Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GENERAL NEWS NOTES.' Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Outside of the State. Police Officer J. J. Hall, oi Dan ville. Va., was shot and f-atally wound ed on Monday night by a desperate negro outlaw. Senator Fairbanks. the republican vice-presidential nominee, delivered his first formal speech of the cam paign at White River Junction, Ver mont, on Monday afternoon. One man was killed and three were wounded in a battle between two tam ilies at a religious meeting near Taze well, Va., on Monday night. The bat tle was the result of a family feud of thirty years' standing. Senator Latimer visited Rose mount, the home of Judge Parker, on Monday. ' He dined with Judge Par ker and then went to Norwich, N. Y., where he made a speech in the interest of democracy. The largest sugar factory in Ger many was burned on Sunday night. involving a loss of $i,25o,ooo. The fire caused a rise in the sugar market at Hamburg of three cents a hundred weight. A photographer of Ascoli, Italy. arrested in connection with the theft from the cathedral of Ascoli of a priceless cope, which was afterward purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, committed suicide on Monday by hanging himself to the bar in his cell. A. L. Scott, a negro murderer, died in the jail at Fitzgerald, Ga., on Mon day. The negro had resisted arrest until fatally wounded. His death probably saved him from being lynch ed. The mob refused to disperse for more than an hour after the death of the negro. declaring that the report that he was dead was only a ruse. One hundred persons perished and five thousand were rent.%re'd homeless in a fire Which destroyed the city of .Binang, in the province of Luzon, in the Philippines. The property loss is estimated at $2oo,ooo. The govern ment is furnishing shelter and food to the people made destitute by the fire. E. C. Stahlman, the news editor of the Nashville Banner, was drowned in the Cumberland river above Nash ville on Monday afternoon. He wvas -cruising up the river in his gasoline launch when the propeller refused to work. He dived under the launch to remedy the trouble, and failed to reappear. Five negroes. all supposed to be members of the "Before-Day" club, have been arrested at Salem. Ala., for attempting to enter a house and mur der the family. One of the members of the gang confessed to the au thorities that the negroes in the com munity had organized for ihe purpose *of murdering, robbing and burning. The Olympic contests at the world's fair at St. Louis are now proving an attractive feature. The 01mypic Marathon race, the third foot race of the kind ever held and the first ever held on American soil, participated in by 31 of the world's fleetest runners, was won on Wednes day by Thomas J. Hicks, of Cam bridge, Mass. The distance of the race was over 24 miles. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or~Less Interest Con densed ji the State. Frank Dial, a negro, escaped from the Greenville county chain -gang and was shot by a police officer. His injuries were believed to be fatal. Sammie Igoe, a child whose home was at Summerville, died in Atlanta from hydrophobia. The child had been taken to the Pasteu. institute for treatment. Stella Johnson, aged 30 years, a disreputable white woman of Sum ter, committed suicide on Tuesday night by swallowing an ounce of laud anum. Remorse over her life is thought to have been the cause for the act. Marion Parr has been arrested in Columbia suspected of the brutal murder of Fayette Shealy, the young white boy who was killed at a fish ing camp near Columbia recently. A gu was found in Parr's possession which is believed to have been the gun young Shealy had and which was taken from him at the time he was murdered. The first contract for the establish ment of a colony in this state since the establishment of a departrent of immigration has 1ken signed be tween Commissi.,er Watson and parties interested in bringing colo nists south. The land upon which the colony will be settled consists of io.ooo acres of land in the lower part of Lexington county on the main line of the Southern and in volves the investment of about $130, ooo. The colony will be made up of Scandinavians. and there will be about 25o families. Milton J. Sternberger, a traveling salesman of Memphis, Tenn., and a former Charleston man, was myster i,usly shot and probably fatally wounded in Memphis, Tenn., on Tues day night. His wife is held by the police pending an investigation. It is alleged that he was packing his grip and that he asked his wife for a pistol which he had given her. The woman claims in the scuffle for the possession of the weapon it was ac cidentally discharged. inflicting what was supposed to be a fatal wound. A WILY WRITER. Understood How To Make Either Words or Space. Herbert S. Stone, the well-known publisher, described at a dinner in Washington the amusing methods of a newspaper writer who used to be one of his friends. "Mr. Stone said that this young man wrote "special" articles for the press. not of a news nature, for which he was paid at a set rate per column. He was once commissioned to do a serial story for a Chicago paper. The story, as it proceeded from week to week. was interesting, but it contain ed many passages like the following: "Did Nou hear him?" "I did." "Trulv?" "'Truly." 1 "Where?" "By the well." "NWhen?" "Today."1 'Then he lives?" "He does." The editor w~ho was handling the story perceived that the writer, in stringing out his passages so need lessly, was making more money peri column than was right. Accordingly, sending for the man, he said: "Hereafter, John, we will pay you I by the letters on your serial. We will pay you so much per thousand let- C ters." "But I prefer to be paid by the col umnn." the young man objected. t "No matter for that. From now on by letter, and not by column. your copy will be measured up." "The young man' looked crestfallen. went away, but in the very next in--. stallment of his story he introduced1 a character who stuttered. and all through the chapter were scattered I passages like this: "B-b-b-b-believe me. s-s-sir. I am n-n-not g g g uilty. M-m-m-my m m-i-mother c-c-c-committed this c-t c-c-crime." "Your mother. girl?" "M-m-m-my m-rn-in-mother." t The editor .was horrified at this stammering chapter. He foresaw the introduction of the stuttering girl throughout the rest of the serial and he perceived that in a work paid by the letter all those stammerings would count tip amazingly. He liked the story, and his rate for such matter was not, at least, high. So he sent for the young man again, and payment on the old column basis was resumed. Thereupon the girl with the stutter died, and the short, terse paragraphs all came back again. That Safety Shave. "Look at that, sir." The salesman in a Nassau street sutlery store glanced up, according to the New York Press, and saw on the other side of the showcase a man with a face half hidden on court plas ter. Drops of blood exuding here and there indicated that the wounds were fresh. "What's the matter?" inquired the salesman. who knew his customer, lived in Montclair and came through the Hoboken tunnel every morning. "Kissed the wrong woman in the car, eh? Or is it the family cat?" "'Facetiousness. sir." retorted the customer angrily. "I bought one of your safety razors yesterday, and this is the result. I was guaranteed that it was a safety razor. Tell me. does this look like a safety shave?" "It doesn't for a fact," answered the salesman. "You might have done better with an axe or the bread knife. Did you bring the razor with you?" The customer tossed it on the counter. "There is the infernal thing," he roaied. "It ought to be made a crime to sell another one. I want my money back." The salesman examined the razor. "Had this thing apart since you bought it, haven't you?" "Yes. I took it to pieces to show my wife how it worked. But that made no difference. I put it together all right." "You, did. eh?" said the salesman. "Well, if we had an office boy in the store who put a razor together like that he'd be fired. You've spoiled the razor as much as you've spoiled your face. You'd be a good man to mend a clock, you would. Money back? You'll have to come in later and see the boss. But I wouldn't show him that razor unless he is feeling good, if I were you." Reason He Gave. John Sharpe Williams, democratic leader of the house was greatly an noyed when a visiting committee tried to map out for him and his olleagues a line of duty. "You remind me of the preacher," aid Mr. Williams to his visitors, "who remonstarted with a man in his :ommunity for not coming out to hurch. The man. after much persua ;on, consented to attend worship on :he following Sabbath. During the ermon a violent storm raged and :rashes of thunder interfered with :he speaker making himself heard. "I won't attend any more.' said the -eluctant church attendant when, at he conclusion of the services the )reacher asked him to come again. 'And why not?' asked the divine. If the Lord wanted me to listen o vour sermon.' said the man as he umbled his hat. 'I don't think he vould have interrupted your sermon vith a thunderstorm." The Limit of a Meagre "Iea. A number oi actors weic *iscuss ng recently the different ir iouses in a western c't. sa >er's Weekly, and a .ap a;ive neagreness of the taiW -- . ided by the various '..e >f the party who had lic ' oe. o the talk now spoke-,. "If any of you fellows really want o put yourself on a rigid diet go tco Irs. 's boarding house in Gin :innati. I came down to breakfast here one morning, and the servant vatzed up and asked me if I'd have iam or eggs. I said r didn't want toi >e grasping, and ordered the yolk of en egg--said I'd have the white of it ' or lunch." "Molly," he said, "if I should die ~ irst I want you to see that I'm cre nated." "Mercy on us, John! Coal may >e Io a ton then!"--Atlanta Consti ution. Wood's Seeds. VIRGINIA GRAY Winter Oats. Sow Early For Best Results. Our Trade Mark Brand is the best and cleanest quality that it is possible to procure. Hairy, or Winter Vetch, Sown with Winter Oats, makes I the largest possible yield of the best and most nutritious hay. Write for prices. WOO'S DESCRIPTIVE FALL CATALOG Tells all about seeds for fall sowing. It is the most valna-j ble and helpful publication of the kind issued in America. Mailed free on request. T. W. WOOD & SON S Seedsmn. - Richmond, Va. arly Forty Years A Not the largest-not the ol but, by reason of its peculiar 1 organization, the strongest lf surance company in the worl The Pacific Mutual Life in theipainest terms the mos eral policy sold. In taking life insurance it is no estimates (guesses) that the* .peo pie want but Guarantees. thpeo Our Guaranteed values, writen in the policies, are greater than the guarantees of any other company. Its rates are no greater than thoseof other old line companies. To find out all the good things we offer send date of birth to, or, call on ver Postoffice, Newbery, S. C. kGAIN. ned heretofore. ;t received. ble. ,rs. I Beef Hams, 1i Flour. CAVENAUGH Main Street. IDATE ce ourselves as a usiness and pledge * 11 customers. JG STORE. + nan's suffrage. Iclio0 8! .many Summer are offering at awns now 5c. di Lawns now 7c. twns now 8 l-3c. awns now lic. twns now 13c. gs 50c., now 35c. 40c., " 28c. 35c., " 22 l-2c 25c., '' 1 6 I-3c ildren's Oxford i is $1.90; from $2.00 to :.; from $1.00 to 69c.; onds, but first class JOTEN. mntic Railroad ooga Louis Railroad3. ts West and North 3 Daily with Pullman tlanta to St. Louis, ice, Atlanta to Chica-. de at Atlauta with the. .y Central of Georgia ri Railway trains. information write to s, T. P. A., r St., Atlanta, Ga. las. E. Harmon, Gen. Pass. Ageut Comrnenced -Business Nc ROBERT NORRIS, General Agent, 0 HAMS / Not those mentio but a fresh lot ju* Kingans Relia Kingans PortE Kingans Driec Try our Pir.ac DAVENPORT & Phone i10. A CAND We hereby announ candidate for more b ourselves to satisfy a + MAYES' DRL We believe in wor genuine Redi We have a great goods that we hialf their value. l Oc. Muslins and L 1 2 1-2c. Muslins an 15Sc. Muslins and La 20c Musiins and L 25c. Muslinv and La White Damask Waistir Ladies', Misses' and Cl -educed from $3.00 to Bl.25; from $1.50 to 95 rom 75c. to 49c. The above are not sec goods. Yours truly S. J.i WI Western and Atlh anc \ashville, Chattar1 ro St. Louis and all poin vest. Three Solid Train: malace Sleeping Cars, A vithout change. Only through car serv go, withou ch i g Close connections ma eaboard Air Line Railwa lailway and the Southeri For niap folders or other THOS. R. Jone No. I Nohth Pryoi .1. F. Smith, CI Traffic Manager.