Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SURE, HE WON OUT. After Merry Chase With Father and Officers, Couple are Married. Bristol, Tenn., Sept. 11.?Arthur Hagy, 22, and Miss Myrtle Moore, 16, were married at Johnson City, Tenn., to-day following a sensational elopement. Monday night young Hagy drove to the girl's home in an automobile, expecting to steal her out, but she had been locked up and her father, who was in hiding, opened fire on Hagy as he crept under the girl's window. Hagy fled and in so doing returned the fire. To-day young Hagy sent an automobile party to Liberty Hall school and they sue ceeded in getting the girl into the car. The alarm was give'n and an officer at Abingdon, Va., undertook to stop Hagy's automobile but was unable to do so until he had shot through one of the tires. Hagy ars rived on the scene about this time and began firing. The girl had been transferred to another vehicle some miles back and upon learning this Hagy left the officer in charge of the car he had halted and which h? supposed contained the missing girl. The ruse was complete. The couple made their escape and were married at Johnson City. How They Build the Panama Canal. No work in the world has a wider or deeper interest iof the American people than that done on the Isthmus of Panama in the construction of the great canal. The farmers of the South should watch its progress and await its opening with personal interest. In an article in Collier's Weekly, Mr. Davis thus describes the transformation of the isthmus, under Col. Gorgas: When Col. Gorgas and his assist ?c.+V?mne thov fftllfld ttllUS L'dLLiC LU lire lotumug the canal a sewer and Colon and Panama pesthouses. After two years and a half of work, they made the isthmus a place as healthy as any spot in the United States. They established a strict quarantine, wiped out the swamps, exterminated the mosquitoes, built reservoirs for water, drains for sew-4 erage, streets, roads, aqueducts. And while the medical corps of the army was making the isthmus a healthy place in which to live, the engineers of the army and those civilian engineers who are of the old regime, the survivors of the fittest, made it an extremely comfortable place in which to live. They constructed 2,000 buildings and remodeled 1,700 more. These included hospitals, hotels and clubs. And they organized a department store that every day feeds 35,000 canal employes and their families with the kind of food they want, and furnishes them with everything from khaki overalls to invisible hairpins. They also recognize that, no matter how healthy a man may be, if he is discontented, ha is a poor workman, and for the entn.tninmnnf r\f +Vl Cl OmnlflTPS tVlPV LCI laiuuicu i ui i.uv j ? called to their aid the Y. M. C. A. This organiation took three months to study the conditions existing on the Zone, and then accepted the responsibility of making life there more cheerful, more interesting and more like home. It organized clubs in which are reading rooms, billiards, bowling alleys, it started baseball nines, debating societies, camera clubs, "smokers" and dances, until now the life of the employe can be as strenous by night as it is by day, and in exercises that are healthy and helpful. Well housed, well fed, and magnificently led, it is not surprising that this army of men has fought mightily, or that what is at this moment going on in the Canal Zone is to an American one of the most splendid and inspiring efforts of his own people. Not only as a feat of engineering, but as a triumph of organization, as a lesson in discipline, as a proof that men can handle millions of other people's money, disbursing it in every part of the world to people of many nationalities, and with a local payroll of two millions a month, without there being brought against them one charge of graft or self-seeking or personal gain. 'The same spirit that inspires the man who disburses the millions in spires the man who is actually building the canal, and those who feed, nurse and shelter him, those men who by relieving the combatant of all responsibilities enable him to devote himself entirely t'o the fight. All that is asked of the combatant is that he make the dirt fly. Butcher's bills, house rent, tax collectors, are not permitted to disturb him. He is as carefully cherished and looked after as the fighting cock or a star football ~1 1- TVio ormr r\ f flfi A ic rl i v i a rl CI i cl x j vi w j v v v i v.* t ? v*-vxv? into "gold" employes and "silver" employes. That cuts the knot of the color line and a rigid rule that gives each man a house or a room exactly in proportion to his wages wipes out any question of favoritism. If he be worth a good deal to the commission, he is entitled to a house to himself; if he is not worth so much, a half of a house or the first or second story of a house; if he is worth still less, SENT UP FOR ARSOX. Colored Parties Given Fifteen Years by Judge Menuninger. Laurens, Sept. 15.?The fall term of general sessions court for this county adjourned Saturday afternoon, after being in session five days and disposing of a considerable amount of work. One of the cases of most general interest was that of the State vs Alvin Woody and Essie Vaughn, both colored, charged with arson. This was the last case of the court, the trial of which consumed the greater part of yesterday. The case was given to the jury at 4 o'clock, and after deliberating about an hour a verdict of guilty with recommendation to mercy was returned, as to both, and the court sentenced each to serve a term of 15 years. On the night of March 20, Mr. W. L. Teague, who lives eight miles south of the city, lost his barn and stock and 4k considerable amount of produce by fire. Following an investigation of the fire by B. A. Wharton, deputy officer of the insurance department of South Carolina, Woody and the woman, Essie Vaughn, were arrested, charged with the burning. Th? theory of the State, as developed by the testimony, was that the torch was applied by the man at the instigation of the woman, evidence being offered to show the relations between the two, and the State advancing as a motive evidence that the woman had said that Mr. Teague had helped put her husband, Marshall Vaughn, on the chain gang; that Mr. Teague had some money, stock and buildings, but they wouldn't do him any good. The fire occurred a few days after the convietion of Essie's husband. The evidence of the State included statements of the defendants testified to x? _ _ J m + Dy Messrs. wnanun auu itaguc. viuer statements and the conduct of the defendants -were also placed in the evidence. No direct confession was introduced, all the tetsimony being of a circumstantial nature. Because of the illness of Solicitor Cooper, Messrs. R. E. Babb and Jno. M. Cannon conducted the prosecution in this case. . Before adjourning the court Judge Memminger sentenced Eugene Davenport to a term of seven years, the defendant having been convicted Friday of manslaughter. Davenport is a negro and killed another of his race last Christmas. The Stamp Moved. Two weeks ago I visited an insane asylum in northern Indiana. My guide was. the head physician. Pointing out one harmless looking fellow, the doctor said to me: "Do you see that man? That's Johnson. A month ago I told him he was cured and to get ready to go home in a week. He sat down to write the folks at home the joyful news. Finishing the letter, he sealed it, wet a stamp and started to stick it on the envelope. "But in some way the stamp fell out of his fingers and on the floor. It happened to light on the back of a fly, but Johnson didn't know that. As he watched it the stamp began to climb the legs of the table, then suddenly it went right off into the air. Johnson sat still for a mom. nt. Then he slowly tore up the letter. " 'Darn it,' he said, 'I can't go home for a year.' "?Richard Carle in N. Y. American. Fatal Family Feud. Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 15.?Tom Thomas was shot and instantly killed here this afternoon by his brotherin-law, Homer J. Hale. Relatives who saw the shooting say that Thomas was advancing, on Hale with an axe when he fired. Coroner Brasher states, however, that Thomas has four bullet wounds, and that all of the shots entered from the back. Carl R. Lowe was also arrested in connection with the affair. he gets a room or in one room he bunks with others. With men of family the same rule obtains. They are given accommodations that differ from those allotted to bachelors, but the comfort of these accommodations is in proportion to the earning power of the head of the family. Everything else is "found." Men who wish to keep house, if they have a house to keep, can do so and every article of food and furniture is supplied them almost at cost or below cost a .hnrhelor has his housekeenins: looked after by the commission. When each morning he goes to work he knows that when he returns his bed will have been made, his room cleaned and his supper at the hotel ready. The commission nurses the employe when he is ill, pays the salary of his clergyman, whether he be Catholic, Protestant, or Hebrew; furnishes him with free coal and light and ice at cost; educates his children and pays for their school books; furnishes the billiard tables and bowling alleys in the Y. M. C. A. clubs, to which he can belong if he pays $10 a year, and washes his clothes for him.?Home and Farm: CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST'S FAITH "Gentleman" Burglar and Murder* Has No Fear of Electric Chair. Boston, Sept. 13.?Fortified his absolute faith in the Christi; Science doctrine of the unrealty pain and suffering, Bertram G. Spe . cer, convicted of the murder of Mi Martha B. Blackstor.e at Springfiel Mass., March 31, 1910, is fearless and almost cheerfully awaiting 1 death in the electric chair, which u der the terms of the sentence pr nounced in July is to take place da ing the week beginning Septemb 15. Bertram G. Spencer, now occup ing the death cell in the Charlestov prison, where he is calmly awaitii the end, is in many respects one the most remarkable criminals knov to American crimonologv. Psycho] gists and alienists are intensely inte ested in his case and are inclined consider Spencer one of the most pe feet samples of dual perosnality. Spencer is a comparatively youi man. He was born about 31 yea ago and comes from a good famil with a record which shows no a parent trace of criminal taint. I received a good common school ed cation, in his boyhood, never displa ed any evil tendencies and never, far as is known, associated wri criminals of any kind. liaving coi pleted his school course, Spencer e tered upon a commercial career a3 worked for various business co cerns, making the impression of faithful, honest and capable emploj His last position was with a who] sale provision house in Springfiel Mass., where he filled the positb of shipping clerk, receiving a fair si arv, which enabled him to mainta his young wife and his two-year-o son, whom he idolizes, in comfo] able style. He lived on Porter av nue, West Springfield, had many s cial connections and was general respected. Gentleman Burglar. About four years ago Springfie and vicinity became the scene of nnmVinr r\f Vol r-Crl Q TM DC tvhlPh PTPfl t UUU1UC1 \JL k-'Ul ftiW! M.VM v. ?... considarable sensation owing to t personality and unusual methods well, as the apparent fearlessness the man who committed them. T burglar, according to the statemer of his victims, seemed to be a m; of education and, in a manner ge tlemanly in his deportment. If I victims accepted the situation wi good grace and parted with th< money and other valuables witho protest, the burglar treated the with *great consideration, chatti: pleasantly with them while he cai fully selected his plunder. If th were unruly, he made short shrift gaging them and tying them to t bedposts, wardrobes, doors, etc. T "gentleman burglar" never manifei ed fear of being discovered in I work by the police, but he was e1 dently determined not to take a risk of being caught. One man, w tried to escape to give an alar: was shot down by the burglar befo he had reached the door. No tra of the burglar was found by the p lice, although he committed 24 bur laries and hold-ups within a space two years. On the evening of March 31, 191 a burglar entered the house of M: Dow in Springfield through $ wi dow and, revolver in hand afad 1 face hidden behind a black clol appeared at the door of a room whe Mrs. Dow, her two daughters a the;" ^uest, Miss Martha B. Blac stone, were engaged in working ov a picture puzzle. The women screai ed when they saw the intruder a: ran into the next room, but we halted by the command of the bur lar. Miss Blackstone, disregards the command, ran screamingingly t ward the door, when the burglar sh her through the heart, killing her i stantly. One of the daughters of Mi Dow, who also tried to escape, w severly wounded by another shot. Locket the Clue. A locket, containing the picture two women, which was found on t lawn of a house visited by the sat burglar, was identified as the pre erty of Spencer and he was arrest on suspicion. He made a full cc fession of his numerous burglari and of having killed Miss Blackstor after a great deal of incriminati evidence had been found in his hou: He was indicted for murder a: pleaded insanity. The alienists a pointed by the court reported Spe cer insane and he was sent to t Hospital for the Criminal Insane Bridgewater, where he remained tfye time of his trial, which beg at Springfield, November 13, 191 Spencer created wild scenes duri the trial and was convicted of mi der in the first degree on Xovemfc 2.r?, 1911. Appeals proved withe avail, and on July 2, 1912, Jud John H. Crosby of the superior coi in Springfield pronounced the dea sentence. During his confinement jail Spencer became interested Christian Science and under the i fluence of its doctrines lost eve trace of fear of death. Rub-My Tism will cure you. [. KILLED ON RAILROAD TRACK. ?r, Union County Farmer's Head Split and Leg Amputated. by Union, Sept. 11.?Bird Ivev, a an middle aged farmer, living a few of miles north of Union, was found dead n- this morning by the side of the ss Southern Railway track, half a mile d, from the station, with his head cut ily open and leg amputated. It is supiis posed that Mr. Ivey was killed by the n- Southren passenger train which passo ed here about 2 o'clock a. m. ir- "" Followed the Rig Noise, er & A Scotch story is that of a diminu,y" tive drummer in a local brass band vn who was in the habit when out parading with his comrades of walking by sound and not by sight, owing to his rn drum being so high that he was un?" able to see over it. The band, on iT~ Saturday afternoons, paraded usut0 ally in one direction; but the other tr~ day the leader thought he would change the route a little, and turned *5 down a by-street. The drummer, unTS aware of this movement, kept on his ,y? accustomed way, drumming as hard as ever he could. By and by, after * finishing his part, and not hearing the u" others he stopped, and, pushing his y" drum to one side, he looked to see s0 what was the matter. His astonishment may be imagined at finding that n~ he was alone. u~ "Hae!" he cried to some bystana(* ders, "has any o' yee see a band n~ hereabouts?" ? Philadelphia Telea graph. ? . DELICATE CHILDREN ?in Made Strong by Vinol u~ "I wish I could induce every mothin tr who has a delicate, sickly child, to try your delicious cod liver iron tonic, rt- Vinol. re- "It restored our little daughter to iO- health and strength after everything Lly else had failed. It tastes so good she loved to take it?not a bit of cod liver oil taste.?Mrs. C. W. Stump, Canton, Ohio." The reason Vinol is so successful a In building up puny, delicate, ailing ed children, is because it is a combinahe tion of the two most world-famed tonas Ics?the medicinal body-building eleof ments of cod liver oil, aided by the he blood-making and strength-creating lts properties of tonic iron. B If we can induce you to try a bottle an of Vinol as a body-builder and n- -i?? ~av vauh and DUOUglUXlOawl 1U1 JUU1 v., lis you do not find It is all we claim, we th will return your money on demand. 5ir Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. lit Z Delays Are Dangerous I represent the Mutual Life Ine" surance Co., of New York, one of the by strongest old line companies in exke istence. Let me show you our many . attractive policy contracts. I also represent the Standard Live Stock 3t- Insurance Co., of Indianapolis. This lis is a strong company. Insure your horses and cattle. W.MAX WALKER EHRHARDT, S. C. m, re PORTABLE AND STATIONARY Engines 0, AND BOILERS rs. 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FRANK BAMBERG, ttl |B T I |ir Bamberg, S. C. In III I I J- F* Carter B. D. Carter. II U I I UL CARTER & CARTER Tfl TUC DIIDI IP Attorneys-at-Law I II I H F K II K I I li BAMBERG, S. C. I U I lib I VUblV tn,m Special attention given to setin need, of ttement of estates and invest!- u Farming Imple- gation of land titles, ments such as J ' Corn Drills, Stalk G. MOTE DICKINSON Cutters, Disc Har- insurance agent , . rows, Grain Bind- ww write Anything ers, Mowers and j Fire, Tornado, Accident, Lia- t Rakes, Gasoline bilit*'' Casaalty' in the ? * * r> strongest and most reUngines, J* 1. l^ase liable companies. Road Machinery My Motto: "Buy What I Need and a in Bamberg, and From Those _ . .a,. Who Patronize Me. " r 1 d? bCn^rdi AOpdlf JilUjJ I 'Phone 10-L, or at Oil Mill I see ,1 BAMBERG, S. C. DJ.DELK | DR. J. G. BOOZER BAMBEBC. S. C. | D T' ; S. G. MAYFIELD. W. E. FREE, j Graduate Baltimore College of Den- f MAYFIELD & FREE | Member South Carolina Dental AssoAtnSraQ"raW \ OmcfRooms 1-2 Citizens Exchange BAMBERG, S. C. | BuiIding. Practice in all the Courts, both ; Hours: 9-12 and 2-5 every day. State and Federal. Corporation : ???????practice and the winding up of es- 5 or 6 doses 666 will break any ? cneeialtv. Business entrust-} case of Chills & Fever; and if taken 1 nrlll T1 rtf / ^Tto us' will be promptly attended j tn? ? ap ? ? ? j to. * ' r v v" ' *' " v'^'O i *' '' "