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Abbeville
FfttaKlifthed 1844. $2.00 the Year, Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C.,
ONE WOMAN DIES FROM AM.
BUSCADE. DAUGHTER OF
FORMER HIGH SHERIFF KILL
ED ON HIGHWAY?LIVES OF
V NINE POLICEMEN AND TWO
SOLDIERS TAKEN.
Belfast, May 15.?Miss Barring
ton, only daughter of Sir Charles
Barrington * of Glennstal Castle, I
county Limerick, and head of the
Masonic order in North Munster,
and Police Inspection Biggs were
shot dead from ambush Saturday by
while motorine. from Killos
cully to Newport, County'Tipperary.
The father of the dead woman is
a former high sheriff of County
Limerick.
Nine policemen, two soldiers and
. a number of other persons were kill
ed Saturday and today in attacks
and counter attacks at various
places. Numerous persons were
wounded.
More lives may have been lost in
the Macroom ambuscade, when 17
auxiliaries were killed on Red Sun
day, but for general and organized
, volence Saturday and today prob
ably were the worst since shooting
on a large scale was inaugurated in
January, 1919.
All the casualties e^cepc one were
in the area covered by the Southern
parliament. The exception was at
Droomore. Tvron. wher? a Sinn
The Kosslarepier barracks, county
Wexford; the BriCigeton barracks,
Wexford; he Shidal barracks in
Galway, and the Holy Cross bar
racks, County Tipperary, were un
successfully attacked Saturday
night. There was a brisk fight last
ing half an hour at the Rathmore
barracks Saturday. The police re
sisted the attack with bombs and
rifles. There were no casualties.
Mr. P. E. Bell spent Sunday with
his home folks in the Antreville sec
tion.
Feiner was shot dead.
?Miss' Barrington was traveling
with two other women and Inspector
Major Biggs, a military officer,
when she was killed. The military i
officer was wounded.
Constable Bridges was shot dead
and two other constables were
wounded while purchasing groceries
Saturday at Drumcollagher. A par
ty of police going to their relief was
fired upon and two of the policemen
were wounded slightly.
Fierce fighting followed an at
tack on the Bandon police barracks.
The military and police swept' the
streets with machine gun fire and
ck uroro t.llTViW
wiv ?? w*v vv44^vm
themselves upon the ground for
safety. About the same time, armed
civilians marched through Dunman
way, County Cork. Being followed
by auxiliaries in motor lorries, they
shot and killed several horses in the
street so as to obstruct the path of
Lheir pursuers.
All the roads south and west of
Cork have been trenched at many
points. The belief prevails that
rebels intend to carry out a general
attack on military and police bar
racks.
One hundred civilians attacked
the Clonakility barracks -with rifles
and machine guns Saturday after
noon. The .attack w*?s. repulsed. Four
members of the ., attacking party
were seea to fall. The police suffer
ed no casualties.
Two gunners of Royal Marine Ar
tillery stationed at , East Ferry,
near Middleton, county Cork, were
shot dead Saturday night.. This was
the first attack that has been made
on naval forces. At Castl^don and
Berehaven, county Cork, today, two
sbldiers were killed by armed civili
ans.
Bombs were thrown at military
lorries on three occasions in the
Dublin district today. Some of the
occupants of the lorries were I
wounded. ,
Shooting Kept Up
From Mountain Top
Truce Agreement Being Observed in
Zone of Previous Battles-?; Vol
leys Poured Into Merrimac
After Day of Quiet. State
Militia Being Deployed
Williamston, W. Va., May 15.?
A half hour of shooting at Merrimac
W. Va., was the extent of hostilities
in the West Virginia-Kentucky bor
der battle tonight according to ^apx.
J. R. Brockus of the state police,
who returned from the zone of op
erations shortly before midnight.
After examining reports from the
Mingo region, the captain said that
at that hour the situation was quiet.
Captain Brockus and a squad of
state troopers left Williamson for
Merrimac early tonight when it was
reported that shooting from the
Kentucky side opposite that village
had been resumed. Before they
reached Merrimac, however, they
were advised the firing had ceased
and returned to this city.
Sheriff E. C. Penson said his re
ports indicated that the shots from
the Kentucky side had keen answer
ed by riflemen on the*West Virginia
side. While the West Virginia troop
ers returned to headquarters here,
six deputies continued their trip into
the mountains in an endeavor to cap
ture those firing into Merrimac.
Chillcothe, Ohio, May 15.?Sixty
freight, baggage and passenger cars
were set in the ^ railroad yards at
Camp Sherman today for instant use
in case the 19th Infantry is order
ed into Miniro county, W. Va. Food
and provender has been packed for
quick handling. Officials said they
were still awaiting orders tonight..
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Williamson, W. Va., May 15.?
Heavy liring on Merrimac, W. Va.,
from the Kentucky mountains oppo
site that village, broke out tonight,
according to a report received here
by Capt. J. R. Brockus, of the state
police. All other places in the
trouble zone along the Tug river
were reported quiet. '
A squad of troopers, headed by
Captain Brockus, left immediately
for the scene of action by automo
bile. Six Kentucky deputy sheriffs,
who were in Williamson when the
report was received, crossed the
river and started over the mountain
in an effort to reach the attackers i
from the rear.
Before leaving, Captain Brockus
communicated with the Kentucky
national guardsmen on duty at
Sprigg and requested that they
move on the attackers. He was in
formed, the captain said, that the
soldiers could not leave Sprigg, as
wicy wac wai^-uuig a. uvmy vi men
in the mountains at that point.
A PROGRESSIVE FARMER
Mrs. Lena Dickson, who is ohe. of
the best business women, -in . the
county, lias already sold ixv Abbeville
several barrels of Irish ' potatoes
grown on her farm near Brownlee's.
The potato crop is unusually early
this year and many families in town
are enjoying potatoes of their own
growing.
Mrs. Dickson sold her crop to W.
D Barksdale and received eight dol
lars a barrel.
AFTER SIXTEEN YEARS
Mr Ted Konesko, of St. Louis,
Mo., was in Abbeville Saturday vis
iting his friend, M T. Coleman. Mr
Konesko spent a winter ?in Abbeville
sixteen years ago and old friends
were glad to see him and hear the
many good things he had to say about
the big improvements in Abbeville.
FIND DOCTOR'S BODY.
Darlington, May 15.?The body of |
Dr. J. M Earle was found on the
railroad track near the city this
morning. His throat was cut, and
a note found with the body indicated
suicide. The funeral was held today.
He was near 60 years of age.
Anger of Georgians
Aroused By Dorsey
Steps May Be Taken at Meeting
Next Saturday Looking to Im
peachment for Publication oif
Bulletin on Alleged Mistreatment
Of Negroes.
Atlanta, May 15.?Publication of
the booklet, 'The Negro in Georgia,'
by Gov. Hugh M. Dorsey, charging
135 cases of mistreatment of ne
groes, was assailed in' three state
ments published here Joday by
prominent men of the state. Advices
received from Macon were to the ef
fect that a mass meeting had been
called for next Sunday to take steps
toward impeaching the governor, J.
Gordon Jones, mayor of Cordele,
<2a., was announced 4s onfe of the
speakers.
The replies were in the- form of
public statements issued by Samuel
L. Olive, president of the^ state sen
ate, and ranking state official next
to the governor, and by Judge E. R.
iSearcy of the Flint, circuit superior
court, and an address at McDonough
by Thomas W. Hardwick, former
United States senator and governor
elect. 1
Mr. Hardwick, who declared he
would issue a detailed reply as soon
as he takes office in June, made a
general answer to the charges con
tained in the booklet branding them
as untrue and as a "slander on the
state.'* Judge Searcy went into
charges that Ed White, a ne;jro ol
Upson county, had been sent to. the
chaingang on trumped up charges.
He said the evidence Droved the ne
gro's guilt, and added that n> negro
ever has been lynched in Upson
County.
"Such attitude on the part of your
investigator and you, as governor,
beggar contenmt," said Judge Sear
cy in his statement.
Mr. Olive denounced the charges
in general and taking up a particu
lar case, that of a negro burned at
the stage, declared at referred to a
happening in Oglethorpe county Mr.
Olive declared the governor's book
let referred to the negro as "a negro
suspected of the murder of a white
woman" and then proceeded lo de
scribe what he said were the facts,
The negro, "he declared, attempted
to attack the wife of a young farm
er and, falling, murdered her with a
hoe. The negroes and white joined
in the search and negroes aided :in
applying the torch, Mr. Olive added.
There was ample evidence of the
negro's guilt in addition to his con
fession, he declared.
\A TONSIL EXPERT.
* Dr. Thos. L Davis paid a visit to
Lethe last Friday. He. went down to
make a tonsil inventory in that in
stitution. He paid the visit at the in
vitation of Mr. Branch, the Super
intendent of the Lethe School and
farm. As a result, the pupils in the
school, or most of them, are to be
brought- to Abbeville iiv detachments
of" seven,"arid they are to hi ve the
pleasure of saying good-bye to old
tonsilitis. If there is any more of
that disease the tonsils will suffer
from it alone, while the Lethe boys
and girls will be happily separated
from all of it.
Dr. Davis has recently taken a spe
cial course of two years in diseases of
the ear and throat and is an expert
in the tonsil line of surgery. While
he is in Abbeville, he decided that
he would do a little, humanitarian
service and when he was asked to
help out at Lethe he gladly consent
ed.
In the fall Dr. Davis will likely set
tle in Augusta for the practice of his
proiession. He was at one time a
successful practitioner there but gave
up his practice in order to specialize
in diseases of the ear and throat. His
friends would like to see him settle
in Abbeville and in order to thus per
suade him would be willing to give
him the Hospital, mortgage and all or
build him a new one on Quebec
ffoi' crVi f c
Dr. Davis is best known by the
fact that he is the husband of (for
merly) Miss Mary Stark.
Northern Lights
Will Soon Pass
May Be Caused By Spots on Sun?j
Naval Observatory Official Mafces
Photographs and Discusses Phen
omena.?Spots Move in Eleven
Year Cycle
Washington, May 15?Interruption
of telegraphic communication by
electrical interference, if due to the
presence of spots on the sun, as set
forth in the Brashear theory will pass
away within 48 hours is the belief of
officials at the naval observatory
here.
2Hie present spot or group of spots
on the face of the sun estimated by
naval observatory officials as 94,000
1 miles long and 21,000 wide was near
est the earth last night, and today,
through rotation of. the sun, was
moving away from the solar meridian
Naval observatory officials said to
day that leaving out of considera
; tion the decreasing effect of the spots
on electrical currents on the earth
through the usual breaking up of the
, spots, the reguhir rotation of the
1 sun on its axis would within a few
days carry the spots so far from the
earth as to make their influence neg
lible.
The theory that the aurora boreal
is of northern lights, which send
. "earth current" through telegraphic
circles, interrupting communication,
result from sun 3pots, was advanced
i by Dr. John A. Brashear, the ' late
' Pittsburgh astronomer. The theory
has never been definitely accepted,
| naval observatory officials a3serted,
but the fact that spots on the sun
i usually are accompanied by electri
cal disturbances has resulted in al
most general acceptance of the
, theory
Naval observatory offidials said
. that presence of such a large group
of spots at this time was most un
usual, inasmuch as the presence of
. the spots moves in an 11 year cycle
. and the apex of prevalence occurred
abeut four years ago. ?
EDGAR EAKIN'S BODY
' SHIPPED FROM FRANCE
Will Arrive Here This Week and Be
Re-interred at Long Cane
' Cemetery.
i .Relatives here were advised Sat
1 urday, by the T\*ar Department, that
the body of the late Edgar Ea.kin,
who died of pneumonia in France in
iSf?ntemher 1918. while a member of
the A. E. F., would arrive in New
York the latter part of this vreek
and would be shipped to his foimer
home here immediately upon its ar
rival in that port. His father and
moter, have, since his death, moved
1 to Monroe, N. C. The re-enteraient
of his remains |upon arrival here
will be made at Long Cane burying
ground where his wife is buried and
where already a monument has been
erected to his memory.
It will be recalled that at the time
of his death in France the family
was bereaved "by two sons dying of
the same disease, pneumonia, in
this country. One brother dying in
Alabama, the other in Abbeville,
both being buried on the same day
that the telegram was received here
from the War Department announc
France.
VISITING AT ANNAPOLIS
Mrs. Frank B Gary leaves today
for Annapolis where she will visit
her son, Frank Gary for a few days.
Frank is leaving soon for a cruise in
?I . * V _
old world waters ana win De away
for three months.
CALHOUN FALLS WINS TWO
Calhoun Falls won a double head
er Saturday when that fast base ball
nine defeated the second team of
Abbeville by a score of 9 to 7 Af
ter this victory they immediately en
tered into a game with the Iva team
and won this victory by a score of 8
to 1.
Cotton Exports
Alreadv Aided
The corporation announced in ad
dition it has advanced $1,600,000
against cotton actually exported.
The distributing points to which
the cotton has been consigned, the
corporation said are Liverpool,
Havre, Trieste, Genoa, Venice and
Bremen. Cotton consigned to Havre,
the corporation explained is distribu
ted to the nearby mills and also to
mills in the interior of France and
Alsace-Lorraine as well as in Swit
zerland. Cotton to the Italian port
will be distributed to Italian mills'
and also to Austrian mills. Cotton
warehoused in Bremen will be dis
tributed to Czecho-Slovakia, Austria
i Poland and Sweden.
The corporation also announced
that it has issued a circular outlin
ing the requirements of the corpora
tion in connection with applcations
for advances to American exporters
and American banks, bankers and
trust companies for the purpose of
assisting in the exportation of do
mestic products.
MEETING TUESDAY
The May meeting of tne parern- .
teacher association will be held Tues- i
day afternoon in the graded school (
building at half past four o'clock. (
The pi*ogram will be very entertain- ,
ing the two high school literary soci- ,
eties having1 seelcted representatives (
who will debate on the query. It is ,
better to have loved and lost than j
never to have loved at all. The de
baters will be Miss Ada Faulkner, (
Jack Bradley and Fred Minshall
against Miss Annie Wilson, Louis
Bristow, Jr. and Robert Link, Jr. ^
| Of course the whole debate is a farce
and the humor is fresh and delight- ,
ful.
In addition to the debate Supt. (
j Fulp has a rranged to exhibit seme ]
siereoptican slides of scenes visited
by him m London and the - country (
'round about which should be of in-: j
terest to the parents and teachers, }
A short description of these pictures j]
I will be eiven as they are shown.
The grades which win the prize
pictures Tuesday will hold them un
til the first meeting in September.
GRADUATES AT WINTHROP. <
The graduating class at Winthrop *
has issued invitations to the com- '
mencement exercises to be held May 1
29th. Among the graduates this year *
is Miss Pauline Clinkscales, of *
Lowndesville' I
Among the other graduates in J i
whom Abbeville is interested are 11
Miss Phoebe Featherstone, of Green-!1"
wood, a daughter of Judge and Mrs *
C C. Featherstone, of Greenwood;!
Miss Annie Arnette Holloway, daugh-j
ter of Mrs. Edith Riggs Holloway, of]
Orangeburg, and Miss Virginia Dick, j
daughter of Prof. L. W Dick, of
Hartsville.
.Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Link, of Rock
Hill, are in the city visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Link and Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Link. a
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Money Advanced by War Finance
Corporation?One Approval
for One Million Dollars For
Shipment to Foreign
Ports j
. \
Washington, May 15?Approval of
advances of $2,000,000 to assist in
financing cotton exports was an- ,
nounced todiiv bv the war finance
corporation. Advancement of $1,
600,000 against cotton actually ex
ported has already been made, the
announcement said.
One approval was for an advance
of $1,000,000 in connection with the
shipment of cotton to foreign ports
for warehousing and distribution.
The cotton will go forward, to Liver
pool, Havre, Genoa, Bremen and
Kobe, Japan.
The other application approved
was also for an advance of $1,000,
000 to finance the exportation, of cot
ton from American interior points
and American ports under contracts
calling for shipments from October
to December.
INAL ACTION LIKELY ON EM
ERGENCY TARIFF, ALSO THE
KNOX MEASURE?PEACE IJES
. OLUTION MAY MEET OPPOSI
' TION IN HOUSE SINCE GER
MANY ACCEPTS
Washington, May 15?Final action
>n two important pieces of domestic
egislation, the emergency tariff and
judget system bill?, and possible dis
>osal of a measure international in
icope, the Knox peace resolution, is
he goal set for congress, this week
>y leaders. . .
Agreement on the tariff and budget
)ills, both of which are in conference
vas regarded as assured by the end
>f the week, but progress in the
louse with peace measures was some
vhat in doubt. Republican leaders,
lowever, said it was probable that
Germany having accepted the allied
eparations terms, the "senate peace
>lan would be taken up in a few
lays. Sentiment has developed in
he house against the Knox plan for
epeal of the war resolutions and for
11 V? p^1 n m awa ai* A^
>eace.
Phases of the reparations question
>romise to come up in the senate this
veek through discussion of the reso
utlons of Senator La Follette, Re
>ublican, Wisconsin, to condemn and
nquire into President Harding's des
gnation of a personal representative
>n the allied councils. Senator La
rollette has in preparation an ad
Iress on his resolution but the ex
;ent of general debate is in doubt.
Several Republican senators, said to
riew President Harding's action with
iisfavor, were reported today to be
ncreasingly disinclined to "break"
vith the White House by open criti
lism of the administration policy.
The half billion dollar naval appro
priation bill has right of way this
ft-eek in the senate. The disarma
ment fight hinging on the measure is
jxpected to be resumed but a vote on
the disarmament conference amend
ment of Senator Borah, Republican,
[daho, and also on the bill itself, is
expected by leaders before the week
end. The army appropriation bill,
also involving disarmament as re
gards the size of the regular army, is *
to be reported this week by the sen- N
ate military committee and will fol
low the'naval bill on the floor. The
senate committee is expected to rec
ammend a standing army of 175,000
men, as against tne i&u,uuu ngure
voted by the house. The fight against
ihe increase is expected to be waged
by the same group contending for
laval armanment reductions. /
The house will consider miscellane
ous bills tomorrow and receive the
large deficiency appropriation bill ...
Tuesday. The house ways and means y
cbmmittee is busy on the permanent
tariff bill with, prospects that a fort
night's more work will be required
before presentation to the house.
HIGH SCHOOL MONEY
Saturday the Department of Edu
cation made the awards to the ap
>roved High Schools of the state
'rom the appropriation made by the
egislature for this pfurpose. j The
Abbeville High School received $2,
531, while the Dae West High
school received $1059. The total ap
>ropriation was $275,000. After giv
ng each school the amount to which
t is entitled under the law, there re
named a balance of the appropria
ion of $24,292.
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PAINFULLY HURT
The many friends of Mr. Trumen
teames will be sorry to learn that he
ell Saturday -while playing ball and
iroke his ankle. While the break is
cry painful it is in no way serious
nd his host of friends will be glad
o know he is getting on nicely this
fternoon.