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CAPTURED NEGRO FUGITIVE.
Sheriff Buford's Prisoner Wanted in
Barnwell.
Newberry, July 13.?Sheriff Buford
Tuesday evening captured Hayward
Wicker, a negro fugitive from
- justice from Barnwell county. Last
November Wicker killed a negro man
in that county named Manuel Walker.
Thp killine took nlace in the day
time and there were witnesses. The
night of the same day some one, supposed
to be Wicker, went to Wicker's
liouse and shot at Wicker's wife with
a shotgun, missing her, but killing
p the baby in her arms. Nobody saw
the murder. Wicker acknowledges
; the killing of Walker but denies that
he killed the baby or shot at his
wife.
In the spring Sheriff Buford was
asked by Barnwell officers to be on
the lookout for the negro. Yesterday
evening he located his man on #Gus
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going there with his deputy, caught
\ him, and today he carried him to
Barnwell.
Barn and Contents Burn.
Fort Motte, July 13.?Peterkin,
Crouch & Arant had the misfortune
j. to lose their barn and stables by
fire caused by lightning. Four mules
-Tra-nci in fVio ctahloc nn/1 uirprp lrillpd
te. fc ~
i instantly. The entire oat crop,
wagons* harness and other material,
I . -which was in the barn was destroyed
at a loss of about $2,200, with no
insurance.
The rains in this section within the
? last week have greatly improved the
crops, which were in a serious condition
owing to the long drought,
s The corn crop will be very small
with but little prospect for a hay
or forage crop. Cotton looks well
but appears to be fruiting too near
the top.
Miss Bowman Likely to Recover.
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Asheville, N. C., July 13.?No internal
injuries having developed physicians
expect the early recovery of
Miss Mabel Bowman who was in the
i automobile wreck this morning when
her sister, Miss Lemie Bowman, and
B. W. Bettis, of Trenton, were crushed
to death when the big touring
car driven by Mr. Bettis pKched
i down a steep bank and threw out
Miss Bowman, Herbert Bowman, Miss
Sharfcon, of Allendale, and Miss
Jeannette Henry, of Sumter, three
miles this side of Hendersonville.
Mr. Bettis' body was sent this morning
to Trenton for interment and that
of Miss Bowman will go in the morning
to Columbia.
? Those of the party of seven who
escaped uninjured can give no clear
account of how the automobile left
the road except that it was at a
' sharp turn and the car was going at
high speed. The party had attended
a dance at Osceola Lake and tempted
by the beautiful night made a run
towards Asheville.
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less until people passing on the road
heard their cries and lifted the car
from the crushed forms of Mr. Bettis
and Miss Lemie Bowman, who were
in the front seat with Miss Mabel
Bowman.
^ Popular in Sumter.
Sumter, July 13.?Miss Lemie
Bowman, who was killed at Hendersonville
in an automobile accident,
"was a popular young woman of Sumter,
about 21 years of age. She was
p ' the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. G.
> Bowman and the family have been
I in Hendersonville for some weeks
I Mice "Row-man was very proficient in
J music and last winter took a course
in it at the College for Women in
Columbia.
Mr. Bettis* Funeral.
Trenton, July 13.?B. W. Bettis,
? of Trenton, who was killed in an automobile
accident about three miles
from Hendersonville, N. C., this
morning, was 22 years old. He
ir leaves two sisters, Miss Anna Natalie
Bettis, of Trenton, and Mrs. G. McF.
Mood, of Charleston. The interment
will be at 5 o'clock to-morrow afternoon
at Ebenezer cemetery, Trenton.
The Trouble.
Two old settlers sat smoking in a
* cabin far away in the backwoods. No
woman's hand desecrated that domain,
and grime reigned supreme
and triumphant. The conversation
I drifted from politics to cooking.
"Yas," said the elder of the two,
with a drawl, "I did get one of them
there cook books wunst, but I could
never do nothing with it."
j "What was the hitch?" inquired
the other.
S . "Well, every one of them recipes
r begun in the same way, with the
same words. Every one said 'Take a
clean dish'?and I never got no fur|
ther."?Tit-Bits.
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Recovering from Injuries.
r? Orangeburg, July 13. ? Clifton
I' Horger, the young farmer who had
his skull and arm crushed by a negro
named Edward Felder on Sunday
two weeks ago, is now out of
danger.
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ANNUAL REUNION.
Confederate Veterans Will Meet in
Columbia August 9-10.
The reunion of the United Confederate
Veterans of South Carolina will
be held in Columbia on .the 9th and
10th of August. Columbia is considered
a particularly convenient and attractive
place for these gatherings
and the city considers it an honor
and a privilege to entertain the old
soldiers. Judge Robert Aldrich has
accepted the invitation extended by
Mayor Gibbes to be the chief orator
of the occasion. The full programme
for the two days has not been arranged
as yet, and it is not decided
tt'hothpr tho T?rinr?innl n ration will be
delivered at the second meeting of
the first day or at the first meeting
of the second day. Details which will
be in charge of the Sons of Veterans,
have also not yet been arranged, but
it is understood that the order of the
meetings and the nature of social features
will be anounced shortly. Gen.
B. H. Teague, commanding general
of the South Carolina Veterans, is at
his summer home in Saluda, and is
in communication with the mayor,
and with members of Camp Hampton
as to arrangements for the reunion.
These annual gatherings of the old
soldiers were formerly held in May,
but for a number of reasons it has
been considered more convenient to
have them during the last of the summer.
The one last year held in Spartanburg
in August was most successful
and enjoyable and it was decided
at the time to hold this reunion fot
1911 at about the same date.
Woman Surrenders.
Gaffney, July 11.?Mrs, Frances
Sarratt, a white woman of this county,
who on Sunday night shot and
killed Ruth Duncan, a 2-vear-old ne
gro girl, in an endeavor to shoot Lil
Duncan, mother of the dead child,
came to Gaffney this morning about
10 o'clock and surrendered to Deputy
Sheriff Watkins. A search for the
woman has continued since Sunday,
and this morning Deputy "Watkins
was near the river preparing to renew
the search when he was met by
Mrs. Sarratt and her husband, Ira
Sarratt. They were coming to town
to surrender.
Mrs. Sarratt, when seen in the jail
by a reporter late this afternoon,
said that she had no statement to
make and refused to discuss the matter,
saying that the affair was "one
best known to herself." She stated
that she had not engaged counsel.
She is a woman of about 50 years of
age. ,
Woman Leaps in .Well.
Calhoun, Ga., July 10.?Said to
have been suffering from temporary
insanity, Mrs. Joe Stevenson jumped
into a well at the home of her brother,
R.% H. Land, Saturday, carrying
with her Mrs. Land's 4-year-old
daughter.
Mrs. Land was sitting on the porch,
near the scene, when the incident occurred,
and tried to catch Mrs.. Stevenson
as she started to the well, but
she dodged, picked up the child and
leaped.
The neighbors were attracted by
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gathered at once.
W. H. McConnell went into the
well and found Mrs. Stevenson sinking
for the last time, but rescued her
by catching her clothing and holding
it while a rope was being let down,
with which $he was drawn out.
McConnell, not knowing that the
child was in the well came out, but
on going down again, found the water
too deep to reach the child, which
was drawn out later on a hook. Dr.
Shelhorse, of Calhoun, was summoned,
and succeeded in reviving Mrs.
Stevenson, but found it impossible
to resuscitate the child.
To Speak for Former Slave.
Washington, July 12.?Senator
John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi,
a loyal admirer of Jefferson Davis,
will rush into the fray in the senate
to-morrow to prevent that body from
separating from the payroll James
Jones, formerly personal servant and
slave of the president of the Confederacy.
Jones is said to he the sole
guardian of the secret of the hiding
place of the great seal of the Confederacy.
He lives in Washington
with relatives, and is growing old;
but he refuses to disclose where the
seal reposes.
Senator Lodge got a resolution
through the senate to-day which
would abolish several senate places,
among them that held by one unemployed
laborer. This laborer is
Jones. Senator Martin, after the
resolution was passed, moved to reconsider.
After some discussion the
motion was left pending until tomorrow.
It is expected Senator Williams will
nav a warm tribute to the old slave
along with his old master. When
Senator Williams came to the senate
he said it was his greatest ambition
to sit in the seat once occupied by
Jefferson Davis, and Senator Owen of
Oklahoma, so moved, as to let him
occupy it.
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OBTAIN LICENSE ON AFFIDAVIT.
Important Construction of the New
Marriage Act.
Columbia, July 14.?Attorney General
Lyon has given an interesting
and important opinion in connection
with the marriage license law enacted
at the last session of the genral assembly
and which went into effect on
July 1. He has ruled that a license
may be issued by the clerk of court
or the probate judge as the case may
be, upon the presentation of the
proper affidavit sworn to before a
ncftary public and that with this affidavit
is not necessary for the contracting
parties to appear before the
officer issuing the license. The opinion
was given upon the request of
CP U "Di-v/lorai*o fhfl dlflrlr rif PAlirt r?f
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Beaufort county. The opinion says:
"In response will say that it is my
opinion that the statement under
oath or affirmation,^ required by section
2 of the act, may be made by
any person having knowledge of the
facts,-before a notary, and that such
statement under oath of affirmation,
is sufficient to authorize the clerk of
court or probate judge, as the case
may be, to issue the marriage license.
It is not necessary, under the terms
if this act, that either of the contracting
parties appear before the officer
who issues the license, but the
license may be issued upon presentation
of the statement under oath or
affirmation as above indicated."
In another case presented Attorner
General Lyon has ruled that the
officers issuing the license may perform
the marriage ceremony.
TO COLLEGE WITH $20 ONLY.
Student Pays for But One Meal Whil^
Getting His Degrees.
"I came to Yale from a Kentucky
town of about 1,000 inhabitants situated
more than 1,000 miles from
Yale," says a writer in Munsey's Magazine.
"I reached New Haven three
months before the time when I expected
to enter college with less than
$20 in my pocket or to my credit
My acquaintance in all New England
consisted of just two upper classmen
in college and their financial rating
was but little better than my own.
"I worked my way through Yale
with the aid of infinitesimal sums
from outside. I maintained a creditable
stand in my studies. I did
as much general reading as most undergraduates;
I took a part in the
college social me. i was not, a,
genius, a prodigy, or a mental aeroplane.
"Arriving in New Haven on a mild
spring evening, I searched out the
humble dog wagon, caterer to impecunious
students and here on ham
and a hot dog I made my first supper,
the only meal I paid for in money
during my entire career at college.
The next day I was taken by my
friend, the Yale junior, to a little
brown house on College street.
"Here a short, ruddy-faced woman,
between plaintive snatches of Methodist
hymns, violent cries to her
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collie and vituperative scoldings of
an unoffending stoop-shouldered husband,
inquired who I was, where I
came from and whether I had ever
waited on table. Learning that I had
hopes of becoming a freshman and
came from the romantic South, she
engaged me at once.
" 'These little freshmerf are better
'en any,' she told the cook. 'They
usually try, and if this one's from
the South he may be good mannered.
All right, sir,' she cried to me,
'come on an' get started!' Then to
her husband: 'Why the thunder
don't you get out of here and to
work? It's half past 8! Keep them
steaks on the fire, Mary, but don't
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?'Nearer, my God to Thee'?she
puffed into the dining-room, setting
the table to rights, and nearing her
divinity and the beginning of breakfast
at one and the same time.
"And so I became a student waiter.
That morning eliminated from my expense
account the item of board?
an item which did not again appear
until I was a bachelor of arts and
ready to begin a more equal cornet
with expense accounts in general."
Payment in Full.
A train traveling through the west
was held up by masked bandits. Two
friends, who were on their way to
California, were among the passengers.
"Here's where we lose all our
money," one said, as a robber enter
ed the car.
"You don't think they'll take
everything, do you?" the other asked
nervously.
"Certainly," the ' first replied.
"These fellows never miss anything."
"That will be terrible," the second
friend said. "Are you quite sure
they won't leave us any money?" he
persisted.
"Of course," was the reply. "Why
do ypu ask?" #
The other was silent for a minute.
Then, taking a fifty-dollar note from
his pocket, he handed it to his
friend.
"What is this for?" the first ask
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THREE-CORNERED PISTOL FIGHT
Rock Hill Negro Killed and Two
Special Policemen Shot.
Charlotte, N. C., July 13.?In a
tri-cornered pistol duel on board a
negro excursion train returning tonight
about 8:30 o'clock from Columbia
to Charlotte, John Reeves,
colored, of Rock Hill, was killed.
Special Policeman J. A. Eskridge, of
Charlotte, was dangerously wounded
and Special Policeman J. T. Wilson,
also of this city, was grazed by a
bullet from Reeves' revolver. The
trouble occurred in the smoking car
of the train between Rock Hill and
Fort Mill, when the negro began firing
his pistol out of the window.
He was ordered by Wilson, who
was detailed to preserve order on the
train, to surrender his pistol, but instead
opened fire, one of his bullets
striking Policeman Eskridge, who
was standing in the aisle. Wilson
says he then pulled his pistol and
shot Reeves dead. Eskridge, however,
also maintains that he fired the
fatal shot. Eskridge is in a precarious
condition in a hospital here. Mysterious
Abandonment of Baby
Partially Solved.
At least one feature of the mystery
surrounding the attempt of the
young woman to abandon her baby
on the train at Yemassee last Sunday
night-and later, presenting the
child to an Augusta man, has been
solved. ^The Augustan into whose
care the child was delivered is W. H.
Emanuel, weaver in the King mill,
who resides at 124 Third street,
Greggtown. He still has the baby at
his home and he and his wife are
giving it the best attention within
their means.
Mr. Emanuel says that the name of
the mother of the child, as given to
him, is Mamie Kinard, and her home
is in Bamberg county, South Carolina,
near the town of Ehrhardt. The
little girl who has been the victim
of the affair is two years and eleven
months old. Mr. Emanuel and his
wife are anxious that no one will disturb
them in their new possession and
he has a list of the witnesses who
were present when the mother gave
the baby to him unconditionally.
It is said that when the child had
been left on the train from Sayannab
by the mother, and the passengers
insisted on her going back on
board and taking it with her, she denied
that the baby was hers or that
she knew anything about it but there
happened to be another lady on the
train who knew the true circumt
stances and would not permit her to
abandon her helpless little one.?Augusta
Chronicle.
Woman Uses Gun.
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of of a series of business quarrels,
extending over several months,
Miss Zella Phillips last night shot
David Tate, a Rome merchant, four
times with an automatic pistol. One
shot entered his chest and three his
legs, but his wounds are not necessarily
fatal, and it is believed that he
will recover. The woman is held in
jail pending the outcome of Tate's
injuries. . ?
She claims that Tate was advancing
on her with a pistol when she
shot him. Tate claims Miss Phillips
sent for him and shot him down as
he approached her door.
The two conducted business establishments
on Fifth avenue, in adadjoining
buildings, and the shooting
was due, it is said, to business rivalry
and jealousy.
Miss Phillips now has pending a
$10,000 suit against Tate for alleged
defamation of character, and there
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are now in the courts several cases
against botb for disorderely conduct
and fights Tate had with men over
the woman.
Redskins' Scheme for Getting Rain.
Wetumka, Okla., July 13.?Creek
Indians in this vicinity are resorting
to ancient tribal customs in an attempt
to obtain / rainfall. One of
their customs, which has been widely
followed in the last week, is to stake
mud turtles on the edge of a stream
just far enough away from the water
I so that it can not reach it.
It is the Indians' belief that the
turtle despairing of their attempts to
reach the water, invoke the aid of
the "Great Spirit" to send rain so
that the stream will be raised and
brought to them.
Since the turtles were first staked
out several rains have fallen. The
Indians believe their prayers are being
answered, and they are fastening
up more turtles to pray for a
still greater rainfall.
Told You So.
Husband?If a man steals?no
matter what it is?he will live to regret
it.
Wife?During our courtship you
used to steal kisses from me.
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