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Two Arrested in Robbery ('um> Florence, May 1T?Thad Smith ami C*rl howler, young men who were arrested yesterday on charges of having robbed the Farmers and Mer chants Hank of Coward of to day were release*! from the Floreiu e county jail on bond of $1,000 each. Smith was urjested in North Carolina by W A Newman, a detective who had been working on the case, while Fowler was taken at his home at d oYlo< k this morning Both ar. well known young men of the New Hope se< tion of the county. The hank r obbery look place at mid day May '>. The men who com mitted the rubbery had their face, (minted and were otherwise disguised. lJ|>on entering the bank they forced It. H. Smith, the cashier, to throw uo his hands, and after taking the pack ages of money pushed him into the i vault and locked the- doors. It was not until the- return of Assistant Cashier Troy C. Lynch that the robbery was discovered and the imprisoned bank cashier it leased. The men eneaped in an automobile. Clotted To Kill Kditor < anion, Ohio, May II.-?T he story * of a plot that began with a suggestion that lion k. Mellett, editor of The Canton Daily News he ""lugged and run nut of town" because the trouble the editor was making for S. A. I .en gel, f ormir Canton police chief, and ending with the murder of Mellett, was told from the, witness stand here today by Louis Mazer, indicted for the murder. Mazer appeared in the first degree muider trial of Floyd Streitenberger, former city detective," charged with complicity 111 .Mellett's assassination. Patrick McDermott is now serving a second degree murder sentence for the killing, Mazer is yet to be tried. Mazer testified that the plan to kill Mellett was hatched hv Streitenlx-rgvr In-cause of Mellett's attack on members of the Canton police. He also testified that before July 1 a, the c|ate of Mellett's asvassination, St reitenherger knew that the editor was to he killed rather than "slugged" a- c.riginally planned Mazer admitte'l he furnished tlx- gun used by MeDermott t?? kill Mellett. Sanger Height Steel, well known bond broker of New York, committed suicide last Thursday, by jumping from a window on tlx- luen'y -eventh' floor "f the McAlpin hole! in New: York. Captain ? 'herb - Lu.de. J>e. gh la -1 Thursday tn .t .'< a fligh' f m St. Lcrlll.s, Mo., to New ^1 or k III - Ve|i; and a half h- u"s. Hi- :e '.ual fly. ng t inx* a i . i . n ,,in Sat Fran i . w.t- .ii?'u: 1 w c.- i !y 'wo hours. The c i - 11., - - .. I m peria S i c w 1' 1 . 1 ! \ Can't City. N I.. t.? gi ^ i 1 J 1' IS e \ p. , :. . i I.. ] i > i u... i ' c 11.1 1 Shrilic ( \\ : 1! a e . i ' re . .' Dur g ' la ' .v y . - 1 '.onu. <><><> ho,,k- . . d .. . \ unir I rm. "Fa* I'. ? ha\ e he ' ribu'ed " ku ;n. Mrs. I.aura MrCartkill I>ir? Mru. Laura McCaskiJI, 8d, died at St. Margaret's home in Charleston, Monday. Mr*. John T. Green, her mere, wan with her when the end came. The body wait taken to Sumter Tuesday morning. The funeral services were conducted by her pastor, the Rev. I). M. MeIver, of the hirst Pre?byterian church of Ihshopviiie, assisted by the Rev. W |, Paiker of Spring Hill Metho-' list church at Hepsiah Presbyterian .church at Manville. Interment was made in the church cemetery. Mrs. McCaskill was born ami rearmi m the Salem community and spent practically all her life in Lee county. 1 She had made her home for a number of yeais with her niece, Mrs. John T. Green, of Spring Hill, but a month ago she moved to Charleston, where she died Mrs. McCaskill had been in failing health for some time and the end was not unexpected. She is survived hy one son, who resides near Sumter and a niece, Mrs. Green. Bishops ille Messenger. Stole Hive of Bees A young negro who lives just north of the city stole a hive of bees from the pie mist's o f a white farmer Satuxla> night and carried them to see his home and hid them in his barn loft. Officers found the hive one day thin week and made him return the bet s to their owner, who lived about one lmle distant from the home of the thief. The negro is considered an imbecile, having been struck a severe blow on the head about a year ago, rendering him unconscious for several clays, following which he was placed in the state hospital and had been discharged from the institution only a few days ag<>. Asked how he managed to keep the bees from stinging him. the negro said he stuffed a pocket handkerchief into the hole where they entered and mad" their exit, the gum being of the patent design. The youth also stole a yearling one clay last week and sold it to a local meat market. He said he kept it hid in a mas- of honeysuckle \ines until he* had a chance to sell it. I a master NT vvs. italics Ford of Monongahela, Pa., ;a- been in jail for five months bei au.-e of his refusal to pay an alleged deb* of seventy cents. His sentence ha- > os! th< i*. t \ foity dollar- in jail i barges. Three pir-'n- were killed and a full: th >ci inu> 1 \ mjuied near Buffalo, N 'i . Fn?.a\ when an au' >m<>b:!e i,',tog'* I tv *i an emba'-kmen and a 1 i nt-o a * rec. > : \ t \ - *. wo c I iiiik - . " jg s, i-.tb'gllc -. >'c.. MIVC bet ' T"i? I ?i t" b'UV" i , ag i ;.': i -'a\ awac. if'or having beer ru- :?-d up by *r.f It e ?.f *hc \. K i <':?- i ut: Ihui - for ' he M -s --i|>;>: \ a11 \ f'o id -offerers. <? ait.: m>rL : .vp.ooo.oiMi Sunday . ill I' i- stated that the >10,000.iioii w ; ! a* in ai'.v meet recpii i otppn' f-?r ndeyuae iclief. GENERAL NEWS NOTES - i Out' man wan killed and fifty or1 more were injured when a wtction of the flooring of a Philadelphia ba??baII park grandstand tollapaed <?n Saturday. Red Cross headquarter? in Wa-h r ington on Saturday reported thai the fund for Mississippi flood r? lief totaled $11,478,565. Paul Smith, aged 57, son "f tinfounder of Paul Smith's noted Mini 1 mer resort at J'aul Smith's New York, ' is dead at Richmond, Va, Canadian officials have made \ast sums of money by "holding up .iquor . runners for tribute, charges James Cooper of Windsor, Canada, who is' alleged to be worth $10,1)00,000, made from liquor running. Cooper named two prominent officials as benefitingfrom the graft. One hundred and fifty business men of kittle Rock, Ark., have asked the grand jury to closely investigate the charge s that city officials left the town .ast week to give the lynchers ?l John Carter, negro, free rein, and it evidence sustains the charge the buf iness men ask the ousting of city of ficials. New York City has gone well over ittf double quota, $1,260,000, for the Mississippi valley flood sufferer*. The medical department of the University of Georgia at Athens, was damaged several thousand dollars bv fire Saturday morning. A rain storm of such violent e \ isit- i ed Kansas City, Mo., early Saturday ; morning that some streets were soon flooded with rushing water three feet I deep. One life was lost. Toe lain fell so hard at times that re< <<nling instruments at the weather bureau were unable to record it. Ty Cobb, stormy petrel of baseball, ha.- been indefinitely suspended from ! further playing because of a run-in with the umpire in a recent game at Philadelphia. A1 Simmons, another Philadelphia player, has been suspended a* the result of the same row A violent outbreak of anthrax has been discovered among the OUO . head of cattle and livestock saved ( from the flooded areas of northern , Louisiana. The week of June S to 14 ha- In-en ! . fixed as flag week, under the auspices | ; of lhe I nited States Flag ass?? ia'.i<?n. > , ' hristian Penico, of Cokesbu g, Pa.,,, shot John Land is tu <leath at Wash-! ingtun. Pa.. Sunday because the latter |, was making so much n-.d.-e that lYttic-C could not sleep. Sunday blue law-. ' advocates arpreparing to carry a campaign to 'ongrt.-- to prohibit all radio limad-' casting except religious matter- on; S u inlays. I lie London police and Scotland i *i detective- try iug to unravel 1 ;i mysteiy murder i use. The dismembeted body "j a woman was recent 1\ loirn in ;i 'intik that had been stored in < -".a1 ing t loss railroad station fot s<-\ii,i. day*. When opening the bodv appeared to have been that of a woman who must have beet, dead a * lea*', a month. Att ocean-wide search has- la-en -tatted in the south Atlantic for Cap tain Roman and Commander .Mounyetes, I-tench aviators attempting a flight from the west coast of Africa' '.o brazil, who nave been missing fo->e..-n! days past. A pas-engt-r-carrymg airplane ' ' ?' be established be twee i I.o- \-o--is, Cal., and Fort Worth, I v- -n ab.-ut June 1. ? riie wii.M , wheat crop of this yea ?* rsfimat< ! by the agricultural de me: merit ar PlO.OOti bushels, acontpared with ,>2'ki>2,.MMMi bushels ii. 1 tlL'tk 1 he Raid Head ( lub of America nu-t m annual session at Greenwich t etiti., on Monday niglrt. The United States had 750 case* I smallpox last year with hut (baths from that disease. Leonard Husar, former United , States district attorney in China, has boon sentenced to two years imprisonment on McNeil's Island on charges of embezzlement and despoilation of government property. His alleged accomplice, named Heath, was given a prison sentence of eighteen months. A. h. Humphrey, who rose from a backwoods school teacher to make an.i lose millions in lumber and then 1h-canie a millionaire again in oil, aeci dentally shot himself to death last Sunday at lh . e . ( ol.. while packing gur.s p; epa.iaioi y to going on a fishing trip. The lepr osorium at Carville. La., where J0U leprosy victims are kept, i< in danger of inundation on account of the flood waters near Baton Rouge If the levees near Baton Rouge break then the plant, at Carville is doomed. A plot to free several hundred prisoners from Joliet state prison of Illinois, was frustrated Wednesday, upon the arrest of a man who appeared at the prison gate dressed m he garb of a priest. Search of the man's clothing disclosed severs bottle* of nitro-g.yvenne concealed in his clothing. Several ,,-her men in an automobile accompanying he priest, made their escape when he was arrested. ( 1 ; Oldest Prisoner C?lebr?ten Birthday V Juliet, III., May 12.?"Old Charlie" Lindwall, the oldest prisoner in Juliet penitentiary and possibly the ujdest in the country, yesterday observed his bhth birthday as he has observed every milestone since 1000 and as he probably Will observe every anniver*ar> until In- receives the pardoft of death. Linlwnll, sentenced to the peipten tiai> for life in ItilMJ for murder whieii lie always denied committing, refused a pardon a few years ago, maintaining he was too old to face the wot Id. At the time he was sentenced the court told him that his age alone had saved him from the gal lows. Since then tin* judges and most of the jurors have died, hut "Old Charles" half blind, fee|de and bowed with his years, has clung tenaciously to life, serving his penalty with borrowed time over the allotted three sco 1*4- and ten Today he puttered around the prison yard with no guard molesting him, no prisoner intruding upon his dreaming. Heavy Fire Damage in Sumter An estimated loss of $116,200 was caused by the fire which gutted the Monoghan block on South Main street in the heart of Sumter's business district early Thursday morning. The fire was discovered shortly before one o'clock in ttye rear of Crane's Dry Cood store and at this time had already gained considerable headway. From this store it spread to liearop's Pharmacy then to the Cash Dry Goods store and the Star Barber shop, the heavy wall between this last named place and Miinnaugh's Dry Goods store being the only thing that prevented its further spread. On the South side of the building the First National Bank acted as a barrier in that direction] Racial Feeling Fanned Again Little Rock, Ark., May 16.?Antiracial feeling was fanned anew today when a whRe woman was attacked by a negro in her kitchen in the suburbs >f Little Rock. A large force of officers set out to seek the negro and the woman was brought to the hospital in :i highly nervous condition. Today's attack followed a brief period of juu-t after two occurrences which stirred up mob action toe re. The first lynching in I'ula.ski county in 28 years occurred two weeks ago with a negro, named ( arter, attacked two white women. He wio lynched and his body burned in ore of the main city streets. A few days taller the public had been aroused b\ diseovery of the brutal murder 12-year-old F'oella McDonald, a white girl, by a young negto who i- now awaiting trial. Suicides in Niagara Niagara Falls, N. Y., May 12.?An unidentified man committed suicide here this afternoon by going over the American falls. He waded out into the stream about 100 feet above the brink and was swept down by the swift current. As he passed over the crest he was under water and barely visible to the hundreds of tourists at the point. The home of Robert K. Shannon, located on the Columbia-Chester highway near Blackstock, was completely destroyed by fire Wednesdav night, the loss being estimated at about $7,000 or $8,000. The building was a large structure and was said to have been furnished splendidly. A few pieces of furniture in the two front rooms was saved. The origin of the fire is not known. I he state of postponed the date of opegH bids for furnishing text hi South Carolina schools froniH to June Hi, because of tUmiS families of members af the was announc ed in Cdimbii Iutm urday. 1 Brannon-fmi I A marriage of much intnfl their many friends was that ? Rena Braunon and Mr. 1/rH Young, Jr., both of near Cfl which was sojemnized by RetH Neal at his home in KershnrW day evening, May Y?, in the jA of a few intimate friends. I Mrs. Young is the altraetWtH ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M &A and was a teacher in the ffl school the past session. 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