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Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1910 One Dollar a Year
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SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
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News Items Gathered All Around the ,
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-Comity and Elsewhere. ^
Ehrhardt Etchings. qi
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Ehrhardt, S. C., May 9.?Mt. su
Pleasant picnic was a success as te
usual. Plenty amusement, plenty n(
speaking, plenty singing, plenty to n]
eat, and plenty people to eat it, so
what more could you want for a pic- fe
nic? The crowd was orderly and ki
^ pleasant. Rev. P. E. Monroe, our be
former pastor, was present, and all ai
were glad to see him and shake.
, > . Know hlfe right arm was weary when fr
the day was over. sj
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A few days ago, the day after the se
ball at Bamberg, a young man who
, had gotten too much of the ball, or th
something else, was sleeping the
next day, Friday. Some of his g
frieiidfl went to the room in which jn
he ^s sleeping to administer to his c<
. wants if any needed. The young Wi
' man asked what day of the week it B:
was, and was told it was Friday. af
Some time after another friend went pi
up to see him and he asked the same Bi
question, "what day of the week was
it?'* Upon informing him that it was pj
Friday, he said: "Isn't Friday never fa
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going to give out? Will Friday last h
all the time?" I imagine snakes, m
rats, lions and all kinds of things were
after him.
Mrs. Jacob Ehrhardt and her Tl
daughters, Mrs. Fannie Copeland,
Miss Edrie, and her son, Master Liles
Ehrhardt, went to Savannah, Ga., last
week to visit her sister, Mrs. Corrie Si
Epting and family. Bi
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Mr. Joe Hiers went to Savannah pi
on Saturday on a pleasure trip. Will
return Monday.
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Mrs. Mattie Sandifer visited her Li
parentis, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Kinard, n<
Sunday. in
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Rains and hail have visited some T.
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sections of our county last week. No a
doubt it will add to the looks of niiat
little cotton we have up in this sec- Ss
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The superintendent of our division la
of the A. C. L. Ry. Co. was in town fa
on Saturday, and stated that work n?
would soon be commenced on the new in
depot at this place. We need it now. d?
Mr. I. J. Zeigler has Mrs. Mattie
nknaKavann'a now dwollintr llTlHor tV
VliOO^X^OU a UVTT V* ft VAAAUQ v,'
good headway now. Will soon b\ Bi
.. ready for the paint brush. Mr. Zeigler
has all the work he can do. M
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Ehrhardt and Smoaks crossed bats
on the former's diamond. Game re- tb
suited in favor of Ehrhardt 8, to 2 in
for Smoaks. The game was a good he
one as far as the 5th inning when
some bad plays were made. From
that on the game was not so good.
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Fairfax Fancies. p?
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Fairfax, May 8.?Mrs. Jones Lane ta
gave a lovely birthday party to her gt
nephew, Sydney Padgett, a few days
ago. Sydney is one of our best high
school boys, and a general favorite fr
with all. The dining room was beau- ?
tifully decorated, while the party af
table glistened and gleamed with ta
pretty things. The huge birthday
cake with its 15 colored wax candles g\
(all lighted) formed a bright centre s\
piece. The children played games di
e\r\ +Vick croon then drew for Dartners, w
marching into the dining room to m
the music of a two step played by ai
Mrs. Sallie L. Sanders. After supper d<'
the members of the glee club gath- el
ered around the piano and they made w
the welkin ring with their choruses. A
All said they had a "perfectly lovely B
time" and voted Mrs. Lane and Miss 01
Joella queens as hostesses.
Miss Edna Kearse gave a sociable d?
Tuesday evening. Miss Etta Perry, te
the honoree, was the belle of the
evening. Being quite a musician, she
is charming all of Fairfax with sweet
songs and instrumental selections. Si
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Mrs. Rosa Platts, from near Jenny's,
visited her daughter, Mrs. Julia
tfHarter, recently. b?
The play, "The Turn of the Tide,"
practiced so faithfully by our town's | lil
people, came off Wednesday evening, .
and was pronounced a great success, sc
Those taking part were: Mrs. Martin w
\ Lightsey, Prof. Rizer, Miss Haigler,
pisses Lizzie Wilson and Joella Pad- si
gett, Messrs. Roy Young, Billie San- U
ders, W. J. Speaks, and Dr. Kerrison.
All acted well. There was a large dj
crowd, and as refreshments were sold in
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)LD BUFORD LODGE, A. F. M.
istrict Deputy Pays Visit to Historic
Lodge.
Olar, May 9.?On Saturday night
aford Lodge, A. F. M., was visited
* Col. Butler Hagood, D. D. G. M:
tiis old lodge is now in brand new
larters ana an me parapnenicuiii j?
ther new or has the appearance of
ich and, while it is really the thirenth
working lodge in the State,
me of its members ever think of the
I fate in the evil number 13.
Col. Hagood found everything perctly
satisfactory. All the officers
low their duty and perform it. The
>oks are neatly nad correctly kept
id a fine balance is shown.
On being called from labor to reeshments
a sumptuous repast was
iread in the lodge lunch room. All
e substantial and delicacies of the
ason were in superabundance.
Buford Lodge hall is situated near
ie palatial home of Capt. J. W.
mny, where four conties come t'oither,
and it has working members
four counties, Bamberg, Barnwell,
illeton and Hampton. Befor.e the
ar it was located at Buford's
ridge; the lodge was burned,^and
ter the^war it was removed to its
esent location, near Rivers's
ridge.
The drought is at last broken,
ine rains have fallen and on a few
rms disastrous hail has fallen,
owever, the benefits of the rain will
ake up the losses by the hail.
NEWS OF A DAI AT turfi.
ivo Cutting Scrapes Among Negroes.
Church Services.
Cope, May 9.?The Rev. W. H.
mpson, of Norway, preached to the
aptists yesterday afternoon, and
:ose who heard him were very much
eased with his sermon.
Prof. E. J. Curry was to have derered
a lecture at the Methodist
tiurch last' night in the interest of.
ander College, but owing to sick?ss
did not appear; the weather beg
threatening, just a small crowd
as out, but the pastor, the Rev. r.
Harmon, Jr., treated all present to
good sermon.
Two cutting scrapes occurred
Lturday night not far from Cope,
i one Shoemaker Wolfe cut W. L.
agle about the face. No particurs
could be learned about this afir.
In the other, Henry Tyler, a
?ero. cut another negro, Jim Green,
the back of the neck, and also unit
the jaw.
Messrs. Gwynn E. Griffith and MatDempsey
spent yesterday in
ranchville.
Mr. V. Brabham and family and
r. M. A. Moye, Jr., and family, spent
e day at Bamberg.
Mr. Mobley, former bookeeper for
e State dispensary, spent' last night
Cope, and left this morning for the
)me of Mr. J. W. Barnes.
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" Negro Shot at Newberry.
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Newberry, May 8.?In a dispute
rer ten cents, which arose while the
irties were gambling, Mel Wicker
is morning shot and probably morlly
wounded Enoch Bridges in the
;. Phillip's section of the county,
>th parties being colored.
The ball entered Bridges' spine
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Iterwards, oveF fifty dollars was
ken in.
Miss Alice Johnson, of Estill, ^a
lest of Miss Annye Moye, discoursed
Feet vocal and instrumental music
iring the play, or between the acts,
hich added greatly to the enjoyent
of the audience. The amateurs
e invited to repeat the play Moniy
evening at Brunson, and perhaps
sewhere later. Mrs. Sam Talley
as a valuable assistant of Miss
nnye Moye in getting up the play,
oth ladies are to be congratulated
1 its successful termination.
Miss Hattie Boulware, of Allenile,
a guest of Mrs. S. Talley, atnded
the play.
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Mr. J. Norwood, president of our
ink, and Mr. Han by, architect, were
lests of Mr. and Mrs. Talley this
eek.
Our cashier moved into the new
ink last Monday.
A place is reserved for the public
brary in the bank building.
.Messrs. Compton and Harter will
on have the new brick store filled
ith a fine lot of furniture.
Mrs. Henry Ulmer, of Brunson,
>ent some time with Mrs. Lalla
Imer recently.
Mrs. Bertie Jarrell and sweet little
lughter are visiting her heme folks
t Columbia.
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SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Qnick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
Twenty-five solid carloads of cot- ,
ton, representing a value of around
$80,000 was shipped from Charleston
to New York last week, presumably
as a result of the recent uncertain
condition of the cotton market.
Joe Cheeks, of Augusta, was killed
on the C. & W. C. Ry., near Beech
Island last Monday and the Inquest
was held the following day, in which ,
the railroad was exonerated from all
blame, as the testimony went to show
that Cheeks was drunk and was consequently
trespassing when killed.
Prof. W. K. Tate, of Charleston,
has accepted the positon of State supervisor
of rural schools in which position
he will supervise the expenditure
of $60,000 appropriated at the
last legislature for the lengthening
the terms of the country schools and
the building of better school buildings.
Visitors at Jenny's.
Jenny's, May 9.?After a storm
there's always a calm. For nearly
two weeks Jennyville has been enjoying
entertaining her many visitors.
Now all are. gone, how quiet
and lonesome! All took in the .
memorial, which, we believe, was one ,
yof the best we have ever attended.
Then next we enjoyed on the following
Saturday, a genuine good old
time fish fry at the picturesque home
of Capt. J. W. Jenny. Fish, hot
coffee, hot' rolls, red-horse bread galore!
Of course there were other eatables,
but too numerous to mention.
Lemonade and ice cream throughout
the afternoon. We tamely express
ourselves when we say we enjby
these gatherings at Capt. Jenny's, for
no one ever goes away from his home
without having spent a pleasant day,
for the untiring efforts of this good
man and his better, and bigger half
will make it pleasant for old and
young. Long may this dear couple
be spared us.
Mrs. Martha Kearse and granddaughter,
Agnes, from Kearse, made
glad the hearts of Mr. and Mrs. John
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them with a long despaired of visit.
Of course they dined at the fish-fry,
and went away?satisfied. Aunt
Martha, now in her 82nd year, is ,
looking well, and her bright smiles !
and kind, loving words are a benediction
to all around her. Would
that our land was filled with such
women!
Mr. and Mrs. Wille Rast, from
Orangeburg, have been visiting at
Mr. J. D. Jenny's, Mrs. East's father.
Also Mrs. Carlisle Ficken and children,
Mr. Jenny's "baby" and grandbabies,
from Port Royal.
Quite a crowd from here ran over
to the picnic at Mt. Pleasant near
Ehrhardt, Thursday. My the people!
Don't think many folks was# at home
Thursday, all went to the picnic. The
day was fine, rather cool in the morning,
but soon was alright. The
speeches were, both of them, of most
excellent character. Rev. Moc^oe
E^.ve a fine little talk on "Babies,"
illustrating beautifully how they
helped in the church below, and in
God's Kingdom.
Mr. Watson gdve the "Educated
Woman" her place in the home, in
the church, and in the community in
which she lives.
We wonder why somebody did not
tell us something about "man." It
seems nobody knows anything about
this queer creature known as "man."
What is man? It is nothing unusual
to read essays, hear speeches, etc.,
about the woman, but all the poets
are stumped when he comes to man.
Why?
Miss Latna Folk, of Wesley Chapel
neighborhood, has been visiting her
brother, Mr. Joe Folk, this past week,
returned to her home Saturday.
Misses Alice and Ettie Kearse
spent Saturday and Sunday with their
sister, Mrs. Lynes.
The visitors all gone home; the
cotton coming up; the rain came yesterday
afternoon. So early this Monday
morning the air is filled with
"Get-up, whoa! haw! gee!" everybody
gone to work in earnest, for a
lone two months' stretch. j
Mr. Willie Jenny and family spent
Sunday with his uncle, Mr. C. D.
Loadholdt.
The Masons held their regular
monthly meeting on Saturday. Gen.
Hagood came up and gave them some
good talk. Dinner was served in
their splendid masonic hall. Quite
STAY OX THE FARM.
Crops Look Well and the Future is
Roseate, Says "Old Timer."
Wanderer's Rest, May 9.?The
long drouth is broken by fine rains
and some hail but no damage done
here. The birds are singing 'and
nature smiles as she is kissed by the
warm and bright rays of a May day
sun and the roses send forth their
fragrance as they nod in the breeze.
Soon the young crops will be a
thing of beauty and the heavy hearted
old farmer will have a broad smile
on his careworn face as he looks at
the bright prospect ahead and he
will be ashamed of his moans and
groans during the drought, and his
Badness will be turned into joy unless
he allows his crops to be taken
by weeds, then he will howl again
not once thinking he and he alone
will be the cause of it, but man is
prone to murmur and complain,
through the sunshine and the rain.
But the sun is shining brightly today,
the birds are singing their happy
songs and there is no place like this
coastal plain of South Carolina, for
many farmers have on their tables
e_ach day now potatoes planted and
grown with less than one inch of
rainfall from date of planting and
many other things taken from hi3
home garden m spite of the long
dry spell. x
The oats are poor, but the early
field peas will be good and last
year's corn crop was fine, so to an
old man's mind all will be well, for
he has passed more than one long
spring drought and came out with
flying colors in the fallSo
don't go to town, boys, get a
small farm home and make it a good
cne: learn a thing or two from na
ture and then you will find that he
is the most useful and important man
on the globe, for when he fails all
else goes under, and while like Mark
Twain's donkey brought low by ridicule
yet that same donkey can bray
lustily, so with the farmer boy. The
day of ridicule is past?progress is
here and to stay, and the auto and
telephone is to play an important
part in bringing the country homes
together, for even now little children
can call an old man up miles
away and his face is a*study as he
eagerly listens to the childish voices
talking to him and how he smiles
when Buster or Kid or some other
little one answers to his hello. \
Then there is the music?piano,
violin, banjo, and other instruments
of music, with songs sung and played
in homes miles away are listened to
all along the line and when the
madam wants to make things lively
by a gentle reminder to the old man
causes a smile far away and she can
gossip with her children and distant
neighbors and know who is sick or
to be married soon?all this helps,
and the daily mail brings letters rrom
the children who have left the home
nest and gone to a home of their ow;n
?gives the country lad or lass a
boon coupled with fresh air and sunshine
and /skating rinks and ball
games, entertainments, picnics and
so on, a boost that Julius Caesar
never dreamed of.
Then the flowers and fields and
forests and "birds all have their
places and the stars shine o'er head,
no streets to shut them out?gives
an old man in the country a place to
be envied by the dwellers of a city
mansion owned by a millionaire, and
then when mother's day comes
around and he has no white rose bud
to pin on his coat lappel or suspender
as the case may be he can go in
some one else's garden, select one,
and some bright eyed country lassie
will pin it on for him. Stay on the
farm, boys, for there the future will
hold good, is the prophecy of
J OLD TIMER.
a crowd was present and gave the
General a cordial welcome.
' Little Sadie Ray Jenny is quite
sick at this writing, hope her fever
can soon be controlled. Little Winnie,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Folk, has also been very sick, but is
much better now. Mr. Eddie Priester
too has a very sick child. It seems
this is the week for the babies to be
sick.
St. Nicholas will celebrate its annual
Sunday-school picnic on the 19th
instant. Everybody is invited to attend.
Bring along a few loose dimes,
for the . ladies will sell ice cream in
the afternoon for the benefit of the
new St. Nicholas to be "erected now
soon. Come, and don't forget the
dimes.
Rev. P. E. Monroe, of Johnston,
spent Wednesday with Capt. J. W.
Jenny, enroute to Mt. Pleasant. Re7.
Monroe left us for Johnston two years
ago after serving our church faithfully
for five years. We enjoy having
him once more in our midst.
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CREIGHTON CASE SETTLED
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COMMITTEE RULES AGAINST EXPELLED
MINISTER.
General Conference Sustains Decision ]
of South Carolina Conference 1
in Creighton Matter. J
Asheville, May 10.?The committee
on appeals of the general conference (
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South, t'o-night held in the case of 3
Rev. C. W. Creigbton, of Greenwood, 1
that the action of the South Caro- ?
lina general conference be ratified. '
This report will be made to the cdn- (
ferenca to-morrow. Rev. Mr. Creigh- 1
ton. as editor of a church paper in 1
South Carolina, was charged with ex- 1
pressing views not in harmony with ^
the church's teachings and was tried J
and convicted. He was expelled from
the South Carolina conference. . 1
This action of the general conference
committer is final. J
The charge against the deposed ^
minister grew out of his publication
of a paper in Greenwood known as '
The Christian Appeal in which were
published antagonistic articles relating
to church matters.
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CONJURED BY HER ENEMY.
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Negro Girl Thinks She Was Made^to
Eat Snake Dust. ;
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Leila Davis, a colored girl at Durham,
N. C., has been very ill under
the belief that she has been conjured
by her rival. The girl and her
black beau quarrelled some time ago
and patched up a miserable peace."
Not long since the Davis girl began
to complain, that internally there
were living things that bit her. She
found out that her rival had conjured
her.
Thereupon she went for Silas
Hamilton, and.old conjure-brepker of
Raleigh, a negro with forty years'
experience. His diagnosis was that
the girl had eaten snake dust which
her enemy must have powdered up
and given her in liquk^ form. Dr.
Silas says that snake dust? will invariably
evolve itsell into l^e reptiles
as soon as it finds moisture in the
human economy and that unless one
gets it out quickly, he must die.
He has. cured thousands, and he
thinks the Davis girl will recover.
The snake dust is made by powdering
the dried hide of the serpent fine.
As a medication it is said to be something
fierce and the woman who administered
it evidently knew what it
would do.
Wind Sweeps Orangeburg.
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viau^^uuig, auttj ?/ v
wind-storm passed over this city yesterday
afternoon blowing down some
trees and uprooting a few buildings.
John Cart was the heaviest loser as
his gotton warehouse was unroofed.
Hail fell very thick for a few minutes
during the storm, destroying ^
much corn in sfipes. Generally little
damage was suffered. The hail that
fell during the past week skipped
Oraflgebur; county but wrought
much havoc in Calhoun county. Numerous
farmers over there were compelled
to replant their crops.
POSTMASTERS AND POLITICS.
Senator Carter Says $410,000,000 a
Year Could be Saved Easily.
. Washington, May 9.?Senator
Bourne's speech in the senate on what
he said was the best election law in
the world meaning that of Oregon,
provoked a spirited debate on the
methods of appointing federal offirprs
etmerallv and nostmasters in par
ticular. Senator Carter, chairman of
the postoffice committee, proposed to
have postmasters promoted from one
postoffice to another, without regard
to state lines, after the manner of
rairoad agents.
Senators llale and Bacon expressed
themselves favorable to postmasters
being placed in the classified
civil service lists, while William Alden
Smith expressed his vigorous
protest against taking postmasters
out of politics.
"I resent the idea," said Senator
Smith, "that a man must take a bath
every morning in order to cleanse
himself from political contamina- ,
tion."
Senator Smith wanted all postmasters
to be political powers in their
communities.
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about $241,000,000 a year to run the
postoffice department. "For $125,000,
000 a year," said he, "a good business
man who would conduct this business
on the merit system as the Pennsylvania
railroad is conducted could give
us a better service in every respect
and make a profit besides."
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FLORENCE MAN SHOT.
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Karl Campbell Receives Bullet Intended
for Another.
Florence, May 8.?Mr. Earl Campbell,
a clerk at Mr. J. F. Stackley's . j
East Florence grocery, and a son of
VIr. D. W. Campbell, of this city, was
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snot in uie neau last 1115m., wmic m {
work in the store, in a most mysteridus
manner. . \t :-.
Mr. Campbell and the other clerks .
in the store were preparing to close
up, and were arranging the stock \
iccordingly. While in the act of hanging
a bunch of bananas the report
3f a gun was hear on the outside of
the building and Campbell was seen
to fall, at the same time exclaiming
that he was shot Upon examination
it was found that he had received a
bullet wound in the head, from which
blood was flowing freely. He was
quickly taken to a physician, and it .
was then found that the bullet' from
a 44 or 48-calibre rifle had struck V
bim in the head, just behind the *, /:
foreheafd, passed around under the ^
akin through the temple and out bebind
the ear, making an ugly, though " 4:
not as yet a serious wound. x ;^|
In the meantime the police and :-|
others were searching for the diree- ;'s|
tion from which* came the shot. It
was found that a shot had been fired
from W. P. Rogers's liveryv stable; .-JM
across the street, directly in front of
Stackley's store. -? $
Rogers, it is stated, had beeh
drinking during the evening and had
become enraged with some one at his 'A*p
house and picked up a 44-calibre rifle ^ < .
and fired at the party. The ball,
missing its mark, went through the
window of the second story of the A Ag
stable building, where the row was wf
going on, across the street, through ' A
the open door of Stackley's, striking,
Campbell in the head, as above \ \
stated.
Rogers was at once placed under
arrest and carried -to the station A>^j
bouse and locked up on the charge^ of
firing the gun. Rogers's children
were arreted as witnesses and were '
also^ locked up.
Campbell is doing as well as could
be expected and will get along all, \|||
right, unless blood poisoning frofls
the bullet develops. '
It fras certainly a close call for j&lfa
Campbell and the others in the store
at the time. .
King Edward Dead. 1
King Edward VII died at 11:45
o'clock Friday night in London. The
Prince of Wales is King, assuming
the title of George V, and took th ^|jSg
oath before the privy council at 2
o'clock Saturday evening.
Coming so suddenly, the death of;
the King cannot but bring the great-. VJi
est sorrow to the nation, in wh98e .^^i
hearts Edward, first as Prince of ..A
Wales, and afterwads as sovereign,
held first place. His short reign of , IS
nine years has been a history of stir- '^p
ring times. It opened with the conelusion
of peace after a long and try- -r
ing campaign in South Africa, and
concluded at the crucial moment of
one of the most momentous political ' -A?
struggles of modern times, between
the Peers and Commons. ,
In a day the political outlook of
Great Britain las been revolution-! : "$jgl
ized. All through the Empire the ?|f
word was flashed and flags were
floated at# half-mast. Besides the ^
social gloom which the King's death 1
casts over England, several impor- ' Afi
tant and planned official events
must be abandoned. - '
The Prince and Princess of Wales
were to go to South Africa
the squadron, and the Prince was tof , 1p|
open the first Parlament of the new ^
confederation, but his accession to the -p?
throne will now prevent this.
The death of his Majesty will also* M
mean abandonment of the principal vj*
functions of Ex-President Roosevelt. '
The Prince of Wales succeeded to ^
the crown immediately, according- ^
to the laws of the Kingdom, withont v
official ceremony. His first official ^
act was to dispatch to the Lord *>||
Mayor the announcement of his fath -
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Puller is Acquitted.
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Greenville, May 9.?After remaining
out but two hours the jury hearing
the case of the State against . r.
Jesse Fuller, charged with the mur- . der
of J. E. Liddell, a real estate v
man, on Christmas eve, returned , a
verdict of not guilty at 9 o'clock to* '
night. All day long the court room
was packed and jammed with people. ;
The evidence submitted by the State* ''
was purely circumstantial and Fuller I
practically proved an alibi as to
where he was at the time of the mur-.
aer.
More interest centered in this trial . ^
than any other ever held in Greenville.
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