The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 07, 1910, Page 7, Image 7
NEGRO SUSPECT ARRESTED.
I May Know Something About Murder
of Dr. Hickman.
Augusta, Ga., April 2.?A negro,
James Mathis, is in the custody of
the police to-night, held because it is
^ suspected that he has knowledge of
the assassination, in February, of
Dr. C. W. Hickman. The negro today
went into the pawnshop of Max
Tunkle, on upper Broad street, and
offered to pawn a watch. The clerk
to whom he applied for the loan,
when he saw the watch and appreci7
ated that it was a valuable timepiece,
made an investigation. He
says he compared it with the numbers
given as the numbers on
the watch Dr. Hickman had on
at the time of the murder,
which has been missing since
the murder, and he told the
i newspaper reporters to-night that
the numbers corresponded. The
negro was gotten to the police barracks
as quickly as possible. He is
there under a sweating process at the
hands of the chief and his lieutenant.
The officers refuse to let reporters
interview the prisoner, and also refuse
to make any statment for publication
at this time.
" l
Bamberg Must Have Road.
; i
The Bamberg correspondent of
The State writes as follows of the
railroad situation here:
Bamberg, April 2.?The question
* of extending the railroad from Ehrhardt
to this point is assuming proportions
of interesting size. Bamberg
is out to win the fight for the
road if it is to be built and that it
will be built is felt certain. A letter
* 'v has been received from a prominent
citizen of Orangeburg which shows
the attitude towards the project as
viewed in that city. They state that
they are ready and able to co-operate
Wltn tne Citizens OI cms tviuiuuuii,;
in having the road built and are
ready to send a committee to confer
with a like committee from Bamc
berg, which two committees will confer
with the people of the Ehrhardt
section. The fact that the cham'
bers of commerce of Augusta, Columbia
and other cities are looking
at the scheme with so much favor,
leads one to the conclusion that the
Atlantic Coast Line road or some
other road will take up the work in
the near future. This road would
open up a section badly bottled up
at present
The people of Bamberg are in
earnest about the matter. One prominent
gentleman of this community
has offered to give his certified check
for $1,500 if the road is brought
here, and says that he will give twice
as much as as any other man tor the
. building of the road. There are others
here who think very much like
i?i? man and Are willine to ' bring I
out the cash for the upbuilding of
the town.
^ . There has been something like
$25,000 spent for automobiles in this
town during the past 18 months. It
* is believed that fully that amount
could be obtained for more permanent
investments here, such as the
railroad. In fact three years ago
[ stock for such a road as is now pro"
posed was subscribed to the amount
of $15,000.
Bamberg wants the road and will
have it if it is to be built.
"Commission" Won in Columbia, j
Columbia, April 2.?By a vote of
1,310 to 68, Columbia, to-day adopt>
ed the commission form of government.
The result was not unexpect'
ed, but the very large majority is re*
garded favorably by the earnest advocates
of the system.
The vote was as follows:
, For Against
Ward 1 323 11
? - ? OAA 1A
wara z omv *v
Ward 3 280 7
Ward 4 352 9
"Ward 5 55 31
Columbia will do away with the
old system, consisting of a Mayor,
elected at large, and fifteen aldermen,
elected three from each of the
five wards, and will substitute a
* mayor anr four councilmen all elected
at large. After election the five
? departments of the city government
will be assigned by the mayor each
to one of the five memebers of council,
including the mayor, who shall respectively
be responsible for his own
department. The mayor is to receive
a salary of $2,500 per year,
and each of the councilmen $2,000.
* The terms of office are four years,
all appointments to city offices are
to be made by council from a civil
^ service list, prepared by a civil service
commission after proper qualifications.
Heavy penalties are provided
for promising or giving jobs or
money for political service, before or
after any election.
F. S. Earle, a former mayor, and
TTT tr niHhoa nniintv Auditor are
candidates for mayor.
Some youngsters we suppose
amused themselves last Thursday
night by changing some of the signs
around town.
|*
SMALL GIRL WOUNDED.
Little Mary Connor, of McCormic, Accidentally
Shot.
McCormic, April 3.?Mary Connor,
the ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. Connor, was accidentally
shot and seriously wounded Friday
by a school mate, Wyatt Chamberlain,
while on a walk on the outskirts
of the town.
j Miss Lucile Conner, one of the
| high school teachers, at the request
of some of the pupils of the sixth and
seventh grades, consented to chap
eron mem. me party wnicn sue
chaperoned consisted of girls from
these grades and a few girls from the
fifth, one of whom was May Connor.
They went to a nearby creek for an
afternoon of pleasure. While at the
creek they were approached by four
of the boys of the school, who had
a gun with them.
On the return trip, the supposedly
empty gun was fired, in some unknown
way, the whole load taking
effect in the little girl's thigh. Drs.
Jennings and Mattison made a thorough
diagnosis of the wound and decided
to carry her to Augusta to the
hospital for immediate attention. Dr.
R. F. Jennings, the attending physician
accompanied her to Augusta
yesterday morning.
Senate Digs Into Scandal.
Jackson, Miss., April 1.?The Mississippi
senate delved deep into the
affairs of State Senator Theodore
Bilbo to-day. Continuing their investigation
of his alleged bribery at
the hands of L. C. Dulaney, the
Delta planter, and former member
of the legislature, his fellow legislators
had Filbo relate, first, the circumstances
of a visit he is said to
have made to a questionable resort
in the hope of meeting Dulaney and
arranging the preliminaries of the
vote sale. This occupied the morning
session.
In the afternoon Senator Letwich,
acting as cross-examiner, went back
to Bilbo's college days and asked if
it were not true that he was expelled
from a university for cheating at an
examination. The charge had been
preferred, Bilbo explained, but he was
exonerated. The witness admitted
that at one time he was charged with
the embezzlement of small amounts
but subsequently the charge was
withdrawn. The questioning finally
drifted to legislation in which Bilbo
has taken a more or less prominent
part, but without the development
of material facts.
The senate was in session again
to-night behind locked doors.
Orangeburg Mill Shuts Down.
When the present stock is worked
up at the cotton mill of the Orangeburg
Mfg. Co., the announcement
is given out that the mill will be
closed down for six weeks, and perhaps
longer, all depending on the
price of the staple, and the price of
the manufactured article, it is stated
that there is a loss to the mill of $15
per bale, and the mill has been orJ
^ J 4/v AI/vma O m K/jtfoi*
UCICU IV UUOC UUUI I.UV1V mv uvv?v>
prospects in view.
Col. W. G. Smith has just returned
from a trip to the north, and in comment
on the situation he states that
he has never before seen anything to
equal the present situation in the
mill business. Col. Smith, who is
president of the Orangeburg Mfg.
Co., has been in the mill business for
thirty years, and has passed through
several panics, but never before has
the situation been so acute as the
present. Col. Smith has at all
times hiterto been able to keep
his mills in operation, at least
for a portion of every week,
but for a full shut down, he
has never yet been compelled to resort.
Cotton is now being sold the mills
for prices above 15 cents, and it is
truly in the hands of the speculators,
and in the words of Col. Smith, the
manipulators are "killing the goose
which laid the golden egg." Other
mills in the South are in the same
predicament as the local mill finds
itself, and on his return from the
North, Col. Smith visited several of
the up country mill towns and at one
mill he found a stock of 5,000 bales
of cloth manufactured at a loss of
$15 per bale. For this reason the
president and directors of the local
mill have decided to shut down for
the present at least, and they will
not again begin operation until the
price of the manufactured article
takes an advance in price, or cotton
drops somewhat in price.
The Orange Mills, the yarn mill
located here, has been shut down
for a week or more now, but this
has been for the purpose of installing
a new engine. As soon as this
work has been completed, the mill
is expected to begin operations
again, hut will probably run on short
time. The price of yarn manuractured
by this mill, has not made any
advance, either, and the mill while it
is able to continue running, is not
making any money, it is stated.?
Orangeburg Evening News.
%
MANY IDLE SPINDLES.
Greatest Curtailment Known is Now
in Progress.
Boston, Mass., March 30.?Fifty
per cent, of the spindles in Southern
cotton mills are idle, according to
statistics which have been assembled
by the American Wool and Cotton
Reporter.
The figures show that the curtailment
now in progress, not only in the
South, but in all sections of the
country, both North and South, is
more extensive and drastic than has
ever been known in the history or tne
trade, even taking into consideration
the panic year of 1907. The
greatest curtailment comes among
the yarn mills, although restriction
of production among weaving mills
is greater than ever% before. Mill
after mill is closing down entirely
until new cotton arrives or market
conditions improve, while with the
majority of others the amount of
curtailment varies from 20 to 100
per. cent, with many mills running on
orders only. The followingfl are the
percentages of spindles idle by
States:
Alabama 36 per cent; South Carolina
31; North Carolina 49; Georgia
80; Tennessee 80; Virginia 60; Mississippi
63. Figures for the New
England states have not been completed.
The Boy Who is Most to be Pitied.
The very reading of the title suggests
the little fellow of the street,
who is knocked about and cuffed at
the place he calls home, and is dirty
and unkempt and untaught. But?is
he the most to be pitied, after all?
A successful Dusiness man was
talking frankly the other day to a
visitor. This business man had accumulated
money in abundance. But
he leaned over his desk a weary,
heart-heavy man. To the visitor he
frankly confided that his older son
had gone wild; and then he said:
"And there is my other boy, now
sixteen. Only a few dayB ago a
friend warned me that this boy was
going with a wild crowd. Whereupon
I put down the names of the
boys he was going with, and I find
that the crowd is made up of a minister's
son, a merchant's son, a phyclan's
son?each man standing at the
very head of his group in the city.
If those boys are not fit chums for my
boy, where on earth will I find fit
chums?" Ad the great body trembled
and the eyes filled with tears.
Mark it: This was not a gang of
friendless street boys, but a group
of wealthy boys. And two nights
late the same visitor sat in the home
of one of the boys mentioned. The
telephone bell rang, the boy was
called to the instrument, and accepted
an appointment to go to the theatre
with a chum, who should call
for him in his automobile. The boy
was fifteen years old. No word was
offered to the parents to to tell them
even of his destination, and they
asked for no information aside from
that they heard from the telephone
conversation.
What a harvest there will De irom
that sowing! A wealthy boy of that
type has not even a fighting chance
to come out all right Pity the street
boy, we may, but, at least, he early
learns something of the art of selfpreservation,
and it often pulls him
through. Not so with the pampered
wealthy boy. Money buys his way
everywhere?why should he be anxioua
about the future? If he wants
anything, he gets it. Can there be
any more mischievous preparation
for life?
While the Church is awakening to
the needs of the boy on the street,
let us not forget the needs of the
wealthy man's son, when that son is
unwisely pampered and spoiled. He,
too needs a friend that will save him
from his folly.?Sunday-School Magazine.
Asylum Committee Appointed.
Columbia, April 1.?Dr. J. W.
Babcock, superintendent of the State
HosDital for the Insane; Dr. Robert
Wilson, Jr., chairman of the state
board of health; Judge R. O. Purdy,
Dr. Geo. Cromer, a well known educator,
and Leroy Springs, a successful
financier, were to-day appointed
by Gov. Ansel as members of the
commission provided for by a resolution
of the last general assembly to
purchase lands and erect buildings
to relieve the congested conditions
at the State Hospital for the Insane.
The commission is authorized to
borrow $ 100,000 for the State to carry
on the work. The commission is
to receive $5 a day and expenses
while engaged in the work. The
commission will report the results
of its work to the next general assembly
?' ' J ?Vl-V 4V1M
Tne resolution unuer wmcu tma
commission was appointed was a
compromise between the minority
and the majority report of the asylum
investigating committee.
We never did like this idea of going
hungry in order to help those
who are suffering because of their
own Ignorance.
LAWYER'S PHONEY FEE.
Bank Cashier and Treasury Experts
Took ir as Good.
A noted lawyer of one of the
Southern States, famous not only for
his brilliant mind and legal ability,
but also for his rigid code of honesty,
used to tell this story on himself,
says The New York Herald.
Soon after the civil war the judge
was called on to defend a man accused
o? passing counterfeit money.
The old lawyer after investigating
the matter and satisfying himself
thfcs the man was innocent of any
intent to do wrong and had only paid
out money which he had received in
good faith, undertook the case.
When the case came up for trial the
jury was so impressed by the Judge's
plea for his client and his explanation
of the circumstances that a verdict
of not guilty was rendered without
delay.
The acquitted man was very grateful
to the Judge, and after thanking
him profusely for getting him out of
the ugly scrape, said:
"Judge, I'll never forget what
you've done for me, and some day I
hope to be able to prove my gratitude;
but the only thing I can do now
is to pay your fee, and I'll pay whatever
you ask. How much it is?"
"Well, I think about $1,000 will
be fair," replied the judge.
"That's fair enough, sir," agreed
the client, "but, judge the only money
I've got is the same kind of money
that I have just been prosecuted for
spending. Some of that money is ,
good and some of it is the counterfeit
that was worked ofT on me, and
I don't know t'other from which.
Now, I will pay you $1,500 in the
bills that I have got and you do the
best you can with it."
As there seemed nothing else to
do, the judge agreed to this, and the
client paid him $1,500 in bills and
left him.
The judge took the $1,500 to his
bank and explained the circumstances
to the cashier and asked him to take
out the bills which he as an expert
pronounced good. The cashier did
so, and the judge deposited the accepted
bills to his credit, and then
taking the package of doubtful money
to another bank he made the same
explanation and request of the cashier,
the bank receiving on deposit the
money, which, as experts, they pronounced
good.
"And do you know," said the
Judge, "after I had visited six banks
I had got rid of all the money except
five $20 bills, which all the
banks had agreed were counterfeit,
and my fee in the case instead of being
the $1,000 which I originally
charged the man netted me $1,400,
and I've always had a suspicion that
if there had been a few more experts
in the town I would have got rid of
those last five $20 bills."
"What became of the five bad
twenties?" some one asked the
judge.
"I'm not sure," replied the old
lawyer. "My wife asked me for them
and shortly afterward she made a
trip to Washington. When she returned
she showed me a brand new
hundred dollar bill, which she said
she had got at the United States
treasury?but I never asked her any
questions. I knew the treasury department
had experts, too."
Took the Wrong Bottle.
Danville, Va., March 30.?As a result
of mistaking a bottle of carbolic
acid for whiskey, J. Luther Abbott,
a clerk in a tobacco ware house here,
killed himself this afternoon at a
house in the Craighead street section.
Abbott had a bottle of whiskey
on a bureau and beside it was anhnftle
labelled whiskev. but
containing the poison which he drank
He died in terrible agony in thirty
minutes. Abbott was thirty-two
years old, and leaves a widow and
two children.
i
Showing the Right Spirit.
How earnestly the need of a railroad
from Bamberg to Ehrhardt is
felt is illustrated by the remark of a
"prominent business man" to The
Bamberg Herald that "he will give
$1,500 to get the new railroad"?and
he does not mean that he will subscribe
for stock of that amount, but
will make a donation outright of the
sum. This gentleman, so The Herald
says, goes further and declares
that he will give twice as much as
any other man in Bamberg to get
the road.
The distance from Bamberg to
Ehrhardt is 16 miles and if the gentleman
quoted by The Herald is representative
of the prevailing senti
ment about the undertaking, the road
will be built. It ought to be built.
This section of the country that it
would penetrate is too fertile and it
is inhabited by people too intelligent
and progressive to remain isolated.
?Columbia State.
Perhaps they call it "revision
downward" because our chance of
getting justice from the trust is made
smaller. ,
'
M IOT~~K
II Reckling is I
UW. A. RECKLING, the famou
Columbia is coming to Bamberj
and his dates are
THURSDAY, FRIDAY,
April 14th, 15th, aid
Everybody in this part of the
fine work Reckling does, but ss
are now on exhibition at The I
I Call and see what really fine v
| prices are reasonable, too.
He will be located in the galle
building, on Bamberg Street, I
three days, THURSDAY, PRH
J DAY, APRIL 14th, 15th, and 1<
1 portunity to get fine photograpl
wife or baby, or other member
get him to do your work while 1
be a long time before you agai
, tonity of getting such high-grat
M Remember he will be here for
Vfrl??101?1<
n~ v?. i
$uu iuu Line in
it
it
!!
I \ and Most' Stylish Mitt
Novelties, Silks, and
B least money. Call c
15
| i are better prepared t<
$ than ever.
:: i
tt
II MRS. K. I. SHU
:: BAMBERG, S.
immmmmmmm
! JNO. W.
is Thanking you for past fa
| s like to call your attention i
|| I have just received a fr
1 HEINZ'S FOOD PRODUCTS,
En rLAtidavi DAOa {not flia fhinnp fnr
ra vrcuuou * ocw) j uov vuw uiimg xua
|| Try "Gold Crest" Coffee. ]
|| a delicious flavor that will |
|| fastidious. Primentos, Ci
|| and Salad Dressings alwaj
IfJNO. W. A
| j "The Quality Store." 'Phonei
Is Isolation a Bun
1
The telephone makes th
large family for business and s
aids in church work and sun
neighbors to social gatherings,
the Bell System enables you tc
most anywhere without leaving
Write to nearest Bell Tele
address
1 Farmers' line Departm<
SOUTHERN BOL TEL ANB TEL C*.
108 SOUTH PRYOB STRUT, ATU
?=M^
Cornel j
5 photographer of
r to do some work, JJ ,
I
SATURDAY |
m >? ? ? 4> A
loth, mU S
W
State knows what
imples of his work
lerald Book Store,
rork he does. His II
t 'V?
ry in the telephone
lamberg, S. C., for
)AT, and SATXJE- ._:M
5th. This is an op- i
is of yourself, your 1
s of the family, so
le is here, as it will
in have the oppor- i|
le work as he does. ,
three days only, If
>E=0^
. . m
i q? q a? m ti? a? txi a? o .f
e Kretbest] m
inery, Dress ? v!^
at the very j?
n us. We
> please you {}
i i
5 f :
i ^ . .v*3?
?>
CKSC0.il
c H .31
it
imuiaaiaicaiicaiffl
AcCUE'I
tvors, I would X
;o the fact that X
esh supply of X
, String Beans and 8
a "hurry dinner."
fi is rnilrT wifTi IB . MM
jlease the most ?
rabs, Shrimps, R '-'Ssp
/ cm
rs on hand. ffi
IcCUEl
32. Bamberg, 8.0. g
Remove It! |
e community one
ocial purposes. It
imons friends and
Connection with
) reach anybody al- I
* your home. I
phone Manager,or I . S
OF vnuam 1 i
MTA.GA. ^ Jj/
x ' . , K<
, .
-J
> .'. . :?0
.'* V H-XkH- . iJi': -Jlt&U