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MURDER MOST FOUL.
J. C. Hoi ley Suspected of Crime
Would Shame a Fine.
Wilmington, N. C., August 10.?
The supposed murder of a youth to
secure $2,500 insurance on his life,
the gutting of the Rock Spring hotel,
a combination hotel and lodging
house on the wharf, the arrest of J.
C. Holly, about 40 years old, proprietor
of the house, erstwhile
preacher of the Sanctification faith.
Artnefitnfo/j +>10 continna 1 features
of a tragic fire which occurred in this
city early this morning. When arrested,
and after being warned that
he need not make any statement that
would incriminate himself, the defendant
stated to the justice who issued
the warrant, in the presence of
several persons, that nobody but he
and the boy and his God knew the
circumstances surrounding the death
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Signs of Crime.
The seriously burned body of the
youth, Edward Cromwell, 19 years
old, who is said to have come here
four months ago from an orphan
home in Charleston, and was cook at
the hotel, was found lying on the
floor of his room, in his night clothes,
nearly an hour after the fire was discovered.
Capt. W. P. Monroe, assistant chief
of the fire department, who was first
to enter the room, testified at the coroner's
investigation to-day that the
body was lying parallel with the bed,
which showed no evidence of having
Deen aisturoea, nis ieet rowaiu uc
head of the bed, thus exploding the
theory that the youth fell from the
bed. The mattress, he testified, was
saturated with kerosene oil and under
the head of the dead youth was found
* a counterpane also saturated with oil,
while two large empty oil cans were
found in an adjoining room.
Other witnesses testified to hearing
a noise as if a struggle about midnight
in the youth's room.
Probable Motive.
J. H. Scull testified that on Monday,acting
as notary public, he signed
certificate of transfer of insurance
policy for $2,500 from Cromwell to
Holly, the premium on which he was
informed was paid by Holly, who had
applied for insurance to the amount
of $5,000, the company refusing more
than $2,500. This is supposed to
have furnished the motive for the
crime that is believed to have been
committed.
The autopsy performed on the body
failed to disclose any evidence of violence,
but the stomach was distended
and the lungs congested, which the
physicians say could have been caused
by smoke.
The physician was satisfied that
the boy was bured before death, but
could not say as to whether narcotics
were used, as a chemical
analysis only can determine this.
The coroner's jury will resume its
investigation to-morrow.
Killed by Excursion Train.
' Spartanburg, August 11.?Vernon
Jollev, 19-year-old son of Stephen
Jolly, a well-known and highly respected
farmer living six miles west
of Chesney in Spartanburg county,
was run over and killed early this
morning on the Carolina, Clinchfield
& Ohio road, about one mile above
the Chesney depot. He was killed by
the excursion train which had taken
a party to Johnson City and was returning
to Bostic after putting off
the passengers at Spartanburg.
The Better Sort.
Senator Shively, apropos of patriotism
and the fourth, told at a South
Bend banquet a war story.
"A private," he said, "got veryhomesick
on the campaign and went
to headquarters for a furlough.
" 'What do you want a furlough
for?' the colonel asked.
*' 'What do I want a furlough for?'
the private answered bitterly. 'Why,
colonel, I ain't seen my wife for over
three months!'
" 'Oh, that's nothing," said the
colonel, 'I haven't seen my wife for
more than three years.'
" 'Well, said the soldier, that may
be, colonel, but me and my wife ain't
that kind." '?Washington Star.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo,
Lucas County.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
he is senior partner of the firm of
F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business
in the city of Toledo, county and
State aforesaid, and that said firm
will pay the sum of one hundred dollars
for each and every case of catarrh
that cannot be cured by the
use of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 6th day of December,
A. D. 1SS6.
(SEAL.) A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
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and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Send for testimonials free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pillls for constipation.
Cure for Insanity.
The Lawyer?Temporary insanity
is generally cured, isn't it?
The Doctor?Yes, by a verdict of
acquittal.?Philadelphia Record.
FAKE "ADM LURES GIRL.
Negro Janitor Arrested for Fiendish
Attempts.
St. Louis, August S.?Miss Lulu
Fehlhammers reported to the police
to-day that she was attacked
at a pistol point last Tuesday night
by James Bradfield, alias Bradford,
a negro, when she went to answer
what proved to be a "fake" advertisement
for an office girl. Bradfield
was arrested Saturday night
while menacing Miss Bessie Unger,
after decoying her by means of an
advertisement into the building
where he was janitor.
Bradfield, according to Miss Fehl[
hammers, held a pistol to her head
when she recovered from a faint and
| made her sign a statement that she
visited the office building on her own
free will. The statement was found
in Bradfield's pockets and attached
to it was a lock of Miss Fehlhammer's
hair.
Mr. Bellinger in Charleston.
Charleston, S. C., Aug. 6, 1910.
Editor Bamberg Herald?Dear Sir:
I am on the steamer Lawrence, the
ferry boat from Charleston to Mt.
Pleasant, returning from Sullivan's
Island, where I have been spending
a most delightful visit. We are now
just at tne oena wnere me uu<tuuei
makes a curve off from Castle Pincknev,
and near by is Fort Riley and
we are making in to land at the ferry
wharf near the custom house. This
is a building of magnificent proportions
with huge pillows and solid
foundation. Its artistic designs of
strength, utility and beauty have
been well combined. From this
point we have a good view of the
city and the different church spires.
Most conspicuously sacred and venerable
rise the lofty heights of the
spires of St. Michael's and St. Paul's.
And now the skyscraper on Broad
street near being completed will
hereafter be a most conspicuous landmark.
But before we land let us calmly
look out and upon this magnificent
panorama that environs the queen
city by the sea. First we have the
inner port land locked, safe and secure
from the great tropical storms
that have from time to time swept
our Atlantic coast. Sufficiently
commodious to shelter and to acMmmndstd.
not onlv all present de
mands, but for the future, in which
we see a prospect for a greater commercial
outlook than the city has
ever attained. At one view we can see
the Cooper as it broadens out into a
cansiderable bay, reaching out to the
main land in the direction of Mt.
Pleasant and then next to the city
and extending up to the navy yard
and beyond, a deep channel ample
and sufficient for the passage of the
nation's fleet and her vessels of war,
now being constructed and repaired.
We are far enough out that we can
see the battery and the large handsome
resident buildings that adorn
that section of the city, and here
flows in the Ashley and widens out
into a broad bay, along the margin
of which is now being constructed the
great boulevard, an extension of the
present battery, which will be more
fully adorned and beautified by the
many mansions, which are to be
erected along the margin of this
beautiful walk. And now look over
and beyond the bay, into which the
Ashley mingles its waters, and see
that low level point of land with ,
forest growth sufficient to remind
one of the famous "hundred pines,"
which once so proudly lifted their
stately forms along James Island
and now exist only in memory.
And here is Fort Johnson where
the present quarentine is located,
and farther on is Morri's Island on
which is the light house, whose
friendly beacon light ever flashes sea*
' J xt- ? ??? yv nn/1
ward to guide me nidi iuc auu u?
ship safely into port. From this
island also projects one arm of the
jetty reaching out for the other arm
that extends from Sullivan, and
only leaves a narrow channel or gateway,
that all vessels either leaving
or coming into port must necessarily
pass under or in reach of the great
guns of Fort Sumter like guard or
sentinel ever keeping watch. But I
haven't said a word about the nice
sea breeze and how I enjoyed the
surf. It has been many years since
I have been in salt water. Not since
a bov, when I lived in Texas and occasionally
would try the rough waves
that rolled in from Gulf of Mexico's
stormy waters. But here when battling
with the waves quite naturally
my thoughts turned back to my
Western home and visions of wild
broncos and mustangs, and once
again turned loose upon the boundless
billions of that prairie land.
Matters were in confusion for at
times when borne upon the crest of
a swollen sea and I could imagine
that the wild bronco was doing very
well, then all at once cast down and
bumping on terra firma. Such was
my sad experience riding the waves
that I wished I was a boy again and
racing over the wild West.
L. N. BELLINGER.
Buy your fruit jars at Hunter's
hardware store. Prices right.
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INVESTIGATING SOIL VALUES.
Work of Government in South Shows
Vast Possibilities.
Washington, August 8.?The vast
agricultural resources of the South,
especially along the line of vegetable
gardening for the Northern markets,
have been shown forth in the results
of recent work done by the bureau
of soils, under the direction of the
secretary of agriculture. This bureau
has just completed an exhaustive investigation
of the soils of more than
30 million acreas in the Atlantic and
Gulf States. The soils investigated
were those especially adapted under
extensive culture to early fresh vegetables,
of which these States have a
clear monopoly in the Northern markets
from January until the last of
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June, wnen 11 js reanzeu mac cue
South must supply vegetables for
more than two-thirds of the United
(States for more than half the year,
the enormous possibilities of this industry
can be appreciated.
The investigations showed that ,
about 7 per cent, of the acreage mentioned
is capable of yielding far more
per acre under scientific and up-to- ^
date methods than by the hit-and
miss farming so commonly in vogue
among the Southern truck farmers. Of
the vast area, only 1 1-4 million
acres are incapable of being profita- t
bly farmed; these, however, may be i
put in profitable forests. Nearly 4 I
million acreas are especially adapted t
to early and extra-early vegetables, t
especially turnips, radishes, lettuce, *
peas, string beans, Irish potatoes, t
beets, cucumbers, watermelons and i
cantaloupes. Nearly three million i
acres are well suited for early crops 1
of the same varieties maturing about t
two weeks later, especially to early c
squash, peppers, sweet potatoes, okra, f
tomatoes, lima beans, spinach ana
cabbage. Four and a half million
acres are of a sandy loam adapted to
vegetables which mature for market
at a medium period and on which the J
lightest type of general farming c
comes in with early crops and light ^
yields. J
Ten million acres constitute a fine, I
sandy loam which may be profitably *
used for vegetables for medium late
spring market and a light type of i
general farming. There are 1 1-2 ?
million acres of loam, the best gen- f
eral purpose soil, adapted to vege- i
tables for the late spring market, a
These are the last that can be served ^
in a fresh state from this territory, t
<n +V10 Mnrthprn fc
UUlUlUg iX L?ivju\jy\jij xu market.
More than two million acres t
are classified as silt loam, well fitted
to canning crops and heavy general \
farming, with about equal adapta- e
tions to wheat and grass. Four mil- ^
lion acres of clay adapted to heavy t
farming and ensilage forage crops c
make up the remainder. i:
In the sixteen former slave States, b
including Oklahoma, there was 145,- t
000,000 acres planted to general b
crops. There are more than 612,- r
000,000 acres of unimproved land in t
these States. Texas has 167,000,000 f
acres of virgin land, though much of b
it is used for grazing. Florida has b
more than 35,000,000 acres of as b
rich land as any in the world, now b
classed as worthless "Everglades."
These are being rapidly reclaimed by a
private enterprise. v
Alabama has 33,000,000 acres not "
utilized, and Arkansas as much. *>
Louisiana has 30,000,000 acres of f
swamps, which, if drained, would d
rival the fatness of the Nile Valley, a
There are in Mississippi more than e
on nnn nnn nmu awaitine* the 1<
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thrifty immigrant' and Missouri has a
44,000,000 also awaiting the plough, t
if we include her rich swamps on the h
river, Georgia has 38,000,000, and q
North Carolina 31,000,000 acres of t
unimproved lands. South Carolina s
has 26,000,000, and Tennessee has a
27,000,000 acres of such lands. Vir- fl
ginia has an unimproved area as g
large as that of Tennessee, while d
Kentucky has 26,000,000 acreas and
West Virginia 15,000,000. Maryland
has only about 6,000,000 acres
unimproved.
As for the swamps, most of them s
growing fine timber, though under b
water for nine months of the year, t
they will be unfit for cultivation to f
any extended extent unless drained, t
To drain the swamps of the South J
would be a stupendious enterprise, "V
dwarfing the first continetal railroad a
or the Panama canai.
But our American people have v
learned that our constitution is flexi- t
ble enough for any good and practi- s
cal purpose, and it only remains for n
some logician from the South to de- b
monstrate to congress that the drain- s
ing of the swamps will facilitate the t
navigation of the Southern rivers, b
Then that section can get her arms t
elbo-deed into the "pork-barrel" and t
as a result 100,000 square miles of b
the richest land in the world will t
come under the plough of the hus- 1
bandman. a
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S. W. Bends, of Coal City, Ala., f
says he struck a perfect mine of
health in Dr. King's New Life Pills 1
for they cured him of liver and kid- t
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ing. They are the best pills on earth ^
for constipation, malaria, headache,
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CHAMPION BANANA-EATER.
Polish Resident of New York Go
Outside of 64 at One Sitting.
The banana-eating champion o
:he world is claimed by Morris Leo
jeske, a Polish resident of the Eas
Side, New York, who on Monday, af
;er a desperate struggle and agains
:remendous competition, won a $10'
?old watch in the annual interna
;ional banana-eating contest at Mas
>cth, Long Island. Morris succeede*
ry r\r\ + /"Ml f oiHn of fid 1
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>ananas. The feat is more remarkabl
vhen it is considered that the rule
)f the contest prevent the contestant
rom taking liquids while competing
Kind Words for Dad.
We do not know who the Rev. W
F. Hindley is, save that he is past'o
>f congregational church in Spokane
Washington, but we are "for him.'
le has just inaugurated a "Father':
)ay," a day in which, he says, h<
rants to give everybody a chance t<
'speak a few kind words for the ol(
an, who surely needs sympathy.'
lure he does! None more so. Th<
ounder of this movement hopes tha
t will spread all over the country
.nd so do we. We hope it will read
Washington, and everywhere else, s<
hat poor old dad may chirk up anc
legin to know that he is not going tc
ip Afpmallv neelect'ed.
Mother has her day, and properly
Ve know all about the "coffee Moth
ir used to make;" some one is al
t-ays saving "mother's picture fron
he sale," or is continually helping ai
Id lady across the street and smirk
ngly apologizing with "She's some
ody's mother, boys," he said. But ii
he rush of pathos poor old dad ha*
een shamefully neglected. It's al
ight for him to furnish the coin foj
he household; to wear pants wit!
ringe on them, so that mother maj
iave a peek-aboo shirtwaist, or tc
uy such expensive lace curtains thai
is wife won't let him smoke in the
ouse for fear he'll spoil them.
You can come pretty near winning
wager that it was a woman whc
irrote that highly popular song
Everybody Works but Father," anc
te all know it isn't true; that ii
ather didn't work, mother anc
aughter couldn't parade or ride ir
utomobiles the way they do. Fath
r has been shamefully neglected toe
Dng by far, and it was high time thai
voice rose in the wilderness?nol
hat. Snokane is a wilderness?giving
lim a day to himself. We don'1
uite see what dad's going to do witl
he day when he gets it; it's prettj
afe he won't be allowed to spend ii
t the club, and if he wants to g(
shing it's likely that mother and the
iris will think him selfish if he
oesn't let them come tagging along
Things Came Her Way.
He joined the Maccabees and Maon9,
he joined the K. of P.'s, he
lowed in all he had to pay initiaion
fees. He borrowed money of his
riends and put them on the bum
o take out life insurance in the
llkafoozelum. He was a Moderr
Voodman and he headed the parade
n axe upon his shoulder that had
wooden blade; his wife at home was
wrestling with a gnarly knot to trj
o split a splinter off to keep the cook
tove hot. He went into the Workaen,
but he had no love for work, s
:ind of lodge bacillus in his systeir
eemed to lurk, and when he went ui
own to buy potatoes, meat, or tea
ie was very apt to spend the cash tc
ake some new degree. One nighl
he lodges all combined and gave 2
ianquet rare, and you bet your botom
dollar the j'iner he was there
Ie ate some cheese and pickles, anc
. bait of oysters fried, in short he
00k a founder and went straighi
irtma onri rjipH \'ow. when the sac
act was proven by his sad and weepng
wife, she was handed twentj
housand in insurance on his life
!he said: "I see that everything has
ome my way at last," and she goi
ler second husband before a yeai
vas passed.
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY ffg
Effective Sunday, May 29th, and continuing during the summer sea*
son, Southern Railway will have on sale regular summer excursion tickets
to Charleston and Isle of Palms, S. C., with final limit October 31st, 1910,
} also week-end tickets to be sold on Saturdays, and for Sunday morning ' p|
trains, beginning Saturday, May 28th, final limit to leave destination before
midnight the following Tuesday.
1 Also cheap Sunday excursion tickets sold only for Sunday morning
? trains, good returning on last train leaving Charleston 8:15 p. m. Sun;
day night.
t For further information, rates, etc., apply to Southern Railway ticket
agents or address,
J. Ii. MEEK, W. E. McGEE,
Asst. Gen'l. Passenger Agent, Division Passenger Agent, T S&Q
5 Atlanta, Ga. Charleston, S. C.
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