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GIFT FOR GARRIS. State Firemen Appreciated Services On Part of Denmark Lawmaker. Chief Lewis Behrens, president of the State Firemen's Association, yes- ; terday afternoon dispatched to the : Hon. C. W. Garris, member of the 1 ^ house of representatives from Denmark, S. C., a beautiful ebony cane, : the gift of the firemen of this State, i as a token of appreciation for his ] valued assistance in connection with ] the so-called firemen's bill dur- ; ing the last session of the legislature. ] The head of the cane is of solid gold < ana Dears me ionowmg iusw^mwu. j "Presented to the Hon. C. W. Garris < by the firemen of South Carolina as 1 a token of appreciation for his ser- i vices in 1910." ] > The following letter from Chief ] Behrens accompanied the gift: 1 My Dear Mr. Garris: It was with 1 many expressed regrets that your ] w absence from the annual meeting of j the State Firemen's Association in j Sumter was particularly noted, in < which I personally join. ] We had looked forward with a ! great deal of pleasure to seeing the ] volunteer champion of our cause. - 1 The association expressed by reso- j lution the unanimous regret at your j absence, which it gives me pleasure 1 to convey to you. < I am, by instruction, sending you j by express to-day a to^en of love, re- 1 spect and appreciation, which I hope ] you will accept in the spirit in which j it is offered. With kindest regards ] and greatest respect and best' wishes, 1 I beg to remain, Yours most respectfully, LOUIS BEHREXS. J V President SiOuth Carolina State Fire- i ? men's Association. j ?Wednesday's News and Courier. < ; Triple Tragedy Done by "Woman. . Chicago, July 7.?Mrs. Henry Mul- . saw, goaded to desperation by the al- j ^ leged brutality and unfaithfulness of < her husband, a si ^et car conductor, < to-day shot and fatally wounded the j j S latter and their three-year-old daugh- >1 ter, and then killed herself by taking < : carbolic acid. ( Mrs. Mulsaw borrowed a revolver ] from her father, alleging that she j needed it for protection when her i husband worked at night. Then she < \ wrote letters to her parents, to her ] mother-in-law and to the public. In < ) these she declared that she had been a good and faithful wife but that Mulsaw spent his spare time with other women and often beat her. Mulsaw is alleged to have been . < with another woman until 4 o'clock , > this morning, when he returned to his i home. According to the police he began abusing his wife, seizing her by , ' > the hair and kicking her. She then . drew the revolver and shot him in the . . abdomen. He fell to the floor and . she sent another bunet into his back. . CUC wcut IV uei ueui win auu uicu c . gtr ? bullet into the body of her little j daughter. / . Satisfied that both were dead she . completed the tragedy by taking pois- . on. That she kissed her child after taking the poison is shown by the i marks on the child's face. Mother Saved Child. Lancaster, July 6.?Fred Poag, former Lancasterian, now living at l Franklin Furnace, N. Y., narrowly escaped losing his little son a few ( days ago. The child accompanied the . mother to Newburgh, N. Y., and while j Mrs. Poag was in a store making i some purchases, the little fellow sud- . denly disappeared. Missing the boy, ! Mrs. Poag at once instituted a search for him. She was informed by some one in the store that a strange wo- , man, a foreigner, had carried the child out into the street. The mother, frantic with fear of losing)her littie loved one,immediately gave chase, and after running some distance along the crowded thoroughfare, . espied ahead of her her son being carried along by the unknown woman. ^ r About the same time the would-be . kidnaper looked backward, and seeing Mrs. Poag in pursuit, dropped the | child and ran off in another direction. Anderson Girl Bitten by Mad Cat. p i Mr. Minor Hendricks went to Columbia taking with him his little 4year-old daughter, who was bitten on the leg by a mad cat Sunday after^ noon, for treatment at the Pasteur 1 Institute there. The cat was killed by Mr. Hendricks soon after it had bitten the child, and the head was sent to Columbia for examination. A 1 message was received from the Pas- 1 ' / teur Institute last night stating that 1 the cat was suffering from rabies. i The child was bitten by the cat 1 Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. 1 Hendricks on Maxwell avenue. The > little girl was playing in the yard at the time she was attacked. Mr. Hendricks went into the yard to drive f away the cat, and was himself attacked, but not bitten. The feline was finally killed. Mr. Hendricks brought the child to the office of Dr. J. C. Harris immedi^atelv after she had been bitten, and * ^ he prescribed for the wound.?Anderson Mail. t BATTLE IN CHARLESTON. <5 Woman and Policeman Exchange Shorts?-Woman Wounded. Charleston, July 6.?Sadie Miller and Police Officer Shokes engaged in a running duel with pistols to-day in the tough section of Market street, the officer being unhurt but the woman receiving wounds in the breast and abdomen which may prove serious. She was taken to the Roper hospital, where it was stated this afternoon that although she was badly wounded, her condition was not critical and she may recover. Sadie is one of the well-known characters :>n the street. She was quarreling svith a negro woman in a Greek cook ?hop on market street, using profanelanguage, when Officer Shokes stopped at the doorway and ordered her to desist. She would not and he ventured in the place, separated the belligerents and shoved the white woman out of the place, telling her to 50 home. She seemed peaceable enough and she repaired to another place conducted by a Greek named Seragleos. Here she was telling of her row with the negro and he picked up a knife with the intention of going after the negress. She was disarmed. Later when Shokes passed by the place, the report of the discharge Df a pistol was heard and the ball erazed the officer's head. Thinking that the woman whom he immediately recognized was going to escape by a rear door, he ran around the corner of Church street and entered the place. The woman ran from him but continued to shoot and he pulled his pistol and fired in self-defense. She fired five shot's and when she was finally cornered, she continued to snap the pistol at Shokes, but the :artridges had been fired. The woman was sent to Roper hosoital. where she was given prompt attention. She is a notorious character and more than a match for the average man. She meant tq kill ?hokes for interfering with her, it is evident, and there was no alternative to the policeman but to use his weapon to defend himself. He was congratulated by the by-standers for tiis coolness and on his good fortune in escaping death and injury. It has been Shokes's misfortune to get into several shooting affairs recently but he has so far managed to save himself from injury. Shot by Policeman. Newberry, July 7.?Mason Wright, in operative at the Mollohon mills, was shot in the arm last night by Policeman Krafts, the shooting occurring near I. T. Timmerman's store, it appears there had been some oil feeling between the two men for some time and on meeting each other at the store the trouble was renewed. When a scuffle followed, Mr. Wright wrenching the policeman's billy from him and using it pretty freely, when the officer drew his gun and fired, the shot taking effect in Wright's left irm. The wound is not serious. No arnr*c? + c? Vio i v/cvo ua? t wwu uiuuv* Crew of Engine Dead in Wreck. Cookestill, Tenn., July 8.?One of the worst wrecks in the history of the Tennessee Central railroad occurred last night at 11:30 o'clock in the Bradley cut, three and onehalf miles east of Algood, this county. Through west-bound freight train Ko. 51, in charge of Conductor Sid Knight, was wrecked. Conductor Knight and Fireman S. F. Lindsay were instantly killed. They were in the engine at the time and were scalded to death. Engineer J. E. Stephens suffered severely from scalding and his ankle was sprained and bruised. A large rock had fallen on the track from'the side of the cut, causing the wreck. The engine and four cars were derailed. The east-bound through passenger train due here at 1 o'clock - in the morning: went no 1 further than Algood and returned to Nashville at 6:30 o'clock, carrying the dead men and Engineer Stephens, all of whom lived in Nashville.. All are men of families. "COTTON KING" IN CONTEMPT. Supreme Court Justice Imposed Heavy Fine on Sully. White Plains, N. Y., July 7.? Daniel Sully, well known as the "cotton king," was declared in contempt of Court to-day by Justice Mills, of the State Supreme Court, and ordered to pay a fine of $3,800 and $40 costs. The case grew out or suny s ianure, several years ago, when William Marmon Black, a judgment creditor, obtained a Court order restraining Sully from paying out any money until the suit of Black had been settled. Black contended that Sully had committed contempt in paying $4,600 to his (Sully's) wife after the order had been issued. Sully said the payment represented his salary of $400 a month for a little less than a year. 1 1 GIANT CEDAR TREE. Tree was 60 Feet Long and 11 Feet 10 Inches in Diameter. Although it sounds like the purest fiction, an Oregon shingle mill has just finished a run of 33 days, working on one giant cedar log. The big stick was 11 feet, 10 inches in diameter at the base and 60 feet long. As the saws used by the loggers in cutting the logs into "bolts" for shingle saws are only eight feet long, dynamite j was used in splitting the log so it could be sawed into pieces of the necessary size to go to the circular saws. Not over half a cord of timber was < wasted in the work, and when it was finished 141,000 shingles had been made from the single stick. The tree grew- in the forest of Tillamook county, where there is probably the finest st-nding timber to be found on the continent. So dense are these forests of fir, spruce and cedar and so luxuriant their growth that in many places it is almost impossible for a man to force his way through the underbrush that fills the narrow spaces between the trees.?Portland, Oregon, special to Baltimore American. Acts the Hero. Pittsburg, July 6.?While firemen poured powerful streams of water on him, W. A. Weaver, superintendent of the Atlantic refining plant (Standard Oil Company), dashed daring through flame and smoke this morning and shut a valve which prevented fire spreading from a burning still of benzine to great tanks of oil nearby. In the vicinity of thirty thousand barrels of petroleum in various stages of refinement were stored. Two thousand people, called from their beds by the peril, cheered the superintendent as he came scorched from the burning still. What wo^ld likely have been a catastrophe similar to that at Sheridan several years ago, when several thousand people were injured in a gasoline explosion, was prevented, and the loss confined to the benzine still. A Frightful Wreck of train, automobile or buggy may cause cuts, bruises, abrasions, sprains or wounds that demand Bucklen's Arnica Salve?earth's greatest healer. Quick relief and prompt cure results. For burns, boils, sores of hll kinds, eczema, chapped hands and lips, sore eyes or corns, its supreme. Sure pile cure. 25c at People's Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Sacrifices Life to Save Woman. Blake, Okla., July 6.?William Boltright, a merchant of La Camp, was fatally burned yesterday in a fire that destroyed the postoffice building and general store, here. Boltright was burned while rescuing Miss Mary Lee, who was imprisoned in an up-stairs room by the flames. The buildings destroyed were valued at $10,000. Homicide in Asheville. Asheville, N. C., July 5.?Stealth ily approaching his victim from the rear, J. B. Allison, aged 45, a former janitor at the city hall, fired five shots into the body of F. M. McGhee, driver of the city patrol wogan, this afternoon, every bullet taking effect. After his victim had fallen, Allison beat out the man's brains with a tern-pound hammer. Allison surrendered and is now in jail. Indignation runs high among the citizenship and to-night there is some talk of lynching. Acting on persistent rumors, the sheriff to-night requested the local compan> of militia, which had been out on drill practice, to stay out until midnight. The killing is, according to the prisoner's statement, the outcome of an old quarrel concerning a woman. McGhee was standing at the door of the livery stable when Allison without any warning, slipped up from behind and fired point blank at McGhee. Two bullets penetrated the heart, the rtfhoi'o tatinc offpr?t in the heart and Vbuvi g VMiiiAUQ VU.WV . V? ? ? right side. The deceased was 33 years oid and leaves a widow. Allison has a record of having killed three men and in each case was acquitted on the ground of self defense. Little over a year ago, he attempted to kill a negro in a local livery stable. He was never tried for this offense. A crowd late to-night gathered about the jail and there was talk of lynching. After a time, however, the crowd peaceably dispersed. Napoleon's Grit was of the unquestionable, never-saydie kind, the kind that you need most when you have a bad cold, cough or lung disease. Suppose troches, cough syrups, cod liver oil or doctors have all failed, don't lose heart or hope. Take Dr. King's New Discovery. Satisfaction is guaranteed when used for any throat or lung trouble. It has saved thousands of hoDeless sufferers. It masters stubborn colds, obstinate coughs, hemorrhages, la grippe, croup, asthma, hay fever and whooping cough and is the most safe and certain remedy for all bronchial affections. 50c, $1.00. Trial bottle free at People's Drug Co., Bamberg. GEN. GRANT'S VALET DEAD George W. Stokes, Colored, Kr Famous General. George Washington Stokes, colo aged 92 years, who for many raon was the valet of Gen. U. S. Grant, terward President of the Uni States, died Friday afternoon in home, 532 Mosher street, in Ba more, says the American. He 1 been ill but a short time and death was due to the infirmities age. He was one of the b known colored men in this section the country and was very popu with both the white and the colo children in the neighborhood in wh he lived. For many years it had b< his custom to sit on the front po: of his home and tell stories of \ times to his friends. It is said that he attended the mous General faithfully and at end of the war Gen. Grant wanted take him home with him. Howe\ Stokes declined, as he thought t he was getting well along in ye* and he wanted to go somewhere i spend the balance of his days peace and comfort. Stokes went Virginia. ? He then came to Ba more. Before the proclamation of emai pation he was a slave and was owi by the Stokes family of Virginia. ,the time of the proclamation Stokeses told all of their slaves t they might go where they chose, i Washington (for he was known that name then) enlisted in the Un army. He was always known to faithful and respectful. He was pi ent at a number of famous occasic He was with Grant at' the commer ment of the "hammering campaig and he watched the General touch telegraph key that started Sherc nri his mnrrh through npnr^in his stories of this, Stokes said General sat upon the trunk of a len tree at the time, and that Gr trembled from excitement. He ' also in the vicinity of the tree un which Lee surrendered to Grant Appomatox court house. Stokes was x strong in the be that Gen. Grant was the greatest i that the world has ever known. Longer Terms of Office. Mr. C. C. Featherstone, a cai date for the governorship of So Carolina, has come out strong favor of the four-year term for g ernor and biennial sessions of legislature, instead of the pres ttvo-year term with annual legi ture sessions. As regards the g ernorship the people of the SI have practically made the longer riod effective in their almost it riable habit of re-electing each cumbent upon the completion of first term. So regularly has this curred for a number of years t there can hardly be a question ab the view of the matter taken by State at large. The chief gain wt wuuiu ciuui ue num iue uu<tuge wci lie in the lessening of the polit agitation incident upon the bien] compaigns, resulting as they do no inconsiderable and unnecess waste of time, money and energj The benefit wrought by a cha from annual to biennial sessions the legislature would be even m marked. Contributing the eli nation of the political unrest just ferred to it would also make more carefully considered laws, is generally agreed that nearly of the States are burdened by much legislation, and movements reduce the bulk have resulted in inauguration of quardrennial tei for the law-makers in not a few stances.. Alabama has adopted 1 system, and although the last le lature held in that State came for much criticism, none of it ' based upon the quadrennial feati A number of years ago the peopl< South Carolina adopted a const tional amendment providing for ; such a change as the one urged Mr. Featherstone, but through technical defect in the wording never became effective and the qi tion was not resubmitted to the e torate. Judging by the experience North Carolina with the four-y term for governor and the bieni legislative session* our neigh would, make no mistake in adopt the change proposed.?Charlotte server. This is Plowing Some. Quite a number of business mer Greenwood went to Mr. Percy Li ley's place, which is near Corons last week to see his new plow, wh is driven Dy a gasonne engine twenty-horse power. The plow 1 pull from three to six discs. W Mr. Lumley was operating the p last week it was pulling three di plowing up a space of about th feet. It is estimated that the mach will do the work of from six to ei plows. The cost of the plow is I 700. Mr. Lumley, who is a progi sive farmer, is highly pleased v the work which is being done v> the plow.?Greenwood Journal. > i. WHITE SHIPMATE RESCUED. lew Negro Mess Attendants Commendet by Rear Admiral. Washington, July 6.?For saving red a white shipmate from drowning, twc ths young negro mess attendants on the af- receiving ship Franklin, at the Norted folk navy yard, have received the his commendation of Rear Admiral Xich,lti olson. Acting Secretary of the Navy. ^ J nnv./-v K TDinr. IctU 1 lie ICa\.UCi5 ?C1C AlCAdUUCl Dld5 his of Annapolis, and T. L. Walker, of of Philadelphia. The man they rescued lest was J. C. Lowery, who, while swim. of ming near the ship, became exhausted lar and called for help, red The two negroes plunged in with ich their clothing on and towed the sen drowning man to a boat. It was with rch difficulty that Yowery was recusitavar ted. Dangers of Mortgage. the As proof of the dangerous possit0 bilities of the mortgage, an exchange ,er relates the following incident: A man mortgaged his farm to buy his wife a irs pair of ear rings. The wife took in in(j washing to pay the interest on the mortgage, and the first day lost one oi t0 the diamonds in the suds, and tried to hang herself in the barn, hut the rope broke and she fell on a $150 lcj_ Jersey cow, breaking it's back. aed Girl Gives Life to Save Chum. At Vwontnn Til Tnltr C VInrcin i^vaubuu) iii*| v uij u* 1 ivi vuvn t np Burden, 16 years old, high school a girl, sacrificed her life in Lake Mich^ igan to-day to save that of her chum J Ethel Moulton, 15 years old. Th< .n girls were bathing. Miss Moulton, wh< D6 was unable to swim, waded intc resdeep water and was swept from hei )ns feet. Miss Burden, a good swimmer LC6? went to her rescue. Miss Moultoi n ' was supported by Miss Burden unti tll0 William Bruder reached the Strug nan .. . . glmg girls. "Take her, I can swim," Miss Bur tllG ? , den is reported to have said to Bru fal- , ^ der. ant Bruder, weighted down by hii clothing and Miss Moulton's weight der reached a boat that put out fron shore. Miss Moulton was uncon scious but soon revived. Miss Burden exhausted by her efforts to rescu< Miss Moulton, sank. Her body was recovered an hour later. ?h. m. oeahaif idi- Attorney-at-Law uth BAMBERG, 8. 0. Practices in all Courts of this State :ovthe Offices in The Herald Building. lent j. Aldrich Wyman E. H. Hendersoi f0*~_ Wyman & Henderson 'J& te Attorneys-at-Law BAMBERG, 8. C. iva' (General Practice. Loans Negotiate* in his hat I Hi Am PI Ail" I ;u: i miii uiau licb I writes Mrs. Ethel Newlin, ,uId I of Liberty Center, Ind, icai ?*that i began to take Caraial dui, for it has cured me, in I and I will never forget it ary "j cannot praise Cardui too highly for what it did nge I for me. Before I began 1 ot to take it, I was very ore bad color, suffered great mi" pain and weighed only re_ fl 105 pounds. Now I have for H a good color, do not suffer !t | and weigh 125 lbs." ilCARDlll this * The Woman's Tonic gis- _ Beware of strong, nox m ious, mineral drugs, that 1 sink into your system, ,ir8f like lead to the bottom ?* I : a basin of water. " Cardui is purely vege . table and contains no nv H poisonous minerals, ur m ; * dangerous drugs. I It is perfectly safe and !es" harmless, for use by old I iec" II and young, and may be I 2 ? taken, as a tonic, for ,'eay months, without any possi- I " blw harmful effect Try it I bor M .ing Ob- =========== r? lm- i| If# ?S! 11 Top Note soi; || Bottom No 11 SATISFACTIOI || J N O . W rfth || "The Quality Store." 1 ' ' f ' automobiles! if Rebuilt and Repainted | i-Jm ANTOMOBILE SUPPLIES IN STOCK ? ' : i|S STORAGE ACCOMODATIONS ^ for cars at reasonable charges by week or month. 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Bring your cotton gins and tWm press parts and have them repaired before the busy season. A stitch in time saves nine. We igjaB repair saw mills, grist mills, ? cane mills; in fact we run a hospital for sick and disorder* ed machinery. Bring it in and have it cured. Gas engines and automobile engine cylinders bored, and new pistons and rings made that won't leak. Gives you more power and bet- , ter efficiency. We repair and i charge storage batteries. Call j when in trouble and see what ; we can do. . SHOP AT COTTON MILL I Improved Saw Mills. Ii VARIABLE FRICTION FEED. 8^*jUfabu!J I Best material and workmanship, light I ?><n;nff ramiirAA little cower: simple, luuumg) - VM ? ?? * , easy to -anal^. Are made in severe sizes and are good, substantial money- > ' making machines down to the smallest size. Write for catalog showing Engines, Boilers and all Saw Mill supplies, Lombard Iron Works A Supply Co.J 4 AUGUSTA, OA. ( CHICHESTER 8 PIUS J TOE DIAMOND BRAND. 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