Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MERGER SUIT CONTINUED. Southern Railway Case Goes 0\ Until Another Term. The Southern railway "merg suit" has been continued accordi to a statement by Attorney Genej Lyon. The continuance was allow on motion of B. L. Abney. divisi counsel of the road on account of t illness of Comptroller Plant of t Southern railway, who is the prin pal witness for the railroad. a Plant recently underwent a very se ous operation and has not yet i ?T + io unrlorctrmri that t UU V CI v VX 1 W 4 o Uuuvt wvw\4 vmwv v attorney generars office was prepar to try the case at this term of cou The case had been previously set f trial on December 9. The suit is the case of the State South Carolina against Southe Railway Company, or what is kno\ as the "merger suit," brought to t the validity of the leases by t :'N Southern of the Carolina Midlar now that part of the Southern tending between Columbia and t Georgia line in the direction of S >? vannah; of the South Carolina ai no<-kr<ria rnad which is nOW t -L, ' Southern's line between Branchvil ; - and Augusta; the South Carolina ai * - Georgia extension, the Southerr between Camden and the North Car lina line in the direction of Marioi and" the Spartanburg and Union lin the Southern's route from Alston 1 Union and Spartanburg from Colui bia to Asheville. Associated with the attorney ge eral are G. D. Bellinger and R. 1 Welch, while the Southern's gener counsel and other railroad attorne; , will assist Division Counsel B. s Abney for the railroad. When tl case was last called for trial, c December 13, 1907, at which tin Y Judge Klugh granted Attorney Gei eral Lyon's motion to discontini 4 the action at that time for the pu pose of bringing a broader suit.The State. 1 ~ i HUNTER SHOOTS COMPANION! ' . Boy Ximrod in Indiana Wounds Tit Comrades. ?*. _ South Bend, Ind., December 5."I'm going to shoot both of you, said Clarence Lichty, 14 years old, t his companions, Daniel Foster an William McCormick, as they stoc close together, not thinking that b meant what he said. Lichty fired load of buckshot and brought dow both boys. Foster is in a critics condition, but McCormick is nc seriously hurt. Lichty. who is held by Probatio V?a ttqo cpi7P Vlliucr :uuici , oaiu iuaw uv. ' : with a sudden unexplainable impuls * to shoot at his companions. fe' Woman Acquitted of Murder. I&jc. Dawson, Ga., December 3.?Mr L: J. Atkinson was this morning a< " quitted on a charge of murder, tb jury being out exactly twelve hour Mrs. Atkinson received the congrati 5 lations of a host of women frienc who crowded about her and aimo: . carried her from the court room. Intense interest centered in tt case. The woman was charged wit f placing strychnine in coffee serve her brother-in-law, Wm. Glaze, wh lived with the Atkinsons. Glaze w? ^ V ' reputed to be Tich. " The woman maintained a calm d< meanor throughout the trial, and e: / pressed the belief until the announc< ment of the verdict that she woul be cleared of the charge. t' -A '~~r . Liquor House Disgorges. I. Trager, a prominent liquor mar ufacturer of Cincinnati and a nati\ of Columbia, has made restitution t the State of South Carolina in th sum of $9,000 for graft he got froi /lore nf tVl e> nld Rtflt IUV OU11C 111 tuc VIaj a VI buv V4V. ?' >' dispensary. This action was not unexpecte< However, Attorney General Lyon wa , a little bit astonished in the size c the check. He would have had ? larger, but one of the officials of th State to whom Trager paid graft ha passed beyond the reach of summor and subpoena and the attorneys fc the State accepted the best settlemer i' V they could get. vV This negotiation has been afloat fc some time. The State of South Can * lina owed Trager not one cent whe <' the State dispensary was closet ' The restitution he has made, then fore, has been based upon his trans action hitherto considered closed ant in the parlance of the streets, is " dead pick up." Like the Bernheim Distilling con pany, Trager was forced to settle b some powerful pressure not no known to the public?and there ar other liquor houses in the same cat< gory. A number of them, it is sai< will be made to disgorge. Whe Bernheim paid the State $30,000 i September the fact was widely pul lished, and Bernheim made strenuov denial in the Louisville paper He was finally brought around it related, when he found out that tt Louisville firm had really disgorge nndor nrpcisnrp nut fl V?VV V UUV4V4 ^ r - ? by Col. Felder and associates.?C< lumbia State. 1 The Cook of Hoboken. Police Commissioner Baker, < New York, anent a policeman wt had made a particularly daring at successful arrest, said: "He got his man by working oi his clue with daring logic. He didn let any timidity stand in his wa He didn't, out of false delicacy, hes tate like the Hoboken cook. "A Hoboken man whose hen roo had been robbed said to the cook: " 'See here, Lily, sleeping as clo to the hennery as you do, didn't y< hear those chicken thieves la night?' "Lily hesitated and then she star mered: " 'Yes, sir. I certainly did he them chickens hollerin', and I hea men's voices.' * 'Why in thunder then didn't y< do something?' "Lily burst into tears. " 'Oh,' she sobbed, 'I knowed e old poppy was out there in that h< coop, and I wouldn't have had hi think I'd lost confidence in him f all the chickens in the world.' " I Saving the Rural South to the White Race. :er We hope we have seen about the last of Southern white farmers leaving the farm to take work in cotton ;er mills. We are anxious to see the ng manufacturing enterprises of the -al South build up. but we are more ed anxious to see the farm lands of the on South held by prosperous small white he farmers, and to see these small white he farmers have their part in the great ci- agricultural awakening now going Ir. on. ri re- Someone has wisely said that in all he ages and in all countries the men or ed the classes who own the land sooner rt. or later make themselves the arisor tocracy of that country. We have not come to this condition so rapidly of in America as in other countries, bern cause of the abundance of cheap land vn resulting from the newness of the ;st settlement and the sparseness of he population as yet; but in the long Ld, run the history of other countries ix- must be repeated here. he a~ These thoughts came very forcibly ld to mind as we rode through a cotton he mill village the other day and saw its hundreds of white employees? ^ men, women and children?who l s have left the farm to become the ?" homeless hirelings of the cotton manufacturers. The negroes, finde> ing no place in manufacturing for bY them are left on the farm and are n" becoming land-holders in rapidly increasing numbers. Prof. W. E. n_ DuBois, a prominent Georgia negro 3. educator, has just published a map al showing that since 1300 Georgia ney'S groes have increased their land-boldly ings from 8550,000 to 1,500,000 ie acres, and now own within the State of Georgia alone an area larger than i? the entire State of Delaware. a- Not only this, but the negro children are going to school and developr ing healthy bodies in the open air ? and healthy surroundings of country life instead of being shut up in the cotton mill, overworked, under-edus. cated, and poorly developed physically,?as the tendency must be in all cotton mills so long as the legis'? latures of the South are too subservient to the less humane mill owners to enact needed laws for restricting - child labor in the mills?the less " humane mill owners, we say, be:o cause there are many thoughtful and d far-seeing mill owners who heartily ?d favor stricter regulations. ie Remember, we have no ill will to, wards the cotton manufacturers; we . have no ill will toward the negro. We do realize very strongly however, that the safety of the South o depends upon the presence of a large white rural population. The drift ' from the farms to the cotton mills not only affects this directly, but also indirectly, because when once the population of a community becomes predominantly negro, the small num;* ber of white people left may be "" forced to mov? out in order to find sufficient numbers for a society of their own. Is st It was a wise saying of James Oliver's, "Happy is the land that is ie tilled by the man who owns it," and h the great need of the South to-day >d is to encourage the holding of small lo farms by white farmers. "We repeat, ls that we say this in no ill will to the negro.?in fact, it should not be necessary for us to say this, because c- no one else in the South has preached s- more persistently than we the doc d trine that it is the intelligent, prosperous negro who helps, and the ignorant, poverty-breeding negro who makes us all poorer,?hut we say this for the good of white and black i- alike because the best interests of e both races demand that the rural o South maintain its large white popuie lation. Unless this is done the negro a himself will not progress as rapidly ;e as he will with white guidance, and unless this is done the cities of the 1. South must also inevitably go backLS ward. >f We urge every white tenant-farme er, and especially every white man LS who for any reason is thinking. of LS becoming somebody's hired man in ,r town instead of owning his home in lt the country, to buy land. The great plantations of the South, for the good ,r of our section as a whole, must be )_ broken up. We must encourage the j1 spirit of home owning, with every man sitting under his own vine and fig tree, and we must especially en3" courage the development of a great class of small white farmers. a The saving of the rural South to the white race is one of the most 1_ important problems now before the y people of the Cotton Belt. w e 3_ In this connection, there is another thing that ought to be menn tioned, and that is the problem of n immigration. The Farmers' Union y. and other farmers' organizations are ls right in protesting against the corns' ing of large numbers of Italians, is Russians, Hungarians, Poles, etc. te This would only make a bad matter !(i worse, and complicate matters still ,n further. What would help, however, is the coming of a large number of wide-awake Northern and Western farmers, buying small farms among us and making their farms object lessons in stock raising and other af lines of diversified agriculture. These 10 Northern and Western farmers will td also set a good example for our Southern people in that they are at ready to do any and all kinds of ,'t work with their own hands, entirely y. independent of hired labor. As a ii- Southerner, reared on the farm and a descendant of generations of Southst ern farmers, we must confess the need of our people at this point, and se the help that we would get here from >u an increased number of wide-awake st Western settlers beside the aid they would render in keeping up the baln ance of population between the two races in the South and preventing ar the predominance of a colored farmrd ing population, which, we repeat, would be undesirable for both whites )u and blacks and ruinous to our section as a whole.?Progressive f armer. ay The Postal Telegraph company, of en which Mr. Chas. D. Felder is local m manager, has moved its office to the or new brick building next door to the post office. BIGHAM HEADY TO OBEY. Says Refusal to Go to Xewnan Was Not Defiance. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 2.?Dr. R. J. Bigham, who had been stopping at the Kimball for two days, returned to Newnan this afternoon. There has been some speculation here, as to what was the real purpose of Dr. Bigham's visit. During much of the time he shut himself in his room and denied himself to visitors. When reporters insisted upon seeing him, he would finally agree to talk over the hotel telphone. He declared that he had many plans in mind, but was not yet ready to divulge them. In another respect, there was something that excited curiosity in his conduct. While, yesterday, he declared positively that he would not go back to Newnan, declaring that he had written Bishop Hendrix to that effect, to-day he was more moderate in his tone. Just before returning to Newnan, he said that things were not ripe for him to talk yet, but he expected to have something of interest to say at the proper time. This led to a rumor that he might withdraw from the conference but there is no J foundation for the rumor in what he said for publication. Dr. Bigbam declared to-day that a misconstruction had been placed upon the attitude he took yesterday in declining to return to Newnan as pastor. He declared that he had not ?v1a in a nAo ill An a f /I A, piav;cu uiuiscii iu cut puouivu v> uv fying the bishop. "Far from it," he continued. "I stand ready now to go anywhere the bishop wishes to send me, no matter how undesirable the charge might appear to be. I would go to the Ocmulgee or any other circuit, if Bishop Hendrix so ordered." "Would you go back to Newnan?" he was asked. "Yes," he replied, after a pause, "I would even go there, if the bishop insisted that I should do so. I believe that I could be of greater service to the church in another field. I think it is unfair to the Newnan congregation that I should be sent back there, but, if the bishop persists in his orders that I should go, there is no alternative for me as a loyal Methodist minister, but to obey." Dr. Bigham spent much of his time here yesterday and to-day in consultation with his friends upon his present troubles. He evidently feels deeply the humilations that have been placed upon him here and in Augusta. Blow to Race Gambling. San Francisco, Dec. 2.?The State supreme court sustained to-day the validity of the Walker-Otis anti-betting law when it refused to issue a writ of habeas corpus for the discharge of Charles Brown, who was arrested November 22nd at the Emeryville race track for accepting a bet. The Walker-Otis measure, passed at the last session of the legislature, is almost identical with the New York laws. Second Fire Visits College. Winter Park, Fla., Dec. 2.?For the second time in three years Rollins college was at 2 o'clock this morning visited by a disastrous fire which completely destroyed Knowles hall. Professors and students worked side by side with lines of hose and managed to save Pinehurst, situated within a few yards from the burning' building but not before it had been badly scorched. Knowles hall was one of the first buildings erected on the campus, being a gift of the late F. S. Knowles, of Worcester, Mass. It contained the chapel, recitation rooms and scientific apparatus and collections. Negro Kills White Man. Augusta, Ga., Dec. 2.?Charles Major, a negro farm hand, shot and 1.411 ^.1 PlifPnr/1 Unllv o vnnnir whitp |\UiUU V"UViU 11VHJ y M J VWUQ f? U*VV man at Gough, Ga., this afternoon about dark. The shooting grew out of a quarrel between the white man and the negro, which was begun several days ago. The white people of Georgia are incensed at the shooting and are hunting for the negro. There may be a lynching if he is caught. It seems that the negro Major and nother negro, Rias Walker, started the quarrel and that Clifford Holly and his father took a hand. The Hollys took the part of the negro Walker, and Major seeing that he was outnumbered used a Winchester rifle with deadly effect. Woman on Trial for Murder. Dawson, Ga., Dec. 2.?With more than 50 women in attendance and the Terell county court room packed with interested men of all ages, Mrs. L. J. Atkinson was to-day placed on trial for the murder of her brotherin-law, Will Glaze, a rich bachelor. The alleged crime was committed August 24 of this year. The woman appeared in court dressed in deep black, with her husband and father. A jury was secured with but little difficulty. Testimony by which the State attempted to show that the de ienaant piacea sirycnnine m u-mze s coffee was introduced. An autopsy showed that Glaze died from strychnine poisoning. Prof. Riggs Acting President. Clemson College, Dec. 3.?Col. M. B. Hardin, director of the chemical department, who was last night elected acting president of Clemson to succeed Dr. P. H. Mell on January 1, until the board can find a president, has declined to serve. At a second session this morning the board elected Prof. W. M. Riggs instead. Prof. Riggs is director of the mechanical department. The committee of the board, consisting of Senator Tillman, Col. Allen Johnstone and Mr. R. I. Manning, was continued with instructions to resume its efforts to find a president. The revised by-laws, adopted tentatively in September, worp madp nermanent at this meet ing. These new by-laws give the president greater power and otherwise improves the regulations of the College. The trustees adjourned this | morning. STRANGER KILLS HIMSELF Body of Unknown Man Found Lonely Field Near Savannah. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 5.?Tal such elaborate care in an effor conceal his identity that he even the maker's name tag from his cl ing, an unknown man, fashion; dressed, was found dead in a lo; field west of this city at noon to-< a costly pistol at his side and a bi hole in his head. A pawn ticket, the only clue cept that it is stated that he cam Savannah as a passenger on a ste er from New York, bears the nam "R. H. Parish." He is unknowi Savannah and the police are c pletely in the dark as to his homi real name. However inquiries 1: been started through the offices the steamship line in an efforl trace the stranger in New York. The man had been dead probi twenty-four hours when found, place of his death is little frequen He had evidently killed himself a he was prone on the ground, with clothing nicely arranged. In pocket was a box of cartridges, was about 35 years of age. Holiday Gift: Following our usual policy, we fer at this early date a complete sortment of Christmas novelt This collection includes a wide ra of varieties and are of undout artistic merit and value. All special selection?unmatched in : particular by any other stock in t town. In fact you can't find a where else in town anything like large assortment you w;ill find hi Toy^oj^^hMm We have a larger stock than ei all good ones?not the cheap ki although the prices are reasonal Toys for the boys and girls. Autoi biles Picture Books, Story Boc Building Blocks, Doll Furniture, 1 gets, Driving Reins, Engines, Musi Toys, Washing Sets, Indian and i dicr suits, Doll Beds and Hammot Baby Rattles, Animal Blocks, Toy anos and Organs, Tea Sets, Sto^ Sewing Machines, Whips, Air Ril Ten Pin Alleys, Wagons, Wheell rows, and a general line. Space is sufficient to mention everything. ForGifts. Manicure Sets, Jewel Cases, J rors, Toilet Sets, Sterling Si] Novelties, Baby Sets, Lap Tabl Picture Frames, Fine Box Pap from 25c to $2.50, Shaving Sets ? Traveling Sets for men, Coat i Trousers Hangers in nice leat cases, Military Sets, Smoking S Sewing Sets, Nut Crackers and Pi< Fountain Pens, Hat Pin Holders, j Receivers, Shopping Bags, Fine Pi es, all styles, etc., etc. This line ir be seen to be appreciated. Manj these articles are in sterling sil and pearl, and while they are l goods, the prices are reasonable. I year some of our customers c< plained that we did not have go ntsvr. annnnh Thlc rPflf WA h IIIVC ( UV/U^IJ JL ***^/ ?? ~ them. The toilet and military i in sterling silver and the manic sets in sterling silver and pearl beauties. Nothing nicer for a pi ent. fineRctares. Beautiful line of pictures expec this week. They are the kind t have not been carried in Bamb heretofore. Fanc^hin^^utGlass In these lines we have a handsc assortment. Salad Bowls, Cel Dishes, Bowls, Tea and Coffee S Fancy Vases, Pitchers, Tumblers, ? a number of other useful and pn articles. The line will bear insj tion. BOOKS. for the children and older fo! j Nothing makes a nicer present. < line for children, boys and girls especially strong. We also hav< nice lot of Christmas Cards from to 20c. Silverware. We have several handsome pi< in quadruple plate, butter disl bread plates, crumb trays, cr? pitchers, sugar dishes, spoon hold coffee sets, etc. We will sell thes* great bargains. No matter wThat you want, com* see us. We can supply your wi in holiday goods. Not near all stock is mentioned here. Come and look. Costs nothing. HERALD BOOK STOI BAMBERG, S. C. 11 Millinery cut oth- i ably uely | ^a|^ j There is individuality a guishes them from all ot ex- I after by ladies who are lo e to velous part lies in their i am~ i cost. Wc want to be fair, 6 01 j in to increase, but above al om- j with every purchase. Jus e or j season's latest creations, ! money saving prices. Ou : to ably ; g | LADIES TAI his ; his has been replenished. Ms j perfect garments in everyt cost price is very low. Do | | have seen our stock. = \ MRS. E. P. of- EHRHARDT, as- .. ies. ?_ n*e |i ? ?ted W 21 The Small Depositor is this A hundred small accounts ^ . a dozen large ones. Th *"e urging the man of limited ?re. ness with us. Large accounts are wel< to serve all classes, vvhett large. We Pay Four per cent. Ii ! I nn/x-nT n? t> a vrrr II XTjUX'J-IXIO .D4in.?\. - nd, IL. Me. O ? no- ~~ Bad Wreck at Cades. 'ar- Florence, December 5.?There was ical Quite a freight wreck at Cade's, thirty miles south of Florence on the 5Gl" northeastern division of the Coasl 'ks, Line, at 6 o'clock this morning, in Pi- which an extra freight going south yes was side-swiped by the engine of ' north-bound through freight, No. les, 212. Engineers Grambling and >ar- Wells at the throttle, and Conducnot tors Dennis and Lamb in charge of the trains. Extra south-bound freight was pulling in the switch on the pass track when No. 212 struck it, and the engine of No. 212 was derailed and turned broadside in the ditch. Immediately after the collision the wreckage took fire from one of the locomotives and the box cars and one engine were burned and lver damaged by the flames. The only ets, person hurt was John Carr, one of ere, the firemen, and he only slightly, and trains, north and south, to-day have been detoured over the Central and and W. C. and via Lanes and Sumter, her The wreck will be cleared in time for the evening trains to pass. There was a very dense fog prevailing *at ' the time of the wreck, and it is attributable to this that the two trains irs- crashed. rnst Negro Shoots His Wife. r Of * i Anderson, S. C., Dec. 4.?Bob fl Wright, colored, shot and killed his "Jle wife in Martin township early to-day, ^ast a shot gun being the weapon used. Dm- The load entered the woman's body ^ near the heart and caused almost in005 stant death. ave Wright was arrested in Abbeville ?ets after a chase and brought to jail ure here. He and his wife had been separated, but had gone back together and were spending the night res" at a neighbor's. About two o'clock the inmates were aroused by the report of the gun. ery ^ 2 The McKay Sulky Stalk-Cutter ?tty We build the most satisfactory Cutter in America?Simple, Strong, Honest and Durable. No "rattletrap" trinkets to get out of order. A genuine pleasure to operate it. Competitive field tests invited. Our Cutter won the highest award at N. C. and S. C. state fairs over all Western cutters. Iks, Has movable boxes which can be replaced at nominal cost. . A Southern product, built for the ' 18 Southern farmer, e a Forty Cars Sold Last Season. G. ML Dickinson, Agent, BAMBERG, S. C. AN OPPORTUNITY! ?ces tics am A fine mercantile busiers' ness, in a hustling town, e at fnr calik at feasnnflhle nricfi ^ and on easy terms. Apply the quick to > in J. T. O'NEAL ir, Real Estate Agent, BAMBERG, - S- C. \ i : . - .? "* <-/ S - ' I i* ~l1 -- : : -1 37^-w. Marvels! _ v '": ; /' bout our styles that distin* - r?v, hers and makes them sought II oking for the best. The marrich style for such really low , we want our Millinery trade t I we want you to be pleased t received another line* of the all marked at our usual low, r line of - * LORED SUITSI I 1 ide by expert tailors, they are hing the word implies, yet the f not think of baying until you COPELAND SOUTH CAROLINA. \ j ' > V Q --III Welcome at This Bank! ? make a bank stronger than is is one of onr reasons for '^'5 I means to transact his bnsir ?ome too, for it is onr pnrpose ler the business be small or iterest on Savings Deposits - - - - Bamberg, S.C. JtelS-f v .:fTry a Five-Pound Can 1 ' Wageners Farmers' | Friend Brand fi High Grade Blended Roasted ^ :'.v > -: COFFEE NONE BETTER Selected, Blended and Boasted |jj| ' with the utmost care, and put up in beautiful Decorated Tin Cans, with : - ' * . -jfl slip covers and strong handles, a "% useful as well as an ornamental- J article for any home. Ask your Be- . tail Grocer for this Brand. If he has 4 none in stock he can easily get a supply ?FROM? Ip^i R W. Wageoer & (a ;I IMPORTERS AND ROASTERS, Charleston, S. C. Ml ' ' Sold in Bamberg by H. C. Folk j ? and G. A. Ducker; in Denmark by J. v B. Gillam, Jr., and Still Bros. y^||p OIiaa 9-r Jnimasa PannivlvtU OUUO W UCUUOOO MV^UUUig For first-class Shoe and Harneaa 4a:.{ repairing of all kinds, call on me, 1 '' make new harness of all kinds* bridles, halters, etc. Satisfaction guaranteed. Shop on Main street, HEYWOOD JOHNSON BAMBERG, S. C. f ' CITATION NOTICE. The State of South Carolina? County of Bambterg?By Geo. P. Harmon, Esq., Judge of Probate. Whereas, C. R. Brabham, Jr., hathmade suit to me to grant him letters of administration of the estate of and effects of Haynes Barnes: These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Hayne Barnes, deceased, that they be and appear before me in the Court of Probate, to be held at 1 Bamberg on Saturday, Dec. 11, next, after publication thereof, at 11 vo'clock in the forenoon, to sh ?w cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand and seal this 20th day of November, A. D., 1909. GEO. P. HARMON, Judge of Probate. OPENING BIDS. Bids will be received by the board -a ./.MwiloolnnaM fr\f Ram. Ui UUUlilJ l/UUimuoiuuvio 1V1 mberg county for the painting of the roofs of the court house and jail, calr camining court house and jail, and other repairs. Specifications can be seen at Supervisor's office. Bids will be closed on Monday, December 20th, 1909. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. J. B. KEARSE, H. D. FREE, Supervisor. Clerk. } Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 1, 1909. CHICHESTER SPIUS Vyrv THE DIAMOND BRAND. A /7*>X Ladled AikyoirI>n|dA(bf A , tuM ^ht nfcfn frr*! IMiHitiTRriHl/AV Fill* In Red and bold actUjScvW/ OCN boxes, sealed with Blue Ribboo. V/ fn 9^ Bm Take bo other. Btr of year , 1/ ? flf Dmntat AskforCIII-Clasi?TKRt! I C Jf DIAMOND BRAND PILLS,fall V V B jrcan known as Best, Safest, Always Ratiabto I SOLD BV DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE