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r \ . i '1 Slip lambpry irrali) One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1915. Established 1891. i 1 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS t SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. \ ? ii ti News Items Gathered All Around the t County and Elsewhere. p LMinKaiMlt ITt/OlIIMW. tl '"* " h e Ehrhardt, May 10.?What a fine c E rain we did have Friday! The dust was settled right now; and my, the . gardens were set out and started off r in good shape; if they will only con- ^ tinue to be worked up for a week g or so. Those cotton fields will, from now on, grow a lot of grass and will ^ take lots of work to keep Jack Green from taking the full crops of corn t] and cotton. The rain, however, came too late for the oat crop. Oats are jj very short, did not get high enough ^ to cut good. The up-country has had some heavy hail to fall, doing some t] damage to sashes in houses, and gar- ^ dens. ( w The oar'of folks that went to Newberry, S. C., from here had a nice t) trip in their auto, no accident going t] or returning. p ?. Dr. Wm. H. Folk is to be married tj soon, and will go to Sycamore, S. C.. on his return, to practice his profes- j( sion at that place. jj , All of the merchants that were b closed up by homestead proceedings ^ are opened and going ahead with " their work, except the Hacker Co. Seems as if their business is hard to t) get in shape to move from where ^ they are at. t] There is a baseball game scheduled e for this week; can't say what team will cross bats with Ehrhardt team. w Some little practice has been\ had ir with local team6 of late, but as soon a as the grass gets to growing this will t( be cut out and the hoe and plouzh Q will take the place of ball and bat b with the local team. It seems as if extra energy was on a in the war zone last week, from the ? paper accounts; think its time for g, them to hold up trying to kill each n other now, as they have about used a all their energy and means already. ^ Well the A. C. L. railway is run- h ning trains on the Ehrhardt and Bam- 0 berg ^branch at last. Now there is something else for the people to talk b about that they want, what will it be? e. JEE. n 11 ^ Election at Denmark. s1 h Denmark, May 12.?Trustees of the s< Denmark graded and high school n have elected the following faculty B for next school year: Prof. E. M. Mc- f< Cown, superintendent; Miss Mattie b Howell, of Spartanburg, Converse col- h lege; Miss Kate Wood, of Spartan- o burg, Converse college; Miss Edith a Stackhouse, of Marion, Randolf-Mam con; Miss Lela Townsend. of Ninety^ Six, Winthrop; Miss Myra Cochran, of Palhonn WinthroD: Miss Norma Moore, of Pendleton, Winthrop; Miss f Clive Dixon, of Bishopville, Winthrop, and Miss Gussie Calhoun, of Greenwood, Winthrop. Supt. Mc- 01 Cown" with Misses Townsend. Coehsl ran, Dixon and Calhoun, were rev elected. 1 ?- g< Fairfax Fancies. ei la Fairfax, May 10.?The series of religious services that have been conducted at the Baptist church during n, the last two weeks by Evangelist D. (ji Paul Montgomery and his two'sons, eJ Vance and Paul Montgomery, of Blue c: Mountain, Miss., which brought about w the greatest religious reviyal ever known here, came to a close last night. One result of the meetings was 87 accessions to the Baptist H church, 52 for Baptism. 33 by letter tl and two restorations, and besides this u, there have been accessions to other w churches as a result 01 tnis great revival of Christianity, which is evident among the people irrespective of denominational proclivities. L Fairfax high school team defeated Barnwell here today by a score of 11 to six. The feature was the excel' st ' lent pitching by Wilson, of Fairfax. He struck out 12 men. Batteries: Wilson and Loadholt; Brown and , -- ? di JJix. umpires, L<yuns aiiu uieeu. House Burned Near Cope. ti Cope, May 5.?Yesterday after- 2 noon fire destroyed a dwelling belong- ir y ing to E. E. Ritter, on what used to ei be the Angus Cope place. The cause tl is said to have been a defective flue, th but as the wind was high, some think a spark was blown from the flue un- pj der the shingles and fanned into a w blaze. This is the second fire Mr. Rit- ec ter has had lately, for two weeks ago to the day lightning struck and de- w stroyed his large barn and contents at E his home place. It was not learned hi whether there was any insurance. th 4 KILLS .MK.MIiKIt OF IMlSSK. I. K. C?(>k, of .Marion, Slain by N^gi (based by Sheriff and Citizens. .Marion, .May S.?.Marion is in urinoil ot' excitement as a result lie bloody trail left by a negro de erado. who is running and hiding lie swamps near this city, and wl as already shot and slightly woun d Sheriff J. .M. Dozier and killed 1 dwell Cook, a well-known contract f this place, both of whom we railing the negro. Early today ne\ eached .Marion that someone lit roken into the store of the Dav upply company, of Eulonia, t< liles south of here, and Sher: ozier, accompanied by Rural Folic lan G. A. Davis. 6tarted by auto f< he scene of the robbery. Just as tl fficers were leaving the corpora mits of this city they met a negr ho carried a number of packag nd a shotgun. The sheriff stopp< tie machine and asked the negro e was the man who committed tl urglary at Eulonia last night. It ot known what the negro 6aid, j le sheriff at this time is in charge i le large posse in pursuit of the de erado, but as a result of the que ons asked by the officer the negi > said to have dropped his package ivelled the single-barrelled shotgi 1 his possession, and fired poi] lank at the officer, the load narroi .* missing nis race, wmcn was oaa owder-burned. % The negro then jumped a fence ; le roadside, and while the office red at him several times ra trough an open field and disappea d -in -Smith's swamp. Word wj ?nt to the city for assistance, ar ithin a short lime a large posse w< 1 pursuit. .Mr. H. Elwell Cook wi mong the number who respond* ) the call, and on reaching the hon f Mr. R. B. Baker, four miles belo ere, he crossed th$ open country b ween that place and Catfish Cre* nd stationed himself on the bank < ditch just in the edge of the thic wamp. Other men were locat* ear by. At about 11 a. m. the negi ppeared in the open field near .M ook and, gun in hand, approach* im. After getting within a few fe< f him the negro fired at him, the ei re load taking effect in the le reast, just over the heart. Mr. Coc spired almost instantly. Mr. A litage Brooks, a farmer, who wi tanding at a point not far distan earing the shot, started toward tl ;ene of trouble, when he saw tl egro fleeing toward the swamp. M rooks fired twice at the man, wl >11 and scrambled around in tl ushes. .Mr. Brooks thinking that 1 ad wounded or killed the negro, ra ver to Mr. Cook, who died just ae 1 rrived. DIVEI) FROM LUSITAXIA. e\v York Woman Tells How She E ed From Ship. Dublin, May 10.?Mrs. C. Murra f New York, a survivor of the Lus mia. who arrived today, said thi le and her brother dived from tl earner when it 6ank, both beir aod swimmers. They lost each otl r after the boat went down, but nv iter in'a shop in Queenstown. Mrs. R. Hill, of New York, sa: lat after the second explosion lass of wreckage came crashing c eck, crushing a crowd of men, woe i and children. The work of extr itinAthese people from the debr as in progress when the wom? ad children were called to enter t! oats. Soon after the Lusitania sank. Mr ill added, the submarine came i le surface, the German flag was rt p and the vessel remained abcv ater for ten minutes. AX AIR RAID OX SOUTH EXD. oss of Life and Big Property Dan age Reported. London. May 10.?Incoming pa rngers on trains from South Em sea resort in Essex, report an a tid there, in which serious properl image was done and which cause >me loss of life. Warning of the approach of ho le air craft was given South End ; :52 this morning. Several maei ies took part in the raid, but whetl they were Zeppelins or aeroplam le residents were unable to state, i ie weather was cloudy. Bombs struck houses in varioi irts of the town. One man and h ife were badly burned in a fire star 1 by an incendiary bomb. It is reported that several shoj ere burned at Leigh, near Sout nd. Four Zeppelins are said t ive dropped forty or fifty bomt tere. | IN THE PALMETTO STATE ro! .J SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. a: r Oi I" g_! State News Boiled Down for Quick ^ jn j Beading?Paragraphs About n 10 j Men and Happenings. g d- i I -J . s The South Carolina Press associa01 tion will hold its annual meeting at 1 re | Chick Springs, on June 2Stli, 29th * ' and 20th. a id i ,1: . Last .Monday, .May 10th, was obi served as memorial day all over the . ?D ; 1 State. Dinners were served the vetiff e erans in many cities, e- v 3r A primary election has been called c ie in the fourth district, to be held on te I August iuin, to nommaie a xueuiuei v o 1 of congress ro succeed Jos. T. John- t es son- I jd The annual convention o? the mas- r if ter plumbers of South Carolina was s ie held at Greenwood this week. The is next meeting will be held at Columns hia in 1916. I of At a recent meeting of the State c s- board of education, Charles P. Barre 1 s- was chosen superintendent of educa- c ro tion for Newberry county, to succeed s, George D. Brown, Jr. I in D. B. Traxler has been named for ^ Qt postmaster at Greenville. W. D. a v~ .Metts had been recommended last 1 ly winter for appointment, but he lost T the appointment after a strenuous * at fight by his opponents. r rs Governor Manning has wired the tn districts swept by storm in this State *i r- v as follows: "Deeply sympathize with anH nrnnprtv loss Of vniir ? ld community caused by storm. Can 1 IS this office be of service?" is t ;d The body of Henry M. Turner, bishje op of the African M. E. Church, arw rived in Atlanta Tuesday from Wind- { e_ sor, Canada, where Bishop Turner ^ ;k died several days ago. Bishop Tur- ^ ner was a native of South Carolina, ^ born at Newberry in 1834. jd A committee of the Farmers' Sero cret association, which has been in r- the limelight recently on account of t ?d the refusal of members to give out E et any information or objects of the f Q. organization, has written letters to t ft the governor and commissioner of E agriculture protesting against the a r. criticism directed against the associa- t is ti?n- h ,t, While attempting to get Walter u le White, who is said to be insane, out ie of his home. Chief of Police Hoi- t r. combe and Officer Bridges were seri- j, 10 ously wounded at Greenville Tues- ^ ie dav. White himself was also seri- t le ously wounded. . It is alleged White j in ran his wife and children away from f ie home, whereupon the officers were ], called. In regard to the sinking of the I Lusitania, Senator E. D. Smith is t quoted as saying: "A thorough in- t vestigation of all the.facts, and then s take such action as the facts warrant, t y such action as national dignity and t ,/ self-respect demands. I have im- -v t plicit confidence in President Wilson's t abolitv and patriotism to meet fully t the situation. SIX-OUNCE HAIL STONE. et 1 Many Big Ones Fall During Storm in a id Sumter County. * a c )n Sumter, .May 5.?Reports from a. Wedgefield, this county, today state r j. | that there was a hail storm there yes- a is terday afternoon, and that around t ;ni Dixie and Stateburg the storm was b le'quite severe. While the crops are v jmostly too small to be much damag-ja s.ied by the hail it was stated that the j a to! oats and wheat suffered considerably, o inland that the fruit trees were badly t ,e J damaged and the crop cut off by the v | hail. The stones were reported to be d Jthe largest ever seen, many of them! t !as large as a hen's eggs, and somejr jeven larger. It was stated by one 1 '"jman from there that after the storm n i one of the largest stones was weigh? 'ed, and that it tipped the scales at s"! ^ six ounces. '! Hail also fell east of Suniter, but ^ ir | not in sufficient quantity to damage ^ ! the crops. This is the second time in the week that sumter county nasi s had hail. Around Providence and [a t Dalzell the stones were said to cover tl the ground to a depth of four inches. si J- FOL K PERISH IX TORNADO. ?s S( 13 Marlboro County Swept by I disastrous ^ Storm. . ? is Bennettsville. May 7.?Four peoe< is pie were killed and hundreds made ^ t- homeless by a tornado which swept! Marlboro county this afternoon, just i * pi is escaping the town of Bennettsville. h The dead are Miss Inez Tart and Carl gi o Tart. The County Home was deis stroyed and one inmate killed. A negro infant was killed. 1 ? ? j KKAXK IS IIKSKXTKXt'KI). Atlanta Man Makes Statement.?To Hang on June 22nd. IllAtlanta, Ga., May 10.?Leo. M. 'rank was today resentenced to be tanged 011 Tuesday, June 22. for the * ' nurder of -Mary Phagan, a factory rirl. Sentence was passed by Judge len H. Hill, of the Fulton county uperior court. Mary Phagan was :illed April 26, 1913. Before senence was pronounced, Frank made nK . statement to the court, reiterating ^ lis declaration of innocence. Frank had prepared his statement n advance and when Judge Hill ask'd him if he had anvthine to sav pi' ihy sentence should not be pronoun- of :ed upon him, the prisoner stood re, irect, with his head thrown back and th) cithout once referring to the writ- ^ en text, declaimed it with the em- jai ihasis and gestures of an attorney ecj naking a plea before the court. He me aid: Frank's Statement. stc '"Again I stand before you. Again gtJ can but reiterate that I am innocent gr >f the murder of Mary Phagan. I ge lave absolutely no guilty knowledge re] if that tragic occurrence. s0 "I am innocent of this charge and sit assert that the record of the evilence conclusively proves this. No e(j ippellate tribunal has ever passed re( ipon this evidence. The only judge gr vuo nas ever iiearu il staieu mat ue ^a] iad the most serious doubts as to tj0 ay guilt. thi "My execution will not avenge Ma- gr y Phagan's death. A life will have an >een taken for a life, but the real ulprit will not have paid the penal- mj y. I will suffer for another's crime. lu "My trust is in God, who knows pe; hat my protestations of innocence wa re the truth. At softie future date he whole moral world will realize am t. It is the knowledge that God g0 mows it now and that the world will Pa mow it some day that inspires me 3 I stand before your honor and as un face the future. sel Precarious Position. rai "Anything else I might 6ay at this agt ime would be but an elaboration of jjf, av words to the court* Yet I am t0 ully alive to the fact that my posi- to ion is most precarious. It is a sit- m lation which is so far removed from pa, nything that'my life and mental at- cai itude could have bespoken. It is mc iideous, but at the same time, so jSe inreal, so incongruous. "It is fundamental in, human life o want to live. This desire to exist 3 ingrained in all of us?it is the asic morality of all who live. To hose who have the proper ideals of to iving, life without honor i6 insuf- toe erable. This is the message of theoogy and ethics. on "In the light of the whole truth or know?and the Almighty knows? hat the morality of my position in los his case is unassaillable. This being o, my complete exoneration of this na: errible charge lies in the future. ab< Vhen that day arrives I shall be chi indicated?and if I am alive, I will >e enabled to enjoy freedom and ma lonor. na "Therefore I'want to live. exi "Tho tmtVi null all nf thp faots nrv n the ease, when they come to light, ch; ;s some day they will, will prove to he ^world that my assertion of inno- rig ence is the truth. poi "The legal arena is now closed to; lig ne. The bar is placed forever j gainst further legal process. Yet suj he issue of guilt or innocence hasjcoi een 'before but one court, that in j des /hich the jury sat. All subsequent livi ppeals were made upon alleged legal rin nd juridic errors: not upon the facts dei r the evidence. Since the jury heard ] he case, no court of inquiry or re- wa lew has sifted the evidence. Xo not ecision of any appeals court under- ful ook to predicate an opinion on the ] ec-ord of the testimony and evidence, ths 'he doubt of the trial judge still re-, no1 lains." I rer - Cor HAS FIRE LOSS OF $5,000. An [. H. Hiott, Colleton County, Loses Cotton. Stock, Etc. ... Aik Walterboro, May S.?M. H. Hiott, prominent merchant and farmer of ^ le Round section of Colleton county,. ai Ty i | istained a heavy loss this week, hen one of his barns, containing 50 ales of cotton, 9 horses and mules, " J n'fls Kn rn qH "VV 3S mm tauie emu nugo, ? aa i>uiuv.u. , he loss is approximately $5,000. esides the cotton, which was burn1, Mr. Hiott has now on hand 650 ?^es lies, some of which was grown three ec* ?ars ago. He believes in fixing the |trec rice of his cotton himself, and 6aysi00^ tat he will sell when anyone will ve his price. aTn( lett Mary Pickford Thursday. 6 reels, bro' Oc and'15c.?adv. vilh I fMPATHY IS EXPRESSEI :kli\ sends messagevto uer man embassy on loss. ys Responsibility Hests With Brit ish.?Declares Germany Forced to Retaliation. Berlin, May 10.?The followin; ipatch has been sent by the Ger in foreign office to the German em ssy at Washington: "Please communicate the follow ; to the State department: 'Th rman government desires to ex ess its deepest sympathy at the los lives on board the Lusitania. Th sponsibility reets, however, wit' s English government, which rough its plan of starving the civil 1 population of Germany, has fore Germany to resort to retaliator asures. " 'In spite of the German offer t >p the submarine war in case th irvation plan was given up, th itish merchant vessels are bein; nerally armed with guns and hav peatedly tried to ram submarines that a previous search was impos >le. " 'They cannot, therefore, be treat as ordinary merchant vessels, j :ent declaration made public to th itish parliament by the parliamen ry secretary in answer to a ques n by Lord Charles Beresford, sai at at the present practically al itish merchant vessels were arme d provided with hand grenades. " 'Besides, it has been openly ad tted by the English press that th isitania on previous voyages re atedly carried large quantities o r material, un tne present voyag 3 Lusitania carried 5,400 cases o munition, while the rest of the car also consisted chiefly of contra nd. " 'If England, after repeated am official warnings, considered her f able to declare that that boa 1 no risk, and thus light-heartedl; jumed responsibility for the humai a on board a steamer,, which, owini its armament and cargo was liabl destruction, the German govern >nt, in spite of its heartfelt sym thy for the loss of American livef inot but regret that Americans fel ire inclined to fc-ust English prom s rather than pay any attention t 3 warnings from the German side.' ("Signed) FOREIGN OFFICE." What America Demands The demands in the American note be sent to the German governmen lay, are, briefly: 1. A strict accounting for attack American vessels and the takinj endangering of American' lives. 2. Financial reparation for th s of lives. 3. A guarantee, demanded in th me of humanity, that German: mdon its policy of sinking mer intmen carrying noncombatants. The note will declare recent Ger n acts indefensible under inter tionti^ law and will point out tha jressiOns of regret will count fo thing unless accompanied by inge in policy. It will also maintain the absolut ht of neutrals to travel to an int on the seas in neutral or be! erent merchantment. Phe American government wil *gest that the German governmen ild not possibly have intended th >truction of so many innocen es, and that hence German subma e commanders must have misun stood their instructions, ft further will point out tha rnings, whether official or not. can : be accepted as justifying unlaw attacks. In conclusion, the note makes plaii ti ine I'nuea oiaitrs ?m i^av :hing undone, either by diplomats resentations or action, to obtaii npliance by Germany with th< lerican requests. DIES OF ASPHYXIATION. en County Man Commits Suicide in Washington. Washington, May 10.?W. K ley, a traveling salesman, o chings Mill, Aiken county, S. Q. > found dead in a room on Penn *ania avenue here yesterday. Ga: i escaping &rom a fixture fron />>i tim tin ViaH hopn rpmnvpd anc coroner decided that it was a ir case of suicide. Bailey appearabout 3". years old. He had beer ited by the Salvation Army for alolism and the morphine habit and police found a morphine outfit )ng his effects. In his valise were ers from his wife and from a ther. Dr. L. M. Bailey, of Greeni, S. C. V ; " ,j- " f 1 flflyjjf fl | Al'STKIA >IAV WAR OX ITALY. Italy Kxperte<l to lie Engaged Within the Xext Fortnight. Paris, .May 11.? It is being persistently rumored in Paris that Germany and Austria already have declared, or about to declare war on Italy, in anticipation of an Italian declaration of war against them. The report lacked confirmation. % '? -r Another widespread rumdr was that Italy had signed an agreement with Great Britain, France and Russia to take part in the war not later than .May 26. That also was unconfirmed. French observers in Italy infer from the audience yesterday between ^ king Victor Emmanuel and former Prime .Minister Giolitti that the non' intervention party in Italy has determined tn withdraw^ all nODOSition to the war. Military writers are presenting the argument that the necessity of defending a third frontier undoubtedly would make the resistance of Austria and Germany on other fronts more S feeble. Italy would mean victory over Germany by the middle of summer. Exodus From Italy. Paris, May 11.?The opinion is ^ general in Italian parliamentary cire cles, says a Milan dispatch to the l" Petit Journal, that the government must Aiake known its decision in red gard to entering the war not later 11 than the last week in May, but could d easily assume a decisive attitude before that date. The Milan correspondent of the Exe celsior transmits a Secolo dispatch " from Lugano, Switzerland, saying the f police of Lugano have been instructe ed to make pfeparUions to protect * Prince Von Buelow, German ambassador to Rome, when he passes through " that city on his way hofap. The departure from -Rome of the staff of the Austrian embassy to the Vatican is denied by the Osservatore t Romano, according to a Havas dis- v ^. y patch. The newspaper says that not ' ? Q only has no member of the embassy s staff left but that a new secretary is e expected to arrive sooik A Milan dispatch from Udine to the " Havas agency says trains arriving '' from Austria are filled with. Italian travelers. Hundreds are waiting at the Trieste railroad station for places J5 on trains. " Austria's Offers. Another version of the territorial concessions Austria is said to have t ' proposed to Italy has been printed by ^ tl^ Mattino of Naples, and telegraphed to the Havas agency. According to this report Austria is willing to s _ _ _ .. . h cede part or Trent to itaiy, togeiner ? S with a strip of territory in the region -# of the Izonzo river, which empties into the Gulf of Trieste. Trieste itself is absolutely excluded, as well as 0 Istria and Pola. ' The Italian cabinet is said to have considered these concessions insufficient, and made a counter proposition demanding all of Trent up to Brenner, together with Trieste and Istria, ' including PoJa. Italy, the Mattino ( , aserts, will insist on o^tfeining Trieste, but is ready to give Austria commercial guarantees. ^ The Havas correspondent says the t Italian government has demanded of Vienna definite answer within a fixed . / j time. He adds that ih the best in' formed circles there is no real hope of a peaceful settlement, although t Pope Benedict has sent Emperor Francis Joseph an autograph letter asking him to yield, iq order to avoid j anotner war. 1 CAUSES GREAT REJOICING. German Paper sdys Sinking of the Lusitania liig Success. i . B Amsterdam, .May 10.?The Cologne c Volks Zeitung says: t 1 "The sinking of the Lusitania is B a great, success of our submarines which must be placed beside the greatest achievement of this war. The sinking of the giant English steamer > is a success of moral significance which is still greater than material success. r! "With joyful pride we.contemplate this latest deed of our navy. It will I r*/\t Y\a to lnct . uuv wo bitw iMmw* 5 "The English wish to abandon the , German people to death by starvaI tion. We are more humane. We t simply'sank an English ship with pas. sengers who at their own risk and ! responsibility entered the zone of op. erations." ^ Glendale Spring Water delivered ' at house for 50 cents per five-gallon ! bottle by J. A. Murdaugh.?adv. Mary Pickford Thursday. 6 reels. > 10c and 15c.?adv. t ; .