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?k Hamburg iirralb 1 |l Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1907 One Dollar a Year |h MASHED TO DEATH IN BELTING. Rolley Hack, Colored, Killed in Seed House at Bishopville. Bishopville, Jan. 26.?At about } 11 o'clock yesterday Rolley Mack, Colored, was instantly killed while at work in the seed house of the Lee County Manufacturing company. It ' seems from the statement of-the only eye witness present that Mack was up on a joist in the seed house replacing a belt when he was caught in the belting attached to another > piece of shafting. When found he was wrapped around the shafting dead. The eyewitness heard nothing to indicate that anything had gone wrong until he heard the dead Doay 01 JUaCK smung a juisc <U1U uu investigating he saw Mack around the shafting. A g .s.r ^ Homkkle Near Sumter. =;% Sumter, January 26.?Mr. W. L. Osteen shot and killed Dave Gamble, colored, Friday night about 7 o'clock, Jv . at his farm in Privateer township, ? ' 12 miles south of this city. Mr. Osteen came in and surrendered to the sheriff. An inquest was held and the two eye-witnesses of the killing ii* testified that Gamble made an assault mi Mr. Osteen after being orL dered to leave the place, and that he was shot as he was trying to enter Mr. Osteen's house. The difficulty W grew out of a misunderstanding over ? lnHnr rnnfrart:. Bond will be ap .v . v plied for at once. yfc T. W. Bouchier Dies Suddenly. ^- Bennettsville, January 27.?Mr. . Thomas W. Bouchier, aged 43 years, sf- 'fell dead at the postoffice here this trV morning.? After getting his mail he started out, when he fell backward Ipfc" and died without speaking. He had heart trouble several years, |p| but appeared in good health and -f- worked incessantly at his office til] P%;'. after 9 o'clock last night. He had the largest law practice in |fe' Marlboro county, was interested in Bj8|^vMarlboro cotton mills and other enfe>'terprises and attorney for four banks. He was completing extensive repairs l?::, and additions to his handsome resi: dence. His son, Henry Bouchier, is a student at the University of South vH; Carolina. His wife and small children are visiting in Florida. ^1% The funeral will be held Tuesdaj ; ?5' J Enterprising Saloonkeeper. Sy Frank White, of the Orpheum, is responsible for the following story, says the Denver Post: Yesterdaj :? / Afternoon, according to him, twc gy tall ranchmen bought seats in the fe back row in the balcony. One of the ?? Rashers chanced to be standing neai | y than while he was not busy and acr cidentally heard some of their conversation. Before the curtain rose yv '; they talked about various things in fe the theater. While the orchestra fey .was preparing to play its overture one of the ranchmen said: "Jim, what do you s'pose all them red lights With 'E-x-i-t' over 'em is for?" y: "I ain't sure, but I think Iknow," :l; ? was the reply. '[ what's your idea?" $&fv-. there 'E-x-i-t' is French ;. talk tor 'Saloon.' I think," said the fer-other. "Them doorways lead to fe y some place where you can git a drink." Ey, The one who had asked about the exits looked at the red lights a mo ment "Gosh!" he said finally "that Jg. . saloonkeeper is sore enterprisin', :i - k hit it don't look to me like he's doI;/ i&g much business." . . ' Shooting in Aiken. > Aiken, January 28.?News was received fast night of a footing scrape at Talatha^ a settlement about twenty miles from here. It is said that a 4.. white man named Frank Johnson shot and probably fatally wounded s negro, Jim Glover, in a difficulty arising from passing each other in the road. Nothing authentic can be learned, but it seems that Glover, for some reason, asked Johnson to turn out of the road for him, which precipitated a quarrel, resulting in J,- Johnson shooting Glover with a pisiol. It is said that Glover is fatally wounded and will die. South Carolina again wins the championship in the matter of raising the yield of corn per acre. The prize yield was a 182 bushels to the acre and Mr. A. J. Tindall, of Clarendon, is the successful competitor. A few years ago in a similar contest, Sooth Carolina won the first prize, Hr. Drake, of Marlboro, having produced 287 bnifcelp to the acre. ; *'v v. IN THE PALMETTO STATE. INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading Pungent Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Work has been commenced on the Columbia and Greenville railroad, replacing the old light rail with new and heavier rail. E. J. Dickerson, a prominent ne. gro lawyer, died last Saturday morning at 3 o'clock at his home in Aiken from apoplexy. Dickerson has for many years been a prominent Republican leader and politician. The town of Honea Pajh is maki ing efforts to establish a public lit brary, and Mr. Carnegie has offered $10,000 for the purpose. The citizens are in earnest, and it is likely that the library will be established. The railroad commission has called a meeting of all telephone officials in the state to be held in Columbia ' on February 26 for the purpose of , revising the rules of the commission relative to telephone companies. Edwin F. Gary, formerly state > auditor in radical days, died suddenly in his room in Columbia on Saturnight, aged about 65. He had not been living in this state for several years, but was spending the winter . in Columbia. - Two strange women fleeced a Charleston woman put of $250 which r she advanced to further a "sure , thing," which was a marvelous process for photography. They fled the 1: city ueiure uitj puncc wcic of the scheme. . * Ernest Tisdale, a popular young man of Summerton, Clarendon coun ty, committed suicide on Thursday , by taking an overdose of laudanum, . the cause alleged being financial k troubles. He leaves a wife and two! j young children. Representative J. E. Harley, of; Barnwell, has introduced a bill in the house providing that hereafter no; I election for a new county shall be [ held where the territory does not; contain 1,000 electors or where the county seat is to be located less than 1 six miles from the boundary lines. 1 There is a proposition before the " sinking fund commission to borrow - the sum of $100,000 for the purpose ; of erecting a supreme court building . at some place yet to be selected.! The legislative committee has sug5 gested a site on the property of the 1 South Carolina College and also that the State agree to pay back at least $20,000 a year with interest. r Mrs. C. W. Blair, who was in jail in Columbia, charged with the mur-1 Hpr of ,her husband, hag been re leased on bond of $2,000. Blair said , his wife shot him, and that the quar4 rel between them grew out of her ? intimacy with a conductor named r Arms. This was his statement be> fore he died. Arms has made an ; affidavit, in which he states that he was never intimate with the woman 5 and that when he went to the house ' it was at the invitation of Blair him self, whom He considered one of his . best friends. Mrs. Blair claims the k shooting was an accident. i fllnister Hurt in Runaway. 1 Barnwell, January 26.?The Rev. ! R. A. Yongue, a very highly re spected Methodist minister of this 5 city, was thrown from a wagon while driving in town yesterday. His horse became frightened by one of the shafts dropping from the vehicle. The animal ran some three or four 1 hundred yards, where he became ! fanrrlo^ ir? q not wirp fon<*o pnrlrvs AVU i?? V* *?V V V>M V 1 ing the residence of Col. C. C. ^ Simms. Mr. Young was thown from the vehicle and very painfully injured ! but not seriously. The Masonic Lodge of this city held a regular communication last night and Worshipful Master P. R. Hagood conferred the E. A. degree upon four of our most highly esteemed young men. The lecture was delivered in a very forcible and impres jve matter. During the business ? session of the meeting resolutions were read and adopted upon the death of Capt. J. W. Woodward, who, it will be remembered, was the builder of, and ran the first train : over, the railroad between Barnwell ? i i . i and Blackville, now owned oy tne Southern Railway Company. Capt. Woodwar^ -also built the , Court House of this county, which is a handsome brick structure, the jail and many other large brick buildings, which, in after years, will stand as a monument to his his memory. Legislative Doings. The house has passed a bill reducing railroad fare to cents a ! mile. In the senate a test vote shows that body to be against the dispensary. The house passed a bill repealing the lien law. The Senate refused to pass a bill f abolishing the lien law. HIS HEAD ALHOST SEVERED. Rich Allen Kills Jesse Jones With a Razor. Williston, Jan. 26.?Last night Rich Allen nearly severed the head of Jessie Jones from his body with a razor. Both are negro tenants on the plantation of Dr. W. C. Smith, which is near White Pond. So far as can be learned it seems that the two men had been quarreling about some women, and when feeding time came Jones picked up a stick to resent some abuse from Allen, when the latter drew the ever-present razor and with one deft murderous stroke nearly decapitated his victim. Realizing the awful consequences of his blind rage, Allen turned to flee, I and after a chase of some 500 yards was overtaken by Mr. Marion Bell, who was a witness of the murder, and brought to Williston for safe keeping until this morning, when he was put in charge of the sheriff of Aiken county. Didn't Think Any More of Him for It. An English excursionist, who was up near Balmoral on a certain occasion, went into a cottage to get a drink of water. "So the queen is a neighbor of yours?" he said to the housewife, while she was serving him. "Yes." "And she is quite neighborly, isn't she, and comes to visit you in your cottage?" "She's weel enough." "Look here, ma'am you don't seem satisfied with her majesty. May I ask you why?" "Weel, I'll tell ye if ye, wish. The fact is we don't leik the gangin's on at the castle. We don't leik the way they keep or don't keep the Sawbath ?goin' out in boats on the Sawbath day." The excursionist tried to appease her and said: "Oh, well, after all ma'am, you know there is a precedent for that. JYou remember our Lord, too, went out on the Sabbath?" She interrupted him: "Oh, ave! I ken it weel eneuch. You canna tell me aught about hem that I dinna ken aready. An' I can teel ye this: We don't think' any moor o' hem for it, either." Waiting for a Jury to Grow. "I have a case still pending in a South Georgia justice court that has been there since 1879," remarked Judge Spencer R. Atkinson, former justice of the supreme court, to a group of friends at the capitot. Oi course they had to ask Judge Atkinson for particulars. "Soon after I began the practice of law," the Judge continued, "J took a case for a client involving a verbal contract for building a log cabin. The amount involved was less than $100, so suit was brought in the justice court of the little country district where the defendant, the owner of the log cabin, lived. By consent of all parties the matter was referred to a jury. The first jury came in with a mistrial. "Another jury was called, and there was another mistrial. And so it went on for six or seven terms of court, each successive jury failing to reach a verdict. "Then, one day, just before it was time to call the case up for submission to the seventh or eighth jury, 1 received this note from the justice of the peace: " 'Dear Sir: I write this to let you know the case of Beckham agin Lyles cannot be tried no more in this court. You have used up all the juries in the district and it won't be possiDie to jfet no inure juries uixui some grows up or some new folks moves in. I have wrote the same notice to the other side. Yours truly, P. Williams, Justice of the Peace, 497 district G. M.' "With that we dropped the case by common consent and have been waiting ever since for a new jury to grow." If congress wants to reduce the cost of handling the mails, let it cut down some of its own dead and worthless printed matter which is now sent out. Millions of pounds of this worthless stuff is sent out at a dead expense and it doesn't benefit anybody to an appreciable extent. But instead of cutting down expenses in that direction, some of the representatives seek to have the rate of postage on newspapers and magazines, which is already quite enough, increased by about twelve per cent. ?Greenville News. A - COUNTRY NEWS IETTERS. SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. , News Items Gathered All Aroand the Coanty and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt. January 28.?Mr. W. P. Pate has taken a job with C. Ehrhardt & Sons, and will be pleased to see his many friends at his new post. Mr. J. C. McMillan departed this life Saturday night and was buried at the McMillan grave yard by the Masons. He was about seventyseven years old and has been complaining for some time, but only took to his bed lately. He leaves a wife and several sons and daughters to mourn his departure. His friends are numerous, as was shown, by the crowd' that gathered to see him placed in his last resting place. Captain, your congenial smile and hearty hand-shake will be missed from among us. Rev. T. *L. Belvin has purchased a lot upon which he intends to build himself a home for a retreat in his old age. Mrs. G. L. .Kinard intends to oper up a millinery store in the neai future. Mr.' Kinard has his store building repainted and cleaned up for the new goods which are expectnext month. We have had some showers last wee^. They were much needed for the growing grain crops. Two bird hunters went out one day last week, and came in without getting a shot at a bird. They had three dogs with them. Birds must * - ? _ De scarce in mis secuun. Farmers seem to be reluctant about making their returns this year. The Deputy Auditor while here did not take many returns during the two days he was here. Some of our young men went tc the Clear Ponds for a fish fry lasl week. The night was cold but the} had the fish caught and had the fry all right. They swapped yarns a while, and Mr. George Folk showed the crowd how to sit on a cypress knee. He will tell you how if you . ask him, as he is very kind and accommodating to any one. Jee. Ehrhardt News. : Ehrhardt, January 28.?Mr. J. C, | McMillan died last Saturday night al his home, and was buried Sundaj , afternoon at the family burying ground. Mr. McMillan was one 01 i the oldest men in our section, anc was universally respected and' loved by all. , Mr. and Mrs. Jones Lane, of Fair : fax, spent last week in town visiting | relatives. Sidney^Padgett, of the 6th grade, t spent a few days last week at Smoafc , visiting relatives. Cards are out announcing the mar > riageof Mr. Dave Smith and Mis: ! Effie Copeland, the 30th instant. t Miss May Carter spent last weel , in Bamberg visiting her sister. l*he town council is building i I bridge across the Hartz branch neai , town. t Mr. Willie Chassereau and Mia \ Dora Kinard were happily marriec at the home of the bride on the 16tl , instant, by Rev. P. E. Monroe. Mr. Frank Sease and Miss Effic Jones, of Ashton, spent last Monday | in town. Mr. B. V. Kearse, who has beer , working for Mitchum Bros., has ac w?nf n rvMifinn with Mr f!_ F. Rizer of Olar. Laurie Kinard, Ehrhardt Graded School. Both Sexes Equally Queer. Cal! a girl a chick and she smiles; call a woman a hen and she howls, Call a young woman a witch and she is pleased; call an old woman a witch and she is indignant. Call a girl ? ? * a <1 1*1 ?i__ 11 Kitten ana sne ratner lixes it; can a woman .a cat and 'she hates you. Women are queer. If you call a man a gay dog it will flatter him; call him a pup, a hound or a cur and he will try to alter the map of your face. He doesn't mind being called a bull or a bear, yet he will object to being mentioned as p. calf or cub. Men are queer too. The judiciary committee of the house of congress have reported favorably a bill prohibiting the shipping C. 0. D. of liquors into states where the sale of liquor is forbidden by state laws. This does not effect shipments that are paid for before .shipped. DRAMATIC INCIDENT IN CHURCH. Spartanburg Pastor Burns an Anonymous Letter In Pulpit. ' Spartanburg, January 28.?At the First Baptist church last | Sunday night, Rev. L. M Roper, pastor of the church, burned an anonymous letter in the pulpit by striking a match and setting the letter on j fire. Mr. Roper stated that he had j received an anonymous letter re- c fleeting on the character of a mem- j ber of his congregation. Taking the j letter from his pocket he said that \ he wished to show the author what j he thought of it, and holding the < : letter in one hand, he struck a match 1 with the other and applied the flame, * ? He said a person who would write ] s an anonymous letter was either a ( ! fool or a knave and he was inclined s i to believe that he was the latter. The incident created a sensation \ r and for the moment was highly dra- J l matic. Protect Your Town. | ' Protect your own town and there- 1 . by show that you are in favor of j protection! Ijf protection is good ; for the nation it is good for the , town. As townspeople we should 1 favor our town above every bther as i the growth and development of it is j what will enchance the value of all 3 property both in and about it. Then . uuy your ury guuus, groceries, iiaru[ ware, furniture, etc., at home; have your printing, your blacksmithing, J your shoe-making done at home; ] ' patronize your home in every in- ] j instance that you can. The success ' of our merchants and mechanics ] means new business houses and residences, additional demands for labor!, ' of various kinds. To the farmer a | first-class town affords a better mar- i ketforhis grain, a better trading . point, and such a town is bound to increase the value of his land. Unquestionably "in union there is ' strength." Let us protect our town. r Briddell Gets Bail. y Munday Briddell, a young white , I man about twenty-six years old, was 5 yesterday brought to this city from 1 Columbia, where he was arrested by ; the sheriff of that county at the rermest of Sheriff Gilreath. The ? charges against Briddell are seduc- ; tion and adultery. Briddell was an ' operative of the Brandon tnills of 'r this city, and ran away with a girl 1 r apparently about thirteen years old. i ! They, went from this city to Union ^ and from there to the Olympia mills ^ in Columbia. When Briddell and the girl ran off, the mother of the latter went to Mr. p J. R-. Martin, of the local bar, and ' ^sked him if he would help her try and locate* them. Mr. Martin, for ' charity's sake, wrote to a mill paper published at Charlotte, N, C., and which is taken by many of the operatives in mi ls over the South, and in the letter to this paper described the couple and asked that any one seeing them wire the mother of the child. In about three days the mother of the child received a message from a party in Columbia stating that the couple was in that city, j The sheriff of Richland comity ( was at once instructed to make the arrest and the couple were brought k back to this city yesterday. * 'r Briddell was arraigned before Magistrate Stradley who released i him on a bond of $600. The child whom he carried off with him is back with her mother.?Greenville News. Defending Mother Youth Kills Father. Laurens, Jan. 23.?Last night between nine and ten o'clock, J. J. , Smith, a mill operative employed at ' Watts mills, located just north of the city, was killed by his son, John i Smith, a youth 15 or 16 years old.i The shooting took place in the Smith cottage and was the result, so the boy claims, of his father's attack on 1 Mrs. Smith. After beating his wife, . Smith was in the act of shooting her < i when the boy told him not to shoot i his mother. The gun snapped when 1 nn o /iLnon cnn_ 1 ; yUUIZg Otllltll pi^acu up a biicau aiugle barrel gun and shot his lather ? ' dead in his tracks. The boy was < . committed to jail this morning and i the inquest will be held this after- i noon. ! The Smiths came to Laurens from 1 Tennessee about a year ago to work 1 in the cotton mill. 3 When a man pursuing the daily i peaceful avocations of life goes 1 around with a revolver on his person, < ; it is prima facie evidence that.he is 1 ! either a fool or a criminal, and in < either case he ought to be locked up. ( THE SAME OLD STORY. M INVESTIGATING COnMlTTEE FINDS DISPENSARY OVERSTOCKED. Jquor Bought Illegally and at Prices ";-v4 Entirely Too High?Tatnm's Charges Sustained. Columbia, Jarfuary 28.?The re>ort of the special committee apjointed ten days ago to investigate >||| jharges of overstock at the State dis- i - n.nn m.UwiUfA/l +A fVta QAWflfa . VijS .rciiSMUjr woo ouuimui^u iaj uiw^unv^ 'fiHI it the night session by the chairman. .^33 Senator Christensen. The report had M seen delayed by the absence of Mr. Richards, one of the members of the g lommittee, who returned at 9 o'clock 3| tonight on a delayed train, and as .-$1 won as he signed the report ft was _ $8 sent to the president's desk and read. &9B It was then referred to the judiciary x? committee for any recommendation 4|S3 is to action that should be taken. -v 'x^M The report in the main substanti- -m ites Commissioner Tatum's charges as to the overstock of the State aSa- r||H pensary and shows up the general ^ laxness with which the institution conducted. The report is signed all the members of the committee, of via whom Messrs. Graydon and Richards ..-<M are dispensary supporters. Richards said tonight that while he'-^^p a arrpp/1 with flip rpnnrt he would .ISSBM 3ay that it was not sufficiently;?$SB brought out that the dispensary was:;^ in excellent financial condition. The v^Bj main features of the report 'are given below: * ";J That the State dispensary is over-.' 3?K 3tocked, and that there was on hand in the State dispensary on January ' 15,1907, about six hundred and sixtynine thousand dollars worth of stock. ,v|| That four hundred thousand do!- <|?| lars worth of stock is sufficient run the State dispensary. We find^^ :3B that this overstocking has been go^ ing on both under the old board of fts directors and under the new board; We further find that in the pur-v^^H chase of liquors for the dispensary; | the law has not been observed in a,--qaB number of instances, and that liquors |j| have been bought contrary to the rule established by the board ?tsejjg^|M for the purchase of liquor. $? We find that Mr. John Black, a j|| member of the board of direc purchased a large amount of liquor, amounting to about sixteen hundred barrels, from Clark Brothers & Son,'.;^ - of Peoria, His.; said Black making^|p J said purchase in person in Peoria^ 111. We also find that at the'same; ' :|9j time and place he made a purchase ^Ja^ from Lehman & Co., the amount of which we have been unable to ascerr ??w| tain, but three hundred barrels were -JS shipped to and received by the State dispensary. We also find that Miv Rlar?W mndp a nurchase in Derson Cincinnati, Ohio, of six hnndre&||!lj| cases of liquor from Moyse Brothers, 1 These three lots of liquor thus pur- A*m chased by Mr. Black amounted to about one hundred and twenty-five ujwpjj thousand dollars. yWm We find from the testimony that jfesljt the liquor thus purchased by Mr. Black from Clark Brothers &Sons at g| $1.50 to $1.75 per gallon is averyin- " a '? ferior quality of liquor, bemg what is known as high wine, and is not 'WM worth more than $1.33 to $1.35 per gallon, and can be bought in the >19 market at that price. , ? We find from the testimony that ^ the present board of directors has ':M constantly substituted other goods to be shipped out to the county dis- y pensaries in place of the goods or- y' :*m dered by the county dispensers, and -m that the goods so substituted were not satisfactory to the county dis- ^B pensers, or to the people, and that |i they were shipped over the protest ;y| of the county dispensers and over the f!| protest of the State commissioner. --M We further find that the board of f^jH directors failed Or refused to buy in ':gM sofficient quantities, X conv X go 'M ana A rye, aitnougn mere was & uix demand for this clasB of goods, axil j$?M frequent demands to the board to-, order that dass of goods, and that ^ the board claims that certain firms refused-to ship out this class of J goods when ordered, but we find on %gM; examination that there are on file :||1 many bids from other reputable concerns offering to furnish these goods* We further find that the board ot directors have purchased large quantities of objectionable case goods, in which there was a very large profit to the sellers, in many instances over ^ a hundred per cent., but that they M failed or refused to purchase the popular cheap goods in which the profit to the sellers was very little. -|g We further find that a large part rs of the overstock in the State dispen- ^ 3ary consists of case goods for which there is little or no demand, and which was bought over the protest of the commissioner and the county | dispensers. We further find that there has 'M been paid on the Gark purchase the sum of $30,000, and that the checks \ were countersigned by Commissioner Tatum, although he had been in- ; $ formed of the facts concerning said purchase. We find that since the meeting of ' % the General Assembly the board of M iirectors have adopted a resolution 3 that all orders for liquor must be ; J countersigned by Commissioner^ W. [). Tatum. 1. .,v ' . '