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MASHED TO DEATH IN BELTING.
Rolley Hack, Colored, Killed in Seed
House at Bishopville.
Bishopville, Jan. 26.?At about
} 11 o'clock yesterday Rolley Mack,
Colored, was instantly killed while at
work in the seed house of the Lee
County Manufacturing company. It
' seems from the statement of-the
only eye witness present that Mack
was up on a joist in the seed house
replacing a belt when he was caught
in the belting attached to another
> piece of shafting. When found he
was wrapped around the shafting
dead. The eyewitness heard nothing
to indicate that anything had
gone wrong until he heard the dead
Doay 01 JUaCK smung a juisc <U1U uu
investigating he saw Mack around
the shafting.
A g .s.r ^
Homkkle Near Sumter.
=;% Sumter, January 26.?Mr. W. L.
Osteen shot and killed Dave Gamble,
colored, Friday night about 7 o'clock,
Jv . at his farm in Privateer township,
? ' 12 miles south of this city. Mr. Osteen
came in and surrendered to the
sheriff. An inquest was held and
the two eye-witnesses of the killing
ii* testified that Gamble made an assault
mi Mr. Osteen after being orL
dered to leave the place, and that he
was shot as he was trying to enter
Mr. Osteen's house. The difficulty
W grew out of a misunderstanding over
? lnHnr rnnfrart:. Bond will be ap
.v . v plied for at once.
yfc T. W. Bouchier Dies Suddenly.
^- Bennettsville, January 27.?Mr.
. Thomas W. Bouchier, aged 43 years,
sf- 'fell dead at the postoffice here this
trV morning.? After getting his mail he
started out, when he fell backward
Ipfc" and died without speaking.
He had heart trouble several years,
|p| but appeared in good health and
-f- worked incessantly at his office til]
P%;'. after 9 o'clock last night.
He had the largest law practice in
|fe' Marlboro county, was interested in
Bj8|^vMarlboro cotton mills and other enfe>'terprises
and attorney for four banks.
He was completing extensive repairs
l?::, and additions to his handsome resi:
dence. His son, Henry Bouchier, is
a student at the University of South
vH; Carolina. His wife and small children
are visiting in Florida.
^1% The funeral will be held Tuesdaj
;
?5' J Enterprising Saloonkeeper.
Sy Frank White, of the Orpheum, is
responsible for the following story,
says the Denver Post: Yesterdaj
:? / Afternoon, according to him, twc
gy tall ranchmen bought seats in the
fe back row in the balcony. One of the
?? Rashers chanced to be standing neai
| y than while he was not busy and acr
cidentally heard some of their conversation.
Before the curtain rose
yv '; they talked about various things in
fe the theater. While the orchestra
fey .was preparing to play its overture
one of the ranchmen said: "Jim,
what do you s'pose all them red lights
With 'E-x-i-t' over 'em is for?"
y: "I ain't sure, but I think Iknow,"
:l; ? was the reply.
'[ what's your idea?"
$&fv-. there 'E-x-i-t' is French
;. talk tor 'Saloon.' I think," said the
fer-other. "Them doorways lead to
fe y some place where you can git a
drink."
Ey, The one who had asked about the
exits looked at the red lights a mo
ment "Gosh!" he said finally "that
Jg. . saloonkeeper is sore enterprisin',
:i - k hit it don't look to me like he's doI;/
i&g much business."
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Shooting in Aiken.
> Aiken, January 28.?News was received
fast night of a footing scrape
at Talatha^ a settlement about twenty
miles from here. It is said that a
4.. white man named Frank Johnson
shot and probably fatally wounded
s negro, Jim Glover, in a difficulty
arising from passing each other in
the road. Nothing authentic can be
learned, but it seems that Glover,
for some reason, asked Johnson to
turn out of the road for him, which
precipitated a quarrel, resulting in
J,- Johnson shooting Glover with a pisiol.
It is said that Glover is fatally
wounded and will die.
South Carolina again wins the
championship in the matter of raising
the yield of corn per acre. The
prize yield was a 182 bushels to the
acre and Mr. A. J. Tindall, of Clarendon,
is the successful competitor.
A few years ago in a similar contest,
Sooth Carolina won the first prize,
Hr. Drake, of Marlboro, having produced
287 bnifcelp to the acre.
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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.
Work has been commenced on the
Columbia and Greenville railroad,
replacing the old light rail with new
and heavier rail.
E. J. Dickerson, a prominent ne.
gro lawyer, died last Saturday morning
at 3 o'clock at his home in Aiken
from apoplexy. Dickerson has for
many years been a prominent Republican
leader and politician.
The town of Honea Pajh is maki
ing efforts to establish a public lit
brary, and Mr. Carnegie has offered
$10,000 for the purpose. The citizens
are in earnest, and it is likely that
the library will be established.
The railroad commission has called
a meeting of all telephone officials
in the state to be held in Columbia
' on February 26 for the purpose of
, revising the rules of the commission
relative to telephone companies.
Edwin F. Gary, formerly state
> auditor in radical days, died suddenly
in his room in Columbia on Saturnight,
aged about 65. He had not
been living in this state for several
years, but was spending the winter
. in Columbia.
- Two strange women fleeced a
Charleston woman put of $250 which
r she advanced to further a "sure
, thing," which was a marvelous process
for photography. They fled the
1:
city ueiure uitj puncc wcic
of the scheme. . *
Ernest Tisdale, a popular young
man of Summerton, Clarendon coun
ty, committed suicide on Thursday
, by taking an overdose of laudanum,
. the cause alleged being financial
k troubles. He leaves a wife and two!
j young children.
Representative J. E. Harley, of;
Barnwell, has introduced a bill in the
house providing that hereafter no;
I election for a new county shall be
[ held where the territory does not;
contain 1,000 electors or where the
county seat is to be located less than
1 six miles from the boundary lines.
1 There is a proposition before the
" sinking fund commission to borrow
- the sum of $100,000 for the purpose
; of erecting a supreme court building
. at some place yet to be selected.!
The legislative committee has sug5
gested a site on the property of the
1 South Carolina College and also that
the State agree to pay back at least
$20,000 a year with interest.
r Mrs. C. W. Blair, who was in jail
in Columbia, charged with the mur-1
Hpr of ,her husband, hag been re
leased on bond of $2,000. Blair said
, his wife shot him, and that the quar4
rel between them grew out of her
? intimacy with a conductor named
r Arms. This was his statement be>
fore he died. Arms has made an
; affidavit, in which he states that he
was never intimate with the woman
5 and that when he went to the house
' it was at the invitation of Blair him
self, whom He considered one of his
. best friends. Mrs. Blair claims the
k shooting was an accident.
i fllnister Hurt in Runaway.
1 Barnwell, January 26.?The Rev.
! R. A. Yongue, a very highly re
spected Methodist minister of this
5 city, was thrown from a wagon
while driving in town yesterday. His
horse became frightened by one of
the shafts dropping from the vehicle.
The animal ran some three or four
1 hundred yards, where he became
! fanrrlo^ ir? q not wirp fon<*o pnrlrvs
AVU i?? V* *?V V V>M V
1 ing the residence of Col. C. C.
^ Simms. Mr. Young was thown from
the vehicle and very painfully injured
! but not seriously.
The Masonic Lodge of this city
held a regular communication last
night and Worshipful Master P. R.
Hagood conferred the E. A. degree
upon four of our most highly esteemed
young men. The lecture was delivered
in a very forcible and impres
jve matter. During the business
? session of the meeting resolutions
were read and adopted upon the
death of Capt. J. W. Woodward,
who, it will be remembered, was the
builder of, and ran the first train
: over, the railroad between Barnwell
? i i . i
and Blackville, now owned oy tne
Southern Railway Company.
Capt. Woodwar^ -also built the
, Court House of this county, which is
a handsome brick structure, the jail
and many other large brick buildings,
which, in after years, will stand
as a monument to his his memory.
Legislative Doings.
The house has passed a bill reducing
railroad fare to cents a
! mile.
In the senate a test vote shows
that body to be against the dispensary.
The house passed a bill repealing
the lien law.
The Senate refused to pass a bill
f abolishing the lien law.
HIS HEAD ALHOST SEVERED.
Rich Allen Kills Jesse Jones With a
Razor.
Williston, Jan. 26.?Last night
Rich Allen nearly severed the head
of Jessie Jones from his body with a
razor. Both are negro tenants on
the plantation of Dr. W. C. Smith,
which is near White Pond. So far
as can be learned it seems that the
two men had been quarreling about
some women, and when feeding time
came Jones picked up a stick to resent
some abuse from Allen, when
the latter drew the ever-present
razor and with one deft murderous
stroke nearly decapitated his victim.
Realizing the awful consequences of
his blind rage, Allen turned to flee,
I and after a chase of some 500 yards
was overtaken by Mr. Marion Bell,
who was a witness of the murder,
and brought to Williston for safe
keeping until this morning, when he
was put in charge of the sheriff of
Aiken county.
Didn't Think Any More of Him for It.
An English excursionist, who was
up near Balmoral on a certain occasion,
went into a cottage to get a
drink of water.
"So the queen is a neighbor of
yours?" he said to the housewife,
while she was serving him.
"Yes."
"And she is quite neighborly, isn't
she, and comes to visit you in your
cottage?"
"She's weel enough."
"Look here, ma'am you don't seem
satisfied with her majesty. May I
ask you why?"
"Weel, I'll tell ye if ye, wish. The
fact is we don't leik the gangin's on
at the castle. We don't leik the way
they keep or don't keep the Sawbath
?goin' out in boats on the Sawbath
day."
The excursionist tried to appease
her and said: "Oh, well, after all
ma'am, you know there is a precedent
for that. JYou remember our
Lord, too, went out on the Sabbath?"
She interrupted him:
"Oh, ave! I ken it weel eneuch.
You canna tell me aught about hem
that I dinna ken aready. An' I can
teel ye this: We don't think' any
moor o' hem for it, either."
Waiting for a Jury to Grow.
"I have a case still pending in a
South Georgia justice court that has
been there since 1879," remarked
Judge Spencer R. Atkinson, former
justice of the supreme court, to a
group of friends at the capitot. Oi
course they had to ask Judge Atkinson
for particulars.
"Soon after I began the practice
of law," the Judge continued, "J
took a case for a client involving a
verbal contract for building a log
cabin. The amount involved was less
than $100, so suit was brought in the
justice court of the little country
district where the defendant, the
owner of the log cabin, lived. By
consent of all parties the matter was
referred to a jury. The first jury
came in with a mistrial.
"Another jury was called, and
there was another mistrial. And so
it went on for six or seven terms of
court, each successive jury failing to
reach a verdict.
"Then, one day, just before it was
time to call the case up for submission
to the seventh or eighth jury, 1
received this note from the justice
of the peace:
" 'Dear Sir: I write this to let you
know the case of Beckham agin
Lyles cannot be tried no more in this
court. You have used up all the
juries in the district and it won't be
possiDie to jfet no inure juries uixui
some grows up or some new folks
moves in. I have wrote the same
notice to the other side. Yours
truly, P. Williams, Justice of the
Peace, 497 district G. M.'
"With that we dropped the case
by common consent and have been
waiting ever since for a new jury to
grow."
If congress wants to reduce the
cost of handling the mails, let it cut
down some of its own dead and
worthless printed matter which is
now sent out. Millions of pounds of
this worthless stuff is sent out at a
dead expense and it doesn't benefit
anybody to an appreciable extent.
But instead of cutting down expenses
in that direction, some of the representatives
seek to have the rate of
postage on newspapers and magazines,
which is already quite enough,
increased by about twelve per cent.
?Greenville News.
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COUNTRY NEWS IETTERS.
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
, News Items Gathered All Aroand
the Coanty and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt. January 28.?Mr. W.
P. Pate has taken a job with C. Ehrhardt
& Sons, and will be pleased to
see his many friends at his new post.
Mr. J. C. McMillan departed this
life Saturday night and was buried
at the McMillan grave yard by the
Masons. He was about seventyseven
years old and has been complaining
for some time, but only took
to his bed lately. He leaves a wife
and several sons and daughters to
mourn his departure. His friends
are numerous, as was shown, by the
crowd' that gathered to see him
placed in his last resting place. Captain,
your congenial smile and hearty
hand-shake will be missed from
among us.
Rev. T. *L. Belvin has purchased a
lot upon which he intends to build
himself a home for a retreat in his
old age.
Mrs. G. L. .Kinard intends to oper
up a millinery store in the neai
future. Mr.' Kinard has his store
building repainted and cleaned up
for the new goods which are expectnext
month.
We have had some showers last
wee^. They were much needed for
the growing grain crops.
Two bird hunters went out one
day last week, and came in without
getting a shot at a bird. They had
three dogs with them. Birds must
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De scarce in mis secuun.
Farmers seem to be reluctant
about making their returns this
year. The Deputy Auditor while
here did not take many returns during
the two days he was here.
Some of our young men went tc
the Clear Ponds for a fish fry lasl
week. The night was cold but the}
had the fish caught and had the fry
all right. They swapped yarns a
while, and Mr. George Folk showed
the crowd how to sit on a cypress
knee. He will tell you how if you
. ask him, as he is very kind and accommodating
to any one. Jee.
Ehrhardt News. :
Ehrhardt, January 28.?Mr. J. C,
| McMillan died last Saturday night al
his home, and was buried Sundaj
, afternoon at the family burying
ground. Mr. McMillan was one 01
i the oldest men in our section, anc
was universally respected and' loved
by all. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Jones Lane, of Fair
: fax, spent last week in town visiting
| relatives.
Sidney^Padgett, of the 6th grade,
t spent a few days last week at Smoafc
, visiting relatives.
Cards are out announcing the mar
> riageof Mr. Dave Smith and Mis:
! Effie Copeland, the 30th instant.
t Miss May Carter spent last weel
, in Bamberg visiting her sister.
l*he town council is building i
I bridge across the Hartz branch neai
, town.
t Mr. Willie Chassereau and Mia
\ Dora Kinard were happily marriec
at the home of the bride on the 16tl
, instant, by Rev. P. E. Monroe.
Mr. Frank Sease and Miss Effic
Jones, of Ashton, spent last Monday
| in town.
Mr. B. V. Kearse, who has beer
, working for Mitchum Bros., has ac
w?nf n rvMifinn with Mr f!_ F. Rizer
of Olar. Laurie Kinard,
Ehrhardt Graded School.
Both Sexes Equally Queer.
Cal! a girl a chick and she smiles;
call a woman a hen and she howls,
Call a young woman a witch and she
is pleased; call an old woman a witch
and she is indignant. Call a girl ?
? * a <1 1*1 ?i__ 11
Kitten ana sne ratner lixes it; can a
woman .a cat and 'she hates you.
Women are queer. If you call a
man a gay dog it will flatter him;
call him a pup, a hound or a cur and
he will try to alter the map of your
face. He doesn't mind being called a
bull or a bear, yet he will object to
being mentioned as p. calf or cub.
Men are queer too.
The judiciary committee of the
house of congress have reported
favorably a bill prohibiting the shipping
C. 0. D. of liquors into states
where the sale of liquor is forbidden
by state laws. This does not effect
shipments that are paid for before
.shipped.
DRAMATIC INCIDENT IN CHURCH.
Spartanburg Pastor Burns an Anonymous
Letter In Pulpit. '
Spartanburg, January 28.?At
the First Baptist church last |
Sunday night, Rev. L. M Roper, pastor
of the church, burned an anonymous
letter in the pulpit by striking
a match and setting the letter on j
fire. Mr. Roper stated that he had j
received an anonymous letter re- c
fleeting on the character of a mem- j
ber of his congregation. Taking the j
letter from his pocket he said that \
he wished to show the author what j
he thought of it, and holding the <
: letter in one hand, he struck a match 1
with the other and applied the flame, *
? He said a person who would write ]
s an anonymous letter was either a (
! fool or a knave and he was inclined s
i to believe that he was the latter.
The incident created a sensation \
r and for the moment was highly dra- J
l matic.
Protect Your Town.
| ' Protect your own town and there- 1
. by show that you are in favor of j
protection! Ijf protection is good ;
for the nation it is good for the ,
town. As townspeople we should 1
favor our town above every bther as i
the growth and development of it is j
what will enchance the value of all 3
property both in and about it. Then .
uuy your ury guuus, groceries, iiaru[
ware, furniture, etc., at home; have
your printing, your blacksmithing, J
your shoe-making done at home; ]
' patronize your home in every in- ]
j instance that you can. The success '
of our merchants and mechanics ]
means new business houses and residences,
additional demands for labor!,
' of various kinds. To the farmer a
| first-class town affords a better mar- i
ketforhis grain, a better trading .
point, and such a town is bound to
increase the value of his land. Unquestionably
"in union there is
' strength." Let us protect our town.
r Briddell Gets Bail.
y Munday Briddell, a young white ,
I man about twenty-six years old, was
5 yesterday brought to this city from
1 Columbia, where he was arrested by ;
the sheriff of that county at the rermest
of Sheriff Gilreath. The ?
charges against Briddell are seduc- ;
tion and adultery. Briddell was an
' operative of the Brandon tnills of
'r this city, and ran away with a girl 1
r apparently about thirteen years old. i
! They, went from this city to Union
^ and from there to the Olympia mills
^ in Columbia.
When Briddell and the girl ran off,
the mother of the latter went to Mr.
p J. R-. Martin, of the local bar, and
' ^sked him if he would help her try
and locate* them. Mr. Martin, for
' charity's sake, wrote to a mill paper
published at Charlotte, N, C., and
which is taken by many of the operatives
in mi ls over the South, and in
the letter to this paper described the
couple and asked that any one seeing
them wire the mother of the child.
In about three days the mother of
the child received a message from a
party in Columbia stating that the
couple was in that city,
j The sheriff of Richland comity
( was at once instructed to make the
arrest and the couple were brought
k back to this city yesterday. *
'r Briddell was arraigned before
Magistrate Stradley who released
i him on a bond of $600. The child
whom he carried off with him is back
with her mother.?Greenville News.
Defending Mother Youth Kills Father.
Laurens, Jan. 23.?Last night between
nine and ten o'clock, J. J.
, Smith, a mill operative employed at
' Watts mills, located just north of
the city, was killed by his son, John
i Smith, a youth 15 or 16 years old.i
The shooting took place in the Smith
cottage and was the result, so the
boy claims, of his father's attack on
1 Mrs. Smith. After beating his wife,
. Smith was in the act of shooting her <
i when the boy told him not to shoot i
his mother. The gun snapped when
1 nn o /iLnon cnn_ 1
; yUUIZg Otllltll pi^acu up a biicau aiugle
barrel gun and shot his lather ?
' dead in his tracks. The boy was <
. committed to jail this morning and
i the inquest will be held this after- i
noon. !
The Smiths came to Laurens from 1
Tennessee about a year ago to work 1
in the cotton mill. 3
When a man pursuing the daily
i peaceful avocations of life goes 1
around with a revolver on his person, <
; it is prima facie evidence that.he is 1
! either a fool or a criminal, and in <
either case he ought to be locked up. (
THE SAME OLD STORY. M
INVESTIGATING COnMlTTEE FINDS
DISPENSARY OVERSTOCKED.
Jquor Bought Illegally and at Prices ";-v4
Entirely Too High?Tatnm's
Charges Sustained.
Columbia, Jarfuary 28.?The re>ort
of the special committee apjointed
ten days ago to investigate >|||
jharges of overstock at the State dis- i
- n.nn m.UwiUfA/l +A fVta QAWflfa . VijS
.rciiSMUjr woo ouuimui^u iaj uiw^unv^ 'fiHI
it the night session by the chairman. .^33
Senator Christensen. The report had M
seen delayed by the absence of Mr.
Richards, one of the members of the g
lommittee, who returned at 9 o'clock 3|
tonight on a delayed train, and as .-$1
won as he signed the report ft was _ $8
sent to the president's desk and read. &9B
It was then referred to the judiciary x?
committee for any recommendation 4|S3
is to action that should be taken. -v 'x^M
The report in the main substanti- -m
ites Commissioner Tatum's charges
as to the overstock of the State aSa- r||H
pensary and shows up the general ^
laxness with which the institution
conducted. The report is signed
all the members of the committee, of via
whom Messrs. Graydon and Richards ..-<M
are dispensary supporters.
Richards said tonight that while he'-^^p
a arrpp/1 with flip rpnnrt he would .ISSBM
3ay that it was not sufficiently;?$SB
brought out that the dispensary was:;^
in excellent financial condition. The v^Bj
main features of the report 'are
given below: * ";J
That the State dispensary is over-.' 3?K
3tocked, and that there was on hand
in the State dispensary on January '
15,1907, about six hundred and sixtynine
thousand dollars worth of stock. ,v||
That four hundred thousand do!- <|?|
lars worth of stock is sufficient
run the State dispensary. We find^^ :3B
that this overstocking has been go^
ing on both under the old board of fts
directors and under the new board;
We further find that in the pur-v^^H
chase of liquors for the dispensary; |
the law has not been observed in a,--qaB
number of instances, and that liquors |j|
have been bought contrary to the
rule established by the board ?tsejjg^|M
for the purchase of liquor. $?
We find that Mr. John Black, a j||
member of the board of direc
purchased a large amount of liquor,
amounting to about sixteen hundred
barrels, from Clark Brothers & Son,'.;^ -
of Peoria, His.; said Black making^|p J
said purchase in person in Peoria^
111. We also find that at the'same; ' :|9j
time and place he made a purchase ^Ja^
from Lehman & Co., the amount of
which we have been unable to ascerr ??w|
tain, but three hundred barrels were -JS
shipped to and received by the State
dispensary. We also find that Miv
Rlar?W mndp a nurchase in Derson
Cincinnati, Ohio, of six hnndre&||!lj|
cases of liquor from Moyse Brothers, 1
These three lots of liquor thus pur- A*m
chased by Mr. Black amounted to
about one hundred and twenty-five ujwpjj
thousand dollars. yWm
We find from the testimony that jfesljt
the liquor thus purchased by Mr.
Black from Clark Brothers &Sons at g|
$1.50 to $1.75 per gallon is averyin- " a '?
ferior quality of liquor, bemg what
is known as high wine, and is not 'WM
worth more than $1.33 to $1.35 per
gallon, and can be bought in the >19
market at that price. , ?
We find from the testimony that ^
the present board of directors has ':M
constantly substituted other goods
to be shipped out to the county dis- y
pensaries in place of the goods or- y' :*m
dered by the county dispensers, and -m
that the goods so substituted were
not satisfactory to the county dis- ^B
pensers, or to the people, and that |i
they were shipped over the protest ;y|
of the county dispensers and over the f!| protest
of the State commissioner. --M
We further find that the board of f^jH
directors failed Or refused to buy in ':gM
sofficient quantities, X conv X go 'M
ana A rye, aitnougn mere was & uix
demand for this clasB of goods, axil j$?M
frequent demands to the board to-,
order that dass of goods, and that ^
the board claims that certain firms
refused-to ship out this class of J
goods when ordered, but we find on %gM;
examination that there are on file :||1
many bids from other reputable
concerns offering to furnish these
goods*
We further find that the board ot
directors have purchased large quantities
of objectionable case goods, in
which there was a very large profit
to the sellers, in many instances over ^
a hundred per cent., but that they M
failed or refused to purchase the
popular cheap goods in which the
profit to the sellers was very little. -|g
We further find that a large part rs
of the overstock in the State dispen- ^
3ary consists of case goods for which
there is little or no demand, and
which was bought over the protest
of the commissioner and the county |
dispensers.
We further find that there has 'M
been paid on the Gark purchase the
sum of $30,000, and that the checks \
were countersigned by Commissioner
Tatum, although he had been in- ; $
formed of the facts concerning said
purchase.
We find that since the meeting of ' %
the General Assembly the board of M
iirectors have adopted a resolution 3
that all orders for liquor must be ; J
countersigned by Commissioner^ W.
[). Tatum.
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