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Sit? IBamhrrg ifpratfi -?? Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1910. One Dollar a Yea* . -M COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, January 31.?Our merchants are busy, taking papers and aelling goods on time. Only a few nt for-tili"7Q-r liavo hpBn ehinnprl VOiO VI 4Vi M14MVA MM* V WVM WM.frpw.. out so far. Some horse traders are b&low town trading with the farmers. The women folks tell fortunes for those ? that are desirous of getting rid of ? some cash for nothing. The schedule of our freight train has been changed. The train leaves here now something after nine a. m. in place of seven a. m.; scheduled to j arrive here at 7.30 p. m., but expect it will be nearer 10 p. m. Mrs. Sarah A. King was laid to rest in the Ehrhardt cemetery on the morning of the 28 th. Her pastor, Rev. D. B. Groseclose, assisted by Rev. Freeman, conducted the burial , ^ service. She will be missed by her numerous friends and relatives. Her husband, Adam King, has our sympathy in his great bereavement. It is reDorted that Mr. Sam Cope land and Mr. John Frank Chassereau intend getting automobiles soon. Had rain and thunder last week, almost like summer. Has turned * cooler however, and promises some more winter weather. Conrad Ehrhardt Co. have put or. their sale of goods at cost to reduce their stock of merchandise. Those ^ ' hunting bargains can get them out of their well selected stock of goods. Lumber is in good demand; more wanted than the mills can supply. Denmark Doings. * Denmark, Jan. 28.?The large barn belonging to Dr. S. D. M. Guess caught fire this morning and was totally consumed. There were about 1,000 bushels of oats and between [three and four hundred bushels of peas in the barn, besides a large amount of fodder. The loss will amount to about $2,500. No insuri ance. No one seems to know how the fire originated. There has been a number of new buildings erected here lately. Hon. C. W. Garris is building a beautiful colonial mansion near the graded ^ school. When finished it will be one ' of the handsomest residences in the 1 city. Our mayor has also built a substantial residence in the same neighborhood. There are a number of k others building in differen parts of * the city. Lagrippe is very prevalent here. A great many persons have had it, * your correspondent among the number. The comet was visible here for a short while Wednesday. It did not appear very bright on account of the hazy atmosphere. ^ Big Road Movement. A copy of the bill introduced in the national house of representatives providing for the United States government loaning to the various States and territories in the union money ^ for road improvements has been received here. The bill provides that any State % or territory can borrow from the national treasury, up to one million dollars, the loan payable to the goverment in 25 equal payments. There will be no interest charged on the loan, but should one of the installments be allowed to lapse, then interest at five per cent, is to be charged. Under the bill such loans, when made, are to be used upon the post, roads, or roads on which a rural delivery carrier travels. The improvements will also have to be made under specifications approved by the y postoffice department. The bill has been read one time and referred to the committee on agriculture. Judge W. F. Eve, president of the Georgia Federation of Road Authorities, when asked yesterday what he thought of the bill, said that it was one of the greatest steps towards the improvement of highways that has been taken in years. He says it will ^ mean, if passed by the national kauca >*?> the*re> will. In a few UUUOC, VMV* V .. p years, be as good roads in the United t> States as any country in the world.? Augusta Chronicle. r . / DETECTIVE BOYER PASSES. Succumbs to Wound Inflicted by Negro Car Thief in Columbia. 1 Southern Railway Detective S. H. Boyer, who was shot through the ! lung by one of three negro car thieves whom he surprised at work in the Royster yards near Columbia, died Friday morning at the Columbia hospital. The sheriff and his deputies apparently have little hope of ever capturing the negroes, and the police are completely in the dark. From the best information obtainable the negroes are jprobably making their way through North Carolina on their way to the North or west. The officers are looking for Eugene Davis, Ben Little and Dave Richardson. Negroes fitting their descriptions were taken aboard the Coast Line train going out of Columbia the morning of the shooting. They got off at East over, in Richland coun- i ty. Thursday the same negroes, Sheriff Hood, of Fairfield, is confident, appeared at the home of L. R. Free, in the Buckhead section of Fairfield county. Sheriff Hood at once notified all his county officers and also those of Chester to be on th^ lookout for the negroes. Govan News. Govan, January 31.?We learn that Dr. Leighton Hartzog has purchased the drug store at Olar. This ic a mVp nnenine' for him. and we ! wish him much success in his enterprise. Last week a mule belonging to one of the Guesses was killed on the Sea- , board Railway near Denmark, on the < division of Hutto's section. The mule's leg was lacerated, a large por- , tion of the bone protruded downward from the upper joint, but with the ( assistance of the other three legs it managed to move from the place where it was hit by the locomotive to about three quarters of a mile. 1 It was grazing in a pond when found : by the section master. Such a pity to kill a beast when its life could be saved, but in its condition, it would < not be of any more service to the owner. Trains certainly cannot stop , to clear animals off the track, if they , did they would never arrive to their destination. Last week Howell McCormack's ' .little daughter, Agnes, was bitten by . a mad dog. The dog's head was sent to the Pasteur Institute at Columbia for examination for rabbles and dis * covered that the dog was affected ' with hydrophobia. The child was ( sent to Columbia immediately for 1 treatment. The Woodmen's hall is completed at Govan, and displays a serviceable 1 8nd commodious piece of architecture. The camp is increasing in numbers, having new members to initiate at nearly every meeting. The Woodmen insurance is the very best insurance for a poor man, who is not able to carry much in the old line com- : panies. Much success to the Woodmen Camp of our little town. Ottie Lain, an energetic and trust- 1 worthy young man, has just opened a grocery store in the town hall, and he invitee patronage. A good many policy holders have answered the complaints and summons issued by the receivers for the Piedmont Insurance Co., of Spartanburg, through their attorneys. Lot of them have their full receipts as cancellation for their policies, but legal advisers say that these assessments will have to be paid, as there are judgments sustained against the company, and these judgments will have to be satisfied, the policy holders being liable, as they constitute the company. Unless they have suf" J- *~ tViom nn T ncient gruuuuo tu tuuwsi tuvm V**) ? cannot see any reason why they cannot collect. The company has the advantage of the policy holders in that the law is so written that if the policy holder lets his policy lapse i. e., by not j paying his assessment within the al- j lotted time the policy is null and void, but yet the company can collect under the law the assessments. Perhaps though this may not be the law, and the summons are merely issued to scare the policy holders to pay up. Baker Kennedy has returned to his position in the upper part of the State as telegrapher for the S. A. L. Railway. He received a diploma from the Telegraph Institute in Columbia, S. C., qualifying him as a telegrapher and railroad accountant. NBP. I \ IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The Baptists of Johnston have decided to build a new church, to cost between $10,000 and $15,000. Rev. James Boyce, D. D., president of the Due West female college, died on Thursday, aged fifty, from the effects of a stroke of paralysis. The Senate last Monday passed a bill repealing th6 income tax law. The law might as well be repealed, as it has never been anything but a farce in most counties. The house has passed the Statewide prohibition bill to a third reading by a vote of 58 to 42. The senate killed the State-wide prohibition bill by a vote of 22 to 18. Ten young white men plead guilty in the mayor's court in Spartanburg on Friday morning of gambling in a hotel of that city. They were fined $25 each, and all paid up. Henry Lyles, colored, was committed to Aiken jail on Thursday on the charge of shooting and killing his wife. He denito it, but the circumstances are strong against him. The plant of the Crystal Ice Company in Orangeburg is soon to be sold at public auction, and there is a sentiment in that city that the municipal government shall buy and operate the factory. The legislature is still trying to create new offices. The latest is four auditors who are to travel around and check up the treasurers and auditors and all other county officers, including magistrates and dispensers. According to the estimate of Comptroller A. W. Jones, it will take over $1,500,000 to pay the expenses of the State government this year. This is increasing expenses at a great rate. With the loss of dispensary revenue, we may expect taxes to be at least double next fall. The fight for postmaster at Greenwood has waxed very warm. Among the candidates are Dr. P. B. Connor, the incumbent; A. McD. Singleton and T. R. Webb, merchants; J. A. Edmunds, barber, and F. H. Fetner, engineer on the Seaboard road. Fetner seems to have the inside track. Jessie Harrison, who shot and killed Fred Rubie, an employe of the Johnny Jones carnival company at Greenville in October, 1908, was tried for the third time last week, this trial resulting as the others had done, in a mistrial. The jury stood seven for manslaughter and five for acquittal. ' Liberty of Coopers at Stake. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 1.?The last deal in the legal game, the stake of which is the liberty of Col. Duncan B. ind Robin J. Cooper, began in the supreme court of Tennessee this morning. It was the calling of the motion for a new trial, asked by the Coopers, who had been convicted of the murder of former United States Senator Edward Ward Carmack, and each sented to 20 years' imprisonment. The killing which took place on one of the prominent streets of Nashville a year ago last November, was the culmination of as long and as bitter a political feud as ever has marked the annals of the State. Carmack, brilliant as editor and statesman, had been a protege of Col. Cooper. But the men quarreled. As editor of the Nashville Tennessean, Carmack criticised Col Cooper and editorially referred to him as a "little bald-headed angel." Cooper, according to testimony at the trial, sent word to Car/nack that if his (Cooper's) name was mentioned again he would kill Carmack. Carmack the next day used Cooper's name. The same day the men met. Cooper was accompanied by his son Robin. The latter shot and killed Carmack as the editor was drawing a revolver. The Coopers pleaded self-defense, but the State proved that one of the bullets pierced Carmack in the back of the neck, smashing the spinal cord and causing instant death. The jury, after a trial lasting nearly three months, found the Coopers guilty of murder in the second degree and assessed their punishment at imprisonment for 20 years. The tr;al marked one of the hardest fought battles in the judicial history of the State. A score of eminent counsel were arrayed on either side, and even now, for the argument before the supreme court, the defense has added Luke E. Wright to its list of attorneys. LEXINGTON MAN'S CLOSE CALL County School Superintendent Martin Comes Near Losing Life. County Superintendent of Education A. D. Martin of Lexington, came very near losing his life a few days ago, while attempting to cross Wateree creek in the Dutch Fork Mr. Martin was on his way from: Chapin to Spring Hill, and was nol aware of the depth of the creek whicl was considerably swollen by the heavj rains of a few days ago, and before he had gone very far into the streair the current carried the horse anc buggy down, and Mr. Martin had tc swim to the shore. He rushed to a house nearby anc told of his experience, and tw< young men went to tne creek to save the horse. The horse and bugg: were found some distance down the stream, and by heroic work the ani mal was cut loose from the buggj and brought to the bank in safety. The buggy was a complete wreck end Mr. Martin went to Lexingtoi horseback, arriving there about 6:30 This is said to be a very treacherous stream, others having had similai experiences. Tillinan Case Before Court. Columbia, January 31.?A distin guishing feature of the habeas cor pus contest Deiore tne supreme oour to-day between Senator Tillman anc Mrs. Tillman and their daughter -in law for the possession of the Sena tor's two little granddaughters was that the Tillmans did not attack the character of the younger Mrs. Till man, other than to charge that she was irritable and on many occasions not specified, she did not show propei regard for the sacred relations o marriage. All the morning was consumed it reading affidavits, and the arguments will last well into the afternoon There are no indications that the case will go to a reference. So crowded was the court roon with prominent spectators, half o] them women, that the court finallj locked the doors. The only affidavits of important from the Tillman side was a length) one from B. R. Tillman, Jr., and 2 thirteen-page one from Senator Tillman. Young Tillman acknowledged that he had drank to excess, and had on one occasion assailed the charactei of his wife, but afterward apologized for this. He denied all the othei charges brought against him by hit wife. Senator Tillman's affidavit set fortfc that the younger Mrs. Tillman had taught her children to hate him and his wife, but in reply to the charge that the Senator and wife had nol tried to help their daughter-in-law reform young Tillman he quoted letter? he had written her and him showing the contrary. He set forth that he never had any intention of attacking the character of his daughter-in-lav but in reply to affidavits providing her character he quoted scripture about the wicked fleeing when nc man pursueth. The younger Mrs. Tillman's attorney replied with copies of letter: young Tillman wrote his wife fron Edgefield last fall, showing that while making preparations to desert hei and take her children he was writing her the most endearing love letters. A sensational incident brought oui in this was letters written young Mrs Tillman by the Senator, outrageously attacking her character and that pic tures of her female relatives nov dead disappeared from her private desk at Edgewood following her hus band's visit there and while she wa: in Washington. Tim nnntcmtci nf these letters were proved by a number of affidavits one from Mrs. George Bunch, of Spar tanburg, the Senator's niece, saying that after these letters she did noi blame Mrs. Tillman from refusing t< have anything more to do with th< Senator or members of his family. The return in the case was brief merely standing upon the old statute under which the deed to the childrer was made, giving the husband thh sole right regardless of the fitness oi unfitness of the wife. Little Hopes for Recovery. a dispatch from Bryson City, N C., holds little hope for the recov ery of Barrett Banks, whose eyee were blown out in a dynamite ex plosion at the court house there i I few days ago. Banks aroused enough I to say he did not know whether he 1 ? Tirnva trt VllomC* Ppfifttpi Ul UWI ic; nciv i.u uiuiuv. of Deed Francis' skull Is fracturec and his hearing permanently injured but he has a fighting chance. The damage to the court house is estimated at $5,060. * - - - ... . - ^ w w .?-1,* ? >Vv ':-i i RIVER AT PARIS FALUNS. flood continues to drop hour by hour; ! Government Has Scheme by Which Sufferers Can Recover Their Financial Footing. | Paris, Feb. 1.?The height of the water at midnight at Ponte Royale r was 27 feet 3 inches, a fall of nearly four feet from the highest point, and ' the flood continues to drop at the j rate of about three-quarters of an ^ inch an hour. Premier Brand has instructed the j prefects to make a complete inven^ tory of the floded areas and to appraise the individual losses, after which parliament will be asked for J new credits in connection with the measures of relief. f Soldiers are still guarding many of the public buildingB and strong detachments have been sent to the J various outlying districts to prevent the wholesale pillage which is still ] going on. A boat patrol surprised a band of Apaches robbing a villa to-night at Bologne-Sur-Seine. After an exciting , chase, in which a fusillade was exchanged, an infantry sergeant sunk ' the robbers' boat with a blow of an " oar. Two of the Apaches were killed t and the others were captured. ' One of the most hopeful features " of the situation is the action of the " government in carrying into effect a 3 plan to enable the small proprietors 3 both in Paris and throughout the " flooded districts of France to reestab? lish themselves by means of loans ? and to furnish work for the victims. Tfie government nas aeciaea upon a f general scheme of employment, v hereby those who desire work may 1 j find it in repairing the roads and the 5! public buildings throughout the de vastated territory. Some difficulty is being experienced in restraining the residents of the 1 flooded districts from returning to f! their homes immediately on the re' cession of the water, without waiting for the disinfection of the premises. The foreign office is now free ' of water, but it is without gas, elec1 (tricity, telegraph or telephone ser-' ", vice. The students residing in the 1' Latin quarter have formed, a relief 1 society, and have agreed to care for their few American comrades who 1 suffered in any way in connection with the flood. s! In additiop to $50,000 received ' from Massachusetts, new subscrip1 tions to the relief fund from the 1 United States aggregate $40,000. I ? ; ) News From Lees. Lees, Jan. 29.?H. B. Grimes and .! his niece, Miss Corlie Cave, spent i: , Thursday and Friday in Charleston. > > ~ Miss Eula Burke Hutton, the music ', teacher of Lees graded school spent Saturday with friends in Williston. f I Mr. W. 0. Fickling spent Thurs) day and Friday in Charleston. Prof. W. H. Hand, of the Universi5 j ty of South Carolina, will .deliver an ' j address at the Lees graded school building, Friday night, March 4, 1910. An interesting programme is ' being arranged for the occasion. Prof. Hand is an interesting and charming speaker, and the people of Lees and surrounding community can not afford to miss this opportuni* ty of hearing him. J Rev. Mr. Houser, of Denmark, was " the guest of H. B. Grimes Sunday 5 last. Misses Estelle Copeland and Ola - Grimes spent Thursday afternoon with friends in Blackville. >' "WIDOW" FOOLED A WIDOWER. t > She Told Him She Was in "Love" and Secured $20,000. Detectives in the employ of A. E. I King, a retired business man in * Lincoln Neb., are seeking to make 3 an arrest among the social set of . Kansas City, Kan., as the result of a peculiar love affair. It appears the woman in the case represented herself as a widow, when in fact she is married and has a husband . living. Mr. King alleges she told - him that she was about to receive i a large amount of cash from New - York and secured money to the i amount of $20,000 on this pretense, i Later she declared the money was i only a loan and that the cash had " been spent. She is charged with obl taining money under false pretense , and may be prosecuted. At present J she has two motor cars and lives in - a fine home with expensive furnishings. CERTAIN OF VICTORY. M _______ Fight Over Rules of House Will Soon Break Out Afresh. Washington, January 31.?The fight over the rules of the House may break out afresh within the next ten N ' V days. This time it will be over the proposition to increase the member- \ v ship of the rules committee from five \ r'% to twelve, the political division to. consist of seven Republicans and five Democrats. The insurgents who began the fight against the organization - 5 last March say they will carry their ^ scheme as they can count on sixty votes for it on the Republican side fcjj of the House. But the doubt of ulti- 4 mate success lies on the Democratie i .3 side of the House. For several day? the insurgents have been doing missionary work among the Democrats, and to-day, it was claimed by the insurgents, they have secured pledges from the minority to carry the scheme M through by a safe majority. \ Champ Clark, the minority leader, . ; does not look with favor on the [$, proposition to increase the membership of the rules committee, for, inr his opinion, the Democrats would gain nothing, but he is not willing to - . J speak for the minority as a whole as . M many of his followers are in favor of |g| | the suggestion made by the insurgents, w^hose plan is to elect the >7j| rules committee by caucus action and oj then vote for it in the House. Under -^3 the insurgents' scheme, the Speaker is not to be a member of the rules M committee. There is no question about the suo-> cess of this insurgent proposition if the Democrats vote with them. And it is true that the insurgents are X?| stronger to-day than at any time ii since the House met in extra session. The increase in the strength of the /ySH insurgents is due to the change of ..j&| sentiment among the New England Republicans who have, heretofore been counted on as strict Gannon men. The anti-Cannon sentiment -of uzM the country has proved too. strong, v. S they say, and to show that they can resist Cannonism they will vote with _ '-Jim the insurgents to change the rules. :. ^ These New England Republicans say , they will not vote for Gannon for :?||H Speaker again, and that unless something is done to convince the conn- - ^ try that "Uncle Joe" is no longer the boss he once was, it will be all oyer ' ^||| for the party next November. Bazin Has Been Arrested. ' . V-'l Mossa Bazin, the young white man Uv } ? who is charged with the killing of ^ Lofton Poston in the Blossoms seo- ' ''*A tion Friday night, was taken to the ||S city Saturday night in custody ojt y*> Constable Prosser and his father, : | Magistrate B. Prosser who conducted ... the inquest. The young man was confined in jail to await further pro- 4 -7"/^' *n/i/H?nrq itfnrnpv T ilrnv - TiflP. of' Kingstree, and the young man's fath- |3| er came In on the midday train today to arrange for his release on/' ;,^ bond, Mr. Lee being employed by ^- 5| the defence. Young Bazin is scarcely nineteen years old and is unmarried. He "; seems to be a little worried but- will . make no statement just yet as to the -3 crime he is charged with. He made no attempt to escape, the <./: & constable found him at his home in ':Ki ^ bed Saturday night, when the arrest "v* was made. Mr. J. W. Ragsdale has been retained by the prosecution. ' r^| This is a most unfortunate affair as 3? both young men belong to well known , families and were prominent in social circles. The parents on both > ^ sides are very much distressed over 3 the affair.?Florence Times.STRIKES BLOW FOR OLEO. Atlanta Health Committee Urges Con- - 3 - - * *** _ 4 kL gress to nepeai xtu. . ,^ , " '. 43 Declaring the tax of ten cents per 5 I pound on oleomargerine to be large-- | jly responsible for the increased cost I of living, the Atlanta Chamber of | Commerce health committee a few V" days ago adopted a resolution mem! orializing congress to repeal the tax. The resolution sets forth that the . ' tax is "class legislation, which deprives the Federal government of $2,000,000 revenue, while it shuts out ' ... . of the market a wholesome product, 1 made of milk, cotton oil and beef fat, which otherwise would be in reach r of the masses." The effect of this tax, it is concluded has greatly increased the price of butter. "*? -' 3 It is announced that in a letter to the Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist of the Federal government, states that the repeal of the tax on oleomargerine would in no way interfere with the enforcement of the pure food laws, adding that he considered oleomargerine a wholesome product .V* . #