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16T YEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 19Q8 no. 44
THE STATE WINS.
Judge Prichard Refuses to Interfere
in the Dispesnary Matter.
GRAFT HUNT GOES ON.
AVhiakey Dealers Who Swindled the '
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State Will Hare to Face the Music
or Do Without Their Money That
May Be Owed Them By the Old
South Carolina State Dispensary
Authorities.
At Asheville, N. C.. on Wednesday
Judge Prichurd in the United States
circuit court denied th^ petition of
Flelschmann & Co., of New York
ana rerusea to appoint a receiver j
for the South Carolina State Dlspen- '
eary fund of $800,000, against which
there are alleged to bo claims aggregating
$600,000.
The Judge made his announce- |
ment during the afternoon session,
after attorneys for the dispensary
commission had presented their bill
In answer to the sensationul charges
made In the Fleischmann petition,
which was filed in this court a short
time ago.
The answer alleges that the claim
of Fleischmann & Co. is unjust and
Invalid and that there was collusion j
and conpslracy between the plaintiff
and another firm to defraud the i
State and that the State was cheated
out of a large sum of money in each
of the claims made by the plaintiff;
it also alleges that Fleischmann &
Co. sold to the State a concocktion
with a mere trace of whiskey.
The answer declared false the al- i
legation by Fleischmann & Co. that
the commissioners were wrongfully
withholding the money for their own
individual interests. The answer denied
as false and maliciouss the allegation
in the complaint which referred
to a conspiracy between Attorney
General Lyon and the dispensary
commission and demanded proof.
Shortly after the court convened
for the afternoon session. Judge
Prlchard announced from the bench !
uiai ut* Y> uuiu iiu i u. 1111 a iccelver
for the dispensary, as he felt :
that the funds are now fully protect- '
ed. He directed the attorneys to con- j
fine their arguments to the question
as to whether this court could assume
jurisdiction, the point being '
whether or not this is a suit against
the State. Mr. D. L. Rountree of
Atlanta, for the commission, consumed
the remainder of the afternoonee? '
slon in argument to establish the
fact that the State is an indispensable
party to the suit.
Before the bill of the defendants
was read, Attorney General Lyon of
South Carolina replied to the allegations
made by Fleischinann & Co.
relative to the transfer of funds from
the jurisdiction of the court, saying
that the State of South Carolina was
not running away, that the allegation
was false. He read a concurrent resolution
adopted by the house of representatives
Tuesday. In the course
of the resolution it was siateu inai
the legislature of Souh Carolina in
creating the dispensary commission
did not consent to suits against, the
State for claims as a result of the
dispensary muddle.
Just before Judge Prichard announced
his decision there wb6 a
sharp colloquy between Attorney
General Lyon of South Carolina and
George lb Lester of New York and
Alf. S. Barnard, who represent
Flelschman & Co. Mr. Barnard asked
for time to prepare answers to
the affidavits of the commission.
He stated that the commission had
invited creditors to come to Columbia
to prove their claims. But at the
same time it was known that some
50 or 60 warrants were ready in the
office of the nttorney general on
which the representatives of the
creditors would be arrested, and instanced
the case of the prepresentative
for Ullman &. Co., who had
been arrested, charged with fraud
and required to give heavy bond.
Judge Prichard remarked that if
he took Jurisdiction he would uppoint
a master to sift all charges of
fraud to the bottom.
The attorney General in reply to
Mr. Barnard said: "Of course we
hear this cry from those who have
defrauder the State. Naturally, when
I can catch any of these fellows in
South Carolina. I will arrest them.
I have no warrant, however, for the
Fleischmann representatives and I
will agree that they shall come to
South Carolina to prove their claims
and depart unmolested." He added,
i however, that there was a warrant
for the representatives of the Anheuser-Itusoh
concern.
Mr. Mordecai responded that Mr.
Farnum, the man referred to. had
left, tho State on business. But he
would return and meet all charges.
Mr. Stevenson, counsel for the
commission, stated there was no intention
of inveigling men to South
Carolina for the purpose of prosecution.
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Judge Prlchard then announced
that no receiver would he appointed
and arguments on jurisdiction wa<
then begun by Mr. Rountree.
Heavy Damage Reported.
A cyclone is reportod to have dont
damage over a territory of consider
able extent north of Brook haven
Miss., on lost Friday. i
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PROHIBITION KILLED
The House Refuses to Pass the
Nash Prohibition BUI
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YV. C. T. I*. Delegation Appear** in
Ciallery Prepared to Assault the
legation With Hymus.
The Nash bill to provide for Stat*
prohibition was killed by the House
Thursday, the vote being nearly two
to onn
During the progress of debate on
the bill a delegation of W. C. T. U.
members appeared iu the gallery and
took seats Thev had nnon hvmn
books in their hands and it was evident
that they were prepared to sing
hymns at the psychological moment.
The attention of Mr Nash was called
to their presence, and at his request
the Rev. A. N. Hrunson, of the Main
Street, M. E. Church, of Columbia,
went to the gallery and suggested
that it would be better not to make
any demonstration
Meanwhile Speaker Whaleyrhad instructed
the sergeant-at-arms to
strictly enforce the rules and suppress
any demonstration at once.
The ladies, however, acceded to the
suggestion of the prohibitionists on
the floor and there was no expression
whatever
The vote on the motion to strike
out the enacting words was as follows,
the ayes being opposed to the
Nash prohibition bill and the nays
In favor of it:
Ayes?Speaker Whaley and the
following representatives: Ayer, Bailentine.
Ranks, Reattie, Boyd, Rrantley,
A G Rrice, F M Bryan, Cannon.
Curson, Carwile, Cosgrove, Cothran,
Cox, Croft, Culler, DeVore, Dick,
Dixon, Roar. Dowllng, Fraser, Frost,
Gary, Glasscock, Gyles, Hall, llarley,
Harman, Harris, Harrison, Hughes,
Hydrick, Kellahan, Dawson, Legare.
McMaster, Miley, Miller, Nlckols,
i>ickolson, Richardson, ltucker, Sawyer.
Saye. Sellers, Shlpp, Slaughter.
K. P. Smith, Spivey, Stillmell, Stubbs,
Thomas, Todd, Von Kolnitz Vanderhorst.
Wade. Wallace, Wiggins?
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Nays?Arnold, Bailey, T. S. Rrice,
W. D. Bryan, Carrigan, Clary, Clinkscales,
Courtney, Derham, Dingle, J.
B. Dodd. Douglass, Epps, Gause, J.
P. Gibson. Goodwin, Greer, Hardin,
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n 111 Km, juunsioue, jones, iversnaw,
Klrven. Lane, Lester, Leitner, McColl,
McKeown, Manu. Morrell, Nash,
Nesbitt, Niver, Norton, Parker, Pat
terson, Reaves, Richards, Robinson.
Scarborough, Scruggs, Sharpe, D. L.
Smith. J. E. Smith, Verner, Wanuamaker,
Wlmberly, Woods. Wyche,
Yeldell?51.
The following pairs were announced:
Hethume nay Qarris aye; Gibson
aye, Tatum nay; Mujor nay, Yournans
ve; Aull nay, Tompkins aye.
The clincher was then put on the
motion to kill. t
KEEP TO THE RIGHT.
The Duty of ChaflVurs is to Ik* on
the IxMikout.
A decision by the district court of
appeals at Los Angeles, Cal., recently
declares in effect that automobilists
are obliged to look out for the
pedestrians and keep from running
them down and that pedestrians can
not i>e charged with contributory
negligence if they do not keep out
l of the way of automobiles The dci
v-.iBiou confirms a Judgment for J7,;
dOO damages awarded Stanley King
who had been run down by
! omobile of K. K. Green.
<>\ khih>SK <>i m<ikimumbh
Itrooklyn Drug t-lerk Saw AppmBcpg
of His Daughter. : :H
Believing that he had seen th^fef;
l?arition of his daughter and
this foretold of the nlne-year-ohH '
suffering from scarlet fever
, Moeller, a Brooklyn drug olerk,Btj?i
an overdose of morphine and d^K|?||
i hotel. Moeller is said to hnvt^Bgjrej
the haunting vision on Sunda\^B|f&
.ting. He left home on MondaH&jf*!
nothing more was hoard of him until
1 he was dying Ui the hotel. t
DANCED WITH JACKSON.
Dies at the Age of One Hundred and
Twenty.
At Bristol. Va., Mrs. Mary Ramse>
wooa, a native or rcast Tennessee
died Monday at the age of 120 years
(it her youth Mrs. Wood saw (Jeorgf
Washington. Thomas Jefferson and
others of the early statesmen. It it
: said her best recollect Ion of publh
men was that of Andrew Jachson
with whom she frequently dancec
when a girl.
HKVKN ARK CRKMATKI).
Collapse of House Causes Flames t<
Destroy Wltoie Family.
By the collapse of the house o
J Anthony Franklin, a negro of Bed
ford City, Va., the building was flrei
and destroyed the whole family
conslting of himself, wife and flv
' children, burned to death. The fam
* lly was sitting with the corpse of i
. 2hild that died on Sunday when th
t i building fell In.
FARNUM WANTED
"The Beer King" Has Not Been
Arrested, Yet But
WARRANT IS ISSUED
For His ArrfM, and Has Bern Out (
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Two Weeks.?His Present Where- t
nbouts Is Unknown, Hut His At" '
tomey Scoffs at the Suggestion *
That Farnuin is a Fugitive From t
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Just ice. j
Where is J, S. Farnum? E
Is he a fugitive from justice? r
Or Is he out on a business trip? 1
To hn o mnn ?f V. ? * * * * *
w M xuii ui om il uuijuBiiieusiiKe *
methods that his employers do not t
know where he is? s
Is he aware that the dispensary I
commission has had issued a warrant
charging him with conspiracy? c
Has he seen no South Carolina ?
newspapers in the last few weeks, s
has he received no statement from his t
wife,, no notification from the An- c
heuser liuscli Hrewiug company? c
If he did know of the existence of o
the warrant, then has he not treated
the commission with contempt in o
evading service of the warrant? 1
These are the questions propounded t
hypothetlcally in the meeting of tho e
dispensary commission on Thursday n
morning says The Stnte. f
It was published iu newspapers cir- ?
culating as widely as F. S. Farnum o
is known that the warrant was is- h
sued for him on the 16th day of t
January, and the officers of the law v
know not his whereabouts.
When the commission Thursday c
resumed its investigations, the case t
of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing as- u
soclation was tlrst on the docket. It J
had been stated that there would be a t
bookkeeper from that concern who t
would produce hooks of record. He v
was not in evidence at 10 o'clock. At
in-'in ?? >.". ? i-.-.i? ?
w.uv I..TT v.v/111111 isDiuii wn? iurmany
convened.
Three times the marshal!, In reg- I
ular court fashion, cried the name
of the defendant.. No response.
Three times the name of J. S. Farnum
was called No responce. It j,
was reported that a lawyer, the same c
who had represented W. D. Roy, ^
and others at a foimer meeting, had c
communicated with the Anheuser- ^
Rusch association, to Inquire if they c
wished to he present to establish the ^
validity of their claim. This attor- ^
ney had not been advised to proceed i
with the case. a
With something of mock distress H
in his tones. Col. T. B. Felder ad- ?
dressed the commission: a
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: 0
We were hopeful, though not sun- c
guine, that Mr. Farnum would be
present on this occasion. But he is ^
not. However, I will assume the bur- (|
Jen of proof in this case and will c
establish by documentary evidence j
that the plaintiff has no just claim r
against the State." . ^
Continuing, Col. Felder said that (
lie wished to go just far enogh into f
the matter to show that this "Rud- ,
weiser claim" as he referred to it "is c
reeking with filth and fraud and is t
one of the basest conspiracies on record
in all the annuals of this coun- s
try." t
"Under the laws of South Caro- j
Una." he added, this commission is j
as much of a judicial tribunal as the a
supreme court itself. This commission
is vested with the right to serve
If
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There being no answer when the
names of the plaintiffs were called,
j Mr. Felder put in evidence a card,
: which he stated was the legal acknowledgement
of the AnheuserI
Buseh Mrewing Association that they 1
had received the registered letter in 1
which the claimants were notified to 1
r be here at this time with certain
bonks of record and of evnensos to
.'show that their claims were just and
. valid. This notification not only auI
thoriied and directed and invited i
; the Anheuser-llrewing association
; Hon to produce the hooks, hut also
, ordered them to produce J. S. Far1
num as their agent. Except for the
card indicating the receipt of the
letter from the South Carolina torn|
mission, there was no acknowledgement
or other statement from tire
St. Louis brewers.
' j John It. Cnrr. deputy sheriff, who
j was sent to Charleston with the war|
rant then testified that the paper had
f heen placed in his hands at 10 p. m.
- hy Sheriff Coleman and that he had
1 taken the train at 2.15 a. m. for
Charleston, that being the most notoe
rious place of abode and of business
- of the said Farnum. A visit was
a made to the abode of J. S. Farnum
e at the Charleston hotel. Farnum
1 was not there. A second visit and
GIVEN GOOD TERMS.
rwo Scoundrels Sent to fhe Penitentiary
From Lexington.
?or Twenty-Fir* Years Bach For
Assaulting a Man au<l Attempting
a Worst Crime on a Woman.
At the term of the Lexington
2ourt last week the two negroes
vho some months ago committed an
Lttrorimm assault on Mr onrl Mro
llckley, of that county, were tried
ind convicted by Judge Wilson to
wenty-flve years In the Penitentiary
One night the two negroes went to
hec ountry store kept by the Blckeys,
and while one of them asked
Vir. Bickley to come outside and
;ell him some whiskey, the other
emained in the store, where Mrs.
itidkley also stayed. A gun was
lred and Mr. Bickley was shot. At
he sound of the gun the negro inside
elzed Mrs. Bickley and attempted a
lorrible crlm e.
While his wife was In the clutches
if this brute, Mr. Blch?ey, wounded
ind bleeding, staggered into the
tore and reached for his shotgun In
he corner. The negro hiade his esape,
however. The alarm was given
ind the two negroes were sought all
iver that territory for days.
When finally captured sentiment
igalnst them was still high, but a
ynchlng was prevented. At the
rial each negro denied any knowldge
of the presence of the other that
light and told a story quite different
rom the evidence put up by the
itnte. Each of them was Indicted
n two counts, assault with Intent to
111 Mr. Bickley and assault with inent
to ravish Mrs. Bickley, and both
vere convicted on both counts.
Judge Wilson, In passing sentence,
ongratulated the county of Lexingon
that a lynching had been averted
inder strong provocation and that
ustice had been done, regardless of
he fact brought out In the evidence
hat the Blckleys themselves were
lolators of the law In selling liquor.
LEVER AFTER MONEY
'or Soil Demonstration Work in Orangcburg,
Leo and Sumter.
The Washington correspondent of the
CewB and Courier says a hearing of
onsiderable importance to the peoile
of Orangeburg, Sumter and Lee
ountles was had in Washington on
londay afternoon before the House
ommittee on agriculture. Represenatlve
Lever, in whose district the
hree counties named lie, secured
he presence of Messrs. . A. Bonsteel
,nd Frank Bennett, experts in soil
urvey work in the department of
griculture, in an effort to secure an
.ppropriation with which to carry
m work alreudy commenced in those
ounties.
Messrs. Bonsteel and Bennett, who
lave been in South Carolina on fre[uent
occasions, and who have done
onsiderable work in Mr. Lever's
district, demonstrated to the cornnittee
just what the soil in the counies
named can produce under proper
conditions anu how much the
armers living in those counties
could bo benefited by a continuation
>f the demonstration work already
indertaken there.
Mr. Lever believes that h will be
iuccessful in securing an appropriaion
with which to carry on the work,
t will mean much to the farming
nterests of all the counties in the
leventh district.
T111! V'MV IMWTOI, I,AW.
Phu Kill Ki\iii){ Size of Gun u Man
.May Carry.
The new pistol hill, which will be nme
a law before the Legislature
uljourns provides that from and afer
the first, day of July, lfthS', it
ihall be unlawful for any one to
;arry about the person, whether con ealpd
or not, any pistol less than
wenty inches long and three pounds
n weight, and it shall be unlawful
'or any person, firm or corporation
:o manufacture, sell or offer for sale,
ease, rent, barter, exchange or trans
port for sale or into this State, any
pistol of less length and weight. Any
violation of this section shall be punished
by a fine of not more than
>ne hundred dollars or imprisonment
for not more than thirty days; and in
r:ase of a sale by a person, firm or
corporation, the sum of one hundred
dollnrs shall be forfeited to and for
rho use nf the school fnnil of the
county wherein the violation takes
place, to he recovered as other fines
and forfeitures.
Hearch of the premises was made.
Again no Farnum. The latter's wife
stated that Farnum was uway on a
business trip.
Mr. T. Moultrie Mordecai, attorney
for J. S. Farnum, called the State on
the long distance 'phone Thursday
night and stated that he had heard
in Asheville the allegation that Farnum
is a fugitive from justice. 'Thf
charge is ridiculous,' said Mr. Mordecai,
'The fact is that Farnum is or
one of his regular business trips and
on his return to Charleston will sur
render and give bond, and I so stater
to the attorney general. Mr. Lyon
"Any charge that Farnum hai
closed out the greater part of hii
business in Charleston and in com
pany with his family, has left th<
State is absurd and 1 wish to den
it." _
BOLD THIEVES
They Get a Sack Containing Three
Thousand Dollars
BY DARING ROBBERY.
The Express Agent at Mansfield,
Ohio, Knocked Sensejless and Then
the Thlrves (Jot Away With One
llag of Money, bat Overlooked
Another lias That Contained
(y Thousand Polnrs.
One of the boldest robberies
ever known, took place at Mansfield,
Ohio, shortly after midnight Wednesday,
when two masked robbers
entered the offico of the Adams Hxprss
Company there, knocked William
Depew, the agent, unconscious,
and got away with $3,000. while
nearly fifty passengers stood about
the station waiting for trains.
A bag containing $40,000 In gold
was lying near the $3,000, but was
ovevrlooked by the robbers.
Telegrams wero sent to the police
of the nearby towns and as a result.
John McCue and Joseph Stevens
were taken into custody at New Eondon.
They had a sack token from
the express office containing the
$3,000.
Stevens, the police say, confessed
and Implicated George McGinity, a
friend of Depew's, who was in thei
office at the time and was covered I
with a revolver during the robbery.
According to Stephen's story, the
money arrived Tuesday night from!
Delphos, Ohio, and was consigned to
a bank at Hamilton, Ohio. Stevens
said McGinity tipped off the arrival
of the money, and cooked up a
scheme with him and McCue to rob
the office.
McGinity was locked up. He denies
the charge.
SWEPT BY FLAMES.
Tli Town of Hnmptnn ll&rd Hit by
the Fin' Fiend.
une or me most disastrous tires
that has visited the town of Hampton
in a number of years occured
Sunday night at nbout 10.30 o'clock,
totally destroying the office of The
Hampton County Guardian with the
presses and etc, the office of Robert
R Sizer & Co, a brick building owned
by Senator \V. S. Smith, and two
small stores and two small dwellings
on Lee Avenue, the principal street.
A strong wind made the work of
fighting the fire more difficult than
ordinarilly and the flames spread
rapidly.
The insurance on the property was
as follows:
Senator VV. S. Smith, 1,200; loss
$1,000.
M. B. McSweeney, Guardian building,
presses and practically all of
the newspaper and job type. Insurance
on printing material and building,
$1,400; loss $2,000.
W. E. Richardson, dwelling and
store, $500; loss $500.
Small dwelling, $400; fully covered.
The residence and store of J. B.
Rivers & Sons and The Hampton
Hotel were in danger but escaped
damage. The origin of the flro is
unknown.
GOES Vl? FOR LIFE.
From tne Lunatic Asylum to the
State Penitentiary.
John Beard was convicted at
Gainesville. Ga.. of murder on last
Thursday and ordered sent to the
penitentiary for life, for the murder
of W. O. Hammond, his father-inlaw
The killing occurred three yoars
ago. On the first trial Beard entered
an insanity plea He was sent to tho
state sanitarium at Milledgevllle.
Lately he was declared by the authorities
there ha have been restored
to mental health. He was brought
back to Hall county and arraigned
for the killing, conviction resulting.
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GOT A MOVE ON HIM.
Tornado Made a Sick Man Itun For
His Life.
A tornado swept through the
northeastern portion of Etowah
County, Alabama, Sunday night.
While no lives were lost, much damn
arc* u,'n a Hnnn a nroru?rfu A f Pr*nfo'a
Mend, several dwellings were destroyed.
The home of llid McCurdy was
struck and crumbled like an egg
, shell. A 75-year-old bachelor, broth
er of McCurdy, was on what was
I thought to bo his death bed. In
. fear the sick man jumped up and
? fled from the house and got out of
. the way of harm.
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1 Right Stores Hurn.
Fire yesterday morning swept
1 Fire early Wednesday morning swept
. the village of Girard, Ga , consuming
s eight stores, the hotel and several
s residences. Dr. F. G. Brigham, one
- of the most prominent physicians
s rushed into a residence to save his
y medicine case. He was caught undei
the falling roof and burned to death
THE APPELT BILL
To Impose a Tax of $5,000 on
Liquor Drummers,
Pnssri the Senate by a Large Majority?It
Will Exclude Whiskey
Drummers From the State.
At the night session of the senate
Thursday Mr. Appelt's bill providing
for a license tax upon liquor drummers
passed a third reading and was
ordered sent to tho houso, but not
until it was amended by providing
that the tax shall bo $5,000 instead
of $1,000 as proposed in the original
bill.
The bill was taken up under the t
head of special orders shortly after j
tho night session was convened. Before
there wna nnv
?.?j uvimif, Ot'UUlUr
Graydon moved to strike out the enacting
words, the vote on that
motion being as follows:
Yeas (to kill the bill)?Rass,
Black, Clifton, Earle, Hough, Lanoy, '
Raysor, Stackhouse und Williams. '
Nays (for the bill)?Appelt,
\ Blease Rrice, Brooks, Carlisle, Car- ,
penter, Crouch, Gibson, Griffin. Hardin,
Harvey, Holliday, Johnson,
Mauldln, McGowan. McKelthan, Otts, 1
Sinkler, Smith, Sullivan, Talbert, :
Toole, Townsend
Mr. Rogers wanted no $1,000 license
Issued In any prohibition county
He did not want to license drummers
because they may be debarred
by federal legislation.
Mr. Appelt fought this and wanted ,
his bill kept intact.
Senator Crouch was strenuous in
his support of the bill and favored
a $5,000 license.
1 Mr. Carlisle said the courts have
held that a license feo will stand 1
the tests of the courts and he favored
the bill.
Mr Rogers' amendment to prohibit '
licenses in prohlbitio.n counties was
killed
Mr. Courch had the license fixed
at $5,000 per county for soliciting
liquor orders, which Is deemed absolutely
prohibitive.
Mr. Rogers was persistent and "
wanted Marlboro county excluded
from the bill No license to sell liquor
has ever been Issued In that
county for 50 years, and he seriously *
opposed any and every Ucenso system
Mr. Brico said a drummer could
now solicit liquor orders In dry
counties and as he saw It the prop- ,
osltiou was simply to collect a 11- '
cense from outside drummer? wii"
now solicit orders without paying a
cent and he felt the $5,000 license (1
would keep drummers out of the
dry counties
Dr. Black was opposed to any 3ort 1
of license: ho was not In favor of
these drummers coming here at all.
He felt that this license would give '
the semblance of authority to nolle- '
It business, lie wanted them barred s
from the State.
Mr Rogers' amendment, exempting 1
Marlboro county from the provision?
of the bill was adopted by a vote of 1
20 to 11. The bill was amen lc 1 r.o
as not to apply to Lancaster as well.
Mr. Raysor offered an amendment 1
to make it a criminal offenso to slllcit
orders. That ho urged would
avoid the objections as to a license
system.
Mr Otts thought this would not 1
stand the tests of the courts. The
Raysor amendment was killed.
The bill was finally ordered sent *
to the house providing for a $5,000 '
license for drummers soliciting II- '
quor orders for Interstate shipment 1
This license Is applicable in each
county In which such interstate ship- 1
ment may be solicited. Senator A| - 1
pelt thinks his bill will do ninth to '
kill the promiscuous soliciting of 11- ^
quor orders, which ho declared had '
become a nuisance in his section. t j
HE PROTECTED HER. (
Married His Cousin to Prevent Her '
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M nrrying Another. I 1
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A special to The Augusta Chroni- ,
cle from Albany, Ga., says the con- |
tracting parties to a niarriago Sun- ,
day were Miss Leinmio Glddens and (
Mr. 13. T. Glddens, both of Worth ,
county. |
Miss Olilrien's father ohlerted to ,
her receiving the attentions of a cer- |
tain young man of the neighborhood. f
He ordered his daughter to remain ,
in the house day and night.. It. T. |
Glddens, a third cousin, went, to her ,
father, and offered to co-operato in |
the plan to save her from the objec- ,
tionahle suitor. ,
Young Giddens kept his part of
the bargain so far as other men were |
concerned, hut ho construed the I
agreoment liberally in favor of him-'
self and married the girl. t ,
MAN DROPPED DEAD
And the Shock on Seeing Him Killed
llis Nelce.
At MUIvlile, N. J., Thursday. Rollln
Nlckleson, a well known oyster shipper,
dropped dead Thursday as he
stepped from a train on his return
home from Savannah, where he had
I been ill from typhoid fever. The
> body was taken to the home of a
, brother near the railroad and when |
5 Mildred Nickelson, a niece, saw it
r she collapsed and died In a short;
. time. tj
NEARLY FREEZES
To Death in His Own Refrigerator
an Atlanta, Ga.
DOOR SHUT ON HIM
And \V. 11. White, Jr., Had Artie
Adventure in his Ice House, Where
lie llnd Gone to See How the
Thermometer Was Working and
If the Meats Were in Hood Condition.
This is the story of how an Atlanta
man was lost In the artics Sunday
morning and kept himself from freez
in* iu ueuui oniy by dragging the
forequarter of beef frantically back
and forth for more than an hour aB
told by the Atlanta Journal.
On last Sunday morning shortly
after ten o'clock W. Ii. White, Jr..
of the White McLendon conipauy,
wholesale dealers in meats, stepped
Into the refrigerator of his warehouse
at 1 and 3 East Wall street,
Tor the purpose of seelug what decree
his thermometer registered. No
sooner was Mr. White inside than
he door of the ice house banged and
the spring lock clicked fast.
From then until 11 o'clock he had
10 need to consult the thermometer
:o know the temperature.
"I have discovered the north pole,"
ho said shortly after his release,
'and I can tell you it's a bad thing
o hunt for."
While Mr. White was working his
lardest to keep up a faint spark of
warmth in his blood, his carriage
with Mrs. White in it was awaiting
tlm in front of Durant's restaurant
>n Alabama street. He had called
it the restaurant a few moments beoro
to take James S. Gaines and
>lrs. Gaines for a morning drive. Mr.
Jaines was slightly delayed so Mr.
iVhlte said:
"I think I'll drop by the warehouse I
vhile we're waiting and have a look
it tho mercury. He back in a minito."
When the minute had passed and
wenty more had followed tho ladies
jrew uneasy. Hy eleven o'clock Mr.
laities yielded to their anxiety and
et out to Arid the trouble.
In the meantime a strange and,
or tho time being a terrible drama
i-as being enacted in that ice house,
tnyono who could have peeped in at
he time would have seen a whiteaccd
man lighted by the misty blue
if a solitnry incandescent globo racng
from one side of the box to the
ither with a huge quarter of beef
in ills shoulder. He would hang the
leef first upon one hook and then
ipon another, all the while swinging
lis arms high above his head and dong
a thousand and one Swoboda
t tints.
"it was either this or freeze," exilained
Mr. White. "If a man 1h
tard at work ho can live in such a
efrigeratort hree or four hours, but
f he stands still ho will pretty soon
?o like one of those petrified animals
hat, geologists dig up in northern
lussia.
And so back and forth he tugged
he beef until the end of his imprlsinment
it looked like a soup bone
hat had done duty three days.
Once a telegram messenger boy
>assed on the alley on which a tiny
dde window of the refiigerator op>ns.
Mr. White lieard him whistling
ind with all his might ho shouted
md beat upon the sides of the ice
louse. Hut the boy kept on his way
inheeding. Then ho began to think
vhat might happen. He concluded
it first that someone was playing a
|oke on him and then he decided
hat pretty soon the policeman of
ho beat would pass and seeing the
leys in the front door would lock
hinks up and go away.
He conjectured that in the moan:ime
Mr. Claines and the ladies would
lecido that he had been detained on
Mislness and would take a preliminary
drive over Jown. However, ho
night view the situation, it looked
lopeless and he remembered all the
dories he had read of travelers being
niried under the snow and freezing
o death with no earthly sound to
?reei ;nem, except inn lugunrious
howl of far away packs of wolves.
Every detail of his strange prison
rell into harmony with such romances.
The incandescent globe cloaked
in its chill fog shot forth fantastic
rays that seemed like the aurora
horealls and the huge blocks of ice
that hemmed him in were for all the
world like the mountains of Lapland.
ily the time the quarter of beef
had been frazzled to gaunt skeleton
Mr. Gaines arrived. Insido the store
he heard the steady beating against
the walls and pretty soon recognized
his friend's voice in tho muffled
shout for help.
Mr. White never stopped to see
what the thermometer registered
when the door was finally pried open
and he stood once again in the temperate
zone.
"I don't believe there's a thermometer
with enough notches on It
to tell the story," he said.
Tlio Kentucky Deadlock.
The Joint, assembly of Kentucky
took one ballot for United States senator
on Friday, which resulted ns follows:
Beckham 58; Bradley, 57;
Allen 7. . t