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KILLED BY SON. KKXTCCKIAN MEET* VIOLENT DEATH. of a <Starrel?IK ?<I ns Prominent in Polltks and of Donos Connected With n. Ky., Feb. ??Former Jndge Jimes Hnrgi*. for years member of the State executive committee, ac of complicity In man/ kllllnf j ? prominent figure In the feudi how jjaruf ted Breathltt coun neveral year*, was shot ami hi hie general store here about t> an. today by his son. Bench Tho son tired five shots In st hla father, who while his clerks were wait :%B ?* onstomsra Ths exact' eau*e Bt m\m murder has.not been learned. mm H Ig supposed to .^ave been the Of differences which have es> hot0 sun father and son for The two are reported to severe quarrel several ?#?, when tho father, It It al ras com polled to resort to v lo? hnte to rostra in his son. tTargls, It Is said, had been JisavUy of lau. Hm cam* the store this nfteinoon and wns nieder tho Influence of 11? Unrgts. It Is said, spoke Bam shout drinking and n quar sfrshor and son stepped behind n . whan tho son. after a few eoo if isatten, drew a re amm Bred n>e shots. Fonr took Judge Harris falling dead, lady stenographer and the In the store fled In flight v BAJflKRALL NOTEnV tmm bosebaU scouts who were on pkklng up a bunch of stayers from the State hove strt.ck n song. The State ?tarns bold their playsrs un jmmtrym and ths higher claaa ion cannot annas the players Without paying for their release. Tlii* final If settled tc ?he sat Is? af ail by an oiflcial notice Becretsry Farrell. h ? ? ??<. itnry Fai soll has n ?tlfk \ tho crab to drop *oomiminloa tnhn with Steinaurln and Richardson, em ?Colossbia sinnot deal with them. Btnto. f ihe pitcher who was Is tho State league iact Is now in ths city and he wa* Informed of the decision of Farrell in regard to the of the players by the teams Of the Btate league. Us was told by oafy of ths local club that be sfOLnurln. ths outfielder, also shun are last season, would have their rekose before Colum negoUaft with them. Rlch thot hs Is very anxious to Id Columbia and that If he Is from tho Sumter club, as he fans requested, he will do hla very best Mf snake good with ths local club.? Btate. ? es If Chester wants baseball, all that net ho done to secure a team and to the raising of the proper t to put a team In the field gwaraatx certain other expanses ty connected with running The preliminary steps Jovre hern ??hen, and Cher tor can s> place In a four-team league Rock Hill. Sumter and Orange as the other members. If the nec smount of cash Is raised. Steps will bo taken shortly to organise; and n liberal response Is ox peeled from heater Reporter. nw_ s s e Ftnlayeon. formerly of Cberaw, fc. CL. who wsa the star pitcher In the on River (N. T) B*teball last *ea???n has been signed by ? Brooklyn team for a tryout thla ir. ve Cnrhollsed acts like a draws out Inflammation and Antiseptic healing. For chap hands, lips, cuts, burns. Sold by Ft Drug Co. ll-l-tm P\1H? OF SHOES TO POOH. Thw' smt "Mttle Ttss* SsUI tn* Make Gift. Hear T.-rk. Fob f.?Along the Bow thts afternoon many persona wen* carrying home new footwear and g#?*l?*n? the SullUane. (<<r the shoe* wove glfta Nm ?Big Tim" and the gtessntatlon was msd* by* "Little Tim, ' Every year ax-Ongre?nman Tlm ethy D. PullKan makes a big distribu? tion of shvi<a t . the \?- >r of the lower Bide. This year S.000 pilrs were rtlstrtb to holders of tickets that had presorted at the OMstBaut din? ner provided by sir Hulllvan to th ? ontortunates cf hta district Fsldom have ahoes been appreciated mrr*. a-*cause of the prevailing destt aad last alght'a heavy fell of which turned to slosh this TUMULTTOV8 CONVENTION Ol FLOH IDA REPUBLIC INS. Really Two Convention* Met at Same Time In the Same Hall?Taft Senti? ment strong anil He Was Enlorseil for Presidency. St. Augustine. Fla., Feh ??.?Flori? da Rspubllcans stand conspicuously In the limelight today as heirs the first to hold their convention to select delegates to the national convention and it is said hare that the strenuous and exciting scenes enacted today are msrely a forecast of similar scenes in other Southern States, caused by the desperate effort being made by the an U? Roosevelt Republicans lor cen? tral In the national convention. The convention held today will go down in history as one of the most remarkable ever held by any political party. It was really two conventions held at the same time in the same hall. The progress of business being frequently stopped by knock-down and dragout fight. The officeholders' faction was call? ed to order by the chairman of the 81*te committee and they proclaimed themselves as th-j regulars, but they did not succeed In carrying out their pre-arranged programme. The Taft sentiment was too strong for the leaders to hold In check and strong resolutions ware adopted emphatical? ly endorsing William H. Taft for the presidency. On the other side of the hall, the contesting convention took the conservative action and chose del? egates absolutely un trammeled by any instructions, they being given po? sitive assurance by Jos. N. Stripling, who led the movement, that despite the fact that they were branded as bolters by the other convention, the delegates they named would be seated in the national convention. ..? .i .? i ,? First Report of the Tumultuous Con? vention Said to be Erroneous?Sen? sation Caused at Nations Capital. Washington, Feb. 7.?Reports here today thav partisans of Taft sent out false reports of the Florida State Re? publican convention have caused a sensation. Representative McKinley of Illinois, a Cannon booster, gave out two telegrams he received from St. Augustine to the effect thnt anti-Taft forces captured the convention.. This Is the direct opposite of what was sent out by the Associated Press. . The Taft boom haa been pilncipaily a propaganda anyway. Aside from the fact that the president is said to favor Taft and that the big jovial secretary of war has hosts of personal friends among the newspaper correspondents, who see him In the White House at the end of tho rainbow and go chasing oft* after him. thero never has been anything to the Taft boom. The efforts to color the news reports in his favor have only been laughed at. The falsifying ef reports is quite another matter and the antl-Taft peo? ple here as weil as the fair-minded of all affiliations are Incensed abcut it. Trie claim Is made that there Is an organised scheme on the part of the Roosevelt administration, which Is backing Taft, to send out reports from all the Southorn conventions, where there will likely be two delegations so as fo make Jt appear that the Taft delegates in every case are the regu? lar ones and the others Irregular. COTTON FIRE AT GREENWOOD. One Hundred and Sixty-three Bales * Damaged or Destroyed. Greenwood, Feb. ?Fire ef un? known origin destroyed and damaged lfl bales of cotton belonging to the Southern Cotton Oil Company her. today. The cotton was * feconds," or what the oil mill men call Unters, and was stcred under a shed ?n the rear of the main mill building. There >vas no insurance on the cotton, and Capt. F. 8. Evans, manager of the plant here, says that the low will amount to about $3,1150. The alarm was turned In at 3 o'clock and the department responded very promptly, doing good work. ?Bert Barber, of Elton, Wls., says: "I have only taken four dorse* of your Kidney and Bladder Pills and they have done for me more than any oth? er medicine has done. I am still tak? ing the pills as I want a perfect cure Mr. Barber refers to DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills. They are sold by all druggists. LYNCHED BY FLOHIDA C1TI7ENS Jack Long, a \\<ll Knoun Fnrnvr. 11 united to a Tree far Alleged Mur? der. ?lalnesvllle. Fla.. Feb. a. - Jack Long, a white man, was lynched near Newberry. I milling town near hcra to lay. Long was accused of th* murder of Kitas Sapp, a prominent farmer, and was token from the town jail by a crowd of 300 men, carried to the scene of the crime and there Nanged to a tree. For That Terrible Itching. ?Kcr..-ma. tetter and salt rheum keep their victims In perpetual tor? ment. The application of Chamber? lain's Balvs will Instantly allay this .Itching, and many cases have been I cured by Its use. For sals by all drug TWO STATE HO ADS ADVOCATED. riun to Dispose of Stute FurniK und Put All Convicts to Work on the Highways. The vote taken on the question of issuing $300,000 bonds and the de Coat of the sume in Anderson county on the good road question has prompted me to renew a suggestion that I put forward about six years ago In reference to the building of two grand State roads by convict labor. I am still of the opinion that convict labor could not possibly be put to better use than in building macadam State roads. In preference to keeping them on State farms rais? ing cotton and corn in c^mpetiMen with the farmers of Our State. The main question is, who receives the benefits , and profits of what they I produce of all kinds each year? I would like for some one to tell us If the taxpayers cf the State recelce I Mtber directly or indirectly any bene? fit or profit from the labor of th-3 800 (on an average) convicts annual? ly sent to the penitentiary. Some one may say that they are at least self sustaining. Well, grant that they may be, is ihis enough in a State like this, whore we have such poor roads and so much talk about devbh I ing plans to Improve them As long as the writer can remem- I bot, the farmers have been expected I to work and Improve the public high- I ways. Then tell me, under the present labor system, what time the farmer 1 has fj devote to the working of pub- I He roads 1 He can't obtain sufficient labor to work the farm properly, len I alone public roads. Hundreds of I them have told me that they would willingly pay a quarter or even a I half mill more on their taxes each I y-iar to defray the expenses of the I convicts/** guards nnd engineers while I building two grand State roads, which could bo accomplished In I i-bout three to four years with I about ? K00 convicts, anr' when I finished would be by long odds 1he most enduring piece of work that our I Stute has ever undertaken since the I grand feat of assisting so nobly in fre>. ing this country from the tyranl-1 cal rule of the British. My plan Would be to sell the State farms and everything contained there- I on, except the animals, carts and I wagons, at good prices, convert the 1 proceeds to building public roads as far as It would go. In public road* I you will have something tangible. I beautiful and serviceable. In Slate I farms you have neither. Where and how these State mads J should be constructed1, my plan would I be to build one from some central I starting point to the const and go as I near up the centre of the State o? I possiblo to the Xorth Carolina line The second one should be started al- I so as near the centre of the eaetc-rn boundary of the State as possible, and go as near due west as pcssible till the Georgia line is reached. The I intersection of those two State roads j would, I think, be somewhere close J to Claremont depot, in Sumter coun- j ty. Then as soon as it is known by actual survey where the roads will bu I located, the counties through which I they will go, as well as the other counties contiguous thereto, could with their county chalngangs, pre pare themselves to construct lateral public roads of clay and sand. or any other durable material that may I be most convenient, to connect with j those two State reads. Therefore, it j would be a complete net work of fine roads throughout the State. 1 In Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, England, Ireland and Scot- I land, and, In fact, all the.civilized BS> I tlons, you* will find those durable J macadam public highways, made of 1 broken rock, and in those days they 1 did not have the advantage of the powerful rock-crushing machine that we have in modern times. Al) the I rock broken for those roads was broken by hammer In the hands of J the peasantry of those countries. With our improved machinery of all I kinds for road building In our pos- I session, why can't a great nation like ours with so much wealth, do even j better than they. In the county of Spartan burg, I am told by a gentle - man who was on the spot, that the I gang there build at the rate of a mile a day of excellent clay roads. He I said they were building both clay and macadam roads in that county. If I they should vote to issue $200,000 I worth of bonds in Spartanburg coun- j ty for road improvement, with a tax- I able property of 117,000.000 and with I a levy of 1 mill, they can pay the in- I terest on the bonds and pay them off I In 17 years. This is real pluck cn the j part of the Spartanr. Macadam roads may not be more than 16 or 18 feet In width of crush? ed rock and as much wider as de? sired of clay on the sdfMf. For argument's sake, we will say ' that the two State farms turn Into the Sta e treasury about $20.000 per year. Pray what Is that paltry sum from about 800 able bodied men, ov? erseers, horses, mules and cattle, compared with the lasting benefits of excellent public highways. If the roads were completed according to this plan, I venture to say that tho clear saving to the farmers as wedl as to all others In the State, would be at '.east $200,000 per year. Now, see how much you have lost on working State farms In the last 15 years, fig? ure It up for yourself. It is needless to say that our legislature will have to handle this question. Pass an act authorizing the governor to appoint commissioners to sell the State farms and also to empower them to make nil necessary arrangements for sur? veys, rights of way, etc., to carry into effect and bring to a successful ter? mination the foregoing scheme. Finally, I will only say here, that the member 3f the legislature who will offer a bill and successfully carry it through both houses will deserve from the people ef his State a gold crown studded with diamonds, rubies and pearls. George W. Reardon. Sumter, 3. C, Jan. 15, 1908. DR. MAXCY LEE DEAD. Darlington County Physician, Who Killed His Father and Who Was Pardoned Last April, Pisses Away. Darlington, Feb. 9.?Dr. Maxcy Lee. who, on Oct. 5, 1899, shot and fatally wounded his father. Dr. H. G. Lee, who for this offence was con? victed of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the State peni? tentiary, and who was pardoned by Gov. Ansal on April 6, 1906, died last night at Hartsville and was burled j this afternoon. Cirrhosis of the liver, I superinduced by excessive drinking and aggravated by an injury which he received about ten days ago, when hi3 automobile ran away with him and he was thrown out, caused his death. I)r. Lee was a man of naturally lino mind, and he started life with splen? did prospects, having been afforded the best of educational advantages. Whiskey and drugs caused his down? fall. They were responsible for the killing of his father. Dr. Lee. the ?ldcr, was a man of ability and wide popularity. Father and son were ?r>cticing medicine' together, and were apparently cevoted to each otb er. But on the fatal day both, the ? rstimony showed, were drunk at home; they quarreled, anJ the father was shot to death by the son. Foi lay*? and weeks following the son was in a condition which did not per r?it him to understand or give proper tt^ntlon to his affairs. But tho trial vn-5 held within a month, and he was 'onvicted. L'roni time to time following his in" arcoratlon in the state prison at C'? umbia efforts were made to haw hire pardoned, but, chiefly because it wa* tfhOWn that he was apparently still nminuing I he US* of drugs and be eauie physicians said that if released lie woul 1 agnin dt ink to excess, the patitJoni were denied. Last April ;ov. Ans 1. upon the recommendation <>f physicians that he had discontinu? ed taking morphine or cocaine, rrnnted him a full pardon. Dr. Le? Iben opened a diu*? store at rlarts ville. Through all his troubled life Dr. Lee retained score* of friends In Dar ?ngton county, and by all of these his ad career is lamented. He mau? friends for hinis if even while In pris ? n, for the service he rendered to the -iek incarcerated there was most val? uable, i \*o flower could at all compare, With this pretty lass so young and fair; Her step is light, her heart Is free, Since taking Rocky Mountain Tea. ?-Siberfs Drug Store. PROHIBITS DRINKING IN PUBLIC The Town Council of North Augusts Enacts Law Which Forbids Imbib? ing on the Streets. Augusta, Ga., Feb. 5.?On account of tho crowds which congregate about the dispensary and because of complaints ihat liquor is being freely drunk m public, the town council of North Augusta has adopted an ordi? nance prohibiting the drinking of whiskey or auy other intoxicating beverage or drink on any street of the town or openly in any public place. VI iatlon is punishable by a fine not to exceed $100. ?It will be unnocessary to ga through a painful, expensive opera? tion for piles if you use ManZan. Put up in a collapsable tube with nozzle, ready to apply. For any form of piles, price 60c. Sibert Drug Co. 12 l-3m COUNTESS DIVORCED. Eurl of Yarmouth anil Wife Granted l/egal Separation Without Contest. London, Feb. 5.?The countess of Yarmouth, who was Miss Alice Thaw, of Pittsburg, was granted a divorce from the earl today by Sir Blrwell Banes, sitting In the chancery court. The ear' did not contest the su?t. Blue are the hills that are far from us.?Irish. ?Foley's Honey end Tar cures the most obstinate coughs anel expels the cold from the system as It is mildly laxative. It Is guaranteed. The gen ulne la In the yellow package. Si bert's Drug Store. The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the Signatur? of and has been made under his per? sonal supervision since its infancy* Allow no one to deceive you in this* All Counterfeits, Imitations and ** Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children?Experience against Experiment. 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