Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IDENTIFIES ONE ASSAILANT. Two Arrests Follow Hold-up of ( South Carolinian in Savannah. Savannah, July 26.?As suspects in the Caldwell hold-up case, two A negroes have been arrested, and are t< being held for investigation. The fi men give the names of Walter Hilton n and John Albert, and state that they F are employees of the Atlantic Coast f Line Railway. o V. R. Caldwell, the young South 1 Carolinian, who was shot and robbed of $90 as he was crossing the rail- c way yards at night, has identified n * ?? x r. ? m*u -v Albert as the man wno snot mm. i iie u negroes were in a box car when arrested. They denied any knowledge c of the hold-up. t Caldwel is greatly improved. The t bullet entered the left shoulder and a fractured the collar bone. e DROWN IN A FLOOD. ? 3 \* Miners Caught in a Coal Mine Like Rats in a Trap. ^ Caught like rats in a trap, when ti water rushed into the man-way of a Superba No. 2 mines, at Evans Sta- fi tion, three miles north of Uniontown, c Pa., Wednesday afternoon, after a h cloudburst, 13 men were drowned ti and 37 escaped after a most harrowing experience. The men were v drowned about 4,000 feet from the a mouth of the mines, their only ave- tl nue of escape. ti It is reported tnat at ieasi uue v more victim, as unknown foreigner, w will be added to the list of dead. He n was passed by other men in the mine n when they escaped, refusing to ac- v company them to a place of safety, c; The majority of the victims had w large families and about 30 children t< are deprived of the breadwinners by w one of the worst catastrophes that tl has ever visited Fayette county. The o men who escaped were forced to d half swim ana half walk to the pit F mouth through water ranging in o depth from their waists to their necks, on their way to safety. A The majority of the miners were tl knocked down by timbers that were sent down the mine with great velocity in the raging current. Several ^ men were being carried back into the mine to certain death when rescued by their companions, who risked their lives. ^ It was stated by officials of the Su- ^ perba Company that it will take at ^ least sixty days to clear the mines of h water and until that time the bodies must remain in the water where they S perished. a Superintendent J. W. Buttermore h was the first man to see the high b water start in the man-way. He s: raised the alarm and all the men on the outside rushed into the mine yell- ^ ing loudly as they went. In that 0 manner more than half of the miners n were saved. C Relatives of the miners and mine t( drivers, when the alarm was raised, rushed to a large hoie made by the water at the man hole and frantically threw sticks, stones, bushes, poles and whatever other timber they could n find into the water in a futile effort 11 to stop its rush into the mines. Women and children remained at a the mouth of the slope, refusing to return home until an attempt had 1? been made to rescue their husbands v< and fathers. The water rose so ^ quickly after the cloudburst that it practically destroyed all railroads p' and street railways in Fayette county. 41 Nothing could be done to avert the catastrophe. A dam that had been 11 built around the man-way, a day or E two ago, when the water was high, d was washed away and the water ^ rushed into the mine so rapidly that h' the pit was filled in less than 30 min- pi utes. Three men lost their- lives in Le- 111 mont, No. 2, mine, of the H. C. Frick Coke Company, about a half ^ mile from Superba mines, but 97 K others who were caught in the flood tc there escaped. S] Andy MacHak, a driver in the mine, when he realized that water was rushing in with such rapidity as h to flood the entire mine, cut loose d< the wagon, and while hanging on to ** the chains was drawn to safety by the two mules. pi When it was certain that the thirteen meen had perished in the Super- tc ba mine, the survivors persisted in 0 forming a rescue party, but officials a' of the mine refused to allow them to p risk their lives. The mine is flooded ? so that it would be impossible to enter into it more than 100 yards withjj out risking death. I lie WliC VJ1 iXiiUjr * ciivv/, Kitu five little children, oldest aged eight, c dashed into the mine, going some dis- ]i tance down the slope before being h overtaken. She tore her clothes in s her anguish when refused entrance at the slope. Mine Inspector I. G. Robin, who was soon on the scene, h said that as far as he could ascertain s the catastrophe was unavoidable. ^ The Aiken county hospital asso- t ciation has been formed of 30 women ? of that county, the purpose of the or- r ganization to raise money to erect a C modern hospital. r (il lLTV OF MUHDEH. laude Allen, the Hillsville Outlaw, G Must Suffer Extreme Penalty. ] Wytheville, Va., July 27.?Claude illen. of the Hillsville outlaws, was J. o-day convicted of murder in the a] rst degree for tne killing of Com- if ion wealth's Attorney William M. tl 'oster. At a former trial he was oi ound guilty of murder in the sec- w nd degree for the killing of Judge n 'hornton L. Massie. st He is the second one of the Allen le lan to be convicted of first degree s< aurder, his father, Floyd Allen, be- p] ng the other. The closing arguments of counsel onsumed the morning session of S. ourt to-day, and the ease was given G o the jury when court re-convened tt t 2:30 this afternoon. After delib- p< rating an hour and a half, the jurors ir lowly filed back into the jury box it nd the foreman announced their as erdict. d< When he learned that he must pay be penalty for his crime in the elec- t? ric chair, the prisoner broke down r? nd wept bitterly, as did also his B ancee, who was with him in the ot ourt room. It was the first time he d< ad displayed the least sign of emo- p] ion since his trial began. \\ While the jury was considering its si erdict, Sidna Edwards, and Victor ti nd Friel Allen were brought into ie court room in order that a mo on might be made for a change of enue. On motion of the commonealth, a venire of 7.5 will be sumloned from Bedford county for the 31 ext trial. The commonwealth also rl y. ished to have the three remaining ases consolidated, but the defense ould not agree, and it was decided 1D ) try Friel Allen next. The trial ?* ill begin August 14 and will be on rc ae indictment charging the murder " f William M. Foster?the same in- n ictment upon which Claude and li] of 'loyd Allen have been found guilty lp f first degree murder. Sentence was not passed on Claude .lien in order that he may testify in ae other cases. ti WOMAN'S ASSAILANT KILLED. sf it hot Climbing Through Window Af- st ter Wounding Victim. n< Little Rock, Ark., July 25.?After e had shot a young woman here to- L ay, J. B. Brown, a negro lawyer, of as killed as he sought refuge in the Ti ome of another negro. P> The young woman was Miss Maud Pi umner. Brown got into her home di nd when he attempted to assault er she resisted. Then the negro egan firing. Miss Sumner was i*1 Lightly hurt. th Little Rock officials believe Brown ss as the black who attacked numerus women during the last six ai aonths. Brown's slayer was Sam h' bllins. He shot when Brown tried ^ ) climb into a rear window. ni Matron Flogs Pretty Girl. H Spartanburg, July 27.?Claiming di rat she was enticed to the home of a m larried woman at Cowpens, locked tc 1 a room and given a severe beating, d< young single woman of Cowpens si ppeared before Magistrate A. H. ly Lirby and asked that a warrant be;sued for the arrest of the matron ho chastised her. Magistrate Kiry referred the complainant to [agistrate Potter, who lives at Cow- ?* ens. It could not be learned to-day ^ hether Magistrate Potter granted 01 le warrant or not. a* al The Cowpens case, if true, is in lany respects like the whipping of n( ssie Carter at Dawson, Ga., the only l' ifference being that the Georgia oman was whipped at her own m ome by a white man, while the Cow- ht ens woman was whipped by a woian who is charged with having adlinistered the flogging. According to the story told by the oman who appealed to Magistrate ei irby for a warrant, jealousy is said ) have been the cause of the flog- te ins:. The accuser said the young of larried woman became intensely ar jalous of her and enticed her to her a ome, and, after locking all the oors, beat her up. She also charged d or iat the young matron seized a bote of turpentine and threatened to our the fluid on her. w; It is said that the town authorities ^ >ok notice of the .affair by making ut a charge of disorderly conduct gainst the married woman and im- ^ osed a fine on her. ^ ? Society Woman Takes Her Life. Jacksonville, Fla., July 27.?Mrs. * [arvey R. Payne, one of the most at opular young society women of this itv, committed suicide some time j of ist evening m a vacant house in the 6( eart of the fashionable Springfield uburbs. aj Her body was found late this af?rnoon in a back room, where she S ad turned on the gas with fatal rew gl ults. si it hoiiavprt she rented the house XC 10 ~ " pi or that purpose. .Mrs. Payne had ^ teen separated from her husband. !he was a daughter of the late Danon Greenleaf of the Greenleaf & h Crosby company, one of the south's nost exclusive jewelers. HAS WILSON'S APPROVAL. overnor Would Have Voted f Bristow Amendment, Saiys Aiken Marion, July 25.?Congressm; E. Ellerbe, of the 6th congressio I district, has been very much gr? ied at the receipt of a dispatch fro le Hon. Wyatt Aiken, congressm; I the 3rd congressional district, hich Mr. Aiken quotes Gov. Woo )w Wilson as having endorsed t! :and taken by himself and Mr. I The on the question of election mators by direct vote of the pe le. The telegram reads as follow J. T-v /-I T?1,r OA 1Q19 I HSIllIlg IULI, U. \;.t JUi; id v, xi/xm.. The Hon. J. E. Ellerbe, Marie . C.: Responding to my inquii ov. Woodrow Wilson told me to-d lat it was our patriotic duty to su Drt direct election of senators' bi icluding Bristow amendment. Th is sound Democratic doctrine ai 5 good Democrats we could not ha 3ne otherwise. Wvatt Aiken. Congressman Ellerbe has been 2 icked in his present campaign f selection because of his vote on tl ristow Amendment, as have sever ;her members of the South Carolii legation; and he is very mu< eased, therefore, to find that Go Tlson thoroughly approves the p tion which he took on this que on. Thought His Life in Danger. Anderson, July 27.?Mistakii lat parf of the initiation where fir ms are flourished and blank cai dges are exploded as meaning to < m bodily harm, Furman Bagwe jed 21. a candidate being initial to the mysteries of the Woodme the World, rushed from the lodj torn and snatched his pistol from h >at hanging in the ante room, hu ed back into the lodge room ai red three shots in rapid successie ; Milton Taylor, aged 26, who w ading the degree team in the initi on. The first shot hit Taylor in the a )men, fearfully tearing the inte nes. The bullet hid itself in tl )inal column. The second buri< self in the hip bone. The last sh ruck Taylor on the back of tl 2ck and glanced off. This occurred in the Friendsh odge room, three miles northea : Honea Path last night. To-d; aylor was brought to Anderson he tal and Dr. Sanders, the attendii ivsician, says to-night that his co ition is extremely critical and th 5 fears peritonitis will set in. Taylor was able to tell of the shoe tg to-day after he came from und le influence of an anaesthetic. 1 ivs that he and Bagwell were war iends; that Bagwell became excit< id in the heat of excitement lo is head and rushed for his piste rirfontiv thinkiner that he (Taylo eant to do him.serious bodily hari Bagwell is a clerk in a store onea Path and was at his post t iv. He was married about lonths ago. Taylor's father sa i-day that prosecution of Bagwc upended on whether or not his s( irvived the wounds. It is not lik that he will survive. Heavy Loss by Fire. Conway, July 26.?The large pla ' the Trexler Lumber compan hich is located at Allen, a static 1 the Atlantic Coast Line Railwa )out 10 miles from here, was pari ly destroyed by fire Thursday afte )on entailing a loss of $60,000, pa ally covered by insurance. Fire started about 3:45 in the sa^ ill and burned fiercely for sever >urs. The flames had spread rapii into the fuel house, the boil< )use, and live rolls, which were coi imed in short order. The flami ere rapidly making headway to otl parts of the plant when the Coi ay fire department, which had bee lephoned for, with the assistam the employees, saved the dry kill iH nianine- mill, and thus oreventir further loss of $100,000. By 12 o'clock the flames were ui ;r control and all was quiet. T1 igin of the fire is unknown. It is understood that the saw mi ill be rebuilt within a few week hen work will be resumed. LMES SEIGLER GRANTED BAI] >nvicted Slayer of Aiken Police, Granted Bail in Sum of $5,000. Columbia, July 25.?James ( ngler, of Aiken, was to-day grant* til in the sum of $5,000 by Assoc e Justice Frazer. Seigler shot ar lied Officer Patterson on the stree : Aiken and was tried and convic 1 of manslaughter and sentenced ;ven years in the penitentiary. I ppealed to the supreme court ai ade application before Justice Fr ?r for an order permitting him ive bond and be released until tl lpreme court could decide his a sal. Seigler has several times, b )re been tried applied for bail, b " J T T A ich time was reiusea. ms in as one of the most interesting ev eld in Aiken county. Read The Herald, $1.50 a year. THE BELLS OF HARVARD. or A Succession of Nine Whose History Covers a Period of 300 Years. Harvard has had an interesting n_ succession of bells, nine of them altt together, two being now in use. That m the very first college building had ln one is shown by an extract from a in book published in 1643, declaring d- that "every scholar shall be present be in his Tutor's Chambers at the 7th 21- hour in the morning immediately after the sound of the bell." l0_ A second bell was presented by a s: John Willet and did service for nearly a century. It was melted, or at n? least badly damaged in the disastrous *y? fire of 1764, when the second college ay building, Harvard Hall, was destroyp~ ed. The third structure, Massachu- setts Hall, was built in 1718-20, and at very soon the treasurer was ''desired ac* to enquire what may be the cost of ve a bell and clock, proper for the Col.? ?? t>^+vi ninr>i.- and bell were ^ iegt:. AJUL11 bought and the steward got 4 pounds 0r a year for keeping them in order. QP , This one was described by an English 3.1 traveller some years later as "a very good bell." Harvard Hall was rebuilt after the ?v fire, and in 1765 in a new set of "ar?" tides respecting the diet of the Col- . ?Slege" there is a reference to a fourth bell. Its fate is shown by an entry of January 15, 1793: "Voted that the President and the Treasurer be a Committee to procure the recasting e- of the College Bell lately split." t- This fifth bell, like its predeces]0 sors, was ordered from England and 11, weighed about 318 pounds. Two 3d bells were given in partial exchange 5n for the "lately split" one from Harxe vard Hall and the small one from is the clock on Massachusetts Hall. r_ Apparently vandalism by students is no merely modern affair, for it )a seems to have been the cause of so as much damage to this fifth bell that in a_ 1827 the College authorities had to appoint a committee "to consider the b- most effectual method of securing iS_ it (the bell) against irruption." On the same date the president was read quested to buy a bell on as good ot terms as possible. This sixth bell he was cast in 1808 by Paul Revere at his foundry in Canton and weighed ip 434 pounds. st This one became cracked in 1836 av and was replaced the same year by ,s_ the seventh bell, which was cast by ag George H. Holbrook, of East Medn_ way, Mass., and weighed 450 pounds, at This one, known to most living Harvard graduates, had a long and hon)t_ orable career, but it, too, finally beer came cracked in 1890, owing to the le fact that it had not been properly m hung. At that time it had been rung ed -for forty-two years by one man, the ,st veteran janitor, Mr. Jones. When it became cracked he kept it a few . r) years as a relic, but in 1904 he gave n it to the Harvard Memorial Society, at which had it broken up, a part of the 0_ bronze being used for tablets placed v0 at Hollis and Holworthy halls. A id small model of the old bell, made ;]1 from its metal, was presented to Mr. ?n ones. e_ The eighth bell is the one now hanging in Harvard Hall. It was cast by Meneely & Co., West Troy, N. Y., and weighs 550 pounds. It was first rung January 7, 1900. The nt ninth hell is the fine-toned one in y, Memorial Hall tower. It is ten times )n the size of the early bells of the Coly> lege, for it weighs 3,000 pounds. It :i_ was cast by Van Dusen & Co., of Cinr~ cinnati, and was installed after comr_ mencement, 1897, the gift of the class of 1872.?N. Y. Sun. \ Bites Off Woman's Kar. al Dayton, Ky., July 25.?Fireman er Harry Schaefer was probably fatally ! Q" scalded. Engineer Frank Gregory BS was internally injured and a woman k" had her ear bitten off as the result n" of an engine on the Chesapeake & in Ohio, hauling a car of workmen, "e leaving the track and turning turtle ls and stopping on the brink of a precils pice overlooking the Ohio river at Coal Haven, near here, late yesterday Q" afternoon. 18 The woman, whose name could not be learned, was kneeling close to Schaefer with a view to administers> ing aid to the injured man. His pain was so great that he bit off her ear. ^ She was hastened to a doctor's office and then to her home, before her ls name could be learned. The cause of the accident is a mys^ tery. The train was proceeding at a rate of about 50 miles an hour id . when the engine left the tracks. . Twenty-five men were in the coachbehind. which did not leave the ts tranks. It- a Huge Casket for Negro Woman, le id Nashville, Tenn., July 22.?The a_ largest casket ever made in this city to has just been finished for Mary Harhe ris, a negress, who died yesterday. P- The corpse weighs 600 pounds and the coffin is six feet three inches in ut length and 36 inches in width. No al hearse can be found large enough to er convey the body to the cemtery. Highest prices paid for beef cattle. H. G. DELK, Bamberg, S. C.r The Cancelled Check To The Public: In the course of business a hill M is sometimes presented for collec- ' H tion where it has already been ^ paid. This may have happened to yon as it has to so many. Such an occurrence is annoying and requires explanations and sometimes the re- ' ceipt. You need never pay a hill twice if you pay by check. The check is a positive proof that you have paid the money, and your cancelled ^ I checks are receipts for the bills fl you have paid. ^ Our bank offers prompt and efficient service in handling your ac- < count. * ^ Yours very truly, ^ FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK - 4 per ct. Paid Quarterly on Savings Accounts. Ehrhardt, S. C. NOT THE BEST) I la We don't claim to have the best XX IjBB 11 H Horses and Mules ever brought to Mia i||: this market in our stables at this _ l'| ' ' /-i'y1 time, for we have had some mighty a a . -OB % i good ones heretofore, but we do w H 11 claim these to be just as good as any | | ' "r/Jffl ^*2 _ we have ever handled, and if you will. r1 gj ^ come and look we know we can ? i ^ ^ please you. 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