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I* * / (Eh? Hamburg fcalb One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1914 Established 1891. . COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS ' 1 SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the r BIB County and Elsewhere. Ehrhhrdt Etching. ^ Ehrhardt, Jan. 19.?.Miss Viola. ^ Breland, of Lodge, spent a short while with Misses Jessie and Effie ^ Ramsey. * Mrs. Tom D. Jones and daughter, r of Augusta, Ga., are spending some time with mother and sisters and , d , Dromers. Mr. J. M. Dannelly and son, Bert, have gone to Tennessee to buy a car . of mules and horses and have sent ^ - Lord Curtis to. exhibit him at ^frhe Tennessee State fair. There is a quantity of patients suffering wih severe colds now in this section, some bordering on ^ v pneumonia and keeping the doctors busy going and measuring and jj weighing out* medicine all the time, j From what I can learn our banks ^ are making more loans to the farmers so far than last year this time. f The borrowinng money business, if t ? properlv used, is a good thing to do, __ Vi but to spend it to forward the disr pensary receipts is no good and no j, good can come from such uses of money. h The result of the comparison of ^ our sales, with other dispensers' sales ^ should make us feel that too irfuch money has been spent for whiskey n for our good and that less should be ^ cur motto from now on. h Haven't heard of any of our young a ? men intending to stand civil service examination for any of our mail a routes from Ehrhardt. Don't think p. it's a bad idea to be prepared for u mail carriers or any other public 0 jobs of the government, whether you h think of applying immediately for one or not. s Mr. J. D. Dannelly has let the con- e tract for his brick store, to be ready n in 90 ninety days. Can't say what jj day this contract begins. b > Mr. J. B. White, secretary of the ^ Hacker Manufacturing Co., has pro- ^ mised to be at their plant here with v instructions' whether or not the force ti of hands will put their mill to work ^ at an early date or not. Our town c folks are getting anxious to hear the p hum of the machines. Think it will ddd life to our little town. Shook hands with Mr. Dock Move / one day last week. Says he is stW in good spirits, but his dog business b is somewhat a losing game since he k quit his ad. jn the Herald. V Mr. J. Ben Ehrhardt has taken the n position that Mr. L. C. McKenzie held t< last year in the Ehrhardt Grocery t< and hopes to serve all the former S( customers with honest, prompt and t<' * courteous service, and extends an invitation to his friends to give him *00_ a call and encourage him in his new ^ I work. Ben does the buying and the f] %, selling and hopes by this method to c know just what his customers want, d and will do his utmost to please. e Farmers are thinking about com- c mercial fertilizer, quantity and quali- 6, ty they intend to use for this season's tl crops. 5; Mr. Jacob Ehrhardt requests his neighbors to stop the habit of haul- r t / ing straw, wood, and the like from h his land, as they have been doing ti heretofore. tl JEE. . h r, ' Dots From Ehrhardt. ^ a Ehrhardt, January 17.?The two hriok hnildineK that have been sarins . up in town are rapidly nearing com- . pletion. If there is anything that n i would help our towns at all, build- p * ings like those surely . will. They are beautiful buildings, an ornament h to the town and proof against fire. h that, if started, would most assured- a ly wipe out the business section of Ehrhardt. j( Mrs. Alma Taylor, of Newberry, e was called to the bedside of her s | / daughter, Mrs. Herbert Ehrhardt, e last Saturday. Mrs. Ehrhardt has m^r had a very severe spell of illness, a ? ? but is much better now, and is rapid- \ ly recovering, we are glad to state, c Miss Esther Farrell, of St. Augus- g tine, Fla., is visiting her sister, Mrs. .n J. L. Copeland, and also her brother. ? Mr. J. J. Farrell. Mrs. Edwin Chassereau, of Lake t > City, Fla., who has been visiting rel- | b atives in town, has returned to her I li home. t The enrollment of our school is c L /N i v-? r. /-. T ? ? v?/n n /-iL s-v Z, smi uii Luc luuieaatr. xi litis icauieu i; amd passed the 100 mark. The total t enrollment to date is 109. Three t teachers have quite a job keeping y that many straight and doing what is c % justice in recitation work. Our boys s * VANISHED HOME ECONOMICS. )ays of Lye Barrel and Other Frugalities Numbered With the Past. Domestic scientists tell us that a eturn to certain old-fashioned home conomies is demanded. There's the making of family soap, for instance. Vho knows of a home in which soap 5 still made and not bought? A ew decades ago throughout a vast rea of the country the prudent ousewife saved fats of all kinds for oap-making. The ash and lye barel were much /in evidence. Waste ras reduced to a minimum in the isposition of domestic affairs. Thrift v&s a dominant law. Some good rives saved fat also for candies, tor t was an age of candlelight. Matches rere a luxury, and for them were ubstituted tapers made of old newsapers, which stood in a vase on the lantelpiece. If these home economies, along vith others that might be listed, ould be revived, the high cost of iving would be considerably lowered, n a day the thrifty housekeeper df lays gone by could make enough oap and candles to supply the family or months, but now the material hat she used is thrown away. If romea were to revive the spinping. rheel, the loom, the fat boiler, the ye barrel, and the mold, living rould be cheaper, but these houseold aids belong to an unreturning ay. We cannot so radically readust our mode of living and order[ig our households, and we would ' ot if we could. There was too much ^*ork and too little play for the ousewife of a quarter of a century go, and is still for many of them. Household economies in food have lso passed to a considerable degree, low many housekeepers to-day put | P tneir 0\NI1 JtfllitJS ctli u uaivc men wn *bread and cakes? How many ave homemade pickles, the sort that 5 best of all? Where is the ancient kill in weaving crumbs and odds and nds into epicurean mosaics? How lany of us who have garden space ave vegetable gardens? What has ecome of homemade wine and corials? Who uses nowadays the cookooks of yesterday, full of recipes ritten in feminine hand and confining culinary secrets that the ighest priced chefs of' Manhattan ould not equal.?Richmond Times>ispatch. * ? Congressman Wanted to Shoot. Washington, Jan. 20.?A fist fight etween Representative Johnson, of Kentucky, and John R. Shields, a fashing'ton attorney, broke up a leeting to-day of the house commute of the District of Columbia. Af*r the two men had clashed and everal blows were struck, Represenitive Johnson broke away, shouting Get me my pistol. I'll kill him." During the encounter, Mr. Shields as knocked down by rapid blows rom the tall Kentucky congressman. llerks of the District of Columbia ashed into the arena and with sevral spectators tried to quiet the ombatants. Two clerks held Johnon for a few moments, but he got lie better of them and broke away, houting for his ngvolver. There were a dozen ruen in the oom when Johnson hurried out, but is demand for firearms soon empied the office, and when he returned liere was no one in sight. The "entuckian addressed some caustic emarks to the clerks who had held im and prevented further trouble nd the incident closed. The clash between the two men ame after a hearing on a bill to inrease the salaries of crossing policelen in Washington. Mr. Shields ap eared as attorney for the policelen. After Shields had presented is case. Johnson declared that "he eard that Mr. Shields had collected large lobbyist's fee." While making an attempt to adourn the meeting, Shields demandd an opportunity to "reply to false tatements." The encounter resultd. nd girls are working hard for the >rizes offered by Mr. Rowell, the ounty superintendent, for the best eneral averages. They seem determined to bring the county prize to ihrhardt. One of the greatest hindrances to he school is its lack of a decent 'iiilding. The bonds for the building lave been voted, but it seems that he hardest job is yet to come, that >f selecting a place for it. There s a division among the patrons on he Question, which cannot be set led. It would certainly be a step rogressward for Ehrhardt if a deent building could be had for the chool. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The four-year-old child of Curry Gilchrist, of Nichols, Marian county, was burned to death on Thursday, its clothing having caught from the ^replace. Harvey W. Mitchum has resigned as dispensary auditor of the State, and Moses H. Moblev of Columbia, has been appointed by the governor in his place. Senator E. D. Smith hassaccepted the invitation of the faculty of Wofford College, of which he is an alumnus, to make the commencement address there next June. There were 169 fires reported to the State Department of' Insurance during December with a total lose of $170,434.46. During the same month last year there were 210 fires, with a loss of $172,807.08. Mary Gibson, a negro woman, was instantly killed in Columbia Sunday morning when she fell down the steps from the second story at her home, 1805 Pulaski street. Coroner Scott was called but decided that an inquest was not necesskrv. A coroner's jury sitting at Lykesland Sunday morning exonerated James Johnson of the charge of killing Alley Long. Both are negroes. The xjury held that the killing was accidental and the negro was leleas - ' * ^ i J 4... ea irom tne mcmana cuumy jan. PAROLED MAX AGAIN IX JAIL. Ed Cuffy Engages, in a Shooting Affray at Greenville. Greenville, Jan. 19.?Edward Cuffy, a negro, wanted here on several charges and who was paroled by Governor Blease on Thanksgiving day, returned to the city yesterday in rather an unexpected manner. It seems Cuffy had some altercation with Frank Dial, another negro, which resulted in Cuffy being seriously shot in the thigh. The shotting affair occurred at some North Carolina point, but no definite information as to the details the shooting or just where it occurred could be had late last night. Dial is also well known to the Greenvile police, having been paroled by the governor after serving twelve months of a five year sentence. Cuffy being considered seriously injured was sent here in order that his mother might nurse him. After being carried to his fnother's home at 343 Broad street Cuffy grew worse and Adjt. Cook of the Salvation Army was sent for. Adjt. Cook decided Cuffy neded better medical attention and he was *sent to the city hospital. "Cuffy will probably recover," said the police last night, "and when he does we can look after him for a while. He has been wanted here for some time and it is fortunate that he was brohght here with such little difficulty." Father's Eloquence. Reference was made to the eloquence of certain great speakers, and Representative Horace M. Tawner of Iowa, remarked that he was reminded of the beautiful flow of language of the esteemed Smith, says The Philadelphia Telegraph. Recently Mrs. Smith asked her husband to open a can of tomatoes, and then leaving him to work out the problem alone, she proceeded to some other duty in the adjoining room. A minute passed, and then she suddenly paused and glanced to ward the kitchen door. "John." she called out, "what are you opening that can of tomatoes with?" "I am opening it with a can ORener," came back the peevish rejoinder of John from the kitchen. "What do you suppose I am opening it with?" "I don't know," answered little wifey in a reproachful voice, "but I have every reason to believe that you are not opening it with prayer." TO PKOTKOT NORTH AHil'STA Representative Byrnes Wants a River Levee Built There. \i art ,-,n Tnn ->n ?Rpnrpspn CldillllgVV/tl, ' Utt. ?v. ~ ? tative Byrnes, of South Carolina, speaking before the house rivers and harbors committee to-day; declared that if Augusta. Ga., was to be protected from the Savannah river floods by a levee, similar work should be authorized at North Augusta. S. C. CONFESSES KILLING WIFE. Did it for Love of Stepdaughter, Who Urged on the Crime. Galesburg, 111.; Jan. 19.?Robert Higgins has confessed that he murdered his wife at New Henderson, 111., January 5, so he would be free to marry, his stepdaughter, Julia Flake, 15 years old. He was arrested after the girl bold State's Attorney John M. Wilson, of Mercer county, of her infatuation for Higgins and that she importuned hin? to dispose of her mother who, she \ said, was the only obstacle between I her and happiness. The prosecutor hesitated to believe the girl's story of the pact she entered into with her stepfather, but she told how they had schemed to devise a plan which would make Mrs. Higgins' death appear accidental. I She said she was in the next room (when Higgins fired the shotgun j which brought instant death to her [mother. She told how Higgins raved and struggled with neighbors for > possession of gthe gun saying he i would end his own life. Then, when the excitement somewhat subsided, she said, they explained that Higgins ? had been cleaning the gun and it was discharged accidentally. Their story was so convincing that the coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death. Later C. W. Ernst, a maternal uncle of the girl, took two letters written by Julia Flake, one to himself and one to his daughter, to State's Attorney Wilson. In these letters the girl offered part of a- legacy of $7,000 she is to receive when she becomes of age, provided they would help to kill her mother. Mr. Wilson thought the letters were written in a fit of anger, but he investigated. He called in State's Attorney A. J. Boutelle, of Knox Coun ty, and Sunday they went to see Julia, who was at the home of another uncle, A. J. Ernst, at Herman. They were astonished by her story. Higgins who is 26 years of age and several years the junior of the woman he hilled, was found at New Henderson. He broke down after several hours' questioning. "I can't stand it any longer," he moaned. "I'll tell everything." Higgins signed a typewritten confession. He gave what he said were all the details of the murder plot and asserted his infatuation for his stepdaughter was the cause of it all. He said Mrs. Higgins became suspicious of his relations with her daughter and they .planned to get rid of her. ' The girl became hysterical on learning of Higgins' confession. NEGROES DENY CHARGE. Death of Mr. Griffin Due to Accident, They Say. Greenville, Jan. 19.?All mystery in connection with the head-on collision Saturday afternoon of two buggies on Greene avenue, resulting in the death of William Aiken Griffin * 1 _i? r> ana tne severe injury 01 jcvuius n.avenel, the negro driver, was cleared yesterday morning when three negroes, arrested by the posse of officials, confessed to having been the occupants of the yellow buggy. Seven negroes constituted the total number of arrests made, but four were released after being carried to the police station and examined. John Baskin has admitted being the driver of the yellow buggy while Andrew Barbery and John Dreher have confessed to being with Baskin when the buggies crashed together. Coroner Black held an inquest ov-j er the dead body yesterday morning, the verdict being in substance that) "William Aiken Griffin came to his death as a result of reckless driving on the part of John Baskin and that ? * - ?* * i u l ?A urener ana uarDery snouiu ue uuuuu over to a higher court together with Baskin as accomplices.The inquest was held at the undertaking establishment of Jas. F. Mackey & Sen. The negroes deny being under the influence of whiskey at the time of the! collison, and stoutly maintain that the accident was purely unavoidable. Xo excuse for running away was given, neither would they go into any details of the collision. John Dreher and Andrew Barbery are well known to the police, having been arrested nearly two years ago on a charge of murder. The negroes were accused of putting another negro bo death and throwing the body into Brushy Creek. They were later dismissed for lack of evidence but not until they had served several weeks in jail. H. \V. Johnson will offer for sale at public auction, Monday, February 2nd, during the legal hours of sale, son Hotel.?adv. j / 17 KILLED IN PRISON BATTLE! I ! CONVICTS IN OKLAHOMA "PEN" MAKE f>ASH FOR LIBERTY. Three Men in Stripes Get Outside, But Are Chased and Killed. McAlester, Oklahoma, January IS. ?Seven persons were killed and a telephone operator injured during a pistol battle at the State penitentiary here late to-day when three prisoners with revolvers made a dash for liber ty. The dead are: John R. Thomas, Muskogee, former United States district judge; D. C. Oakes, deputy warden; F. C. Godfrey, store house sergeant; H. H. Drover, record clerk; China Reed, serving two-year sentence for murder; Charles Koontz, serving forty years' sentence for murder; Thomas Law, serving six-year sentence for larceny. The men, armed with two revolvers, which had been smuggled into, the penitentiary, broke from the ranks while the prisoners were being marched through a courtyard. As they ran through the office they fired several shots at random, one of the bullets striking Miss Foster. Next they encouraged Judge mXext they encountered Judge Thomas, a visitor to the penitentiary, in the corridor, and both of the men carrying pistols opened fire, several of the bullets striking the attorney and inflicting mortal wounds. , Oates and Drover intercepted the men as they left the corridor and were shot to death, the prisoners continuing their flight. By this time half a dozen guards were in pursuit, and in a running battle Godfrey and the three men were killed. ^ At End of Day's Work. None of the other prisoners attempted to escape. The attempted I mutinir r\nnri r of the or?H n f thp Ill U till J V/WU1 i VU Ur V V44V VAAVk V JL V day's work. Reed, Law and Koontz worked in the tailor shop and when their work was ended they approached the back door* of the office in the administration building. There the>* met John Martin, the turnkey. They told Martin they wanted to see the parole officer. ' As Martin opened the door Reed struck him repeatedly with a large revolver, shot him through the cheek and robbed him of his keys. The three prisoners, all armed with revolvers, shouted to others to follow them, and ran towards the warden's office. There they met Oakes, the assistant warden, and before he could defend himself Reed shot him through the heart. The greatest confusion ensued. Convicts ran about, shouting words of encouragement to the mutineers. By this time the guards were alert and began firing. A random shot passing through a door in the office of Drover, the Bertillon officer, killed him. Guard Killed. Godfrey, the guard, sprang directly into .the path of the mutineers, discharging his revolver at them. He, too, fell a victim to Reed's deadly aim. John R. Thomas, formerly United States district judge and widely known through Oklahoma, was sitting in the warden's office awaiting the return of Warden R. W. Dick, with whom he had a business engagement. Apparently mistaking Judge Thomas for the warden, the mutineers fired a volley of shots at him. He sank to the floor mortally wounded. Fearing an alarm might be given by the telephone operator, .MaryFoster, the three men next gave their attention to the telephone switchboard. They turned it over and tried to disconnect iU "You come w;th us," they shouted as they dragged the girl into the prison yard, holding her before them to keep the guards from shooting. i Girl Wounded. Shielded by the girl's presence and /^Vi oaroH r?n hv 1 nflft PftnviPtS. thp VU W J v v ^ ^ ? y three men made their way across the prison yard. Only one shot was fired at them and it struck the girl. As she sank to the ground wounded the convicts sprang to the prison gate. With the keys they had taken from Turnkey Martin they unlocked it and were free. Outside the gate the horse and buggy of the warden was hitched. The three men sprang into it 'You'll never take us alive," shouted Reed as he stood up in the buggy and fired at the approaching officers; The other convicts bent low j to avoid the scattering bullets. Reed fought the fight alone. Fear- j stricken, the others crouched behind 1 YOUNG'S MURDERERS CAUGHT. Confession Gives Retails of How Geo. F. Young Was Shot Laurens, S. C., Jan. 20.?Sheriff Owings and Deputy Sheriff Reed made two more arrests to-day in connection with the murder of George F. Young, at his home at Stomp Springs, a week ago last night. The negroes taken today are Greenwood Rodgers and "Junk" Caldwell, both of whom lived in the vicinity of the springs. Their arrest was the result of the voluntary confession of Tom Young, who was implicated by the coroner's jury, along with his brother, John, last Tuesday, and both of whom, were committed to jail that night. Early to-day Tom Young asked to see the officers and to them he told the ctory of the tragedy, implicating Rodgers and Caldwell. In his coni v ' ' fession Young said that Rodgers, Caldwell and himself instigated the murderous plot, and executed it late Monday night. That Rodgers shot Mr. Young through an opening through a window and then Caldwell applied the torch to the cottage. A week ago this morning the charred body of George F. Young, a wellknown citizen of the county, and an extensive planter and landowner, was found in the ruins of his cottage at Stomp Springs, twenty miles east of the city, and it was concluded at once ' that he had been the victim of foul play. The conduct of Tom Young led to his immediate arrest, and later his brother was taken into custody. Since then Sheriff Owings and his deputies ' have been working quietly on the ; , ? case, using no coercion whatever in handling Tom, the prisoner, but at the same time encouraging him to talk about the case at different times. . . ; 5 Early Telegraphy Without Wires. ______ # Comment was rfiade some weeks ago upon the fact that an Eastern railroad had experimented with wireless telegraphy in the operation of trains. Some of its fast trains had been fitced with aparatus permitting T- 1U. . 2 constant communication ueiweeu luc ^ ( moving train and wireless sta- ' tions scattered along the division It was considered something new and promising. ? rM Now comes a veteran telegrapher \ qj to say that the idea is not so new as it, appeared. He claims that more than 25 years ago another Eastern railroad established atelegraph system to operate between its moving trains and its stations and that the system worked well. That was, of course, before the day of wireless telegraphy. It was called "indud- : tion telegraphy." This induction telegraphy, the old <' jf" operator suggests, looks now like the * ancestor of the wireless. It operated withouf the aid of directly connected wires or other metallic circuit con. ductors. Why this system was abandoned is not explained. Patented devices have a way of disappearing at times in ways the public understand but poorly.?Cleveland Plain Dealer. BOLIVIA CONSUL IN JAIL. ' ' f Held on Felony Charges; Accused by n\-..xv c:?lo X HU Uli lo. , San Francisco, January 20.?Carlos Sanjines, Bolivian consul at this ' port, to-night occupies a cell because of his failure to put up a $5,000 bond to insure his appearance in police court to-morrow^for a hearing on a. felony charge growing out of an accusation made by two young girls. / Sanjines, indignant over his arrest, declares the police have no authority over .him and threatens to make an international incident out of his arrest. ' /' ' While Sanjines was in a moving picture theatre last night two 13- . year-old -girls told the manager of the house that he had insulted them. ;. Sanjines's arrest followed. Editor Knight of the -Bamberg Herald has been highly complimented. The government authorities have forwarded to his address" in ui?I.. O come uiauns.?opaiuuuuig utiatu. ' The only men of worth to a town or community are those who forget their own selfish ends long enough and are liberal enough in their ideas to encourage every public ahd private enterprise, who are ready with brain and purse to push every project calculated to build up the town and enhance its importance. the staggering horse. The guards poured a merciless fire into the buggy. The horse fell and the convicts ceased firing. The three mutineers lay in a heap in the bullet-riddled buggy, dead. ' 4