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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
FIVE DIE IN EXPLOSION.
Score More Injured when Blasting
Powder Went Off.

Ell Paso, Tex. Dec. 2S.-Five per-
sons are known to have been killed,
a score injured and an extensive
property damage resulted to-day,
when workmen at the plant of the
American Smelter and Refining Com
pany, in endeavoring to destroy a
Stag pile, accidentally exploded .
400 pounds of blasting powder. The
explosion partially wrecked the smelt-
ing plant and many small houses in
the immediate vicinity, while window
glasses three miles distant were
broken.
Men were tunnelling under the
Stag mound when the explosion oc-
Cured. Eight of the workmen IN
the tunnels furthest removed were
taken out alive, bruised and 1acerat-
ed.
At nightfall two bodies had been
removed from the tunnel nearest the
explosion. Three other workmen
cannot be communicated with, and it
is not thought that they are alive.
In other tunnels imprisoned work
men are signalling to the rescuers
and the work of rescue is proceeding
tonight. All the dead are Mexicans.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
ATTACKED BY NEGRO.
Young Lady Grabbed by Man When
She Answered Door.

On Wednesday evening a negro
made an attack upon a young lady
who lives at the home of Mrs. j. R.
Balm, 100 South Dean street. Every
possible clue is being worked out by
the officers of the city, but as yet the
negro has not been caught.
1t is said that the negro called at
the house and asked where some
other negro lived. Being told, he
left to return in a few moments, and
the same young lady answered the
door. On opening the door the ne
gro said to the young lady, Come to
me-" whereupon he grabbed her.
Screaming at the top of her voice,
she jerked away, and her shirtwaist
was torn. The negro then left and
the police department was notified.
Officer Turner and Capt. Moss
Hayes went to the house and got A
description of the negro. One negro
was caught and on being taken to
the home of the young lady she said
that he was not the one. She de-
clares that she could identify the ne
gro if he is caught.-Spartanburg
Journal.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
Scalp Taken Off i'm Mill.

Newberry, Dec. 31.-Mrs. Bessie
Hasell was completely scalped when
her hair caught in speeder in the
card room of the Mollohon mill this
morning, and there are meagre hopes
of saving her life. She was under
the machine cleaning off the work
when her hair caught in set screw
on the revolving top comb, the hair
winding around the comb and jerk
ing off the entire scalp. Four doc
tors are with her.
Mrs. Hasell is about twenty-three
years old. She is a daughter of Mrs.
Troutman.
She has been married twice, and
has three small children.
The mill authorities state it is posi-
lively against orders to undertake TO
clean the machines or to get under
them while running. The injury in
fiicted is one of the most horrible
imaginable.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
Capture Negro in Bed Room.

Charleston, Dec. 31.-Disturbed
from their slumber at four o'clock
this morning, DR.. and Mrs. Tracy
Becker discovered a negro in their
bed room in the act of rifling the
pockets of DR.. Becker's overcoat,
which was hanging on the wall. In
haste DR.. Becker lighted the gas
while the negro crouched under the
bed in an attempt to hide. The in
furiated doctor pulled the fellow out
by the legs and then gripped him by
the throat. In the meantime, Mrs.
Becker called up the police station.
An officer hastened to the scene and
took the negro in charge. The fell
lows name is Isaac Washington.
In a preliminary hearing to-day,
in which he was bound over to the
general sessions court on the charge
of burglary and grand larceny, Wash
ington admitted that he knew there
was money in the overcoat and that
he tried to steal it. He said he
thought he would hide under the
bed and that he would be undlscov-
cred.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
CHARGED WITH FORGERY.
Arrested in Spartanburg, Said to
Have Confessed.

Spartanburg, Dec. 31.-Clarence
Green, colored, has been arrested
and has confessed to forging two
checks, one for 81 and another for
So, according to the police. On No.
vember 19 check was presented to
the Central National Bank for pay
ment, drawn on a blank which had
the firms name printed on it and
which had to be signed by the presi-
dent. This check was for 81 and
was paid. This morning Clarence
Green presented to the same bank
a check with the name of C. H.
Hardy, as president of the Barnes
Attaway Printing. Company forged.
This check was for ss and payment
was refused. The negro was held
and the police notified. He at first
denied his guilt, claiming that he had
found the check, but finally he con-
fessed, it is stated.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
Drain and Clean off the Fields.

Of things which may be done this
fall and winter in preparation for
next years crop, there is none quite
so important as drainage. 1t is true
that all the land may not be drained
this winter, but if one hundred acres
can not be drained this winter, is
that any reason why the ten acres
which need it most should not be
drained? Or, if not ten, then five,
or as much as can be drained.
Tile drainage is the best, but if
that is not possible, is that any good
reason for neglecting the drainage
question entirely?
Over a large part of the South
there are bitches, gullies, CALLED
spots, stumps, bushes and trees
which interfere with the use of ma
chinery, break the cultivated lands
up into patches and prevent econom-
ical cultivation. Can not something
be done this winter to remove these
distractions to good farming?-Ral-
eigh On. c. Progressive Farmer and
Gazette.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
The Dangerous Fly.

A fly in the house is as dangerous
as a rattlesnake, as filthy as louise,
as disgraceful as a bedbug. The time
will come when any modern, cleanly
home will feel itself shamed and dis
graced by the presence of fly, and
when every householder upon whose
premises a brood of flies is detected,
will be fined heavily and be sent to
Jail. The fly is a literal "eye of the
Lord" because he is in every place
beholding evil and the good, especi-
ally the evil, for he loves to lay
eggs in it. You can't hide dirt from
a fly. He is also the most intimate
and domestic animal We breed and
keep. An ounce of cleanness is worth
a ton of fly paper and wire screens.
One-half the money wasted on fly
traps and window screens, one-flfth
the energy squandered in slapping
and profanity, would clean up the
backyard and wipe out the fly.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
Tragedy Due to Mistake.

Greensboro, N. c., Dec. 21.-En-
ragged because he was upbraided for
attempting to gain admission to his
own home, James Cooper, a farmer
of Randolph county, went to the
home of a neighbor, secured a shot
gun, and, returning, emptied the con-
tents into the body of the intruder,
who proved to be James Campbell, a
neighbor, who had entered Cooper's
home while intoxicated and gone to
bed
Campbell was brought to hospit-
al here and tonight physicians state
that he has an even chance for re-
covery.
The family of Cooper was away for
the night and shortly after dark
Campbell was seen to enter the house
by neighbors.
About 9 o'clock the owner arrived
only to find all entrances securely
fastened. His calls were answered
by abusive words and thinking the
intruder was a burglar, Cooper left,
soon returning with shotgun and
firing point blank at the huddled
form which lay across his own bed.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
LOST HIS CASE AND HEART.
Defeated Lawyer Weds His Success
full Lady Opponent.

New York, Dec. 28.-Harris Kop-
pelman, lawyer, of 302 Broadway
had a case in the End District Munich
pal Court, on Madison avenue, a few
months ago, in which the opposing
counsel was. Miss Esther Kuntsler
of 1913 Rivington street. Koppelman
lost his case, and at the same time
his heart. Yesterday they were mar
ried in the presence of 700 friends
in the Congregation Ahab Zedek, on
Norfolk street.
After the decision in the case in
which they were antagonists the two
became fast friends and soon their
friendship blossomed into love. He
reminded her that she had defeated
him in one case She replied that
she would be happy to make it up
to him.
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. DR.. Philip Klein. Everyone
wished the bride and bridegroom hap
piness through life, with no repeti-
ton of the situation which led to
their first meeting.
After the wedding they left for a
honeymoon trip through the South,
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05

United States Senators Graft Upon
Uncle Sam.

United States senators appear IN
the role of youngsters asking Uncle
Sam for all manner of luxuries and
TOYS, from automobiles to horehound
drops, in the annual report of the
secretary of state, which shows that
the senators cost the United States
S2,O12,37452 from July l; 1909, to
June 80, 1910. This money includes
everything from railroad fare to the
price of bottles of perfumery, mani
cure scissors, lemons, sugar and soft
pillows.
Any one who has lurking suspi-
cion that senators don't imbibe water
freely should glance at the record of
$1,S34 spent for apolinaris water.
More than $4,000 was expended for
other mineral waters. Three gold
framed mirrors for senators stand
Uncle Sam $64 each. One day Sena-
tor Bourne called up Senator Aldrich
over the long distance telephone be-
tween Washington and Providence;
cost of conversation, $3.50.
The automobile of Vice-President
Sherman cost $4,000 to operate.
Senators are strong on kilograms.
Page after page is devoted to tele-
graphic items. The bust Of former
President Roosevelt cost $500.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
Follows Trail of Man.

Colquitt, Ca, Jan. 1.-Nineteen
days on the trail of the man who, he
alleges, stole his wife and children,
and carrying a Winchester rifle in his
buggy and swearing that he will go
to the ends of the earth to find the
object of his search, William Boat
wright, a white man, drove into Col
quit late yesterday evening and out
again to-day. He has driven this far
from his home in Florida, he says,
and the indications are that he is
gaining on the alleged fugitives.
Boatwright, believing he would
soon overtake the man he was fol-
lowing, swore out warrant here,
charging Frank MCGOWAN with kid
mapping. Boatwright wants to get his
children, and says he will get them
by peaceable means if possible. That
is why he secured the warrant. If
he should fail he says he will still
have the rifle to fall back on. He
was accompanied from here by Depu-
ty Sheriff F. B. Adams who has the
warrant and is aiding Boatwright in
his efforts to overtake the alleged
fugitives.
Boatwright says he followed Nc
Gowan from Florida to Alabama and
from there back to Georgia.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
Gave Masonic Sign.

Aiken, Dec. 22.-Nearly eight
years ago Ben Beauford, a well
known white man of the Hawthorne
section Of the county, shot and kill
ed a negro, Larry BlackBan, under
what was revealed to be most re-
voting circumstances. Seven years
ago he was tried in this county and
convicted of manslaughter and sent
to the penitentiary for IL years.
To-day his body lies in the grave
near his old home. Beauford died
in the penitentiary of pneumonia and
his body was brought back home for
burial. yesterday. This ends one of
the most celebrated murder cases
ever known in this country. There
are very many who vividly recall the
trial and it's revelations. 1t came out
that Beauford had been intimate
with Blackman's wife and when
Blackman protested to Beaufort the
latter shot him dead.
An unusual feature of the trial is
still remembered. Judge Gage pre-
sided at the trial. Beauford was a
Mason, and so was Judge Gage. Just
as the judge was about to pass SEN
tence on Beauford the latter display
ed his Masonic emblem and some say
he gave Masonic sign. This brought
from Judge Gage one of the most
scathing rebukes ever heard in the
court room. He told Beauford he
had disgraced the order to which he
purported to belong and that instead
of it tending to lessen his crime it
made it all the greater and concluded
by telling him that he should go to
the jury and thank them for saving
his life. The incident was much
talked about at the time.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
Crushed to Death.

Charleston, Dec. 26.-M. G. Cope
land, night engineer at the power sta
ton of the Consolidated Railway COM
pany on Sullivan's Island, was caught
in the belting'of the machinery and
killed shortly after midnight.
Copeland and the fireman were
alone in the power station. At the
time the engineer met his death, ac-
cording to the freman's statement,
the latter's duties took him else
where in the station, so that he did
not witness it. The clogging of the
mans body in the machinery is said
to have affected it's operation and
first gave the fireman notice that
something had happened.
It required eight hours to take the
machinery partly to pieces and re-
move the big wheel which held Cope
lands body to the floor. Copeland's
wife was waiting her husbands ar
rival, having prepared hot meal for
him, when she was notified of his
death.
Other casualties marked the day,
and the hospitals have many cases
of accidental shooting, burns and
victims of the ready use of the pistol.
The coroner took the ante mortem
statement of several of the patients
TO-DAY.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
THE YEAR IN BAMBERG.
Increase in Value of Lands One OF
Most Notable Features.

Mr.. NJ. w. Brabham, the Bamberg
correspondent of The State, writes
as follows to his paper concerning
the progress of the past year in this
county:
Bamberg, Dec. 31.-The past IL
months have witnessed many things
which indicate progress in this coun-
ty. Despite short crops caused by
excessive rains, conditions have been
improved. Farmers have expended
more time and labor in studying their
business and methods; the Farmers
and Merchants bank of Ehrhardt has
been established; the Citizens Ex-
change bank of Denmark has been
successfully organized and run; the
F. W. Free company of Bamberg has
been established; the Mayfower Inn,
perhaps the finest hostelry in lower
Carolina has been completed; auto
mobile garages have been put up:
new business houses have been erect
ed in every town in the county, espe-
cially in Bamberg; the Bamberg
Mems league has been reorganiZed; !;
the Edisto river project has been agi-
tated; the building of railroad from
Bamberg to Ehrhardt so as to con-
meet with the Atlantic Coast Line has
received considerable attention.
Notable land sales have taken
place, one piece selling at the rate
of SIS per acre. Perhaps the ad-
vance in prices of real estate has been
the most notable sign of progress in
the entire county. New residences
hav been ercted, among these being
the very handsome and complete
dwelling of Mayor J. Aldrich Wyman.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
WORK BEGINS ON DEPOT.
One Ordered for Branchville Will at
Last be Built.

Branchville, Dec. 2S.-Work was
begun this week on the erection of
the new freight depot for Branch
vile. w. M. Warren, of this town,
has the contract and already has torn
down part of the old depot and start
ed the new work. A temporary de-
pot is being erected on the Augusta
side for the handling of the freight
while the new one is in course of
construction.
Last winter the legislature pass
ed bill requiring new freight
depot and the reconstruction of the
passenger depot. The work has been
long delayed, but it is to be rushed
to completion.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
Ring was False and Husband, Too

Claiming that both her husband
and the engagement ring he gave her
were false, Mrs. Georgia Liu Miller,
aged II, of Atlanta, Ca, has filed
suit for divorce against Frank Max
Miller. The petition relates that
the couple were married November
IS of this year and that December 6
the husband disappeared and has not
been heard from since. Mrs. Miller
says necessity forced her to take her
ring to a pawn broker. Miller had
told her it cost $500. The pawn
broker Informed her that the ring
was worth about dollar.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-01-05
A Chance to Make Money.

A young man who had been out of
employment for some time and to
whom money had become a stranger
stood on the Walnut street bridge
over the Schuylkill gazing down at
the water.
Suicide was in his mind, but he
was afraid to seek death by drown
ing and only contemplated it when
he realized that he had no money to
purchase poison, rope or something
of the sort.
AS he was standing there a we'll
dressed man accosted him. -
Young man, do you want to earn
$4?" he said.
-Four dollars!" gasped the un-
fortunate, to whom the sum sounded
like a million. LEAD me to it, he
said.
"Come along" said the stranger
as he led the way across the bridge.
The young man followed, a new
hope cleaning from his eyes.
The stranger led the way to a
room on side street off Walnut.
Here we are," he said.
"Well, how am I going to earn
those $4?" asked the young man.
"Well, you see,. I'm little hard
up for cash." said the stranger, "and
I'm going to sell you pair of IS
shoes for a dollar!"- Philadelphia
Press.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-26
BEVERAGES.

Chocolate tablespoonful choco-
late for each person. Pour on boil
ing water and allow to thicken up;
milk enough to cool; then stir in we'll
beaten egg and sugar to taste; add
milk and boil 10 to 20 minutes; flavor
with extract vanilla. Beat whites of
eggs and pour over when ready to
serve.
Cocoa.-6 tablespoonfuls cocoa to
each pint water, as much milk as wa
ter, sugar to taste. Rub cocoa smooth
in little cold water; have ready on the
fire pint boiling water; stir in grated
cocoa paste. Boil 20 minutes, add milk
and boil minutes more, stirring
often. Sweeten in cups so as to suit
different tastes.
Coffee for Six Persons.-Take one
full cup ground coffee, 1 egg, a little
cold water, stir together, add ] pint
boiling water, boil up; then add an
other pint boiling water, and set back
to settle before serving.
French Coffee, No. 1.-S pints water
| to / cupful ground coffee. Put coffee
grounds in bowl; pour over it about
| p pint cold water and let stand for
Is minutes; bring remaining 212 pints
water to a boil. Take coffee in bowl,
strain through fine sieve, then take
French coffee pot, put coffee grounds
in strainer at top of French pot, leav-
ing water in bowl. Then take boiling
water and pour over coffee very slow
!ly. Then set coffee pot on stove five
minutes; must not boil. Take OFF and
pour in cold water from bowl that
coffee was first soaked in to settle
Serve in another pot. The French
who have the reputation of making
1.-THE best coffee, use 3 parts Java,
lpart Mocha.
Koumiss: sometimes called Mill
iBeer) Into l quart of new milk put
lgin of fresh buttermilk and 3 or
humps of white sugar. Mix well ant
lsee that the sugar dissolves. Put il
warm place to stand 10 hours, when i
will be thick. Pour from one vesse
Ito another until it becomes smooth
land uniform in consistency. Bottle
land keep in warm place "a hours; i
may take SO in winter. The bottles
/, must be tightly corked and the cork
tiled down. Shake well minutes be
fore opening. II makes a very agree
able drink, which is especially recon
mended for persons who do not assimi
late their food, and for young children
may be drank as freely as milk. In
stead of buttermilk, some use a tea
r. spoonful of yeast It is the standar
beverage of the Tartars, who almos
. live upon it in summer and is ais
Z used largely by the Russians. Tn
richer your milk, which should be III
, SKINNED, the better will be you
, lkOumiss.
I. French Coffee, No. 2.-11a cups Of
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-26

thoroughly. No signs of them. Sus-
picion fell on the servants. But they
all denied knowing anything about
them
OF course, somebody had to be
blamed so the butler was discharged
and the sleuths kept close on his
trail for a week. Then, one day
madam had guests. A trip through
the surrounding country in an auto
mobile was planned. The cushions in
the car were moved to make more
room, when, 10 and behold! there
were the Jewels. Madam remem-
bered that she had placed them there
for safekeeping, intending to remove
them when she reached home. Apollo
gies were made to the butler and he
went to work again.
Said the complaint clerk-detective
in large city recently:
"Of the reported robberies that we
get to look up, few turn out to be
real. Often business men rob them
selves for the advertising; but these
cases are not nearly o frequent as
those of the women who hide not
wisely but too well.
Stockings Strong Favorites.
! Though some women may have
novel places for hiding things, most
of them resort to that place which
has been the favorite, l guess, since
they were Notwithstanding Time
and again women come in here, say
ing that they have been robbed o.
money; sometimes a hundred or two
dollars, and perhaps even a thousand
We search the town and then get :
call late that night that everything
is all right. She found the none,
when she took off her stocking.
81 can't understand why, when the,
have such a wad of money in a stock
ing they never feel that weight; bu
it doesn't seem to bother them. Som
come in here and almost swear tina
, they never conceal valuables in thei
A., clothing. Then the next day the
laughingly admit that they found tn
lost Jewels in their stockings .
bosoms.
. Next to their clothing, the bet
room is the favorite hiding place {
i most women. Some put their di'
monds, or whatever may be the mos
precious to them, in mattress, an
I hen sew up the hole. They al
5 pretty safe then, for burglar woul
$ hardly think of tearing a mattress
IS pieces. However, some don't eve
e bother sewing up the holes The
d don't think, for instance, that son
burglars are on to their ways and al
y just looking for such soft spot"