Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PiAS. W. ROflSE MffiESTED: Taken Froin S-eamer Arriving at' New York From Europe. Wall Street Operator ar.d Ire TrusK , Mnsjnate Gives Rail lo Keep Out of Jail. New York City.?Charles W. Morse, promoter, whose command of capital in juggling ice stock and or- j ganizing a monopoly of coastwise steamship lines, in addition to controlling a chain of banks, made him one of the most striking figures in Wall Street, has returned from ; Europe. Scarcely had he come within the State limits when he was arrested by detectives on a bench warrant charging grand larceny. Treated like a criminal who might attempt to escane, Morse was kept constantly in sight from the moment the steamshiD passed up from Quarantine until he had given bail of $20,000 on two indictments in the home of Supreme, Court Justice Dowling. Great was the fall of the financier who a year ago was respected as one of the ivinst astute financiers in Wall Street, and wiio, though small of stature, was considered a giant in schemes of finance. Morse was seized the instant he was withir State jurisdiction and held. District Attorney Jerome would noc yield a point to Morse's counsel, and the indicted man was compelled to go through the regular routine of j the person charged with a crime. Ar- j rested on the steamship, he was taken ; through streets in his own automo- ; bile and had to give bail before he i had the privilege of meeting his sou J and his wife in privacy. Greater hu- | miliation, except imprisonment, hard- j ly could be imagined for a man whose J wealth a year ago was estimated at j 520,000,000, and who is now cousid- 1 ered hardly able to pay his debts. The arrest was a severe blow upon Morse, a gambler in stocks, a man ready for any daring in a business venture. Though he knew he had been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury twice on different phases of the same transaction, he had not expected to be arrested. His counsel had tried hard to obtain the consent of Jerome to present their client in court and HI US l.'Ki UHL U1UI LU lauu iu (Jtuiv auv i without notoriety, but Jerome had replied that the public interests de- i manded that Morse be arrested, j Though Morse had schooled himself ! to take every success and every fail- ! ure without a quiver, the unexpected- I ness of his arrest for a few moments unnerved him. He fumbled the war- I rant that Lieutenant Beery put in his j hand. -It seemed he would be taken : from the ship before it reached its ; dock. Freed of that doubt he began I to regain his assurance and his old j air of sternness. i WEALTHY MAN A BURGLAR. .... I Admits Robbing at Alton. III., ' Through a Desire to Steal. Alton, 111.?Pacing his cell in the city jail building, Henry Schuelle, a wealthy and respected building con- [ tractor, in custody on a charge of i burglary, confessed that for years he i had been robbing the stores of his i neighbors at night. He knew he was j doing wrong, but had been unable to ! overcome the desire to steal. The dual life of Schuelle was revealed by Jeremiah Kennedy, owner of a dairy and cigar store, a friend and neighbor of Schuelle, who caught Schuelle in the store at night. Schuelle said he would gloat over the stolen goods for a day or two and would then burn them or throw them : away. v EX-GOV. VOORHEES INDICTED. L . i ^4 Paninntr ATI Tifl TlI.'OfQ I VU?*I'gC U1 4CIJIU,? v.. ? | Life Report. New York City.?Foster M. Voor- I hees, ex-Governor of New Jersey, and I Frank G. Combes were indicted by I the special Grand Jury which has | been investigating banking cases, i Mr. Voorhees was president of the Bankers' Life Insurance Company, ! which got into trouble two years or so j ago, and Mr. Combes was secretary. ; Eoth were indicted for perjury in ; submitting a false report to the State j Superintendent of Insurance. The in- j vestigation was taken up on the re- | port of Superintendent of the Depart- i ment of Insurance Kelsey, who called I the attention of the District Attorney j to the affairs of the company. MISUSED HIS COMPANY'S FUNDS. Telephone Co. Says Its Treasurer Got Loans on $150,000 of Stock. New York City.?Henry Sanger Snow resigned as treasurer of the New York and New Jersey Telephone < Company because of alleged irregularities committed by him in the conduct of his office. The amount involved is about $150,000. The irregularities consisted in thj use by Mr. Snow of stocks and bonds belonging to the company. He used the securities, it is alleged, as collateral for loans with which to carry on stock operations. The market went against him and he was unable to take up the loans and release the securities. ^niican census onows incrcMsv. i The census of the Republic of Chile j shows a population of 3,2"j0,000. The j population in 1903 was given as i 3,20o-992. COFFEE DRINKING A Doctor Says It Weakens the Heart. "In my opinion," says a wellknown German physician, "no one can truthfully say that cofree agrees with him, as it has long since been proven that caffeine, contained in coffee, is an injurious, poisonous - ' - ? 1 J _ auDstance wnicn. wcanens anu uugenerate3 the heart muse'es. "For t .is reason the regular use of coffee, soon or late, causes a coi>dition of undernourishment, which leads to various kinds of organic disease. "Convinced of this fact. I havei often sought for some healthful bev-1 erase to use instead of coffee. At j last I found the thins: desired in i Posturn. Having had occasion to for-1 bid people using coffee, whose hearts I were affected, I have recommended j Postum as a beverage, since it is free j from all injurious or exciting sub-j stances. I know this from results! in my own family, and among pa- j tients. "Hundreds of persons who now use Postum in placc of coffee are greatly benefited thereby." "There's r Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. cniiTnPRM RV HilTf? UUAfiFS i uu'j i!il11i? (ii. uyiu iiiiiulu ( Forty-two Thousand Workers in 1 Its Employ AffecteJ. j Policy of Retrenchment Made Neces- , < sary by the Present Condition of Trade Depression. I 1 Washington. D. C.?Vice-President , r.nd General Manager C. H. Ackert l disclosed the purpose of the Southern 1 Railway to reduce the wages of every 1 person in its employ. He said that ( practically 42,000 people will be i made to feel the effect of the wage- ' 1 chopping ax as it continues to fall j with precisa regularity. ( The wage adjustment now under ] way in Washington, which effects j only machinists, boilermakers, blacksmiths, tinners and car men, will be followed by other conferences next i ] week or ten days, applying to engi- i' neers, firemen, conductors, brakemen, flagmen and all other classes of skilled or unskilled labor in the ser- j vice of the company. "Before it is over about 42,000 ' employes of the Southern Railway ] will have been affected," said Mr. | Ackert. j 1 The preliminary step looking to the wholesale reductions occurred some weeks ago when President Finley announced a reduction in the salaries ] of all executive and general officers : and their office forces, from the president down, of ten per cent. This re- ! Auction was effective February 1, and ! was largely local to Washington, ' where most of the executive and general officers are located. Its effect was felt when the officers and em- , ployes received their salary checks j for the first two weeks of February. Although there is no question as to a general reduction all along the j lines, it is impossible to ascertain , positively or even get an approximate | estimate of how much money the < Southern Railway will save by its ! policy of retrenchment. None of the officials will discuss this feature, and , the employes profess to have no idea. J Representatives of the machinists, j car men, blacksmiths, boilermakers and tinners, headed by James O'Con- j nell, president of the International j Association of Machinists, held a pre- , liminary conference with Finley, Gen- , eral Manager Ackert and Superin- . tendent ot Power Stewart. ( Their officials suggested restoration i of the scale of wages in effect prior ] to the general increase about a year < ago, and this is the question under < consideration. The proposed reduction averages about ten per cent. President Finley gave out the following statement with reference to the conference: "In accordance with 1 the policy previously outlined of tak- s ing up with representatives of employes with a view to securing their , ? support in the present condition of 1 trade depression, the officers of the 1 company met representatives of the J* shop forces. The situation was dis- , 1 cussed in a general way." | ( From an unofficial source it was , ( learned that the railroad company is j confident that its proposal for a re- f duction will be accepted, and it is A said that it is laying much store by s the fact that over 40,0 00 machinists c are out of employment, looking for * work. Tliey believe that this fact J itself will force the machinists to ac- 1 cept the terms offered. The following tale of depression is \ recited in, the letter which the em- ' ployes of the railroads in North Caro- . lina have been circulating over the 1 great political triumphs won against i? the Southern railroads: "We are told that the reduction of | passenger fares half a cent a mile is a | * great victory for the people?and the ; ? reform administration. i cf "But is it a victory for the 100,000 j : idle wage earners in the South who ' want work and can't get it? I J "Is it a victory which is appreciated by 300,000 wage earners in the South whose wages or hours have been reduced? Are the owners or f employes of the idle sawmills, fur- c naces, mines and factories shouting i naueiujaus over mis siunuus viv;- tory ? "Another victory like this one over the railroads, and the South will be in almost as pitiable a condition as it was at the close of the war." All Railroads Centering in Atlanta Cut Wages. Atlanta, Ga.?Notice of a reduction of ten per cent, in the salaries of all ' employes receiving more thaij, $50 per month has been received in Atlanta by the officials of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis and Western and Atlantic Railroads. This re- g duction affects the officials, clerks and j mechanics of the roads named. s Major J. T. McCollum, superin-, tendent of the Western and Atlantic | t Railroad, which is operated and _ * leased by the N., C. and St. L., in dis- ' cussing the cut in salaries, said: 1 ' TIid i*?rliint*nn io nnlv (omnnrilpv ' Constitutionality Decided by Court of ^ Appeals in Saratoga Gas Case. f Albany, N. Y.?The Court of Ap- d peals in the Saratoga gas case upheld the constitutionality of the Public Service Commission law. The constitutionality of the act is upheld and the act is condemned only j r as to that part that provides for a re- ^ adjustment in three years in not giv-1 o ins to the companies an equal right *vith the consumers to complain. { The Labor World. Cabinetmakers' Union, of St. Paul, and Minneapolis. Minn., have formed ; t a district council. Over 2000 workmen, idle since No- t rember and December, have resumed work around Wheeling, W. Va. i About 500 union plumbers at St. v Louis went on strike against a wage reduction of seventy cents a day. c Champ Clark asserted in Congress a that if Speaker Cannon would con- r sent the Democrats would help the Republicans pass a new Employers' s Liability bill "in thirty minutes by a :he town clock." f 111C iv-uuv?.n/u ? - | We have simply adopted the scale of wages and salaries which the roads paid in Dscember, 1906. During 1907 j t these salaries and wages were in- j t creased ten per cent. This is a dull i } season for the railroads and the re- ! j duction will continue iu force until c business picks up." !j Must Cut Pay on 40 Roads? j j Proposed Reduction For 200,000. : v Chicago.?A cut in the wages of s more than 200,000 employes of forty- t nine railroads west of Chicago hings 1 iipon the outcome of a confcrence in t St. Paul between the general manager j of the Chicago Great Western Rail- c way and the officials of the five big f labor organizations in train service. T If the company carries its point and t PUBLIC SERVICE LAW UPHELD. ".its the wages similar action is to b< aken by every other line v,-est of Chi :ago. All employes of the Gould systenr lave been notified that a reduction ir ivages wiii be maae. Vumber of Men Out of Employment Alarming, Says Shaw Kansas City. Mo. ? In a signet statement given out here Hon. Leslii M. Shaw. e;:-Secretary cf the Treas ury, said: "The number of men out of em ployment and the number soon to bi iismissed is to mo alarming. The in srests of these men and the effect o their enforced idleness upon busines generally far transcends any candi iate's ambition. "I wish that factionalism migh :ease, and that a convention of broad minded, patriotic, unselfish and un ambitious men, uninstructed and un pledged, might gather in June and ii the light of conditions as they thei exist, select a man whose election wil best conserve the moral and Indus trial interests of the country." FTPQT TTRFSW ATTC SCHOOL L i.X\U i. A AVUMAA -w w PROVES SUCCESSFU1 [t is at Providence, and Its Pupils Stud; With Windows Wide Open. BAGS USED TO PROTECT THEIR LEG! Yearly All Showed Signs of Consumption or Ha Parents With That Disease. Providence, R. I.?While the ther mometer hovered in the vicinity o jero twenty girls and boys, pupils o :he first fresh air school in this coun try, sat snugly and warmly wrappei in their cotton bags in the old Meet ing street school. They apparentl: ivere as comfortable as the thousand: 5f pupils in the other schools in thi :ity, despite the fact that the temper iture maintained in the room was a 10 time above forty-five degrees. The public school authorities ar< enthusiastic over the success that th< fresh air school has achieved in tw< sveeks' existence. At a meeting o :he School Board Superintenden Small reuorted that he was more thai pleased with the outlook, and et pressed the opinion that the fresh ai school will be one of the most benefi :ial public institutions this city eve ias had. Already, he said, the children, liv ng practically all day in the coo "resh air are beginning to show sigm pf improvement. Little faces tha ivere sallow and pinched two week: igo have a healthy flush, and chil Jren who were too tired to play ar< beginning to show some interest ii ife. All of this, Mr. Small told thi School Board, is what the fresh ai school has accomplished. Looks For Cares. Mr. Small expects to see the da: ivhen at least three of his small pu >il3 who are now suffering with con sumption will have been cured. The school was founded at the In :ticntinn nf thp T^eaerue for the Sun iression of Tuberculosis, and it i; primarily intended not only to figh lie spread of the white plague, bu ilso to teach the children the valui )f fresh air as a health producer am ier oyer of the germs of disease. . i school is under the directioi >f Mrs. Mary Appleton. The pupil! vere selected from children who wen suffering with some disease whicl lisqualified them from attending >ther public schools. Each was sub iected to a physical examination by i jhysician before he or she was ad nitted. When their names wen jlaced on the roll-book they becam< it once patients and pupils. Ten children answered the roll 01 he first day, but before the weel nded this number had been increasec o twenty. Some of them have at ended other schools, but others nev :r had been within the walls of an in ititution of that kind. Many of thi ihildren showed signs of consump ion; others have parents who hav< lad that disease; others have tuber :ulosis of the bones. One has hear rouble. Swinging Windows. The schoolroom is on the seconc loor of the building. The south sid< if the room, facing on Meeting street s wide open to allow sunshine anc resh air to enter. Five swinging vindows are caught up by means o , rope and pulleys and can be lowerec n case of rain or snow. They are s< idjusted that, while fresh air is al vays circulating through the roon here is at no time a draught. In order that as much protection a; )ossible may be given the children hey are allowed to wear their coat! ind hats while in the schoolroom fheir legs are encased in warm cottor )ags, which are drawn up as far a; he waist and then tied. If the chilc eels cold, notwithstanding this pro ection, the teacher gives him permis don to sit by the stove. In case th< eet get cold despite the bag, soap ;tone warmers are placed under them IFFIRM GILLETTE CONVICTION Tourt of Appeals Sustains Judgmeui of First Degree Murder. Albany, N. Y.?The Court of Ap> leals affirmed the judgment of convic ion of murder in the first degree it he case of Chester Gillette, whe tilled Grace Brown at Big Modse ,.ake in the Adirondacks. Judge His ock wrote the opinion aud all the udges concurred. Gillette was convicted in the fall ol fine rvf flraoA Rrnwn vhich occurred on July 11 of the ame year. The sentence of execuion. which was placed for January, 907, was stayed by an appeal which las been pending in the Court of Ap>eals ever since that time. The rime, as shown by the evidence beore the Supreme Court in Herkimer, f. Y., was one of the most brutal iu he criminal history of recent years. One of Booth's Captors Dead. Colonel Andrew Wendell, ^vho was . member of the band of soldiers that aptured J. Wilkes Booth after the issas3ination of President Linco!:?, lied at Chicago. Professor Moore Retires. Professor John Bassett Moore, fornerly Assistant Secretary of Slate, ias been compelled to give up his luties as professor of internatianal aw at Columbia University o-ing to ailing eyesight. The World of Sport. Old Rip Van Haltren says lie inends to play ball ten years. Count Czernln, an Austrian, won he Grand Prix shoot at Monte Carlo. There is wide Interest in the coning race batween the crews of Harard and the Navy. Johu Hancon, on* of the greatest larsmen of his time back in the '50s ,ud '60s, died at Cornwall, N. Y., ecently, aged seventy-two years. Sayeth Connie Mack, the Quaker age of baseball: "A player of good bility and good habits should last la ast comDaay until he is past forty." ! GO 'WAV; " ?Cart ' COUNTRY MERCHANTS FLOCK WITH NEWS THAT EVEI s J 3 Ten Thousand Buyers From Soi J | k 000 to Spend Tell ] j ! New York City. ? Ten thousand . ; business men and women from the r j West and Southwest are in town . 3pending, it is estimated, $100,000,r ! 300. They have driven pessimism I From the great down-town jobbing . j iistrict with stories of assured prosj 1 perity and are spreading joy and cash e | among the hotels, theatres and other t ; imusement places. a \ This is the annual buying period I for the spring trade and reduced a [ rates on the railroads are bringing ] ' merchants here from the small towns ? ' in far away Texas as well as from j j Chicago, St. Louis and the big cen[ tres. The registration at the Merj :hants' Association is within a hun; 3red odd of the phenomenal registra1 {tion last spring, when prosperity was | at its height. Nearly 2000 buyers or ! their representatives, about one-half j of whom are women, have registered. - ( They are coming at the rate of nearly j 200 a day. A3 only a portion take ? advantage of the special railroad ( ! rates it is estimated that the total t ! number of buyers at present here is i about 10,000. Hotels Are Crowded. ] Every hotel that caters to the out5 ' of-town custom is crowded, the big ? j hotels have all they can handle and 3 the family hotels are turning hun ; dreds of people away. The buyers j are being entertained at clubs, din^ ner parties, theatres and with auto | mobile trips by the merchants who 5 j are receiving the benefit of their ; trade. | S. C. Mead, secretary of the Meri chants' Association, said of the influx i ' of buyers: 1 , "It means that the country is all j right. The men who are coming to j New York now to lay in their spring | stocks are mainly from the West and ? Southwest. I have not heard one of ! them talk about hard times. They ? j laugh at the idea, and I tell you their optimism is having a big effect here I In New York. Our merchants rather | had the idea that trade was going to : be dull this spring, but they have j 1 changed their opinion in the past few j days. Buyers have registered here i from towns of not over 1000 populaj tion in Texas, the new State of Okla,: homa and the entire Southwest as j ; well as from Chicago, St. Louis, Inj dianapolis, Detroit and the other big j ' cities. . j "The most encouraging reports are ) brought from Texas, Oklahoma and j i Arkansas, where the crops have been j1 good. I have been surprised at the ( j number of new faces and have been : : told that scores of new business j houses are springing up." ) | In the shops of the H. B. Claflin ; | Company, Tefft, Weller & Co., C. B. j i Rouss, the Chelsea Trading Company . j and others extra employes have been . ! hired to take care of the increased ; I trade. There has also been a boom ! | in the mail order business, while re' j PANIC DIDN'T HI . | Wakeman Reports Only C ti as a I New York City.?Astonished that : the recent panic affected the South so - ! little, Wilbur F. Wakeman. treasurer i and general secretary of the Ameri> I can Protective Tariff League, re* ~ Kttlf T-T Q Cfllfl ' ! IU1UCU 11UU1 LUC WUUU u&il. XV -j | only one Southern bank crashed in s j the course of the disturbance. Sev| eral banks carried from fifty-five to f '-seventy-five per cent, of their depos. its in cash from October 1. One sold s j $200,000 of currency here early in j December. i I "The possibilities of the South," i Wakeman continued, "are scarcely ! yet fully understood by industrials, i j Up the Savannah River there is 200, I 000 horse power going to waste every . j day. That covers the region above i j Augusta, Ga. Of virgin soil there an) ' Farmers Buy Michigan Prison's I Output of Cinder Twine.} Jackson, Mich.?The State Prison j Board has just sold the output of the j 1 ] bir der twine plant in the State prison, estimated at 1,000,000 pounds, for the next year, to the Order of the j Gleaners, an organization of farmers, j Representatives of the International Harvester Company and other dealers ' also bid for the output. The Glean-. 1 era will pay eight and one-fifth cents : 1 a pound and the twine will be sold to j farmers at this price with only the 1 cost of handling added. i Newsy rnrngraphs. The Irish Parliamentary party after seventeen years of schism is now ' united. A letter just received at the Newark postofflce was mailed at New Orleans in 1854. Joseph Duveen suggests that a simj pie cleansing process with soap and . water would greatly improve the i paintings in the Louvre and other museums in France. Wholesale forgeries of princely titles were discovered by the College of Heraldry of Georgia, Transcaucai Bia. i I'M BUSY! I I i wmm i? ? J oon by Scar, in the New York GioV. TO NEW YORK IY SECTION IS PROSPEROUS ith and West With $100,000,Jast to "Cheer Up." __ _ ports from commercial travelers are to the effect that conditions are as good as they were this time last year. Alexander Bombard, representing one of the largest houses in Galveston, Texas, said: "We have had splendid crops down in our State, and we have no patience with hard-time talk. I am here to purchase one of the largest orders for expensive dry goods that our house has ever put in. Texans have money to spend and they are going to spend it this spring. My advice to New Yorkers is to cheer up." A. S. Semmes, of Detroit, said: "I guess I wouldn't be buying $50,000 worth of clothing, mostly expensive, too, if we were running bread lines in Detroit. The outlook in our section is very bright, and I am sure it is going to be a good business year." "Business was never better in my State," said Chester L. Walbridge, of Baton Rouge, La. "We anticipate a big spring trade, and I am going to take South with me the biggest stock of goods that I ever purchased. Not even the coming Presidential election has scared us." Similar statements were made by business men from Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville and other cities. H. C. Fisher, of Buffalo, said the merchants there are preparing for a great rush of trade. New York Alone is Nervous. "We are not worrying anything like the New York merchants seem to be," said Mr. Fisher.' "It appears that New York is the most nervous town in the country. Further afield you find more confidence to the block than there is here to the acre." Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Newman, representing several departments of a large Chicago store, spoke for the \TMri1a Wpaf "We expect to do a banner business this year," said Mr. Newman, "panic or no panic. There is no fear of overstocking in Chicago, and I believe the same is true of the Middle West towns. I expect to purchase more goods on my present trip than ever before, and I've been a buyer for a good many years." Representatives of firms in Columbus, Cincinnati and Youngstown, 0., had the same thing to say. Irwin Hochstein, of Atlanta, Ga., declared that Southern city to be just j as prosperous as the big towns fur- . ther north. Cheer Up! Money's Plenty. "New Yorkprs should cheer up," he said. "There's plenty of money around, and people are spending all the more freely for the temporary stringency." Albert Fresch, of a Memphis firm, said he understood that the planters expected a good year, and added that as the planters fared, so fared the South. JRT THE SOUTH I )ne of Its Banks Failed j Result. hundreds of thousands of acres. Fer* j tillzers are in great demand, and when it was pointed out to me there were millions of tons of natural fertilizer accessible by stripping the land of five feet of surface I thought Noah must have left the balance of the world in the neighborhood of Georgia and South Carolina. "There is general enthusiasm throughout the South regarding the betterment of waterways, which naturally will have an important effect on transportation of freights." He intimated convivial Georgians were not suffering from prohibition, as he understood each colonel had laid in a household supply so lavishly as to cause a temporary local financial stringency. Xcnc of Cuba's Sugar Mills Grinding Near Its Capacity. Havana. ? The Agrarian League has appointed a committee to memorialize Governor Magoon and urge him to use the $1,000,000 the last Cuban vntori tn urnniotp immiera V.UIl?lV?a I- _ ticn. The league bases its action on the present scarcity of canecutters, which is due to roadbuilding and other public works. None of the sugar mills is grinding more than three-quarters of its capacity. Prominent People. Dr. Felix Adler praised Governor Hughes' auti-race track betting recommendation. William J. Rolfe, the Shakespeare scholar and critic, passed his eightieth anniversary in Cambridge, Mass. The recent break down of Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of England, was undoubtedly due to overwork and the strain on his vitality. Brand Whitlock, of Toledo. Ohio, , Mayor and novelist, is afraid of germs on old paper money ana lnsist3 tnat j his salary be paid him in crisp uew i bills- I BII18 MO SECRET gm ii cow Constitution and By-Laws of PittsDurg's Biacsmaiimg ?anu. PENALTIES FOR TREACHERY Document Translated in Full?Proof of a Regular Organization For Murder and Robbery in This Country?Branding and Death. Pittsburg, Pa.?The constitution printed and bound in pamphlet form, on which at least four of Pittsburg's circles of the Black Hand societies are based, was produced in full iu court, translated from Italian. Its reading at the hearing of the six Italians charged with attempts to blackmail R. R. Quay and other prominent Sewickleyites, produced a sensation in court. * The translation in full makes more than 2000 words. Copies of it have been sent to the Baltimore police to assist in their work against the society there. Marvelous oaths are included in the thirty-nine sections of the by-laws. The different degrees?the spies, scouts, the dives, sluggers and knife men?are named. The assigns of the organization are all divided into sections. The pickpockets, thieves and the bullies or "sluggers" employert by j the members are not admitted to their meetings, which can be attended by only ihose who have "earned honor." Penalties are graduated from small fines to branding with the knife or the iron. For lesser offenses it is provided that the brand may be made on the body. For greater ones it must be affixed on the face, "so that all members may always know the traitor on sight." For the more heinou3 offenses of warning a victim or revealing any of the deeds of any members the penalty is death. Under the chief or head, who is known only to the head circle of those who have "Earned Honor." is the Camuffo dy Lustra, the spy and scout overseer, to whom all members, of the various sections must report. The lowest penalty ft>r the disobedience of his orders is the branding ol the emblem of scorn upon him. The by-laws set the price to be paid foi spies, thieves and pickpockets al $27.50. For bullies and "beaters,' S10, but for the administration ol the death penalty it is considered dis honorable and dangerous to hire a third party, and only members of the society are chosen, who act without remuneration in fulfilment of the sacred oath. Members of the society also swear to know no blood relations?neither father nor son, if the yv fP ^ ,-n K/% o rr o in.4 fViam Tlforr. Uiicuac Us? agaiuov v.u&m vvsou. *>*vui i bers of the same circle also are sworn ! to indulge in no feuds with fellow i members. Here are a few of the penalties provided: "He who refuses to obey the orders of the chief, the overseer or of an> members bearing insignia of having 'Earned Honor,' shall at first offense be branded by knife on the body beneath the clothing. For second of fense shall be liable to death at the word of the chief. "The member who will attempt tc reveal the secrets of the society 01 who permits any one of his family tc reveal its secrets, that member shall be punished with death. The chiel shall detail not more than three of those who have "Earned Honor' tc accomplish his finis. "The member who shall fc "\ke a fellow member, becoming a c. yard, shall be punished according to the severity of the harm that befalls the fellow whom he deserted at the or(Inro r\ f tho hflfiH'c r?lr/?1o AVOD t.fl death."' The city detectives say these bylaws vary in different localities, but fragments of rules found in the raids on four different Black Hand headquarters in this city show th' me Bcheme of organization and the oame general plan of punishment. A copy of Sewickley by-laws, from which these translations were made, was printed. RIOT IN JAPANESE HOUSE. Ar. Exciting Debate Precedes the Passage of the Budget. Tokio, Japan.?After an exciting debate, which developed into a riot on the floor of the House of Representatives, the budget was passed by a majority of 102. In the course of the rioting speakers howled at the Chair and charged favoritism, the opposing members demanding an apoloev. The Chair susDended the se8- i sion for half an hour, and upon re- | Burning apologized handsomely to the i Opposition. Several of those who took part in the debate called attention to the ; fact that more than half of the budget I was devoted to armaments. It was also pointed out that the financial measures of the Government did not contain provisions to prevent an outflow of gold while the balance of trade had a tendency against Japan. Upon the side of the Ministry the principal speaker argued that it was unwise and dangerous to discuss pub- j licly the nation's finances from a pes- I simistic standpoint, thereby creating | unnecessary alarm abroad. He called attention to the natural resources of Japan, which, he said, were only awaiting development by cheap capital. "GUILTY,M SAYS LAUNDRY TRUST Cincinnati Washers Admit Combine j in Restraint ot Cleanliness. Cincinnati, Ohio.?The laundry trust pleaded guilty to being a combine to control price before Judge Johu A. Caldwell and each of the eleven laundries that formed the trust was fined $5 0 and costs. The combination, also agreed to dissolve. The indictments agaiu.-st the proprietors were quashed. Feminine Notes. The late 'Ouida" made $230,000 with her pen. According to Chinese law a woman who is too talkative may be divorced. The Countess of Warwick, the Socialist peeress, is writing her memoirs. Suffragettes met with defeat at the convention of the Federation of Women's Clubs. j iwenty women, moiuers ui auium girls, took the first ste.^s to suppress a secret Greek letter society of New York school girls whose initiation was deaounced as cruel. ' s*p __ ?? " ' # .aTy^j^ ' -ijpffiMfffiMrlPl. 4&W : JBy wk This woman says Lydia E. ? Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saved her life. Bead her letter* Mrs. T. C. Willadsen, of Manning, Iowa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: 411 can truly say that Lydia E. 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Bhe has gruided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. A Drink to Match. Professer Brander Matthews, in a lecture on threatrical conventions, told the following story: "A little girl had dramatized a sofa pillow into a horse, and had ridden on it to her mother's knee. 'Horsy is thirsty, mamma,' she said. The mother brought a glass of water, but the little one carefully emptied it into a jardiniere before offering the glass to her pillow. 'A pertended horse ought to drink pertended water/ she remarked, gravely."?Harper's Weekly. - v A New Belgian Airship. i According to a contemporary, a Belgian military engineer, Commandant le Clement de Calnt Marcq, has invented a new airship, which will be tried shortly. The iDventer is a wellknown authority on this subject, and while the plans on which the airship r is built are withheld, it is said that almost a revolutionary departure has * been made from all that has been created hitherto in the line of steer- t able balloons.?Engineer. Circumstantial Evidence. The taking of a full jgrown frog from a water meter in Bath has raised serious doubts as to the efficiency of the local filtration system. ?Kennebec Journal. noiifnpss rnnnnt Re Curpd bylocal applications as theycan aot reach the \ diseased portion of tho ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Daafuess is caused byan inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tnbeis inflamed you have a rumbling sound orimperfeet hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will i be destroyed forever. Nr-ecases out often s* are caused bycatarrh, which isr.othingbutan \ inflamed condition of the mucoa3 surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused bycatarrh) that cannot be curedby Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free. F.J.Citejjey & Co.,Toledo,O. 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