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AIKEN. S. C„ THURSDAY MORJSll^G. MAY 11 1905
IYNAMITE HORROR
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txpress trashes lntp_tap§~r- "Needed f5r buil^inq Waterway.
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[plosives.
DEATH HARVEST RESULTS
Estimates Place Number of Passen-
sengers Killed at Half a Hundred.
Wreckage Takes Fire and
Adds to Disaster.
An express train on the fippnBjrlr&i
nla railroad ran into a freight train
in which there were two cajrs Ipadec}
with dynamite at 1:10 o’clock ’Aura*
day morning in South Harriaburg, Pa.,
near the plant of the Paxtang Light*
Heat and Power company.
Three terrific explosions tlw-t broke
windows all over the city followed
and two trains were completely wreck*
ed and took fire. It was estimated
that fifty persons w^ye killed and one
hundred injured.
When the first explosion occurred
bodies weYe thrown clear out of the
berths in the sleeping cars, many land*
ing down on the railroad embankment^
and some even having been hurled
into the Susquehanna river, which par
allels the railroad in that locality.
HOME PRICES TOO HIGH.
Canal Commlsrion is Driven to For-
All the physicians procurable in Hv
risburg were summoned to work with ^ building 8^ ships,’
The executive committee of the
isthmian canal commission, in ses
sion at Washington Monday, decided
to purchase in the markets of the
world the material and ships neces
sary for the building of the Panama
canal.
This important decision was reach
ed with some reluctance, because it
was appreciated by Secretary Taft
and the executive committee that
there would be surely a great outcry
from the two great interests in this
coyntry, the producers of material and
ship owners, if the purchases were
not limited to the American prod
ucts. But it was decided that the
money consideration was so great that
it could not be ignored, for it was
held that in some cases fully 50 per
cent more would be charged for mate
rial needed in canal construction than
the same goods could be procured
for in Europe.
Chief Engineer Wallace, for in
stance, showed that two ships, in ad
dition to those running between New
York and Colon, and owned by the
Panama Railroad company, were ab
solutely necessary to carry the food
supplies and material needed for the
work. No American ships could be
bought at any reasonable price, and,
the injured
A fire alarm soundyd and the fire*
men arrived, to find themselves prac
tically helpless in the work of res
cue. A police patrol wagon was com
missioned as an ambulance, and many
of the Injured as possible were load
ed Into it on each trip and taken to
the Harisburg hospital, the capacity
of which soon became taxed because
of the large number that were brought
in. A special train was made up. and
transferred Injured and dying to thej
union station. Many of the Injured
were taken into private houses.
Immediately after the wreck, all the
passengers who could do so ran from
the soqncs of horror to safety from
the incessant small explosions.
The agonizing cries of the unfortun
ates were heartrending. The office of
the Paxtang Light, Heat and Powerj
Company was transformed Into a tem-|
porary hospital. At an early hour the
Harrisburg Traction company ran out}
a number of cars from its South Har
risburg barns and used them to bring
the injured to the hospital.
The train was the second section of
the No. 19. There were 169 passen-i
gers aboard.
RESENTS SLUR ON ARMY.
cago was submitted to President
Roosevelt while he was in that city
Wednesday. The protest is sigped by
C. P. Shea, president of the Interna
tional Brotherhood of Teamster#;
Charles Dold, president of the Chicago
Federation of Labor, and by other la
bor leaders.
“Peace,” says the protest of the
labor leaders, “rests not upon the mi
litia or the army, but upon the pa
tience and long suffering of the toil
ing masses. Can a few soldiers scare
the men, who make armies and who
compose the flow’er of American man
hood.’'
The committee presenting the pro
test was received by the president
in person at the Auditorium annex.
The president told them no demand
had been made upon him for use of
troops in Chicago. He said that he
regretted that the protest spoke 'of
the federal army as it did. The pres
ident said:
“Of the merits of the case, I am
wholly ignorant. I have no knowledge
of what the situation is, or of what
steps should be taken to end it. I feel
however, that in view of one state
ment, I ought to say this: I regret that
you should in the letter have spoken
at all of the use of the federal army
as you have there spoken.
“What I have to say is based pure
ly upon what I regard as the unfor
tunate phrasing of a letter presented
to the president of the United States.”
Labor Leaders In Chicago Nettle
Roosevelt in Wording of Petition.
A strougly worded protest against] .
the sending of fedeial troop* to CM- a large cor^^ct j S awarded to a for-
It was found, according to Secretary
Taft’s statement, that while he could
buy two 6,000-ton ships in Europe for
$750,000, it would cost $1,400,000 to
build such ships here.
As to material needed for cana’
construction, the committee decided
that by reserving to itself the right
to purchase in the world’s markets,
it would at least oblige American
manufacturers to give them the ben
efit of their foreign prices if they
wish to sell goods to the commission.
Secretary Taft explained that he
felt obliged to indorse this decision,
because having given congress every
opportunity to give a contrary direc
tion he felt that the very terms of
the canal act provided that it should
be constructed at the lowest possible
cost. And in this connection he call
ed attention to the following recom
mendation, contained in the first re
port of the isthmian canal commis
sion:
“An important question of policy in
yet to be determined. If the isth
mian canal commission is not bound
by any restriction of congress as to
where they shall purchase machinery,
material and supplies, then it w'ould
seem to be their duty to construct
the canal as cheaply as possible and
so to buy what they need where the>
can get it cheapest. This, however,
is certain to produce, every time that
eign manufacturer or dealer, an out
cry on the part of the American un
successful competitor. If congress ap
proves the policy of favoring Amer
ican manufacturers and dealers, even
if It increases the cost of construction
of the canal, then it seems to be only
just that it should declare this policy
by law and lay down a rule which
the commission can easily follow.”
NEGRO STARTS SMALL RIOT.
Shot Promiscuously Into Crowd and is
Ki.lled by a Mob.
After shooting indiscriminately at
a crowd composed of whites and
blacks, at Abbeville, Ga., Monday,
Heywood Moore, colored, was chased
out into the country, about a mile
from town, and killed, his body be
ing riddled with bullets.
The trouble arose over a quarrel be
tween two negroes, Steve McCoy and
a tailor named Burch. It seems that
McCoy had ordered a suit made by
Burch and paid nim for it. Burch,
however, did not make the suit and a
quarrel followed, in which McCoy
slapped Biirch. Thereupon Moore, a
friend of the tailor’s, who was stand
ing near, got a winchester and be
gan shooting at the crowd.
A mob quickly formed and chased
Moore, with the result stated. Many
of Abbeville’s most prominent citi
zens were in the mob.
BANKER GIVEN EIGHT YEARS.
WHITE MAN IMPLICATED.
Ohliger Admits Issuing a Bogus Draft
on His Bank.
L. P. Ohliger, ex-president of the
closed Wooster (Ohio) National bank,
pleaded guilty before Judge Taylor in
the United States district court at
Cleveland, Ohio, Mtonday afternoon,
to a count in one of the indictment?,
charging him with having issued a
draft when there were no funds in
the bank to meet it. Judge Taylor
sentenced Ohliger to eight years’ im
prisonment in the Ohio penitentiary.
BIG RAT KILLS BABY.
Ferocious Rodent Frightfully Lacer
ates Little One’s Face.
The one-month-old child of Henry
Y'antes, which was bitten by a rat
about a week ago, died in Columbus,
Ohip, Monday. The baby was left In
the cradle by It smother, who went
to another portion of the house, and,
when she returned, she saw a rat
gnawing the face of the screaming
baby. The rat had bitten its nose
and face in many places.
Negro Makes Confession Anent the
Murder of Holbrook and His Wife.
Claud Elder, one of the negroes who
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| has been in jail in Watkinsville, Ga.,
! since the Holbrook murder, a few
j nights ago, has made a confession,
in which he implicates a white man.
The confession was made to Rev. Sul
livan, pastor of the Methodist church,
John Wilson and Arthur Barwlck.
Elder says the crime was conwnil-
ted by Rich and Lewis Robinson, two
negroes, and that Ronal Aycock, a
white farmer, was a party to it.
CRAZY WHITE HOUSE VISITOR.
Dago Nibbed While Trying to Enter
President’s Mansion.
A Washington dispatch says: A
man, who said his name fs Daniel
Costable, Italian, was arrested by
Policeman Hopkins while trying to
force an entrance to the rear door
of the white house, about midnight
Friday night. He was locked un at
the police station.
PORT RATES ARE REFUSED.
Petition of Atlanta Merchants Turned
Down by Railroad Commission.
The Georgia railroad commission
Wednesday turned down Atlanta’s pe
tition for a fixed, reduced port rate,
for which there has been an active
and persistent demand from the At
lanta freight bureau and certain Allan
ta merchaats for the past two years
or more. This action was taken over
the protest of Chairman J. Pope
Brown.
DRUG KILLS CROKER’S SON.
After Leaving Kansas City Joint, He
Was Found Dead in a Car.
Herbert V. Croker, a sou of Richard
Croker, the New York political lead
er, was found dead on a southbound
Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe rail
way train, between Kansas City and
Newton, Kans., Friday. He died
during the night, evidently from the
effects of some drug administered in
an opium joint at Kansas City.
FIVE HUNDRED DEAD
Terrific Tornado Wrecks
Town of Snyder, in Ok
lahoma Territory.
While People Were Wrapped in Slum
ber Death-Dealing Element Swoop
ed Down Upon Them Una
wares—All Communication
With Outside World is
Cut Off.
Meaget reports reaching Fort
Worth, Texas, state that a terrific cy
clone struck Snyder, Oklahoma, Wed
nesday night, wrecking the town and
killing five hundred people, and relief
is asked for.
A message to the train dispatche*
sent from Fort Worth asking for in
formation was answered as follows:
“We have same report and are send
ing a relief train on the supposition
that it is true. Wires all down.”
The telegraph operator at Chicka
saw, I. T., states that he talked over
the telephone with Hobart, Okla., near
Snyder, and that all wires in the
vicinity of Snyder were down, but re
lief trains were being sent from sev
eral directions to Snyder. Snyder is
a town of 1,000 people in Kiowa coun
ty, Oklahoma, located on the Frisco,
45 miles north of Vernon.
Confirmatory Dispatches.
Reports reached Oklahoma City from
Hobart and Anadarko confirming the
news of a tornado at Snyder, but no
details were given.
Telephone reports received in Guth
rie from Hobart, I. T., indicate that
the entire town of Snyder was de
stroyed by a tornado. A train of doc
tors, nurses and other assistance left
Hobart for Snyder.
At 11:40 o'clock Wednesday night
the dispatcher for the Frisco in Sa-
pulpa, I. T., received a report from
Enjd, O. T., advising that a tornado
had struck Snyder, Oklahoma, wreck
ing the town aqd killing 500 people,
among whom was the station agent
of the Frisco at that town. The re
quest came also for assistance. On
the strength of the report the dis
patcher ordered a relief train with
physicians to be sent from Chicknsha,
l. T., and C^uanah, Texas.- The wir^
between Snyder and Sap dpa went
down about 10 p. m.
TWO hund£ed~jews killed.
Kishineff Horror Seems to Have Been
Repeated In Zehitomir.
Very grave reports are current In
SL Petersburg as to the extent of
the massacre of Jews at Zehitomir,
the number of killed or wounded now*
being placed as high as two hundred,
but precise information Is lacking.
’£he minister of the interior has'calk
ed for a detailed report.
Dispatches are being held up. Tele
grams sent by the newspapers to Ze-
hitpmir remain unanswered.
It Is asserted that a fortnight be
fore the disorders prod am a! ions were
spread calling on the Christians to
beat the Jews. Wihen these proclama
tions were shown to the mayor of Ze
hitomir, the latter declared them to
be stupid and said there was no oc
casion for alarm.
TOBACCO KING LAID TO REST.
Funeral of Washington Duke at Dur
ham Was Largely Attended.
Fifteen thousand people attended
the funeral of Washington Duke, the
founder of the Duke branch of the
American Tobacco company at Dur
ham, N. C., Wednesday. The banks
and schools of the city and many of
the maniffacturing establishments
were closed during the entire day
and practically all business of the city
was closed dviring the exercises.
BAPTISTS HOLD TO NAME.
Proposition for Modification Falls
Flat in Convention.
The Southern Baptist convention, in
session at Kansas City, Monday, de
cided, after a lively time, not to
change the name of the convention.
Judge Hillyer of Georgia, chairman of
the committee appointed at the Nash
ville convention last year to bring
the matter up, presented a report
against a modification of the name.
The report was finally adopted and
the committee discharged.
ROW WITH HUNGARY.
Immigration Inspector Braun Charges
That His Mall Is Tampered With
and President Takes a Hand.
BOWEN IN WASHINGTON.
Ex-Minister to Venezuela to Confer
With President.
Herbert W. Bowen, recently Amer
ican minister to Venezuela, accompa
nied by Mrs. Bowen, reached Wash
ington Sunday from New York. It is
expected that the president will re
ceive from him his statement in con
nection with the charges which have
been brought against Mr. Loomis, the
acting secretary of state.
CHAMPION JEFFRIES RETIRES.
Heavy-Weight Pugilist Quits Both the
Ring and the Stage.
James J. Jeffries, champion heavy
weight pugilist of the world, left Chi
cago Sunday for Los Angeles, Cal.
It Is his announced Intention to build
a home in that city. Crippled with
rheumatism and suffering from mala
rial fever, Jeffries says he has put on
fighting gloves for the lest time. He
has canceled all theatrical engage
ments.
RUSSIAN MAY-DAY BLOODLESS.
Whips of Cossacks Kept Down Expect
ed Rioting in Empire.
The widely heralded May day dem
onstration in St. Petersburg Sunday
did not result in the bloodshed pre
dicted.
A>t* the RreohratPT>oVTr j-pmotorv
where the principal meeting in honor
of the “January maf&£PA as the vic '
6ms of -‘‘red Sunday” are popularly
called, Tiao -
largely composed of curiosity seekers,
assembled. '—-
Cosacks dispersed the crowd by
using their whips freely, inflicting
many injuries.
There was a similar incident on
Vassill island, where a dozen students,
mainly girls, raised the “Mfarseillaise,”
and gathered a crowd. Cossacks can
tered up and dispersed the crowd with
whips, seeming to take special pleas
ure in slashing the girl students with
their knouts; but the latter apparently
wp'te anxious to pose as martyrs and
deliberately provoked attack by sing
ing revolutionary songs.
In St. PeterSburag the day w^s pass
ed happily without a drop of blood
being shed. The revolutionists found
it impossible to execute ethe program
of demonstrations and bomb-throwing
which they so widely advertised, the
workingmen declining to sacrifice
themselves to advocate the propagan
da of their self-constituted leaders,
and the advertised meetings were at
tended chiefly by spectators.
Big Assessment on Stockholders.
Comptroller of the Currency Ridge-
ley has levied an assessment of 66 2-32
per cent on stockholders of the First
National bank of Milwaukee to make
goe^'llie defalcation of former Presi
dent Bigelow. The amount af the^mT
sessment will reach $1,000,000.
SEVEN MINERS MEET DEATH.
Bodies of Three Were Torn to Frag
ments—Dynamite the Cause.
Seven men were killed and several
were injured, one fatally in the Cora
mine, one of the Heinz properties,
near Butte, Mont., Friday afternoon.
Nels Wamps, a miner, was carrying
forty sticks of dynamite up a ladder
to join companions on the 100*foot
level when the dynamite exploded with
terrific force. It is believed that
Wamps accidentally touched his can
dle to the explosive. His body was
blown to bits.
Two men working nearby were
blown to pieces.
BLUE AND GRAY HAVE RALLY.
Veterans Gather in Washington to Ar
range for Grand Reunion.
Veterans of the union and confed
erate forces gathered in Washington,
D. C., Thursday for a two days’ social
and non-political rally. The meeting
is intended to be preliminary to a
permanent fraternal organization na
tional in character, of the blue and
gray, with the idea of holding In
Washington in 1906 a grand reunibn
ON TRAIL OF SLAYERS.
People of Oconee County, Georgia,
Stop Work to Chase Murderers.
Rich Robertson, Jim Taylor, Elder
Sidney Norris, Will Moses, Joe Pat
terson, Hog Anthony, two negroes
named Shead, and three negro women
are in jail at Watkinsville, Ga., sus
pected of having been implicated in
the killing of Frank Holbrook and
wife.
The people of Oconee county have
stopped their work and are all on the
trail of the slayers.
SOUTH CAI10UNA
STATE NEWS 1TEJIS.
President Roosevelt Is manifesting
a particular interest in the case of
Marcus Braun, a special inspector of
the United States immigration service,
who is having trouble with officials
of the Austro-Hungarian government,
whom he oharges with tampering with
his official mail. Inspector Braun com
plained of his treatment to Ambassa
dor Storer, who cabled to the state
department some details of the case.
Inspector Braun has made several
reports to the bureau of immigration
as a result of his inquiries in Europe,
especially In Austria-Hungary. One of
these reports was received by the de
partment last autumn and another
a few days ago.
The first is sensational in Its state
ments. It cortlains allegations, back
ed by affidavits, of the Austro-Hungfu
rlan government’s efforts to foist upon
this country immigrants who may flo:
be desirable from the viewpoint of
American people. The^oharge is
made specifically that the - AustfO-FLun-
garian g&vernment Is paying tne
steamship companies large sums of
money each year to bring immigrants
to this country and also that the im
migrants are being urged to become
American citizens.
The reports of Inspector Braun
have not been published, lest the
statements they contain might cause
friction between the United States and
the Austro-Hungarian government.
The officials of the latter government
have been cognizant in a general way
of the contents of Inspector Braun’s
reports for some time, and it is inti
mated that is one reason for the trou-
bie ha which he now finds himself ih-
vb^ved.
The president, Saturday, called for
the reports of Inspector Braun and
will go over them himself in connec
tion with £he consideration of the in
spector’s present difficulty. Tamper
ing With the mail of an official In a
foreign country is a serious matter,
and there is no disposition on the
part of the officials of the department
of commerce and labor to treat the
complaint of Inspector Braun lightly.
and found not guilty. The jury was
i out only about fifteen minutes.
I The killing of the negro is alleged
, to have occurred July 11, 1904. A
2 * few days before a personal difficulty
| occurred between Keitt Bookhardt
and Martin and Henry C. Edwards.
Charges were preferred against the
Child Drov/ned In Tub. j — * —
The email aon t>f Mr. and Mrs. H. 1 ne * ro before Magistrate Wiggins, at
H. Hlnh^nt of
county, fill intOj
was drowned a
discovered the lit
under the water
hanging outside
kmans, Richland ;
ub of water and i , .
When ' Berkel ®y county
days ago.
fellow's head was
1 his feet and legs
le vessel.
to Asheville.
of Newberry Shri-
ing a great time
hering of the no-
ple at Asheville,
Shriners Goi
A largo nuant
ners are antlo
at the summer i
hies of Oasis
N. C., next mon
As usual on siyjh occasions, New
berry will furnish her full quota of
candidates, who are very desirous of
crossing the hot ^ands and offer them
selves as meat f(>r the jolly Shriners.
Editor HandsJ
Mbjor J. C.
the News ai^d
his twenty-fifth I
connectlqr
1 Remembered.
'emphill, editor of
airier, is celebrating
anniversary of his
,;he paper, and a
ier his friends have made up
a substantial purse and presented it
to him for a trip to Europe. The
directors of the paper have given
him a leave of absence and the trip
will probably he made in July.
Millard Secures Freedom.
Dr. Kenyon T. Millard of Indian
apolis, Ind., whij has been held in the j
Orangeburg jail for several weeks on
the charge of bigamy, was released
from custody few days ago, the
evidence beings irsufficient to hold
him. Dr. Millard stated that he and
Miss Kenyon will be re-married next
December, at the expiration of the
time set in tha interlocutory divorce.
In the meantime, he will continue on
the lecture platform.
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N«w Navy Yard Commandar.
Captain R. &I. Berry has turned
over the command of the Charleston
navy yard to Captain E. S. Prime, pre
liminary to going to Pensacola,where
he will succeed Captain Berry, who,
in turn, goes to Washington to be
come the president of the examining
board.
Captain Pries -eoffn-g-fFOItt-thO-Bert-
Royal station, which place he will
have charge 4,f t i n addition to h?s
command In Charleston.
fined $5 or a t#rm of service on the
chaingang or in
jail.
8. A. Eadons ,one of the defend
ants, was Wlggln’s constable and bad
charge of the prisoner to take him
over to Moncks Corner. The negro
was locked up over night In the
guard house of the town of Eutaw-
ville. J. H. Palmer was the town
marshal. The negro disappeared, and
several days afterward his body was j
found In Santee river, with an iron
weight tied to it, weighing 55 pounds.
Employees May Be Liable.
The frequency with wfalch disas
trous railroad wrecks have occurred
in this state within the past several
months on account of carelessness of
employees, and in some cases their
open violation of orders and rules and
regulations, is steadily crystalizing
public sentiment in favor of the pass
age by the next legislature of an act
making railroad employees criminally
liable for disobeying orders or violat
ing important rules which endanger
the lives of passengers. A number
of the leading newspapers of the state
have taken the matter up, and are
urging the passage of such a law, and
the railroad officials say such a law
must come sooner or later in all the
states.
In this connection it is pointed out
by railroad officials of high position
that the Ogden special which crashed
into a freight working in the Green
ville yards recently was an extra and
therefore “Inferior” in the eyes of the
rules regulating the running of
trains to a “second class” train, anu
that Engineer James Hunter should
have brought it into the Greenville
yards “under full control expecting
to find the main track occupied.” And
this is the position that the Southern
will likely assume at the investigation
to be held before the railroad com
mission as to the cause of the wreck
of the Ogden special.
BOWEN LANDS IN GOTHAM.
American Minister to Venezuela
Gomes- te 5s- Catechised.
-Confer
servhd
of buslr
erclses
assoclai
Sons
and
monument,
cises were hi
present aud
at Charleston.
I memorial day was ob-
trleston by suspension
holding of special ex-
;nolia cemetery, under
jl
le camps of veterans,
Ins and volunteer troops
jarched to the soldiers’
Iiere appropriate exer-
ld. A great crowd was
Ihe graves were strewn
with wreaths I and flowers.
Mother Accl Mentally Kills Daughter.
On a plantation about eight miles
from Bishop /ille, Lee county, while
playing the part of a man under the
influence of whisky, and trying to
kill his wife with a gun, Katie Smitn
shot her daughter, Lucilla Smith, in
the foot. The limb was so badly
shattered that amputation was neces
sary. The daughter grew steadily
worse and finally died.
At the coroner’s Inquest nothing
was brought out to show that there
was enmity existing between the two
women, but a verdict holding the
mother for the crime was rendered.
She was placed In the Lee count>
jail to answer the charge of her
daughter’s murder.
Southern to Double-Track.
Herbert W. Bowen, American, min
ister to Venezuela, arrived at New
York Monday on the steamship Phila
delphia. He said he would say noth
ing on Venezvelan affairs until he
had repori-i*jJ._at_Wa8hingten.--In
quire,) as to the present status of
the Loomis charges, but declined to
discuss the matter.
ACIJ
ER AND LAWYER MIX.
Fitzgerald, Georgia, Treated to a Live
ly Street Fight Sensation.
At Fitzgerald, Ga., Thursday, Rev.
E. W. Daugherty, pastor of one of
the local Christian churches was at
tacked in the street by City At
torney Rym&n, who is also editor of
the Fitzgerald Citizen.
The trouble grew out of a division
in the church and articles published
by Ryman.
It is alleged that the minister was
struck several times and took ref
uge in a livery stable, w’here Uhe pro
prietor prevailed on the lawyer to
cease his attack.
THREE HELD FOR MURDER.
Negroes Jailed on Charge of Killing
Aged Man and His Wife.
Jim Taylor, Sidney Morris and Claud
Elder, three negroes under 23 years
of age, are in the jail at Watkinsville,
Ga., charged with the murder of old
man Frank Holbrook and his wife near
that plac6 Tuesday night.
Two of the negroes were traced by
bloodhounds. They had previously
been prosecuted by Holbrook for bur-
The Southern railway is going to, glary and had made threats t.o kill
double track from Charleston to Sum-
adistane^ of twenty-two
miles, andjM^thought that the
determinatkm^^^^^^the rails is a
part of Its plans to^Yneet the com
petition which the electric railway
proposes to give the system. The
engineers of the Southern railway are
now oq the road, running the levels
Much dissatisfaction has existed
with the service which the railroad
has given between Charleston and the
health and tourist resort for several
years, and the building of the elec
tric railway is the result. It is said
that the Southern railway will oper
ate motor cars on the line when the
electric railway begins operation.
College Move Opposed.
The seminary directors at a recent
meeting decided to keep open the
Presbyterian seminary in Columbia
for another year and placed Itself on
record as opposed to any change in
the policy of the Institute.
During the meeting it was develop
ed that there was considerable feeling
among some of the members of the
body against some of the members
of the faculty for their activity in pro
moting the plans to remove the in
stitution to Atlanta
him. The murderdrs got away with
$400 that the old coutfle had in the
house.
EstaMisM 1881. Price $1.50 a Tear, ia iOrarce.
LAGREST STOVE HOUSE IN AUGUSTA
When you buy a Stove, buy the best, 7'rte Great Ex*
oelsior. Parts always kept in stock. Write for catalogue.
We have a few very pretty calendars left. Write for
one. The largest and lowest price Stove and Bicycle
house in Augusta. W T e invite you to make our place your
headquarters while in our city.
Successors to C. B. Allen's Stove House,
S40 Broad Street, Augusta. Ga. .
W. J. RUTHERFORD &
DIALERS nr
BRICK, LIME,
PORTLAND AND ROSlNDALlj CEMENT.
PLA8TEB HAIR AND LATHS
READY ROOFING BTC.
Corner of WMbiagtoa end Rojaolds Street*.
HURT ■. DIBBLE, JAMES POWELL, W. W. MUCEENFims,
President. Tl®e President. Cashier.
The Bank of Aiken
AIKEN, SOUTII CAROLINA.
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DAVID E.F0UTZ
BALT/MORE. MD.
A medicine which make*
tick animals well, the diseased
whole, the weak strong and the
thin fat. It will restore lost Appetite,
expel Worms and cure Chronic Cough,
Heaves, Influenza. Distemper. Hide
bound, Indigestion, Constipation, Flat
ulency ard all Stomach and Bowd
troubU. «
The finest of all animal
vitaltzers and tonics and
the only one which
increases the coeffi
cient of digestibil
ity of protein.
Get rf* Gtnirtm nr
send to uv. Pamphlet j
No, Fres.
m.S>U bf All Dtsltn. i
For sale by W. J. Platt «& Co.
Godin Spectacle Gc.
EYE-SIGHT SPECIALISTS,
And Manufacturers of
Spectacles and Eyeglasses
For all tefects of the human eye
sight. Eyes scientifically examined
free by graduate doctors. Office ani
Works, 928 Broad street, opposite
Planter’* Hotel, Augusta, Ga.
nut) ptt
- Agent.
Fire, Life, Cyclone,
AcoidentT
Insurance,
AND
"""ING ani SHAVING’
FOB
■air Oattiag, Shaving and Rbampoo
-ag, goto
GEO. W WALTON
Basement Dyer Building, Augusta, Ga.
LobiM Iron fforts
Augusta, Ga.
AIKEN, S. C.
SHRINER’S INDIAN VERMIFUGE.
The most efficient agent for eradi
cating Worms from human beings.
Mothers should send for pamphlet
"Something About Worms” free on ap
plication. This remedy is guaranteed
to give satisfaction if used according
to the directions, o# money refunded.
Price, 25c per bottle, or 5 bottles for
$1.00.
Ask your dealer for It; but if not
supplied send to David E. Fouts, Sole
Propr., Baltimore, Md.
HIRAM CRONK CROSSES RIVER.
AGED COUPLE MURDERED.
Man and Wife Found Dead with Skulls
Horribly Crashed.
F. M. Holbrook, a highly respected
and prosperous Citizen of McDuffie
county, Georgia, and his wife Were
murfiered In a horrible mannef Tues
day night. Tnfe aged cqfffcle HVfed
alone and it is thought the dftjject of
the mifrder Whs to rtth the ffiore ad
joining the residence.
Mr. and^Mrs. Holhrook had evident
ly retired and were aroiised by some
one without. Mr. Holbrook had gone
lo the rkaor and. met hrts death. It is
evident £hs(t iffrs. H&jjrook fallowed
her husband and was also killed.
Last Survivor of Wap of 1812 Joins
the Silent Majority.
Hiram Cronk, the Iftst survivor of
the war of 1812, died at his home
in Ava, N. Y., Saturday, aged 105.
He had been honored by both the
national government and his native
state. Born at Frankfort, Herkimer
county, New York, April 19, 1800, Hi
ram Cronk became a member of Cap
tain Edward Fuller’s company of tfie
infantry when only a little more than
14 years of age, and did valiant
service against the British,
REQUISITION IS HONORED.
LOEB DODGED MISS MAE.
California Governor Turns Potter
Over to Georgia Authorities.
Governor Pardee of California, Mon
day, honored the requisition of the
governor ci Georg'a for the return of
Maro S. Potter, who is wanted to an
swer a charge of embezzlement at
Davisboro of the funds of a bank at
that place. Potter is in custody at
Los Angeles.
Columbia severely criticised the fac-,
ulty along this line, but he opposed
C. B. Graham’s efforts to close the
institution temporarily, urging that it
would be a better business proposi
tion to get a more united faculty to
run the seminary than to close for
even a tempopary period.
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Alleged Lynchers Exonerated
Papers Were Not Served on Presi
dent’s Secretary While Out West. j
William Loeb, Jr., secretary to the
president, passed safely through No- |
braska without being served with
summons in an action filed by Miss
Mae Wood demanding $35,000 on a
W. A. Clark of I charge of conspiracy to deprive her
BATTLE EXPECTED DAILY.
Engines,
Boilers,
Cotton,
Saw, Fertilizer, Oil and Ice Machin
ery and Supplies and P.epairs, Machine
Tools, Woodworking Machinery, Shaft
ing, Pulleys, Hangers, Leather md
Rubber Belting and Hose, Railroad
and Mill Supplies and Tools, Steam
Pumps, Feed Water Heaters and
Hoisting Engines, Injectors.
Capacity for three hundred hands.
Estimates furnished for power plant#
and steel bridges, store front#.
DON’T FAIL TQ WRITE
US BEFORE BUYING - ..
Johnson’s Bakery.
VA.b* k,kA.ii
-f $r |
is
of certain missives alleged to have
been written to her by Senator Platt.
SAVED THE WRONG WOMAN.
Rojestvensky and Nebogatoff, It
Reported, Have Joined Forces.
A naval action within a few days
is regarded as likely in well-informed
naval cirrles at St. Petersburg. Ad
miral Rojestvensky and Rear Admiral
Nebogatoff joined forces May 10th.
There is reason to believe the unit
ed fleet will proceed northward im
mediately.
A Sad Incident of the Deadly Tornado
at Snyder, Oklahoma.
One of the saddest episodes of the
cyclone at Snyder, Oklahoma, was
j that of Colonel Williamson. When
RUSS ADMIRAL SLAIN.
Charged with the lynching of the , the Bt0rm Winiamson grabbed
5 a woman whom he thought was his
wife and hurried away to a place of
safety. When out of danger, he dis
covered that the woman was not his
negro, Keitt Bookhart, John H. Palm
er, S. A. Eadons, Perry Martin, An
drew Martin and Benjamin Martin,
all i white men of Orangeburg county,
were placed on trial the past week
( wife. Later, Mrs. Williamson was
• found, with her head completely sev-
ared fyoia h§r b£$7-
Shot to Death by an Orderly Whom
He Had Dismissed.
Vice Admiral Nazitoff was shot and
killed by an orderly in his room at SL
Petersburg Saturday. The orderly
fired three shots from a revolver at
the admiral. The crime is attributed
lo the anger of the murderer at hla
dismissal from his duties as orderly
and being ordered to proceed to th6
front.
Cleanliness and Purity of Materials
Are characteristics of all the
Bread, Rolls, Cakes, Pies, Etc.
made at JOHNSON’* BAKERY,
Park Avenue.
The Choicest Confectioneries and Can
dies always an hand.
STONE! STONE!!
Estimates given and orders prompt
ly flllsd for sir set onrbings, and cross
ings, flower bod borders, sidewalks la
blocks, bitching posts, door and tsr-
raoa stops, door and window aills,
os me ter 7 lot copings, rough and
dressed ashlers for fronts of build
ings, hoarth stones, eto. Lakoviaw
■tons a spacialty. Stona from other
■marries if preferred.
H. K. OHATFIEIiD,
Aiken, 8. a