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VOL XLVI, NO r.")7 NEWBEIMYP S. 0., TU tL--%DAY. JTULY 20. 1909 TIEAWE.$.0AYA SIXTEEN DROWN IN A DAY. Half-score of Merry-makers Die When Craft Sinks.-Five Swimming Fatalities. New York. July 18.-Sixteen per sons, five of them women, met death by drowning in the waters either surrounding or in tha vicinty of New York to-day. Ten of the victims per ished after the capsizing. of the ex cursion sloop Roxana, carrying 22 passengers, whioh was struck by a sudden squall in lower New York bay, midway between Coney Island roint and Hoffman Island. late tihis after noon. Of the survivors one woman, Mrs. C. Knudson of Brooklyn, is in such serious conditior that she will probably die. Her two daughters were drowned. The other drownings, with but one exception, were swimming accidents. HAYNE BUFORD WOUNDED. Has Altercation With Negro Hotel Porter at the. Depot in Lau rens. Lairens. July 18.-In an alterca tion at the passenger station early this mo.rning with Rich Curry, -a negro hotel porter, Hayne Buford, a son of Sheriff Buford. Of Newberry, and mail clerk on the -ixed train between Lau rens and Columbia, received a pain ful wound. Curry assaulted Mr. Bu ford with a large rock, striking him in thejhead,' near the ear, cutting an ugly wound. He was knocked to the ground by ~ the terrific blow, but, as sisted by a 'companion, Buford arose and tired several shots at the negro as he was beating a hasty retrea from the scene. Curry was arrestea and locked up, while Mr. Buford was removed to .his boarding house and given immediate medical aid. It appears that Mr. Buford had had a previous elash with the negro, Curry, an<d when he met with the por ter at the station this morning, be undertook to punish him with a cane for his alleged offensive conduct a few weeks ago. The negro, somewhat noted as a fighter, jerked up a handy stone and hurled it at Buford with the result above indicated. Sunday School Convention. The following delegates have been elected from the First Baptist chuareh to the Sunday Sehool Convention to be held at Smyrna -on Wednesday and Thursday of. this week: Mrs. W. H. Hunt, Miss Lulie Hunt, Messrs. R. M. Werts, F. 'M. Grady, W. H. Ander son, and W. IE. Holt. From Avele'igh Presbyterian church: Mrs R. D. Smith, Messrs. W. A. Me Swain and Allan Jlh-nstone, Jr. From Central Metheidist Church: Miss Ida Langford. Mrs. W. W. Hornsby and Mrs. George Epps. From the A. R. P. (.mureh: Miss Janie Chalmers, Miss Mary Law Mc Clintock and Mr. Renwick Carlisle. From the. Lutheran Church of the Redeemer: Misses Nora Long and Mamie aCrooks, Messrs. J. B. 0O'Neall Holloway and J. B. Hunter. Barbecue and Clay Pigeon Shoot. I will give a first class barbecue at1 my residence July 30th, 1909, to bej cooked by Messrs. Haynon Kibler and Edwin Halfaere. The lovers of shooting clay pigeons may come prepared to shoot some. The clubs of Newberry, Whitmire, Rutherford. St. Phill,ips, and Silver Street have been invited and a repre sentative from eadh club will be here. A prize to be given to the best lady marksman with a parlor rifle. No entra.nce fee charged to the la dies. Open to the world. Come, and have a good time. B. B. Leitzsey. Saving Time. Chicago News. Woman (at agenecy, to prospective cook)--Wouldnl't you like to come to may house and look aroundG? Then you would get an idea of the place. 'Gook-Has your last cook gone, ma'am? "Yes: she left me this morning."I "And did she come from this agency 7" "O}h, yes." '*nhn Oi'll wait and talk to her." BARBECUE AT PROSPERITY. To Be Given by the Ladies Aid So ciety of Grace Church on Friday. Prosperity. July 19.-The Ladies' Aid Society of Grace Lutheran clhurch will give a barbecue at Young's Grove on Friday, July 23. Besides the regulation dinner, other refresh ments will be served. Everybody is eordially invited to be present. Con veyances will be provided from Pros perity for all desiring to attend. It is hoped that all who can will come. Besides the feast of meats, cream. cake and lemonade there will be a. speedh by Mr. Wilbur K. Sligh. He will speak on a live subject, "Good Roads." All the plans for a suecessful 'cue have been formulated, so vou need not be afraid the game wili not be worth the candle. Mann-Price. Invitations reading as follows have been issaed to a large number of peo ple in this city as well as in other cities and communities th.rough this I State and other States: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mann invite you to be present at the mar riage of their da-aghter, Dora to Mr. Harry Price Wednesday morning, July 28th nineteen hundred and nine at ten o'clock at their residence, 907 College Street Newberry, South Carolina. At Home after August twentieth, Spartanburg, S. C. Miss Mann is one of the prettiest of Newberry's cha.rming daughters, and she has many frien'ds here who. regret that she is to make her home in another city. Mr. Price is one of Spartanburg's leading merchants, having a first class clothing establish ment in that progressive city. He has the hearty congratulations of this ommunity in having won sudh. a fair maiden. and much interest is mani feted in their approaching marriage. Sease-Halfacre. The following invitations have been received in this ei.ty: Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sease invite you to be present at the marriage of their daughter Hattie .to Mr. Perry Frederick Halfaere Wednesday afternoon, August fourth nineteen hundred and nine at four o'clock at their residence Newberry County, South Carolina Miss Hattie is the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sease, and al thouh only in her teens as yet, she is a young lady of dazzling beauty, and is a favorite in her large circle of friends. A shower of happy con gratulations will follow this young couple to the marriage altar. Mr. Halfare is a young man of sterling worth, being the son of one of the eonty 's leading farmers, and is him self a progressive farmer.I Miss Sease is a neice of Judge Thos.t S. Sease. "We Write His Name Ver~y High." Edgefield Ohroniele. High in honor-high in love-high in pleasing and grateful remembrance -the name of Elbert H. Aull, Presi dent of the South Carolina Press As sociation for sixteen years-sixteen years of hard, arduous service, faith fully, nobly, wisely, unselfishly per formd-above all, unselfishly. Pres ident Aull an.d his noble and refined, little wife made these sixteen years a bright. happy and useful period for newspaper people in SoutPb Carolina. They sacrificed themselves without stint, and without any count of cost. We lam?nt that our beloved friend thouht he had served us long enough. He had served us long, but not, long enough. We bid adieu to Mr. and M.rs. Aull with intensely affee tionate feeline~s of gratitude. And when we shall write a history of the South Carolina Press Association, we sh:'ll introduce the administration of Elbert H. Aull with a blue and aold frontispiece of Abou Ben Adhemn among the strugglers of the Fourth FUNERAL WAS TOO LONG. Abbeville Newspaper Says Speakers Eulogized Themselves Instead of the Deceased. In its account of the funeral of the Rev. J. L)wrie Wilson, ithe Abbeville Press and Banner has the following to say: Every seat was occupied. Stand ing room was all taken, and many who came a little la.t.e lingered about the door without. coining in. The day was warm, but, it is presumed that those who had seats were comfortable enough. Those who had standing s! a,ts were tired out long before the expiration of tihe hour and a. half to which time the services were pro longed. The Rev. Mr. Law read tha Scrip tures and deliveped a talk which had not been carefully digested or rea sonably well prepared. After singing and prayer, the Rev. Mr. Gr-gg tallked for a long time in commonplace. Our own judgment is, that the fu neral services were not up to what might have been expected of so good a man as Dr. Wilson, while they were cruelly lon#. Even in the prayers there was a dearth of thankfulness for the life of the good man who had so long labor ed amongst us, and who had so lately entered upon that great s:leep which men call dea th. We are inclined to think that on occasions of this kind it may reason ably be assumed that the Lord knows a little of us and for this reason the speaker need not bore a waiting audi ence with a commonplace recital of facts that are known to us all. It is simply next to unpardonable to keep an audience waiting for au hour and a half that the speakers may talk of themselves instead of eu logiziig or portraying the cha.racter of the dead. Eminently Proper. T.ri-State Odd Fellow, July. An incident in the career of one of our Grand Masters has recently come to our knowledge, and we think so well of it that we pass it on, merely commending the brother's manly stand anid expressing the hope that should any of his successors be placed in a similar position they may exhibit like courage and appreciation of the dignity of their station. Visiting a city officially, he was met by a member of the Order and invited to accompan.y him to call at a certain place of business. Of course he went. in utter ignorance of the character of the house to which he was being ta ken. But he was pretty soon en lightened, for on entering he was ask ed t' ".nominate his pizen' '-.>r, in plain United States talk, to name the quor he would drink. Realizing Lhat he was in the lair of a tiger of the tribe tha.t is gknow niohStunetaoi ET tribe that is known in South CaoErna as "blind,'' he replied: "I am visiting this city as Grand Master of the Odd Fellows of South Carolina and am not here to aid in violating any law of the State. I bid you good evening.'' We honor .the man for his course, a.nd feel t:hat all thinking men will do likewise, and that they may know which particular Past Grand Master it was we give his name, at the risk of being "licked'' by him on sight Cole L. Blease. Central Methodist Church. Rev. J. W. Wolling, D. D., Pastor. The Sunday services in Central hurh were of more than usual in t.erest. The morning was beautiful and pleasant and the congregation very good. The morning serv'ices were interesting. the choir led in singing some familiar hymns and the pastor spoke on the subject, "Thou art not far from the Kingdom of heaven,'' using some st-riking illustrations. The Sunday school under the effi ient direction of Mr. Jas. F. Epting and the seeretary, Mr. P. C. Gaillard, is a striking feature of church work in Central. The attendance on Sunda,y was forty more than on the same Sunday of last year. At night the union services were held in Central with a congregation which till2d every available space and then overflowed. The sermon was rena heb Rev. A rthur S. Rogers of tshe Associate Reformed- church, who spoke very impressively on the theme: "Heavenly Recognition." Led by the choir t.he congregation joined hea-rtily in singing some fa miliar hymns. Miss Gleason presided at the piano and played a. beautiful selection while the offering was being made. This notice would be incomplete if it did not mention with praise and approval the two selections sung by Miss Genevieve Evans with tine ex pression. Miss Mazie Dominick an accomplis'hed pianist pla.yed for her. WORLD'S LONGEST RAILWAY. Capetown-Ca,iro Line Will be Fin ished in Three Years. F. von Gheel Gildemeester, chief engineer of the Cape Town-Cairo Railway syndicate, now in charge of the operations which, within a few years, will form the connecting link between North and South Africa, is stopping at the Waldorf Astoria. He is in the United States to make a study of the railway systems of this country, says the New York Times. "In the Cape Town-Cairo rail way," said Mr. Gildermeester, "there is at present a stretch of about 2,500 miles to be completed. It lies be tween Khartoum, in the Bristish Egyptian Soudan, to Broken Hill, a point in Rhodesia. It is estimatad that this remaining mileage will be aompleted witslfin three years, and then the longest railroad in the world, covering in the neighborhood of 6,400 miles, will be finished." "What do I estimate the ftotal cost to be ? Very close to $1,000,000,000, I should say, but a comparatively small amount when it is considered what a glorious thing it will be for Africa, one of the greatest and rich est countries of the world. It will be possible for the traveller to jour ney from Berlin or Paris to Cape Town in ten or eleven days-just think of that! And then it will open up a country that is rich in almost every thing in the mineral world-gold, sil ver, copper and diamonds. What else they will find there remains to be seen. "It's a great work. is this build ing of the longest railway, and what it all means to Africa and the world is not fully appreciated, I am afraid. To the business man. to be found ev erwhere, and especially those having affairs in Africa, it will be a wonder ful thing. Where now, in travelling from Paris for example, he is com pelled to take a long sea trip, he will be able, after the completion of the road, to take train to Brindisi, Italy, thence by boat to Alexandria, Egypt, and a short journey to Cairo, where he will take the train that will land him in Cape Town, at the south ern extreme of Africa, all in eleven days. Just at the present time w.e are working in a rather disagreeable country-that is to say, a country which has a fair climate, but fever is quite prevalent. The engineers on the work are German, American and English, with, of course, the Kaffir as the laboring factor." One of Father's Ways. Youth's Companion. Mr. Jefferson thad not been alto gether an exemplary husband and father, but he possessed certain ~en gaging qualities which secured him many friends and made his death the cause of sincere mourning to his wid ow. "Mis' Jeff'son, she's done broke up over Eb 'nezer 's being took off fr'm de pneumony,'' said one of the neihbors. ''She sutt'nly is,'' said another. "Mournin' round de house all de time, she goes. Why, day befo' yis t'day. I was thar helpin' her, an' she only stop cryin' once, an' dat was to spank little Eben for takin' m'lasses out'n de jug right into his mouf, when her back was turned. "When she'd spanked him good an' set him down, she say to me, 'He makes me t 'ink ob his pa so much I eyant hear it,' and bus, right out cry in' agin.'' I Stung. Boeton Transcript. He (just 'rejected)-I shall never marry now. She-Foolish man! Why not? He--If you won 't have me who will COUNTY OFFICES CASE; PETITION DISMISSED WERTS, AS AUDITOR, VS. FZA GLE, AS SUPERVISOR. Supreme Court Says County Board Have Complete Control of Offices For County Officers. The supreme court has dismissed the petition in the case of Eugene S. Wert3, as county auditor, v. L. I. Feagle. as county supervisor, in which was involved the matter of the dispo sition of the offices of county auditor and judge of probate in the new court house. The decision of the supreme court is to the effect that the court refuses to pass upon the merits of the contention, holding that the supervi sor and commissiouers-the county board-have exclusive jurisdiction. It will be recalled that some time ago the board of commissioners decid ed to put Judge. of Probate Sehumpert in the office in the new court house now occupied by County Auditor Werts. The county board sought to put their decision into execution -and Messrs. Blease & Dominick, attorneys for Mr. Werts, appeared before Chief Justice Pope and obtained a tempo )rary restraining order. It was al leged by Mr. Werts, as auditor, that the office in which it was sought to place him-which is the little office immediately in rear of the office which he now occupies-was entirely too small for the purposes of his of flee. Under the temporary restrain ing order of Chief Justice Pope, the matter came on for shearing before the whole supreme court, the supervisor being represented by Messrs. Schum prt and Holloway. In the meantime, Chief Justice Pope had retired. The opinion of the court is written by As sociate. Justice Eugene B. Gary, and is concurred in by Chief Justice Ira B. Jones, and Associate Justices C. A. Woods and D. E. Hydrick. The remittitur in the case has not yet come down and been filed with the clerk of court, but The Herald and News secured from the clerk of the supreme court a certified copy of the decision. It will be seen from the decision that the supreme court does not say that the supervisor is right or' wrong on the merits of the case; it says .that the disposition of the offices in a court hoiuse is entirely in the hands of the supervisor and this board, and that the court has nothing to do' with it. In fact, 'the court 'quo-tes in approval an authority which says that it will "not interfere on the sole ground the-t their actions (those of the supervisor and 'his board) are charac terized, Iy lack of wisdom or sound discretion,'' even. Judge of Probates Sehumpert has continued to occupy his office in the old court house, ihaving refused to move. The decision again leaves it up to the county supervisor and his ,board. Under it, they couald tomorrow .morn ing move every officer in the court house, and could do so es .often as it seems best to them. In other words, ethe supreme court holds that it is a matter entirely for them. They- may~ leave Auditor W'erts in his office, or may move him. They may place Judge of Probate Sehumpert in any office in the coart house they see fit to put him in. It is up to -them. Whatever action the supervisor and his board now take will be the law of the case. If they adhere to their for mer decision, County Auditor Werts will be forced to move into 'the little room in the rear .and J-udge of Pro bate Schumpert will move from the old court house up into the office in the new court house now occupied by Auditor Werts. The full text of the decision fol lows: The Decision. The State of South Carolina. In the Supreme Court. Eugene S. Werts, as County Auditor of Newberry County, Plaintiff, Against L. T. Feagle, as County Supervisor, and Frank M. Schumpert, as Judge of Probate, of Newberry County, Defendants. Opinion by Eugene B. Gary. A. J. This is an application to the court, inth exercise of its origtinal jurisdic tion, for an injunction. The petition contains the follow ing allegations: I1st. That on the 16th day of Jan uary, 1909, the said Eugene S. Werts was duly appointed and commission ed to the office of county auditor of Newberry county, and that he enter ed upon the duties of the said office on the 18th day of January, 1909, succeeding therein William W. Crom er, formerly county auditor of New berry county, and that the said plain tiff has continuously since the said 18th day of January, 1909, been dis charging and is now discharging the duties of the said office. ''2nd. That L. I. Feagle is the duly commissioned and qualified coun ty supervisor of Newberry county, and that Frank M. Schumpert, is the duly commissioned and qualified judge of probate of Newberry county. ''3rd. That as the plaintiff is in formed, believes and alleges, during the year 1908, the present court house for Newberry county was completed, and that the commission charged with the erection thereof, assigned and set apart for the use of the county audi tor of Newberry county, one of the offices therein, situate on the south ern side of the said building, and op posite, on one side thereof, to the of flee assigned and set apart for the use of the clerk of court of said coun ty, and on another side thereof, to the office assigned and set apart f4r the use of the county treasurer of said county, and that the predecessor of this plaintiff, in the office of coun ty auditor of Newberry county, in the discharge of his duties as such county auditor, took possession of the office or room hereinbefore descrlbed, and continued to use and occupy tUe same, untif the expiration of his term of office, and that the said W. W. (;rom er, as county auditor aforesaid, had the consent, approval. and authority of the county board of commissioiers of Newberry county, to use and occu py the said office or room. ''4th. That when this plaintiff en tered upon the duties of county audi tor, of Newberry county, the use, oc cupancy and possession of the afore said room or offiee, was turned over to him by his said predecessor in the said office, together with tihe books, records, papers, furnishings and equipment thereof, and that this plaintiff is now, and continuously since the said 18th day of January, 1909, has been in possession of the said room or office, discharging the duties of his office 'therein.* ''5th. That on the 5th day of Feb.. ruary, 1909, the said L. I. eFagle, as county supervisor of Newherry county, demanded that this plaintiff vacate the office or room, now occu pied by him as auditor of Newbeiry county, and further demanded that the plaintiff remove or permit said L. L. Feagle as county supervisor afore said, to remove therefrom the books, records, furnishings and equipment of the said office, to another room or of fee in the said conrt house. His reason therefor, is, this plaintiff is informed, believes and alleges, being to permit his co-defendant Frank M. Seumpert as judge of probate of Newberry county, to use and occupy the said room and office, and as this plaintiff is informed, believes and al leges, t'he said Framnk M. Sch.umpert, as judge of probate of Newberry county, was and is assisting the said L. IL Feag leas county supervisor, to cause this plaintiff to vacate said of fce or room, and was and is advising, urging, aiding and acting with him in the effort and attempt, to cause this plaintiff to remove from the said room or office. ''6th. That the room or office to which the said defendants are trying to have this plaintiff, t.ogether with the books, records, equipment and furnishings of his office, removed, is so small and ill arranged that it is not a proper and suitable place or of flee room, for a proper performance and discharge of the duties of the office of county auditor of Newberry county, and that the same does not ecttan. and is too ar,::.I and j11 ar r *. - te made pr,!e-le t - - tan ?e e necessary furnm'-tr and sta tionry for a proper performance and dischare-e of his duti?. of :hw said of fee, and Q.tt to eaue' this plaintitT to remove theheto will seriously hamper, interfere with, and prevent the plain ti:f frm a faithful saditaetory an.l