The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 14, 1911, Page 3, Image 3
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WATERS ROBBING THE GRAVES.
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Continued Reports of Terrible Work
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Floods in China.
Peking, Sept. 8.?Only meagre
v news from the flooded districts have
I reached ,the capital.
The report received by the American
mission at Wuhu estimating that
100,000 persons have been drowned
has not yet been verified, but every
account confirms the great extent of
the disaster.
I- Travelers arriving by steamboat I
at Hankow from the upper reaches I
of the river, report many coffins of
a huge Chinese type were encounterI
ed floating the Yang-Tse Kiang,
showing that waters were robbing
the graves along the river.
M From Huana comes word that the
receding waters are being followed
by pestilence and that many are
I dying.
f Great Loss of Life.
Hankow, China, Sept. 8.?The
floods resulting from the Yang-Ste
river overflowing its banks, which
I transformed hundreds of miles of
the Yang-Tse Valley into an enormous
lake, and caused a great loss
I of life, gradually are subsiding.
In addition to the heavy death
Sir
flist, many thousands of natives have
been made homeless and destitute.
The rice crop in the provinces of
Hupeh and Hunan will probably be
an average one, but other cereals
have suffered heavily. The rice
s crop in Ngan-Hawel, another prov
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imce waierea uy tut? laug-iw mti,
is of exceptionally poor quality.
Chinese Populace Desperate.
Shanghai, Sept. 8.?The famine
riots in Changsoh are spreading and
the American Baptist chapel, near
Wungtu, has been abandoned and
was later wrecked by a band of marauders.
The populace are desperate,
and it is stated that the visible
supply of rice will last only about
ten days.
Society Shattered by Scandal.
Lisbon, Ohio, Sept. 7.?"The Prettiest
Girl," pictures, which have been
Margaret Holliday, who is just sixteen
years old, and have involved in
the scandal that followed many of
the socially-elect here, bid fair to become
as famous in their way as the
"Bear Rug" pictures of Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw.
fmnhio all started iust two
days ago, when Mrs. Holliday, the
girl's mother, in setting to rights her
daughter's room, discovered a photograph
of an undraped girl, who to
^ he.r surprise she recognized as her
daughter.
Sixteen-year-old Miss Margaret admitted
that the photograph was
taken after a grill room supper, at
which many men of wealth attended.
^ On the technical charge of having
given liquor to a minor, the mother
caused the arrest of Lyman H. Miller,
a prominent merchant, and Lemuel
Johnson.
INVESTIGATE HOSIERY MILL.
Richland Grand Jury Acts on Request
of Solicitor Cobb.
Columbia, Sept. 7.?The Richland
county grand jury to-day commenced
an investigation of the sanitary condition
of the hosiery mill at the State
penitentiary. The investigation is bef.
ing made upon request of Solicitor
Cobb, who received instructions from
the governor.
Senator E. D. Smith announced
to-day that he would attend the cotton
conference at Montgomery, Ala.,
on September 12, when plans for
financing and marketing the cotton
crop of the South will be discussed.
Attorney General Lyon did not
reach a decision to-day as to whether
he will bring the graft cases to
trial at this term of the Richland
county court.
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i WOMAN RUNS GAMING HOUSE.
Minneapolis Society Ladies Lose
Large Sums in Resort.
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Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 8.?An |
ultra-fashionable gambling house has i
been closed by the police, after run- j
ning for several weeks, during which
jjf time hundreds of women have been
squandering their time and money in
the place.
A highly respected society woman
of the city ran the place. She was
successful in her enterprise and the
curb at 723 Nicollet avenue was constantly
lined with limousines and the
town cars of rich women. All sorts
of games were played, the police
say, a general raid would have been
made but for the select quality of
the customers of the place.
The Closing Ul tut; uuusc vv ao
caused by the wrath of an irate wellto-do
grocer of the city, who discovered
that his wife had dissipated
a large portion of his bank account
in the beautifully furnished rooms
at 723 Nicollet avenue. The owner
was "brought up on the carpet" immediately,
and closed the doors of
^ the establishment to avoid trouble
with the police.
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POSSES SEARCH FOR FIEND.
Attacked a Lady and Nearly Killed
Her Husband.
At Lumberton, N. C., Gray Tolar,
a wealthy lumberman, was probably
fatally injured and his wife attacked
by an unknown negro at their home
early Monday. Tolar's skull was
crushed by a blow with a plow bar
and Mrs. Tolar was nearly choked insensible
before her screams frightened
off. her assailant. As soon as
the negro escaped Mrs. Tolar seized
her two children and ran to their
! nearest neighbors, a half a mile disj
tant, and gave the alarm, and posses
immediately took up the search.
Tolar was carried to a hospital where
it was stated that he could not recover.
Three suspects have been arrested,
but Mrs. Tolar is unable to
identify her assailant.
KELLY DECLARED NOT GUILTY.
Greenville Man Freed of Murder
Charge?Shot Assailant.
Greenville, Sept 7.?In the court
of general sessions to-day, M. H. Kelly,
a well known w^ite citizen of
Greenville, a man of some prominence,
was acquitted on a charge of
murdering Jas. Boyle, also white,
very well known. A few witnesses
were introduced to show that Kelly
fired the shots in self-defence, after
which the solicitor stated that he
would not ask for a verdict. James
Boyle was shot down on the side wniir
in front, of the new United
States postoffice building shortly after
dark, one evening last June. Kelly,
it is understood, was in company
with a young woman whom Boyle
fancied and Boyle lay in wait for
Kelly as he returned home with the
girl. It is alleged that as Kelly and
the girl turned the corner at the postoffice
and started down a dark street,
Boyles loomed up out of the darkness
and dealt a blow at Kelly with
a paiir of brass knucks. Kelly says
he dodged in time to break the force
of the blow, and then pulled his pistol
and fired twice upon * Boyle.
Boyle, who was a blacksmith, is said
to have been a veritable physical
giant. A physician, who attended the
wounded man, testified to-day that
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the knucks, death would have been
an inevitable result.
Court convened here Monday,
Judge Memminger was specialty appointed
by Chief Justice Jones to
held the term of court instead of
Judge J. C. Klugh, who is ill.
POLICE STOPS DOG'S BURIAL.
Woman Wanted Carcass Put in the
Grave Beside Husband's Body.
Lexington, Mass., Sept. 8.?Herbert
Wellington, superintendent of
the local cemeteries, enlisted the aid
of the local police to stop the burial
of a dog in the cemetery that shelters
the bones of many of the most
prominent of those who were present
and assisted when the country
was in its birth struggle.
Mrs. Sarah Bowman Vanness, a
former regent of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, wishes to
have a dog buried in her family plot,
beside her husband's body, but police
action stopped Her at the grave,
and she was forced to take the dog's
carcass back home and bury it on
her estate temponarirly at least, although
it is believed she will contest
the order.
WOMEN RISE IN REVOLT.
New Yorkers Protest Against Benlah
Binford on the Stage.
New York, Sept. 7.?If the protests
that are going up from prominent
club women, actresses and other women
well known here are to be taken
as a criterion of the feeling of womankind
in general, Beulah Binford
will not be heartily welcomed to the
metropolitan stage as "an actress"
or anything else.
When the news reached here today
that the young girl who had
become notorious through her connection
with the Beattie murder
trial at Chesterfield had been liberated
from the jail at Richmond, and
had started North to "go on the
stage," many of the leaders of women
in this city protested that such
an exposition of Miss Binford would
be an insult to all womankind.
Among the women in the movement
are: Miss Belle De Rivera, the
well-known club woman; Mrs. A. M.
Palmer, widow of a prominent theatrical
manager and president of the
Rainy Day Club, and Alma Webster
Powell, the singer.
A local booking agency is credited
with the statement that the Binford
girl will appear at a Philadelphia
theatre next Monday. Asked as
to her historic abilities the agency
say they probably will consist of a
couple of songs.
"It really does not matter what j
she does," said the agent, "so long
as the people have a chance to look I
at her."
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32 GLASSES OF BEER FATAL.
Baltimore Man Kills Himself in Effort
to Dispose of 100 Drinks.
Baltimore, Sept. 6.?Fatally mistaken
in his estimate of his capacity
Morris Katz, aged 35, died here yesterday
after drinking only 32 of the
100 glasses of beer of which he had
planned to dispose. Coroner Abercrombie
rendered a verdict of death
from alcoholism.
Katz had won $5 on a wager. He
was extremely fond of beer and decided
to spend the whole amount of
his winnings for the amber fluid. He
consumed 20 glasses of the beverage,
and his appetite was but little diminished.
Following his disposal of the
twelfth glass thereafter, he lurched
out of the saloon and fell dead at
the corner of Eden and Pratt streets.
Street Car Motorman Indicted.
Atlanta, Sept. 7.?W. W. Matthews
the street car motorman who shot
and killed a 16-year-oid boy named
Lyles when the latter taunted him
by calling him "Peaches," has been
indicted for murder by a Fulton
county grand jury and will come to
trial at this tenm of the court.
A rather remarkable story lies
behind the indictment. It is stated
that Motorman Matthews was hailed
by an aged white woman with a
I big basket of peaches, in the neighborhood
where the Lyles boy lived,
and he roughly refused to let the woman
board the car, declaring that
her basket was too big.
It happened that Lyles and a
crowd of his young friends saw the
incident. They cried, "For shame!"
and then systematically set about
making the motorman's life miserable.
Every time his car came through
the neighborhood, which was at least
ten times a day, some of the young
sters of the section would get on the
corners and yell, "Peaches, Peaches,
Peaches."
This statement finally goaded the
motorman, himself a young man, to
madness. He armed himself with a
revolver, and the next time a crowd
of boys collected nea$ the car line
to taunt him he drew the weapon
and fired a volley directly into the
crowd, killing Lyles and wounding
another boy severely.
THE RAILROADS' HEAVY TOLL.
Seven Thousand Seven Hundred Killed
and 55,000 Injured.
It seems almost incredible that
there should have been over 7,700
persons killed by and upon the railroads
during the present year, with
more than 55,000 persons injured
through the same agency. These are
the figures, however, of the Interstate
Commerce commission, which
is now required by law to keep accurate
record of railroad accidents.
While credit must be given to the
railroads for every intention to prevent
accidents and while due allowance
must always be made for the
fallibility of human agency, the fact
still remains that the minimum of
sacrifice of human life has not been
reached. The Interstate Commerce
commission will in time be able to
determine definitely where the fault
lies?whether in unnecessary and
reckless speed or in lack of adequate
inspection of roadbed and rolling
stock or through insufficient appliances
for safety. ' These causes, or
others, may explain why railroad accidents
occur with such frequency.
The proportion of fatalities in the
United States is much greater than
T+ to tnia fhat tuo fin business
CLUl v/au* XI/ AD ti uv VUU>V fT V w upon
a larger and faster scale, but,
none the less, it ought to be done
wfth a maximum of safety not now
enjoyed.?Washington Herald.
Commits Suicide on Liner.
Charleston, Sept. 9.?J. H. Williams,
aged 55 years, said to be from
Jacksonville, committed suicide with
a pistol at 1 o'clock this morning on
board the Clyde steamship Iroquois
while the liner was at sea. The bullet
entered his mouth and pierced
his head, making an ugly wound.
Death was practically instantaneous.
On hearing the shot, which startled
sleeping passengers, officers rushed
to him, but he was dead when reached.
Williams was standing on the
lower deck near the stern when he
ended his life.
The body was. turned over ito Coroner
O'Donnell when the ship reached
port and an inquest was held this
morning. A letter was found in his
clothes and opened by the authorities.
He had a second cabin trcket
from Jacksonville to New York.
At the coroner's inquest it was
brought out that the letter was addressed
to A. S. Clement, Plymouth,
\Toce ife fpvt cnrnwlPfl nprvnnslv in
pencil, reading: "I have gone crazy.
I don't know where mother is.
(Signed) Father." Two sealed hut
unaddressed envelopes were opened.
They contained small amounts of
money. The coroner has telegraphed
A. S. Clement and will await instructions
as to the disposition of the
body. The pistol which was found
in his hand was exhibited at the inquest.
Only one shot had been fired,
bat the magazine was filled
ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN.
Obstruction on Track Between Latta
and Dillon?Found by Switchman.
Florence, Sept. 6.?A bold attempt
was made to wreck a through passenger
train on the short cut division
of the Coast Line last night at or near
the Buck Swamp siding, between Latta
and Dillon, where about six years
ago train S3, the Palmetto Limited,
northbound, was completely wrecka/1
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and a log chain was found wrapped
around the rail and fastened to
the ties. Had any of the trains hit
the obstruction they would have been
derailed and wrecked. At that point
all trains usually speed along at
about 50 miles the hour. The obstruction
was found by the switch
tender, b? having noticed that the
switch light was out and went to relight
it. The Coast Line officials having
ordered all trains to reduce speed
and for engineers to run slowly beI
tween Dillon and Latta until further
orders, and to keep a sharp lookout
for obstructions on the track.
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