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[ !Samb?rg Iffralh | v Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY. MARCH 30,1911. One Dollar a Year Jl ? ( '^ ssB COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. p News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. ? Ehrhardt, March 27.?Rain Saturday night, more rain all day Sunday, and still more rain Sunday night, was yesterday's record. Some of our marksmen went out f t?"T* ETifiiv liinlr EVt CATTIQ HaVOC H/ ti J tuuil 1UVA fTiVIi k/vrnv V4V T vu last week. Walked themselves tired L , trying to get a shot at them. Time |:;i came for them to meet at the auto, so their game and luck had to be exhibited. No. 1 threw down a sparrow from his hunting sack; No. 2 j nothing, but said he saw four doves fly over the field; No. 3 exhibited a small speckled sap sucker; No. 4 y said he had none at all, but thinks he heard a rabbit run off in the ( ' woods. Great Nimrods! Our governor and lawyer Felder, of Atlanta, Ga., remind us of two little dogs separated by a fence. Can't get to each other through the L the cracks, but, oh, my! such angry growling and snapping at each other, my then it's all over and neither has shown his fighting ability. Annie, the small locomotive of the Hacker - M'f'g. Co., came Saturday J'v night; four or five car loads of iron were umoaueu ias>L wetrjs., ?u wim > .considerable work done laying track I and cross ties, Annie's voice can be V heard as she charges through the woods to get logs. Farmers are busy this morning since the rain, working around their houses and looking after the garden work. JEE. Jack Johnson Put in Jail. | i > m 2 San Francisco, March 28.?Jack Johnson, prize fighter, is in jail tonight, and unless some higher court comes to his relief on a technicality, he will serve a 25-day sentence for automobile speeding. Johnson has often been an offender of the speed laws. After 14 arrests, from which he escaped with light fines or disimissal, he ran against acting Police Judge Treadwell last Thursday. On that day he pleaded guilty to a charge of speeding and on B; Saturday he was sentenced to jail. He took an appeal to the superior court and this afternoon Judge Mor gan dismissed the appeal and orderly J ed him into immediate custody. ' ? * i-- l-i. J. J Ten minutes later two ueyuij* duuIiffs had him in charge, bound for H the county jail. Gaynor Free at Last. New York, March 26.?John A. Gaynor, just released from the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., where he jr and his partner, Benj. F. Greene, were sent for frauds estimated at $.2,000,000 in the contract for the Savannah harbor improvements, arrived here to-day, apparently a physical wreck. He had to lean on his 1 son when he posed for newspaper p photographers. fV "I am an ill man. I've got locomotor ataxia and I'm just out of jail. !?' I have nothing to say worth the saye. ing and I'm very tired. "Give me a chance to get a little rest and I'll tell you anything you want," he said. He went to a quiet hotel to rest ^ for a week or more. Trouble With Pastor. Tampa, Fla., March 27.?Trouble growing out of sensational charges nrmntor Aliartroc hptwPPTl mem- I N? WUU W UU WVl VM<?* QVM MW ?? ^ bers of the congregation of the First Congregational church of Tampa, eame to a head this afternoon when | " Rev. Robert Lee Kirkland was served with two injunctions staying him from trying three prominent memL ?ers for stirring up strife in the | thurch. One of the injunctions was secures. ed by Mrs. Hugh C. Macfarlane, wife ; ~y of one of the wealthiest citizens of To inno an H the other hv W "KV "Rar-I Attiui/i*! v? ? _ ^ ... _ . , ? rltt, a member of the city council. Both injunctions are predicated on ? charges that Kirkland has no right to W- . try the members and that he has chosen only his friends on the trial g committee, all of whom are prejudicj , ed against the movants. W,<,y So strong has the feeling among the members of the congregation been r||p that a special police officer i*as de- i E* tailed to attend the church yesterday i- Kiorning and preserve order. This followed the serious chastisement of : one member of the committee named (| jfcy Kirkland to try the members by J! the husband of Mrs. Macfarlane. O'Riley is in town. O'Riley is in town. PARDON REFUSED JONES. Branchville Attorney Who Killed Abe Pearlstine Must Serve Sentence. John J. Jones, the Branchville attorney who was convicted in Orangeburg county several months ago on the charge of killing Abe Pearlstine, of Branchville, has been refused a pardon by Gov. Blease. He was sentenced to serve 10 years and 30 days in the State penitentiary and the appeal is pending in the supreme court. He has been at the penitentiary for safe-keeping since his conviction. Several petitions were filed for and there were many letters against a pardon in this case. Body Found in Well. Morrison, Fla., March 28.?The body of R. Copeland, Confederate veteran, who has been missing since December, was found in a 30 foot well to-day. All indications point to murder as the skull of the victim was crushed in and the body covered by debris to shield the crime. It is known that Copeland had considerable money before he disappeared so suddenly. It is said that the finding of the body was brought about by a dream of a man living near Morrison, who went into the well to satisfy himself and made the gruesome discovery. Stables and Stores Burned. Manning, March 28.?At 1 o'clock this morning four stores and a stable at Foreston, 10 miles east of Manning, were destroyed by fire. The fire originated in the store of the Foreston Store company, of which E. M. Davis was manger, and quickly spread to the other buildings. Nothing is yet definitely known as to the origin of the fire. The losses, as near as can be ascertained. were about as follows: the Foreston Store company, value of stock not yet given, insurance $1,800, building which belonged to W. T. P. Sprott, valued at $800 and insured for $500; J. H. Boswell, building and stock $3,500, insurance $1,200; J. C. Land, building and stock $3,000, insurance $1,400; B. O. Cantey, building and stock, $1,000, no insurance. The stable that was burned also belonging to J. H. Boswell. Clemson College Notes. Clemson College, S. C., March 26. ?President W. M. Riggs and Prof. D. W. Daniel spent a part of last week in Columbia. They were attoTnlin? thp meetinc of the teachers of the State, of which Prof. Daniel is president. Prof. Riggs also visited his old home in Orangeburg while he was away. We were to cross bats with the University of Georgia Monday and Tuesday, but, on account of a continual rain all day Sunday, it is doubtful whether we will be able to play the Georgia boys. A large audience was delightfully entertained Saturday evening by a recital given by* the Columbia college quartette in the college chapel. Now that exams are over, we will study hard and be ready to tackle the "finals" with a determination to make our class. Clemson will be well represented at Spartanburg at the State Sundayschool convention. Mr. F. H. All, of the Columbian Society, will represent Clemson at the South Carolina inter-collegiate | oratorical contest at Greenwood this y?ar. Mr. All is a native of Allendale, Barnwell county. We are glad to see the interest taken in the boys' corn clubs in the various parts of the State. D. B. H. Hurt in Trolley Accident. Charleston, March 26.?Conductor Kolb, Motorman Hopkins and Rural Policeman Knox, who were injured about midnight near the Three-mile station in a rear-end collision between two large double truck cars returning from the navy yard, were reported to-night at the Roper hospital to be resting easily. Knox's leg was so badly crushed that it was immediately amputated. Kolb has a fractured skull, and Hopkins a broken shoulder bone. The accident happened at the Etiwan Fertilizer crossing, where the forward car had stopped to take on a passenger. Hopkins' car bore down upon it at a rate of at least 15 TY-iilnr. on V.O..O on J +ko n<"vl 1 iC: 1 r?n hfln i.ijLiiuo au uuui , auu luc wiii^vu pened as a result, the superintendent says, of this car running too close to the forward car. The injured men were all on the platform. Three passengers on one car and two on the other were not hurt. O'Riley is in town. f i IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OP VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About *| Men and Happenings. The ministers of Columbia are working for non delivery of mail on Sundays in that city, and the postmaster has stated that he will let the patrons of the office decide the matter. At the meeting of the State Teachers' Association in Columbia last week there were 1,100 teachers enrolled, nearly twice as many as have attended any previous meeting of the Association. The State Teachers' Association, which held its annual meeting in Columbia last week, elected A. J. Thackston as president. Mr. Thackston is superintendent of the Orangeburg city schools. The city of Florence wants the Seaboard Air Line to build there, the road now having built from McBee on its main line to Hartsville and Darlington. They have promised $20,000 -to pay for rights of way and terminals if the Seaboard will build to that city. The four young white men of Orangeburg county, who are charged with the burning of a store at North, and who have been in jail at Orangeburg for the past week, were released from custody last Saturday night, having given bond before Judge Copes in the sum of $3,000 each. Two of the men are named Leysath and two are named Poole. Three Negro Children Burn. Sumter, March 25.?Coroner Flowers was called on to-day to hold an inquest over three children that Vere burned to death last night about midnight. They were John and Richard Butler, aged 6 and 2, and Mary Wilder, aged 5, all colored. It seems that both parents were out of the house and that eight children were left behind, the oldest being a girl of 14. When she discovered that the building was on fire she endeavored to get them all out, but the ruins fell in, catching the three. The father was in sight of the house when he discovered it blazing, but could not reach it in time to save the children. The eldest child testified that when she went to sleep she left no fire in the house, but that a lamp was burning. Killed by Falling Tree. Hampton, March 27.?Saturday afternoon while fighting forest fire that threatened Hope-Well Baptist church nhAiif frmr milps smith from HamD ton, Homer Goethe met death by a falling tree. Mr. Goethe and several others were working heroically to save the church building and their neighbors' property from destruction from a severe forest fire, when a large pine tree suddenly fell in the direction of the fire fighters. Mr. Goethe would have escaped, but in his effort to do so, he stumbled in a stump hole and the tree fell upon before he recovered from the fall, killing him instantly. He was buried at Hope-Well Baptist church Sunday afternoon by Rev. W. H. Dowling. Mr. Goethe was a son of W. W. Goethe and leaves his father, mother and several brothers and sisters. Desperadoes Choke Beaufort Jailer. * ifama'u oa ttita Doauiui i| iuai v^ii wx. x tt \j uvgi v desperadoes, Jackson Brown and Lewis Green, assaulted J. H. Bradham, county jailer, last night, severely choking him, and made a quick get away. After supper the jailer was putting a trusty into the jail and as he opened the door the two prisoners rushed him. One of the prisoners held him as the other choked him. Rushing down the steps, one of the negroes collided + ^ 4-Virt ioilar'e nrifo tmnHnCr VlPT I TY 1 til tuc O ?? ilV) MV* down. The sheriff and a posse were out all night hunting the negroes, but as yet they have not been captured. The sheriff has a clue to one of the negroes and thinks that he will be captured soon. Jackson Brown is the negro who, on March 12, shot at Marshal Searcy, of Port Royal and defied arrest. He was remanded to jan for assault and with intent to kill. Lewis Green was in jail on the charge of ' larceny of live stock. Both were to have been tried at the next term of court. O'Riley is in town. TO BUY MOUNTAIN LANDS. | Forest Deserve Commission Soon to j Begin Purchasing. Washington, March 27.?The National forest reservation commission, created under the Weeks law, is ready to commence purchasing lands for the creation of national forests in the Appalachian and White mountains, according to an announcement by the department of agriculture. Under the Weeks bill the secretary of agriculture was authorized to examine, locate and recommend to the commission for purchase such lands as in his judgment may be necooeoi?v fr\f ,T^?crii 1 otiflir . tVlo flAW of vDJX*l J 1V1 1 VJj vuv ?t w. navigable streams. The forestry service has printed a circular giving information as to the location and kind of land wanted. The land purchases will be restricted to the States whose legislatures have consented to the acquisition of land by the government for preserving the navigability of streams. Maine, New Hampshire, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia have already consented. The first lands to be examined for purchase will be those which, because of their altitude, steepness and lack of protection are considered to be in a class by themselves. The lands will not become game preserves, the public still being able to hunt and fish in accordance with State laws. Killed by Train. Florence, March 28.?A white man supposed to be named C. H. Blocker of St. Petersburg, Fla., was killed by the incoming train from the South at the station here to-night. He attempted to jump from the train before it stopped, supposedly to change cars, but, having a heavy suit case in his hand, was swung under the cars. The train was about to stOD as he fell under it, so that only one wheel passed over his body. He was killed instantly. The coach had to be jacked up to get the body from under the truck. The name was taken from the bag in his hand and efforts are now being: made to reach his people, through the superintendent in Jacksonville. He was a well to do man, apparently about 60 years of age. An inquest will be held in the morning. In the meantime the body is being cared for by a local undertaker. Nothing in his pockets will be looked at until at the inquest. The killing in a place so crowded as the Florence station is in the evening created a great deal of excitement among the people. Child Dies of Hydrophobia. Lancaster, March 24.?The 6-yearold son of Mr. Hutchison died last night at the home of his father in the cotton mill village of what physicians believe to have been an attack of hydrophobia. The boy was ill only three days, during which time he exhibited the various symptoms of the dread disease. He was bitten on the lip by a mad dog in Camden on the 3rd of last month, and was taken to Columbia, where it is said he received the Pasteur treatment. Trouble for Black Hand. Chicago, March 28.?United States secret service operatives are about to explore a "black hand" bomb that is expected to finally bring to justice officers and members of the body that in a little more than one year has claimed nearly 40 lives and caused a reign of terror in the Italian district here. The threat upon the life of Judge K. M. Landis of the United States district court, it is learned, was hut one feature of a program of threats and blackmail that has been carried into the midst of the government's department of justice in Chicago. The threats resulted in the recalling of members of the F. G. Alongi jury, Which disagreed after hearing evidence in a "black hand" case a week ago, and the discovery that members of the jury had been terrorized and that their inability to reach a verdict probably was the direct result of these threats. l Lie i cteui Lui ettus uj^uju juu^t Landis, upon jurors, and yesterday upon the life of a member of Assistant Chief of Police Schuettler's staff, are expected to hasten the schedule arrests. It is known that numerous Italian secret service men imported from New York in order to prevent them from being marked by the organization under investigation, are at work seeking evidence to be used In the government's moves. i 4 ; EIGHT KILLED IN WRECK DIXIE FLYER GOES THROUGH TRESTLE OVER RIVER. Five Cars Plunge Into Stream, but Same Number Remain on Track. Relief Sent. Ocilla, Ga., March 25.?In one of the worst railroad disasters in the history of the South Atlantic States 10 persons are known to have been killed and a dozen or more injured, when southbound train No. 95, known as the Dixie Flyer, went through a trestle over the Alapaha river, 18 ? 21-_ J. I- K /^'nlAnt Ui UC1C, auuui v \J i/iuvn this morning. The baggage and express cars, two day coaches and a Pullman went into the river, but five Pullmans remained on the track. This fact alone is believed to be all that prevented wholesale loss of life. The revised list of the dead and injured is given as follows: The Dead. O. F. Bonwart, Henderson, Ky.; W. W. Culpepper, Tifton, Gt\; Mrs. W. D. Fletcher, Rowland, 111.; John T. Watson, Landa, Wyo.; J. P. Woodward, express messenger, Waycross, Ga.; C. J. Parnell, conductor, Savannah, Ga.; Lucius Ellis, fireman, and Albert Simmons, porter, both colored, of Waycross, Ga. Injured. J. E. Powell, baggagemaster, Jacksonville; J. P. Klein, wife and child, St. Louis, father and mother bruised and child scalded; Peter Gerlofs, Holland, Mich., bruised; Nick Vandermelon, Grand Rapids, Mich., bruised about the head and knees; Mrs. O. F. Bonwart, Henderson, Ky.; W. T. Perkins, Cattlesburg, Ky., bruised; J. E. Greene, engineer, Waycross, bruised. Late to-night it was stated that the wreck had been thoroughly examined and that the death total will not be increased as all passengers had been accounted for. Taken to Hospital. The injured were transferred to the Atlantic Coast Line hospital at Waycross, Ga., and the dead were taken to Tifton and Waycross. According to an official statement the wreck was caused by the breaking of an axle on the engine when midway of the trestle, the weight of the train causing the trestle to collapse. The disaster came without a moment's warning to the train crew and passengers and as soon as those in the rear Pullmans realized what had happened they rushed to the edge of the river and rendered assistance to victims before the hospital trains arrived at the scene. As rapidly as possible the injured were taken from the cars on the banks and in the river, while the bodies of the dead were brought out and ranged along the bank. ' They were finally placed aboard the relief trains and hurried to Waycross and Tifton. It is not expected to have the tracks cleared and the trestle repaired for traffic before Sunday night. O'Riley is in town. Why the Housekeeper Should Vote. "As a housekeeper, I Jbave waged incessant war with the dust-cloth against the black soot which is spoiling our towns as pleasant and sanitary locations for homes; I have trudged through mud ankle-deep on Main street because a village board did not require, or at least demand, ordinary board or cement walks; I have used inadequately filtered water, uninspected milk and shopped in markets where inspection or sanitary conditions was never dreamed of; and I have visited schools and seen children housed in a building where sanitary conditions were all but unbearable. Yet these are only a few of the ways in which politics affect the home," says a writer in Woman's Home Companion for April. "I believe that there will, with equal struggle, come increased facilities for better school work, bettter legislation and enforcement of laws concerning children and child labor. This is not because men wish to be neglectful or thoughtless in these respects, but because women stand just a little closer to children and conditions affecting them than do men. And with the mothers the children will and should come first. Sanitary conditions of municipalities and laws affecting laboring women will also come in for a share of attention. Women who are near the top of the industrial scale do not particularly feel the need of the ballot as a means of protection, but should strive to attain and use it for the sake of the sisters at the bottom of the ladder." O'Riley is in town. \ - . ' i.-i , " ' <i -/* > . *!'.. / \ ? *- ' - - ''-in ' hi. ,:V. ii WOMEN ARE SEARCHED. Mrs. and Miss Hull Accused of Smuggling Valuable Necklace. The wife and daughter of Joseph Hull of Savannah, Ga., one of the weaumesi a,iiu uiuat mnucuuai wcu . -ig in the South, were required to disrobe in their state room aboard the steamship Lusitania at New York on Friday while a custom inspe ss, acting on a mysterious tip, Su .sequently found to be false, made a vain search for a diamond necklace thought to have been purchased abroad. ' The searching proved futile, Mrs. Hull and her daughter, Miss Eliza Lamar Hull, were allowedto proceed to their hotel, where another daugh tfer, Miss Nina Hull, convalescing from an attack of typhoid fever, had preceded them without having been subjected to search. The necklace rumor dismissed, customs inspectors searched the family baggage, and, charging undervaluation in the case of Mrs. Hull and Miss Eliza Hull, seized the articles in question. Mother and daughter claimed they bad acted in good faith, but their explanations were not con sidered satisfactory to Collector Loeb and the articles were seized. They consist entirely of wearing apparel and will be held until "the home value," that is the foreign cost, plus duty, is paid. .Joseph Hull, the husband and father, was on the pier to greet his wife and daughter, as was a son, Daniel, a cotton broker in this city. All were indignant at the proceed- ' ings and threaten to carry the matter to the courts if necessary. ? v:^aa|8 "We were made to take off even our stockings," said Mrs. Hull. "Every stitch of our clothing was searched and even our hair did not escape. I consider this treatment an outrage; I had no idea such a thing could happen on American soil." It was explained for the family that the report concerning the necklace had probably come from Savannah, where there was jealousy over the fact that the Hulls were fortunate enough te afford luxuries and finery. As te the undervaluation charges, Daniel Hull said: x "My sister Eliza, was the only one of the three who had previously been abroad, so I and my father sent wireless to be very cautious and particular in making their declarations. As to the alleged undervaluation, the total can he no more than $150 and that was due to ignorance of my mother and sister and was done with no malicious intent." \ "My sister Eliza has a diamond necklace which she purchased five years ago in Savannah. A customs inspector there heard of this and got the . mistaken impression that she Sp bought the trinket in Paris and was^ -'SB bringing it with her on this trip. Of course she had no such jewels." It was pointed out at the law department of the custom house tonight that federal authorities have. full power to search passengers suspected of having dutiable articled concealed about them, and it was added that there has never been a suit brought as the result of such a ? searcu. ' "-jjEg - Joseph Hull came on here from 'J$|S Savannah to meet bis returning wife mMm and daughter. He is president of the Merchants' National bank of that city, chairman of the board of directors of the Savannah Trust company, a director of the Central railroad and president of the Prairie Phosphate company. He is credited with having made many millions out of phosphate properties. Ends Hfe~Own Life. PharlfMotrm 14nrf?h 97 Rnfua T Hasell, bookkeeper for Welch & Eason and a well known young man, committed suicide this morning at the office of the grocery company shortly after he had entered the place. He was the first, as usual to enter the office en the second floor and a few minutes later the report of a pistol was heard, and upon a couple of the clerks rushing upstairs Mr. Hassell was found on the floor by his desk with an ugly wound in his * ' -,.;r right temple. He had placed the weapon close to his head and pulled the trigger. Hasell bought the pistol with which he committed the act on his way to his office, the weapon being a new one. Only one cartridge was used, and death was probably instantaneous. No cause was assigned for the deed, and in rendering its veVdict the jury, which promptly viewed the body, declared that Hasell had killed himself while temporarily insane. He is survived by his mother, two brothers and a sister. He was held in high esteem by his employers. v -