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WM BUY NEW CARS AISO NEW ENGINES FOR USE ON 3!HE SOUTHERN. The Charleston Division WiU be Very Much Benefited by the Pro posed Purchases. We learn from the News and Cour ier that advices have been recieved in Charles>,on to the effect that the Southern Railway Is in the market for extensive purchases In equip ment. Tiie increase in business is assigned as the reason for this in crease in equipment. The purchases will include fifty-five big locomot ives for both freight and passenger service on the lines of the Southern. It is understood that the Charles ton division of the Southern will be only in directly benefited by these new purchases, and that a. majority of the new rolling stock will be us ed on the main lines of the road. Thatithe Charleston division will re ceive a portion of the main line roll ing stock now in use on the main lino, is the opinion of many of the railroad men in the city. The South is at present operating very heavy trains out of this city, notably the Carolina Special and the Augusta trains, and the engines now in use. while powerful for their size, will soon have to be replaced by heavier type loconotives. Fifty-fire locomotives are to he purer ased by the Southern in the near futr.re, as follows: Twenty five of the Mikado tpye, for fgreight traffic purposes; fifteen of the Paci fic tpye, for passenger traffic, and fifteei standard switching engines. The loconotives will be of the heavi est tpye. iesi?ned for the most effi cient and economical service. It is belle' ed that they would prove too heavy fcr the roadbed of the Charleston division, even were the Soutl ern disposed to place them on any other but the main line. Char esepytxekqetaoinshrdlucmfwypj Thj Carolina Special trains of the Southern, operating between Charles ton. Ohio, will be among the first train:? to be benefited by the pur chase of the roiling stock. Pow erful engines of the "1,100" type, now In use on the main line, will haul the trains between Asheville and Columbia and Columbia ana Char eston. The Southern has also placed or ders recently for new passenger equii men!:, including thirty-five first class cos.ehes, twenty full postal cars, ten combination passenger and baggige care and four dining coaches. This equipment will con sist of rolling stock of the latest de signs. Orders have also been placed for 27,2d0 tons of 85-pound steel rails, whlc'a will 'be used in track better ment. Of this amount 22,400 tons will be furnished by the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railway Company, 1,800 by the Illinois Street Com pany anc": 3.000 tons by the 'Mary land Steel Company. Important track improvements are to be made by the Southern in the near future between Asheville, N. C, and Morristovn, Tenn., part of the routj traversed by the Carolina Spe cial trains on their trips between Charleston and Cincinnati; and also between Knoxville and Cleveland, Tenn., by the building of eight or ten passing tracks. The latter will greatly increase the capacity of these line;-. j HANDSOME ELLOREE RESIDENCE Stack Home One of the Prettiest in the County. Mr. W. F. Stack and family have occi pied their new and handsome resi lenco in Elloree, which is pro nouiced by competent architects to be one of the handsomest in Or angibur: County. It is a large two story b-iilding with twelve rooms, all of which is handsomely finished and furnished. Four of the rooms on .he first floor can be thrown into one making a spacious hall. The material in the building is of the besi grade and quality and the own er upent. much time in making the selections. "The building is securely con stri cted in every particular, resting upon a foundation of brick. It is equipped with acetalyne light and a water i lant, and cement steps and walks load up to the building. The spa?iou.-; portocos, hallways and co lon al columns, the skillful arrange ments of rooms for convenience and comfort, the central location gives the cincture a most imposing ap pearance. The cost of the structure is estimated about ten thousand dol lar?. r."hough there are residences in the county erected at a greater cost, it is doubtful if there are any thnt will surpass the one in the qual ities above referred to. "The owner, Mr. W. F. Static is president of the Stack Company, a mercantile ooncern; vice president of the Pank of Elloree; connected with other enterprises elsewhere, and has large holdings of real estate here ar.d elsewhere. Though in the prime of life, he is the eldest resi dent merchant of Elloree, having come here from Clarendon county twenty-five years ago. since which tin e he h->s been actively engaged in the mercantile business. In business he is careful and conservative and en.oys the esteem and confidence o* his feliow townsmen and acquaint ance." Country Politicians Found Guilty. That "graft" and vice do not thrive in the city alone, but are as mi ch a part of the country. Is the startling statement of the "reform mayor" of Toledo, Ohio. Read: "The Thirteenth District," a story of a candidate, to learn what Brand Whitlock has learned about po.itlcal methods. Now offered at fifty ceats. Sims' Book Store. FARCE INSTEAD OF TRAGEDY. Man Goes Off to End His Life, Bnt Writes for Help. At Kingstree on last Friday week, when E. C. Burgess, manager of the People's Mercantile company, came to his office, he found the following note addressed to him: "Dear !Mr. Carroll: Cotton futures have doomed me again. I am cut down with a loss of nearly a thou sand. You have helped me enough. I can't face you asking for more help. I can't live any longer with such circumstances staring me in the face. This world has been nothing but disappointment. Collect my in surance if you hear of my death and pay my debts. This seems my only way to pay them. You will hear of my death sooner or later, al though it will be mystery. M. W. McConnell." Nothing more was heard of Mc Connell until last Friday when he wired Mr. Burgess for a recommen dation, so that he could get a position I in Clinton, Iowa. Investigation has j ,6hown that McConnell had done noth- i ling criminal, and his reason for skip ping is not known. He had several | [notes due soon, but he would have' been given more time on them if he had told his circumstances. His father, Rev. S. J. 'MtConnell, of Orrum, N. C, was wired for and he has agreed to take over his son's obligations. Boiler Explodes. About six o'clock Saturday morn ing a boiler in one of the mills of the Atlantic Coast Lumber corporation at Georgetown exploded, killing one ne-! gro instantly and injuring two others so seriously that they died later. The cause of the explosion h?.s not been j ascertained. REFUSES TO SURRENDER. An Old Confederate Veteran Holds on to His Office. Judge W. H. Kerr, Magistrate at Greenwood, an old Confederate vet eran, has refused to turn over the office and the books thereof to J. W. Canfield, who was appointed magis trate for Greenwood by Gov. Blease last Monday. Judge Kerr is holding his office at the court house and Mr. Canfield has secured an office also and is ready for business. Judge Kerr says he will hold the office until his successor has been legally appointed. A rather interesting fact is that four magistrates to lose office in Greenwood county were old Confed erate veterans?-Judge Kerr at Greenwood, Capt. Jas. Rogers at Ninety Six, W. W. Purdy at Verdery and V7. P. Devlin at Bradley. The two last lost out by reason of the fact that the office of judicial magis trate was abolished for those towns by the last legislature, but the first two were replaced by appointments of Gov. Bleaso. CAUSED SMALL PANIC. Finds His Wife With Another Man and Row Ensues. Frightened guests fled from a fashionable Atlanta restaurant Thursday night when a quiet Htt,< 1 supper party was suddenly converted into the scene of a duel with knives. The supper party consisted of a man and another man's wife. The participants were, two well known Atlantans, A. L. Hendricks, a real estate man, and C. R. Burn I ham, auditor of the Southern Bell [Telephone company. The fight fol lowed a quarrel over Mrs. Burnham, I the husband accusing Hendricks of j paying too much attention to his ! wife. When the fight was at its height Mrs. Burnham rushed in between the two men and tried to stop them. Her i sleeve and waist were cut and ripped j by the knives of the combatants. j Other guests finally interferred and Hendricks and Burnham and his wife were sent to a police station where charges against all three were en ; tered. ? SCHOOL BARS CHILD WIFE. "I Like My Teacher," Tleads Little Mrs. Stump, Aged 12. "I want to go to school; I like my teacher," pleaded little Carmelia i Altimari Stump, twelve years old, jwho was denied the privilege Friday of attending the baby grade at the . Jackson Public School in Cincinnati, Ohio, because she is married, j Her short dress did not nearly reach her shoe tops as she bent over the table to show how well she could write. The cirl had been married with the consent of her parents In Kentucky to Frank Stump, nineteen years old. Principal O'Donncll of the Jack son school holds that because she is married she cannot attend school. ,But the child wife wants to continue jher studies, and the matter has been i brought to the attention of the sup ! erintendent of schools. * I ? ? ? _ Five Die in Fire, j Supposed to have been caused hy I the explosion of a lamp, fire .".urint; ; the night burned two houses at ! Oneida, Pa , occupied by Gabriel Clerotsky and Michael Slovak, Hun garians. Five members of the Gerot sky family lost their lives in the ] flames. Killed by Boiler. ! At Niagara, X. V.. a boiler ex ploded in the plant of the Ontario i Power company Friday morning, ?killing three men, fatally injuring another and more or k-ss seriously ' injuring six to ten others. * Nearly Four Thousand. The population of Darlington, S. C in 1910 was 3,789, against 3,082 in 1900, according to the statistics of the 13th census. This is a gain of 709, or 22.9 per cent, in the past ten years. * The creative talent of the greatest novelists of modern times, the mechanical skill of the best arti ans, the utilization of wonderful machinery that represents the cumulative products of ages of inventive genius, together with unlimiting manu facturing facilities, are the things that make possible these "Great Books at Little Prices." 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