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One DoUar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1912. Established 1891.
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. * COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
^ News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
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Ehrhardt, Nov. 18.?Jack Frost
has marched his forces in during
the last three mornings, defeating
general green at every point, even
into the capital city.
How about Thanksgiving turkey?
Suppose the Bulgarians have thin*
ned them out so until the birds will
? be scarce and rare this year.
Booze was not scarce around here
4 Saturday. Did all kinds of stunts,
all on the sly, however. Some one
loaded with booze shot his pistol at
a darkey; hit him in the back about
the shoulder blade; did not go much
below the skin. Dr. Copeland cut
the ball out Saturday night and said
J Ka f A (TA t n
IUC uai &cv WUU1U uc : cau,i w j,u
work in a few days.
^ Our chief will have to be on the
alert on Saturday nights. Thought
the Bulgarians had their lines around
our town by the way parties were
shooting.
Some cotton coming in. Very scarce
for the time of the year. Our merchants
say that there was more
money in July than now. Sunday
every day as far as trade is concerned.
Some of our town's folks have been
interested in the courts of Bamberg
as jurors and witnesses.
^ One of our citizens fancies one
? ' of the fruit stores of Bamberg. Can't
be the fruit.
Mr. Frank H. Copeland and J.
Ben Ehrhardt went to Columbia Sunday
on a short visit. Say they were
cold Sunday night from their auto
ride from Bamberg to home.
Our Red Top Inn had two boarders
Saturday night. Were released Sunday.
JEE.
Olar Lodge K. of P.
Olar, Nov. 14.?Mr. Editor, will
you grant me the privilege to ask
the brother Knights of our county,
Bamberg, if they can beat the record
of our grand rally on the night of the
12th instant. With a membership
of forty, we had twenty-nine present.
' Two were at Bamberg attending
court, three had sick families, and
one was married on the 10th
and away* on a wedding trip. We
had an oyster supper which was a
credit to any order, and everybody
was in good spirits and all smiles.
We had some very interesting talks
by the members. Brother Knights,
let us ?oow what you are doing for
yourselves and the order.
W. T. CAVE,
K. of R. & S., Olar Lodge.
Fairfax Fancies.
Fairfax, Nov. 18.?Miss Maggie
Darien and Mr. Jack Robb, of Columbia,
were married Sunday evening at
the residence of Mrs. Walter Hair,
' by Rev. Wm. Simpson. Many friends
i wish this happy young couple ever
lasting nappmess.
Miss Kenney spent the week-end
with relatives in Johnston.
Miss Margaret Youmans visited
friends in Columbia this week.
At the recent flower and fancy
work display given here by the U. D.
t C. Fairfax Chapter, many prizes were
won by our ladies in the various departments.
Dinner and supper was
served for the benefit of the chapter
and the whole affair was quite a success.
Cosie Boyles, of Allendale, is visit^
ing Miss May Brunson.
; Mesdames Wallace Conner, Manker
Gooding, and Mrs. Dr. Folk were recent
Visitors here.
The ladies of our town served an
* elegant supper recently to the Masons
of the lodge here. Bright conversation
and sweet music were the
order of the evening and all enjoyed
the occasion immensely.
Rev. Wm. Simpson attended the
Association at Lower Three Runs.
Rev. Paul Brown, of Estill, spent
- Saturday at the home of Mrs. S. L.
Sanders.
On Friday Prof. Coker gave holi*
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day. lie, ms teacners, auu ximu> ui
the pupils of our school attended the
fair in Barnwell. Our boys?Brooker
Simpson, Chas. Fennel, and George
Googe?won prizes in foot racing.
\ Our people should take to heart
the unpleasant notoriety that nine
murder cases for one term of court
gives to Bamberg county, especially
as this is one of the smallest counties
in the State. Something should
be done to make human life more
valuable, and only the good people
of the county can do this.
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."WHITESLAVE" INDICTMENTS. |jy
Two Men and Woman, White, Held
in Savannah.
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Savannah, Ga., Nov. J J.?Five indictments
were returned here to-day
by the federal grand jury in two
"white slave" cases, Charles Crosby,
Allen H. Young and Mrs. Uratich, all
white, were indicted as the result of ^
the visit to this city some time ago of
, * i u auS
two voung girl telephone operators
_ t %wee
of Jacksonville.
Two women, it is charged, were
brought to Savannah from Jackson- 111 t
ville by Miz Zacharies and Richard cou
Sternberg, white. The women in the T
latter case were witnesses to-day, odis
having been brought here from Au
gusta, ua.
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Denmark Doings. C
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Denmark, Nov. 20.?Mrs. Frank cou
Sturgeon and Miss Pauline Turner Mii:
are attending the fair in Charleston, par
Mr. C. W. Garris, of Savannah, Ga., and
was in town for a short time last E
week. was
Mrs. Chester Smith, of Williston. by
was the guest of Mrs. J. B. Guess on Wer
Sunday. ent<
Mrs. G. YV. Hightower was among be i
the visitors in Charleston this week. ^
Misses Albergotti and Porter, of .
Fairfax, spent Sunday with Miss Hattie
Sue Fogle. . t
Mrs. J. A. YValker is visiting her
groi
daughter, Mrs. J. Black, in Charleston
the
.Misses Lillian and Doris Goolsby
spent the week-end at home.
Mr. H. W. Wroton, of Hamlet, N. ^
C., was in town recently. ear'
Quite a crowd of Denmark's young sba
people are expecting to attend John tbe
Sparks's shows in Bamberg on the see(
27th, and are looking forward to it see(
with a great deal of pleasure. des
Mr. Roy L. Taylor was at home on 000
Sunday from Camden.
Misses Maude and May Owens, of
Dunbarton, were the guests of Miss
Dorjs Goolsby for last week-end.
Mr. Will Sturgess, of Augusta, Ga.,
spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. ing
George Riley. hea
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Hightower at- ber'
tended the marriage of their son,
Archie, to Miss Lottie Shieder, on
Wednesday, at St. George. ^bs
Among other visitors to the fair at nur
Charleston this week are: Misses ?ar
Josie Pratt, Esther Polair, Virginia *>" *
Carroll, Lillian Gentry, Emma Tomp- 1
son, Ruth Stokes, Priscilla Hart, reP
Ruth Guess. Messrs. T. B. Wilkin- f?r
son, Jr., John Tyler, Reynold Wig- wa*
gins, and Prof E. M. McCown. ant
Wolcott's carnival is now in town { *ru<
and everyone is enjoying the pleas- ed
ures it affords, the merry-go-round to
and ferris wheel being the chief of
amusements. of 1
Misses Frieda Rutland, of Bates- whi
burg, and Mae Reid, of Chappells, are the
the guests of Miss Edna Steadman. jud
Miss Harrie Dell Free, of Bamberg, crii
was among the visitors here on Sun- of
day. pro
Mrs. J. Arthur Wiggins attended tha
the wedding of her niece, Miss Leila wit
Norris, in Holly Hill, on Wednesday, ing
Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Matthews and wh
Mrs. F. H. McCrae spent several days dro
in Charleston this week. sal<
The Graham's Chapter of the U. wil
D. C. met last week and decided to get
offer the pupils of the Denmark high is -c
school a prize to the one writing the ing
best essay on: "The Reasons for wo?
South Carolina Seceding." The contest
is to be held sometime within Gi
the next three weeks and the contestants
are manifesting a great deal of
interest in the preparation. sto
The following is the honor roll for bet
the Denmark high school for the file
second month: act
First Grade?Francis Dozier, Jas. tio:
" " n,!-? Albert Folk, chc
| Mcurae, auhk ,
Stanwix Hutto.
Second Grade?Dorothy Riley, Ed- Dis
! na Naff, Luther Darnell, Judson May- ore
! field, Hillary Wilkinson. dis
Third Grade?James Bean, Robert ing
Califf, Edward Cox, Carlisle Folk, ruj
Fred Wiggins, Gwendolien Kemp. ]
Fourth Grade?Edna Creech, Julia the
Margaret Riley, James Wiggins. Wal- Th
ter Long. cat
Fifth Grade?Lester Bean, Ruth ]eg
Folk, Julia McCrae, Daisy Tillman. st0
Sixth Grade?Willie Delle Hutto, tar
Sadelle Cain, Julia Cox.
Seventh Grade?Genie Fogle. Dv
First Year?Frances Guess, Vera djs
Wiggins. Christobel Mayfield, Vir- a]j(
j ginia Hutto. Annie Mae Griffith. an(
Second Year ? Kathleen Fogle, tal<
Fitzhugh Cox, Bernard Faust.
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That was sound advice Senator st0
Tillman gave the Democrats in re- ca5
gard to running after office under tlfc gr,
incoming Democratic administration. n0j
The president and his assistants will ani
have plenty to do and should not jec
have their time taken up with scram- Qn
bles for jobs. na]
THE PALMETTO STATE
l>e
IE OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
tfXDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
te News Boiled Down for Quirk 0
Ra
Reading?Paragraphs About nj?
Men and Happenings. tin
w h
'he free delivery of mail was in- lin
urated in Aiken on Friday of last jn^
k- 111a
everal horses have died recently frc
he neighborhood of Clover, York ha:
ntv, from bad corn. pr<
he annual conference of the Meth- th<
>t Episcopal Church, South, will
?t in Anderson next Wednesday, bu
2 7th. Bishop Jno. C. Kilgo will ins
side.
Jlinton is working hard for the mc
t V* <
r county, of which it will be the
nty seat. The name proposed is
on/1 M'ill r>r\ 1"!1 T10.C pd nf
ygiuvc cxi* vi Mm ? ?
&if
ts of Newberry, Union,' Laurens
Greenville.
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len Coleman, of Saluda county, ,
no
; accidentally shot last Thursday
dei
his brother, Fred, while the two p-n
e bird hunting. One of the sbot . .
*red the pupil of his left eye, and yQ
mav lose both eyes as a result.
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Lural Policeman Columbus Ow5,
of Laurens county, shot and
ed a negro on Thursday with his ^
ol. He caught a number of ne- ,
be<
es gambling, and while he was atpting
to hold one of them and get ,
, . . uO:
monev at the same time, his pis- .
jui
went off and killed the negro. ^
cm
'ire of unknown origin broke out ha
ly Sunday morning in the Ker- ^
w Oil Mill at that place burned
roof of the mill proper, a large y0
1 house containing 25,000 tons of
I and meal houses were complete- an
troyed. The loss is between $60,- str
and $75,000 partially covered by
trance. ler
Liquor Enough Now. ^
Mc
ays The Bamberg Herald: "Judg- ^
from many expressions we have
rd recently, the people of Bam- __
^Vl
g county are going to vote the
ae
lensary back at the first opportuAnd
to this the Newebrry
;erver replies: "Judging from the
aber of homicides that occur in
W ?
nberg one would think that counW
iad no need for the dispensary."
de
"he Observer is correct, for in the .
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ort of last week's criminal court .
Bamberg county the statement f1.
> made that of the fifteen defend- 111
on
s before the court against whom
3,11
e bills were found ten were chargwith
capital offences. And strange I0'
say, the solution of this problem 1S
sh
killing is in the recommendation
S3
:he grand jury "that a vote on the
iskey question be had as soon as Vc
np
law will permit," for "in their
on
gment the large amount of
3)3
nes and general lawless condition
the county is due to the way the ^
3D
hibition law is managed." Verily,
t is solving the liquor problem
ll3
h a vengeance! Instead of enforcthe
law against blind tigers,
ich now seem to be at large in
>ves, they are going to legalize the
3 of the stuff. O, yes, Bamberg
1 vote back the dispensary if it m<
s a chance. The homicide record
i pretty good index as to the feel- ^a!
on the liquor question.?Green- Hi
od Journal. al
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reenville Merchant in Bad Light. di
J. E. Brown, the merchant whose tv
? ^ oil nnrnrl tn liQ VD t Q
rtJ ucar uauit is ancgcu nu> v iu
;n robbed on Sunday night, has a
d a petition in bankruptcy. This ry
ion is said to have preceded a petin
which the creditors of the mer- V<
mt were preparing to file. at
fudge Smith, in the United States gs
strict Court at Columbia, issued an de
ler restraining Mr. Brown from Si
posing of any of his property pend;
settlement of the case in bank>tcy.
B:
Detectives have been at work on
s case since the alleged robbery. ej
ese detectives are said to hav lo- (jc
ed considerable merchandise aled
to have been removed from the
re at a point about ten miles dis- ^
it. It was said by an official that ^
. Brown was carried to this point st
officials and asked if the merchan- fp
e was taken from his store. He is a
eged to have admitted that it was as
3 to have admitted that it was
;en there by himself.
It will be remembered that the
im was made that Mr. Brown's I B
re was robbed and that $2,500 in I pi
;h was taken. This money, Mr. | b?
awn is said to have claimed, did i m
t belong altogether to him. a large | hi
ount being money tnat ne naa coi- in
ted for fertilzer companies.? lit
*enville special to Greenwood Jour- tt
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BLOODY (AIIMYAL. |l
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sporate Bobber at Bay Shoots
Down Five Pursuers.
New York, Nov. 18.?A man and
man stood in a small room of a ?
ines law hotel in the Bronx tofht
and deliberately shot down
'ee detectives and two other men
0 were trying to place the pair
der arrest. After nearly empty;
the 11 chambers of a large auto- .
.tic revolver, reinforced by shots
>m an * ordinary revolver in the
nds of his woman companion and '
ibably fatally wounding four of
)se shot down, the man shot and .
led the woman and then put a
llet through his own head, dying '
itantly.
This is the outline of one of the
st serious shooting affrays which
1 detectives of this city have run
.0 for years, so far as the conflict;
stories of the shooting had been
ted late to-night.
The dead man was known by sev- '
il names, having registered at the
tel as Joseph Vogel. The police
3lare that he was a Pole named
eres Doragieskis. The woman with
n had registered as Lottie Vogel.
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gtJl was auuut to )Cdis uiu aim
man about 25.
Suspected of Robbery.
The detectives were on the trail of
i pair, suspecting them of having
en accomplices in a diamond robry
for which Sophie Beckendor, a
mestic, had been held for the grand
:y to-day. The woman who had lost
e jewels traced the girl to Vogel's
use and told the detective of her
icoverv. After a taxicab chase toy.
the detectives learned that the
gels had sought lodging at the
smere hotel, at Cortland avenue
d One Hundred and Sixty-first
eet, in the Bronx. Martin F. Fay,
ltral office detective, and John Ali
and Louis Gerade, private deteces,
went to the hotel in search of
sir quarry late to-night. Louis
>endschein, the proprietor, told of
5 couple having arrived in a taxib
early in the evening, and ordered
illiam Butler, a waiter, to show the
tectives to tne vogeis ruuiu.
The First Blow.
Vogel opened the door in response
a summons and as Allen forced his
ly in, declaring that the couple
ire under arrest, Vogel struck the
tective over the head with a black3k
and then grasped a magazine
3-tol which lay on the bed. His
st bullet struck Allen in the head
d he fell probably fatally hurt. Fay
d Gerade rushed into the room, folded
by Moendschein and Butler. It
declared that they did not fire a
ot, but expected to seize Allen's asssin.
They were not quick enough.
)gel let go one shot after another,
arly every one taking effect. Fay
d .Moendschein both received probly
fatal wounds in the abdomen.
;rade was shot in the leg and back
d Butler received a bad wound in
e hip. The woman, also armed,
d fired several shots, some of which
is believed hit the detectives.
Kills Woman and Self.
tt 1 . ? ~ Viic n-rmian flil.'l
v ugei mi lieu on iiio t.
ot. She was shot through the abdoen
and soon expired. Vogel made
lick work of himself by putting the
st bullet from his gun into his head,
s fell dead. At the hospital to which
I of the wounded were taken it is
id probably all except Butler would
e.
At a late hour the two trunks and
ro suit cases which the couple had
ken to the hotel were removed to
police station but the stolen jewelwas
not found.
The police say that in trailing the
3gel pair the detectives were prob>ly
running down a completely ormized
scheme for robbing resi;nces
throughout the upper West
de.
Accused of Robberies.
The indictment on which the
reckendorf girl was held, charged
*r with numerous robberies of jewc?
omnmitincr tn RPVPfal thOllSUnd
amuuiiviiiQ w
)llars.
According to the police the girl
oke down to-night and confessed
at the Vogels were with her, and
was to them she had given the
olen articles. The plan of operal
an was for the girl to advertise for
position as a domestic and as soon
; she had obtained it rob her emover's
house.
While it seems that the people of
am berg county are disgusted with
ohibition and want the dispensary i
ick, wouldn't it be good policy to
ake some effort to enforce the probition
law? Conditions are growg
worse steadily, and it seems that
:tle effort is being made to enforce
ie law against the illegal sale of
hiskey.
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LAWLESSNESS NEAR AIKEN
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE SAM
. KERRY, A NEGRO.
Suspects Trailed by Bloodhounds and
Arrested?Confession Implicates
Nine Others, Whites and Blacks.
A special from Aiken says run
down Saturday night, with five bloodhounds
from the State penitentiary,
and lodged behind the bars of the
Aiken county jail Sunday morning,
three negroes, Foxey Gantt, Washington
Kennedy, and Vance Quattlebaum,
have, it is said, made confession
to participation in an ambuscade
Saturday night, between 7 and 8
o'clock, seven miles of Ridge Springs,
in the Edisto Swamp, when Sam Ber
ry, a prosperous colored farmer or
that section, was waylaid and made
the target of a fusillade of bullets
from probably more than a dozen
shotg uns. Berry, who was dirving
in a buggy, concealed himself in the
foot of the vehicle, as soon as the
firing began, and sustained no
wounds, but his mule, rearing and
charging, and breaking away from
the velocity of the shooting, was literally
shot to pieces.
In confessing, it is said, the three
incarcerated negroes implicate nine
others, four prominent white men
and five negroes. The white men are
Daniel Williamson, Ted H. Dubose,
Jim Barton and Arleigh Gregory, the
latter a son of Mr. John Gregory,
and a nephew of Mr. Giles Gregory,
who is magistrate of that Aiken
county district. The negroes are
Harry and Bristow Mason, Lewis
Thomas and Richard and Arthur
Kenner.
Warrants were issued through
Magistrate W. M. Smoak Sunday j
morning for the arrest of tnese otner
men, and Sheriff Raborn, Rural Policemen
Musco Samuels and S. E.
Holly, accompanied by the poese who
Saturday night ran down the three
negroes and lodged them in jail, returned
to the Ridge section in an automobile
at noon Sunday.
Sam Berry, the victim of the ambuscade,
came to Aiken with the
posse who brought in the first squad
of prisoners, and in an interview with
the News and Courier correspondent
obtained from Berry, the prisoners
and the members of the posse, they
all agree virtually as to the general
details of the affray. From the essential
alleged details gathered
through an extended interview, it
semed that Saturday night about 7
o'clock, a party, armed and prepared
for their work, gathered in and about
a bridge or mill dam over which Berry
was to cross that night as he drove
to his home, which was situated some
four or five hundred yards distant.
Lying down in the deep grass, or concealing
themselves in the dense
shrubbery and behind trees, the men
waited.
About 7:30, Berry, driving a mule
and buggy, came driving up at a
leisurely pace. As he approached the
immediate vicinity of the ambuscade
the mule appeared to be apprehensive
of some danger lurking in the
shadows, grew restive and paused
several times, and with each halt
Berry applied the lash an'd urged the
mule forward, but just as the animal
came abreast* of the line of ambush
he swerved and lunged away. Simultaneously
with this move there rang
out a cry of "Halt! Halt!" and the
fusillade followed. Berry slipped into
the foot of his buggy and avoided
the missiles, but, as stated above,
the mule was riddled with lead.
The alarm was given in short order,
and mainly through the efforts
of the negro attacked five bloodhounds
from the State penitentiary
were carried to the scene by Guard J.
C. Robbins, in an automobile driven
by E. C. McCreary, of Columbia. As
they came through Ridge Spring
Messrs. Robbins and McCreary picked
up Mr. L. Cumbee, a deputy, drove
on to the scene of the shooting and
placed the dogs on the trail, having
arrived within one hour and fifteen
minutes after they received the information
and having driven fifty
miles. The dogs took up the trail
and after a long chase of about 22
miles, back and fortn tnrougn me
swamp lands and stubby undergrowth,
the three negroes previously
referred to were run to earth, confessed,
it is said, and implicated the
others named.
The motive for the attack is obscure.
Berry claims that it was simply
the result of a long standing prejudice;
that once he informed the
whites of that vicinity that members
of a negro secret order carried an ar
senal in their quarters and planned
the extermination of the whites, and
that ever since the negroes have held
a grudge against him; further, that
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3HJAK1 aivn i i i' inn i.
Johnson's Work in Preparing Pill
Keeps Him from Panama.
Washington, Xov. 18.?Representative
Joseph T. Johnson, of the 4th
South Carolina district, was asked
to-day why he did not accompany
his colleagues of the appropriations
committee on their annual fall trip
to Panama. He replied ihat he had
been busy preparing the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill. Having been requested by
Chairman Fitzgerald to have this
measure in shape to be presented as
the first of the regular appropriation
bills after the opening of congress,
in December. Mr. Johnson is chairman
of the sub-committee on legislative,
executive and judicial appropriations.
The pension appropriation
bill is usually the first to be introduced.
i Several members of the rivers and
harbors committee of the house, including
Chairman Sparkman, are in
Washington conferring with the army
engineers over the preliminaries for
j the drafting of the river and harbor
bill to be passed at the approaching
j session. Chairman Sparkman will
I try to get the committee together
| here next Monday, with the view o?
! apportioning among sub-committees
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it may be reported to the house within
a few days after it convenes. It
is thought that the measure wfll provide
for a total appropriation of $25.000,000
or $30,000,000, approximating
the river and harbor bill of last
summer, and there is talk of putting
it through before the holidays.
TWINS A FAMILY HABIT.
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Five Sister in Massachusetts Have
Five Pairs of Them.
Mrs. Anthony Wroblesky, of
Adams, Mass., one of a family of 18
children, of which there were two
pairs of twins, herself being one of
them, gave birth on Thursday to
twins, a boy and a girl. Four of Mrs.
Wroblesky's sisters are the mother*
of twins.
A photograph of the five sisters
and the five pairs of twins is to be
sent to Col. Roosevelt.. * j
QUIET AT MERRIVILLE.
Strike of Timber Workers Has Caus'63
ed No Trouble.
Lake Charles, La., Nov. 18.?The
situation at Merriville where 1,300
employes of the American Lumber
company are on strike was reported
tranquil to-day. The meeting of union
men scheduled for yesterday was
held and there are no indications of
a general strike. The rumor that the
plant will be operated this week with
non-union labor by the Sante Fe
Railroad is discredited. The report
reached here to-day that Lillington
Wells and Virginia Schaick mills at
Lullington would suspend operations
within a few days.
there have been differences which
were the outgrowrth of a bitter school
fight among the blacks. But there is
said to be still another side, which
may hold the real motive at stake,
oe ctsitoH hpfnrp. is a nearo of
jl?u11 j, uo uumwvm w
means, owns property and said at
times to be boisterous and overbearing,
seems to be much impressed with
himself to such a degree that for the
past four weeks he has, it is alleged,
in various and sundry ways, endeavored
to intercept and stop passage
over a highway which crosses 'his
property close to his residence, that
whites and blacks have been subjected
to many annoyances and humiliations
when they tried to pass through,
and it is said that of late Berry and
his household have several times aggravatingly
fired rifle shots over the
heads of the retreating passers-by.
With these alleged facts in mind, it
is believed that the parties involved
finally decided to take the matter into
their own hands, with the above
6tated result.
Whether they intended to kill Berry
is not clear. The negroes in jail
were nervous and suspicious and it
was impossible to gather any very
lucid story from them. Two denied
having guns; one admitted that he
| carried a gun. but swore he did not
fire it.
In Aiken more prominence is attached
to the fact that these whites
. prominently connected, were involved
in the affair, than the attack itself
upon the negro and it is probable
that there may really be-some deep- %
seated motive behind the whole matj
ter which has not yet been brought
out and the revelation of which may
produce quite an interesting study.
It is also stated that ordinarily the
negroes are quiet fellows and the
two .Masons are particularly well
thought of by the white citizens of
the Ridge.