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1 V-.- f '' i -y- . ' . - " '*!' ? "'" '^jlf Ullje $amhmj Ifmtlii gstaMfelwd 1991 ~ BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1907 One DollaraYwf?| M TIE EAUEITO STATE WM? OF VAJWOUS ftjftftt t* SOUTH CAM&UKA, MUte New* ?rtfe* O^w* Pw <fcfcfc ftrt. jMaa^Qr Oj rn n*f n n^t c A WW Mem m4 ff*pparf?g?. g, A. t, who was shot over m Qrm$&mr% toy w&mwm parties, is mprvyi&g fc*& ft is ?<ft *fco?gfct be em tmm* . %e ar*este ime bem f&&4e. ' rT"^^rfy.m stL4wis<? vs?i Gfiduie^ * 'ySWF W J c*rvr vv r?% im ot tke Air Ime at' Aj&fee^ilte, was *s? over sod killed by apassen^er e&gim in Jfciate ymis Monday evemng. An m?4 mm by the name of $m&k was $tfw?k by a Southern pafo at Eo&HiiMad Saturday and ^A^*AM5nV lrSiirv/f nPtwa jmam izja^ /1/\ft^ *w58BS|' J?A11?S.* ' w W8S : Hfld was w&tktog on or near tibe tmk. firsf. fit 2&misrv die ten' tm? labor law for rotten mills goes mte e#eet m this State. This measure, H fe thought, will do mueh to - improve the eooditjoe of the mill At? heariog heid before Judge C, & fiaoteJer ^ Orangeburg Monday, Morgan g, Boy&ten, eharged with the murder of Pobeeman E, H, ftevis of Salley, was admitted to hail h? the $&? of $M&h * Geo, E, Clarke, editor of the Beh too Times, got his right band eaugbt h? the oo^ of a press loot week, sod it & feared that amputation will he oeeessary, as the hand was badly Jaeerated above the wrist, The town of Manning last week voted hoods to the amount of $30,000 lor the ereetioo of a new graded sefcoolbtfUdiftfir, Manning is no larger than Bambergr, and yet we ere satisbed with a $W,000 bwldiog, Anexprempackage m&tim&QQ m& from Imge to WaHerboro last ft was roceived by the agent at Walterboro and he put it in ms coat pocket but p when m reached his office ft was gene, Themoneyhadbeenforwardedhy the county treasurer who was coUecting taxes at bodge, Sack MfteholJ, a white fugitive from jmttee in Tennessee, was arrested by the Spartanburg police fast Saturday, Ifltehdl Is a blockade whiskey deafer, and is charged with shooting a United States wMdnl who went to arrest him a tew weeks Mltehsil Is from Newport, "Row" Taylor, a white man, stabbed E, C, Fane, express agent at Cm* pobetto, fast Saturday, The wound ma serious one, Tudor went into the office and asked if there was a jug of whisks? for him, He was told there was net, but he went to tookhm for the jug himself and was order: ed eat by the agent. Ma at once drew his knife and stahbed Mr, Fane, _ Charged Wtm Harder, Habtwbll, Qa,, Dec, 20,?Hugh Watt, a white man, and two negroes are In Jail here, charged with the -M - ? ,A muruer w s jwgru www Morris, Aug, 19, le?t. The crime has just been discovered through the dcnunteation of Wall by his wife, It f la sail Wall's wife had him arrested on the charge of beating her and in* ddentatly, It is said, told of the killing of Morris by Wall and Ernest Gray, a negro, while another negro, Will Hitchcock, looked on. They were < gambling in Morris' house at the i time, ft is said that Wall confessed the crime and pointed out the place where the body was buried, It was unearthed by a party of searchers, New Comity Fight, Orangeburg, December 23?It is practically an assured fact that the recent election for the formation of the new county of Calhoun will be protested. The managers of the election In this county will meet here tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock for the purpose of canvassing the vote east bst Tuesday, The board of canvassew is composed of John S, Bowman, Jr? W, B, Fogle and T. J, Hart, before whom the protest will be made by Attorneys D. 0. Herbert and W, C, Wolfe, who represent the opponents of the new county movement, ? - . ** 111 It is understood that Messrs Boumger wnd Welch, of Columbia, attorneys for the new county promoters, have been notified that a protest will be ^ made and an interesting legal battle is expected to-morrow. The attorneys that are to file the protest state there are a number of grounds v^pon which their complaint will be , based, none of which, however, has yet been made public. Whether or not a protest will be made in Lex'4 ington county, a portion of which is in the proposed territory, has not been ascertained here. Lodged in Jail. Clarence L. Smith, a young white man, who was formerly agent of the Seaboard Air Line at Olar, was arrested in Columbia Monday night, on the charge of embezzlement. He was ar-j t rested at the instance of the bonding company. He is aaid to have stolen $646.22. He was brought to Bamberg Tuesday and placed in jail. Smith has a wife and two children. h REVENUE OFFICER KILLED. 6hot From Ajuhoth WlWe On a Raid la north Coroha*. OiAEwrrs:, Dec, 20.?While engaged in & raid on blockade liquor oistiileries at Smithtown, Forsythe county, ibis moroi&g with 15 others, J. W, Hendricks, a United States revenue officer, was shot and killed from ambush. The bullet from a Winchester riSe passed entirely through the victim's heart. The raiding party of 16 officers left Winston yesterday and divided into squads of {our each. Hendricks was pushing into the woods ahead of his companions when killed and the other officers saw the assailant as he made his esespe, but have not succeeded: in capturing him. JLjae rwi W#2*y yrsv> wee W?V| that has been made on this settlement in the past few months, In the hrstraid 27 officers, armed to the teeth, descended on the settlement and after a fierce bstttie with Wtocbesterseaptyredseyeraj meom^mers mi broke up mm/ stills, A short time ago a second raid by a large party was made with somewhat similar result, Smtthtown is the most Robonoos settlement of blockade distillers in the State and has long thrived because of the desperate character of its inhabitants, Hendricks was one of the mast poplar officers hi the service and was a native of Etkin, N, C, C^flws Sw^wTr Rcjwft Washington, Dec, 20 ?The census bureau today issued a bulletin showing that the total amotmt of cotton of this year's growth in the United States ginned tip to Dec, 12 last was 9,281,077 as compared with 11,112,7^9 for the same period last year and 9,297,819 for the same period in 1905, The total number of active ginneries was 27,152, In this bulletin round bales are counted as half hales, The number of round bales included 167,485 for 1907, 242,096 * ?*va/> J ATA lAff M 1AA? jot iswe una w ww, island included 65,145 for 1907, 40,' 361 to 1006 and 00,836 to 1006,, The total crop of 1006 was 12,983, 201 and to W6 was 10,495,105, The per cent, of crop ginned to D?i. 13 was 86,6 to 1^6 and 88,6 to 1006, For 1007 there were ginned to Dec, 1, 8,343.396 hales. In the total of this year's growth girmed to Dec, 13 the running hales, counting round as half hales and excluding linters, are distributed by States as follows; Alabama062,022 bales, 3,421 active ginneries; Arkansas 672,106 hales, 2,086 ginneries; Florida 46,747hales, 242 ginneries; Kentucky 1,103 hales, 2 ginneries; Louisiana 602,001 bales, lj21 ginneries; Mississippi 1,110,244 hides, 3,487 ginneries; Missouri 23,' 674 hides, 73 ginneries; New Mexico 66 hales, 2 ginneries; North Carolina 622,017 bales, 2.600 ginneries; Oklahoma ftfitf.078 mIm. 966 fffnneries; South Carolina 1,014,711 bales, 3,156 ginneries; Tennessee 204,267 bales, 6?ljginneries; Texas 1,987,781 bales, 3,957 ginneries, and Virginia 6,787 bales, 97 ginneries, nw on rroffMi* romb, ga,, Dec, 23,?During the performance of "Daniel Boone" at the opera house Miss Leona Leslie and Oscar O'Shea, who take leading parts, were badly injured on the stage by a huge wolf. The actress and actor were in the scene where Daniel Boone rescues his sweetheart from the den of wolves into which the Indian "Black Fish" had thrown her. When Miss Leslie was thrown info the den the great wolf attacked her and tore her arm and side. The fori screamed, and O'Shea leaped into den and tore the girl from the wolf. The animal then turned on O'Shea and tore his leg. Bob Harris, a real Catawba Indian, who was standing near, -rushed to their assistance and drove the animal back into his den. The audience witnessed the scene, and was stampeded when it realized that the attack of the wolf was a real one. Their injuries will keep Miss Leslie and Oscar O'Shea from acting for some days. The wolf had never been violent before. will sell cotton direct. Farmer*' Union Establishes Marketing Bureau at New Orleans. New Orleans, Dec. 20?The movement of cotton planters in Louisiana, Mississippi and Eastern Texas to sell direct from their fields to European markets caused the organization nere tonight of a co-operative committee of the Farmers' Union, which announced that a compress will be leased here immediately and that a working force such as cotton factors employ will be hired. It is planned to - i? i **11 incorporate mis oureau. ine executive committee to-morrow will continue its preparations. Negro Cute Wife's Throat. Edgefield, Dec. 23.-Lee Hightower, a young negro man who has lost one arm and wears spectacles, entered the yard of Col. James T. Bacon here tonight and cut his wife's throat. The extent of the woman's injuries is not known. The negro has tried several times before to kill his wife. No cause for theattack tonight is known. , -i t. ...'.. ; MOST fHtfilBLE TRASEM TWO HEM KILLED W SHOOTING AFFAIR AT K?RStf AW. FEgfet Starts io Barter Step- Third /las Actteg as Peacemaker Shot j: aad IfBrd j i Kjorshaw, Dec. 22.?What is cod- j ceded to be the saddest tragedy ever j j enacted m Kershaw occurred w ooei of the barber shops at a late hour ] Saturday night. With Christmas approaching and:, everybody makmg preparations and j. entertaining bright hopes and pleas-] i ant antmpatxms lor a merry goooi ; time, a sad gloom is cast oyer the 1 community tiiat time only can efface; j by die killing' of two of the most prominent young business men and < the wounding of a third, ( There was an altercation between ( Mr, S,W, Welsh and Mr, Berry Mob- , ley in whkh pistols were used freely, , Mr, Welsh shot six times with a j Colt's revolver and Mr, Mobley shot , three times with a Smith 4 Wesson, While the shooting was m progress < Mr, T, L, CJyburn sought to interfere as peacemaker with the result that be and Mr, Welsh are both dead and Mr, Mobley seriously wounded, Mr, Qyburn was killed accidentally, Mr, S, W, Welsh was a member of and manager of the Heath Supply company, a son of the late Capt, /, V, Welsh and was unmarried, Mr, T, L, Clyburn was a member ; of and president ot true wytmrn Mute company and leaves a wife, who was Miss Dora Cunningham, and was the son of Hon W, U, Clyburn of this county, , These young men possessed keen' business qualifications and had well , merited the confidence of their associates and friends, They have large and Influential connections InLancaster and Kershaw counties, who wflj ' hear with sad hearts of the sudden taking away of their lives in the ' prime of manhood. Their familiar faces and pleasant \ associations will be sadly mused by their legion of friends here and else- , where. The shooting was all done at short range and death was Instantaneous witnboth, Mr, Mobley Is connected with J, M, Carson & Co,, and has friends galore, He has a wife and Ave children, who are prostrated with grief. No one regrets the affair more than he, Whllene Is very seriously wound* ed, Dr, W, C, Twitty, the attending physician, gave out the statement that hopes were entertained for his recovery, / Tbenquest was held to-day and the jury rendered the following verdict: idm nil now wmic w mn> death by gunshot wound# inflicted by Berry Mobley. and Mr. T. L. Cly- * barn came to bis death by a gunshot wound inflicted by Mr. 8. W. Welsh." Messrs. Welsh and Clyburn were first cousins and were especially warm friends. Immigrants Coma In Diseased, New York. Dec. 20.?Immigrants afflicted with contagious diseases are coming into New York faster than the health authorities can care for them. One day recently ninety-nine iramigcants suffering from contagious diseases were turned over to the local authorities by the Federal health inspectors.. The government pays the local board $22 a day for each such patient cared for. but the board has reached . a stare where the accommodations are not equal to the demand. The board 6f aldermen is to be asked for $15,000 to purchase portable cottages for use in such cases. All the hospitals that accept contagious cases are overcrowded and Dr. Darlington, commissioner of health, says that the increase of such cases among arriving immigrants is assuming alarming proportions. Train Shot Dp by Negro. Baton Rouge, La., December 22? Robert Wesson, a negro of West Feliciana parish, was brought to Baton Rouge today and placed in the State penitentiary for safe keeping, charged with shooting up a passenger train on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad. As a result of Wesson's wild rampage Adonis K. Wridert, a young cadet at the Louisiana State university, is dead at his home at Bavou Sara, La., and the coaches of the train also bear witness to the reckless shooting of the negro. The shooting occurred during the nijfht. Wesson, who says he was drinking at the time and did not know what he was doing, got off the train at Powell's station, about five miles from Bayou Sara. Drawing a heavy calibre revolver, he began to fire into the train. One of the bullets crashed through a window and wounded young Wridert in the neck. He died shortly after the train arrived at Bayou Sara. He was the son of Town Alderman Wridert of Bayou Sara and was on his way home for Christmas. A posse which started irt search of Wesson had little difficulty in arresting him. Owing to the danger of his being lynched by enraged citizens, he was brought here by the officers. * - ..7... Vv LIQUOR FIGHT IN UNION HOT. PirnMIWtioiB Force* JUdaf aa Extra+r4kmtHy Zemtom CampilrH. Union, Deeeoaber 19.?The campaign being waged by the prohibition forces against die dispensary continues to wax more and more zealous. Haas meetings are being field all over the county and forceful addresses are being made by prohibition orators, mduding several leadbag attorneys and minsters. A programme has been mapped out whereby every portion of the wacty will be visited by ibese speakers before tbe day of tbe election, which takes place on tbe 29ib inst., comes. And tbe ladies seem to be taking a warm' interest m these efforts to arouse public sentiment against tbe dispensary. At tbe meeting held at Grace Methodist Episcopal church, and whkh was addressed by tbe preachers of every denomination in the eity, an organization of women was effected, tbe purpose being to use ?? f**vr?r rA nwitihL HKU U> *<?? v? v? bitien. Dr. Moody-Lyles Stms was chosen president, Mrs. W D.Arthur, first vice president, and Mis. J. F. Caudle, second vice president. Another meeting will be held tomorrow lor the purpose of perfecting the organization and outlining the work the members are to do. g, A. Jdfcwt Shot. Obangjebubg, Dec. 22.?Mr. E. A. JefEcoat, a well known and wealthy farmer of this section, who lives six miles from North, was yesterday shot from the rear by an7unknowU; person near Swamp creek, three! miles from his home. His horse ran to Mr. Jeffeoaf s bouse and attracted the attention of his sons, who instituted a search. They went to North, failing to meet him on the way. On their return trip he was discovered at the house of one of his tenants, one mile from the scene of the shooting. He was then taken to North and thence to Columbia, where he was operated on at the Columbia hospital by Dr. Guerry. It was found that he had been struck by three buckshot, one entering his mp, one his shoulder and one the back of the head, penetrating the brain. His wounds are very serious and wfll probably prove fatal. The penitentiary authorities at Columbia sent dogs to the scene, but so far as known nothing has yet been discovered. The dogs were returned to Columbia tonight. The sheriff of Orangeburg is still investigating. At a late hour tonight Mr. Jeffcoat was rearing easily and doing as well as could be expected. Safe-Crackers Visit Ruby. Ruby, Dec. 22.?The quiet, unprotected little town of Ruby has been visited by professional safecrackers. At some time after midnight, supposedly about 1 o'clock, several residents heard a noise similar to a soothered blast, but no one went out to investigate. This morning it was found that the large safe in toe store of D, H. McGregor was blown open. Both front and side doors of the store were open and the window in back end facing the safe and about five feet distant was shivered, pieces of front door and lining of safe being scattered over the lot m rear of store j lor du reel, it was cenmmy wit; work of experts. Until a snort while ago this safe was used at night by the bank, which during the day occupied a room of the depot, and contained several thousand dollars. About three weeks ago two strangers were observed by some people of this place to be quite interested observers of bank arrangements. Orie of them was noticed sifting where he could see the cashier carry the money to the store in the evening. Evidently the crooks thought the same custom prevailed, but the bank is using its own burglar proof safe and they suffered the sore disappointment of obtaining but a small sum. Visiting CottooJMIIl*. Spartanburg, Dec, 20.?Dr. C. W. Stiles, of the hospital and marine service, at Washington, is in the city making an investigation in the cotton mills. He has been here several dayB and during that time has visited quite a number of the mills. In some of the mills it is said he caused some children to be sent to their homes on account of defective eyesight and for being under the age for mill help. He spent Friday visiting the Clifton and Glendale mill. North Augusta Kicks. Columbia, Pec. 21.?The North Augusta dispensary muddle is further comDlicated by the preparation the Aiken county board is making to open a dispensary in the basement of the Hampton Terrace Hotel there, which is said to be clearly in violation of the Carey-Cothran act, which prohibits hotel privileges and requires every dispensary to front a public street, with the interior in plain view of passers by. The situation is being investigated by Auditor West. Managers of other hotels over the state have written him wanting to know why they can't have the same privileges. 'if. * \ /V,- "-:," a:' \% ' ^ FOIL ATTEMPT TO ILIDER; MADE BY PUESTON BROWN WELL * KNOWN LOCAL CROOIL j Victim vts Wesley Seeks Who Lies j st Potet of Death?Browa Appre* J kfflrd sad Lodged leJML J Wesiey Hanks, a respeetajrfe erf- j ored mac of tills ?ty, was shot and , dangerously wounded latst Thursday ] night abou t tec o'clock by frestoc 1 Brown, a notorious negro s>eak thief J and all-round rasc&L The sbootmg J occurred at the freight depot of the j Southern Hallway, and was the culmination of a series of thefts wirieb | have been going: on from the depot - *< tor a long ume. i Brown was just off the county chain gang, where he had been senrl ing a sentence for sheafing a pistol, and this was not the first time he had \ been in trouble. He has a bad rape- 1 tatkm generally. On Thursday some ] time during the day Mr. Edgar Dick- ' mson was having some freight hauled . and a box Jrf sausage checked up i short. Looking around the depot it j was found under the house, and it j was left there by order of the agent j as it was thought the thief would J come hack for it after dark. Sure : I enough he did and the shooting fol- j Jowel J John Minmgan, the colored porter * at the depot, was placed to wateh ] for the thief but he got cold and asked j Wesley Banks, who was not employed \ at the depot, to watch for him while- * he went to warm. Banks agreed to \ oblige Minmgan, and went and borrowed a pistol to stand guard. Mr. j Charles D. Felder, the telegraph 1 operator, relieved llimrigan while he went for Banks. Basks had been on guard only a short while when several pistol shots rang out and to those who hurried to the scene Banks explained that, he was shot and that Preston Brown had shot him. He was at once taken to his boarding place and physicians summoned. It was found that two bullets had taken effect, one in the center of bis breast which went through one of his hums, and the other struck him in the forehead and ranged around the malmy a slight wound, a* the bullet seemed to glance. The wound in the body is the dangerous one, and whfle it was feared this would prove fatal, be is doing verv well at this writing (Tuesday) and hopes are entertained for j his recovery. His white friends have j rendered him every attention pos- j able, and he is being skilfully attend- j ed and carefully nursed.. \ Banks's statement is that Brown i came and picked up the sausage and < that he stepped out from behind the ] Si liar where he was standing and as i rown started off be called to him to stop, not to carry the box off. That i Brown turned and fired on 1dm, the \ first bullet strikinghim in the breast 1 After firing one or two more shots ] very rapidly Brown ran off. Banks i fired one rime, but did not hit Brown. ] He is a fine shot and had he not let Brown get the drop on him there i ' - - ? ?r?A ?a: 4 would nave oeen a amereni enumg i to the affair. But Banks had no in- i tention to shoot Brown, and would ] not have fired at all had he not been j shot. i A crowd of citizens quickly gather- j ed and Brown waft located in a field ] not far from the depot, but in the J darkness he got away. The blood j hounds from the jail were put on his < trail, but it was lost. \ He was arrested the following < night in a house on Mr. C. A. Milhous's place, about two miles from town. He was in the house of a i negro named Tuck Sellers. Mr. C. C. i Rowell in company with Andrew Ben- 1 nett, John Mmnigan, and Empress < Lee (the three last being colored) ? went out and brought him in. An- i drew had been at .work on the case i ever since the shooting. i When the nartv urot to the house ] Brown woul J not come out, but Mr. , Rowell made all the others get out ] of the house and told Brown he i would shoot the house to pieces or ] buri) it down and he might as well j come out and surrender. Upon be- < ing assured that he would be pro- i tected by Mr. Rowell he came out 1 and surrendered. His pistol, a cheap 38 calibre, was gotten out of the < house. > i Brown did not seem to care much 1 about the affair or be worried over i it. He asked if Banks was dead, l and showed a scratch on his head < where he said Banks had shot him, but Mr. Rowell says it was onto a j scratch he no doubt received vmile j getting away the night before. i He was brought here and put in jail, where he will remain uijtU' the t Map/th jvMirt pnnvpnpfi He evident- ] ATAU1 Vtl VV*4* V VV?* f v??ww> ? - . ly thinks he is not. in much trouble, i as he sent a negro to a gentleman in 1 town asking that he go on his bond < and he would work for him. Of ] course he would not be allowed tb give bond until Banks gets better, t The matter will go hard with him, 1 even if Banks should recover, and this is earnestly hoped by all the white people. Not only has, Banks i the sympathy of the white citizens i because he was shot down in the 1 discharge of dnty. but be has always i respected himself, lived a straight : : ' * * ... . . ? .: .: ' . - i, ad honest life, and soeh comfort is :,:\ippredatesL In this connection, too math praise sxrart be given the colored people rbo did ail in their power to effect # he capture of Brown and pne iff ^ formation as to Ins whereabouts, ft s unfortunate, however, that mk '.'jM few negroes endeavored to aid hifli la * shading the officers or to warn hisa af heir approach, as wdl as to fir mads like they wished it had *een a white man instead of Ranks md that he deserved no sympathy Fhese sort of negrouai< a menace to '-&m he peace <rf 217 ecnmhnty, bat ther ere known ana wiQ be watched, and -J| hey had better he careful at their * . nndiiet if they want to five around sere. ENGROSSING CIJERKS APPOINTED- J rboss who wM Work Dnrfcv Not Columbia, Dec. 2q.-AppocHtment? n the engrossing department far roe today announced byllttorncf *?", General Lyons follows; g \ Mis Lool ienueiett, GeutjpeUwn; IfmJnHa Mfrann, Aflrpn* Mki IIA*I ,|v Seanon, Bishopville; Miss Ofat Hootr < {M iey, Chersw; Miss Duboae Jones, GafrrnHa; Mrs. Rqw Pattern -f|i Chester; Mw Pearl G. Hollas!, Spartanburg; Mis Aimena Coleman, & tfew Market; Mis Carrie E. Shams, | Charleston; Ms Mary Geo. Cherry, .'33M Seneca; Miae May Moorman, Greats" va3|g:; rille; Miss Sara Nicholson, Edgefield; . Miss Annie Aiken, Greenwood; Mis Eleanor McQueen, Columbia: Mis hM lanie C. Grace, Charleston; Mis ? ] Marie Long, Colombia; Mr. W. 5?ertz, Johnston; Miss Onie Martin, ;/J| Anderson; Mrs. Jas. Copes, Spartan- .'0, Mrs. Copes, of Spartanburg, for- "' neriy Miss Platte, of OrangebuiK, .-jSttj sas for several seasons been rthe rffgjP dnef clerk of the engroasmjr.de-. r' 3 i jartment, and her reappointment is iue solely to ber efficient service and ler abpity. Mr. Lewis W. Haskefi, f )f Columbia, will remain in charge . ){the department. The appointments of the desks - - 'jg? ire made by the attorney general 1 .; #? tnd the ten solicitors, and there 41#^ vere, as usual, a very large number it applicants. Jg BEAUFORT MAN^HOOTS BRPK?3L ^ Mm Who Refused. : New York, December 20?Became \-jSw further credit would not be allowed ^Jjg aim in order to carry one thopwizid . shares of stock untfl a rise in price . " '* ^ should give him a profit, Charles A.. .. gj Ceiger, of Beaufort, S. C., today j| shot James H. Oliphant, a member ^ nitted suiciiS^Mr^liphant is dying A note book found on Geiger's perthe writer apparentlyfigured thatbe svould be worth three million dollars ' % by January 1st, 1908. This has caused ' ->& the authorities to believe Geiger / . mentally unbalanced, , Geiger owed the Oliphant com*. ' ; may five thousand dollars and had--*;;, '% been asked to settle. He called at % the office and after explaining thatK r :?. be could not meet the obligations* asked for more credit The pro* , : position was refused and the shoot* :r/% tng followed. The offices ofJamas H. Oliphant and Co. are loeated at 20 Broad street, the center of the financial district and the shooting ', \.M caused a sensation in the street ana temporarily interrupted the business af the curb traders. % Beaufort, S. C., December 20. ~ Charles A. Geiger, who shot J. Oliphant in New York today, lived here for two years. Each day he ex- - changed telegrams with his*broker; James H. Oliphant, except durihg v"'":h the telegraphers' strike, when he ' went to New York, returning as soon ; r as it was over. On Tuesday last left here, saying he was going Atlanta. He was uncommunicative/ never drank and seemed to live a ; H rirtuous, simple and regular *Kfe. He was born in Roswell,Ga., in 1862. / His father was at one time .a phjrsi* v>?lH nan at Baltimore, Ma. nis mower . z&m was Miss Helen H. Barnwell of Bean- . fort. He spent many years abroad arid, m comingbackto Beaufort in Jan-: < nary, 1906, he told friends here that ie was at one time court physician ^ to King- Menelik of Abyssinia arid a Vf > 'M friend of Count Szechenyi, the fiance, ' I rf Miss Vanderbilt. ^ In his room here are many photo- v* graphs of himself and the count, aken together in Abyssinia^ as well is many curios collected in Africa. He said that he served also as phy- '^ rician at the court of the sultan of v$ Morocco. To 'the very few with, .vhom he talked he showed himself to be a man of culture, broad-mind-. ?d, widely traveled and a skilful . - ihysician. : T% He has a sister, Miss Carrie Geigeri - *:-'M said to bev living in New York, but HS 10 oilier immediate relatives. * 11 . Henry McPherson, a negro, was ihot and killed by S. F. Hough, a magistrate's constable, at Kershaw -' last Saturday. Hough went to arrest the negro, who refused to be arrested ami started to draw a pistol. ^jjij