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SAME OLD STORY A Trusting Maid and a Slick Rascal Who Basely Fooled Her in AN ILLEGAL MARRIAGE ? A Travelling Salesman With a Wife in North Carolina, Marries Young lady at Kingstree, and Fares 1m prisonment on Charge of Bigamy for Having Two Wives. A. W. Phelps, a travelling salesman for the International Harvester Company, lies seriously 111 at the Kellahal Hotel at Kingstree, while Sheriff Graham holds a warrant of arrest, charging nim with bigamy, and which will be sc-vod as soon Phelps is sufficiently recovered to be removed to the jail Three marirages were performed at Kingstree on Easter day, one of which was that of A. W. Phelps to the daughter of a respectaule farmer, living a few miles from Kingstree. The couple took the train at 9.12 on Sunday nLght, going to Lanes and spent the night there. On Monday they came back to Kingstree, Phelps having suifered a slight stroke of paralysis, and put up at the hotel. Meanwhile, the Rev. Mr. Hurt, of the Baptist church, who had performed the ceremony and to whose congregation the young lady belonged, received information that Phelps was not legally entitled to contract a marriage, as he then had a wife living in North Carolina. Mr. Hurt promptly began an Investigation, which uncovered facts sufficient to warrant him in going to Phelps and charging him in having practiced a gross fraud, both on the minister and the innocent girl. Phelps admitted that he had been married, but was divorced at Greensboro, N. C. When the minister, however, onered to wire the clerk of Court at Greensboro for proof of this statement, Phelps objected, saying the clerk of court might be dead and please to wait until he was recovered from his attack, when he wou'd N straighten the matter. Investigation further disclosed the fact that Phelps had told other parties that he was married. These facts unfortunately came to knowledge after the ceremony had been performed on Sunday morning. The father of the young lady was communicated with, and came at once to the hotel and laid the facts before his daughter. The poor girl is, of course, crushed and mortified, so are also her parents. She returned home with her mother about sundown, and on the advice of the solicitor her father swore out a warrant, charging Phelps with bigamy, and he is at present under the supervision of Sheriff Graham. The sheriff wired the clerk of court at Greensboro to know if Phelps had been divorced there, as he claims. If he cannot set himself straight before the preliminary, which will be held later, he will hava to face a Williamsburg jury on a charge of bigamy. FOl'UHT ON TKAIN. Baggage Master and a Negro Tramp Shoot Kach Other. A duel between a negro tramp ami llaggage Master Cumbus occurred on the Central of Georgia passenger train from Macon to Cclunious at Commonwealth Sunday afternoon. The negro, l.ouis James, boarded the train to steal a ride to the city and the baggage master saw him on the platform. Opening the door he told the negro to enter, meaning to make a prisoner of him, Jones walked In, whipped out a pistol and began firing at Mr. Cunibus. The latter quickly drew his own pistol and a duel occurred between them in the car. Several shots were fired. James finally staggered through the side door, wounded, while Cumbus nursed a wound o." one ear i where a bullet had clipped Its way. 1 The fast running train was stopped < and the badly wounded ue*ro was I brought to Columbus. 1 , , t I .iiuratT mm ii Mystcrjr. The body of Ruth Wheeler, the 15-year-old stenographer, who was murdered In the room of Alliert Wol- 1 ter in New York on Thursday last, 1 was quietly buried in the family plot I in Long Island, while the youth ac- 1 , cused of the crime continued to re- I , slat efforts of detectives to obtain a I confession. Standing on his asser- 1 \ tlon that he will perhaps "tell every- 1 } thing on Wednesday," Wolter re- < mains in his cell, still denying that i he killed the girl or that he knew her. Killed in Wreck. A Rhelms dispatch states that 50 German soldiers were killed outright or wounded in a collision between a passenger and military train. No details were received. 4 MUST BE OBAYED NEW-ORDERS FOR THE EXPRESS 1 COMPANY AGENTS. All Packages of Whiskey Must Re I Received by the Person to Whom They Are Addressed. Under a new order of the Southern Express company it will be a little difficult for a person to "get fire water" from a foreign point shipped into this city or county over the express lines. The new rule weni 11110 enect last week. Hereafter shipments of whiskey to be delivered at a consignee's residence may not, as has heretofore | been the case, be Blgned for by the 1 consignee's wife, or child or ser- 1 vant, but must be delivered to the person who ordered it, unless there 1 it a bona flde signed order, properly dated and naming the party to whom ' delivery is to be made. Here'B why: Section 238 of the penal laws of the United States, which reads as ' fo'lowF* "Any officer, agent or employe of any railroad company, express company or other common carriers shall knowingly deliver or cause to be delivered to any person other than the person to whom It has been consigned, unless upon the written order in each instance of the bona flde consignee, of to any fictitious person, or to any person under a fictitious name, any spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented or other intoxicating liquor of any kind which has been shipped from one state, territory or district of the United States place non-coetiguous to but subject ject to the jurisdiction thereof into any other state, territory or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any foreign country into any state, territory or district of the United StateB, or place non?ontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof shall be fined not more than $r?,000 or imprisonment not more than two years, or both." This law -veit into effe Jacumy st, 1910, hut it is understood has not been ;.trlctly observed by the agents of the companies it affects. | KILLING NEAll ST. GEORGE * i The Ever Ready l'istol Gets in its ? Deadly Work. Charley Wimberly was shot and 1 fatally wounded by John Pendarvis ' in the Indian Field section of nor Chester county, about eight miles , from St. George, late Saturday at- , ternoon. I The tragedy occurred at an egg | picking. Particulars regarding the ( afTair are meagre, but it appears that ] Pendarvls and Mack Wlmberly, a nephew of the slain man, were en- ( gaged in a dispute, when Wlmberly , Interferred. Pendarvis is said to have been cut on the arm before he , fired the fatal shot. Wlmberly lived ( a short time after the shooting. , (Medical aid wa3 immediately summoned, but it is not known whether , a physician arrived in time or not. , Pendarvis is in jail, having surrendered himself to the sheriff immediately after the affair. (Both of the men are white, and members of well known families,. Wimberly was-tnarried, and had a wife and a number of young children. He had an excellent reputation, and was a hard working and iivtustrious citizen. Pendarvis is a young unmarried man. | DRANK TYPHOID GERMS. And Was Soon Striken With the Dread Disease. A month ago Quartermaster Benson and twelve assistants of the i Omaha Naval Recruiting Station, were inocculated with 1,000,000 ty- i phoid fever germs. Ten days later ' they were inculated with a million ( more and ten days ago what was es- 1 timated at a billion was drunk in ' water in which germs had been bred. ! None had any symptoms of the dis- < easo until Tuesday, when Benson t -It - - oiu/nvu an UI me characteristics of I typhoid. Treatment usually prescril>ed for a typhoid patient was Kiven. Wednesday morning his fev- ) er broke and the doctors say the ] crisis is past and within two days j he will be in perfect health. The s doctors declare all the men immune ( for at least ten years. I c Wolves and Snakes. t Driven from their forest haunts ( by thS? forest reserves employes J blasting rock, wolves In large num- i bers are ravaging the country about 1 llig Horn, Ark. The forest reserve i men have been building roads, and I In the course of their work, exploded ( large quantities of dynamite Peopl are becoming armed at the audacity of the animals. The blasting ilso has driven out many snakes. f f Double Ti age<ly. f At West Brook, Conn., angered ? ikdiuae he w.ib called "a big fat i Dutchman," Herman Gunther, a 1 farmer, Tuesday night shot and fat- < ally wounded Charles McVeigh, a t neighbor and then committed sub ? clde by shooting himself In the head, 1 ) t THREE IN ONE NIGHT THREE NEGROES ARE .MURDERED BY ANOTHER NEGRO. Shot Down in Their Cabins by the > Murderer, Who Was Accompanied by Another Man. A special dispatch to The Statue Bays in the vicinity of Parks Station, three miles east of Laurens, Saturday night Toney Anderson was shot dead in the cabin home of Ida Mc- 1 Coy Nelson, the negress herself mortally wounded, dying a few hours ' later, and Alex Ray, living a mile distant, was called to his door and shot through the heart, expiring al- 1 most instantly. Anderson and the woman were murdered by Claude Ferguson, who waB accompanied by another negro, Jim Davis, on his death dealing tour. Ferguson was armed with a shotgun, Davis with a pistol, according to a statement made by the woman before she died, and that of her daughter, Rosa, an eye-witness to the tragedy in their house. It is believed that Ray was killed by the same murderers, though the coroner's jury Sunday returned a verdict to the effect that he came to his death at the hands of parties unknown. Ferguson and Davis made their escape, although every effort has been made to apprehend them. Roth lived in the community in which the crimes were committed, nnd it is known that trouble, involving all parties, with the i?ossible exception of Davis, had existed for some time. Ferguson was only recently liberated from jail after the settlement of some misdemeanor with which he was charged and preferred by one of his brothers. The ante mortem statement of the murdered woman and the testimony of her daughter, who was in the house when the shooting occurred, were to the effect that Ida and two of her small children had retired and that Andersn was a caller. Re tween 9 and 10 o'clock some one rapped on the door, saying it was Jim Davis. The door was opened, whereupon two men rushed in. Ferguson leading with a shotgun in his hand. Without a word Ferguson raised the gun and shot Anderson Jead in his chair over against the other side of the room, and then turned and fired into the woman as she attempted to raise herself in bed. Roth her hands were mangled or riddled with shot, but she managed to escape from the room and had reached the road, some 50 yards iway, when the murderers came up wini ner and shoi her down. Both I Bed. The woman was carried to I the house of her brother, where she I died two hours later. She was literal-1 ly shot to pieces. About an hour after the double I irime at Ida Nelson's. Alex Ray was I roused by some one in the yard who I wished to see him on business. Ray I came to the door and his callers ask-1 t*d if he could change a dollar. Ray I replied that he probably could, and I upon getting his poeketbook return I ed to the door when he was felled to I the floor with a ghe.Btly gunshot I wound in the chest. He never spoke I a word. His wife heard the talking! before the shot was fired, but d%l I not recognize any of the visitors I voices. | I WHITE II I'M AN BRUTE. Voung Girl Receives Sonic Terrible I Treatment. 'Posses of officers and citizens of North Middletown, Bourbon County. Ky., are searching for' an unknown I white man who is charged, by Nora I Brown Rainey, aged fifteen, the! daughter of a prominent farmer, with having drugged and kept her a pris-1 oner in the woods all Tuesday night. The girl was found in a terrible condition early Wednesday. Her hair had | llAPn /?" J -u ' v?n, mi a sue nad Deen otherwise mistreated. She became unconscious after telling her story and her condition is such that she is not expected to recover. Send for Them. At the request of Congressman Lever we publish the following. "The 1 Department of Agriculture has just 1 ssued two bulletins to which 1 de- ' lire to invite the especial attention < >f the people of the District. Bui- ' etin No. 391, "An Economical use ! >f Meat on the Farm,"-should be in he bands o f every house-wife. I Circular No. 30. Hog Raising in the ' louth," by I)r. S. A. Knapp, is a nost valuable contribution. 1 shall >e glad to aonH ? ? wU?v? tucor iu auy one WHO nay write for them." Address A. F. < 'sever, M. C., Seventh District, South i Carolina, Washington, D. C. ? 1 Pretty <>ood Advice. 1 The Lancester News says there ire a lot of lazy, idle, no-account netroes, and some few whites, that ihould be made to get employment, dther privately, or on the public 1 vorks of the county. Now that they will be afraid to sell liquor, they will loubtless turn their attention to lome oth/er form of devilment. They ihould be put to work or made .to move on. t0r & MUST ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED BY 1 THE CENSUS MAN. Who Will Ik' Among the People for 1 the Purpose in about the Next Ten Days. The arrangements are rapidly being concluded for taking the census, * which will start in about ten davs. ' t ? we iiave puoiisnea the names of the t enumerators and they are therefore ( known to the people generally. Sup- f ervisor DuPre make the request that the people will meet the enumerators t In the proper spirit and furnish the desired information. President Taft j has issued a proclamation requesting cooperation on the part of the publie that the censuB may be complete t and correct. The census enumerator will ask the following questions: What is your house number? [What is your name? The names of the members of ) your family? What is the relationship of these ^ people to you? How old are you? , Are you single, married, widowed , or divorced? How long have you been married, if at all? How many children have you? '< Where were you born? Where was your father born? Your mother? How long have you been in this country? Are you naturalized? Can you speak English, If not what can you speak? What is your occupation. Are you employed or an employ- ( er? Were you out of work April 15, 1910. How long were you out of work in 1909? Can you read and write? Do you own or rent your home? Any mortgage? 1 Are you a survivor of the Union , or Confederate navy or army? Are you blind. One or both eyes? Are you deaf or dumb? April 15 will witness the inauguration of the thirteenth census of the 1 United States and on that date an army of about 68,000 census takers will begin their work. Each one of these census takers will be armed ( with a badge by which "ve may know them" and you may have no hesitancy in telling them the truth * the whole truth and nothing but the 1 truth. Should there be any further t questions as to their credentials each t one of them will be provided with a 1 certificate of appointment and those > who think he iR not tbo rooi ^ may request him to show even that.* c e WANTED TO UK HIS WIFE. 1 Matrimonial Advertisement Brings | Many Replies. f c More than a thousand women an- t swered thie advertisement of MarcuB t A. Bunce, of Groveland, Mass., who t recently caused a notice to be pub- i lished in the papers stating that he ( would like to meet a woman who desired a home and a good husband. 1 Over a doa? n applicants have vis- I ited him and one, a woman from 1 Boston, has taken up the dutieB of I a home maker on trial. If she gives satisfaction she will bo led to the i altar. If not, a little New York woman will receive the next trial. Among Mr. Dunce's letters were more than 300 from New York city, i All the missives breathes sincerity. I some coming from as far south as Virginia and many from the state of Maime. Bunce has a home of his own, cows, chickenB, horses, is a member of the Masons and nights of Pythias and a prominent man in politics in his home town. yol'XG BROCK MAN BETTER I 1 The Youth Who J.V1I wwi? .? !? ?-. Will Recover. ] The Spartanburg Journal says Gary * Brockman, the young boy who was ' fo ind Injured behind his father's ' barn near Cashville last Saturday af- 1 ternoon, Is said to be getting along 1 as well as can be expected under the v circumstances. At one time it wa? ' thought that the wound behind his ' ear would prove fatal, but it was 8 learned Tuesday that the injury is not as serious us at first thought. The boy was injured by receiving a Tall while at play In the Woodlawn t school building. a h Schedule of the Comet. " If you care to keep up with the ? lomet the following schedule will " interest you. On Monday the comet may be seen 11 n the morning in the east. It will rise about five o'clock. c On April 16 it will rise at 4 a. m <jn April J4 It rises at 3.30 a. m. 1 On May 14 it rises at 3 a. m. After May 20 It will be Been in the west after sunset. On May 20 it sets at 7.45 p. m. 8 On May 25 it sets at 9:30 p. m. <* On May 30 it sets at 11 p. m. ' After the 1st of June the comet ? will be faint and will soon disappear * from sight. d J % I Al/rn P*nn ATi?nr? LUYEU EALtl UltltK k'Ol'NG DOCTOR AND HIS SWEKTHBAHT TOOK POISON. [localise Their Folks Objected to Their Ilcinx Married on Account of Social Harriers. At Wilmington, Dei., Dr. Dachlan d. Beaton, a well known physician, ind his tlance. Miss Annie Narlton, i Swede, tried to end their lives by aking big doses of laudnum Thurslay because his mother and sister bjected to their marriage. The acts followed a quarrel whicli he doctor and his sweetheart had vith the physician's family. The iveB of the couple were saved because they took overdoses of the >oison and medical asistance was luick at hand. The girl was hurried to the Delavare hospital, where the stomach lump was used. Emetics ad.minisered to Dr. Beaton had the desired ;ffect while the patient was being 'ushed to his home iu an auto. At i later hour it was announced that 10th would recover. Dr. Beaton is about 30 years old, Miss Narlton is 24. The mother of the girl likewise opposed their engagement. The pair went to Miss N'arlton's house, where they effected a reconciliation with Mrs. Narlton. They then proceeded to the doctor's drug store where they encountered his mother and sister. They objected to the marriage, it is said, on the ground of social equality, and a strong interview ended with the girl leaving the store and going to the sidewalk, where the girl produced a bottle of laudanum from her handbag and swallowed the contents. Then she shrieked for help and was hastily sent to the hospital. When Dr. Beaton learned of this ho went behind the counter in his store and took a dose of the same poison. Dr. Beaton lives in 181# Washington street, an exclusive sec nun. miss rsariion s Home is near the drug store. VKRY I)HV MARCH . IVry Little Rainfall During the Entire Month. March closed Thursday with the listinction of being the second dry?st March in the history of the Uuit*d States weather bureau, the rain'all being .63 of an inch, with almost his entire amount being recorded on he first day. The record at Chareston show only one March which vas dryer and this was in 1887, when >nly half a inch of rainfall was recorded In both instances the very small fall is remarkable. The normal s more than two inches. During the period from January I to April 1 the deficiency aggregates 4.92 inches. If it were not 'or the heavy rain in February, the Irynoss of the weather would be still greater and more remarkable. The emperature.is running pretty close o the normal, the aggregate showng to date an excess of about 25 legrees about the normal. The dryness of the weather is improving a source of much uneasiness to the truck poople. Rain has been wanted for weeks and it is figured that a few good showers would now work wonders tor the farmers. The comet has nothing to do with the lack of rain, as some people seem to think. March of last year had plenty of rain and the latter part of the month was miitn ? Is different this March. KILLKI) BY A STORM. Eighteen People Perish and Many Houses Down. The Governor of the fiji Islands telegraphs to the Colonial office, at London, that eighteen persons, all latives, were killed by the hurricane hat swept the Islands last Thursday. The material damage was limited to Suva, the capital, and to the vicinty of th9 Delta of the Rewa, where iractically every white man's home vas seriously damaged and a great lumber of houses of the natives vere wrecked. Small shipping sufered severely, as did the sugar cane ndustry. The banana crop was detroy ed. Two More <Jo 1'p. TSo. ? ? . ..*7 iv?v negroes WHO allowed hemsclves to bo bribed to assassinte a white man at Barnwell cour*ouse by a white man named Kenedy have been convicted on their wii confession and sent to the ponfentiary for life. It will be remomered that they killed the wrong nan. Kennedy, the white man who ired the negroes to commit the rime for which they will be Bhut p nil their lives, is in the peniteniary for life with his dups. Shock Too <ireat. At Muskegon, Mich.,, while In a tate of high excitement, over the atch of an unusually large pickerel, . R. Sbuler was stricken with parlyBis and fell into the lake. Fie ras rescued but is in a serious conlltlon. SOLD HIS VOTE cand al Developed Out of the Election of Senator LeRoy Percy. PAID TO VOTE FOR HIM Is the Charge Made by Senator bo, of the Mississippi legislature. Dulaney, Who Is Charged with Giving the llrilH1, Is Arrested and Released on Iloiul. A bribery srandul has developed 1;: Mississippi over the recent election for United States Senator, in which LeRoy Percy defeated former Gov. Vardaman. A dispatch from Jackson says: I Behind closed doors Tuesday night the State Senate commenced its investigation of the statement made by I State Senator Theodore G. Dilho, I that he accepted a bribe of $645 I from the hands of L. C. Dulaney, I to change his vote from former GovI ernor Vardaman to I^eRoy Percy, the I successful candidate in the recent I Senatorial contest. The Percy and Vardaman faction have furnished the sergent-at-arrns with lists of witnesses whom they desire summoned. The former, It is asserted, will attack the reliability of Senator Bilbo, while, on the other hand, a dozen or more wilI nesses from the home of the Senator are there to testify as to the high esteem in which he is held, and bis reputation. His fight to retain his seat in tho I Senate will be on the gem rai ground that he was fully justified in accepting the bribe; that he was acting in the capacity of a detective and actuated by thoroughly honest motives. In ord-r to impeach Bilbo and expel him from the Senate, it will be necessary to secure a two-third majority of all members present. It is doubtful whether this can be done. Dulaney was arrested and immediately released under a $5,000 bond. He declined to make any statement except to declare that Bilbo's statement is a political "frame-up," and expresses confidence that it will bo so proven. He says he will demand a riyid investigation by the Senate, as well hb immediate trial on the I grand jury indictment. "Leaders of the Percy faction dcl clare that they will insist on a thorough probing of every feature of the Senatorial contest that may hi brought into the question; that they will put before the Hinds counly grand jury evidence tending to prov? that Ex-Governor Vardaman used his I Executive contingent fund extravagantly and unlawfully; that he failed to properly account therefor and : I that in 1906 he accepted and med a railroad pass in violation of the law. .The special committees appointed to investigate different charges growing out of the affair held th^ir first meetings Tuesday night behind closed doors. BIG SNAKE LOOKK ON SHIP. Python Resists Capture and Is Pea* ed l*p on Deck. When the big British freighter Indrani came into Boston from the Far East one section of the vessel was in control of a monster python. The python, which is more than 30 feet long, was one of a shipment of Bix taken on board at Singapore. Four days before the largest pyth'on suddenly became- active. It worked the cover off its box and stretched itself on the dr.ok In an attempt to capture the reptile the sailors pushed a plank into its mouth. The python lashed about with the plank, injuring several of the- crew. When all efforts to get the monster back in its cage had failed, the sailors boarded up tho space where the python lay, and his snakeship was still in charge of his share of the deck when th? arrived at Boston. Jf BRAINS HIS NKItJIIItOH. Quarrel Over the <'losing of a I toad Result in Iteath. Thurslay n i k l? t in the northern part of Sampson rounty, N. C., '.It-hero Denning was killed by llosn Maynor, the weapon used being an are. Denning's head was crushed. The men fell out ov? r the closing of a cart road by Denning and fought with the above resultR. Maynor fled and is yet at large. Both were substantial white farmer* > ?hu iit'ar I neighbor. Child Drank liooa;e. At. Mr. G. A. Guignard's plantation south of Camden Thursday ose of his hands, Joe Ellerbee, colored, placed one of his pint bottle of whiskey too near the bed and his threeyear-old child got hold of it and drank the entire contents of the bohtle. The funeral of the child was largely attended by colored folks. I