Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WOMAN PERISHES. Mrs. Mollie Sloan, of Pacolet, Meet Fearful Death. Spartanburg, Feb. 5.?Mrs. Molli White Sloan, aged 50 years, wife o A. F. Sloan, a well-to-do merchan and farmer of Pacolet, committei suicide this morning by locking her self in an outbuilding and setting fir< to the building. The building wa burned completely, and when her re mains were extricated from th charred timbers, the body was burnei beyond recognition. Strong cord were found about the limbs, and i a? aftar ootHr?jr firp tl UCilC VCU UiaW) ait^i OWV4UQ w ? the building, Mrs. Sloan hung her self. Ill health, which impaired th< mind, was the cause of her suicide It was a carefully planned, deliberat< taking of life. Yesterday morning Mr. Sloan cam< to Spartanburg. Mrs. Sloan, wh< was seldom left alone, was feeling s< well that her son said that he believet that he would step down to the store This left Mrs. Sloan alone with onl: the colored woman who did the hous< work. When the colored womai went upstairs to sweep ana mase uj the beds, Mrs. Sloan locked all th< doors of the house so that the ne gress could n<jt interfere in any waj with her plans. Mr. Sloan had a nev rope at the house which was lying 01 the back piazza. Mrs. Sloan tool R' this rope and the kerosene can anc went to the outbuilding. Directly the negro woman upstairi saw a blaze in the direction of th< barn, and thinking the stables wen afire and the horses might get burn ed, she ran down stairs to tell Mrs Sloan. She found the door to Mrs P Sloan's room locked. She thei rushed to the back door, but it wai I locked. Finding all the doors locked the negro woman jumped out of i | back window and gave the alarm. Neighbors rushed to the scene anc fli' began to fight fire to keep the ban and stables from catching. The build |; tag was totally destroyed. As thej jjrV fought the flames one of the men no atticed a human foot. The body oi g? Mrs. Sloan, charred beyond recogni | tion, was pulled from the smoking 1 embers. Coroner Turner was notified of th( - suicide, and he left on the morning P . train. When he arrived on the scent ihe found there were no suspicions ol foul play, and he considered it unnecessary to hold an inquest. Th< body of Mrs. Sloan was almost com pletely cremated. Mrs. Sloan had been in bad healtl for the past two or three years, anc for the last several months her con dition was such that it was noi deemed advisable for her to be alone Some members of the family alwayi kept close and watched over her. It is said that some two years age - she attempted to set fire to her clothWouldn't Invite Tillman. "This is a strange year, a recordbreaking year," to be sure. Th< - Senate of grand old South Carolim declined to invite the Hon. Benjamii Ryan Tillman to address that bod} en the Federal income tax question Why? Because Senator Tillman, ii ' was claimed, said in a speech ai Rock Hill that the South Caroline i Senate had been bought by the cor porations. We are making progress in South Carolina. Ten or fifteei years ago, the Senate at Columbfc would have esteemed it an honoi a Ka hv Tillman, and nov iit "will not hear him speak upon ? question of great National import ance, because he said at anothei ; : place that the Senate was under th< | control of the corporations. The re p covery of South Carolina from th< distemper of our last revolution ha* been slow, but the condition of th( patient is encouraging and, as J. E f B. Stuart's cavalrymen used to sing gk "There's a good time coming, hoys; fc; wait a little longer."?News ant |1- Courier. j| * Y. M. C. A. SECRETARY SLAIN Demand that Drunken Man Quit Us y ing Telephone Causes Killing. Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. 5.?Ber Redford, assistant secretary of th< |r Railroad Y. M. C. A. was shot am killed in the Association's rooms near the Southern Railway depot thi afternoon by John W. Cash, a flag man in the employ of the Southern Cash, under the influence of liquoi walked into the Association's room and began to use a telephone. Oth ers desired to use the telephone an< finally Redford demanded that he de sist talking. Cash's reply was a vil epithet, at which Redford picked u a chair and struck Cash a hard blo\ on the head. Cash immediate! pulled a pistol and fired five times Redford died without speaking. Cas] was arrested and is in jail. ? The Home Bank of Barnwell open ed its doors for business at noon oi Saturday and by the closing hour ha !!, received $1,360 in deposits. In th first three days the deposits amount ed to ten thousand dollars.?Bam well People. " , MURDER MYSTERY SOLVEI s _____ NEGRO CONFESSES TO KILLIN< e WOMEN AT SAVANNAH, f t j Triple Crime Which Occurred oj December 9 Laid Bare by Prise s ner in Chatham County Jail. e 1 Savannah, Ga., February 4.?B; s his own confession Bingham Bryan t a negro, is the man, who, on De 3 cember 9, killed three white women _ Mrs. Eliza Gribble, aged 70; Mrs e Carrie Ohlander, her daughter, an< .. Mrs. Maggie Hunter, in their horn* 3 on Perry street, in the heart of Sa vannah. 3 The negro is a prisoner in Chat 3 bam county jail, here, and has beei 3 in custody since he was arrested De 1 cember 14, for a minor crime. Th< negro's story tallies to the minutes j details with appearances about th< ? house of murders after the dead wo i men were found. His story, simple 3 but terrible, follows as he told it 3 He declares his motive in enterin* Vf V?nrr? a nro a rAhhori itllO. UUUU1V O UU1UV n?u iwwwv*. r only. 7 Bryan said to-day: r "I was working around the Grih t ble house, cutting wood. I "I picked up a hammer in th< little house in the yard and hid ii 3 in the bosom of my shirt. ? "Then I went in the back roon 3 and went to work on a trunk. ] . was trying to prize the trunk open and it made some noise. "The old lady grabbed me fron i behind and shook me pretty hard. ] 3 took the hammer and gave her i lick on the side of the head. Th< 9 i first lick did not knock her down and I gave her a second lick. I "Then the second one come u& i the younger one, and grabbed me ai . the door in the back of the hall, anc r I gave her a lick with my fist. Ther . I hit her a lick with the hammer or f the side of the head, but I did nol . kill her. j "I heard a noise at the front door like some one wanting to come in j I tried to keep her from coming in r but she pushed the door open anc ? come in. She grabbed hold of me; I I took her by the throat and choked . her with one hand. Then I give hei ? a lick with the hammer, but did not . kill her. She was alive when I left.' THE NAUGHTY STORK. t ________ 1 Put Up a Job on Husband With j. Wife's Assistance. A fine domestic scandal has beer j unearthed at Los Angeles, Cal., bj the refusal of Dr. Armstrong G } Fratt to sign birth certificates foi the quadruplets supposed to hav< been born to Mr. and Mrs. W. W Wilson, of that place, and the health department of Los Angeles is mak . ing an investigation into the case. ? Dr. Pratt has declared that in hit i opinion none of the infants were borr i at the Wilson residence and that al! r had been born previous to the daj . they were supposed to have been t He declares that Mrs. Wilson confess t ed to him that the babies had beei t taKen to tne nouse Dy a wuuutu wm . had assisted her in perpetrating th< s hoax and that one of the infant i was six weeks old, another a weel t old, and the other two were aboul r 24 hours old when he first saw them r The woman, according to Dr i Pratt, not only admitted that th< . quadruplets were not genuine, bui r two sets of triplets, which arrivet > at the Wilson home in past years . and which brought a letter of rec i ommendation and a signed photo 3 graph from President Roosevelt wer< i made up of infant waifs picked ui . at various institutions. Accordinj , to the woman her husband wanted t ; large family, and that her onl; 1 genuine child was an infant bori 25 years ago and which died whili a baby. After its death Mrs. Wilsoi . said she longed for children of hei own, and at last hit upon the idea o: having the make-believe appearance of the stork. t Held on Serious Charge, a Charlotte, Feb. 2.?Arthur M 1 Prince, formerly of Williamston, S i. C., member of a well known Soutl s Carolina family, is held at the polic< - station in this city charged with th< L. murder of his wife at Dothan, Ala Prince was first arrested last Satnr 8 day night on information given Chie _ of Police Christenbury by a detective j but was released yesterday becaus y- of the failure to hear from the Ala e bama authorities. To-day, howevei p a message came from Dothan askini v that prince he held under heav; y guard as he was a desperate charac 5. tre. He has a number of relative h in South Carolina. He was a con ductor on the Louisville and Nash ville railroad at the time of the mur l- der. He is said to have cut hi a wife's throat with a razor, inflictim d wounds from which she never re e covered. He is apparently abou thirty-five years of age and has mark t- of refinement. A reward was offerei for his capture. 4 | NATURE LOVES THE LAZV. Improvident Lower Mississippi Fishj ermen Enjoy Cheap Living. "Fish supply the staple food for a great number of settlers around the mouth of the Mississippi," said H. R. 11 Clayton, of New Orleans, at the Hotel Metropole. "There are all kinds of fish in the sound from Bay St. Louis to Biloxi, and the mullet is the favorite all the year around. This is because there is no regular mullet Y season, and you can catch them any > time. The natives do not go to the ~ trouble of doing a great deal of hook? and-line fishing. It is too easy to ' catch mullet with a net. In a half 1 hour you are sure of enough to make 3 a meal. "Many of the fishermen live without future. They appropriate a little " strip of land and grow enough vege1 tables on it to supply their table. " Their catch fills out the bill of fare, 3 and sometimes they sell fish and buy 1 a few clothes or some meat. They 3 are so improvident that it is lucky - thp fich arp thprp to save them." The Everyday Girl. r j She is not beautiful, as far as features go, but she is beautiful with the expression that sweetness and no. bility of love lend to her steadfast eyes and tender face, i She is not marvelously clever, but t she knows how to hold the love of the husband and children around j whom all her ambitions center. [ Her face may be lined by many anxious vigils over restless little fever-racked bodies, her hands roughj ened by toil for those she loves, but c her blessed mother heart is as fresh i and pure and eager as a child's. J Or perhaps she is not a mother, ' 1 1%.? * 4 + a 1 rtrrl TV or wnmfln nor d> WUCj UUl J UOl> a iut iu^ nvmuu with a heart big enough to hold the joys and sorrows of others and to t sympathize with them. I But whatever her station in life. l thank God she is not scarce; there { are millions of her type. t The everyday woman is the homemaker, and she is not restlessly seeking a career and stretching out groping, unsatisfied hands for the unknown. What she wants is love [ and home, and fortunately for her , she usually gets it. [ The everyday woman is the back. bone of the world, j If she is a mother, she rears her ? children wisely and tenderly, teach ing her sons to be honorable, manly men, and her daughters to be good women. i If she is not a mother she is interesting herself in behalf of her sex i and taking an intelligent stand on the t issues of the day. She may like . pretty clothes, but she is not frivo lous, and she is not so complex but ? that her friends may understand her; and she is not brilliant, but loving. t /*/v nnf Unnw that the everyday L * ? . woman inspires a great passion, but sbe does inspire a very true and lasti ing affection. l Men of genius usually fall in love I with women of the average type. It r may be a question of the law of opposites?restfulness and peace ap. peal strongly to the nervous, excit, able mind of genius. > The average woman has her hours ? of depression, when she feelB that she j is commonplace, and envies her more : brilliant and beautiful sisters. I But she need not feel that way, for the world could not get on without her. Her sweetness and common ? sense are indispensable to mankind in t the making. 1 The everyday girl is wise when she tries to beautify herself, for every . woman has the right to make most of . herself, but she should never try to j be witty; wit must be spontaneous. } She is good and she is sweet and r she is intelligent, and men revere and x love her. The everyday woman is j not to be pitied, but congratulated.? 1 Exchange. x Thief Caught With the Goods. r a "Uafiil ltiMr hart L iiliitUUl, rcUt 1* uaiu iuva( wmi\4 3 company and devil." This is the combination which 17 year old Fred Cain, the Raffles of this city, blames for his troubles. Cain was arrested . last night, when his aged mother . was shadowed and unknowingly led i the officers to the house in which the b booty was concealed. A. L. Cain, an 3 elder brother, was arrested this af. ternoon for complicity in the series - of burglaries which have bothered f the police for weeks. The younger >, man confessed. e m Killed by Train. f ? Swansea, Feb. 6.^-Vandy Jamison, y the negro depot hand at this place, !- was struck and instantly killed by s vestibule train No. 84, going north, at l- 5 o'clock this evening. The negro could see the train for - 400 yards down the track and his 8 own carelessness, coupled with the g fact that he was under the influence of whiskey, was the cause of his t death. The body was terribly mans gled, the skull was bursted open and & brains scattered along the track for 10 or 15 feet. * -* ~ _ . . HOME-RAISED CATTLE SOLD. Anderson Man Brings Fine Lot of Steers Here. Mr. A. Rody, of Anderson, S. C.f was in Charleston yesterday for the purpose of disposing of a carload of fine steers, the sale taking place at the Nelson stock yards to the north of the city. The cattle were in fine condition and found ready purchasers among the local meat dealers. The dealers were delighted with the condition of the cattle, which weighed from 700 to 1,400 pounds, and expressed themselves as willing to buy up all South Carolina meat of the same sort. The carload of cattle sold by Mr. Rody yesterday brought from 4 Vz to 6 cents the pound. It is stated by dealers that cattlemen in South Carolina will find a ready market at good prices for all such cattle as those brought here yesterHav?Nawr and Cnnriar. Won't Need a Crutch. When Editor J. P. Sossman, of Cornelius, N. C., bruised his leg badly, it started an ugly sore. Many salves and ointments proved worthless. Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve healed it thoroughly. Nothing is so prompt and sure for ulcers, boils, burns, bruises, cuts, corns, sores, pimples, eczema or piles. 25c at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Throws Rock into Train. Lancaster, Feb. 5.?An unknown miscreant threw a large rock at the Southern Railway's north-bound pas- 1 senger train last night at a point ( between Pleasant Hill and Elgin, the 1 stone crashing through a window of j the first-class coach and striking one of the passengers, Harry Hirech, in 1 the neck, making a painful wound. After hitting Mr. Hlrsch and knocking him down, the rock glanced and struck T. S. Carter, also of this place, on the shoulder. The force being spent, Mr. Mr. Carter was not much hurt The train was not stopped, as the conductor was not informed ol the incident until almost a mile this side of where it occurred. President Helps Orphans. Hundreds of orphans have been helped by the President of the Industrial and Orphan'8 Home at Macon, Ga., who writes: "We have used Electric Bitters in this institution for nine years. It has proved a most excellent medicine for stomach, liver and kidney troubles. We regard it as one of the best family medicines on earth." It invigorates all vital organs, purifies the blood, aids digestion, creates appetite. To strengthen and build up pale, thin, weak children or rundown people it has no equal. Best for female complaints. Only 50c at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Find Money on Beggar Woman. Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 6.?With her stockings lined with five and ten dollar bills and her bustle bulging with greenbacks and silver coin, a white woman giving her name as Bessie Wilson, of Rock Hill, S. C., was taken from the A. T. and O. passenger train which gets in here at 12.30 and taken to the police station. Patrolmen Henderson and Malcolm met the train and took the woman in charge. At the police station a careful search brought to light $442.57. The money was in one, five, and ten dollar bills, and also in coin, the latter ranging in denomination from pennies to 50-cent pieces. The arrest was made on information furnished the chief df police by Capt Thomas W. Rowland, conductor on the train from which the passenger was taken. The woman is a recognized beggar and has made her appearance in several towns, having visited this city once before, where she was arrested and forced to leave the town. No charges have been preferred against her this time, but the chief of police will place her on the train and start her on her way to her alleged South Carolina home. Took All His Money. Often all a man earns goes to doctors or for medicines, to cure a stomach, liver or kidney trouble that Dr. King's New Life Pills would quickly cure at slight cost Best for dyspepsia indigestion, biliousness, constipation, jaundice, malaria, and debility. 25c at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg. FOUND CUTTING WOOD. Mrs. Holly Hadn't Seen Spouse Since He Went to the War. Wabash, Ind., Feb. 3.?In a wood- , chopper at work near her home, Mrs. Albert Holly to-day recognized her husband, whom she had not seen since he marched away as a soldier in the civil war, forty-seven years ago. She believed he was killed in battle, and sold her home and moved away. He could not find her when he returned from the South, and became a wandering carpenter. Mrs. Holly was married to James Stull a few years after the war. For forty years they lived happily together. Stull was a motorman here, and ten months ago he was thrown from his car and killed. Holly and his wife are to be remarried, Just as an evidence of good faith. Arm< Ferti Have (our sources feed your crop throi ing season. They will be sol point in this county Next week we v paper why they ar< be had. I Armour Feri ATLANTA ammmmmmmammmmmmamammmmmt "Whiskey Did It." Rome, Ga., Feb. 1.?"Whiskey did t," is the epitaph which J. M. Lanlers, a prosperous farmer, asked with his dying breath to be carved >n his tombstone. Mr. Landers died ast Friday night from the effects of >urns received when he fell in a fire i week ago while intoxicated. The ower part of his body was burned, md when he regained consciousness le bad no recollection or tne nappenng. His last request was for wide mblicity to be given his fate as a varning to others. ' Nervous Prostration For Three Years "Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine cured me of a period of nervous prostration of over three years duration, and the AntiPain Pills are as necessary to us as the roof of our house. They have been household remedies with us for many years." WM. J. LOUGHRAN, 1214 Catherine St., Philadelphia, Penna. Much sickness is due to nervous troubles. Headache, dizziness, epilepsy and insanity are 11- ?n xi nervous trouDies. men mere is a large class of disorders which arise from a weakness of the nerves of an organ or part, as weak lungs, heart, stomach, kidney, bladder, eyes, etc. Dyspepsia and indigestion are usually the result of nervous disorders. Restorative Nervine soothes the irritated nerves, and assists the nerve cells to generate nerve force. Dr. Mites' Nervine Is sold by all druggists. If the first bottle falls to benefit, your druggist will return your money. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. I 'Every Month' I I writes Lola P. Roberts, of I I Vienna, Mo., "I used to be I sick most of the time and H I suffered with backache and I headache. My Mother, who I had been greatly helped by I I the use of Cardui, got me I two bottles, and I have I been well ever since." | iCARDUl The Woman's Tonic I Cardui is a gentle tonic I for young and old women. H It relieves and prevents I pain. It builds strength. It feeds the nerves. It helps I the whole system. I Made from harmless roots and herbs, it has no I bad after-effects, does not I interfere with the use of any other medicine and can I do you nothing but good. I TryCardui It will help I you. Your dealer sells it I our's lizers of ammonia. They ugh the entire grow? ; d at every shipping- > fill tell you in this z the best goods to "M % tilizer Works , GEORGIA - * . ???Mg; ? r PORTABLE AND STATIONARY Engines AND BOILERS ' v Saw, La til and Shingle Mills, Injectosr, Pumps and Fittings, Wood CnllMaiH QVioffa Unllnva Ioa W Of opilbici Of UUA&Wf A U4AV/Of Belting, Gasoline Engines LARflBSTOCK LOMBARD Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works, Supply Store. AUGUSTA, GA. W. E. FBEE ; t ^ f - Attorney-at-Law All business entrusted to me , ' > will receive prompt attention. Investigation of land titles a specialty *' Office for present at court house. The McKay My Stalk-Cotter We build the most satisfactory * Cutter in America?Simple, Strong, Honest and Durable. No "rattletrap" trinkets to get out of order. , A genuine pleasure to operate it. Competitive field tests invited. Our Cutter won the highest award at N. C. and S. C. state fairs over all Western cutters. x Has movable boxes which can be replaced at nominal cost * A Southern product, built for the Southern farmer. Forty Cars Sold Last Season. G. M. DICKINSON, Agent, i BAMBERG, & C. DANGER IN DELAY. Kidney Diseases Are Too Dangerous } for Bamberg People to Neglect '\ f . . 1 The great danger of kidney troubles is that they get a firm hold be-' J. fore the sufferer recognizes them. ' Health is gradually undermined. Backache, headache, nervousness, lameness, soreness, lumbago, urinary troubles, dropsy, diabetes and t Bright's disease follow in merciless succession. Don't neglect your kidneys. Cure the kidneys with the certain and safe remedy, Doan's Kidney Pills, which has cured people right here in Bamberg. D. J. Cain, Church St., Bamberg, S. C., says: "I suffered from kidney trouble for two or three years and during the < past six months my condition became quite serious. I often had spells of backache which were so acute I could not work. I could not sit down without first grasping something for support and then putting my whole ^ weight on my arms. After lying * down it was impossible for me to get up without assistance, and I might say that I was as helpless as a child. The kidney secretions were disordered and at times there was an almost somplete retention. My condition was critical and all the doctoring I did brought me but little relief. Recently I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, which I obtained from the Peoples Drug Co., and I have since felt so much better in every way that I cannot praise the remedy too high- " ly." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,. f New Tork, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's? and take no other. TRESPASS NOTICE. All of my friends are respectfully requested not to hunt or trespass on my lands in any manner whatever. Others, including book agents, pio- t ,SJ ture agents, sewing machine agents, patent medicine agents, and peddlers of every kind must not, as they will be prosecuted to the fall extent of the law. W. S. BAMBERG. A? . - / .