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ACCEPT RESULT GRACEFULLY. Barnwell County Prohibitionists Won't Contest Liquor Election. Barnwell, August 21.?There will be no contest on the result of the dispensary election held in this county on Tuesday. This was definitely announced yesterday morning, after it was learned that the dispensary had been voted back by such an overwhelming majority. The Rev. A. E. Evinson, one of the prohibition leaders, said: "The sie of the dispensary vote in this county makes it unmistakenlv evident that the people want the dispensary. As a contest of the election, if made, could have no ultimate effect in changing that decision, it seems the better part of wisdom to acquiesce with as good grace as can be mustered up. "It would be an excellent thing to secure a Court ruling on the issues involved, but I am not so personally interested in that as to feel justified in spending much money to secure it." BARELY ESCAPES WITH LIFE. Mr. T. W. Woods, of Chester, Has Close Call When Home Burns. Chester, August 22.?Fire, which was discovered about 2.30 o'clock this morning, completely destroyed Mr. W. T. Woods's home, on Reedy street. Mr. Woods, who was alone in the house, barely escaped with his life. Practically all of the household goods, in addition to the building, were destroyed. Mr. Woods carried $900 insurance on his home and $600 on his furniture, which it is claimed, will not nearly cover his loss. FALLS FROM SECOND STORY. Mrs. Seldon G. Bryan Seriously Injured at Kingstree. Kingstree, August 23.?Thursday morning, about 9 o'clock, Mrs. Seldon G. Bryan, daughter of Mr. Jas. Epps, with whom she makes. her home, fell from the second story window of her room and received serious if not fatal injuries. Mrs. Bryan is about 30 years of age and widow of the late S. G. Bryan, of Salters. She arose as usual and is supposed to have been leaning out of the window washing her teeth when overcome by an attack of vertigo. Her toothbrush and mug were on the ground when she was discovered. It is supposed that her injuries are internal. It is reported this morning that Mrs. Bryan's condition is slightly improved, she having regained consciousness. LIKELY TO REFORMATORY. Probable Disposition of White Boys Charged with Stealing. Lexington, August 23.?That Guy Horton and Telvie Shirah, the two white boys from Columbia, who, it is alleged, entered the home of Jacob Kleckley, a well-known farmer near Lexington on Tuesday of this week, will be sent to the reformatory, seems now a certainty. Solicitor Timmerman has taken the matter up with Governor Blease with a view to this end, ana Sheriff Miller has been in communication with the parents of the boys. The crime with which the boys are charged was committed Tuesday morning and they do not deny their guilt, it is understood. The boys, it is said, entered the home while Mrs. Kleckley was in the garden, securing vegetables tor tne noon meai, ana took a single barrel shot gun. They also ransacked bureau drawers, it is said, but nothing but the gun was found to be missing. Sheriff Miller was summoned and it was not long before the capture was made, although the boys ran for a considerable distance. One of the boys is 14 years of age, the other 12. The father of one of the boys is dead and his mother says, according to the officers, that she is in no position to help him and agrees that he be sent to the reformatory. KILLED MAX WHO SAVED HIM. Posse Searching Ohio River Bottoms For Lewis Phillips. Taylorsville, Ky., August 24.?A posse to-night is searching the Ohio River bottoms for Lewis Phillips, who is accused of the cold-blooded and unexplained murder of William Zurelbry, committed only a short time after Zuelbry had saved Phillips from drowning. .1 1 .fUlliips cixiu uuici men were pitched into the river last night when their skiff overturned. Zureiki ry, an aged man, who witnessed the accident, swam in and rescued Phillips, who could not swim. Xot long afterward, it is said. Phillips went to Zurelbry's home armed with a rifle, entered the house and asked whether Zurelbry was his rescuer. Upon receiving an affirmative answer, Phillips is said to have shot the old man through the heart. Phillips, though fired upon by a posse which quickly formed, escaped across the river. KILLED HIS WIFE OX STREET. Key West Man Shoots Woman While She Pleads for Mercy. Tampa, Fla., August 21.?While cn her knees pleading pitifully for ber life, Mrs. Ethel Denson, of Key West, was shot to death on the street here to-night by her husband, Bennie Denson. Two negroes, who claim to be eye-witnesses to the tragedy, were afraid to interfere. Denson, who followed his wife from Key west nere several weens ago, discovered her working in a restaurant on Franklin street. It is said that he threatened to kill her if she did not return with him. When Mrs. Denson started home her husband was waiting just outside the door, and started after her. She outran him three blocks, but fell on her knees exhausted. Denson rushed up, and without a word, fired two shots, either of which would have been fatal, physicians say. Denson has not been captured. KILLED AT RAILROAD CROSSING. Karl F. Taylor's Automobile Was Struck by Train. Cheraw, Aug. 21.?Karl F. Taylor, of Chesterfield County, whose tragic death occurred on the C. and N. W. railroad crossing near Newton, N. C., yesterday, was buried at Antioch Church, near Hornsboro, this county, this afternoon with Masonic honors in the presence of a tremendous crowd. -Air. Taylor was coming nome irom Blowing Rock in a small car. Witnesses say that he was not racing, but had curtains and windshield up.He was struck and hurled thirty feet upon a pile of crossties and had his skull crushed. Mill Men Charged With Coercion. Aiken, S. C., August 19.?Marion Bell, a special deputy for the Aiken Manufacturing company at Clearwater, between here and Augusta, and Lucius Snelling have been arrested, charged in effect with coercion and administering, it is stated, a severe whipping to a white man by the name of Scott, who with four or five of his children had been employed at the Clearwater mill. It is alleged that Bell did the whipping while Snelling held the cowed man at the point of a revolver. Rural Policeman Busbee had the warrant issued for the arrest of Bell and Snelling. Details of the affair have not been made known; but it is generally rumored that Scott was whipped because Tie took his children from the employ of the mill, and as he did so he also quit his work, demanding payment for the time put in by himself and family. It is further rumored that after Scott was whipped he was then given money and a railroad ticket and told to get out of the mill village at once. The matter reached the ears of Sheriff Howard, who immediately took a hand. The sheriff intercepted Scott before the cowed man could get completely away, and brought him to Aiken, where he has been ad-: monished not to talk. When the matter is investigated Scott will tell his story, and it is stated that if it is proven that coercion of employes is practiced other charges will follow. OFFICERS ELUDE THE MOB. Maryland Negro Charged With Assault Spirited to Jail. J * ? T 4- r\ ATJ \ OA Onnn 1 TT l^cX[JlCll<X, -U U., AUgUOl, vptu',' threatening a lynching, scores of farmers, carrying pitchforks, guns and rope, beat through the woods of Charles County last night and today in a hunt for William Thomas, a negro, 23 years old, charged with a brutal attack on Mrs. Samuel Boswell, wife of a farmer near Indian's Head. Thomas was captured by Constable Carpenter late to-day, about ten miles from where the assault took place, was placed in an automobile and hurried to Laplata roads to avoid the searching parties of farmers. The negro's incarceration in the jail here did not become known until late to-night, and officials express confidence that no attack will be made uDon the jail. ~ I According to a statement by Contable Carpenter, Thomas entered the Boswell home yesterday during the absence of Mr. Boswell. In the presence of her three small children Mrs. Boswell struggled with the powerfully built negro for half an hour and just as her strength was about to give out the husband rushed in. A fight ensued between the two men. Boswell was badly worsted by the n acrr*r\ Thomas is said to have then tried to carry out his purpose in Mrs. Boswell's husband's presence. He made a break for the kitchen and grabbing a carving knife returned to the living room, where Thomas stood, and the negro, when he saw the knife, ran from the house. GREENVILLE COUNTY MAN-HUNT Crowd Looks for Negro who Frightened White Woman Greenville, Aug. 22.?The section of Greenville county neighboring upon Simpsonville was up in arms this afternoon in an effort to capture the negro or white man who accosted and badly frightened the wife of a w ell-known farmer of that section this morning. A large number of 1 - * A orv An f citizens iook tneir guns duu several hours in search this afternoon, but it was unavailing. The woman, it is claimed, had gone from the house to a corn patch this morn[ ing about 10 o'clock. She states ! that suddenly a man, who was very j ragged, dirty, and looked as if he had painted his face in some way, stepped out from behind a bush and spoke to her, making as if to = take hold of her. Very much frightened, she screamed and ran back to the house, and the party disappeared. The woman is about 50 years old. She could not say positively whether the man was a white man or a mulatto. Sheriff Rector took bloodhounds to the scene this morning, but his search was unsuccessful. His party arrested one white man, but when he was brought before the woman she I declared that he was not the party wanted. In spite of the fact that the woman was not assaulted, there was much excitment in the Simpsonville section, and it was feared that if the man had been captured he might not have been brought to Greenville alive. Aiming at Sparrows Wounds Girl. Rockingham, X. C. August 20.? t .Miss Ruth Liles, one of the most attractive young women of this city, was accidentally shot and seriously wounded by her father, Mr. S. F. Liles, this morning as he was aiming at sparrows with a shotgun. The accident occurred at the Liles home on Washington Heights just before the noon hour. Mr. Liles was on the back porch intending to kill some sparrows which were on a chicken coop in the yard. Miss Liles, in coming around the corner of the house, was hidden from her father, who was on the end of the porch, resting the gun on the railing. Just as she rounded the corner, he saw that the gun's muzzle was within four feet of her head and aimed directly at her, but the trigger had already been pulled. The load of small shot took effect in the back of the girl's head, near the base of the brain. For several hours it was thought she was fatally wounded. Late this evening she regained consciousness to i a slight degree, and the attending physicians hold out some hope of her recovery, although it is considered al most miraculous tnat sne esuayeu instant death. The father is prostrated. The whole town has forgotten everything else in its anxiety and sympathy for the charming young girl and her family. Weavers Object to Negroes. Laurens, Aug, 21.?About 400 looms are idle at the Laurens cotton mills because of a walk-out of 37 weavers?14 women and 23 men? one or two of whom have returnea to work. The strikers were paid off by the mill and in the meantime efforts to fill the places vacated are be ing made by tne management. According to a statement made by representatives of the party that quit their jobs, the walk-out was the diiect result of the dismissal of two men who refused to work in the mill with the negro help employed. Objection was raised to the negro help in the weave room only, the negroes being employed here to clean off the looms and lay up filling for the use of the white weavers. This work the weavers considered a white person's job, and complained to the managej ment of the existing conditions, but r j no relief was given, so they claim. In all about twenty negroes have been in the employ of the mill, in different capacities, as scrubbers, loom cleaners, sweepers, water carriers, pickerroom laborers, scavenger drivers, boiler firemen, etc. Most of the negro help occupied the company's cottages. Tninrnv AT PRPfi\TAbL. Wood row Moorer, 2, Killed by His Brother, Ernest, 5. . Pregnall, August 21.?Woodrow, the two-year-old son of Postmaster William M. Moorer, was the victim of a fearful accident here about 8 o'clock this morning. It seems that the dead child and his five-year-old brother, Ernest, were playing in a room at their home when Ernest got hold of a gun. resulting in the discharge of the weapon and almost instant death of the younger child. The parents, who were in another part of the house, heard the report, and rushing to the room where the children were, found little Woodrow dying. fp ARLISL TZ VSCHOOL C BAMBERG, S. G. A standard "A" Grade School owned by Wofford College. A School with High Standards of Scholarship; Wliolesom Moral Atmosphere; Positive Christian Influences. Twelve Acre Campus. Handsome New Dormitory. New At letic Field. Study Hall conducted by Teacher. Unsurpass* Health. Pure Artesian Water. Teachers and Matrons live in Buil ings with Students. TERMS LOWER than any School of Simil Grade in the State. A SCHOOL THAT IT WOULD PAY YOU TO INVESTIGATE | Twenty-first year begins Sept. 24. Write for Catalogu [ J. CALDWELL GUILDS, M. A.. Head Master jj-Jl IOPOOPOL I | We beg to announce to the public that we have secured the services of Mr. ; C. B. Wiggins, of Bamberg, with headquarters over the Peoples Drug J Store, as our agent and n all packages entrusted to Uto his care will receive special attention and best of workmanship. | Jet-White Laundr m 229 King Street, Charleston, S. ( la i iQBOOBor?r I take care Bank your money and. pay your bills w checks on our bank. Then you will hare a c rect account of what you spend and what 3 spend it for. You won't spend so much moi FOOLISHLY then. Waste is the one big folly to guard again you will do so if you keep roup moner in 0< BANK instead of YOUR ROCKETS. ' You want to GET AHEAD, don't you? T1 bank your money. Do YOUR banking with US. We par 4 per cent, interest compounded quarterly 011 sarings deposits _ _ I Farmers & Merchants Bar I EHRHARDT, S. 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Trust the Truss. i Bicycles, Guns, and Automobile Supplies, Key Fittings, and General i Repair Shop. First-Class Workmen. J. BUIST BRICKLE Ij Bamberg, S. C. I You can be comfortable > as well as stylish in a 1 s 11 : H Opirella _JI ItORSET (not sold in stones) which is fitted to your I individual needs in your ' own home by a trained corsetiere. Let me call and explain the possibilities of tasteful, correct* dress in a Spirella. You incur no obligation. Telephone or send postcard to MRS. A. A. ZEIGLER, Bamberg, S. C. HUSBAND RESCUED DESPAIRING WIFE I Conditions, Mrs. Bollock Gave ~ Up in Despair. Husband ~ Came to Rescue. ith * or- Catron, Ky.?In an interesting letter from this place, Mrs. Bettie Bullock writes as follows: "I suffered for four j 2 years, with womanly troubles, and during ( this time, 1 could only sit up for a little ' while, and could not walk anywhere at all. At times, I would have severe pains S in my left side. 11 3 The doctor was called in, and his treat1 ment relieved me for a while, but I was 1 soon confined to my bed again. After 1 that, nothing seemed to do me any good: jj 1 had gotten so weak I could not stand, | and I gave up in despair. I 9 At last, my husband got me a bottle of I Cardui, the woman's tonic, and I comI menced taking it. From the very first I Hncp I rnuld tell it was heloine me. I * WB&0 can now walk two miles without its ===== tiring me, and am doing my work." If you are all run down from womanly 2?f troubles, don't give up in despair. Try |p Cardui, the woman's tonic. It has helped Hi {|| more than a million women, in its 50 years of wonderful success, and should fH surely help you, too. Your druggist has gjg sold Cardui for years. He knows what cgj it will do. Ask him. He will recom?? mend it. Begin taking Cardui today. ?g Write to: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladies* 333% Advisory Dept., Chattanooga. Tenn., for Special SsS Instructions on your case and 64-page book,' Home jgS Treatment for Women," sent in plain wrapper. E66-B < C S E. H. HENDERSON ' Attorney-at-Law """" BAMBERG, S. C. General Practice. Loans Negotiated. FOR SALE. K BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE. 118 acres fine land partly in town of Ehrhardt. ESS fine building lots in town of Ehrhardt. 16 choice building lots in town of Bamberg. 3 1 store house and lot next to post [jfj office on Main street, Ehrhardt. V 295 acres fine farm lands two miles west of Ehrhardt. ? Apply to JOHN F. FOLK, ^_J Bamberg, S. C.