Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Sty? Bamberg i$eral& ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KNIGHT. Editor. * Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bam/ berg, being issued from a printing J office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, cylinder press, folder, two jobbers, all run by pleotrir nower. with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year, $1.00, or 10 cents a month for less than one .year. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under special head, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, and twelve months. Write for rates, nhitimrips tributes of respect, reso lutions, cards of thanks, and alJ no, tices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters of those pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and ad. - drqss of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are aot responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. ? Thursday, Nov. 17,1910. * ? If the vote in Greenville county is to be taken as an index to public sentiment in the Piedmont section of the State on the liquor question, it will be a long time before the upper tier , of counties go back to dispensaries. The vote in Greenville county was overwhelmingly against a return to BB - i p-r. dispensaries. The"* Press and Standard says that the lands in Warren township are as* sessed for taxation at $2.50 per acre, ' I' and if the township goes to Bamberg county it will be assessed ai 10 $10 per acre according to the Bamberg standard. Our contemporary ought to know that the highest as* sessment on farming land in Bamberg county is $5.00 per acre, and some of this land has been sold in large tracts at about $100 per acre. ^ " We heard a few days ago of some land for which about $600 per acre had been offered and refused, which |*l % is returned for taxation at $5.00 per . acre. The Press and Standard states that Hon. C. W. Garris told the people of Warren township, on the occasion fejV of a recent visit to his old home, I that they would not better their conj dition by going to Bamberg county. Mr. Garris was a member of the party . who visited Smoaks on this occasion, i * the other gentlemen ia the crowd bel|v ^ ing irom Bamberg. We do not know from whom the Press and Standard received its information, but as a ? number of people from the Smoaks section heard the short speech of Mr. Ssf Garris, there should be no difficulty in establishing the tenor of his remarks. To settle the matter defin% itely, however, suppose our contemporary ask Mr. Garris what he said in his speech at the school house in o oiuvabs. A member of the house of representatives from Greenville county will introduce a bill in the next legislature to abolish social clubs, claiming that they confer special privileges on a certain class of citizens. is exactly right, and we hope such a bill may pass. We would like to see every social club in South Carolina abolished, for they allow their mem^ . bers to sell and keep whiskey when the poor man can't do it. Of course the city man is against the dispensary, for he gets all the whiskey he wants at his club, but it is a crime for the poor man to do likewise. We |;v are opposed to special privileges to anybody, and we therefore say abolv>"' ish evqry social club iu every city in the State, where it sells or stores liquor. That's, what you do where the members are laboring men. THAT BOND ISSUE. ?? We people in Bamberg county build good roads without issuing bonds and thereby increasing taxes, 5y~ neither have we a special levy of two mills for roads as has Colleton. Let us figure a little on the bond issue, which the Press and Standard heartily 'avors. A bond issue of ![K $300,000 would bear interest at not less than six per cent."which would be $lS.n00 a year,?an amount practically equal, mind you, to what BamberT srcnds for her entire county exr cnses. The two mill levy now in for. e in Colletos for roads is to be used to pay interest and create a sinhinz fund to retire the bonds. Deduct c' c',0( 0 from the $22,000 raised : t. by this tax and the 52 commutation tax an' yon have left $4,000 to create a sin' ing fund. At this rate it will tal<e seventy-five years to pile up a fund large enough to retire the ) bonds. If the people of Warn township can, by annexation to Bar berg county get rid of this two mi levy, the $2 commutation tax, ar the 5300,000 bond issue, why it wi pay them to come. Our friend states that taxes in Cc leton county are several mills le than in Bamberg when assesse values are taken into consideratio As we are anxious to get at the fac in this matter, suppose the Press ar Standard suggest some plan of se tling the question finally. We belies taxes are lower in Bamberg than Colleton, at least no higher, with i ?300,000 bond issue contemplate But we may be mistaken We kno one thing, and that is the report < the comptroller general gives Bar berg, a lower levy than Colleto and that the lands in Fishpor township in this county, which a joins Warren township in Colleto are not assessed any higher, in fa not so high, as those in Warren. T1 average there we understand is som thing like $2.00 an acre again $2.50 in Warren. But the assertic of our contemporary that taxes ai several mills lower in Colleton ths in Bamberg assessed values consi' er d, proves nothing, for he mak< the bald assertion with no proof ba( of it. If there is any way to get i it, we will join with him in gettir the facts. "Nothing extenuate or s? down aught in malice" is our moti in this matter, and we are not tryir to induce the good people of Warn township to annex to Bamberg. stated in the outset that we woul welcome them, which is true, but v stated that it was a matter for thei a ti'ir i r> + V iu UCUIUC in a uuoijuuoo naj , xu vx light of their best interest. We b< lieve they are competent to deck this matter for themselves, that th will look carefully into all these ma ers of taxation, etc., which will a feet them, and that, having done s> they will decide to cast their lot wit Bamberg. COULDN'T LEAVE HUSBAND. Wife Kills Spouse and Attempts t End Her Own Life. New York, Nov. 14.?Dr. theodoi Burgtorf was shot and killed by h wife, Anna, in their home in Broc Borough to-day. After shooting her husband, Mr Burgtorf turned the revolver on he self, the bullet entering her abd< men. She was taken, in an uncoi scious condition, to a hospital, whei it was said she probably would di< It developed that Mrs. Burgtorf ha been long the victim of a facial dii ease, which caused her great pail This, she gasped out at the hospita made her wish to die and she sh< ner husband, who is a prominent phj sician, because she could not bear t leave him. The physician was shot as he la sleeping, the bullet penetrating h side. When Burgtorf rolled to th floor and breathed his last his wil quickly shot herself twice in the al domen and side. Before she lapsed into unconscioui ness she told the story of her su ferjng and the consequence. Of h? husband she said: "I just couldn't bear to die an him hohinH " ahp mnanei 1VU ? t ifttUl v..v - "Jealousy! Yes, thaft is what it wa: Maybe it was selfishness of me, but just could not help it." Although in an extremely critici condition, Mrs. Burgtorf refused t let the hospital surgeons operate o her to-night. She was determine to die, she said feebly, and woul sanction no attempt to prolong he ufe. Calf Loses Life for Money. Spartanburg, Nov. 14.?A Clifto calf who chewed up a pocketboo containing $118 in paper bills, is o fered as choice veal at a local ma: ket to-night, while the predigeste money is in a local bank awaitin shipment to Washington for redem] tion. The money thus rescued from tt intestines of the heifer belonged 1 Mrs. Luther Calvert, who resided i Clifton. Sunday afternoon she dro] ped the purse, and the calf immed ately picked it up and put it on h< inside pocket. A search for the mis ing pocketbook was instituted, ar the discovery of a quarter which ha been in the purse in the cow lot le to the suspicion that the calf ha gotten the money. The calf lookf guilty they say, and it was decided i consult a veterinary surgeon. T1 surgeon said an operation would 1 necessary and that the patient wou! have to die on the table. The oper A-: ?" " AAAnr-fn 1 on/1 + Vi r* m r\rw 11UI1 was sutccooiui auu tut uiuui was recovered. \ Call's Tale of Kissing. "The late Senator Wilkinson Call said a Jacksonville lawyer, "believ< in early marriages and in the habi of industry, sobriety and econon that such marriages induce. "I once heard him say in an a dress to the youth of Jacksonville: " 'It is true, and we should be gl? it is true, that many a young nu has been sentenced to hard labor f life for kissing a pretty girl.' Washington Star. ;n MAX SLAYER KILLb.i). D ill "Had .Jake" Xoble, 22 Years Olcl l(* Slayer of Three Men, Killed, ill Lexington. Ky., Nov. 14.?"Bai: Jake" Noble, aged 22, who shot an<: ss killed Wesley Turner, jailer c Breathitt county, in Jackson las n- Tuesday night, was shot to death b;: ts a sheriff's posse in Knott county to 1(* day. Only meagre details have beei t_ received, but it is reported that whei ^'e the posse led by the sheriff of Knot *n county called on Noble to surrende 10 he made an effort to resist, and wa: d- promptly riddled with bullets. Re w wards had been offered for the cap* ture of Noble dead or alive. Nobli Q- killed three men. After the shootinj n? of Turner he escaped into the mouc. ld tains and several bands of men hav< d- been searching for him since. n? Noble was first heard from in Loe. rtf . i n i i. j u . vv ureen vauey, wnere ior iwu aays n< ie was under the protection of armei e~ henchmen. The first message to th< st county authorities was: "If you seni >n posses to attemptr to arrest me, yoi re had better send along a coffin fo Ln each man." d- ^ gs How Trail Was Obscured. :k at Chester, Nov. 9.?As the whole af ig ternoon was taken up with the tech st nical work of putting in evidence Jno to Black's bank business in Savanna! ig and Walterboro, I have asked W. F >n Stevenson to give me a statement ai fe to what it revealed, id "This does not relate to the maiT re conspiracy," he said, "but shows pow m erful evidences of wrong doing. 1 ie shows that John Black betweei e= March and December, while on th< le board, handled over $15,000. Th< ;y evidence shows that the original de t- posits were made in Savannah ant f- that when John Black wished to ge o, some of that money, instead of draw ;h ing on it directly, he would draw ot his brother, Henry W. Black, at Wal lerDoro ana at cue same time wuun send Henry W. Black his own checl on Savanah with which to pay tht 10 draft and the money would get to Co lumbia in this indirect way. An ex *e act instance is the case of the $2, is 500 draft on John T. Early put ir ix evidence to-day. In April 1906, Johi Black drew on his brother for $2, s. 000 and the same day for $500 ? John Black sent Henry Black th< > $2,500*draft on Early with which t( i- pay these two drafts and in that waj *e it was not known at the bank in Co e- lumbia that Early had given Blacl d the $2,500 and made it appear tha1 5_ the money came from Henry W a- Black." GYLES WINS IN AIKEN. i- ~'"" 0 Prominent Attorney Nominated foi Mayor of City. ,v is Aiken, Nov. 14.?The contest foi the nomination for mayor of the citj fe ended to-day, when Herbet E. Gyles )_ Esq., defeated L. M. C. Oliveros, th< opposing candidate, by a vote of 20( 5- to 105. In the primary held lasi f- Monday, Gyles received 159 vote) ;r and Oliveros 72. Mr. Gyles is a well known youn^ d lawyer and is prominent in all th< i. affairs of the town and has taken i B. prominent part in the affairs of fra 1 ternal organizations, especially th< Knight of Pythias. He is secretarj il of the Aiken County Fair Associa jo tion. n __ I .. mm * . Aegro Attempts suicrae. >d d Camden, Nov^l2.?Henry Brown Jr a negro preacher from the Blane] section, on Thursday night drank i disinfectant mixture in an attempt t< kill himself in the Kershaw countj n jail, where he had been placed on i k charge of forgery. He is in a criti f- cal condition. The negro before th< r- attempt wrote a reproachful letter t( d his wife accusing her of mistreating ig him. ? PREACHER IN THE HEN HOUSE le 0 Then Sold Chickens to Anothei it Preacher. ?i_ Spartanburg, Nov. 13.?A negri ?r preacher visited the henhouse of th< s- Rev. Lewis M. Roper, pastor of th? id First Baptist church, of this city, an< Ld took seven fine hens, which wer< jd later sold to the Rev. W. H. K. Pen id dleton, pastor of the church of th< ?d Advent, in this city, to Preacher Henry Worley, as he i ie known from the pulpit, or Clareno 3e Thacker, as he is known when foS Id lowing his other vocation, was sus a- pected of the theft, and the police de -?. ??^Viio Vinmo Mo wfl ay pai LlUCUi scai ijivu i"u UVU.V. arrested, and the Rev. Mr. Rope was present at the trial when th case was called, and positively iden , ' tified his birds. The Rev Mr. Pen ?d dleton identified the negro as bein: ts the one who sold them to him, an' iy Worley or Thacker was convicted. When the officers visited his hom d- they also found a bicycle that wa stolen from J. A. Tillinghast, pre id fessor at Converse College. Whe: in the negro completes a sentence o or three months for the city he will b ? tried in the circuit court on th charge of the larceny of a bicycle. WILL BE MADE SPEAKER. I, Champ Clark is Reasonably Sure of His Election. 1 St. Louis, Nov. 13.?Congressman 1 Champ Clark, accompanied by memf bers of his family, left here to-night t for Washington, where he will begin v his work in connection with the - forthcoming session of congress. In i discussing his candidacy for the i speakership of the house, Mr. Clarke t said: r "I believe I will be elected. No s other member has announced his - candidacy. I would not be surprised - if somebody else would announce, e and I would not be surprised if nol body else should. It is natural that - somebody else besides me should b want to be speaker." On the prospects of the action of t the new Democratic majority in the e house, the minority leader said: i "The Democratic success at last a Tuesday's elcetion was due to the 1 fight on the rules in the house and i dissatisfaction with the tariff law. I r suppose we will revise it, cautiously and wisely. We will get together as soon as congress meets and have a conference on the tariff and other matters. It is necessary for the Dem ocrats at the beginning of the next - congress, for it is the first time in 14 years that the Democrats have had a i congress, and there are only three . Democrats elected to the next cons gress who ever sat before in a congress with a Democratic majority. i These are Jones, of Virginia, Talbott, - of Maryland and myself. Talbott has t been a member off and on for 26 i years. I am completing my 16th * year. Only four men from Missouri 5 ever had a longer service in con gress?Bartholdt, Phelps, DeArmond 1 and Bland." t ? $100 Reward, $100. i The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at leasi one dreaded disease that science has 1 been able to cure in all its stages, c and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh ? Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treat - ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taker i internally, acting directly upon the . blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the founda" tion of the disease, and giving the . patient strength by building up the 3 constitution and assisting nature ir j doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative ' powers that they offer One Hundred - Dollars for any case that it fails tc i cure. Send for list of testimonials. . - Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Murder Charge from Football. r Wheeling, . W. Va., Nov. 12.?A warrant for Thomas McCoy, right r end of the Bethany college football . team, charging him with murder in connection with the death of Capt. I 'Rudolph Munk of the West Virginia j university team was issued here tot day by Magistrate R. G. Hobbs. The 3 action followed partial completion of the inquest by Coroner W. W. Rogr ers. i Munk sustained injuries in the L game between the two teams hens Saturday from which he died within 3 five hours without regaining conr sciousness. The testimony upon which the warrant was issued was furnished principally by Homer N. Young, a Pittsburg attorney, who umpired the tro mo Vmine taatifipri that: Munk r was making interference and was a , few yardii in front of the scrimmage , line when McCoy came up to the . West Virginia captain, striking him t in the head. Munk fell to the ground . unconscious and Young ordered Mc5 Coy from the field, j The autopsy disclosed the fact that T Munk's death was caused by a blood clot at the base of his brain and could not have been the result of a former injury. The dead athelete's body was removed to-day to his home r at Connellsville, Pa. McCoy lives at Canton, Ohio. 3 Not Sorry for Blunder. a "If my friends hadn't blundered ir ~ thinking I was a doomed victim oi 3 consumption, I might not be alive 1 now," writes D. T. Sanders, of Har2 rodsburg, Ky., "but for years thej _ saw every attempt to cure a lungracking cough fail. At last I triec e Dr. King's New Discovery. The effect was wonderful. It soon stopped s the cough and I am now in bettei e health than I have had for years This wonderful life-saver is an un" rivaled remedy for coughs, colds, la grippe, asthma, croup, hemorrhages - whooping cough or weak lungs. 50c s $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaran teed by People's Drug Co., Bamberg r S. C. e m Takes Overdose of Poison. - VT r> m g uiinton, i\uv. a.?i. Duuci r C15U d son, a well known citizen of this . county, living between Clinton ant e Renno took an overdose of strychnine s yesterday afternoon which brought or i- death. Mr. Ferguson has been it n bad health for a long time and hac f been accustomed to taking stryche nine tablets for some affection of the e heart to which he was subject. He had many relatives in this county. 1 , .. A; . .. .... . ... ' .. fijft We can interest the careful and discriminating furniture A ]?? buyer. If you w;ant tasty home furnishings, let us show ir\ VP you our stock. We are very particular as to workman- w ship and finish of our furniture, and if you buy from us A /S you get the benefit of our discriminating judgment. Our a v{? line of furniture and house furnishings for the fall and winter season is complete. Really, we could not say more jjs if we used a column of space, but you can find here hand- jX ^ ? Bedroom Suits, Wardrobes, Tables, Chairs, Side- 5g | ? boards, Rockers, Lounges, Mattings, Rugs, Etc. ? @ Just remember that we can supply your wants complete- A a ly in our line. We are particular as well about our i A , p Plenty of things in this line to interest you. We also \ A ' ' i * carry Coffins and Caskets, Lime, Cement. We handle the at 1 genuine Oliver chilled plows. We sell the Avery 9-blade . m J | Few Latest Just In 1I i I MRS.LLSMICI^CO.,Bamberg,S.C. 1 "| Reduced Prices! Every article in our large new v|8j stock is being sold at greatly S reduced prices; come and see. Jf|H We have an immense line of everything in FURNITURE, also Coffins and Caskets, and j[ we must reduce. .'. .*. .*. G. 0. SIMMONS 1 ^Furniture Store - - - - Bamberg, S. C.^ ,||g I jv (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium) I ^ " vffijH Prompt Powerfnl Permanent I Its beneficial ef- Stubborn cases Good results are ** 'iSH fects are usually yield to P. P. P.' lasting?it cures H felt very quickly when other medi- you to stay cured cines are useless Makes rich, red, pure blood?cleanses the entire I H ewctom r? tbp brain ? strengthens digestion and nerves. | i I A positive specific for Blood Poison and skin diseases. B I I Drives out Rheumatism and Stops the Pain; ends Malaria; I * I is a wonderful tonic and body-builder. Thousands endorse it. [ F. V. L1PPMAN, SAVANNAH, OA. | | |New Goods at Hunters 1 jfl ' to Hunter's Hardware Store for Sugar Cane Mills, Sugar Kettles, Two-Horse Turn Plows, Field jX ^ Wire Fence, Heaters, Ranges, Grates, Bugggy aE '-|jj ? Robes, Sulky Plows, Barbed Wire, Axes, Paints, V %, ^ ? Guns, Bicycles, Tricycles, Boys' Wagons, Athletic ? ? Sweaters, Foot Balls, Christmas Goods and Toys, ? ^ Brass Andirons, Oil Heaters, Nails, Harness, ? > jjgk Leather, Pumps, Piping, Tinware, Glassware, CrockI Nc ery, Wall Paper, Alabastine, Frescoat, Wall Stains, jx 5 a Food Choppers, Lard Presses, Gun Shells and Am? ? i ? munition. We also handle Hard and Soft Coal. ? .V, ||? 1 f J. A. HUNTER iili