Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. ffKWSY LKTTKKS FROM OUR SPE? CIAL CORRESPONDENTS. mm of Interest Froeu mil Parts of saunter sad Adjoining Cuuatleo. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Moil your letter* so that they will reach this office not later than Mon aay when intended for Wednesday's paper and not later than Thursday for Saturday's Issue* This, of course, applies only to regular oorreepond saea, la oase of Us art* of unusual s?w? ralus, send In immediately by aaati. tslsphoos or telegraph. Suoh ?twi stories are ecesetable sp to the Hour of going to pre?. Wednesday's gaper Is printed Tuesday afternoon and Saturday's paper Friday after negn\ I'INF WOOD. Plnewood. July 21.?Rev. Shuler started a seriea of service here in the Methodist church last evening to continue throughout next Friday night, preaching at 10.30 a. m. and t.30 p. m. Dr. and Mrs. Krank M. ITarvln will leave this sftegwgwg for a ten days visit to Norfolk, Va.. Washing? ton and New York city. Dr. i n man has taken charge of his pa? tients until his return. Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Epperson and little son. Robert. Jr.. will leave Tuesday morning for Hendersonvllle, S. C. where Mrs. Epperson's moth? er. Mrs. J. P. Lawrence, will accom? pany the rest-seekers. Titidal News Notes. Tlndal. July 14.?We had a fine rain on the 20th. which Improved cotton and corn very much. Most of the farmers will finish their work this week. Mr. H. W. Cuttlno and family nave gone to Beaufort for a etay of about two weeka Mrs. J. P. Richardson Is visiting her daughter in Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. Manning Dortery, of Dalsell. visited at Mr A. F. Stafford's last Sunday. Mr. W. H. Broadway has gone to the mountains of North Carolina for two weeks. Mr. Dayton Stone, who has been sack for some time, is Improving. stateburg Personals Stateburg. July 25.?Mrs. W. H. Barnwell, Misses Emma and Beaalt Barnwell returned on Friday from Benders?.nvllle. N. ('. where they spent o i- days in a most delightful manner. Mr. Jos P. 8imon*. of Eutawville, la on a visit to hi* hrother. Mr. James Simons. Miss Sud.. Find Is enjoying the ocean breeaes oh Paw ley's Island. Dr. M. J. Pop*? and his charming ?Side spent the w?M>k-cn?l in nur snldst en r?>ute from the mountains, where th?\ ha\e been spending 'heir honeyrttoOR, to their home on Kdlsto Inland. Mr. and Mr.*. Iii? hard <\ Richard son snd family spent the week . ad In Surnter. Mra Frank Harris returned to hel home In Tbomssvllle. Oa.. on Friday, after a visit of four weeks to her father. Mr K. F. Holmes. Mrs. Jame? Pin? kn \ inl M > An? nie Moor? I - - r r ??n Fridaf m.>rning for WrUhtsv 11.e Beech. Mr. and Mr*. Charlie Plncknoy and their gttffnetre daughter, Emma, have moved from ?ggrtef to make their horn, in ?oir midst. All of State burg Wafcomes them hack Miss Jennie Simons, of Eutaw vl1le. Is the wrv attract i\ ? guest af Mr* Jam*-* Slm<?ns ,tt lor h>m?\ ?*Waverly." Mr. William r.irnw. ll ipeai a f?*w ehiyj at home last week. Mr. Oeo. <\ Warren was one of those wh?> was selected at th?- State Rifle shoot whl? h ha.s Ju.n en?l?-d a\ that pla< ??. This Is the f??urth suc r?sa*lve year that Capt. Warren has tn*en al'lf t?> secure a pbtCS on the State Rifle team which was psnl to fump r.-rrv in I it is the si\th time that hi hgj been on the Stat?? Pam. for two v.-ars !)?? >>[i the t. toi that went to Seagirt. N. J. (.. for - the Nail.oi i I kc*) ii d had decided lO hold Its annual contest at Camp IVrry. Captain War? ren's score ivih ???v.nfh among those who contested und he won. in ad dition to a genes >.n the Etat? team a gold medal and a ? ash prtSS Of $10 was given him. Qntnmbla srtl have an abattoir owned urn! controlled l.y rh< p|ty, This was decided Uy rRy council af tor a rep??rt had been submitted I Councilfio'ii Ii anil s . g] urging such i< ? Ion. 'rh< B h w;n cost ahoni fil.eao, and i l?r ?l.ahly be '??< ? ? t? I on ' oa ol e* wr vi plggejs of property non " od bv the etty, The detains i> ? ever, will !??? arranged Intef the fonuniu being in??? t? d ?o go ahead with plans. IRRET* Ml.\ WIK) SELL BEER. Ksuing of Near-beer Privileges by CHj of I uiAn Brings on Trouble? QOvefJSOff Gave Order?. I'nion. July 2U.?Sheriff J. G. Long, uetiuK under Instructions from the fOVamor, today Want to the olllce of tlie city elerk and obtained the names of the sine parties to whom near-beer licenses had been Issued by the city of Union. Seven of the nine alleged rlolators >f the law have arrested and are out on bond. Tio other tsro are Dl, but will be placed.under arrest as soon as prac t liable. The sheriff states that he is going to follow the law and continue to i.ud the plOOOS of business of the \iolators of the dispensary law until iQsjSjejd tratlic in liquor is broken up. Mayor T. c Duncan U out of (he Olty t(?day and COUld not he seen in regard to the near-beer situation here. IMPORTANT LUMBER DECISION. Many Contract* May bo l'|N't it I hegtet CSSH ll Einully Won. Florence, July II,?The decision of the supreme court in the case of A. NY. Fingier against the Atlantic ('oast Lumber company. recently handed gosftt, is of the utmost im portanee to the people of this sec? tion of the State, as millions of dol? lars of land snd the titles to the tmber thereon are involved in the final settlement. The case came up in the circuit court and was decided adversely to the plaintiff. Mr. Flagler, a citizen of Willlahisburg county, who had with the majority of other owners of timber lands in this section sold his timber to the Atlantic Coast Lumber company, giving them the right ^to cut at any time and the timber to be theirs for a period of ten years from the time the cutting began. The appeal was made that the contract was too indefinite to be enforced, and was, therefore, different from ertain other timber right cases heard in this State previously. The supreme court reverses Judge Prince in the matter, and the case will bo reopened in the circuit court and the Jury will have a finding of fact as to a reasonable limit of time, which will practically void the con? tract. The case was appealed by Messrs Clayton of this city and Buck of Ma? rion. If they finally win out in the matter ,as appears provable now, it will upset many a timber contraet n. ide at a time when timber was regarded as little mote than an en? cumbrance on the land. drowned at myrtle REACH. YoWOg .Man and Young Woman of Cnmvny Pond. Conway, July L'"\?A gloom was cast over Myrtle Reach and Conwav this morning by the drowning of i! hard Nichols, the lS-\ear-old SOU of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nichols, and Miss Annie Sessions, the l--year-old daughter of Mrs. G. Robert Session*, both of Ton way. Two sisters of Mr. Xtebols. both younger than himself, were r. -cued from the surf by him. and in his efforts to save little Miss Sessions both were drowned. The drowned bodies were found within a short distance of the icsns, The sad tragedy occurred about o'< lock this morning, Quit** ? crowd Of young people were In bathing, not more than waist deep, when a ?WOll name In and knocked over the three Nichols children and unaccus? tomed to surf bathing. It Is thought that when the wave passed over them Ihey loot control of themselves and becOOM strangled. Young Mr. Nich? ols, seeing the condition of the girls rushed to Ihn bill with his little sis? ter and and went back In an heroic effort to save their companions, but being himself exhausted and tightly grasped by the young lady, together they WOnl down. One Of the young ladies rescued suffered orly from sltgl t strangling, while it required ? great deal of ef? fort 10 revive the other. Young Mr. Nichols was cold when found, and several hours' work on young Miss Sessions failed to bring her to life. Marriage LIcciimc* l?**ued. Marriage lleenass were issued to the following negro enuples Saturday and Sunday: Sam Colsmnn end Jeannetts Bor? trand of Pumter, Reese Blngleton of Bumtef and Maud Myers of Lykes, ? nd William f!.I< n end Emllj it i gin Of Wedff 'e ld. \o licenses v\ iv Issued lo white ? ins h undred feet, perhs ps, Is nol an exaggerated diameter f(,r a Ches? \< ? >' Bn; waterspout) considering that there nr? Western cyclones of t * a I n ? l re. and a cyclone hi a indspoul ' Wn shlngton I lersld. RETURNS INDICATE DEFICIT OF PROHIBITIONISTS. Ii Seem* Certain That Cicction Will be Contested, Whatever Mas be Final Outcome. Dallas, Texas, July 2s.?All re? turn! from the State-wide prohibition election, In Texas received by the 3alveston-Dallas Texas Newa thus fir. after being subjected to the most careful revision, give: For prohibition, 226,6S3; against 22S,J?:i3. Anti-majority, 0,400. No returns have been received from live counties, but these per hapa have east no more than l.ooo VOtea, Forty-seven counties have mads only partial returns, but in mosl of these only a few small box? es are missing. Tin? total unreported vote pro? bably will not exceed 22.000. it being Indicated that the vote polled was about 175.000. which is the largest VOtC aver, polled In Texas, except in 1S1??;, wln-n r.'l,.? votes were cast. A survey Of the territory not yet reported, wheh Is well seat*.-red over the State, indicates that the re? turns yel to come hold about as much promise for on. side as the other, and the result may he put down as doubtful, but slightly more in favor ?>f the anti's -"..an the ? ro hfbltlonlsts, At anti-prohibition headquarters a majority of 3,000 is claimed. The prohibition leaders are quite as emphatic in asserting that they have gained a victory in the election, and moreover they assert that frauds have been committed. Both sides have issued warnings that tho bal? lot boxes should be carefully pre? served, and it seems inevitable that there will be a contest in the courts and possibly a legislative investiga? tion, regardless of the showing made on the face of the returns. PROVE SUBMARINES NEEDED. The Obvious Lesson Drawn From the Naval War Game at I/>ng Island. Washington, July 21.?One certain result of the naval war game in progress Off the eastern entrance of Long Island sound will be recom? mendations to congress for a consid? erable increase of the number of submarine boats. Even the comandcr of the at tacklng fleet, Hear Admiral Osp-r haus, had to admit in his official re? port that the submarines attached to tho defensive Meet had succeeded In approaching his big battleablps without detection until they suddenly rose at the short distance of 500 yards from the anchorage. Equlp ? ed with torpedoes that easily trav* 1 t'r 9 times that distance at great need, it would have been an easy 1 tatter for the submarine command . rs t.? have sent some of the big ships clear out of the water if the war had inen an actuality. The obvlOUS lesson is that in war time a hostile fleet Will never dare anchor nil the coast if there is rea? son to suspect the presence within a mil.-s of any of the underwater crafts, of if they do SO they must have r scourge to the British device >f strong chain torpedo nets hung far out from the hulls. CHOLERA IN NEW YORK. Spanish Sailor, Two Days III Now York, Dtea off Dreaded Asiatic Dis? ease, New York, July 22.?Medical ex? perts from the board of health swept aside today the doubts and waning hop ki of Bellevure hospital doctors by diagnosing as Asiatic cholera, the case <>f Manuel Bermudes, the Span? ish sailor whom the big hospital has sheltered for two days. The verdict was hardly given before a closed am? bulance bearing Hermudes rumbled away to a nearby pier and placed the Victim aboard the waiting vessel which steamed down the harbor for quarantine, Manhattan's first case of the plague came as a shock to the muni? cipal authorities who lo^t no time in attempting to purge the eity of any germs that may have been left be? hind. Dr, Alvah Doty, health officer of the port, had not officially passed upon the ease at a late hour tonight, lb- expressed the opinion, however, thai if Bermudes bad the true Asiat? ic cholem he probably contracted it 1 from a cholera carrier, probably a sailor encountered in his boarding house, in that event that carrier la still at largo. Swinburne Island hospital, which 1 .? '!???? Hermudes tonight, lost a/i I other suffer from the cholera to Idaj 1 17 year-old boy who was ? I vie.-rac. passenger of the steamer I Mo]tk< 1 lej ond his death the slt ? in quarantine was devoid of 1 1 Alaska forevi r to be tho grave? yard of reputations? Non York World RUKHIXG VESSELS TO SOUTH, With Onlj one Little Gunboat in [fatten Waters, Na\> Department Gets Busy. Washington, July 20,?With only on<' little gunboat in the waters of Haiti to safeguard American inter? ests, threatened by a formidable revolution, that teems to be spread? ing hourly throughout the republic, the navy department is making a strenuous endeavor to rush adequate protection to the scene. The fast scout cruiser Chester today was de? tached from th?> mimic war In Long island sound and ordered to the theatre of real strife in Haiti. She will sail for Cape Haitlen probably tomorrow at a 2<>-kn >t speed. The trip will be made in about four days. The DesMolnee left Boston today for Tort au Prince. Her voyage will consume a Week, The Peoria is ex? pected to leave San Juan. Puerto Rico, tomorrow for Llberte. With the Petrel now at Go naives, the (Tnlted States, in the course of a week, will have four warships sur? rounding the latter ship. BE.VTTTE KILLED WIFE. Cousin Admits Buying Gun for Fatal Deed. Rlchiu ad, Va., July 21.?The mis? sing link In the chain of evidence Which the detectives have been forging in the ease of the murder of Mrs. Henry Claj Beattle, Jr., who was slain Tuesday night, live miles south of Richmond on the Midloth? ian turnpike, while automobiles with her husband, was supplied this after? noon, when Paul Beattle, a cousin of Henry Clay '.iealtie. Jr., made for? mal confessioi to the police that he bought for Henry and delivered him last Tuesday the gun with which Mrs. Beattle was killed. Thereupon both Henry Clay Peat tie. Jr., and Paul Beattle ?%e* ? ar? rested, and the former was brought to the Richmond city jail, where he is in confinement tonight. Paul fell in a dead faint on being told he was under arrest and later writhed in convulsions. He was so violent that he had to be handcuffed and thus manacled he was taken to the city home for medical treatment. He remains there tonight and is reported much better aft^r the first shock of his collapse. The Inquest proceeded today as per adjournment at the home of Cor? oner Loving. In Chesterfield county. At 7 o'clock thia afternoon a further adjournment was had until 12:30 o'clock tomorrow. Henry Clay R -attic. Jr., w as the first witness heard today. The com? monwealth line of questioning indi? cated bis belief that his wife was kill? ed In the road where the large blood stain was found. the automobile's drip pan having caught the hemor? rhage after the body was pla< ed in the car. Inquiry foi the clothing worn by Mrs. Beattle brought out the start? ling fact that her clothing had been burned by her family, who. it was explained, wished to destroy that grusome reminder of thr> tragedy. Beattle was on the stand for over two hours, and in spite of all tests such as the reconstruction of the scene at the moment of the crime, struck to his original account of the t raged y. On being arrested he remained perfectly COOl, affording thus a strik? ing contrast to his cousin. He exhibited neither surprise nor emotion. His only request was that he be given a newspaper. This was handed to him. and he read it ap? parently with deep interest. Then he threw it to the floor, .it a cigarette and looked dreamingly into space. Heating Oranges To Re Stopped. Healers In oranges which have been t;i ken from the trees w hen green and made yellow by placing them in artificial heat are to be dealt with as dealers in adulterated food stuffs by the federal government, according to notice received by H. B. Barnard, State food and drug commissioner from the Rnlted States Department of Agriculturae, says the Indianapolis NeW S. The federal authorities have been studying the average sour orange of the common market and have found that it usually comes from orchards where fruit is treated to the artifi? cial process. This results In a skin of the proper color, but the fruit is not properly ripened, the acids of the grei n fruit remaining unchanged, if lef( on the trees to ripen properly the acids would give way to sugars Rx (hange ?'hfl rile Truett, of Durlui ni, n. *'.. aged 22, and Ronnie r| u kman, of l "lor. nee. h. I'.. aged I v were killed In He Florence I r? Ighl > aril i Sat? urday night. Tii. \ went to ? . ep on j the track and an engine ran over 11hem, cultIng off their heads, CHOLERA DEATH IN BOSTON. MLORS BELIIA Ell TO II \\ K CARRIED DISEASE. _ Children ?? l' Dead Woman arc De? tained in Quarantine and itu.ian District Will be Fumigated. Boston, July 23. -Asiatic Cholera has reached Boston, it caused one death, while two foreign sailors whj are believed to have brought the dreaded disease here, after being taken ill. disapp >ared and their whereabouts Is unknown, according to a statement given oul officially to day by Chairman Samuel II. Durgin of the Boston board of healr.li. The cholera victim was Mrs. Ta masslno Mastrodenico, who died at the detention hospital on Qallup's island Thursday. She took into her home as lodgers ;? few weeks ago two sailors who were members of the crew of a steamer supposed to have sailed fron an Italian port. The sailors subsequently were taken ill and disappeared, Efforts are being made to find them. The children of Mrs. M:\strodeni co are under observation at the quar? antine station and the board has already begun the work of examining the many persons who may have come Into contact with the dead wo? man. The house where the woman lived is in the congested Italian dis? trict of the city and will be thor? oughly fumigated, and all precau? tions taken to protect the 2." fam? ilies, including some half a hundred children, who also live ther^. The delay in determining defi? nitely that the woman died of chol? era was due to difficulty in recogniz? ing the germs of the disease of the cultures, the diagnosis being made possible only yesterday by the re? ceipt from Washington of a supply of anti-cholera serum with which a glutinatlon test was made. Mrs. Masterodenico until she was isolated was attended constantly by her daughter, Mary, who slept with her. The girl is being detained and close? ly watched. SOME GOOD ROADS NOTES. What tile People in Various states Are Doing to Secure Good Roads. The following excerpts given here? with tell the story of the fi?ht for good roads and what the people in many places are doing to obtain good roads: As will be noted from reading the excerpts printed below the coun? try is accepting the part that good roads cost money and wanting good roads they are spending their mon? ey in building them. Also especially note that it Is generally act opted that expert direction and supervision are necessary to do the work well. Thousands of dollars are thrown ?way daily because 6f the lack of ap? preciation < f the fact that what is worth doing Is worth doing well, which ?an be achieved only by one who knows how to <b> it. Building roads requires knowledge more than many other works, and to have good roads and to .ret them economi? cally a road engineer must be n charge, We wish we could Impress this fact on our people, it Is a 'es son they must learn before they can get good roads. Compare the piece of road made by Wlnslow and Prof. Homes with other road work in the count y. Arkansas. "In parts of Arkansas men, wo? men and children have turned out to do actual work on the road and it is being built without one cent of expense to the counties or to the State, it will be fifty feet wide and there will not be a grade over four per cent along its entire length of more than loo miles. A good roads day will be named soon and every? body will get down to work. The road has been divided into 65 divis? ions, under as many captains, and each captain has a crew of his own. Prizes will be offered for the most effective work done and will be open to all of the crews." (ieorgla. "Troup county, in which the inciting was held, is a live wire in the road building business. This county has been working comets since the felons were put on the pub? lic roa li of Georgia, she now has IT men ,t work, representing (lil mer and Hade counties' share as wall as her own. Competent civil en? gineers under the direction of Sol? omon and Non rods, of Atlanta, have constant supervision over the work. A bond Issue of $200.000 was voted a \ear ago, and is being expended on the best of bridges and cub erts nnd ia h? r r< >ad constnu lion." < thin, "III l Hilo 30 counties ha\ ,? voted 82,?.,000 bonds for good roads con? structing this year and will spend In addition half a million from st te revenues. The people of the Buck oye State are wide-awake on the goi .1 reads one- Ion an.1 the three I millions which will be spent this sum south Carolina. "Sumter county affords a refresh? ing contract In that it has already Is? sued bonds tor $50,000 for road building and is preparing to follow this tip with $160,000 more. A red hot campaign for the necessary bond issu?- Is now being carried on and there is, every prospect that bonds will be voted. This amount will give Sumter a system of sand-ehiy roads second to none |n the State and will place that good county among the leaders." Tennessee. "The Memphts-to-Brlstol High? way Association bas planned to make a record on August 12. 14, thirty* two thousand men having pledged themselves to work on the road be? tween Memphis and Bristol on those two days. Six thousand teams have been pledged for the work." Texas. "Seventy-two miles of country roads, distributed throughout the en? tire county, are to be paved by Har? ris county, Texas, with shell and gravel within the next twelve months out of a recent road and bridge bond issue of $500,000, according to a schedule adopted by the county com? missioner's curt." Virginia. "According to report sent out from tl~u? offices of the State highway commission .a great deal of bridge and culvert building is going on in Virginia. A number of counties are preparing to spend large sums on roads, notably Wise count:', where contracts were let on June 28 for grading eighty-one <^1) miles of road. This county has employed Mr. W. P. Cocke, a competent highway engineer. to superintend the work, and it will be done according to his specifications. All of this road, af? ter it is graded will be lurfaced, the greater part of it with macadam. The grading is unusually heavy for high? way work, averaging 8.000 cubic yards per mile." Wisconsin. "This bill provides for the ex? penditure of $350,000 annually on good road building throughout the State, not more than one-third of which will be provided by the State, the balance coming equally from the counties and the townships in which the roads are built. A com? mission of five, consisting of the dean of the engineering college, the State geologist and thr^e men selected by the governor, will have charge of the work. "Through the supervision of this commission and its engineers the work of building good roads will speedily be given a decided impetus. Under the new arrangemeni a million dollars a year will be put into road building in an expert manner and superintended with thoughtful re? gard for economy and good quality." Miscellaneous. Robertson county, Tenn.. is ask ing for bids on the construction of a macadam road 50 miles long. 40 feet wide and with stone 8 inches deep. $150,000 is available for the work. The good roads advocates in Georgia are jubilant over the fact that their State spent during the fiscal year ending May tl, 1911. the stun of $3,000,000 for good roads. Greenville county. S. C . has pur? chased for $3,000 a gasoline traction engim nrhich it is estimated will do the work of 20 mules in road im? provement at about one-fifth the cost of ihe mules. Chamber ?.f Commerce Notes. Phone No. 20th There will be a meeting of the Retailer's Association for organis? ation and election of officers at the Chamber of Commerce on Wednes? day at 12 noon. It is important that every rStallet or his representative attend this meeting. Immediately after this organization is perfected, the work of the Credit Bureau will he taken up and other matters of vital importance to the retailers of the city wll be discussed. ess A few days ago the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce sent cut letters to every member in which certain Information was requested. It Is necessary that he secure this information at once. Constant in qutries are coming to this office ask? ing for the aggregate number of men employed in the city and total sal? aries and wages paid. In no case will any information be given out as to any individual business. As an Instance ?>f this we have on our desk an Inquiry b) a certain northern promoter looking to the buldltig of an electric line in Sumter. This promoter deslron to secure the above figures and unless the members of Ihe Chamber of Commerce will I into) in ? ion, ihe S, y >iar\ will be ! hand capped in Iiis wol k. a -nr.