The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 04, 1912, Image 1

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Hamburg ^ralb Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4,1912. One Dollar and a Half &Y&X. ? e= .-= -' , - > ' 1 ' - ' '* ^ i . "'g*' COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPE*^08 EN VARIOUS SECTIONSNews Items Gathered All Ar8ifi^ne A County and Elsewhere. 1 , - . Fairfax Fancies. j a Fairfax, Dec. 30.?Our folks wm" j ed to enjoy a merry but not boterous Xmas. There were famill^' ^ unions, with loved ones from ^ lug buuuui or at a distance. j Miss Zelle Loadholt has wither ^ some teacher friends of the <ar c T school. t J Our teachers all went homeV ^ holidays. Misses Alma Knight, Mercys i Buckner, Hattie George, andjk? J ^ Misses Youmans are with us ay- x Dr. Iva Youmans. with hpr siir? Miss Ella, returned from Baltiljp ( to be at the family reunion. Hamilton and Corrine Yourias are also here. I b-, Messrs. E. L. and. Otis Sanf3 are guests of relatives here. ] Mr. Fooshe, of Savannah, wi a guest at the Barber home this W k. There was a sociable recentl; at Mr. G. W. Jarrell's which was i$h enjoyed. j.There was a promiscuous shoer of pretty and useful gifts givei at the Baptist manse this week to^ie family of Rev. J. D. Timmons. ! I Fannie Loadholt arranged the w le affair, and treated the ladies 1s sembled there to a feast of things. The Timmons leave for tUr new home this week, and will|e much missed here. & The Misses Kennedy, of Cha^ton, spent the holidays here ^ Mrs. S. L. Sanders. Several of our gentlemen wentafi a deer hunt over the Savannah ? -c They enjoyed it very much. Miss Meng, a lovely teacher hfo ' resigned, and Miss Robinson, of 1*4 der college, takes her place. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd, .of Laur< l, * also Miss Willon Boyd and Dr. ' i.W' ley, of Georgia, -were recent guestOf the Talleys. jnji , J Fires at Cope. Cope, Dec. 31.?A small dwellfg | ; belonging to W. P. Jernigan, was estroyed by fire between 1 and 2 ' & ' o'clock this morning. When list ? ; seen the fire was coming through ?e roof and the dwelling was too fcr ; gone tb be saved. But Valentifi's i ginn^r-on the next lot and serai i ||^ bales of cotton on the platform,. at ^ more than forty feet away was ri it ] in the path of the shower of spa $ < and the bales were on fire when r % i ed off. As soon as they struck he j j- ground they were rolled aside i ?. all the fire picked and put out. The only thing that saved the finnery was the prompt removal ofche i bales of cotton (18 in number) jmd the calmness of the night at foat J. time. There was no one in the hfuse * at the time of the fire. It is unjer stood there was some msuiaucv uu R : the dwelling. i $ This morning soon after staring up the ginnery, fire broke out in' ; * flues leading from the gins to the 1 * condenser and it is presumed a mfch 1 in the cotton was the cause. B. B. Brickie, whose cotton yas u being ginned at the time, lost sfne V forty or fifty pounds of lint. Tfere 1 A being quite a crowd in town the fire was soon extinguished, althougl it f v ran > all over- the building. In an hour's time ginning was resumed, p- I J.i * " J i Kills Woman, Drowns Himself. Edgefield, Jan. 1.?Constibl6 1 Moultrie returned to-day from Mjuk trie's Mill, in the western section of the county, where he went to capture a negro charged with the mkrder of a negro woman. Jenningsj it seemes, in a fit of anger, shot ihe woman five times, as she lay diad crushed her head with rocks. After committing the deed it vas flo/1 t Vi o tnougut iuai 110 try; but later developments discloB. ed the fact that he committed siiicide, having jumped into a pond, and was drowned. His body was found this morning. It seems that the woman's husband was an eyes' witness to the killing, but his ver- . sfon . of the tragedy has not been heard, and it is not known what led to it. fcf "You're going to the smoker toJb night, aren't you?" "Nope." "Why, the boys are expecting you. \ j^l Didn't you promise them you'd be If f there?" 5 -i "Yes. I intended to be present. x but, you see, we have the recall gyg_ tem in our family, and my wife his just exercised it."?Chicago Recori* Herald. ; f v J-"- [ i "i[ f ll ' fy ;A CONF^ses killing son-in-law Insulted Her, Says Woman Under Arrest. ! Mobile, Ala., Dec. 31.?Arrested vithin a few minutes after the bloody "emains of her son-in-law, Frederick SVasserlaben, had been found in a 3ond near the western city limits, Mrs. Mary L. Godau to-night made a :ull confession of the deed. Wasseraben had been shot three times, :wice through the head and once .hrough the arm. The killing occurred at the home of Wasserlabenn, af:er, according to the confession, insulting remarks were made to Mrs. 3odau. Describes Shooting. As a result of the alleged insult, Mrs. Godau says she saw Wasserla)en's gun on a hall rack, picked it lp and returned to the room. "I aised the pistol and, looking him itraight in the face, pulled the trigger. I thought I would do a good iob while I was at it, so I pulled the rigger again." Subsequently, Mrs. Godau took the )ody in a wagon and dumped it into ;he pond, where it was discovered. Last Husband Murdered. ri/vJ.n V ~ ~ -'.no. uuuttu iia? uccu xutai 1 icu luicc imes. Joseph, Godau, her last hus)and, was murdered in a manner similar to the deed of to-day, but the jp*aud jury failed-to indict her. An>ther husband, named Steiner, mys;eriously disappeared. As a result of the finding of the jadly mutilated body of Wasserla)en floating in a pool near the westjrn limits of this city this morning, :he dead man's wife and Mrs. Mary T. Godau, his mother-in-law, were placed under arrest, charged with \ the crime. Head Battered. Two bullet wounds were found in / the head and one in the arm of the iead man, and his head had been., horribly battered, apparently with t some blunt instrument. Several hours after the finding of the body a number of garments saturated with blood were unearthed under the Wasserlaben home, about i mile from the pool where the body was found. i Correct Theory. , . . ^ It was the theory that Wasserlaben was killed in his home and the body carried to the place where it was found. In an effort to avoid ietection, it was believed, the bloody clothing was brought back to the lead man's home and concealed. Mrs. Wasserlaben, in a statement made before her mother's confession, ieclared that she knew nothing of the affair until advised of the finding of the body. She asserted that she last saw her husband at noon yesterday. Mrs. Godau at first refused to make any statement, but confessed later. EX-STOCKHOLDERS PROTEST. _______ Plan Inquiry into Sale of'Spartanburg Fertilizer Works. Spartanburg, Dec. 31.?At a meeting of the majority of the men who formerly held stock in the recently sold Farmers' Fertilizer Company, preliminary steps looking to a complete investigation into the sale of the company were taken. Sanders and DePass and J. Wright Nash were retained as attorneys for the stockholders, who claim that they have not been treated justly. This company, of which A. O. Simpson was secretary and treasurer, and W. E. Burnett, president, was capitalized at S40.000. It was recently .sold to the American Agricultural Corporation, at a price which is unknown. Before the sale, however, certain Ptrties bought up most of the stock. Plying various prices for it. Some of the stock was sold for $105 per sSare, while it is known that a much greater price was paid for some other. The former stockholders, who, it il said, were advised to sell by Mr. Simpson, the secretary and treasurer, who himself is said to have bought most of the stock, are indigent because they allege that as he ^ ******?r o salary for holding j "as receiving, -? v this position that he was employed to look after their best interests, and that they should not have been advised to sell at a disadvantage. No statement of the meeting was given out and reporters were barred. However, it was stated that the attorneys were retained and that they would investigate all angles of the case, and if sufficient grounds for a suit were found, that suit would be brought. In so far as known, the action will be clearly of a civil nature. Let us have your renewal promptly if your subscription has expired. S IN THE PALMETTO SWT SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS EN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quid Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. A total of 159 pints of whiskej was captured in an Orangeburg restaurant on Saturday. Orangeburg will make an effort tc get the college that the Lutherans have determined to build for young women. Rev. Geo. W. Quick, D. D., o] VT -? TkV.J. T?1 A iNewpori, xvauuo ismuu, uc,o ucci called to the pastorate of the Firsl Baptist church of Greenville. The two bridges between Lexingtoi county and Columbia, one over th< Congaree, the other over the Broad became free bridges Monday. Dr. M. V. McDuffie, of Asburj Park, N. J., has been chosen financial agent of Furman university, t< succeed Rev. E. P. Easterling, whc resigned. Senator W. N. Graydon declines t( be a candidate for the judgeship ol circuit. He says he does noi think "he "could afford to hold th< - 4 + -* ? ? office at the present time." Fred Miller, a young tinner, while at wort dnthe roof of a building 01 Main street in"*Columbia Mbnday fell two stories to the ground. 1 JER was not hurt much, no bones beinj broken. Augustus Stultz, of Texas, wai killed in Rock Hill Monday afternooi by his runaway horse, the animal be coming frightened at a sewer ditch ing machine. He had come fron Texas to visit relatives in Rock Hill. A town election was held in Allen dale last Saturday for mayor an( wardens for the ensuing year. Then were two tickets in the field. Th< following were elected: For mayor F. Chavous; wardens, J. C. H. All, A T. Allen, J. C. Keel, W. R. Darling ton, Jr. Ball Caines, Eddie Roberts an< Arthur Lambert, white men p Georgetown, were sentenced by Judg) Jeter C. PNtcIiard in the' Unr&w States district court, sitting in Spar tanburg on Friday, to serve eigh months in the Georgetown jail fo: contempt of court, having violatec an injunction against shooting gam< nn the Rarneh estate. Some Unprofitable Buying and Sell ing. j According to the statistics of thi Department of Commerce and Labor we exported from this country las year $15,000,000 worth of cotton seed and linseed meal and bough $17,000,000 worth of nitrate of so da, $10,000,000 worth of guano, ant $5,000,000 worth of sulphate of am monia. That is; we sold $15,000, 000 worth of material containing ni trogen and bought back $32,000,00( worth of materials containing nitro gen as a chief material. If the cot tonseed meal had been used oi American farms for feed and manure there would have been no need, s< far as the farms are concerned, foi the importation of so much of th< other materials. We are, in fact buying immense amounts of nitrogei for the purpose of selling it for lesi money than we pay for the importec article. And if the farmers, especi ally the cotton farmers, farmed righi and kept their cottonseed meal a home, there would he no need at al for cotton farmers to buy an ounce of nitrogen. One importation thai could be called a profit to the farm ers was $3,000,000 worth of clove] seed. And even that should be saved by growing our own seed. Selling millions of dollars worth of higt protein feed and then buying bad nitrogenous fertilizers in which the nitrogen costs far more than the feed sold for, or rather that contained in the feed, is not a profitable business for the American farmers. I would like to see the day wher not a pound of cottonseed meal wenl away from cotton-growing States.? Progressive Parmer. m ! Big Blaze at Blairs. Blairs, Dec. 29.?Resulting in 2 loss of $40,000 to $45,000, the stor* and warehouse of the Blair-Fraziei company was destroyed by fire tonight at 9 o'clock. The entire stocl in both buildings was lost. The loss is only partially covered by insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown. The Blair-Frazier company is one of the largest concerns in this section, and does a very large business in this and surrounding counties. < SLEW HER SOX-IX-LAW. 4 i Mobile Woman Gives Further Details J of the Tragic Affair. Mobile, Jan. 1.?Mrs. Mary T. , Godau, who yesterday confessed to the murder of her son-in-law, Police Officer Fred Wasserlaben, to-day gave more details of the crime. She said she killed the officer while he 7 was in bed and shot him again as he " rolled off, to prevent his lingering suffering. She declared that she > then dressed him in his uniform and > carried him from the house in a ; wagon. Mrs. Godau said she did not sleep f much last night. "How could one l sleep when they knew that on New t Year's day they would be in the county jail?" she asked. "Fred WasserL laben tried to assault me and when VkTT bio aVl i rt J 1 lUUgUl XilLLl UU UJ icauug uio juiib almost off, he shot at? me, -but I jumped out of the way. "Fred then threw the gun on the bed and laid down and told me to kill him, that if I did not do it some ) one else would sooner or la.ter. I fired a shot into his head. He then fell out of the bed in the death strug} gle and sooner than hear him moan ^ and see him suffer, I 'finished him.' L ' 1 I then wiped up the blood from the i floor with an old blanket and tried to hide everything, even cutting the ^ bullet out of the window that he i fired at me. I then put Fred's police t coat on. him, buttoned it up and tied i a rope to his arms and dragged the 5 body into a wagon. I hauled the body through the rain to the pond, 5 backed the wagon, into it and dumped i the body out. ^ VJ i No Repentance. ? "" 4* 1 Columbia, Dec. 30.?"I see no reason why the sentences as given have " not been representative of a just * punishment for them," is the state3 ment made by Frank G. Tompkins, 3 of Columbia, chairman of the receiv' ership of the defunct Seminole Se curities Company in making reply to " the governor for himself and Wiley Jones, W. A. Clark and Thos. S. 1 Bryan, trustees, as to a pardon for f John Y. Garlington and James Sto9 bp Young,.former officers of the com1 pahy under sentence of three yegli^" - and one year for breach of trust, t He states that he has never heard r of any repentance of either of the 1 young ?men for "these outrageous 9 and destructive acts which made a precedent in South Carolina in circles of high finance." I Mr. Tompkins shows in a long letter, how $400,000, collected by the young men,- was disposed of. He 3 states that it was the poor class of ' people that were hit hardest as the names of rich men were used by the " officers to. secure the sale of stock. ; t ? BrniM Names Denmark Boy. 1 ? Washington, Jan. 2.?As a result of the report of Prof. H. J. Crouch, who conducted at Blackville a competitive examination for the qualifiaction of a candidate for appointment to the Annapolis Naval AcadeA my by Representative Byrnes, of the 2d South Carolina district, Mr. j Byrnes to-day announced that he r would appoint S. G. Mayfield, of Dena mark, S. C., as principal, and Paul J. Zeigler, of Allendale, as alter| nate. The entrance examination 3 will be held at Annapolis next April. I Mr. Byrnes returned from Aiken today, to be at his post for the ret mainder of the session. Chester Boy Drowned. 1 1 4 Chester, Dec. 31.?Gazz Peay, a brother of Mr. N, A. Peay, formerly ~ of this city, and nephew of Messrs. T. J. and R. L. Cunningham, was drowned near the ford on butchman's creek, in the Longtown section of Fairfield countySunday afternoon, December 24. The young ' man had started from the home of. his mother, Mrs. Austin Peay, to visit his brother,! Mr. Willie Peay, and then go on to Winnsboro, and no particular attention was paid to his ab1 sence when nothing was to be seen u of him for a day or two. Finally Tuesday morning a negro saw Mr. Peay's horse standing on the bank of the creek, and thinking that something might be wrong, led the animal to the home of the young man's , brother. An investigation was start. ed and in a short time the body was _ I found in the creek a short distance ? I below the ford. Mr. Peay had eviL I I tVla f OT H O Tl H V? Q H nTTlh J I UCUU* imoacu lllC 1U1U uuu uwu _ j ably got into quick sand. The horse had scrambled up the steep bank, and had faithfully kept watch near k his master. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon. J An ad. in The Herald will bring recults. Try one and see. I - v, -g | in GOVERNOR TO TREASURER. BLEASE TURNS LOOSE fflS AU. ' ? \, y , TOMATIC MOUTH. Tells Venerable State Officer and Confederate Soldier How He Should Conduct His Office. * Copies of the following . corresn ndence. on file in the governor's office, were secured Friday: \iy Hon. R. H. Jennings, State Treas-. urer, Columbia, S. C. [ , Dear Sir: I notice recently different articles in the papers in regard to the money stringency in your office, and the further fact that you have written to some parties to pay their taxes because you are very much in need of the money. I hope you will pardon the suggestion, but in view of the fact that we are now on the eve of refunding our State debt, I think it very detrimental to the State to be publishing the kitt /inlf {n laui til at w c win piui/auij uciauiv iu payment of the interest on our pres-; ent debt, and particularly advertising the large amount of money which has to be borrowed to run the govr ernment, and I would respectfully request that you keep these matters within your office and between the officials with whom you deal, because, as I have said, I very much fear that it will injure us materially in refunding our debt at a very much j lower Interest than if these facts were not published. I hope that you will not consider me impolite or dictating, for I assure you that I have a very high re: gard for you, and am doing this for the best interest of us all. Very respectfully, COLE L. BLEASE, V Governor. Columbia, Dec. 20. * Captain Jennings's Reply. " To His Excellency, Cole L. Blease, Governor, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: Replying to your letter of this date, in regard to stringency in monev matters in this office, I have this to say: I have only followed the custom adopted some years ago, treasurers to send in tax money as fast as collected, and have requested the railroad companies to make re mittances to the county treasurers as early as they could, and If convenient before December 15th. In this I have acted as in the past We have found in the past that notices, such as have recently appeared Jtn the papers, induced many taxpayers .to pay earlier, and county treasurers to remit promptly. I do not think anything that has been said could be construed to mean that we will default in payment of interest on pur State debt, and the amount of money borrowed was published at the time the loan was made. However, in de1' ference to your opinion, I shall withnold further information regarding the amount that will be needed to meet our indebtedness. I suppose there will be no objection to giving out amounts of receipts. Very respectfully, }. R. H. JENNINGS, X. State Treasurer. Columbia, Dec. 20. Denied Liquor, Shoots Doctor. ? * Charleston, W. Va., Jan. 'it?Dr. Edwin O. Thornhill, aged 35, a well known physician and business man of the southern section of West Virginia, was shot and killed to-day by. Willie Hatfield, son of the \ noted feudist, "Devil Anse" Hatfield, in a drug store at Mullen's.,1 The physician was attending an injured person when the shooting took place.. Hatfield, it is said, asked Dr. Thornhill to issue a prescription for a pint of whiskey. The doctor, refused and when Hatfield used abusive language ?iie physician slapped him. Hatfield, it is alleged, imme- ; diately drew a revolver and fired two bullets into Dr. Thornhill's body. Stepping closer Hatfield again fired two more shots, each taKing eneci. in the head of the physician. 7 Hatfield ran from the drug store, but was captured within a few minutes by persons who had witnessed the shooting. Fearing lynching,' ) Hatfield pleaded with the officers to protect him and he was taken to j Pineville, the county seat, where deputy sheriffs to-night are guarding: the frail prison. I fN . * ' .... - ( BUSINESS LOCALS. ?? Sep me now about your cotton , seed. Will buy or exchange for meal. ; W. G. HUTTO, at Copeland's store. Before disposing of jfeu^cpttozi* * seed, see me. Will W. G. HUTTO,_ ' - f' DESTROYS 175,000 POST CARDS. *? ?' Dead Letter Office's Daily /Task wfth -v ".V\. > * . \ '' V Unmailable Post:Cards. >v " J- ' ' ? 'Ci: Washington; Dec? 31.?For the past two weeks the dead , letter division of the postoffice; department in. J this city has been receiving and dev i stroying, to the number of 175,$06 a day, post cards held unmai&hie ^ . V. y-v*. Knni* ^inaai A* . m'tAd A._ i UCCaUBC LllCJ ileal liuoci w uxxvu wry naments, or because, bearingv?idh ornaments, they have been inclosed . . J in unsealed envelopes. Serious injury to the eyes of postoffice employees engaged in handling - . .* .< such articles in the mail have result- \ *, . -to; ed in the. adoption of strict regula- ^ ' ^ tions against the forwarding of any -A'.."/' such matter. Aside from the glitter C . j of the tinsel or mica on the cards, It ^ will be readily understood that when ''' w? ' '* v'V they are run through the cancelling machines the process tends to de-; > tach the mica or tfnsel in small vparticles which fill the surroundings like ~ v dust and constitute a nuisance as well as a menace to sight and health. The normal average of such' mat- ter received and- destroyed by the. I dead letter office is about 12,000 a day .throughout the. year/ besides a daily average of about 25,000 post/ cards unclaimed at the offices of add ress. During/the holidayf season, however, there is .an increase ofun- ^ mailable postcard matter tq>approxi- ;,V nfately 175,000 S day, as jusVstgted* The -postal authorities are ab?iqiie for Hhe s public to- become familiar with. the regulation forbidding the mailing of cards bearing mica or. tinsel unless contained In sealed envelopes stamped on tie out^de at; the regular letter rate, Tie '^jy.iiri-.ff?; ous particles wfl g$t out$>f alhinsealed letter contairihig one of these cards almost as quickly as*they./will become cietacfced froth the card-that travels alone. , ? Thousands of postcards which the dead letter office destroys -are con-- / tained in unsealed envelopes carrying: a one-cent stamp. A smaller tmm-f -t ber, but still a sufficient number ; | be noticeable, are mailed in sew^:;-?^-:? envelopes of transparent paper, witir / '* a stamp on the card inside. r The genders seem to tlnnk that can the stamp that is inside of a sealed envelope be cancelled? The ingenuity with which some - people1 manage to make certain that their mail matter will go to the dead' letr ter office is marvelous, .. Denies That He Cut Himsei?; . - , % & . . v .v.. .' u < -T*' Boston, Jan. 1.?Following a'flat denial-by the Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson that he had .slashed .himself a week ago last Wednesday, the accused slayer this afternOOn, with; his negro cellmate and nurse/ Butts, was removed from cell 42 la Mur-derers'Row to one of . the upper floors of tie 'Charles Street jail.' The removal was accomplished wfth secre cy, THe_ cell now occupied anoras a floe yieyr of the Charles Rivet and the business section.of Cambrfdg^. The prisoner's declaration to his attendants, that he had. not inflicted the wohnds 'upon"his body has led * his counsel to contemplate asking for a lunacy commission the first of the week. Richeson.has become exceedingly fond of Buis, his negro' cell mate. To him and others the minister says in his characteristic, suave manner: , 'T did not slash thyself a week ago- g Wednesday. I have not been sick. Why do they keep me here in this cell?'' ' . -vV" % Attorney Morse, although hAhas % made several attempts, has-been unable to induce his client to talk coherently about the lAnnell case. When Mr. Morse would- call at the ; jail and engage Richeson :!n conver-' sation the latter would request Butts to read the Bible. He appears absent minded and repeatedly asks the time of day. His fondness for Butts has ' 44..V Via has .. S reacnecr sut-ii <t siagc utay uc uu^, promised the Wg negro a home . in the Southland when, they are liberated. Both are - charged: with mur-; ^/ der. . . - .1 . ..v, K > . Chief Justice Aiken of the supe> .* court to-day stated that ther no truth in the-report of an exteri- p sion of time for the trial of Richeson. "The .original date, January 15, stands," said the chief justice. : William A. Morse, counsel for the defense, will next week seek t<rhave. . a physician,appointed to attend RichBson at the jail and watch his condi-. tion, with a view to having the physician^ testimony available in support vCX si of a motion for an extension of time, if it should be deemed adti?fliltoiB^S6^S