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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1912. Established 1891. > ___ ' ' ' 1 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS! SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. * News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, Aug. 26.?Blease and Jones occupies all the time the farm- ' ers have for idle chat now. I know their ears burn them all the time. > Some of their confabs about them are rich in humor and expression. To-morrow will let us all know what's what. ? Hope Gov. Blease will have man- , hood enough to not execute his ] threats, as he is before the world's , eye instead of South Carolina alone. Saint John's section have the poles up "and hauled out the wire, . etc., to stretch and put on pole, and in the near future will be connected . to central office of Ehrhardt's 'phone. . Others will build in later. Mr. F. H. Henderson will soon his riwpllins- readv to move in. Col. Willie Moore has his new dwelling under headway and will soon be ready to occupy it. Rev. D. B. Groseclose has written that he will be home and preach in the Ehrhardt Lutheran church first Sunday of September. His many friends will be glad to know that so far he has enjoyed his trip in every way. ' Some of our town's folk have gone <? to try their luck with the finny tribe4 < this morning. Hope their luck will be good as I have the promise of largest one they catch. Mr. John L. Kinard is trying a , costume for hot weather. Gave his first exhibition of same Sunday afternoon. If it proves satisfactory no doubt he will soon apply for a pat- 1 ent. Write him for particulars if expecting to invest in a new suit of the latest cut and convenience. Six or eight bales of cotton changed hands here last week, several more rea'dy for ginning, but are waiting on the Carolina Gin Co. for them to get their plant going. " Our town was very quiet Saturday and Sunday. Some could not walk exactly straight and sober, but then they managed to get through without hnflrdin? in the Red Tod Inn. Mrs. Jacob Ehrhardt and her son, < Liles, went to Newberry last week to visit her mother and sisters. JEE. j ROCKEFELLER EMPLOYEE SHOT. Victim, Seriously Wounded, Quiet as to Assailant. Tarrytown, N. Y., Aug. 25.?Giuseppe Rosso, an employee on the John D. Rockefeller estate, was shot this afternoon while picking beans in his garden. He was picked up, and carried into his house, where Mr. Rockefeller's physician probed for the bullet, but was unable to reach it. The wounded man was taken to Fordham hospital in a se- i rious condition. He refused to de- < scribe his asailant. < The deputy sheriffs on duty at the 1 Rockefeller estate because of recent 1 troubles with the employees there and of several hold-ups which have ' taken place nearby, have increased < their guard. The other foreign em- ; plovees on the Rockefeller estate are i -c ? lerrurizeu. SHOOTING AT CHARLESTON. J. Davis Wounds H. Suttler After Political Argument. ( Charleston, Aug. 26.?The second * shooting scrape of the campaign in Charleston occurred when in the J course of a political argument this afternoon J. Davis shot H. Suttler in the stomach. It could not be stated to-night whether the wound is serious. Davis is a printer on ] the German paper which has been issuing an English daily supporting Gov. Blease and Sheriff Martin for re-election. < Postoffices Close Sunday. Washington, Aug. 26.?All first 1 and second class postoffices will be ' closed on Sunday as a result of one provision of .the new postal appropriation bill passed by congress and signed by President Taft. Every im- 1 portant city in the United States is 1 1 affected. Hereafter only special de* k livery letters will pass through on that day and no mail will be placed in lock boxes. Postoffices in several cities have been closed Sundays here- : tofore. The postmaster general has permitted it under a regulation, Ti-boro it was evident that local senti- ' ment demanded it. The closing is now compelled by law. v # BURGLARY NEAR FORT MILL. ||^ $700 Secured by White Men Who Make Escape, SO Gaffney, Aug. 24.?Information from Fort Mill, which reached here 5,. - - - . , 1 f+f* _ J 1 _l tHis morning, was to tne enect mat a daring burglary was committed at the Grattan brick yard, about two miles from town, last night. The story goes that the family of Mr. Charles B. McGill had gone into Fort Ed Mill, Mr. McGill staying at home. Ee Early in the evening he strolled down Pu to the brick plant to see after affairs, b^c but hearing a noise in his house he in returned to the house and found three men going through his possessions. It is said the intruders shot As seven times at Mr. McGill in an effort Th to kill him, but none of the shots wii took effect. He. in turn drew his $2 own pistol, but the weapon would Be not explode. The thieves jumped W< through windows and made good all their escape with $700 in cash, which Mr. McGill had in the house at the time. j It is stated that the officials at Fort Mill have a clue to the identity of the 1 1 ? ? J i A ? ? U r? + ? A m /-v Durgiars clilU It lib yiUUclUlc mat OUU'C arrests will be made to-morrow. ? ' | api NO MONEY FOR PRIOLEAU. to era Perpetual Contestant of Congressman a ; Legare's Seat Gets Nothing. sar hoi Washington, Aug. 22.?Aaron Pri- W( oleau, the South Carolina negro who wa has been getting good pay from the dai government every two years by mak- coi ing contests against Congressman on Legare, has probably drawn his last uni stipend from the federal till. Prio- dai leau has regularly been receiving $2,- din 000 for these bogus contests, and un- un/ til a short time ago his claims were < promptly paid. Now, however, the has axe has fallen. coi To-day, when the deficiency bill an< making provision for payment of Mr such claims came up, there was noth- boi ing for Prioleau. an( So far he has received about $18,- sh< 000 in hard cash from the govern- Uni ment. tha ?ej-n SHOWED OFF PISTOL. his Demonstration Ended in Partially Filling Hospital. Waxhaw, N. C., Aug. 26.?The ne- liv< gro campground at the old Red Springs, about six miles north of bo] ? - *^ 1 fat waxnaw, naa us usuai auuuai suuur ing last Sunday, when Harri Foster c*e showed his pistol to another negro, -1 Jim Stitt; whi is now in Massie's col- l)e( ored hospital at Monroe as the result an( of receiving what is said to have been JUS r an accidental shot. This is an old camp ground which an( has been used by the negroes for half SU1 a century. Hardly a year passes that wh pistols toters do not disturb the peace of the meeting with a free discharge of their weapons. str ? He Striking it Rich. arc in Mrs. John Hays Hammond, wife of the widely-known American mining dec engineer, shows as much appreciation of the marvels of the profession as anJ her husband, says the Pittsburg ho Chronicle-Telegraph. "One day a friend," she says, "came joyfully to Mr. Hammond, de- poj daring he had found oil flowing from bU a spring on his land. He brought a sample in a bottle. ^ "The bottle was one which he had picked up in a hurry somewhere amnnri the house. Mr. Hammond forwarded it to an expert chemist, go and he and his client waited with yoconsiderable impatience for the re- pa: port of the analysis to be returned. $5 In a few days this telegram was re- mc ceived: ha " 'Find no trace of oil. Your fus friend has struck paregoric.' " bo; frc WHISKEY SHIPPED INTO UNION. tfa( V6< Mayor Duncan Wires Revenue Offi- ' cers to Take Charge of Stuff. me Mayor Duncan, of Union telephon- an ed to Greenville last night for United j States Revenue Officer Aiken to come to Union on the first train and take charge of two solid car loads of whis- ^rc key which he is having guarded. The rgl whiskey is believed to be illegally ?1 r shipped, and for illegal purposes Cell hence the Union mayor intercepted tliem. One of the cars was consign- , ZD I cd to Union and the other to Colum- ? a m bia. The whiskey is thought to have v.. heen shinned to this State to be used " ui\ for campaign purposes. g ^ Revenue Officer Aiken left on the , be< first train for Union after receiving ^ na the call from Mayor Duncan. As a , to matter of precaution he suggests that ^ authorities all along the railway lines be on the lookout for whiskey. , ! bn Read The Herald, $1.50 a year. dis / I THE PALMETTO STAT ME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOU KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. ite News Boiled Down for Quic Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Mayor Grace, of Charleston, an itor Albert Orth, proprietor c utsche Zeitung, a German papc blished in Charleston, came t >ws in an argument over politic that city during the election Tues Y. The Branchville Building & Loa sociation was commissioned las ursdav bv the secretary of Stat th a proposed capital stock c 5,000. The petitioners are: P. I thea, L. H. Fairey, Steedma sathersbee and J. B. Williams, Jr of Branchville. f GROOM LOSES MIXD. A. Hurst, Who was Locked L Thursday fcight, Just Married. 1. A. Hurst, the young man wh )ealed to the police Thursday nigl lock him up, sayirig that he we zy, married Miss Louise Robersoi young lady of East Atlanta, tt oe afternoon about 1 o'clock at th ae of Rev. Virgil Xorcross, 4 jst End avenue. The ceremor s witnessed by the minister ighter, who talked with the youn lple for some time. They waite the porch there fully two houi til the preacher came, and h .r.UiA%, TT Anf Af f Vl A igiiici taw uuhung uui uj. f ary in the bridegroom's behavic der such circusmtances. \ Since the ceremony the man's min 3 apparently been a blank. Tt uple went up town on a trolley cs 1 at Broad and Marietta streei . Hurst put his bride on a ce md for her married sister's horn 1 told her he would see her late 3 heard nothing more from hi] til she saw in the Journal Sunda it the man was held at the polic tion in a demented condition unt relatives could be located. Miss Roberson, who is 20 years c i, comes of a fine family, and r< itly moved from Alabama. St 3s with her married sister. M rst gave his age as 30, and h ne as Griffin, Ga., and said h her was J. L. Hurst, of Social Ci , Ga. [t is understood the couple'ha\ m corresponding for some tim 1 that the groom came to Atlanl t to be married. rhe young man was well dressei 1 seemed quite out of place in h rroundings at the police statioi ere he has been since Thursda r\nf midm'crht Txrhon hAWflltpd im i icer Brady at Broad and Marietl eets, and asked to be locked u] later told the officer he had bee lund that corner since 2 o'cloc the afternoon. City Physicia rtin, after making an examinatic dared the man was insane. Moi r morning his father came for hin 1 said he would take his son to h me county, where he would I ed for insanity. The man has talked freely at tt ice station sinqe his incarceratio: tin all hisramblings he never one aded to his marriage on Thur; r.?Atlanta Journal, August 26. Baroness and Cats in Port. New York, Aug. 23.?With or Iden harp, 100 live cats in goc wling condition, one monkey, or rrot, one goat, one guinea pig an 0,000 or $60,000 worth of dii >nds blazing on arms, throat an ir, the Baroness Na.dine Von Kli< js reached New York to-day o srH the steamer President Lincol ?m Europe. The baronee has bee i wife of Percy Proctor, who som irs ago located a- soap factory i io, and has been making millior 2r since. The woman with tt inagerie is 28; her husband 6i d she is going to have a divorc< 0 $40,000 worth of soap factoryshe can get it. "I have come to get zee divorc >m M'sieu Proctaire certainment. narked the baroness as she stroke guinea pig with a hand whose an 'ried a $0,000 diamond bracelet. ".M'sieu Proctaire would not perm ; 1 scrube zee floors. But me, 1 zee-what you?zee housewife, sh to scrub zee floors. Viola, ze -orce." The baroness, who has ha *eral legal bouts with her husban :ause she will not live in Cincii ti,# is on her way to the Ohio cit collect that part of the $40,00 lich she gave up in advance to th stoms officers for the privilege c .nging in her menagerie and he imonds. 1 RESULT OF PRIMARY IN DOUBT s t C k Tillman Seems to be Elected.?Carter Pefeats . McLaurin for State Treasurer?Lyon and Pee- ? pies in Second Race for Attorney General. 1 >' Richards and Cansler to Run Over for Railo road Commissioner. ' :s J 1 Columbia, S. C., Aug. 28,4:00 p. m., Special to The Hera- s it aid:?Out of less than 120,000 votes so far reported from J e the primary election yesterday Blease is leading his two i 'J opponents for Governor by less than 1,000 votes. The ren suit is extremely in doubt and it may take an official count ' to decide. A second primary may be necessary between Jones and Blease, but it is impossible with returns at hand to state definitely. There are between 8,000 and 10,000 j 1 ?l!" x TT?-X ? J "D D Tillwion on i V VOteS Still OUt. umteu QlctbCE) kJCilctiUJ. u. xv. xmiiiaii aifjpears to have been re-elected over both his opponents. .0 Congressman Legare, Byrnes, Johnson, Aiken, Finley and Lever all appear to have been re-elected. J. W. Ragsa, dale defeated Congressman Ellerbe in the sixth district. ie S. T. Carter was overwhelmingly chosen State Treasq. urer over D. W. McLaurin. >y There will be a second race between J. Fraser Lyon and Thos. H. Peeples for Attorney General. Lyon is leading .d Peeples, with two others in the race, by over ten thousand "s votes. " Charleston appears to have gone for Jones by about >r 1,000 majority. Sheriff Martin, of Charleston, seems to have been re-1 X 3 le eieutea. , '! The complexion of the next general assembly will be < anti-Blease according to partial returns. 8. Neither Blease or Jones had any statement to give to f ? the press. RECORD. 1 Columbia, S. C., Aug. 28, 4:00 p. m., Special to The Heraid:?The latest available figures give Blease $7,107, Jones 56,751, Duncan 1,640. Charleston votes only partially in as yet, but county will probably give Jones a majority of ' ? at least 800, and possibly more. Returns indicate a second r- race: Probably 10,000 votes yet unaccounted for. Impos- ! |g sible to forecast result. CALDWELL. r" The latest returns in the race for Railroad Commissioner -e was that Richards was leading by a large vote with Cans- t ler next and Wharton tailing the ticket. There will be a < a second race between Richards and Cansler. i. f is 1 RESULT IN BARNWELL COUNTY. LV * J Barnwell, Aug. 27.?Twenty-one out of twenty-seven ' p. boxes give, for State Senate, Davis 415, Harley 747, Pat- ' ;? terson 1,051. For the House, Boulware 408, Cochran 528, ? n Creech 1,038, Folk 858, Mixon 1,328, Talley 1,085, Warner , n 1,076. For Clerk of Court, Duncan 677, Hagood 429, < J" Simms 1,119. For Sheriff, Creech 965, Morris 1,288. For 1 is Master, Buist 884, O'Bannon 1,416. For Coroner, Blume , >e 115, Croft 459, Delk 210, Halford 506, Lancaster 344, Still ? ie 176, Woodward 514. For Treasurer, Armstrong 2,253. { 3. For Auditor, Riley 2,253. For Supervisor, Allen 254, t * Bates 129, Bennett 254, Cave 116, Diamond 380, Grubs 362, c Langley 87, Moody 335, Sanders 319. Morris elected sher- J iff. Mixon elected to House. ? ie id . 'e RESULT IN BAMBERG COUNTY. y d ' *- The election in this county passed off very quietly, alf_ though there was considerable interest taken. All the ren turns came in by about ten o'clock. The table published in n another column contains the figures sent in by the man- ' e agers to County Chairman H. C. Folk, and are no doubt , n correct. 1 '* Jones carried the county for Governor by a majority of ] X 5, 109 votes. ^ For Attorney General Peeples led Lyon by about 75 votes, the others getting few votes. :e For Railroad Commissioner Richards led with Cansler 9 d second, Richards having a good majority over all. n For State Treasurer Carter carried the county over Mc- i Laurin, beating him more than two to one. ; i For Congress Byrnes simply ran away with Calhoun, 1 carrying the county by a majority of nearly three to one. d For State Senator J. B. Black received a majority of; <i more than two to one over J. F. Folk. For House of Representatives Miley led the ticket, he! o and Hunter being elected, with Crum and Carroll following ? in the order named. Ij. For Sheriff J. Felder Hunter led the ticket, with S. G. (Contined on Page 4.) i Li ' >jj V The Latest. Columbia, S. C., Aug. 28, j:30 p. m., Special to The Herald. ? Incomplete reurns give Governor Blease 58,721, Jones 57,118, Duncan 1,777. THE STATE. . It will be seen from the <. ibove that Blease likes only . *' / 174 votes going in on the irst primary. There are still more votes to be heard :rom, which may change the :esult. ^ BADLY BATTERED IN STORM. 5ort Patrick Reaches Adelaide After , Suffering Serious Loss. , tr' . viral ~~;>S*j San Francisco, Aug. 26.?The 3ritish ship Port Patrick, from New fork, reached Adelaide, Australia, ninus her mate, two seamen, a suit )f sails and the ship's stores, accordng to advices received here to-day. The Port Patrick, sailing on Januiry 2, met her first storm on,e day )ut and her last on the iay~ before >he .reached Adelaide and saw no fair ^'ieZa veather. Two weeks out, a northwest gale Irove a wave over her stern and mapped off her wheel, carrying the ;wo steersmen to their death. Sweepng forward, the comber wrenched iway the wheel box and two compasses, smashed the cabin skylight vo ind flooded the ship's scores. The ihant house was crumpled up and as ;he ship, free from her helm, rolled nto the trough of the sea, the wind stripped her upper canvas and reiuced the rest to ribb#ns. A temporary steering gear rescued ler for the time, and with makeshift v; J, sails she weathered gale after gale intil she made the Australian coast. The mate died of heart disease. ^ o l,Vhat He Considered the Best Part. "Walter, did you give your brothar the best part of the apple, as I :old you to?" asked the mother. "Yes, mother," said Waiter, "I ?ave him the seeds. He can plant em and have a whole orchard." Burns in New Orleans. New Orleans, Aug. 26.?Following ;he publication in a local newspaper >f an article stating that Detective William J. Burns at the instance of several citizens, is making an investigation of municipal conditions in ^ew Orleans which have been proluctive of sensational revelations, , , ' ? Vlayor Martin Behrman to-day reluested Judge Chreiten, of the crim- Y'M nal district court, to convene a special session of the grand jury to make in independent investigation. -V.1 'v^Jj "It is said the investigation-by the 3urns agency has brought to light conditions almost as startling as hose which existed in Atlantic City, Detroit and other cities where Burns lad been called upon to expose graft md corruption. "I demand facts, no{ rumors or lints," asserted Mayor Behrman. "If here is any corruption in the police t ' ? )r any other department of the city jovernment, I want the public to enow it and so far as I am concernsd, I pledge the people that no man, vhatever his positon, will be shieldsd from prosecution, and if guilty mnishment." THROWS HERSELF FROM TOWER Suicide One of the Most Startling and Spectacular Ever Known. Paris, Aug. 24.?An elegantly Iressed young girl, whose identity las not yet been established, comnitted suicide by throwing herself fA from the topmost platform of the Eiffel tower, 905 feet from the 'round. The girl ascended in the lift and vas seen to scribble something hastiy in her notbcok and then to tear lp what she had written. For a monent she leant on the balustrade jontemplating the superb panorama ipread out at her feet and weeping utterly. Then she suddenly sprang rnto the bench running round the % arge platform and dived head first >ut of one of the windows. '*, Her body .dropped to the second Untform tppf helovv. after be " ' '" T ~~~~ ,t ng practically cut in two on the inerven'ing iron work. The remains vere mutilated beyond recognition. n the pocket of her serge tailor-made Iress was found $1.96 in French noney and a pencilled note giving he address of a Paris hotel. There, lowever, the girl was quite unknown. rhe remains were sent to the morgue. ; r .'A ..