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. " ' : - v " 'iz&SSSn ':Sj? 0k iamkrg ferali J One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 27,1912. Established 1891. Jj COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. I News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, June 24.?On the 4th of July, 1912, there will be at tne res1dence of Mr. JuliuB A. McMillan's in the grove, a basket picnic. All are invited to attend, bringing well filled baskets, and enjoy the day together. Rev. D. B. Groeeclose says that he will preach for the Lutherans of Bam* ' berg, provided they wish him to do so, and procure a church and name 1 the Sunday suitable to them. ! A much needed rain fell Sunday < afternoon. I understand that Mr. J. R. Smith \ and wife intend to return to Charleston, their home, this week. We will ' miss them from our midst, and especially from our Sunday-school. They , are active workers in Sunday-school and church work. We regret as a town to see them go and our best wishes go with them. Ehrhardt and Walterboro crossed f bats on last Friday, resulting 12 to 4 ; in favor of the Ehrhardt team. JEE. Ehrhardt News. Ehrhardt, June 24.?Children's day exercises were observed at the Methodist church Sunday evening last. ? Quite a creditable program of recitations, music and songs was presented 1 under the direction of Mesdames W. B. Moore and J. R. Smith. The church building was artistically decorated ' with palms and pot plants. Dr. J. H. Hucks, our popular dent- : ist and, Miss Chloe Groseclose, the ac- 1 complished daughter of Rev. and Mrs. D. B. Groseclose, were married at the 1 Baptist parsonage by Rev. E. A. McDowell, last Tuesday evening. Their 1 many friends extend heartiest con- ?' gratulations. x Mesdames J. M. and J. S. Dannelly i and children are spending some time : at Beaufort. ' Mrs. W. P. Pate left Monday for a pleasure trip to Washington, D. C. ' Mrs. E. A. McDowell and Mr. Robt. McDowell are spending a few days at < the Isle of Palms. The annual Sunday-school picnic at St. John's Baptist church last Thursday was largely attended and much enjoyed. The feature of the occasion was a most excellent address by Dr. Geo. E. Davis, of Orangeburg. An abundant dinner and lots of iced lemonade contributed greatly to the comfort and good spirits of the day. The presence of Rev. E. W. Peeples, for thirty years pastor of St. John's church,'was a delight to his many old friends. Railway Wins Suit. In the court of common pleas today the jury in the case of R. E. Mason versus the Atlanta & Char- i lotte Air Line railway returned a verdict for the defendant company. This case was begun late yesterday afternoon and completed this morning. Mr. Mason sued the railway company for $10,000 damages because he was put off a train and placed under arrest. Mr. Mason boarded the train at Westminster to go to Charlotte, having procured a ticket in exchange for mileage at the former station. When the ticket collector came oeirprt ATr Mason to show tiilUUgU UV wv*. vv his mileage book on which the ticket had been procured. This the plain tiff refused to do and when the train reached Greenville he was put off and placed under arrest.?Greenville Piedmont. THROAT SLASHED BY WIFE. Anderson Man Rudely Awakened from Slumbers?May Recover. Anderson, June 24.?About 3 o'clock this morning Jim Patterson, a white man employed at a local livery stable, was awakened from his slumbers by his wife slashing his throat with a razor. The woman then ran out of the house and came back only after a doctor had been summoned uuu auuuueu t.u uci Husband's wounds. She later departed on an out-going train. The man and woman had been quarrelling and their relations were strained. Yesterday they fell out and Patterson got drunk, according to his own admission, and it seems that during the night the woman got the razor and slipped up quietly to the bedside and cut him from ear to ear. Patterson might recover. 5 or 6 doses 666 will break any case of Chills and Fever; it acts on the* liver better than Calomel, and does not gripe or sicken. 25c. GROOM-ELECT CRITICALLY ILL. Postponement of Sniyser-Saunders Wedding Announced. ! Florence, June 24.?The wedding of Miss Janie Sue Saunders, of this city, and Dr. John D. Smyser, of Baltimore, which was to be celebrated here Thursday of this week, has been postponed. A telegram from Capt. John D. Smyser, of Baltimore, to Mr. S. Harry Saunders, father of the Driae-eiect, summoned me cauuderses to Baltimore Saturday evening by first train, the groom-elect bedesperately ill at a hospital in Baltimore. ' This announcement is made by request of the family. The SmyserSaunders wedding was to be the social event of the year and the friends regret no little the illness of the groom-elect and sympathize deeply with both parties. LITTLE GIRL SAVES FATHER. Sucks Rattlesnake Poison and Then Takes Parent Out of Wilds. Palto Alto, Cal., June 24.?Pluck of his 12-year-old daughter saved the life of Joseph Eberhardt, of San < Francisco, who was bitten by a rat- ; tlesnake in the wilds of the San Ma- ( teo mountains and brought out by the little girl to receive medical attention. What to do in the case of rattlesnake bite was known to Anta Eberbardt because her mother was killed ' by one. This happened when she was only three years old, but she had , been told many times how she must act in case she should have a similar experience. She was out with her father on a camping expedition when : a big snake struck him in the calf of the leg. He killed the snake and : then began to feel the effects of the poison and fainted. The girl bound his leg tightly above the wound, cut i deeply into it with a hunting knife : and sucked out the poison. She then i revived her father, held him as he ' staggered to camp a quarter of a ? mile aw*y and helped him to mount ] a horse, on which he rode to a farm- ' house eight miles away. She followad on foot. < He was hurried to this city, how- 1 3ver, and was soon on the road to ] recovery. The doctors found that ] the girl had sucked all the poison < from his blood and told her that it was due to her actions alone that he ] lived. 1 KILLS HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW. | Pendleton Mill Village Tragedy Said to be Accidental. Anderson, June 23.?Artnur savage, the white nightwatchman of the . Pendleton cotton mills, shot and instantly killed his brother-in-law, Horace Edgar, in the mill village last . night. Savage had his picture taken . with a friend yesterday afternoon and in the picture he was aiming his pistol at the friend. Last night he was showing Edgar the positions he and his friend occupied in the picture. As Savage aimed the pistol at Edgar, it was discharged, Edgar falling dead at his feet. The killing is considered accidental, and Savage is said to be prostrated with grief. Magistrate Whitten held the inquest. Women Barbers the Latest. Atlanta, June 19.?Atlanta which is growing more cosmopolitan every day is going to spring the latest innovation?women barbers. They will come here from Chicago and Seattle. Ten beauties they will be, according to the proprietors of a down-town shop who are making plans for the appearance of the female tonsorial artists. Along with this announcement, it is stated the: shop where the women will hold forth will be fitted up, in magnificent style. Fact of the matter is, say the proprietors the shop will outclass any barber shop in the South. Depot Agent Killed. Mullins,June 24.?News has reached Mullins of a killing which occurred yesterday afternoon at Eulonia, a small station on the Seaboard, 1G miles south of here. It is difficult to get particulars of the tragedy, but thA n&rtv killed was DeDOt Agent I Byrd at Eulonia and the one committing the deed was Sidney Allen. It is said that Allen shouted: "I am Sidney Allen. Get me if you can." He is from North Carolina, having recently gone into that section. When last seen he was crossing the Little Pee Dee going in the direction of Conway, and was heavily armed, having a shotgun and three pistols on his person. There is no telegraphic connections with Eulonia, which is a small station on the new railroad being built from here to Georgetown. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The city mail service wa3 inaugurated in Camden last Saturday morning. There are three carriers making two deliveries a day, and three in the business section. Their &ala ries are $600 each and will be increased each year for four or five years until it will reach $1,000. Head of Anderson College. Rev. Dr. J. A. Chambliss, a Baptist preacher of distinction and a man of hghly scholarly attainments, has been elected as the president of Anderson college. Dr. Chambliss was for a number of years pastor of the Citadel Square Baptist church of Charleston and more recently pastor emeritus of the large church at Plainfield, N. J. Dr. Chambliss has a wide family connection in this State, his wife being a sister of Hon. Wm. L. Mualdin, of Greenville, and a first cousin of Mr. B. F. Mauldin, of this city.?Anderson Mail. \ MAKES VALUABLE FIND. Copper Plate With Inscription Which May Lead to Wealth. Salisbury, June 22.?A find which may lead to a small fortune for D. L. Overcash, an humble farmer of Steele township this county, has just been made. Some time ago Overcash purchased of J. S. Hall a small farm in the above township and while walking over the same several days ago he noticed a rugged piece of metal hidden in a rock cliff. Picking it up he was astonished to find that it was a piece of irregular shaped copper plate and inscribed with a; letter die across the same were these words: ''As I came from the old country I deposited $9,000 in the U. S. Treasury in Philadelphia in 1795. Thi$ money I donate to the finder of this plate. I am wounded, I am bound to' die. H. A. Barkley." Mr. Hall, from whom Overcash purchased the piece of property, came to Salisbury this morning with Overcash and exhibited the plate to the Observer representative and others and the two went to consult Senator Overman as to what steps to take to ascertain whether or not this money was actually deposited in Philadelphia. The senator said he would gladly investigate the matter and stated that it would take several weeks to trace it up, but that if this note was genuine and this $9,000 had actually been placed in the treasury hv Barklev Mr. Overcash would get it but that it might probably take a special act of congress to do it. However, he would take the matter up on his return to Washington and see what there was in it. Tradition has it, and this has been talked in the neighborhood for years, that a man named Barkley and a friend named Patton lived in this section long years ago and that the two went out hunting one day and did not return at night, the family of each thinking that the other had gone home with his friend to spend the night. An investigation the following morning found that the two men had been murdered and their bodies left beside a creek. It is said that the supposition prevailed that Indians, which frequented and inhabited this section at the time, had massacred the white men. It is found that the name of Henry Barkley appears on records dating back for years in the court house in this city. Parker Temporary Chairman. The National Democratic convention met in Baltimore Tuesday morning, and the first fight came on the election of a temporary chairman. The national executive committee had selected Judge Alton B, Parker, of New York, as temporary chairman, and he was opposed by William Jennings Bryan, who nominated John W. Kern. -Mr. Kern withdrew and Bryan made the race himself against Parker, and was defeated by a vote of 579 to 50G. The South Carolina delegation voted solidly for p.rvan The situation is confusing, but no bitterness has characterized the proceedings so far. Some people insist that Bryan will again by the nominee, but there is no telling what will be done. Parker's speech to the convention was in admirable temper, and he alluded nicely to Bryan. FOUR DIE IN FEUD FIGHT. I Two Others Wounded in Clash Be- j tween Texas Families. Sherman, Tex., June 20.?In a feud battle between the Sharp and Waldrop families, at Sperry's Ranch, near here, this afternoon, four persons were killed and two wounded. Before she was slain, Miss Georgia Sharp killed one man and wounded another man and his wife. The battle began when the Sharp family, consisting of Miss Georgia Sharp, her father, L. W. Sharp, and her brother, Walter, passed the home of the Waldrops. Apparently both sides began firing simultaneously. Henry Waldrop killed Walter Sharp and his father. As they fell Miss Georgia Sharp seized her father's smoking magazine rifle and took up the battle. She killed Russell Waldrop, then shot his parents. Prftno nn thp ermind. Henrv WaldrOD returned the fire and shot Miss Sharp. She died almost instantly. To-day's battle was the clumination of a long standing dispute between the two families. Threw Away Title. Detroit, June 21.?Miss Carol Newberry, daughter of Truman H. Newberry, former secretary of the navy and man of wealth, was married this afternoon to Frank Brooks, to whom was ascribed the breaking off, two weeks ago, of her engagement to Capt. W. H. Alleyne, of the British army, whom she met in Bermuda last spring and to whom she became engaged after five weeks' acquaintance. Miss Newberry was to have been married to Capt. Alleyne yesterday. The calling off of the wedding created a sensation throughout the country in that it was the case of a rich girl putting aside position in foreign society for the sake of an American suitor who is in only "fairly good" circumstances. Beach CfeiSe Begins Reform. - - - - - ? mv. - Tl A Dnnnh Atlanta, June ?y.?me r. cca^u case has put the lid on Aiken and the famous wintering place for the rich people of the East has become as tame as a Puritan town. A waive of reform has swept over the place. The city council has put a quick and effective hand on all the amusements in which the fashionable set indulged. The gambling -halls have been closed and the paraphernalia confiscated. For the next two weeks policemen will investigate social clubs every sixty minutes to suppress any signs of dissipation. Protracted church meetings have been started and the rich are participating. Charleston Graft Situation. Columbia, June 22.?That the whisky laws have been flagrantly violated in Charleston for a score of years has been understood by South Carolinians. Everybody seemed to know that there was graft in Charleston and no one seemed to care whether the alleged grafters were punished or not. However, the graft was never proved and the condition drifted along. The officials of the city, said in the past that the existing conditions were due to tolerance. Tolerance it might have been, yet the violation of the law has never been successful stamped out?even for a short period of time. Several weeks ago Mayor Grace, in his nanpr. Common Sense, charged open violation of the law and also that the graft money collected had been traced practically up to the governor's office. Ben H. Stothart is the chief whisky constable in South Carolina and testifying before the legislative investigating committee in Charleston on Wednesday, he said that Cole Bleas-e was his best friend. Stothart denied many times that he knew of graft or that he had any definite proof.. The situation so far is as follows: A dozen confessed blind tigers have stated under oath that they paid a certain amount monthly as protection against the constables. They named the wholesale dealers to whom they paid these amounts. These dealers are all wealthy citizens of Charleston. They will be summoned before the dispensary committee and asked to explain to whom they turned over the fund. One blind tiger charged directly that he paid the money to B. H. Stothart. All of these wholesalers skipped town when they found that they had been summoned. * The solicitor of Charleston has been asked to bring action against the confessed violators of the State law and the News and Cuorier is urging strongly that the matter be handled in the courts. --- '* ' w.- .. .-i.; J. HOT TIKE AT FLORENCE. MUCH DISORDER DURING THE SPEECHES OF CANDIDATES. Judge Jones Starts Toward Blease With Clenched Fist, but is Stopped by Chairman. Florence, June 25.?The most demonstrative and the one marked with more noise and disorder of all the meetings yet of the campaign was that held here to-day. At one time, Judge Jones ,incensed at a statement by Gov. Blease, rose to his feet with clenched fist and drawn arm and approached Gov. Blease. The chairman and policemen on the stand quickly stepped between the candidates and avoided blows. Hisses and jeers which so marked the meeting were being hurled and the governor was making a statement as to these demonstrations. It was then that Judge Jones rushed at the governor. A + T-lio /vmnliialnn nf (Tnv "RIpssa's speech, Judge Jones rose to make a denial afe agreed upon by the candidates, but the crowd would not remain or be quiet to allow the statement. At another place in the meeting Judge Jones was howled down. Gov. Blease defended his record in its many aspects and was cheered loudly. The cheering and jeering by the throng here was the most unusual yet of the campaign. Gov. Blease accused Judge Jones of being favorable to the corporations and cited a supreme court decision which he said Judge Jones had stated in a recent speech that he wrote. Judge Jones was allowed a denial and he said the opinion had been written by Mr. E. Marion Rucker, but that he had concurred in it. Judge Jones said that the governor's statement was "The cheapest play on words you ever heard in South Carolina." Gov. Blease read a letter from Senator B. R. Tillman to certain citizens of Spartanburg county in which the senator had declared he would take no stand on the governor's race in South Carolina. Bank Robber Killed. - Mammoth Springs, Ark., June 20. ?Ben Jones was killed and Otto Burrow and Lifus Davis were captured by a sheriff's posse w?en the three masked men attempted to rob the Citizens bank of Mammoth Springs shortly after noon to-day. All of the men resided near this city. Lee Burrow, a relative of one of the men arrested, was later brought to town with a serious wound in his abdomen. He said that Dr. Jones, father of the dead robber, and Howard Sears, a neighbor, shot him because they thought he had informed the officers of the proposed robbery. Dr. Jones and Sears both were arrested. Burrow probably will die. Judge W. J. Meek and John Cunningham were slightly wounded by stray bullets when a crowd of citizens indulged in promiscuous shooting on the streets at the time of the attempted robbery. Sheriff M. C. Caruthers had been forewarned that the robbery was to be attempted and with three deputies was concealed in a back room when the men entered. The robbers forced Mrs. Sadie Woods, the assistant cashier, into a vault and were raking the cash into o when the sheriff and his men u oavA. ?? ? _ stepped out. Jones started to reach for his pistol and the sheriff killed him with a shotgun. Burrows and Davis surrendered without resistance. Taft Nominated. After being in session from Tuesday to Saturday night, the National Republican convention nominated Wm. H. Taft, the incumbent, for the presidency of the United States. The vote was taken on Saturday night. There was only one ballot, Taft getting a majority and 21 votes over. His vote was 561 out of a delegation of 1,078. Of the delegates, 350 refused to vote?sat still and said nothing when their names were called. These were the Roosevelt followers, who thought their candidate had been unfairly treated. \f+nr> +Vio nrmiinfltiOTl of Taft. the n vuv/ aavaaa ? Roosevelt forces met and nominated their man for the presidency, calling themselves "Progressives" and their candidate the Progressive candidate. They bolted the regular convention because they believed they had been cheated out of a large number of their rightful delegates?a number large enough to have secured the nomination of Roosevelt, had they been seated instead of the Taft contestants. = CONVICT COMMITS SUICIDE. - . | Jo? Elrath, White, on Anderson Gang, Slashes Throat Fatally. Anderson, June 23.?Joe McElrath, a white man about 30 years of age, committed suicide to-day at the . chain gang camp, when he cut his throat with a razor. McJSlrath went to the gang two years ago to serve five years for throwing dynamite under a house in Piedmont. He was paroled some time ago by the governor, but was sent to the gang o T?A/>nn+ltr ool Hnor wlllfllrDV a&aiu. 1U1 TT Uiwuv/ McElrath borrowed the razor presumably to shave; instead he dashed zg his throat, death resulting instantly. He leaves a wife. Case Thrown Out, r l?: That the jurisdiction of the Federal courts does not extend to suits brought by citizens against a State, without the State's consent, is the fundamental principle upon which United States District Judge Henry A. M. Smith, Wednesday in Charleston, dismissed the suit brought by J the Carolina Glass company against M W. J. Murray et al., members of the former dispensary winding-up commission. The suit has been brought 'r in the Federal court against these ; former commissioners, as individu- -J als, to recover about $19,000 which the plaintiff alleges was due it from ' county dispensaries, but which had been taken by the dispensary commission and applied to alleged indebtedness of the plaintiff to the State, fig lilCUii CU UUUCi iUi UJL^i nauoavuvuo , ;? with the old State dispensary. Judge Smith, after fully discussing the questions involved, sustains the arguments of the defence that a suit of this nature is one in which the State is a necessary party, and that in this case the Federal court has no jurisdiction in such an action in accordance with the opinion filed / % dismissing the complaint. The de- M fendants in the case are W. J. Murray ? John McSw'een, A. N. Wood, j? Avery Patton and J. S. Brice. The jurisdiction of the Federal y. court had been invoked on the ground that the legislative act, un- Jjj -der which the commissioners had taken those funds from the county dispensaries, was in violation of the M United States constitution and therefore null and void. In discussing the case in its va- :** rious phases, Judge Smith ruled that the funds involved had, both before |] and after they came into the hands of the commissioners, been the property, of the State, inasmuch as the - .'3 county dispensaries had been conducted under the authority of the State, and with the State's credit be- y % hind them. The plaintiff had no title ? to these funds which could be enforced in the Federal court, and was merely in the position of a creditor ^ in that amount. Consequently in a ^ suit to recover these funds the State would be a necessary party, and un- ;''J der the United States constitution, the Federal courts were not given jurisdiction in such cases, the State ^ not having given its consent for such " JS| a suit to be brought against it. Six Negro Children Burned. Anderson, June 22.?Six negro children were burned to death and their bodies almost completely ere, mated late last night when their home, situated six miles south of An- / ( derson, was totally destroyed by fire. The home destroyed was that occupied by Eliza Hunter, and all of the children were her children. At the time of the fire she was at the home of a neighbor, about one-half mile .Jj away, attending some sort of religious meeting. She was not aware of the fire until after the building and children had been consumed. The bodies of the children, which ranged in age from 4 to 14 years, were almost completely incinerated. The fire occurred between 11 and $ 12 o'clock. The house was the property of J. Fulwer Watson, and was located near Little Mountain. The children had been at work in the fields all. day and were tired when il,A" OovAomo wnfP nicy leuicu last uigui. uvicuwj heard by a negro, Floyd Witherspoon, who saw the blaze from a distance, and who hurried to the scene. He says that he tried to get in the house, but the blaze was so fierce that he was driven back. He then threw rocks at the windows, hoping to awake the occupants. While throwing these rocks Witherspoon declares he heard the screams, which soon turned into, moans, and then became quiet. He says that he managed to see through one of the windows, and he5 saw the children huddled together in the corner of a room. The house was covered with tin, which kept the heat in and the flames down.