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...... ?Itr Hambrrg ifrralfc ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KNIGHT, Editor. Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live ana growing uuy 01 jdcuuberg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by electric power, with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year, $1.00, or 10 cents a month for less than one year. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. Advertisements?$ 1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under special head, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, and twelve months. Write for rates. Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and adI/-' dress of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions exgK." pressed in any communication. |S>3' Thursday, August 24, 1911. I No movement heretofore started &: ; in Bamberg is so popular as the sewerage proposition. Every citizen that we have talked to is in favor of it. That our people want a sewerage system seems to be certain, and they all* say that nothing would be of more benefit to the town. It is up to our legislative delegation to have the proper'bill passed at the session f-n Tnrmarv so that the constitutional I amendment can be submitted to the voters of the State at the election in November of next year, and then to K the voters of Bamberg. H The matter of primary elections is again receiving some notice by the newspapers. Something should pertainly be done to insure fair and honest elections, and we trust that the press of the State will take up | the matter and not cease the agitacronoral ARSAmhlv is Ilium UJ^UI tuc gviiv?v.? ? ? forced to throw proper restrictions around.the primary. We don't want anybody disfranchised, but no person should be allowed to vote in a primary who is not qualified. The * system now is entirely too lax and gives room for fraud. The Bamberg Herald seems to think the public service corporations are about to take the State. In a re >- cent issue it said "the greatest men, ace which confronts South Carolina at this time is domination of our I politics by public service corporations." We do not know how it is ' over in Bamberg, but we are sure that no public service corporation dominates the politics of Orangeburg county. The Herald ought to expose the politicians of its county if they are being unduly influenced by public service corporations.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. No reference was made to county affairs in our article, and none was intended. Bamberg is, we believe, free from corporation control, but the same cannot be said of the State as a whole. Thinks Crop Reports Colored. Atlanta, Aug. 17.?Alleging that Southern crop conditions have been .grossly exaggerated, T. G. Hudson, ||tv' commissioner of agriculture of Georgid> has written to all similar officials llpr in all the Southern States, asking ife- that they meet and devise plans to ~ correct what he calls wrong impressions of the outlook, jfo- He asks that all farmers' organiza^ tions co-operate with the State com||?v missioners. It is declared that crops, Wj0/ especially cotton, will not have as jfe;. large yields as have been reported, Sp' -V and that such alleged false reports pPC ywill tend to hurt prices. ASK PARDON FOR HAINES. I Jurors Petition Governor J>ix in Case of Army Captain. New York, Aug. 21.?The jurors who convictecl Capt. Peter C. Haines, United States army, of the murder of William E. Annis three years ago this month, it was learned to-day, have sent a petition to Gov. Dix, asking the pardon of Haines, who is now serving a sentence of from eight to fifteen years in Sing Sing." Aaron Barnes obtained the signatures of other jurymen, he says, ""who express the greatest sympathy with the captain and his aged parMiss Lucile Gunter of the Odd Fellows orphanage, Greenville, won the scholarship in Winthrop college offered by the Daughters of the Confederacy. KILLING IN SUMTER COUNTY. Allen McCoy Charged with Murder of Tommy Heneghan. Sumter, Aug. 21.?News was received in the city Sunday morning of the killing Saturday night of Tommy Heneghan, colored, on the Plowden's Mill road, about four miles from this city. From the evidence that was gleaned and from an alleged confession made this afternoon by Allen McCoy, another negro, it seems that Heneghan was killed by Allen McCoy, death resulting from a blow delivered from a shovel. Testimony was taken yesterday by Coroner Flowers and the jury brought in a verdict that Heneghan had come to - ' J ?:i.u his death from a Diow aenvereu wuu a dull instrument by Allen McCoy, and that his wife, Georgiana McCoy was an accessory to the act. Both of the parties were arrested and lodged in jail. This afternoon McCcfr was stripped in the county jail by Jailer Owens and his underclothes were found to be splotched with blood. He then, it is said, confessed to killing Heneghan, and stated that he had done it because he had heard that Heneghan threatened -to kill him. He stated that his wife had nothing to do with the killing and she stated that she had not seen him Saturday night. Georgiana McCoy was held on the testimony of her mother, that she had said that her husband had threatened to kill her if she did not help him bury the body of the slain man. Heneghan was killed Saturday night, when he was accompanying Georgiana McCoy, Allen McCoy's wife, home from the lodge, where a crowd of negroes had spent part of the night, and his body was dragged almost half a mile and buried in a pile of sawdust. Magistrate Must Pay Fine. Spartanburg, Aug. 19.^-As a result of his fight with R. G. Gibbs, in Thompson & Dillard's store yesterday afternoon, during which he fired a revolver four times, missing Gibbs' but slightly injuring Mrs. Jones F. Thompson, a saleslady, Magistrate T. O. Fowler, of Reidville, in police court to-day was fined $100 for disorderly conduct, $100 for carrying concealed weapons and $25 for discharging firearms in the city. The evidence was that the attack on Gibbs was unprovoked and Gibbs was discharged. A charge of transporting whiskey has also been made against Fowler, but this case was continued. Fowler has also been bound over for general session court on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons. CAROLINIANS SHOW UP WELL. Doing Some Fine Shooting at Camp Perry Meet. Camp Perry, 0., Aug. 21.?The nresident's match began to-day. wjth * """ - - the 'Palmetto team participating. Each man fired ten-shot scores at 200 and 600 yards, also making one skirmish run. The shooting of the South Carolina men to-day was excellent, Capt. C. W. Boykin making 100 per cent, on the 600-yard range. The match closes to-morrow with a score at rapid-fire and 1,000 yards slow fire, only the 100 men making the highest scores shooting. It is expected that several South Carolina men will get in on the finals. Dies at Hands of Thugs. Boston, Aug. 20.?Lieut. A. Whittier, executive officer of the United States revenue cutter Androscoggin, died at the relief hospital to-day from injuries received at the hands of thugs last night. Lieut. Whittier with another officer of the ship and two friends were returning to their vessel from the theatre and were set upon and all heat to unconsciousness while passing through North street. A small crowd gathered but the assailants escaped. Lieut. Whittier did not recover consciousness and was taken to the relief station where he was operated upon early and a blod clot removed from his brain. He did not revive. A widow and one child survive. Lieut. Whittier was 32 years old and was appointed to the revenue cutter service from Maine, his home being at Searsport. Up to a late hour to-night the po lice had secured little information about the assault. All of the party were struck down from behind with no opportunity for self defense. Walking with Whittier was Lieut. Horace Reach, chief engineer of the Androscoggin. Behind were George H. Farwell, and Harry G. Gleason, both of Boston. The murder adds one more to several of like nature which have occurred in the North End during the past few years, the victims being in almost every case connected with some department of the navy. It is believed that slugshots or clubs were used in the assault. Lieut. Whittier had a high reputation in the service for character and ability. ' ' *"*7 " ' -J TWO KILLED, OTHERS INJURED. , Fatal Collision on Atlantic Coast Lumber Corporation's Road. Kingstree, Aug. 21.?The Atlantic 1 Coast Lumber Corporation's train i No. 101 was wrecked this morning i at Cooper's siding, five miles east of this place, and T. Blakely, white, of Trio, and Willie McCrea, colored, were killed outright and four others badly, if not seriously injured. The train left Andrews early this morning, with the logging and track crew for Camp No. 7. As it approached Cooper's siding, running at about twenty to twenty-five miles an hour, 1 Engineer Smith saw the open switch i ahead, when he immediately reversed i hie pnen'ne. and he. with the fireman, jumped. The engine and crew cars rushed into the open switch, colliding with a car of logs that had been 1 placed there Saturday night. I Blakely, it is said, was riding on the pilot of the engine and was fearfully mangled in the collision. McCrea was on one of the log trucks and when the momentum of the train was checked was thrown under the trucks and mashed to death. The engine and cars did not leave the track. The injured are: J. H. White, general woods foreman; John Smith, engineer; D. Long, fireman, and J. J. Barwick, timekeeper, all white. SEEKING NEGRO PREACHER. Two Hundred Men Hunting Slayer of Marshall. Donaldsonville, Ga., Aug. 16.?Two hundred armed men, with track dogs, are scouring the woods across the Chattahooche river in Florida, in search of Charles West, a negro preacher, who last night shot and killed Marshall Newberry while resisting arrest. Should the negro be caught it is believed a lynching will follow. Newberry was attempting to arrest West on the charge of wife-beating. THREE HELD WITHOUT BAIL. First Degree Murder Charged Against Alleged Lynchers. Coatesville, Pa., Aug. 19.?Three men, alleged to have been members of the mob which last Sunday took ! Zack Walker from a hospital here and burned him to death1, are behind -L1? ~f +Vi? onuntv 1nH at West I Lit! Udl a Ul WC vuuut,. J ? . Chester, charged with murder. They are Joseph Swartz, who came here recently and is a wrigger for Worth Erothers, iron and steel manufacturers; Capt. E. C. Berry, a parachute jumper, and William H. Gilbert, a Philadelphia and Reading railroad fireman. The two latter were arrested yesterday and sent to jail in default of $1,000 as material witnesses. They were later released on bond, but late this afternoon, after the district attorney had questioned Swartz for a long time, Berry and Gilbert were rearrested and held on the charge of murder in the first degree. I All three of the men were taken into custody late this afternoon and rushed to West Chester, where they are held without bail. These are I the first men to be held on a direct charge of the murder. Other arrests are expected Monday. TWO WIVES IN SAME HOUSE. Female Enoch Arden Unable to Stay Away?She Has No Redress. Pittsburg, Kan., Aug. 19.?"I love him and I cannot stay away from him even if Louisa is also his wife," declared Mrs. Anna Catherine Sharp, first wife of Peter C. Sharp, of this city, who returned here yesterday from New Orleans, where she went following a quarrel with Sharp's second and younger wife, Louisa. The first Mrs. Sharp last night was a guest again at the Sharp home. "She can stay as long as she wants to," said Mrs. Louisa Sharp last night, "but I am to be the. boss." Sharp and his first wife, Anna Catherine, were parted in the great Chicago fire. Nine years ago he came to Pittsburg and married his second wife, Louisa. Anna Catherine located Sharp through the United States pension bureau. She came here but found him married. As she had been legally dead many years, she had no standing in court. Sharp, however, took her into his home and for several weeks the two wives lived in the same house, the first one as a guest. Quarrels caused Anna Catherine to go to New Orleans to live with a son over a month ago. Chicken Roasted by Auto. Thomaston, Conn., Aug. 20.? Roasting chicken on the radiator of an automobile going 50 miles an hour is the latest method of preparing that delicacy in this State, autoists say to-day. As Mr. and Mrs. Cyler, of this place, were returning from Thompsonville in their automobile, they smelled roast chicken, and thought for a time that every family along the road must be preparing it for dinner. The problem was solved when a fine broiler was found entangled in the radiator, which had roasted the chicken to a dedicate brown during the 30 mile drive. r-r ? I Our lines of Staple Groceries always insure success, because they we always pure, fresh and reliable, so that what you put up will be found good and sweet when opened for use later on in the wilnter. IHerndon Malcolm Moye, Mgr. "NOT GUILTY," BEATTIE'S PLEA. Motions for Delay Denied and Prisoner Arraigned for Trial. Chesterfield, Va., Aug. 21.?Quick action marked the opening to-day of the trial of Henry Clay BeattLe, Jr., charged with the murder of his wife while on a motor ride a month ago. The jurors will be chosen from a ? * - M J. special venire ui iwbuij. Beattie, when arraigned, pleaded "not guilty." The jurors, all hut two of them, are farmers from the county. The two exceptions are a quarryman and a druggist. All motions of the defense for postponement were denied, and the preliminary steps were taken this morning at the opening session of the trial. The afternoon session moved more slowly. A second venire of twenty men was examined, but five more jurors, subject to the four peremp tory challenges of the defense, were added to the list. Judge Walter Watson then adjourned court, giving the sheriff until noon on Wednesday to assemble the additional venire. Binford Girl Not Present. The majority of the onlookers came from Chesterfield Court House, and about two hundred of them?all men?crowded into the court room. Beulah Binford, the 17-year-old "girl in the case," did not appear at the court house. She is held in jail at Richmond as a material witness, but it was not deemed necessary to bring her here to-day. Paul Beattie, the prisoher's cousin, and one of the commonwealth's chief witnesses, also was left in his cell at Richmond. Mrs. Claude Powell, sister of the Blnford girl, appeared and attracted much attention. Henry Clay Beattie, Sr., sat beside his son and followed the proceedings closely. Few words were passed between him and the prisoner, wrho showed no nervousness when the indictment was read, though he fretted about being confined. He scanned with interest the newspaper reports giving the details of the proceedings. Sheriff Mills took Beattie back to Richmond to-day. The Prisoner Arrives. < Bareheaded, chewing gum and : smiling, Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., 1 swept up to the Chesterfield county : court house in an automobile at 10 ' o'clock to answer the charge that he : killed his wife in an automobile on Midlothian pike, near Richmond, 1 more than a month ago. Judge Wat- J son arrived before the prisoner to 1 convene court. Beattie's aged father 3 had reached Chesterfield half an 1 ? Tn AAiiT<f fofliat? ond cnn Iioui eainci. j.11 tuun u,u.vi sat side by side, and exchanged whispers. Beattie then began to talk with his lawyers. 1 There were all sorts of rumors of 't possible postponements or continuance, but, with more than sixty witnesses subpoenaed by the common wealth and a venire of 32 talesmen en route to the court house, the crowd began to assemble early, hop- 1 ing to catch a glimpse of the mer- ( chant's son charged with shooting his young wife as they motored near i Richmond on the night of July 18. i W. T. Tinsley, the aged father-in- ? law of Judge Walter Watson, of the ? Chesterfield circuit court, whose ill- 1 ness gave rise to reports of possible < delay in the case, spent a compara- t tively good night and the judge let I It be known that, notwithstanding ill-J i e Fruit Pre % is Grocer Telephone 24 i ness in the family, he would be on J < hand to convene court. < Eager to See Accused. It had been given out that the dap- j per young prisoner might be brought here as early as 8 o'clock and the shadows of dawn had scarce been dissipated when the crowd began to gather. Court opened at 10 o'clock. ^ Beattie was up with the sun, ready j for the fifteen-mile automobile ride ( from Richmond to the jail here. His , jailers say he slept well?as he has j done since his arrest more than a month ago. He dressed carefully, glanced at the morning paper, ate a . light breakfast and sat waiting in the ( jail corridor for his first trip in the open air since his imprisonment. ' There was a slight prison pallor on . his face, but the wholesome routine , of jail life has healed his hard-earned scars of boyish dissipation and on the whole he appeared the well r?lpnn-r>nt. hov of a fifOOd family that he is. Beulah Binford, the pretty 17- , year-old "girl in the case," made no ] preparations to leave the jail in ? Richmond, where she has been held as a material witness, but Paul Beat- , tie, the prisoner's cousin, who has , sworn that he purchased the gun with ] which Louise Wellford Owen Beattie ; was shot, was instructed late last \ night that he must be ready to make j the journey by automobile to Chester- ] field. J State Depends on Cousin. j The star witness for the prosecution, Paul, has said little since his 1 incarceration, but on his testimony 11 ? ? Vinnna + r\ oonfl Vila I lie CUIIiLUUii wcanu uupco IV OV/UU. Ja*u 26-year-old cousin to the electric j chair. The Binford girl may be called as a witness as the trial progresses. . . . , The strictly formal proceedings of ] Beattie's indictment drew more than \ 500 persons to the court house here t last Monday and with prospect of the ^ actual beginning of his fight for life, ^ Chesterfield county has a prospective spectator or. auditor in every family ^ with a male member more than 12 < years old. i To Virginia's credit, it was noted t that not one white woman was in c court when the prisoner was indicted 1 and, barring those who may be call- i ed as witnesses, it is believed that t few, if any, women will attempt to c crowd into the little court room dur- r ing the trial. ' t Henry Clay Beattie, Sr., father of 1 n the defendant, probably will be in 1 almost constant attendance at the s trial, but few members of the Owen family are expected. Victim's Parents Stay Away. 3 Thomas Owen, an uncle, will be a 1 witness, but the father and mother of the murdered woman, Mr. and Mrs. Owen, are now in Dover, Del., and will not attend' the proceedings ^ unless their testimony is considered absolutely necessary by the commonwealth. q Judge Watson spent several min- t utes talking with special newspaper ]\ correspondents and arranging seats. a Beattie leaned over the walnut o railing and talked lightly with those aear him. The old father sat silent, c stroking his gray hair. Dark circles a showed under the prisoner's eyes, r out otherwise he looked trim and i: cool. Counsel for both sides took b ;heir seats at 10:15 o'clock. The e prisoner entered into an earnest con- e rersation with H. V. Smith, Jr., his b ^ ^ v. Xjy serving j rhose housekeepers ? yho put up theirown a reserves know that g ? , pints and other es- A ,/l. entials, {only can be g tsed and that the^ ? ;hief lawyer. At 10:20 t"he sheriff jpenr" court. The tiny room wa? jammed as the proceedings began, and to discourage the curious and idle, the court orderid that all disinterested spectators . < stand up and remain standing. Two tvomen newspaper writers were the )nly white representatives of the feminine sex in the yard or court building. The clerk formally called the jase for the commonwealth and the . . a prosecution asked that the prisoner g be arraigned. Hears Indictment Read. Hill Carter, for the defence, then asked for further delay, saying the defence was not ready to go to trial. His plea was that the case go over juntil next Monday. The court denied the arguments for postponement j and instructed that the trial proceed. In denying the requests of the defence for a postponement of the case, Judge Watson said that the matter nf continuance might be considered ? after the trial proper had begun. The defence moved that the indictment be quashed on the ground of error, rhe motion was overruled. jj Dtatliio was aiiaigucu <vc xx j j'clock. He stood steadily, but with eyes closed as the indictment was read. He entered a plea of not guilty. Beattie did not seem to realize when the reading of the indictment had r tj teen concluded. It was necessary for his lawyers to prompt him. Then in ' i clear voice he said, "Not guilty." _ f L.EVER GETS WEDDING PRESENT . ' ; Flandsome Gift from Congressman's Colleagues on House Committee. X5 Washington, Aug. 21.?Chairman Lamb, of the house committee on igriculture, called a special meeting >f the committee for the purpose of presenting Representative A. P. c' Lever, of the 7th South Carolina disrict, who is the ranking membef Of ;he committee, with a beautiful cut ?lass and silver vase, by way of con- , jratulating him upon his marriage. The presentation speech was made rery neatly by Representative Beall, )f Texas, who threw a little humor nto his remarks *by saying that all he other members of the committee >n agriculture felt grateful to Mr. L?ever for letting some of the balance n the treasury go to other States han South Carolina. Mr. Lever ex- 1 y -ncarf bfinsplf nn the ground of his ecent illness, from making an eXended reply, but thanked the com- nittee very feelingly, in behalf of drs. Lever and himself, for the handome gift. JOINT REUNION PROPOSED. X femphis Ex-Confederates to Invite Union Veterans. 4 Memphis, Aug. 21.?With an esleclally engraved invitation to the ommander and members of the < A -A J.1. T-? trana Army oi xne ivepuunc, m actual encampment this week at Rohester, N. Y., Judge J. M. Greer, W. J. Dullinger and N. B. Forest left / o-night to invite the old soldiers to lemphis on the occasion of the first ttempt to hold a national reunion f the blue and gray. The joint reunion is set for this ity on September 27. The parade nd reunion will be followed by va- : ious events in behalf of the veterans, ncluding a barbecue cooked by ante ellum slaves. The Confederate .Vetrans and the Sons of Veterans have ndorsed the joint reunion of the lue and gray.