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| One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 17,1913. Established 1891.
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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
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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.
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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. \
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Xorth Carolina Man Shoots Patient ^
and Kills Himself. <
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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. *
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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. *
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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. <
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Adopts Commission Form. <
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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