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VOL. XXVIII.
WALTERBORO, S. C., JULY n, 1906.
NO. si-
AWFUL TRAGEDY
AT RUFFIN
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y W. IRNECAN SLAYS HIS WIFE
AND FOUR CHILDREN.
Killed Them With an Axe While
They Were Asleep.
This morhing before day break
while they were wrapped in peaceful
slumber, j W Iruegan took an axe
and slew his wife and fonr children.
Mr Irnegan first brained his wife,
Mrs GliVia Irnegan, and then his son
George, age 16 years, and then his
daughter, Orrie, age eight years;
thek his son Thomas, age four years,
and then the youngest, a little gir.S
Lihie May, who was only two years
old.
Wr Irnegan was brought to Wal*
terboro this morning by A M Ulmer
and B B Ulmer, sons of Magistrate
Ulmer of Bells. As soon as Mr
irnegan bad slain his family he went
to his neighbor, Isaac Salsberry, and
reported it to him. Mr Salsberry
and Mr Smyly and several other
neighbors went to the place and tcok
Mr Irnegan in charge and immediate*
ly summoned a physician.
When seen this morning by a re
presen tative of The Press and Stand
ard Mr Irnegan stated that he had
killea his wife and ohildren, but did
not know why he had done so; that
he loved them very dearly and that
they had always gotten on well to
gether. He said when he got
through killing them that it was
H3ar)y daylight, when be went over
to Mr Satsberry’s and reported it to*
him / : . £ ■
Mr Irnegan is a well-to do farmer,
who lived about one mile from Ruf
fin. He kept books for J M Dan*
nelly for a long time, bat about ten
yetrs ago be quit keeping books and
•bought a farm. Mr Irnegan came to
this country some years ago from
Smtea. Several jews »*o he made
an attempt to cut his throat Though c*mbiutb me qualities necessary to ie
Three Killings In OM Beaufort.
Beaufort, July 5.—A white man, a
white boy and a negro ntan were kill
ed by negroes hear llardeeVille be
tween sunset of the third and sunset
of the fourth. With one exception
this is the tirst time lor over 30 years
that a negro has killed a white 7 man
in this section.
Hugo Schlegelmilch of Hardee-
ville was killed bv a negro field hand
at his plantation 17 miles from
Hardeevdle at sundown on the
fourth. As Schelgelmilch was walk?
ing through his field with two com
panions and met two negroes who
worked on the place. Without warn
ing one of them shot Mr Schlegel
milch through the breast with a shot
gun. Death wss instantaneous. Mr
Schlegeltnilch had never bad any
trouble with the negro, but one of his
companions had. The negro escaped
and had not been caught up to this
afternoon. .
H G Heyward, magistrate at Har-
de^ville, received the news this
morning and went at once to the
scene with a posse. Mr Schlegel-
milch was an exemplary young man
about 25 years of.age and a general
favorite. He was a graduate . of
Clemsou and spent several years on
ranches in the West
Charles Simmons, the 13-year-old
son of Mack Harrison, of Prichard-
ville, was wounded in the stomach by
a negro boy on the afternoon of the
fourth. The wounded lad was
carried to the hospital in Savannah,
aid is reported to be dying. The
shooting occurred " about five miles
from where Schlegelmilch was killed
a little later. The shooting wasdone
witn a gun and is said to have been
intentional. The negro escaped.
On the eve oi the foartb, a .negro
carpenter was killed by a negro team
ster at Pnrysburg, about two miles
from Hardeeville. There was a
quarrell over whiskey at a gathering,
resulting in a fatal knife wonud in
the neck. The same night a negro
wss shot in the shoulder at a negro
club house on the ontskirts of the
tiwn, but not fatally injured.
WitHelt-Duvatl.
Another wedding of interest to a
number of people of Walterboro, was
that of J M Witsell and Mies Rdith
Duv*ll, which took place in Cheraw
Tuesday evening, Julv 3. The cere
mony was performed by the groom’s
brother, Rev W 1* Witaell, iu St
Davids Episcopal church, in the
presence of a large concfinrse of
friends and relatives. The bride was
given away by her father, H P
Duvall. C S Anderson, of Walter
boro, was the best man and Miss
liouise Coit, of Washington, was the
maid of honor. The church was
prettily decorated and made a beauti
ful appearance.
A delightful reception was tender
ed the bridal party by relatives and
friends on the evening before, at the
home of the bride’s father. They
received quite a number of hand
some presents. •
Mr Witsell is the youngest son of
Dr Chas. Witsell; was born and
raised in Walterboro and only left
here a few yean ago to accept a posi
tion with the American Snuff Co.
He h«8 many friends here who will
wish for him much happiness in his
new relationship.
Miss DnVali ie one of the most
popular and accomplished young
ladies of that town.
The happy couple left on the U.15
train over the Sea Board Air Line
for Virginia Beach, where they will
spend several weeks, alter which they
will go to Paragonld, Ark., where the
grfiom is associated with the firm of
Witaell Bros.',"in the wholesale gro
cery business.
in prosperous circumstances, >fr
"irnegan seems to fear that his wife
*nd children would be put out of
bouse and home, and he is said to
0 *
have stated to others that this was^
the reMon that he bad killed them.? 1 ^ tK,D 8 b ' oot , ,he basine “ of C A -
There * -little doubt but that the ^ftoraoTab^. Mat
' man wai insane Before her marria£e wUI command attention.
Iteve the ci uch mid porg* the system of
cold. UoutaiUB ao opiates. Sold by Jdo
-M Klein.
Notice.
The public will please take notice that
Mra Irnegan was Mfcs
draws, of Williams.
Olivia An/
Modest Claims Often Carry the Most
Conviction.
When Maxim, the facu ua gun inven
tor, placed his gun Iteforc a committee
of judges, he stated its carrying power
to be much below what he fell suie the
gun would accomplish. The result of the
trial xas therefore a great surprise, in
stead of disappointment. It is the same
with the manufacturers of Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diairhoea Remedy,
They do not publicly boast of all thla
remedy will accomplish, but prefer to let
the users make the statement. What
they do claim. Is that it will positively
eare diarrhoea, dysentery, pains in the
stomach and bowels and has never been
known to fill For sale by John M
Hein.'
. COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON. J
CHARLESTON, 5. C. ' ,
121st Year begins September 28..
Lett ere, Science, Engineering.
One scholarship, give free tui lion
to each oounty of South Carolina.
Tuition 140. Board and furnished
room in Dormitory $11 a month.
All candidates for admieaion are
termitted to compete for vacant
Boyce scholarship which pay $100:;
a year. Fog catalogue, adrete
iBarrieon Randolph,
Pfejident.
Respectfully, *
W. T. Wa-ren.
' TO OCRE A COLD IN ONE DAY
take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine
Tablets. Druggists, refend money if is
fails t# cure. E W GROVE’S
ture Is on etfiTi box. 25c.
signu-
Notice;
the same to Penrifoy Bros, duly attest
ed and those indebted to said estate
will make payment to Penrifoy Broe,
Walterboro, S O, or to N Godley and W
8 Godley, Executors.
R F D No .3, Savannah, Ga.
June SO, 1W6. 6 20 It
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Core.
P. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo O.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
J. Cheney for the last IS years, and be
lieve him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions, and financially
able to carry ont any obligations made
by his firm
Walding, Kinnan A Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure i* taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and muoous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c. per
bottle. Bold by all Dgaggists.
Take Hail’s Fi
tion.
amily PilUfor constipa-
Houae Struck by Lightning.
During the thunder tdorm last
Thursday afternoon, the house
of Mr. A. 0. VonLehe was struck
by lightning, though no serious
damage was ddne.
The course of tho current, v^as
peculiar.
It struck tho china closet in one
corner of the dining room find'
broke up the crockery and tbei
jumped across the house to the
bath room tearing of the facing ta
the door and hurling it into the
adjoining room, but without in
juring any portion.of tho house
between. Mrs. vonLehe was sifc-
All persona having claims against the i n the hall Way and did not.
estate of W wiii present know her house had been struck
until called to her attention later.
Fortunatley therar was no one in
that portion.of the house and no
one was injured.
Notice.
By virture of an ordinance of the
town of Walterboro I will proceed to
sell on Saturday, July 14, 1906, in
front of the conrtboote in Walter
boro, at five o’clock in the afternoon,
one red heifer, said oow* being no-
marked and unknown. The dwner of
oow can get same by identifying her
•»d paying oosta. J 3 Jackson,
July 6, 1906. Chief Martha].
Children like Kennedy's Laxative
Booty'and Tar. pleasantest and best
syrup to taka, becanso h contains —
t Hold by John M JEW*.
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It la always well to hr<ve a box of salve in
the bouse. Sunburn, cats, bruises, piles
and boils yield to DeWitt'a Witch Hazel
Salve. Should keep a box on band at al,
times to provide lor emergencies. For
years the standard, hot followed by maay
imitators. Bt sure yon get the genuine
DeWitt's Witch Basel Salve.
Mowey Oivew Away.
Following is* list of persona drawing
»ah prizes
offered by Colleton Mer
can tils A Manufacturing Co: Charles
Goodwin, A. H. Herndon, Mrs R. F.
Hoggin. WHhe O’Qais, Mrs Elias
Tufi
Miss Bertha Es
G O.
Letter From Adams Run.
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Editor Frees and Standard: Rain!
Bain! I think Longfellow never ex
perienced such a rainy time, or he
would have called his poem "Rainy
Days.” Some of our prominent
planters look so cloudy 1 am in con
tinual fear they will dissolve into
showers and we’ll lose them. But
anyhow, in spite of the rain and
gloomy outlook, the boys under the
leadership of Bruoe LaRoche, got up
a very pleasant danco last Friday
night. The hall was filled with
youth and beauty—even the juveniles
were out. The chaperones were
handsome, smiling and watchful over
the pleasures of all. The music was
furnished by the local band, and ex
celled itself on this occasion. There
were visitors from a distance, among
whom I noted Miss Edwards of Wal
terboro and Miss Bailey of Wadma-
law.
The Misses Bteinmeyer of ChArles
ton, accompanied the Misses Behling
to the danoe.
Frank Clement was present also.
Dancing continued until the sleepy
chaperones declared “enough,*' and
carried their charges home to watt
until the next dance, which they hope
won’t be too long coming.
The Fourth was very qnietly spent
by ns. The colored element gave
numerons picnics, and offered up the
usual amount of bnman blood in
honor of the occasion, and if the
number of pistol shots indicated a
nice time, they must have reached
the superlative degree of enjoyment
. The general exodus to the moun
tains, springs and other sntnmer
resorts has commenced. The first to
leave vas Mrs FitsSimmons and
family for Columbia.
N The Ravenels and W M Bivens
o
families leave Tuesday for the moun
tains of North Carolina.
Others will go later. Some pre-
fering to .visit friends in different
localities, but all who can, will go
for a change during the warm season,
if only for a few'tlayi. s/
Of coarse, there are usual stay-at
homes, aud the dui’t get-aways—who
must get what they cau out of life
here in our village, and enjoy the
lovely open ai^ concerts given by the
frogs, but business must go on, and
some one must attend to it. That is
a sufficient reason, eh?
Mrs Dodd and family visited Cot-
tagevilie Saturday.
Miss Emily Legare visited Charles
ton la$t week, and took in the hop at
the Isle of Palms.
Miss Mattie Sanders has returned
home after a very pleasant visit to
Savannah aod other points of inter,
eat.
Miss Annie Larsen is visiting
friends in. the City by the Sea.
Misses Carry Larsen and Evie
Johnson are away on a pleasure trip.
Eddie Allston, of the city, spent
the Fourth with friends here.
Mrs T J Taylor is spending awhile
on Hullivan’s Island.
, Mrs Ada Barnwell is visiting her
children, who reside in Charlestom-
I wish “Cabin Boy” would practice
what he preaches. I am. quite sure
he would handle any subject he
would discuss well. c8et us the ex
ample. .
S J Rumph visited they city on
business' Wednesday.
L Wedding bells are to ring out hard
and strong in the very near future,
but unlike “Country Consin,” 1 will
not get any of . the cake. Too'had,
eh?
What is the matter with the “poli
tical boy*” Things •aem slow this
year. Wishing those beat fitted for
the office succeuil’ll retire for this
time. More Anon.
COL LUMPKIN QUITS THE RACE,
Senator Tillman Is Now Sure to Sue*
< cecd Himself.
Columbia, July 5-—The jig is up.
It was most unexpectedly that Col W
W Lumpkin entered the race for
United IStatea Senator, and 'just as
unexpectedly ^has he dropped ouL
Tonight he gave the Bureau this
card:
“Ou account of the chance of
conditions surrounding the b^n-*
atorial race, I deem it best to with
draw from the contest. 1 have en
deavored to conduct my campaign in
a manly, straightforward way up to
this time, and retire feeling that I
have not intentionally wronged any
one. Respectfully,
“W W Lumpkin.”
This was all CoDLumpkin had to
say, and it is quite enough. It settles
the Senatorial contest* and Beujamiif
H Tillman will be reflected to the
United States Senate without opposi
tion for six years. Whether this wilf
change his plans as to« series of
personal meetings is not known.
Col Lumpkin has acted with dighity
in his brief ambition to be Senator.
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A sweet breath adds (o the joys of a
kiaa You wouldn’t want to kiss yoar
wife, mother or sweetheart with a bad
breath. You can’t have a tweet breath
without a healthy stomach. Yon can’t
haves beatthy alomteh without perfect
digestion. There is only one remedy
that digests what you eat and makes tw
breath aa sweet as a rtw—atid that
remedy is KODOL FOR DYdPEPdlA.
It l» a relief f *r sour stomach, palpita
tion of the heart, and othet ailmenta
arising from disorder of the stomach aid
digest iou. Take a little Kodol after yoar
meali* and see what it will do for yoa-
8old by John M Klein.
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Convert the Dollars sod Yon WNI
Evangelize the World.
Quoth the Dollar to the. Cent:
“Look at me, how big 1 am, and
how shining is my face, and pioor t
too, with Una profession of faith
printed plainly over my forehead, 'In
God we trust!’ X am worth a hun
dred miserable little coppers like
yon.”
“That may all be true,’ v replied
the Cent, “but for all that, - although
you are so broad and bright and
pious, you are, neverthelesa, a hvpo-
crit. Where you go to church once,
i go a thousand times; aud, moreover,
you hardly over get to a missionary
meeting, while ^ at ~
Pray for the opnveffimRlijtfe hack-
si’ding $. that it way come into good
and regular standing; for as Horace
Bushnell once so truly said: “The
money-power, which is one of the
most operative and grandest of all, ia
only beginning to be Christianized.
What we are waiting for is the coo«
secration of the vast money-power of
the world to the work and cagse aod
kingdom of Jesus Christ; for that
day, when it comes, will be the morn
ing, so to speak, of the new creation*
That tide-wave in the money-power
can as little be resisted, when God
brings it, as the tides of the'‘sea; and
like these, also, it will flow across the
world in a day.”--AH the World.
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Old Chronic Sores.
Asa dressing for old chronic sores
there is nothing so good aa Chsmber-
lain’* Salve. While it is not advisable to
heal old sotes entirely, they should be
kept in a good conditio** for which
salve is s pecially valuable.
John M Klein.
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Lee-Ooodwle.
William J. Lee add Miss Ellen
Goodwin were made one on the HI
of June, at the Methodist
in St Augustine, Fla. Rev
Keenley performed the
Mr Lee is ~a .native of Lake City,
has been in Florida for several
and Miss Goodwin ia owe ef
Swamp’s young ladies. H‘«