morning. The most severe
whipping had been administered, It
was testified, last Sunday two weyks
ago. Broadus Lawter, her 9-year-old
son, testified as follows at the In
quest:
"My father whipped my mother
with a hickory as big as a fishing pole
while she was making up the bed.
Ile ?ot the gun three times to shoot
mother with. Ben Garrett kept fa
ther from shooting mother."
hawter followed his wife to Arling
ton, where he was arrested after the
coroner's jury had rendered its ver
dict.
An Old Book.
(Anderson Intelligencer.)
Col. J. C. Stribling, of Pendleton,
brought to this office this week a
copy of the "Memoirs of the Phila
delphia Agricultural Society," pub
lished in 1785. This bo^v woo nr<>.
)..'.. 'd ' tao old Pondie!oi Agricul
tural ;?\.te; \v 1 short time a?o !>:. Col.
. I ?lllei >'iek-.?wY the ?'i '?\d?.i,.V.i
nS.ji i is ten
? " .-.nn.liu),
organized in 1815, which is still In
active existence, Is the oldest society
I in the United States. In the book
presented to the Pendleton society
by Col. Pickens is a copy of a letten
written to the society by Georg/
Washington. 7
The book also contains a report/) f
a crop of corn and potatoes raped
hy a man named Lorlng, a res I de fi of
Maryland. He made 13 4 hushrfs of
shelled corn and 263 bushels ogrish
potatoes on one acre of land bynlant
ing tho potatoes In the middle/ This
record was made In ISip. Col.
Stribling, himself, has loig followed
this plan of raising Irish potatoes,
and this year has raised a good crop
on the same plan.
Will Discontinue New 'Means Mint.
Washington, June C.-The his
toric New Orleans mi.it will cease to
exist as such after July 1. After that
time it will he conducted as an assay
office and a storage place for 22,000,
000 silver dollars, which will be
Stacked In one of its old vaults, con
sidered burglar-proof.
HE purpose tn erecting arnon?
umcnt is to perpetuate the
sacred memory of loved ones
that have passed into eternal
rest. That monument, then,
should be the best; one that
will stand the test of time and not
crack or rot away, at the same time
sparkling with beauty and replete
with dignity, li it is carved from
WLMNSBORO BLUE GRANITE
"The SUIt ol the Trade"
it will stand for aeons and aeons
the end ni time will find it as beau
tiful and unbroken as thc day it
was set. Winnsboro Blue Granite
will not crack or smut; tts contrast
when lettered renders the inscrip
tion plain and readable from a dis
tance. In selecting a monument,
specify Winnsboro Blue Granite.
FOR SALE BY
C. E. GRAY, Minster.
BOOZER CONVICTED OP M BROKIL
Newberry Negro to Hung August 1W.
In Pe? Her Safo Keeping.
Newberry, June 14.-The court of
genornl sessions was engaged all day
yesterday and to-day In tho trial of
the case of Sam Boozer, colored, and
John C. Hipp, white, Indicted for tho
murder of James S. Gilliam at'Hipp's
Old Town plantation on March 3 last.
Hipp was acquitted and Boozer con
victed.
Mr. Gilliam was killed with a shot
gun by Sam Boozer, and /Hipp was
charged with being -ccesfeory before
the fact, lt was charged by tho State
that Hipp purchased a gun and gave
lt to Boozer, and that he (Boozer)
was to do tho killing.
After being out just 49 minutes,
tho jury returned with a verdict of
guilty as to Sam Boozer, an/' not
guilty as to John C. Hipp. nudge
Gary sentenced Boozer to hang on
vriday, August 18. Boozer's counsel
Ka e notice of a motion for a new
trial, which will he hoard at Laurens
next wc^.
Boozer vat} carried to the peni
tentiary tn ^lumbla for safe-keeping
on order of Go ernor Bloaso.
For a mild easy hetlo^of the bow
els, a single dose of Doa??x Regulets
ls enough. Treatment euro, habit
ual constipation. 25 cents x box.
Ask your druggist for them. N.
Hall Destroys Cotton.
PIERCE HURRICANE IN ITALY.
Eight Bodies Recovered, Many More
Under Ruins at Bresci.
Bresci, Italy, Juno 15.-A spinning
mill was demolished by a hurricane
to-day.
'Many wero killed; eight bodies
have beon taken out. Hundreds of
women and girls are hurled under
tho ruins.
Seventy-Five Dead.
Trieste, Austria, Juno 15.-A ter
rific hurricane raged here this morn
ing. Several vessels were lost. Sev
enty-five people aro dead and the
property loss is very heavy.
"Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Oil is the
best remedy for that often fatal dis
ease-croup. Has been used with
success in our family for eight
years."-Mrs. L. Whiteacro, Buffalo,
Now York.
--
Finds Daughter at 00.
Benncttsvillc, June 15.-The hail
storms Sunday and Monday evening
did great damage to cotton and C'rn
in this section. In this vicinity a,0"t
1.200 acres were so badly ipured
that replanting has been comTenced
Others have begun to plantvover Uy
running the seed In the prient fur
row. Where the cotton ra( attained
some sizo the damage w/y less.
After traveling 15,000 mileB,
tramping most of the way, and living
on his peusions from the Mexican and
Civil wars, and searching for the 14
children from whom he was separated
in tho Galveston (Texas) flood, In
1900, Frank Schromm accidentally
stumbled into tho arms of one of his
daughters In Indianapolis, Ind., last
week.
From her he loamed that only
four of his fourteen children were
h,?ng. Schromm is 99 year? old, and
now tn?t ho has found ?ls relatives
he is the happiest'man in the world.
The reunion came about almost Uko
a miracle The aged man was slowly
walking down the street when a lit
tle child caught hold of his hand and
led him to his daughter.
Stops itching Instantly. Cures piles,
eczema, salt rhetta, tetter, itch,
hives, herpes, scabies-Doan's Oint
ment. At any drug store.
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TO MEET AT WESTMINSTER.
Anderson I Hst ru t Sunday School
Conference July ll and 12.
The annual conference of the Sun-j
day schools of tho Anderson District ;
of tho Methodist church will ho hold
at Westminster Tuesday and Wed
nesday, July 11th and 12th. These
conferences aro usually attended by
about IBO delegates and are of much
interest and benefit. Tho represen
tation will consist of all of the Meth
odist" ministers and superintendents
of Methodist Sunday schools In tho
Anderson District, nnd In addition
each Sunday school !s expected to
send two other delegates.
Rev. A. J. Cauthen, of Anderson,
presiding elder of the Anderson Dis
trict, by tho laws of tho church, will
be the presiding officer, and Jns. B.
Marshall, also of Anderson, lay mem
ber of the South Carolina Sunday
School Conforence Board from the
Anderson District, will act as secre
tary.
The/program arranged for the con
ference is as follows:
Tuesday Afternoon, July lt.
3.30-Opening service of song and
devotion-Rev. A. V. Harbin.
4.00-"The Sunday School Work
In the Anderson District, as I View
lt Making My Rounds"-Rev. A. J.
Cauthen, P. E.
4.30 - "District Organization;
Work for the District Officers-J. M
Way, field secretary.
5.00-Enrollment of delegates;
one minute reports from delegates.
Tuesday Evening.
8.30-Thirty minutes of song and
prayer-Rev. G. C. Hutchinson.
9.00-"The Church and the Sun
day School"-Rev. S. A. Donahoe.
Wednesday Morning, July 12.
9.00--Prayer service-Rev. R. R.
Doyle.
9.15-"Departmentlzlng Our Sun
day Schools, Selecting Officers and
Teachers, and Giving Every Member
Work"-Prof. G. S. Goodgion.
Open conference,
9.45-"When, How, Why Hold
Circuit Sunday School Conferences?"
-Rev. G. W. Davis. Open discus
sion.
10.15-"How to Make the Cradle
Roll a Success"-Mls3 Irene Prlhce.
10.30-"How, Why Teach Mis
sions in our Sunday Schools?"-Dr.
J. L. Stokes.
I.V.. -"TrnV?rrtg ? ?' . T .b-rr
Spvwlmon of Lesson from . Lag len
ot Honor '-.1. M. Way. nc>J yoe re- j
!
J1 SO - i';' lion 61 iji,Hti*ict .:.iwi.-.->
scnoo i otneers; selection of place
of next conference.
Miscellaneous business.
Wednesday Afternoon.
2.00-Devotional service-Rev. P.
K. Rhoad.
2.15-"The Superintendent, tho
Key Man in Our Sunday School For
ward Movement"-Rev. W. C. Kelly.
2.30-"Pastoral Leadership in
Our Sunday School Work"-W. R.
Osborne.
2.45-"How to Make the Wesley
Adult Bible Class Attractive to the
Mon and Women"-Rev. A. E. Drlg
gers. Open discussion.
3.15-"Putting on tho Clincher"
-J. M. Way, field secretary.
3.45-"All tho Church and All the
Children in the Sunday School"-J.
B. Marshall. Open discussion.
4.15-General discussion: "What]
We Need in Our Sunday School
Work"-Five-minute talks: Rov. J.
W. Neely, Messrs. W. B. Cox, J. T.
Lawrence, O. M. Heard, S. E. Press
ley, M. B. Dunlap, F. C. Robinson.
Wednesday Evening.
8.30-Devotional and song service
-Rev. A. J. Cauthen, P. E.
9.00-Closing address-'Rev. R.W.
Humph rles.
Foley's Kidney Remedy
is particularly recommended for
chronic cases of kidney and bladder
trouble. It tends to regulate and
control the kidney and bladder ac
tion and ls healing, strengthening
and bracing. Barton's Pharmacy;
Walhalla; W. J. Lunney, Seneca.
Tho Appointments Illegal.
Tho South Carolina Supremo Court,
in a decision handed down last Wed
nesday evening, holds the appoint
ment by the Governor of two rural
policemen in Greenwood county tobe
illegal in that the appointment was
made hy tho Governor without the
recommendation of tho legislative
delegation of tho county.
Tho court held that "appointments
to office, not being inherently an ex
ecutive prerogative, it. is competent
for tho Legislature in conferring tho
power of appointment to attach such
limitations and conditions to its ex
ercise as may bo deemed proper."
Although holding tho appointments
to bo Illegal, the court orders that
the two rural policemen be paid sala
ries for two months.
F. S. Roxford, G15 New York Lifo
Building, Kansas City, Mo., says: "I
had a severe attack of a cold which
settled in my hack and kidneys, and
I was in great pain from my trou
ble. A friend recommended Foley
Kidney Pills and I used two bottles
of them and they have dono mo a
world of good."
MEXICO WAU ON MONOPOLIES,
Now Government Announces Import
ant Reforms-Affect Americans.
Chihuahua,'Mexico, June 16.-Ho
fovnis Immediately affecting millions
of dollars worth of American prop
erty in Mexico wero announced to
night. Governor Abraham gonzales
declared that under tho new regime
forolgn concessions which might be
regarded us monopolies would not be
extended or renewed and that every
legal effort would be made to restrict
foreign monopolies now existing In
Chihuahua, one of the richest States
In minerals and timber. Tho proper
ties are largely controlled by Ameri
can, British and German Interests.
The Americans are the largest hold
ers.
"All Americans who grieved at the
downfall of the Diaz administration
will find that their grief was well
founded," said Governor Gonzalo?.
No Danger to tho Honest.
"We do not intend to take away
the riches of any foreigner who le
gally holds them, but we realize that
under the Diaz system the granting
of concessions with their ruinous pay
ments of large sums of money to
Mexican politicians was a virtual
selling out of Mexico.
"For years Mexico has boon ex
ploited by foreigners until the great
body of the people have nothing. We
were on the verge of becoming a na
tion ol' paupers. Now all special priv
ileges shall cense, If we can accom
plish it.
"We hope to maintain the friendli
est relations with Americans and we
shall Invite all foreign capital to
come In, but there will be no more
selling out of the country by piece
meal.
Invito Competition.
"We will invite competition, not
monopoly. If American capital
wishes to come here, it must bo pre
pared to compete with Mexican capi
tal. No exclusive privileges will be
given foreigners.
"Undoubtedly foreigners, including
Americans, who profited BO greatly
under the Diaz system, will be hard
hit by the new era, but the determi
nation to upbuild Mexico and to im
prove the conditions of her people,
really a stricken people, will, I am
sure, receive the hearty support of
tho great body of Americans."
finvornnr Onpvnlea stated that be
ginning to-day tao export duty on
c.iittUi shipped into o.c 1 --(i 3 lia to?
would bo amoved.
J >y ll Ililli I/O 111 ......Iv. ?: LttUij.'.
Birmingham, Ala., June 15.-Dy
namite and an ignition' cap placed In
the lamp used by a negro convict
miner, caused the death of two ne
groes In a mine of the Bessemer
Coal, Iron and Land Company, at
Belle Ellen, near here, this morning.
Both tho victims were convict min
ers. The one whose lamp contained
tho explosives had Just entered the
mine and lighted blB lamp when an
other prisoner approached. The dy
namite wont off and killed both in
stantly. Who placed the explosives
Into the lamp is not known, but it
ls thought lt was done by some
miner who had trouble with the ne
gro.
SHE QOT
WHAT SHE
WANTED
This Woman Had to Insist
Strongly, but it Paid
j Chicago. 111.-"I suffered fromafe
I malo weakness and stomach trouble,
and I went to tho
store, to get a bot I lo
of Lydia E. Pink?
ham's Veg et ab lo
Compound, hut tho
clerk did not want
to let me have lt-'
ho sttld it was no
good and wanted mo
lo try something
else, but knowing
till about it I in
sisted and finally
got it, and I am so
glad I did, for it bas cured me.
" I know of so many cases where wo
men have been cured by Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound that I can
say to every suffering woman if that
medicine docs not help her, thero is
nothing that will."-Airs. JANKTZKI,
2008 Arch St., Chicago, Ul
This is tho ago of substitution, and
women who want a euro should insist
upon Lydia E. lMnkham's Vegetable
Compound just ns this woman did, and
hot accept something elso on which tho
druggist can make a littlo moro profit.
Women who aro passing through thia
critical period or who aro suffering
fro".! any of those distressing Ills pe
culiar to their sex should not lose sight;
of tho fact that for thirty years Lydia'
E, Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
which is made from roots and herbs,
has been tho standard remedy for fe.
malo ills. In almost every community
you will lind women who havo been
restored to health hy Lydia IS, Pink?
liam's Vegetal ?lo Compound,