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? INFANT'S B()I)V DISCOVERED. If* f; \ Corpse of White Male Child Foun< Buried on Vacant Lot at Clinton. Clinton, February 9.?The dea< body of an infant was discovere< itere this mnmine bv a young: negn delivery boy on the vacant lot jus across Broad street from the resi dence of Mr. J. A. Bailey, and onl} a short distance from the businesi r section of the town. The body had been wrapped in i eloth and was buried only abou eighteen inches under the earth. Dr J. Lee Young, who made the exami nation, stated that the body was thai r;of a fully developed male infant, anc ifrom all appearances of white parentage. He was also of the opinion thai the child had only been dead a fev days, as there was very few signs ol decay. The coroner's verdict wa"an unknown male child came to hij death in an unknown manner." Nc clue as to the guilty parties has yel been discovered. DEPOT BURGLAR CAUGHT. Coast Line Detective Catches Thiel at Asheley Junction. Florence, February 9.?The arresi at Ashley Junction, of Frank Rogers Colored, by Special Agent J. N. Walker, of the Atlatic Coast Line's de tective force on Tuesday, will probably be the means of the capture of a ? V? o xt a. hoor IUUIULWr Ul. kuicvca If uv uui V wvv? committing a series of burglaries along the Coast Line system, between Florence and Charleston for the past three weeks. ^Rogers was captured by Mr. Walker, and when arrested was found tc Have on his person quite a number ol articles stolen from the Coast Line depots and express offices at Gourdin's and Bonneau. Rogers was brought to Kingstree and incarcerated to await trial at the next term of Court for Williamsburg county. He has implicatd others, and the detectives and officers are hot after them. SCANDAL AT ALBANY. Charges of Corruption in Legislature Being Made. ' Albany, N. Y., February 8.?The man who "handled the money" was brought before the Senate ito-day bj Senator Benjamin Conger to confirir V tionger's charge that Jotham P Allds, its majority leader, accepted $1 ,000 for influencing legislation He proved to be Hiram G. Moe, vet ; eran ex-bank cashier of Grotop wherC Conger lives, and he declared positively that on April 23, 1901, ht v l?ad nanaea senator auub bu cuE',: ' velope containing $1,900 at the Capit61 The purpose for which the alleged |- transfer of money occnrred did no! EV'. appear in the direct testimony toll day; but Senator Conger filed ar |. affidavit in which he declared thai 1 the payment was made to Allds, upon i;- Alldb's demand, ''in the interests ol f. the American Bridge Company." K'The rattle of dead men's bone* added a mysterious hearing this afBj| ternoon. For Moe declared that oi |p the same day he paid Allds $1,00C P? he gave to another legislator $4,000, pL and to another $1,000. The tense g. anxiety displayed by both sides tc Wy.-. gwud the identity of the alleged re sfpients of these sums was explained p" when Senator Brackett arose and pi pjeaded with the contestants not tc jv: smirch the names of those who could not possibly appear to defend themIK; selves. ^ ' The man who, Moe said, sent him jl K> Albany with this $6,000 to dis ^ \ tribute to three legislative leaden py? ) ilso is dead. He was Frank Conger S? ' brother of the Senator, and at the Ip time these events occurred vice presi. dent of the bridge company. The only other witness to-day wa* -Win. A. Smyth, editor of the Owegc &- Times, (Tioga County.) Owego wat the home of former United Statei ?|:* Senator Thomas C. Plaett. Smytt - ' testified that in 1901 the Owegc ? Bridge Company was threatening tc move its plant if certain legislatioi became a law. The witness appealec to Senator Piatt and received th< following reply: "According to Alld6' statement, the t bill that passed is not objectionable I to the bridge people, provided the other bill is held. There is no deub the other bill will remain in the com f mittee." m ? - - X. ; Tner? IS an impression. ucic w aigbt that the introduction of Plat into the controversy is welcomed b: the defence, and that it opens a wa; for Senator Allds to plead that In re gard to this highway legislation h< n!y followed the instructions of th< former republican leader of the State Won't Need a Crutch. When Editor J. P. Sossman, o Gornelius, N. C., bruised his leg bad Jy, it started an ugly sore. Man; salves and ointments proved worth less. Then Bucklea's Arnica Salv< I healed it thoroughly. Nothing is s< ?x f a*. it! AArfi KaHc pruiiiyt auu ouic iui uiwio, burns, bruises, cuts, corns, sores pimples, eczema or piles. 25c a Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C / .> " Z.' . - . ' .. . (> "... ASSAULT NEAR TAMPA. 3 Escaped Negro Convict Outrages Mrs. } Jane Ellerbee. i Tampa, Fla.. Feb. 10.?Escaping i from a turpentine camp six miles c 5 from here, where he was detained as a t a convict, Rowland Flower, a negro t - went to the home of Mrs. Jane Eller- s, 7 bee, a prominently connected white ^ 3 woman, two miles away, at 2 o'clock s, this afternoon, and at the point of a t i gun forced the frightened woman to y t submit to an assault. As soon as the jj . negro left the woman ran a distance 0 - of two miles, with no shoes on her p t feet and but the scant attire the L brute had left on her, and gave the p - alarm. b t Officers from Tampa hastened to e, r the scene in automobiles and, securl ing bloodhounds, were soon on the .% * . t TT-li? - s trail 01 tne negro, nan & uuuuicu jg i men on horseback also took up the t] > chase, but the sheriff's posse was ^ t first to sight the fugitive, which jj probably saved summary punishment ^ being visited on him. When sighted 0 the negro had a gun, which he had taken from the Ellerbee home. When ^ ^ commanded to halt he started to a shoot, but the officers fired first, one n of the bullets piercing his thigh. An- 0 ^ other went through the two barrels p > of the gun. The negro was placed in an auto- ^ ' mobile and hurried to Harney, a c " small station several miles distant. A 1 Anticipating that the roads would be d 1 watched by the infuriated citizens, ^ 5 who outnumbered the officers ten ^ 1 to one, the latter took a wide detour, g c and arrived here with their prisoner at 6 o'clock and lodged him safely in ' jail. He is now under heavy guard * and it is hardly probable that any 2 L" violence will be attempted, for the ^ - present at least. n Mrs. Ellerbee tells a story revolt- n ing in detail. She was in the yard g( at the time the negro arrived, and ) was the only person about the house. ^ > The negro asked for a drink of wa- b 1 ter, and permission to sit down and t] : rest. He walked into the house to ^ sit down, and when Mrs. Ellerbee tJ protested he forced her to go into t( the house also, pointing a gun which & he found in the house at her. Foreing her to divest herself of nearly all of her clothing he accomplished his fiendish purpose. Mrs. Ellerbee is ' about fifty-four years old, and lives t( 5 with her son in a small farm house. Flowers admitted going to the ^ 1 bouse and getting the gun, but denied c, that he outraged the woman. ^ It was announced early to-night Q ' that a grown son of Mrs. Ellerbee fe was at the head of a mob which was r ' proceeding to Tampa for the purpose 1 of attacking the jail, and taking the j? * negro out, but up to this hour noth- ^ ing has materialized. The jail is an g] unusually strong structure, with high brick walls enclosing it. Sheriff ^ Jackson does not believe it possible ' for a mob to reach the prisoner if an p attemnt is made. | xj I *" * The automobile police patrol in jj ' which Flowers was being brought to v, \ the city ran into a street car on the N " outskirts, and was badly damaged, p but was able to proceed to the city. lT i Ml DRUG HOUSE FOR GREENVILLE. a i ???? I Geer Company, of Charleston, will , Establish Branch There. * V . , > Greenville, February 10.?The ic Geer Drug Company, of Charleston, si 1 will shortly open here the largest b< I wholesale drug house between Char- t< > lotte and Atlanta. Work on a four- n 1 story building, costing over $15,000, ei will start this week. The combined Ci capital of the two will be a quarter b i of a million dollars. J. D. Owen, of t< Clarksville, Tenn., will be manager D } of the local house. B } AFRICA GROWING COTTON. tl t-" , Dark Continent's Output May Affect tl i Market in Eigland. w > - b ? Washington, February 9.?Cotton ? growing in Africa is becoming an im- tl l portant pursuit, and one which, in b ) time, will affect the marketing of b ) American cotton in Great Britain, as a i that country, which uses eo much 1 cotton from the United States, is en- P ? rvMiracrin? the develonment of the c' growing of that staple in her colo- 0 J niee. The season's cotton crop in tl i West Africa is estimated at 5,200,- tl i 000 pounds, or over twice as much t as was grown there last year. The h - Kaino Railway soon will be extended tl into the cotton growing country of h - Northern Nigera and then "large de- 8 t Yelopments will take place. t Giving it Away. a "A woman can't just keep a se- n a cret," he declared, opposing a statea ment. If "Oh, I don't know," contradicted b the fluttery lady. "I've kept my age y a secret ever since I was 24." t * "Yes," he replied, "but one of these n " days you will just simply have to b _ tell it." e "Well," she replied with confl3 dence, "I think when a woman has r !' kept a secret for twenty years she p t comes pretty near knowing how to 1 !. keep It" d MORE MONEY FOR SCHOOLS. louse Passed Bill Introduced by Hon. C. W. Garris. The house passed with little disussion Mr. Garris' bill providing for n annual appropriation of not less han $60,000 for the free public chools. When the appropriation bill ras under consideration, Mr. Garris ecured an increase in the appropriaion from $20,000 to $60,000, and esterday he called up his bill makag the proposed appropriation one f the regular sections of the approriation bill. The bil was changed in several articulars anc^, after an explanation y Mr. Garris and amendments, passd as follows: "Section 1. That a sum of not ?ss than $60,000 be, and the same t hereby, appropriated annually for le purpose of increasing the average rngth of the free public school term 1 this State, in accordance with and y authority in section 6, article 11, f the constitution of 1895. "Sec. 2. No more than $100 shall e appropriated to any one school in ny one scholastic year, but no school ow running for a period of 100 days r more, or hereafter to run a eriod of 100 days or more, out of mds accruing from said school for tie regular school funds, shall reeive aid from this appropriation, .nd no school shall receive aid uner authority of this act unless the istrict in which said school is looted does now, or hereafter shall, rst levy in accordance with law at iast 2 mills special school tax. "Sec. 3. Schools running less lan 100 days as provided in sectio'n of this act, may receive aid from lis fund in amounts equal to the umber raised by special taxation, ot to exceed $100 for any one shoo! "Sec. 4. Funds appropriated un er the terms of this act shall not ecome available In any school disrict except upon petition of the oard of trustees of the school dis ict asking aid, approved and counirsigned by the county superintendut of education for the county in hich the district is located. "Sec. 5. The State superintendat of education may refuse aid under le provisions of this act if it is made > appear to him that the expendiire would be unwise and detrimen- j il to the interests of free school edu- I ition in said district. 1 "Sec. 6. The State superintendent f education, with the State board of ducation, shall provide rules and egulations for the distribution of j lis fund and shall advise such regu-. j itions to the various county superltendents of education who, in turn, lall advise the various district trusses. "Sec. 7. Applications must be led in order of their receipt and aid or refused in the same order: rovided, That such schools as now ave on deposit funds raised by priate subscription under the terms of o. 105, acts of 1909, shall, for the resent scholastic year, receive aid i accordance with the terms of said ct."?Columbia State. Will Prosecute Clark and Jones. W. A. Clark and Wilie Jones, presents of the two leading banking intitutions of South Carolina, are to e indicted on a charge of conspiracy ) defraud. The announcement was lade yesterday by Dr. E. J. Etherflge, chairman of the board of revivers. The other members of the oard are Huger Sinkler of Charlesm, F. G. Tompkins of Columbia, >r. R. H. Timmerman of Aiken and ,. M. Kennedy of Allendale. Dr. Etheredge stated last night aat the board had been in session **o days and that, after considering ae matter from every standpoint, it as decided to let these prosecutions e made. The prosecutions will not come in ae name of the receivers, it is said, ut in the name of individual stockolders, and the action will be in nother county, possibly Kershaw. Dr. Etheredge stated that every erson connected with the Seminole ompany would be prosecuted?with ne exception, Thos. S. Bryan, one of be trustees. He would give no furtier information. Gen. Jones stated last night that e had been expecting something of bis kind, "for any hysterical stock older of any corporation can with hrewd lawyers cause a lot of rouble," said Gen. Jones. "Howver, I am innocent in my motives nd I invite rather than defy examiation of my record." W. F. Stevenson, B. L. Aabill and !. D. Blakeney, attorneys who had een here for several days consulting rith the receivers, had returned to heir several homes last night, and othing further about the case could e learned.?Columbia State. The Herald Book Store has just eceived a big bargain in legal cap aper. Regular 20c paper, going at 0c the quire. This value can't be [uplicated. !&' MOYE 'mCKmSON ! ! INSURANCE AGENT WILL WRITE ANYTHING 3 Fire, Tornado, Accident, Lia bility. Casualty, in the x strongest and most re- ? liable companies. X 'Phone No. 10-B. Bamberg, S. C. + H PORTABLE AND STATIONARY Engines AND BOILERS Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills, Injectosr, Pumps and Fittings, Wood Saws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, Belting. Gasoline Engines LAROESTOCK LOMBARD Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works, Supply Store. AUGUSTA, GA. CHICHESTER S PILLS Wa-w T1IE DIAMOND BRAND. A /7v\ Lidleit Aik r?ir Dratriit for A\ ?>\\ VMa Chlchee-ter'a Dlatnon(iBrnnd/#Y\ /I'llj iQPQi Pills in Red c-.d Gold tnetai:ic\V/ boxes, sealed with Blue Ribbon. \/ *1 wl Take no other. Bar of roar " 1"/ ~ fr Druccht Ask for ClII-CIIES-TER S I C Jf DIAMOND KRAND PILLS, for Sft B years known is Best, Safest, Always Reliable ?r SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE rra B . "I would like to guide B B suffering women to a sure B B cure for female troubles." B B writes Mrs. R. E. Mercer, B of Frozen Camp, W. Va. B B "I have found no med- B H Irinfk pnnal tn ParHui. I H I had suffered for about H four years. Would have headache for a week at a time, until I would be H nearly crazy. I took Car dui and now I never have H the headache any more." iiCARDUl The Woman's Tonte I The pains from which M I many women suffer every M month are unnecessary. M It's not safe to trust to H strong drugs, right at the time of the pains. VI Better to take Cardui N for a while, before and |H after, to strengthen the [1 system and cure the cause, ifl This is the sensible, the scientific, the right way. After La Grippe ?T cotrAf^l iimnlrQ 1 I X liau OUU VICU JVV vim nvviu> with LaGrippe. Had pains in my head and eyes. It felt as though there was a heavy weight on the top of my head, until it seemed that my brain would burst. I was so nervous that I could not rest or sleep. When I dozed off I would awake with a sudden jerking of my whole body. Dr. Miles' Nervine, Heart Remedy and Nerve and Liver Pills cured me. A number of friends have since realized the same benefits." MRS. ALVIN H. LOCKS, Seabrook, N. H. The after effects of LaGrippe are often more serious than the = disease, as it leaves the system in a weakened condition that invites more serious troubles, such as pneumonia, etc. Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine should be taken for some time to thoroughly restore nerve strength. Dr. MIIm' Narvlna Is Mid by all druggists. If tha first battia daaa nat banaflt, your druggist will raturn your ma nay. MILtS MCDICAL C#., Klkhart, Ind. *wmmu i "LOMBARD" < Improved Saw Mills. VARIABLE HtlCTlON FEED. nd'kcilablc. J J "1 Best material and workmanship, light running, requires little power; simple, easy to -andle. Are made in several sizes and are good, substantial moneymaking machines down to the smaliest size. Write for catalog showing En-I gines, Boilers and all Saw Mill supplies. Lombard Iron Works & Supply Co., AUGUSTS, OA. ' ' C How Do You Feed Your Crops? DO YOU KNOW just what your cotton and corn need, and are you furnishing it in such quantities as required and in such shape tnat the plant can use it ? Suppose you should put the food for your stock in a box, nail it up and place it in their trough?would you expect them to thrive and grow fat ? Hardly I Well, did it ever occur to you that when you use lumpy, badly mixed fertilizers you are putting this same proposition up to your crops?offering them plant food in such shape that they can't get to it? Fertilizers, to do your crops any good, must dissolve in the soil waters. These are constantly in motion, rising to 1 the surface during the day and sinking at night?passing and repassing the roots of the plant, which absorb the food contained in the water?and this is the only way in which , the plant can feed. Therefore, when you buy fertilizer, you should do so with the idea of furnishing food for your crop and on the same principle that you should purchase food for your / stock. It should not only contain the necessary Ammonia, Phosphoric Acid and Potash, but above all else these should be in soluble form?the mechanical condition of the fertilizer should be such as to permit the plant to ? absorb every particle of it, and the goods should be manufactured from materials that will not give up their plant .. 1 food at one time, but furnish a steady supply throughout the entire growing season. This is the fertilizer you should have and can def?- : J in only one way. It is impossible to produce a goods like this by the dry-mixing of raw materials, whether you do this at home with a shovel and a screen or buy it from someone who has made it the same way?the only difference being in the quantity. These materials must be ground to a powder, and it requires machinery costing thousands of dollars to do it properly. They must then be so manipulated that when / complete, you have a compound* each ounce of which is exactly like every other ounce, and not a mixtulre, one part of which would contain too much Ammonia and too little Potash, while, another part would be exactly the opposite?and all of it contain plant food locked up and not amiable. . ft Remember that the chemical analysis of a fertilizer is no test of its crop growing qualities. The chemist can pulverize lumps and by the use of various means search out the plant food; your crop can't. ' ; ' \ . --v , You can take an axe, break open the box and get the corn; your mule can't. I Don't risk a crop failure! Insure your peace of mind as well as your crop by using : - K Armour s Animal Ammoniated Fertilizers ... . ;' Manufactured by Armour Fertilizer Works ^ ; ATLANTA, GEORGIA ' 'Vk ?? ? H=C=OT=aD I Bargains in Real Estate, etc. j Farms in small and large tracts, town lots I and residences, mercantile businesses, I , mill sites, sale stables, and pole and tie | i propositions, at low figures and on easy f terms. Descriptive list sent on applica- I tion. Call on or write, I j. t. o'neal, i | Real Estate Agent, - - - - Bamberg, S. ,y Southern States Supply Co. ? * TT UtrPV Daaai^anf JtX? JU? nnii T JU x | & xvmiKvuM Plumbing Supplies OF ALL KINDS 110 to 818 Qervais St. Columbia, South Carolina ' -' . <i '-Va.H- ,