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J $ambrr$ Ifmilii \ Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29,1912. One Dollar and a Half a Year. ^ COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. | Ehrhardt Etchings. V Ehrhardt, Feb. 26.?It seems from W nnmVior nf -inrnrsi drawn from u UUi MVA V*. WA M w .. ? this section that the Bamberg officers think we Ehrhardt people are fond of courting. Want you to understand that it has not forgotten how to rain, and it is wet rain. All one has to do to find it out is to travel around some and occasionally take a bird hunt. Our school business is somewhat shut off for a time at least. Some want it on the old school grounds; others favor another place. There is no prettier grounds around town than the present site of two acres. Some claim it is not large enough; must intend to build a whopper. What1 l we want is for the division to come 1 m together and let the good work go i . on. I am with the majority. The lot was given by C. Ehrhardt in his life time to the trustees and their successors in office as long as the j school was maintained as a graded r aohnol or a school of higher order. I K This we think is good enough title t* for anyone. Conrad Ehrhardt wanted a school that would interest the patrons to work for the upbuilding and not a school of lower order. The Clemson lands were given with more restrictions and accepted than this, and morre public funds go to it than any other school in the State. Why t not ours? If nothing else will do get special legislation on same. It was a gift and we should appreciate the gift, as it is valuable property. Messrs. McKenzie Bros, will soon have their goods in their store. There is not a store or dwelling empty in t town?all occupied. s The dance on evening of thb 22d instant was enjoyed by all who attended. The oyster supper by the ladies aid society of the Lutheran church was fairly well attended on the 22d instant and about $36 was their clear earnings. | , What's wrong with the News and i PAnrior? This office onlv grets them r six days out of the week. Sunday's paper never or rarely ever reaches us until Monday. Can buy one, howl> ever, from the butcher on the train. ? Something wrong. Sleep too late or are careless about same. Our citi} ( zens kick every Sunday. JEE. Ehrhardt Jottings. Ehrhardt, Feb. 26.?Miss Maude Farrell, who his been attending Co| lumbia college, has been spending ^ some time with her sister, Mrs. j. > L. Copeland. " Miss Kathleen Kearse is spending I some time with her sister, Mrs. W. : Max Walker. Mrs. Thomas D. Jones, of Augusta, Hf is visiting her mother, Mrs. Esther V Sease. ^ Mr. Davis, of Statesboro, Ga., is B visiting friends in town. ^ Miss Julia Copeland is spending some time with Mrs. H. A. Hughes and Miss Banna Westbury, who continues right ill. The ladies of the Lutheran church had an oyster supper on last Thursday night which was well attended and proved quite a success. Mr. Martin Lightsey, of Fairfax, is visiting his father-in-law, Mr. David Copeland, who lives near town. ^ Mrs. Duckes's mother, of Charleston, is spending some with her. The Lutherans of town and community are having a nice garden spot cleared near their new parsonage. Mr. Ben Zeigler's horse ran away in town Saturday, throwing him out of the buggy. Fortunately no serious damage was done. I Denmark Doings. Denmark, Feb. 26.?On Friday evening quite a pleasant surprise party was given at the residence of * - Dr. J. G. Boozer. Those present were: Miss Katherine Wilkinson with Mr. James Fogle; Miss Josephine Faust with Mr. Boyce Steadman; Miss Lillian Gentry with Mr. [Walter Gillam; Miss Julia Goolsby with Mr. Thomas Wilkinson; Miss Louise Zeigler with Mr. Elmore Steadman; Miss Minnie Blount with Mr. John Tyler; Miss Hattie Sue Fogle with Mr. Henry Murry Ray; Miss Harrie Dell Free with Mr. Ira Garris; Mr. Gus Smith, Mr. Counts fyitto, and Mr. Tom McCrea. The evening was very much enjoyed by all present. rThe Sidney Lanier literary society of the Denmark high school held its TRAPPED BY TEETH PRINTS. Pittsburgh Burglar Identified by the Marks He left in Cheese. Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 26.?The world famous police of Paris have their Bertillion system; New York's "finest" have their finger-print system, but the police of Pittsburgh have gone all thief catchers one better by the successful use of their own "teeth-mark" system. By its means they have succeeded, they say, in fastening the guilt on a burglar whn fnr several weeks has been engaged in the gentle pastime of abstracting the silverware of the city's well-to-do residents. And it all comes from the fact that the burglar when he was ransacking a house a week ago "bit" the cheese and in biting it he left marks of a large irregular set of teeth. HAD $100,000 IN JEWELRY. Sporting Man, Arrested for Loitering, Carried a Fortune. "Ike" Gottlieb, a well-known Cincinnati sporting man, was arrested in Cincinnati on Tuesday on a charge of loitering. Gottlieb had been arretted several times and charged with running a han dbook; but he was always dismissed in court. Gottlieb claims that he is a diamond salesman, and when arrested Tuesday jewelry to the value of over $100,000 was found on his person. usual meeting on Friday afternoon at the society hall. Several humorous selections were rendered by members of the society. The current events of the past two weeks were read by Heyward Goza, "The Stuffed Owl" by Hattie Mae Sandifer, and a recitation by Shular Owens, entitled "The Tramp." A beautiful selection was played by Louise Zeigler. The debate was very interesting indeed, the query being "Resolved; That women are mentally inferior to '* A 1Vfo?lTr Ul^U* Alii A UiCll/1 VC. iuuui J vi Samuel Ray. Negative: Julia Goolsby, Lula Bess Wroton. The points on both sides were well selected and well developed, but after careful consideration on the part of the judges they decided in favor of the negative. On Sunday morning Miss Rowena Scheener occupied the pulpit of the Baptist church. She is a temperance lecturer from Missouri, but is making a tour of this State as a representative of the Y. W. C. A. Miss Scheener also lectured on Sunday night to quite a large audience at the Methodist church. Afifts Martha Rilev snent Sunday with friends in Barnwell. Miss Free, of Bamberg, spent some time last week with relatives here. Miss Hughlene Ray, of Blackville, is the guest of Mrs. M. J. LaFitte, of this place. Misses Esther Polair and Margaret Thorpe spent the week-end with their parents in Aiken. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, Feb. 26.?The Methodists gave a festival Thursday evening. The ladies arranged things in Harter's hall very attractively, and a nice sum was realized for their church. Among some of the visitors that night were Mr. and Mrs. Gibbes, of Columbia, guests of the Talleys. Mr. T. L. Gwyn, of Springdale, N. C., was the guest of G. D. Sanders for two days this week. The many friends of Miss Mary Un n/\n mrmnofhioa with VlPl* xiaiiiauu 3juij/avui<i& uiuvu ..vU ? ? in the sad news received from Johnston that her home there had been consumed by fire during the recent gale. Mts. W. E. Harter and children are visiting her mother at Hickory Grove. Mr. and Mrs. G. S. O'Neal, Jr., are j visiting their parents here, and will visit at Estill and elsewhere before returning to Jacksonville. Mr. Ruby Williams's family have hioved into town. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder, recently of Brunson, have moved into the Jarrell house. Miss Viola Grey, of Gifford, was a recent guest of Mrs. John Harter. Mrs. Luther Barber is visiting Mrs. Geneva Barber. Mrs. Jas. Middleton, of Scotia, after spending some time with her sister, Mrs. Benjamin Loadholt, has returned home, improved in health. Mr. John Preacher, of Jacksonville, is spending some time with Mrs. Mary Wilson, recuperating from his railroad accident. Miss Mary Harrison will give a recital (with her pupils) at the school hall on evening of the 8th. Miss Parish, late of the N. Y. Conservatory of Music, will render some lovely selections. i IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The steamer Brighton, which arrived in Charleston on Monday from Jamaica, brought 10,000 bunches of bananas. W. B. Keenan, a Cherokee farmer, had the misfortune to lose two mules Saturday morning. They were killed by a live wire, which had fallen to the eround. In examining: the mules, he was considerably shocked. C. H. Cobia, of Edgefield, who was shot Saturday by W. M. Rearden, was carried to Augusta for an operation, but his condition was such that the operation was not attempted. He died Monday, and his body was carried back to Edgefield. John Crump, foreman in the Hamer cotton mills in Dillon, shot and killed William Johnson, an operative, on Saturday. The trouble, it is said, arose because the foreman changed Johnson's wife from one kind of work to another, which Johnson did not like. As the office of commissioner of 1 A 1 1 ^ agriculture uas ueu iiiciue elective by the people, Col. E. J. Watson, the present incumbent, has announced that he will be a candidate for the place in the primary this summer. And we are not charging him a cent for this announcement. The two men arrested a few days ago'with so much "eclat" by Greenwood policemen turned out to be innocent mill operatives, and not desperate thugs and yeggs as supposed. The policemen evidently tried to get ahead of the detectives, for the reward they thought they saw in it, and blundered/ The protest filed against the vote in the recent election whereby Augusta rejected the commission form of government was dismissed by the election authorities and the count stands against the commission form of government by a small majority. Two Georgia cities: Atlanta and Augusta, have during the past year tried to get commission government and both have failed. DANCED HERSELF TO DEATH. Girl Unwilling to Quit, Even When the Ball was Ended Passaic, N. J., Feb. 25.?"Please play a few more dances," pleaded Catherine Jarchone, 18 years old, to the leader of the orchestra, at a dance on the East Side early this morning. "The ball has passed too auicklv. I hardly know I've been dancing at all." Miss Jarchone had danced the 20 or more dances on the regular program, but seemed as fresh as when she started. The musicians would not accede to her request. The young woman went to her home and asked her mother to allow her to sleep until noon. Mrs. Jarchone went to the girl's room at noon and called her, but there was no response.. She was dead. ? A physician said the young woman's heart had been affected by ex cessive dancing. Electric Cars at Rock Hill. Rock Hill, Feb. 25.?The Carolina Traction Company yesterday ran its storage battery electric cars on the streets of this city. The second %ar arrived Friday morning and was unloaded at once and put on the line. In the afternoon from 4 to 7 o'clock the cars gave the children a free ride and several hundreds of them had a great time. Saturday morning at 6:30 o'clock the company began the regular operation of cars for business and are running back and forth from the car barn above Winthrop College to the eastern end of the line, near the Highland Park Cotton Mill, a I distance of about three miles. No regular schedule will be print I ed until the cars and track have been f tested for a few days, but the time between cars now is a little more than twenty minutes, and they will run continuously from 6:30 a.m. to 9 p. m. Landlady Murdered by Irate Hoarder. Camden, N. J., Feb. 26.?.Mrs. Georgianna Gillenen, aged 51 years, was killed with an axe in the dining " ' ? ' A ^ room or ner nume neie yrsiciua.y. William Gradwell, aged 39 years, a boarder, has been arrested charged with being her assailant. Gradwell, according to the theory of the police, struck the woman with an axe because she remonstrated with him for coming home late. j WHITE SLAVERS SENTENCED, j To I)o Time in .Atlanta, Home of Their Alleged Victim. Tampa, Fla., Feb. 24.?Louis Athans^w and Michael Sampson, ( convicted under the Federal white slave law, were sentenced to two and a half years, and fifteen months, respectively, in the Federal court here to-day. They will be sent to the Federal prison at Atlanta to serve their terms. The men were convicted on the testimony of a young woman who was booked for their place of business .through an agency at Atlanta. She .had expected a place in a motion picture theatre, but found that she was expected to work in a dance hall and complained to the police, resulting in tne arrests. Largest Horse in the World. New York, Feb. 26.?What is declared to be the world's largest horse is now owned by the Mack Brothers Truck Company, and they challenge the equine universe to produce his equal. No other horse could be found that did not object to being made an object of ridicule by comparison with "Jumbo," so the big fellow works in shafts by his lonesome. "Jumbo" is a Clydesdale, and is twenty and a half hands in height, or six feet and ten inches from hoof to shoulder. His weight is 2,430 pounds. He is five years old and has spent most of his life at Tappan, N. Y.,! but it was not until he was brought to the metropolis a short time ago that he acquired the fame and. publicity that are his by right. liis? stable mate is a two-year-old pony that stands seventeen inches in height, and the illy-assorted pair are great friends. Because of his will ingness to pull heavy loads, alone and unaided, "Jumbo" gets a bushel of grain a day in addition to a liberal amount of hay. He is exceedingly gentle and his owners say he is the equal in pulling capacity of any other two horses in their stables. UNSEEN HAND KILLS. 'Farmer Murdered After Shooting His Stepdaughter. Swift and sure vengeance awaited John J. Rickels, 54 years of age, after he shot and killed his 14-yearold stepdaughter, because she had refused his importunities. Both were found in a slough on the Rickels's farm, the girl with a bullet wound on the top of the head and the farmer with a wound on the top'of his head, indicating he had been struck with a sledge, or some other blunt instrument. No clew was left to indicate the identity of the slayer of the dead man. The tragedy occurred | within eight miles of Topeka, Kan., I and has aroused great interest throughout the State. Tybee in Danger Declares Engineer. Savannah, Ga., Feb. 26.?Colonel Dan C. Kingman, United States engineer for the Savannah district, has recommended that an off shore breakwater be constructed around the northern end of Tybee Island. The present breakwater is inadequate and it is not strong enough to withstand the attacks of heavy seas. It is gradually being destroyed and Colonel Kingman considers it necessary that a new breakwater be built in the near future. Even now during stormy weather the sea rushes over the breakwater, floods the parade ground at Fort Screven. Col onel Kingman says tne normern enu of the island is now in danger, because the breakwater is small and weakly constructed. In his recommendations Colonel Kingman has sounded a note of warning, declaring it would not sur- prise him for the sea to come in so far as to damage the defenses. Refused to Play for Drunken Boys. Savannah, Ga., Feb. 26.?Buster Eason, Elijah and John Poole, Lonnie Ealter and Frank Mason have been jointly indicted by the Toombs county grand jury charged with responsibility for the death of Miss Maggie Newsome, a young school teacher at English Eddy, who was killed, it is alleged, because she refused to return to the school house and make music for the young men, who were intoxicated. The accused are said to have followed the young woman when she left the school house, and upon her refusal- to return at their demand and make music for them, they attacked her, leaving her so badly injured in the road that her death resulted. NEfiRO ATTEMPTS ASSAULT ENTERED HOUSE OF PROMINENT ANDERSON COUNTY FARMER. Crowds Formed in Anderson Streets but Jail was Barricaded and Officers Reinforced. Anderson, Feb. 27.?Wm Reed, a negro 24 years of age, was to-day lodged in the county jail on the charge of attempting to criminally assault the wife of a prominent farmer at her home at Dean's station, six miles from Anderson, about 10 o'clock last night. The alleged attempt was made while the husband was absent from home, having been called away to sit up with a sick friend. Reed admits he is the negro wanted, but declares that he had no other intention than to rob the house. The first knowledge the woman had of the presence of the negro in her room was when she felt his hands touch her. She screamed, and n ? il 1_ it - tne negro maae exit tnrougn tne window he had forced open in entering. The woman gave an alarm and within a few minutes a great crowd had collected, and consider able excitement prevailed. The First Arrest. Sheriff King an? Deputy Martin arrived on the scene about midnight and after a hasty investigation a negro named Alston Armstrong was arrested on suspicion. He was brought to the jail by Sheriff King, Deputy Martin remaining to make a further investigation. The woman could not positively identify Armstrong as being the right negro because her room was dark and she aid not see nis iace. Deputy Martin and several men who had gathered, found some tracks leading from the window. These tracks led through a newly ploughed field, around a hedge and across a meadow to a cabin. In this cabin the negro, Reed, was found. On being arrested Reed disclaimed any knowledge of the incident, claiming that he had not left his cabin since nightfall. Officers started with him to the jail here, and on his way he admitted that he was the man in the house. Many Men/Gathered. Fully 300 men gathered to-night on the streets adjacent to the county jail where the negro is held. Authentic information was received here by officers that a crowd was mobilizing at Gluck mills, four miles away on the car line, with purpose of coming here to demand that the negro be turned over to them. Sheriff King called in eight or ten deputies, and the jail was heavily barricaded. The officers will refuse to give up the negro, they declare, and an attack on the jail is very probable. The wife of the sheriff is extremely ill in the jail and this will he used as an argument to hold the men back. Two well known men living near where the attempted assault occurred appeared at the jail shortly after 10 o'clock to ascertain whether the negro was in the jail or whether he had been spirited away. Their knocks at the jail door were not answered, but by outsiders they were informed that the negro is still in the jail. As soon as they learned this fact, they departed in an automobile. Where they went no one knows. A Word to the Giris. Although housekeeping and homemaking are the most important of all things, yet they are sought after the very least. Girls get married who do not know how to make a loaf of bread or boil a potato, expecting somehow that these things will take care of themselves, and they can live happy with a man in his ignorance, knowing too that the heart and stomach of man are so friendly that they cannot be separated. Ignorance cannot be made bliss in housekeeping, and there is no surer way to lose the respect of a husband than to spoil his dinner. He cannot thrive long on purely a love diet. Students on Strike. Fort Smith, Ark., Feb. 27.?In fulfillment of their threat to quit the institution unless 36 of their comrades, suspended yesterday, were reinstated more than 300 students of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville went on strike to-day. Yesterday suspension followed the appearance of the initial number of a weekly publication which scored the college faculty and charged that special favors were shown the more wealthy students. The students suspended were charged with responsibility for the publication. RAILROAD'S PETITION GRANTED South Carolina Lines Affected by Order of I. C. C. Washington, Feb. 26.?An order has been issued by the Inter-State commerce commission granting the petition of the Seaboard Air Line, Union and Glenn Springs, Columbia, Newberry and Laurens, Charleston and Western Carolina, Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohioj Raleigh and Charleston and other railroads for authority to establish class and commodity rates between Augusta and Savannah, Ga., and points in South Carolina; Wilmington and Charlotte, N. C., and points in South Carolina, on Inter-State commerce traffic higher than rates concurrently in effect from and between more distant v / points. ^ It has long been1 the custom to make rates between Savannah and South Carolina points, and Wilmington and South* Carolina points the t ? v.i? same its ueiweeu ^uaucaiuu auu , South Carolina points. In cases where the rate has not been exactly the same there has been maintained a certain relation as between these three ports and South Carolina points. The South Carolina railroad commission recently adopted a new schedule of Intra-State rates, the majority of them being reductions. Petitioners' rails do not reach Char- " leston and in some cases they have to carry freight rates* outside of the State of South Carolina to reach 1 points of destination within the State. They desire to participate in . - ; rates from and to Charleston and the commerce commission acknowledges 1 the force of their argument. * Police Unable to Check Robberies. New York, Feb. 26.?The continu- '. -} ation of the epidemic of robberies and holdups in this city was ac- \ companied by reports to-day that Deputy Police Commissioner Dougherty's detectives had closed a net around the perpetrators of the sen . (dM sational $25,000 robbery and that i v arrests would be made in 48 hours. The five men who held up the taxicab, occupied by two bank messengers, in the heart of the financial district, have now been at large tea days. . .. 1 Two additional holdups to the long list occurred to-day whose victims were* both blackjacked. William C.t Burke, a piano tuner, was set upon by three men in the Bronx early thie morning, knocked unconscious and robbed of $15. James Powers, whilepassing though a small East Side park, met a similar fate from a lonehighwayman, who however, was frightened away before he secured. _ Bowers's money. In seeking clues to the identity of the robbers who yesterday killed Walter Meseritz in his Brooklyn haberdashery store and rifled his cash drawer, the police to-night detained Joseph Cassidy, who, they said, admits pawning two safety razors, identified as part of the loot taken. No formal charge, however, was made against the man, a friend of whom is being sought. Late to-night the police arrested in Mosprit.7 nasp Prank Redmond, a former United States soldier, and charged both him and Cassidy with murder and burglary. According to v the police Cassidy accused Redmond also of pawning articles taken from the haberdashery shop but this Redmond, whose brother is a well to do lawyer, and with whom he lives in a comfortable home in South Brooklyn, ? , stoutly denies. Shoots Three Men in Court. Reidsville, Ga., Feb. 27.?In a mad rush to escape from mayor's court * * - ? i?! -1 .1. > J room, wnere ne was ou inai cuaigcu with selling liquor, W. M. Wiggins, a white man, to-night shot* and wounded three men before he was overpowered. He fired but twice, one bullet from his pistol passing through R. J. Roger's cheek and striking S. M. McCall and glancing from his temple. The second, bullet buried itself in the arm of Lon * v Moody. Wigigns was arraigned at once on the charge of assault with intent to murder and was ordered held under bond ef $5,500, which he failed to give. "They started in a purely platonic way to read Lucile together." "Well?" "Now they are interested in a book * that tells how to build a $1,000 house."?Kansas City Journal. And the next book they will be interested in is a catalogue of baby carriages. . When contemplating private water works investigate the FairbanksMorse Eclipse Pumping outfit. WM. H. PATRICK, Gas Engine Expert