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life UU 1 AND IV We 1 next feets. li you \ able | were see * H.' I v I > offerii ft lots ai r 0 i , for les lv' p-,-J BAMBERG C'i'; WOUNDED BY NEGRO INTRUDER. ] Birmingham Lady Seriously Hurt, Ch Her Assailant Getting Away. pv> Birmingham, Jan. 10.?A negro ] who entered the home of Dr. E. T. ses Fields, a prominent physician at era Ensley, deliberately shot and dan- prj gerously wounded Mrs. Fields at 1 af a. m. Bloodhounds were taken to iiV) fthe scene, but could find no scent, j q The negro could not be described. cja When Mrs. Fields heard a noise aei and was awakened she saw a bright light in the room, the intruder having ]jV( placed a piece of paper over the fire fee and this had blazed up. The negro SkC grasped a pistol on the mantel and er fired deliberately at Mrs. Fields, the J ball passing through her right breast p0< and penetrating a lung. Mrs. Fields for will probably survive. fev Dr. Fields made an effort to catch gec the negro, but was unsuccessful. jar An hour later two white men were r attacked on Nineteenth street by a exf negro who attempted to shoot them but no cartridges were in the weapon. The whites knocked the negro firs down and took the pistol from him, an^ e> but he escaped. The pistol was found j j to be the property of Dr. Fields and ; used in the shooting. j fr0 - 77" . ! (Li Young School Teacher Missing. | g. , i Camden, Jan. 10.?Miss Scottaj**^ Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Brown, of the northern part of the county, has mysteriously disappeared from home, and, in conse- pr, quence thereof, her parents and other relatives and friends are exceedingly anxious about her. prc Miss Brown was a teacher in the q school at Hartsville, S. C., and on the ^ afternoon of December 31 boarded ^ the Southern train at Kershaw, intending to come to Camden and take t the 5 o'clock train for McBee, where * , she would change for the Hartsville ^ train. Nothing has been seen of her t since boarding the train at Kershaw. Hpr father and mother did not know of her disappearance until Jan- ^ uary 8, when they received a telei cl II \ gram from the superintendent of the j | Cal Hartsville school asking why Miss1 * Brown did not come and take charge j of her class. . ! tQ Miss Brown is a remarkably beau- I i 110: tifnl vonne ladw and is only about i 20 years of age. Any information as !_ ? j an1 to her whereabouts will be gratefully .r received by her anxious parents. Mr. gt Alex Brown, her father, i9 supervisor of registration of Kershaw county, and a planter. IORE have on hand Wednesday a We have ju to come and s< for all purpos i bought right vhat we have, Ve have also a lar ig at the closest p< id are therefore al is money. We cai RA , s. c. BRAXCHVILLE WIXS CLAIM. osen as One of Three Experiment Towns for Mail Delivery. Branchville, Jan. 11.?At the last slon of congress Postmaster Genii Hitchcock was granted an approation of $100,000 for the purpose making an experiment of free de3ry in towns with a population of 00 or more having second or third ss office. The mail now is being ivered in cities and rural districts, ile towns of this size have no dearies. The postmaster general, ling that the same consideration >uld be shown small towns as othsections, asked for the above. ^.s soon as thi6 bill .was passed jtmaster Byrd made application Branchville and "got busy." A r days ago he was officially noti1 that the delivery would start on luary 16th. rhere will be about one hundred lerimental stations, these to be disputed over the country. So far re has only been three chosen, the t, in Michigan; second, in Texas, 1 third, Branchville. 3ranchville should feel proud of s, as there were seven applications m this congressional district, eesville, Batesburg, Lexington, hopville, St. Matthews and Mayese.) Girl Tries to Shield Man. Atlanta, Jan. 10.?Police Captain ink P. Portman, of Louisville, Ky., ived in Atlanta last night and ananced this morning that he will >secute vigorously the case against Holman Gardner, the well known icator, who is held under bond in i criminal court for bringing to anta Miss Marie Portman, a pretgirl relative of Captain Portman's. rhe girl is assuming a somewhat :oic attitude and is doing her best shield the man. She was also put der arrest and bound over. "My only regret in the world is it I have caused Mr. Gardner pain 3 trouble and that I may be the ise of breaking up his home. I ren't thought of myself, because it s I that begged him to bring me Atlanta and away from unhappi5s in Louisville. It is all my fault. Mr. Gardner simply denies guilt d says he was trying to help the 1. Captain Portman says that inad of wanting to help her, Gardr was leading her to destruction. Read The Herald, $1.50 year. ON TV Mf /\ i i r bu head or nice inother load of s st the animals y ee this large fine es as well as son and are going to we will please y ge line of Buggies, } Dssible prices. Remei ble to sell you better | ri sell you your Horse .NK 1 ( SHOT THROUGH THE HEART. ] One Boy Dead, Another Held as Sus- ] pect in Union Jail. Union, Jan. 9.?Yesterday Walter Keenan, a colored boy about thirteen 1 years of age, was found dead with a < gunshot wound through the heart. < Keenan's body was discovered near 1 the pump station here, and he had 1 been dead only a short while. I Robert Macbeth, another colored boy, is in jail here. It is said he 1 acknowledges the killing, but says 1 that it was accidental. He claims, i it is said, that the hammer of his i gun was caught in a limb of a small 1 tree and discharged, accidentally killing the Keenan boy. Macbeth is i about eighteen years of age. i r.4iT PIO FOR EACH TURK. - - - - ( Harsh Terms of Exchange Laid Down ( by the Montenegrins. c The present is by no means the * first occasion on which prisoners have 1 been taken in a war between Turkey and Montenegro, the Westminster Minster Gazette says. In the hostilities of 1703 the Montenegrin "Vladka" was a prisoner at Scutari, ^ and it was necessary to sell all the holy vessels in the Cettinje church in order to raise the ransom of 3,000 golden ducats demanded for his release. In the hostilities of 1707 on the other hand, Turks fell into the hands of the mountaineers, who showed their hatred and contempt for their 1 Ottoman enemies by insisting that the ransom should be for every man a pig. An eminent English states- |1 man once Daseu uu uuls lu^iucui au elaborate defense of the Montene- ^ grins against the charge of cruelty; but it is fairly safe to affirm that their intentions were offensive rather than humane. Taken at His Word. The wealthy old lady was very ill , and sent for her lawyer to make her j will. "I wish to explain to you," she j said, "about disposing of my prop- ^ erty." I The lawyer was sympathetic. } "There, there, don't worry about it," * hp sniri snnt.hine-lv: "iust leave it to I < me." |, "Oh, well," said the old lady resignedly, "I suppose I might as well. You'll get it anyway."?Ladies' Home Journal. ^ Legal blanks of all kinds at the < Herald Book Store. 1 t IE RO. Horses and Mi tock direct froi ou have been lot of stock, le extra nice H be sold the sai ou in every pai iVagons, Harness, A mber we buy all ol roods for the same i , Buggy, Wagon, Hi BA EXPLOSION ON RIVER STEAMER. Boiler Bursts?One Dead, Four Missing, Eight Hurt. Mobile, Ala., Jan. 9.?One person was killed, four are missing and jight were seriously injured at Pow3r9's Landing, Ala., this afternoon, when a boiler exploded on the TomDigbee River steamer James T. Staples and set the vessel on fire. Capt. Tom Bartes, Mobile, was tilled and three white men of Mo3ile and an unidentified negro are nrssing. The injured, including two women, all sustained scalds and 3urns. They all were from Mobile. The steamboat was en route to Denopolis, Ala., from Mobile, when the accident |occurred. After the explosion the burning steamer floated iown stream and the survivors swam )r were carried ashore. Physicians were rushed to Powers's Landing, md the river steamer John Quill ex:ended aid to the injured, who will De brought to Mobile to-morrow. A Fashion Note. Lady Duff Gordon, at a tea, praised the pannier skirt, says the St. L.ouis Globe-Democrat. "Everybody likes it, it is so graceful," she said, smiling. "Everybody ikes it except crusty old fellows." She turned to a crusty old fellow ipon a Louis Seize chair beside her md continued: "I know a woman whose husband growled at her when she tried on a Dew pannier gown for him. " 'I don't see why you wear those udiculous big panniers. You haven't *ot the hips to fill them.' "The woman blushed and bit her ip. Then she said quietly: "'But do you fill your silk hat, jeorge?' " Garlington Back to Prison. Laurens, Jan. 12.?His leave of ibsence having expired, John Y. Garlngton returned to Columbia this af;ernoon and will report at once to :he superintendent of the peniten:iary. Garlington was given permission two weeks ago to visit his :'ather, who is in a critical condition, rhe parole was for three days, but :he time was extended because of the continued illness of Garlington's father. There is no change in Col. Garling ;on's condition, but the son was oriered to report at the State prison :o-day. < - . V. . ' > AD CO lies and will rec n the Western i wanting. We \ We have Mules torses. All of tl ne way. Come 'ticular. Whips, Etc., which w F our goods in extra money, or the same \ arness, and all neces MB! ST. GEO! $25,000,000 LOSS IN CALIFORNIA. Estimate of Damage to Citrus Crop is Placed at That Figure. Los Angeles, CalM Jan. 8^?Twentyfive million dollars was the amount fixed to-day by consensus of opinion regarding the loss sustained by citrus fruit growers in the three days' freeze ending this morning. Earl G. Dezell, assistant general manager of the California Fruit Growers' exchange, .said that accu rate estimates of damage could not be made for several days but said $25,000,000 is regarded as a conservative estimate. Other estimates run as high as $40,000,000. Oranges advanced 50 cents a box in the Los Angeles wholesale market today. This was a direct result of the freeze^ Grape fruit went up 25 cents a box. Temperature of under 30-degrees was experienced in some sections tonight, but the weather bureau assured growers that to-morrow morning would mark the end of the necessity for burning smudges in the groves. According to a statement by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce which concluded to-day a careful inquiry into the damage to the citrus crops, the early estimates of loss were exaggerated. ''All expert opinions," the statement says, "are to the effect that the actual damage will not be known for at least two weeks. Later examination may show not more than 30 per cent, of the fruit has been materially injured." Pioneer in Telephony. Dead in Paris is Charles Bourseul, whose name has a valid claim to a place on the scroll of fame, although he was not as many of his fellowcountrymen believed, the real discoverer of the telephone. In "T854, while connected with the newly established telegraph department of France, he published in L'lllustration a crude suggestion as to the possibility of transmitting speech electrically. The Frenchman made a valuable contribution to the scientific knowledge of his times, but he failed to achieve a practical success in the art of telephony (passing away as pensioner instead of a multimillioaire) because he had not the courage to continue his experiments against the light advice of jeering comrades who bade him devote himself to more serious things.?Boston Globe. _ 4 i HH m I iMBffl 9 1 W iMING! - I fi *# " k'-- ^ ' \ eive ^ marvant AM suithese .tiff and ;,||l %: - * VV? .. J . '> M e are yM large /. ill goods ? sanes \ ERG *GE, S. G \ I > S. C. CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION. j";| Plan of Treasury Department Likely to Be Adopted. : Washington, Jan. 8.?Representatives Byrnes and Ellerbe, accompanied by Senator Tillman, called on * A.tl v Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Curtis to-day to discuss with him the reported plan of the department to consolidate the customs districts i of South Carolina with the collector at Charleston and with the offices at Beaufort and Georgetown in charge of deputies, who will be under the civil service. The delegation learned that the plan had been formulated as reported and that on account of the small amount of duties collected at the two . V* smaller ports, the president is pretty .. ,> sure to approve the change, which will go into effect July 1, 1913. The salary of the collector at Charleston will probably be $2,500 under the new arrangement. ^ Profits in Liquor. .7- .-7-i Among the facetious remarks in the New York papers which an arrival of 72,000 bottles of Scotch whiskey has called out, is one to the effect that while it will give about - , 2,160,000 drinks in this country, abroad the amount would narrow down to a third as many. The J probable truth of the statement should have a somewnat soDenng effect, however, for it suggests the large, in fact, the principal, source of gain which contributes to the sue- j cess of an American bar and to all \ liquor-selling by the glass in this 4 country. What with watering of ! stocks permitting it, and with foam lines low, the dispenser who sets out , ;'j beverages for the thirsty has his profits increased until they are far greater in proportion than any retailer of food can take from his trade. A truly paternal government would regulate the measure and so save the drinkers from the rapacious j seller. Indeed, even a thorough-go- J ing moral reformer could find oc casion for legislation in such a mat- fl ter. The drinker does not have to fi "'oil nnfil ViD ifi thrown out to be I VVC4XC UUCH 11V ~? sure that he is robbed.? Providence Journal. The managers of four "social" clubs in the city of Spartanburg were indicted on Friday by the grand jury of the county and were required to give bond for trial on the charge of violating the dispensary laws. % t" v.' '