The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-20
NEWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA
latest News of General Interest That
Has Been Collected From Many
Towns and Counties.


9 Pauline was destroyed by fire,
two mules being burned TO death.
Jesse Smith was slightly burned in
his efforts to ave the mules.
Sumter.-The county board Of com.
nissioners met and signed the second
series of $4,000 Sumter county road
Improvement bonds. The bonds will
be issued from time to time from now
On as the money is needed.
Columbia--City council met in reg
ular session and disposed Of some
important routine business. Monthly
reports were made by the city officers
and a number Of ordinances for side
walk paving we're passed.
Sumter.-"Sumter's Seaboard Cele-
bration" has been decided upon as
the name for the big celebration to be
held here on November 20, when the
coming Of the new railroad line by
that name into Sumter will be OBJ
served and appropriately celebrated.
The plans for the day are rapidly be.
ing put in shape and a big crowd and
= general big time is expected.
Gahney.-A dweIIlng louise on Vic
torla avenue, owned by Or. w. B. Du.
pre- OF YorKYllle and occupied by X.
b. Skinner, was burned. II Is suppos.
ed that the fire started from a oeIect'
I've fIue. The building was practlcal
ly destroyed and very lutte furniture
was saved. The house was insured
for $1,000 while no insurance was car
ried on the contents.
CheraW. Perhaps the best fall
flower show that the Civic League has
ever had was held recently at their
hall. There never was sucn a protu.
sion of flowers in one place in Cneraw
before and the many persons who
saw them were not only astonished at
the number and variety OF plants on
exhibition, but were delighted at the
growing popularity of this feature Of
the leagues work.
Lexington.-M. M. Lane, of Cope.
and A. II. Bates, OF Norway, were In
Lexington for the purpose OF commun.
icating with Congressman Lever in
reference to lending aid toward Sc.
curing the release of Olin Lane,
brother of M. NJ. Lane, who is now
under arrest and being held in the
United States arsenel in Augusta fol
deserving from the United States
army.
Flornce.-Webster Brown, an en-
ployee at the Southern Cotton Oil
Mill here, shot and killed an un-
known negro on the property Of the
mill. Brown was at work in the seed
house and the negro came in sudden.
ly upon Brown and without waiting
to ascertain what the stranger wanted
he shot him. Magistrate McClena.
CHAN held an inquest and the verdict
was in accordance with the above,
Brown surrendered and is in jail.
st. Matthews.-T. w. Dantzler, one
Of st. Mathews scientific farmers.
SEN a sample Of his long staple cot
ton to a buyer in a distant town fol
the purpose of getting a price. The
buyer returned the sample with the
explanation that the staple which
measured one and fve-sixteenths oil
an inch was too long for his machin'
cry. Mr.. Dantzler is now looking foI
q man with a loom of sufficient capac
ity to spin his long fibre.
Greenville.-O. K. Mauldin, the at
torney representing the prosecutors
in the recent legal tangle involving
Inspector Gilreath and two other OF.
fcers, who we're arrested on a charge
Of assisting in aiding in the escape
of T. u. Vaughan from Greenville jail
has issued a statement to the press In
which he declares he was misled by
the prosecutors. He also AYERS that
it is his sincere belief that the men
accused are absolutely innocent OF
every charge against them.
Spartanburg.-William G.. Willard
Of the contracting firm of Willard &
Boggs was caught between freight
cars at the Southern station here and
had his left hand SO badly crushed 1t
became necessary to amputate two OF
his fingers. Mr.. Willard, who has
worked on the interurban line be-
tween here and Greenville was at
tempting to pass between cars Of a
freight train that had been cut in two
to reach a passenger train on a far
track. Only by jumping backward
quickly did he escape being crushed
to death.
Sumter.-Dr. Walter Cheyne and
children had a narrow escape from
being burned to death, when his resi-
dence, situated about three miles
from st. Charles in Lee county, on the
Bishopville road, caught fire, from
some unknown cause, and was burn
ed to the ground.
Chester.-Elmore Mobley and Albert
Newman, who were convicted of as
sault of a high and aggravated nature
were sentenced by Judge Sease to pay
a fine of 5000 each or spend 6 months
on the public works or in the state
~penitentiary. Motion, was made for a
new trial, but was overruled.
Orangeburg.-The prize winners in
the Girls Tomato Contest club in the
county has just been announced by