Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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jw . ? PLANTER'S ? LOAN AND 5 ? SAVINGS % BANK piTsnrnsBEST* ACCOUNTS i% SOLICITED L, C. HAYNE, }> * PSBSfDSKT. ' < Chas. C. Howard, CASHIER. . >IMIltllHWrf4 ffflE NATIONAL BANK t # AUGUSTA, GA. L. C. HAYNS, President. FSANK G. FORD, Cashier. CAPITAL.$250,000 Surplus and Profits. 160,000 -g Avgusta. Ga.. Z KE30-STBCES OV?BB ?1,000,000 ;:i?]immii| nilli in ii VOL. 72. TTf ?bali be pltaxoJ to have yna opfn *o acconnt with thia bank. C'..rtnrnera?nd currvg.-o >di-n-J> ?V ^ su rod of ?r?ry Mrnj nod jocomr (?dation potnl bio under couaervatlve, mad cru BanKinff Bia.hoda ?iD DMLEWRf?K Uves and Property Lost Sn a Railway Accident - g . g_Ui rvT ^ TWO DEAD; SEVERAL IN?IREtf Past Passenger Crashes Into Freight Trail With Dead Engine on Rear, Smashing Both and Demolishing Several- Gara^ WreclrefStriker * \' .TieLiand Practically"W?ole Train; Piled Into Bitch. - - -, . ... ..? Birmingham, Ala., Special. result of a double wreck cm Southern Railway a short distance east- of Woodlawn, a.-suburb of Bir--j mingham, early Sunday, two inch are ! . dead" and a number injured. The dead: Cal. B. Harris, fireman on the wrecker. , Tom Beverly, brakeman on. wrecker The injured are James Wages, At . lanta, engineer, skull fractured, bead hurt and face scratched; S. H.. Hill,, engineer, internal, injuries Thomas Powell, engineer, bruises-., on body; white flagman, shoulder dislocated ; two postal clerks, slightly injured; "dkfcef passenger^ knee cut. j$ ?* sr The unusual character of thc -wreck makes it su rp rising that the e?s?al ' tics were not more. A'freight train with a dead eugine' on the rear, was coining^ toward B^Mingham. Thc operator, it is said, allowed No. 37, the."fast-passenger, to, enter the block .- an:i. it crashed into the dead, engine, samshing them'both hud demolishing several c?rs. Three cars of' thc freight train, were thrown across the ...eastbound.track, almost ot thc.instant that the Southern wrecker en route to Hefliu, Ala., passed. The wxcckei j ' struck them "andTpractically the whole train piled into the ditch.-. "Two"men were caught under the engine.'". . The baggage and mail cara of the passenger train were torn upwind the three demolished engines with .the . debris strewn about presented.a grue some picture. ? '?? ? y* i -:- .. .. J Great Fire in Manila. . . Manila, By Cable.-Fire destroyed 1,100- houses and partsr of the Dis tricts of . Singalong, Paco and Bam ; hang, in Manila. The American set tlements at Ermita and Malate" es a! j^ens. The flames, fanned by a -gale, swept an area of 100 ;vn, within two hours, and d' ..'"mc'?'ofilOO fcsSds?ts-? ' OOO natives. Thc-native refuge shctyerefi in the schools - other public buildings many are carop : ing in dperr spaces." The ' damage"" i& ' "conservatively estimated at ^OtyOOO in gold. No causalties are reported. The" officials of the health depart ment do not agree with the estimate of the damage given above which was made by policemen and firemen. They assert.that 2G9 houses were de stroyed and ?.300 natives rendered homeless. Their estimate of the fin ancial loss is the same as that of the other municipal department. It is 'thought that the, figures given by the health officers are nearer correct." The districts of Singalong', Paco and .Banbaug, lie to the east of the ; balled city of .Manila and 'just behind Hie residenti?l.distraction of.Malate . and-Emrita, which face the bay. Near hy "ntl of''the native houses ~iri"'the fire swept district are aiQpa huts-of com j pcratively small rvalue. : j ? *^ ; ^ Fonn?er of W. C. T^Bea?v Dunkirkr??. Y., Special.-Mrs jSsth- I '? er J McNeil/ the'founder of the Wo-j man's Christian Temperance Union, andi first president of the organiza tion, died at her home in Frcdoftia."] Sha. was. bojm at Carlisl.e^N. Y.,.J?4 years'ago, and was widely known throughout.', tl^c?United ?S.fcjtcs .as,^| temperance worker*. Three Injured at Carpet Plant. ' Philadelphia, Special.-Three per ~^SOTIS", "two women and a marr,-were-ser iously injured as.' the result of an ex plosioni of a 'gas retort 'at the plant of John ard James Dobson^ ?arpet manufacturers, in tho southwestern ".part of the cijy. Tbc explosion, fol lowed a slight fire and threw 4,000 . employes at work in the milkv into a . panic. Many young women"Tain?ed. but all'the employes were gotten oui-j -safely witj> the exception jofUhe. three who were badly burned. They arc Mary Cavanaugh, Annie McElirk and ileorge SJiaw. Body of Miss Pedleton Recovered. Staunton, Va., Special.-Tho body of Miss Mabel Pendleton was found j half a mile below the bridge ovei Jackson liver, at Clifton Forg? from J which she and her lover Stuart Gay. jumped to their death on Thursdavj last after being turned back at Staun ton wbile en route to Washing lou, ic be married. < The: body of Gay, has not yet been recovered. 18 Inches of SnW nt Denver. Denver, Col.. Special.-According-] to the local weather bureau's meas urements, IS inches of snow fell bert during thc storm . which came from the north. A heavy precipitation aTsc was..general.'in Colorado, benefiitting the grain ci ops, which were threaten ed by drought. Freezing weather i. anticipated, but little damage will bc done, ns vegetation is coverer1* wi tl; snow. Damage estimated at $500,00C has been done to. fruit trees in thu ?rksHS?s valley. *j M| CARNEGIE ON PEACE Reply, to Letter Fr'o^ President Con > tainicg Suggestions Which Mr. Carnegie .Quotes as "Objections" and Proceeds to Anster. Kew York, Special-Mr. Andrew "Carnegie, who is president of : the peace congress, gave put a statement as to the results of the congress just . closet* Although not so- designated by Mr. Carnegie, the;statement con stitutes a reply to some of thesug -gestiohs contained in the letter which President Roosevelt addressed to the' congress on its opening day. Mr. Carnegie quotes ?$iese statements as ^ onctions ' ' and proceeds to answer the?f as follows:: . "Our peace-conference has brought thfee\objections clearly . before us. .^t-VFirst, Nations cannot submit all questions to arbitration. "ASuswer, Six of them .have recent ly ?Son?* so by treaty-Denmark and the Netherlands, Chile and Argen tina, Norway and Sweden. "Second, Justice is higher than peace. . _ "Answer, The first principla.of nat j ural justice forbid; men to 'be~judgcs when they are parties to the issue.. All law rests ,upon this throughout the civilized world. Were a judge I known to sit upon a case in which be was secretly interested he would De dishonored and expelled' froia his high office. If .any. individual refus ed to submit his dispute with a neigh bor to disinterested parlies (arbitra tors'or jqdges), ant1! insisted upon be ing his own judge he would violate . the first'principle of justice. If bc iosopted>to force in defense of his right to judge, he would be dishonor ed as ?j| breaker of the Jaw. Thus peace wilh'justice is secured -firough arbitration^: either by court 'of by trib unal,, n eyer by one ot' the parties sit ting as ijodge in bis own cause. ; "Third,;ir' is neither peace nor jus tide: -bul,- righteousness that shall" exalt thc nation. * 'Answer^ Righteousness is simply 'dcangwhat is right. What is just is ?always right; what is unjust is al ways wrong, it-being ?lie first princi ple of justite that ;men shall not b6 judges in their own! cause to refuse to submil, to judge or arbitrator is uu justj' henee riot right, for the essence of righteousness is justice. There fore ' men "who place justice or right eousness above peace practically pro claim as it appears! to me, that they will commit injustice am1* discard righteousness by constituting them selves-sole judges of their owncause in violation, of law, pustice .and*-right. "Civilized man has reached the conclusion that he meet:; the ?aims" of . justice and 1 of right only hy uphold ing the present reign of JawJ__?*?1' prfis?inr flnfTT^-x^ _-^?n sit "in" ju?tgm?ut is the^wick?^^s lhat degrades a na tion.//. By Wire and Cable. The Thaw trial ended with the dis agreement and discharge of the jury. A great rubber tmst is planned at Providence, R*. I. A furious blizzard is swwep'ing over the copper'-country..in Micigan and byer . Northen, Wisop nsi n. .Advices, from'XShanghai are. to the effect that thc famine boro rs in China are growing worse, and that the flbath rate from starvation is 5,000 daily. A? demand %'om the Government for the expulsion of Socialist mem bers stirred lip the Douma, and some startling speeches -were made. Lieut.-Gen. Robert McGregor Stew art has resigned as Governor of Ber muda. Placed Under ?7C0 Bonds. . ' Marysville, La, Special-Charged with ana n's laugh ter for their alleged carelessness in allowing the negro Charley^Strauss, IQ be lynched, Dep .ty. Sheriffs J- E. Keegan and J. J. Salmon were brought here under ar mrest and placed under $700 bond each. : Strauss was hanged to a tree in-the woods hear"Eola, La., where a crowd nf masked men-met the deputies ai the latter were escorting the negro to ^ja?. ?-??'-. Fatal'Cutting Scrape Between Negro Women. Spartanburg, Special.-Annie Wil son, a negro woman, was lodged in jail here for . cutting the throat of Florence'Clifton,'another negro wo man, at"Inman Sunday afternoon. The crime, is a horrible one and though the Clifton woman was alive there is no chance for her. recovery. ^?j?eld Tor Manslaughter. .Savannah, Ga., Special.-In thc police court George -Hulbert,": watch man ; R. E. Wallace, engineer,^and W. E. Jackson, fireman, in. thc" em ploy of the Central, of Georgia Rail way, who were in charge of the train aw1! crossing when a sight-seeing auto mobile was run down on Saturday last,., injuring Miss Mary Teresa! ..Rourke, of Brooklyn, N. Y., so badly she died and severely, injuring sever al others, were held for trial on ;: charge of manslaughter. Americans Sentenced to Death. San Antonio; Tex., Special.-A special from'Monterey , Mex., says: ^Information has been received that the Supreme Court of Mexico bas af firmed the'decision of the lower court in thc case? of Hulbert. Mitchell and Hale, Americans, convicted of pois oning two ot ber Americans for insur ance money in Chihuhua and that the fib ree''.''men have been sentenced to death. Railways Deny Charges Made By Southern Shippers DECLARE RATES REASONABLE Postponement to Saturday Allowed on Motion of Complainants to Allow Time for Serving of Papers Forc ing the Introduction of Minutes of 1905 Conference. Washington, Special-Rates on cot .ton goods from Southern poiuts to the Pacifie coast. China and Japan was again the subject of hearing be fore the inter-state commerce com mission. E. J. Southall, representing the complainants, made a formal mo tion for a postponement of the hear ing until he could serve defendant railroad and steamship companies with a subpcona duces tecum to com pel the production of thc minutes of thc. conference held in 1905 which re sulted in the alleged agreement to raise rates. The defendant compan ies finally agreed to produce these minutes and the hearing was continu ed. Mr. Southall said to the commis sion that he intended to show by the minutes of these conferences that they were participated in by railroad men notwithstanding the denial of this during the earlier testimony. t The railroad representatives replied that the. minutes would not show the pr?sence of railroad men at confer ence and claimed further thut no agreement was ent?red into hy them regarding the rates in question. It is claimed that, if an agreement was reached between the steamship Hues it is beyond the jurisdiction of the in ter-state commerce commission. Secretary Ayers of the "China and Japan Trading Company, explained the exact method of purchases, price of goods and rates paid for shipment both from New York to the Orient via the Suez canal ?pd from the Pa cific coast. The defense rested their case after the testimony of Lincoln Green through traffic manager of the South em Railroad. Mr. Green told the commission that the rate complained of was fixed on an exceedingly low basis because of water competition and that it had been reduced from $1.85 per one hundred pounds to San Francisco to $1.15, present rate. The commission took the case under ad visement. An Island Town Destroyed. possiDie to check the flames and assist the sufferers. No estimate has been made of the amount of damage done and no details of the fire are obtain able, owing to communication with Iloilo being seriously affected. Iloilo is the capital of the Island of Paney, located on the east coast. The port, which is the second in importance in the Philippines, next to Manila, is the centre of the sugar import trade. Stolen Express Money Recovered. St. Paul, Minn., Special-The $25, 000 stolen at the Union depot Tuesday night, was recovered by the police. John Gunderson, the suspected rob ber, who was arrested on Wednesday, told the police where he had hifYlen the money. One package containing $10,000 was found under a piece of dirt in Jackson street, and two other packages containing $15,000 were ftnnd under the platform at the Great Northern shops. Preacher Held for Unlawfully Marry ing Couple. Rochester, Special.-Rer. W. F Coffey, pastor of an African church ai Olean, was arrested on the charge ol unlawfully marrying Arthur Jones colored, and Dora Hitchcock, white Coffey was held for thc grand jury ir thc sum of $500. Fred Hitchcock, ,-hc father of the girl, and Arthur Jone? to whom she was married were mar ried, were arrested and arraigned They pleaded not guilty to disorderly acts. A jury trial will be given them 75,000 Deaths in a Single Week From Plague in India. Simia, Inc?a, By Cable. - There were 75,000 deaths from the plague in India during thc week ending April 13. Seventy thousand of Iher.e occur red in Bengal, the United provinces and thc Punjab. Thc epidemic began in the Punjab in October, 1897, since when nearly a million and a hali deaths have occurred. - Mills of South Carolina. Washington, Special.-Three cases involving charges of excessive rates andi discrimination on the part oi about 30 railroad companies against cotton manufacturers of the Soutt were heard by the inter-State Com merce commission Chairman Knapp and Commissioners Clements, Cockrell and Lane are hearing the cases. It is likely the proceedings will continw for two days. Plans for New Battleships Signed Washington, Special. - Secretary Metcalf signed the plans and specifi cations for the two 20,000-ton battle ships to be built for the United States navy. They are to be of the genera.' type of tte Dreadnought of the Brit ish navy. Thc plans will bc sent te as many navy yards "and such private ship-building firms as signify their in tention to make bids. They will b< sent out on April 20, and bids will bc opened on June 20. MEETING OF DOCTORS Interesting Session Closes With the Election of Officiers and Commit tees. Bennettsville, Special.- Interesting scientific sessions of the Medical as sociation were held, and a number of strong papers and discussions were heard. The house delegates elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: President, Dr. LeGrand Querry, Co lumbia; first vice presiden-, P*? Adams Hayne, Greenville; second vice president, Dr. Marsh, Edgefield; third vice president, Dr. Mary R. Ba ker, Columbia; secretary; Dr. Walter Cheyne, Sumter; treasurer, Dr. C. P. Almar, Charleston. Councillors: Dr. W. B. Cox, Ches ter, fifth district; Dr. S. C. Baker, Sumter, sixth district. Five other councillors held over. Board of medical examiners: Dr. R. A. Bratton, Yorkville; Dr. W. H. Porcher, Charleston ; Dr. J. J. Watson Columbia ; Dr. J. O. Rosamond, Easly. State board of health : Dr. Robert Wilson, Charleston; Dr. Hall, Aikc:i; Dr. C. C. Gambrell, Abbeville; Dr. J. Adams Hayne, Greenville; Dr. W. J. Burdell, Lugoff; Dr. James Evans, Florence; Dr. C. F. Williams, Colum bia. Legislative committee: Dr. J. G. Simmons, Cbarleston ; Dr. J. G. Croft. Aiken, Dr. J. H. McIntosh, Columbia. bardon Papers Acted Upon. Gov. Ansel pardoned John Henry King, convited in Pickens county last month of bigamy and sentenced to two years and six .months on the chaingang. It appeared from the pe tition that King's ?first wife left him and lived in Georgia with another man. It was afterwards rumored that she was dead, hut King could not prove this and on remn/i^e ku was indicted and convicted. jjLf?ida: vits were produced afterward, how ever, showing that his first wife was dead at the time and after imprison ment for one month he was released. A pardon was refused William Todd sent up from Horry county for adult ery and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Epworth Leaguers Adjourn. Bamberg, Special.-The State Ep worth League conference adjourned Sunday night after a masterful ad dress by Dr. H. M. Dolose of Nash ville, the general secretary of the Ep worth League. Dr. DuBose is a fluent and interesting speaker, and uses' beautiful language. His theme was "The Crucifixion of Christ," and he painted the pictures of the descent Chester county is, perhaps, freer of congested docket than any county hi the State. With 25 cases on * ihe roster at the opening of the term there remain hut two for trial at the next term. The members of the har cooperated with the vigorous judge in pushing the business of the court. Commissioner Watson Returns Soon. Commissioner of Immigration Wat son is expected to return from Europe some time this week and report on the result of his conference with the steamship companies in regard to the establishment of a line to Charleston from German ports. It is not known yet how far the companies will go after the recent opinion by Attorney General Bonaparte affecting the car rying of immigrants and thc work done by States and thc report hy Commissioner Watson will bc await ed with interest. Strawberries Half a Crop. Wilmington, Special.-The cancel lation of orders for ice further than that already stored and held in re serve for the Armour car lines, is tak- ( cn to mean that thc strawberry crop in Eastern North Carolina is cut down fully one half by the cold of the past week. Maximum estimates of thc shipments from Chadbourn range from 750 to 900 cars expected this season wheras 1,500 cars was the yield last year. Berries frosted on' the vines during the freeze have rot ted and blooms were cut off. Vote Against a Common Council. Columbus, Ga., Special.-The Ma con Presbytery voled adversely to the j proposed articles of agreement for ai common council of six branches of the Presbyterian Clinrch in America. Sentiment was almost unanimous that there is no necessity for such a coun cil. The General Assembly of the Souther? Presbyterian Church has asked all the Presbyteries to express an opinion as to the proposed articles of agreement. Kills Mother-in-Law and is Shot Down by Officer. Tulsa, I. T., Special.-At Clare mere, I. T., George Goldin, a hack driver, shot and instantly killed his mother-in-law, Mrs. Kate Paris, at thc latter's home carly Thursday morning and was himself shot and killed hy Chief of Police Leach, with whom he engaged in a running pistol duel. Thc traget1!;,' was the culmina tion of a quarrel between Mrs. Pari?' and Golden over a board bill. Two Drowned in Saluda River. Anderson, Special.-J. B. Walker and John Dickson, two electricians employed in the power plant near here were drowned in Saluda river Thurs day. They were visiting trout lines when their boat capsized Both bod ies were recovered. Uv?f and Property Are Lost in Ifc Mexican Cities WO! E THAN FIRST REPORTED Damages Wrought in Mexican Towns No! Exaggerated in the Earlier Re polis-The "Whole West Coast Said to, Have Been Affected hy the Slwcks. Ci|y of Mexico, Special-Heavy earthquake shocks continued on thc west^coast until 4 o'clock Tuesday morning. Late news from the area of greatest destruction in the recent earthquake shows that the devasta tion was greater than at first suppos ed. . Besides the destruction of Chilpan cingo and Chilapa, it is now reported thatjSTixtia, between these two cities, containing about the same population as Chilpancingo, was also leveled. Messengers from the coast who have reached Chilpancingo say that thc towjis of Ayutla and Ometepec have been cfcstroyod. j?yutia is about 50 miles south of Chilpancingo in the State of Guererro and "some 20 miles west of Acapulco. It is one of the most historic towns in Lue republic, for it was Jierc that the "p?j?n'of Ayutla" was conceived wbi?jh caused the revolution, made a real- republic and developed the tal ents.of a young officer named porfirio Diaz. The population of Ayutla is small, and it is thought that the loss of life there will be insignificant. w While West Coast Affected. (Inietepec is further south near the boundary line of the States of Guer enp and Oaxaca. It is a town" of about 4,000 inhabitants. Tiapa, a town 80 miles west of Chiloancingo, and near the border line of the Stati of Oaxaca*:s also reported ciiamaged. The report from Chilpancingo says that the whole of the west coast from Acapulco south of Sailna Cruz, the. Pacific terminal of the Tehuan tepee national i ai ?way, has been bad ly damaged. Owing to tuc remoteness of these poi))! s and to I ho fact, that wire and rail, communication is very poor, news ope rat o i i litre was questioned as to the number of causalties, but he de clared h** knew nothing beyond the fact that he had seen about, a do:xn corpses and knew of some 30 wound ed. Widespread Destruction. A despatch to El Pais, a dail paper which is the organ of the Cathode church in this city, from the bishop of Chilapa confirms thc report of the widespread destruction in that vicin ity. Fourteen are reported to have been killed in one house and thc num ber of wounded is given at 30. In Tixtla it is reported that 32 bodies have been taken from the ruins and that twice that number of wound ed arc being cared in temporary structures erected in the open country Up to 4 o'clock Wednesday morn ing the shock continued with more ot less severity near Chilpancingo, com pleting the work of destruction and destroying many of the most impor tant public buildings of tbc city. Thc new municipal palace was badly shat tered. Its predecessor was leveled by an earthquake four years ago. Thc hospitals, schools and the jail arc in ruins. Figures not Exaggerated. Up to this lime the number of deaths reported is 3S and thc wounded P3. But in view of later reports it is .thought that these figures will fall far short of thc real number of fatal ities. Prominent Florida Lawyer Dead. Jacksonville,, Fla., Special.-A. W Cockrell, one of FloricY.'s leading law years, died suddenly of heart diseasi at his home here aged 72 years. Col onel Cockriil, who served in the eivi war as an officer in an Alabama regi mont came to Jacksonville, shorty after the war and entered the prac tice of his profession. Ile leaves sev eral sons, oin- of whim is Robert S Cccrcll, an associate justice of th? Supreme Court of Florida. Two Scalded to Death. Key West, Fla., Special.-An ex plosion whicli occurred on thc dredge George W. Allen, engaged in exten sive work on the Florida East Coast Railway at Key Vest carly Sunda) caused the death of two Spaniards. Jose Anido and Manuel Agras, and injured eight others. Four of thc in jured were badly scalded on the hands and face. A tube in thc boiler buist the escaping steam blowing open thc furnace doors and throwing live coak and steam on thc two men who were killed. Coal Dealers Meet in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-The South eastern Retail Coal Merchants As sociation assembled here for the an nual convention. Repr?sentai ive; from Nc ' th and South Carolina, Geor gia, Alabama and Florida, were pres ent, including nine operators, whole sale and jobbing dealers. Robert W Graves, of Rome, Ga., president ol the association, presided over tin meeting, which wil coptinuc un ti Wednesday night. ! Late ?fet&s I I In "Brief ?A I I MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST f President Roosevelt lias summoned the District Attorney of lYnho, and it is reported that the prosecution of Senator Borah for land frauds wiU he discontinued. Daughters of the American Revolu tion contributed $23,237 toward the completion of Conti.Vntal Hall. Dr. Ira Remsen, president of Johns Hopkins University, was elected pres ident of the National Academy ^of mont announces that tt??^K&r Sv'li'jjg. open continuously after thc opening day, April 2G. The decision of the Virginia Cor poration Commission to reduce freight and passenger rates is expected within the next week. Thc general board reports that there arc 3,196 patients in the Virgin ia State hospitals and no insane are now confined in jails in Virginia. The Peace Congress in New York came to an end and Andrew Carnegie was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor by thc French Gov ernment. Thc defendants in the Eddy suit filed their answer to all complaint of (Mrs. Eddy's son and others, denying all the allegations mata against them and putting counter-charges. Testimony given in' the Harrisburg capitol inquiry indicated that Con tractor Sanderson knew long before the son tract was awarded that he would bc thc successful bidder. Rev. C. F. Aked, reaching New York, (lilied emphatically that ne would become Rockefeller's pastor. A rumor that ex-Sheriff "Ed" Cal lahan may confess the whole troth of the Brehthitt county feud murcVrs is to worry Judge Hargi?. "Petticoat politics" is said to bi the real cause of West Point's pres ent "tempest in thc toapot." v Mr. Hugh L. Bond conferred in Chi cago with Hill representative regard ing the terminal transfer controversy. Ex-Judge Stevenson was held up in Philadelphia in true Wild Western fashion and robbed. What the "Apollo Belvidere" and the "Discuss Thrower" shall wear tu hide their shapeliness is puzzling a whole town in Connecticut^ More Ohio counties are reported to have joined Taft's boora. Mr. Taft made a careful address in Ponce, Por shocks were icu in many parts of the world. A bill granting thc right of appeal in criminal cases and creating a court for that purpose was introduced in thc British Parliament. Mexico's earthquake was worse than at first reported, no fewer than five towns being destroyed and many persons being killed. Secretary Wilson denounced manu facturers who are advertising that thc purity of their products is guar anteed by thc Government. Field Marshall Lord Roberts joked with General Botha, Premier of the Transvaal, at thc Lord Mayor's lun cheon, the two having formerly fought each other. The investment of a part of the permanent fun? in railroad bonds caused a heated debate at the Daugh ters of the American Revolution Con gress. Five persons were killed and a score hurt by the wrecking of the Oriental Limited on the Northern Pacific rail road. Mrs. Charles J. Holman, thc mother of Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw, in an inter view, defends herself, and says she would have killed White had her Ci nighter told her what she told Thaw Thc medical building of McGill University, at Montreal, was destroy ed by fire. John Smith, iii court at Lexington, Ky., confessed that he had been in duced by Judge Hargis to kill James Cockrill. The Philadelphia Board of Trade adopted r?solu'ions depreciating leg islation hostile to railroads. Andrew Carnegie's gift to the Un ited Engineering Societies a big build ing in New York, was dedicated. Tho bia: / merican fleet of battle ships and c i-oiers is nov.- anchored oil* Jamestown, and thc plan of an chorage is being worked out. President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, writes to President Roosevelt consent ing to a general peace conference. A number of Hungarian miners em ployed in thc Red Bird mine, near Wheeling, were ambushed and one killed. Judge Faulkner, at Martinsburg, upheld the undated will of John W. eriswell, deciding it to be his last will Thc Virginia State Council of the Royal Arcanum is in session in Dan ville. Russell B. Ward a merchant and cattle dealer, committed suicuide in Priccss Anne county. Governor Warfield at the Public ity Law meeting in New York declar ed his intention of prosecuting those using large sums to influence voters in the Maryland campaign. Bryan and Warfield were centers of interest at thc Brooklyn Democrat ic Club's Jefferson banquet. R?verai meetings were held in con nection with thc Peace Congress .in New York. The conference of British colonial governors, which will continue about one month, began in London, NEWSY GLEANINGS. Americans will run Cuba at least a year longer. The Russian lower bouse lias agreed to the restrictions imposed by the Premier. Improvement in taste in art in America is marked, says M. Jules Lowengard, of Paris. John W. Yerkes, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, resigned office to resume the practice of law. The meeting of the sovereigns of Great Britain and of Spain may ma terially Influence thc balance of power in Europe. Figures disclosed in a suit show that 11,275,000 was paid in royalties under the Seiden patent by automo I-bile manufacturers in four year.r Sir Wilfrid Laurier, of Canada, r.nd General Botha arrived in London; a himself in favor of international peace. Commander Robert E. Peary, at Portland, Me., announced plans for his proposed voyage, when he will make another attempt to reach the North Pole. Residents of Pittsburg say that Harry Thaw has so greatly depleted the family's fortune that there would not be enough left to spare for bail in case the Court would accept it. A London dispatch states that as th^ result of a controversy it has beon decided that Sudbury, a small Sufolk town, is the original of the famous Eatanswill of "Pickwick." Thc annual depreciation in the value of warships is shown by the sale at auction of six Eritish war vessels, among them the Sans Pareil, which cost $3,597,210, and which brought $133,000. Seeks the Garden of Eden. Professor Clinton McMickle, a Kan sas scientist and archaeologist, is so ^confident that the Garden of Eden was located in Yazoo county, that he wauts to organize a stock company for the purpose of making extensive excava tions on the farm of W. A. Henry, a lawyer and planter, about seven miles south of Yazoo City, for the purpose of unearthing the ruins of a once splendid city erected shortly after the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden. Professor McMickle is positive that on the Henry farm will be found the ruins of a magnificent temple, the doors of which are of pure gold. Pro cessor McMickle declares that this was the site of tho ancient city of Posei don, destroyed by a conjunction of Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter just 4,235 years ago, on the Sth of last November. Professor McMickle states that he has conclusive evidence, based on the book of Genesis and Greek Egyptiona records th?* PHENOMENA BABCOCK VEH?CLI ity, stylo, comfort and du equals. Our sales More tha all the vehicle dealers in t to see us. We will prove i by our local receiver of ta FRAZIER road carts. CHASE'S fine robes. W Half as compared to prices e wagon material a. specialty H. Et. O O The Carnage and Hare 749 and 751 Broad Stree Iii?iLraxice o C. A.GRIF Will protect you agai Accidents, Sickness and It will be a pleasure to s your business will be he Wagons F?RNI Large Shipments of the best u just received. Our stock of fu is complete. ? Large stock. COFFINS an always on hand. All calli ly responded to. All goo gin of profit. Call to sc money. GEO. 1?. Johnston. PROMIXEXT PEOPLE. Senator Elkins says the railroads are not overcapitalized. Senator Bailey nov.' owns about 600 acres of land in Fayette County, Ky. Professor Brander Matthews has just been decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor. Joseph Choate, at the Schurz me morial meeting, introduced Mr. .Cleveland as the ''first citizen of the nation." The Sultan of Turkey is one of tho most enthusiastic chess players in Europe. He will play the game for hours without intermission. Mrs. Grace Redpath, widow of Pe ter Redpatb, of Montreal, who died in London recently, left $150,000 to McGill University, Montreal. Justice Brewer, of thc Un'ted aunreme Court, is the best. -i^yyT^" BWrStonc stone, "purchased a fruit farm near U??kirk, N. Y., which ho will use as his summer home. Ex-Mayor Burke, of Burlington, Vt, who lately retired from office, is a capable blacksmith. A few days ago ho shod fifty-two horses "all 'round." A bronze statue of John W. Mac kay in miner's costume is to bo un veiled at Reno next September, on ; thc occasion of the dedication of tho Mackay School of Mines, given to the University of Nevada by Mr. Mackay. Premier Campbell-Bannerman, of England, unlike his predecessor, is a great reader of tho newspapers and writes for them frequently. His pre decessor, Mr. Balfour, boasted that while ho was in office lie never read thc newspapers. Harry S. Howland, just twenty eight years old, is the youngest major in thc United States army. ' . i ' Ci . Mudby Junction. A. J. Cassatt, late president of tho Pennsylvania Railroad, told at a lunch eon at the Philadelphia Country Club a railroad story. "A Western broker," he said, "mov ed from the city out into the country. He moved far out, and, since the rail road was small and thc train service poor, he travelled to and from town by carriage or automobile exclusively. "Deciding after a time to keep chick ens, he ordered a patent chicken coop, and on the day it was expected set out in a dray to fetch it home from the freight office. "He reached the railroad station, which he had never seen before, aftei an hour's drive. No one was in sight,' but there was his chicken coop, and with his man's help he soon had it on the dray and set off homeward again. "A hundred yards or so down tho road he met a chap in a blue uniform, with the title 'station master' in gold letter? nn w? ?S beat the world in qual rability. They have no ii I)o\i1>le he city of Augusta. Come t to you by our stock, and x returns and collector. "HACKNEY wagons^ e sell you these robes at pjrice lsewhere. Carnage and hvare Man of Georgia, t AUGUSTA, GA. _:_JJ ne * Agency f FIN &CO. nst loss by Fire, Death, Wind Storms. ;erve you at all times and .utily appreciated. 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