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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-01
TO DEEPEN THE RIO GRANDE
Secretary Root viii Take Up Proposition
With Mexico.

A recent dispatch from Washing
ton says:-Secretary Root b a
decided to take up with Mexico the
proposition of treaty looking tc
makeing navigable the Rio Grande
from the mouth up.
In an interview which Repres-
entative Garner, whose district
covers the entire Mexican frontier
from Del Rio to the Gulf, had with
the Secretary of State this after
noon, Mr.. Root said he would at
once take up the mattsr with Mex
ico nnnuaGk
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-01
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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-01

No wine may hereafter be sold
in Spain on Sundays, and the inns
must be closed on week days at
midnight.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-01

New York paid last year S2l
900, 900 in interest and vii
this year S24, 900, 600,
same as The Federal q
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
No Mistake.

A New York produce commission
house, which prides itself on filling
all orders correctly, received a letter
from a New Jersey customer recent
ly saying:
'Gentlemen, this is the first time
we ever knew you to make mistake
in our order. You are well aware
that we buy the very best country
eggs. The last you sent are too poor
for our. trade. What shall we do with
them?"
The fair fame of the house for
never making an error seemed to be
at stake, but the bright mind Of the
Junior partner found a way out OF It.
He wrote:
Gentlemen: We are sorry to hear
that our last shipment did not suit
you. There was, however, no mis-
take on our part. We have looked
up.your original order and find that
it reads as follows: Rush fifty crates
eggs. We want them bad. "-Phil-
adelphia Ledger.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
Four Dead In Flames.

BATTLEFoRD SASKATCHEWAN, April
M.-As a result of a prairie fire that
is raging in the Tramping Lake dis
trict, four of one family ar = dead,
the fifth and only survivor is so bad
" burned that she is not expected to
recover. William Matthews and his
wife, in attempting to save their
home and two children, were burned
to death. Anna Matthews fought
her way through the sea of fire to see
why her father and the others did
not return. She found that all were
burned. Her dress caught fire and
she was horribly burned. tits doubt
full if she can recover. In her agony,
and in an effort to extinguish the
flames on her dress, she jumped into
a stream of water nearby and then
crawled on the bank in an exhausted
condition. A neighbor found her and
took her to safety.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
Pensions Sent Out.

Comptroller General Jones has sent
out to the clerks ofcourt Of various
counties in the State, the sum OF
s251 ,27O as pension money for the
Confederate veterans and the widows
of Confederate veterans.
The appropriation amounts toS25O,
600, but there was q refund Of 81 ,27O
due to the fact that number of vet
erans or widows died since last year:
There has been an increase of 214
pensioners since last year. The NUM-
Der now amounts to 9,N5. OF this
number, 4,277 are women, being
about half of the total number OF
pensioners. Thesewidows draw S1lO,'
316.
Those veterans who are paralyzed
or totally disabled come under Glass
A, and receive $96 each. Class B,
those who have lost a leg or arm
during the war, get S72 each. Class
G., those wounded in the war or suffer-
ed disabilities, receive S48 each,
Class D, those widows whose hus-
bands died or were killed in the war.
receive $48 each.
The remaining two classes receive
$21.20 each.
Excluding the pensions of s251, ,270,
the State has paid out 81, 900 for arti'
fcial limbs.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
More Trouble Brewing.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL, April 24.-Af-
ter twenty years of litigation, the su.
preme court has finally disposed OF
the Alton case by the most drastic
action recorded in it's history. Dis
regarding the action of seven jurles,
which refused to enforce the law
against the separation OF white and
negro school children, the court took
the matter into its own hands, de.
clared the Alton authorities were not
entitled to trial jury, anyway, and
gave judgment for the negroes.
The litigation began years ago
when Alton established separate
schools for negroes and Scott Bibbre
fused to send his children to them.
The late Senator John M. Palmer
was hissounsel and he fought for the
entry, Of the negro children to the
regular schools until his death. !
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
Club House Robbed.

Hot SPRINGS, ARK, April 23.-
-Four masked men, with leveled re-
volvers, entered the club house Of the
Indiana club on Central avenue, fore
ed the occupants to line along the
side and looted the place of a large
amount of money. The occupants
were then locked in a room and the
robbers escaped. No definite state
ment concerning the amount OF
money taken can be secured, but it
is estimated at between $4,000 and
$4,000.
A number of guests of the various
hotels were in the club house. No
individual was robbed Of his money,
the robbers devoting themselves to
looting the club funds. So quickly
was the robbery conducted that per
sons in the cafe were unaware OF the
proceedings. One Of the locked-in
men got through a transom, then
liberated the others, when the alarm
was given to the police.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
rIcculIough in Washington.

WASHINGTON, April 25. Joseph a.
Mccullough, Judge Pritchard' g right
hand man in the dispensary receiver
business, was in Washington o-day.
He stated that his visit was in no way
official. that he stopped here en- route
from New York where he went on le-
gal business. =
He would not discuss the dispen-
sary receivership except to say that
he believed that no further step wonid
be taken in the matter until the
points at issue are determined by the
circuit court of appeals at Richmond
some time during the next three
weeks.
He left for Greenville tonight. He
did not call at the White House TO
see about that judgeship.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
FARMER SHOT FROM AMBUSH.
j. B. Sims, a White Man, Mortally
Wounded Near Lancaster.

LANCASTER, April 23.-J. B. Sims,
the farmer shot from ambush last
night as he was returning home from
town, is still living, but the attending
physicians entertain but little hope
of his recovery, as they believe that
his intestines were perforated by
some of the shot that struck and
entered his body.
Sims, who lives about four miles
from town, spent yesterday mere
and was within a mile of his home
when shot. He was walking along
the road with his coat over his LETT
arm when some unknown person con-
cealed in a strip of woods fired on
him with a gun loaded with duck shot,
the shot striking him all the way from
the face to the hips on the left side.
The coat probably saved him from in,
slant death as the force of the load
seems to have struck that garment.
The assassin was not more than
twelve steps distant from his victim,
as shown by the tracks where he
stood and the point in the road where
Sims fell.
Sims was placed in the buggy of a
passer-by, the Rev. E. O. Thompson,
and carried to the home of Lafayette
Huntington, neighbor, where ne
now is.
Sims is q well known citizen Of the
county. Until recently he was q
United States deputy marshal and at
one time was State dispensary con-
stable. He was tried at the last term
of Court for killing Hampton Stog'
ner. whom he shot at within $50 yards
of the place where he himself was
shot last night. At the trial referred
to, it was recalled. the jury failed to
agree and a mistrial was ordered.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
Lynching in Florida.

JACKSONVILLE, FLA, April pa
special from Millville, q small town.
off the Gulf coast, near st. Andrews,
states that two negroes were lynched
there: Friday night by a mob Of infu-.
rated white men. The negroes. It
is alleged, entered a store and began
firing at a white man because Of some
act Of his a few hours earlier. The
negroes fled but were captured g
short while afterwards by officers,
who were taking them to jail when
they met the mob. The negroes
were hanged to a nearby tree and
their bodies riddled with bullets. Ex-
eitement prevails among the negroes
in the settlement and an uprising IS
feared. q
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
First Horseless Buggy.

"Thefrsthorseless carriage in Ohio
was first seen down in my town, said
C. A. Warren, of Springfield, the
other day. ''Then," says Warren,
sit went to Cleveland about ten years
ago, and we never heard any more Of
it. Have you ever seen it up here?
Flavius Danforth was the inventor Of
this first horseless carriage. He had
8 little milk route, but as he didn't
own q horse, he hitched up his cow to
q two-wheeled cart. By this arrange
ment the cow was active in the de-
partments Of both production and
transportation for he delivered milk
direct from the cow. There were no
complaints about unsanitary milk
bottles on his route. The customer
would hand out a pitcher, and the
old man would milk the cow while
the customer waited
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
WARRIORS LIFE ENDS.
With Sword Clasped to His Heart Col.
Warwick Dies at New York.

NEW YORK. April 23.-With the
sword he carried when a member OF
Morgan's raiders during the civil war
clasped to his heart, Col. William s.
S. Warwick was found dead in his
bed on the top floor Of house in the
Bronx yesterday. When his old ser
want, who answers to the name Of
Nanny, carried his breakfast to his
room, she found Col. Warwick dead.
The coroner decided that death was
due to the infrmities Of old age.
Col. Warwick came Of a famous old
Southern family and was born in Vir-
ginia eighty-fve years ago. He was
bred in wealth and luxury and at the
opening of the war joined Morgan's
cavalry and throughout the war
fought under the flag Of the Con-
federacy.
Twenty years ago he came to New
York and began to practice law. He
had a large income and his chief en-
ployment was the entertaining in Law
ish style of Southerners who came to
New York. Two years ago he be-
came involved in a disastrous financial
transaction and lost his entire fortune.
Since then he has lived in humble
lodgings in the Bronx, attended only
by the colored servant he brought
from the South with him in the days
of his prosperity. @
Col. Warwick is said to have been
related to many well known people IN
the South, including Senator Daniel,
of Virginia.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
Going soslpe.

An Englishman, an Irishman and 3.
Scotchman were one day arguing as
to which Of the three countries.
possessed the fastest trains.
Said the Englishman, We'll, I've.
been in one of our trains and the tel
egraph poles have beenikea 9 hedge." "
give seen the milestones appear
like tombstones," said the Scot.
"Be jabers,'' said Pat, Il was one
day in a train in my country and we
passed a field of carrots, a field OF
turnips, field Of parsley, one Of
onions and then pond of water, and.
we were going so fast that thought
it was broth!' Z.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
Summer School.

Some time this summer the
counties of Aiken, Bamberg and
Barnwell will join in a joint summer
school for teachers, to be held in the
city of Aiken. The date for the
school has not yet been fixed, but all
arrangements will be made at meet
ing of the county boards of education
and the State Superintendent of Ed
ucation, which will be held at Black
vile on May l. 1t is expected that
the attendance at the school will be
very large, as the total enrolment
of teachers in the three counties is
very large.-Aiken correspondence
News and Courier.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
NElGHBORS AT OUTS ABOUT DOG
One narlboro Farmer Has Another
Put Under Peace Bond.

BENNETTsvILLE, April 24.-Jasper
Berry, a white man from near Dun
bar, was put under peace bond by
MAGISTRATE McInnis on Wednesday
and bound over to court. He was re-
manded to jail in default Of $20Obond,
and will have his case investigated by
the grand jury.
The charge against Berry was
lodged by L. C. Carter, a resident OF
Dunbar and a near neighbor Of Ber-
rvs. Berry waived a preliminary
and hence none of the facts were
brought out at the magistrates, tut
Carter was seen and related the fol-
lowing:
That on last Sunday morning he
was lying in bed trying to rest. That
a crowd of dogs came around and
worried him, and one belonging to
Berry got in his house. They at last
made so much fuss that he had to get
up and run them away. The dog be-
longing to Berry was pup and ne
had to whip it before it would leave.
Finally he kicked it out, but not so as
to bruise or maltreat it. That on
learning of this Berry became furious
and going to the home of Johnny
Sweat got his gun and stated that he
was going to kill him (Carter.) That
Berry laid in the woods for him, but
he had been warned and kept out OF
the way.
Carter first went to Magistrate
Calhoun at Clio to take out war
rant, but not finding him at home
came to Bennettsville and swore out
one before Magistrate Mclnnis. Dep;
uty sheriff took the warrant and
went to Berry's house and arrested
him. :,
Berry was unable to furnish bond
There seems to be bad blood between
the two men antedating the dog in:
cident, and Carter was much afraid
of bodily harm. Both are farmers
living near Dunbar.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
Courage Deserts Robbers.

BUTTE, Mont, April A.-Lack OF
nerve at critical moment caused the
failure of an attempt last night to
holdup the North Coastlimited on the
Northern Pacific near Butte.
Rudolph Wenk, Paul Filenius and
Albert Teasdale have been arrested.
Wenk and Filenius admit having par
ticipated in the tagging Of the tram,
claiming, however, to have been
forced to it by two armed and mask
ed desperadoes who, when the tram
had come to q halt, lost their courage
and fed. Is
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
Sound Advice.

Anne Steese Richardson gives some
pertinent advice to girls looking for
employment, in the May Woman's
Home Companion. Tell the en-
ployer," she says, what you think
YOU can do, not what you have done
at home or in school, nor why you
need the position. He wants to know
whether you can write legibly, spell
correctly, figure accurately and are
strong enough to serve him 50 many
hours day. so many days a week.
If this man has his own and his en-
ployer's interests at heart he will re-
gard you as he does a bolt Of fine
Silk on the shelves outside his office.
This sounds almost brutal. It sounds
as if you were no better than the dry
goods upon the shelf. Well, when
you get right down to facts, that en-
ployer is taking just as great a chance
in hiring you, an unframed girl whom
he must train at his firms expense,
as he is in buying a bolt of silk that
may or may not find favor with the
firm 8 customers. lfyou do the work,
he is glad to pay you the money you
need. If you cannot do the work.
then perhaps for second he feels
sorry for you, but he argues that a
charity organization to which his
firm contributes should look after
your case. A store, factory or Of
flee is a beehive of industry, not q
refuge for incompetents in distress. :"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
Denmark Democratic Club.

The Denmark Democratic club
met Saturday afternoon for the pur-
pose of reorganizing and electlng
delegates to county convention.
Most of the old officers were re-
elected, and are as follows: G. w.
Garris, president; C. S. Folk, vice
president; w. L. Riley, secretary and
treasurer. S. G. Mayfeld was elect
ed executive committeeman.
The delegates to county convention
are as follows: c. w. Garris, ". L.
Riley, S. G. Mayfeld, W. S: Cooper
J. S. ]. Faust, C. S. Folk, j. A. Nix
/. G. Jennings, w. W. Sojourner ano
J. J. Fogle.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
News from Olar.

OLAR, April 27.-At the last meet
ing of the literary society the follow
IIne officers were elected: President,
Miss Belle Cooke; vice president,
Miss Hattie Ray; secretary, Miss
Emma Bessinger; treasurer, Miss
Orrie Morris; critic, Miss Maude
Owens; censor, Miss Kathleen Kirk
land; reporting censor, MIR. James
Chitty.
The program was as follows: .
Recitation-Miss Annie Laurie
Kirkland.
Composition-Mr. Charley Chitty.
Current Events s-Miss Hattie Ray.
Composition-Mr. Henry Kearse.
Recitation-Miss Emma Bessinger.
Reading Miss Berta Morris.
Essay-Mr. Lee Morris.
Debate. Resolved: That the white
men were wise in driving the Indians
from America.
Affirmative: Mr.. Bernice Barker,
Miss Efie Barker. Mr.. Lennie Reid.
Negative: Mr.. Ellis Barker, Miss
Versa Morris, Mr.. Elvyn Kearse.
The decision was made in favor OF
the affirmative.
Messrs. Bissell Beach and Charlie
Rentz, of Bamberg, were the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Rizer Easter
Sunday.
Miss Kate Sadler, who has beer
teaching at Aiken, returned hoine
last Friday for the summer vacation
We are glad to know Misses Emma
Cooke, Sara Brabham and Zelma
Rizer, who have been sick for severa|
DAYS, are able to be up again. >:
Mrs. Sadie Gilchrist visited Miss
Kathleen Kearse last week.
Miss Lila Qpattlebaum, our music
teacher, was called to her home al
Ridge Spring last Sunday on account
of her grandmsther's death, return
ing Tuesday.
Quite a crowd of the young folk!
attended a picnic given at Spring
town church last Saturday.
Mrs. Ben Joyner and little daugh'
ter, Of Georgia, are visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Joyner
Little Miss Jesse Zorn, Of Govan
| is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Paul Cooke
Mrs. W. N. Barker and little son
of Kline, visited her sister, Mrs. j
G. Barker, of this place, last week.
Our town has been greatly improv
ed by putting in gas lights.
Miss Edna Chitty, Of Kearse, !!
visiting at the home Of Mrs: G. F
RiZer. ELK.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
COTTON MILLS SHUT DOWN
THIS ACTION WILL BE TAKEN NOT
LATER THAN JULY FIRST.
Suspension will be lndefinite-Thous'
ands of Hands will be With
out Work.

SPARTANBURG, April 25.-The cot
ton mills of the Piedmont section of
North and South Carolina will close
down indefinitely July l, and no fur
ther orders for cloth at the present
prices will be accepted by the mills.
This action was taken this afternoon
at 4 o'clock at a meeting Of mill pres
idents representing the mill industry
of the upper section Of South Caro-
lima and North Carolina.
The action of the cotton mill men
did not come as a surprise for it was
reported in this correspondence sew
eral days ago that the mill men were
confronted by a serious proposition:
It was either reduction Of wages and
shorter hours or the closing down OF
mills indefinitely. The mills had
hoped to operate on shorter hours
and to reduce wages, in fact, some OF
the mills have been pursuing that
policy for some time, but it gave nc
relief to the situation.
The meeting to-day was held In
the Chamber Of Commerce, and near.
lily every mill in this section was rep.
resented either by personal repre-
sentative of by proxy. The meeting
was held quietly and quickly. lr
fact it did not become known that
the meeting had been held until rep.
resentatives of the mills made the
following statement:
"At a representative meeting Of
cotton manufacturers held this day ir
the Chamber Of Commerce it was re
solved that they will accept no fur
ther orders for cloth at present
prices, and that they will shut down
their mills indefinitely not later thar
July 1, ,190S.''
Thirty-seven cotton mills in Spar
tanburg county alone will be affected
by the action of the mill presidents
More than $1O,000,000 is invested ii
cotton mills in the county. The mum
Der of spindles is close on to sever
hundred thousand, and the number
of looms is more than twenty thous
and. .
The closing down Of the mills will
throw thousands and thousands o.
people out of employment, and thu
great problem before the mill opera
tives is how they will employ them
selves after July until the mills re
sumo operations.
Had the mills closed down earlier
in the season the situation would no'
have been as serious as the presen
time, for the mill people could have
easily made arrangements to secure
work on the farms.
! The employers of farm labor hav.
tmade all their arrangements for agrl
cultural work.
! It has been said that possibly tn
mills have made arrangements t.
provide for the operatives while tn
mills are idle.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
Colleton Home Burned.

WATERFORD, April 2.-Thursday
niqht the residence of H. D. Padgett,
at Rufin, caught on fire and was, en-,
tirely destroyed. The fire occurred
about 2 o'clock in the morning. Mr.:
and Mrs. Padgett were sleeping and
were awakened in time to get out OF
the berning building. But little was va
saved. His loss is about $4,000 with
$500 insurance.
It is thought the fire caught from
q defective flue.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30

The friends of Mr.. James F.
Byrnes will be glad to know that he
will be a candidate for Circuit So
licitor at the Augustprimary election.
A lawyer by profession, he has been
court stenographer for the second
judicial circuit for a number Of years,
and is thoroughly familiar with all
court procedures. A well Informed
man, q careful worker, and a fluent
speaker. He will make a good so
licitor.-Aiken Recorder.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-30
A Subtle Difference.

Mrs. Blank, wife of a prominent
minister near Boston, had in her en-
ploy a recently engaged colored cook
as black as the proverbial ace OF
spades. One day Mrs. Blank said to
her:
matilda, l wish that you would
have oatmeal quite often for break
fast. My husband is very fond OF it.
He is Scotch, and you know that the
Scotch eat a great deal of oatmeal: !"
"Oh, he's Scotch, is he?" said
Matilda. "Well, now, do you know,
| was thinkin' all along dat he wasn't
des like u.s. .''-Woman's Home Com
panion for May.