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THE PICKENS SENTINEL:JOURNAL Entered A prail 23, 1903 at Pilk,:us, s. C. as second class matterq underact ofCOngress of March 3,1879 39th Year PICKENS. S. C.. AUGUST 26, 1909. Nunber 14 State News ] L-ou Wah , a trainmed n u Irse, di,,d of Pellegra in Rock Hill. A reunion of the Stot t ish Rite Mlasons wa- hwl in Colunbia August 2.125. The rsidem,0fN. H1. Albrecht in 0ran_-chnr rv ; destrt ved by fire. Loss 8::5 n A Coninission was issued to the Marion otton Oil colmpanv of Marion. Capital $25,000 A . T. Bn,win. forn ner mavor of Newberrv an-l a well known citizen,i. (h:v at his home. )fnnisin1 wvaws issued to nly of -Itetary. Capital ()I0. Theo Win to atrn Mtil1s of Ro~(ck Hill has ieased its capital st4wk fr-win l 0.) to S.i00,00. Johin A. Johnson, a Greenville ha,k driver was shot to death. Birdi G6asto,. (;We.d has been arrestl. Chir-l -with the (Pinlie. A charter was issued to the lullins Drivitg As,:-ociation of allins. Tie calital of the .associ.atioi is $15U0. A cominission was issued to the Southern .Audit company of Columbia "I)ital of the Cap6J. t . Tow1nse1(d of the schooner BaltimoreN was shot in NCharlestnt b)v Antonio Arietano au Italian illo. Dr. J.-1. c olon. a well known physicia of t bbeville c(ut y,jt\% (lietdi souiinIY ' at his honi- from, hcart diseaSe. A charter was issued by the secretary of state to the Allen dale Cotton Oil and Fertilizer companv of Allendale. The capital of the coipanv is 60,000. Aiken and vicilitv experienc ed one of the hardest rains early Tuesdav morning that has ever fallen there. It was a veritable downpour. In about four hours bet weenl ; and 7 inches of water fell. TIhe streets were flooded. The small dirainage pipes were totally inadequate to handle the water, so fast dlid it come. Sev eral of the stores on Mlain street have cellars full of water, and in one ori two instances water ran in the front dloor. The only don aage repor'ted was a washout in the railroad eut, just below the bridge across Laurens street. Firenman MIoont y of Sotuthern Rail way vwa~s struck byv lightning at Spart anh1urg .1Jnnet ion) while in the act tof filling the water tank of his enineim with water. A terrile e'lectric storm'i was raging and he stepped on the tendler of his engine to open the tank when the bolt of lightning kno cked him senseless. At first it was thought that he h-ad been kille d. He is still in an uncont sc'ious conditionl but is able to move and make his wants known. The storm Sunday was the worst in many years. For one' houri there was not a minute when there was not a flash of lighm ingi.. The house~( of A. Sit ton was KItruck andl 3r. Sitton was bad1lyv shocked. Coul. jas. T. Bac"on, the veter an editor of the EhletieldI C'hron icle, writer and leeltu'er, has b)een seriously indisposed fr some tim' past. Foir the past week he has been confinied to his homie and in bed most ot the time. Today he seenms to be do ing tolerable well, bnt he is very weak. Col. Bacon is an old lamark nhere. well known to every one in t h'' c'ountry andi he' is especialy a favo rite anmong the ladies. Ile' has b eenl hand ling the pen foir m any vear's, andi his many friends hope to see him out soon antd at his ac c'ustomied pla('e in thle editorial roo ofU~t thei Edgefield Chr'oniclj He has not been wvell since the Centre Springs picnic in July. which he attended. Paragraphed. Isaiah Saunders, colored liv ing at Brogden, Sumter county shot and killed his wife Fridav with a shotgun. County Supervisor J. 0. Grif fin of Colleton county is "Shy,' approximately $10,000, accord ing to an item in the last isue of the Colleton County News, a paper published at Walterborro. Edward Harris, aged 25, member of a well known South Carolina family, was shot and killed at Rome, Ga., on Satur day night by Frank Rossi, an Italian restaurant keeper, whose wife, the slaver claims, Harris had insulted. Prof. Alva Willis, a Charles ton teacher, committed suici(e at Fairfield, Ill., on Saturday by jumping into a well, after strap ping his hands securely together. Bad health is given as the cause. A telegram from Washington gives the pleasing intelligence that Dr. Wi. P. Jacobs, of Clinton, who was so badly hurt by being run over by a carriage, is out of danger and will soon be well enough to return home. The contract for the Abbeville high school building, which is to have eight class rooms, has been let to Mr. Jordan of Greenville for 814,300. This does not in cluce the heating and ventilat A young white man named J. L. Waldrop was arrested in Spar tanbucg on Friday on a warrant from Chester charging him with burgalizing the store of J. -W. Nix the night of June 28th. Dr. J. M. Carlton, a wel' known physician of Mt. Carmel Abbeville county, died suddenly on Sunday of heart trouble. Robert Morgan, a white man, aged 30, was thrown by some of his fellowpassengers from an excursion train in Abbeville county on Friday, on its return from Augusta to Anderson, and his jaw broken and he was otherwise seriously injured. He was drunk and was firing his pis tol, when he was thro wn from the train. Mary Brockman, colored, fired three pistol balls into her hus band at Riedville Saturday night. The wounded man is expected to die. Byrd Brock man. her husband. was whip ping his wife and the pistol drop ped out of his pocket. The wo man picked up the weapon and opened fire shooting three times. All three shots took effect, one ball passed through the intes tines, John Dean Hall, a colored convict, aged1 40, attempted to escape from the Anderson chain gang on Friday and was shot at by one of the guards, the shot going wild. Hall ran 40 yards and then fell to the ground, conmpletely paralized. Death resulted later. Fear evidently caused apoplexy. Hall was serving a short sentence for gambling. Mr. W. E. Cambell has been notified that he has been issued a patent on en automobile tem perature indicator that he has lat elv devised and that he has been granted the sole right to manu facture the same for sale. The device as its name indicates is in tended to register temperature auto)matically by electric alarm, the specific p)urposes of the device being to protect water pipes, plants, ets., against freez ing by giving an alarm when the dlanger' point is reached. Mr. R. M. Strange is joint own er with Mr. Canmbell and just what steps will be taken towards the mnannfacture and sale of the appliance will not be determinedl until Mr. Strange returned from his western trip.-Chester Re orter. R. A. Purser, agent of the Singer Sewing machine con pany at Chester, was arrested on Friday on the charge of sc ducing the daughter of a Char lotte man under promise of mar riage. le <knies the charge and gave bond for $250 to appear for trial. F. B. Gibsmn, a persistent blind tiger, was fined $40 on Monday morning for selling liquor. 440 again on Tuesday lornil" and 840 again on Thurs day noirning-all (if which he paid to the city of Colimbia. Ernest Clk burn, aged 19, son of Capt. W. U. Clyburn, of Lan caster couitv, coniitte(l sui cide onl Frida y by blowing out his brains with a shotgun, hav in,g iekcd hiiself up in his father's nmi. le was a (luiet, stn(Ia v omi. nilan, and no cause is assigned for the deed. Alfred Jenkins the negro who was convicted of attempted rape and who has since confessed ful. lv as to his guilt, was hanged in Georgetown )n Friday. The execution passed off promptly without a hitch. There were about 200 wit nesse.. The crime was -1itempted )pon the persi of a lady school teacher on the Lower WVaccamaw river, on the 17th of June last. A special term of court was held on J uly 27, Judge John S. Wilson pre siding, and Jenkins was sen tenced to be hanged on August 13. In a severe thunder storm just across the Calhoun county line, in Orangebury county. Mr. Wil liam A. Antly, the (epot agent at the little station of Jamison, was greatly shocked by a boltof lightning which struck near by. A physician was hastily sum moned and the chances of his re covery are fair. Ie was demriv ed of speech for a while and his system much shak en up. Congressman J. E. Ellerbe, ac companied by his private secre tary, Mr. B. R1. Mullins. reached home last week. His friends there are delighted to find him greatly inmproved from his recent attack of pleurisy which he suf fered while confined to the hos pital on account of a broken leg. Since reaching home he contin ues to improve and is now able to drive out to his farm, about nime miles ab)ove Marion. United States Deputy Marshal McClain of Spartyinburg engag ed1 in a terrible fight with Jim H arris. a North Carolinian, whom he had arrested on the charge of violating the internal revenmu laws. McC lain was bringing Harris to the city in a b)uggy, while traveling along a lojnely road Harr-is made a des perate attack upon the officer. The officer was badly used up in the fight, but landed his man in jail. It is prob)able that Gov. Ansel will accompany President Taft on his trip down the Mississippi river from St. Louis to Newv Or leans, leaving St. Louis on Octo her 25. The governor)O receivedl an invitation the othr' (lay from the Lakes. to-the-Gulf Deep Wa terway association and the Busi ness Men's league of St. Louis an<d when asked whether he would accept or not said, "I hope to do so and will if I possibly ca n."' Many governors have been invited also every miember of bo0th houses of congress. The Greenville city denmocrat ic comimittee has found that ('. H. Webb and W. T. Bull, candi dates for aldermni from the first ward, had each recieved 718 votes. The committee will meet again Sat urdlay nmorning and take up the nmatter of the chiallenigedl voters. If the r'e suit is not changed, the names of the t wo can idates wvill be plac ed in a hat and a boy not ov-er ten years of age will draw out the one who is to represent the ward in the council. It is a state of affairs never seen in Greenville before. Where do the tigers in Char leston get their supplies now I that the dispensaries have been < closed?-Anderson Mail. ] The State. Sunday announc ed that only $400 more is need ed to complete the $11,000 which it undertook to raise on the monument for the women of the i Confederacy. The legislature I appropriated $7,500,to be avail- I able as soon as an equal amount i should be obtained by private ( subscription. Monroe Gamboll. colored, is in Greenville jail for killing John Johnson, a negro hack man, whom he caught in a com promising position with Birdie Jackson, a first cousin of Gam boll, on Saturday morning. Gamboll gave a setback to thi3I sort of plea, however, by fleeing' from the city as soon as he did the shooting. Two colored women, in con vict stripes, were to sweeping the streets of Greenwood on Thursday. One had been con victed of selling whisky; the E other of disorderly conduct, and neither was able to pay her fine. Since January 1st four negro women have been convicted of selling liquor in Greenwood, and the mayor and chief of police believe that making the offend ers work will prove more. effec tive than boarding them in jail. t There was a small fire at the Grendel Mills in Greenwood, Saturday night, the fire origi nating in the spinning room. A barrel of oil caught fire and this made quite a little blaze for a few minutes. The fire was ex tinguished by the sprinklers in the mill and by the fire ladies on the Grendel Mill hill before! the regular fire company got < there. When asked about the i fire, President McKissick said i that the total damage would not t exceed two hundred and fifty ( dollars. The following is an editorial t in the lart issue of the Dorches- ( ter Eagle: "'There are now t thirty-one convicts on the chain- t gang, and recruits are sonstant ly arriving. There w -e nine I sent up from the town out of t Summerbille during the past t two weeks, six of the number ' being white men, and all of I them taken up for vagrancy. ~ They are healthy fellows, and ~ it seem strange that they pre fer working on the public works of the county to honest toil. But chief of police of Summer-. ville says they must work." A run-away match occurred I in the mill village of Saxe-Gotha 1 about two miles from Lexing- a ton, Friday night, when Miss I Viola Risinger and Monroe I Derrick ran away from their C parents and were married. Miss Risinger's mother objected to the a marrage. The young women ( left home some time between the I hours of 10 and 2 Friday night I in her stocking feet and met the a young man a short distance I from the house and the two pro- ( ceedled to the residence of Not ary Public T. E. Rawl where the knot was tied. Both -:he parties are about 17 years of age. I A special from Charleston to the Columbia State on Thurs day contained the following: "James Sottle was arrested to day and bound over for trial next Tuesday on the charge of reckless driving of his automo bile through the street. It is claimed that he had liquor in his touring car, and when about to be held up by Sergeant Quinn of police force he opened wide his throttle so to spea.k and, with a spurt and a jump, the machine soon disapeared from view of the officers. Only the skittish char acter of the horse on which the officer was riding saved him from injury or perhaps death. The horse was so fractious that off icor had all that he could do retaining his seat and could not draw his pistol to stop the ma chine. The police will press the A young man about thirty, riving his name as W. B. Nich )lls, who had been loafing about r ?elzer, Spartanburg county, vas tried for vagrancy on Fri-I. I lay by a magistrate and sent to t he chaingang for 30 days. C The Columbia State says it vould not be surprised if Char Lston were to come next to Rich and in contributions to thel nonument for women of thei ,onfederacy. Charleston should I ad the list and be satisfied with Lo lower position. The noble vomen of the Soitlland are leserving of a great menioriall ,nd Charleston should be at the ront in promoting the, project Uiken Recorder. t Cotton for a-hospilal Arrangements are bei n ma 1: iy the patrons of the Fa;rmer's Jnion Warehouse Compaiy to, >resent the proceeds from a ba'e t ir more of cotton to the hospital T .nd the gift will be made with n the next few days.-Ander on Mail. Mosquitoes in Greenwood. Mosquitoes are getting decid dly too numerous in Greenwood nd our people should go to vork and try to destroy them. et us all look around our prem ses, and remove every cause t hat contributes to this nuisance. -Greenwood Journal. -100 t Big Deal in Residence Lots. One of the largest real estate leals madE in Marion property n recent years was consummat d today when the Arcadia Land ompany sold to Mr. W. H. Cross t 2 of its choicest half-acre resi- t lence lots along Jones avenue. ['his is part of the 100-acre tract if land purchased last year from diiss Theodosia Jones and is >eautifully situated in the nor hern part of the town. Mr. I ross will offer these lots to pros >ective hone-huilders on easy erms. and the property will [oubtless soon be built up. as I here is none more desirable in own offered to the public. The t and is naturally drained, the al itude being perhaps greater han in any other section of the ~ f own. Jones avenue, along vhich the lots extend, is the ~ roadest boulevard in Marion ~ nd is one of the most popular ~ f Marion's driveways.-Marion tar. Shot at Burglar. Little Miss Lois Gwinn, the t 3-vear-old daughter of Mr. and f rs. W. H. Gwinn, of 737 Row- t ey street, frightened a thief t ,way from her parents' home t riday night by firing a pistols >all through a window outside - f which she had heard a noise s5 though sonme one w~as in the etof breaking in. Mr. and Mrs.I winn were returning homei romn the theatre when they c iard the shot fireYin their home s nd thev, with the neighbors, r ushed to their home' to find all y f the children greatly excit- I d and the thief gone, That some one had made an , ttempt to enter the house y brough the rear windlow was s videnced b)y tracks that were ound in the~ yard yesterday noning. The little girl, eldest af all those in the house at the ie, heard the noise at the rear i vindow and called to know whoi ras entering. Rece'ivinig no re- t ly, she wvent to her father's bed y oonm and secured1 a revolver and ~E >ointing the barrel in the direc ion of the window, pulled the c rigger. The explosion scared y ier as much as it evidently rightened the thief. All of the maler children were crying ~ vhen Mr. and Mrs. Gwinn and t he neighbors came to the house. e Mr. Gwinn is con nected withi dr. Pool's furniture store on iain street. He said yesterday t hat he believed his home would iave been robbed by the thief or hieves but for the rare bravery Ld presence of mind of his lit l damwMtr.-Greenville News . Good Crop Raised The fig crop never fails. [his year it is the most abund nt ever known. People who ike figs can raise all they want iy getting a sprout and set it ut in the corner of the fence r any other convenient spot. The lushes will begin bearing the econd year after being set out. 'he fruit is wholesome and is tever infested with worms like eaches, apples and pears. 'here are quite a number of arieties, but the small celestial ,nd large brown varieties are he best . If you want figs get sprout from some neighbor's ush and you will soon supply -our neighbors.-Anderson In elligencer. Very Smart Hen. We have always thought Mrs. oe Mays had the smartest hens a the county, but there is a lit le precious Leghorn-game hen ear Meeting street that has roken all former records. Mrs. ames C. Lowry has a hen now arrying a brood of chicks that vas only hatched herself in Feb nary last. Although she merged from the shell only J)out six months ago, this hen aid and sat upon the eggs that iatched the chicks she is now arrying. That is certainly in ensive poultry raising. The nother and her brood should be mong the exhibits at the coun y fair this fall.-Edgefield Ad -ertiser. Big Money in Honey Mr. Beauregard Thompson, vho lives several miles below he city, has sold a little more han 1,000 pounds of honey this ummer, which he gathered rom 26 hives. He sold most of it to mer :hants in thie city at 17 cents a )ound, but sold a little of it, per aps 50 pounds, to retail at 20 ents a pound. Mr. Thompson was at no ex ense. All he had to do was to ather the honey and deliver it o his customers. There was ready demand for it. Mr. Thompson says this has een an exceptionally good year or bees. The supply of honey ew last spring was the finest ,nd largest he has ever seen, he as.-Anderssn Mail. Much corn in York We are not prepared to say vhether:or not the balance of (ork county is as well fixed on he corn question' as are the armers along the King's moun ain road between Yorkville and he battleground; but if it is, here will be no Western corn old in this county next year. -Yorkville Enquirer. Big Price For A Melon When Leroy Crosby, a big lip tgro, paid Judge Wilson in ourt, $25 for the priviledge of tealing a watermelon, he re rarked that it was the highest >riced melon that he ever rubbed is blue gums against. Leroy vas found guilty of eating a atermelon from a neighbor's match without the owner's con ent.-Anderson Intelligencer. The Isle of Palms. A bout the only place in Char ston where there is no liquor to >e had by the drink or otherwise ; on the Isle of Palms. Before he issuance of the supreme court njunction against the propri tors of the Seaside hotel, liquor .as to be had at various places in the island for the price. But iow the island is dry, really and ruly dry, and it is probably not o much on account of the in unction as because of the fact hat Mrj. P. H. Gadsden, the ex cutive head of the Consolidated, s a man whostands for the ob ervance of law. There are said o be plenty of would-be vio ators of the supreme court in unction, but they do not care o run the risk of getting cross ~vise with Mr. Gadsen.-York llc Ennnirer. To Employ Road Engineer There was a most enthusias tic meeting of the dire'ctors of the Commercial Club Monday evening. The one subject was that of road improvement. Mr. Winslow made a very practical talk and made some interesting suggestions. Those who have seen his good work are thor oughly convinced an expert supervisor is the first thing in the improvement of the public roads. As there is no proba bility of an expert supervisor being employed at this time by the county board, who have no funds for this purpose, it was decided to start a fund for the purpose of employing a county engineer for one year. It is es timated that the salary will be about $1,200. The eight direct ors present put themselves down for $25 each, starting the fund off with $200. It is understood that one private citizen has agreed to put himself down for $100, provided the whole amount is secured. The present com. mittee on good roads, consisting ,of Messrs. J. Q. Davis, S. D, Dunn, W. R. Elliott and J. Frank Fooshe, were given the task of raising this amount, which must be forthcoming at once. Here is where every man in the county should come in and help, Should an engi neer be employed, he will be turned over wholly to the county and his time and services would be at disposal of the board of county commissioners. Instead of confining the work to any point near Winnsboro, the real effort would be to have a. prac tical demonstration in good build ing in every portion qf the coui4 ty.-Winnsboro News and Herald. Postmaster King Exonerated Postmaster King, of George town, has been exonerated from all charges of a short-age in the money accounts of his office, and no further proceedings will be taken in the case by the de partmeDt. Ab3ut two weeks ago,upon the complaint of King' bondsmen, postoffice inspectors were sent to Georgetown to in vestigate King's books, the bondsmen claiming that the matter, they believed, as short. At the same time, a petition was sent here asking the depart ment, in the event there should be a vacancy, that James E. McQuade, also of Georgetown, be made King's successor. The inspectors have been at work on the case for two weeks and the result of their work was made public only today. It is shown that while King had sev eral hundred dollars recently. there was no evidence going to show any criminal intent or that he meant to defraud the government. On the other hand, there was evidence going to show that because of heavy personal demands upon him as well as some irregularities in the handling of funds, he had fallen behind in his account with the government. The amount he owed has now been fully paid up and nothing further will be done in the matter. It was stated that, in addition to the report of the inspectors which exonerates King, many of the leading citizens of'Georgetown had signed a petition and had also written the Postmaster General signifying their belief that Mr. King was entirely straight forward and honest, and asking that no steps be taken looking to his reinoval.-The News and Courier. Coming homne. They have calmly chev ed their cuds Through the burnin - su'mmer day. Now they turn intoi the iane In the twilight so and gray. We can hear thel: :ikling bells As the dusky pat:h they roam, And a sense of pc -e descends 'when the cows e..m e home. -They have "chew(.' 'he rag" for months Through the tor- I summer heat, And our business, as stood back while they mad - heir job complete. When we hear t. engine bells As they journc in the gloam, What a peace v:l' fall on us When the conv:ess comes home! I-McLa.ndburgh \.'lson in New York Sun.