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^ ' ^ | ?Jj| f lamberg itmtlb j ffef I f>? Established 1891 ' BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1910. One Dollar a Year - s gp. ====================== I COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS . SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. | News Items Gathered All Around the . ''' * Cotfhty and Elsewhere. " *, Ehrhardt Etchings. sag*/. Ehrhardt, Nov. 7.?Sugar boilings are on hand now at nearly every well |? conducted farm in this section of the Ek county. The good syrup and brown sugar are means of a great saving to our farmers in this section. Its ftS V ^ long or short sweetening, as the joke goes on the countryman's wife but both are sweet all the same. The ||1k 4' long ' sweetening is very fine with Rl'- buckwheat cakes, fritters and the like. Our city folks take the combi j^7 nation as real treat anyway, if our country folks don't think much about B uMr*. Phil P. Padgett, while attendjfc ^ ing the ginnery of Mr. Henry EhrF hardt, in speeding the feeding appaR . ratus got his thumb cau&ht in the [ v cogs, "which are small" and mashed [ ' off a part of the flesh. The accident was not serious, as he finished the i ^ and bale cotton and then s?t in a \ buggy and drove to town and had Dr. <? Copeland to dress the wound and see if right in his judgment that the bone ? was not affected by the accident. Mr. Padgett is indignant in the way some |N, reporter has handled his name in connection with the accident last week. Mr. Padgett says his name I t.'' was ?iven him by his* parents and ^at he is proud of it and he don't thank any one to handle it in such a ludicrous manner, and hereafter it ;1 the party can't respect him enough to ' * give his name correctly when writing ^ about him, that he will hold the party so doing personally to account for it, as he respects it and others must, as P it is his. V Trains hardly give us time any more to open up and close mail be fore it leaves us again. About an hour if on time, and the railroad W company are talking of even shortenI ing this time by ten minutes or more. f Expect they will come here, turn I ? c around and go right back in the near [ future. The commercial tourists are ^ so well pleased with the present schedule until they are saying bad {'y words about the originator of the I I" schedule?wishing him where it is said that cold weather doesn't exist. Cotton came in* quite lively last week, showing that things are quite lively. Trade was a little, better than .v week before. Automobiles are still in demand ^ 4 by those that can spare enough from - - their living to buy one. Crops being p so short this year has stopped many orders that would have gone in it crops had been good. Shops are jj|' a in good demand where many of ? them are in use and they get plenty f'1ri^oric t0 keep them going and some Sy^helieve in ten years horses will not in much demand, but I think the g; * ^orse and mule will not be done away gfc^lfcith in that time, as these machines Lr can't be made light enough to have . sufficient strength to do the work over J our loose soil. | Mrs. Grosclose, Mrs. Frank H. L,/ Copeland, and Prof. Charley Shealy went to Columbia on Saturday morn> ing to attend the woman's missionary ^ meeting. Mesdames Groseclose and I'. ^ Copeland' will go on up to Newberry |> and Prosperity to see relatives before ^ returning home. JEE. i ?? Block to Disregard Indictment. ' $&} * Macon, Ga., Nov. 7.?Nicholas M. Block, who. with his brother, Alex - \ ? , , Block, has been indicted in connection with the South Carolina State " dispensary frauds, made light of the <k: indictment. He said: : "We will pay no attention to it Our connection with the dispensary V while with the Richland Distilling company was honorable in every way. We secured all the patronage in open i' \ and above board competition with other firms and our business in that connection was handled in the same i J" way as all other orders, private or t public. The charges will amount to f nothing." - ... ? 1 Aiken 31UUK'ipai ainuuu. Aiken, Nov. 7.?In the city primary , to-day Herbert E. Gyles lacked just two votes of being elected mayor on the first ballot over his three opponents. L. M. C. Oliveros will make a second race with him next Monday. A full set of aldermen was elected as follows: Geddings Cushman, W. C. - Hyer, H. Hastings Wyman, Jr., H. X. Schroder, E. A. Sommer and W. M. Eubanks. J. H. Hines, L. Powell and r H' W. M. Myer were defeated. The , defeated candidates for mayor are G. ... " W. Croft and W. W. Williams. Capt .J. M. Richardson withdrew from the . race Saturday. HER SEVEN GOWNS SEIZED. i ______ Miss Harder Had Promised Father 1 She Would Declare Them. ! Miss Hortense M. Harder, who returned from school in Paris on the ! Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, became involved in a customs investigation today because she had ignored the advice of her father to declare everything dutiable. The father, Victoria A. Harder, a wealthy Brooklyn contractor, went to the custom house today and straightened out the tangle as far as possible. "I wrote my daughter to declare everything and sent her a copy of the customs regulations, and received her reply before she left Paris," said Mr. Harder at the hearing. He exhibited his daughter's reply. "Don't worry, , papa; mother and I will declare everything." Notwithstanding this promise customs inspectors found seven undeclared gowns. They were seized and to obtain them to-day Mr. Harder was forced to payy their full value, in addition to 60 per cent, duty, $836 in all. In view of the father's attitude, no further action will be taken in the case.?New York special to Baltimore American. DEMOCRATS WILL CONTROL. Change From Minority to Majority in National Congress, j Chicago, Nov. 8.?Democratic control of the next house of representatives became a certainty shortly after I rnirtnie'hi- Tt was then known that the Democrats had gained 40 seats in ' house, including two previously secured in Maine. Republicans gained from the Democrats two seats, making the Democratic net gain 24, which is sufficient to give them control. That they will have a good working majority was indicated by the returns from several States, among them New Jersey. Returns there showed that there would probably be , a grain of six Democrats in the representation of that State. Overturn Incumbents. Other returns from New York and Pennsylvania indicate the success of i several Democrats in their contests for seats now held by Republicans, i The Democrats also expected to increase their lead by returning several members from Illinois and also from 1 Missouri. It was considered possible that they would be successful in several ; - -s t. ?i rii.. oiner aouotiui auues. The definite Democratic gains were: New York, 8; Pennsylvania, 3; North Carolina, 2; Ohio, 2; Massachusetts, 2; Maryland, 2; Connecticut, 1; Illinois, 1; Iowa, 1; Kentucky, 1; Missouri, 1; West Virginia, 1. The Republican's gain were: Massachusetts, 1; New York, 1; Pennsylvania, 1. Sure of Control. Reports received from other States ; indicated the Democrats would have ample margin to assure them the 22 seats necessary to give them control i of the house, two Democratic gains previously having been reported in Maine. In Oklahoma returns indi- i cated that the Democrats probably gained two, seats, due apparently to the operation of the grandfather i clause, .which debarred negro Re- i publicans from voting. At Democratic headquarters in New i Jersey it was claimed that the State ; would hold eight seats, making a Democratic gain of five. in west Virginia repurus suaicu wci Democrats had gained in three con- : gressional districts. i Strong in Missouri. Missouri returns showed one known with three probable Democratic gains, : while in Iowa and Illinois the returns j indicated that the Democratic gains would total six seats. In North Carolina returns indicated Democratic gains probably, would increase to three. A big surprise came from Wiscon- 1 sin when the Republican committee ! conceded the election of Victor L. : Berger, Social-Democrat, to congress from the Fifth district, which is now '< held bv the Republicans. .Robbery at St. Matthews. < St. Matthews, Nov. 8.?The express ] office here was broken into by rob- < bers last night. They evidently were ' on the hunt mainly for money, but i fortunately, they found very little. A few of the lighter express pack- i ages were rifled and a suit of nice ! clothes, shipped from a tailor in Co- i lumbia to Trentlin Wannamaker was < taken. < The sheriff and Deputy Hill are on ] the trail of the burglars and they i hope to get them in the next twenty- < four hours. i % > **' 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 building of the Panola cotton mills will be completed by December first. This mill is situated in Greenwood and will have 10,000 spindles and 250 looms. The town of Johnston, in Edgefield county, recently established an electric licrhi nlnnt r?r rathpr it was hllilt by private capital and now the citizens want to issue bonds for waterworks. They could not do a better thing. Up to the time of going to press there were twenty-five applicants for the position of railroad commissioner, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Railroad Commissioner J. M. Sullivan, among them being James Cansler. Up to Monday of this week there were twenty applicants for the position of railroad commissioner, and the game is still young. If Governor Ansel does not hurry up and make the appointment, we fear the postal clerks will be greatly overworked handling applications and recommendations. The Presbyterian congregation of Camden has declined to sell their church and lot to the national government for a postoffice building, although $15,000 was offered for the lot alone. The eovernment wished to use the lot as a site for the new federal building to be eretced in Camden, but by a vote of 50 to 60 the congregation declined-to sell. The church is one of the old landmarks of that city. Trick of the Wily Three. Mark Twain was a firm believer in the national movement for good roads, and has many a good tale to tell about the incredibly bad roads of some sections. A Hartford man retailed the-ether day this experience of the famous humorist: "I once had thirty miles"?so Mark Twain began?"to go by stage in Mis? 1 Blssippi. rne roaas were lernuic, for it was early spring. The passengers consisted of five men and three women?three large well developed women, swathed in shawls and veils, who kept to themselves, talking in low tones on the rear seat. "Well, we hadn't gone a mile before the stage got stuck two feet in the black mud. Down jumped every man of us, and for ten minutes we tugged and jerked and pulled till we got the stage out of the hole. "We had hardly got our breath back when the stage got stuck again, and again we had t<f strain our very hearts out to release her. "In covering fifteen miles we stuck eight times; and in going the whole thirty we lifted that old stage out of the mud seventeen times by actual count. "We five male passengers were wet, tired and filthy when we reached our destination; and so ^ou can imagine our feelings when we saw the three women passengers remove, as they dismounted, their *e41s, their shawls and their skirts, and lo, and behold? they were three, big, hearty, robust men. "As we stared at them with bulging and ferocious eyes, one of them 9aid: " 'Thanks for your labor, gents. We knowed this road and prepared for it. Will you licker?' "?Minneapolis Journal. Wanted to Get Off. A well dressed woman boarded a Broadway car that had no vacant seats. An elderly man before whom she stood attempted to arise, but she forced him back into his seat, saying: "Please don't do that, I am perfectly able to stand." The elderly man expostulated: "But, madam, I "I insist upon your keeping your seat," interrupted the woman, with tier hands on his shoulders. The man continued his efforts to arise, saying: "Madam will you kindly permit me to " With another push the woman again forced him back, insisting that she couldn't think of accepting his i seat. With one supreme effort the elderly man forced her aside. "Ma- i dam," he exclaimed, "you have al- < ready carried me three blocks beyond < my destination. I don't care a tinker's thingumbob whether you take ' my seat or not." i XEGKO LYNCHED IN MACON. Mob Overpowers Jailer and Take* Prisoner Charged With Murder'. Macon, Ga., Nov. 7.?A negro named Walker, who killed Marshal Chas Bush, of Montezuma, Ga., two weeks ago, was taken from the Macon county jail by a mob and lynched about 9:30 o'clock to-night. His body was strung up over the water from the Flint River bridge. Walker had onlj been captured about two hours. Walker, who was known, at the time of the killing of Marshal Bush on the Main street of Montezuma, as William Barnes, was two weeks age Sunday the prey of a man hunt which lasted three days, through the woods and marshes of the vicinity He made a clean get-away, despite the fact that track dogs were on his trail. The governor had offered ? $150 reward. This morning Walker came to the house of a negro named Jones, nea. Powersville, in Houston county, anc asked for food. Jones recognizee him and informed a white man thai he had Bush's slayer. They secured shotguns and upon entering Jones's kitchen Walker gave himself up They took him to Oglethorpe, where he was identified. He then admitted the killing and gave his name as Walker. He lay all day in jail. At 8 o'clock to-night a mob surrounded the jail, bent on lynching, but dis period. At 9 o'clock they returned overpowered the jailer and draggec the negro out. To the bridge is bui a few hundred yards, and the noose was tied, one end fastened to th< bridge and the negro, with botl hands bound, shoved off over th( water. The drop broke his neck in stantly. Immediately the mob weni home, leaving the body motionless over the river. He will likely b< taken down in the morning. It is impossible to learn from here when the sheriff is or was all day. VICTIM OF QUEER ACCIDENT. Struck by Smokestack Blown Fron a House-top. Mr. J. I. Maynard, of Salisbury N. C., had a narrow escape from in stant death at noon Friday and is now in a critical condition. He was in the rear of his place of business when a stiff gust of wind blew the heavy sheet iron smokestack fron the kitchen chimney of the Empin hotel, three stories high to th< ground, the same striking Mr. May nard a fearful blow, causing serious injury. It was at first thought his back had been broken but this prov "J ho tho noao Tho Sninrw CU liUb tu UC IUV VHOV. A MV man was carried into his storeroom a cot secured and he was at once given medical attention. His con ditipn was such that it was late Sun day afternoon before the physicians deemed it adivsable to let him be removed to his home. f It will be several days before the result of his injuries will be known. , CAPT. MURRAY INJURED. Crushed Between Two Cars at Black' ville Saturday Night. Capt. G. 0. Murray, the populai conductor of the Augusta-Charlestor division of the Southern railway, was seriously injured Saturday night al Blackville. In assisting his flagmar to make a connection betweetn twc cars Capt. Murray stepped betweer them and when, for some reason, the two cars were pushed together Capt Murray was caught between them His collar bone and three ribs were broken. No internal injuries have become evident so far. He was brought to Aiken Saturday night and is now at his home resting easily. If no complications set in, there need be no fear of serious results. Capt. Murray is very popular with the travelling public and with the people of his home town and they all hope for his early recovery.? Aiken Journal and Review. Robbed of $800. Held up at the point of a pistol, and robbed of about eight hundred dollars in cash near Laurel creek by two negroes, who had lured him into the trap, is the fate which befell George Yeargan, a thrifty negro of the Fountain Inn neighborhood, according to information which leaked out the streets of the city yesterday. It appears that the matter has been conconcealed since its occurrence, by the officers of the law, in the hope of securing a clew to the highwaymen. No such clew has yet been obtained, however, and the criminals are still at large.?Newberry Observer. ETCHINGS FROM EHRHARDT i A BUIXJET OF NEWS FROM A GOOD COMMUNITY. . OUR CORRESPONDENT GIVES 5 FREE REIN TO HIS PEN. ^ Discusses Prohibition. That Circulai Letter, a Fox Chase, and Other \ Matters?News of Ehrhardt. i Ehrhardt, November 7.?Investigation of the daily a:id weekly receipt j of whiskey received at the express of} flee here, disclosing that to some ex lent annKing on uie ?iy ia wmcu ui > in this community, and is doubtlest the rule everywhere, is so monstrouf > as to place the prohibition law, in s< j far as whiskey is concerned, in suet l damnable disrepute as to excite feelings of disgust in the minds of al! } well-thinking men within Ehrhardt'j p territory of trade. [ The hope and effort to cure the [ drink habit by enactment of prohibiI tory laws will prove to be as franfc [ failure as was ever sustained by z 5 people since the world began, nor wil such realization become a reality as ; long as the world lasts. I On the other hand, the evidence ii 3 this town alone of fostering a law s( productive of crime is so great, anc growing with each succeeding day I that it is hardly extravagant to saj . that if other necessities of life were placed under such a ban the Ameri j can people would, within a hundred I years, degenerate into a race as lewd ? lawless, reproachful and disobedieni \ as was the house of Judah whei ! God gave his beloved and chosei i people into Babylonish captivity foi . a period of seventy years, the crown t ing act of meteing out to them de 5 served punishment for their sins, anc ? to save a remnant out of which H< Vmilri nn annthpr race to Hil j ? name. ^ The only way to effectively lesser the drink evil (you can't destroy it) is in congressional enactment of laws making it a crime, with severe pun ? ishment, for the distiller, the mixei and the blender to place any other or the market than one hundred prool f straight goods. It is not the whiskej - out it is the poison the tippler im i ^ hibes in this day and time that causei s ninety-five per cent, of the evil ef 5 fects of drinking. i Since the failure of the law haj i been so well established, if the pro} hibitionists may still care to accom - plish lasting benefit upon humanity - let them memorialize congress as ? > body for the enactment of such law* 3 as has been suggested in this writing - which, if they succeed in doing, woulc I soon be looked upon as a blessing tei > thousand times ten thousand more * effective than trying to enforce ? law that never did and never will pro - hibt. 3 Mr. H. C. Copeland enjoyed "a fo> 3 hunt a few mornings since that prob3 ably approached in enthusiasm "The 5 Chase" immortalized in verse by Sii Walter Scott, the grand old sage whose pen beautified every subject h( ever wrote upon, in his day. There was a modern bard, a sori of gallberry-bay pooret, that, unbidden, hung on' the Outskirts of th? chase, and, when opportunity offered fired some blank cartridges along th< trail in spite of Nature and all hei I protests. His first explosion rang out * on the morning air thusly: , "Ere 'twas dawn Cape blew the horn t One long, loud and piercing blast, > That swelled through the sleeping town, And awoke old crier at last, , Who with Buck, Dash and Palmetto , Scampered off in dog array, Prancing sniffing and baying round, Ready for Reynard and the fray." > "By gura," thought the new bard, i "that's a broadside some, you bet.' . The trail had been struck and grew hotter when the bard drew some neari er the scene of activities, and, taking ! a commanding position a few hundred yards away, fired his second charge of what he supposed to be grape aDd canister, but in fact was another blank cartridge. Here is how the charge went off: "Cape rode his little sorrel mare, So lazy, a real old woman's nag, But once the pack Reynard jumped, She hoist her tail for a flag, And with eyes aflame and ears set * back, Leaped a ditch some ten feet wide, Then speeding as a shooting star, Gave Cape a Tarn O'shanter ride." "Whoop!" exclaimed the bard, "on to Richmond;" and the villian still pursued. There were many thrilling incidents included in the chase of the next several hours, and the-race ended and Cape had trailed the fox to his (Continued on page 4.) ?____?_?????_ ' SHOOTING NEAR COLUMBIA. P. J. Meetze Badly Wounded by G. A. La con Monday. Columbia, Nov. 7.?Physicians at> tending M. P. J. Meetze, who to-day was shot by G. A. Lacon, said tonight that the patient's condition is . not alarming, although it may be several days before he is out of danger, if no other complications set in. Mr. Meetze was shot through the arm and in the thigh; below the groin. In the event that the clothing carried in' to tho wnnnrtfi psiirp irritation, the wounds may prove fatal. Otherwise Mr. Meetze will recover. 3s The shooting took place four miles from Columbia, where the Monticello road crosses Crane Creek. . 'Hfrgi The trouble seems to have arisen as follows: Mr. L. J. Frink, the owner of the land, sold the wood on it to the penitentiary authorities, and they in turn sold some of it to J* Mr. Lacon, Last Friday Mr. Lacon went to the place to get some of the wood. Mr. Meetze, who had rented the place, saw Mr. Lacon getting the / wood, and he came out of his house with a shotgun and ordered him off, it is said. It is also stated by wit- # ?i nestes that he abused Mr. Lacon very considerably. Mr. Lacon left and went before Magistrate E. H. frost and swofe out a warrant for the arrest of Meetze?alleging disorderly . Jj conduct, etc. This case was to have been heard this afternoon. This morning Mr. L. J. Frink and certain of the guards went out to the place with Mr. Lacon, to see that he got the wood. As soon as Mr. Meetze saw them he came out and ordered ?|| Mr. Lacon to leave. He had his gun in his hands. Mr. (Lacon ordered him to stop, but instead of doing so he advanced rapidly, and then Mr. Lacon picked up his gun from out of the wagon and shot him in the groin. Mr. Lacon came- to the sheriff at once and surrendered. It is reported that Mr. Meetze has dome hopes of recovery. DEATH IN QUICKSANDS. Body of Unknown Negress Was Found Mired to Waist. An unknown negro woman, appar- '^11 ently 65 or 70 years of age, was found about 11 o'clock yesterday, mired to the waist in the muddy bed 'm i of a little creek which flows into the ' ^9 - Congaree river 300 yards above the - Granby landing. How long she had , been in the quicksand or how she got i there is not known. The body was 3 discovered by two white men. , The banks of the creek at the I point where the dead woman was i found are very steep. The place is j not within calling distance of any t house and it was merely by chance - that the men saw the body as they -J-aj were passing. It is possible that the c old negress met a lingering death . from starvation or cold. There were ? no briuses on the body or any indica. tion that violence had been used. x A little distance down the creek ; was a foot-log. The woman may have slipped down the steep banks of the I stream while hunting for the cross. ing.' The struggles of the woman in ; her frantic efforts to crawl to safety had disturbed the mud all around . the place where the body was found. A few feet away from the body was a basket containing a dozen un shucked ears of corn whicn sne naa evidently been carrying when she fell into the creek. ? The woman wore a man^s coat and a faded skirt. She had a plain gold ring on the middle finger of her left hand. Coroner Walker was notified that the body had been found about 12 o'clock. Six negro men worked Tor half an hour under the coroner's di| rections before the body could be pulled out of the mud. It was taken to the undertaking establishment of . , C. A. Ferguson on Lady street, where ' it is held for identification.?Colum| bia State. 1 Boy Makes Good Yield. i *' % 1 Barnwell, Nov. 15.?One hundred and sixteen bushels of corn on one acre, at a cost of only 22 cents a ;i bushel to plant, cultivate and gather, is the record of young Norman Creech, son of Mr. W. S. Creech, of r Tr1?- - s? ~ ~ ? ArvnfAef in f ivune, in tut! uuiii wuuicoi. iu iuis county. This is about the largest yield reported to date, and will no doubt, win the first prize. When the sandy soil of the county is taken in- ^ to consideration it will be seen that young Creech is among the foremost farmers in this section. ? 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