The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 23, 1912, Page 4, Image 4

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tity? Hamburg tfrralh j ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KNIGHT, Editor. ol Published every Thursday in The v( Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bam- . berg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mer- A genthaler linotype machine, Babcock vi /. .rUnfioT nroco fnlHor nnp iohber. a \,jr auu^i fL , , fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by electric power with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole C< equipment representing an invest- ai ment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $150; six months, 75 cents; three months, r> 50 cents. All subscriptions payable h( strictly in advance. A Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by qi law. Local reading notices 10 cents 0f a line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under special pi head, 1 cent a word each insertion. A Liberal contracts made for three, six, m and twelve months. Write for rates. UT Obituaries, tributes of respect, reso- * lutions, cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political char- of - ? -1 j acier are cnargeu iui us icguiai au.- ia vertising. Contracts for advertising ^ not subject to cancellation after first insertion. t0 Communications?We are always tu glad to publish news letters or those a? pertaining to matters of public inter- , est. We require the name and ad- e dress of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are as not responsible for the opinions ex- n? pressed in any communication. =========== ne Thursday, May 23, 1912. to ? in 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. ^ th 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 fe "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 th 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 th \TAm?/\ Pertain PallAll'C Vl C. *1 u Vlicaio VMMXAVT IT <; wi 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. Cc STANDARD OIL PAYS FIXE. F( CO 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 -w- es She Poisoned Nine Babies? A New York, May 20.?Charged with te | 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 .IXIllg Tt ii.1V/U VUVJ II 44* W _ 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. * tb 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 C 3 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 AT 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 M 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. _ pi 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. ov Poisoning Suspected. th 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. ' m; on Atrocious Conditions in Mexico. fo: Atlanta, May 20.?J. Frank Beck, .pitalist and club man of this city, ? x CO 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 3.13 >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 *" * * mnmon t1"" 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." ? ye ?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 *ad. e\ DI3 SnanHBHsI EH^^MBI Ice Cr< We have exha the very finest to our custom Our Ice Cream its exquisite fla is produced f roi of our milk is t making it into from contamin Peopl es (T Wednesday, May 15,1 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 - *- ? :^+/ ? tVio timo I 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 1 ? ? TfrV^ifrt nrA_ 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 J ~t. ?.... ~ f "D i r, Vi o ri 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. IOE=aE3E earn is I .listed every known reso 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. Drug C< HE REXALL STOR1 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. * =g leady 0 urce to obtain I vays delivered solidly frozen, creamy taste, le fact that it i it cream. All C1 boiling before bsolutely free 4 Dmpany 3) fount for the U. D. C. ! TRIED TO STOP DOG FIGHT. Florence Man Thrown Into Plate Glass Window and Badly Cut. 1 I 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. ' ' A 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. Tr"WonctoF Tw^ntv Fflftt Tirtng. \J a IV/l iTAVUOWAf ? w. 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. --