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: . - ? v^v - - - . ' ' . ' s* , ' *' N t \ \ t(Hip lamferg lltfralb Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1910. , One Dollar a Year COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS V ? SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the a County and Elsewhere. ^ ? v Ehrhardt Etchings. ^ Ehrhardt, August' 1.?Rev. D. B. * Groseclose has been conducting a three days' meeting at Alt. Pleasant church. He had Dr. J. H. Wilson ^ assisting him. Two sermons a day ^ ^ with dinner served on the premises. ^ 4 Quite a crowd attended, especially on Sunday. Several joined the ^ church on Sunday. ci Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Robinson are ^ going to Newberry, S. C., to spend g some time with relatives this week. u Sunday night the Methodists had tl children's day at St. James Metho- tl dist church. y \ ' Some of Jacksonville's booze has s: been showing its work around town lately. b The weather is very warm for the b last week. A breeze feels good about 0 noon these days. ^ The reason why one farmer did ^ not hoe out the grass from his pin- ^ ders, is that he had no where to put the grass. If any one will get a motor and c] apply it to some of the galanippers that fly around in the shades of w ? 7 evening, they could have a flying S( machine right. S] Some of our citizens went to Bam- n berg to witness the game of ball last h * week. 01 Miss Claire Weirmer, of Florida, w ? is visiting her grand-father, Mr. Chas. Hartz. P< Ehrhardt grocery has a fine lot of x Waterman's Ideal fountain pens, fi Will pay you to call and see them be- n fore buying. JEE. 1 m u News from Kearse. d o: Kearse, August 1.?Our progres- a > sive teacher of the White Point b school, Miss Aline Kearsp, has re- ol turned from Spartanburg, where she B has been attending the summer u school. She reports a pleasant and L K profitable session. The up-country tl agrees with her so well that she has o) taken a school in Saluda for the next w ?. scholastic year. We regret to give p; her up. She is also experimenting d< with thoroughbred chickens, and hi finds them vastly superior to the tr "scrub" variety. May she have the fi V good fortune to find some thoroughbred boys and girls to train in her s< v.- new surroundings. v< j The lecture of Prof. W. D. Roberts a ? '"T<v.^ Tir^-r.1 H'o v-cr?hnnl C!nn-I ci Uil X lie <> U11U 0 Uuuuuj u, m vention" was much enjoyed. Wish r he could be induced to write it up ir for your peper. tl i ? h EIGHT WHITE MEN HELD. h t Accused of Killing Negroes in Ander- p( son County, Texas. ms ? Palestine, Tex., August 1.?In his b< charge to the special grand jury tc impanelled to-day Judge B. B. Gardner, of the third judicial district, de- N manded that a thorough investigation of the race riot in Anderson be made. Four additional arrests were made to-day in connection with the clash N between the whites and blacks Friday night and Saturday. Eight white men are now in jail, all of whom are charged with murder in the first degree, and held without bail to await the action of the grand jury. These d . are: James Surger, Josh Bishop, T ? Wallace Ferguson, Isman Garner, d' Andrew Kirkwood, James Jenkins, F. r( C. Bailey and Morgan Henry. ir Troop C. of the Texas State Guard, b; under the command of Capt. L. H. el Younger, arrived here to-day and is ii T encamped in the court house yard, tl The troop will patrol the scene of the ir * riots and protect the prisoners now u in jail. According to the authorities the w situation is now well in hand and no Jj further trouble is anticipated. c< Deputy Sheriff Reeves, who return- b< ed from Slocum this afternoon, said: p; "I am positive that the trouble be- g: tween the white and black races of Anderson county is at an end. It is my further belief that no more than 15 white men participated in the te ' > riot. Of course there were probably j), between 100 and 200 armed men in t the community, but they were armed n merely for the purpose of protecting ^ their homes and quelling such upris- g, ings as might occur. The great ma- a] * jority of these men did not reach the g scene of the trouble. A coroner's in- y) quest over the eight negro bodies found returned a verdict in each case, fx < that the deceased came to death from jS gunshot wound in the hands of a tl / person or persons unknown. tl y / * r HIS FEATS AMONG BRAVEST. Writer Praises the Valorous Sergeant Who Rescued the Flag. George Armistead Leaken writes s follows in The Baltimore Sun of lie gallant Sergt. William Jasper, :ho helped to make history in Charleston harbor and finally died t Savannah, supporting the colors f a South Carolina regiment: Two events associated with Sullian's Island render that' locality his)rical. On September 9, 1854, when he ocean was apparently calm, a ull, continuous sound indicated a oming storm, and on the next day i a A ; iVA ae tempest came sweeping awaj iuc attages and submerging the entire dand, except Fort Moultrie, where 00 people spent the weary night ntil the morning reveille announced ie retreat of the Atlantic wave and tie prospect of speedy succor. Many ears have passed, but the impresion of that occasion is indelible. On June 28, 1776, Fort Moultrie, uilt of palmetto logs, was attacked y a British fleet, and in the midst f the battle Sergt. William Jasper istinguished himself by recovering tie flag which had fallen on the each and was in danger of capture, lone he leaped from the ramparts nd in the sight of the whole fleet eplaced it on the bastion amid aeers which welcomed his return. On the next day Gov. Rutledge rearded Jasper for his valor by pre?nting him with his own handsome nail sword, thanking him in the ame of his country. He also offered im a lieutenant's commission, but ur hero, who could neither read nor rite, modestly refused it, saying: I am not fit to keep officer's comany; I am but a sergeant." Subsequently engaged in successII partisan warfare, Jasper was Ti-nn n rm Ortnhftr f). I \J I LUI 1 J fT VUUWWVk VWI w _ , 779, during an assault on Savannah, nder the following circumstances, escribed by historians: "The colors f the second South Carolina regilent, which had just been presented y Mrs. Elliott just after the battle f Fort Moultrie were borne by Lieut, ush, supported by Sergt. Jasper, nder the inspiring leadership of Col. aurens and planted on the slope of le Springhill redoubt. At the sound f 'retreat* Jasper, already sorely ounded while trying to place on the arapet the flag which had been shot own, received his death wound. He, owever, seized the colors from the iumphant enemy and bore them om the bloody field." Major Horry, who was with the jrgeant, relates the following conarsation: "I have got my furlough, nd (pointing to his sword) this vord was presented to me by Gov. utledge for my services in defendig Fort Moultrie. Give it to my faler and tell him I have worn it with onor. If he should weep, tell him is son died with the hope of a bettr life. Tell Mrs. Elliott I died sup Drting the colors of my regiment. ' There is some uncertainty as to asper's burial. Perhaps it might 3 said of him, as of Corunna's Vic>r (once an ensign): ot a drum was heard or a funeral note As his corpse to the ramparts we hurried; ot a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero was buried. On February 22, 1888, there was a ouble commemoration in Savannah, he streets were thronged with resients and visitors from the country, isidents were marching to inspiring lusic, the platform was occupied y honored guests and officials, an oquent oration was given to listenig crowds by Gov. John B. Gordon, le veil was removed and there stood l bold relief the statue of Jasper plifting the fallen colors. After such an occasion Clio, the luse of history, might exclaim: "If asper could not read or write, he irtainly has 'made his mark' in the eautitui monumeut m oavauiiau ? irk and in the seven counties which ladly perpetuate his name." House Burned in Barnwell. Barnwell, July 30.?A dwelling >rson, Jr., and occupied by Mr. Carl sadmilder, was burned to the ground >rson, Jr., was burned to the ground lis morning shortly before 8 o'clock, 'hen the fire was first discovered ames were bursting from the roof, ad owing to the lack of up-to-date ghting apparatus, it was soon beand control. It is thought that the fire started 'om a defective chimney. The loss ; partially covered by insurance to le amount of $1,700?$1,200 on le house and $500 on the contents. r 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 first regiment of infantry, of South Carolina, is holding the annual encampment at Aiken this week. There are one hundred and thirty candidates for office over in Orangeburg county. If they all make speeches at campaign meetings the sessions will be rather lengthy. W. H. Muller, formerly of Columbia, but who has been practicing law in Bennettsville for several years, has been made assistant general counsel of the Southern Railway, with headquarters in Columbia. The State reunion of Confederate veterans is to be held at Spartanburg the 17th of this month. Judge Robert Aldrich, of Barnwell, has accepted the invitation to deliver the annual oration at the reunion. The Red Shirt Men of Spartanburg county have organized and will entertain the Red Shirt Men of the State at their meeting to be held in that city during the reunion of Confederate veterans, which is to be held the 17th instant. Negroes Threatened with Lynching. A telegram from New York on Friday said: An attempt was made to lynch two negroes at Coney Island to-day. The attempt was made because they wanted to bathe in the ocean with white men and women. They had narrow escapes. When they appeared on the beach about sixty women were in the water. A cry against the presence of the negroes was raised. One of them was grabbed and pulled into deep water with the object of drowning him, but he was a good swimmer and got away. The other one also made for shore and both were chased and stoned until they got away. Several extra calls for police were sent out. Woman Slays Doctor and Herself. Pittsburg, Aug. 1.?The bodies of Dr. Murray Stewart a well-known pnysician, auu a wuiuau wcic iuuuu at 11 o'clock to-night, in a room of the doctor's residence. Both had been killed by revolver shots. Dr. George Murray Stewart was one of the most prominent young physicians of the fashionable East Liberty district. The woman was Edna Wallace, who was of middle age. A shot through her right temple was apparently self-inflicted after she had shot and killed the doctor. A revolver lying by the woman's side strengthens the police in this theory. The double killing comes almost on the eve of Dr. Stewart's marriage to a Virginia belle. The police believe that jealousy of the doctor's coming marriage prompted the double tragedy. The police believe the shooting occurred late last night or early this morning. COTTON MARKETING SYNDICATE. Prominent Men Would Revolutionize Cotton Industry. ^ "* r OH TJ oin'n rr ?50SI0II, J U1J Cd & ?? XXCL T *U?> for its purpose the revolutionizing of the cotton industry of the United States, a conference was held to-day at the home of John Hays Hammond, at Gloucester, at which there were present, besides Mr. Hammond, Daniel J. Sully, the New York cotton operator, and Scott Delgleish, of Cairo, Egypt, the representative of the Hirsch syndicate, of London. Briefly, the idea is to establish warehouses in all parts of the cotton producing districts of this country, as well as in the manufacturing centers, for storing the cotton crop, so that instead of selling it from hand to mouth, as has been the practice heretofore, it will be marketed through the entire year when desirable. It is believed that economies will be effected in the marketing of cotton, which will result in a saving of not less than fifty million dollars annually. The General Cotton Securities Company, of which Mr. Hammond is president, and Mr. Sully is vice president and general manager, is to be the basis of the organization, ' through which this economy is to be effected. The Hirsch syndicate, it is understood, has already underwritten the project. 1 Dry Stove Wood.?I have a large supply of dry stove wood on hand. Wood delivered promptly. Cash with order. J. H. MURPHY, Bamberg, S. C MULES AXI) COWS BUHXEI). JJ Lexington's Farmer's Loss Probably $5,000?Undoubtedly Incendiary. Lexington, July 30.?Five mules, one mare and two cows, together Enj with a large quantity of oats, corn, Sin cotton seed meal and hulls, were burned in a fire, which destroyed the barn and stables of Henry Z. Adams, j a progressive and successful planter, ^ra living seventeen miles from the vjSj court house, at 3 o'clock this morn- Qar ing. The fire was undoubtedly of fr0] incendiary origin and the people of jnt( the countv for miles around were ? ClllU wrought up to fever heat over the ing act. ttai When Mr. Adams was awakened <raj by the groans of the burning animals, ma: the flames had gained such headway gus that it was impossible for him to get pas out his stock. He reached the stable, in which his fine mare was closed in, a but all efforts to get the animal out Ge< proved futile. The entire county is 0f < lined up with telephones, but for voi, some reason it was impossible to get t0 the Lexington office at that hour and a r the news did not reach Lexington un- whj till six hours after the fire, Mr. ^^a Adams coming down in his auto- Si<j( mobile. bee The sheriff was notified and, pj through the kindness of the Clerk of ( Court Frank W. Shealv, one of the sm( new Schacht automobiles of the Lexington Supply Company was the brought into use. The chain gang is diai located in the fork and the dogs ancj were gone after. The sheriff, Capt. ?0 1 Mack, and Cl&k of Court Shealy left pui Lexington with one of the county rea dogs and the run of seventeen miles tre< was made in thirty minutes, break- uttl ing all records for running over ten Lexington roads, four miles of the 0f t journey being very rough. i Upon reaching the scene, seven age hours after the crime, the dog at flue once took ud the trail and carried it tv.p successfully for a distance of three traj quarters of a mile, to an old barn on mxi the side of the road, where the incendiary, it appears, got on his horse and rode away. On account of the * fact that hundreds of people had passpnr ed over the road since the fire, it was wh impossible to track the animal and the chase was given up. * e eitl Mr. Adams's loss is estimated at between $4,000 and $5,000, with no an( insurance on the building or the stock. ] ^ do\ PUNISHED PROMPTLY. 6,SC slig 1 Negro Found in Young Girl's Room * did > Lynched. lv, ren Cairo, Ga., July 31.?Screams of cor the young daughter of John Wade, anc ten miles northest of this place, it f during last night, resulted in the cap- I ture and lynching of a negro who had jur entered her room and was discovered anc at her bedside. am The negro, entering through a sm< window, made a noise in the room ext and the young girl awoke. She at sha once began to scream and the mem- 1 bers of the family rushed into the Aui room. The negro had no time to es- her cape, but dived under the bed and lav still in an effort to save himself. T He was dragged out from his hiding An( place at once, it j News of the capture was sent from tQ house to house among the neighbors, an^ and a body of men quickly gathered. tva A conference was held, and it was ing decided to punish the negro imme- wr( diately. He was placed in a wagon ear and one end of a rope was tied about tki< his neck and the other tied to a limb. ing The wagon was driven from under him and a volley of shots rang out. Cot Northern Malcontents Rebnked 3 Coi Beverly, Mass., July 31.?Presi- sun dent Taft has approved, without com- tioi ment, an opinion by Attorney General Wickersham to the effect that ing there is no provision by law which by the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, else in Confederate uniform, can be removed from Statuary Hall in the hoc Capitol at Washington. she In addition to deciding the ques- | Eas tion on a purely legal basis, Mr. Wickersham argues the matter from mos an ethical point of view, declaring moi that Lee has come to be regardded as imr typifying all that was best in the woi cause to which he gave his services frui and the most loyal and unmurmur- The ing acceptance of the complete over- nov throw of that cause. That the State be of Virginia should designate him for cult that place in Statuary Hall as one som illustrious for distinguished military ver< service, the attorney general de- cup clares, is only natural and would be lonj under the reading of the law. Mr. Wickersham's opinion was eral called forth by protests to the president from the department of New indi York, Grand Army of the Republic, the LLED IN C.&W.C. WRECK SSEXGER PLUNGES THROUGH BURNING TRESTLE. spneer Hank Taylor and Fireman j ion Dunbar Killed?Train Destroyed by Fire. Augusta, Ga., July 31.?Passenger .in No. 2, on the Spartanburg di- 1 on of the Charleston and Western olina, due to arrive in Augusta, m Spartanburg, at 5:15 p. m., ran ) a burning trestle, about a mile 1 a half from Woodlawn, resultin the total destruction of the in, the death of Engineer Hank 'lor, of Laurens, S. C., and Fire- 1 n Simon Dunbar, colored, of Au- J ta, and slight injury to sixteen ' sengers. Vhen the train was entering onto 1 .nnaiwa nnrra crcro Cam 2 ctPT* i C V Ot VU1 T \s Ja/(*D0M'0VAMM*" jrge Box directed the attention Conductor W. B. Verdery to large Limes of smoke, which he believea be coming from the trestle, then ! nile distant from the train, and 1 ich had been burned before. At ' t time the fire was on the left 1 i of the train and could not have ' n seen by Engineer Taylor. 1 unges Through Burning Trestle. Conductor Verdery watched the )ke until the train had rounded reverse curve, when he saw that fire was on the trestle. Imme- 1 tely he pulled the danger signal, ' [ ran from the baggage coach back ! ;he first-class passenger coach and led the emergency brake, but al- 1 dy the engine had ran onto the stle and plunged through to the le creek below, pulling with it the 1 der, baggage car and front of one 1 ;he passenger coaches. . 1 ?he coach, tilting from the wreckto the road bed above, formed a ;, through which the flames from ( trestle debris were carried to the in proper, and in less than five lutes the entire train was aflame. Caught Under Tender. Engineer Taylor and Fireman abar went down with the engine, I were caught under the tender, ich was thrown directly on top of i engine. Both of these were ler mashed or burned to death, 1 the bodies are still in the ?ckage. Haggagemaster Box also went vn with his car, but succeeded in aping from the fire with but ,pht injuries. dail Clerk Bloom, of Spartanburg, not leave his car and was seriousthough not fatally, injured. He aained in the wreckage after the icussion, working with his mail, I succeeded in saving the bulk of torn the flames. sTone of the passengers were ined beyond minor cuts and bruises, I of these the larger number were ong those in the negro coach and Dker, the white coach escaping any ensive damage beyond a severe ,ke up, until the flames reached it. belief trains were sent out from gusta, and all passengers brought e. Believe Trestle Set. n a statement by Superintendent derson, given out after midnight, s shown that the road has reason believe that the bridge was fired L investigation is being made in t direction. The last train passoveT the bridge, ahead of the ick was six and a half hours lier, and the officials contend that 5 does away with any idea of fallhot coals starting the trestle fire. ton Crop Better in Most States. Jemphis, Tenn., July 31.?The nmercial-Appeal will publish this amary of the cott'ton crop situa- 1 l to-morrow: The cotton crop deteriorated durthe week in Texas and Oklamoha ,1 reason of drought but improved ] where on an absence of ram. The situation in Texas and Oklaaa is fast becoming serious, some 1 dding being reported in the dry t places. ] Temperatures were very high at ?t times, which make the lack of ] sture more acute. A good rain 1 nediat'ely would help the crop iderfully, but its growth and * iting has already been arrested. s t fields east of the Mississippi are * r nearly clean and the cotton will c laid by in a fairly good state of * ivat'ion. The process of cleaning c ie of them has, however, been se3 and the plant has not yet re- 1 erated and drought continued for j" I will work great damage. During the coming week mod;e temperature would be helpful. Without a late autumn reports r cate a very moderate out-turn in ] oITpv and Atlantic States." C ? I * f . ' ' ' 1 -i'- '' V- " " ' MOB LYNCHES TWO. Negro Victims Confess to Murder of White Girl. t Bonifay, Fla., July 30.?Two negroes, pleading vainly for th'ir lives, were strung up by an infuriated mob, < between here and Dady, this after-:' uoon, and while they were dangling from the ropes were perforated by the bullets from fifty to seventy-five white men of the surrounding country : I The crime which caused the lynching is one of the most brutal ever known of in this vicinity. The two negroes confessed to murdering little Bessie Morrison, the 12-year-old iaughter of Mrs. Mary Morrison, who lives near Dady, in the extreme western end of Holmes County, whose body was found this morning in a pool of water between the Morrison homestead and the little school at Dady. vfl? The little girl started for school Friday morning alone, and the first intimation of a tragedy was when she failed to come home in the afternoon. After a reasonable time had elapsed a. searching party was formed and after a quest lasting well into Friday night, found the mangled remains of the little girl in a pool of water in a swamp near the girl's home. As soon as the significance of the Bnd dawned on the residents, the !| searching party was transformed into a mob searching for the culprits. The sheriff at Bonifay was notified and he, together with two assistants, went' to Dady, where the two negroes were already arrested. Confessions, giving some of the gruesome details of the criminal assault and subse- quent murder, were made by the two ' ' men, and feeling was running high, ^ but cool heads prevented a lynching V^jll on the spot. The sheriff saw that the only thing .>rj8 to be done was to rush the two men to the county jail, and at once started out from Dady, but the residents, % who at this time were augmented by r";> the arrival of others, got wind of the sheriff's plan and started in pursuit and overtook the sheriff on a lonely road, overpowering him and taking the two negroes to the \ nearest tree. Ropes were already 8 provided, and it was a short time before the negroes were swung up. The two negroes were employed on a turpentine camp and were known to be of bad character. They, ac- 1 cording to their confession, laid . along the road in wait for the lit- 'iSl tie girl, who would be going to school .v**g in the morning. This was after they ' $$ had looked around and found that there were no white men in the '? NEGRO COMMITS AWFUL CRIME. Posses Scouring Woods for Assailant of White Woman. Mobile, Ala., July 31.?Many posses have been scouring the woods .' around Axis, Ala., eigmeen mues from Mobile, since shortly after 1 o'clock this morning for Bill Walker, a negro, who had been loafing around the mill town, and who criminally assaulted Mrs. Nettie Gibson, 31 - v years of age, wife of J. O. Gibson, superintendent of a truck farm. The negro told Mrs. Gibson a .* ' friend was dead and that he had been sent to accompany her to the house, where she was wanted to help prepare the body. Proceeding a few hundred feet from the Gibson home, the negro began using his knife and later accomplished his purpose. The . woman is badly cut. Her 8-year-old brother, Clarance Howell, hearing her-screams, ran to the scene and tried to protect his sister. Clarence Howell was also cut by the negro. '?yM Walker after forcing Mrs. Gibson to give him what money she had, left for the home of Jesse Brown, another negro. He slipped up to ' Brown's window and shot him while isleeD. Walker then forced Brown's wife to accompany him. Walker and "V; Katie Brown have not been found. Citizens of the community say that :he law will not be needed if Walker ^ s s caught. Sheriff Drago, of Mobile, has his "orce working on the case. The sheriff promised the citizens if Walk?r is captured he would ask Mobile ,'ounty courts to hold a special ses- ~ . ^ sion to try him. Walker's crime is i capital offence in this State. Mrs. Gibson and her brother are lot fatally cut, but Jesse Brown will lie. The neighborhood for miles s stirred up over the affair. Reported Negro Shot. .. -^3 Mobile, Ala., August 1.?At midlight reports reached here that the posse had shot Bill Walker, Mrs. Jibson's assailant.