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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
A FIEND'S CONARDLY ACT.
Farmer, His Wife and Her Unborn
Eabe Shot to Death on Public
Highway.

George Bundrick shot and killed
John J. Shroude.r Wednesday morning
while the latter, with his wife, was
proceeding in a. buggy to their nome
near Raines. Ga.
Bundrick had claimed that negro
on Shoulders place had stolen his
pocket knife and had undertaken to
arrest three of Shoulders hands
Shrouder offered to pay for the knife
in order that his farm force should NOT
be irherfered with at this time. Bun
drick accused Shrouder of siding with
the negroes. Shrouder said he would
meet Bundrick as soon as he could
take his wife home. They then partc1'
Wednesday morning as 'Shrouder
was going from the station with his
wife, in a buggy, he met Eundrick IN
the road short distance from the Sta
ton and, without any warning. Bun
dsick emptied both barrels of shot
gun In Shoulders race, killing him In
stantly. Bundrick either intentionally
shot Mrs. Shrouder, or she was hit by
stray buckshot from the load fred at
her husband.
The shooting caused the horse to
run away, and Mrs. Shrouder and her
husband were thrown in the road.
Mrs. Shrouder, with her unborn
babe, was mortally injured by the
shot and the fall.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
PRESIDENT AGAIN "KNIFED."
Another Slight Operation is Performed
by Doctors on Roosevelts Dis
eased Leg.

A Washington dispatch says: An
other operation was performed Sun
day On the abscess on the left leg OF
President Roosevelt. In the former
operation a. simple needle was used to
relieve the trouble, but this time the
surgeons, with a knife made an incis-
ion into the. small cavity, exposing the
Done, which was found to be slightly
affected.
The presidents case has been pro-
crossing satisfactorily, but 1t Is be-
lieved by the physicians that the fur
ther operation was made will hasten
his complete recovery. While none
of the doctors are willing to be quoted.
they give the most positive assur-
ances that there is not the least alarm,
and say, on the contrary, there e eI-
cry indication Of speedy recovery;
that the area of the bone affected Is
very slight, and will not result in an
impairment of The presidents limb,
and that there is no evidence what
ever of any matter than would pro-
duce blood poisoning. They confident
ly expect that the president will be
on his feet within a reasonable time,
and, with his robust constitution to as
sist recovery, soon will be himself
again.
DR.. Newton NJ Shaffer, Of New
York, who long has been acquainted
with the Roosevelt family, AMI has at
tended the presidents children at va
rious times, and who is also a we'll
known bone specialist, Joined the
presidents physicians IN their morn
ing consultation at 10 o'clock. 1t was
noticed that there had been a slight
rise in the presidents temperature
and an increase in local symptoms,
and the conclusion was reached that
the patients recovery would be has
tened by making an incision of the
wound for the purpose of relieving the
slight tension or swelling which was
present, and also to drain the wound.
The operation was performed between
2 and o'clock In the afternoon. An
application Of cocaine was used to al
lay the pain.
The president stood the operation
very well, and subsequently expressed
his satisfaction at the successful re-
suit
DR.. Rixey, the surgeon general of
the navy, performed the operation, as
sisted by DR.. Lung, the presidents
regular physician
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
NAVAL STORES COMBINE.
Companies In Savannah and jackson.
Vile to Pool interests.


According to a Savannah dispatch
the Consolidated Naval Stores Com
pany is in process OF formation. 1t
will begin factorage business on No.
vember 1, 1902, with a capital OF ST.
100000. Its headquarters will be Jack
sonville, Fla. and it will handle naval
stores at Savannah, Pensacola and
Fernandina.
w. G. Powell, president Of the
Southern Naval Stores Company, OF
Savannah, will, it is understood. be
president of the big concern. W. F.
Coachman, of Jacksonville. and r. B.
Bullard, of Savannah. will, 1t Is said.
be vice presidents, and it is believed
that other naval stores men. promi-
nent in present companies, will be vice
presidents.
The liquidation of the companies
that are to be included IN the Consoll-
dated Naval Stores Company will soon
begin. Notices from the Mutual Naval
Stores Company, Of Jacksonville. have
been sent out to stockholders, appris-
ing them Of its early liquidation.
The companies that are to be con-
solidated into the monster concern are
the Southern Naval Stores Company,
of Savannah; the Eilis Young Com
pany, Of Savannah; the Florida Ma
val Stores and Commission Company,
Of Jacksonville: the Mutual Naval
Stores Company, of Jacksonville; the
Gulf Naval Stores Company, of Tam
pa, Carrabelle and Pensacola; the
West Coast Naval Stores Company, Of
Pensacola.
These six companies, it Is estimated,
handle the output Of over 500 naval
stores producers of Georgia, Florida,
Alabama and Mississippi. Altogether
their business exceeds, during year.
100000 casks Of spirits of turpentine
and 100000 barrels of rosin. At
present values this would mean an an
nual volume of about s15,000,000.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
MATHIS AND LESTER DIE.
White Man and Negro Swing from
Same GaIIoYts in Mississippi.

White Man and Negro Swing from
Same GaIIows in Mississippi.
At Oxford. Miss, Wednesday Will
Mathis (white) and Orlando Lester,
colored, were hanged for the murder
CT the Montgomery brothers.
On the 18th of last November, Dep
uty United States Marshals John A.
ard Hugh Montgomery went out Is
miles east of Oxxford to arrest VIII
Mathis, upon the charge Of Illicit dis
tilling. It was learned that the off,
GERS arrived at Mathis about sundown
and although it was Saturday, Mathis
was engaged in killing hog. He met
the officers at his gate and they pro-
ceeded to read writ to him and In
formed him that they would take him
on to Oxford that night. Mathis re-
quested them to let him finish clean
Ing the dog, so his wife would
have something to eat while he was
gone.
The officers went into the house and
that is the last known Of them. Of
which any one is sure, until their char
red and mutlated bodies were found
In the ashes Of Mathis burned house
next morning.
The negro, Orlando Lester, was
helping Mathis and Bill Jackson was
also on the premises. The part each
played in the tragedy has been told
differently by each one concerned.
Mathis claims that Whit Owens ,oan-
ed the negro gun and told him to
shoot the officers, which he did
against Mathis will. Lester claims
that he was sent for the gun by Will
Mathis and that Bill Jackson did the
shooting Bill Jackson said he left
before the killing took place and Ow-
ems has never made any statement at
all.
After the Montgomerys were killed,
Mathis took his wife to her father,
Whit Owens, and returned with Owens
and Lester and burned the house in or
der to hide the bodies of the two MUIR
dered men. The bodies were mutt
lated and burned, but no one will prob
ably ever know the details.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
A REIGN OF TERROR
Strikers Become Mere and More
Defiant and BleodthirAy.
TROOPS SWARM TIE REGION
Rayonets Only Serve to Aod 70 t'7
:" Wrath of the Strikers-Who'e
Anthracite Region is NOW
Aflame.

| A Philadelphia special says: VI 1he
ten anthracite coal producing COUNTIES
of Pennsylvania, state troops are ho"
| canned in five. Despite the presence
of the troops in these districts. rlollns
and general lawlessness continued
Wednesday in the entire hard coal ter
ritory frm Forest City, Susquehanna
c&,nty, on the north, to "llllams-
town. Dauphin county, on the SOUTH
q distance of moro than 100 miles.
The section of the strike region IN
| the vicinity of Forest City. which mas
been comparatively quiet ever Since
the strike began, was greatly wrought
I'D during the day by crowds OF strlk-
ers interfering with and btating men
| who had returned to work. and as
result Sheriff Maxey, of SuSquehanna
county, asked Governor Stone for
troops to assist him and other civil
authorities to preserve the peace.
Many Troops in Field.
At present there are four full regi-
ments, two companies of another and
two troops of cavalry in the field. The
Thirteenth regiment is camped at OF-
phant six miles north CT Scranton;
the Ninth is quartered at its armory IN
WIlkesbarre; the Eighth regiment and
the Second Philadelphia city troops
are under canvas on the top OF a hill
overlooking Shenandoah: one battai-
ion Of the Twelfth and the Governors
troop are in the Panther creek valley
and one battalion Of the Twelfth m
preserving order in the city uf Le6a-
non. where the iron and steel workers
are on q strike. If the disorder con-
tirnes Governor Stone will be COM
pelfed to call out additional soldiers.
While there has been no big gen
eral riot the disturbances have been
Of such serious nature as to cause
the authorities much apprehension.
Every effort is being made by the shep-
ifs OF the several counties affected
and the troops to prevent disturbances
from growing to such an extent as to
cause bloodshed.
Violence Everywhere.
Reports are coming in from every
section OF non-union men and others
either being shot or dubbed. Houses
of workmen have been burned or dyna-
mtted, and attempts have been made
to hold up coal trains or deraii them.
Coal is being shipped from many
parts of the coal fields to market, tut
impaired with the normal output tho
quantity is Insignificant. The output
for the week will be considerably less
than the average moral production of
one day, which is about 100000 tons.
The strikers claim that very little Of
the coal is freshly mined and that it
Is mostly coal washed" from the
culm banks. President Mitchell had
no coment 10 make on the movement
Of the troops into Luzerne county. He
said the general strike situation IS
unchanged.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
ODELL RENOMlNATED.

Present New York Governor Named
For Second Term.
The New York state republican con-
vention in session at Saratoga Wednes-
day named the following ticket:
Governor-B. B. Odell Jr., OF Or
ange
Lieutenant Governor-F. W. Higgins.
Cattaraugus.
Secretary Of State-John O'Brien,
Clinton.
Treasurer-John G. Wickers, Eric.
Attorney Genersl--Henry B. Conan,
Madison.
For Comptroller-N. B. Miller Cert
land.
Engineer-E. A. Bond Jefferson.
Judge of the Court Of Appeals-W
E. Werner. Monroe.
The resolutions. after expressing
sorrow for the death Of President Nc
Kinley, endorses in strong terms the
administration Of President Roosevelt
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
SheriH's Good LUCK.

Sheriff NJ M. Buford has again
shown his remarkagle ability for keep
ing track of criminals. A little over
five years ago a negro living In Lau-
rens county by the name OF. Mart
Blackburn alias Mart Rook, was
charged with murder Some time ago
a warrant for the negro was placed in
the hands of Sheriff Buford by the
sheriff of Lancaster county, who had
learned from some source that Mr.. Bu-
ford was In possession of facts that
would likely lead to the capture of the
murderer. A few days ago Sheriff
Buford and two trusted men boarded
the outgoing Augusta train In Column
bia. The party alighted from the train
at Lewiedale about a. m, where they
hired conveyances and went several
miles in the country to point above
Priceville on the plantation Of DR..
James Drafts, where they succeeded
by strategy in capturing the negro,
who had assumed the name of Thomas
Allen.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
TRAGIC DEATH Of EMILE zOLA.
Noted French Novelist Asphyxiated
by Gases While Asleep-His Wife
Also Overcome, Survives.

Emile Zoia, the novelist, who was
born in Paris, April 2, 1s40, died in
that city Monday morning.
Zola was found dead in his house
from asphyxiation. His wife is grave
ly i'll. 1t is said that the novellsts
death was accidental. He was as
phyxiated by fumes from a stove. the
pipes of which are said to have been
out Of order. At the same time it Is
stated that there are indications of sui
eide.
Zola and his wife returned to Paris
Sunday after spending three months
in the country. and owing to a sudden
spell OF cold weather he ordered the
heating stove in his bedroom to be
lighted. The stove burned badly, but
1ola and his wife retired at 10 O'Clock
and the servants. not hearing any
movement in the apartment Monday
morning. entered the bedroom at $3.50
and found Nine Zola lying on the bed,
lnanimate.
Zola was lying half out Of bed. with
his head and shoulders on the floor
aud his legs on the bed.
sDoctors were summoned. but they
failed to restore Zola to life. After
prolonged efforts they resusticated
Nine. Zola.
The rumor circulated regarding To-
las supposed suicide from poison was
based on the fact that elections sup
posodly from the stomach. were found
on the floor, but the doctors say they
came from Zola's dog. which also was
in the bedroom and which did not suf
fer from asphyXiation.
Zola dined with good appetite
Sunday evening and the servants of
the household psrtook Of the same
dishes. Nothing unusual was heard
in the bedroom during the night.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02

iiyc grcoms arc under financial obllga-
tions to Judge Levy for starting them
upon the marital path of life, but he Is
not pressing any of them for the debt.
ITS almost like purchasing distress
anyway to get married nowadays" }"
says the Judge, "and I'm getting too
far advanced in life to add to any
bcdy's misery. Let Joy go with them
and peace behind them
81 ran past my allotted three score
and ten about twenty years ago" said
Judge Levy recently, but am easily
good for hundred. l expect to go IN
under the wire with the bit between
my teeth. providing, of course. house
coesntsfall on me or l get struck by
lightning in the meantime" e. 0.
Dean, In Sunny South.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
A Nonogenarian Judge.

Judge o. R. Levy who has just been
elected by the people to serve Charles
ton another term as county judge, is
probably the oldest public official in
the United States. The venerable old
gentleman recently celebrated his
eighty-ninth birthday and he is still
hale and hearty. In the war between
this country and Mexico he distin-
guished himself in several sanguinary
engagements Toward the close Of the
civil war, though an old man. he saw
that his services were needed in the
confederate cause, so he Joined in the
conflict. Judge Levy IS regarded as an
able and efficient exponent of the law.
He is held in dire dread by the wrong
doers and has a stern manner OF ad-
ministerng justice. yet his heart has
been known to soften on certain occa-
sions.
The veteran tribunal has made a
wonderful record in the matrimonial
line. He joined more than fifty cou-
pies in the holy bonds during the re-
cent exposition. During the fair
Charleston was veritable Mecca for
those who would embark upon that
turbulent sea, and Judge Levy, when
called upon to perform ceremony OF
this character, was never known to re-
fuse, whether the prospective broom
came provided with the price or not
South Carolina is state in which cou-
pies encounter next to no trouble at all
in Joining hands for better or for
worse. No license has to be procured
and no red tape formalities must be
gone through wich. But the ease with
which q pair can get hitched is Offset
in a measure by the difficulty in sever
ing the ties, there being no divorce law
in the Palmetto state. Some thirty
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
Spartanburg Rich County.

The abstracts in County Auditor Ep-
tons office show that Spartanburg
county leads as the richest and most
thoroughly developed county-indus-
trially speaking the state. The
following are the figures:
Report of 1902, total value OF rail-
roads, $1,O47,S2O; total value of real
estate, s5,692,91O; total value of per-
sonal property, s5,115,S5S; grand total
for 1902, s1O,s56,5S3.
Report for 1901, total value Of rail-
roads, $1,O23.295; total value of real
estate, $55,391,295 total value Of per-
sonal property, s5,381,7S1; grand total
for 1901, s11,S03,371.
The tax on the above amount is
s191,371.16. Total polls, $11,053; total
taxation, s2O2, ,424.16.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
PRESIDENT is ALL RIGHT.

Doctors Highly Pleased at His Sat-
isfactory Condition.
Official kilograms from Secretary
Cortelyou Indicate that the president
Is In splendid condition and much bet
ter than he has been at any time since
he was injured in the trolley car accl-
dent
Official bulletins state he IS resting
yell, Is in the best of spirits and that
his physicians are highly pleased at
his satisfactory condition.
Mrs. Roosevelt left the Oyster Bay
home Wednesday morning at s o'clock
for Washington and arrived late in the
afternoon.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
SHAW BACKS BANKS
Guardian Of Treasury Explains
Present Money Situation.
WILL TRY no EXPERIMENTS
N,+,onaI Institutions Will Be Opheta
BY Uncle Sans Treasury
to Extend of Its
-
Ability.

Secretary of the Treasury SHAW
aovo ont the following statement
Thursday:
"Monev once covered into the treas
ury (and this, Of couEse, incluoes ING
e,,btreasuries) cannot thereafter oe
denosIted in banks. All custom to
CENTS are by law payable to the treas
nrv and subtreasuries. The only funo
therefore. available for deposlts
hanks is internal revenue and miscet-
}aneous receipts, before they nave
been actually covered into the treas
ury. These amount to about han 9
million per day, and since the strln-
gency arose to the fullest extent nase
been steadfastly returned to circus
ton. This policy will be continued
from thirty to sixty days, II neeaeo,
and longer, if necessary.
I'm the meantime, national bank clr.3
culation has been increased about $1.-1
900 900, largely induced by the distri.
button OF deposits, and the further M
crease to the amount Of $S,O00,00o -
assured.
"All rumors of experiments have
been unauthorized by the treasury de-.
partment. 1t is to be hoped that the
public will place no credence in vaga-
ries started by irresponsible and unin-
terested men of the street. 1t Is also
hoped that the country will under
stand that the treasury department,
to the fullest extent of its ability, VIII
stand by the banks. east and West,
North and south, and it is hoped also
that the banks will stand by every bus
mess and every interest that Is worth
protecting.
1.-THE only way to get money out OF
the treasury into circulation, after Y
has been actually covered In, Is BY the
payment of legal obligations OF the
government. These may be antcl-
pated. The department did anticipates
the October interest. It now offers 70
anticipate all interest maturing be-
tween October / and the end Of the MS
cal year, if presented within sixty
days. at a rebate of two-tenths Of /
per cent per month, which is at the
rate Of "a per cent per annum. In
other words, these obligations will be
repaid at such rate as to allow the
government to profit thereby at "a
per cent per annum. The amount ma
turing before June 80, 1908, is, In
round figures, s2O,s50,O00. The profit
to the government, if this offer shall
be accepted, will be. in round figures,
100000.
There will be no experiments tried.
and no policy adopted until after ma
ture deliberation, and no feelefs will
be sent out. Anything to the contrary
should be discrelited."
Regarding the published report that
he had resigned. Secretary Shaw said:
'I denied this rumor in Chicago. It
would seem unnecessary to repudiate
a story that has no author, and Is built
upon a false assumption and is en-,
larged upon simply to fill space. The
president and the secretary Of the
treasury are in thorough harmony. OF
this there need be no doubt, II the
speeches made by the president and
the secretary will be read and COM
pared instead of the head lines"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
Unusual Case in Circuit Court.


An Unusual case was tried in the
circuit court at Anderson the past
week. Walter Gilmer, a 12-year-old
white boy, was tried for assault and
battery with intent to kill. The prose
cutor was Waddy Murray, enother boy
of about the same age.
The boys had been employed in the
Pelzer cotton mill. They had a fight
in the mill one day last November and
the Gilmer boy cut the Murray boy on
the neck with a pocket knife. It was
a painful wound, but not at all serious.
Murray's father had warrant issued
against the Gilmer boy tor assault and
battery with intent to kill. The mag
istrate sent the case up to the circuit
court and the grand jury found true
bill.
It is said the solicitor did not know
the age of the defendant until he was
arraigned in court and he did not put
much vigor into the prosecution of the
case. In his charge to the jury Judge
Watts very plainly indicated that ne
wanted a verdict of acquittal. The
jury was not long in making up yer
dict of not guilty.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
Charter Is Granted.

The secretary of state has issued a
commission to the Columbia Metallic
Roll Company, Of Columbia, which
will handle very valuable patent OBJ
tanned recently by Louis l. Gulon on a
piece of cotton mill machinery. The
capital stock is to be 100000. The
corporators are Louis 1. Guion, j. w.
Babcock, l.. ]. Wrigley, W. B. Smith
Whaley and August Kohn.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
ALFONSO'S MA MARRIES.

On Learning Of the Fact, Young King
Of Spain Raised Howl.
A special dispatch from Madrid,
Spain, says it is reported there that
Queen Marie Christina, mother Of
King Alfonso, married her master of
horse, Count De La Escosura, while
in Austria recently.
When Alfonso learned Of his moth.
er's marriage he became wildly en-
ragged and violently abused the queen,
ordering her to retire to the provinces
or to go abroad with her new husband.
The queen refused to obey the young
kings orders and the outcome is i'm.
possible to foresee.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
Preliminary Hearinu Waived.

DR.. O. l.. P. Jackson waived prelim-
mary hearing in the case made out
against him by the detective Of the
State Pharmaceutical Association, the
charge being that at DR.. Jackson's
drug store, in or near the mill village,
prescriptions were compounded by a
young man who is not licensed phar-
macist.
DR.. o. Y. Owings. president of the
State Pharmaceutical Association,
stated that he was not anxious to pros
ecute any drug store proprietor. but
he believes in his profession and wants
to see it safeguarded as is the prac-
tice of medicine
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
Children Dropped From Mill Roll.

Children dropped from Mill nSi''
It was stated few days ago that
the Whaley cotton mills had issued an
order for all children under IL years
of age to be kept out of the mills. AS
there is considerable agitation just
now on account of the pending "child
labor agitation" the statement is con-
sidered of some Importance.
When asked if such an order had
been issued, J. Sumter Moore, general
manager of the Olympia mills, stated
that the mills have not done more
this year than has been their custom.
It is true that there we're forty or fifty
children quit the mills under instruc-
tions issued, but the reason of this is
that the schools resumed work and
the mills wanted to encourage the chill
dren to attend school.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-02
GOVERNOR MAKES PROTEST.

Against the Landing Of United States
Marines at Panama.
The navy department Monday re-
ceived the following dispatch from
Vice Consul Ehrman, at Panama:
Panama, September 28.-Trains
running regularly. In the last few
days bands Of revolutionists have been
seen on the line of the railroad. Gov
ernor has protested against the land.
Ing of Americans EHRMAN."