Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i I ' * . / * ' . 7 I ?l|p Hamburg Ifmtlb rnrnmmm?????????????^ ^T-?? ' ???????? ????? ????^?? ????? ???? I: Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21,1911. One Dollar and a Half a Year. COUNTRY NEWS LETTER! t _____ SOME INTERESTING HAPPENING! IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. H News Items Gathered All Around th -* ! County and Elsewhere. Fairfax Fancies. "1 Fairfax, December 16.?On M.on day evening a reception was giv en Miss Lila Barber, a bride to-be of this week. The parlor wa: beautifully decorated in white an< green, Mrs. Barber and her daugh ters receiving her numerous guesti under a huge white bell. Mistletoe was apparent on the staircase anc ip several rooms. Mrs. Sam Tal I y ley and Miss Sue Best assisted in re ceiving. A delicious sweet course i was served, then all of Miss Lila'i I friends present transcribed lovel: sentiments and good wishes in he L i bride's book. The favors were tin: | silver bells. The occasion was one o I " unusual pleasure and will long be I remembered by those present. F On Tuesday afternoon Mrs. San [ Talley entertained our young bride to-be with a linen shower. The dec i orations all indicated the coming d event. In a white room, from th< ^ wall, was suspended a huge snov B ball, divided in two sections and hoi low inside; all covered with th< -* . ., fleecy staple to resemDie snow. :>irs I Talley and Mass Barber drew th< i white cords, and lo! the beautifu linen center pieces, etc., were show ered all around the prospectiv< bride. Dainty refreshments wer< served, the favors being pictures o: a beautiful bride, with veil, train bouquet, etc. Each guest had writ ten a recipe on a red card heart and before these were made into i > book for the bride they were hidder k in different rooms and the one find I ing the most hearts won a prize, Mrs ^ W. E. Harter won the pretty piec< of china. The ladies enjoyed th< ^ v afternoon immensely. On Thursday at high noon occur red the marriage of Miss Lila Bar ber to Mr. Silas Gladden, of near Columbia. The fair bride never lookec lovelier than on this occasion, when arrayed in a shining robe of whit< satin, with lilies of the valley in he: dark hair and a shower bouquet o: i white carnations and ferns, she, witl the groom, marched down the stair way to the strains of "The Arrival o the Bride," played by Mrs. Sallie L t Sanders. When they entered the par * lor to the strains of Mendelsohn'! wedding march, they were met b? Rev. F. Glenman, who performed th< ceremony. After congratulations am ? viewing the handsome gifts, whicl Timro niimorrnis nnri OOstlv. all Dar took of the delicious wedding break fast. After donning her traveling suit, lo, it was train time. The wed ding favors were white carnations tc each guest. Mr. Gladden is a rising young farmer and merchant, and Mrs. Glad den was a great favorite here wher< she has always lived. Their man: friends wish them a safe and pros perous journey, through life': t .changes. SEIGLER DENIED BAIL. 1t I Application to Associate Justice Garj is Turned Down. f it " | Last Friday application for bai was made by the attorneys of Mr V James Seigler, charged with killing . Officer Patterson, of Aiken. The bai t proceedings were heard by Suprem* : Court Justice Gary, in Columbia and after considering the affidavit for a day, refused bail, jjk ?- Mr. Seigler was taken to Colum ? bia by Sheriff Raborn and the at torneys who represented him tker. !were: Messrs. J. B. Salley and Johi > F. Williams, of Aiken, Jas. Davis of Barnwell, and Chas. Salley, o Salley. Solicitor it. ju uumer, ?s> sisted by Solicitor Timmerman, o Batesburg, resisted motion for bail. In asking for bail the defendant! presented affidavits from ??Ir. Ernes A. Jones, of Warrenville; Este: U J * Heath, Nicl^ Glover, and D. R. Mc Carty, and one from the defendant \ In substance they swear that Mr Patterson made a move towards hi hip pocket for his pistol and that Mr Seigler had to shoot in self-defence ) . The State introduced principall; the evidence taken at the coroner' inquest and also took the positioi that if Mr. Patterson made a mov< towards his hip pocket he had a righ to do so, as he was an officer of th law, and it was in his right to dra1? his pistol to make an arrest when ; prisoner resisted. What promises to be a very valu able coal field has been discovered i] the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. * NAVY WON'T TAKE BANDITS. J High-Born Boys, Who Committed 5 Robberies, Refused. ? One of the most remarkable scenes e ever witnessed in the county court in S Washington, Pa., came this week when James R. Dudley, Eugene Wheeler and Joseph Carter, all un der 21 years of age, and all mem bers of prominent families, went be fore Judge J. A. Mcllwaine and en5 tered formal pleas of guilty to a long . 1 list of burglaries which had puzzled - the police for months. s When it became known recently \ 5 that the boys were ready to admit a 1 the robberies a desperate effort was i - made by attorneys and influential a - friends to save the accused form prisi on. A tentative arrangement was s reached by which it was practically c 7 promised the boys would be let * i* go if they enlisted in the United s J States navy. The recruiting station, 5 f however, refused to accept them, * and then the three young men came t before the court and entered pleas, s i They were sentenced to prison. a ? t Felder's Book. r 5 ???? * Spartanburg, Dec. 17.?Additional * information was obtained Saturday - concerning Thos. B. Felder's book on - Gov. Blease. A Spartanburg minister stated to 3 a reporter for the Herald that Mr. c 1 Felder had shown him part of the r - book in typewritten form. c 5 Mr. Felder treats Gov. Blease as e 5 a politician and as an office-holder f and from the standpoint of his per- { , sonal morals. The author does not ^ - mince words in handling his subject, f , The minister stated that Mr. Feld- ^ i er would be only tdo glad if Gov. < i Blease would prosecute him for libel, - as he declares every assertion made in the book is true and he would c J welcome an opportunity to prove the w - truth of them through court pro- * ceedings. , c Six men are mentioned in connec- * - tion with the charges against the c - governor made by Mr. Felder. Four I of them have never been publicly s , mentioned in this connection before, t J It is understood that Mr. Felder ^ < i-l 1 1_ , r will mail a copy 01 me uouk m \ f pamphlet form to every voter in the i i State about the time the legislature g - convenes next month. \ f Serious Strike Threatened. 1 3 St. Louis, Dec. 18.?Leaders of, * j four unions of railroad workers are t ; scheduled to meet here to-night to ^ 1 discuss the advisability of calling a s y i strike of the shopmen and other 1 - workers of the Illinois Central and f - Harriman roads. I J. W. Kline, president of the In- 1 - ternational Brotherhood of Black> smiths and Helpers, arrived here this morning. He is to meet the 1 union officials of the Western roads. Shopmen and allied workers on c i every railroad in the jurisdiction of 1 f the General Managers Association of * - Western and Southern railroads will t 5 be called out if the present plans of a Kline are realized. He is quoted as s saying the men are going to win the ^ strike on the Harriman and Illinois Central roads if he and his coleaders s 7 have to call out all members of the f unions. s Kline charges that other roads ? 1 have been lending engines and cars 1 to the lines now affected by a strike. * ? 1 1 Makes Fortune After Romance Ends. 3 ?? t Chicago, Dec. 19.?George Bon- c 5 nett, Chicago's oldest "newsboy," 1 died wealthy because the one s . romance of his life ended thirty- c _ five years ago when he was poor. ? Eonnett's death came a few days ago c 1 j at the age of seventy years and af- t I ter he had accumulated a for- a f tune of more than $30,000 by selling t _ newspapers and relentlessly saving s f his pennies. i A love affair at Wooster, Ohio, i 5 three and a half decades ago, caused' t t him to abandon the town the day t 5 after his sweetheart's father had told I . her that she could not marry a poor 1 man like Bonnett. t There and then, according to his s half brother, C. M. Lovett, who has c arrived in Chicago from Wooster, f Bonnett declared that he would acy cumulate a fortune and he vowed at c o the same time that no other woman 1 O ( a would ever help him enjoy it. 1 9 Bonnett lived in a room for ? t which he paid $3 a month and ate e where he could get his meals cheap- 1 v est. When he died none of his rela- 1 a tives could be found. He had signi- i fied to W. G. Austin,, a business man, ( his intention of leaving his money to ^ the Newsboys Home. He had also j a told him of his love, affair. Bonnett t left no will so far as known. < N THE PALMETTO STATE lOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. >tate News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Alton B. Parker, of New York, vill make the address at the annual neeting of the State Bar Association n Columbia January 18 and 19. Miss Sue Sloan, of Johnston, has ron a thousand dollar scholarship in l music conservatory in Boston. There were more than 900 contestints. Through the repeal of the muzzling >rder, the sixty thousand dogs of Jreater Berlin went unmuzzled last iummer, for the first time in many rears. R. I. Manning, of Sumter, declines 0 act as one of the trustees in the cheme to finance the cotton crop by 1 New York syndicate. He is opposed o the plan. About 400 race horses are now tabled at the Charleston race track, vith accommodation for 200 more hat are expected this week. The aces will begin January 10. The postoffices at Central, LanIrum, Inman, Ridgeway and Sumnerton have been made presidential ffices, with salaries of $1,000 each, i n ?i.? ?* n a A I txcepi ouiiiuicriuu wuicu 10 ?vvv. American shoes seem to be#very >opular in southern France. v Show vindow displays in the stores are ull of French made shoes hearing he labels as "American shape" and 'American style" to attract buyers. Geo. R. Rembert, as administrator f Berry Graves, a lineman for the louthern Bell Telephone company, tas brought suit in ttie Richland iQurt for $75,000. Mr. Graves met lis death while working for the :ompany in July, 1910. A. J. O'Brien, foreman of the itreet car line in Charleston and elecrician for the Academy of Music, vas killed by an electric shock on Wednesday morning. While standng by an electric pole supervising lome work he took hold of the guy vire and was instantly killed. John Y. Garlington and J. Stobo foung, the men convicted and senenced to the penitentiary in connecion with the Seminole swindle, and vho recently begun serving their ;entences, will be given a personal learing by the governor to-day, he laving granted a personal audience or the purpose of hearing their ap>eal for a pardon. Says Rats Cause Pellagra. i M. O. Westbrook, of Spartanburg :ounty, has discovered what he firmy believes to be the source of pelagra and has submitted his findings o'government and State physicians md departments of surgery. In a itatement issued to the press, Mr. Vestbrook says: ''The rat in a deadly combat and truggle emits a poisonous gas, fume, ilm or slime which is invisible or emi-invisible and which infests the lurrounding food or drink with a jacteria forming poison and thereore is the source of pellagra and tujerculosis." Mr. Westbrook is certain that his heory concerning the causes of the lisease is correct and quotes the folowing experiment conducted by himtelf to prove that the rat is the muse of the malady: "Place a considerable quantity of trackers, candy, sliced potatoes or empting food in a good wire trap md when a rodent is captured irriate with a blunt instrument for everal moments, then kill the varnlnt and allow the food to remain n trap along with the corpse for wenty hours or more. The temperaure of the dead rat and food should >e kept at 80 degrees. This having )een completed, grow bacteria from he food." Mr. Westbrook himself tried this experiment and when the infested ood was analyzed by chemists it vas found to contain the germ that muses pellagra and tuberculosis. " hr L110 experiments weie tuuuwj Ur. Westbrook and Dr. J. Berry 5mith, of Charlotte, N. C. The originator of this theory, Mr. kVestbrook, is a farmer of Spartanburg county and has never studied nedicine. He stated that it had frequently occurred to him that rats vere the real cause of this disease md led him to make the experiments ;bat convinced him beyond the shad)w of a doubt. MONUMENT IS LANDED. ________ < Memorial to Confederate Women to Be Sent on Here. I Columbia, Dec. 16.?The bronze group designed for the woman's monument by Mr. F. W. Ruckstuhl has at last arrived in New York and will soon be brought to Columbia, to be put in place under Mr. Ruckstuhl's direction, probably during the holidays. There is no likelihood of the date of the unveiling being fixed for three or four weeks, as it will doubt- < less take some time to get .every- j thing in readiness. No date will be announced until after the meeting of the monument commission for the ; formal acceptance of Mr. Ruckstuhl's work. KILLS HIMSELF ON HONEYMOON I Florida Man's Bride Unable to Account for Suicide. Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 18.?"I cannot bring disgrace upon my family, so I have decided to end it all." This was the substance of a note found in Room 44 of a local hotel this morning, after Zebulon Vance Fowler, aged 28, a young lumberman frdm Terrill, Florida, had taken a quantity of strychnine. Only having been married since December 9, and having come to Jacksonville with his bride to spend his honeymoon, the young man, a member of a prominent family of the State, committed suicide shortly after 10 o'clock this morning. His wife was with him at the time of his death, but declares she was unable to account for his terrible act. ? PORTER JUMPED FROM TRAIN. Negro Subject to Epileptic Fits Seriously Hurt in Fall. Winnsboro, Dec. 18.?Early yesterday morning Tom Young, a negro porter on train No. 36, jumped from the moving train when between White Oak and Woodward, sustaining serious injuries. He was carried to a hospital in Chester, where his leg was amputated below the knee. The negro was subject to epileptic fits and it is surmised that he was attacked with one of these when he ran out of the car to the platform, from where he jumped. After being carried to Chester the leg was found to be so badly broken below the knee that it was necessary to amputate it. Year's Fire Loss. Columbia, Dec. 18.?During the reriod of twelve months ending December 1, there were 1,530 fires in South Carolina, netting an insurance loss of $1,140,864.80, according to the yearly report of fire losses in the State issued from the office of F. H. McMaster, State insurance commissioner, Saturday morning. Of these fires more were caused by sparks on roof than any other known cause, the second place being held by defective flues. The most destructive single fire noted was from an overheated smokestack, which brought a loss of $145,518. There were 513 fires during the year the cause of which have not been assigned by the insurance department. STOLE HORSE AND BUGGY. Greenwood County Sheriff Holds Negro on Suspicion. Greenwood, Dec. 18.?Sheriff T. W. McMillan arrested and landed in jail Saturday a negro on suspicion of having stolen a horse and buggy. It was reported to the sheriff that a negro was trying to sell a horse and buggy in the lower edge of town. He began to investigate and found that the negro had left the horse and buggy at the store of Mr. D. M. Milling, Sr., and had come on up-town. He soon found the negro and placed him under arrest and then went for the 1 J k 'TVin nnorn plaimfi nurse auu uuggj. that he traded for the horse and bugbetween Allendale and Charleston and that he wants to sell it so he can go to his home in Knoxville, < Tenn. He says he has been coming to this State from Tennessee with horse traders for some time, but can give no references. The negro is of a dark ginger cake color, about 35 years old, weighs about 140, has a < slight scar on upper lip under right nostril, and a pistol scar on first joint of left thumb; has had throat trouble and speaks with difficulty; ' says his name is Will Allen. The team consists of a red sorrel mare about 12 years old, weight 900 1 pounds-, half roached with color mark on shoulder and back. The buggy is black with red running gear and springs and steel tires; "Gem" make. Sheriff McMillan will hold the negro for several days. \ r. _ , J.J. JONES'S APPEAL HEARD 1 ^ SLAYER OF ABE PEARLSTlXK SEEKS NEW TRIAL. c Defence's Counsel Bases Demand for j Reversal on Alleged Disquali* I fication of Juror Rntland. \ g Columbia, Dec. 18.?The appeal a in the case of John J. Jones, the c Branchville lawyer who shot and kill- J ed Abe Pearlstine in the postoffice ^ at that place and who was convicted 1 last January, at Orangeburg, of a manslaughter and sentenced to ten * years and one month's imprisonment * in the penitentiary, was argued this morning before the supreme court. ^ W. C. Wolfe, Esq., of Orangeburg, of 1 counsel -for the defence, appeared c for the motion, while Solicitor P. T. 1 Hildebrand , represented the State, c Messrs. Robert Lide and A. W. Sum- 1 mers also taking part. ? \ Jones in Court. t The defendant, John J. Jones, who \ since his conviction has been at the 1 penitentiary as a detention prisoner, c was present in court when the case ^ was argued this morning. He is 1 looking well and watched and followed closely every point which was c made. He sat on the left of his t counsel during the argument. At ? its conclusion he was taken back to t the penitentiary, where he will re- 3 main pending the decision. i t Basis of Appeal. The chief point on which the ap- i peal was based was the allegation \ * - * i ?- - _ ? tnat one or me jurors wmcu wuvici- \ ed Jones was over 65 years of age, ' and further, that he was registered i in one township and lived in another, t His name is A. E. Rutland, and it is claimed by the defenc^ that this \ condition was not known until after the verdict of the jury, convicting t Jones of manslaughter, had been re- t turned. It is said that this is the i first time that these points have ( ben brought before the supreme ] court for decision, the defense in this case contending that as Juror j Rutland was over 65 years of age j and illegally registered he was in- t competent to serve on the case and j they ask the supreme court to -re- t verse the decision of the lower court 1 and grant a new trial. ^ Convicted Last January. ? Jones shot and killed.Abe Pearlstine in the postoffice at Branchville, both of them being residents of that place and prominently connected. Judge R. W. Memminger presided at the January term of court, in Orangeburg, at which time Jones was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years and one month in the State penitentiary. > ? Officer Tried for Selling Whiskey. Walhalla, Dec. 18.?John P. ' Scruggs, deputy collector, was to-day { tried before Magistrate A. P. Crisp charged with the illegal sale of whiskey. The magistrate sent the case up to the circuit court. Some weeks ^ ago Mr. Scruggs advertised that he 1 would sell several gallons of whiskey ^ in Walhalla that had been seized J from the mountaineers. The stuff < sold readily, the purchasers getting i it in any quantity that they wished, i The sale created some talk at the ( time and A. T. Reid, State constable, reported the matter to the governor, who ordered the constable to prose- 1 cute the offender at once. E. F. J Cochran, of Anderson, district at- 1 torney, represented Mr. Scruggs at ? the trial. There were several wit- ( nesses present to testify, but after c the magistrate had sworn two he * considered that the State had made out its case and accordingly sent it c up. The case will be watched with *r the keenest interest. * Yeggs Get Diamonds. Fitzgerald, Ga., Dec. 18.?Diamonds valued at $700 and a package of $1,500 in new unsigned $20 notes of the First National bank of Fitzgerald were among the booty of safe blowers who exploded the safe in the local postoffice before daybreak to-day. A bag of cash, a quantity of stamps and $2,400 in bank notes were overlooked, but several valuable registered letters and the postal savings bank deposits were taken. The exact amount of the haul has not been made public. Three white strangers, who were seen in the rear of the postoffice Saturday afternoon, are being sought. The explosion roused persons within two blocks of the postoffice, but no suspected person was seen leaving. The explosion shattered doors and windows of the postoffice building. i } -OUR CHARGED WITH MURDER. Valhalla Lawyer's Detective Work May Solve Young Man's Death. Anderson, Dec. 18.?H. W. Hoiob, chief of police, of Townville; . E. Woolbright, a policeman; Bas:en Sears and Jim Baldwin, who vere called in by the officers to asist them in arresting Doc Welborn, i young mountaineer, on the night >f September 28, 1910, were lodged d the jail here to-night, charged vith the murder of Welborn. Wel>orn was arrested for drunkenness ibout 9 o'clock at night and three lours later the guard house was ?urned. The arrest came as the result of letective work by M. C. Long, fornerly court stenographer of this ciy :uit, but now an attorney at Wal>ol1o Uo Vioc. hacn TOrtrlrintr r?n tVlA lUiiUt AXV UW? UWU ?? VT4 WM ase for several weeks and it is unlerstood that he has gathered evilence tending to show that Welborn vas murdered before being placed in he guard house and that the house vas burned to hide the alleged crime. The four men came to Anderson tolay and voluntarily surrendered, phen they learned that the warrants lad been issued. , The warrants were issued by a lo:al magistrate, upon the affidavits of he foreman and members* of the jrand jury. When seen at the jail o-night the four men declared their irrest is due to prejudice, hut they efused to name the persons whom , ^ hey think are .behind the move to :onvict them. The four men are narried and have families. Wei)orn's widow and children are now vorking in a cotton mill here. Chief Holcomb said to-night that n his opinion Welhorn set fire to he guard house while lighting a dgarette or in attempting to burn lis way to freedom. T amW *?tao aaty>m 11 Ti inataH vlth IVir? * LiUUg W AO V/Uiuuiuuivuvvu w o-day and he stated he would come 10 Anderson on Wednesday to represent the solicitor, when the prismers will appear before Judge Prince for bail. The arrest of the first of the four * nen has caused considerable excitenent in the Townville section and o-day many of the leading business nen of that town came to Anderson. :o go on the bonds for their release, kn effort is being made to-night to jet Mr. Long to come to Anderson >so that the application for bail can je made to-morrow. Mr. Long's ability in detective vork was shown .several months ago, vhen he brought to justice Cantrell, laines, and Angel, three white men, for the murder of Emerson, near SValhalla. At the time it was ;hought that Emerson was killed by i train, but Mr. Long worked on :he case until he secured sufficient evidence to bring the three men from as many States and to convict ind sentence them for the murder, rhe trial attracted a great deal of ittention. Robber Suspects Have Defender. Savannah, Dec. 18.?Mrs. W. M. McFail, the Hardeeville lady with ?1 ^ tr tTill onH Wonrv * rV I1ULU UCUIgC XI. mil uuu. iiv.., Erckstrom, the Baltimoreans under irrest here for robbing the Atlantic 2oast Line train last Tuesday mornng boarded, comes to their defense n an interview given a representative )f the Savannah Press at her home yesterday. Mrs. McFail says the accused were mdoubtedly in their room at her lome at 1 o'clock the morning of the obbery. She is sure of this because ihe was ill that night and when her laughter arose to administer to her >ne of the men called out to know if here was anything they could do. Mrs. McFail explains the presence >f the greasy and dirty rags in the oom of the men by saying that they lad been helping her in cleaning louse and had used these rags in (leaning their hands. They ha? )laced them in a fireplace after the leaning was over and had partially mrned them. The detectives also found in the oom of the men what they termed a 'false front" which they have believ;d one of the men wore to make .im onno9r inr^pr than he reallv L111I 0V* v?? m vas. Mrs. McFail says this was a )iece of cotton Quilting which she lerself hung in the closet of her odgers' room. The effects of the nen were at all times open to inspecion during the several days they vere with Mrs. McFail and she says hey had nothing that was in the east suspicious. The familiar electric warming pad las been formed into the shape of i shoe and patented by an Oregon roman for keeping a person's feet rarm. ."'-I-,