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EatabBihed 1801 BAMBEBO, S. 0., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1910. One Dollar a Year
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OOONItT MEWS LETTERS
BOMB INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
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OUr News.
OUr, Feb. 28.?Oh, you wedding
belli! Thrice they rang for us last
week. One gone while two come in.
Wednesday afternoon Mr. J. G. BarkIf,
oar efficient postmaster, took a I
drive np in the Friendship section
tad brought back Mrs. Janie Still to
the residence of Rev. W. C. Baxley,
where he soon made them man and
wife.
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Saturday afternoon Mr. Panl N.
Walker boarded the North bound 8.
1 L. train for Camden. Soon after
bis arrival la that city .he was married
to Miss Temple Carraway, of
Colimbis Mr. Walker is book-keeper
for C. F. Riser, and though he
;hae reoently become a resident of
oar town, he has made many friends.
Bis charming bride Is a daughter of
a large famltsre dealer of Columbia,
ag Mr. aad Mis. Walker arrived here today,
sad win be at home to friends
for the present at the home of Mr.
aad Mm W. H. Yarn.
> This is where we lost: Sunday
Storming at eleven o'clock at the
home of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. J. E winger, gave in marriafge
their fair daughter, Miss 811a,
to Mr. Chas. Thaln, of Statesboro,
Ga. The stair was a quiet one, only
a iew but relatives and friends witMNt
the ceremony, which was contacted
toy Bee. W. C. Bazley. Mr.
Thain la a torother of oar townsman,
ifr. R. Jl Thain, and Is a prosperons
farmer of the Stateoboro section. Mr.
ad Mm Thain left In a few hours
after their marriage tor Stetestooro.
Wo wish for all these new married
soak, which are new happy and rea
of the urn*
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The fakes which wore atrana oat
an oar atisste Saturday certainly did
| eaptare the ntekka and dimes that
nsaaOy cone the merchants' way.
Who war people, yoeat and old, black
ant white, win spend their hard*
earned nosey la each a foolish, anproA
table way, te a shame. Thewsnml
a of South Carolina
i would save the poorer class of their
itate may a handred dollars to enact
a law forhiddina each UlegitiMr.
Robert Kirklsnd has been appointed
carrier to til the vacancy on
Rente No. 1 from this place. He betas
eabedtate for the former earrler,
fare Mm an advantage over the other
ijipllteits
f Mks Bttle Kearse, of the Kearee
neighborhood, MfhtiBid otr nodal
wImb Saturday and irodiy. She
iu the 8Md of Mlai Kate Sadler.
. floai folks la town aad the Buford's
Bridge section are erecting g
telephone line. Now If they will
jte ?ake arrangements to connect with
the Bell system, the project will
fnvi quite a convenience.
i While oat hunting Saturday afternoon,
little James Cooke's 32 calibre
rifle was accidentally discharged and
the ball entered the leg of Master
Corbet Hires, who was standing near
,him. The wound in a painful one,
though not dangerous.
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The Greensboro Auction Co., of
Greensboro, N. C.? bought about nine
acres of land several weeks ago from
'Mr. R. Morris. They cut it up in
Quarter acre lots, did a lot of adver*
tising. brought down a brass hood
and a lot of slick talkers on the
23rd, got the crowd behind the band,
inarched them out to the lots and sold
the thirty-eight quarter acres in
/forty minutes, at about an average
of three hundred dollars per acre.
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Denmark, 8. C., Feb. 24.?Mist
Willie Ellsey bad a painful accident
late yesterday afternoon. She was
driving with two lady friends when
her horse suddenly became frightened.
. Miss EHxey being an accomplished
horse woman would soon
hare subdued the horse, but unfortunately
one of the shafts became loose,
causing the buggy to upset, throwing
them all out Miss Ellxey was the
only one painfully injured. She was
badly bruised on the side and face
and one linger broken. Miss Willie
is a petite brunette, and is a very
handsome girl, and is a popular belle
here. She Is a daughter of Mr. C. C.
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FIXED FIFTY DOLLARS.
Henry Grier Pays Fine and the Case
is Settled.
Henry Grier, a young business man
of Grier, who was arrested recently
on the charge of attempted criminal
assault upon the person of a young
woman of that city, was yesterday
iinea 950 by Magistrate Kirby. The
fine was paid by Qrier and the case
abandoned.
By agreement of both sides, the
charge against Grier was reduced to
assault and battery. Solicitor Otts
consented to the change of sentence
and to allow the young man to be
lined for the offense.
Accoring to testimony. Grier got
in a carriage with a young woman
at the depot in Greer upon her ar?
rival from Greenville. He meant to
see the young lady home. On the
way he began hugging the girl and
she objected with a few screams. As
the carriage neared the home of the
young woman she screamed so loudly
that her mother and a man named
J. R. Mlllican came out to see what
the matter was. Grier was made
to get out of the carriage, and it Is
said that he received on the spot a
sound thrashing at the hands of Mfl
uvwb wy i muiwui? nvrwu.
Ehrhardt Etchlags.
Ehrhardt, Feb. 28.?Mrs. F. H.
Copeland, Miss Leila Groeecloee, and
Prof. W. F. Hiers, went to Walterboro
last week. They say they saw
the mule. Ha! Ha!! Ha!!!
All the little kids are taking the
measles. 8ome of them are very
sick with them, hat the worst trouble
is keeping them in the house.
Our side track is so full of cars
loaded with fertiliser until they
can't bring in any more cars until
some of these on the track are unloaded.
It's moving with a rush.
The rain came in torrents. It was
wet rain, so the farmers say.
Tough roads for those traveling
in antos; mud stops them too often.
Mrs. Jacob B. Felder has gone to
Mr. Asbury Kirkland's. All of his
folks are down with measles, and she
has gone to give them a helping
hand in their troubles.
The Ladles' Aid Society intended
to give an oyster supper last week,
but the rain stopped it short off and
the pjstsis had to be sold out Were
not bad to eat, so Joe says.
A W? mill J UUU| HWI/ 1U WWII WCl
with a certain young man that
her caller would noj stay later than
9.30 o'clock. She lost the bet
JEB.
TILLMAN WILL HOT RESIGN. ,
Kxpecta to Fill Oat His Term in Spite
of Reports to the Costnrr.
Columbia, February 27.?There is
a newspaper story coins the ronnds
sent ont from Washinston based on
what Is called the "almost certain
resignation" of 8enator Tillman.
FOOcs at this end of the line regard
this as a food newspaper story, bat
lacking in facts.
One of Senator Tillman's closest
and most intimate friends this morning
said that Senator Tillman had
no more idea of resigning nor had his
uuduj man no naa 01 nying.
Continuing the conversation this
friend said that resigning was entirely
foreign and incompatible with the
nature of Senator Till man
Senator Tillman has three years
more of service before he has to go
into another campaign if he is then
a candidate tor re-election. If Senator
Tillman then should be in good
health it will be ample time for a decision
as to what he will do, but three
years is a long time in politics and in
the meanwhile it will be just about
as well not to figure on resignations.
Charlotte Mills Will Reduce.
Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 28.?The
five plants of the Chadwick-Hosklns
Manufacturing company, the largest
cotton mOl corporation of the city,
will be operated only four days of
each week until further notice, according
to instructions Jus*, issued to
the superintendents of the various
plants.
The Chsdwick-Hoskins company
operates nearly 1,000,000 spindles
and looms to match and this means
that the entire machinery is being
curtailed one-third.
The condition of the yarn market
is responsible for the action of the
Chadwlek-Hoskins company in curtailing,
and it Is understood that
other Charlotte Cotton Mills will fol
low its example.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OP VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
Friedman, Keller & Co., a whiskey
firm, baa sent $1,535 to the
winding-up commission as "restitution"
money.
In the liquor cases at Sumter, four
iUlct sellers hare been convicted so
far, in each instance the recorder
giving them the maximum sentence
of $100 or thirty days. 8ome of
those convicted are white men.
The colored chaffeur and his two
colored friends who took a joy ride
a week ago in Dr. E. F. Parker's an- 1
tomobile in Charleston, finally 1
smashing it in a collision, were
found guilty in the sessions court on 1
Friday and sentenced to five years in 1
the penitentiary.
There is a squabble on between
Calhoun and Orangeburg counties as
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claims Calhoun county owes her
something like $5,000 or more, this
amount being found due by a commission
appointed by Governor AnseL
Calhoun claims $3,000 or more dls- .
pensary profits, this amount being ,
found due to Calhoun from Orange- |
burg by Auditor West. It is likely
that the courts will be called on to ,
settle the matter, which is unfortunate.
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COMMITTED HORRIBLE MURDER
Cut Wife's Body Into Small Bits to
Find Money.
To secure 50 perns in bills that the
woman had on ner person, Zeferino i
Gonzales stabbed his wife to death 1
Wednesday at Guadalajara, Mexico.
Then with a butcher knife and an 1
axe he cut the body into bits and i
carried the pieces to a dry bed of
a river near his home.
The noise made by the animals
fighting over the body attracted attention
and resulted in the diseov
ery of the crime.' Gonzales will be
given a speedy trial and following his
conviction a speedy execution.
HAULED WHISKEY Df HEARER.
Blind Tigers Get Big and little Sentences
in Court.
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Quite aptly suggestive of the feel- 1
ings of twenty-eight alleged tigers
Wednesday night in the greatest
raid of such a character in the history
of Danville, Ky., was the fact
that their vehicle was an old hearse
which had been made to do duty as a
patrol wagon. Nor did the prospect
become more cheerful when eight of
them were Friday sentenced to terms
in the work house, ranging from ten
months to four and a half years.
Danville is the original dry town of
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wwiv41 ?Miv*u5 wvu wiuivui mmr
loons for forty years.
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Chester, Feb. 26.?Two nights ago
s negro hack man, Peter Wilson, in
conveying a woman passenger from
one of the railroad stations used impertinent
language to her. For protection
from his indignities the pass- 1
enger jumped from the hack and ran
into a restaurant, where she gave
information of the negro's conduct 1
Several men pursued the negro, overtook
him and would have meted out '
to him prompt punishment A policeman
appeared on the scene, took
cl\arge of the negro and confined
him in the city lock-up. A hearing
of the case was heard before Mayor
Hardin yesterday, the woman appearing
as a witness. The mayor :
promptly imposed a fine of $60 or
SO days on the chaing&ng, with a
probability that the negro's hack license
may be cancelled.
Artesian Well Reformed State.
New York, Feb. 27.?An artesian
well has worked the reformation of <
Mississippi, said the Rev. Oscar Hay- i
wood, pastor of the Baptist Church ;
of the Covenant, in a sermon here i
to-day. i
"When the people of Misslppl
drank swamp water," he told his 1
congregation, "and closed their win- :
dows to exclude mosquitoes, they ,
were a drinking people, depressed ,
and enervated. They felt the need of (
stimulants. Bat when the first artesian
well was tapped In Aberdeen
the death warrant of the saloon was <(
signed and Misstosippi is to-day a
prohibition State."
XEGRO BURGLARS CAUGHT.
Robbers of Store at Ward, In Saluda,
Lodged in Jail.
Saluda, Feb. 26.?Acknowledging
their guilt. Ben Ingram and John
Crawford, two young negroes claiming
to jail from Columbia, were this
afternoon lodged in jail here by
Deputy W. S. Simons, charged with
entering the store room of W. H.
White, at Ward. Wednesday night .
and stealing five suits of clothes. ,
They were arrested at Batesbnrg .
yesterday morning and placed in the |
town lock-up. Within thirty min- \
utes thereafter they had set fire to ,
the guard house. Taken from there ,
to Ward they were closely guarded ,
last night, and were brought here
to-day. They effected an entrance
into White's store by breaking the hotter
and taxing a pane out of the ,
ash. j
When the north-bound train came
along yesterday morning White's |
clerk, Henry Howard, boarded it, ,
On reaching Monetta, he saw two ne- ,
groes come into the car, and at once
recognised the suits they had on as j
goods of his employer. On examine- ,
tion it was found that one of them 1
had on three suits and the other
two suits. Each was wearing ,
a pair of White's patent leather ,
shoes. Neither had on any socks. ,
The goods were at once identified by
the marks on the tags. The negroes
say they do not want any trial. It is
understood by this that they mean
to plead guilty. The apprehension of
the negroes was a clever piece of
work. They are about 18 years old. ,
Walked Off Train While Asleep.
When the telegraph operator in
the 8t, Louis and San Francisco rail- j
road station at Tulsa, Okla., stepped {
from his office to the platform at 1
8:80 o'clock Tuesday morning he was (
greeted with the sight of a pa jama- j
clad figure pacing back and forth.
The night was bitter cold and when |
the operator had recovered his composure
he inquired whether the
walker was taking a constitutional
walk.
Receiving no answer the operator |
approached closer and closer and
found that the eyes of the thinly clad
person were closed and that the
stranger was to all appearances
asleep. 1
When awakened the somnambulist,
his teeth chattering so he could
barely talk, explained that he was
T. E. Jamison, a business man of
New York, and that he had been
a passenger on the 8t Louis train
en routs to Oklahoma City. The
last he remembered was retiring to
bis berth In a Pullman sleeper.
Explanations concluded, Jamison
began to collect a wardrobe. From
one station employs he obtained the
lean of a pair of overalls. Other
railroad men furnished him with the
rest of a serviceable outfit.
Somewhat picturesquely attired,
Jamison took the next train for 8apulpa,
where his clothing and additional
belonging! had been taken off
the train.
SHOOTING SCRAPE AT CLINTON.
As Result of Wrestling Rout, Negro
Probably Fatally Shot.
Clinton, Feb. 27.?Whit Kinard,
negro, working on a farm belonging
to Mr. W. D. Lake, was probably
fatally shot by John Jackson, also
colored, at about 4 o'clock this afternoon.
It seems that they were
engaged in a wrestling bout Just
across the Columbia, Newberry and
Laurens Railroad from the residence
of Mr. R. M. Teague, and they began !
to dispute as to which was the better
wrestler, whereupon Jackson drew
his pistol and shot Klnard, the bullet
passing through the left lung.
Dr. Lawrence Bailey, who attended
the case, has rery little hope for his
recovery. He has been sent to Chester,
where he will be operated upon
ty Dr. 8. W. Pryor.
YOUNG WOMAN FOOLED.
The Fortune Teller Gone and So Are
. All of the Jewels.
Stating that she had been robbed
of jewelry valued at $2,300 and $3,000
in cash, "through hypnotic influence,"
Miss Minnie Lyons, of NeW
Orleans, has appealed to the police
to recover the property.
According to Miss Lyons, a mysterious
"Mme. Julian," who posed as
a clairvoyant, induced her to hand
over a number of valuable diamonds
and all of her ready money by the
exercise of some strange power.
This occurred on Wednesday after
repeated visits of the clairvoyant, to
the young woman's house where the
"Mme. Julian" said she lived, they
found the place empty.
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WHITE HAN KILLS HUSELF
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IV. J. CRAWFORD ENDS HIS LIFE
WITH PISTOL.
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Dead Man Left Several Notes Which
Tended to Show That His Mind
Was Unbalanced.
Chester, March 1.?W. J. Crawford
committed suicide this morning a little
before 6 o'clock at his home on
the corner of Culp and Irwin streets
by shooting himself through the
heart with a pistol. The shot entered
the right side and glancing entered
near the heart, producing instant
death.
The coroner held an inquest over
the remains this morning and the
verdict was that the deceased came
to his death from a pistol shot Indicted
by his own hands.
Mr. Crawford had been in bad
health for some months and despondency
apparently unsettled his mind
and was the cause of the rash deed.
Dr. Pryor said that this morning
about 2.30 o'clock Mr. Crawford
came to his house and Dr. Malone
took him back home and put him to
bed, giving him some medicine to
quiet him. He didn't appear to have
stayed in bed very long for abont 4
o'clock he went over to the home of
L. E. Curtis, who lived near by and
requested him to come over to his
house. He appeared to be greatly
worried and told Curtis that he had
rained his family by keeping greatly
worried and told Curtis that he was
a physical wreck and that his mind
was unbalanced. He asked Curtis to
go and get a policeman and have
him arrested for he knew he would
be locked up in the morning anyway,
seeming to think that he had ruined
the health of his family. Curtis
quieted him and then he insisted on
lending Curtis for the police. Finally
he wanted Curtis to go for his brother
and a little later Curtis left him
and went home.
A little while later Mr. Crawford
went to the water closet in the yard
and shortly a pistol shot was heard.
Someone called to P. A. Jackson, who
lived next door and told him that Mr.
Crawford had killed v himself. Mr.
Jackson says that he heard the shot
but attached no importance to it until
the person called him. He dressed,
called to Mr. Quinton and rushing
over to the Crawford home, secured
a lantern and went to the water closet
to invesigate. He found Mr. Crawford
sitting on the floor, his head
bent forward, a pistol on the floor at
his side, and saw at a glance that he
was dead. He went out and met Dr.
a. rr. rrjur, wuu at uuvc wcut ui utc
scene.
Dr. Pryor examined the body and
found that the' one shot had killed
the man.
In a little pocket memorandum
book found on the person of the
dead man were several notes, farewell
messages. They were written
after midnight and apparently while
the man was under great strain.
Negro Killed Deputy.
In a desperate battle early Friday
between negroes and the deputy sheriffs
ten miles east of Memphis, Tenn.,
Deputy Sheriff W. H. Lucy, of German
town, was killed by Aaron Norfleet,
a negro, who then attacked
Deputies Ray and O'Neill and was
killed by them.
The affray was the result of an ef- ,
fort on the part of the officers to ar- J
rest Norfleet on a charge of larceny.
After having had the warrant read
to him by Deputy Lucy, Norfleet
agreed to accompany the officers and
asked permission to go into the cab- j
in to get his hat
Not suspecting trouble, the officers
consented to this move. Norfleet en- '
tered the house and reappeared in a (
minute with a single barrel shotgun j
In his hand. Before Lucy could "
move, the negro raised the gun and <
Bred upon him at close range, literal- J
ly blowing the officer's head from his
ihonlder.
Swinging his empty gun as a club,
the black leaped upon Deputies Ray
and O'Neill, knocking the former
down and leaping over his prostrate
body. Both the officers had drawn
their revolvers as soon as they saw
Norfleet appear with the gun. As
Norfleet passed over the form of Ray,
O'Neill fired at him with his revolver,
but his aim was poor.
Deputy Ray began firing before .
he had regained his feet and both j
officers continued to pour bullets af- ]
ter the fugitive, who was disappear- (
log in the darkness. After ten revol- t
ver shots had been fired at him, ]
Norfleet fell to the ground, pierced <
by three bullets, dying within a few t
minutes. i
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GUILTY OX TWO COUNTS.
Pint of the Sumter Blind Tiger Csee*
Results in Conviction.
Sumter, Feb. 28.?The trials of
hose arrested (or whiskey selling be*
(an at noon to-day, and the first station
of court ended at 7.30 this
evening with the conviction by jury
>f O. E. Bostick on two counts.
The county court room was used,
is the interest was so great that the
ecorder's room would not have near*
y held the crowd of listeners. The
urge court room was filled all
through the trial. Recorder C. M. i
Hurst presided, and L. D. Jennings
icted as city's attorney.
All the accused were arraigned and Tjjgj
entered pleas of not guilty.
After some delay the trial of C. H. . *
(Venn, white, was taken up* The de- ^
ectives told how they had gone In
lis shop, on the edge of town, sad n||
isid Wenn, and he sent a negro tar t f
ifter the whiskey, which was dell?*
sred. Wenn's contention is that he
lad nothing to do with buying the
shiskey, that the boy did not work
for him, and that he merely suggests ^
?d that the negro could find some,
rhe testimony in Wenn's esse ended |
it diner recess, and during that time
le employed counsel, and at the
inest of the latter, when oourt re- J|
convened, this case was continued ^
till tomorrow morning.
The case of O. E. Bostick was then
entered upon. This wae considered
i strong case for the defense, on aero
tint of the past good reputation of &S
the defendant Hit attorney dn>
nanded a jury* and as many technl* ~
adl ties were raised in the drawing
if it fully an hour and a half was y J
lost before the jury was finally
lrawn. The result was a fine body lis
of burinem men?J. H. Cbtafflw,
foreman; B. H. Rhame, W. i. Bijii*
r. V. Walsh, A. M. Broughton, ant
If. B. Handle. Attorney Jennings
sent into the case in earnest, end %
producing the ezprem company's V?/d|
records to show the number of Sld^ o . '
uents that the defendant had to- YYY
ceived. Policeman IfcKagoa wis.:'
seed as a witness to prove the nam- J
Per of shipments received. The de? |
tense of Bostlck was that he had not
sold detective Bateman the liquor on |jj
>ne of the dates named, and that lis ^ /
Pad sold him the liquor on the see- <fp
and date at cost, and only after hto|| |
earnest solicitations and plea that he |
wanted the liquor because of
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After the testimony the two attor*^ < 3J
aeys were each allowed ten rninutm M '1
tor addressing the jury. In his plea. Y %
attorney Jennings stated that erhen
be was asked to hahdta the eityto .. jl
cases that he had said that the ah? - |
called repntable white men must to
pressed Just as hard as the negro ~ |
caught in the back lot, and Recorder f
Burst made his charge as to the Bar ' i
and the Jury retired. After being i
out about three minutes it returned .';3v
with a verdict of guilty. ' $
Recorder Hurst then adjourned |
court until. 10 o'clock to-morrow
morning, without pronouncing sent- j
once. -s
A rather dramatic incident hafr- ids
pened in the rear of the court room ij&
luring the address of Attorney J?a* . i
uings. 8. A. Pinckney, one of the I
colored barbers arrested in these 'J
cases, fell with a stroke of paraly- Yjl
lis. He was taken to an ante room . ./jjjffl
ind attention summoned. -J
Others arrested on the same;
charge since Saturday afternoon as# . j
3. H. HcKagen, white; C. H. Wend, Ji!
white, and John Windham, Junes ; |
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Failed to Meet Ooitnct 1
Salinas ft DeVaugh and Barrett ft
Doughty, cotton firms of thedty ot /d
Augusta, have brought suits *gVmrt J
J. W. Lybrand of this county to re- .
?ver losses on two contracts for tha 1
lelivery of cotton In the Fall of It09, i
F. W. Lybrand, like many other peo- f?
pie all over the South during the .]
Spring and Summer of that year, be- -1 '
iering that cotton was going to drop r*
told out their cotton at a certain
price to be delivered in the FalL As -M
everybody knows cotton shot up in- . .?
Head of going down. Many of these ,
people seeing that their crop was gong
for less than it was worth refused
jo deliver. Mr. Lybrand It is stated <jj
las a good defense to the suit.? '
liken Journal and Review.
Girl Drinks Add.
see mis poison 7 wen, nere ^
foes," said 14-year-old Julia McMIlan
on Tuesday morning at Jesup, 4
la., to her sister at their home. Them ]
he girl, because her parents wouldn't
et her stay at home from school,
lrank carbolic add. She lived teas
han an hour afterwards. He father
s proprietor of a hotel at Jeeup.