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I-'- ^ w<- jwrf r ' .'i%. Abbeville Press and Banner TftSk ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MAECH 31 1915. established ~ " f I ? M THE COURT OF When we went to press on la HB| Tuesday night, the court was st engaged with the trial of the ca of James Marcus Wilson again Abbeville County. The case w concluded on Wednesday, resultii BHl in a verdict for the defendar I Messrs Graydon & Graydon repr sented the plaintiff, and J. Moo Mars, the defendant. The case of Matilda Boyd, administrator of the estate of Bu ter Boyd, against S. A. L. Railwa was tried on Wednesday. The d ceased was killed in a head-end < two trains in the State of Georg several months ago. The deceasi -was an inter-state employee and ti action was under the Federal Ei ployers' Liability Act. Plaiirt sued for $25,000. There was i doubt as to the liability of the d fendant, and the trial was to i the amount of the damages suffe ed by the beneficiaries. The ju: || returned a verdict for $2,227.2 1 The plaintiff was represented 1 2 Messrs Graydon & Graydon and tl I defendant by Hon. J. Lyles Glen 1 of Chester, and Wm. P. Greene. I In the case of William Mosel< 8 against the same defendant, the d |L ,cision of the jury was in favor < I / the defendant. The plaintiff, wl I was a brakeman for the defendar I claimed that he was knocked c ' the rear end of the train by tl negligence of the other employe of the defendant, the defenda contending that he merely slipp* and that his injuries were the r of the accident. The san counsel appeared as in the prece ing case?-x The court next entered on tl I trial of the case of Sarah Weinrau formerly of Abbeville, but now 1 Calhoun Falls, against the town 1 Calhoun Falls, in which the plai tiff sought damages in the sum < five thousand dollars, against the d fendant for injuries suffered on a count of a defective street.' Mi Weinraub alleged tnat she was ri ing along one of the streets of tl 1 town in a spring wagon, and th the front wheel dropped in a dei hole, throwing her out and causii her injuries. Tht cefendant d nied this allegation and produced ' number of witnesses to substantia the claim. The jury found for tl defendant. The plaintiff had h attorneys, Messrs Graydon & Gra don. The town of Calhoun Fa! was represented by its attorne Mr. D. H. Hill, assisted by Wm. Greene. Thursday and Friday were tak< up with the taking of testimoi I and arguments in the trial of tl case of John and Frank Kei against A. Selden Kennedy, as ex cutor of the will of Mrs. Josephii I E. Sloan, and her devisees. Tl 7 plaintiffs allege that many yea I before her death, the deceased e j tered into a contract with them make a last will and testament their favor if they would live wi p ' and take care of her; that they d ly performed their part of the co tract, and although she made t will, she later destroyed it leavii of force another will under whi they take only about $15,000, wh: the estate is worth something li $50,000. The defendants de: the claim and the testimony all ce tered around this issue. Jud Moore heard the case in open cou: and his decision will be filed lat< ? The plaintiffs are represented Wm. N. Graydon, of Abbeville, a: Cothran, Dean & Cothran, of Gree villo TVio flpfpnrlnntc are rem sented by Grier, Park & Nicholsc of Greenwood, and Wm. P. Greer of Abbeville. Extra Term Court ?Con. Court adjourned over Sund? ^ and re-convened Monday morni at 10 o'clock. The first case tried was that Lavinia Bragden, etal. vs. Rol B. Bowen. This case involved t construction of a will anc* wastri by the court, a jury trial being had a mere matter of form. The case was argued for the plaintiffs by their attorney, Wm. N. Graydon. Sand for the defendants by D. H. Hill and J. M. Nickles. Judge Moore directed a verdict for the plaintiffs for two-fifths interest ,st in the land. ill The case of Lavinia Bragden vs. se W. N. Hall, involving the saie isst sued was disposed of in the same as way. !g The case of Outcault Advertistt. i?g Company vs. Dargan-King Co., e- was non-suited. ie The court next entered on the trial of the case of A. V. Barnes as vs. N. B. Sutherland, but owing to IS the fact that the pleadings and y( proof were at variance, it was nee_ cessary to continue the case. 0f On Tuesday the court was enia gaged in hearing equity cases, the 2C[ jurors having been dismissed Monie day afternoon. A number of mon tions were made, several cases ariff gued, and orders made therein. 10 The verdict in the case of Mce_ Adams vs. Ellis and McNair, was \x reduced to 5150. r_ The Court adjourned sine die, ry Tuesday afternoon. ? SPECIALTEiOF : COURT CALLED OFF 10 l*' Governor Manning, at the re^ quest of Solicitor Cooper, has reie voked the order for a special term es I of court at Abbeville on April 8th. nt At the time the special term was ordered it was believed that the June e" term of court would likely not conae I vene, but it now seems that it will , 1 a" be necessary to hold this latter term of court, and as it is only sixty days until it convenes, it has been thought best to hold but one term. Charles Logan, the negro accused j of the murder of Mrs. Scott, will be n" j tried then, as will the other negroes charged with the crime, e New Tomato Club. s. d^ Miss Martha Piatt, the tomato ^ club organizer for our county, went up to Due West and Donalds Monap day and two good clubs were organized. The prospects now are that Abbeville county will have tomatoes i to burn next summer. te The club at Donalds is made up he of the following young ladies: Misser es Lois Dodson, Eula Dodson, Mary y' Smith, Sara Smith, Ora Dodson and S Margie Murff. ty p' At Due West the young ladies who will grow the beacon fruit are, Misses Virginia Galloway, Brownlee 511 Johnson, Belle Nance, Isabel Reid, iy Bessie Baldwin, Edith Todd, and tie Alma Nance. Due West will also *r ' have two associate members in Miss 0. Clara Bonner and Mrs. C. B. Cowan. ^ TVT pAMfow it! /vKnofliT nvncf Arl in (IVXIO* V^UYVtlll 10 ill he' ! the work and will be an inspiration 1S to the young folks. nto | ~ Comment on tne White Way. in tH Our White Way lights are still causing much comment. The ladies on Wardlaw street are indignant he that the "way" does not extend ng , down their street and one lady says ch they "don't expect to put up with a little old light stuck to a tall post with a tin pan over it." ny Everybody up Main street is n pleased save one lady who says, ge Supt. Anderson has taken away rt ' their arc lights and the "white way " ' is not worth doodle dust." Such are the troubles of those who try to improve the town, in eInterested in Court. in, le, Mrs. Harlan Pressley, Mrs Fan nie Bradley and Miss Nellie Pressley iy, came up from Cedar Springs last ng Friday and stayed over Saturday. They attended Court, being inter of ested in the contest over the will bt. of the late Josephine Sloan. While he in the city they were guests of Mr. ed and Mrs. J. F. Bradley. down to fasten lines from other ships. Two of these men descended 196 feet without being able to sight the F-4. Both were unconscious when drawn up, owing to the pressure of the water at that depth. The work last night was carried on under the glare of searchlights. Twice during the night grappling irons touched the F-4, which lay 720 feet below the surface, but each time they slipped off her iron shell without catching in large iron rings imbedded in the hull for that purpose. The fact that no signal bells had been heard from the submarine since she sank at 9:15 o'clock yes terday morning, led the searchers + SN 4- ~ cu iuai tuat uic tciniiv; water prts&sure had burst in tne submarine's tanks, and that the crew had been suffocated with the fumes of the sulphuric acid in the boat's storage batteries. The F-4 was commanded by Lieutenant Alfred L. Ede, and carried a crew of 25 men. She was engaged in maneuvers yesterday morning when she took what will likely prove her fatal dive. When she did not promptly reappear no concern was felt. The boat had remained under water for 24 hours on her trial trip and the crew, during this period, had suffered no inconvenience. Missing Several Hours. After she had been under the-;ui^0/?A -P/\? ? ? I?? mv,g 1U1 a J.CW I1UU15, JlOWtJVfT, search was made for her, as the F-4 was to have come up to resume her maneuvers. It was several hours before she was located. The F-4's sister submarncs, the F-l, F-2 and F-3, have never been able to dive as low as she iiJ, and i?, pointed out that no submarine had ever plunged so far below the surface and come up of her cvn jov.er. Hope that the cresv of the ? might live in the sunken cra.'t for. some time was expressed l.y Rear Admiral Charles B. Moore, comir.an jdant of the Honolulu station. 11<, I Stated that if the submarine's mIv apparatus was in good order the crew might live for a week submerged. The sunken boat, however, lacked food supplies. Lieutenant Ede was appointed to the Naval Academy from Nevada, and was graduated in 1908. He is 27 years old. The F-4 is 142 feet,7 inches long, 16 feet 10 inches deep and 15 feet 3 inches beam. She was designed for a cruising radius of 2,400 miles. She had a displacement of 150 tons when riding on the surface ?.nd 440 tons when submerging tanks were filled with water. The F-4 did 14 knots on the surface and 11 knots when submerged. She had four torpedo tubes. She cost $500,000. Washington, March 29.?The last remote hope that any of the subma rine r-4's crew of 25 men might be alive has been abandoned by the navy department. The submerged submarine F-4 has been located outside the harbor, it was announced. Portions of the superstructure have been brought to the surface. Divers who earlier in the day went down the two cables thought to have been attached to the submarine found the heavy body was UNITED STATES SUBMARINE SUNK ENTIRE OKEW LOST. Honolulu, March 26.?Hope that the American submarine F-4, which sank off Honoluiu yesterday, might be brought to the surface and her crew of 25 men saved from death, was revived for a time early today when the Government tug, Navajo reported that it had hooked the sub marine with its grappling irons. The Navajo found it impossible, however, to raise the F-4 by the line it had attached and the tug Intrepid also caugnt tne submarine witn its grappling hooks. The combined ef forts of these two boats were unsuccessful and divers were sent General News Th V t The Georgia Peach crop is said to have been badly damaged by the ] recent cold weather. ">ui uel Columbia is getting a zoo for the ne] city and four ostriches have recent- pre ly been added to the collection. wh }f A Swedish steamer sailed from Wc Savannah on the 26th of March wri with a cargo of 3,380,160 pounds wit of cotton seed cake, valued at $48,- Ab 725. 1 mit It is costing Germany $105,000 of a day to feed her 700,000 prisoners, tha Every available man has been put wit to work on the roads, in the mines the and in the reclamation work. wh am Two Michigan capitalists are sto ready to invest five hundred thous- mu and dollars in the marl beds of this of state if the deposits will warrant it. Ho I s The Southern Textile Associ- sta: ation will meet in Asheville in June tha and a campaign urging all who at- ma tend to wear cotton clothes is be- of ing waged by those Interested in ren the enterprise. daj we; Sixteen thousand fish of the rain- tha bow and brook trout variety, have dar recently been placcd in the streams in Pickens county. The fish were exp shipped from Erwiit, Tenn., and is est< the largest shipment of fish ever shipped to Pickens. Greenwood is applying for a LA charter for the Savannah, Piedmont and Western Railway, a proposed line which will run through the most thickly settled sections of * Greenwood, Edgefield and Saluda. 4 J. Peyton Clark, S. fl. McGhee and ^ Kenneth Baker apply for the char- mei ter. s^? Par An American warship will take to day Yucatan money to finance the move- froi ment of Mexico's sisal hemp crop, Sou needed to mak* twine for binding I the American wheal; crop this year, gen The money?$25,000 in currency, ed which manufacturers propose to $2,< advance to the hemp growers?is in 782 KonLr of n rP*1 uuun v uui uo ctu uaiVCObUll) JLCAClSi exp A total of $25,838,175 was spent "sh for relief in Belgium through the are commission for relief in Belgium, wei up to March 3, last, the commission ^m announced tonight. Of this amount Fra $22,405,713 went to the provisioning department, which sells ::ood to those who can pay for it. * Pre Some weeks ago the people of e Augusta were giving much space I to the news of the moving picture people who were in Augusta taking I pictures for the film -'The New Gov- Sot ernor." soc It was said the people were spend- C. ing as much as seventeen thousand the dollars a week and they were book- por ed to stay three weeks. The mayor I and many of the prominent people sun posed in the pictures and one man bei; lent his handsome colonial home as sev a stage setting. It now turns out rah that the picture is to be called, will "The Nigger," and is an attack on bui the old South. Augusta is hot in per the collar and the prominent citi- for zen who lent his house is to sue the of picture people for $50,000 damages, the unc Ribbons for Fields Day. den Among the many very cheap and in very excellent articles advertised beg in the page taken by the Hot Hust- sea ler Rackct last week, they neglected hav to mention their ribbons suitable it i for decorating for Fields Day. These plel ribbons are cheap enough and are par suitable for decorating floats, for pou banners and to beautify the many and lively children who will take part in test the different exercises. gat cot an old anchor, probably lost by the out battleship Oregon. boll Diver Agarez, who went down the cov cable attached to the anchor, wore ide; a helmet. ren His decent to a depth of 215 feet tori is said to be a world's record. He are spent 22 minutes on the downward fide journey and nine and a half min- pie utes in the ascent. The experiences luti apparently caused him no distress, try HON. SAMUEL J. GRAHAM inks He and George Washington Have Been Misrepresented. Hon. Wyatt Aiken sent a copy of r last week's issue to Hon. SamJ. Graham, the assistant Attorj General who investigates all posed federal appointments, and o recommended -die appointment C. J. Lyon as Marshal of the istern district. Mr. Graham has itten to Mr. Aiken as follows: h regard to his experiences in beville as a school master. My Dear Mr. Aiken:?Please per; me to acknowledge the receipt your favor of March 17th, and tc nk you for your kind assurances h regard to myself, and also for copy of the Press and Banner, ich I have read with interest and usement. I am afraid that the ry of the ink and the trousers st in flip same class with t.hflf the cherry tree and the hatchet, wever, as it is fully established, uppose it must go down with the mp of verity. The teaching of t school was so kaleidoscopic in ny ways it may b? that something the kind did occur, although 1 lember enough of that distant r to recall that I did not then ar white clothes. It was all t I could manage to do to wear k ones. With kind regards and renewed iressions of my friendship and 2em, believe me to be, Sincerely and cordially, Samuel J. Graham. TIN-AMERICAN TRADE IMPROVES ny Purchases Formerly Made in Europe Now Made in This Counry Vashington, March 25.?Com-cial and financial conditions w encouraging improvement, the l-American Union announced to after an analysis of reports m domestic sources and the ithern republics. Exports from New York to Artina, the statement said, increasin February from $1,142,901 to 049,871, and to Brazil from $1,!,356 to $2,018,601. 'Careful investigation of articles orted" the statement concluded, ows that a large per cent of them manufactured products which e formerly purchased by South erica in England, Germany and nee." COTTON PICKING paring to Do This Work By Mahinery. The Enterprise to Be .aunched in York County. ? (York News.) ^ meeting of the directors of the ith Carolina Cotton Pickers' asiation, was held in the office of J. Wilborn Friday. A majority of directors were present and imtant business was discussed, t was announced that $5,000, the 1 specified at the last meeting as rig necessary for the building of eral new machines, had been >ed, and the construction of these 1 begin at once. They will be It at Hickory. N. C., under the sonal supervision of C. D. Lide, merly chief mechanical engineer the C. & N. W. railway. It is intention of the promoters of the lertaking to give practical field lonstrations with these machines Texas and Oklahoma at the inning of the cotton gathering son. Mechanical experts who e examined the picker and seen n use have pronounced it a comte success. The machine is comatively light, weighing about 500 inds, and can be operated easily I at small expense. Actual field ;s have proved that the picker will her about 75 per cent of the open ton and that it will do this withinjury to the stalks or unopened Is. Six acres of ground can be ered in a day, which gives some a. of the vast possibilities of this larkable invention. The direc 5 of the company, all of whom practical business men, are conint that this machine is a comte success and that it will revoionize the cotton growing indusin the south. ALEX DICK WINS JOLLEGE MEDAL Winner in Oratorical Contest at College of Charleston. The following is taken from The Charleston Evening Post of lastWednesday: The Bingham medal for oratory,, offered annually by Judge R. W. Bingham, of Louisville, Ky., was xwarded to Alex C. Dick, of Hartsville, as a result of the contest held in the Collge of Charleston chapel last night. Mr. Dick's subject was 'Equal Suffrage and the Class Vote.' There were four other contestants. The judges were W. C. Miller, Esq., who presented the medal, Major Hugh S. McGillivray, of the Citadel, and Dr. Alexander Sprunt, pastor Df the First Presbyterian Church. In addition to winning the medal, Mr. Dick will represent the College of Charleston at the annual State oratorical contest It is a custom to? choose the winner of this medal to? represent the - College in the State contest, which will be held at Rock. Hill, the end of next month. Other contestants last night were r* R. C. Wiggins, of Denmark, speak ing on the subject, "Behold, the.True Citizen." Harry Simonhoff,jf Charleston, who spoke on "TheImmortality of Americanism." G_ L. Buist Rivers, of1 Charleston-,whose subject was "The Literary Test." Charles M. Moore, of Charleston, who made "A Plea for Nationalism." MRS. STONEWALL JACKSON Wife of the Great Confederate Soldier, Dies at the Home of Her Granddaughter in Charlotte. She Wat Eighty-four Years of Age. Charlotte, N. C., March 24.?Mrs T T ^QfAnnwoll" To/?Itoati nnfa A U i KJ KVilV TT Uil vuvnovil) TT IX v Ul. the famous Confederate general, died at her home here early today. She had been ill for many months, but suffered a relapse yesterday. Mrs. Jackson was born near Charlotte, July 21, 1831, and was the daughter of Reverend Robert HaH Morrison, a Presbyterian minister and founder of Davidson college. She attended Salem, N. C. Academy and college. Her marriage took place in July 1857. Jackson, then a major, was serving as instructor at the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington. ohe became a close student of military tactics and alwavs tnnk an ncPTPSKive interest in the fortunes of the Confederate army generall Mrs. Jackson had two children, both daughters. One died in infancy, the other married William E? Christian. She died in 1889. Weakened by long illness, Mrs.. Jackson was also seized by an attack of pneumonia three days ago. She became unconscious yesterday afternoon and did not rally. The funeral will be held here tomorrow after which the body will be taken to Lexington, Virginia, accompanied by a military escort, WIIC1C out win KJ\, UUHVU yj J v.*v, >J.V*V, of her husband and daughter. All public buildings, schools and business establishments will be closed here tomorrow as a tribute to Mrs. Jackson. The Wofford Glee Club. The Wofford College Glee Club came to Abbeville and gave a very excellent entertainment in the opera house last Thursday night. The Glee Club is made up of clean, gentlemanly, looking young men and their entertainment was a credit to them and to their College. This was their first appearance and it is to be regretted that a larger audience was not present at the opera, house. Reunion Dates. It has been definately decided to hold the State Reunion of the Confederate Veterans in Columbia on April 22nd, and 23rd.