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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
p News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
? Ehrhardt, March 27.?Rain Saturday
night, more rain all day Sunday,
and still more rain Sunday night, was
yesterday's record.
Some of our marksmen went out
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last week. Walked themselves tired
L , trying to get a shot at them. Time
|:;i came for them to meet at the auto,
so their game and luck had to be
exhibited. No. 1 threw down a sparrow
from his hunting sack; No. 2
j nothing, but said he saw four doves
fly over the field; No. 3 exhibited a
small speckled sap sucker; No. 4
y said he had none at all, but thinks
he heard a rabbit run off in the
( ' woods. Great Nimrods!
Our governor and lawyer Felder,
of Atlanta, Ga., remind us of two
little dogs separated by a fence.
Can't get to each other through the
L the cracks, but, oh, my! such angry
growling and snapping at each other,
my then it's all over and neither has
shown his fighting ability.
Annie, the small locomotive of the
Hacker - M'f'g. Co., came Saturday
J'v night; four or five car loads of iron
were umoaueu ias>L wetrjs., ?u wim
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.considerable work done laying track
I and cross ties, Annie's voice can be
V heard as she charges through the
woods to get logs.
Farmers are busy this morning
since the rain, working around their
houses and looking after the garden
work. JEE.
Jack Johnson Put in Jail.
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2 San Francisco, March 28.?Jack
Johnson, prize fighter, is in jail tonight,
and unless some higher court
comes to his relief on a technicality,
he will serve a 25-day sentence for
automobile speeding.
Johnson has often been an offender
of the speed laws. After 14 arrests,
from which he escaped with light
fines or disimissal, he ran against
acting Police Judge Treadwell last
Thursday. On that day he pleaded
guilty to a charge of speeding and on
B; Saturday he was sentenced to jail.
He took an appeal to the superior
court and this afternoon Judge Mor
gan dismissed the appeal and orderly
J ed him into immediate custody.
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Ten minutes later two ueyuij* duuIiffs
had him in charge, bound for
H the county jail.
Gaynor Free at Last.
New York, March 26.?John A.
Gaynor, just released from the federal
prison at Atlanta, Ga., where he
jr and his partner, Benj. F. Greene,
were sent for frauds estimated at
$.2,000,000 in the contract for the
Savannah harbor improvements, arrived
here to-day, apparently a physical
wreck. He had to lean on his
1 son when he posed for newspaper
p photographers.
fV "I am an ill man. I've got locomotor
ataxia and I'm just out of jail.
!?' I have nothing to say worth the saye.
ing and I'm very tired.
"Give me a chance to get a little
rest and I'll tell you anything you
want," he said.
He went to a quiet hotel to rest
^ for a week or more.
Trouble With Pastor.
Tampa, Fla., March 27.?Trouble
growing out of sensational charges
nrmntor Aliartroc hptwPPTl mem- I
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^ bers of the congregation of the First
Congregational church of Tampa,
eame to a head this afternoon when
| " Rev. Robert Lee Kirkland was served
with two injunctions staying him
from trying three prominent memL
?ers for stirring up strife in the
| thurch.
One of the injunctions was secures.
ed by Mrs. Hugh C. Macfarlane, wife
; ~y of one of the wealthiest citizens of
To inno an H the other hv W "KV "Rar-I
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? rltt, a member of the city council.
Both injunctions are predicated on
? charges that Kirkland has no right to
W- . try the members and that he has
chosen only his friends on the trial
g committee, all of whom are prejudicj
, ed against the movants.
W,<,y So strong has the feeling among
the members of the congregation been
r||p that a special police officer i*as de- i
E* tailed to attend the church yesterday
i- Kiorning and preserve order. This
followed the serious chastisement of
: one member of the committee named
(| jfcy Kirkland to try the members by
J! the husband of Mrs. Macfarlane.
O'Riley is in town.
O'Riley is in town.
PARDON REFUSED JONES.
Branchville Attorney Who Killed Abe
Pearlstine Must Serve Sentence.
John J. Jones, the Branchville
attorney who was convicted in Orangeburg
county several months ago
on the charge of killing Abe Pearlstine,
of Branchville, has been refused
a pardon by Gov. Blease. He
was sentenced to serve 10 years and
30 days in the State penitentiary and
the appeal is pending in the supreme
court. He has been at the penitentiary
for safe-keeping since his conviction.
Several petitions were filed
for and there were many letters
against a pardon in this case.
Body Found in Well.
Morrison, Fla., March 28.?The
body of R. Copeland, Confederate veteran,
who has been missing since December,
was found in a 30 foot well
to-day. All indications point to murder
as the skull of the victim was
crushed in and the body covered by
debris to shield the crime. It is
known that Copeland had considerable
money before he disappeared so
suddenly.
It is said that the finding of the
body was brought about by a dream
of a man living near Morrison, who
went into the well to satisfy himself
and made the gruesome discovery.
Stables and Stores Burned.
Manning, March 28.?At 1 o'clock
this morning four stores and a stable
at Foreston, 10 miles east of Manning,
were destroyed by fire. The
fire originated in the store of the
Foreston Store company, of which E.
M. Davis was manger, and quickly
spread to the other buildings. Nothing
is yet definitely known as to the
origin of the fire.
The losses, as near as can be ascertained.
were about as follows:
the Foreston Store company, value
of stock not yet given, insurance $1,800,
building which belonged to W.
T. P. Sprott, valued at $800 and insured
for $500; J. H. Boswell, building
and stock $3,500, insurance $1,200;
J. C. Land, building and stock
$3,000, insurance $1,400; B. O.
Cantey, building and stock, $1,000,
no insurance. The stable that was
burned also belonging to J. H. Boswell.
Clemson College Notes.
Clemson College, S. C., March 26.
?President W. M. Riggs and Prof.
D. W. Daniel spent a part of last
week in Columbia. They were attoTnlin?
thp meetinc of the teachers
of the State, of which Prof. Daniel
is president. Prof. Riggs also visited
his old home in Orangeburg while
he was away.
We were to cross bats with the
University of Georgia Monday and
Tuesday, but, on account of a continual
rain all day Sunday, it is
doubtful whether we will be able to
play the Georgia boys.
A large audience was delightfully
entertained Saturday evening by a
recital given by* the Columbia college
quartette in the college chapel.
Now that exams are over, we will
study hard and be ready to tackle the
"finals" with a determination to
make our class.
Clemson will be well represented
at Spartanburg at the State Sundayschool
convention.
Mr. F. H. All, of the Columbian
Society, will represent Clemson at
the South Carolina inter-collegiate |
oratorical contest at Greenwood this
y?ar. Mr. All is a native of Allendale,
Barnwell county.
We are glad to see the interest
taken in the boys' corn clubs in the
various parts of the State. D. B. H.
Hurt in Trolley Accident.
Charleston, March 26.?Conductor
Kolb, Motorman Hopkins and Rural
Policeman Knox, who were injured
about midnight near the Three-mile
station in a rear-end collision between
two large double truck cars
returning from the navy yard, were
reported to-night at the Roper hospital
to be resting easily.
Knox's leg was so badly crushed
that it was immediately amputated.
Kolb has a fractured skull, and Hopkins
a broken shoulder bone.
The accident happened at the Etiwan
Fertilizer crossing, where the
forward car had stopped to take on
a passenger. Hopkins' car bore
down upon it at a rate of at least 15
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pened as a result, the superintendent
says, of this car running too close to
the forward car. The injured men
were all on the platform.
Three passengers on one car and
two on the other were not hurt.
O'Riley is in town.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OP VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About *|
Men and Happenings.
The ministers of Columbia are
working for non delivery of mail on
Sundays in that city, and the postmaster
has stated that he will let
the patrons of the office decide the
matter.
At the meeting of the State Teachers'
Association in Columbia last
week there were 1,100 teachers enrolled,
nearly twice as many as have
attended any previous meeting of the
Association.
The State Teachers' Association,
which held its annual meeting in Columbia
last week, elected A. J.
Thackston as president. Mr. Thackston
is superintendent of the Orangeburg
city schools.
The city of Florence wants the
Seaboard Air Line to build there, the
road now having built from McBee
on its main line to Hartsville and
Darlington. They have promised
$20,000 -to pay for rights of way and
terminals if the Seaboard will build
to that city.
The four young white men of Orangeburg
county, who are charged
with the burning of a store at North,
and who have been in jail at Orangeburg
for the past week, were released
from custody last Saturday night,
having given bond before Judge
Copes in the sum of $3,000 each.
Two of the men are named Leysath
and two are named Poole.
Three Negro Children Burn.
Sumter, March 25.?Coroner Flowers
was called on to-day to hold an
inquest over three children that Vere
burned to death last night about
midnight. They were John and Richard
Butler, aged 6 and 2, and Mary
Wilder, aged 5, all colored.
It seems that both parents were
out of the house and that eight children
were left behind, the oldest being
a girl of 14. When she discovered
that the building was on fire she endeavored
to get them all out, but the
ruins fell in, catching the three. The
father was in sight of the house when
he discovered it blazing, but could
not reach it in time to save the children.
The eldest child testified that when
she went to sleep she left no fire in
the house, but that a lamp was burning.
Killed by Falling Tree.
Hampton, March 27.?Saturday afternoon
while fighting forest fire that
threatened Hope-Well Baptist church
nhAiif frmr milps smith from HamD
ton, Homer Goethe met death by a
falling tree.
Mr. Goethe and several others
were working heroically to save the
church building and their neighbors'
property from destruction from a severe
forest fire, when a large pine
tree suddenly fell in the direction of
the fire fighters. Mr. Goethe would
have escaped, but in his effort to do
so, he stumbled in a stump hole and
the tree fell upon before he recovered
from the fall, killing him instantly.
He was buried at Hope-Well Baptist
church Sunday afternoon by Rev.
W. H. Dowling.
Mr. Goethe was a son of W. W.
Goethe and leaves his father, mother
and several brothers and sisters.
Desperadoes Choke Beaufort Jailer. *
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desperadoes, Jackson Brown and
Lewis Green, assaulted J. H. Bradham,
county jailer, last night, severely
choking him, and made a
quick get away. After supper the
jailer was putting a trusty into the
jail and as he opened the door the
two prisoners rushed him.
One of the prisoners held him as
the other choked him. Rushing down
the steps, one of the negroes collided
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down.
The sheriff and a posse were out
all night hunting the negroes, but as
yet they have not been captured. The
sheriff has a clue to one of the negroes
and thinks that he will be captured
soon.
Jackson Brown is the negro who,
on March 12, shot at Marshal Searcy,
of Port Royal and defied arrest.
He was remanded to jan for assault
and with intent to kill. Lewis
Green was in jail on the charge of '
larceny of live stock. Both were to
have been tried at the next term of
court.
O'Riley is in town.
TO BUY MOUNTAIN LANDS.
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Forest Deserve Commission Soon to j
Begin Purchasing.
Washington, March 27.?The National
forest reservation commission,
created under the Weeks law, is
ready to commence purchasing lands
for the creation of national forests
in the Appalachian and White mountains,
according to an announcement
by the department of agriculture.
Under the Weeks bill the secretary
of agriculture was authorized
to examine, locate and recommend to
the commission for purchase such
lands as in his judgment may be necooeoi?v
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navigable streams. The forestry service
has printed a circular giving information
as to the location and
kind of land wanted.
The land purchases will be restricted
to the States whose legislatures
have consented to the acquisition
of land by the government for
preserving the navigability of
streams. Maine, New Hampshire,
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Tennessee
and Georgia have already consented.
The first lands to be examined for
purchase will be those which, because
of their altitude, steepness and
lack of protection are considered to
be in a class by themselves.
The lands will not become game
preserves, the public still being able
to hunt and fish in accordance with
State laws.
Killed by Train.
Florence, March 28.?A white man
supposed to be named C. H. Blocker
of St. Petersburg, Fla., was killed by
the incoming train from the South at
the station here to-night. He attempted
to jump from the train before
it stopped, supposedly to change
cars, but, having a heavy suit case
in his hand, was swung under the
cars.
The train was about to stOD as he
fell under it, so that only one wheel
passed over his body. He was killed
instantly. The coach had to be
jacked up to get the body from under
the truck. The name was taken from
the bag in his hand and efforts are
now being: made to reach his people,
through the superintendent in Jacksonville.
He was a well to do man, apparently
about 60 years of age. An inquest
will be held in the morning.
In the meantime the body is being
cared for by a local undertaker.
Nothing in his pockets will be looked
at until at the inquest.
The killing in a place so crowded
as the Florence station is in the evening
created a great deal of excitement
among the people.
Child Dies of Hydrophobia.
Lancaster, March 24.?The 6-yearold
son of Mr. Hutchison died last
night at the home of his father in the
cotton mill village of what physicians
believe to have been an attack of
hydrophobia. The boy was ill only
three days, during which time he exhibited
the various symptoms of the
dread disease. He was bitten on the
lip by a mad dog in Camden on the
3rd of last month, and was taken
to Columbia, where it is said he received
the Pasteur treatment.
Trouble for Black Hand.
Chicago, March 28.?United States
secret service operatives are about to
explore a "black hand" bomb that is
expected to finally bring to justice
officers and members of the body
that in a little more than one year
has claimed nearly 40 lives and caused
a reign of terror in the Italian district
here.
The threat upon the life of Judge
K. M. Landis of the United States district
court, it is learned, was hut one
feature of a program of threats and
blackmail that has been carried into
the midst of the government's department
of justice in Chicago.
The threats resulted in the recalling
of members of the F. G. Alongi
jury, Which disagreed after hearing
evidence in a "black hand" case a
week ago, and the discovery that
members of the jury had been terrorized
and that their inability to
reach a verdict probably was the direct
result of these threats.
l Lie i cteui Lui ettus uj^uju juu^t
Landis, upon jurors, and yesterday
upon the life of a member of Assistant
Chief of Police Schuettler's staff,
are expected to hasten the schedule
arrests.
It is known that numerous Italian
secret service men imported from
New York in order to prevent them
from being marked by the organization
under investigation, are at work
seeking evidence to be used In the
government's moves.
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EIGHT KILLED IN WRECK
DIXIE FLYER GOES THROUGH
TRESTLE OVER RIVER.
Five Cars Plunge Into Stream, but
Same Number Remain on Track.
Relief Sent.
Ocilla, Ga., March 25.?In one of
the worst railroad disasters in the
history of the South Atlantic States
10 persons are known to have been
killed and a dozen or more injured,
when southbound train No. 95, known
as the Dixie Flyer, went through a
trestle over the Alapaha river, 18
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this morning. The baggage and express
cars, two day coaches and a
Pullman went into the river, but five
Pullmans remained on the track.
This fact alone is believed to be all
that prevented wholesale loss of life.
The revised list of the dead and
injured is given as follows:
The Dead.
O. F. Bonwart, Henderson, Ky.;
W. W. Culpepper, Tifton, Gt\; Mrs.
W. D. Fletcher, Rowland, 111.; John
T. Watson, Landa, Wyo.; J. P. Woodward,
express messenger, Waycross,
Ga.; C. J. Parnell, conductor, Savannah,
Ga.; Lucius Ellis, fireman, and
Albert Simmons, porter, both colored,
of Waycross, Ga.
Injured.
J. E. Powell, baggagemaster, Jacksonville;
J. P. Klein, wife and child,
St. Louis, father and mother bruised
and child scalded; Peter Gerlofs,
Holland, Mich., bruised; Nick Vandermelon,
Grand Rapids, Mich.,
bruised about the head and knees;
Mrs. O. F. Bonwart, Henderson, Ky.;
W. T. Perkins, Cattlesburg, Ky.,
bruised; J. E. Greene, engineer,
Waycross, bruised.
Late to-night it was stated that the
wreck had been thoroughly examined
and that the death total will not be
increased as all passengers had been
accounted for.
Taken to Hospital.
The injured were transferred to
the Atlantic Coast Line hospital at
Waycross, Ga., and the dead were
taken to Tifton and Waycross. According
to an official statement the
wreck was caused by the breaking
of an axle on the engine when midway
of the trestle, the weight of the
train causing the trestle to collapse.
The disaster came without a moment's
warning to the train crew and
passengers and as soon as those in
the rear Pullmans realized what had
happened they rushed to the edge of
the river and rendered assistance to
victims before the hospital trains arrived
at the scene. As rapidly as possible
the injured were taken from the
cars on the banks and in the river,
while the bodies of the dead were
brought out and ranged along the
bank. ' They were finally placed
aboard the relief trains and hurried
to Waycross and Tifton. It is not expected
to have the tracks cleared and
the trestle repaired for traffic before
Sunday night.
O'Riley is in town.
Why the Housekeeper Should Vote.
"As a housekeeper, I Jbave waged
incessant war with the dust-cloth
against the black soot which is spoiling
our towns as pleasant and sanitary
locations for homes; I have
trudged through mud ankle-deep on
Main street because a village board
did not require, or at least demand,
ordinary board or cement walks; I
have used inadequately filtered water,
uninspected milk and shopped
in markets where inspection or sanitary
conditions was never dreamed
of; and I have visited schools and
seen children housed in a building
where sanitary conditions were all
but unbearable. Yet these are only
a few of the ways in which politics
affect the home," says a writer in
Woman's Home Companion for April.
"I believe that there will, with
equal struggle, come increased facilities
for better school work, bettter
legislation and enforcement of laws
concerning children and child labor.
This is not because men wish to be
neglectful or thoughtless in these
respects, but because women stand
just a little closer to children and
conditions affecting them than do
men. And with the mothers the children
will and should come first.
Sanitary conditions of municipalities
and laws affecting laboring women
will also come in for a share of
attention. Women who are near
the top of the industrial scale do not
particularly feel the need of the ballot
as a means of protection, but
should strive to attain and use it for
the sake of the sisters at the bottom
of the ladder."
O'Riley is in town.
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WOMEN ARE SEARCHED.
Mrs. and Miss Hull Accused of Smuggling
Valuable Necklace.
The wife and daughter of Joseph
Hull of Savannah, Ga., one of the
weaumesi a,iiu uiuat mnucuuai wcu . -ig
in the South, were required to disrobe
in their state room aboard the
steamship Lusitania at New York on
Friday while a custom inspe ss,
acting on a mysterious tip, Su .sequently
found to be false, made a
vain search for a diamond necklace
thought to have been purchased
abroad. '
The searching proved futile, Mrs.
Hull and her daughter, Miss Eliza Lamar
Hull, were allowedto proceed
to their hotel, where another daugh
tfer, Miss Nina Hull, convalescing
from an attack of typhoid fever, had
preceded them without having been
subjected to search.
The necklace rumor dismissed,
customs inspectors searched the family
baggage, and, charging undervaluation
in the case of Mrs. Hull and
Miss Eliza Hull, seized the articles
in question. Mother and daughter
claimed they bad acted in good faith,
but their explanations were not con
sidered satisfactory to Collector Loeb
and the articles were seized.
They consist entirely of wearing
apparel and will be held until "the
home value," that is the foreign cost,
plus duty, is paid.
.Joseph Hull, the husband and
father, was on the pier to greet his
wife and daughter, as was a son,
Daniel, a cotton broker in this city.
All were indignant at the proceed- '
ings and threaten to carry the matter
to the courts if necessary. ? v:^aa|8
"We were made to take off even
our stockings," said Mrs. Hull. "Every
stitch of our clothing was
searched and even our hair did not
escape. I consider this treatment an
outrage; I had no idea such a thing
could happen on American soil."
It was explained for the family
that the report concerning the necklace
had probably come from Savannah,
where there was jealousy over
the fact that the Hulls were fortunate
enough te afford luxuries and
finery. As te the undervaluation
charges, Daniel Hull said: x
"My sister Eliza, was the only one
of the three who had previously been
abroad, so I and my father sent
wireless to be very cautious and particular
in making their declarations.
As to the alleged undervaluation, the
total can he no more than $150 and
that was due to ignorance of my
mother and sister and was done with
no malicious intent." \
"My sister Eliza has a diamond
necklace which she purchased five
years ago in Savannah. A customs
inspector there heard of this and got
the . mistaken impression that she Sp
bought the trinket in Paris and was^ -'SB
bringing it with her on this trip. Of
course she had no such jewels."
It was pointed out at the law department
of the custom house tonight
that federal authorities have.
full power to search passengers suspected
of having dutiable articled
concealed about them, and it was
added that there has never been a
suit brought as the result of such a ?
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- Joseph Hull came on here from 'J$|S
Savannah to meet bis returning wife mMm
and daughter. He is president of
the Merchants' National bank of that
city, chairman of the board of directors
of the Savannah Trust company,
a director of the Central railroad
and president of the Prairie
Phosphate company. He is credited
with having made many millions out
of phosphate properties.
Ends Hfe~Own Life.
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Hasell, bookkeeper for Welch &
Eason and a well known young man,
committed suicide this morning at
the office of the grocery company
shortly after he had entered the
place. He was the first, as usual to
enter the office en the second floor
and a few minutes later the report
of a pistol was heard, and upon a
couple of the clerks rushing upstairs
Mr. Hassell was found on the floor by
his desk with an ugly wound in his * ' -,.;r
right temple. He had placed the
weapon close to his head and pulled
the trigger.
Hasell bought the pistol with which
he committed the act on his way to
his office, the weapon being a new
one. Only one cartridge was used,
and death was probably instantaneous.
No cause was assigned for
the deed, and in rendering its veVdict
the jury, which promptly viewed
the body, declared that Hasell had
killed himself while temporarily insane.
He is survived by his mother, two
brothers and a sister. He was held
in high esteem by his employers.
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