Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WOMAN IS EXECUTED. Her Love for Young Turkish Officer Led to Her Destruction. A Bulgarian woman's love led her to betray her country and brought upon her swift retribution. A woman of high social standing, wife of ? J a Bulgarian staff officer^ was iuuuu guilty of betraying the Bulgarian mobilization plans to the Turks, and was shot. A few years ago, when she was sill a young girl, she fell in love with a dashing young officer attached to the Turkish legation. Her parents, however, would not hear of their marriage, and when the young officer was recalled to Con^ontinnnio thp p'irl r^lnntantlv mar 3 W UHuwy*v v ** v Q?* - v ried a Bulgarian officer. Some time later the Turkish officer returned charged with a special mission and the friendship between the two was renewed. Finally, it is asserted, the Turk asked her to run away with him. "I have been ordered by my superiors," he said, "to obtain the Bulgarian mobilization plans. If I do not succeed I shall be relegated to some distant command in Asia Minor, and we shall have no chance of see ilig uiic auuuuci. The woman pointed out that they were both too poor to think of eloping, and told him to be patient. A few days later she handed him a bundle of documents containing the Bulgarian army plans. She had taken them from her husband's desk and told the Turkish officer to photograph the mand to give the ordinals back to her. When the war broke out the Turkish officer was v captured in one of the first engagements and the papers were found on him, revealing the whole affair. He was tried by courtmartial and shot. The young Bulgarian woman, though the wife of an officer, was not spared^ and having been found guilty by a special court, was also shot. Her husband, determined to wipe out the dishonor on his name, was one of the first in the storming line of Kirk Kilisse, and fell riddled with Turkish bullets. The Case of Wood Alcohol. How real and immediate are the dangers which beset us in connection with the unsuspected use of wood alcohol is made apparent by a notice of judgment lately published by the office of the U. S. secretary of agricul ture. Several individuals acting un der the name of the Lucca Produce Wine Co., have marketed a product with the distinctly pretentious label: Gran Liquore Delia Stella Elixir Tonico Sthomatico." Analysis of a sample of this promising elixir by the bureau of chemistry indicated it to contain: Methyl Alcohol, 20, 4 6 per cent, volume; ethyl alcohol, 8.08 per cent, by volume; and th,e coaltar dye Acid Yellow G to furnish an attractive color. The case was reported for prosecution as a violation of the Food and Drugs act, but fortunately an indictment was found under a section of the New York criminal code. One defendant Alberto Milanesi, after having spent two^ months in jail awaiting trial, was nn nlpariins- euiltv sentenced to serve a term of seven months in the New York county penitentiary. Another defendant, Carlo Giradi, had sentence suspended on a plea of guilty. The Journal of the American Association commenting on the case expresses the hope that a more vigorous management of such flagrant violations of the law will have a wholesome effect, for there are few deterrents like jail sentence. Suicide's Last Note. / ??? Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 16.?W. A. Fries, a well known contractor and builder of Greensboro, committed suicide early Monday in Hotel Giersch, by cutting his jugular vein with a dull penknife. He was in the employ of the State building commission as secretary to and as expert builder, having supervision of the work of construction of the quarter-million dollar fireproof State building that is now nearing eunipieuuu. Mr. Fries leaves a wife and children at Greensboro, and he left the following unsigned note to Mrs. Fries: "I am accused of ugly charges that I cannot entirely disprove. Therefore, good-by, love. I take my own life, hoping you collect the life insurance. Good-by, love, I have never been what I ought to. Hope you and children will yet be happy." The Crooked Way. District Attorney Whitman of New I UliV, ciCWi UIU5 lu LLie >v asLiiugivu Star, was talking about the sad case of a western banker who had stolen a great sum from the depositors. "The man," said Mr. Whitman, "lived beyond his means?motor cars, a house with eleven baths, son at college, daughter coming oyt, wife hungry for diamonds. The inevitable result followed." Mr. Whitman smiled and ended: "The unfortunate fellow got straitened, so he became crooked." % 4 TELLS JUDGE HER TROUBLES. Mrs. Tufts Gives Details of Desertion by Husband. Chicago, Dec. IS.?Mrs. Mary H. : Tufts, who says she was deserted by her husband, Gorman Tufts, former missionary in India, "love God," and I "miracle worker," told her story of l her desertion by Tufts in Liverpool . in July, 1906, before Judge McKini ley to-day. Mrs. Tufts seek to have set aside the decree of divorce granted to her husband in February 1910, after he I had given alleged false testimony t that she deserted him in August, 1904. while she was at his missionary station in the Himilaya Mountains. ' Tufts is now in jail in Los Angeles , awaiting disposition of an appeal to the upper courts from a decision i finding him guilty of misappropriat! ing $S0,000 belonging to his second wife, Mrs. Jennie Scranton Roe, of Texas. She is aiding Mrs. Tufts. > "I was married to Mr. Tufts in Chicago, February 28, 1895," she be gan. "He was conducting a rescue home. In 1901 he went to India and in Calcutta he opened a Bible school and orphanage." Mrs. Tufts declared that in July, 1906, she went with him from India to a small station near Liverpool, Eneland. "He deserted me July 13, 1906, and returned to America," Mrs. Tufts testified. "I had only 25 cents when he left me in Liverpool." Between the time her husband left her and July, 1909, she worked and stopped at public institutions and was for two years an,- inmate of an insane asylum at Liverpool. Judge McKinlev announced he would decide the case Saturday. Got Out to Count. A Harvard student who, for obvious reasons, does not care to have has name appear, passed up this one: "A cousin of mine in the western part of the State came to Boston for a visit and dropped out at Cambridge to call on me. He asked if he could share my room with me that night and I told him he could if he came in early enough. He started for a theatre and when midnight came without any trace of him I called in my regular roommate, who had sought quarters elsewhere to make room for my cousin. I decided that my relative was going to make a night of it in town. 4 * "*"* T ~ ^^ n-Af tA eloan hnn* VY t; lictu lidl Ult L *.\J divbf uv ' ever, when he came in, backing a highly flavored breath. We said nothing and he soon climbed into the bed with us. Everything was quiet for a few minutes, when suddenly he sat up, put his mouth close to my ear and whispered: 'Jimy there are six feet in this bed!' 'Forget it,' I said, 'you're crazy.' With that he climbed out, groped his way around to the foot of the bed and began to paw our feet. 'You're right,' he said after a minute. 'I've counted 'em and there's only four.' "?Boston Traveller. <? Electric Lights 30 Years Old. Just 30 years this fall Thomas A. Edison opened the first electric light station in New York City. The initial plant, which was the beginning of the mighty industry, was located in an old warehouse in NewYork City on Pearl street. The single dynamo now preserved as a curio, was driven by a steam engine and supplied current to about four hundred lamps distributed over a territory about a mile square. The w-ires were all laid under ground. The newspapers were dubious about the success of the new lamps, although they admitted that they gave plenty of light, but Edison himself, coatless and colorless as he watched the ma'chinery, was thrilled with success. The growth of electric light since that eventful day, 30 years ago, has been truly wonderful until now the very world is illuminated nightly with millions of electric lights. The first electric motor was connected to the electric wires in 1884 and for six months, it is recorded, this same motor lay around collecting dust before the company could find anyone willing to try the new power producer. To-day. in New York City alone, nearly 350,000 horse power is used in electric motors. Would be Alone. Curran, the great Irish advocate, was a wit of the first water. The story is told of him that he was smiling to himself in court one day, until he goaded the judge into the indiscretion of asking: "Do you see anything particularly ridiculous in my wig, Mr. Curran?" "Only the , head, my lord," he retorted. He was riding one day with Norbury, known, not unjustly, to fame as "the hanging judge," and the pair passed close to a gallows. Lord Norbury pointed to it and said, "Curran if the gallows had its due, where would you be?" "Riding alone, my lord," was the immediate reply.?Exchange. FAST FRIENDS. Foil Mill Dog and Goat Separate*! Only by Death. .Mr. C. W. McXeely, superintendent of the Fort Mill Manufacturing Company, numbers among his pets a large, handsome and valuable dog? and there was a goat. The two animals became inseparable companions. In fact, the goat seemed "perfectly daffy" about the dog and the two nave Deen an mieresuug sigui uu uic streets several times. Sunday afternoon the two were missed and after an extended search evidence led to the well, where the dog was seen crouched across the bottom supporting himself from curb to curb. Help was sent down and he was brought to the surface not much worsted by his experience. The goat was drowned in the water underneath. The well has an ordinary box covering at the top covering up about three feet from the ground and there T .ow f nr Aria r\ f oni WctS Uai tJl V i uuiu i <-/1 uut wi niv en*. raals to balance himself on top with the lid open. It seems that affection led one to follow the other into the well and the question is which is the victim and which the hero. It is not long since another goat had to be fished from a well here, but he came out unscathed. Should Invest Money in This State. Columbia. Dec. 19.?"Unless funds which are received by life insurance companies are invested in securities of this State, the operation of such companies in this State means a very heavy drain on the resources of the State," the report of F. H. McMaster insurance commissioner, to the general assembly will state. Of the $27,000,000 invested in life insurance equities by the policyholders of South Carolina, only $17,000,000 is invested in securities in this State, which means that $10,000,000 of South Carolina money is invested elsewhere. The report will state that some of this large sum has gone to erect new and handsome buildings in - * -XT r?i.~ X. ? . tne cities or uuer oiaies, gicaici sums have gone to develop new Western States. One paragraph of the report will read: "The result has been that, through the operation of these great moneylending corporations, South Carolina has been drained, not only of a considerable portion of her capital but also some portion of her vigorous young manhood. Such a condition should not be permitted to continue longer." The report will vigorously denounce the policy of life insurance companies doing business in South Carolina and investing money in other States, and will recommend that remedial legislation be enacted that will prevent the continuation of such a condition. Mr. McMaster will cite the experience of European and South American countries and some of the sisterhood of American States that have intelligently dealt with this problem in various ways. Our Innocent Infantiles. Out of the prosecution of picture show proprietors for admitting children to their shows without guardianship has come a discovery that children gather around such places and beg grown people to take them to see the show. Furthermore, that in some instances children have put their nickles together and raised a sum to hire "fathers" or "mothers," one of whom takes in a whole flock of the youngsters. It has also been found that children of very youthful years, in fact almost infantile, are adepts at gambling and consult dream books to get "wise" as to the best means of beating the game. All of which shows' that the "innocence of childhood" is a misunderstood beatitude. There is many a lisping prattler that can teach his grand-mother how to suck eggs. Th,e child mind is full of curiosity and quick at the invention of means to gratify it. Picture shows are enticing; nickles are easy to get; so also are dream books and places where a nickel well placed means fifty cents captured. And the babies hire grown people to help them turn the trick. Why not childhood suffrage, since the mother is away from home and the father is played out??N. Y. World. Where the Money Went, "A man died," says the teacher, "leaving to his eldest son one-fourth of ills property, pius one-iemn uiul of the share received by the next son, who was to receive one fourth of the property, plus one twentieth of the share received by the third son, who was to receive as much as the other two received less one-fifth of their combined inheritances. How much did each get?" "Nothing," promptly answers the thoughtful boy in the second row. "The lawyers got it for breaking the will."?Judge's Library. 1.:^ -. -i.; .. . . , CHILI) IS BADLY BURNED. | Two-Year-Old Boy Was Peeping Up j Chimney to See Kris Kringle. Macon, Dec. 17.?Little Marrill j Jackson, two-year-old son of .Mrs. Lu- J cile Jackson, 851 Walnut street, was : painfully burned yesterday while j peering up the chimney for Santa: Claus and had it not been for the; timely arrival of his aunt, Miss Alma I Rivers,, the infant would have prob- | ably suffered death from burns. The garments of the baby ignited | when he made a peer up the chimney I and his screams summoned his aunt, I who was the only grown person in the house at the time. She quickly smothered the flames and called in a physician. The burns j of the child are painful, but not se- j rious. Miss Rivers was also burned j about the hands and face while | smothering the flames. High License in Charleston? Charleston, Dec. 19.?The keen and general public interest which has been aroused by recent suggestions that the time has come when Charleston should make an earnest effort to secure high license as the most promising solution of the local liquor problem, which at present looms up more formidably than ever, renders it almost certain that a high license movement will have assumed definite shape before the county leg-1 - ^ * J-l 1 J ~ -rM.'K'l i/% lSiauvtJ ueiega-uuu nuius iua puun^ hearing and that a request that the , county's lawmakers bestir themselves in the cause of high license will be made at the hearing. The hearing will probably be held some time in early January. It will be called by Senator Huger Sinkler, whose health has greatly improved and who will move from Summerville, where he is now residing, to Charleston early in the new year. As yet the local delegation has \ made no definite plans for a fight in the legislature for high license in Charleston. The delegation has organized and elected Mr. H. G. Sen- * seney as chairman, but no policy of any sort, regarding any question, has J been outlined. It is probable that < there would be no difference of opin- < ion among the members of the dele- < gation as to the desirability of a high < license system for the sale of liquor < in Charleston, the people of this city J with the exception of the wholesale | blind tigers, being practically a unit < in the belief that high license is the ] only practicable solution of the li quor problem hfcre. Weds Xurse 'Who Cheered Him. New York, Dec. 19.?It became " X1-. iV.i T7>? 1. TTI Known recently uiai r iaun iii. uar lard, Jr., the third son of a wealthy stock broker whose home is at Bay < Shore, L. I., married Miss Gladys Elizabeth Chesnee, his nurse, on October 21. They are now living on a farm at Ridgefield, Conn. Ballard is a nephew of Commodore Frederick G. Bourne^ president of the Singer Sewing Machine company. He became blind a year ago while a student at Princeton. He was attending a dance when he suddenly felt his sight leaving him and begged his partner to conduct him to a seat. His father took him to Europe when the skill of American surgeons was found to be unavailing in restoring his sight, but the European specialists were no more successful. The young man had been made despondent by the loss of his sight, and Miss Chesnee was engaged and told to watch him constantly. She had not been his nurse long, however, when his* parents noticed that . he was far more cheerful. His health, too, improved. When Miss Chesnee was seen wearing a college pin of her charge, it was suggested j that she leave, but the patient would not hear of it. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Henry Chesnee qf No. 541 West One Hundred and Forty-ninth street, Manhattan Tt is said the vouna hus band is hopelessly blind and that he can never see his wife. SHOOTS UP RIVAL'S STORE. Alabama Merchant Bombards House j and Terrorizes Entire Town. Mobile, Ala., Dec. 17.?After having terrorized the entire town of , Stapleton, ten miles south of Bay Minnette, in Baldwin county, from 7 o'clock Sunday evening until j)ast i midnight, Z. Marks, a merchant, was landed in jail in Bay Minnette Monday and is held in default of a $3,000 bond. Enraged because J. W. Lutterell, i a rival in business, had secured the trade of the foreman for a large naval stores company, Marks secured arms and ammunition and from his 1 own place of business next door, lit- j erally riddled with bullets the store of his rival, shooting out every win- ; dow, breaking" every light and mak- < ing the near wall of the building as ; open as a sieve. * ' ' 1 " ?ii - ? - J ?:mi- i I ?urs. ijuueren, wiio uvtju. wun iiei i ' i three children on the second floor of j the storehouse, was forced to lie on the floor with the little ones behind i an organ. [ LEA ||p That is exactl; & 3 it comes to lu jraj Mules. In the i Hi ^ MH <?(! we have the vvfe $ looking for. C< g 1 over. I ^ mv s|jij| It matters no gjg L# if you are wanti |?| wil1 pay you 1 present load, ai one of our hors< Jgg ^ other fellow. JONES S BAMBI MONEY ' I represent the Penn Mutual Life est and most liberal companies in exi policy contract. This company has plenty of moi loan for the1 company of $45,000, ai and I would like to place some more i SEE ME ANI J. D. COPELAND, |H. JACK RILEY & CO. | * Successors to W. P. Riley. * ? Fire, Life j ? Accident j I INSURANCE ] t Office in Town Hall. 'Phone 81 { | BAMBERG, S. C. j J. Aldrich Wyman E. H. Henderson Wyman & Henderson Attorneys-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. General Practice. Loans Negotiated | NEW SHOP I 1 Our shop is now open I and we are prepared to I do first-class work on E short notice, vjj Remember we make a ^ specialty of horseshoe| Our prices are mod- \ crate and all work is ?; guaranteed. ' g DELK & COPELAND 1 I ^ EHRHARDT, S. C. | Improved Saw Mills. VARIABLE FRICTION FEED. *2n2ST Best material and workmanship, light running, requires little power; simple, easy to Landle. Are made in several sizes and are good, substantial moneymaking machines down to the smallest size. Write for catalog showing Engines, Boilers and all Saw Mill supplies. Lombard Iron Works & Supply Co., p AUGUSTA. CA. <? . - ?1 F. P. COLCOCK FOR POSTMASTEB Candidate to Succeed Negro al Beaufort Office. Beaufort, Dec. 17.?Frank P. Colcock has anounced that he is a candidate for the position of postmaster here under the Democratic administration. He has many friends, who hope that he will receive me appuim.ment, and who are sing their influence in his behalf. No others have announced themselves publicly yet, but it is understood there arc others who will run. The office pays about $1,800 a year. The present io o np?rn?Opors'p R.eid. I ill ttOlVl AO C* AAV/0. >- ? Mr. Colcock has received an autograph photograph of President-elect Wilson, which has been framed and is being shown in the window of the Morrall Furniture Company. DERSjl y what we are when j^_ r"!.j mdling Horses and lew load just receiv- ^ i very one you are )me and look them V i! ? ?11 n r TO {* I t how far you live |j? t { ng a Horse or Mule |a A) come and see our %t_|# gjg ^ nd when you drive 11 5 bs you will lead the jE / CMS * * BROS., IRG, S. G. II MiiiiiiiiiisS ro LOAN! Insurance Company, one of the strongstence, and can offer you a most liberal ney to loan. I have just completed a id have one of $5,000 now under way, in this county. ? ) INVESTIGATE --J , JR., Bamberg, S. C. "j ^ .r,^: ipSTtaj > fl Pale-faced, weak, and > SI Shaky women?who suffer H ; 9 cverv day with womanly H ' m weakness?need the help B ; I of a gentle tonic, with ^ - I a building action on die 11 womanly system. If you are B m weak?you need Cardui, B &I the woman's tonic, because B 4 * i >M Cardui will act directly on fl m the cause of your trouble. B < m Cardui has a record of B fl more than 50 years of [ !. success. It must be good. m 1 fThe Woman's Tonic Mrs. Effie Graham, of K Willard, Ky., says: "I B was so ^ weak 1 could fl hardly go. I suffered. B nearly every month, for 3ifl / years. When I began to B take Cardui, my back hurt B awfully. I only weighed .fl ' 99 pounds. Not long after. ,B I weighed 115. Now, IJm do all my work, and amffl in good health.** Begin, fl j ffl taking Cardui, today. * * J ggg PORTABLE A-NO STATIONARY Engines i AND BOILERS j ! Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills, InjecI tors, Pumps and Fittings, Wood i Saws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, | Belting, Gasoline Engines * | LARGESTOCK LOMBARD Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works, f Supply Store. j AUGUSTA, GA. 1 't READ THIS. BAXELLA cures dyspepsia, indit gestion, nervousness. First dose / * helps. Indorsed by physicians. Af ter using ten days if not satisnea return medicine and get your money. 45 days treatment $1.00. For sale by Peoples Drug Co., and elsewhere. , G. MOYE DICKINSON I INSURANCE AGENT ' Will Write Anything , Fire, Tornado, Accident, Liability, Casualty, in the strongest and most re liable companies. 9 My Motto: "Buy What I Need I in Bamberg, and From Those 1 Who Patronize Me. " J 'Phone 10-L, or at Oil Mill ^ BAMBERG, S. 0. |