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k JOHNSON WRAXGLLES IN COURT. " . \ Despite Protest, His Bail Increased. Not Shot as Reported. Chicago, Oct. 19.?Charged with the abduction of a white grl, Jack Johnson, the negro champion pugilist, was arraigned in municipal court to-day. His bond was increased from $800 to $1,500, and the case continued until October 29. A rumor spread over Chicago during the forenoon that Johnson had 'been shot. It was wholly errone ous. * While Johnson was leaving a bank down-town an unidentified man v. dropped a large ink well from a window of the tenth floor of an office building. The heavy glass narrowly missed the pugilist's head. In court-Johnson became furious when counsel for Mrs. F. CameronFalconet, mother of the 19-year-old girl, demanded that his bond be increased. "I don't see why Johnson should | be shown any partiality than any other defendant charged with a similar crime," said Charles Erbstein, the woman's attorney. "I don't think it is necessary to increase the bond," Johnson told the court. "I am a responsible citizen. I have a business worth $60,000." ? 4'It may be worth that to you," flashed back Erbstein, "but it's illegal and you ought to be put out of business." "All right, Mr. Mayor," commented Johnson. "If I was mayor of Chicago you v wouldn't be in business three days," x. replied the attorney. After considerable wrangling Judge Hopkins placed the bond at $1,500, the usual amount in abduction cases. Then Johnson asked permission to write out a check to cover the increase. "No checks go with me," asserted the attorney. <r "All right. It will be c-a-s-h then," shouted Johnson, spelling out the word "cash." A professional bondsman posted a cash bond for the negro. 'Two agents of the governmental department of justice were in court. When the pugilist stopped his automobile in front of a' down-town bank to-day such a crowd gathered that police were called. Mutterings ^ against the fighter were heard, but there was no open demonstration. A few negroes cried "Hurrah for John son." Jonnson paid no attention to the crowd, but guided his car care fully between the two lines of men. A mittimus ordering the detention * # of Lucile Cameron was issued to-day by Federal Commissioner Foote. She was held under $25,000 bonds. Miss Cameron will appear before Commissioner Foote Tuesday and it is expected she will be taken before the federal grand jury the same day. She was questioned by government . agents for two hours to-day, but refused to tell of her relations with Johnson. Miss Cameron later was taken to Rockford by a deputy , marshal. Her hearing on a charge of disorderly conduct was continued to October 29. INJURED WHILE ASLEEP. Honea Path Lad Breaks Thigh Here in Fal^. Honea Path, Oct. 19.?C. E. HarTv? 1 X t*ao v? a! /I cnn r\f P P, y til., it;\>cai"viu ovu \J i. -w. . Harper, while walking in his sleep last night fell from a piazza roof and broke his right thigh bone. Fortunately his father was awakened by the noise made in opening the window and went immediately to his son. A singular thing about the occurrence is that the boy was only partially awakened by his fall and was not fully aroused until an hour after. The limb was set by the l^cal physicians and the patient is getting along as well as could be expected. Winthrop College Exents. > Rock Hill, Oct. 18.?The Davidson College Glee Club will give an , entertainment in the college auditorium on the evening of October 28. We always enjoy having the Davidson Glee Club with us, and are looking forward to the twentyeighth with great pleasure. Mrs. Funkkouser, our assistant matron of last year, has succeeded Mrs. Norwood, the head matron, who was not able to come back this year. Mrs. E. C. Dibble, of Orangeburg, is our assistant matron of Johnson hall. The annual concert by the teachers of the music department was givenlast Monday evening. It was very much enjoyed by all. ^ The Senior caps came last Tuesday, and that evening, while the other students were at supper, the Senior class, each member wearing her cap, marched through the dining room single file. It was a very impressive sight to see a Senior class of a hundred and fifty-two members marching in a dignified body. The class president, Miss Elizabeth McXab, led the line. SPIXPLES IX OPEKATIOX. Some Facts About the Movement of 1 Cotton Since September. The total supply of cotton in the United States on September 30 was 2,110.678 running bales, counting round bales as half bales, according < to the census bureau's first regular , supply and distribution report, made ] in compliance with the recently en- , acted law requiring a monthly statement of the quantity of cotton con- ( sumed, on hand, imported and ex ported and the number of active cot- . ton spindles. Of the cotton on hand the quanti- . ty held by manufacturers was 722,781 bales as follows: In cotton 1 growing States 206,S96 and in all other States 515,912. There was ] held at independent warehouses and ( elsewhere 1,387,897 bales as follows: In cotton growing States 1,285,834 and in all other States 102,063. ] Cotton consumed in the United ( States during September amounted to 437,322 bales, as follows: In cotton growing States 225,424 and in all other States 211.89S. , Exports of cotton during September were 729,859 bales, as follows: To the United Kingdom, 245,290; to Germany, 163,449; to France, 103,060; to Italy, 36,906; to all other , countries 81,159. The imports of cotton during the month amounted to 105,510 bales, as follows: From Egypt, 1,325; from the United Kingdom, 6,541; from all other countries, 2,044. The number of cotton spindles operated during September in the United States were 29,795,792, of which 11,519,913 were in cotton growing States and 18,275,879 in all other States. PROBERS TO MEET. May be Last Session of Dispensary Commission. Bennettsville, Oct. 16.?The News [ and Courier correspondent inquired to-day of Mr. J. J. Evans, secretary of the dispensary investigating com- ' mittee, the future pans of the committee. He* stated that arrangements are being made for a meeting in Columbia, on or about the 31st of this month. He also said that the members of the committee were de- ! sirous that any and every one who could furnish any information pertinent to the question before the committee to be present on that occasion with all witnesses. It seems that the committee desires to complete it work as soon as possible, and it is thought by the members of the committee that in all probability, the meeting on the 31st will be the last 1 meeting before the preparation of the report for the general assembly. It is a well known fact that* Mr. Evans made the r^ce in this county for re-election, and received the nomination by a very handsome vote. It is also well known that when it was apparent that the public desired to know where the candidate stood, as to the most desirable man for governor, that Mr. Evans frank ly declared his preference for Mr. Jones, and made an exceedingly able, vigorous and manly campaign. While Mr. Evans so expressed his preference, he has not at any time, so far as any one knows, given the slightest intimation of the force and effect of the testimony taken before the committee, or what would probably be the finding of the committee. It seems to have been his idea that he was appointed to take testimony and investigate, and to make a report to the general assembly. His friends here are satisfied that he has conscientiously made the investigation, in so far as he is concerned, and that the report on his part will be in accordance with the testimoify, regardless of who or what it may honor or dishonor. Fortune to Aid Old Maids. San Benito, Tex., Oct. 17.?Old maids of this county are provided for in the will of Miss Mary Philpot who died here recently. Miss Philpot herself never married, and at her death was worth $100,000. The will instructs her administrators to amply care for all old maids who apply for assistance for a period of two years. The bequest warns against aiding * grass widows and requires the spinsters cared for to prove they are forty or more years of age. CHARLESTON BOY KILLED. On Motor Cycle He Kan Into Wagon, a Shalt Piercing His Chest. Charleston. Oct. 17.?Speeding on. his motorcycle to the high school Fred Hackeman, about IS years old, was instantly killed this morning when his machine collided with a lumber wagon going in an opposite direction, a shaft piercing his chest. Young- Hackeman was said by per sons in the neighborhood to be making more than forty miles an hour. : The tragedy occurred just outside the city boundary. Only yesterday the lad was cited by the police for speeding. NEGRO IS KILLED. i The Body of Jim Hill is Found in Barnwell. Barnwell, Oct. 20.?At an early hour this morning, while walking j along the railroad track near the! Southern Cotton Oil company's plant i a on the outskirts of town, a negro, | K named Jowers, found the dead body | of Jim Hill, a negro, near the track, j A.n examination of the body disclos- j od the fact that Hill had been foully j murdered, having been brained with | in axe. There were three wounds on ! his head, one blow of the axe having ! almost severed his right ear. Coroner : J. Staff Halford empanelled a jury j to hold the inuqest, which has not j yet been completed, although Char-! lie Drake, a negro, has been arrest- j P 2d and is now in jail. ? It is alleged that Drake and Hill g were heard quarreling at a late hour B last night. A blood-stained axe and ?oat, which Drake admits are his, were found in the latter's house. It is also said that there were marks leading from Drake's house to where the body was found, as though something had been dragged over the ground. Drake denies his guilt, claiming that Hill was killed by a train. He appears to be entirely indifferent to the outcome, saying that he was sorry Hill had been killed, but that he didn't care whether he was put on the chain gang or in the penitentiary I or electrocuted. The woman with I whom Drake lives at first denied I that Hill had been at her house last 1 night, but Drake admitted that he I had. I Interesting Facts About Oysters. I An oyster is wonderfully prolific. K A single oyster in a single season will produce 30,000,000 eggs. If these all survived and in %turn had normal families, in a few years many great bodies of water, such as Long Island Sound, Peconic, Gardiners, Narragansett, Great South and Chesapeake Bays, would become filled up. Navigation would have to be suspended. The oyster shelly would form solid land, as do the houses of the coral insects of the South Pacific. But instead of increasing, the destruction of the young oysters by their enemies is so great, together with the depletion of the natural beds by the demand for this delicious food by mankind, that far from increasing, in past years the supply was greatly j i nococ if* UepiCLCU.. X XI liluu; uuuvu .w threatened to become extinct. This was especially true in Great Britain and some places on the Atlantic coast. In recent*years, however, a vast industry has been established for the artificial propogation and cultivation of oysters. Now hundreds of thousands of acres are employed in oyster farming in the great bays and sounds of the Atlantic seaboard. Here oyster farming under 30 to 60 feet of water is conducted upon an enormous scale, at great expense and labor. Whiie the natural oysters formerly grew in creeks and estuaries, where they were somewhat in danger from -the water being impure, the present oyster production extends many miles from land in these great bodies of salt water, where there is no chance of contamination, and the product is always pure and delicious. CARS RUNNING IN AUGUSTA. All Strikers Except Those Under | Charges Resume Work. ? Augusta, Oct. 19.?The street cars are being operated to-day on the city and Aiken divisions, with former union and non-union employees. The strikebreakers, with the exception of twenty-three, are back at work. The company preferred charges against thirty-five of the strikers, but the mediation board decided that only twenty-three of this number should be placed "on the bench," until a board of arbitration decides whether or not they should return to the employ of the company. Among those who are suspended because of charges being preferred against them are the president and secretary of the Amalgamated Association, No. 577. Almost Credible. Secretary Wilson of the depart- | ment of agriculture was talking on 1 the Mauretania about the record | crops of 1912, says the Minneapolis t Journal. % "These wonderful crops," he said, | "are almost enough to make you be- 1 lieve the cross-cut saw story. "A farmer, you know, sent his j hired man to a neighbor's with a [ note saying: | " 'Friend Smith?Will you please jj lend me your cross-cut,saw, as I wish i: to cut a watermelon up, so as to get I: it into my dray?' "The neighbor wrote back: | " 'Friend Jones?I would be glad i to lend you my saw, but same has 1 just got stuck in a cantaloupe.'" " ^waaa???a iwiiimiBi m?"i? I ? I?I In Bamberg and Barnwell County's Shopping Centre Established ^ ^ 7 Years In Second Great Fall Sale for 31 Days COMMENCING SATURDAY, OCT. 12th, AND ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER HIE 16th ' i r Our Method of Opening Season And Demonstrating That Here Values Are Best Always. , Others preach, Pearlstin Brothers practice. Others claim to undersell; do they, can they? Expensive locations, trading stamps, entertainments, commissions, fashion promenaders, coupon slips, advertising agencies add heavily to the cost of doing business. The custofner pays the bill. We prefer straighforward merchandising, concentrating on value. 1 I T '0 .i Which Do You Prefer? Which Pays You Best? REMEMBER OUR OFFERINGS ARE ALWAYS GOODS OF MERIT AND UP-TO-DATE. , We have an enormous stock of everything good to eat and of everything suitable to wear, and the month of September, with unfavorable weather, afforded us no outlet for rlisnnsinor nf samp. With this sale we intend Ginghams, per yard v * w prJLUCd UIl O/Xl AXUUU. m ! In like manner all the way through. Our word is our bond j | for what we will do. We make everything good at this sale. I I H _ & i rearlstin tSros.| OLAR : : : : : : SOUTH CAROLINA] to make*up forlost time in unloading to the benefit of the public. Our store will be gorgeously decorated for this sale, everything marked down in plain figures before your eyes All Goods Charged During This Sale at Regular Prices Will not be responsible for neglected telephone or mail orders during these 31 busy days Don't forget to keep the dates of this great sale in mind and he sure to attend in full force from our opening day, Saturday, Oct 12, to Closing Day Saturday Nov. 16 To Inaugurate this sale we Quote a few Prices to Substantiate the Above GROCERIES. || CLOTHING. Foote's Best and Maryland Chief To- $12.00 and $15.00 Men's Suits (PA AO I matoes, 1,000 three-pound cans, 1 A- at only " ^ @ each lUt 65c Sweaters being sold at the 41' low price of 1IC ^^each^111011' ^ CanS' ta^S' ^ IOC 05c Fleeced Underwear to go on 41 sale at *Xv / DRY GOODS. SHOES AND HATS. tt- j c.4. j j ? - $1.00 Shoes now on sale at only QAKimonas and other Standard 0 10 th j ... .. OSfc Outings @ per yard 0 1 OC ^ ^ ^ ^ th Calicoes, very good, at the low C- low price of | price per yard S3.00 Shoes during this sale @ (?1 OQ 1 10c, 12% c, and 15c Dress Q 1 Q ' per pair ?pl.03' 8 ' ' - A l_\f J ? oil XJot-c