The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 24, 1908, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
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Thursday, Dec. 24, 1908
A number of Weekly newspapers
jAn the State issued" very creditable
?Christmas editions last week, among
'them being the Greenwood Index and
the Greenwood Journal. These two
papers issued editions of about forty
pages, their advertising patronage
being very liberal. The Bamberg
Herald could get out editions like
this if our merchants would adver.
tise as they should.
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The rules of the postoffice depart*
ment in regard to newspapers are
little short of foolish. Some time ago
- we issued an extra edition, it being
-an educational number, which contained
a number of cuts and a
write-up of the Carlisle Fitting
School. We also issued an extra a few
weeks later and the postoffice department
has compelled us to pay
postage on the entire editions at the
rate of half a cent an ounce, or
eight cents a pound instead of one
cent, which is the regular rate for
newspapers. The department rules
that these extra editions were not
^ such as to come within their requirements,
although they were exactly
like the regular editions of The
Bamberg Herald, and required us to
pay the above rate of postage on
|p every paper sent out, not giving us
1%; the benefit of any free town or
jjjl^ county circulation. We wrote them
PjjP fully, explaining the matter, and yet
they decided that we would have to
pay this extra postage, which
amount to nearly twenty dollars.
- We are now cured of extras. We
could have sent the matter out in a
"0' ' regular issue without any extra
cost, and to have such a ruling as
this from the department is disgustM
ing. It is an arbitrary decision, and
while we have no redress, we can at
least protest against having some
office boy in the department make
-;.f such foolish rulings. We are going
to have Congressman Patterson take
;> the matter up with the department,
and see if we can't get relief.
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GET MR. TAFT TO STOP HERE.
There is nothing that advertises
a town like publicity of th? right
sort. Augusta realizes this, and the
citizens of that community left no
stone unturned to have Presidentelect
Taft spend a part of the winter
there. As a consequence that city
is perhaps more in the public eye
than any other city of the entire nation
just at this time. And because
Mr. Taft is a Republican that should
not make any difference as to the desirability
of ^having him visit a city.
He is, or at least should be, first of
- all an American, and as such and as
President it is desired to have him
visit places in the South as well as
other communities.
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It is announced tnat Air. lair wm
sail for Panama in the latter part of
January. He will take ship at Charleston,
according to the present
plans. Why could he not be induced
to stop over here, for a few hours,
or even minutes and here be entertained
by an automobile drive about
our little city? Perhaps he will be
passing through on a special. Have a
committee to invite him before hand,
even now, to make a short stay here
and address the citizens and school
children of the town? There is nothing
more enlightening or broadening
for children and grown ups as
well than an active and actual acquaintance
with our men of affairs,
f even though it be but to hear them
make a short talk and to grasp him
by the hand.
It will be worth much to this community
from every standpoint, and
aside from that of getting advertising,
we will be helped in every particular.
What says the mayor, the
city council and others who might
care to carry out this proposed program?
The Gaffney Ledger tells of a boy
getting his eye knocked out while
cutting wood, a stick flying up and
hitting him in the eye. And now every
boy in the country will be afraid to
cut stove wood for his mother.
The shortage of the county treasurers
in Hampton and Edgefield
show very forcibly the necessity for
the appointment of the county examiner
recommended by the grand
jury of Bamberg county.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Mr. Taft can now sympathize with
poor Augusta in her thirst for Savannah
river water dipped from the
Carolina side. And in return Augusta
can sympathize with Mr. Taft
for being on the Georgia side of the
great divide.
Chickens will come home to roost
and as a result we are having the
benefit of the Hains trial this week.
Doubtless we will all feel the Republican
Knox which will be coming
to us during the next four years.
Mr. Joseph Pulitzer is undoubtedly
the biggest edition of an Annanias
which The World has ever known,
according to Mr. Roosevelt.
It seems a little untimely for the
Hains case to come off at this time
when the parliament of Turkey has
just assembled.
It seems that the solid South is
to be broken by means of Republican
Knox.
The sound of the hammer continues
in Bamberg, and it is not the
hammer of the auctioneer, either.
The ladies of the Civic League Association
deserve the support of the
men of the town in the laudable
work they are doing.
The office of Insurance Commissioner
as conducted by Mr. McMaster
is the strongest plea ai# the
only plea needed for the continuation
of the office.
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CUMf U LSUn X ZaUKJ tAllUil.
To our more thoughtful readers it
will, no doubt, be vitally interesting
to know that of the total enrollment
of pupils in the schools in this district
three-fifths are colored children,
and the ratio increases with each new
school year. This condition of affairs
leads us to wonder what the future
holds for pur children unless there is
an awakening of their parents. Is it
possible that our people do not realize
and appreciate the advantage to
be had by a child who possesses even
an ordinary school education over
the one which has not, and do they
not realize that the future demands
trained minds and trained hands at
every helm?
Even a cursory examination into
conditions with a view to ascertaining
whether or not there is a reason
for this great discrepancy in the at
tendance upon our scnuuis, unugs
out only the apparent lack of interest
which should be manifested by
every white parent in the future welfare
of his children. Viewed from the
standpoint of population, there appea
; to be even less reason why the
white children in our schools should
not at least equal in point of attendance
that of the colored children, for
the white population of this community,
while outnumbered to some extent
by the blacks, is not outnumbered
to any such extent as our school
attendance would indicate.
The same condition seems to prevail
throughout the State, and there
seems to us to be an ever-increasing
need for a good, stringent compulsory
education law. Our school facilities
are amply adequate for the preson*
q+ loact onrl wp Rinpprelv trust I
that the legislature, at its coming
session will take up this very important
matter in earnest
Judge Denounced Jury.
Albany, Ga., Dec. 22.?One of the
most sensational incidents that ever
occurred in a South Georgia court
room was enacted at the conclusion
of the trial of Deputy Sheriff Radney
and E. Adams, of Miller county, at
Newton, the result of which was reported
in a dispatch on last Saturday.
The defendants were charged with
severely beating and attempting to
lynch an old negro man, and unmercifully
beating his wife and daughterin-law.
The negroes were supposed
to be harboring an escape convict.
The case was stubbornly fought, and
when the jury brought in a verdict
of not guilty, Judge W. N. Spence,
who was presiding, proceeded to express
his disapproval in strong language.
"Your verdict, gentlemen of the
jury," Judge Spence said, looking into
the faces of the twelve men in the
box, "is a disgrace to your county
and to civilization. The name of
every one of you should be taken
from the jury box. A man has been
convicted in this court for shooting
at a preacher on the streets of one of
your towns on Sunday morning, and
that offender has been found guilty
and sentenced to pay a fine of $250.
do not hesitate2 to say that you
jurors are worse citizens than that
defendant."
Some of the most prominent citizens
of Baker county were on the
jury, and the judge's excoriation created
a sensation.
?Mr. and Mrs. Jno. E. Carter, of
the Ehrhardt section, were in the
city last Friday.
BROKER SHOT IN NFW YORK i
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JOHN C. LUMSDEX, OF RALEIGH, i
SHOOTS HENRY SUYDAM.
Affray Occurs in Office on Lkonti i
Street, New York, Following Di.->- j
pute Over Alleged Debt.
New York, Dec. 19.?Following an!
altercation over an alleged debt 01 j
$t>50 incurred in connection with tiie
financing of an electric' vibration
company, of which he was treasure.-, j
xienry B. Suydam, a mining stoc.r. j
broker, member of the curb stock
market, was shot in his office at iv |
Broad street today by John C. Lines- j
den, an inventor. Suydam claims |
that the money in question was due |
him and that an attempt was being j
made to defraud him of it.
The shooting, which followed a |
hand-to-hand encounter in which !
George A. Downs, a young clerk em- I
ployed by Suydam, joined, was wit- l
nessed from the street below by the j
300 fellow curb brokers of the victim,
none of whom could reach the I
office in time to prevent it.
According to the story told by I
Suydam to the coroner and corro- I
borated by Downs and the other oc- I
cupants of the office at the time of '
the shooting, Lumsden, on whose j
stock in the vibrator company Suydam
obtained a loan, called this
morning to demand an equivalent for
the stock in question. It was explained
to him that the money had
been obtained by the company and
for the use of the company and that
consequently Suydam could not personally
be held liable for it.
Demanded Payment.
This enraged Lumsden, it is said, i
and he demanded immediate payment,
threatening to shoot Suydam
there and then if what he considered
his due was not paid over to him
at once. The broker argued with
Lumsden for a few minutes to gain
time, and then threw his arms
around him and cried out to Downs:
"For God's sake grab him, he's going
to shoot."
Downs rushed to the assistance of
his employer and grappled with
Lumsden. The three men scuffled
together falling against the window,
which was shattered at the
shock.
Lumsden reached under both arms
of Downs, who pinioned him, and
fired twice.
Suydam, struck by both bullets, j
staggered and fell. One bullet entered
the left chest above the heart and
the other pierced the right side,
penetrating the liver and lung.
Lumsden, rescued from the hands of
Suydam's friends by the police, explained
the shooting by saying ' he
had acted in self-defense.
Suydam is married and lives in
Plainfield, N. J., where he is a member
of the common council and is
well liked.
Lumsden, who is also married,
gave Raleigh, N. C., as his home. j
Mrs. Lumsden in Spartanburg. 3
Spartanburg, Dec. 19.?Mrs. J. C. *
Lumsden, wife of J. C. Lumsden, ?
the inventor of a message device,
who shot and dangerously wounded
Henry B. Suydam, mining stock
broker, in New York today, is in
Spartanburg spending the holidays *
with her sister, Mrs. Lee Dunbar. 1
When she read the Associated Press *
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report 01 ine suuouug lumgut duc
said it was the first she had heard of
the affair and that it explained a
telegram she had from her brother,
Lee Miller, who is also in New York.
The telegram from her brother
stated that her husband was being
temporarily held by the police as
the result of a difficulty, but it gave
no details. Mrs. Lumsden remarked
that she was glad it was the other
man and not her husband who was
wounded, and added that it was no
more than Suydam deserved for the
way he had treated Mr. Lumsden.
She said she was familiar with the
whole affair, but did not care to
make any further statement. Mrs.
Lumsden left New York last week.
She was Miss Cora Miller, of Anderson,
and is a sister of Mrs. Lee
Dunbar and a niece of Mrs. H. A.
Ligon, of this city. She is also a sister
of Reid Miller, the tenor singer,
who was a popular idol of last year's
music festival in Spartanburg.
Banquet Followed by Tragedy.
Hartsville, Bee. 21.?A shooting
affair among white people occurred
Saturday evening at Ashland, about
six miles from here, just across the
line from Darlington, in Lee county.
As a result two men, Charlie Moore
and W. L. Smith, are dead.
There was a Woodmen of the <
World banquet or supper, at which <
W. L. Smith, about 45 years old, a i
merchant of Ashland, his son and a !
young man named Charlie Moore, the I
principals in the tragedy, were pres- <
ent. Ill feeling between Moore and
the Smiths has existed for some time.
A dispute arose over a trivial remark
made by the younger Smith while at
supper and the difficulty assumed '
ominous proportions after the ban
quet.
Moore and the Smiths had come
downstairs from the hall. It is report- 1
ed that on leaving the table the elder '
Smith made a remark, using an oath,
crying: "We'll fix you!"
Moore, it seems, was standing by it
the fire when one of the Smiths made
an attack on him with a catsup bottle.
It is also stated that Smith started
on Moore with a piece of wood, i
Moore then opened fire on the elder
Smith, shooting him three or four 1
times. One of the Smiths then, it is
pinimed fired at Moore, killing him
instantly. W. L. Smith died at 3:30
yesterday afternoon.
Young Smith, a boy of about 18
or 20 years old, has been lodged in
jail at Bishopsville.
The tragedy is a most deplorable
one. It is said whiskey was in evidence.
?Messrs. Norman and Simms
Fender are at home from Furman
University for the Xmas holidays.
?President and Mrs. F. N. K.
Bailey, and Misses May and Thelma
Bailey, of Edgefield, are spending
the holidays at Dr. J. B. Black's.
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rwo Men Horribly Wounded, Kill
Their Assailants.
Ocilla, Ga., Dec. 22.?Within a
stone's throw of each other, their life
alood making crimson the shaded
streets of this quiet town, three men
vere instantly killed to-night and an
afficer of the law received mortal
vounds.
The dead are: Charlie Moore, Virjil
Moore, Leonard Smith.
Fatally injured: Policeman Cain
SValters.
Jack Sheppard and Charlie Moore
net Police Officer Walters on the
street shortly after 9 o'clock. Just
ifter passing the officer, Sheppard, it
s stated, fired a giant cannon cracker.
The officer mildly remonstrated
with him for the act, whereupon
VIoore took the side of Sheppard and
vords passed between the trio.
Moore, it is said, became violently
mgry and attacked the officer with
lis pistol, shooting at short range.
Sheppard got out of the way and took
ao hand further than related in the
;ragedy. The officer, mortally woundJd
by Moore's first buhet, summoned
[lis energy and gamely fired upon
Moore as the latter ran. The officer's
aim was unerring, the ball striking
Moore squarely in the back. He ran
icross tne sircti num uc uuu
fell lifeless.
While the duel between the officer
md Charlie Moore was in progress
Leonard Smith, a son of Chief of Police
Smith, rushed to the officer's aid.
At this juncture, Virgil Moore, broth3r
of Charlie Moore, went to the help
of his brother and, it is said, fired,
upon Smith, killing him instantly.
Smith, like the officer, returned the
fire upon his assailant, shooting him
dead in his tracks.
Judge Taft Friendly.
Washington, Dec. 20.?In view
of the growing importance of closer
relations of commerce and comity
between the United States and the
20 Latin-American republics, a letter
of President-elect Taft, made
public to-night, announcing that he
will continue the present policy toward
Latin-America is of interest.
The letter, which is addressed to
Director John Barrett, of the InterRut-mii
nf American Re
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publics, under date of December 7,
says:
"I have always regarded the visit
of Mr. Root to the Latin-American
republics and the other measures
taken at his instance to cultivate
their good will and to increase as
much as possible their commercial
relations with this country as one
of the most important branches of
the policy of the administration of
Mr. Roosevelt. I expect to continue
the same policy toward Latin-America,
thus so happily entered on by
Mr. Root and Mr. Roosevelt, and
shall count my administration fortunate
if further steps can be taken
and new measures adopted to secure
a closer and mutually more
beneficial commercial association
and to awaken a greater international
sympathy than now obtains."
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NEEDS GREATER SOUTH.
This is Keynote of Southern Commercial
Congress.
Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 20.?The
clarion call to the Southland, I
awakening it to a new era of industrial
and commercial progress, has
been sounded through the recent
Southern Commercial Congress, is
the opinion expressed by G. Grosvener
Dawe, dierctor general of the
congress, to an Associated Press representative
to-day. Mr. Dawe said:
"The Southern Commercial Congress
was a stupendous project with
a complex purpose. It was designed
to make the South know itself; to
make the South know and utilize the
most fitting moment for such a congress
that has ever occurred in1
American history.
"The spirit of the congress wasj
not to boast that the South wasi
more gifted than the North, not to
stir up animosity, but simply to declare
that the South with its possessions
needed development in order j
to bring the nation to its proper de-j
velopment. The clarion call of the>
congress to the men of the South |
was for them to live at the South because
the nation needs a greater
South.
"The stupendous plan of the con-1
gress naturally led eager and able
minds to evolve a still more stupen-j
dous plan and one that is just as,
sound and as sane, but which could i
not have been possible except as an |
outgrowth of the congress which j
suggested it. The project is a great
office building and auditorium in
Washington. Its rentals will be devoted
to the furtherance of all
that will aid in bringing this section
into a pairity of development
with the rest of the United States. It
will be the home of all Southern
clubs.
"There will be maintained there
an exposition of resources arranged
in such a way as to bring immi-'
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grants, 'me enort win ue lU wax uo |
special studies; each great resource
of the South being assigned to a
room.
"Those of us who have our
hearts in this matter feel confident
that such a co-operative move will
accelerate enormously the great development
that has already come to
the South."
Col. Dawe says that more than
$250,000 is already in sight for the
.$1,000,000 building at Washington.
Wheel Flew Off Train.
Middletown, N. Y., Dec. 22.?
When the southbound combination
passenger and milk train on the Ontario
and Western Railroad, known
as No. 10, reached Summitville, north
of this city, it was discovered that
one of the wheels was missing from
the front end of one of the milk cars.
The wheel had broken from the axle
two and a half miles above Summitville
at a point known as Red Hill
Switch, where it was found.
When the wheel became detached
from the axle it had rolled across the
northbound track and become imbedded
in a bank of dirt. The train
covered the distance down grade at
sixty miles an hour after the wheel
was broken off.
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Witness Who Turned State's Evidence
Told All About Night Riders.
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corted into court by six fully armed
soldiers surrounded by deputies,
positioned about the court room,
Frank Fehringer, the member of the
night riders who has turned State's
evidence, was brought into court to *.-J3
testify against his former associates.
He said that he was one of the first
of the band. That he took the oath -> ,
which was, "I solemnly swear that I
wish to join the society of night Tiders
and that I will never write, tell, , \
or talk about anything that happened
upon the rides or in conference."
A longer and more blood curdling
oath was administered to others. It
will be recited by other witnesses.
The witness knew all the defendants
and had accompanied them on
many rides prior to the killing of
Rankin. The night riders wore long
black coats and masks. When members
failed to appear for the rides
they were sent for and forced to go.
The witness said that often the
riders whipped men and women with- V
out showing why except that Captain
ordered it. He said that once when
the grand jury was in session and ,
several men who had been whipped
had been summoned, Garrett John- .
son sent out a general order to hang <
one of the men who testified.
They caught a witness named John
Shaw on the way to court, and whip-?
ped him and sent him home. He did
not testify.
"Old man" Bogus, no other name
Trnnwn teatlflpri that a man WaS
whipped because he would not urge
his. daughter to live with her husband
again, she having entered & ; / i
suit for divorce. , /r
The Night Rider Oath.
Union City, Dec. 21.?The night
rider oath is here given for the first
time:
"You do solemnly swear in the
presence of Almighty God and these
witnesses, that you desire to become
a night rider; that you will not
write, talk or tell any one the secrets
of this order or night riders;
that if you talk, write or tell any
persons any secret of the order, we
are permitted to do with you as we
see fit. You know death, hell and destruction
will be y9ur portion and
your body will not be buried in a
grave yaH|k Do you willingly and
freely submit to all this, so help you
find'" ,
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Boy's Eye Knocked Out.
While playing at his father's woodpile
last Thursday morning, Finley,
the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. M. Roark, of Grover, had the misfortune
to lose the sight of his right
eye. The little fellow was trying to
cut stove wood with an axe when a
piece flew up and struck him in the
eye. The force of the blow was .
heavy enough to make r hole in the
eye ball, causing a complete loss <ft
sight to that eye. The little fellow
suffered terribly the following day,
but is now getting along very nieely.?Gaffney
Ledger.
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