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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1913. Established 1891. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS j SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS ; t IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. ______ News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, Oct. 4.?Dr. C. B. Stokes, of Charleston, and M. M. Fleming. ^ of Ridgeland. were recent visitors to ; ' * -1- - 1 M? A r> AT I t ine iiume ui .ui. emu .ins. v. .?i. f Davis. Mrs. Robt. McDaniel and children : S's have gone to meet R. McDaniel in a j new Georgia home. Misses Hattie and Emma Lightsey, of Brunson, visited Mrs. F. Lightsey : this week. Miss Francis Lea, after being the Mrs. J. E. Johnston and children, while visiting her sister, Mrs. W. L. Brooks, has returned to Holly Hill. O. Brunson, of Ulmer, visited his sister, Mrs. G. Connelly, on Sunday. Mrs. W. Wingard and little Jessie i have returned from a pleasant visit J ; to Augusta. j Mrs. J. E. Johnston and children who have spent several months at ^ their old home near Gaffney, have j returned home. j 1 Miss Flora Kenny visited friends! in Brunson this week. j , Mrs. Xan Gregg and little Joy have !; returned to Savannah, after spend- \; ing sometime with Miss DuRant. Miss Hattie Gooding, of Brunson.! *> visited Mrs. W. W. Anderson recent- j; lv. | ; Mrs. Cleo Sanders visited relav tives in Savannah this week. < F. W. Wilson, who has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. j Wilson, has returned to his duties i in Florida. ! ; Mrs. M. E. Edenfield and daughter \ were guests of Mrs. L. H. Ulmer re- j ; cently. Mrs. Hampton Williams, of Brun- j son, were here this week. j i Misses Lipscomb and Johnston, of j Gaffney, are guests of Mrs. J. E. Johnston. j ] Work continues on the Lutheran j manse and it will soon be quite !< commodious and comfortable. Mrs. Fannie Loadholt and sister, j ; Mildred, visited Allendale recentlv. I i Brook Jenkins, of Savannah, is; here visiting home folks. ! 1 DEAD YET ALIVE. i Man Returns Home to Find His Estate Divided Among Heirs. St. Louis. Mo., Oct. 3.?After an absence of 25 years in the West, Wal ter Ludwig returned to Bellville, 111., to-day to find that he had been dead legally for years and that his inheri- j tance had been divided among other j heirs. i Ludwig, whose real name was Walter James, was sent to Bellville as an I orphan when his parents died in New York. He was adopted by Amandus Ludwig, with whom he lived for 18 years. He ran away and never was heard from until he returned to Bellville to-day. When the elder Ludwig died 15 ' years ago he left property valued at $4,000 to his foster son. After seven years had passed with no word from the foster son. other heirs asked a x court to declare him legally dead. STREET GETS ONE YEAR. Admits His Crime and Tries to Involve Employe. Charleston, Oct. 7.?Bruce* Coleman of Saluda, formerly a Southern ? Express company messenger, today was found not guilty of breach of trust and grand larceny in connection "with the robbery of the company's j car on a Southern railway train August 28. W. B. Street of Reevesville. L who admitted robbing the car, but | accused Coleman of complicity, plead-1 ed guilty to grand larceny and was sentenced by Judge Bowman to serve one year in prison. Coleman was arrested on the strength of a confession by Street, who gave what purported to be a conspiracy between him and Coleman to rob the express safe. He declared that he took the money and then, by arrangement, locked Coleman in the express safe. The messenger was found in his temporary prison when the train pulled into the Charleston station. The jury apparently placed little confidence in Street's story of the robbery, as it required only a brief period of deliberation to decide on a verdict which acquitted Coleman of nil hlama in connection with the af- { fair. Jones Bros, have received a car load of horses and mules, extra nice ones, this being the first load for this season for the town and county. Ad. OKCISIOX IX ZACHKY CASK ji !J Youngest Child Awarded to Mother.; Other Divides Time. j i Augusta. Ga.. Oct. "?.?Mildred; Zachry. aged 1 year, given to the1 , mother, Mrs. Mary \V. Zachry; Fran-J c-es Zachry. aged 3 years, given to j both the mother and the father, to i i divide her time between her estrang-j ed parents, spending six months at a time with each Mrs. Mary W. Zachry ! and Julian J. Zachry. This, in short, is the decision of j ( Judge Henry C. Hammond rendered j ? I shortly after midnight. A whole week had passed since j j the case was reheard by Judge Ham- L mond in private Saturday, September i 27, but the decision would have been rendered sooner except for the fact : that Judge Hammond was waiting on j Mr. and Mrs. Zachry, between whom, j it was rumored, negotiations were pending looking toward a reconcilia- ( tion which, had it been effected, j would have made a decision award- j ing the custody of the two little girls superfluous. Judge Hammond, after \ going over the evidence in the case, had determined the disposition he; . would make of the children, and ^ when he learned last night that Mrs. Zachry had declared that a reconciliation between herself and Julian J. Zachry was hopeless and impossible ] t and that she would agree to it only j j as the very last resort, he dictated j . his decision. j t For the first time the new law en- j , acted at the recent session of the leg- j ? islature. and known as "the mothers' ] rights bills," has been applied, and 3 strangely enough, applied for the j j first time in the very case which j j 1 ~ rr a T n /I Or A 1 urouglil it ill Itl UCilig, (II LCI <j UU5'^ , Hammond, having, under the old law, , civen the two children into the cus- j tody of their father, Julian J. Zachry, ( had written to Samuel L. Olive, rep- < resentative from Richmond county ( in the State legislature, urging a j change in what he then termed the , "barbarous and iniquitous law in j reference to a mother's rights over j her children." l After having been forced under the , old law, as he construed it. to give j < the children to the father. Judge I t Hammond stated publicly: | , "I was bound by law, and that is j j why I had to award the children to ; . the father. It was not by any per- t sonal feeling or inclination of mine j ( that I did so; had it been, I would j have awarded them to their mother, j whom I consider the natural guardian tor the children." ( m ( ARRESTS IX PARR SHOALS CASE. i 1 J Men Charged with Attacking Train ( Crew Under Bond. < ] Columbia, Cct. 6.?The Brodies, ] three in number, father, son and j nephew, have been arrested in con- < ? ? 1. ? + J necnon wnn xne aiien.**. uli a o^um- > j ern passenger train crew at Parr < Shoals Wednesday. The men were i formerly employed at the power de- < velopment, but had severed connection with the force some time before, says Superintendent McClellan. The officers of the J. G. White Company 1 arrested the two young men, but the ( elder Brodie escaped, crossing the 1 line into Lexington county. A war-! J rant was issued for his arrest and Parr Shoals officers went to Lexing ton and brought him back. The three ' Brodies were held for general ses- ^ sions court under a bond of $2,500 1 each. J The fight between the Brodies and . the trainmen was caused by the aggressiveness of the former, because ! the trainmen refused to allow them 1 to place a pair of dogs in the bag- 1 gage car without a chain, as the < rules require. The dogs were provid- '* *d only with a rope and the porter i refused to allow them to be put in the baggage car. According to the * account the matter was referred to 1 the conductor, who stood by the i porter. One of the younger Brodies 1 hit the porter, while the elder Brodie 1 struck the conductor, it is alleged. 1 The train started and it was found 1 that one of the trainmen had lost his 1 hat. The porter, accompanied by the j; conductor, returned to the 6tation 1 and the fight was resumed. After- ' ward the arrests followed. 1 But Some Try It. ______ I "What a lot of old-fashioned be- 1 liefs have been shattered completely : in these modern days." "For instance?" ] "Well, you never hear anybody ad- : vise a young couple now that two can live as cheap as one. '?Detroit ? Free Press. ! ( All kinds of ledgers and blank 1 books at Herald Book Store, cheap. j IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS j KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. j State News Roiled Down for Quirk J Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Adjutant General Moore says he! will run again next year. Camden has sold $125,000 worth J city bonds for establishing a water j and light plant. i The Blue Ridge railroad has made a. contract for a $100,000 depot at Anderson, to be completed by February. Winnsboro voted on Thursday by *>$ to two for the issuing of $65,000 n bonds for water works and sewerage. / The city council of Columbia has iecided to circulate a petition asking he citizens to vote $500,000 in bonds :or extending water and sewerage. .Magistrate Charles Mitchell of Inuan, Spartanburg county, has been presented by the grand jury with beng $450 short on fines collected by aim. He has since turned over $105. Will Raise Hogs on Large Scale. Anderson, Oct. 3.?Anderson coun:y is to have the largest hog ranch n the Southeastern states, and plans already laid warrant the conclusion hat the farm will be operated along nethods heretofore unknown to this section of country. This farm is now being conducted by B. M. Aull, a farmer, who lives about 11 miles lorth of Anderson in the Autu neighborhood. Mr. Aull has already fenced and cross-fenced his range, and is aow at work putting in various swine louses and other swine quarters, all )f which will be completed within a >hort time. He will start off immeJiately with about 500 hogs, all of mported grades, which will be bred ;vith well known oreeas. Mr. Aull proposes to put one-half lis land in Bermuda grass and the j emainder of his land into grain, and i ivill pasture his hogs on Bermuda ;rass in the fall and winter, and in ;he summer feed his hogs on grain, ind in this way will not have to import or purchase any feed at all for my of his hogs. He expects to raise he hogs at a cost of production unier that of the middle west of at east one and one-half cents per lound, dressed. This development is considered one )f the very biggest of its kind to oc'ur not only in Anderson county, but n the entire southeast, as it is beiever to be the forerunner of the creating of a mammoth live stock inlustry in the southeast, where it is known that large western packers have for some time been contemplating entering and putting in packpries. and it is stated on reliable information that just as soon as sufficient hogs and cattle are raised on * . _ ^ 1-~? ...:n K/v u ill IS seciion mai a yaunerv ?m uc iu?ated in this section. On Tree Trunk at Sea. A stirring tale of the sea was told ay the officers of the Peninsular and Driental steamer Banca on the arrival of that vessel at Bombay last month, after a voyage from Japan. They had on board a swarthy Dutch Malay, who was rescued under extraordinary circumstances. The Banca left Moji, Japan, with a cargo of coal, bound for Bombay. During the passage of the Straits of Malacca an object was described floating in the sea. rhe course of the vessel was altered and as the Banca steamed nearer the object a man was made out seated on a tree trunk and waving his trousers as a distress signal. The castaway was picked up and taken aboard in a state of extreme exhaustion. When he had recovered the man :old an amazing story. He declared that he and four companions set out in a small boat, when they were overtaken by a gale. The frail craft was unable to withstand the storm and eventually capsized. They were thrown into the water, but finding a tree trunk close by they clung, to it and thus rode out the gale. They remained in this awful predicament for days, according to the Malay, tortured by the pangs of hunger and thirst, and in danger from sharks. There was no possibility of reaching land, even had they known in which direction it lay. Their only hope was being rescued by passing steamers. Several vessels did, in fact pass them, but no notice was taken of their frantic ? ' mi . signals and cries ror neip. me unfortunates were washed away one by one until only the Malay remained. Sighting the Banca he renewed his efforts to attract notice and was eventually successful.?London Telegraph. A < HA KGKS AGAINST WHALEV. j j Committee Hears Testimony and Ad-i joiirns Until December. ! ! .Mayor .John P. Grace, of Charles-j ton, appeared again before the house ; elections committee last Wednesday j * and had with him a numbr of wit-! nesses by whom he expected to estab- J lish satisfactory foundation for his | charges against Richard S. Whaley i in connection with the latter's alleg- t ed corrupt election practices. Among the witnesses were: Frank Hogan. r Wm. Wineate. Scullv Sullivan. -Mike l Barry, Steve Sargeant and LeonLaris- t sey. s H. F. Hogan. a Charleston policeman, a worker in the two primaries held in the district before a candidate was chosen, testified that he spent about $2,800 in the interest of E. W. Hughes, a candidate opposing Whaley. He testified that Henry W. Friend told him that Whaley adherents spent $5,200 in the first campaign. "How much did the Whaley supporters spend in the second?" Hogan was asked. "I don't know," said the witness. "Them was wise guys in the campaign: nobody will never know how much they spent." Hogan said Whaley met him before the first primaries and wanted him to "lighten up" in his work for Hughes. He said he was offered $50 c to lighten up, but he refused. "I met Whaley once on the street," said Hogan. "He asked me to sup- c port him, and I said 'I'm a Hughes t man.' He said to me, 'I'm going to \ congress or I'm going broke.' " c Steve Sargeant, an employe of the e Atlantic* Coast Line railroad, a party r worker for Hughes in the second pri- ? mary, testified that he had heard the t two factions spent $13,000 in the \ Ninth ward of Charleston at the second primary. He thought the Whaley \ forces put up $8,000 of the total. p "The dialect of some of the wit- i nesses before the committee," ac- { cording to the Washington corres- 6 pondent of the Spartanburg Herald, i "was difficult to understand, as it was 2 a mixture of the famous 'Charleston g brogue.' and a foreign accent. The c official stenographer had to have the i witness in one or two instances re- f peat his statement, saying that he f could not get it in short hand. One t of the witnesses stated that he was f proprietor of a restaurant and 'blind 1 tiger' in Charleston, and that every t three months his blind tiger was 'pulled' and he was fined. Several of the witnesses stated, in answer to ? formal questions, that they had never j been locked lip or served time ex- t cept for getting drunk and fighting. 1 ~\1 n rimno liimoolf lindpr nilPStion- I c ?uat* Ul Ul ing by members of the committee, stated that his salary was $3,500 as mayor, and that it cost him about $3,000 to be nominated. He further stated that the expense of being mayor was somewhat more than the salary." The Washington correspondent of the Columbia State devotes about 600 or TOO words to the story of the investigation, concluding as follows: "While the witnesses testified to certain money having been passed about which had the Whaley tag on it, and while much was said about Whaley's tremendous "swag" and j how it might be gotten, testimony < was of an indirect kind and few in- < stances or direct voie ouymg weic j brought out which seemed to impress i the committee. i "Summing the whole day's proceedings up, it is narrowed down to ] the fact that $13,000 is the amount j said to have been expended in the < Ninth Charleston city ward for Wha- t ley and Hughes?about $8,000 by j Whaley and the remainder by ] Hughes. "Mr. Whaley was today a guest of 4 Speaker Clark at an elegant luncheon served in the Capitol." The Associated Press correspondent throws out the suggestion that Washington opinion is that postpone- 5 ment to December means that the ( whole thing will be dropped. ( CHARGED WITH ASSASSINATION. < ) Two Sons of Florida Man Accused of ] Killing Planter. 1 Pensacola, Fla.. Oct. 4.?Two sons i of James Xeel, neither out of his ^ 'toonc tn-dav were arrested at Grand Ridge charged with the assassination of George Hamilton, a prominent 1 planter, last Thursday night. The j officers claim that the boys made 1 damaging admissions after being ar- ] rested. It is stated the arrests pri- r marily grew out of the fact that the < boys passed Hamilton's wagon on the ] road late on the night of the killing. < IE WILL SUCCEED HIMSELF il XIOR SENATOR COXFIDKXT HE WILL BE RE-ELECTED. Sxpccts Much Benefit to Farmers From Democratic Tariff and Currency Laws. i Columbia, Oct. 7.?Expressing con- i idence in his ability to defeat Gov- 1 rnor Cole L. Blease in the primaries ] text summer, United States Senator C. D. Smith would comment no fur- ] her on the race than to say "I will 1 ucceed myself.'' He listened to quesions about politico and showed that 1 ie is keeping up with every developnent, but would add nothing more. ; Ie had nothing to say when told of 1 he conference of the Blease leaders, rhich has been called for Fair Week 1 o outline the Blease programme for :apturing the State Convention, and he Democratic executive committee 1 text spring. Senator Smith would not say any- 1 hing on the tangle over the appointnent of a United States district at- 1 orney and marshal for South Caroina. He gave it as his opinion that 1 he bill, which has been introduced ' n the Senate by. Senator Tillman and n the House by Congressman Aiken, >roviding for the division of the State nto two Federal districts, would beome law. Thinks New Tariff a Blessing. Senator Smith talked interestingly ' >n national matters, and is satisfied he passage of the new tariff bill will vork greatly to the advantage of the 1 ountry, and especially to the farm?rs. He thinks the banking and cur-' ency bill will be passed by the Sen- ; ite, and that along with the reduc- 1 ion in the tariff duties the farmers fill honpfit PTPfltl V "The outlook for the agricultural I nterests is brighter than I have ever j : mown it, and there is more general i nterest manifested in farming and i armers along practical lines than ' ;ver before," he said. "With the tar- j ff adjusted and with the banking 1 md currency law so framed as to 1 ;ive the farmers equal facilities for redit, along with other branches and nterests, I think there is a brighter J uture to-day than ever before for the armers since the passage of our war ] >anking and currency measure. The ! armers have waited long enough and 1 jorne the burden long enough to >e recognized," said the Senator. Praises Administration. Senator Smith thinks the present session of Congress will run right nto the regular session. He believes ! lie currency bill will get through the lpper branch in time for the regular session. The junior Senator has only >raise for the Wilson administration md warmly commended the work of j secretary McAdoo in depositing Gov-! jrnment money in Southern and Western banks to assist in moving he crops, and thinks this prevented i panic. Senator Smith reached here this ifternoon and to-nignt aaaressea me fVesley Bible Conference at Main Street Methodist Church on "Back to ;hc Bible and the Faith of Our Facers," stressing the responsibility of :he individual. Sees Many Friends. The Senator is a guest of the Jefferson Hotel, and is being greeted by ?cores of his friends. Many men called at his room in the hotel to shake iiands with and assure him that he svould be re-elected United States Senator. Senator Smith is accompanied by lis wife, and they are attending the sessions of the Wesley Bible Confersnce. They will return to-morrow :o their home in Florence and plan to %o back to Washington the latter part of the week. IX OLD SHOE, CLUE TO MURDER. Negroes Arrested Alleged to Have Confessed Killing Boy. Gulfport, Miss., Oct. 4.?An old shoe found beside a badly decomposed body in a swamp led to identification of the body a sthat of Guy Johnson, aged 16, and the arrest today of three negroes and a confession from one of them, according to the police. The boy left home to go to i neighbor's house the evening of Tune 8, and had not heen neara irora until his body, showing effects ot violence, was found in a swamp near Handsboro. Nelson Flowers, Ed Labette and Vessel Scott, all negroes, to-day were irrested and officers say Flowers told :hem Labette killed the boy and that he (Flowers) was an accomplice, rhey say Flowers exhonerated Scott * * ? _ ? rm participation in tne criuie. me notive for the killing was not disposed. i ART ST I" I >E XT LURED TO DEATH. Miss Ix>e&son Had Answered Call For Trained Xurse. Chicago, Oct. 6.?Miss Ida G. Leegson. art student, whose nude body was fcund on the prairie west of here yesteraay, was iureci to ner aeain uy some man who telephoned to her in response to her advertisement for a place as a nurse. This was the conelusion of the police to-night after more than twenty-four hours' search, which resulted, the police admit, in no trail that they believe can direct them to the murderer. The thin, silken fish line found near the body and the bruised circle it left around Miss Leegson's neck showed them the manner of her death. Her tattered clothes, strewn for half a mile along the road, apes on the body, indicated that death proaching the prairie, and the bruishad come only after she had made a struggle, but there was nothing found to show by whom Miss Leegson had been induced to visit the lonely spot on the western outskirts of the city. After giving up her position as a school teacher in Mason City, Iowa, September 29, Miss Leegson came to Chicago and engaged a room with Mrs. James P. Burnett, saying she -\y was going to try to earn more money to continue her art studies. Saturday she inserted an advertisement in a paper asking for a place as a trained nurse. Answered Telephone Call. Saturday afternoon a telephone ' call came from a "Mr. Wilson," who, when told Miss Leegson was out, inquired closely after her personal snnMrflripp An hour later he call ed again and asked her to go to a point on the West Side to care for his wife. She left to answer the call and was not heard from again by her friends. The street address given by "Mr. Wilson" proved to be a vacant lot on the prairie. A canvass of the houses in the vicinity of the prairie showed none occupied by any one named Wilson. The possibility that Miss Leegson was lured to her death by an organized band of "white slavers," is being investigated by the police, but it is not believed by them to offer a solution of the mystery. An investigation among the teachers at the University of Chicago and at the Art Institute indicates that the murdered woman had been known for her industry, that she had no male friends and that her nights had been spent in studying. The police are searching for the dark-colored high automobile described by Wiliam Savage, a switchman on the Belt Railroad, who reported that he had seen such a car pass this crossing Saturday night and that it had returned an hour or so later. Miss Leegson's hand satchel was found to-day a block from where the body lay. It had been slashed with a knife and only a pair of stockings and a piece of soap remained in it. STREET CAR MEN LOCKED OUT. Knowiile Trouble Caused by Disinissal of Men Who Joined Union. Knoxville. Tenn., October 7.? Knoxville has a street railroad lockout, the street railway company having dismissed from its services fifty motormen and conductors who had joined a carmen's union. There has been no interruption of service, and the company claims it has plenty of men. Following a mass meeting of the mit nipn and svmnathizers to IV/VnVU VV* V MAVM v snight, hundreds of men paraded the streets yelling at the car employees and occasionally threatening them. There has been no damage of any kind. WILL NOT TOLERATE DRINKING. Daniels to Deal Drastically with Oases of Drunkenness. Washington, Oct. 6.?Secretary Daniels will require an official report on the case of Ensign Chevalier, one of the navy aviators arrested in Baltimore after running down two boys with an automobile. The Secretary announced also that he proposed to deal drastically with cases of drunkenness among navaT officers. "If an employer chooses to overlook intoxication in one whose wages he pays that is another matter," said Secretary Daniels. "No one is hurt, ? but intoxication of a naval officer ia a reflection on the entire service and on the administration which fails to deal with it effectively and firmly." Highest prices paid for pecans. G. A. DUCKER & BRO., Bamberg, S. C. 1 ' M