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r-.fr . ? , I \ _ ' ' _ it' f i - ' r . (J^ lamb^rg l^^ratb ' ; *? ' One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1916. Established 1891. === ^=^=========^======================= J COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. / | | News Items Gathered All Around the ^ County and Elsewhere. P - Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, March 7.?Last Sunday evening the Sunbeam society held j I exercises at the Baptist church. This; society is composed chiefly of chil-| dren and the exercises were creditably rendered. A large congregation attended. Mr. Leroy Smith is at home again f after a five weeks' treatment ati Baker's sanitarium, Charleston. Mr. . Smith was injured internally and it ? was necessary to perform an operation. Ldroy is one of our base ball players and it looks now as /though lie will not be able to do mufch play1^ Ing this season. * \ Quite a crowd took passagb from By her? on the B., E & W. special last y Friday to attend the fi^ld day events y at Bamberg. All report a jolly time. The school was well represented and ' won several of the prizes offered. N/Miss Grace Moore game home last Friday from Carlisle school,. Bam' berg, on a visit to her parents, Col. and Mrs. W. B. Moore. She will re^ turn some time this week. JL Several of our best base ball players have signed up with the Charles' ton base ball club for this season ; I & this will hurt our team considerably, but it is understood that the town ^ will have a team and will challenge ... any amateur team in the State. Seems as if some of the young men / in town have found something more enticing than attending^ Sundayschool or preaching on Sundays, as ^ they very eeiciom go out any muie. k. Wonder what It is? To be sure, 3 there is not a man that would indulge V in eards, checkers, etc., to while away PR the time on this blessed day? Come Jf young men, let us go to Sundayschool and preaching and fight the ) > devil, not serve him,, ^ / Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Carter, of Bami berg> passed through town Sunday afternoon on their way to "Robertsville" to "sup" with Dr. and Mrs.^J. H.. Roberts, returning home early in the. evening, tgk Wedding bells are ringing agaii^ here and at our neighboring little town, Hughes. JEF. 3 Branchville Breezes. Branchville, March 4.?Miss Ruby Byrd has returned from a visit to / friends in Harleyville. Misses Hay and Smith were weekI. end guests of Mrs. D. L. Rhoad. L *. Miss Sadie Byrd, of Columbia colh lege, spent several days here last m week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. V Julian Byrd. j Miss Hartzog, of Bamberg, spent j Monday with Mrs. D. L. Rhoad. L WOMAN TEACHER BEATEN. ^ *1. Report of Unusual Affair Comes From P* Lee County. t in Hartsville, March 6.?What is said / to have been an outrageous occurrence is reported from the Liberty Hill School house section, about six miles from HaHtsville in Lee County. ^ It seems that af Miss Broadway, from ag the lower section of the State, is u> principal of this school and is asM sieted by a Miss Logan, of Edgefield. jf Miss Broadway, it is stated, had oc^ * casion .to expel a daughter of one of f the patrons and the morning following was met in the road on her way td school with Miss Logan by the father and three sons, and the mother and two daughters of this girl. v While the men walled off Mies Logan, ^ itVis said, the women made a vicious ?\Htna Di>na/1iirov .t h rOW llPT ailttUA Uil iUlOO mwaunaj) w* v.. ? down, putled her hair, beat her up B \ and kicked and bruised her.. Miss Broadway has been in bed since and IB yesterday afternoon passed through . Hartsville with her brothers on her way home, and substantiated this story in every detail. She says, fur-^5 thermore, that it happened within ra short distance of the home of cpe of the, trustees of the school and in A plain sight of this trustee and one other who was there at the same time; furthermore, -that she had been invited to come to this trustee's home ^ before school on that morning to meet with these people and adjust I and explain the whole matter. It S* # was while complying with this re^ " quest, she said, that she was assault /' . w Mrs. Ellis Gilbert and daughters have been arrested in connection V. ? , with this affair. Sr She who sauces the cook should Jk be prepared to cook the sauce. j r- - x "OUTRAGE," SAYS McMASTER. Scores Companies Quitting State. Seeks Federal Aid. ! Columbia, March 4.?Insurance Commissioner F. H. McMaster this < i afternoon addressed letters to Senator Tillman and Representative Lever asking them to have the United State government investigate certain fire insurance companies that are withdrawing from South Carolina because of the passage by the legislature of the anti-compact bill. Mr. McMaster says that the State is un able to deal with this situation, but "it does seem to .me that this is a most outrageous condition, and one that should not be permitted by the federal government," said the commissioner. >He says that he believes these ocmpanies have entered into a conspiracy to withdraw from the State and to injure the peoplb of the State by disturbing the business conditions. The following letter was written by Commissioner McMaster to Senator Tillman and Representative Lever at Washington: McMaster's Letter. "At the last session of the legislature the Laney-Odom compact bill was passed. < It. was signed by the governor on the second and goes into effect on March 22. "This bill practically, in effect, simply forbade the companies 'making any compact or combinations with other fire insurance companies, associations or partnerships or to allow their agents to enter into any compact or combinations with other companies, associations ot partnerships for the purpose of governing or controlling the rates charged for fire insurance upon property in South Carolina.' "The bill practically put out of business the Southeastern Underwrito oar\r>i a ti rm hut left PAO.h COTTi CIO liiravwuviuu) uub *v.? _ pany the right to make its own rates. It permitted the companies to employ a common agent for the inspection of risks, advising as to defective structures, etc. As you know, for the past ten years the Southeastern Underwriters' associatipn has dictated the rates of fire insurance in South Carolina wjthout practically any ability by the State to control these rates. The purpose of the LaneyOdom bill was to provide for independent action by the companies and permit some competition in fire insurance rates. Alleges Conspiracy. "From the public prints, information received through telegrams to the local agents and from other sources, I am convinced that a large number of companies have agreed to withdraw bodily from the State, and they are now doing so. I believe that they have entered into a con ' * - -* ~ 4- Vl A 6p*racy to injure um ui mc i State by disturbing in every way possible business conditions; depriving agents of means . of livelihood and otherwise working great injury and loss to the people. "Of course, the State is wholly unable to deal with corporations which withdraw from the State and which have their home offices in other States. "But it does seem to me that this is a most outrageous condition and one that should not be permitted by the federal government. "The companies have claimed that they lost money in Sou tlK Carolina, and yet the law, when it goes into effect, will permit each company to make its own rates by its Own experience, numbers of them threaten / and in a practical mass withdraw. "Is there not some federal remedy? It does seem to me that the federal authorities should have the power to investigate the matter and to put an end to a condition which seems to me to be ruthless and outrageous. "I feel sure that you will leave no stone unturned to do your best for the people of South Carolina in the present emergency. ''Asking that you take prompt action, I am very truly, "F. H. McMASTER, "Insurance Commissioner." Several more companies notified their local agents today that they were withdrawing from business in South Carolina. It is believed here that practically all of the big fire insurance companies will withdraw from the State. T*TT T SIGNS LAN K X -UlAJ.n muu. Also Approves Insurance Brokerage Act.?Explains His Views. Columbia, March 3.?Gov. Manning yesterday approved the act of the general assembly outlawing the Southeastern Underwriters' association from South Carolina. The gov-! ernor also approved the insurance' f " ; :iv- .I'/. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Stat? News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The State convention of the Republican party of South Carolina was held in Columbia Tuesday. The J. F. Gallivan Building Co., of Greenville, has been awarded a con * *- *- - 1 -'13 - ~.*11 iraCL LO uuna a ivunims mm m uyoitftnburg. At a meeting of the board of visitors of the Citadel in Columbia last week, Orlando Sheppard, of Edgefield, was elected chairman. James Butler, a white man, wanted in Miami, Fla., for murder, was arrested in Charleston county last week. A reward of $1,500 is offered if Butler is convicted. Abel Cooper, a young white man, has been arrested in Greenwood charged with stealing an automobile belonging, to Representative J. H. Hammond, of Richmond county, several weeks ago. Mrs. Lilly Bryant, of Anderson county, died Saturday of burns received when her clothes caught fire at an open fire-place in, front of which she was standing. The Hampton County Herald is the name of a weekly newspaper, the publication of which has been begun at v Hampton. George Warren, a member of the legislature from that county, is editor of the new weekly. The Charleston county grand jury has returned indictments against thirteen men in connection with the death of Sidney J. uonen, a youngnewspaper man of Charleston, who was killed in Charleston, October 15, 1915, in the Democratic executive committee rooms in Charleston. Charges against the men range from assault with intent to kill to carrying concealed weapons and inciting riot. 300 Poisoned. San Francisco, February- 29.? Three hundred or more guests werfc made- ill presumably by eating ice cream at a Methodist banquet February 22, it became known today following an official report of the incir dent to the Methodist Ministers' association. All of those made ill re\ covered within two days. No ^hemical analysis was made of the food, but there was no thought among-v those in. charge that- there was any deliberate attempt to poison it. \ ? Read the Herald, $1.50 per year. \ brokers' act, which requires an annual license fee of $25. "The general, assembly," said the governor, "enacted what is known as the Laney-Odom bill, prohibiting the formation of organizations or compacts of fire insurance companies to fix and control rates. This act comes to me for my approval or disapproval. After a full hearing, at which written and oral arguments were presented for and against the bill, I am convinced that it is my duty to approve and sign it. "The arguments against the bill do not, in my opinion, furnish adequate reasons for my withholding my signature. There is evidently somfething wrong in reference to the fii^ insurance rates charged in this State. This bill is an effort to give competition in rates. I believe I am acting in the interest of the people of South Carolina ia approving this act." TO QUIT BUSINESS IN S. C. Predicted Anti-Compact Act Wijl Drive All Foreign Companies Out. t * Columbia, March 3.?The Atlas Fire Insurance company, limited, of London, with the United States branch at New York, has withdrawn from South Carolina because of the act driving the Southern Underwriters' association out of the State. They notified their local agents, J. H. Bollin & Sons, this morning not to write any new business or any renewals in this State. The Aetna Fire Insurance company, of Hartford, Conn., notified their local representative, J. S. Middleton, to the same effect and both j of these companies will quit the State J at once. There were ninety-one companies writing fire insurance in South Carolina and it had been predicted that passage of the bill driving the South . .. . . . eastern out of the State wtflild be followed by the withdrawal of all the companies. Announcements from other companies are expected. OVER 3,000 LIVES LOST. j Tragedy of Cruiser La Provence One of Greatest Ocean Disasters. I Paris, March 3.?It was announced at the French ministry of marine todaj* that there were nearly 4,000 men * on board the French auxiliary cruiser La Provence when she was Sunk in the Mediterranean on February 26. It was stated that on board the La Provence were the staff of the 3rd < colonial infantry regiment, the 3rd ] battalion, the 2nd company of the 1st < battalion, the 2nd machine gun com- j pany and one extra company, in all , nearly 4,000 men. ^ j As the ministry of marine on Feb- 1 ruary.29 announced that the number s of survivors of the La Provence dis- i aster was estimated at 850, it is in- t dicated by the foregoing dispatch that < upwards of 3,130 lives were lost. i The loss of more than 3,000 v lives t in the sinking of the French auxiliary I cruiser La Provence is the greatest ocean disaster of modern times. Up , to the present the largest number of j lives ever lost in one wreck was when ] the White Star liner Titanic struck an \ iceberg off the New Foundland banks i on April 14, 1912, and sank with a ] death loss of 1,595. The rescued ] numbered 743. < The French ministry of marine had { previously issued no statements as to the number of persons on the La 1 Provence when she went down. * Th$ vessel, however, when in the ^ trans-Atlantic service could carny 1,- 1 960 persons including the crew, and 1 it has been presumed that, as she ] was transporting troops between ] ports not far apart, she was carrying i a number t>f men larger than her nor- ( mal capacity. J The official statement of February ^ 29 announcing the sinking of the La ^ Provence said: "The French auxiliary cruiser DitAtranna TT (an tft dlSt.in X i V T CUV/U XX \UW vw ? guish her from the French battleship Provence,) engaged in transporting troops to Saloniki, was sunk in the Mediterranean on February 26. Two ' hundred and ninety-sixN survivors have been brought to Malta, and 1 about 400 to Melos by French and British patrol vessels summoned by wireless. "No signs of a submarine were noticed before or after the sinking. La Provence was armed wth five cannon of 14 centimetres, two of 57 millimetres, and four of 47 millimetres. Among the other great sea disasters in addition to the Titanic already mentioned were: The Cunard Line steamship Lusitania, which was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk off the head of Kinsale, Ireland, on May 7, 1915, with the loss of 1,206 lives. The burning of the excursion ^steamer General Slocum in the East River, New York, June 15, 1904, when nearly 1,000 persons met their death. The , French Line steamship La Bourgogne, sunk in collision with the steamship Crementshire, July 4, 1898, with the loss of 580 lives. The1 Japanese liner Kioker Maru-, sunk off the coast of Japan, Septem ber 28, 1812, with the loss of 1,000 lives. / v The Canadian Pacific vessel Empress of Ireland, sunk in collision with the Danish collier Storstad in the St. Lawrence River, May 29, 1914, with the loss of more than 1,000 lives. MANY LIVES LOST. ZLSpanish Steamship Principe De Austrian Goes Down. I Rio Janeiro, March 6.?It is feared here that 400 lives have been lost by the sinking of the Spanish steamship Principe de Asturias. The steamer remained afloat only a short time after striking a shoal off San Sebastian, 1 ' ?.?H- 1 i .11 1 ana mere was nine ume ior me escape of the passengers and crew in the boats. Steamers have gone out. to search for additional survivors, 143 of the passengers and crew having already been landed at Santos. Woman Dies at 108. t * 1 Philadelphia, February 29.?Mrs. Anna Elizabeth McGill, the oldest woman in this section, died jat the home of one of her grandsons yesterday, aged 108 years. She had been in good health until recently, although she became blind several years ago. She attended church regu larly until well past the century j mark. t Mrs. McGill attributed her longevi- j ty to hard work and regular habits. When a man is on the water wagon c everybody wants to treat. s Read the Herald, $1.50 per year. 1 \ ' . ; A . j . ~ )ENMARK MAIL ROBBERY S'EGRO* IS ARRESTED CHARGED WITH CRIME. Charles Johnson May Also Be Implicated in Orangeburg Repot Robbery. The arrest by Sheriff S. G. Ray of Charles Johnson, on a charge of robbing the mails at Denmark, may result in implicating Johnson in the -obbery of the depot at Orangeburg ind the attack on the night operator ;here. Sheriff Ray carried Johnson :o Orangeburg Friday, and at the same time brought back Mallie CurT to serve a sentence in this coun:y, Curry's appeal to the supreme lourt resulting in the lower court beng sustained. The following from :he Orangeburg Evening News of Saturday will be interesting: The arrest of Jake Black, colored, n connection with the Atlantic Coast Line depot robbery and dastardly attack upon Operator Carter on the morning of January 7, has not only placed the officers in what they believe to be direct touch with this one 2ase, but it has turned up several Dther interesting cases, in which Black was either directly or indirectly connected. A warrant has been sworn out for Black and he will be held pending a more thorougn investigation concerning his connection with the jlepot robbery. He has not given any additional information regarding himself since the first examination yesterday morning. The officers believe, however, that the negro will volunteer some additional information before he has been behind the bars many days. Besides getting behind the bars himself, Black has a compatriot in prison, Charles Johnson, colored, charged with robbing the mails at Denmark, and John Wilson, alias Charles Burns, wanted in Marioif county for housebreakingand larceny. In the Charles Johnson case Black gave ithe officers some information yesterday which led to the arrest of | that man. Black said that Johnson was a pal of his when he hit Denmark, and that he gave him a bit of valuable information in regard to robbing the mails. Johnson has been employed at Denmark as a transfer man,' having charge of transferring mails and baggage at that station. Black upon, one visit gave Johnson some help, and while rendering this assistance, he told Johnson how easy it would be to make a haul with the mail. .Black opened one or two v ' sacks at that- time and took several articles out. Johnson was at first u a ctmattt vi /\1 rl on/1 o LiilllU, Uul 110 61CW UU1U ouu uicu a, job himself. , Wheh this information was given the police, Chief Jennings got in touch with Sheriff Ray,'of Bamberg, and last night Sheriff Ray together with Johnson, arrived in the city. Sheriff Ray made a careful search in Denmark before bringing Johnson over and he found a number of articles which the negro had taken from the mail pouches. Among the articles were a set of silver teaspoons bearing 'the trade stamp of a Beaufort dealer, there were a pair of child's shoes, a lady's green silk underskirt and several pieces of lady's silk under garments. These were all recovered as the result of information given by Black, although Johnson said Black knew nothing of the haul in which they had been taken. Black yesterday morning, admitted that he was wanted in Marion county where he had escaped with a sentence of four years hanging over his head. As the result of communication with officials at Marion, Rural Policeman Davis, of that county, arrived in the city today to look the negro over. Officer Davis was in the police court this morning during the trial cases, and while there he recognized an offender going by the name of Charles Burns, as a negro wanted in Marion county on~ the charge of housebreaking and larceny. John Wilson is the negro's right name, and he was considerably surprised when he saw the Marion county officer in court. Burns, as he was known here, was up today on the charge of vagrancy. Sheriff Ray also came in for a iouble duty trip upon his visit to Drangeburg. He not only brought Charles Johnson, of Djramark to this city, but took a negro by the name of! Mallie Curry back to Bamberg from :his city to inter upon a sentence imposed for stealing peas. Curry was a student at one of the jolored colleges in this city. He was ried sometime ago on the charge of itealing peas and sentenced to serve Dn the public works of Bamberg " \ V f -zir", : 'Vr' v,'. r Vi- ' . J.& Jt OPENING OF HUGE BATTLE. ~ ji . M Verdun Struggle Started at Her bebois.?Germans Mown Down. 1 . V M Paris, March 4.?The French official eye-witness gives the following description of the defense of HerfViraa milfle tft t Vl O nnrth ftf UCUUIO, till VV liiitvu wv W4AV Fort Douaumont, where the great battle of Verdun began 12 days ago: "It was on February 21, at 7:20 o'clock in the morning that the Germans began preparation for the attack. They unloosed a formidable artillery fire on the positions which " & they wshed to capture and shells of , all calibres fell like hail. It was a veritable drum fire of an intensity unknown till now. A zone 500 me- > : ' tres broad and a kilometre deep, for example, was pounded in such fashion that the earth was plowed up on the entire superficial extent in* mathematical fashion. Laerymosal shells < . % and suffocating gas shells were also employed to accentuate the moral effect. However, despite this formidable rain of projectiles the Germans the first day succeeded only in entering our first line of defense atlHerbebois and taking a small support- ' ing work of the line. It was a miserable result compared with the Q .- / mechanical effort and the human effort which they had put forth against our advanc 1 line of resistance. It was then that my regiment was called upon to counter attack and to try * j to recapture the first line lost. "At midnight accordingly on the* 'M 21st the men were in position and 'J we were rather happy at having at r the first moment of'our appearance 1 1 1 ?CO ni>iennai>a Oil lUtJ uuuu laivcii vo \/iiovuctv who seemed to be, very glad not to v have to measure themselves against us any further. Among these prisoners was an officer who, having trie& to escape, was killed by the sentry who was charged with guarding them. , "Our counter attack took place on 1 February 22 at 4:30 o'clock in the morning, but after a moment the Boches attacked again. No one had ' j the advantage in this affair. Then | ! during the day there was on both sides an unfceasing struggle with grenades. We no longer had^ any / natural shelter. Herbebois is covered with tree stumps, among which\ f some large trees stand up. On a ' depth of 300 to 400 metres behind is . ordinary undergrowth, byt the Ger! mans had 'opened upon it a terrible' ! outpouring of projectiles and the | wood at certain places was transfomed into a clearing. It was necessary to manoeuvre through this confusion by climbing and crawling. It was snowfng, and I leave you to imagine the endurance which our men showed in the circumstances. "During the night of February 22 the Germans renewed their offensive. / ' * A bombardment of amazing violence and of mortal precision did not permit them, however, to advance an 1 inch. When their infantry in turn ;i| attempted to strike our njen made -i | them suffer sanguinary losses. It rj was still worse during the 23rd. Af\ ter having copiously rained shells on our lines, the Germans sent against us at least a battalion. This attack excited to the highest degree the valor of our menr. They sighted the : Germans at -50 metres and under | methodic volleys the latter fell, howling in terrible fashion. It was a veritable massacre. "Our 75 millimetres on their side had executed a curtain of fire, preventing the enemy from retiring, and very few of the assailants succeeded in getting to the rear. That did not prevent the Germans from attacking \ ? - -3 ! i.1 J 1 i. us once more uunng me aay out without any better success. "Four of our grenadiers, posted at the entrance of a communication trench, killed groups of the enem^ as fast as they presented themselves. They carried on this work for more than 20, hours. Our troops manoeuvred as during field practice. They saw without a murmur their comrades fall around them and they continued their work as quietly as at exercise. "At 4:15 o'clock in the afternoon nn T?nhrnorir 99 nrVvilo nra Vi o r? nAf wu x uui uai j vv u uau uvu retifed a single foot, order was given us to withdraw carefully, as we ran the risk of being surrounded. We waited for the night to come. Some of our men, when they learned that we were to leave Herbebois, protested, asking to be allowed to fight > and die on the spot. The retirement order was executed." county. His case was 'taken to the / ; supreme court, which tribunal confirmed the decision of the lower court. 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