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SWUNG FROM TREE. Brooks Gordon Lynched by Pickens I County Mob. Greenville, June 29.?Charged with having attempted to ravish the b wife of a highly respectable farmer of \ Pickens county, and with shooting tl her twice in the back with a single c barrelled shotgun, as she ran through s< the fields to her husband, Brooks r< Gordon, a young negro, was taken t< from the custody of the sheriff by i determined mob late this afternoon n and lynched. The woman is reported to be rest- d ing well, and her chances of recovery g; are favorable, unless complications c] set in. $ The crime of which Gordon was ac- d cused is one of the most atrocious bi of the kind ever committed in this ei section of the State, and the portion tl of Pickens county, where the offence tl was perpetrated was in a terrible tur- ir moil from the time the deed became it known until the thirst for vengeance ci had been satisfied. Attacked in Field. r According to reports from Easlev it to-night, Brooks Gordon attacked the 111 woman as she was at work in the ^ firtlz-J o+ 1 A <->'/ ? 1 ,-wr.L- fViic mArninc Sbp fC Utiu at JL V V V/1VVU lUiU 1UV* broke loose from him and ran through hi the fields toward her husband, who Pi was about a half mile away. The negro carried a single barrelled shotgun and demanded to know of the th woman if she intended reporting the it matter to her husband. She replied h< as she ran that she would tell her th husband, and then the negro levelled ni the gun at her and fired. The wound Pdid not deter the woman in her pur- it pose. to It is stated that the negro ran af- le ter her, reloading his gun as he ran. bi Her asaislant demanded of her the tii second time if she intended telling her husband, but before she could he reply he raised the gun and fired fo upon her again. Having fired the gi second shot into the back of the flee- in ing woman, the negro turned and ran els toward the mountains. in Mob Starts Search. er News of the outrage quickly spread to throughout the surrounding country and a mob of angry men gathered ne and started in pursuit. The chase h continued for several hours, but th Sheriff Roarke, of Pickens county, mi beat the mob in the race, capturing the negro about fifteen miles from the scene of the trouble. The sheriff started toward the Pickens jail with his prisoner, but was overtaken by na the mob and the prisoner taken away fa from him. in * _ The negro was carried back to th<? re scene and put before the wounded woman for identification. As the ne- gc gro lived on her husband's farm, she un had no trouble in identifying him. to: The negro was carried some distance Sp * from the house and strung up to a 0f tree, denying his guilt to the last. Three volleys were fired into his body and the crowd dispersed. Sc A Costly Meal. pr \V2 Fred Swantacruz. king of the cooling surf, was talking one day with a , ^fisherman in .Monterey Bay, and drew ^ from him a yarn all covered with to Sc seaweed. The facts in the case were said to 1 be these: Some ten years ago the government transplanted about 20,- ^ su 000 Eastern lobsters in Monterey he Bay. Before shipping, wooden pegs had been put in their claws so that er! ed they couldn't fight with each other en route to this coast. Before trans"A planting those in charge neglected to remove the wooden pegs, with the re- re suit that the lobsters all died. The government accordingly sent as m% p 1 + nnr) t Vi i c t i m a OSW aiiuuiei iiiiiymcui, uuu (.mo uuiv, .. that the pegs were removed before th o r* planting the lobsters. Some time thereafter the Alba- ^ tross steamed into Monterey Bay, under the command of the United States Fish Commission, looking for results of the transplanting. Lobster nc traps were set at different points, but te nary a lobster was captured. The government then posted notices of- gr fering $2,000 for a specimen of the th transplanted lobsters. Two years passed. A Santa Cruz fisherman, out in his little smack, ?* caught one of the lobsters. Then, thinking that there was a law against catching them, he sneaked the lobster to his home, cooked it, ate, it and destroyed all evidence. Later he di- g( vulged the secret to some other fishU ermen. ^ "I caught a lobster sixteen inches S long," he said. 1)5 "What!" they exclaimed. n< "Yes, and I was afraid to sell it, so I ate it myself!" . ol "You ate it: "Yes." And they broke to him the sad fc news that there was a reward of $2000 for a sample lobster from the gj bay. "And I had a $2,000 meal," said * the fisherman and fainted. ? d< The new $50,000 passenger station at Rock Hill, built by the Southern cl railway, has been completed and Is d now in use. It is up-to-date in every particular. si NORWAY MAN IN TROUBLE. <ocal Tailor Orders His Arrest on F Serious Charge. G. B. Mimms, of Norway, S. C., will e given a preliminary hearing before b lagistrate Williams this morning on tl le charge of passing a worthless a heck for $200 on the Rugheimer fi 3ns last Tuesday. Mimms was ar- w ?sted late Saturday afternoon by De- tz active John Hogan and taken to tne ti olice station, from which he was ai roved to the county jail. li It appears that when Mimms or- h ered a suit to be made to order, he a; ave Mr. Rugheimer a New York ex- b tiange check for $200 to take out tl 20 as first payment. Mr. Rugheimer idn't suspect anything was wrong, it at gave Mimms $180 change. Sev- m ral days later Mimms appeared at M le store to have the suit fitted. In el le meantime the check was deposited a; l one of the local banks, from which p] was sent to the New York ex- b] lange. th The New York banking firm upon bi iceiving the check, wired back that si was a forgery. Mr. Rugheimer im- ye ediately went before Magistrate pi Tilliams and swore out a warrant in >r the arrest of Mimms, charging ul !m with securing money under false in etences. a Saturday afternoon Mimms 'phon- m i the King street tailor and asked if tb ie suit was ready. He was told that T] would be finished in about an hz >ur's time. Detective Hogan was ti< en called. Mimms arrived a few rc inutes in advance of the officer, m resentlv Detective Hogan came, and gr was then that the news was broken Mimms that his check was worth- ea ss. He wsa asked to make it good, n< it as he was unable to do so at the tr ne, the warrant was served on him. cv When taken to the police station is j was searched, and $61.70 was ar und on his person. Mimms admits 01 ving the check, but denies that he tended to defraud anyone. He gr aims that he was given the check pa a business transaction with anoth- tr: party. Mimms is from Norway, a ac wn in Orangeburg county. He is at tout 36 years old, well groomed and iatly dressed. He will be given a sli saring before Magistrate Williams is, is morning. It is possible that the to atter may be settled out of court, ev News and Courier, July 1. du ? Wl Heated Tilt at Conway. t0 Conway, June 28.?"You are a ^ tr," "You are a dirty dog and inmous scoundrel," "You are noth- ^ g but a miserable coward," were S6 marks hurled by Attorney General ne -on at a man by the name of J. A. 3. hwerin, from Sumter who made [complimentary remarks at the atrney general during the latter's eech here to-day in which he told x_. fo: the "gran prosecuuuns. "With all evidence you had, why t0 SO in't you prosecute Felder," asked hwerin. er< "If- there was evidence sufficient to t0 osecute Felder," replied Lyon, "it fe is kept in hiding." 1111 Lyon then mentioned the fact that e Newberry grand jury had failed find a true bill against him. te) hwerin shouted something about f r( e dishonesty of juries. Schwerin kept up his remarks and lei on said, "The matter with you I ppose is that Tom Felder has ***' lped me to prosecute many graft5 and in doing this he has touch- ho you." s? "That's a lie," replied Schwerin. P1' ho Lnd I take the responsibiltv for the , ,, wi mark. nG It was then that Lyon plied his sailant with the names of "liar, d coward," and added, "I'll be off 101 is stand after a while, and if you pr e not satisfied you can find me en!" Schwerin was taken in hand constables and was carried from nc e grove. "Lock him up," "Lyon," "That's le: >t a Horry man, he's from Sum- P1' ha These were the sort of shouts that eeted Lyon's tilt with the man in si j e crowd. Schwerin returned after vhile, but there was no trouoie. Many of the candidates for minor y Rces were heard silently. or Uncle Sam's Job. Senator Swanson, of Virginia, says " iat undeserving men often receive 8c ivernment jobs. Their attitude is like that of old ir nele Sam, who had been seen for jveral days patiently sitting on the w ink of the Rappahannock river, Bar the dam, holding his shotgun in m is hands. Finally, he attracted the attention f a passerby, who asked: "Well, Uncle Sam, are you looking >r something to do?" "No, sah," answered Sam. "I'se - - . .. y< ittin' paid fo' what Ise doin'." "Indeed!" said the other. ''And hat may that be?" ? "Shootin' de muskrats dat am unermining de dam," answered Sam. ^ "Why, there goes one now!" exMaimed the stranger excitedly. "Why p on't you shoot?" "S'pose I wants t' lose ma job, lh?" answered Sam complacently, ai TO SAVE OLD TOWN. eople of Wisconsin Settlement Plead for Railroad Facilities. A pathetic plea that a town may e saved from desertion has come to le State railway commission, says Madison (Wis.) dispatch. It is om Theresa, 35 miles north of Milaukee, a settlement of 350 inhabimts, which feels that it is really off le map because the Chicago, Minnepolis and Sault Ste. Marie Railway ne was built about a mile and a alf away from it. The citizens now sk that the road be compelled to uild a spur track and run trains so lat it can realize its destiny. Theresa was an old-time fur tradig post, established in 1842 by Solo- < ion Juneau, son of the founder of ilwaukee, and named after his i dest daughter. Many French Can- . lians went to live there, and the [ace at one time seemed to have a < right future. The indifference at 1 te railroad, however, resulted in the . lilding up of Theresa station, out- ] de its old bounds, and in late i ?ars the enterprising younger peo- s e and immigrants have settled there stead of the original town. Pop- 1 ation and prosperity have dwindled i the face of growth all about. For < long time this condition was per- 1 itted to go unchecked, but at length < ie "booster" has come, and the i tieresa Advancement Association i is been formed. It is the organiza- ] Dn that has appealed to the rail- 1 iad commission in a quaint docu- s ent. Here are some of its para- I aphs: i "The town began to wain in the i .rly seventies in business promimce because of the ever-lacking < ansportation facilities. And the < vner of property in those days who ] still holding it to-day win not De j ly better off to-morrow, but is yet t it of taxes for the same. s "Our $16,000 four-department i aded school has now only* two de- \ .rtments in efficiency and our dis- i ict has lost the yearly State aid on- j count of incompetency to maintain t least two departments. ^ "Real estate is on the toboggan 1 de downward, and every building j when completed, worth only 50 j 75 cents on the dollar, and it i en has not been successful to inice the retiring farmer, as even he i ints his accommodations, and wants ? spend the rest of his life in a town t at is pressing gayly ahead as to g e one going to the contrary." t Railroad officials, however, say t at it would not be worth while to ^ rvo thp old town and that it can I ? >ver realize its ambition to become "metropolis." The Use of Lemons. It is well for people to know here typhoid fever comes walking intheir homes that Dr. Asa Fergun, of London, England, has discoved that lemon juice is a deadly foe typhoid bacilli, and will cause the rms to shrivel up and die almost mediately. A few drops of lemon juice in a iss of drinking water will kill any phoid germs that may be in the war, and maker the drinker immune Dm typhoid fever. There are a great many things that nons are good for besides making e refreshing lemonade. Most everyone knows that to take t lemonade when going to bed is od to break up a cold. Not so my may know that the juice of If a lemon in a cup of black coffee, tbout any sugar, will cure sick adache. To take a strong, unsweetened nonade before breakfast will also 1 event and cure a bilious attack. To take lemon juice mixed very ick with sugar win relieve that anting, tickling cough. If you drink a glass of water with ' mon juice squeezed in it every orning it will keep your stomach good order and prevnt you from tving dyspepsia. When you have a bad headache rub ices of lemon along the temple, and will soon give relief. It is good if a bee or insect stings iu to put a few drops of lemon juice l the spot. To saturate a cloth with lemon ice and bind on a cut or wound will op its bleeding. If your fruit juices, such as cher', strawberry, etc., do not jelly reaay add lemon juice to them, and it ill cause them to jelly. Lemon juice and salt is good to reove iron rust. If you have a corn that bothers )u rub it with lemon, after taking hot bath, and cut away the corn. Now, if you want to have a beauful complexion squeeze lemon juice ito a quart of milk and rub it on )ur face night and morning. 1 There are many useful things that mons will do for you if you only now what they are and try them. 1 hey should be used more freely lan they are in most homes, and 1 ley might save you doctor bills.? hiladelphia Record. 1 m i Cut glass and hand painted china ; cost at Herald Book Store. SPECTACULAR SEA FROLIC. Sharks and Swordfish Convert Play 1 Into Bloody Tragedy. That hardiest of hardy ship-news annuals, the story of the deep sea ? quarrel between swordfish and whale j ?it was a shark this time?reached ? port in good order to-day on board t the stanch ship Caledonia of the An- t chor Line, says the New York Even- i ing Post. It had grown so since last g season that some of the oldest salts j of the Battery park benches did not a recognize it. j It was a calm and beautiful Sab- c bath morn at sea. The Caledonia, a ploughing her way through a bottle- t green ocean, was sixty miles due i east of Montauk Point. Capt. F. H. t Wadsworth was on the bridge. Pas- r sengers and crew lazed idly on deck, i All was peace and tranquility. Sud- a denly some one with keen eyesight i espied the perennial commotion in a the water just off the ship's bows, p All eyes at once peered seaward ex- g pecting to be rewarded with a view g Df the usual death struggle between i shark and swordfish. a To tneir uuer amazement ana ue- a light, what should meet their wonder- v ing eyes but scores?aye, scores?of a swordfish and sharks frolicking in e friendly play about the ship! It was I sasy to see that they were making a i splendid Sunday dinner of bluefish, s mackerel, porgies, flounders, young s lalibut and other well known varie- a lies. The Caledonia's passengers said the swordfish averaged twenty j( :eet in length, and that, while the t sharks were not quite as large as t ihat, they were just as numerous. v Having feasted on the fat of the a sea, the monsters of the deep frolick- a sd some more, darting hither and a r*on through the salt sea waves, j Playfully, the swordfish ran their y ;o crimson, as the bodies of the sharks and tossed them high in the s lir, then deftly caught them and re- ( seated the performance. The sharks, n turn, took playful nips at the ' swordfish and chased them all around f ;he ship. This continued for an hour, vhen one of the swordfish erred in lis judgment of distance and caught t shark on the point of his bony nose, )iercing the shark and ending his ca eer then and there. With the death of their schoolnate, the sharks, becoming infuriated, turned tipon the swordfish, and he battle which followed?from all iccounts?was indescribably horri)le. As was the case last year, and he year before that, the water boiled vith the movements of the sharks md fish, and the pale blue changed o Crimson, as the bodies of the .harks were pierced by the swordfish md the razor-like teeth of the manlaters slashed the sides of the denons of the deep. Round and round he ship the angry throng raced, the vater becoming a deeper red with ,'verv passing moment, yhile the >odies of sharks and swordfish alike loated here and there on and near he surface. One particular pair of fighters vere watched by Purser Johnston, rho said that the sword of the great ish broke off in ramming the side f the Caledonia after missing a ricious thrust at his enemy. Before he swordsman of the deep could save limself by flight the shark had killid and begun to devour him. SooTi ifter this the fighting mass began to ag astern, and the ship came on ilone, leaving the fighters to their ate, and the final details of the batle to the landlubber's imagination. 'OLD BILL" MIXER OUT AGAIX. Lged Outlaw Piles Shackles and Hikes from Convict Camp. Milledgeville, Ga. June, 28.?"Old Bill" Miner is out again. The 60-ear-old outlaw, who in February, L 911, held up a Southern Railway rain near White Sulphur Springs, Ja., who was captured, escaped and etaken to serve out his 15-year senence, filed his shackles last night, md with a companion, W. J. Widen:amp, departed from the State pris>n farm. It is thought he had outside help. Guards, who this morning discovered his escape, are in pursuit, but :he trail of the old fox is dim. It is ;hought he and his companion have :aken different directions. "Old Bill's" last escape proved a failure, ~ because he remained with an injured pal and both were recaptured. Miner, whose real name is thought to be Anderson, is wanted in Washington State and British Columbia for train robbery. Appreciative Sol. Solomon Pitman, a backwoodsman, had been caught on the jury in town and was boarding with a lady who was running a cheap boarding house. Astonished at the amount of butter Sol was eating, she said: "Sol, that butter cost me 25 cents a pound." "Yes ma'am," said he, taking another large slice, "and it's worth every cent of it." Rub-My Tism will cure you. NEGRO GAMBLERS KILL MAX. Jr. John K. Love, of Norway, Shot to Death. Norway, June 30.?While trying to irrest a gang of negro gamblers, Dr. rohn K. Love, a well known veterinLry surgeon, who was policeman of his place, was shot about 3 o'clock his morning and died three hours ater. Marion Jamison, a negro, was ihot by Morgan Brooker, deputy to )r. Love, and died this afternoon. It ippears that Dr. Love had been em)loyed by the town council to run lown this gang and that Ed Butler. l notorious negro gambler and rouble-maker, had been induced to telp round up the gang. About 2:45 his morning Ed Butler came to the oom of Dr. Love and stated that he tad the gang located on the banks of l small creek, just inside the town imits, Butler returned to the gang, .nd, to keep down suspicion as to the | >art he played in the betrayal of the ;amblers, took part in the "skin" ;ame again. Dr. Love dressed hastiy and called Morgan Brooker to go .nd help arrest the gamblers. Love nd Brooker approached the negroes, rho made no attempt to get away, nd demanded their surender. The legroes refused and opened fire. Dr. ^ove fell with a bullet in the hip. Srooker closed in with Marion Jamion and a hand-to-hand conflict enued, the negro being shot five times nd Brooker once through the finger. Excitement runs high, but no vioence is feared. Sheriff Salley is on he scene, and it is hoped he will run he murderers to earth. Dr. Love ras a young man about 27 years of ,ge, and came here about two years go from Asheville, N. C. His father nd one brother reside at Grover, in )orchester county. Other relatives ive near Asheville, N. C. Dr. Love has practiced his profesion here about two years ago, but nly a short while ago was made poiceman of Norway. In his short serice he has made a reputation as a earless officer. I $ WHICH BANK }Is your money hid away in a where the burglar is likely locked up tight in our vai fC. massive steel safe, but by j| well? You do not perhap * your money is in when kej (Si day the newspapers tell oi m this habit. If you wpuld si S* edge that your money is p yice and open an account ? chances. 1HARDT BAN A.RDT, TTTTTyYTf ;"He ts a praperecs ten Telephon Enhance A telephone o means convenience user, but it adds vali enable you to sell yo vantage. Telephone can be had at very lo Write for our fre Farmers line Dep SOUTHERN BELL 1 A TELEGRAPH < \08>' South Pry or SL, I r rnnrr rKUU We have just received 4 Fruit Jars which ar< O We also have a nice ass | Water Glasses, and in need of any of them d save money. I J. A. H H THE HARDWARE MAN. 11-11??TOE3C - ? - - i * ' DAMAGE FROM DYNAMITE. _____ '* Spencer's Cafe Loses Kitchen by Unusually Heavy Explosion. Greenville, June 26.?As the result of a heavy charge of dynamite being set off Monday afternoon! at 6 o'clock at the place, where the Wallace building is going up on West Washington, street, the kitchen of Spencer's cafe was completely wrecked. Mr. Spencer, who was sick in his apartments above the restaurant, is said to have been seriously affected by the concussion of the blast. Blasting has been going on at this place for several days, but It seems that an unusually heavy charge wes set off yesterday afternoon at 6 o'clock. It is said that it will be necessary for the proprietor of the cafe to close his place of business for two or three days in order to repair the damage done in the kitchen. The Curious Mob. "Why all this crowd?" "They are gathered together to see the tied go out." .4 "The tide? Why, we are hundreds of miles from the ocean." "I know it, but there is a fashionable wedding taking place in that church on the corner.?Birmingham Age-Herald. Stetson hats and other fine makes, ! $2.50 up. Also straw hats to close out cheap. Write F. G. MERTINS, Augusta, Ga. v; FARMERS' UXIOX MEETINGS. The local Bamberg Farmers' Union meets at the court house in Bamberg on the first and third Friday mornings in every month. Meeting at 11 o'clock. Applications for mem[ bership received at every meeting. & ! Let all members be present. J. W. STEWART, J. P. O'QUJNN, President. Secretary. j . H. M. GRAHAM Attorney-at-Law Will practice in the United States and * State Courts in any County in the State. BAMBERG, S. C. >3 DO YOU USE % in old trunk, closet or bureau, < )- _ to find it any night, or is it j* ult, protected not only by a y ample burglar insurance as Af s realize what great danger pt around the house. Every y ' losses sustained because of eep soundly, with the knowl- t >rfectly secure, bring it in at iy ith us. You are then taking fKING COMPANY t SOUTH CAROLINA. ner. Be has a telephone." ies the Land n the Farm not only on/4 mm fnrt Inr flip I (U1U vv/utxx/a v avr* vaav ie to the land and will ur land to a better ad: service on the Farm >w cost.. e booklet. Address . 4 * Oao=an jars] . a large shipment of Mai being soldat low prices. L sortment of Ice Tea Glass- ? i relly Tumblers, and when M on't fail to call on us and * UNTER || BAMBERG, 8. C.;; 4 - . 3