The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1901-1982, August 08, 1906, Image 2
Fallacy of th
Sa
By-President Charles
N general, secret ma:
corporations have a
I they tempt directors
lic mind suspicions
but always injurious
is of course, to be di
venience.
The attention of
Lrecent instances to t
capable of defeating
late the conluct of their business, an
accounts, or making nominal but not
near the da' when they are required i
their busines3s and their property. Si
utterly public confidence in the honest
of them, and to excite against corpor:
and pervasi e distrust.
A great abuse has of late years
large business, or hold and use great
salaries and perquisites. In the first
from differeat companies or corporal
much as the underlying supposition oi
and strength to the company which
his interest should not be divided bet
services. In the next place, multipl
overpay the recipient. The huge sing
their recipients. The excuse for thei
business the right man is cheap at an
price. The fallacy of this argument
really get o: keep the best man-in
keep him.
Commercic
Pos
Social B
* By Ida A
+ + ROBABLY at no per
+ Machiavellian formu:
great social instituti
P + the whole fabric the
practiced as it is toc
Borgia, Machiavelli's
lain, his father, Por
precious little about
and charity-their fa
final failure. Machiavelli realized th
putting empasis on the recessity of ]
you may be. Today there is hardl3
leader, howe-ver Machiavellian in prac
self in the e-..es of the public by some
tivate the arts, he may endow college
he is--howevrer truly a commercial bl
*appearing a social benefactor. It is il
tion. There are a few men, whatever
ly desire to be called honorable and
*men. The v-orld has so advanced sinc
are so uncoascious of the social obli,
themselves with God and man for w:
the moral code. But what may be in:
culation as :hey grow in brigandage.
lic benefactors. That such a reputa
than any other. That a great gift ma
tion. It is an application of Napoleon'
"gild a dom 3," that is. give them son
tract their tEttention; that done, their
Clure's .Maagzine.
4 Working G~
Omm~w~mBy Mrs. J. G.
Within the enclosure
er gardens. From t1
ing stages of delight
the swamp of despo:
It is your wealth
its jower gardens.
It is your popul
inanity who fight and
ner swamp.
This little garden symbolizes the
As soon as the working people cc
generally exist they will arouse then
evils.
This re-nedy will come through p
think. I am not quite sure whether]
participated in several myself. That,
believed less in the doctrine of non-i
Theoretically, the strike is all rigi
very little for the laborer, and has gi
the chasm between him and his emplo
The important thing now is the
industrial conditions, and whatever
ance. Among the women in New Yor:
union, while the social settlement alsc
The limit of the starvation zone
placed at $6 a week. Under that sum
Willard said 5000 girls in Chicago wel
port themselves.
cY Wifely 1
By Betty
HE woman who man:
task, especially if h(
h fers his own fireside
ures outside the hon
~53 advantages of makir
der no other condit
herself. When he
and their haunts-a!
ness occaslonaly-it
perior attractions of home. Tact loost
closes the pockets of spendthrifts; in
person or set demands the exercise o:
a woman boast of living in a family ft
bers on the friendliest terms, and
in the world, she confessed. Somebc
the natural inference is that there w;
machinery could not run smoothly wi
member, at least.
Certifiate of Workmanship.
Mr. George Howlett, of Beacon's
Bottom. England, has published in ni
local newspaper the followirng hand
some testimonial: "I beg to say that
William Stevens. of Town End. Rad
nage. measured me for a suit of
cilothes which was made by his so,
Vernon. then a lad. I have worn the
same on Sundays and at other timnes
for forty-seven years. and they are
good now, and not a stitch has giver
e T
oExaggerated
'ary
W. Eliot, of Harvard
iagement and secret acts in important
pernicious tendency; and particularly
to malfeasance, and excite in the pub
sometimes just and some times unjust
Legislation which prevents publicity
.precated, in spite of its occasional con
the public has been directed by several
le fact that corporations are sometimes
the purpose of laws intended to regu
I to secure publicity by falsifying their
real shifts of their investments at or
.o make returns to the state concerning
ch falsifications are enough to destroy
management of the corporations guilty
tte management in general an extreme
grown up in corporations which do a
properties, namely, the exaggeration of
)lace, the acceptance of several salaries
ions is always to be distrusted, inas
ight to be that a man owes all his time
pays him an adequate salary, and that
een different corporations or different
B salaries are injurious, because they
le salaries of recent times also overpay
n has been that in conducting a large
r price and the wrong man dear at any
is that the exaggerated salary will not
eed, is not n~oded in order to get or
r1. Brigands i
e as
mefactors
, Tarbell.
iod of the world's history where the
a has been the chief working one of a
on has its crowning princip!e-to give
color of charity-been so u'Yersally
ay by our captains of industg. Cesare
great model and that incrddible vil
e Alexander VL, troubled themselves
screening their deeds with clemency
ilure to do so was a chief cause of their
is and it was his reason for repeatedly
osing as a saint however great a devil
to be found in American industry a
tice, who does not seek to justify him
lorm of benefit to society. He may cul
s, he may build hospitals, but whoever
igand he is, he follows Machiavelli in
stict with him primarily-not calcula
their practices, who do not instinctive
enerous, and to be considered gentle
e Machiavelli's days, too, that few men
ations that they do not try to square
at they take contrary to the legal or
~tinct at first inevitably becomes a cal
Tey see it pays to be known as pub
tion will keep the public silent longer
often head off a legislative investiga
wisdom: When the people are restive,
ething new to see and talk about, dis
sense of injustice is soon asleep.-Mc
he .. ~~~
r's Problem '&
PelpsStoke s.
aall garden, enclosed by a high wall.
runs an outer walk, bordered by flow
e walk there graduate down the vary
and misery until at the centre bubbles
dency.4
y man who travels the outer walk with
ace that- makes up the problem of hu
struggle for breath and life in the in
whole daily history of the world.
me fully to know that these conditions
Lselves and take action to remedy the
litical parties-some politica-1 party-I
believe in the strike, although I have
however, was when I was younger and
esistance than I do now.
t, but in practice I believe that it gains
ave dangers in the fact that it widens
awning realization of the injustice of
gency brings this light is of import
E City the greatest agency is the trades
is doing great work..
for working girls in Chicago has been
the wolf is inside the door. Miss Anna
'e receiving less than $6 a week to sup
ip omacy"f
Bradeen
iges just one man is doing a prodigious
happens to be her husband. If he pre
in the evening and she pines for pleas
e, it will be a task to make him see the
g a toilet and doing escort duty. Un
ions would a reasonable woman enjoy
has a hankering for mascu-line cronies
Ld the best men confess to such a weak
reuires a deal of tact to see the su
ns the pursestrings of stingy men and
fact, to get along comfortably with any
this gift on somebody's part. I heard
r two years and parting with the mem
he was not the best-tempered person
dy had to be forbearing, you see, and
is tact somewhere in the family. The
thout it, for there was one bad-natured
Df and Dumb Clerks.
Te potatrgnrlhas decided
to theo popenmsitins ia th city
postoffcesthrughot Cnad toan
unfortunate class of citizens, namely,
the deaf and dumb. Six such persons
aeto be appinted at one-e in the
Toronto post offere and a proportionate
nubecr in other city postoilices. They
will require to be sufficicntly educated
to perform the ordinary sorting of
mail matter and to be under the age
WAKE FINEf SHOWINGul
~rgress of Southern Baniks
Dvuring Past Year
.EAD THE ENTIRE COUNTRY
With Exception of Middle Western
States. South Led All Sections of
Union in Establishment of National
Banks During Period From 1900 to
1905 and Forthcoming Report of
Treasury Department for Past
Year is Expected to Give This Sec
tion Another Fine Showing.
Washington. Special.-The Depart
nent of Commerce and Labor has re
Peed a report of the cotton spin
Iers' and inanufacturers' meeting
hat was held in Bremen. June 25th.
[his convention discussed conditions
if the cotton industry, special con
ideration having been given the
rrowth of cotton in this country,
nethods of baling. cost of transpor
ation. etc. This report will be of
pecial interest at this time. inasmuch
ts the two agents. Messrs. Whittam
md Clarke. recently appointed by
eeretary Metcalf to go abroad and
nvestigate markets for American
otton goods,. are now in Washington
eceiving instructions in their work
yreparatory to taking up their duties
n fureign lands.
At the Bremen meeting there were
>resent a large number of delegates
ai'd representatives from 12 different
:ountries. Mary carefully prepared
-eports and papers were read upon a
rariety of technical and commercial
ubjects. The question of cotton sup
>ly. cotton statistics, cotton growing,
noist cotton, etc., were thoroughly
iseussed.
The forthcoming annual report of
lie Secretary of the Treasury is ex
)ected to show that many national
)anks have been established through
mut the South generally durinz the fis
al year that ended June 30, 1906.
he industrial development of the
south has caused many corporations
vanting to do a banking business to
ecure commissions (luring the last
ew -ears, and it is expected that
hen the showing for the year just
nded is madec it will be a good one.
'he report will also show what banks
ave been made government deposi
oies since the last fiscal year ended.
From March 14. 1900. to September
10, 1901, there wvere organized in the
southern States a total of 6571 nation
i banks, employing a capital of $36.
101.00. These were: The States of
irginia, which organized 31 banks
vith a capital of $2.576,000: West
Virginia, 49 banks and $'2.605.000
:-apital: -North Carolina. 22 banks
ith $960.000 capital: Scmthi Carolina
en banks with $910.000 capital;
3oria. 40 banks with $2.143,000
*apital; Flor ida, 21 bak wt ~ith $1.
~50,000) capital; Alabama. 4~ bainks
ith $2.252,5)00 eap)lil: Mississippi,
5 banks with $1,455.000 capital;Lou
siana. 23 bank. w~ih $2685.000 cap
tal; Texas, 23S banks w ith $12,65.
)00 capital; Arkansas'2 3 banks w ith
1,450.000; Kentueky. 57 banks w'itht
4,020000 capital; Tennessee. 27
>anks with a capital of -$1.630,000
['he total for all Southern States was
mly exceeded by the total for the
iiddle Western States, which reach
d the enormous figure of $49,631.
)00. These States were Ohio, Indi
mna, Illinois. Michigan. Wisconsin,
fiinnesota, Iowa and Missouri.
During the period that the South
rn States organized 671 banks with
total capital of $36.801.500, the
Kew England States, consisting of
~faine. New Hamshire, Vermont,
fassachusetts, Rhode Island and
onneticut, had' a total of only 33
anks and a total capital of $5.185,
)00; the States of New York. New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Deleware,
karland aiid the District of Colum
>ia ~organized 445 banks with a capi
al of $35,361,500; the States of
sorth Dekota, South Dakota, Nebras
ca. Kansas, Montana, Wyoming,
Dolorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
md the Indian Territory organized
>78 banks with a total capital of
$9.056,000. In Washington. Oregon,
alifornia, Idaho, Utah, Nevada,
rizona and Indian Territory the
:otal number of national banks or
anized was 140 and the total capi
:al was $10,S22.S00.
The fact that from 1900 to 1903
he Southern States led every other
>art of the United States with the
xception of the Middle Western
tates is an excellent indication of
south.
Homicide Bee at Teyas Election. .
Cold Springs, Texas. Special.-In
in election fight here. E. B. Adams,
Democratic nominee for tax assessor,
vas instantly killed, Sam Adams. his
rother. was shot in the head. and it
s believed fatally wounded. W. Y.
Robertson was badly wounded and
'. W. Williamson wounded. but not
:lan'zerously. Williamson. it is alleg
d, did most of the shooting.
Epidemic of Burglaries.
Asheville. Special.-It leaked out
dere that three burglaries were com
mitted in Asheville Thursday night
nd that the combined offorts of the
police of the city to find a clue to any
f the burgalaries were futile. The
oli-e souahit to) keep the bnrglaries
uiet. thinking that they could mnore
easily et a line on the gmily parties.
[t is' admit ted by the po(lice thatte
burglaries were commit tedl in differ
ent portions of the city and at short
itervls apart.
KILL[D ON WEDING DAY
B:idCgroom of an Hour Slain at Bes
zemer City.
Bessemer City, Special.-William
Brown. a travelingi loom-iixer, was
shot to death here by John Y. Kin
eid. night enzineer at the Vermont
Cotton Mills. The killing took place
at S o'clock, just one hour after the
dead man had become a bridezroom.
Immediately after shooting Brown,
Kincaid broke his pistol. threw out
the empty cartridges, handed the
weapon to an officer and surrendered
Before the mayor of the town he
waived examination and was sent to
jail at Dallas without hail. The tra
gedy has excited this prosperous lit
tle town from one end to the other.
The cause of the killing was the
seduction under promise of marriage
by Brown of Kincaid's sister. When
Brown was married to another woman
Kincaid went to the station and shot
him as above stated.
SERIOUS AUTOMOBILE ACCI
DENT.
Mr. Eugene Cannon of Concord,
Strikes Iron Bridge at Fearful
Speed and is Probably Fatally
Hurt.
Concord. Special-Eugene Cannor
the 18-year-old son of 31r. J. W. Can.
non, while riding at, probably 50 miles
an hour. ou the night of July 30th,
crashed into the iron bridge near thei
derot at Concord and received in
juries from which he has remained un
conscious and his condition is regard
ed as most critical. The scull is frae
tured and expert physicians from Bal
timore and New York with the loea]
medical ment are giving him every at
tention.
M1r. Cannon was manager of the
Franklin Cotton 3Mill. a late purchase
by 1r. J. W. Cannon and Sons.
A lady who was with rtr. Cannor
in the automobile had a leg broker
and was bruised severely. The ma
chine was demolished.
South Carolina Sufers.
Columbia. S. C.. Special.-Accord
ing to figures compiled by Secretar.y
B. F. Tavlor, of the South Caroline:
brannc~ of the Inter-Stnte Cotton
Seed Crusher' Asociation this State
has suffered more than any other in its
cotton crop. The falling off is 21 per
cent. as compared with last year. Mr
Tavlor's conclusions are reached fron
detailed reports he has received fronr
all the Souther n States. All show mn.
reases except Georgia. North Caro
lina and South Carolina. The Geor.
sia decrease is 16 pe cent. and~ th<
North Carolina Hi per cent. These
States show inerease: Arkansas 29
Mississippi 28. Louisiana 3. Indiar
Trritory 24. Oklahoma 14. Texas ~16
President Smith of the coitton assoem
tion says the crop in this State this
ear will be the smnallest in ten years
'Fred Scarborough Drowned.
Mullins. Special.-While in bathing
at Red Bluff. Fred Scarborough. e
nphew of ex--Congressrman Scarbor
ough. was drowned. It seems thai
a picnic was in pr-ogress, and severa
of the yon men went in swvimrmmg
Fred. who was hut a modeCrate swim
ner, was warned not to go too fai
ott or too near the current. whiel
is quite grong at that point, but h<
paidi no attention to thle wvarning an~
was~ soon strugling in thme water call
i's for hI-p. Several went to his as
sstance', andl Percy Bryant secturet
a h-eat and got within about six ot
eight feet of him when the boat cap.
sized and he was unable to r:eseuE
him.
Missing Negro's Body Found.
Patrick, Special.-Joe Brown, e
negro who has been missing from his
home here for two weeks, was found
at Steer Pen Spring. about five miles
from Patrick, by Jack Donahue, a
white man who was passing througi
that section. The negro 's body was
in such a decomposed condition as tc
'render identification ajmost impos.
sible except by clothing and shoes
nothing remaining from the assaultt
of the buzzards except bones ani
lothes. So far an inquest has no1
been held. No one knows what cous
ed his death.
For Passing Counterfeit.
Sumter, Special.-Frank P. Buff
ington, a shrewd white man fron
Iowa, was tried before Recorder Hurs1
for passing counterfeit money. TH
was bound over for trial at the high
er court. In default of $1,000 bont
he was committed to jail. He passer
a $5 counterfeit on a celored merchant
getting $4.90 in good money aftei
purchasing 10 cents worth of lemons
Anderson County Fair.
Anderson, Special.-Mr. W. E
EA secretary of the county fail
association is busy getting everythin;
in shape for the annual~ fair to b<
held in the early part of October
Liberal premiums have been offeret
for the different departments, a com
plete list of which may be had fron
tme secretary. The merchants of th<
city have given the enterprise thei:
hearty assistance by contributions.
Croton Oil Put in Whiskey.
Jacksonville, Fla.. Special.-Thoma
Callaway and f'red Walters, hostler
at a livery stable here, are sufferin;
intense agony and are in a dying con
ditirn from di-iriking whiskey zive1
to thm hy Arthur Kine. hostler a
an opposition stable. Kinle has heel
arrested .1nd( sent to jiail withBout bai
to await results. Investization show
that a largze quantity of~ croton oi
was mixed with the whisker. Whma
CHEATIIAM'S DENIAL
Secretary Ceton AssociatiGn
Under Fire
SAYS HIE TRADED FOR A FRIEND
Before Cotton Association Committee
of Investigation, Charges That See
retary Cheatham and Press Agent
Fairchild sve Been Speculating
in Futurez Are Preferred and Only
Partialy Denied.
Atlanta, Ga., Special.-Before the
committee of investigation named by
President Harvie Jordan to hear evi
dence that certain officers of the as
sociation owned an interest in a well
known brokerage concern, and also
have been speculating in cotton fu
tures, Representative J. R. Anderson,
of Cheatham county, repeated the
charges made by him on the floor
of the House last week. He charged
that Richard Cheatham, secretary of
the association, speculated in cotton
futures, carrying the accounts in the
names of Mike 0 'Grady and P. A.
Lee. Mr. Anderson also charged that
Arthur A. Fairchild, who appears as
the manager of the bureau of pub
licity of the association, owned one
eighth of the stock of the Piedmont
Brokerage Company, a concern whicl
makes a specialty of cotton futures,
To support these charges, Mr. An
derson submitted a number of affi
davits and declared that an order
from Mr. Cheatham on certain brok
eis would bring forth further evi
dence in proof of the charges.
Mr. Cheatham produced in his de
fense a statement in which he de
elared: "I do not at the present time,
nor have I direetly or indirectly in
any manner, owned any- part of or
interest in a bucket shop or wire
gambling house.
"I have never speculated in cotton
futures for my own personal gain."
Mr. O'Grady of Chattanooga, was
o. hand to substatntiate the charge of
Mr. Cheatham that the "O'Gradv ae
count" was handled for him by Mr.
Cheatham merely as a personal act of
friendship. Mr. Cheatham refused to
reveal the identity of P. A. Lee, in
whose name the other accounlt was
carried.
The charge that Fairchild owned an
interest in the Piedmont Br-okear
age Company was not deniod, al
though it was declared that the in
terest was disposed of some time ago.
Brokerage People Testify.
Mr. Fagan. manager of a lceal ex
chage, was the first witness at the
afternoon session. He testified as to
Mr. Cheatham having opened an ac
count under the name of Mike
O'Grady. Mr-. Fagan admitted hav
ing given Mr. Anderson the informa
tion on which he based charges.
The next witness was B. C. Cothran?,
local manager of a broker's office.
He told about Frazier telling Dr.
Crawford that Mr. Cheatham was a
stockholder in the Piedmont ex
change.
Holland Curran, who was book
keeper for a brokerage firm with of
fces in this city, was the star witness
of the day. He declined to testify
without Mr. Cheatham 's consent,
whereupon Mr. Cheatham jumped to
his feet and exclaimed:
Cheatham Flames Up.
"You arc just here for a trick. This
thing has been tried on me before,
and I am tired of it. You are trying
to play at the wrong game."
Mr. Curran flushed' up angrily. an'1
proceeded to tell what he claimed he
knew, and it was that Mr. Cheatham
bad bought cotton futures three times
at his office. "He came to the office,''
said tihe witness, "and wanted to open
an account. He did so and when we
asked him what name to put the ac
count he said: 'Oh, Mike will do.'
'Mike who?' he was asked, and said
Jones was a good name and so the
account now stands and our books as
Mike Jones.''
Dr. J. M. Crawford took the stand
and said he was a stockholder in the
Piedmont Exchange. He said he was
always positive Mr. Cheatham owr-edI
stock, although he never said so di
rectly.
A.~ A. Fairchild, manager of the
publishing bureau of the association.
was the last witness of the day and
submitted a written statemen.?.
Governor Commin Renominated.
Des Moines, Ia., Special.-Governor
Cumins was nominated for Gover
nor by the Republican State conven
tion. The ballot resulted: Cummins.
933; Perkins, 603; Rathbun. 104. The
committee on resolutions submitted
a platform which they had unanimous
iy agreed to, favoring protection and
expressing satisfaction with present
prosperous conditions.
Governor Heywardd will have a
number of petitions for pardon to
submit to the consideration of the
pardon board when it meets Wednes
day. An appeal for executive clem
enev was received from Cherokee
county. Maj. ino. IF. Jones of
Blacksburg has irged Governor Hey
ward to save d. Rainey from the'
gallows. Rainey was convicted of an
assault upon a negro girl. As an ex
bnuating circumstance it is pleaded
that the character of the girl was not
ove reproach.
300 LIVES ARE LOST
Emigrant Vessel Hits Reef and
Goes to Bcttcm
A FRIGHTFUL PANIC FOLLOWS
Italian Vessel Sirio, From Geona via
Spanish Forts for South America.
Mects Disaster Whla Thxeading
Difficult Passage Through Horm
gas Islands and Goes Down, Speed
ily, Stern First, Amid Terriffic
Scene of Panic.
Carta-zena. Spain, By. Cable-A ter
rible marine disaster occurred Sun
day evening- off Cape Palos. The
Italian steamship Sirio. from Genoa
for Barcelona. Cadiz, Moitevideo and
Buenos Ayres with about S00 persons
ilon board, was wrecked off Hormigas
Island.
Three hundred emigrants, most of
them Italians and Spaniards, were
drowned.
The captain of the steamer com
mitted suicide.
The Bishop of Sn Pablo, Brazil,
riso was lost and it is reported thzt
anocther bkhop is among the missing.
The ieinainder of the pasengrs
and the officers and crew got away
in the ship's boats or were rescued
by means of boats sent to them from
lhe shore.
A number of tishwrmen who made
attempis to rescue were drowned.
These rescued from the vessel are
now at Cape Palos in a pitable con
(dition, being without food or clothing.
The Sirio struck a rocky reef
known as Bajos Hormigas and sank
soon after, stern first. Hormigas Is
land lies about two and a half miles
to the eastward of Cape Palos.
The Sirio was owned by the Navi
-azione Italiana, of Genoa.
Before he committed suicide the
captain declared the steamer had 545
passengers on board and the crew
niumbered 127 men. The Sirio had
171 passengers when leaving Genoa,
but additional Spanish passengers
were taken oi; board at Barcelonia.
where the vessel touched a few hours
before the disaster.
Will Pay For Looting.
Governor Swanson and Adjutant
General Andersoni of Virginia have
Iwrit ten .J. A. Spence. merchaint here
and managzer WVright of the Union
News Stand at the Relcizlh Union Sta
ion that steps will be taken at once
to remunerate them for the large
ijuantities of fruits and other adibles
hat were takcn from their places of
business last Friday by the Virginia
troops while the train that -n as con
veyintg tlhem to ,Chicamauga was in
the Union depot. the men having .it
is allegred, helped themselves to large
quantities of fruits, saundwiches and
other articles on display without offer
ing to pay fer themi. Col. Vaughan of
the 71st Regiment has been directcd
by the Govt io'r and Adjutant G3eneral
otf Virginia to make a thorough inves
tigation and report to them as soon1
as this is done. The two Releigh mer
ebants will be compensated for their
losses.
Randleman Bank fProspers.
Randlema~n. Special.-The directors
of the Bank of Randleman held their
annual meeting and declared the us
ual six per cent. dividend. The bus
iness of this bank has steadily in
(reased under the capable manage
ment of Mr. James H. Cole, cashier
and the board of directors.
Held Captive By Black Hand.
New York, Special.-Paspuala Gre
coss. aged 33, who was reported sever
al (lays ago as having been kidnapped
by a Black Hand gang. was found
in the hallway on Eleventh street
gagged and blindfolded with feet and
hands tied. He told the police that
since late Tuesday night he had been
a prisoner of several Italians, who
had given him neither food nor water
in SO hours of his captivity. Eugene
Duche, a tailor, who notified the police
of Grecos' presence in the hallway,
was arrested on suspicion.
Five Italians Discharged.
Marion. Special.-The jury in the
'ase of the seven Italian laborers
charged with consp)iracy came into
court and accounced they were unable
to agree as to all the defendants.
Five they held not guilty and dis
agreed as to James Mazone and Au
gelina Tespa. Judge Cooke thereup
on discharged nll the (defendants
save Tesp'a and Mazone and these
were held in bond5 of $300 each
Homicide in Knoxville.
Knoxville, Tenn., Special.-Frank
Brown, aged 1S. was shot shortly be
fore midnight by Owen Nesbitt, a
'traveling salesman, at the latter's
home, this city. Nesbitt returned
from Chattanooga unexpectedly and
found Brown at his home. Brown
started to flee and Nesbitt shot him.
the bullet taking effect in Brown's
roin and after a short run he pitched
headlong into a creek. dead, his-skull
having been fractured by the fall.
Nsbitt surrcndered.
Telegraphic Briefs.
It is believed the plan for the new
Cabinet has been virtually accepted by
the Czar and the program promised
is one of immediate and liberal re
form.
Winston Spencer Churchill. Parlia
m lenr Secretary of the Colonial of
feinthe House 'of Commons explain
ed the Government's plan. to confer
Late lVebar
n zref A
MINOR MATTERS Of INTEREST .
Foreman Beacham of a squad of
hands employed in the Southern Rail
wav's double track work near High
Point, N. C., was shot and fatally
wounded by a negro on Tuesday after
noon. There was no cause for the tra
gedy and feeling rans very high.
The Negro Young People's Chris
tian and Educational Congress, having
for its object the educational and
moral upli'fting of the race, began a
five days' session in Washington.
Several thousand delegates are in at
tendance, representing every State in
the Union, and some have come from
foreign lands.
Senator Dick, of Ohio. and Secre
tary Dover, of the Republican national
committee, had a two hours' confer
ence with the President on the Ohio
political situation.
A collision between the battleships
Alabama and Illinois occurred in a
thick fog. It is reported that neither
ship was injured below the water line,
althrough exact damage is not stated.
The body of Russell Sage was in
terred in a steel vault in Oakwood
Cemetery, at Troy, N. Y.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson ignored a
court injunction while tearing up
Cleveland street-car tracks and will
have to answer a bitation. for con
tempt.
A Buffalo political leader leclares
William R. Hearst will be New York's
next Governor.
Frank J. Constantine accused of
the murder of Mrs. Louise A. Gentry
in Chicago, January 6 last, is undet
arrest at Pougbkeepsie, N. Y.
William B. Maddox, white, of
Bridgeville, Del., is charged with at
tempted assault on an 8-year-old girl.
Seaford jail is guarded to prevent any
attempt at lynching.
Dr. John F. Goucher, of Baltimore,
addressed the Young People's Mis
sionbry Conference at Silver, N. Y.
A dangerous derelict is reported
rectly in the path of ocean steams
in the North Atlantic.
Investigation into alleged reba
granting from Western railroads t
the Sugar Trust is under way in New
York.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion has issued an ord for a re
hearing in the matter of all allow
ances to gramin elevators by the Un
ion Pacific Railroad Company. The
commission will probe deeply into the
relationh between rilroads and ele
vator comp.'xes.
The State Department has inter
vened in behalf cf Miss Millie Brown
and her associates of Columbia, Isle
of Pines, who are imprisoned in Ha
vana for constructing a short tele
graph line on the Isle of Pines. It
is believed they will be pardoned by
the Cuban Gover-ient.
The remains of Gen. Edmund, Unit
ed States Army were buried at Ar
lington. The usual military escort
was not in attendance. . -
Pittsburg capitalists are developing
the anthracite coal odeposits near Mar
tirsburg, West Virginis.
The report of the Legislative inves
tigating committee of the Virginia
Military Institute is ready for Gov
ernor Swanson.
A eIgar factory to employ 5.00 per
sons will be established in Richmond
by the American Cigar Company.
The former members of the Russian
lower house adopted at Vibork. Fin
landea revolutionary address to the~ /
It is understood Russell Sage's will
leaves nearly all of his estate, esti
mated at $100,000,000 to his widow.
Lieutenant 'Worswick, Scout Mc
Bride and 12 members of ths con
stabulary were killed by Pulajanes in
the.. Island of -Leyte, Philippine -Is
-sds -
It is said Dr. Allan McLane Hamil
ton has reported Harry K. Thaw in
sane.
A negro real estate agent is driving
while residents from West Side apart
ment houses in New York .which he
has secured for members of his own
race.
The defense in the Hartje divorce
case finished its case in chief and Au
gustus Hartje 's lewyers began their
testimony in rebuttal.
The wreck on -the Seaboard Air
Line in North Carolina. in which 20
were killed and 24 injured, is held
to have been the fault of an operator.
Japanese speculators and merchants
have acquired nearly all the most
desirable land in Manchuria.
?resident 1Roosevelt entertained
four members o fthe Republican Co.n
gressional Committee and Senator
Penrose, of Pennsylvania at luncheon
at which plans for the fall campaign
were discussed.
Rome, By Cable.- -A Papal Encycli
cal against the Christian Socialists,
Italian and foreign, is expected to be
issued. It is understood it will deal
also with the situation of religious
affairs in France. growing out of the
separation of the church and state.
LaPorte, Ind., Special.--Mrs. Ferdi
nand Reese, the oldest woman in In
diana and perhaps in the United
States died at the age of 112. She
was born in Poland. She attributed
her longevity to her simple method of
lving. She had two meals of corn
bread and black coffee daily.
Bristol, Special.--Samuel Carrier,
a magistrate and farmer, aged fifty
three years. was run down by a train
on the Southern railway-adew miles
w eat of Bistol and ~as cut to pieces.
He had been to B 01 and was with