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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12

wished to make a barrel of money
easily, and honestly. He intimated his
willingness.
His visitor then told him to buy
the Camden distillery and get into the
swim. 1t was making money, he said,
but the owners didn't know how to
make it gold mine. Representative
Pollock protested that he hadn't the
money to make the purchase. His
visitor assured him that he could OBJ
tain all the capital needed without
trouble.
Of course, the distillery could not be
very profitable if his bill passed, but
that could be withdrawn.
Representative Pollock declined to
give the name of the man at this time,
but said another member of the house,
favoring his bill had been approached
with an offer of $4,000 to buy an inter-
est in distillery in the upper part OF
the state.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
MORE RUSH ORDERS.

Vessels at Mare Island Navy Yard
viii be Hurried to Completion.
Rush orders have been received at
Mare Island Navy Yark, Cal., from
Washington ordering that all work on
vessels now Il the yard be completed
with the greatest possible dispatch.
In view of this order, an extra force of
men will be employed at once.
1t is understood that the trouble
brewing in Honduras is the reason for
the orders.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
COLLISION ON SOUTHERN.

PASSENGER and Freight Crash ana
Fourteen People are Injured.
Fourteen persons were injured in
q head-end collision late Monday after
noon on the Southern railway about
one-half mile south Of Jackson, Ga.
The trains which came together
were passenger train No. 10, drawn oy
engine s43, which left Atlanta at
o'clock and the first section OF freign1
train No. 81, drawn by engine No. Zoo
which left Macon during the afternoon:
The crew of the freight Is charged
nm with the accident, as the passenger
train had the right OF way.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
COUNT BALLESTREM OUT.

President Of German Reichstag Anger
ed over krupp Episode.
Count Ballestrem has resigned the
presidency Of the German reichstag
in consequence Of disapproval Of his
attitude during the attempt, January
20, of Herr Vollmer, socialist, to raise
q debate in the house on the charges
brought against the late Herr Krupp
and on Emperor Williams kilograms
and speeches on the subject.
The president at the time declined
to permit the discussion on the ground
that it was out Of order to discuss q
private person while debating the bud.
get
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
HOBSON'S RESIGNATION.
FinanIIy Accepted by Secretary

Is FinanIIy Accepted by Secretary
Moody Of Navy Department.
Naval Constructor Richmond Pear
son Hobson's resignation has been ac-
cepted by Secretary Moody, who has
written Mr.. Hobson as follows:
"The department acknowledges re-
ceipt of your resignation rendered jan
uary 29, 1903. also your telegram Feb
ruary 5, 1903, declining to reconsider
the same.
Your resignation from the United
States navy is accepted to take effect
from this date, February s, 1903"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
MAIL SERVICE ClNcHED.
Indorsed in the Hous,

Appropriation Indorsed in the House
by Majority Vote of Twenty-one.
The southern fast mail appropria-
ton was again indorsed By the house
Thursday morning, the roll call show
ing 121 votes for the appropriation to
an even 100 against it. This action by
the house insures the continuance OF
the special mail service from Wash
ington to New Orleans, by which un-
der the connecting schedules practi-
cally the entire south from Washing
ton to the Mexican border IS given the
best possible mail facilities.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
Many Nearoes GuIled.

William White, a negro, claiming to
be from Washington, has been placed
in jail, at Spartanburg for collecting
money from unsuspicious negroes, tell
ing them that he was an emigrant
agent and would take them to Wash
ington, where they could marry rich
white women and walk with them on
the streets with their arms locked"
White, it is said, operated out in the
country and gathered in neat sum.
Then he visited Spartanburg.
He promised the negroes that they
would be carried to Washington by
him, but the willy agent nrst required
the small sum of 81 as guarantee
that the negroes would meet him at
the depot on specified day. His case
grows worse as new facts come to
light.
A negro now brings in the story that
White says that the negroes who go to
Washington can marry white women,
also that White claims to have carried
already some 10000 negroes to Wash
ington and that he is backed by ample
capital.
White will be tried at sessions cour.
the latter part OF the present month.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
FOUR DEAD IN WRECK.
Disastrous Head-On Collision Between

Disastrous Head-On Collision Between
Freight Trains in New Mexico.
A head-end collision between two
Rock Island freight trains early
Thursday, near Tecolate, New Mex
leo, resulted in the death of four
men and the injury of several others.
The dead are: Conductor G. Davis,
Fireman Winderwall, and two ur
known men.
Among the dangerously injured is
P. Pittsburn, Torrance, New Mexico.
The wreck occurred at sharp curve
on a steep grade.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
MAGISTRATE Kills Farmer.

Henry W. Bitch a truck farmer OF
Megget's, Colleton county. was shot
and instantly killed there last Friday
afternoon by Magistrate Behling.
There had been some dispute be-
tween. them about a land transaction.
Behling advanced toward Bitch with
ashotgun. Both men were armed, but
the magistrate was quicker with his
weapon and fired first, load o. buck
shot ripping out Blitch's heart.
Behling surrendered to the sheriff OF
Colleton county.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
Would Cost Too Much.

A Washington dispatch says: The
president in returning to the house,
without his approval, the bill providing
for additional terms Of court in the
western judicial district of South Caro-
lima, stated among other things that
the attorney general had advised that
much expense would be incurred and
that the necessity was questioned
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
Ask Bail for TiIiman.

8 Congressman-elect George w. Croft,
OF Aiken, Tillman's law partner, and
P. H. Nelson, leading criminal law
yer Of Columbia, attorneys for the &C.
cused, will ask that James H. Tillman,
charged with the killing of Editor N.
G. Gonzales, be released on bail.
They have served no ice Of their &C
ton on Attorney General Gunter and
Solicitor Thurmond. A hearing upon
the writ was granted by Chief Justice
Newberry.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
THE SAME OLD FIGHT.
Opponents of Southern Fast Mail Once
More Knocked Out.

More Knocked Out.
A Washington dispatch says: After
a war Of words in which personalities
figured in some degree, the house late
Wednesday afternoon voted to retain
in the postoffice appropriation bill the
item of $4,000 for special mail facil'
tiles through the south.
This is the appropriation that is u.s.
ually. characterized as the Southern's
subsidy. Because of this annual ap.
preparation the south is given special
mail facilities on par with those Of
ether parts of the country.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
SOUTH CAROLINA
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
GRADING New Road.

!: The work of grading a new railroad,
to be known as the Cheraw and Ben
nettsville road and connecting those
towns, was commenced few days
ago. The road will be IA miles in
length and it is proposed to complete
it by May /. James A. Drake, Of Ben
nettsvilie, is president.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
a REeRETABLE PROCEDURE.

Durlno Moody's Funeral Lawyers
Work on Contest Case.
While Congressman Moody's funerA
was being held Saturday at Waynes-
boro. N. c., the contest for the seat ne
can never occupy was going steadily
on.
This strange and regrettable pro-
ceedure was necessary, the attorneys
having the affair in charge say, in or
der to maintain the contest.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
POLICE REPORT VETOED:
Mayor Howell, Of Atlanta, Turns Down
roo,ish FINDINGS of Committee.

Mayor Howell, Of Atlanta, Turns Down
Foolish Findings of Committee.
The report of the Atlanta city coun-
ellis special police Investigating COM
uittee, of which Councilman Key was
chairman, has received the veto OF
Mayor Howell.
The report was adopted by council
during it's last session, and there was
only one vote against 1t.
It is the belief of members OF coun'
ell that the veto will be sustained,
as several members OF council are
known to have voted for the report OF
the committee for the reason that they
we're not interested on either side.
Several Of them have since expressed
regret that they voteo for the report
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
DEBRIS FULL OF CORPSES.

Further Horrors of Wreck in Arlzona
Made Known by investigation.
The coroner's jury empanelled at
Tucson, Ariz., by Coroner Culver view
ed the remains of fourteen victims Of
Wednesdays disaster on the Southern
Pacific near Walls station. 1dentitca-
ton was difficult and only one body
was identified with certainty. Other
remains are being taken from the
ruins.
The total number Of dead thus far
reported Is twenty-four, and 1t Is now
believed THAI the fatalities will num-
ber not less than thirty-flve.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
ROOSEVELT GETS INVITATION.
To Unwilling Of Monument to Mary.
land Soldiers at Chckamauga.

President Roosevelt received IN in
vItation Wednesday to attend the I'M.
yelling of the monument to be erected
at Orchard Knob, on the Chickamarg ga
battle field, July 22nd next, in COM
memoration Of the services of Mar
lands soldiers on both sides of the
civil war. The matter has been takeD
under cOnsid grafton.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
cOLOMBIANS ARE HAPPY.

Are JubiIating over Signing Of tho
Panama Canal Treaty.
At Colon, Colombia, Friday, the news
received that the canal treaty between
the United States and Colombia had
been signed caused much jubilation
throughout the isthmus, and hopes are
EXPRESSED that the United States will
soon begin work on the canal.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
Sentence COMMITTED.

Governor Hayward commuted the
sentence of Queenie Small, man OF
Berkeley county, convicted Of stealing
and sentenced to three years. His
sentence IS made two years, which he
has served. The commutation was
made on the. recommendation Of Solic-
itor Hildebrand and Judge hlugh.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
POLYGAMY GIVEN AIRING,
Mormonism Brought Up In Discussion
Of Statehood Bill.

OF SIdtSflOCO out.
The discussion of the statehood bill
in the senate Thursday turned on the
question Of polygamy. A number Of
senators who heretofore have taken
no part in the debate participated in
the discussion.
The influence of the Mormon church
In politics occupied a large share OF
the debate, which Mr.. Hale character
lied as interesting. valuable and
startling, because it had disclosed a
powerful religious organization Eek
erting itself as dominant, potential
force" over the mind and action of
it's followers, which should be taken
Into account In future legislation.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
WOMEN HANG IN ENGLAND.

Two "Baby Farmers" Pay Ignoble Peri.E
atty for Their Crime.
A London dispatch says: Amelia
Sachs and Anna Walter, "baby farm.
ers," were hanged at Holloway jail
Wednesday. The women were recon-
mended to mercy on account Of thelr
sex, but the home secretary was un-
able to grant the reprieve usually ac..
corded. The women walked to the
Scaffold unaided and displayed re-
markable fortitude. No woman had
been previously hanged in England
since March 1900.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
MURDERER UTLEY REcAPTURED.

For His Return to jail Reward OF
$1,000 Is Paid.
Edward L. Utley, who Is under SEN
tencs of twenty years for the murder
of Hotel Clerk Hollingsworth, and
who escaped from the Jail at Fayette-
Vile, N. c., Monday night by the al.
legged bribery of the jailer, was recap
tured Friday morning in Harnett coun-
ty, some twenty miles from Fayette-
vile.
For his arrest and return to jail the
state offered $400 reward, the county
$4O0 and the sheriff a personal re-
ward Of 5000.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
NEGROES TO HOLD CONFERENCE.

colored Citizens Of Jasper County,
Ga, Will Discuss Many Subjects.
The negroes of Jasper county, Ca,
will hold q meeting at Monticello on
February 14th to discuss the best
ideas about farming, going into debt,
how to rear their children, how to pay
for homes, ahd other questions OF In
terest to the race. There will be
grand barbecue.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
DIPLOMATS HARD At WORK.

Rapid Exchanges are Going on Anens
Venezuelan Trouble.
Many exchanges are going on be-;
tween Washington and European cap-I
itals as the result OF the efforts OF the
allied representatives at the nationaal
capital to prepare satisfactory proto!
coils providing for a settlement OF the.
Venezuelan claims. The task OF draw
ing up the documents Is very eomplts:
estsa,
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
ATTEMPT to Rrlbe Is Charged.

Attempt to Brlbe Is Charged.
Representative w. P. Pollock, for
eight years a member of the house
and always an enthusiastic supporter
Of the dispensary system, furnished
sensation at last Fridays session by
declaring on the floor Of the house he
had been approached with PROPOSE
ton intended as a bribe. There have
\ been rumblings in the internal work
ings Of the dispensary for some time
and an eruption Of the political ele-
ment has been predicted by many per-
sons.
Two years ago the dispensary law
was changed to permit whisky distil-
leries to be established in this state
and allowing the dispensary to buy
from them. Several have been estab-
lished. the largest being in Columbia.
It's entire output of corn whisky Is ta-
ken by the state. The extent OF It's
business is indicated by the fact that
it is paying internal revenue tax at
the rate of s1,500,0O0 year. 1t has
been common talk that the dispensary
directors owned a controlling interest
in the concern.
1t has developed in the last few days
that whisky for the local dispensary
was not purchased as was liquor from
without the state. They made no bid
at so much per gallon. as was required
by outsiders, but sent up a hundred or
a thousand barrels of liquor, as might
be ordered, and fixed their own price.
Representative Pollock introduced
bill to increase dispensary profits
from 6 to y per cent, which would In
crease the public school fund by
quarter of a million dollars, AID also
providing that the liquor from local
dispensaries should be bought by bid
as from other manufacturers. This
bill passed Thursday by majority OF
4. Friday the bill was killed on the
third reading by majority Of II.
Mr.. Pollock, speaking against the
motion to recommit the bill. said he
had been approached since Thursdays
vete by a man who asked hisa It he
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
WE WILL GIVE UP NOW.

title santo Domingo Will Not obey
Demand of Minister Powell.
The Dominican government has in
formed United States Minister Powell
that It will not obey the demand of the
American government in the matter
Of the claims of the Clyde line OF
steamers and that under the law cases
such as the Clyde line claims must be
settled in the courts Of the republic
and not by Intervention, ..-...
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
crun Case Aqain Postponed.

By a vote of 10 to the senate COM
merce committee decided upon fur
ther postponement Of the case OF Dr.
Crum, the colored man who has been
nominated collector Of the port OF
Charleston. It was the intention OF
the friends Of DR.. Crum to force a
vote, for they felt certain republican
senator's, who claim that the appoint
ment is an ill-advised one, would not
antagonize the presidents policy In
dealing with federal appointments IN
the south.
There were other subjects claiming
the attention of the committee, conse-
auently Senator Penrose moved that
the Crum case be postponed until
future meeting of the committee. The
vote was complete surprise to the
supporters of Dr.. Crum, tor 1t revealed
a stronger opposition than his friends
had anticipated.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
FRESHMAN SLAYS BRlTON.

Fatal Quarrel in Brooklyn Over Con-
viction Ct Colonel Lynch.
Thomas Lynch, resident OF 'BrooK-
lyn, N. Y, stabbed James Golden to
death Tuesday in Brooklyn. The men
ouarreled over the conviction Of Colo
mel Lynch on the charge Of treason.
lynch. who is not related to the for
mer member of parliament, declared
the conviction Of his namesake was ar
eutsaRa
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-12
REQUEST OF ALLIES REFUSED.
President Roosevelt Shys at Job Of Ar
bitrator in the Venezuelan
ENHANCEMENT.

After giving the best part OF the
day Friday to a consideration OF the
unofficial request from the allies that
he act as arbiter upon the different
points remaining III dispute between
Bowen and the powers. President
Roosevelt has decided it will be best
that he do not act in that capacity.
This decision means that the ques-
ton Of preferential treatment will go
to The Hague tribunal for its decision.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17

Masses OF II are fused together, and the pats.
way is strewn with ashes and scoriae. There "A
rapid descent, and we have to proceed rnoss
Of the time in a stooping posture.
"At last we come to a place that looks Hks
the brink Of the bottomess pit. We attempt to
lower a candle at the end Of a rope. but thu
bats fan out the blaze with their wings. We
are curious to know the depth Of the abyss. and
fastening one end of our 300 feet OF stout ropa
securely to a large bowlder we prepare to de-
scend the rope, hand under hand. Sometimes
we swing ont over the abyss; at other times our
feet find a friendly ledge on which We stop to
breathe. Again we tread the air, but at q
depth of about one hundred feet we again touch
a landing upon which we able to walk Cut
ting off the remaining 200 feet Of the rope vs
proceed to the next declivity. This IS not so
steep as the cliff we have just descended. but
we are again obliged to use the cable TO
maintain our footing. We glide along briskIY,
CARRYING masses Of ashes and loose rocks with
US until we come nearly to the end OF our rope,
and find our further progress stayed b tha
contraction of the walls. There are narrow fs-
sures beyond through which we cannot squeezs
our bodies and would not If We could, for stones
chuckad through the crevices seem 10 go rum
bling on to the very centre Of the earth
"AI the indications are that We are in the
crater Of an extinct volcano, or at least in one
of it's many fues. The air is sitting hot, but
the volcano has been so long dead that thera
are no noxiOUs vapOrs."
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17

the walls and the arches here and there The
Architect of the Universe gave painstaking
care to details in the decoration OF these sub
terranean art galleries. whose beauties it was
our good fortune to view for the first time since
their creation.
After passing n gigantic tOadstool. standing
in a vaulted chamber by itself. and large enough
to shelter a dozen people under its canopy the
nature of the cavern changes. We come to the
end of the calcareOus formation, and cOnse
quently to the end of the beautiful incrustatiOns
caused by the dripping of solutions of lime. The
cavern, strange to say, extends onward, but
it is only series of narrow passages with
blackened walls. The rock is of igneous
nature, and shows signs of having at no very
remote time been subjected to great heat.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17
NOVEL METHOD OF GETTING BEER.

The late Joseph K. Rickey. after whom the
gin rickey was named, used to tell in St LOUIS
story about a frog and mouse.
When l was very young man, ne WouId
begin. Il went on d tramping tour one summer
with a chap named Dill The weather was
warm and a dreadful thirst came over Dill and
me every little while. In gratifying this thirst
We were not long in running out Of money.
"One warm afternoon came to the out
skirts of a quaint village. Frogs crOaked from
a pond beside us and in front magnificent
old tavern IooEed-One Of those old taverns
where it is delightful to sit and smoke and talk
to the farm folk in the old-fashiOned bar-one
of those taverns where the beer is always cool
and pure.
But We had no money for beer. Yet We we're
very thirsty. We sat down under a tree and
conspired together for a long time. Then
went to the pond. and with piece Of red flannel
torn from my undershirt I caught a frog.
Leaving Dill behind. I entered the village
and found my way to the tavern. The landlord
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17

sands of stalactites of various shapes and sizes.
Some in rows of graduated length and when
struck a quick sharp blow give out a rich, mel
low note ike the tone of XylOphone. If one
has an for music he soon pick out set
of chords that form perfect musical scale. We
name this the music room, and the musician of
our party plays merry tune on natures piano
forte before We pass on to the next delectable
chamber
I'VE work way from one Curtained cham
ber to another, sometimes walking erect with
the sharp pendent spears high above US; then
again crawling on our hands and knees to avoid
knocking heads against the flowing cur
tains and spelling their lacelike filminess or scar
ring faces on the jagged points. Beautiful
brackets and the most ornate scrOllwork adorn
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17
PORTRAIT OF MILE. COHBES.

The Paris correspondent of The Tribune, in de-
scribing the portrait of Mile. Combes at the an
nuaI exhibition of the Society Of French Artists,
says:
Cecilia Wentworth, the American, who has
become the Marquise of Wentworth, sends
clever portrait OF Mile. COmbes, daughter OF the
French Prime Minister. 1t is in pale yellow, and
is a capital likeness"
NJ. Rcpin's picture Of Liberty now On ex'
hibition at st. Petersburg, is attracting a great
deal of attention on account of the art'sts )
unusual Interpretation of that somewhat hack
naycd title.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-08-08
SNAP SHOTS.
Fired from the Capitals Camera

Fired from the Capitals Camera
Cool mornings.
Good markets.
Delightful weather.
United by strong ties-a railroad.
Where is the man who predicted a
warm summer!
Congratulate the CAPITAL. Glou'
cesler street is fixed.
Dealers in rope and twine are
judged accordingly.
The old maid with cat is always a
woman with purr puss.
III you would be wealthy, think oi
saving as we'll as OF getting.
Pity the poor chickenei Twenty
FIVE more picnics this month.
1t is quite possible for next-dooI
neighbors ~ be rather distant.
1t you would reach perfection fol-
low the advice you give others.
-Colors will run, even when the
washing is done in stationary tubs.
rsgNow is the time to buy your PINT
JARs cheap from WATSON < Co.
No. Mary. dear; a bucket shop is
not where men 60 10 whoop things up.
The countryman's day begins with
cock-crow; the city man $ with cocktail.
Nothing like the little home paper
TO right wrongs Ir have damages re-
DARED,