Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PERSONAL. MENTION. People Visiting in This City and mf at Other Points. r . . ?Dr. J. L. Copeland, of Ehrhardt, was in the city Monday. ?Mr. H. C. Copeland, of Ehrhardt, was in the city Monday. ?Mrs. R. L. Risher spent last jf Monday in Charleston. * ?Mr. N. B. Rhoad, of the Hunter's Chapel section, was in the city last Saturday. ?Mr. and Mrs. Fowler, of Orange ourg, spent, ouaaay an tue caty wuu .< * Miss Alice Sease. ?Misses Xania and Ottawa Easterling are at home from Ridgeville, where they have been teaching. ?Mrs. Douglas Richardson, of Denmark, is visiting relatives in ^ Camden.?Camden Chronicle. ? ?Mrs. M. L. Johns spent Saturday and Suday in Orangeburg on a ?? visit to her daughter's family, Mrs. Bradley. -> ?Miss Alice Smoak, after visiting Miss Jaunita Folk at Jalapa, has returned #to her home at Bamberg.? I, Newberry Observer. ?Misses Minnie and Flossie Riley " and Ruby Betsil, and Messrs. Burness Inabinet and Harry Maloy, of Orangeburg, spent 'Sunday at the home of 8 ^ Mr. W. P. Herndon. J ?R. W. Bass has accepted a posip. tion with Hunter Hardware Co., in ?; Bamberg. He will leave the first part of next month. Mr. Bass has many friends here who regret to see him leave.?St. Matthews Advance. ?Mrs. C. W. Weeks and Mrs. C. C. Sahlman left Saturday afternoon to r join the B. of L. E. excursion to Cuba for a few days. The purpose of their trip was to visit a sister there whom +V>a n rit coon fnr npnrlv fortv H , years and the visit will no doubt be a gf most pleasant one.?Fernadina, KP ' Fla., News-Record. i FATAL MOTORCYCLE COLLISION. One Girl Dead, Another Dying and Two Boys Severely Injured. ^ Fort Pierce, Fla., May 17.?Miss \ Ola Daniels is dead; her sister, Miss I Ada Daniels, is at the point of death; Fred Jones has a broken leg and hip, and Raymound Saunders is badly cut about the hip and is internally injBjr jured from the effects of a head-on motorcycle collision four miles north of this town late last night. The boys and girls had been to a party at the Daniels' home, and the boys were rid- ' ing the various girls over the fine rock road when t;he accident oc* curred. Both machines were going at a rate of 60 miles an hour when they met in the shadow of an orange packing house on the road, head-on. The two boys and Miss Ada are not expected to live. WAS PAUL KIRKLANDS BODY. ' ,y * Victim of Hampton Mystery, However, Bright Mulatto. Hampton, May 19.?The local authorities here got into communica? ? c v. of Qwamnrp ! 11UU V> 1111 IUC IJUOliilHClti uv uj VH?W, \ in Barnwell county, today and ascertained that Paul Kirkland, whose body was found in Saltkeatchie river on Saturday, was a negro of very light skin. It seems as if he left Sycamore last fall, giving his intended destination as Florida, but nothing x was heard of him until the telephonic communication this morning. Nothing further has been done to solve the mystery surrounding his death. BLEW HEARtTUT WITH GUN. it Florida Man Commits Suicide When Wife Deserts Him. Tampa, Fla., May 17.?Clarence E. .Fulton, son 01 on 01 me must piuiuinent cattle raisers in Florida, placed the muzzle of a shotgun to his breast / and blew his heart out this afternoon, after writing a note of farewell on the '> v ' back of a letter he had received from his wife telling that she had deserted him. Fulton had been away in South > ^ Florida when he returned to find that his wife had left him with their 11year-old child. "TO BECOM*7"A CITIZEN." Kansan, Aged 30, Has Spent 23 Years in Prison. I Topeka, Kans, May 15.?Arthur Patten who-, at 30 has spent twenty,> three years in Kansas prisons, left the penitentiary Wednesday, paroled to a farm "to become a citizen." At the age of 7 Patten stole a $3 watch and was sent to the State Reformatory as 5" innnrrieihle. Paroled afer four years, he entered a farmer's ho-use in Osage County where he had vainly r sought work, and ate food he found in the pantry. Caught, he was compelled to finish his reformatory sentence and then suffer sentence to the pen for second degree burglary. Governor Hodges acted promptly when he learned the circumstances. "Society has committed a crime against Patten," he said. * PIERCE RIPLEY KILLED. ] Shot By a Woman Near Trenton on Sunday Morning. News was brought to Aiken yesterday of the killing of Pierce Ripley by Mrs. Bessie Davis, which occurred in a litjtle shack near Trenton, in Edgefield county, on Sunday morn- ] ine. Ripley and the woman were in the shack and Sunday morning he was found dead, with a gunshot wound through the centre of his head. The Davis woman was seen in the house with him, and it is said she went to a colored woman's house and first * told the woman that she had shot Ripley accidentally, and later said she shot him wjth the intention of killing him. Ripley had been drunk on Saturday and had shot a negro on Senator 1 Ben Tillman's place, inflicting only a flesh wound. After the woman had told that she had killed Ripley, the news reached Ripley's brother, and he went to the shack and found the dead man, and took him to his home. The funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at Phillippi ' church, and the remains interred in ' the family burying grounds. Mrs. Davis was arrested on Sunday, and lodged in the Edgefield jail.? Aiken Journal and Review. "HARD LUCK TO DIE LIKE THIS." i Macon Banker, Who Took Poison by Accident, is Still Cheerful. > ( Macon, Ga., May 19.?Although his i doctors have steadfastly refused' to 1 hold out any hope for B. Sanders Walker, the banker and real estate man who is dying by inches from poison, he today maintained his cheerful demeanor until evening, when he told those who are staying constantly bv him that "it is hard ) luck to die like this. I don't want to ; die; there must be some way to save my life." He was told again there 1 was none. This morning he asked how the University of Georgia baseball game with Georgia School of Technology, ] played Saturday, came out. Mr. Walker is an alumnus of the former institution. Although Tech won, he was told that his alma mater had been returned victor. "That gives them an even break on ( the series, doesn't it?" he said. The , last two days a flood of hundreds of telegrams from all over the country have come to the Walker home with < suggestions as to his possible relief. Not one was from a physician. Speci- , alists in every large city in the United States, have been communicated with, but not one would hold out any , hope. Mrs. Walker is making a fight that is the wonder of her friends. In her j husband's company she has been ever brave and cheerful. Not once has she , presented anything but a courageous j front. Luck at Cards. New York, May 19.?Miss Teresa . Haley, of San Francisco, arrived on the Kaiser Wilhelm De Grosse with a bank roll of more than $10,000. She took it away from the "smarties" over in Europe, who think they know how to play games. "I have the true western instinct for games of chance," said Miss . Haley. "I have gambled for ten years, and I can count on the fingers of one hand the bets I have lost. I've always had the gambling spirit, and I've always been lucky." Miss Haley said she went over especially to take a crack at Monte Carlo. She did to the tune of several thousand. Then she made the rounds of the best known European gambling places, and cleaned up in each. On the trip Miss Haley played poker six hours a day, and took in about $1,000. She won four pools on the ship's run in succession. The men tried to beat her, but they couldn't think up new games fast enough. Somebody suggested pitching $10 gold pieces at a chalk line on deck. Miss -Haley played and won every pitch. The men gave up after that. 1 "I just about tripled my expenses," said Miss Haley. "Maybe I'll go back some time." Spotted It. Some boy friends of Darwin once plotted a surprise for the great naturalist. Capturing a centipede, they glued on to it a beetle's head, the wings of a butterfly ar ' the long legs of a grasshopper. Then putting the creature in a box they took it to Darwin, and asked him what it could be, explaining that they had caught it in the fields. Darwin looked it over farefully. "run it hum when vou caught it?" he asked. "Oh, yes, sir," they answered, nudging one another, "it hummed like everything." "Then," said the philosopher, "it's a humbug."?Harper's Weekly. WHITE MAN MORTALLY WOUNDED W. H. Hoover Shot Twic by E L Rawk AN OLD FEUD A n* n ZM i f TOT YKUE AISLE- LAUOJt Rawls Now in Aiken Jail Very Little Hope for Hoover's Recovery. On Saturday night about 1 3'clock, a serious shooting affair o< burred about three miles from Horse Bridge, on the North Edisto rive: which may cause the death of W. t Hoover, a young white man. He wa shot by M. L. Rawls. This is very near the scene wher the outlaw Jeffcoat killed Deput Aull some years ago. Sheriff Howard in company wit Rural Policeman Holley was notifie Df the shooting on Sunday and le! for the scene. They met Rawls i the road going toward Wagener, an arrested him, and brought him t Aiken. Rawls was seen yesterday by a rei resentative of this paper, and give the following account of the shoo ing. He said that there had bee trouble between him and Hoover, da ing back to August, 1911, whe Hoover ran away, with his wife, an took her to Florida, where they live< for several months. Rawls says thj Hoover married his wife in Florid; Hoover returned to this county th inct nsrt nf 1911. and later the w< man returned. Rawls and his wil remained separated, but at times sb would be seen with Hoover. The shooting happened at tb home of Mr. J. C. Hoover, and at cording to Rawls, they met there b chance. Rawls went there to see M Albert Hartley, but found Hoover an another man sitting on the froi steps. As Rawls approached, Hoove who was sitting near his gun drew on Rawls, and Rawls believing t was about to be shot, fired first. H used a shotgun, loaded with No. shot, but was so close to Hoover th? the discharge literally tore off h left arm, and the next shot took effe< in Hoover's shoulder. Hoover's friend claim that he w? deliberately shot, and had no gun ? the time. When the reporter aske Rawls why he carried a gun when b went to meet Mr. Hartley, said th? he always carried a gun everywhei he went, as he had been assaults twice recently by other men, and th gun was his protection. A doctor had to amputate tb stump of Mr. Hoover's arm, and it : stated that the wounded man cannc recover. Hoover is unmarried, as far as known here.?Aiken Journal and R< view. NEIL HAYES IN CUTTING SCRAP Han Tried for Killing Robert Floy Again in Limelight. Wilmington, N. C., May 18.?Lai this afternoon, at Greenfield Par] while an open-air service was in proj ress, Neil M. Hayes, who has figure in Court considerably, and two brotl ers, attacked Frank McCarney, 2 years old, and in the melee one of tl trio cut McCarney seriously about tl face and head. Neil and C. E. Hay< were arrested, but the third got awa The police have not been able to lear the cause of the trouble. Neil Hayes, with his wife, was trie in Columbus county two or thre years ago, the husband for accessor and the wife for the actual killin of Robert Floyd, of South Carolin; at Mount Tabor. Both were acqui ted, the woman claiming she sh( Floyd, whom she had known well ft some time, in defence of her honor. Two or three weeks ago Hay< brought action for divorce, allegin atotntnrv erniinds OFFICER KILLED BY NEGRO. Went to Quell Disturbance at Xegi Dance at West Palm Beach. West Palm Beach, Fla., May 18.While attempting to quiet a distu bance at a negro dance hall near hei this morning, Constable W. W. Ba engaged in a pistol battle with a n< gro. receiving wounds from whic he died later. After being sh< through the body three times Ba succeeded in killing his assailan Another negro and a white ma "'rnoH Wnrrv Sachs were also woun< ed. PRISON CHIEF AS "DAMON." j| Chas. Montgomery Willing to Act as Substitute for Abe Ruef. # San Francisco, Cal., May 17.? Charles Montgomery, president of the California prison commiseion, made an offer to Governor Johnson p that he should take the place of Abra- C, ham Ruef, convicted political boss of San Francisco, in a cell at San Quentin prison for three months to enable Ruef to visit his dying father, according to a letter made public today by Montgomery. The letter says: "I will go for three months to the p penitentiary as his (Ruef's) subeti7 tute, granting him the three months' y * liberty to be with his sick, dying father and his broken-hearted mother?and will wear stripes, obey every prison rule, work my utmost and re! main in prison without a complaint C until Ruef comes back to relieve me. "There is no law to permit this exchange now, but the Legislature is in session and it can easily be arranged. I will sign papers waiving every human right and will gladly surrender q myself at San Quentin to take Ruef's place at once." 9 MACON MAN SLOWLY DYING. C r, b< I. Banker Who Took Poison May Live t ls Forty-eight Hours. c P e Macon, Ga., May 18.?B. Sanders v :y Walker, who took poison by accident a< Wednesday and who is slowly dying, p h rallied today and became conscious. ^ d He recognized his family about him a, ft and talked with his wife for some a, n time. He stated that he knew the n d end was near, but he was going to ;o make the best of it. w Walker's kidney's have been inac- w tive since Thursday. Uraemic pois- SJ ?s oning has developed, yet doctors now u t- say that Walker has a chance to live 0: n twenty-four and probably forty-eight t- hours. d n Surgery has been suggested as a a d possible means to save his life, but at c, i, consultation of doctors even this was c it aDanaonea. t i. He swallowed a little milk today. ie, Aside from this he has had no nour- n > ishment since last Wednesday. Si :e tl 1 Satan's Survivor. j. Two lawyers in New York were p walking along the street discussing S( the subject as to whether the Irish >y . ri were as witty as they were reputed r. gi . to be. No. 1 didn't think they were, d t "All right," says No. 2; "here comes it r< one nowT. You stop him and ask him r> +. ? t] it a question. When Pat came along No. 1 says: ie a . "Say Pat, did you know the devil g was dead?" ^ Pat lopked very thoughtful for a moment, then slipped his hand into v is gi his pocket, drew out a coin and handed it to the lawyer. "Well, well. g What's this for?" asked the lawyer. s' is n Says Pat: "Sure, indade, in the lt , ? ,o ^ country where I came from we always give alms to the orphans."? ( ie National Food Magazine. e WOMAN FIFTY YEARS A MAN. id c Le She Fought in Northern Army and Until Recently Kept Her Secret. ie To go masquerading as a man for ^ 1S over 50 years without detection is the ^ }t record of a woman inmate of the SolHioT-o ond Qaiirtra home in this citv. "'VIO ~ " ' C'l who enrolled under the name of Al- . a D bert D. J. Cashier. The woman adopt- t] ed the garb of man before the Civil E war, in which she fought for three f( years, and has worn the clothes and n d taken the part of man since. Only j, twice has her secret become known c' and it was not until today that it was p te made public. k, The woman has been in the soldiers I- home almost two years and has al;d ways been extremely companionable i- with the other members. She has be!1 come enfeebled mentally and her te secret became knowa-te the author- , . . b te lties at the home a fewr months ago ?s when two male attendants attempted y. to give her a bath. She appealed to a ^ n female nurse and told her story. Since s< that time her secret has been known , td to only a few* of the home attaches, ^ ;e but so far the authorities have been ^ y unable to learn her real identity, .g which she refuses to disclose. a, The first time her secret became t- known was two years ago, when she H )t was run over by an automobile owned >r by former Senator J. M. Lish in Livingston county. Her leg was broken ' - ' T i ? r. .. V. rvrvi cbo was S-i 2S tnen, out .ur. n<zsn, u> ?uum ig employed as chauffeur, never betray- fc ed her long guarded identity. The wo- p> man soldier is a native of Ireland, and ir says that she came to this country n shortly before the Civil war broke T ? out. She donned boy's clothing and c< obtained passage across the Atlantic G ? as a stowaway. tl r- When the struggle between the n e Xorth and South broke out she en- tl 11 listed in Company G, Ninety- a< e- fifth Illinois infantry, in the ,'h war. When her company was di )t mustered out the records show there ii .11 were only 30 survivors. From sur- s< -* tu- /-?,*i ^ t. viving memDers 01 me cumyauj, vui. ^ n J. 0. Anderson, superintendent of the is J- soldiers' home, has learned that she n was a fearless and faithful soldier. IV ATTACKS NIECE'S HUSBAND. Brother of Former Pennsylvania Governor UseS Pistol. Harrisburg, Pa., May 16.?Wiliiam Hastings, a brother of the late Gov. , Daniel H. Hastings, made a murderous attack tonight on Ross A. Hickok, husband of the former governor's daughter, at Mr. Hickok's residence in this city. Seven shots were fired at Hickok by Hastings. Only one bullet took effect, penetrating the right side of ,the abdomen; The wound is thought to be not serious. Hastings was arrested after IRS. LONGSTREET SCORES ENEMIES ays She is as Great a Martyr as Was the General. >ENIES OFFICE WAS POORLY RUN. ieorgia Woman Makes Lively Statement to Senate Committee. Washington, May 19.?Mrs. Helen '. Longstreet, widow of the noted onfederate general, had a hearing afore the Senate postoffice commit>e today to give her version of the ircumstances leading to her dislacement as postmaster at Gainesille, Ga. Mrs. Longstreet did not sk reinstatement, but sought to rely to Postmaster Burleson's statetent that her office was poorly manned. She referred to Mr. Burleson 5 "President Wilson's 60-day Postiaster General." Mrs. Longstreet declared that she as the victim of the Georgia Railay and Power Company, which she aid had pursued her because she rged legislation "to curtail its favrs." ' She presented a long list of en orsements of her administration nd asserted that the people of the immunity who knew her were more ompetent to judge her than the ostmaster General. "The immortal commander whose ame I bear, who resigned a commision in the American army to follow ie banners of the South until the istf stainless one was furled at Apomattox and thenceforth found himelf an outcast in the land whose attlefields had run red with his heDie blood," declared Mrs. Longtreet, " was not made to suffer at le hands of that branch of Democacy which is in the saddle down in tie - good old Democratic State of eorgia, in the year that has placed Virginia gentlemen in the White touse." Representative Bell, of the Gainesille district, listened to Mrs. Longtreet and he smiled when she apoloized to him for phrases in letters tie read in which statements were lade that she was thrown out of ffice to meet the demands of "slick Dngued politicians." ARREST PROMINENT FARMER. harged With Connection With a Whiskey Still. A dispatch from Donalds to the [reenville Piedmont says Mr. B. L. lipford, a prominent farmer of this ection, was arrested Tuesday by ounty officials on a charge of having een connected with the operation of tie distillery seized last week near hat town. The arrest of Mr. LipDrd has created a sensation herebouts since he has always stood very ighly and the preferment of the harges against him came as a comlete surprise. A man by the name f Cannon has also been placed under rrest on the same charges. The still as found last week by a corps of urveyors, who were locating the line 3r the Donalds school district. It as on a farm that is being worked y a Mr. Searcy. After an investiation by the officials, Mr. Searcy was laced under arrest and taken to .bbeville, where he gave bond. It is lid that Mr. Searcy implicated Mr. ipford and Mr. Cannon in the operaon of the still and that this caused leir arrests. [RS. APPELT ASKED TO RESIGN. Reported for Not Giving Postoffice Work Personal Attention. Washington, May 19.?The first asstant rostmaster General has called )r the resignation of Mrs. Appelt as estmistress at Manning, because the ispcctor's report shows that she is ot attending to the office personally, his is carrying out the policy resntly announced by the Postmaster eneral, that postmasters must give n + t/intinn tn thp husi leir pel suuai auvimuu i.v ess of their offices. It is stated that le resignation of Mrs. Appelt will be ccepted, if tendered immediately. For some little time the posto-ffice epartment has been conducting quiet lvestigations all over the country to ee if postmasters are paying the roper attention to their work, and it 5 likely that there will be a good lany other cases similar to that at lanning. a desperate struggle with the police, during which a score of shots were exchanged and Louise Knisley, aged 9, a bystander, was shot in the leg. Hastings himself received a bullet wound in his right arm. #Years ago Hastings, who is 75 years old, gained notoriety by public attacks on his brother, the governor* who he accused of having deprived him of his share of some family money. He went to the Hickok home tonight and demanded to see Mr. Hickok. When the latter ordered him from the house, Hastings drew a revolver and began firing. Hickok, who is of athletic build, hurled him through the doorwayHastings then sent four bullets through the door and hurried away. Half a dozen policemen gave chase. s When overtaken at Second and Broad streets, Hastings opened fire on the police. A fusillade followed during which Hastings emptied three revolers. When a policeman's bullet broke his arm, he fell and was overpowered. His mind is "believed to be unbalanced. MAY BRING SUIT FOR $28,000. Chesterites Would Have Jos. B. Wylie Turn Over Rebate Money. ______ Columbia, May 19.?That certain citizens of Chester have asked the Attorney General to bring proceedings to recover for the State some $28,000 from Jos. B. Wylie, of Chester, which the latter admitted on the stand in the graft trials that he obtained as rebates from the purchase of liquor while a member of the dispensary board of control in the days of the "G. M. I.," is the report that was heard here this afternoon. Attorney General Peeples admitted that he had gotten a letter containing such a request from Chester and was looking into the matter. Jos. B. Wylie was a member of the \" State dispensary board of control along with John Black and J. M. Rawlinson. When indictments were \ returned alleging "graft" against these and others,' Wylie ' turned State's evidence and his testimony on the stand in the trial of J. S. Farnum caused a great sensation. In return for his testimony he was granted immunity from prosecution v by the then Attorney General J. Fraser Lybn. It was during his testimony that Wylie admitted that his share of the rebates amounted to some $28,000, m and it is for the purpose of bringing^ suit to recover this money that citizens of Chester have asked the Attorney General to start proceedings. Whether anything can be done in this matter remains for the result of the investigations of the Attorney General. It is said that the letter from Chester pointed out the authorities in the law under which proceed-ings could be brought. The whole matter is of much interest to the people of the State and the Attorney General's decision will be awaited with interest. HELD FOR HISTHILD'S DEATH. ' ;^ws James Huey May Have to Face Charge of Murder. ' Chester, May 18.?The jury of in- ?. quest over the remains of Anna Huey, the negro infant that was killed by its father, James Huey, on Mr. R. C. Guy's plantation Saturday evening, May 10, brought in a verdict Friday that the deceased came to her death , . ':|j from the effects of a pistol wound in the head fired by her father, James , Huey, on the evening of May 10. Mr. W. O. Guy was foreman of- the jury. Three witnesses were examined, Sue Huey, the child's mother, and William Harper. The latter testified that the woman came to his house and told his family that she had had a quarrel with her husband and he had fired at her. The woman, however, in her testimony denied that there had beefi any such quarrel or cause for a quarrel. If it should develop that Huey was firing merely to frighten his wife, as he asserts, the charge of criminal carelessness will be brought against him, but if it can be proven that he was firing at his wife with deadly intent and his bullet went wild and killed the child instead, he will have to facet he charge of murder. See those wire wall baskets at The Herald Book Store.