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. - ... .... . ...... \ r .. Utyp lamkrg l^ralb Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1907 One Dollar a Year f 9 I IN THE PALMETTO STATE 1 SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH AROLINA. * State News Boiled Down For Quick s Reading?Paragraphs About g Men and Happenings. ( "Hub" Evans is in the second race [ for mayor of Newberry. A bank with $18,000 capital has r been organized at Swansea. f Court is going on in Barnwell this J week. The case of John B. Ross for J; killing Johnson Pender is being tried. jj Cornelius Blacklemore, a young r white man of Charleston, put a bullet ? into his head Tuesday while playing j with a pistol. He will probably die. a The Hibernia bank in Charleston c has been placed in the hands of a re- ? ceiver. The depositors will probably J receive about 75 per cent of their * money. I D. W. Alderman, a wealthy lumber c dealer of Clarendon county, has q eilif kafrtro Stiltp ainrPTlIP , UlV/U^lltOUlll VUUl V/ VUV wwavvwv>^> v.... ^ court to test the constitutionality of r the income tax law. a The big British steamship Iran has c arrived in Charleston for a cargo of t . cotton. The ship came from Galveston, as the necessary cotton could not be secured at that port. A meeting of farmers of the South i was held in New Orleans last week, I and it was decided to hold cotton for J fifteen cents the pound. A plan to 2 reduce the acreage was also adopted. J I Carrie Bomar, a negro woman of j Spartanburg, married a negro who J ylaimed to be a Dr. Shepard, of <Jhi-T cago, and he deserted her after get- r ting $500 in cash from her trunk. Judge Andrew Crawford, of Col- 3 umbia, who was generally regarded as one of the ablest lawyers in the ? State, died suddenly in the court ? house in Columbia last week of apoplexy. He was arguing a case * before the court when he excused t himself to his associates and withdrew c to the solicitor's room, saying he 1 would be out for a moment. To the 1 sheriff who accompanied him to the ^ room he complained of his heart and c asked for a doctor, but before one I reached him he was dead, in seven minutes from the time he left the i court room. Judge Crawford was ^ 59 years old, and enjoyed excellent health for one of his age. 1 c Nine Murder Cases in Barnwell. ^ Barnwell, Nov. 26.?Judge R. W. * Memminger, of Charleston, convened g court here on Monday morning. It was not long after 9:30 o'clock before Judge c Memminger had the wheels of justice in 1 motion. There is a very heavy crimi- 1 nal docket, and it will require several s days to clear it up, there being nine i , c murder cases. So far only two cases have been taKen. c up, the first that of John Coleman, col- J ored, charged with killing another negro, Granderson Gaines. In this case the i jury returned a verdict pf guilty of man- t slaughter. The sentence has not yet been pronounced. c The next case taken up was that of the State vs.' John B. Ross. It will be J remembered that this case was tried at ( the last term of court and resulted in a 1 mistrial. Ross is being tried for killing Johnson Pender at Ashley church last 1 summer. The entire day has been taken 1 up in examining witnesses and it is very f probable that the case will not be given to the jury until tomorrow afternoon. Messrs. D. S. Henderson, of Aiken, j and R. C. Holman, of the local bar, are j assisting Solicitor Davis in the prosecu- < tion. Messrs. Bates & Simms, G. M. x Greene and u. A. .Best are corjpucwng i r the defense. s The case has created much interest, ^ and all during the day the court room I has been crowded, several ladies being ^ present. 1 The solicitor nol" prossed the case s against Sutton and Barden, charged } with obtaining money under false pre- ] tenses, there not being sufficient evi- 1 ? dence to convict. It will be remember- I ed that this is the case in which these j two men were arrested for selling al- ' leged bogus insurance throughout Barn- * well county. Was This a Bamberg flan? Hevwas an old Citadel graduate, just down for the day, and could not possibly ( stay longer as he was married and had to ^ be at home. We were standing in front of Wonderland, and the reporter suggested that he had better pull off his new derby hat, as it was dangerous to j wear them on the streets. j He would not take the hint, but said: < "The first person who went after that 1 hat would get hurt," and he looked i mighty fierce just at that moment. < Later in the day he was seen and had ? decided to stay over night as he had not ( quite finished his business. At 11 p. m. we met him again. The top of his hat ^ was knocked in, he had a girl on each i arm, both pockets full of "confetti" and a tickler in each hand. He had a 1 good time, and surely will come back ( next year. ? Charleston News and i Courier. ( ? ;< PISTOL BATTLE IN MARION. fwo Policemen and a Disorderly Ne> gro Exchange Shots. Marion, Nov. 22.?A desperate hooting affray occurred in the south vestern suburbs of Marion last nighi iboutll o'clock between Policemer Jilmore Smith and John Rowell anc Charles, alias "Man," Davis. Itseem: hat Davis, who has the reputatioi >f being an unruly negro, had beer lursing his wrath against the polic( orce for about two weeks on accoum ?f having been arrested and finec ?5 for wife-beating, and while drunF ast night was out on the street with lis gun cursing and uttering all manter of threats against Policemar >mith. Upon the matter being re >orted to the police Messrs Smitt tnd Rowell went to take him ir barge, when he opened fire with his hotgun. Policeman Smith returnee he fire with a shotgun, and ther >oth the policemen emptied theii >istols at the negro, who escapee emporarily. Later, however, he was aptured and lodged in jail, and to lay had to call for medical attentior >n account of his wounds. Davis ii lot seriously wounded, and will hav< imple time to recover in jail, as his :ase will not be tried until the spring erm of Court. Election in Branchville. Branchville, Nov. 25.?Intens< nterest is being taken in our ap >roaching town election, which wil i r\ 1 >e held on next Monday, uecemDei !. The following gentlemen have innounced their candidacy formayor dessrs. S. S. Byrd, A. S. Dukes anc i. B. Williams. More interest is being taken in this Section than in any heretofore in i lumber of years. The term of office s for two years, with a salary o: >200 a year. The friends of all of the candidate; ire working hard, and we anticipate i close race. Less interest is being taken in the 'lection for aldermen. Only five gen ;lemen have announced their candi lacy for this office: Messrs. F. A Bruc^ Jr., W. L. Dukes, T. D lender, D. R. Steedly and Dr. J. S rVimberly. We expect several nev :andidates this week, as there are t< >e six aldermen elected. Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Wimberly hav< eturned from a pleasant trip U Washington, D. C. Mrs. J. N. Byrd left last Tuesday for Savannah, where she will spen< i week with her sister. Dr. and Mrs. A. S. Hair returnee Saturday from Sumter, where the: risited Mr. S. D. Cain, a forme) chool mate of Dr. Hair. Mrs. W. A. Bass returned severa iays ago from her home at Oxford C. She Was accompanied hom< )y her mother, Mrs. Wood, who wil ipend the winter here. Prof. W. P. Etchison of Ridgewa: ipent last Tuesday in town. Mr. and Mrs. Abe Pearlstine anc >ons, Jack and Milton, spent Sunda: n Allendale. Mrs. J. M. Tucker, who has beei risitihg relatives in Bamberg, has re ;urned home. Miss Ethel Pearlstine spent a fev lays in Charleston last week. Messrs. P. C. and A. F. H. Duke vent to Charleston last Tuesday foi ;he purpose of taking the most ex :ellent master degree in the Roya ^rch chapter, A. F. M. Mr. F. E. Turner, Jr., of Lynch )urg, Va., who has been visiting re atives, returned home last Thurs lay. The Great South. Opportunity iswritteneverywhere [t is painted by the sun on ever: andscape. What will this grea South be? In ten years what wil \iken Height be? If you are paying *ent, this is your opportunity t< secure a lot upon which to begin ; lome. If you would share in Aikei prosperity, which * matters no vhether you be in New York, Georgii >r South Carolina or any State in thi Jnion. If you want to invest you: savings where they will make money puy one or more lots in AikenHeights L?ss than three-fourths of a mil tforth of Aiken, S. C. One of th greatest towns in the South. Th< latural resources of Aiken and witl ler advancing march compels th< idvancement of Aiken Heights. Call on our agent, Mr. H. A. Ray The Cotton Market. Cotton is selling in Bamberg to lay at lOg cents the pound. Receipt 1 CA /M-i -PA )l tins weejs., iuu uaico. ivcvci^io iv :he season so far, 6,300 bales. People Tiring of Gospel. Berlin, Nov. 24.?General Booth n an address to the Salvation Arm; lere, said that the people everywhere ?eemed to be tiring of religion. H< Delieved there were 2,000,000 people n London who never entered ; ihurch. It was the same in Europe md America and even in heathei countries. An election on the dispensary ques ;ion will be held in Union county oi pYiday, December 27th. It will b< emembered that this county vote< >ut the dispensary a few years ago ind this a movement to put th< :ounty back in the dispensary column HANDSOME SC a j fire Started in Heatin : Could Not 1 I THE CONTENTS OF BUILD! L I i The Loss of the Building is a Hard ] j Time Threatened?Ful i 5 Last Thursday afternoon about 2 I o'clock the alarm of fire was sounded, 1 and when it was found that the j graded school building was on fire, 5 numbers of people hurried to the - scene with the hope that it might be \ saved. The fire broke out in the * basement, and is supposed to have 5 started from the furnace used to ^ heat the building. There had been no fire in the furnace that day, and it must have been burning since the day before. Some of the teachers a and pupils and Superintendent Sher* idan were still in the building when i the alarm was g\ven. ? The fire burned slowly, and on ac> count of the very hard work done, ' hopes were entertained that the j building would be saved, but the fire was in a hard place to get at. The , cotton mill hose was gotten out, but * was not long, enough to reach the s building, so wagons loaded with ? barrels were used to convey water from the end of the hose line to the , building. The first floor was flooded ? with water, but still the flames crept ' upward until .finally the workers a were driven from the building by the * smoke and flames. " Most of the furniture, desks, etc., were saved, although badly damaged * in moving, as the desks were screwed / r-?r??? ' '. ' v.-' r m' <j, ?&.'''%?{, Wm, ww. J % " | 'M A> %-ftMvf$.&''(//1%jk . : &?' ' m f i vmWi ? i A/ ' ' . / y .. '' H "y / IT ''W$im ''S ' & :/' Wll r '> ': ?%-j.;?, ?W&Z /.:" . yify,. V' /. ' BAMBERG GRADED ! ? GRUESOflE FIND AT COLUHBIA. j 1 ? r BOY Discovers Dead Body of New 3 Born Infant In a Gully. a i Columbia, November 22.?While ; t searching for empty bottles in a deep a gully just behind the street car waite ing station, at the foot of Gervais r street, today a ten year-old lad named , John Watts discovered the body of ai. new-born white infant, which had e evidently been smothered to death, e Cotton cloth was wound tightly e about the upper part of the body, i and there was a bruise the size of a e half dollar on the forehead while the face showed the congestion that re. suits from strangulation. The limbs were encased in newspaper. The Watts boy, frightened by his _ gruesome find, called his mother to s the scene, and the police were nor tified. Coroner Walker is trying to probe the mystery, but so far has not developed a plausible theory even as to identification. > A Child Drinks Laudanum. y i e Union, Nov. 22.?Mistaking laud-! - smnm for oouedi svruo. Maude Hen 3 derson, the two-and-a-half-year-old a daughter of Mr. J. A. Henderson, e who lives on West End, died last a night. The two bottles of laudanum and cough syrup were on the mantelpiece - and the child, climbing on a chair to i reach the cough syrup, through mis3 take got the laudanum. 1 A physician was summoned, but , too late to relieve her. The funeral 3 service will be held today and the . child buried at the city cemetery. HOOL BUILDIN g Apparatus of Basen Save the Large Brick ING SAVED ALTHOUGH BAE Blow to the Town?Will Be Rebuilt in 1 Insurance Will Be Paid?Some Talk to the floor and had to be wrenched I loose. | At one time it seemed that some; houses near the building, belonging to the cotton mill, would be burned, but fortunately the wind shifted in time. The barn and stables located on the school lot were burned. Much of the walls are still standing, although cracked in some places, and it is thought that the building can be put back for very little more than the insurance. There was insurance of $7,500 on the building and $750.00 on the furniture, and the full amount will be paid. An insurance adjuster was here Monday, and we understand that the companies will pay the full amount without delay. The loss of this building is a hard blow to the town. It was completed about three years ago, after a long struggle over the question of issuing | bonds for its erection, and every j man, woman and child in the town j took pride in it and felt that some personal belonging of theirs was being burned. The original cost was about $15,000 for building and equipment, but | it would take considerably more to j erect such a structure today. 1 The trustees at once went to work1 and arranged with the county au-1 thorities to use the courthouse for 'r, ,r 2 %' ? {/&/<% SCHOOL BUILDING WHICH WAS C I Liquor Fight in New Orleans. New Orleans, La., Nov. 24.? With a "dry" New Orleans as the aim of prohibitionists and a reformed New Orleans the object of saloon keepers, a crusade reflecting the prohibition movement in other parts of the South began here today. Ministers in nearly all the city Protestant churches devoted part of their sermons to appeals for closing up the 1 irrnnt* lXVjUVi. MXAAVf The announced plans of influential liquor dealers are first to force the resignation from the Louisiana Liquor League of objectionable members and second, to petition the city council to close up the saloons of such retired members. The closing of dives, especially negro resorts, is one of the objects of the liquor dealers. Another is to create such surroundings where drinks are sold as will minimize drunkenness and violence. _ Negro Mangled By Train. Fairfax, Nov. 23.?An unknown negro man was run over by a freight train on the Charleston & Western Carolina railroad early this morning about two miles below here and 1 terribly mangled, but it is thought that he was dead before the engine struck him, as the body was cold and stiff when examined by the engineer, who stopped his train as quick as he 'j -ij ? iun couiu aiuer seeing tuc man wi track. j An empty whiskey bottle was found lying close to where the man was when struck, and indicates that he may have died during the night of heart failure. G DESTROYED lent and Heroic Work Building ILY DAMAGED IN MOVING Near Fatnre?Houses Nearby at One of Moying Building. the present. The desks have been moved there, and school will open up next Monday. The court room, the two jury rooms, and two offices on the second floor will be used, the court room being divided by a partition. On the first floor the offices of the sheriff and auditor will be used. The auditor will move with the treasurer, and the sheriff will move into the office of the master and supervisor. As soon as possible, steps will be taken to rebuild. Some citizens, in fact a good many of the patrons, are dissatisfied with the present location, claiming that it is too far from the center of the town and is too inconveniently located. One gentleman has offered to donate a lot, but whether any steps will be taken toward changing the location is problematical. It will cost considerably more to erect the building at a new site, but if a majority of the patrons and taxpayers want it moved, it should be done. We all want to see it built as soon as possible and a nice structure as well. In fact, the new building should be made larger, and possibly it might be a good idea to largely follow the plan of the burned building, but make it three stories instead of two, having the auditorium on the third floor. Z:0.v.1 < x/.WMifcWW.-i: ffiM'> i0 '''vfv . ' IESTROYED BY FIRE Col. You mans' Cotton Crop. Fairfax, Nov. 23.?The stringency in the money market is not causing Col. L. W. Youmans any inconvenience. He planted 600 acres of long staple cotton this year and calculated that he would get $16,000 for his crop, but he underestimated by about $5,000. The staple is one and a half inches long and longer and Col. Youmans has been informed by the parties who 1 U!- ..Uai. <? Cn.rnnno Vl fJiof nanuie ins uutcun in uavaiuion vuw? his was the highest grade of upland long staple cotton marketed in Savannah this season except that handled for one other shipper, who lives in Georgia. The price averaged about 21 cents per pound. firs. Bussey's Claim is Paid. Edgefield, Nov. 23.?The verdict sum involved in a big railroad case has been sent to Edgefield by the C. & W. C. railroad?$16,269.55?in favor of Mrs. Elizabeth Heath Bussey, whose husband was killed on said road. Mrs. Bussey is a young and beautiful woman. Hot After Moonshiners. Greenville, Nov. 23.?The Federal revenue raiding force located at Greenville captured another illicit distillery in the upper part 01 Greenville yesterday, and arrested four men, making four stills destroyed and six men arrested in that section during the past- three days. The four men arrested yesterday were working in the plant at the time of their arrest. Tne still was destroyed and several thousand gallons of beer, whiskey and mash were poured out. ife ;,:v . COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, Nov. 25.?Mrs. Levi Folk, from near Midway, was spending some time with her father, Col. J. C. Folk, Jr. While there she was taken quite ill and died last Thursday and was buried in the family grave yard on Friday. A negro on Mr. L. M. Ayer's place, nomo/l rW?Vmc tTiv Hipfi nftpr ashnrt. XlUlliVU X/V|/4 4MW AAMk) VkAWV* WW. ?? W. V. . illness last week. Heart trouble was the cause. A negro, Jno R. Connelly, on Capt. J. M. Dannelly's plantation, went to a wedding last Thursday afternoon and suppose took on too much tea. The result of it was a row with his wife, which terminated in his shooting her brains out with his shot gun. It is rumored that he was a mean ' man to his first and second wives, whipping both of them for the least provocation. His second wife, it is said, he often took his gun and fired ? it off over her head to scare her. This time, however, the load entered her head from the back and blew her . j brains out. Some say that her head resembled a gourd with a hole broken in. All the brains were blown over . , the wall of the house, where they remained when the inquest was held. Connelly seemed to be a quiet, polite darkey when not under the influence of whiskey, but when drinking he would go crazy. The Charleston goers last week, did not enjoy the gala week as much as usual. They say there was not much to see this year. Suppose the . tight money had something to do with -, J? the pleasure of the occasion. \ ' Last week we had warm weather for the time of the year. Was rainy : ;r> and bad for outdoor work, still grina- ?: $|9 ing cane went on, and an occasional candy pulling was indulged in by the ' " young folks, after the day's work was l/M done. v - tjs ^ - ?- - unn mama 4?a : v? *8i ivirs. uviuti ^lutsiscicau iuu guuc w spend a week with her parents. Mr. J. J. Farrell is having his house painted, and will soon be ready to occupy it. i *| Mr. W. P. Pate expects to get orders to go on an engine as fireman on Monday or Tuesday. He don't know what run he will get placed on, but he wants this run, on account of his family. The pecan crop this year is a failure; veiy few on the trees. The late frosts killed all the blossoms in the spring. ^ Mr. E. F. Lyons exhibited a stalk of sugar cane that at the base had three joints. Then it seems as if it had got- - ten some injury, and from then on " formed two complete stalks of cane 'J| about six feet long. Would be class-' 5 ed as a rorKea sugar cane. Court week in Walterboro has increased the ticket sales this morning. Jee. v Colston Culllngs. Colston, Nov. 25?We are having some very bad weather for the past week. The farmers in this section are through gathering for this season. Mr. W. H. Folk is all smiles. It is a boy. Miss Irene Beard, of Colston, is spending some time with her cousin, / Miss Thelma Beard. We are glad to see Mrs. * C. C. Fender out again. Sugar boiling is the go around here. Mr. J. C. Bishop said he would be grinding until Xmas. Let everybody go and help him that is through, so he can get through before Santa Claus comes around. & Misses Irene and Thelma Beard and Miss Essie MaeSandifer spent Thurs; day night and Friday with Miss.-, Annie Bishop. Misses Carrie and Sula Walker, from Clear Pond, spent Sunday vpth Miss Leila Padgett. Mr. Clyde Padgett and sister, Miss Leila, spent Saturday night with Miss Florrie Bishop, near Ehrhardt. . Mrs. J. C. Bishop spent last Friday with Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Folk ana family. Mr. and Mrs. William Bishop, of Walterboro, visited friends and relatives on Colston last week. Miss Letitia Bishop spent Last week with her sister, Mrs. R. B. McMillan, in Colleton. . ^ Mr. J. H. McMillan was the guest of Mr. J. C. Bishop last Sunday. The Old nan's Tip. "Bill, my boy," wrote the old man to the college youth, "when you're * ridin' in them new-fashioned automobiles at forty mile a hour, don't forgit that you wuz raised to the oxcart, an' that it brung you to whar you air; an' when you're a-whirlin' them golf-sticks, don't fail to remember that it wuz the ol' axe-handle that helped you to git to 'em; an' when you leave fer yer home vacation, don't fergit to leave yer highfalutin' airs behind you, fer ef you fetch any of 'em with you I'll wear out more seasoned hickory on you than you ever dreamed growea in uie woods!" I . : ' / v\ ' ?%>! 'r ^