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r utlj? Hamburg Hj?ralii ( Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1912. One Dollar and a Half a Year. * =^======== COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS: 1 SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. r , News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. , Ehrhardt Etchings. t s Ehrhardt, April 8.?There was a wreck on the Charleston and Savan-1 ^ nah branch of the A. C. L. Railway at Yemassee last Sunday. The pas- ^ ? \ senger train was standing at the de- 7 pot and a freight ran into it?head- j end collision. Both engines were c turned over. No one killed, but ^ 1 some * were bruised and had thedr breakfast shaken up. The air brakes would not work was the cause. c Miss Banna Westbury died Satur- r day night and was buried at the Mc- j Millan family grave yard. She was president of the Sunbeam Society. v Miss Banna has been a patient suf- t ^ * * ferer for a long while, never com- j. * plaining of her lot while with us. She c is at rest now and we will miss her r % from our midst, and her numerous ^ friends join in with her family and s relatives in mourning her untimely t departure. Easter services at Ehrhardt Lu theran Sunday morning was well at- ^ tended and very impressive. The ^ communion service was the feature of the day. At night the Sundayschool tots sang and recited some appropriate songs and poems suited i to the occasion. The little ones c were talking to the public as mission- \ x aries, for those who need, telling l about these great festivals that they I migh enjoy with us in the near fu- t < ture. The appreciation of the con- j gregation was shown by the collection given them. c There is a young drummer on the i road that met one of our young ladies I and the firm had to run him off to- \ day so he would not lose his job. r The young lady must have told him j 4 some wonderful words of love. ( Farmers are working to get some- I thing done in their fields. Cotton t will be their aim again this year, c as the crop will be shortened by the t heavy rains and late start. 1 ^ J Denmark Doings. I Denmark, April 9.?On last Friday t evening the ladies gave a musical * for the benefit of the Baptist church 8 at the residence of Miss Don Ella 8 Rice. The house was beautifully 1 decorated in wisteria, ferns and potplants. Music was furnished by Misses Rosa Strait and Emma 1 Thompson; Miss Edna Steadman; 1 ' Misses Katherine Wilkinson and ^ Julia Goolsby; Miss Virginia Faust, * Mrs. S. G. Mayfield, and Mr. Thomas t t Wilkinson. The instrumental music 8 was interspersed with catchy songs, 1 by the vocal talent of our town. A very amusing selection was recited by Miss Bertriand Perritt, and an interesting piece read by Mr. J. Arthur Wiggins. During the course of the evening a sweet course was serv- * ed, and quite a neat little sum was 1 . \ realized. Miss Louise Zeigler spent the c week-end with friends in Orange burg. 1 Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Chitty, of Co- * lumbia, are the guests of Mrs. C. c W. Garris of this city. 1 * Boy Indicted for Murder. \ a Savannah, Ga., April 9.?Samuel Simms, a 10-year-old white boy, was indicted late to-day for the murder of Thomas Grinniff, an 11-year-old negro boy. Simms is said to be the youngest slayer ever taken into cus- * tody in Chatham county. He has just passed the age of an infant as it is held by the Georgia statutes. S Simms is alleged to have shot and t ?. killed Grinniff because the latter I kicked Simms's pet dog. t a The Bamberg Herald printed the ^ Underwood supplement that is being circulated so extensively in the weeklies; but as a matter of square deal- , ing with it readers told them that . the supplement went as paid adver- t tising. While the Enquirer does not t * care to send out prepared supple- c ments with its circulation, even for ^ pay, it has no criticism of other i newspapers doing so if they see j proper. What The Herald has done , in this case has the Enquirer's full ^ approval. Straight advertising is ^ legitimate; but a supplement like , C i this sent out without explanation, t k would seem to carry the editor's ap- l proval with it, and where a price t goes with it, the flavor of the trans- ^ action is not good.?Yorkville Enquirer. c See the new Ford models and t write or call on the Ford Sales Co., Bamberg, S. C., for catalogue and 1 / prices. Stock of cars on hand. ^ c WILSON ROBBED OF LETTERS. Thieves Steal Suit Case Filled with Private Correspondence. Chicago, April 7.?Thieves, apparently with political affiliations, broke nto the rooms of Gov. Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, at a downown hotel late to-day and stole a iuit case full of private correspond;nce and papers belonging to Gov. Wilson. The robbery occurred while Gov. Wilson was at the rectory of St. Vlary's church lunching with Rev. 3. J. O'Callahan and other priests >f the Paulist order. The theft was liscovered when Gov. Wilson return;d to his hotel. ' Just before departing for Syra lifip. N. Y.. to-nieht. Gov. Wilson nade the following statement regardng the robbery: "The robbery will greatly inconrenience me. But whoever obtained he papers and correspondence will )e greatly disappointed. While the :orrespondence is of a nature which lecessarily should be considered private, between the writers and myelf, there is nothing but what may >e published without doing me harm. "A great deal of the correspondmce deals with the campaign I am raging, as do the other documents rhich were stolen." "Letter from Clemson. Clemson College, S. C., April 2.? rhinking that some of the people >f Bamberg county would like to mow how the boys from that dear ittle county were doing, the writer las decided that this would be the >est way to reach most of the peo)le which were interested. We boys organized a Bamberg :ounty club in November and the club s composed of the following boys: ). B. Hill, president; C. S. Folk, Jr., rice president; W. F. Johnson, secetary and treasurer; F. B. Hutto, H. H. Crum, Hamtaond Crum, W. B. ^ook, B. F. Hill, G. F. McMillan, W. I. Rice. We had our picture put in he college annual and we can boast >f the fact that we have one of the >est looking bunch of boys in colege. We have three seniors this rear, these are: C. S. Folk, W. F. fohnson, and D. B. Hill. F. B. Huto, H. M. Crum, W. H. Rice, and J. F. McMillan are our Sophomores, ind Hammond Crum, W. B. Cook, md B. F. Hill are our "Rats" and freshmen. Our boys are standing well in {very phase of college life. We have nen on the athletic teams, officers in he military department, one in the ;lee club, and men in every course >ut one. Our president Hill has won he medals for being the best orator md declaimer in college; he will epresent Clemson at the State oraorical contest at Rock Hill this year. Je is also president of the Calhoun Jterarv Society and a member of he annual staff of 1912. We want .0 see at least ten more Bamberg :ounty boys up here next year for it s a great opportunity, and we beieve that every boy should try to take idvantage of it. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. D. Rowell paid is a short visit last week. ||Mr. lowell was attending the conference >f the county superintendents of edication. School will be out June 11, and ve boys will be ready to come home igain. With best wishes we are the BAMBERG COUNTY BOYS. ORPHAN LAD IN JAIL. 2ut to Death Negro who Kicked His Dog Around. Savannah, Ga., April 4.?Samuel Jimms, the 10-year-old boy who yeserday killed Thomas Griffin, a negro >oy about the same age, was commuted to jail by the recorder to-day to iwait an indictment for murder. The >oy appeared in court neatly dressed tnd smiling but unaccompanied by my relative. His mother and father me both dead. Col. Robert L. Goldng, a member of the local bar, volmteered to represent the lad before he recorder. The boy told his story imilingly and apparently unconcerned about his fate. He said the little legro boy kicked his dog and when le remonstrated with him, started it him with a knife. "I took the mife away from him and cut him," s Sam's simple explanation of the iffair. The coroner held an autopsy ;o-day and found that the dead boy -eceived a cut in each breast'and hat either wound would have proved "ntnl The State Democratic executive committee will meet in Columbia ;o-night, at which time arrangements will be made for calling the State convention. . ,.. IN THE PALMETTO STAT SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOU KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quic Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. N. B. Dial, a prominent lawye banker and business man of Lai rens, has announced that he will t a candidate for the United State Senate this year. W. B. Crawley, a plumber, age 45, was shot in the head and serioui ly wounded in Hartsville on Satunda by Will McKenzie in a fight ove some trivial matter. TT ^ - ? A II.aw -.An kn/ Jtl. li. JOUUSUU, UL Alheu, wat) uat ly hurt in an encounter with a bur/ lar in his house on Tuesday nigh He could not tell whether the burj lar was white or black. Capt. F. S. Evans, of Greenwooi who is well known in Bamberg, hi announced that he will be a cand date for congress up there to succee Wyatt Aiken, who will be a candidal for re-election. The State Teachers' Association to hold its annual meeting in Cha leston on Thursday, Friday, and Sa urday, April 25th, 26th, and 2711 A most interesting program has bee arranged, and there will no doubt t a large attendance of teachers fro] all over the State. A Greenville lawyer named Tillc Von Nunes was arrested in Charle ton on Saturday on the charge of ol taining money from a Greenvil bank under false pretenses?givir | a UlieCK uu <x uaun. m yvmi/u j. had no funds and saying he ha funds there. He was carried back 1 Greenville by an officer. Fred Ray, an employe of tt Charleston racing association, hi brought suit against the associatic and against Anna May Moore and h< husband, E: Moore, for $2,000 f< injuries received in being run ov< by a horse belonging to Mrs. Mooi on the track. Two fine horses b longing to the Moores have been a tached by the sheriff to await tl event of the suit. Woman Sentenced to Chair. Newport News, Va., April 9.?Vi ginia Christian, a young negro w< man, who has been on trial in tl Hampton circuit court for the pa two days on a charge of murderii: Mrs. Ida Virginia Belote, was th afternoon found guilty of murder i the first degree and her punishmei was fixed at death in the electr chair. Mrs. Belote, a widow wil eight children, was found murdere at her home in Hampton March 1 She had been beaten over the hea with a heavy earthenware cuspidc until unconscious, after which si was choked and a towel was crau med down her throat. A brooi handle, it was brought out at tt trial, was used to force the towel ii to the woman's mouth. Robbery ac revenge were ascribed as the motiv< for the crime. The dead woman pocket book, together with sever; bloody garments, were found at tl Christian girl's home, and the ev dence against her was conclusive. ' the sentence of the jury is carrie out, which is very probable, it wi be the first execution of a woman i this State since the inauguration < the electric chair as mode of inflic ing capital punishment. Blease Appoints Bank Examiner, Columbia, April 8.?Gov. Bleas to-day appointed Hugh Wilson Fr; ser, of Georgetown, bank examiner 1 succeed B. J. Rhame, against whoi he recently issued a proclamation < removal. Mr. Fraser has filed h oath and his bond of ? 15,000 wit the secretary of State, and has r< ceived his commission. Mr. Rhame has employed W. 1 Stevenson, of Cheraw, as his atto: ney, and he states that he will n( surrender the office until so ordere by the courts. A lively fight is e: pected to follow. Mr. Fraser stated to-day that I did not yet know what course he wi follow in securing the office, but t will consult with an attorney to I named by Gov. Blease. "Now, Johnny," said the teache after she had explained the meanic of the word, "I wish you would wril a sentence containing defeat." After a struggle which lasted f< about twenty minuted, Johnny ai nounced that he was ready to I heard. "Please read your composition, the teacher directed. "When you git shoes dat's tc tite," Johnny read, "it's hard on c feet."?Chicago Record-Herald. p MEASURE ORDERED REPORTED. Favorable Committee Action on S Byrnes Bill Affecting War Claims. Washington, April 8.?Representk ative James F. Byrnes, of the 2nd South Carolina district, who is a member of the committee on war clainm, has been authorized by that committee to report favorably to the r? house his bill reviving for two years 1_ after its passage the right of action >e under the Captured and Abandoned Property Act, and also a resolution introduced by him calling on the secid retary of the treasury to furnish a s- list of persons from whom property iy was taken under that act and the sr amount so taken from each individual. i- Under the act of 1863 property j- was taken and sold, and the pro t. ceeds, amounting to more than $20,000,000 were placed in the treasury, with a record of the names of those j from whom it had been taken. After the war a bill was passed giving i the claimants two years in which to ,d sue for property thus taken, and te $10,000,000 was recovered as a result. A little over $10,000,000 yet remains in the treasury. is If congress passed the bill introduc^d by Mr. Byrnes and approved by the committee, claimants would have two years in which to present ?n their claims for moneys due them )6 out of this fund, and should the reso111 lution with regard to the list of names be enacted, the process would ,u be simplified and expedited, because s" no claimant whose name is not on b' the list, or who cannot establish le*e gal heirship in connection with one IS of these names, can in any event reie cover by suit before the court of l<* claims. Up to this time congress has refused to pass any resolution requirie ing the secretary of the treasury to is make the list public, although the >n $10,000,000 held in the treasury 3r ever since the war on account of )r captured and abandoned property 2T does not belong to the government re and really ought to be distributed e- among its legal owners. It is not t- certain that the resolution will pass, ie but it has a better chance now than ' ever before. Capers a Candidate. r- ?? Spartanburg, April 19.?Capt. Jno. G. Capers, of Greenville, South Carolina member of the Republican nast tional committee, announced here to1ST ' . day that he would be a candidate for 18 congress against Joseph T. Johnson, ^ the present representative. In an interview at the Gresham ic hotel where he was conferring with ' Republicans from several counties ' of the Piedmont, Capt. Capers detwmi 1S 0tvo Mr. .Tnhn ^ tiai cu mat u^/ nvmu T v V L son a hot race. )r "There are 12,000 voters in the 16 fourth congressional district," said a Capt. Capers, "who have come here m from North Carolina and Tennessee 16 and are working in the mills. These men will vote for a Republican candidate if he is a clean, decent white * man. There has been no opportunity ? here to vote for a Republican of 11 good repute for 16 years. These men L6 . are naturally Republicans and would ~ vote the Republican ticket if there was a republican organization and ' Republican candidates of which they were not ashamed. As there has been ^ no respectable Republican party, these men have had to turn to the Democratic primary." Killed at Target Practice. se Charleston, April 9.?Cadet Louis 1- Dotterer, son of Dr. Louis Dotterer, :o was killed this afternoon at the rifle m range where the cadets of the Cita)f del have been in camp for ten days, is The young man was in the pit, serv h ing as a marker, and it is said that 2- he raised his head above the ground at the wrong time and received the bullet from a Krag-Jorgensen rifle. r- A hurry call was sent for Dr. Mul)t lally, the surgeon in attendance upon ;d the race track, but when he reached | i- the young man he was already dead. Death must have been instantaneous. le Dotterer was 18 years of age. He was 11 popular among his college mates and ie the accident is generally deplored. >e ? Abbeville Man Kills Himself. Abbeville, April 9.?John Y. Dar, vis, for many years an operative in ig the Abbeville Cotton Mills, and a ie leading political factor there, committed suicide yesterday at his home )r near Bordeaux in this county. Davis a- had only recently moved from the >e mill to the plantati. n of Major J. E. Jones and had started a farm. He had been drinking heavily for several days. Yesterday morning ne >o left home and went down on the le river. His body was found later in the day. ... ? WARRANT OUT FOR BEAC HE IS CHARGED WITH SLASHIN WIFE'S THROAT IN AIKEN. Damaging Evidence Claimed by D tective, Contradicting Statement of Mrs. Beach. Aiken, April 8.?Frederick < Beach, New York millionaire ai society leader, and one of Aiken prominent winter residents, is char ed with slashing his wife's throat this city several weeks ago, a wa rant being issued here to-day f< his arrest. This action revives interest in tl mysterious assault on Mrs. Beach c February 26, when it was general believed that her assailant was a n Evidence Against hseacn. Detective Baughn, of Atlanta, h been at work on the case just thr weeks, having begun an investigate shortly after a Pinkerton man, wl failed to throw any light on the mj tery, ceased his efforts. What E j tective Baughn considers a damagi: ; piece of evidence against Beach j the alleged finding of a gold plate diamond studded pocket knife 1 longing to the millionaire. It is al | stated that an examination of tl knife by a prominent chemist in tl State disclosed a quantity of hum: blood on one of the blades. In ad< tion there is offered as evidence t ! phony pearl earring, also cover i with blood, and the back com I which it is alleged, fell from Mi Beach's hair when she was stabbe Both of these and the pocketkni were found on the driveway on t opposite side of the house from t spot where Mrs. Beach said she w attacked, and directly adjoining t laundry house, between the Bea residence and the residence of J seph Harriman. Doubt Wife's Stqry. It was the latter physical fa< which first gave rise to doubt of Mi Beach's statement, though the a thorities kept their find a secret f some time, and not until to-day d it become known that the knife hi been found. Therefore, there w nothing to connect Mr. Beach wi the attack except comment based < surmise. The investigation has been prac cally completed by Detective Baugl and the results have been placed the hands of Solicitor R. L. Gunte Special Agent Baughn came Aiken on March 16, just after tl Pinkerton man had abandoned tl field. Evidently the investigate was carried on with the greatest pc sible dispatch and expediency, C tainly with a great deal of secrec for even now very few people a acquainted with the detective. Shortly after Mrs. Beach was a tacked, .and after a fruitless sean for her supposed negro assailant, r wards were offered for the apprehe sion of the criminal. The rewar were increased from time to time u til now there is outstanding a rewa: of $3,000 for the arrest and convi tion of a man "of medium heig and illiterate." 1 According to details made knov subsequent to the attack, Mrs. Bea< heard a noise in front of her res dence on the night she was wounde She went into the yard to invesl gate and was handed a note by a n gro, who seized her and slashed h throat with a sharp weapon, inflictii an ugly wound. The alleged neg: then disappeared. According to a statement attri uted to Mrs. Beach, the note hand< *Trrftrt ftiiywA/1 Kxr *4 AT orio " CO LU lici was sigucu u; .uui iv, to be a servant in the employ Mrs. Joseph Harrirnan. It is stated that Mrs. Beach fo merly was the wife of one of tl Havemeyers. The assault on Mrs. Beach ai subsequent charges against her hu band provide probably the greate sensation the city of Aiken ever kne gro. The warrant charges Beach wi assault and battery with intent kill, and was issued on the affidav of Special Detective M. S. Baugh supported by affidavits of several his witnesses. A deputy has gone to Columbia get requisition papers from Govern Blease on the governor of New Yor and will go on on to New York ci to-morrow to serve the warrant, i though it is stated that Beach has i ready sailed from that city f Europe, his departure, it is allege taking place two weeks before I schedule, as anounced a few hou before bis leaving AiKen ior r home in New York. In the event that Beach has sail for Europe, it is not known wh steps will be taken toward service the warrant. || MRS. GREEVER DROWNED. Friend Identifies Body Found in Poc tomao River Near Fort Hunt. Washington, April 6.?Mystery ?- surrounding the disappearance in this city on February 17 of Mrs. N. Roberta Greever, 44 years old, wife of the Rev. Walton H. Greever, of'CoD. lumbia, S. C., editor of the Lutheran id Church Visitor, was cleared up, when ,'s her body was washed ashore near the g- wharf at Fort Hunt, on the Virginia in side of the Potomac, about 12 miles r- from Washington, or The discovery put an end to a country-wide search which had been ie in progress for six weeks. The body m is in such a state that it cannot be ly identified, but the clothing and a e- plain wedding ring on the finger leave no doubt that it is that of the th missing woman. Miss Frances S. to Ryan, of 1301 Corcoran street, rit, Northwest, who knew Mrs. Gjeever n, well, went to the morgue last night, of soon after the arrival of the body on the police boat Vigilant, and comto pleted the identification. That Mrs. or Greever was on her way to Tazewell, k, Virginia, to see her three children, ty and was accidentally drowned, is the il- opinion of the police, which is shared il- by some of the relatives, or A report received last night from id, Fort Hunt seems to confirm this lis story. rs Mrs. Greever went away on Febiis ruary 17, about 5:40 p. m. That night. about 9 o'clock, John L. Austin, a ed member of Company 47, Coast Artilat lery Corps, stationed at Fort Hunt, of was doing sentinel duty, when he heard a woman scream twice. The cries seemed to come from the river, as He investigated but failed to find ee anything. Next morning he reported on the incident to Capt. R. T. McMillan, b.0 who ordered a squad of men. to rs- search tne reservation, including uie ?e- water front The men were unsucQg cessful in the hunt, but the date of is the occurrence was recorded, id, There was thick ice all along the le- shore and it is thought that Mrs. so Greever wandered down to the river lis and that she fell through, not far a lis from the shoie. The Mount Vernon an trolley cars pass Fort Hunt and it is ii- supposed that she hoarded one of he these cars and alighted at the fort, ed She might have passed the fortificaib, tions at night without being seen, rs. Dr. Greever was in Columbia at id. the time a telegram announced the fe finding of the body. He and his he friend, Mr. A. H. Kohn, left at once he for Washington, arriving there at 8 as o'clock Saturday morning. The bernoVmahanri atanria hie'h in Tjllth LH7 l^OTVU UUWM MM V? O ch eran church circles, being editor of o- the Lutheran Church Visitor. He served as pastor of several churches. Recently he returned from Savannah, :ts where he went to follow a clue which rs. he had learned of from detectives. He u- stated at the time that he felt his or visit would be without favorable reid suits, but that he wanted to feel he ad had left nothing undone that would as contribute to the efforts to locate his th missing wife. an Besides her husband, Mrs. Greever is survived by three children?Walti ton H. Greever, Jr., age 9; Marian, in aged 6, and Virginia, aged 3. Mrs. in Greever was 44 years of age and was ;r. the daughter of the late Rev. G. A. to Bruegel, a Lutheran minister. Mrs. tie Greever had been in bad health for tie several years. At the time of her an disappearance she was in Washing >s- ton under treatment for a distressing it- nervous disorder. She was shopping :y, was a nurse and somehow eluded this re attendant. L{-_ Beaches Arrive at London. London, April 9.?Frederick O. Beach, the Wall street broker against nwhom a warrant has been issued at ds Aiken, S. C., charging him with assault and battery with intent to kill his wife, has arrived in London with c. . Mrs. Camilla Beach, nt The Beaches who are staying at a prominent hotel in London, have not ^ left their apartment since they arrived here. 31" - " Beach aecnnea to De interviewed, * but he told the Associated Press over the telephone to-day that there was "nothing in the charges." er Later in the day, when a cable ig message saying that a warrant chargro ing him with assault and battery had . been sworn out at Aiken, S. C., was D, received here, it was sent up to sd Beach, but he returned it without making any comment and again refused to grant an interview. Nothing regarding the case against Beach has so far been received at the American embassy in London. id The Ford is the simplest and most s_ reliable car on the market. Write t the Ford Sales Co., Bamberg, S. C. for catalogue and prices. Stock of lW cars on hand.