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%/ '".'v _ - ' . | lamterg Ifmtlii 1 | Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26,1911. One Dollar and a Half a Year.f|fl? [w , COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. ! y- News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. l 'i\ Olar News. ______ ^ Olar, Oct. 24.?A great many fanners in this section are holding their cotton with the expectation of getting higher prices. We notice that the present cool (weather has forced many of our folks to wear winter garments and we ofIten see smoke coming from the chimneys. Seems that winter is rapidly approaching. - We are sorry to hear of the illness of Capt. D. H. Rice. Hope he will ^ . soon recover. ^ Frotractea services were neia ai the Baptist church last week by the Rev. M?r. Hurley, of Georgia. Rev. Mr. Hurley, of Georgia, has been called by the Baptist congregation for the ensuing year. The Methodist quarterly conference was held, here last Saturday. Presiding Elder Smith preached two very instructive sermons Saturday and Sunday. ^ Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Hartzog and A Master Earl Rizer visited Washington last week. Mrs. J. D. Milhous, of Denmark, spent last Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. P. H. Starr. Hon. S. G. Mayfield, of Denmark, was in town Monday. . Hon. H. M. Graham, of Bamberg, was in Olar last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. J. Jones, of Bamberg, visited the family of Mr. C. F. Rizer last Thursday. Messrs. Hugh T. Kearse and David Piter, of Schofield, were in town Sunday afternoon. Mrs. E. D. Bessinger returned home last Sunday. She reports that ' V her little nieces and nephews, who were bitten by a mad dog a few weeks ago, are doing well. r Through the efforts of Prof. D. P. McCain a reading circle of about 35 members has been organized. At the first meeting it was unanimously decided that the name of the organisation shall be "The McCain Reading Vu VJV* SUIT INVOLVING DOG'S HEAD. * Greenville Man Demands $2,000 Damages of Southern Express Co. Greenville, Oct. 21.?Praying V judgment in the sum of $2,000, summons and complaint in an action against the Southern Express Company was filed this morning in the office of the clerk of court of Greenville county, by Attorney Wilton H. Earle, for Mr. W. W. Miller, of this city. The complaint alleges that the defendant corporation, through negliV?.. ' gence, carelessness, wilfulness and wantonness, failed to deliver to Dr. P. A. Coward, director of laboratory of the State board of health, the head of a dog, supposed to have had hydrophobia, which bit two children of the plaintiff. The head was sent to the director for examination for hydrophobia, so the plaintiff would know whether or not his children were in danger from the bite of the animal. The plaintiff alleges that the dog's head was not delivered to Dr. Coward until two days after it should have been delivered, and that wnen tne director received the head it was so decomposed that examination was impossible, entailing upon the plaintiff \ heavy expenses for medicines, nursing and care, which sums would not v have been expended had the examination of the dog's head been made, for it was learned after the danger period for hydrophobia had passed that the dog was not infected. Th? case is one of the most unusual ever ^ brought in the courts of this county, and promises to be of considerable interest when brought to trial. Lyncvhing May be Investigated. Anderson, Oct. 22.?As a result of a conference between the solicitor of this circuit and the coroner of Anderson county, the inquest over the - - T 1 .1 body Of William jacKsuii, uic ucgiu who was lynched on October 10 for an assault on a 10-year-old daughter of a leading citizen of Honea Path, probably will be reopened this week. The negro was twice identified by the girl before he was lynched I but great pressure has been brought to bear on the officials by the local ministerial union and the press of the State. The original verdict of the coroner's jury was that the negro came to his death by gunshot wounds received from unknown persons, and it is generally believed the reopening of the case will fail to 1 bring out any material evidence against perosns composing the mob. 2" */ ' - - ' .v . v. 'v < HHl* . .. . . .* STILL HUNTING MURDERER. Slayer of Showman Family Sought by Many Armed Men. Ellsworth, Kas., Oct. 19.?Never since the day when cattle thieves infested this Western Kansas country has there been seen such a man hunt as was waged here to-day for the murderer of the Showman .family,' slain last Sunday, but the slayer is still at large. Sheriffs and citizens, in motor man in aoTPl'offM QTlH f?Tl VlOTSft vai D) UiUU 1U A WM ? ? - ? ? back, all heavily armed, searched this region throughout the day. From New Kirk, Okla., to-night came a message that a man answering the description of Charles Marzyek, who is being sought in connection with the murders, was being detained. The man was apprehended by the sheriff who had a telegraphic -? T sw.nl aescnpuuu vi uwai vmcers to-night forwarded a pohtograph of Marzyek to New Kirk, to be used in identifying the suspect. ' Sheriff Bradshaw and a force of deputies spent the day near Genezeo, 20 miles south of here, searching for a man who is said to fit the description of one who left some bloody clothes at the Baker Hotel here on the night of the murder. The sheriff's search was fruitless. Swansea Has Midnight Fire. Swansea, Oct. 19.?Fire which broke out here in Johnson & Lybrand's store about 1:30 o'clock this morning threatened for a time to wipe out the business section of the town and in half an hour four or five wooden buildings were destroyed. At 2 o'clock the fire was practically gotten under control, but it required hard work on the part of the fire fighters to save the hotel, which seemed for a time doomed to destruction, together with Dr. Langsford's office. i Killed by Auto at Rock Hill. Rock Hill, Oct. 21.?An automobile collision occurred here last night, in which R. C. Hendricks was killed, Miss Lemmond, a trained nurse, had her collarbone broken, and Chief of Police Partlow had his wrist badly sprained. The accident occurred on the Saluda road within the incorporate limits. Mr. Roddey Reid, with Chief Partlow and Misses Lemmond and Owens, were in Mr. Reid's car returning to the city from a ride out the Saluda road. Hendricks, who was a hackman, was taking to her home an old colored woman with a big basketful of dishes, and had reached a point on the Saluda road just outside of the settled portion of the city, when the crash came. The coroner's verdict to-day at the /vttot* 4-V?i-\ Ka/Itt rvf T? P iHLon. mqucot Ultl (|UD OUUJ VI J.V. v. dricks, who was killed last night in a collision, was that 4,R. C. Hendricks came to his death from injuries received in a collision between his hack and an automobile driven by Roddey Reid." The whole thing was done so quickly that the occupants of the automobile /did not know that the man had been hurt until he was brought into the hospital. The substance of the report given by Chief of Police Partlow was that the gas lights on their machine had been exhausted just a hundred or two yards from the scene of the accident, and the hack showed no light. When they gathered themselves up from the Mioa T .01*1 m All /I fiUiaaii ILUCJ 1UUUU iUlOO UV/IUU1VUU, the lady who was injured, lying insensible. At this moment a negro man and woman came up and asked if they could be of any assistance, j The party, naturally, thought them to have been the occupants of the hack and uninjured, and requested j that they go for a doctor. The man I started to do so. Then Mr. Reid j found that his machine would work and they put the injured lady in the auto and rushed her to the hospital. Later they were shocked to find that a white man had been driving the hack and was seriously injured. It seems to have been one of those unfortunate accidents brought about by unfortunate circumstances. Mr. Reid and all his party are dis+Y>?oc^rt onH thev with the dead man's j li gOCV/U l?*AV4 -? -? ? widow, have the greatest sympathy of the community. A teacher is being prosecuted in Atlanta for severely punishing a child in one of the schools there. Atlanta is different from Orangeburg. We have known a child in the schools here to be so badly beaten that he bled from several wounds, but the man who did the beating was never even reprimanded for his brutality. ?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. The Herald gives all the news for 31.50 the year, * . . , . , V'5-.V ' v . "o-i j ; v.*' i.?, >V A: IN THE PALMETTO STATE ! SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick ] Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. j John Henry May, who is charged 1 with killing Henry Boshea on the < main street of Union la&t Saturday ( night, but who escaped after the shooting, was captured Tuesday in a house just north or tne cuy limits. May had thiree pistols and was pre- : pared to defend himself, but the , house was surrounded by officers and . he surrendered after a parley. While cleaning out a well on A. P. Bishop's place, two miles from Inman, in Spartanburg county, Tues- ( day, John Bishop, of near Gramling, was struck by a bucket filled with rock and mud and every bone in his : body broken. His head was crushed : to a jelly. Mr. Bishop was a man about 70 years old, married, and has engaged in well digging all his life. The South Carolina Annual Conferefice meets in Bennettsville, ' Wednesday, November 29, Bishop John C. Kilgo president. South Carolina Methodism welcomes Bishop Kilgo. He is a native of South Carolina and easily ranks among the strongest thinkers and most eloquent preachers in Methodism. He has filled almost every position a Methodist preacher can fill, and in all has had great success. During the year the State insurance department has turned oVer to the State treasurer the sum of $164,403.48, this being the collection made by the department on account of the additional license fees of two per cent, levied on foreign insurance companies doing business in this State. In acordance with the law half of this amount is to be turned over to the various counties, to be used for ordinary county purposes. From this source Bamberg couny will receive $316.61. IF CAUGHT, PROBABLY LYNCHED Springfield Posse After Alleged Assailant of White Woman. Btackville, Oct. 23.?Information received here about 11 o'clock tonight is to the effect that Arthur Bowen, the negro accused of attempted criminal assault on a white woman <of Springfield, in Orangeburg county, was surrounded in a swamp near Springfield, between 9 and 10 o'clock, and there is little, if any doubt. that he will be taken and lynched before morning. The sheriff of Orangeburg county left for Springfield in an automobile shortly after receiving information of the trouble at that place, but hlB automobile broKe down some distance from Springfield, and it is stated lie. had not reached the scene. Bowen, who was employed as a farm hand, it is said, attacked his employer's daughter some distance from the home of the family this afternoon, but was frightened and escape into the woods. Orangeburg Sheriff to the Scene. < Orangeburg, Oct. 23.?Sheriff Sal-:1 ley was notified about noon of an at-' tempted assault by a negro on a ? white woman, near or at Springfield,! this morning, and has gone to the; scene of the trouble. None of the; 1 particulars could be learned from the; message received by the sheriff. ; Word reached here late to-da{y that: the sheriff's party had encountered? * ? 3 _ i 3 i? an accident ana ne was his trip. i PLEASE TAKE NOTICE. J > The subscription price of The Bamberg Herald is now $1.50 j' a year; 75 cents for six months; j' or fifty cents for three months, j , This rate applies to all subscriptions which have expired as well as new subscriptions. All subscriptions must be paid in advance, as we cannot afford to send the paper on credit. Please bear this in mind, and in remitting send $1.50 instead of one dollar. We cannot pay expenses at the one dollar rate, and a raise in price was necessary. Thought They Did It. J Two young Americans touring i Italy for the first time stopped off one < night at Pisa, where they fell in with i a conivival party at a cafe. Going 1 hilariously home one pushed the i other against a building and held 1 him there. "Great heavens!" cried the man i next the wall, suddenly glancing up i at the structure above him. "See t what we've doing!" both roisterers i fled. ? The party left town on an early < morning train, not thinking it safe < to stay over and see the famous 1 leaning tower,?From Success Maga- i zine. c ' i" - V - ' /Jt. I*--"-/ BAD NEGRO SOLDIER Shoots Another Soldier and Two Negro Women. The people of Burlington, Vermont, near which place is located ! Fort Ethan Allen, have about got their full of negro soldiers. Recently rhos. Carlisle, a trooper of the Tenth Cavalry, which is composed of colored men, except the officers, came out of his quarters of the fort, where the regiment is stationed, with a rfle and his belt filled with amu ition, and proceeded to shoot up leveral people, all of whom were like himself negroes. He was a*big, ric'oue, bad looking fellow. Before he himself was brought down by a bullet from a rifle in the hands of Lieut Blaine, a white officer. of the Tenth, Carlisle in his homicidal fury had killed Andrew C. Fox, a comrade in the regiment; had o Tr/Miner naori>aca TlAmoH LUU14i^l CU Or JVUU5 WB umauvw Clara Washington, coming upon her as she lay ill in bed and sending three bullets tearing into her body while she was in the act of screaming for mercy, and had mortally wounded another colored girl named Beatrice Stewart. Against Fox he had a grievance, but against the woman none at all; he merely came upon them in his flight after the slaying of his fellow soldier. He had run into a negro resort, known as Bluefort's restaurant, and rushed through the rooms seeking to shoot to death all whom he had found there. Other women in the house ran screaming out into the roads and sought the shelter of nearby woods. He had left Beatrice Stewart for dead. Mortally wounded, as the girl was, she staggered and nounuerea ana crawled after the other women until one or two, more courageous than the rest, made a dash for her and drew her with them in the shelter of the underbrush and trees. Then Carlisle found himself facing a fight with a corps of'thirty armed soldiers. Standing in a second-story window of the Bluefort resort he fought them furiously. Bullets smashed the pane of glass over his te&d and tore away the sashing. He returned the fire as fast as he coald 4 pull the trigger of his rifle. In the end he fell victim to a rase devised and executed by Capt God ?"> t*m.A T 1 (in + niotno TTa ttHc oh fit WU i*MU UAVUV* A^JliV4UV AAV TTWW WMWV in thre hip by Blaine and sank helplessly to the floor of the Toom. Brought to his senses by the shock of the wound, he signalled his willingness to surrender. Fox, the murdered soldier, is understood to have caused Carlisle's arrest for a slight infraction of discipline. The man had simply been remanded to quarters for the day. His rifle and ammunition had not been -taken from him. Fox had no chance for his life. The top of the man's skull was completely carried away by the highpowered bullet. A group of soldiers J ?"1 li-l,. V..4. 4.V nrr ru.snea lowaru, uuu like Fox, were unarmed, and he turned on them, his rifle on his shoulder. The maniacal expression of his eye halted every mail of them. Without a word he turned suddenly and ran down the road, off the military reservation and inte the restaurant resort. The dining room and bar were empty at the time. So he tramped up-stairs. He put his shouldcfr to the door of the first :room he came to and sent it flying backward. These he confronted the sidk woman, Clara Washington. She screamed and asked him what he meant to do. His answer was to shoot her in the breast and head and thigh, killing her. He heard after that the "voices of women who had just come in down-stiirs. He leaped down the stairway, swept in on the women, shet Beatrice Stewart and grinned when he saw her fall. As he stood watching the woman writhing on the floor he heard the 1 ** AMnAn souna 01 appruacmug jiuibcd ?oiu. iu& i tramp of men. He ran up-stairs and took his place at a corner window, and as the comapny of soldiers, un3er command of Capt. Godson and Lieut. Blaine, approached ' he met them with every bullet that iemain-; \ ?d in the magazine of his rifle.* A . volley came back at him, but, although it splintered the glass and ' voodwork of the window he was un- ] iurt. Then strategy was used against ; aim. Capt. Godson drew his men off 3 it a distance in front of the house, 1 making so open a position as to incite Carlisle's fire. It nearly proved 1 1 fatal ruse for the captain, for one 3 )f the negro's bullets sent the offi- 1 ;er's horse to its knees, and Godson i lad just time to leap free of the ani- i nal as it kicked and writhed in its j lying agony. 1 i BOWEN IS STILL AT LARGE. POSSES CONTINUE SEARCH FOR SPRINGFIELD SUSPECT. I Han Charged with Attempting Criminal Assault on White Woman Eludes Mob. Springfield, Oct. 24.?A posse left here to-night, going towards Columbia, with the object of endeavoring to locate Arthur Bowen, the negro accused of attempting to criminally assault a lady living near here yesterday. This move was caused by the statement of a negro woman, wno says mat sne saw 150wen on me railroad track, about eight miles from Springfield, about 10 o'clock this morning. According to the woman, Bowen was going in the direction of Columbia. A posse left here to-night to follow up this clue, and endeavor to locate the negro, who, ft is thought is making for a big "cotton picking" tomorrow, on the plantation of a prominent farmer. Should Bowen be located to-night, it is planned for another posse to leave here to-morrow morning before daylight and assist in his capture. Automobiles and other conveyances are being used in thfe chase after the suspected negro. The citizens of Springfield seem determined to capture Bowen, even if JA A~ kilt, +V.O i'l u? ucucssai y iu iuuun uim w miv ends of the earth. A description of the negro, with an. offer of reward, has been sent to all the leading papers, chiefs of police and other officers of the law. Accusation Against Bo wen. Bowen is accused of an attempted criminal asault, which was committed in this section, Monday at noon, on a prominent white married lady living in a thickly settled community, several neighbors living within plain view, and not over two hundred yards'away. Arthur Bowen had been working for this family all of this year, Monday, the husband of the lady assaulted left home on some business and left the negro man picking cotton near the house. About the same hour the men folks of the two nearest neighbors left for some farm duties away from home. Seizing the moment that, perhaps, he had been waiting for, it is said that he entered the house and attempted to commit the crime above mentioned. Left Field Suddenly. On being driven from the home, it seems that Bowen went bach to the cotton field, but on the approach of the husband of the outraged lady, he dropped his cotton sack, walked rapidly to his house, secured his gun and made for a nearby swamp, thereby making at least a temporary escape. As soon as the news reached Springfield, a large body of men started a hunt for the negro, but up to early to-night he had not been captured. Sheriff A. M. Salley, with several deputies, came over from Orangeburg in an automobile with the county bloodhounds, which, as usual, proved absolutely worthless. Several hundred men are now scouring the country, but as Springfield is so near the almost impenetrable swamp ol the Edisto river, it is a problem when Bowen will be caught. Arthur Bowen is a small, dark3 gingercake colored negro, about 30 years old; small, stubby, black mustache, small black eyes; small hands and feet, weight about. 145; height 5 feet, 5 or 6 inches. LARGEST IN THE "WORLD. Young Woman Weighs Over Eight Hundred Pounds. Miss Gertrude Burke, of Chicago, largest woman in the world, is visiting at the home of Mrs. H. W. Hayes, at Alton, 111. Miss Burke is twentytwo years of age, weighs 825 pounds, stands five feet, seven inches, and some of her measurements are: Arm, 28 inches; waist, 54; bust, 75'. She wears No. 4 % shoes and No. 7 gloves. When she was born Miss Burke weighed fifteen pounds, ana at eigm years of age weighed 250. At the -Hayes home she sits on two chairs placed ' facing each other. Miss Burke goes through doors by turning sideways, and it is a pretty hard squeeze at that. Efforts have been made by show men to get Miss Burke to exhibt herself, but she has never been tempted. Her parents left her an estate and she does not need the money. Subscribe to The Herald and get all the latest State and county news. Only $1.50 the year. Then while Carlisle's attention was attracted to the men in ,front of him Lieut. Blaine, armed with a rifle, had made a detour into the woods and approached the house on the * * " "J- J V/i lnnVul / ??,+ rignt siae anu suul u? uc iwncu yut the window. Lieut. Blaine's bullet had struck the negro in the hip. The wounded naan and the Stewart woman were taken to the army hospital* in the ;ame ambulance. This is the sixth nurder that has happened since the ?oing of the negro troopers to Fort Ethan Allen two years ago. A^Vvl;t. ' ^ ' FUGITIVE ELUDES POSSE. But Death Probably Awaits Desperado Surrounded in Swamp. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 23.->?Surrounded in the swamps five miles below Tuscaloosa, by fully 200 men, ' Jno. Harrison, a negro desperado, who has killed two white men and is still at large to-night. So far the dogs have been unablo to take the 1 trail, and while every avenue of ee- ' cape is being guarded as closely as possible, it is believed that the negro will never allow himself to be ^ taken alive. Tho f?rvm mnni trr was aHrrAi) VMk -:%58BbB terday when it became known that Harrison had shot and killed Thomah ' Cooper, a deputy, at Northport, Just across the river, while resisting arA big posse soon started in pursuit, and when it became known 'that ^ Brown Horton, who was leading the . rSWjBpursuers, had also been killed by the negro this morning just before dav-^^B'n .break, excitement was at a higfe?|j8B;s pitch. Horton was one of the known young men in Tuscaloosa. ;^8$^ Early to-day he and Fletcher Pow^'^|jBr| ers, who were a little in advance others, sighted the negro, and Har-;||j rison fired, killing Horton instantly. Powers returned the fire and further into the swamps, escapiag;^?^ Blease Constable Ran Blind Tiger. ViraM-iffi Greenville, Oct. 21.?In the United States circuit court to-night a white man by the name of W. W. PntmaSjii.? $ was convicted of violation of the tin ^^8 |S ternal revenue laws and sentenced te 3 ^ serve five months in the Greemr!tt?;t^pJ^ county jail and pay a fine of $300 Last April Putman, while hoi<ling?||j^ an appointment under Gov. Bteeii^E? as a constable at Mills's mill, was captured by revenue officers about o'clock in the morning as he was drtving in from the mountaains with 30 | ?||| gallons of blockade whiskey in buggy. For months the revenue fficers were at a loss to understan^S ^^ why blind tigers could drive such a^j tjSpS thriving business at Mills's mill, when'v^^fjf the redoubtable Putman was there to capture them. At last susptetafl^ 'pM turned upon the constable himself, and he was captured while haulin^^^||1 in a supply of contraband whiskey^^;^|| TALKS THROUGH STEEL WALlI! :;$|i Five isles of Solid Rock no Obstacle ; f- Vjjg to the "Aerophone;." '^Ha m Experiments have been oonducte&||S for some time past near Chepstow fOf'^^M / the transmission of the human voiea^J|' ^jgj ! over long distances with the aid> alone of the natural elements. | inventor, Mr. Grindell Matthews, is stated, submitted his disoverey re- .^ij|p?8 cently to a severe test in the , ence of a number of experts. 1 was placed in the strong room o? ' big London commercial house and/i;;J-/:B ; locked in, with nine Inches of roll ^J| mor steel, nine inches of fire brick, and 6 feet of concrete between hka-i^g|| and the outer world. By means of ;ffl his small portable apparatus he 5 ried on a conversation with an opera^?*5 I tor in another room on the faithfapjg^ side of the building. So distinct aajglffi&E , faithful was the transmission that?^?g^ the experts in attendance were ae$feiafifl?? , ally able to hear the tick of hle^^U watch, notwithstanding the almoSt^9H| , impenetrable mass between the twO'^^H ; instruments. The inventor contemplates a i ther test through five miles of .sofijgl ; rock between Chepstow: and Tin He is engaged in long distance teeth x| in connection with the war office, on September 9, 1911, spoke.from Beachley, in Gloucestershire, to a "plBs point more than 5% miles away near H the Severn tunnel* outlet on the opposite side of the river. /ti The inventor has named his instrument the aerophone. A complete set ->|33a of instruments for a 5-miles radius ;1 would cost about $48. It is possible through this system to carry on long conversations, and each speaker '-f?|Pg can disting ish the voice of the person he is talking with. No expert knowledge, it is claimed, is required . to operate the system, as the box with the instrument would be self- % contained, including the battery, mo- 1 tor, transformer, and everything else necessary for transmission.?Consul gjjjam Gen. J. L. Griffith, London, in the:*|&n9 Consular Reports. When the tongue of trade is coated, when the eyes and limbs of the clerk are dull and languid when the clerk are dull and languid, when the raging fever tackles tne empty vitaia of the till, when the spider roosts in the empty cash box, and bouquets of decay are on the chandeliers, it is ,jtjjl conclusive that the advertising tor has not been consulted.