Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. ,. . . _ . . i^.. . ., ; V r; ' " ' " ' '"' ' ' 'r .. - :*- -, \ ?lt? lamberg feralb 4 One DoHar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1913. Established 1891. ? COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS ??? SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS < IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. ^ i News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. . Ehrhardt Etchings. <. j Ehrhardt, Feb. 3.? Yesterday was ( t a fine day, not too coold or hot, just j I right for the young folks to move j 1 around and have a good time, as they I * say. j Master Tommie Hutson, grand son of Mr. Tom Dannelly, had a nar- . , row escape from a horrible death J ' \ last week. While steering the hind ( timber cart of a loaded double cart, ^ he lost his balance and fell to the : ground. Before the driver could stop one of the large cart wheels j ran over him about his shoulders and j breast. No bones were broken, and j it is hoped no internal injury. He x ? did not spit any blood, so take it for<?, granted that he was not hurt internally, more than a strain. He is very c sore from the accident. j Mrs. Ketron left Saturday to join her husband in Mississippi, where ( he has located since the doctor has g comDleted his post graduate course j "" in New York. We all hated to see 7 her leave our school just at this time, j All of her students loved her and : < v j * she was good and kind to them. , Some of the farmers say this will , not be a good crop year. Rev. E. A. McDowell is the man . \ for the young folks in this section. ^ He tied two couples together in holy } matrimony while the hymeneal music was played in suitable time for the f > occasion. Mr. B. W. Beard to Miss t Lottie Clayton, of the Colston section, Sunday morning, and this af- j ternoon at the Baptist parsonage Mr. t Robert Lee Kearse to Miss Bessie McMillan. Hope they will live long and happy lives together. Farmers have commenced to haul t commercial fertilizer. Three or four j cars of it was hauled to the farms j last weeK. Capt. Jack M. Smith's parents spent the day with him Sunday. What will the autos do for fuel? Gasoline has gone up so much until it's getting an expensive fuel. The oil wells are flowing less than heretofore; this being the case the supply will be short, and prices will \ continue to advance. One or two more farmers are coming to town to try their hand at ' selling goods. ? JEE. ' 5 j * Colston News. - * ? Colston, Feb. 3.?Well our -little community is still on the spot, i* > Among the visitors are Miss Lessie McCormick and Mr. Leon Zorn, who are visiting Mr. M. L. Zorn and family, who gave a pinder shelling on Saturday night it being a nice night for the occasion, but some ?v.i^Tir oci TVTt* 7r?rn nn p-pft.infi: UD nmu uic y uo au4. a? 0 Sunday morning found his tin tub and other buckets in his well. He knows who did it, of course; it don't look nice, though, but I guess fussy X did it. Oh, yes, as soon as they got the bell done it rang so hard that it split the bell. It cracked Sunday evening. Mr. B. W. Beard and Mi9S Lottie Clayton were married on Sunday evening, Rev. E. A. McDowell performing the ceremony. Miss Bessie. McMillan and Mr. Bob Lee Kearse were married also. Sunday has got to be a busy day any ( more. The many friends of Rev. S. P. ^ Chisolm, who has been very sick, will I be glad to know that he is improv- ] ing, but very slow. Morv T? Roarrl is imnroviner. ^ 1U1P. iuui J V r- - ? W/ also very slow. Mr. Johnnie Sandifer was on ( Colston Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Emery Williams were ] on Colston Sunday, visiting Mrs. j Chisolm. M. . , ] Denmark Doings. : 1 Denmark, Feb. 4.?Quite a num- j ber from here attended the corn ex- , position in Columbia, among whom < were: Messrs. D. G. Richardson, W. ^ J. White, S. D. Guess, J. B. Guess, J. H. Boozer, E. M. McCown, Miner, , and J. W. Crum, Jr.; Misses Emma , 1 Thompson, Lillian Gentry, Esther . Polier, Priscilla Hart, and Emma , Owens. Misses Lula Bess Wroton and Annie Lou Collins, from Columbia college, spent the week-end here. Miss Gladys Milhous has returned to her home in Columbia, after a vis- i it of several weeks here. Miss Julia Goolsby spent the weekend with friends in Dunbarton. Miss Richardson, of Columbia, spent last week here. Colston Cullings. Colston, Feb. 3.?In the presence )f a large number of friends Mr. Bilie Beard and Miss Lottie Clayton vere united in marriage at the jride's home Sunday afternoon at 3 j'clock by Rev. E. A. McDowell. Mr. 3eard is a successful farmer, and Mrs. Beard is the young and beautiful daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mayton. The young couple have losts of friends, who wish them a ong and happy life. Miss Bessie McMillan and Mr. Robert Lee Kearse were united in narriage Sunday afternoon at the parsonage by Rev. E. A. McDowell. i? XT ?r iV/% :vir. iuaicuiin x-v. xviue, ui mc Jdom's bridge section, gave the roung folks a party last Thursday light. Messrs. Charlie Ayer, Albert McMillan, Winchester Graham, and ?rank Brabham from Bamberg, oined the games, everybody had a lice time. The chaperones were Mrs. W. S. Miley and Mr. M. N. Rice. ^Mr. Winchester Graham spent last Saturday night with Mr. George McMillan. Mrs. R. D. Wright left last Saturiay for Yulee, Fla. She has been spending time with her father, Mr. r. A. Jennings. Messrs. Perry Lee and Vernon, ^aurie and Mamie McMillan, from 3amberg, spent last Saturday night ind Sunday frith Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Varn. Mrs. A. L. McMillan, of Bamberg, spent last Tuesday and Wednesday vith her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Varn. Miss Lessie McCormick, of Sassixas, is spending time with her sis ;er, Mrs. Melvin Zorn. Mr. Duncan Beard was shaking lands with many friends Sunday af;ernoon. News from Ehrhardt. Ehrhardt, Feb. 4.?Mr. C. R. ^eyle, of Charleston, spent Sunday n town, the guest of his nephew, Vlr. A. F. Henderson. Mr. A. B. Coggins, one of the proirietors & the Carolina Gin Co., is low on the road selling guano and luying cotton seed. _ During his absence the position of bookkeeper in lis office is being filled by Mr. C. it. Mears. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Fender, Mr. md Mrs. D. 0. Hunter, and Messrs. Willie and M. N. Rice were in town in Tuesday last, the guests of Rev. md Mrs. E. A. McDowell. Mr. Janies Henry Pearson, Milliord Free and J. E. McMillan were lere, the guests of Mr. J. C. Kinard. Mr. Tommie Hudson, with the J. 3. Dannelly lumber plant, had a fery narrow escape with his life last Friday when the hind wheels of a leavilv loaded timber cart ran over lis body. We are very glad to know :hat Mr. Hudson, has sufficiently recovered to be up and out again. A pretty home wedding was that )f B. W. Beard and Miss Lottie Clayion, celebrated at the home of the I iride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clayton, of the Colston community, m Sunday afternoon last, the cerenony being performed by the pastor JL Lilt; LUUliaLUlig Jja.1 uto, luv, 4.VUI . E. A. McDowell. A host of their relatives and friends were present to witness the ceremony and to wish ioy to the young couple. The bride -eceived a number of pretty and useful presents. Another marriage of much interest, occurring at a later hour on the same afternoon, was that of Mr. R. L. Kearse and Miss Bessie McMillan, which took place at the Ehrhardt Baptist parsonage. Just at five 3'clock the wedding party drew up !n front of the parsonage and, accompanied by the strains of Menielsohn's wedding march, rendered jy Mrs. McDowell, marched into the parlor where the ceremony was performed by the Rev. E. A. McDowell, rhe party returned the same after aoon to uiar, tne nome ui me giuum, ind in. which town he is engaged in the mercantile business. The bride is the popular and attractive daughter of Mr. Preston McMillan, of Bpringtown, in which community she will greatly missed. The meeting is still in progress at the Methodist church, and the pastor, who is conducting it himself without ministerial aid, is preaching some mighty fine sermons, and we believe mucn gooa is Deing accomplished. The barns of .John and Will Taylor, farmers near Cameron, Calhoun county, were burned Wednesday night, with ten fine mules, four cows, 2,000 bushels of* corn and much other property. The insurance was only $1,000. The cause of the fire is a mystery. ' 'v.. - I . ... r -X . 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. W. Todd, the architect who drew the plans for a million dollar State house, is again asking the legislature to pay him $12,000 for them. Walter H. Wells, solicitor of the twelfth circuit, died at his home in Florence last Sunday, aged forty years. He leaves a wife and one daughter. A bill allowing Charleston to handle whiskey by a system of high license has passed the house. What the Senate will do with it remains to be seen. There is a movement on foot to establish a gas plant in the city of Or angeburg. Local capital will be interested, but the promoters come from Baltimore. D. J. Griffith was last week reelected superintendent of the penitentiary by an overwhelming majority. He received 140 votes, while his opponent, a Mr. Long, of Union, received only twenty. Sumter county had two shootings Wednesday: Frances Taylor, colored, shooting at a white man at the railroad station, wounded Joe Durant, colored; and W. E. McBryde, rural policeman, shot and k-illed a negro at Mayerville. Hon. I. W. Bowman, of Orangeburg, was elected judge of the first circuit to-day (Wednesday) by the general assembly, he defeating his two opponents, E. J. Dennis, of Berkeley, and J. Otey Reed, of St. George, by one vote. J. S. jaCKSOn, a WlliUS jjliciju, turnmitted suicide in Charleston last week. He ran a butcher shop out at five-mile house, near the city. He shot himself with a gun in bed at night, with his negro wife, to whom he had been maried in Washington, D. C., lying by his side. Jackson was originally from Fairfax, it is stated, and was taken there to be buried by the side of his first wife. William L. Glaze, of Orangeburg, who was elected as judge of the first circuit to succeed Judge R. E. Copes, who resigned, has sent a letter to the general assembly declining to accept the position on account of his health, he having been advised by his physician that he should not take up the duties of a jurist. The general assembly will meet to-day to elect a successor. Mr. I. W. Bowman, of the Orangeburg bar, has been endorsed for the position by the bar association of Orangeburg. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, Feb. 3.?G. D. Sanders, Audrey Sanders, Thos. Sanders Cleo Sanders, G. Bolen, Sam Talley, F.. Young, Roy Young, W. J. Speaks, C. Folk, Laurens Youmans, M. C. Dowling, G. Barber and others joined in the uniformed parade at the Gnlnmbia corn exposition. Their standard bearer carried the following motto or slogan: "Fairfax the best /town, in the best county, in the best State, in the best nation on the globe." They were enthusiastic on their return of all they had seen and heard, and felt repaid for their trip ?valued received for information gained. Some of them met friends from distant States. Mrs. W. E. Harter visited friends in Columbia during the exposition. Miss M. V. Folk, of Gifford, spent the week-end with relatives here at the Commercial hotel. Dr. Johnston Peeples was a recent visitor here. Ben Cave, of Barnwell, W. H. Byrd, of Columbia, T. Kulman, of Savannah, P. Hollingsworth, of Augusta, S. Bigler, of Savannah, were recent visitors. T~* "D rnroman nf O TP n fP 'Iiev. D. 1U, A' U1 &U1UU, Ul burg, preached a fine sermon here Sunday afternoon. The Y. P. U. met Sunday evening. A fine address by M. C. Dowling; essay by Mrs. Lily Preacher; essay by Sadie Harter; recitation by Miss Margaret Youmans; and organ solo by Mrs. S. L. Sanders was on the 1 program. A chamber of commerce has been established here with Prof. Coker president; Chas. Owens, vice president; W. M. Lightsey, secretary. Mesdames Jenny and Platts, of Jenny, were recent visitors to Mrs. Julia Harter's home. Prof. Theo. Campbell, of Brunson, visited G. D. Sanders on Sunday. Dr. Campbell Richardson, of Beaufort, was here recently. ACCUSED OF KILLING FATHER, Victim Shot Down While Sitting Alone in His Home at Night. TU Union, Feb. 1.?Robert Coleman, 65 years of age, an excellent citizen of this county living near Jonesville, was foully murdered between 7 and 8 o'clock last evening, having been shot in the left face and neck as he sat by his fireside alone reading a ] newspaper. His son, Harry Coleman, wa about 26 years of age, is in jail bai .charged with being the murderer, o'c the motive ascribed being the de- occ sire to come into his inheritance at ari once. mo The dead man was quite well-to do, and, except for a son who has to not been heard of in a number of am years, Harry is his only child or heir, kai There was a rain yesterday and no1 when Sheriff Fant early this morning oul examined the premises he found that the assassin had stood behind a clump gre of evergreen close to the house and the fired a big charge of slugs and bul- the lets into the old man's head; the tw> trail led to and from this point to a coi blacksmith shop. tio Killed with His Own Gun? Robert Coleman's gun had been in this shop. During the night Har- del ry Coleman got this gun, it is said, toand took it to the house of a neigh- Ed bor, and when examined this morning Se< one barrel was wet and showed every ate sign of having been recently fired. the The tracks in the soft mud fitted wh the shoes of Harry Coleman, it is no said, exactly. Dogs were sent to the ! scene from Columbia this morning, ter They took up the trail and went v/b over it. Harry Coleman was sent to tin climb a tree some distance away, and no the dogs put on the trail promptly act treed him, it is said. He was then taken into custody. ' It appears further that Robert Tu Coleman's housekeeper- was at the do] house of a neighbor last evening, ba; They heard a gun fired. About half thi an hour later, it is stated, Harry rec came to the house. He and the he housekeeper went to the Coleman est house some time later and there Tu they found the old man lying uncon- th< scions on the floor. He died this do morning without speaking. nis Denial from Prisoner. "tfh The accused was visited in the tri jail. He stated that he kndw noth- let ing of the killing, who had done it vei nor why. He was not indisposed to talk, but stated that there was noth- rig ing for him to say other than that, dei There are various rumors con- wi cerning the young man's character and manner of life. A close neighbor says he is a hard-working man, but inclined to gamble, and of a somewhat roving disposition. The officers who brought him in declare they have strong evidence against him. en, Thorp was mneh indignation and ex citement here and at Jonesville over ce] the outrage. Had suspicion fallen on ju almost any one else there is little g^ doubt that there would have been a afj lynching. As it was the officers c0 brought their prisoner to jail before the inquest in order to avoid a crowd that was becoming dangerous. ^ri The coroner's jury, after an in- Cij quest held at Jonesville, late to-day, b0 returned a verdict charging young Coleman with the killing. He refused W to comment on the jury's finding. GIRL WAS SOLD TO GYPSY. m( la^ For Whom She Says She Worked for Eight Long Years. an wl Startling charges that she was sold when seven years of age by an or- ^ phanage superintendent to a gypsy ba for $800 and that for eight years ra. she has served him as a slave were made to the police and humane of- fQ] ficers at Los Angeles, Cal., by Alice Mitchell, fiteen years old. She declares she has since been compelled to pose as a fortune teller and dancing and singing girl, giv- wa ing her earnings to the man and sufferine fromient hpntinerS. JO The girl for some weeks had been er( telling fortunes in a little booth on Bc Main street, between First and Sec- ec* ond streets. The other day, she says, er< she earned $21, which she took to st? her alleged master, but the latter Ca was not satisfied with this, she de- ar Clares, and she was compelled to go an to some place, the location of which tu: she does not know, and dance and stl sing before men until a late hour. d? The arresting officer was told of the case by a girl in whom the child " " ' T-l' - TT + fic naa connaea. ?i ae numauc ouucij i was called in, the child turned over ?r to the Juvenile Court and an investigation begun. The police are seeking the gypsy. w. by For new goods go to THE MIL- jm LINERY STORE, C. W. Rentz, Prop, of When in need of fresh meat or off any kind of fancy groceries come to se( Delk & Free's 5c and 10c store.?adv. wi! 1RKISH WARHASRESUMEI RKS MUST QUIT EUROPE, I SLOGAN OF ALLIES. mbardment of Adrianople Begin After Two Months' Armistice. Attempts at Peace Fail. London, Feb. 3.?The Balka r has been resumed. The boir dment of Adrianople began at lock to-night and a small skirmis iurred at the Tchatalja lines. Th nistice had lasted exactly tw uths. Bulgaria has turned a deaf ea the remonstrances of the Power! i unless Turkey yields to the Ba n demands the allied armies wi w attempt to drive her completel t of Europe. According to a dispatch from Be ide to-night, Scutari already is o i point of falling. It is reporte it the Turkish commander has ser o representatives to the Servia nmander to propose the capituh *"> nf fhot tnmn JJL VI lUUb IVTTU, No Further Armistice. Dr. Daneff, head of the Bulgaria legation, in an interview in Pari night said he had promised Si ward Grey, the British Foreig iretary, that if the Turks immed >ly accepted the allies' conditio! jy would conclude peace, hi atever happened, there would t further armistice. Sir Edward Grey had a long ii view with the King to-day, afte ich he attended a brief meeting c j ami assadorial conference, bi thing of importance was tram ;ed. Ging Back to Berlin. Osman Nizami Pasha, , the secon rkish delegate, will leave Loi n to-morrow to resume his an ssadorial duties at Berlin. He sai s evening that from informatio ;eived from military sourc< believed the allies unde: imated the condition of t! rkish army, and would . fin jmselves confronted by a r< -ui^i.i ^ Mncan U Ul.it LUC tJiieiilJ' , LJJ.CT iiiuasu in warriers, veterans from Arabii 10 had fought under Izzet Bey, an ed soliders and good marksme ely engaged in Tripoli under Ei r Bey and Fethy Bey. He added: "The ambassador w? ;ht who predicted that if driven 1 spair the Turks would fight lit Id animals." ROMANTIC SEQUEL TO CASE. i sser, Acquitted of White Slavei Charge, Marries Companion. Spartanburg, Feb. 3.?David Cla ce Besser, of Trenton, N. J., wt ,s arrested in Charleston last D< liber on a charge of transporter lia Marie Hoover from State 1 ite for immoral purposes, but wh :er two trials in the United State urt, was found not guilty, marrie b girl to-day. Besser has been in jail awaitir al on a charge of practicing med le without license, out roui ndsmen, left prison this afternoo: tmediately after his release 1 snt with Miss Hoover to the Pr te Judge's office, where the cer )ny was performed by Besser vyer, J. Bowie Gwynn, Esq. The words pronouncing them ma d wife were hardly out his moul len the happy girl sprang to a te hone and told her parents ; lerokee Springs the news ar de them have a carriage at tl ilway station, as she was going i ing the "doctor" home with h< r their honeymoon. Catting Scrape at Jonesville. , Union, Feb. 3.?John Camero: is stabbed and cut in the abdome Otto Kirby this morning ; nesville, and it is said that Car 3n has since died of his wound ?th- men are white and both wor] in the Wallace Cotton Mills, Can Dn being a section hand. It ited that Kirby walked up behip meron and reaching his har ound his body, cut him repeated] d horribly. Cameron, it is sail rned and tried to defend himsel iking Kirby with a wrench, bi ing no serious damage. Kirby was brought to Union an iced in jail. He states that the di ulty was the result of an o] udge. Both men are young an ve families. The insurance agency of the lai P. Riley is now being conducte Mr. H. H. Copeland, the firm b< ; Riley & Copeland and compose Mrs. K. C, Ritey and himself. Tl ice is in the town hall buildin; ;ond floor. Business given the: II have prompt attention. v * ) I 1 - . :. Li. iji SENDS BULLET INTO HIS HEAD. Dougla.s Latham Dies in Columbia S from Self-inflicted Wound. Columbia, Feb. 1.?Douglas M. Latham, a young white man of Camden, committed suicide in a local store this morning by shooting himself through the right temple with a 32-calibre Colt's pistol. He was rushed to a hospital for treatment, n but died to-night. The unfortuntae young man had ~ been an inmate of the State Hospital k for the Insane and had just been ree leased this morning, with the inten0 tion, it was said, of leaving for his home in Camden this afternoon. * Lr About 12:30 o'clock to-day he 3? walked into a local hardware store l" and asked to see a pistol. The clerk, 11 R. S. Marks, showed him one and y Mr. Marks said that Latham then asked him to load the pistol as he I" wanted to see how it looked loaded. n According to the statement of Mr. d Marks, Latham took the pistol in his lt hands, and immediately there was 11 a blinding report and a flash and l" Latham fell to the floor with blood oozing out of his head. He had shot himself through the right temple. n The clerk ran back to some others in is the rear of the store and reported [T what had happened and the front 11 door was at once closed and Magistrate Fowles telephoned for. He IS arrived at once and took the pistol lt from the hands of the wounded man, ,e who was still clutching it tightly with his right hand. Doctors had been l" summoned and they at once applied -r medical aid and the wounded man v was removed to a hospital, where . . j lt he lingered throiighout the day. 3~ Letters found on the person of Latham disclosed the fact that his family lived in Camden. There was , d a letter from his two sisters from 1- Camden and a night telegram from a brother, who styled himself a ^ tramp from some far-away section. n Telephone communication with the JS State Hospital revealed the informar" tion that Latham had just been re- ?jl l leased from there this morning. d Several letters from relatives in Camden were found on his person 1_ and it was said that he had but 60 * cents in his pockets. All of these :>:|j ^ possessions were taken in charge by y in the coroner. 1_ One who knew the family said .^^9 that the young man has a wife, ls mother and two sisters in Cam-' Jgp :0 den. A letter found on his person :e was signed by two of his sisters and v gave the address at 1,013 Littleton - ; v avenue, Camden, S. C. It is said that ' 7% the father of the young man came y from Kentucky to Camden and conducted a live stock business, dying several years ago and leaving a wife jji| r- and several children, among them lo Douglas Latham, who was the e- youngest. * ig 1 The affair created considerable ex- |1| to citement, occurring just- when the o, streets were filled with people, and 2s a large crowd gathered around the ;d store door. No reason can be assigned for the rash deed beyond the -#$8 ig fact that the young man was supi posed to be demented. ? ^ q Not First Attempt at Suicide. le | Camden, Feb. 1.?Douglas M. y ^ o- Latham, who committed suicide in. e- Columbia to-day by shooting himself, 's was born in Camden twenty-eight years ago. He is the son of Mr. and m Mrs. S. B. Latham, both deceased. :h Mr. Latham attended the city schools si- and during his school days played on at the fast amateur baseball teams of id Camden. He attended ClemSon Colie lege for a "short time. Mr. Latham to married Miss Clara McLeod, of this ar city, five years ago. For several years he was connected with the office force of the Southern and Coast Line Railways of this place. His health has been very poor for a ' several years. It grew worse and on ' ^ several occasions he became despondent. He tried to commit suicide once by taking a deadly poison and ^ | another time by attempting to jump from a second-story window, tie . was a member 6f the Methodist d church. He is survived by two . ' brothers, John Latham, of Savannah; ^ Horace, of the United States cavalry, d and three sisters: Misses Josie La'! tham, of Camden; Irene, of Savan^ nah, and Maggie, of Charlotte, and by his wife. d For new goods go to THE MIL- . vvj f- LINERY STORE, C. W. Rentz, Prop. id Come to Delk & Free's 5c and 10c l(l store for your fresh pork and beef. For new goods go to THE MILLINERY STORE, C. W. Rentz, Prop. te The insurance agency of the late id W. P. Riley is now being conducted e- by Mr. H. H. Copeland, the firm beJ I ; oL OnnolMTirl and OOmDOSed :a nig xtucjf 06 le of Mrs. Kl C. Riley and himself. The g, office is in the town hall building, m second floor. Business given them 'Si will have prompt attention.