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I. % ^ . .. ' HAY KILLS DR. TIDWELL . J JOHNSTON MAN DEAD AT HANDS OF BROTHER-IN-LAW. 1 It is Said That Titwell Had Chastis- ] ed His Wile and That Led Up to ] the Homicide. Edgefield, Aug. 26.?Dr. Charles ] Titwell was shot and killed by his w brother-in-law, Yancey M. May, at j Johnston this morning about 9 o'clock. The weapon used was a j shotgun. The deceased received two . wounds, one a little to the left of the ' backbone on the left side and the other in the shoulder. Dr. Titwell , lived about 30 minutes after he was ' shot, and it is said that he made . an ante-mortem statement to Dr. B. . L. Allen, but what it was has not been disclosed. From the testimony taken at the j inquest it appears that the deceased j and his wife had had some trouble < yesterday, during which he chastised , her: that she left nriH Trent tn her brother-in-law's house and the deceased went there this morning and endeavored to get her to return home which she refused to do. During his > stay Mr. May and Dr. Titwell got into an altercation, during which time Mrs. Titwell left and went to a neighbor's house. The deceased then came back into the street and was going in pursuit of his wife, when Mr. May appeared on the scene with a shotgun, the contents of which he emptied ^ into the body of Dr. Titwell. The shooting occurred some distance from the house of Mr. May, and as yet it is not known what the /: deceased was doing at the time he received his mortal wound. Titwell is from Newberry county y and has only lived in Johnston a short while and, it is said, bore an unenviable reputation and had frequently maltreated his wife. \ Mr. May is one of Johnston's best Citizens and claims that the killing was entirely justifiable and unavoidable. Mr. May has surrendered to the sheriff and will apply for bail at once before Judge DeVore here. i Titwell's remains were sent to bis home in Newberry. The sad affair is i deeply deplored by all. i 1 ? 1 ; May Released on Bond. 1 Edgefield, Aug. 27.?Yancy M. t May appeared before Judge James 1 W. DeVore here today and his attor- t ney, Hon. J. Wm. Thurmond, made ] y application for bail. Solicitor Tim- t merman did not resist the motion. 1 The judge fixed the bond at $1,500. Mr. May was released immediately 1 on furnishing bail. i The verdict of the coroner's jury s in this case yesterday was that i "Charles B. Tidwell came to his death^ by a gun-shot wound at the s bands''of Yancey M. May." i - c ^ V. || ,, ENDS HER LIFE, \ Mrs. J. K. Fant, Aged 60, Takes Carv bolic Acid. Campobello, Aug. 30.?Mrs. J. K. < Fant, aged 60 years, committed sui- j cide here today by drinking half an c ounce of carbolic acid. No cause is ascribed for the deed other than the j dead woman had been suffering for t * * Bome months from dementia. She t had been carefully watched but took ( advantage of the fact that her daugher, Miss Bessie Fant, left her alone c for a short time today. That the l suicide was premeditated was shown < by the fact that the windows and "] t ' ' doors were carefully closed and a t rude pallet prepared on which Mrs. t Fant was found dead. i She was the wife of a Baptist preacher who died about 10 years j ago. She leaves three daughters, i Mrs.. Wm. Cobb, of Wilmington, N. i C,, Mrs. McMillan, of Brunswick, N. ? C , and Miss Bessie Fant of this ( place. i The inquest was held this afternoon by Magistrate Poole, Corner ^ Turner being ill and unable to leave home. The verdict of the jury was that the deceased came to her death S by self-poisoning. 1 The funeral will be held tomor- i row at the Baptist church, conduc- t ted by Rev. C. T. Scaife. ] Preacher After Cigarette Folks. j Durham, N. C., Aug. 27.?The i Rev. Abe Mulkey broke all evangelistic precedents here tonight when he 1 gave the tobacco interests a terrific ] drubbing and shouted stentorially, < "when ever I see a cigarette I feel i like I have met a young devil fresh i from hell." He had started his ser- 1 mon against dancing, and as he was depicting the scene of Aaron's fol- < lfiwers dancing about the golden call, he burst into his charge, "and i the golden calf in this town are these < I great tobacco factories. There are 1 ten thousand people hobnobbing with 1 ' them and bowing every time they 1 ? meet one of the crowd. Did you get 1 that?whiskey first and tobacco next? Have you got any sense? I < visited the factory today and saw t a machine turning out six hundred 1 every minute. I do believe I hate a ' cigarette worse than anything on this earth. I would rather meet a young devil fresh from hell than one of H these things. You preachers may be afraid to preach against these ] things, but when Abe Mulkey comes I to the place where he can't cry aloud i and spare not, then he'll hang up i the receiver. He will ask God to 1 take him to Heaven and stop this ] thing here. But if you are afraid to preach my doctrine, you can say 1 amen. A preacher generally preach- i es about as high as he lives. Ain't < that a good time to say amen, mis- i ter president (the presiding elder, i the Rev. J. B. Hurley said it.) The < j trouble is some of us have got j wealthy too quick. We have an au- ; tomobile or two, build a big house, < put a great sunburst and a great .? necklace upon our wives. When i preachers used to come to Corsicana i and preach against the sinful rich, 1 if I was afraid to say the same thing, 1 I said amen." This was the first 1 time the tobacco interests had ever \ really been smitten here. The inci- : dent caused a deal of comment to- i night. i % 6 BUD MULLIGAN SURRENDERS. spartanburg Policeman, Charged With Burglary, Surrenders. Spartanburg, Aug. 26.?F. R. Mulligan, better known as "Bud" Mulligan, the police officer charged with burglary, surrendered to Sheriff White tonight at 9:30 o'clock. He was taken before Magistrate Wetmore and bond was arranged in the sum of $1,000, made good by Mayor John F. Floyd and Mr. T. A. Green. Mulligan, a police officer and act x i_ * V,. mg sergeant,, was eaugut uy 1ruiiwman Rice W. Nolen at the cash Irawer in DuPre's book store at 3:30 p'clock Tuesday morning, chased out md arrested in an alleyway to the rea of the store. He was taken before Mr. Warren DuPre, the proprietor of the book store, and Mayor J. F. Floyd by Officer Nolen, but Mr. DuPre, feeling sorry for Mulligan's family, agreed to let him go free provided he left the State. In phasing Mulligan, Officer Nolen fired jpon him and Mulligan in return 3red on his pursuer. The citizens were indignant when :hey learned Tuesday morning that a police officer, sworn to keep the law, tiad been turned loose after being paught in the very act of pilfering :he cash drawer of one of the city's most prominent business places, vhich he had entered with a skeleton key. The Law and Order league, of which Judge G. W. Nichplls is president, met and discussed the situation. Prof. Frank Evans, superintendent of the city schools, pne of the most prominent members pf the Law and Order league, went pefore Magistrate Wetmore Wedneslay afternoon and swore out a warrant for Mulligan, charging him with housebreaking. The warrant sras placed in the hands of Sheriff SVhite and efforts were at once instituted tn nnnrehend and arrest the man. The frequent conferences today between Sheriff White* Mr. T. A. Green ind Mr. Varn, Mulligan's son-in-law, save rise to the belief that Mulligan would surrender and his giving himself up tonight was not wholly a surprise. Mulligan went to the court house :onight shortly after 9 o'clock. He was expected, and Sheriff White, Moss Hays, Chief of Police Hall, Mayor Floyd and T. A. Green were in waiting for him. Mulligan stated to ;he sheriff that he had intended to eave the State as he had promised :o do, but, hearing that a warrant lad been sworn out for him, he :hought it best to conform to the aw. After a short conference, Mulligan was taken before Magistrate Wetnore and bond was arranged in the sum of $1,000, Mayor Floyd and T. Green standing surety. The news of Mulligan's surrender spread rapidly and in a few minltes it was the talk on every street :orner. Mulligan was for six or eight rears a member of the police force ind is perhaps one of the best known characters in the city. Shopping in Sassafras. Mrs. Maude Darrel Hoffman, a pimeer of country week work, was )raising in Hartford the country vacation. "A country vacation is better than i seashore one," she said. "You see chings so much quainter, and the 'urther into the country you go, the mnintpr hpcnmos thp von bpp "I once spent August in a village jailed the Head of Sassafras, a vilage down in Maryland. The post)ffice there was the general store, rhe morning after my arrival I went ;o the general store for my mail. "A little girl preceded me with an >gg in her hand. "Gimme an egg's worth of tea, ilease, I heard her say to the postnaster-storekeeper; and ma says ye night weigh out an egg's worth of sugar, too, for the black hen's ajluckin, and I'll be up again in a ninute."?Philadelphia Bulletin. Negro "Knights" Stop Riot. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 27.? Swinging their swords above the leads of the belligerents and declarng that unless the trouble ceased :hey would use them, a company of negro "Knights of Pythias" today prevented what promised to be race riot during a parade of the supreme odge of the negro "Knights of Pythas." ine trouble began when S. W. Jari>oe, a laundryman, accompanied by lis wife, drove through the parade )f 5,000 negro "knights" at Twelfth md Central streets. Several negroes aot in the line of march seized the bridle of the horse. " You can't pass here," they shouted. Mrs. Jarboe seized a whip and struck at the men. Instantly a hunIred excited negroes crowded about ihe wagon. One wrested the whip !rom the woman, striking her a number of times and inflicting painful cruises. Many white men rushed to the aid )f the laundryman. A riot call was sent to the police headquarters, but before the police arrived the armed 'knights" had restored order. Tillman Offers Mileage. Rock Hill, Aug. 27.?Your correspondent is informed that on last Saturday while Senator Ben R. Tillman was on his way to Heath Springs he had a mixup with the :icket collector on the train on which be was a passenger. It seems that Senator Tillman svent oui to winmrop coiiege ana stayed a little longer that he expected to, so when he arrived at the station he did not have time to buy i ticket and boarded the train without it. When the collector came around "Uncle Ben" pulled his mileage on him and the collector balked, saying he could not take it. The senator informed him he would have to put him off as he did not have time to change for a ticket and that he had paid for the mileage and if he could not take it he could just put him off. Our informant would not state whether the collector took the mileage or not, but at any rate the senator rode on to Heath Springs Ind made his speech there that day. MUST SERVE SENTENCE. Florida Men Convicted of Peonage Taken to the Atlanta Prison. Pensacola, Aug. 26.?The action taken by President Taft in commuting to six months each the terms of imprisonment imposed upon W. S. Harlan, manager of the Jackson Lumber company. S. E. Huggins and C. C. Hilton of the company, who were convicted in the federal court here three years ago on charges of conspiracy to commit peonage, was tonight communicated by Attorney General Wickersham to Special Assistant Attorney General Reese of this city. The attorney general directed that the supreme court's mandate in this case be filed immediately and that the sentences be executed without further delay. It is expected that the United States marshal will leave for the Atlanta federal prison Monday with the three prisoners named, as well as Dr. Grace and C. Gallagher, two other officers of the lumber company who were convicted at the same time and whose sentences as imposed by the court were not lessened by executive act. Harlan is one of the wealthiest and most prominent lumbermen in the South and is a nephew of United States Supreme Court Justice Harlan. The sentences imposed by the trial = court were as follows: Harlan, 18 months at hard labor and $500 fine; Gallagher 15 months at hard labor and $1,000 fine; Huggins, Hilton and Grace, 13 months at hard labor and $1,000 fine. Farming of the Future. Indications point to remarkable enhancement of agriculture in the next few years. Nearly all of the ; once vast tracts of public lands have passed to private ownership. Cheap lands of real value are practically a thing of the past. Gradually farms are being reduced in size and farmed more intensively. This tendency will increase with the growing density of population. The increased cost of living, which grows more and more burdensome, is becoming an intense problem in the cities, and this is beginning to have the effect of driving the poorer classes back to the soil. National _ +r\r\ liie is uuuerguiug au cvuiuuuu, wu, that promises to give agriculture I more importance with each passing I year. | The boy of to-day who studies ag-! | riculture closely and acquires land is making the best of preparation for the future. There lies the only approximation of independence in the future. LIGHTNING CAUSES DAMAGE. Kills a Horse and Three Mules in Lancaster County. Lancaster, Aug. 30.?The terrific storm of rain, thunder and lightning which swept over this town last night was particularly severe in Flat Creek township. At Taxahaw a horse and two mules were killed by lightning on the grounds of the Baptist church just as services in the building were concluded. A mule in a stable nearby was also killed. A negro woman standing in a door was Vnn/>L'o/1 dnirn and rendered iinoon scious for some time. In the same township, near Union church, the dwelling of Mr. James Hanson was struck by an electric bolt, shocking one of his children and killing his dog on the porch. Near Pleasant Hill the residence of Mr. Cole was struck and badly damaged, but no one was hurt. LYNCHING IN GEORGIA. Soperton, Ga., Posse Becomes Angry Mob. Soperton, Ga., Aug. 27.?Two negroes lynched and a posse in pursuit of the wife of one of the victims, the killing of a prominent planter, a member of the posse, the probable fatal injury of the sheriff of Mont gomery county and the wounding of four other members of the posse, summarizes the result of one of the most exciting man hunts this section has ever known. Ben Clarke, an escaped convict from the Bibb county chaingang, was shot to death after a fierce battle early today and his body burned. The negro threatened to kill Nicholas Adams, a merchant of Kibbe, "and a hundred others." John Sweeney, who harbored the ex-convict, was taken from a passenger train a mile from Tarrytown tonight and lynched. The posse then set out in search of Sweeney's wife, who, it is said, was in the neighborhood. Tamoe DnrHpn n. nrnminent nlflnt er and member of the posse which captured Clark, was shot and instantly killed. The other members of the posse who were shot by Clark were: Sheriff James Lester, Walter Simmons and three others unknown. The officer received an ugly wound in the breast. The posse found Clark in Sweeney's house. Sweeney's wife was at home, but'Sweeney was absent. The sheriff called to Clark to surrender. For answer he received a 44-calibre bullet fired from a rapid fire gun. Dur aen was snot ana otner memoers or the posse fell before the torrent of lead dealt by the negro. He continued to fire until his ammunition was exhausted. He was then overpowered and his body riddled with bullets. He wore a steel breast plate that turned Winchester bullets. A pile of logs was covered with crude turpentine and the body cremated. In the excitement the woman escaped. The events of the day fired the spirit of the posse and it is said she cannot escape the search that is being instituted tonight. Sweeney was caught near here late this afternoon. He was carried aboard a north bound train to a secluded wood near Tarrytown where his body was riddled with bullets after being swung up to a sapling. Look % J. H. DIXON I | Machinist and Engineer j General Repair Shop* i We repair all kinds of ma- j chinery and carry a full line of J Pipe, Pipe Fittings, Valves, In- | jectors, Lubricators, Oilers, etc. I Bring your engine and have the J cylinder bored. Make it run like I new and give you more power. | j Bring your cotton gins anu press parts and have them repaired before the busy season. A stitch in time saves nine. We repair saw mills, grist mills, cane mills; in fact we run a hospital for sick and disordered machinery. Bring it in and have it cured. Gas engines and automobile engine cylinders bored, and new pistons and rings made that won't leak. Gives you more power and better efficiency. We repair and charge storage batteries. Call when in trouble and see what we can do. SHOP AT COTTON MILL NEW ARRIVALS Curtis Brand Peas, per can 15c. ?. Jumbo Tomatoes, 3 lb. can, 10c ' Mackerel, fine, 2 for 25c. < Misletoe Hams, per pound 16c. Good Old Country Syrup, I in barrels, 50c. per gallon, in quart bottles, sealed, 15c. a quart. . 4 *T?-* flno lino nf I (lust ICVC1?CU uuv uuv w. 10c. packages Lowney's Chocolate Candies. The finest lot of Fresh Prunes that ever hit the town. x Seeded Raisins on hand all the time. Have you ever tried our Butter? We only ask 35c. the pound. Don't forget that we handle Snowflake Flour, the best that is put up, in sacks. Don't forget to ask for anything in the grocery line. We come mighty near having it. E. BART PRICE I BAMBERG, S. C. Remember the Place to get polish for the brass .work on your car. g Top dressing for your top. = Compression grease in a density that will suit you. Automobile Oil : - * that will piease you uy eliminating half the trouble you are now having. 1 Remember that the winning car in the New York- I to-Paris race run 21,000 miles without carbonizing, * on this oil. We have oil for t air cooled engines, too. Say, have you heard about our gasoline contract to automobiles? Fifteen cents a gallon, put in the car. We also rebuild any kind = of automobile and sell new tops. The Delk Motor Co. if ft 1 II,' DE. 0. D. FAUST S DENTIST * BAMBERG, 8. C. ,g Office in Telephone Building. B ^f.;V?-* . ' '' <" ^ '-A'. : A ? : -A - " " -- J Up ! Get Busy ! Cotton Getting Ripe! For Free List Address The Marjenhoff Company jl Charleston* S. C. State Distributers Cents, 10 Cents; One-Half, One, Two Pound Packages. rive Pound Boxes Fine Assorted Almonds, Nougatines, hips, Cherries, Pineapple, Chocolates or Bon Bons. When you buy from us you are not expected to buy more than your needs require , 11 J FROM FACTOR? TO TOUR HOME | JB Boardman & Gray Pianos, Albany, N. ?. Es! tablished 1837. : ?-|3 | Briggs Pianos, Boston. Established 1868. g j Merrill Pianos, Boston. Si I Norris & Hyde Pianos, Boston. Established |j I Clough & Warren Organs, Detroit. Established ; g'lljf \ * A line of Pianos and Organs which will please the most criti- j | ! cal, from which selection may be made to suit anybody, both in | 3 Jroj j * REMEMBER I keep no store and have no expense attached to j I the sale of any Piano except what is absolutely necessary, viz: jj | Freight from factory to your home, one drayage from your depot, ! I and cost of stool and scarf, which I give you. I MANY YEARS in the Piano business as tuner and salesman 1 5 taught me to have to do with only good instruments, and my | j methods of business enable me to give you Fine Pianos at very j I reasonable prices. Inquiries will receive prompt attention. 3 J TUNING CAREFULLY DONE. 1 % | G. A. LUCAS, j | H 11 -P- 0- B?x 490. ...... Attguata. Qa. BplB jp U KIN 1 UU 1 pi 1 BIT STILL DOING BUSINESS IT SUE STAND |.f| Z , True, my front shop was destroyed by fire 2 Monday morning, bat 1 am still turning out ^ J work just as promptly as ever in the shop 7 in the rear of the one that was burnt, lhave 2, all new tools and am just as well prepared as ?/ J before the Are to do your work. Come seel 7 fj. B. brickleIi Z The Repair Man Bamberg, S. 0. l?,||g southern States Supply Ca || H. L. HARVEY, President. 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