The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 12, 1912, Page 4, Image 4
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Thursday, Dec. 12, 1912.
In discussing the utterances of the
governor .recently at Richmond, the
Florence Times speaks of him as a
blatant ass.
Let us have no disorder in Bamberg
during the Christmas holidays.
The town authorities should see to it
that life and property are protected.
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The frnvprnnr had been let alone
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since the election and he just
couldn't stand it. He wants his name
in the papers, even if it has to be in
P an undesirable way.
*N . We thought of course the Blease
newspapers would defend the utterances
of the governor at Richmond,
but so far they have kept silent.^
Really we would like to know what
they think about the incident.
Why is it that when you say anything
good about a map he never
sees it in the paper, but criticise him
a little and that's the first thing he
sees. In other words, the newspaper
man never is thanked for the nice
things* he says about people- but
jumped on for his criticisms of men
and measures.
Sunday, December 1st, in a sermon
at Savannah. Ga., Bishop Wilson, of
the 'Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, said: "Rome in her worst
days never harbored such conditions
of vice as are prevalent in our highest.social
circles at the present time."
Pretty hard on high society, and the
worst part is that it is largely true.
The city and county authorities '
should look after the sale of cap pistols
and giant fire crackers. It is
unlawful to sell either of these, yet
numbers of the small boys around
town have them. We also understand
that 22 calibre one shot pistols
are being sold in Bamberg to small
boys. The authorities should get
busy.
Now let's all get together and see
if we can't see to it that Bamberg
celebrates Christmas in a proper
manner. This holiday celebrates the
birth of the Christ, the Redeemer of
mankind, and should not be observed
with disorder and lawlessness, but
rather in the spirit of prayer and
thankfulness for the many blessings
x ti-o Viqvo at thp hands of a
Divine 'Providence.
The press of the country is devoting
considerable space to the governor
of South Carolina on account of his
remarkable statements at the recent
conference of governors in Richmond.
Those who know the governor
are not at all surprised, but it
is a pity that his automatic mouth
should advertise South Carolina in
such a bad light before the country.
We wonder what the law-abiding citizens
who voted for him (and some
did) think of his latest eruption?
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Greenwood did pretty well last
week for a prohibition county in the
matter of lawlessness and crime. We
don't think the record of Bamberg
for any one week was ever half so
bad as that, yet other counties have'
been disposed to cite Bamberg county
as a horrible example of the lawless
spirit now abroad in the land.
To our mind, no county in tne state
has any room to criticise another.
We should all sweep before our own
doors before criticising our neighbors.
The first woman jury ever sitting
in the State of Idaho, last Thursday
found a woman guilty of threatening
a man with a revolver.
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MANIAC WITH BOX OF DYNAMITE
Tells Police to Send for Highest Official
of Southern Pacific.
Armed with an infernal machine
containing enough dynamite to destroy
an entire city block, a bottle of
nitro-glycerine and a 4 5-calibre revolver,
a masked maniac took possession
of the Central police station
in Los Angeles. Cal., and held it for
more than an hour, while hundreds
of occupants of the building and
those for blocks around, panic-stricken,
sought safety in distance.
When Detective James Hosick
knocked the man unconscious with
a leather "billy" after slipping up
behind him, the fuse of the infernal
machine was automatically ignited.
Detective Samuel L. Brown grabbed
the box with its fuse sharply splut
tering and hurled it into the street.
Stick of high-powered dynamite scattered
over the pavement while hundreds
of spectators stood apparently
paralyzed by fright. Through a freak
of chance there was no explosion and
Brown continued kicking the sticks
of dynamite and jumping on the fuse
until he had broken the connection
ad extinguished the fire.
Manacled to Cot.
Manacled to a cot in the receiving
hospital to-night the would-be dynamiter,
who ga<re his name as Albert
Henry Davis, is suffering with Several
severe scalp wounds but the police
surgeons say his injuries are not
serious.
Davis entered the outer office of
Chief of Police Sebastian this afternoon.
His face and head were completely
covered with a grotesque
mask and he carried in his arms a
large box covered with cloth. The
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aers and resembled a small hand organ.
First startled and then amused by
the strange spectacle, Police Sergeant
R. C. Hilfe. who suspected a practical
joke, asked the man what he wanted.
"I've got enough dynamite to blow
us all into eternity," he said, "and
I want you to send for the highest
official of the Southern Pacific Railroad."
The masked visitor rested the box
on a filing cabinet and Assistant District
Attorney R. O. Graham, who
was in the office, started joking with
him.
"This is no joke," said Davis. "I
mean business and if you don't believe
it try to take this away from
me. My hand is fastened in t"his box
and if I pull it out bang
we all die."
Hand in Box.
A hole had been cut in the box
and the occupants of the room saw
for the first time that the man's left
hand was hidden in the box.
They began to realize that it was
no joke. Davis then walked into the
office of Police Secretary C. E. Snively,
which opens into the private office
of Chief Sebastian, and repeated his
request that the head official of the
Southern Pacific be summoned.
Snively asked him if he naa any
preference in the man he desired to
blow up and he replied that he only
wanted the head man.
Snively then took down the telephone
receiver and pretended to hold
a conversation with Paul Shoup, general
manager of the Pacific Electric
Company.
"Mr. Shoup is busy but he will be
here in about 15 minutes," said
Snively.
"Well, he'd better hurry," replied
Davis, "I'm getting nervous."
In the meantime Chief Sebastian
who had had a brief conversation
with the man and realized that he
was in earnest ordered the street
roped off for a block either way and
tok" steps to have the 100 prisoners
in the city prison removed. Upstairs
in the building two justice courts
were in session and both court rooms
were crowded.
Court Rooms Cleared.
A detective passed the word to a
Pliomhorc'e POllI't
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where a Japanese was having a preliminary
examination on a murder
charge before a crowd of his countrymen.
The bailiff whispered to the
judge.
"Court's adjourned until 2 p. m.
Clear the court room," ordered the
judge promptly and there was a rush
for the stairway. A similar scene was
enacted in Justice Frederickson's
court.
There was not enough patrol wagons
to remove the prisoners from the
jail to the Doyle Heights prison and
two street cars were sent for. It was
an orderly procedure, ana the prisoners
were sooiL-<m their way to the
East Side guarded by the reserves,
who had been called out.
Ambulances removed the patients
from the city emergency hospital just
around the corner from the chief's
office. The hospital was crowded with
patients injured in last night's fire
at the St. George Hotel.
Realizing the necessity of keeping
the man's attention engaged until
the building was cleared and some
means devised for foiling his plans,
Secretary Snively and the detectives
carried on a conversation with him.
"Why didn't you go down to the
ATHLETES ARRESTED.
! Instructor and Five College Studen
Arrested on Serious Charge.'
Lexington. Ky., Dec. 9.?E. J
Sweetland, for the last two years i
structor in athletics at the State Ur
versity, and five students were a
rested here to-day on warran
sworn to by Capt. W. S. Webb, J:
former coach of the University teai
The arrests grew out of the offi(
al investigation of State Fire Mars
al Bosworth into the burning of tl
private desk of Dean Paul Ande
son recently.
The men arrested were J. S. Char
bers, captain of the 1913 footbz
team; V. L. Hall, secretary of tl
University Y. M. ?. A.; Thomas Ro
inson, manager of the 1913 footb?
team; W. C. Wilson, captain of tl
1912 basketball team, and W.
Harrison, captain of the 1912 foe
ball team.
Jury Opened With Prayer.
Eldorado, Kas., Dec. 5.?When tl
first women's jury in a Kansas cou
entered the jury room Friday nig
to begin its duties, the twelve pau
ed, a trifle uncertain as to the fir
move.
"I believe we should pray," oi
juror said. So the twelve worn*
jurors bowed their heads in sile
prayer.
The jury then organized by elec
ir.g Mrs. Hattie E. Riley, its olde
member, foreman, or rather "for
woman," after which it plunged in
a discussion of the case.
"It seemed as if all the tweh
wemen were talking at once," oi
of the jurors confessed to-day. "B
we were terribly in earnest. We h<'
respected the judge's inctructioi
and for three days we had not spok(
a word about the case, so naturail
there was a good deal to be said."
After three hours' deliberation tl
twelve women returned a verdi
awarding the plaintiff $1,200 dar
ages based on the alleged misrepr
sentation of a quarter section of lan
A year ago the same case, tri<
before a jury of men, resulted in
hung jiiry.
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Store at Barnwell Burned.
Barnwell, Dec. 10.?Fire brol
out in the store of Harley & Weat
erbee here to-night at about
o'clock, and before the blaze cou
be gotten under control the buidii
and contents were entirely destro
ed. Good work on the part of vc
unteer fire fighters saved the opei
house, which adjoined the buildin
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\vnen me nre was mst uiswvch
smoke was pouring from the doo
and windows and there was no ho]
of saving the building. It is unde
stood that the loss is fully coven
by insurance.
The figures show that* South Car
lina will produce much less cottc
this year than last.
Southern Pacific and blow up tl
man you wanted?" he was asked.
Wanted to Do Good Job.
"Well," he replied thoughtfully, '
thought the police could handle
better and I wanted to do a good jo
I might have killed the wrong om
otherwise."
While the conversation was
progress several policemen and new
noopoH +V>rrm crh tho rnr?T
yapci llJCiX paoov LUiuut,.. vuu 4
A newspaper photographer ev<
came in and took a picture of ti
man sitting on the chair with the i
fernal machine resting on his kne
Davis finally asked that everyboc
be kept back.
"Curiosity has killed lots of pe
pie," he said, "and if this thing go
off there's going to be a whole 1
of them go up."
One of the spectators attracted
the scene was J. Randel, a minii
man from Chihuahua, Mex.
Handel Tastes Dynamite.
Randel asked Davis if it was real
dynamite in the box.
"Yes, and its 60 per cent, sti
too," said Davis.
"I don't believe it; your are blu:
ing," laughed Randel.
Davis lifted the cloth cover off tl
l^ox which had a glass front and dre
out a stick of dynamite. Randel to<
it, bit off a piece and tasted it, min
fashion. He knew what it was, b
dissembled in order to gain time.
"That's not dynamite," he sa
cont mptuously, "somebody h
cheated you."
"Light it and see," said Davis.
Randel lighted a piece of the dyn
mite and it caused a flash. Imm
diately the room was cleared of vi
itors.
While Secretary Snivelv carried <
the conversation with the manic
Detective Hosick tip-toed from t:
outer room which was at Davis's bai
and struck him on the head with
'"blackjack." The infernal machi!
dropped and Detective Brown, w]
was at Hosick's elbow, grabbed it.
Davis reached in his coat pock
and Hosick hit him again and ]
! tumbled to the floor unconscious.
The bottle of nitroglycerine ai
1 the revolver were in Davis's insii
coat pocket, towards which he h;
1 reached.
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rs BBARS AND THEIR WAYS. with a noose laid around a piece of O. M. CALVERT KILLED. 4
?e blubber in a hole and captured and t
r_' Popular Ideas About Bruin Family j packed in one operation by hauling Prominent Farmer of Greenwood
>d that are Only Half True. j them into casks and coopering them. County Met Death by a Neighbor.
i Their love of sweet things is the un
Many of the conventional ideas as j doing of other bears. They will go Greenwood, Dec. 7.?Mr. O. M.
o- to bears have endured from periods i int0 box traps and fall traps after Calvert, a prominent farmer of the
long antedating the investigations of honey, or fasten their heads in a nail- Callison section of Greenwood counnaturalists.
Certain of these ideas studded molasses barrel while suck- ty, was shot by Mr. J. T. "Hollings- "
^ are absurd; others have a founda- jng the syrup. In some parts of the worth, at an early hour yesterday
tion in tact. world they commit such havoc while morning, near his home, and cliea '
It is a fact that the representative in search of fruit that cultivators this afternoon about 1 o'clock. Impolar
bear of the greatest strength, are obliged to spread bird lime for mediately after the unfortunate af- . v
courage and feroctfy has a yellowish them. fair Mr. Hollingsworth came to the
b coat, and that the pure white coat, as Catlin, an authority on the ani- city, surrendered to the sheriff and
es a general rule, is a mark of coward- mal, once said, "a man lying down is now in jail. The weapon used
ice. It is difficult to account for this was medicine to a grizzly, although it was a shotgun, the load taking efin
fact, unless it be ascribed to some is a well-known fact that these feet in the face and chest.
s_ taint of albinism, which is almost in- monsters of from 80 to 1,000 pounds | According to a statement made by
n variably accompanied by weakness weight will attack any man or horse j Hollingsworth to Sheriff McMillan,
and degeneracy in an animal. It has fhey come across." This characteris- | this afternoon there had been bad
" ' x ^ *- I hinnH hptwppn him and the man he *
been pointed out tnai mere must tic repugnance 10 iuucu auvunug i ? ?
Q. have been a time in the dim past dead or motionless seenjs to indicate j killed for some time. This morning 4
,e when a single type of bear living on that primarily the bear was a fruit-! he and Mr. Frank Luquire were
jy a mixed diet of flesh and fruit,-to eating beast. This has become an ; passing the home of Calvert when
which polar bears in captivity speed-1 accepted tenet of natural history be- j the latter came out into the road
0_ ily adapt themselves, the lighter and j f0re the discovery of the offal-eating ' with a shotgun and ordered Luquire
es more speedy of these animals would j polar bear.' i to get out of the buggy. Hollingsot
tend to go northward, finding food j -Bear talk" was always considered ! worth states that Calvert jumped belater
in the autumn than the others. ,.o.00d medicine" bv the* Indians. If' hind a larSe tree as he made this
t0 and mating together before their a bear biock d their path, they ad- comniand. Later the gun was levelIg
winter torpor. Thus they would pro- dressed him politely, reminding him ! ed 011 the defendant, but Hollingsduce
the highly specialized type cf their common brotherhood, prais- j worth was t0? Quick and fired first.
"which cannot climb trees, but, in- ing his nobility and requesting him | ^oad sll0t entered the
ly stead, is wonderfully adapted, with kipdly tQ allow them an unmolested i man's face and chest aud [t was soon
its hair-soled feet, to scramble over passage This, it is said, he fre- discovered that his chances for relff
ice. and with its long, lithe body qUently did for, being by nature in-1 covery were hopeless.
. ? !? 1 - - . ? i Hollinasworth stated that he had
ana sinuous mnus to swui iuus uio- offensive, tne son accents aia not uis-j
ff. tances or spring upon-its prey, the turb him> and s0 he would g0 on his ; his shotgun leaning on the foot of
seal. way , j his buggy and he grabbed it to protie
In captivity/no bears hibernate. To Some naturalists contend that I tect himself as s00n as he saw ^al>w
the polar bear winter brings a dis- bears do not "hug," while others con- j ver^ approaching.
5k inclination for baths; to the Malay tend that, with the exception of the Calvert was regarded as one of
er or Himalayan, kept indoors, it makes Polar bear, they do. It is sometimes j mos^ progressive farmers of his
ut no difference; but the black and asserted that the bear never walks i section tbe count}. He was well
brown bears of both sexes eat spar- naturally on his hind legs, but this! known in Greenwood where he came
id ingly at intervals, and sometimes statement is incorrect. Bears often J verj ?^en 011 business,
as sleep for two or three days together walk on two legs after descending a i Hollingsworth is a >oung man bein
their dens at this time. In their tree, and they have been seen delib-J tween 25 and 30 jears of age. He
i j -ahours i--n aconma on nnricrhottitiirip l bas been employed as rural mail car
Wild S lei LtJ LXie UlcKJK <11111 uiunu uvuih ci aicij iu uwuiuv ccxx XA uv..v?. j
a- choose 'a cave or hollow tree, and in order to toss an object. The same j rier*
e- there the trapper seeks them for their statement applies to their wrestling,
is- pelts and for their abundant grease, since they engage in the most strenu- "The president of the -university
The discolored snow around the small ous contests of this kind, in which seems to look with considerable tol:>n
hole kept open by the animal's hugging plays a prominent part. An [ eration on those who can t pass the
ic, breathing does not escape the trap- approved "half Nelson" often finishes j entrance examination.'
he per's practiced eye, nor the scratch- the good-natured bout. Bears have j "Yes; he admits that he couldn t
?k pri trpp trunks where the black bear been held to be dull and foolish. In j?p3ss it himself."?Kansas City Jour- ^
a has scrambled up to lie hitmen in the Xorse and Russian folk tales they j nal.
ne some hollow, perhaps 40 feet above, are the butts of the peasant or of the I ? bo
This mild-mannered and indolent fox. But few animals, except mon- | bears from Britain, and the sport can
beast, which seeks only to turn and keys, are so intelligent. None play I be traced in England to the conquest
et sleep again, falls an easy prey to the so well together, none learn untaught or beyond. Queen Elizabeth was so
be hunter. But the brown bear of Eu- so many tricks and none are so sus- fond of the sport that, by an order
rope and the grizzly of America are ceptible to education. Bears, too, in council, she prohibited "plays to
id roused to fury when disturbed. have a sense of humor. be performed on Thursdays because
de There are various ways of taking Few sports have had such a great bear baiting and such pastimes had
id or "turning" the bear. Polar bears, and extended popularity as bear bait- usually been practiced."?New York
both young and old, are often taken ing. The Romans imported their Press. j
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