Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MAN STEALS OWN CHILD. Husband and Wife Separated and ! Father Attempts to Get Child. Savannah, Sept. 19.?Ira M. Langdale, 29 years old, claiming to be a printer, living at Winnsboro, S. C., was arrested in an interlocking tower at Central Junction, four miles from Savannah Tuesday - by Lieut. McCool and Chief Detective Murphy, on the charge of abducting Lottie Sarah Langdale, 2 years old, his own daughter, according to a story in Tuesday's issue of the Savannah News. When found Langdale was clasping the child in his arms. He claimed that he had taken her so that he might return with her to his home. He declared the child's mother was incapable of caring for it. Langdale was taken to headquarters in the automobile which the officers had used in pursuing him. His wife, who has been separated from him for about four months, and who is now employed in a Broughton street store, appeared a short time afterward and claimed tne cnua. i "My God!" exclaimed Langdale when the little girl was taken from his arms, and turned over to Mrs. Langdale, "all I wanted to do was to take care of my own daughter." Then he sank into a chair and cried as if his heart would break. His wife looked on, apparently unmoved, and soon afterwards walked out with her child in her arms. She was accompanied by her aunt, from whose < house the girl had been taken by her father in an automobile. Tuesday morning the father called i at the Wright house, ostensibly to see his wife. Mrs. Wright stated that he entered without her knowl- : edge. He remained all morning at i the house, alternating between joy j at being with his daughter, and sadness at not being able to see his : wife. Mrs. Wright claims he cried ' and laughed by turns. At about 12 o'clock, while Mrs. i Wright went to the kitchen to at- ] tend to some culinary duties, Lang- : dale snatched the child from the floor : where it had been left by its aunt and made off in an automobile. Mrs. < Wright returned to the front of the 1 house in time to see Langdale and 1 the little girl whisk down the street ; in the car. A telephone call was immediately ] sent by the excited Mrs. Wright to i police headquarters. She' hurriedly ] gave Lieut. McCool and Chief De- < tective Murphy a description of 1 \ , , _ , Langdale and the child wmcn ne naa i so boldly taken from her house. She < also stated that it was her belief that Langdale would try to carry the little girl to a railroad station. Climbing into an automobile the two officers went first to the union station, where they found that Lang- ' Hale had been. The last seen of him, however, he was headed toward the Central Junction. The excited man- ] i | ner of the father and the frightened look of his little daughter's face had ] attracted the attention of the hack- , men and when he left the direction ] in which he went was noted. A quick < dash to the Junction was made. ! i L. & X. PASSENGER WRECKED. 1 v < Two Probably Fatally Injured and 1 Eighteen Seriously Hurt. Lexington, Ky., Sept. 20.?Two 5 presons were probably fatally injur- ' ed and 18 others more or less seri- ( ously injured to-day when Louisville and Nashville passenger train No.* 1 37, bound from Cincinnati to the ( South, plunged through an open ^ switch a quarter of a mile, north of Kiserton, Ky., throwing the engine ( from the track to another and wrecking eight freight cars on a siding. All the injured were taken to Paris on a special relief train. The pas- < senger train was running at a good , rate of speed wl^en it struck the sec- j ?'V. K1 a trnol.'in a 1 o UUIi VVUC1C UUUUIC uatnwg xo * *~x | progress. The switch was left open ( by some one whose identity has not ] yet been fixed and the passenger j train ran full tilt into the cut of ( freight cars which were left stand- ( ing on the siding by work crews. The baggage car was hurled from the ? track and the engine almost com- j pletely wrecked. The passengers in ( the coaches behind suffered their in- j juries by being shaken up by the terrific impact. ] JONES MEN IN CONTROL. And Blease Legislature and Senate is Assured. Columbia, Sept. 11.?Additional returns, which are practically complete, show that the supporters of Judge Jones will have control of the < house and the senate. In the senate there will be two-thirds majority of Jones men. In the house there are seventy known supporters of Jones and twenty-nine for Blease, while the attitude of twenty-nine is unknown, i There are twelve known Blease supporters in the senate, with two unknown. Eighty-nine members will be required for a two thirds majority in the house. # EXPRESS PACKAGE IS SHORT. ?55,000 Mysteriously Disappears in Transit. Pensacola, Fla., Sept. 20.?A package containing $55,000 mysteriously disappeared in transit from the First National Bank, in this city, to officials of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at Fiomaton, Ala. The money was part of a shipment of $75,000 intended as a pay roll and was in bills of small denominations. Details of the robbery, which is said to have occurred Wednesday, did not become public until to-day. Reports were current that the Westbound Louisville and Nashville train, leaving here Wednesday morning, had been held up and robbed, but this was emphatically denied late to-day by railroad officials here. Private detectives and special agents of the railroad and Southern Express Company are here investigating the affair. The money was i>ut up in two sealed packages at the bank, one containing $55,000 and the other $20, 000. These packages were delivered to the Sotuhern Express Company and in turn delivered by them to the Louisville and Nashville pay car at Flomaton, to be used in paying off the men as -the car came South to Pensacola. On being opened in the pay car, it is said, the larger package was found to contain a roll of pages from a magazine in place of the money. The express messengers, it is said, claim the seals on the packages were unbroken while the packages were in their care. /' No report has been made to-night by the detectives investigating the matter and railroad and express officials refused to discuss the disappearance of the money. Several months ago three train robbers who held up the New Orleans and Northeastern train near Hattiesburg, Miss., and dynamited the express safe and secured one package of $51,000 in currency, representing the railroad company's pay roll for its employees at Hattiesburg. More than thirty other packages of currency and jewelry were secured, the total amount of booty taken by the robbers being variously estimated it from $100,000 to $150,000. Special agents of the Southern Express Company and Pinkerton detectives left New Orleans yesterday for Pensacola to investigate the robbery )f' express shipments of money between Pensacola and Flomaton. Officials here refuse to divulge the amount stolen. Drowned While Fishing. Gaffney, Sept. 19.?Jeff Burgess, a white man of this city, 32 years of age, lost his life in People's creek, about a mile out of the city to-day. Burgess started out early # this morning on a fishing trip. He was accompanied by a lad from one of the mill villages, who stayed with him until noon, when the boy left, returning to his home.' About 4 o'clock as two negroes were passing by they saw part of his body and succeeded in getting him out. The water was aot over waist deep and part of the * * i- 2- 1- ^ J lead man s doming was not luucueu by the water. Burgess was affected with epileptic fijs, and it is presumed that he was seized with one while standing on the bank of the stream ind fell in, being drowned before he tould summon assistance. Coroner Viensett went to the scene but did lot hold an inquest, as there was no evidence of foul play. 3URGLARS1 LOOT WORTH $18,000 jrotham Police Run Into Den of Thieves and Take Two. New York, Sept. 20.?Following a 20-minute chase over fences and rear fards in the vicinity of West 20th street, two men were arrested early :o-day, charged with burglary. Five ither men escaped. The party of aleged burglars was surprised while Looting the storehouse of Julius 3ohen & Co., manufacturers of cloaks and suits. The police found 518,000 worth jf stuff packed up outside the build lag, while inside they found seven dark lanterns, two sticks 3f dynamite and a fine collection of burglar tools. Pennsylvania Law Compelling Thrift. "It has become almost a habit to ascribe to the thrifty German settlers the virtue of giving their children trade training," said the old inhabitant. "While that is true in most cases, it is a fact little known in Philadelphia that there are laws compelling such training for every child. "In the code of laws of Pennsylvania issued by William Penn, agreed upon in England in 1862 and never repealed, stands this, in section 28: 'That all children in this province of the age of 21 years shall be taught some useful trade or skill, to the end that none may be idle, but the poor may work to live, and the rich if they become poor may not want.' "?Philadelphia Record. BABY KILLS HALF-SISTER. Willie Lindsay, Not Quite Four Year Old, Shoots 8-Year-01d Girl. Spartanburg, Sept. 19.?Not quit four years old, and weighing onl 35 pounds, Willie Lee Lindsay, so of Henry Lindsay, a negro, manage in some manner to discharge a shot gun and kill his eight-year-old hal] sister Marian Lindsay at their horn on J. L. Maxwell's place at East Spai tanburg about 8:30 o'clock yestei day morning. Willie then sought hi parents, who were away from horn at the time, and informed them tha a mad dog had killed Marian. Lying Face Downward. When Henry Lindsay and his wit returned home they found Maria lying dead upon the floor, face dowr ward. The gun lay beside her. ? load of shot had torn its way throug her body and lodged in the wal Willie persisted in his story that dog killed Marian. Lindsay and his wife said the shot gun had lain under the bed, unload ed, and that the cartridges were i the bureau drawer. It is suppose that the children took the gun froi its hiding place and loaded it. It i thought unlikely that Willie woul have been able to do so alone. Found Gun Unbreached. When found after the tragedy th gun was unbreached and looked as i an effort had been made to extrac the empty shell. Coroner John S. Turner investigal ed the case and said last night ther was no doubt that Willie had shot hi sister. As the child is too young t prosecute and the parents are confl dent that Willie killed the girl, n inquest will be held. Tyrus Cobb Visits Wilson. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 19.?One c Gov. Wilson's visitors after he ha reached his hotel here to-night wa Tyrus Cobb, ball player extraordir ary, with whom the governor had e> pressed a desire to shake hands. "I haven't seen you since we wer together in Georgia except that I hav seen you play ball many times sine then," said the governor. "Well, governor, the next time see you I hope it wi^l be in the Whit House," replied Ty. After this the nominee invited th ball player to have lunch with hin The latter bashfully declined. "The last time he saw me in Geoi gia I was on the stage. I'm glad h didn't refer to that," said Cobb wit a grin, as he left the hdtel. Drowns Wlien Boat Tilts. Charleston, Sept. 19.?Henry Witi son of Mrs. M. Witt, proprietress c a grocery store on the corner c \Tppfinp' anH Shenherd streets, wa drowned this morning near the Chai leston navy yard. Witt and severs companions left the navy jrard in small boat for a fishing trip. Th party had not proceeded very far be fore on the swell of the waves, cause by a passing steamer, the small era! was suddenly tilted and Witt an W. R. Sweatman were thrown int the wrater. Sweatman fortunatel seized hold of the boat, but Wil missed his hold and disappeared. H was unable to swim. The body wa recovered this afternoon. HAD BULLET THROUGH HEART Xight Watchman at Macon Mill She by Unknown Party. \Iacon, Ga., Sept. 20.?The dea body of Neill Belknap, night watch man of the Bibb Mills here, wa found early this morning by hi brother, lying face downward with bullet in his heart. Belknap, who was doing his firs night's work for the company, wa shot from behind. J. W. Wade, th former watchman, who had quit hi job, was arrested early to-day, bu released an hour later because c lack of evidence implicating him i: the killing. The officials are completley at se as to the identity of the slayer o possible motive. v ALL QUIET IN BARNWELL. Shooting of Constable Bates Cause no Race Trouble, as Feared. Barnwell, Sept. 20.?Sheriff F. K Creech returned from Dunbarton lat yesterday afternoon and reporte that everything was quiet, the excite ment over the shooting of Hewlet Bates by Adolphus Jackson, a ne gro, and the subsequent killing c Jackson, having cooled off. It ha been feared that when the inques over the negro's body was held ther would be trouble, but while a larg crowd of blacks were at the inques the proceedings passed off quietlj The verdict of the jury was tha Jackson came to his death from gur shot wounds, the gun being in th hands of either Hewlett Bates c Owen Walker, Bates's companion, o b .L. It is hoped that there will b no further trouble. Write for the shirt we are sellin for 79c and $1.15, F. G. MERTINS Augusta, Ga. ALLEX CAPTORS AWARDED. s Governor Mann Gives Detective Baldwin Warrant for $2,300. 9 Richmond, Va., Sept. 20.?Gov. y Mann to-day' gave Detective W. G. n Baldwin a warrant on the State Audd itor for $2,300, the amount of the t- rewards offered for the capture of I- Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards, e wanted in connection with the Car - roll county court murders at Hillsr ville, Va. The State now has paid a ;s total of $12,300 in rewards for the e capture of various members of the it Allen clan. Detective Baldwin announced that no part of the $2,300 would be given e to Miss Maude Iroler, the sweetheart n of Edwards, who unwittingly led the ?- detectives to the hiding place of the A. last two members of the clan, in Dcs h Moines, Iowa. He asserted that she 1. had not betrayed the men, but said a that her father, Frank Iroler, would be offered $500 of the reward for t- information which he gave to the del tectives. n m d Plant an Orchard. n 3 It is one of the Progressive Farmj er's steadfast contentions that every farm ought to provide a goodly supply of both orchard and small fruits e for the folks who live on it. "A if farm without fruit does not deserve :t the name of home," to repeat an old saying once more. A supply of fruit t- adds much to the enjoyment of life e on the farm and so much to the g profits to be derived from the farm, o that it is passing strange that any i- farmer would go on for years and o years without making any effort to start ail orchard, or a vineyard, or even a strawberry bed. Yet it is unfortuntely true that a great many do. This may be because it requires care and watchfulness to grow good ^ fruit and to make an orchard profit8 able year after year. A great mny L" of us are hunting for the things which we can "do once and be done with." An orchard is not that kind e of a proposition. Few things are, e for that matter; but in the orchard e there are so many insects and' diseases and seasonal contrarieties to 1 contend with, and they all require ^ ? T- MM VN i An/) nr O f _ fcUUIi yI UJLLiy I tJUU IUUIUU5U-6VIU5 c.V.tention that it is no lazy man's 01* e careless man's job to make a good l* orchard and keep it going. This is not saying that it requires specially hard work or any unusual e amount of it to have fruit on the h farm, for it does not. It does require some work, however, and this work must be done at the proper time. With the proper attention, it is t, doubtful if any part of the farm /will if pay better for the time and money if spent on it than will that devoted to ,s the' growing of orchard *and small - fruits. l1 For this reason we/ would again a urge every reader who has not a good e orchard,, a vineyard, a strawberry , bed, a few growing nut trees, to bed gin work right now so that he can ;t have them. The season for orchard d planting is only a few weeks off, 0 strawberries may be set out any time y now, the other small fruits may be it planted next month in certain sece tions. It is, therefore, none too early ,s to begin the preparation of the land for these crops, or to begin investigating the merits of different varieL* ties and finding out where they can be obtained at a reasonable price. * Get varieties that have demon strated their adaptability to souinem conditions. When commercial orchards are planted, select two or three 1 of the best market varieties, but for home use select varieties of good quality that will furnish a succession of fruit during the season. t It w?ll not pay to plant an orchard on land too poor to grow anything s else or on land half prepared. It g certainly will not pay to set out fruit trees in a pasture or anywhere else the livestock can get to them. The 1 orchard is a place in which to grow Q fruit and all other crops from it must be made secondary. Select good land for the orchard? r moderately fertile, well drained and on such slope as experience has demonstrated is best for fruit trees in your locality. The best location for s apples is not necessarily the best for peaches and other fruits; and many farms lack ideal localites for any [. kind of fruit trees. The farms on e which some kind of fruit cannot be d successfully and profitably grown, !- however, are few indeed. There are :t so many Southern fruits that some of ?- them are almost certain to do well f on your land if given a chance, d Plant an orchard, then, it will pay it you. We, as farmers, cannot justly e feel that we have lived up to our ope portunities until we have made the it South a land rich with orchards and r. vineyards, and all manner of fruits, .t But when you go to planting the i- orchards remember that you are doe ing only the first of a continuous ir work, and that if you wish continued >r returns you must give continued e care. 5 or 6 doses 666 will break any g case of Chills & Fever; and if taken I, then as a tonic the Fever will not | return, rnce zdc. . irTfl MTHTOKW AWMNCI I l ilLiLi lTlliiLiillLfll 1 VI LilHllV On Wednesday and Thursday, Oct 2nd and 3d Trimmed ^Hats ^ in ^ We have' in our employ Miss Helen sSgJ^Lambert, an expert designer and trimmer, who for * < I six years has been head trimmer for one of the In.rcrAst denartment. stores in the citv of Baltimore. I * H I She is an artist in her line, come and see her crea- 1 J tions and be convinced. 1 j Mrs. A. McB. Speaks & Co. I :i J BAMBERG, S. C. ???? Only one Dealer in this Town can sell you the highest grade, fairest-priced coffee and tea to be had anywhere, for he alone sells The Votan Line ?' j VOTAN COFFEE VOTAN TEA / Each, best of its kind This dealer is W. R HERNDON & BRO. M [mIar! I For this Section This Season jf J MMiiiBSiBMM || M season, and we sure have some beauties in W |? drove. Come and look whether you want | ^ 8 to buy or not. If JONES BROS., g BAMBERG, Sqmmomj j ^ ?- -? ?wmwwwrun twt twt m ?' CARTER & CARTER Special attention given to settlement of estates and invest!^M?S&sSMik CHICHESTER S PILLS -' Q\ ^* JftzJstY*T\ ^^sr-v TIIE DIAMOND BRAND. A 4 V Jl Ladiea! Ask yonr Drncgist for X\ " ^ ^ " m v VvM Chl-chet>tert DiamondBrandVyV\ 1MIU in Red 2nd Oold metallic^^X . . __ _?,T?T .nr.ir -v -Cw,>3 boxes, sealed with Blue Ribbon. V/ IF THE1 START TO RtN AW Alt m ^ wS Take no other. Bm7 of yonr * , 'J ~ fn Urnztftt. AskrorCiri.CllES.TESS give all your attention to the horses. ;r $ diamond hramd pills, fo* s? " J \ v* H years known?.? Best. Safest, Always Reliable The carriage will take care of itself SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE if it is one of ours. Most any old ' carriage will do for slow horses and smooth roads. It is when you have I. p RILEY it ^ ^ " a frightened team and a jolting road ' v o "--1 : rtnt Vft A \X lime uui" lamdgw owuu ?? w-.- | _ > ^ strongly. Better get one so that if ^ Fir?, liif? ^ you do have a runaway you'll have Accid?Ilt - / a carriage that will stand the test. t ' HORSES AND MULES. | INSURANCE \r G. FRANK BAMBERG, I BAMBERG, S. C. t \ J* Bamberg, S. C. ' ' " ' ' '