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Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 12,1909. One Dollar a Year
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P COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
I IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
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oi y News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, August 9.?Our town j
w "was very quiet Saturday. The booze
shop was closed, and some of the
J v money was spent for food.
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!( - 4JOiion nas commeuccu w uycu.
colored man brought me a cotton boll
full open two weeks ago, of the King
variety. Says he could get near a
! - bale now. j
The ginners are busy getting their i
machinery in shape for work. >
'The farmers are having bad |
* weather to gather their fodder. Some |
of it is ripe and needs gathering this
week. *
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S?-> Mrs. Tom D. Jones has her house|
hold goods packed up and ready for
shipment. She will leave this week
for Augusta, Ga. She says it is not
' - good for a man to be alone, and is
* t decidedly worse for a woman to be
alone. So she and Earle are going
V to join Tom. The town will miss her
tin many ways, and all are sorry to
lose her from our midst.
Mr. G. L. Kinard and family were
4 in town Saturday.
Mr. Carey Bishop and family are
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Lawton Bishop.
Mr. Willie Hiers came in Satur
oay irom vxienn sprmgs. ne seems
glad to get home. He looks bright
and ready for business.
I'
> The Conrad Ehrhardt Co. have
about completed a bill of lumber for
a fine large dwelling ordered out by
W. C. Geraty Co., of Young's Is
land, S. C.
. Some pleasure seekers went to
' Charleston Saturday to spend Sunday
in the city. Mostly ladies.
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; r News from Govan.
I Govan, August 9.?The Govan base
ball team played Olar Monday afternoon
on the Olar diamond. The
score stood 8 to 9 in favor of Olar.
-Saturday afternoon the Govan
team were entertained on the Colston
' diamond. The score stood five to six
in favor of Govan. Much interest
was manifested in both games.
On Monday afternoon a serious accident
occurred to Mrs. J. W. Smith
and Aiiss Ella Bessinger, of Olar. As
they were driving up to Georges
Creek church, their horse ran away,
and threw them out of the buggy on
* the hard, clay road. The horse stopped
in the church yard, after breaking
loose from the buggy. We learn
that the sufferers are doing as well
as can be expected.
The protracted meeting at Georges
Creek church closed Thursday after
a: .,*_l
noon. rnwuug was laiftci.r uir
tended and there were some converts.
Rev. W. R. Smith, of Denmark, assisted
in the meeting. His sermons
are delivered with great power, and
I am of the opinion that his preach '
ing has great influence for good.
McP. Eubanks is the champion
; * farmer of this community. He has
* * some corn that will yield fifty bushels
to the acre. There are ten acres in
the field. A poor indication of a
k "gopher county."
W. A. Hay has a few acres from
which he will realize fifty bushels to
the acre.
The corn crop is fairly good in
K this section, but cotton very ordinary.
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I COttOU was very prumismg iu me
beginning, but deteriorated from the
heavy rains.
The writer traveled through this
county and over into a good portion
l of Colleton county recently and
found the corn and cotton crop very
fine on the route. H.
Buford's Bridge Breezes.
Buford's Bridge, August 10.?
t Protracted services were carried on
> at Mizpah last week. Although the.
weather was extremely warm, and the
rains almost incessant, the attend&
ance was good. Rev. E. Alston
f # Wilkes, the pastor, conducted the
|' * meeting and preached some able and
touching sermons, which we hope
will be of much benefit to the people j
of this community. A pleasant cong.
tinuation of the meeting was the
P quarterly conference which convened
I , Saturday and Sunday. The presiding
elder, Rev. C. B. Smith, of Orangeburg,
preached two eloquent sermons.
He is a preacher of note, and
his eloquence in the pulpit is well
I known.
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Crops in this section are above
Bp mediocrity, and the farmers are very
t cheerful.
Some of the young folks around
are substituting the refreshing wa\
ters of Little Salkehatchie river for
the surf bath, and find it very enjoyable
and invigorating.
Miss Hattie Tony, Mr. Spann Tony
and wife, Mark Tony and Powell HarI?
rison, of Johnston, are the guests of
Mrs. J. Ham Kirkland.
Dr. N. F. Kirkland, Sr., returned to
his home Friday, after a two weeks
visit to his son, Mr. J. M. Kirkland,
Lat Beaufort.
Mr. LeRoy Wilson, of Allendale,
was the guest of Mr. S. E. Neeley
several days last week.
Miss Ethel McMillan, from the
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I Colston section, is visiting Miss Pearl
j Kearse.
Miss Eva Johnson, after a visit to
Miss Ada Kearse, has returned to her
home in Varnville.
Misses Annie Laurie Kirkland, of
Olar, and Elise Black, of Millettviile,
were the charming guests of their
aunt, Mrs. Henry C. Kirkland, last
week.
Mrs. Victor Kearse, of Allendale,
and Mrs. Max Walker, of Bamberg,
are visiting their mother, Mrs. R. B.
Kearse.
Miss May Ceruti, of Columbia, after
a delightful visit to Mrs. Daisy
i Kirkiana, nas returned nome.
Mrs. Nita Armstrong and her interesting
children, of Bamberg, are
spending a while with her sister,
Mrs. A. L. Kirkland.
Miss Sallie Neeley leaves this week
for an extended visit to relatives in
Columbia.
Rev. W. C. Kirkland and family
have returned to their home at Dillon
after a two weeks' stay with his
brother, Mr. A. L. Kirkland.
Mr. Bob Lee Kearse has accepted a
position at Varnville and will leave
shortly to take up his new duties.
Mr. Henry Kearse has accepted a
position with Mr. A. Rice, of Bamberg.
The many friends of Mr. S. E.
Neeley are glad to see him convalescent
after a severe illness.
j Doings at Olar.
Olar, August 10.?Messrs. Rutherford
Free, of Blackville, and Carl
Kirsch, of Bamberg, visited Mr.
Frank Starr last week.
Miss Elise Black, of Millette, is
visiting Miss Annie Laurie Kirkiand.
There was a Sunday-school picnic
on the school grounds last Wednesday.
Every one in attendance
enjoyed themselves.
Messrs. Kelley and Wyatt Brown
mg, or tJiacKvine, are visiuug in
town.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Rizer and family
visited Bamberg last week.
Miss Lucile Rizer will leave Monday
for New York, where she will
spend a few weeks.
Mr. John Smith and Dr. Cecil Ray
visited Barnwell last week.
Mr. John Bessinger and his bride
are visiting his parents.
Dr. L. A. Hartzog, of Govan, visits
our town frequently.
Mr. Hugh Kearse, of Schofield,
spent Sunday in town.
Dr. A. B. Hooton is spending a
while in town.
Misses Sudie and Zelda Halford,
of Blackville, visited Miss Inez Starr
last week.
Miss Ida Bessinger has returned
from Blackville.
Misses Kate Sadler and Belle
Cooke have returned from Govan,
having spent a pleasant timte with
Miss Jesse Zorn.
Miss Sarah Brabham spent last
Friday with Mrs. R. C. Jones in Bamberg.
Miss Ruth Ray, of Denmark, is
visiting Miss Hattie Ray, of this
city.
Mr. Willie Hutching, of Beaufort,
is visiting his brother, Dr. John
Hutching.
We are sorry to hear of the accident
of Mrs. J. W. Smith and Miss
Ella Bessinger. We hope they will
soon be out again.
Mr. James Roy Chitty (sometimes
called "Bub") visited Bamberg
last week.
Mr. Frank Guess, of Orangeburg,
visited relatives here last week.
.Miss Kittie Hooton has returned
from the summer school in Spartanburg.
Misses Agnes Kearse and Gladys
Milhous, of Denmark, and Mor
tima Ray, of Bamberg, are visiting
Miss Inez Starr.
Little Miss Helen Milhous returned
to her home in Denmark Sunday.
Dr. Hooton, of Ulmers, visited
Olar last week.
Mr. Frier's Sermon.
Editor The Bamberg Herald: All
honor to Rev. 0. J. Frier for the
kindly spirit in which he reviewed
on Sunday night last the sermon delivered
by Dr. Howard Jones, of the
Citadel Square Baptist church, Charleston,
as published in the News and
Courier, in which he (Dr. Jones)
stated that he expected to vote for
the dispensary and advised his congregation
to do the same.
Avowedly an unpleasant task, yet
plainly his duty as pastor of a
church, and minister of a great denomination,
upon which such utterances
as those of Dr. Jones are so
calculated to bring reproach, Rev.
Frier faithfully turned the search
light of scripture upon Dr. Jones's
position, and proved how utterly at
variance with the teachings of Jesus
were such statements.
Yet how kindly and charitably he
spoke! How forcibly, yet with that
brotherly kindness and deep rggret
that his brother should be so misled,
and his utterances so widely quoted
and misused!
Surely this is the spirit of Christ,
and we predict that such a spirit
evidenced as it was in tne tsapusi
pulpit in Bamberg, last Sunday
night, will prove a power for good in
the town and community.
A HEARER.
Death of Miss Bessie Felder.
Miss Bessie Felder, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. N. Z.-Felder, died at
their home just out of town Monday
afternoon of this week, after an
illness of several weeks of typhoid
fever. She was about seventeen
years old, and was a most lovable
young lady. The burial took place
at the Zeigler burying ground, on
the old Midway road, Tuesday morning,
the services being conducted by
Rev. T. G. Herbert, pastor of Trinity
Methodist church.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
| Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
The police of Columbia got busy
last week and. went to raiding the
ninho nf that ritv. whieh were merely
blind tigers. A large amount of
whiskey and beer was seized.
The county commissioners of
Aiken county have let the contract
for remodeling and putting in a
steam heating system for the county
.court house. About $5,000 will be
[spent in improving the building.
Up in Greenville they have found
a substitute for whiskey and beer in
malt, which is being sold there in
large quantities it is stated. This
malt contains alcohol, and will make
one drunk as quick or quicker t^han
beer. *
The Greenwood Journal says it
has been reliably Informed that a
movement is on foot to establish a
first-class private school in that city.
The present plans are to have a superintendent
and a faculty composed
of five able teachers.
Before daylight on Tuesday Engineer
Sneider, of the Southern railway
saw a negro named Lyde Gains
trying to enter a house in Greenville
and shot him, making a serious
wound. There has been a regular
epidemic of burglaries in Greenville
for some months past and people
have got nervous and excitable on
the subject.
Mention was made a week or so
ago of the new cotton mill No. 2 to
be built by the Grendel mill people.
Now comes the news that Capt. F. S.
Evans is canvassing for subscriptions
to another mill for Greenwood,
its capital stock to be $300,000, and
that he is meeting with so much success
that the enterprise is already
regarded as a certainty in the near
future.
Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan Wareham
and Mr. Darnwell and Carrie and
Cary Darnwell, Seventh Day Adventists,
vrere tried before a Greenville
magistrate and a jury on Tuesday
on the charge of working on Sunday
?the charge consisting in picking
strawberries on that day. The defense
was that their Sabbath is Saturday,
and that to have left the berries
over from Friday to Monday
would have been to lose them. The
jvry promptly acquitted them. The
prosecution was brought by a neighbor;
but it will hardly be regarded
as a neighborly act.
Is it Worth While?
(Joaquin Miller.)
Is it worth while that we jostle a
brother
Bearing his load on the rough
road of life?
Is it worth while that we jeer at each
other
In blackness of heart??that we
war to the knife?
God pity us all in our pitiful strife.
God pity us all as we jostle each
other.
God pardon us all for the triumphs
we feel
When a fellow goes down; poor
heart-broken brother,
Pierced to the heart; words are
keener than steel,
And mightier, far, for woe and for
weal.
Were it not well in this brief little
journey
On over the isthmus, down into
the tide,
We give him a fish instead of a serpent.
Ere folding the hands to be and
abide
For ever and aye; in dust at his
side?
Look at the roses saluting each other;
Look at the herds all at peace on
i the plain?
Man, and man only, makes war on
i his brother,
And dotes in his heart on his peril
and pain?
Shamed t y the brutes that go
down on the plain.
Actress Stabbed During Play.
New York, Aug. 5.?Mille. Dazie,
an actress, will not be able to assist
the company in the production of a
pantomine for some time, following
a serious stab wound she received in
the breast in full view of the audience
in a theatre at Rockaway
Deacu.
Mile. Dazie's jealous rival on the
stage was supposed to stab her to
the heart with a dagger, and for this
purpose two weapons were employed,
one with a shining steel blade to impress
the audience and the other
with a rubber blade for the actual
use of the jealous rival.
In some manner the rival, Mile.
Lina, grasped the wrong dagger at
the critical time and plunged the
steel blade into the breast of Mile.
Dazie, inflicting a wound four inches
long. The audience on hearing the
shriek of the wounded actress and
seeing the blood, became wildly excited,
but was calmed by a statement
from the stage manager.
Doctors in the audience, dressed
the wound, and said that while it was
not mortal, it was sufficiently serious
to prevent ttie actress' public appearance
for some time to come.
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MAYOR MENACED RAILROAD.
Declared War on the Pennsylvania
System.
Philadelphia, Aug. 5.?"This is a
declaration of war. My life is openly
staked on the result, for I am prepared
to meet you at any time and
place you may name. The weapons
I shall use are dynamite and other
high explosives."
Thus wrote Abram C. Eby, mayor
and referee in bankruptcy of Bumeville,
Va., to the "president of the
Pennsylvania .railroad. Philadelnhia
on July 23, naming $45,000 as the
ransom for the safety of the railroad,
its steamships and the traveling public
and otherwise threatening the
Pennsylvania railroad.
Following a carefully laid plot of
the federal postal detectives, Eby
was arrested in this city to-day while
in the company of Oswald J. DeRousse,
chief clerk to President McCrea,
who acted for the latter in inveigling
Mayor Eby to this city. He
was given a hearing before United
States Commissioner Craig and held
in $10,000 bail for September term
of court.
At the hearing William L. Calvert,
postoffice inspector of Richmond,
Va., furnished evidence showing that
Eby mailed threatening letters at the
Richmond and Charlotte railroad
postoffices.
All through the hearing Eby sat
unmoved, and said simply that he
could not furnish bail.
In his letter Eby said he would
meet no one except the president or
some high official of the road. He
designated that the sign of a secret
order be used in the insertion of a
"personal" as an answer in the Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
' A "personal" was inserted by postoffice
detectives and Eby's demand
of $150 and transportation to Philadelphia
was acceded to through Mr.
DeRousse. Eby reached here last
night and wrote to Mr. DeRousse,
making an appointment to meet him
at noon to-day. About 12:30 o'clock
the men met and Mr. DeRousse took
Eby to the Third National bank,
where he secured, a certified check
for $3-0,000 and $300 in cash. These
he offered Eby, but the latter refused
them, saying, "Keep them for
awhile." Chief Postal Inspector
Calvert then made the arrest.
Inspector Calvert said: "Mr. Eby
is not crazy. He has long entertained
a spite against the Pennsylvania
railroad. His father held stock in a
branch road in Virginia and Mr.
Eby believes that by the reorganization
of the road through the Reading
and Pennsylvania influences, his
father lost some $200,000."
DETYENS SHORT NEARLY $7,000.
Rechecking of Detyens's Books Confirms
Reported Discrepancy.
Georgetown, August 7.?Comptroller
General A. W. Jones and his
assistant, Mr. Wilson, have comnieted
a rechecking of the books of
the treasurer's office here and the
apparent shortage which was found
by them several days ago, amounting
to $6,800, has been confirmed by
them. The bonding company
through which Mr. Detyens, the
treasurer, gave bond, ''has also had
the books checked up, but the accountant
did not make any statement
here regarding the condition
of the office.
Detyens sent in his resignation
several days ago, to take effect on
the 1st instant, and it was accepted
by the governor. His successor in
office has not yet been named,
though the names of E. V. Emerson,
James W. Wingate and L. Gluck
have been mentioned in connection
with the office, though it is not probable
that either one of these three
will accept if the office is offered.
Mr. John Richardson, Jr., who was
Detyens's political opponent for the
office, has also been mentioned to
succeed Detyens, but from what can
be learned, he has also declined to
seek the office.
Miss Bessie Felder.
Rambere. Aug. 10.?Miss Bessie
Felder, the youngest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. N. Z. Felder, of this
place, died at her home yesterday
evening after an illness of about
eight weeks. Miss Felder's death
has brought sorrow into many
hearts she having been a member of
the younger set of girls in Bamberg
of whom there are a great many.
She was about 16 years old, of a
very quiet and sweet disposition and
her taking away will be felt keenly
in the home in which she was a favorite
with all. The funeral services
were held at the old Felder burying
ground near Midway, many friends
and relatives accompanying the body
to its resting place. The pallbearers
were young men of this place, all
friends of the deceased and of the
family.
The first duty of the citizen is to
regard himself as made for his country;
not to regard his country as
made for him.?John A. Andrew.
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TAFT WILLDIVIDE PLUMS.1
ADOPTS NEW POLICY IN DIS- j
TRIBUTING CENSUS JOBS.
President Will Share Appointments
Between Democrats and Republicans
in Democratic States
Beverly, Mass., Aug. 8.?Beverly
was hot to-day, but President Taft
spent a lazy Sunday and did not
seem to mind the more than 90 in
the shade. He began the first Sabbath
o? his vacation by going to the
Unitarian church. Miss Helen Taft
and Capt. Archibald Butt were the
only other members of his party.
Through the early hours of the afternoon
the president sat on the
broad veranda of his cottage overlooking
the sail-dotted ocean and
read "The Greatness and Decline of
Rome," by the historian Ferrero,
who spent a week at the White
House with Mr. Roosevelt.
Near sunset the president took a
long motor ride with Mrs. Taft.
After dinner he again sought the
cool of the veranda.
Taft is going to dispose of the
matter of census supervisors
throughout the entire United States
this week. Secretary of Commerce
and Labor Nagel and Director of
Census Durand are coming to Beverly
the latter part of the week with
a list of names and by the time they
leave the president hopes to announce
his dispositions.
Policy of Division.
The president has fixed upon the
policy he will follow with reference
to census appointments from the
South. In the States which are
solidly Democratic, the president
will divide the appointments equally
among the Democrats and Republicans.
He will insist that the appointees
shall not he active partisans,
however, but capable men.
From the so-called "Solid South"
the president has picked out North
Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and
Missouri as debatable States and
will treat them on the same footing
as Northern States, giving all of the
census jobs to Republicans. He will
insist, however, that in these States,
the same standard of efficiency and
character of men shall obtain. The
States in which the division between
Democrats and Republicans will be
made are:
Virginia., ouuiu V/aiuuua, vzc^jigia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas.
LUNATIC STANDS AT BAY.
Threatens Peace Officers From His
Father's House.
Augusta, Ga., Aug. 7.?R. E. Dunnington,
a young white man about
27 years of age, and a former inmate
of the State asylum for the insane,
who is now serving a furlough at
home with his relatives, about four
miles from Augusta, became violently
insane yesterday afternoon and is
now barricaded at his father's
home, defying the officers of the
law. As a result of an attempted
arrest this afternoon, Deputy Sheriff
M. Gary Whittle, of the county constabulary,
was fired upon and several
bird shot took" effect in his body.
Dunnington was let out on a 90days'
furlough and at the expiration
of the 90 days seemed to he getting
along all right. That was about 20
days ago. Yesterday one of the negroes
on his father's farm failed to
saddle his horse, and he became violent
and chased the negro with a
shotgun in hand for about two
miles.
His brother made application to
the ordinary for a writ of lunacy,
and the sheriff sent officers to his
place this morning to make the arrest.
The insane man warned them
not to approach the house, threatening
death to the first man who came
near. As certain death stared the
officers in the face, they did not attempt
to make the arrest.
It was Dunnington wno wrote an
article fof one of the leading Georgia
weeklies about the management
of the asylum, making such grave
charges against the officials that an
investigation was ordered by the
governor. He and George Bell, a
former State politician and later an
inmate of the institution, both wrote
letters about the asylum. Bell, on
the day his furlough expired, committed
suicide.
The officers have the house surrounded,
and will arrest Dunnington
if it is possible to do so without killing
him. At one time he fasted for
51 days and he defiantly stated to
the officers to-day that he would
fast that long again before he would
submit to arrest. His parents fear
that he will commit suicide rather
than submit to arrest.
Leaps Into Well.
Anderson, Aug. 8.?Warren Guyton,
a white man 35 years of age,
committed suicide at an early hour
this morning by jumping into a well
35 feet deep. He had been suffering
with hemorrhages for five years and
the doctors gave him no encouragement.
His ill health was responsible
for his self destruction. Guyton
had been baggage master on the W.
& A. road between Atlanta and
Chattanooga for several years, and
had accumulated some property.
A* 1 n'nl/votr fhid mnrr in fl mpm
ill J. V VIV/VIX tUiO UUVtMlMQ Mr ?
ber of his family administered to
him a dose of medicine. A few minutes
afterwards he was missed from
his room. The police department
was notified and a search was instituted.
His hat and coat were found
near the well at 4 o'clock and on investigation
the body was discovered
afloat on the water. He was dead.
The body will be interred here tomorrow.
Mrs. John Kay of this city
is a sister of the deceased. He was
unmarried.
SHOOTS TWO MEN DOWN.
Policeman Wounds Business Men la
Black Mountain.
A3heville, N. C., Aug. 7.?Paul
Cameron Collins, cashier of the Bank
of Hillsboro, N. C., and John Hill
Bunting, a traveling salesman of Wilmington,
N. C., were shot in their
room at the Gladstone hotel at Black
Mountain, N. C., 14 miles from thi?
city, about 2 o'clock this morning by
Policeman F. C. Watkins of that town
and are now at the Mission hospital.
IQIS City. DUUUUS IS CAJJCLlCTi IV uig
from the effects of a wound in the
abdomen, while Collins, though shot
under the heart, is expected to recover.
Policeman Watkins, who came in
to-day and surrendered to the authorities
of this city, and was placed
under a $500 bond pending developments,
claims that he was called
from bed by the proprietor of the 5
hotel, who stated that the men were
creating a disturbance in their room*
and threatening the guests of the
hotel. When he reached the hotel,
the policeman claims, he heard the '
men using the language attributed ? ':'M
to them, that on entering the room
he was attacked by Collins and
Bunting, who upset the lamp, and
that he drew his revolver and shot
in the darkness to protect himself.
Watkins says he fired twice and the ^
men fell away from him. A light
was secured and Collins and Bunting
were seen lying on the floor of the * fS
room, both bleeding profusely. The
wounded men are respectable citizens
and of high standing in their
respective communities. Telephone
messages to Black Mountain to-night
developed many conflicting rumors
about the case. Friends from the
section where Collins lives say that
when his condition warrants it he
will make a statement which will
throw a different light on the case.
At the Mission hospital it was :;^?a
stated to-night that Bunting could
not recover.
John Hill Bunting died at the
Mission hospital this morning at
12:05 from the effects of his r-ll
wounds. He did not recover con?
T? r* wafVina + Vi o r\A
BUiUUSliCOS* r v* TT avatUD) vuw Jj?vliceman
who shot him, will, it is
stated, be rearrested and jailed on
the charge of murder.
HOUSE ALMOST WRECKED.
Lightning Played Remarkable
Pranks With Residence in Dillon.
Dillon, Aug. 7.?A very severe
thunder storm, accompanied by &
heavy downpour of rain, passed
over this section at midnight Thursday
night. The lightning struck
the home of Mr. S. D. Jordan in the
northeastern part of the town, and
while none of the family, consisting
TT-ifo turn
U1 nil. UUIUUU, n?v, ?>. W ?w?Q
and niece, were seriously injured, '*3?B
they were all fearfully shaken up. . '>f|a
The bolt struck the chimney of one
room, demolishing it, tore a great
hole in the roof, through the ceiling ;>'M
into a closet. There it seemed to divide,
one fork going to the right, the
other to the left between the plastering
and front weatherboarding, the
bolt passing to the left traversing .iff
the hall, doing no damage save to
the mirror of a hatrack, and passing
into the adjoining room, where a
heavy wasWtand was thrown forward
against a table. The full force
of the explosion expended itself on
the front windows, the sash of
which, the screen, the frame work
and weatherboarding around and
below look as though a bomb had
exploded at that spot. One piece of
timber was driven across the room
into the plastering of' the opposite
wall 'with such force that it was
withdrawn with considerable difficulty.
Mrs. Jordan was asleep in a bed
within a few inches of the window,
and while terribly shocked, she was
able to give the alarm to Mr. Jordan
that the house was on fire, a fierce
blaze springing up the side of'the
winrirnr a nitcher of water in the < 3
room enabled them to extinguish the
flames before they could make any
headway. The freakish fluid played
queer pranks. All around, the silvered
back of the hall mirror shows
the most beautiful fern-like traceries..
A metal handle of an umbrella
was blown off and melted and the M
screen window in its metal parts
showed the same effect of the great
heat. Holes were bored through the
wood and plaster, the whole pre- 3s
senting the appearance of some of
the houses as seen by the writer in
Charleston during the war within
the shell district.
The escape of the family was simply
miraculous.
Columbia Social Clubs Raided.
Columbia, S. C., August 5.?
Squads of Columbia police and detectives
last night raided four social
clubs and at midnight four operators ,
of these clubs had been arrested and
given bond. Over four thousand bottles
of beer stored in the police
station between fifty and seventy gallons
of whiskey seized and one charter
torn from the walls of one of
the clubs. This is the first step toward
the enforcement of the prohibition
law in Columbia and according
to a statement of Chief Cathcart, of
the Columbia police, the "blind tigers"
must go. The chief stated today
in speaking of the raid, "if we
are going to have prohibition let's
have it." " lajjj
Six social clubs were raided this
afternoon by Columbia police and detectives.
About two thousand bot-ties
of beer were seized. This makes
ten clubs raided in the past 24 hours.^