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T*?*'-. --,.x?, . - . -.* :. - . f . - - - - . - . ... s ' ..' = . . - v - . '/ A. "i ?1|F Hamburg ijeralb Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1910. One Dollar a Year a, ^^?????????-???__ COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the * County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, August 8.?Last week was a warm one. Cotton improved more than any one could imagine. Mr. Miles Warren, a farmer near here, brought in a boll of this year's * cotton. It is of the King variety; first one reported in this section. The darkies in this section had a picnic and base ball near here Saturday. While there was nothing but soft drinks served on the premises, yet some of Jacksonville's booze showed its work towards night with the result that a colored boy by the name of Kinard, got a lick over the head with a bat making the claret flow freely. On the way to their homes Willie Ford, from the Colston sec* tion, shot with a shot gun Perry Williams, from the Rizer section, hitting him in the shoulder. Reports have it that Perry Witjjams died Sunday. Misses Sanders*S?f Colleton county, are spending soxfiir'time with Mr. W. D. Sease. " " Mrs. Bruce afad daughter,are spending some time with Mrs. Henry Ehrhardt. y Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith are pre* paring to take their summer trip. Think they will try the island in place of the mountains this year. Mrs. Isham Carter, of Orangeburg, is spending some time with Mrs. Owens. f Mrs. Tharrie Delk, of Bamberg, is spending a short while with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Copeland. JEE. * -a Spring Branch News. We are having some very nice i. weather for fodder pulling, and the folks around here are pulling their fodder. w Miss Florine Hutto spent Sunday .with Miss Maud and Ruth Crider. Mrs. Geongean Padgett' and little , neice, Blanche Crider, spent a few f . i days in Augusta, Ga., last week and . * returned home Sunday. Miss Seannie Rentz and Miss Mabel Crider are visiting friends in Hamp^ ton this week. We have had a little more work done on Spring Branch church, and we are expecting to do a great deal {. more later on, and we hope to succeed iri^our work, as what we have done has helped the looks of the church so much. f Little Minne Crider is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. Bessie Sandifer, this week. Miss Dora Brownlee has returned .1 home to St. George after spending a week with Miss Maud Crider and other friends around Spring Branch. C. W. M. Entertainment at Kearse. i Olar, August 8.?On Friday evening of last week Miss Mell Kearse delightfully entertained a host of friends in honor of her guest, Miss Shuler, of St. George. Soon after all arrived and being greeted by the hostess, the pleasures of the evening began. First of all the young men were ushered into the parlor while the young ladies remained in the hall where their partners were to find them for the musical contest which followed. This was done by each young lady unwinding v a spool of cord and seeking a hiding niaop nn the iawn. After all were hidden the young men came out and chose a cord which he followed until he came to his partner. Quite a lot of fun was participated in this. After the contest a delightful course * of cakes and ices were served, then soon after the guests bade their goods' byes, one and all expressing their enjoyment of the evening. A Sad Death. Little Odelle, the youngest and brightest of the household of Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Donalds, was called to go to the brighter and happier home Sunday n. rning August 7th. - She had been sick about "3 weeks with typhoid fever. Being a little babe of only a year > and eight months old, it was so hard to give her up. But we must all re^ member that "All things shall work together for the good to all them that love God." Odelle has gone to live with the ^ blessed Savior who said: "Suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The stricken family has the sympathy of a large number of friends and relatives in their dark hour of sorrow. M. S. f '* v C. R. PARXELL COMMITS SUICIDE. \ Financial Troubles Supposed to 1 Have Prompted Deed. Lamar, August 8.?The entire town was shocked and saddened when it became known that Mr. Chester R. Parnell, a popular and prominent young man of this town, had committed suicide by taking strychnine to-day at noon. There is no motive that can be assigned for this deplorable act of Mr. Parnell, but the general supposition is that financial affairs are responsible for the rash deed, he having lost all of his property while he was in the furniture business in Georgetown, where he had done business for the past five years up until June of this year, since which time he has made his home in Lamar, where he was raised. Mr. Parnell is survived by his wife, one child, his parents and several brothers and sisters, all of Lamar. He was l member of the Elks Lodge at Georgetown. The interment will take place at Newman Swamp cemetery to-morrow morning at eleven o'clock. News from Kearse. Kearse, August 8.?Old Three Mile is a happy place now. There are home-comings of children and grand-children, and the hearts of parents are glad. Many social events have taken place that will be long remembered. On last Tuesday evening Miss Elouise Brabham entertained a number of friends in honor of her friend, Miss Bessie Lee Black, of Bamberg. Games and contests were participated in, and all went "merry as a marriage bell." Delicious ice cream and cake were served in the dining room where the colors of pink and white were carried out in every detail. The crowd left at a late hour, all voting the party a success. Another pleasant evening was spent at the home of Miss Mell Kearse on the 6th, where she entertained in honor of Miss Pritchard Shuler. Miss Koarse was assisted in her duties as hostess by her sister Mrs. M. M. Williams. An interesting feature of the evening was a song contest. Questions were asked?the answers being the names of old-time songs, and while the couples were racking their brains for answers, Mrs. Williams played snatches of these old-time melodies on the piano. Watermelon, sherbert, nabiscos, etc., were served in the parlor. A picnic was given on the fourth by the White Point Sunday-school in the grove at Mr. G. E. Kearse's home. Dinner was served at the appointed hour, and while standing around that groaning table we were visited by a down-pour of rain. 'Twas a sad sight that met our gaze for a little while but a little while only. The poet says: "If there's a remedy, try and find it, If there's none, why never mind it." Soon the crowd entered into the spirit of the poet ana forgot the disappointment of the dinner hour. "Old Sol" showed his smiling face and all was happy again. "Old Timer" and an old friend passed us with violin and banjo well in tune, thereby announcing the fact that there soon would be "music in the air." The children played their games; the old folks told of their trials and triumphs in life's journey ?of chicken raising, etc. The young folks told (we suppose) the same old story, often told, yet ever new. All were -willing to pause, however, and indulge in a saucer of ice cream. Thus passed another pleasant day. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Dixon, of Bishopville, are visiting the old folks at home. Mr. M. M. Williams, of Bayard, Fla., is in our midst for a few days. We are sorry that we can't convince him and his better half that South Carolina is the best' place after an. Miss Edna Chitty left last Satnrday for a week's visit to Colleton relatives and friends. Miss Ettie Kearse left last Friday for an extended visit to Bishopville. Misses Sudie and Leda Ritter entertained a few friends on Friday with a "social tea." Mr. Carl Kearse is at home from Brunson, where he has been taking a business course. Got Big Sum for His Crop. St. Matthews, August 8.?O. H. Weings, a Calhoun farmer, sold his gear's cotton crop, consisting of 4S7 bales, this afternoon, the price paid being 15 1-2 cents per pound, aggregating about $30,000. Mr. Weings has just installed a $3,uuu ginnery on his plantation. He says that he can better afford to invest in this ginnery than to pay for having his cotton ginned elsewhere. IN THE PALMETTO STATI SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOU KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quid Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Orangeburg county is preparing t< install a steam heating plant in it court house. The Peoples Bank of Sumter, witl a capital of $30,000, has been chart ered. This makes the Ifxth bank fo Sumter. A movement is on foot in Green ville to have the election on the pro posed county dispensary changei from the primary to the general elec tion. County Superintendent of Educa tion Nicholson, of Anderson, has in st'ituted in the State supreme cour mandamus proceedings against th I State treasurer and others to requir< them to pay the schools of Andersoi county a balance alleged to be du< j from the dispensary fund. The State board of equalizatioi held a meeting in Columbia last weel to hear complaints from those cor porations affected by their findings The board dismissed several request; for reductions in assessments fron cotton mills, but they made reduc tions in a number of cotton mill as sessments, the total being $974, 130. Death at Ehrhardt. Ehrhardt, August 8.?On last Fri day morning the soul of Isaac, th* youngest sdn of Mr. and Mrs. G. J Hiers, went back to its Creator. H( was sick only a few days and hi; death came as a great shock to all The death of this young man, not yei nineteen years old, apparently ii good health, should remind us tha" death is ever near?that his icj hands may be laid upon us at anj time. The father and mother have lost a devoted son, the brothers anc sisters a kind and loving brother, anc the community one of its noblesi young men. He was a gentleman ii the truest sense of that word, always and everywhere. He was always ready and willing to lend a helping hand wherever needed. He was kinc and courteous to all, and he made friends wherever he went. He was a good church member and a devoted Sunday-school scholar, always there when possible with a well prepared lesson. It was my privilege to have him as one of my students in the Ehrhardt high school last session. A teacher never had a better student He was faithful, obedient and intel ligent. .tie naa a Dngnt miiia, auu he was striving hard to prepare himself for a life of usefulness. It was a great pleasure to teach him. He had a bright future before him. His purity of character, his intellectual ability, and his earnest desire to gel an education gave promise of his becoming a useful man. But God in His wisdom has seen fit to take him from us and to-day he is asleep ir Jesus, blessed sleep. W. F. H. Girl Swimmer Beats Men. Boston, August 7.?A 15-year-old Dorchester girl, Rose Pitnoff, to-day succeeded in swimming from Charleston bridge to Boston light, a feat attempted many times by most of the best distance swimmers of the East, but heretofore accomplished only by one person, Alois Aderle of New York. Seven men competed afainst Miss Pitnoff to-day but the cold and the baffling tides and currents that have made this 12-mile course one of the severest attempted by swimmers in this country forced them out of the water some distance from the goal. The girl was in the water six hours, 50 1-2 minutes, as against the five hours, 38 minutes of Aderle, who swam on August 29 last year. Outlook Bright for Democrats. Washington, August 4.?Representatives James T. Lloyd, of Missouri, chairman of the Democratic congressional committee, returned to-day from a tour of the West. Fresh from conferences with party colleagues and observations, he claims that the Democrats will carry three congressional districts and the gover norship in Californa; that tne regular Republicans will vote for the Democrats in Kansas as a result of the recent insurgent victories in the primaries; that the insurgency has developed among the Republicans in New Mexico, in the selection of delegates for the constitutional convention and that the Democratic prospects were good in Utah and other States. ft g BRIBE-PROBE MAY AID INDIANS. Gore's Charges May Lead to Saner S Legislation. McAlester, Okla., August 7.?That k a new era of wholesome legislation by congress has dawned for the Indian as a result of the congressional investigation into the McMurray contracts is the belief among senators, 0 congressmen and other government s officials assembled here. The committee appointeu by the 1 house of representatives, headed by Congressman Charles H. Burke, of r South Dakota, to inquire into the charges of Senator Thomas P. Gore - that he had been tendered a $25,000 - or $50,000 bribe to help pu? the Mci Murray deal through congress, ar rived here to-day from Muskogee and to-morrow will continue its hearings. McAlester is the home town of - J. F. McMurray, the attorney, who, t with others, holds the contracts. Sene ator Gore, D. F. Gore, the senator's 5 brother, and J. L. Thompson, the i senator's secretary, have been inter5 ested spectators at all the sessions. Congressman B. F. McGuire, of Oklaj homa, and Senator Charles Curtis, of c Kansas, both of whom were named by . Mr. Gore as having been the men mentioned by Hamon as being "in5 terested" in the land deal, have left. i Curtis Denied It. Senator Curtis strongly denied hav" ing any relations with Hamon. Mr. " McGuire, who testified concerning meeting Hamon in Washington and in response to direct question denied that he had ever been improperly approached in regard to the MeMurray - contracts, told the committee he was - ready to reappear at any time. The name of Vice President Sherman, who - according to Senator Gore, was men3 tioned by Hamon as the man "higher up," has been eliminated from the t Investigation so far as Senator Gore 1 is concerned. The senator said he had no object 1 in mentioning Mr. Sherman's name J other than to relate all of what Hai mon had said to him. I L May Call MeMurray. t Since MeMurray also has been ! charged on the stand with having 5 tendered a $25,000 bribe to a Choc5 taw delegate to Washington to withr draw opposition to old contracts that I were subsequently disapproved by > President Roosevelt in 1908, it is be5 lieved MeMurray will be called to I testify. > What are known as the present Mcl Murray contracts consist of about 10,000 documents secured individually, i The story told on the stand by . Green McCurtain, the venerable InL dian chief of 10,000 Choctaws, made , a deep impression. McCurtain related . how his tribe, year after year, had I waited for t"he government to sell their lands and how at last the Ini dians, becoming discouraged, had be> come the prey of attorneys, whose ; promises were more glowing than [ tnose or me guveiumcuc. ; Cost Tribe Dear. It cost his tribe in the last ten i years, MeCurtain related, $300,000 in t attorneys' fees besides a share in the i $750,000 fee paid to the McMurray firm several years ago in the citizenship cases involving the Choctaws and Chickasaws. I Congressman J. H. Stephens, of r Texas, a member of the present in. vestigating committee, in a speech in . congress referred to the $750,000 fee . as "a scandal" and declared the attorneys shoifld have been made to pay > back the money. "It is evident that the whole In; dian situation needs to be gone over I by the government," said an official ; to-day. "The Indians are the wards i of the government, yet they have be. come the prey of attorneys. For in stance, one attorney received $12,000 i a year for representing one tribe and he resides in New York. "In instances where the govern. ment interests and those of Indians , conflict only should attorneys be employed. Other cases for settlement can be arranged by treaty. This investigation should enlighten congress on what should be done." Strained Relations. "Say," said Baitmann, as he passed the fish dealer's stand, "send up a couple of nice bass to the house tomorrow." "All right, sir," answered the 1 dealer. "And be sure they are bass,"- continued Baitman. "You see I'm going I ?er?out?of town for the day, and ?er?the last time I went I told my wife I was going trout fishing, and you sent up a salt mackerel. Another error like that on your part and there will be strained relations in my family. See?"?Chicago News. Buy your fruit jars at Hunter's hardware store. Prices right. ARRESTED FOR BOARD BILL WARRANT SWORN OUT BY MANAGER R. C. WRIGHT. Gave a Worthless Check to Get Into the Race for Attorney General. On account of a charge that he refused to pay a board bill at Wright's hotel, B. B. Evans, candidate ror tne office of attorney general of South Carolina, was arrested' Sunday afternoon. The warrant for his arrest was issued by James H. Fowles, Jr., magistrate. When the arrest of the candidate was made Mr. Fowles was automobiling near Eastover. On Mr. Fowles's return to Columbia Evans, who had been in jail for several hours, deposited a cash bond for his appearance August 29, when a trial of the case will be heard by Magistrate Fowles. Evans, it is said, will fight the case on the ground that he missed certain meals included in the bill. R. C. Wright, manager of Wright's hotel, said yesterday afternoon that the arrest of Evans followed his failure to pay a bill for board after urgent request from the hotel. Mr. Wright said that the defendant was warned that the bill would be turned into legal channels unless it were paid. When no payment was forthcoming, the arrest followed. Mr. Wright said that he told Evans when he commenced taking his meals at the hotel before the campaign opened that on account of the very low rate given he would have to pay for all meals whether he attended these meals or not, and that Evans agreed. The bill the hotel claims Evans owes amounts to $36.75. Evans mailed a check to the hotel for $19, and deposited a cash bond with Magistrate Fowles completing the $36.75. The case will come up for trial August 29, the defendant in such an action having 21 days to come into court with a reply to the charges. 1 Since the campaign opened, the matter of Evans's personal finances has been the subject of more or less discussion in the State, especially as he was unable to pay the assessment levied upon candidates for office and yet has managed to continue in a campaign which must of necessity cost a candidate something like $500. The question frequently has been asked, "vvno is pa^iug oaiuc; i Evans's expenses?" and this no doubt arose from the rumor that he had given a worthless check with which to pay his campaign assessment. Geu. Wilie Jones, chairman of the State Democratic executive committee, at the time asked Evans if the check on the Bank of Columbia was good and Evans replied that it was "backed by $1,000 in collateral." Newspaper men, hearing that the check had been protested, asked Gen. Jones for information and he declined to give it. Later Mr. Lyon himself, as a matter of curiosity, wished to find out who Evans's financial backers in tbe campaign were and asked Gen. Jones the same question. The answer to that inquiry is found in the following letter, which withholds the name: "Columbia, S. C., July 19, 1910. "Hon. J. Fraser Lyon, Columbia, South Carolina: "Dear Sir?In accordance with your verbal request to give you a statement as to the payment of campaign assessment by Mr. B. B. Evans, as a candidate for attorney general in the present campaign, I have to state that he gave me a check on the Bank of Columbia for $50, being the assessment required, at 11:55 a. m., June 21, 1910, the time for filintr nipdces exDiring at 12 o'clock on that day. On the 22nd of June this check was presented to the Bank of Columbia for payment and was returned unpaid. This check was afterward taken up by a friend of Mr. jbvans's so that his assessment has been received by the State Democratic executive committee, as will appear by reference to the books, which I exhibited to you this morning. "Very respectfully, "WILIE JONES, "Chairman." Wire Fence Carries Death. Abbeville, Ala., August 7.?Mrs. A. B. Metcalf, wife of the Baptist minister at this place, was instantly killed by lightning this afternoon. Mrs. Metcalf vas standing in the door of an outhouse when the lightning struck the front end 01 inp aweiiiug and followed a wire fence a distance of 100 yards to the outhouse where she was standing. Rev. Metcalf preached in Atilla today and drove through the country from there when news reached him. I UAMJ1TS KlLLi A.> 1) tUiUAlMSK. Albuquerque Stage Coach Held Up and Driver Murdered. r Albuquerque, N. M., August 6.? For the second time'within a week the Mogollon-Silver City stage was held up and robbed to-day, murder being added to the crime in to-day's affair. Jose Dominguez, the driver, watchful as a result of his experiences last week, opened fire on the bandits today and brought a volley from their weapons. Several of the bullets pierced his body, killing him in- i i stantly. The robbers hastily gathered up twelve bars of silver buillion, the . .. .vi property of the Ernestine Mining company and the Socorro Mining company, which was being shipped out from the mines, and left the scene. They met no further resistance as the stage was making its trip without passengers. When the stage failed to arrive at Glenwood, Jake Rouse, relief driver, was sent out to ascertain the trouble. He came upon the coach, which had - . .[ ? been driven several hundred yards from the scene of the robbery by the bandits, and pursuing his search further, found the dead driver lying .J in the road, where his body had been tossed by the robbers. Posse Chasing Bandits. Returning hastily to Glenwood, Rouse reported the affair and soon \ a posse was chasing the fleeing bandits. Mounted police took the trail and within a short time found eleven of the twelve silver bars lying at the roadside near where the stage was robbed. N \|J||S Evidently the burden was too great for the robbers and they abandoned all but one bar of the treasure, which is valued at about $1,500. t #3 It is believed by officers of the mounted police that there were only - ^ | two men engaged in the holdup and ;y: that they have succeeded in reaching a mountainous country, having had three hours' start on the police. The scene of the robbery is 20 miles from a railroad and in a sparsely settled section of Southwestern Socorro county. ^ Jose Dominguez, the dead driver, lived at Silver City and leaves a wife. The Love Story of George V. A" "Hardly had the betrothal of Prince lM George and Princess Mary been announced," says Philip Hume Forster in the Woman's Home Companion for , August, "when the future Queen of > f ^ England had opportunitty to test her sense of duty and her self-control. While the Duke of Clarence had been studying statesmansnip as neir iu the English throne, Prince George had been slowly but surely advancing in the royal navy. As an admiral his flag-ship had been^stationed off Malta, and here he had met, I wooed and won the beautiful daugh4** ' * / ter of Admiral Seymour. Before marrying her, Prince George had written a formal renunciation of his claims to the throne of England and for a few years had lived very happy with the fair-headed, blue-eyed English wife who flitted from colonial ' port to colonial port to meet her ? ? royal husband. One winter they spent in Bermuda, where they were most popular with both English and American residents. v "When Prince George found himself almost at the foot of the throne through the death of his brother, he realized that it was one thing to renounce the throne and another to have his renunciation accepted. Queen Victoria and all the political powers behind her insisted upon the annulment of the romantic marriage, so the engagement of Princess Mary and Prince George was shadowed by this ugly cloud. The young princess y did not indulge in hysterics. There were no recriminations nor unpleasant scenes for Prince George to endure. As his wife, she believed that she should and would be able to hold his affections, and she went about the task of winning the love of the man whom fate had decided should lead her to the throne. In fact, it was generally felt in England that she was more deeply in love with Prince George than with his unfortunate brother. "The morganatic wife of Prince George was provided for, it is said, by no less a person than his mother, and since then no shadow of scandai has ever entered the life of the young couple. ? Mayor Gavnor, of New York, was shot and seriously wounded Tuesday by a discharged city employee named Gallagher. The shooting took place on the deck of a steamship in New York harbor, the mayor having started on a trip abroad. The assassin fired four shots, but only one took effect. It is thought he will recover. a .. ? ' P-4 A