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?b? iBambwg irralb One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1914. Established 1891. . ' COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. j News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, July 27.?O! Isn't it warm today! My! All the starch and labor of ironing these white dresses, shirts and collars was lost in a few hours. Had communion at the Ehrhardt Lutheran church Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock; fortunately for us we had a small congregation, a new preacher, short of statue, and did keep us until we finally melted. We all enjoyed the service very much, if it was warm. Well, the candidates had a big day for speaking on the 22nd; some spoke all they could, others could not start to speak all they wanted to; but some space had to be left for the Fairfax baseball team to talk about their winning the game from the Ehrhardt team. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Copeland left Sunday for New York to buy up goods for the fall trade and take in the fashionable summer resorts. Miss Gertrude Hucks is visiting her brother, Dr. J. H. Hucks, and f Mrs. Hucks. " Mrs. Rev. D. B. Groseclose is spending some time with her children, Mrs. Chloe Hacks and Mrs. Ruth Ehrhardt. Some farmers are talking about having open cotton in their fields and think they will have a bale by v / the-first of next month. y The heavy rain6 have set the cotton back somewhat. \ Mr. Wm. F. Hiers is visiting his homefolks and will take his wife and daughter home with him when and daughter home with him to Florence, when his vacation ends, when he returns. JEE. Denmark Dots. Denmark, July 25.?On Thursday evening of last week Mrs. F. V. James entertained in honor of her guest, Miss Isabelle Strait, of Rock Hill. Tuesday evening Mi6s Katherine "Wilkinson gave a watermelon cutting at her home, complimentary to Misses Onie Brux and Gladys Boozer. On Thursday morning a number of young ladies were entertained by \ Mrs. Trueslay Crum, Jr., to meet her * sister, Miss Hart, of Estill, who is spending some time with her. - * ? ? T ri/v_ Mrs. W liUcLLU LiUUlS viaift, ui \^\j~ lumbia, is visiting Mrs. C. C. Cooper. Misses Brux and Boozer, after a visit of several weeks here, returned to Midville, Ga., on Thursday, accompanied by Dr. and Mrs. John G. "Boozer. Mrs. W. E. Osteen and daughter, of Florence, are spending 6ome time with her father, Mr. H. C. Rice. Mrs. E. P. Sojourner and family are visiting her sister, Mrs. Felder, in Mullins. Misses Ruth and Frances Guess are at home after an extended visit to their sister, Mrs. Hubert Matthews, in Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. Willie Metz, of Augusta, and Mrs. Knight, .of St. George, are on a visit to their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Pearson. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Povas and family and Miss Kathleen Marvin are guests of Mr. S. D. Guess. Misses Norma and Louise Guess, with Mr. Joe Guess, Jr., of Appleton, are spending some time with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. H. Gues6. On Wednesday afternoon, G. W. poolsby, Jr., celebrated his sixth V birthday with a party for a number of his young friends. KILLS HIS YOUNG DAUGHTER. Clerk of Boston District Court Then Takes His Own Life. Boston, July 27.?Thomas H. Dal^ ton, clerk of the East Boston Dis^ trict court, shot and killed his fiveweeks-old daughter, Priscilla, seriously wounded his wife and son, Joseph, five years old, and then killed himself early today. Dalton had been at his home for the past two months suffering from a nervous break-down. He shot the children as they slept. Bamberg Wins From Cope. In a slow game Thursday last Baraberg defeated Cope on the latter's diamond by the score of 10 to 0. Bamberg had the Cope boys completely outclassed, the features being the pitching of Rowell and fielding of Rentz. Batteries: Bamberg, Rowell and Cooner; Cope, Hughes and Tatum. ? / LIGHTS FOR DENMARK. |jy ' Election on Question Sees Only Four Negative Votes. SOMI KI Denmark, July 25.?The town of Denmark has good reason for selfcongratulations over the vote for electric laghting Thursday. Out of 1 106 votes polled ouly four were against the lights. The franchise calls for the lighting to be in opera- A tion by August 15. While most of the towns the size of Denmark have *-0 . id IS lights only till midnight, Den- ^ ~ mark will have illumination from ' ' dark to dawn. Guar The Edisto Iron Works company, successors to the Denmark Machine cam^ 3. W6 eration, doing all manner of machine Works company, are now in full op- . frnm repairing. It is under the management of T. B. Wilkinson, secretary and treasurer. shoot The old cotton oil mill, purchased in s0 by G. Move Dickinson, will soon be ca'i^1 ready for work under the name of know the Denmark Oil and Fertilizer com- *s no pany, G. Moye Dickinson, president, Wj and A. F. Guess, general manager. years ago, CONDUCTOR SHOOTS NEGRO. side ( Street Railway Employee Assaulted x- ^ . with Near Car Shed. , . , highi Charleston, July 27.?L. E. Jones, fhey a conductor employed by the Consol- in tl1 idated company, today shot and se- was 1 riously wounded a negro named John an(* 1 Jones, who, it is alleged, attempted to assault him in the vicinity of the car shed on Meeting street. The Fath< negro had been a passenger and raised a disturbance on Jones's car when the conductor wanted to collect a A second fare after passing Columbus V. CI street. Whenf1 Jones alighted from N. Y his car at the shed on Meeting street, of th it is alleged, the negro attacked him. ty M The conductor pulled out his pistol in a i and, in self-defence, he says, shot son f the negro, the bullet taking effect mure in the stomach. The negro was tak- man, en to a local hospital, where physi- his c cians probed for the bullet. Yc Conductor Jones was placed under in th arrest and is being detained at the day police station pending the condition forgi of the wounded man. In the court his < room today, where he is held under were the surveillance of an officer, Mr. "I Jones declined to discuss the affair, Newi stating that he was not in position schot to talk, and that all statements would socia have to come from Superintendent ed hi Passailaigue, of the local traction this ; company. Conductor Jones sustain- was 1 ed bruises and facial scratches. Bill i polit: Charleston, July 27.?Later this must afternoon the negro succumbed to his ci injuries. Coroner John G. Mansfield He s will hold an inquest into the death an(j \ tomorrow morning. to w ?_ i ANNUAL EXCURSION. __the 1)0 0] Special Trains Will Be Run on August the 12th. > The annual mountain-seashore ex- shoo cureion on all railroads will be operated this year August 12. This trip always takes thousands of pleasure Gr seekers to the hills of western North Sult Carolina, to the resorts on the Atlan- alleg tic coast, to the national capital, and Craii to the bigger cities of the North. The othe: low rate of $10; round trip, to Wash- riSon ington makes it possible for many to The < make their vacation trip to Greater saloc New York. Many take advantage of ious the $S round trip rate to visit Nor- witm folk and Richmond. sons. Always it is necessary for the sev- jng eral railroads to operate special shot trains and add many cars to their repla regular trains to accommodate the ter crowds. Some ' and BECKY BREAKS HER FAST. Miss Edelson Taken to Tarrytown as Witness. Vow Vnri- Jniv ?Reckv Edel- In son. after a week's fast, broken in- very termittently by taking small quanti- not, ties of food surreptitiously, today a big was taken from her cell in tire work club, house here and sent to iTarrytown, days where she will be a witness in court. "J She was thin and pale and her condi- catcl" tion was considered sufficiently se- some rious to warrant sending a work speni house physician with her. mad( .Miss Edelson will testify at the ny b< trial of nine of her associates in the affliu Industrial Workers of the World for I>\ disturbing the peace. She declared "V she would remain on hunger strike ter c and compel the authorities to feed a fel her forcibly or release her. She as- the s serted that, notwithstanding the tie n claims of the authorities, she had eat- on, a en only the whites of two eggs since five she went to the work house a week "T ago. I'm Should she persist in her hunger anotl strike it is considered probable that the t her wish to be fed forcibly will be marlrealized tomorrow. agre< rHE PALMETTO STATE < 2 OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS XDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. News Boiled Down for Quick T leading?Paragraphs About t Men and Happenings. t meeting of the postmasters of 1 and South Carolina and Virgin- 1 being arranged for Washington, , on October 5, 6. and 7. ree companies of the National d of South Carolina will go into at Batesburg on August S, for , ek. The companies will march igh the country to Batesburg ,. Columbia. . aen he went out in his yard to \ - 1- r*? , a dog, josepn Lee, ui uauucji I me way shot himself with a .32 j e pistol. He says he does not ( how the accident occurred. He ? t considered seriously wounded. ( liter Hayes, a white boy of 20 J i, who was paroled some time i in order to return to the bed- i of his mother in Greenville, was < i arrested Sunday in company Russell Bellue, charged with vay robbery. It is charged that held up and robbed a white man * e Cripple Creek section. Hayes irst convicted of stealing a horse ouggy. WANTS NO REVENGE. < er of Murdered Lad Doesn't ] Wish Death Penalty. < friendship that began when W. j eary, town clerk of Haverstraw, J ., and Frederick Newman, one e owners of the Rockland counessenger, were boys, is recalled , statement by the latter as a rea- i can Ploanr tVlP lerer of his son, Eugene M. Newpay the extreme penalty for rime. rang Newman was shot to death , ie town clerk's office on Thurs- J when he called to ask Cleary's veness for having eloped with , laughter, Anne Cleary. They married a week ago Saturday, don't want Bill killed," said Mr. j nan, the father. "We went to ^ >1 together; we're political and , 1 friends; my paper always back- 1 lm up and we have joked about ( afFair of our children. But Bill ivrong; my boy was all right, and . nust not be set at libertythrough 1 ics or any other means. He have a term of imprisonment." eary is still in the county jail. . ;aid gossip about his daughter the son of his friend caused him . orry, "until he did not know ' he was doing," when he killed , soy. His defense probably will , motional insanity. , IYSTERY VEILS KILLING. 1 ting Occurs at Near-beer Stand 1 in Greenville County. eenville, July 28.?As the re- 1 of an altercation caused by an i ed insult to a woman, Henry 1 l, a white man, is dead and an- ( : white man by the name of Har- ! , is being held at the county jail, i shooting occurred at a near-beer m stand in Stradleyville, a notorsection of the county, and was 1 sssed by a large number of perHarrison claims that the killwas accidental and that Crain himself when he attempted to ice his pistol in his scabbard, af- 1 they had finished their fighfr ) mystery surrounds the shooting ! up to date there have been no ! ler developments. Poor But Just. one sense of tne wora ne was poor. In another sense he was for he had a cousin who drew ; salary as manager of a foot ball ( says Pearson's Weekly. A few ; ago he called on him. , ack," he said, with a convincing i in his throat, "can you give . itliing to help me? I have just t my last penny!" He always } a point of spending his lastpenjfore going to see his cousin. The 1 ?nt relative smiled, unexpectedly, certainly. John! As a mat- 1 if fact. I was just going to pay < How two shillings to mark out 1 ground for next Saturday's cup- ! latch. But if you care to take it ! nd you're a relation, I'll pay you bob! What do you say?" < hanks awfully. Jack; but though < poor, I should not like to rob < her man of his job. So pay me 1 liree extra shillings and let him 1 ; the ground for two bob as he < >d?what?" f CAME NEAR BEING FATAL. Occupants Injured When Automobile is Struck by Train. Johnston, July 23.?An automobile Iriven by A. C. Kimsey was struck resterday afternoon by the Southern .rain from Columbia to Augusta as ;he train was approaching the turn it Jackson and Calhoun streets. The :ar was struck midway between the ear wheels, and the four occupants, vlmsey and three children, were iurled in the air with terriffic force 'mm the hieh sneed of the train and lashed to the ground and the car denoliehed. All were injured, but no oss of life up to this time, yet fears ire felt for the recovery of Viola, the ive-year-old child of Mr. Kimsey, as :o her recovery. Mr. Kimsey and his chree children had just left their lome for a joy ride and had not got:en out of sight when the accident occurred. Inexperience of the driver ind fright caused the accident that came near wiping out an entire family. At 8 o'clock this morning the njured are resting quietly, but it has iot been yet determined the extent if the injuries. THE MILITIA SITUATION. Senator Tillman Confers With War Department Washington, July 27.?About <a veek ago Senator Tillman wrote the secretary of war, asking information is to the Federal property said to nave been lost by the State of South Carolina after having been loaned .'or militia purposes. The senator also asked what should be necessary ;o restore the former relations be:ween the State and the federal government with regard to the militia. The following reply has been received jnder date of July 23: 'Hon Benjamin R. Tillman, United States Senate, "My Dear Senator: I am in receipt Df your letter of July 18, wherein rou request an itemized statement of the federal property charged against the State of South Carolina by the fvar department on account of loss, and the history as to how this loss occurred. You will find enclosed herewith two lists, one showing the property which has been lost to the iralue of approximately $82,000, and the other showing obsolete property on hand in the State, which the war department has vainly requested to be turned in and accounted for, totalling in value approximately $22,000. Just how or when the property contained in the first list mentioned was lost it is impossible to state. The loss has probably occurred over a period of many years. It was believ ea tor some nme umi me mums wi the governors did not show the actual amount of federal property on hand in the several states, so in 1913 the regular officers detailed to make an inspection, were directed to make an accurate check of every article of federal equipment for which States were accountable. As a result of this check, the discrepances set forth In the list were discovered in South Carolina, and indicate that proper care had not been given. It may be stated that this loss has continued since the check was made. This briefly is the history of the case. "You ask also what is necessary to do in order that the former relations existing between South Carolina and the national government in regard to the organized militia may be restored. For your information I enclose herewith copy of a letter which I wrote to the governor of South Carolina, wherein you will find set forth the conditions under which the relations you mention will be resumed. "Very respectfully, "HENRY BKKCKfc'.\KlUuE, "Acting Secretary of War." Accompanying the foregoing letter is a long itemized statement covering military equipment charged to South Carolina. The letter to the governor referred to was published in the South Carolina newspapers ibout a month ago. STORM HITS CHESTER. One of the Most Severe in Considerable Time. Chester, July 2S.?Chester was in the grip of one of the most severe I electrical storms to-day that it has had this summer. Lightning did considerable damage. One bolt tore a great hole in the metal roof of the Wylie & Anderson livery stable and eame very near injuring one of the Dwners. In this city and nearby eome reports of many trees being felled. Heavy rains accompanied the lightning and they were greatly needsd in the county which has been sufering from the recent torrid weather. WARM MEETING AT OLA i CANDIDATES DISCUSS LIVE ] SUES OF THE DAY. Dr. Rentz Renews Attack on N Miley's Record.?Crowd Cheered the Candidates Freely. The third meeting of the cour campaign, which was held at O] yesterday furnished sufficient < citement to make it stand out as t most interesting meeting of the ca paign thus far in this county. T morning gave promise of rain a this no doubt curtailed the numt of voters who heard the varic candidates as they laid claim to t suffrage of the people, there bei perhaps only 150 people as6embl on the cotton platform of the S< board Air Line depot when the me ing was called to order. Capt. T. Cave, the chairman of the lo< club, called the meeting to order 11 o'clock, and in the absence a minister, Dr. Leighton Hartzog fered an invocation. Capt. Cave bei a candidate for supervisor, called J C. F. Rizer to the chair and he p sided throughout the meeting. A feature of the meeting which minded one of the days of 1912 v the reading by Acting Chairman ] zer of a petition bearing the sigi tures of 64 voters of Olar and tl vicinity in which the voters reque ed each candidate to declare hims for or against the present State j ministration in order, as the petiti said, "that the voters might vote telligently." The full text of 1 petition follows: "We, the und signed voters, do hereby request ei candidate ror eacn omce to cap* himself, whether in sympathy w or against the present administ tion, that we might vote intellige ly." - To this a few responded an open declaration against the i ministration, while others prefer] not to commit themselves at t time. A personal difficulty between : B. W. Miley and Dr. S. P. Rentz, a didates for the house of represen tives, was narrowly averted by 1 timely intervention of friends at close of Dr. Rentz's speech, and t was another feature which ad( more to the interest of the meeti Mr. Miley had charged that some ti ago Dr. Rentz had endorsed ] Miley's record in the legislature j had promised his support if Mr. Mi would enter the race. Dr. Rentz nied this charge during the cou of his speech, and when he had cl ed replied to Mr. Miley's question saying that he had not told him This brought on a dispute and each assumed somewhat of a be gerent attitude and drew nearer each other, friends intervened z poured oil on the troubled wat< A little heckling was indulged but at no time did the spirit of b< terousness manifest itself and g< order prevailed throughout the me ing. At the close of speeches by car dates for supervisor a short rec was taken in order that the car dates might get together and dec upon the dates for the last two me ings of the campaign. It was cided that the next meeting sho be held at Denmark on next W nesday, August 5th, and the 1 meeting at Bamberg on Friday bef the 25th of August. The original time limit set was 1 minutes for all offices save those supervisor and representative, but account of the absence of seve r-anHii-lntPs r'nr minor offices the ti tor speeches by candidates for house was extended to twentv-1 minutes. Cotton Weighers. The first candidate introduced v .Mr. A. J. Fail, who is seeking el tion as cotton weigher at Olar. 1 Fail had nothing to say, however .Mr. A. R. .Morris was next call who, like-Mr. Fail, had nothing say. The other two candidates in t race, A. R. Morris and D. J. Temp ton, were absent. Magistrate at Olar. In the race for magistrate at 01 Messrs. O. J. C. Lain and J. W. Smi the two candidates for this offi merely announced their candidacy County Commissioners. Mr. H. \V. Chitty, standing for election as county commissioner, v next introduced and replied to I charge of Mr. .J. J. /.eigier, muue Ehrhardt, to the effect that he li but one eye and could not tell wh the roads were in good condition cause he could only see half of the To this he replied that he could up one side and down the other 1 (Continued on page 4, column ; ^j|| SOUTHERN' TO BUILD PIER. Eleven Millions for Preparations for ic. Panama Canal Traffic. 3 Washington, July 27.?Confirmation of the intention of the Southern lr. railway to build immediately at Charleston, S. C., an independent coal terminal, largely for Panama canal traffic, was given today by President itv Fairfax Harrison, before the special ia*r senate *. ..mmittee investigating the ;x_ coal rate situation in the South. President Harrison said engineers he , were now at work preparing plans ke for the construction of a terminal to . accommodate the loading of one ship at a time at Charleston, and that it er . ? would take from nine months to a 'tis ? he year to complete the work. He said ng he had desired to arrange to use me ed proposed Clinchfiied road terminals ?a_ at Charleston, but after months of gt_ consideration he had found in May w or June last that this was impossible j because of objections of shippers. ? t Mr. Harrison estimated that it would cost $11,300,000 to put his of_ road from the Appalachian coal fields ng to Charleston into proper shape for Ir profitable coal transportation and to re^ complete the terminals at Charleston. re_ He said the charges to the shipper - as woulc* be tbe same as l^at charged by the Norfolk and Western from the ia_ Pocahontas field, although the ex* A1 ~ A X5C _ ?? A1* pense 01 me iranic wuuiu uc gicaici st_ than over the rival line. elf ALLIGATOR BLOCKS PROGRESS. id ion Refuses to Move Until He Felt Docin tor's Auto on His Xeck. . the er_ Kingstree, July 27.?While Dr. E. lCh T. Kelley was enjoying the smoker ess given at the Kellahan hotel Friday ith night by the board of trade to the ra_ tobacco men engaged on the local nt_ market, he received a 'phone mesage bv from Andrews to come there as soon a(j. as possible to attend a patient. The red doctor left Kingstree about 12 o'clock' bis that night in his twenty-two hundred pound Hupmobile. When crossing Vlrt the swamp about nineteen miles from an. Kingstree he saw lying across the ta- road ahead of him what he at first Qie supposed to be a big log. Running the bis car closer to the obstruction he his discovered that it was a monster alliled gator. He got out of the car, and, ng. procuring a fence rail, attempted to me urge the reptile out of the road by \ir. blows administered on him. This, md however, did not seem to disturb the lev old fellow's rest, so the doctor got de- back in his car and driving ahead rse full speed ran his car upon the monsos ter. Then, with the front wheels of by the car on his back, old 'gator be so. gan to rear and squirm and bellow, as rocking the car about as if it were a ,Hi_ light buggy. The car finally got over to but one of the tires was badly torn. ind Dr. Kelley says that while using ;rs. the rail on the reptile it made a swipe in at him with its big tail, the force of jis_ which created such a swish as the J0(l blow barely passed him that he was ?et- afraid longer to apply the rail, and decided to run over him with his car, l(ji- but being so large it was hard to get ess the wheels over his back. [(ji- Dr. Kelley says he would have drivide en around the old offender, but its ' .* ;et- great length left no room for pasde sage on either side of the road. Afuld ter the car had passed over the 'gator ed- it moved on across the road and into ast the vastness of the swamp. ?re CONFESSES SORDID CRIME. IVfc Greenville Man Charged With Incest and Murder. on ral ~?? me Greenville, July 28.?One of the I mncf cMrHiH r>nlf1.hlfinHpd rrimp? the ?? - ? - ? , _ that Greenville county has known in l\e years came to light on Sunday afternoon when J. D. Xix, white, 32 years of age, was brought to the county c jail, where he confessed to having ? committed incest with his own niece and when the baby was born carried * , it into a field nearby, where he bured, . ied it in a shallow grave dug bv his to own hands. Xix discussed the case with indifference when seen by a correspondent yesterday. He says that he is ready to pay the price of his crime. The county authorities have been 2r, ^ working on the case for several days, and the matter came to a head yesC6, , terday, when Xix surrendered. When Xix led the sheriff's party to the shallaw grave, which he had dug and onre ly a few rags and bones were found, ^ 35 , , he coolv exclaimed: "I buried it -he I . . . . . at there: the hogs musi nave scrauncu |3(j the body up and carried it away." He will be charged with incest and be- murder: jMt !m- Unites Four Families. s? Chicago's new bureau for the pre" vention of divorces started operations 3.) Saturday and reconciled four couples. I,, | ^