The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 19, 1912, Page 3, Image 3
MEETS DEATH IX HAZING.
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4 Governor
of State Has Called on President
of University to Investigate.
Raleigh, N. C., Sept. 13.?Governor
Kitchin to-night called upon President
Venable of the State university
< to make complete investigation of the
death to-day of Isaac William Rand,
a freshman, as the alleged result of
hazing by four sophomores.
The coroner's inquest at Chapel
Hill this afternoon resulted in hold:
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W. C. Merrimon, of Wilmington; A.
V ' C. Hatch, of Mount Olive, and R. W.
Oldham, of Raleigh. All are sopho>
mores and are held in default of
$5,u00 bond each.
The evidence brought out was that
Rand was forced by the sophomores
to sing and dace o na barrel and
that while performing the part he
was either thrown by the barrel be
* ing kicked from under him or he
fell. A piece of broken glass pierced
his neck, severing the jugular vein
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y r fled, but two others and Rand's room
mate, also the victim of the prank,
remained and called for help. Rand
died in ten minutes.
President Venable had the four
boys arrested and an inquest was held
this afternoon. Gen. Julian S. Carr,
v millonaire of Durham, announced tonight
that he would raise the bonds
and allow the boys to return to their
parents.
Xegro Confesses Mysterious Homicide
Anderson, Sept. 14.?A homicide,
i which occurred eight weeks ago in the
t town of Belton, and which up to now
has been shrouded in mystery, was
completely cleared up to-day when
Waiters Sumter, a young negro man
who claims Sumter as his home, confessed
to having thrown the rock
.. which killed Will Grove, another ne
gro, as he, Grove, stood in his tent
in the interurban construction camp.
Sumter was arrested on suspicion on
the morning after the killing, but
was released after being held about
rme-hnif hnnr. Two weeks latet the
officers got in behind "Sumter and rearrested
him in Greenville. He was
brought to the county jail here, and
his confession to-day was made in his
cell.
According to Sumter's statement
he had loaned $5 to Grove, who
v ? worked with him on the interurban
railway. Sumter says that he went
to GrdVe's tent on the night of the
killing, which was on a Sunday
night, and that Grove became angry
when he asked him to pay him what
he owed him. Sumter says that
Grove picked up a piece of board and
y. * struck him across his left arm, and
then reached down as if to find
something with which to strike him
again. Sumter says he then picked
up a rock which was on the floor
of the tent and that he hurled it at
Grove. The rock hit Grove's head,
and he staggered and fell across his
^ cot. Sumter says he thought he had
merely wounded Grove, and that he
went to his own. boarding place
where he was later arrested. He de*
nied his guilt at that time. Sumter
says he realized that the "jig" was
up when he was arrested the second
time,, and he decided to confess.
The rock that Sumter admits having
thrown almost buried itself in
Grove's head. His skull was badly
smashed. Grove came to Belton from
Greenwood, and was about 45 years
of age. Sumter will be tried for
murder at the approaching term of
criminal court.
"Break" on the Wire.
Two telegraph operators were
i seated in a downtown cafe recently
when an athletic young man and an
exceedingly pretty girl entered. They
were placed at a table opposite the
"key" men, who were sitting side by
side in a position facing the girl. As
is the custom of the craft when wishing
to discuss Someone in a public
place they telegraphed to each other,
' using their knives on the plate.
"Peacherino, isn't she?" one ticked
to the other.
"A tree full," came back the tapping
reply. "Wonder who the sac!;
is with her?"
"Search me?looks like a boob
tied up with a wren like her."
"Bet they aren't married. If they
are, all she needs to do to get a divorce
is to exhibit that map of his in
court."
While the two men were enjoying
a huge laugh over their silent jok
v ing they were surprised and somewhat
alarmed to hear some more
"table knife telegraphy." The "peacherino"
was doing it and she did not
look at all pleased, either.
"You two would better look out
while you are all together," carelessly
ticked her knife blade, while she
listened to something her companion
was saying. "This sack and boob, as
you called him, with the divorce map,
is my husband?boilermaker by
trade. He eats fresh little boys."
Something happened to the
"wires" about that time and all communication
ceased.?Kansas City
Journal.
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XO DOWRIES, SAYS QUEEN MARY
Her Attendants Will No Longer Receive
Gifts When They Marry.
London, Sept. 11.?Queen Mary,
who is of an economical turn of mind,
has directed the royal chamberlain
to discontinue the time-honored custom
of giving marriage dowries to
maids of honor. Victoria, as queen
in her own right, had eight maids of
honor always at her court, and whenever
a maid became a bride she rei
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Cupid found much encouragement
under those conditions, for though
maids of honor are usually either the
daughters or near relatives of peers,
they are not all wealthy.
Mary, inasmuch as she is only a
queen-consort, is limited by state etiquette
to four maids of honor. They
are miss Venetia Baring, Miss Katherine
Villiers, Miss Ursula Lawley
and Miss Mabel Gye. Each of them
on becoming a maid of honor attains
the title of Honorable for the rest
of her life. '
The present queen has also let it
be known that there is to be no raise
in the salary of a maid of honor,
which is $1,500 a year; almost a
quarter of that sum has to be spent
for gloves alone.
A maid of honor must be a clever
and agreeable talker and a charming
and accomplished girl, up on books
and music; able, like the queen, to
speak German, French and Italian;
a fine dancer; and good at cards and
needlework. She must, of course,
dress extremely well. Sometimes,
when in the country, the queen occupies
the afternoon in needlework, at
which she is very expert, and the
maid of honor in attendance on her
either reads or plays, or else helps
her in making garments for the poor.
When the court is at Buckingham
Palace the maids of honor generally
go on duty just before lunch time. A
royal carriage or auto is sent to the
private house of each maid and they
lunch at the palace with the royal
household, after which they await the
queen's commands. If they are not
needed they go home. Two of them
usually attend the queen whenever
she appears in public, at concert, garden
party, theatre, opera, or other
function.
All of the maids have to attend the
state balls, and at Windsor Castle,
where, in the season, there is a constant
round of banquets, balls, etc.,
the maids scarcely even have an idle
moment. All of these functions mean
many changes of dress. On informal
occasions the maids lunch with other
members of the household, but in the
evening they dine with the king and
queen.
Miss Gye's grandfather, the first
viscount Bridport, was a member of
Queen Victoria's household for sixty
years, and till his death, in 1904, he
was a member of King Edward's
household. Miss Gye's uncle, the
Hon. Alexander Hood, was for many
years comptroller to the household of
Princess Mary of Teck, mother of
the present queen.
JOHNSON TELLS QUEER TALE.
Xegro Pugilist Says Fight with Jeffries
Made Him a Nervous Wreck.
Chicago, Sept. 12.?Etta Duryea
Johnson, the wihte wife of Jack
Johnson, champion heavy-weight pugilist,
died a suicide after wrecking
her health in caring for the champion,
who was a victim of nervous
prostration and had been afflicted
with suicidal mania for a year on account
of injuries and exertion during
his fight with Jeffries. This was
the testimony of Johnson at the inquest
here to-day over the body of
the woman who shot herself last
night in her rooms over the champion's
saloon.
"I am still suffering from the effects
of that fight to some extent,"
he said.
Johnson gave his testimony in
tears. He declared that his wife's
efforts to keep him from committing
suicide were what broke down ner
own health. He said:
"I believe that I incurred brain
fever or some similar derangement
from the exertions of the Jeffries
fight and the heat that prevailed at
the time. I was not myself for a
year. My wife saved me twice when
I tried to choke myself to death. She
seized me and struggled with me
and prevented the act. She had an
awful time taking care of me for
over a year. I am only telling this
now in justice to my wife. It never
has been told before."
Testifying as to his wife's suicidal
mania, Johnson said:
"During the last two years she often
told me she was tired of living.
She tried twice to kill herself. Once
she attempted to jump out of a window
in a London hotel, and before
that she tried to take her life by
lpanin? from a train out West.
"I did everything I could to make
her happy and spent money on her
lavishly, but most of the time she
seemed despondent. Her father died
,four months ago and since then she
seemed more nervous and despondent
than before."
A PLACE FOR SAM NICHOLS.
Governor Appoints Him on Board of
Regents of Asylum.
Columbia, Sept. 12.?The governor
to-day appointed John O. Darby
to fill the unexpired term of T. W.
Shannon, deceased, as supervisor of
Chester county. He named John W.
Austin as supervisor of Greenville
county to fill out the unexpired term
of J. P. Goodwin, deceased. The late
Mr. Goodwin was defeated for reelection
to the office of supervisor of
Greenville county and died within a
few days after his defeat. The late
Mr. Shannon was rounding out a
term as supervisor of Chester county,
and died a few days before the
election.
The governor also appointed Sam
J. Nichols, of Spartanburg, as a memt
ber of the board of regents of the
State Hospital for the Insane, vice J.
Wright Nash, resigned, and named
Wm. M. Hamer, of Dillon, to fill the
1 vacancy on the board of trustees of
TTniirorcitv r\ f Qrkii + Vl Pornlina VlPf?
R. P. Hamer, his brother, deceased.
Oldest Paper to Suspend.
It is reported from China that the
oldest newspaper in the world, the
Pekin Gazette, is about to suspend
publication. The first number appeared
in 911 A. D. and since 1351,
more than a century before the discovery
of America, it has appeared
regularly.
The Pekin Gazette has published
a daily budget of the imperial court
news and has been a repository of
edicts from the throne, memorials
from Provincial Governors and reports
from Chinese officials. It would
be wrong to infer that its contents
were always dry. Frequently the
Gazette has contained news of great
interest to the world and information
illuminating one phase or another of
Chinese character or the gevernmental
regime.
The files of the venerable paper
are among the curiosities of typography.
During a part of the eighteenth
century it was printed in the
imperial palace from movable copper
type and in the last eighty years
from movable type carved out of
wood.
The Chinese government will now
supplant the publication by the Government
Gazette, which will be much
larger and conducted along more
modern lines. It will be the official
government organ. The disappearance
of the Pekin Gazette is one of
the signs of the times illustrating the
mighty changes that are coming to
pass in China.?The Fourth Estate.
MORE FRAUD IN ANDERSON.
Negro's Name Appears on Polling
List Twice.
Anderson, Sept. 14.?The sub-committee
of the county executive committee
which is inquiring into the
charges of fraud in the. recent election
had another session to-day.
Nothing of much importance came to
the surface, except that the name of
L. S. Stamps appears on the Orr mill
polling list and also on the Ward 4
polling list.
The committee spent most of its
time in rearranging the polling lists
and club rolls in list of alphabetical
order, which is a considerable job,
as there are 53 boxes in the county.
The committee t will hold frequent
meetings to receive testimony and
affidavits and to check the rolls. Also
a corps of clerks will remain on the
job in the work mapped out by the
members of the sub-committee.
The fact that the name of G. W.
Wright, a negro,, appears on the Concrete
precinct polling list twice, has
caused more comment and interest
than any other alleged irregularity
that has yet been brought out.
SEVEN YEARS FOR BENSON.
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lireenvine Man wno onoi m.
Wing, Given Long Sentence.
Greenville, Sept. 14.?In the general
sessions court to-day Ernest Benson,
who shot C. M. Wing, at the latter's
quarry, near the city, some time
ago, was sentenced to seven years in
the penitentiary. Benson was paroled
three weeks ago, having served half
of a six-year sentence for manslaughter.
Wing recovered after spending
several weeks in a hospital. Lee
Mathis, charged with arson, housebreaking
and larceny was given a
sentence of thirteen years. He was
convicted of burning J. P. Moon's
barn in the Dark Corner about a year
ago.
A Harmony of Opinion.
She was holding the teething baby,
trying to pacify Alice with a toothache,
and attempting to instruct her
husband how to prepare a mixture
for Roy's sore throat?all at the same
time, says Lippincott's.
"John, if I could have looked forward
ten years and taken in this
scene, do you know what I should
have done?"
John, with alacrity: "Yes, dear:
just what I wish I had done."
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SEQUEL TO MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY.
Man Who Slew His Brother-in-Law i
Arrested.
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Nashville, Sept. 14.?A story jj
redolent with the flavor of the moun- I
tains is contained in a special from ;
Elizabethton, Tenn., recording the |
identification of a man in the Sulli- \
van county jail as John Triplett, al- \
leged to have killed his brother-in- 1
law, John Potter, near the North |
Carolina line six years ago and said ^
to have escaped. At the time a broth- a
er, Will Triplett, was arrested, but =
acquitted. I
The Elizabethton story alleges that
the feeling of the Triplett boys ^
against Potter went back to Potter's |
courting days, when they were chil- |
dren. Potter and his sweetheart would |
sit up late and consume the firewood |
prepared by the boys for morning. 1
When this occurred the father vigor- |
ouslv corrected the boys. Finally one |
night the suitor arose to replenish the 11
fire and the youngsters protested, a |
fight resulted in which the boys were 1
worsted. It is alleged that they never |
forgave Potter, though he married 1
their sister. < |
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Four of a Kind. |
Judge Isaac Russell, Chief Justice |
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New York city, undertook a private ^
and unannounced tour of inspection |
among the various corrective and 1
charitable institutions of his juris- |
diction. Late in the afternoon he |
entered'the outer office of one of the g=
insane asylums. p
"I should like to make a trip |
through this place," he said to an |
underkeeper, who chanced to be in j
sole charge of the office temporarily. |
"Visitors' days are Wednesdays 1
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and Saturdays," said the keeper 11
shortlv: "and besides, it's after i ?
hours." jF
"But I insist on being shown
through," said his Honor. j
"Well, you've got nerve!" growled
the keeper. "Who are you to be givin' |
me orders?" f
"I am Chief Justice Russell, of the I
Court of Special Sessions," was the |
answer. ft
"That'll be about all," said the
keeper wearily. "We've got three of
you in here now. Why don't you
call yourself George Washington? Uj
there's only one of him!"?Saturday |H
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She Was Not So Stout., I
A Chicago man in London was in- g
vited to a ball where everybody ex- 1
cept himself talked with an exceed- 1
in.gly broad a, as in Boston, and, of 8
course, as everybody does in London. 0
The accent was puzzling to his Chi- I
cago ears, but the guest did his best. I
He danced a waltz with the wife of
his host. The lady spoke with an
especially broad accent, and she ran
somewhat to flesh. When they had
finished the round of the floor she
was panting in a repressed and wellbred
way.
"Shall we try another whirl?" inquired
the Chicago man, eagerly.
"Not now," she smiled, "I'm so
dawnced out."
"Not bv a long shot,'? said the
Westerner with emphasis. "You're By
far from being darned stout. In fact M
you're about the neatest figure of any |
little girl I've seen yet in London.''
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