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> U\\p lamkrg IGrraUi = ~ ? ^ Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 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. k Ehrhardt, Oct. 3.?-Mrs. Charles E&rhardt, who has been at the Riverside Infirmary in Charleston, came home yesterday much improved. * Messrs. Max Walker, Shack Ehrhardt, W. H. and Ernest Ritter went to Indian Fields camp meeting Sunday. Messrs. W. H. Redmond and Frank Kinsey went to Williams Sunday afternoon. Some one said they intended walking home. Several or our young ioiks wem |t grape hunting Saturday. They were successful, so far as grapes were con > cerned. ' The railroad company has concluded to run a Sunday train, commencing yesterday. Did not bring us any m*il however, and very few passengers. It is too new?not known enough for the public to take advantage of it yet. Cotton comes in as fast as could be expected from the short crop that is ^ made. Some of the farmers say their crop of cotton will not reach half as Tmirh as last vear. Not as good as they thought it was when growing; fruit too small and scattered. JEE. Country Correspondence. Mrs. J. W. Hill and two little sons visited her mother Mrs. Susana Folk McMillan, Sunday. Her sister, Miss Sudie, was taken to a hospital Saturday. Her many friends hope) she'll soon be herself. Miss Alma Sandifer, who is teaching near Hightower's Mill this ses> sion, visited her mother's family Saturday and Sunday. We are sorry to report Mr. J. Pearson's loss of a mule last week. Loss of horse or mule power is not so easily replaced. Miss Elma Boynton, of Ulmer, recently visited her sister, Mrs. W. F. Hughes. Mr. J. W. Hill took his little daughter, Virginia, over to Dr. Horlbeck, of Columbia, Friday for eye treatment. She has been absent from school for several days, but we hope she will soon return. NEW YORK HAS BIG FIRE. Large Area Swept?Property Loss About $1,300,000. .* New York, Oct. 3.?Fire in the vicinity of 24th street and 11th ave ; nue early to-night swept an area of 500 by 300 feet, causing damage estimated at $1,500,000. Chief Croker v announced that it was the greatest burned area during his experience in New York city. The flames spread to the storage warehouse of the United States Ex/ press Company. Firemen are attempting to save the branch depot of the Standard Oil Company. The space swept over comprises almost three acres of lumber yards, I - factories and stables on 11th avenue, 24th and 25th streets. For nearly three hours the fire was beyond the control of the fire department, and it was stopped at length by apparatus, % which combined, threw water at the rate of 25,000 gallons a minute. Five hundred horses were rescued from the stables, and in spite of the size of the blaze and difficulty in . fighting it, it was remarkably free from serious accident. One fireman was badly hurt by a bucking hose and several others were less seriously hurt. * The fire started in the lumber yard of Moore Brothers, 11th avenhe < and 24th street, quickly destroyed it and soon ignited a kindling wood factory, which was likewise burned. Besides these structures, the following were either destroyed or bad ly damaged: Six story factory of the New York Metal Ceiling Company, stables and * storehouse of James J. Duffey, contractor; the Pennsylvania Hotel, three-story structure; warehouse of the United States Express Company, ? tn-n-etnrv buildine of the V CLKsCLLl U v wvv*^ ? 0 Metropolitan Iron and Steel Company, four-story factory of the Atlas Metal Bed Company. * For a while the flames threatened the Baltimore and Ohio freight yards and the specialty department of the Standard Oil Company, but hard work checked the blaze in time. * ? All fires are costly, but the cost of burning tobacco in this country annually foots up an appalling sum, and there is no insurance recoverable. i i A STRANGE OCCURRENCE. Covey of Fat Partridges Caught in Hotel Bedroom. Messrs. Sheffield and Wolf, two well-known traveling men from Savannah, had a rather unusual experience in Mr. Wolf's berdoom at the Pfer hotel in Sylvania, Ga., Tuesday night, when they flushed up a small drove of patridges in the room, about midnight. The two gentlemen had been sitting up talking shop, and taking an occasional drink of ice water in Mr. Sheffield's room, until about twelve o'clock, when Mr. Wolf went across the hall to his own rom and struck a light. As soon as he did so he was startled to hear the well known whirr of patridges, as they rose from the floor at his feet and sailed across the room. Rubbing his eyes to see if he was dreaming of being out in the woods with gun and dog, he was fully convinced when another large, plump patridge rose from the floor and, in its flight, struck him on the head. ! Messrs Wolf and Sheffield succeeded in catching the covey and * * - ' ! they proved to De large, iat uucs, ! nearly grown. It is supposed that ! they flew in at the open window late the afternoon before, and were roosting in the room, as they are more plentiful than chickens in the fields and gardens around Sylvania. Graft Cases to be Pressed. Columbia, Oct. 1.?The scene of the alleged "graft" cases has been shifted from Columbia to Chester and Newberry. Attorney General Lyon will press the big conspiracy indictment at Chester at the term of court beginning there on October 31 and the "Hub" Evans indictment at the term of court in Newberry in November. The "conspiracy" indictment was handed out at Chester last fall. The Newberry indictment came during the past summer. The fall term of court for Chester county opens October 31 and lasts for two weeks, Judge Ernest Moore, who was recently apointed by Governor Ansel to hold courts of York, Chester and other counties In the late Judge Danzler's place, being the presiding judge. The court at Newberry opens No vember 28. Attorney General Lyon will be able to return from Washington in time to attend the court at Newberry. The case to be pressed at Chester, it is understood, is the "conspiracy" indictment. In this indictment the amount involved in alleged defrauding in which the State lost money, is $133,000. In this indictment are implicated members of the board of control and agents of whiskey houses. the conspiracy indictment is the famous indictment of the dispensary "graft" cases. In this indictment is named the alleged rebate schedule, which played so much of a part in the trials held here. It is known here that there have been a number of conferences recently between those indicted and their attorney, the latter of the most part residing in this city. One of the members of the old board of control who is to be tried at Chester, Mr. John Black, has been tried here once, thp rasp heine declared a mistrial by Judge R. Withers Memminger, when a copy of a newspaper was found in the room of the jujrors. Two of those named in the conspiracy indictment, Messrs. Joseph Wylie and John T. Early, have turrned States evidence and have testified on the stand here. Mr. Morton A Goodman will also not be prosecuted as he is the one who gave the attorney general the information in the "Hub" Evans" case, which is the one to be tried at Newberry. It is also worthy of note that Chester is Mr. Wylie's home town. The only whiskey agent named in the "conspiracy" indictment, who will probably be tried, is Mr. H. Lee Solomons, who lives at Estill. A true bill was returned at Chester as to his indictment, Mr. H. L. Ferguson being foreman of the jury. The charge against the board of directors in the conspiracy indictment is that various amounts were paid for alleged bribes and rebating and that a schedule of rebates, which, it will be recalled was a big feature of the Black trial in this city was had and that the State lost $133,000 by the alleged conspiracy in the year 1906. One of the vainest regrets of adult life is that when we are sorely hurt and buffeted we can no longer go and tell mother and get her blessed balm and comfort. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Senator E. D. Smith is quoted in the newspapers as saying that he thinks cotton will bring higher prices this fall than any time since the war. Wouldn't it be jjust too bad if the farmers followed Smith's advice and held their cotton and lost money. Insurance Commissioner McMaster will enforce the law requiring all hotels of over three stories to put in fire escapes. The law went into effect October 1st. A number of the hotels in Columbia and elsewhere have not complied with the law, and warrants will be sworn out against them. The penalty is $100 a day. A new paper, to be called the TriCounty Enterprise, is to be started at Batesburg, and John Bell Towill, formerly a member of the State dispensary board and now under indictment for "graft," will be the editor. Will the paper be a Blease "orgin?" It was said that Towill supported Blease in the recent primary. Negro Burned for Usual Crime. Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 4.?Six hours after he had committed criminal assault upon Mrs. Hiram Stuckey, a prominent young woman of Covington county, Bush Withers, a negro "trusty" at the Henderson convict camp, was taken from the warden late last night while en route to prison at Andalusia, tied to a stake by an infuriated mob of 400 men and burned. The lynching was conducted in a quiet ana oraeny maimer, aitei which the mob, formed from adjoining towns, dispersed to their homes, leaving no traces of their fury save the ashes of the negro. The crime for which the negro was lynched was committed early yesterday afternon when he went to the farm of Mr. Stuckey for the purpose of getting drking water for his fellow convicts who were employed at a camp nearby. Entering the house, it is declared the negro assaulted Mrs. Stuckey, who was alone, after which he cudgeled her into insensibility in an effort to still her cries. This morning it is reported the woman is in a precarious condition with little hope of recovery. Fracture of the skull is feared. Before lapsing into insensibility: Mrs. Stuckey informed her rescuers of the assault, naming the "trusty" whom she knew, as the perpetrator of the deed. The negro was caught and hurried to the stockade of Samford, six miles from Andalusia. Upon hearing rumors of a mob, Warden J. L. Long, at 9 o'clock attempted to spirit the convict to the prison at Andalusia, but was intercepted on the outskirts of the village, where his charge was taken from him, tied to a stake, shot and burned. The negro was sent up from Mor a? 1 f\ A H A I gan county in uu auuaigc ui robbery. Up to the time of yesterday's assault he had been regarded as a faithful employe at the lumber camp and served as water boy for the! convicts. He was about 30 years old., Planter Mysteriously Shot. Rome, Ga., Sept. 29.?D. J. Miller, a well known planter of Everett Springs, this county, was brought to a sanitarium here to-day suffering with a wound in the abdomen believed to have been inflicted by a charge from a shotgun. He is not expected to live, and refuses to tell how or why he was injured. It is said that Miller and his wife have been separated for some time; that they met and a quarrel ensued resulting in Miller being shot by his son. No arrests have been made. Drink Carbolic Acid. Covington, Ky., Sept. 29.?While playing doctor to-day a son and a daughter of Thomas Cobb swallowed carbolic acid and died soon after wards. They were aged 5 and 7 years. The children were playing in the kitchen of their home during the absence of their mother. They found a bottle of carbolic acid. "Let's play doctor," one suggested. They obtained two spoons and two glasses and divided the acid into two portions, which they swallowed. Their screams of agony brought the mother from a neighbor's but before a physician could reach them both were dead. r? WESTERN HOSPITALITY. It's Always at Home Whether the Folks Are or Not. % We were in the sand hill country and lost, says Ella W. Peattie in the Youth's Companion. Noon found us wandering hungry and tired among these pale-yellow hillocks and chased by tumblewood, which dried, globular shaped and of the least possible weight, scurrie up and down the "draws." One of our number, although not a resident in that country and ignorant of the roads, was perfectly familiar with the customs of the people. "We'll be coming across a house somewhere in here," he told us. "We'll find folks right enough if we keep on."' "But they may not be willing to serve three hungry travelers," one of us said. He turned a look of simple wonder upon the speaker and made no reply. Presently a habitation lifted its low roof in the wilderness. Our leader was soon hallooing to the inmates, but he had no response. "The folks are out," he said with no diminution of cheerfulness, although the rest of us were feeling afresh the pangs of hunger. The western man drove to the barn, unhitched the team and put the horses in the stalls, giving them feed from the bag in which we had carried, and then went to the house, and calmly walked in. We followed him with some timidity. "WThat are you going to do?" we asked. "Do?" said he with ill concealed irritation. "What should I do but get dinner?" "In another man's house?and he absent?" "Well,"- said the western man with heat. "I guess he'd think we were about as near fools as they make 'em if we didn't feed ourselves if we were hungry. And what's more he wouldn't thank us for going to his place under the circumstances. We're complimenting him, that's what we are." We said nothing more but helped get the dinner. There were prune sauce, stewed, and a great loaf ol gingerbread. We ate heartily, and sc far as two of us were concerned with a sense of excitement, something like that which a burglar must feel. The excellent meal finished, oui *? - + Vi o + nrc leader gave us uis upmiuu iuui, ^ had "better wash the dishes and nol leave them for the women folks tc do. We agreed, and with some awkwardness but excellent results pul the dishes, clean and dry, back intc their right places. Our leader took a fifty cent piece from his pocket and laid it on the table. "They'd be mighty mad if the: knew who w'as leaving that," he re marked, "but as they're not likely tc find out it can't do no hurt." A curious country we though where the offense lies in paying foi what one has taken and not in the taking of a thing uninvited. We learned afterward thai) om leader had not overstated the case It was the custom of the hungry tc feed themselves at any man's boarc and for the weaTy to rest on an: man's bed. Not to have done st would have been to give affront tc those who had the food and the bed Attorney Sues Mrs. Whittle. Columbia- Sect. 30. ? Attorne] Frank G. Tompkins, of this city, has filed a suit against Mrs. Alice D Whittle for $2,713.1$, as the amoun' he alleges she owes him, because o. the compromise made by Mrs. Whit tie and her husband for $18,087.90 Mr. Tompkins having been employee by Mrs. Whittle and the case settlec out of court. Mr. Tompkins was, under the original contract, to get I per cent, of the amount to be recovered, $40,000. This is the suit brought following the recent actipn of Mrs. Whittle tc recover jewels Mrs. Whittle gave Mr Tompkins as a retainer. [ "Lily White" Meeting Next. Washington, Oct. 4.?John G. Capers, of Washington, Mart Floyd, postmaster of Spartanburg, and L. W. C. Blalock, of Goldville, arrived in Washington to-day from New York, where they attended John Hays Hammond's dinner to the National Republican league Saturday night. Prior to the trip to New York, Mr. Floyd had attended the meeting of the National Association of First Class Postmasters at Richmond, being the only South Carolina postmaster present. It is stated tonight that a call may be issued in a few days by Capt. Capers for a Republican gathering in Columbia the latter part of the month. It is understood that a "lily white" affair is planned. MURDER SUSPECTS IN JAIL MURDERERS OF PAUL WILLIAMS IX LEXINGTON JAIL. ! Officers Say They Have Positive Prool of the Murder But Beyond This are Silent. Lexington, Oct. 4.?Nineteen mer are in the Lexington jail to-night twelve of them charged with bein? implicated in the murder of Paul Wil liams, freight clerk in the Columbi? office of the Southern Railway, 01 Saturday night. The others are be mg neia as witnesses, me iueu wen brought from Augusta on. train Xo 130 to-night, coming in a privat* coach in charge of Sheriff P. H. Cor ley and the following officers of th< Southern Railway: H. T. B. Boye inspector special service Southern Washington; S. G. LaFar, specia agent, Charleston; N. X. Bullock special agent, Columbia; J. D. Ehney special officer, Columbia; E. H. Arme and C. E. Corley, of Lexington. Crowd Meets Train. A large crowd met the train at th< depot. The men were marched t< the jail a mile from the depot witl Deputy Sheriff S. J. Miller in th lead. When the jail was reaches there were fully 200 people along th street, all anxious to get a glimps of the men. Two of the men were picked up a Graniteville this morning and are be ing held on suspicion. They giv their names as Ralph Ingle and Cai Sheftlet. They are both white. Those charged with implication i the crime are: Ed White, Paul Lewis Frank Anderson, Elijah Clarke, Ro Rich, Jack Johnson and Garlan Brown, negroes; John Wilson, J. C Cabe, Haden Hooper and Ge< Nichols, white. There are several others who ar held as witnesses. Their names coul 1 not be learned to-night. Say Proof is Positive. Sheriff Corley went before Magii 1 trate T. F. Hahn, at North August this morning, and swore out the wa: rant. The officers state that the 1 have the most positive proof againi the men, a number of eye-witness* ' having been found. Sheriff Corle 1 said to-night, as did the other office] J with him, that the credit for the a rest of the men is due to the effor of Chief of Police Ellliott and h * force of men in Augusta. Mr. Bulloc - of the Southern said that Chief Ell } ott should have the praise. Felton Gilbert, the negro who wi ^ picked up in Columbia on Sunday ar * who alleges that he was rough treated while on the train and final 5 thrown from the car while it was 2 motion and injured, was broug' from Columbia by Deputy Sheri 7 Miller this afternoon and is beii ' held in a room to himself. Gilbe * says that he will be able to identi his assailants upon, sight and he w be given an opportunity to-morrc r morning of doing so. 5 Under Special Guard. The jail is under special guard t r night The men charged with tl * crime and the witnesses are beii * kept in separate cells. * It is not known whether the a 7 cused will ask for a preliminar 5 The officers of the Southern Railwj J will Temain in Lexington until aft * to-morrow, awaiting devek>pmen1 Should a preliminary be order* Chief Elliott of the Augusta polii ' force will come over and appear as i witness. * Further than the statement th; f they have positive proof of the slayi of Williams, the officers will not gr out anything. Should all the m< j have to be kept locked up the sheri j will have a problem on his hands, ; the jail will hardly hold them and . is likely that some of them will hai to be sent to the penitentiary. According to the statement of tl r officers Chas. Hagenbeck, head of tl circus, did all in his power to he] find the guilty parties. He even wei so far as to tell the officers to ho] the entire company over if necessar; Arrested on Arson Charge. Lexington, Oct. 1.?Jake Gadsdei a negro, was lodged in jail last nigl with the charge of arson restin J against him, it having been allege that he set fire to the house or ?1. t Van8ant, a prominent lumber deale of New Brookland, on last Monda night. Gadsden was arrested upo suspicion, but nothing has bee learned as to the nature of the cii cumstances connecting him with th crime. However, the negro bitterl denies his guilt. There is no doubt but that the cot ton crop is very short in this sec tion, but if the price keeps up th farmers will not be in such bad shap after all. NEWSPAPER DESTROYED. - L'iX} I ?? Manager Says Labor Unions Respon' sible for Explosion Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 1.?The I building occupied by the Times Publishing Company was destroyed by fire early this morning. The death list is estimated at between fifteen and twenty. The fire was preceded by an ex| plosion in the building, which was ' immediately enveloped in flames. The explosion occurred on the second floor of an addition to the old building. Crowds say they saw many men ^ fall back from the windows into the . ; names, utner leapea ana were ml jured. The entire building was in ruins at 1:45. ? In addition to the complete plant of the Times, the building contained ' the large jobbing and commercial j plant of the American Engraving Company. The property loss is esti'* mated at $500,000. There are said ^ to have been three distinct exploThe Times plant was run by electricity and no steam borers, so far e as known, were in the building. 3 Flames followed the explosion, and 1 those in the building had little ? chance to escape. The force of the explosion was greatest in the me e chanical department of the paper, 0 and the most of the dead and injured were members of that department. Harry E. Andrews, managing ed- w " itor, said the building was destroyed e by dynamite, by enemies of industrial Si freedom. He said the Times itself v could not be destroyed, but would ? .'-'Jill n soon be reissued from an auxiliary J' Dlant and would fight its battles to * the last. 1119 ' Gen. Harison Grey Otis, owner of the Times arrives from Mexico this }' afternoon. The management places the blame ? for the explosion on labor unions, , with which the paper has long had a bitter warfare. It is charged that MM unidentified persons placed a charge ' 3" of dynamite in a blind alley running a into the center of the building. The r~ explosion was heard for miles. All ^3 * the windows in the vicinity were ' shattered. There were between fifty ?8 and seventy-five employes in the 'y structure at the time. It is not yet known how many lives were lost. r" No other cause than dynamite is . }$jja ^ advanced by witnesses except one 18 by William Firman, a telegraph op' erator, who said he detected an x)dor of gas throughout the building in the night and called attention thereto. 18 Harry Plake and William Irwin ; v..:!f*a8 1 were arrested and locked up on susy picion, the former a few minutes af- 'yJaB y ter the explosion, the other still ln later. ' '^9 Responsible heads of the paper, ineluding Harry Chandler, assistant ?11 lg general manager, had narrow es- || capes. Chandler said there was no doubt the outrage can be laid to the ' : doors of labor unions. Wesley ,w Reeves, his seretary, has not been. found since the fire. It is believed he lost his life. Chandler, two hours |$3j ?" after the fire, ordered printing press- ;. J| ae es, linotypes and a stereotyping out- I g fit for a new plant from New York. The issue of the Times was gotten c" out to-day from the office of the Los :;?^?i y" Angeles Herald and an auxiliary of iy the Times in another part of the city. er The latter was established two years ?' ago and equipped, Chandler says, ^ with the expectation that the present ; plant would some day be destroyed. ' ^ Bomb Under His House. er Los Angeles, Oct. 1.?The secre7e tary of the Merchants and Manufactm urers' Association telephoned to the lg police station this morning that a charge of dynamite had been found under his house. Police were sent gjfj _ to investigate and said they had found a bomb. ie Los Angeles, Oct. 1.?Assistant ie Manager Chandler says an attempt to destroy the Times' auxliary plant was made a few minutes before the exld plosion at the main office. The chief y" of police says the building was apparently wrecked by dynamite. He said his men found some things which a, seem to point to the authors of the it calamity. g The union labor parade, scheduled d for Mondoy, was called off after a 3. meeting of the city officials and offici- >J ir als of the various labor councils, y The known dead are Harvey C. " ACJrno 1? T nvolapo .T WMIAV U JU1UC1 y vuno. JL4? T v*fc%vv, V* ft n Reaves, R. L. Sawyer and Harry L. y A laugh can hardly be called the center of gravity. The wise man will not disturb a sitting hen nor a quarrelsome woe Why are some newspapers like a e man with cold fSet? Because they suffer from poor circulation.