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The Washington herald., 1911-11-05
RED MEMS CALENDAR.

November 6-OSage Tribe. No. 5. Fifth and g
streets northwest degree work; Sioux Tribe No. ls
623 Louisiana avenue northwest. degree work Oneta
Council, No. 2. degree Of Pocahontas, at Masonic
Hall. Anacostia.
November Idaho Tribe, No. u. Northeast Tem-
pe Twelfth and H streets northeast; Seltese Tribe
No. Is. Seventh and D streets northwest, degree
work Osceola Tribe No 49, Masonic Hall, Tennal-
lytown: Wahneta Council, No. g. degree Of POca.
hontss at Fifth and G streets northwest.
November s-White Eagle Council No. 4. degree
Of PocahOntas at Fifth and G streets northwest.
November 9-LOgan Tribe, No. g, Wisconsin ave
nue. and n street northwest.
November l0-Seneca Tribe No IL, JIG Pennsyl-
yania avenue southeast; Mineola Tribe. No u. Ma
gree Of PocahoutAS at Twelfth and HstIeets north
east.
Great Sachem John NJ. Kemper and his
stan of great chiefs of the Improved Or
der of Red Men, made their annual visi-
tation to Sioux Tribe, No. is. last Mon
day night. 1t was an exceptionally in
teresting occasion, as it was a new de-
parture in the matter of annual vista
tions in that the councils of the Degree
OF Pocahontas were admitted to the
visitation. There was a large attend
ance OF the tribes and councils, and 1t
was regular family gathering. The ex-
pertinent. as the great chief was wont
to term it, proved such a decided sue
cess tnaG II Will continue as q feature OF
the annual visitatIons of the great chiefs
to the tribes and councils. Sachem H.
Wise, of Sioux Tribe. No. IS, welcomed
the great sachem and great chiefs and
the councils OF the Degree Of Pocahontas,
in an appropriate address. He presented
the Calumet or pipe of peace, to the
great sachem and great chiefs, each
smoking in turn, according to the Gus
tom of the primitive Red Men. Among
those who spoke on behalf Of the tribes
were Great Sachem John NJ. Kemper,
Great Representative James A. Madison,
jr.. Great Junior Sycamore DR.. W. s.
Whitman, Great Chief of Records H. w.
Tippett, Great Senior Sycamore r. w.
Thompson, Past Sachem Stump, of o.
ceola Tribe, No. 10: Past Sachem w. ].
Mitchell, of Mineola Tribe No. Il, and
chief of records of Logan Tribe, No s,
Those who spoke on behalf Of the coun-
ellis of the Degree of Pocahontas were
Mrs. S. Thomley, keeper Of wampum of
The Washington herald., 1911-11-05
BOOTHS OLDEST STAGE FAMILY;
BEGAN IN ELIZABETHAN PERIOD

parted on tour. We find him playing in
one day at three different places, at IL,
4, and s o'clock.
Booth was not driven to America, al
though as the years passed he felt much
the strain caused by the dispute between
himself and Kean. On January Is, 1Sl'
Booth married Mary Ann Holmes. From
this union came Junius Brutus Booth.
jr, RosalIe Ann Booth, Henry Byron
Booth, Mary Ann Booth, Edwin Thomas
Booth, Asia Sydney Booth, and John
Wilkes Booth.
OF these Henry. Mary, Frederick. and
Elizabeth died young. Junius Brutus
Booth. Jr, Edwin Thomas Booth, John
Wilkes Booth. Joseph Adrian Booth and
Asia Sydney Booth adopted the stage as
a profession. Rosalie Booth died unmar-
ried in 1889. aged sixty-five
Junius Brutus Booth, jr., the eldest
son and father of Sydney Booth. of The
Deep Purple company, was born in 1871
and was thrice married. His first wife
was Clementina De Bar. OF this union
was born Barton Booth, who married
Byron Douglas in 1855. His second mar
riage was in 1851 to Harriet Mace who
died in 1859. In 1867 he married Agnes
Perry. an actress This wedding pro-
duced two sons Sydney and Junius
Brutus Sd. After the death OF Junius
Brutus Booth I'd, Agnes Booth married
twice again, first to a Mr.. Land, and
finally to John B. Schofel, who Is the
present lessee and manager of the Ire
mont Theater in Boston. Agnes Booth
Schotfel died last winter.
Only Two Left.
The great Edwin Booth, who is an
uncle to Sydney Booth. was born in 1893
and married Mary Devlin, July Z, 1860.
They had but one daughter. Edwina, born
in 1861. who married Ignatius Grossman.
Mrs. Booth died February q, 1863, and
in 1869 Edwin Booth married second
time. to Mary McVIcker, who died in 1881.
A son, Edgar Booth. survived them. John
Wilkes Booth and Joseph Adrian Booth
never married. Asia Sydney Booth mar
ried John S. Clark and their son is
Creston Clark, the well-known actor.
This covers all of the branches of the
Booth family Creston Clark, although
a legitimate member of the family, does
not bear the name. and so Sydney Booth
Is alone in the field.
Junius Brutus Booth I'd, father Of Sgd
ney Booth, was both an actor and a
manager. He was manager of Booths
Theater in New York, and the old Boston
Theater. Later he toured the country
with Agnes Booth in King John" and
other plays.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-05
LonE-Ifved Belgian Women,

among Belgian women is remarkable
and that their length of life is superior
to that Of male Belgians. While Brus-
sells has sixty-five old men of eighty five
to ninety years Of age and only ten male
nonagenarians, she possesses no fewer
than 1S4 women whose ages are between
elghty-five and ninety, thirty between
ninety and ninety-1ve years, and six OF
over ninety-hve years of age.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-05
JACK JOHNSON AS PASTOR"
PugilIst Says He Has No Ambition
to Save African Heathen.

London. Nov L-Among the English
experiences LIN Artha, the champion
heavyweight boxer Of the world. has
been asked to take up evangelical work
by a worthy divine. who was In no small
measure instrumental In stopping his
bout with Wells, the English champion.
The occasion for the invitation was John
sons announcement that he had retired
from tAe prize ring forever"
Mr. johnson, however, did not take
kindly to the suggestion that he blister
his back in Africa saving souls and
characterized the clergyman's invitation
as "a press agent scheme" He Is also
said to have stated that he would will
ingly mix" with the worthy divine in
any number OF ten-minute Srounds" OF
oratory. the theme to be is boxing
bestial7'' So far no reply has been re-
lceived from the clergyman.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-05
ROYAL AUTHORS MANY.
Literature and Regal Position Go
Well Together.

Paris, Nov. 4.-The number Of royal
writer's on the Continent is by no means
inconsIderable. nor are any of them
really hidden by the pseudonyms they in
variably assume. OF such wayfarers on
the slopes Of Parnassus, the most widely
known, no doubt, is Carmen Sylvia. "
In real life Carmen Sylvia" is Elizabeth,
consort of King Karol of Roumania.
Among others is Queen Marie Of Ma
Piles. the last OF the Bourbons," as she
is sometimes called.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-05
cops" AS MASCOTS.
Automobile Catalogue show Some
Quaint Conceits.

Quaint Conceits.
London, Nov. 4.-Some quaint uninten-
tional humor is to be found in cata-
logue of automobile "mascots,' which Is
Just now being sent round. Cupids are
valued at half a dollar less than a pig,
the pig being priced at s..
The cheapest thing of all Is police
man, acquired for $3.50: whereas the
dearest thing in the list is the entente
cordiale'' between d policeman and an
automobile driver. These are priced at
S13.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
PEACEMAKER THE VICTIM.
Asheville Citizen Receives Perhaps
Fatal Knife Wounds.

Asheville, N. c., Dec. 30.-With Il
knife blade stuck in his right lung
to a depth of four inches, and still
protruding from the wound, John
Davis, well-known citizen of West
Asheville, staggered into his home
early this morning and informed his
wife that he had been cut. The in
jured man did not know the knife
was still embedded in his lung until
it was pulled out by his Mortified
wife.
The stabbing resulted from an af-
fray between the young son of Davis
and a young man named Mcmahon,
in which the father was endeavoring
to act as peacemaker. After the cut
ting, which is alleged to have been
done by Mcmahon, the latter made
his escape, but later was captured
and returned to the city. Davis's
condition is critical.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
SEEKS FACTORY SITE.
Big Fertilizer Concern May Erect
Plant in Spartaburg.

spartanburg, Dec. 31.-W. F.
Guthrie, superintendent of the In
ternational Agricultural Corporation,
with headquarters in Atlanta, spent
a day or so in the city looking over
the various sites with a probable
view of locating fertilizer factory in
this city. The international Agri-
cultural Corporation is one of the
largest fertilizer concerns in the
United States and has at present over
sixty factories in operation. The
new one that they contemplate locat-
ing in Spartanburg is to be one of
the largest controlled by this COM
pany and will employ a very great
number of hands.
The company is owned largely by
Northern capitalists, and among the
dilectors of the company the name
of J. Pierpon Morgan appears, aside
from other leading financiers Of the
country. 1t is very probable that the
factory will be located here, although
other cities have been visited.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
ATTEMPTED TO KILL WIFE.
Negro Missed the Woman but Bullet
Killed Their Child.

Barnwell, Dec. 3d. Barnwell
county was the scene of two homi-
cides during the holidays. On Fri
day night, as result of an alterca-
ton over a game of cards, Hamp
Floyd, colored, was shot and killed
by Henry Lishe, also colored. Lishe,
who was cut in several places, one
finger being almost severed, was
brought to Barnwell on Saturday
and lodged in the county Jail.
Near Blackville on Saturday night,
Haywood Wicker, colored, shot at his
wife; missing her, the bullet found
lodgment in their child with fatal re-
suits. Wicker is the same negro who
some months ago killed Emanuel
Walker, colored. At that time he
made the statement that he would
not be satisfied until he had killed
his wife. Returning to his home Sat-
urday he attempted to make good
his threat, with the above result.
Wicker has not been apprehended. A
reward of SIS has been offered by
the governor for his capture.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
Breaks Record on Canal.

Washington, Dec. 31.-Almost eV-
cry month the canal diggers on the
Isthmus manage to break some en-
gineering record. December 6 40
ton steam shovel made an extraordln-
ary record. Working at Gatun SPILL
way it excavated 2,44S cubic yards
of earth in an eight hour day, the
best previous record being 1896
yards, Feb. 5, 1908.
The amount of concrete being plac-
ed in the locks and dams is also
rapidly increasing and in anticipation
of the dry season, when this class
of work can be done to the best ad-
vantage, 500 barrels of concrete per
day, in addition to the regular quota,
has been ordered from the contract
ors in the United States. Thus the
amount of concrete consumed in this
one engineering work will reach the
extraordinary figures of 1000 bar
rels daily.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
CIGARS, ONE IN A BOX.
Ward Liners Barber Accused Of
Smuggling 25 "Torpedo Boats"

New York, Dec. 31.-The barber OF
the Ward liner Saratoga was before
Solicitor Andrews at the custom
house yesterday accused of SNUG
Cling twenty-five boxes Of cigars
from Havana. The charge looked
formidable expressed in this way;
but it came out that there were only
twenty-five cigars one in a box.
Opinion varied as to the length and
circumference of the cigars, but As
sistant Solicitor Barnes, who put a
tape measure on one of them, said
that it was eighteen inches over all
and about two inches beam, Of the
torpedo boat type. The case against
the barber was not finished. Mr..
Barnes estimated that good smoker
might be able to reduce a torpedo
boat to ashes in about four hours.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
To Investigate Wireless.

Demands will be made upon con-
gress, it is said, for an investigation
of the wireless telegraph situation in
the United States. Letters are being
sent to members asking that the mat
ter be taken up. These letters charge
that conspiracy was set on foot to
destroy the United States Wireless
Telegraph company because its pres
ent officers would not surrender $5,-
100000 worth of stock. When con-
gress reassembles next week formal
request will be made for the appoint
ment of a committee in each branch
with authority to summon witnesses
and inspect the books of all wireless
companies. The petitions that will
be filed with congress will set forth
evidence already on file with the post
master general and the attorney gen.
eral. In some of the documents al
ready filed the specific charge is made
that some companies have been al
lowed to do business while others
have been denied the privilege al
though proceeding in precisely the
same manner as those unmolested.
Clement H. Congdon, of Philadelphia,
as sSthe representative of G. G. Will
son, president of the United Wireless
TELEGRAPH company, came to this city
tonight to confer with agents Of the
department of justice with reference
to apprehending several men con-
nected with another wireless COM
pany.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
Williams in Jail

Elijah Williams, the young negro
boy who shot a 12-year-old negro girl
last week at Spigner's place, eight
miles from the city, was arrested Fri
day by Rural Policeman Robert Hit.
Williams is now in the county jail
and his case will be heard during the
term of criminal court which con-
venes Tuesday. He is charged with
assault and battery with intent to
kill.
The negro girl was wounded in the
left leg, between the knee and ankle.
The member was badly torn by load
of shot and she was operated on at
Rhodes colored hospital. She told a
startling story in connection with the
shooting, claiming that she was shot
because she refused to obey the boy.
She also said that a female relative
who was with her in the field at the
time was frightened by the gun into
Record.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
Liquor Caused Many Homicides.

Montgomery, Jan. 2.-Liquor caus-
ed 25S out of $50 homicides in Ala
bama during the two years ending
September 80 last, according to the
biennial report of Attorney General
Alex NJ. CARRIER.
"In addition to the increase in
the number of homicides due to the
use of intoxicating liquor by popu-
lation almost equally divided between
whites and negroes, in a climate
which aggravates the effect of such
use," the Attorney General says, II
would say that there may be assigned
as further reasons contributing to
the unfortunate and deplorable homi-
eide record of Alabama.
First general prolific source of
crime among the negro population.
Second, the natural conflict, or
friction, growing out Of business and
other necessary relations between two
races essentially dissimilar in char
acteristics and widely separated in
socal life.
"And third, the racial character
istic of the Southern name to resent
quickly an insult and to act upon
slight provocation, especially in mat
ters involving personal honor
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
Ex-Judge Adams Attempts Suicide.

Greensboro, N. c., Jan. 2.-Ex-
Judge Spencer B. Adams, of the Ok
lahoma Indian claims court, attempt
ed suicide in a sanitarium here Sun
day night by slashing his throat with
a razor. He was removed to hos
pital, where tonight it is said he has
an even chance of recovery in the
event complications do not arise. No
motive for the act has been assign
ed, the family and sanitarium officials
denying all requests of the press for
probable cause and circumstances
surrounding the attempt. The fact
that the attempt had been made was
withheld from the public until this
morning, though it occurred about
eight o'clock Sunday night.
Judge Adams is prominent in poll
tics, having been Republican State
chairman during the campaign OF
1908.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
BROKE UP COCK FIGHT.
Greenwood Sheriff Appears on Scene.
CONSERVATION Follows.

Greenwood, January "Details
are beginning to become public Of the
sudden termination of a cooking main
in the lower part of this county last
Friday. Sheriff Mcmillan had a tip
that there was to be one pulled off
in this county on that day, and with
Deputy Sheriff Major he proceeded
to find out what was happening in
the locality mentioned.
He arrived at the place and found
a crowd of approximately a hundred
men around the pit in which two
birds were fighting. The crowd were
so intent on the fight that not a
member noticed the sheriff and he
took down the names of a number.
While this was going on two of the
spectators began to scrap and the
sheriff reached over to collar the
belligerents; this attracted attention
to his presence and the flight from
the spot is said to have been ter
rife. Two heavy-weights are said
to have sprinted neck and neck
through the woods towards town,
leaving a trail behind them as if a
young cyclone had passed through.
The two birds were left fighting in
the pit.
Solicitor Cooper came over Satur-
day, and the names in the possession
of Sheriff Mcmillan were turned over
to him and further procedure will
come from the solicitor.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
Tired of Recommending?

Columbia, Dec. Ex-Governor An
sci will not recommend in his annual
message that the condition of the
governors mansion be improved. For
the past three years he has consist
emily made this recommendation-the
General Assembly never needing.
When asked as to his recommended
tions he said that he would not ask
that the house of the Chief Execu-
tive be improved, but mentioned the
necessary work at the State hospital
for the insane.
He will, however, after being in
office four years, again make the
recommendation that the salaries of
the State officials be increased to
what they were several years ago.
When asked about his report, Gov
ernor Ansel always requests that the
press wait until his report is printed.
AS his usual custom and prescribed
by law, he will review the work of
the different departments of the
State government.
His report will include a list of
those who have been pardoned from
the State penitentiary during the
year, also, the combinations and the
paroles.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
WANTED TO REST IN JAIL.
Joseph Conway Anxious to Spend a
Peaceful Christmas.

my wife won't let me enjoy my
self, not even on Christmas day, your
Honor. But there'll be peace on
earth and mercy sure enough for
the two of us if your Honor will OBJ
lige henpecked husband by sending
me to jail for the next eighteen
months Thus declared Joseph
Conway, of 1873 Belt avenue, to
Justice James W. Lewis, of Balti-
more, when arraigned at the South
ern police station yesterday morning
on the charge of disturbing the
peace.
"Say, Squire your Honor" the
man continued. 81 am going to ask
you for a Christmas present. The
gift 1 want from you is the jail SEN
tence I asked for. Just do me a
favor. Give me a chance to take a
rest cure where the wicked cease
from troubling and the weary are at
rest.''
Conway stated that he had been
married twenty-one years and never
knew a peaceful Christmas and the
conclusion at which he had arrived
was the only way to obtain such a
Yule-tide was to spend it in jail.
According to Mrs. Conway, the only
subject they agree on is Ex-President
Roosevelt's arraignment of race sui
eide. She stated that there were II
children by the marriage and that
her husband made every Christmas
wretched for herself and the chill
dren.
The magistrate declined to grant
Conway an eighteen-months' "rest
cure in JAIL" but held him for fur
ther hearing this morning.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
Died of Poisoning.

Cumberland, Nd, Jan. 1.-That
Miss Grace Elosser and her fance,
Charles E. Twigg, died Of cyanide
poisoning was established to-day by
chemical analysis of the stomachs of
the dead girl and man. Further
than this little or no light has been
thrown upon the mystery of the
death of the two, whose bodies were
found by the mother of the girl seat
ed upon sofa in the parlor of the
Elosser home yesterday.
The theory of double suicide is
declared impossible by the family
and friends of Miss Elosser and also
by those who knew and last saw
alive the man who was to have to-
night made her his wife. The auth
critics are working upon the theory
that murder may have been commit
ted. States Attorney David A. Robb
went to-day to Keyser, w. Va, the
late home of Twigg, in connection
with the case, but nothing is known
of the result of his visit. The re-
mainder of a box Of candy and some
chewing gum found in the Elosser
home will be examined for traces of
the poison, but as all the other men,
bers of the dead girls family ate
from the box of candy without suf-
fering inconvenience, little is expect
ed from this
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05


This issue of The Herald begins
a new year. We are grateful for the
success of the past; we shall en-
deavor to merit a more liberal sup
port in the future. No doubt The
Herald could have been a better
newspaper in the past, and we would
have made it so had our patronage
warranted our devoting more time to
editing it. Our people can always
rest assured that The Herald will
keep apace with it's support. In fact,
we know of no printing office which
has the amount of money invested in
it where the business is double what
we receive. However, our out-of-
town business is constantly increas-
ing, and we do not consider the
money invested in our plant a
bad investment. We are going to
make the paper a semi-weekly just
as soon as we feel that our people
will support it. We do not care to
print twice-a-week just to make more
money. If we can be assured of
breaking even on the additional ex-
pense we shall be satisfied.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
TO PAY PARR IN FULL.
Man Who Exposed Sugar Weighing
Frauds to Get 100000.

Washington, Dec. 2S.-Richard
Parr, the customs detective, who dis
covered the steel springs in the scales
of the American Sugar Refining Com
pany's dock at Williamsburg and
furnished most of the evidence
through which more than SO, 100000
has been returned to the Federal
treasury, will get his reward as
New Years greeting.
PARIS reward will be 100000.
He was paid $4,000 some time ago,
but the treasury had no more funds
to complete payment. The urgent de-
fciency bill passed by congress car
ried an item of 100000, and Of that
$4,000 will go to Parr.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
Terribly Burned by Explosion.

Terribly burned by an explosion of
kerosene oil Saturday night, Mrs. w.
F. Martin, 1909 Sumter street, is not
expected to live. The accident hap
pened as Mrs. Martin was filling a
lamp. The bottle from which she
was pouring the oil fell from her
hands into the open fire. The burn
ing oil was thrown all over her.
The accident occurred about 10
o'clock Saturday night as Mrs. Mar
tin was preparing to retire for the
night. Noticing that the lamp was
nearly empty, she got the bottle of
oil and was filling it, when the bottle
slipped from her hands. 1t fell al
most in the fireplace.
Instantly there was an explosion
and the burning oil was thrown all
over Mrs. Martin and to all parts of
the room. Mrs. Martins screams
brought Paul Odom, her cousin, to
her aid. He extinguished her blazing
clothing, but not in time to save her
from being terribly burned.
By this time the room and the
bed were blazing in several places.
Mr.. Odum put out the fire with a
bucket of water and the bed clothes.
Mr.. Martin was not at home when
the accident happened. He arrived.
however, before the flames had been
entirely extinguished. - Columbia
State. ..