The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 07, 1909, Image 7
SOUTHERN HULLS 10 CLOSE
FACTORIES NOW FACING CRITICAL
CONDITION.
^ S. B. Tanner Says Present High Price
of Cotton WiU Cut Off Profit
in Textiles.
Charlotte, N. C., Oct 2.?A critical
situation and one of rare occurrence
confronts Southern cotton mills because
of the high price of raw cotton
and unless there is a decided drop in
the price of the staple in less than
two weeks, according to ex-President
S. B. Tanner of the American Cotton
Manufacturers' association, Southern
mills will be forced to shut down.
"It is a very easy question to answer,"
said Mr. Tanner, "as to what
*- the mills, both cloth and yarn, will
do in the event of 13 cent cotton continuing
as at present.
"It will mean that there will be no
money in textile production and the
mills after using up what small
stocks of cotton they have on hand,
will have to shut down?that is, if
cloth and yarn, especially the former,
do not take a decided jump upwards,
a bigger jump than cotton manufacturers
would expect under the circumstances."
It was further declared that the
mills are buying practically no raw
cotton at prevailing prices?13 cents
?nor will they lay in stocks at that
figure, for the quotations on cotton
goods and cotton yarns are far too
low to leave any profit to the manufacturer
to-day. In other words, the
mill that makes yarn or cloth out of
13 cent cotton and sells its product
? at prevailing prices will lose its profit
-j& and a great deal more?in fact the
proposition is impractical and will
not be experimented in by any of the
manufacturers.
Many of the mills have some little
cotton on hand which they stored
when cotton was bringing 10 and 11
cents, but these stocks are short and
will soon be exhausted.
President Parker of the American
Cotton Manufacturers' association
has called a meeting of the board of
governors for Friday, October 8, in
Charlotte to consider the question of
curtailment of production in order
1 to make the present stocks of the
mills go as far as possible and to
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little loss as possible. The governors
will also select the place for the next
meeting of the association.
Warns German Girls.
Berlin, Oct. 2.?The government
has issued a warning to parents and
teachers regarding the exchange of
leters betwen German girls and negroes
in the German-African colonies.
While in most instances such correspondence
has been harmless, the
official communication says, the custom
still is to be deplored.
In a majority of cases the correspondence
was begun, by German girls
v as an odd experience, their principal|
object being to receive African curi- j
osities, and photographs and letters.
from a "black prince." The girls!
also have sent their photographs to
- Africa so that in the houses of many
negroes in the colonies hang the pictures
of young German women of
good family. This has been seriously
objected to by Germans residing in
tne colonies.
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Dispensary Burned.
Fire in New Brookland between 12
and 1 o'clock last Sunday night gutted
the three-store-room business
building belonging to Dr. F. L. Sandel,
wiping out Dr. Sandel's drug
stock valued at $3,500 and the dispensary
stock valued at $1,200. The
third store room was vacant. The
building is valued at $4,500. About
' $100 worth of liquor was saved, but
nothing was saved of the drug stock.
The losses all around are fairly well
covered by insurance.
The burning of the dispensary j
places the thirsty in a bad predica-j
ment. Under the new dispensary j
law, Lexington having gone dry, the!
dispensary board of control cannot1
buy any more x stuff, and after the1
1 $100 worth is disposed of, the dis- j
pensary will have to close, and Dis- i
penser Oxncr will be out of a job.
The origin of the fire is unknown, i
The building was well developed in j
* flames when the fire was discovered. I
and it was difficult to say whether;
the flames started in the drug store j
or in the dispensary. Those first at j
the fire, however, reported that it ;
started in the dispensary,
f The local fire department did j
splendid work in cutting off the
spread of the flames. This department
is newly reorganized and newly
equipped. Otherwise there would
^ probably have been another such disastrous
fire as that which almost
wiped the town out a few years ago.
The firemen fought with hose attached
to a big tank of water.
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Young Lee Oliver Acquitted of MurI
der at Franklin, La.
| New Orleans, La., Oct. 2.?Lee
Oliver, 15 years old, charged with
the murder of Dr. Allen S. King at
Morgan City, La., last May, was acquitted
by a jury tonight at Franklin,
La.
Young Oliver pleaded self-defense.
^ During the trial Oliver's sister
. took the stand and testified that she
told her brother of treatment at the
hands of Dr. King which demanded
an explanation.
Boy Captures Fugitive.
New York, Oct. 2.?When a taxicab
put on full speed after running
over and killing Miss Elizabeth Betts,
at Twenty-third street and ninth evenue,
the chauffeur did not know that
he was carrying his nemesis with
I him.
The fleeing machine had reached
Seventy-second street, nearly three
v miles away, when it broke down and
then, from the back springs stepped
fourteen-year-old George Callahan,
who had witnessed the accident at
Twenty-third street and who caused
^ the arrest of the chauffeur, John
O'Hanlon, while he was trying to repair
the motor.
JOHN BLACK ON TRIAL.
Charged With Receiving Bribes As
State Official.
Columbia, Sept. 29.?John Black,
former member of the old State dispensary
board was placed on trial in
the Richland county court to-day on
the charge of accepting a bribe in the
sum of $2,500. The trial is rather
significant as it is the first one where
i a former member of the board is to
be tried.
The only sensational feature of the
evidence was the introduction of two
banking papers. One was a draft for
$2,500, Black had made and got the
cash on upon liquor drummer, John
T. Early by whom he is accused of
being bribed. This was collected
through the bank of Colleton. It
was made to the order of Henry W.
Black, Jr., and endorsed by him.
The other paper was a $5,000
check dated at Savannah, and evidently
cashed there, made to the
order of John Black and endorsed by
him and signed by M. A. Goodman,
I the liquor drummer.
J. B. Wylie, who has turned State's
| evidence, was back on the stand to[
day. He again went over the evi!
dence he gave in the Farnum case
about the agreement entered into to
divide up the business among certain
houses in accordance with a fixed
schedule of rebates.
At the opening of the bribery and
rebate case against Major Black, Mr.
! Nelson for the defense, made the
same technical objections to the indictment
as were made in the Farnum
case, but these were not argued.
Judge Memminger said he overruled
them on the same grounds as he
had overruled the others.
Henry W. Black, Jr., brother of
the defendant was called by the State
but he failed to respond, and a bench
warrant was issued for him. There
is a striking difference in point of attendance
between this case and the
Farnum trial.
J. B. Wylie was the first witness
sworn. The witness exhibited a memorandum
of what was done at the
much discussed meeting, this carried
the figures of the famous "graft
schedule." This meeting was on the
night of the 21st of March, Major
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the list referred to the houses on
the list he was to look after and "B"
the list Black was to look after and
collect the commissions on. Witness
then read the schedule of rebates
agreed upon. This was published in
detail in the record during the Farnum
trial.
"Was Mr. Black there, and a party
to this schedule and agreement?"
"Yes, sir, I discussed it with him."
Mr. Nelson interposed a number of
objections, the same as he put in the
former trial. Witness went on to tell
bow the March quarterly purchases
were divided up between the members
of the board. Witness said he
got rebates from Early through Jno.
Black, the firsc commissions he got
being in September. He went to
Early first and then went to Black
who said Early had paid him $5,000
in round figures. Black turned over
to Wylie his third of this.
Mr. Lyon said to the judge: "We
propose to show that this defendant
received $5,000 rebates from Goodman.
We propose to show a series of
such crimes, to cite this $5,000 trans
action as shown in his corrupt mind.
That it was one of the series to which
the $2,500 transaction belongs."
"We know all about the $5,000
matter," said Mr. Nelson, "and we
are prepared to meet it. In my judgment
we have a complete defense for
this. But it is not right to bring
this separate transaction here without
notifying us in the indictment to
meet it." The afternoon session was
taken up with the cross-examination
of Wylie.
The charge against John Black,
formerly member of the State dispensary
board of directors, is just the re- J
verse of that under which Farnum
was tried and acquitted. The state
official is the one who is now facing
the jury, and is charged with receiving
favors to influence his vote as a
member of the board. John T. Earley,
who represented the Fleischmaan
concern in this State in the
days of the old State dispensary, is
named in the indictment as the man
who paid the $2,500 alleged to have
been received by Mr. Black in the
transaction, because of which he is j
to be tried as set out in the indict-1
ment.
It will be recalled by those who
kept up with the dispensary commission
proceedings, that one of the
fifms through its officers, admitted in
affidavits which were read at the last j
session of the commission that cerrain
amounts were paid in this State
to secure business. These affidavits,
however, did not give the names of
those to whom the alleged rebates
were given, it was upon tms neiscnmann
claim, the largest that was outstanding
against the State, that the
affidavit was called into play. Some
matters that came up at the recent
trial were also touched upon during
that dispensary commission's investigations.
Neither side will gain anything so
far as the legal side of the matter is
concerned from the first trial last
| week. The testimony of all witnesses
was only as to the transactions
involved in the case on trial,
and was not allowed to extend to any
other persons. Although Mr. Black
was a member of the board at the
same time that Mr. Wylie was, nothing
was said in the trial of Mr. Farnum
as to Mr. Black's actions. The
specific charge named in the indictment
was clung to throughout the
trial.
Columbia, September 30.?Today's
sessions of the trial of John
Black, former dispensary director,
charged with having accepted a bribe
from John T. Earley, were productive
of testimony to the effect that
Black, the defendant, received money
from Earley six or seven times, and
that the defendant drew on his brother,
H. W. Black, Jr., of Walterboro,
S. C., and that the latter paid the
drafts on Ulmann & Co., and M. A.
Goodman, a liquor drummer. It was
also brought out that John Black had
deposited $16,500 in the national
bank of Savannah between April 21,
1906, and June 20, of the same year.
With the close of the afternoon ses
eion the State rested its case.
John T. Earley, representative of
Fleischmann & Co., who, it is alleged,
bribed Black to give him orders for
liquor, testified that before Black was
elected a director of the dispensary,
the defendant had said he would give
Earley's house some orders when he
took office. Earley is under indictment
but has turned State's evidence.
"I got the orders," said Earley,
"and I paid the rebates." Earley
went on to say that he had given
Black $2,500 to influence him in giving
orders. The witness detailed the
scale of rebates, as given by Joseph
B. Wylie, who testified yesterday.
On cross-examination Earley said
that Black had borrowed money from
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Black, the witness said, never asked
for rebates, the division with the
defendant being voluntary. He also
said that the goods were sold at the
same price as if there had been no rebates
paid. The witness said he regarded
his dealings with Brack as "a
business transaction."
After Earley had concluded, J. J.
Smith, an official of the Savannah
bank, testified as to Black's deposits
in the bank.
The afternoon session developed
nothing of a sensational nature except
in relation to John Black's account
in the Palmetto bank here.
Deposit slips were introduced to show
he deposited there during the last six
months of 1906, $1 6,000. ranging in
amount from a few hundred dollars
to $2,700.
MISTRIAL IX BLACK CASE.
Unexpected Culmination of Second
Dispensary Case.
Columbia, Oct. 1.?As the result
of a copy of the State newspaper finding
its way into the rooms of the jury
and was read by the jurors and also
because of a conversation between
one of the jurors and his employee
last night, the Black case has resulted
in a mistrial.
TVm uTiavn^tpH on lm in at ion of
the sensational "graft" case came in
court of sessions this morning after
Judge Memminger had examined
every member of the jury as to the
newspaper incident and as to the
conversation that Juror J. D. Perry
had last evening from the window of
his room at the local hotel where the
jury has been confined since the opening
of the trial.
How the newspaper of September
30 came into the room was established
by the statement of one of the
jurors to the effect that a news boy
passing early yesterday morning had
thrown the paper up into one of the
rooms, where the jurors were kept
But who paid for the paper could
not be ascertained by the questions
of Judge Memminger.
In dismissing the jury Judge Memminger
stated that he did so because
a serious indiscretion had been committed,
but an examination into the
matter had not led him to believe
that there was any corruption. The
position taken by Judge Memminger
was that if a verdict of guilty should
have been rendered, under the circumstances,
a new trial could be
secured. On the other hand, if there
should be a verdict of not guilty the
State would have no redress.
It was only because of the arrest
of C. M. Dora, Perry's employe,
and young Abney Keith, that the
whole affair was brought to light.
Then Judge Memminger called in the
deputy and the men under arrest
and questioned them. There was no
intimation that the presence of the
newspaper in the room would play
any part in the matter in hand. In
fact, the first statement as to the
newspaper came from one of the
jurors and then the new incident
took the lead, with the conversation
in the background.
When Judge Memminger came into
the court room this morning, having
been officially notified of the arrest
made last night, he called to the witness
stand Deputy Sheriff Frank
Grimesly, who told what he knew of
the conversation between Perry and
Dorn.
Dnrn thpn rerited to the court his
version of the conversation and the
reason that he talked to Perry, stating
business reasons.
Later this afternoon what has
been perhaps the most remarkable
term of court ever held in Richland
County adjourned. Judge Memminger
returns Monday when civil
court commences. Judge Memminger
did not fine the juror charged
with holding conversation nor the
man charged with communicating
with the juror. The matter was held
over, and C. M. Dorn and Juror J.
D. Perry are within jurisdiction of
the court. The jurors in the case
have not been paid yet.
The date for the next trial of
Former Dispensary Director Black
is January next.
The Smith Family.
An old lady, traveling for the first
time in a large city, saw a glaring
sign on the front of a high building,
which read: The Smith Manufacturing
Co."
As she repeated it aloud slowly
she remarked to her nephew, ".Laws
'a' mercy! Well, I've heard tell of
Smiths all my life, but I never knew
before where they made 'em."
They Didn't Have to Change.
During the years in which our pure
!ood laws have been put into effect
ihere has been a great hurrying and
icurrying on the part of the food manufacturers
to change their methods to
make them conform to the law.
The Quaker Oats Company is a conspicuous
exception. It was admitted
that Quaker Oats was as pure and
clean as possible and that it was an
ideal food.
It is so cheap that any one can afford
it and so nourishing that everyone
needs it. The result of last year's
experiments at Yale and other points
where food values were tested is that
Quaker Oats has been, adopted by
many persons as their food on which
they rely for adding vigor and endurance
of muscle and brain.
This splendid food is packed in the
regular size package and in hermetically
sealed tins. The latter especially
adapted to hot climates. 4
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Machinist and Engineer
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We repair all kinds of machinery
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Bring your engine and have the
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Bring your cotton gins and
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before the busy season.
^ stitch in time saves nine. We
repair saw mills, grist mills,
cane mills; in fact we run a
hospital for sick and disordered
machinery. Bring it in and
have it cured. Gas engines and
automobile engine cylinders
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rings made that won't leak.
Gives you more power and better
efficiency. We repair and
charge storage batteries. Call
when in trouble and see what
we can do.
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