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, . Pk. Slip lambprg IpntUi Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. 0., THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 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. August 15.?The yoting ?, folks are moving about lively. Sup, \ pose hunting a cool place these warm F days. Mr. Carl Wermir, of Florida, is spending some time with his grand 1 father, Chas. Hartz. Miss Dukes, of Orangeburg, is the guest of Mrs. Dr. Copeland. Mr. Jack Smith and Mesdames ? Jack Smith, Marrie Chassereau and Lalla Ritter have gone to the Isle of Palms for several weeks of en-j joyment. Mrs. Addie B. Hartz and little daughter, Gladis, have gone to the mountains for the summer. Mr. O. D. Richie, of North Carolina, is spending some time as the guest of Mr. Jacob Ehrhardt, visiting friends and school-mates. Mrs. Laurie R. Clayton died Sunday and will be buried at Mt. Pleasant grave yard to-day at 3 p. m. Our sympathy is extended to the husband in his great bereavement. Mr. Karesh and family accompanied the remains of their infant daughter to Charleston to-day where they will put it in its last resting place beside relatives. * This bad weather has put some of our autos out of commission. They seem to be stubborn and don't want I to move under any treatment. The Crocketville picnic, or dance, ? was a lively affair we understand. Two men received wounds from a pistol, and numerous fisticuff fights were pulled uff. Don't think I would like to indulge or witness such pleasures. Mrs. Dursse, who has been spend; ing some time with Dr. Copeland, has returned to her home in Charleston. : JEE. i ? Midway Musings. Midway, August 15.?Last Thursday was a most ' lovely day for the baptising at Cannon's bridge. The candidates for baptism were for the Midway Baptist church. The pastor, Rev. Hughes, was assisted by Revs. Foreman, of Orangeburg, and Kenny, of Bolins, S.. C. Mr. H. B. Murphy, of the Cope section, had the misfortune to loose his two-story dwelling by fire last Sunday night. No insurance. Mr. H. R. Duensing spent last k Wednesday with his uncle, Mr. H. Schruhoff, at Rowesville. | Tne lime jusess oiui uuuiio, ui Rowesville, spent last Sunday with their aunt, Mrs. H. Duensing. Very sorry in deed to note the illness of Mrs. A. R. Dempsey. Mrs. M. A. Steedley, post mistress, spent last Sunday with Mrs. A. J. f Hunter. The Midway Baptist church installed new deacons last Sunday. Misses Daisy Hamilton Murphy and Sadie Walker Murphy are visiting their cousin, Mrs. W. H. Taylor, at Cameron, S. C. D. H. M. ^ FIRST TRAIN RUN. Service of North and South Carolina Line Inaugurated. Mullins, August 15.?The first train over the Noth and South Carolina railroad came in to-day at 1 o'clock. There were on board aboui 50 passengers. J. E. Hamnock, vice president of the road, accompanied the party. The trip from Dillon was * made without any incidents of special interest. Those in the party were delighted with the trip and the fine equipment of the *road. Two cars were built especially for the road - v over which they are to run daily be-tween Hamlet and Mullins. They are large and well arranged and will prove a great convenience to the traveling pudiic. About 200 citizens gathered at the depot to welcome the new train. Music was furnished by the brass band and altogether the scene was a j j lively affair. The road is having some difficulty I in getting permission to cross the tracks of the Atlantic Coast Line and as it is very indefinite as to when it will build the crossing temporary quarters for a depot have been arranged wheie the road crosses Marion street. ; The new road starts work under bright prospects and will develop and bring near to Mullins one of the most fertile sections of Marion county. if EVIDENCE STRONG. Mr. Charles Karesh Saw Duncan at Lubelsky Store on Day of Murder. Additional evidence in the chain which the detectives have been working about Daniel Duncan as the probable slayer of Max Lubelsky, the King street merchant, who was foully slain in his store at midday three weeks ago, was given to-day in the prompt identification of the negro by Charles Karesh, as the negro that he had seen about Lubelsky's place on the day of the tragedy. Mr. Karesh stated at the time of the tragedy that he had seen a negro about Lubelsky's place and that he was certain that he could identify him if the negro was brought before nim. Later Mr. Karesh went to New York for a short stay. Upon his return yesterday afternoon he was asked by Detectives Hugon and Brennan to go with them to the county jail and take a look at the negro who is charged with the crime of killing the merchant as well as attempting also the life of Mrs. Lubelsky. Mr. Karesh readily complied. Capt. Hanley, the jailor, had been asked to have the man ready for a look over. When Mr. Karesh and the officers reached the jail, they were shown into Capt. Hanley's office. Six men of about the same color and make up, as nearly as could be selected from among the number in jail, were placed in a line by Capt. Hanley, and Mr. Karesh took a look at them. As his eyes rested on Duncan, without hesitation, he exclaimed "that's the man that was by the store." The detectives and Capt. Hanley feel that another link in the chain of evidence has been woven by the authorities. Karesh said from the first that in standing in front of his store, which adjoined that of Lubelsky, he had observed a suspicious negro on the day of the tragedy, and he comes back to Charleston three weeks later and promptly identifies the man that the officers have arrested and charged with the terrible crime.?Charleston Evening Post August 13. NEW FOREIGN LOCOMOTIVE. Carries, Turbine, Dynamo and Motor. Will Pull Express Trains. I Glasgow, August 15.?A remarklable railway engine, with a saloon hitched on, has just made a very successful run from this city to Gartsherrie, on the Caledonian and North British railways. The locomotive consists of three seperate parts?a steam turbine, a dynamo for generating electricity, and electric motors for the actual driving. The boiler is fixed at one end of the engine, which is a very long one; the generator is situated in the center, and consists of a Zoelly steam turbine working at 3,000 revolutions ! per minute, directly coupled to the dynamo, which supplies the electric [current to four motors; these motors j give a direct drive to four sets of j heavy driving wheels. The nominal power of the locomotive is 1,000 horse, and considerable economy in fuel is anticipated. All the advantages of an electric engine are obtained without recourse to external wires, and it can therefore travel over any lines. The exhaust steam is also condensed, so that a very long run could be made. The current, of air which passes through the cooler for the condensed steam is driven by a fan to the furnace of the boiler, which is thus under forced draught. Extraordinary ingenuity has in fact been displayed in order to make the greatest use of every possiDie ieaiure to increase the efficiency of the engine. The new locomotive is now having the finishing touches applied, preparatory to being exhaustively tested at pulling heavy express trains. Texas Militiamen Runs Amuck. Hillsboro, Texas, August 13.?At Abbott, ten miles from here,12345 Abbott, ten miles south of here, today, P. M. Firmin, a member of battery A, Texas national guard, shot and killed A. B. Puckett and O. L. Williams, first-class privates of the hospital corps. Firmin used a revolver, one of his victims being shot twice, and the other receiving one bullet. Firmin and his brother, Burt Firman. also a member of battary A, were placed in jail. Firmin is said to have been absent from his com mand without leave when the shooting occurred. The troops were en route home from Leon Springs, where maneuvers have been in progress for several days. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. . State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Sixty machinists employed at the Southern Railway shops in Columbia i walked out Monday afternoon. An official statement could not be had ! from either side, but it is said, the men quit because the management re' fused their demand for the discharge of an apprentice who had not paid . his union dues. Broke Up Mail Box. Saluda, August 11.?Clinton Preston, a negro living near Ridge Spring, was up before United States Commissioner C. J. Ramage here Tuesday charged with breaking to pieces a rural mail box of Jake Nor. ris, another negro. He was committed to jail by Commissioner Ramage, who, after hearing the testimony, sent the case up to the federal court. The amount of bond was fixed at $400. Earl Holloway, Negro, Captured. Saluda, August 13.?After an all night and all day chase, Sheriff Sample and Deputy Padget, with the aid of two negroes, succeeded in capturing Earl Holloway, who was wanted for shooting and fatally wounding Willis Wiggins, another negro, near J- rn ? 3 TT VT TtTAfl I saiuua iuesuav. nunuwaj' wao placed in jail yesterday afternoon. Magistrate Ramey held the inquest on Wiggins Thursday. The testimony was to the effect that the shooting was without provocation. Train Almost Wrecked. Aiken, August 15.?A near-wrecK of dangerous proportions occurred a day of two ago, on the EdgefieldAiken railroad, according to reports received here. At' Pace's trestle, on this line, the mixed passenger and freight train was running at full speed. Two cars of coal were next to the engine. As the train was nearing the trestle, brakes were put on to slow the train down. The heavy coal cars refused to stop, and the wheels began bucking, with the result that the front wheels of one of the cars jumped the track on the trestle several feet from the creek below. The engineer, seeing the plight in which his train was getting and the serious result liKeiy, put on tun speea and jerked loose from the car that had jumped the track. The coupling pin was broken, and the engine went on to safety, while the coal car was stopped immediately. The rear coal car did not get off the track and the passenger coaches remained intact. The foresight of the engineer possibly saved many lives, as there would have been serious results had the train fallen from the trestle. ENGINES AT PLAY. Two Locomotives Escape From Blandixig Street Shops. Columbia, August 15.?Supt. Williams, of the Columbia division of the Southern railway, is investigating a case apparently of malicious mischief which might have caused the loss of many lives at an early hour to-day. Two heavy locomotives coupled together, ready to take out the early trains, were started by a person unknown, from the Blanding street round house and had gathered a nf fnrtr mllpcs nn hour whpn O pctu VI AVI. w mm. _ they passed throught the union station. By cross-over switch beyond the station they were derailed and after tearing a hundred yards of track came to rest, one engine turning over. Had the runaway occurred a half hour earlier they would have struck a train bringing several hundred persons back from a week-end outing at Charleston, if later they might haVe struck one of the early trains for ; Florence, Spartanburg, Greenville, Augusta, Savannah or Charleston. Train No. 35 for Charlottee was delayed half an hour. Millions of Eggs in Cold Storage. New York, August i?j.?More tuan five million eggs are annually retired from circulation by t. mire food law inspectors in New York city, according to a report just made public. Most of the condemned eggs are of the dessicated variety. The quota for August was augmented yesterday by a seizure of six "drums," containing 25,000 dozen, which were taken from a down-town store house as unfit for consumption. NEWS FROM BLACKVILLE. Happenings in and Around On Thriving Sister City. Blackville, August 15.?Mr. Lero Still returned Sunday from a pleasac trip to Glenn Springs and Hendei sonville, N. C. Misses Ida and Marie Groves hav returned from a visit to Charleston. Miss Pearl Price, from North, ? C., is the charming guest of Mrs. E F. Storne. Mr. Mike Groves is visiting hi brotner in savannan, ana irom tner he will go to the mountains of Nort Carolina. Misses Alma Free and Leonar Kelley are spending some time i Beaufort, S. C. Mr. Dan Halford, of Augusta, wa the guest of his uncle, Mr. J. M. Ha ford, last week. Mr. Rutherford Free has returne from a pleasant stay at Beaufort, S C. Misses Hattie, Rena and Ver Milhous, accompanied by their cot: sin, Miss Perry, from Texas, ar visiting relatives in and aroun Batesburg. Miss Rosa Hutto and her mothe: Mrs. T. A. Hutto, are spending a fe1 weeks in Hendersonville, N. C. Mr. James G. Halford visited rel? tives in Barnwell several days las week.. Miss Mortima Ray has returne from a visit to ber grana-motne: Mrs. S. S. Laffitte, at Denmark. Miss Daisy Stokes is visitin friends at Newberry and differet points. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Still and chi dren have returned from a visit t relatives in Spartanburg. Mr. and Mrs. Judson Hair an family are sojourning at Saluda thi summer. Mrs. H. D. Still and Mrs. J. Kog Still are spending some time at Glen Springs and points In western Nort Carolina. Miss Cecil Gyles is the guest of he sister, Mrs. T. R. Chisolm. Mrs. E. C. Oakman, of Augusta, i the guest of her daughter, Mrs. I R. Free. Miss Dorothy Morris, of August; who has been the guest of Miss Care line O'Gorman, has returned ho*n< after spending a pleasant two weeki weeks' vacation visiting friends an relatives at Little Mountain, S. C. Mr. T. R. Boland, our assistai postmaster, has returned to his pos of duty. Miss Isabel Free, who has bee visiting friends in Orangeburg, ha returned home. Mrs. Daisy Sanders and childre are at home again after a pleasar trip to Columbia. Mr. J. M. Halford and daughte: Zelda, aye spending a few days s Ulmers. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Weisinger an their little son, who have been ? Glenn Springs and Asheville, N. C have returned home. Mrs. C. C. Rush, Mrs. G. L. We singer and her little daughter, Helei are at Hendersonville N. C. for few weeks. Mrs. Willie Altman and her intei esting family are visiting relatives ? Springfield. Mrs. McCreary is spending a whil at Hendersonville, N. C. Miss Sara Hammet is visiting he brother in Alabama. BRUTAL HUSBAND'S DEED. Man Beat Wife's Head with Hammei Demanded Money. Birmingham, August 12.?Wi Milfred, residing at East Lake, entei ed his wife's room this morning b( fore she was up, and beat her int insensibility with a machinists' hart mer. The woman was rushed to hospital and physicians say she car not recover. The man left a note addressed t a neighbor asking him to care for th three children. One of the childre stated that the father asked th mother for some money which sh could not give him, and the traged followed. Yearly Swim for Jersey Ruralites. Sea Girt, N. J., August 13.?Thi was salt water day for a large set tion of New Jersey. Thousands c farmers gathered at the beaches t take their annual bath. They cam with their wives, sweethearts, chf dren and grand-children, in all kind of wagons. While the rustics too their wash thousands of spectator looked on. The farmers' wives an daughters were dressed for the mos part in tight-fitting wrappers an some attempted to swim in hobbl skirts. i * SOLDIERS WOUNDED NEGRI ir 1 MUCH DISORDER AMONG MEN Ol FIRST REGIMENT, y _____ Col. Lewis Has Ordered a Thoroug Investigation?Only Four Companies Involved. e "In any event you will make j* most searching and careful investigs tion and make a full report to this ol fice at the earliest possible momern IS The most scrupulous observance c e every provision of this order is er h joined." Thus concludes W. W. Lewis, wh d is colonel of the first regiment, t n Maj. M. J. Walker and the command inc nffinpro nf prtmnanips P. K". T. an *^0 W- vw^r?. 7 is M of the regiment, in ordering an ir I- vestigation of the alleged injury to man near Sally from a rock throw d by one of the soldiers returning froi 3. the Aiken encampment. Col. Lewis' order follows the proclamation issue a by Gov. Ansel, who is commander-ir chief of the national guard of th ,e State, a few days ago, when the mai j ter was reported to him. When the soldiers were returnin r from Aiken on August 8 a rock wa ^ thrown from one of the windows c the special bearing the troops. Ths t_ day Gov. Ansel received a telegrai }t from J. M. Hawley at Sally, statin that a member of the company on th d first train from Aiken, passin r through Sally that day, had injure one of Mr. Hawley's men with a rocl g Gov. Ansel immediately ordered a investigation and directed a telegrai and later a letter, giving all the ii 1_ formation he had to Col. W. 0 Lewis. Letter from Lewis. d That Col. Lewis is determined tha is the guilty person shall be found 01 in this matter is shown by the fo (r folinw letter addressed to Maj. Wa n ker and those commanding the fou h companies mentioned above: "It has been reported to me tha t when the first section 01 the militar train bearing the second batallio is and part of the hospital corps was a -< or near Sally some person on tb train threw a rock or other miss] i, and seriously wounded a man worl >- ing in the fields. This was on the r< 3, turn trip from Aiken, s* "You are hereby directed at one d to summon before you every man b< longing to your several command it and examinfe each and every one c st them under oath as to his knowledg of the incident, requiring him to stat n the facts as he knows them or an is hearsay testimony that will throlight on the subject. n "Tn tVio pvpnt anv man refuses t it appear and testify you will at one prefer charges against him and foi r, ward them to this office. In the ever it any man refuses to testify after aj pearing you will prefer charge d against him unless he refuses to tei it tify on the ground that his testimon will incriminate, in which case yo will report that tact' to this office ? i- once. Strict Compliance. 3. "Should you be able to obtain an evidence tending to locate the guilt party you will at once report hi name and the names and addresse of the witnesses to this office. 0 "In any event you will make a mos searching investigation and make full report to this office at' the earl est possible moment. The mo* scrupulous observance of every pr< vision of this order is enjoined." P4 Wounded Man Not Known Here. At the office of Gov. Ansel th name of the man who was injure has not been received. Secretary B( r_ thea has addressed a letter to Mi Hawley asking him to furnish to 0 name of the man who was struck b {_ the rock. Mr. Bethea, in behalf c a Gov. Ansel, also requested more d( t_ tails, as to when and where th throwing took place and any infoi 0 mation that may throw light on th ? Tri n-rAaf +/-> inHiot the e xix ? o n person in case the investigation re e veals who threw the rock, the nam e of the person struck will, of course y be necessary.?Columbia State. GIRL TAKES POISON. Suicide Caused by Quarrel Wit s Teacher. -- Atlanta, August 15.?Miss Emm Lee Campbell, aged 25, of Edgemoni o N. C., who was a student at a loca e business college, died at a hospita I- here to-night as a result of poiso s taken with suicidal intent. She es k plained to her landlady shortly afte s she had taken the poison that th d rpasnn for her act was that she ha it had a quarrel with one of her teach d ers. e The body will be sent to Nort Carolina for interment. > -X KILLING NEAR BOWMAN. il Charles Dwight, a Negro, Shoots His F Wife. News of a killing in the Bowman h section of Orangeburg county was telephoned to the governor's office yesterday afternoon with a request that bloodhounds be sent to the scene. All the information that could be oba obtained by Mr. Bethea was that l- Charles Dwight, colored, shot and instantly killed his wife, Lucy t. Dwight, while she was working in . >r the field yesterday morning about i- 10:30 o'clock. The information was 'phoned to o the governor's office by E. N. Mittle, . i-v rnshipr r?f tha Rnwman hank, who [- stated that, as far as he could learn, d the act was without provocation, t- Three shots were fired by Dwighti a who said not a word as he approachn ed his wife and fired. Two of the n shots taking effect, the woman died s instantly. No motive for the killing d is known. l- Immediately after shooting Dwight e made his escape from Bowman, t- Mr. Mittle asked Mr. Bethea to send bloodhounds from the State g prison. The penitentiry authorities .s were asked for the bloodhounds but it the country where some convicts 11 were cutting wood for the prison. , g The hounds could not be secured e soon enough to do any good at Bowg man so they will not be sent.?Cod lumbia State, August 16. . ^r ' ?^ FLAMES WIPE OUT FAIR. n ;v4|k n * / * - j Exposition Grounds Mass of Blaze j and Smouldering Ruins. Brussels, August 14.?The white city of the "world's fair" as the Belit gians have called their 1910 exposiit tion, is to-night a mass of flames 1- and smouldering ruins. The loss is 1- estimated at $100,000,000. ( ;|| ir A spark falling into inflammable material in the telegraph building, it burst up in flames, which, driven by y a high wind swept rapidly in all din dections. Soon the Belgian, English it and French sections were destroyed. ie The firemen and deatchments of solle diers called quickly to the scene, c- found themselves baffled by the veritable gale, which carried the burning embers to all parts of the grounds. - ^11 :e To the left of the main building /-$8| s- arose the picturesque roofs and spires Is of "Bruexlles's Kermiese," a Bel- ; . v|jj >f gian. Coney Island, with water chutes, ;e toboggan slides and scores of side :e shows. This place was alive with y Sunday crowds and before they could AIll w be gotten out with any semblance of order the Kermesse was afire. The ;o crowds became panic-stricken and e men, women, and children fought r- madly to escape. The exits became it choked with the struggling masses >- and men used their fists to clear the v ;s pathway. 3- Many were trampled under feet 'M y and badly injured. An engineering "/i u corps from Antwerp attempted to it dynamite the bridge of the French section in the hope of checking the fire but the flames leaped across and y engulfed the Italian, Russian, Aus- ||j y trian, Japanese, Chinese and Nor,g wegian buildings. Forty houses on g the Avenue Solbosch, adjoining the exposition, were destroyed. ,t At the time of the outbreak not \ 'a less than 100,000 persons were circulating in the grounds and the Kermesse. Troops were ordered out to aid the police in clearing the grounds. This was accomplished in fair order except within the limits of the Ker* messe, where the vast crowds be. came entangled in an almost inex^ tricable mass, fighting desperately to p escape lruiu me names. e Soon the enormous facade tumbled/' ' in ruins. Considering the rapidity of the conflagration, the small loss of ^ life is mavelous. So far as known up ' to a late hour to-night, only two ' are dead. The injured as officially ' announced, numbered thirty, but probably many hundreds received J minor hurts. As the flames reached the mena? gerie it was decided to shoot the " beasts, but the heat drove back the soldiers and the animals were left to their fate. Tongues of fire mounted high into h the heavens and flaming embers were carried off by the wind and fell upon -J ~ ? J +Viam me resiliences uejuuu, scmug w^ui a 011 fire. : t, The fire was finally gotten under il control. The Belgian and English l1 sections are in ruins, while all the o other sections, including the American, were partly destroyed, r Bands of thieves engaged in pile lage and a soldier was stabbed while d attempting to arrest three men whom i- he found rifling a jewelry exhibft. The aggregate loss will be enorh mous. The diamond exhibitors are heavy sufferers. . '