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r ' - . T-; -V% ~ * ' \ . ^ V; ?zm Slip lamtorg ffipralb | ? 7 '/, One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1915. Established 1891. r| ? COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS I) SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IX VARIOUS SECTIONS. i . % News Items Gathered All Around the tc County and Elsewhere. g( Spring Branch Items. V < > V, Tii?A O 1 Or. al oyiiuj; Diauui, ouuc >i.?vn ?> nesday afternoon of last week Mr. st H. W. Herndon lost three fine horses di by being struck by lightning. It is a stated that his hand6 were plowing c* v in a field some distance from the house when the thunder storm came bl up. They hitched the horses under a 10 tree, and during the storm the tree was struck by a bolt of lightning. th The horses were instantly killed, and ^ a negro hand, who was near the tree Pr at the time, was badly shocked, but ( ? ' not seriously hurt. We sympathize fil v yith Mr. Herndon in his misfortune. re The annual picnic held in memory w' of Mr. Bessinger, a brave soldier of the Confederacy, will be held this year on July third, the fourth, the!ls . ! a usual lime ior me pruic, vuiumg uu( Sunday this year. There will be. 1 * recitations bv the Sunday-school I Ci > scholars. The exercises begin ; promptly-at 11 o'clock, a. m. ! fo Mrs. G. H. Bessinger and children tJl visited their mother, Mrs. \V. R. Bes-; ex singer, last Sunday. Mr. O. H. Sandifer and family visit- ai} * C\ ed the former's mother, Mrs. W. R.j" Bessinger, last Sunday. Pj1 Miss Blanch Crider was the guest; of Mrs.. Mollie Herndon last Sunday. I I p. Misses Bertie and Ellie Goodwin , were the guests of Miss Mattie Good-j tu win on Sunday. i Misses Eula and Clara O'Quinn j ;* visited Miss Mattie Goodwin last Sun-' ca day. |is Mrs. R. L. Sandifer and children Yisited the former's mother, Mrs. W. fo R. Bessinger, on Sunday. F< Mr. Elijah Goodwin visited Mr. tr Mayfield Bessinger on Sunday. ba E. M. O. th ch Hunter's Chapel News. cr ______ to Hunter's .Chapel, June 22.?The th farmers of this section are getting'P? their crop6 in good shape now after co a lone fi?ht with the grass, and im-1 provemerit is noticed in nearly every field. c? The community grain thresher is now at work, in the neighborhood and lots of grain is being threshed. th Profs. N. H. Fender, Clifton Rhoad e(* ; and Herbert Steedley are at home ne Trom their schools for the vacation. sti Mr. St. Clair Rhoad, of Clemson, be is spending hi6 vacation at home. vz Dr. M. Simms Fender has finished SP his course in medicine at the Atlanta as Medical college and, after spending Pa ^ a few days at home, has returned to ?* Atlanta for work in the hospital for a mi ^ short time. Sa Mr. Roy Hunter is at home from \ Washington, D. C., where he attend- ni kj ed echool. W( Misses Eva Steedly and Bessie Lee Waiker are at home from Carlisle tn school, where they graduated. bo la< With all these young people at , I 101 home, the big meetings of our two . ' to churches close at hand, picnics^ and ^ other entertainments, we expect en- .. tu joyment for the old as well as the ^ young, especially since Capt. D. Rice " SteedW is ever readv with his autoqu mobile to add pleasure to the oeca* d r- sa siun. t->. v. PROBE FOR DISPENSARY. pe in Aiken Grand Jury Appoints Committee for Inquiry. f St Aiken, June 19.?Before adjourn- UE ment the Aiken county grand jury ^ appointed a committee of three, comppsed of B. J. Boyleston, Alex Cars- ur well and Judge Henry Getzen. to probe the affairs of the Aiken county pr dispensary, especially with reference ecj to the administration that ended when the new board, commissioned a] by Gov. Manning, took charge of the institution. The grand jury commit- a(j tee will begin its work next Monday. but it is doubtful whether a report of w( its findings will be made until the grand jury meets again in September. r The grand jury, as a whole, lookar ed over the books at the headquarters of the dispensary and. in its pre- \ , ]\ i sentments, deplored the fact that T. f J. Southall. former dispenser at Aiken, had been checked up short in ^ his account something over $2,000. * The grand jury added that this is not fr< the first time that Mr. Southall has ,? been 6hort and that he had been per- 111 mitted to violate the law. ? - te The average man's conscience is pi; more elastic than his suspenders. Jo 4 T. I* VAIGHX LOSES. J] ecision of Federal Tribunal Against Condemned Man. Columbia, June 21.?Attorney eneral Peeples received a telegram ?1 ylay announcing that the United tates supreme court had affirmed le sentence of death upon T. U. aughn and had dismissed Vaughn's jpeal with cost. The telegram also i ated that the supreme court had | si hmissed the appeal of Joe Grant, j st negro, wanted in this State on the j to large of murder, and who has been j ;hting extradition. Grant will be j b< ought to South Carolina at once ri r trial. ar The following is the telegram to ri e attorney general from James D. j io aher, clerk of the United States su-i erne court: x j at "Vaughn vs. South Carolina. Af-I re med with costs. United States ex-! lo 1 Brown vs. Cooke. Dismissed for I ant of jurisdiction." i _r The Grant Case. The negro. Joe Grant, alias Brown,' ^ wanted for the alleged shooting of j white man in Edgefield county in j ' 06. He fled to Pennsylvania and I W( is been fighting efforts of the South ! irolina officials to get him back herej * r trial. After an extended hearing ! e governor of Pennsylvania issued j tradition papers for the return or j aD rant to South Carolina, and it was j f0 i appeal from this decision which j ni ant took- tn the I'nitpri States SU- 1 erne court, and which that body smissed today. It is the expectation of Attorney er ?neral Peeples to expedite the re- su rn of Grant to this State for trial. Fr Case Against Vaughn. an T. U. Vaughn, who also lost his dii se before the supreme court today, to under sentence of death on a con- at ction of -criminal assault. He was re rmer superintendent of the Odd illows Home in Greenville, and his ial attracted wide attention. He G{ sed hi6 appeal on the ground that e mode of legal execution had been* anged, after the time his alleged ' ime was committed, from hanging electrocution, and he contended at this was in the nature of an ex- n0 st facto law. But the supreme to urt overruled him on this point. no tughn will be resentenced at the xt term of the general sessions f*1 urt of Greenville county. mj Insane or Feigning? Vaughn is at present confined in tei e State penitentiary, and it is statthat he has not spoken a word in th< arlv two years, and that he conintly acts as if he is insane. It has:tht en thought for some time that ed tughn was either insane or is a ca lenaia actor, ior ne uas uecu d^uus ui one demented. During the early re, rt of this year Dr. A. P. Herring, de Baltimore, while in Columbia, pr ade a close study of Vaughn and I ; ve it as his opinion that the man m< is only acting. During Gov. Man- up ngs visit to the penitentiary last th jek one of the newspaper men who ha is along observed Vaughn. At that en ne he was seated on the floor, head be wed and fingers constantly inter- be sing. Although addressed in a ad tone of voice he did not seem a notice that he was spoken to, nor he juld he utter a word or pay atten- ^ m to any one near him. It is like- H( that a committee of medical ex- ^ rts will be asked to pass on the qj. iestior of whether Vaughn is inne or not. Vaughn was convicted in October 1912, and has been confined in the Fi nitentiary ever since for safe-keepr? & Other Capital Cases Won. Two oth^r capital cases from this fie ate, Joe Malloy, of Bennettsville, tw J? ? ^ V? f ai? + Vio mnr- v\l? iaer eeuieute ui ucom iw. wV ^-. }JU t of Prentice Moore, and Will 'thune. of Clarendon county, also ob ider sentence of death, have been ne Jirnied by the United States su- ou erne court on the same point involv- m( in the Vaughn case. -I q Attorney General Peeple? has won.' a I six of his cases before the United ates supreme court this year. In Idilion to the four mentioned above, . ... sti ! won two insurance cases, which ?re taken up on appeal. The Union County Neighbor. fir in; The neighbors who are neighbors to: e those who do something when it de " * - j t>v~? . 1, ? Hi neeaeQ 10 ue uuhc. lucoc cue mc > nd of neighbors that .Mr. Willis J it elton, of the Zoar community, has. i on rs. Melton has long been sick and I is, of course, keeps Mr. Melton j un am his work. Last fall his neigh-1 he rs gathered his crop at the right | tli ne. Last Friday twenty-one of f ha em gathered at his farm with nine- tn en plows prepared the land and of anted hijs 'cotton seed.?Monroe Tf lurnal. w< * THE PALMETTO STATE )ME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. ?te News Boiled Down for Quick ( Beading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Emmett Lee. a white boy, was locked from a stroke of lightning, riking near him Tuesday at Georgewn. He was not badly hurt. Hampton Bunch, an Orangeburg >y, was accidentally shot with a fie near the Edisto river Tuesday,! id is in a serious condition. The fie was in the hands of Bunny Ene. John Pearson, a negro accused ot j Creighton Bradley, a Sumter rarm, lies in a serious condition as a reIt of being stabbed in one lung last iday. It is stated that three men d three women, all white, raised a sturbance hear Bradley's house. He Id them to move on, when he was tacked and stabbed. All were arsted. MUST OBSERVE LAW. v. Manning Says He Regrets Grand Jury Failed to Do Its Duty. Columbia, June 16.?"The failure the grand jury to do its duty will t have any effect on our endeavor enforce the laws; our efforts will t be relaxed, but will be greater an ever," stated Governor Manning is morning in an interview discuss5 theA failure of the Charleston and jury to bring in true bills yesrdav against alleged "blind tigers." Governor Manning today gave out e following statement: "I regret to see by the newspapers Lt the grand jury in Charleston failto bring in true bills in the liquor ses, notwithstanding the statement the foreman that the action was gardless of the law and the evince in the cases, but was caused by ejucnce against tne uispeusaij m?.| am glad to note that some of the smbers of the grand jury stood for 'holding the law. The failure of e grand jury to do its duty will not ve any effect on our endeavor to force the laws; our efforts will not relaxed, but will be greater than fore." Governor Manning also addressed letter to Sheriff Martin asking that i redouble his efforts to suppress e 6ale of whiskey in Charleston. i cautioned the sheriff not to be scouraged by the action of the larleston county grand jury. AVIATORS IX FIGHT. enchnian Shoots German Opponent.?Machine Di-ops. Paris. June 19.?The following ofial account of an engagement beeen a French and a German aerome was given out in Paris today: "An enemy aeroplane having been served over our lines at Aspach. ar Thann, in upper Alsace, one of r aviator sergeants took wing and | junted in 30 minutes to a height of i ,500 feet. At this altitude he en- j ged his enemy with a machine gun. j "The German replied with his ma ine gun, and one of his bullets uck the motor of the French ma-j ine. The eergeant again ascended j a position above his adversary and j ed three bands of cartridges. Dur-j g the third round the German avia-j r was seen by the Frenchman sud-' nly to throw his arms into the air. s machine then began to fall andj came down like a stone inside of! r Jine. "The French aviator came down | ider control. Once on the ground! ! examined his machine. He found i at bullets fired by his antagonist! ,d perforated his cylinder, pene-' ated the steel shield at the back { the motor and riddled his sails. ie Frenchman himself was slightly junded in the neck. / ' " tempted criminal assault, was ar-j sted in Bennettsville Tuesday, and J dged in jail. The negro escaped j the time, but was arrested after l exciting chase. A recent issue of the Confederate steran states that of a family of, tteen children, eleven brothers] rved in the Confederate army. They J are sons of .Mr./and Mrs. George iderson, of Waterloo, S. C. ! A mule 3."> years of age died in a w berry county the other day. The limal had been owned by one person r 29 years, and was the second ule he ever owned. The mule had good record, never having been in: runaway. - - 1 ' NOTED CLIMBER GETS FALL. Crowd Horrified When "Satanet" Slips from Capital Dome. Columbia, June 1">.?Hundreds of people massed in front of the State Capitol this afternoon were horrified when Harry Gardner, of Ohio, exhibiting under the non de plume of Satanet," was hurley from the coaping surrounding the bottom of the copper-sheeted roof of the,dome of the State house to the base. It was at first thought that he was dead, but when assistance reached him. he was found to be semi-conscious, and badly hurt. With difficulty he was gotten off the roof and out of the Capitol building and rushed to a- local hospital. The man claims to have lost his hold, the copper covering of the dome being wet and slippery following a driving rain. He had four ribs broken and was badly bruised, but is reported last tonight as resting easy. "Satanet" is styled the "human) fly" because of his ability to climb [ buildings seemingly impossible of as-j cent from the exterior. It is 6aid that he has successfully scaled somej of the tallest buildings in the coun-) try, including the.Flat Iron structure1 in New York. Yesterday he climbed! (he Palmetto Bank building, a fifteen story structure. SHERIFF HOOI) MEMORIAL. Sheriff of Newberry Suggests Sheriffs j Raise Fund. ' """""""" ?-? Columbia, June 16.?A memorial to t?e late Sheriff Hood, of Fairfield county, to be provided for by funds subscribed by the sheriffs, is proposed in a letter from Sheriff Cannon G. Blease, of Newberry, to every sheriff in the State. MT. LASSEN ACTIVE AGAIN. Huge Pillar of Smoke Shoots Mile SK^varu. Redding, Cal., June 1<>.?Lassen Peak erupted for the one hundred and first time at 1 o'clock today, J belching from its main crater a pil-' lar of smoke, reported to reach a1 mile skyward. Today's eruption was the first since -May 31. RAILROAD FIGURES'TOO LOW. State Treasurer Refuses Tenders on 3-Mill License on Gross Earnings. Columbia, June 19.?The State treasurer has refused tenders made by attorneys of the Seaboard, Southern, Charleston and Western Carolina and the Blue Ridge railroads of what the railroads say is the three-j mill license on.gross earnings for the year. The tender in each case was made in currency and refused by State Treasurer S. T. Carter, on the ground that the three-mill tax was on all gross earnings originating in South Carolina as reported to him by the State tax" commission. The railroads contend that the law means only the gross earnings in intrastate uusiiieas. Mr. B. L. Abney, attorney for the Southern and Blue Ridge, tendered the State treasurer $9,289.14 for the Southern and $290.92 for the Blue Ridge as their three-mill tax on gross earnings. This was refused because the treasurer calculated that the | Southern's tax was $27,242.23 and the Blue Ridge $">33.07. Mr. J. Berry Lyles, attorney for the Seaboard i and Charleston and Western Carolina, tendered the treasurer $1,857.06 for the Seaboard and $1,412.60 for ( the Charleston and Western Carolina' as the three-mill tax on their gross j earnings. This was refused because the treasurer calculated that the tax of the Seaboard was $6,790.84 and the Charleston and Western Carolina ->3Q Tax Commission's Figures. According to*the calculation of the State tax commission the total gross earnings of all railroads in South Carolina for the past year was $22,588,918. and the three-mill tax, according to the State treasurer, amounted to $67,766.75. The previous year the returns of the gross earnings of the railroads, according to the books of the State treasurer, totalled $9,481,938.64 and the threemill tax amounted to $28,445.81. .Mr. Abney told the State treasurer he did not yet km>w wnat process 01 law the railroads would take in contesting: the ruling: of the tax commission. His Ambition. "Has your son any particular ambition?" "Well. yes. 1 heard him say the other night that he wished he could find a way to get money without working for it."?Detroit Free Press. ... is FRANK GETS LIFE TER BEGINS SERVING LIFE SE TEXCE FOR PHAGAX MURDER Strong Pressure Brought to Bear < Governor Slaton Results in ' Commutation* ?. Atlanta. Ga., June 21.?Leo Frank today began serving life se tence at the Georgia prison farm f the murder of Mary Phagan, the 1 year-old employee of the pencil fa tory of which Frank was superi tendent. His hurried secret trip 1 train and automobile from the A lanta jail to Milledgeville precedi hv a few hours the issuance of long statement by Governor Slatt giving his reasons for commutii the death sentence to life impriso ment. Frank was delivered at the Sta prison farm at 4:30 o'clock th morning and soon after extra ec tions of newspapers announced tl fact here. Within a short tin crowds began to gather on dow town street corners and within thri hours their demonstrations had r suited in calling out two-thirds the police force and later an ordi closing all near-beer saloons ar clubs where liquor might be obtai ed. At about noon a crowd, co servatively estimated at 2,500, gat ered on the^apitol grounds and li tened to several speakers. Most this crowd later assembled in t] * * * * 11 -C na.ii or me nuut>e ui lc^/icocu where several speakers said th< doubted Frank had been remov< from Atlanta. Committee Visits Jail. A committee of five was select< to visit the jail here and try to fir Frank. They reported that he wi not there. Then. Sheriff Mangur who with deputies took the prisom to Milledgeville, gave the crowd h word he had delivered him there ar explained the trip in detail. T1 crowd, which packed the floor at galleries, then decided to make ai other demonstration down-tow; They marched to "Five Points," i the centre of the business sectio; and then went to the city hall. J this had been the scene of a demoi stration earlier in the d^y the poli< took stern measures. Within a fe minutes the list of arrests had bee increased to ten, all charged wit failure to "move on." Mounted officers rode in circles i Via /Mittinp- thpm off in sma detachments. Apparently dishear ened by such methods, the crOw gradually dispersed. At Marietta, twenty miles from A lanta, the former home of Mary Ph: gan, Governor Slaton was hanged i effigy. An inscription on the dumn read "John Slaton, Georgia's trait< Governor." Issues Long Statement. The governor went fully into tl details of why he commuted the sei tence, his 15,000-word statement n< being completed until almost noon. Frank did not know until a fe minutes before he started on his tr that he was to leave his cell la night. ' His heavy, distinctive ey glasses were removed, which in i cnmowliat nf a r1i<5firnisp_ Tl officers, however, placed a slouch* hat on him and he was not recogni ed by the few persons at the static at 12:01 a. ni., when his train lef He was recognized when the tra: reached Griffin and at Macon he w; reported to be very nervous, needir the support of Sheriff Mangum whe he walked. At the prison farm today Fran changed his demeanor, assuming tl outward calmness that has characte ized him throughout the case, h again protested his innocence, e: pressed gratitude to Governor Slate and said that he had intuitively bi lieved he would at leasf. set a con mutation of sentence. He was give No. 965. donned a suit denoting tl lowest grade prisoner and tonigl apparently had begun the routine < prison life. Solicitor General Dorsey, wfc prosecnted Frank, issued a stat' nient tonight in which he declare that the "action of Governor Slate nullifying the judgments of the Stai and federal courts and overriding tl recommendations of the State boat of pardons was unprecedented." F added that no defendant in his reco lection had had the benefit of moi appeals to both the State and si preme court. * "I cannot find in the record of tt Frank case or in the governor lengthy statement of attempted just fication one Feason why the govern* should annul the judgment of tt ===== MIX PKXITKXTIARY. (lOvernor Orders Winnsboro Prison\. ers to (*>ftimbia for Safekeeping. 1 Columbia, June 16.?Ernest Isenhower, Jim Rawls and Jesse Morrj- .-*3 [>n son, three men charged with the shooting of Sheriff Hood at Winnsboro on Monday, were brought-from .Winnsboro in automobiles, in charge ~v* of Coroner Smith, who is acting sherM. iff, and escorted by eight deputies, . n- The men were placed in automobiles or at Winasboro after dark, and the run 4- to Columbia was made without incic dent. They were placed in the penin tcntiary at 9:30 o'clock. oy Governor Manning ordered the .t- men brought to Columbia as a presd cautionary measure and because of a the condition of the Winnsboro jail. >n After investigating conditions him- * ig self the governor instructed Coroner n- Smith to take the prisoners to Co-" lumbia and place them in the penite tentiary. . \'va| is . When the front of a large building , >^33 ie in Piccadilly, London, was being ie cleaned some years ago, a nest was >?.' n_ found belonging to a pair of pigeons, ' >*8 Be" and the curious thing about it was * e_j that it was made of .hairpins. of courts in this case," said the solidn" Demonstration in Atlanta. "|j n" Atlanta, Ga., June 21.?Governor h" Slaton tonight called upon the State s~ militia to. protect his country home, of near this city, after several hundred ie men and boys had attempted to en- *"d9 !S- ter the estate through the front *' 3y gates, which had been barricaded by . '-0 barbed-wire entanglements, and had threatened to overpower the twenty county policemen, armed with riot >d i guns, who were on guard. The demtd onstration was a protest against the is governor's decision today in comn, J muting the sentence of Leo M. Frank "!?$ 3r to life imprisonment, is! Upon arrival of sixty militiamen td from Atlanta, who had been held unie der arms for emergencies, the goverid nor proclaimed martial law in a disa trict extending half a mile in the a. front and rear of his residence and in about a quarter of a mile on either n, side. I TT7i,?? 4.V.A milih'ampn HneH un with \ ?TUCU UiV ammaw.*? (i- fixed bayonets to disperse the crowd, :e stones, bricks and bottles were w thrown at them. A brick struck m Lieut. Arnold Parker in the stomach :h and rendered him unconscious for a v y ! short time. A bottle, thrown at Priin, vate W. W. Foope, struck his gun j]' and cut his hand. The commanding t_ officer, Major Sheron, was struck by r(1 a stone, as were several of the men. Proclaims Martial Law. / t_ The governor proclaimed martial a_ law at 11 o'clock and by midnight in | the crowd had practically been dis,y' persed. There was no firing. . ' jr A telephone message from Milledgeville. where the State prison is located, said that trouble w,as feared j there tonight and asked that the govie i ernor order out the Milledgeville a" | company of militia. The governor ot told his informant that such a request would have to come from the * sheriff of Baldwin county. ip At midnight, however, the sheriff st had not requested troops. e~ The governor was surrounded in ? t_ his home by about a dozen friends, , le i nearly everyone of whom was armed | with a rifle or pistol. The unexpect- , z' \ ed arrival of a member of the family m! at, a dark corner of the front porch;, ;t-! caused the governor himself to hast ily pick up a large pistoi. ls In front of the governor's house were more than 100 automobiles fill!a ed with persons evidently there to see what the crowd would do. The 'k j troops had great difficulty in clearing / w ie | the road of these machines and many r' j of their orders were met with the re, tort of "shoot." Crowds TTrroug Streets. in Early tonight the principal streets ,-C e" j were crowded with men and boys and crowds gathered on many corners. A / ~lj >Ti large force of patrolmen paced back ie i and* forth along Marietta street, . U! which was a centre for the throngs. 3f 'a There was no indication, howe/er, v , of serious trouble. 10 About 8:30 several hundred men e" started a march through the streets lc* | and finally halted at Peachtree and ,n I Pine streets. The police then start-. te! ed to break up the gathering. "Come * V, iejon. let's go out to Governor Slaton's," shouted several members of [e the crowd, and a large number of _ ^ men marched north, on Peachtree *e street, in the direction of the gover- T.-^ J" nor's country home, which is several miles from the centre of the city. ie .Members of the party declared they . 's intended to make a call upon the i J i- governor. A number of county po- "#' >r licemen were on guard at the govie! ernor's home. >