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Jill BREAKER FOILED. XSGRO CONDEMN ED TO BE HTJNO TKIES TO ESCAPE. Mol vi n WMmmi, Slayer of a White Farmer at Or sennet.. In Horry, In Janr, Makes a Desperate Attempt To Escape From the Jail at Con Con way. Nov. 11.?Melvln Watson, the negro who killed John Watson at Oreensea on June 2. and who was at the September term of court sen? tenced to be hanged tomorrow at noon, made a very bold and murder? ous attempt to escape from Jail this morning. With the heavy lid from sue of the Jail buckets he struck Kel Fowler, a white fellow prisoner, full to the forehead, felling him on the ?pot. and rushed out of the Jail door over the bleeding form of Fowler aad gained entrance to the stairway, down which he was escaping when he was interrupted by Jailer Burton, who heard the commotion and rushed Into the hall just in time to grab the pris? oner. Another Jailer and the prison? er scuffled until well out on the front porch of the Jail, when Fowler, who had recovered from the blow, ran down-stairs and assisted the keeper In putting Watson back in his cell. Nashville has been having an ex? hibit of home-made products. One in? dustry that is exploited is the manu? facture of shoes, and citizens are en? couraged to patronise the local In? dustry in order to incrase employ? ment. It Is urgeu that the cltlsens should spend their money at home. But Nashville is not isolated, and Its business with the outer world keeps growing. The deeper significance of the movement seems to be an ambi? tion to encourage the manufacturing industries of a more diversified nature The cooperation of the region round? about, whose people buy and sell In Nashville, might promote the desired result. DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one way to cure deaf? ness, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lin? ing of the Eustachlan Tube. When this tube la Inflamed you have a rum? bling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when It Is entirely closed, DoAfness Is the result, and unless the inflamma? tion can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condition, hear? ing will be destroyed forever; nine eases out of ten are caused by Ca? tarrh, which Is nothing but an in? flamed condition of the mucous sur? faces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh* that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. 8end for circu? lars free. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 7Sc. Take Hall's Family Pilla for consti? pation. 11-4-lm. Not That Kind. Chstrile came to the doctor's office In 9 state of great excitement and said, "Please, doctor. c?me right straight down to aee Freddy?mother ?aye he'a wreathed in agony." The Bast Food for Workers. The bent food for those who work with hand or brain is never high priced. The beat example of this is found In Quaker Oata. It stands at the top among foods that supply nourishment and vigor, without taxing the diges? tion, and yet it is the least expensive food one can eat. This great food value and low cost snake It an ideal food for families who want to get the greatest good from what they eat. Laborers, factory or farm hands, fed plentifully on Quaker Oats will work better and with less fatigue than if fed on almost any other kind of food. All of these facts were proved and very Interesting Information about human foods were gathered by Pro? fessor Fisher of Yale University in 190s You'll And Quaker Oats in reg? ular size packages, and hermetically aealed tins; the latter Is best for hot climates._I SaidtheOldMonto The Boy ??The (\\\f Watch that has given perms e< i.r i N OUR f ithcr, to MY father. YOU and MB, ll THE HOWARD Tlit Watch De Luxe." Why not be able to lay the same to Your GraiM*?< . f>< l/e Tell You About HOWARDS W. A. Thompson, Jeweler and Optician. Phone U& 6 S. Main St. PROBING SUGAR FRAUD. Evidence Expected to Reveal "Man Higher Up" Handed to Govern? ment. New York, Nov. 11.?Evidence, which 1? confidently expected to re? veal the "man higher up" In the su? gar weighing frauds, unearthed dur? ing the term of Henry L. Stlmson as United States district attorney for the Southern district of New York, has been placed In possession of the gov? ernment, It was authoritatively stat? ed today, and Is being used as the basis of a Federal indictment soon to be filed against one of the officials of the American Sugar Refining Com? pany. Since surrendering the duties of United States district attorney Mr. Stlmson, acting as a special United States Attorney Qeneral, has had in hand the work of building up the government's case against the custom house weighers and the employees of the American Sugar Refining Com? pany, who are charged with having conspired together to defraud the United States of $2,000,000 of sugar duties. The inquiry is now approach? ing a climax. Mr. Stlmson himself refused to dis? cuss the nature of the new evidence, but it is learned that the evidence furnished by one of the implicated government weighers was regarded as conclusive enough to make practi? cally certain the indictment of a high official of the American Suger Refin? ing Company. W. M. Thomas, president of the American Sugar Refining Company, speaking of the government investi? gation, said today: "Our company is Just as anxious as the government to bring out the facts in the sugar frauds. We are doing everything in our power to aid Mr. Stlmson in his investigation." Resignations of James F. Bender nagel, the superintendent of the Wll llamsburg plant, and several other department heads in the plant, were accepted today, it is said, and other changes are contemplated in the house cleaning that the company has started. Henry I* Stlmson, special counsel for the government in the sugar fraud cases, tonight denied a statement published here today that the true los? ses to the Federal treasury by short weighing of imported raw sugar would total $30.000.000. Mi. Stlmson in his denial says: "The reports that the record show a loss of $30,000,000 to the govern? ment from the weighing frauds at the American Sugar Refining Company docks are not true, nor is there the slightest basis for believing that there was any such loss. If there had been, the settlement for $2,136,000 never would have been made. "The custom records were carefully examined under my direction before that settlement wa3 mide, and I be? lieve that the payment made was complete restitution to the govern? ment of the amount of its loss." ii IG HAM NOT A FUGITIVE. Brother Saya Convicted Man Is in v Greenville. Florence, Nov. 12.?The local paper carries a story to the effj^t that Judge R. C. Watts has declared that ?. C. Bigham, convicted of man? slaughter for the killing of his wife, has not forfeited his bond. Judge Watts, the story runs, says that Bigham is free to come or go as he pleases until some competent au? thority rules that the ball bond Is not longer competent. Notice of an ap? peal, says Judge Watts, whether regu? lar or not. puts the defendant under the Jurisdiction of the higher court until that court cancels the bond and orders the arrest of the defendant. J. W. Ragsdale.a ttorney for Big? ham, asserts that Bigham is not a fu? gitive from Justice. He says the notice of appeal was duly given, though certain formalities were waived, pend? ing the settlement of some questions. Ii. S. Bigham, brother of the con? victed man, was In Florence yester? day, and said that his brother was on a visit In Greenville and would return on Monday. Mr. Bigham says his brother has made no attempt to hide, and will report to the Judge If called up??n to d(, s<?. nf.giio hanged at conyvay. Maffia Warna Pays Death Penally IXlff K Ilin- a White Farmer. Conway, Nov. IS,?-At high noon Kelvin Wateon was legally hanged, paylag the penalty for tin- murder of Mr. John Watson, at Oreensea on Jans I, The trap was sprung it 12: 27, and in 12 mlnutea he was pro* nouneed dead by Dr. D, Morton, Bev* en minutes afterwards the body was < nt down and prepare d for burial. There were In the large erowd of nearly three hundred people, several Oreensea people present, and it wai rumored that there would be trouble if the relative of the negro sought to I \ him bark to hi* home for bU" rial. Hence i.He claimed the body. and the county supervisor had It In? terred In the woods near the Jail. PRESIDENT AND HOSPITAL. Coatin's Observation on President Tuffs Visit to Columbia and Perti? nent Crltcisms of Hospital Manage? ment From Personal Experience. I was at Columbia last week to the State Fair, met a lot of my friends. Everybody seemed to have plenty of money and having a good time. There were no drunkards on the streets, nor did not see anyone arrest? ed. Saturday the president was there. Everybody was glad to see him, both whites and .blacks. The largest crowd I ever saw in Columbia was there at the Fair. The president is certainly a fine looking man and as he came from the State House in an automobile ev? erybody was greeting him and smil? ing and he was smiling and lifting his hat to everyone. Everyone was glad to see him and he seemed pleas? ed to see the ladies and gentlemen of the Southern States. On Friday morning I went to the State Hospital for the Insane. Now it has always been customary to have the hospital open to visitors during Fair week. I myself think it an out? rage to have these poor innocent in? valids put on exhibition for the peo? ple of the Southern States to look at and laugh at. I know myself that they do laugh at them and have seen nurses point at the patients and gig? gle and the crowd would giggle. Now It makes anyone feel bad to be laugh? ed at and especially do these poor pa? tients feel hurt when they are looked at and laughed at as though they were some kind of an animal. They are human beings and just as inno? cent as little babes. God said, "Suf? fer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The newspapers have for sometime been printing writings on the State Hospital for the Insane. I wish to say that the fare there is not fit for a sick person to eat, nor indeed a well person, much less those who are com* pelled to stay there. The meat they give them to eat is old butt meat, which smells like It has been con? demned. The bread is never cooked done. The top crust is done but the Inside is just like a piece of putty and cannot be digested. The black mo? lasses, so-called syrup, is not fit for an African to eat much less a poor Invalid. The coffee is four waters and one coffee. The hominy is old and musty. In fact all the food is old and musty and seems to be con? demned foods and not fit for these poor invalids to eat. They can nev? er revive on such food. Mr. Austin, the head nurse I know has slapped, jerked, cuffed and abused the poor invalids, and when tubing has torn their mouths and broke out teeth and handled them very roughly, and I do not consider him a fit person to have any postion In the State Hospital for the Insane. Dr. Thompson, the assistant super? intendent is one of the finest men I ever met. When he goes through the hospital every morning he stops and answers all questions put to him by the patients and is polite and extreme? ly kind to everyone, rich and poor alike. If I had the power Dr. Thomp? son would be made superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane of South Carolina. I know that the superintendent has not treated a lady who went there to visit her son wlh common politeness. Dr. Brown one of the nurses is B very fine man and never abuses the patients but is always so kind and gentle with them and if anyone should be promoted I think Mr. Brown should. WILLIAM B8AUREOARD COSTIN. Sumter, S. C, Nov. 13, 1909. An Odd Legacy. Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Jefferson family of actors, was re? membered curiously in the will of Weston, who was himself an esteemed member of Gnrrick's compnuy. Wes? tern's will contained this item: "I have played under the manage? ment of Mr. Jefferson at Richmond and received from him every polite? ness. I therefore leave him all ray stock of prudence, it being the only good quality I think he stands In no** of." A few dozen taxpayers are still wondering if Expert Accountant W. W. Harrelson will ever return to Sumter to explain that report of his for which the city paid $600 ami which nobody in Sumter could under? stand. The only plain fact in connec? tion with tin- proceeding was that Mi-. Harrelson goi his money (he in alated on having it hi New York tX_ Change) and pulled out without stop? ping to tell City Council what his re? port meant. Alderman Ligon. who was chairman of the special commit? tee that had charge of the Investiga? tion, may Know more nhout the re? port than the lest of us, for the rea? son thai lie has given it closer Btudy than anybody else In the effort t<> as certaln what the city got lor the $G00, but even he does not know exactly What the report purports to be. If In studies it a few months longer, per? haps he may be able to throw some light on the mutter. TWO BOYS ROB KANSAS BANK. Banker Is Wounded And $800 In Money Secured. Eudora, Kansas, November 12? Earl Bullock, a boy bandit of Law? rence, Kansas, accompanied by Wm McKay, 15 years old, of Jacksonville, Fla., to-day in an attempt to repeat his exploit of a month ago, robbed the Eudora State Bank of $800, after shooting Fred Starr, a banker, and later probably mortally wounded himself, when closely pressed by ar? med citizens. In his first hold-up of the Eudora State Bank, Bullock, who is 17 years old, shot and instantly killed a police? man. Officers had about decided that Bullock had left the State with the loot of the previous hold-up. He and McKay entered the bank about closing time. Fred Starr, Cashier of the Kaw Val? ley State Bank, with his day's clear? ings, stood by as the outlaws held up the State Bank's cashier, Henry Wil? son. Although Starr offered no re? sistance to the hold-up, Bullock shot him through the Jaw. Snatching more than $800 Bullock and McKay fled. Each youth had two revolvers. Wilson spread the alarm and cit? izens armed with shotguns, rifles and revolvers pursued the bandits across the fields. In attempting to swim the Kaw River the boys lost ground, and a few minutes later the pursuers were at their heels. McKay surrendered, but Bullock wrenching the revolvers from his faltering'partners hands, sped on into the woods. John Miller, a farmer, who knew nothing about the pursuit, stepped In? to Bullock's path and the boy, think? ing him a pursuer, fired several shots that barely missed Miller. Seeing that the youth was ready to shoot at any one, the pursuers fired a score of shots at Bullock, who returned the the fire. Thus the chase continued for some time, none of the shots exchanged be? tween the citizens and their quary taking effect. The robber gradually losing ground, he stopped and shout- I ed: "1 have only one bullet lef>, but I'll beat you yet." Then he fired his remaining bullet through his own head. Thinking Bullock dead, most of the pursuers turned their attention to Mc? Kay, with the intention of lynching him, some announced. Officers, however, hurried McKay to the Lawrence .iail in an automobile* DISPENSARY BOARD ADJOURNS. Adjudication of Claims Will be Made Public Wednesday. Columbia, NOV. 12.?The dispensary winding-up commission took a recess until Wednesday, when the adjudica? tion of claims will be made public. The matter is now being put into shape and the claimants will all know next Wednesday where they stand In regard to the money owed them by the State. It is generally expected that the scallngs will average about 20 per cent, as this has been hinted at from time to time. One claim will be held up, that of the New York and Kentucky Company. Dr. Murray stat? ed that this would be done for a short while, until some further information can be secuied it is understood. A number of prominent attorneys were here this week while the dispensary commission was in session, apparent? ly keeping in touch with the situa? tion. It is stated, though no official in? formation is given out to this effect, that there will be much more "con? science money," that the amount may reach into the hundreds ot thousands list. Already the Bernhelm Distilling Company and the Weiskopf "fund" placed the amount at $37,500. It is stated today, and the names are not made public yet, that one sum of $'.>,(>no and another of $500 has been deposited to the credit of the commission by firms represented In the list of claimants. The list of claims have been adju? dicated, and Dr. Murray states that the commission Will return Wednes? day and the findings will be made public The money, he states, has been ordered in from the banks to pay the claimants. Hardly more than half the amount on deposit will be needed to wind up the affairs of the dispensary just at this time so far as the claims are concerned. <>ne of the contributors to the Young Men's Christian Association building fund recently raised in Hos? ten was George 8, Baldwin, who gave $500 ln memory of his father, William ir. Baldwin, for many years president of the Boston Christian Union, an in? stitution similar to the Young Men's Christian Association. Tlier.' was an unusually large crowd in town Saturday and business in all lines was good. A good crop of wild oats will gTOW where weeds wouldn't even sprout. SUGAR TRUST MAN ARRESTED. Official Who Resigned Thursday In? dicted for Fraud. New York, Nov. 12.?After months \ of quiet work behind the scenes by the government investigators, who have been scrutinizing the ins and outs of the complicated sugar Import frauds, there came suddenly today the indictment and arrest of an im? portant former officer of the Ameri? can Sugar Refining Company, charg? ed with conspiracy to defraud the government by false weighing of su? gar. The man arrested is James N. Ben dernagel, for thirty years superinten? dent of the Havemeyer & Elder Re? finery in Williamsburg, the largest plant of the American Sugar Refining Company. It was regarded as significant that Bendernagel's resignation was an? nounced by the company only yester? day. When arraigned before United States Commissioner Benedict and asked to give $5,000 for his appear acne at an examination set for next Monday, he produced a roll of bills from a waistcoat pocket and counted out the required amount. The Indictment returned against Bendernagel is of the blanket variety, Including in Its terms a so-called "big six"?Oliver Spitzer, Thomas Kehoe, Edward E. Boyle, Leon M. Voelker, John R. Coyle and Patrick J. Hennes sy, all of whom have been previously Indicted on similar charges. The specific charges against Ben? dernagel are that he defrauded the government out of duty to the amount of $1,640, In connection with the false entry of the nine million pounds of the steamer Eva. At one point the indictment relates the old charges made against former members of the so-called "big six," alleging the use of fraudulent devices on the scales at the docks to short weigh sugar for the purpose of avoid? ing customs duties. Following fast upon the announce? ment of the American Sugar Refining Company that a reorganization of the entire working force of the Williams burg Refinery would be effected as a result of the weighing frauds discov? ered under the regime of Henry L. Stimson as United States district at? torney came the development today that anoher large sugar importing concern, the Arbuckle Brothers Com? pany, has begun negotiations with Mr. Stimson for the purpose of paying in? to the treasury duties on sugar im? ports which the government author!" ties claim should have been paid on past weighments. CAUSEY'S SLAY'ER CONVICTED ??Peg-Leg" Hughes Found Guilty at Bamberg. Bamberg, Nov. 12.?Guilty, with a recommendation for mercy, was the verdict rendered here tonight in the trial of "Peg Leg" Hughes for the killing of Wilson B. Causey. Buys Darlington Postofllcc Site. Darlington, Nov. 12.?The Hon. Drayton Hastie, assistant district at? torney of Charleston, was in Darling? ton today and formerly accepted the postoffice lot, paying to Mrs. Ida S. Jeffords a check for $1,500. This opens the way for the immediate be? ginning of the building of the new postoffice. The Court of Common Pleas ad? journed Friday afternoon after a lengthy session. Practically all cases on the docket were disposed of. Judge Sease who presided made a decided? ly favorable impression, this being his first visit to Sumter. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always bought Bears the Signature THE KIND OF pRAMEg To be used is very much a matter of taste. It is im? portant, though, that the frames set properly on the nose and at the right dis? tance from the Eyes; that the lenses be perfectly cen? tered, and how are you to know when some is guess? ing. WE M A ER GUESS Classes Right, Good Sight. I have ? graduate Optician in charge of my Optical Parlor ami ail work is guaranteed. W. A. THOMPSON, Jew eler and Optician. 6 S. Main St. Phone 333. County Teachers' Association. The first meeting of the Sumter County Teachers' Association was held in the Hampton School building Saturday. Ow^ng to the extreme illness of one of his daughters, the president, Col. Dargan, was not able to be present. His absence was a cause of great regret to the teachers. The Executive Committee, of which Miss McLean is the chairman, has de? cided upon the folowing course of work for the year: Primary methods, Manual Training, Music, and Draw? ing. The teachers began the drawing and manual training that morning. It is believed that the Association will be a working one and that much will be accomplished by those who attend regularly. The meetings will be held each month. The only way th s city can obtain z. live and progressive, but at the same time a thoroughly business-like, ad? ministration Is for eight successful and busy business men, who know what the city needs and now criticise the manner in which municipal af? fairs are conducted, to stand for elec? tion on the next council. There is no good in criticising unless the crictlcs are willing to lend a hand at better? ing conditions. KNOW IT WELL. Familiar Features Well Known to Hundreds of Sumter Citizens. 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