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' I r . 'V:s3 \ lamtorg Sfwato j Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY/ AUGUST 27, 1908 One Dollar a Year if ^^ ^======================================================52? C\ IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OP VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Rev. E. M. Lightfoot has resigned the pastorate of the Orangeburg Baptist church and will accept the position of pastor of the church at North Augusta. J. E. Harris was instantly killed in Pickens last Wednesday by his horse running away and throwing him against a telephone pole. He was twenty-three years old, and his home was in Charlotte. The engine of a saw mill plant at Walnut Grove, Spartanburg county, exploded from some cause last Thursday. Francis Harrison, an 18year-old boy, was killed, and Harley ? - ? . >,_ i? ~? Crew was pernaps iaiaiiy uijurcu. All the legislative candidates in Florence county favor prohibition, so that county will have a prohibi, tion delegation, no matter who is elected. H. M. Ayer, of the Florence Times, was a dispensary man two years ago, but now he favors State prohibition. j Two Die in Wreck. Americus, Ga., Aug. 23.?The mutilated remains of Engineer O. J. Gilstrap and his colored fireman, Ezekiel McKenzie, killed in the wreck of Seaboard train No. 74 west of Americus at 1 o'clock this morning, were brought to Americus j where both resided, and prepared for burial. Engineer Gilstrap's train was the v through freight and passenger from Montgomery to Savannah. Owing to the torrential rains a few hours previous, Engineer Gilstrap was feeling his way carefully through I the treacherous hills of that region and ran upon the death trap without > receiving previous warning. The track was entirely undermined by the torrent rushing down upon it, leaving the rails and* crossties apparently intact and safe as seen from the engine. That the train was running slowly is evidenced by the fact that none of the cars or coaches were derailed and none of the passengers injured, only the engine turning over. Peculiar Homicide in Anderson. Anderson, Aug. 21.?A peculiar homicide occurred here when Floyd Tucker was killed by Harry Thompson, both colored. Thompson was employed at the plant of the Anderson Ice Company. Tucker visited the plant to get a load of ice. The two became engaged in a controversy because one of the blocks of ice they were loading fell on Tucker's foot. Tucker cursed Thompson se verely,so it was said at the coroner's * - ? inquest w Hereupon muiuyovji clinched him. They were separated, , but got together a few minutes lai ter. Tucker had an iron rod in his hiu&ds, and dealt Thompson two or three blows. Thompson had a coca cola bottle in his hand, and rapped x Tucker over the head three times, t$e third strike shattering the bottle to pieces. Tucker arose from the ground where he was knocked by Thompson and got in his wagon to drive off. Soon after getting in the wagon he became unconscious, and was hurried to a drug store for attention. He died two hours later without regaining consciousness. Thompson is in the county jail. Commits Suicide in Hotel. Asheville, N. C., Aug. 19.?Leaving a note to the affect that she was * A# 4 -e ne- k, T weary ana urea 01 me, bub. a. o. Abrahams, of Huntsville, Ala., a guest of a local hotel, fired a bullet into her brain early this morning and ended her life. The deceased, who came to Asheville three weeks ago, had been in poor health for many years. The suicide was not discovered until (7 o'clock this morning, when her husband arrived on a morning train. He found his wife lying dead on the floor, dressed in full street costume. Riot Among Regulars. Atlanta, Aug. 19.?Police reserves were called to the terminal station to quell a riot that broke out among the companies of United States regulars en route from Fort Slocunv to the Pacific coast. When the local police officers were unable to curb the soldiers a call was made upon Fort McPherson for troops and Capt Bankhead with a company of regulars responded hurriedly. The trouble started early in the 1 aiternoon, wnen a auiuuei ui mc soldiers en route to the Far East broke out of their cars, which were on the side track at the terminal station and, it is said, began annoying passengers entering trains. Officer Hill of the local police force knocked two of the soldiers down and then the trouble became generral. Col. Thompson of the Gulf de. partment was notified and responded and later Fort McPherson was called upon. During the fighting a soldier named Frank Smith was seriously stabbed and is now in a local hospital. Joseph Bleak, another soldier, was placed under arrest. At 6:30 the officers had the men under control and under guard in their cars and it is believed the guard is sufficient to prevent further toruble. The wildest excitement prevailed at the terminal station during the riot and many women became hysterical. GOVEROR ANSEL RE-ELECTED Smith Leads for Senate?Boyd Defeats Thompson, Jones Defeats Brooker?Swearingen Leading in Supt. of Education Race. Columbia, August 26.?Latest returns from the primary throughout the State up to two o'clock this morning give the following results: Tn ib p rapp fnr the TTrriterl States Senate. E. X). I Smith is leading, with John Gary Evans second and R. G. Rhett third. Johnstone is fourth man, and it is hard now to say whether the second race will be between Smith and Evans or Smith and Rhett. It seems practically certain that Smith will be in the second race. For Governor, Ansel is elected. He will defeat Blease by 15,000 to 20,000 votes. Boyd is re-elected adjutant and inspector general, defeating Col. Henry T. Thompson. Jones is re-elected comptroller general, defeating Brooker by a large majority. Swearingen, the blind man, is leading for State simerintendent of education, having made a re markable run. The second race for this office will be between Swearingen and Mellichamp. For railroad commissioner, Caughman is leading, with Cansler and Summersett not far behind. It looks like the second race is between Caughman and Cansler. J. 0. Patterson is elected to congress in the second district. He carried Edgefield by a big majority, Aiken the same way, Barnwell by about five to one, and divided the vote equally in Hampton with Smith. Aiken is leading for re-election to congress against Boggs. , J. E. Ellerbe is also ahead for congress in his district, but there may be a second race between Ellerbe and Ragsdale. L>. E. Finley also leads for congress in his district, but there may be a second race between Finley and Butler. " Byrnes is away ahead of Graham and Davis for solicitor, and he may be elected without a second race. The weather has been very bad, and returns are coming in very slow, but from the figures received the above results are about correct. RESULTS IN BAMBERG- COUNTY. In this county a good vote was polled and much interest taken, although the election passed off quietly. C. W. Garris and W. L. Riley are elected as members of the house of representatives; J. B. Hunter defeated E. C. Bruce for Sheriff; G. P. Harmon defeated G. W. Garland for Judge of Probate; J. B. Gillam wins for Coroner over J. H. Zeigler; Jno. F. Folk defeats A. L. Kirkland for Treasurer; J. B. Kearse defeated A. G. W. Hill for Supervisor; D. W. Phillips and H. J. Bellinger are elected County Commissioners. Our table on another page gives the vote by clubs. Edisto and SkTvmn or+nixrn liaw nnf hppn hparrl from, hilt their VV TVU MM 1 V V WVM ?? ^ j ? ? ? vote will not change the result. Patterson ran - away with Smith for Congress, and Byrnes got a fine vote for Solicitor, although Graham ran ahead. RACES FOB MAGISTRATE. Following is the result of the primary in the several races for magistrate in Bamberg County: BAMBERG.H. D. Free?Bamberg, 246; Clear Pond, 26; Midway, 24; total, 296. W. W. Lightsey?Bamberg, 84; Clear Pond, 3; , Midway, 7; total, 94. Free elected. . EHRHARDT. T A "DuoVilinTvi "C1V?T?V?oT?rl,f ? Troarsp 4-Q* . XJ. jCX, Xliauuaiu jjuxuuiut^ L-i. , J.A.VUXUVJ J-V , vwv~? 80. J. C. Hiers, Jr.?Ehrhardt, 94; Kearse 3; total, 97. ! J. H. Kinard?Ehrhardt, 23; Kearse 7; total, 30. j Second race between Hiers and Brabham. I OLAR. ! W. B. Chitty?Olar, 85; Go van, 34; Colston, 29; total, 148. J. H. Chitty?Olar, 54; Go van 7; Colston, 11: total, 72. W "R (Thi+fv plpp+prT i ? T V ? V/AV/ FISHPOND. ; T. J. Rentz?Fishpond, 2. < D. T. Rhoad?Fishpond 13. J. W. Steedly?Fishpond 20. J. W. Zeigler?Fishpond 22. < No report from Edisto, so it is not known who will be in second race. v ; DENMARK. ; S. G. Ray?Denmark, 194; Hightower's Mill, 25; J Lees, 20; total, 239. Ray had no opposition. ! MAY PAY A BIG FINE. Smuggling Disclosure Proved Sensation of the Day. Chicago, August 20.?The story printed yesterday telling of an attempt to smuggle $80,000 worth of art objects into America by Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne, for "Mrs. Jack" Gardner, of Boston, proved the sensation of the day in Chicago. All day long Mrs. Chadbourne was kept in seclusion by her brother-inlaw E. A. Russell, in Lake Forest. She was in the house most of the day, but in the afternoon took a long automobile ride. She denied herself to all callers and her friends relatives, with the exceDtion of her father, R. T. Crane, declined absolutely to comment on the case in any way. In Boston "Mrs. Jack" Gardner wes equally invisible until late at night, when she consented to talk for publication. She denounced the customs officials, declared she did not know Mrs. Chadbourne was going to bring the things to America, and by inference declared she was not in any way rsponsible for the plight in which Mrs. Chadbourne finds herself. A different view of the matter is taken by the relatives of Mrs. Chadbourne. The $70,409.18 exacted by the treasury department as duty and ' penalty was produced by the relatives. It is not at all likely however, that Mrs. Gardner will be permitted to evade payment of this sum ' and should the government impose 1 a further possible penalty of eighty ?->^ Mre dardner. also l tuuuoaxiu uvAimw) a?*aw? v*?*? 7 _ will be forced to settle the little account. "I don't believe it," said Mrs. Gardner in Boston last night. "They would not dare to go as far as that," when told that the authorities had j seized the entire lot of art treasures ; imported by. her friend, Mrs. Chadbourne. j "I thought the whole matter was settled, and had no idea it was to ] become public like this. Why didn't 4 that customs man, who came to see ] me ten days ago, send me word first ] before giving it out like that story ] yesterday?" i "Any way I don't believe it. The j customs department has always per- i secuted me, and I have paid thous- ] ands of dollars duty upon objects of < art, as a result of their impositions." y Still affected by the surprise he j received from reading the account ] of his daughter's entanglements ana t overwhelmed with demands for. an explanation, as to who paid the $70,- c 000 to the customs officers, R. T. j Crane, at his summer; home at Lake Geneva, declared a statement that g was telephoned to his Chicago home, t and was given out by his secretary. Later it was said that it had been s prepared in haste, and that as a matter of fact, the man knew little i about Mrs. Gardner's art treasures and nothing about Mrs. Chad- c bourne's part in the bringing of t them to this country until the story came out yesterday morning. f j Third Receiver Desired. I Union, Aug. 19.?To-day B. F. Townsend, an attorney for a large 8 number of the stockholders and de- 1 positors of the People's bank, which went into voluntary liquidation on 8 August 4, and for which Judge Hy- 1 drick appointed as receivers B. F. Arthur and W. H. Gist, will go be- i fore Judge Hydrick and ask that H. 1 B. O'Shields be appointed as addi- * tional coreceiver. * This action was taken last week t as the result of a number of those c directly interested being dissatisfied 1 with Judge Hydrick's first order, as B. F. Arthur was president of the c People's bank at the time of its go- a ing into liquidation, and Mr. Gist a cashier of the Bank of Carlisle. S Strong, Manly Defense. t In his argument against the "spec- ^ ial box" resolution before the county Democratic executive committee on Saturday, Hon. J. William Thurmond took a strong and manly stand for prohibition in our town and county. He stated that he was an ? ardent advocate of the dispesary and ^ believes now that it accomplished ? much good in closing up the bar- * rooms throughout the State, but I since prohibition has been tried ev- ^ ery one is compelled to admit that I conditions have improved tremend- * ohisly. Mr. Thurmond stated that * In his judgment not one twenty-fifth 1 as much whiskey is sold now as was sold before prohibition went into ef- 1 feet. a He stated further that a farmer a who resides some twelve miles above c Edgefield recently told him of the 8 very marked improvement in the * conditions upon his farm since the 8 legal sale of liquor was abolished. v Whereas formerly when his tenants J came to Edgefield and purchased a 1 supply of liquor from the dispensary 8 he could scarcely manage them, 8 while now they give him no trouble. E ?Edgefield Advertiser. a e Big Cucumber. Wouldn't this jar you? And likewise double you up? A cucumber 26 inches long! That is the kind c raised this year by Mr. N. F. John- ? son of Floyd township. He brought c one in on Saturday that was 20 in- n ehes long, and said he had gathered s one 26 inches and another 26^. a The circumference is about the same ? as a cucumber of the common kind, b Mr. Johnson's son brought the b seeds of this new variety when he l] returned from a visit to friends in ? Oklahoma last Spring. It is used for pickling, and after standing in a vinegar tastes all right. Mr. John- a son has never tried any of them just p 3ff the vine; he is not very fond of t encumbers anyhow.?Newberry Ob- v lerver. ii / m . - * COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered Ail Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, August 24.?On Friday of last week two darkies were killed by lightning in the McLaurin section of Colleton county. They were employed in work on the public roads. Some eight or ten bales of new cotton have been sold to the merchants of our town. We have had several fine showers of rain lately, which will help our feelings as well as the crops in general Wa werp srptt.ine verv drv. Mr. Joe I. Copeland's residence on Broadway is going on towards completion, under the orders of contractor Ellzey. Mr. I. D. Copeland and wife, and Mr. F. H. Copeland and wife spent last Sunday with their father, Mr. Joe I. Copeland. The Ehrhardt colored base ball nine went to Olar last week to play a match game of ball with the Olar colored team. Only five innings were played. The score stood nothing in favor of both nines. Mrs. Haigler, of Cameron, is spending some time with her daughter, Mrs. Ada Copeland. Mr. E. C. Bruce, of Bamberg, Bpent Sunday night with Mr Henry Ehrhardt. JEE. News from Smoaks. ? - AA -11 SmoaKS, Aug. za.?riease aiiow me space in your columns to give poj a few dots. Fodder pulling is over and cotton picking has begun. There was a fish fry picnic at the > Liston old river yesterday (Friday) Amgust 21. There was a good many people there. They had plenty of 3am, rice, and chicken, but not much fish. Among the off vsitors were: Mr. and Mrs. Willie Westpury of St. George; Mr. Aaron Varn ind two little sons, of St. George; VIr. Joseph Murray and sisters, of 3t. George; Master Byrd, of Branchrille; Mrs. Sara Stokes and little srand daughter, Ruby Byrd, of Branchville; Mrs. Alice Odum and ;wo children, of Augusta, Ga. Misses Virginia and Lulie Connor, >f Smoaks, are spending a few weeks n the mountains of North Carolina) Misses Cora and Jessie Connor, of Imoaks, have recovered from an atack of typhoid fever. Mr. Philip J. Liston is still on the lick list with typhoid fever. Mr. Gus Sauls, of Smoaks, is very 11. Mrs. Alice Odum and two children, >f Augusta, Ga., are visiting her siser, Mrs. J. M. Raysor. Rev. John H. Graves preached a l.ne sermon Sunday last - at Green 3ond M. E. church. Mr. Graves will eturn to his home to-day. Master Byrd, of Br&nchville, is ipending some time with his sister, drs. George Jennings, of Weeks. Miss Lula Hiers, of Allendale, is pending some time with her cousin, Aiss Mamie Hiers, of this place. Mr. Lonnie Hiers, of Angusta, Ga., 8 spending some time with his nother, Mrs. Sallie C. Hiers, of Jmoaks. Mrs. J. M. Raysor and sister and wo children spent the day Wedneslay with their cousin, Mrs. Sallie C. iiers. Mrs. Lizzie Smoak and grand laughter, Mrs. George H. Smoak, md baby, spent Thursday with her luntie, Miss Fanny C. McAlhany, of Jmoaks. Mrs. Sara Stokes and grand daugher, of Branchville, are visiting Mr. , r. R. Risher, of Smoaks. BROWN EYES. Preparations for Great State Fair. Columbia, Aug. 19.?Preparations ire being rapidly completed for the Jtate Fair to be held in this city on )ctober 26-31. The officials have >een busy for some weeks on the u ? -1tVintmonHo nf nrn> 1 rreiiwiiiaiic;d auu iuuuuu^^ r.v >rram9 have been shut out. These >remium lists show that the list of >rizes offered are larger and better han ever before and there are a lumber of new features. For instance the racing departaent has been very much enlarged ; ind the entries include horses from ill over the country. The fair soiety is now a member of the South- i tastern circuit and the dates have : ?een so arranged that an owner of i string of horses can visit each Itate fair and thus have a chance to aake expenses for a trip in this sec- i ion. The racing committee has al- j o arranged to have an official tarter who will see that there are i to delays so aggravating heretofore i ,nd the rules will be strictly enforcd. 1 Objectionable Text Books. . Austin, Tex., August 20.?Com- i ilaint has been made to the State I ext book board by Confederate amps over the State that the gram- < aar which was adopted for public 1 chools of the State contains sever- < 1 lines of what is termed the Nor- ' hern war song, "Barbara Frietchie," J y John Greenleaf Whittier. The i oard will ask the Northern pubishers of this text book to eliminate he objectionable lines. A short time ago the arithmetic adopted by the board had to be 1 mended by eliminating several i roblems in which the generals in 1 he Union army were named in a t ray that was considered as reflect- I ag upon the South. i 4 ? ... J ' \ ' ' , *. -< ' 'i' t'*\- ~r- -yf' NEWS FROM KEARSE. ' "Old Timer" Writes Us an Interest* ing Letter. Kearse, August 24.?The long dry and hot spell has at last ended; copi-t ous rains have fallen and in a few days all nature will be smiling and jSam the gopher will awake from his midsummer nap of several weeks, ,."f The little violets will be showing their blue eyes from among th^ | green leaves, and the heat of another summer will be forgotten, and when another one rolls around most folks will wipe the perspiration from their heated browB and exclaim, "I never saw the like before!" How>^raj many have said the same in the last four weeks, when only eight short years ago July and August, also Sen- .'V-T* ? ?- - A A t _ a iini _ 1 J temDer iyuu we naa liuie or ao cam and it was hot, yes, very much so. ^ That year I had a large dwelling house to build for a neighbor, the old house to be torn down and removed to give room for the new. AH >2? was completed and the family all snugly domiciled in the new house two dayB before the rain can^e. The a * heat ranged from 20 to 96 each day in the shade, and often 126 in the v4r sun. We had a lot of shingles made from pitch pine to cover it with, and when exposed to the sun for a few hours the tar was drawn from then! so that it would run down in little streams. We had aa old colored man, Uncle Bob, to bring them up from the scaffold below. About 11 a. m. one day he laid an armftefi down near me and said, "Say, Cap'n, look here." . I turned and asked what was the trouble. "Look at feets," he replied, and Would you 0?lieve it, the tar had almost covered his feet as he walked up and down p-j. the cover and had mashed up be-v 0, tween his toes until it was half lack thick on the- top of his feet. We aH laughed at his feet and woe begone expression. He then said, "I gwine I down now and you neber git me up here no more," and he kept his wort, for down he went and when he reached the ground he took off his hat and said to those below, "I go 7; home now; gwine to pintle (his 4 wife) ketch me up dere no mo'. I a ole man but neber seed sick-hot time^jSj befo'; it sho' hot." So the old man :~t left that roof not remembering ijwi when even the wind was hot and the "|j8 boards on the inside walla of the houses were hot to the hand laid on ^ them. These and other hot spells come- , back as an old man not quite ninety - -S thinks of the nast.; I write of these, -*3? things for the benefit of our young ' ^ men. Stay on the farm, hoys; learn to overcome the drought and Maktifi&tf a crop in spite of them, and rememr V ber it is as hot in the store, shop car :? factory, or on the rail road as out in the open fields where the birds ' /ifi sing and the crickets chirp and the Xj? partridge calls to his mate. . . We had a pretty home wedding in >fi our quiet little hamlet on Wednesday evening, the 18th, at the hdslw^#? of Mrs. J. F. Kearae, Sr. His daughter, Miss Marie, and Mr. L. R. Dixon, of Bishopville, were happily, ried, Rev. T. E. Monroe officiating. Promptly at 6 p. m. the family and I a few friends assembled and amidst % the palms, ferns, and pot flowers floated the soft strains of a wedding march, rendered by Miss Ettie Kearse. Ushered by Miss Atteo Kearse, came the happy pair, and ^ there amid the smiles and good ;r wishes of all present, they were ' made man and wife. Immediately, 'jai after all were taken to the dining J room where a lunch was in waiting, -g and all the good things of: the seallw TklwAn lo Hdh DVSU O^l T??U. iUI A/AAVU AO w wy- VW4* " gratulated, He has won one of oar very best girls. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon left next morning for their home near Bishopville. May many year* |?^ of happiness be their lot is the silk-' cere wish of OLD TIMER. : Tobacco Rons Woman Crazy. New York, Aug. 19.?A piece of chewing tobacco inserted in the hollow of a tooth helped to send Mary - ^9 Lewis to the Psychopathic ward at Bellevue last week and to bring her ' :$m before a city magistrate yesterday < on the technical charge of insanity. There her mental condition waa passed upon and her released order- ^ The patient had never been dieted to the use of tobacco untfltwo weeks ago, vihen one of her teeth in her lower left jaw began to ache, and she was advised to buy ar plug of tobacco, bite off a generous portion and hold it in her moutiL. She did so, and within three days. she had acquired the habit The ache disappeared, but as it went away Mary heard Strang* voices. A graphophone with a std* v. dent voice called upon her to be ; ^ good, and a troup of children, ail i ^ in white and numbering millions, sangs songs and recited verses until Bhe became unable to sleep. She jl-jg kept on chewing tobacco, and tne more she chewed the louder became J the tones of the graphophone. \ ? ,#$ Into such condition did she drift that it was deemed advisable to have/ her undergo an examination in the ; ? psychopathic ward of Bellevue, \v, where her case was diagnosed as one of acute mania, with the use of ' yd tobacco as the exciting and the principal contributing cause. The grad al deprivation of the tobacco resuited in restoring her to a nearly V-3 normal mental condition. Xot Obeying Order. * v, Columbia, Aug. 19.?The rail- ,?Xy| road commission to-day served no- ? tice on the Southern Railway that vj the law requiring cinder deflectors L> an all passenger trains was not bo- jr| Ing obeyed and that the conditions Xjg must be remedied at once. \Y'