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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
Cutting scrape Between White rlen.

AIKEN, April 2O.-On Saturday
night at Warrenville, Messrs. Mitch.
eli, Sr., and Haul Gregory engaged
in very serious difficulty, and as a
result both are lying in a very serious
condition and one Of them, Gregory,
may be fatally injured It is stated
that the men became involved in a
controversy about a trivial matter
and that the argument became SO
heated that knives were drawn and
both were severely cut. Gregorys
throat was cut,sand it is stated that
he may not recover. Mitchell is not
thought to be fatally injured, but he
is suffering very painful injuries;
They were taken to their homes and
medical attention given them. Both
were too badly injured to be brought
to jail, but John Mitchell, son OF the
elder and injured Mitchell, has been
placed under arrest and is now in
Jail. It is charged that he was con-
nected with the affair though his
father is said to have stated that ne
did the cutting himself, and that his
son had nothing to do with the affair.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
Negro Preacher Arrested.

Rev. J. C.. Dean, colored, pastor of
the Gum Springs Baptist church,
near Cashville, was arrested in Spar
tanburg yesterday by N. J. Alverson,
of Reidville, on the charge OF having
committed adultery. The warrant
for Deans arrest was sworn out by
J. S. Rice, colored, before Magistrate
Pearson, of Reidville. The warrant
charges the preacher with having
ruined Carrie Rice, the eighteen
year-old daughter of the said j: S.
Rice. Dean is from Greenwood origi-
nally, and has wife living there at
present. It is alleged that the girl
has letters from the preacher beg
ging that she throw the blame on a
certain youthful member of the po-
dramatically inclined sheperd's
flock, that it would hurt his influence
as saver of mems souls if it were
known that he had wronged one OF
the sisters in the urch.-Spartan-
burg Herald, Thursday, April 18th.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
Bloody Street Duel.

BERN1CE, La, April 20SOne
spectator was killed and four others
were wounded during street duel
here to-day. Both duellists were
wounded, but not seriously.
The fight was between c: j. Nor
ton and W. F. Barham, both proml..
nent in this section. The cause Of
the quarrel is not known. Morton
was just stepping off an Arkansas
Southern passenger train, accom-;
panied by his wife and seven: :year-old
son, when Barham appeared: Both
men opened fire and Morton's little
son fell, probably mortally wounded:
T. W, Clarke was instantly killed and
Thomas Reeves was wounded in the
thigh. Conductor Afford Of the train,
and a male passenger, whose name
was not learned, were painfully
wounded.
Morton was struck by two bullets
and Barham hit by one.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
BIease VIII Run.

NEwBERRY, April 18.-Senator
Cole L. Blease was seen this morning
and asked what effect Mr.. Feather
stones withdrawal, Governor Ansel's
card in the mornings paper would
have upon his candidacy for Cover
nor, Mr.. Blease said:
"Mr Featherstone's withdrawal
and Governor Ansel's change OF posi-
ton will have no effect whatever on
my candidacy. / am in the race and
in to the finish and will furnish the
people an interesting campaign, it
matters not to me who may withdraw
or who may enter. l am getting all
my facts together and will be ready
when the State chairman says Cen
tlemen proceed -,
s'My platform has already been an.
nounced, and on that platform will
make my campaign"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
SHOT TO DEATH AS BURGLARS.
Owners of Ohio Grocery Store Killed
by Patroimen.

COLUMBUS, OHIO, April 19.-Mis-
taken for burglars John and VIM. D.
Frank, sons Of r. @. Frank. grocer.
were shot and instantly killed to-day
by City Patrolmen Heinze and Casey.
CASEY was suspended, pending mves-
tigation, but Heinze remains on duty.
Shortly before the shooting burglars
were discovered by neighbors IN
Franks grocery, 1,221 Parsons ave-
nue.. The owner of the store and the
police were informed about the same
time of the burglary. The two.
young men, who were later shot, and
another brother. Albert Frank and
William Yoerger, hastily armed
themselves and ran to the grocery.
Patrolmen Heinze and Casey were
watching in The shadow of the build
ing when the four young men ar.
rived, and each party mistook the
other for the burglars. q .
According to Yoerger w. D. Frank
fired a rifle four times at Patrolman
Heinze, who drew a revolver and
fatally wounded the young man.
Patrolman Casey ordered the other
three to throw up their hands, and
they did so, the survivors say. Pa
trolman Casey declares, however,
that John Frank did not throw up hls
hands but aimed revolver at the
patrolman. Casey then shot John
Frank. :,
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
Orangebnrg District rleeting

The district meeting of the Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary Society OF
the Orangeburg district will be held
at Cope on May 10th. Opening ser:
vices Friday evening at 8 o'clock. All
auxilaries, young people and juven.
lie societies are requested to elect
delegates at once and send names to
Miss Louie Tatum, Cope, S. G. All
lady managers are expected. We
hope to have Mrs. Wightman and
Mrs. Humbert with US.
MRS. A. S. JENNINGS,
District Secretary.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
Honor Roll.

Following is the honor roll of the
Olar high-graded school for seventh
month.
High school -Ettie Kearse, James
Chitty, Belle Cooke, Emma Bessinger
Henry Kearse, Orrie Morris, MAZDA
Still, Annie Laura Kirkland and Ag-
mes Kearse.
Grammar school-Flossie Layne,
Delma Cooke, Earl Kearse, Mamie
Raw, Eloise< Cave, Gilmore Hartzog,
zelma Rizer and Edna Morris.
Primary-Malone Warn, Charles
Fail, Rosa Lee Reid, la Still, Corey
HERS, Frank HERS, Eottie Proveaux
and Earle Rizer.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
ACCIDENT AT BLACKYILLE
MISS BEULAH GILLIAN KILLED In
A RUNAWAY.
While Out Driving the Horse Began
to Run and She Sprang from
the flowing Buggy.

BLACKvILLE, April 2O.-What is
considered one of the saddest &C.
cidents that ever happened here was
the sudden death of Miss Beulah
Gillian. caused by runaway horse.
Miss Gillian and her friend, Miss
AliceSojourner, were out driving and
had driven out on the road to the
Healingsprings, afavorite drive from
here. Numbers of buggies were in a
line coming from the springs and a
couple of young men undertook to
drive by Miss Sojourner's horse,
which was a very spirited animal.
The horse commenced running and
soon got from under her control,
though she is an excellent driver.
Miss Gillian became very much ex-
cited and jumped from the buggy,
striking on her head.
She never regained consciousness
and died at 2 p. m. to-day. Miss So
journer remained in the buggy until
the horse struck tree and threw her
out. She was very badly bruised and
is confined to her bed, but her in.
juries are by no means fatal.
Miss Gillian will be buried to-mor-
row morning at Ghent's Branch bury
ing ground, seven miles from here,
in an old family plot.
Miss Gillian is a daughter of Mrs.
M. Gillian, a widow, who is pro.
prietress = of the Hotel Blackville.
Miss Gillian was milliner for Wm.
Morrison's millinery establishment
and was a very popular young lady.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
American Cotton Direct to the East.

MEXICO CITY, April 20-The Wolvln
Steamship company has entered into
an agreement with the Tehauntepec
National railroad and the Eng-Tok-
Tong Steamship company for con-
ducting traffic between Galveston
and Oriental ports. The new service
will 90 into effect May /. The main
purpose Of the agreement is to supply
Japanwith American cotton TOR when
there is a big gdemand.
Heretofore American cotton had to
be shipped across the continent by
rail to San Francisco, where it was re-
shipped, but the new traffic arrange
ment will give an all-water route:
with the exception Of the small haul
of the Tehauntepec railroad across
the isthmus.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
Negro Lynched In Texas.

FORT WORTH, Tex, April ia
special to The Record from Atlanta,
Texas, says:
Jasper Douglas, a negro, was
charged in warrant sworn to yes
terday, with having criminally as
saulted his step-sister, a girl Of II
years. This morning his body was
found hanging to the limb Of a tree
near this place. The verdict of the
coroner's jury was that Douglas
came to his death at the hands Of un-
known persons.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
SOLUTION OF RACE PROBLEM.
Georgia Congressman Would Disfran-
chise Southern Negroes.

WASHINGTON, April 17-In an argu-
ment favoring the disfranchisement
of the Southern negroes MIR. Griggs
ofGeorgia in the house of representa-
tives today declared that such dis
franchisement was necessary to in
sure white control and the peace and
prosperity Of the South.
In consequence Of such action, he
said, the negro would be no less a
factor than he is now. AT present, y
Mr.. Griggs said, ''he is only a menace
and scarcecrow-not a factor in de-
termining political issues" The
rights Of the negro of the South, he
maintained, were guaranteed only
through white judges and white
jurors and those rights would not be
changed by disfranchisement.
Mr.. Griggs took issue with those
who claimed that manufacturing and
technical education of the negroes Of
the South furnished a solution of the
race question. That in itself, he said,
was a declaration of the negro's in
feriority. For Gods sake" he ex-
claimed, "let us not depend upon
technical education of the negro to
solve this problem. It would, he said,
either drive the great majority of
Southern white men into other States
or create the most terrible race war
in the history of the world. He did
not believe the Southern white men
would be driven from their homes.
"If," he said, "they should refuse to
live in land under conditions so de-
plorable and like their fathers go out
and build homes in the wilderness we
would have left to us land made up
of two classes of people-a profes-
.sional class of whites and a laboring
class of blacks.'' The absurdity of
such condition, he declared, was ap-
parent.
In the opinion of Mr.. Griggs there
was no danger of the amalgamation
of white and blacks. There must be
perfect submission from the one, he
said, and complete control by the
other. This, he said, would result in
the negroes gradually becoming
educated and their removal to other
States, where they could have great
er privileges. AS the negroes in
creased in numbers in those States,
he asserted, they would be disfran-
chised until finally, having grown
strong during these years of wander,
ing in the wilderness" they would
have the manhood to go out and with
the white mans help establish homes
for themselves.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt EtchingS.

EHRHARDT, April 20.-Miss Leila F.
Epps, assistant teacher of Ehrhardt
graded school, left for her home in
Kingstree last Friday. Principal T..
D. Jones will continue our school for
one month, then it will close.
The town nine beat the school nine
in a game of ball last Thursday after
noon.
Some cotton comes to market every
week. Prices still decline, however,
and the farmers are calculating what
their loss is by holding on to their
cotton.
The cool wave had some of our
farmers blue for day or two last
week. Don't think there was frost
or cold enough to do much damage,
if any, to the growing crop.
Messrs. HERS Bros. will build them
selves a store on the site Of their
burnt one and be ready for the fall
trade.
Mr.. Frank HERS will assist c. Ehr-
hardt & Sons in waiting upon their
customers, and will be glad to wait
on his old friends and customers
across their counters.
The heavy rains last week washed
away some of the bridges in this Sec
ton; was heavier in the Folk section
than here. The new crossing over
Little Salkahatchie swamp near the
Isaac Carter homestead is IN bad
shape and needs immediate attention,
as it is dangerous and may cost the
county a damage suit if not attended
to at once. JEE.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
Negro's Lung Shot Out.

COLUMBUS, GA, April 16.-Em-
NETT Jones and Tom Wilson. young
negroes, quarrelled in a house on q
Chattahoochee county plantation to-
day and Jones picked up shotgun
and discharged the contents into the
other negro, who was but few feet
away in the same room. Wilson was
horribly mangled. one of his lungs
being. shot out. Jones was subse-
quently captured.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
ROW AT A SCHOOL.
Five Men Inflicted for a Disturbance
at Deborah.

At the closing exercises of the De-
borah school at Quick's Cross Roads,
in Smithville last Friday night, there
was general fight in which one man
was cut in the neck and another had
his coat cut in the back.
The school was in charge Of Mrs.
E. D. Grant, a daughter Of Rev. T.
L. Belvin. Mrs. Grants sister and
her husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Dam
nelly, of Ehrhardt, S. c., were visit
ing Mrs. Grant, and attended the
school closing. Mr.. Grant is one of
the trustees of the school. County
Superintendent Easterling and Rep
resentative ]. P. Gibsen were pres
ent and took part in the exercises.
Near the close there was an excit-
ing negro dialogue, and the audience,
which was out on the ground in front
of the school house, crowded up to
see and hear the pupils. It seems that
Wesley Brigham was leaning over:
Mrs. Dannelly and using profane
and obscene language. Mr.. Dannelly
asked him not, to, curse in the pres
ence of ladies. He kept on and dared
Mr.. Dannelly to resent it. Dannelly
jumped up and collared Brigham and
the latter drew a knife. Dannelly
threw down and took the knife away
from ,him. Brigman's friends then
crowded around Dannelly and a gem
eral fight followed. Grant and Dam
helly's wife finally persuaded him to
20 into the school house. In the row
somebody cut Dannelly's coat open
all the way across the back but the
knife did not penetrate the skin.
Jessie Chavis received a cash across
the side of the neck several inches
long.
AS a result of the melee. Rufus
Odcm, Richard OdQm, Wesley Brig
man, White Odom, and Sd T. Quick
are indicted before Magistrate Eas-
terling for drunkenness, disorderly'
conduct, and carrying concealed
weapons. The trial has not yet been
held.
Richard Odom was a trustee of the
Deborah school. Quick was trustee
of the Antioch. Both of them have
been removed by the county board Of
education, since the difficulty. White.
Odom is the constable Of Magistrate.
Hurley in Brightsville. .-Bennetts-
vile Advocate. #
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
Votes for Prohibition.

DANvILLE, Va, April 15.-The
city, Of Danville to-day voted against
licensing saloons by a majority Of
forty-five.
The city voted against license on
April, 1903, but in September, 1905,
the second election resulted in a pld-
rality for license of eighteen.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
Dangerously Wounded.

Mr.. Arthur Fairey, who lives not
far from Branchville, was shot and
dangerously wounded by his little
nephew on Wednesday. The ball
penetrated the stomach producing a
painful wound. The shooting was
done with a parlor rifle, with which
the little boy was playing.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
DR.. Swinney Shoots His Daughter
and Kills Himself.


ragged at his sixteen-year-old daugh-
ter Nellie, because Of a harmless
school girl prank, DR.. G. O. Swinney,
who recently came here from New
York, fired two shots at her, fatally
wounding her, and then turning the
revolver on himself, he placed the
muzzle in his mouth and pulled the
trigger, dying almost instantly. Bad
ly wounded as she was, with two bull
lets embedded in her skull, Miss
Swinney ran from the room and up
stairs to the principals room before
she fell.
The tragedy occurred in the recep-
ton room of the Normal and Cole
giate institute, a large girls board
ing school in this city, where Miss
Swinney had been pupil for the
past session. Just what occurred
prior to the shooting is not known,
as there were no witnesses, and the
girl while still conscious, could give
but vague account. DR.. Swinney,
who up to a feVoyears ago had been
a prominent physician in New York
city, has for some time past been in
poor health, and of late, it is alleged,
his mind has been unbalanced. !.
Recently his daughter was one of a
number of school girls who, as an
April FOOLS joke, absented them
selves from school, and the father
brooded over the little escapade un-
til it assumed to him the proportions
of actual wrong-doing. When DR..
Swinney called on his daughter at the
school Wednesday afternoon about 5
o'clock he was shown into the recep-
ton room, and a few minutes later
his daughter came down and went
into the room, closing the door be-
hind her.
She sat down at the piano, her
father sitting beside her. Half an
hour later girls and teachers were
startled by four shots ringing out,
and a second afterwards Miss Swim
ney, blood streaming from the
wounds in her head, came rushing
from the room. In few minutes
the widest confusion reigned, school
girls and women teachers running
here and there, but Miss Robinson,
the principal, speedily restored order
and hastily summoned a physician.
Miss Swinney was desperately
wounded and there is little chance
for her recovery.
The room in which the tragedy oc-
Cured showed signs of a hard strug:
gle. Chairs were overturned, and
the piano stool, with one leg broken,
was lying in the middle of the room.
The father was lying on the floor
|of one side, face downward with the
revolver with four chambers empty,
under him.
The attempted murder and suicide
were evidently deliberately planned,
as before going to the school DR..
Swinney bought a revolver and two
rounds of cartridges at a pawn shop.
/ Although it is said his mind has
been unbalanced for some time ne
had never been violent and his fam
lily were totally unprepared for the
dreadful tragedy. He was a father
in-law of DR.. J. A. Sinclair, a prom
inent dentist Of this city, and since
his return from New York a few
weeks ago, DR.. Swinney had made
his home with him.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
News from Kearse.

KMRsE, April 20.-Easter has
come and gone, how many know what
Easter really stands for? How many
enter in the morning Of that day with
the true sense and hopes the day I'M
plies?
The new hats, ribbons and dresses
occupy the larger thoughts and at
tention of the multitudes than does
the. springing buds to soon open in
the full fedged flower, that typify
the glorious rising of men and to
bloom in youth and beauty forever.
A happy thought to weak and weary
men that often pause and rashly say
what was man made for anyway:
These thoughts and many more crowd
themselves in the midst of all nature
awakening from the long sleep Of win
ter; the old scraggy oak of a few
weeks ago now clad in a suit Of beau
ty. that seemed dead and Afeless.
Now Mrs. Mocking Bird is busy
placing twig after twig forming her
nest to be finished with the roots Of
grass and finally with cotton or hair
to make it warm and snug for the
little birds to come later, while MIR.
Mocking Bird sits idly by and sings
in his sweetest strains as the good
work goes on, too much taken up IN
song to even think of building the
future home for the family or pro-
viding a single worm to fill the wide
open mouths of the little birds as the
pangs of hunger cause them to cry
for food, only the mother bird hears.
They are all protected by the leaves
that cover this once seemingly dead
old oak and where only bare
branches and a rough old trunk stood
is the lordly oak that little boys and
girls, old men and animals find COM
fort and pleasure sheltered from the
fierce rays of a summer $sun. What
a change has been wrought in that
old tree and a greater change is
hoped for man when he awakes from
that long sleep of the centuries, is
the theme of the Easter tide.
Mrs. l.. S. Chitty is still confined to
her bed, from the fall reported sew
eral days ago. Hope she will soon be
out again.
The boys had a match game Of base
ball against the young men on Sat
urday last. The boys will try to win
out with the Ehrhardt team on Sat
urday next.
Several young folks came down
from Olar on Friday and Saturday
evenings and enjoyed a social given
them at the home of MIR. J. F. Kearse,
Sr. A very enjoyable evening was
the verdict of all who attended.
Boat riding and driving was indulg-
ed in by some of the young folks on
Saturday; only one reported as get
ting a good ducking by falling out
of the boat.
Rev. R. A. Tongue preached at
White Point schoolhouse last evening;
had a full house. Subject: prohibi.
ton, and good sermon it was.
Miss Aline Kearse will give public
entertainment at White Point school
room on Thursday evening at 8p. m.
All are invited to attend, as a pleas
ant evening is looked for.
OLD TIMER.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23

Mr.. Asbury L. Kirkland, of the
Buford's Bridge section, announces
his candidacy for County Treasurer
in this issue. See his card.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-04-23
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down For Quick
acknowledgements About
Men and Happenings.

Col. Asbury Coward has sent in
his resignation as superintendent OF
the Citadel.
The average profit of the various
county dispensaries in the State for
the past year was thirty-hve per cent.
Allendale's new school building,
which cost $4,000, has been COM
pleted and was dedicated Monday
with appropriate exercises.
"A new post office is to be built at
Chester by the government. Plans
and Specifications have been prepar-
edsand the contract is to be let with
Aout delay.
Mr.. G.; C. Featherstone last Friday
issued astatement withdrawing from
the race for governor and announc-
ing that as Governor Ansel would
run this summer on a prohibition
platform, he would support him.
Mai. Benjamin Sloan has resigned
as president of the South Carolina
University at Columbia, his resigna-
ton to take effect at the end Of the
present session. He will retire from
active work, having been granted a
Carnegie annuity.
Burglars dynamited the safe in
! Carpenter Brothers branch drug
store at the union passenger station
ii Greenville last Monday night and
got away with $500. No arrests have
been made. The work was evidently
that of professional burglars.
A cyclone passed through a portion
OF Spartanburg county last Wednes-
day afternoon. Much damage was
done, several houses being blown
down. One negro was killed by the
house being blown down on him: His
mother had an arm and leg broken. :;
An election on the question of dis
spensary or no dSpensary was held in
Aiken county Tuesday of last week,
and the dispensary won by about l5O
majority. The election was hotly
contested on both sides and much
feeling developed. The anti-dispen-
sary people speak of making a con-
test.
Governor Ansel has served notice
ON two members Of the dispensary
board of Williamsburg county to show
cause before him on Tuesday, the
9th instant, why they should not be
removed from Office. There is some.
thing of scandal over dispensary
affairs in that county, and members
of the board are charged which at
tempting to get rebates on liquors
bought by the board.
Rev. L. J. Bristow. writing in the
Baptist Courier, says that Governor
Ansel will advocate Statewide pro-
hibition in the campaign this summer,
with the option to any county to vote
in the sale of liquor under the dis.
pensary plan, there to be only one
dispensary in a county, and that one
at the county seat, except in cities OF
5000 or more. He also states that
sMr. Featherstone, the prohibition
candidate, will now withdraw from
the race and support Governor An.
sci.