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i fflfg jamtorg jferalft f One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1913. Established 1891. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. k News Items Gathered All Around the j^k County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. ^ Ehrhardt, April 2S.?Mrs. W. H Ritter and Miss Sudie Ritter, of Olar visited friends in Ehrhardt last week l Had on their usual good looks anc k pleasant smiles. fThe farmers are pleased this morning. Nice rains, but rather cold anc wind too high this morning. Mr. Geo. McKenzie, of this place ' is circulating a petition for the posi office at this place. No complaim set up against present postmaster N only the postmaster has had it a long time. Mt. Pleasant Sunday-school picnic at Mt. Pleasant Lutheran church is an annual picnic and all are invitee > to attend and enjoy the day with the school. Be social with them in theii pleasures, singing, speeches, amuse ments and basket dinner. So prepare yourselves to enjoy the day May 1st, 1913, is the day set aside for the enjoyment. Don't forget the day. JEE. > A Card. To the Public: In circulating the rvnfifinn ronontlv h\* AT r" ATC MJ viwv?DV Kenzie, of Ehrhardt, to have hin appointed as postmaster of Ehrhardt ^ all kinds of reports were used tc J make the public think different oj me, when it is not so. Reports come to me that "I have resigned;" that 1 ^ did not want the office any longer; that I had voted a Republican tickel at election in order to get the postoffice. Others might have been used all of which are untruths of the vilesi kind, and the truth is carelesslj handled by parties using those remarks to further their designs. Then > is no use falsifying one's fame to gel or try to get a few dollars added tc their bank account. Gentlemen, its wrong. Twenty-eight years ago I startec this office for the accommoaanor of this neighborhood, as well as oui business, C. Ehrhardt & Sons. I bore i the expense myself of bringing the mail from Yarn's Store to Ehrhardi and returning same to that place bj the time carrier returned from Folk': Store for 5 or 6 years, then the department added this office to th< route and carrier from Midway tc Folk's Store. ^ When I am tired of the office anc resign, I will let all know it, anc then all can have a showing by mj consent, otherwise the governmen' t' will have to call in my commission. , " Respectfully, JACOB EHRHARDT. 3 Ehrhardt, S. C., April 28, 1913. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, April 28.?Messrs. M. A Moye and Miles Loadholt represent ed the Confederate veterans from thi: place at the reunion at Aiken. Ove: 500 delegates were present, and the: had a grand time.. The applause was tremendous when Col. B. H. Teagu< sang: "The Old Confederate Soldiei is Good Enough for Me" (to thet*n< of "Old Time Religion"). At nigh j a play, "Dixie," was given for theii enjoyment by the citizens. Miss Alice Reedy, of Charleston and Miss Hattie Gooding, of Brun son, were recent guests of Mrs. Wm Anderson. The G. B. C. met Friday evening the guests of Miss Margaret Folk, a the Commercial hotel. At the pro gressive games Miss Harrison an< Mr. Wm. Terry won the prize?a bo: of confectionery. Miss Kenney woi the consolation prize. Refreshment were served, and the girls said the; had an unusually fine time. On Saturday our teachers were in vited "over Duck Branch" to spen< the day with Mrs. O. J. Youmans They enoyed it immensely. Miss Harrison visited Olar las week. * Our ladies are making every prep aration for the comfort and enter tainment of the delegates who are b TTippt here on Wednesday for the TJ D. C. convention. Some of our young folks are at tending the protracted meeting a Brunson. The health of our town is good. C. F. Rizer, of Olar, who handle the Ford cars in this county, has no\ on hand two Ford touring cars am will receive today (Wednesday) si Ford runabouts. He will be please* to give a demonstration of thes famous machines. Ford users ar always satisfied, for there is no ca like it for the money on the marke today. ? TRAIN KILLS LEXINGTON MAX. i ) 1 John P. Goodwin Meets Horrible j IXeatli Under Southern Passenger. g Lexington. April 27.?John P. Goodwin, a white man, was run over a ? ' and killed by a Southern passenger train, near Styx, this county, late yesterday afternoon and his body terribly mangled. Coroner Wood con ducted an inquest at noon today. The ? evidence adduced at the hearing tend- v ed to show that the man was drinking I heavily yesterday, after having re- l; turned from Columbia with a quart c - bottle nearly full of whiskey. The I body of the unfortunate man was a dragged beneath the cars for a dis- t ? tance of about 150 yards, his head be- c t ing completely taken from the body. t Parts of the skull were found all ^ , along the track. The man's arms and > lower limbs were also torn from the ^ body and ground to a pulp. Every J particle of clothing was torn from the > body. 1 1 A double-barrelled gun, with one * ^ shell in it, was found on the ground, ^ near where the man was first struck. s The stock of the gun wras broken off. The three witnesses that testified E swore that the train crew failed to C - sound the whistle and ring the bell * i for the road crossing. It was evident v that the man was either lying in the middle of the track, where he had ( stumbled and fallen, or else he was b % ' lying just to the outer edge of the I roadbed with one arm across the rail, c ^ Where the train first struck the man the fingers were picked up by an un- t J dertaker today. b f John P. Goodwin was a son of Hil- ^ liard Goodwin, of near Styx, and was a ' about 27 years of age. He is survived t , by a young wife, who before mar, riage, was Miss Mabel Timmons, of c Columbia. He is also survived by his father and mother and several broth^ ers and sisters. None of the railroad v , officials were at the inquest today, v and it is now believed that the engi- t 4 neer did not know* that a man had J been killed. It was stated today that ) Goodwin told some persons yesterday . that he expected to have trouble with ' c a negro by the name of Joe Boozer. Millor maHo n epflrph for thft ItJUVl XU VAW VW WWV-- ^ ? - c . negro today, but could not find him. 1 ' ? g ? QJ First Football Match in Jerusalem. c - G ? For the first time in the history of ^ the Holy City its people have throng. ed around a field almost within the 7 c , shadows of its sacred walls, where y contending football teams strove toa gether for victory. The victorious } team, too. was composed entirely of E American students from the Syrian j Protestant college at Beyrout, and . Uncle Sam's boys can claim to have r introduced the sport of football into s t the Holy Land. The contests were t< spread over four days. The first af- o ternoon the Beyrout men played a t team made up of the young men of t the missons of the London Jews so- h ciety and of the Church Mission so- s ciety of the city; on the second after- s noon, with a team selected from the s . ranks?Christian, Mosiem and Jew- s - ish?of the Young Men's Christian f< 5 Association of the city: on the third v r afternoon with a team of St. George's t j college, and on the last afternoon h 5 with a team selected from all the a Jerusalem players. The third game s r was a tie, hut the three others were s 3 won by the Beyrout men. The teams s t were made up of natives and Europr eans, the latter being of several religions, including Mohammedans. A , local band of the American colony - played on the last da. There was . great enthusiasm, and. thousands of spectators, including Moslem ladies f , in their sheets and veils, watched the o t sport.?Strand Magazine. . I CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT c t ? 1 Express Employee Arrested at Sum- g c ter?Said to Have Confessed. v - 0 y Sumter, April 25.?Jessie T. Hawkins, a young man in the employ of r _ the Southern Express Company at ^ I this place, was arrested here yester- ^ day afternoon charged with the embezzlement of money belonging to I t the company. Hawkins was lodged in the guard house, where, it is said, . he made a complete confession. Later he was transferred to jail, where he ? 0 is now being held until his friends I r. can raise the sum alleged to have t been taken from the express office. \ It is understood that money has i I hpn taken from the cash drawer of j the office at intervals since the first J j of January. Twice deficits in ca6h c j had to- be made up by the cashiers, I s | when the route agent checked up the ? ^ I office accounts. About two hundred c x dollars is the amount supposed to s d have been taken. Mr. Jenkinson, t e the agent for the company, stated i ^ this morning that the company would : t not prosecute the case if the money ^ was paid back to the company. i I N THE PALMETTO STATE OME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. tate News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The next reunion of Confederate eterans wil be in Anderson, in 1914. The Methodists of Florence have aid the cornerstone of a $50,000 hurch?to be completed by January. "Chunk" Jones, a negro, was shot nd killed last week in Colleton couny by A. A. Griffin, a prominent merhant. Dr. H. A. Bagby, of Liberty, Mo., ormerly of Greenwood, has been ailed to the pastorate of the First laptist church in Union. KODert u-iinam, young sun ui )avid Gilliam, shot and killed Ed. Kennedy, colored, on Sunday in Abeville county. The . coroner's jury aid he was justifiable. Ex-Gov. Jno. C. Sheppard is being mentioned as probable successor to 'has. A. Woods, associate justice of he Supreme court. The legislature rill elect at its next session. The hotel at Great Falls, on the Catawba river, in Chester county, urned down Wednesday afternoon, t belonged to the Southern Power ompany and was valued at $4,500. Dr. T. P. Edwards, an inmate of he old soldiers home, was convicted y the recorder of Columbia a few ays ago of selling cocaine. He is native of Edgefield and had praciced medicine fifty years. At their meeting on Sunday the ongregation of St. Pauls Lutheran hurch, Colombia, decided to build a ew church, to cost $40,000. Plans rere adopted and the committee vere instructed to go ahead with he work. President .wnson nas appoinieu !has. A. Woods, of Marion, now ssociate justice of the supreme ourt of South Carolina, as United tates Judge of the fourth circuit, omprising the States of West Vir;inia, Virginia, North Carolina and louth Carolina, iio succeeding Judge loff, of Wer.t Virginia, who was reently elected United States Senator, 'he president has made a most exellent selection. SHOOTING SCRAPE AT BLAXEY. Uoodhounds Rushed to Scene, But Negro Escapes. Columbia, April 27.?A report of a hooting scrape among negroes in the Dwn of Blanev, in Kershaw County, n the Seaboard, reached Columbia his afternoon and on request from he authorities of the place bloodounds from the Penitentiary were ent there in automobiles. It was tated that one negro had shot and eriously wounded two others on the treets of Blaney today and had afected his escape. The bloodhounds ;ere unable to follow the trail and he Penitentiary officers returned ere tonight. The negro who is charged with the hooting is still at large and it was tated that both of his victims were till alive. DR. FRIEDMAN SELLS RIGHTS. VOl Receive $125,000 in Cash and $1,800,000 in Stock. New York, April 26.?Dr. F. F. 'riedmann has arranged for the sale >f the American rights in his antiuberculosis vaccine for $125,000 in ash and $1,800,000 in stock in thiry-six Friedmann institutes, to be or;anized in as many selected States, rit'n a total capitalization of $5,400,>00 according to the Times this corning. A large wnoiesaie arug irm is named as the purchaser. riLLMAX FAVORS P. M. MURRAY. Jelegation from Walterboro Confer with Senator on Postmastership. Washington, April 28.?Messrs. P. J. Murray, J. G. Padgett, John H. 3eurifoy and Mr. Moore came here oday from Walterboro in connection vith the nomination of Murray to be )ostmaster at that place. Messrs. Padgett and Moore urged senator Tillman not to oppose the onfirmation of Murray, and Solicitor i AnnAf OArtfir ro o tinn I reui ilU\ cuuui luauvu. senator Til'man said that he had eniorsed Murray after the late Representative Legare had done so, and hat he saw no reason to change his >osition now. It is understood that dr. Legare's endorsement of Murray vas actually filed with the Postmast e General some time ago. ESCAPES FROM HAMPTON JAIL, i Jo? Cook, White, Cuts Through Brick Wall to Liberty. ! Hampton, April 26.?Joe Cook, who has been for several weeks past confined in the county jail at this ^ place on the charge of housebreaking and grand larceny, broke out of his cell Friday morning early and up to this writing has not been apprehended. Cook is a young white man, who j was tried here two years ago on the r charge of housebreaking and larceny ? and was acquitted. c Recently, it is charged, Cook plead s guilty to the charge at the prelimi- s nary examination, the young man en- g tered the same house as was formerly c entered by some one and took'there- \ from blankets, meat, a pistol and a 2 number of personal belongings owned ^ by the negro occupants of the house, c He was arrested by the wide-awake policeman at Fairfax, wearing the alleged stolen clothing, and having in s his possession a quantity of the stol- j en property, and on hie plea of guilty ( he was incarcerated in the county jail < to await trial at the June term of the 3 local Court, but it seems as Cook be- ] came dissatisfied with the heart of ^ the local jail and its pleasant sur- r roundings, and with a small piece of 1 wire, which held the window of his 1 cell, he cut away the three or four i layers of brick between him and lib- ( erty. g It was a surprised jailer who car- t ried the bounteous breakfast to the ( cell where Cook was supposed to be g on yesterday morning. This is the i first escape from the local jail by the ^ "hole-in-the-wall" route and has at- t tracted interest. 1 TWO MAYORS SAVE ANGEL. Seventeen-Year-Old Girl of Louis- \ c ville Rescued in New York. j % ( New York, April 25.?Correspond- Y ence between the mayor of New York . and the mayor of Louisville resulted ( today in the rescue of a Louisville : girl and the confession of her ab- z ductor. This is the story of Ethel ^ Angel, 17 years old, told in Court by { Andrew Harris, a New York elevator r runner, who pleaded guilty to the t charge of abduction. Early last January Miss Angel ^ ran away from her home in Louisville , with a commercial traveler, who had r promised to marry her. After spend- ] ing some time in Cincinnatti and other ^ cities they reached New York penni- , less, and the man induced Miss Angel ( to go with Harris. A week later Harris put her out on the streets, and there detectives sent out by Mayor j Gaynor at the request of the mayor j of Louisville found her. The girl will j be sent back to her home. Harris f faces a sentence of from five to ten j years in prison. . $50,000 FIRE AT BATESBURG. \ Cotton Oil Company Plant Destroyed. 1 ( Insurance $25,000. Batesburg, S. C., April 27.?A large ] portion of the plant of the Batesburg Cotton Oil Company was destroyed by fire today. The entire buildings and j machinery of the oil plant proper were destroyed. The ginnery and the fertilizer plants, operated by the , same company, were saved with little , damage. The loss is estimated at , from $50,000 to $60,000, with $25,- ^ 000 insurance. < It is difficult to account for the ^ origin of the fire. The theory most generally advanced is that it caught ( from a passing locomotive. The plant being out of the zone ^ of the town's water system, it was impossible to extinguish the flames, and all energies were bent j to the saving of the nearby buildings, j The only stock destroyed was about , 2,000 tons of hulls. All the seed had been crushed, and the last car of oil - was snipper out a iew aays ago. The stock of the Batesburg Cotton j Oil Company is held principally by E. A. C., A. S. and C. E. Jones. Arrested on Assault Charge. ________ i Greenwood, April 29.?D. D. Dix- ] on, a white man, was arrested last < night on the charge of assault and i battery with intent to kill, the as- < sault having been made on Mr. Henry < Counts, a young man from Laurens, 1 who is employed by an automobile ] concern here. The affair grew out of an accident, it is said, to an automobile in which Dixon and others < were riding, and which was being i driven by Counts. Counts, it is < -1 - - - J ?x V\ t? Hi'vnn nri + Vi q claimed, was su uuk u> i^i.wu nun piece of iron and was unconscious ' for some time afterwards. Dixon was released on bail in the sum of ] 5200 by Magistrate B. L. McDowell ' today. 'PORTLAND NED" ESCAPES VOTED YEGGMAN WALKS OUT OF GOVERNOR S OFFICE. _____ Tames Johnson Steals Out of Rlease's Office While Officer Awaits With v Warrant in Adjoining Room. Columbia, April 26.?"Portland s'ed," alias James Johnson, the yeggnan, who was paroled yesterday ifternoon, vanished from the inner >ffice of the Governor this morning md left a deputy United States marihal with another warrant for him guarding.the outer office. The fam>us cracksman deliberately and cooly took advantage of the Governor's ibsence and waiKea out or rne auor vhich leads into the inner office and iisappeared. Just Walks Away. "Portland Ned," who served a leven-year sentence in the Federal >rison in Atlanta for robbing a post>ffice at Enoree, in Spartanburg bounty, and who had served two -ears of a ten-years' term in the State Penitentiary for the same offence vhen he was yesterday afternoon paoled by Governor Blease, was being leld awaiting a reply the Governor tad sent the Federal authorities askng them if they had any further iharges against the prisoner. Johnson, or "Portland Ned," as he is beter known, had been brought to the Governor's office this morning, dressed in citizens' clothes. He was taken nto the inner office and was present vhile E. D. Green and John L. Paige, ;he two Spartanburg prisoners, were Deing given their paroles. Was Wanted in North Carolina. United States Commissioner Beverv Sloan had issued a warrant for the irrest of James Johnson, alias "Portand Ned," charging him with having lynamited a postoffice safe at Plynouth, N. C., in 1898, and Deputy Marshal Senn was present in the out>r office awaiting to nab "Portland <ed" when he came out. The war ant had been sworn out on informa -? v... Dnpfrtffina Tnonop. LlUIl iUl JUl&LlCU U V ? uoiumvt ;or Gregory, who rounded up this nan and landed him in the Peniteniary for the Enoree robbery. Federal Tudge Smith had telegraphed that :here were no cases on the docket igainst Johnson, and District Attotiey Cocran had wired the same thing, but had stated that he was telegraphing the postoffice department isking them if they had any further :harges against Johnson. Leaves Prisoner in His Office. Governor Blease stepped out into :he outer office, leaving "Portland \Ted" and a lady in his inner office, Deputy Marshal Senn being in the )uter office with a warrant for "Portand Ned." This latter individual, iccording to what the lady toM? md she never dreamed he was the !amous yeggman, its he was dressed n citizens' clothes?strode up and iown the office a few times, then ioolly unlocked the door leading into :he lobby of the State House and left. The Governor on returning to his private office asked the lady where ;he man was and she replied that he iad walked out. Newspaper Men Notified. The newspaper men were called in ind told of the occurrence, and then Marshal Senn was informed that 'Portland Ned" had flown, not more :han five minutes after the disappearince. "I didn't know I could serve :he warrant on that man in your inler office," said Marshal Senn to the governor. "Why certainly you could, 10 one said you could not," replied :he Governor. The marshal thought Johnson would come through the luter office, but the latter went out through the private offi-Ni into the lobby and vanished while the marshal 5vas waiting for him outside. The cool way in which "Portland \Ted" disappeared surprised everyDne. He is said to be an old hand at the game of safe-cracking and has a noted career. Governor Denies Report. Rural Policeman Hipp having been quoted this afternoon as saying that tie was ordered out of the Governor's nffice when he went there this morning as a deputy from United States Commissioner Sloan to serve a Federal warrant on "Portland Ned," before the latter "faded away," Governor Blease was asked about the report and dictated the following reply; "I was sitting in my office, and Col. John K. Aull, my secretary, came in and stated that there was an offi ?er outside who wanted to see James Johnson. I told him to come in. He walked in my office. When he came in I asked him to let me see his papers. He showed his warrant to me. [ saw it was a warrant issued by the United States commissioner. I also BODY FOUND IN BASEMENT. Notes State Crime Was Done By New gro Employee. Atlanta, Ga., April 27.?With clothing torn in shreds and other indica tions of violence conspicious, the body of Mary Phagan, 15-year-old daughter of Mrs. J. W. Coleman, of Atlanta, was found early today in the basement of the National Pencil N Company's plant at 37 Forsythe street. Newt Lee, negro night watchman at the building, who discovered the body, was arrested shortly after * he notified the police. A young man, giving the name of A. Mullanox, also has been taken into custody. The police assert that the latter is alleged to have been seen with the Phagan girl at 12.30 this morning. Both prisoners are being detained under the blanket charge of "suspicion," and both deny any knowledge . of the alleged killing. Notes Tied About Throat. The body was found, according to the negro, at 3.30 this morning, when he was making a round of the build ing. In addition to a gaping wound in the back of the head, bruises and lacerations on the body, a handkerchief was found knotted about the throat. Tied to this was a short piece of rope, with which, the police believe, the body was lowered into the basement through a small hole in the v;tc? floor above. Physicians who were summoned from a local hospital immediately after the body was found expressed the belief that death was due to . . j ^ strangulation. Besides the body were found two almost indecipherable notes scrawled upon scrap paper. According to the police the contents of one of these notes was as follows: "That negro hired down here did this. He pushed me down that hole. A long, tall negro, black, that did. it worked. Long, lean, tall negro. I write to people with me." Not Her Handwriting. Despite the fact that the basement floor was littered with pencils from the factory above, J. W. Coleman, a local carpenter, and the girl's stepfather, is quoted as saying that the handwriting in the notes is not that of Mary Phagan. The girl was employed at the plant where the body was found. The police have the names of several people who claim to have seen her in the vicinity of the building, which is in the business district of Atlanta, be^ -,A OA iween n/.ou v uiuch. ia.sc uisut auu 12.30 this morning. Adam Wood- ' ward, a negro .night watchman employed in an adjoining building, told the police today that he heard a woman scream shortly after midnight, but thinking that the noise came from a party of brawlers, he did not investigate. The Ehrhardt Cotillion Club has issued invitations to a dance to be given in Copeland's hall Wednesday evening, May 7th. ?saw that he was a rural policeman for Richland County. A Rural Policeman. "I said to him 'are you not a rural policeman for this county?' He said, 'yes, sir.' I said 'haven't you enough to do to attend to your own duties as rural policeman without trying to run the business of the United States Government and of the Governor's of- y fice?' He said he supposed so. I then said, 'well, if you want to hold your . inh von had better trv to attend to the business of Richland County, for which you are employed; I don't know of any business you have serving warrants for the United States . Government when you are in the employment of the people of Richland County; and don't you in your position put your hands on this man Johnson.' "With that he left the office, and the next I heard from the warrant I learned it was in. the hands of the man who was sitting in the outer office of the Governor's offices when Johnson walked out of the other door. Rural Policeman Hipp was not ordered out of my office and was not treated impolitely, either by my secretary, so far as I know, or by myself. I spoke positively to him, as I always speak positively on a matter of immediate business to everybody. "Neither I nor mv secretarv or ste nographer have any duty to perform either as detectives or as marshals or policeman, and if the marshal sent by the United States commissioner wanted to Jt down in the outer office, to which I was called by my secretary on a matter of business, while James Johnson walked out the other door, it was none of my looko-ut and none of my business." ' ^sij