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H A IS K OF < '011 wa i Has largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surpl CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT i \ t n i" t IJIKI'A Robert B. Scarborough, 0L L. Buck, George J. Holiday, Wr offer our customers every accc ^ will justify, and we j ftoOKKRT R. SCARBOROUGH, D I'RKSIOENT. We continue to pay 5 per nrrt "'^y '?& a*?.-**?* #??? ^ ***' V a* fr-sT iFIRST NATIC & c< CAPITA T, STOCK <1? SURPLUS PKOl-'ITS A TOTAL ASSESTS fh 1)1 UHC'i fp .J A. McDermott, John C JUL P. C. Collins, H. L. B t|? M. Burroughs, C. P. Qua jmY Successor to the Bank of jk Horry County, and a pioneer (ly alliej with tho recent dev< Republic. Backed by the C Jr|L United States Bonds, we are p toniers any reasonable accomn II. \. SI'I\ MV, Cashier. I 'HOFESSKLN A I. CA HPS. ^ H. 11. WOODWARD Attorney and Couueelor At Lav CONWAY, S. V. , Iri. li. SCAKBKOIGU CONWAY, 8. C? Attorney at haw. ________?? a. H. UUlUtOKDlH .'i?>Hieian and Sur^i-oa t... CONWAY. S. C. 1 AC WUFFOKl) W AIT. i Attorney at A Jtauk of llorrj liui JiJin;;. GO\\\ /\ Y, H. C. t M WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE | Jftpouwant el I her a Vlhmtlm; Mhnttle Uotarf pbultloor a Hlncle Thread I Chum / bilcA \ Be wing Machine write to fH? HEW HOME SEWING MACHINE COMPANY OraniK'i Mums. fffmvnewtmr inachimv nt?* ma<!r to sell rctrpnTlew of? quality, but the !*?'?% lh?iin> is mutlc u?*ctu. Our truarsmty never runs out. CoJd hy luidiorlxHl dealera ?ul|. rOK bALH DV HI iUiOl'i.ii.^ ?u * OIJ.IVS CO., Ooitw ay, S. O. Man W? ?is in Hurry. While prolng to Savannah fror Beaufort by boat Monday Mr. Kerucrling. of hale, S. C., propose marriage to Miss Cecilia Levitt, t New York and upon ?ho arrival < the boat in Havannati t ney soimni rabbi and were married. Many I>i?* in Mine. At Duraut, Ok la., thirteen mlnm wore killed in an explosion af tl Jumbo asphalt mine Monday and ot of the 14 men in the workings : ?Iio mine was brought out alive bi tmcenseloua Five men were blow from the mouth of the shaft by tl force of the explosion and the oth t wore entombed 4* ' HOKKY, y. S, C. ny bank in Horry county. More lus of all other banks in the county. $50,000 12,500 holders . . . . 50.000 oks 112,500 MORS I). V. Richardson, yv. a. jotiiisoii, Will A. Freeman. h fhr?ir arrounts , yilllUUUU liVII TT ?nv?. jolicit your business. . V. Richardson, will a. KRKEMa* V ick l'ke8idknt. CaSHI Kb ' cent, on yearly deposits. KwtZ+Sf .??. viv 4K ' <W> A. -*r 'of ^ )NAL BANK!| \i< V, s. c. ^ $2 5,000.00 *}; 2,5 00.00 'S: 125,000.00 /<S S: /(\ . Spivoy, T). T. McNeill, /jS ti''k. \V. H. Lewis, 1). 4^\ ttlebaum, I). A. Spivey. Vk H> | Conway, t.he oldest Hank In 4K in Eastern Carolina. Clo3e- jti ?lopment of the Independent 'I? Jovernmeut and secured by repared to extend to our cus- jki jodations. " 15. (i. COM.INS, A President. #|j rnr>M r? Tmruiv lyUttiK 10 lUlutlil SO says hkksidmnt I'IM.KY OF sot thi:k\ isaiiavay. Il?? Thinks .More Corn Means More Cattle and lings and Increased Attention to Stock liaising. W. \\*. Flnley, president of the Southern railway, spending several days in Columbia, attending the hearing of the merger suit has become very much interested in the South Atlantic Corn exposition to be held In Columbia from December i5 to 9, and has given the movement his cordial indorsement, declaring it to be one of the most helpful signs of the times. i "Not 11111? is more important. 10 uie South than an increasing attention j to raising food supplies at home," said .Mr. Fin lev, "and the first nio\e in this direction must be In increasing tiie corn crop. South Carolina's efforts along this line and the splendid results attained have attracted national attention, both us to the gross production of the State and the'greater yield per tie re, which has suited from the improved methods , of culture now being used. "If is particularly appropriate that lie great advances which have been uie in this and adjoining States hoii'd he celebrated by this corn exposition ^hich will at the same time j i'ow what has been done and the at opportunities for further ad vancement that 11o in the future. The - .m? trreat ne< d of the South just now greater diversity in agriculture. More corn will moan more cattle nit] ho s. and increased attention o live sto< k raising will enable the tanners to bring their lands to a higher state of productivity. "In every proper manner the i Southern Hallway company has anight to encourage the.se important md kindred movements and it Is witli I lec.ided pleasure that 1 have heard j >r the groat Interest being taken bv the planters of South Carolina, Nortli | Carolina and (borgia in the corr -bow to bo held In Columbia. I sincerely trust and confidently l>e lie\e that the exposition will he i 1 Treat, success and will prove of last lug benefit to this and surrounding ! States " I'numial Display of Nerve. Cutting oft his hand with a razor ' after It had been crushed in a cori _ i shredder, J. Hruce Vaughn, of En j reka Mills, Charlotte County, Vir ginia, carefully bandaged the stum and awaited the arrival of a surgeo 'j to put t.ho tlniwhiug touches to th i operation. Fell in a Fit. Pierre Faulk, a well known you') a j man of Abbeville, was drowned I fifteen Inches of water Friday n.gh He? is supposed to have been ^^ with a fit of epilepsy near th<? sh rs ! low pool In which ltls bodv wj ie j found ie . ft' : Champ Clark of Missouri and it Frederick C. Jalhot of Maryland wi n he the only members of the Slxt; ie second congress who served in ti or house when that body last had > mocratic nisjorlty. $ COOK NOT SURE) Says He Does Not Knt w Whether He Discovered Pole ir Not. WILL TELL HIS STORY Statement May He Startling, but ll? Is Willing to Startle the Worl'l if He Can Present Case and lie gain Sympathy and Confidence o; If is Fellow Men. "Did I get to the North Pol* Perhaps I made a mistake in think lug that I did. Perhaps I did no make a mistake. After niaturthought. I confess that I do not knov absolutely whether I reached tie pole or not. This may come as at amazing statement, hut I am will ing to startle the world if. hy doing, 1 can get an opportunity U pi"< sent my case. Hy my case I moan not my case ns a geosrraphioa discoverer, hut my case as a mar Mt oil as the attainment of the Nortt Pole once meant to me. the synipa thy and contldence of my fellow mei j mean more." In this way 1 >r. Frederick A Cook, the Brooklyn explorer, in ar article wnicn win ue pu uiisneu ti Hamptons Magazine, confesses tha ho docs not know whether he reach ed the North Pole or not. The publishers of the article Is sued a statment Wednesday nighsaying that nowhere in his narrative I does 1 >r. Cook either cast any re flection on Peary or question Peary'* claims. Dr. Cook, who has been it hiding for over a year, has inform od the editors of the magazine pub lishing his story that he will returr to the United States with his wife and children, December 22, in orde* to spend Christmas here. Continuing Dr. Cook says: "Fully, freely and frankly I aha) tell you everything. Tell you ev orvthing?and leave the docisiot with you. if. after reading my stor* you say, "Cook is sincere and hon est: half crazed by months of isola tion and hunger, lie believed that h' reached the pole; lie is not a faker then 1 shall he satisfied." Dr. Cook tells the story of hb life and pictures what he calls th< over-powering ambition of explora tion, until it finally culminated ii his effort to reach the pole. Dr Cook declares that at the time h* convinced his wife that he discover ed the pole, he was half mad. Ht spent two years In his quest and during that time endured hunger anr. privation that, he says, would un balance any mind. Dr. Cook say* [ that it would be impossible for an* man to demonstrate beyond ones tion that ho had been to the Nori'< Pole. He characterizes the regioT. as a region of insanity, where om can not believe the evidences gatb ercd before one eyes. "I have been called the greatnet 1 i u r in tlin ivnrlfi thn m net mnr u mental imposter in history," sa>*. Dr. Cook. "1 believe that in eve ; undesirable way 1 stand unique th* object of Fucli suspicion and vituper at ion as have assailed few men." With this 4 realization, Dr. Cook wrote his story and says that to n'n ! tiie honor of discovering tiie North Dole no longer means anything. Tin explorer lias been wo K1 i r on let story since last August, and say* according to the editor of llanip ton's Mavazine, "that his sole d 'sl-n is to make the people of the United States realize just what he went through during his two and a half years in the Artie fastness, and t< make them see what processes o' thinking? or lack of thinking?D was that lead him to do the thlnv which coiilirmed to the average miru the worst suspicions against him Dr. Cook then tells the story o the days in Copenhagen and later 41 New York and of the crisis in hli 1 lift* that led to his flight from Nev York and his voluntary exile frou 1 the United States. Struck Cold Mine. 1 While diging post holes on hi 1 fat 111 near liendersonville, Ky., .1 a? I H. Love discovered gold in tne uiri Government assayists pronounced i 1 worth $1.80 per ton. Since set tin the report of the assay office ? < Washington he has taken out <lli in the same locality which he !> Moves will run at leant $8 a ton. lticharfli Appointed. Governor Ansel Friday appolnte i* John C5. Kichards, Jr., of Kersha ' county, railroad commissioner t p succeed the late J. M. Sullivan. Tt n term is for 2 6 months. Capt. Hlcl e ards ran for governor last hu upis He was 12 years in the General a sombly g ii lklstr?n'flve Ilomb Kxplo^ioii. *. A bomb explosion ? ;?rly TnesdJ ? morning shook up i'iio of the mo I populated blocks in Now Yoj k. <lid extensive damage and created panic in the neighborhood. Tl bomb exploded in the doorway of t! .1 Bella Trlnlnria saloon II y* Before taking any action in tl i Pink Franklin case (Jov. Ansel show s look well into it. After doing so, 1 will let tho law take its course CUKE FOR TYPHOID VAIiUAKEK DISCO VI0HY OP 8PARTANIiUlid PHYSICIAN. 'Hue? Hundred Million Dead Typhoid (iei'iiis Injected.?Effected a Speedy Cure. Dr. J. J. Lindsay, of Spartauburg, lias aroused much interest among (he medical fraternity of that city by telling of excellent results obtained in a typhoid fover caso through a new treatment. Serum was Injected after the fever had reached a very serious stage and it caused almost immediate improvement. If this treatment proves as effectual in future cases it will prove itself to be one of the great discoveries of modern medicine. The ser uui treat men t lias been used in cases i I erysipelas and possibly one or I wo other diseases, but so far as :s known has never been used in a typhoid fever case before. The patient was a boy of 18 years whoso sister had recovered from typl old fever early in summer and ?vhose younger brother had succuinb<d to the disease about a week hetore L)r. Lindsay took hold of the case. At this time the patient's i temperature was 1o:> and was rapidly rising. By constant uso of ice . hatha the temperature was prevented from exceeding 104 on the three following days. At seven o'clock on the afternoon r.f tlie third day 300,000,000 dead typhoid germs were injected into the system . Three hours later there was an evidence of reaction and the patient began to complain of a pain near the heart and one-eight of a yiain of morphine was Injected, after which the patient said that he felt much better. At 10 o'clock in the morning of the following day the temperature was 104, and by evening bad fallen to 101 1-2. The next morning the j temperature was 100, and two days later was normal. There is no doubt, Iu\ IJndsav said, but that the serum treatment has a scientific effect, lie said that next time, however, he nould not use as many dead typho'd germs as 300,000.000. ORPHAN IIOI'SK 111 KN Kl). A Most Pathetic Sight Witnessed by Rapt 1st Convention. The cause of Connie Maxwell Orphanage was presented to the Bap i st State Convention at Laurens Thursday in a most striking manner, pnd the response was most hearty and sincere. That morning twentyfour little girls came from the Orphanage at Greenwood and were presented to the Convention, while Superintendent Jamison was speaking of the work at that splendid institu-1 Hon. and many eyes were wet with tears when he concluded. Within an hour afterwards, Dr. .'runison again took the platform and announced that ho had just learned by phone that the Convention buildin? at the Orphanage was] totally destroyed by flro Thursday morning, but that no one of the inmates was injured. I>r. Jamison left at once for i eon wood, but Thursday afternoon, the Convention took up the matter and in a few minutes subscriptions I aggregating more than $1,000 wore secured to roplaoo tho burned building. Work will begin at once. The 1 urnod building was erected with funds raised at the Convention of 1002, and was valued at $4,000, with insurance for half the amount. ^ SWKI'T INTO TIIK SKA. lamdiiig Sledge Drugged in Caspian S ii ( 'hitj ing :tno. f i A dispatch from Astrakahn, Uusu si a, says during a sudden tempest iti i the Caspian Sea Tuesday a landing i sledge on which were three hundred F'ersian dork workers was dragged from its moorings and swept out u sea. Tho storm was so violent thai _ attempts at rescue were futile anc . all hope that any of the men wil be saved has been abandoned. Scorci . of ships, several with their crews o, hoard, were sunk at their mooring; t at different Caspian coast towns Seven towns along the coast wer flooded the inhabitants In hundred la-lug forced to seek safety. (iivrn Henvy DiiinaKes. ,j Mrs Georgia Fonvillo. =vMow ?>f w locomotive engineer, \V. J Fonvilh 0 killed on the Southern railway fl ie Duncan. a year avo. got from Greenville jury damages In the hut of $15,000. The negro who oper H_ ed the switch and caused the wroc h now serving a life sentence In th penitent iary. . Must l*aj* IjitiOO damages. st ftecause the Western Union Teh It <raph Co., failed to transmit a me uige from Detroit, Mich., to Kansj 10 Oity, Mo., after accepting it, tl h<? United Staffs supreme court held tl 'olograph company for more thti H.'tOO damages. The company recei hp rtd forty cents to send the mcssag ho Let everyone start to do the Christmas shopping. AWFUL TIMES " ? Ofl the Circus Train on Which Young Williams Was Murdered. # i TRUE BILL IN THE CASE (iwnko NK'IioIn, John Wilson, Elijah ( Clark. and Garland Ilrown Are < Churned With the Brutal Murder i of the Vouug Man From Colum- ' i bin While on the Train. , At a special term of court ordered ' by Governor Ansel, the general sessions court for Lexington County on | Monday entered upon the trial or i several defendants for the murder and robbery of young Paul Williams of Columbia, which occurred October ( 2 last, on a special train over the Southern railway, carrying the May- , en beck & Wallace circus to Augusta from Columbia. Judge George W. , Cage of Chester is presiding. The evidence Monday gave some | idea of the wholesale pillage of the { first sec tion of the 11 agenbeck-Wal- > lace circus train by bands of riotous ( circus employes, white men and tie- , groes, which took place in the early morning of October 2. between Col- j umbia and Augusta, and during which Paul Wjliiams was shot and robbed. The circus men were paid off in Columbia on October 1. In t lit* , "privilege" car on the first section of the train going to Augusta there was an abundance of whiskey. The ( roughs and toughs of the circus gang proceeded to get tanked and robbed or "red lighted" their follow employes. In circus parlance, "red i lighting" is throwing a man off the train and letting him see if he is' able, the red signal lamps on the Unrmp Pel ton Gilbert, a negro,! who testified against I)avo Woods and El. White, was among those "red lighted" during the riot. Masked hands of negroes and white men. armed with pistols, roamed the train on the night of October 2, robbing and "red lighting" promiscuously. Members of one of thosi gangs shot Paul Williams and threw his body overboard. George Nichols. Elijah Clark, Garland Mrowu and .John Wilson are charged with being the guilty men. In their stories each excepts himself, but declares that the other three did the bloody work. The first indictment handed the grand J"ry by George Bell Tim merman, solicitor, was that charging George Nichols, Elijah Clark, John Wilson and Garland Brown with the murder of Paul A. Williams and with carrying concealed weapons. The grand jury returned a true bill. The four men charged with the murder are very low types. George Nichols, the white man, about thirty years old, has a weak, vicious face. On his chin is a heavy growth of beard. Elijah Clark Is a coal-black negro, witn tne reaiures, arum auu i j torso of a gorilla. Flo was named [in two of the true bills returned by the grand jury, besides the one charging that he murdered Paul Williams. John Wilson and Garland j Brown are both inulettoes. John j Wilson, the younger of the two is J not over twenty years old. lie claims that he was born in London, lOngI land. lie has a letter from his sister, written from Springfield, O., i in which she advises him to "comj mend himself to God." Garland Grown is a thick-set mulatto, with a low, receding forehead. In the case, the court appointed as counsel for the dtfense .Messrs. J. G. Wingard of Lexington, and It irrett Jones of Itatesburg. Solicitor Timmertnan has scoured several important statements, practically confessions. from various ones of the defendants and witnesses. The substance of some of these statements 's 1 as follows : Garland Grown, colored: I was In ' it. me, Klijah Clarke, John Wilson ' and George Nichols. (Nichols is a ' white man I. Nichols said: Come ' on. I know exactly where lie ts. ' Made two fellows jump off. Paul * Williams said. "Ponj kill me. don't h kill me." John Wilson said: "(J? 1 ? ' -- ? : -. ~ i.til ...... <l you. i urn koiuk i ?? mh juii s You art4 too damned hard on ticxrouf '* down here in the South." And ther e ht. shot him in the head and Mud< 8 Cahe t.J. O. Cahe, white, a witness] jitnii>. and shot again. I had a pistol Nichols had a nack. making ns if 1 was a pistol After that he goes t< a another wagon, where 1 work. K J. Clark hit another fellow calle< tt "Shine" over the head with a pistol ft Oeogrc Nichols was saying: "Giv ^ me the gun." George Nichols hai t- on a Mack Hhirt with sleeves rollei k tip and a hig Mack Rlouclt hat. io John Wilson, colored: Me. ('lark Garland Crown and George Nichal weiv together. At the first stop %v went to the flats We got to wago r?- 7S I saw "Chickens" and Kran CIjua ii. it. Carl.nul Crown an is George Nichols had this strangt lr ie low in the corner of the wagon who ie I got up. Garland said: "Give m inith.'if pistol," ami he s.-id: "1 haven v- ' koi any.' IK* Raid: "J,et me sec e. .and searched him. Garland had pistol. He then reached down an ilr ! started to take off one of the boy shoes. I Raid: "Oh, come on hack IS FOUND GUILTY t ? COMMITTED RAUIXCi CHIMB ON CI I SOL'S TIC AIX. k'omig Coliimbiaii Met Death on the Train Che Same ?-Coiitlict* ing Testimony Expected. The trial of Hoy Rich, 0110 of the circus employees on the HagenoeckWaliace circus train, on the night In which Paul Williams, or uoiumoia. met his death, which waa begun lu the special term of Generul Session#?-^ Court Monday afternoon at Rexing- a ton and was concluded Tuesday afternoon with a verdict of guilty. Rich was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, and robbery, the direct charge being that he, together with several other men, assaulted Harlie Ilightower, an IK rear-old boy of Knoxvillo, Tenn., on the circus train. The only feature of the trial was the powerful argument of Solicitor (h'or.e Hell Thnniorinan, which was the subject of much comment throughout the .if- ""V. Imrnoon. / N. II. Rullock, special agent for the Southern ltaliway. with headinarters at Washington, stated that ho had been in many Court rooms throughout the country, hut that he bad never heard an argument the Mjual of that made by the solicPor in this case. Rich was defended f.y Attorney K. P. Asbill, who made a strong and able fight in his behalf. The testimony in the case was practically the same as that adduced at the trial of the neirpoes convicted Monday. and showed beyond doubt that, in the circus crew there must' have been a number of thieves and robbers. Kick was charged with having relieved Mightowcr of forty-five cents in money. which he had tied up In his shirt. The young man said that Rich covered liiin with a pistol, while others took the money. "Trix" I taker, a nerro, who was captured by Sheriff Corley in Owensboro, K.V., a few days ago. testified that he saw Rich on one of the wagons, on a flat ear, and that there were six or eight with him. Rich had a pistol in bis hand swinging by liis side, but didn't see him assault anyone or use the weapon at all. Clarence Lamberson, white, who had only boon with the circus about a month, swore that he wa3 In the baggage wagon; saw a man with a white rag tied over his face and with a pistol in his hand. Didn't recognize Rich, however, aa being the man. Special Agent F.hney, of t.ho South ern, tesnneo as to nts ooing ou rno train on the night In question, and that tie saw a number of people ou tlie flat ear. when the train stopped at Lexington to got water. There was shooting and general rodylsm on the ears; did not recognize the de~ fen d antDeputy Sheriff Miller was the last witness for the State. He testified as to having been shown the torn shirt by Marlle Hightownr. Frank Anderson, another circa# hand and a negro, was the first witness for the defense. He swore that he saw Roy Rich in bed on the car, that Rich had been snk and had left j the show before it was over in Col- iq umhia. Klijah Clarke testified to ? the same. Clark said that he himw self slept r>ii a flat car, while lllc'i was in the sleeping car. .1. S. Rowel!, the Southern's agent at Lexington, saw four men on the ifl.it cars, \\ lien the circus train pas* 1 led the depot, otic of whom ho jT {thought was special Agent Khney. * The defendant then took th? stand. Rich said that ho was sick iin bed on a property car; joined th?? i circus in May or Juno and received | $J0 per month from the circus hands, for furnishing them lee, soap, towels and $10 per week from the I show. He denied being drunk on the, night of the crime; denied that he hail ever been drunk in his life; 'A denied that he ever gambled in Ills life; said it would have been impossible to have, gone from the car no was in without going through the A| boss's car, and this car was alwafs < ' kept locked Sets Self oii Fire. Because he had a quarrel with hl? \ { wife, an aged white man at Angus, fa, (la., drank whiskey to alleviate ( his sorrows and then poured oil on | his clothing and set tire to it. H? ? vug renewed with difficulty. Killed tin* Bandit.. . \ At San Franeiseo, Cal., with ons ( well directed shot, Augustus Warm e bold, ft saloon hooper, killed one [1 bandit and caused another to mnU d a bRHtv esrape from his k?1o i, 1 had a pistol too The train Rave 8 a jerk and a ahot was fired: "Come e on, throw him off " He looked over n and said wiih an oath: "Me is still k | on there, and got dow n and threw d 'him off. 1 had a fix. Garland had a .32; Iv Clark had a .4 1. n j <;?>orve NleholK. white: .7o1in Curie ley. Wilson, Klijah Clark, and Gar't land Brown, all together, shot Into the wagons two shots. Don't know a who did shooting. Clark said: id "Throw him off. Brown." Brown 's said: "The got mo all over with blood." Saw all three with pistols. . J