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' I > aty? iamtorg feralft One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26,1914. Established 1891. ; j j : i ti iwfc a /^iTirwvnrii, C0DNT8V NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the Connty and Elsewhere. ^ Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, February 23.?Ehrhardt added one more to the list of homicides for Bamberg county on last Friday. In a row between Lucfcv Williams and J. D. Pauls, two negroes employed by the Hacker Manufacturing Co., Pauls stabbed Williams to the heart with a pocket Knue. rrom cue enucutc u ?ccmo that Pauls struck the first blow at ^Williams' back. After the killing Pauls walked calmly down Main street. To look at him one would j have thought that nothing at all had ..happened. But he didn't go far before Chief Priester had nabbed him. Sheriff Ray came over Friday afternoon and took Pauls to the county jail. Mr. G. H. C. Park, student at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, preached here Sunday morning. He delivered a most excellent sermon. Mr. Park has been here before and he has certainly made a lot of friends. The two churches, Ehrhardt and Mt. fir Pleasant, are seriously contemplating I calling him here when he finishes at the seminary. Mr. W. F. Hiers, wife and child, of Florence, are visiting relatives in town. Mrs. J. A. Chassereau had a very | painful accident last Sunday night as she was on her way to church. She stepped off the sidewalk and in j falling she shattered her leg just! above the ankle. When Dr. Copeland got to the old lady the bone was protruding from the flesh. She was carried to Charleston to-day to the hospital for an operation. -Several of our townsfolk went to see the crossing over little Saltkeatchie swamp of the Bamberg and j Ehrhardt Railroad. It will take; some time to complete the work yet, then it will have to be reworked before trains can be run over its cross\ ing with safety. The Baptist meeting is still being held, can't say how long it will be carried on. There was a couple somewhat past the prime of life that took a notion to get married last week, when the requisition was made for the certificate of marriage. So the groom ? and bride-to-be procured a quart of ^ ink to write up the "request before a notary here in town. Must have gotten it as they were married all right. JEE. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, Feb. 23.?The following invitation has been received by many v families here, also by some . of the 1 ' unmarried ones: "Mr. and Mrs. J. ^ C. Preacher extend to you a cordial * invitation to spend the evening of the fifteenth anniversary with them oh February 23rd, 1914, 8 to 12. 1899?1914." Mrs. Lucia Knight died and was buried at Bethlehem Baptist cemetery on last Wednesday. She had a severe attack of pneumonia. She leaves one daughter, Miss Flossie \ Knight, and one son, Jas. Knight, to mourn her deat?. Mrs. Knight was , the daughter of- Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Hair, who lived here for many years, but are both deceased now. Miss Flossie is now making her home with kind relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Sanders, while her brother works on the railroad. All sympathize with them in this great sorrow. The teachers from Olar visited Mrs. Christina Kearse recently. , Miss Anna Kearse is spending some time in Atlanta, looking for novelties for Mrs. Wilson's spring millinery. Her mother will spend some time at Olar during her daughter's absence. Miss Madeline Spigener, of Colum bia, and Miss Annie Lou Banks, of St. Matthews, are guests of Mrs. Benj. Brunson. Rev. D. B. Groseclose has returnp^r* ed from a visit to his daughter at Florence. Miss Brunson, from Gifford, visited Mr. Benj. Brunson recently. T T3 O'Yool Vnrmnn TTrjiversi ty, is spending a few days here with ? home folks. Revs. Johnston and Yarborough are here and will conduct a protracted meeting at the Methodist church, commencing Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fogle, of Orangeburg, visited Mrs. Dr. Tuten recently. Miss Ethel Jarrell visited friends at Olar recently. Read The Herald, $1.50 a year. r ROBBERS HOLD UP TRAIN. j Three Men Rob Passengers Near Birmingham. 5 Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 11*.? Queen & Crescent passenger train No. 1, New York to New Orleans, ' running 40 minutes late, was heH up to-night at 10.45 o'clock, about 12 miles north of here by three masked robbers, who secured four sacks of registered mail, said to have contain- 1 ed about $40,000. < At Attalla three men boarded the engine, and one and one-half miles j south of Attalla held up the engine j crew at the point of revolvers. They then ran the train to within five , miles of Irondale. where they forced the crew to uncouple the mail and express cars. They ran the express car down the tracks for a mile and then forced the 5 crew to uncouple the mail car. The ' engine was taken further south and 1 derailed. The robbers then entered the mail car and covered the five clerks. They asked for the chief ! clerk and demanded the registered 1 mail. The clerk replied that he had < none. He was slightly cut on the left shoulder, upon attempting resistance, i The robbers ransacked the car and < secured the registered mail books, i They then took the New York, New ] Orleans registered mail and decamp- i ed, leaving one sack containing $10,000 behind. The express car was . not molested. Birmingham officials of the road , were notified of the hold up and a . special train rushed officers and bloodhounds to the scene. Xo trace of the robbers was found and the officers are now in pursuit. I)r. Brabham to Move. Cope. Feb. 16.?The members of Union Sundaj'-school were very much surprised^ yesterday afternoon when Dr. V. W. Brabham, their beloved superintendent, announced that he had handed in his resigna- < tion and would have to give up con- i nection with the scKbol on account 1 nf trm'nsr olcpwhere The dOCtOT . V1 0V4"0 thanked the school for their hearty co-operation and told them that his connection witn\it had been one of i the most enjoyable periods of his life, t Dr. Brabham ""has, by his faithful- ; ness and executive ability, brought the school up to a high state of effi- j ciency, and he is going to be great- ] ly missed, and his place is going to : be hard to fill. Dr. V. W. Brabham will in the near future leave Cope for Orange- ] burg, where he goesfto follow his profession as a practicing physician. , It is understood that Dr. Ed. Kirkland, of Bamberg, will come over and , work in the field vacated by Dr. Brabham. The Cope Pharmacy Co., incorpo- , rated, will do business here in the , future, instead of the Cope Pharmacy, as heretofore. The promoters , of the new company are Dr. V. W. Brabham, Dr. Ed. Kirkland, and Mr. Joe L. Hiers, formerly of Ehrhardt. Little Lynn Brabham came near I being seriously or badly burned on yesterday morning. He was standing before the fire warming when his gown caught fire. His older brother, Lovelace, who was lying in bed, but was awake, ran to his assistance, and smothered the flames before they ran up on his body. He was slightly burned about the legs. \ WOMEN RUN FOR ALDERMEN. Chicago Ticket Contains Names of Eight Suffragists. Chicago, February 23.?The names of eight women candidates for aldermanic nominations will appear on the ballots to be voted at to-morrow's prjmary election, the first chance \yfomen have had here to express themselves at the polls since 1 the legislature granted them the right of suffrage. Organizations of women are expected to centre most of their at- ! tention on the first ward, where Miss < Marion Drake is the Progressive party candidate. She has no opposition for the nomination, but faces a fight at the polls against Alderman John J. (Bathhouse John) Coughlan, who with Michael H. (Hinky Dink) Kenna, has represented the down-town ward in the council for many years. 1 Representatives of various women's societies will serve as clerks i and judges in many precincts, and o niinihor nf phnllpnerprs will a optviai uu?iwv* v*. ? 0 be present to watch for possible frauds from the lodging house districts. Those wishing drain tile will save money by calling on or writing to Wm. A. Hatchell, Bamberg. S. C. He can quote you a lower price than you can get.?tf. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. No vote has yet been reached in the senate on the two-cent passenger rate bill. Saturday Lieut.-Gov. Smith was presented with a gold headed cane by attaches of the State senate Pete Boozer, an amateur Newberry baseball player, has signed up is shortstop with the Columbia team pf the Sallie League. Winston Churchill, the noted author and lecturer, delivered an address at Aiken Sundav on "The Realit ty of Christian Experience." Representative T. J. Mauldin, of Pickens county, was on Friday unanimously elected judge for the new thirteenth judicial circuit, just created by the legislature. The appropriation bill is now before the State senate. The finance committee has recommended reductions in the bill as passed by the house to the extent of abput $350,000. Henry C. Milligan, yardmaster for the Charleston Terminal Company, was shot and killed last Thursday night about seven o'clock at the yards of the company in Charleston. J. F. Seyle, an extra switchman for -the same road, did the killing, and claims self-defence. An automatic pistol was the weapon with which the killing was done. CONFIRMS SIMS AND WESTON. \s U. S. District Attorney and Marshal, Respectively. Washington, reDruary i a.?ay confirming this afternoon the nominations of Francis H. Weston, of Columbia, to be district attorney, and lames L. Sims, of Orangeburg, to be United States marshal, both for the Federal district of South Carolina, the senate settled finally two contests which have been watched with, absorbing interest by the people of the Palmetto State. Confirmatory action was taken by the senate just nine days after the nominations were sent in by President Wilson. Selected Months Ago. Some months ago the president selected Messrs. Weston and Sims for district attorney and marshal, respectively, the two most lucrative Federal offices in this State; next to the United States district judgship. At that time it was understood that, through an agreement said to have existed between Senators Tillman and Smith, there would be no delay in the nominations being sent to the senate by the president, those who held to such belief were disappointed. Tillman Kept Up Fight. Senator Tillman, it seems, was not disposed to give up the strong fight he was making for his candidate for district attorney, J. William Thur mond, Esq., of Edgefield, and ai nis instance the nominations were withheld. Senator Smith was backing Mr. Weston, and it was understood that neither senator would put forth a candidate in opposition to Mr. Sims for marshal, although both declined to admit that Mr. Sims was "their man." So the matter stood until February 9. when the nominations were sent to the senate, as originally planned by the president. Confirmed in Nine Days. The nominations were referred to the senate committee on judiciary, which, on Monday, February 16, returned favorable reports, confirmation following two days later, nine days after the senate received the nominations. Private and thoroughly reliable information, since Messrs. Weston and Sims were first selected by the president, was to the effect that Attorney General McReynolds and President Wilson intended to stand by their selections, the attorney general having recommended the appointment of both men, and the apparent contention over the district attorneyship was deplored by the administration. It was also said that the president desired to make both appointments at the same time, hence the delay in naming the marshal. It is expected that the new district attorney and marshal will qualify and heein their resDective duties shortly. Mr. Weston, who is senator from Richland county, will succeed District Attorney Eihiest F. Cochran, and Mr. Sims, owner and editor of the Times and Democrat, of Orangeburg, will succeed Marshal J. Duncan Adams. i BECKER GETS ANOTHER TRIAL. ^ k. Court of Appeals Reserves Decision in Rosenthal Case. j * Albany, N. Y., February 24.?The conviction of Charles Becker, a for- 5 mer New York police lieutenant, of the murder of Herman Rosenthal, today was reversed and the convictions of the four gunmen for the same crime were affirmed by the court of i: appeals. c Justice Goff, the court held, erred p in many of his rulings in Becker's ^ trial and appeared to be prejudicial ^ in his attitude toward the defendant, i The reversal was based solely on u these grounds. No attempt was made r by the court to say whether the d weight of evidence against Becker i was sufficient to warrant his convic- p tion. It was pointed out, however, t that the testimony against him was d given by witnesses of low class and t as much of it was open to doubt, he s therefore was entitled to a fairer E trial th^n he received. 1 All Members Concur. t All of the seven members of the court, except Judge Werner, who act- p ed as presiding judge when the ap- t peal was argued, concurred in the ] prevailing Becker opinion, which was t written by Judge Hiscock. In a dis- t senting opinion Judge Werner said t that the main contentions of the State ? had been amply proven to warrant f conviction. t The much mooted question as to r the status of Sam Shepps, who, the t jury in the Becker case decided was r not an accomplice to the crime, still e is unsettled. The prevailing opin- r ion merely said there was doubt in t the minds of some of the court as p to the propriety of excluding Shepps t as an accomplice. ' e The decision in the case of the a four gunmen, "Gyp the Blood," e "Whitev" Lewis. "Dago Frank" and t "Lefty Louie," was unanimous. They ^ had averred that the evidence against them was insufficient to warrant conviction. and also that the court had erred in handling their cases, but these contentions were held to. be groundless. \ To Fix Execution Dates. The date for the execution.of the gunmen will be fixed by the court within a few days. The death warrants are in the clerk's office ready for the signatures of the judges when they decide when the electrocutions shall take place. The law provides that the date of execution shall not be deferred more than six weeks after the judgment of conviction has been announced.' The court of appeals, however, usually allows only five weeks to elapse. If precedent is followed the gunmen will be electrocuted during the latter part of March. Although the court made no attempt to pass on the weight of any of the evidence, nor to fix th4 status of any of those alleged to have been connected with the crime, other than the five convicted men, it dealt at length with their testimony. Regarding Sam Schepps, the opinion said: "While the presiding justice permitted the jury to find that Schepps was not an accomplice of Rose and the others and therefore mi il 4-ir lil'A tVinrvi nf tlio mnrHor r\f 6 UIU> 11X\C V/JL LUVy ill UA UV1 VI Rosenthal, some of the members of the court believe that the finding was opposed to the overwhelming weight of the evidence." Poor But Proud. A lady who is a district visitor became much interested in the very poor but apparently respectable Irish family named Curran, living in a slum district of her parish. Every time she visited the Currans she was annoyed by'the staring and a the whispering of the other women ' living in the building. One day she a said to Mrs. Curran: ^ Your neighbors seem to be very ^ curious to know who I am, and the nature of my business with you." ^ "They do," asquiesced Mrs. Cur- c ran. 1 "Do they ask you about it?" j "Indade they do, ma'am." t "And do you tell them?" e "Faith thin, I do not." E "What do you tell them?" ^ "Oi, just tell them," was the calm reply, "that you are me dressmaker, and let it go at that." t] Met the Competition. s An enterprising young florist, in a order to impress his trade, displayed E this sign in his window: 1 "We give a packet of flower seeds * with ovorv nlnnt " His competitor across the street 1 promptly sought to meet the compe- \ tition. by placing in his window the c following announcement: t "We give the earth with every 2 plant."?Exchange. * ilVES INCOME TAX LAW. IOUSE REFUSES TO APPROVE ACTION OF SENATE. lumber of Senate Bills With No Opposition Receive Second Reading. Columbia, February 24.?The louse to-day killed without much eremony the proposition that had assed the senate by which the State vould repeal the farce commonly nown as the State income tax law. 'he senate realized that the law was mfair in that its enforcement was educed to an absurdity, and in adition, the Federal government was mposing a similar tax. Messrs. ? ?J - x?i T-i _ _ f ni, >oya, oi oyariitiiuurg, Dntc, ui ^ucber, and McQueen, of Marlboro, undertook to conviiice the house that he income tax law in this State hould be repealed, but they could iot budge the house, and it finaly killed the bill by a vote of 52 o 34. The chief argument of Messrs. tittenberg and Wyche, who favored he income tax, was that while the aw may be inoperative at present hat they could get information from he Federal tax returns. Mr. Wyche hought that the Federal tax returns I'ould be available for information or the. tax officers, and he further hought that the tax was along the ight lines. Mr. Rittenberg thought hat the best thing to do would be iext year tQ pass a law requiring very one who made an income tax eturn to the Federal government o do so to the State or suffer a lenalty for not doing so. He thought hat if an Act of this kind were passtd making it a criminal offence for .ny one making a return to the Fediral government and not doing so to he State that very different results ^ould be secured. At all events the louse refused to take the position of he senate in killing the income tax aw and South Carolina will coninue to have, for those who pre able u.1.1. _ J ? A O pay, uuni a r eueicii <aiiu otcitc aw. Free Transportation. There was considerable discussion his morning on the senate bill which >rovides for free transportation for he sheriffs while traveling on official msiness. The fight against the bill vas led by Mr Nicholson, with the upport of Messrs. Miley, Stanley md Liles. The bill was killed by a rote of 45 to 34. Messrs. . Youmans ?and Wyche hought that the sheriffs should be intitled to this free transportation, md that it would be for the good of >rder and affairs of the counties, 'he house, however, thought it would )e an entering wedge for free translocation, and killed the bill. Last year a bill was passed prodding that serum be supplied to the armers of the State by Clemson Colege "at cost." It appears that a nistake was made in. the ratified Vet and that the Code has the law is the general assembly intended hat it should be, that is, that serum >e supplied "at cost." Senator Black had a bill passed .1 1- nnnr-nnHnor t>lD .nrougn iut; senate tunttuug tuv aw, and to-day when the house took t up, it also pased the bill, but with hese propositions: First, one proposed by Mr. Belser that the "at :ost" allowance should not be available to veterinarians and others who nade a business of handling serum or hog cholera, and it should only be provided to the actual farmer and iser of the serum. Second. Mr. Stevenson had a furher amendment adopted by which ?lemson College is required to proide the serum free to those who re not able to pay for the same. And then Mr. Lumpkin worked in ,n amendment that the farmers who lad hogs to die of cholera bury them our feet underground. The achitects of the State have >een very much disturbed recently iver a bill of Senator Crouch's reguating the employment of architects n this State After some discussion he house, led by Mr. Lumpkin, killid the bill, therefore there will be 10 law with reference to the regulaion of architects. A number of senate bills of more >r less local importance and to which here was no opposition received tneir econd house reading. Included imong these was the resolution to lay the Kuker claim; to amend the 3th circuit bill, to regulate pool and milliard rooms in Union county, reative to the selection of juries in uagistrates courts, amending the aw in reference to judgments by lefault, providing for the redempion of brown consol bond No. 3,892, illowing the school district of Belton o charge fees, and Mr. Hall's bill ?l' rrtLiu PiiiTiS L\wnau. Arrangements Have lieeii Made for Several Meetings at Charleston. Washington, February 22.?Woman suffragists are going to invade the South in a private car. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, notwithstanding the accident that happened to her a week ago, is going to take the road and make a number of speeches in the Southern States. Dr. Shaw once before, when suffering on account of a similar accident, made a campaign through Texas with her ankle in a plaster cast, and she is going to do the same now, if necessary. The date \ at New Orleans, which was fixed for March 3, had to be abandoned, but it is possible that Dr. Shaw and her party will reach there at a later date. Arrangements have been made for a very large meeting at Charleston, S. C., where several speeches are to be made. The most important meeting of all will be at Birmingham, Ala., where a large woman suffrage conference is to be held on March 9 and 10. The suffragists say that this meeting will be especially interesting in view of the prominent part Representative Underwood played in defeating the resolution for a woman suffrage committee. Mr. Underwood has t61d members of the congressional committee of tl^e National American Woman Suffrage Association, that he does not want woman suffrage agitated in Alabama. The women who are going to invade the South and make speeches for suffrage will "agitate" that subject notwithstanding Mr. Underwood's desire. Dr. Shaw and the other members of the party will appear at Tuscaloosa, Ala., Atlanta, Ga., Columbia, S C and at Jacksonville. Fla. A very large mass meeting is to be held at Atlanta, and the women intend to take an active part in tHe coming v campaign in that State. In Florida, one of the candidates for United .States senator has declared himself in favor of suffrage, and he will no doubt receive the support of the ' ' suffragists. _ V ' A WOULD OUST CUURLEY \. " Says it is Impossible to be Mayor of _ . ,-j Boston and Representative. """) I Washington, Feb 23.?WhethJames M. Curley, mayor of Boston, and on1 the rolls of congress as a representative from the 12th Massachusetts district, shall be permitted to hold both offices, was to-day put squarely up to congress by Republican Leader Mann. A resolution introduced by Mr. Mann set forth that "the offices of mayor and representative in congress are incompatible, and it is impossible for one man to perform the duties of both," and proposed that Mr. Curley's seat be declared vacant. At tne suggestion or uemowauc Leader Underwood, Representative Mann agreed that the resolution should go to the judiciary committee without debate. The Curley case has been discussed for weeks about the sapitol. Mr. Curley drew his monthly salary as a congressman on February 4, two days after he took the oath of office as mayor of Boston. It was said that he indicated at the time his intention of holding both offices until the end of the present session of congress to redeem pledges made to the people of his district and to save Boston the expense of a special election to name his successor. ' * It was recalled to-day that Representative Lilley, after being elected governor of Connecticut some years ago, and Gen. Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama, after being commission ed a major general or volunteers m the Spanish war, tried unsuccessfully to hold their seats in congress. Het- Only Concern. \ Sir David Baird, .the first baronet, was a famous Anglo-Indian soldier who early in his career had the unpleasant experience of being thrown into the black hole of Calcutta during the mutiny. Like a number of other eminent soldiers, he was not blessed with too sweet a temper, and when his old mother was told that the prisoners ^ in the black hole were tied together her only comment was: "Heaven help the poor man that's - _ I )? / tied to our .uavie: with reference to the recovery of overcharges for freight. The house gave its approval to the resolution by which it is undertaken to avoid a roll call where there is only one candidate for the office elected by the general assembly. i t .