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M FIVE DIE IX EXPLOSION. Score More Injured when Blasting Powder Went Off. - El Paso, Tex. Dec. 28.?Five persons are known to have been killed, fc* . a score injured and an extensive S& property damage resulted to-day, when workmen at the plant of the American Smelter and Refining Company, in endeavoring to destroy a slag pile, accidentally exploded 2. 400 pounds of blasting powder. The explosion partially wrecked the smelting plant and many small houses in the immediate vicinity, while window glasses three miles distant were Sr broken. Men were tunnelling under the slag mound when the explosion oc^ curred. Eight of the workmen in the tunnels furthest removed were ^ , taken out alive, bruised and lacerating At nightfall two bodies had been fmm tho tnrmpl nparpst thp gg*-* ucmutcu nuui iuv ~ explosion. Three other workmen cannot he communicated with, and it is not thought that they are alive. In other tunnels imprisoned workmen are signalling to the rescuers and the work of rescue is proceeding to-night. All the dead are Mexicans. Crushed to Death. Charleston, Dec. 26.?M. G. Copeland, night engineer at the power sta-* - * ft J D HOii UI Lilt; t-/LHi?uiiuatcu xvainva; uwmpany on Sullivan's Island, was caught in the belting'of the machinery and killed shortly after midnight. Copeland and the fireman were ^ alone in the power station. At the time the engineer met his death, according to the fireman's statement, the latter's duties took him elsewhere in the station, so that he did * not witness it. The clogging of the man's body in the machinery is said to have affected its operation and first gave the fireman notice that something had happened. It required eight hours to take the ^ machinery partly to pieces and rel move the bier wheel which held Cope land's body to the floor. Copeland's wife was waiting her husband's arrival, having prepared a hot meal for him, when she was notified of his ? death. Other casualties marked the day, and the hospitals have many cases of accidental shooting, burns and victims of the ready use of the pistol. The coroner took the ante mortem I statement of several of the patients 1 to-day. k Gave Masonic Sign. B Aiken, Dec. 22.?Nearly eight n years ago Ben Beauford, a well ? known white man of the Hawthorne - ? ^-L - .... ?4. ? j i,;n r secuon 01 me cuuulv, siiui auu am, ed a negro, Larry Blackgan, under what was revealed to be most revolting circumstances. Seven year3 ago he was tried in this county and convicted of manslaughter and sent to the penitentiary for 12 years. To-day his body lies in the grave . near his old home. Beauford died |T in the penitentiary of pneumonia and jg... v his body was broughf back home for ^ burial, yesterday. This ends one of the most celebrated murder cases ever known in this country. There i* are very many who vividly recall the trial and its revelations. It came out E' that Beauford had been intimate with Blackman's wife and when Blackman protested to Beaufort the latter shot him dead. An unusual feature of the trial is | 2 still remembered. Judge Gage presided at the trial. Beauford was a h ? Mason, and so was Judge Gage. Just * as the judge was about to pass sentence on Beauford the latter displayed his Masonic emblem and some say [he gave a Masonic sign. This brought from Judge Gage one of the most scathing rebukes ever heard in the court room. He told Beauford he had disgraced the order to which he purported to belong and that instead of it tending to lessen his crime it made it all the greater and concluded by telling him that he should go to the jury and thank them for saving his life. The incident was much M talked about at the time. W' - - ??? Capture Xegro in Bed Room. /^"'1 '?^ ? 01 -n:_i ? v^ixanesiuii, .uec. ox.?uisiui ucu ^ from their slumber at four o'clock R this morning, Dr. and Mrs. Tracy Becker discovered a negro in their bed room in the act of rifling the pockets of Dr. Becker's overcoat, which was hanging on the wall. In 4 haste Dr. Becker lighted the gas if -while the negro crouched under the f . bed in an attempt to hide. The in} ' furiated doctor pulled the fellow out by the legs and then gripped him by the throat. In the meantime, Mrs. Becker called up the police station. ? An officer hastened to the scene and took the negro in charge. The fellow's name is Isaac Washington. In a preliminary hearing to-day, in which he was bound over to the general sessions court on the charge of burglary and grand larceny, Washington admitted that he knew there was money in the overcoat and that he tried to steal it. He said he thought he would hide under the bed and that he would be undiscovered. i ' > v . HOW THE MONEY GOES. United States Senators Graft Upon Uncle Sam. United States senators appear in the role of youngsters asking Uncle Sam for all manner of luxuries and toys, from automobiles to horehound ! drops, in the annual report of the I secretary of state, which shows that | the senators cost the United States | $2,012,374.52 from July 1; 1909, to June 30, 1910. This money includes everything from railroad fare to the j price of bottles of perfumery, manicure scissors, lemons, sugar and soft pillows. Any one who has a lurking suspicion that senators don't imbibe water freely should glance at the record of $1,834 spent for apolinaris water. More than $3,000 was expended for other mineral waters. Three goldframed mirrors for senators stand Uncle Sam $64 each. One day Senator Bourne called up Senator Aldrich over the long distance telephone between Washington and Providence; cost of conversation, $2.50. The automobile of Vice-President Sherman cost $2,000 to operate. Senators are strong on telegrams. Page after page is devoted to telegraphic items. The bust of former President Roosevelt cost $800. The Dangerous Fly. A fly in the house is as dangerous as a rattlesnake, as filthy as a louse, as disgraceful as a bedbug. The time will come when any modern, cleanly home will feel itself shamed and disgraced by the presence of a fly, and when every householder upon whose premises a brood of flies is detected, will be fined heavily and be sent to jail. The fly is a literal "eye of the LoTd" because he is in every place beholding evil and the good, especially the evil, for he loves to lay eggs in it. You can't hide dirt from a fly. He is also the most intimate and domestic animal we breed and keep. An ounce of cleanness is worth a ton of fly paper and wire screens. One-half the money wasted on fly traps and window screens, one-fifth the energy squandered in slapping | and profanity, would clean up the I backyard and wipe out the fly. WORK BEGINS ON DEPOT. One Ordered for Branchville Will at Last be Bnilt. Branchville, Dec. 28.?Work was begun this week on the erection of the new freight depot for Branchville. W. M. Warren, of this town, has the contract and already has torn down part of the old depot and started the new work. A temporary depot is being erected on the Augusta side for the handling of the freight while the new one is in course of construction. Last winter the legislature passed a bill requiring a new freight depot and the reconstruction of the passenger depot. The work has been long delayed, but it is to be rushed to completion. Follows Trail of Man. Colquitt, Ga., Jan. 1.?Nineteen days on the trail of the man who, he alleges, stole his wife and children, and carrying a Winchester rifle in his buggy and swearing that he will go to the ends of the earth to find the object of his search, William Boatwright, a white man, drove into Colquitt late j*esterday evening and out again to-day. He has driven this far from his home in Florida, he says, and the indications are that he is gaining on the alleged fugitives. Boatwright, believing he would soon overtake the man he was following, swore out a warrant hdre, charging Frank McGowan with kidnapping. Boatwright wants to get his children, and says he will get them by peaceable means if possible. That is why he secured the warrant. If he should fail he says he will still have the rifle to fall back on. He was accompanied from here by Deputy Sheriff F. B. Adams who has the warrant and is aiding Boatwright in his efforts to overtake the alleged fugitives. Boatwright says he followed McGowan from Florida to Alabama and from there back to Georgia. Scalp Taken Off in Mill. Newberry, Dec. 31.?Mrs. Bessie Hasell was completely scalped when her hair caught in a speeder in the card room of the Mollohon mill this morning, and there are meagre hopes ? ^ VkA-v* Hf/% OVi/\ Ti'o c U1 lictvilig UCl inc. UUC M UO UUUV1 the machine cleaning off the work when her hair caught in a set screw on the revolving top comb, the hair winding around the comb and jerking off the entire scalp. Four doctors are with her. Mrs. Hasell is about twenty-three years old. She is a daughter of Mrs. Troutman. She has been married twice, and has three small children. The mill authorities state it is positively against orders to undertake to clean the machines or to get under them while running. The injury inflicted is one of the most horrible imaginable. / ATTACKED BY NEGRO. Young Lady Grabbed by Man When She Answered Door. On Wednesday evening a negro made an attack upon a young lady who lives at the home of Mrs. J. R. Bain, 190 South Dean street. Every possible clue is being worked out by the officers of the city, but as yet the negro has not been caught. It is said that the negro called at the house and asked where some other negro lived. Being told, he left to return in a few moments, and the same young lady answered the door. On opening the door the negro said to the young lady, "Com^ to me;" whereupon he grabbed her. Screaming at the top of her voice, she jerked awray, and her shirtwaist was torn. The negro then left and i - j .?J- ?^^ tne ponce uepanuieui >vcu> uuuucu. Officer Turner and Capt. Moss Hayes went to the house and got a description of the negro. One negro was caught and on being taken to the home of the young lady she said that he was not the one. She declares that she could identify the negro if he is caught.?Spartanburg Journal. Ring was False and Husband, Too. Claiming that both her husband and the engagement ring he gave her were false, Mrs. Georgia Liu Miller, aged 17, of Atlanta, Ga., has filed suit for divorce against Frank Max Miller. The petition relates that the couple were married November 18 of this year and that December 6 the husband disappeared and has not been heard from since. Mrs. Miller says necessity forced her to take her ring to a pawn broker. Miller had told her it cost $290. The pawn broker informed her that the ring was worth about a dollar. Drain and Clean off the Fields. Of things which may be done this fall and winter in preparation for next year's crop, there is none quite so important as drainage. It is true that all the land may not be drained this winter, but if one hundred acres can not be drained this winter, is that any reason why the ten acres which need it most should not be drained? Or, if not ten, then five, or as much as can he drained. Tile drainage is the best, but if that is not possible, is that any good reason for neglecting the drainage question entirely? Over a large part of the South there are ditches, gullies, galled spots, stumps, bushes and trees which interfere with the use of machinery, break the cultivated lands up into patches and prevent economical cultivation. Can not something be done this winter to remove these obstructions to good farming??Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer and Gazette. To be Made Self-Sustaining. That Postmaster Hitchcock is determined to put the postoffice department on a self-sustaining basis is eviT denced in the annual report of the third assistant-postmaster general made public last Tuesday. Though the expenditures of the department for the past year are in excess of the receipts, there is a marked decrease for the past year when compared with those of a year ago. The total postal receipts for the fiscal year 1910 aggregated $224,128,657.62. This is an increase of $20,566,274.55 or 10.10 per cent, when compared with those of the preceding year. The expenditures for the past year amounted to $229,977,224.50, an excess of expenditures over receipts of $5,848,566.88. To this deficit should be added the sum of $32,915.07, lost by burglary, fire, bad debts, etc., making a total deficit of $5,881,481.95, a decrease of $11,598,288.52 when compared with the deficit, of the fiscal year 1909. LOST HIS CASE AND HEART. Defeated Lawyer Weds His Successful Lady Opponent. New York, Dec. 28.?Harris Kop-1 pelman, a lawyer, of 302 Broadway, had a case in the 2nd District Municipal Court, on Madison avenue, a few months ago, in which the opposing counsel was Miss Esther Kuntsler, of 198 Rivington street. Koppelman lost his case, and at the same time his heart. Yesterday they were married in the presence of 700 friends in the Congregation Ahab Zedek, on Norfolk street. After the decision in the case in which they were antagonists the two became fast friends and soon their friendship blossomed into love. He reminded her that she had defeated him in one case. She replied that j she would be happy to make it up, to him. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Philip Klein. Everyone wished the bride and bridegroom happiness through life, with no repetition of the situation which led to their first meeting. After the wedding they left for a honeymoon trip through the South. t CHARGED WITH FORGERY. Arrested in Spartanburg, Said to Have 'Confessed. Spartanburg, Dec. 31.?Clarence Green, colored, has been arrested and has confessed to forging two checks, one for $7 and another for $8, according to the police. On November 19 a check was presented to the Central National Bank for payment, drawn on a blank which had the firm's name printed on it and which had to be signed by the president. This check was for $7 and was paid. This morning Clarence Green' Dresented to the same bank a check with the name of C. H. Hardy, as president of the BarnesAttaway Printing. Company forged. This check was for $S and payment was refused. The negro was held and the police notified. He at first denied his guilt, claiming that he had found the check, but finally he confessed, it is stated. A Chance to Make Money. A young man who had been out of employment for some time and to whom money had become a stranger stood on the Walnut street bridge over the Schuylkill gazing down at the water. Suicide was in his mind, but he was afraid to seek death by drowning and only contemplated it when he realized that he had no money to purchase poison, a rope or something of the sort. As he was standing there a well dressed man accosted, him. "Young man, do you want to earn $4?" he said. "Four dollars!" gasped the unfortunate, to whom the sum sounded like a million. "Lead me to it," he said. "Come along," said the stranger as he led the way across the bridge. The young man followed, a new hope gleaming from his eyes. The stranger led the way to a room on a side street off Walnut. "Here we are," he said. "Well, how am I going to earn those $4?" asked the young man. "Well, you see, I'm a little hard up for cash," said the stranger, "and I'm going to sell you a pair of $5 shoes for a dollar!"?Philadelphia Press. THE YEAR IN BAMBERG. Increase in Value of Lands One oi Most Notable Features. "Mr. M. W. Brabham, the Bamberg correspondent of The State, writes as follows to his paper concerning the progress of the past year in this county: Bamberg, Dec. 31.?The past 12 months have witnessed many things which indicate progress in this county. Despite short crops caused by excessive rains, conditions have been im rmnre Vi oirn ovnon liiiw tu, x ax U1V1 a xaut v vaj^vhuvm nfore time and labor in studying their business and methods; the Farmers' and Merchants' bank of Ehrhardt has been established; the Citizens Exchange bank of Denmark has been successfully organized and run; the F. W. Free company of Bamberg has been established; the Mayflower Inn, perhaps the finest hostelry in lower Carolina has been completed; automobile garages have been put up: new business houses have been erected in every town in the county, especially in Bamberg; the Bamberg Men's league has been reorganized; the Edisto river project has been agitated; the building of a railroad from Bamberg to Ehrhardt so as to connect with the Atlantic Coast Line has received considerable attention. Notable land sales have taken t place, one piece selling at the rate of $75 per acre. Perhaps the advance in prices of real estate has been the most notable sign of progress in the entire county. New residences hav been ercted, among these being the very handsome and complete dwelling of Mayor J. Aldrich Wyman. Tragedy Due to Mistake. Greensboro, N. C., Dec. 21.?Enraged because he was upbraided for attempting to gain admission to his own home, James Cooper, a farmer of Randolph county, went to the home of a neighbor, secured a shotgun, and, returning, emptied the contents into the body of the intruder, who proved to be James Campbell, a neighbor, who had entered Cooper's home while intoxicated and gone to bed. * Campbell was brought to a hospital here and to-night physicians state that he has an even chance for recovery. The family of Cooper was away for the night and shortly after dark Campbell was seen to enter the house by neighbors. ^ About 9 o'clock the owner arrived only to find all entrances securely focforiofl T-Tie poIIc \\-prp flnSWPrPfl by abusive words and thinking the intruder was a burglar, Cooper left, soon returning with a shotgun and firing point blank at the huddled form which lay across his own bed. I | Still Another Load | We have just received another car K g lljP load of Horses and Mules. Our J { |g other load went rapidly, and our Mr. 2 jS WX W. P. Jones has selected for us a g g 1^* load of the prettiest and smoothest mules^ou ever saw. We will be get- K g ting in other loads soon, and you may Est be sure we can supply your wants j $ satisfactorily at all times. Give us a IS call if you need stock for any purpose | g We also have a mighty nice lot of Buggies and Harness, and can equip w ;7p you with a stylish turnout complete. ? ?9 Let us serve you. You will find us |l| IS liberal as to prices and dealings. 2 If JONES BROS., I BAMBERG, S. C. If I jg | ......WE HAVE...... ??j| Mm/rn 1 x We have moved our grocery store into x !?; the building opposite the Bamberg * f|j x Banking Company, on Main street, x ^ this being the store formerly occupied X x by the Palace Cafe. Here we will . x x continue to cater to your wants when x x you want the very best and freshest x x of groceries. We shall keep our stocks x x in good shape and serve you promptly x ;jl , x and satisfactorily. Let us have your x x orders. Our telephone No. is the same x III. price, jr. t cit 1 SiBCDiIDCIiCDCDOC^DoSc^D^OlI^irtCDCIDGDlIDGDCriCDO j?j iit will soon be th^tl ^ To shoot partridges and doves and yon should see ^ l| to it that your gun is in first-class shape so as to be *9i J able to go the very first opportunity that presents L ^ ^ itself. To be certain that it is right you should ^ v bring your gun to me, and I will fix it up for you at Jm a most reasonable price. I also repair pistols, bi- A* ygjmk 2* cycles, automobiles; in fact I run a first-class repair flE* shop. Also hicycie ana amomouue pans m siulk }j. B. BRICKLEfl ?f, The Repair Man lfl wvomen^! |\ N r - -rr a ( ' Are yoo going to the meeting?" "Yes. I'll be ready when yon come." Women living on farms and in rural districts ?-If haven't time to seek and enjoy social pleasures. ?M - Distances are too great?the work is too urgent. Women grow lonesome and listless when robbed of these pleasures. ^ifl The Rural Telephone m ui ?Tf onoKloc urnmpn tn talk- wi th npiah < bUl V Ci L1IC JJ.L UUICiil. J. L vimuivu M vi?vi. vw bors and friends and keep alive to the news of the day. Our free booklet tells how you can have a telephone in your home at small cost. Women living in the country should write for it. Address :i| Farmers Line Department SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE 1 & TELEGRAPH COMPANYUAJf J] 108 South Pryor St, Atlanta, Ga. ?||