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Ci : ' ~ . ;, ... , - ' . ' vM Hamburg Ifwatt j Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 18,1911. One Dollar a Year j||| COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. _ News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, May 15.?Our school will come to a close this week and all the little ones are rejoicing because vacation is so near. Mt. Pleasant Sunday-school will have its annual picnic on ascension day, May 25th, as usual, and every one is invited to attend and help in the enjoyment of the day. Rev. Aull will address the crowd. A11 are invited to bring their baskets as usual, hut bottles, fcnd those using \ the contents of bottles stronger than coffee, tea, and milk, are not includ ed in this invite. Come and enjoy the pleasure of the day with each other as is becoming, on such an occasion. Rain is looked for every day by our farmers, and it would do the public in general good. Some parties, changed their boarding places Sunday. They tried the Red Top Inn, found that it only furnished sleeping quarters and no meals; not suited. Our professors went fishing last week. Say they saw plenty fish but could only catch the little ones. Were not prepared for snakes, so did not venture too far or careless. Mr. J. C. Move has succeeded in training all kinds of dogs, and he thinks does are able to do more. He has one now that he is trying to learn to sing. The dog is progressing fairly well, only trouble will be to learn him the short notes and expression along with minor and major chords. The notes that the dog sings now are varied but held too long and makes the audience somewhat sad and lonely. * Go it, Doc; l\ perseverance, energy and sweet oil work miracles. The dust must have put a damper on our railroad magnates who con lempiaxea uuiiums a lauiva,u iiuui here to Denmark. fI This is truly a fast age, if the autos don't get out of order. JEE. f N Kearse News. Mrs. Martha Kearse has been quite ill for some time, being paralyzed in the right side. She is eighty-two years old. Miss Aline Kearse is home again to the delight of her friends. She has already had several offers of schools for another year, and has accepted one in Marlboro. She believes in being progressive, so will attend the summer school for teachers t again. Mrs. Ollie May Chitty and Miss Edna Chitty are back also, having I finished their schools. Kearse is proud of her lady teachers. Wake up, boys! Why is it we have no male teachers? W. O. W. Rally at Go van. Govan, May 13.?One of the most enjoyable entertainments of the season occurred. Wednesday afternoon when the W. O. W. entertained the ladies of the town. At five o'clock about one hundred and fifty people assembled in the city hall and listent ed most attentively for two hours to an intensely interesting debate. The speakers were: Dr. L. A. Hartzog, affirmative (absent); Prof. T. C. Smoak, negative; Mr. W. A. Hay, Jr., affirmative; Mr. W. H. Collins, negative. The query being: Resolved, That the white man robbed the Indians of their country. The decision of the judges was in favor of the negative. Immediately after the debate the guests were invited to the rear of I the hall where a bountiful repast awaited them. After doing justice to the pig (presented by Mr. Eubanks) and other good things, all departed wishing that the W. O. W. would remember us again soon. There will be an annual school pic * nic at Georges Creek church on Saturday, the 20th instant. The public is cordially invited to attend. Mrs. D. A. Hutto has just returned from Elko, where she visited her sick father. Mr. W. B. Lain and Miss Eubanks, of Augusta, spent Sunday in town. Mr. Charlie Fishburn, of Augusta, after spending several weeks as the guest of his cousin, Mr. W. A. Hay, Jr., has returned home. Mr. Lamb Lancaster, of Savannah, spent Sunday in town, transacting Sunday business. Miss Mamie Clark, of near Aiken, is the guest of Miss Jessie Zorn. REMINISCENCES OF OTHER DAYS "Old Timer" Tells of the Mexican Border in the Days Gone By. Wanderer's Rest, May 15.?On a beautiful moonlight night our train wound its way along the wild scenery of Devil's river where crafg and boulders hung in great black masses overhead. Here a painted cave, a rendezvous of the warlike Indian who in times of pursuit by the Texas rangers found a safe asylum, and on the walls of this cave rude paintings drawn by them representing the Indian killing the pale face in all forms are to be seen, and the knife raised to take the scalp of the hapless one fallen into their hands. Soon all the falls along the river are passed, . mountain after mountain rises in the distance as we wind along on our eastern journey. Soon the mountains become smaller and hills of fantastic design break into view, some resembling great toad stools, others huge umbrellas, now cultivated fields are to be seen, and the valley of the Rio Grande is entered. What scene is prettier than all this by moonlight! Soon a sharp whistle from the ponderous mogul is sounded, the brakeman hurries through the train, shouts "El Paso?change cars for San Antonio and all points East." On arrival it is found the Eastbound train has gone. We are three hours late and twenty-one hours to wait, as the , next train left next evening at 6:30. This was 9:30 p. m. we arrived, so a chance of seeing the city and our Mexican neighbors across the river. Soon a hotel is found and a nice supper served, then a nice bed with a soft feather pillow to rest on was , certainly a luxury to the way-worn . wanderer of the West. / After a refreshing sleep, the gong . sounds for breakfast. The cool, crisp , mountain air gives tone to the system, and with a spring and a bound the simple toilet soon is made, break fast disposed of, and ready for the exploration of two cities. About this time the proprietor came in, his , eyes blood red, hair disheveled; a few questions plied to the bright youth who was clerk revealed the fact that his employer had spent the night at the then Monte Carlo of America. In company with a Chicagoan the sight hunting began. To this bank of faro we went, not to gamble but to see, to learn, and i there we saw, learned, and were convinced that the gaming table has no charms for us," even though thous-J ands, yea, tens of thousands of gold and silver, was in sight. Long rows of tables extending back for an hun1 dred feet or more, each table filled with four players, heaps of gold stacked on each, the six-shooters of the players on the corners, all calm, not a word spoken, silent as the grave. The players, some of whom i had sat the game three days and nights, haggard and worn, they looked only at the gold, the yellow gold. On the left was another wing where the silver dollars were gained and lost, for as we stood and watched the steady flow of Mexicans and Chinese buy his dollar's worth of chips, then cast on some color of his choice. One in five took two dollars, the others marched out empty-handed, not one i displaying any sign of elation or disappointment at his gain or loss. Soon tired of'this we sought ^he street; on entering this we came to a sharp curve to see a string of burros loaded with wood dug out of the ground, only switches above, but large roots that supplied the stoves and fireplaces of the city. Following the street railway tracks we came to the bridge that spanned the Rio Grande; boarding one were soon on Mexican soil and in the city of Juarez, so much talked and written about now. Here we met a pleasant-faced old gentleman who proved to be an official from our government who took pleasure in piloting us over the city. A cigar wanted he led us to the finest or rather the * ^? Vs wAn K place wnere uue 01 me ucol was vutainable, also a glass of pure grape brandy, to all purchasers of a cigar free who felt so inclined. Here a cigar store was great festoons of red strange sight to American eyes in a peppers extending entirely around the room, which gave a novel effect to all, and every place visited was so ornamented except the old Span. ish church and bull ring, our next place to stop. Here was a sight never to be forgotten, built to stand for centuries, its ceiling thatched with rat tail cactus that grows to great length and is used for hedges, all dried for years but still retaining that beautiful green it had in life. Here were beautiful statues of the Saviour and the virgin Mary, all encased in huge - . . - . - V IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The contract for the building of the $35,000 dormitory at Lander college, Greenwood, will be let on the 29th instant. The annual reunion of the Confederate veterans of South Carolina will be held in Columbia this year, the dates being August 9th and 10th. John Bell Towill, in his paper, the Enterprise, says that Batesburg wants the meeting of the State Press Association next year. It is proposed to hold the sessions at the Summerland Inn. Henry C. Lundy, assistant postmaster at Conway, Horry county, has been arrested on the charge of rifling a number of registered letters, securing somewhere from $500 to $1,000 from them. It is stated that the survey of the Edisto river will positively begin June 1st. This is the preliminary survey ordered to ascertain if the river can be made navigable from Orangeburg to Charleston. G. Duncan Bellinger, a young attorney of Columbia, and a son of the late G. Duncan Bellinger, formerly of Barnwell, was last Tuesday elected judge of probate of Richland county in a special election held to elect a successor to John T. Gaston, who died recently. Mr. Bellinger is following in the footsteps of his brilliant father as a successful politician, for he was elected over five opponents, and this is his first entry into politics. glass cases, these ranged on each side as the chancel was approached. A richly dressed Mexican lady was prostrate and a bead cast on the string she wore was a puzzle to us two. There we left her after taking in the sights, not before being reproved for having on our hats and motioned to the front to wash our hands in the water to be used for such desecration, all in Spanish but in a kind and considerate tone that bespoke refined feeling. Now to the barracks, which the insurrectos last week took by storm and where the federal general laid down his sword. Here we were treated to a strain of music by the band and made to feel that we were respected as citizens of this great re puDlic, the United States. .Next to a hotel to get dinner, where one of the party was approached by a pretty Mexican girl and playfully she pointed a large carving knife at him and said: "You will do," in fairly good English. A five dollar note was tendered to pay for the dinner and five Mexican dollars given in change; thinking a mistake had been made the attention of the clerk was called to it. "No," said he; "that is right and when you go into El Paso, pay your bills with it," which was done and no one lost by it, but a Mexican dinner gained that was fine but mighty hot with those peppers. A stroll was then taken down the river where crops of all stages were growing, and the children, hairless pigs, hairless dogs, all were playing on the floor of the home as happy as happy could be, but one of the party thought at least how about the fleas. After procuring a supply of those fine cigars our friend was bidden adieu. Taking a street car, Uncle Sam's domain was entered. Only a few minutes to hunt up grips and our train would leave. Next morning, with a bright sun shining, San Antonio was reached, and ill the morning sun couia De seen the city, its streets, the U. S. arsenal and barracks, with the Alamo in the distance, pointed out where Crocket, Bowie, and others took their brave but fateful stand. All of this comes back as the tales of battle now rage around Juarez, where then peace and plenty reigned; now is all suffering, turmoil and strife; and as the fighting around the old church is read the silent but devout worshiper comes to memory, also the taps of drum, the sound of fife, the bright smiles of the men come back as the accounts are read of the storming of the old barracks. The bull pen that was still red with the blood of a man, two horses, and a bull in a fight the Sunday before, all return as tales of the war come out, as if seen but yesterday. May peace soon come to those people. OLD TIMER. Am . - LOSES LEG AND MAY DIE. Clarence Rucker Shot by Barnie Iieeder?Difficulty Near Swansea. Lexington, May 12.?Clarence Rucker, perhaps the largest cotton farmer in Lexington county, lies at his home, near Swansea, desperately wounded, and Barnie Reeder is languishing behind the bars of the Lexington jail, the result of a fishing party row at Moore's pond, about six miles below Swansea, the difficulty having occurred at an early hour this morning. Both parties are reticent in talkine about the diffi culty, and information is hard to obtain. It is understood that whiskey played an important part in the tragedy. It is claimed that Rucker had carried a gallon of cider to the party and it was over this that the shooting took place. It is said that Rucker fired his pistol four times, hut with what intention cannot be said. Reeder went to his buggy, followed by Rucker, and a tussle ensued, it being claimed by Reeder that Rucker snapped his pistol in his face, and also struck him with his hand. Reeder then, it is claimed, fired on Rucker with a 44-calibre Winchester, the ball causing a fearful wound in the leg. Dr. Knowlton, of Columbia, amputated the injured limb just below the knee this afternoon, and the latest report from Swansea states that Rucker is doing as well as could be expected. Rucker is a man of considerable means and prominence in the county. He is a man of family. Reeder is a young man being only about 21 years of age, and is married. His family is also proimnently connected. The unfortunate difficulty is greatly deplored. Deputy Sheriff Miller was early on the scene, but young Reeder had already left for Lexington. Shot Seven Times. Rome, Ga., May 13.?With seven punctures in his body, all made by the same bullet, Arthur Mahon, a convict guard, lies at a local hospital with good chances for recovery. Mahon was shot by his own rifle yesterday afternoon. While seated on a patent dump cart used for hauling dirt near this city, he accidentally kicked the trigger, releasing the bottom of the cart. The butt of his rifle was resting on the dirt, while he held the barrel loosely in his hand. The rifle was discharged the bullet entered his right leg and came out of the fleshy rvn a# a 4* Vi 1 nrVi on/1 n o tv? a Ail f yM. l ui tuc luigu auu vauic uui a^ain, entered his abdomen and passed out again, then into his chest where it was finally lodged. It was later located, with an X-ray by physicians. Ferguson Case Comes Up. Barnwell, May 15.?The May term of the court of common pleas for Barnwell county convened here this morning with Judge J. W. DeVore, of Edgefield, presiding. The first case caNed for trial was that of L. A. .Ferguson vs. the Southern Bailway company, in which the plaintiff asks for $40,000 damages. This is a companion suit to the Menefee case, tried a few weeks ago, in which the plaintiff, crippled for life in a head-on collision between a special and a freight train at Dent, n 1 i 4-4-1 ^ cinfinn n f PaIh m hia a> 11 lnc Okaui/u uvi iu ui asked for $75,000 damages and was awarded $50,000 by a Barnwell jury. Mr. Ferguson was conductor on the train on which Mr. Menefee was serving as engineer. The testimony offered will be doubtless the same as that offered in the other trial. All I jurors other than those on this case have been discharged until three o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Judge Prince, who presided at the trial of ilenefee vs. the Southern Railway con^any, reduced the verdict from $50,000 to $30,000 and the case was appealed by the railroad to' the supreme court. Before the cut it was one of the largest verdicts ever rendered by a South Carolina jury. & Kills His Son Accidentally. Lancaster, May 12.?Neade Knight, who some weeks ago moved from Rock Hill to this county, accidentally shot and killed his little 3-year-old son to-day at his home in the White Bluff section. Mr. Knight was in the house working on an old gun, when it suddenly discharged, the load striking the child, who was out in the yard, in the back of the head, causing instant death. Mr. Knight had for gotten that a loaded shell had been left in the gun by him. An inquest was held by Coroner King, the verdict being in accordance with the foregoing facts. STANDARD OIL DISSOLVED SUPREME COURT SAYS IT IS ILLEGAL TRUST. Six Months Given to Meet Decree. Victory for Prosecution Ends. Four Years' Struggle. Washington, May 15.?The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and its 19 subsidiary corporations were declared to-day by the supreme court of the United States to be a conspiracy and combination in restraint of trade. It also was held to be monopolizing interstate commerce in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The dissolution of the combination was ordered to take place within six months. Thus ends the tremendous strug gie or years on me part 01 me government to put down by authority of law a combination which it claimed was a menace to the industrial and economic advancement of the entire country. At the same time the court interpreted the Sherman anti-trust law so as to limit its application to acts of "undue" restraint of trade, and "not every restraint of trade." It was on this point that the only discordant note was heard in the court. Justice Harlan dissented, claiming that cases already decided by the court had determined once for all that the word "undue" or "unreasonable" or similar words, were not in the statute. He declared that the reasoning of the court in arriving at its findings was in effect legislation which belonged in every instance to congress and not to the courts. Big Business Hoped. Ever since the decree in this case in the lower court, the United States circuit court for the Eastern district of Missouri, was announced, hope has been expressed by the "business world" that the law would be modified so as not to intefere with what was designated as "honest business." To-night that section of the opinion calling for the use of the "rule of reason" In applying the law is regarded in many quarters as in answer to the prayers of the "business world." The opinion of the court was announced by Chief Justice White. In printed form it contained more than 20,000 words. For nearly an hour the chief justice discussed the case from the bench, going over most of the points in the printed opinion, but not once referring to it in order to refresh his memory. Before him sat a distinguished audience of the most famous men of the country. Sena+ *AT\?oeAnfofittoo loff thoir pp. IU1S (IUU IC^lCSCUiaVlTbO 1V1V VUV.i k?r spective chambers in the capitol to listen to the epoch-making decision of the court. Most eager to hear were Attorney General Wickersham and Frank B. Kellogg, special counsel of the government, who had conducted the great fight against the Standard Oil. None of the brilliant array of counsel for the corporation or individual defendants was present in the court during the reading of the opinion. Whof tfiA Pnnrt. Holds. The supreme court holds: That the Standard Oil company is a monopoly in restraint of trade. That this giant corporation must be dissolved within six months. Corporations whose contracts are "not unreasonably restrictive of competition" are not affected. Other great corporations whose acts may be called into question will be dealt with according to the merits of their particular case. The court was unanimous as to the main feature of the decision, Justice Harlan dissenting only as to a limitation of the application of the Sherman anti-trust law. President Taft and cabinet will consider immediately the entire situation and the advisability of pressing for a federal corporation act. A decision in the tobacco trust case, which was expected simultaneously, was not announced to-day and may be handed down on May 29. Dragged from Jail and Hanged. Macon, Ga., May 15.?John McLeod, a negro murderer, was dragged from Emanuel county jail and hanged by a body of men orderly but determined. The body was suspended from a tree and riddled with bullets. There was no excitement to speak of. Hidden keys to the jail were found and the body quickly strung up. Following the lynching all parties dispersed. The identity of any one is unknown. The coroner's inquest held Sunday found death caused by "unknown parties." t SHOT BY MISTAKE. Sheriff S. V. Lane Seriously Wound- ^ 'T&j ed by Negroes. Dillon, May 15.?Sheriff S. V. Lane was shot and seriously wounded-? -ffi last night at Floydale by a negro, J|g John McNeill, whom the sheriff ordered to halt as he thought he was Will Chavis, a fugitive from town, ? a aa?1ia?i ?n n ? opVi f olfnniul W LIU liau cailici ill uigui. otiyyvw up to a negro house and shot his k wife twice. The woman will recover. After the shooting at Dillon the w|| sheriff went to the scene of the trouble, and the negroes gathered, and - ||jg great excitement prevailed. Two negroes present, one of whom was .'Mlsm John McNeill, volunteered and insisted on helping to catch Chavis. Thinking that he would board the North & South Carolina train at Floydale going toward Mullins, the sheriff v told McNeill to go to the railroad and that he and his deputy would drive on to Floydale. On reaching there Sheriff Lane went into the waiting room, where there was no light and closed the |ggS door. He sent his deputy down the 'A railroad to a crossing to keep watch 7 J at another point. Very soon the two : negroes, who had gone on the rail- ^^^g road track, walked up to the station* and as one had every appearance of; jjfg Will Chavis, Sheriff Lane cracked the door and ordered them to halt. As % he did so, he reached back for his gun. Both negroes fired on him, one with a shotgun and the other with a Winchester rifle. He was hit" in the leg and the abdomen. His intestines were punctured in three places. As soon as he was shot he ? .5 realized that the negroes thought he was Chavis. For some minutes negroes would not go near him, and^ ^ called out to the sheriff that they ; had him and that he could not fool-i them; that they knew he was Chavis. As soon as they did recognize him ^B^' they did everything for the sheriff:^?gE^ they could and were very penitent) :&S3jB "? The wound was very painful, and before the doctors got there from|j|3 Dillon, a distance of about five miles, p the sheriff had suffered fearfully. The negroes have not been arreetp V-.l>?f'./ ed, as the sheriff insisted that his be-: J ing shot was accidental. Great easiness is felt here for his recovery. -?f| A message from Florence about 5 'M o'clock stated that he was doing as '^H well as could be expected. He was oton thoro ati tha ftarlv 3 o'clock mBI'I VttAVU VUV* V WM ??w w ? " train this morning. An operation waa^&Hv,.!' performed at once. ': % Murderer is Killed. * sJjBW Montgomery, Ala., May 14.?TwQ.:*||?jj3 negroes are dead and one mortally^ wounded and four deputy 8heriffl?-^|gRj wounded, one fatally, as the result of 1 a murder committed by one of the negroes and a spectacular battle that ' followed an effort to capture the M murderer. The dead: Tim Benson and P?tera-^?8f Foils, both negroes. Injured: Ike Primers, a negro; ? Eugene Naftel, deputy, shot in shoul-.v|p| [ der; Harry McCord, deputy; shot in abdomen, will probably die; Owea > Ellis, deputy, shot in the eye; AI->' ford, chauffeur, shot in shoulderi; hand and face. '< -r' About 9 o'clock this morning Ben- ; son murdered Foils and shot Primers down, inflicting a mortal wound on him. What the trouble between, them was could not be ascertained. /:'|?s| Sheriff Hood was telegraphed for and he sent Deputy Sheriff Rives, Naftel and Ellis to the scene in an ^ automobile. They arrived ab'oat 10:30 o'clok and found Benson barricaded in his cabin. He refused to surrender, declaring he would die before be wouia suDmu lo arra?u The officers then opened fire on him and he returned it, wounding. Naftel. The officers falling in their purpose, then telephoned for Sheriff Hood and he went out this afternoon with Deputies McCord and Bridges. The posse opened fire and . a battle lasting an hour ensued. El- -;|p lis and Alford were wounded in this -'^*0 ngni. Failing to dislodge Benson by their continuous fire, the posse set fire to the cabin and when the cabin was filled with smoke the negro stumbled through the door and was " shot down. He rose and returned the fire, wounding Deputy McCord in the ..f0, abdomen. Taking refuge behind a picket fence which surrounded his garden, the negro took his final stand and was killed with seven balls from a .38-calibre revolver and many other wounds. The wounded men were hurriedly '[$ brought to Montgomery. The South Carolina Dental Associ- JM ation is to hold its annual meeting in Columbia June 20th to 25th. ^ pi