Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MILEAGE BILL PASSED. |fe\ Thousand Mile Tickets Most Be m&T' Pulled on the Trains. The house passed the Carlisle mileage bill to a third reading Friday night by a vote of 73 to 10. The measure was passed by the senate last year and was continued by the house at the last session until February 1, 1912. The bill provides that any railroad, company selling mileage books for transportation is re quired to receive coupons from mileage books sold by said railroad company, on its trains for transportation within the State, and to check baggage for passengers upon presentation of said mileage book. ? Electricity Instead of Rope. Columbia, Feb. 10.?The senate, in ah afternoon session to-day, passed the bill providing for electrocution of criminals in the State peni. tentiary, abolishing the practice of hanging. The bill is now returned g; to the house for concurrence in slight amendments. A substitute v< was offered in the senate for the ?; house bill, this being only slightly different from the original. The dif' ferences were technical largely, the chief amending clause being one to Jiv?* require that at least twelve persons *hall witness an electrocution. The . bill was introduced in the house by Mr. Boyd and the substitute in the ; senate by Senator W. J. Johnson. It ^ passed the housb last week. Ilpf; The electrocution bill provides that ' a death chamber shall be furnished y:^ at the State penitentiary and execu||'/ tions shall be under the supervision of the penitentiary superintendent, f':"V An amendment was offered to the substitute bill putting the expense of ^ < 7 transporting the criminal to the penitentiary on the county from which : he comes, the cost being paid by the "5 \ penitentiary officials, who will afterwards draw on the county sending ^ the criminal. Blease Keeps "Merger Facts." - ^Columbia, Feb. 7.?The house tof&f night received a special report on Spiv the governor's message on the cotton mill mergers. The report of the jufcSf* dietary committee reads: "The com(.V VJ. mittee on judiciary, to whom was referred the governor's message, No. v 22, in reference to cotton mill mergere, respectfully report that they >;' have duly and carefully considered . the said message and gave Mr. L. W. vv-v Parker a hearing. He put his rev" > marks in print and they are herer with submitted. We also gave the Ifey attorney general the opportunity to ^ b? heard and he made the statement H v hereto attached. W also addressed , a letter to the governor, a copy of which is attached and marked. He replied in writing and a copy of the same is attached. There being no facts in the showing of Mr. Parker .... ? ? ; ; and none in the possession of the atf C torney general that requires further p^y action, and the governor declining V to furnish such facts as are in his ; V' possession, we recommend that the message, this report and the exhibt: ; its be all printed in the journal and pnmmittpp he discharged from vj- farther consideration of the same." |fefWV The' report was signed by Mr. f ^ rJi ^tevenfcon for the committee and ^ was. adopted. Replying to the note of the chairman of the judiciary committee, governor Blease wrote this letter: "Feb V1 > ruary 3, 1912: The Hon. A. Vander v. 'i Horst, Member of the House of Representatives, Columbia,- S. C.?Dear ' V S*r: Referring to your letter of the : 2d instant, my message to the legis'4; lature explains itself. Whatever intp\' formation I have, I prefer to use upon the stump this summer. Very respectfully, Cole L. Blease, Goverff-: -nor." Mr. Vander Horst, addressing gov- : *% " ernor Blease, as chairman of the committee, referring to the mill merger . message, said: "The commit: tee is desirous of securing all possible lig?t on the subject, and to that ' end I "beg to advise you that any further information or evidence which it may be your pleasure to furnish us, will be most acceptable, as the committee desires to make its report to the house by next Wednesday, the 7th instant." < a Gage Censures Union Lawyers. Union, Feb. 7.?When court convened here yesterday morning with Judge George W. Gage, of Chester, presiding, it was found that none of the six civil cases scheduled for trial, could be gone into on account of the attorneys not being prepared. When this fact developed Judge Gage took occasion to make some severe comments on the state of affairs, censuring the attorneys for allowing such conditions to exist. As nothing else was to be done court adjourned until this morning. To-day when court convened there was some more delay and Judge Gage further commented as to such conditions being detrimental to the county and to justice and without the co-operation of the attorneys, courts could not do much. An ad. in The Herald will bring recults. Try one and gee. . ^ J CARLISLE'S APPEAL DISMISSED. Decision of Federal Court Against Aged Newberry Defendant. Anderson, Feb. 7.?In the United States Court of Appeals, at Richmond, Va., to-day, a decision was handed down dismissing the appeal of Milton A. Carlisle, former president of the National Bank of Newberry, who was convicted at Greenville in 1911 of violating the national banking laws and who was sentenced to serve a term of five years in the United States prison at Atlanta, Ga. Carlisle, who is 71 years of age, was indicted on 162 counts of violating the national banking laws, but when tried in Greenville, Judge Brawley presiding, he was acquitted of 157 counts and convicted of five counts. His attorneys, Blease and Dominick, the senior member1 now being the governor of South Carolina, carried the case to the Court of Appeals at Richmond. The appeal was argued several months ago and the decision was handed down to-day, announcement of same having been received here by telegraph by United States District Attorney Ernest F. Cochran, who prosecuted the case. ( It is not known here whether Carlisle will carry his case to the supreme court of the United States, or ( whether he will go to Atlanta to commence serving his five years' sen- , tence. Folk Withdraws. 1 St. Louis, Feb. 10.?Former Gov- : ernor Joseph W. Folk withdrew as an active candidate for the Demo- ] cratic nomination for president to- day. He withdrew after he had re- < ceived a telegram from Champ Clark, i which agreed to divide the Missouri ] delfieration to the Democratic nation- 1 al convention as recently suggested < by William J. Bryan. < Mr. Folk not only agreed to divide ] the delegation but asked his friends 1 to make no further effort in his behalf. He promised to support Mr. 1 Clark. Friends of Mr. Clark said that he j will have half of the State delegation < which is to be selected in Joplin on j February 20 but that the Folk men < on the delegation will support Mr. Clark. If it is seen that Speaker 1 Clark cannot get the nomination on 1 a reasonable number of ballots in i the Baltimore convention the former 1 governor will consider that he has 1 the right to enter the race for the i nomination. i WRECK OF THJ^IAEVE AFLOAT. J Remains in Havana Harbor Await- j ing Orderte from Washington. Havana, Feb. 11.?The wreck of j the Maine floated free of the mua tonight when water was turned into the dam surrounding the wreck. The water inside the dam is about 14 feet below the harbor level at low tide. It is the intention to-morrow to admit the water more rapidly, so that by nitghtfall the wreck will he raised t9 the harbor level, leaving nothing more to be done except to break the dam and float the ship. Water; was forced into the dam ( through a system of pipes fixed at { the bottom of the ship, the power being supplied by a pump, which had , been recovered fro mthe wreck. The i ship began to rise almost immediately. . The midship section, which had been furnished with a bulkhead, rose more rapidly on account of superior ] buoyancy than the heavily weighted , sharp-pointed stern, so that to-night ] the Maine is somewhat down by the t stern. The hull still lists to port, ^ which is being corrected by the use ^ of ballast. No leaks of any import- } ance have been discovered. j As the water slowly rose, until it covered the whole floor of the coffer- ^ dam, nearly twenty feet of mooring lines were run out fore and aft on j both sides to hold the ship fast and prevent the possibility of its being , blown against the sides of the dam. Many hundreds of visitors throng- , ed the dam all day watching the re- . flno+iTior of +Vio Moino MnnA nf thpm iiv/auiug vx vuv iuu?MV? * wmw w-y ,-.-_ ^ was admitted aboard the ship, however, for fear of an accident. Major Ferguson, who has had charge of the work, has received many congratulations on his success. The ship will remain secure within the dam until orders are received from Washington to float her out, which can be done i within a fortnight. 1 AVas "Justifiable Homicide." ( Charleston, Feb. 8.?The inquest was held to-day over the body of El- , la Graham, the negro woman who was shot a few days ago by Mrs. A. E. Ehney on Cannon street. The two women met on the street, and after the exchange of words, the white woman drew a pistol and shot the negro woman in the stomach. No statement was made by Mrs. Ehney at the time. The negro woman claimed that she was shot without any cause during the quarrel. Mrs. Ehney since claimed that she shot in self-defense. Mrs. Ehney. i& at the Roper hospital suffering with hysteria. 1 CURFEW LAW FOR HUSBANDS. Former Governor Glenn Says Man's Place is at Home. A curfew law for husbands was advocated oy Robert B. Glenn, former governor of North Carolina, in a speech in Chicago on Tuesday night on the subject, "The Country's Need of Sterling Men and Women." "The man who stays away from his family at night is the most contemptible creature on earth," he said. "I wish we had a curfew law for husbands?a law that wo Id make every husband stay at home from 8 o'clock in the evening until 6 o'clock the next morning. A men's place is at home with his wife, helping to train the children in the way th^y should go." Bandits Hold up Train. Memphis, Feb. 7.?Money consigned to a bank in Oklahoma, estimated at between $60,000 and $75,000 is reported to have been taken from the express car by the robbers. No arrests are reported up to noon. Memphis, Feb. 7.?A band of robbers held up a -westbound Rock Island train near, Hulburt, Ark., early this morning and secured a great deal of plunder. The exact amount is undetermined. The robbers ransacked the mail car, blasted the express car safe and escaped -without molestation. The train's passengers were not disturbed. It is said that seven masked men comprised the gang. The hold-up occurred at the western terminal of the railroad bridges which crosses the Mississippi river here. The train [eft Memphis shortly after midnight. An hour later it cleared the bridge and then a few minutes later it was 3topped by the robbers who fired a fusillade of shots and set off several blasts of an explosive. Efforts to communicate with the Arkansas side cf the river failed as the wires were put out of commission supposedly by the bandits. Posses are now endeavoring to trail the bandits. The hold-up was so cleverly planned that none of the train's crew could offer resistance. Few passengers knew that anything had happened. Most of them were asleep. Two masked men boarded the train when it cleared the bridge's eastern terminus. They climbed over the tender and covered the engineer of the crew with guns. Then the train was halted. The engineer was bound ""l rrarreraA on/1 thon frfpVpH ftff itltO AUU U1XU VUVU W? i ditch. The fireman at the point [>f revolvers ran the train on several miles until a signal was given to stop, alongside a campflre where three other bandits waited. The baggage and mail cars were detached md hurried further into the country. While one bandit held a gun over the fireman the remaining four bandits clambered into the express and mail jars and covered the messenger and jlerks. The bandits ransacked the postal car, blew open the express safe md then escaped in the darkness. Decrease in Newspapers. Newspapers, as well as men and svomen, are feeling the increased cost 3f living as appears from the vital statistics of the American Newspaper Annual and Directory. The present pears starts with fewer dailies, semivepfriips and weeklies than a year igo. Pressure on the treasury has reluced the number of newspapers, the oss being 13 dailies, of which four ire in New England, 12 semi-weekies and 40 weeklies. This is a substantial falling off, considering the 'act that the country is growing all ;he time. The figures quoted are not results, as the mortality toll would 3e much larger if new enterprises lid not offset in part the distinct tendency toward loss. Newspapers leal not with the butcher and baker, )ut their business ib chiefly with the nanfactures of white paper and tvith the men who work in the various departments of the enterprise. Despite vigilance and a desire to be just, operating expenses continue to mount, and evidently some newspapers are being hard hit.?Boston Grlobe. Convict Stabs Deputy Warden. Lincoln, Neb. Feb. 11.?Deputy Warden E. D. Davis, of the State penitentiary, was stabbed six times bo-day by Albert Prince, a negro convict, and probably will die. Three of the wounds are in the abdomen. Just as the prison chaplain was about to pronounce the bendiction at the close of the morning chapel ser vice, Prince, under a twenty-year sentence for assault with intent to kill, attacked Deputy Davis. Four hundred convicts were standing in the assembly hall. Some of them seized Prince and prevented him from pursuing Davis as the deputy backed away. Prince procured the knife from the broom factory last night. He says that he had no particular grievance against Davis, but that he objected to being deprived of certain liberties.: r t - ' 7 ' ->;v . ? . - -J W*-v <! V. * j/V Decisive Influence #0 III? Public! ? ^ Erery man of integrity and thrift in this community requires satisfactory banking connections. It does not make so much differ- ^ MAGISTRATE KERR GETS PAY. Blease's Veto Overridden in Famous Greenwood Dispute. Columbia, Feb. 7.?At to-night's session of the house, Mr. Magill and Mr. Nicholson differed and presented valuing views on a resolution to pay some magistrates in Greenwood county. There appear to be two magistrates, both claiming the same job. Mr. Magill wanted to wait on the decision of the supreme court as to who is entitled to the office, and Mr. Nicholson intimated this was dilatory tactics. Mr. Magill protested against the payment to Magistrate Kerr, who is holding on notwithstanding the governor's appointment of another magistrate. Mr. Nicholson made a splendid fight for the recognition of Magistrate Kerr and the payment of his salary. The resolution providing for the pay of Kerr had been vetoed by Gov. Blease, he having appointed another magistrate. Mr. Nicholson said Kerr was not reappointed, although recommended by a majority of the delegation, because Kerr had not been Gov. Blease's supporter. The bill providing for the pay of $29.16 per month for Magistrate Kerr was sent to the governor February 2 of this year. It was passed at this session, originating in the senate. The veto was overruled in the senate to-night b ya vote of 88 to 10. The house passed the vetoed bill over the governor's veto and the act goes to the secretary of State as a law. Kerr held over, having been appointed by Gov. Ansel. A majority of the delegation recommended his reappointment, liov. tfiease appointed Mr. McDowell, whose appointment was not confirmed, and to-night Kerr's pay was provided for over the veto, and McDowell, who was appointed by the governor against the delegation's endorsement of Kerr, is without senate approval or pay and Kerr's star is in the ascendency, through the efforts of Mr. Nicholson. Aiken Deputy Shot to Death. Aiken, Feb. 8.?Mr. Fuller Gregory, of Warrenville, well known in Aiken and throughout the Horsecreek Valley, was shot last evening and instantly killed by Tom Lipford in Warrenville. The instrument was a double-barrel shotgun, the shot used apparently No. 6. Lipford had been summoned to appear in court here as a witness in the case of Ware, charged with arson, and when the case was called on Wednesday afternoon he (Lipford) failed to appear. A bench warrant was at once issued, and Mr. Gregory was deputized by Sherin KaDorn to serve it. Upon arriving at Warrenville, Mr. Gregory himself deputized two others, Messrs. Steve Arthurs and Theo. Jordan, to aid him in the service. Gregory, accompanied by the two men, walked to the house of Lipford. Jordan was stationed at the pear of the house. The others entered the front and knocked. The summons was answered by Mrs. Lipford. Giegory stated his errand, and in the course of the conversation that followed, Lipford, for some reason, possessed himself of his gun and fired. The load entered the right breast, piercing the liver, and ranged almost directly through, possibly the least bit upward. The shooting was at close range, for the physician's examination held at the coroner's inquest discovered a gaping hole of two and one-half inches in diameter. Magistrate Craig arrived on the scene about twenty minutes after the shooting, arrested Lipford and brought him to Aiken on the 9:30 trolley car. The inquest over the body of the wqq hoM this mnrninsr at uvwugvu If Mk7 VM.V 0 10 o'clock at the home of the dead man. There were two eyewitnesses, Messrs. Jordan and Arthurs. Messrs. George Wilson and Henry. Layton were the first persons to reach the body of Gregory, and Layton also testified. The evidence failed to coincide in several details. No Sip for Him. Gen. Carter, who went to Texas in command of the regulars sent South for the manoeuvres along the Mexican border, tells this story of an old Irish soldier: The march had been a long and tiresome one, and as the bivouac was being made for the night the captain noticed that Pat was looking very much fatigued. Thinking that a small drop of whiskey might do him good, the captain called Pat aside and said, "Pat, will you have a wee sip of whiskey?" Pat made no answer, but folded his | arms in a reverential manner and gazed upward. The captain repeated the question several times, but no answer from Pat, who stood silent and motionless, gazing devoutly into the sky. Finally the captain, taking him by the,shoulder and giving him a vigorous shake, said: "Pat, why don't you answer? I said, 'Pat, will you have a drink of whiskey?" After looking around in considerable astonishment Pat replied: "And is it yez, captain? Begorrah, and I thought it was an angel spakin' to me."?Cosmopolitan Magazine. a * ' t - . ' ' / ' /: ."r- v : > ^ ence to the officers of this hank R how much money a man has in our ?. .i i. * _ . - 'H %! Ma hank - we want his name on onr f hooks. His influenoe and friend- i^JsSl ship are often worth^eren more to I ?'#aa the hank than his money. I The strength of our institution; I and the standing of its offioers ' *' are such that we have no hesitancy in presenting our advantages to the largest or smallest depositor. 9 Our ways of satisfactorily serv- I ing you are many and we invite your I account. Yours very truly, I J FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK . 4 per ct. Paid Quarterly on Savings Accounts. Ehrhardt, 8? C., j: 11 STILL IN THE LEAD J J I j We have some mighty 1 JJ |} fine Horses and Mules 1 || j| on hand. See them, f | j | The prices are right p ^ |j BAMBERG, SOUTH CAROLInZ ^ % Two of our prominent citizens ijiet in deadly combat on our Sg ; J. SB streets this morning. Blood flowed and profane language wa? SB ' Ha freely scattered around for the rising generation to absorb. Thte Hjt8 disgraceful encounter would never have occurred but for a dis- m puted account. You don't have disputed accounts when you pay |R T by bank check. Deposit your money with us and pay all your Hr yj SS accounts by check and yon win keep au your dubiu?? mbauup*or'' h "v Kg your friends. 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