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MRS. BLAIR 0-14 TRI-AL For Killing Hasband-She Testified That He Was Trying to Get Pis tol When it Went Off. Columbia. Sept. 14.-The trial of Mrs. Ethel W. Blair, charged with the murder of her husband Condue tor Blair. in thiz city on January 17. 1907. was eunelled this evening and the case went .o the jury at 11 o'clock tonight. 'At a late hour the jury had not agreed upon a verdict. The trial of Mrs. Blair was begun in the general sessions court here this morning with Special Judge George Johnstone, of Newberry, presiding. One of the principal witnesses for the prosecution was Dr. E. C. Knolton, of this city. Dr. Knowlton. testified that he reached Blair's side soon af ter the shooting and immediately or dered an ambulance. Blair was plac ed in the vehicle and taken to a sani tarium. On the day the physician testified that he told Blair that be was dangerously wounded and that he would probably die. Blair said, according to the witness, that he knew he was going to die. Dr. Knowlton then told Blair he had better make a statement. He asked Blair who shot him and Blair said more than once that his wife had fired the pistol. When asked what it was all about, Dr. Kiocwlton said Blair said that they were quarreling about "that man'' and later the wit ness learned the man was Arms. The prosecution had several other witnesses but none of them were eye witnesses. The defense began the in troduction of testimony early in the afternoon, and the principal witness was the defendant herself, Arms also testified. Mrs. Blair was cool and well collected. She made a good witness. She admitted that Blair and herself had been quarrelling, but said about an unpaid bill. Blair started to cross the room for his pistol, she said, and she rushed for the weapon and se cured it. They struggled for the pos session of the pistol and it was dis eharged. It was not until she had' thrown it out of the room, Mrs. Blair testified, tlat she learned that her husband had been wounded. She did not see him again. Mrs. Blair admitted that she knew the man Arms but denied that there was anything criminally wrong be tween them. She admitted that she did not love her husband, but merely felt and affection for him as the father of her children. She said he did not support her, forced her to keep a boarding house and was in the habit of drinking to excess, and .that these things smothered her love for the man. Arms testified for the defense. He said he was a friend of the Blair fam ily. He denied that there was any criminal intimacy between himself and Mrs. Blair. During the trial Dr. Knolton, the Sprincipal witness for the~ state, was asked a number of hypothetical ques tions in cross-examination concerning the effects of opium on the human mind and other drugs of a similar na ture. Later it was brouighit out by the defense that Blair had long been a suffer from an abdominal tumor and that he used a "collie cure" the printed formula of which showed opium as an ingredient. The principal argument for ,the de fense was made by Attorney P. H. Nelson, while Solicitor Timmerman closed for the state. Judge Johnstone charged the jury for forty minutes., SOON B33 "GOING DRY." Order of Court Puts a Stop to Sale of Beer on Isle of Palms. Greenville News.. Columbia, Sept. 13.-It was learn ed here this afternoon that an order of Associate Justice Gary had been served upon Messrs. Riddook and Byrnes, proprietors of the Isle of Palms resort, and upon the Charles ton Consolidated Railway and Light Company, which owns the Isle of Palms, restraining them from main taining *a "nuisance" under thei Cary-Cothran law. The order is returnable on the 28th, at which time the state authori ties will seek to have it made per manent, enjoining the owners of this' celebrated resort from permitting the sale. or drinking, of whiskey at the resort. This is not an entirely new proce dure under the dispensary law, as the ol state di .enar system,. but it is the first action of this sort un der the county dispensary law, and may be a forerunner of other such actions. To violate the dispensary law may not be so serious for those who can Yt i 1'-4t Il , I 1 11 of boii I d Uled For vwndlmpt of court, and sent to jail for violating an in juiction. The temporary injunction was served by Attorney General Ly on., who. appeared before AssociatE Justice Gary at Abbeville several days ago. THE AMBROSE 'HANNEL. The Largest Liners Will Use it to Enter New York. Scientific American. When the new 'Cunard liner Lusit ania reaches Sandy Hook lightship she will be able to enter New York harbor through a channel 1,000 feet in width, forty feet deep and seven miles in length. eut through the outer bar and extending from deep-sea sounding s to the Narrows. This wat erway represents the first half of the great Ambrose channel, which the Government is excavating with a view to ipproving the entrance to New York harbor. If the forecast of the army engineers be correct, in about four years from the present time this great work will be fully completed, and it will be possible for the whole of the maritime traffic to and from the port of New York to steam direc-tly to the Narrows through a channel 2,000 feet in width, which will afford a uniform depth, even at low water., of forty feet. The full load draft of the largest ships afloat, the Lusitania and Mauretania, is 37 1-2 feet, ad as they will rarely, if ev er, draw this much it is reasonable to uppose that the Ambrosec hannel will b amp10 for the needc of navization, work, which has cost to date, about 2.50.OOO, will have cost by the time iL is completed fully $3,000,000. The two large dredges now engaged on the work cost $400.000 each and the Gor e:: :rn i prp-ses t- b-:d t> :mi f equal, if not gre:,ter, capacity. For the present the 1.000-foot channel drawine twenty-nine fe?t ind over, Iis arranement bei nocessary in ordr n to limit te number ed half of the channel. .JawihZ f'rom thle size of the mob'. in his homec town. CHEAP RATES Via Southern Railway. Jamestown Ter-C~Antennial Exposition, :Norfolk, Va. On account of the above occasion the following instructions will gov ern the sale of round trip tickets to Norfolk, Va. from Ntwberry, S. C. Season ticket-$30.55 This ticket will he sold daily April 19th to and including November 30th, 1907, final date to leave Norflok returning De sember 15th, 1907. 60 day ticket--$16.30. This ticket will be sold daily April 19th to and including November 30th, 1907, final date to leave Norfolk returning six ty (60) days from ante of sale and rot lated than december 15th, 1907. Fifteen day tieket-$14.30. This ticket iwil be sold daily April 19th to and including November 30th, 1907, final date to leave Norfolk re turning fifteen (15) days from date of sale. Coach Exension ticket-$8.55. This ticket is not god in -sleeping, Pull can, or Parlor cars, and will be sold on Tuesday of eaeh week during per iod of the exposition, final date to eave Norfolk returning ten (10) lays from date of sale. For routes, stop-overs, etc., write or call on us. Found at Last. J. A. Harmon. of Lizemore. West Va., says: "At last I have found the perfect pill that never disappoints me; and for the benefit of others afflicted with torpid iver and chronic constipation, will say: take Dr. King's New Life Pills." Guar ateed satiafactory, 25c. at WV. E. Pelham & Son, Druggists. YOUR LIVER IS your best friend or your worst enemy. Active it's your friend. Torpid it's your enemy, and its army is Constipation, Biliousness. 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