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v to (Flip Samterg ipralfi j One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1915. Established 1891. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. * News Item? Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt News. Ehrhardt, August 2.?My! What hot and dry weather we had last week, causing the farmer to stop fighting "General Green" in order that they could gather their fodder; then comes the gteatest of all, "cotton." Everybody will soon be busy. Soon the school bell will be calling the boys and girls, and they will have to go back in the same "old house" for their work again this term. Why do not the patrons and trustees remove the cause and let's keep the school up or ahead, if possible, of all other improvements? We certainly need a better building for this work. Enjoyed a ride out to Asmon, o. C., last week. This town shows signs of prosperity, nice buildings, just completed a fine artesian well, good flow; say they don't need any dispensary over there. Stopped in tc see a farmer. He showed us a pump* kin vine that had on it 32 pumpkins. They were all about the same 6ize 12 to 14 inches In diameter, and just getting the golden color. That is "some punkins," eh? It has been reported that an aii ship has been seen in flight over the lower part of the county. It was flying just above the tree tops. The superstitious folks form some varied ideas as to its nature and where it was bound. There are several cases of minoi ; , -sickness in town, otherwise, with plenty of ice and the old palmetto fans as helpers, we are standing the warm weather verv well. . . Miss Florence Hiers, of Allendale is visiting irienas ana reiauves iu and around town. She was honored by a small party of entertainers al Mrs. S. W. Copeland's Wednesday evening. The Hacker Manufacturing Co. is tearing out and moving their planing milk department on lands thai they have under lease as they "have " no lease on lands of the present location. Can not say yet when the mill will commence operating again There are several games of ball scheduled for our diamond this week, This kind of sport will 60on he ovei with at this place for the season. The B. E. & W. railroad is proving * v x to be a great convenience to watermelon shippers, as the road passes through several of the fields. We can see them through the ventilated cai doors, they seem to still be "smiling."* Quite a number of our town folks attended the big meeting at Carter's Ford last Sunday. JEF. Colston Dots. Colston, August 3.?The house party which is being given by Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Fender, in honor of theit daughters, Misses Alma, Prettoe and Annie Florence, Is very much en joyed by the guests. The guests are: ... Misses Olive Folk. Holly Hill; Telma Herndon, Ehrhardt; Lala Fender, Colleton county; Idelle Peters, Ehrhardt; Hattie Maie Sandifer, Denmark. Quite an interesting game of baseball was played on the Colston baseball park Saturday afternoon. Camphill was victorious. Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Sease and mother were the guests of Mrs. G. C. Fender Sunday. . " Quite a number of friends enjoyed a fish fry last Wednesday, given by the Misses Fender, in honor of their guests. f Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Padgett, of Bamberg, spent last week with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Padgett. Mr. Jacob Wolf, of Cope, S. C.. is visiting his mother, Mrs. Calvin Rentz. Mrs. Alfred Sease, of Orangeburg, has been spending some time with Mrs. G. H. Hearse. The friends and relatives of Mrs. | . M. A. Inabinet, who has been ill for several days, are glad to learn of her improvement. A. F. F. Cope Oullings. I' Cope. July 30.?With the thermometer ranging around the one hundred mark, and still no rain, crops are deteriorating as rapidly as it is possible for them to do. and many more days of such conditions will mean a much shorter crop in both corn and cotton. Despite the hot weather folks are having jolly good times. On Tuesday night Mr. Herbert Antlev treated a party of his lady and gentler KILLS HIMSELF IX CELL. i White Man Accused of Arson Commits Suicide. SOI ] Gaffnev, August 2.? H. L. Smith, who was arrested here last Saturday ^ on the charge of arson, and who has been in jail since, killed himself in jail here to-day by severing an artery in his left leg and cutting his jugular vein. The weapon used was a pocket i i knife. The first intimation which f0r | the sheriff had of the suicide was gp? iwhen he went to Smith's cell with his few (dinner and found him weltering in a ! pool of blood. He left two written int (statements, one to J. H. Buice and qoJ lone to his wife, in which he stoutly I maintained his innocence, ana namling the witnesses who would testify , against him. The sheriff stated that req when he took Him his breakfast this sas morning that he seemed normal and that he informed him that his preliminary trial would be held Wednes- ^ day. .Magistrate Phillips held an in- a 1 quest this afternoon and the verdict Gr< was that Smith came to his death by ^oi self-inflicted wounds. an< "SHE ALVTT)EAI) YET." Ch Cle So This Undertaker Had His Trouble for Nothing. tin Sumter, July 31.?The trade of an undertaker even has some funny ?ei j things in it. as is shown by an inci- 0*3 j dent which happened here this week. ^an I T.?to onp nieht the undertaker was *na called up over the telephone and ask- tee s ed to make immediate preparations ' i for a funeral. He declined going clo f ahead at that time of night, but stat- 6tr I ed that he would be at his office the we . next morning and could be seen ref about arrangements then. Early the wa ' next morning, as agreed, the other i party was waiting for him when he ce ? reached his store and asked that he tTii s meet a morning train to take the sp( body to the cemetery. The under- S01 . taker made the necessary preparai tions, but what was his surprise to j. I receive, a few minutes before train ; time, a telegram as follows: "Don't yei meet corpse. Ste ain't dead yet." $al s Heavy Storm in Florida. Tampa. Fla., Aug. 2.?Railway ^ tracks were washed away, growing ' crops inundated and a great portion of the peninsula across the Hillsbor: ough Bay from Tampa flooded early ' this morning following unprecedent- oT ed rains, which fell for thirteen a 1 [ hours. Fifteen inches of rainfall was ?_n recorded. t ? v fn 111 oi. reieisuuig ?. ? u iwuco ' the fashionable section were under- fel mined and toppled over into a small m? lake. The Carnegie Library is upon thl 1 an island and many houses have been undermined. hir Tracks of the Tampa and Gulf 1 Coast and the Atlantic Coast Line Tei 1 railways were washed away in a halfdozen places, and all traffic to the a ' peninsula has been held up, except Dr by boat. A train on the Haines City an< ( Branch of the Atlantic Coast Line ta] 1 ran into a washout and several pas- ter ' sengers were badly injured. TWe 001 i downpour was accompanied by a ter- in rific thunder storm. Property damage in St. Petersburg 3nI . is estimated at fully $50,000 with erj . damage in other sections of the coun try running the loes up over $100,00? At] men friends to a pindar boiling, and other refreshments. Dr. and Mrs. Ed Kirkland acted as chaperones on this occasion. Be' Wednesday night Mrs. S. B. Cope Sill entertained in honor of her si6ter, Miss Eunice Barnett, of Pendleton, ^ai 1 lCf and the following young people were present: Misses Kathleen and Annie . a jne Laurie Kirkland, of Cope, Gussie Cleckley, of Swansea, and Messrs. p0* Glenn Cope and Oita Burns, of Cope, . 1 Parker Henerey, of Charleston, and tl0| Charles Henerey. of Ehrhardt. ue; Last night Mr. Herbert Antley hac ! treated his friends to a straw ride. 1116 The party took in Bamberg and the attl Atl movies, and returned just at midnight. This party was chaperoned by .Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Tatum, Jr. * 6 Several fish frys have been pulled ^ off during the week and everybody is trying to" make somebody else feel t0 1 cinr better despite the warm weather. Cotton is opening quite freely, ow- i,ul ing to the intense heat. Mr. S. B. Cope lost a fine cow and q came near losing a second, caused and by being choked on millet. They say I were out too long before he found was j them to be out of place.' sho I Mr. John H. Cope left for Spartanburg on Wednesday. j(]jc Mr. Glenn Cope arrived here Tues-:(jrj] day from Spartanburg. is ; Miss Agnes Kearse, of near Ehr- ?r( I hardt. returned home the middle of 1 j the week after quite a long stay here j nan | with relatives and friends. you i ' * THE PALMETTO STATE CM UK OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. ra te News lioiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About 0'( Men and Happenings. B< ed ns rhere was only one murder case the sessions court that opened in se irtanburg on Monday, and very r other cases. gi r. J. Gentry has resigned as superendent of the Baptist hospital in hj unibia. Rev. Louis J. Bristow, of . st beville, will succeed him. ., h< jovernor Manning has issued a ^ ui?ition on the governor of Kan- ar for H. C. Mitchell, who is want- tjj in Charleston on a charge of ja gery. 0I Following a day of excessive heat, ca violent thunder storm occurred in jenville Saturday with a heavy 1 vnpour of rain, lasting an hour i 40 minutes. ? The new $75,000 Young Men's ristian association building at smson is expected to be completed . Ill January 1, at which time the g le limit expires. ' tr J. R. Miles, a white man about 36 jD trs of age, who keeps a store near jj, rrapia, has been lodged in the Rich- a( ,d county jail for attempted crirn.1 assault uptm a white girl of flf- 0j :n- m rwo Anderson cotton mills were rt sed flown Friday on account of a Si ike declared by employes of the ir ave rooms when the management E used 1o agree to an increase in tc ges. o! rhe candidates for congress to 6uc- m id Jos. T. Johnson in the 4th dis- c< ct have completed the campaign F saking. They are: W. W. John- tT l, of Union, A. H. Miller, of Greer, tl A. Morgan, of Greenville, and Sam m Nichols, I. C. Blackwood and R. J. ntt, of Spartanburg. All are law- d< -s -except Miller. The primary a: ces place the 10th instant. w ? d SENT GIG INTO FOOT. w 7 P' d and Painful Accident to Sumter p. County Fisherman. A Sumter, August 1.?Harry Jones, g Providence, this county, suffered d nost painlul and unusual accident it Thursday when in the Wateree h er gigging carp. He with others n 8 indulging in this sport when he s t a fish by his foot, and in attempt; to gig it stuck the instrument ough his foot. His brother and 1 i other men with him had to carry g n across the river, which was over tt ?ir heads at this point, and after ]j noving the handle from the gig f( >v maflp a triD of fifteen miles in f< buggy before reaching a doctor, ol . McLaughlin gave Mr. Jones an ci esthetic and had to break ofT the a rbed point of the gig, which ex- 0ided th-rough the foot, before it 01 lid be withdrawn. A hole wae left tl the foot sufficiently large to see e: ough. Reports are that the in- g ed man was on the way to recov- gi r# BEAVERS IS REDUCED. lanta Police Chief Disciplined by ^ Commissioners. .1 hi Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 3.?James L. avers, chief of the Atlanta police ** lartment, was found guilty of inlordination and reduced to the ^ ik of captain by the board of po- F s commissioners late today. It ** s announced that the charge of fficiency, also brought against the ice head, had not been sustained. Disregard of the board's instrucin as and failure to suppress crime re alleged against Beavers. He n< i been head of the police depart- w nt since 1911 and attracted wide pi ention in 1912 when he abolished ^ anta's segregated vice district and w; ablished "vice squads'" to patrol so city. n( Vfter Beavers had been deposed, M. Mayo, a captain, was elected in succeed him. Beavers has not yet C1 Pf [ounced if he will remain in the ' o t ice department. -. G ( Lieutenant Vs. IH>nkey. co 'he company marched so poorly at I went through the drill so badly, ro s Tit-Bits, that the captain, who co ; of a somewhat excitable nature, be uted indignantly at the soldiers: an You knock-kneed. big-footed w< >ts: you are not worthy of being kr led by a captain. What you want Ei a rhinoceros to drill you. you tr; tched lot of donkeys." an 'hen sheathing his sword indig- de itlv. he added: "Now, lieutenant, tic take charge of them!" be I < KILLS ONE ASSAILANT. g J?er Robber Who Attacked Johnston .Man Kscaj>es. p Aiken, July 30.?Attacked about a ile or a mile and a half out of Auista last night, between 8 and y clock, by two negro robbers, Mr. Jn Still, of Johnston, shot and killl one of his two assailants, the tine of whom is vet unknown. It ems that Mr. Still was returning 0] om Augusta, where he had been to IJfcfci.ckens, when these two ne es, 'i&meci with clubbed fence ekets, sprang out of the dark upon SI m so suddenly that one of them ruck him across the face before * fully realized the nature of his inger. Then he drew ^ revolver ' id fired twice as best he could in Le early-night dark. As Mr. Still ter expressed it, "I got one and my lly regret is that the otner es- ; tped." . ^ u EFFECT OF WAR ON COTTON. t: f< vports to Germany and Neutrals r Haven't Fallen Off Greatly. e _____ v Washington, July 29.?Sentiment o i Washington with regard to Great h ritain's interference, with our cotton b ade has been influenced vitally witfe- n i the past week by two cfevelopents, and the demand for drastic c :tion is less insistent. e The first of these is the publication I f official figures from the departent of commerce, prepared at the e iquest of Congressman Thetus W. a ims, of Tennessee, snowing tnar aurig the first ten months of the war in a urope we sold nearly as much cot- t in as during the aame ten months I f the year preceding, and that Ger- p iany evidently received a larger per- i mtage of this cotton than did r ranee, in spite of the fact that Aus- \ ia is credited with no imports in i; ie ten months mentioned and Ger- r iany with only 242,000 bales. By the Tecords of the commerce epartment, the Germanic empires ad the neutral countries througn s hich they may have received 9otton <] uring the first ten months of the t ar show the following cotton im- t orts (bales) for that period as comared with the preceding ten months: e Before During I ustria .. 97,689 \ ermany 2,664,033 242,661 s enmark .. _ .. 100 35.257 a aly .. .. ? .. .. 562,073 1,018,469 e olland .. _ ._. 33,822 501,760 ^ orway .. _ .... 3,525 54,666 s weden 46,266 741,637 \ j Total 3,407,508 2,594,450 c If we include the increase of p pain's cotton imports (that country c )ok 411,000 bales- during the war c lonths, as compared with 249,000 Va ama. nf thp TAar he- r ti iuc oamv iuvmvmv ? >re,) we discover that the countries I a f Europe not allied against Germany a ime within 18 per cent, of making i p the loss in imports caused by her \ wn apparent isolation. There is no I ther tenable conclusion than that t lese neutral countries have been re- t sporting their surplus imports to j ermany. Take Denmark's 350-fold i ain, for example. t As to the allies, the figures show t tat Great Britain is the only one of t lem that took more bales in the t rst ten months of war than in the s revious corresponding period, and c er gain was onjy 9 per cent. France ill off over 4 0 per cent. These are u ie figures for the allies: v Before During s reat Britain ..3,290,342 3,593,612 s ranee 1,072.582 611,480 e ussia 88,683 _ 59,200 fi Tot&l 4,451,607 4,264,301 u It would appear from these statis- tl cs that Germany has been receiving s directly a greater proportion of her a )rmal importation of cotton than 6i nnrtc nnen The eeneral a uii aci hw?wu vrvw. w- ? 'ice obtained for the cotton was less a an usual, it is true, but the crop as abnormally large and would have ild at a low price if there had been tl ) *war. ci The second thing which is influenc- S1 g sentiment against too great ex- h tement about the "cutting off of the tl arman cotton market" is the realiz- ]a ion that a systematic and insidious tl jrman propaganda is at work in this t untry with the object of exagger- e< ing England's interference with the F tton trade and thus drawing this e< untry into a state of hostility to t. It is natural for German agents d sympathizers to do this, hut it is 01 ?!1 for the people of the South to j e< iow that it is being done. To drive j ta lgland into declaring cotton con-1 tv aband would certainly not do us!B iv <rnna in nnr own interest, it is [hi sirable that we proceed with cau-1 d< >n. Our government is doing theje> st it can. M IECKER PAYS PENALTY . C ORMKR POLICE LIEUTENANT DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR. C renes Attending Execution of Man v Twice Convicted of Rosenthal's v Murder. ? ?? I New York, July 30.?Charles Beck- V 2 r's body was brought to Mrs. Beckr's home in the Bronx late today. ; was in a plain black casket. A ' nail crowd of neighbors assembled s the hearse drew up before the uilding. t The funeral, it was announced, will 1 ike place Monday. Execution of Becker. Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, July 0.?Charles Becker was put to death ' i the electric chair here this morn- * lg for the killing of Herman Rosenhal, the New York gambler. The ormer New York police lieutenant 1 etained his composure and protest- ' d his innocence to the last. He ' -ent to his death with a photograph [ f his. wife pinned on his shirt over j is heart. Three shocks were given 5 efore the prison physicians pro- 1 ounced Becker (lead at 5:55 o'clock. ! r Becker led the way to his own exeution. He sat up all night on the dge of his cot, calmly talking to 1 )eputy Warden Charles H. Johnson. J "I have got to face it," said Beckr, "and I am going to meet it quietly nd without trouble to any one." The deputy warden left Becker .bout an hour before the time set for he execution, and when the priests, father W. E. Cashin, the prison iriest, and Father Curry, of New fork, came to administer the last ites, they found the condemned man vith his face resting on his hand,ga2ng at the prison floor. The priests emained with him to the end. Becker's Lant Message. His message was: "I am not guilty by deed, or conpiracy, or in any other way, of the leath of Rosenthal. I am sacrificed o my friends. Bear this message to he world and my friends. Amen." The one-time police officer hesltatid as he entered the execution room, t seemed to the witnesses as if he vas startled that the death chair was o near at hand. He looked quickly it the double row of witnesses, glancd at the floor, 6wept with his eyes the vhitened walls"of the room and then ;uddenly, as if coming to himself, valked briskly over the rubber mat ind seated himself in the electric hair." Behind Becker followed the >rison priests chanting the prayer of leath, which was repeated by the condemned man. "Jesus, Mary, Joseph, have mercy >n -my soul," nervously spoke Becker is deputy wardens stepped forward md adjusted the electrodes. Hardly a ninute euapsed before the electrode vas applied to the right leg, a slit laving been previously cut in the rouser leg from the knee down. Afer the electrode had been firmly adusted against a shaven spot on the ?ack of the condemned man's head, he State executioner looked at Depuy Warden Johnson, who surveyed he figure that was still /mumbling he de&th prayer in the chair. Johnon half turned his head and the exeutioner jammed the switch. The first shock lasted a full minte and the executioner said that it - as 1,850 volts and ten amperes in trength. It came while Becker was till commending his soul to his Mak- 1 r. The two prison physicians stepped ' orward to examine the collapsed fig- ' re supported in the death chair by lie thick, black leather straps. The 1 tethoscope was applied to the heart 1 nd Dr. Charles Farr, the prison phy- 1 ician, pressed his finger against an 1 rtery in the neck. There was still 1 feeble stuttering of. the heart. Pronounced Dead. The physician stepped back irom * ie rubber mat and again the electric ^ urrent pulsed through the body. The tiock lasted seven seconds. After a asty examination Dr. Farr asked a lat a third shock be given. This t 1 ' d J- * ? AwftwinollAn 1 T isiea nve seconus. s\u cAaunuaui/u i iat took several minutes followed, s hree physicians among the witness- ? ; then made an examination and Dr. v arr at 5 o'clock quietly announc- c i: t "I pronounce this man dead." t During the night Becker penciled e 1 a piece of paper what he caption- p 1 "my dying declaration." Tt was s iken to the warden's office, where i vo copies were typewritten, which s ecker signed in a bold hand with p is fountain pen. To Deputy War- 1 ?n Johnson, who had charge of the v cecution in place of Warden Thomas 0 ott Osborne, who does not believe |c ? * ' TRAGEDY VICTIMS. || Calhoun Cason and Pat McKelvey I>ro\vn in Savannali River. Abbeville, July 30.?J. Calhoun "ason, of Abbeville, and Pat McKel- ' ey, of Mount Carmel, this county, vere drowned this afternoon in the iavannah river, at Millwood, several niles from Calhoun Falls. McKel-ey's body has been recovered, but it a late hour tonight the body of 2ason had not been found. Both ^oung men were about 24 years of The victims of this deplorable ragedy were members of a camping )arty that went to Millwood Mon- > lay for a week's outing. Details of ;he affair are meagre, but from what :an be learned it seems that a number of the campers were in bathing it the time and in some manner these foung men lost their lives in the / Mr. Cason was a clerk in the Abbeville postoffice, where he had been ' ygfl employed about six years. He was a son of the late Samuel C. Cason, an ' attorney of this bar, and Mrs. Lizzie Marshall Cason. file is survived by tils mother, a sister, Miss Marian, and v ".y'%gS8 a" brother, Henry, of Anderson, be- 'JiM 3ides two half-sisters and*, a half- ' brother. . Calhoun Cason was popular with a wide circle of friends and acquaintances here and his untimely end has brought sorrow to many. POUND DEAD IN HIS BED. Dan Patrick, Cashier Bank of Harleyville, Expires Suddenly. St. George, July 31.?Mr. Dan Patrick, cashier of the Bank of Harleyvile, was found dead in bed early this morning. The young man was /-?|| boarding at the home of A. O. Utsey, ^ but during the absence of the latter's family in the mountains of # North Carolina, had been taking his meals with A. Q. Hiott. He con- % }? tinued to sleep at Mr. Utsey's, and |@| when he did not come to breakfast T ^ this morning an* investigation was / | made with the result that he was " ,.Vij found as above stated. While Mr. Patrick had been complaining of be- . ing unwell recently, he continued to discharge his duties in the bank. ' Coroner Knight this morning empanelled a jury and held an inquest, and the verdict was to the effect that death was due to appoplexy. ? Mr. Patrick was about 22 years of . ga age, and became connected with the Bank of Harleyville a little less than( a year ago. Before that time he was employed by the Silcox Mercantile j-js* company in the capacity of bookkeep er. He was generally liked in the community in which he lived, and ' was regarded as a young man of ft* honesty and probity. in the death penalty, the one-time / police lieutenant gave his fountain pen as a gift. "It is the last thing >'rja| that T have to give away and I want . you to have it. I want you to give this statement to the newspaper men." "Becker's message read: "Gentlemen: I stand before you in my full senses, knowing that no power on earth can save me from ^ the grave that is to receive me. In ^ the face of that, in the teeth of those who condemn me, and in the presence of my God and your God, I proclaim my absolute innocence of the foul crime for which I must die. You ;. \ are now about to witness my destruction by the State, which is organized to protect the lives of the innocent. May Almighty God pardon every one tvho has contriDuiea in any uegieo :o my untimely death. And now on :he brink of my grave I declare to :he world that I am proud to %/* lave been the husband of the purest, loblest woman that ever lived? Helen Becker. This asknowledgenent is the only legacy I can leave J ler. I bid you good-bye. Father, am ready to go. Amen." ? Talked With Deputy Warden. After his wife had said farewell - ' ihortly before midnight Becker mainained a casual conversation with Deputy Warden Johnson, who sat beJ """nor in frnnt /if his Cell. (lUt? lilt? OV1WJU 1U VMb -W* ,. Sometimes he smoked cigars, after rhich he would let his head fall up- * vi; >n his hand and gaze reflectively at he concrete floor for minutes at a inie. Dawn found him seated on the :dge of his cot carefully pinning a ihotograph of his wife on his white hirt just over his heart. Then as f he desired to have her all to himelf. Becker put on a thin black alaca coat, which he tightly buttoned. 'he photograph was not seen by the witnesses until the prison physician pened his coat as he sat in the death . hair.