The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 23, 1912, Page 4, Image 4
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Thursday, May 23, 1912. to
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The future of Bamberg is going to n
be just what the citizens of this town nc
make it. Some people who live here
need to realize this fact.
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Col. Leon M. Green no doubt is cl;
a very poor sort of detetcive, judg- se
ing from results, but there is no ve
mioctirm nhnnt his heine: an exDert in
high finance. He is certainly an artist
when it comes to making out an w<
expense account. *h
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"Common Sense," a weekly news- ag
paper published in Charleston, which th
is no doubt owned and controlled co
by Mayor Grace and is his personal pi
organ, came out in a long article last in
week stating that Grace was not a co
Blease man and would not support th
him. The paper said it was author- ca
ized by Grace to state that he was not be
a Blease man. To our mind it's a ar
case of rats deserting a sinking.ship, pr
Cli
Joe Sparks, writing in the Augusta ar
Chronicle from Columbia, says that
at one time Col. Ebbie J. Watson
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had a chance to become governor of
the State. Sparks has surely been
having a pipe dream. It is known
that Col. Ebbie is a very, very modest
gentleman, but we have never wj
imagined his friends thought of fore- tic
ing the job of governor on him. ae
Chance! Why he had about as much PC
chance as a snow bail in a warm w*{
climate. be
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Macon, Ga., May 21.?Oliver Simmons,
the negro who was to have 0E
been hanged to-day for the murder nc
of a woman, was found dead in his as
cell at daylight this morning, having ve
taken carbolic acid during the night. jn
His body was discovered by his wife ^
who was admitted to his cell to bid f0
him farewell. The negro had been ^
suffering with a sore leg and had ?e
been given a carbolic solution to
treat it. The presumption is that he
saved up a sufficient quantity of it,
and when he realized all hope was
pp
.gone he drank the fatal dose.
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STANDARD OIL PAYS FIXE. F(
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Oil Trust Enriches Missouri Treas- ^
- ury, Result of Prosecution.
Jefferson City, May 15.?The si'
Standard Oil Company paid a fine of w
$50,000 to the clerk of the supreme r0
court to-day as a result of being pros
ecuted as a trust. 1Jt
There is a motion pending before T1
the court asking that the company &]
be permitted to pay the fine, togeth- re
er with all costs of the prosecution, e(i
and that the order ousting it from c*
the State be withheld so long as it w;
obeys the laws.
The Republic Oil Company, which A
was also found guilty, is expected E
now to pay its fine. la
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She Poisoned Nine Babies?
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New York, May 20.?Charged with te
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poisoning nine babies by putting ox- ve
alic acid in their milk, Winifred in
Ankers, a nurse, was placed on trial
to-day before Supreme Court Justice tt
Scudder in Brooklyn. ec
The nine children died several
months ago in an infant's hospital in
Brooklyn, where the Ankers woman jj was
employed as nurse. The defendant
has a baby of her own. Her coun- m
sel claims that the nurse was made tc
the victim by one who did the poison- ti
ing and is being "railroaded to pris- c(
on." n(
You should see those handsome ^
water coolers at G. O. Simmons. Full m
line at reasonable prices. cl
ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR ALLEN.
lansman is Convicted of Murder in A
First Degree at Wytheville.
Wytheville, Va., May 17.?Guilty
: murder in the first degree was the 0
jrdict returned to-day by the jury tl
l the case against Floyd Allen for f
ie assassination of Commonwealth A
ttorney William M. Foster at Hills- 01
lie in March. This verdict carries si
sntence to electrocution in the ai
:ate penitentiary at Richmond, tt
Dunsel for the condemned clansman Si
e expected to strive for a new trial, v<
'liner fhov xcill nrnhahlv car- I df
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r an appeal to the appellate court in H
>pe of securing an order for retrial, cl
lien appeared composed when the tt
jrdict was read. tt
Had the trial terminated in an ac- st
littal or in a verdict less than that
' murder in the first degree, the re
osecution was prepared to make 3<
lien answer other indictments of m
urder. When the clansman shot tu
) the court, they killed the judge, ej
e sheriff and others. Two leaders st
the dangerous clan are still at ui
rge somewhere in the mountains, ki
e posses having failed to run them fe
earth. Hope of eventually cap- sc
ring both fugitives has not been
>andoned, however, though the hunt p<
is been permitted to peter out.
His Plea of Self Defense. ^
Floyd Allen was the cause of the ^
sassinations that stirred the entire
ttion. He was being sentenced in
e Hillsville court when the lawless
>ss broke, his friends undertaking ol
secure his freedorr. He took part ta
the shooting, though on the wit>ss
stand he claimed that he did ^
)t draw his revolver until he had
;en fired upon. For himself he ca
essed a plea of self-defense, but ge
is was not convincing. Because of
aims that a fair trial could not be jr
cured at Hillsville, a change of
inue was granted, the cases being
ansferred to Wytheville.
Attorneys for the commonwealth g
ere well satisfied, as they said, with
e outcome of the Allen case. They
It confident of getting a verdict
,rainst the clansman. They believe
at others who participated in the w
urt house assassinations will be
mished for their bloody lawlessness w
wiping out the entire fabric of the M
urt and in boldly defying the auority
of the law. Everyone of the ni
ses against accused clansmen will m
j prosecuted without abatement
id the commonwealth attorneys P1
oposed to destroy the dangerous t0
in of mountaineers, bringing about 01
i era of peace and quiet in the te
lis that has not obtained in years,
e Aliens having long been feared
their law-abiding neighbors.
Jury Returns Verdict. *
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When the court opened the jury fo
is called in and the foreman ques)ned
by Judge Staples. The jurors
iclared there were a number of ar
?ints of difference existing and it af
is doubtful whether a verdict could pr
t reached. Judge Staples declared
e case was of such magnitude that
i felt he must send the jury back CQ
th caution and advice.
The jurors again retired and- it was
tly a short time before they anmnced
they had agreed. Court resembled
and the foreman read the ca
rdict of "guilty as charged in the h?
dictment." Judge Staples held in
at was not the proper form. The di
reman then explained that the ver- m
ct was one of guilty in the first
gree, the penalty being electrocu- bi
>n. sp
Panic Caused at Hillsville. of
Floyd Aellen was charged specifilly
at this time with the murder of
>mmonwealth's Attorney William m
)ster, prosecutor in the Carroll
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unty court,, at Hillsville, last
arch, when the trial of Allen cul
cc
inated in the killing or nve persons
-Presiding Judge Thornton L. Mas- 01
Prosecutor Foster, Sheriff L. F. er
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ebb, Miss Elizabeth Ayres and Jur
Augustus Fowler. ,
The tragedy created a panic in the
;tle mountainside town of Hillsville. of
le inhabitants had always held the 1D
tlen clansmen in deadly horror. Ar- U1
sts of several of the Aliens follow- tl]
I the shooting, but five of the prinpals
escaped to the mountains. Reards
for their arrest resulted in tl]
ree of them being taken, but Sidna b(
lien, leader of the clan, and Wesley
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dwards, his nephew, still are at
fV
rge. The other prisoners, it was
:pected, will be tried at once.
Sentence was not pronounced on tc
lien to-day as he may be called to ^
stify in other cases. When the ^
jrdict was announced Allen relapsed ^
to despair.
Barely a handful of people heard qi
te verdict. Armed detectives search1
persons entering the court room, tr
Prisoner's Wife With Him. ai
The verdict was a distinct surprise, at
was thought the jury was hope- a
issly divided. One of the twelve
en is known to have said previous le
> being summoned for jury duty S
lat "you can't always get justice in a
>urts and maybe the Aliens were c<
ot far wrong." The common- b
ealth's attorney had made arrange- pi
tents to arrest him on a perjury ti
large should he bring about a die* n
SNATCHED FROM DEATH. m
rmenian Hero of Daring Rescue at |J
Niagara Falls. I
Niagara Falls, N. Y., May 19.?
ne of the most daring rescues in
le history of Niagara Falls wa3 aficted
to-day by Aran Kevokian, an
rmenian, of this city, who waded
it waist deep into the rapids, a
lort distance above the cataract,
id pulled to shore with a pike pole
le unconscious form of Henry J.
mith, 50 years old, of Buffalo. Keikian
was assisted by David Gorm
and Park Constable Thomas
arrington, who formed a human J
lain, anchoring the Armenian to %
te shore and enabling him to resist 1
ie current, which was especially
rong on account of the high water.
Smith was walking along the nar>w
path skirting the river, about
)0 feet above the falls, when he
issed his footing and fell into the i
irbulent stream. He soon became |i
:hausted in his efforts to reach the I
lore and was floating with his head |
ider water when caught by Kevo- ?
:an with his pike pole less than 100 II
iet above the brink. Smith was 11
?on restored to consciousness apirently
none the worse for his ex- ha
jrience. 11
RASHED THROUGH STEEL CAR. _
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roman Hurt When Terra Cotta
Block Falls 25 Stories. jj,
New York, May 17.?A solid block
! terra cotta coping fell from a
,ckle from the roof of a 25-story ^
)tel structure at Broadway and pe
1th street to-day, and crashed an
irough the roof of a passing street Qf
.r on Broadway. One woman pas- ar
nger was struck by a fragment of F(
ie block. She probably will die ha
om her injuries. wj
The foreman in charge of opera- ^
ans on the upper stories was arrest- he
I on a charge of criminal negli- he
mce.
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Poisoning Suspected.
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Manning, May 19.?An inquest th
as held by Coroner Baggett, on the av
)dy of Primus Williams, a negro mi
ho lived about three miles west of if
anning. He was taken sick sud- wi
mly- shortly after supper on the bl
ght of the 8th instant and died of
jxt morning before a physician saw al:
m. Upon the facts given him the cl<
lysician decided that death was due ne
i apoplexy, and the body was buried th
1 Friday, 10th instant. Soon af- bo
rwards relatives began to suspect fo
tat Primus had been poisoned by
is wife, Mary Williams. Family
:sses were recalled and alleged
ireats said to have been made by
e wife. Yesterday, upon representions
made, the coroner decided to
)ld an inquest to-day. The body w
as exhumed this morning and prep- an
ations made for an autopsy, but CQ
ter hearing the other testimony .
esented the jury found that death
as due to natural causes and no fur- gh
.er steps were taken to have the .
mtents of the stomach analyzed. '
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Atrocious Conditions in Mexico.
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Atlanta, May 20.?J. Frank Beck,
.pitalist and club man of this city,
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is received letters from a relative
Mexico telling of atrocious con- de
tions which prevail there in con- fr(
jction with the present war. of
The writer is engaged in extensive ar
isiness operations in Mexico and ^
leaks with authority. In the course
the communication he relates this ^
pical outrage:
"An American was employed as a
aster mechanic in a copper mine in
e State of Guerrero. Through some a
.relessness on his part, he failed to
wl
)t his American wife out of the
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>untry before communication was
it off by the Zapistas. For great- re
security he went to live with a
at
exican family, also employees of
sti
ie company.
"When Madero called away one
qf <
his generals who had kept order
. that locality by stringent meas- Al
es, pandemonium broke loose and
tr?]
Le entire State took up arms. Bants
attacked the copper mine, capired
it, entered the house where
Le American and his wife were,
)und all of them, some twenty-five P
oil
mdits violated the wife of the
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exican. ine Auientau numou
iey stripped, turning both into the sn
p c
reet naked. They made their way
> the coast, got help from a Pacific
ail steamer, and eventually arrived in
i Mexico City."
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?reement. OC
The commonwealth will next try ga
laude Allen, on an indictment chargig
the murder of Judge Massie. This ki
ial begins Monday. The defend- ar
it's attorney announced after court cil
ijourned that they would ask for P(
writ of error. m
The prisoner's wife sat beside Al- m
in when the verdict was brought in. in
he was dressed in black and wore er
large poke bonnet so her face tr
Juld not be seen. Allen seemed ar
righter this morning, evidently ex- ge
ecting a mistrial. He was the pic- ed
ire of despair when the verdict was th
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the very finest
to our custom
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IARGED WITH KILLING WIFE.
iisband Held, Although Greer Wo- .
man's Body Not Found.
Spartanburg, May 18.?On April
, Mary Ballinger, colored, disapared
from her home near Greer j
d has never been seen nor heard
since. To-day her husband was
rested charged with her murder. |
>r a month past the disappearance
.s mystified the people of Greer, i
10 have advanced many theories as
her whereabouts. A preliminary
aring was granted Jones Ballinger,
r husband, and he has been bound i
or to the sessions court.
From the evidence it was learned
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d.1 Uil Hll u^taoiuu pitvi i.v i,^v
e woman disappeared, she ran
ray. Ballinger is said to have
ade threats that he would kill her
she ran away again. Testimony
is also produced showing that
DOd stains were found on the floor
his house at Appalachie Mills, and
so that blood was seen on the bed
Dthing. It is also stated that the
gro burned up a quantity of someing
on the night of April 11. The
dy of the woman has never been
und, if she is dead.
LYNCHING AN ACCIDENT?
idow of Mob's Victim Brings Suit
Against Insurance % Company.
Baton Rouge, La., May 18.?
hether lynching is an accident is
l interesting question which the
urts here will be called upon to dele.
Cora Miles, wife of Frank
iles, who was hanged by a mob in
ireveport a few weeks ago for writ
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5 an lnsuiuiig uuic lu & nunc n?
in, filed suit to-day against a local
cident insurance company asking
r the payment of a $400 policy carid
by her husband.
In the petition the wife does not
y her husband was lynched, but
clares that he was found "hanging
Dm the limb of a tree in the rear
the baseball park with a rope tied
ound his neck."
IOTH LEGS CUT OFF BY CAR.
fed White Man Probably Fatally
Injured in Greenville.
Greenville, May 18.?J. J. Moore,
60-year-old white man, had both
fs cut oft' to-night by the motor car
lich operates between Greenville
d Ahderson. He is not expected to
cover.
Moore alighted from a street car
the point where the Pendleton
:eet line crosses the tracks of the
iinmhin and Greenville Railway. He
arted down the railway toward the
igusta street station and was run
iwn by the motor car on its nightly
ip to Anderson.
Big Profit on Small Lot.
Atlanta, May 18.?Col. Richard
iters, one of Atlanta's old pioneer
tizens, paid $1.25 in a real estate
ansaction before the war, for a
lall lot on the Northwest corner of
iachtree street and North avenue.
That piece of property, which origally
brought one dollar and a
tarter in the open market, was sold
sterday to an investor for $100,>0,
and he considered it a good bar,in
at that.
Mrs. Nellie Peters Black, well
lown society leader, club woman
id philanthropist worker of this
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ty, is me uciugntei ui. jlvivuuiv>
iters. She believes the deal above
entioned is perhaps the most rearkable
in the history of real estate
the United States. If any reads
of this paper know o'f a similar
ansaction that beat it, Mrs. Black
id Atlanta real estate people in
ineral would be very much interest[
to hear about it. It is certainly
e most remarkable deal Atlanta has
er known.
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Ice Cream, and it is ah
lers perfectly fresh and
is noted for its delicious
tvor, and this is due to tf
n the very best and pure
horoughly sterilized by
cream, thus making it a
ation.
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mil be benefit day at our
CAUGHT BY QUICKSAND.
Superhuman Efforts Taken to Save
Workman?Rescued by Fireman.
The New York World says more
than one hundred laborers were digging
the foundations for the new St.
Laurence Hospital Building at Nos.
455 and 457 West One Hundred and
Sixty-third street Saturday, when at
the noon hour it became a question
of who should start a hole with his
pick for one of the caissons.
Most of the laborers, foreigners,
had been told they would meet quicksands
if they dug deep enough, and
nnne nf them volunteered for the
caisson job.
"I'll do it," said Sam Meyer, a negro.
"I'll do it if you will give me
an afternoon off with pay."
The foreman accepted Meyer's offer
and the rhuscular black man.
started to dig the hole for the caisson.
He had gone down several feet,
when at 2:30 the foreman heard a
scream.
Meyer was sinking. Sand was sifting
in under him. The'foreman threw
him a rope and the negro made a
noose and placed it under his shoulders.
Then he laughed.
"No quicksand can break this
rope," he said. "Pull me out."
The laborers strained at the rope
until Meyer screamed in pain.
"You're pulling me to pieces," he
shrieked.
Two scaffoldings were placed on
either side of the hole, and across
them a ladder was fixed. The rope
was tied to the ladder to prevent
Meyer sinking further. Then scared
workmen ran from the foundation
pit and refused to return.
Police reserves came but the blue
coats did not know how to rescue
the imprisoned man. Men were lowered
on ropes, but as soon as they
dug sand away from the negro it
rolled back.
Meyer was holding his head high
and stretching his neck to keep his
nose-and mouth free when men from
Hook and Ladder Company No. 34
arrived. The firemen lowered their
ladders to the hole, but had to grab
them quickly to keep them from being
lost. The negro had been in the
sand for more than two hours when
James L. Quinn", a young fireman,
said: "I'll go after him."
A rope was placed about Quinn's
body and he was lowered. Fireman
Max J. Weinman and Joseph Milason
took places on the scaffoldings over
the hole.
For half an hour Quinn at the end
of the rope dug and dug. He burrowed
with both hands. Finally he
got hold of Meyer's right ankle.
About it he tied a second rope. The
noose slipped up to the thigh. The
workmen above pulled on that rope
and on the one under the negro's
arms.
Slowly Meyer was pulled from the
quicksand. He was landed on the
street after he had been in peril for
three hours. Meyer had muph difficulty
in breathing at first, bub finally
he got to his feet, looked about him
and grinned.
Killed by Fast Mall Train.
Florence, May 20.?Henry Powers,
a well known young farmer of the
Mars Bluff section, was killed by a
fast mail train on a crossing near
Mars Bluff station last night. It is
supposed that the young man was
dazed by the electric headlight, and
as there are two tracks on that section
of the road he got on the wrong
one to let the train go by.
The inquest was neia mis muming,
the railroad company haying
taken care of the body last night.
Suits from $10.00 up, all wool;
pants $2.00 up; rubber coats, for
rain or dust, $5.00 and up. Write
F. G. MERTINS, the clothier, Augusta,
Ga.
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TRIED TO STOP DOG FIGHT.
Florence Man Thrown Into Plate
Glass Window and Badly Cut.
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Florence, May 19.?City Health
Officer A. J. Hoole met with a very
unusual accident yesterday morning,
in which he came near being seriously
injured; as it was he was painfully
cut by. broken glass.
Two dogs were fighting on the
sidewalk near the corner of Evans
and Irby streets by the Masonic
Temple building. Hoole attempted
to separate them, and in doing so he
was thrown against one of the large
plate glass windows in the Farmers'
and Mechanics' Bank; the glass is
about a half inch thick. The glass
was smashed and pieces fell on him,
cutting him badly. He was able to
go to his home, however, before having
the wounds dressed.
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Lads Smother in Horse Feed.
Cincinnati, May 17.?The corpses
of two little boys discovered in the
great feed box of a horse stable here
to-day turned out to be the bodies
of Robert and Urban Nichols, the
tots who disappeared from their
homes on April 29. The boys' father
found their corpses. He had dipped
a shovel into the feed and when it
came in contact with a resisting
mass, he poked down further until
he came upon a little foot.
Startled, the elder Nichols tugged
at the foot till the body of a small
boy was yielded. - Sure that he had
found one of the missing sons, Nichols
worked until he found the corpse
of the other. V .
When the tots disappeared on
April 29 it was feared they had been
kidnapped by a band of Gypsies and
taken into the Michigan sugar beet
fields. No trace was found of them
in the North, however, and the search
was continued until it took in almost
every big city in the country.
It is believed the boys came to
their death while playing about the
big feed box. Evidently they fell in,
were overwhelmed in the mountain
of feed and then were suffocated.
Remarkable.
Senator Simmons was talking
about a boom.
"I congratulated him on his
boom," said the senator, laughing,
"and he appeared astonished that I
knew anything of it. But I told him
I had a keen sense for booms, even
for little ones. I explained that I
was like the Newbern urchin.
"A Newbern urchin used to call on
a certain old lady every Saturday afternoon,
and she would give him a
piece of cocoanut layer cake. But one
Saturday, as she expected company
for tea, she decided not to cut tne
cake, and, therefore, none was offered
tto the urchin.
"He said plaintively as the time
came for him to go:
" 'I believe I smell cocoanut layer
cake.'
"The old lady laughed, went to the
cupboard and cut him a very tiny
slice. When she gave it to him he
thanked her and said:
" 'But it seems strange that I could
smell such a little piece, doesn't it?' "
TWO-TON WHALE LASSOED.
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Caught Off Rockaway Beach.
New York, May 19.?A whale 20
feet long and weighing about two
tons was lassoed off Rockaway Beach,
L. I., near the Avenue Life-Saving
Station, to-day by John Ehrhart.
Notwithstanding the monster's
struggles the rope over the mammal's
tail held him captive after it
had been tied to ?. driven pile. As
the tide ebbed the whale gasped its
life away and all afternoon it lay as
an object of great curiosity to beach
strollers.
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