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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
Admits LARGE shortane

Toronto, Oct. 15.-General Man
ager McGill of the wrecked Ontario
bank, admits shortage of $21, 25O, :
600. Bankers in estimating the prob
ability of their guarantee being en-
forced, place the loss through Nc
GilFs speculations at $500, 900 more
McGill also admitted that these spec
ulations We're carried on without the
directors knowledge, but, he de-
clares, for the ultimate good of the
bank.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
Pastors Discussed Baseball.

Chicago, Oct. 1.-Two pastors
used the championship baseball series
as a topic for pulpit discourse Sunday
night. Both agreed that the game
is the cIeanest of all sports, but they
deplore the fact that gambling was
permitted on the grounds, and that
one of the contests was played on
Sunday. They appealed to the man
ayers to take stand against these
two evils in future.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
White sox Worlds Champions

Chicago, Oct. 15.-The Chicago
club of the American Baseball league
is the champion of the world BY
winning Sundays game, to 3,
against the National league, the
Americans earned the right to float
the worlds champion pennant as well
as the pennant Of the American
league, to ride to the grounds next
season in carriages and to have
Worlds Champions" Iettered on the
blankets worm by their horses. Sun
days game was the sixth of the Sc
ries and the fourth victory for the
Americans.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
Await News From silveira

New York, Oct. 15.-J. NJ. CebaI-
los & Co. are still anxiously awaiting
news of Manuel Silveira, who is
charged with absconding with 81 900, =
600 of their money. A detective
agency has cabled to all likely ports
in the West Indies and Central Amer
ica, to have a lookout kept for the
battleship Carmelina, and unless she
is on her voyage back to her home
port, Bergen, in Norway, the Carme-
lima should be heard from within the
next few days.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
Found With His Skull Crushed

Durant, Miss, Oct 15.-The dead
body of l.. NJ. Weems, a prominent
merchant and farmer of this place
was found in the rear of local drug
store, his skull crushed and all sur
roundings indicating that he had been
brutally beaten to death. The iden-
tity of the murderer and the motive
which prompted the crime is un-
known
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
Buttons Petition r.,.nied

Washington, Oct. 15.-The SUI
preme court of the United States on
Monday denied the petition of former
United States Senator Burton of Kan
sas for a rehearing in the case in
which he is under sentence of inn
prisonment and fine on the charge OF
accepting an attorneys fee in a case
in which the government was inter
ested while he was serving as sena-
tor. The effect of the decision will
be the immediate Imprisonment of
Burton unless his attorneys devise
some other means of postponing the
execution of the sentence.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
BIankenship Goes to Jan.

Macon, Ca, Oct. 15.-W. M.
Blankenship, the white man who was
detained by the police on a serious
charge preferred by a citizen of Sof-
kee, was removed from the city hos
pital to the county Jail, and will
await trial. He had been i'll and
was being treated. He declares that
he knows nothing of the charge which
has been preferred. He was placed
under guard at the hospital, having
on prior occasion escaped through a
second story window.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
TWO HUNDRED MEN
ENTOMBRD IN MINE
Awful Explosion In Wingate
Colliery.
TEN BODIES TAKEN FROM MINES
Every Effort Is Being Made to Ascer-
tain the Fate of the Remainder of
the Miners-one Hundred Are. Be-
lieVed to Be Safe In Lower Part.

Durham, England, Oct. 15.-An
explosion occurred in the Wingate
colliery near here about midnight, re-
sulting in about 200 men being en-
tombed. About 100 of these are be-
lieved to be safe in lower part of
the colliery, but there were between
60 and so men in the seam where
the disaster occurred.
Up to 10 o'clock Monday morning
10 bodies had been taken from the
mines, and every effort was being
made to ascertain the fate of the re-
mainder.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
Recruits For Strikers,

Houston, Tex, Oct. 15.-Further
recruits to the strike of the Brother
hood of Railway Clerks on the South
ern Pacific makes about 800 men out
on this division. A meeting was held
Sunday, but the attendance was slim
on account of bad weather.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
eakers DecIare General orrlke.

Montpelier, France, Oct 15-The
local working bakers Monday declared
a general strike because of the re-
fusal of the proprietors of the baker
les 20 accord them a weekly day OF
resc, as provided for by the law
The city authorities have appealed to
the government officials for the as
sistance of military bakers in order
to prevent a bread famine.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
RooseveIt's Mothers Nurse Dead

New York, Oct. 15.-Nannie Jack
son, the colored nurse of President
Roosevelt's mother, is dead at Ever
green, L. 1. She was "a years of
age. She was brought to Connecti-
cut as slave by Stephen Bullock,
the presidents maternal grandfather.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
Nearo Killed by Elevator

Atlanta, Oct. 15.-While cleaning
the brass ON the carriage of one of
the elevators in the Gambler building,
George Watkins, negro, was killed
almost instantly by the falling of a
weight in the elevator shaft
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
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Convicted of Eoruerv,

Athens, Ca, Oct. BE. W. Jor-
dan, a young white man, was con-
vtcted of passing a forged check on
the Georgia National bank for $125,
and will be sentenced to the peniten-
tiary by Judge Brand.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16

Mr.. Jones had lived at Gainesville,
Ca. nearly all his life. From there
his fame as an evangelist and public
man generally has spread to the end
Of the United States. Beginning his
work as leader of revivaIs in Georgia,
he soon came into demand in every
county Of the state, then In every
state of the south, until a few years
ago he was induced to go to Boston,
Mass, where he produced a profound
impression upon the public of New
England
In addition to his influence as a
preacher, he is distinguished for his
ability as forcefuI, witty writer.
The death of Sam Jones comes as
one of the greatest shocks that Geor-
gia could have known. No man in
the state is better or more widely
known, and his fame extends around
the world.
As preacher, evangelist and
church man, he has few peers, while
as lecturer, writer and public man
he is among the ranks of the fore
most
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
Eurniture Manufactoru BURNS

Cincinnati, o., Oct. 15.-Fire COM
pletely destroyed the John F. De-
Camp company, manufacturers OF
steamboat furniture, early Monday.
Loss, $50, 900; partly insured.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
REV. SAM P. JONES
DIES VERY SUDDENLY
Body Found In Sleeping Car
Berth.
RREATHEs HIS LAST ON TRAIN

Noted Preacher Was Enroute From
Little Rock, Ark, to Memphis,
Tenn. - Supposed to Have Died
About O'Clock Monday Morning.
Memphis, Tenn. Oct. IA train
dispatcher of the Choctaw division OF
the Rock Island system stated that
Sam Jones, the noted evangelist, died
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16
Honcred bv Elks

Harrisburg, Pa, Oct ia mar
Bile shaft and fountain erected by the
Order of Elks throughout the United
States in memory of Meade L. Det-
wiler Of Harrisburg, twice grand ex-
allied ruler of the order, was unveil-
ed here Monday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-16

on a Choctaw train near Little Rock
at an early hour Monday.
Mr.. Jones was travelling from some
point west of Little Rock, and his
destination was Memphis.
The body was found in his berth
In the sleeping car and was taken off
the train at Little Rock.
1t is believed Mr.. Jones died about
4 o'clock in the morning.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30
New signal System For Railways

New Signal System For Railways.
The Great Western railway Is about
to make an experiment In signaling
which, says the London Express, it II
believed will herald a worldwide revo-
luton in railway working. This is
nothing less than the substitution Of
audible for visible signals and the
abolition Of the familiar semaphore
arm at the top Of a signal post. In
stead of the engine driver having to
look out for bis signals, the signals de-
clare themselves to his ear unmistak-
ably. "Line clear" is expressed in tho
new system of signaling by the tin
king OIL q bell. Line blocked" is ex-
pressed by the blowing Of whistle,
which continues until the driver with
his own hand turns it off. Both bell
and whistle are fixed inside the engine
cabin close by the driver as he stands
to his lever, and they afford much
more telling means Of notification than
would a dial On which signs appeared
The apparatus is so constructed that
If anything goes wrong anywhere the
whistle signal operates.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30
kent Account With Heaven.

Sioux CITY, Iowa, Aug. 21.-Alfred E.
Bills, who aspires to succeed John Alex
ander Dowie as oyerseer of Zion City,
has for many years considered himself a
sort of trustee of Gods business. When
he ran bank at Millyer, S. D., the Al
mighty was on his books as regular de-
positor.
This fact is attested by W. A. Smith,
former bookkeeper in Bills bank at Mill
yer, who was in Sioux City last week.
"Bills had somewhat curious method
of handling Gods affairs" said Mr..
Smith. "He very religiously deposited
to Divine credit 10 per cent. of the profits
of the bank and other enterprises in
which Bills was interested. When snug
sum had been accumulated Bills, as stew.
ard, would take part or all of it and invest
If the venture proved successful the fund
always got back every cent of the princi-
pal, but the profits found their way into
Bills private account. Ifthe investment
lost money the fund had to stand it."
According to Mr.. Smith, some of these
investments were in enterprises not per-
haps altogether heavenly in their nature.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30
Wanted in BarnWell.

On the 18th of August negro by the
name of Henry Middleton was sentenced
in the police court by Acting Recorder
Rouse to thirty days on the chain gang
for beating his wife. 1t was cruel beat
ing that he gave her and the authorities
thought that he was an extra mean negro
and Judge Rouse gave him the limit of
the law.
Yesterday an officer from Barnwell
came to the Jail and asked to see the
negro. He identified him as the man
who escaped from the Barnwell chain
gang and whom they have been hunting g
for some time. He was sentenced for
five years and had served half of the time
when he made his escape. As soon as
his time is up on the Charleston gang he
will be turned over to the Barnwell au-
thorities and, under the law, will have to
serve the full term. The term would
have been shortened through good be-
havior, but since he escaped he will have
to serve the full five years, and no allow
ance will be made, no matter how good
he may be from now on.-Charleston
News and Courier, Tuesday, August %.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30
Negro Boy Killed.

SPARTANBURG, Aug. 27.-James Pill
grim, young negro boy about Is years
of age, was instantly killed this morning
in front of the furniture factory of the
Lion Furniture company, while endeaVor-
ing to board an outgoing freight train.
The boy was in the employ of the COM
pany and shortly after the whistle blew
for dinner endeavored to board the freight
train. He lost his hold and fell under
the wheels and was literally ground to
pieces.
The coroner's jury returned verdict
this afternoon that the boy came to his
death while trying to board train in
motion. The accident was unforeseen
and the boy lost his life through his own
carelessness.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30
THUMB PRINT EXPERT.

Chicago Woman to Instruct Secret
Service Men In Washington.
After studying the thumb print sys.
tenn of identifying criminals for over
fifteen years Mrs. N. e. Holland Of
Chicago has been appointed instructor
In the secret service at Washington,
says q Chicago dispatch.
Mrs. Holland is thirty-four years Old
and the wife Of Phil Holland, editor Of
the Detective. Fifteen years ago abe
began the study Of criminals under
Detective Fernier Of Scotland Yard,
and since then she has devoted her en-
tire time to It.
lone can take the imprint Of a
baby's thumb" says Mrs. Holland,
and the grown man can be identified
by It when all other means fail"
It is said that the government is
preparing to use it where thousands of
laborers are employed as means of
Identification on pay day.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30
All Gone Wrong.

'This must be good weather for farm
erss" he queried, as he sat down beside
a farmer looking man in the smoking
car.
1T could be wuss," was the reply.
aHow's wheat looking?"
"Won't be half crop"
Allows corn?"
"Wuss'n the wheat"
Don't think fruit will turn out well?"
Wont be two apples to tree, sir"
"But there can't be anything wrong
with the potatoes?"
81 don't expect to see three to hill"
"Then you think everything is all
wrong, do you?" persisted the question
er.
81 do, sir. And I told the widder Jen-
nines when she throwed me over jest
how it would be. Jest throwed me over,
sir, and now if the whole caboodle of us
90 to the poorhouse next winter don't
blame me. I asked her six times over to
marry me and she won't do it, and now
let the old country 60 to pot"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30
AGED Citizen Brutally Killed.

BEAUFORT, Aug. 2z-Mr. Geo. N. Har-
vey was murdered Sunday night on
Ladies Island. A negro is in the
county Jail, charged with the crime.
The verdict of the coroner's jury was
that deceased came to his death by a gun
shot wound, the gun in the opinion of
the jury being fired by VIM. Bennett, and
that VIM. Ferguson is material witness,
if not accessory.
Mr. Harvey, a well known farmer, age
72, of the Bluffton section, was visiting
his son on a plantation on Ladies Island,
four miles from Beaufort. Last evening
he was left alone in the house from un'
til 2, and upon returning his son found
him lying dead on the piazza with hor'
rible wound in his head. A shotgun and
pistol were missing from the house.
The gun has not been found, but this
morning the sheriff found the pistol in a
negro cabin where it had been positively
identified as having been left by VIM.
Bennett, who was found on public road
soon after. He would admit nothing,
but other neighbors testified they had
seen him near the Harvey farm at the
time the crime was committed and that
he was drunk and in an ugly humor. The
negro came from the up-country and
was employed by Mr.. Harvey as plow
hand up to Wednesday. The neighbors
of the vicinity assisted in his capture and
are much wrought up by what seems to
be brutal, unprovoked murder. The
sheriff and posse of citizens went to
the scene early this morning. Though
there was much feeling exhibited by the
citizens present at the inquest, there was
no danger of lynching.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30
CITATION NOTICE.

The State of South Carolina-County
of Bamberg-By Geo. P. Harmon, ESQ.,,
Probate Judge.
Whereas, b. G. Folk hath made
suit to me, to grant him Letters of Ad-
ministration of the estate of and effects
of Plenty Stephens, deceased;
These are therefore to cite and admon-
ish all and singular the kindred and cred
itors of the said Plenty Stephens de-
ceased, that they be and appear before
me in the Court of Probate, to be held
at Bamberg, s. c., on Friday, Sept.
18th, 1906, at II o'clock in the forenoon
to show cause, if any they have, why the
said administration should not be granted.
Given under ny hand, this 26th day of
August, A. D., 1906.
G. P. HARMON,
Probate Judge.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30
THE C0LoRED FOUR HUNDRED.

Negroes Of the Windy City Issue Blue Book
Showing Professional and Social Standing, .
Chicago's colored population has its
"400." Its members are listed in the
"Colored Peoples Blue Book of Chicago"
just published.
The book contains 80 pages of adver-
yertisements of business concerns run by
colored people, classified business and
professional directory, and the names of
400 "prominent" colored people, selected
according to social standing.
According to this directory Cbicago's
colored population has IS churches, 80
lawyers, four newspapers, 40 physicians,
IA literary clubs, 10 social clubs, and rs
women's clubs.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30
Thursday, August 80, 1906

Many South Carolina men who wanted
to be members of the legislature were
against bucket shops and for State bar
rooms. Maybe they would have favored
the first under State control, with the
profits going to the schools.
w
Now they are charging graft at Glenn
son college in the matter of the purchase
of some cattle. Mr.. j. G. Stribling, of
Pendleton, member of the committee,
says the cattle were bought over his pro-
test, and that the matter needs investiga-
ton by the trustees of the college.
~
Why should teachers be trained for
their work if they are to simply "hear
Rotations" Anybody with no training
can do this. The very fact that teachers
require special training shows that the
young minds they have in charge should
also be trained. Let US have real "teach-
ing'' in the Bamberg graded school this
session and not merely "reciting." We
trust both trustees and principal will bet
ter conditions and thereby please great
number of the patrons, for many of them
have expressed themselves to US along
this line.
~
The pupils at our graded school did
little for the past few years while at the
school building but recite, having to get
their parents to assist them in the prepa-
ration of their lessons at home. We
trust there will be a change for the better
the coming session. Young minds should
be trained and taught. It is the least
part of teachers duties to simply hear
the children recite. Their real work
comes in the training of their charges
and in assisting, in the proper manner,
in the work of preparing the lessons.
(. This has been sadly neglected in the past.
We should also have longer school hours.
Not much work can be done from nine
till two.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30
NEGRO SHOT BY THE HUSBAND.
Florence County the Scene Of the Latest At.
tempt at Criminal Assault.


FLORENCE, Aug. 25.-This morning
about sunrise Mr.. W. L. Marshall shot
and killed Lewis Gray, a negro, for the
crime for which negroes are lynched.
Yesterday afternoon while Mr.. Mar
shall was away from his house, the negro
GRAY came to the house and made an in
decent proposal to Mrs. Marshall. Before
he could make any attempt to carry out
his purpose he was frightened away by
Mrs. Marshalrs mother, who appeared
from another room in the house when
her daughter screamed. The negro fed.
Marshall, u no was at work in the field,
as soon as he reached home and learned
the facts, secured his shotgun and started
out on hunt for the negro. He hunted
the country over all night and about day.
break went into the store of Mr.. H. B.
Mccall to rest. While in the store Lewis
Gray walked in, not knowing that Marsh
all was there. Marshall, without word,
fred and killed the negro instantly.
Marshall left the store, intending to
come to Florence and surrender. He
came to town, it is said, but did not give
himself up and is still at large.
Marshall's home is on the plantation OF
MI. J. S. Mccall, near Efingham. His
wife is woman of about 81 years of
age and her mother lives with them.
The negro was an itinerant barber,
who was we'll known in that section,
which is about ten miles from Florence.
JUsTIFIABLE HOMICIDE
FLORENCE, Aug. 26.-As result OF the
coroner's inquest over the dead body OF
the negro, Louis Gray, the jury, with
Mr.. Brooks Mccall acting as foreman,
handed in a verdict that deceased had
come to his death as the result of gun
shot in the hands of w. L. Marshall and
that it was justiiable homicide. Moth.
ing new developed during the course OF
the inquest except that the negro brute
had actually laid hands on Marshalls
wife, and offered her sum of money if
she would submit to his proposals. She
then screamed and called for her mother,
who was inside the house, and the negro
fed. Sheriff Burch was present during
the inquest, but did not take Marshall
into actual custody for the reason that he
showed disposition not to disappear,
and the further fact that several of the
most substantial men of the community
assured him that they would be respon-
sible for Marshall's appearing in Florence
Monday morning to give bond. Sheriff
Burch says he is willing to be RESPONSE
BILE for the prisoner.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30
Leather Drinking Cups.

A revival OF an cid English custom is
the use Of leather as material for
drinking vessels-their temperance
being especially In the form Of prizes
for sports. The English shapes Of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are
copied and the goblets, loving cups,
tankards, etc., are handsomely mounted
In silver.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30

A friend suggests that the best way to
head off the mail order houses is for the
merchants to advertise ibsrally and get
the trade themselves. 1t does look rea-
sonable. All of the successful mail order
houses are heavy advertisers and if they
can make it pay, why not the local mer-
chants?
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30
A MYSTERY SOLVED.

Chow to keep off periodic attacks of BIZ
iousness and habitual constipation was q
mystery that DR.. Kings New Life Pills
solved for me-" writes John N. Pleasant,
of Magnolia, Ind. The only pills that
are guaranteed to give satisfaction to eV-
ery5ody or money refunded. Only Csc
at doover's drug store and J. B. Blacks.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30
Normal Scholarship.

A chance is still open to the young
men of this county to get a Normal schol-
arship in the University of South Caro-
lima. An examination for that purpose
will be conducted by the County Super
intendent of Education, Friday. August
81, 1905.
Write at once for application blanks to
BENJAMIN SLOAN,
President, Columbia, S. q.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-08-30
J. T. O'NEAL
Real Estate Agent, Bamberg, S. 6.
School Books.

Parents and teachers will find the
school books adopted by the State board
of education on sale at wholesale list
prices at the following repositories:
b. G. Folk, Bamberg.
J. B. Gillian, Jr., Denmark.
G. Ehrhardt & Sons, Ehrhardt.
c. F. Rizer, Olar.
Teachers are reminded that they must
use these books in the public schools and
parents are urged to exchange old books
while the time lasts.
r. w. d. ROWELL,
-. County Supt. of Education.
Bamberg, s. c., August 80, 1905.