Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, March 04, 1908, Image 1
Planter's Loan |
id Savings Bank f
Augusta, Ca.
'ays Interest on Deposits, ^
J*> Accounts Solicited.
.;C. HAYNF, CHAS. C. HOWARD, ?
PREa?DEM'. CA8EIEK.T
RESOURCES OVER $i,000,000. 4.
OL. 73.
EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1908.
AUGUSTA. GA.
L. C. HAYNE,_?HAS. R. CLARK,
President. ' Cashier
CAPITAL $250,000.00.
Surplus & Profits $190,000.00.
Th? basin eu of cur out-of-town irised*
receives the sam? careful attention ss tbs!
of ouriocal depositors. The accounts of
careful conservative people solicited,
?'H "11 II 11 M"M lilli M-M*
NO. 10.
Rne greatest Show on Earth,
?question which travellers often
Beach other- in various parts o!
?world is: "What is really, tba
?test natural wonder on earth?*
I; easy to. answer now, since thc
lendous falls of the Zambesi River
le been discovered.- David Living
fi called the main fall, "the mos
Oderful sight I had visited in At
i." And when one imagines tho
etaele of one of the world's might
: rivers, two miles wide, falling
er 420 feet, it is not hard to agree
h one of the greatest traveller?
missionaries that ever lived,
ur own Niagara is only half a milt
e and 158 feet high, so that i'
res as a mero cascade in compart
..-The Travel Magazine.
?prominent Washington physician
that "mince pie ls not injurious
JU can digest it." It might be ad
comments the Baltimore Am erl
neither are carpet tacks-so
ti j depends upon the little word
Bomb Thrown at the Shah.
Tashington, Special.-A cable dis
i. received herc from Teheren by
State Department states that an
empt to assassinate the Shah of
fersia was made, but his majesty
leaped. A bomb was thrown at the
ly si carriage and killed several per
bus, but the Shah entirely escaped
jury. The cablegram does not con
in minute details.
Gives Birth to Five.
Steubensville, 0., Special.-Five
?rfectly-form?d children were born
Jere Friday to Mr. and Mrs. George
Campbell. Three of the babies died
within an hour after, their birth. One
poy'and one girl will live, it is said.
?hreo of the children were boys.
[Mrs. Campbell weighs less than 100
[pounds. The combined weight of the
-nfauts was 23 pounds. Physicians
declare the case ts be one of the most
remarkable known to the profession.
Geo
K.ailx*oa
AUGUS
Savings I
Pays 4 % interest on all ac
. compounded every six mc
Capital and Stop
Before insuring."else
Old- Line Companies.
At The Farmers
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that sells Stanhopes, Carria
position to offer you the bigt
the lowest possible price.
Reme
I am -known' as the beat io tl
ways of the beat standard, and
congratulate themselves. Mt
ihe lowest. BABCOCKS THE
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749 and 751 Broad Si
T3
Monume
Carria
- *'Opposite th<
We've had forty-six yea
selling vehicles, and have
wheels which for Beauty,
nmg and lasting and qualiti
Moyer and C<
gies,Riinal
Sun
^tnciel>a.k?
If Better were mai
them here,
A complete line of Harn?
Lumber Harness and I
SPECIALTY,
BELTING, LEATELE
RIAL. ETI
729 Broad Street,
i A tree-planilng revival ls in prog
ress in southern Indiana, where many
fairmers "are utilizing waste tracts of
land for the growing of such trees as
black locusts, hardy catalpas, and
other fast-growing varieties. The im
mediate cause of this movement, ob
serves the Argonaut, is the scarcity
of timber for fence-posts. It is aniJ
that land which can be bought at
from six to ten dollars an acre will
yield a good crop of locusts in about
ten ar twelve years, the product of
which is estimated to be worth' ti om
$250 to $800 an acre. The forc3t ser
rice of the government ls encourag
ing the movement In accordant with
its general policy,
TO CLEAN A STOPPED-UP PIPE.
The waste pipe from a sink often
gets clogged up. Don't send for a
plumber, but instead pour down, first,
. little paraffine, and, immediately
after, seme boiling water in which a
fairly large piece of common wash
ing soda has been dissolved. The
pipe will clear at once.-Boston Post
News in Brief.
Two bombs were thrown at the
Shah of Persia, one killing three out
riders, hut the Shah escaped.
A bomb was thrown at the carriage
of President Alcorta, of Argentina,
at Buenos Ayres, but failed to ex
plode.
Thp Women's EnfVancbiseinent hill
passed its first reading in the House
of Commons and was then shelved for
the rest of thc session.
President Pardo, of Lima, visited
Admiral Evans and toasted Roose
velt.
The House Naval Committee re
ported in favor of two large flating
drydocks, one for the Atlantic, one
for the Pacific Coast.
The House Banking and Currency
Committee voted, to report favorably
the Fowler Currency bill.
Ex-Secretary of the Navy Herbert
argued for the suspension of the
Nine-Hour law on the Seaboard Air
I Linel
roia
L<CL Bank
TA, GrJ^.
department
:countsin this department,
?nths, January and July.
las $550,000.00.
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Bank of Edgefield
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HE MAN
gee, Wagous, Buggies,etc., in
i.est possible, grade of goods{at
?mber
he business, my material is al
those who buy from Coskery'a
iterial the best, prices alwayB
! LEADER.
erect AUGUSTA, GA,
tte
ge Store
3 Monument.19
irs experience making and
yet to see anything on
Easy Riding, Light Run
es would match
ilumbia Bug
bouts and
reys.
fer ^Wag-oiiB
de you would find
;ss always on hand. Heavy
S.oad Scraper Harness a
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The News of South Caroli
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Federal Aid Proposed For Our High
. Schools.
Clemson College, Special.-Presi
dent P. H. Mell has received a letter
from the Hon. Chas. R. Davis, call
ing- his attention to a bill before con
gress, looking to the endowment
throughout the country of secondary
high schools for the purpose of en
cbuaging the teaching of agriculture,
the mechanical arts and home econo
mics for the better education of the
people at large. President Mell rec
ommends that all who are in favor of
this plan write to Congressman Davis
and to the representatives from South
Carolina giving their endorement of
his bill.
The measure provides for the pay
ment to each State and territory of a
sum amounting to 10 cents'per capita
of the population. The stipulation ia
made that all States and Territories
receiving thiB aid shall furnish suf
ficient money to pay the cost of build
ings and grounds as well as instruc
tion in the other branches necessary (
to a well rounded high school course. *
One-half of all the money received e
from the government shall, the bill <]
provides, be used for instruction in r
agricultural high schools maintained \
under State authority in rural com- <j
munities, the number of such schools \
in anyone State or Territory not to j
exceed one school for each 10 coun
ties of the State or Territory.
The bill further provides for gov
ernment aid to State agricultural ex
p?riment and to State agricultural ex*1 a
p?riment stations on condition thai I N
the State appropriate an eqina
amount for the maintenance and
equipment of these stations.
Both of these funds shall be paid
semi-annually-on July 1 and Janu
ary-1. The State must make to thc
secretary of agriculture a detailed ac
count of the disbursement of sums re
ceived under the provisions of the
act. The grants of money authorized
by the bill are made subject to legis
lative assent of the several States and
Territories to the purposes of thc
grants.
Congressman Davis recently had an
interview with the president in which j ^
the bill was the subject of considera- ' '
don. President Roosevelt then ex
pressed himself as highly pleased
with the measure, giving it his full
est endorsement. He called atten
tion to his speech in Keokuk in Octo
ber when he said that the federal gov
ernment should cooperate with the
State to provide practical education
* ? " ' " e nation.
received numer
-s.from the lead
o United
been fav\
ions, fa
lculiura
' c o mn
-trial ?
-?untry. The
hope "is therefore .. entertained that
conrgess' will consider thc measure
favorably.
Mr. Davis has/ been investigating
the few objections suggested against
the bill and in reply to the claim that
federal aid would lead to national
ownership of the schools quotes sta
tistics given by the United State*
commissioner of education, the Hon.
E. E. Brown, which show that since ! \
federal aid was given to State collegee j i
the percentage of their support re
ceived from the national government
has greatly decreased.
The schools provided for in this
act, Mr. Davis points out, are of ex
actly the same character as those
established under the Morrill act of
To Build at Chick Springs.
Greenville, Special.-The Chick
Springs company has let a contract
for rebuilding the hotel which was
recently destroyed by fire. Work will
begin in a day or two and the new
house will be ready for guests when
the season opens this summer. Thc
new building will cost $50,000 and will
be better than the one it is to re
place.
Checking Up Finances. U
Columbia, Special.-One of the im
portant duties of tho comptroller
general within the next few days will
be to go over the appropriation bill
item by item and check it up with thc j 1
estimated revenue. It is estimated '
this year that the raise in levy will
still leave a deficit of about $35,000,
although the increase in the franchise j ?
taxes may reduce this materially.
Other incomes may exceed the rev
enue estmates made in the beginning,
but it is certain that there will be
no balance to the accounts at the end
of the year.
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Fire Horses Run. Away.
Manning-, Special.-The team of
horses attached to the fire engine ran
away Tuesday afternoon and on a
short turn in the street, turned the
engine over and damaged it so badly
until it will be necessary, it is thought
to send it back to the factory for
repairs. The negro driver came out
uninjured, but Mr. Frank Hawkins
was injured endeavoring to hold ono
of the horses after they broke out.
Pneumonia at Mullins.
Mullins, Special.-Never before in
the history of the community lias
Lhere been such an epidemic of pneu
monia. The physicians of the town
are kept on duty night and day and
ret can not answer all tho calls upon
them? Special prayers are offered
daily fot- the removal of thia
scorge from" the usually healthy com
oarMy. Many families have been
jadaancd by the entrance of death
und many more are still amtlou? for
the. iftfety of their niels loved ones.
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.862 and like them will strangtken
he Slate directly and the federal
government indirectly. As these State
alleges have remained under Stat:
lontrol so will these contemplated by
he bill continue under State control,
herefore no danger of centralization
ittaches to their establishment. Thia
neasure bridges the gap between the
iducation of the home, the farm and
he shop. Heretofore our education
ias lacked unity, it has been too much
.'entered about the literary, the npn
ndustrial; its forms and substance
lave been too little coordinated with
he training of the home, of the shop,
if the farm and of the great outdoors.
Through technical training it will
ceep our youth out of a peasant or
lubmerged class, and by encouraging
he States to expend more foi' oduca
io? it wiil greatly increase general as
veil as technical education.
Appropriation Bills and State's In
come.
Columbia, Special. - Comptroller
?eneral Jones recently went over the
ippropriation bill and after, consid
ering all items totaled the whole at
51,8S5,S.37.27. This, however, docs
lot include the legislative supply bill,
vhich will make the total about
>'1,C35,000. It is estimated that the
evy cf five and one-half mills on a
.-ablation of $267,000,000 of property
viii raise $1,468,000, and the frau
:lnse license tax, the insurance license
ind fees from the office of the secre
ary of state will make the total
ibout $1,641,000, giving a surplus of
bout $6,000. The general assembly,
?owever, did not make any appropria
ion for a deficit of $6S|000 for the
'ear 1907, although it is required by
he constitution that each legislaturo
irovide for any deficiciency for the
?receding year. This will make a dc
iciency of about $62,000, although
his will show on tue books only, the
?tate having paid the debts with the
noney borrowed during the past year.
Just ten years ago thc total vaina
ion in property in South Carolina
ras $173.772,000, or about $90,000,
i00 less than thc present estimate of
allie. The appropriations for thal
'ear, on' a levy of five mills, were
879,506, or about one-half the ap
iropriation for the current year. Afc
hat time the State had a surplus of
?101,000. but there were numerous
lepartments not then provided for
md the large increase in the demand
'or better work, for more rcpt
br a more careful supervh
very institution under tho.
if the State has had much to <
his increase.
Rood Roads for Sumter.
IIUUUV.1U t.vs.w _
esentative farmers from ?v??
ion of the county were :
3lans. for general improvemc
he-co ...y roads were discuss<
iity ahd country were bro?g
'loser touch. The business ai
Sessional men of Sumter ai
ountry wero brought into
ouch, and thc country mer
hants and farmers were united for
?ettcr roads. As a result of these
tieetings the Sumter chamber of com
neree bad the Suriiter delegation to
>ass a bill through thc legislaturo
ust adjourned to borrow $15,000
'rom the sinking fund commission for
he purchase of improved road work
ng machinery, and authorizing the
ixpenditure of money for good roads.
Inspection Dates.
Columbia, Special.-Adjutant Gen
ial Boyd has issued an order chang
ng the date for the inspection of
bree of thc militia companies. The
nspection at Conway will be held
April 21 instead of March 10, the in
spection at Georgetown will be held
m April 23 instead of March ll and
;he inspection nt Winnsboro will be
?eld April 27 instead of April 20.
Utempt to Wreck Passenger Train.
Charleston, Special.-Turee cars of
rain No. 17 of the Southern railway
vere derailed near Ringville at 9.15
Tuesday night, thc result of a mis
naced switch. Thc engine, baggage
md mail cars passed safely over the
>pen switch, but the three passenger
?oaches left the track. The pas
lengers were given a bad scare, but
inly minor injuries wero sustained,
ill passengers were crowded into the
??rs next to thc engine and proceed
ed to Columbia. Thc switch had been
?pened evidently with thc intention
o wreck that or other trains.
Small Wreck at Hartsvile.
Hurtsville, Special-A wreck in
.he yards here Tuesday afternoon
?aused by a box car leaving i he track
it a switch interfered with the de
parture of thc afternoon train. The
;ar ran into the roof of the new de
x>t did some damage. The Wades
loro passenger came by and carried
he passengers and mails ou lo Flor
mcc. Tho wrecking train arrived
Tuesday night to clear the tracks.
Bitten By Mad Dog.
Newberry. Special.-Jennings, the
i-year-old boy of Mr. F. J. Russell
f this city, was bitten by a mad do0
n the streets near Mr. Russell's resi
lenee. The little boy's face was ter
ibly lacera I cd. Thc dog was a bull
?og belonging to Mr. F. M. Rogers,
?dio lived across the street from Mr.
lussell. It is said that the dog show
d every symptom cf having hydro
ihobia. ' Mr. Russell left at once with
ila littlo non for Atlanta for trent
nant*
MURDERESS CONFESS
Negro Boy Telia How They Murdered
Aged Whito Woman and Then
Bobbed Her Home.
Columbia, Special.-Ned and Brack
Toland, negroes,, aged 19 and 17
years, respectively, late Friday after
noon, made a full confession of the
murder of Mrs.- Paul W. Elliser, the
aged white woman who lived just
across the river from Columbia.
Brack, the younger of the brothers,
said that Mrs. Elliser suspected
something as soon as they entered the
house. WherHhey got inside Brack
said he caught the old woman and
held her while hie brother knocked
her in the hj?d with an aie. They
put her bodv in a basket and Ned
struck her i^wo more blows. They
then proceeded to rob the house, tak
ing a gun aid . a number of articles
of v. faring.?apparel. No money was
found.
Si '--?
A Sad Bereavement.
Dillon, Special. - With Masonic
honors th?fremains of Mr. Jake Par
ham were consigned to their last rest
ing placerait Mount Holly Saturday.
Mr. Parham was 29 years of age ; has
been a sufferer for several months,
exhibitingjtbroughout a wonderful de
gree of fortitude and patience at hi?
place of business until within a very
few days] of his death. Tho aged
father, Mpr. A. K. Parham, deserves
cspecially^-the sympathy of every one.
flis bereavement is peculiarly dis
tressing,$bis son Jake being the sole
survivorjiof what was only four years
ago a-trappy home. Within two
months |wo sons and one daughter,
all gToijjrn, were buried, his -wife fol
lowingiwthin a year after and Jake
alone was left to him.
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? Arrested in Chester.
Chewer, Special.-The police auth
oriti?sfrhere arrested on Saturday
night- a white man giving the nam-}
of J. A. Stamper, charged with house
breaking- and larceny. It seems that
the accused broke into the station of
the Carolina & Northwestern railway
at Ltncolnton, N. C., and took there
fromfqu?te a bunch of railroad tick
jetsj'jibgether with a conductor 'i
puty^ The arrest was made by in
stra?i?ns from Conductor H. M.
>m one of these ticket?
in payment of fare.
; held in jail here until
en he was taken to Lin
3hief of the Chester Po
lylor.
(1 uy jL/iuj,- m
i Samuels, charged with
he dispensary law. The
i running a grocery store
The store was raided
Samuels and six or sev
.' liquor were sei7ed. It
io stated that they have been running
a blind tiger for some time. They
were given a preliminary hearing be
fore Magistrate Smoak and released*
on $400 bond each, to appear at tho
court of general sessions.
Destructive Fire in Belton.
Belton, Special. - At 10 o'clock
Wednesday night fire yas discovered
in. the frame mercantile building of
J. T. Cox. There was no insurance on
the building but the stock of mer
chandise owned by J. 0. Ragsdale,
Belton Coco-Cola Bottling company
and Fant & Willingham were insured
for about $1,100. No clue as to' origin
of fire. The building was valued al
$2,500 and the contents at about thc
same. But for the good work of em
ployes of Southern and Blue Ridge
railways, assisted by the citizens of
tho town, the passenger and freight
depots would have been destroyed.
Gold Mining Company to Operate in
York.
Fort Mill, Special.-dawson Min
ing company, incorporated with $100,
000 capital stock, incorporated
to develop some gold min
ing property near Fort Mill. Pre
liminary work has been in progress
since November, and arrangements
are now being made for purchasing
equipment for stamp mill and chlor
ination plant; Dr. C. L. dawson.
Richburg, S. C., president; A. S.
Hunt, Charlotte, N. C., vice president;
and T. W. Clawson, lately of Wil
mington, N. C., secretary-treasurer.
Man Who Shot Despoiler of His
Homo Is Pardoned.
Tampa, Fla., Special.-Harry Bom
ford, a former plumbing contractor,
who has served seven months of a
one-year term in the penitentiary for
shooting Captain Park, a steamboat
master, nephew of State Treasurer
Park, of Georgia, when Park surpris
ed him in Park's homo with Mrs.
Park, was pardoned by the State
board.
A Wealthy South Carolina Planter
Dies in Texas.
Greenville, Special-J. S. Blalock.
of Goldvillc, Laurens county, one of
the two or three men who stand as
the wealthiest planters in the State,
died in Texas, where he had gone in
thc hope that his health would bo
benefited. He was 75 years of age
and from a poor young man he h nd
amassed in hid lifetime ono of the
largest eedatos in the upper Part ol
'the State; ^.s**"*
Agree to Adopt the Nine-Hour
System Without Delay
CLAIM IT WILL WORK BADLY
New Order of Affairs Will Mean the
Employment of Thousands of Ad
ditional Op?rators, the Closing of
a 7 arge Number of Small Stations,
and General Inconvenience to the
Traveling and Snipping Public.
Washington, Special. - American
railways have made arrangements to
comply with the provisions of the
"nine-hour law." The operation of
the law will mean the employment
by railroad companies of severai
thousand additional operators and
the closing of a large number of
small stations on the 4th of March.
The discontinuance of railway ser
vice at many points, it is realized,
will induce at least temporary incon
venience to the traveling and ship
ping public, but, in order to reduce
operating expenses which now seems
necessary, thc operating officials of
the railways believe that this is the
only way they possible can meet the
situation with which they are con
fronted.
Astonishing Statements.
: During the hearing of applications
for an ^extension of the nine-hour law
by thc inter-State commerce commis
sion some astonishing statements
were made by the operating officials
of important railways. A good many
lines, owing to a reduction in their
revenues, and to their inability to
command the cash necessary to meei,
their pay rolls, have been forced,
during the past four months, almost
to the point of asking for receivers.
In the opinion of railway officials ex
pressed at the hearing under oath
and in private conversation this con
dition does not seem to have been
due to the enforcement of legislative
laws or to the incapacity of railway
management. Most of the railuad
officials attribute the difficulty to thc
unfortunate banking situation which
developed last September. The rail
ways did not feel the stringency in
money until about the 1st of Novem
ber. In fact, the month of October
-.vas one of the best in the history ( '.'
the business of American railroading.
One railway official ventured thc
statement that in the country to-day
there were 300,000 idle freight cars,
and one line which he instanced was
declared to be hauling empty cars
backward and forward because it
had not yard room or sidings to/ac
ftommodate them. /
testimony of neany ev^.^._
fore the oomnrsion there was a note
of confidence because all of them
practically believed that thc string
ency in the money market from
which the country has suffered is not
due to fundamental causes. They
point out that the crops last year
were good; that prices were excel
lent; that industrial enterprises
throughout the country were flour
ishing. It was merely the inability
to command ready cash and the
hoarding of' money by panic-stricken
individuals which produced so sud
denly the remarkable depression
from which all have suffered. They
practically uniformly express confi
dence that the return of prosperity'
will be almost as sudden as was the
coming of adversity and in their ar
guments as to the enforcement of the
nine-hour law they pointed out to the
commission that such a. return of
prosperity might seriously embarrass
them in complying with the law, be
couse it would render it difficult to
command the services of competent
operators in sufficif it numbers to
meet thc r.ccds of prosperous condi
tions.
Falls Through Trestle and is Drown
ed.
Gaffney, S. C., Special.-Coroner
Vinsett was notified that a negro had
been drowned Saturday hight in Buf
falo creek, about four miles north of
Gaffney. Accompanied by Dr. J. N.
Nesbitt, the county physician, he re
paired to the scene and learned that
while two drunken negroes were
crossing the trestle over Buffalo creek
(a large and deep stream) one of
them fell through.
Prominent Alabama Railroad Man
Dead.
Selma, Ala., Special.-Andrew J.
Niel, 70 years old, died at his resi
dence in Selma. Mr. Niel has been
associated with the Southern Railway
and its predecessors 36 years. Ho
was the father of Edward A. Niel, of
Buffalo, N. Y., traffic manager of the
Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad.
Salvation Army Brings 800 Immi
grants Over.
Halifax, N. S., Special.-The Do
minican liner Kensington, the first
of a series of five steamers chartered
by the Salvation Army to carry im
migrants from Liverpool to Halifax,
arrived herc, bearing the army Hug
at her fore. Hhn had ?00 persons
rrho aro hound ta point** in tho Cana
dian JS'orfrhweat. fc'dur ether nt<j???nvR
will follow thin mwih- "
Wm. SC H WEIGERT, A. S,
Prest,
Union Sav
fIRE WRKKSTAMPA
Severest Conflagration in the
City's History
EIGHTEEN BLOCKS BURNED OUT
Three Hundred and Eight Building*
Destroyed, Embracing Five Cigar
Factories, With a Total Loss Esti
mated at $600,000.
Tampa, Fla., Special.-The entire
extreme northeaslren section of the
city. proper was destroyed by fire,
which raged until interrupted from
9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Sunday. The area
bumed covered 55 acres or eighteen
and one-half city blocks and three
hundred and eight buildings were de
stroyed, with a total loss estimated at
$600,000.
The burned section included four
large and one smaller cigar factories,
numerous restaurants,'saloons, board
ing houses and over 200 dwellings oc
cupied by cigarmakers. Thc fac
tories burned were, M. Stachelberg &
Co.. loss $100.000; M. Perez & Co.,
loss $50,000; Gonzales, Fisher & Co.,
branch of Stachelberg, loss $40,000;
Fernandez & Bro., loss $20,000.
Cigar Factories Suffer.
All factories carried large stocks
of tobacco and cigars. The area
swept by fire embraced all that por
tion of the city between 12th and
Michigan avenues and Sixteenth and
Twentieth Streets. It originated in
the boarding house of Antonio Diaz,
174 Twelfth avenue, and fanned by a
j _"i ^on.sliaDed,
hundred dwelling houses, rnrown in
to a panic, rushed out, attempting
to save but little of their belongings.
One fatality is reported, a Cuban wo
man in a delicate condition, who
dropped dead from the shock, her
body being rescued from the burning
house with difficulty. In the big
factories it was possible only to save
thc most valuable of records, books,
etc., and the valuable, stocks of leaf
tobacco 'and manufactured cigars,
ready for shipment, were left to the
mercy of thc flames.
Fire Chief Overcome.
Fire Chief Savage was overcome by
heat and smoke early in the fire, but
recovered later. Citizens volunteered
assistance to the hard working fire
men, but the spread of the flames
was so rapid that little effectual work
could be done. *
Among the buildings, other than
factories destroyed, were the hotels
and cafes of Perez and Castro and
Maximo Caras, six saloon?,. 12 restau
rants and 10 boarding houses. The
car barns of the Tampa Electric Com
pany, containing 20 cars, were en
dangered, and owing to the destruc
tion of trolly wires cars could not
be moved. The big Seirenberg
branch factor}' of the Havanna-Amer
ican Cigar Company was also reached
by the flames, but was saved and St.
Joseph's Catholic. Convent and Acad-1
erny barely escaped. The fire finally ,
burned itself out at the extreme
northeastern corner of the city.
Fully half the people rendered
homeless were out of work, owing , to j
the dull season in the factories, and
also practically out of funds and
their shelter became an immediate
problem. ,
Prominent West Virginian Dead.
Morganton. W. Va., Special-Dr. '
Eli Marsh Tucker, formerly president
of West Virginia University, died
suddenly Sunday of appoplexy. Ile
had apparently been in the best of
health and last evening consented to
take thc nomination for mayor on the
Citizens party ticket.
Chinese to Surrender Japanese
Steas. jr.
Pekin, By Cable.-It is announced
the Chinese government will surren
der thc Japanese steamer Tatsu
Mani, which was seized on February
7th by thc Chinese customs cruiser,
outside of Maeao while unloading a
large consignment of rifles and am
munition, thc rifles numbering several
thousand. It was originally charged
t?ifit an attempt was being made to
brinn; war supplie* into China for
ruvointioiiifit?' _ ...
MORRIS, THOS. S. ORA Y,
Vlcc-Pres. Cashier.
lugs Bank
ta, Ga.?
ns of Edgefield a
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BRADLEY IS ELECTED
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Kentucky Chooses Republican
United States Senator
FOUR DEMOCRATS FOR HIM
Republicans Vote Solidly For Brad
ley and With the Assistance of
Four Democrats Succeed in Land
ing the Former Governor in tho
Senatorship, With Only Four Votes
to the Good,
Frankfort, Ky., Special.-Amid
scenes of wildest excitement, former
Governor William O'Connell Bxad
ley, Republican, was elected United
States Senator to succeed James B.
McCreary. Bradley's term of six
years will begin March 4th, 1909. He
received 64 votes, four cf which were
cast by Democrats opposed to for
mer Governor Beckham, leading
Democratic candidate for senator,
who was endorsed for tho office at
the State primary.
The four Democrats were surround
ed by party friends and urged to
withdraw their support from Bradley
and re-elect Senator James McCreary
or any Democrat they might name
but the four m?n declared that the
proposal came too late. Tho Demo
cratic leaders even promised a caucus
to select a candidate, to which the
name of Beckham would not be pre
sented.
The ballot as recast resulted as
follows :
Bradley G4; Beckham 15; James
15; McCreary 10; Mayo 5; Allen 2;
"Rllicnri 1. G*?~l".. 1. ?Dl""1,l..._? .1.
?U'pi e.-itilUHLi , c iju.uiu nus M..
one of the four Democrats to explain
his vote for Bradley. He said he
thought thc time had come to 'throw
off party shackles and to break up
the machine," an? although he did
support the Derne ?tic ticket for 40
years, he believed his vote for Brad
ley "was the best Democratic vote
he ever cast."
The Republicans voted solidly for
Bradley, tb^e caucus nominee. It had
been held from the beginning of. the
contest (over six weeks ago) that a
majority of a quorum was sufficient
for an election, and with 126 mem
bers present it reuired 64 votes to
elect. The votes of the four Demo
crats who have steadily refused to
vote for former Governor Beckham
were transfered to Bradley from the
various Democratic opponents of
Beckham.
Winner by Four Votes.
Bradley-received 64 votes to 60 for
Beckhaml 1 for Allen and 1 for
Blackburn. The Democrats loft tho
hal in an attempt to break the vote,
but later returned and thc vote was
ordered ratified. .
Senators McNutt and Chariton and
Representative Meuller, of Louis
ville, and Representative Lillard, of
Boyle, were the Democrats who
voted with the Republicans for
Bradley.
A scene of the wildest excitement
prevailed before the result was an
nounced, the Democrats demanding a
recapitulation. Beckham came on
the floor and reelased the Democrats
from their primary nomination
pledge. Many Democrats sought to
change their votes the majority
going to Congressman James.
Many Hurt in Wreck in Texas.
Laredo, Tex., Special.-Four per
sons were seriously injured and 2.r?
others hurt early Tuesday when
Charles G. Gates' Mexican touring
train was ditched 12 miles north of
here. Most of the passengers were
from Toledo, 0-, and the middle West.
The wreck was caused by the engine's
axle breaking. Nine coaches of tho
train were ditched. '
Big Bank Consolidation.
Chicago, Special.-Tho announce
ment made of the practical comple
tion of arrangements for thc consoli
dation of the American Trust and
Savings Bank and tho Hibernian^
Banking Association, with a deposit
account of forty-three millions and
a capital of four millions fivo hun
dred thousand startled financial cir
eles here. Negotiations were taken
up last fall, hut were interrupted by
the psnici