Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"UNINSTRUCTED," SAYS TILLMA1 Gives Advice in Choosing Delegate from South Carolina. Washington, Feb. 23.?Senato Tillman to-day made the followin statement: "In view of the fact that I am ; member of the Democratic nationa committee and have been since 1892 and have attended every nationa convention except that at Denvei during the last 20 years, it may no be improper for me to express m views on the coming convention a Baltimore. "I believe the South Carolina del egation at the convention should g uninstructed, as far as candidates ar concerned; that has been the custor with our people so long that it is al Tiiio T.of- thp Stntp ponven JXLVOt U A u*vf uw v tion select good, representative me) and instruct them to look over th field and determine what candidat they will support, by ballot amom themselves, and the chairman cai announce the results. In this wa; the State will wield an influene which would be impossible if eac! delegate should vote his individua preference. "But I am mere concerned les the fight on local issues shall resul in embittering the situation in th< ? State more than it now is. Stati politics should not govern the selec tion of delegates and it would be un fortunate if the delegates to Balti more are elected to do any on< man's bidding; in other words, we d< not want a Blease delegation, a Jonei delegation or a Tillman delegation but a delegation alive to the best in terests of the Democratic party an< that only. We have, in my opinion the best chance to elect a Democrats president since the war. I never re garded Cleveland's administration ai Democratic and I do want to live lont< enough to see a Democratic presiden inaugurated. If we make no mis take in the nomination, we are bounc to win." Confesses Murder of Eight Infants TT^l. O 4 T'Vio, tv? i\6W IUI"K, rCU. ?.t. A uc uijotcij of eight deaths of babies in th< Brooklyn nursery and infants' hos pital was solved last night, the police say, by the confession of Winifred Ankers, a kitchen woman ai the hospital, admitting that sh? placed oxalic acid in the babies' milli bottles. The alleged confession was ? btained by a police detective after twc hours' detention of the woman whc had been under surveillance sine* autopsies developed the probability that the infants had been poisoned "Saturday night after the bottles had been prepared for the babies,' the police version of the confessior runs, "I put two or three drops ol oxalic acid in the bottles. I did 110I do it with intent to kill the babies but I wanted to get square with the nurses who were my enemies." The police believe the Anken woman is demented. Her story the\ regard as true, however, and it was officially stated that she wrould be arrested on charge of homicide tomorrow. It was considered advisable to leave her at the hospital tonight under guard. Winifred Ankers is 24 years old. She came to the hospital last Juh' with her infant, and, after placing the baby in the care of the hospital, found work in the kitchen. She had been regarded as a phlegmatic sort of character, but occasionally dis played her temper, complaining of the small pay and poor food she said she received. Suspicion was not directed toward her until four of the babies had died Sunday and Monday. With the death of a fifth baby an autopsy was performed and microscopic examination indicated the presence of oxalic i acid or some similar ifritant. When visited by the police officers the young woman was told it would be necessary to remove her baby to some other hospital and she thereupon made the alleged confession. % Two Famous One-Eyed Men. There have come out of Edgefield county, South Carolina, two brilliant one-eyed men?United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman and D A. Tompkins, the manufacturing - .genius of the Piedmont section. While Tillman has done his wort and fighting in the arena of politics Tompkins has connnea nis eneigie: to manufacturing and the commercia development of the South. As a young man Tompkins went tc Pennsylvania, and became a mechan ic. After a trip to Missouri he re turned to the South, and gradually worked up to his prestige of the pres ent day. He is now an eminent au thority on all matters affecting th< trade of the South, and has writtei many books on such subjects as goo< roads, chimneys, immigration, chil< labor, cooking, manufacturing an< cotton.?Popular Magazine. If you owe us anything, remembe that we need the money and expec prompt settlement. ST TUNNEL THROUGH SNOW. s Is Made to Rescue Passenger Train Buried Thirty-Six Hours. r A train carrying a theatrical comg pany and 40 other passengers which was stalled in the snow on the New a York Central, 10 miles east of Oswe.1 go, was released at noon after having !* been held 36 hours, says an Albany, il N. Y., special. Two big rotary snow *, plows had to tunnel through huge t drifts to effect the rescue. Never bey fore in railroad history in this State, t officials say, has a like condition existed. I- Water was kept in the locomotive o by shoveling snow into it. Food for e the marooned was obtained from a a hotel a mile away and the passengers I- were kept fairly comfortable during i- the long wait. a Two other passenger trains which e had been stalled for 24 hours at Red e Creek, near Oswego, were shoveled ? out last night. n A train load of hogs from Chicago y to Boston became stalled in a drift e west of Syracuse and many of the h hogs were frozen to death. Many rail,1 road men are reported ill as a result of exposure during the past few days. t ? ^ Negro Acquitted. e ? . - , WinnsDoro, JbeD. Z6.?me negru, B Will Suber, who killed a white man named Bouknight at Blair several months ago, was found not guilty at the recent court o? general sessions, " which adjourned last night after three 3 days of busy work. The testimony on B the part of the State and that of the ' defense showed conclusively that the " negro was shot in the back by his assailant before he pulled his pistol and ' gave the white man a mortal wound in the stomach. After hearing the " testimony in the case the presiding a judge, Ernest Gary, declared that he * could not conscientiously impose a sentence on the defendant if he was ~ convicted, and instructed the foreman of the jury to write out a verdict of not guilty. The Only Man. The farmer is the only man in the. ? world that can raise farm products at a loss and still stay in the business. The business man that does business at a loss soon goes to the wall; all ^ kinds of business must yield to a * nmfit nr picp prn into linnidation. I [ Here is an object lesson for the farmer if he will only take it; any product that the farmer raises, that does not } yield a profit should be abandoned. } Since something to eat is so high in 5 price, is a good time for the farmer 7 to raise plenty for home consumption, and some to spare: and then the cot 1 ton crop could be reduced without much effort upon the part of those 1 engaged in the business, and cotton ^ would then command a price com^ mensurate with its cost.?Texas Farm ' Co-operator. i ESCAPING PRISONER KILLED. 5 ? r Ira B. Hurt Victim of Constable's ; pistol in Columbia. Columbia, Feb. 24.?Ira B. Hurt, a white man, about 25 years old, was shot and mortally wounded shortly after noon to-day by Constable Robert 0. Thackam. Hurt . died in about three minutes after , the shooting. Hurt was being taken to the county jail by the constable, after having been convicted in Magistrate James H. Fowles's court during the morning. When the officer and > his man had proceeded westward on Hampton street as far as Lincoln, and in the immediate vicinity of the jail, Hurt suddenly darted away, exclaiming: "You'll have to shoot me. ' , Mr. Thackam stated that he called out , to the fleeing man, demanding that he halt, but when his words failed , to have the desired effect, he shot with the intention of frightening his . escaped prisoner, but the pistol was . thrown upward when the trigger was . pulled, and in this way Hurt receivs ed an unintentional wound that caus. ed his death. City Jailer Marion Kramer and County Jailer Shannon heard the report of the pistol and rushed toward the man, catching him before he fell, I and taking him to the jail, where he was placed on the floor in one of the > corridors. Hurt died as he was being brought up the jail steps. Mr. Thack> am gave himself up to Sheriff W. H. Coleman and was arrested. Bond will : be arranged for him at once, it is ? said. I I One Man Released. (Iroflnu-nnH "PVh 21. D. M. Tf WW, ? ) Cheeks who was arrested yesterday with another white man by the name of Stanley, who was supposed to be wanted for several crimes, has been released. The detective who it is said has been following Stanley, who was arrested at the Grendel mill, arrived here to-day. He visited the jail and upon questioning Stanley closely he weakened some. But the detective says that he is not the man wanted for the various crimes committed by the man he is searching for. He adit vised the officers to hold Stanley as he expects later developments. MOB AT ORANGEBURG JAIL. Fire Alarm Used to Disperse Crowd Seeking Girl's Assailant. Orangeburg, Feb. 23.?A little excitement was caused about 11:30 o'clock last night when the fire alarm was sent in from the county jail box, and those who responded were informed that the jailer had been accosted at the door of the jail by someone, whom he took to be a negro, who asked for the body of Ferdinand Brown, the negro who is charged with attempting an assault on a colored girl here on last Wednesday night. Jailer Bozard says there was somewhat of a crowd on the street in front of the prison and in the yard, and he feared a lynching, so he engaged the parties while his wife 'phoned to fire headquarters, near by, and asked that the alarm be sent in, which was done. When the big bell began to sound its notes of warning to the city, it is said that the mob, if, indeed, there was a mob, ' * J-'-I?j-J ? ^ ~ very quiCKiy aisuanueu ituu mcucu away. It had been reported the day before that Brown had been captured and was in jail, hence the apprehen- I sion of the authorities, but, as a matter of fact, Brown has not been apprehended, and is still at large. Taft Makes Charge of Falsehood. Washington, Feb. 24.?President Taft to-day denied emphatically that I in a speech in New York on Lincoln's [ birthday he said "That the people are. not fitted for self-government." In the first official statement of this kind that the White House has ever issued during the Taft administration the president calls the circulation of this story a "falsehood." The White House statement follows: "Among the falsehoods that are now being assiduously circulated by persons and papers opposed to the president is one that in his Lincoln day speech the president argued that 'the people are not fitted for self government.' President Taft said .nothing on that occasion which could possibly be tortured into any such construction. "The speech in which the president made reference to popular government was delivered at the banquet of the State Bar Association in New York on the night of January 20.What he then said on this subject ?and it was correctly quoted in the newspapers the following day?was this: "The popular government we all believe in. There are those of us who believe that all people are not fitted for popular government. The fact is we know they are not. Some of us do not dare say so but I do; and the question whether a people is fitted for popular government so as to make that government best for that people is de?er_nned by the ability of the. majority of that people to place upon itself the restraint by which the minority shall receive justice from the majority. It is the question of self-imposed restraint that determines whether a people is fit to govern itself." Changed His Plans. Harrisonburg, Va., Feb. 23.?Six months ago Levi Sager, of Mechanicsville, 86 years old, a gray-haired veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, became despondent and began to prepare for the end. He had his grave dug, his tombstone erected and his coffin made and put in his house, ready for use. He picked out the minister for his last sad rites and selected his pall bearers, and marked the funeral hymn tnai ne iovea Desu Early last Sunday morning the community was surprised when Mr. Sager and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Diana Sager, 60 years old, were married by Rev. W. C. Hoover, of Timberville. The bride was left a widow several years ago by the death of Mr. Sager's son. The bridegroom is an old warrior, with long, flowing white locks, and was the sprightliest person at the wedding. His marriage was a sensation and his friends declare that it will be many years before he will need the grave, the tombstone, the pallbearers and the beautiful hymn he selected. Six months ago, Mr. Sager drove ? -? 21 MATTT*vioT?lrAf on/1 m n SIX nines LU ncvviiiaiivci/ C4.U.V1 vauiv home with his coffin in full view on top of his usual load of purchases. The woman who changed Mr. Sager's plans is a dashing brunette of 60. Proposed After Thirty Years. Following a courtship of 30 years, during which time the bridegroom called on the bride twice a week, with the exception of one month, when he had typhoid fever, James B. Sturdevant at last "popped" the question to Miss Anna Earle, and they were married in Noblesville, Ind. The bridegroom is 43 and the bride 36. They have been lovers since they were in school together. Sturdevant is a farmer. \ CAPT. JENNINGS WON'T RUN. Chief Clerk Carter Candidate for State Treasurer. Columbia, Feb. 23.?Robert H. Jennings, for 12 years treasurer of the State of South Carolina, announced this afternoon that he would not seek re-election in the primary this year. Following the announcement by Capt. Jennings, S. T. Carter, who has been connected with the state treasurer's office for 14 years, announced that he would enter the race for the position. Mr. Carter has been chief clerk in the department for five years, having previously held the position of bookkeeper. He is well known throughout the State and has many friends, who will be interested in the announcement of his candidacy. "As State treasurer," said Capt. Jennings, "I was also ex-officio member of several commissions, particularly the sinking fund commission. My hearing is bad and in the meet- J ings, I frequently have to ask that statements be repeated. These conditions are embarrassing, not only to myself, but to the other members of the board. Mrs. Jennings has been ill for some time and her condition will not permit me to make an active campaign during the summer." "I will be a candidate for State treasurer," said Mr. Carter. Contributes to Conscience Fund. Columbia, Feb. 21.?An employe of the dispensary in 1900 stole one pint of rye whiskey, and to ease his troubled conscience, which hasn't let him rest since the deed was committed, he wrote a letter to Gov. Blease confessing his sin, and enclosed a $1 bill as a contribution to the "conscience fund" for the pint of liquor which he filched from the State. The governor returned the money to the man, telling him that he hoped his sin had been forgiven, and that he should put the dollar to some good purpose. The letter came from Greenville, the man being an employe of a cotton mill. Leaving out the name, trie letter is as ionows: "In the year 1900 I was employed by the State, working in the dispensary. While I was working there I stole one pint of rye whiskey. I was out in sin, but the dear Lord has forgiven me for it. I want to make it right with the State, and I feel like you are the one to confess it to. May the Lord bless you. I will send ypu $1 to pay for it. I am a poor man, working at the cotton mill for a living. I have a wife and five children. I am poor, but I am rich. I am willing to suffer anything on earth for my Saviour. May God's richest blessings fall upon you. Hoping to hear from you soon." The English Language. The Winston-Salem Journal quotes an exchange as saying: "A crowd of ships is -termed a fleet; a fleet of sheep is called a flock; a flock of girls is called a bevy; a bevy of wolves is called a pack; a pack of thieves is called a gang; a gang of angels is called a host: a host of porpoises is called a shoal; a shoal of buffaloes is called a herd; a herd of children is called a troop; a troop of partridges is called a covey; a covey of beauties is called a galaxy; a galaxy of ruffians is called a horde; a horde of rubbish is called a heap; a heap of oxen is called a drove; a drove of hoodlums is called a mob; a mob of whales is called a school; a school of worshippers is called a congregation; a congregation of engineers is called a corps; a corps of robbers is called a band; a band of bees is called a swarm; a swarm of people is called a crowd." All of which causes the Journal to remark that the English language is a tiling of beauty but not always a joy forever. Tennnessee "Drys" Appeal to Voters. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 21.?Calling on friends of prohibition to stand to-night and fight for a legislature that will take no backward step in liquor legislation but will make provision for efficient enforcement of the present laws, the Tennessee State executive committee on law anforcement, appointed at the Thanksgiving Day prohibition conference, issued an address to-day. The committee predicts that the opposition will set to music for the coming campaign the proposition of | "submission to the voters" as regards the liquor question until they get control of the government and election machinery, when the question will cease to be a live issue. The committee considers it more advisable that the prohibition question be set at rest by the election of the governor and legislature in November. Legislation urged by the committee includes making it unlawful to sell beverages containing more than onehalf of one per cent, alcohol; making city authorities responsible to the State government to intervene where officials fail to enforce the law. I TRIED TO TAKE HER LIFE. Chester Girl Attempted Suicide on a Main Street of the Town. Chester, Feb. 21.?Miss Rosa Lemon, a resident of the Eureka mill village, made a desperate but ineffectual effort to commit suicide on one of the main streets of this city. Troubled over domestic affairs and especially angered at her mother for chastisement, the 16-year-old girl hastened to a drug store and purchased 10 cents worth of laudanum. When about a block distance from the store, she unwrapped the bottle, extracted the stopper and took the drug. Policeman Caldwell, attracted by the peculiar manners of the girl, and detecting wnat sne naa done, nurriea her to Dr. W. R. Wallace's office. After two hours' strenuous work on the part of Dr. Wallace and the chief of police, Miss Lemon was granted a longer lease on life. WEST MEDICINE HI EARTH I?J A prominent citizen of Evansville, Ind.f writes:?"I was ill for five months with a pulmonary trouble, and had the best of doctors. I had hemorrhages and was in a very bad way. Through the advice of a friend I tried Vinol, and I feel that it saved iny life. It is all you recommend it to be. I believe it is the greatest medicine on earth. I have advised others to try Vinol, and they have had the same results." (Name furnished on request.) We want every one in this vicinity who is troubled with chronic- colds, couehs. or nulmonarv troubles, to come and get a bottle of Vinol. If It does not go to the seat of trouble, heal the inflammation and stop the cough, we will cheerfully return every cent paid us for it. This shows our faith, and proves that you take oo chances. Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. THAT VERY STYLISH CART or other carriage you saw on the road very likely came from here. We sell to people who first of all demand the best. Take a look at our carriage exhibit and you'll admit nothing could be handsomer and they are just as good as tney are gooa looking. . G. FRANK BAMBERG, Bamberg, S. C. HUNT'S CURE Guaranteed Cure For All SKIN DISEASE s A. B. RICHARDS MEDICINE CO. Sherman, Texas. Sold by:? PEOPLES DRUG CO., Bamberg, S. C. A Few Good Reasons Why You Should Deposit With The Ehrhardt Banking Company 1st. Because we are absolutely safe. 2nd. Because we are conservative. 3rd. Because we are constantly helping the farmer, and in helping the farmer we are building up the country in which we are located. 4th. Because a bank account with a strong bank stimulates credit, and helps you to help yourself. 5th. Because we are strong in the desire to make our bank of practical value to every man, woman or child x1L L 4-Uaim ft II Jilt litVUl'd It Hltii vucii atwuxii* We pay 4 per cent, interest on deposits in our savings department. Now that the cotton season is on, bring us your checks and drafts, and we will handle to your satisfaction. Ehrhardt Banking Company Capital and surplus $24,550.00. EHRHARDT, S. C. CHICHESTER S PILLS the DIAMOND BRAND. A Ladle* t Ask your Din*(1st for /A f, (( IfJvA Chl-ehea-tcr'fl Diamond Brand/#V\ Dills in Red tnd Gold metalUc\V/ boxes, sealed with Blue Ribbon. \/ TO 4^ Cm Take no other. Bay of your i'l - flf Drnnrist. Ask for CIII-CBeS-TER S I L Ig DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, for *6 If mi years known as Best, Safest, Always Reliable -r SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE Bearing Stalk Cutter, with a full supply of repairs, for sale by D. J. DELE BAMBERG, S. C. J This cutter has won the highest J prize at every Fair above all other 1 xj "WWT i ?x. xiiJ V cuners. we mviie a competitive m field test, and will pay expenses if our . a cutter is decided against. H DECIDE YOURSELF. fl The Opportunity Is Here, Backed by Bamberg Testimony. Don't take our word for it. Don't depend on a strangers state- S ment. Read Bamberg endorsement. Read the statements of Bamberg V citizens. ^ -1 .V* And decide for yourself. Here is ODe case of it: m Mrs. R. A. Delk, E. Church St., A Bamberg, S. C., says: "I can say that I have been greatly benefitted by S Doan's Kidney Pills which I pro- ^ cured from the People's Drug Co. I J took them for backache and pains in 4 my loins and they also removed trouble that had existed with my kidneys." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 % cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. " S? Remember the name?Doan's? and take no other. S. G. MAYFIELD. W. E. FREE! MAYFIELD & FREE ATTORNEYS AT LAW BAMBERG, S. C. I Practice in all the Courts, both ? State and Federal. Corporation practice and the winding up of estates a specialty. Business entrusttrusted to us will be promptly at tended to. DR. J. G. BOOZER DENTIST, ' j DENMARK. U Graduate Baltimore College of Den- . -:A tal Surgery, Class 1907. Member South Carolina Dental Association. . | Office Rooms 1-2 Citizens Exchange Bank Building. TT? n 4l) J O K a*tamt Jos iiuurSi vmx auu cwiy ut*^? H. M. GRAHAM % Attorney-at-Law Ak Will practice in the United States and < State Courts in any County . B in the State. V BAMBERG. S. C. gM J. F. Carter B. D. Carter CARTER & CARTER . Attorneys-a t-Law Bamberg, S. C. B Special attention given to set tlement of estates and investi- ^ gation of land titles. ^ G. MOYE DICKINSON 1 INSURANCE AGENT WILL WRITE ANYTHING ^ Fire, Tornado, Accident, Liability, Casualty, in the strongest and most reliable companies. 'Phone No. 10-B. Bamberg, S. C. JBMMm I "LOMBARD" ! improved Saw HtD&i | VARIABLE FRICTION FEED. nSftSSffin Best material and workmanship, lighlj running, requires little power; simpleJ easy to "^ndle. Are made in several , sizes and are good, substantial moneyj > i makingmachines down to the smallest* size. Write for catalog showing En-j gines, Boilers and all Saw Mill supplies* Lombard Iron Works & Supply Ca.^ ? AUGUSTA. OA. L - k -j FRANCIS F. CARROLL t Attorney-at-Law ^ j Office in Hoffman Building. GENERAL PRACTICE. ?? \ J. Aldrich Wyman E. H. Henderson Wyman & Henderson Attorneys-at-Law ^ BAMBERG, S. C. General Practice. Loans Negotiated ^B jH