Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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k l ABSOLUTELY AT COST Great bona fide cost sale of House Furnishings began Tuesday, MAY 9th, and will continue sale until stock is sold, or June 1 st, the date set to discontinue our business in Gaffney. An exceptional opportunity offered to the housekeepers of Gaffney and Cherokee County. Prices are not quoted here, but everything in our mammoth stock will positively be sold at cost. If you come now you get the pick, and it will pay you to buy now for future use - - ~ _ Our stock consists of Furniture, the celebrated Buck Cooking and Heating Stoves, China and Glassware, Rugs, Quilts, Hammocks, etc In fact, almost anything needed in house furn ishings These goods are strictly cash, and we * will not charge anything or deliver goods at these prices - . - Remember, This Great Sale Is Now On and that this is an opportunity that you may not have again in a life time. We will discontinue business in Gaffney and will do so as quickly as possible It will be to your interest to visit our store and see these great bargains; though you do not buy, you may find something that you want Don’t put it off until tomorrow, but come today We will be glad to show you everything we have. Remember the terms: Strictly cash; goods to be delivered by you $ a Acme Furniture Company B&BBBBBl BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB E Kggs I^or 5-*£ile From my prize-winners, R. I. Reds, Rose and Single Comb. Rggs 15 for #1.50; White Plymouth Rocks, U. R. Fishei’s strain of prize-win ners, eggs £1.50 for 15; Barred Ply mouth Rocks, Hawkins'strain, eggs #1.00 for 15. All my stock is fine se lected and show birds. My Rhode Island Reds are the best that I could buy in Massachusetts and Rhode Is land. Send us your orders and we will give you good fresh eggs. Cherokee Poultry Yards E. R. CASH, Prop. GAFFNEY, - - - S. C. FOUND ROBBERY EASY. 1 “Johnny” McCarthy, Yeggman, Talks of His Exploits. Baltimore, April 25.—“Johnny” Me Carthy, alias Dandrell, alias “Johnny’- Wilson, a notorious yeggman and bank burglar, is now here on his way back to Vermont penitentiary, where he is serving a seven-year term for bur glary. He has just been brought back from Charleston, S. C., where he was taken to testify against yeggmen ar rested here and now convicted of post- office robberies in South Carolina. Mc Carthy no longer attempts to conceal the details of his criminal career. “I was one of the gang of yeggmen, who last year robbed country stores and small banks throughout Maryland, Virginia and Delaware,” he said. “It was our push that got into the safe in the cotton mill office at Ilchester, Md., and we also blew open ‘boxes’ (safes) in Dover, Bridgeville and Townsend, Del., and Churchill, Md.” McCarthy is only twenty-four years old, and is possesed of considerable intelligence. He says he has made up his mind to sever all connection with “crookdom,” and after he is released from prison will endeavor to lead an honest life. “I was a clerk in a Philadelphia manufacturing concern,” said Mc Carthy, “and occasionally I used to make a run down to Wilmington. There I met ‘Ned’ Morgan, who was the leader of a band of yeggs operat ing in the East and South. This was in 1897. The first job I did was in Murfreesboro, N. C. Morgan sent me down there to look over the ground. I reported favorably, and the gang went down there and blew open a safe. Well, we worked that section of the country pretty thoroughly, and then came up through Virginia—Mor gan, ‘Irish Jimmy,’ ‘Charlie’ Cross and myself. "In the winter of 1903 Morgan, Maude Morgan and I had a house in Alexandria, Va. Morgan got into trouble there by shooting a man who insulted Maude. The man didn’t die, but ‘Ned’ skipped town. Last March a year ago we all came to Baltimore, and worked off the jobs at Ulchester and Churchill. I wasn’t in the bur glary of the Sandy Springs, (Md.,) bank or the La Plata bank. Just then I was attending to some work on my own account. “Our gang at first hung up on Platt street, near (lay. Then Steinbach, alias Johnson, came to Baltimore from the South and opened a saloon at 23 South Front street. Morgan knew him ,and we made his place our hang out. While the main part of the gang him; up at Steinbach’s place, Morgan, ‘Charlie’ Cross, ‘Ohio Hump,’ another member of the gang, and myself took a flying trip through Delaware. “We blew a safe at Dover, the cap ital of the State, and at Bridgeville. This was in April or May, 1904. We got safely away with the goods, about $1,300 in all, and the next job we did was at Port Norfolk, Va., where we tapped a safe in the postoffice and got $265 in money and $195 in stamps. I went up north then with another sec tion of the gang. The southern bunch stayed here, and all except four rounded up when Pumphrey and his men raided Steinbach’s place, at 23 South Front Street. “Whew! but‘that was a warm raid. It gave people of our profession a ter- rible jar. 1 was picked up in Ver mont; Morgan and the rest of the gang were landed here. ‘Con Shorty,’ the ‘Guinea,’ not the ‘Con Shorty’ who is awaiting trial on the charge of bur glarizing the bank at Sandy Springs, Md., and ‘Charlie’ Cross went down south.. Both of them were shot while attempting to commit a burglary at Wadesboro, N. C., last week. Cross will probably die, but they say ‘Shor ty’ will recover. “The gang is pretty well broken up and I’m out of it for good. We used nitro-glycerine exclusively in blowing a safe. We made the ‘soup,’ as we call it, from dynamite. We would crumble the dynamite on a piece of paper, and then mix It with warm wa ter in a gauze bag. This bag we would put in a bucket of warm water, and then squeeze it with our hands and the nitroglycerine would be extracted and would precipitate on the bottom of the bucket. Then the water would be withdrawn with a syringe and the nitro-glycerine bottled for use! It is a dangerous stuff to mix, and if a piece of sand or anything gritty gets into it is is likely to cause friction and explosion.” ■TWOThfl lii - lExtend a Cordial Invitation To The Ladies of Gaffney and Cherokee County To call and examine my line of Dress and Waist Goods. I have a 1 eautiful line of Scotch mixtures, Shark Skin Brilliantines, Ktc., at 40 to 75 cents per yard. Black Broad cloth, fine quality, at 51.25 per yard. Waist Goods in latest styles at 10c yard and up. i.i.4 lot A. F. C. Ginghams, Percales, Common Cloth, Lons dale Sheeting, Ktc., to he sold cheap. Just received 50 dozen Malaga Hats for Men, Youths and Children at 10c and up. See us for anything in Clothing from the wee tot’s .Suit to the most expensive tailor-made Suits for Men. 9 My Prices Are Right Too S<- A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Pro truding Piles. Druggists refund mon- I ey if PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure | any case, no matter of how long standing, in 6 to 14 days. First ap- I plication gives ease and rest. 50c. If your druggist hasn’t It send 50c in stamps and It will be forwarded post-paid by Paris Medicine Co., £t. Louis, Mo. I still handle everything needed on the farm. If in need of farming implements this is the place to get them. I handle Hay, Corn, Oats, Flour, Meat, in fact everything in supplies. Bliss’ Triumph Potatoes for planting. All grad“s Fertilizers for all crops. See me for anything in my various lines. Respectfully, J. I. TTT Good, Honest Solid Leather Shoes Are What we claim to sell and it is money saved when you buy this kind. They cost you just a little more and are a great deal better. We have the greatest line of Men’s Ox fords ever shown; Tans, Vici, Patents, such makes as Edwin Clapp’s, Crossett and All Americas. A look will be appreciated. :::::::: Com p’v Gaffney, South Carolina.