Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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There isn't an empty dwelling in town. Some houses have two fami lies in them, and more houses wantre ing. Mr. Henry Ehrhardt has begun a ground piazza around his house. Will (add to the looks of his dwelling when completed. Mrs. W. N. H .Folk was buried at Mt. Pleasant church grave yard on Saturday morning, after a short illness. Sunday afternoon the young folks ^ enjoyed promenading on our streets, talking soft talk, etc. Messrs. C. J. Sheely, Harry Copeland, Harry and J. Ben Ehrhardt and Robert Hughes went to Cameron to attend the Newberry college students' reunion last Friday. They say they had a nice time and enjoyed the auto ride as well as the speeches and din? ner. The Ehrhardt Telephone co. is at ; work. Hope to soon have their line ? in shapfe. Mr. Jno. M. Kirkland went to Savannah, Ga., on Sunday. He expects 'to go to Cha-Jeston, S. C., Augusta, Ga., and Baltimore, Md., in the near future. He wants to study cotton at these places. Mr. A. F. Henderson has his smiling countenance in town again. Says his trip was a grand one, and that he enjoyed it very much. f: ^ Base ball has about played out. i'.' What next? JEE. p ? * m l. ' Denmark Doings. Denmark, July 17.?Rev. B. F. Allen, pastor of the Denmark Baptist church, is assisting Rev. W. H. fc .Jones in a protracted meeting at White Pond this week. "Revival services are being held at i Ghent's Branch Baptist church this week, conducted by the pastor, Rev. P. M. Hauser. Two services a day are . being held: one in the morning at 11 o'clock and one in the afternoon at 3 o'clock, with dinner on the grounds. Mr. J. Arthur Wiggins, cashier of the Bank of Denmark, has just purI chased a handsome new automobile. Mr. E. H. Grayson is acting as substitute rural delivery mail carrier this week, while Mr. J. B. Crews, the regular carrier, is taking,his vacation. I Denmark Social News. i Denmark, July 15.?Miss Sadelle Guess is entertaining a house party at her colonial home this week. ? Among her charming guests are: Misses Susa Cockrell, of Florida, Lightsey and McSweeney, of Hamp^ ton, Clothilde Smith, of Williston, Broyles, of Tennessee, Mary Link and < Mary Smith, of Abbeville, There ace a number of social affairs being planned in honor of these attractive rJUUUg AUUAVW. w Miss Emma Moss, of Norway, spent the week-end with relatives here. .? Mrs. Hattie Milhous has returned K. from a week's stay at the Isle of Palms. J. Alvin Riley has accepted a posi>4 tion in Mississippi and left for his new field on Tuesday. Misses Byrd, who have been the VA attractive guests of Miss Lynn S. Goolsby for two weeks, returned to f their home in Greenwood Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Rice and W. F. ^ Rice left last week for the land of the sky, where they will spend the" remainder of the summer. | Mrs. P. A. Bethea has returned to f' her home in Darlington, after a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. H. Guess. ^ Miss Lillian Goolsby left for SanB dersville, Ga., Saturday, where she B> will spend some time with relatives. FELL BACKWARD INTO WELL. Negro Killed Near Lancaster and White Man Hurt. Lancaster, July 14.?A tragedy occurred yesterday on the premises of i Lewis N. Montgomery in the Creek section, a worthy and respected negro, Nathan Mcllwain, losing his life in a well, which was being made deeper by blasting, and was coming up on a rope to eat his breakfast when on reaching the top he apparently fainted and fell backward, landing at the bottom. His head and chest were crushed and death ensued in an hour or so, shortly after he was brought to the surface. Hial Dees had a narrow escape from a similar fate. He was down in the well with Mcllwain and in falling the latter's feet struck Mr. Dees in the breast, hurting him severely. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, July 16.?Mr. Chester Lancaster was*taken suddenly quite ill on last Friday, and was sent, by < Dr. Long to the hospital in Augusta to be operated on for appendicitis. The house party at Mrs. M. P. , Youmans's has scattered, and they, < together with Misses Margaret and Lucile Youmans, are visting Miss Zimmerman, at Orangeburg. Mrs. Lily Preacher gave them a lovely "at home" last week; delicious refreshments were served, and all seemed happy and joyous. She also got up ] a horse back ride for them, several couples joining in the canter. Miss Annye Moye is enjoying her vacation in Bamberg. The protracted meeting at the Bap- ' tist church has just closed. Rev. ; Corpening, of Ridgeway, did some earnest preaching, and we hope great good was accomplished. Mrs. Youmans and Mrs. Peeples, of ] Estill, are guests of Mrs. M. Moye. 1 Miss Ruth Wilson is visiting in * Savannah. * ' At the town election on Friday, * Geo. W. Sanders was elected intend- 1 ant, and Lewis Dowling, W. B. San- 1 ders, G. B. Brant, and F. G. Crad- 3 dock were elected wardens. Mrs. Dr. Addison has returned from a visit to Augusta. Country Correspondence. 1 H The protracted meetings of the va- i rious country churches are being held i successively. That of Colston was 1 held last week, and we understand ? a very live and inspiring meeting was 1 the result. Spring Branch has-its < doors open this week for revival pro- 1 corvlros fin not know how 1 w* ? *vvm| long 'twill continue. Bethesda invites the public to her house of wor- ( ship on Friday for a'few days' re- ? vival meetings. We trust much good I will result from all these meetings, t Continued rains are falling, and t farmers are planting peas and pota- t toes. ' 1 Mrs. Cornelia Westberry, of Or- 1 angeburg, was to see her sister, Mrs. J. W. Hill, last Saturday. i Mr. William Kearse, of Odum's t Bridge, spent Monday with his boyhood chum, Mr. O. P. Jordan. Mrs. Pierce B. Sandifer, of Collins, Ga., with her son, Howard, and ? daughter, Thelma, is on a visit to her mother, Mrs. Sallie Patrick San aner. ' We are glad to learn that Mr. Jno. < H. Pearson is improving from a case ] of typhoid fever. Have not heard < from Mr. G. W. Hughes in several < days, hut wish recovery for both. ] Mr. David B. Jordan, who is now < with the Charleston Consolidated i Electric Railway and Light Co., has j been on a recent visit to his home i folks. ] If Pastor Frier will pardon the < writer, we wish to comment on his ] sermon Sunday morning. To the \ writer's mind he surpassed himself, \ being always enthused and masterly < on his subjects, hut was unusually so ] last Sabbath. His text, taken from ? the 38th verse of the 14th chapter of j St. Mark, "Watch ye and pray," was ? so beautifully and thoughtfully dem- j onstrated. < The old soldiers' reunion at Bethesda is a much looked forward to gathering now. We trust all the old surviving soldiers in the county and < all others who can will meet togeth- 1 er there this year, as it does one 1 good to see these silver crowned ] brows beaming with smiles and ] throwing off their years of cares and i wears when they get together ana j talk of the times when they shoul- < dered their arms for civil (or uncivil?) causes. Times which we the 1 younger stretch our imagination o'er and really obtain more to worry i o'er than they who acted. Let all i who can go to the reunion and make ] merry for the gray headed fathers and mothers who are living, breath- ' ing, Confederate monuments. < i } , '** t - ? IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading-?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. At Orangeburg last Monday the plant of the Rowesville oil mill was sold at public auction by the stockholders. The property was bid in by Raysor & Summers, attorneys, for $25,000. It is not known what disposition will be made of the plant. Dr. f. w. u. Jtsutier mis wcbk ecut his resignation to the board of directors as physician for the State penitentiary. His resignation is to take effect on August 1 when he will resume the practice of medicine in Columbia. Dr. Butler has been connected with the State prison for a number of years as physician. S. N. Hyde, a white man twentysix years of age, an engineer in the Orr cotton mills at Anderson, shot and killed his wife, his father-in-law, and wounded his wife's sister, a girl of fifteen. Hyde and his wife- had separated and she was living with her fatter. Hyde expresses no regret over the deed, and says he is ready to die for it. He did not intend killing anybody but his wife. He says he loved his wife so much that he killed her because she would not live with him. Mrs. Ira B. Jones Injured. Lancaster, July 17.?Mrs. Ira B. Jones, wife of the chief justice, was severely hurt late this afternoon by being knocked down and run over on Main street by a team frightened by in automobile. She was promptly picked up -and carried into a drug 3tore nearby, where her injuries were ittended to. Later she was removed , to the Jones residence on Chesterfield ivenue. While, in the opinion of at- , tendine nhvsicians. no bones are , broken, Mrs. Jones has sustained a 1 number of very painfhl bruises. Linneau Kelly Kills Cousin. Hartsville, July 15.?A fatal shootng affair between first cousins of the 1 ielly family at Kellytown, near ( Hartsville, occurred last night about ( ) o'clock at the home of their grand- . nother, the late Mrs. Prudy Kelly. Linneau, son of Shelton Kelly, shot , md killed Payton, son of Burrell ielly. Both young men were about , 11 years old. From reports both had ' Deen drinking and they were in a *oom tusseling. ' It appears that Payton advanced >n Linneau and tried to cut and , jhoot him when the latter pulled his )istol and fired five shots, three enuring the left breast and penetrating . ;he heart, two inflicting wounds in , ;he arm. Death was almost instan- . aneous. An inquest was held to-day )y Magistrate Tyson of this place. Linneau readily consented to arrest ' ind was lodged in jail in Darlington ;hi$ morning. 1 . KILLED BY TRAIN. i L T. Ramsey Meets Death on. Railroad Track. Gaffney, July 17.?A horrible ac- , jident occurred between Smyrna and Hickory Grove on Saturday night, ac- i jording to information which was re- . jeived here to-day. J. T. Ramsey, a ( nan about 46 years of age, was kill- . id by an extra freight train which was being operated on that road. It Is supposed that he had started home ( when he was struck by the train. His . lead was severed, his heart torn . Dut and his body crushed to a pulp j ?rom the waist up. Notwithstanding . ;hat the accident occurred early in , :he evening his body was not discov- , ired until 4 o'clock Sunday morning. , His wife became alarmed at hjs ab- 1 sence and summoned relatives, W. D. , md Rob White. They started a , search and found his body. Ramsey ( :s survived by a wife and nine chil- ( Iren. ( A Sure Test. 1 On a pleasant Sunday afternoon an Did German and his youngest son were seated in the village inn. The tether' had partaken liberally of the home-made beer, and was warning his son against the evil of intemperance. "Never drink too much, my son. A gentleman stops when he has snough. To be drunk is a disgrace." "Yes, father, but how can I tell when I have enough or am drunk?" The old man pointed with his finder. "Do you see those two men sitting in the corner? If you should see four men there, you would be drunk." The boy looked long and earnestly. "Yes, father, but?but?there is only one man in that corner." * % -: , . ... 5 FOILED IX SUICIDE ATTEMPT. Aged Man Charged With Assaulting Three Little Girls. Maysville, Ky., July 12.?Hidden in a barn, when feeling ran high following his arrest for the alleged assault upon three little girls, Thomas Ham, 62 years old, tried to hang himself to a rafter, was cut down in time and revived, then brought here, bound with a rope around his neck to be jeered at by a riled populace. Ham was arrested near Shannon, Ky., this morning, when the alleged assault upon three little girls, whose ages range from 9 to 12 years, became known. He waa hurried to the barn of a neighbor, pending the arrival of officers. With the doors securely locked, he was lfeft alone, and it is then he tried to hang himself. He was found barely in time. Feeling is running high here to-night and officers are taking every precaution to forestall mob violence. DETAILS OF A.C. L. WRECK. Apparently Deliberately Planned? None Sustains Serious Injuries/ Florence, July 16.?Train No. 86, the Coast Line's "Palmetto Limited," which left Charleston at 4:10 and Florence at 7:45 yesterday, wasj badly wrecked at the Buck Swamp sidling, two miles north of Latta, about 9 o'clock last night. The train, which was made up. with one of the Coast Line's big coppear-head locomotives, mail and express cars, two coaches ahd two sleepers, with Engineer Reddin Bullock and Conductor John W. Cotton, Jr., was speeding jlong at a 45-mile an hour clip, when suddenly the locomotive, entering the sidjng, followed by the heavy cars, soon rushed on elf through the siding into the Bwamp, ploughing its way through mud and earth until its force was checked by the weight of the cars. The engine remained in an upright position, and that was the reason why Engineer Bullock and his fireman were not injured. . The mail car left the right of way to the right, the express car to the right and the two coaches jammed themselves against the wreckage. Only the front trucks of the forward end of the two Pullman cars left'the rails. When it was all over it was found that a tramp by the name of Woodward had his feet and hand badly mashed, and that the mail agent, the express messenger and his colored helper and the train porter were slightly injured by being bruised and shaken up. Not a passenger on the train is reported to have been injured. As quickly as possible the wrecking train, in charge of Mr. Alex Sessions, and carrying Assistant Superintendent R. B. Hare, Dr. B. C. Gregg and Special Agent C. E. St. Amand, left here for the scene. The track was found to be blocked upon Its arrival, but was soon cleared, all trains being detoured last night and early this morning via Elrod and Chadbourne. % Upon investigation as to the cause of the wreck it was found that the switch had been opened and the lock removed. The lock could not be found, .showing that it was a wilful and diabolical act of some miscreant. The attempt proved to be successful and it is, indeed, a miracle that all on board were not slaughtered outright. The Buck Swamp siding is what is known in railroad parlance as a "one ender," with the switch opening to the south end, from whence the train approached, the other end being open, and nothing to prevent a train from going into the woods 3hould it enter the switch at any kind of speed. As soon as the engine entered the siding the sudden swoop threw Engineer Bullock from his seat, but he quickly recovered himself, shut off the steam, applied the emergency brakes and reversed his engine, but by the time this was all lone she was ploughing herself through mud and earth, having passed in. throueh and off the siding. Million and Half a Mile. Columbus, O., July 17.?A record valuation for Ohio railroads was made by the State tax commission to-day in the case of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific, whose only Ohio property is a Cincinnati terminal, 56-100 of a mile long. For this, the commission fixed a valuation of $873,700, wtich w(ould make a basis approximately of $1,500,000 a mile. The former valuation was $291,245. Other valuations increased to-day include the Louisville and Nashville from $205,625 to $462,700. ATTACK ON COAL CARRIER XT c fiAVirRVAfPVT FTT.Ffi STTTT AGAINST RAILROAD. Prosecution Claims that Railway and Mines Work Together in Violation of Law. Washington, July 17.?A government suit to compel a bona fide disassociation of the Reading Railway company and the Reading Coal company was filed to-day in the federal court at Philadelphia. The action parallels a recent one against the Lehigh Valley and is the government's second move in its. new fight to separate the coal-carriers from their virtual control of the coal business. The government suit takes the form of an amended complaint to the original commodities clause action of 1908, which is in conformance with the commodities decision of the supreme court. Merely Dummies. It is charged by the government that the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron company, the Fulton Coal company, the Locust Gay Improvement company, the Tremont Coal company, the Mammoth Vein Coal and Improvement company, the Preston Coal and Improvement company and the Deleware Coal company are merely dummies of the Reading Railway company and the Reading Coal company, which is the holding corporation. As in the Lehigh Valley suit, the government charges that the Reading Coal company and its subsidiaries are buying anthracite from independent operators along the line of the Read ing railway, with the object of removing competition, transporting it to market at a loss and there regulating the selling price. The coal company loses on such transaction, the government alleges, that the railway company may profit from the freight charges. Easy Loans. As a further evidence that the coal company is not a bona fide corporation but a mere adjunct of the rail road and a device for evading the commodities clause of the interstate commerce law, the government charges that the officers of the railway company and the coal company are the same, that the railway company has advanced more than $70,000.000 to the coal company which is carried as an open charge. The government cites that the railway company had paid as high as 4 per cent, for money for the fcoal company's operations while the coal company has seldom paid any interest at all and never more than 2 per cent, to the railway company. It Is known that the department of justice intends to fight for a strict compliance with the terms of the commodities clause by all the coalcarrying railroads. Attorneys Surprised. 4. Philadelphia, July 17.?Attorneys for the three Reading companies appeared surprised when informed tonight that the government had insti tuted action to disassociate the Philadelphia & Reading Railway company and the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron company in the mining and transportation of anthracite coal. | George F. Baer, president of the three Reading companies, is in Europe and no one else in authority would talk of the suit. SHOT HIM TO DEATH. White Man Kills Negro Who Insulted His Wife. After following him for four miles a white man named Bragg put a load of shot in the breastL and another v load tore off the top of the .head of Ed Brown, a negro, at Jimps, Ga., Friday night. It is said the negro wrote Bragg's wife a letter and after handing it to her himself, started off in the direction of Jimps with a white man named Waters. Bragg was away from home at the time and when he returned his wife gave him the letter. He got his gun and started out after the negro and after following him four miles found him at the station and later tne negro was found in a pile of crossties with his head blown off. Bail for Frances Sarratt.. Spartanburg, July 17.?Judge R. C. Watts here to-day granted bail to Frances Sarratt, of Cherokee county, the white woman, who, while attempting to kill a negro woman, killed a negro baby the woman carried in her arms. The bail waa fixed at $4,000. Mrs. Sarratt has been in jail at Gaffney. GIVES HIMSELF UP. Negro Farmer, Slayer of Two Boys, Surrenders at Manning. Manning, July. 17.?Ellison Adger, the negro farmer, who shot and kill ed two negro boys near Summerton ^ 'Jf on Saturday night, July 1st, has come :;M in voluntarily and surrendered himself to Sheriff Gamble, who had diligently endeavored to apprehend*him. Adger had sent the two boys, Dorsey Felder and Eugene King, to mill with a mule and buggy, with positive instructions not to keep the mule out after dark. When night came on and the boys with the mule had not re- * /-,yS turned, Adger took his gun and went down the road to look for them, going about a mile before meeting them. He then took hold of the |sS mule's bridle and. ordered the boys : S to get out of the buggy, and as they did so he commenced firing, shooting Dorsey Felder through the heart and killing him instantly and inflicting tf 'SS| mortal wound in Eugene King's neck from which he died the following Monday morning. It is said that Adger has engaged attorneys to de- .-?% fend him, but it is not known whether an application will be made to se- | |g| cure tyail. Adger is a thrifty, pros- >jl perous negro, owning his farm, mules /; and Mininmont anH havine a find viSBS crop now growing. NEGRO FOUND ALIVE. J||\? Was Shot by Mob In Georgia and " Left for Dead. Moultrie, Ga., July ^14.?Morris Daniels, a negro charged with haying assaulted an aged woman in Randolph county last week, was brought to Moultrie this morning hearer dead than alive after having been taken in % charge by a mob of less than a dozen men last night near Hartsville in this county. The negro was shot and left | in the road for dead. 'He was not : discovered until the sheriff and coroner were notified by unknown parties * to go Out and hold an inquest, it is fJ stated that the matter will be pre- . ^4 sented to the grand jury as the identity of the negro had not been estab- || Blackmail Plan Causes Tragedy. Jeannette, Pa., July 15.?When George Lebarto, a wholesale fruit* : vf| merchant, recently received a "Black Hand" letter demanding money and : | explained the signal that would be 4 : > given when the money should be pro- :-y duced, purchased a heavy caliber an-. tomatic pistol and placed it behind :|n[ the counter of his store. -iSM To-day Veni Cecilano, an Italian barber, entered the store and taking a stogie out of his hat, lit it in front Of the counter, this act forming the signal which had been explained in the letter. Lebarto immediately j| picked up the pistol and opened^flre. Four of the six shots struck Cecilano and a fifth carried away a finger '|n on t&e hand of Lebarto's daughter -v|8| who waved her arm toward ner ^aa father in an appeal to .him to cease ? Cecilano died in a hospital soon after the shooting. Lebarto escaped but his daughter turned over to the police eight letter which have been received at various times from the Vj|H "Black Hand" making demands for money. Beginning of the End. Jackson, Miss., July 16.?With the ushering in of the current week, Mis- fsissippi's memorable political campaign, the bitterest and most spirited ; in the history of the State, reaches . ?<3 the beginning of the end. The Democratic State executive v committee will assemble in the senate chamber at noon Monday to pre- ^J| pare the form of the official ballot and to declare as nominees or tne r>^ party all candidates for State offices who have no opposition. No changes have been made in the V vjgSB estimates issued'from headquarters of the three senatorial candidates. Foriper Gov. Vardaman's managers declare he will win in the first primary by a decisive majority. Mr. ^ Vardaman is confident that he will get 90,000 votes. C. H. Alexander's managers assert $8 the he is certain to get 45,000 votes in tne nrsa pumaij. Senator Percy's managers publish a statement to-day in which they say he will get a heavy vote in 60 per cent, of the voting precincts of the 1 entire State, where canvasses have , been made. ' ' A striking illustration of the enthusiastic partisanship being shown comes in a report from Durant, where I'fM the head of a mercantile establish- ' ment, a Vardaman supporter, has posted a notice saying that in the ' * eveht of Vardaman's election he will give away his stock of groceries.