The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 24, 1910, Page 6, Image 6
MILAM CONVICTED OF AS88AULT.
Lmbdm County Man Who Shot Wih
Ham Irbjr, Found Guilty.
Laurens. March 15.?In the criminal
court, now in session here. Parrott
Milam, the young farmer who
hot and almost fatally wounded William
M. Irby. as the latter was returning
from Sunday-school on November
7 last, was this afternoon
convicted of assault and battery with
Hltent #a Vltl TV? 1 ?
Immmm? w ?iu. iuc jury ITIU' ucu &
verdict of "guilty in eleven minutes.
Fending- notice of motion for new
trial, sentence was not passed. Thus
ends, at this term at least, one of
the most Important cases, as well as
veil as one of the greatest interest,
that win oome up at this session.
- the trial of this case was entered
Into during the morning and was concluded
this afternoon. From first
to hit the court room was literally
pUthsd. Richey 6 Richey conducted
the .defence, while Solicitor Cooper
appeared tor the 8tate. 8ix witnesses,
Including two physicians and
Hr. Irby himself, were put up by the
Slats. The defence introduced four,
kla
p- iMuermuu uiviuer,
Gg \' lad an ancle, John P. May.
For the provocation It wis shown
that Milam accosted Irby as he was
K'f \ 9Mlh| the Milam home In a boggy.
P< laughter, the defendant coming out
v?';!^ with shotgon In ****** and declaring
tired of Irby running II
Sfe Mr his folks, and that he was going
r. ' pgr > la kS h!mr and instantly carried his
threat into execution. Irby was shot II
J'fiPr- ^ ^ ^ ^ charge tearing away
IflP Hp entire ecalp and fracturing the
akulL As Irby realised what was
|g v eiimlag, he leaned forward to protect
10- thababy and cried to Milam not to
Wh gfe ' tit contention of the defence was
Is, the elect that Irby called Milam
KErafc'- he the road and, after cursing him,
? he was going 'to frail the life
I ii> that Milam told htm he
I .Rgi - iwiwtad no trouble, bat got hie gun.
thinking the act would cause Irby to
in on; tkit when Irby started to
8R-Er ??t a pistol bo then fired to
? wen himself. '
|P ^ L' m
-Wen on a town ait atrikinflj ttloatnted
lor tka worklnga of tka prokikl0ea
law in Wilmington, tke leading
Wjk^: " Haatk Carolina aaaport, laat year.
law went Iqto effeet tkere JanBlBfy
?My and urtapa In no otkor
H^^^lMaA* Tka raanlta nit that tka
^ ' tammed** year before; in apite of
' aaota of tnaanlty; bank dtpoalta ahew
? tka remarkable lacunae from $Tr
ig;1. HMH to IMMiW for tka tingle
Eposter this tor any
Mtten dty except
Is abo prohibition);
ntfldlng permits sad
1 a $100 license tax
x for ahooli), the
I itdaeed I cents on
ag rid of th? +hlsstW
suffers from it
lalmitilii lesdsrshlp
a jj^es^"*^ProgrbHtre
va, MarellS.?Ftrs
the State Industrial
it lato open revolt
threatened to dodings,
mi? Battle
matron, telephoned
stored when eight
BKrV |M^ twitw of tki Institution, wore
locked ?p for ten days in the Polk
|| county Jail otter pleading to rioting
end destroying Stole property. Detent
to the lost the girlo declared that
they would rather be ioeprteoned in a
dirty eqalid Jail than to Ure in the
eare of Woo Hattie Oarrison. superintendent
of the reformatory. Got.
Oorroll to-night ordered an inquiry of
the oehoch'i management.
InTIti Pines ITl?fif
te. Stotier. police judge in Wellington,
Kan., arraigned himself in his
own oonrt this week on a charge of
dbtnrbiag the pence after he hod
taught with J. L Ferguson, a tailor,
| In the street Immediately after the
fight Stotier summoned himself to
$ eonrt
-Hare yon been fighting?" he
naked himself.
"Tea," he answered himself. "But,
v lodge, I"?
"Tut, tot," interrupted the judge,
"in fine yon $5 and costs."
Ferguson was then arraigned by
Judge 8totler, and fined the same
amosat The fight started orer a
t ^ wivw i
About Forenoon. I
CHARLESTON TO BE OIL STATION
One of Seven Where Oil Burning
Boat* Will Replenish.
Washington, March 16.?It was
announced at the navy department
to-day that plans had been pefected
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tur roiaousiung seven on stations in
anticipations of the new vessels of
the navy, which will use oil as fuel
hereafter. These seven stations are
to be located at Charleston. San
Diego. Norfolk. Bradford. R. I., Key
West. San Juan, and Guantanamo.
The installation of these stations is
under the bureau of y rds and docks.
They will be big oil tanks, such as
are used for the commercial storage
of crude oil. They will set far
enough Inland to protect them from
attack by sea and will be connected
with the water front by an underground
pipe line, so that a vessel can
hitch on and take her supply of fuel
like a baby at a nursing bottle. The
oil will either flow by gravity or there
wiU be a pumping station to force it
Into the vessel's tanks, The scheme
of using oil originated with the British
navy ten years ago. 8everal British
torpedo boats were equipped for
oil burning. It was found that the
steaming radius was increased about
10 per cent, at full speed and 15 per
cent at ordinary cruising speed.
There were a number of rtM? w
tween vessels equipped with oil and
coal from Gibraltar to Plymouth.
Theee races included the time taken
in coalinc and ollinf. It is proposed
to put these seven stations in operations
as soon as possible.
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News from Barnwell.
[Barnwell. Sentinel.]
Mr. H. D. Free, of Bamberg, was
here on business last Friday.
Capt Russell Wright and Ueut
Bamberg, of Bamberg, were in town
on business last Thursday.
Col W. 0. Tatum, of Orangeburg,
and Capt. Russel Wright, of Bamberg,
have been in the city for a few days
on business.
We understand that the committee
appointed to select a site for the new
hotel has not as yet made any definite
decision, but that they will have a
report ready for the directors within
the nest few days.
Architects and contractors were
here on Monday to confer with the
oftdals of the Home Bank in regard
to the new bank building. 80 far as
we can learn no bid has been accepted
while several have been received.
It is thought however that work on
the new bank building will begin
within the very near future.
Hon. and Mrs. J. O. Patterson re
turned from Florida on Tuesday,
where they both went for the benefit
of their health. Mr. Pattoraon called
oa na Toeeday afternoon looking as
well as we ever saw him, and be
stated to ns that the few days refit
he had been able to secure had been
of inestimable benefit to him. He
states that he feels as well as he
ever did and that he was not near so
sick when the grippe had him as
some of the Washington correspondents
to the dally papers made it appear.
He says that he Is In fine trim
for work for the balance of the aeesk>s
and that he will return to Washington
In the near future. It win be
a source of tench gratification to his
host of friends and admirers thronghoat
the district to know that he la
now In enceOent health.
A M?* "Famine.
It is coming, in feet it is already in
sight, hearing and feeling. Western
dealers say that the hogs on the foot
will soon sell for It cents per pound.
The total stock of pure lard In 5
western points Is about 54.000 tierces
leas than last year. The stock of meats
averages from one-quarter to one-half |
of what was reported last year at this
time. The shortage of live hogs
amounts?to nearly 7,000,000. while
the shortage in hogs killed since Nov.
1st, is about S.000,000.
- Where They Got Down.
/'Among the gambling stories that
the late Pat Sheedy used to tell in his
art shop,** said a New York reporter,
"was one about a jackpot.
"A beautiful young bride, the story
ran, entered a corner grocery one
morning and said:
" 'Have von cot any iaekoota. Mr.
Sands.' 'No ma'am,' 8and8 answered,
and he hid a smile behind his hand.
'I've got teapots and coffee pots, bat
jackpots I don't stock.'
*"0h, dear!' mid the bride. A
frown wrinkled her smooth and beautiful
brow. 'I'm so sorry! Yon see,
Mr. Sands, my husband's mother used
to cook for him. and nearly every
night be talks in his sleep about a
jackpot So I thought I'd get one.
for. since be mention* it an often he
must be used to it Coald you tell
me, Mr. Sands, what they cook in
Jackpots?'
"4Greens, ma'am/ wan the quick
answer.'"?Detroit Free Press.
NEGROES BURNED TO DEATH.
Flames Destroy Main Baildirg of
Harbesoa College at Abbeville.
Abbeville. March 17.?Three negro
boys perished this morning in a
fire, evidently of incendiary origin,
which totally destroyed the main
building of Harbeson <*oh?ge. The
fire began about 3 f'cloct
About 40 of the b'js siept in this
building. Most of tnem escaped by
jumping from the second story windows,
but three were burned to death
before they could make their escape.
They were: Carl Duckett, of Charlotte,
N. C.; Sam Jenkins, of Carlisle,
and Ed DuBose, of Lamar. Five
others were seriously injured. Three
have broken arms and two broken
legs.
President Young of the college says
the building was falling in before
any one got to it or knew of the Are.
All say that the fumes of kerosene
were all about.
The home of President Young also
was set on fire, the back door and ;
steps being considerably charred.
Kerosene had been thrown all oyer
the door and steps. This Are was put
by the boys after they escaped from <
the other Are.
Drs. Oambrell and Neuffer were
'phoned for while the Are was going :
on and were the Arst white people on
tho iMtia
wtwww wi jfwyiv IUITC
been out to tee the mine and all eon- <
demn the deed in the strongest terms. <
Harbeson college is a school for negroes,
controlled and financed by <
white people of Pittsburg. Pa. Some
years ago there was trouble here with !
a former president of the school, but ;
since Young has been here everything <
has been working smoothly.
The fire of this morning Is the 1
worst thing that has happened in this
community In years and every effort 1
is being made to apprehend the guil- !
ty parties. 1
Insurance Commissioner McMaster <
has been communicated with by tele- 1
phone and has promised to send his
deputy here at once. I
At a mass meeting of 150 citizens, i
resolutions expressing sympathy for 1
the college authorities and condemn- i
ing the burning of the building were 1
passed. The meeting also formally <
offered the assistance of citizens in
apprehending the fire fiend, and requested
that city council offer a reward
for the capture of the criminal. ]
The resolution concluded with the
direction that the chairman appoint a
committee to solicit subscriptions for 1
the employment of a detective to t
track down the perpetrator, and for 1
the employment of a guard to protect
the remaining buildings as long 1
as may be necessary..
The meeting was presided over by 1
W. W. Bradley, who appointed on the ;
committee of three J. Hayne McDill, 1
F. B. Gary, and 8heriff Lyon. 1
City council has offered a reward of 1
9100, which will be raised by private 1
subscription to $300. Gov. Ansel will 1
be asked to offer a $1,000 reward.
Shot Bride mad fftiaertf
Cincinnati, March 17.?"When
they wouldn't let me kin my baby,
that settled it Then I fired."
Thus Albert Scherer explained why
he shot his 17-year-old bride to-day
as she lay in bed at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Charles Wnerster, here.
The victim probably will die as one
bullet entered her head just back of
the left ear. The other bullet entered
her left arm.
Scherer claims he also tried to end
his own life but failed because the
bullets glanced off his head. An abrasion
of the left forehead and powdermarks,
as well as a bullet hole
through his hat, indicates that the
man did try to commit suicide. \
The shooting is the culmination of
uasiy maxn&ge. 1
Bertha Wuerster was not yet 17
and had known 8oherrer who, is 22,
bnt a week when they were married
a little over a year afo.
"Sharper Thaw a Serpent's Tooth."
An irritable old farmer and his ungainly,
slouching son were busy
grubbing sprouts one hot, sultry day,
when the old man suddenly stumbled
ore? a small stump.
"Gosh durn that ererlastin* stump!"
he exclaimed. "I wish it was in
hell!"
The son slowly straightened up
from his work and gazed reproachfully
at his father.
"Why, you oughtn't to say that
pap." he drawled. "You might stumble
ore.- that stump ag'in some day."
?Everybody's.
Spectacular Suicide.
Indianapolis, March 17.?As Mrs.
Rnv TlmKnlt waitAil mm ?Ka ._ii.
wm VH VUO MUC W AAH |
in front of the National hotel for her <
husband to come down stairs, he <
dived from a fourth floor window and 1
struck head first on the flagging in a
front of her. last night. i
The woman did not swoon, hut a
stood stock still, staring aU the crumpled
bleeding body. Men hurried to i
raise Umholt, but he was dead. His a
wife said he had been morose and t
often had threatened suidde. i
WILL INVESTIGATE FIRE.
Insurance Depot; Wharton Sent to
Abbeville.
Columbia. March 18.?Commissioner
McMastcr has notified B. A.
Wharton, insurance deputy, to go to
Abbeville and investigate the causes
of the fire there early yesterday.
Mayor Pro-tem Henry phoned Mr.
McMaster, and stated he thought the
fire was of incendiary origin. Mr.
Wharton, who was at home, on account
of sickness in his family, will
leave for Abbeville some time to-day,
to look into the situation there.
At the fire in Abbeville vesterrUv
the College there was burned and
three students were cremated. It is
thought some one set the building on
lire.
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MEAN LIQUOR; TWO DEAD.
Railroad Workmen Shot to Pieces In
Fatal Pistol Duel.
Marion. March 19.?Kit Williams
and John Glenn, two negro workmen,
are dead as a result of a duel near
Zion. about eight miles from Marion.
At that place there is a construction
camp for the North and South Carolina
Railroad, which is being built
from Hamlet to Mullins, and a great
many negroes are employed on the
work. On yesterday a large quantity
of whiskey was shipped into the
camp, and as a result the negroes became
drunk, and in an altercation
between Kit Williams and John
Glenn, both parties were literally shot
to pieces. At the inquest it was
found that each man had been struck ?
from four to six times, and that the calibre
of the pistols were 38 and 41.
It seems that there were no eyewitnesses
to the tragedy, the participants
having gone some distance from
the camp before the shooting began.
For some time negro women of loose
character have been coming into the
camp, and it is supposed that these.
rf+K ttia
m?v ueuwue vi uie iiifuur,
were the direct cause of the double
killing. All negroes examined at the
Inquest denied any knowledege of
the affair, and no arrests hare been
made, as it appears that no one bolides
the two victims were connected
with the shooting.
BECOMING RECKLESS.
Present Generation Now is Sold to
Have Foresworn Thrift.
We hare ceased to be thrifty. The s
nearest approach most of us make to
that virtue is to get our banks to let
us overdraw our accounts.
The fathers have eaten grapes and
the children are eating grapefruit
We used to buy apples by the barrel;
now we buy them as we would buy
lewels, each in its separate wrapper.
We used to eat pot roasts; now we
must have porterhouse steaka Our
wives used to help the general housework
girl with the cooking; now we
need two maids, a laundress and a
man to wash windows. When we
were boys we did chores and wore >ur
father's old clothes; nowadays
the American boy needs an allowance,
dockings that match his neckties and
l tuxedo Jacket We used to think
it an extravagance to keep a hunIred-and-fifty
dollar horse and a
hundred-dollar buggy; now we buy
in automobile and mortgage our
house to pay for it
"Easy come, easy go," was the old
- - -
souui hi; come, gone oerore it
comes," is the modern.
One chief cause of high prices is
trust?our creditor's trust Everybody
wants to sell us something and
charge it to our account So we accommodate
them and acquire a habit
>f reckless expenditure. What difference
does it make whether eggs are
E5 cents or 80 cents a dosen, if we
to not have to pay cash for them?
We are spendthrifts in the midst of a
credit system orgy. When we sober
ip prices will come down.
Mill Engineer Killed.
8partanburg, March 17.?R. W.
Rogers, engineer at the mill of the
Valley Palls Manufacturing company,
lied this morning at 6 o'clock as the
result of a wound in the head with a
rock thrown by Emory Bishop Wedlesday
evening. Bishop and his
crother-in-law. Andy Teague, fled immediately
upon the occurrence of the
aragedy and have not been seen since.
Iftrmmf J fi Ttirtia. ?.?*
w. w> miuvi Weill IAI > anc/
Palls this morning and held an ininest
over the dead body of Rogers. _
The testimony is that Wednesday
nrening when the mill closed down at
1.20 o'clock, Rogers and Andy q
reagne came oat of the mill together. 4
rhey were fussing about an account ^
reagne owed Rogers, Rogers claim- tl
ng that it was about 50 cents and n
Teague claiming that it was not so 5,
nuch. About this time Emery Bish- n
>p. a brother-in-law of Teague's, 4
ime out of the mill. When he saw a
iow the fuss was going he picked up -g
i rock and threw it at Rogers. The 4,
t>ck struck Rogers in the left temple 8j
ind felled him to the earth. m
Rogers was a hard working, highly
espected man. He leaves a wife and
isversl children. He was insured in tl
he Woodmen of the World and car- al
led some other protection. m
jNo More T
% with that automobile, bicycle, gun c
A have me to put it in flnt-dan repair
j prepared to do your work aa anyone
V cities, and my prices are about twice
A also have in stock a well selected lin
J AUTOMOBILE & BICYC
j which I will sell to you at closest pri
41 what you need I will get it for you i
if, the next one. When in need of any
g ' don't forgfet me. \I1 work goarante
Jj. B. BRI<
2 The Repair Kan.
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The ginning hmob Is now about over,
have the engine and boiler and ginning
Hon for next season's work so that then
"starting op" with the first bale. Let
Works take yonr plant in hand, patting it 1
and save yon dollars and trouble both,
paying oat the caah for the work when 4
about It, and, "ton to one," they win mai
the work done before the rash, and pay ft
do no haras to inqnire abont It anyway.
The Denmark Machine Works, Denmark
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Farms in small and large tra<
^ residences, mercantile
mill sites, sale stables,
propositions, at low figures
terms. Descriptive list sent
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We beg to cell your Ktertto to
fountain, which we have ittmtilf
have also ores healed our entire i
?da It lathing to the Boot feetirti
We hate a well selected Une of Va
Sole agents for the fiimnns Hnjrler1
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Doc Gonrtaef Wanted. Where
Orangeburg. March 18. ? Doc A ttory
ourtney, a young white man of this **
ity, has disappeared from town. 1? M excb
lias Sallie Enalow. a daughter of the She waa
uperintendent of the Orange cotton it *** her
tills, is also missing. A warrant has r*l*tlves.
een sworn out before C. P. Brunson. crowds
laristrate, charging Courtney with ^er over s
bduction. The warrant was taken ** patlentl;
at by the father of the girl. The asked
Irl who is alleged to have been ab- *er awhile
ucted Is under 16 years of age. Con- fauntlet <
Abies are trying to locate Courtney Uncle Tom
ad bring him hack to this city. y?u ou*
Outside
The young folks had a dance in shook her
le town hall last Friday evening, she said. "
tter the entertainment at the graded And U?
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outside the larger J ?
as reasonable. I 9
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lust as prompt as 9
thing in my line
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erted her rights is related
ange. : 1
i only three years old. sad
first visit to 4 number of
Aunts, uncles and cone*
ed around her and hissed
nd over again. 8he stood
r and gave every kiss that
for without demur. Af?
(, when she had ran the
of affectionate relatives,
said. "Now, baby. Ill take
see the cow."
the door she stopped and
little head. "Uncle Tom,"
'I won't kiss the cow!"
cie Tom took pity on her
it insist