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| Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1912. One Dollar and a Half a Year. f'Ji
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN yARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
k| Denmark Doings.
Denmark, Feb. 14.?Miss Mabel
' rt/vmit. nn<T U<oa
! xjjjauk, miss viriuia nai uj , auu m*bo
Kate Cantey, of St. George, were the
! guests of Miss Lynn Goolsby last
week.
Miss Emerald Gentry, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., and Mrs. Blount, of Augusta,
Ga., spent sometime last week
with Miss Minnie Blount, of this city.
The snow on Saturday afforded a
great deal of amusement for the
young people of this section of the
country.^ Snowballing was entered
into with a great deal of pleasure.
' A splendid lecture was given by
Dr. Hoyle, at the First Baptist church
r.. - here on Tuesday night. His subject
v vm "alcohol." His lecture was very
[ beneficial and interesting to all who
[ heard It
Mr. Harry Wroton is * spending
^H| some time with relatives here. DenHp
mark was formerly the home of Mr.
V - Wrotoiy but for . the past *few years
K he has been working in Orangeburg.
, Mrs. H. W. Goolsby, of Port Motte,
spent a short while this weekywKh
j relatives here'.
I Mrs. Will Stevenson, who has been
F visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
I J. Jl Walker, returned to her home
in Columbia on Friday. "G."
' Ehrhardt News.
Ehrhardt, Feb. 12.?Mr. Albert
Loadholt, of Jennys, was in town last
Friday. *
Capt. and Mrs. J. W. Jenny were
visiting Mr. S. W. Copeland last
Wednesday.
Mrs. Lola Sandifer was visiting
Mrs. S. W. Copeland last week. ' >
Mrs. C. C. Fender and 'daughters,
Minnie and Pretto, of Colston, spent
' several days in town fast week.
Miss Lillian Miller, of Salisbury,
N. C., has been spending some time
with the Misses Groseclose.
Mr Chas. Thomas, of Smoaks, j
. spent the week-end with Mr. Robert
Col: John Folk, wife and daughter,
? of Bamberg, were in town Wednesday
on their ;way to the Folk-Fender wedding.
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Mr. 9. L. Copeland, of this place,
?v- Riif/wH Hardware
WliU i^p(W/UVO l>u? wiuvw
Co., was a business visitor in town
recently.
Mi as Hattie Groseclose and little
Virginia Black, who have been at
Rev.N D. B. Groseclose's for some
time, have returned to their home
^ at Prosperity.
^ Miss Kate Hiers and friend spent
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last week in town, visiting friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McMillan were
visiting friends in town Sunday. ,
Miss Maggie Ramsey, of Williams,
visited her brother here last week.
Fairfax Fancies. /
Fairfax, Feb. 10.?Miss Mary Harr
risen, our popular music teacher,
\ spent the week-end at St. George,
with her friend Miss Lyl Parrish.
Miss Eunice Williams and Dr.
Wm. Breland were the guests Saturday
of MrsI S. L. Sanders.
Rev. Simpson had the misfortune
recently of losing his horse. \
k Mrs." James Middleton, of Scotia, ,
P is spending sometime with her sisf
ter, Mrs. Benjamin Loadholt and J?
[ under Dr. Young's treatment.
A lecture Friday night at the
school hall was much enjoyed.
Mrs. Beatrice Franklin is spending
some time with her sister, Mrs. Dr.
t Addison. The latter was summoned
ft to Au?gusta recently to atend her
W'.' brother's funeral.
Mr. Zeigler, of Denmark, was a ret
cent visitor.
The children of Mrs. Marion Craddock
are improving. Miss 'Hattie
Lightsey nursed them faithfully.
Mr. Davant, of Columbia, was a recent
visitor.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mixon are
now living here.
v The truest, best and sweetest type
* of the girls of to-day do not come
from the home of wealth. She steps
out'from the house where is comfort
rather than luxury. She belongs to
the great middle class?that class
which has given us the best wifehood,
which has given help-mates
. to the foremost men of our time;
^ which teaches its daughters thevtrue'
meaning of love; which teaches the
manners of the drawing room and
the practical life of the kitchen as
well as teaches its girls the respon
sibilities of wifehood ana tne greatness
of motherhood.
Four handsome new Fords just
received, new models. See them if
you want a machine of satisfaction.
FORD MOTOR CO., Bamberg, S. C.
BEGINNING ANOTHER MONTH.
Plans Continue for Prolonging Mill
Strike at Lawrence.
Lawrence, Mass., Feb. 11.?Today,
which marked the beginning of
another month in the strike of more
than ;20,000 mill operatives for an
increase in wages, was one of general
activity. The Central Labor Union
officials drew up the demands which
are to be mAde upon agents of each
mill, while the Industrial Workers
of the World leaders spoke at a number
of meetings, urging solidarity
among the strikers.
It is estimated that the financial
loss due to the strike, a major portion
of which falls upon the strikers,
already approaches the $1,000,060
mark. The mills are said to have
protected themselves against financial
loss by having their work performed
at their factories elsewhere,
or on sub-contracts, by which they
receive a share of the profits.
Some mill officials claim that 10,000
operatives are now at work, but
the military observers, who are still
on duty with their troops at the factory
gates, say only seven or eight
hundred hands go in, where usually
5,000 were eriiployed.
The leaders of the Industrial Workers
of the World assert that this
strike is but the beginning of an industrial
revolution.
Some Gossip from Kearse.
.Kearse, Feb. 12.?Who threw
that snowball? Did you have your
fortune told? Was your lover dark
or fair, long or short, thick or thin?
She said a light haired girl was my
enemy; she said I would die an old
maid; she said I would marry in
1913. Did you know that Evelyn
gave her that locket and chain to
win over that light haired fellow for
her? Yes, and did you see that best
looking gipsy Voman with Sudy's
pearl ear-rings on? Well, she told
Sudy that a light haired boy and a
dark haired boy were lively to fight
over her,ao Sude gave her the earTing^
to keep peace between the two
boys. Wonder what she told Minnie
Lee? She'goes about like one in a
trance; it must have been something
good. And gee! old Cress has got
on a grin; she told her that she was
to meet the "ideal of her dreams"
within three months and that life
would never be the same again. Yes,
it is so! Cress sure gave her that big
old red rooster and a speckled pullet.
Has anybody seen that turquoise ring
on Miss Bonnett's finger lately? It
certainly is,? missing, and that talll
gypsy told her that she would surely
marry a boy named Evart; yes,
that's why Anne gave her that cross
and chain to win him from Miss Bonnett
for her. . Oh! I know something
better than that; a certain party I
know gave her a string of coral
beads,and two heads of cabbage to
tell Clinton that a tall dark haired
green-grey eyed girl was in love with
him. I can go one better than that;
I know a boy who gave her a dollar,
a pack of chewing gum, and two Irish
potatoes to get her to tell Cres^ she
was going to ' marry a red headed
drunkard. But did you hear about
Lalla giving away her green satin
frock? Yes, she told Lall that when
Willie died she would get another
husband, anctwhen he died she would
kget another, and when he died she'd >
get another. I'll tell you what she
told me: ^he said a certain girl I
know was having a pipe dream for
she could see the Smoak in her eyes
yet, and that she doubted if this girl
ever woke up. >
Yes, the fortune tellers are abroad
in our land and this is a piece of
gossip heard at an old maids' club
meeting a few evenings ago.
Miss Evelyn Brabham has as her
guest Miss Latnae Folk.
Miss Ettie Kearse is visiting her
sister at Bishopville.
Miss Eloise Brabham left Saturday
for Atlanta.
Mr. Stacy Kearse entered a business
college at Columbia last week.
Miss Annie Hal ford spent the
week-end with Misses Cressie Breland
and Sudy Ritter.
Miss Mell Kearse is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Williams, at Bayard, Fla.
Miss Alice Kearse is at home for a
short rest from her work at Bamberg. |
A party of young ladies enjoyed a
"mule back" ride this hfternoon.
These young ladies must be good
riders, as there were no saddles in
the crowd, and each mule carried two
young ladies. However, when two
young men tried to overtake them
they say there was some good riding
done?by the ladies.
See Jones Bros, for horses and
mules. Another- car load to arrive
this week. Mr. W. P. Jones left for
the West several days ago to select
them.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Roiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
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The anti-racing bill passed the
senate Tuesday, after the injunction
clause was eliminated. v
Robert Brown, colored, and his
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i mule were 'drowned in Turkey creek,
I Saluda county, on Monday afternoon i
in attempting to cross.
Seth Phelps, a white man, was
i found dead in the snow on Rutledge
avenue, Charleston, on Sunday morning
at three o'clock, having frozen
tto death.
The three-year-old son of Mr. and I
Mrs. W. J. Butler, of the Gluck mills,
I Anderson, was burned to death on
j Thursday while playing with fire inj
the yard of a neighbor.
Col. John P. Thomas, former superintendent
of the South Carolina
Citadel academy, died at the home of
his son, Jno. P. Thomas, Jr., in Columbia
on Sunday, aged 79 years.
Pearl Brown, a young white girl,
stole a grip belonging to a bridal
couple at the Spartanburg union station
on Monday. She pjeaded guilty
before the recorder,. who gave her a
fine of of $30 or 30 days.
After refusing to adopt an amendment
cuttina the figure from $1,000,000
to -$50p,000, the house Friday
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passed to me tmra reaumg a resolution
submitting to the qualified electors
'of the State the proposition of
issuing a bond issue of $1,000,000
to carry out the plans for the State
hospital for the insane.
The legislature of So th Carolina,
conferred unusual distinction upon
Newton F: Walker, superintendent of
the Cedar Springs Institute, on
Thursday in giving him by unanimous
vote the title of "doctor of
philanthropy and charity," as a< recognition
of the great work he has
done for the deaf, dumb and blind.
The appropriation bft passed its
third reading in the house and was
sent to the senate.1 The bill was
amended by Mr. Browning in d few
instances, but it went to the senate
practically unchanged from th$ form
in iwmcn me "ways ana means cummittee
sent It'to the house. The bill
9arrled a total of $1,989,177 and
provides lor a tax levy of mills.
> The ways and means committee
turned down thp claim, of architects
for $13,500 for plans for imferoyeing
the state house, stating that the
committee which had made the contract
with the architects had exceedi
aA onthnrOv TUfl'samfi Pftm
mittee also Instructed the architect,
Lwho by the way is a member of the
general assembly, to visit the members
of that body and show them the
plans, his expenses hot to exceed
$1,000. He presented a bill for
$650, which has also been disallowed
by the ways and means committee.
| The matter created a sensation in
the house and a committee appointed
by that body will investigate.
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Sixty-five Men Entombed.
Amador City, Cal., Feb 7.?Sixtyfive
men were imprisoned in a cavein
at the Bunker Hill mine, two miles
north of here, to-day. Rescue crews
are at work. None is believed to be
dead. - >
The breaking of the cable of the
cage in the main shaft induced the
collapse of the supporting shaft timbers
and the release of tons of earth
that buried the entrance.
Late to-night rescue crews succeded
in communicating with the men by
meanB of- the air pipes, and werp told
that none of the imprisoned men
were injured. If no more earth
gives way it is believed that rescue
will be effected to-morrow.
"I Shot Odom," Says Casey.
Spartanburg, Feb. 6.?The coroner's
jury probing the killing of Pope
Odom, which occurred last night at
Kilgore, a small town on the Char
leston and Western Carolina Railroad,
this morning returned a verdict
that the deceased came to his death
from a gunshot wound inflicted by a
weapon in the hands of Burl B.
Casey. The killing was the result of
a quarrel over a small debt that
Casey owed Odom. He, after heated
words, fired three shots, and then
came to the Spartanburg jail and
surrendered. "I shot Odoip," was
the only statement he would make,
and requested the jailer to allow no
one to come near his cell.
See J. M. Dannelly & Co. at Ehrhardt
for first-class livery service at
reasonable prices.
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FIRE IN FLORENCE.
Ice Plant Burning and Other Property
Threatened.
Florence, x Feb. 11.?Fire broke
out in a storage vault at the Phoenix
Ice Company's plant, in West
Front street, this afternoon about 5
o'clock, and at tftiis hour, 6:30, is
still burning, although the chief of
the fire department feels satisfied
that the flames are now under control.
The firemen are making a desperate
effort to stay ^he flames, although
seriously hampered by the severe
cold and 12 inches of snow.
The Phoenix plant is owned by Mr.
T nnrtn TJ Uoaiw and 4a a trufkotftrv
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substantial brick structure. It is a
50-ton plant and valued at $60,000,
and is covered by insurance to the
extent of about $15,000. The ice
plant and the light company's plant
are adjoining and should the ice plant
go the light plant would suffer severe
damages.
A. C. Jones Hit by Col. Hardwick. ,
A. C. Jones, a traveling man of
this city, and Col. S. H. Hardwick,
passenger traffic manager of the
Southern Hallway, had a personal
difficulty bn the street in Columbia
yesterday. Col. Hardwick was not
hurt, but ^Mr. Jones is wearing a
beautifully darkened eye as the result
of coming into contact whh ColHardwick's
fist.
The difficulty arose while, Mr.
Jones and Col. Hardwick were discussing
the mileage bill in the legislature,
which seeks to require the
railroads to allow conductors to pull
mileage on trains instead of requiring
the travelers to exchange the
mileage for tickets at the ticket windo^.
They were discussing some
conditions said to. prevail in Mississippi,
when Col. Hardwick said something
which Mir. Jones construed to
be offensive to Mm, wnereupon Mr.
Jones "slapped" Col. Hardwick in the
face.
Col. Hardwick did not take the affair
to be a slapping match, so he
doubled up his fist and swatted the
traveling man in the eye, with the
result that the member is badly discolored
to-day. That was about all
iftre was to the fight. Col. Hardwick
afterwards expressed his regret
at the occurrence.
Both are well knows in Spartanburg.
.Col. Hardwick has frequently
vistted here and has many, friends all
-over the South. Mr. Jones has for
many years been a successful traveling
man. He formerly lived at Newberry,
but several months ago removed
with his family to Spartanburg.
He takes ah active interest ih the affairs
of traveling men and is much
concerned in the passage of the mileage
bill. >
Mr. Jones made the race for governor
in the* primary campaign in
1906, but the vote he polled "was inconsiderable.
He once announced for
United States senator, but withdrew
before the campaign had proceeded
far;?Sparrtanburg Journal.
Train Held Thirty Hours.
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 11.?The train
carrying Tyrone Powers and his theatrical
company and 40 other passengers,"
which was stalled in the
snow on the New York Central Railroad
ten miles east of Oswego, was
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released at noon to-day after Having
been held 36 honrs. Two big rotary
snow plows had to tunnel through
huge drifts to effect the rescue. Never
before in railroad history in this
State, officials say, has a like condition
existed.
Water was kept in the boiler of
the locomotive by shoveling snow
into it Food for the marooned was
obtained from a hotel a mile away
and "the passengers were kept fairly
comfortable duripg their long wait
Two passenger trains which had
been stalled for 24 hours at Red
Creek, near Oswego, were shoveled
out last night.
A train load of hogs from Chicago
to Boston became stalled in a drift
west of Syracuse and many of the
hogs were frozen to death. Many
railroad men are reported ill as a
result of exposure during the past
few days.
When one stands on the street corner
and proclaims that his town is
dead it is in order to ask whether or
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not ne nas aone auvcums w smc
life. Ninety-nine times out of a
hundred such a question will get an
answer in the negative. The true
local patriot never attempts to run
his town down or magnify its shortcomings.
Rather does he seek to
build up in every wise and reasonable
way and to cause the shortcomings
to disappear by the adoption of
improvements that remedy the defects.
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TIE LETTER WAS CHANCED
CASHIER WRITES BLEASE ABOUT
STATE LOAN DISPUTE.
Letter Dictated in Governor's Office
and Transcribed Therein Carried
Different Meaning.
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Columbia, Feb. 13.?Correspondence
relative to the famous State
loan dispute was given out to-night.
State Treasurer R. H. Jennings asks .
Mr. J. P. Matthews,, cashier, three
questions: First. "Was it necepsary
for the governor to go to New York
to effect the loan?" Second. "Was
it intended to lend the money at a
lower rate than was offered in the
bid?" Third. "What was the agreement
as to interest?"
(Replying, Cashier Matthews said:
"I will say that it was not necessary
for the governor or any other
officer to go to New York" for the
money offered at 3 per cent, under
the bid of April 17. It was the custom
of a State official to, go to New
York "for the protection that such
officer could give to the State." Second.
"It was not intended to get or
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oner cneaper money uiau woo um
for." Third. "There was '* no
agreement as to interest." ^
Matthews Writes to Blease.
Then Mr. Matthews wrote Gov.
Blease a long letter, the purport of
which is that Mr. Matthews dictated '
a letter on the loan matter at the
governor's office, and that it was not
as he dictated it Mr. Matthews
says: "When the letter was pre-"
sen ted to me to be signed, my attention
was called to the fact that there
had been j some repetitions in the
wording of the original draft, and to
the fact that the letter'had'been rewritten.
I was . very busy at the
time, and on bring assured that the
letter was in all respects substantially
the same, I signed the letter,
without comparing it with the original
draft, except for the first paragraph.
- Declares Sense Different.
"I now find that, in copying the
. letter, certain changes had been,
made, which makes the sense differ- \
ent from what I intended, and somewhat
misleading. I did not get the
opportunity to look over the copy of
i<vn-nn. ciortAii till lAtA vAsterdav
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afternoon, as I was not only very
busy, but had to be out of my office
for two hours in the afternoon. I
learned, however, that you had already
sent in your message to the
legislature."
Mr. Matthews says: "The matter
of paying interest on balances was
not referred io at all during our en^ ;
tire trip." \,
Says "Heretofore" Added. \
. The word "heretofore," as paying
interest, was not in the first copy.
The word "heretofore" was added In
the copy signed, and did not appear
in the original. ,
Mir. Matthews ^goes on to say: "In
reading the letters over you will notice
that other mistakes^ have been
made. In other words, in attempting
to revise the wording of the letter,
it has been very much i confuseg
and the xqeaning completely twisted.
I think it nothing but proper to call
yoiir attention to these changes,
which I did'not notice when I signed."
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The correspondence further eonfuses
the issues made, but settles
certain questions, apparently.
Mob Loses Negro.
Macon, Feb. 9.?Sheriff Terry, of
Baldwin county, left Macon at an
early hour this morning with Vine
Collier, a negro who is charged with
having attempted to 'assault two
white girls near Milledgeville yesterday
afternoon. He brought his prisoner
here in an automobile, after
foiling a mob in Milledgeville.
Officers here were afraid of another
lynching in Macon, as quite a
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cruwu gaiucicu iu mwi, 0?
; Railroad train which was said to
have on hoard the officers and the
negro. They failed to arrive, hqw-,
ever, and the crowd went to the jail.
Sheriff Hicks persuaded the members
of the crowd that the negro was
not inside and they dispersed. Sheriff
Terry- left at an early hour for
Atlanta with the prisoner.
Dr. Augusta Webster Reed, of
New York, left $100,000 to Mrs. ,
William Grant Brown, president of
the City Federation of Women's
clubs, with the request that it be
used to carry out some of Dr. Reed's
ideas.
J. M. Dannelly & Co. at Ehrhardl
operate a first-class livery stable.
Nice teams on hand all the time.
Traveling men and others wanting
livery service will do well to see
| them.
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MEANS DENOUNCES BLEASE.
"Infamously False," Says the Clerk \>
of Sinking Fund.
Columbia, Feb. 11.?"There is . I
some rascality going on in the sink
ing fund commission" said-the gov- . %
eraor of South Carolina. " 31
"Governor, whoever says* or inti- - ; ^
mates that I am connected in any , ; ^
way with any rascality states that A
wl\ich is absolutely and infamously / ; jj||
false," replied D. H. Means, clerk of
the sinking fund commission, while
standing in {he office of the chief
executive yesterday. The governor ;
had just refused to sign'a paper ad?
vertising the sale of the old State
dispensary building. Mr. Means remained
in the office for several min- .
utes, waiting for the governor to
make reply to his final statement
He thpn went out.
"The governor, when the incident
was mentioned, commenced to talk ^
about the members of the sinking 1fund
commission being his political . \ ;'
enemies," Mr. Means continued, "and ;
I told him that was no business of
mine." This was the statement
made by Mr. Means yesterday in describing
an incident in the office of 3
the governor, in response to an inquiry
by a representative of the ^
The sinking fund commission meet- p
ing on Thursday afternoon elected ^
J. Fraser Lyon as permanent chairman
of the commission to take the
place of the governor. Several days
ago the sinking fund commission met ^
and decided to sell thexrtd State dispensary
buirding. The matter of preparing
an advertisement and fixing a ^
minimumN price on the property was
left Jto a subsequent, meeting. The , :V
members of the commission request- /
ed the governor to call a meeting.
The governor refused to call a meet- :
ing before March 1. Last Thursday a
minor claim, was brought up and the
governor called a meeting of the com- mission
to consider/ that claim. AH
members were present except Senator
Mauldin and Gov. Blease. Mr.
Means, the clerk, called up the gov- v-*|
ernor's office. He was not there. The
governor was called at the executive 4"He
asked me," said Mr. Meahsr
"in the presence of the commission to '
sair to the commission that he^ the r ;' '4v|
governor, desired the sinkings fund y
commission to elect a permanent vicechairman,
so as to relieve him from
signing or having to sfgn checkfe an<L? v h|
papers as chairman of the commis- . vy
sion. I'repeated the message hack
to the governor "over the telephone inthe
presence of the ^nembers of the / ~
Commission loud enough for the &na~ mission
to hear, and the governor
telephoned his assent to the accuracy j
of this repeated message. >, >
"The commission refused to obey 4
the suggestion of the governor. Attorney
General; Lyon was elected *
chairman in place of the governor."
The members of the sinking fund |
commission are: W/ L. Manldin, <
caairnmu UI uie uuauvc vymumwy
the senate; Lowndes J. Browning, ' v
chairman of the ways and means '
committee of the house; A; W. \
Jones, the comptroller general; R.
H. Jenhings, the State treasurer; J.
Fraser/Lyon, attorney general, and ?
the governor. Senator Maul din was
not present at the meeting Thursday j
when the governor was displaced as
chairman. His name, however, is
signed to the advertisement
Mr. Means has on file a written
statement signed by himself as to
the message the governor delivered
to *m oyer the telephone and repeated
to the governor and the commission,
and a written statement
signed by the governor'as to what
this message was, and the two agree
substantially, according, to Mr.
Means, who said that he gave the
above statement after being questioned
by newspaper men. ^
Charged With Wrecking Train.
Walterboro, Feb. 9.?"Just to see
what would happen" was the excuse
which, according Jo officers, Joe and'
Strobble Mack, negro brothers, aged
15 and 13, respectively, give for
throwing the switch that wrecked
Atlantic Coast Line passenger No. &8J ^ B
at White Hall, January 29. The ' ??.
boys are in jail here and the officers , S?
say have made a full confession. ' <
The boys Were committed to jail /S
yesterday by Magistrate R. S. W.
Bryan. This case was worked up by
detectives for the Coast Line. It Is 0
said that the younger, Strobble Mack,. :
confessed and implicated his broth- t '
er.
The fast mail ran through an open S.
switch and into a freight train whifh' ijp
was on the siding. ? , .-K'i'-M
The negroes were arrested by
Magistrate Bryan who held the pre- i
liminary after which they were com- '
mitted to jail.
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