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Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY. MAY 4,1911. One Dollar a Year jjl
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
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News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Fairfax Fancies.
- Fairfax, May 1.?Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Blakenship, lately of Brunson,
have moved here. This was
their old home several years ago, and
many friends welcome them back.
Tuesday afternoon Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Knopf entertained quite a number
of little folks, it being the birthday
of their little daughter, Hazel.
Delicious refreshments were served
and games played while the little
lady received many pretty presents.
At noon, on Thursday, the 27th,
Mr. J. Calhoun Lott, of Columbia,
and Miss Minnie Harter were mar>
ried, at the residence of her brother,
Mr. John Harter. His pastor, Rev.
Dr. Reavis, came with him and of5
fielated at the marriage service.
Quite a crowd of the bride's rela6
tives and friends were present. Under
the skillful touch of Miss An
nye Moye the organ pealed forth
sweet wedding music. Sadie and Virginia
Harter, nieces of the bride,
were ring bearer and flower girl.
They looked like fairy sprites as
they tripped gracefully to the strains
of the wedding march. After receiv|
ing congratulations and viewing the
beautiful wedding gifts, the bride and
* groom joined the group at the dinI
ing room and partook of the elegant
and delicious feast; then commenced
locking trunks, valises, etc.,
for they took the afternoon train
for their home in Columbia. They
departed midst the well wishes of
jg.: friends and kindred.
All sympathize with Mrs. M. Moye,
and Mrs. G. S. O'Neal about the sad
k news of the death of their brother,
Dr. Thomas O'Neal. They left to
day to attend the funeral.
On the fifth Sunday the missionary
meeting for the Baptists was held
here. Sweet songs were sung by the
children and pretty, suitable recitations
were enacted. Miss Margaret
Youmans sang a lovely solo, also recited
well. Quite a crowd filled the
house, and the meeting was a pleas^
ant one.
Quite a number of our folks atAamiIa/I
"matnAriol" of T?ivora' hrijlpft.
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Misses Mary and Lizzie Furse, of
Barton, stopped over with Mrs.
Compton Thursday and went to "me1
morial."
/ Mr. and Mrs. Ganf are hoarding
with Mrs. Compton.
WESLEY CHAPEL DEDICATED.
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Appropriate Services Held at Church
K Near Lodge.
!)!$ Walterboro, April 29.?The Wesley
chapel near Lodge was recently
dedicated with very appropriate ceremonies
by Bishop H. C. Morrison,
of New Orleans, assisted by Rev. W.
I. Herbert, presiding elder of the
Charleston district.
This beautiful new church is situated
in the Folk neighborhood and is
a short distance from Lodge. This
is not strictly speaking a new church
as there has been a church here for
many years, but it has recently been
enlarged and repaired, so that it is
to all intents and puposes, a new
ehurch.
The dedicatory services were enjoyed
by a very large congregation.
m. Barn Burned.
On Saturday night, April 25th, at
l|F t o'clock, whLe at supper, fire was
ST ? aiBcovered in my hay house. The
* alarm was immediately given and in
a few minutes about 75 people were
I fighting fire but the flames spread so
rapidly to the corn house, then to
the large barn and another small
house and to a stack of hay. All the
buildings in the lot were burned and
about 250 bushels of corn, 5,000
pounds of fodder, 5,COO pounds of
oats and two tons of hay. Just now
I want to thank my friends who so
nobly rendered such valuable assistance
in fighting the flames and saving
my dwelling and other buildings,
also for the help in erecting some
temporary stables, etc. Substantial
>,oc? oiroadv f?ome from some of
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my friends, which is thankfully rePjr
* ceived and highly appreciated. We
I't'r saved all the live stock, wagons, etc.,
and about 100 bushels parched corn,
which the hogs will eat. Origin of
fire is unknown. Theory points to
incendiarism, but no suspects at this
jjtf time. No insurance.
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jfc O'Riley will return home about
May 15th. No pictures will be made
after the 10th.
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MAKES STATEMENT ON LOAN.
Treasurer Tells How Rate of Interest
was Secured.
R. H. Jennings, the State treasurer,
last Friday made a statement in
which the facts in connection with
the loan of $500,000 to the State
government are correctly given.
The statement follows:
"Inasmuch as some erroneous
comment has been made in regard to
the money recently borrowed by the
State as required by law, I respectfully
submit the following statement
of facts in connection therewith:
After due notice the bid by the several
banks for the loan to the State
of $500,000 were submitted on
April 17. These bids were considered
by the governor, comptroller
general and State treasurer on the
19th, and the award for the loan
was then made to the Palmetto National
bank, their bid being 3 per
cent for the entire sum.
"The next lowest bid was by the
People's National bank of Rock Hill,
which was 3% per cent., with allowance
of 1 per cent, interest on the
average deposit during the life of the
loan, which would reduce their rate
to about 3*4 per cent, on $200,000
for six months, or 4*4 to January 1,
1912. These were the only bids
made. On April 20 notes were executed
for $500,000 at 3 per cent,
and delivered to J. P. Matthews, cashier
of the Palmetto National bank,
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xo wnom tne awaru aau ueeu iiiauc.
"We know of no agreement by
which deposit of these funds will
draw interest. During my administration
it has never been necessary
to leave on deposit any amount of
the funds borrowed. In 1908 we
borrowed a portion of the money for
the State at 3% per cent, interest.
In 1909 the money was borrowed at
3 per cent, interest., as it was needed.
which is the lowest rate during
my administration."
12 ACTS STILL UNSIGNED.
Advanced Sheets of 1911 Acts Beach
Governor's Office.
Columbia, April 28.?The Charlesleston
commission form of government
bill, the Commission Form of
Government Act for smaller towns,
the Dispensary Investigation Act,
the Libel Act, the Ill-shaped County
Act, the Dispensary Fund Act, are
the most important of the 12 acts
unsigned by the governor, as shown
by the first copy of the advanced
sheets of the acts of 1911, furnished
the governor's office this afternoon
by Code Commissioner Bethea.
Thirty acts are printed in the first
section of the advanced copy of acts.
NEGRO FATALLY WOUNDED.
Three Others Hurt in Row at Negro
Church.
Lancaster. April 30.?As the re
suit of a negro row to-day at Nebo
church, three miles west of Lancaster,
one negro, Robert Massey, will
die, and Will Sherley,, John Witherspoon
and Henry Witherspoon are
wounded, none seriously. The last
three are in jail, being brought here
by Sheriff Hunter this afternoon.
It seemed that the row started
over some trivial remark, when Sherley
pulled his gun and commenced
shooting and the others came in.
The negro who is fatally wounded
was shot through the bowels with
a 44-calibre bullet and Js not expected
to live through the night.
One of the negroes was shot in the
foot, one in the arm and one in the
side.
LAST QUARTER FOR POISON.
Administer Drag to Their Children
and Themselves.
Fear of impending starvation caused
a father and mother to administer
strychnine to themselves and their
own children, both under four years
of age, in Chicago, 111. The mother,
Mrs. Honore Dziurgot, and the older
child, Joseph, are dead and the father
and baby are in a hospital, where
it is said both will recover.
Dziurgot in the hospital told of
the poverty which followed his long
niness, ana iiieu iciaicu ucoptiate
agreement with his wife that the
two should poison themselves and
their babies.
"With my last 25 cents," he says,
"I bought the poison at a drug store.
I took it home and my wife and I
mixed it in the little milk we had
left. The milk was the only food
we had in the house. Some was
given to the children, my wife drank
some and I drank the remainder.
There was not enough for me or I
could have died with my wife and
boy."
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
It is estimated that the fertilizer tag
tax, which goes to Clemson college,
will reach $260,000 this year. This
is the largest amount ever received
from this tax.
Dr. C. F. Williams, of Columbia,
has resigned the position of secretary
of the State board of health, and his
successor will be appointed at a
meeting of the* executive committee
of the State board in Columbia the
10th. The position pays $2,500.
A petition has been filed in the
United States court in Greenville requiring
the Jonesville cotton mills, of
Jonesville, to show cause why a receiver
should not be appointed. The
capital stock of the company is
$300,000 and it operates 15,000
spindles.
At the intercollegiate oratorical
contest on Friday night in Greenwood
the medal was won by A. E.
Merimon, of Sumter, a student of the
Citadel academy, his subject being
"Morals in Politics/' The second
place was won by A. H. Williams of
Lake City, a student in the South
Carolina university.
TRAIN JUMPS TRACK.
Teachers' Special Wrecked at Martin's
Creek, N. J.
? Easton, Pa., April 29.?A special
train carrying 169 school teachers
and their friends from Utica and
Syracuse, N. Y., bound for Washington
for a holiday, was wrecked on
the Belvidere, Del., division of the
Pennsylvania railroad at Martins
Creek, N. J., eight miles north of
this city, this afternoon. Two. are
dead and eight persons are missing.
The missing are believed to be dead.
Charred bones have been found in
the burned ruins of the train. The
injured number at least 50, some of
whom, it is believed, will die. Aside
from three members of the train
crew and one male passenger, the
missing and Injured are women. The
more seriously injured are in the
Easton hospital.
Train was Speeding.
The train was traveling at a rate
of 50 miles an hour, and when the
locomotive struck a sharp curve,
where men had been repairing the
tracks, it jumped and ran along a
hillside, carrying four of the five
cars with it.
Hardly had the train come to a
stop before fire started and spread so
rapidly that some of the imprisoned
passengers were burned to death. As
the train left the track it side swiped
and broke a tank of oil which
ran over the wreckage and added to
the fury of the flames. The fire
broke out at both ends of the train,
hot coals from the fire box of the
engine starting the fire at that end,
flames from the stoves in the dining
car starting the fire at the rear.
Aid to the Injured.Twenty
minutes after the accident
there was a score of persons on tne
ground, and every farm house in the
vicinity was quickly transformed into
an improvised hospital, while
farmers' wagons were pressed into
service as ambulances. Telegraph
and telephone wires were torn away,
and for some time it was impossible
to reach the outside world.
One young woman was found singing
and dancing on the track half a
mile from the scene of the wreck.
She was cut, bruised and burned,
but in her hysterical condition did
not appear conscious of pain or of
what had happened.
Priests from the Easton and
Philipsburg, N. J., parishes, were
taken to Martins Creek in automobiles
and worked among the injured.
Charles M. Person, the conductor,
was operated on and died at 8
o'clock to-night, thus making one
known dead. The surgeons found
a compound fracture at the base of
the brain.
SUPERINTENDENT ELECTED.
W. J. McGaiitv to Head Allendale
School.
Allendale, April 30.?W. Jay McGarity,
of Chester, has been elected
superintendent of the high school
for the next scholastic year in the
place of Power W. Bethea, who did
not stand for reelection and who will
enter the real estate business in the
future. Mr. McGarity comes highly
recommended and is considered as
one of the best school men in the
State, having taught at Harleyville
and Hampton for the past several
years.
OPERATIC SINGER ARRESTED.
In Jail at Bamberg on Suspicion of
Cashing Worthless Check.
Bamberg, April 28.?An itinerant
operatic singer, claiming to be a
representative of the Victor talking 1
machine, was arrested in Summerville,
S. C., and brought here this
morning by Chief of Police Hand, on
a warrant sworn out by Dr. H. F.
Hoover, charging him with having
obtained $30 last Saturday on a
worthless check. He gives his name
as Victor Canares, and represents
himself to be the author of several
fine operatic productions.
He, with a woman represented to
be his wife, spent most of last week
here, and gave an entertainment at
the graded school building, which
was pronounced by music lovers to
be unusually fine.
On Saturday night he prevailed on
Dr. Hoover to cash a draft on the
First National bank, of New York,
for $30, signed and endorsed by J.
Morris, cashier, and also endorsed
by Victor Canares. When Dr. Hoover
went to the People's Bank Monday
morning to deposit the draft for collection,
Cashier Smoak noticed the
unusual form of the draft and the
similarity of the handwriting and
suggested that it might be a bogus
draft. This aroused Dr. Hoover's
suspicion, and he began to make inquiry,
and found that Canares had
left town owing several small
amounts to other persons. He then
swore out a warrant and Canares
was arrested as stated above. His
wife returned here with him, and has
spent part of the day in jail with
Canares. A preliminary examination
will be held to-morrow. Canares
claims to possess only 30 cents in
cash, and declares the draft was
given him by a traveling man named
Morris, wno owea mm $du.
Dr. Hoover has wired to the First
National bank of New York, concerning
the draft, but no answer has yet
been received.
J; Mrs. Canares has two children in
I Branchville, where she and her husband
expected to give an entertainment
ito-night. She is said to be
from Johnston, S. C., and it is also
said that her husband, from whom
she claims to have been divorced,
I lives there.
HOLD UP IN SPARTANBURG.
Landrum Man Relieved of $250.
Two Under Arrest.
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Spartanburg, April 28.?On a warrant
issued before Magistrate Gantt,
of this city, Baxter Thomas and
Charles Foster, white, aged about 22
each, were arrested by a policeman
and cnargea witn noiaing up ana
robbing Robert I. Whitener, of near
Landram. It is alleged by Whitener
that he came to Spartanburg yesterday,
after drawing $250 out of the
bank at Landrum. In this city he
fell in with Baxter Thomas, a well
known local character, who, it is alleged,
on the pretext of meeting a
woman near the Southern station,
lured Whitener to the open field on
Magnolia street, and there they waited
for the woman who never came.
In the meantime, however, it is
alleged, Foster put in his appearance
and, .with a loaded revolver
staring the victim between the eyes,
demanded Whitener's money. He
got the "long green" quick, it is
said, and no howl was raised on the
spot.
While Whitener was peeping
j down the barrel of the gun, Thomas
is said to have remarked to Foster,
who is his pal in this city: "Don't
! you shoot my partner, please." When
1 Whitener got away from the scene
he notified the police department,
who, after working on the case, caused
the warrant to be issued and the
men to be placed in the county jail,
Dendine: a Dreliminary hearing. The
hold up was well planned and took
place in the centre of the city.
SHOOTS WIFE AND SELF.
Double Tragedy Within Ear-shot of
Revival Meeting.
Athens, Ga., May 1.?With a little
wide-eyed baby girl the only witness,
R. W. McKinney, until recently
of Newport, Tenn., shot and killed
his wife and then Himself at 9:50
to-night within ear-shot of a revival,
which was progressing at the YoungHarris
Memorial Methodist church.
It was at first believed that the two
people had been murdered by a third
party, but a careful examination of
the grounds and room in which they
were found by the police served to
convince them that the man had first
shot his wife and then killed himself.
No cause for the footing is
known.
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REWARDED FOR HEROISM
SOUTH CAROLINIANS RECOGNIZED
IN CARNEGIE AWARDS.
Medals and Cash for Various Worthy
Purposes Given by Hero Fund
Commission.
Pittsburg, Pa., May 1.?Thirty-five
awards, in recognition of acts of heroism,
including three cases from
South Carolina, were made to-day at
the spring meeting of the Carnegie
Hero Medal Fund Commission and
the issuance of nine silver and 26
bronze medals was authorized. The
money accompanying the medals
amounts to $34,50Q and pensions of
$1,300 annually. The money is apportioned
as follows: $6,000 for
worthy purposes, $2,200 liquidation
of mortgages, $3,700 for other indebtedness,
$4,000 purchases of
homes, $14,000 for education, $3,200
death benefits and $1,000 for
restoration of health.
In nine instances the heroes lost
their lives and the award is made to
a member of the family. Twenty
awards are made in connection with
rescues from drowning, five from
railroad trains, four in runaways,
five in mine or well suffocation cases
and one for the rescue of insane patient
from a roof cornice.
In to-day's awards a number of heroes
in the South are recognized, as
follows:
South Carolina Heroes.
John R. Graham, aged 36, a telegraph
operator of Thicketty, ?. C.,
was awarded a bronze medal and $1,000
to liquidate his indebtedness, by
the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
to-day, for a heroic attempt to save
C. Lee Lipscomb, a farmer, May 9,
1910, from drowning in Little Thicketty
Creek. The men were seining;
Lipscomb got beyond his depth and
Graham, carrying a meal sack with
five pounds of fish, swam and continued
his effort at rescue until ex
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life.
Albert J. Appleby, Holly Hill, S.
C., received a bronze medal and J 2,000
for educational purposes. Appleby,
a farm hand, saved Ruth Ella
M. Harbison, aged 40, from being
run over by a train at Bowyer, S. C.,
March 11, 1910. The woman was
near-sighted and deaf and walked in
front of a train traveling 30 miles
an hour. Appleby shoved her out of
danger as the train rushed by.
Boyce Lindsay, colored, aged 16,
of Catawba, S. C., received a bronze
medal and $2,000 as needed for educational
purposes, for saving the
life of E. Reynolds Smith, aged 11,
at Spartanburg, May 28, 1910. Stepping
over in front of an approaching
train of box cars, Lindsay flung Smith
nfT the middle of the track, where he
had fallen from his bicycle. Lindsay I
was struck on the right shoulder by
the train.
Other Awards in Sonth.
Richard C. Williams, aged 23,
saved Melvin B. Mayo from a train
at Russens, Va., December 1, 1906.
Bronze medal and $1,000 for a home.
Parks S. Rushford, aged 25, saved
Elbert G. Cunningham from drowning
at Mannington, W. Va., January
19, 1907. Bronze medal and $1,000
for a home.
Benjamin J. Cottle, aged . 34, rescued
Mrs. M. Caldwell, Jr., from a
runaway at Wilmington, N. C., August
28, 1910. Bronze medal and
$1,000 as needed. ^
Thomas M. Christenbury, aged 38,
rescued Rufus Long (colored) from
a cave-in in a well at Charlotte, N.
C.? August 9, 1909. Two hundred
dollars to liquidate a mortgage and
silver medal and $2,000 for education
of children as needed.
PLAN BIG CELEBRATION.
"Red Shirt" Reunion in Colombia
August 11-12.
Columbia, May 1.?Following the
extending of the invitation by Mayor
Gibbes, of this city, Commander
John G. Mobley, of Winnsboro, said
to-day that the reunion of Red Shirt
men of '76, to be held in August
11-12 in Columbia, would be by far
the most important celebration ever
planned of the State's redemption
35 years ago last month, from domination
by negroes and carpet-baggers
upheld by Federal bayonets.
Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New
Jersey; Senator Taylor, of Tennesee,
and Polk Miller, the Confederate
minstrel of Missouri, have been invited
to address the Red Shirts and
descendants of Red Shirts; a guard
of honor will consist of 100 horsewomen
in red, and there will be
given a State ball in compliment to
the sponsor, who is yet to be appointed,
and her attendants.
CONFLICTING AFFIDAVITS?'
Reports Current in Orangeburg on
Chestnut-Sabin Case.
Columbia, April 30.?Information
had in Orangeburg this afternoon is m
to the effect that Mrs. Robert Chestnut,
the wife of . the contractor, J >J|
barged with the killing of W. R,
S !n, the lumber man, has made two Jji
conflicting affidavits. One affidavit 7
made for the solicitor, it was learned,
stated that Mrs. Chestnut did not * ^
know Sabin well. In this affidavit, it 'Jtlm
is stated, Mrs. Chestnut barely claims r:tM
speaking acquaintance with Sabin. s
The other affidavit made to counsel
for her husband, so the report has it ' fm
on good authority, is to the effect ^||S9
that she did know Sabin well and '
their relationship was more than of .
a mere passing nature. It is also stat- ,; &!
ea tnat Mrs. unestnut aesires 10 re- rams
call the first affidavit, claiming that |?|
she was under the influence of a drag .
given to quiet her nerves when same '-??5
was made. The exact nature of the
second affidavit could not be ascer- |g|
tained, hut it is said that a sensation v|||
will be sprung at the trial.
That the trial will be sought to be
brought up at the term of court be- ;^||
ginning to-morrow was the informal
tion furnished.
Mill Merger Discussed.
Charlotte, May 1.?More than a :^|1
score of the best known yarn spin- ;
ners in the Caroljnas are in session
in Charlotte this afternoon discuss-^ - ^
ing plans for the organization of a
cotton mill merger that will include
quite a goodly portion of tlje spindles
in North Carolina and several South
Carolina mills.
When the meeting was called it ,
was stated that not less than 500,- ' ffijBj
000 spindles would enter the merger
if the organization is perfected To
day it is stated that 600,000 spindles
are already in the agreement and
that it is altogether probable that
the new combine will include not lesa |Si
than 1,000,000 spindles. The capital
of the new concern will not be v^||
less than $10,000,000, and, if the ;,2glarger
number of spindles' is includ- ..
ed, it will be considerably more than |
Frank L. Underwood, of New :$j$R
York, who was present at the re- %
cent meeting at Washington, and illl
who has been engineering the project,
is here, and James B. Duke, of :^SB|
New York, head of the American ill
Tobacco Company, is also here, al- -gS
though it can not be learned if he Is /.||1
directly interested in the proposed ^
combine. >
Silver Deposit in Calhoun.
St. Matthews, April 29.?Is there
a silver mine in Calhoun county or ::;>S
was it just a small bit of the metal
that happened to be away down in
the earth? That is the question
which is to be settled. J. S. Wanna- 1
maker exhibited on the streets of I
cf Moffhowa on vpsterdav sneci?
mens of a deposit which were bored ||?8
from a well at the d^pth of 110 feet,
and those who have seen it. say that .jjffM
there is little doubt that it is silver.
The well is being bored on a part o?
the holdings of the company about
three miles south of St. Matthews. *3
Yesterday while the augur was slow- M
ly drilling its way through the ada- v?j
mantine substances at this great
pvprvthine seemed to srive
away and the augur suddenly de- :|g
scended about eight feet. When It
was brought to the surface for the
purpose of unloading, the discovery
was made. The substance is very
heavy, the exact color of silver, is M
very firm and recognizable. It seems
imbedded between the strata of ^
rock, and seems to abound in richness
of Quantity. A sample will be
sent to Clemson. college for analysis. J
MAT TENTH.
Laying of the Cornerstone of Confederate
Monument, the Time Marker.
Laying the cornerstone on May
10th of the great monument will not
only recall the days of the early '
60's when the boys in grey won immortal
fame which they leave" behind
as a legacy rich in honor to
their progeny for untold generations *:r. vJ
vet to come; but, it is triumph
crowing with sucess the endeavor
of Southern womanhood; a womanhood
in whom will live as long as
time endure those principles for
which ;their fathers fought "Yet
lest you forget" you are again reminded
that May 10th will be the
last day that you will have an opportunity
to look pleasant while V
O'Riley takes your picture. t . ^
O'Riley will return home about ; ?
May 15th. No pictures will be made < M
after the 10th.