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U#?r - *- J? T^d:rf -'y W ' \'. *4Bj | ?to lambmj fyraUt 1 Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. S., THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1909. One Dollar a Year d! . ? ; ?? ...gap v COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOMK INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IX VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items (fathered AH Around the I* i; "V; . County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. V.; ~ Ehrhardt. May 3.?Several of our town iolks have gone to Walterboro < /-? toko in \iav wppt sights. and the F , ball, to be given Mondav or Tuesday night. - v v:>:; The memorial this year is said to * have been an enjoyable occasion. Only one fight and a mule becoming frightened and threw two ladies from the buggy. Report had it that one was killed, but later reports deny this, and say that she was badly burt, but is improving when last heard from rThe ball in Dannelly's hall last ^ week had an unusually large crowd, jumping to the music given by a Charleston band. Mt. Pleasant Sunday-school will hold their annual picnic on Ascension day, which comes on the 20th of May. g# - The public as usual is invited to attend and enjoy the day with them. Dock Kearse. and Frank Carter, l;: colored, came to blows in town Saturday and were arrested to-night. They will have to tell their grievv% . ^ ances to the council, who will decide iV; what their fines or amount of labor j|$j will be. About thirty bales of cotton was placed on the market at this place last week. Not many more bales left k ' > in this part of the country any more. Some of our farmers say they have to keep a few bales to know how it %- looks. Some of the thirty bales were from the crop of 1907. m>. . Some of the base ball nine here . i state the reason why the Carlisle nine beat them was on account of their girls being present. Could not look for the ball and at their girls at the A-' '"pv.nroforrod trtntin? same nme. i ucj piw^nvu |iv- at their girls, so lost the game. Say they will plav ball the next time. P;.fe",'V Mr. Charles Ehrhardt is having the w paint brush applied to his dwelling. * Mr. Frank H. Copeland is having an addition put to his house in the 35'* . way of a piazza and bay window. Fire feels good this morning. Look out for 'possum ear cotton. Mr. John D. Carter, Jr., of the Viola section, killed a rattler last 1 week which had eleven rattles and a button, in the edge of his cotton ! patch. Rather early for them to be / ' moving about. JEE. ? From Richard Carroll's Paper. A couple of weeks ago Rev. Rich ard Carroll was in Bamberg, ana in y b'is paper, the Ploughman, he pub-, ^ lishes the following in regard to his trip: "The Baptist church at Bamberg, >? S. C., has been in a stir for several months, but things have quieted down now and there is peace. The church is now looking out for a iv pastor. The editor or the Ploughman visited the church a few days ago. He was shrewd enough to say / nothing against the fo'rmer pastor nor take sides with either faction, ^ r.. but he advised the church to make a wise choice in getting another shepherd. It is a real good church and has some excellent material in it. Mr. John Green, a deacon, is one of the wealthiest negroes in the State. While in Bamberg we stopped with our old friends, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Stewart. They have a lovely home and know how to entertain strangers." ; "The editor of the Ploughman has v many friends in Bamberg among t , \ ' white and colored. Before he left he was invited to the home of Mrs. Frank Bamberg, wife of the late General Frank Bamberg, and he was given a check by three lady members of the family respectively. Mrs. Bamberg influenced two of her dauahters to give each a check. These are indeed good people. They ;> have been friends of the writer for many years." Two Arrests in JBatesburg. Batesburg, April 28.?Mayor W. C. Bates and Chief of Police John G. Darby have been conducting investigations for some time that resulted in the arrest and jailing ot R. A. Clark and W. T. McCarthy, two young white men, residents of this town. The technical charge on which the parties are held is burglary and larceny. Some time ago the office of Mr. M. E. Rutland was broken into and a , few articles of small value carried away. Since then two other burglaries of minor nature have been rev ported. In two instances, at least, the indications were that larger booty was expected. No local charges were made out against the parties, as the offenses * alleged were of a nature to demand the attention of the State courts. The work of running down the burglaries meets with the commendation of the citizens generally, and a purse was raised to defray expenses in the work, which action on the part of the citizens cstoie as a free will offering. Attention is directed to the advertisement of Winthrop College in this issue. The entrance and^ch.olarship, examinatidn win be heTcfat; the court house here on Friday, July 2nd. fit'" ' :T " XKWS FIJOM (JOVAX. I A Xowsy letter from a \\ i<lo-A\vako Correspondent. Govan, May 3.?Such beautiful spring days. Behold the gorgeous ! display of green everywhere! To the weary pilgrim of life there is a presence perhaps that the real beginning of lite is beyond this sphere of short existence, and the fetters that bind j on? here below will soon be released J and the life, like the presence of spring, will be "quickened" in death to perpetual spring of eternal life. Can we hope (tuose who yearn for imniortalit> > that tne heaveniy land will be adonica with such beauty, more beautiful even than our woodland scenes whiv-.i we behoid advertently wherever we may chance to roam? *1 just observed a picture of city life, showing children handling green shrubs, just plucked fresh and green from the wild-wood. It is said in the crowded tenements of that city the children have not the opportunity to see vernal spring in all her beauty. Poor tyrants of life! Perhaps though if they have a yearning for the beauty of a great spring, when the fleshy screen is moved away, they will yet behold the exquisite harmony of the heaven of eternal spring! Shakespeare says: "Such harmony is in immortal souls. But whilst this muddy vesture of decay doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it." But while we feel the kindly message of love manifest in spring, the death knell rings out aloud! For, too, "in the midst of life "we are in death." Sarah Mather Kennedy, daughter of Geo. O. Mather and wife of J. E. Kennedy, passed from her abode in this life on Wednesday anernoon ai 2 o'clock. She leaves a husband and little boy to mourn her departure. To the sorrowing ones we extend sympathy. The regular services of Georges Creek Baptist church were held at the school house Sunday and Saturday before. The text for Sunday morning's discourse was taken from St. Luke: "Strive to enter in at the straight gate, for many I say unto you, will seek to enter in and shall not be able." The service was doubtless enjoyed by the goodly number present. Service was also held at prayer meeting service, the subject for discussion being "Woman's. Work." , The Go van school will close Thursday coming. There will be a picnic at Georges Creek church the next day. We learn that there will be some speeches made on education. We are glad to note that Miss Lizzie Collins is out again, being able to perform her function at the piano at Sunday service. Owing to unprecedented duty Rev. E. A. Wilkes did not hold preaching service at Salem Methodist church Sunday afternoon. His work has increased since Olar church came into the circuit. His services at the latter church are held at night. Dr. Leighton A. Hartzog is located at present here. He has a fair practice here now, and it is presumed that he - will remain here. He has just graduated from the Medical College of South Carolina. W. A. H. Tailor Stabs with Shears. Griffin, Ga., April 28.?After stabbing and probably fatally wounding Perrin Head, a young druggist, here to-day, B. Venslove, a merchant tailor, was hurried to Atlanta in an autorrfobile, rumors having caused the county officers to fear trouble. Head had gone to Venslove's place of business to demand retraction of damaging report he charged Venslove with circulating and Venslove stabbed him with a pair of tailor's shears, wounding him six times. His condition is said to be desperate. He is being attended at the local hospital. WHERE MILLION'S ARE LOST. America's Extravagance as Shown in the Case of Highways. The office of public roads under the direction of Mr. Logan Waller Page, has assembled some significant | facts. Only about 150,000 of the [2,100,000 miles of roads in the , United States have been in any degree improved. Almost 93 per cent, of our public roads may be said to be in a state of nature. This statement in itself is not necessarily startling. A man, even a congressman, might make the laconic rejoinder, "Well, what or it?" Just this?if our public highways were as good as those of France the gain to American producers would exceed a quarter of a billion dollars annually. The average cost of hauling produce in this country is 25 cents a mile per ton. In France it is 12 J cents a mile per ton. Were our roads, then, equal to those of France, there ! would be a gain to our farmers of 13 cents a mile, per ton. During the crop year 1905-06 our more important farm products, which were hauled from places where they originator tn shinnina Doints, weighed in the aggregate S5.4S7 million pounds. The average length of haul of farm products in the United States is 9.4 miles. Hence, a saving of 13 cents a mile per ton would have meant to our farmers a gain of $58,900,000 on their more important crops during the single crop year 1905-06. According to the freight figures of the Inter-State commerce commission about 250 million tons are now annually hauled to points of shipment. . Were o,ur roads equal Fxance..the,annual gain-inhauling, based on these figures, would be $305,000,000.?Outlook, '-V'." - " ' ' . -V" IN THE PALMETTO STATE j SOME OCCIHKKXCKS OF VAKIOl/S KINDS IX SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Roiled Down for Quirk ! Heading;?Paragraphs About ' Men and Happenings. ] ( The anti-dispensaryites of Aiken county held a meeting there last ] .Monday and a permanent organiza- , tion was effected. Claude E. Saw- , yer was elected president, with G. L. , Toole and H. F. Rice vice presidents. The organization will make an organ- J ized fight on the dispensary at the August election. ( The committee to investigate the i charges against the asylum management convened in Columbia last J week, and it is said that a thorough 1 inirautiirotinn n-ill ho hnH SeriOllS lit v ^ocigai.ivu iv <<? w ^? ? charges have been filed, among them being the charge that keepers are in- i efficient and are often brutal to the ] patients, and that whiskey intended for patients has been used by the i keepers. i ^ i Farmers' Telephone Line. ! A new farmers' telephone line, ! having eight subscribers, has just been connected with the Denmark exchange of the Southern Bell Tele- 1 phone Company. The line extends six miles north of Denmark and fur- ] nishes service to Mr. C. S. Folk and i several of his well-known neighbors. The subscribers on the line are ( now in constant telephonic commu- ; nication with each other and i through the Southern Bell exchange with telephone users in Denmark. The construction of this line and , its connection with telephone ex- 1 change here is another step in the i progress of telephone development ! which is being made by the residents J in the rural sections of Bamberg ] county. Under the plan of the : Southern Bell Company, farmers and other rural dwellers are enabled to ] secure telephone service on an eco- i nomical basis. As a result, farmers ' | in all sections of the State are in- ] I stalling telephones in their homes. ' Bad Accident. ' My sister, Mrs. L. M. O'Neal, and her .grand daughter were on their way to the memorial in a buggy, driving a mule. Within a mile of ] ,the memorial grounds young Simms 1 and Rice, sons of Gilmore Simras and ( B. T. Rice, from Barnwell C. H. (I ' could not find out the given names ' of the young men) drove past these ladies in such a reckless way as to * cause the mule to run away with buggy, hit a tree, broke the buggy, ? and threw both the ladies out. Miss Rush was not badly hurt, but Mrs. ! O'Neal is seriously hurt and came 1 very near dying from the shock J caused by the fall, as she was thrown fifteen feet from the buggy when it ' hit the tree. / j Dr. Manning Brabham was a short 1 distance behind the ladies when the ? accident occurred, and reached my 1 sister in a minute or two. Had not the doctor been on hand it is be- < lieved that Mrs. O'Neal would never have survived. My sister was car- J ried to Mrs. Ella Rush's and is now ' in a critical condition. I was inform- ' ed that the young men by their reck- 1 less driving which caused the acci- ? dent did not even stop to render any \ assistance to the injured ladies or 1 apologize in any way. 1 M. A. MO YE. s Fairfax, S. C.. May 2nd, 1909. ' _ C Does Not Blaine SonV Slayer. 1 Detroit, Mich.. May 3.?Hagood e Gastanian, of Lynn. Mass., left for his * Pnrrl.inrl linmQ t Vl ? C (JVOTlin? With W uii^iauu uv/uiv vuiw v . -? the body of his son, Harotoon' Gas- j tanian, who was fatally shot Friday in the Detroit police court by his uncle. Dr. Garabed J. Boyajian. j Speaking of the crime the dead j youth's father said: "Dr. Boyajian is nearer to me than j a brother. 1 blame him not. even , though he has slain my son. 1 will j do all I can to release him from pris- . on. It is the will of God, and I bow before it. 1 believe my boy was innocent. but do not blame the doctor , for what he did, because he believed c him guilt}-. When our people marry, K they marry for good, not for a short j time like the American people seem . to do. Any offense against the home r is punishable by death." ^ Dips After Summoning Aid. z Montgomery, Ala., May 3.?A spe- f cial to The Advertiser from Giles- t county, Tennessee, says: i "Eighteen funerals as a result of ; the fearful storm of last week occur- i red in this county to-day, six per- s sons being buried in one grave. Four c members of the McGraw family were ? placed in another grave. i "One of the McGraw children, al- s though seriously injured, helped her c father find and remove the bodies of t the members of that family, and ? after this had been done, she walked a half mile to the nearest neighbors, where she gave the alarm and asked for help, saying that she would be dead in a little while. Within a few . minutes after uttering these words she fell to the ground and expired." j S r arnifns mun. The Farmers' Union will meet at s the court house Saturday, May 8th, 1 at four o'clock p. m., to elect a presi- t dent to fill the unexpired term- of D. c H. -Riee*,-resigned.* ' ? * * **" t R. W. MATHENY, s Secretary. t ' ' " '' ' 'V-::- . it slavs dkspoilui: or his iiomk. Armenian Doctor at Detroit I'ses Pistol in Court Itoom. Detroit. Mich., April 30.?Dr. G. K. Boyajian. an Armenian, to-day shot and fatally wounded his nephew. Harotoon Gastanian. while the latter was being arraigned in police court with his aunt, the physician's wife, on a statutory charge. Dr. Boyajian fired tour shots at his nephew, three o: which found their n;ark. He then turned the revolver on his wife and fired the two remaining bullets ai her. A newspaper artist saved the woman's life by pushing her into a vacant jury room. Mrs. Boyajian. who is twentysight, and her twenty-three-year-old nephew were .arrested last night. Boyajian told a remarkable story of his discovery of the alleged relations between his wife and nephew, whom he had brought from his home at Lynn. Mass. and was educating him in a local medical college. His suspicions were first aroused by hearing his wife murmur his nephew's name in her sleep. The doctor summoned a lawyer and questioned her. He declares that she made a full confession. He then swore out warrants for the couple's arrest. When the case was called to-day. and Justice Jeffries ordered Gastanian to rise, Boyajian whipped out the revolver and fired. One bullet entered the young man's back; another penetrated his wrist, and a third his hand. He fell to the floor as the doctor turned the revolver towards his wife. The wildest excitement prevailed in the court room as bystanders and officers jumped for the maddened husband, who was arrested. Gastanian died to-night. Memorial at Rivers' Bridge. Once more we are assembled upon these sacred grounds, to do honor to that little band that dared all, and lost all (save honor), for their country's cause. See here, their last resting place, a modest marble slab marks the spot. Fair and gentle hands are dressing the graves with ueauuiui uuvvcio. These appropriate lines which you 3ee here engraved were suggested by my esteemed and lamented friend, the late Dr. Henry W. Kearse, who, when he first commenced the practice of medicine, was living with me and my family at Buford's Bridge. 'Soldiers rest thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not waking Dream of battlefields no more." Each and every one should, and no doubt does feel at perfect liberty, to enjoy her or himself to the fullest extent in a social and quiet way while visiting these sacred grounds. But let nothing be said or done which would in any way mar the occasion or show any disrespect .or want of consideration for those that slumber here. Be it remembered they were not of this State, but here they are with us, n our care, far, far from their own iear homes and fond ones. "Little they'll wreck" to sleep on, and on, in this quiet, lovely spot, where noble, patriotic Carolinians have placed them. Let the birds here sing their sweetest songs, and their glad notes nake merry the sylvan streams and t'orests that hedge around these quiet md lonely graves. Mr. Alfred Chassereau arose and torn the stage with clarion voice cade the audience draw near under the spacious camp shed. He anlounced to our great regret and sympathy that the chairman of this issociation, the venerable and beoved Dr. X. F. Kirkland, Sr., would iot.be present with us, on account of sickness. His devoted wife is extremely ill. Dear friends, you are sadly missed, and we think of you tindlv. The Rev. E. W. Peeples. who has ;o long and faithfully served his peocle, was present and in his pleasant words introduced the speaker, the -Ion. M. L. Smith, who was the orator of the day. A man of portly aplearance and fine physique, strong roice. clearly and distinctly he spoke. Easily did the speaker hold the vast tudience with marked attention to lis glowing words and most eloquent iddress. His fluent, classical words eft an impression which sank deep nto the minds and hearts of those vho heard him. Most clearly did he -indicate the "lost cause" and vivid y did he picture the North and south, how diametrically they op)osed each other. Their political inerests were so widely at variance, hat there could be no reconciliation. This constant turmoil had much to lo in bringing on the civil war. There is no other place like these nemorial grounds. Here the' people rom all this lower country can come 0 these annual congregations. Great s the pleasure to meet your friends, vhom you can seldom see other than it this place, where you can meet in 1 pleasant social way and enjoy each >ther's conversation. The great Jalkehatchie may divide us from our nother county, but never can it les;en that warm friendship for those >ver the line, whom we were pleased 0 meet and had sc well known in by rone days. , L. N. BELLINGER. Burned Barn to Save Name. Knoxville, Tenn., May 3.?Accordng to the confession of Laura Sutton, 1 domestic in the family of C. O. 3rowder. residing near Sweetwater, ;he set fire to the barn and destroyed riu ~ > 1,500 worth or property, sue n<iu itolen a pair of trousers from the louse, containing $3.50, which had >een found minus the money, and in irder to give her an apportunity to '! estore the moiiey she' states that she itarted the fire to distract the atten- 1 ion of the family. WILLIE CARTER HANGED XKGJiO PAID DKATH PKXALTY FOR Ml'RDKK OF WOMAN. Confessed His Crime on the Scaffold. Met Death Ciiconcerued, but Said He Was Prepared. Willie Carter, a negro, was hanged in Bamberg last Friday lor the murder of a negro woman named Shellie Raysor. The crime occurred about a year ago in the Hunter's Chapel section, and Carter was tried at the March term of court. Judge R. C. Wntt? nr^sidine'. found eruiltv and sentenced to death. Carter met death without a tremor. He had been visited by white and colored ministers several times during the last tew weeks, and he stated to them that he had repented of his 3ins and was prepared to die. Several colored ministers were present Friday morning at the execution and talked with Carter, but sb far as we know he made no confession until he was on the scaffold. At the trial and thereafter he denied his guilt, saying he was not at the woman's house the night of the killing. However, when he mounted the scaffold Sheriff Hunter asked him if he wanted to say anything about the killing, and he replied that nobody else need be hurt for the crime, and when the . sheriff said to him, "Well, you did it, then," or words to this effect, Carter answered yes. Carter talked very little, but expressed a desire to be shaved shortly before he was taken out of jail, and this request was complied with. While the gallows was erected in the jail yard, the high fence made it private, and only a few persons were allowed inside, although a crowd of negroes assembled outside. After Carter was pronounced dead, the sheriff allowed the crowd to come in and view the body. At 11 o'clock the black cap was adjusted, the sheriff asked Carter if he was ready, and he replied yes, when the trap was sprung and he was pronounced dead dn 17 minutes. There was no sign of a struggle after the trap was sprung. / Our readers are familiar with the details of Carter's crime. He stabbed a negro woman to death because he was jealous of other men visiting her, although he had a wife. His body was taken in charge by relatives for burial in the section where he lived. This is the first legal execution in Bamberg county, those sentenced to death heretofore having had their sentences commuted to life Imprisonment. LOVER SLAYS COLLEGE GIRL. Porter Smith Kills Miss Helen Marden, Student of Smith College. Northampton, Mass., April 29.? Enraged and temporarily insane, it is believed, because of her refusal to marry him, Porter Smith, who was graduated from Dartmouth college last June, to-day shot and fatally wounded Miss Helen Ayer Marden, of Somerville, Mass., a member of the senior class at Smith College, and then, turning the revolver on himself, committed suicide. Miss Marden was taken to the Dockingson hospital, where she died shortly before noon. She was the daughter of Frederick M. Marden, a Boston oil merchant, who lives in Somerville. Smith, whose home was in Chicago, had been in Northampton for several days, it is said that he had persistently followed Miss Marden and tried to force his attentions on her. This forenoon Miss Marden came out of the students' building, where she roomed. She had gone only a short distance when she met Smith. Suddenly workmen not far distant heard a shot, and a girl's scream. Turning they saw Smith standing beside the girl with a smoking revolver in his^hand. Smith raised the revolver and fired two more shots at the girl. .Miss .Marden sank to the ground and Smith immediately placed the muzzle of the weapon on his own head and fired, falling dead beside the young woman. Epworth League Dots, mi-io Vnn-nrth T-pa^np held its l'egu lar business meeting Tuesday evening. A splendid and interesting program was arranged for our next meeting, Tuesday the 11th. The members who were sent to the League Conference, which was held in Rowesville on the 17th, 18th, and 19th of April, will give their reports, and hope to make it interesting and beneficial for the Leaguers. Some special musical selections will be given also, and we expect to make the evening pleasant to all as well as profitable. We cordially invite every one to meet us. Frank's Patriotic Jam. Little Frank had been taken by his father to hear the patriotic exercises in the town hall and had been much interested in it all. The singing had delighted him, "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," impressing him particularly. The next day he sat in the kitchen watching his mother make her gooseberry jam. "Mother," he said suddenly, "your jam is made of gooseberries, isn't it?" "Yes, dear,'? said his mother. < ,. "Well," said Frank, "I was just wondering what- Columbia, "the jam of the ocean, is made from."?The Delineator for May. PIE IX ELECTRIC CHAIR. Double Execution (irons out of I*ow? . liutun Horror. Richmond, April 30.?John and William Brown (colored), father and son, went to their death in the electric chair in the State penitenti- . ary here to-day for their part in one of the most infamous crimes in the history of the State. They were the first of five men to go to the death chair for the robbery and murder of Mrs. Mary E. Skipwith and Walter > G. Johnson, of Powhatan county, on f the night of February 12 last. After y&M committing the robbery they burned the house in order to hide the crime. VThe men implicated in the affair all lived in the neighborhood and ^ some of them had not been beyond "-Sfifa the borders of the county half a Jr-?1 dozen times u their lives. Some of them were educated at the schools in vJS the county, and all of them were men * * of more than average intelligence for negroes of the country sections. . They were all farmers and had borne good reputations. 4 John and William Brown were -*7?g the men who entered into the plot ffwB and who stood guard and threatened ^^9 to kill any one who gave any help or went to the assistance of the man and woman. Mrs. Skipwith was an | aged woman, and Johnson and his wife lived in the house with her, looking after her farm. Robbery was the object of the crime, some of the plunder was found the houses occupied by the negroes- * ffigsM after the home place had been All the five men, including John y&jip and William Brown, were sentenced I to 0ie to-day, but the governor re^ spited Isham and Joe Taylor, to 5 and Lewis Jenkins to May 7 to pre^PSq.^l vent breaking the electrical machine ery. The men have made partial confessions, it is understood, but* those have not been given out. Militia CaUed Ont. Chillicothe, O., April 28.?In a nol utiHati oIooHati AhoroAtoplieH Kt - r/r*(2amt Lai U[/blVU L1WV1VU VUU1UVVVA ??vi* disorderly scenes throughout the day, '4rf? at times bordering on riot, Ross coqa4-;-^8|t''4 ty to-day voted "wet" by a majority estimated at 2,000. , v.& During the day numerous conflicts 5^8 , J occurred between partizans of the two factions and also between CitK. Ja '-'iM zens and the police. To restore or- vf^BB der, Company H of the Fourth regi- ,-?JyS| ment, Ohio National guard, was call-ed out and a large force of special 4;^ deputies was alfeo sworn in. ThesefeffiBi. carrying wagon spokes instead of rifles., stood guard in the dlsturbeA^iijra^ quarter until the polls closed. Negro Lynched at Bartow. ' Bartow, Fla., April 28.?Strung up to a tree in which he sought refugei??aB|| and his body riddled with bulletL||^K|| nkn.l/u! CntiarKnrniiorVi n otrrn Vjuai l^O uvuai uvi vu^uf ? yesterday attempted to assault a lady^Sg ^ of Fort Myer, met a speedy death to^ -i^e^yS day at .the hands of a posse of infuri- M The posse stated out with blood^^g&jB hounds on the ilegro's trail soon after the crime became known and scoured ffiaraBj the woods all night In a seclu< spot the posse captured the negro to-, day, finding him in the top of a tree, " which a few minutes later served asJ$tf|KBj his scaffold. The negro confessed and without delay a rope was put "v^JjjaB around his neck and he was drawn up ffig to a limb. The posse then stood oft '^^1 and fired 20 shots into his body. >rgj Burglaries in Greenville. , ^ Greenville, May 1.?Police herO'^SW^ are working on two cases of robbery which occurred in the early hours this morning. The safe at the End drug store was rifled and the To Vi o r?t n;OC O lcG 31U1C UL JUUU X U1IU1 t. KUU U1UW . w. ^ A clue is being followed, and it la said some of the stolen goods have . T|h Arrests will probably be made to-: Meat Cannot be Sold. '\?i{ Greenville, May 3.?City Meat spector Smith and City Attorney Mc- JCullough were in conference this aft- 5^ ernoon with representatives of the v ' jJg Swift Packing Company regarding the disposition of the 70,000 pounds of meat condemned Saturday, owing to its having been soaked in sewage. '>||j At a meeting of the board of health held at 5 o'clock Dr. Smith reportedT?^S|^^ that the packing company would fe'BgwB allowed to ship the meat, which is *J| valued at over $4,000, to one of its -Vrjisa soap plants, with the understanding \:$m that the car be sealed here by the spector and opened at the soap works \?||| and consigned to the tank by a gov- '< ernment inspector. ;;^.|S|| The condemning of the meat and: its disposition have caused considerable agitation here. When the pack ing company's representative amvea to-day at noon he gave out the state- '4? ment that he was constrained to fol- , low any suggestion Inspector Smith might make in the matter, but not- ^ withstanding the authorities will take every precaution to see that the inspector's orders are carried out to the letter. Acting in the matter Dri Smith not only had the local author!ties behind him, but he was backed " .'--JIM up by Dr. Williams, of the State J? board. A number of towns in the -4^9 State wired in here to-day asking for information concerning the disposi- -/ tion of the condemned meat. Spartanburg and Columbia being among ' ;^B| the cities to make inquiry. j In an interview to-night G. W. Chandler, manager of the Southern business of Swift & Co., said that his concern had no idea of endeavoring to sell the meat which was condemn-!- . ed here Saturday by Inspector Smith.' " S He declared his willingness to make -iWL any disposition of the meat that Is desired by the city authorities. .$m