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f Chicago, Feb. 13.?Raymond J.
Bischoff, whose financial operations
are alleged to have ruined thousands
of poor investors who trusted him
-with their life savings, today told
g Fedeal Judge Landis at in inquiry,
it) "'I owe $4,500,000 and I have less
than $1,000 in cash."
/ Bischoff declared he was only 25
9 years of age and that he had accumulated
liabilities estimated by a re'
eeiver appointed Saturday as totalling
approximately $5,000,000 in less
than two years. He described his
business as "general financial business,
brokerage and oil," and said
that he started it in the' spring of
*91$ with $10,000.
Asked where he obtained this money,
Bishoff said that he made part of
It working in the stock yards and
v that the rest was the result of stock
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speculations. He . declared that he
had no previous business experience,
that he lived at home at the time and
that the oniy otner wors ne u?u guuC
into was in connection with obtainK
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questions from Judge Landis, he
maintained that .his operations were
legal, that the money entrusted to
liis care was given him for speculation
and that while it was unfortunate
lie should have lost it, .he felt
/ - lie could have recovered all his lossj
\ es if the receivership proceedings had
f not interfered.
Despite Bischoff's protestations
that all the millions he had handled
v had been lost, a search was begun for
nil possible assets and Judge Landis
Issued restraining orders preventing
Bischoff's relatives from disposing of
> '* two flat buildings, two houses, a farm
and four automobiles and the con|
tents of several safety deposit boxes.
Bischoff blamed a lucky deal with
a friend's $260 for the continued
| transaction which .has involved him
so heavily.
"A friend begged me to play the
market with his money, saying his
creditors were pushing him," Bischoff
was quoted as saying. "I consented,
doubling this money in a week.
He told all his .friends and 1 was immediately
besieged with similar requests.
That was the beginning of
; p " ilt"
"Dabbling in oil" led to his presU
ent status, he was quoted, after visV
ions of financial deals arose when he
found how easy it was to have others
give him their money to invest.
. Blschoff's attorney maintains that
. the 25 year old "wizard of Bubbly
Creek" has violated no law, despite
k fthe shortage of millions. Bisohoff
y gave promissory notes for the money
invested with him, the attorney said,
. adding "a man can't be imprisoned
1 tor non-payment of promissory notes,
if he hasn't the money."
Creditors may realize ten cents on
the dollar, the attorney said.
"While I welcome government intervention,
I could Jiave pulled
through if they had let me alone another
week," Bischoff said.
The oil company, of which he attempted
to gain control, Bischoff
"hna ATtAnsivp holdings in Okla
> fcoma and Texas fields. Its stock lias
> a par value of $1, lie said, but recently
it dropped to 22 cents.
"I became interested in the oil
stock last February," he said. "I
kept putting more and more money
in it until, in July, I thought I owned
every share in existence. But
then I discovered a powerful combi^
nation was fighting me.
More shares began to pop up unexpectedly,
and, before long, I found
that through the bucketshop manipulations
I had been sold duplicated
elhares. For the last few months I
iw?ira hoon a losina battle."
Asparagus by Parcel Post.
Washington, Feb. 13.?Asparagus
- \ in carloads may be sent through parcel
post, according to a decision today
of W. H. Riddell, general superintendent
of the railway mail service.
nostoffice department.
Asparagus growers of the Elko and
Williston districts had asked for the
ruling through Congressman James
. P. Byrnes. Superintendent Riddell
stated that an agent of the railway
mail service would be immediately
sent to Elko and Williston to make
arrangements for the shipments.
Shipping carload lots by parcel post
will be a novel experience in the history
of agriculture and the postoffice
department. It will result in great
saving in freight charges, and be of
great benefit to producers of vegetables.
As to whether the ruling would
affect all other commodities, no decision
ihas been announced.
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BKIDE-ELECE HONORED.
Lovely Entertainment at Fairfax for
Miss Sadie Hatter.
Fairfax, Feb. 11.?Mesdames Walker
Smith and George Sanders were
joint hostesses on Friday afternoon,
Feb. 3, at one of the most delightful
affairs ever given in Fairfax. The
occasion was a miscellaneous shower
in compliment to Miss Sadie Harter,
a popular Fairfax girl whose
marriage to E. Roy Cooner, of Bamberg,
will occur this month.
The Sanders home, always ideal
for entertaining, was never prettier
than at this time. Promptly at 3
ocl'ock began the reception of the
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guests, of whom about one hundred
were invited. The spacious parlors
were thrown en suite and presented
a scene of beauty rarely seen. A
veritable fairyland it was, with myriads
of red hearts, cupids, soft lights
and other suggestions that bespoke
the Valentine season.
After being presented to the receiving
line, which was composed of
Mesdames Smith and Sanders and
Miss Harter, the guests were directed
by Mesdames F. C. Chitty and J.
A. Gray to the register whioh was
presided over by Mrs. Julia Harter,
mother of the bride-elect. In this
room, as elsewhere, one was kept
entirely under the spell of the good
old saint. The profusion of Valentine
symbols, interspersed with beau-l
tiful floral touches of red roses, mingled
in exquisite harmony with the
fairy-like glow of the subdued lights
and the soft gleam of red tapers. j
The guests were next shown by
Mesdames J. E. Johnston, G. A. San-|
ders and N. B. Loadholt to an at-l
tractive corner of the reception hall
where fruit punch was served by
Misses Mildred, Ammye and Zelle
Loadholt.
The entertainment feature was a
very attractive one. The hostesses
were .here aided by Miss Alma
Knight and Mesdames Youmans and
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Anderson. Taoies were pmueu UCl C I
and there over the lower floor, and
arranged for Tiearts-dice. The score
cards were pretty little heart shaped
Valentines, the color scheme again
coming into prominence. Throughout
the afternoon music was furnished
by Misses Lottie Fitts, Emmie De
Lamar and little Miss Frances Loadholt.
In a Valentine contest that
was conducted during the latter part
of the afternoon, Mrs. F. C. Chitty
won a heart shaped box of candy
which she presented to the honor
guest. Later a delicious sweet course
which blended beautifully with the
red and white motif, was served by
Misses Alma Knight and Ammye, Mildred
and Zelle Loadholt. The favors
were dainty little red packets filled
with rice. The contents of these,
when a signal had been given, were
showered upon the bride-elect, who
made a charming picture as she submitted
to this ancient and time-honored
custom whioh is said to be symbolic
of good luck.
Perhaps the prettiest feature of
the afternoon was the entrance of a
snow white wagon which carried the
numerous .gifts. This wagon, wrapped
in white roses, was drawn by
four little boys, Du Pre Sanders, Billy
Johnston, Ernest Young, and Harold
Lightsey, who were dressed in
suits of black velvet. Seated upon
the wagon, amid the many gifts,
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were little Miiarea aauucis auu \saiolyn
Williams, who were dressed respectively
in blue and pink crepe de
chine with fairy wings to harmonize
and made a beautiful climax to an
already pretty scene.
The dining room, which was presided
over by Mesdames John Folk
and J. F. Lightsey, was especially attractive.
Here again the color motif
of red and white was observed
in all details. The exquisitely appointed
table wa " entered with a
snow white cake ich was topped
with a dainty miniature bride. Sus
pended from the red shaded chandelier,
were festoons of red and
white paper which commingled with
the faint lights from the red candles,
made a very pleasing effect.
Much merriment was caused by the
cutting of the bride's cake. The
dime fell to Miss Sara Neeley; the
thimble to Miss Daisy Rizer; the button
to Miss Mildred Loadholt, and
the ring to Miss Emma Harter.
Out of town guests who attended
were: Mesdames Frank Starr, L.
A. Hartzog, Goodwin, and Missea
Daisy Rizer and Sara Neeley, of Olar;
Miss Grace Rickenbacker, of Estill;
Mesdames Shelly Platts and Jones
Williams, of Jenny.
BLACKVILLE BUREAU
Blackville. Feb. 14.?Henry H.
Martin, a Confederate veteran and influential
citizen of Blackville, died
today after an illness of several
months. He was 80 years of age. He
was a faithful member of the Baptist
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church, and is survived by ten children
and a large number of grandchildren
and great grandchildren.
The funeral and interment take place
tomorrow and the remains will be
laid besides those of his wife who preceded
him to the grave by several
years.
Much interest is manifested in the
revival services to begin at the Baptist
church in about two weeks; Dr.
C. C. Coleman, of Charleston, will
preach.
The Fidelis class of the Baptist S.
S. is being entertained with a Valentine
party this evening by their teacher,
Mass Leonard Kelly at the home
of Mrs. W. B. Johnston.
The Priscilla club will be entertained
at the home of Mrs. Gerard
Weissinaer Friday afternoon.
The Joseph Koger chapter, D. A.
R., is being entertained this "afternoon
by Mrs. A. H. Ninestein with a
Valentine party.
The D. A. R. will hold their annual
reception on Washington's birthday,
at the home of Mrs. S. H. Still.
Mrs. S. E. Buchanan, of Drew,
Miss., and her mother, Mrs. J. H. E.
Milhous, are visiting their sister and
daughter, Mrs. I. F. Still.
'H. Murray Mathi has returned
from a visit to rela /es in Florida.
Reddick and Everette Still are at
home for a short while from the U.
S. Naval academy.
(Mrs. Mary Rhoden has returned
from a visit to her son at ureenvine
and is now preparing to move to
Swansea.
Friends <3f Mrs. Mary R. Carroll
will regret to learn of her illness and
tfish for her a speedy recovery.
Mrs. Mary Browning, of Olar, is
the guest of her son, J. Wyatt Browning.
Friends of Mrs. M. K. Kearse, R.
F. D., will regret to learn of her illness
and hope for a speedy recovery.
Friends of Mrs. D. P. Martin will
learn with regret of her illness at
her home here.
History as it
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Every day we see accounts of the
last survivor of the battle of Balaklava
has passed away. According to
actual accounts there must have been
about ten thousand of them, although
the poet who wrote up the famous
"niiarro" ns to helieve that there
were only six hundred.
Then the voracious chronicler informs
us every few weeks that the
last man who saw Lincoln assissinated
at Booth's theatre in Washington
on the night of good Friday,
1865, has passed to his reward. There
must have been thousands of people
to see the president of the United
States on that tragic night!
Now, on Saturday last the Savannah
papers contained a telegram sent
out from New York that Col. Charles
T. Hudson, of New York, who had
assisted in the capture of Jefferson
Davis and who had just died, "had
kept as his most cherished memento
a scrap of the woman's clothing in
which Davis was attired flrhen ihe
was taken."
The item was evidently sent out
by telegraph from New York, but
we are very much surprised that any
such news paragraph should get a
right of way on the wires. Of course
we can understand and, in the constant
dripping of news items from
the telegraph instrument, such a
paragraph might find the light from
n hn?v nffirp.
Several of the soldiers who participated
in the capture of Jefferson Davis
have denied the oft-repeated tale
that he "was dressed in woman's attire."
The fact was that Mr. Davis
was an invalid and in the chill of the
early morning, Mrs. Davis pinned
around his shoulders her shawl asi
her husband emerged from the tent.
Upon this slender foundation grew
up the stories of the disguise. We
can see why the effort was made by
northern papers at the time to slander
and humiliate Jefferson Davis.
Strange that this fiction persists,
however, and that the officer who recently
died in Brooklyn should have
continued to believe that he preserved
an article of woman's attire taken
from his prisoner. A man who would
deliberately steal from a prisoner a
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OLAR BUREAU
Olar, Feb. 15.?The Kearse-Morris
post of the American Legion met
last Thursday evening and elected
the following officers: Prof. J. W.
Chitty, post commander; J. 0. Sanders,
Jr., vice post commander; M.
E. Rizer, post adjutant; E. C. Bar*
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Ker, nnance oiiiuei, a. o. uamu, ocigeant
at arms; C. M. Chitty, post
chaplain, and R. Fair Goodwin, insurance
and service officer.
The meeting was something of a
pep meeting too; practically every
member present expressing himself
as favoring more regular attendance
and pledging his support in making
the post at Olar one of the livest in
this section of the state.
Last Friday afternoon from 3:30
to 5 o'clock, quite a number of ladies
of Olar and surrounding commnities
together with several from
other towns were in attendance at a
shower at the home of Mrs. C. F. Ri?r
Ondift Uirtar of Fair.
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fax, who becomes the bride of E. R.
Cooner, of Bamberg, this week.
The home was tastily decorated for
the occasion and everyone enjoyed
the event thoroughly.
Possibly you have heard at some
time during your existence that you
can close your eyes during the whole
of an automobile trip anywhere in
South Carolina and tell when you
are being -ushered into any small
town fly the sudden tendency of the
car in which you are riding to do the
shimmy, waltz and turkey trot all at
the same time. But you have not
heard that about Olar recently have
you? Yet, we are not boasting. But
we do mean that we have better kept
streets than the adjoining county
roads. We have a scraper.
Last Sunday Herman Sanders, of
Olar, gave his friends a surprise by
bringing to town a wife. He had just
been married to one of the daughters
of J. A. Moody, who lives in the Bag
Fork section of Barnwell county. It
it understood that Mr. and Mrs. Sanders
will mafte their home in Olar,
very likely for the present with Mr.
Sanders's father, A.. J. Sanders.
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part of his clothing, even if it were a
disguise, writes himself down as a
charaoted who should not be trusted
or taken seriously at any time.
Postmaster General Reagan, who
was with Mr. Davis's party at the
time, gives the following account of
ihis capture in his "Memoirs," published
several years ago. Mr. Reagan
says:
"He was made a prisoner of war.
As one of the means of making the
Confederate cause odious, the foolish,
and wicked charge was made that
he was captured in woman's clothes
and ihis portrait showing him in petticoats
was afterward placarded generally
in showcases and public places
in the north. He was pictured as
having bags of gold on him when he
was captured. The charge of ihis being
arrested in woman's clothes is
disproved by the circumstances attending
his capture. The suddenness
of the unexpected attack of the ene
my anowea no time tor a cuauge ui
clothes. I saw him a few minutes
after his surrender, wearing his accustomed
suit of grey with his boots
and hat on and I have elsewhere
shown that he had no money."
Mr. Davis in his book, "The Rise
and Fall of the Confederacy,'1 writes:
"As it was quite dark in the tent,
I picked up what was supposed to be
my 'raglan,' a waterproof light overcoat,
without sleeves; it was subsequently
found to be my wife's, so very
like my own as to be mistaken for it;
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threw over my head and shoulders a
shawl. I had gone perhaps fifteen or
twenty yards when a trooper galloped
up and ordered me to halt and
surrender, to whioh I gave a defiant
answer, and dropping the shawl and
raglan from my shoulders, advanced
toward him."
Regarding accounts of his capture,
which reflected upon his courage,
President Davis wrote that they were
"all the spawn of a malignity which
shames the civilization of the age."
It is interesting to recall that Jefferson
Davis, president of the Confederacy,
and Alexander H. Stephens,
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LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL."
News and Observations Prom an Old
Friend of The Herald.
I have visited your town twice recently.
These visits to me have been
a sad pleasure. It was sad because
I missed so many faces that I met
a long time ago when I was quite a
young man. I miss Gen. F. M. Bamberg,
Isaac Bamberg, Col. T. J.
Counts, Gen. Jack Rice, Major Hays,
.Toe Dickinson. C. B. Free, and oth
ers. These were all my friends, and
I think of them when I visit Bamberg.
Once I went to Bamberg with
a wagon in the fall and spring about
once a week carrying cotton and
bringing back fertilizers and groceries;
now I go perhaps once in
two or three months on an average.
It is 18 miles from here to your
town; and other towns have sprung
up nearer. It is a pleasure to go for
several reasons: Main street is paved,
and it was once so boggy in a
rainv time. The roads are so much
better than when I was a young man,
and new and enterprising young men
;have taken the place of those who
have gone before.
On my return home I came back
Dy old Buford's Bridge, once a village
that all of us were proud of;
though it was about 16 miles to the
nearest railroad station, yet it boasted
of five stores that carried general
merchandise, a Masonic hall, a tailor
shop, postoffice, a bar room, a 'hotel,
one church, several dwelling houses
and a blacksmith shop. It seemed to
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me me oest peufic iu mc tvuuu;
visited old Buford's Bridge. But it;
is a thing of the past, and old Mizpah I
ehurch is the only building standing
today. When we got there something
went wrong with my auto. And
we stopped in the road between what
was once a store, and a hotel.
It was about one hour until a good
machinist came along and put us to
going again. Our surroundings looked
desolate enough. We were where
it.tt-o? cn mn/?h faiptv and
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mirth, so much pleasure and happiness,
so much lively conversations
and jokes. And now everything looked
so desolate. Truly we were where
"the moss drooped Ipw from the
rugged oak tree," for in 15 feet of
us the moss from the oaks reached
the ground.
Gen. L. M. Ayer was a good story
teller and I thought about the time
when he used to sit in a store piazza
and was listened to attentively for
perhaps an hour by such good men
as Leroy Wilson, George Moye, Capt.
Billy Williams, Frank Hogg, Majot
Ranse Barker, J. J. and H. Brabham,
Dr. L. s! Hay, George I. Priester and
others. But I will write now of the
present.
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soap factory again. Old Maum Louise
Kearse continues to be mistress
of the work. They are* very well
fixed, for Genia Brown's children
have all got good teeth yet and can
carry on their part of the work
and every little is a ihelp. The old
woman said that there was an old
saying and she believed it was true
that "just as long as there is life
there is soap."
And now a few words about some
of our colored "popylation." Wash
Folk and Lula Graham were happily
tnarriort a o,hnrt time ago. Wash and
Lula each are getting well up in
years and Wash has now taken on
his third wife, but you can't outdo
a woman. Lula has risen sublimely
to the occasion and wont be turned
down. She goes Wash one better
for in Wash she has taken on her
fourth husband. Wash says he's getting
along fine, for he has "shore
got a plum good wife." I suggested
to him that ihe had been married so
many times I supposed that he knew
all the hen pecked dodges, and he
said that he did. I wonder if she
is not pretty well fixed on the same
line. Their friends gave them a
"surprise party" ana tney gave il
in true military style. They cooked
a good supper, got five shot guns,
two tin pans, and one tin horn and
went to their house after dark and
commenced firing at once. Wash
was out in the yard and thought
himself killed. Lula fell on the floor
and fainted. They procured camphor,
smelling salts and turpentine,
and rubbed her head and her heels
and her back and the front part of
her back. Finally she "come too"
and was able to sit up and when
she got able to walk they placed a
fine linen table cloth on the table
and placed plenty of good things to
eat on it. But Wash says "Lula bad
no encouragement to eat."
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Bank Cannot Get
Rosborough Funds
It might be of some interest to
Bamberg county people, especially
Denmark folks who were acquainted
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with Eugene E. Rosborough when he
livoH tVioro a hnv fn knntt' that the
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superior court of Richmond county,
Georgia, of which Augusta is the
county seat, has held that the life
insurance companies must pay to his
widow the full amount of the policies
on his life totalling $50,000.
The companies did not deny the full
liability, but Mr. Rosborough, Who
was cashier of an Augusta bank, got
in bad financial straits with the bank
last fall and committed suicide, having
embezzled, it is alleged, over
$150,000. The policies were all made
payable to his wife as beneficiary and
a few minutes before his rash act,
he left a note to his wife asking her
to turn over to the bank $25,000 of
)the money to help meet his shortage
and to retain the balance for herself.
In addition to this the bank claimed
that the premiums on the policies
were paid by Rosborough with
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the .bank attempted to collect from
the companies the amount in question
and to -have the court restrain
payment in full to the beneficiary
widow.
The court denied this right, and
the case will be appealed to the su- ,
preme court of Georgia, and Mrs.
Rosborough has been restrained from
using the funds while the suit is
pending. Many people in Denmark
remember Eugene Rosborough quite ||g
Poor South Carolina!
Once every year we have our feel- i
ing of pity for SoutA Carolina, and
that is upon the annual meeting of
her legislature.
- Up in North Carolina we do not let
our solons meet but once in every
two years, but in South Carolina they
meet every January, and as the cotton
mill operative vote holds the balance
o| political power in that state, raj
the office seeking members of the
legislature strive and connive to introduce
measures that will attract
j the mill vote to themselves.
Many wonderful bills 'have been 'j
| introduced in the past, but none have
| ever exceeded in brilliancy of oon[
ception that one introduced last week
by a member from lower South Carolina.
The bill would, have made it illegal
to close down any cotton mill even
though business conditions were
such as to show large losses from Operation.
Of course, no such measure
will pass, but we can not help wondering
if the wise author of the measure
expected the law to be effective in
case of a strike.
Every state legislature has its
share of rattle-brained members and
it is the hard luck of South Carolina
that she has to deal with her quota
bnce every year.?Textile Bulletin.
Enforcing Prohibition.
Items oof general interest relating
to enforcement of the 18th amendment
have been culled from the directors'
and agents' reports as fol
Omaha authorities have inaugur- ated
a campaign to deport foreigners
guilty of moonshine operations. Fines
and even jail sentences, not proving
effective, warning has been issued
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that on second offense, deportation
proceedings will be employed. x
Director S. B. Qvale, of Minnesota,
has asked authority to employ women
as enforcement agents, declaring
that they would prove valuable in ap- *
prehending certain classes of violar
Director Qvale reported paid in
fin as an dassessments totalling $133,
168, which is $43,168 more than the
estimated cost of enforcing the law
in the entire state oof Minnesota.
Attorney General of Indiana has
called a state-wide conference of all
law enforcement officials of the cities
and counties, and "great benefits
are expected," reports Director Bert
C. Morgan.
From Director Mitchell, California:
"California enforcement officials
seized 165,000 gallons of liquor
ana wine.-To
Authorize Bridge. Washington,
Feb. 13.?Representative
Byrnes introduced a bill today
authorizing the counties of Jasper,
S. C., and Chatham, Ga., to con- 3
struct a bridge across the Savannah. /J
river at or near Savannah. / M
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