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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Lady's Sad Tragedy.

Mrs. Emmie Lillian Jennings, aged
81 years, the wife of Marion B.
Jennings, a prominent lawyer of
Spartanburg, committed suicide
Thursday morning by shooting herself
through the head with a .3s calibre
pistol.
Mrs. Jennings fired two shots. The
first took effect in the ceiling; the
second entered he- head, an inch
above the right ear, causing instant
death. Ill health is assigned as the
cause of the act. !
Mrs. Jennings, before her second
marriage, was Mrs. Beard, widow of
the late E. B. Beard of Yorkville.
Nj. Jennings, the husband of the
deceased. is a son of the State treas
urer, R. II. Jennings.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Farmers Meeting in Upcountry.

Farmers throughout The upper
section of the State are preparing
for a three-days' gathering at Chick
Springs, in Greenville county, during
the last few days Of August or the
first of September, the date not hav-
ing been definitely decided so far.
Plans are being brought to maturity
which will make the meeting a most
Interesting one from the farmers
standpoint, and a number of we'll
known speakers and workers in the
agricultural line will be on hand to
make addresses.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
National Bank ORGANIZED.

A national bank for Waltorboro
has been organized. officers elected
ard plans made for the building.
While the organization is only a
tentative ore, i'ending the formal
permission from the secretary of the
tire 4sury, this will he forthcoming in
a day or two, when the tentative or
g-anization will be made permanent.
The capital stock Of the new bank is
$4,000, ind it will De styled the
FIRST National bank ct Waltarboro'
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
rile Drainage the Thing.

One of the questions most dis
cussed in the State, especially IN
the coast counties, is that OF tile
drainage. The indications now are
THAI several tile factories will be
erected in the State during the next
several months.
The idea of tile drainage is beirlg
enthusiastically supported by the
farmers and business mon of the coast
counties and plans are being per-
fected whereby many acres will pc
drained during the coming year.
A.. G. Smith of the United States
office of farm management who is
stationed in this State, is an expert
on tile drainage.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Discuss Inland Waterways.

Before a goodly number of George
towns representative business men.
Congressman Moore, Of Pennsylvania.
and Small, OF North Carolina, dis
cussed forcefully and ably the great
project of the opening up of the in
land system Of waterways, which it
is feasible to do from Maine to the
lower coast of Florida, if a. strong
united effort is made by the people
of the Atlantic States to secure this
great advantage for the coastwisc
trade whereby millions upon millions
of dollars would be saved to com
merce from the destruction and lam
gers of the outside passage.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
National Cotton Ginners' Report
Two Wagon leads of Money.

Chicago, Snecial.--Twenty-fve mil
lion dollars Of gold, silver and green
backs, as we'll as $93.00O,O0O in secu-
rites, will be moved Saturday from
Continental bank to the Commercial
national. The transfer will necessi-
tate the use of scores OF policemen
and private guards. Two wagons will
be used to haal the money. The two
banks have been merged and on Au-
gust 1. the new Continental and Com
mercial National bank will begin bus
mess.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Bow Bandits saread Terror.

New York, Speeial.-Two baudits.
the elder IA years old and the young-
est u years cid, wer caught by
detectives Sunday, thcir pockets bulg-
ing with revolvers, skeleton keys and
burglars tools. Mt thc mouCh of a
cave in Van Courtlandt Park, which
they had stuffed with he plumber
of the neighborhood. o,ey of the
houses robbed WIS that of John Gui-
teau, a brother of the assassin of
President Garfield.
The boys are the soas OF res ponsible
men Of substance.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
s125,O 900 For Mrs. Longworta

Boston, Spccial.-An inventory of
the estate of George Cabot Lee, of
Newton, who died March 81, shows it
to be valued at s1,662,S2l. of which
$I569,s21 is personal and $4,000
real.
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth,
who is a granddaughter Of Mr.. Lee,
receives one-twelfth of the property.
National Cotton Ginners' Report.
Memphis, Tenn, Specialize re-
port of the National Ginners' Asso-
citation issued here Friday, indicates
a condition Of 72.S per cent for cot
ton up to July 25th.
This, the report says, with an aver
age weather condition, would seem
to indicate a yield from 100000
to 11,500,000, bales.
The report by States follows:
Alabama, CT; Arkansas, 70; Flor
ida, 70; Georgia, 67; Louisiana, g.;
Mississippi, GS: North Carolina, 10;
Oklahoma, IS; South Carolina, 6S;
Tennessee, rs; Texas, IS; Average,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Aiken colored Men Want Fair.

The colored people of Aiken
county are trying to organize a col
ored fair association, for the purpose
Of holding an annual fair in Aiken
each fall. A meeting of the colored
people of the county has been call
ed for August s, at which it is e:J-
pected the association will be foElneNd
and sufficient capital raised.
The white fair association has con-
sen5ed to tile use OF their grounds for
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
2,15s, OoO, 900 Bacteria in One Egg.

Pittshurg, Pa, Special.-A Federal
food inspector armed with legal
papers and Il clothespin clapped over
his nose Saturday seized 125 cans of
Nebraska eggs Which were marked
"aanned fancy mixed and frozen,''
and yet Guaranteed pure and flesh.''
An analysis by chemists of the De-
partment of agriculture in Washing
ton is declared to have disclosed
about 2,l56,O9G,O0O bacteria in &
single ounce Of the canned product,
1S0,000,00o of which were of gas
producing species.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Dead Bodies in Depot for Year.

Italy, Tex, Special.-A large
square box which was unloaded here
by mistake more than a year ago,
and had been stored ever since in
the freight house, vas opened by the
station agent Saturday and found to
contain the mummifed bodies of g.
women and child. II is thought that
they. may be the victims in a murder
mystery.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
O Yon Horrii Men.

Concord. n. H., Special.-Attorney
General Eastman has advised the
secretary of state that the latter has
no legal right to place the name of
Mrs. Martilla NJ. Kicker of Dover.
and Washington, d. c., upon the
official ballot to be used at the pri-
mary election in this State September
6, as candidate for the Republican
nomination for governor.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Surrendered to White Woman.

Eatonton, Ga, Special.-Foiled In
an attempt to set free all the pris-
oners in Putnam county Jail here,
Will Ingram, negro, alleged to be a
burglar, Saturday overpowered Dep
uty Sheriff Ingram Phillips, broke
through a Gordon of citizens, receiv-
ed bullet in his arm and fled with
several hundred persons behind him
firing shotguns and pistols.
He was pursued into a residence
section Of the city and fearing cap
ture and possible death, surrendered
to a white woman, throwing his pis-
tol, which he had taken from the
deputy sheriff, at her feet. The wo-
man stood in front of him as the
crowd of pursuers advanced and beg
ged for the negroes life so effec-
tually that he was returned to jail
without further harm.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Monument to Southern Slaves

New Orleans, La, Special.-An APP
peal to erect a monument to the
former slaves of the South has been
issued here from the headquarters
of the United Confederate veterans
by Gen. George w. Gordon, command
er-in-chief of the veterans.
The appeal is in the form of a gen
eral order.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Train Leaps Through Burned Trsetle.

August, Ga, Special.--Passenger
train No. 2. on the ~Spartanburg di-
vision of the Charleston and West
era Carolina, due to arrive in Angus
to from Spartanhurc at 6:15 p. ~.
ran into a burning @trestle Sunday
about a mile and . half from Wood
lawn. resulting in the total destruc-
lion of the rtain. the death of Engi-
neer Hank Taylor and Fireman Dun
bar. colored. cf Augusta. and Slight
injury of sixteen passengers.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Farmers Union Progressive.

Resolutions indorsing various lines
Of work for the bettcrment of the
agricultural, class Of tie State were
pressed at the session Of the Sta:e
Farmers Union.
The State union placed itself en-
record as ~favoring the drainage of the
low,and of the State, the erection Of
cotton warehouses, the Torrens sys-
ten of land registration, the Audubon
society, the restriction Of undesirable
immigrants, the corn exposition and
the placing Of standard grades Of
cotton at the various county seats Of
the State.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
How Old is Earth9

Washington, D. c., Special.-Old
Mother Earth, like feminity, through
all time, but with far greater sue
cess than most of her sex, has defied
man to learn her age. Scientists still
admit their defeat. Their latest esti-
mate credits her with "not above
100000 0 years or below 55,000,000
years"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Love Rules,

New York, Spccial.-Having mar
ricd a show girl, Bessie Van Ness. of
the "Bcauty Spot" against the
wishes of lis millionaire father.
George Mulligan, Jr., has finally
broken with his father. his sister and
an Inheritance of 100000. He has
gone to Detroit to work i'll IN auto
mobile factory and to demonstrate
that 81 am quite capable of support
ing my own wife" and that, al
though ''money is desirable, love
is the only thing which L want"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Baby Born as in Primitive Days.

Baby Born as in Primitive Days.
: Alameda, Cal, Special.-Carrying
out her principles to their utmost
extent, Mrs. Boynton, exponent of
the near to nature life, seeker Of the
aesthetic, advocate Of Isadora Dun
can, the dancer, and who is well
known by her espousal of the cause
of 'open-air schools, gave birth to a
son in a %sunlit, leafy arbor Satur-
,day, the latest arrival being the sixth
addition to the family.
The arboT had been prepared for
the occasion. The babv's YES opened
first on trees and sunshine. The first
sound to strike its ars was the sing
ing of the birds.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Big Fire Loss Of a Farmer

Five mules, one mare and two COWS,
together with a large quantity of oats,
corn, cotton seed meal and hulls, were
burned in a fire which destroyed the
large barn and stables of Henry
z. Adams, a progressive and uc-
cessful planter living seventeen miles
from Lexington court house at 3 a. m.
SATURDAY..
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Knights Going to Chicago.

South Carolina ~Commandery, No.
l, Knights Templar, will be repre-
scented in common with the several
other Communicates of the State at
the triennial conclave of the order
at Chicago on August s and Ii, which
promises to be one of the largest
attended and most successful of these
gatherings in the history of the or
der.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Natural Wealth Must be Known.

Atlanta, Ca, Specially new
plan for advancing the development
Of the South's resources was original
cd by the executive officers of the
Southern Commercial Congress, who
met here Friday. On October Z
next over $50 of the representative
business men of 16 Southern States
will meet here to devise means Of
advertising the natural wealth of the
South and of disseminating among
business men, farmers and merchants
of this section data on the best
methods of developing the South's
resources.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Woman Fell From Window.

Mrs. Minis. mother Of Mrs. D. N.
Barrow, fell from the second story
window of Prof. Barrow's residence
Thursday at Clemson College and was
seriously hurt. Mrs. Minis home is
near Fort Worth, Texas.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
100000 Robber Arrested.

New York, N. Y, Special. =
A frail little man with grew cheeks
and hollow eyes in whose name and
presence there was nothing to sug-
gest that single-handed he had coolly
lifted 100000. in bonds and stocks
from the strong box in a bank, was
arrested Friday in a downtown res
%taurant, not FIVE minutes walk from
the bank he had robbed. He was
Erwin Wider, the missing cashier of
the Russo-Chinese bank. In the court
Of general sessions his lawyer, Leon
Ginsberg, said that he would plead
guilty and he was committed to the
tombs in default Of $4,000 bail.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
and N. Shops Destroyed at Chester.

Fire that started from an un-
known origin at 3 O'Clock Friday
morning totally destroyed the shops
of the Carolina g. Northwestern
Railway, located at Chester, S. c.
Besides the buildings and contents
two engines and a passenger coach
thar were practically ready for the
road were burned up.
The loss is estimated to reach
more than 100000 and the insur-
ance will but partially cover the loss.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03

Considering the recent torrid
weather and fierce winds it became a
yrchiem 70 the Philadelphia Ledger,
5wae.her the comets tail was melted
M or blown away.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Sentences Drunkards to Liquor Cur

DenteuceS To Llquor CuTe.
Columbia, Specialize first batch
of those who may be able to Ego
forth and sin no more" was given
treatment at the city's liquor cure
establishment Saturday. 1t is said
that a mar may graduate in q week
from this school for inebriates.
The men starting on this unique
treatment have been up in the Re-
corder's Court on the charge OF
drunkenness several times each and
are desiring to climb up on the
water wagon. Before entering upon
this treatment the men were given
a talk by Mayor Gibbes and the
doctor in charge. The experiment
now being made tby Columbia, is
watched with interest drought the
country.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
DR.. CRIPPEN is CAUGHT.
Ethel Leneave, His st~enographer,
Dressed in Boys Clothes.

Father Point, Que, Speclal.-T7Dr.
Hawley Harvey Crippen and Ethel
Clare Leneve, his s~tenographer, who
fled from London after the disap-
paarance of Belle Elmore, the doc
tors wife, we're arrested here Sunday
aboard The Canadian Pacific liner
Montrose at the command of 1nspee-
tor Dew Of Scotland Yard.
The Identification of the long
sought fugitives on board the fog
shrouded steamer by the English de-
t~ective, who had raced across the
Atlantic ahead of the Montrose,
marked the elimination of n of the
most sensational fight in recent
criminal annals. Crippen broken in
spirit, but mentally relieved by the
relaxed tension; the girl, CARRIED in
boys clothes, sobbing Historically.
They were not long the Rev. John
Robinson and son as booked from
Antwerp on July 20.
Crippen is charged with the murder
of an unknown woman, believed to
have been his acress wife. The girl
is held as an accessory. In charge
Of Inspector Dew they will be taken
back to England for trial on the Roy
al line steamship Royal George, leav-
ing Quebec on Thursday next.
Alma Kellner's Murderer Caught.
San Francisco, Cal, Special.-Jos-
eph Vending, wanted in Louisville,
KY, in connection with the murder
of eight-year-old Alma Kellner, was
taken into custody Saturday. He has
admitted his identity.
Vending was captured in a Third
Street lodging house by Detectives
Ryan and Burke, of the local depart
ment. He made no resistance and adj
mitted to the officers on the way to
the city prison that he was Vending.
Vending denied any connection
with the murder of the girl in his
talk with the district attorney and
police. He described his wanderings
since leaving Louisville, saying he
went to New Orleans, thence to
Texas, and finally to Vallejo, where
Carney found his trail. The capture
was due to a tip given the detectives
by a note from, some unknown per-
son. The note stated that Vending
would be found at 341 Third Street.
Adjoining this was a lodging house
at 345 Third Street. A watch was
maintained about the place, however,
and the dectives determined to search
the house. Vending was found hid
ing under the sink in the kitchen. He
denied that he was the man, but the
mark of the bullet wound in the hand,
received while he was in the French
army, was discovered, and investiga-
tions disclosed the ship tattooed on
his body. When the officers spoke of
these Vending broke down and ad-
mitted his identity.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
in OLD SOUTH CAROLINA
Cream of the News Gathered From
ALI Sections of the Commonwealth
Eor Our Many Readers.
Results Fattening Beef Cattle.

What can be done in this State
or in the Southern States generally
on the raising of stock is shown by
ane actual results obtained last year
on the Taylor farm, near Columbie.
The results were explained by Mr..
E. F. Taylor at the recent session
of the. South Carolina Cotton Seed
Crushers' Association, at Wrights-
Vile Beach, N. C.
"During the past season." said Mr..
Taylor, "we purchased 1853 head Of
first and second grade steers from
Western North Carolina and fattened
them. The results were:
Cattle purchased, 1863 head s112S0.62
Feed used . +.
l47.5 tons meal,
512.6 tons huils.. >. =. 6,OoO.4e
Total cost. y. :. ;. ..$17,291.11
Cattle sold, 1862 head. ..s1S,557.5Q
Hide sod.!.. ;. :. 1851
Total selling price ;. .%.s1s,577.11
1.-THE net profit was, therefore, ST.
295, or 1888 per head. One cattle
died. The weight of the cattle when
purchased was 293,532. and the sell
ing weight was 337,S45 pounds"
Mr.. Taylor continued: "From these
cattle We get 2,252 tons Of manure,
which is worth by the Clemson an
alysis 1884 per ton. The average
weight of these cattle at times pur-
chased was 80S pounds. The aver
age weight of the cattle when sold
during the season was 933 pounds"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
After ali. signs. tas crmannsa q
usually rains in good tina

wild geese fly in the shape of a v
sven on the restaurant menu, laments
fhs New York Times.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
INTERESTING A NEWS
Column of Current Events Caught
in Every County From Coast to
Mountain Cap.
candidate for Governor is Sued.

Candidate for Governor is Sued.
A suit to recover $99.50, which he
alleges is due him for services, mas
been brought against John 7. DIM
can, publisher Of The Reporter, Col
umbia, by S. L. Fodder, at one time
business manager of that paper.
S. L. Fodder, in his affidavit, al
feges that the sum of $1O5.2O, less a
credit of $3.50, is due him for three
weeks service as manager OF The
Reporter from June 8 to June 70,
inclusive.
A portion Of the affidavit reads as
follows: "Said contract for services
ws.s fraudulent, contracted with de-
ponent, by said John 7. Duncan, in
that deponent was in the city of
Oil City, Pa, and the said John 1.
Duncan represented to him that ne
owned 100000 worth Of porperty
and was fully able to pay him for
said services, and, upon said misrep-
resentat,on, %deponent was put to a
lot Of expense in coming to Columbia
to render said service"
The affidavit continues that the
plaintiff, S. /. Fodder, is afraid that
he will lose all chance of recovering
the alleged debt for services if ne
waits u days before trial, as requlr-
ed by klw when a suit is brought for
an amount over $25, since he has been
informed that the defendant, John I.
Duncan, intends to dispose of his
property. He therefore asks that the
suit be tried five days, after the sum-
mons and complaint is. served on the
defendant.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
ssGun License Tax Wanted.

The education committee of the
State Farmers Union commended
the work of the Audubon Society and
advocated a "gun license tax"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
Southern Begins Motor Car Service.

SOutneTU Begins MOLOI Odl Del FAS0'
Electric motor car service without
the use of trolley wires or the third
rail attachment is now being given
on the line of the Southern railway
and the Blue Ridge railyaw between
, Greenville and Anderson the inter
mediate territory being perhaps the
most thickly settled milling section
in the south, including the important
points, Piedmont, Pelzer, WILLIAMSON,
and Bolton.
Only one motor car is now operated
and two round trips a day are made.
Though a large number Of stops are
made the car has Mt trouble in making
the schedule.
The car is run by electricity gem
Grated by a gasoline engine. The
powerful machinery is compactly
placed in the forward end. 1t is
easily manipulated and tho car is
handled with perfect ease.
The greatest interest is felt
throughout this section in the motor
car and it is crowded every trip. The
first day it was greeted by great
crowds at every station, At n
place a citizen was so anxious to get
a view that he left the BARRIERS chair,
running to the station with his face
covered with lather.
The new service is in addition to
the steam trains run between Green
vile and Anderson and is expected
to prove a great convenience. The
operation of these cars, the first of
their kind in the South, will be
watched with great interest.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
In order to interest others in your
1uarrels, warns the Boston Post, you
mnst get busy and fight. =

Says the Baltimore American: The
mTestment of Nicaragua would have
TOR its precedent the investment OF
Crlba, without the condition of a de-
elared purpose to get out at an early
date and to haul down the flag. The
United States does not want Near
aqua and does not want even temper,
Rri1y to take charge of It's affairs. but
It wants and will have peace in Cen,
hal America
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03

Relatives of Mrs. Ida a. fiagler,
former wife of Henry NJ. Flagler,
have applied to Supreme Court JUS
tice Bisehoif, Of New York, for an in
crease in the $500 allowance made
to them several years ago by order
Of the Court. Mrs. Flaqler, who IS in
an insane asylum. n an estate Of
more than $29.000,G00. Her income Is
constantly increasing. ald as is her
need. the relatives assert. Flagler
divorced his wife after the Florida
Legislature passed an act making in
durable insanity a cause for divorce.
After his divorce Nj. Flagler re-
married.