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Gates, Mr. Rockefeller's secretary in charge of his charitable work, to put up all his holdings as collateral for loans from Mr. Rockefeller in 1892 and 1893. One loan was for $420,000. Others were for various sums. Gates, he said, was a Baptist preacher in whom he had confidence, and who assured him that by placing a call loan he would not be pressed and that he would .be taken care of. The witness related how, two months after he had put up his collateral with Mr. Rockefeller during the panic of 1993, Rockefeller called the loan, giving him 24 hours to raise $420,000 and that, being unable to raise the money, he and his i brother lost their property. He admitted that Mr. Rockefeller <-kfFor-or* him an nnnnrtunitv to buv his property back within a year, but declared that the oil king told financiers to "keep hands off" and that he fwas unable to raise money anywhere. DAUGHTER KILLS FATHER. After He Had Made Threats That He Would Kill Entire Family. Flint, Mich., Nov. 23.?With a loaded shotgun in his hands and uttering threats to kill the whole family, Frank Young, 50 years old, was shot down and instantly killed by his daughter, Mrs. Marion Mills, at the latter's home near here to-day. According to the story told by Mrs. Mills and her husband, Francis M. Mills, Young came to their home in search of his wife, whom he had driven from his own home last Friday. When Young reached the door he asked for his wife, who was then hiding in the cellar. Mrs. Young refused ro return home with her hus-j band or to speak to him alone. immediately after liis wife's re-j fusal, according to the Mills's statement. Young drew his gun to his hip j with a threat to "kill the whole] tribe." Mills grappled with his father-inlaw but was being overpowered when Mrs. Mills seized another gun and fired. Young was shot through the lungs, dying instantly. Both Mrs. Mills and lier husband are under arrest. 5 Have C *SE! Eight k i j :d a i\ :k and vehicle TWO BOYS BURNED IN BED. Horrible Fate Overtakes Victims of Abbeville County Fire. Abbeville, Nov. 21.?-Brooks Wilson, the 14-year-old son of Walter B. Wilson, a prosperous farmer of this county, and Joseph Sherard, the 17year-old son of the late Dr. Sherard, of the Lebanon section, lost their lives early this morning in a fire which destroyed the home of Mr. Wilson. The two young men came to Abbeville last night, to attend the show in the Opera house, and returned to Mr. Wilson's after the show. No one heard them enter the house on their return, which must have been after 12 o'clock. About 2 o'clock this morning Mr. Wilson awakened to find his house in flames. He barely escaped with his small children. The fire was burning in the hallway of the house and he was unable to reach the up-stairs room of his son. He tried in every way to awaken the son from below, and when he was not abl6 to do so, decided that he must have gone home with young Ckn.qr/I A moeooncor cnnn hrrtncVit tJiiCi ai U* A UlVOOVUQVi UVVTM v MQUV the news that this was not the case. The house was by this time wholly consumed. When the fire had died down enough to ascertain, the charred remains of the two boys were found on the bed springs of the bed, in which they evidently were sleeping. It is supposed that they must have become suffocated with the smoke and thereby rendered unconscious of the danger, and that they died without knowing of the terrible blow which the fire was striking at their loved ones. Better Farming in the South. Better farming is being done in the South each year we believe?that is, more good farming is being done every year; but we cannot but feel discouraged sometimes at the slow progress our farmers make along the lines of crop rotation and rational diversification. The cotton crop this year, for example, is larger than usual?if it really turns out to be larger?not because of better farming methods or better soils, but simply because of the greatly increased acreage. In fact, the average yield per acre this year promises to be below the normal. An excessively large cotton acreage and consequent low prices, coupled with an extreme shortage of feed crops and consequent high prices, promises anything but prosperity for the cotton farmer next year. When will we learn that the only safe and sane way to increase the cotton crop is to make the soil better and to use better methods, or that an increased acreage in cotton almost surely means less money for the crop and another hard year??Progressive Farmer. A Chicago woman is reported to have lost $7,000 at poker recently at one sitting. The gambling craze seems to have taken possession of the country, without regard to race, sex, color or previous condition. )n Hanc 5 A Carts iome Extra Come ant NK MAN." i FORTY-FOUR MILLIONS SPEN1 T .act- Vaai* hv thp SouthArn States f Good Roads. Speaking of the advantage of go roads and of what is being done that direction Secretary of Agrici ture Wilson declared that near 144,000,000 was expended duri: the present year for good roads the Southern States alone. T secretary will speak on the subject the good roads congress to be he next week in Richmond, Va. "Through its bureau of go* roads," the secretary continued, "t! department of agriculture has be* stimulating the nation-wide mo\ ment for better highways, sendi] out experienced engineers to condu demonstration work and a force trained men to give illustrated l tures. "Reports to the department she that the $44,000,000 spent duri] the first ten months of this calend year was divided as follows: A1 bama, $3,484,000; Arkansas, $2,45( 000; Delaware $430,000; Floru $1,505,000; Georgia $2,500,00' Kentucky $2,500,000; Louisiana $] 132,354; Maryland $2,250,000; Mi sissippi $3,130,000; North Carolii $4,505,000; Oklahoma $1,505,01 South Carolina $1,100,000; Tenne see $3,900,000; Texas $7,600,00 Virginia $4,004,000; West Virgin $1,625,000." Friend of the Blind Tigers. If the United States governmei instead of helping the blind tigei would aid the prohibition States enforcing the prohibition laws blii tigers would soon be suppressed ai we would have real prohibitio "The practical effect of the Unit< State revenue statutes, intersta commerce laws, and the use of tl mails, is to make the government tl friend and coadjutor of the blii tiger, the brewer and distiller in d feating the will of the people 1 granting federal license to whoms ever will pay, to go into any prol bition State and violate the law says Judge W. H. Thomas, of Mod gomery. "If the government shou refuse such license in prohibition te ritory, a larger per cent of the illic liquor selling could be substantial abolished in that territory. As it i the practical working of the systei makes the saloon keeper the annu tax gatherer for the government i more than two hundred million dc lars, through the lowest appetites the people. Is this the right exerci of the taxing power in a Democrac; and the wise ideal of a great, gener and powerful nation." This is tru as every officer who attempts to e force the prohibtion law knows, the United States government wou refuse to issue licenses in prohibitic States, and prosecute those who so liquor without them, there wou soon be no blind tigers. Before disposing of your cottc seed, see me. Will buy or exchang W. G. HUTTO, at Copeland's stor i Two Ca ND Cotton Nice Driven 1 See TTiem BAl I 1 I ' SUICIDE AT HARTS VILLE. or Ira N. dements, Liveryman, Drinks Death Potion. od Hartsville, Nov. 22.?Mr. Ira N. in Clements committed suicide here at il- noon to-day by swallowing a dose of ly chloral and laudanum, which he had Qg gotten for horse colic. Mr. Clements in had lived in Hartsville for some five he or six years, and during that time at had conducted a livery stable. Preld vious to that he had been a very successful farmer in the Oats section 3d of this county. He leaves a wife, he Mr. Clements'? deed can be attriben uted probably to the fact that he re- had been drinking very hard lately ag and had become mixed up in some ct unfortunate financial matters. Early of [this morning he 'phoned to a local >c- druggist for a very common horse colic dose used at the stables around >w town. About noon an employee at ig the stable saw him take down from ar his lips a bottle which he had been a- drinking from, behind a door in the ),- stable. This same employee had ia been called across the street to take 0; a pistol from him with which he had L,- threatened to kill himself. Almost is- immediately he went into a comatose ia condition from the drug swallowed )0 and died in a short time and before is- any attempt could be made to help^, 0: him. ia GOES TO SEE BABY DIE. ** ^ J 1-1?S T | Stripling uraiiiru rrisuii uca*c tvi Sad Mission. it, *8' Atlanta, Nov. 21.?Thomas Edgar in Stripling to-day was taken from the ld prison farm, where he is serving a lc* life sentence for the killing of Wm. n- Cornett, 14 years ago, to his home, ^ at Columbus, Ga., to get a last sight te of his baby, now at the point of death. ae The necessary orders were signed 1(* by Gov. Slaton, with the concurrence e_ of Congressman Davison, of the prissy on commission, upon receipt of a leto~ ter from Mrs. Stripling, announcing l*~ her baby's illness. Stripling was a ?" fugitive more than ten years. .tld r_ P. C. COX FOUND GUILTY. :it * ly Convicted as Accessory to Death of ;s, Parcel Girl at Miami. n, al Miami, Nov. 22.?After a trial lastof ing more than two weeks, the jury >1- in the case of P. C. Cox, charged | of with the murder of -Miss Hettie Parse eel to-night returned a verdict, findy; ing Cox guilty as accessory after the al fact, in attempting to conceal the e, crime by placing the girl's body in n- the river. A motion for arrest of If judgment and new trial was immedild ately made by counsel for Cox. >n The Parcel girl disappeared about Id the middle of last April and two days Id later her body was found in the Miami river. Cox and two negroes wore arrested in connection with the >n crime. The girl's father also was e. held by the police, but was released e. for want of evidence. tr Loads MU Mules r I m t r- I if MBE BAMBERG, SC WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. Walterboro Woman Uses Gasoline to Start Fire, Thinking it Kerosene. The Walterboro Press and Standard of last week publishes the following story: An awful tragedy was that of the death by burning of Mrs. Ellen Driggers, wife of James Driggers, which occurred at their home here Sunday morning. Mrs. Driggers had arisen , to cook breakfast and had attempted to start fire in the stove. This did not catch as quickly as she wished, and getting the kerosene oil can she poured some of its contents into the fire box of the stove. Instantly there was an explosion and Mrs. Driggers was covered with the burning oil 1 from head to foot and enveloped in flames. Her screams aroused her husband, who had not yet arisen, and he rushed into the room where his wife was being burned to death. He attempted to extinguish the flames but to no avail. Every stitch of | clothing was burned from her body. , Dr. Riddick Ackerman was summon- , ed but could do nothing but place the suffering woman under the influence of an opiate. She lingered till i 4 o'clock in the afternoon when she died. The funeral was conducted by the Rev. Henry Cauthen Monday afternoon at her late residence, after which the remains were interred at Live Oak cemetery. Mrs. Driggers was a daughter of H. J. Bailey, and leaves her husband and two little children, a boy and a girl. Her sad ! and untimely death is deplored by all who knew her. 1 It seems that a terrible mistake was made by the Texas Oil Company, from which this oil was purchased. ' It was sold Saturday afternoon by 1 W. O. Mims, and taken from a barrel ! supposed to contain kerosene oil. It 1 was billed out as such, and was so labelled, but an investigation of the contents reveals the fact that it was 1 filled with gasoline instead of kero- 1 sene. * 1 No blame attaches to Mr. Mims on ] account of this. As soon as he . found that it was gasoline he hurri ediy called up everone wno purcnased of the oil and had it deturned to , him. ^ HUGHES DECLINES $100,000. His Loss in Not Serving as Executor of Pulitzer Estate. * One of the interesting provisions of the will of Joseph Pulitzer filed for probate was that bequeathing to Charles E. Hughes, of New York, now associate justice of the United States Supreme court, the sum of $100,000 j. in lieu of commissions as trustee and executor. As Justice Hughes has expressed the intention not to accept the position, owing to his public duties, he forfeits the $100,000. The other trustees and executors were given $50,000 each in lieu of commissions. Of I * LES \ '< "V, "V ? \ w ' * ? ' > J ... . . fi 4 "I ^ ^ '1 l..1 :rg : " . ' )UTH CAROLINA '>< TAX NOTICE. , I The treasurer's office will be open . f for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the, V' 15th day of October, 1911 until the. > 15th day of March, 1912, inclusive. , , Prom the first day of January, 1912, until the 31st day of January, 1912, a penalty of one per cent will 4 be added to all unpaid taxes. From .% the 1st day of February, 1912, until , . the 28th day of February, 1912,-a. V t penalty of 2 per cent will be added, to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st \ V ; ; day of March, 1912, until the 15th day of March, 1912, a penalty of 7 Der cent, will be added to all unpaid 4. taxes. THE LEVY. ' W For State purposes 5 % mill* 1 j fi For County purposes 5% mills .v~ . Constitutional school tax.... 3 mills % & Total 14 *4 mills SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. } Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills / V-' Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills ;i Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills - . Colston, No. 18 2 mills r Cuffie Creek, No. 17 2 mills Denmark, No. 21 6% mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills Govan, No. 11 4 mills Hutto, No. 6. 2 mills -? Hampton, No. 3 ?.2 mills Hey ward, No. 24 2 mill* Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 1 mill ] Lees, No. 23 4 mills Midway, No. 2 2 mills A ; Oak Grove, No. 20 2 mills J Olar, No. 8 4 mills * St. Johns, No. 10 2 mills ?"v;#? Salem, No. 9 3 mills ;T.j Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills . . s. All persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years of age, except Confederate soldiers and sailors, who are exempt at 50 years of v.; age, are liable to a poll tax of one / dollar. J'; Capitation dog tax 50 cents. All persons who were 21 years of age on or before the 1st day of Jan- ,# nary, 1911, are liable to a poll tax ' of one dollar, and all who have not made returns to the Auditor, are .requested to do so on or before the 1st of January, 1912. .* I will receive the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from ' the 15th day of October, 1911, until the 1st day of March, 1912. JOHN F. FOLK, ^ Treasurer Bamberg County. ______________________ r Coal&Lumber | All kinds always on hand IJ jk PROMPT DELIVERY ?AMRFDr, RfllinFiK SITPPI Y Ol. tfllUbUU VVUWVMmr L. B. FOWLER, Manager * x ' 4 ? *, 'Phone 33L Bamberg, S? C. - v .[ -V -V-nr , .i, toikfr'