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" "H ' / ^ jimmy" I" 8''*'TPIOL . E -ipjcjsd Stilott Sj^nuiL vrtABLISHKD IK 1895. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9, 1911. VOL. 16. NO. 52. ,na^L???????^ I tNDING B. 8 C. R. R. B( y Pl CONNECT WITH A. 0. L. RAILROAD Bill IT SELLERS "[ABOARD ENTERING MARION $1 i w Foundation For Rumor That H. 1V? > > <7. Railroad Has Hoen Sold I huBb North & Sou til Carolina, all i U) 1 Bennettsville and Cheraw , * chaaef to 1x3 e3rt-ended from A ] one to 8e^ors? a distance of ! 5 wife miles. At Sellers it will t vood ma*n l*ne ?f 1 ' P/\anf TTnn T>io mile ( \ support that a 'n bou^ht and a11 arrange- 1 ] husbj'n^ t0 beRrin WOrk ?n the;sen in a few weeks. The j 0j{, s not yet been definitely j t Colaf One of the proposed routes <?b deioar the Dennettsville and ' . ; tnis ?M public road.swerving a lit-|o^ oart eastward from a straight ing bfhe other route bends in to- ; ^ obsclhe river where there are val- , l>art| timber interests. The route jan^ jy selected will depend largely ;a 1 the property owners who give j con ? ght of way. ' Ad? youjp B. A C. road now runs from wh^?k to Brownsville, via Ben- a .ville and Blenheimm and has a To^ckage of 34 miles, all in Marl-.son thaj county. In going to Sellers it ( reS| evefcross Dillon county as Sellers a)ld schf the edge of Dillon. i<id> Stephen the extension is completed, .ten th will be within a few months,;1*81 t 11 #> - nettsville will be connected by . yt B. and C. with the main lines of l'^' o|th the Seaboard and the Coast iOOU ne, besides connecting with the, "Jiyetteville, Sumter and Gibson i g-anches of the Coast Line here. |?' The B. and C. is a Marlboro rail-1t,ie road, of which the county is proud. I Its headquarters are in Bennetts-,'? ville, and its president, J. J. Heck-|fr0 art, and its auditor, G. P. Bourde-! lat, re8id? here. They extend every j reasonable accommodation to the' ^ people of the county. They have >Joa stations at short intervals along the (lia line, so us to be convenient for org freight and passengers. nuI a c An Incorrect Report. dei The following appeared in a re- mis cent issue of the Mulllns Messen- flee ger: &ai< "It seems that our road, the Rah North and South Carolina, has ac- del! quired the road from Kollock to **ai V Bennettsville and to Hodges and to hov Sellers, and likely the Marion Luro- it i ber company road to Marion. The niei right of way into Sellers has been ?ha obtained and possible control of the ?nti road to Marlon. Does this mean bhW that Mullins, with her $10,000 s bonds is to be bottled up and noth- con ing further doing? This genera- dut tion and the doings thereof are mix- the ed in such a cloud of mystery that *ior nothing definite can be told of the vise railroad future whatever. The sit- bIoi uatlon is not reassuring to Mullins this as we see it for a through route to l?oa Charleston us has been expected con and hoped. To say the least of the ber, situation we do not admire the sec- coo: * 4W VWMt7 wciuvuo putouru \jy tut) UJ - ; y no flcials of the proposed railroad ex- j and tensions from Mullina or not from; cou Mulilns. Has Mullins contributed cou $10,000 for her burial expenses at- dim I ter cutting his own throat? The ty i near future will answer this import- tne J ant question." ' tlou The Messenger seems "mixed in'and clouds of mystery" in its railroad in-, ties ^formation. Where it got the idea upo that the N. and S. C. had acquired tie the "road from Kollock to Bennetts- Stai ville and to Hodges and to Sellers" g is indeed a mystery. The officials tDo of the B. and C. suy there is abso? lately nothing in the report. The erg road has not heen aenuired hv the t.?. . JUB1 N. and 8. C., or any other road, and j,ou there is no probability that it will Bev, be. 'The road remains in the same handB that it has for years, and ol there is no change in its officers or Sa({ stockholders. It is an independent pac road, and is not controlled or own- , ed by the N. and S. C. or the Se^ rite board dt any other road. naB n The Marion County Lumber Oom- BUC pany road, which runs from Marion " up into Dtillon county, has been |u bought by Beaboard people. It j?g la in no way connected with the inc, p B. and Ct, however, and the exten- eae *k>n from Brownsville will not run {fee 4 to the terminal of the Marion Lum- e|r( ber road, 'but will go directly to tT< p Seller*.?Pee Dee Advocate. boo pul Dr. L. R. Craig has purchased a for p> handsome Maxwell automobile of the roadster type, and Mr. Truss * Thompson has pare based a Maxwell rnnabeut. IND ISSUE FOR $100,000 L TO ABOLISH OFFICE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER. 00,000 BONDS FOR ROADS iinty Will be l'ut or? Commission 'ornt of Government and Right Capable Business Men Will Administer Its Affairs. Bill To Abolish Offices of County Supervisor and County Commistioner in the County of Dillon, ind provide a system of County Sovernment for Said County. ie it enacted by the General Arlbly of the State of South Carta : lection 1. That the offices of inty supervisor and county comisioner of and for the county Dillon be, and the same are eby, abolished. lee, 2. That there shall be in 1 for said county of Dillon ounty board of commissioners, tposed of E. Li. Moore and W. J. mis, who shall serve for the term two years, and A. S. Manning, de Stack house, L. A. Manning, 1 D. Arch McCollum, who shall bre for four years, and until their pective successors are appointed I qualify, as hereinafter provWthat uuon the expiration of the a of office of said commissioners pectively, as fixed as aforesaid, ir successors, apportioned been the several townships o fthe nty as nearly equal as practic?, shall be appointed by the. rernor, upon the recommendation the delegation, or a majority reof,, of said county of Dillon in General Assembly of this State serve for the term "of four years m the date of their apointment, I until their successors are apnted and qualify. !ec. 3. That the said county rd of commissioners shall, iminetely alter qualifying, meet and anize by electing one of their nber as chairman, and also elect lerk, who shall be designated as k of the County Board of Com sioners; he shall hold his of! at the will and pleasure of I board, and receive an annual try of four hundred ($400.00) lars, payable monthly upon the rrants of said board: Provided, rever, That said board may, if iee proper, elect one of their inhere as clerk, in which case he II perform all the duties and be Itled to receive the Balary or 1 officer as herein provided. lec. 4. That said county board of lmlssioners shall perforin all the les, and have and exercise all powers, authority and jurLsdicl now devolved upon the super>r and county board of eomraisiers under and by the laws of i State: Provided, That said rd may designate and appoint a imittee of three of their uum, to be known as the finance imittee, who shall have power! authority to audit and approve pay by warrant drawn on the nty treasurer, any claims or Kent against said county for orAry expenses and salary of coun* officers with right of appeal to whole board in case of rejeci of any claim; and shall exercise perform any other duty or du- ( which said board may impose J n them, not inconsistent with constitution and haws of the i Le. ection 5. That in addition to other duties performed by them.! 1 county board of commission-1 may, if they see proper, read-j I, reform and fix the lines and j ndaries of township lines of the j eral townships and parts of1 nshipK into which said county Dillon is now divided, so that j 1 townships may he in as comt form as practical, and conform near as possible in area and teriry, and designate the same by ae or by number, and in case of d readjustment and reformation, 1 board shall prepare and keep their office a description ehowand indicating clearly and distly the linee and boundaries of h such township, file a copy reof in the office of clerk of the ?uu court in and for aald counto be by bim entered on the k of plate and location*, and >lleh the aame once in each week four eueceeetve weeka In a newtler published In eaid county, lec. 9. That each of eaid com toners ehall receive aa com pen(Continued on page eight.) BATTLE WITH REVOLVERS ROBERT NcBEE KILLED ANO LEE HOL LAND FATALLY SHOT. SPREE ENDS IN TRAGEDY I'osse Headed By Mayor of Mauldin is Attack?><i by Men Whom They Nought to Arrest. Greenville, Feb. 4.?In a pitched j battle to-night on a public highway : be ween a posse headed by Lee HolI land, intendant of the village of Mauldin, and Robert McBee and ihis sou, Will, of Knoree. Spaiten' burg county, Robert McBee was cK At Ar?r> ?l n ? J I ? ? T 1 ..11. * V !nuvi urau UIIU X1111 lit 11(1 pTOQably fatally wounded. According to the account ol" the killing told by the sheriff. .1. Perry i Poole, of this county, McBee and hie j eon left Enoree Saturday morning to spend the night with Thompson Fowler. who lives near Mauldln. : About a mile above the village the two met Thompson, a white man, in the road, and fired some five shots at him. none taking effect. The in cident passed and father and son drove into Mauldin. in passing 1 through the village McDeo fired a pistol ball through both walls of a store conducted by Dee Holland and fled up the road with his son. 1 Met Posse, Holland got a posse and started j out to arrest McBee and his son. i It seems that in fleeing McBee and j his son took the wrong road and j attempted to retrace his steps. It was while they were going back that they were met by Holland and bis posse. Immediately Robert McBee drew his revolver and opened fire on the posse one shot passing j through Holland's right breast. No sooner had McBee fired th>u a memI ber of the posse returned the fire, j The elder McBee fell to the ground ! his body pierced by one pistol ball ' and his head by another. He nxjpired within an hour. Despite the fact that Holland was ; shot through the breast he placed ! the younger McBee under arrest , ftnri pnnMm UIU1 IU .'iiiuium, where he held him until Sheriff Poole Arrived about 11 o'clock. The Sheriff brought young McBee to Greenville and he now is in the county jail. The elder McBee lies a corpse in the public highway this side of the village of Mauldin, awaiting the coroner's inquest. Had Whiskey and Pistol. It is stated that McBee left his home near Knoree with a half-gal; Ion of whiskey and a pistol in his I buggy. He has a brother serving j a sentence in the State penitentiary ! now for killing a man by the name ! of Fowler near the scene of this killing some years ago. It is said that McBee was going after a child of the brother who is in the penitentiary at the time he ran amuk j to-night. Holland is the first Mayor of the town of Mauldin, which was incorporated only a few months ago. He is a good citizen and is well known ! in Greenville. He is also a big J planter of this section. IMning With m Lioness. Miss Ellen Velvin, in the FebruI ary McClure'B, speaks of the excessive danger to the trainer that lies in many of of the tricks performed with trained lions, j "Another trick was one in which the trainer took a long strip of ! meat, put one end of it in his mouth, and let the lioness take the other in hers. Hardly anyone in the audience realized the terrible danger of the act. To allow any i 'vna animal to put its face in such I close proximity to the face of a per| son in in itaelf dangerous; but to pive t alao the opportunity of snapping or biting at such close quarters is, in my opinion, foolhardy. "This act generally passed off very quietly, and it was not particularly popular with the audience, but one evening when the lioness was in a bad humor she missed catching the other end of the meat and instantly sprang for the trainer. The table between them probably saved bis life, and he had the presence of mind to throw the piece of meat away from him; but even then she tore Me throat and nearly killed him. J*ew people in the audience realised that there had been any accident at all, so quick! was the act ended and both the trainer and the lionons out of the arena." i DOCTOR KILLS FOB CASI RUSSIAN DOCTOR ADMITS SENDING 4 TO THEIR GRAVES. f USED DIPHTHERIA GERM! Latter Will He Tried, as He Is .Ac cuwtl of Offering |(LJ50,(K)(t to the Prisoner to <?et Kid of Heir Who Stood in Wife's Way. St. Petersburg, Feb. f.?Iniugin : a man of seventy?tall, dignified benevolent, a practicing physiciai ! eecure in the confidence of the fash ionable world?testifying in cob Mood that his business was am has been murder; that he inoculat ed his victims with deadly germs ; s? 110 you luive a faint idea of tin ; sensation produced by Count Ivan ,i I'antchenko now on trial here, t Already branded as the greatest criminal of a century, the "poisoi doctor." as he is known, has con (eased to causing forty deaths b; means of inoculation even with ehol era bacili, and he admits taking bi| lies. Every mysterious death o recent years is laid at his door. I is believed that he has killed man; more persons than he has admitted ; and even members of the royal fani ! ily. i He killed heirs who were in tin i wa of others, rivals in love, insis tent creditors and any other unde 1 si ruble person whose foe was will | ing to pay liberally to have him 01 ! ler removed. To insure his own safety it wai needful to have an intended victin , ill and to be called to attend him He soon administered hpodermicall; i the germ of the cholera, and tin disease did the rest. He explainet j in court that he never sterlized hii j hypodermic syringe, because in tha 'vase the effectiveness of the sperm* preparation would be diminished. Ii brief, it might fail in its fatal mis j siou. City i? Horrified. Kven this city, inured to terribh ; crimes, shrinks from the words o this terrible man dealing with th< ! fatal agents under the guise of heal ing. ! For the specific case of kilinj Count Ivan Vassilli Boutuorkin, I>r i Pantechenko now faces the deatt i he dealt to others but he disclaims the burden of his (this latest) deed and declares that he acted undei ! the hypnotic influence of Counl | O'Brien de Cacey, bo that the latj ter'B wife. Boutourkln's sister might inherit $3,500,000. For hit part the doctor received a fee ol , $250,000. On the stand while giving detail i by detail the story of his infamy ' the doctor's kindly face nevei changed, lie told that Count dt Lacey nad offered him first $5,G0C ! to poison Count Bouturlin, $25,000 lo poison General Bouturlin and $250,000 to poison General Bouturllin's second wife. it was first his purpjse to infect j Count Houturlin with cholera, bul 1 ;n the patient's physical condition h< said he preferred to use diphtheria germs. i The widow oi" the murdered | Count testified to the circumstance* ,of his death. She and her husbanc **ad been spending Easter at th? General's estate in Wilno Province Her husband was then in perfect health. He departed from St Petersburg, and on May 112 she received an urgent telegram calling her to his bedside. When she ar[ rived she found he had been sub| jected to spernio injections by ! Pantchonko, and that it was toe i late to save him. She had nevei j hidden her suspicion that l>e Iaicey ! and Pantchenko were responsiblt j for her husband's death. The witness broke down and wept when I Count Bouturlin's letters were read The physician who had attended ! Count Bouturlin aftt?r ntoh*?nlrn'? injections saicl that he was informed of the widow's suspicions. lit lound evidences of Mood poisoning but was of the opinion that this was due to carelessness. Twice Pantchenko set up the defense that he committed bis last crime while under the hypnotic influence of l>e L.acey. He wavered ii matters of detail and his lawyen were quick to strengthen his original defense by insisting that he wai i still under the influence of th< Count, then in court. Ke*r His Hypnotism. 1 The public pronecutor took cog i nttance of the situation and placet! a soldier between Pantchenko and H RUNS GAR INTO Dl 0 TO PREVENT COLLISION WITN AN MACHINE. S SAVED BY PRESENCE OF I ! - Mr. \V. M. Hauler Meets With Accident While Coining t KYoni Bennettsville .Honday Morning. e' Presence of mind saved M I. M. Ilamrr from serious and pr 11 ly fatal injury while he was le . Bennettsville in his auton a ; j morning. Mr. Hamer spends Sundays in Hennettsville wliei . children are staying with [s grandparents. Col. and Mrs. 1. ston. Monday morning whi short distance out from Hen t ville on his way to Dillon Mr ^ mer rounded a sharp curve ; lively gait and there loomed i front of him anothei machiin r . ing in the opposite direction, this point the road is narrow ~ a deep ditch on both sides. ( machines could not be stopped u collision seemed inevitable, i only chance of escape was to p his machine into the ditch am in*- on his first impulse Mr. H quickly shifted the steering < J of his machine and drove it i ditch six feet deep. The car pretty badly wrecked and Mr mer received several painful I r es on the face and head The shield was scattered and one t - hoik. wufcis was iTusaeu ill 1 egg shell. T lie other ear ws light machine and it' Mr. 1! f j had not steered his heavy eat iiithe ditch the smaller car < 1 have been demolished. 5 ' t ~ > We will give a tree concen i Friday afternoon from 3. to - m. The music will be on E phonographs 3nd the world re 1-auter player piano which jus ? lived today. There has never r anything like it in this part o i State. Wewi 11 use on the pi - graph Grand Opera records German, French and Italian. 1 ; celebrated singers you can only . in New York or some other i city, and then pay $5.00 per tl t We will reserve Friday aftei , strictly for the ladies only. Marchant Music Com] j Ge Lacey. He then made a nv j that the cardinal question of J l; guilt or innocence be prof 'j again to Pantcbenko. The < j granted the motion and the fo I question of the indictment ''again read. Once more the " I physician replied that he was g > of Bouturlin's death. ' Meanwhile Gen. Hourturlin, ' er of the slain Count threw t ' into court by declaring that be furnishing money for the def ! He explained that he consente ido at the solicitation of his da ' ter, who is the wife of De Dao ' | Gen. Ilouturlin said that at 1 ! he distrusted I>e Lacey and wa | his daughter against him, but a ' ! wards he changed his opinion, 1! ing to De I-aeey's eloquence 1 i magnetic influence. Neverthele ' ' Jiad warned his son not to go 1 ; ing with De Lacey nor walk (him in the forest. . I The De Laceys cnme from lr? and won distinction iti the t'rii war. There is, of course, a worna , the case. She is Mme. Munr (| with whom Pantcbenko lodged, . ; to whom he says he trusted ove , , earnings. She is to be put on 'as an accomplice. The count De latcey has a co 11 Countess Marie Tarnowski, wb< . I cently was convicted in Venict I the murder of her husbaud. C i Komarowski. In connection with the forth ' i lug trial of I)e l>acey and .' charges of hypnotism against ? : it is interesting to note that Countess, his cousin, was act likewise of exercising an hyp I tower over her victims. She h mania for making men love i and then forgetting them. On< ?i her sweethearts was Komaro - He insured his life for 9100,001 i her favor. 1 I She then met a Count Nam and showed her affection for marownkt to make the former oua. After Komarowski, had li - e.d his life she sent Nanmoff a k ed letter urging him to kill I marownkt, which he did. iki'syrf * r^idfeiii 11 ~ i nk ITCH MYSTERIOUS MURDER OTHER ROBERT FLOTO IS SHOT TO BERTH BY WOMAN RT TRBOR, N. C. MIND WELLKNOWNINJHISSECTION Auto AI lutein# That He laxulUil Her Mrs. >(|, I X. M. Hayes ShootN Voting Hofd to l>eath in Her . Own Home. Robert Floyd, the young medical r. W. , student who was shot to death by obah- yjrB \ yi liayee, a young married aving woman, at Tabor, N. C., last Saturtobile ! ti5,y< waa well known in thiB section. As colporter for the Wacea1 heir'Inaw ^B80C'u^?n he hao* visit*::1 . . j many home in this section and was greatly liked and admired by all who knew him. He was an ex; treuiely modest man, gentlemanly in 1 Lis deportment and there are many .* | vho look upon the sensational cirll,) 111 cuinstances of his tragic ending with suspicion. His slayer alleges that he came tot heir home to spend 1 till- Iliirhl While the hiiclciml u.ow 1 *u> unhitching the horse Mr. Floyd I and (.anu, jnto t|ie house, made an itnThe* ; proper proposal to her and laid *un?e ! violent hands upon hor. She snatch1 iot| ed a magazine pistol from under .aniei , tlu, pillow and fired six bullets Inwheeljlo young man's body, then she nto a Up another pistol and fired *ts 1 three more bullets Into his body. **a~jeach shot, it seems taking effect, bruis- ;,jthough the woman says she had w'm* to shoot under difficulties. The affair seems to Ik* shrouded te an > . , , in mystery. A tornial inquest was held at which the woman was the. lamer I . . .o only witness. 1 here was 110 one to wouid ! contradict her testimony. However. \ her husband and husband's brother have been placed in jail with her and will ulso face the charge o' on \ murder at the next term of * r _ | criminal court. o. p. dison ' Thos<' who knew Mr. nown not believe that tie ' f aT?^ijif| li IT rt. ar-!of the net alleged by the been The citizens of Mt. Tabor and tonif the! way where he was best known bono- I ridicule the idea thatyoung Floyd in j made Improper proposals to Mrs. These j Hayes or laid violent hands upon he.ar I her. large' That there was a motlie for the lehet. murder cannot bo doubted. Why im&m the Hayes home was equipped with so many pistols within easy reach pany. iust at this critical moment and why Mrs. Hayes shot with such unotion i erring aim ure questions asked by his j the citizens of Mt. Tabor and ConK>sed , way. court! vi,. Vl-.J x.. m >? ..... . ../ju nciu iu .ill iauor ih rm&l I ivsponse to a. letter from Mrs. waa) Hayes and her husband asking biro old to treat some moles on Mrs. llayes" uilty face. Arriving at Mt. Tabor he | went to Hayes" place of business fath- and greeted him in a friendly man >omb ner. Hayes told him it would ' Wits some time before he could go h<?"v< ense. | but for him. (Floyd) to go t d to house and rnalte himself at ugh- I Floyd did not go directly s?y. house. He lingered on the first | greeting friends and rued house only a fev iuinuUf be. ifter- alleged arrival of llayes. It % uw- tlus moment the killing took pUL and Mrs. llayes and Floyd formerly wefV ss.lie i sweethearts. lunt-; Floyd was a medical student at with ' Charleston. Before entering college he was head bookkeeper at the dnnd , National Bank in Conway. It was mean I 1 is purpose to open a drug business j a* Conway this summer and practim in,cu"y ^nd completed the details of vieff, jorK?"tnlzation. Mrs. Huyos is the aud "HURiuer of J. J. Harrelson at Ix?r bis ri8? formerly county superintendent trial ?f education and later a member ol the general assembly. She and Hayes were married three years usin, ? _ . . ago. Hayes runs a barber shop ? f.nd a general merchandise store at s or , _ Loris. ount ? ?! > com- Rev. William Black, the evangetb? lift and his singer are engaged In n him, meeting at Rowland this week, and fk** j the meeting is said to have started :used ! nff with -- 1? ? .?. ,,uc yiviuisc. .nr. uiirer notlc ttn<j others went over Sunday and ad a were present at the opening serher vices. Mrs. Oliver went to join the i of workers early in the week. The wski. evangelist has requested Dr. Buck) ln ner to uieet him at R owland one da ythls week to discuss plaus for moff, the meeting Ln Dillon in April. It Ko- is evidept the work will be hamjeal pered in Rowland for want of on Bsur- auditorium of sufficient seating eaforg pacity. Itiia will not he the cape Ko- in Dillon, but abundant provision will be made tor nil who oone.