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paper, and in all the late
shapes . and sizes, ranging
- price from lc. to 20c. each. ]
sure and see our line befo
purchasing. We have tabh
ruled and unruled, note si:
packet size, letter size, leg
size, and others.
130 sheets of paper that you c;
write on with ink, put up
tablet form, for 5c.
Pencils
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lc., we have. We also ha
some exceptionally good penc
at 5c. and 2 for 5c. More pe
cils in our store than in the bi
ance of the town. All shap<
colors and sizes.
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jfepy": DRANK CARBOLIC ACID.
- p^oung White Man Committed SuiKap^'
cide at Elloree.
^^Ky-BIIoree, March 6.?G. H. Till
p^; ^mmitted suicide at this place yesllll^rday
afternoon by drinking cargfey&Olic
acid. The deed was committed
BHpw the afternoon. No motive can be
fnr the rash act other than I
|g|sthe words uttered by the young man
j^'Jiist a few minutes before his death,
which he said that he had "been
llpyit drag on his mother for several \
p^^rears, and he wished to end it all.":
|p%^lTie act was a most deliberate one,
agfpiBd within a very few minutes after
g^the deadly poison had passed the lips
of the young man, he lay a corpse.
P^Toung Till had not been noticed to
p?i"r,be under any strain of mind prior
3Bf|to his suicide.
Yesterday afternoon young Till
left his home and went to the drug'
Kfevstore. Here he purchased a small i
of carbolic acid. He then dij;'
^*iected his way to the dispensary,
he bought a pint of corn
whiskey. With these two articles the
ft^yoong man returned to the home of
mother, and upon entering the
house he went directly to his room.
Here he disrobed as if preparing for
bed. Before lying down, however,
? he poured out a quantity of the
j?*> deadly carbolic acid in a glass, and
mixed with it a quantity of the
Sv whiskey. Then he drank this dead
ly concoction, and within a short
py length of time he lay dead upon his
bed.
After the young man had poured
0^?: this poison into nis stomacn, ne caued
to his mother, who was in an adf,
joining room, and she came to him.
He then told her that he had just
!> taken poison. He told his parent
that he had ben a drag on her hands
I* for several years, and that he had
decided to end his miserable existence,
and never to trouble them. He
asked for a cloth with which to wipe
his mouth, but the effects of the acid
- A had already begun.
Physicians were summoned imme?<
diately, but arrived too late to render
the ill fated man any assist|?V
ance.
Young Till was 24 years of age,
f.'C and leaves a mother and four broth|
ers and sisters. The funeral took
% place this afternoon, and the interment
at the family burying ground
near Mt. Lebanon church.
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Herald Book Store.
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erything in its ph
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Ink
This is the place to come to get
in ink in any size bottle, any
Be make and any color. We have
re as much ink in our store at
its present as there is in the balse,
ance of the county. From 5c. a
;al bottle to 85c.
" Files
Full line Shannon and Box Files,
also wire and standing files,
or Keep your papers and corve
respondence where you can reils
fer to it. Wire and standing
in- files 5c. Box Files 25c. Shanil
non Files 75c., sold in city at
>s, $1.00 and $1.25. Our prices
are always lower.
re in stock most anything usee
all times a large assortmen
is, Compasses, Pens and Pen S
l, also for the office we have
wire, Desk Trays, Pen Racks,
ities. REMEMBER each and
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! AWAITED IX A GRAVE. <
Japanese Attempts to Bury Himself
and Die Afterward.
A youth of Kobe, Japan, who
sought to commit suicide by burying
himself alive and paid an accomplice
25 cents to spade the earth upon his
coffin, achieved some degree of notoriety
even in Japan, where new
things are happening every day, says
the New York Sun, He failed of his
original purpose, however.
A policeman was strolling along
the bank of the Miantogawa river
outside of Kobe one day last month
when he happened to spy a joint of
bamboo pipe sticking a few inches
above a mound of fresh earth. Being
a Japanese and also a policeman,
his curiosity was especially keen.
He looked down the bamboo pipe,
but could see nothing.
Then he began to dig around the
pipe. He had a considerable wrench
put on his nerves when a voice came
out of the end of the pipe right at
his ear:
"Honorably condescend to go away
and permit me to die peacefully."
But the policeman did not go. He
dug some more and finally unearthed
a pine box, the length of a man's
body and about three feet wide. The
bamboo pipe led through an opening
into the box. The policeman
pried off the cover of the box, securely
nailed down and dumped the selfappointed
corpse out. ,
Yamada Katsutaro, the man who
thus would have died, told the prefect
of police that he had wanted to die
in a seemly fashion because he was
out of work. The lack of food had
suggested to him the practicability
of starving himself to death, but in
(order to be sure that he should accomplish
this purpose he had determined
to bury himself in a securely
nailed coffin and await the ravages
of hunger. He didn't want to suffocate
first, hence the bamboo pipe.
The day before the policeman discovered
him, Yamada said, he procured
the box and the services of a
coolie. Then he dug the hole out
on Egeyama and after giving the
coolie his obi and fifty sen, his last
bit of money, he was nailed up in his
coffin, lowered into the grave and
covered under six feet of soil.
Yamada promised never to try
burying himself again and the police
let him go.
Job printing, the kind that pays,
done at The Herald office.
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ationery, Office and
aid Book Store is t
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National, Everybodys, Cosmo
Success, American Boy, Sat
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Waterman's Ideal
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manufactured. Guarant
have the nicest and la
shown in Bamberg. <
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Staffs, White and Colored Cra
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ELECTION" CONTESTS FARCIAL.
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Lever Protests Against Payment of 1
$2,500 to Dantzler and Myers.
Washington, March 2.?Represen- ,
tative Lever a day or two ago landed
hard on Dantzler and Myers, the
two South Carolina negroes, who
have been making election contests
in the 2nd and 7th districts. Mr.
Lever objected to payment of $2,500
being made to them by congress, and
referred to these contests as nothing
more than a farce and pretence.
Discussing the question on the
floor he said:
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Mr. Speaker, operating, as we are,
under a rule forced upon the minority,
which does not permit any debate
to amount to anything, and prohibits
amendments to any of these
appropriation bills, I am denied the
privilege of offering several amendments
to this bill, which, I am sure,
would make it a much better bill.
If the rule would permit it, I would
offer an amendment striking out the
appropriation allowed Dantzler and
Myers,- who contested the seats of
myself and my colleague, Judge Patterson.
The appropriation amounts
to $2,500 and is a pure gift to these
negroes, who had no idea of win- 1
ning a seat and no other purpose
than getting the fees allowed in this
bill. I want the country to know
the ridiculousness of these contests,
and, with unanimous consent, I desire
to submit a statement of the
contested election cases in South
Carolina for the past twenty years.
This farcical procedure, this unnecessary
drain upon the treasury, will
never cease until this congress has
the courage to say to these negroes
that "Your case must be more than
a ridiculous pretence, before any
fees will be allowed." Three contests
have been- filed again for the
61st congress, and they will never
stop until the Republican majority
joins with us on this side in refusing
fees where the only purpose of
the contest is to obtain the fees. I
wish I had the chance to test the
sense of the house on this matter,
but your rule does not permit it, and ,
I can only voice my protest.
The list shows 18 cases, only two
of which were successful. The list
will also show that the votes received
by these Republican contestants have
grown less and less, until they now
practically amount to nothing.
Fine line box papers from 10c up,
at The Herald Book Store.
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lything in their lit
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vhat we have.
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:eed in every way. We i
rgest assortment ever |
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animation Tablets, School Bo<
yon, Stenographers' Note Bo
>ks and Day Books in all sizes
lis Arm, Rests, Etc. Anythii
rantee to be just as represen
re are always glad to see you
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He No. 59
TILLMAN RETURNS HOME.
Says There is no Use in His Remaining
in Washington.
Washington, March 6.?Senator
Tillman left for his home in South
Carolina last night.
"What is the use of my staying
here for tariff legislation?" he remarked
to his friends upon leaving
the city. "The Republicans have
mapped out a policy which cannot be
affected by the Democrats."
Mr. Tillman will, however, return
by the time the tariff bill has been
framed up by the house of representatives,
and is ready for the Senate.
Six Men to Die on Gallows.
Baton Rouge, La., March v5.?Today
is hangman's day in Louisiana.
Six men will expiate on the gallows
the crime of murder. One will be
hanged for criminal assault.
Eight prisoners were to have been
executed, but Governor Sanders
granted a reprieve to one of this
number?Jim Collier, of Madison
parish?until the board of pardons
could examine into his petition for
commutation of sentence. He was
found guilty of killing another negro
some months ago.
Three of the executions are sched- j
uled to occur at Port Allen, West
Baton Rouge parish. One of these
is that of Charles Davis, who, while
a convict in the penitentiary near
Baton Rouge, killed a guard. Davis
has maintained that his first imprisonment
was the result of a mistaken
identity, and as a matter of
fact it was under another name that
he was lodged in the penitentiary.
A few nights ago he made a second
desperate effort to escape, which i
came near to proving successful.
Wallace and Ben Jones, brothers,
will die on the same scaffold with
Davis. They killed Conductor Hall,
of the Texas and Pacific railroad, on
the night of January 22, this year.
Charles Madison is to be hanged
at Lake Charles for the criminal
assault of Sidonia Kelly last September.
At Franklin, Jack Ratier is to
pay the death penalty fcr the murder
of Mary McCoy, a young negress.
Willie Williams will be hanged at
Gretna for the murder of Willie
Brooks last September. Andrew
Washington killed his wife im Madison
September 17, 1908, and will be
executed for his crime at Tallulah.
All of the condemned men are negroes.
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in every walk of lii
think of going to
1. Therefore why
*om other than a r
nberg, and there y<
ie as you can fin<
her places; and la;
red at any other
books
Leg
ye have an exceptionally nice se- p
lection of all kinds of novels, k
that retailed regularly at $1.50,
that we are offering for 50c. 8i
and 60c. for a limited tine. We 0
also have a few more copies of *1
The Dark Corner by Zach Mc- a
Ghee, at $1.00 each. P
Pound Paper
ye know we have the largest and ?Up
best assortment of pound paper a
ever displayed in this city, ti
ranging in price from 15c. to a
50c. the pound, and if you like e
to be agreeably surprised you a
should inspect our line. Air p
we ask is for you to come and 1
look. y
y of keeping what you want,
oks, Erasers, Book Straps, Sc
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and Rulings, also Waste Baj
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ELECTROCUTED.
Mr. Cody Young Killed by Electric
Current at Marion.
Marion, March 4.?A fatal accident
occurred last night at the power
house of the light and water company,
when Cady Young, a young
white fireman, was electrocuted and
instantly killed. Mr. Young was the
day fireman at the plant and was
preparing to leave the plant when
he passed by the switchboard and
placed both bands on one or tne
wires. Instantly 2,300 volts of electricity
passed through his body. So
strong was the current that it held
him standing at the switchboard after
he was dead, and the first person
to get to him was severely shocked
in trying to pull him loose from the
wires.. Every means was exhausted
to try to revive him, but he was undoubtedly
killed almost instantaneously.
Mr. Young's duties did
not carry him about this part of the
plant and he was not familiar with
the mechanism of the switchboard,
and it was probably through ignorance
of the danger that he caught
hold of the wire.
Mr. Young was quite a young
man, and only came to Marion last
September. His former home was in
Avoca, Iowa. Since coming to Marion
Mr. Young has been a good citizen
and was very highly thought of by
his employers and associates. Only
three months ago he married a Miss
Cook.
The coroner held an inquest to-day
and the verdict was in acocrdance
with the above facts.
The funeral services were held this
afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Wife of Prisoner Burned.
Statesboro, Ga., March 7.?While
her husband was a prisoner here on
the charge of murder, awaiting a
second trial after conviction, Mrs.
Joe Woods, who resided near Rocky
Ford, this county, was burned to
death yesterday afternoon, the news
of her death reaching here today.
Mrs. Woods was bathing one of her
baby children before an open fireplace
when her dress was ignited.
She ran into the yard and died there.
The husband was taken by officers to
his home to-day, broken down at the
terrible sight, and was returned to
his cell. An officer will accompany
him to the funeral. Several small
children, the oldest but seven, are
left uncared for.
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aper galore. We have various . SB
inds and qualities, also mani- 25?
Did and carbon paper in legal ffija
Ize. We can supply the wants zw
f anybody in this line, at less gjfl|
lan city prices. Legal cap 10c. 33
quire and up.. Typewriter iff
aper 65c. a ream and up. Wt
Box Paper ft: |
line of fine box papers is the SB
rettiest you ever saw. Come in JBR.<
nd see if we're not telling the 38,' "
ruth. Ail the newest shapes sEt
nd fancies in fine correspond- W
nee paper, and the boxes alone a|8
re worth more than we ask for ?|
aper and box. Prices from all.
0c. to 50c.?none higher?yet ?23
ou get as high as 75c. values.
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A NEGRO SHOOTING.
Colored Man in Gaffney Attempted : ? \ &
to Assault Another's Wife.
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Gaffney, March 4.?Inteligence
has just reached Gaffney to the effeet
that a negro named William
Linder was shot by another negro oil
the plantation of W. Samuel Lipscomb,
a few miles from the city,
yesterday afternoon. Linder \was
shot by the other man ^cause of an
alleged assault upon the person
of the man's wife by Linder. The
negro was at work some distance
away from his home, and Linder,
according to the statement of the
woman, entered the house and accomplished
his purpose. She at once
went in search of her husband and
informed him of the occurrence,
whereupon he took his gun and as
soon as he discovered Linder shot
him. The wounds while necessarily
- - . 1 j a 4.1.1 ..a
paintui are nor consiuereu xauu auu
it is probable that the wounded man
will recover. It is said that the man
who did the shooting is on his way
to Gaffney for the purpose of surrendering
to the sheriff.
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NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE.
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Assailant of Mrs. McKinney is Incinerated
by Texas Mob.
Rockwall, Texas, March 7.?After
having been identified by Mrs.
Arthur McKinney as the negro who
attempted a criminal assault upon
her Friday morning, Anderson Ellin
was taken from the Rockwell county
jail to-night and secured to an iron
stake driven into the earth and wan
burned to death in the presence of
about 1,000 persons. Earlier in the
evening Will Clark, a negro, was
shot and instantly killed when his
father, Andrew Clark, refused permission
to a posse to search his
premises on the assumption that Ellis
was concealed there. People were
here from several towns and from
Dallas, Collin and Hunt as well as
Rockwell county to witness the execution
of the negro.
Ellis admitted his guilt, but refused
to make a statement or to
leave a farewell message for his relatives.
He did not utter a cry as the
pile of cordwood, which had been
well saturated with kerosene, was set
afire, nor did he show loss of nerve
as the flames cooked his flesh. He
was dead within nine minutes after
the torch had been applied.
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