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YEGGMEX NABBED IN COLUMBIA Men Charged with Burglary Excite Fh Suspicion of Police. Columbia, July 5.?Charged with J breaking into the store of the Cope- ori land Clothing Company last night, aft two white men, giving their names ?.s sta John Bell and John Quinn, were ar- sto rested by the police to-day as they cor were endeavoring to make their way adj to the depot. Three suit cases which to the strangers were carrying were an< J a ^ ?? n^i/4 ir> $ Vi nm Trara HP 1 ?>eiz.t;u, dUU it IB saiu 1U luviu n Vte r-' found most of the articles missing cor from the store, including seven suits the of clothing, six suits of underwear fin with extra garments, underclothes of the all kinds and descriptions, socks, silk the ties, all amounting to $213.25 worth Bo of goods. The police say in one suit the case was found a gear drill, with sm equipment, a heavy steel hammer wo and steel saw, used in cutting ha( through iron bars, all leading the fev city police to the opinion that they have bagged notorious yeggmen. Two razors and a pistol were found in another suit case. w0 The back door of the store of t'ne Wa'_ wit Copeland Clothing Company was found open this morning when the clerks opened up and articles to the , . hie value of over $200 missing. A report was at once made to the police fg UGt and they investigated carefully. It , Qpr was told Detective Richardson by a lis! negro hackman that he had been en- ? gaged to carry three suit cases to tur the depot this morning and described the men. The hackman was told to ? * the proceed, and following out this clue ^ the officers secured a machine and came up with the men and took them C,0D the in tow and also secured the grips. Joh The men claimed that they had ^ been promised $50 by a man to de- s^a liver the suit cases to the depot, but they were unable to give his name. . It is believed that the names Quinn and Bell are fictitious, for the one ... \V It. who gave the name of Quinn had on cagj his person a marriage certificate, showing that a man named Pool had ^ been married in Columbia several g(Ju years ago. Post cards found on their roQ persons also indicated that the names they gave might be one of several. ^ There was also found in the prison- ?, ers' suit case a dozen or more rings, a new gold chain and pendant, none ,, of which has been identified and all j of which has aroused the suspicions ^ of the Dolice. J.^._ - - ? - - Lms Only a few days ago the Way of ^is Faith office was entered and robbed nev and around some of the tools in the ? prisoners' grips was wrapped some seif paper corresponding to paper in the Way of Faith office, all of which peo leads the police to believe that the -phi! two men are connected with that af- 0f . fair. Chief Cathcart and the police questioned the prisoners closely and cau< they were locked up. afte They will be given a preliminary a ca examination before Magistrate Fowl- <? es to-morrow morning. maE MCRDERED IX BRUTAL MANNER. asyl mis-1 Child of 12 Years Slashed to Pieces. mar Xo Clue to Murderer. is a New York, July 7.?Julia Conners, Plea a 12-year-old girl, was murdered in a ers fiendish manner early to-day, her anyi body, bearing 36 wounds, evidently of i made by a stilleto, but still with a ?the breath of life, was found in a vacant ces lot in the Bronx. The child died without having regained enough to identify her slayer further than the ^ f pr* statement that "he was a man." tvip frirl tt-aq nrip of the four chil- ??c dren of Edward Conners, who lived ^ c i nearby. Saturday afternoon she visited bag Croton, a park, but suddenly disap- y0^' peared. Her parents and school chums kept up an all-night search * ai without success. The child's little bag 0 body was literally slashed to pieces. It was nude except for the fact that it one all ( was wrapped in a worn skirt. The hair had been cut off. One of the 36 sess wounds was a stab in the heart. Her ^on throat was also partly cut and a stab tl0n in the back had pierced the lungs. ftra Late to-night the police said they lts had definitely established the fact bo? that the attack on the girl was made nan in a vacant apartment on the second sam envi floor of a house beside the lot in which the girl was found. Evidence in the bath room of the tba1 apartment leads the police to the be- ?* * lief that here Julia was murdered. << The bath tub was blood smeared and on the floor were found quantities you of the girl's clustering brown hair. you But with all these marks of the trag- * pd t edy, the police admitted that they had found nothing which would inCo j( dicate who the perpertator of the " crime might be. The murderer had 1 i ViJo li+flo vir?tim\.s hndv in a UIO AAVV&Vx ^ W V* . .M ?. * v <( sitting position in a box two feet hoc lQng and one and one-half feet in ? length and covered the box with oil cloth. Then he bore the child down to the lower hallway out through the back yard, tossed her into the lot, hid her clothing and escaped. ^or . ed Capt. E. B. Loraine and Sergeant Major Wilson of the Army flyer corps were killed Saturday morning when dUg their aeroplane fell from a height of a f 400 feet at Salisbury Plain, England. Au* FIRE AT DENMARK. imes Do Much Damage to Stables and Mercantile Company. Denmark, July 6.?A fire which ginated about 3 o'clock yesterday ernoon in the rear-end of Califf's bles destroyed the stables, the re of the Farmers' Mercantile npanv and a negro house on an joining lot. A desperate fight had be made to save the parsonage i Mr. Rice's dwelling. A great *t of the stock of the mercantile npany was destroyed, but some of > goods were removed before the i made much progress. All of s buildings were insured and also s stock of the mercantile company, th of the buildings were wood and jrefore burned very rapidly. A all pony was scorched badly, and uld have been burned to death 3 it not been for the work of a i men. Man's Danger Age. Without doubt every man in the rid decided when he heard there 3 a danger age for women that his e had reached it, and took some asure in telling her so. -.ysander John Appleton proved to own satisfaction that the danger ; for women covers all the time ween the ages of his wife and ighter and took an owl-like delt in telling them so. Cven a woman of the fair sex will n, and Mrs. Appleton and Daysey yme turned simultaneously, with discovery that all time is the iger age for man, and wrote their tclusions in gold and p*ed, had m framed and hung in Lysander n's room. Cow, when he dresses, when he ves, when he turns to look out a better view .of a pretty woman ) is passing, when his eyes search ily for help when he is working h his collar button?on every ocon incident to a man's stay in room?he sees things said in red gold on his wall that make him irm, and cause him to leave the m three inches shorter than when entered it. ind these are the reasons: Every year of a male creature's is the danger age, because: The day he puts on trousers he > puts on an air of superiority to sex that doesn't wear them, and air of superiority blinds him to own imperfections. Hence, he er gets over them. As a youth he is so proud of himit is a wonder he doesn't shut self up in a barn and charge the pie two pins each to see him. ? belief that he is worth a price idmission never leaves him. He fal's in love with a girl bese of her good looks, and claims r marriage that because she isn't pable housewife he was deceived. He is as popular when a young i as the only dog in an orphan um, and makes the dangerous take of thinking that after he is ried his popularity will continue. When a book agent tells him he n important personage he is so sed with the book agent's powof discernment that he will buy thine offered. And every debt instalment he pays is only ar ?r proof of his conceit."?FranL. Garside. m % Insufficiently Described, woman l^ad lost a handbag. AfOdyssean wanderings from one ial to another she was ushered inhe janitor's office. I was told," she began, "that a found upstairs was-turned in to Is it here?*' I ain't sayin' it is," said he, "an n't sayin' it ain't. What kind of did you lose?" ince the hand bag had been only of a million black bags sold in lepartment stores for $1 and posed no special marks of identificathe woman waived a descripof its exterior and plunged ightway into an enumeration of contents. There were a handk, a purse containing the loser's le and address and money, .a iple of silk, keys and a bunch of elopes. le put her through a catechism t compelled repeated description * c x? _ ?j ?i. ? ? a ,ne lost ireabures, auu at cue euu said: I can't see my way clear to let have that bag. I can't see as 've established your right to it." n desperation the woman appeal:o the superintendent of the buildThe janitor stood stolidly by. i the superintendent: Have you looked inside the bag?" I have." Does it contain the things she described?" I guess?about." Then why in the name of sense ,'t you let her have it?" Because," said the janitor, stubnly, "she ain't never once describthe outside of the bag."?Washton Star. JOTICE.?Automobile rain probf ters $5.00; also gloves and caps, ull line. Write F. G. MERTINS, justa, Ga. TWO VERY FOOLISH MEN. A Shooting Scrape Followed a Politi cal Argument. At Kingstree W. B. Stanton wa shot Tuesday afternoon by J. E Pearce, the ball striking him in th left side and ranging down into th hip joint. At this writing it is no possible to tell whether the woun will prove serious- or not. The me are first cousins and both are farm ers of good reputation in that couc ty. It seems that both parties ha been together and that the shootin grew out of what at first was goo natured joking and guying each otb er, as to political views. The Stat campaign meeting was attended wit' enthusiasm and feeling waxed warm Both men have families and the af fair is much regretted. Pearce ha been lodged in jail. Frog Croaks in Woman's Stomach Washington, July 6.?A live froj that crawled and clawed and croak ed lived for nearly a year in th< stomach of Mrs. L. V. King, of Dean wood. After reducing the woman to a liv ine skeleton the frog was finally ex tricated by physicians of the emer gency hospital with a' large pump. The frog is now preserved in alco hoi. It measures, all told, abou seven inches. As a tadpole it was swallowed b: Mrs. King in well water last August Weeks passed before the woman real ized there was some living creatur* in her stomach. She consulted doc tors, but they laughed at her. ! Last spring the frog, now reaching to its full growth, began to climl into her throat and nearly suffocatec her, and several times she faintec with pain. Two months ago, Mrs. King de clares, the frog began to croak. She distinctly heard it many times anc her relatives bear her out. She came to the emergency hospital here, anc the frog was pumped out of its hid ing place. The frog lived ten minutes in i tub of water. It croaked and san? j. m? a 1 M jusi iiKe any regular nug. xucl it died. According to physicians this is th* first time on record that any creature of the proportions of this frog ha? ever lived in a human stomach foi the period of 11 months. How the Parcels Express Would Re< duce the Cost of Living. In the current issue of Farm and Fireside, the Washington correspondent of that publication strongly commends a parcels express bill directing the government to take over the express companies and run their business as a part of the postal service. Mr. Lewis, one of the authors of the bill, makes the following comments on his proposed measure: " 'This measure would do more to solve the cost-of-living question, than any other. Our whole transport system makes no provision for the small shipment. We have provision for wholesale, not for retail, transportation. Yet the things the farm produces are finally sold in small retail lots, and the things it buys are mainly bought in retail lots. How many consumers buy one hundred pounds of butter, or ten cases of eggs, in a lot? The consumer wants three pounds of butter and one dozen eggs at a time. We have transportation facilities and rates adjusted to the purpose of moving the one-hundredpound or one-hundred-ton shipment, but not the three-pound one. Now note the result of that system: " 'Our trouble is that neither the producer nor the consumer deals in wholesale lots. In order to utilize the wholesale transportation facilities, there must be middlemen in the country to gather together these small lots, and distributing middlemen in the city, who break up these big bulks into small packages for the consumer. What we need is a provision . to articulate together the great main railroad conduit, the delivery system that the postoffice conducts in the city, the rural delivery and collection system it operates in the country, and make a single operation, a single accounting system, a single directing intelligence, rui the whole thing. " 'See what that does. A farmei doesn't have ten crates of eggs; if he saved up till he had, they'd spoil or v.n<r>,4e IPiif V>o Vine n fpw Hr?7Ptl Hid aauuo. ****** -w .. ? fresh ones a day. He puts them in s little case, directs them to his customer in town, and puts on a rec stamp for, say, ten cents. That rec stamp contains a blank space ir which he writes the C. 0. D. amounl that is to be paid by the consignee and the postoffice brings back tht amoun to him next day. Or, he ma} put on a blue stamp, which means no collection is to be made. That is the way it would work.' " The new 550,000 passenger statior at Rock Hill, built by the Southerr railway, has been completed and is now in use. It is up-to-date in ever} particular. VOTERS ARE BULLDOZED. i- Blease Threatens to Take Charge Charleston's Police. ,s Charleston, July 5.?"I want 3. put a proposition to you, and > e answer it at the August primari e Whatever you do, I will be goveri ?t anyway for September, October, I d vember and December and 21 days n January. If you want governm< i- by injunction and a metropolitan ] l- fice force, you vote for Ira B. Jon d and I'll give it to you." With t g audacious threat Gov. Blease clos d his long awaited address at the St i- campaign meeting held here to-nig e an address in which he intimal h that thp rerent hrpnk hptween h i. and Jno. P. Grace, mayor of Charl !- ton, began when he refused to co s mission as notary public a negro, W. Bennett, whom the mayor t recommended. He said further, w l. reference to charges voiced by 1 mayor, that graft collected in Ch ? les-ton had been traced to the ofl " of the governor. "No gentlem e would insinuate that I had ever ~ ceived any graft and any man w says I did is a malicious charac - thief and a cowardly liar." The g< - ernor also declared his intention - standing by Benjamin H. Stotha chief of the constabulary in Charl - ton, against whom graft charj t were recently brought before a leg lative investigation committee. V More than 1,200 persons, no v . men being included, were assembl - in Hibernian hall when the can 2 dates for governor were introduc< - These spoke as usual. The meeti opened at 5 o'clock in the afternc ? and continued uiitil all of the can ) dates in the party had been heai i It was an attentive audience, but o 1 quick to express approval or diss proval. Quick also to laugh as soi - of the speakers learned to their d j comfiture, when a point put forwa 1 in alj seriousness tickled, for soi j reason, the resibilities of the crov i Tremendous Demonstrations. Tremendous demonstrations w given in honor of both the leadi i candidates for governor, but it a ; peared that applause for Judge Jod i came more generally from over t house and men long acquainted wi i Charleston audiences said the majo i ty opinion among those present w > in favor of Jones as against Bleas * Undeniably however, the volume sound was greater in the pro Blea outbreaks, as it usually is. Hissi: was more freely resorted to he than elsewhere on the campaign, an expression of disapproval ai l Gov. Blease was the target of a go< " deal of it. Excellent order prevaile " An extraordinary number of polic ' men in uniform was distributed abo ! the hall and these were prompt suppressing demonstrations whl they deemed imporper. An admoi ! tory wave of the hand proved <' ; that was necessary in every case. Judge Jones devoted some porti< 1 of his time to a reply in detail the speech delivered at Bishopvil by Gov. Blease. The governor made his usual de laration regarding negroes, lynchin and other matters, but gave his a tention principally to points of loc interest in Charleston. Some of h most interesting statements we made in response to questions fro the floor. "What about beer?" asked a voi ! from the audience. "You bring me a glass of it i here and I can talk about it better 1 said the governor. "What about racing?" was anoth question. "Do as you did this year," retoi ed Gov. Blease. "Act like men ai 1 do as you please." This questi< and its answer related to the passas 1 by the last legislature of an act ou ' lawing metropolitan racing in Sou ! Carolina from July 1, 1912. i Four Men Killed in Labor Riot. , Lake Charles, La., July 7.?Fo . men were killed and four serious ( wounded this afternoon in a pitchi . battle between union and non-uni< . timber workers and guards employi . by a lumber mill at Gradow, La., l mill town, 50 miles north of tl . city: Dates Hall, Roy Morton, Ed Brown and an unknown Italian. Ha > L Morton and Brown were union me A party of 200 union men fro . Derider, under the leadership of ; L. Emerson, president of the Brot t erhood of Timber Workers, went t Gradow, where a strike is in pro raa<3 tr? hnlri a meeting. The pr . prietor of the mill and his non-unii I employes met the crowd and in [ wordy rpw that followed some o: { fired a revolver. This was follow< t by a perfect fusilade. Sheriff Reid left immediately on cnor>?n 1 train fnr firadow. aCCOmC > O^WV/iUi V. , T nied by the coroner and a detac 5 ment of Company K., Louisiana N 5 tional Guard, will follow as soon the soldiers can be assembled. Trouble has been brewing for sor i time, and feeling was increased by l recent visit of several Socialists a: j union speakers to the mill distrii r The mill at Gradow employs abo 60 workmen. YORK LAD ELECTROCUTED. of Edward Price Comes in Contact with Ai Heavily Charged Wire. to Yorkville, July 5.?Edward Price, 'ou about ten years old, and son of Mr. . es. Edward B. Price, of Clover, was in- t ior instantly killed this morning by coms'o ing in contact with a sagging wire ^ in from the Southern Power Company's gQ ant lines. The victim, with a brother, po- was on his way to a field, a short es, distance from their father's house, ge his to help hoe corn and had a hoe in j w, sed his hand. It appears that he either f ate walked into or tripped on the sag- ^ ht, ging wire before he saw it and fell ted across it. Death was instantaneous. im It was something like thirty minutes es- before it was possible to get the curm rent turned off the line, and during f S. that time the little fellow's body was f lad horribly burned. j ith Young Price was an exceptionally ac :he bright and promising boy and his h ar- untimely death is a peculiarly sad ice blow to his parents and other relaan tives, as well as to the community in ^ re- which he lived, where he was a genho eral favorite. e(^ ter ? -wTT- Prominent Attorney Faces Recorder. J ti< of se r+ Atlanta, July 4.?H. J. Boswell, h2 pc_ one of the most widely known police CO court lawyers in Atlanta, himself 5 be js_ faced the recorder yesterday afternoon on the charge of stealing hay ;0, from a neighbor. pc e(j Boswell admitted that he was in ^ his neighbor's hay, but interposed the unique defense that he was there ng only to gather some eggs which his 1 m< nT1 own hens had laid on his neighbor's 0E 2 premises. ? r(j Boswell was bound over to the be ne criminal court on the charge of lar- L( tp_ ceny from the house. Immediately ne after making bond, he appeared in is. the same court as the attorney for r(j the defense in the cases of two nene groes charged with vagrancy. Both negroes were found guilty. W ,rP Cut glass and hand painted china ng at cost at Herald Book Store. S J WHICH BANK* n" ff. Is your money hid away in an c as T where the burglar is likely to je. locked up tight in our vault, of i' massive steel safe, but by an 3 well? You do not perhaps r ,se your money is in when kept t ^ day the newspapers tell of lo ;re 3, tWs habit. If you would sleep as * * edge that your money is perfe , once and open an account with 11 3 no chances. dd 2 EHRHARDT BANK :e- Jt, EHRHARDT ce L*Heb c prwperoos fanner. ' Telephone ". Enhance 1 id in A telephone on ge mpuns convenience ai AJLAVMA* W 'WW? * ? ? th user, but it adds value enable you to sell youi vantage. Telephone s ur can be had at very low ll Write for our free Bd )n Farmers Line Depan 1 SOUTHERN BELL TE1 .is & TELEGRAPH C< W. 11( \08 South Pry or 8f* Alb m. i ibi locaoo !l FRUIT ed II We have just received a a U son Fruit Jars which are b ia. O We also have a nice assor h- H Water Glasses, and Jel a- in need of any of them don as save money. ne ad || J. A. HI H THE HARDWARE MAN. m, ipooo MONEY IN POTATOES. adreson Man Will Make 200 Bushels on One Acre. Mr. J. R. Miller brought to the city lursday probably the first four>rse load of country-raised Irish potoes ever sold here. He disposed them easily and could sell several ? indred bushels at a fair price. He Id his potatoes to the grocers. Mr. Miller planted about an acre Irish Cobbler potatoes, and will 11 at least 150 bushels. Besides hat he keeps for his own use. The tal yield will be something over >0 bushels. # But that is not all of the story. He ls corn planted in the middle of e potato rows that is now knee gh, four inches apart, in the best condition, and he is going to try r a record yield. Mr. Miller says he going to try to clear $250 on that re, and if his corn turns out well 5 is likely to do so. The total exsnses, including the remainder of e work of cultivating the corn, will i in the neighborhood of $50. In this connection it might be stat[ that Irish potatoes are being shipid to this market in large quantijs, and the price is high for this ason of the year. If more farmers id had Mr. Miller's foresight they uld have made a nice sum of money isides keeping at home the money at is being sent away for this im>rtant article of food.?Anderson ail. FARMERS' UNION MEETINGS. The local Bamberg Farmers' Union eets at the court house in Bamberg l the first and third Friday morngs in every month. Meeting at , u iur memirs hip received at every meeting, it all members be present. J. W. STEWART, P. O'QUINN, - President. Secretary. H. M. GRAHAM Attorney-at-Law ill practice in the United States and ' State Courts in any County in the State. ;vBAMBERG, S. C. DOYOUUSEt >ld trunk, closet or bureau, Jm) find it any night, or is it & protected not only by a r * lple burglar insurance as Mp around the house. Every sses sustained because of Jfe i soundly, with the knowl- t ctly secure, bring it in at ?r us. You are then taking Mp [ING COMPANY ? . . . . SOUTH CAROLINA. ?? * _ wmmmtmmmmmmmmammmM * ? ^pgidL Behaakkikooe." 1 >.' .*/' ts :4 he Land f. the Farm not only ad comfort for the 4 to the land and will land to a better adservice on the Farm cost. booklet Address tment LEPHONE m\ )MPANY UtifBkV " rata, 6a. < ^^^t =o=i=| jars] / i large shipment of Maeing sold at low prices. | tment of Ice Tea Glass Q Iy Tumblers, and when H ,'t fail to call on us and JNTER I BAMBERG. S. C. H noi irM