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MOB LYNCHES NEGRO.
^ John Smith Strunir l*p in Outskirts of
Arcadia, Fla.
Arcadia, Fla.. April 11.?John
< Smith, the negro who yesterday dragged
Miss Mary Steele Ewing from
her buggy, two miles l'rom Arcadia,
in an attempt at criminal assault,,
was taken away from the sheriff and
his deputies at an early hour this
k morning and hanged to a tree.
The story of the attempted assault
is as follows: Miss Ewing, who had
been to the city on a shopping tour,
was returning to her home, four
miles from the city, when the negro
sprang into the buggy, seized Miss
Ewing and dragged her into the
bushes, throwing her down and
choking her.
The young woman begged, fought1
* and prayed to the black fiend to let!
her go and offered to give him $100
in cash if he would accompany her
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Home, dui tnis aia noi siop mc uiu^.
Miss Ewing, in her struggle, saw
> Will Knowles and her brother walking
some distance from the scene.
With renewed vigor she screamed
, and this attracted the Knowles brothers,
who rushed to her assistance.
The brute made his escape, and, after
taking Miss Ewing to her home, the
men rushed to the city and spread
the news,-and bloodhounds, followed
> by a posse of 300 men, were soon on
the trail. The negro was found at a
turpentine camp and taken before
his victim, who positively identified
him. Sheriff Freeman and his depu
ties succeeded in placing Smith in
jail, but being afraid of an attack,
attempted to spirit the negro out of
Arcadia, when they were met by an
automobile party, held up and forced
to give up the prisoner.
? The negro, seeing that he was
doomed to death, pleaded for mercy,
but there was none in the hearts of
the mob who carried him to the edge
of the city, where they strung him
v up to a tree, where his body was
still hanging this morning. Miss
Ewing positively identified the clothing
on the negro and pointed out
the shirt she had torn in her efforts
to escape.
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The Boy With the Feet.
The boy in the car sat cuddled so
> close to the woman in gray that
everybody thought he belonged to
< her, says The New York Sun, so
t when he unconsciously dug his muddy
shoes into the broadcloth skirt of
his left hand neighbor, she leaned
over and said:
r "Pardon me, madam, will you
kindly make your little boy square
himself around? He is soiling my
skirt with his muddy shoes."
The woman in gray blushed a lit*
tie and nudged the boy away.
VMy boy?" she said. "My goodness,
he isn't mine!"
The boy squirmed uneasily. He
? was such a little fellow that he could
not begin to touch his feet to the
floor, so he stuck them out straight
in front of him like pegs to hang
4 things on and looked at them deprecatingly.
"I'm sorry I got your dress dirty,"
he said to the woman on his left. "I
hope it will brush off."
The timidity in his voice took a
short cut to the woman's heart and
she smiled upon him kindly.
"Oh, it doesn't matter," she said.
Then as his eyes were still fastened
. ^ upon hers, she added: "Going uptown
alone?"
"Yes ma'am," he said. "I always
go alone. There isn't anybody to go
with me. Father's dead and mother's
dead. I live with Aunt Clara
over in Brooklyn, but she says Aunt
Anna ought to help do something
* for me, so once or twice a week
when she gets tired out and wants
to go some place to get rested up
she packs me off over here to stay
- with Aunt Anna. I'm going up
there now. Sometimes I don't find
Aunt Anna at home, but I hope she
will be home to-day, because it
looks like it is going to rain and I
? don't like to hang around in the
* street in the rain."
The woman felt something mOve
inside her throat and she said: "You
are a very little boy to be knocked
about in this way," rather unsteadily.
"Oh, I don't mind," he said. "I
f never get lost. But I get lonesome
sometimes on these long trips and
when I see anybody that I think I'd
like to belong to I scrooge up close to
her so I can make believe that I
really am her little boy. This mornx
- i, ing I was playing that I belonged to
. that lady on the other side of me and
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]? got. SO 1111 St?U 111(11 1 luigui an
about my feet. That is why I got
your dress dirty."
The woman put her arm around
the tiny chap and "scrooged" him up
so close that she hurt him, and every
?' othfer woman who had overheard his
artless confidence looked as if she
would not only let him wipe his
shoes on her best dress, but would
feel like spanking him if he didn't.
HIS OWN FOOL NOTION
* f Says Would-be Black Hand Operator
in Atlanta.
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Allan ta, Ira., Apni o. it ?ao
just a fool notion that I got from
reading dime novels," said Daniel W.
Johnson, Jr., the 18-year-old boy,
* who was jailed last night for having
attempted to extort $35,000 from
Asa G. Candler, a prominent banker
and Georgia's wealthiest citizen,
v through "Black Hand" methods.
The young man at first told the
police he had been forced by three
strangers to write the letters to
Candler, demanding the money. He
now admits the scheme was of his
? own concoction.
Johnson wrote the second letter
Sunday, repeating his threats of
death to Candler in case of his noncompliance
and then went to church
f and took his regular place in Candler's
Sunday-school class.
He was arraigned for preliminary
hearing before United States Commissioner
Colquitt late to-day. He
waived examination and was bound
over to await the action of the federal
grand jury. A bond of $1,000
was made and the boy released. The
case is set for hearing on May 10.
Candler announces he will not
prosecute the case.
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CONTENTION IN CALHOUN.
I Clerk of Court Brings Mandamus
Against Commissioners.
St. .Matthews, April 9.?A small
homo shell was exploded in the Calhoun
county camp yesterday afternoon.
There has been smouldering
lor some time, but matters did not
reach a head, and it was not known
positively that anything definite
would occur until the climax
came.
.Mr. J. Archie Wolfe, of the Sandy
Run section, was elected clerk of
court of this county at the first election
after the new county was formed
and again last summer to the
iuil term of four years. His contention
is that he was led to believe
by the "powers" that his salary of
1,0u0 would be raised by the legislature
when the machinery got regu-|
larly in motion.
The new county commission de-1
nies this. In the meantime the
salaries of the probate judge, superintendent
of education and supervisor
were raised, and the legislators
claim that they were instructed by
the new county commission to let
that of clerk of court remain the
same. Mr. Wolfe consulted attorneys,
who advised that tthe State
constitution allowed him the fees
which the new county bill requires
to be paid into the county treasury,
and he accordingly refused the request
of the grand jury committee
! that the books be investigated and
[the fees turned over. The regular
authorities retaliated by holding up
[his salary. His attorneys, Mann &
(Stabler, then instituted mandamus
proceedings, demanding that the
new county commission and supervisor
pay this salary as heretofore,
the amount which the legislature
gave him.
Mr. Wolfe, when interviewed by
a correspondent, refused to talk, but
his manner indicated that he had
fully made up his mind and was in
to the finish. It can therefore be
safely predicted that a law suit will
be the inevitable outcome and the
procedings will be watched with
much interest.
A similar case occurred in Oconee
county a few years ago before Judge
Dantzler, who ruled that it was special
legislation, in violation of the
State constitution, for the county to
take the fees, and he was sustained
by the supreme court. It is known
that Mr. Wolfe based his own rights
in the premises largely upon the result
of the Oconee case.
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
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Catarrh being a constitutional disease,
requires a constitutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up
the constitution and assisting nature
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have so much faith in its curative
powers that they offer one hundred
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cure. Send for list of testimonials.
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Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Two Die in Oil Explosion.
Point Richmond, Cal., April 9.?
T-n-z-i nrmn tooto Knmod fn H P91 Vl nnfl
three others seriously injured as the
result of an explosion in one of the
oil sills of the Standard Oil company
here today.
The fire, which was scattered over
eight acres, was fought for an hour
by 1,500 men and the damage is
$50,000.
The sill which exploded has a capacity
of 10,000 barrels. It seems the
bottom fell out of it, causing an explosion
which scattered burning oil
over eight acres. Chief Clerk Lawrence,
of the marine department, was
passing the sill at the time and he
was covered with burning oil and
burned to death.
John Granger, gatekeeper, suffered
a like fate.
Bingham, the Humorist.
"Every time I reach Atlanta I
think of a trick that a yellow negro
hack driver played on me the first
time I was there, some ten years
ago. He certainly played me for a
'come on,' and trimmed me nice and
easy.
"The train I was on reached Atlanta
about 8:30 p. m., and as I had
been traveling all day I was tired
out, and as soon as the chew-chews
rolled into the union depot I hustled
outside, gave my bag and a parachute
to a negro hackman and said:
'Drive me to the Kimball.' He drove
me about ten blocks and soon landed
me and the grip i the rotunda of the
Kimball House.
" 'How much?' sez I.
" 'Fo' bits,' sez he.
" 'What's that?' sez I.
" 'Fifty cents, sez he.
"I paid him and he fluttered out
into the world.
"As I placed my name upon the
register the clerk asked: 'Where did
you come from?'
" 'On the Southern, from Charlotte,
North Carolina,' I replied.
" 'Where did you leave the train?'
he said.
" 'At the union depot,' I answered.
" 'Well,' he said, laughingly, 'that
nigger sure skinned you?the union
depot is right across the street.'
"I had been done, but they tell me
the same trick is tossed to the
stranger every day."?News and
Courier.
Up Before the Bar.
N. H. Brown, an attorney, of Pitisfield,
Vt., writes: "We have used Dr.
King's New Life Pills for years and
find them such a good family medicine
we wouldn't be without them."
For chills, constipation, biliousness
or sick headache they work wonders,1
25c. Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg,
S. C. I
THREE BANKS MAY UNITE.
Barnwell, Aiken and Graniteville Institutions
May Consolidate.
Aiken. April 9.?The stockholders
of the Bank of Aiken at their annual
meeting approved of resolutions
sent to them by the Bank of Graniteville
and the Bank of Barnwell, favoring
the combination of these
three banking institutions under
one management, and increasing
| the capita: stocK ana surplus or
$500,000.
j The large attendance at the meeti
ing showed the keen interest in this
J matter that is being taken by the
stockholders. The president made a
report which showed the bank to be
in a most prosperous condition. The
old directors and officers were reelected.
The matter that occupied much of
the time, however, was the consolidation
of the three banks. It is proposed
to unite these banks into one
institution, to be known as the:
Bank of Western Carolina, with its I
main office in Aiken, and branch j
offices at Graniteville and Barnwell, j
and with a general board of directors
representing all of these towns.
Committees from these banks
have met and framed resolutions favoring
the consolidation, and these
resolutions were unanimously adopted
at the Bank of Aiken stockholders'
meeting. On April 26 the stockholders
of the Bank of Barnwell will
act, and at a later date those of the
Bank of Graniteville.
If the proposed consolidation is
carried out it will give the towns
the benefit of one of the strongest
banking institutions in the South.
The total resources of the three
banks at present are considerably
more than $1,000,000.
While somewhat new in the South,
the system of branch banks is recognized
by the State banking laws,
and it is in force in a very few sections.
In Canada and Europe it is the
general rule and one bank will frequently
have 100 branches.
One result of the consolidation
will be the placing of about $40,000
worth of the stock of the new bank
in private hands, this being the
amount of stock now owned by the
Bank of Aiken in the other institutions,
and the discussion on this subject
seems to indicate that there will
be a lively scramble to secure this
stock when it is placed on the market.
April Fool Joke Was Real Staff.
Los Angeles, Cal., April 2.?Because
it was All Fool's day, a dilapidated
looking leather wallet that
contained $715 in currency was allowed
to lie on the sidewalk at
Main and Fifth streets half an hour
yesterday, touched only by shoes
and was finally kicked into the gutter,
where it was recovered by the
owner.
J. M. Alexander, a tourist from
Des Moines, was on his way to the
Pacific electric depot to take a Pasadena
car when the wallet dropped
from his pocket. He did not discover
his loss until he was buying a ticket.
Almost frantic, he rushed but of
the depot and began retracing his
steps, little expecting to find his
lost money.
At Fifth and Main he espied the
wallet in the gutter. A score of persons
stopped to look, expecting to
laugh at his discomfiture over an
April fool trick, but to their astonishment
he tore the wallet open and
drew forth a roll of bills which he
hurriedly counted. Then he carefully
tucked the wallet away in an
inside pocket.
Words to Freeze the Soul.
"Your son has consumption. His
case is hopeless." These appalling
words were spoken to Geo. E. Blevens,
a leading merchant, of Springfield,
N. C., by two expert doctors?
one a lung specialist. Then was
shown the wonderful power of Dr.
King's New Discovery. "After three
weeks use," writes Mr. Blevens, "he
was as well as ever. I would not
take all the money in the world for
what it did for my boy." Infallible
for coughs and colds, its the safest,
surest cure of desperate lung diseases
on earth. 50c. and $1.00. Peoples
Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C.,
guarantee satisfaction. Trial bottle
free.
Bingham's Wit.
Ralph Bingham, the wit and humorist
of international reputation,
had been taken around Montgomery
all day to observe her bulwarks, but
had failed to exhibit any of those
symptoms of paralysis which are acceptable
to the Montgomerian
mind.
"Now confess," said the Montgomerian
host, after the burden
and heat of the day, "isn't Montgomery
a unique town?"
"Unique?" mused Mr. Bingham;
"I believe that word is derived from
two Latin words?unus, one, and
equs, horse. I think Montgomery is
a unique town."
A Church Story.
This is a church story. Of course
you've been to Cannon?Cannon,
Georgia?the city of churches. Well,
Cannon is a mighty fine place, inhabited
by mighty fine people. The
Methodist and Baptist churches are
located on the same street, almost directly
opposite each other and the
street in question is not overly wide.
The two Sunday-schools were in session.
Both congregations were singing.
The Baptist were singing the
good song: "Will There Be Any
stars m My urown:" ine Metnodist
children were singing at the
same time, "No, Not One; No not
One." Of course neither Sundayschool
was aware of what the other
was singing.?Elberton Star.
"I'd Rather Die, Doctor
than have my feet cut off," said M. L.
Bingham, of Princeville, 111, "but
you'll die from gangrene (which had
eaten away eight toes) if you don't,"
said all doctors. Instead, he used
Bucklen's Arnica Salve till wholly
cured. Its cures of eczema, fever
sores, boils, burns and piles astound
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Apple, pear, peach, orange and other fruit trees soon respond to
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CITATION NOTICE.
The State of South Carolina?
Couaty of Bamberg?By Geo. P.Harmon,
Esq., Judge of Probate. ,
. Whereas, Mrs. William F. Hughes ?$$0
hath made suit to me to grant her ;V:f|
letters of administration of the e?tate
of and effects of Sam Beard;
These are thererore 10 cite ana p^ja
admonish all and singular the kii> ^
dred and creditors of the said Sam 5$
Beard, deceased, that they be and
appear before me, in the Conrt of
Probate, to be held at Bamberg, on
Saturday, April 17th, next, after
publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in -ip
the forenoon, to show cause, if any 7*)
they have, why the said administration
should not be granted.
Given under my hand this 2nd
day of April, A. D., 1909.
GEO. P. HARMON,
Judge of Probate.
REGISTRATION NOTICE. :
Please take notice that the Municipal
Books for Registration for the m
town of Bamberg are now open, and gajjj
those qualified electors of the county j
of Bamberg, residing within the incorporate
limits of the said town, desiring
certificates of municipal regis- ft
tration, will apply to me for such
certificates before May 1st, A.
1909. A. M. BRABHAM,
Supervisor of Registration.
Bamberg, S. C., April 1, 1909.
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