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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
General News

Today in the city court W. NJ. Dckey flied suit against the Republic Iron and Steel company for 5000 damages, alleg- ing the maintaining of public nuis- ance In the guise of a malaria infected pond near the home of the plaintiff.
 Veto Contorno today entered suit for 5000 against Joe Monticello as a compen- sation for being "malicously and with out probable cause, arresting and impris- oning the plaintiff on charge of disorderly conduct" as stated in the bill.
 The police court this morning was re- markabe for the number of white wom- en vagrants at the bar Twenty-one were docketed, 13 fined sl0 each and seven con- tinued. Willie Owens, the negro caught stealing corn from the field of T. Y. Huffman, who lives at old Jonesboro, was fined s12.5 50 for larceny and 125O for ttespassng. About 2S cases were on rec ord and the fines assessed in those com ing to trial amounted to s172.50.
 The Jonesboro board of education helu meeting tonight to consider the cleo ton of a teacher to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Ella Dobbs, who was given the place some time ago. Miss Lily May Christlieb was elected to fill the vacancy The discus sion of the school budget was deferred to the August meeting.
 The city beautiful committee will make it's second tour of inspection of the contestants in the city beautiful contest within the next two days. Ben |G. Perry and E. H. Lopez will com pose the committee as the third mem Der, Prof. R. A. Mickle, is out of the city at present The purpose of this in spection Is to grade the progress or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12

$Z,UI4.II Additional subscriptions have been promised. About $3O00 will be needed in order to continue the concerts until September.
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HALF PRICE

means great loss to but reoganz and by will be in condition to extend all former couesies paons we can only y use cash and cash only.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-03
CHARGED WITH MAIL FRAUDS.
Postofice Department Inquiry Re-
suits in Arrest of -Four.

Atlanta, July 27.-After several
months investigation by officials OF
the department of justice and the
postoffice department, Richard Pur'
Wis, president, Ernest o. Helm, vice
president, Guy King, treasurer, and
w. N. Smith, formerly secretary, OF
the Southern Loan and Trust Com
pany, were arrested here to-day on
charges of fraudulent use of the
mails and using the mails to promote
lottery.
The company has been doing a
money lending business in all the
Southern States and it's operations
have involved, according to the fed
eral officials, between $50O,000 and
s3,OOO,O0O. The arrests were made
by Postal Inspector George R. Cellar,
who has been working with Leroy J.
Bailey, of the department of justice
at Washington.
According to Mr.. Cellar, the COM
pany has been doing a business in
"loan investment contracts. A man
wishing to borrow money from the
concern paid SIS for a contract which
bore number between one and one
hundred. One hundred of such con-
tracts were supposed to be sold to
each holder, and each holder was re-
quired to pay IS month. They
could then borrow sum of money.
When his turn came, he had the right
to obtain what he wished from the
company, which was to be paid back
with interest. ...
According to the officers, those
holding high numbers stood little or
no chance of being able to borrow.
This phase, they contend, formed the
basis of their charge of conducting
a lottery.
It is said the company had branch
Offices in Virginia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, and
Oklahoma and did business in many
other States.
The men arrested wer taken be-
fore United States Commissioner
Walter Colquitt and gave. bond.
Purvis and Helm were released on
$500 each, and King and Smith on
$4,000 each. The preliminary hear
ing was set for August Is.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-03
Guard CHILD'S ASSAILANT.
Ohio Sheriff Takes Steps to Avoid
Lynching Attempt.

Akron, Ohio, July 27.-Fearing an
attempt would be made to take John
Kelly, aged "a, of Youngstown, from
the county Jail, with view to aveng-
ing the confessed assault of Audra
Martin, two-yeor-old daughter Of Mrs.
H. F. Martin, of BarAhardt, Sheriff
David Furgeson tonight called in all
his deputies and armed them with riot
guns. Kelly was arrested at Cleve-
land and when brought here waived
arraignment. Bond was fixed at
$4,000 and later raised to $4,000
The child, who is making her home
with Mrs. Rosa Nagle, was maltreat-
cd while Kelly was fully conscious
of what he was doing, according to
Mrs. Nagle, and not while he was in a
somnambulistic trance, which excuse
was offered by Kelly when found with
tie child. He fed when the doctors
discovered the child's condition.
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Sensational Charge.

Washington, July 26.-The sensa-
tional charge was made before the
house committee investigating the
postoffice department to-day that
Leonard Goodwin, Chicago lawyer,
brother of Russell P. Goodwin, assist
ant attorney general for the post
office department., was exploiting mail
order houses throughout the country,
telling them he could arrange any
trouble they might have through a
denial of mail privileges, etc.
The charge was made by K. G.
Lewis, president of a publishing COM
pany in St. Louis, recently denied the
second class mail privileges. Lewis
also declared that postofice inspec-
tors at St. Louis had been told to use
whatever methods they pleased to
"put Lewis out of business" and Ito
shut Lewis up before the next cam
paign.".
This was the campaign of 1900.
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Good Money After Bad.

1t is a curious fact that many men,
level headed enough about other
things, seem to lose their wits en-
tirely when they become involved in
lawsuits. In a case recently con-
cluded in the German courts Ber-
lin merchant paid out over 5000 to
recover the value of a five cent post
age stamp. He had written let
ter asking for an address and enclos-
ing postage for reply. Failing to
get an answer, he sued for the stamp.
The famous Missouri watermelon
case was just as tri1ing and even
more disastrous. The seed was plant
ed on one farm, but the vine crept
through a crack in the rail fence and
the melon grew on the other side.
Both farmers claimed it, and instead
of perceiving the humor of the situ-
alton they went to law. To add to the
puzzling feature of the question OF
ownership there was the further COM
p1ication in that the fence stood on a
county line, whereupon a question OF
the jurisdiction of the courts came
up. The farmers bankrupted them
selves without obtaining a decision
as to the ownership.-Green Bag.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-03
GOOD NEWS.
Many Readers Have Heard It and
PrOfited Thereby.

"Good news travels fast" and the
thousands of bad back sufferers in
Bamberg are glad to learn that
prompt relief is within their reach.
Many lame, weak and aching back
is bad no more, thanks to Doan's Kid
ney Pills. Our citizens are telling
the good news of their experience
with the Old Quaker Remedy. Here
is an example worth reading:
Mrs. Joseph Mccormack, New
bridge St., Bamberg, S. c., says: Il
obtained my supply Of Doan's Kidney
Pills from the Peoples Drug Co. and
l am willing to recommend them,
knowing that they are good kidney
medicine. I had headaches and diz-
Zy spells and was also troubled by
backache and other symptoms Of kid
ney complaint. Since !, took Doan's
Kidney Pills, these annoyances have
disappeared and I have felt better In
every way" 80
For sale by all dealers. Price so.
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan'-
and take no other. .
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Mashed Under Car Wheels.

Edgefeld, July 27.-Mr. c. c.
Burkhalter, one of the most promi-
nent citizens and planters OF the
western section If the county, yes
terday met With a railroad accident
that resulted i'll his death.
Purposing to go to Augusta and
being too late at the station to catch
the passenger train, he attempted to
board moving freight train, when
in some way he lost his footing and
his legs were thrown under the car
wheels, both being horribly crushed.
He was Immediately carried to an Au-
gusta hospital, but died soon after
reaching there, from shock. The &C
cident occurred at Parksville, on the
Charleston and Western Carolina
Railroad.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-03
Wool Tariff Bill Passed.

Washington, July 27.-A compro-
mise wool bill offered by Senator
LaFollette, of Wisconsin, modi1ca-
ton of both his own and the house
bill, was passed by the senate, 4S to
80, through the union of Democrats
and Republican insurgents. Upon
this middle ground the Democrats
having secured a record vote on the
original Underwood bill, Joined with
the Republican insurgent forces. The
measure adopted reduces the raw
wool duty to 35 per cent. ad valorem
and correspondingly reduces the
duties on wooden articles.
There is some doubt as to what
course the house Democrats will pur'
sue with regard to the compromise
bill. House Leader Underwood sew
eral days ago served notice that the
house would not accept the original
LaFollette bill.
Although President Taft has made
no definite utterance to that effect
it has been strongly intimated at the
While House that he might feel call
ed upon to veto a wool tari1 bill
passed in advance of a report on thai
schedule from the tariff board.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-03
Fought for Life.

Lawrence, Mass, July 27.-Wo-
men swooned and men shouted in
excitement this afternoon while hun
dreds watched two steeplejacks, one
crazed by the heat, battling for life
on top OF the $50 foot stack on Kun
hardt's Mill.
After struggle of Is minutes on
the top of fragile scaffold in mid
air, Patrick Jennings, 35 years old,
of Lawrence, succeeded in subduing
John Cavanaugh, five years his
senior, who had suffered a sunstroke.
Then without losing his nerve, Jen-
nings lowered himself and Cavanaugh
to the ground. Jennings was at work
a few feet from the top of the chin
ney, when he noticed that Cavanaugh
was ill. He climbed to the top and
spoke to him. AS he did so, Cava-
naugh, with a maniacal cry, leaped
to the edge of the platform. Jen-
nings and Cavanaugh struggled to
and fro on the platform, while hun
dreds, attracted by their swaying
forms, watched the battle from the
ground. Finally Jennings strength
told, and he bore Cavanaugh to the
floor not, however until several times
the fighters barely escaped tumbling
from the top.
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Ratterees and Straits Fight.

Rock Hill, July 27.-A very Sc
rious shooting affair occurred at o.
den, five miles south of this city, this
morning, in which three parties were
shot, one very seriously. About
1880 o'clock message was tele-
phoned from Ogden for doctors as a
riot was in progress and several had
been shot.
lDrs. w. G. Stevens and j. r. Miller
went there in an automobile. Upon
reaching there they found that
Claude Ratteree, one Of the most ex-
tensive farmers in the county and
who also runs stores at Ogden and
Smiths Turnout, was shot four times
through the abdomen, through the
right lung, in one arm and ball had
grazed his head. bud" 'Ratteree, a
brother, was shot in the arm, and
Lewis Strait shot in the hand, neither
of the latter being seriously hurt. An
~
and Claude Ratteree was brought to
the Fennef infirmary, where an OPP
Grafton was performed.
1t is reported that the Ratterees
and the Straits had some misunder-
standing earlier in the day and that
they had settled it, but that other
parties interested themselves to stir
it up again and went into Mr.. Rat
teree's store and told him that Strait
vas outside and wanted to settle the
affair and that when Ratteree went
outside the shooting began. There
were two Straits and two Ratterees
in the affair and three of the four
were shot.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-03
FATHER TOOK BRIBE.
Holtslaw's Son Witness at LOrimer
Hearing.

Washington, July 27.-Expressing
his firm conviction that his father,
former Senator D. w. Holtslaw, re-
ceived $4,000 to vote for Lorimer,
Hershal D. Holtslaw, of Iuka, ILL.,, to-
day appeared before ehe Senate Lori
mer committee and sustained his
fathers famous confession.
The son was cashier of his fathers
bank when the father claims to have
received the money from Senator
John Broderick and he declared to-
day that deposit slips he put in evil
dence proved absolutely that his
father received the money. The son
told the story of how the Holtslaw
family received the confession and
of his father telling him it was true.
In cross-examination Attorney
Hanecy, representing Senator Lori
mer, declared the deposit slip had
been juggled at both Lorimer investi-
cations. In explanation he absolved
attorneys or others connected with
the committee from his charge.
Detectives Testimony.
Thomas Mcclure, Of the MCGUIRE
& White Detective Agency, in Chi
cago, told of working on the social
ed White confession. He was ex-
planning the extent of his work when
the committee adjourned for the day.
For the first ten days of his services,
the detective said, he was employed
by the Chicago Tribune, but when he
turned over to States Attorney wy
man information obtained and enter
ed the service of the States attorney,
that official not only paid him for his
work during the ten days he had been
employed by the Tribune, but reim-
bursed him s25 he had advanced to
White for board bill, at the sugges-
tion of the Tribune's counsel.
Former Representative, James A.
Tawney, of Minnesota, was to-day
cleared from any criticism growing
out of the testimony of James Kelley.
Chairman Dillingham; said as the
committee considered there was no
testimony before it. in any way i'm
plicating Mr.. Tawney, it would not
ask him to appear. .
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A Significant Notice.

Richard Croker, the day of his de-
parture for his Irish home, said to a
New York reporter, according to the
Washington Star:
1T is the desire for freedom that
sends so many Americans and so
many millions of dollars abroad every
June. The Puritanical laws of
America enslave us. These laws, with
their total misconception of freedom
and of enjoyment, are we'll exempli-
fed in a notice board I once saw in
a New England park. This board
said:
Pleasure Grounds. Notice
These grounds are for pleasure only.
No games or play allowed. "
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-03
LEVERS MODEST CONSTITUENT
Funniesti Story in a Hundred Years.
The Requests"

A letter which would undoubted'
ly be considered a hoax perpetrated
by some professional wag, if the doc
ument itself did not bear unmistak-
able evidence of its seriousness, was
recently received by Representative
A. F. Lever, of the 7th South Caro-
lima district. This missive has caus-
ed a great deal of hilarity among
those who have seen it in it's original
innocence.
During the debate on the farmers
free list bill, lately passed by the
house of representatives, Mr.. Lever
delivered a speech of which he was
Justly proud. He mailed a number
of copies of the speech to his con-
stituents in South Carolina. His
reference to the effect of the measure
as putting various agricultural ne
cessities on 1.-The free list" brought
this remarkable requisition from his
district:
"To the Hon. A. F. Lever, Wash
ington, D. c.: Kinde friend, read in
the book you. sent Me that a good
Many Importance is on the free list
please send Me 10 pairs oil tan bro
gans number mines and ten pairs oil
tan brogans number tens for Men,
and ten pairs fine button shoes for
Men number nine and ten pairs fine
button shoes for Men number ten
-four and bacon please send Me five
barrels first patent flour and i've
barrels second patent -four and i've
hundred pounds chunk meat and five
hundred pounds side bacon and two
fine mules gears and harness and a
good new wagon.
'Shoes for Wimmen ten pairs but
ton shoes number eights, ten fine
pairs button shoes number seven and
ten pairs fine button shoes number
SKIES and ten pairs fine string shoes
number sevens. Very true.
'tP. S. please send me $50 lbs tub
of lard and ten sacks of corn and
ten sacks of OATS
Mr.. Lever has not yet complied
with the naive request.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-03
Developments in Union.

Union, July ga number Of de-
velopments in the near beer situation
followed the recent arrests, but it
now appears that nothing will be
done for several weeks.
It was announced that Marvin
Charles, w. ]. Estes and j. w. Gil
bert had demanded preliminary hear
ings, but it was stated this morning
that Marvin Charles had withdrawn
his demand and that the preliminary
hearings of w: J. Estes and j. w.
Gilbert had been set for August 4.
Sheriff Long said that, as he had
instructions from Gov. Blease regard
ing these cases, there would prob
ably be something doing when the
preliminary hearings were heard. In
the meantime samples Of the near
beer had been sent to Columbia to
bs analyzed.
Sheriff Long stated that besides
these different kinds of beer, he had
stored away apple brandy and corn
and rye whiskies, which was seized
some time ago. He is to-day in COM
munication with Gov. Blease with
reference to funds for securing a
lawyer to prosecute the cases as he
says P. D, Barron, one of the county
attorneys is counsel for several of
the parties arrested.
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Murderer Denounces Judge.

Denver, July 27.-Frank H. Hen
wood, convicted of murder in the Sec
ond degree for killing George E..
Copeland, while shooting at s.. l..
Won Phul, the ST. Louis aeronaut,
whom he also killed in hotel bar
room here on the night of May "a,
was to-day sentenced to life imprison7
ment.
An appeal will be taken.
Never in the history of local trib-
unals have the presiding judge and
prosecutor been subjected to such an
excoriation as that pronounced by
Henwood when asked what he had to
say "why sentence should not be pro-
nounced"
He walked to the bench and said:
81 come for sentence but not for
justice, from a jail where for two
months l have been surrounded by
prisoners whose faces become blanch-
ed and who tremble with fear when
they contemplate coming to this court
for trial so long as Judge Whitford
sits in this division"
Henwood characterized his treat
ment by the court and prosecutor as
persecution and declared that his
attorney had been "bound and gag
ged by rulings of the court and
that his trial for the killing of George
E. Copeland had, in reality, been
turned into a preliminary hearing" "
Judge Whitford listened attentive
ly to the defendant.
Il am not surprised" said he, "at
your state of mind since you have
been surrounded by all classes of
prisoners, IA of whom I recently sent
there.
81 am of the opinion that the ver-
dict of the jury in your case should
have been first degree murder. 1 be-
lieve that you shot Won Phul because
of jealousy over Mrs. Springer, but
| for some reason the jurors returned
finding of second degree murder.
The law leaves the sentence to the
discretion of the court. 1t is the
| opinion of this court that you shall
be imprisoned in the penitentiary at
Canyon City for life"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-03
Stereopticon in the Sunday.school.

Mr.. J. M. Way, Conference Field
Secretary Of the Sunday-school de-
partment of the M. E. Church, South.
in this State, writes as follows in the
Southern Christian Advocate in re-
gard to the progressiveness OF Mr.
M. w. Brabham, the superintendent,
in putting into use the stereopticon
in the Sunday-school here. In this
connection we want to state that Mr..
Brabham is the livest superintendent
we know of, energetic and progress
i've, and we only wish that every de-
partment of civic life in Bamberg
was managed as ably as Mr.. Brab-
ham manages his Sunday-school:
Trinity Sunday-school, at BAN
berg, of which Mr.. M. w. Brabham
is superintendent, will give stereop-
ticon lectures during the remainder
of the summer, and probably,
through the entire fall and winter
This splendid attraction is made pos
sible by the combined effort of the
Sunday-school, the Epworth League,
and the Home and Foreign Mission
ary societies. The lectures will en-
brace both a study of missions and
Bible history. If every Sunday
school would take up this stereopti-
con, and thus study missions, there
is little doubt that the next genera
ton would be a generation of mis-
sionaries.
eve most heartily commend the
plan of Mr.. Brabham and his CO.
workers. The expense of such an un-
dertaking is as almost nothing COM
pared with the benefits to be gained
There is no reason why our large
Sunday-schools should not use the
stereopticon. Indeed a few are doing
so, and we should like to have re-
ports from all that use it. For some
time Buncombe Street Sunday school
in Greenville,. has been using it,"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-08-03
Thomas Higgins, Oldest Gunmaker

Thomas Higgins, born in 1921, the
oldest living gunmaker in the United
States, and probably the only living
gunmaker of the Confederacy. At
the age .of ten he entered as an ap-
prentice shop owned by one of his
relatives. After studying the ar
morer's art for several years, he be-
gan making sporting rifles.
In 1S45 he could make rife COM
plete from the raw bulk iron. The
unusual excellence of his work at
tracted attention throughout a Sec
ton of radius of a hundred miles.
Many successful contestant at an
old-time shooting match owed his
luck to a Higgins rifle.
At the outbreak of the civil war
he contracted to make the rifles for
arming the East Tennessee Squir-
rel Shooters" a State cavalry regi-
ment of Rebel volunteers. After vol
unteering in 81, he went to Lynch
burg under Col. Vaughn, of the 3rd
Tennessee Regiment. Before his
company saw actual service he was
ordered to Knoxville to instruct a
company in the use of cavalry rifles
out of old fowling pieces. Many a
wagon load of long Kentucky flint
locks were collected in the South and
sent to Knoxville, where Mr.. Higgins
and his men converted them into ser
percussion lock, large bore carbines
for Confederate cavalry. Mr.. Hig-
gins with a natural pride, states that
his picked assistants were fast work
ers, and that they labored strenuous
ly for many months, often working
all night to complete the equipment
of some waiting troops or cavalry,
until the federal army forced them to
Observation-Disclosures Veteran.
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DEATH CAUSES COMMENT.
Peculiar Circumstances of Case at
Brunson Stir Community.

Brunson, July 27.-The sudden
death of bright little 6-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. D. Priester, living
on the farm of Capt. Ben S. Williams,
one mile from the town of Brunson,
is occasioning considerable comment
because of the peculiar circumstances
of the death.
Monday of each week a specialist
physician for the cure of the "hook-
worm" ailment examines and pre-
scribes in Brunson for any and all
applying to be treated for that dis
ease.
AS the prescription is given free Of
charge, and the modus operandi
quite literally advertised by the coun-
ty press, many have applied for treat
ment.
Monday last, Mr.. H. D. Priester
had four little sons prescribed for,
ages ranging from IA to years. The
parents began giving the medicine,
according to direction, Monday night.
Tuesday midday found all four Of the
little fellows completely prostrated
from extreme nausea, but worst of
all, the youngest, who appeared to be
in absolute collapse. A physician
was hurriedly summoned, but despite
all efforts at resuscitation the little
boy died at 2 o'clock Tuesday after
noon.