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(Efe Hamburg ijrralb | One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 17,1913. Established 1891. __ - - i i COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, April 11.?Quite a crowd of people were on our streets Saturday, but not many goods were sold to them. Now and then one would pass with a Jacksonville cartoon containing Jacksonville booze. When this was me case you couia nuL see me party's face for the smile he had on it. % Some few farmers have planted small fields of cotton, but nothing near what they intend to plant. Too wet and rather cool yet to risk planting much until warmer weather sets in. Mr. R. L. Williams, now of Bethune, S. C., was down here Sunday morning and returned the same day. '*l He was hunting hands. Rev. D. B. Groseclose preached an interesting sermon Sunday afternoon from the text, "David's Dream." The entire audience was attentive and interested. Orangeburg conference will be held in Ehrhardt Lutheran church. Will convene Wednesday night and continue for a day or two, perhaps until' Sunday . Have learned recently that some parties have leased the Howell old mill property and have posted it, nmhihitinjy anv tr^snass to hierh water mark as far up as the Jeff Ayer place. Seems as if they are extending their claims rather far, with no dam to stop the water to run any machinery. High water mark 1 as they have it posted, can't go as far as claimed. I look for hard feelings and perhaps a fight or two to come out of this same order, posted recently. Have quite a cold snap this morning; cold enough for a light frost. \ Did not get up time enough to see itj however. JEE. Birthday Party. Olar, April 14.?On last Saturday afternoon Miss Salome and Master , Harry Manning Brabham were made the recipients of many lovely and useful presents as well as had several of their young friends with them for a few hours' pleasure, being given a birthday party together at the home of Mr. L. A. Brabham. Although the weather was very inclement, each smiling face gleefully responded to their sweet little invitations and began the pleasures of the ] afternoon, being allotted partners and were immediately busily engaged in k a word-making contest from the names of the honoraries. Miss Hilda Kearse and Master Edward Neely scoring the highest number of words, wron the prize, a box of candy, which was presented in a sweet manner by '? ? rni ? I Mrs. H. M. hsraDnam. xueu wuu mtistic fingers each lass and lad proceeded to display their talent in draw- . ing the happy faces of Miss and Mas- , ter Brabham. Miss Sara Neely and Master Fletcher Kirkland proving to be the best artists won a box of can- . dy, while Miss Thelma Kearse and J Mr. Hayne Breland were given the consolation, a large Palmetto fan, handsomely tied with a large red how. After their teachers, Misses Minnie Lee Aver and Mary Mace, served them with delicious ice cream and cake, they then helped to bring the happy affair to a close by joining in a few childish sports. The ; event ended all too soon and all made their departure hoping for another I pleasure soon. Those who attended were: Misses Sara and Mary Neely, ' Thelma, Hilda, Winnie and Cleo i Kearse, Norma Brabham, Zelma, v Janelle and Sadie Breland, Kathleen ^ T?li7Qh^th tJSWaid, Hiima , emu. utiuuuvvu Kirkland, Masters Fletcher, Toney, Will and Wallace Kirkland, Hayne Breland, Lemacks and Hollie Brab- , ham, Wilbur Star, Earl Rizer, Eu- ; gene Brabham, Faber Kearse, and Edward Neely. < Train Hits Buggy. Mansfield, O., April 14.?Clinging to the pilot of the engine with one , hand while she held the unconscious form of her companion with the other, Miss Mary Farber, a small 17year-old girl, yesterday rode more than two miles from the West Park iivpnnp crossing: where their horse and buggy was struck by a Baltimore & Ohio passenger station. Her screams there brought help. None of the train crew knew anything had been struck until the station had been reached. Miss Farber ? escaped with only a few bruises. Her companion, Fred Lutz, 18, is suffering with two fractures of the skull and will probably die. | TILLMAN CALLS OX DANIELS. Confers "With Secretary of Navy in Regard to Charleston Yard. Washington, April 14.?Senator Tillman called on Secretary of the Navy Daniels in person today to- back up his strong written appeal sent to the department Saturday in behalf of the Charleston Navy Yard, which is having difficulty in keeping skilled machnists because other yards offer them higher wages. The Senator also urged the department to send more supervisory officers to Charleston. Mr. W. R. Dillingham, of Spartanburg, is in Washington and called today at the office of Senator Till-' man. While neither Mr. Dillingham nor the Senator would say anything for publication it is taken for granted that the visit was to do with protests filed with the Senator against the recommendation of the Spartanburg man for postmaster of that city, for which position he has been endorsed by Representative Johnson. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, April 14.?It was missionary day Sunday at the Baptist church, and there was an interesting program carried out. Miss Flossie Porter spent last week in Orangeburg with home folks. On Tuesday evening the ladies of the Library Association and a few outsiders, including some of the high school girls and boys, assembled in the spacious parlors of Mrs. Sallie L. Sanders' home, being invited to a library social and book contest. Some of the books represented were: "Freckles," "Girl of the Limberlost," "Following the Star," "Bow of Orange Ribbon," "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," "Rich Mrs. Burgoyne," "Lavender and 014 Lace," "Lamplighter," Lucille," "Romance of Two Worlds," "Rose in Bloom," "Silver Butterfly," "The Jew," "The Music Master," "The Rose in the Ring." Prize for the best represen tation among the married folks was won by Mrs. Martin Lightsey; prize for the best among the young folks, Miss Mary S. Harrison; prize among boys and girls won by Ruth Wilson. The prizes were books and were presented to the library. A renewed interest is awakened in that good institution and we hope for brighter days. Jos. Norwood, of Columbia, president the Citizens' Bank, was here Tuesday. Ben Cain, of Barnwell, G. W. Urquart, H. McTeer, of Savannah, W. K. Sease, of Orangeburg, were here this week. Mrs. Julia Sanders, after spending months with her son in Florida, has returned home. Her son, William, has also been visiting in Florida. Mrs. W. L. Brooks has returned from a pleasant visit to friends in i ir<r.+;n UJO till. There was an oratorical contest at Brunson on Friday evening between the Brunson, Fairfax, and Varnville schools. Ethel and Brooker Simpson represented the Fairfax school and the former won the gold medal for our school. Sadie Harter played on a piano, and if a medal had been bestowed for fine performance she deserved one. Miss Susie Albergotti has returned from a pleasant visit to Miss Alma Black, at Olar. She was the recipient of much social attention. SOLICITOR TIMMERMAN BACK. Believes Joe Grant Will Yet be Tried in Edgefield. Lexington, April 23.?George Bell t:?+ V*1 1 fVi ill 11ui merman, sunti IUI vx mo xxtu j ~ dicial circuit, returned to Lexington last night from Harrisburg, Pa., where he went ten days ago to represent the State of South Carolina in an effort to bring back to Edgefield county, a negro by the name of Joe Grant, who is wanted for the alleged murder of J. T. Durst, at Johnston in 1896. Mr. Timmerman was successful in so far as getting the Governor of Pennsylvania to honor the requisition of the Governor of South Carolina, but Grant, through his attorneys, brought habeas corpus proceedings to further delay the efforts that are being made to bring him back to this State for trial. Mr. Timmerman is of the opinion, however, that the question of Grant's coming back to this State is only held up temporarily and the solicitor believes that he will win out in the end. Has Never Carried Any. The Index has had no whiskey advertising in fourteen years and has in that time turned down many big contracts for whiskey ads.?Greenwood Index. I IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTR CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The Charleston Savings bank paid an annual dividend of 25 per cent to its stockholders last week. The State reunion of Confederate veterans is to be held at Aiken next week, the 23rd and 24th. Aiken will entertain the veterans handsomely. J. E. Swearingen, State superintendent of education, sent out this week to the various high schools of the State $31,645, this being State aid for 126 high schools in 41 counties. A. A. Richardson, the new chief game warden of the State, has revoked the commissions of 166 of the ' 202 game wardens. He says most of these were net taking any interest I in enforcing the game and fish laws. j Richard S. Whaley was nominated ; for congressman of the first district . Tuesday over E. W. Hughes by a ma- . jority of 542 votes. Hughes carried Charleston city and county by a small majority, also Clarendon and Berke_ . _ . i ley counties. Whaley carried Colleton and Dorchester. Not until June will the case against T. U. Vaughn, the former superinten- ( dent of the Odd Fellow's Orphanage , at Greenville, come up for argument in the South Carolina Supreme Court. Vaughn is now in Columbia, and is under death sentence for crimes com- x mitted while he was at the head of the orphanage. Judge T. S. Sease has reduced from $20,000 to $5,000 the verdict render- * ed in favor of E. O. Black in a libel ( suit against The State newspaper. 1 Judge Sease said that the verdict 1 was excessive. If the plaintiff does * not accept the reduction a new trial will be granted. Two other suits ' brought by the Blacks against The State are pending. 1 KILLS WOMAN*IX HOSPITAL. \ 1 Xorth Carolina Man Shoots Patient ^ and Kills Himself. < 1 Goldsboro, N. C., April 14.? r Cleveland Prince, a Wayne County farmer, today shot and killed Mrs. t May Carter Lomax, wife of a railroad ] baggagemaster, and then committed ' suicide. Mrs. Lomax was confined to her bed in a local hospital as the j result of injuries sustained in an . automobile accident while riding . with Prince and others. c Prince called at the hospital and J was shown to the patient's room. t Attendants at the institution heard J the shots and discovered the tragedy. . The killing and suicide are alleged ( to have been prompted by jealousy. Wants Strikers Enjoined. * i Bainbridge, Ga., April 14.?Injunc- j tion proceedings instituted by the j Georgia, Florida & Alabama railroad ? against the striking shopmen will be heard to morrow at Camilla. The strike situation is daily becoming more acute. A carload of strikebreakers was 1 brought here from Philadelphia re- T cently by the railroad company to J take the place of the strikers and * the company asked for an injunction c to prevent the men on strike from interfering with the strikebreakers. * This the strikers protest they never y meant to do. 2 A mass meeting was held this afternoon, addressed by B. T. Lewis on 1 behalf of the strikers. Tomorrow's proceedings will be heard before 1 Judge Park. * r Kills Husband This Time. j Calumet, Michigan, April 15.?One c year ago Mrs. Anna Kuusasto attack- f ed her husband with an axe, inflicting injuries which almost ended fatally. I She was afterward committed to an c asylum. Today the woman, who was s was recently discharged as cured, I again attacked her husband with an axe as he lay sleeping and killed him. Her arrest followed. Victim of Peculiar Accident. r Floral Park, X. Y., April 15.? ^ John Dunning, a mail clerk on the * Long Island Railroad, was lassoed and whipped out of the door of his J car today by a wire trailing from a 1 passing freight train. He was saved 1 from death by the breaking of the wire. His leg was broken and he was badly lacerated. By the way, wasn't it E. D. Raney i who was responsible for the first all c whitp rit.v council of Beaufort since t the war? | ^ TOOK THE SHERIFF'S ADVICE. Woman Returns Home, Abandoning Plan of Shooting Up St. Matthews. St. Matthews. April 13.?It is a cold day in August when this gay vil lage is without a novelty of some kind, but the newest and most up-todate innovation ever known to "the oldest inhabitant," transpired yesterday, and there is no fake story about it. Sheriff Hill was made wise to the fact, early in the morning, that a strong, brawny white woman with muscles like a prize fighter had gotten aboard of a train at a flag station near the Congaree River bridge with a rifle and was threatening to shoot up the town of St. Matthews. When the sheriff arrived at the depot, a few minutes after the train rolled into this burg, he found this belligerent Amazon pazing up and down the station platform with fire in the eye, the forbidding weapon at attention and pouring forth a volley of imprecations nnsuited to "ears polite." It appears that she had been receiving sundry and vigorous "duns" from an expert mercantile collector of St. Matthews, which rounded up with a visit to her home of a vigilant constable, and she had to come to town to redress her wrongs on the "field of honor." Under the suave, but positive arguments Df Calhoun's doughtery sheriff she was induced to take the first northbound train for her domicile in the :ane brakes of the Congaree River swamp?a sadder and wiser crusader. GRANT WINS HABEAS CORPUS. Attorney General Says Negro Charged with Murder Must Come Back. Columbia, April 11.?The negro, Joe Grant, who- is wanted in South Carolina for the murder of a white "armer in Edgefield in April, 1908, von in his habeas corpus appeal before a Judge in Harrisburg, Pa. Ten days are allowed the State of South Carolina to appeal. Governor Blease some time ago issued requisition papers for the ne?ro and Solicitor George Bell Timnerman, of Lexington, was sent to Pennsylvania to represent the State. [>espite the pleas of the attorneys of Jrant that he would be lynched if 1 Drought back to this State, Governor rener honored the papers. Attorney General Peeples has received a wire from Mr. Timmerman : idvising him of the turn the case has !aken and informing him that he has ?ut the matter in the hands of the ! ocal district attorney and is return- 4 ng home. Mr. Peeples said that he 1 ntended to get the negro back in 1 South Carolina even if the State has ;o take the matter into the United : state Supreme Court;'that men canlot be murdered in South Carolina ndiscriminately and the a&sassin get )ff scot free. The wire of Solicitor Timmerman :o Attorney General Peeples is as 'ollows: "Won before Judge, but illowed ten days to appeal. Have ar'anged with district attorney to look ifter case. Coming home." Less Liquor Consumption. Some contend that there is as nuch whiskey consumed now as vhen Abbeville had a dispensary. The receipts at the express office and < he cases docketed before the mayor 1 io not warrant such an assertion. The receipts at the express office < 'or the month of February, 1911, 1 vere about 600 packages; 1912 1 ibout 500 packages, and 1913 about 1 1000?showing a decrease of 200 1 )ackages in three years. < The cases in the city court for the ast two years of the dispensary for i Irunkennness for the month of Feb- 1 uary were 66, while for the past two ? 1 'ears for the same month only seven j :ases were docketed for the same" of- 1 ense. 1 From these figures it does not ap- < )ear that there is as much whiskey 1 :onsumed now as when the dispen- J &ry was in operation.?Abbeville < dedium. < 1 Adopts Commission Form. < t Raleigh, N. C., April 1.?The comnission form of government was tolay adopted by Raleigh by a majoriy of 685 votes. Three commissioners at a salary of !3,000 a year are to be elected on the j( ;th of May, the primary election to 1 >e held on the 21st of April. 1 _ i Edwin M. Levy, a negro mail clerk, s vas given a preliminary hearing be- I ore the United States commissioner < n Columbia on Thursday on the i :harge of robbing the mails and was i >ound over to court in the sum of t 52,000. I( MISSIONARY KILLS FRIEND COMPANION, IN KERSHAW JAIL, ON MURDER CHARGE. Body of Abraham Michael Found in Culvert Near Wateree River. Benjamin John Held. Camden, April 15.?Abraham Michael was shot to death near the Watered River yesterday about noon, and it is alleged that the shooting was done by Benj. John, both representing themselves as ministers from Turkey, touring America to collect funds for Christian churches in the old country. The killing has been the chief topic of conversation on the streets today. Both Michael an^ John appeared before Mayor Brasington yesterday and asked permission to solicit church funds. Mayor Brasington told them to present their credentials to a Camden minister and if favorably passed upon he would consider the request. They left Camden later by foot, following the Seaboard track in the direction of Columbia. They passed Section Master Sanders and a force of hands on the road. Later John returned from across the river alone. Body Found in Water. Upon being questioned by Mr. Sanders as to the whereabouts of his companion, he said that he left him 11.. T T r> di iue trussing iieai juuguu.. in the day Mr. Sanders started towards Lugoff on his hand car, inspecting the track. When crossing a culvert, near Mr. Kennedy's plantation, he noticed the water backed up in the culvert's entrance and a pair of feet projecting from same. Upon investigation, the bullet-riddled body of Michael jvas found. The coroner and sheriff were notified. Several persons reported that they saw a foreign looking man hurrying towards Sheppard. Sheriff Huchabee had Constable McDowell to arrest John at Bethune. "He was placed in jail here at midnight and protested his innocence. Alleged Eye-witness. Flora Kershaw, who lives on the Kennedy plantation, says she saw the two men fighting on the track and saw one shoot the other to death and then place his body in the culvert, placing the dead man's coat over his head. John changed his clothes ear Sheppards, and it is said they were found in the woods nearby and were saturated with blood. When arrested $385 was found on his person, together with five pocket knives, seven pocketbooks and a lady's hand bag. Robbery is thought by some to have been the motive of the alleged murder, although both men seemed to have collected other things besides funds. G. G. Alexander, Jr., has been retained by John to defend him. Several Assyrians interviewed John in jail today and said that they were of the opinion that the men were imposters and were either Greeks or Turks. DIED LIKE A HERO. Virginian Gives Up His Life to Save That of His Wife. Roanoke, Va., April 14.?While crossing the James River Sunday afternoon in a row boat near Buchanan, Va., Samuel Hope, 33 years old, was irowned when the swift current sent the light craft against a ferry towline and unset, it. His 15-year-old bride of less than a month and her brother, Raymond Booze, were rescued. As the boat turned turtle, Hope seized the tow-line and was holding 5rm. The swift current of the river, iwollen from recent floods, carried the :ine out of his wife's reach and she svas rapidly being swept away. Unlesitatingly Hope released his hold in safety and swam to the rescue of lis bride. He succeeded in keeping ler afloat until relieved of his burien by a negro boatman, who had ;ome to their rescue. Exhausted by lis efforts to- stem the current and support his wife, the husband sank :o his death. His body has not been 'ecovered. ? Aviator Met Death in Water. Nice, France, April 15.?Louis Gaulart, a French aviator, was drowned vhile flying in a hydro-aeroplane here :his morning. Gaudart was skimming n the machine in front of the pigeon shooting grounds where a large number of spectators were admiring his evolutions. Suddenly the hydro-aero}lane lost its equilibrium, the left ving cut the water, the apparatus silted and plunged into the depth6. jaudart's body was not recovered. KILLS CHILDREN AND SELF. Ill Health Drives Bay State Man to Do Murder. Fitehburg, Mass., April 14.?Ernest Moschner, aged 35, murdered his four children and then killed himself by shooting at his home here tonight. Continued ill health made the man temporary insane, the police believe. Moschner's wife, upon returning from work, discovered the bodies of her children and husband with bullet holes in their heads. The murdered children were: Elsie, aged 12; Myrtle, aged 11; Norman, aged 8, and Ernest, aged 6. According to the police the chilS dren were playing in the yard when j their father called them upstairs to his bed room. There, from the marks of the muddy feet, the officers believe, he lined the children up in I front of the bed. Shoots His Children. While the children, half frightened, were gazing at him, Moschner drew a revolver and fired at his elder daughter, Elise. The bullet entered the head near the left ear, causing instant death. The other children, evidently, broke from the room madly. Ernest, } the youngest child, was found crumpled lifeless on the floor of a closet in the front room of the same floor. The shot had entered the left side of the head just below the temple. . Myrtle and Norman fled downstairs. There Myrtle sought vain refuge in a closet, but the insane ' r-j father's Hnerring aim brought her 'down just as she stumbled over the threshold. Boy Fights for Life. From appearances only one of the children had any chance for self-defence. Norman, the older boy, was found in the coal bin, his torn clothes A v vV and blood-spattered club beside him, giving mute evidence of a brave but futile struggle. Moschner then retraced his steps, first covering up Norman's body with rags and boards. Halting at the closet on the first floor, he covered Myrtle's body. Then entering his bed room he drew a sheet over Elsie's form as it lay 011 the bed, and standing beside her sent a bullet into his brain, causing instant death. Mother Faints at Sight. Two hours later Mrs. Moschner came home. Mis6ing the sounds of the children's voices and noticing the < * overturned furniture, she rushed upstairs to her husband's room and found his body and Elsie's. She fell in a dead faint, and when she recovered ran shrieking out of the house to call her neighbors. Moschner, the police learned, bought his revolver this morning. Up to a short time ago he had been a tuberculosis patient at the State Hospital. Previously he had been employed as a baker for twenty-three years. When his health broke down he bought a delivery wagon and delivered bake-house goods. When he grew too weak for this work his wife took up the work. Brooding over his poor health, the police think, caused his mind to become unbalanced. RAT PROOF YOUR BUILDINGS. Government Health Bureau Recommends Such Measures. Washington, April 14.?As a further step in its crusade against rats as breeders of disease, the United States public health service, has issued an appeal to property owners to "rat proof" structures now under construction and to transform buildings now erected so that rats and mice may be kept out. Dr. French Simpson, of the service, gives direction for "rat proofing," and dwells on the importance of the subject. "Those contemplating the erection of a new or the repair of an old " cave T>r Sirrmson. "wheth UUilUlUQ) ^ -r J -- er of frame, brick, rock, concrete or other construction, should be informed as to the sanitary and economic benefits to be derived from rat proofing measures of a permanent character, and should require the scrupulous application of such measures as a part of the builders' contract." Dr. Simpson characterizes as "a popular fallacy," the idea that successful war can be waged on rodents through the use of traps or poisons. They are so prolific, he declares, that the birth rate always keeps in advance of the death tolls." Some people seem to live a long time iust to spite other people. The dispensaries will be closed in Aiken during the State reunion of the Confederate Veterans, April 23d and 24th. .