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ABOUT PERSONS AND THINGS News Briefly Told.-Gathered From In and Out of the State, Nation And World. President Taft tried ranch life this week spending four days on his brother's place at Gregory, Texas, the size of which approaches the proportions of a principality. Here the President will be secluded from iall th'e demands of social life and he .will rest from the onerous duties of making speeches, and !he will follow the pursuits of his will, golfing, horse taek riding, duck shooting. etc. The army post. at Key West is to issue rations to the storm sufferers for a few days the cost to be borne zy the American Red Cross Society. L. C. Logan, of Atlanta, one of the experts of the organization, has been directed to go to the scene of disas ter and report to Washington the ex lent of relief necessary. WThe Rev. G. W. H. Troop, an Epis copal clergyman, who recently re mouneed the creed of the Church for the Unitarian faith, has been deposed from the ministry by Bishop Alfred -Harding, Episcopal Bishop, of Wash ington. The deposition of the Rev. Troop was at the latter's request and mot for causes affecting -his moral eharac-er. On Monday, U. S. Circuit Judge J. 1C. Pritchard approved the plan of re-organization of the Seaborad Air Line Railway Company and signed a -final decree directing the receivers, S. Warfield Davi*s, R. Lancaster Williams and E. C. Duncan, to de iver the property to therailway com pany No.vember 4. General Coun sel Watts entered the consent of the Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line Raiway, which has recently been in eluded in the Seaboard Air Line sys tem. The bi-ennial meeting of the Su preme Council of the Scottish Rite cf Free Masonry for the Southern jurisdiction of the United States was held in Washington, October 18, and was attended by three Masons of the higibest standing in all America. Miss Belle Bennett, of Richmond, Ky., President of the Woman's Board of Home Missions of the M?ethodist Episcopal Church, Sout.h, which held its convention at Savan nah, Ga., urges suffrage for women. -Miss Bennett also demanded that the Methodist women be given all the rights .of laity in the church.. sCount de Lambert, the French aeroplanaist, started from the aero drome at Juvisy, in a Wright aero plane, and flew to Paris, a disitance of about thirteen miles, and returned ~to Juvisv. The official time of the flight wa~s 49 minutes, 39 seconds, the distance was roughly estimated at 31 mniles and the height varied from 300 to 1,300 feet. The Supreme Court will go over all the records in the case of McCue 'vs. the Northwestern Mutual Life In surance company and decide the case on its merits. This case imvolves the question as to whether the ordi nary life insurance policy insures against hanging under sentence of the law. McCue is one of the heirs of tihe late Mayor McCue, of Char ]ottesville, Va., who was hanged on the charge of murdering his wife a few years ago. Judge Pritehard made an order on Monday, October 18, confirming the sales made by Receiver P. A. Wil cox, of Florence, to Martin Maloney, of the Rock Hill, S. C., Water, Lighi and Power Company; Carolina Wa. ter. Light and Power Company, of Darlington, S. C., and Marion Water Light and Power Company. In Mineral Point, Wis.. Frank E Hlanseome, cashier of the Minera. Point First National Bank, commit ted suielde by taking carbolic acid and then shooting himself in thE right temp:e with a revolver, dying by the side of his mother's grave. Mrs. John Gray, Hanseomie's aged mother-in-law dropped dead when: she viewed his body. Hanscome was entirely innocent of wrong doing in connection with the bank. Chief of Police R. W. Rouse, of Georgetown, who has been ill for several days at his home, and whose condition was up to Monday thought ritical, has improved and is doing very well. The commit tee -hav'ing in hand the arrangements for 'the C'., C. and 0. eeradion are sending metn oJut all aiO'lon the new roJad advert iinz the harlleston arnd Wes:erin Carolina are advetising the event and both the-se ..a wil onerate special trains into Sparianburg fY,r the celebration. -:spector Gregory came in Tues day night to inspect a prisoner at the local jail at Columbia who is thought to be "Tennessee Duteih, "the yeggman who broke out of the Greenville jail. Prominent Methodist ministers and laymen from eleven Southern con ferences gathered Tuesday night for the Home Mission Conference of the Southern Church, called to consider the relation of the Church to the in dustrial problem. The meeting was held in Charlotte, N. C. Feeling is very bitter against Howard Little, in Bluefield, charged with the murder of the Mead>rs fam ily of six, and burning them in their home at Hurley, Va., several weeks ago, and a party of seventy-five to one hundred 'horsemen armed with firearms, formed Monday night to intercept the officers with Little, who was being removed from the jail at Lebanon and taken to Grundy for trial. The removal was not attempt ed, however. Mr. L. F. Dorn, a prominent Ma son, leader among the Baptists, de veloper of electric power and mer chant of Parksville, 9dgefield coun ty, met a tragic death at Trenton, by being struck by a Southern passen ger train backing into the station on its way to Edgefield. The deceased was about 55 years old and leaves a widow and a large family of children most of whom are now married. The program for the entertain ment of President Taft. in Savannah, has been completed. The dates for the President 's visit to this place are November 4 and 5. Eighty thousand dollars worth of cotton was washed away Tuesday at San Marcos, Texas. Over ten inches of rain fell within twenty-four hours. Many houses in the low Jands were flooded batr. no loss of life was re ported. In the discharge of, their duties as magistrate and deputy, Messrs. Doug las and Charles Jenkins, ere assault ed by a negro, George Mitchell, whom they were trying to arrest. In the scuffle wihich ensued the negro fired, infleting a severe wound upon Mag istrate Jenkins in the thigh, and rwounding a negro child in ~the neck from which the child may die. In self defense either Douglas or Jen &ins shot. and instantly killed the negro. Because of no wire communication beyond Dagupani and Luzon details of the typhoon whieth swept northern and cenitral Luzon Sunday, are lack ing. A message from San Farian re ports loss of life heavy, and the washout of a railroad bed at several points, and one railroad station swept away. At Hong Kong many casualties attended a:typhoon that played havoc 'with native shipping and damaged other vessels at various points on the coast during the night. At tihis port the Standard Oil steamer fouled the Japanese steamer Hong IKong and both were damaged. At Macao, the Portuguese gunboat Pa tria was lifted from its moorings and carried up the Canton river and was stranded on a rice field. Many houses were blown down at this place. Two desperate criminals, Robert Bynum and Steve Griffin, colored, who were sentenced to serve a term of ten years each, on the chain gang, escaped from the county cihain gang some time during Saturday night. 1The chain gang to which ithese two men belonged is making a new road in Shandon and the camp is stationed about two miles and a half from the town. The conceusus of reports made at the early session of the home mission conference of :he Methodist Episco pal Church is that the conditions of 'the people who work in tue cotton mills vt South Carolina are much beCtter~ than when these peop)le lived onfairms. The Southern Textile association met in Raleigh. N. C., on Wednesday, October 20, anid was presided over by Vice President W. P. Hamriek, Su perintendent of the Olympia mills of CoAumbia, S. C. The next meeting will be held in February in Colum bia. S. C. The Southern railroad announces that the change in the schedule on the Cumbia and Greenville railroad will go into effe.:-t on November 7 The exact schedule figures are not yet aval:ihbl but will be given to the Rasmussen, :he Danish-Eskimo ex plorer laims that ook ot to the pole. The report which is dated at Julianshaab, Greenland. September 25, states that he, Rasmussen, was the only white man to see Cook start, and he says that no one in the world can name Cook as a swindler. With all the solemnity of the Protestant Episcopal Church and in the presence of a distinguished as semblage of the clergy and laity, at Alexandris, Va., the Rev. Dr. Arthur S. Lloyd was on Wednesday made bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal diocese of Virginia. The ceremony took place in Christ Church, where George Washington attended ser nices during his residence at Mt. Vernon. The people of Ginter Park, a su burb of Richmond, Va., and a fash ionable settlement, have extended ,suffrag.- to females over twenty-one years of age. Lexington people are greatly in terested in the discussion now going on between the two Arctic explor ers, Cook and Peary. Almost to a man they are according the honors to Cook, but it is decided tfhat it will be even more interesting to vote on the question which is being done. Behind the Screen. A negro preacher in a Georgia town was edified on one occasion by the recital of a dream had by a mem ber of ihis church. "I was a-dreamin' all dis time," said the narrator, "dat I was in Ole Satan 's dominions. I tell you, pahson, dat was shore a bad dream!" "Was dere any white men derel" asked the dusky divine. "Shore dere was-plenty of 'em." the other hastened to assure his min ister. "What was dey a-doin?" "Ebery one of 'em," was the an swer, "was a-holdin' a cullur pusson between him an' )de fire! "-'Harper's Weekly. EXCURSION RATES Via Southern Railway. Account of Atlanta Horse Show, Atlanta, Ga., October 19-22, 1909, the Southern Railway announces very ow round trip rates. Tickets on sale Otober 18, 19, and 20 only good-to eave Atlanta returning up to and in luding midnight October 25th, 1909, but not later. Very low round trip rates will also e in effect account of National Ex ibition of Automobiles and Auto mobile Races, Atlanta, Ga., Novem er 6-13, 1909. Tickets on sale No ember '7 to 12 inclusive and for trains scheduled to arrive Atlanta before. noon November 13, good to leave Atlanta returning np to but ot later than midnight November 16, 1909. For further information call n ticket agents Southern Railway, or W. E. McGee. . T. P.A., Augusta, Ga. J. L. Meek, A. G. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. The Medicinal V is admitted by the hi'ghest m< many slight disorders it is a sa effective., it must be the genul Sunny SUNNY BROOK is unsurpas stimulant or an invigorating health aged and bottled under the direc1 Inspectors and its absolute purity al safe and free frorn harrnful effec:s. over the cork of each bottle states tl * SUNNY BROOK DISTILLE] 4 FULL C BY EXPRES rom any of the fol IH. Clarl & Sons, Inc., 1205 Eas Lazaus-Goodman Co.,. C Blum &Co., .... C. C. Butler Co., . --- L. Loeb WhiskeyCo.,, ... Altman Wh3iskey Co.,.. D. F. & C. P. Long,.... Hanne Bross. . . Paul Heyman.... MI. Markstein. .. .. ...223 SHIPPED IN PLAIN BCXEs. -.O COCnS Lsi: SALE OF VALUABLE LANDS. Desiring to dispose of all my lands to go into business, I will sell to the highest bidder Monday, November 1st, 1909, at Newberry, S. C., imme diately after the legal sales, the fol lowing traets of land situated in Newberry County: All that tract containing 271 acres and bounded by lands of R. T. C. Hunter, Geo. Hawkins, Thos. Boozer, Wm. Boozer, S. C. Amiek, Mabel M. Fellers, and others This tract has been cut in the four subdivisions as follows: Tract No. 1. Containing 121 59 100 acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of R. T. C. Hunter, Mabel Fellers, road leading to Wise's Ferry road and tracts Nos. 2, 3, and 4 of this subdivision. Tract No. 2. Containing 28 11-100 acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of Geo. A. Hawkins, Thomas Boozer, Nathan Hunter and road leading to Wise's Ferry. Tract No. 3. !Containing 58 78-100 acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of William Boozer, S. C. Min ick, road leading to St. Luke's church and tracts Nos. 1 and 4 of this sub division. Tract No. 4. Containing 62 81-100 acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of Shelton Boozer, William Boozer, road leading to Wise's Ferry and tracts Nos. 1 and 3 of this sub division. Also the following tracts: Tract No. 5. Containing 80 acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of Mabel Fellers, T. B. Bedenbaugh, Mrs. Kisiah Harmon, and known as the "George Rabbit" place. Tract No. 6. Containing 37 1-2 acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of Geo. A. Hawkins, Minick, Rankin and Nichols. Tract No. 7. Containing 33 1-3 acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of West Boozer, Conwell and others. Terms. One-half cash and balance on a credit of one year at 8 per cent. secured by a mortgage of premises, or purchaser may pay all cash. Pur chaser to pay for all papers and re cording the same. Plats may be seen at the office of Hunter and Sligh at Newberry or People's National Bank at Prosper ity. W. W. Fellers. 10-19-09-tf. ORGANS. We have a few slightly used $90 organs, will close out at a big re duction. If you -.re -wanting ai organ now is the time to buy one of the best organs made at a great bargain. Write at once if you wish to secure one of these organs, for such bargains don't last long. Write for illustrations of these organs and for terms. Malone's Music House, COLUMBIA, S. 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