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- 1 COMMITTEE'S STRAXtJK REQUEST 4 Asks Sheriff to Let Them Lynch Xegro and (iets Turned Down. Anderson. December 12.?Between fifty and seventy-five men gathered on Church street near the county jail t to-night at $.30 o'clock, while three of them went to the jail door and made demand on Sheriff Ashley for j Will White, the negro who stabbed J to death Ollie Kinard in the Orr Mills village this afternoon. The three men. who were recognized by the sheriff, when he answered the * alarm at the door, told the sheriff, it is said, they had come for White; that he, Sheriff Ashley, could make a big "bluff" to convince the public that he tried to save the negro from them and that the crowd could then take the negro. Sheriff Ashley replied very forci| bly, it is said, saying that there is \w not any "bluff" in him, that he has sworn to protect the prisoners, and that he intended doing so with all his might. He told them, further, that they wouldn't get the negro unless they did so over his dead body. Threatened to Return. The three men withdrew, one of them remarking that they would be back later to-night. i The crowd dispersed soon after. It is rumored here at 10 o'clock that a crowd has gathered just South of the city, but the sheriff and his deputies do not give the story any credence. The sheriff has the jail well barricaded, having called in four of his deputies and two of the city policemen. They are well fortified. * Instantly Killed. Ollie Kinard, a white man employed in the frame room of the Orr cotton mills, was stabbed to death late to-day by Will White, a negro employed in the picker room of the same mill. Death was instantaneous. Testimony adduced at the inquest * is to the effect that Kinard had been drinking, and that he. in company with two friends, met White and asked him to accompany them to the $ woods. Kinard teased the negro until the negro became angry and without any warning, it is alleged, drew his knife and stabbed Kinard to the heart. White ran off but was captured and is in the county jail. The officers do not anticipate any trouble although the homicide attracted large 1 crowds to the scene and a fair-sized crowd appeared near the jail when the negro was brought in. The Orr mills did not run to-day, power being cut off on account of the destruction of the Portman power plant, this being the reason why opi eratives were out. HOMICIDE NEAR AIKEN. Negro Held on Charge of Killing * White Man. Aiken, December 14.?Early this morning Rural Policeman Holley <_ brought to Aiken Daniel Berry, colored, charged with the killing of a - ^ ~e "\ f r. wmte man Dy cne name ui .umua Elmurray. The killing occurred on Beech Island last night. It seems that a wagon load of darkies wewe returning from Augusta, all said to be in a drunken condition. McElmurrav was along. Berry and McElmurray got into a fuss, it is said The negro, it is claimed, struck the white man over the head twice with ... an iron pipe, crushing his skull. McElmurray lay down in the wagon then and was put out at Dobson's store, where he soon died. There are two other stories about the killing. Berry says McElmurray and a policeman got into a fight in the city of Augusta and the policeman struck him over the head with his stick and he died from this lick. 4 Others in the wagon say McElmurray insulted Berry's wife and this brought on the fight between Berry and McElmurray, and that Berry was the one lvVip prnshprl tllP lattpr's skull. Coroner Spradley held an inquest late Saturday night and the jury held * Berry, v/ho is now charged with the crime. SEEK TRAIN ROBBERS. Detectives Suspect Them of Causing Lake Shore Wreck. Cleveland, O., December 13.?Train robbers to-night are suspected of responsibility for the derailing last night of passenger train No. 16, Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad, - at Wickliffe, IS miles east of here. 'Acting on this theory, a score of detectives, aided by bloodhounds, followed trails this afternoon and tonight that possibly will read to arrest to-morrow. It is thought that the heavy load"of registered mail led to the attempted robbery. The theory { that the derailment was caused in an j attempt to kill Alfred H. Smith, new- j ly elected president of the New York i 1 1 1 " ? ? ?- l. ^ ^ ^ ? r. >i /> /I ' f A /I I Uenirai imes. iias ueeu uisv.icu.icu. i It is regarded as impossible that any j one could have known of his presence | cn the train. The nicest line of Xmas books ever shown in Bamberg now on display at v Herald Book Store. RESULT OF SICILIAN FEUD. Italian in Cliicago Called to Door ant Murdered. Chicago, December 14.?Mike La porta was called to the door of hi: home to the South Side Italian quar ter earl;- to-day by cries of "Hurry your brother is dying." A momern later he was struggling with thre( men, who left him dead with 20 stal wounds in the body. Antonio Laporta, the brother, cam< home soon after the police arrived He said he knew who had killec Mike, but when questioned about the identity of the assassin, he replied: "It is my affair; I will find them.' Laporta said the murder was the re suit of a Sicilian feud of 20 years duration. "My brother was not th< first; he will not be the last," La porta added. Valuable Violin. When Fiddler Bobo lays his rougl cheek against the warped sides of tin violin and slowly draw the bov across the strings, there is a farawaj light in his blue eyes as if he coir jured up pictures of 300 years ago. Perhaps he is thinking of the da; when the Stradivarius on his arn came across the seas, packed away it the hold of a merchantman of th< seventeenth century; perhaps In catches a glimpse of the many gooc fiddlers who have played the Strac in the years that have passed since then; perhaps he is only conjecturing whether he will next play "Turkej in the Straw" or "Old Blind Fool.' Fiddler Bobo sat in the Journa office and while his knotted fingers slowly caressed the cracked sides o: the Stradivarius, told its history, as it had come down to him in legend and story of three centuries. "I have had the Strad seventeen years," he said. "And before that il came down from generation to generation of Backesters. It cost me $10. I once had agreed to sell il for $4,000." And yet the Stradivarius is only a piece of wood, seamed and scratched along its sides, white with rosin at the bridge, a blackish-brown on the rest of its surface. A piece of wood worth thousands of dollars. "I have been a fiddler all of my life," said Mr. Bobo. "From the time I was fifteen years old and was playing at country dances until today; My fathers were fiddlers before me, and my sons are fiddlers too. In 1896 Frank Back ester and 1 were knockins around in Colorado playing together. In Durango he went broke. He came to me and offered to sell me liis violin. His was old and black, but I didn't know what kind it was. And I had a good one already. So I told him that l didn't want it, but that I would let him pawn it with me for $10. And that'e how I got the the Strad. "It was not long after that in Christone that I and the Strad both were almost drowned in a waterspout. It was that storm that wrecked the town and washed the name out of the old fiddle. "So in 1904 I wrote to Frank Backester from my home in McCarthey, Ohio, and asked him what kind of violin this was. He told me that it was made in 1672 in England, was brought over to this country by a Backester and from generation tc generation had been handed down in the Backester family. He got this information from Frank Gray, of St. Louis, who patched the old violin forty years ago. Gray -told him it was a genuine Strad. "Now 1 know of but two other Strads in existence. One was sold by a lady in New* York to a musical college for $6,000; the other was cnl.-l onnthov 14A ft V To i* HpnVPf musical college for $3,500. I have heard that the Denver fiddle came over from England at the same time this one did. "I nearly parted with my Strad last fall a year ago. A gentleman in Philadelphi offered to buy it from me for $4,000. I made the deal in September and was to hand it over to him in November. He died in October." Mr. Bobo is in Atlanta for the winter. staying with his son, Jasper Bobo, general foreman for Jones Bros. & Co. He is ready and willing to show the Stradivarius to all who wish to see it. He can play anything they want to hear, from a sailor's horn-pipe to grand opera. "If there's any fiddier in Atlanta thinks he can beat me, let him come on." said .Mr. Bobo. "I don't know a note, but I've been playing at fiddlers' conventions for fifty years and I reckon 1 can shake a little music yet out of this old Strad."?Atlanta Journal. Both Duellists Killed. Arcadia, La., December 14.?D. A. Rogers, town marshal, and Thomas Cethey. shot and killed each other in a revolver duel in a drug store here late last night. The marshal had warned Cathey to go home and approached him to make an arrest. ??@?????@@@@@?@???@?@@@?@3 ?? Christmas and New Year Holiday 1 CHEAP EXCURSION FARES 1 (?! Via the | ; ? ATLANTIC COAST LINE | > (Si The Standard Railroad of the South ? 3 /g Tickets will be on sale from all points on the 1 - Atlantic Coast Line to all points South of the ? ? Ohio and Potomac and East of the Mississippi ? rivers including Washington, Cincinnati, Evans- ? - gg ville and Cairo, for all trains Dec. 18-19-20-21- S - H 22-23-24-25 and 31 and Jan. 1; limited returning, | ? Jan. 6, also to many points in the Northwest 5 and Southwest, on Dec. 20, 21 and 22, limited | ? returning Jan. 18, 1914. Passengers must reach g original starting point by or before midnight of g ? return limits specified. | For further particulars, schedules, reserva- g ttions, etc., apply to Ticket Agents, Atlantic | Coast Line, or address g ?W. J. CRAIG, T. C. WHITE, | tPass. Traffic Mgr. Gen. Passenger Agt. ? Wilmington, N. C. ? : ?@???@?@?@?@@?@???@?@?@@m ll ~ ! A Telephone foi Every Farmer 5 I * ' 1 * ^ Do yOU want one; t ~ ~~~ j We will tell you how to get it at small cost, t Fill out and return this coupon today. r | SOUTHERN BELL TEL. & TEL. CO. Atlanta, Ga. ' i Please send me your free booklet describing your plan for farmers' 1 telephone service at small cost. Name R. F. D?Na -1 ' Town and State [ ' / Address FARMERS' LINE DEPARTMENT SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE /J* AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY QJ&J S. Pryor St, Atlanta, Ga. Ask the Boy Who Won . how he raised the Blue Ribbon ear. In Boys' Clubs all over the country the prizes are going to the boy who uses the right fertilizer. That means enough POTASH > to make a solid, well filled, and perfectly shaped ear. _i Use 200 to 500 pounds Kainit per acre to balance either s Vr* r\ green or stable manure and be sure that the fertilizer you J V- use contains 8 to 10 per cent Potash. Ask your dealer to carry goods of that grade. If he 1 \ doesn't we will sell you any amount of Potash, from one 200 ^ UP' anc* y?u can ac^ yourself. CHILLS AND FEVfB ?^IS^F II1HNSPN1 i i /%n <\ ivi %/ p p i/ p n 30 years op success a| i j i OR ANY FEVER in curing folks I UIi M i ' LODGE MEETING. PIP F lNIQITP ANP Bamberg, Lodge, No. 38, Knights * 1I\J-* lllOUIX/'lllV/ of Pythias meets first and . fourth Monday nights at 7:30 p. m. Visit- Qld Line Companies ing brethren cordially invited. ^ GEO. F. HAIR. _ Chancellor Commander. I k Kill K A at A. M. DENBOW, F# AS1, Keeper of Records and Seal. bamberg, S. C. COLDS & LaGRIPPE JOHN D. HADWIN 5 or 6 dotes 660 will break watchmaker and jewele . any case of Chills & Fever, Colds Fine Railroad and Complicated I ., & LaGrippe; it acts on the liver pairing a specialty. .! better than Calomel and does not 35 Years Experience Stipe or sicken. Price 25c. Denmark, s. c. FOR SALE ! FRANCIS F. CARR0L1 I Attorney-at-Law 7?> acres of land, 3 miles of Olar, | GO acres under cultivation, with 4- j Office in Hoffman Building room house, barn and stables, loi ; rFWR i t pp a PTTn? . eight hundred and fifty dollars cash, j GENERAL PRACTICE. 1 ! A real bargain for some one. Only ! BAMBERG, S. C. : reason for selling at tliis price owner * > living awav from the State. Apply I 25 head well broke mules for si i I to H. M. GRAHAM or J. T. O'NEAL, j by J. M. DANNELLY & CO., El I Bamberg, S. C. hardt. Weight 1,000 lbs. and up,-* Xmas cards at Herald Book Store. Read the Herald, $1.50 a year. & f | I FOR SAU f. I A beautiful home, situated on & g and containing 1% acre lot, with 2 a 1 dwelling, with large closets and ha ? I fine water; smoke house 16x18; la k I stables; fruit trees and shrubbery; | I in fine condition. Will go at a barg; | I See me at once, as the time is limite I I J. T. O'NEAL, v I SECONDHAND ! AUTOMOBILES 4 ? For Sale, $125 up. Let 'jJh c me know your require- ||Sj^ & ments in used Autos ? and I can get a machine to suit you. ft < Prompt Attention to Repair Work Patrick's Garage, Bamberg, S. C. j & VJi ? g| Twenty-five head < |j| fine well broke for sale. Weight H pounds and up. || ages. See us qu ||s they will not sta; gj. M. DAMLLY ||eHRHARDT - - - SOp ^OE=aODOB NOTICE! AUTO 0 We haveopened a Wholes Retail Auto Supply Hous H will carry a full line, o Specialties and Supplies, connection with above, v an up-to-date Vulcanizinj U and make a specialty oi S pairing blow-outs and r | We are the Guys make dollars have ; cents. Write or 1 D mi i PB Mi : M vvuniunu Tin ~ H BOX 325 ORANGEE VESOQOOaO! .* GIN DAY ^ Commencing December 1st cotton only on Tuesdays, p Saturdays. Parties interestc ? A - take notice. Farmers' Gin lie :ir1(1 BAMBERG - - SOUT ?1 Spann street, 1 -story, 7-room llway; well of I irge barn and | fl.11 fenneH anri iin to a buyer. I * I * STATE AGENT 9 RO, S. C. I *: of very |p Mules jH 1,000 ^5 [ Good p ? ick, as |p: ^ y long. ^ & CO.f I CAROLINA || M Hdeand j e. We If f Auto ' 1 ? also in re have I Plant : of re- I im"cuts : who more Phone J LKER lURG,S.C^j . ^ >"-vv/'r' - - ? .V rS we will gin Fridays and id will please A ; - 3 * I lA % H CAROLINA J * ?