The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1912-09-19

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business man of Laurens died Mon
day night.
Mr. Edward + Seegan. an aged
citizen of Charleston passed away
yesterday in that city, where ne has
been prominent in business affairs
for many years.
"Gyp the Blood" and "L!fty Lou
ie", the last of the gang implicated
in the Rosenthal murder at New
York, were captured last Saturday
and lodged in Jail.
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Washington, D C was chosen as
the next convention city of the Great
Council of the independent order OF
Red Men of the United States, at
the final Executive session of the
convention at Charleston last week.
J b SmeltZer, one or the pest
known young men of Columbia was
drowned, or is supposed to have been
drowned, in the swimming pool at
the new Y M C A Thursday morn
ing last. Heart failure is also sup
posed to have caused death.s
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Albert Windham, tried this week
in the court of general sessions at
Darlington, on the charge of killing
b negro in the town of Lamar last
fall, was acquitted Tuesday by jury
of his peers. This was the second
time the case had been brought to
trial and was hard fought from
start to finish.
The Governor has appointed Sam
J Nichols of Spartanburg, as men,
Der of the board of regents of the
State hospital for the insane, vice j
Wright Nash, resigned and named
VIM M Hamer of Dillon to fill the
vacancy on the board of trustees of
the University of South Carolina, vice
R Hamer, his brother, deceased.
The supreme court handed down
decision last Saturday by which a
number of men appointed to Offices
of magistrate ir Spartanburg and An
derson counties by Gov Dlease were
ousted. Section 9S2 of the last code
makes it specifically incumbent up
on the Governor to submit appoint
ments of magistrate to the Senate
for its approval. This the Govern
nor did not do.
Mr. Harris Bristow, a popular and
successful merchant-farmer in the
Brownsville section of Marlboro
county, died Monday evening at
Florence, where he had been taken
for an operation. Mr. Bristow was
one of the most prominent and use
full men in his county, and his work
and influence will be greatly missed.
In addition to his large business in
terests he had been serving. by ap-
poIntment, as County Commissioner.
A verdict of not guilty was rem
dered Tuesday afternoon in the
court at Anderson, in the case
against Furman Bagwell, the young
man who shot and killed Milton Tay-
lor, while being initiated into the
order of Woodmen of the World
last July. Taylor was leader of the
degree team and Bagwell became
frightened when the team fired
blank cartridges at him, rushed to
his coat for a pistol and began fir
ing.
Sunday afternoon twenty five nav
al apprentices in training at the
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
on Lake Michigan were swamped in
a cutter quarter of mile off Lake
Bluff and ten were drowned. Five
bodies have been recovered. The
five missing must naturally have been
lost, as they did not reach shore. Of
the twenty-five boys, all between six
teen and twenty years of age, and
from Middle and Western States, on
ly three are said to have been able
to swim.
Sidna Allen, leader of the Allen
clan, which shot up the Carroll coun-
ty court house at Hillsville, Va,
March IA, killing Judge Massie and
others, and his nephew, Wesley Ed
wards, were arrested at Des Moines,
Iowa, Saturday afternoon last. Ed