Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, July 15, 1909, Image 4
FOUND SHORTAGE
Probers of Colleton's Situation
Makes Report
ARRAIGNS OFFICIALS
Report of Expert* \\ ho Made Stud)
of the Affairs of Several of the
OlTlcea of Colleton County Filed
With the Governor?Accountant
Claims Kx-Treasurer Short $5,144.
The Columbia Record of Monday
afternoon bays Mr. R. K. Hill, appointed
by Governor Ansel, under a
suecial act of tbe last legislature
to investigate the affairs of Colleton
county, today filed with the governor
his report finding ex-County Treasurer
D. L. Smith short $5,144.18, and
severely criticising several former
and present county officers for looseness
in methods and direct violations
of law. The report divides the Smith
liabilities as follows: Borrowed
money account $1,031.62, bond account
$2,450, dispensary account
$1,662.56
Following his services as county
treasurer, Mr. Smith was a member
of the legislature, and was accused
by Representative J. Wright Nash of
Spartanburg of appropriating his
prohibition bill and running it in
under the name of Smith as a ruse
to defeat the local option bill. Mr.
Nash made a dramatic speech to
knife his own "baby" under the
Smith name, so as to save the day
for local option and put the old State
dispensary out of business. Mr.
Smith was at one time spoken of as
a candidate for governor.
Accountant Wilson of the comptroller
general's office, who has twice
checked up Mr. Smith as treasurer,
the final checking being when Mr.
Smith left office, was surprised by the
report of today. Mr. Wilson offers to
bet $100 each that each of the three
items referred to by Mr. Hill are incorrect.
Mr. Wilson does not believe
Mr. Smith is short at all, that Mr.
Hill has made some error.
Governor Ansel will not take any
action on a report for the present.
The act requires the report to be published
in one of the county papers,
and this will be done. In the meantime
the governor will reserve action.
The treasurer's office was held by
Mr. I). L. Smith's father, Mr. A. R.
Smith, from 1899 till the spring of
1900. when ho died and was succeeded
by D. L. Smith, who was succeeded
early in 190 7 by the incumbent.
R. E. Jones, who the report finds is
conducting his office properly, except
tbnt he has a habit of cashing claims,
"which is liable sooner or later to
cause trouble if it has not already
done so. to" say nothing of the fact
that it Is directly contrury to law."
"Concluding to begin work in the
office of county treasurer." says the
report, "we called upon the county
auditor (held by A, A. Patterson,
Jr.) for abstracts of the duplicates
and copies of the settlement sheets
from 1899 up to the last settlement,
which wus for the fiscal year beginning
January 1, 1907, und ending
June JO. 1908.
"We were informed by that officer
that he knew little or nothing about
such papers, as he had only recently
gone into office and had been kept
busy ever since In taking tax returns
and in making up his duplicates preparatory
to the next collection of taxes.
and that therefore he hud not had
an opportunity or the time to acquaint
himself with the other affairs
pertaining to his office.
He did, however, point out to us un
Indiscriminate mass of papers and
books plied on top of tables, in dry
goods boxes, etc.. In an utter state
of confusion, with no sort of dist
inr?Hnn ?
..mvi.vu ucmei'u me papers of one
year and those of another, saying
at the same time that they were in
just the condition in which they
were turned over to him by his predecessor.
"After spending considerable time
in a futile effort to obtain some reliable
data that would be of service
to us. we applied to the comptroller
general for the tettlement sheets
filed in his office for the period to
be covered by our investigation, but
as ho seemed somewhat indisposed
to allow these papers to go out of
his office, Mr. \V. \V. Bradley (the
expert accountant employed by Mr.
Hill to assist in the investigation)
went up to Columbia and made copies
of them, save those for the year
1 905, which he was informed, could
not he found in the office." I
Colleton having sold the Green
Pond and Walterboro road, for which
the county was bonded to the extent
of $60,000, to the Plant System for
$:t5,000, is now entirely out of debt
with about $1,000 on hand to meet
future claims.
The report says:
"The following is a summary of
the liabilities of D. L. Smith, excounty
treasurer, as found by us:
Borrowed money accounts $1,031.62:
on bond account $2,450; on dispensary
account $1,662.56; total $5,744.1
8."
The report says of tho last Item,
a credit for $1,210.76, that it was
given by Mr. Smith as paid the towns
on dispensary account, whereas the
towns had already gotten this mooey.
"The office of county supervisor."
says the report, "being one of the
most important of onr county offices,
should he filled by a man of firmness,
good Judgment and business talent,
but unfortunately, nheao qaullflcatlons
are not often taken into account
by the average voter. We found
tho papers relating to one year's
in ?ery much tb# same condition as
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DASHED TO DEATH I
PARACHUTE FAILED TO OPEN
PROPERLY.
Before ? -t rifled Crowd * Balloonlet
Cute Loose Too Soon and is
Killed.
Mistaking the promlscous firing
of revolvers aa a signal for the ellmax
of hie aerial act. James Corcoran.
aeronaut, 28 years old, of Lowell,
Mass., cut loose with his paracute
when "out a few hundred feet
from the earth at Portland, Me.,
Sunday, and was dashed to the
ground, meeting almost instant death
at the feet of o.000 horrified spectators.
TKroo nnraoK nlao u-ora n H e *?
* MI vv |/uiovuuvvo n?io auttVUCU WW
the balloon for a triple jump. It
was arranged that Corcoran should
drop with his parachutes when he
heard a certnln number of revolver
shots after the balloon had reached
a height of approximately 5.000
feet. ?
Corcoran had barely left the
ground before promiscuous firing began,
but the man to give the signal
[(tilled out to him to keep on up
Above a few hundred feet it is hard
for an aeronaut to judge correctlv
his exact height, and so when Corcoran
heart^ a second fusillade it is
believed he was certain the signal
had come. He was seen to drop, although
he was barely 500 feet In the
air.
The distance was too short for the
parachute to open properly, and the
man dropped like a plummet, striking
the ground about 1,000 feet from
where the ascension was made.
He sustained a fracture of the
skull and other injuries and he soon
died.
PREACHER FATALLY SHOT.
Minister Wounded Trying to Separate
His Sou and Another Boy.
A dispatch from Grayson, Qa.,
says: Much excitement prevailed In
that community over the fatal injury
of the Rev. E. L. Langley, who
was Monday shot while trying to separate
his son, Bose Langley. and J.
E. Webb, who were engaged in a
fight.
Webb and young Langley fought a
desperate duel with pistols. Each
received two wounds of a serious nature.
The minister In attempting to act
as peacemaker, came within the
range of the flying bullets and fell
at his son's feet mortally wounded.
MISSING HOY FOUND.
Murder Mystery at Clinton Proves
to be a Canard.
The boy, Hen Deane, who was reported
missing from Clinton since
Saturday a week ago. has been found
at Ware Shoals. This puts an end to
the sensational rumors which were
dying about of mprder at the Lydla
Mill. The police tound on close investigation
that the reports about
Joe Franks and his friends were
based on facts, but they were greatly
exaggerated, and there is no reason
to make any arrests in connection
with the matter.
were those in the auditor's office?
the papeds relating to one year's
transactions mingled and mixed up
with those of another, iu the most
indiscrimate manner conceivable."
The occupants of this office have
been J. O. Jacques, whose term lasted
four years; he was succeeded by
J. E. Moore, who was succeeded last
year by J. O. Griffin.
The report finds that the board of
which Mr. Griffin is chairman had ordered
claims paid which were not
properly sworn to as required by law
and that claims amounting to $206.55
had been twice paid. The county
would have been short to this extent
but for the investigation.
Kx-Sunervl?ir?r Vtnnro'o
wi v o a\ tuuuia
were correct, but Joe Jacques had left
a lot of Jury certificates not conceded.
The present clerk of court Is conducting
his- office properly, but exClerk
K. R. McTeer did not keep a
book for recording "fines and forfeitures"
as required by law, except
for last three months of his term,
term.
The superintendent of education.
Dr. II. W. Hlack, is conducting his
office all right.
The manner in which the offices of
master and judge of probate are run
j are highly commended.
The magistrates are strongly condemned
for not making regular reports.
The present sheriff is doing all
right, but of ex-ShorifT L. 0. Owens,
who held office about 12 years, the
report says:
"Tn examining his tax execution
hooks for several years hack, we
found that in the case of quite a
number of taxpayers who had return
*-u iHnas. running from an acre up
*o 106 acres, aggregating over 3 00
acres in 1905, who failed to pay the
taxes thereon, that executions were
issued against them ard put into
the hands of the sheriff for collection.
"In his return, made to the treasurer.
is this report, 'Can't find,' when
in 1006 these same parties paid the
taxes on these identical lands, showing
that with proper effort these
lands could have been found.. The
same or worse Is true as to executions
for 1906 and 1907.
"It occurs to us that there might
he some profitable gleanings had by
the sinking fund commission in this
field, wore they to look into the matter."
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SAYS HE DID IT I
V
Unexpected Confession Made In
Murder Trial
HORRIBLE DETAILS
Bob D?lrh?r, On? of th? Mfa g
Charged With Slaying Officer? in 11
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Ocone? on the Night of March 0, e
Claim* He Fired th? Shots That c
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Proved Fatal. c
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"Yes, 1 killed the Corblns." With c
these startling words did Bob Belch- c
er clear up Tuesday the mystery as ?
to who fired the fateful shots that J
removed forever Deputy United *
States Marshal W. B. F. Corbin and ]
and his deputy, "Chris" Corbin.
Four persons, J. B. Palmer. Charley ?
Palmer, father and son. and Lou s
c
l Uolnhur anrl Hnh Unlahor mnthnr
and son, stand charged with murder- ing
the two officers near Walhalla on <
the night of March 8, 1909. Their '
cuse was begun in the Sessions Court. {
Although nearly a Ecore of witness- J
es had been exumlned. not before Bob ,
was placed on the stand had the au- <
thor of the Bhot been revealed. 1
Belcher, nervous and perspiring, told '
the following story of the event of
that night: (
"About 2 o'clock that night some
one knocked ou the door. 1 started
to open it, but my grandfather
said: 'Let me open it.' He asked
who was there. The reply was Corbin."
Open the door or 1 will busf
it down.' I'ap, J. B. Palmer, unbuttoned
the door and the Corbin a
the old one (W. B. F.)t came into
the room where we were sitting about
the lire wi^h a cocked pistol in his
right hand. 1 did not run and hide.
1 did not know who they were, nor
what they wanted. 1 backed into a
room to the left, and W. B. F. Corbin
glanced at me, but said nothing.
Pap asked him his business,
and he made no answer. He went
into the cook room, took up a lamp
there, and climbed up on the stove.
Lou told him to get down, as we
had stolen nothing. He said: 'That's
all right.' Lou said he could not
walk around the house with cocked
pistol. Again he replied: 'That's
all right.' Lou and Charley Palmer,
my uncle, followed him. He searched
around in there about fiv? minutes.
1 stayed in the front of the
house watching Chris Corbin, who
was standing with a pistol drawn
in the frout door. Bill Corbin came
back into the big room, and without
a word walked up to ine and
put his big pistol barrel right over
my heart. Charley knocked the pistol
to one side just as it was bred
He wanted to kill me, but did not
have time to lire. I dodged. Chris
then ran iu and grabbed my hand,
and in jerking loose from him my
elbow knocked a board from the
side of the house. Chris grabbed
me by the coat, and pulled me toward
the front door, tiring again.
just men Lou said: Oh, you bhot
me,' and I grabbed the pistol to protect
my mother. He dragged me out
of the door and fired twice at my
head, but 1 turned the pistol. He
dragged me out doors toward an
applo tree. About that time, when
Charley and lx>u were begging them
not to kill me, 1 heard Charley say:
*Oh, Lord, you have killed me," aud
fell. I jerked loose from Chris to
run to Charley, when I saw Dill
Corbiu trying to chop my mother
with an axe. 1 rau in the house
and got my shotgun. Pf 11 kept coming
with his axe as if he meant to
kill either me or Lou, so when he
was three feet off, I shot and he
fell. Chris Corbiu then fired again
at me, and 1 returned the fire aud
he fell. I thought Charley was dead
on the ground. I shot because I Baw
they were trying to kill me. 1 never
did know what they were trying to
kill me for. I saw no papers. I
could have escaped through the window
when they came."
If there was ever any doubt as
to the plea of the defendants it is
now removed. Illegal invasion of a
man's house and firing to kill all
the defendants will be charged
against the two dead men. On crossexamination
by Solicitor Honham. the
witness was considerably confused.
It was truly a gruelling examination.
Court adjourned for the day with the
witness still on the sand. The State
rested its case before the dinner
hour.
It was evident that they will try
to prove a conspiracy to prevent the
arrest of Hob. Judge Dantzler admitted
testimony going to show that
the defendants knew that a warrant
for Hob's arrest for shooting Into f
a mall box would be issued. Wit- r
nosses were introduced to prove and f
disprove that some one had been in ^
the loft, where, the State contends.
Hob was told by the others to hide.
Many gruesome objects were offered
in evidence, including bloody 1
gun wads and shots, taken from the I
lungs of the dead man: hloody shirts, 8
trousers and waists worn by the de- s
fondants. The crowd overflowed *1
from the court room into tho square K
and streets nearby. Many women
were present. a
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Liquor in Dry Sections. r'
At a meeting of the Texas Brewers'
Association Tuesday at Galveston
a fund of $100,000 was set aside to
be given to a public charity if they
could not prove that more liquor is h
consumed in the prohibition or dry, c<
States and sections of the United It
States than in the free or wet sec- b<
tions. i<J
SIX CREMATED
k'HSX THEIR HOME IS DE8TROY.
ED BY FIRE.
lb Old Confederate Veteran and
Flee Childden Meet Horrible Death
At Danville.
A dispatch from Danville, Va.,
ays as the result of a mysterious
re. which totally destroyed the home
f S. E. Hamlett at South Boston
arly Monday morning, five of their
hlldren and H. A. Strange, aged
4, were burned to death, and another
child, aged four years, seriously
njured. Mr. and Mrs. Hamlett esaped
without injury. The victims
if the frightful affair are: M. A.
Itrange, Vernie Hamlett, aged 14
ears; Beatrice Hamlett, age seven
ears; Violet Hamlett, age six years;
Jecll Hamlett, three years; Henry
-iamlett, age 18 months.
Mr. Hamlett, who is employed with
i planing mill at South Boston, retided
in a two-story frame building
>n the west side of the city, near
;he Norfolk and Western Railway,
rhe fire was discovered at about 3
j'clock Monday morning by neighbors.
At this hour the occupants
bf the house had not been aroused,
?nd the building was almost completely
enveloped in flames, the tire
ranging the worst on the south side
of the structure. The residence whs
threatening to fall In at almost any
minute, when Mr. Hamlett and his
wife were aroused. They were on
the north side of the houBe, and
their four-year-old child was in the
same room. They crawled out of the
window on the front porch and dropped
the child to the ground. Roth
of the child's arms were broken by
the fall. The baby was also slightly
burned and its face lacerated. Mr.
and Mrs. Hamlett reached the ground
in safety.
All of the occupants of the building
were sleeping on the second
story, and those who met death were
on the south side of the house. When
the fire was discovered it was impossible
to save any of the children
or Mr. Strange, all of whom It is
thought had been burned to death
by this time. Mr. Strange was a
Confederate Veteran of Halifax county,
and was in South Boston to attend
the Fourth of July celebration.
The building collapsed and fell a
few minutes after Mr. Hamlett and
his wife escaped. The six bodies
of the victims of the fire were burned
to .a crisp, the remains an unrecognizable
mass of bones being
taken from the debris.
CRUSHED I XDKR ENGINE.
Engineer Meets Horrible Death Neni
Anderson.
Mr. Stonev Bouchillnn nt f\nr.
deaux. engineer of a hoisting engine
on the A. C. and W. C. wreck train,
operating near Barne'a station, was
probably fatally Injured when the
engine overturned Monday morning.
The engine and one of the work cars
turned over, and Mr. Houchillop was
caught underneath the engine. His
fellow workers jumped to safety.
Mr. Bouchillon was quickly placed
on a special train and was carried to
the hospital at Anderson.
His condition is precarious, and
his death is expected almost at any
moment.
His right leg was almost crushed
lo a pulp, his hips were also crushed
und other internal tnjuries are feared.
He is severely shocked, and is
getting worse. His condition has
prevented any close examination,
and, of course, no amputations have
been made. It is doubtful whether
he will sufficiently recover from the
shock to even permit an examination.
The cause of the wreck is a mystery.
It blocked the track for some
time and several trains had to transfer.
Several persons employed on
the work train were more or less
Injured by Jumping, but no other
than Mr. Bouchillon was seriously
Injured.
FATAL DUEL IN VIRGINIA.
Fanner Kills Merchant and is Discharged
as Guiltless of Grime.
A dispatch from Lynchburg. Va..
says reports from a country roadtide
duel Sunday afternoon, In Nelion
county, thirty miles from Lynchburg,
in which John McCallum shot
ind instantly killed L. A. Astrop,
? merchant of that county, reached
Lynchburg Tuesday afternoon. Mr
^anum is a rarmer. The men quarreled
two weeks ago and Sunday,
vhen Astrop saw McCallum In the
oad, he opened Are on him. McCallum
responded and killed Asrop.
A preliminary trial resulted
n McCallum's discharge ui>on the
tround of self-defence. The dead
nan is survived by a wife and eight
hlldren. Both men seem to have
teen armed for earh other.
Signers Meet,
In the room vhor* the Iieelara
ion of Independence was signed in
ndependence hall in Philadelphia
everal scores of descendants of the
igners gathered Monday. Resoluions
were adopted providing for a
eneral meeting of the society of
tie descendants on October 19 next
t Yorktown, Va.. to take part in
tie 128th anniversary of the surender
of Cornwallls.
(Committed Suicide.
A dispatch from Aiken says Josph
Crews, the negro who killed
is wife at Warrenton Thursday,
immitted suicide Saturday by placig
himself In front of a train and
sing run over. The body has been
lentifled.
DUAL TRAGEDY |
Takes Place In Edgefield County
Monday.
KILLS WIFE AND SELF
Cieorge Bush Shoots His Wife Six
Tlnrai, Mortally Wounding Her
and Then Takes Refuge La a
Swamp, Where He Puts a Bullet
!
Through His Own Brain.
Several parties from the neighborhood
where the awful tragedy
occurred, brought the news to EdgeQeld
Monday that Mr. Cieorge Bush
hud soht and instantly killed his wifo, ,
Alice, the weapon used being a pistol.
The homicide occurred at the home
of Mr. P. P. Doollttle, an uncle of ?
Mrs. Bush's, near Rehoboth Baptist ^
church.
Mr. and Mrs. Bush have been sep- I
arated several years, their trouble |
being due to the former's alleged |j
very dissipated habits. He has lived ||
lii Augusta for some time, but re- '
cently returned to this county, of
which he is a native, and In the
neighborhood where his wife resided,
and has been using efforts to get her
to return to him. This she refused
to do. On Saturday last he avowed
his Intention to take his wife's life
and then his own, and while little
credence was given to what he said,
as a precaution, Mrs. Hush was moved
from the place where she was
staying when the threat was made,
to her uncle's home, and It was there
that Mr, Hush appeared at 11 o'clock
Monday morning, and it seems, without
warning or excuse shot her to
death.
The circumstances of the homicide
are not known. Hush, it is said, fled
as soon as be got in his bloody
work.
At 12 o'clock Monday SherlfT Ouzts
received a telegram from Modoc on
the Charleston and Western Carolina
railway to come there at once,
that Hush had killed his wife, and
the presumption at Edgefield was
that he had been captured at that
place about three miles from where
the killing occurred.
Hush is well known, having carried
the mall from Edgefield to
Parksvllle for several years. He was
i a hard drinker, it was alleged, but
was thought to be harmless. Mrs.
Hush before marrying was a Miss
Doolittle, and a most estimable woman.
her family being prominent in
the county.
Mrs. IIiini oi lii Ali.r.
Later information brought by a
party direct from tho scene of the
tragedy is that, although Mrs. Bush
is shot six times, she is alhe with
no hopes of recovery.
Her statement is that her husband
met her coming from the spring
and demanded that she come back
to him. She refused. He then said:
"Well, you are a dead woman," and
commenced firing, shooting her twico
after she was on the ground. The
news spread like wildfire, and soon
hundreds of citizens gathered and
are hunting Hush. As yet he has
not beeu captured, but likely will
be, and the apprehension is that he
will be lynched.
"Suicide," Cot oner's Jury Verdict.
The posse that surrounded Georgo
\V. Hush in the woods, finding that
they could not recurc dogs, went in
t.fted Hush. They found him lying
on the ground d?ad, with a bullet
hole through his brain and a 32
calibre S. and W. pistol in his rlgnt
hand. The coroner's jury, summoned
by Magistrate J. K Blackwe'l
found thnt Hush "came to his dentn
<rom a gunshot wound Inflicted by his
own hand."
SEES HUSBAND CRUSHED.
Groom Steps in Front of K\pi'c?i.
Wife Tries to Rescue Him.
As a result of seeing her husband
crushed to death under a railroad
train on Long Island, N. Y., Mrs.
Halsey H. Thebaud. a young brldo,
Is prostrated at her homo in New
York city and under the care of physicians.
Mr. Thebaud, who had an extensive
insurance brokerage business,
and his wife had been members of
a house party over the Fourth on
Long Island.
They hud been attracted across the
railway tracks by tho burning of a
building and In returning Mr, Thebaud,
while only a few feet in advance
of his wife, stepped In front
of an express train.
Mrs. Thebaud reached for her husband
and might hava fallen under '
the train also had not friends restrained
her.
OAS EXPLOSION KILLS NINE.
Miners Suffocate in Pit at Tollcrrille,
Near Trinidad, Colo.
...
I .mho men wore killed Tuesday by
an explosion of gas in the Cedar
I Hill Coal & Coke Company mine at
Toilerville, near Trinidad, Colo. All
but one were foreigners.
The men wer? descending in the /
cage. The explosion partly wrecked V
the shaft and those who were not in- '
stantlv killed were suffocated by gas. ?
All of the bodies have been recovered. :
Prof. Ordway Dead.
Prof. John Morse Ordway. up to '
three years ago professor of metallurgy
at Tulane university. New Orleans,
dkd a' his home in Saugus
Mass., Monday, aged 86 years. j
Southern States
BUT FBC
^7 Plumbjng^
OOL.UMB
Bargains In
Real Estate
40? acres?l 1-2 to 2 miles from
Clarendon, Oolumbus Co., N. C'., on
the Chadbourn & Conway (A. C.
L.) R. R. All wood land timber
*old and 4 years longer to remove
some. While the land, or
part of It. has clay subsoil and
would make all kind of crops, I
would not advise an> one to buy
It for that purpose now. It would ,
be a good Investment for pasture '
and timber growth. It's the great- 1
eat Strawberry bel?, and would
produce berries. Price $2 per acre,
or $800.
18S acres?Mostly cleaned low land.
About one mile from ?he proposed
terminus of Whltevllle (N. C.)
R. R. Will make 3-4 bale cotton I
R.. Will make 3-4 bale cotton
and 30 bushels corn per acre
without fertilizer, $15 per acre for
cleared and $10 for uncleared.
This land Is easily worth $50 per
acre, but for the fnct that It Is
subject to extreme high water,
and one crop In every 5 or 6 might
be loBt. It now ha9 fine crop.
This land In Columbus county and
near the Waccamaw river.
12-t Acres in Cnttnil Hay, Columbus
Co., N. C., uncleared. This bay
has about 1,500 acres land and
about 400 cleared. Has produced
75 bu. corn per aero. D. J.
Lewis, attorney at law. In Whiteville.
N. C., has over 100 acres of
this bay in cultivation and would
Kive any information desired.
Have been offered and refused
$400 for the timber. Timber
cousists of fino juniper, cypress,
poplar and gum. Hrico $12.60
per ucre.
i
173 Acres good clay subsoil, small
farm about 6 or 8 acres cleared;
buildings no good. About one
mile from the proposed terminus
of Whlteville (X. C.) R. R., near
Reeves Ferry on the Waccamaw
river, in Columbus county. Price
$750
17 Acre*?About 6 cleared, in the
corporate limits of the town of
Loris, S. C. Produces fine strawberries.
tobacco and other crops
This is fine trucking section and
is fatd developing in that direction
Some buildings but are very poor
This to*n is in llorry county on
the A. C. L. R. R., which Is now
developing faster than most any
section of the State. Price $1,260.
79 Acres?Just outside corporate
limits of Loris. S. C. Cood clay
subsoil, fine chance for drainage,
all unimproved, enough timber
and light wood to pay half the price
asked. Price $1,250.
One small house ami lot in tows of
Lorie, S. C. Price $300.
2 Store Houses nnd lots in town of
Boris, S. C. Best location In the
town for business. Price $1,2G0
each.
85 Acres ? In the center of the trucking
section know.n as Homewood,
a few miles front county seat.
85 Acres?In the trucking section
of Horry county. One-fourth of a
mile from station of Homewood
and four miles from Conway. 45
acres cleared. Has dwelling, barn
and stables on place.
10H Acres?All woods and some timber
on place. Lies between the 1
Chadbourn and Conway and the
Conway Coast and Western railroads.
not more than a mile to
either road. Is six miles from
county seat of Horry county.
3<M) Acre*?About 15 miles from
Conway, 13 from Loris and 2 from
Red Bluff on the Waecamaw river. 1
About 30 acres of lowlands well
drained, and 100 acres of upland
suitable for cotton, rest not cleared.
;IOO Acres-?In Horry county. About '
50 acres pasture land and rest ^
timber land. Could bo easily
cleared and made good fanning
land.
SOO Acres?Situated iust on edge of
Sanford, S. C. Large new dwelling
and other outbuildings on place.
About 25 acres cleared, rest in ~
timber.
2f>o Acre*?On the Blarkvillo road, 'i
R miles west of Neeses, S. C. and
five miles west of Salley lfiO
acres cleared. balance In woods.
Has 8-room house on place. also
tenant houses, stables, etc. Daily
mall service and telephone eonnections.
Good price for quick sale, j
Carolina Sales Agency,
OKANGEBI RG, S. O. : tt
ALBANY i
th,? Cheapr it at
Fo*A" K,ndm 01
Does Not n.-lo. ipla-,1
rut up in I. a, lf-. ? ? 0 1b I ;r
coiuhiu irrriY co..
Supply Company
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11 A. ?. O.
DUAL SUICIDE FAILS
TOITVO WOMAN REFl'BKS TO DIE
WITH BROOKLYN MAX.
luroqaKtcd Lotpt Own to Jail and I
Girl to the Hospital?Boarders |
Bare Them Both. 1
James Morey Is In a Brooklyn. N. 1
T.? police station, charged with hav- I
ing tried to force a young woman 1
to die with him. Miss Catharine 1
McCauley is in the I^ong Island Col- '
lege hospital recovering from her
startling experience with Morey.
The man had become greatly attached
to Miss McCauley, but her
parents objected to his attentions
and she informed him that he most
not call on her again. A letter from
him Induced her to call at h.s boarding
house and there sha uuvo k
tried to kill both himself and her.
"At first ho wanted mo to sign
a written statement that wo hud
pflanued to dJe together and had
turned the gas on." she said, "but
I refused to do this and tried to
get out of the room. He locked
the door, closed the windows tightly
and then turned on the pas Jets
without tightening them. 1 tried
to open the door and he attacked me,
choking me with his hands and
throwing me to the floor, where he
held me until I became unconscious."
Oother boarders smelled the pas and
after the door was broken in Morey
and the young girl were found unconscious
from Inhaling gas.
CLASSIFIED COLUMN
Tobacco Habit Cured or no CostHarmless
home treatment. NicKo
House, Wichita, Kansas.
Wanted?To correspond with owners
having farms for sale cheap. Describe
land and Improvements.
R. 8. Fletcher, MeColl. S. C.
A good worm powder for horses and
mules. Safe and effective. Sent
postpaid on receipt of 25c. T. B.
Wannamaker, Cheraw, 3. C.
F'airview House, Clyde, X. C.?Fine
view, good water, good table.
Rates $6 and up per week. No
consumptives. I)r. F. M. Davis.
Wedding Invitations and announcements.
Finest quality. Correct
styles. Samples free. James H.
DeLooff, Dept. 6, Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Manuscript of Novels, essayr, playa,
poetry, etc., wanted for issao la
book form. Address Hroadway
Publishing Company, 835 Broadway.
N. Y.
Real Instate?If you have any property
for Bale list it with us. No
charges unless sale Is made.
Carolina Sales Agency, Orangeburg.
S. C.
Hogging and Ties?Qinners, farmers
and merchants, save money by
making contract with us now for
fall delivery. Write without dolay.
Address, Ragging Factory.
Boykin, S. C.
ORIENTAL RUG COMPANY.
1101 Cathedral St.. Baltimore, Md.
We make you handaome and durable
Ruge from your old wornout
carpet, any atze to fit a room or hall.
Let us sead you a price list; Just
wrue ror one.
Tewchere?Write for free booklet.
"A Plan," showing how we help
you get a better position. Thousands
excellent v&cnncles open,
paying |30 to $150 monthly.
Schools supplied with teachere.
Southern Teachers' Agency, Columbia,
South Carolina.
IVhy don't yon work for Uncle Ham?
Civil Service Manual, which prepares
you $or the examination.
Three volumes (with mais), $8.
express prepaid. Sims' Book
Store, Orangeburg, S. C.
A'anted?Hardwood lumber a.id logs.
In lumber we want poplar, ash,
Cottonwood, gum and cypress. In
logs we want cedar, walnut and
poplar. Prompt cash and Inspection
at your point. Savannah Valley
Lumber Company, Augusta,
Oa.
AHF, FOUND GUILTY.
bvo Camden Men Sentenced to Serve
Thirty Days or Pay $100.
A. L. and C. P. Lindsay Wednesday
re re found guilty of assault and
attery of a high and aggravated nalre
at Camden. The sentence was
100 or 30 days. This case, vbieh
as created a great deal of talk, grew
nt of an attack on R. I. Lane, a
aveling man. at the Hotel Camden,
i? house Kept by the Lindsays.
grease:
id Safest Lubricant (
f Mmahtnmrv v : jfTH
t? or Waste Away fjT*^ '?V1 *
isacl >> Pin i nit. 1 d r/1
Ceitjuibta, S. C.