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w (Htg iambgrg feralft One Dollar and a Hall a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7,1912. "Mm-* ' COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Denmark Doings. Mrs. White entertained on Friday evening with a Halloween party. Misses Lula Bess Wroton and Martha Ray spent the week-end at home. % Quite a crowd attended the State fair last week, among whom were: Messrs. W. L. Riley, J. Z. Brooker, Elbert Steadman, St. Clair Guess, Hammond Crum, Elma Steadman, Wesley Crum, A. P. Guess, W. D., Jr., and J. K. Mayfield, C. S. Folk, Jr., Tom McCrae, Earle Hightower, and S. D. Guess; Mrs. S. G. Ray, Mrs. H. J. Faust and daughters, Misses Alma .b'OiK ana Hiana oieaumau. Miss Myrtle McNeely, of Hamlet, N. C., is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. i Bean. I Miss Jalia Goolsby spent last week j with Miss Nell Carter in Columbia. Mr. John R. Martin celebrated his sixtieth birthday on last Tuesday, October 28th, by entertaining quite a number of his friends. \ Country Correspondence. Harvesting season is fast growing to a close. Sunday night's fall in the temperature, leaving Jack Frost's singeing finger prints, caused many to hustle to potato patch and cane garden. Almost, universally, an v* abundant potato crop has been made. The writer returns thanks to Mrs. George Ann Padgett, of Spring Branch, for some of the largest we have ever seen grown. Mr. Connor Smo'ak, of our midst, who has been in Columbia for some visitine the home folks. Some much needed repairs of long standing has been done to some of the bridges on Lemon Swamp crossing on the Ehrhardt-Bamberg road. A few of the folks from this community will attend the fair in Augusta this week. It is deplorable to read, hear and know of so much lawlessness and distress brought to homes and hearts, as one is obliged to read now-a-days, if reading is done at all. We are glad to report the Pine Grove school as being in a very promising condition for a profitable year's work, though the enrollment is yet only ten and there are fifteen yet to enter. During the summer vacation much needed improvements were done to the building. Through the generosity of Messrs. G. E. Hutto & Son the material was made a gift to ' the school. New desks have been placed in the room, and Mr. Clarence * Ellzey, of Denmark, presented the school with as many black boards as we can find area in the room for. Last year an Acme Jew*el heater No. 21 was bought. Now our school room is comfortable, but there are still so many necessities lacking. None of these improvements come i from public funds. They have been waHa nnssihle onlv through the untir ing efforts of patrons, trustees, and friends. The same teacher who was there last year is yet installed. We hope that before years have rolled by that Pine Grove rural school will be second to few in the county. * ? Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, Nov. 1.?The ladies here are very busy preparing for their annual Flower and Fancy Work show, which takes place on the 7th. Quite a number of our citizens attended the State fair and report a t pleasant meeting witth old friends and a good view of the great display in various departments. Mrs. G. W. Jenny, of Jenny, visited Mrs. Julia Harter this week. Mes* dames Rosa and Shelley Platts also were more recent guests of hers. Our teachers presented their play: "Forlorn Maidens," to a crowded house in Allendale Tuesday evening. Judging from the applause - ? T7* + V>_ tney were appreeiaieu. .uibt>cs diuel Simpson, Sadie Harter and Ruth Wilson accompanied them, and gave some sweet music. Mrs. Harry All also sang some of her sweetest songs. Many of our young folks went too, to encourage our fair artists. Prof. L. T. Bailey was a guest of Mrs. S. L. Sanders last week. On Friday evening Prof. Bailey, of the University of South Carolina, k gave a fine address in the school auditorium on the subject: "Education for Citizenship." Ho was highly applauded. Mrs. Coker and Mrs. Harrison gave some fine music. Court convenes nere next jvionaay morning, Judge John S. Wilson presiding. > | GIRL KILLED AT ALLENDALE. Miss Ruth Myrick Run Over by C. and W. C. Train. Allendale, Oct. 31.?Miss Ruth Myrick, the 16-year-old daughter of Mr. B. R. Myrick, of this place, was run over at- 7:30 this morning by the east-bound C. and W. C. passenger train, and both of her legs severed from the body, and as a result of the accident died a few hours later. It seems that Miss Myrick was walking on the track in front of her home, and in her effort to free herself of danger from the approaching train, stumbled and was caught beneath the wheels before the engineer could stop his train. The untimely death of this. fair young girl, just budding into womanhood, has cast a gloom over the entire community. Blease Threatens Greenville. "Have-you any statement to make in rpe-ard to the Gilreath-Rector mat ter in Greenville?" was asked the governor Saturday morning, to which he replied: "Nothing whatever. I think, under the circumstances, silence on my part, until after Tuesday, is for the best interest of the nominees of the Democratic party, both national and State, because if the people of Greenville county can ignore the primary as to county officers, what better excuse could some people wrant for voting the Bull Moose ticket." "In your telegram to Gil^eath you say: 'The violation of the oath in one instance relieves all others therefrom.' Does that apply to the appointment of auditors, treasurer, | master and magistrates for Green[ ville county, all of whom are under! stood to be anti-Blease men?" was also asked the governor, to which he replied: I "If the Blease men go to the polls I and support the nominees for the senate, house of representatives and i other county offices in Greenville | county, who I am informed are all [ political opponents of mine, it does I seem that the anti-Blease men ought to be equally as honorable ana swallow their medicine by voting for Rector, who is known to be the only Blease man nominated in the Greenville primary, as I am informed. "If the anti-Blease men defeat Rector, I shall use my own discretion in the appointment of the auditor, treasurer, master and magistrates for Greenville county. I do not care to say just what I would do, but I do love to stick to my friends, and I never lose an opportunity to do so. I am a Democrat and I think every man who participated in the primary ought to vote the straight Democratic ticket, from president of the United States straight through, and those who violate their oaths in the sheriff's race in Greenville county cannot complain if it is handed back to them somewhere else. The same rule should apply to all, and so far as I have anything to do with it, it will apply. "I hope that there will be no further trouble, but that all the Democratic nominees will be elected. Personal spite is mighty poor policy." iYlllS HIS Siepiaujer-iii-iian. Orangeburg, Nov. 4.?As the result, it is said, of contentions of long standing, Caesar Holman shot and killed his stepfather-in-law, J. H. Compton, in the fork section of the county this morning. Both parties are prominent white farmers. It is said that Compton began the trouble by going to the residence of Holman and assaulting him ,with a gun whereupon Holman, who had^ succeeded in sheltering himself from the attack of Compton, fired upon the latter with a shotgun," inflicting a I wound which was almost instantly fatal. It is understood that a lawsuit has been pending for some time, which was bought by one of these men against the other. Upon hearing of the shooting, officers were sent by the sheriff to arrest Holman, but before they had goi;e far, they met him cominp to Oranaeburg to surrender. RECTOR WINS IX GREENVILLE. Regular Nominee for Sheriff Defeats Independent Candidate. Greenville, Nov. 5.?The election of Rector, the Democratic nominee for sheriff of Greenville county, has defeated Verdin, the Independent candidate, the vote standing 1,92 7 to 1,373. There are eleven boxes still to hear from, but the result will not be changed by these. The total vote of the county will hardly exceed 4,000. IN THE PALMETTO STATE 1 F SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. " ii State News Boiled Down for Quick 0 Reading?Paragraphs About t< Men and Happenings. a t] Thirty-five persons in Greenville ft county pay income tax. fl The 583d automobile has been ^ registered with the clerk of court of ^ Greenville county. s' Senator John B. Green, of Marl- , b boro county, died at his home in ^ Bennettsville on Sunday. Rev. A. B. Watson, a minister of ^ the Methodist church, died at his s home in Beaufort on Sunday night. ^ The Mail says that J. S. McFall, of t Anderson county, gathered this year close to 1,000 bushels of corn from ^ 16 acres. r The executive committee of the f South Carolina Teachers association F have fixed the annual meeting for F March 13-14-15 in Columbia. c The dispensary investigating com- d mittee met in Columbia on Thursday. p They will begin at once the prepara- s tion of t*heir report to the legislature. ^ J Deputy Sheriff Faulkner, of Greenwood, poured out 75 gallons of cider on Saturday that had been seized as having more alcohol in it than the law allows. e The new building of the board of 0 ?i! - -C XT T ..XT PUDlicanuu. Ul Lilt: i^utiiciaii luuivui g in Columbia, will be dedicated next Sunday with becoming ceremonies g and addresses. t( Miss Albertine Miller won the p highest premium at the tomato ex- e hibit at the Spartanburg fair last p week?$25 in cash and a scholarship in Limestone college. f At the great football game on the h State fair grounds on Thursday be- P tween Clemson college and the South s Carolina university, the university o v/on by 27 to / k J. H. Bussy, a farmer of Modoc, e Edgefield county, put up 14,000 cans of fruits and vegetables th.e past : summer. He sold 3,000 cans a few a days ago to one person. Comptroller General W. Jones; has refused to pay warrants on the b fund of $7,000 which was appropri- a ated by the last general assembly for & a dormitory building at the industrial school at Florence on the grounds c that the board of trustees violated 1 the law in awarding a contract for a t: greater amount than the appropri- o ation. The contract entered into n calls for an expenditure of $27,- u 678.80. Case Against Five Railroads. a Columbia, Nov. 4.?The case of v xl-- T^"?l Pnmno T\,r onH tVia I ? Lilt; ruweu X' UCl auu buv y Columbia Ice and Fuel Company r against the Louisville and Nashville, h Georgia, Seaboard Air Line, Char- a leston and Western Carolina, Colum- a bia, Newberry and Laurens Railway, alleging a violation of the Inter-State " commerce laws, as enacted in 1897, a in that they increased the rate on t; coal from certain points of origin, h was heard this morning by Special Examiner Boyle, representing the In- v ter-State commerce commission. a The complaints claim that up to September 15, 1910, the rate on coal t was $2.20, when it was raised to i; $2.35. On October 15, 1911, it was reduced to $2.25. The complainants s want the rate reduced to that of the original tariff classification, and 15 cents a ton, the excess over $2.25 and $2.35, refunded on a certain number E of cars that are specified in the com- b ? ' - "? A irtrill 4-Vl /"V *. pxctllil. 1 lit: tAd.i_LUJ.lCi Will ICpVIC LUC XJ testimony to the Inter-State com- E merce commission with "hie decision. The complainants are represented o by Colin Monteith; respondents, the c Louisville and Nashville, by J. W. B. t Knox, of Nashville, Tenn.; the Geor- i; gia, the Seaboard, the Charleston and Western Carolina and the Columbia, o Newberry and Laurens, by Frank W. i; Gwathnev, of Washington. " e To Pay for Creased Trousers. v Washington, Oct. 29.?The United 6 States treasury is be a model for manners, dress and neatness. Clerks i must put their desks in order on s leaving at night, charwomen will t not quit a room until they pull the t shades half way down and no clerk c to the secretary of the treasury will l travel in any but creased trousers. s One dollar per week will be allow- c ed on expense accounts for pressing clothes. The sum must not ex- t ceed $1 for anybody, no matter what L -?-1- Teflon ic. nn e + inil 1 otion oc r 11125 raillY. 1 U^l ^ xo nv cvi^Uiuvivu uw v to how the dollar shall be spent, but the c&at, vest and trousers must be 3 neat and fit well. c i DISASTROUS FIRE AT LAKE CITY Toperty in Tobacco District Valued at Over $9,000 Destroyed. Lake City, Nov. 4.?Fire, breakig out in the two-story> prize house wned and occupied by L. A. WinsDn, about 2 o'clock this morning, for time threatened the destruction of lie entire tobacco district, and, in act, the entire business section. The ames quickly spread to the new 'armers' Warehouse, owned by Dr. I. D. Nesmith, and operated last eason by J. D. King & Co., and rithin a few minutes the entire uilding, which is, perhaps, the argest building in town, was in a laze. These two buildings were, ath their contents, completely detroyed, the former valued at about 2,000, with $1,500 insurance, and he latter valued at about $7,000, fith $5,000 insurance. By hard fork of the bucket brigade the three esidences lust across the street rom the large warehouse, owned by I. H. King, Mrs. D. D. Carter and )r. Nesmith, were prevented from atching, but about the time the anger was thought to be over, some assers-by noticed the roof of the tore building in the heart of the usiness section, occupied by J. [hetter, to be ablaze, but this was uickly put out. The Winston Prizery, besides ofce and warehouse fixtures, containd eleven bales of cotton, partly covred by insurance, and some hundred r more bushels of cotton seed, toether with a lot of furniture. In the Farmers' Warehouse were tored a lot of new pianos, belonging o the Jones-Weatherly Piano Comany, and some new organs, the proprty of the Bishopviile Music Comany, all of which were burned. This town has been remarkably ortunate in escaping fires of any ind, and particularly in its tobacco roperty, which is regarded Dy inurance companies as very hazardus, this being only the second of its ind in the experience of this markt. ABOLISHES FEE SYSTEM. Llabama Constitutional Amendment Wins by Big Vote. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 5.?Alaama to-day adopted a constitutional mendment dealing a blow at the fee ystem of paying county officials. Returns indicate that not a single ounty went against the amendment. *he amendment provides for legislaion putting Jefferson county officials n salaries. Some of these offices ow .pay as much as $50,000 a year nder the fee system. Sounded Like Him. They tell a story out my way bout a Kansan who, in the old days rhen Mark Hanna was prominent, rent to church, took his seat in a ear pew and went to sleep. When e woke up he awoke with a start, nd he must have thought himself t a political meeting. The minister had just thundered: To him that hath shall be given | nd to him that hath not shall he aken away even that which he ath." "Who said that?" asked the bewildered politician who had just wakened. The minister stopped, looked at he sleepy interrupter and then said aconically "Mark." "Well," said the politician, "it ounds like Hanna."?Judge. The State of Lunacy. During the balloting at the BaltiQore convention the bulletins were eing read in a political headquarters a a western State, says the Saturday Ivening Post. There was alway6 a good crowd f the stay-at-home politicians there. )ne afternoon a bulletin read: "At Kit, Viarllom hrnlro lf>r>SP" and 11IO, Ut>U ICllli VI V*k V awwMv iter: "Bedlam again broke loose." "They ought to throw' bedlam ut," joked the man who was readag the bulletins. "Sure they had," excitedly assentd a local politician. "I've been tatchin' that feller?he's a disturbr. What State is he from?" . | While a traveling man was waitng for an opportunity to show his amples to a -merchant in a little >ackwoods town in Missouri, a cusomer came in and bought a couple if night shirts. Afterwaid a long, ank lumber man, with his trousers tuffed in his boots, said to the merhant: "What was them 'ere that feller >ot?" "Night shirts. Can I sell you one >r two?" "Naup, I reckon not," 6aid the tfissourian. I don't set around much i' nights." DEMOCRATS VICTORIOUS WILSON AND MARSHALL SWEE1 THE COUNTRY. Final Returns May Give Demoerati Candidates Over 400 Electoral Votes. New York, Nov. 5.?With the elec tion of Woodrow Wilson to the presi dency and Thos. R. Marshall to th vice presidency assured by the earl returns to-night, the reports up t midnight gave indications that th> electoral vote of the Democratic can didates would near the 400 mark. The size, of the popular majorit; given the Democratic national ticke or the State that might give electors votes to either Taft or Roosevel were matters of conjecture at mid night. In Illinois the race between Wil son and Roosevelt was so close as t prevent any accurate prediction. Ii Pennsylvania the race was marve lously close, [each of the three lead ing candidates receiving close to 60, 000 votes. Early returns gave Gov. Wilso: and Gov. Marshall the "Solid South, and the States of Connecticut, Dela ware,, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland Massachusetts, New York, West Vii ginia, Indiana and Missouri. As th *- -J J J -ntn -r.no frrtm +Vl nigllL CtUVctUCCU Ctuu 1CIU1UO Hum bu West began to come the earlier es timates were confirmed and Montane New Jersey and New Mexico were ad ded to those that seemed certain fo Wilson and Marshall, while scatter ing returns from San Francisco an Los Angeles made it probable tha California had joined the Wilson Marshall column. Rhode Island also became a doubt ful State on the returns near mid night and based on the later vote reported, it seemed not wholly, im probable that its five electoral vote go to Wilson. The early returns gav an apparent victory to Taft in Nei Hampshire and Vermont, but th Taft pluralities dwindled as midnigb approached 16 a very few hundre votes in each State and seemed like ly to be wiped out entirely. The vote in Utah reported up t midnight indicated the State woul be carried for Taft. The vote i Pennsylvania was amazingly clos< | the returns from over a thousan precincts, embracing over 185,00 ! votes, giving each of the three lead ing presidential candidates more tha 60,000. The New York State assembl seemed to be overwhelmingly Demc cratic. In Illinois indications were tha Judge Dunn (Democratic) for got ernor had won. J Former Speaker Cannon seemed t have been defeated for re-election. Claims of the Roosevelt manager that Iowa, Michigan and Kansa would fall into the Roosevelt colum seemed verified by the partially con plete returns at an early hour thi morning. The uncertainty regarding Vei mont was settled by the complet vote, which gave Taft a majority c 924. At 12:45 the Providence (R. I. Journal conceded that State to Wi son and with the vote close in Ne1 Hampshire, it seemed probable ths New England, with the exception c Vermont, had gone over to the Den ocratic column. But little definite news from State of the West was received, except froi California, where a Wilson victor was indicated. The tabulation c votes in the other Western State was slow and prediction impossible EXPELLED FROM SOUTH. Wihte Slaver Driven from Atlant and Then from United States. A dispatch from Atlanta on Frida says: Armand Lajarries, a Frenc white-slave trader, who was arreste and put in the Fulton county jail th same day he was released from tb federal prison in Atlanta, will enjo the ignominious distinction of bein the only white man who has eve been deported from the United State from the South. He was rearrested for the speck purpose of having him deported, an has been sent to New York unde guard to be put on shipboard, an will never be permitted to return t this country. His crime was the importation c young French girls under the fals pretense that he would provide ther oo u-nitreRses. He operate Liuno uo ?. v- ? _ with offices both in New York an Chicago. The only signs of his former pros perity are a gold-headed cane and jeweled cigarette case, which h has kept through all his jail exper: ences. TELLS STORY OF MURDER. Conway Killed Sophia G. Singer, Charges His Wife. Chicago, Nov. 1.?An ordeal of c more than 24 hours of questioning broke down the self-possession of Beatrice Ryall Conway and hysterical admissions made by the woman here to-day are said by the police to clear - up the mysterious killing here Mone day night of Sophia G. Singer, the y Baltimore, Md., heiress, o Since Mrs. Conway and her huse band were turned over to the Chi. cago police yesterday in Lima, Ohio, the detectives concentrated their efy forts on the woman, putting Cont way through an ordeal of isolation, .1 silence and uncertainty. This after t noon, after a number of outburte of weeping and tysteria, Mrs. Conway, begging for something to eat and a i- few hours rest, consented to make a o statement to the police. It was taken n down by a stenographer in the prees ence of officers. L- Woman's Story of Killing. The statement made public by the police as the formal confession of n Mrs. Conway is, in part,, as follows: "Sophia invited us to come to Chii cago. We took a suite of three rooms l? for light housekeeping. My husband and I occupied one of the bed rooms e and Miss Singer and William R. Wore then, her fiance, occupied the other, i- "We were out of money and Sol, phia knew this before we went to Chi1 cago. On the night of the killing we r had dinner together and Worthen went out. Sophia went out to post a d letter and came back after a while t with her shoes wet. She took them i" off and was in her stocking feet about I to chanee them. We had quarreled > a little about the expenses which Sol phia was paying. We were destitute s and Sophia threatened to take Wori then and leave us stranded, s "Sophia said we weren't doing e anything to get money. She said * she had met a rich old man and wante ed me to go out with her to meet t him an$ another man. 'Con' was d furious at this. He said I did not have to make money that way. I was washing dishes at the sink. I o heard a fall. I went into the bed d room and Sopfcia was lying there. My a husband said to me, 'Hurry, let's get our things and get out before she d gets conscious.' We did not know 0 she was dead. 'Con' never meant I- to kill her." n Conway to be Quizzed. x The confession says the pair then y fled from the city with $48, which ?- they took from Jdiss Singer's effects, and suits of clothes belonging to Worthen, Miss Singer's fiance. They r~ went to Hammond, Ind., in a street car and then from place to place uno til they reached Lima, Ohio.. While the alleged confession was >s being wrung from the woman, Con" 1 - ? ? Vioorirnr tho ? way cowereu m a uu, UvuwuB n screams and pleadings of his wife, l~ but he did not know what was going iS on, and was denied the privilege of speaking to anyone. The police ex *" pect him to break down soon and e make a statement The assertion by the woman that she is married to Conway will be verified, as, if she is ) his wife, she cannot testify against him. Miss Singer was killed by bew ing beaten with a mace. Lt Worthen Hysterical with Joy. William R. Worthen, fiance of the l~ Singer girl, who has been held by the police pending solution of the mys!S tery, though they accepted his story b of innocence, became hysterical with y joy when the news was taken to him. !S "Thank God they have confessed," 5- he shouted. "Now I am cleared and my wife and her mother will be comforted with the knowledge that I had a no hand in the brutal murder. I can go back to Baltimore now with clean hands. I know they did it. I told y Mrs. Conway so when I saw her this k morning. Now Conway might as d well confess." s A Catastrophe, e y A woman in one of the wards in g the Rhode Island hospital was in:r formed she had appendicitis and (<? would have to be operated on at once, says Mack's National Monthly, il Much frightened, she reluctantly d consented, and was conveyed to the r operating room. One of the doctors d had commenced to administer the o ether and her eyes were closing languidly when he discovered he had >f forgotten to inquire if she had false e teeth. He quickly removed the rubn ber cap and, shaking her slightly, he d said: "Have you anything loose in d your mouth?" Then, as he made a move to put his hand in her mouth, >- she opened her eyes wildly and ex? ? - i _ it Claimed: e "Nothing but my tongue, doctor, i- and for God's sake, don't cut that out, too." ?