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COWS DERAIL FAST TRAIN. Coast Line Engineer and Fireman Painfully Injured. Florence,-January 15.?Train No. 209, the fast through freight from * Florence to Augusta, known as the Coast Line's package train over the Manchester and Augusta division, was wrecked at Remini about 12.30 o'clock this morning. Engineer J. H. Capell was seriously injured, and his fireman, Henry Serious, colored, painfully hurt. mho train lpft Florence last night * about 9 o'clock and was running about on time. Near the section I house at Remini the monster locomo% tive, No. 904, struck two cows that were standing on the track, derailing the "pony truck." The train then ran some fifteen-car lengths when the engine turned broad-side across the track and eleven box cars, two loaded and nine empty, piled \ up against the engine and were wrecked. One of the cows got beneath the engine and was wedged there, causing the derailment. A train was dispatched from Sumter with doctors and medicines and soon reached the wreck and rendered medical assistance. Shortly after a wrecking train from Florence was .? dispatched and the track was cleared late this afternoon. Engineer Capell and the fireman were brought * to the city on a special train to-day ' 4 1 ir. and were carried to tneir nomes. -ur. Capell was scalded on one leg and was badly cut and bruised about the head, face and body. Serious, the ^ colored fireman, was badly cut and bruised and scalded. The attending ? physicians state that both men will get well. | West Virginians Flee Before Raging Flood. Cumberland, Md., January 15.? Huddied in rude shacks and about blazing camp fires, hundreds of flood refugees to-night watched and waited in West Virginia while the northern branch of the Potomac River, swollen to an icy flood, swept through their homes in the town that dot the valley below. . A wall of water, starting from the broken -dam of the West Virginia Pulp and paper Company, on Stoney Creek moved down to the Potomac inundated the town of Scheli, W. Va., . where the two streams meet and , started a flood wave, laden with wreckage and ice, down the Potomac Valley. Warnings of the approaching flood sent the residents of small towns along the river scurrying to safety {n the hills, where to-night from vantage points they peered through the darkness in an icy gale toward the swollen waters below. ; Telegraph and telephone communi" 1 /Inrintr * cation was cue on uy me nuuu the day, but was re-established tonight. Rumors of several men caught at Shaw, W. Va., twenty miles from Schell, which could not be confirmed, were the only reports of casualties attending the flood. The flood warning emptied the town of Shaw and sent many . residents of Blaine. . Harrison, Kitzmiller and other w smaller places hurrying to the ridges. Fear that the waters might rise still further prevented many refugees from returning to their homes, even in towns where little damge was f done. The flood wave apparently expended its energy in a mad twenty-mile dash down the valley of Stoney Creek from the burst dam of Schell.* 1 his valley, however, virtually was uninhabited. It was owned by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company as a right of way and watershed. The big dam, which impounded a lake of water five miles long and which was 65 feet high, had been weakening for several days. Last night it began to crumble and a farmer from the mountain village of Mount Storm rode down the valley warning the few inhabitants of fhe * * impending break. A part of the big structure gave way early to-day and at noon the sweeping waters carried away the greater part of the face of the dam. A Strong Man's Job. 4 Some time ago, a colored man ap^ plied for work at a building operation and was taken on. The first 4 duty assigned him was carrying planks from one corner to another. The planks weighed a whole lot more than a heavy conscience, and as the colored man wearily trudged along he became exceedingly thoughtful. "Look heah, boss." he remarked, / finally, going over to the foreman, aia T t#?ll vn' what mah name was when I started in to wo'k?" "Why, yes", answered the foreman," wonderingly. "You said it was Thompson." "Dat's jes' what I did, boss. Dat's jes' what I did," was the smiling rejoinder of the colored party. "But I A was afraid dat yo' done gone made a mistake an' fink it was Samson."? , Philadelphia Telegraph. ? CHILD Bl'RNED TO DEATH. Parents Rush to I^end Aid, But I Beach House Too Late. Nichols, January 15.?News has just reached here that Curry s Gilchrist, his wife and four children, c living on the plantation of Gilbert E Price, about four miles from this r place, had just left their home and r gone to their tobacco patch, when I hearing a cry they looked back, saw r their eldest child, about four years t old fall in the doorway. By the time C they reached the child it was dead. It c seems that the child had gone too t near the fireplace and caught fire and o rushed for the door, dying on tne i threshold. ? t A Cow With a Wooden Leg. t James M. I. Galloway, veterinary surgeon of Kirkintilloch, Scot., arrived yesterdav from Glasgow with F g photographs of a cow with a wooden r leg on the starboard quarter, which . the veterinary says is almost as gjcd 11 to the cow as an ordinary leg of beef and much more effective in knocking out folks who try to milk her on the wrong side. Other veterinarians laughed at t: Galloway, who is young and of an ex- c perimental temperament, when he r decided to save the life of a cow, af- v ter the leg had been cut off by a lo- c comotive. He insisted on fitting the t wooden leg, which he regards as t much more useful than wooaen p heads on* Scotch veterinarians. t: The only time the wooden leg gets t: the cow into trouble is when she t stands too long in a damp field and s the leg sinks in a foot or so. Mr. Galloway is going to visit his brolii- h er, a veterinarian of Washington.? o Ne^ York Sun. v q Attacked On the Highway. ,. 1J The negro, Wolfe, alias Sam a Thomson, who assaulted J. A. Shannon as he was returning home Sunday afternoon from a < visit to the family of Mrs. Wade Osborne at s: Lockardt, has not yet been caught, tl Mr. Shannon was driving along the h road about three miles from Lock- ii hart and did not notice the negro c; approaching until he was standing right by the side of his buggy, curs- c< ing him. Mr. Shannon stopped his fi buggy and asked the negro if he was s cursing him, there being no one else n in sight. The negro replied that he n was and advanced towards the buggy n with his hand in his hip pocket, d Shannon jumped from his buggy and d discarded his overcoat and gloves, tl Having nothing to defend himself si with he picked up some rocks and t< threw them at the negro, who contin- w ued to advance on Mr. Shannon, ii brandishing a knife or razor. Mr. ti Shannon was able to keep the negro n back far enough to prevent himself from getting cut, though his clothing fi was badly, slashed. He finally sue- a ceeded in striking the negro a blow ii between the eyes with the butt end a of his whip, which so stunned the p negro that he was unable to advance S again. The negro was carried off by n another negro who came upon the scene about this time. Mr. Shannon had never seen his assailant before and could not give the officers his s< name. Before the officers were able o to capture him at his home on W. C. ^ Thompson's place he had escaped.? g, Sharon special of January 15, to Rock Hill Herald. C< o Safe Blower Reforms. $ ' S Lawrenceville. Ga., Jan. 15.? v John Wilson, who broke jail here l several years ago. and who ended a v five-year sentence about eighteen months ago, returned to Lawrence- ci ville to-day with a record that few a men who have been convicted as safe si blowers have ever made. He came fi on a visit to pay his respects to f< friends here and to those who befrienripd him while in jail. He b brought records to show that for the 2 past twelve months he has held a B $100 per month job in Spartanburg, S.C., and stands high in the regard 4 of his employer. 1 He made no secret of his past re- w cord when he applied for a job on getting out of prison, and he declares 1 that he intends to keep the confi- b dence of his employer. He is still a $ young man and was the youngest of the trio of safe blowers caught at tl Carl. Ga., in 1904. The other two r< were John Cooper and "Dutch" Wil- g liams. -ft REMANDED TO THE TOMBS. Youth Advises Young Men to Keep Out of Wall Street. New York, January 14.?Frank n Henning, the youth who confessed to P .. H naving stolen irom uie pc- sonal accounts of directors of the 1J Farmer's State Bank, #of Schaumberg, t! 111., was arraigned in police court to- 0 day and remanded to the Tombs until il Friday, Henning was dejected. ' "I would advise every young man v to keep out of Wall street and stock a speculation," he said. "It looks a mighty good at first, but they will a get you in the end." b HOPEFUL OF ROAD MEASURE. Syraes Says His Bill for $25,000,000 Appropriation Will Pass. Washington, January 16.?Repreentative James F. Byrnes said to[ay that the bill unanimously reported to the house Thursday by the oads committee, of which he is a nember. would almost certainly be passed by the house within the next nonth. The bill is a compromise ietween the measure fathered by lhairman Shackleford and one introluced by Mr. Brynes, and carries 10th plans, leaving the States the ption of choice. The appropriaion made by the bill is $25,000,000. Mr. Byrnes thinks is quite possible hat the road bill will be attached to he postoffice appropriation bill, now ending, as a rider. A rule will be btained from the rules committee ermitting this method, which was luccessful 'in the house with the oads bill which afterwards failed a the senate. The senate is likely o pass a roads bill this year. ? To Push Measure for Good Roads. Washington, Jan. 15.?Represenative Brynes to-day told The State's orrespondent that the committee on oads, of which he is a member, rould in all probability secure a speial rule from the rules committee cf he house within the next day or t^o o have the pending good roads bill assed with the postoffice appropriaion bill. Mr. Byrnes thinks that in his way no objection could be raised o the measure and that it would oon pass both the house and senate. Since Mr. Byrnes entered the ouse he has worked for the passage f a liberal good roads bill, one that 'ould meet all constitutional reuirements, and to-day he said he beeved this consummation to be near t hand. How a Girl Went to College. A young girl who lived in Missisippi asked her brother to give her he money to go to college. He told er he could not afford it, and tossig her a nickel, added, "Unless you an go on that." The plucky little girl took the 5ent piece and bought some calico, rom which she made a bonnet that he sold for 25 cents. With'this loney she bought more calico and lade more bonnets. After she had lade several dollars in this way she etermined to raise potatoes. She id all the work in the field except le ploughing. The venture was a access, and she had enough money ) start at school. She did not stop ork, however, and it is not surprislg that a girl of so much determinaon was able to borrow enough loney to supplement what she made. She was graduated w;ith honor om the State College for Women, ttended a medical school, still earnlg all her expenses, got her degree, nd is now a successful practicing hysician in a large town in the outh; and it all began with a ickel!?Youth's Companion. Six Million Dollars Gain. Approximately $6,000,000 repremts the total increase in the value f all property in South Carolina for ixation according to the annual tatement issued by A. W. Jones, amptroller general. The total value f all property for last year was 297,431,000, as compared with 291,531.003 in 1912. The total alue of all railroad property in 913 was $43,783,509, as compared ith $42,742,671 in 1912. There has, however, been a derease in valuation in Barnwell ounty of $23,350, while Bamberg hows an increase of $50,670. The gures for the two counties are as allows: Personal property in 1912: Bamerg $793,270; Barnwell, $1,316,50; in 1913: Bamberg, $830,030; arnwell, $1,271,280. Real estate in 1912: Bamberg, $1,36,700, Barnwell, $3,000,870; in 913: Bamberg, $1,450,060; Barnell, $3,018,800. Totals, 1912: Bamberg, $3,080,90; Barnwell, $6,198,470; 1913; omhoncr $2 120 SfiO* Barnwell. 6,175,120. From the above it will be seen that aere has been an increase in both sal and personal property values in tamberg, while in Barnwell there as a decrease in personal and an lcrease in real property valuation. ' The Ford Motor Company of Detroit, which recently divided $10,00,000 among its stockholders, has ow "cut a melon" of even larger roportions for its employees. Uner a plan of profit-sharing which is erhaps unexampled in magnitude, lie company will distribute $10,000,00 annually, or approximately half s earnings, among 22,000 workmen, 'he program includes eight-hour ork-days. a minimum wage of $5 day which is more than double that r nrpspnt in fnrrp and in addition benevolent supervision of the welleing of employees. EDISTO PROJECT. War Department Recommends Tliat It Be Carried Out. Washington,' Jan. J 6.?Federal improvement of waterway? from Orangeburg to Charleston, S. C., to maintain a cleared channel was recommended to congress to-day by the war department. The initial cost wouia oe ^o.uuu aua annual maintenance, $5,000. The waterway steamboat navigation plans for which are being prepared, would include a cut-off from Edisto river to Ashley river to provide more direct route. IX MEMORY OF GRANDMOTHER. We, the children and grandchildren, wish to extend our hearty thanks to those throughout the entire community that helped us through all the sufferings of our grandmother, Mrs. M. A. Kinard. 0, the sweetest place in memory is that lonely mound of earth, and the form of that dear grandmother that j we carried there the third day of January. So we journey on in sadltess over m life's dreary, barren waste, hoping I that some sweet day we may meet I and 6ee her lovely face again and J abide with her there forever more. JESSIE AND ANNIE. Ladies We introduce a new firm to you. Just keep on your hats and listen a moment } Rentz's Millinery Store, will hereafter be run as usual but under the firm name of LaVerne Thomas & Co. The new firm will continue to keep up the reputation of the old firm in new things by always having for you the newest to be had of everything in our line. Hats, Silks, Laces, Embroideries, Dress Novelties. AD new, novel, Up-to-date Merchandise And again remember the HATS HATS HATS The flower buds are already forming fop the Spring. "We are preparing for you" LaVeme Thomas & Co. Sale at Auction I will sell at auction on Monday, February, 23d, at 1Z noon, my two- story House and Lot, also the adjoining lot, on Washington and Franklin Street, at Ehrhardt, S.C. C. A. ECKARDT DR. THOMAS BLACK, JR. DENTAL SURGEON. Graduate Dental Department University of .Maryland. Member S. C. State Dental Association. Office opposite new post office and over office Graham & Black. Office hours; 8.30 a. m. to 5.30 p. m. BAMBERG, S. C. E. H. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law BAMBERG. S. C. General Practice. Loans Negotiated. Ill Spray Your and Make G< WE CARE Y SPRAI OF EVERY KIWI GIVE YOU MATION ABOUT SI n >7. c -tr\ /"m/) /7 n KjrufMJunvn KJ/U/u yoiv LV Reasonable Places. Write for Par, C. S. FOkK DENMARK . C. LEE, President Farmers - - Merchai f you are going to Build, R< invite your inq COMPLETE HOUSE BILI We manufacture and deal in Stairs, Interior Trim, Store F Pews, Pulpits, etc., Rough ai Lath, Pine and Cypress Shing Siding. Distributing agents Estimates Cheerfully art< iYoodward Lumbi \ AUGUSTA - I Corner Roberts & Di I OUR MOTT QUALITY - - , * 9 If you bury your money son may find it. You might die with' its whereabouts. If you hide it the carpet, in a sugar bowl or th just come and get it. That's Study this picture and you will 1 Make OUR bank \ We pay 4 per cent. pounded quarterly on s; * Farmers & JVlen BHRHARDT, jBBBBBBBBBBgMttHI 11 I They are I received yesteri day) morning one of of Mules and Horse.* to Bamberg. Com them before they ar S Railroad I I CM| 1 Avenue J* J. ijlfl' Orchards ood Fruit *MATERIALS ), AND CAN SAR Y INFOR5RAYING : : nd Pruned at firjilars & SON ; s. c. F. E. GIBSON, Sect'y & Treas, . ^ ? /.u ,;3 nts--Builders Vmiodel or Repair, we luiries. 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