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WOUNDED BY NEGRO INTRUDER. ]
Birmingham Lady Seriously Hurt, Ch
Her Assailant Getting Away.
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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
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Young School Teacher Missing. | g.
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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
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gram from the superintendent of the j
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Hartsville school asking why Miss1 *
Brown did not come and take charge j
of her class. . ! tQ
Miss Brown is a remarkably beau- I
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tifnl vonne ladw and is only about i
20 years of age. Any information as !_ ?
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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.
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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.
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( 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.
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Harsh Terms of Exchange Laid Down (
by the Montenegrins.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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S. C. CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION.
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Plan of Treasury Department Likely
to Be Adopted.
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Washington, Jan. 8.?Representatives
Byrnes and Ellerbe, accompanied
by Senator Tillman, called on
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Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Curtis to-day to discuss with him
the reported plan of the department
to consolidate the customs districts
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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
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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.
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Profits in Liquor.
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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
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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.
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