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/ feiai i - i llamhmj I|rral5 J Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1910. One Dollar a Year COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, Feb. 14.?Having cold weather for the time of the year. Farmers are rushing fertilizer hauling. Can't get it fast enough. Ask Mr. Otis Copeland to define an error. Has a novel definition of this little word. Mr. Dock Moye is a great dog man; has show dogs, sooner dogs and bull dogs now for sale. There is to be a show in town on the 21st of this month. The last show brought us measles, and expect this one will bring us small pox. The auto men in this section are having some hard luck with their machines of late. JEE. Olar News. Olar, Feb. 14.?Miss Pauline Bennett, who is teaching at Gaston, spent Sunday at home. Messrs. E. D. Bessinger and J. W. Pearlstin visited in the Kline section Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. G. Bessinger, of Milltown, Ga., are on a visit to relatives here. We are glad to see Dr. J. R. McCormack out again after several days confinement with lagrippe. Last week the small pox broke out at Schofield, which is only about two miles from here. The folks here became greatly alarmed, as one patient down there died with the disease. The physicians here took the matter in hand promptly, and had Dr. Williams. of the State board of health, to come down. Dr. Williams advised a general vaccination, which was very generally complied with. At this time there is still several cases ^at Schofleld, but the doctors say they think they have the epidemic well under control. t There was an examination held at Bamberg on the 5th instant to fill the vacancy on rural route number one from this place, caused by the resignation of Mr. John M. Kirkland. The following gentlemen from this place stood: Robert Kirkland, Angus Morris, W. H. Varn, G. O. Barker, H. D. Drawdy, and J. Gordon Brabham. The appointment has not been made up to this time. Very few stood the census enumer. ator's examination here, for Buford's Bridge township. We hear it whispered around that the spring time will be welcomed here by wedding bells. * ' Mrs. Paul Cook and little daughter, Mildred, have gone on a visit to relatives in Alabama. Mr. Ben Zorn and Miss Bennie Aldrich, of the Friendship section, were happily married on Sunday. The great contrast in the ages of the contracting parties makes the occasion a rather singular one. Mr. Zorn is 53, while Miss Aldrich is only 14. Mr. B. A. Joyner, of Columbia, spent Sunday in town. ' Mr. Geo. J. Bessinger has returned from a visit to relatives in Georgia, much improved, to the delight of his many friends. Miss Belle Cooke has gone to Macon, Ga., to attend a business college. B. J. G. * V Arrested for Abduction. ? . Greenville, Feb. 14.?D. L. McQueen, a young ms.n, member of a prominent family m tne lower pari. Qt the State, was jailed here late today on the charge of abducting the pretty 13-year-old daughter of J. A. Cannon, postmaster at Fountain Inn in this county. McQueen was arrested while in company with the girl, the two being en route to a country preacher's. He was taken to Fountain Inn, where a mob quickly formed, bent on summary vengeance, but deputies rushed the prisoner to Greenville. When seen to-night McQueen declared he has been in love with the girl for a couple of months and that his intentions in taking her away were not questionable in the least degree. \ / NEGRO ASSAULTS GIRL. Lynching Barely Prevented Near Mobile, Alabama. * Mobile, Ala., Feb. 12.?After hiding from a mob of angry citizens at Whistler, a small town near Mobile, ' for nearly six hours, Sheriff Drago to-night suceeded in landing in jail Houston Moseley, the negro charged with criminally assaulting and beating Katie Walters, a white girl 12 ( years old. Shortly after Mosley was placed in jail another negro was arrested at 1 Whistler and it stated that there is ! considerable doubt as to the guilt of i Moseley. Excitement at Whistler is 1 intense, but it is believed the authorities have the situation well in hand. . It was first reported in Mobile that , the mob had taken Moseley from the officers at "Whistler and this gave rise < to wild reports of lynching, but in the firing which followed the discovery of the negro in the hands of the ] officers, Moseley was shot through i the thigh ana when ne ren, snerin i Drago succeeded in eluding the mob ] and landed his prisoner in the Mobile jail here. Shortly after two o'clock this af- 1 ternoon, the Walters girl was walk- 1 ing along the railroad track at Bes- 1 tor, Ala., two miles North of Whist- * ler. She noticed a negro standing on the trestle and saw that he had a gun. She turned and ran, but the ( negro fired upon her and she fell to ] the ground. The girl was painfully wounded in the back, but her inju- ] ries are not of a fatal nature. The ( negro came to the prostrate form of his victim and seeing that she was alive evidently tried to kill her by 1 striking her over the head with the < butt of his gun. < Emmet Myers, a resident of Whist- J ler, came upon the wounded girl and ] carried her to Whistler, where she ? received medical attention. The physician pronounced her wounds not of a fatal nature. 1 Guilds Head Master. Cordesville, Feb. 13.?Mr. J. C. Guilds, Jr., of this place, has accepted the position of head master of the Bamberg Fitting School, at Bam- ! berg, S. C. At the last session Mr. < Guilds was professor of English in the Fitting School, but is now taking 1 a post-graduate course at Vanderbilt 1 University, Nashville, Tenn. His duties will begin with the coming fall session. Mr. Guilds is a graduate of ' Wofford College, and his standing in college was such that no sooner had 1 he taken his degree than he was put 1 in the Fitting School as instructor, ( from which position he has been pro- { moted to head master, the Fitting School being the annex to Wofford. The rise of Prof. Guilds is of much J satisfaction to his many home friends here, who recognize in him J one who has made success because he has deserved and worked for it; 1 and with his capacity to do greater 1 things in his vocation as educator, there is no doubt but that in time he < will take a continued high stand in ' thin hifl r?hrwp.n nrofession. and in all '* ways continue to make good, not only I to himself, but to all who are under his influence. May Paroled by Gov. Ansel. Columbia, February 11.?Without precedent in the State's history is a parole granted to-day by Governor Ansel to Charles May, the Rock Hill embezzler, who was sentenced to serve three years in prison. Young | May was paroled for six months, and he will be brought to Columbia to be , treated in the tubeculosis hospital at the State Penitentiary. It will be recalled that May was tried only a few | months ago at Rock Hill, and, although his shortage was made good, he was convicted on the charge of embezzlement. A pitiful letter was received from May's widowed sister in which it is stated the man is dying of tuberculosis, and that the dampness of his cell in the county jail, the lack of air and recreation is shortening his days. An appeal such as is rarely penned in such graphic terms was made to Gov. Ansel in May's behalf. Having before him physicians' certificates as to May's condition Governor Ansel paroled the prisoner for the purpose of having him brought here for attention at the State prison. If he gets well he will, of course, have to serve out his sentence. 11 he doesn't get well the Governor will * later make disposition of the case. c , a Hereafter those new counties de- i siring to be formed will have to pay the expenses of surveys, elections, c etc., which is exactly right. The leg- i islature has passed an act to this r effect. Heretofore the old counties I had to pay these expenses, which was r manifestly unfair. f 9 IN THE PALMETTO STAT! SOME OCCURRENCES OP VARIOU! KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quicl Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The legislature is to adjourn Fri jay of this week. Thos. G. McLeod, now lieutenan governor, announces that he will no support high license in his race fo governor, but will advocate local op tion. Senator W. S. Smith, of Hamptoc introduced a high license bill in th State Senate, but it was summaril killed, the author being the onl Senator voting in favor of it. A majority of the judiciary com aiittee of the State Senate passed resolution last week calling on Super intedent Babcock and the board o regents of the asylum to resign. Mr. S. E. Boney, who has bee: editing the Laurens Advertiser fo the past two years, has given up hi iuties there and accepted a positio: :>n the staff of the News and Courier John Skelton Williams, of Rich mond, Va., organizer and first presi lent of the Seaboard Air Line, wi] be the commencement orator at th University of South Carolina in Cc [umbia on June 8th, he having ac ;epted the invitation. Mr. J. C. Lusk, who has been di vision passenger agent of the South 3rn Railway, with headquarters a Charleston, has resigned his positio: and will go into the real estate busi aess in Birmingham. Mr. W. E. Mc Ge? succeeds Mr. Lusk. MAKES RESTITUTION. Meyer, Pitts & Co. Pay State fo Overcharges on Liquor. Restitution money in the sum o 53,437.50 was received by Attorne general Lyon yesterday from Meyer Pitts & Co., a whiskey firm of Bait) more, Md. The money was collectei by Anderson, Felder, Rountree an< Wilson, the Atlanta firm of lawyer who have charge of the collection o such funds. The check was turned over to th dispensary commission and will g Lo the dispensary fund. Over $50, )00 has been collected in the natur Df restitution money. The payment of this amount of th Baltimore whiskey house came as surprise, says Attorney General Lyon The accounts with Meyer, Pitts & Co. bad been closed several years age There was no overjudgment agains :be company and there was no clair igainst the State. Until recently there was no direc jvidence against this company as t overcharging the State for liquor ind those in charge of the dispensar; iffairs had not given the firm ; thought believing that all busines lealings with the house had beei settled several years ago. Mr. Lyon said yesterday that th< Meyer, Pitts & Co., did. not do j rreat amount of business with the ol( State dispensary. The dispensary commission no^ iolds funds to the extent of $400,001 which amount will no doubt be in :reased within the next year by resti ;ution money and by the collectioi )f over judgments. The sum o ?275,000 has been deposited in th< various banks of the State by th< :ommission through the State treas :rer and $100,000 is held in re lerve pending the litigation in severa ;laims. Mr. Lyon said yesterday that he ii jxpecting other checks for restitu ion. A lot of this money was gon< jeyond recall but for the services o he Atlanta firm of lawyers who hat nade a specialty of this case anc rould make the liquor houses dis jorge when nobody else could hav< lone it.?Columbia State. IS NOT MAN WANTED. - ? o U urttl Tisoner in savaiiiwu viuu^u ? Murder to be Released. A man has been held in Savannal or the past several days on the harge of killing Mr. Nix at Bamberg ibout one year ago. Gov. Ansel was n communication to-day with sev ral Bamberg people who had gone >ver to Savannah for the purpose ol dentifying the slayer. A message eceived stated that several of the Jamberg people had decided that the aan held is not the slayer of Mr *ix.?Columbia State. g BRYAN DENOUNCES SALOON. Nebraskan Declares Himself in FaS vor of County Option. Lincoln, Neb. Feb. 12.?In a statek ment given to the press to-night, ' Wm. J. Bryan declared himself in favor of county option in Nebraska, and at the same time says it is time for political parties to declare themselves independent of the liquor interests. Mr. Bryan says county opt tion is both fair and logical, and t insists that the Government has the r undoubted right to regulate the liqui or traffic in any manner it sees fit. After extended argument in favor of the principle of county option the l? statement concludes: e "The saloon?not everyone, but as y a rule?is an alliance with vice. It y is constantly used to debauch politics and to prevent the intelligent L_ consideration of public questions. a The liquor interests interfere in all matters that mav even remotely af ,f feet their interests. They made themselves odious in the last session of the Nebraska Legislature. The n Democrats had a majority in both r branches for the first time in the s State's history, and the splendid recti ord of the Legislature has but one ' blot on it, and that blot was put there by the liquor interests. They controlled enough of the Senators to prevent the submission of the initiative and referendum. e "The Democratic party cannot afford to act as the mouthpiece of the liquor interests. It can have nothing in common with the selfish mercen[ ary and conscienceless crusade that L- the liquor interests have organized ,t against the home and the State? q against private virtue and public [- morals." Sound Building. C. W. Garris was railroad commisclrtTior fr?r aiv vpara and was nnt in frequently referred to as the man of brains of that board. He passed out of service and the public forgot; there was no enduring mark left as f a reminder. But Mr. Garris returned y to the House of Representatives. '? Many men acclaim boisterously i- about helping the "poor man," and d doing something for the "common 3 people," but when they get the ops portunity 99 out of 100 appear to imf agine that the way to help the "poor man" is to hurt somebody who isn't ? poor, and that doing something for o the "common people," consists in - clubbing somebody not classed with e the "common people." Of course these fail to do anything but gain a ? moment's notoriety, and they pass a from the stage to oblivion. But Mr. Garris, without whoop or ? burning of red fire, has done some? thing for the poor man, and by so t doing has done something for all & South Carolinians. Last year he induced the legislature to give $20,000 t to aid poor rural school districts that 0 cannot support schools by themselves, s The State then predicted that the esy tablishment of this principle was a most important and that approprias tions for this purpose would be in1 creased until the legislature gave at least $100,000 a year. ? The plan has worked well, and a Representative Garris has secured J fmm thp Hniisp an increase of the appropriation for this purpose to v $60,000. As no school district can D receive more than $100 a year from - this fund, and can only get such as sistance after levying a special two1 mill scnool tax and raising an f amount equal to that given by the e State, $60,000 will furnish encoure agement and Incentive, besides sub stantial aid, to at least 600 poor * school districts, and probably to 900. 1 That means much for the children in those districts who choose to at3 tend the school thus provided, and r * consequently it means much to South 2 Carolina. And so we say that Mr. f Garris, has, by his initiative in this 1 matter, builded a monument to him* self that will long mark his legisla" tive career.?Columbia State. 1 Struck by Auto. 1 . i Florence, Feb. 14.?James McCown i suffered painful thought not fatal in- < 1 juries yesterday afternoon by being struck by an automobile driven by C. i W. Muldrow. The accident occurred i i on Evans street in front of the Amer- ] i v.^+oi TirVicro Mr Mrflown was 1 ' ivaa uuici, nuviv ? - ? standing talking to a friend. Mr. i J Muldrow blew his horn but the signal 1 - was not heard by Mr. McCown, who 1 i was attempting to board another car 1 f when he was struck. One wheel of 1 J the machine ran across the lower t i part of the body and it was at first 1 i thought that the wounds inflicted ! . were fatal. At present he is doing ( well. < MOTHER GETS HER BABIES. COURT DECIDES FOR MRS. LUCY DUGAS TILLMAN. Holds That B. R. Tillman, Jr., Had No Bight under the Constitution to Deed Away His Children. The supreme court of South Carolina has declared unconstitutional the statute under which B. R. Tillman, Jr., endeavored to deed to his parents the custody of his infant children, on the ground that he believed his wife to be incapable to raise them properly and that he realized his own unfiness. The court vests in the mother the rierht to the nosseesion of her children. The news spread like wildfire through the city yesterday morning and hundreds of messages of congratulation poured in upon the mother, who is in the city. Not one person was heard to express regret at the happy termination of the case. A telephone message to The State from Edgefield declared the great happiness of the people there, and it was added that 90 per cent, of the people of Edgefield had throughout sided with the mother. The opinion of the court goes with clearness into the law. The full text of the decision is given. The decree was written by Associate Justice Woods and is concurred in by the whole court. It is stated unofficially that the court reached a decision within 15 minutes after hearing the case. The Mother Notified. According to a promise heretofore given, as well as prompted by the im pulses of a kind heart, the first thing that Col. U. R. Brooks did when he got the decision of the supreme court was to 'phone the mother of the cnildren over whom the nation has sorrowed in the last 30 days. "I have good news for jtou," said Col. Brooks to the mother. "What, do I get my children?" she exclaimed in great joy. "And," said Col. Brooks when telling of it afterwards, "I'm darned if we both didn't blubber over that telephone," and his eyes were moist again. Col Brooks also notified B. R. Tillman, Jr., and Henry C. Tillman by wire. The latter is an attorney at Greenwood and a son of Senator Tillman. Mrs. Tillman Overjoyed. % "I am so happy." Face, voice, eyes all showed too plainly the great heartgladness of the mother whose babies,are to be restored to her arms. A reporter of The State arrived just a few moments after Mrs. Lucy Dugas Tillman had been informed that the State supreme court had de With her were two relatives. They were overjoyed, but theirs was nothing compared with the great happiness which shown from the dark eyes of the young mother, whose pride had been bruised until she could not in torture visit her children where she had not a home herself. "When are they coming back to me?" she inquired tremuously, thinking the reporter had seen the decision of the court "Oh, well I know my lawyers will hurry them to me," and the woman in her became manifest She has been brave through all this fight. She has not wavered when laced with court proceedings and any attempt at compromises she has spurned; but in the hour of her exaltation the woman showed uppermost and she cried.?Columbia State. BABY'S CRY SAVED TWELVE. f?as Fumes Had Nearly Done Their Work When Help Arrived. Chicago, 111., Feb. 13.?Thirteen people were overcome by illuminating gas and a woman was killed by inhaling gas here to-day. At the home of Henry Kolkely twelve visitors, who remained over night after attending a party, were saved from death by the cry of a baby. The family and the visitors Lad retired after dancing until almost daylight. While they slept a defective gas pipe poured fumes into the crowded quarters. At 1 p. m. to-day a baby sleeping i*? onnthpr rnnm hv a window gave 2. loud wail. This aroused Henry Kolkeley, the only one in the house not completely overcome. He managed to crawl to a window and call into the street for help. Outsiders found the Kolkeley family and their visitors all unconscious. They were taken to a hospital where it was thought they would recover. In a aotel the police found Annie Miller, ( ~>A years old, dead from the effects >f gas, and Annie Evans, 20 years >Id, in the same room, lying. BAD WRECK NEAR MACON. Five Persons Killed and Eight Serf- _ "> -y ously Injured. Macon, Ga., Feb. 14.?Five persons were instantly killed, eight seriously injured and a score slightly injured when passengers trains No. 2 and No. 5 on the Georgia Southern | and Florida Railroad met head-on this afternoon at 5 o'clock, nineteen ? j mile below Macon, between Wellston :Js and Bonaire. The dead: W. J. Yates, Macon, engineer on ' "M train No. 5. , ' -ll Flagman A. R. Johnson, Macon. Conductor I. B. Ingalls, Macon, traveling as passenger. ' * ^ One unknown white man. Seriously injured: LeRoy Fuss, engineer train No. 2, badly cut on head and chin. Robert Williams, colored, mail ^ /J clerk, Macon, hurt in back. W. M. Elder, Worth, Ga., bruised in back. I W. L. Wheeler, Wellston, bruised - JS about trunk. ' J. F. Blount, Orangeburg, S. j| traveling salesman, painfully hurt about head. George Bernhart, flagman, pain- , jl fully hurt on head. W. H. Carson, newsboy, cut on :|| Loretta Putnam, colored, badly (M hurt in head and side. It is stated that the accident was jm caused by the crew of train No. 2 >| misreading orders to meet train No. *d|i 5 at Bonaire. A 4??A1?% am A A . a A wiwaiug nam auu a ictm uaut were sent out from Macon as soon as ijj the news of the disaster reached the C'-'Wi head officer of the road. The relief ' :|l train reached Macon at 11 o'clock bearin. the bodies of the dead and. injured. Both engines, the mail and baggage cars and two day coaches were completely demolished. The trains were , 3 not running at a great rate of speed," but they\ met on a curve and the engineers had little chance to prevent the accident. ' ^ The wreck occurred in a dismal ! swamp and passengers describe the cries of the wounded and dying as .J most pitilur and heart-rending., Several hours elapsed before medical ^ aid reached the scene. Many women passengers bound the wounds of the , \% injured with > bandages torn from 'M their clothing. ^ "S The body of Engineer Yates,still ' i M lies buried benath his engine. It . will require several hours to remove . - ~|| the debris so that his body may be; ^ extricated. y |||j STEAMER'S BOILERS EXPLODED. M Ill-Fated General Chanzy Blew Up If After Striking Reef. Palma, Island of Marjorca, Feb. 'yjg| 13?The supposition that the French transatlantic steamer Gen. Chanzy's boilers exploded after she struck on J the reefs near the Island of Minorca, ; 3 Thursday night, is based largely, upon ,;J the character of the wreckage of the ; M chip, which was reduced almost to kindling. . V ~'M The sole survivor, so far as Is Vj known, was Marcel Rodel, and his ? mind is still far from clear after his terrible experiences. The work of * salvage and recovery of the bodies continues, but is greatly retarded by bj the high seas. Among the bodies washed ashore was a woman with a ' baby clasped in her arms. Wife Caught in Trap. .* ' -yh Newberry, Feb. 14.?Walking Into % a trap set by her husband for chicken thieves, Mrs. Geo. L. Neel, who lives , -J just beyond Johnstone academy, on J the road between Prosperity and. ' -M Newberry, was seriously and possibly mortally wounded. Mr. Neel had been missing some ^ r v chickens. He had driven stakes in the ground in front of his chicken 3 house, around which he had led a cord attached to the trigger of a cocked shotgun, pointing to the approach to the chicken house, so that any one approaching the chicken house would run against the cord and discharge the gun. Mr. Neel's. , -j| wife received the load of shot intended for the thieves. Mrs. Neel was in the yard looking after matters before retiring for the night, and probably did not know or had not thought of her husband's precautions. The load entered the right leg be low the knee joint, at close range; boring an ugly hole. Drs. Mower and Pel ham were called in, and Dr. Houseal has been in consultation. It is stated that it is altogether probable that the leg will have to be amputated, and serious fears are entertained for Mrs. Neel's life. "