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^ . 1 > a lamkrg feratfi j >| One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C.( THURSDAY, MAY 21,1914. Established 1891. : =========^^^^== : ,'38 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. ^ Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, May 18.?Cool weather still holds on and makes the farmers somewhat blue over their cotton crops, while they admit that they have had just the finest kind of weather to get their cotton crop that v came up in shape for growing when the rains come. The earth is very dry, and tne water is low in me streams. The cotton that.is not up will not come up until a rain comes. There is not moisture enough in the Boil to sprout the seed planted. .Corn crops growing fine. The oat crop will be short on account of the dry weather. Miss Rena Reeder, of Newberry, is spending a while with Mrs. Herbert Ehrhardt. School commencements will soon be in operation, then we will have a chance to know what improvement > our little ones have made. Mr. and Mrs. I. D. Copeland have our sympathy in their bereavement. Little Douglas has left us all and . gone where the troubles and toils of this life and earth will not bother him. While he was a promising son to Mr. and Mrs. Copeland, the Lord had use for him in other fields. Little Douglas, after several days illness, died last Friday and was Dunea in iiinrnarai cemetery auuui five o'clock Saturday afternoon. Some candidates are talking strong s about their coming election at the various polls. Hope there will be no disappointment for them at the winding up. *V'?- \ . ? - Fairfax Fancies. ; ? . Fairfax, May 18.?Mr. and Mrs. Draw'dy, Messrs. Sadler and Smith, of Olar, visited Mrs. Jno. Harter last week. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Boltin have returned to their home at Gainesville, Fla., after spending some time with their mother, Mrs. C. M. Compton. Mrs. H. A. Brant, aged 78, i6 now visiting her daughter, Mrs. C. M. Compton. Miss Penny Thomas visited friends y * . here last week. Probbie Hiers, of Ehrhardt, was a guest here last week. Jas. Compton made a flying trip > here Saturday to see relatives. Mrs. L. O. Browning, who has spent some time here with Mrs. C. M. Davis, has gone to Olar to visit friends there. Mesdames J. F. and W. M. Light?fcv win eive a linen shower on the 20th, complimentary to Miss Flora ^ Kenny, a June bride-to-be. Mre. Sam Jenkins is spending some time with her mother, Mrs. Sallie ' Jenkins." Rev. and Mrs. Keff Smith, of Beaufort, and Mr. Reed Smith, of Columbia, were recent guests of Mrs. S. L. Sanders. Mrs. Willie Hiers and little daughter, Dorothy, of Florence, Mrs. Ben Ehrhardt and Mrs. Hucks, of Ehrf hardt, are visiting their parents, Rev. and Mrs. D. B. Groseclose. Misses Porter and Albergotti gave a hose shower Friday afternoon, May -15th, for Miss Flora Kenny. The teachers and high school girls were the principal participants, and all passed off merrily. Some beautiful * j-i-1 ^ 21QQ SUDStanuai gilts weie icuucicu Miss Kenny, the June bride.Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Rivers are spending some time with their sister, Mrs. Nat Weekley. ? Mrs. W. L. Brooks and Miss Frances Lea have gone to Charleston on a visit. A number of our citizens are called to Barnwell this week to attend court. tN FRANK HEARING POSTPONED. \ Motion to Set Aside Verdict to Be Argued Next Saturday. i Atlanta, Ga., May 18.?Hearings on the motion to set aside the verdict by which Leo M. Frank was pronounced guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan here over a year ago, to-day were postponed by Judge Ben H. Hill, in the superior court, until ? next Saturday. The postponement was granted upon request of attorneys on both sides. The motion is based upon the claim that Frank's constitutional rights were violated in that he was not present in court when the verdict was returned. Frank now is under sentence of death for the factory girl's murder. r* i WHITMAN COMPLETES CASE. Places Star Witness on Stand in Becker Trial. New York, May 18.?District Attorney Whitman to-day completed his case against Charles Becker by ? * - - ? ? - ? A! ?f nf A placing on tne wnuess siauu <,wu men whom he considered his star witnesses?Charles B. Plitt, Jr.. the former policeman's friend, companion and press agent, and James Marshall, a negro youth, who said he saw Becker and Jack Rose talking at the "Harlen Conference," which was declared by the court of appeals to have been the "heart of the conspiracy to murder Herman Rosenthal." The gambler's widow and several other persons also testified before the prosecutor declared his case ended. VESSEL HELD BY MEXICANS. At Manzanillo Taking of Vera Cruz Regarded as War. San Francisco, May 17.?Details of the murder of Americans, the capture by a Mexican transport of the American brig Geneva, the imprisonment of United States Consul Clement S. Edwards, of Acapulco and many atrocities on the Mexican west coast were brought in to-day by officers and one hundred and fifty refugees on the British steamer Cetriana, which arrived from Manzanillo. The story of the taking of the Geneva was told by Capt. Ferguson, of the Geneva, to Lieut. Edward J. Minister, royal naval reserve, commander of the Cetriana. According to the refugees, when news of the eaDture of Vera Cruz by the United States reached the west coast it was taken by the Mexicans as the beginning of war. The Mexicans were inflamed to a high pitch, they say, and the Americans abandoned their homes and fled. All believed they would have been killed if they had stayed. As the Cetriana got away from the dock at Manzanillo, manoeuvering adroitly out of what is reported to be an attempt to hem it in by four Mexican steamers, a rifle fire was directed against it. Many bullets struck the steamer. Score of Murders. Upward of a score of murders, mostly of Americans, were reported by the Cetriana's passengers, but it was difficult to trace any of them to an authoritative source. On April 21, after discharging its cargo at Guyamas, Mazatlan and San Bias, the brig Geneva was ready to sail north, except that it needed water and provisions, was the story told Lieut. Minister by,Capt. Ferguson. That night the news of the taking of Vera Cruz was received and the San Bias port officials notified the Geneva that war had "been declared between the United States and Mexico. They would give Capt. Ferguson no water or provisions, but told him to sail. He took on four American refugees, including a woman with a baby and sailed. There was not sufficient water aboard for the Geneva to reach an American port, and Capt. Ferguson decided to proceed to a point off Manzanillo, where he arrived April 25, five miles from the harbor. There was no American warship in sight and the Geneva headed out to sea. On April 26 she was twelve miles off Manzanillo, in a flat calm. The Mexican transport Korrigan, with an armed crew, steamed out of Manzanillo and approached her. Capt. Ferguson hoisted the American ensign on their order. The Mexican r.i-vmrr.onr?OT Pant. FerETUSOn. told him war was on and said he had orders to seize the Geneva as a prize of war and all Americans aboard as prisoners of war. Taken as Prize of War. There was no escape and the Korrigan towed the Geneva to Manzanillo. Port officials came aboard and got a statement from Capt. Ferguson. They were courteous, but ordered no one to leave the vessel. The next day, the 27th, the Cetriana arrived. Preacher is Prosecutor. Anderson, May 18.?After being out nearly two hours Judge Prince instructed the jury hearing the case against Will Miles, a white man, for slander, to bring in a sealed verdict to-morrow morning. The prosecutor in the case is the Rev. E. N. Sanders, pastor of the Second Baptist church. Miles declared that Mr. Sanders was with him in the red light district of Greenville when the minister was there attending B. Y. P. U. convention last February. The court house has been crowded with 1 spectators during the entire day. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Rudolph M. Hoffman, an immigration officer at Ellis Island, N. Y., owes his life to his watch, which stopped a bullet fired at him. Dirt has been broken for the new $60,000 hotel to be built in Aiken. It will be built by a joint stock company of Aiken men. A St. Louis man's affinity declares it's all the fault of his wife, who once forced him to escort her home when she was lonesome. Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin, has had a speech inserted in the Congressional Record at Washington more than 900,000 words long. A Trenton, N. J., woman, 6uing her husband for support of herself and five children, charges him with having two wives and ten children. The United States senate has declared war on the cigarette beetle, which lays its eggs in tobacco used for cigars, and has increased the appropriation to eradicate it. M. B. Hancock, 81, has grown a third set of teeth in Waco, Tex. A dentist discovered that three teeth, which were causing Hancock pain, were being replaced by new ones. Philadelphia aeronauts have orJ ^ /\f civtv_firA f VlAllO. UC1CU a uauuuu Ul oiai;-uic and feet capacity and this summer will try to excel the world's altitude record of twenty-six thousand feet. Experiments made at Clemson college have shown that the best distance at which to plant sweet potatoes is eighteen inches apart in the rows, with rows three to four feet apart. A special to the Augusta Chronicle from Lexington says that George Bell Timmerman, solicitor of the 11th circuit, is being urged to rue for governor ancl has the matter under consideration. Dwight Stebbins, a former Cincinnati policeman, charged with man-y purposeless thefts, admits that he cannot control his impulses to steal, the desire being caused by a blow oe tjhe head inflicted several years ago ' Senator Tillman has given out aE interview favoring reform of the primary and outlining a scheme which he believes will result in honest elections. He says the white men of the State had just as well realize thai unless something is done this will be our last white "primary. Goes to Florida for Man. Anderson, May 18.?Sheriff Ashley went to Jacksonville this afternoon to bring back a negro, John Thomas, 20 years old, who is charged with making an improper advance on the young daughter of a substantial and well-known farmer of the Honea Path section, just across the line in Abbeville county, Saturday. A negro is said to have been concealed in the bushes and attracting the girl's attention, beckoned her to come to him. She screamed, and an old negro man working in a nearby field went to her rescue. A crowd of two hundred scoured the country Saturday afternoon and night and prosecuted the search through Sunday without result. Sheriff Ashley learned that a negro bought a ticket at Ninety-Six for Jacksonville, and he wired authorities there. The negro, John rr,v x 1 ? iUi. ~ *4. i nomas, was caugm tills diici" noon below Jacksonville. ASKED $1,000; GIVEN $8.34 Woman Carried Beyond Her Destine tion Sues Southern Railway. Spartanburg. May 19.?Mrs. Barbara Sarratt was awarded $8.34 in a suit against the Southern Railway for $1,000 damages by a jury in common pleas court Monday. She complained that she bought a ticket for Gramling and boarded a train bound in the direction of that town, but was carried three miles beyond Gramling before the conductor stopped the train and permitted her to leave. She suffered mental anguish as a result, she averred, and her little daughter, who accompanied her. contracted an illness. r-oiluL-av pnmnanv's ripfencp was that the train Mrs. Sarratt boarded was not supposed to stop at Gramling, either to allow passengers to get off or on. and Mrs. Sarratt should have known that the train did not make the stop she desired. Judge Thomas S. Sease is presiding over this term of court. ' TIDWELL TRIAL BEGINS. i Temporary Insanity Plea for Man Ac> cased of Killing Walker. Greenville, May IS.?Temporary ; insanity will be a plea of the defence 1 in the case of G. W. Tidwell, Sr., on trial here for his life, charged with killing R. Emmett Walker, on the twelfth day of last March. Tidwell, was arraigned yesterday,, in the gen! * X ?V T?? A /va T? T ' erai sessions court, vwui juujc x. Mauldin, presiding. The State is represented by Solicitor Bonham and ' the firm of Cothran, Dean & Cothran. The defence is represented by Townes, Earle and Price. Testimony taken to-day, was part- J ; ly corroborative of the testimony tak, en at the coroner's inquest. The man, ner of the killing was reviewed. Tidwell took the stand late in the afternoon and was undergoing a se' vere crossexamination at the hands of Solicitor Bonham, when court adjourned until to-morrow, when he will resume his story. Tidwell told of a note, which caused him to come to Greenville, but denied that the writer of the note had been instructed to watch his wife and daughter. Notwithstand? ing this fact, the writer sent the note ^ to Cheraw, where Tidwell was at the time. It was also shown that the note could not have reached him had i it been mailed at the time he said he . presumed it was mailed. Several of the jurors wept when , the mother of the dead boy took the stand. Col. Dean had this question . put to jurors: "If selected as a juror . in this case, will you act according . to the evidence you hear on the , stand and according to the law as ' explained by the court, uninfluenced by other motives?" This, it is said, was trw hAari nff thA "unwritten law" plea. The jurors are mostly farmers. Eleven of them are married men with ' daughters. Ollie Tidwell, the girl whom the defence charges young Walker seduced, took the stand, but her testi' mony was cut short when the de5 fence changed its procedure and inL troduced the defendant. Interest in the case is intense here, as Walker was a member of a promi nent family and as the killing took 1 place in such a sensational manner. - The killing of Walker was the re suit of the arrest of Tidwell's wife and daughter in an alleged house of disrepute here on March 7. The L women and the two men were in the . same room of this house. Tidwell i came to Greenville the night after . the arrest was made and the follow> ing Thursday he went to Carolina ; Mills, called Walker out and shot him j dead. Walker was unarmed at the time. Tidwell, it is claimed, had endeavored to get Walker to marry his daughter and to get the other man . to marry his wife. Each had refus. ed. 1 GOT HIS REVENGE. Texas Shriner Who Was Locked up as a Joke. Atlanta. May 14.?F. E. Kepple's ' fellow Shriners had him pinched ! Monday for impersonating an officer, 1 and let him stay in police station half an hour before they told Assist1 .ant Chief Jett it was all a joke. But Monday night, dressed in his 1 masquerade uniform of a policeman, he found revenge by arresting six Shriners and their ladies, all in evening dress, who w.ere returning in an automobile from the ball at the auditorium. "You've been speeding," he charged, as he stepped on the running board of the machine. "Head for po lice station." They were locked in a State ward, where desperate criminals usually are confined, remained there a few , hours, then were released. Kepple is of El Mina 'temple, Houston. Tex., and is city editor of the Houston Chronicle. FLAGGED TRAIN, SAVED LIFE. I Wisconsin Man Crawled Half Mile > With Arm Almost Off. _______ i With his left arm hanging to his ] . shoulder by shreds, as the result of : a railroad accident on the St. Paul ] railroad, near the Illinois State line, i recently, says a Racine, Wis., dispatch ] to the Milwaukee Sentinel, Bernard < . Longwell, of this city, crawled for half a mile to a signal station, 1 switched the semaphore to a danger signal and stopped a fast traip in order to get assistance. His display of fortitude probably saved his l life, as he was in danger of death J from loss of blood. He was rushed to this city, and at the hospital to-day it was said he had < a chance for recovery. HOPE FOR FEDERAL AID, ?? + BYRNES THINKS ROAD BILL MAY PASS. South Carolina Congressman Believes Principle is Main Tiling at Stake. tit?u: ^-m?-i n n^,-, VV ctbliujc, Lull, iriajf i J. uuug 1 cooman Byrnes of South Carolina to-daj held a conference with the secretary of agriculture and the director o] public roads regarding the policy 01 the administration towards the gooc roads question. Notwithstanding the fact that the road bill which passed the house some months ago has not yet been reportec to the senate, Mr. Byrnes still hopes that such a bill will be enacted ai this session. He has conferred alsc with members of the subcommittee o the postoffice committee of the senate having the bill in charge, and is as sured by these senators that thej will endeavor to have this bill takei up by the whole committee and re ported to the senate at the very ear liest opportunity. While the senate bill differs great ly from the house bill, Mr. Byrnes is of the opinion that in conference th< differences can be adjusted and i bill passed providing the means bj which the national government shal aid the States in road building. He says the house will not ball at the reduction of the appropria tion by the senate to $5,000,000; tha what he and his associates want is t< ' AT-- : ; _ 1 _ _ C C^A 1 ^ ; A rvn nave me principle ui icuoai <xiu cii acted into law. The appropriatioi can then be increased whenever con &ress deems it wise. Secretary Houston is so deeply in terested in the matter that thougl the bill does not contain all his ideai on the subject of road legislation Mr Byrnes believes that the legislatioi will be approved by the secretary- an( the president. JUDSON IS HONORED. Seven Thousand Delegates Join a Baptist Convention. Nashville, Tenn., May 17.?Sevei thousand delegates and visitors fill ed the Riman auditorium this after noon to take part in the big Judsoi centennial mass meeting, which wai held as a part of the program o the Southern Baptist convention One hundred years ago Adoniran Judson the first Baptist missionary was appointed for service in foreigi fields, and the life of the great re ligious worker was reviewed to-da: by three speakers, who also told o the work done by the Baptist de nomination. The speakers were The Rev. J. B. Gambrell of Dallas Texas, the Rev. E. M. Roteat o Greenville, S. C., and Dr. W. W Hamilton of Lynchburg, Va. It was explained that the Judsoi centennial movement was launche( at the Southern Baptist conventioi at Oklahoma City in 1912, and is ai effort to . raise $1,250,000 from tha time as a great missionary fund. An effort will be made to secur< the rest of the fund this year. Dr. Gambrell expressed the belie that the split in the church 50 year: ago had helped the denomination. A DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT. Daughter of Mr. Henry Creech Kille< By Mowing Machine. Saluda Creech, the 6-year-olc daughter of Mr. Henry Creech, wh< resides near Olar, died in a hospita in Columbia Saturday, as a result o injuries sustained by the little girl ir an arrident. While Mr. Creech was cutting oat: with a reaper and binder on Satur day, the little girl brought some fresl water to him in the field. He hac stopped the machine to drink th< water. Saluda was standing nearby The mules became unmanageable anc dashed off. and in the sudden stari the blade of the reaper came in contact with the girl. One foot waf completely severed and the othei almost severed. The father securec assistance immediately, and later the child was hurried to a Columbia hospital, where an operation was performed, the little girl dying a few hours afterward. The child was ar unusually bright little girl, and the parents have the sympathy of the entire community. lilackfeet Braves Visit Chief's Grave Charleston, S. C., May 18.?Twelve '* * rt * T- ** * tsiacKieet inaiaus, mciuuiug vii.vi Medicine Owl, to-day visited the ?rave of Osceola, the famous Semiaole chief, at Fort Moultrie here. They later departed for Richmond, Va. The Indians attended the recent meeting of the Mystic Shrine in Atlanta. BROWN WAS DROWNED. I Newberry Parmer is Not Believed to Have Met Foul Play. Newberry, May 18.?The body of ? Hagood Brown, who visited his set hooks in Broad river, near Stroth-* ers, at 11 o'clock Saturday night and did not return, was found this - morning in ten feet of water near r the bank where the boat was found r yesterday. The coroner and the f sheriff have just returned from holdf ing the inquest. No mark of vio1 lence was found on the body. Drs. Jno. B. Setzler and E. H. Moore ? y i made an autopsy and ptonounced ? drowning the cause of death. 1 The suspicion of foul play has been 3 almost destroyed by the condition t of the body and the statement of the ) two negroes, John Sims and Joe > ^ f Dawkins, who were with the deceasj ed Saturday night, that they were - all three drinking. It is supposed 7 Brown slipped into the water while i trying to get out of the boat. The inquest will be resumed Fri day morning at 11 o'clock in the court house. Much sympathy is felt - for the father, Frank Brown, who has i been greatly afflicted. One 6on disj appeared mysteriously some years i ago and was never heard of again, 7 atnd another was thrown by a mule 1 and becoming entangled in the gears , was dragged to his death. x i The body of Hagood Brown was - buried this afternoon at 5 o'clock t at St. Matthew's church by the^ ) grave of his mother. . i ^ TAFT SPEAKS ON MEXICO. Former President Criticizes Course of the Administration. 3 New York, May 18.?Former President William H. Taft gave his views Ja 1 on the Mexican situation yesterday 1 in an address at the Free Synagogue's celebration of Peace Sunday. While he expressed little hope that the pending mediation conference would accomplish its immediate t purpose he declared the office of the mediation and i the United States' acceptance was an - important step toward the future set tlement of international difficulties l in the Western hemisphere. s The former president asserted that f there was no 'popular pressure for a . military policy which the administrai tion can not resist. He said that the , people were determined to do their i duty, even should that duty involve - war. But for war, he added, the I people at present have little enthus- v f iasm. Mr. Taft criticised the Wilson ad: ministration for aid whch, he said,. \ , the administration had given to the f Mexican constitutionalists. "It is . my judgment,"- he said, "that if, in our eourse toward Mexico during the .% 1 past year, we had not exerted such. I direct influence as we have, to aid i one of the contending parties, we i should not now be so near general t intervention and war." Mr. Taft called on all Americans to i aid the president in his efforts to find peace, f Mr. Taft took the place of Secres tary of State Bryan, whose duties at Washington prevented him from ful- - - filling an engagement to address the congregation on "International j Peace." Oscar Straus also spoke. He pointed out that the RussianJapanese war was settled through 1 mediation and that interference ' by 3 an outside power in an international 1 dispute was no longer regarded as f an unfriendly act. j Dies From Wounds. Laurens, May 18.?Edgar Eui banks, the young mill operative, who - - - ~ ? J* -j & 1 was shot by jonn y. uuumugnaiu ?l j Clinton early Sunday morning, died . at the Laurens hospital last night. It I is said that he made no statement t about the shooting, though he was - conscious and discussed his condition ; up to a few hours before he died. The * inquest was held this afternoon at I Clinton. ? BATTLESHIP GETS TROPHY. Arkansas Receives Reward for Re, cord Marksmanship. , Vera Cruz, May 18.?The naval r gunnery trophy presented by the city of Spokane in 1 908 was received to' day by the battleship Arkansas, for : the work performed by No. 3 turret ' * ? r-1 r? ronnrH tt'flS iasi year, wueu u nunuo . ~ ..? i established by its twelve-inch guns, Jm which fired six shots and made six hits in 57 seconds. The trophy was , displayed in the ward room mess and a dinner in honor of the occasion i was given, at which a number of guests were present. f J1 ?!