Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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|Big 5TC f$f The i 5?* at E * Ji?? tow Is? on t ^ tint HI vim ? befc 'gg sold ||| tenc m bag v& fH lots hav I Ewy jig and 5?| day, of al 25S to si PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. u? w w T.i^iitgpT hn.R ancent d a position at Batesburg. I ?Mrs. M. C. Sandifer, of Johnston, to visiting relatives in the city. ?Rev P. K. Rhoad, of Hendersonvllle, S. C., was in the city yesterday. ?Mrs. M. E. Johns, of Baldoc, visited relatives in the city this week. ??-Mr. J. D. Thomas, of the Cope section, was in the city last Saturday. ?Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Stubbs, of Augusta, visited relatives here this week. ?Messrs. E. C. Hays and H. G.! Delk spent several days in Greenwood . this week. ?Mr. J. A. Peters Jr., and sons, of the Ehrhardt section, were in the elty last Saturday. ?Messrs. J. C. Kinard and J. Frank Chassereau, of Elirhardt, were in the oity last Thursday. ?Capt. P. S. Connor and his father, of the Smoaks section, were in the city yesterday. -?Mr. W. H. Wallace, editor of the Newberry Observer, spent Tuesday night in the city. ?Messrs. J. G. and D. N. Rhoad, of the Hunter's Chapel section, were In the city yesterday. ?Mr. J. D. Platts, of the Kearse section, wa3 in the city last Friday and called at The Herald office. ?Miss Evelyn Brabham, of the Kearse section, was in the city this week on a visit at Mr. Thos. Black's. ?Messrs. L. W. and J. B. Ritter, of the Kearse section, were in the oity Tuesday and called at The Herald office. ?Mrs. LeRoy Wilson, Jr., of Allendale, spent several days in the city last week on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Brabham. 4 Kills Wife, Then Himself. Erie, Pa., October 10.?Fred E. of tha T.ink Manufacturing Company, of this city, aroused his wife from her slumber this morning and a quarrel ensued, during which, it is 6aid, Link announced that he had decided to end both his own life and that of his wife. He drew a revolver and Mrs. Link seized him and fought for her life, but the insanely Jealous man overcame her and shot her four times, one bullet penetrating her heart. Link had suffered serious business reverses of late. Held for Comrade's Murder. Bristol, Tenn., Oct. 12.?Charles Tipton, of Ebreeville, Tenn., has been lodged in jail at Jonesboro, charged with the murder of James White, who was shot to death last Saturday night. Tipton and White went hunting together and White was found dead the following morning with a charge of shot in his head. Tipton denies he killed White but it is said the officers have been unable to arrrive at any other conclusion. k Land 5 \merican Realty an FRIDA Jamberg, S. C., at p n of Bamberg, to c< nonthly installmen le until all the lots i i, of Columbia, S. < >re the sale is made I a free dinner will I - ? __ f lance ana win piay of silver will be dis All the colored peoj are beautiful, and i e to pay for one on Colored P this is the chance of see Mr. H. M. Grah 11 the lots in his office ie him before that tir RAILROAD TRESTLE BURNED. Bridge of the Lancaster and Chester 1 Line Destroyed. Chester, Oct. 12.?A trestle across the McDaniel branch of the Lan- ( caster and Chester Road 110 feet I long and nine miles from Chester, 1 was found to have been totally de- < stroyed by fire when the Lancaster 1 and Chester's passenger reached the 1 stream this morning on its journey < towards Chester. < The trestle was completely gone, nothing but a few bent irons and t charred timbers marking the place < where it had stood. The train was < stopped without accident, and such passengers as wanted to connect ] with the Seaboard brought on to i Chester the others being sent around < by Rock Hill over the Southern. Nothing is known here as to the < cause of the fire, though some think 1 they see a connection between the i destruction of the trestle and the attempt to wreck Col. Leroy Springs's 1 oiitnmnViUa a fow riflVfl BPO TieftP IjRll- 1 caster. Col Leroy Springs is sole i owner and proprietor of the Lancas- 1 ter and Chester Railway. 1 1 To be Tried for Lynching. 1 Court is in session in Florence , this week and there is to be tried the famous lynching case in which L. S. Bigham, son of the late State Senator L. S. Bigham, Dan Hinds and A. H. Fuller are charged with having ] lynched the negro Arthur Davis in ; the Forrestville neighborhood, this ] county, on January 9th, last. It will < be remembered that the details of ] this horrible case which appeared in ] The State at the time indicated a < most brutal and entirely unprovoked ( murder of a respectable and harm- j less negro. Suspicion pointed to the < three men indicted as the perpetra- ] tors of the crime. The negro is said < to have been taken from his bed at j midnight by three masked men, and ( after being dragged a short distance i through the woods, beaten to death ( with traces taken from the harness of the team which the lynchers were driving. No motive was traceable I except the alleged fact that the ne- < : gro had beaten a mule belonging to , Mr. Bigham. Bigham is a brother of Dr. Bigham,, who figured recently in the tragic shooting of his wife at Sunnyside, Georgetown county. _ i Found in Washington Jail. Alexandria, Va., Oct. 12.?Missing 1 from his boarding house for about a i month and believed to be the victim 1 of foul play, George House, in the < employ of the Packard Land com- < pany, of Pensacola, Fla., was to-day < traced to the jail of the District of < Columbia where he is serving a term of nine months for assault. When House dropped out of sight < diligent search was made for him. : Not until to-day was it learned that i under the name of Williams he had ; been convicted and sentenced. < Just received, the largest line of i W. B. corsets ever shown in Bamberg 1 county, at E. A. Hooton's. >ale F( id Auction Compan Y, OC iublic outcry, to th( >lored people only, t. The sale will be ire disposed of. Ri C., has been invite :. After his speed be served to the co continuously all d tributed among th )le in the county ai in a few years will the 15th. i J \ HHHHnHDHHBHn \ erson Shi your life. If it is sc am in town and am i, and he can show tl ne. COTTON MILL MEN MEET. Executive Committee of State Association Endorse Curtailment. Greenville, S. C., Oct. 11.?The exjcutive committee of the South Caro,ina Cotton Manufacturers' Associa:ion held a meeting here to-day and liscussed several matters of impor:ance to the industry, especially mu:ual insurance and the organization a southern mill mutual insurance company. The committee also urged that cotton buyers discontinue the practice 3f buying cotton at gins and let the cotton come to the regular mills. A resolution was also adopted approving the action taken at the Manufacturers' Association looking to curtailment. Committees were appointed to communicate with mills with regard to carrying out the curtailment A oer tue uaic uacu awa tuc ^ tion of the opening of the road. Within this week it is expected that the tvork of laying the rails from Wofford college campus right up to the Southern will be done and then it will be only a matter of a day to make the connection. It is understood that an effort is being made by some people in this county to have the sheriff of Rutherford county stop work at the Broad river bridge next Sunday in the event any attempt is made to work that day. The bridge builders, it is said, will not work on Sunday unless they 3ecure permission from the authorities of North Carolina.?Spartanburg Journal. . ;: , - - V >v. >?> . .. . , ir Colt y of Greensboro, N TOBE1 i highest bidder, 8< Payable one=four gin promptly at ic ev. Richard Carrol d, and will make a i the lots will be s< lored people. A bi ay. A free lot will e crowd, whether; re invited to be pre* be worth ten time mild Own i that you cannot < mge with him to buj hem to you and will igTeement. A resolution was passed objecting ^ <vvtra amount of haereine now being put on bales by some ginners, in violation of the State law as to tare, and in violation of the rules of the Cotton Buyers' Association, which limits the amount of tare to twenty pounds for soft cotton and twenty-four pounds for compressed :ottoh to the bale. Handcuffed Convict Escapee. Tivoli, N. Y., Oct. 11.?Edward Davis, alias King, a negro convict, lumped from a New York central express train, near here, to-day and disappeared. He was discharged From Dannemora yesterday and was being taken by a warden to a North Carolina prison, from which he had escaped. The train had slowed down, find King, notwithstanding that he was handcuffed, jumped from a platform of a sleeping car. He rolled aver and over but regained his feet and disappeared in the fog. The warden jumped after him but was too badly cut and bruised to give pursuit.' King escaped from the State prison at Raleigh, N. C., six years ago, while awaiting trial for murder. He was afterwards arrested in Brooklyn and sent to Dannemora for five years. Road Will be Finished. Everything points to the completion of the Carolina, Clinchfleld & Ohio road in to Spartanburg by Octo SUES MEDICINE COMPANY. Allegation is that Medicine Bottle Was Wrongly Labelled. A case without a precedent in.Lexington county, and with but few, if any, in the State, haa recently been filed in the office of the clerk of the court of that county. It is a suit for $10,000 damages instituted by Louis Ernest Spann, Jr., by his guardian ad litem, L. Ernest Spann, against the Crosson Drug Company, of Leesville, for the alleged wrong labelling of a bottle of medicjne purchased by Mr. Spann for his child, an infant of two months. It is alleged that the parents gave the medicine to the child, believing it to be one certain kind of drug, when, in reality, it was not what it was labelled on the bottle. The child, it is alleged, was made sick but survived. Georgia General Beaten. Washington, Oct. 11.?Attacked by three negroes and forced, according to his declaration, to use a pocket knife to defend his life, Gen. J. Floyd King, 67 years of age, for eight years during the 80s representative in congress from Louisiana, and a Confederate veteran, a native of J Georgia, was badly beaten Saturday night about the head and body, it was learned to-day. One of the negroes is in the hospital so badly cut that his recovery is said to be doubtful. General King himself, who was arrested, has been released ofi bond. Warrants have been issued by his friends for the arrest of the negroes, although none of the warrants have been served. The police say they know where the two negroes who were not taken to the hospital can be found. Mulligan Goes to Gang. 9 F. R. Mulligan, former police officer of Spartanburg, convicted at the last term of court of general sessions on the charge of housebreaking, and who was sentenced to serve one year in the penitentiary or a like term on the county chaingang, will serve on the gang, according to reports. It is said that he will be sent to Captain Brown's gang tomorrow morning. Mulligan, it Is said, expressed a desire to remain in Spartanburg and serve on the county gang rather than go to Columbia. Mulligan, Matthews, and Harrison, three well known intelligent white men, occupy the same cell in the county jail, two of them having already been convicted of offences against the State. Harison was lodged in jail last night on the charge of larceny of live stock and will be tried at the next term of the court of general sessions. Mulligan feels his Dosition keenly. though he is keeping up a strong front. He says he is going to make the best prisoner that he knows how and after he finishes serving his sentence he is going to begin life anew. ?Spartanburg Journal. Boys' suits at 98c each, on sale special for Saturday at Klauber's. -I., >red P . CM will sell on R 15th ; lots in surburbs c th cash and the bal >130 a. m. and will I, the great colore< 4 A * l speecn on tne gro Did. After the Tots rass band will be ii 1 be given away, a you buy a lot or no sent at this sale. T s as much as vou HlC flu/T AllO VTV1 come on that parti j you a lot. He has a make it to your inl /p I Millinwv i There are few ladies to-da; tionable inducements so fi in search of the latest styl tastes will be satisfied and your money. Where the pr< ing" scheme is not tolerate wrong is quickly adjusted satisfaction, and where con all. The latest styles an MILL! from the largest Northern i spection. These were select inop Artist and are sure to p' yon. We also have added ....LADIES' TAI] Let ns show yon these whei most fastidious, and prices j E P. EHRHABDT, Historic Building Burned. A Are that raged for nearly two hours and taxed the energies of the entire department was discovered Just after midnight in Columbia Monday night, and as a result historic Carolina Hall, the home of the Wallace house when this State was wrested from Radical rule, is in ashes and on Hampton street the establishment of the Carolina garage company was totally destroyed, while between the two buildings the cne-story frame buildings were licked up by the fire so quickly that, despite the tons of water poured on the fire, there was little chance to save any of the property stored therein. The Carolina hall, which was destroyed by the fire, is one of the historic spots in Columbia. It was built of brick taken from the smouldering ashes in Sherman's wake. New Supervisors. Washington, Oct. 11.?The com m iccinna nf several additional super visors of the next census have been signed by President Taft and forwarded by the director of the census. Among them are Livingston F. McClellan, Stone Mountain, for the Fifth district, and Harry Burns, Macon, for the oixth district of Georgia; James L. Mitchie, Darlington, for the Sixth district, and Ernest M. DuPre, Columbia, for the seventh district of South Carolina. W i ?f the . ance con- . ?f||9 unds Wi&mi i nrf> 2ft5 Sll i Home I j Attractions. 1 7 who are attracted by qnes? % equently advertised. When 7 es, select a store where your where yon get full value for i tended "Something for Noth- | id, where anything that goes to the customer's complete rteous treatment i9 accorded i y d creations in 1 ^ INERY | markets are here for your in- I f ted by a careful and painstak-, % lease. Gome and let as serve J a line,of the latest styles in ' LORED SUITS.... 1 i in town. We can please the i ire all reasonable. | COPELAND M SOUTH CAROLINA. ' ;,f EHRHARDT BANKING CO. Statement of the condition of the j Ehrhardt Banking Co., located at ' Ehrhardt, S. 0., at the close of busi-~ : ness October 9, 1909. RESOURCES. ':M Loans and discounts $15,260.19 ; Banking house ~ 2,250.00 Furniture and fixtures 1,396.47 / Due from banks 93,069.11 Cash in safe 3,147.85 Total $115,123.51 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $20,000.00 Surplus fund 1,200.00 Undivided profits 2,152.11 ^ Dividends unpaid 1,325.58 Personal deposits... 71,410.65 Sayings deposits 19,035.19 Total $115,123.53 Before me came A. F. Henderson, Cashier of the above named bank, p who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a fI true condition of said bank, as shown --j by the books of said bank. :<5| A. P. HENDERSON. Cashier. . Sworn to before me this 11th day I October, 1909. I FRANK H. COPELAND, (L. S.) Notary Public, S. C. | Wc invite your attention, and respect- 1 fully solicit your account. 4 I per cent. interest on deposits in oar savings - *v ^ department 1 . 4