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Washington Journal., 1912-04-20
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Washington Journal., 1912-04-20
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Washington Journal., 1912-04-20

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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
Winthrop to Get 500, 1000.

Greenville, June 15.-Ex-Gov. Mar
tin F. Ansel, trustee of the Peabody
Education Board, yesterday received
a warrant for $4,000 made payable
to the University of North Carolina.
Gov. Ansel affixed his name to the
warrant and sent it to Ex-Gov. Hoke
Smith, of Georgia, trustee OF the
board for his signature. Gov. Smith
will send the warrant to J. Pierpont
Morgan, who is treasurer of the Pea
body Fund, and the money will be
paid to the University of North Caro-
lima. Several days ago Ex-Gov. An
sci affixed his name to a warrant for
$4,000 made payable to the Univer-
city of Alabama.
Gov. Ansel is expecting warrant
of 100000 drawn in favor of Win
throp college to arrive any day for
his signature. The Peabody trustees
have always been great friends to
Winthrop and she has come in for
several gifts from them, $4,000 was
given them several years ago to help
build the Johnson building and S5,-
900 at another time.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
Eagle Attacks Little Girl.

South Norwalk, Conn, June 10
The largest eagle ever seen or shot
in these parts, attacked Emma Tru-
wald, an eight-year-old girl in West
port yesterday. The bird, which meas
ured seven feet from tip to tip OF
the wings, swooped down on the child
as she was picking flowers, grabbed
her by the back of the gingham
dress with it's claws and started to
fly away with her.
The material gave way, however,
and the child fell into the grass. The
eagle was returning to the attack,
when the child's cries alarmed her
father, who came with his shotgun
and brought the bird to the ground.
Even then the eagle put up a stub
born fight and clawed at TruWald
viciously when he approached it.
The girl was lacerated somewhat
by the birds claws and was bruised
by her fall, but her injuries are not
serious. 1t is against the law of the
State to shoot an eagle, but in view
of the fact that it was to preserve
human life, it is thought that Tru-
wald will not be prosecuted.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
GIRL SAVES THREE OF FOUR.
Flames Drive Back Rescuer from
Blazing Room.

New York, June 13.-Dashing into
a bedroom filed with flames, Miss
Rosa Friedman yesterday saved three
of the four children of Morris
Schwartz, but was unable to rescue
the fourth child, Rebecca, an g.
months-old baby, who was burned to
death. The fire was 80 furious that,
after making three trips into the
room and seizing one at a time the
other three children, Miss Friedman
had to abandon the baby to its fate.
She was severely burned, and had to
receive medical attention.
Schwartz conducted fruit store at
No. 449 Willet avenue, and after
breakfast went there to attend to his
business. Mrs. Schwartz had stepped
across the street from the house to
talk with friend. When she returned
she found three of her children safe,
but the fourth one dead, and she be-
came so hysterical that physician
had to attend to her. 1t is supposed
that someone passing by threw a
lighted match into the bedroom and
ignited the lace curtains.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
Placed His Wife in Charity Ward.

Atlanta, June 15.-Suppose the
man who married you and promised
to cherish you in sickness and health
packed you off to the charity ward
hospital the first time you had ut
of nervous prostration, what would
you do about it?
Mrs. Lillian R. Snead, who claims
she was thus treated, decided mighty
quickly what she would do, and filed
a suit for total divorce against her
husband, DR.. J. S. Snead. She makes
other allegations of neglect and i'll
treatment in the bill which was filed
in the Fulton county court this
morning.
The thing which Mrs. Snead said
made her humiliation complete was
the fact that her husband, well
known physician, is himself the pro-
prietor of a private sanitarium, and
that rather than care for her in his
own sanitarium he moved her out OF
it and sent her to the charity ward
of another institution.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
SPANKED BY THE MINISTER.
Story Telling Girls Mother Asked
Him to Lay it on Hard.

Woodbury., N. j., June 12.-The
Rev. ]. C. Stock, of Woodbury., was
called upon yesterday to spank girl
and was told by the childs mother to
spank her hard. Margaret Jackson, 8
years old, ran away from home. She
arrived in Woodbury. and the station
employees telephoned to the minister.
She told him that she was an orphan,
that her name was Brown and that
her home was in Salem. Dr.. Stock
took her there, to find that she lived
in Woodbury.. Back to Woodbury. he
took the. girl and turned her over to
her mother, with the advice that a
good spanking might do the child
some good.
"You spank her. I can't hurt
hurt enough said Mrs. Jackson.
DR.. Stock demurred at first, but
upon the mothers insistence he gave
one of the finest exhibitions of spank
ings seen in Woodbury. in many day.
The child promised never to run away
again.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
Cat Reared Rat to Eat.

How a mother cat fattened young
rat for personal consumption is
vouched for by Charles E. Gilmore,
yardmaster of the Terminal Associa-
tion, says the Kansas City Times. In
a cabin along the tracks black cat,
called Mig" by the yardmen, has
been star boarder. Several days ago
Mig became the mother of two kit
tens. The yardmen got roomy
box for her, filed it with straw and
made the little family comfortable.
Tuesday Gilmore was amazed to
find a baby rat sharing all the COM
forts with 'Nig's" kittens. Word
went through the yards that the cat
had adopted an orphan rat and many
came to wonder.
Last night the rat shared meal
with the kittens. But to-day trage-
dy had happened in the cat house
hold. There will be no funeral. Not
enough of the late lamented foster
child was left.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
Postohice Romance.

He was a gallant postofice clerk,
saws the San Francisco Star, and busi-
ness for the moment was slack. Pres
emily, to his JOY, there entered a
beautiful young lady.
What can I do for you?" he ask
ed, with unusual affability.
II want a two-cent stamp" said
his customer. "And would you mind
weighing this letter for me, as I'm
afraid it may be little too heavy y
Mind? The very reverse. He was
delighted and chatted glibly about
the weather while he executed her or
der. He even volunteered to lick and
afix the stamp for her-a courtesy
which she accepted with a dainty
blush.
Just as he was laying the stamp
carefully on the precious envelope,
however, she stopped him.
'Put it upside down." she request
ed.
"Why?" he asked.
"Oh," she replied, that means
something to Charlie!"
And the clerks interest. vanished
as the clouds of monotony once more
gathered on his horizon.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
WOMAN ACCUSED OF HOLDUP.
Negress Held at Florence on Charge
of Attempting Robbery.

Florence, June 13.-There have
been a number of complaints recent
ly of holdups about the neighborhood
of the old passenger depot, which is
on a curve of the Charleston road,
and Just where a number Of men
Jump from the trains as they stop at
the Church street crossing at night.
Last night the holders-up got hold OF
the wrong one, c. P. Bailey, travel
ing man. One of the two women ran
against him and he struck her. She
fought back and slashed him with a
knife, but he gathered her in and
delivered her to the police. On ex-
animation it was found that his pock-
ct book and valuables were gone, so
he got the police to return and search
the place. They found the pocket
book cut open and went at once to a
house where they thought likely that
they would find the mate to the wo-
man in Jail, and they recovered the
money on condition Of no prosecu-
ton. The other woman, Sarah Diggs,
is in jail on the charge of highway
robbery. She has been there often
before.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
NABBED BY UNCLE SAM.
Kingstree Star Route Carrier Charg-
ed with Robbing Mails.

Kingstree, June 12.-Isaiah Press
ley, colored mail driver in the en-
ploy of J. 2. Mcconnell, the contract
or of the daily star route leading from
this point to Indiantown and return,
was arrested here yesterday by
United States Marshal G. w. Shoen-
berger, of Charleston, on the charge
of violating the postal laws.
For some months registered pack
ages had been tampered with, and
when Mr.. Shoenberger and his assist
ants started the investigation it de-
veloped that the mail pouches had
been tampered with and holes cut in
them. Close watch was kept on
Presley, and it is now charged that
he used his knife in cutting the
holes to rob the mails. He was taken
to Florence to-day for hearing be-
fore the commissioner.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
1o1 Years Old, Rides in Special Train.

Macon, Ca, June $50 careful
are his relatives of his welfare and
safety that when Jonathan Miller, OF
Augusta, 101 years of age, decided to
visit his son, Judge A. L. Miller, IN
Macon, no chances were taken with
regular trains, but special train
was engaged for him. He arrived
yesterday afternoon on this special,
which required twice the usual time
to make the distance, because of the
slow speed maintained by it.
In Mr.. Miller Augusta has prob
ably the oldest citizen of Georgia. At
his remarkable age he still has al
most all of his faculties. Recently
he joined the Y. M. c. A. gymnasium.
He lives with his son-in-laW and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Robert
son, on lower Broad street, Augusta,
and has lived in that place or in Au-
gusta practically all of his life. He
remembers distinctly the building of
the first railroad from Augusta to
Charleston in the early 30s. When
he was a young man, Indians were
roaming through that section of the
%ountry. Wild game was abundant,
deer, bear and wild turkey could
be bagged within a few miles of Au-
gusta.
Mr.. Miller recalls distinctly some
of the first duels ever fought at Sand
Bar Ferry, the famous duelling
grounds of the Augusta section. Mr..
Miller has had remarkable life, and,
with the exception of his eyeslght,
still retains the, greater portion OF
his faculties. He converses well, eats
heartily, and is calmly and peacefully
resting in the evening of life.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
Lookout" at Still.

Greenville, June ia fifteen
year-old white boy by the name of
Early Pierce, who was brought down
from the mountains about the middle
of the week by Federal Deputy G. c.
Corn, charged with working in an IL
licit distillery, will be given prelim-
mary hearing this morning before
United States Commissioner E. NJ.
Blythe.
Pierce, it is said, acted in the ca
pacity of a lookout" for some men
who were actually doing the work in
the illicit distillery. It is said that
he took up his watch on the crest of
a mountain and when he saw the rev.
enue officers approaching fired a
gun as a warning to the "moonshin-
ers," who were working down in the
ravine to "beat it, while the going
was good.
He was arrested and brought to
the city by Officer Corn, and gave
bond of $500 for his appearance be-
fore the United States Commission
er to-day. The boys bond was put
up by his father, who is a man OF
considerable means, owning several
hundred acres of land in the upper
part of the county. When the magis-
trate who received the boys bond
asked the father if he could "justi-
fy," this is, if he was worth $500
over and above the homestead, the
man said he only had a thousand
acres of land and all of it was his
homestead not knowing that the
Homestead" stipulation is fixed at
$500.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
BEES SWARM ON HOTEL PORCH.
10000 Singing Insects Afford Inter-
esting Sight on Meeting Street.

Ten thousand bees and then some
swooped down in dark cloud upon
the porch of the St. John Hotel this
afternoon, and swarmed against one
of the pillars a couple of feet from
the sidewalk, forming a mass of
crawling, buzzing insects the size of
a prize watermelon. The sight was
rare and interesting, passersby
watching the massing Of the bees
at a respectable distance, and
for about half an. hour, the sting
ing honey-makers had entire charge
of the hotel porch until DR.. Benja-
min McInness and his SONS came
along and calmly scraped the huge
bawl of sledge hammer stings into
small barrel, thousands of the angry
insects, however, flying about their
heads in busy protest. Nobody was
stung, but a lot of people who stop
ped to see what the fuss was about,
did not linger close at hand.
A colored woman came along while
the bees were swarming, and put her
right foot upon the concrete founda-
ton of the hotel fence, intent upon
adjusting her stocking, but she sud-
denly looked up, saw the bees, and
postponed her hose adjustment to a
more peacable location.
DR.. McInness owns IA hives of
bees and while it is bit late in the
year for them to swarm, some 10000
of his little friends took it into their
heads this afternoon to seek a new
home, and consequently rose from
their yard, clouded over the fire sta
ton, and descended into Meeting
street, picking out squatty white
pillar of the st. John Hotel plaza for
a resting place. Their performance
served to amuse a number Of people
for half an hour, and did no HARM
Evening Post, June 13.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
mot GUILTY. IN HAWKINS CASE
Case Given to Jury Tuesday at Z p. m.
Decision at II a. m. Wednesday.

Hendersonville, June 12.-The
verdict of not guilty as to the seven
defendants tried for the killing OF
MYRTLE Hawkins, whose body was
found in Lake Osceola on September
10 1910, was greeted this morning
at 1925 O'Clock with a wild demon
stration by a crowded court room
when the prisoners and some of their
friends shouted with JOY and leaped
to the IL farmer jurors, whom they
kissed and embraced in the moment
of extreme tenseness.
The defendants, Dan W. Mccall
and daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Mccall
and her husband, Abner Mccall,
George Bradley and Boney Bradley,
and Mesdames Lizzie Shaft and Nora
Britt, were found not guilty under
the four counts in the bill of indlct-
ment, thus leaving the oft-repeated
question, ''Who killed Myrtle HaW-
kins?" unanswered and the whole
mystery intensified.
The jury took the case yesterday
afternoon at 1925 o'clock. They I'M
mediately retired from the court
room for supper and retired early at
night. Shortly after o'clock this
morning it was announced that the
jury had reached verdict, but IN
the absence of Judge Foushee and
the solicitor, the verdict was not
taken until after IL o'clock. The
court bell was rung to announce that
the Jury was ready to return the
anxiously awaited verdict of one OF
the most interesting trials of the
time. The court room was packed
and jammed with women and men
that they might hear the decision,
which was reached with but little de-
liberation. The decision was in &C
cordance with the majority of pre-
dictions in this case.
For several minutes after the YER
: dict was rendered and the jury had
been thanked and embraced, there
were expressions of gratitude as some
of those who had been tried for their
lives wept for JOY and kissed and en-
braced their loved ones.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
FAMILY TRAGEDY IN GEORGIA
Farmer Kills Wife, Wounds Son.
Then Commits Suicide.

Blackshear, Ca, June 13.-Infor-
nation reached this city to-day that W.
B. Mercer, aged so, a white farmer
living near Hoboken, this county, had
shot and killed his wife, seriously
wounding his son and then had COM
mitted suicide some tine during last
night. Mrs. Mercer had been an in
valid for years and had been at home
but two days, after a long stay in g
hospital at Douglas, Ga. The family
was well-to-do.
W. T. Mercer, the son, while badly
wounded, probably will recover. No
cause for the tragedy is known by
neighbors of Mercer.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
One Bean for a Meal.

Atlanta, June ia string bean
two feet long is the contribution to
the fame of Georgia soil made by j.
w. Fields, farmer of Faith Cross
ing.
Although the bean was grown at
Faith Crossing you don't have to
take the story on faith, for it is there
to show for itself, and he didn't OBJ
tain the result by crossing any va
rieties of the plant, but simply grew
it from seed sent him by his congress
man.
Mr.. Fields already had the record
for these parts on growing red rad
ishes, having grown one that weigh
ed over four pounds.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
JUMPS SIX STORIES, DEAD.
Young Girls Back Broken in Sue
cessful Suicide Attempt.

New York, June 13.-Bertha XII
ninsky, a young girl, bent on suicide,
to-day jumped from six-story build
ing in Brooklyn. She landed on her
feet, and, although her back was
broken, she walked some distance be-
fore she dropped unconscious. Miss
Kininsky was taken to the hospital,
where she died few minutes later.
An examination showed that the
patient had died from a broken back.
1t is said the girl killed herself be-
cause her sweetheart, said to be
Brooklyn youth of good family, had
gone away a short time ago and fall
ed to write.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20
Hog Fasts 100 Days.

Mobile, Ala, June 11.-Pinned un-
der the ruins of church near Ever
green, Ala, which was blown down
on February 21, a hog was found to-
day alive. While weakened from the
long fast he was able to eat and
drink. The animal was over a hun
dred days without food and water,
perhaps a record for fasts Several
persons were present when the debris
of the church building was removed
and the gaunt body of the hog came
forth.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-06-20

NOTICE-Summer clothing, blue
serge $3.50, all wool, mohair $3.50
up; wash suits $4.00; linen busters
s1.25 up. All kind of summer wash
pants $1.00 up. F. G. MERTINS,
the tailor and clothier, Augusta, Ga.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-08-16

How He Made His Millions.-The
Steel trust lawyers met their match
yesterday when John w. Stevenson,
Jr., on the stand told how his tinplate
company went into the trust.
Stevenson, a rugged, white-whisker-
ed individual, said to be a relative of
Robert Louis Stevenson and brother
Of Danny" Stevenson, lord provost of
Glasgow, kept everybody, including the
investigators, in roars Of laughter. He
has a gentle vocal burr and the keen
wit of his native land.
Mr. Stevenson was telling Lawyer
Lindabury, for the trust, how he had
watched Henry Bessemer conduct his
first experiments with Bessemer steel.
But the lad dina mex a sookses Nv
the word lawyer with making a mess
Of things.
But he kept right along at it and
finally made a success" insisted Linda
bury.
He didnna sokseed for long while.
He were lax a looyer."
Amid the general laugh Lindabury
dryly asked If the witness associated
the word of lawyer with making a
mess Of things.
But when in the end he went TO
Switzerland and got pure pig iron he
sookseeded," said the witness medita-
lively.
Like a lawyer, he kept pegging
away, and was finally successful, like
a lawyer" added Lindabury, triumph
antly.
"Sooksessful in stealing like looyer,
did he say?" smiled the witness, while
every one except Lindabury roared.-
New York American.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-08-16

The Difference in Time.-Frederick
S. Isham, author of "a Man and His
Money" is noted for his ready wit, and
during his extensive travels through
the world has accumulated a large fund
Of interesting anecdotes, says the New
York Sun. One Of his latest concerns an
American who was touring in the Holy
Land.
This man wanted a guide for but a
short time, and so hired one by the
hour. They started out, the day being
dark and cloudy and did" number of
sights. Then the tourist thought 1t time
to get back to his hotel for lunch. At
the city gate he glanced at the big pub
lie clock.
Great Scott!' he exclaimed. rs that
right?"
The guide assured him it was. The
tourist appealed to a merchant; the
later showed him his watch-5.S0
o'clock. Nothing wrong with the city
timepiece. The tourists own watch was
out of commission. He consulted other
clocks in the neighborhod. There was
no mistake-it was half past five and
he had left the hotel at o'clock in the
morning. He offered the guide COM
pensation for nine and a half hours.
That agile person fairly late up" the
fee and hastily disappeared. Time GER
tainly did fly in the Holy City. thought
the tourist, and it was only when he
reached his hotel that he learned the
Mohammedans compute their civic day
from sunset, which is IL o'clock. Five
thirty, Oriental standard, was about
noon, European time.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-08-16

Such Tender Heart.-They were
going along the public highway at a
leisurely rate Of forty miles per hour,
when a decrepit hen and rooster start
ed to do the chicken specialty-cross
the road, says Judge.
The front and hind wheels on the
right side struck the poor, old stiff
jointed rooster amidships, and with one
squawk he succumbed.
Immediately the man at the steer
ing wheel started to slow down and
to look about for place to turn.
His solicitous wife turned to her
seat-mate and said:
Isn't that just like his tender heart?
He won't be satisfied unless he goes
back and settles for that rooster. He
just can't bear to feel he has injured
any one or anything"
Then louder, to her husband, she
said:
George, remember that appoint
ment. We haven't any time to go back
for anything"
Glancing at the clock near his feet
and at the speedometer near by, he
sighed and said:
You're right, Jennie; but just
know If I had turned back, could
have killed that old hen just as easy
as did the rooster"