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I ?b? Hamburg feralb | ? j One DoDar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C? THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5,1914. Established 1891. -?====?====rr=r^= ======================== " v COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS j ; l SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS j IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the | j County and Elsewhere. 1 - Fairfax Fancies. ' Fairfax, Oct. 31.?Mrs. J. E. John- 1 ston sent out invitations to practical- 1 lv the whole of the female portion 4 of Fairfax to a reception she accorded Mrs. G. D. Sanders. Mrs. J Johnston has been away and this 4 was her first opportunity of honor ing her friend. Little Lena John- > ston and Frances Loadholt received '> the cards. Mesdames Laurens You- < mans and Fred Lightsey received at the door where the guests were turn- ( ed over to Mrs. S. L. Sanders, who 1 showed them to the hostess and Mrs. ' N. Loadholt, who presented them to 1 the omoct?ti-io hridp Mesdames W. < E. Harter, 0. J. Youmans and X. B. i Loadholt led the couples later on into the dining hall, where salads were served. Then Misses Zelle Loadholt. < Alrta Knight and Susie Albergotti served fruit nectar. Misses Edith George. Sadie Harter, Ruth Simpson and Blanche Preacher were lovely < waitresses. Three brides stood to- ] gether, Mesdames John Smith, Daniel < v Moorer and George Sanders, and re- i ceived a welcome as residents of < Fairfax. The bungalow was decorat- i ed. Misses Sadie Harter and Alma * Knight gave sweet music. The ladies of the Fairfax chapter, 1 U. D. C., gave theic flower and fancy 1 work display on Friday afternoon. i NEW WAR IX MEXICO. Villa and Carranza's Forces Fighting. 1 Villa to Move South. T^1 Vr\i? 9 WUhAitt oneu'or. ' Eil rasu, o. ii imwm .. ing Carranza's refusal to relinquish the provisional presidency of Mexi- ' co the Aguas Calientes conference ' has ordered an extensive movement of Villa troops toward the south. Ten thousand men of the com- ' mands of Gens. Xatera and Robles and 102 cannon commanded by Gen. * Angeles have arrived at the convention city and are preparing to proceed south, according to official advices received in Juarez. Fighting between Carranza and Villa forces already has begun south 1 of the convention city, persons ar- ' riving here tonight from the south reported. EGYPT UNDER "lARTIAL LAW. 1 British Commander Has Orders to Suppress Outbreaks. Washington. Nov. 2.?Martial law ] was proclaimed today by Great Bri- ] tain throughout Egypt. An official \ notification by the British charge , d'affaires at,Cairo was delivered to i f American diplomatic agents there. j ^ On orders from London, the com, mander-in-chief of the British forces i P took command of the general situa- ( tion with orders to suppress all out- j breaks. } LANDSLIDE AGAIN. : 1 Goethals Hopes to Have It Opened to 1 Trade Wednesday. Washington, November 2.?The > Panama canal has been closed to navigation by another landslide. Col. Goethals hopes to have it open again , by Wednesday. , , Col. Goethals cabled the canal . commission late today: "Rapid movement of slide material in the break north of God Hill , locked the channel Sunday. Hope to open channel by Wednesday." As understood at the canal office this slide is only an aftermath of the big slide of October 14. . Panama, Nov. 2.?Earth slides at the bottom of Culebra cut are . a fain fivinp- thp authorities trouble, i , -o- o? - ? - - I No vessels have passed through since Friday, but traffic is expected to be ( resumed tomorrow. Loan Applications Pour In. < * 1 Applications for loans on cotton to the extent of six cents a pound or / $30 per bale continued to pour in c * today upon Asa G. Candler, president of the Central Bank and Trust c corporation. No figures were made 1 public but it is said that applications for loans on somewhere rear 10,000 bales had been made in the two daysj 1 Sine? 311*. & (1UL1UU1KC1UCUI. first made its appearance. Work on 1 the Candler warehouses under this r . plan is being repidlv pushed and there will be no trouble in filling the j first one on the day on which its com- j 3 pletion is announced. Mr. Candler ;j says he will unquestionably be able to; take care of a million bales it' that' t much is offered.?Atlanta Dispatch, j' > * K1HSOX A IJOV ONCE MOliK. j Inventor Sends .Menage and Arts as j News Butcher. j SOM ! K Detroit. .Mich., Oct. 28.?It developed today that Thomas A. Edison' :he inventor, visiting scenes of his ooyhood near here, cast off the man:le of years yesterday, and on the ;vay to Port Huron once more tried !iis hand at the operator's key and j :aking tlie wares from news butchers j >old them among his friends. As a bov, .Mr. Edison sold papers , * ? , hou< md worked as an operator for the use same railroad. As he passed through Mount Celmens yesterday he Stepped L war into the telegraph operator s office md tapped off a message to his chil- ^ Jren in New Jersey. m ' At Port Huron Mr. Edison was ^ar Equipped as a news butcher. He ap- stafl aeared to take keen delight in the s0 ( situation. When he stepped off the train he poured the proceeds of his spec lay's business into the hat of a smil- ties ing porter. J ? in t DISASTROUS FIRE. C0U] Several Buildings in Orangeburg Are 11 ?D ' . wer Destroyed. ' acti Orangeburg, Oct. 31.?The most reve lisastrous fire for years occuried mat liere late this afternoon. The fire J Driginated in one of four stable build- ness ,ngs on St. John street, in the heart prol 5f a business block, on which are j by thickly located many business houses, j uiai The fire consumed the stables on St. Ben John street in a short time, giving saw the firemen no chance to do any latti fighting. The flames spread rapidly .Ten toward Main street, consuming the | firei inly remaining wooden buildings in j heai the block on Main street. This build-> Ben ing was owned by S. A. Stroman. as | insa was also one stable destroyed. The | ither stables were owned and occupied by Slater Brothers, L. C. Hughes, Bolen & Doyle. A number * if horses were burned to death, own>d by Henry Slater and others. The ^ buildings of the Eliott Hook and g t Ladder company and H. Von Osen, wag :>n Main street, and the two-story Tue wooden building of E. E. Culler. St. d-da John street, were damaged, the Eliott pub luilding to a great extent. The ad- .Q ? - antage of an adequate water supply * CTal ind efficient fire force was fully dem- { mstrated at this fire, which might st?t lave destroyed the whole square. It eraj is impossible at this time to obtain ^ sen? ietails as to the losses and insurance. . . in t ANARCHIST GETS 20 YEARS. Port ing Pour Conspirators Given Death Sen- Stat tence?One Life Imprisonment. T pose Sarajevo, Bosnia., Oct. 2S.? (Via \msterdam to London.)?Gavrio jv t Printzip, who assassinated Archduke pn]^ Prancis Ferdinand, heir apparent to jU?/ :he Austro-Hungarian throne, and his at'a ;onsort, the Duchess of Hohenberg, CQU, vas sentenced today to twenty years e]ec n prison. ^ tenv Four of the other conspirators in 0 vere sentenced to death by hanging, cinc jne to life imprisonment, two, includ- turr ng Medeljo Gabrinovic, who threw ing i bomb at the Archduke, to twenty Qha rears; one to sixteen years, one to was :hirteen years, two to ten years, one :o seven years and two to three years. ^ rhe other defendants were acquitted. Johi Middling Good Money. C Just before the war between the TTni1 sections so much counterfeit money ^ _ vas in circulation that business mer *rQE iound it advantageous to use a coun" ?r :erfeit banknote detector. gnt. A storekeeper in a .\ew nampsmre ^ tillage came into possession of a wj Danknote which he strongly suspect- nQni jd to be counterfeit, so he sent it to pog. l nearby city in charge of an old stage ^ iriver for examination. of , On two successive trips the old gee" fellow forgot his particular errand. feJt \ third time he was charged with it . ^ n terms unmistakably strong. Again ^ le forgot. Fearing to confess his g( carelessness, he resolved to brave it geco jut somehow. ^ j "Well," said the storekeeper anxi- nan] jusly, "did they say it was a bad n aS Dra "Why, no," responded the stage f Iriver. deliberately, "not exactly." wag "Not exactlly?" ejaculated the tQ v ither. "What do you mean? Was j t good?" I0t A /\ *-* ? ao n 9 Woo it anoH I W Ilcl L UU ?UU mean . ?* W.O IK. . J|0M "No, not exactly that, either?" T ind the old man brightened a little. ^ H "They said they guessed it was "bout * T "iddlinV' con* Brilliant. , ! !"in. j llOU! Western visitor (accosting citi-! a sa :en:??"Can von tell me a gooJl.McL : jla^e to stop at?" ! dat* Citizen?"Certainly. Just before : Wye he 'at.' Good-day, sir."?Boston I gov< fransc-ript. ! tor THE PALMETTO STATE IK OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS j IXRS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. e News Roiled Down lor Quick | Heading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. ! he Orangeburg county fair will! leld in Orangeburg next week. Dhn L. McLaurin, State ware-: seman. has made application for of the large steel building at thej grounds in Columbia as a State ehouse. nder the warehouse law ratified ;he general assembly the State ehouseman will appoint all his f and fix their salaries. He is aljmpowered to lease or otherwise tre storage places. There are ;ial provisions for certain coun. A. Parler defeated J. J. Howell he general election in Dorchester ity for superintendent of educaBoth were democrats. Both e in the election on account of the on of the executive board being ;rsed by the State committee, the ter now being in the courts, oe R. Terry, a prominent busi> man of Chester, was shot and bably fatally wounded Tuesday Thomas X. Bennett. It is said ; Terry who resides next door to nett, greeted Bennett when he him Tuesday morning, when the er mumbled an oath and before ry knew what was being done 3, the shot taking effect in the I d. From suspicious actions of! nett, it is believed he may be ne. COTTON BOM) ISSUE. Voted on at AH in Some of the Counties. eports from various parts of the e show that a very light vote polled in the general election sday. All the Democratic canites have been elected. The Relirans had candidates for congress several districts, but the Demoic nominees were overwhelmingdected. The Socialists had a e ticket, except for adjutant gen; a candidate for United States itor and candidates for congressj hree of the seven districts. Re-j s received pointed to the carry-j of eleven amendments to the j e consuiuuuii. he situation in regard to the proid cotton bond issue of $24,000,was a hopeless mess. Apparenthe question was voted upon at a small percentage of the pollprecincts, in some counties not ill. The election is a nullity, of \se. In some of the counties the tion commissioners "did not atpt distribution of the ballots and thers the ballots reached the prets after the polls had opened. Reis received showed an overwhelmvote against the bond issue. In rleston, for instance, the vote nine for and 586 against. AREHOUSK COMMISSIONER. n L. McLaurin Elected to Position by General Assembly. olumbia, October 30.?Former :ed States Senator John Lowndes ,aurifl, now serving as senator a .Marlboro, was ".onight elected ehouse commissioner. It was an rely unexpected turn. The whole g started in the joint assembly, n Ponreoontativo fMaiiHo Sarin I linated Senator McLaurin for the tion and said the nomination was le entirely without the knowledge dr. McLaurin, but he wished to the warehouse law a success and no one better fitted for the honor iew of his fight for the bill and abilities. enator McLaurin had previously nded the nomination of Mr. Jas. )rake, of Marlboro, and when his ie was sprung he stated that he committed to the support of Mr. ke and expected to vote and work him. In a moment a conference held and Mr. Drake volunteered - ithdraw and Mr. McQueen withv the name of Mr. Drake. The :d resulted: Total vote cast 108; ?ssary to elect 55; John L. Mc. r> l > 1 9 A' DViilir, I ill OO, x\. i. .tai/aviu --i, x mii|/ odges 28. he result brought applause and tratulations for Senator McLauthe real "daddy" of the warese measure. The position carries larv of $2,000 and expenses. .Mr. anrin was in no sense a candi for the position. Mr. Cecil he suggested the name of the ?rnor. but withdrew it when SenaMcLaurin's name was presented. TO KKKI* INFORMATION SKCIIKT. j i Customs Collectors Receive Instruc-1 i nous I'l'om Secretary of Treasury, j Washington, Oct. 2S.?Steps were! taken today by Secretary McAdoo to i prevent information relating to outgoing American cargoes from reaching belligerent nations through agents in this country. The Secretary instructed customs collectors as follows: "Until further directed, you will refrain from making public or giving out to any other than duly authorized officers of the government information regarding any and all outward cargoes and the destination thereof until thirty days after the date of the clearance of the vessel or vessels carrying such cargoes." The secretary's order is understood to have been promulgated because such information in the past Has fallen into tne nanas 01 consult | of warring nations and been used in attempts to capture vessels. As Kuth Saw It. Of course Ruth should have been able to answer more precisely when teacher asked her to describe a frog. But she gave a description that at least is picturesque when she replied: "A frog, teacher, is a big green bug with warts all over it. And it i keeps its mouth open all the time,! and?and?and it's always setting j down behind and?and standing upi in front." _ See the Point. "Yes," said the retired insurance agent. "I once induced a man to take out a $2.r>,000 life insurance! nrvli/n- and the vprv rlav after he cot I the policy he dropped dead." "I expect you wished your persuasive powers had not been so successful." "Well, hardly. You see, I married ! the widow."?Montreal Journal of Commerce. PEA X IT ROASTER EXPLODES. Ellec Ghlzal Painfully Injured- by Flying Fragments. A peanut roaster in front of Geo. Courie's grocery store exploded with great violence Saturday morning and Ellee Ghlzal, a young clerk and a brother of Mrs. Courie, was severely injured by flying fragments and boiling water. The explosion was caused by 'the j water running low underneath the! roaster. Young Ghlzal was standing | a few feet away and caught the full! force of the explosion. He was se-| verely cut about the fact and neck i and the lower part of his body was! so badly burned that the flesh came! off in flakes. A large crowd of Saturday shoppers were on the streets when the explosion occurred and there was considerable excitement. Ghlzal ran out into the middle of Main street and sank upon the ground groaning in agony. He was hurried to a phv~ o VivnnrHnrmic telUiau s uiuic, ? noc a ...... , was administered to relieve his sufferings while his wounds were being dressed. The roaster was blown into fragments and is a total loss. The machine was purchased only last week. So great was the explosion that bags of peanuts were scattered in a radius of twenty feet: Young Ghlzal's escape from fatal injury was little short of miraculous.?Dillon Herald. Glad He Was Right. Charles Cochran, who arranged the recent big boxing matches and the Wonder Zoo at Olympia, London, recently told this story: "A crowd of little boys was standing about the entrance of a traveling circus, each trying to get a glimpse of tne wonders wunin. An elderly gentleman, who looked as kind-hearted and benevolent as Father Christmas, happened to be passing. He- stopped and smiled first at the boys and then at the man guarding the entrance. This man smiled back, and so did the boys, then, as he put his hand in his trousers pocket the old gentleman said to the attendant: "Let all those boys in and count! them as they pass." There was a chorus of "Oh, thank j you, sir!" from the grateful boys,! and the attendant counted swiftly as: they trooped in. As the last boy disappeared within the tent he turn-J ed to the kind hearted old gentleman: "Thirty, sir," he said. "That's good!" said the old gentleman happily. "I guessed just right." Then he continued his walk. J ! DEMOCRATS IN CONTROL DESPITE S\VKK!'1X(; (i.MSS IJV REHIBLICAXS OYER COl'XTRY. Democrats Trianijiii in Massachusetts ant) Tennessee?Penrose Heats Mitchell Palmer in Penn. New York, November 3.?Sweeping Republican gains throughout th? country, which readied a climax in this State by the overwhelming victory of Charles S. Whitman, for governor and James W. Wadsworth tc succeed Elihu Root in the Unitec States senate, were indicated tonighi in early returns of the elections. Heavy falling off of the Progressive vote in many States, the returr to congress of former Speaker Josepi G. Cannon, decisive Republican gains in New York and Illinois in the hous< membership and the overwhelming defeat of Representative A. Mitchel Palmer by Senator Boies Penrose ir Pensylvania were features of th< early returns. Democratic leaders, however. wer< pleased by a triumph in Massachu setts, where former Representative Samuel W. .McCall was defeated foi the governorship by Governor Walsh Retain Control. Early returns indicated that th< Democrats would retain control o congress with approximately n< change in the senate majority but bi a decidedly reduced majority in m< house. At a late hour results ir Illinois, Indiana, California and Col orado as to senatorships were ir doubt. In Illinois Roger C. Sullivan, wh< had endorsement of most administra tion leaders. Secretary of Stat< Bryan excepted, was leading in Chi cago and Cook county by a large plu rality over Senator L. Y. Sherman Republican, and Raymond Robins Progressive, but Senator Shermai was running ahead in the country dis tricts and was claiming the election Senator Shively, Democrat, fount in the Indiana early returns a stronf opponent in Hugh Miller, the Re publican candidate, with former Sen ator Beveridge. the Progressive can didate, polling a smaller vote thai generally had been expected. Sena tor Shively's vote began to pick ui at a late hour and administratioi leade-s were claiming his reelection In Colorado, In Colorado, Senator Charles S Thomas, Democrat, was being hart pressed by Hubert Work, Republicar candidate. The triumph of Senator Penrose in Pensylvania, over A. Mitchell Pal mer, Democrat, who was one of th< original supporters of Woodrow Wil son, and Gifford Pinchot, Progres sive, was overwhelming. The sena torial fight in Kansas also was uncer tain, according to early returns Charles Curtis, former Republicar senator; Congressman George A Xeely, Democrat, and Representative Victor Murdock, Progressive, en gaged in a spirited contest for th< seat of Joseph L. Bristow. Senators reelected as the result o hard battles were: Frank B. Brande gee, Republican, of Connecticut, op posed by Governor Simeon E. Bald win; Albert B. Cummins, Republican of Iowa, who defeated Representa tive Maurice Connolly; John Waltei Smith, Democrat, of Maryland; Wil liam J. Stone, Democrat, of Missouri Jacob H. Gallinger, Republican, o: New Hampshire, who was opposed by Representative E. B. Stevens. Change in Tennessee. In Tennessee there also was i change of party control, when Gover nor Ben W. Hooper, the Republicar incumbeflt was defeated by Thomaj C. Rye, Democrat. In Pennsylvania, where occurred one of the most spirited campaigns Martin G. Brumbaugh, Republican early took a long lead over Vance McCormick, Democratic candidate foi ' - - ? j j i * v, ^ governor, wno was enaorseu u? cm Progressives. In Ohio the race for governor between James M. Cox, incumbent, and Frank B. Willis, Republican, was close, with Governor Cox in the lead on the early returns. Defeat of woman suffrage in Missouri and North Dakota was indicated. Meagre returns from California showed Governor Hiram W. Johnson Progressive, leading Fredericks, Rebublican, and Curtin, Democrat, by a slight margin. The senatorial situation also was in doubt, Representative Joseph R. Knowland, Republican; Jas D. Phelan, Democrat, and Francis J. Heney, Progressive, all showing strength. In Ohio the prohibition issue was uppermost. In Cleveland and Day gkh.m.w fleet wins. ij i Two British Cruisers Destroyed and Two Damaged. Valparaiso, November 3.?Admiral (Graf von Snee, commander of the German fleet in Pacific waters, arrived here this morning and made the | following report concerning a naval engagement with British warships at . sea off Coronel last Sunday evening: , "On Sunday, November 1, between t 6 and 7 o'clock in the evening, dur.! ing a heavy rain and rough weather . off Coronel we sighted the British , | men of war Good Hope, Momr.outh [ j and Glasgow and the armored cruiser t Otranto. "An engagement ensued imme. diately. All the ships opened a brisk t cannonade with all their artillery. t "The Monmouth was sunk and the 3 Good Hope, after a great explosion ; on board, took fire. Her subsequent ,. fate is unknown owing to darkness 1 having set in. j "The Glasgow and the Otranto ; were also damaged, but the darkness prevented our obtaining knowledge ; of the extent of it. "Our ships, the Scharnhorst and ; Nurnberg, were not damaged. The r Gneisnau had six men wounded. The rest of our ships also were undamaged." - VESUVIUS CAUSES ALARM. f > Giant Old Volcano in Eruption Makes People Pray. 1 j Naples, November 2.?Mount Ve"jsuvius is again in eruption and the 1, inhabitants in its vicinity have be; come greatly alarmed. On Sunday }! special prayers were made and pro": cessions of people went to favored - o rflnAtitmn r\f tho HiflflCtPf | Silli iiico ao a t v^viwivu v* v?v "j of 1906 is feared. The activity of the volcano first manifested itself by deep detonations J ' and rumblings. This was followed 1 by gigantic columns of smoke and soon thereafter an abundant eruption of lava began. 1 The last serious eruption of Mount ' Vesuvius occurred in the spring of . 1906. Several villages were destroy" j ed and the property loss was estimat"ied at $20,000,000. About 500 per1: sons were killed and fifty thousand " i were rendered homeless. Many na' tions, especially the United States, 1 sent aid to the sufferers. There have been several eruptions since 1906, but all were of a minor character and no serious losses re1; suited. ton the "wets" were victorious by h; large majorities. -: In the South. j .. M - Democratic senators in the South " were reelected without difficulty, new senators from Southern States chosen "j being: Representative Oscar W. Un-' "j derwood, of Alabama, and Represen i tative Thomas W. Hardwick, of 11 Georgia. Former Governor J. C. W. | Beckham, Democrat, of Kentucky, was chosen for the long term. "J Francis E. McGovern, Republican, Jjwas elected, according to the early ! returns, to succeed Senator Stephenfi 6on, Republican, from Wisconsin, "j The triumph of former Speaker "iJos G. Cannon, Republican, over "j Frank T. O'Hair for Representative in the 18th Illinois district seemed ' j certain on the early returns. Other r, Illinois Republicans who were turned " out of the house in the last Demo j cratic landslide who will be returned f to congress are Wm. B. McKinley, ' Charles E. Fuller and John A. Sterling. Republicans also made gains in i New York, Oscar W. Swift defeating . Representative James H. O'Brien in i! the 9th district, Rollin B. Sanford 5 j defeating Representative Peter G. I Ten Eyck, Walter W. Magee succeed1 ing to the seat of Representative John R. Clancy, while R. L. Haskell, Republican, was elected in the 10th ? district. Marks the Trend. i The defeat of Representative Chas A. Korbly, Democrat, of Indiana, by .Merrill Moores also marked the gen1 eral trend of Republican gains i throughout the country. I Sereno E. Payne, Republican, of New York, one of the oldest mem bers of the house in point of service, was reelected without difficulty. Election of State officers resulted i in a row turn-m-ors Tn New York , Governor Glynn, the Democratic candidate* for reelection, was defeated ' decisively by District Attorney Whit man. Republican. Frederick M. j Davenport, Progressive nominee, in ! support of whose candidacy Ex-Pres[ ident Roosevelt devoted most of his li campaign, was left far in the rear, ? ? * _ 2 i his vote being exceeaeo oy inai ui (j William Sulzer, who was deposed as J governor lasi year. * ' ?