The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 05, 1911, Page 3, Image 3
M FIVE DIE IX EXPLOSION.
Score More Injured when Blasting
Powder Went Off.
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El Paso, Tex. Dec. 28.?Five persons
are known to have been killed,
fc* . a score injured and an extensive
S& property damage resulted to-day,
when workmen at the plant of the
American Smelter and Refining Company,
in endeavoring to destroy a
slag pile, accidentally exploded 2.
400 pounds of blasting powder. The
explosion partially wrecked the smelting
plant and many small houses in
the immediate vicinity, while window
glasses three miles distant were
Sr broken.
Men were tunnelling under the
slag mound when the explosion oc^
curred. Eight of the workmen in
the tunnels furthest removed were
^ , taken out alive, bruised and lacerating
At nightfall two bodies had been
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explosion. Three other workmen
cannot he communicated with, and it
is not thought that they are alive.
In other tunnels imprisoned workmen
are signalling to the rescuers
and the work of rescue is proceeding
to-night. All the dead are Mexicans.
Crushed to Death.
Charleston, Dec. 26.?M. G. Copeland,
night engineer at the power sta-* -
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HOii UI Lilt; t-/LHi?uiiuatcu xvainva; uwmpany
on Sullivan's Island, was caught
in the belting'of the machinery and
killed shortly after midnight.
Copeland and the fireman were
^ alone in the power station. At the
time the engineer met his death, according
to the fireman's statement,
the latter's duties took him elsewhere
in the station, so that he did
* not witness it. The clogging of the
man's body in the machinery is said
to have affected its operation and
first gave the fireman notice that
something had happened.
It required eight hours to take the
^ machinery partly to pieces and rel
move the bier wheel which held Cope
land's body to the floor. Copeland's
wife was waiting her husband's arrival,
having prepared a hot meal for
him, when she was notified of his
? death.
Other casualties marked the day,
and the hospitals have many cases
of accidental shooting, burns and
victims of the ready use of the pistol.
The coroner took the ante mortem
I statement of several of the patients
1 to-day.
k Gave Masonic Sign.
B Aiken, Dec. 22.?Nearly eight
n years ago Ben Beauford, a well
? known white man of the Hawthorne
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ed a negro, Larry Blackgan, under
what was revealed to be most revolting
circumstances. Seven year3
ago he was tried in this county and
convicted of manslaughter and sent
to the penitentiary for 12 years.
To-day his body lies in the grave
. near his old home. Beauford died
|T in the penitentiary of pneumonia and
jg... v his body was broughf back home for
^ burial, yesterday. This ends one of
the most celebrated murder cases
ever known in this country. There
i* are very many who vividly recall the
trial and its revelations. It came out
E' that Beauford had been intimate
with Blackman's wife and when
Blackman protested to Beaufort the
latter shot him dead.
An unusual feature of the trial is
| 2 still remembered. Judge Gage presided
at the trial. Beauford was a
h ? Mason, and so was Judge Gage. Just
* as the judge was about to pass sentence
on Beauford the latter displayed
his Masonic emblem and some say
[he gave a Masonic sign. This brought
from Judge Gage one of the most
scathing rebukes ever heard in the
court room. He told Beauford he
had disgraced the order to which he
purported to belong and that instead
of it tending to lessen his crime it
made it all the greater and concluded
by telling him that he should go to
the jury and thank them for saving
his life. The incident was much
M talked about at the time.
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Xegro in Bed Room.
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^ from their slumber at four o'clock
R this morning, Dr. and Mrs. Tracy
Becker discovered a negro in their
bed room in the act of rifling the
pockets of Dr. Becker's overcoat,
which was hanging on the wall. In
4 haste Dr. Becker lighted the gas
if -while the negro crouched under the
f . bed in an attempt to hide. The in}
' furiated doctor pulled the fellow out
by the legs and then gripped him by
the throat. In the meantime, Mrs.
Becker called up the police station.
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An officer hastened to the scene and
took the negro in charge. The fellow's
name is Isaac Washington.
In a preliminary hearing to-day,
in which he was bound over to the
general sessions court on the charge
of burglary and grand larceny, Washington
admitted that he knew there
was money in the overcoat and that
he tried to steal it. He said he
thought he would hide under the
bed and that he would be undiscovered.
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HOW THE MONEY GOES.
United States Senators Graft Upon
Uncle Sam.
United States senators appear in
the role of youngsters asking Uncle
Sam for all manner of luxuries and
toys, from automobiles to horehound
! drops, in the annual report of the
I secretary of state, which shows that
| the senators cost the United States
| $2,012,374.52 from July 1; 1909, to
June 30, 1910. This money includes
everything from railroad fare to the
j price of bottles of perfumery, manicure
scissors, lemons, sugar and soft
pillows.
Any one who has a lurking suspicion
that senators don't imbibe water
freely should glance at the record of
$1,834 spent for apolinaris water.
More than $3,000 was expended for
other mineral waters. Three goldframed
mirrors for senators stand
Uncle Sam $64 each. One day Senator
Bourne called up Senator Aldrich
over the long distance telephone between
Washington and Providence;
cost of conversation, $2.50.
The automobile of Vice-President
Sherman cost $2,000 to operate.
Senators are strong on telegrams.
Page after page is devoted to telegraphic
items. The bust of former
President Roosevelt cost $800.
The Dangerous Fly.
A fly in the house is as dangerous
as a rattlesnake, as filthy as a louse,
as disgraceful as a bedbug. The time
will come when any modern, cleanly
home will feel itself shamed and disgraced
by the presence of a fly, and
when every householder upon whose
premises a brood of flies is detected,
will be fined heavily and be sent to
jail. The fly is a literal "eye of the
LoTd" because he is in every place
beholding evil and the good, especially
the evil, for he loves to lay
eggs in it. You can't hide dirt from
a fly. He is also the most intimate
and domestic animal we breed and
keep. An ounce of cleanness is worth
a ton of fly paper and wire screens.
One-half the money wasted on fly
traps and window screens, one-fifth
the energy squandered in slapping
| and profanity, would clean up the
I backyard and wipe out the fly.
WORK BEGINS ON DEPOT.
One Ordered for Branchville Will at
Last be Bnilt.
Branchville, Dec. 28.?Work was
begun this week on the erection of
the new freight depot for Branchville.
W. M. Warren, of this town,
has the contract and already has torn
down part of the old depot and started
the new work. A temporary depot
is being erected on the Augusta
side for the handling of the freight
while the new one is in course of
construction.
Last winter the legislature passed
a bill requiring a new freight
depot and the reconstruction of the
passenger depot. The work has been
long delayed, but it is to be rushed
to completion.
Follows Trail of Man.
Colquitt, Ga., Jan. 1.?Nineteen
days on the trail of the man who, he
alleges, stole his wife and children,
and carrying a Winchester rifle in his
buggy and swearing that he will go
to the ends of the earth to find the
object of his search, William Boatwright,
a white man, drove into Colquitt
late j*esterday evening and out
again to-day. He has driven this far
from his home in Florida, he says,
and the indications are that he is
gaining on the alleged fugitives.
Boatwright, believing he would
soon overtake the man he was following,
swore out a warrant hdre,
charging Frank McGowan with kidnapping.
Boatwright wants to get his
children, and says he will get them
by peaceable means if possible. That
is why he secured the warrant. If
he should fail he says he will still
have the rifle to fall back on. He
was accompanied from here by Deputy
Sheriff F. B. Adams who has the
warrant and is aiding Boatwright in
his efforts to overtake the alleged
fugitives.
Boatwright says he followed McGowan
from Florida to Alabama and
from there back to Georgia.
Scalp Taken Off in Mill.
Newberry, Dec. 31.?Mrs. Bessie
Hasell was completely scalped when
her hair caught in a speeder in the
card room of the Mollohon mill this
morning, and there are meagre hopes
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the machine cleaning off the work
when her hair caught in a set screw
on the revolving top comb, the hair
winding around the comb and jerking
off the entire scalp. Four doctors
are with her.
Mrs. Hasell is about twenty-three
years old. She is a daughter of Mrs.
Troutman.
She has been married twice, and
has three small children.
The mill authorities state it is positively
against orders to undertake to
clean the machines or to get under
them while running. The injury inflicted
is one of the most horrible
imaginable.
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ATTACKED BY NEGRO.
Young Lady Grabbed by Man When
She Answered Door.
On Wednesday evening a negro
made an attack upon a young lady
who lives at the home of Mrs. J. R.
Bain, 190 South Dean street. Every
possible clue is being worked out by
the officers of the city, but as yet the
negro has not been caught.
It is said that the negro called at
the house and asked where some
other negro lived. Being told, he
left to return in a few moments, and
the same young lady answered the
door. On opening the door the negro
said to the young lady, "Com^ to
me;" whereupon he grabbed her.
Screaming at the top of her voice,
she jerked awray, and her shirtwaist
was torn. The negro then left and
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Officer Turner and Capt. Moss
Hayes went to the house and got a
description of the negro. One negro
was caught and on being taken to
the home of the young lady she said
that he was not the one. She declares
that she could identify the negro
if he is caught.?Spartanburg
Journal.
Ring was False and Husband, Too.
Claiming that both her husband
and the engagement ring he gave her
were false, Mrs. Georgia Liu Miller,
aged 17, of Atlanta, Ga., has filed
suit for divorce against Frank Max
Miller. The petition relates that
the couple were married November
18 of this year and that December 6
the husband disappeared and has not
been heard from since. Mrs. Miller
says necessity forced her to take her
ring to a pawn broker. Miller had
told her it cost $290. The pawn
broker informed her that the ring
was worth about a dollar.
Drain and Clean off the Fields.
Of things which may be done this
fall and winter in preparation for
next year's crop, there is none quite
so important as drainage. It is true
that all the land may not be drained
this winter, but if one hundred acres
can not be drained this winter, is
that any reason why the ten acres
which need it most should not be
drained? Or, if not ten, then five,
or as much as can he drained.
Tile drainage is the best, but if
that is not possible, is that any good
reason for neglecting the drainage
question entirely?
Over a large part of the South
there are ditches, gullies, galled
spots, stumps, bushes and trees
which interfere with the use of machinery,
break the cultivated lands
up into patches and prevent economical
cultivation. Can not something
be done this winter to remove these
obstructions to good farming??Raleigh
(N. C.) Progressive Farmer and
Gazette.
To be Made Self-Sustaining.
That Postmaster Hitchcock is determined
to put the postoffice department
on a self-sustaining basis is eviT
denced in the annual report of the
third assistant-postmaster general
made public last Tuesday. Though
the expenditures of the department
for the past year are in excess of the
receipts, there is a marked decrease
for the past year when compared with
those of a year ago. The total postal
receipts for the fiscal year 1910 aggregated
$224,128,657.62. This is an
increase of $20,566,274.55 or 10.10
per cent, when compared with those
of the preceding year. The expenditures
for the past year amounted to
$229,977,224.50, an excess of expenditures
over receipts of $5,848,566.88.
To this deficit should be
added the sum of $32,915.07, lost
by burglary, fire, bad debts, etc.,
making a total deficit of $5,881,481.95,
a decrease of $11,598,288.52
when compared with the deficit, of
the fiscal year 1909.
LOST HIS CASE AND HEART.
Defeated Lawyer Weds His Successful
Lady Opponent.
New York, Dec. 28.?Harris Kop-1
pelman, a lawyer, of 302 Broadway,
had a case in the 2nd District Municipal
Court, on Madison avenue, a few
months ago, in which the opposing
counsel was Miss Esther Kuntsler,
of 198 Rivington street. Koppelman
lost his case, and at the same time
his heart. Yesterday they were married
in the presence of 700 friends
in the Congregation Ahab Zedek, on
Norfolk street.
After the decision in the case in
which they were antagonists the two
became fast friends and soon their
friendship blossomed into love. He
reminded her that she had defeated
him in one case. She replied that j
she would be happy to make it up,
to him.
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. Dr. Philip Klein. Everyone
wished the bride and bridegroom happiness
through life, with no repetition
of the situation which led to
their first meeting.
After the wedding they left for a
honeymoon trip through the South.
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CHARGED WITH FORGERY.
Arrested in Spartanburg, Said to
Have 'Confessed.
Spartanburg, Dec. 31.?Clarence
Green, colored, has been arrested
and has confessed to forging two
checks, one for $7 and another for
$8, according to the police. On November
19 a check was presented to
the Central National Bank for payment,
drawn on a blank which had
the firm's name printed on it and
which had to be signed by the president.
This check was for $7 and
was paid. This morning Clarence
Green' Dresented to the same bank
a check with the name of C. H.
Hardy, as president of the BarnesAttaway
Printing. Company forged.
This check was for $S and payment
was refused. The negro was held
and the police notified. He at first
denied his guilt, claiming that he had
found the check, but finally he confessed,
it is stated.
A Chance to Make Money.
A young man who had been out of
employment for some time and to
whom money had become a stranger
stood on the Walnut street bridge
over the Schuylkill gazing down at
the water.
Suicide was in his mind, but he
was afraid to seek death by drowning
and only contemplated it when
he realized that he had no money to
purchase poison, a rope or something
of the sort.
As he was standing there a well
dressed man accosted, him.
"Young man, do you want to earn
$4?" he said.
"Four dollars!" gasped the unfortunate,
to whom the sum sounded
like a million. "Lead me to it," he
said.
"Come along," said the stranger
as he led the way across the bridge.
The young man followed, a new
hope gleaming from his eyes.
The stranger led the way to a
room on a side street off Walnut.
"Here we are," he said.
"Well, how am I going to earn
those $4?" asked the young man.
"Well, you see, I'm a little hard
up for cash," said the stranger, "and
I'm going to sell you a pair of $5
shoes for a dollar!"?Philadelphia
Press.
THE YEAR IN BAMBERG.
Increase in Value of Lands One oi
Most Notable Features.
"Mr. M. W. Brabham, the Bamberg
correspondent of The State, writes
as follows to his paper concerning
the progress of the past year in this
county:
Bamberg, Dec. 31.?The past 12
months have witnessed many things
which indicate progress in this county.
Despite short crops caused by
excessive rains, conditions have been
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nfore time and labor in studying their
business and methods; the Farmers'
and Merchants' bank of Ehrhardt has
been established; the Citizens Exchange
bank of Denmark has been
successfully organized and run; the
F. W. Free company of Bamberg has
been established; the Mayflower Inn,
perhaps the finest hostelry in lower
Carolina has been completed; automobile
garages have been put up:
new business houses have been erected
in every town in the county, especially
in Bamberg; the Bamberg
Men's league has been reorganized;
the Edisto river project has been agitated;
the building of a railroad from
Bamberg to Ehrhardt so as to connect
with the Atlantic Coast Line has
received considerable attention.
Notable land sales have taken
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place, one piece selling at the rate
of $75 per acre. Perhaps the advance
in prices of real estate has been
the most notable sign of progress in
the entire county. New residences
hav been ercted, among these being
the very handsome and complete
dwelling of Mayor J. Aldrich Wyman.
Tragedy Due to Mistake.
Greensboro, N. C., Dec. 21.?Enraged
because he was upbraided for
attempting to gain admission to his
own home, James Cooper, a farmer
of Randolph county, went to the
home of a neighbor, secured a shotgun,
and, returning, emptied the contents
into the body of the intruder,
who proved to be James Campbell, a
neighbor, who had entered Cooper's
home while intoxicated and gone to
bed. *
Campbell was brought to a hospital
here and to-night physicians state
that he has an even chance for recovery.
The family of Cooper was away for
the night and shortly after dark
Campbell was seen to enter the house
by neighbors. ^
About 9 o'clock the owner arrived
only to find all entrances securely
focforiofl T-Tie poIIc \\-prp flnSWPrPfl
by abusive words and thinking the
intruder was a burglar, Cooper left,
soon returning with a shotgun and
firing point blank at the huddled
form which lay across his own bed.
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mules^ou ever saw. We will be get- K g
ting in other loads soon, and you may Est
be sure we can supply your wants j $
satisfactorily at all times. Give us a IS
call if you need stock for any purpose | g
We also have a mighty nice lot of
Buggies and Harness, and can equip w
;7p you with a stylish turnout complete. ?
?9 Let us serve you. You will find us |l|
IS liberal as to prices and dealings. 2 If
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^ To shoot partridges and doves and yon should see ^
l| to it that your gun is in first-class shape so as to be *9i
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^ itself. To be certain that it is right you should ^
v bring your gun to me, and I will fix it up for you at
Jm a most reasonable price. I also repair pistols, bi- A* ygjmk
2* cycles, automobiles; in fact I run a first-class repair
flE* shop. Also hicycie ana amomouue pans m siulk
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' Are yoo going to the meeting?" "Yes. I'll be ready when yon come."
Women living on farms and in rural districts ?-If
haven't time to seek and enjoy social pleasures. ?M
- Distances are too great?the work is too urgent.
Women grow lonesome and listless when robbed
of these pleasures. ^ifl
The Rural Telephone m
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bors and friends and keep alive to the news of the day.
Our free booklet tells how you can have a telephone in
your home at small cost. Women living in the country
should write for it. Address :i|
Farmers Line Department
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE 1
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