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L SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
fig < KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
V State News Boiled Down For Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
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v (Men and Happenings.
' The proprietors of a restaurant in
v Sumter were tried- Monday and fined
V for exposing partridges for sale. The
ease was -brought by James Henry
' v Sice, secretary of the Audobon soi
<aety*
W. J. Bouknight, a white man of
ilumbia, was found guilty in the
^chland circuit court last week 'bf
running a blind tiger. He was fined
/ $300 or four months on the chain
gaag.< The fine was paid.
. We have received the first copy, of
the Broad Axe, the prohibition psiper
started at Sumter by Joel E. Branson
and Edwin. F. Miller. It is a
i neatly prin ted sheet of four pages,,
with six columns to the page.
^Tjie bouse committee will report
^^^rw^ably on the bill of Congressman
Johnson, of South Carolina, which
4 . gives the various States power over
liquor shipments entering their borUf
r& Senator Tillman has introduced
' a similar bill in the Senate.
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P/\horf A. Randal was shot and in
{ sfcantly killed by Dock Parnell near
lamar, Darlington county, Monday
afternoon. The trouble arose over a
pd line. Randal was staking, off the
^ fjne when Parnell, without a word of
Earning, fired with a breech loading
^ gun, file load taking effect in
l&ftdal'a head. Both are white men
witjk fimiilies,v and each is about fifty
y^rs old. , It is said that Parnell has
r The State Supreme. Court Has con i'
firmed thb action of the county board
of canvassers of Chesterfield county
ih the matter of the contested disjiensary
election. The county board
S^?eided that the election was legal,
ahd the State board reversed the
, county board. The case was then apijealed
to the Supreme Court by the
apti-dispensaryites. Now the court
ittjs decided in their favor and the dis
pensaries must close.
Charged With Robbery.
Barnwell, March 2. ?As a consequence
of the robbery of the county
treasurer'suffice last Sunday morn-.
B. 15083 and JUari rcountree
, i^iv^been arrested. The arrests were
a warrant sworn out by
t 3jje watchman, who was on duty at
the time the attempt at robbery was
made. He claims that he recognized
V the two men to be Ross and Rountree.
; In this connection it will be interopting
to note that Ross was tried at
tie last term of court here for the
fcpilbg of Johnson Pender and was
L acquitted. Ross was tried twice on
\ charge. The first trial resulted
^P^yLmistri al and in the second he was
Rb?s was formerly cmei 01 ponce
? ofBarnwell and bore a good reputation
until the charge of murder was
entered against him. Rodntree is a
- V yoking man and has always had the
- rfeftiect of all who knew him.
ifhese men will be given a preliraihesfiring
at once and if the testij?
manyagainst them is sufficient they
&>< will be bound over to appear for trial
circuit court, which convenes
. ^ Bradley Beats Beckham.
v " i^ankport, Ky., February 28.?
^mid scenes of wildest excitement,
former Gov. Wm. O'Connell Bradley,
.republican, was to-day elected Unit.
edvStates senator to succeed James B.
\ j /' McCreaiy.- Bradley's term of six
ye$rs will begin March 4, 1909. He
received 64 votes, four of which were
[ v cast by democrats opposed to former
Qov. Beckham, leading democratic
h candidate lor senator, who was en\
' cfcrsed for the office at the state
i jyimary- '
. Woman's Dead Body Found.
; ^illacoochee, Ga., February 29.
^ '.rHras. Cora Henderson was found
dp in her bed room at Leliaton,
' bwt her?, yesterday morning. ,A
h ' bullet had ploughed its way through
< ' hei My. ? Hejr. trunk was open and
t-3 Xiiw. noitiunnlrart Mmi* VlOT Vioar)
a.vv~~ ?
was apiStOl With one chamber empiMftfe
There no cause for suicide
: - - a^itte thought burglars, interrupt%;.
ed*na crime, killed her to prevent
,& .A Syrian peddler who.
had calledLst tne place was held on
*' g^picion, but it is not, believed that
he committed the crime. The coronas
jury spent a day investigating
|| the case without result.
\ Wreck Near WInnsboro.
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Columbia, Feb. 29.?Four cars of
t' a. local north-bound freight were de|
railed today, on the, sharp curve bef.
tween White Oak and Adger stations,
I; oil the Charlotte-Columbia line of the
I : Southern.. A pair of trucks of the
j eBginealso jumped the tracks. En:
gineer Brownlee sustained a badly
sprained ankle and Fireman Whitney
I was slightly injured. Conductor
f -holies was. in charge of the train.
Fiye cars were burned. Passenger
; tain. No. 33 was several hours delay.
ed but No. 34 was delayed only a
fev h?lf hour. v
COTTON MILLS CUT WAGES.
Mills in Georgia Announce Reduction
of Ten Per Cent.
Atlanta, Feb. 27.?At a meeting
of the executive committee of the
Georgia Industrial Association, representing
the cotton mills of the
state, it was unanimously decided to
make a reduction of ten per cent, in
wages of operatives, effective March
1, next. It was also agreed that a
curtailment of two days a week or
more where necessary shall be put
into effect.
The curtailment and reduction in
wages, it is said, are made necessary
by the depressed condition of the
textile industry.
Col. Youmans Dead.
floL Lawrence W. Youmans. of
j Fairfax, died in a Savannah hospital
last Wednesday of cancer. He was
qne of the most conspicuous figures
in the famous Tillman campaign of
1892,when Colonel Youmans stumped
the state for secretary of state
against Tillman on the "straightout"
ticket. He was one of the best stump
speakers in the campaign, the one
man Tillman is said to have acknowledged
as his equal as a stump speaker.
Colonel Youmans was a man of
education and refinement. He served
a term in the famous Wallace House,
and before that was state senator.
Kentucky Feudist Hanged.
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UHATTANOOGA, iENN., reD. Zl.?
Ed Turner, the Kentucky feudist,
was hanged in the county jail here
at 4:50 o'clock this afternoon. His
neck was broken by the fall and he
was pronounced dead in eleven minutes.
He went to the scaffold without
a tremor.
Turner killed his wife, Lillian Turner,
on the Tennessee side of Lookout
Mountain on the afternoon of
April 26, 1907. At his trial Turner
made a confession.
Turner is the second white man
ever hanged in Hamilton county.
- Two Cotton Mills Fall. #
Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 27.?The \
Clark Manufacturing Company and ,
the Eugenia Manufacturing. Com- ]
pany, the only two cotton mills at
Jonesboro, in Lee county, were today
placed in the hands of a receiver,
ex-Judge A. W. Graham, of Oxford,
being named by Judge Biggs, now
holding court in Raleigh, as the receiver...
The mills were in charge of ;
David Clark, the capital stock being'
$53,900, with 3,800 spindles and 101
Innms. The financial deDression i
caused the application for a receiver
ship.
Graft Cases Discontinued.
Columbia, Feb. 27.?The last,of
the so-called graft cases against exCounty
Supervisor S. H. Owens, were
wiped off the Richland docket this
morning/ by Solicitor Timmerman,
who nol prossed the two remaining
cases against him, having failed to
get a verdict against him in the
stronger case.
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Sea-sick Passenger.
A disconsolate passenger was leaning
over the rail of the ship in great^ ;
distress. He had been feeding the
fishes but now he was Simply wrenching
his stomach with efforts to vomit,
but brought nothing up because
there was nothing left to bring.An
Englishman was standing nearby
with a red handkerchief loosely
hanging around his neck. This handkerchief
blew off the Englishman's
shbulders'and blew against the sick
man's face as he was in a paroxysm
of\wrenching and straining to bring
anmpthinc nn. As the handkerchief
feii he thought that was the result
of his paroxysm and he said with apparent
relief. "There goes my lfrer.
I hope that's the finish."
Henderson Has Surrendered.
, W. 11 Henderson of Saluda, county
his surrendered himself to the superintendent
of the State1 penitentiary
and has begun sentence. _ He is now
engaged in work on the farms around
the penitentiary building. .
Henderson is to serve a sentence of
10?y.ears on the charge of having as;
sassinated M. M. Morse. Twice has
IJenderson been.convicted and twice
has the. case been in the supreme
court. He has giveh up the hght and
is now at work in the penitentiary.
Albert Free, who was convicted with
Henderson, has not given up the fight
and will go to the supreme court
again.
" Tragedy in Texas.
*. Santa Fe, N. M., Feb. 29.?Patrick
Garrett, until two years ago collector
of customs at El Paso, Texas, was
shot and killed to-day near Las Cruces,
N. M., by Wayne Brazil, son of an
old settler.
Garrett gained fame as the slayer
of the notorious "Billy the Kid" in
1889. He served as captain of the
Texas Rangers and sheriff of Dona
Ana County. He was a personal
friend of President Roosevelt.
Garrett was shot , while going from
his ranch tp Las Cruces. The kil ling,
it is said, was the result of a quarrel <
between Garrett and Brazil over the
use pf .the.public range.,Garrett jvas ji
a. cattle qreeder and Brazil was a !
raiser of goats.
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
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News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt
Etchings*'
Ehrhardt, March 2.?Our town
has been very quiet until Saturday,
afternoon. Booze got the upper hand
of some colored men and put them in
a notion to scrap a little. One hit the
other with a piece -of iron and the
fracas was prided. The parties were
placed under arrest;, one put up the
nriPA of hnnd nut on him: the other
spent the night in the town's boarding
house kept for unruly persons.
Another darkey'growling around
the Methodist parsonage was up also,
and will have to make , his business
known to the Intendant and Wardens
to-night.
_ Mr. Robert Delk and Miss Tharie
Copeland, daughter of Judge and
Mrs. J. C. Copeland, were united in
holy matrimony by Rev. P. E. Monroe
at the home of the bride's parents
Sunday afternoon at about twoo'clock.
The bride and groom left
for their home in bam berg soon alter
the ceremony was e/ided. Wishing
them a long and happy life together
as man and wife, was given them as
they passed through those gathered
to see them married.
The ties are being moved from the
railroad yard. How about the poplar
logs, Mr. Intendarit? Get a hump on
the pwners Of them and make them
get them away, and then the vacant
lot will have a more respectable appearance,
and farmers will have more
wagon room to move their fertilizer
that has commenced to move rapidly.
Quite a crowd was in town last
Thursday attending the district meeting
Of the Khight3 Qf Pythias. The
order was well represented and some
interesting speeches delivered, showing
that great' interest was taken.
Thursday night/ after refreshments^
were served, two members were given
their second degrees, and about
eleven o'clock allwas o>er,and some
of the visiting members returned,
home; others spent the night with us
ready to' take an early start next
morning. / .
Quite a,crowd of our town l#ik&
will attend court to-day. Some as
jurors and othersas witnesses. Judge
J. C. Copelarwj ushered the crowd to
Rnmhpnr.
Some farmers are getting anxious
to plant corn, and if the weather remains
warm like it was Sunday corn,
will be planted soon.
Rev. T. L. Belvin is away from
town.- Was called to his mother's bedside,
who is very ill. * :
Dr. J. H. Roberts went to Barn-?
well to see his brother, Creech, who
was very ill.
Mrs. Lilla H. Kinard and Miss Alice
Sease have been spending some time
with relatives in this section. ' Jee.
^ . St. John's News. y .
St. John's, March 2.?We are glad
to know that Mrs. Jno. E; Carter is
slowly improving.
Mr. layman Chassereau spent last
Sunday with his brother', Mr. Henry '
Chassereau. v
Messrs. A. M. Kinard and C. H.
Bishop were in town last Monday on
business. ..
Mrs. J. W. Kinard was quite sick
last Sunday, but is some better now.
Mrs. W. E. Kinard spent last Friday
night with Mrs. A. Sease, her
daughter.
Mrs. Rose Thomas visited her aunt,
"NT F Tfinnrd last. Saturday
and Sunday,
Mr. H.~ L. Kinard was visitjng
friends in Colleton Sunday.
Mr. Obie Folk and his bride have
been out visiting his father, Dr. Folk,
arid pave returned to their home at
Thunderbolt, Ga.
Messrs. Henry and Willie Ritter
were in Savannah two days last week
on business.
A number of men from this neighborhood
.went dove shooting last
Tuesdayiear Mr, J. H, Fender's.
Miss Mary Carter has been spending
some, tinie. with friends and relatives
of this section.
^There was a corwention of^the
hardt last Thursday, <the 27tii.,,. Dinner
was given in the hall; afterwards
an address was made by Mr. H. EL
Gyles on the Knights. . This was
greatly enjoyed by many people who
attended. Conrad carter.
* St. John's graded school.
Courts Likely to Clash.
Columbia, March 2.?Another new
and serious complication was injected
into the threatened clash of State and
Federal authorities over the dispensary'by
the filing this morning before
the Supreme Court of the petition of
Attorney General Lyon for a mandamus
order against the dispensary
winding-up commission to compel the
coinmission to pay over to the State
treasurer the $15,000 just appropriated
by the Legislature out of the funds
which Judge Pritchard has enjoined
the commission from paying out for
carrying qn criminal prosecution.
Thus the State Supreme Court is
asked to allow the commission to violate
the Pritchard injunction, making
the el ash open and direct.
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DOG SAVES MASTER'S LIFE.
Persists for Three Days Till Searchers
Followed Him to Dry Well.
- Louisville, Neb., Feb. 27.?Imprisoned
in a dry well for two nights
and-almost three days without food
or drink, Byron McNealy was saved
from death today, when his dog led
a party of searchers to the abandoned
well. 'McNealy was taken out half
dead. He'had two broken ribs, a deep
gash in his right leg and numerous
bruises about the head and body.
The young man's rescue was due
directly to his faithful dog. After he
fell into the well the dog went home,
where after barking ana wnming ne
set off again for the well, two miles
away. The dog would return home
every few hours, try to make the mem-1
bers of the family follow him and
failing trot back to where his master
was imprisoned. He continued this
until a party of searchers followed!
him to the well.
FLOODS DEVASTATE COUNTRY.
Eastern Pennsylvania Is Swept by
Swollen Streams.
Philadelphia, Feb. 26?The death
of at least three persons and much
property damage was caused in eastern
Pennsylvania today by floods
precipitated by heavy rains and melting
snow. Bridges were swept away,
mills and manufacturing: establishments
inundated and railroad tracks
flooded, so that traffic was interfered
with. J. C. Clauss, a farmer, was
drowned above Easton while attempting
to ford the Bushkill creek,- which
had overflowed its banks; Frederick
Gurkensmyer of York was caught in
the flood while gathering driftwood
in Codorus creek and drowned and
Michael Gallagher, Jr., aged 10, of
Allentown lost his lite by tailing into
the swollen waters in Jordan creek.
The large sewers at Wilkesbarre
were unable to carry off the water
and the lower section of the city was
flooded, causing much distress. Several
silk mills and other industrial
plants were compelled to* shut down
aifd traffic on several trolley lines
was suspended.
Throughout the Schuylkill region
mines were flooded and operations
were suspended. Reports from the
various points tonight show that the
water- is receding and no further
trouble is anticipated. Little trouble
was caused here, the exception being
in Manayun^, asuburb, where several
mills on the Schuylkill were compelled
temporarily to suspend operations.
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Bitten by Mad Dog.
:Newberry, Feb. 26.?Jennings,
the 6-year-old boy of Mr. F. J. Russell
of this city, was this afternoon
bitten by a mad dog on the street's
near Mr. Russell's residence. The
little boy's face was terribly lacerated.
The dog was a bull dog belonging
to Mr. F. M. Rogers, who lived
across ^the street from Mr. Russell.
It is said that the dog showed every
symptom of having hydrophobia.
Mr. Russell will leave in the morning
with his little son. for Atlanta for
treatment. The dog was Jailed and
its head will be carried to Atlanta, so
that it can be seen whether the dog
really had hydrophobia.
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Miffed at Their Pastor.
SPARTANBtJRG, Feb. 25.?There is
friction between certain officers of
the Second Presbyterian church and
the pastor as the result of the new
cHurch: building erected. Several of
the officers have withdrawn from the
church, some uniting with the First
Presbyterian while others worship
withothercongregations. The church
now in course of construction is a
small building. The church officers
claim they wanted a handsome church
and would have raised the funds 1x>
erect such a building as they hiid
planned, but the pastor took the mat*
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teriGi new cnurcn muu m&uwuiiauus
and the officers quit.
Impossible.
. It was June, ?the month of weddings,
and two of little Anne'syoung
aunts and several of their mends
wgrfc to he married, says Harper's
Magazine. Anne heard much of the
preparations, for the. various trousseaux,
and tp her great delight was
allowed to go to some pf the weddings.
She was fascinated .by the
lovely brides and their beautiful costumes.
In the., midst of this excitement,
Ker grandmother, remarked
oneday that the young man next door
was to be married. Anne looked at her
in astonishment. "Why, grandmother"
she said, "who ever heard of a
young man's getting married!"
Negroes Ordered to Leave.
Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 27.?A special
^rom Fayettville says that early
this morning, before day, the vigilance
committee went to the house of
Q noorrn Jnnps wlin tVirPAteripd tVlP
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life of Deputy Sheriff Patte soon after
Chief Benton was killed, to see if
he had left town, as ordered. He
was not at home but the vigilants ran
across a negro school teacher named
Professor Patte and found him to be
heavily armed. They took him to
jail. To-day another bad negro was
ofdered to leaye town- It is deter-,
mined to rid the city of all such.
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AGED WOMAN MURDERED
HER HEAD SPLIT OPEN BY A BLOW
FROM AN AXE.
Two Negro Boys Arrested?A Lynch- j
ing Narrowly Averted. ,
Have Confessed. * ]
Columbia, Feb. 26.? Sitting in her ]
home, two miles west of Cayce, this <
morning, white-haired Mrs. Paul D. j
Ellisor was suddenly struck 'down from
behind by a negro burglar armed
with her husband's axe. The
heayy weapon sank , deep into the ^
skull and death was probably instan- j
taneous. Hisjieed done, the assassin j
strove to cover up the evidence so
that the crape would not be discov- ^
imfil-ViA Vio/I flfrtft/l VklC M. ,
C1CU Ullblt iJt IIUU lliOUb gvuu tuw VU I
cape. Catching up the pitiful, wast- c
ed body he forced it into a clothes has- K
ket near at hand and tossed over it
the quilts from tvhe bed. Theii catch- c
ing up Mr. Ellisor's shotgun and one',
of his coats the murderer fled. .
The crime was not discovered until
an hour or more afterward. Mr. j
Ellisor had gone to New Brookland
at an early hour to sell vegetables, ^
leaving Mrs. Ellisor alone in the little ^
three room house. The supposition s
is that the murderer, seeing the mas- "1
ter of thejhouse drive away, supposed
the home to be empty.- Mr. Ellisor
returned to the house at about 9:30 *
o'clock and found his daughter, ajid
several friends sitting upon the door- i
step awaiting his return. The house $
was locked up, and all supposed that
Mrs. Ellisor had closed it to run over :
to a neighbor's After waiting around t
the premises for some time they became
alarmed and forced the door to
find the reality far worse than anything
they cquld have feared.
> The alarm was quickly given, and J
within the hour men were searching *
for the murderer. \ > ,c
Mrs. Ellisor leaves her husband^ an J
aged farmer much respected in the t
communitv. and six children, four ^
married daughters atid two grown jj
sons. -N 5
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Two negroes were arrested the ^
same afternoon on a train between a
Columbia and Newberry, who were ?
thought to be the right parties. They k
were carried to Newberry and placed a
in jail, and next day were carried to 1
Columbia and put in the penitentiary, a
where they now are. The negroes "
are Brack and Ned Toland, aged 17 c
and 19 years. They sold the gun to e
a Mr. Fox in Brookland. When the J
negroes were brought from New- I(
berry to Columbia, a crowd gathered J
in the latter city to lynch them, but 11
their designs were frustrated by tak- J
ing the negroes off the train outside J
the city and putting them in the pen- ?
itentiary., Saturday they made a full
confession Of the crime: , .
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The Slayers Confess.
Columbia, February 28.?Ned and
Brack Toland, negroes, aged 17 and
19 years, respectively, late this after- ^
noon made a full confession of the a
murder of Mrs. Paul W. ElHsor, the v
aged white woman who lived just
across, the river from C#umbia. , . j
Brack, the youngest of the broth- L
era. aaid that Mm Ellisor susoected I
something' as they entered the house. ^
When they got inside Brack said he ?
caught the old woman and held her r
while his brother knocked her in the
head with an axe. They put her body
in a basket and Ned struck her two
more blpws. They then proceeded
to rob the'house, taking a gun and a J
number of articles of wearing ap- *
parel. No money was found. *
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Death of Col. Youmans. 1
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Barnwell, Feb. 26?Col. Law- 5
rence W. Youmans died ap 4 o'clock ]
this morning at the hospital in Savan- j
nah, where he was taken several days 2
ago for treatment for cancerous af- j
fection. The news of his death was z
received throughout the county with j
universal regret. Col. Youmans was 4
vaVv nonular in this county and com
manded the entire confidence of the c
people. He was born at Gillinsoville, \
in the pld BufoVd district, about six- c
ty-three years ago. He received his c
education at the Academy at Gillison- t
villeand entered the South Carolina r
College; was there about one year,
when he enlisted m the Confederate
arzny and served throughout the war.
He was a gallant soldi# and at the _
close of the war he became a planter *
apd was very successful and soon ac- J
quired a very large land estate. r
He Was Paid.
A popular and witty minister, on p
ascending the steps of the church one v
Sunday afternoon, saw ah old womart
struggling against rheumatics to n
reach the top of the steps, and at h
once taking her by the arm he gently n
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assisted ner up. un rescuing uie a
top, she asked him who was to preach, a
"Oh, Rev. B.," he replied, giving his
own name. "Oh, gracious!" exclaim- t.
ed the old woman, "help me down p
again. I would rather listen to a d
man sharpening a saw. Please help h
me down again. I do not care to go
in." The minister was at first in- n
clined to refuse, but the hiiinor of n
the situation tickled him, and ne rer .
marked as he reached the bottbm of J
the 8tej?, "You arejquite right, my d:
jgood woitiaii; I wpuld not go in my- a
self if I iidt paid for it." v. *
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' SHOOTING IN A1KHN. .
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W. F. Dobey Shoots H. H. Rankin
About a Debt.
Aiken, Feb. 28.?This morning at
ten thirty o'clock, Mr. W. F. Dobey, x,
3f this city, a prominent contractor,
3hot and wounded Mr. Herman H. $1
Rankin, a store keeper, in Park ave- i\ "$?
lue on the sidewalk. The shooting*
vas the result of a quarrel which is
jaid to have been precipitated by
Rankin's approach to Dobey and asking
vhim for thel payment of an old 4$
iebt of $1.50. >
It is stated that Mr. Dobey was in ' '0*
the place of business <3f Mr. iRankin yVfim
this morning, and the latter asked
lim for the money. This started a ~
luarrel between the two men, and
many resulted m Mr. uooey temng .
lim to come out of the store upon the
street and fight. Rankin thereupon vpj
rame out of the store and they were /
>n the sidewalk near the store. It is \ ||?
stated that Dobey cursed Rankin, and
hat Rankin brushed him in \he face
vith his hand. At this stage Dobey *?
nulled hiarevolver and fired twice at ''s|S|
Elankin. The first shot struck the
nan, and he is^aid to have ran from. -<S|
;he scene and that the last shot was - "M
ired as he was fleeing. The ball ij||;
{truck in the thigh, going through -0
he leg, and inflicting a painful if
lot serious wound. This is the story [
is it is being told, and cannot be
n'ven as authentic.
Mr. Dobey was placed under arrest, o '70
ater was granted bond in the sum of
>400, and released from custody.'
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nence, anctthe ,affair is very much J'Yji
alked about. [\
Says Account Was Incorrect.
Aiken; Feb. 29.?Mr. W. F. Dobey, j yl
vho yesterday shot and wounded Mr. - vja
I. H. Rankin on the street in this
ity, states that the account to-day
mblished is an incorrect account of >;
he affair. The article in question was
mtten upon the facts as could be ^
fathered at the time. Mr. Dobey
ienies that he went into the store of . V
tankin at all. He says that the dif- /J
iculty began, about eighteen months / .V.&S
go. Yesterday he says that he was ^
oming up the street, and seeing Kan-.
in standing in front of his store
tarted to pass him, but was called by "
he latter, who asked him concerning
, debt. Dobey told him not to bother
im about it, but Rankin, Dpbcjr
laims, invited him to fight, and pull- ." 1
d his coat off and started at him With . ,p-'
ne hand in his pocket and with his
2ft hand he struck Dobey on the f ice. '
he latter then shot him, stating that '& J
ie believed that he was going to reeive
injury at the hands of Rankin.
Ir. Dobey also alleges that he has
ad threats made against him by Mr. :
|lr; Rankin'sjwound is not thought .
o be'& serious orie and he is getting
n well at this time. /.,t?
' Southern.Cuts Salarle*
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 27.?A reduc- '%
ion of 10 per cent, in the wages 5of " %
til employees of the Southerp rail- Sftf
fay except contract labor, spch as . .in.
ngineers, firemen, etc., effective
darch 1, was announced today. A 'M
previous cut of 10 per .cent, affected
J1 general officers of the company.
[he general retrenchment" policy e >|?jg
idopted by the road is given as a
eason for the cut. . $
Railroad Officials Confer. J
Savannah, Ga., Feb. 25.?An.im- .$|i
>ortant conference of executive and
raffic Officials of several railway lines .. v yM.
vas held today. Among the Officials ^
vho met were Resident Emerson and ~ v/vSjk
[Yaffle ManagerW. J. Craig ofrihe t
Atlantic Coast Line, Vice President
Jevier andr General Passenger Agent ;
lyan of the Seaboard Air Line, Vice j>[^g?
^resident Parrott and Traffic Mhn- 'TyjjSH
iger J. P. Beckwith of the Florida
Hast Coast and Vice President Par ot
and General Passenger Agent C.
rill the funerals occur" / *
Jr.
I. Rhoades of the Georgia Southern
h Florida. ;<|?
The inauguration of the flat 2&
:ents a mile passenger rate on April
was diseased; as were also labor ZS
:onditions and the wage scale. The
fficials, however, were not inclined
o jsay. what conclusions had been r- ,
eached.i . Questions
in Arithmetic. ^
If a man.tries, to carry two potted - ,M
ilants from the cellar to the front
ard for his wife,and one falls and
ireaks, what commaiidiheht does the
nan also break? %
If the patron of a restaurant has to /?|g
vait three-quarters of an hour fc^r a ^
>ork Chop how long would he have to
rait for two pork chops?. 4 'ij
A and B are good friends, wno live ~
lext aoor to each other. A bought
lis daughter a piano for $500. How
inch would B give if some onejvould
teal the piano; aipo how long will A . 10$
ndB remain on speaking tejms?
A doctor calls on his patient three
imes a day. How long will the
atient lj^ and how much will the
octor make out of the patient before *
e dies?
How long can a half-horse power
idh run a four-horse power lawn
iower?>
Mary has three green apples and
ohnnie has seven If Hary eats all j
fjier green apples and Johnnie eats !
If of his greehapples;at What hbiir /