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I ?y&/ J v x m HAUL BAM^rfS TAKE FIFTY THOUSAND FROM TRAIN ? WAS VERY BOLD HOLD UP The Mall (Toil Tolls I low the llobl>orw Did Their Work?They Covered the Engineer niul I'M rem an With Guns)?Several Suspects Are Arreatcd for the Crime. Deputies from Birmingham anil Montgomery and armed farmers of Tuscaloosa County havo bandoned tlio search for tho three men who hold ug nd robbed tho oxpress car of tho Alabama (Treat Southern train near Klbbville, Ala., Friday night, and tho case is now ontiroly in the hand* of tho railroad special olllcors. Fivo ooon havo been arrested at Kutaw, Ala., below Tuscaloosa, none of who? is over thirty years old, and fivo others havo boon laiulod in the Tutealeosa County jail by Special Agoat Slall. All of these men deny connection with tiio hold-up. if ? 11 m * 1 ? -i? TI-I v ma.ii v/ifr*. lifiiiiui'r room r rmay night paid: "The robbory was committed by tliroo masked men, only one of whom appeared to mo to he at all experienced. The other two were young suul nervous. Ono of thorn did conelderahlo promiscuous shooting and cursing in the mail car. Bullets passing through the mail car narrowly missed four men. 1 am confident the robbers doing the shooting were drunk. While crouched under the counter T had the presence of mind to save a few registered letters. '"l'hK last charge of dynamite that blew the express safe was very heavy. It jarred us, one hundred yards away. They had modern appliances equipped with lights that threw rays so that they could see us hut we could not them. As th< v were marching ua back to the pa Migor coaches 1 fell Into a cattle guard and sprained by ankle. One robber warned us of tho cattle guard just as I fell. "The 11 reman stated tho robbers pot ofT with mail sacks full of booty. My Impression is they left the car beforo wo reached Vance, lotting the en gin? run wild to throw tho posses off th? trail. 1 believe I can identify tho robber who did tho shooting and cursing. 1 pot a good look at him. Tho ?mailer robber, who guarded tho rear end of tho express car, seemed I experienced. The express messenger had no chanco to defend himself." According to statements of the train crew, Engineer Daniels and bis fireman were covered with revolvers when tho train was stopped on the block danger signal at lldbbville. Fireman was forced to uncouple tho exproaa, mail and baggago cars, and they were run down the track some distance from tho passenger coaches. Tlior? tho mail clerks and express messenger were driven from the enrs and tho safo blown open with nitroglycerine. After tho robbery the thro? men jumped upon the engine, forcing the fireman to open tho throttle. They forced the fireman to jump from tho engine a short distance from Bibbvillo. C. C. Jinks, who was a passenger, say? tho conductor notified all the passengers of the hold-up and advised them to hide their valuables. The coaches "were not entered. A negro porter engaged in a hand to hand tussle with a rohber, was struck on tho head by another of tho gang. J?ate Friday night conferences were held by SherifT Palmer, his deputies engaged in the chase, railroad detectives, express company otliclals, private detectives and detectives from national agencies. It. is estimated that fifty thousand dollars were stolen, including a heavy shipment of currency from tho East to New Orleans. The entire train was taken to Meridian, Miss., the Southern terminus of tho division. The baggage car had a large hole torn through tho roof by tho explosions, which blew tho safes and tho mail car showed bullet holes. Tho negro porter, who was removing a velocipede usually used to Hag trains, when ordered to halt by one of the robbers, unshod tho nistol away from his face and grappled with the highwayman, throwing him and holding him securely until another masked man stepped up and hit him over tho head. The negro then ran under the baggage ear. ? Murdered in Wagon. The body of George Hamilton planter of near Grand Ridge, Jackson, County, Ga., was found in his wagon. Tho team wandering near his home. Wednesday ho went to the cotton gin some miles away and did not get away until after night fall. It is supposed that ho was murdered for tho money which ho received for his cotton. -- ? Dogs Save a Young Man. Monks, guided by tho barking of their dogs, rescued a young American, G. Dawson, who had fallen into a ravine near Geneva, Switzerland. He had attempted to cross tho ravine without a guide and had fallen in. He was uninjured except for a sprained ankle. CONVICTS BUILD PRISON +. CN1TKD ST ATMS SAVMS MILLIONS HY I'll MI II LiAIiOIt. Military Prinonrri at Fort Ivonvenworth Are T might Trades and Will l>o Uiven a tlmnco. Federal prisoners at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., have completed the construction of the finest penitentiary In tho United States. Fire years ago the government made an appropriation of $64 3,000 for the project. It is declared tho new structure would have cost tho government $3,000,000, hut for tho material assistance of Col. Thomas If. Slavens, commandant of tho United States Military prison at tho fort. Tho completion of the new buildings will mark a complete change in the character of tho military prison. Instead of making convicts of army deserters and petty offenders. Uncle Sam Is going to try a new plan. Thero in entirely too much soldier material wasted by the old system. Uncle Sam in going to conserve this by giving deserters a chance to get back Into the ranks, through tho reformatry, and clear their records. The labor on the n^w bnllding? wn? tho easieut problem for Col. Slavens. Confined In the prison were men from every walk of lifo, bricklayers, stone-masons, plumbers, mill workers and laborers. Those who knew no trade vrero given instruction In performing (bo work of ordinary laborers. There are now 000 prisoners, most of thorn army deserters, and 2 00 of these were employed on the construction proper. In addition to tho work on the prison, which consisted of quarrying in the prison quarries, crushing stone, mixing concrete, and other work that goes with the erection of fine buildings, prisoners assist in the construction of roads, the preservation of forest lands, till the soil on the prison farm and work in clothing shops were clothing is made for the prisoners. Tho prison is built of eoncreto blocks, with individual cells tilted with electric lights, toilets and other conveniences. There is an auditorium that will seat. 2,200 and a dining room that will seat the same number. An artist is now painting scenery for the prison stage. UFHIFI) A 1.1 VId BUT LIN F!S. Miner Fntombed Since Friday Sends Message to Family. As darkness fell Tuesday at the Continental colliery, of tho Lehigh Coal Co., tho voico of Thomas Tosheskv who has been entombed In tho I mammoth vein Binco last Friday morning, was heard through a tube fifty feet long, which had been inserted in a holo bored in a wall of coal from an adjoining breast. Ho spoko distinctly, his first inquiry being about his family. "Tell them not to worry too much," ho said. "I am in fairly good condition. Since I got several bottles of milk and some eggs I feel much stronger and more content." The entombed man stated he was very nervous because of tho long confinement and absolute quiot. "Sometimes," ho said, "I imagine tho whole roof of the breast is about to drop on my head." Mine ofllcials with the rescuers told Toshesky to keep up his courage and if possible would be another twelve hours until a big plls of coal, lying in the face of the gangway, comi(i do removed sumcientiy to permit members of Mio rescuing party to enter tlio breast where Tohesky is hold a prisoner 200 feet below the surface. The rescue work la boing conducted from tho interior of the mine. FIND COFFIN IN HI INS. + Wreckers Find Skeleton of Child in Old Illinois House. The mansion at Clinton, 111., erected forty years ago by Col. Thomas Snell, yielded another sensation Thursday when it was learned that the skeleton of a child in a homemade coflln had been found skilfully concealed within a wall. Wreckers tearing down tho residenco made the discovery, which adds another chapter to tho stormy history of Col. Snell, who died about seven years ago, and for whoso fortune a great tight was made in (lie courts of Illinois. The body of the child had boon buried in a starch box, which easily opened, exposing the bones when the housewreckers found it. The workmen threw the box with its contents into the yard and it remained there two days before it was turned ovor to the police. A hurried inquest was held, an open verdict was returned and the town supervisor took charge of the body, burying it in tho public cemetery. , Caught in Ice. A dispatch from Nome, Alaska, says tho four-masted schooner Transit Is a total wreck on the shore off Point Harrow, where sho was driven by tho Ice, and five other vessels are imprisoned in the ice in the same neighborhood. Capt. J. B. Backland, owner and navigator of the Transit, and his crew of seven, are on their way to Nome In a launch REVENUE OF NEW TARIFF I ?. . ESTIMATES AHR MADE FOIl THE NEXT TWO YEA IIS ? Senator Simmons Shows Where Money Will Com? From and Where It i Will Probably Go. Senator Simmons, chairman of tho Sonato finance committee, Monday , night gar? out the first complete estimates on federal revenues and expenditures under tho new tariff bill, as computed hy experts of tho treasury department, who have been work with tho joint tariff conference committee. For the year ending July 1, 1914: Receipts $1,029,000,000; expend!- i ttires $1,013,000,000; surplus $10,- i 000,000. ] For the year ending July 1, 1913: Receipts $1,02 0,000,000; expend!- , tures $1,008,000,000; surplus $18,- , 000,000. j The estimated receipts under the customs tariff, tho income tax and the corporation tar, embraced in the , new tariff, are given as follows: For 1314: Custom revenues, $270,000,000; Income tax (ten months), ( $Rrt,000,000; corporation tax $33,000,000. For 1915: Custom revenues, $2 49,no0.000; Income tax, $83,000,000; corporation tax, $39,000,000. "The customs revenues will be larger for tho current fiscal year 19M," said Senator Simmons, "be cause the rates of the Pajrne-Aldrich law hare boon in foroo for the first quarter ami will continue in force on wool and woolen poods until .Tan- | nary 1, and on sugar until March 1. , "When the next, fiscal year begins, July 1, 1014, all the rates of the new law will bo In operation and the new ( law will be in operation and the tariff duties collected will be smoller. "The income tax, which is collected for the calendar year, can be collected for only ten months of the present years as the law specifies that collection shall not go back of March , 1, 1013. The estimated decrease in the total expenditures of the government for 1015 ? $f?,000,000?is based on tho fact that smaller expedi- . lures are expected for the army and navy establishments." The balance of the total income of the government as given in the treasury estimates is made up of postal receipts, internal rovonuo receipts, tho profits from puhllp land sales and other sources of federal income. Throwing the Negro Overboard. When the Republicans of the great State of New York in their convention recently approved the plan to "revise the basis of representation in national conventions" they deliberately abandoned the colorod peoplo at the South, who have been blind followers of the "grand old party" since "freedom canio in". The Republicans call it progress, but it is nothing but cowardly desertion of tho colored man and brother, who is practically told that lie is no longer needed and must go. The Now York Republicans offered no objection to full Southern representation in their national conventions when tho negroes lately freed from slavery were in the ascendency, as tho New York World points out. Nor wore they opposed to big delegations from tho South when the thieving carpetbaggers wore in control of this section. Hut now they turn upon tho Southern colored man and cast him politically adrift because they say lie can furnish no electoral votes. When tho Jacobins, headed by Charles Sumner and other bitter enemies of tho prostrate South, pave citizenship to tho latoly emancipated slaves right after tho War Between the North and South, they persuaded their fellow partisans that by that act they guaranteed their power. Sumner and his fellow conspirators against the white people of the South have been dead for thirty or more years, but, as the World says, the poor remnants of their bodies are in no more pronounced decay at this instant than their theory that racial and social distinctions could be wiped out by legislation. Tho decision of tho New York Republicans to restrict representation in their national conventions to votes actually cast amounts to approval of the nullification by tho Southern states of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, two war measures. The New York Republicans say thw disfranchised colored man of the South is to have no voice even in tho grand council of the party which boasts that it conferred upon him freedom and me i)<i11oi. vvnat win tuo negroefc who in normal times give the Ropub1 lean a tlioir majorities in various important Northern States saj to this proposition? asks the World. r?uro irynnimieci. The safe of tlio Southern railway at Hulls (lap, Tenn., Oft tuIIos south of Bristol, was dynamited early Wednesday. About $:iftft was taken. Authorities have been unable to trace the robbers. Four Firemen Hurt. Four firemen were sorlously burned while fighting a fire in tho Asbestos and Hoofing Material plant at Now Orleans. WILL MEET TO PLAN a BLEA3E WANTS TO CAPTURE PARTY MACHINERY CALL FACTION TB MEET - V Conference of the (loTernor'n Followers Callo<l for Fair VT<*ok in Columbia to Map Out Campaign to Capture tlie Clubs ami Countj and State Con renLions, Leaders cf the Rlease faction In the Democratic party in South Carolina will meet In a conferonco in Columbia during Fair Week, to map out plans for capturing the next Democratic Convention and controlling the election machinery of the Democratic party. This announcoTnent was made Tuesday by Governor Bloase, in conversation with Tho News and Courier representative at Columbia. The conference will he participated in by the lUease leaders from every county In the State. The call for the leaders to coma to the conference has already gone out. Administration leaders at every county seat and in every section of the State have been summoned to gather In Colurn liia for an important meeting during i he week of the State Fair. The conference may last two days. Flans for a full attendance of the Rleasites at every Democratic club meeting next April, when they assemble to elect delegates to the county conventions, will be talked over. Through control of the club meetings the Flense forces plnn to capture the county contention, or a majority thereof, and through them the next State Convention, which meets in Columbia on the third Wednesday in next May. Control of the county conventions will insure control of the State Democratic executive committee and the State Convention, and thus place the machinery of the Democratic party, under which the primary elections are held, in tiie control of men /riendly to (loTornor Flense. Any change in the rules and constitution of the party will bo defeated if the Hlease forces carry out their plans and capture the next State Convention. Former Governor John Gary Ev- < ans, the present chairman of the Stats Democratic executive committee, and the others who are at present prominent in the running of tho party, are marked for tho slaughter by tho Administration forces if the Rleaso forces control a majority of tho county conventions throughout the State next May, there will be a complete overturn of tDo election machinery officials Chairman Evans and his fellow workers of tho Antf-Rleaso faction will be relegated to tho rear and new men, high in standing with the present State Administration, will bo ploced at the head of tho Democratic party. At the Illeaso conference Fair Week tho plans will ho mapped out to the smallest detail and tho leaders will then return to their various homo counties and pass the word around for all the Dleaso voters to attend their club meetings in force. "We are not going to ho caught napping, as was tho caso last year," said Governor II,lease, referring to the overwhelming mnnner in which the anti-administration people captured club meetings, county conventions and the State Convention in 1012. "We are going to havo a full attendance at every club meeting in tho State and we propose to capture the county 'conventions. Itest assured we are going to control tho next Democratic State Convention," emphatically declared tho governor. The plans for tho lUeaso forces to control tho conventions and election machinery next year wero formed right on tho heels of tho ro-oloction of Governor Rlease last summer. Leaders of that faction of the party have boon working 011 tlio details ever since and they have called the conference for Fair Week to put these plans in action, and perfect such other dotails as will be deemed advisable to carry the matter to a successful conclusion. . SENDS COTTON PRICES I P ? Advent of Independent Ilnyer Stirs Spartanburg Market. R. IT. tv-t-v created excitement in the P . .'g Cotton market Monday bv announcing his In ton'? '"iv for export. Ah a result between i..' opening of the market and two o'clock, tho price of cotton jumped from 13 3-Sc a pound to l ie, or $3.12 1-2 for a 500-pound balo. It in a matter of Spartanburg history that an "independent buyer"?that is, a buyer not connected with one. of the cotton mills for the county? never has been able to enter tho Spartanburg market and "get away with it". Spartanburg county's cotton belongs to tho county's mills, is tho way tho mill peoplo loo kat it, and they havo a way of making things exceedingly hot and interesting for any man who goes into tho market against them. It has not boon attempted for several years. As a result, Spartanburg has been a poor market. CLASSIFIED COLUMN For S?lo?poplar and pino treou. Address James A. Clarksou, Hopkins, S. C. Easy Mocey raising stock. Valuable stock farm for sale. Writo F. L. Towuseud, Suiumorilold, N. C. Notice?Two $300 pianos at $150 .oach; sont on approval; oxamine before paying a cent.. 9. L?. Rose Piano Co., Uoldaboro, N. C. Piny Ii<H>K, the most popelar card game of the day. Price 55c postpaid. Sitna Hook 9toro, Orangeburg, 9. C. Flinch 55c also. "Carolina Reanty" prize-winning single comb Reds. Choice cockerels. $1 oach until October 15. Satiefaction guaranteed. Carlton Farms, Ivernersrllle, N. C. w Bay ta the Pledmovt, while cheap; 2 1 6 acres near village, aehool and churchea, for sale at $2,500 If taken quick. Particulars given. R. E. Jeter, Sautuc, 9. C. Fer Stale One of the best email fsrais In Albermarle county. 9peclai price If told before December 1. Mitchell Mdso Co., Medium River, Va Eagraved Visiting Cards and Wedding Invitation orders promptly filled. Writo for styles of engraving. Visiting cards engraved In script $1.50 per 100 postpaid. Sims Hook Store, Orangeburg, S. C. i Doctor yourself?Six formulas Liv-1 rr, Kidneys, Stomach, Toothache Solve. Liniment coat von only one dollar for three standrad remedies. Save this ad. Address Elmo Specialty Co., Freeport, Me. For S?|o?1 (M? acre* ideal dairy or truck farm, partly in corporate limit* Blackville, S. ('., partly wired; easily drained; plenty cypress poh^s for fencing. Correspondence solfcited. Address "Owner", Box 15G, Blackville, S. C. New Crop llerlcAiicd Alfalfa Seed, $8.50 per bushel. Wo pay f rely lit on two or more bushel lots. Will send sample. All orders filled promptly. The Rockwell Merchandise and Grain Co., Junction City, Gansaw. , . If or Sale?Rarred Plymouth Rocks | (female line), line young stock, also soma excellent yearling brooders; ' prices range from two to ten dollars t per bird. Egys for hatching. I invite your patronage. II. W. White, Box 4 74, Charleston, S. C. 1 Hffii^fd Seventh Drink; Hlaia. Because lie would not take the sev ?nth consecutive drink with a companion, Horace Denton, aged twenty years, was stabbed to death at Athens, Ga., and the authorities are look ing Tor Jack Scrogglns. Seven long gashes were cut in Denton's fact head, shoulders and breast, on? of the latter having reached his heart. beadle Prick Poisoas. Dr. Robert L. Morrison, president of the Wllliamskurg Hospital at New York City, who pricked his finger accidentally with a needla Saturday afternoon, is critically ill of blood poisoning. Tks needla did not draw blood, but placad in his rains the in fectlon from which a baby had been suffering. ImBM EanranliiiH Nrt*h'? Liniment is thr t<m fnieiw***** r.meiy for limit.am. I ESKKflSS KB > vVMAticA, Lama Back, Stiff /KWl WR "? kad Maaclee, ,Vre j^pWylpBH Sprains. Cuts,' Bru.tea,' kJK Colic, ( r*mp# Neuralgia, SSI roothache. anil all N?rv., ifflpf Bona and Muscla Achaa ??8 a a (1 Pains. I h gr n m i n l| m N'ah * Ark on every I**cka;e and looks like th.a g*flkJBa*.C nHSX 1 cut. but ha. RKD band on hS rU* ? k * ?,e ,* n (1 ** mVm , BffiS ?Z L.in?ment always UTS*ZT^. DPS iu RELi ink. Bewaie of -- . L ^jull dealer.. Jfc.. and'fl.io! wi^Ti-TaL Sill Ci?arantMd or money ra- E$?I funded by Noah Remedy ?3Pr-v..r Bffli '*0-' *?* ?<>.*: y*. mmI?? K9 fi## Ol r?gmg. \ 'WW* -'-' '- - "SMT? 'I JLJI ? hank OF : 'onwa HAS liARftRST fupttar avn cjitt> _ w -t A + Mii OUIV CorNTY. MO It 10 THAN THE COMB ALL. OTHER HANKS IN THE COU I CAPITAL STOCK.. .. SURPLUS LIABILITIES OP STOOl SECURITY OF DEPOSE DIREC ROBERT R. SCARBOROUGH. AT. L. ZUCK, GEORGE J. HOLIDAY. WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS ACC< COUNTS WILL JUSTIFY, AND WE Robert It Scarborough, D. Prwridtnt. THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY, S. C. Till liSI>AV, (K/TOItKK 1>, 1 !>!:?. %,dLU* a. A. 1% CK>4> ti <XAUb Kil&vnmf ajU Oomnvlm ? CONffAK, t*. C . ti, kL ftCAJLKUUVtUif COM WAX, a. v>. ieunMf ?i JLAK. A. It. MUltKOCOJfA -'*br*t4*Mi m?4 WWWAY, . a IV. E. McCORD, Dental Surgeon CO SWA Y, S. C. PtJKK RAVI1II1. 1 iMi# SarTtylif tm4 Drainage Hvt,y Ruitdiim Conway, 9. O. ME WORLDS 6REA1tSTSEWINB MAciift RUNN^^ ffjonwn VlbmtlngSlinttlo. flota^g; fibuttla or a Mingle Thread [Chaiti cililalq ' Bering Machine write to ' wm WW HOME tEWINtt MACHINE CQMPAW Orange, Mass. m iiiiTiiii. 111 ii iiin i irr ma<ietobctlrrHurdle*Si1 ^BSlUsW but the If t? w Homo is made lo wees * Out guaranty never rtin? out. ? tofJT udiorirctl dealer* v rua ?At J9 rsi * Senator Hanks for (iovoiiior. The Yorkville Enquirer says it is not engaged in the business of hunting out gubernatorial timber, but is disposed to believe that Senator .1. A. Hanks, of Calhoun county, would make a most excellent chief executive. The ('licicstnf irr LU1I1KSthat "the Enquirer is probably correct in this statement, as the kind of man who is needed for South Carolina's next Governor is one who i? not swayed by factional prejudice, hut is broad-minded and charitably disposed. So far as we have known Senator Banks has never aligned himself to any great extent with either political faction, and for that reason if he possesses the other qualifications would make an excellent Governor." Senator Banks has all the qualifications necessary to fill tin? office of Governor, and if elected to that office would fill it with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of the best people of the State. I lie opposed Governor Bleaso last year, hut i6 no hitter partizan by any ! means. ? ?.? ? Has l-ine' Practice. Night firing tests conducted luring the last week by the new foi ts at Honolulu were highly satisfactory. t.icuiuuiK io r.ng, Gen. Frederick Funston. Fort Roger's 14-inch morInrs fired at a small target in the ocean S.OOOO y ids distant, scored 13 hits in 3?j shots. ? Would Die ?t, Home. Declaring that lie was an American ? citizen and wished to dlo on A moid- j can soil, William Scott of Chicago \ hoarded the steamship Caledonia at j Glasgow in an effort to roach Amori- j ca alive, hut lie died before arrival. ; ; hokry, =j y. s, c. i PI .IIS OF ANY BANK IN IIOURY I NED CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OF NT Y. | $T>0,<K)0 12,JVOO \ [{HOLDERS.. .. 50,000 ] rons 112,500 ;tors i W. A. JOHNSON, A WILL A. FREEMAN, I D. V. RICHARDSON. J OMMOOATION WHICH THEIR AC- 1 SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. I F. RlchAP<lfion, Will A. Freeman, ;|l Vice-Proeldent Cashier. .Ng