The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 28, 1911, Image 4
ATTACK LADIES
Taaag Ncgra HifbwiTBea CUrlestM
flaU Up ad t+ Tktm
SNATCH THEIR PURSES
The Daring Hold-Vp Rxpldits bj Negro
Dads on the Street Result in
Their Arrest After Throe Ladies
Are Made Victims of Their Rold Attempts.
The News and Courier says one of
~ harinir Axnlolt.s in recent do
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lice annals is charged against two
small colored boys, Stephen Meyers
and Robert Taylor, aged 13 and 12,
respectively, who were arrested at
the corner of Ashley avenue and
Wentworth street at 7:30 o'clock
Tuesday night. Tho two boys are accused
of having held up throe white
women Monday and tho day before,
actually robbing one of them and
knocking her down, and attempting
to rob the other two. Robert Taylor,
one of tho boys, confessed to having
1io<in w?fh Movnra on all tho three OC
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casions, but declared that Meyers
alone was guilty of taking the money.
Reports had come to the detectives
that some colored boys had snatched
pocket-books from two ladies, and the
police were oil the lookout for the
boys. It was after Meyers had
snatched a pocket-book from Mrs.
Xegare at the corner of Wentworth
street and Ashley avenue, according
to the story told by Taylor, that the
boys were arrested.
They are charged with highway
robbery, knocking down 'Mrs. C. G.
Simmons and taking from her a pocket-book
containing $3.41, on Montague
street, near Smith; with attempting
to rob Mrs. Legare at tho corner
of Ashley avenue and Wentworth
street, and with assaulting and attempting
to rob Miss Garvin on Calhoun
street, near Pitt. Mrs. Simmons'
pocket-book was recovered.
Robert Taylor, according to his own
statement, is 12 years old. A reporter
talked with the boy late Monday
night. Stephen Meyers, in an
opposite cell, was apparently sleeping
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or, however, jumped up eagerly when
his name was called, and standing
with his face pressed against the bars
told readily and glibly what ho declared
to be a truo story of the two
boys' adventures.
Taylor and Meyers, according to
the former, had been walking on Calhoun
street, near Pitt, Monday afternoon,
when Meyers, Taylor said, conceived
the idea of getting some money
easily. Meyers, according to Taylor,
went up to Miss Garvin, who was
walking on the street, shoved her and
Bnatched her pocket-book. He then
ran and Taylor ran with him. The
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next, item ol uchuu was uu luuiua^uu
street, near Smith, where, said Taylor,
Meyers went up tto Mrs. C. G.
Simmons and grabbed that lady's
pocketbook, pulling at her and
knocking her down. The pocket'book
contained $3.41.
Taylor said he saw Meyers running
ahead of him, take something out of
the pocket-book, and thrust it into his
pocket, throwing tho pockot-book
away. He said that when he asked
Aleyers what ho had put in his pocket
the latter ansewered, "Nothing."
Taylor said that tho same thing had
been done to a lady on Wentworth
street, near Glebe, Monday afternoon,
but this case is not on the police
books.
"What did you boys do with tho
money?" Taylor was asked.
"Wa ft!n't eivo mo none but fifteen
cents," bo answered. "An* do rest
what bo git from do lady Monday be
spend for a pistol dis mornin'. He
been shottin' a pistol all day today,
but he ain't have 'em with him when
be grab de las' pocket-book."
This was when tlio two boys, according
to tho police, attempted to
rob Mrs. Legare at tho corner of Ashley
avenue and Wentworth street.
The boys wore arrested just after
this, if Taylor's story can bo believed.
When Taylor wa3 asked how old
Meyers was he said:
"Ho ent no biggern'n me, but he's
older, I year dem other boys say he
been lock up before. He lib right
near to de Jail anyway," and Taylor
grinned.
The charges against the boys are
serious ones and it is evident that
Taylor is attempting to clear himself
inllinnr oil Via 1/iwiwq or nil hn rnn
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invent about the affair. lie denies
taking an active part in any of tlic
crimes, putting all the blamo on Meyers
and saying he was merely in company
with the latter when it all happened.
Scratch Causes Death.
At Sheffield, Ala., a scratch with s
razor with which he had shaved a
week ago has caused the death of W
L. Noecker, a prominent citizen ol
this city. Blood poisoning set in
which resulted in his death Thursday,
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The chains that do us the most
harm are those that sit most lightlj
upon us. Whenever a chain galli
fhen we seek to he rid of It
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POISON FOR WHISKEY
NEW JERSEY MAN MAKES A MISTAKE
IN HIS DRINKS
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Which Came Very Near Making Him
Take a Journey to the Undiscovered
Country.
At Sumter a man giving his name
as Fulouston and his homo address
as Princeton, New Jersey, came near
killing himself Sunday afternoon by
drinking poison which ho mistook for
whiskey. Fulouston was at onco given
medical attention and it is reported
at the Sumter Hospital to which
ho was carried that ho was getting 011
nicely and would probably bo out in
a day or two.
It seems that Fulouston was pretty
full at the time that I10 drank the
prug. IIo walked into Mearon's Pharmacy
and commenced talking to a
number of young men who were
there at tho time. The druggist was
engaged in filling a prescription near
where Fulouston was standing and
set the vial containing tho drug down
on tho counter while getting anothor
bottle.
When ho turned back to the
counter tho contents of tho bottle
wero gone. Fulouston, when told
that ho would bo dead in a few minutes,
stated that it did not matter, as
it would probably bo all right. It was
stated afterwards that had Fulouston
not been under the effects of stimulants
at the time the drug would certainly
have killed him, as it had a
powerful depressing effect upon the
heart.
Fulouston is a young man and Is a
stranger in Sumter. Ho was on tho
street most of the day before the accident
took placo and seemed to bo under
the influence of whiskey. It was
stated at the drug store where tho occurrence
took place that Fulouston
robably mistook the drug for a bottle
of whiskey, as the contents looked
like whiskey and had a smell of alcohol.
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MASONIC GHANI) HODGE.
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naects mincers lor uiu nu.\i n-nr, nuu
Then Adjourns.
The grand lodge of Ancient Free
Masons of South Carolina concluded
its 135th annual communication at 2
o'clock Wednesday and was called off
to meet again next year in the city
of Charleston. At high noon Wednesday
the grand lodge elected officers,
and these and their appointees
were duly installed. The officers for
the ensuing year are as follows:
Grand master, George S. Mower of
Newberry; deputy grand master, Geo.
T. Bryan of Greenville; senior grand
warden, R. A. Cooper of Laurens;
junior grand warden, W. W. Wannainaker
of Orangeburg; grand treasurer,
W. H. Prioleau of Charleston;
grand secretary, O. F. Hart of Columbia;
grand chaplln, Rev. W. P. Smith
of Spartanburg; senior grand deacons,
J. P. Uuckett of Anderson and
J. F. Kinney of Bennettsville; junior
grand deacons, S. T. D. Lancaster of
Paulino and L. 1. Parrott or sumier;
grand stewards, C. K. Clireitzberg of
Rock Hill and A. J. Thackston of Orangeburg;
grand marshal, John Kennerly
of Edgefield; grand pursuivant,
J. E. Cogswell of Charleston; grand
tiler, W. A. Winkler of Charleston.
Djstrlct deputy grand masters are
as follows: First district, W. G.
Mazyck; Second, J. H. Peurlfoy;
Third, A. Patterson; Fourth, W. A.
Giles; Fifth, B. E. Nicholson; Sixth,
Kenneth Baker; Seventh, W. A. Hudgins;
Eighth, O. R. Doyle; Ninth, A.
S. Rowell; Tenth, W. B. Patton;
Eleventh, Van Smith; Twelfth, M. H.
Sandifer; Thirteenth, Joseph Lindsay;
Fourteenth, J. B. Wallace; Fifteenth,
I. S. Jones; Sixteenth, W. E.
James; Seventh, J. C. Sellers; Eighteenth,
W. L. Glaze.
FAMINE IN RUSSIA.
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Nineteen Provinces Aro in the Starving
Provinces.
The failure of crops in 19 Russian
provinces havo left ovor 19,500,000
peoplo without a supply of food for
the winter. Moro than half of these
will starve, according to M. Kokovtsoff,
if not otherwise roliovod before
tho rcptapeism of Russian bureaucracy
will lot them get relief. The
government has begun public works
and $2,500,000 has been earned since
tho harvests thereby, but is only in
tho less soverely strickon districts;
in tho 19 provinces whore every vil
lago is famine-stricken grain and foot
dlatrlhutfree: hut the district)
, aro so remote from railways and cen
. ters whore corn is stored that man:
. months must elapse heforo tlio ma
. jority can got It. Meanwhile th<
peasants must livo on broad made o
, grass and the roots thoy find in th<
forests.
Moros Ready to Clash.
A battle is imminent la the Islam
I of Jolo, between 600 Moros and i
i force ef American troops. The Me
, ros, who are defying the ultimatur
Issued by Brig. Oen. Pershing, order
t lng the disarmament of the native
r In the district, have retired to th
i peak of Bad Dajo, which they hav
fortified. |
HE TOOK JTHKM ALL. IN.
Pretended Deaf and Dumb Man Imposed
on Good People.
"Some roast duck, please; some
cold sliced turkey, .brown .potatoes,
some coffee, and, oh. Just bring me
a good meal. You know I am hungry
and tired."
The State says this order was
drolled out to a waiter on a dining
car entering Columbia Tuesday night
from Charleston by a young man.
The waiter complied with the order.
Some passengers strolled in from
the day coaches to got something to
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fill, auu mcj iuuuu ^ ?.?
eaitng and chatting and they were
astounded, for they had just contributed
to what they thought to be a
worthy cause. The young man in
question had just made a round of
the train, pretending to bo deaf and
dumb. He had collected over $7 from
the unsuspecting ones. The passengers
were indignant and protested.
An ofllcer was called when Columbia
was reached.
Being questioned by the ofllcer the
young man said that his namo was
Henry Hymens, and that he called
Memphis his home. He declared that
he had boarded the train at Wests,
near Charleston, whore the race track
is being constructed, and that he was
c fr?iinwor of thn races. He was not
arrested.
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"HOIiY IlOliliEUS" IS FRENZY.
Women Shriek awl Beat Themselves,
Moan and Gesticulate.
The congregation of tho select First
Presbyterian church at Macon, Ga.,
Sunday night is aghast over the demonstrations
made at tho morning
service by the loca! sect of "Holy
Rollers," who comprise some of tho
best-known women and men of Macon.
A meeting of tho Elders will
probably bo held this week to take
action so as to prevent tho "Holy
Rollers" from over attending tho
Presbyterian church again.
Sunday morning the demonstration
was violently vociferous and sensational,
and the entire congregation
was so excited that tho audience dispersed
precipitately, immediately following
the last prayer, and numerous
of tho women went away in hysterics.
"The "Holy Rollers" mumbled,
shouted, swayed, moaned and gesticulated
all during tho service, and
toward the end Mrs. Minnie Scott, her
"J T^ntrla end ihn nf haro ho
lilt 1U193 L/ai 10, auu i.uu u
gan to shriek, beat themselves and
GRAND NEPHEW OF A KING.
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Who Was a Confederate Veteran Died
Tuesday in Virginia.
Byrd Charles Willis of Alexandria,
Va., died in a private hospital. Ho
was a great grandson of Marshall
Joachin Murat, who married Napoleon
tho Great's sister, and whom Napoleon
made king of Naples. Willis
was born in Jacksonville, Fla., G4
years ago. Murat's son, after Napoleon's
downfall migrated to Florida.
Ho served tho Confederacy as a
I'ininr nfTinop in th? Ninth Virerinia I
cavalry. He was severely wounded
In the battle of Spottsylvania Court
House. The body was interred in
Hollywood cemetery at Richmond,
Va.
CAUSED EXCITEMENT.
A Thousand Hotel Guests Are
Into n Panic.
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At China nearly a thousand hotel
guessts were routed in a panic Tuesday
morning by a fire which totally
destroyed the board of trade building
on South LaSallo street. Alarm was
felt for guests in Kaizerhof, New Victoria,
and Stafford hotels, all of them
near enough to bo touched by flames
from the burning structure. Scores
of men and women appeared in hotel
lobbies half clad, many dragging
trunks or carry suit cases. The
fire department estimates the damage
at $200,000.
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Posting Not Necessary.
Landowners are not compelled to
"post" their lands, or advertise it in
some way, to keep off trespassers.
The only reason why some of thom
advertise their lands against tres
passing, says the Newberry Observer,
is that they do not wish to deal harshly
with trespassers, and they hop*
> that a notice of this kind will obviate
tho necessity. There are bo many
i kinds of hunters, that many farmers
i suffer, not only annoyance but loss
> from trespassers who roam over tho
i country in tho daytlmo with a dog
; and gun and at night with a dog
- and torch, till forbearance ceases to
1 bo a virtue. It is as little as any man
i can do, if ho wishes to do right, to
- get permission of a landowner before
7 hunting on his land.
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o Heavy Snow Storm ltagcs.
* A heavy snow storm that began
0 Tuesday in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas,
Nebraska and South Dakota Wednesday
spread eastward over tho middle
western states. At Lodge City, Kanfl
sas, tho snowfall was 14 inchos, al
ft Garden City, Kansas, 16 inchos.
a When oven tho little ones of the
family, who believes now so implicit
ft ly in Old Santa Claus, shall have seer
e their own heads grow gray tho spirli
e of Christmas will still make younf
their hearts.
TOYED WITH DEATH
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CHILDREN SKATED OVER DEADLY
EXPLOSIVES.
People Horrified to Learn That They
Had Lived in Close Proximity to
Large Stores of Dynamite.
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People who for weeks unknowingly
lived near enough dynamite to blow
up the neighborhood and whose children
skated over the floors of a vavant
house In which nitro-glycerine
had been spilled, testified in the Government's
investigation of the dynamite
conspiracy before the Federal
grand jury at Indianapolis, Ind., on
Tuesday.
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VY iuie??ea irimi in uutio, xuit.,
questioned concerning what they
knew of the renting of a house in
Muncio to Ortie McManigal in December,
1909. After paying rent for
several months in advance, McManigal
stored it with boxes and sawdust
in which ho packed nitro-glycerino.
The fact that the rent had been
paid and the house always in darkness,
was visited periodically by a
stranger, created an eloment of mystery,
which still was unsolved even
after the place again deserted wa3
thrown open and school children
skated over the floors upon which
appeared grease spots.
Later it was found the spots were
caused by nltro-glycerine and experts
were called to destroy the explosive
power. Among the witnesses
from iMuncio were Mrs. Elizabeth
Illnor, Isaac Grant and a manufacturer
who sold boxes to McManigal. The
evidence was traced by the investigators,
not only to confirm McManigal's
confession, which implicates
John J. and James B. McNamara, but
also to bring out who, If any, assisted
them.
Other expressions of horror at discovering
they had been living near
explosives came from members of the
family of D. Jones, a farmer near Indianapolis.
For a long time prior to
his arrest on April 22, 1911, J. J.
Mcamara, secretary-treasurer of the
International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers, on the
pretext that he was storing old records,
kept in Jones' barn, a piano box
filled with dynamite, from which McManigal
replenished his supply when
going on dynamiting expeditions.
The piano box still had twenty-firo
pounds of dynamite in it, when Jones,
digging on his farm, was apprised of
the fact by detectives who visited the
place the day John J. McNamara was
arrested. It was learned that these
witnesses willingly told of tho repT-nanntotlnna
unflftP whlfh ftlPY rnnffid
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their places and of the persons who
paid them money.
CONCRETE FURNITURE.
Thomas A. Edison Claims He Can
Equip Houses at Small Cost.
Thomas A. Edison, who recently
startled the world oy saying he would
mako it possible to build a concreto
house for $1,000, went further this
week and declared that soon ho would
put 011 the market concreto furniture,
so that newly-weds, instead of
adorning their homos on the installment
plan with $450 wor of dubious
chairs, tables, etc., can invest $200
and rival "palatial residences" with
their display.
Pieces of furniture made in the
new way are on their way to Chicago
and back to show what they can stand
in the way of resisting handling by
freight men. At present the weight
of the concrete furniture is about 33
1-3 per cent, greater than wood, but
Edison expects to reduce the excess
to 25 per cent.
"If I couldn't put out my concrete
furniture cheaper than tho oak that
comes from Grand Rapids," says Mr.
Edison, "I wouldn't go Into the business.
If a newly-wed now starts out
with $450 worth of furniture on the
installment plan, I feel confident that
we can give him more artistic and
more durable furniture for $200, I'll
also bo able to put out a whole bedroom
set for $5 or $6.
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kills himself ox honeymoon.
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Florida Man's Bride Unable to Aocount
for Suicide.
"I cannot bring disgrace upon my
family, so I have decided to end it
all." This was the substance of a
note found in Room 4 4 of a Jacksonville,
Fla., hotol Monday morning, after
Zebulon Vance Fowler, aged 28,
a young lumberman from Terrill,
Florida, had taken a quantity of
strychnine. Only having been married
since December 9 and having
come to Jacksonville with his bride
to spend his honeymoon, the young
man, a member of a prominent family
of tho State, committed suicide
hortly aftor 10 o'clock Monday morn
in#?. His wife was with him at tho
time of his death, but declared she
, was unable to account for his terrible
, act.
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Plunged to Certain Death.
Mounting to the 10th floor of the
Masonic Temple at Chicago on Tues>
day, J. F. Greew, a machinist, dis.
robed, crawled out on a beam and
i plunged to the rotunda below. Death
I was instantaneous. In its fall the
r body struck a man at a cigar stand,
breaking both his arms.
BANK OF
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Has largest capital and surplus of a
than the combined capital and surp!
CAPITAL STOCK.
SURPLUS
LIABILITIES OP STOCK
SECURITY OF DEPOSIT
DIREC
Robert B. Scarborough,
FT T. IWIr
Gleorge J. Holiday,
We offer our customers every acc<
will justify, and we i
ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH, D
President.
We continue to pay 5 pel
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CAPITAL, STOCK. ? . #1 . .
TO SURPLUS PROFITS
TO TOTAL ASSESTS. ..,
2? DIRECT
TO J? A? McDermott, John C
TO B. G. Collins, H. L. B
M. Burroughs, C. P. Qua
TO Successor to the Bunk of
i Horry County, and a pioneer
ly allied with tho recent dev
TO Republic. Backed by the (
TO United States Bonds, we are p
? tornors any reasonable aceomr
TO H. A. SPIVEY,
TO Cashier.
IUCHESON INJURES HIMSELF.
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Licrgyiumi Aitunwi ui muiuvt
crates Himself Severely.
Cries and groans breaking the stillness
of the early morning hours at
the Boston, Mass., county jail Thursday
led to the discovery that the Rev.
Clarence V. T. Richeson, awaiting
trial on the charge of having murdered
iMiss Avis Linnell, had mutilated
himself severely with a piece
of tin. So serious was the wound that
it was found necessary to perform an
operation immediately. Later in the
day the surgoons said the operation
was entirely successful, and that unless
bloodpoisonlng developed the |
prisoner probably would recover within
two weeks.
County authorities, jail officials
and counsel for Richeson all rofused
to comment upon the possible mental
processes which led the accused man
to determine to injur# himself, or
what influence hia act might havo
upon future legal proceedings in his
ease. District Attorney Pellotler, who
will have chargo of Richeson's trial,
set for January 15, assorted that the
trial would begin on the date assigned.
Although Richeson's counsel would
give no intimation whether the defense
would seek a postponement or
take any other action because of
Richeson's act, they did say dcllnitoly
that the accused clergyman had
vrounded himself in an attempt at
emasculation.
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DEATH STALKS JOY RIDERS.
Scarlet Woman Burned Alive Under
Wrecked Car.
Edna Stewart, a woman of the
underworld, was pinioned under the
car and burned to death, when an
automobile was wrecked on the outskirts
of Montgomery, Ala., Monday
night. Deputy Sheriff W. H. Bridges
was seriously Injured.
It is said thoro were five other passengers,
three men and two women,
who may bo more or less injured, but
every effort is being made to conceal
tho details and as yet the names of
theso persons havo not been learned.
Tho machine was running at a
high rate of speed, when one of the
front tirea blew out, throwing tht
wheel around and turning the car
headlong down an embankment. The
machine was destroyed by fire and
the remaining framework waa twisted
Into an unrecognizable mass.
Immediately after tho accidont
nowspapor reporters were warned to
keep away from the scone at tho peril
of thoir lives.
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REWARD FOR MISSING MAN.
Seeks Messenger Who Is Accused of
Taking $7,000.
Tho Southorn Express Company
Monday offered a reward of $300 for
the arrest of Robin C. Fargaaon, of
Macon, Ga., an express mossongor
1 wanted In connection with the disappearance
of a package containing
i $7,000. The package was consigned
to a bank at Grlflln, Ga., and left Ma
can in Fargasons care on mo <jonirai
i of Georgia train Saturday. Tho moni
oy is declared to have not been de>
livered and Fargason did not show
, up for the return run to Macon. He
has not been seen since, it Is reported,
HOBBY,
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ny bank in Horry county. More?
I us of all other banks in the county*. 4
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HOLDERS .. 60,00$
ORS .. .? ..112,60$
;tors
D. V. Richardson,
W. A. Johnson,
Will A. Freeman. ^
u/liirK their accounts
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solicit your business.
. V. Richardson, will a/fbbkmar
Vice President. .Cashier
f cent, on yearly deposits. ^
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)NAL BANK Y
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luck, W.' R. Lewie, D. \
ittlebaum, D. A. Spivey. 3|f
Conway, tie oldest Hank In
In Bnatern Carolina. Closeelopment
of tho Independent \%9
iovnrninent and secured by MA
repared to extend to our ouiuodationn.
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PKOFES8ION AL GAKDS.
EL H. WOODWARD
AttTity and Councilor At Law.
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at law.
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CJONWAT, S. O.
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B. WOFFOKD WAIT.
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Attorney at La/t
Bank of Horry Building.
CONWAY, 8. O.
IlENE It AVION EL
Band Surveying .A.
and
Druinago
Spivey liuildiritf Conway, S. C.
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WE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE
k .LIGHT RUNNING^)
m m & W
flfjruu want either a Vibrating Rhnttl?. RotatfB
wbuUle or a Blnglo Thread [CViain^U<^jv
C* Bowing Machine wrlto to
MRVKDRII 5EWIH1 MACHINE ODMPAH
... Orange* Mass, .? _ J
ifl|Nr*ewfo* machines are made to sett retwrdU*?
gnHtjr.but the New llome |* mads 11 an a
V Oar guaranty never run* out. ?>
Mi 00 Mthorlied dealers
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Sensation In Winchester.
At Winchester a social sensation
; was created there Thursday when tho
. grand Jury returned an indictment
I against Postmaster John 0. White, a
. leading Republican politician and one
. of the wealthiest mnn In the town,
' charging him with cruelly beating his
? daughter, (Mary, aged 19 years. The
, girl has left heme.
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