Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, April 07, 1910, Image 3
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
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.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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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THREE IN ONE NIGHT
THREE NEGROES ARE .MURDERED
BY ANOTHER NEGRO.
Shot Down in Their Cabins by the
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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.
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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.
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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
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WANTED TO UK HIS WIFE. 1
Matrimonial Advertisement Brings |
Many Replies. f
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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