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b- =r PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Mr. W. D. Bessinger, of Cope, ? ; * spent Sunday in the city. ?Mr. H. Karesh, of Ehrhardt, spent last Thursday in the city. ?Mr. J. W. Pearlstin, of Olar, spent Thursday and Friday in the fcity. ?County Commissioner G. B. Kinard, of Ehrhardt, was in the city I! Monday. -?Mrs. and Mrs. W. P. Jones are at home from a stay at Glenn Springs. ?Miss Mamie Hill left last Saturday for a visit to Blackville and Johnston. ?Mr. M. A. Move, Jr., has gone to the mountains to spend a few days with his family. ?Messrs. Isaac D., Frank H., and J. C. Copeland, of Ehrhardt, were in the city Monday. ?Mrs. W. A. Klauber and chilIdren returned Sunday from a stay on Sullivan's Island. L ?Mr. and Mrs. Jones A. Williams and children left Monday for a stay at Glenn Springs. ?Mr. H. Karesh, of EhrHardt, left , Sunday for New York to buy a large pjj line of fall goods. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stokes and . little son, Wesley, are at home from a stay at Glenn Springs. i?S ?Mr. H. M. Frier has accepted a fp position with The Herald as bookkeeper, solicitor, and general, allEg round man. B?\ ?Messrs. R. L. Lancaster and B. \ P. Hartzog, of the Govan section, L | were in the city Monday. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Jones left a few days ago for a stay at Glenn Springs and the mountains. ?Miss Marion Roundtree, of Williston, is in the city on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. C. J. S. Brooker. H W \ ?Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Brickie and f little daughter, of Augusta, spent \ Sunday in the city with relatives. g ?Mr. J. A. Byrd came home last week from, a trip to Glenn Springs. l. v His family went on to the mountains. g? ' ?Mr. Bounds, of the Peoples Drug Co., is spending a few days this week in Bennettsville with relatives. ?Mrs. C. R. Brabham, Sr., and little daughters left last week for a >? stay in the mountains of North Caro-' . lina. ?Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Bamberg and little son left last Thursday for a stay in the mountains of North 1 Carolina. ?Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Cleckley and little daughter, Mary, are at home from a stay in the mountains of North Carolina. ' I * ?J. A. Wyman, Esq., who has I; been visiting relatives in Aiken, left last week for a stay at Hot Springs, Ark. His family accompanied him. ?W. C. Wolfe, Esq., of Orange' ?? T A Willinmp IDurg, ana Messrs. juucs uuuamo and E. C. Hays, of this city, spent last Friday at Lodge on railroad business. i ?Messrs. F. W. Free, W. D. i Rhoad, A. Rice, O. A. Simmons, Ma&ters Will Brabham and W. D. Rhoad, Jr., are at home from a trip to New ; York. ?Rev. W. C. Kirkland, of Union, { spent* last Sunday in the city with ^ the family of Mr. H. M. Graham. He went on down to Buford's Bridge 1 Monday. 1 P ?Miss Mary Livingston, of Bamr berg, who has been visiting Mrs. i Cope on North Church street, has | gone to Greenwood.?Spartanburg L Journal. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Owens left f Monday morning for Birmingham, Ala., to visit the family of his son, ( fMr. J. h. Owens. They will be away at least a month. ?Mr. and Mrs. C. J. S. Brooker returned last Friday from an extended trip through the West and {Canada. They had a most delightful trip, and visited many points of interest. ?p? ?Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Camp, of Dalton, Ga., arrived in the city Tussle day morning. Mrs. Camp will re i *? u ? ? main nere iur sume unit? uu a. n^v, I but Mr. Camp returned to Dalton , B yesterday. i? ?Dr. Robert Black and Mrs. By Black came borne last week from a i stay of several weeks in New York city, where the doctor has been taking a special course at the Polyclynic 'M. Hospital. ' < ?Messrs. Hobson and Webster, of the Bell Telephone Co., were in the ' city Tuesday. They had been down pS to Ehrhardt to attend a meeting of citizens of that community who wish HI to install farmers' line telephones. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Barnes, of fthe Cope section, were in the city last . Friday. Mr. Barnes is slowly recovering from his accident last winter, and while he cannot walk without crutches yet, his physicians advise him that he will recover the use of his limb before very long. JOKER IN COTTON BILL? Congressman Prouty Claims to Have Discovered It. Washington, Aug. 7.?Big gobs of joy are to be seen on the faces of Republican congressmen because they claim to have found the "joker" in the cotton bill. Representative Prouty of Iowa wants the credit for this discovery, which he exposed, he says, in a speech on the floor a day or so ago. The gist of the charge made by Prouty was that the bill was so framed as to increase duties on a large proportion of the lower priced TT, AW O T*orft^ CULlUli gUUUS. ny 1U1LA1C1 tuui(,tu that the bulk of these goods are made in Southern cotton mills. He charged Representative Underwood and the house Democrats with making up a cotton bill which struck at the Northern cotton mills and gave a large part of the Southern mills increased protection. Until Mr. Prouty called attention to this matter it had almost entirely escaped the attention of he house. At the time the charges of the Iowa member were not controverted either by Mr. Underwood or any one else. Since then senators have been scanning the house cotton bill and some of them have come to the conclusion that there are increases in the measure substantially as charged by Prouty! The result is that when the bill comes before the senate the rates on lower grades - of cotton goods are going to be scrutinized with extreme care. Since he brought the matter to the of tho house. Mr. Prouty has been looking into the question farther. He has come to the conclusion that a large part of the mills of the South are engaged chiefly in producing the goods on which duties would be raised. H? charges that the Southern Democrats in the house are trying to work a scheme that will actually increase Southern protection and lower protection to Northern products. In other words, he charges that sectionalism is cropping out in the revision of the tariff. If there is a serious attempt made to put a bill through the senate, with increased duties on lower grades of oottpn goods, it will be met with bitter opposition. In fact, such an attempt may defeat the passage of any cotton bill. If it should develop on the full threshing out of this matter that Southern Democrats are try- . ing to shape tariff duties in their own interest, and are giving attention to proctecing the South at the expense of the North, the Republicans will proceed to make a campaign issue of it. They will charge thp Smith with trvine to do just what New England members of congress are so sharply criticised for doing, that is, for trying to heap high tariffs on goods produced in their part of the country regardless of whether, the rest of the country is hurt. Imprisoned in Cage. Rapid City, S. D., Aug. 7.?Imprisoned in a cage with a pair of hyenas, and bitten and scratched until his body was a mass of cuts and contusions, was the experience of a fiveyear-old boy, named Jenere, according to charges made to-day by State's Attorney Denn. The child's fosterparents, Jafnes J. Johnston and wife, have been jailed. It is declared the child was exhibited by a carnival company in the cage of "grave robbers." When the boy was 18 months old his father, whose name was Jenere, placed him in an orphanage in Omaha. Lat^r the Johnstons secured possession of him. The real mother of the boy, who is now Mrs. Henry N. Weakley, of Omaha, learned of her child's predicament and started proceedings to take him from the Johnstons. Her Modesty May Kill Her. Allentown, Pa., Aug. 4.?Because she was too modest to permit the cauterization of ner thigh, Mrs. Millie Vosek, a young woman of this city, will probably die from the effects of rabies. Several weeks ago Mrs. Vosek, while on her way home, was attacked by a neighbor's vicious bulldog, which bit her in the left leg near the hip. Being of a sensitive nature, she forbade her husband to call in a doctor, but applied simple home remedies. In a few days, however, the limb began to swell and a physician was then summoned. When the circumstances were explained he advised an operation, but the woman declared that she would rather die than expose the wounded limb in the presence of a doctor. Since then she has repeatedly declined sugical attention. Dr. C. D. Schaeffer, chief surgeon of the hospital, said that all women were naturally timid in matters of that kind, but in all his experience, which embraces hundreds of operations, he had never witnessed a case where the patient would rather die than sacrifice her modesty. EXPLOSION KILLS UOY MISS MABEL C. THOMPSON IS BURNED TO DEATH. Miss Josie Moffett Painfully Hurt and Negro Orderly Injured in Accident at Anderson Infirmary. Anderson, Aug. 7.?In . an explosion at the Anderson County hospital this afternoon Miss Mabel Carpenter Thompson, the superintendent, was fatally burned, Miss Josie Moffett, of Due West, a nurse in the hospital, who was a'ttracted by the report of the explosion and who came to give assistance was badly burned on her hands and arms, and Charles Y. Barnes, the hospital orderly, who held the kerosene lamp when it exploded, received a severe gash in his ann was hnrilv hnrnpH nn his arms, hands and face. Miss Thompson died at 8:45 tonight. Miss Moffett and the negro orderly are painfully injured and are confined to their beds, but they are expected to be back at their work within the next week or ten days. The explosion ocurred when the orderly was pointing out to a plumber a defect in the kerosene lamp that is used to heat the sterilizinz machine. The negro pumped air into the lamp to show where it was leaking. Some screw about the lamp must have been loose, for the explosion followed, hurling the top of the lamp toward Miss Thompson, who was looking on. Practically all of the kerosene was thrown on Miss Thompson, and in a second's time she was one mass of flames. Her face, head, arms and chest were saturated with oil and before assistance could reach her she was horribly burned. She swallowed some of the gas and the flames it is thought. Miss Moffett was attracted from the adjoining room, and she had presence of mind enough to gather up the carpet off the floor and throw it around Miss Thompson, whom she threw on the floor and rolled over and over. i'ne cnemicai #nre exuuguisuera were brought into use and in a few moments the blaze was put out. In the fight against the fire Miss Moffett received her wounds. The negro orderly received his wounds when the explosion occurred, a flying part of the lamp hitting him on the head and the flames lapping into his face. Miss Thompson came to Anderson from Dayton, Ohio, last November. Her home was in Damascus, Ohio, and her sister at Salem, Mass., has been notified. She has a brother in New York but his address is unknown. Both of ' her narents are dead. Since coming to Anderson she had endeared herself to all the people with whom she had come in contact. She was about 30 years of age. No funeral arVangements have been determined, but it is presumed that her body will be "bent to her home at Damascus, Ohio, for burial. This horrible accident and sad sequel are a terrible blow to the hospital and to the people of the city and county. Miss Thompson yesterday received an offer of the superintendency of a large Northern hospital carrying a much larger salary than she received here. Because she was contented with her work and because her work was very highly satisfactory and appreciated by the people generally she declined the offer last night. Lightning Strucjc Mourners. West Bend, Wis., Aug. 7.?Mourning for Phillip Brissel, whose body lay in a coffin before the altar of St. John's Evangelical church at Kohlville, Mrs. Henry Conrad was struck dead and four other women rendered unconscious when a bolt of lightning pierced the house of worship yesterday. Rev. John Frank was just opening his mouth to begin his sermon when a vivid flash of flame and deafening crash seemed to paralyze for a second the entire congregation. The pastor's words of compassion for the sorrowing fantfly were never uttered. Mrs. Conrad and a dozen "bther women were knocked prostrate on the floor, while near them were a dozen others, shrieking in terror, almost precipitating a panic, which 1 coolheaded men prevented. Hitched Wife With Mules. Kansas City, Aug. 4.?After her husband had hitched her to a harrow beside a team of mules and driven , her around a cornfield, Mrs. Lafayette Choate, wife of a farmer near Birmingham, Mo., appealed to tne juvenile court here for the custody of her two hoys. She said Choate tied her hands hehind her and drove her four times around the field hitched with the . mules. When she stumbled and fell he heat her with a club. Asked by the court why she did not prosecute 1 her husband, she replied that she : would not because he was the father of her children. The court gave the children to her, and provided that 1 they be sent to the Institutional Church until she could give them a 1 home. BYRNES WON FOR DEMOCRATS. Aikenite Decided Congressional Ball Game. Washington, Aug. 7.?Democracy triumphed again to-day when Republican congressmen bit the dust? some of them swallowed quarts of it ?on the baseball diamond in the struggle for the championship of the house of representatives. Score, 12 to 9. Charges may be preferred against the Democratic umpire, Jas. F. Byrnes, of South Carolina, who had a rabbit's foot in his pocket and, Republican ball players charge, a loaded half dollar also.* The game played for charity, really was decided by the umpires. William W. Wilson (Republican) of Illinois, did all he could to stem the tide of party defeat, but on all close decisions when infuriated members of both parties crowded on the field and threatened riot, the only solution was for Byrnes and Wilson to resort to the toss of a coin. Byrnes had the coin and did the tossing. Byrnes won every time. Fates With Democrats. 9 99 1 9 * * * iuu re saie, ne mvariaDiy ordered, reversing the decision of the Republican umpire. Thus were the fates with the Democrats, although they had not such gilt-edged ball players on their team as Nicholas Longworth of Ohio. Longworth, shortstop for the Republican team and its captain, played like a fiend in the field and pounded out two doubles and a home run. The ball he knocked for a home run was stolen by a canal boat driver, who found it in the canal below the heights of Georgetown, upon which the game was played. In the third inning?there were only four innings because another would have meant physical defeat for all concerned?Edwin Z. Webb (Democrat) of North Carolina had hoon noatlv /^onor'hf of fifof hooo Viiit wvvajl "vu. VA J vuu^ut u L uigt uauwj uut in his desperation he had knocked down Representative Slemp who was guarding the bag. Umpire Wilson called him out. No Dictation. "Stay where you are," shouted Umpire Byrnes as he ran forward; "swallow no such Republican dictation. He thinks he's Joe Cannon." Then there came a conflict of tongues and some serious threats wmcn siaruea tne auaience or wasnington's social and congressional circles until it was agreed to toss the coin on the proposition that the coin be the umpire. The Democrats won. Again when William F. Murray (Democrat) of Massachusetts had slethered to second base and was being touched out by Representative Kendall (Republican) of Iowa, Umpire Wilson called him out. Byrnes again ordered him not to stir from his position of party regularity and to sit on the lid. Another near riot, another coin tossed, again the Democrats had won and three more runs crossed the plate. It was a lurid game while it lasted, the Gopher battery, Miller and Anderson of Minnesota, carrying off honors for the losers and Webb and Kinkead of New Jersey officiating for the Democrats. Other narticiDants for the Republicans were: Lefferty, Oregon, centre field; Slemp, Virgina, first base; Porter, Pennsylvania, who made three hits, third base'; Reyburn, of Pennsylvania, left field, and Farr, of Pennsylvania, right field. Supporting the Democratic battery were: Harrison, Mississippi, third base; Reilly, Connecticut, who lasted one inning, and McDermott, Illinois, first base; Carter, Oklahoma, second base; Driscoll, New York, left field; Garrett, Tenn., centre field, and Scully, New Jersey, right field. Scully knocked a home run, the ball landing in Congressman Kohley's automobile. The Newest Editor. Mr. J. G. S. Weathersbee, for a number of years connected with The Augusta Chronicle, has leased The Branchville Journal, Branchville, S. C., and assumed the editorial management of the paper yesterday. The Branchville Journal was for a number of years edited by Miss Estella Smoak, one of the ablest and brightest of the "Weekly" editors in the Palmetto State, and was given up by her upon her marriage. Mr. Weathersbee is one of the most efficient young newspaper men in this section, having had charge of nearly every desk on The Augusta Chronicle, at one time and another during his connection with the paper. He is a news-gatherer, and a man who counts his friends by the hundred wherever he is known. Those who know him predict a revival of popularity for The Journal under his facile pen.?Aiken Journal and Review. 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As > rp, . , .. soon as he hears an unusual noise he Thirty-three bear hounds were . . . . , . ,A f&sgH shipped from London oh June 20, for ?n\ * ?* what ?**? ?* . M east Africa for Paul J. Rainey, an T> f ^ t," * T ** ^ ^ S American who had set out after lions phant, 8bart8 fig" ?8;? " wa80Da M with the avowed determination of thing to hunt an intimidated elephant ||| outdoing the Roosevelt expedition in- ??/?arf ag0>andeV8n flTafea ag0' ' if! to the same part of the country. In but " 18 qulte anotfer t,hlng * * addition to the bear hounds the Lon- ban*d by a rampagIng elephant t0" g| don agency has shipped 15 fox terriers. The bigger dogs are to be It costs about $125 a week to have used in the lion hunts. What use a really S?od hunt ,n tte land whero Mr. Rainey finds for the little terriers Roosevelt hunted. This includes all - g is not known at the office of the for- 80r^s servants and a big safari, * warding agents. " as a caravan is called.. African big / The main objective field of the &ame hunting is managed here in va- Q Rainey expedition is the Golbo plains, r*?us ways, the most common being Jfe far to the north of where Col. Theo- ^or hr?n<Ion people to pay all >| dore Roosevelt went, and a much hills and make a supercharge of 10 more hazardous place, as the elephant Per cen^* They hire hunters, guides, v is numerous there and ferocious. na^yes to carry the supplies water Rainey has with him a photographer especially ana generany organize and a taxidermist. According to Jno. outfit the expedition. The next , ,-j^ Martini, interested in African hunt- common way is to pay a lump sum* v 'r^aj ing, there are over 40 parties in the This varies with the region to be field now from America organized by bunted over. Paul Rainey is going* a single London agency. How many one the medium priced dismore American expeditions have been tricts, though the most dangerous. outfitted by other London agencies WH1 have water all the way, which is not known. There has been a means that he will be able to get boom in the African hunting business along without water bearers. as a result of the advertising the Roosevelt hunt gave to the sport. A. J. Thackston, president of the "It is the only place they can now State Teachers' Association of South go after big game," said Mr. Mar- Carolina, has announced that the extini. "Col. Roosevelt was in a good ecutive committee of the association country, but this Mr. Rainey has gone has definitely decided to accept the to the pick of the continent. He will invitation of the dity of Charleston get into the thick of it inside of 30 to hold their next meeting there.