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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 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.
Fairfax Fancies.
Fairfax, October 12.?Miss Maude
Barber, after a most delightful visit
to friends and schoolmates at Hartsville
and other places, lias returned
* home
Mr. Algernon Morgan,of Savannah, |
is spending some time with his sister
% Mrs. Benj. Buckner. Mr. Morgan
has taken two trips to Europe recently
and talks entertainingly of his
travels.
Mrs. C. M. Browning, of Olar, was
a recent guest of Mrs. C. M. Davis.
Mrs. W. C. Davis and children have
been on a visit to Early Branch.
Mrs. John Harter visited the family
of J. M. Ritter, at Hampton, recently.
Dr. L. B. Kerrison, of Cheraw, was
here recently. He thinks our town
a good place to come back to, after
a few months' absence.
We hear good accounts of our absent
college girls and boys. "Brook
er" says he's getting fat, and learning
"lots," "J. B." thinks he's steadily
gaining, "Lee"' is gaining fresh |
laurels. Russell is determined not i
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to return without his promised
sheep-skin. Of course Misses Alma
x Knight, Gladys Buckner, and Hattie
Googe are bright lights at Winthrop.
One "city raised lady" here brags
% on how much cotton she picked this j
week. Another one said two pounds j
was all she could count, and was j
"tired to death" after that effort. j
W. G. Ruddell and G. D. Sanders |
visited Allendale Sunday.
F. Young, F. Craddock, J. Lane,
P. D. Wilson, Earl Hammond, W. E.
Harter, and others visited Barnwell
Court House on Wednesday.
Sam Jenkins, of Birmingham, Ala., i
v.as here this week, visiting relatives, j
L. O. Watson and L. Seal, of Clem- j
son College, are guests of G. D. Sanders.
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BEAT CONVICTS LIKE MULES.
Alabama State Prisoner Tells Sordid
Story of His Experience.
Mobile, Ala., Oct. 14.?A. D. Dorsey,
who has just finished serving a
sentence of twenty months at Speigner's,
the State convict farm, gave a
statement to Gov. Emmet O'Neal's
secretary to-day, complaining of |
cruelty to convicts at Speigner's.
Dorsey says he was whipped three |
times, that he weighed 150 pounds j
cn commitment to the prison, and j
when released weighed 127 pounds.
He told of a woman, May Rice, who
received 28 lashes because she could
not learn how to spool as aptly as
ethers. He also tells of a convict
taken out of the hospital with a j
temperature of 104 degrees and i
whipped in the presence of eightyfive
convicts in the weaving room of
the cotton mill.
Cox, he says, uses a leather strap
three feet long, four inches wide and
an inch thick. The convicts he insisted,
are whipped worse than are
v horses or mules.
For breakfast, he said, the convicts
get four hard biscuits, a spoon
of syrup, one piece of meat the size
of a cigarette paper and some coffee
and a cup of milk once a month.
He asserted Harry Fox, a convict
f broke his leg and did not receive
attention, the officials, it is alleged,
refusing to send him to the hospital.
Speigner's cotton factory is operated
by the State. Several hundred
convicts are worked at the
camp. The Dorsey charges coming
on top of the action of the Gover ?
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nor m cancelling tne tumitti-i ui wc
Huxford-Orvin Naval Stores, who
hired the Mobile county prisoners,
for treating them cruelly, has caused
a sensation, and strong efforts
? are being made to have the Governor
cancel all leases of the prisoners
in the coal mines.
The thirty-five convicts hired by
the Naval Stores Concern at Aamore
are here in jail and all but
I . seven show signs of cruel treatment.
Thomas Baldwin, according
to his story, was hidden by the contractors
in a barn when the State
investigators came around because
he was so badly beaten he had to
lie down to eat. Baldwin came here
to-day and exhibited his lacerated
back to the State authorities. He
was turned adrift after the contract
was cancelled. Gov. O'Neal, now
V
rin the East, will be asked to have
a grand jury investigation.
PARK SHOALS SUSPECTS FREEH
Fraser-ttigham Hearing Held in Fair
field County.
Winnsboro, Oct. 15.?The prelim
inary in the case of the State agains
J. B. Frr.ser, Jr., and Bissell Bigham
of Chester, charged with robbing tin
paymaster of $ 1G,0 0 0, at Parr Shoal:
was held to-day before Magistrate
F. K. Mann, and resulted in the mag
istrate holding that there was a fail
lire on the part of the prosecutioi
to make out a probable case agains
the defendants, who, therefore, wen
discharged.
The attorneys for the defence ex
pected to have the hearing in Winns
boro and a large crowd had gatherei
to hear the testimony, when W. H
Lyles, attorney for the prosecution
made the point that Magistrate Mam
was without jurisdiction to hear th<
case in Xo. 7 Township, when hi
was magistrate of Xo. 11 Township
He was sustained in this action b;
the magistrate and the officer states
he would go within his territo'r;
and have the preliminary.
At 3 o'clock the crowd assemble!
at Ashford's Cross Roads, 10 milei
south-west of Winnsboro, and thi
case was called.
The prosecution offered only tin
testimony of H. W. Mahan, paymas
ter of the J. G. White Company, an(
A. T. Hancock, camp boss of the con
scruction camp at Parr Shoals. Mr
Mahan testified in substance as fol
lows:
Paymaster's Testimony.
He was on train Xo. 13 that lef
Columbia about 1:20 o'clock, an<
that he arrived at Parr Shoals a
2.30 o'clock, that it was after he hac
receipted for the money and startec
towards the camp that he saw thre<
men with blackened faces; that the:
came up and ordered the negro, Bil
Renger, to 'beat it,' and drop th<
money he carried in a canvass bag
The men, he said, shot twice ove:
his hpad and shot Jovner in the hiD
when he moved his hand toward hi:
hip pocket. The witnesses could no
identify the persons, but stated on<
o-f the men was of the build of Frase:
end one about the size of Bigham
Witness would not swear either o
them was the guilty party.
Says Recognized Them.
Mr. Hancock testified to havini
seen Fraser on the works at Par:
Shoals in February and June an<
saw Bigham in the month of June
that he was about eleven feet awa;
when he saw three men near tin
mail crane and heard them hollering
at the paymaster and his assistants
Their faces were blackened, he said
but the disguise had rubbed off thei:
hands and he knew they were whit<
men. Witness said he recognize*
Bogham as the man on the righ
when they came up to him, and tin
stout man in the centre as Fraser
Witness said he went to Chester an*
after staying tl?ere four or five day:
took a seat in Wylie and Anderson':
stables, where he was told he woul(
probably see the man he was looking
for. He said he thought Mr. Wyli<
knew whom he was looking for be
cause he was in Chief of Police San
ders' office and heard the purpose o
his trip. Witness recognized Frase:
when he came through the stable.
Asked the question whether hi
told his employer that Fraser wai
the person who held them up, th<
witness answered he had not. Sai(
he saw Bigham in an eating housi
and that Bigham went out when hi
came in and left his meal. Witnes:
stated he would swear positivel;
that Fraser and Bigham were tw<
of the persons who held the men up
regardless of what a number of citi
zens of Chester would say as to thei
being in Chester at the time th<
robbery was committed.
The attorneys representing the de
fendants were J. E. McDonald, S. J
A A /"* ..l T>r* ?4- A T
;ua^r auucu, u)ico rauciauu, A.
Gaston and Malcolm Marion. Afte
the decision was announced the largi
number of Chester citizens who hat
journeyed to the haring in automo
biles applauded the magistrate and ;
number shook his hand.
HOMICIDE NEAR SUMTER.
Man Named Pye Slain By Party Wilt
Makes Escape.
Sumter, Oct. 15.?A man namei
Pye, was shot and instantly killet
six miles east of here this afternoon
and the slayer, whose name is a
yet unknown, made his escape. Tlr
killing is alleged to have been cause*
by intimate relations between Py
and a woman. The woman was ar
rested and lodged in jail but claim
to know nothing of the killing. Sher
iff Bradford and his deputies hav
gone to the scene with the coroner t<
hold the inquest and endeavor to ar
rest the slayer.
i in the palme staii
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I SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
* ! State News Roiled Down for Quiet
Reading?Paragraphs About
s i Men and Happenings.
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_ { Crawford McCullough was shot ir
_ j the back and killed Thursday nighl
I ! in Chester by Jack Wherry?both colII
ored. The affair took place at ?
3 dance.
.Mrs. Clara V. Padgett of Lexingtor
- j has brought suit against the Seaboarc
- j Air Line road for $75,000 for the
I! death of her husband, an engineer
. who was killed by falling into a drop,
pit at Cayce last January.
^ The postoffice in Charleston issuec
- money orders of the value of $377,b
249.22 for the year ended June 30
1913?most of which was for goode
Y bought away from home that coulc
i have been bought there.
T Solicitor Peurifoy says that he be
lieves he can put a stop to the race*
* in Charleston, and that he is going
3 to take steps to do so as soon as he
B returns from the mountains of New
York, where he has been ordered tc
3 go by his physician. The races are
to start in Charleston December first
Glenn Woodley, 6 year old son ol
E. J. Woodley, a former resident ol
Clio, was smothered to death while
playing in a pile of cotton seed ai
his home in Jackson Springs a few
t days ago. He and his little broth
er had due a hole in the cottor
i " ? ? t
seed and Glfenn fell hearforemosi
j into the hole. After making a fuj
tile attempe to extricate him th<
little brother ran to his mother and
told her that Glenn was dead. Lift
j was extinct when the mother reached
the scene.
While working on a telephone polt
P wire at the top of a pole Wednesday
afternoon, John W. Wilkins, of Gaff3
ney, manager of the Piedmont Telet
phone and Telegraph company, suf3
fered an accident which may caust
r him to lose his sight. Mr. Wilkins
was working with a pair of plyers
f above his head, when they slipped
from his grasp striking him in the
eye and badly lacerating the ball
t The accident occurred directly ir
3
r front of the city hospital and th<
j injured man was carried there foi
. treatment.
1 OX THE WATER WAGON.
' More Than Half of the United States
is Now "I>ry Territory."
9
r Nearly three-quarters of the aret
~ of the United States is "dry" terri
1 tory. Half the American people live
* out of reach of a licensed saloon, says
" W orld's Work. This in a large meaS'
* ure the work of the Anti-Saloor
* League, the militant church in prac.
3 tical politics. The league has done
3 more in 20 years than the Prohlbi
* tion party has in fifty. For 20 years
* it has been testing and proving the
" efficiency of its. political methods
until now it can forecast with i
reasonable degree of certainty just
f
what the people of any given part ol
r the Unitd States or the whole Unitec
States will do with the prohibitior
a
w question whenever it is made an is
3 sue. It has become probably the mos
~ active and effective policical agenc:
in the country.
W'hen the league was organized
" 20 years ago, outside of a few thinli
s populated prohibition States then
was hardly a spot on the map of th(
United States where liquor was no'
' sold openly and legally. Today 7per
cent of the total area of the Unit
r ed States?2,130,746 square miles?
8 is "dry" territory. There are nine
States in which it is illegal to set
liquor anywhere in the common
wealth:
Georgia, Kansas, Maine, Mississip
r pi, North Carolina, North Dakota
8 Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virgin
1 .
la.
There are ten other States in whicl
a
more than 90 per cent of the tota
area is "dry." These States are:
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Flor
ida, Kentucky, New Hampshire. Ne^
a Mexico, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming.
Arkansas has just passed a law re
quiring a petition signed by all th<
3 adult white men and women in an?
3 community before a saloon can b<
., cpened, practically insuring statewide
s prohibition.
e On the other hand, there is not ;
3 single State that is entirely "wet.'
e New Jersey comes nearest (with onb
- four-tenths of one per cent of it!
s area prohibition. Three-quarters o
- Pennsylvania is "license" territory
e But Illinois and Missouri are each 1'.
o per cent "dry" and 58 per cent o
- New York State is prohibition ter
ritory.
; SEWING MACHINES IN AllABIA.
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How an American Salesman Got <
> Things Started.
American salesmanship abroad is
extending the foreign commerce of
the United States in a marvelous way.
It has already revolutionized the automobile
trade in England by its
wide-awake and enterprising methods.
1 Perhaps the best example of its re:
cent triumphs is to be found in the
introduction of the sewing machine
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1 among the Arabs. The tale, as told
in a consular report from MasKat, in
l the sultanate of Oman, would surely
I have provided the lamented "0 Heni
ry" with a subject for one of his
, breeziest yarns.
An American manufacturer of seeing
machines learned by chance that
[ Arabia presented an entirely virgin
. field. The Arab had heard of the
sewing machine. Even a few of the
5 wealthier families and a daring tailor
I or two in the bazar had come into
possession of the unholy contrivances
by importing them from India. But
the faithful regarded them askance.
r The prophet had never dreamed of
5 such an ungodly device and there was
. no warrant in the Koran to justify
j its use. Although small machines in
i large numbers had been sold in Egypt,
India, Abyssinia and other places having
population and conditions not un^!
like those in Maskat, the most pro^
gressive Arab merchants refused to
J undertake an agency for the accursed
thing.
Along came an American salesman
equipped with a knowledge of Arabic
sufficient for Drartirni Tuimnsae
, ? - ~ ?M **? 11 o
LI
I rented the best stall in the bazar
and arranged his stock of sewing ma*
' chines to make an attractive display.
The placards announcing his wonder|
ful wares were distributed lavishly
over the city. He trained a number
of Arab women as demonstrators and
* sent them into the harems. He made
presents of machines to two of the
highest personages in the country.
Then he set about instructing a lively
Arab aslocal agent and initiated the
5 j inhabitants into the mysteries of the
* I installment plan.
51 The result was the sale of a num*
ber of machines and the beginning of
v. hat is confidently expected to be a
* large export trade for the American
1 manufacturer who is first in the field
; in Arabia. This incident embodies the
spirit of American salesmanship in its
adaption to peculiar circumstances,
and this adaptability, whether at
home or abroad, is bound to work
; wonders in building up trade.?Philadelphia
Press.
I BROKE ARM CRAXKIXG CAR.
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So I). E. Johnson, of Bamberg, is
Suing Makers for $10,000.
5
Judge Henry A. M. Smith in the
1 United States district court today
heard a motion to set aside the service
of the complaint in the case of
Daniel E. Johnson against the Ford
Auto Company. The plaintiff alleges
that he broke his arm in attempting
to craDk a Ford automobile and
* charges \hat some defect in the mechanism
of the car was responsible for
| this. He is suing for $10,000 damages.
Judge Smith has the matter
under consideration. The plaintiff is
a resident of Bamberg and alleges
that the machine was purchased
' from C. F. Rizer, a dealer of Olar.?
Charleston Evening Post.
Constable Seriously Wounded.
a
j Greenville, Oct. 13.?Green Howt
ard, a constable for Magistrate Lan
- ford, of the Glassy Mountain section
of this county, was shot and seriously
- wounded Sunday afternoon by an unJ
known person. The shooting occurl
red in the "Dark Corner" section,
and feeling is running high among
the mountaineers. Howard was shot
in the right arm, a bullet from a
> Krag-Jorgenson rifle shattering the
" bone. Sheriff Rector left Greenville
last night for the scene, and arrests
1 will probably be made soon.
PLANTER SHOT DEAD.
, Prominent Alabama Man AssassinaJ
ted on Road.
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 11.?AVili
liam H. Underwood of Strata, Ala., a
7 prominent planter, was assassinated
i last night, his body being found this
5 morning, partly buried in the sand of
a road near here. One hand and part
i of his head had been blown off by a
' charge of buckshot. His clothes had
on/1 ororvtliin? r?f valllP
IT ?-'CCii iiiic;V4 aixu ^v**-**0 v^ ,?
5 except his watch had been stolen,
f Underwood spent Friday in Montgom.
ery, where he sold cotton for which
> he received $191. Because of the
f lateness of the hour when he started
- home, he left $150 of this money
with a relative here.
135 PERISH IN MID OCEAN J
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IASSEXGER STEAMER VOLTURXO
BIRXS IX Mil) OCEAX.
Eleven Ships, Summoned by Wireless,
Stand By Powerless to Assist
in Rescue Because of Storm. ;
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Xot since the Titanic sank has Eu- 1
rope been so thrilled as by a wireless <
message Saturday telling of the 1
burning of the steamer Volturno in 1
mid-Atlantic, with a loss, so far as is
at present known, of 135 lives and 1
the rescue of 521. The survivors are <
now aboard a fleet of steamers sum- <
moned by the Volturno's call for help, <
some of which are bound eastward ?
and others westward. J
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lilt: VU1LU111U SdUCU UUUl ivuuvidam
on Oct. 2 for New York.- Ac- <
cording to the official statement she <
carried 22 first cabin passengers, 538 i
steerage and a crew numbering 96. 1
The rescue ships reached the scene of
the disaster in plenty of time to save
all, but for hours stood by the blaz- i
ing vessel, impotent because of the ]
storm to reach the agonized men and
women and children crowding the
afterpart of the ship, which wras with- !
in a stone's throw. <
The steamer Carmania, bound from
New York for Liverpool, was 78
miles away when the call for help
sounded. Capt. Barr ordering full
steam, in spite of the gale drove
through the seas at 20 knots an hour,
and was first of the fleet to reach the
burning vessel. The Carmania was
followed by La Touraine, Minneapolis,
Rappahannock, Czar, Narragansett,
Devonian, Kroonland, Grosser,
Kurfuerst and Seydlitz at various
hours throughout the dayr But try
as they might, the rescuing vessels
could get neither line nor lifeboat to
the Volturno, the forward part of 1
which was almost hidden by a dense
cloud of smoke when the Carmania
arrived.
The burning steamer lay in the 1
trough of the sea, pounding helplessly
with her propellers fouled by the
boats' tackle. The terrified passen- 1
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gers were nuuuieu uugemer as iai as
it was possible to get from the flames, ;
while throughout the day the officers
and crew fought desperately with
whatever appliances were at hand to 1
hold the fire in check.
The hopelessness of this situation '
was manifested at 8 o'clock in the !
evening, when a great explosion tore 1
away part of the upper works and 1
flames burst from the engine room. '
It then became a matter of how long
the Volturno would stay above the '
waters. Meanwhile several of the '
frantic passengers, within life buoys, 1
dropped over into the sea. One of 1
them was taken aboard the Carmania. 1
It may be that others found a haven
with other vessels of the fleet.
When day broke the Volturno was
still afloat. The gale was moderated
and the seas had calmed down. From
almost every one of the encircling
steamers lifeboats were sent out and
into these the women and children
were lowered first. Several trips were
necessary before the survivors were
removed to a place of safety.
It is pointed out as a remarkable
coincidence that the Volturno, about
four years ago. made a notable res
cue of the crew of a French vessel in
a great storm in mid-Atlantic. Capt.
Harrison, who then commanded the
Volturno, was decorated by the
French government for his daring
act.
A graphic story by the solitary survivor
aboard the Carmania, who is a
German named Trentepohl, was received
by wireless and presents a ter- '
rible picture of the horror, the panic
and confusion aboard the burning
liner.
"All went well," said Trintepohl,
"until 6 o'clock Thursday morning, 1
when the fire alarm sounded. We '
were aroused and told to go on deck,
^ ^^ /Mif f Tin li aIH 1
its lue iJ.au UlUUCll vui. m iiviu.
4
On assembling life belts were handed
around and much time was occupied ;
in fastening them. We were told that
the fire soon might be quenched, but
the captain thought it wise for all to 1
have belts as a precaution. 1
"The fire frightened the children,
who cried bitterly. There were many !
babies in arms. The fire grew worse. ]
We saw things blasting down below. 1
About 10 o'clock there was a cry to
lower the boats. :
"The captain behaved splendidly.
So did the officers, who were Eng- 1
lish. I am sorry to say that the crew,
who were Germans and Belgians, be- {
haved very badly. The people rushed
about wildly and the crew seemed 1
to think they ought to have first
? i - - - /if niiiotino- thp nPS- !
pJctue, auu iuoicau ui viuiv-iu0 ~^ ?
sengers they made the panic worse.
"The firemen rushed up from be- ;
low and refused to go back. The capi
li\ I\KW1SMUU IVL.MI.
kVhite Man Shoots Negro?Difficulty
Said to be Over One Dollor.
Newberry, Oct. 11.?Hagood Brown
-vhite, shot and killed Henry Baxter,
colored this morning between 2 and
1 o'clock. The killing took place on
Mrs. M. E. Ruff's place, in the Broad
tiiver section of the county, about
ifteen miles from Newberry. The
joroner held inquest to-day. Only two
witnesses were examined, the sis;er
of the deceased and her husband,
rhey testified that Brown rode up "to
:he house and demanded the return
Df a dollar from Henry Baxter, who
Maimed that he knew nothing of the
iollar, but told his sister to give him
i dollar rather than have a row. She
says before she could untie her handkerchief
tr? p-et the Hollar that Rrown
irew his pistol and fired three shots
it Baxter, one taking effect in right
side and the other in his neck, killing
bim instantly.
Brown, it is claimed, was returning
from a party and stopped at the negro
house, where there had been a
hot supper, but nearly all the negroes
had left. Brown surrendered to the
sheriff this morning. He has made
no statement, but it is said that the
claim of self-defense will be made.
CONSIDER THE TOAD.
Has Only Known Liking for the Boll
Weevil.
The lowly and somewhat loathsome
toad frog is the deadliest enemy of
the Mexican boll weevil, according to
Marshal Montgomery, a prominent
planter of Sunflower county. So confident
is his belief that the toad frog
is nature's remedy for the annihilation
of the greatest of all cotton
crop pests that Mr. Montgomery has
established a toad frog farm in connection
with his plantation, and next
year he hopes to be able to" supply
other delta planters with toads in
sufficient quantities to combat the
weevil. Experiments recently on the
Montgomery plantation show that an
ordinary toad will capture and consume
more that 200 boll weevile in '
a single day, which is more than the ?
most lynxeyed negro engaged in picking
the insects from the cotton plants
.
is able to find within the same period.
The toad does not confine his operations
to the ground, or the weevils
found on the lower branches of the
eotton plant. He will leap nimbly
to the topmost branches of the tallest
eotton grown in the delta, some of
which is higher than a man's head
an horseback; in quest of the pestiferous
insects. Thus it appears that
the plague that pestered Pharaoh in
the land of Egypt may become the
salvation of its greatest crop.?The
Vicksburg Post.
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Odd Bits in the iNews.
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"The bride," says an Australian
paper, "appeared in a smart white
frock of pale blue linen."
A newspaper headline runs:
"Mother of 80 complains." Don't
wonder at it. Our own missus finds
even one troublesome.
The latest Irish bull: "It looks as
if she had saddled herself with a
veritable white elephant"?Dublin
paper.
A Missouri lawyer in pleading a
wife's divorce stated that the husband
"undertook to poison her without
just cause."
From a South Dakota journal:
"The bride is a refined young lady
of culture, as also is Mr. Smith."
From the Oxford Register: The
zoo is open again. It wras closed a
few days on account of the pet pig
swallowing a stick of dynamite."
"In the present high cost of living,
thanks are due the Corydon Republican
for this helpful recipe: "To keep
ants away from the refrigerator, tie
woolen strings around each leg
saturated with turpentine."?Boston
Transcript.
tain drew his revolver and drove
them below but soon after, as the
fire was spreading, they were obliged
to abandon the engines.
"As soon as the Carmania was
sighted the captain made all the -women
and children go to one side and
the men to the other side. We had
been compelled to leave the bridge
and go aft because it was too hot.
Women wept, shrieked, laughed and
became hysterical.
"At 9 o'clock Thursday night the
?aptain of the Volturno sent a despairing
message which read: 'For
God's sake help us or we perisn.
"By a miracle the flames did not
spread to the after deck. Eventually
the sea moderated and boats saved
521 persons. The death roll numbers
136."
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