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KV" i - I V v ;;||| (Hh? lambfrg fcralb I ^ == < One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1915. * . . Established 1891. * - - -- ?- 'iva \ ? . COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS j. IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. / News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrliardt Items. Ehrhardt, July 6.?.Messrs 0. W. Ramsey, C. C. Moore, Harry Ehr-I' hardt and W. H. Barnes spent Sunday in Charleston. ^ Mesdames A. B. and Sallie Haigler, of Cameron, are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. \V. R. Copelard. A large crowd from Ehrhardt attended the ball game in Walterboro on Friday last, which resulted in a victory for the Walterboro team, 9 > to 6. ? ?ri/i \t P D firant are j spending 6ome time with friends and relatives at Holly Hill. Mrs. W. P. Pate and children are; on a visit with relatives in Albemarle. ( N. c. 4 Mr. and Mrs. 0. D. Ritchie, of Al-j S bemarle, N. C., are on a visit at the, ? latter's mother, Mrs. Jacob Ehr-; f hardr. . Mesdames J. L. and F. H. CopeL i 1 \ land spent the week-end at the Isle of' Palms. Clear Pond News. ! Clear Pond, July 6.?Mrs. George Ann McMillan has returned to her home at Ehrhardt after spending: ? some time with her daughter, Mrs.; R. F. McMillan. ft Messrs. Eartelle and Bruce Black. ^ of Hilda, spent Saturday and Sunday I f with their sister, Mrs. Herbert Folk. \ Miss Vera McMillan is visiting I f relatives and friends at Ehrhardt. P Mrs. A. H. Sandifer and children have returned to their home near Denmark after a visit at the home of Mr. G. W. Folk. j Messrs. Earle Summers, and Oren , Drawdy, of Farrell's and Jacob Car^ ter, of Lodge, were visitors at the Y home of Mr. J. B. Folk Saturday and Sunday. y Mrs. R. F. McMillan is spending 6ome time with her mother at Ehrhardt. ' Mrs. Avis Steedly and children returned home Saturday after a visit to her sister, Mrs. A. H. Sandifer, ? near Denmark. Mr. Hughie Clayton and family, of the Colston section, visited at the ^ home of Mr. T. J. Smoak Saturday J and Sunday. P Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Bellinger, of Bamberg, spent Sunday with Mr. R. F. McMillan. AMICUS. Walterboro Wins From Ehrhardt. Walterboro, July 4.?In a very exciting game of base ball on the local m. grounds Friday Walterboro was successful over Ehrhaidt by the score 1 of 9 to 5, thus making Walterboro the winner of two games out of the series of three played to this time. The game yesterday was replete with errors, hard hitting, daring base running and at times phenomenal batU ^ " tery work. The batteries were for L Walterboro, Rhett, Witsell and Kugan; for Ehrhardt, Hiers, Moore and Moore. A very large crowd was presa"** ent, many of the stores of the town fnr the occasion. o Callings From Cope. / * r> ? Cope, July 4.?Mrs. Laura E. Livingston and daughter, Miss Mary, of Bamberg, have been at Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Cope's the past several days, and will visit other relatives in and around Cope for a week or more. Mrs. Connor, of Greenwood, is here on an extended visit to her ; , daughter. Mrs. Frank E. Cope. ' Mr. Jessie J. Hayden, wife and child, of Jacksonville, Fla., are here for a visit to his parents, Mr. and < . Mrs. J. C. Hayden, and other relatives. .i* Mrs. M. L. Cope, of Bamberg, is here with her son, Mr. Shelton B. ^ Cope. Mr. Toomer Stack and sister. Miss Bettie, both employees of the Gharry . . ' leston navy yard, are at home for the Fourth. :v Mr.-\Charles G. Henerey, of Ehrhardt, arrived this morning to spend r!^ today and tomorrow with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Henerey. Horseback riding among the fair sex seems to be coming into vogue p. 7 \ again, as every once in a while they are seen enjoying this delightful ' i pastime. ' Mr. Roy Hoover and family, of k* Orangeburg, are over for an outing, r and are stopping with Mr. and Mrs. , Joe H. Clark. Read The Herald, $1.50 per year. k> r i REFUSES TO CHANGE SENTENCE, h il i Governor Whitman Grants Reprieve to Allow Counsel to Appeal. I Albany, X. Y.. July 1.?Governor Whitman today declined to commute the death sentence of Charles Beck-, er, convicted of the murder of Herman Rosenthal. Simultaneously, .Martin T. .Manton. Becker's counsel, announced he would take no further! steps in behalf of his client. That other counsel for Becker may have an opportunity to appeal to the federal courts, however, if desired,; the governor granted the convictedj man a reprieve from the week begin- j ning July 12, to the week beginning; July 26. When Manton left here after his conference with the governor| he did not know if the case would be. taken to a higher court, or what attorney, if any, would appeal for the convicted man. "Late tonight it developed that' Becker offered to make revelations to the governor in connection with i graft in New York police circles. The! governor, however, refused to con-; sider this phase of the case. The on-! ly is^ue before him. he held, was the I actual killing of Rosenthal. Save for the statement that Becker had not confessed the killing of! Rosenthal or offered to implicate others in the killing, the governor; eov nr?f)iin<? roparriinfr the offer' of the revelations. His Only Hoj?e. Only a writ issued bv a federal ; court now will act as a stay. A mere j appeal will not have that effect. .Manton, who retires from the case,' never has believed that there was' much hope of federal court inter-i vention. Points which an appeal on constitutional grounds might be taken are considered of a minor character. Mrs. Becker did not appeal to the governor in her husband's behalf. A statement late today from the executive chamber said: "I deem it my duty to decline to appoint a commission to further examine into the Becker case, and feel that I must deny the application for the commutation of the sentence to imprisonment for life. ".Mr. Manton is of the opinion that he has done all in his power for the client, and has asked! for a reprieve that other counsel may have ample time in which to carry the case into the federal court. "Owing to my absence during the last week from the capital and the incident delay, I think it is fair that the extra time should be given, and I have granted a reprieve, postponing the execution of the sentence to the week beginning July 26." Terry-Mlley. Fairfax, July 3.?The marriage of a very popular young couple of Brunson was that of Mr. C. J. Miley, and Mis6 Lucile Terry, on the evening of June 30, in the town of Fairfax. The bride and groom repaired to fhe home of the Lutheran pastor at Fairfax and were married by the Rev. Groseclose. The bride is the beautiful daughter of Mrs. H. R. Terry, of Brunson. The groom is a prosperous merchant. They will make their home in Brunson. Watermelons at Cope. Cope. July 1.?The earliest carload of melons to be shipped from this place went out today. They were loaded by Mr. John H. Cope. This is two days earlier than last year, he having shipped the first car of the season on the 3rd of the month. They are of the Watson variety and will average thirty-five pounds. The heavy rains of the past few days have saved the old corn, which ? Vi^o-inn i n c tn ciiffer hadlv for " tw Lr^fjiUUifc^ VW lack of moisture,' and the same is now practically made. WHITE DIES OF WOUNDS. Man Who Shot Greenville Chief Passes Away. % Greenville. July 1.?Walker White, who shot and fatally wounded Chief of Police James E. Holcomb on May 11 and seriously wounded Patrolman Bridges, died at the City hospital this morning from gunshot wounds inflicted by Sergt. Cooksev. who shot White after he had wounded Chief Holcomb and Officer Bridges. Chief Holcomb died on May 30, and after that time White refused to take food, slowly wasting away until he was nothing but a human skeleton. Over 400 people in Bamberg county are using Glendale Spring water, and there is not a typhoid patient among them.?adv. i IN THE PALMETTO STATI SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IX SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quid Heading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The board of trustees of Orange burg awarded the contract Wednes day for a $30,000 high school build ing. Governor .Manning has appointe* James .McKie as sheriff of Fairfieh county, to succeed the late Adam P - ' - J ?t_ : i _ J Hood, wno was Kineu wune ueieuu iug a negro prisoner some week ago. Jim Perry and Ferrell Howell young white men, were lodged ii Lexington jail Sunday night by Sher iff .Miller, charged with shootim into the house of .Maggie Pratt, ; white woman. * A revival is in progress in Ander son under the direction of Rev. B F. .McLendon, and one in Orange burg under Rev. Thomas H. Leitch .Mr. McLendon reports 1,922 conver sions up to Tuesday. Ex-Gov. Ansel, sitting as specia judge, has denied the motion for ai injunction against the issuance o bonds in the sum of $400,000 b Greenville county for the benefit o roads. The case will be carried t the supreme court. Bonds to the amount of $C0,00C recently voted in Orangeburg, fo the erection of a high school build ing, were sold last week to the Far mers Union Bank-and Trust com pany, of that place. The funds wil tie in hand within thirty days, it i stated. Thos. E. .Miller, colored, late pres ident of the State colored college i; Orangeburg, ran over an East India; in Charleston Saturday and cause< injuries from which the man diei later at the hospital. The coroner' jury exonerated -Miller. The East In dian was Sha Bokesh, 52 years ol and a resident of Charleston for 2 years. Wesley Bible Class Federation. The Wesley Bible class is the or ganized Bible class of the Methodis Episcopal Church, South, and is part of the great organized Bible clas movement that is transforming th old-time inert class into one of powe and force, and one that is reachin the men and women of the church a never before. It is also stopping th awful leakage of boys from the Sue day-school and church during th teen age. The South Carolina wesiey didi Class federation was organized 0< tober 7-8, 1913, at Columbia, an met in its second 6ession at Colum bia, March 17, 18, 19, 1914. Thi federation is an autonomous unio of all Wesley Bible classes in Sout Carolina?intermediate, senior, an adult, for both men and women. The third federation will meet i Spartanburg, July 19, 20, 21 of thi year, and everything points to th largest federation ever held in South em Methodism. Spartanburg Methc di6m is organized to make everj thing delightful for all who attend and elaborate plans are being mad to accommodate from 1,500 to 2,00 people on that occasion. An unusually attractive pre gramme has been prepared. The foi lowing strong speakers have been s? cured: Bishop James Atkins, forir er Sunday-school editor and noi president of the general Sundaj school board; Miss Elizabeth Kilpal rick. Sunday-school expert of th general Sunday-school board; Di Chas. D. Bulla, superintendent of th Wesley Bible class department an corresponding secretary of the gen eral Sunday-school board; Mr. J. M Way. divisional field secretary of th Atlantic division; Mr. A. L. Dietrich divisional field secretary of the mid die division; Mr. J. H. Therrell. Sun day-school field secretary South Geoi gia conference; Mr. A. H. Cole, Sun day-school field secretary Florida con ference: Mr. M. W. Brabham, Sun day-school field secretary North Car olina conference: Dr. Jas. H. Moffat! president of Erskine college; th presiding elders of both South Care lina conferences: Rev. E. O. Watson D. I).. Rev. R. S. Truesdale, D. D Rev. W. A. Massebeau. and Rev John H. Graves, all of the Sour Carolina conference: Mr. Cliarlto: Durant. of Manning, and Dr. Vane W. Brabham, of Orangeburg: Rev John W. Speake. Rev. J. R. T. Ma jor. Rev. C. E. Peele, and Rev. R. I Holroyd. all of the Upper South Car olina conference; and Mr. R. S. Ligon of Anderson. ' CRANK DOES MUCH DAMAGE PLANTS BOMB IX CAPITOL AND SHOOTS J. PIKKPOXT MORGAN. Says It Was Protest Against l*nite<! States Selling Ammunition to J i PKKPAKK ILLITERACY DATA. * ! Club at Winthrop (iather? Kduca?j tional Facts. Columbia. July 4.?The South Carolina club students attending the L summer school for teachers at Winthrop college have compiled some interesting statistics relative to native white illiteracy in South Carolina. The members are wondering whether _ | illiteracy has anything to do with J economic conditions in the various | counties. j | "The South Carolina club students think, that 'moonlight schools' are ; as badly needed in their State as they ' | were in Rowan county, Kentucky, i when a heroic band, composed of s I every school tea-cher, determined to ! wipe out illiteracy?and wiped it ' out," says a paper prepared by the 11 j club members. Present the Facts. 5 | Some of the facts established by | the club members are as follows: Orangeburg county has 4 per cent, of white illiteracy and $351 of per '' capita farm wealth?the average farm wealth for the State being '* | $3^4 per capita, i Sumter county has 4 per cent, of white illiteracy and $345 of per cap.1 ! ita t'ai-m wealth n 1 Lee county- has 10 per cent, ol ''j white illiteracy and $4 53 of farm y i wealth. 1 Saluda county has 5 per cent, ol 0 white illiteracy and $397 of per capit^ farm wealth, i, Florence has 9 per cent, of whitt r illiteracy and $39S per capita farm - wealth. -] Greenwood has 6 per cent, of white :-j illiteracy and $34 2 of per capita farm [1 wealth. s On the other hand: Georgetown county has 13 pet [_ cent, of white illiteracy and $108 ol a per capita farm wealth. n Horry county has 10 per cent, ol jj I white illiteracy and $215 per capita d j farm wealth. s| Union has 13 per cent, of white il_ j literacy and $222 of per capita farm jj wealth. O Chesterfield county has 20 pei cent, of white illiteracy and $277 ol per capita farm wealth. Williamsburg county has 14 pei cent, of white illiteracy and $253 ol per capita farm wealth. In Spartanburg county there art a nearly 6,000 native white men, wo s' men and children more than 10 years e of age who can neither read noi r write their names. S In Greenville county there ar< 8 nearly 4,000. In Anderson cduntj ? iust under 3,500. There are five counties in Soutl ? Carolina with each more than 2,000 and 12 counties with over 1,000 whc e cannot read or write. Data on Counties. Mrs. Annie Bennett, of Greenville l" county^ contributed the following ta ble showing the white illiterates, anc , the percentage, in each county: h d The State?native white illiteracy persons 10 years old and older, 50.Q 245, or 10.3 per cent. s 1?Charleston 420 i e 2?Edgefield 205 c i- 3?Bamberg 174 4 ). 3?Beaufort 117 4 r. 3?Calhoun Ill 4 lf 3?Newberry 347 4 e 3?Orangeburg 519 4 0 3?Sumter 306 4 9?Abbeville 475 f >- 9?Saluda 365 I |. 11?Barnwell 398 f 11?Chester 469 ( i- 11?Greenwood 566 ( n 14?Dorchester 329 ' 14?Fairfield .. : 361 1 - 14?Lexington 1,065 1 e 14?Richland 1,251 1 . 18?Clarendon 483 i e 18?Hampton 524 i d 18?Kershaw 616 . i !_ 18?Laurens 1,091 S f. 22?Florence 1.018 ? e 23?Colleton 910 1C ,t 23?Lee 601 1 (J 23?York 1,577 It 26?Aiken 1,489 11 . 26?Anderson 3,467 11 [. 26?Berkeley 379 11 26?Greenville 3.793 11 r o 1 ii 2b?.\iarion ioj. ?i .. 31?Lancaster 1,094 12 rf 32?Georgetown ..- -557 13 e 32?Union .. ..1.3S4 13 i_ 34?Spartanburg....*.' 5,SOI 14 lt 36?Williamsburg 1.440 14 J 36?Pickens 2,023 15 r I 37?Darlington 1,729 16 J 37?Oconee 2,212 16 n 37-?Cherokee 2,024 16 e ! 40?Dillon 1,351 1 7 41?Marlboro 1.633 IS . 4 2?Horry 2.654 19 43?Chesterfield 2.1 46 20 Adult schools have been organized i. in the rural districts of Laurens and Newberry counties. / ; ' - ^ . *, V v' // * V . British Government. / \ Glen Cove, X. Y., July 3.?Frank Holt, former Cornell instructor, who attempted to assissinate J. P. Morgan sft East Isle, Mr. Morgan's summer home, near here, today, confessed tonight that he was the man who set the bojnb which exploded in the , Capitol at Washington last night. Mr. Morgan, the victim of the bullets which Holt fired today, was said by specialists at his bedside to be resting well tonight. Xo vital organ, the physicians announced, had been involved in his injury. The physicians, however, declined to state, the precise location of Mr. Morgan's wounds. Junius Spencer Morgan. ' eldest son of the financier, was ask! ed to define the exact nature of his : injuries. After conferring with the physicians young Mr. Morgan assert-1 ed that they had decided to add noth- j " ing to their previous bulletins. At i | 11 o'clock tonight, however, it was j established that both bullets pene1 trated the hip and one entered the j abdomen. Belief prevailed that Holt had "j been connected with other bomb outi rages which have baffled the police, !i notably the finding recently of a ' bomb on the grounds of Andrew Carnegie's 5th avenue residence, in New * York city. Detectives prepared to 1 ply Holt with questions all- night if necessary. Thos Tunney,* captain of the bomb and anarchist's squad of New York detectives and William E. Luyster, the justice of the peace before whom Kolt was arraigned late ' today, obtained the confession. To 1 do so, they intimated, they had to employ so-called third degree methods. Description of Bomb. Three sticks of dynamite bound to^ gether, some match heads placed in a | hollow of one of the sticks, a bottle .1 of sulphuric acid, in the neck where ^ there was inserted a cork, carefully measured, and of a kind previously 4 tested?such was the bomb which ' Holt placed in the 6enate wing oj. the . Capitol at 4 o'clock yesterday after. noon. Holt had ascertained by tests that the acid would ea* its way 4 through the cork in about eight ' hours. Therefore, he estimated that the bomb would explode about mid{ night. He waited at the Union station, several blocks from the Capitol, j he said, until he heard the explosion. Then he boarded a train for New York. Arriving there he lost no time in taking another train for ' Glen Cove. Several sticks of the dynamite, left over from the making ' of the Washington bomb, were in his suit case, and these he took with , him. One of the sticks he placed in his pocket with two loaded revolvers, for ! use, if necessary, in his mission at t the Morgan .home. It was not used I and was found when he was locked I up. I At first the police thought the dy\ namite played a minor role in his \ plan to assassinate Mr. Morgan, t When they listened in undisguised I amazement to the story he told of i the Washington bomb's construction, > they concluded that he possessed a > knowledge of explosives far ^eyond J that of the ordinary bomb maker. f Talked Freely. r Under the third degree Holt talked r freely of his bomb designing. Ear' Hop in rtav h? onenlv admitted ! j he had gone to the Morgan home with ! the intention of remaining there until 1 Mr. Morgan did something to end > the European war. He wanted Mr. 1 Morgan to prevent the further export 1 of war munitions. ' The man who unfolded this un1 usual story of bomb placing and attempted assassination talked cooly and with dramatic frankness. He is an American citizen, native born, about 35 years old and educated far above the average. He had been a : student at Cornell, he said, and later an instructor there in French. Rec: ords show he taught German instead. Next autumn he had expected to be the head of the department of French I at the Southwestern Methodist I'ni ;! versity at Dallas, Tex. 1 His wife, a daughter of 0. S. Sen-j ' sabaugh, presiding elder of the Dallas district of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is with her father in Dallas. To her he addressed a 1 telegram after his arrest telling her [ that man proposed, but God disposed, . and bidding her to be brave. Holt told his story in a cell of the r TAKKS HIS OWN* LIFE. I Holt, Commits Suicide, Either by Shooting or Plunging to Death. Glencove, X. Y.t July 6.?Frank J jig Holt, the Cornell university profes- ~yr.>>!3 sor. who shit J. P. Morgan in his home near Glencove last Saturday, committed suicide in the jail at Mine- J ola tonight. While several of the jail authori- * ties declare that Holt killed himself by climbing through the opening at the top of his cell door and then plunging to the narrow court below, Holt's keeper said he was positive that the prisoner was Kiuea in nis own cell, where he said he found the There were many conflicting reports as to the manner in which Holt met his death, but it was definitely established through Dr. Cleghorn, the . jail physician, that Holt died of a fractured skull. Dr. Cleghorn found that death had been instantaneous. District Attorney Smith searched Holt's cell immediately after arriving at the jail and found a letter ja| written on yellow paper. This letter, which Holt must have written $|| before he attempted suicide early $8 this morning, when the pencil with which he tried to sever an artery was taken from him, was addressed to "My dears" and follows: - "I must write once more. The mnre i think about it the more I see the uselessness of living under circumstances such as these. Bring up ^Sjjp the dear babies in the love of God '3*9 and man. God bless you my sweet. Affectionately, "FRANK. vjl "P. S.?All please pardon me for V |H all the heartaches I have brought | you. Pray with me that the slaughter will stop. My heart breaks. Good At Midnight there was still con- - <jjjm siderable confusion in the jail and conflicting stories as to the manner in which Holt was killed were told by those attached to the institution. The attendants disagreed as to the Ap place where the body was found. Jeremiah O'Ryan, the keeper detail- ' ed to watch Holt's cell, declared that ha was positive the body was in a ? pool of blood in the cell when he first saw it. ' "It sounded to me like an explosion," said O'Ryan, giving his ver- * sion of what occurred. "You will have hard work to convince me that It wasn't. The cell was in partial darkness as the lights had not been fully turned on. "I was 15 feet from the cell when , it happened and my back was turned. I heard a noise and then ran into the cell and looked around. It, A - |gj was dark. "I couldn't see at first. Then I found the body in a pool of blood in a corner of the cell. "HOlt naa Deen 10 remainauit buuu spirits. He had laughed and Joked earlier in the evening. That made me suspicious." Gle^ Cove jail. He had bound across * his forehead a white cloth through which blood showed from a cut on his i forehead. His grayish eyes sparkled as he spoke and he talked at first with " $jg great animation. Damage Wrought By Bomb. Washington, July 3.?Investigation of the explosion late last flight, which wrecked the Senate reception room of ' the National Capitol, was interrupted to-night by the confession in New York of Frank Holt, the man who 6hot J. P. .Morgan at his home in Glen Cove, L. I., this morning, that he also had been responsible* for the Washington crime. Earlier in the day Washington newspaper? had received a letter signed "R. Pearce," in which the writer stated he nad planned the Capitol explosion "as the exclamation point to my appeal for peace." While experts were at work satisfying themselves that an infernal machine had wrecked the Senate room, the police were searching for clues. They could find no trace of the mys terious "R. Pearce," but to-night they sought to trace the movements of Holt. Hours before Holt's confession, K .35* however, suspicion was aroused here that the assailant of Morgan and the man who sought to wreck the Capitol were identical. Holt had given utterance in New York following his arrest to statements strikingly similar to expressions in the "Pearce" letter. Germany and.Munitions. "If Germany should be able to buy munitions here we would, of course, positively refuse to sell her," Holt said after his arrest. "We would, of course, not sell to (Continued on page 2, column 3.) 1