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THE BAMBERG HERALD.
Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1905 One Dollar a Year
SUICIDES IN ANDERSON.
A Desperate Prisoner Kills Himself in the County
Jail?A Negro Commits Suicide While
Working in the Field.
Anderson, May 10.?Tillman "Wetherall
killed himself in the county jail at
noon today with a pistol, after holding
the officers and other prisoners at bay for
eighteen hours. Last night when Deputy
Sheriff Scott opened the outer doorway
to the steel cages in order to pass the
prisoners a bucket of water, Wetherall
ran to the door, drew a pistol and ordered
Scott to get out of the way. The deputy
jumped back quickly and barricaded
the door with one hand and drew his
pistol with the other. Wetherall ran into
a cell and refused to give up his pistol.
Sheriff Green and several city policemen
were sent for, and while trying to induce
him to give up his pistol, Wetherall took
a shot at one of the officers, but missed
his aim. The officers then drew off for
the night, and he spent the night pacing
his cell and daring anyone to approach
him. This morning Sheriff Green tried
to get him to give, up his pistol, but he
positively refused, but asked the sheriff to
give him until 1 o'clock in the afternoon,
^ which the sheriff agreed to do, and at
noon he went into a cell and lay down
on a cot and deliberately drew his pistol
arid put a bullet into his heart, causing
death in a few minutes. A coroner's inquest
was held this afternoon. Wetherall
had been on a chain gang several times
and in the penitentiary. He was in jail
for violation of contract.
Woltor "Robpr n minriftd neero.
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committed suicide this morning by shooting
himself with a shotgun on the farm
of L. M. Mahaffery, several miles from
this place. He was working in a field
alone, and terriable wound was made
in his abdomen.
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An Error Corrected.
An excited military looking man entered
the editorial sanctum of a Missouri
paper the other day and exclaimed:
"That notice of my death is false, sir. I
,/ will horsewhip you within an inch of
your life sir, if you don't apologize in
I ' your next issue."
An editor who is up to his business
always knows how to get up appropriate
|: apologies when they are demanded. That
" editor knew his business, and the next
day his paper contained the following
Iff apology:
MWe regret extremely to announce that
>; the paragraph which stated that Major
Blazer is dead is without foundation."
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Sometimes, a flaming city is saved by
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long, you feel as if nothing but dynamite
would cure it. Z. T. Gray, of Calhoun,
Ga., writes: "My wife haa an aggravated
cough, which kept her awake nights.
Physicians could not help her; so she
took Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption,
coughs and colds, which eased
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"He Walked Off."
In the loafing room of the hotel at
Titusyille, Fla., at the head of the Indian
I river, Sol Bargo called Ike Randolph a
blanked fool. "Don't call him a fool,"
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said a venerable cracker. "Jes' say he
-walked off." "Walked off? What do that
mean?" asked Sol, and the cracker explained:
"The Lord created men out of
clay. As fast as He made 'em He leaned
'em up against the fince ter dry in the sun.
After a while He come along ter put
brains into their heads, beginnin' at the
end of the line. But before He could get
through with the job some o' the fellers
got impatient an' walked off."?New York
Press.
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Up and Down.
There was a fair maid named O'Neil,
.Who went up in the great Ferris Wheel;
On the thirty-fourth round
She looked down at the ground?
; And it cost her an eighty-cent meal.
A Wonderful Saving.
J The largest Methodist church in Georgia,
used 32 gallons of L. & M. mixed
with 24 gallons of oil, thus making paint
cost about $1 20 per gallon. They calculated
to use 100 gallons of other paint.
Saved about $80.00 and also got a big
donation of L. & M. Dealers gladly sell
L. & M., because their customers call for
it, and say they used it 12,14 and even 30
years ago. Don't pay $1.50 a gallon for
linseed oil, which you do in ready for use
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
. KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Pungent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
The city of Columbia has voted $400,000
to establish a new and better system of
water works.
The State Bankers'Association will meet
in Anderson next week. The session will
last two days, Tuesday and Wednesday. |
Anderson county has 477 pensioners on j
the rolls, receiving $11,130.50 a year.
Spartanburg county has seven hundred
pensioners.
The new mayor of Greenwood, W. H.
Keer, publishes a statement showing that
the bonded debt of that city is $102,000,
the floating indebtedness $25,512.47 and
the amount of cash "none."
The supervisor and county commissioners
of Union county have declined to
order an election on the question of voting
the dispensary out of that county, as
the petition presented did not have the required
numbei of signatures.
The State board of health last week
adopted strict rules in regard to vaccination.
All persons outside of incorporated
towns and cities are to be vaccinated, and
no child can attend school unless having
been successfully vaccinated. School
teachers are required not to admit children
unless this has been complied with.
The trial of the Eutawville lynchers in
Orangeburg last week resulted in a verdict
of not guilty. The jury deliberated
only fifteen minutes. One of the white
men implicated made a confession and
turned State's evidence, but evidently the
jury did not believe him. The wives of
the accused men testified that they were
at home the night the negro was thrown |
in the river.
The baby son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
Sinnant, of Bookmans, was drowned
Tuesday morning by falling headfirst into
a tub of water. The vessel had been
placed on the ground under the eaves of
the piazza to catch the dripping water,
and it is supposed that the little fellow
attempted to climb over the banisters and
fell several feet to the water. When
found the child's body was lving across
the rim of the tub with its heaa submerged
in the water and its feet on the outside.
The body had been in the water probably
15 minutes.
A very peculiar and serious accident
occurred at W. B. Rast's factory at Swansea
Monday evening. Ennis, the 14-yearold
son of Richard Cartin, was boring
with an auger that was turned by machinery.
To steady the short board he
was pressing his body against'it. The
board was a thin one, and the auger went
into his groin on the right side five or six
inches, fie pulled the auger out himself
by pressing his body from the machine
and in coming out it brought the grooves
full of flesh. The boy had only a few
minutes before been told to keep away
from the machine. His condition is critical.
Plans a Skyscraper Church.
Cleveland, 0., May 15.?Plans for a
skyscraper church will be submitted to
the members of the Euclid avenue Baptist
church by the Rev. Charles T. Eaton
on Sunday, June 4. As planned, the
church will be twelve stories high. The
first floor will contain reading rooms,
libraries and rest rooms and it will be
open to every one who has no home.
The main idea of Dr. Eaton will be to
establish a home,rather than a clubhouse.
The "skvscraper church'5 is to be devoted
to the amelioration of downtown social
conditions. On the upper floors it is proposed
to have rooms for games of all
kinds. It is argued that these will attract
the street urchin from the slums to a
cleaner life. The other floors will contain
sleeping apartments and dining rooms.
The church auditorium will be on the
second and third floors and will be approached
by a grand staircase. Dr. Eaton
said today:
"If my congregation approves of the
plan, the church will surpass any structure
of its kind in the world. Among
churches it will be unique, for it will be
the outgrowth of our own experience.
Continually we are turning hundreds of
people from our doors."
When asked if John D. Rockefeller
would assist in the project, Dr. Eaton replied
that Rockefeller had always been
the most liberal donor of the church and
would give his aid.
What Onions Will Do.
A Texas physician says :"The eating of
raw onions has been known to leave consumptives
plump and rosy. It cures dyspepsia
and is a thorough worm medicine
for children. It will do much to refine
the complexion, renew the hair and remove
spots as any one article known.
There need De no nesitation in eating
onions freely, since the use of a toothbrush
and a dose of charcoal or the chewing
of some roasted coffee or com will
remove the odor."
He further says that an onion is an alterative
and a tonic and that its nourishing
properties are more than double those
of a potato.
An exchange gives vent to the following
wail: A man that is married to a
woman .is of many days and full of
trouble. In the morning he draws his
salary, in the evening it is gone. It goes
he knows not where. He spendeth shekles
in the purchase of fine linen to cover the
bosom of his family, yet he is seen at the
gate of the city with but one suspender.
He riset'n in the garments of the night
and seeketh his paregoric which healeth
his offspring. Yet he is altogether wretched
and full of misery. "Wide is the way
and broad is the gate of matrimony, and
many there are who go in thereat."
The man who is always giving pointers
on how to manage a wife can usually be
found in the wood shed after supper
smoking his evening cigar.
KILLED HER DAUGHTER.
Woman Pretended She Was an Intoxicated Husband
Trying to Kill His Wife.
Bishopville, May 11.?Last Saturday
while Katie Smith and her daughter, Lucilla
Smith, both of whom live on the
plantation of D. L. Johnson,a distanceof
about eight miles from Bishopville, were
playing with a shotgun, it went off and
its contents lodged in the foot of Lucilla.
Dr. McLure was call in and soon discovered
that an amputation was necessary.
This was done, but the woman gradually
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grew worse unili luesuay aueruuuu |
when she died. Coroner Brown was noti-1
fied of the death and went to the scene,
accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Mooney- j
han, and held an inquest over the dead
body. The facts as developed at the inquest
are as follows:
Last Saturday the two women were
playing with a gun. One was playing the
part of a man under the influence of
whiskey and trying to kill his wife with
a gun. Tho other woman was on the defensive.
In the scuffle the gun was discharged
and Lucilla Smith, the daughter,
received the load in one foot. Her foot j
had to be amputated and yesterday about
12 o'clock she died from the effect of her
wound. It is not known yet whether one
or both of the women were really intoxicated,
or whether or not there was any
malice existing between them.- As they
were mother and child, the opinion seems
to be that the shooting was an accident.
However, the coroner's jury did not take
that view of the situation, evidently be
lieving that Katie Smith was careless in
handling the gun, and rendered a verdict
that Lucilla Smith came to her death
from a shotgun wound in the hands of
her mother, Katie Smith.
Coroner Brown ordered the woman arrested
by Deputy Sheriff Mooneyhan and
she is now confined in the jail of Lee
county to answer to the charge of murdering
her daughter at the June term of
court. <.
One Negro Kills Another.
Anderson, May 12.?Coroner Pruitt
was called to the plantation of Mr. J. H.
Bowden yesterday to hold an inquest
over the body of Bud Watson, a young
negro, who was shot a few days ago by
his companion, Alonzo Thomas. The
circumstances attending the shooting
were rather unusual. The two boys were
playing, one with a pistol and the other
with a knife. A discussion arose as to the
relative merits of the weapons as instruments
of destruction. A playful bout ensued,
which became too realistic. Watson
was shot in the abdomen, the ball passing
through his body and lodging in the
spinal column. The ball could not be
located and Watson lingered a few days
and died.
Thomas will be tried for murder at the
term of court here next week.
Afraid of Kansas Politicians.
A man from a Kansas town walked up
to the cashier's desk at one of the large
hotels in Kansas City Saturday and, tossing
in a check for $100, said: "Cash that,
please."
"You'll have to be. identified, sir," replied
the young woman, pleasantly. "Why
t am a /lirp^tnr in thp. bank on which that
check's drawn, and I'm quite well known
in politics over my way," he said.
"Did you say you are a politician ?"
asked the cashier. "Oh, a sort of a one,"
replied the man, smiling. "That," came
from the cashier, "makes positive identification
all the more necessary." The man
did not ask why, but hunted up a friend
and was identified.
Not What He Meant.
A farmer recently paid a visit to a
neighbor, say3 the Chicago Journal, and
as he passed along by the side of the
fields he made a mental note of the fact
that no scarecrows were visible. Meeting
his neighbor almost immediately, he
opened conversation, as follows:
"Good morning, Mr. Oates. I see you
have no scarecrows in your fields. How
do you manage to do without them ?"
"Oh, well enough," was the innocent
reply. "You see, I don't need 'em, for
I'm in the fields all day myself."
Mrs. Elizabeth Malone, whose father
was a life guardsman and who spent all
her sixty-four years with the British army
and died after forty years' service as assistant
matron of the Royal Millitary
College at Sandhurst, had a military funeral
recently. Her body was borne to the
grave by staff sergeants and detachments
of the life, grenadier. Coldstream, Scots
and Irish guards marched iff the funeral
cortege.
The Wit of Women.
* Senator Pepew, at a dinner in Washington,
was praising the wit of women.
"Against this wit," he said, "we men
? Twon when oil tilfi riffht
are puwcawa, juivu nuw* *... ?_ ..B?
and logic of an argument is on our side
women, with all her wit, will nine times
put of ten put us to shame.
"Thus a man once found that his wife
had brought a few puffs of false hair.
This displeased him. He hid in the hall
one day, and, just as the lady was fixing
the false puffs on her brow, he darted in
upon her.
" 'Mary,' he said, reproachfully,'why do
you put the hair of another woman on
your head?'"
?'Why, his wife answered, 'do you put
the skin of another calf on your hands?'"
CLEARED FOR ACTION.
When the body is cleared for action, by
Dr. King's New Life Pills, you can tell it
by the bloom of health on the cheeks; the
brightness of the eyes; the firmness of the
flesh and muscles; "the buoyancy of the
mind. Try tbem. At all druggists at
Bamberg; Felder & Matthews. 25 cents.
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS.
j SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
I
| News Items Gathered All Around
the Connty and Elsewhere.
Hartzog Happenings.
Hartzog, May 15.?Miss Mildred,
the daughter of Mr. D. B. Rhoad, and Mr.
Henry Stokes were happily married last
Wednesday afternoon by Rev. S. A.
Nettles. The bridal couple, accompanied
by the maid of honor, Miss Maud Copelon^
on/1 hpcf man Mr DotV Rhoad.
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entered the crowded hall to the strains of
the wedding march rendered by Miss
Maggie Black. After the ceremony an
elegant supper was served to a very large
crowd. The popular couple received
many handsome presents.
Mr. 0. G. Rhode is suffering from a
wound received when thrown from a
buggy by a runaway horse last week. His
daughter Miss Florine, and Miss Maggie
Black, who were with him, escaped
almost unhurt, each with a badly sprained
arm.
We are sorry to learn of the illness of
little Nat Miley.
School at the chapel closed last Friday.
Mr. N. P. Smoak is visiting relatives
here.
Miss Haltiwanger returned to Columbia
Saturday morning.
Miss Madge Black is visiting relatives
in Branchville.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhabdt, May 15.?Mr. J.C. Kinard's
stove chimnev wasstruck bv lightning one
day last week. The chimney had to be
rebuilt. Nothing else about the dwelling
was damaged. The stove was shaken
up and the floor showed signs but not
hurt worth talking about.
Farmers are busy getting their farms
in order for the next rain if it doesn't
come too soon.
The farmers and stock-users are having
a great deal of sickness to contend with
now. Several have recently died; others
have been sick.
Ninety-one degrees has been the degree
of heat we have been living on of late.
Hot, isn't it? .
Picnics are in order now. One at St.
Nicholas Lutheran church on the 18th,
Thursday next.
Mr. Adam King and wife and Mrs.
Dora Hartz and children have gone to
Bamberg to spend a couple of days visiting
Col. John F. Folk's family.
Several of our young men intend trying
their luck with the Colleton Cypress
Co. in the near future.
Married Near Branchyilie.
Branchville, May 13? Miss Mildred
Rhoad and Mr. Henry A. Stokes, both of
Bamberg county, were married Wednesday
afternoon at the home of the bride's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Rhoad, about
| eight miles from here. The Rev. S. A.
Nettles, of the Branchville Methodist
church, performed the ceremony. After
the marriage, the guests were invited into
the dining room where refreshments
en???TQ/} Mr anH Mrs St.nkes are <
TTV/1V OVi T VU* xijla wmv* ?
two popular young people, and they have
the well wishes of their many friends.
The following is the programme for
commencement exercises at the graded
school here, which will begin Sunday,
May 21: Sunday, sermon by the Rev.
Waddy T. Duncan, of Bamberg; Monday
evening, annual literary address by Dr.
Edwin M. Poteat, president of Furman
University; Tuesday evening, public debate
by the students of the higher grades;
Wednesday evening, exercises by primary
and intermediate grades; Thursday, an
educational address by Dr. Jessie A. Clifton,
of Orangeburg.
Mr. Joe Tobish, who has been spending
time with friends in Baltimore and
New York, returned home a few days
ago.
Land of Twins and Triplets.
Scotland is the land of twins and triplets,
holding a long lead over her sister
countries in this matter. In 12 months
no fewer than 1,625 mothers gave birth to
twins and twenty-five presented triplets.
Scotland is among the few countries of
Europe where the proportion of male
babies is greater than of females. Striking
an average, it is found that there are
about 104 males to every 100 females, but
the surplus of grown-up girls is nevertheless
large, as so many men travel South
and apparently neglect to take the precaution
to obtain return tickets to the
Land of Cakes. There is yet another interesting
fact about Scotland. It is the
land of hale old age. Recent returns
show that during one year 673 people
died between the ages of ninety and one i
hundred. i
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MILLARD FREE FROM BIGAMY CHARGE.
Magistrate Holds That Evidence Was Insufficient
States That He and Miss Kenyon Will Marry
in December.
Orangeburg, May 13.?Dr. Kenyon V.
Millard, who was arrested April 21st on
the charge of bigamy and who has since
been confined in the county jail, was discharged
from custody today.
It will be remembered that Dr. Millard,
who claims Indianapolis, Ind., as his
home, and Miss Sallie Kenyon of St.
George came here on April 19th and were
married by Rev. E. M. Lightfoot, the
Baptist minister. The next day there was
published an account of the engagement
of Dr. Millard and Miss Kenyon, and
stated that Mr. Rankin, of St. George, had
declined to marry the couple because Dr.
Millard was a married man.
Rev. Mr. Lightfoot, who married the
couple, did so thinking Dr. Millard had
never before been married, and when
questioned on the subject afterwards by
Mr. Lightfoot, Dr. Millard told different
accounts each time as to his former marriages.
This, together with the fact that
Mrs. Kenyon, mother of the bride, found
a letter from his California wife intimating
that Dr. Millard had still another
wife, caused his arrest for bigamy.
Magistrate Brunson held the preliminary
on Thursday of last week, took the
matter under advisement, and as a result
today dismissed the case and discharged
the defendant from custody on the ground
that the prosecution did not have a case
strong enough to warrant binding Dr.
Millard over for the criminal court.
It was shown at the preliminary that
Dr. Millard was divorced from wife No. 1
years ago and that an interlocutory divorce
was granted the California wife in
December, 1904, which prevented either
party marrying for one year.
Dr. Millard states he and Miss Kenyon
will be remarried next December, at the
expiration of the time set in the interlocutory
divorce. In the meanwhile he
expects to continue on the lecture plat
form, and is arranging to appear nere
next Monday night.
The Adams Case.
1/nion, May 11.?Solicitor J. E. Davis,
of the second circuit appeared before
Judge D. A. Townsend at his chambers
yesterday to argue a motion in the famous
Adams case of Colleton county, in which
Judge Townsend some time ago granted
a new trial to Adams, who was under
sentence of death.
The new trial was granted upon the
affidavit of the sister-in-law of Adams,
who swore that she perjured herself at
the trial of the case when Adams was
convicted.
Two heaths From Lightning.
Bennettsville, May 13.?Two persons
were killed by lightning in this county
during the thunderstorm Thursday afternoon.
Charley Sawyer, an estimable young
man of the Brownsville section, was
plowing in his farm, when he was struck.
The mule he was plowing was also killed.
Mr. Sawyer was a son-in-law of John
Carabo, a well known citizen of Brownsville.
He leaves a young wife and three
small children.
A little later the same afternoon, lightning
struck the home of Joe Watkins,
colored, on the Spears place, near Clio.
One of Watkins' children was killed. He
and his little baby were both badly
shocked and burned and may not recover.
The rains in this county this week have
been very heavy, and crops have been
greatly damaged. Cotton is getting in
bad condition on account of rain and
grass, and labor is very scarce. It seems
that Providence is taking a hand in the
reduction of the cotton crop.
Jim Jeffries Retires From the Ring.
Chicago, May 8.?James J. Jeffries, the
champion heavyweight pugilist of the
world, who is filling an engagement as
Davy Crockett in a Western theatre, announced
to-day that he had retired permanently
from the ring and had bequeathed
the title of champion to Bob Fitzsimmonsf
"I never was licked and I am the only
man who ever licked Fitzsimmons," he
said. "Bob gave me the hardest fight of
my ring career, and he is clearly entitled
to the honors which I now surrender."
Jeffries is suffering from muscular rheumatism
in his hands, and his nightly boxing
exhibitions are very painful to him.
When he quits his engagement here on
Saturday night he will retire from the
stage and the ring.?Baltimore Sun.
Nothing adds so much to the happiness '
of the home as good music and good read- i
ing matter, and a willingness and readiness
of the family to take part in either
or both of them. That home must be
miserable where nothing but the clap-trap ?
of neighborhood gossip is heard from day
to day and from week to week. When- (
ever the home is not made pleasant for S
the children they are apt to seek for pleas- i
are elsewhere?and the end is better s
imagined than described. Would that all ]
parents fully realized the truth of this as- 1
sertion. i
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STABBED TO DEATH BY NEGRO TENANTProsperous
Sumter Farmer Killed.?Git to
Pieces Almost by Ne*ro Who Lived
in Part of His House.
Sumter, May 12.?Colclough Stakes,
negro, cut and stabbed Capt. David E.
Wells, of Tindall, more than 20 times today
about 1 o'clock. Capt. Wells died
from his wounds.
The negro used a dull, hawk bill, one
bladed barlow knife. The first cut began
at the right temple and went down to the .
at -a. a. u
luruai. j. lie Jieit uegaa uu me leu aiue
of the throat and went around nearly to
the right ear, serving the guttural and
jugular vein; then down the scalp of the
head from the back. Two bad slashes
were made on the left hand.
The victim fell on his face and the negro
jumped on the dying man's back and
plunged the knife more than three times
into his back, six times in a space no
larger than a man's hand into his lungs,
at the same severing three ribs from the
back bone.
The negro and his wife occupied onehalf
of Capt. Wells' dwelling, it being a
double pen house, divided by a hall way.
This is where the fight began.
Stukes, it is said, had a bad reputation.
He was under indictment for disposing
of property under lien, and Capt. Wells
went on his bond and took him into his
employ. The negro's wife kept house and
cooked for Capt. Wells.
The dispute arose about some domestic
trouble and, it is said, Capt. Wells threatened
to withdraw his bond and turn the
negro over to the county. Then the fight
began.
The negro was captured this side of
/Irtll Virrlfnr?iof*?ftf o Tn/trom'on^ o r\Acan
A illUan ujr ixiagiotiia*^ lugiarn auu a ^voov*
He claimed that he was on his way to
Sumter to surrender. He is now in jail.
This afternoon Coroner Flowers and
Dr. C. P. Osteen, with several other citizens,
went to the scene to hold the inquest.
At this hour they have not returned.
Capt. Wells was about 45 years of age
and unmarried. He was a very thrifty
and prosperous farmer, owning a large
number of acres of land. He was worth'
about $25,000.
The tragedy is deplored in Sumter,
where the deceased did business and had
many friends. Crowds talking about it
on the street corners, but nothing was
heard about mob violence or lynching,
nor is such a thing anticipated.
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Sumteb, May 13.?The murder of Capt.
Wells is the most brutal and horrible
butchery ever committed in Sumter
county. Twenty times the negro slashed
him. Dr. C. P. Osteen, who held the postmortem,
says any one of eight Of the
wounds would have caused death.
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that "David E. Wells came to his death
by knife wounds in the hands of Colclough
Stakes."
The. evidence at the coroner's inquest
goes to show that the murder was deliberately
planned and premeditated.
Stakes is in jail. In a statement he
says he regrets the unfortunate occurrence.
He says that Capt Wells was
going to send him to the chaingang to
get rid of him, so that he could do his
family as he pleased.
At the time of the tragedy Capt. Wells
was seated in a chair in the hallway smoking
a pipe, talking to the negro, who was
seated on a high shelf for water buckets.
Stakes' wife and another negro were present
to witness the bloody murder.
Beal Roosevelt Stork Club.
Lapobte, Ind., May 9.?The frequency 1
with which the stork visited homes of
members of a supposed social club at
Wanatah, this county, has caused <public
confession to be made that the organization
was planned and perfected to carry
out President Roosevelt's ideas on race f
suicide.
The society adopted a stork as its em-.
blem and to-day a letter was addressed
to President Roosevelt, asking that he
suggest a motto for the club, whose every
tenet is opposed to race suicide.
The character of the club was brought
to light by the phenomenal number of
births that are reported in the ranks of
the membership. The town of 800 people
began to gosip over the remarkable juvenile
growth and then the officers decided
to lift the veil of secrecy and to make the
public conversant with the purpose of
the club. There is now nearly a score of
happy mothers in the village and the
stork has not ceased his visits.?Philadelphia
Record.
Drowned at Hartsville.
Hart8ville, May 15.?Young Robert
ryner, son of a paper mill employe, was
irowned in the mill pond at this place
Sunday afternoon while swimming. He
rentured out too far, and being a poor
swimmer, his strength gave otat. A com*
panion attempted to rescue him, but was
forced to give up after being carried under
with the drowning boy.
Later in the afternoon the body was re- *
covered and the laneral services were
leld at the Baptist church this afternoon.
riME TRIED AND MERIT PROVEN.
One Minute Cough Cure is on time
vhen it comes to curing coughs, croup
vhooping cough, etc. Is perfectly harmess,
pleasant to take and is the children's
avonte cough syrup. Sold by Dr. H. F.
loover.
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