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' ;! ' -m ..^S tEb? Hamburg feralb j ~ One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 3,1913 Established 1891. , * rr\ **? ? iumvi'TT T P COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS L IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. 8| News Items Gathered All Around the H County and Elsewhere. B Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, June 30.?Ehrhardt was visited by an electric storm Saturday night about 2 o'clock. While the }town was under electric illumination 3 a 1 i ? , ? 1 ~ ~ C + v, . . t r tw\ -c emu iLie iiectv > ycais ui uiuuuci t?>v/ houses in Robertsville were set on fire. First. Arthur C. Kearse's % (colored) smoke house was alarmed 5. for. Before citizens could get to the fire, Mr. J. D. Dannelly's barn showed signs of the lightning, and flames soon had a smouldering ruin in place of the large barn that acted as a back stop for the base ball grounds. Arthur says his loss was merely house, his stock of meats, etc., was not over SI50.00. Mr. Dannelly lost a lot of oats, corn, etc., and farming impliments amounting to $2,000 or $2.500 at least. Don't think he could replace his loss for the amount named. Mr. Dannelly and his wife were away from home. The lightning and thunder was as vivid and loud that most of our citizens were * afraid to venture out to render assistance to those in need. Mrs. J. D. Dannelly is spending u some time with a friend in Worth, N. C. Rev. P. E. Monroe, of Johnston, * - S. C., has been elected president of Summerland Female College. Rev. Monroe served quite a number of years as pastor of Mt. Pleasant Lutheran church. Knowing the man and the position to be filled we all feel I that if his energy and ability (what is called push) will do any good, the school will be a success. Here's our congratulations and wishes for the best of success for him in his new field. Messrs. Chas. and Herbert Ehr- J hardt are ahead on the vegetable growing list so far. They showed me a squash last week that had a C on the stem end of squash and E on the blossom end. Hard to believe, but can be proven. ? Don't know that they have gotten the lettering of * vegetables down to a science or not, but this one had the letters perfect. Miss Dorothy Taylor, of Newberry, is spending some time with her sister, Mrs. Herbert Ehrhardt. The weather makes ice in good demand. JEE. [ . 1 Country Correspondence. So long we've been silent and now very little we have to offer; our community is thinly peopled, con sequently there's little above minor importance happening, but the Herald is a very welcome visitor among us. We have been visited lately with very refreshing showers. A good deal of electricity accompanied the rain storm Saturday night. Have heard of a good many trees and some houses being damaged by its visit. Mrs. Susanna McMillan, of Ehrhardt, came from a visit to Mrs. Westberry, her daughter, Sunday, and is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Hill, in our midst. The glorious 4th is near us and as usual the picnics are promising to * be plentiful in number to celebrate the great day of Independence. Sirs, iselin's horse killed. Lightning Strikes Many Times at Hopeland Farms, Near Aiken. Aiken, June 30.?Of sufficient in> * terest to mention is the fact that during the past two months of the thunder storm season, lightning has ? struck no less than eleven times in the immediate vicinity of Hopeland Farms, the plantation of Mr. Jno. Wallenberg, a prominent and successful farmer residing about three miles east of Aiken. On one occasion it killed two mules and a saddle horse, the latter being the property of Mrs. C. Olover Iselin, wife of the well known Gotham millionaire and sports4 man. Sunday afternoon, and just a few moments after Mr. Wallenberg had left that point, the lightning struck a tree within eight feet of the residence proper. Gigantic Breed. A woman at a recent dog show noticed a pretty girl gazing around as if puzzled. She went over to her and said: Pardon me, but can't you find the kennel you wish? If not, I shall be glad to assist you." "Oh, thank you," she replied. "Would you mind showing me where they are exhibiting the ocean greyhounds?"?National Monthly. DENMARK SOCIAL NEWS. jj I Happenings in Our Thriving Little Sister City. Denmark, June 2S.?Mrs Frank V. James entertained last Friday j Si evening in honor of her guest, Miss Isabelle Strait, of Rock Hill. Miss Ruth Guess is spending several weeks with relatives in Batesburg. After a visit of three weeks to c< Miss Josephine Faust, Miss Belle as Ross returned to her home in Macon, s; Ga.. on Tuesday. c< Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Riley of Char- e< lotte, X. C.. spent several days with friends here last week. Miss Emmie Marvin of Henderson- 7 ville is the guest of Miss Lynn Gools- t,; ! b.v. w i Misses Edna Steadman and Kath-! jc J ryne Wilkerson and Elmore Steadman J tr ' are attending a house party in Batesburg at the home of Miss Frieda Rut- K land. C( Mrs. H. J. Faust and daughter, T Miss Virginia, left "Wednesday for ^ Christiansburg. Va.. to spend the sumct J mer with relatives. Miss Julia Goolsby spent a few days last week in Bamberg as the guest of Miss Martha Ray. Miss Ruth Byrd of Bamberg made ^ 1 In a short star here last week. si Miss Louise Zeigler went, WedC( nesday, to visit Miss Irma Warren in Allendale. * Mrs. W. L. Rilev and Mrs. R. A. S* cl Goolsby are visiting the latter's ! mother, Mrs. T. E. Stokes in Orange151 burg. Mrs. Fred Turner has returned to her home in Augusta, after several w weeks' stay with relatives here. si Miss Frieda Rutland returned to ol | her home in Batesburg on Tuesday, M j after an extended visit to Miss Edna i Steadman. ai Mrs. Poland Griffin of Lynchburg se is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. in G. W. Hightower. ai James Fogle left Sunday for Hen- in j dersonville, X. C., to spend several fc ! weeks. j Miss Clara and Frank Wyman went jj to Charleston on Wednesday to spend some time with relatives. SI Mrs. Xorman Walker of Appleton was the guest of .Mrs. j. u. ri. uuess this week. gi Fairfax Fancies. ai at Fairfax. June 30.?Miss Celestie . jd Brodie, of Augusta, is the charming ^ guest of Mrs. W. L. Brooks. Mrs. Va. McDaniel is spending some time in Beaufort. ge Mrs. W. O. Smith, of Savannah, is visiting Mrs. H. M. Harveley. q( Mr. Paul Amand, of Sumter, is here wj | among old friends. Prof. L. O. Watson, of Clemson t I College, spent the week-end with G. n D. Sanders. in Misses Louella and Estella Lawton. rg of Hampton, were guests of Miss Mar- . i 1 garet Folk on Friday. . j Mrs. John Brunson and children, of Gifford, are guests of Miss May | Brunson. ^ Fairfax and Augusta played a se- ^ I ries of three games of base ball, Mon day, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The games were all close, and very inter- * al esting. Mrs. M. C. Dowling has returned ^ from a week's stay in Augusta, bring- ^ ing with her a loved aunt. Miss May Brunson has had considerable improvements made on her g, home recently, and it looks quite new now. There will be a lawn party and silver tea in Mrs. S. L. Sanders's lawn on the afternoon of July 4th, under ^ charge of Ladies' Aid Society. Mr. Elliott O'Neal, of Florida, is ' t C spending some time here with his p i parents. ^ ! Misses Sadie Harter and Ruth WilI con hflvo r&tnrnpH frnm a nlPflRnnt visit to friends up the country. Mrs. W. E. Harter will visit at Hickory Grove on July 4th. Mr. Davis, superintendent of the tc Methodist Sunday-school, is now in H.1 the hospital at Columbia for treatment. pi Miss Edith Googe has returned from a pleasant trip to Baldoc. Mr. Lipscomb, a brother of Mrs. Sc Johnston, is visiting her here. Mrs. W. E. Harter spent several a si days in Charleston recently. LeRoy Young left to-day for the mountains of North Carolina. Mrs. J. F. Lightsey and children u have gone to Sullivan's Island for a C1 31 few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Judson Lightsey, of ^ Rrnn?nn -orith Misspc TTnttip arid P* Theresa Lightsev, visited here this week. 11 ^ G Have you noticed that the snake stories are unusually weird and in- ol tereeting this season? T S THE PALMETTO STATE IttEE OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. tate News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The prohibitionists of Orangeburg mnty will make a strong fight ?ainst re-establishing the dispensary rstem in that county. In other ninties a warm campaign is expect3. Geo. \V. Watts, a well-known citi?n of Georgetown, committed suicide j 1 ' 1. ^ ,15 I i V? /N I uesclay by snooting nimsen iu uic i reast three times with a pistol. He | as 4 2 years old, and had suffered a i ing time from various physical j oubles. The Gilbert community of Lexing- j hi county has had two cases of j ?rebro-spinal meningitis recently. | hat is the report by James Adams aynes. M. D.. State health officer nd secretary of the State board of ealth, who had been called into coniltation. Various sites for the Baptist hosital, which is to be erected in Coimbia, in the near future, were couriered Friday at a meeting of the immittee charged with this duty. ?veral of these sites are receiving irious consideration, and while no loice has been made the committee opes to come to a definite concluon within the next few days. Mrs. William McAbee and baby ere shot and seriously injured by a lotgun in the hands of a 12-veartd boy. a cousin of the McAbees, onday night at Inman, S. C. The oman was holding the baby in her ms when the boy, who had been nt into the house to get the gun, t fun pointed the gun at the baby id pulled the trigger. Shot lodged l the woman's hip and severed a >ot of the baby. ESPERATE NEGRO SAFE IX JAIL layer of Two Georgia Farmers Wounded lie fore Capture. Shellman, Ga., June 29.?The ne o who shot and killed J. O. Wilson id Ben Swords, well known farmers Cordray's Mill, yesterday, has been iled at Morgan, Calhoun County, fter the negro shot the two white en he himself was wounded by an lcle of Swords, but his wound is not irious. Feeling is running high in Calhoun Dunty because of the shooting, and lile there has been no move towards olence, it will be no surprise if an tempt is made to-night to get the igro from jail. Details of the shootg were learned to-day, when posses ;turned to this place after an alight hunt for the negro, whom they ter learned was in the custody of e sheriff of Calhoun County. Swords id his uncle had been fishing at Cor ay's Mill, and on their return home jcame engaged in a dispute with the igro at his home. Mr. Wilson and a >ung man were passing the house id stopped to intervene. Wilson icceeded in disarming Swords and id gotten him to the buggy when ie negro opened fire on Swords and le man who had acted as peacemak*. Wilson was killed instantly and words so badly wounded that he led before reaching home. The sheriff of Calhoun County beat ie posse from this place to the scene l the shooting and hence got away ith the negro, taking him to Moran. The body of Mr. Wilson was iken to-night to his former home at orsyth, in Monroe County, for buri1. Flags Never Become Rags. The Government sets an example ) the whole country in requiring lat worn out flags shall be burned 3d not permitted to become mere ieces of waste rag. Whether or not ay special law or regulation governs le disposing of the flags, the univeril practice of the army and navy for aerations has been that whenever flag is no longer fit for service it lall be destroyed. When a flag used at an army post r on board a naval vessel becomes nserviceable a requisition to the nartermaster is made for a new one ad the old one is burned. The same isposition is made of flags used on lblic buildings in Washington. Cus)dians of buildings outside Washigton buys their flags outright of the overnment. Whether or not they )llow the official plan of disposing f old flags cannot be stated.?Boston ranscript. SEVEXTY-FOUR DIE FROM HEAT, i Chicago and Tucson Hottest Places in the United States. ! Chicago, June 30.?Reports received up to a late hour to-nightshow- ] ed that at least 74 persons died to-day as a result of the heat wave in the Central West. The heat wave, which has continued uninterruptedly for six days, extended from Denver to Pitts- . burg, and as far nortn as L.aKe super- ( ior. Chicago with a temperature of , 102 degrees was the hottest place in ] the United States, except Tucson, ( Ariz., where the temperature also ( was 102. I Intense suffering was reported in all the large cities enveloped in the 1 heat wave. Thirty-nine persons are known to ( have died in Chicago to-day as a re- j suit of the intense heat. This num- ( ber includes only the cases reported by the coroner and the police, and it , is expected will be increased by re- , ports of private physicians. Of these deaths, 22 were the direct result of heat strokes, five persons committed suicide as a result of the heat, and ( two deaths were of children seeking relief. This was the hottest June ( day recorded in this city since the i < Government records were first kept ( in IS72. Xinety-nine degrees was , the official temperature, but the Gov ernment thermometer on the street i level showed a temperature of 102 1 degrees. The heat last night and to- < day was not tempered by a breeze. The record breaking heat to-day 1 was the culmination of a six day pe- ; riod, in which the thermometer dropped below 90 degrees only for a few 1 hours in the early mornings and for o tinio of nicrhtc T'n f n fho lo.cf 91 < U liiAAW UC V, p VV Viiv/ iUVV M X hours more than forty persons are i known to have died as a result of ] the heat. More than 100 cases of heat prostrations were reported to ] the police to-day. Hospital ambu- ] lances handled as many more and < all the hospitals in the city are filled < to-night with those stricken in the ( streets. < Extra police crews were detailed to ambulance duty and patrol wagons as well as the regular ambulances were < called into use to carry heat victims l to their homes or to hospitals. Reports from Coroner Hoffman in- 1 dicate that few persons under forty 1 years of age had been seriously af- 1 fected by the heat. The average of * those who died was fifty years. 1 Highest Mountain in United States. The highest mountain in Oregon is ( Mount Hood, 11,225 feet above sea level. Compared with Mount Whit- 1 ney, to the south in California, and Mount Ranier, to the north in Washington, each rising well above 14,000 feet, Mount Hood does not appear as a skyscraper. However, according to the geologists of the United States geological survey and other authorities, Oregon had at one time, probably before the dawn of life upon the earth, a great volcano which towered as far above Mount Hood as does Mount Ranier, possibly even several thousand feet higher. This was the great Mount Mazama. But thousands of years ago this mountain disappeared into the bowels of the earth, and all that is left today is the huge rim : around Crater Lake. Crater Lake is the caldera of this 1 extinct and collapsed volcano and is , nearly six miles in diameter. The inside walls of the rim of the ancient mountain are in places nearly 4,000 feet high and almost perpendicular. The lake itself, is in places 2,000 feet deep and parts of the wall rise above its water another 2,000 feet. A restoration of the mountain in fancy, ; using as a base the angles of the lower slopes, which still remain, shows < that the apex could not have been ; far from 15,000 feet in height, so < that Mount Mazama was one of the , most lofty and majestic peaks in the , United States.?San Francisco Chron- | icle. , n Xot His Property. After the small boy emerged from the quick lunch place he opened a paper bag and revealed a club sandwich. Glancing furtively around, he ' lifted off the top slice of bread, took out a piece of chicken, ate it and re- i placed the bread. A few moments ' later he again removed the "lid," extracted a piece of bacon and repeat- 1 ed this process as he shuffled along 1 Market street until all the bacon was : gone and most of the chicken. A man who had watched the process i with curiosity, tapped the boy on the shoulder and inquired: "Say, kid, why don't you eat your < sandwich instead of picking at it that way?" i "Dasn't!" replied the youth. 1 " 'Tain't mine."?New York Globe. i VAUGHN MUST DIE IN CHAIR SUPREME COURT REMANDS CASE TO FIX EXECUTION DAY Defendant's Attorneys Failed to Show Abuse of Discretion on Part of Judge. Columbia, June 30.?In the case of r. U. Vaughn, former superintendent of the State Odd Fellows' Orphanage at Greenville, who confessed to unlawful relations with girls placed un3er his care and was sentenced to be electrocuted last December 20, the Supreme Court to-day affirmed the judgment of the Circuit Court and the case was remanded for the purpose of having another day for execution set. The opinion was written by Chief Justice Eugene B. Gary and concurred in by Associate Justices Hydrick, Watts and Fraser. The next term of Court of General Sessions of Greenville County will be held in October. The Court's Findings. Concerning the exceptions, the Court held that the attorneys for Vaughn failed to show an abuse of discretion on the part of the Judge, and that the right to insist upon the errors assigned was waived when the defendant withdrew the plea of not guilty. Concerning the penalty imposed upon Vaughn, the Court says that the same question has been decided in the case of the State against Malloy. The Court refused to sustain this exception to #the sentence providing for electrocution. With reference to the alleged confession of Vaughn, the Court says: "Conceding that the defendant would have been entitled to all the rights claimed in these exceptions, if' he had insisted upon them in the manner provided by the rules of practice, nevertheless, it clearly apDears that he waived such rights in expectation that the jury would re?ommend him to the mercy of the [lourt, thereby enabling him to escape the death penalty. Appealing for Sympathy. "At the time he withdrew his plea of not guilty he had no reasonable grounds for supposing that the jury ivould render any other verdict than that of "guilty," and the method ?v*hich he adopted, it would seem, night have naturally been expected o increase his chances of appealing o the sympathy of the jury, and, thereby, indeed, induce them to recommend him to the mercy of the Uourt." "Nothing was omitted," says the iecision, "during the trial of which the defendant has just cause of complaint. He, his attorneys, the presiding Judge, and the jury unquestionably understand fully the nature, force and effect of the plea made by the defendant. "He was represented by an ex:eedingly able counsel; the plea was tiot interposed until two days after the commencement of the trial, the presiding Judge clearly stated the lature, force, and effect of the plea, to which neither the defendant nor h.is counsel made any objection. The :estimonv which had heen introduced indicated that there were no reasonable grounds for hoping that the jury would render any other verdict than that of guilty." # rEX OFFER BLOOD AT $25 QUART Y. M. C. A. Athletes Respond to a Surgeon's Advertisement. Athletes in the West Side Y. M. C. A. gymnasium are ready to sell human blood for transfusion operations at $25 a quart. That is the market rate. It was established yesterday when 10 men answered an advertisement in the gymnasium asking for a man, strong and healthy, who would give a quart of blood for a transfusion operation. A large placard posted in the gymna sium reads as follows: ''Wanted?A good man for blood transfusion operation. One quart of blood needed, $25 reward and extra payment if operation is successful. Apply at the office." The succesful applicant is a Western college graduate who offered himself. He was selected in preference to the others because blood tests showed his blood to be in almost perfect condition. Dr. W. R. Weizmiller, who has charge of the gymnasium, refused to give the name of the surgeon or the patient. The reason that the advertisment was nlaced in the West Side gymna sium, it was explained, is because there are so many athletes there, and the surgeons say their blood is the bst for transfusion purposes.?The New York Sun. SliUUXlHi* ai n.inivn.^ M Charlie Jowers Wounded by R. A. Sm Sims?Former in Jail. ' fgg Aiken, June 30.?The little mill village of Warrenville, this county, was intensely excited Sunday afternoon over a shooting affair involving well known white men of that place, R. A. Sims and Charlie Jowers, as a result of which the latter, bearing a flesh wound in the left side, has been lodged behind the bars. There is no charge against Sims. if When interviewed by The News and Courier's correspondent, Me. Sims avered that Jowers "had it in for him;" the details of the difference were not entered into. Continuing, > Sims alleged that while he was in a neighbor's house Sunday afternoon, about 2.31 o'clock, Jowers, armed with a double-barrelled shotgun, cam with a double-barrelled shotgun, came up to his bouse, where his wife and a daughter were, and fired, several of the shot entering and finding lodgment in the hall way, the door of which was open, Sims said he then used a 32-calibre revolver on the alleged intruder, firing twice and inflicting a trivial flesh wound on Jowers's left side. The latter soon was ; arrested by Constable Joe Gray, who brought his prisoner on to Aiken and placed him in jail. Sims was not arrested, nor is it likely that any charges will be preferred against him. Mr. Sims is weaving overseer at the Warrenville cotton manufactory, and is held in very high esteem by his fellows. Jowers also is well known at his home in Aiken. V r|? WAS JOHN D. "JACOBS CRAZY? Some Believe Lexington County Farmer Killed Family. Lexington, June 30.?The Jacobs . tragedy seems to have opened and closed in a single night. It came as a surprise and a shock, then disappeared leaving dismay and mystery. The whole country has been shocked beyond expression. It is hard to grasp tne situation, me sun setting, leaving a bright, prosperous, happy family to the pleasures of the family circle, and rising to see smoking ruins and total annihilation. This county has had its share of surprising occurences, but they all pale and are lost in comparison with this last frightful human butchery. In discussing the matter everyone seems to have suffered a personal loss. Many mothers and children in the immediate community and elsewhere are fearful when nightfall comes lest some lurking agent of destruction come to kill and burn. There is a rumor afloat to-day that ? :M the hand which dealt the murderous blow turned upon its own and added suicide to the general destruction. It is regarded by some as a feasible explanation, however terrible it may ap pear. This correspondent has been informed that Jacobs, the father, was heard to say not more than a week ago that he would commit suicide if . . if were not for leaving his family. This may be significant. No reason - Si! can be assigned for such a state of mind, but it is possible that he might have grown insane and then decided to end it all by killing his family and setting fire to his home, that no tale should ever be told, and then dealing himself the last deadly blow that ended the chapter of insane and bloody deeds. Diligent search has been made for possible clues, but so far nothing has been found. It is all a dark mystery over which there can only be conjecture. BEAU FORT-SA VAXXAH ROUlE. Congressman Byrnes Appeals from Adverse Report of Major Howell. ???? Washington, June 30.?Represen f* +itf A Tno Ll"1 OlTTIVt AA a A A MA yl 1*1 A ^A?A taciv^ uao. jdjiiico aypcaicu uciuic the board of rivers and harbors today for the purpose of appealing from the adverse report of Major Howell, as to the improvement of a water route from Beaufort, S. C., to Savannah, Ga. Mr. Byrnes presetted to the board a petition signed bv many business firms of Beaufort, Savannah and Bluffton, asking for an improvement of that part of the waterway known as Ram's Horn Creek, and for a channel of greater depth. Letters from a number of pilots and captains now using this waterway were placed in evidence by Mr. Byrnes, and upon the strength of this showing he urged the improvement of the water route. While the board did not indicate what action it would take, Mr. Byrnes \ io Virk-nofiil fhat fhpv will vannm-m an A that Ram's Horn Creek be straightened and a channel of 7 or 8 feet be maintained. ill