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jp)f Cmmtn |ie?otf>. m; V ^ v?^ ^ ' * AJk < > -.y / _____ ______ S0UTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1915. NO. 2 __ _ . n . EVER1 Just received, anoth( best line of Agricultural Harrows, Fertilizer Distr ??? D1/\?t PA'P onr CHI IVIULIVC 1 WW vu o anv Coffins and Cask ' ? ? i*0mt *~ i i ? BENSON BREVITIES. i - Farmers Begin Planting-Talent-I . ed Young Thespians--Personal. r Benson, March 1^:?Famers of this section are rapidly preparing k the soil for planting. A few of the ' "early birds'* have already planted corn. Mr J Y McGill is busily working his bean farm this week, hustling to catch the fancy prices. Sandy Paul, an industrious negro who lives on Mr J G McCullough's place, has an acre of garden peas f more forward than any we have seen. { A good many tobacco barns are | * being built in addition to those al' ready in use. This may indicate coming prosperity, but we are inclined to predict that this industry, like that of the "fleecy staple", will suffer from overproduction. How ever, we have not seen nearly so much fertilizers being: delivered in t this section as heretofore up to this it daje. Dr RD Guerry of Clio, Ga, is visiting: his parents, Mr and Mrs S ". H Guerry of Zeb. ? Miss Carrie Watson, one of the popular teachers of this place, spent the week-end visiting relatives at Manning. Miss Isla Smith of Bloomingvale fisited relatives here last week. Mr William K McKnight of Kingstree has been sick at his home several days with la grippe, but has returned to his work as salesman foi Mr W E Snowden. A young man of Kingstree has been noted in our community several times recently. What are the whys wherefores? The local amateur troupe, which some time ago entertained the pub lie at the Cedar Swamp school house, 1 soon after went to Indiantown and - later to Bloomingvale, where they had good audiences to witness the play, which success brought forth many deserved complimentary remarks, and, withal, added more cash to the school's low exchequer. After much solicitation and the assurance of a full house, "The Winning of Latane" will be taken to Andrews for the next performance.. What aileth the Benson baseball team? They were the victors last season in several games, notably over Kingstree, St Stephens, White Oak and Indiantown, and yet they have not organized for this season. Call the boys early, Mr Manager, and let them begin to twirl the sphere, to the delight of the many enthusiastic baseball fans, especially among the ladies. What a grand and glorious feeling once more to be able to ride to KingBtree without experiencing the effect of the long reaches of mire and the deep ruts where the axles of buggies would actually drag upon t the ground. Continue the good I work, Joe Frierson; we appreciate it. \ ? OBJECTED TO CHARIVARI. Bridegroom Shoots Into Serenaders?One Badly Wounded. Bishopville, March 12:?As the result of a pistol shot, alleged to haye been iired by Willie Johnson late toV day at a crowd of friends serenading - - .? ? )J. m:n.'_ n_' > K turn ana ms onae, mine rriw una been rushed to a hospital in ColumIfaia with only a fighting chance for I fTHING sr carload American Field Fenc Implements they ever had to s ibutors, Corn and Cotton Planl I Chattanooga Plows. CEver i rt ^?] Rm$ ' EV ? MEXICANS SLAY AMERICAN | ? i Protected by Stars and Stripes? ? U S Demands Instant Reparation. | Washington, March 12:?Encour- ^ aging advices telling of the relief of ] the food famine in Mexico City j through the evacuation of the Cap- ] ital by the forces of Gen Obregon, j the Carranza commander, were be- J clouded today by the news that on j the entry of the Zapata troops John j B McManus, an American citizen, j was murdered?shot down in his j home, the door of which had been j j sealed with the coat of arms of the j United States, and over which flew ? the Stars and Stripes. j Instant demand was made by the Brazilian minister on behalf of the United States Government for the punishment of those guilty of the ! crime. After a conference between President Wilson and his cabinet Secretary Bryan telegraphed the < Brazilian minister, approving of his 1 'j-? - J j action ana aaaing & uemauu iui reparation to the victim's family. The minister was instructed to insist on the early punishment of the offenders and to impress upon the post commander at Mexico City? Gen Salazar?the seriousness with which the American Government viewed the occurrence. The general?who is not the same , Salazar, nor a relative of the independent chief, who has been con- , ducting an independent revolution- I ary movement in Northern Mexico , after his escape from American custoday la9t year?promised that the demands of the United States would be promptly met. t CURISER AT NEWPORT NEWS. { i German Sea Rover Sunk 8 Ships-- ( One an American Vessel. 1 Newport News, Va, March 10:? J The German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, after a commerce ^ destroying campaign on the Pacific . and Atlantic oceans, which culmi < nated in the sinking of an American sailing ship in the South Atlantic Ocean on January 28 last, limped into this port today and anchored for supplies and repairs. She brought with her rescued crews and passengers of American, British, French and Russian ships, and lies at anchor tonight, proud of her trophies of war that crunch the bottom of the sea, but in a state of mechanical exhaustion from the strain of a 55,000-mile journey. The German cruiser began scouting for the ships of enemies of the Fatherland at Tsing Tau, China, last November, under the mastership of Commander Thierichens, and put 1 into this port today, with the admitted sinking of eight merchant ships, three British, three French, a one Russian and one American. The t sinking of the American ship, the t William P Frye, a sailing vessel, t bound from Seattle to Queenstown, c with a cargo of wheat, most con- \ cerned American port officials and a the Washington Government. I = j his life. Both men are residents of | i of the Ionia section of the county i and are prominently connected. Johnson has been placed in jail \ awaiting the outcome of Price's s wound. i - NEEDEl ;e. You know this is that good elect from. Big line of Stalk ters and, in fact, everything ne< ything in Hardware at rock-bot H O ^11 I 1CI BNTU ALL Y?W1 What Mr. ''Good, ripe tobacco wil good tobacco is to plant earl only solution. You can plar will have their special repres where we can save you time We are agents for the C WILLIAMS Heac :~r.T^r i TIDWELL TO BE IK1EU AbAim. ca c. Supreme Court Holds That His Conviction Was Unlawful. Columbia, March 15:?George W W< Tidwell, the Clinton white man who Rc shot and killed R Emmett Walker, one of Greenville's prominent young vo white men, at the Carolina Cotton at Mill office, in the city of Greenville, of on Thursday morning, March 12, a < 1914, because of illicit relations tn which Walker had with his daugh- Tr ter, Olive Tidwell, was this morning er: given a new trial by the supreme en court. Tidwell was convicted of cIe manslaughter at Greenville in May cas Df last year and sentenced to twelve els years in the penitentiary by Judge he Thomas J Mauldin. The sentence was reduced to seven years by for- lie mer Governor Cole L Blease on De- mi member 31 of last year. The decision of the court was writ- hai ten by Associate Justice George W du jage, and the new trial for Tidwell s granted on two grounds, first, be- DE lause the twelfth juror was drawn md put in the box from an extra /enire of fifteen summoned before ;he whole fifteen had been served i wd gotten into court, and second, 80I because of the improper cross-exam- tot nation of George W Tidwell and his mc laughter, Olive Tidwell, and be- jnfi lause incompetent and irrelevant ow testimony was admitted bearing: on me ;he alleged conduct of Mrs Tidwell we ind of Olive Tidwell with other men. tot rhe decision of the court was unan- C01 mous. jn? Since his shooting of young Walk- ch ?r over a year ago Tidwell has been wa jonfined in jail at Greenyille. Gen ?ral sessions court is now sitting in 0>c jreenville, and Tidwell may either C0I ye retried immediately or his new aja ;rial may come up at the May term, ? ? po ONE KILLED; FIVE WOUNDED. ' on ing tesult ol Pistol Battle at Page- wo land* Chesterfield County. sto Pageland, March 12?As the re- tW( lult of a wholesale shooting affray on un( he streets of Pageland following a rial in a Magistrate's court this afTh< ernoon, one man is dead and five others are more or less seriously vounded. Two and possibly three ^ai luffered wounds that are now exacted to prove fatal. The shooting prew out of a decision of the court Ed n a case of an alleged violation of a 1 abor contract. Vfll J W Arant was killed. J M Arant Pfc 819< vas shot in the abdomen and is in a ^ erious condition. J D Wallace was t>rc hot in the abdomen and has been 1 0 UPOP . kind. CWe are now offer: Cutters, Middle Breakers, ?ded on the farm. We are t torn prices. rdware Y NOT NOW . Duke Says Al 1 sell high on account of tt y and give time for ripenini it 5 to 7 acres a day and ? tentative here this week to , money and trouble by usir Jase Transplanter. BURG HA] (quarters for C lrOv-?5v-t?viJv-?5v~Wv45v"i5v"2v>Ov"WvOv>i rried to a hospital at Charlotte, N Arthur West was shot four nes?in the leg, arm and side, eppard West, a brother of Arthur est. was shot in the side. John al loss after two hours, only the int brick walls standing. Card ol Thanks. itor'County Record:? 5lease allow me space in your uable paper to thank the good >ple at and around Morrisville, 3 of Kingstree, for their kindness ring the illness and death of my >ther. M L McClary. ' If arch 16,1915. ltp ibertson was shot in the arm. Between fifty and one hundred reiver shots were fired on the streets the conclusion of the trial. One j the West boys was being tried on j :harge of violating a labor con- j ict, he having worked for Mrs eat, a sister of the Arant broth- j 3, and later unlawfully leaving her iploy to work for Wallace, it is limed. The Magistrate threw the se out of court and the two sides ished at the conclusion of the aring. Some of the bystanders are beved to have suffered wounds of nor importance. rhe Sheriff of Chesterfield county 3 reached Pageland and is concting an inquiry. ISTRUCTIVE FIRE IN COLUMBIA. isonic lempie ana nryaurrui ? Ing Co's Plant Burned. Columbia, March 12:?The Malic Temple, on Main street, was ally destroyed by fire early this irning. The book store and printr plant of R L Bryan & Co, which :upied the lower floor and baseint of this three-story building, re consumed by flames. The al loss is estimated at $125,000, 7ered by insurance. Th^*djoin. r building, occupied by Stanley's ina Hall, was slightly damaged by ,ter. The fire was discovered about 4 lock this morning and had gained isiderable headway when the fire irm was turned in and the fire hters reached the scene. Several werful streams were soon playing the blaze, which was rapidly lick its way up through the woodrk and the contents of thethreery, narrow brick building. It was > hours before the fire was gotten ler control with the entire fire >artment upon the scene, even old steamers being called on. ? stock and the building were a | 4 THE Fi ing to the farmers of Williamsbi One-Horse and Two-Horse Plow; he agents for Cole Planters and Co. | We Lead? 9 ! bout the Tobacco ie inferior crop of last year." g and, to do this, the J. I. Caj ret a 95% stand against a 55% tell you all about it. # Come in lg one of these machines. RDWARE CO suaranteed Good King Harth ?! | THE POPULAR HARD ' dl . 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