The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 14, 1910, Page 7, Image 7
CASHIER AXD MONEY MISSING.
"Gone to the Tall Timbers," Official's
Note Says.
Clintwood, Va.. July 7.?Cash to
the amount of $15,000 and $7,000
worth of unsigned treasury certificates
have disappeared from the
vaults of the Citizen' National Bank,
of this place, and a reward of $1,000
has been offered by the officers of
the institution for the arrest of Walter
C. D. Sutherland, cashier, of the
bank, who has not been seen here
since Saturday night.
Sutherland hired a horse Saturday
night and told his friends, it is alleged,
that he was going to ride to
Stratton to spend the Fourth with
relatives. When he did not appear
at the hank Tuesday morning, inquiry
by the officials developed the
fact, it is said, that the young man
J had not visited Stratton. No trace
has yet been found of Sutherland or
of the horse he rode.
It \yas not until late yesterday that
the bank vault, whose time lock had
been set for ninety-six hours could
be opened. Then the officials discovered
the loss. In the vault they
found a note saying:
"Gone to the tall timbers."
The name of the missing cashier,
it is said, was signed to it. Sutherland,
who is 34 years old, was at one
time connected with the army engineer
corps in the Phillipine Islands.
Negro Lynched in Arkansas.
Little Rock July 7.?Sam Powell,
a negro charged with robbery and
arson, was hanged by a mob at Hutting,
Ark., late last night, according
to a dispatch received here to-night.
Powell, an 18-year-old youth, it
was charged, burglarized the resiof
a nrominent citizen of Hut
ting of $400 and then fired the building.
He escaped but was captured
several days ago at Rochelle, La.
> Since his return to Hutting, it is
^stated, he confessed.
The, rather frail prison building,
_ ' ' which housed Powell, was broken into
without much effort by the mob
and the lynching followed. That the
negro had been hanged, however,
was not generally known until his
body was found to-day.
:
' Sturkie Will Get His Money.
Orangeburg, July 7.?Judge Gage
handed down his decision in the mandamus
proceedings brought by Dr. L.
K. Sturkie to compel Supervisor Felder
to sign Dr. Sturkie's claim for
township commissioners as attorney.
Judge Gage ruled that Dr. Sturkie
must itemize his account and that
the supervisor must sign the claim.
Dr. Sturkie was employed by the
township commissioners as attorney
for the board, but Supervisor Felder
refused to sign Dr.NSturkie's claim
tand he could not draw his money.
The amount involved is about $400.
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Col. Mosby Removed.
* Washington, July 8.?Col. John S.
Mosby, who distinguished himself in
the Confederate cause in the war of
secession as a daring guerrilla fighter,
and who, in the early part of
President Roosevelt's administration,
?? ? n onooiel q f+nrn otr i n
^ Witb (ipyuiuicu CL ojituai avwiuv; tu
the department of justice, has lost his
government position. The reason has
not been made known, but it is understood
old age was the chief cause
" for the mismissal. Col, Mosby is 73,
years old, although his friends say he
is still pnergetic and active. He has
> made no effort to be restored, although
this is deemed probable and
that the attorney general may be
asked to intervene. The colonel, it
fc stated, may now devote his time to
a book on the war of secession, in
which he took an active and pictur>
esque part.
Big Fire in Charleston.
Charleston, July 8.?Fire which
broke out at 6:15 o'clock this after*
, noon completely gutted five large
wholesale establishments on Meetinc
street, threatened the Charleston
hotel, just across the street, and
caused a loss which is estimated toL
night at $250,000. The buildings gutted
are the Paul E. Trouche company,
the Bailey-Lebby com'pany, T. A. Wilbur
& Sons, the Marshall-Wescoat
Hardware company and two buildings
of the A. R. Thomlinson company.
The big new department store of
Louis Cohen & Co., was saved only
as the result of desperate work on
the part of the firemen.
The flames for the time threatened
^ to get beyond the control of the firemen
and to destroy the entire block,
which is one of the most important of
^ the city. The ticket office of the
Southern Railway, situated next to
the Trouche building, escaped destruction
almost by a miracle.
Two firemen and one telephone
* lineman were overcome by smoke,
but recovered consciousness. A heavy
rain, which set in about 10:30
o'clock, helped the firemen to get
the flames under control.
GARMENT WORKERS STRIKE.
Fifty Thousand Walk Out in NewYork
City.
New York, July 7.?Fifty thousand
garment and cloak makers, of
whom 8,000 are women, walked out
this afternoon at the call of the In- <
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers'
Union, which demands an eight
hour day, an increase in wages and a i
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stand behind substitute contractors :
for wage payments.
The fight thus far- is purely local,
but officers of the Union said to-night
that if the employers attempted to j
sublet their work in other cities, ;
notably Chicago, or Philadelphia and
Cleveland, the Union would call a
strike there also.
The 1,100 factories here employ
100,00 hands, of which half are or- <
ganized. The strikers hope to draw :
many of the non-union workers out
by a sympathetic appeal.
LANDS IN BED.
Blind Runaway Horse Frightens Occupants
into Hysterics.
A blind horse, frightened by the
explosion of a cannon, at Vincennes,
Ind., early Wednesday, ran away, :
threw its driver, Wayne Bunting,
out of the buggy, fatally injuring
him, plunged through a window of
the home of Mrs. Anna Drugger and
fell on a bed, where Mrs. Drugger
and her daughter were seriously
bruised and both were shocked into
hysteria before the men of the
neighborhood attracted by the crash
and the screams of the women, i
could drag the frantic horse out of
the house.
Affinities in Law.
While the magazine muckrakers
are talking about the shortcomings <
of our courts in the matter of failing
to take judicial cognizance of
common sense, and requiring the
State to prove that it was a loaded
gun and not an empty gun with which
the prisoner shot the deceased, and
so forth, there Is a case from New
York that furnishes a little novelty.
A man obtained a verdict for libel
because he had been reported as paying
attentions to an "affinity." The
appellate court reverses the verdict
because the word affinity in classic
English has no objectionable signification
and is not of a libelous nature.
The court refuses to take into account ,
any false meaning that may have at- '
tached to the word through slang or
improper usage. Nothing but the dictionary
goes in that court.
In New York, therefore, we judge
it would be safe for the police reporter
to promulgate the information
that a man had been pinched
and moved away in the booby hatch .
for 60 days for having swiped a sawbuck
from a stranger. If it turned
out to be true the gentleman's reputation
would not be injured any, for
it is no disgrace to swipe or otherwise
cleanse or polish a sawbuck or
orHnla nf fnrriitnrP
What the court would do in a case
where the dictionary gives two meanings
to the same word it is not easy to
guess. Probably issue a subpoena for
the publishers of the dictionary and
make them qualify as experts and
tell which one was the most classic .
and perferred meaning. ? Omaha
World-Herald. (
PLUCKY ENGLISH DOCTOK.
Lowered Over Precipice to Assistance
of Wounded Egg Gatherer. i
A young Flamborough egg gatherer
named Joseph Mapor, while ;
working in the cliffs near the North ;
Danes Dyke recently met with an accident
which may cost him his life. ,
He and his brother started gathering
early in the. morning, and the sec- <
ond time Joseph went over a stone
apparently became displaced and
causing him to fall and cut open his
head. When his companions did not
receive his signals they became
alarmed and one went over to see his ;
cause. They found the youth lying
on a grassy slope, bleeding badly <
from the wound.
With the assistance of other egg \
gatherers two men were lowered over j
the cliff edge and placed the unfortu- j
nate man on a ledge of rock below.
The tide was coming in at the time. ;
A York visitor, H. Brown, who is j
1 ? ~ Xl
staying at jp lamororuugs, iau uu mc $
apartments some four or five miles i
away, and then cycled to Bridgington, <
another six miles away, to fetch Doc- <
tor Wetwan. * i
The doctor was lowered over the ]
precipice, a distance of about 400
feet, an exploit that is dared by few 1
who are not experts?and ne band- l
aged up the young fellow's head. The
rocket lifesaving apparatus was <
taken out and one of the men, Robert,
Barnes, descended and brought ]
up Joseph Major in the breeches i
buoy. Afterward Doctor Wetman
was hauled up, and a cheer was rais- j
ed as he reached safety.?Westmin- i
ster Gazette, London. ]
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MORE LANDS WITHDRAWN.
President Taft Continues Policy of
Practical Conservation.
Beverly, Mass., July 7.?Continuing
his policy of practical conservation,
'President Taft late to-night
signed orders, withdrawing 35,073.
164 acres of coal lands from the pub-i
lie domain in the States of North and
South Dakota, Washington, Utah,
Colorado and the Territory of Arizona.
Of thp total withdrawals. 20.698.
469 acres are new, while 14,374,605
acres are covered in confirmations
and ratifications under the new law,
approved June 25, of withdrawals
made during the past four years by
both Presidents Roosevelt and Taft.
North and South Dakota are the
two States affected by the new withdrawals.
From the public domain in
North Dakota, the President has
withdrawn from settlement 71,828,182
acres of land, believed to contain
workable coal. In South Dakota the
amount withdrawn is 2,870,287
acres.
Previous withdrawals, confirmed
by the President to-night,, are divided
among the several States as
follows:
Washington, 2,207,967 acres; Arizona,
161,280 acres; Utah, 5,814,287
acres, and Colorado, 6,191,161 acres.
The withdrawal orders, prepared
oy me geological survey auu ayproved
by the Secretary of the Interior,
reached Beverly from Washington
late to-night.
All of the withdrawals and confirmations
were made under the* new
law, passed at the last session of congress,
which definitely authorizes the
President to withdraw various lands
from entry, pending their classification
and special disposition by congress.
The President urged this law as
the first step in this plan for practical
conservation.
BOY ROBBER BADLY INJURED.
Eli Runyon May Not Survive Fracture
of Vertebrae.
Richmond, Va., July 7.?Eli Runyon,
the 19-year-old Richmond boy,
who has gotten into serious trouble
with the police of this city, Savannah
and Washington, and who was arrested
in the last named city Thursday
last, on a charge of housebreaking
and turned over to the officials
of the Young Republic, on the outskirts
of the district, was probably
fatally injured on the fourth of July,
when in diving from a spring board
he struck his head against a submerged
rock and fractured one of
his spinal vertebrae.
He was brought to a Richmond
hospital, where he is under treatment,
and where it is stated that he
will probably not survive more than
a week longer.
Posse Hunting for Negroes.
Bainbridge, Ga., July 7.?Sheriff
Emanuel and a posse of deputies are
searching for three negroes, who before
daybreak this morning threaten
ed to burn the home of J. Young,
manager of a naval stores company
at Faceville this county, and killed
him. They surrounded his house,
woke him up and cursed him. They
fired a number of shots but hurt no
one in the house. Earlier in the night
i negro, Frank Jenkins, tried to shoot
Mr. Young, who was too quick and
shot the negro, wounding him.
After the attack on Mr. Young's
house a posse #of white men gathered
and surrounded a house in which
three negroes were barricaded. The
negroes charged through a rear door
and escaped in a fusillade. Then
Sheriff Emanuel and his deputies arrived.
They made a through search
of the negro section but found no
trace of the rioters. The search is
still going on but everything at Faceville
late this afternoon was quiet.
A Hard Heart.
Judge Ben B. Linlsey, of the famous
Denver juvenile court, said in
the course of a recent address on
charity:
""l OO rnauv ui us ai c iuuiuv.u n/
think that, one misstep made, the boy
is gone for good. Too many of us
are like the cowboy.
"An itinerant preacher preached to
i cowboy audience on the 'Prodigal
Son.' He described the foolish prodigal's
extravagance and dissipation; he
described his penury and his husk- j
mating with the swine in the sty; he
described his return, his father's loving
welcome, the rejoicing, and the
preparation of the fatted calf.
"The preacher in his discourse noticed
a cowboy staring at him very
hard. He thought he had made a concert
and addressing the cowboy personally,
he said from the pulpit:
" 'My dear friend, what would you
have done if you had a prodigal son
returning home like that?'
" 'Me?' said the cowboy, promptly
ar?H florpalv *T'/1 hflVP shnt- thp hov
md raised the calf.' "?Detroit Free
Press.
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