The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 12, 1912, Page 5, Image 5
PERSONAL MENTION.
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People Visiting in This City and
at Other Points.
?Mr. W. I. Johns, of Baldoc.
spent Monday in the city.
-?R. C. Hardwick, Esq., of Den
marK, was in uie irnj xuv&uu>.
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?Mr. E. F. Zeigler. of the Ehrhardt
section, was in the city last
Friday.
?Mr. A. McB. Speaks spent a few
days this /week at Varnville, Hampton
county, his old home.
?Mr. Otis Brabham, of Allendale,
spent one day in the city last week
on a visit to relatives and friends.
?Mrs. W. E. Free and little son
left Sunday to spend a few days with
her sister, Mrs. G. B. Hoover, at
Hampton.
?Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Smoak and
, ? Mr. Laurie Smoak spent Sunday in
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the Fork section- of Orangeburg
county with their parents.
?Mr. H. Spann Dowling, with his
friends, Mr. Evans and Dr. Frazier,
of Anderson, spent several days here
this week on a hunting trip.
?Mrs. Austin Xeal and little son,
Austin, Jr., who have been visiting
relatives in Bamberg, have returned
to their home in Roanoke, Va.
?Mrs. E. P. Allen and children
' left last week to spend some time
with relatives at Williamston. They
will not return until after Christmas.
?Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Brabham
are visiting relatives in the city, and
will remain until after the holidays.
Their very many friends are glad to
* have them back.
?Rev. W*. R. McMillan, pastor of
the Bamberg Baptist church, attended
the session of the State Baptist
convention in Abbeville last week.
The convention will meet in Bennettsville
next year.
* ATE CHICKEN AND WAS HANGED
California Negro is Hanged for Mur>
der of Fellow Convict.
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Sacramento, Cal., Dec. 7.?After
eating chicken, enjoying a concert,
and singing into a phonograph, Edward
Delhihanti, a negro, who seven
years ago swore vengeance upon all
white people when his mother was
v burned to death by a mob in Joplin.
Mo., to-day was hanged for the murder
of a fellow-convict at Folsom
State penitentiary.
Musicians were called in and a
tenor sang a popular ballad, after
which D'elihanti called for a phonograph
and listened to Bryan's speech
? v on "immortality." Then, placing a
blank record on the machine, he
sang "Always Keep on the Sunny
Side" and had it reproduced for him.
Th^ negro had been sentenced to
serve fourteen years for criminal assault
when he killed another convict.
In a race riot at Joplin, Mo., in
1903 Delhihanti's mother was burny
ed to death when a mob fired a row
of negro cabins.
Three Shot in Bible Argument.
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Greensburg, La., Dec. 9.?Enraged
because his word in reference to the
meaning of a Biblical quotation was
questioned, the Rev. Fleet hlarroii.
prominent as a minister of this parish,
shot and killed Nat Lindsay, parish
commissioner and Charles Lindsay,
a son received fatal wounds
y when he attempted to aid his parent.
The preacher was also seriously
wounded and it is probable he will
die. .
The argument began in a grocery
store, the favorite lounging place of
Greensburg and the forum fordiscus(
' sions on all things of political, re'
ligious or financial nature.
Lindsay was leading one side of
the argument, while his son was an
interested listener. When the preacher
entered he was appealed to as an
authority to decide the question.
The quotation was repeated and he
promptly replied giving his opinion
as to its meaning.
The parish commissioner was not
pleased with the decision. ^ The min*
ister was brought into .the argument.
As thf> riismission erew warmer, feel
ing rail higher. %
It was seen by the debaters that
the minister was losing his temper,
while Lindsay, too, seemed to enter
into the discussion with more than
normal spirit.
Both sides soon engaged in per.
f sonalities. Witnesses are divided as
to which side fired first. The store
was filled with shots and space beneath
counters and behind shelters
was at a premium.
Before his father fell young Lindsay
had joined the melee. The ex,
change of shots did not end until all
three men had fallen from their
wounds.
FORCE'OP HABIT.
The preacher he preached from a text
How Sampson was barbered and vexed,
And he told it so true
That a man in a pew ?
> Got rattled and hollered out, "Next!"
?New Orleans Picayune.
WHEX XO MAX'S XERVE FAILE
Test on Destroyer Walke, in Whir
Every Soldier Proved a Hero.
Out into the smother of spume, 2
miles off Brcnton's Reef, near Xev
port, bumpeti four doughty destroy
ers of Uncle Sam's?the May ran
the Perkins, the Sterett and th
Walke.
A southerly gale, according to th
story told by the New York Work
blowing out of rain -laden skiei
scared up the seas into yellow foan
The long, lean leaden hued littl
warships of the third group of d?
stroyers were having their test <tri?
for .speed.
A bell jingled down in the engin
room of the Walke and the valve
were opened wide by the men wh
stood at their stations. Take a pee
down into the engine room of th
destrovcr just then.
Boats of the Walke's type are 28
feet long, and pretty much half c
this length is boilers and engines
She is merely a hull capable of floal
ing 12,000-horse power. The entir
ship aft of the superstructure is
maze of pipes and chests and big cy]
inders and valves from deck to keel
son. She's a twin turbine boat, wit
oil-burning furnaces. f
And chief of all the machinery i
that crowded engine room are tw
huge cylinders, some four feet in d;
ameter and ten feet long. In thes
are the roters?the twisting thing
which work the screws in turbin
fashion under steam pressure. Xin
men were below that dun morning i
the engine room. Two were there t
observe officially?Lieut. Robert I
Montgomery, of the destroyer Far
ning, and Gunner's Mate T. B. Craw
ford, of the destroyer Patterson, t
i assist him.
At his post stood Lieut. Donal
Pettit Morrison, engineer officer o
the Walke, and around him in tha
constricted, machine-filled room wer
the oilers, machinists and firemen
Above, the rest of the crew of S
i
I men were on duty. One of these wa
i Doyle.
' tT* T~^ni'l . ohlo CD3
.\ <J v\ ijunaiu x . uuiic, -uuiv
j man, wasn't feeling well that mist
| morning. He had a broken rib, bu
J did not know it. This is how he go
! it. At Newport, a week before
j Doyle had fallen in the dark betwee
| the boat and the piling of her dock
j He went down below the side plank
j ing and came up between two docks
Morrison, the lieutenant, hear
| the cry of "man overboard;" air
; plunged overboard in full uniform
} He could not find Doyle.
"Anybody see him?" he spluttered
Nobody had. Morrison took a Ion;
dive in the dark, straight down uii
j der the planks between two docks
| and there he found Doyle strugglin
I to keep hold on a slippery pile. Mor
J rison grabbed the half-drowned sail
| or, plunged down again into the wa
ter and under the piling and soon lia
him in his bunk, safe and sound.
Doyle's side hurt him, but he didn'
realize then that he had cracked
rib. So he went on duty that mom
ing of the speed tests.
"I ought to be in me hammock!
he growled, "and not here."
The Walke was hissing along an
doing splendidly.
Lieut. Charles E. Train, her cap
I tain, drenched and chilled from th
i
seas that were smashing over th
bridge had gone below into hi
i
cabin to get into some dry ciotnes
The engines had worked the boat u
to the best that was in her.
A crack from below, like the eras
of a six-inch gun. A hiss, a roar,
scream?then silence for a mcmerj
The Walke quivered, stopped an
wallowed in the rough trough of th
? sea. Out from the hatches cam
j clouds of white and the shrill snai
I of escaping steam?something ha
! burst! Lieut. Train came plungin
out of his cabin.
j* "Engine room!" yelled Lieut. I
Thibault, who had been on deel
"Casing of the roter's exploded."
Down below in that white-hot in
ferno were nine men, scalded with
out and within. Every breath wa
searing their tortured lungs int
leather.
But there were men on, the dec
of the Walke just then?men wh
could keep their wits. Two husk
lads shut off the steam valves in
stantly.
A sailor jumped to the smotherin
hatch and tried to put himself jiow
the blistering ladder. Men grabbe
him. He threw them aside.
"Let me go!" he yelled, squarin
off to fight. "Morrison's down ther
?he saved me?I'm going to sav
him?lemme go!"
It was Doyle. Doyle was goin
down alone into the engine room t
get the man who had saved ^his lit'
the week before. But they batte
him back and their energy picked ou
his broken rib.
One man held his arm over th
seething pit and drew it back with
y^ll of pain. Another tried to pee
down and fell back gasping.
The trim, sandy-haired youn
Train, calm and level headed, bring
ing his Annapolis training into plaj
shot out a few staccatp orders. Me
$
I) j jumped to obey. The helmsman had I
J her head around into the sea again. >
h | Not two minutes had passed. hj
Up the ladder crept a gasping III
! shape. His face peeling off. he |||
0 j stumbled and fell 011 the deck. Then II
another crawled up and another and |||
another, till there were five. |l|
t> "My God!" gasped one, .as they |||
e picked up his parboiled body and |||
bore him into the officers' wardroom I
e forward, "Mr. Morrison's down there |||j
1, yet. He was nearest to the ladder |||
3. and he stood aside to let us up first. |||
1. Get him, for God's sake, get him! I |||
e can't go back."
i- And then the poor fellow passed III
il away into merciful unconsciousness llj
from which he never awakened. III
e Then two men got below?Chief |||
,s Machinist Mate Christiansen and I
0 Chief Machinist Mate Olsen. And at |||
p their heels jumped Chief Quarter- IIJ
e master Spear and Chief Boatswain's IN
Mate Ingham. Ill
9 "Morrison's below yet!" bellowed I
one fellow down the hatch after IN
, Spear and Ingham. Christiansen and
_ Olsen.
e It was burning hot down there, but
a the brave petty officers who had
L_ plunged into the scald could at least
UM/va 4- V* n
[_ uiectLiic.
h They stumbled over a man. He
was lying on the floor, his face buried
a in the bilge, burned to a crisp along
0 his back, but still he had saved himj_
self. He had stuck his head down a
hole into the bottom of the ship
s where he could breathe fresh air and
e held on while the steam seared his
e back.
n Ingham and Spear lifted him to his
o feet-?it was Frank Conway, oiler.
"The ladder, quick man!" yelled
L_ Spear. Conway tottered to his feet.
"There's Mr. Morrison!" he yello
ed, "see him, over there by the ladder?I
saw him stand aside for the
men. I must get him out!"
,f j Crazed with pain, Conway started
t toward the hottest part of the room
Q ?Lieut Morrison had been nearest
L the turbine casing when it exploded.
2 He lay crumpled up on the floor three
s feet away from the ladder by which
he might have escaped to air and
. life.
v Conway grabbed frantically at the
t .body he hadn't strength to lift.
"Get him out!" screamed he, craz>
ed with pain. "Here, let me bear a
"j
n hand."
And so they carried the poor,
_ scalded body of the young lieutenant
. up the ladder. Conway fainted when
they lifted him out along with two j|
others not so badly scalded. ll
L Just as gently as they could these \\
rough sailer men tried to take the
[ uniform from the young officer?he __
cr was only 25 years old. He gasped
for a' few minutes and settled down
. calmly in death. He had never been ^
' So
conscious. His lungs were all gone
?those sturdy lungs which could a
i_ hold a breath for two minutes at a
. stretch, those lungs which had kept
him alive under the water when he ^
went in after Doyle. Doyle was weep- "
sa;
t ing. He knew. He had seen. .J*
1XI k,
a Up the forward mast leaped a lot ^
of flags. They looked gay, but the
destroyer fleet knew they spelled
" disaster. The cool-headed Train had
sei
set his signals for help. The Per(j
kins bore down, but she couldn't
come close?the seas were running
" - * ? * - -1 * J 4. AUnt
too higft. l rain naa iouuu uul uiai
e one turbine was working, and he
e signalled he could get home under
s half steam. But the Perkins poured .
. oil over the waters and the men of
wf
n the Walke did the same?so a hos- ,
^ loi
pital steward with medicines and
na
h more oil managed to get aboard.
n Thirty-five minutes after the catas3.11
, trophe young Train had his boat
lie
running back to Newport and tied up ^
]J
e to the hospital ship Solace.
p When the navy doctors saw the
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i sufferers brought on board they shook .
(j their heads. J. W. Rumpf and H. L.
g Wilder, both crackajack machinist
mates of the first-class, lived a few
3C(
? hours, and then they joined Mor- ,
- ~ - to
rison in cleain. m. a. trawiuiu, gun- _ .
k? fol
ner's mate from the Patterson, died
vei
t_ next day; John Delany, first-class
fireman, lasted one day more, and , .
l_ be
c then there were five dead. That was
s w 1
^ all. Conway and the three other ino
ca]
jured will get well?they were the .
I. farthest away from the steam.
tv fitl
0 "Perhaps we will need, some skin
y to graft," came the word from the
' Solace to the Walke.
< " me
A big sailor shuffled toward the jgr
p. captain that afternoon and saluted cas
n when word of what was wanted sift- '
n thi
d ed through the ship. ^
"Tell 'em sir," he stammered, ^
g "that this here whole crew'll give up
2 all the skin they want for the boys!" _
?3 , cai
e But it hadn't been needed.?N. Y.
World. Th
? j Woman Let Hats Eat Baby. an
0 j wa
e i Muskogee, Okla., Dec. 5.?After mi
1 . ii.. j.. f toctimonv tn "V
< 1 j lilt IUUUUULUWU v/i
t j effect that part of her baby's face ha
j had been eaten by rats during the
e | mother's visit to a neighbor, .Mrs. foi
a | Virgil Davis to-day was ordered held boi
t to answer a charge of second degree Wi
manslaughter by a coroner's jury, for
S When Mrs. Davis returned home af- he
t*r the visit, the infant was dead. Mi
T, part of its face having been consumed
n by the rodents. Ne
Do Your Xmas Shopping!
AT HOOTON'S
Save Time, Trouble, and Money
Almost daily we receive.New Goods for Xmas, among them you
will find something suitable to give any lady, nothing trashy, but
gifts that are serviceable. Among the many things you will find
here suitable for gifts will be Collars, Jabots, Silk Hosiery, Kid
Gloves for day or evening, Pin Cushions, Ribbons, Parasols, Beauty
and Belt Pins, and in fact anything nice to give a lady you will find here.
Have you seen that cabinet of Laces we are selling for 5c. We have all
shades of Malines, Chiffons, Ribbons and anything in that line you may need for Xmas
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Just come and see what we have to show you tor evening aresses.
SUIT AND CLOAK DEPARTMENT
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We have a few Suits left, come early if you want one, the
price will suit, for we have, made the profit, now is your time.
A few Long Coats, come and let us show you, the price will suit.
Haut aKnnf an Autnmnkilp Rnnnptt to rive vour friend, see us?
t XV TT MWVMk ***? s. ?-Wv ?? ' ? ? ? ?? g- ? J ? ? J
In other words if there is anything you need, and are a lady,.
come to Hooton's, we believe we can please you.
We shall expect you, don't disappoint us.
SI HOOTON'S LADIES STORE SS " |
I Millinery and Dress Making Parlors |||
Purple Stamp with every 10c You spend with us. ^JJ
THESE WERE FATAL HATS. |
me That Have Hanged Murderers I I
nd Rroiifht Criminals to Justice. I | j|
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The man who murdered Inspector HPIH^ H7r?OT
ells at Eastbourne recently left be- IU| l^w llu I UL WL V I
id him a fawn-colored Trilby hat, 11\/ ? I Mi 11 IJj V V IJkJ Ji
i-s Tit-Bits. Stamped on the leather
side was the word "Kelvington,"
tile a piece of paper stuck inside ????? j
e hat was inscribed "No. 56. H. # <
2. 8-6." Two letters which re- Mr. C. F. Rizer, of Olar, is now in
and U the West buying a fresh car load of _ .J
slight as such a clue is. the prob- Horses and Mules, and anvone
ility is that whoever fired the fatal
ots win be brought to justice wanting a good farm Mule, or a
iTtheBiack Museum at Scotland nice family Horse, should wait and
^?itstr^"S see this load before buying. They '{
vs for the murder of a policeman will arrive at his stables in Olar on
med Cole.
This case was almost an exact par- \ j
el of the Eastbourne tragedy. Po- Hff/|WTT\ 1 ^17 1 I* !
cembTr?,16!m! whUe^on^uty in j ItlUllI/A 1 j 1/LlV* 1 Dill
hwin street, Dalston, saw a man j
med Orrock in the act of clamber- j i
I over the low wall in front of a! H I j
ptist chapel that faced the street.! I Vb? hi i m???w??whm?b?i 1
He demanded the man to give an j ? |j
:ount of himself, and endeavored! R I.
arrest him. In the struggle which j ^^MB^MaaggHMMfcaauM??&
lowed the miscreant drew a revol- '
r and shot the policeman dead. Victoria sailing vessel. At the time about this valuable clew, was the
One of the clews the murderer left of bis capture he was actually wear-^ odor of rose scented pomade which
hind when he fled was the black i?g Mr- Briggs's hat, cut down and pervaded the hat.
deawake hat. When Orrock was slightly altered. There was one burglar of his acptured
it proved to be one of the Being hatless got a man named quaintance who had a weakness for
ongest clews against him, for it Toussaint 15 years' penal servitude, scents. His hair was as black as jet
:ed him perfectly. ' He was seen one morning in 1886 to and always plastered down with rose
The first railway-carriage murde- be running down the York road, near pomade. The sweetly perfumed head
*, Frank Muller, was captured by King's Cross. Now, a man running and hat got their owner seven years. #
ians of the hat he left behind. Mul- in London is nothing out of the way, "Hats," said Inspector Williamson,
robbed and murdered a bank but a refined-featured, well-dressed at,one time chief of Scotland Yard,
shier named Briggs, afterward man running with no hat on is some- ' are so easy to lose. Criminals seem
rowing his victim on the line close1 what unusual. to forget that. If the> did not, and ,
Victoria Park, where he was A constable stopped him and insist- onl>' knew how handy a hat is in
ind. ed upon taking him back where he the bands of a detective officer, they Underneath
one of the seats of the came. A short way back the shrieks miSht think it worth while to tie their
rriage in which the murder was of a woman led the policeman to the 0D ^ith rope.
mmitted was found a soft felt hat office of a dealer in diamonds. The HOW TAFTS OWS STATE VOTED.
is hat did not fit the victim's head, dealer had been stunned by a life- /
d it was the only one found. It preserver and 2,000 pounds worth of President Beaten by Wilson in Ohio
s Drettv certain that it was the \ jewels stolen. The criminal, Tous- by 146,086.
irderer's, but the question arose, saint, hearing a step on the stairs,
^hat had become of Mr. Briggs's had fled. But he forgot his hat, and Columbus, O., Dec. 7.?The official
t?" this very fact secured for him a well- vote of Ohio on president, completed
It was soon discovered that the hat deserved punishment. in the secretary of State's office tomd
in the carriage had been j Detective Inspector Littlechild was day, shows that Wilson carried the
ught at a hatter's in Marylebone. , called in to investigate a burglary. State over Taft by 146,086. Wilson
thin a short time a cabman came The only clew was a hat. The de- polled 423,152 votes; Taft, 277,066
ward, identified the hat, and swore tective examined this hat very care- votes, leading Roosevelt, who polled
had bought it for a man named fully, and discovered two tiny black 229,327, by 47,739.
iller. hairs on the inside lining. Chafin, Prohibition candidate for
+vii<n<r orVnVh nntirpri nrpsident. received 11,459 votes;
Muiier was arresiea on lanamg at ""?s " ?? ?- i r- , ?t
w York, where he had fled in the and which struck him as peculiar | Debs, Socialist,' polled 89,930 votes.
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