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SLICK RASCAL A So-Called Gem Broker Swindled Women and Jewellers. HEIRESS A VICTIM. Kngaged to Her, Though Married, He Horrows Ten Thousand Dollars From Her. J. Kilwanl Hock, lloon Companion of New York MilI ion i a res Indicted Following Ills Disappearance. At New York the grand jury has brought an indictment for obtaining) money under false pretenses against J. Edward Boeck, of the Republican club, a bench warrant has been issued for him, and detectives the world over have been instructed to find him and bring him back to New York as soon as they can. Boeck was a broker in gems, lie lived in splendid style at the Republican club. He knew Senator Clark, of Montana, and he was a boon companion of other-men in New York. He could bring to a dealer in precious stones during the course of a week more wealthy customers than any other diamond salesman in New York might hope to bring in the course of a year. He sold J. Pierpont Morgan a diamond and pearl collar that cost probably $100,000. There is another charge against Boeck, made by a waalthy Pittsburg girl, who declares that he promised to marry her and got $10,000 from her. Those to whom she has told her story will not divulge her name. She is the only child of a widowed mother. Her father was among the steel kings before the United States Steel vurpumuon was iormca. sne has great wealth. Soon after it became known that Boeck had disappeared she came here and sought thp offices of Marsellus, Pitt & Co., asking for him there. On a finger she showed a diamond and emerald ring. It was recognized by the clerk who responded to her call. Inadvertently he mentioned that Boeck had not paid for the ring. The Pittsburg girl tore the ring from her finger and threw it upon the table before her, bursting into tears. She was to have been married to Boeck last February, but the wedding had been delayed. She had loaned him $10,000 in cash and he had given as security for the notes the same porcelains he had used with others. The young Pittsburg woman appeared terribly distressed when she learned that Boeck had decamped. She cried that the money she had given to the diamond broker was nothing. She wanted to find him. She was not told that Boeck had a wife. Boeck's wife often was seen in Maiden Lane. She was described today as a woman with a face of youth and with black hair streaked with gray. Boeck never let her leave a Maiden Lane office for the Courtland street ferry, three blocks a\yay, without ordering a cab for her. Boeck was a member of the Belmont Cricket club of Philadelphia, and has many friends here, it is said. Some of the alleged victims of Bocck in New York believe that he has cleaned up a sum that may reach $750,000 in various ways in this and neighboring cities. One sufferer is Edwin W. Dayton, who deals in jewels and antiques of all kinds at 4 West Thirty-ninth street. Boeck took $32,500 worth of pearls and diamonds belonging tc him, but returned to Mr. Dayton since he dissappeared pawn tickets for $15,000, representing jewelry he got from Dayton and pawned. The face value of that jewelry is said tc be about $50,000. ^ & 1 According to Mr. Dayton, BoecV numbered among his friends the Guygemheims. He is also said to have acted for society women whc wanted to exchange or sell their jewelry, and there is said to be a number of them who would like him tc come back with jewelry they trusted to him. From what could be learned BoecV has an interesting history. His fath er was an exiled Polish nobleman, who.went to China, where he married an American girl. Boeck was born ir China and his features and mannei are Oriental. Boeck came to this country froir China with Prince Pu Lun, who hac charge of the Chinese exhibit at the St. Louis exposition. After the exposition, it is said, he disposed of a good part of the Chi nese exhibit to Senator Clark. What he did immediately after that is not known, but he soon appeared as 2 jewelry salesman. Mr. Dayton, who was a captain ir the Twenty-second regiment, met him in February for the first time, Mr. Dayton said that Boeck came tc him with a letter of introduction from a well known downtown jewelry firm, for business reason he did not care to name. The first thing he did was to take Mr. Dayton to the oflices of the American Smelting company and introduce him to the members of the Guggenheim firm. Among others who Boeck presented Mr.Dayton to was P. A. B. Widener, of Philadelphia. Boeck had only known Mr. Dayton for a day or two when he said that Senator Clark went to buy two valuable pictures which Mr, Dayton had in his store. Senator Clark was 9 ' INFKKNAL MACHINR Intended For An Atlanta Girl Wan ' Opened by Her Mother. Atlanta has another sensation on ^ hand. Fred Bush, arrested for send- l lug an infernal machine to the homo , of his sweetheart, Miss Kale Ale x Carthy, was said to have been ldentl- | fled by a negro messenger boy, who I said he received the package from a ' man "who looked like llush and who 1 stood In the street after sending in the call. The machine exploded when Mrs. McCarthy, mother of the girl opened the package and the house was almost demolished. I The negro said he had instructions not to send the box until Thursday morning but It went out last night by mistake. Miss McCarthy was at the theater, and her mother received the package instead. An attempt to w|juu u it'?um:u in an expioBion wnicn shattered the interior of the lioine and threw Mrs. McCarthy across the hall into the room where twins were sleeping. She suffered serious injuries, but will recover. Hush is a business partner of C. ' V. Doollttle, a commission merchant who accompanied Miss Hush to the theater. Hush, when arrested, denied any knowledge of the infernal machine. The box was of oak, eight inches long. Jt contained dynamite and a pistol so arranged as to explode when the box was opened. The concussion shook the whole block. LKl'Klt AT NINETY-SIX. Well Developed Case Said To llavo Doen Located. Dr. It. H. Caldwell of Cherokee county has reported a well defined case of leprosy at Ninety-Six Island, between Cherokee and York counties, and will take other physicians with him to visit the afflicted man and pass upon his diagnosis. The man is a laborer employed by companies developing water property in that section. liOST AT SKA. Two Chicago Men ami a Launch Are Missing. . A cable from Valdaz, Alaska, says that W. L. and O. K. Hail, of Chicago have been lost at sea in a launch. They left Valdaz a week ago for Knight's Island, and started without oars, provisions or sail, expecting to make the run in a few hours, but never reached their destination. The belief at Valdaz is that they were driven to sea by a break in the launch's machinery. It is said in the newspapers that one hundred preachers, actuated by the prospect of a big fee, applied to Wm. E. Corey to be permitted to perform the ceremony of marrying mm to Mabelle Oilman, the actress, for whom he had deserted his wife. A new law in Texas provides that dealers in pistols shall be taxed 50 per cent on their gross receipts from the sale of such weapons. That, of course, is intended to be prohibitive. (jrand Old County. In speaking of the efforts to cu up the county to help form a nun ber of poor, weakly little countie the Columbia State pays thi tribute to the grand old county o Orangeburg: "Old Orangeburg is one of th greatest counties in the Unitec States and she would lose this pre tige if dismembered. It is said th, there are more substantial farmei . in Orangeburg county than in an other m the State. There are n ! so many wealthy farmers, but ther is a larger number of farmers wh ' own and till their lands. This an ' other things draw the people of th ( county closely together." This is all true and it would be . ! great pitv to cufup the irrand ol ' county in order that a few poop! living in certain towns might en ; hance the value of their lands at th ! expense of the country people, wh 1 would not be benefitted. But a } The State says "there has been . great deal of attachment for th mother county, and it may be har } to get the people to vote to seced from Orangeburg to either St. Mat thews or Branchville." It is our be L lief that all the propositions to cu the grand old county of Orange j burg will be vot.o'1 ^o<vn. l zz to have called one afternoon, but he did not, and Boeck explained that | Senator Clark's secretary had tele\ phoned that the senator would be 5 there that evening. Sure enough that evening "Senator Clark" walked ' into Mr. Dayton's place. "Senator " Clark," looked over the two pictures ' but decided that he did not want ' them for his oolWt.inn 1 About this time Boeck remarked that he was on very friendly terms 1 with members of the Newport colo' ny, and he could easily dispose of $125,(KM) worth of jewelry and anti* ques if he could get it. Mr. Dayton | took him to Alfred Smith, who has a ' jewelry store on Fifth avenue and I Thirty-sixth street, and there, ac1 cording to Mr. Dayton, Boeck made 5 a deal whereby he disposed of a lot . of jewelry. There was some dispute with Smith over Boeck's commission, and the latter sued. Only a short time before he disappeared he got a judgment for $4,000 against Smith for his commission. Afterward Boeck, through his acquaintance with Mr. Dayton, secured diamonds and pearls from other firms, some of which were pawned in various loan offices. SCRIPTURE'S HARD THINGS. [b? Minister Showed Um YouUft Ho j Was An Equal Kyr Him. A shrewd, wordly agnostic and a Christian clergyman dressed In a nodest clerical suit. snld Ell Perkins, * >at at the same table in the Pullman 1 lining car. They were w.titiug tor y .ho first course at the dinner, a do- j lclous Hudson River shad. Eyeing r lis companion coldly for a moinoot a .ho agnostic remarked: f "I Judge you are a clergyman, 1 dr?" J "Yes, sir; I am In my mnster'a >ervlce." r "Yes, you look It. Preach out of t ;hc Bible, don't you?" f "O. yes; of course." i "Find u good many things In that t ild book that yon don't understand ( ?don't you?" * "O, yes; some things." "Well, what do you then do?" "Why, my dear friend, I simply' lo juut us I do while eating tills ( loll clous shad. If 1 come to a bone j I quietly lay It on one side and go on njoying the shad, and let some fool ' insists on choking himself with the lones." Then the agnostic wound up his VVaterbury wutch and went into the smoke/. i Profit and I^oss. It had been a hard day for Mike I^lnnogan, the "ragman." Many and raided had been his wanderings, bull ( vo one seemed Inclined to dlsposd ( if rags. As he was making his way i lomeward at the close of this hoc < fuly day, through one of the ter.a* i uent sections of the city, he heard ( \ cry from above. Looking up hd iaw a woman at a sixth-story window lolently beckoning to him Mike'* ! mart was full of hope as he stumbled ( ip the broken stnlrs . . At the lop ho was met by a woman ] toldlitg a weeping child by the harid. I "Hey, mister," cried the mother 1 :> the perBplrlng Mike, "don't you 1 ike bud little boys away in your >lg bug?"?Harper's Weekly. Bret Harte and the Scotchman. The late Bret Harte was a very ( ovablo man to those who really 1 new him. Yet, sometime, he could i e very bitter. Once when he was 1 onsul at Glasgow he attended a big tty dinner. Tho Scotsman who sat icxt to him had a reputation for learnens. And he hadn't been very ' veil lately. The Scotsman said*. "Can you recommend a good physician?" "I can If you want to attend to 1 yourself," said Bret Harte. < ' V/xa 9 1 UO i J "Death!" "Why death?" "Because lie will oniy cost you one visit."?M. A. P. Not Aware of Bending Him On. A certain mother-in-law had ' stayed bo often with her daughter as to cuuue a Quarrel with the husband, , and one day, when uhe again came iO atav, she found her daughter in , tears on the doorstep. "I suppose George has left you," she snlfTed. 'Yes"?sob. "Then there's a woman In the case?" she naked, her <ves lighting up expectantly. "Yos" ?&ob. "Who Is It?" she demanded. 'You"?sob. "Gracious!" ex.dnlined the mother-in-law. "I am sure 1 never gave him any encouragement."?Argonaut. Non-Committal. "Guilty or not guilty?" "Yen," responded the man at the bar. "What's that?" queried the court, sharply. "Yon nfiltorl mo *?rVio T ? _ .... .,w.?wx? tuv u iiviuui i wno ;ullty or not guilty, and, of courso, ( am. Of the two conditions I could riot well escape both." "Hut which are you?" "Aw. go oti. judge. What's the jury for?"?Philadelphia Ledger. The Points of View Y?re chat, other people chatter. We aro conservative, other people are narrow. Wo are facetious, other people are port. We have preferenoe, other people ire selfish. We know a thing or two, other eople "know It all." We have faults, other people make 'helra conspicuous.?Birmingham ,\ge- Herald. Tho American Homestead. Brown?See that farm house, old* nnn? That's the old homestead? he place where I first saw the light if day. Gray?Which one? That villa advertising Doctor Pierce's Pink Preiclptlon, or the bungalow to the right booming Snitcher's Gastorla? ?Puck. These Funny Girls. Grace wants to pay the faree. Instate on that; Ynd than because Maude dares To let her pay the fares Grace Maude to pieces tears And dubs her "cat!" ?Louisville Courier-Journal. Heart to Heart. Fair Divorcee?My dear, I am going to be marriad next week to Mr. Ulchman. Small Daughter?Oh, mamma, aro you going to got married again? And after all the trouble we had with papa!?Brooklyn Life. It Is No Wonder. "Jane, where Is my necktie?" "Where you put It, my dear." Is Is any wonder that men becoms ^rutal??Washington Herald. f GIRL ASSASSIN. nfernal .~acli?net She Carried, Kills Three Russian Detectives. The superintendent of police af )des8a. Russia, and two detectives of iLc force, were killed and seven other! >ersons seriously injured by the ex>losion of an infernal machine in the antral ponce bureau, this week. The igent ot ...e terrorists was a young jlrl. Sho whk accompanied by two lien. The men were captured after he explosion. The girl escaped in he crowd. The plot was cleverly carried out. riie trio entered the Police Bureau md set the small package on the loor. They stood around for a time md then left hurriedly. The rush for he door excited the detectives. They ;ame from the ofllce to Investigate. Dno picked up the box just as the itiiers were starting in pursuit. It exploded killing the superintendant md two detectives, one of wnoin was licknamed ' The Hangman," by terirlsts, for his cruelty to political irisoners. Both the men who accompanied he girl were captured after being diot. One was identified. The buildng was ruined. WANTED A BRINK. \ Hunaway llorse Went Into an Augusta Saloon. The Augusta Herald says wild commotion reigned supreme for a few moments Thursday morning at 9 j'clock out on Campbell street, near he Union depot. A frieghtened horse lashed madly along the street with tothing attached to him in the way if a vehicle, but the harness atrana were hanging. JuHt as he reached Cashln's bar md restaurant, the horse veered from his course and in a twinkling rushed into the bar, putting to llight ill who stood anywhere near the path he might pursue. He paused as they reached for the tempting drink*, then tied, forgetting everything in their flight for safety. However, the wild career of the liorse was stopped when he reached the rear end of the saloon. He was arrested by parties in the neighborhood before he had time to order his [1 rink and an unwelcome customer was led back to the shelter of the stable from whence lie had escaped, while being "hitched up" to a buggy. DltAWS T1IK LINK. . No Peek-a-IJoos Allowed at tlic Holy Com in union. Father Heldelang, the Roman Catholic priest at Selina has refused to receive women wearing "peeka-boo waists at holy communion. He will not even tolerate short sleeves. Tills has raised the wrath of his fair parishioners, but the priest has stuck to his decision, and declares that only women modestly and properly attired be allowed to approach the Lord's Supper in his church. He maintains that he will carry out this order to the letter, even if all the women in his congregation are excommunicated thereby. The women are loud in their protestations, hut are yielding, and will obey the Imperative degree. HOY SNAKM CATCHER. Lad Fills Orders for Hundreds of . Kcptiles Hach Summer. Snake catching is t.ho business followed by 14-year-old Walcott Gordan Holland, of Revere, Mass., and he has been very successful in his trade. Just now he is busy catching 4 00 reptiles to fill a big order on hand. He catches the snakos usually at nooni when they are basking or sleeping in the sunshine around the marshes. Young Holland has been catching snakes for three years. He sells them to the proprietors of exhibits at summer parks and beaches to feed to large and poisonous reptiles. He haj been bitten twice, hut not seriously. He makes hundreds of dollars. 1)11> NOT MOURN IX)NG. Hurled Wife on Sunday Married Her Sister on Monday. Karl Fouser, of Alliance, Ohio, a shoemaker 3 0 years old, following the funeral of his first wife last Sunday, married his wife's sister, Miss Mary Helwig, twenty years old, on Monday. Fouser was in Europe when his wife died and word was sent to him. The burial service was delayed until his arrival. On his return he was accompanied by Miss Helwig. Fouser's first wife was his brother's wid\>w. GEO S. HACKER & SON. The Largest and Most Complete. . Establishment South. Doors, Sash, Blinds, Moldings, Building Material. Sash, Weights, Hardware and Glass. HARDWARE AND READY MIXED PAINT. Charleston, 8. O. FERRY BOAT CAPSIZED. Twenty Peasant Women and Three Babies Are Drowned. The ferry boat on Morava river . capsized Thursday near Pozarovac, Servla, drowning 20 peasant women and thr??p b"Mev ] "* < PROFESSIONAL CARDS. 1 W. K. McOORI), \ SURGEON DENTIST. OONWAT, S. O. j Ovsr Bank ( Horry I H. H. WOODWARD , 1 Attorney and Councilor At Lav. OONWAT. S. O. ! i B. WOFFORD WAIT. Attorney at Law. OONWAY, S. C. Office In Splvey Building. OONWAY MARKET. Fresh Meats and Sansage always on hand. Owlsi* ATA taW en awA promptly delivered every d ay. GEO. Li. MARSH. Proprietor. H. H. BURROUGHS Physician and Snrgeom. OONWAY, 8. C. ? R. B. SCARBROUGH CONWAY, 8. C. Attorney at law. BANK OF CONW^ CAPITAL STOCK TOTAL ASSETS DIRECT H. (i. Collins, D. A. Sp D. T. McNeill, This ltiiiik cordially solicits the corporations. D. A. SPIVEY, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmau ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH, II President. A BANK OF Conwai CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS. SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS DIRHC Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, Oeorge J. Holiday, We continue to p.iy 5 per cent interej it youraccount ?11111 ii?ii mr wr*trrrmt??-^ck 8 Hi 1/jra v VTBllol JML 6 Full Q //J 1Carolina VI TVsJl < Carolina Whlikey wffl | 7 jSJj fc\ artlcla and in o ir aetim ( Jttti II an I tares sold by irt eaponeil l a fj jUg 8 a*r gallon. We make a *] F m|B A that we ara not afraid of " HHHflrl tocnacraa, making uaUm l3 SAMFLE ftQTTl tojjgWmlad wll alilp rati by expr< jfw?m?H73 wllilnclNdo In ima b W^By^gKHBw| "ZtiHtka," "Pol J Ba SPECIAL NOTICE 1 W< "n North Carolina, Virg Sfl&PiuF??f.~{J hi othni' stairs reached must remit 50c. extra. W&TI X lob ?ome other e.\i>r**s linn I AUv 1 bottloe ?*nd w* will prept I wr* r' casfei l J?* i. jj >j tf) (Alio W.e it< n-ftnleat, M. C.) ( p hi |(l'l. ir All whUUUa made tinder nun P;;. i-iUKHwFa'WHK ",:f " MU.HIH1f!WTg f Please send me Illustrated Catalog No. 1 FAIRBANKS, MORSE The Horrylerakl CONWAY, a. c. Thursday, May 30. 1907. Rest If the great restorer. V n lire >ur muMlM by exercise end tUeu rout io restore them; yet a treat many of us do not stop to think how little reet we give to our stomachs. As a usual thing no part of our bodies la k> generally overworked as our digestive organs. tired and overworked stomach will give signs of distress to which we pay no heed until at last dyspepsia takes hold. Indigestion Is Just a warning, and If we : heed the warning we can easily \ avoid further consequences. Kedol Is a most through stohueh relief. It digests what you eat and gives the 3tomach the needed rest and greatly assists In restoring it to Its normal activity and usefulness. Kodol is sold on a guarantee relief plan. It la sold here by Conway Drug Co. A Boston woman filed a petition in bankruptcy in the forenoon and was married In the evening. Her husband may file a petition in bankruptcy a little later. What is it that tastes as pleasant & maple sugar and quickly relieves coughs and colds? Mothers who have used it will quickly answer: "Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup." The pleasant cold remedy that expels the cold through its laxative action on the bowels. Conforms strictly to the pure Food and Drugs Law. Contains no opiates. Sold by Conway Drug \ Company. When a man is in too great a hur' -? Me Is apt to make a fool of himself. Either you hate your relatives for having money or you despise them for not having it. Use Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup. The children like its pleasant taste, and mothers give it their hearty endosement. Contains 10 opiates, but drives out the cold through the bowels. Made in Btrict conflrmity to the Pure Food aad Drugs Law. Recommended and sold by Conway Drug Co. ,, CONWAY. tY. 3. O $ no,ooo.oo> $200,000.00 ORS C. I*. Quattlebauin, ivcy, M. W. Collins, accounts of individuals, firms and Respectfully, V. P. & Cashier. ? ? l. 1?uck, will a. freeman, ^ice President. Cashier. ' HORRY, y- S, C. $ 50 000 10 000 50 000 110 000 riORS , L W. R. Lewis, W. A. Johnson, W ill A Freema n. it on yearly deposits, and we solicuarts Forf^ ifiiiq fhiskey ; |l*? excellent Mthfxtion. 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