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Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14,1911. One Dollar and a Half a Year. Jjji
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
I, IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
I, News Items Gathered All Around th<
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Masons.
Ehrhardt, Nov. 30.?Union Lodge,
I No. 247, A. F. M., at a regular meet
ing last evening elected the followB
ing officers to serve for the ensuing
m Masonic year:
I J. C. Kinard?W. M.
I J. B. Ramsey?S. W.
A. F. Henderson?J. W.
W. L. Warren?Treasurer.
n "D PI o vf at> Conroto TV
I t V/. VIBJ tuu wwtvvwi^
E. P. Copeland?S. D.
W. H/ Mitchum?J. D.
E. F. Lyons and W. C. Hughes?
Stewards.
H. L. Brown?Tiler.
The delegates to the grapd lodge
z were instructed to vote in favor oi
the physical amendment to the grand
constitution.
C. R. CLAYTON. #
WOMAN WALKS 8,000 MILES.
Slept Under a Roof But Twenty-One
, Nights in a Year.
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A walk of 8,000 miles was finished
by Mrs. Stella Woolf, said to be the
champion woman long distance walker
of the world, and her husband,
Dwight H. Woolf, when they arrived
at their home in Kansas City, Kan.,
on Saturday. * The trip started at
Sail Antonio, Tex., more than 13
months ago. The pair went first to
Atlanta and then to% New York,
where they turned their steps toward
home. Previously they made two
other walking tours and have covered
a total of 10,000 miles on foot.
"When you get into a rut, walk
out," said Woolf, as he explained
* that he took up walking in order to
get the out-door life which his physician
two years ago said he must
* have. At that time Woolf was a
music dealer. His health was, poor,
and the doctor told him he would
have to get in the open or die.
"Let's walk," suggested hia wife,
"for I'm going along." With them
went the family pets, a faithful pony,
which has drawn a cart carrying
their baggage on the long marches,
and a dog.
V , The Woolfs have eaten and slept
in the open. Since leaving San Antonio
they spent only 21 nights out
of 411 with a"roof over their heads.
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Finds Pearls in Oysters.
New York, Dec. 11.?"Oysters oh
the half shell," a well dressed man
said to the waiter in a Greek restaurant
in Huguenot street, New Ro
chelle last evening. "Make 'em fresh
and big," he added as the waiter
started for the order.
The man swallowed several oysters
and then stopping took something
from his mouth and examined
it critically. Then he made a second
exploration of his mouth. He was so
interested in the other oysters that
he examined them carefully with a
i toothpick. Five times he was seen to
reach for his pocket after examining
an oyster.
"More oysters," said the man.
Again the oysters were brought and
again there was a critical examination
of every bivalve before it was
eaten. Many times the man was seen
to tuck something into his pocket.
"More oysters," the man ordered.
.v He semed excited. A third helping
was brought him and again he dug
i into the inmost recesses of the shells
- 1-?.i.
*. ana maae mure pwkci ucpusue.
"Give me more oysters," the man
^ said to the waiter.
By this time the waiter was getting
suspicious. He answered:
"No more in the house."
Iy The man then removed twentyeight
pearls from his pocket. Some
were small; a few were the size of a
pea.
"I'll give you $500 for 'em," Edward
Carson, a New Rochelle jewel*
er, said.
"Not for sale," answered the man.
U * who said he was M. C. Berlefech, of
New Haven, Conn. "I wonder .how
many pearls I ate in those first few
cysters. It would be just my luck to
have missed several."
Legare Asks for $200,00.
Washington, Dec. 8.?Representative
Geo. S. Legare, of the 1st South
Carolina district, to-day introduced a
bill appropriating $200,000 for an
addition to the postoffice and federal
tmiiriina- nt Charleston, on
CL1 WU.v ,
L the grounds that the present structure
is overcrowded and insufficient
for the needs of the business transit
acted.
j JOE BROWN AGAIN GOVERNOR.
Former Georgia Executive Sweep;
> State Over Two Opponents.
Atlanta, Dec. 7.?Unofficial re
5 turns from all the 146 counties o
the State show that Ex-Governor J
M. Brown swept the State in the gu
bernatorial primary to-day. Th<
counties are apportioned as follows
. J. M. Brown 84; Pope Brown 4ft
. and Judge Russell 20. The remain
r ing two counties, Macon and Charl
ton, were tied between Pope Browi
and Russell. The 84 counties givi
Ex-Governor Brown 200 of the 361
electoral votes, 160 being necessar;
to an election.
Local option, as a political issue ii
Georgia, received another setback, ii
the defeat of Judge Russell, the loca
. option candidate.
Local option made its stronges
showing in Chatham and Richmom
, counties, containing the cities of Sa
; vannah and Augusta, respectively
and both of which were carried b:
Russell. Pope Brown carried Fultoi
county (Atlanta,) and Bibb county
(Macon, and Muskogee county (Co
lumbus) went to Joe Brown.
In the race for commissioner o
1 commerce and labor, unofficial fig
ures indicate the election of H. M
Stanley, of Dublin, over Joseph Mc
Carthy, of Savannah.
Ex-Governor Brown received th?
/slnnfinn Knfnrne of hie Vl r?m O of AfflTl'
C1CU11WU 1VIU1 UJ Ul> U1U UVAUV wi>
' etta, Ga., to-night, and when his elec
tion was assured dictated the follow
; ing:
"I am not surprised at the result
but I confess I did not expect the vie
tory to be so sweeping. J^accep
' the verdict as a command from th<
people of Georgia that factionalisn
\ must cease and that the people1 o
the State must unite on the everlast
ing principle of protection of thei
sovereignty. I shall obey this man
date, as I will every other one receiv
ed from the sovereign people."
United States Senator Hoke Smitl
' returned to Atlanta from Washingtoi
to-day to cast his vote for Pop<
Brown for governor. Senator Smitl
will return to his senatorial dutiei
next Monday.
All Ginning Records Smashed.
Washington, Dec. 8.?Georgia
North Carolina and South Carolina
have ginned thus far this year mon
cotton than ever before was growi
within their borders.
Every cotton growing State excepi
Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma anc
Tennessee already have ginned more
cotton than was grown in the State?
last, year or the year before, accord
ing to the census bureau cotton re
port issued to-day showing the gin
ning prior to December 1.
To that date there had been gin
ned in the United States a total 01
12,814,832 bales, exceeding the to
tal season's ginning of every yeai
except 1904, 1906 and 1908, anc
coming with 637,000 bales of the
total ginned in 1904, the record year
7 During the period between November
14 and December 1 an average
of 107,256 bales of cotton was
ginned on every working day.
The census bureau's sixth cottor
ginning report of the season, issuec
at 10 a. m. to-day and showing the
number of running bales, counting
round as half bales, of cotton of the
growth of 1911, ginned prior to December
1, with comparative statistics
to the corresponding date foi
the past three years, iS as follows:
United States: 12,814,832 bales
compared with 10,139,712 bales last
year, when 87.7 per cent, of the entire
crop was ginned prior to December
1, 8,876,886 bales in 1909, wher
81.1 per cent, was ginned, and 11,008,661
bales in 1908, when 84.1
per cent, was ginned.
The number of round bales included
were 87,567, compared witl
101,718 bales last year, 134,395
bales in 1909, and 201,480 bales ir
1908.
The number of bales of sea island
cotton included were 87,457, compared
with 66,696 bales last year, 77,*
591 bales in 1909, and 68,396 bales
in 1908.
Breed Would be Popular.
That was an amusing story tolc
by Sir Wilfred Lawson, at a luncheor
in Cumberland. It was as follows;
"There was once a mayor of ar
ancient borough who was a stauncl
lee-totaler, and well known to be so
He attended the festivities promotec
by a neighboring borough, and some
body who knew the mayor well pui
a glass of milk punch close to hk
plate. The mayor saw the glass:
be could not resist it; he took ii
up, quaffed it off, and set it down
saying: 'Lord, what^a cow!' "?Lon
don Times.
IN TBE PALMETTO STATE
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SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
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State News Boiled Down for Qnick
Reading?Paragraphs About
e Men and Happenings.
, The State Baptist convention,
- which met in Greenwood last week,
- decided to meet in Abbeville next
1 year.
e Steps are being taken for building
3 a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients
V in the sandhills of Richland county,
near Columbia.
1 Under a State law, non-residents
1 must pay a license fee of $10.25 be*
fore they can hunt in this State. Violators
are subject to a fine of $25.00.
Fire destroyed 2,000 tons of meal,
2,000 tons of cotton seed and 100
bales of linters at the Swift oil mill
' in Columbia Tuesday night, causing
[ a loss of many thousands of dollars.
1
D. A. Pendarvis, white, who was
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_ sentenced at St. Matthews to serve
three months on the chaingang or
f in the State penitentiary, elected to
_ go to the pen. He was convicted of
giving checks when he had no money
. in bank to pay them.
Two young white men, Wright Fuls
ler and Jim Hill, of the Laurens
- mill village, impersonating rural
- policemen, held up a negro in the
- big doad a few days ago and took
five dollars from him. Fuller has
^ Ir-een released on bail; Hill is in jail.
t INVADED BY SNAKES.
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" Reptiles Play with Baby, and Drive
f Family From Home.
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r Theodore Herman, a prosperous
wheat ranclier living 2 miles north
of Beloit, has been driven from his
home by a colony of blacksnakes
that have taken possession. The family
is living with Mrs. Herman's para
I ents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E.
* Graves, until some method of ridding
the house of the pests is found.
Mrs. Herman placed her baby in a
gocart while she attended to th*
household work. She heard the baby
cooing and prattling. Thinking that
some of the neighbors had called
i and were amusing it, the mother
? stepped into the room, to see two
x big blacksnakes drinking milk from
a bowl in the baby's lap.
t Four more snakes were hanging
1 over a door. Mrs. Herman grabbed
> the baby and started for the open.
3 She reached in a box to get her bon.
net, but clasped her fingers around
. another snake. She ran to a neigh.
bor's home. When Mr. Herman returned
home at night, his wife told
. him of the snakes. He reached for
p a club laying near the house, with
. which he was going to route the repr
tiles. The stick coiled around his
1 arm. During the three days that the
; snakes have had possession of the
. house they have eaten all the meat
. and vegetables in the pantry.?Kan.
sas City Journal.
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| Sumter, Dec. 11.?In a fire starting
about 11' o'clock last night. J.
H. Aycock & Sons, of Wedgeneld,
' lost the barn and stables on their
"Tiverton" plantation, two miles
. south of Wedgefield. All of the contents,
comprising between 3,000 and
4,000 bushels of corn and eleven
head of stock, were lost in the fire.
J The damage was estimated to-day at
somewhere between $10,000 and
$15,000, with only a small amount
of insurance.
1 The fire originated in the loft of
the barn, from som? unknown cause.
The building was an old one, made
of the best material and probably
cannot be replaced at any price.
, This is the second time in a few
years that Aycock & Sons have lost
their barn and stables.
1 CHILD FINDS FATHER'S BODY.
Note and Poison Bottle Explain
5 Death of Suicide.
Bowman, Ga., Dec. 10.?"My time)
is come. It is me, and nobody else is
I to blame. Don't accuse my wife or
i anything." This note was found on
the body of J. M. Jordafi, which was
* found by his little son in a pasture
i near his home this afternoon. Two
. bottles in the pockets, one of which
I had contained whiskey and the other
- a poison, believed to have been art
senic, indicated the manner of com3
mitting suicide.
Jordan had gone to the pasture,
t presumably to hunt for a cow, and
, when he remained an unusual length
- of time his wife sent the child to
earch for the father.
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PREACHER TAKES POISOX.
Father Identifies Body, Solving
Man's Mysterious Disappearance.
Dallas, Tex., Dec. 7.?The mysterj
surrounding the disappearance of s
w ell known young Presbyterian clergyman,
after he had abandonee
church work at Myra, a small towr
near Gainesville, Texas, last summer,
was solved in part to-day, wher
advices were received from the Rev
N. R. Baker, of Valley View, Texas
confirming the identity of an insurance
agent who yesterday killed himself
in a hotel at Kingfisher, Okla.
as his son, the Rev. Harvey Baker
He was known at Kingfisher as Harvey
E. Davis.
Young Baker was 26 years of age
a graduate of the University of Texas,
and he had been a Presbyteriai
clergyman for three years. His die
appearance while pastor of the Myn
Presbyterian church created a sen
satjon last year.
Yesterday in the lobby of a hotel ai
Kingfisher, without previous hint, h*
drank carbolic acid and protestec
against efforts made to save his life
His identity was suspected later anc
confirmed to-day.
SCORES BURIED.
Over One Hundred Men Shut Up ii
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Mine by Terrific Explosion.
A dispatch from Briceville, Tenn.
says between 126 and 156 men, liv
ing or dead, is the probable numbei
of men entombed here Saturday
night in the Great Cross Mountaii
Coal Mine of the Knoxville Iron Com
pany, as a result of Saturday's ex
plosion, according to the count madt
Saturday night by an official of th<
United States Mine Workers o
America. They had entered to be
gin the day's work when a terrible
explosion wrecked the workings.
Three only had come out alive
They had entered the lateral off the
iAain shaft and succeeded in getting
into the open before the flames anc
smoke caught them. The body o
Lee Holston, operator of the mine'*
fan plant, was found buried anc
mangled under the cave-in in thi
main shaft.
Rescue workers are making searce
ly any headway. The government')
rescue car and force is at hand, as
are many rescuers and engineer)
from all over the district. The
wives and children of the entombec
men are frantic with grief.
The shafts extend more than twe
miles into the bowels of the moun
tain. According to President T. L
Stephenson, of the Iron Company
the men, if they had_ reached theii
posts, were in lateral shafts whei
the explosion, which blocked the
main shafts, occurred. This encour
ages those on the surface to hope
that many may be living.
Late Saturday afternoon there wa*
little prospect of an early rescue
workers have encountered dense
compact deposits of slat% earth
rock and coal in the main shaft ol
the mine and also in ah abandonee
entry which has been used for ai
air shaft.
A 4-V>s\ mAiitVi nf o VArtlPQl VPTI?
AUUlil IUC muuiu ui u iv/i v>w.t . v~
tilator, leading to the top of the
mountain, fires have been built tc
create a circulation of air froir
within the mine, if possible. Rescuers
are engaged in digging th<
debris from the shafts- and this musl
be removed about one mile to the
mouth of the mine.
* It is not yet possible to determine
whether this blockading of the entrj
is shallow, or whether it extend*
hundreds of feet, or a mile or more,
Wood posts and trusses in the shafl
have been blown outward and this
miners state, is indicative of a serious
explosion beyond. Bratices are
now being constructed by means oi
which air is being forced into the
channel as fast as it is possible tc
remove the debris.
There are three theories to the
cause of the explosion. One Ms that
in some manner powder or dust exploded;
the second is that an electric
wire came in contact with explosives,
and the third is that the
explosion was caused by poor tamping
of a drill.
The mine was thoroughly inspect
ed Friday of last week by J. F. Hatmaker,
who has been inspector of
the mine for eight years. He remained
in the mine nearly all of Friday
night. He said there was no trace
of gases when he emerged.
The mine also was recently inspected
by an inspector under Geo.
Silvester, State mine inspector; and
a representative of a casualty company,
which carries insuruance on
the employees of the company, also
is said to have reported that it was
in excellent condition.
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ROBBED AT HARDEEV1LLE
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TWO MEN HOLD UP COAST LINI
FAST PASSENGER.
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Relief Train in Collision Delays Of
[ fleers and Enables Bandits to Make
i - Escape with About $5,000.
i Savannah, Ga., Dec. 11.?Thougl
officers of two States and severa
? cities and battalion of railroad specia
agents have searched far and wide
they seemed no nearer to-night th<
? solution of the mystery of the inden
tity of the two men, one slender an<
the other fat, who held* up Atlanti*
Coast Line train No. 80, northbound
. near Hardeville, S. C., early thii
- morning and robbed it of one "jack
l et" of registered mail. One man wai
arrested at Savannah, but was duick
i ly released. Other arrests have beei
- made, according to local officers.
The bloodhounds that wer^ put oi
t the trail of the robbers following i
s into the country for probably a mile
I then circled back to the railroad
. and officers stated this probabl;
I meant that the robbers had madi
their escape on a later northboun<
train, boarding it very near th<
scene of the hold up and possibl;
while officers were searching fo
1 them but a few hundred yards away
The value of the robbers' booty ii
estimated at $5,000.
? Th\e train was running in two sec
" tions because of the heavy passenge
r traffic.
1 In Sight of Station.
l{ D. H. McEoy, the night operator ii
" the tower at Hardeville, states tha
' the train reached his station in goo!
5 condition and he gave it the signal t<
i go ahead. Shortly after the train go
f away from his station and before i
" had got out of sight it stopped. Hi
- was surprised to see this, as it ha<
no signal.to stop at that point.
Just about that time the secon<
3 section of the train arrived from Sa
> vannah, and McRoy advised th
I crew to go ahead and find out wha
* the trouble was with the first section
3 Arriving at the spot where the firs
* section had stopped, the train cre\
5 found the utmost confusion reigning
The robbers, two in number, hai
" forced the engineer to stop his trail]
3 and, covering the flagman and th
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3 the flagman open the mail car, afte
3 it had been detached from the trail
1 and run some distance. Here tw<
mail clerks were found at work an<
> they were made to give up two bag
of 'registered, mail. The robber
then made their escape.
? As quickly as possible, Savannal
p was notified of the robbery and i
1 special train, consisting of an engin
5 and two cars, with several Coast Lim
officials and detectives, was en rout
; to the scene within an hour. Th
special was in charge of Enginee
3 L. E. Rawls and a conductor. Thi
Coast Line and the Southern use th'
J same tracks out of Savannah t<
> Hardeville and while en route to thi
f scene of the robbery, the train wit)
1 the detectives on board ran into i
i freight train of the .Southern Rail
way.
Charles Reddy, the negro fireman
- and Engineer Rawls both jumped an<
> both escaped serious injury, althoug]
i the negro was painfully hurt.
The wreck delayed the arrival o
- the officials and the detectives fo
t some time, and they did not read
' the scene of the robbery until sev
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i robbers, it is believed, boarded th<
r train at Hardeville, as the dispatche]
5 thinks he saw two suspicious lookin*
. characters get aboard at that point
' He thinks they got between the tw<
J front coaches and from there mad<
their#way to the tender and to th<
- engine.
' The train was in charge of Engin
f neer J. E. Farris, of Charleston, Con
? ductor Damon, of Florence, and Fire
man Abe Williams, a negro. Engi
i neer Farris says, in his report to th<
; officials of the Atlantic Coast Lin<
here, that as he was leaving Harde
ville he looked around and the twc
men had climbed into the cab anc
! had him covered with revolvers
They ordered him to go ahead, anc
after getting just north of the switct
ordered him to stop.
They made him and his fireman gel
: down on the ground on the left side
of the engine. One of them stood
guard over them while the othei
looked after the others.
Conductor Damon went up to the
engine on the right side and was shot
at by one of the men and made to gc
to the postal car and have the postal
clerks come out, the Jobbers threatening
to blow up the car if they did
> not do so.
Ed. Dozier, the colored porter
came up shortly after this and Mm
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CALHOUN HAS SENSATION.
Prominent Men Said to be Involved
2 in Mysterious Affair.
St. Matthews, Dee. 10.?Late this
afternoon Sheriff Rast brought in
Jake Amaker, colored, handcuffed,
from the Elloree section and lodged -a
him in' jail. The negro had a coat
cut in one place and much besprinki
led with shot, which he brought
1 from Columbia. ij?
1 Investigation apparently revealed
, the fact that three prominent white
e men of Eljoree and Lone Star, with |
- this negro, went on a joy automobile
1 ride last night to Columbia and ran
c into a box car at Cayces, near Co,
lumbia. At this point stories vary
s and conflict, but one of the white
- men is reportd to have been shot.
s The general impression is .that the ; <
nocrrn io trnfltv nf nnthin? mrvPA than '
i running like a turkey. The matter / '\*J|
has created a sensation, as the pari
ties are well ^nown.
1 _ SUES AGED CHINAMAN.
' A Chicago Woman Claims Gong Lee
g ' Promised to Marry Her.
* Anna Hooper, who came to Spo-' .
e kane from Chicago a month ago, has
v instituted an action for $50,000 dam- 8
r ages in the superior court of/Whit- *
* man county against Gong Lee, 70 ,
s years of age, the sole Chinese resident
of the city of Pullman. Breach '
of promise to marry the Illinois
1 spinster is alleged. The wedding
was to have taken place on November >
22. Miss Hopper is not in, the city,
1 but will return in a week or 10 days.
t Gong Lee has lived in Pullman ,
* about 25 years and reputed to be.
J wealthy.. He is engaged in market
gardening. He denies lie promised to ^ ^8
marry the Chicagoan or any other
? woman. He says that Miss Hopper
and Margaret Pemrose, proprietor of
a hotel in Spokane, visited his shack
on November 3, when the last named
asked him if he wanted a good wife, |:S||
8 saying that her companion, Miss f-JiH
Hopper, would marry him and make ,
' his life a happy one.
r Lee asserts that he did not prom- '
P ise to take the woman as his wife,
'' saying he told her in the presence of .VcfoM
Miss Pemrose that he would, not give .
l' his word until he had satisfied < him
8 self as to her character. He admit- Vjji
8 ted "it was somewhat sudden." Miss ;^flj
r Hopper told him, he said, she is well ^
a connected In Chicago and has many jj
influential friends in that city, also --Ji
throughout the northwest?Spokane
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Finds Foe of Boll Weevil,
a New Orleans, Dec. 11.?After ere
tensive experiments, Father Albert
e Biever, a Jesuit scientist of tnis city,
e has announced that in his opinion
e the Argentine ant, a Louisiana pest
r which is the despair of housewives,
e is the South's most effective enemy of
e the boll weevil. It was found that
0 the ant will destroy the young weee
vils and eggs, but the assault on a '||
1 mature weevil is another matter. .'flgl
a The scientist is firmly of the opinion
- that in time the ant will bolster up
sufficient courage to attack grown .
up weevils, but not until he is "ed- ^ r >
i ucated" up to it.
i "I believe that these ants will ' $
finally exterminate the boll weevil,"
- VfvV^SS
f said Father Bevier. "They destroy
r all other ants by attacking the nests
i and destroying the eggs. They will
- treat the weevil similarly."
3 Further experiments are to be
3 made.
r was also, held up by the robbers.
. The engineer and the postal clerks %
j were put on the engine and Farris
b was made to pull ahead a short dis3
tance with the postal car. The clerks /
were then made to put all the regis
tered mail into bags. A large, stout ,
- man appeared to be the leader. ~f
Got 55 Packages.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 12.?George
i Sutton, ^stoffice inspector in charge
? of the district, said that 55 register
ed packages were stolen by the rob>
bers who held up the Atlantic Coast
I Line passenger train at Hardeeville
. this morning. The government has a
I standing reward of $1,000 for the
i capture of any one who robs a mail
car.
t To Pursue Robbers.
i Hampton, Dec. 12.?As soon as the
I news reached Hampton of the bold
robbery on the Atlantic Coast Line
fast mail Deputy Sheriff Lightsey
? and Sheriff Creech, of Barnwell, left
: in the direction the highwaymen
) took. Sheriff Creech took with him
.
[ two bloodhounds. It is supposed the
- robbers boarded the train when it ,
[ stopped at Hardeeville. They fled
in the direction of the Southern Rail,
road, west from the scene of the hold
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