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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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CONVICT COMMITS SUICIDE.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.