The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 18, 1912, Page 2, Image 2
FAMILY OF 45 POISONED.
Fatal Fourth of July Dinner?Some (
Dead, Others will Die.
Augusta, Ga., July 9.?It has just
developed that 45 people, all mem
bers of the Canady family, near Gar
field, (ia., were poisoned at a iamuj reunion
at the home of Mac Canady, 1
on the Fourth of July. Indications r
were that poison was put in several 1
articles used in the dinner, since
every member of the family at the *
table was a victim, and all of them 1
did not eat of any one particular kind 2
of food. 1
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, Last Saturday, Tillman Canady,
one of the brothers, died. Yester- "
day Mrs. Faircloth, daughter of Mac
Canady, and one of her children, c
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died. Tbirteen memDers 01 nis iamily
are seriously ill at the home of c
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Mac Canady. Ben Canady is in a
critical condition, and every memg
ber of his family is sick.
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Appeal has been made to the city ^
hospital in Augusta for assistance, ,
the appeal stating that 25 members t
of the Canady family are in a critical
condition. Four trained nurses, all c
" the hospital could spare at the time t
for emergency calls, were rushed to g
Summertown, and will be taken t
mii homeA
long distance telephone message ^
from Garfield to-night says the total
iS.V- number poisoned is 45, of whom the L
dead are: H. Tillman Canady, Henry h
Covena, of Wesley, Ga.; Mrs. Fair- n
cloth, a daughter of Mac Canady, 0
. ' and her child. Seven others can't b
recover, according to the physicians' t
statements.
The poisoning resulted from mixing
seasoning containing black pep- ^
per and vinegar in a zinc tub and p
used on barbecued meat. p
The Canady family and connec- ??
tions are among the most prominent n
1 , ' and well-to-do people of Emanuel u
county. d
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through the country to the Canady
Work of the Boys' Corn Club.
pr.- When there was a good preparation
of the land before planting, crops ^
over this country promise very well
and where the preparation was not c
? ' v as thorough as it should have been
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the prospects are not quite so good. h
.That is the opinion of Mr. John R.
Bair, county demonstration agent, for
the department of agriculture, who e]
was in Yorkville yesterday. He has
* been making his rounds among the
farmers of the county since spring, B
and he is well up on the whole sub- a,
ject. Asked about how the corn
club boys are coming on, Mr. Blair
said that they are doing fine. All
the boys on the list are sticking, he ^
said, and he went on to declare that
a good many of the boys are furn- Z{
ishing some object lessons for their
. fathers, especially in the matter of u
preparation. Mr. Blair gives it as b
? his ^unhesitating opinion that the boy
who wins the corn imize this year ,
will have to produce more than one
hundred bushels on his prize acre,
and there are going to be a dozen T%,
or more to push him close. As to ^
what the corn crop generally is going
to do, said Mr. Blair, will de- ^
pend upon July seasons. The fate
of some of the crops will depend .
upon the seasons of the next ten
days; but most of them have the b(
balance of July in which to do this. h
The earlier plantings of course, are j
. * not showing up as satisfactorily as
might be, said Mr. Blair; but I no- b
tice some fields of corn that are
v.' . very promising. This is where the m
preparation has been good. q
As to cotton Mr. Blair says, every- ^
body knows you can't tell anything
about it, until it has been ginned.?
Yorkville Enquirer.
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HER FISTS FELL INTRUDER. w
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Philadelphia Society Lady Beats Up
Negro Who Hides in Room.
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Ardinore, Pa., July 10.?Miss Eliz- 0
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abeth P. Coleman Lewis, an athletic
member of Philadelphia society, reQ
f fused to-day to appear against a negro
bellboy whom she beat yesterday *
at the Bryn Mawr Hotel. ^
Miss Lewis, who is stopping at the
hotel, returned to her apartment last
evening and heard a noise in one of
the clothes closets. She found Harry
a
Davis, a strongly built youth, in hiding.
Miss Lewis yanked him from
the closet, and with a clean righthand
swing sent him to his knees.
The negro arose and made for Miss
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Lewis. He was met with a straight
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left to the stomach, which doubled
him up. All the fight had left him
by the time he straightened out, and
he made a dash for the door. As he ,
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passed, Miss Lewis struck him again,
knocking him over a chair.
Miss Lewis's maid arrived and
wanted to call for assistance. Miss ,
t
Lewis quieted the maid, yanked Da
o
vis to his fee:, and knocked him down .
again with a blow on the nose. With
a final blow Miss Lewis knocked the .
negro down he stairs, where he was
caught anc rrested.
$ coats, guaranteed water ^
pro< irable for heavy wear, i
wr:*' IERTINS, Augusta, Ga.
> E . . i?m will cure you. I
WOULD TIGHTEN LIQUOR LAW.
Georgia House Passes Alexander
Tippins Prohibition Bill.
Atlanta, July 10.?The Alexander
Tippins substitute for the famous
'near-beer"bill,one of the most dras'
ic prohibition measures in the his
ory of the State, was adopted to-da]
>y the house of the general assembl]
>y a vote of 129 to 42.
Supporters of the measure in the
louse express confidence that it wil
neet with little opposition in the sen
ite. The vote by which-the measure
vas adopted to-day also was sufficienl
;o pass the bill in the event that ii
should be vetoed by Gov. Brown.
As adopted by the house, the Alex>
mder-Tippins bill prohibts the sale
>f beverages containing more thai
)ne-half of one per cent, of alcohol
inywhere in the State of Georgia. Ir
iddition to this provision, which was
timed at the "near-beer" saloons
i^ringent measures are proviaec
vhich practically will put the ban or
ocker clubs of every descriptor
hroughout the State.
By the provisions governing lockei
:lubs, their control is left largely in
he hands of the governor of the
itate. Provision also is made foi
he prosecution of officials of the
lubs for perjury, in the event oi
alse testimony regarding the dispenation
of beverages containing more
han the prescribed amount of alcoloI.
Several amendments to the
aeasure were introduced, including
ne to leave the matter to be decided
y the popular vote of the citizens of
he State. All, however, were de
eated.
Keen interest was manifested durag
the entire proceedings by the
ublic. Many women took an active
art in the contest between the
wets" and the "drys." The anouncement
of the vote on the measre
was followed by. an enthusiastic
emonstration.
Woman Shoots Negro.
Tampa, Fla., July 11.?Desperately
ounded, an unknown negro is hiden
in a swamp between DeLand
nd Palatka, Florida, near Crescent
ity Junction, while around ^the
tvamp is a cordon of officers who
ave stood guard throughout the
ight and are waiting for the n^gro
) attempt to force his way to librty.
The negro was shot down by a
oman, wife of a storekeeper at Hull
ranch crossing, whom he tried to
ssauu.
She shot at him three times and
t the third shot the negro fell, but
Dse again and headed for the deep
oods into which he was later tracki
by a posse of deputies and citims.
The negro entered the store yesjrday
afternoon, no one was present
ut a woman clerk. He asked her for
drink of water. She handed- him a
lass and told him to get it at the
amp. The negro grabbed her and
le jerked loose from him, leaving a
art of her clothing in his grasp. She
ished upstairs to her room, the nero
following her. She seized a pis>1
and fired three shots at him.
He fell at the third shot and she
ift him lying on the floor, apparently
Fing, and ran to the nearest neighar's
house. When she returned with
er neighbor, the negro had gone,
saving a trail of blood, which later
as taken up by a posse with two
loodhounds.
They traced the negro for eighteen
tiles into a big swamp near Crescent
ity Junction. Back in the woods,
le dogs lost the trail, where the nero
entered the swamp, which is uner
water. The posse surrounded the
vamp last evening and is still there
atching for the negro.
Woman Faces Murder Charge.
Mobile, Ala., July 11.?The case
f Mrs. Mary T. Godau, a deformed
Id woman, was put on trial here toay
for the second time in her life
n the charge of murder. This time
be is charged with having killed
er son-in-law, Fred Wasserlaben, on
be night of December 30, last.
The woman, who eight years ago
ras acquitted of the murder of her
usband, entered a plea of not guilty
nd raised the point of self-defense.
l large number of witnesses have
een summoned in the case and the
.earing will occupy several days.
The killing of Wasserlaben, who
ras a policeman, and a giant in statire,
created a sensation.
Mrs Gndau. who has been married
hree times, was charged with the
ourder of her last husband, who was
ound murdered in his bed room,
ler first husband, William Green, dis.ppeared
and was never heard from,
n her confession Mrs. Godau said
ter son-in-law tried to assault hei
,nd that she shot him after a fight
n his room. /
The dead man carried $7,000 life
nsurance and the State will attempt
o show that the mother-in-law and
vife entered inio an agreement tc
lo away with Wasserlaben to get hit
noney.
Highest prices paid for beef cattle
3. G. DELK, Bamberg, S. C.
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BYRNES IS MM FOR FARMER
Editor Herald:?Desiring to learn how our public me
5 stand with reference to matters of interest to the farme]
~ I wrote a letter to the General Counsel of the Farme]
T Union and in reply received the following:
' C. S. BARRETT, Pres. W. R. CALLICOTTE, V.-Pres. A. C. DAVIS, Sec.-Tr<
Union City, Ga. Carbondale, Col. Texarkana, Tex*
! FARMERS EDUCATIONAL AND CO-OPERATIV
UNION OF AMERICA.
> Office o? J. H. PATTEN, General Counsel.
[ Washington, D. C., July 8, 1912.
Mr. J. W. Stewart, President,
Bamberg Local Union, F. E. & C. U. of A., S. C. Di
5 Bamberg, S. C.
| Dear President Stewart:?Your letter of the 5th instan
t at hand, and I hasten to assure you that it is always
3 pleasure as well as a duty to serve any official or memb(
> of the Union at any time, in any matter of this kind that
1 can.
! You ask about the record, sympathy, and attitude c
Hon. Jas. F. Byrnes of your congressional district, and
am very happy to be able to say that we regard him as, or
1 of the very best of the new congressmen. There is no quei
; tion about his ability, his industry, his capacity, his syn
nathv anH his interests being: where they should be, and
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; know of no reason whatsoever why we should not be quil
satisfied with his record so far, because it bespeaks a muc
1 greater field of usefulness and effectiveness in the rigl
direction, if he is re-electd. As you probably know, :
takes the average new congressman all of his first term t
get the "hang of things," but Congressman Byrnes seen
to have "caught right on" from the very start. For ii
stance, he seems to have been picked out at once by tb
House leaders as a man of marked ability and dependence
for he was selected by Congressman Shackleford of tb
Ways and Means Committee to assist in getting the goo
roads bill out of Committee and through the House as
rider to the Post Office Appropriations Bill?the bill eve
being referred to here and in the press frequently becaus
of his efforts as the4' Byrnes Bill.'' And in this connectio
it is interesting to note that the Democratic National Coi
vention at Baltimore last week wrote the principle of tb
hill into its nlatform as a plank. It not only wrote that bi
into its platform but also others like anti-gambling
vocational education and general parcel post, on whic
Congressman Byrnes has been in conference time an
again with and of great assistance to the Union's Nation*
Legislative Committee and the representatives of th
Union here.
It is service of this kind that counts most. It is assisi
ance in an advisory way, in arguing for our measures wit
members of Congress privately in and out of the Hous<
in continually being "on the job," that is all importar
ar j. most effective. Any member can get up on the floe
and deliver a tirade against the corporations, the Cotto
gamblers, and work himself into an oratorical fit over us an
our measures, and then go off, quietly work and demagog
cally take the opposite side. What we want is results, an
no man among the new men here are more effective i
helping us to pave the way for real results than Cor
gressman Byrnes has been this Congress, and the -neec
as you know, is urgent even with Ihis House.
The Congressional Record shows his faithful attenc
ance in the House, and that his votes, with one exceptioi
have been all that could be asked for, as far as the legk
lation the Fanners Union is asking, is concerned, and hi
^ /unoofmn
vote upon that minor occasion, on uie .< previa u? ijuconuu
on the motion to recommit the Post Office Appropriatio
Bill, would have made no difference, if it had been wit
the Republicans, as I think it should have been in tha
instance.
To sum up, Congressman Byrnes has displayed in ever
way a genuine, sincere interest, and aggressive activit
here in our behalf and in trying to further in every fai
way the legislation your National Legislative Committe
and your official representatives have been trying to s(
cure, such as anti-gambling in cotton and farm product!
marketing,' vocational education, restriction of undesi]
able foreign immigration, the cheaper transportation c
packages and parcels, and the more liberal treatment, an
the more generous and sympathetic consderation of th
farmers. In this he has aroused the opposition of the coi
ton gamblers that want the cotton acreage increased an
prices rendered less stable, the large banking interesl
npntral Bank scheme, the so-calle
txiat j-ci?ux t-Liu ^ ^?
"Money Trust" that wants to tighten its awful grip o
the borrowing classes, the foreign and domestic transpoi
tation, and other selfish interests which seem to me t
have been exerting entirely too much influence here i
Washington to the disadvantage of the general welfai
of all of us.
I do not know his opponent, if he has one, but a numbe
of congressmen have been threatened with opposition fc
1 their courageous and patriotic stand in behalf of thi
needed legislation, and I would urge that you look car<
, fully into the credentials of his opponent and make ver
thp nature, eharacter and source of the oppos
V/VX UUXJU Vi
tion, for I do know if Congressmen Byrnes is defeated fc
re-election his defeat will be a severe blow to our caus
here as be has been very active upon all occasions in b(
half of needed reform and in ways that are closely follov
ed by the cotton gamblers, the so-called " Money Power,
and other large interests and influences that would and d
seek to encompass the defeat of good men, even throug
the election of another man unwittingly made thereby th
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tool or tneir oppusiuun.
s Understand me, when I say I do not know the precis
: nature of his opposition or whether he now has oppositio]
1 but I do know that his defeat, owing to his effective a<
\ tivity, would be a blow to needed legislative reform, an
the harder blow because it would deny him of a secon
term, something most new congressmen are expected t
' get as a matter of course. And in this connection I be
A * ' . . 'f
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rett said recently in one of , j
n all the Union papers and
ill due respect for his opposes
your congressman in my
congressman to be what he
end, your defender, your adour
loyalty to him for his
nroves worth v. and stand hv
I to quote what President Bar
\ I his public letters published i
^ many newspapers, for with a
nent,if any, it well characteri2
n opinion: "If you want your
-s really desires \o be,?your fri
-s vocate,?you should prove y
devotion to yrour cause, if he ]
him in every conflict,?this v
make him aggressive, it will i
E will encourage young men, v
thing for their fellow men, to
those who were described by
clear eyed, of such as he, sh
be.' "
With every fraterna
t ^ General C
I ' Bliss
>r Home Office, Belton, S. C
Up to Father.
)f Inspector James L. Hughes of the
J Toronto Board of Education was illustrating
the differences in child
minds, at a lecture before the City
J
Club of Chicago.
1- "I have a little girl whose tastes
J are strongly mathematical, while her
-g brother has no gift for numbers, but
V still manages to think quite clearly.
* "My daughter was speculating on
^ the degrees of relationship of her two
it half sisters, Jane and Helen, and on
Q other possible combinations in frac^
tional sisterhood and brotherhood.
"'Papa,' she asked, 'if mother
*~ were to die and you were to marry
& again and have some more children,
e, what kin would they be to Jane and
L0 Helen? Would they be half sisters
d toor ^
"I had not replied when the small
son volunteered an answer after his
** own kind.
SC " 'I think,' he said, 'if anybody's
n going to die, it's papa's turn this
time.' "?Everybody's Magazine.
Cut glass and hand painted china
11 at cost at Herald Book Store.
:l | WH*CH*BANK
6 gA, Is your money hid away in ai
"J where the burglar is likely
locked up tight in our van
fc- 4* massive steel safe, but by <
-i ^ well? You do not perhaps
*V your money is in when kep
6. 4* day the newspapers tell of
it 2 this habit. If you would sle
W tJUgt? mat juui uiviicjr ig
>r A once and open an account wi
11 2 no chances*
d 2 EHRHARDT BAN
J. JL EHRHARDT,
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;e AT THE LAST
f\ necessary to p
relatives in a
if thing short of a full
d causfe worry and fear. 1
,
;e The Long Distance
c" the problem. A personal
" uation, dispelled worry an
^ visit at\a later date. ,
n In every day, person
r tance Bell Telephone can
venience and loss of time.
n By the way, hi
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rill give him courage, it will
nake him determined, and it
jho really want to do someenter
politics and be among
the poet as 4 Large brained,
all freedom's young apostle
ii wish,
J. H. PATTEN,
ounsel, Farmers' Union,
Building, Washington, D. C. V-v
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FIRE LOSS HALF A MILLION.
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jjiastrous uonnagration sweeps
Thousand Island Park.
Watertown, N. Y., July 9.?Thous- ^
and Island Park was swept this after- .V
noon and to-night by a disastrous
fire, which wiped out practically the - }7z
entire business section, the Coluin- ( 1
bian Hotel, the New York State edu- ^
cational building and 87 cottages. - m
The loss, it is estimated, will be approximately
$500,000. No lives ."6.
were lost.
The fire started at 1 o'clock this
afternoon and burned for more than
eight hours. The blaze spread jwith #$??|
amazing rapidity, fanned by a strong'
wind. Hotels and cottages of the ;{./$
fashionable resort were filled with f 4
summer guests, many of whom had i
to vacate so hurriedly that they lost
practically all their belongings.
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Attorney-at-Law
Will practice in the United States and ' l
State Courts in any County '
BAMBERG, S. C.
DO YOU USE t
i old trunk, closet or bureau,
to find it any night, or is it JT
It, protected not only by a r
ample burglar insurance as Mm " ^
i realize what great danger jt ]
t around the house. Every r |
losses sustained because of Ap . J
ep soundly, with the knowl- JT I
rfectly secure, bring it in at r j
ith us. You are then taking . 1
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