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BLEASE ORDERS TROOPS j ! < CITIZENS FEARER LYNCHING OF NEGROES AFTER MURDER. Coroner's Jury Holds Three Negroes j for Murder of E. Pey- j s ton Rest. } ! ( Columbia, December 4.?A coro-j; aer's jury investigating into the cause c f the shooting of E. P. Best, a mer- j 1 chant, on the streets of Barnwell i j last night, held Scott Madison, col-j i red, as principal and Mitchell Story j j and Gilbert Parker, also negroes, for j; *he killing. They were brought to \ tile State Penitentiary for safe keep- ] ing to-night ; A long distance telephone message ] from Barnwell late this afternoon to i this bureau stated that the town was j i quiet and that the military company'j ; was not needed. Sheriff .Morris, has | < everything in hand and the crowds have all dispersed. It is said that ; the' grand jury will likely be called ] in special session to investigate the i killing and that a special term of ( Court will be asked for to try the ' negroes. j .Mr. Best was a popular merchant ] and citizen and much sympathy is i felt for his widow and little children, i His assassination aroused the citi- j aens to fury and it is said that only j the coolness and self-control of the ] r * yeomanry of Barnwell averted << T7%i ?> Aro T oninru.^o nvor flip c iruu LMC. 1" unci cvi oci v ivvo w V..W . c '4 dead merchant's remains will be held I * to-morrow. 1 Military Ordered Out. r Acting on a long distance tele- t phone call from Senator Patterson to j the effect that from the ominous air [ pervading a crowd of determined i white men. which were gathering, a c lynching of negroes was feared. Gov- f ernor Blease ordered the military ^ company at Barnwell under arms and i told Sheriff Morris to call out a posse e comitatus, swear in extra deputies s ties to preserve peace and order and t to prevent any bloodshed in Barnwell, r as a result of the wholesale arrest-of y negro suspects following the shooting down of Mr. E. P. Best on the t streets of that city last night. t "Assemble your company and do p what is necessary to preserve the t peace there," was the telegram sent to Capt. Emile Harley, of the Barn- 0 well military company, this morning t hy Governor Blease. To Sheriff J. B. p Morris he telegraphed: "Use every s effort at your command, call out posse a comitatus ,swear in extra deputies p and do everything to preserve peace p and order there. I warn you not to \ fail in the discharge of your duties." \ The Governor asked Mr. Charles v Carroll Simms at Barnwell to use his t influence to preserve order.* "Please t use your influence to preserve order t and to see that the law is vindicated," c was the wire which went to Mr. i; Simms. " 1 Intense Excitement. ii Information received in Columbia o is that following the shooting of Mr. e Best on the streets of Barnwell last d night as he was leaving a restaurant v a determined posse of white men, d heavily armed, searched for the sus- F pected slayer or slayers and that over e a score of negroes were rounded up fi and locked in jail as supects. The n city was intensely excited and this fl morning white men gathering in the streets in front of the jail, with de- | - termined looks on their faces and 9 a. sullen anger pervading the crowd, ii y led some citizens to fear that an at- s tempt would be made lynch the sus- n pects. This is the information which P Governor Blease got from Senator } Patterson over the long distance tele- e phone, it^ being stated that it was a feared that forty negroes would be v lynched. t The military company was oredered a out to guard the jail and preserve or- j der and Sheriff .Moris was instructed a to swear in any amount of deputies s to reinforce the military if necessary, k Mr Simms was askpd tr> usp his in fluence with his fellow citizens to quiet their anger and allow the law Jo take its course. 5 It is thought that the prompt Measures taken by Governor Blease will insure order in Barnwell and that any violence will be averted. * _ E t BARNWELL MURDEll CASE. d Jury Fail to Agree in State vs J. W. Hogg and W. A. Williams. d 1 Barnwell, December 5.?A mistrial j was ordered by Judge Gage here this afternoon in the case of the State f against J. W. Hogg and W. A. Will- . iams, charged with the murder of J. V. and Henry Hogg, two brothers, f m tne town 01 is.nne on me nigni. ui ^ September 15. The jury deliberated on the case for thirty hours, but could reach no agreement. It is said that they stood eleven for acquittal , and one for conviction. The trial e of the case was begun Tuesday morn- * ing and was given to the jury at noon yesterday. The result occasioned no surprise, as it was generally thought that such would be the outcome when no verdict was reached yesterday af- ^ ternoon. j THE BARNWELL TRAGEDY. Story of Killing as Brought Out at . the Inquest. Barnwell, December 4.?"That E. u Uoet tn liis death from gun i shot wounds in the hands of Scott ( Madison, and that Mitchell Stroy and i Gilbert Miller were accessories before ; md after the fact," was the verdict ; f the coroner's jury of inquest, which aas held here this morning to inves- ] :igate last night's murder. Fearing ( Lhat the prisoners would be lynched ; if allowed to remain in the county jail, Sheriff J. B. Morris and a deputy ; Look the accused men to Columbia, , having left Barnwell about noon in j automobile. There was a proposed lynching bee, and hearing of this the Governor instructed the captain of the local militia to assemble his men ; and "do what is necessary to pre- ] serve the peace" of Barnwell. From the testimony brought out ; at the inquest the murder of Mr. . Best is one of the most cold-blooded that has ever darkened the pages of , t-riminal history of Barnwell county. There was absolutely no provocation, < t seems, other than that Mr. Best had j pushed one of the negroes out of his svay as he was leaving the restaurant ] vhere he had been for supper. This i aegro, Gilbert Miller, it. was testi- ] led threw an empty bottle at Mr. Best and then ran. Mr. Best turned iround to Scott Madison, who was standing in front of the restaurant ^ md asked what he meant by hitting lim. Madison replied that he did tot hit him?that the man that threw ' he bottle had run off. Mr. Best redied that he was not hurt and, turn.1 ng around, started oft up tne street n the direction of his store He had , >rone only a few steps and was in the ^ ull glare of an electric light. when ^ wo shots were fired. One took effect n his back near the heart, and passed { intirely through the body. The other hot went wild. Mr. Best staggered c o the open door of Kearse's pool oom and fell, dying in the arms of | dr. Arthur Harden. The excitement last night was in- ^ ense and there is no doubt but that he negroes would have been lynched iad^ they been caught shortly after he killing. The arrest of the accused men, all s f whom are negroes employed by the j. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Com- . ? t lanv as section hands and who are trangers in the county, followed an C ill night investigation and a very " retty piece of detective work on the art of the sheriff and his assistants. Vhen it seemed that the search rould prove fruitless, a few clues rere gathered and working on these . he negro*es were routed out from . heir shanty cars during the night. f ^ rigid examination indicated that t ne or more of tliem were involved li the deplorable affair and at day- j ight this morning they were lodged n the county jail along with a score f other negroes who had been arrestd as suspects shortly after the murer and who are now being held as c fitnesses. There is apparently no loubt as to the guilt of Madison. ^ \>ur of his companions who were ^ ye-witnesses to the shooting testi- t ed as to his guilt, although in some y linor details their stories were conicting. c Knowing the intense feeling against e fe accused it was decided at a meetBfcof the Bar this morning to request <3 ^Plediate trial, Court now being in c ession. The grand jury will be sum- t loned to meet here Monday and as ^ I. A. Simms, Esq., who. with Thomas v 1 Boulware. Esq.. has been appoint- e d to defend the negroes, stated this fternoon that the usual three days ( .011 Id be waived, it is very probable hat the case will be called immeditelv after the finding of the grand ury. It is hoped that by this prompt ction the ends of justice will be n atisfied and the blot of a lynching ept from the records of the county. li WOMAN LAWYEIt DEAR. v v liss Cousins Dies in Poverty at Age * of 72 Years. a St. Louis. December 6.?Miss ? 'hoebe Cousins, one of the first wo- d iien lawyers in the United States and ^ he only woman who 'ever served as ^ leputy United States marshal, died iere to-day. . 1 Miss Cousins was 72 years old and ? ieath came as the culmination of a i ong illness, which she had suffered * n poverty in a sqalid room in a 6 rowded section of the city. Appeals a or assistance recently had been made ^ >v friends in her behalf. Frequently } n recent years she had sought aid c rom the Federal Government and > rom breweries, whose cause she had ? hamninnpH in manv Mninniens t against prohibitory legislation. Miss Cousins was the first woman 1 awyer in the United States, having t graduated from the Washington Uniersity Law School. She also was the a rst woman to become a United States s narshal. s i 25 head well broke mules for sale 1 >y J. M. DAXXELLY & CO., Ehrlardt. Weight 1,000 lbs. and up,-ad. SHE KXEYV HIS VOICE. And Came to Kely Upon it Implicitly C in Time of Trouble. .Mr. Blank (we've got to call him that because he's really a very de- ti -onr fellow, and he'd kill us if we tl told his real name) is first tenor in a tl ;!ee club. He sings in a choir, too. fi Everybody likes him. ^ The other night a bunch of young C( people met for a social session at a t' :ertain house in the suburbs. They t( ite and danced and they sang. And r' when it was all over the prettiest r young woman there?she hadn't been ^ escorted thither by any chosen cava- ^ tier?said: "I walk home, but it's a lonesome e walk, and I'm afraid. There have e been holdups in this part of town. 1! ?o I choose Mr. Blank to see me safe c home." On the way home, Mr. Blank * was considerably swelled up. The ^ prettiest girl had chosen him from 0 a. crowd of personable bachelors, and a his feeling of self-satisfaction was 11 excusable. He couldn't resist saying: "Why did you think I was the Sl strongest and bravest man there tonight?" "I didn't,"" answered the girl. "I a picked you because I knew you could 11 holler the loudest."?Cleveland Plain ' Dealer. ^ ii Queer Paris Justice. H Paris, Dec. 6.?French fathers who ^o r\ tit vt' f av tV* aiy? lave iu pi uv luu a uuu ;yi tuciv daughters are full of sympathy with g i letter carrier who is about to be v ried in a criminal court for adding si .0 his meagre salary in a peculiar i, nanner. The letter carrier has a si iaughter. a charming young lady of t( 19, and for six years he has been car- j] ying with him on hie rounds a kind s< )f lasso which enabled him to pick lp hams, sausages and other edibles ft rom the back of passing carts and a tlso to "lift" portable property out of y >pen windows. The booty was all sold n tnd the proceeds placed to his daugh- tl er's dowry account. Here is another story which shows tl vhat a girl will do to get a "dot" tl is well as the leniency of a Paris rourt toward her when she uses ex- Si raordinarv means to procure it: d Henriette was a cashier in a cheese jr ;hop. In March of the present year h ler employer made the discovery that _ here were irregularities in the ac- ^ :ounts. He computed that in the | ipace of six months she had been obbed of 30,000 francs. Henriette >rotested. She declared that she had ^ mhezzled onlv 23.000 francs. Il "I am on the point of being mar- ^ ied to a sergeant," she explained to " he court before which she appeared, t T wanted to show the family of my 1 uture husband that I had a substanial marriage portion. And it was nth the object of saving that I stole. bought bonds with the money." But Heriette did not confine herelf to the business of building up a narriage portion so that she could ~ tand well with the sergeant's family, 'he showed her love for the sergeant >y sending him 200 francs a month. Vith this money the sergeant bought F ?onds, so that he himself could say hat he was not without means when le married. The cashier Has every reason to "~ ongratulate herself. Charged with II mbezzlement, she was sentenced to || hree months' imprisonment and fined 15 francs, and was given the benefit if the first offenders' act. This means hat Henriette will not go to prison. Joreover, the court did not interfere . nth the "dot" which she had amass- A d. "HAIitiE OF "WHITE SLAVERY." i. R. Sellers Indicted?Took Xeiglilmr's Daughter to Texas. fr< Columbus. Ga.?John B Sellers, w J Banks county, Georgia, was indict- y* d by the United States grand jury ul lere to-day on the charge of having w iolated the Mann white slave .act, ^ rill be brought to Georgia from Fort 10 Vorth, Texas, where he is now under rrest. m Sellers, who has a wife and sevral children, is alleged to have in11 tuced the 17-year-old daughter of a 1' Leighbor in Banks county, to go to ^ "exas with him. _ Pj It is stated that the girl was in ^ ove with a young man and that ^ Sellers was cognizant of the affair, Ul C2 nduced her to accompany him to ^ Uhens on the representation that her weetheart was waiting for her there fj., ind wished to marry her in Athens. G Vhen she went to Athens and the m 'oung man did not meet her it is ^ harged that Sellers induced the ?c roung girl to go with him to Texas, it Subsequently they were located in m hat State and the man arrested. The girl's father brought her back jjj rom Texas and she appeared before Tr he federal grand jury here to-day. ? From her story she seemed to have icted in all innocence and without mspicion of Sellers's motives. The tory she told before the grand jury s described as having been pathetic n the extreme. Read The Herald, $1.50 a year. 9 glexx springs r. r] taxes. omptroller General Calls on Attor ney (ieneral for Ruling. Columbia, December 6.?Conip roiier uenerai Jones 10-aay caueu 01 tie Attorney General for a ruling ii tie matter of the collection of taxe 10111 the Glenn Springs Railwaj 'liich has been in the hands of a re eiver for some time. The taxes fo wo years against this road amoun j about $679. Judge DeVore, in ecent decision, held that the costs eceivers' commission and other dis iursements should be paid befor tie taxes are collected. In his letter to the Attorney Gen ral to-day Comptroller General Jone xpresses the opinion that the rulin ? questionable whether the Judg ould scale down the State's moneys t least, and that the State should e thinks, get its taxes before thes tlier disbursements are made. Th mount left after costs are paid i ot sufficient to meet the taxes. The road sold for only $600 at ale. The Attorney General is asked ii lie Comptroller General's letter fo n opinion as to what should be don l the matter. Sheriff White, of Spar anburg, transmitted the papers t tie Comptroller General's office ask lg for instructions. \ m ined for Hiding; Woman Upon Hail Waukegan, 111., December 5.?Fivi ray haired women of the village o olo, who rode Mrs. John. Richard an on a rail one night last Jul ecause her name was linked by gas ip with that of her brother-in-law i-night were found guilty here by < iry. Each may be fined $200 an< sntenced to six months in jail. The women are .Mrs. Emma Stad eld. .Mrs. Levinia Raymoni. Mrs lma Wattland, Mrs. Mary Sabel am Irs. John Stadfield: Mrs. Kate Wag er was freed because she left befor le victim was given her ride. Mrs^ Mary Sabel, 65 years old, i le oldest of the convicted women ie others being beyond 4 0. James Krepel was charged with th ime offense. It is charged that ressed in woman's garb, he assistei i riding Mrs. Richardson on the rail [e has disappeared. * :0LDS & LaGRIPPE o or 6 doses 060 will breat ny case of Chills & Fever, Coldi : LaGrippe; it acts on the livei etter than Calomel and does nol ripe or sicken. Price 25c. IRE INSURANCE Old Line Corrmanies J. F. FOLK, Agt. BAMBERG, S. C. JOHN D. HADWIN WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER ine Railroad and Complicated Re pairing a Specialty. 35 Years Experience DENMARK, S. C. IIISBAND RESCUED DESPAIRING WIFE fter Four Tears of Discouraginj Conditions, Mrs. Bollock Gave Up in Despair. Husband Came to Rescue. Ur\r ?In on infprpcHntr Ipftei vauuil| l\J A MA UM Dm this place, Mrs. Bettie Bullock rites as follows: "I suffered for foui jars, with womanly troubles, and during is time, I could only sit up for a little hile, and could not walk anywhere a1 I. At times, I would have severe pain* my left side. The doctor was called in, and his treatent relieved me for a while, but I was on confined to my bed again. Aftei at, nothing seemed to do me any good lad gotten so weak I could not stand, id I gave up in despair. At last, my husband got me a bottle oi ardui, the woman's tonic, and I comenced taking it From the very firsl >se, I could tell it was helping me. ] in now walk two miles without iti ing me, and am doing my work." If you are all, run down from womanly Dubles, don't give up in despair. Try ardui, the woman's tonic. It nas helpec ore than a million women, in its 5( ?ars of wonderful success, ana snouic irely help you, too. Your druggist has >ld Cardui for years. He knows whal will do. Ask him. He will recomend it. Begin taking Cardui today. Write to: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladies' Ivis&ry Dept., Chattanooga. Tenn., for Special Mtructions on your case and 64-page book,' Home eatment for Women," sent in plain wrapper. Eb6-B FRANCIS F. CARROLL Attorney-at-Law Office in Hoffman Building GENERAL PRACTICE. BAMBERG, S. C. A MOTHER'S GRATITUDE ~ j Many a Mother in Bamberg Will Appreciate the Following. Many a strong man and many a 1 healthy woman has much for which to thank mother, ine care taaen aurs | ing their childhood brought them past r> | the danger point and made them ' healthy men and women. Thousands r of children are bothered with incont tinence of urine, and inability to rea tain it is ofttimes called a habit. It is not always the children's fault?in ' many cases the difficulty lies with the kidneys, and can be readily righted. e A Bamberg mother tells how she went about it. a Mrs. J. C. Folk, Jr., Carlisle St., Bam- J s berg, S. C., says: "One of the younger g members of my family was troubled e by a lame back and could not control i ; the kidney secretions at night. I r I finally got a box of Doan's Kidney e Pills from the People's Drug Co. and they brought relief." .n e I For sale by all dealers. Price 50 e s j cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, n New York, sole agents for the United a a States. Q Remember the name?Doan's?and ^ II i take no otber. ^ TAX NOTICE. | The treasurer's office will bd open for the collection of State, county, 0 school and all other taxes from the - 15th day of October, 1913 until the 15th day of March, 1914, inclusive. From the first day of January, 1914. until the 31st day of January, 1914, a penalty of one per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From I e me ist (lay or reoruary, iyi4, until f the 28th day of February, 1914, a penalty of 2 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st V day of March, 1914, until the 15th i - day of March, 1914, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be addea to all unpaid taxes: a THE LEVY. 1 For State Purposes 5% mills J For county purposes .5 % mills 2 . Constitutional school tax....3 mills 4 For public schools 1 'mill J '' For roads % mill 2 i Total 15% mills 1 e SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. 4 Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills .2 s Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills ? Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills J l' Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills J Colston, No. 18 2 mills e Cuffie Creek, No. 17 2 mills . Denmark, Nq. 21 6% mills ' Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills a Fishpond, No. 5 2 mills 3 !. 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