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CO! I Is still I i their v II ^ 3 !{ sum 1 ? For it I H assort I fj get th @ We ai p@ suit 01 ? also h II C. I Phone I |> RETURNS TO CHAIN GANG. Escaped Spartanburg Prisoner Grew Tired of Freedom in Canada. J: j I Spartanburg, January 21.?John Wheatley, white, who escaped from the county chain gang in 1907 %has surrendered to the county supervisor. Wheatley was convicted in 1906 on the charge of shooting Conductor Joe Brunson on a Southern train at Inman. He was sentenced to serve two years, but escaped after serving six \ months, going to Canada. Tired of .. .freedom he decided to return to Spartanburg and serve out his sentence. Mrs. Wheatley, his mother, arranged for her son to come back and finish his term. ) Walsh Begins His Sentence. Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 19.?On an iron cot in a cell of the federal ' prison John R. Walsh, 72 years old, * who to-day began serving a five year sentence for misapplying the funds of the Chicago National bank, spent r, i rr Vi + ir> +Vi o nan it tin tin rv Ill IO XilDU Ui^Ut iU VUV JJVU*WUV*W4;. Walsh accepted his new situation with smiling god grace. While talk' ing to-day with an old friend, Walsh r remarked: "I don't believe I shall ever live out my sentence if I am not pardoned." . The new surroundings did not make Walsh, who is now known as "Convict No. 6861," nervous. He sat calmly in his cell to-night and read until the big gong sounded "lights out" at 9 o'clock. Then he went to bed. Walsh took his first meal in prison to-night. It consisted of warm biscuits, fried potatoes, onions and * black coffee. Walsh ate heartily. I . ? fA History of Barnwell. We are not authorized to give his name but we know of our own knowledge that one of the most competent of the younger men of the county is collecting data for a history of Barnwell, town and county And to give him such help as we can we ask the older citizens from the Savannah to the Edisto, and the descendants of first settlers to send f such traditions of the past as are! preserved in their memories to us, { and they will be conveyed to the i history writer. Much and high history has been made here and it is well worth preservation. Before the pictures of the old days have faded from memory retouch them with pen and ink. That much of respect is due to those who made the record of the past.?Barnwell People. 1 ? t' - , -j--:-''. -V - * . V - J.; ?@@@@@?@?@@@@?1 3TS/ going on. Scores of p alue, but we have some re being sold at ABSC a\i rnr 5, UVtl ten and boys, are whc ment that we can fit e chance to buy fine < re going to have lots i r overcoat bought noT ave other bargains in 7*7 %. 35 INCREASES PASTOR'S SALARY. Dillon Methodist Church Will Pay S $1,800 a Year. Dillon, January 19.?The Dillon iMethodist church has raised the sal- 0 ary of its pastor to $1,800 per an- ? num. This increase was decided on S at a meeting of the board of stewards F following a supper given by Mr. and t< Mrs. T. W. Bethea. Under the lead- M ership of Rev. W. C. Kirkland the 11 church is prospering, and a new building is being talked of. ti Walsh Goes to Prison. s' n S Chicago, January 18.?John R. q Walsh, 72 years old, after winning u his way from newsboy to the control of millions of dollars in banks, rail- ^ roads, newspapers and gold fields, a to-night left for the federal prison y at Leavenworth, Kan., to begin a five years' sentence for misapplying the funds of the Chicago National bank, of which he was president at the j time of its failure three years ago. t] The start for prison followed a denial by the United States circuit n court of appeals of his petition for a new trial on the ground of alleged j j misconduct by the jurors who found ^ Walsh guilty. p The final chapter in the financier's g long fight against a prison term is summarized as follows: 10 a. m.?Appeared at his office c< in the Grand Central station and conducted business as if nothing of g unusual importance was pending. B 11.40 a. m.?Summoned to a hotel where he heard over the telephone that his petition for a new trial was E denied. C1 4 p. m.?Heard read the mandate ^ committing him to prison. g, 5.15 p. m.?Bade his wife, daughter and intimate friends good bye at his Calumet avenue home and d started for the station in an auto- 11 mobile. w 6 p. m.?Left on the Chicago, w Milwaukee & St. Paul road for Leavenworth, where he is due to-morrow. ^ By a coincidence Walsh started to prison exactly two years after he ' was found guilty. It was on Janu- c> ary 18, 1908, that a jury in Federal B Judge Anderson's court brought in s' its verdict. k m - jx V* et trn V?o/1 rool wintDr it'DOthor HC iia? v uuu ivai niuvvt if vmvuv* *| during the past few days. Last Saturday was one of the most disagreeable days of the winter, still a good crowd came to town. " tl OUR ( l ? r? n u_Jl _ leople have taken advai mighty nice goods yet (LUTE COST. tCOAT: i f tiro o va mxnnrr it ff Vf Ui v gi * tug UIV4 most anybody. Do clothing at wholesali of cold weather yet, v. Come in and let dry goods, shoes, & U ui au TWO MEN FATALLY CUT. erious Affray in Greenville's Red ] Light District. Greenville, Jan. 22.?Traced for ne mile from the County Court j louse by streaks of blood on the round, two young white men, Will 1 'oster and Tom Scott, were found ( >day by the police near the Caro-!( na Mills, cut almost into mince t leat. From what could be learned ^ rom the police it seems that in a ( ree-for-all fight in the red light dis- , rict last night, Foster and Scott were lashed many times by an unknown ^ lan. They staggered up-town, and . reat streaks of blood in front of the J ourt House led the officers to beeve that a myterious murder had een committed. They traced the rops of blood from street to street nd located the men at the Carolina ' [ills. They are both fatally cut. Bride Seeking Freedom. O A V, T 1 n A ftow rr^TT ' opai uiuuuig, oau. xa. aiuci 61T_ ^ \g married life less than a month's ( *ial, Mrs. Nogie James Burnett, wife f Rev. George W. Burnett, a Baptist , linister of Aberdeen, Miss., who, be- < >re her marriage was Miss Nogie ames, of Wellford, has returned to partanburg county, pending an ap- 1 lication for divorce, which has been led in the office of the clerk of court f Monroe county, Miss. The appli- 1 ition for the divorce is made by * Dnsent of both parties on the ground * lat Mrs. Burnett declares that she ? oes not love her husband. Rev. Mr. ( urnett, it is said, loved his wife c ith a love akin to worship. He is man 58 years of age, while Mrs. 6 urnett is but 25. They knew each * ther but a month before marrying. 1 n . dispatch from Aberdeen, Miss., J lys: c "Parson Burnett has applied for 1 ivorce; case pending. Court now * 1 session. No reflection on lady, t ho has respect and sympathy of all T ho know her." 1 It is said that Rev. Mr. Burnett t as a widower with ten children at ? le time of his marriage to Miss 1 ames, which was on Sunday, De- 1 ?mber 26, 1909. Yesterday Mrs. urnett gave out a statement in re- c ard to her asking for a divorce, in!6 'Inch she says her husband was 1 ind and loving, but that she was J1 ist dissatisfied and did not believe! c tho T.r?rH'a will that shp rpmflin his I c ife. * ^ c Legal blanks and blank books at i le Herald Book Store. r 1REAT ?CL itage of this opportuni , and the values ar WW WW S AND se big bargains in, < n't let this opportui e prices, but that is and you will get lc us show you. Cos :c. ham' RAILWAY WRECK IN CANADA. Part of Train Plunges Into Ice-Coy erea itiver. North Bay, Out., January 21.? Death in all its most terrible form: blotted out the lives of at least j 3core and perhaps two score peopl< this afternoon, when four cars of j Canadian Pacific passenger train 01 the Soo branch leaped from th< tracks, and tearing down a steep em bankment, plunged through the ice covered surface of the Spanish River Some were drowned, others wer< crushed to death in bridging timbers Most terrible of all, maimed and in [ured, caught in the wreckage of on< Df the cars, were burned to death. The exact number of dead and in iured was still unknown here at i late hour to-night, as telegraphii communication has not yet been es tablished with the scene of th< wreck, but according to stories tol( ay injured passengers brought t< Sudbury, it was one of the worst ca iastrophies in the history of Cana lian railroads. The train wrecked was known a* \To. 7, en route from Montreal t< Sault Sainte Marie and Milwaukee \n official statement given out here says that it probably was due to i aroken rail. The engine, baggage, express, mai md one second-cless car remained or :he rails, while one second-class, one irst-class, a dining car and a sleepei md second-class car stopped on the embankment, the second-class cai ;atching fire. The wreck occurred about thirtyleven miles West of Sudbury where he tracks cut into the side of a steep lill, which is skirted by the river rhe forward part of the train passed >ver the break, whatever it was, safey. The day coach, which was the ourth from the end of the train was he first to leave tne rails, me tram vas running at the rate of aboul brty miles an hour and the momen,um carried the car down the hill ir t terrific plunge. About twenty-five >assengers were in the car and it is >ractically certain that none escaped. Two minutes after the first crash >niv tho roof of the dav coach show ;d above the floating ice in the iver. The second-class car, the next n the train, smashed against the end >f a culvert, and was crushed like in egg-shell. Some of the passengers were killed outright, but others aught in the wreckage which almost mmediately broke into flames, were oasted to death before they could OTHl ity to get goods way b e simply irresistible, bee | TROU! and we have such a g lity pass. It is seldom just what we are do >ts of good wear out < its nothing to look. ? s Soi Bamberg be rescued. The staunch construction of the dining car saved its occu" pants. It followed the day coach to the very brink of the river, but every_ one on board escaped without seri3 ous injury. The sleeper turned over a on its side on the embankment. s There were only members of the l train crew in the sleeper at the time 1 and they escaped with slight injuries. 3 Every man who was able to stand, . at once turned to the work of rescue. _ Snow was piled upon the burning second-class car and the train crew 3 and uninjured passengers did some Heroic work in trying to rescue . those pinned in the burning wrecks age. Physicians were hurried to tne scene from Sudbury as soon as word was received and a wrecking train with General Superintendent Gutlius made record time from North Bay. _ Arrangements were made to bring a a diver on a special train from Sault J Ste Marie to recover the bodies from the submerged car and he is now at the wreck with a diving outfit. The injured were taken to Sudbury Hospital. 3 STRANGLED SELF WITH APRON. * Miss Minnie Finkenstedt, Formerly of Charleston, a Suicide in Atlanta.' Spartanburg, January 21.?News 1 reached here to-day of the suicide in 1 Atlanta of Miss Minnie Finkenstedt, 3 which occurred late yesterday evening. She was a native of Walhalla 1 and leaves three brothers, William, r Frederick and Charles Finkenstedt, of Walhalla, and a sister, Miss Dora Finkenstedt, of Atlanta, surviving. ? All are known in Charleston, the family having moved here with early settlers of Walhalla from that city. The deceased was about 40 years of J age and had for several years been employed in Atlanta at the Piedmont Hotel. She took her own life at her home, having used her apron with , which to strangle herself. She had ] been in poor health for quite a while. { ] Mills Buying Futures. . LJ Savannah, Ga., Jan. 20?Savannah brokers received reports to-day that Southern mills were buying heavily of cotton future contracts in New ? York and would demand deliveries. A cnosiderable amount was said to be ; for January delivery. By this means the mills are enabled to take advanti age of the low price of futures, spot cotton in the Southern markets not i having declined to anything like a corresponding degree. NG elow I ause I 5ERS food 1 you 1 iiig. 1 )f a I . We 1 M ym 'afll N v Epilepsy. Spasms, St Vitus' Dance "I suffered for many years ' ^ from what some people call epilepsy. Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine cured me, and you can imagine how thankful I am."* M. I. COFFMAN, Coldwater, Mich. t "My daughter was cured with Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine, after having been afflicted with fits for five years." PETER McAULEY, Springfield, Mass. "For a year my little boy had spasms every time he got a little > cold. Since taking Dr. Miles' Nervine he has never had one of these spasms." MRS. MYRTLE DAGUE, Rochester, Ind. "My daughter couldn't talk or walk from St. Vitus' dance. Seven bottles of Dr. Miles' f Nervine entirely cured her." MRS. NANNIE LAND,' Ethel, Ind. 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