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?Ijp Hamburg Tjjmtlb 1 Established 1881 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1910. One Dollar a Year county news leheks . SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS i IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. 7 : $* Xtfii Items Gathered All Around the Ooutj asd Elsewhere. ^ Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, March 14.?Mr. Henry Ehrhardt Is rushing his dwelling to completkML Has the siding nearly on the frame. VIlA fAVtl AAnnot 1 ftM a* wamU ?VV""VM "v wu PHi side walks doing4 good work this time. Think it %U1 stand the storm IMt tin*. Mrs. Jacob Ehrhardt and Liles. also Mrs. W. H. Kinard. went on a trip to Newberry last week to see rdsiiifi The ladles are at work looking np hats and costumes for the memorial. They waat to look their best on that There moat hare been a good de|k aaad for colds earlier In the year. Nearly every one has one. w! Four or fire picture salesmen are ? Is town mow and will canvass the ssrronnding country this week. It anst be a paying business. t The fertiliser still comes In. FarmMt an to nut plmtv of It thh kv year. Will take an enormous crop to pay for It. All indications are that we are colas to have a tooth year to make a crop this year. Lumber Is in good demand. Can't fil the orders that are seat In. Ifr. Abaer Fender will soon eom. manes his home. Has his lumber est and will soon place It on the site wpteh he has sheeted for his dwell* * W Saturday was a good day for the town council. Several boarders were ta the red'top tan. Their bill of fare Hi Is usually very expensive. . * Caster preparations are belag made and the rabbits are besy getting aatwhi to dye the children pretty up tor the oocaskm. Mr. F. H. Copelnnd has gone to Bamberg on hariasm this morning. _ ?? et t Mn. Sum Appleby tad davghttr put most of tost vnk with her tetter, teotter aad Mm. JU. ?I nmx raaQQi. Fairfax. March IS.?The LatherSOB gave a Mini la Tonne's hall Wednesday erasing tost tor the heme 9t of their parsonage. Quite a ales mim was realised, aad all seemed to onloy the ooeasioa. I - " T . ' .Mar. Mr. Tfmmcne, the new pastor % of the Baptist church here, preached to a Tory large crowd oa Sunday morning. All pronounced the eerami Tory tee. He aad his wife are hoarding at the Fairfax hotel, which Is now run by Mr. and Mrs. Rents, to T the satisfaction of all guests. Miss 8psneer, from Penaaylraaia, the new milliner of the Y. M. Young / 0o.*s store, has arrlTod and will soon display spring .hats. Messrs. O. C. Manor aad Geo. D. Isidsrs left for a short rtsit to CtetataMv. y. Miss Mary Branson, who was so dSMSratlli ill for ewtl ?Mki I* now solas aQ about I Mr. O. W. Barber visited the Ulmer action recently. i Mr. Thoe. Hickson, the venerable tether of Mrs. G. W. Barber, is visitlas bar now. Ssreial more entertainments by bome talent are to take place in the near future, and many are busy setMas reedy for them. The last number of the lyceum course will be a musical one, and we trust there will be a larse house to > Sr st tbeee stars In the musical world. Our bank, a brick structure, Is test nearins completion. ww rmT acquneo. Waiterboro, March 12.?James Price, tried three times for the killlog of Willie Reddish, was this morning acquitted of the charge of murder. He was, however, convicted on the second count, that of carrying a concealed weapon, and fined $50 by Judge Robert Aldrich. </ \ \ v _ 11 irni" iilt - J ^ ' ? ' ? YOUNG LADY ATTACKED. Brother's Approach Frightened Off Intruder, a White Man. Macon, Ga.. March 14.?Miss Louise Willis, of W&lden. Ga.. was savagely attacked, by an unknown white man in a room at the home of her brother. Mr. Emmett Willis, in a fashionable residence section of this city, at a late hour to-night. The man was frightened away by the approach of the young lady's brother, who rushed to her rescue upon hearing her screams, and the young lady was thrown violently from her bed to the floor, a handkerchief bein? tied tightly about her mouth. The intention of the intruder was criminal assault. The man went through a window and made his escape by the means of a lightning rod. The police department is making a determined search, and from the description given by the young lady it is believed her assailant will be captured within a few hours. The citisens of that section of the city were Quickly aroused and they are aiding in the search. Meeting of Farmers* Union. Editor The Bamberg Herald:? Will you please state through your columns that there will be a meeting of the Bamberg County Farmers' Unkm, held with the Bamberg local, on Wednesday. March 30th. This is an imnortaiit mMtin* anil each local la requested to send at least four delegates. All members of the Union are inTited to be present. j. e. McMillan. Secretary for Bamberg County. Bbrbardt, 8. C., March 14. 1910. Dots* Colston. March 14.?We are haying some beautiful weather now. Mr. Martin Blake and sister, Miss Mary Blake, of the Norway section, are spending a few days with friends and relatives on Colston. Mr. Havelock Clayton, of the Macfeat Business College, Columbia, will spend the Easter holidays at home with bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clayton. There are several cases of measles in this section now. Mr. R. L. Beard la at borne now for a few days. Mr. Joe Beard, wbo baa been very ill with pneumonia, is improving slowly. Mr. Pnrdy Ayer, of tbe Olar section was on Colston, Sunday. Mrs. Pbill Padgett, of tbe Oak Grove section, spent Sunday witb ber parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. All. M. last Entertainment Tbe last entertainment of tbe Bamberg lyeenm course will be furnished by tbe Royal Hungarian Orchestra, in tbe graded school auditorium, Friday evening, March the ISth. This is one of tbe highest class attractions that baa ever been to Bamberg. This orchestra belongs to tbe Redpath aeries, which is recommendation enough for any attraction. It is composed of native Hungarians and musicians of tbe highest class. This attraction was bought by both Augusta and Charleston (in tbe - Academy of Music In Charleston) last season, and both hare it booked tor this season. This is to be our last attraction, and we are very anxious for the people to come out and fire ua a full house. Notwithstanding the fact that this is a very high price attraction, we are going to make the prices of tickets very reasonable. We as* our friends to come to the graded school, because it is the only place available. This is a very large attraction. Let everybody come. Season tickets good. Admission price 50 cents. Black and Rawlinson Trials. Chester, March 13 ?The approaching term of the court of general sessions in Chester county gives promise of being one of the most interesting ever held here. In addition to the celebrated dispensary cases against Black, Rawlinson et al. which are set for this term, and which will i be tried, if Attorney General Lyon does not find himself compelled to go to Washington at that time to argue the State's side in the Pink Franklin appeal, there are several murder cases of more or less note that are due to come up. ! ... . " - - ' - A . . . ; IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS | KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Um State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The county commissioners of Orangeburg have let the contract for | repairs and improvements to their court house, the work to cost $843. T. C. Petty, a white man of Gaff* ney, has been arrested on the charge of burning his barn to colTect the insurance. It is claimed he moved the contents of the barn before the fire. Chief Justice Jones has issued an order giving W. T. Jones, the convicted wife murderer of Union until April first to file notice of appeal or petition for rehearing with the State Supreme Court. Mrs. Will Billings, of Union, who was shot and seriously wounded by her husband last week, is improving, and will no doubt recover, so Union will be saved the trial of another wife murderer. Mrs. Billings says her husband shot her while he was drunk and without any provocation. - Col. W. W. Lumpkin, of Columbia, died at the home of his son-in-law at Asheville, N. C., after an illness of only one week. Col. Lumpkin was born in Georgia, but had been a resident of South Carolina for a number of years. He made the race for the | United States Senate a few years ago. ! He was well known and popular j throughout the State. wwiM| wirc?|ivuucaKv> With the song of the birds, blooming of plants, and the awakening of all nature, your scribe will, too, try to add something to The Herald's columns, after a deep sleep of neglect, but not forgetfulness, tor the county paper is always,a welcome I visitor. The farmers of onr midst are turning the soil and promise a, greater area of their lands to hog and hominy, with less to king staple than ever before. The writer is not a termer nor a planter, but appreciates to it's fulness, those things grown at home, that are most needful, and if a word we could speak or an act we could perform towards the higher type of "farming," not merely "planting," how gladly would we render such service. While speaking along this line we are reminded of an urgent letter with many details concerning the coming census enumeration we received some time since from the department of commerce and labor. Would it were possible that each farmer could give a report of their cotton crop as a surplus to add to a bank account and give their wives a summer vacation to some summer resort, with their barns, smokehouses, pantries, and shelves full of all that goes to make us healthy and happy and plenty already marketed to pay for the son's and daughter's 1910 college expenses. We truly hope this thirteenth general census of U. S. will And more progress thtn in all her history. We are sorry to report that Mr.. Joe B. Oil lam, is not any betWr. But "Uncle Joe" is so faithful and patient through all his suffering and affliction. We truly hope he will again be able to enjoy the bright sunshine and all nature of which he is 1 so fond. We are glad to hare Matter Elvis Sandifer out again, after a little spell < of malaria. We misted you at school. Elvin. Mr. Steedley Hughes, of Ferguson, , spent several days at his father's ; last week, returning to his work < Saturday. i i Measles are entertaining a number ] of colored folks in our midst, but i there are only a very few white folks t that are liable to entirtau* them, 1 as the majority of us ?*** Ui?ady had them. 1 1 Mr. D. B. Jordan, of O. C. I., came ] home Tuesday night for the inspec- i tion of Bamberg Guards on Wednes- | day. He rturned Wednesday night. ] ? } Mrs. Dan Felder. of Denmark, is 1 visiting her sister, Mrs. Joe B. Gil- < lam, for a few days. \fra T W Hill ontorf* Ina^ a fan. 1 of her friends at a quilt Saturday i afternoon. ] Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hughes visited < their mother. Mrs. Mary Beard, at 1 Colston, one day last week. ' Mrs. Hattie Welsh, of Denmark, ] was a visitor at Mrs. J. B. Gillam's i Sunday. 1 YOL'XG MAX SHOOTS FATHER. ' Alleged to Have Done so in Defence of his Mother. Gaffney. March 14.?W. H. Bright is lying at the office of Dr. Pittman , in & critical condition from a gunshot wound through the bowels, fired by his son. Travis Bright, at the home of a Mr. Smart, in Gaffney this morning about 5 o'clock. The wounded man and his son 1 have been conducting a meat mar- < ket in what is known as West End for several months and have been|l doing a fairly good business, except < when Bright, Sr.. would take a i drunken spree, which, it is said, would be frequent, and at such times 1 he was very violent Yesterday he j was drinking, so the report goes, and 1 when his wife went to help her 1 daughter nurse a sick child he fol- i lowed her and ordered her to go 1 home at once. Travis Bright, who < is about twenty years of age and who 1 Is married, was at his sister's also, 1 When Mrs. Bright refused to go, it i is said that her husband struck her a t heavy blow in the face, which left a < deep mark, and when Travis attempt- < ed to interfere his father struck .him also. This was about 3 a. m. Mrs. Bright then went up-town and do- i manded protection from the police, i asking cnat she be locked in jail, as j she was afraid that her husband 1 would kill her. i She remained in the waiting room i at the station until almost 5 o'clock, I when her husband came upland per- : suaded her to go home. Mrs. Bright < refused to stop at home, but went to < Mr. Smart's, who lived near, where 1 she found Travis. It seems then < that Bright came up and accused 1 Travis of keeping his mother away j from home, and when the young man denied having done so, his father 3 slapped his face,, it Is reported, when 1 the young man shot him. Immedi ateiv after the shooting young i Bright went to the county Jail and s snrrendered to Sheriff Thomas. Tra- i is* has the repntatkm of being a quiet and sober young man. The in- ' testinee of the wounded man are j punctured in two or three places, < and if be recovers it will be most 1 remarkable. i -Drs. Steedley and Pittman have < been giving him surgical attention, i and everything possible is being done i for him. f i CHARGED WITH MURDER. The Man Who Deserted His Wife and ChlM. 1 Dr. J. H. Weeks, of Wegener, who 1 a few years ago deserted his wife 1 and children and went off with a young milliner, who had been work- ' ing at Wegener, is now under sos- 1 picion of having put the young woman he eloped with out of the way 1 by poisoning her. It is also thought 1 that he killed a little baby the err- 1 V lng woman bore for him. Weeks is now in the Spartanburg 1 Jail charged with bigamy, he having 1 married the young woman he is now 1 thought to have murdered in that 1 county. The people where Weeks 1 lived in Georgia under an assumed * LI A. ^ _L 1 _ - . . i uaae are ia*mg steps 10 ascertain II ' Weeks did not poison his wife and 1 baby. If they find that he did, he * will be taken orer there and tried for murder. It seems that after Dr. Hamilton, the name under which Weeks passed after deserting his wife and children and going off with the other woman, drifted back to Georgia and located \ at Morgan with his second wife, ? where he began the practice of medicine and built up a good business. This is where Weeks was arrested when brought back to the State. After the birth of a child at Morgan, Mrs. Hamilton died under suspicious circumstances, and also the child, but the people of that place suspected nothing, as his record was unknown to them at that time. But sow it seems that there is considerable SUSDicion about the matter, and . the indications are that he poisoned both the mother and child. It is reported that the body is to be exhumed and examined to see if t there is any foundation for this svs- a picion. Under the law Weeks will a sot receive punishment for desert- t [tog hie family, but if it can be \ proved that he poisoned his second c wife and baby to get rid of them, c ie will get what he deserves if it 1 can be proved. 1 There was $300 reward offered for t bis arrest, raised in the following 1 manner: The relatives of the first j Mrs. Weeks offered $100. the Gov- i crnor of the State $100, and the a Knights of Pythias of Wagener $100. t This money will be divided between v w * wr. j. a. lyier, me gentleman wno t recognized him in Morgan, and the s Sheriff of that county. l f TRAIN KILLS WHITE YOUTH t 1 AWFUL ACCIDENT AT ORANGEBURG TUKSDAY. rillnian Ritter Meets Hi* Death in Vain Kffort to Cross Track in Kront of Kngioe. Orangeburg. March 15.?Struck by a train at the Whitman street [Tossing just beyond the city of the Atlantic Coast Line railway. Tillman Ritter, a young man about 20 years Did. was instantly killed this morning. The young man was driving a wagon and had a stove to deliver to \ customer living out on the Five Chop road. Ritter was driving in the direction of the railroad crossing when he nv>t a negro who informed him that a train was coming and that he could not make the crossing. Young Ritter answered that he thought he could. As the mule crossed the track the engine i rushed into the wagon, completely demolishing it The posterior part Df Hitter's skull was crushed. The train was an extra No. 495, with Engineer Riley at the throttle and Capt Zeigler in charge. The regular passenger, the "shoofly," had gone and this extra was headed toward Sumter. The accident occurred at about 8.45 a. m. The acting coroner, Dr. Dempsey Hydrick. held the inquest The following verdict was rendered: "That Tillman Hitter came to his death from injuries received by accidental collision with railroad engine at Five Chop road crossing of extra train No. 495 on Atlantic Coast Line railroad at about 8.45 a. m., March 15." The deceased is the son of !sham Rltter, a mechanic of this city who lives on the corner of Doyle and Wiles streets. The family has the linoere sympathy of the whole community In the terrible tragedy visited upon them. Young Ritter was a good boy and! well liked. He had been employed it one of the beef markets up to a few days ago. Ritter was a member of the Baraca Bible class at the Orange mills chapel and was a'leader in the class. He was a member of the local military company, the Tillman Volunteers, having joined this company s week ago. Story Reads Like Romance. Tampa, Fla., March 18.?After passing through an experience which reads like a romance, Henry Baker, ui? mw wuu juQiyva irom A set* board train yesterday, between here ind Bradentown, turned np in Bradentown this moraine. He did jump from the train into the Manatee River, bnt managed to get rat of the water and walk to Manatee. There he took a host for ramps, and when the boat arrived U Bradentown he went ashore to get lome dry clothing. The boat left before he got back and he spent the night in Bradentown. This morning tie again missed the boat, and was so Bxdted he jumped into the river and tttempted to swim. But for assistuice he would have drowned. He is thought to be temporarily deranged. DEATH PACT EXECUTED. Husband and Wife, Tired of Ufe. Take Poison Together. Executing a death pact grim and resolute. Dr. Charles C. Benson, aged 73 and his wife, Isabell, aged 67, of Philadelphia, sat opposite each other it the breakfast table Sunday morning and drained two glasses containing poison, dying soon afterwards. When the apartment was entered, the loctor and his wife were found seated face to face, with their heads Irooping. Two notes were left on he table; one read: "My dear wife ind 1 decided that we do not wish o longer live. We committed collide.'' Fails to Soto Son's Life. Washington, March 13.?Although he father hurried to this city on a tpecial train from Baltimore and submitted to an operation for the ransfusion of his blood into the reins of his son, who was lying near leath's door with meningitis, Franis Hopkins, 7-year-old son of Lewis iopkins. grand nephew of Johns Jopkins, founder of the university bat bears his name, died to-day. rhe boy had lain in Providence hospital several weeks, and after subnittinz to two oDerations the nhv icians decided that a third operaion. with, the transfusion of blood, you Id save his life. After the operaion the boy rallied bnt death reulted from exhaustion following his ong illness. / $20.0041 KIRK IX DILLON. i Conflagration Visit* New Count/ Heat, Kntuiling Heavy Low. ? I DUlon. March 14.?A fire that started in one of Dillon s main business blocks at 12 o'clock last night, r destroyed $20,000 worth of proporty before it could be checked. The flames spread with alarming rapidity, and in less than two hours after the fire was discovered five business houses had been reduced to ashes. jdj Those who suffered from the lire . were: T. L. Bass, loss $2,000. no insurance; Dillon Automobile Gar- - ^ age. loss on building and machinery, ;."*3 $4,000. with $2,000 insurance; a store building owned by Mrs. Leu Hugglns and occupied by E. L. West- | bury, merchant, and Dr. B. M. Bad- " | ger, loss about $2,500, with only $400 insurance on Westbury's stock ? of merchandise; Blum Bros, loss about $10,000. with $4,000 insor* a nee on store building and merchantdin; the Dillon Herald and the Her- % aid Book Store. Ion on building, machinery and merchandise, abont J| $6,000. insurance $3,000, A new ? store building in course of construe- > JB tion and owned by Charlie Oaloeby, next to the Herald offlce, was slight- . f & ly damaged. For a time the entire block, on which are located the Mer- 3 chants' and Planters' Bank, Bell 4 ^ 1 Jordan's Jewelry store, and a hind- . ^ f some store building, owned by Blum . A Goldstein, was thratened with | destruction, bnt the progress of the . flames was stopped st the half completed building owned by 8aleeby. | This is the first serious fire that baa H visited Dillon in several years. The fire originated In the frame building i owner by Mrs. Hoggins and occupied by Mr. Weatbury. ^ NEW RACE ISSUE THREATENED.^ * Another Problem May Cbofront the Washington, Marsh 14.?The Jig House committee on immigration held y* its last hearing to-day on the bills J| proriding for an increase on the head M tax and an additional test tor Is- * ?| migrants, and to-morrow will rote > on them. Both propositions hare met with mnch opposition and ttm ote is expected to he dose. Representative Burnett, bono- ; V|p crat, of Alabama, told the comarittne today that nnleae the tide of final- | gratlon from Southern Europe to the '.wf Southern States should be cheeied ' | the South will hare a new race lane. ?31 ^ on Its hands. He declared that the a Jg negro had no respect for the Italian, J| and that the pretence of the tse "? ^ races In the South complicated the . V situation and made it even more - || difficult to deal with than it is at 1 present. SUITS TO RECOVER LARDS. S Rewlatton of Be?tor TOR? Pro- _ If Washington, March 14.?The do- " -JS partment of justice sent a report to' the 8enate to-day to the effect tha? ^ yiuvccuiu^b uw ucvn inwronw w | recover lands told under the Oregon >M and California Railroad Company'a M land grant, and that the suits had 0 been directed against both the railroad and the purchasers of the lands. ' ;| It was stated that the conditions of J the grants had been violated in many / J instances, and that the lands should ' \ be recovered by the Government ! The report was made in response to M the resolution introduced by Senator -.j Tillman, on January 24 last, and by ^ ; Senator Chamberlain more than a f|| ' year ago, for information concerning what action bad been taken by the J| Government. The Government ft* : jfort was made by Assistant Attorney -*?j j General James R. Fowler, who ~ | showed that under the Govormeut | grants, 3,137,090 acres was received M by the railroad. Of this amount 820,000 acres were sold and 2?117/? 000 acres are still claimed under the J grant '9 Mr. Fowler says that the reetrtc tions made by the Goverment con- . ceruing the sale of the land had bean violated, in that the sales amounted i to more than the prescribed limit of ^jfl 160 acres to each person. The purchasers are 5,306 in number, and it is shown that 383.000 acres have J been sold in lots exceeding 1,000 ^ acres each. To Run for Congress. i It is reported that Hon. C. W. Gar- j| ris, of Denmark, will run for congress this year, opposing Congressman Pat tenon. This news will be received with interest by the many friends of Mr. Garris in this county, who will feel sorry they are not in the second district so they could rote for him.? *9 Walter bo ro Press and Standard. jj