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CONVICT CAPTURED. Sheriff Buford Lands An Ecaped Pen itentiary Convict Near Char lotte, N. C Sheriff M. M. Buford captured, near Charlotte. N. C.. on Friday night. John Miller, a negro who escaped from the State penitentiary anthori ties in igoi. Miller was convicted in Laurens county of the murder of a white man, Spence Simpson, and was sentenced in 1899 to serve lftcen years in the penitentiary. He es caped from R. F. Smith's camp. in Pickens. Sheriff Buford brought his prisoner to Columbia and turned him over to the penitentiary authoritie-;. The Charlotte Observer of Satur day morning gives the following ac -count of the capture of Miller in Char lotte: "Miller was captured at i o'clock this morning in a house near the Hoskins mill by Sheriff M. M. Buford of New berry. S. C.. assisted by Policemen Youngblood and Asbury of this city. --Ater Miller's escape all trace of himx was lost until a few davs ago. when Sheriff Buford learned that '%Iil ler had been working in or near this city for six months. Hc arrived here and with the enerietic assistance of the two policemen located his man. "When Sheriff Buford knocked at the house in which Miller slept last night it seemed for a minute a. if blo,odshed must result before the escaped convict could be captured. . 'I know what yot want,' he said, I've got a gun in here and I'll kill the first man who opens the door.' 'There are three of us here.' an swered Sheriff Buford, 'and you might as well surrender. 'If you don't you'll be killed, sure.' "And with that all the officers cock ed their guns audibly and prepared to break open the door. "Miller weakened and surrendered. He will be taken to Columbia to serve the remaining years of his sentencc. A reward of $50 was offered for his capture. The Charlotte policemen will, of course. get their share of this .money." Sheriff Buford. since his return to Newberry, has received a very com plimentary letter in regard to the cap ture from Col. D. J. Griffith, superin tendent of the penitentiary. Col. -Griffith says of the negro that he has .yet about twelve years to serve and is a good able-bodied man and will be worth to the State about $75 a year. Continuing. Col. Griffith writes Sheriff Buford: "I wish to congratulate you upon your success in the capturing of so many escaped convicts. You have brought in several since I have been superintendent. most of them being captured by yot: in other States. This -speaks well for you as a county sheriff. Much success to you." Spoon-Cromer. Miss Sallie Cromer. daughter of Mr. Charlton Cromer. of the Mollo hon section. and Mr. \\'right Spoon. ojf I.au:rens county, were married on Sunday afternoon by the Rev'. A.. Bowers, at l)r. Howers' residence in .Helena. An Unintentional Error. ln the last issue of the paper it was stated that Dr. \\. E. L.ake had never lost a case o,f typ1hoid fever. This was -an unintentio~nal error. It should have been stated that D)r. Lake did not lose a case of typhoid fever dur ing last year. that is. during the epi demic from M\ay to November. It is un'reason.ahle for a doctor n'! t. Ilose a case of typho'id fever . 2 years. and having somuch work to do as Dr. Lahe has bad, but the cases which IV- has a''t have been few. -An Opportunity. Everybody want:s an opportunity. To do scenething, or to be something. or to buy something ceneap. The lat ter is offered to the people of Net berry at Sunnifer Bros H ardware Store. Now in.h t'ime. Read their ad. in ano'ther cI:n Advertised Letters. R-Mis L C H enry Ro:len. S-Alfred Shell. Fannie Swetten -E, Jan Cwettenburg, Lily Smith. PURELY PERSONAL. The Movements of Many People, New berians and Those Who Visit Newberry. Miss Lena Dean has returned to her: home in Greenville. Mr. Warren Watts. of Burke. Va.. is visiting relatives at Helena. Mr. R. A. Abrams. of Anderson. has been in the city the past several days. Mr. Olin Fulmer. of Columbia. has been in Newberry the past several (ays. Nlrs. 0. C. Stewart has gone to Leesvi!le on account of the illness of her mother. Mrs. S. C. Quattlebaum. Mr. John S. Parks and daughter, liss Louise Parks, are visiting Mr. Park's sister. Mrs. Eduard Scholtz. Mr. E. Cavenaugh went to South Washington. N. C.. to attenJ the fun eral of his father. who died on Friday. Col. James H. Pottle. representing! the Brotherhood Wine Co., was in the city yesterday shaking hands with his friends. \lr. J. Polk Mangun. formerly of thi, county. but now of Augusta. where he is engaged in business, is i. the c.1unty visiting relatives and was in Newberry yesterday. VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUTS. Mayor John W. Earhardt is with the Ohe.rver. Newberry is having son;e more spring-like weather. Mr. 0. W. LeRoy has sold his place in the western part of the city to Mr. 1. A. McDowell. Mr. W. G. Peterson will take sub scriptions for The Herald and News and receipt for the same. The firm of Counts and Dickert has been dissolved and the business will hereafter be conducted by Mr. J. L. Dickert. There has been no mayor's court in several days. Several arrests for minor offences were' made by the po lice yesterday. There was another tie on the elec tion of a policeman at the meeting of city council last week. In the meantime, Mr. Koon continues to hold the position. The county pension board will meet on next Monday to approve the pen sion roll. This is the last meeting of the board this year at which appli cations for pensions will be receivea. Mrs. J. H. Hair returned from Bal timore yesterday, accompanied by her milliner. Miss Belle Pardue. Mrs. Hair while in the Eastern r.arkets purchased a varied line of the most moderiPgoods for the trade. The Young People's Benevolent so :iety of the Presbyterian church wvill conduct a remnant sale on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. March 3. 4. and in the vacant st. r: ntext to Smith' drug store. The yountig pe ple prom ise that verything will be cheap. "The Ready \\'oirkers." the young. ladies' society vf the First Bap,tit hurch, gave a very p)leasanlt enter tinent in the A-rmo' ry on Friday' night. Misses An'ita D)avidson and Sara Pope wre the committee in. char.g. Uni.que invitatio ns were is City counc:i at its a--t meeting ac-I eeptedl from IDr. (). it. Mayer. presi dent of the Newherry Real Estate c"ompany. a ntumber of :,treets which, haec been laid oti on the Jones prop erty. on the eastern side of the city. A\ number of dwellings are going up on :this property. FOR A CREAMERY. Mr. C. G. Voigt To Come To New-. berry Today and to Talk In the Court House Tomorrow. Mlr. C. G. Voigt. of the Easley~ creamery. wvil! c ome to Newberry to day. on the invitatio'n of Mr. John se tt. to give information in regard t. the establishment of a creamery n N.ewherrv. He wvi!! ink along this To P. -i he W2omen. hold a cash sik saAe an;d as :!a: only one day. it wvould be well to bear it in mind. ATTEMPTED WRECK. Mixed Train No. 72 On The Southern Had a Narrow Escape Near Old Town Friday Night. There was what appears to be an attempt to wreck the Southern's mix ed train No. 72, on Friday night, near Old Town. in this county. This train reaches Newberry. going towards Co lumbia. at 8:.;o at night. When two miles this side of Old Town on Fii day night the engineer saw an ob struction on the track :.bout seventy five yards ahead of him. and was able to slow down his engine so as to push it off with tht. pilot. The obstruction was found to be a piece of timber, about 12x12. and about six or seven feet long, which had been laid across the track. one end resting on the top of the rail on one side and the other end being jammed against the side of the rail on the other side. Had the train been running at full speed a wreck would have been inevitable. There were on the train from New herrv "\avor Earhardt. Dr. E. P. 'Mc Clintock. Alderman Van Smith. City Clerk T. 0. Stewart. Policeman Koon. and others. CHAIRMAN H. H. EVANS. He Has Qualified And Prosposes To Give The Dispensary A Business Administration. The State. Mlr. H. H. Evans oi. Thursday ap peared before the secretary of state and qualified as this chairman of the b. ard of directors of the state dispen sary. and at the next succeeding meet ing he will be the head of the concern in South Caiolina. which does the largest business in the state. Messrs. L. W. Boykin and John Bell Towill also have qualified as members of the board. Mr. Evans' commission will not be issued until the first of March, at his own request. Mr. Evans yes terday commended the long pars of service of Mr. L. J. Williams. the re tiring chairman, and declared in his characteristic manner: "I propose to give 'em the prettiest business admin istration they have ever had." . The commissioner makes the appointment of clerks and employes. Mr. Tattrm, who takes the office of commissioner on Tuesday, has declined to make any statement as to his policy, but judg ing from Mr. Evans's statement the new administration will keep all ef ficient men now ;n the employ of the state dispensary. Mr. G. H. Charles will remain clerk to the board, but no other announcements have been made. LEVER WINS CONTEST. His Seat in Congress is Now Un challenged. WAashington. Feb. 27.-The house ce mmittee on eler: ions No. i has de ide the Dentzler-Lever contest ro m the Seventh South Carolina dis trict in favor of Lever, the sitting member. Foundry and Machine Shops. Uttenitin is dlirected to the adver tiement of H udgen., Bros, of Laurens. S. C.. mane.facturers of all kind, of mills and repairs. They also carry a full line of fittings and will giveI prompt attention to all orders. They' are. close by andl Newberry people -hould give them a trial. Hamm-Perdew. Married, in Mt. Tabor Lutheran church. on Sunday. M r H ayne H amm and Miss Cora Perdew. daughter of Mr. 3. R. Perdew. The etremony was perormed by the Rev. WV. A. Lutz. Letter to A. P. Boozer, Newberry, South Carolina. Dear Sir: Porterhiou..e. so much' neck. no mnch: all the way between. Just so with p)aint. D)evoe lead-art. zinc is the porterhouse. Nobody wants the neck:. hte between. mme1c :-y. is gvood en. ugh ifor them tween:-it 1- the old- a-ilnied paint ut1 zineha c..me in. Zine tough' en' SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More of Less Interest Con densed in the State. It is stated that the tobacco acreage in Florence county will very probably be not over one-third what it was last year. Burglars broke into the bank at Latta on Thursday night and blew its vault and safe, but failed to get the S3..oo which it contained. Mr. C. 0. Parker. civil engineer, from Abingdom, Va.. representing capitalists, in company with B. B. Evans. of Saluda. was in Wards on Saturday in the interest of a railroad to Saluda. , The board of visitors of the South Carolina Military accademy are con sidering the question of sending the corps oif cadets to the Louisiana Purchase exposition. It is probable that the cadets will go. Two handsome new brick buildings are to be erected at the State peniten tiary. a guards' quarters and a hos pital f-,r c(-nsunptives. The latter is t( cist ablut Sto.ooo and the former ah ut &.00 The law against slot machines has gle iItco effect. The machines ex empted from the provisions if the law are those which give a certain and fair return for each coin and in which there is no element of chance. Sallie Bookout, a mill operative, was struck and killed on Thursday by a car on the new electric line be twee!" Union and Glenn Springs. The woman was married. but had been separated from her husband. Seymour Gallnian. who was along w%ita her. was slightly injured by itiaing from 1he end of the trestle. where the acci dent occurred. The wreck on the Edgefiuld branch of the Southern railway at Trenton last week caused the death of a white man and a negro. An open swtch caused the passenger to leaxe the main track and enter the siding. crash ing into a standing freight car. The negro killed was in a box car on the siding. Capt. Rice, the conductor, was cut in the head in several places. The jury of ingnest has adjourned until this week. One report has it that the switch was left open through carelessness: another that it was the malicious act of an outsider. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More of Less Interest Con densed Outside the State. Two engineers were killed and a brakeman was fatally injured in the wreck of a freight train near Henry Station. Va.. on Saturday. Seventy-nc of the delegates of the National Educational ass-)ciation at Atlanta on Friday visited Booker Wahington'~s school at Tuckegee, Ala.. and inspected the institution. Fire in the Newport News Ship building company's plant on Friday night entailed a loss of about $15,o00. For a while the ten million dullar plant of the company wvas in danger. The Wisconsin State Capitol build ing was practically destroyed by fire on Saturday morning. The origin of the fire is believed to have been a :ghted gas jet in a toilet room on the second tloor. The loss is estimated at S8o.00. J. W. Turner and his five-year-old son were killed at Mlarietta. Ga.. on Friday night by a train. The whole Turner family was walking along the track when they were struck. Other members of the family. inclutding Mrs. Trner. were serion:.-y injured and. may die. Secretary Hlesters weekl:. cotton tatement. issued on Friday., howed that for the 179 clays oi the season that had eiLpsed the ag.tregate was behimi -he-ae days of last 'ear Gorge E. Lorenz. of Toledo. Oh i. house near Bellaire, Ohio, on Thurs day. caused by a drop of burning oil from the miner's lamp dropping into the powder keg, blew the occupants of the house out into the street, kill ing a woman and fatally burning three men. By the fall of a monster scaffold in the new postoffice building in Chicago on Friday. one man was killed, an other was probably fatally injured, and over a score of workmen had nar row escapes from being crushed to death. The scaffold was built from the main floor of the building directly beneath its dome to the tenth floor, a distance of 161 feet. Thirty-five men were working about the dome at the time of the accident. but all escaped unhurt with the exception of the two mentioned-plasterers. who were standing on the portion of the scaf fold which collapsed. SPECIAL NOTICES. LOST DOG-Bird (,g. black with white breast and neck.-Lost about tw, week- ag.. L.ast heard of fol lowed buggy from Prosperity to Newberry. Reward if retirned to A. H. Hawkins Prosperity, S. C. MALE HELP WANTED--M%an to represent, permanently, thorough Iy responsible mercantile house, co-operative plan. No book can vassing. Si.oo week, first year. $ioo.oo cash and full time required. Fine opportunity. Co-Operative, Box 370, Philadelphia. 4tMII POST FOR SALE-200 Ceder fence post. -aed or ,;>it an.d 25 tele phone Post for sale by P. J. Lender, Rightvell. S. C. MXNFACTURfR-\Wants reliable man to deliver and collect; horse and wagon and SrSo deposit neces -ary: S2r a week and expenses; permanent. Franklin, Box 78, Philadelphia. Pa. WANTED-Persimmon, Dogwood, Hickory and Holly Logs.' Freight paid on carloads. James C6ckshot, Charleston. S. C. MONEY TO LOAN-We negotiate loans on improved farm lands at seven per cent. interest on amounts over one thousand dollars, and eight per cent. interest on amounts less than $r.ooo. Long time and easy payments. Hunt. Hunt & Hunter. WANTED-In each State. salesman to sell large line tobacco; perma nent position. Central Tobacco Works Company, Penicks, Va. WANTED-Special representative in this county and adjoining terri tories, to represent and advertise an old established business house of solid inancial standing. Salary $21 weekly. with expenses. paid each Monday by check direct from head quarters. Expenses advanced: posi tion permanent. We ftirnish every thing. A ddress. The' Columbia, 630 .\onon bIg.. Chicago. Ill. HUNTER & SANDER-Are running a saw mill about one mile irom the city on road to Lindsay's bridge, and are prepared to ni1l all urders for lumber.* FOR SALE-A Nice New Residence. Conveniently arranged in most desir able residence portion of the city. Apply at once at -this office. FIVE THOUSANDS Yards of Em broidery from one to twelve cents per yard. Special gale at WV. T. Tar.rant's. 2t. BIG LINE of Negligee Shirts cheap at WV. T. Tarrant's. 2t. GOOD BROGAN SHOES at W. T. Tarrant's, For ten days at Soc. 2t. EIGHT ROOM HOUSE for sale or rent. Mladern conv eniences. Apply to Robt. II. Welch. WOOD. WILL CONTRACTFRLI id amount of four foot pine wood-mill yard dlivry--August to De Cer.')r :904. L. W. FLOYD, 4r.