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* CHIEF OF POLICE KILLEI TRAGEDY IN HAMPTON COUNTS J. F. WALKER ACCUSED. J. B. Harter Receives Bullet in Hea] .? While Standing on Depot Platform at Lena, S. C. Hampton, Aug. 31.?Chief of P< lice J. B. Harter, of Allendale, wj shot through the heart and instant l-illyN/1 f ho rvl of of T IViliCU UU lilt UVjfW illmiui l_l_l near this place, at about 3.30 o'cloc v this afternoon. Harter was waitir to board a train to return to Alle] dale when shot. J. F. Walker, section foreman f< the Southern Railway at Lena, charged with the shooting and wj arrested at about 5 o'clock by Magi * trate E. A. Zeigler, of Estill, ar turned over to Sheriff J. H. Lightse; who will bring Walker to the Ham] I. ton County jail to-night. ^ Walker, it is said, will not der W having been one of the principals i ' the shooting, refusing to make ar statement regarding the affair by a< vice of his attorney. Details of the shooting are meag] and have been very hard to obtai: So far as is known there were r eye-witnesses to the shooting, excep % ing the man who did it and his vi tim. Had Bought Ticket. The purpose of Chief Harter's vis to Lena has not been learned. It known, however, that he had pu \ chased his return ticket and w< waiting on the station platform fc his train when he was shot. The st; tion agent at Lena stated that 1: was on the inside of the buildic when the affair took place, and h? no knowledge of it. The weapon used in the shootir ^ was a 38 calibre pistol. A post mo: tern over Harter's body was held t Dr. D. E. Wyman, it being foun that the bullet had entered the brea: ? and taken effect in the heart, causin almost instant death. The inquei will be held at 11 o'clock to-morro morning. Chief of Police Harter was a ver popular man in his community, an was a faithful and efficient office He was prominently connected wit the chase, which resulted in the caj i ture of the desperado Austin a fe months ago. Harter was formerly resident of Hampton County, havin been a policeman at Brunson sever; years ago. He was a man of famil and is survived by a widow and si children. He was about forty yeai . * old. Walker Declines to Talk. Walker, who is charged with tt shooting, is a native of Hamptc County. He is a married man an also about forty years of age. Walk< engaged counsel soon after his arre: and declined to make any publ , statement, either denying or admi ting his guilt. It seems that no one has been four here who can say anything of troub between Harter and Walker. Becaus of the meagerness of details su rounding the shooting, nothing hz been learned as vet to warrant a signing a motive for the shooting 1 Walker or anyone else. An inquest will be held to-moro morning at 11 o'clock, but there , some doubt that Walker will be take to Lena to attend, the indication t< night being that he will remain i Hampton County jail. Harter's bod was still on the platform of the litti depot at 6 o'clock this afternoon. Old Trouble Alleged. Allendale, August 31.?J. B. Ha ter, chief of police of Allendale, a cording to news received here, wz shot and killed to-day about 3 p. n by A. L. Walker, at Lena, a static on the Southern Railway, in Ham] ton County, where he had gone 1 take into custody a negro prisone While Harter was waiting at the d< pot to take the train home, Walke who is the section foreman at th< place, is reported to have approachc without warning and shot Harte killing him instantly. It is said that Walker had an ol grudge against Harter and had mac threats against his life. It seen that about a year and a half as Harter arrested and disarmed Walk< on the streets of Allendale, bi whether or not this incident had ar bearing on the tragedy to-day is n< * known. Mrs. Harter was in Charleston b day when her husband was killeShe returned to Allendale to-nigh Chief Harter was an efficient an faithful officer and highly respecte citizen, a prominent Mason an Knight of Pythias. His sudden an tragic death is a great shock to t! community. It is recalled that 1 made a brave stand against the n< gro, Henry Austin, when Magistral Fred Edenfield was shot down by tl latter from ambush on May 1, las He leaves a wife and six children. It is reported that Walker is ui der arrest and is slightly wounded. Get your Rook cards at The Hera! BoBok Store, only 50c.?adv. j PERFORMS "IMPOSSIBLE" FEAT. Life-saving Captain Swims from Bat- 1 tery to Sandy Hook. New York, Aug., 2S.?After many unsuccessful attempts by long dis- ] rt tance swimmers for years past to i swim the 22 miles from the battery ] to Sandy Hook, Capt. Alfred Brown, i of the Flushing Bay Life Saving sta- ? 3_ tion corps, accomplished the feat to- ( is day. Diving off the battery wall at 1 lv 5.15 this morning, he landed at the 1 ? ? TT--1. ~ nf C OX a banay hook pruviug giuuuuo at v.um i ? p. m., having been in the water 13 i Lg hours and 12 minutes. i a_ Capt. Brown was accompanied by 1 four men in a launch and motor boat. 1 )r He had to be assisted up the stoop- i is ing beach when he landed, but after i is walking about a short time he lim- ?< s- bered up and declared he felt no bad j Ld effects from his long immersion. 1 yf During his swim he ate three small ] p. sandwiches and drank a small quanti- i tv of tea. Part of the swim was i tv against a strong flood tide and a l in fresh southerly wind. Lv Many swimming authorities have declared the feat never could be accomplished because of tidal condi: tions Numerous swimmers have 1 Q reached a point within a few hundred < l0 yards of the beach and had to give I t_ up, owing to the power of the inrush- 1 c. ing tide which met them. A Clock That Talks. ^ "Six-thirty, six-thirty, six-thirty; ( is time to get up; get up, can't you; ( r~ get up, you miserable lazybone; get 1 is up before I souse you with a wet ' >r washrag, get up, get, GET UP! !" s l~ That's the way the new patent 1 ie French phonographic alarm clock ( LS routs you out in the morning. No 4 ls more pestiferous ding-a-linging of a 1 measly little tin alarm clock, but a * call in a human voice, in plain words, 1 r~ more or less polite, does the business. c >y Of course even this new device [d does not make you get up; all it can J do is to tell you the time and apply l? a few appropriate remarks to you, ' 5t and then if you prefer to stick to ) w your couch and waste the beautiful 1 hours of the morning in the slothful ? *y vice of lying abed, you may do so. d The clock will do its part, but not * r- yours. So don't buy one with the 1 k idea that it will do impossibilities. ?- Phonographis alarm clocks are not 1 w a new thing. It is simple enough a matter .to apply the talking machine * S principle to a clock. The mechanism is ingenious but 1 y simple. It provides for the calling of T x the time every quarter hour day and *s night. If you wake up in the night ( and are curious to know what time it is, all you have to do is to press a '? button by your bedside and the clock c t ,n will promptly tell you the nearest, d quarter-hour?for example, "two-fif- { teen." j st The phonographic record is made ic in the form of an endless belt or 1 t- band. The tiny grooves which cause the voice vibrations run parallel, 1 ld lengthwise round the belt, and there are 48 of these grooves side by side? namely one for each quarter hour of I r- the 12 hours. A reproducing needle is follows the grooves, just as in an ors dinary talking machine. -o As each groove runs clear around ] the band, the clock wil continue to < w call the time, or anything else that is i is recorded, until 15 minutes have < !n elapsed or until you shut it up by c > touching a button. The clock talks at 1 n present 35 languages and is learning S ly more?all that is necessary to make > te it talk another lingo being to substi- r tute the corresponding belt. When a i belt is worn out a new one can be i inserted or if you get tired being i r' called in your own language you can s c" choose a variety of others. All that ? ls is needed to make the scheme perfect I a* would be an attachment which after ( ,D calling you a reasonable number of times would either let the bed down L? and dump you out or which would r* reach out and seize you bodily and e~ dress you. r, 1 it Cochran Will Resign < id i r Anderson, Sept., 1.?Announce- ? ment was made at the office of Dis^ trict Attorney Ernest F. Cochran to- \ ie day that Mr. Cochran will tender his s resignation to President Wilson with- j rQ in the next two or three days to be- ] .>r come effective on a day named by the j President. Mr. Cochran, a Republi- j can, has served as district attorney ] for South Carolina with marked ability for eight years. -For several ( 0_ years preceding his appointment as t ^ district attorney he served as the at- < t torney's assistant under President c [(2 Harrison. His term does not' expire ^ l(j until February 10, 1914. l l(j Mr. Cochran is at Watkins Glen, X, \ (1 Y., for his health, but the announce le ment from his office here today de- \ ie clared that Mr. Cochran would take this step because conditions had j te arisen which had caused the present j le administration to think it desirable ( rn niskp rhaneps in thp Fptfpral X. I " < offices in South Carolina and he does < a_ not desire to stand in the way of the f plans of the administration. j Id Full line of blank books at The Herald Book Store. 1 OFFICER KILLS FLEEING LAD. Merely "Shooting in Air" to Frighten Boy, He Declares. Columbus, Ga., August 29.?Luthei Hawkins, a lad about 18 years old, ivas shot and killed this afternoon by Bailiff I. Willis, in North Highlands, is he was fleeing from the officer. The officer is held at police headquarters charged with murder. "I wouldn't rfnno tbic fnr n millinn dollars." le said to-night. Hawkins came here a day or two igo from Atlanta to seek employmeni n a cotton mill. When settling his ioard bill this afternoon he lacked ifty cents of the required amount md the bailiff was sent for. Hawkins an out of the yard and the officer ?ave pursuit and fired at the lad with i pistol, the bullet passing through lis head. He died in less than a half lour without regaining consciousness. The bailiff declares he was nerely "shooting in the air" to .'righten the lad. The Day of Hypocrites. The following extracts are taken Tom a report of the Anderson Mail if W. S. Lee's address before the State Bankers' association at Toxasvay: Asking and answering the ques:ion, "Are we all hypocrites?" W. S. Lee, of Charlotte, N. C., vice president and chief engineer of the Soutli?rn Power company, in his address lefore the South Carolina Bankers' issociation recently delved into his subject, which he considered in many vays an unpleasant one. The speaker felt that the disagreeable, as well is the agreeable, topics must be iroached; for there are certain acts ranspiring in our country to-day that t would be well for us to stop and consider. Mr. Lee spoke of the young men ? 1- - A /vrtll/\nrA +A fVlA r\T*A_ r%110 gU OL1U JLIU III LUllCfiC LV1 piu" 'essions: The doctor who becomes l hypocrite in the sick room when he s called to minister to a patient who s a hypocrite; the lawyer who negects to pitch his profession on high ;round, but follows the easiest way? :oo often he is seen pursuing courses vhich, while within the law, are not within the range of good citizenship; n arguments he frequently appeals lot to the highest side of man's na:ure, but to his meanest passions and )asest senses. The lawyer in politics vas discussed in that these men oft;imes seek to insure the passage of aws that will make easy the winning >f big verdicts. "Is there any greater hypocrite :han many of our so-called politi;ians?" asked the speaker. A pre:ense that they are aiding the people s ever to the front, when really selfshness controls their every action, rhis type of politics has gone so far ;hat even in the highest legislative Dodies disgraceful investigations are lecessarv to-day. WARRANT FOR ^POLICEMAN. Spartanburg Officer Charged with 111 Treating Boy. Spartanburg, August 28.?On com plaint of J. T. Suttles, a mill worker, Magistrate A. H. Kirby issued a warrant for the arrest of M. S. Turner, a city policeman, on a charge oi ippression. Suttles alleges that while lis 15 year-old son was lying in bed Sunday, suffering from the effects oi vhiskey, Turner and a man named Tom Xix came into the house and arested him. They dragged the boy, t is charged, to the police station, vhere physicians found he was in mch a serious condition that they insisted he should be taken back home. Magistrate Kirby will investigate the ase Saturday. Austria Wars on Snakes. Austria's new territory is undesiribly rich in snakes, mostly of the poisonous variety, says the Pall Mall Gazette, and the government is takng vigorous measures to exterminite them. In the ten years from 1896 ,to 1905 ;he average yearly death roll from make bites in Boznia and Herzegovila was thirteen persons, and 1338 lead of cattle, horses and domestic inimals. Besides this, hundreds of persons were bitten by snakes, but -ecovered. Since 1906 the provincial authorises have given money premiums for :he killing of snakes. In that year 10,056 dead snakes were brought in, >f which 25,438 were poisonous. Next rear, when the official reward became nore generally known, these figures ncreased enormously, no fewer than 180,718 snakes being killed, includng 271,685 poisonous. Last year's figures were very neary the same, and it will be some years before the work of extermination ?an be anything like completed. But it the same time the number of persons reported bitten by poisonous snakes seems to be steadily decreasng?206 in 1907 and 140 last year. All kinds of ledgers and blank of T-Toro 1 rl Rnr>L- Qtr?ro nhASn J \S\S t\ & av XXVi UiU *-' k/VW* VJ VAAVV?^? NOW IS THE TIMI . When Parents Are Deciding Where to Send Their Boys to Schoi To decide this wisely may de termine his success or failure. I The following points wi ft?/ doubtless be considered: Loca I UnK^/Jj | tion, Equipment, Instructior \\lfl/ Moral an(i Religious Influences The Furaian Fitting Schoc | is ideally located. Campus of 30 acres, Water an Climate unsurpassed. Buildings have all moder equipment. Class and Individual instruction. Morc and Religious Influences good. Next session begin September 17th. For catalogue address R. C. BURTS, Head Master, Greenville, S. 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