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| ne Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1912. Established 1891. |
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OUNIRV NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
'y News Items Gathered All Around th<
County and Elsewhere.
'* Ehrhardt Etchings.
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Ehrhardt, Nov. 25.?Sunday after
noon gave us a touch of a westerr
blizzard. The ladies could not go t(
* church with comfort, as the wine
would upset their large hats anc
take the crimp out of their hair, anc
dust their eyes and "Oh, pshaw!
makes them look a mess and fright<
ft?L"
NSaw several parties cutting wooc
Sunday afternoon in their bact
yards, and some could hear but die
not see them.
The sound of an axe going on Sunday
was noticed by me so much ]
* suppose by the lecture given me
when small by my dear old mother.
Her order was to prepare wood or
Saturday or sit in the cold until Monday
Thanksgiving services will be held
in the Baptist church by all the congregations
in town at night, say
? about 8 o'clock or half past seven.
Can't say the hour exact. Can't hold
same during the day, as most of the
men folks has to take a hunt that
day, when they should let the birds
rest and feed them a Thanksgiving
dinner instead.
Mr. Jacob C. Hiers, one of oui
young business men in town, and
Miss Lillie Combs will be married at
the residence of the bride's sister,
Mrs. -Richard D. Fisher, of'Norfolk,
Va., on December 4th, 1912, at 5
o'clock. Invitations have been sent
out to his and her friends here. Wi^b
them a happy union and long life.
There might be more of our youngsters
thinking of doing the same
stunt, but won't let us say anything
c about it as yet, but it looks fishy all
r the same.
Mr. Jacob Ehrhardt goes to Walterboro
to-day to attend court as a
witness. J. E. E.
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Winthrop College Events..
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The work on the enlargement of
the college infirmary is progressing
very rapidly. When that is complete
aey will be much better prepared to
.re for the girls in case of sickness.
Dr. Kinard and Miss Withers, two
our teachers, have been notified
.at their English grammar is beag
used in schools in Shanghi, China.
Knapps agricultural day will be
celebrated here on Wednesday, Nov.
27. Prof. L. A. Niven, former head
of the department of agriculture, will
; be principal, speaker of the occasion.
His subject is, "Knapp's services in
the South." There are many other
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interesting numbers on the programme.
The children of the trainI
. ing school have also arranged for
1 commemorating the day.
On Wednesday evening, Nov. 27,
the Terpsichorecan german club will
* give its nnual Thanksgiving ball in
honor of the Thalia german club. It
is being anticipated with great pleasure.
Thursday is really thanksgiving
.y at last, the day we have been
> ; # oking forward to for so long. I
wonder why? Well, they say we will
have everything (?) good to eat on
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that day that the markets can afford.
Madman Shoots Little Boys.
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Minneapolis, Nov. 23.-?Henry
Polker, aged 26, an escaped madman,
is dead, and Matthew Lenseen,
* aged 26, and Leonard Lenseen, aged
10, are in a hospital as the result
last night of the running amuck ol
Polker near Hamel, a village 15
* - miles south of here. Matthew Leu's
seen received four bullets in his
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body, but, according to physicians,
he has a .chance of recovery. Leonard
is not seriously injured.
I Polker, who was senf to the hospital
for the insane at Rochester
last spring after it was alleged he
had set fire to various farm buildings,
rode to the home of Leonard Lenseen
near Hamil and firing through a window
shot the two youths who were
seated in a family group about a
fireplace. He then left his horse and
roceeded to a barn on the farm of
V is father, who was not aware that
:\ ns son had escaped from the hos^
ital.
Sheriff Langum and a posse found
im there and were kept at bay for
ore than an hour, Polker threateng
death with his rifle. Finally as
ran from the building firing
adily upon the posse, he was in.ntly
killed by a bullet from the
/olver of a deputy sheriff. None
* . A the posse was injured.
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? BODY HORRIBLY MUTILATED.
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Three Held in Connection with
5 Xorth Carolina Murder.
Warsaw, N. C., Nov. 21.?The
a mutilated body of Frank Bentlev, 25
years old, foreman of a cheese factory
at Union-Corners, was found today
in a shallow grave on a farm
near the village of North Java. Althos
Prince, 35 years old, a farmer
and neighbor of Bentley, and Louis
^ and Harry Webber, Prince's brothersin-laws,
are held to-night by the sherj
iff in connection with the crime.
f Prince, who is a married man, admits,
according to the sheriff, that
he had some words with Bentley
over domestic affairs, but denies all
knowledge of his death.
When Bentley, who went hunting
1 Saturday, failed to appear at work
Monday morning searching parties
TT-mrcra n i VactorHav O f torn nfin
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on the Woodhouse farm they found
5 blood-spattered leaves and a pool of
' blood. There was a deep track also,
L apparently made by a laden wheelbarrow.
The sheriff, after questioning
^ Prince, ordered him locked up and
seized a wheelbarrow and a pair of
overalls found in Prince's barn. They
' were covered with red stains. To^
day searchers followed buggy tracks
! from a lot on Prince's farm to a
clump of woods, where, under a pile
' of brush, they found a newly made
? grave, in which Bentley's body had
been buried.
I Crawled in Empty House to Die.
Atlanta, Nov. 20.?When workmen
went to repair a locked and vaMnt
hmiR*> at 45 Electric avenue
. Monday afternoon they found an
aged woman, emaciated and unconscious,
lying on the hare, cold floor
of one of the rooms, with a bundle
j of rags under her head for a pillow.
The woman was Mrs. Anna Tried,
i and 6he had almost starved to death,
alone in the vacant house where she
had crawled to die after hopeless efforts
to obtain work or charity, she
declares.
The astounded workmen who opened
the house thought first that they
had to deal with a murder, but when
closer examination revealed the fact
that the woman was still breathing,
! they called for an ambulance, and
1 she was rushed to a hospital. It was
there, in a warm bed, after stimu1
lants had been poured down her
parched throat that the woman was
' able to whisper out her story.
Mrs. Tried declared that she had
had nothing to eat but a couple of
* crusts of bread in the past three
weeks, and that it had been several
: days since she had even tasted a drop
of water.
She had crawled into the vacant
1 house when all but overcome by hunger,
and knew only in a vague way
' how many days she had spent there.
The hospital authorities consider
her story most remarkable, and the
case is being investigated. It has
' been asserted time and again that
there is no reason for any one, hownnor.
to suffer the actual pains
' of hunger in Atlanta. There are too
many charitable institutions and too
many charitably inclined individuals
' for that, it has always been averred
| and oft-times proven.
Why Mrs. Tried was unable to
avail herself of the ordinary aids of
L charity, whether she was too proud,
or whether any one refused her, have
not been ascertained, as she is still
too weak to tell very many details of
. her tragic experience.
Negro Killed by Train.
I Barnwell, Nov. 25.?Thos. Walker,
' colored, was found dead yesterday
morning on the right of way of the
1 Southern Railway, near the Barnwell
Lumber Company's plant on the outi
skirts of town. Dr. J. G. Wooley,
, who performed the autopsy at the
coroner's inquest, stated that from
the wound in his back and head and
judging from the length of time he
had been dead, he was struck by the
> Southern's fast south-bound train,
, which passes Barnwell about 2
i o'clock a. m. The verdict of the
jury was in accordance with the
! above facts. A bottle of whiskey was
. found near the body and it is said
. that Walker was on his way to a
' "hot supper" at the mill and was pre;
sumably so under the influence of
liquor that he failed to hear the approach
of the train.
, E. H. Jennings has resigned as
special deputy collector of the port
j of Charleston and A. T. Jennings has
, been appointed to succeed him.
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Cotton Baskets, Stilyards, Mowing
, Machines, Grass Blades, Lace Leather,
Harness Leather, Lanterns, Field
Fence and Everything else at Huntter's
Hardware Store.?Adv.
IN ME PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings. ,
A negro who robbed the Lowman
Drug company in Orangeburg last
week has been caught in Thomas- .
ville, Ga. The amount stolen was
between $300 and $500.
Three negroes were' arrested on :
the charge of highway robbery in i
Columbia on Friday. They robbed
a negro farmer of $50, the proceeds
of a bale of cotton he had just sold.
United States Senator Isadore
Rayner, of Maryland, died last week. !
His death creates a vacancy in the .
Senate which will be filled by a Republican.
Senator Rayner was a
Democrat.
The State department of agrioul- j
ture says there was 24,337,912 ,
pounds of tobacco raised in South
Carolina in iyiz, as against n,uuu,000
in 1911. The 1912 crop brought
$2,650,000. ,
J. M. Cobb, a prominent citizen
and retired merchant of Edgefield,
died la^t week of injuries received
during the recent county fair in that 1
town by being run over by a horse
during a tournament, ,
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Wednesday night the Sumter .
Clothing company's store was enter- .
ed and the sounding of the burglar '
alarm took several policemen to the
scene. The thief, Eugene Porter,
colored, was caught red-handed. ,
Information comes from Washing- <
ton that the new nickle, which is to 1
supplant the five-cent coin now in 1
use, will be put in circulation within 1
a short time. An Indian head will <
adorn the face of the new nickle, <
while on the reverse side will appear j
the figure of a buffalo. The design '
is intended to honor the disappearing
Indian and buffalo, linked together i
in American history. i
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Operation Restores Sight.
Asheville, N. C., Nov. 25.?Miss
Lelia Cameron, of Marion, who is 29 '
years old, and had been blind since '
her birth, is able to see as well as the
average person in Asheville who uses
glasses. Her sight was given her by
an operation performed by Dr. E. R. !
Russell. The results of the operation '
are probably among the most wonderful
ever accomplished in the United
States and the operation required ;
only a few minutes. Mies Cameron is
without doubt one of the happiest
persons in the world to-day.
The operation was not performed 1
on both eyes, o* Oi. the right one, 1
and the happiness of the patient on
being able to see for the first time in
her life came very near making the
operation unsuccessful, as only a local
anaesthetic was used, and as soon
as the delicate operation was completed
she was able to see. She
could not control her emotions for a 1
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a few moments, until it was impressed
on her that her continued sight '
depended upon her emotion being
controlled until her eye has been 1
healed. The first operation proved
a success, and as little pain had been
suffered she returned for the second, 1
which was equally successful and
now her sight is weak only by a nat- J
ural near-sightedness.
The trouble with Miss Cameron's
eyes that had kept her from seeing
was that the pupils were filled with 1
an opaque membrance that would
not allow the transmission of light. .
The operation consisted merely in
cutting "windows" in this membrane
so that the light could pass 1
through, thus making an artificial 1
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pupil for each eye. No trouble whatever
was encountered in this, Dr.
Russell says.
It is understood that there has always
been objection by all the
friends of the young lady, except one,
to having her consult a specialist but 1
this one believed that something
could be done and brought her to (
Asheville to consult Dr. Russell.
Miss Cameron is a fine musician
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and has taught music classes in Mar- '
ion for a number or years.
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She's slender as the graceful reed, 1
A tight skirt vision rare, 1
But where are all the petticoats ^
That Maggie used to wear? 1
?Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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George?"She sings nicely, doesn't
she?" Tom?"Oh, yes. When she
sings they have to close the win- ^
dows." George?"My goodness!
What for?" Tom?"Her voice is so
sweet that it draws the flies."?Path- <
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HORRORS OF A CHOLERA CAMP.
Sickening Scenes Caused by Spread of
Plague Among Turkish Soldiers.
Constantinople, Nov. 21.?Scenes
of suffering and misery are to be witnessed
daily at the Turkish cholera
camp at San Stefano. A correspondent
of the Associated Press paid a
visit there to-day.
Much scepticism had prevailed in
Pera, the foreign quarter of Constantinople,
both among members of the
diplomatic corps and foreign residents.
No one there believed the
figures given by railroad employees
and others in contact with the Turkish
troops, who declared that many
thousands were stricken with cholera.
The camp is situated at the side of
a railway embankment thirty feet in
height. A large open space like a village
green stretches away for some
distance. This is surrounded by better
class houses two or three stories
high, built in European style, for San
Stefano is the summer resort of many
of the wealthy residents of Constantinople.
Two Ottoman soldiers were standing
on guard to the entrance to the
camp, but they made no motion,
rheir duty was to prevent those
within the cordon from escaping and
Dot to hinder other people from entering.
Bodies Scattered Along Tracks.
A nauseating picture was witnessed
at the side of the railroad. Bodies
which had been thrown from trains
lay as they had fallen. Some stuck
on top of the embankment, but others
had rolled part of the way down.
Around a one-story stable at the
foot of the embankment was a group
of sixty dead and dying, lying close
together apparently for warmth, on
the slopes of a manure pile, which
the sick men had found softer than
the hard ground. One man on top
of the pile was digging with his fingers
a sort of trough in which to lie.
The trough soon became his grave.
As visitors came near, the sick
men raised their heads and cried in
the hearing of the attendants that
they were given no bread or water.
Walking half way across the field the
siitors passed dead and dying men,
sometimes from twenty to thirty
pards apart.
Dead in Groups.
A group of tents stood in the centre,
where four or five Turkish soldiers
wearing the armpiece of the
Red Crescent stood on guard. Inside
the sick and dead lay in groups. The
doctor on duty counted 22 patients
in one tent, while double that number
lay just outside sheltered from
the wind to leeward of the canvas.
Some of the stricken found difficulty
in getting into the Moslem position
for prayer, looking toward the
east. One praying victim was so
weak that he could not replace his
blanket around his head when the
W1UU U1CW It U1A.
The Red Crescent attendants made
no attempt to assist any these suffering
soldiers, not even placing
stones, which were plentiful, under
their heads to permit them to lie
easier.
A number of these attendants
gathered around to watch while the
visitors were inspecting the camp.
One of them became insolent and was
ordered off by the doctor.
A water tank, drawn by a donkey,
passed along the road. Those of the
victims who were able to rise to their
feet went unassisted toward it and
struggled feebly for a drink. Those
unable to rise got none.
Pew Get Bread.
In a similar way what appeared to
be army bread was distributed to
those able to reach the place of distribution.
Several of the sick men
raised themselves with difficulty and
stumbled toward a well, from which
they tried to dip water with *their
long sashes.
There were hundreds of dead and
thousands of sick in this camp,- many
lying on tne open ground auu grwi
numbers supporting their backs
against the houses bordering the
apen fields, most of which are deserted.
The comparatively few Turkish
soldiers brought to the hospitals, barracks
and mosques at Constantinople
ire more fortunate, although most of
:hem die after reaching their destinition.
Some few of them are given
aeds to lie in and water to drink, and
ill of them, if they do not get
warmth, are provided with shelter
:rom the rains and the wind.
San Stefano is not the worst cholira
camp. That at Hademkeui, near
;he Tchatalja lines, is more extensive.
If a Chinese sailor rescues a
Jrowning man he is bound by Chinese
law to keep him and feed him
WOMAN JUMPS TO DEATH
BODY FEARFULLY CRUSHED IN
PLUNGE OF 250 FEET.
Young Woman School Teacher Takes
Fatal Leap from 20th Story of
Chicago Building.
Chicago, Nov. 25.?Possessed with
the idea1 that she was pursued for
dishonorable purposes, Miss Maud
Van Deusen, 35 years old, leaped
from the twentieth story of the McCormick
building and was crushed to
death on the stone pavement of an
alley at the street level. She jumped
from a fire escape, nearly 250 feet
above the ground. Her body struck
another fire escape at the first floor
and bounded into the alleyway. Nearly
all her bones were broken.
Miss Van Deusen,-according to papers
found on her person, was a
school teacher in Humboldt, Neb. It
appears that she had been seeking a
position here and had been obsessed
with the idea that she had been in
danger from white slavers. She
wrote that she had been driven to
appeal for protection from Chief of
Police McWeeney to the Federal department
of justice and to social settlement
workers.
"Death Before Dishonor."
She had prepared for her* death
by pinning across her bosom a strip
of white linen, which had been stainI
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eu ciiuisuii <xl citLici cuu auu vu.
which she printed in large letters
"Death before dishonor." She had
tied around her neck a copy of the
New Testament, in which she had
marked passages in John. She held
her handbag in her hand as she
jumped and it was picked up near
her body. In it was another marked
Bible and a typewritten statement of
several words entitled "Part of My
Life's History."
"I will die clean, if I have to kill
myself," was written at the head of
one of the sheets. A stritf of bacon,
a small paper of pepper, an ounce of
tea and $3.19 in currency also were
found in the handbag.
Deranged Think Police.
The police assert that Miss Van
Deusen evidently was deranged when
she leaped from the building. The
landlady from the house in which
Miss Van Deusen had been rooming
said that the young woman had been
without employment for some time.
"I am trying to write this without
the least emotion," her typewritten
statement began, "and, though the
following statements may seem dramatic,
your reason will assure you
that they contain only common sense.
"I have very little money and am
not allowed to hold a position. I
will accept no money but tnat 1 earn.
"If I do not get help it will be a
certainty that I cannot escape falling
into the hands of the spiritualist
white slave trade and that will' force
me to self-destruction."
The police do not understand what
Miss Van Deusen meant by "spiritualist
white slave trade."
Letter to Miss Addams.
A copy of a letter in her handbag
addressed to Miss Jane Addams," of
Hull House, read:
"I wonder if this note will ever
reach you. Good people nowadays
are protected by secretaries so that
it is hard to get to them. I shall
love you if you are good really, or
intend to be as you determine."
A letter apparently written by Miss
Addams in reply stated that she was
too busy to see Miss Van Deusen at
that time, but would make a later appointment
with her.
One passage marked in the Testament
referred to was from the 14 th
chapter of John. "Let not your heart
be troubled. Ye believe in God. Believe
also in Me. In my Father's
house are many mansions. If it were
not so I would have told you. I go
to prepare a place for you."
Worried Over Hindu Cult.
Miss Van Deusen, it is said, was
the only daughter of Dr. Lydia Van
Deusen, of Falls City, Neb. She is
said to have told friends that she
worried a great deal over a Hindu
cult.
The young woman is said to have
been harassed by a hallucination that
she was pursued by the representatives
of this cult.
Miss Van Deusen came to Chicago
from Cincinnati June 26. While in
the Ohio city she worked as a stenographer
and lived at the Young Women's
Christian Association Home.
From Well-to-Do Family.
Falls City, Neb. Nov. 25.?Miss
Van Deusen was well known in Falls
City, where she grew up to womanhood.
She taught school in Falls
City and in Richardson county disi
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GIVES HIS LIFE FOR FAMILY.
Missing Atlanta Street Car Conductor
Believed a Suicide.
Atlanta, Ga., November 25.?Sacrifices
for his family and remorse because
he could not make further sacrifices
is believed to have led H. W.
Fitch, a local street car conductor,
to kill himself, either to-day or last
night, so that his two children might
have his life insurance at once.
Fitch's lawyers to-day received a letter
from him, which ended by saying:
"I'm going to wind my little ball
up and get off this old world."
One year ago Fitch gave of his own
blood in a fruitless effort to save
his wife's life. Relatives say that he
has been weak and in a worried state
ever since. Recently he purchased
for S 1.500 a lot on which to build a
house for his son, Charles, and his s
small daughter, Anna, who lives with
relatives in Lake City, S. C. With
the house practically completed, Fitch . i. 'V|||
found that he lacked $675 to pay { ^
for the construction work. Since he
had taken the title for the property
in his name as guardian for his ' ;
children, the Georgia law prevented
him from borrowing money on it.
He has since made threats to end
his life so that his children could
obtain his life insurance and finish
paying for the property. No trace V
has been found of him since he dis-'
appeared last night.
Prison for Four Bankers.
Memphis, Nov. 23.?Judge McC&ll, i
in the Federal court here to-day, .
sentenced D. C. Wynne, former president
of the All Night and Day Bank -jk
at Little Rock, Ark.; E. L. Hendrey,
nraoii}anf rtf q cimfloi* inofl. r'Jfeda
tution in Memphis; J. H. Brooks, .1.1
Memphis lumberman, and former director
of the Memphis bank, and
Abner Davis, former president of the' ^
All Night and Day 6ank, of Oklahoma
City, to five years in the Federal
prison and fined them each $2,000.
The sentence was based on two v>J"|
counts in the indictment charging
them with using the mails in a conBpiracy
to defraud in connection with
the failure of their banks.
A. C. Bonds, the fifth indicted man,
former president of the All Night and y-vDay
Bank, of Kansas City, whose re- I
ported illness has delayed the pass- |
ing of sentence several times, was not %
present to-day. His counsel read a /'; ^!*|5
telegram from him saying he was
suffering from appendicitis and was
unable to leave the hospital. - .' V'S^m
Previous to the passing of sentence
Judge McCall overruled a motion for ' JP?
a new trial. Attorneys for the dofendants
at once filed notice of an , ?vgH|
appeal.
Immediately after the adjournment
of court, United States Deputy '
Marshal Jolly arrested Hendrey on a
charge of violation of the postal
laws. \
The convicted bankers, it is said,
will make an effort to furnish bond
for their release pending the hearing
of motion to appeal.
Conference Finds Mr. Eaves Guilty.
High Point, N. C., Nov. 23.?By
noon to-day the bulk of the business
of the Western North Carolina con- Sil
ferench of the tyethodist Episcopal
church, South, was finished and the
main item of interest now remaining
is the appointment of preachers to
their charges for the ensuing year,
which will be made Monday. The ;
conference adopted a recommendation
to petition the general assembly
of North Carolina to prohibit the
shipment of whiskey into this territory
from "wet" districts. The committee
trying the Rev. G. E. Eaves
for leaving his charge without leave
and taking with him certain church
funds, found the pastor guilty and he
was suspended from the ministry for
six months. Rev. Abernethy, who
represented Eaves, gave notice of appeal.
The reports of pastors and presiding
elders showed that much
church building had been accomplished
during the past 12 months.
A woman is as old as she looks,
but not as young as she thinks she
l00kstricts
for a number of years. Her
family was well-to-do.
About six years ago Miss Van Deusen,
then 29 years old, suffered jnen
tal derangement and became estrang
ed from her family. She imagined
they were trying to deprive her of i ' .- >
her property. For a time sbe was
treated in-a Lincoln hospital and ?"v
later she went to Chicago. For the
last two years her relatives knew
little about her but understood she
was making her own way in Chicago
as a stenographer.
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