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«Tre J B Graham Ook 1 * B F D N« 4 liken limiiiVt Arthur P. Ford. Editor and Proprietor. AJKEN. S.C.. THURSDAY MORJMNG. JULY 20. 1905. EstaDlisteil 1881. Price $1.50 a Tear, ia Aarwr. HUBBARD AROUSED CANDLER SHEDS LIGHT. President of New York Cot ton Exchange After Wilson. Ex-8enator Believe* Passage of Esoh- Townsend Bill by Congress Would KH| “Jim Crow” Ca r Laws. A Washington dispatch says: In a recent interview former Senator WRITES TO ROOSEVELT Chandler of New Hampshire brought forward a question that was generally discussed when the Esch-Townsend Farr Honored by University. Dr. James M". Farr, formerly of Union, and well known for his high literary attainments, bas ’jeen hon ored the past week by being elected Members of Exchange Greatly Shock- •’W was under consideration during vice president of the state university SOUTH CAROLINA STATE NEWS HEMS. ed by Disclosures of Venality in Agricultural Department—New Phase Is Added to Scandal. ▲ Washington special says: A new and Interesting phase of the cotton leak investigation was developed on Wednesday through the publication of the letter of Wulter C. Hubbard, the president of the New York cotton ex change, addressed to President Roose velt, in which the writer declared that the members of the exchange had been “greatiy shocked by the re cent disclosures of veriHlity in the de partment of agriculture,’’ and request- ing a full Investigation of the metn- ods which led to the corruption with a view of preventing the possbility of recurrence. That letter, it is be lieved is the outcome of some recent correepoadence between Secretary Wllaon and Mr. Hubbard, in which the latter called upon the secretary to make him a public apology because be had some years ago called the sec retary’s attention to alleged leaks, and that no ■ notice had been given the suggestion. The secretary wrote a tart reply. In which he Informed Mr. Hubbard that he owed no one an apology in the light of having done his duty to the best of his ability and that, when he got anything that looked like facts, promptly sent them to the secret ser- the last session of congress, but which is sure to come up if a similar meas ure is brought forward next winter. Mr. Chandler favored the Esch-Town send bill and one of his reasons for doing so was that “if national con trol of railroads is allowed, all dis criminations between whites and blacks in the enjoyment of railroad facilities will be abolished; in other words there will ibe no jim crow cars, and the wl^te mai\ and the negro will have to sit side by side in the same cars all over the south. This utterance by Mr. Chandler has already given rise to considerable dis cussion and some of the friends of the Esch-Townsend bill have endeav ored to explain that it would have no such effect, as he believes, and that It would not be construed as nul lifying the laws that have been passed in southern states iequirii\; the rail roads to afford separate accommoda tions for whites and blacks. It is cerlain that it would not affect these laws so far as they apply to trans portation wholly within the bounds of a single state. It is not so clear that It would not be within the power of the interstate commerce commis sion and of the courts to compel the roads to grant equal accommodations to whites and blacks traveling across state lines. The language of the bill which Mr. Chandler believes would place negroes vice officers to hunt down. The case to which Mr. Hubbard re- on an equality with white men and ferred in his recent letter to the sec- women in southern railway transit is retary occurred in 1900. On Decern- found in section 1. This section pro ber 20 of that year Mr. Hubbard sent vides: the secretary certain papers showing “That whenever, upon complaint that a Mr. Steinberger wanted to sell duly made, under section 13 of the Information to a New York cotton act to regulate commerce, the inter- biokerage firm, claiming that he got state commerce commission shall, af- It In advance of the department. Sec- j ter full hearing, make any finding or retary Wilson immediately turned the ruling declaring any existing rate for matter over to the secret service of- the transportation of persons or prop- fleers, but in about a week Chief Wil- erty.or any regulation or practice kie reported that “it looks like an at- whatsoever affecting the transporta- tempt of Steinberger to bunco the , tion of persons or property to be un- New York firm.” After allowing tWb reasonable or unjustly discriminatory, months to elapse and not hearing fur- J the commission shall have power, and ^ tkem, the secretary, on March 26, 1901, ; it shall be Its duty, to declare and tiled upon the secret service for In- order what shall be a jUst and rea- fowmation as to whether they had made anj discoveries. On the follow- dsy Secretary of the Treasury la tho i.r piarp of Ovat found Gage replied, as follows: “The action of this man, who wanted to sell in formation, was done with the hope of being able to sell Information, but, as a matter of fact, his efforts to ob tain the advance information failed, as he received no assistance from the person In Washington upon whom he * depended for Information.” Hubbard Complained Long Ago. The report of Mr. Gage was trans mitted to Mr. Hubbard by Secretary Wilson the next day, and the matter was allowed to drop. But in Jan uary, 1902, Mr. Hubbard complained of having been advised that southern ginners were sending to the depart ment returns of their ginning opera tions bearing date of December 22 or 23, “and,” said Mr. Hubbard, "I am unable to understand why additional returns from ginners should be ob tained, since rtie result is to be pub lished.” It seems, however, that the department of agriculture had not call ed for any ginners’ statistics at that time, but that the circulars had been issued from the census bureau. In the same month Mr. Hubbard wrote the department of agriculture, asking for certain information on cot ton. but the secretary. In the course of a sharp letter, denying the request, written under date of January 11, 1902, ■aid: “We take the ground here that nothing goes out unless it goes to the whole people. We have no favor ites.” Secretary Wilson, Wednesday, permitted the examination of the cor respondence, in order to show' that as far back as five years ago he had taken prompt action to discover any leaks in his office. sonable rate, practice or regulation to be charged, imposed or followed to be unreasonable or unjustly discrim- inatory, and the order of the commis sion shall, of its own force, take ef fect and become operative thirty days after notice thereof has been given to the person or persons affected thereby.” While the chief purpose had in View by the framers of the Esch-Townsend bill was to give the interstate com merce commission increased authority over freight rates, they did not stop there. The bill proposed to confei upon the commission power to change any “regulation or practice whatso ever affecting the transportation of persons or property” that might be found to be unreasonable or unjusl'y discrimuatory. This is very broad language. Some of the opponents of the bill have gone so far as to con tend that it would give the commis sion practically absolute power over the management of all of the rail roads in the United States, even en abling them to prescribe the sched ules on which trains should move and the stations at which they should stop and to fix the wages of employ, ees. A much less extreme construc tion would seem to make it cover a “regulation or practice”that might be alleged to be “unjustly discrimnatory’’ as between a white man and a black man. DISCUSSED CANAL AFFAIRS. Conference is Held by Roosevelt. Shonts and Engineer Stevens. Important matters rela'ing to the construction of the Pamma canai were considered by President Roose velt and Chairman Shonts and Chiei Engineer Stevens, who were visitors at Sagamore Hill. This was the first opportunity the president has had to discuss canal matters with Mr. Stevens, and they went over the subject pretty tlior oughly. As both Mr. Shonts and Mr Stevens expect to sail for Pamm:- on the 20th instant, the orej'dt.v desired to conceit with them befote their departure. ALEXANDER SERIOUSLY ILL. Former President of Equitable in Se elusion on Lon? Island. James W. Alexander, former pres ident of the Equitable Life Assuranc- Society, is very ill. Ho is undergo ing treatment in a secluded place or Long Island, and it is said that ho is in such a condition that all knowl edge of the recent developments iu the society have been kept from him. DOZEN NEW DIRECTORS Of Equitable Insurance Society In stalled by Chairman Morton. , Twelve new directors, including D. Cady Herrick, president Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia universi ty; Congressman Charles E. Little field of Maine and Nevada N. Strana ban, collector of the port of New York, have teen chosen and the res ignations of three old directors ac cepted by the board of directors oi Many Babies Dying in Cleveland. Within nine days eighty-two infants under one year of age have died in Cleveland, Ohio, and the city health authorities are making a close inves tigation into sanitary conditons and the milk supply. WANTED TO SEE A WRECK. Two Boys Under Arrest for Attempt to Derail Fast Train. Albert Herfer, 14, and Charles Fee 11, sons of prominent farmers, twe miles, east of Lima, Ohio, were arrest ed Friday by Pennsylvania railroad detectives charged with an attempt to wreck passenger train No. 35. An gle irons were placed on the track, and when the obstruction was hit a brake rod on the engine and twe under the coaches were broken, but the train kept on the rails. “We wanted to see a wreck,” was the only explanation given. DUEL IN KENTUCKY CHURCH. Miller Announced He Was Best Man in House and Shooting Began. John Miller of Breathit county, Ky„ shot and killed James Crees and wounded James M. Thomas during a fight In a church on Fraley creek on Sunday. Miller entered the church, and announced that he was the best man In the house. Crees and Thom as disputed this and the shooting fol lowed. GOTHAM RIOTING RESUMED. Whites and Blacks Again Clash in San Juan Hill District. A New York dispatch says: Riot- ng between whites and blacks was esumed after midnight Monday morn- ng in the San Juan Hill district, lany shots were fired, and twenty icgroes and one white woman were arreted. Policeman David Roche had ils skull fractured. Police reserves _ vere called out before the melee the gftultftble Life Insurance Society, ended., of Florida, which is located at Lake City, and will continue to have charge of the department of English liter ature. Cotton Mills Elect New Officers. At a recent meeting of the stock holders of the Whitaker cotton mills the following directors were elected: A. H. Pollock, J. W. Rhyne, C. in. Smith, J. Eb. Jefferies, W. P. Whiso- nant, P. H. Freeman, with P. H. Free man as secretary and treasurer; 0. M. Smith, president; E. M. Bird was appointed superintendent In place of J. R. Killian. Net in the Association. After careful inquiry it would seem that the cotton mills of Union are not in an association which is alleged in the press report from Greenville exists among the cotton mills of Un ion and vicinity, though this does not include statements from the mill presidentrs, a$ it has been impossi ble to communicate with them. Library for Anderson. A Carnegie library for Anderson is an assured fact now. The lot has been selected and an architect has been appointed to draw plans and speciflcaUons. The amount to be giv en by the city has been secured and he budding will be placed en the cor ner of McDuffie and River streets. Shaft to Editor Gonzales. A marble company of Gainesville, Ga., has just built a monument which is heing put in place on the state capitol grounds at Columbia, in hon or of the late Editor A. E. Gonzales, of The- Columbia State, who was shot and killed upon the streets of Co lumbia some years ago by Lieutenant Governor James Tillman. The mon ument is to cost between $3,000 and $4,000, and the money for Its pur chase and erection was raised by popular subscription. Stolen Diamonds Recovered. Tim dtajnonds which were^stglen from the Sea Island hotel at Beau- fort were recovered after a diligent search. The box which contained the jewels was found under a tree by Dr. W. D. Vincent in a yard near the house occupied by the girl who has been in jail accused of the theft. When shown the box she confessed and led Mr. M. D. White where the jewels were hid. She will be tried at the September term of court. been hard in jpany eastern as wei< as southern cities. Bright Williamson, as receiver, is sued a circular to stockholders of the concern reporting the concern In bankruptcy and giving a statement of assets and liabilities which, he says. Is as.near right as possible to get in the limited time he has had. The as sets are given at $1,275,315.46; items being plants (per inventory, May 31), $1,089,056.63; real estate, scales and seed houses, $23,539.53; stock of sup plies and products (actual), $40,962.32; tools, live stock, etc., $(,204.11; bills recivable $765.13; accounts receiva ble (nominally), $57,399.83; cash in bank, subject to investigation, $26,- 387.91. Total liabilities, $1,790,793.33; items: Capital stock, $1,000,000; bills payable, $722,500; accounts payable, subject to investigation, $48,293.33; accounts payable in oil estimated at $20,000. I HEBREWS FIGHT WITH POLICE. Disgraceful Scramble at Dedication of a Synagogue in St. Louis. At St. Louis, Sunday, a crowd of over 2,000 people, mostly Jews, fought with the police in a wild scramble to gain admittance to the dedication services of the new synagogue of the Congregation Sharis Sphard. A num ber were clubbed, but none seriously hurt. Several women fainted. Bonaparte Revokes Orders. Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte has revoked the orders recently is sued for the transfer of Civil Engin eers J. W. G. W&lker and F. R. Har ris from the Charleston navy yarn to other stations. Soon after the orders were issued they were suspended at the presi dent’s direction and an investigation made into the matter of the alleged differences between the engineer offi cers and the contractors for the dock now heing built at that yard. Citizens of Charleston forwarded a petition re questing that the officers he retained. Prohi Campaign in Anderson. A meeting of the Anderson county prohibition committee was held a few days ago with the following result; Two thousand copies of an anti- dispensary letter are to be made and circula t'd through the county. In con formity to the statute bearing on such measures, petitions are to be submitted for the signatures of the requisite quota of the qualified voters of the county. The petitions are to ite sent to the respeeflve pastors and each of these is to assign' a commit tee of three to the work of presenting the petition. Brother Bought the Drug. The coroner’s jury in the ca?e of R. Keith Dargan, the former president of the' Independent Cotton Oil com pany of Darlington, who committed suicide, returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death by taking carbolic acid. It was developed at the inquest that Mr. Pegram Dargan, the brother of the dead man, was in the room with the suicide when he took the poison, and stayed with him until he died. This brother was plac ed on the stand, but declined to make a statement, saying that the note left by Dargan would explain all. This note was read, and in it the dead man said that although he had mis managed he was not a coward. The physician who was railed to the dead man's aid testified that Pe gram Dargan said he bought the acid and saw his brother drink it. Many Hard Hit by Failure. Representatives of the bankrupt In dependent Cotton Oil company met in Charleston a few days ago and ap pointed July 26, at Darlington, for a meeting of The creditors. It is now estimated that the liabilities will reach $800,000 and the principal as sets are a number of mills and gin neries, which might not bring ono- tJiird of that amount on the block- Charleston is said to have lost about $375,000 in the failure. It is fully ’xpected that the entire stock issue v $1,000,000 will he wiped out. The failure Is far-rcachiag and bants Uave HEAD OF G. A. R. DEAD. General Blackmac Succumbs to Intes tinal Nephritis at Boise, Idaho. General W. W. Blackmar, comman der-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, died Sunday at Boise, Idaho, of intestinal nephritis. The body will be taken to the home of the family at Boston. The gene ral arrived in Boise on July 10 on a tour, during which he intended to visit Grand Army posts thre/ghout the northwest. He was ill when he arrived and gradually failed. The se- liousness of his condition was kept from the public at the request of his wife. WITTE PREPARING FOR MISSION. Russian Peace Envoy Has Many Calls to Make Before Departure. A' St. Petersburg dispatch says : M. Witte spent an hour with Mr. Mey er, the American ambassador, at the Kleinmichei palace discussing the forthcoming peace conference. Before leaving for Paris M. W\tte will have still another audience with the em peror. In the meantime he must pay a round of official visits to all the imperial ministers. M. Witte is ex tn hp th© bearer of ;a per sonal message from cne enjpfc.v,. To President Roosevelt. AFTER MERIDIAN CRIMINALS. Circuit Court Adjourns After Hav ing Disposed of 218 Indictments. Circuit court adjourned at Merid ian, Miss., Friday after one of the most sensational sessions in the his tory of the county. The term be gan June 24 with a vehement charge by Judge Cockran to the grand jury urging that body to do its duty in breaking up vice and crime in the city in the response there has been 218 indictments and seventy sen tences imposed ranging from fines oi $25 to life terms in the peniteh tiary. MORTON SLASHES SALARIES. Various Employees of Equitable Will Now Draw Less Boodle. Sweeping reductions in the salaries of various employees of the Equitable Society have been announced by Chairman Morton. The decreases will amount to 20 per cent on all salaries over $15,000 per annum; 15 per cent from all salaries he we?n $9,000 and $15,000 both Inclusive, and 10 per cent decrease from all salaries above $2,500 and below $9,OOP per year. These changes become operative on August 1 and effect a saving of $150,- 000 to $200,000 a year. 14 BODIES IN SUBMARINE. Sunken Boat Brought to Surface Re veals Sickening Horror. The submarine boat, Farfadel, which sank at the entrance of the port of Sidi Abdullah, Tus's, July 6, was towed into dry dock Saturday after ten days' incessant efforts to raise her. When the door of the Farfadet was opened there was a rush of nauseous gases from the decomposing bodies of the fourteen men who had perished in her. An inspection of the FarfadCb shows that her crew employed every Imaginable device in their attempts to escape. THREE TRAINMEN KILLED. Freight Wreck Takes Fire and Bod ies of Victims Cremated. Three trainmen were killed and two probably fatally injured Friday in a freight wreck on the Iowa Central railroad near Richland, Iowa. A car of oil took fire, the tank ■exploded and burned the bodies of the killed to a crisp. The fire de stroyed a bridge ever a creek, where the wreck occurred and burned six hours. FIRST BALE OF NEW COTTON. Grown in Texas and Sold in New Orleans for 20 Cents a Pound. The first bale of new cotton lor the season was received at the New Orleans cotton exchange Friday. It was grown by F. J. Johnson oi Moore, Frye county, Texas. It was sold at the door of the exchange at auction and brought 20 cents a pound. Tire bale weighed 537 pounds. The custom of selling the first new bale received on the exchange for :3f tcueut ot charity Is au old one., SIX MEN ON TRIAL Alleged Slayers of Carter Children Arraigned. TOBACCO LEAK ALLEGEC Force of Two Hundred and Fifty Po licemen Required to Quell Con flict—Scores of- the Combat ants More or Less Injured. “San Juan Hill,” the district bound- j ed by Amsterdam and West End ave- CASES CALLED IN COURT nues and Sixty-first and Sixty-third streets, in New York city, so called because of its notoriety as a battle J. G. Rawlings, His Three Sons and ground, was the scene Friday nighf Two Negroes Are the Prisoners Before Bar — Widespread In terest in Proceedings. One of the most sensational trials ever he’d in the southern section of Georgia came up at a special term # s h of a furious race riot which required 250 policemen to quell after mgny' shots had been fired and several per sons had been seriously injured. The trouble began shortly after 9 o’clock when a'policeman arrested Ed ward Connelly, white, for attacking’ of the superior court at Valdosta on Henry Williams, a negro, and Monday, Judge Mitchell of Thomas- Pursued to the station house ville pres ding. ! his P risoner b J' a mob of Connolly s r _, * i friends, hurling showers of stones and >e c ase .s tnat against Milton, , other missiles. When the station .•esse and Leonard Rawlings, as al- house reserve* turned out the whole leged principals; Alf Moore, colored, neighborhood was in an uproar, and as an alleged accessory, and J. G. ! blacks and w’hites engaged in des- Rawliugs, the father of the boys, and perate in the streets ' Tof - _ rents of missiles were hurled from Frank Turner, a negro preacher, as | roofs and windows . WIthin ten mln . aDeged instigators of the crime. Above utes not less than a thousand men, all these, however, stands J. G. Ra\\- j boys and women, black and white, lings, who is charged with being the were engaged in a furious combat, arch instigator in the murder of W51- j The small party of police were pow r - lie and Carrie Carter, 15 and 13-year- i erless and reinforcements were sum- LAGREST STOVE HOUSE IN AUGUSTA When you buy a Stove, buy the best, ?‘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. We invite you to make our place your headquarters while in our city. Successors to C. B. Allen’s Stove House, 840 Broad Street, Augusta. Ga. old children of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Carter of the Hahira district. ; In charging the grand jury Judge Mitchell called attention to the tact that it was the first special term of court ever held in the district. He ■Iso spoke in commendation of fue law-abiding spirit of the section of the state. The story of the killing and the ^acts surrounding it almost stagger pitman belief. There were many cir cumstances in the case, it is claimed, that po'nted to the Rawlings as the Instigators of the crime, even before tire statement of the Carters or the confession of Alf . Moore had been made. There had been a feud existing be tween Rawlings and Carter for a num ber of years. The bitterness had been inherited by Rawlings’ children, and it is charged they did what they could on every occasion to make it unpleas- apt for the children of Carter. ( Bot'i men had been ministers of the ^ospe’. and Carter had been a member ®* the \ etl odist cjonference. Both ■ad very good farms, and Rawlings i-as erns'dera’ ly alove the average farmer in h s property holdings. A Lrlet summary of the tragedy is follows: i On the night of the 13th of June W, just three days after J. G. Raw- nr jm*- o rea«e ' $1,200, on a warrant sworn out Carter, fhe dog in Carter’s yard iegm to bark, and his three oldest hildren, a hoy and two girls, started into the yard to loak af er a sick Calf, which they thought w-as being polested. The fatter ca led them pack, and the eldest girl returned to fhe house. j Willie and Carrie ran through the garden ga*e and ?ro:nd the smoke house, tack toward a crack in the fence, where they expected to go through. As they approached the crack the assassin, standing in the shade of a peach tree, fired upon the boy and then upon the girl. The girl dropped dead, while the toy, after seeing that she was dead, crawled to the house and reparted what had hap pened. The assassins then remained about the house all night long until nearly d'ay, trying to burn the place and thus destroy the evidences of their crime. Carter, however, had a small rifle and a gun on the inside of the house, and by constantly firing the rifle through the cracks on different s'des of the house, kept them from carrying out their purpose. About day his oldest daughter informed neighbors of what had happened and the news of the tragedy spread like wildfire. The disclosures since then have been startling In the extreme. A dozen people were found, it is claim ed, who could testify that Rawlings had trmd to employ them to set fire to Carter's house and then kill the family as each member tried to es cape. REPORT ON GEORGIA SCHOOLS. Advance Sheets Submitted to Legis lature by Commissioner Merritt. State School Comissioner W. B. Meritt of Georgia has submitted some advance sheets of his report to the general assembly. The school statistics for 1904 show that the school population was 712,- 0C0. The number of pupils attending school 490,103. Of these 298,865 were white children and 200,238 were ne groes. The number of teachers was 10,360. Of these 6,951 were white and 3,400 negroes. The number of school bouses in the state was 7,786 moned. On their arival a cordon was drawn around the whole district, and strong patrols made repeated charges down the streets in a v^ain effort to restore order. They succeeded in making a few prisoners, and were forced to re treat, fighting every inch of the way and pursued to the station house by a howling mob. The worst fighting was in Sixty- second street, where from every win dow and roof rained missiles, while hundreds of shots were fired. Inspector McLaughlin arrived short ly before 9 o’clock and, realizing how wide-spread was the danger, sent hur ry calls for reserves from as far north as One Hundred and Twenty-fiun street from the east side, and from the west side. In all there were more than 250 men under command of the inspector within twenty minutes. Squads of men were sent along roofs af the houses In Sixty-second street, where the fighting seemed heaviest. They walked from Vvest End avenue to Amsterdam, clearing the roofs, and found that many chim neys had been torn to pieces to fur nish ammunition to the rioters, and in the corners of roofs were mounds of bricks, pottery and bottles. More arrests were made, and several whites md negroes were rescued 'from gangs continued. The rioting spread down town to Fifty-seventh street and up to Sixty- eighth street, although the hardest battles were fought between Sixty- first and Sixty-third streets. For more than half an hour cars on the Amsterdam line were blocked. Color ed men pursued by whites took ref ; uge on cars as they passed, and were followed by showers of bricks and stones as they fled. Every window in many cars were broken, and pas sengers took shelter in neighboring houses. Conductors and ihotormen hid under seats, leaving their cars to the mercy of the mob. Several passengers were slightly hurt by stones and broken glasses. Commissioner McAdoo arrived at 11 o’clock, and made a tour of the bat tle field, the fighting by that time hav ing ceased. He said the riot could not have taken place had not the rougher element been permitted to carry arms. They appeared to have a regular arsenal of weapons, as the police found when they searched the prisoners. In all, seven whites and two ne groes had their injuries attended to by the amubulance surgeons, but others less seriously hurt were taken to their homes by friends. J. RUTHERFORD & . DEALERS IK BRICK, LIME, PORTLAND AND ROSBNDALK CEMENT* PLASTER HAIR AND LATHS READY ROOFING ETC. 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A clerk in Holmes’ store alleges that a sergeant and two privates en tered the place,and, holding him at bay, rifled the safe and cash register of the money. He says that they also carried away cigars, whisky and a sack of flour. Agent. nrrm; Accident Insurance, .and— 1:-: AIKEN, S. C. Soilin Spectacle Go. EYESIGHT SPECIALISTS, And Manufacturers of Spectacles and Eyeglasses For all defects of tho human eye sight. Eyes scientifically examined free by graduate doctors. Office and Works, 928 Broad street, opposite Planter’s Hotel, Augusta, Ga. HAIR CUTTING ani SHAVING FOR S*ir Getting. Shaving and Shampoo »I. goto GEO. W WALTON. •Lomtefl Iron Worts Supply Co., Augusta, Ga. SHRINER’S INDIAN VERMIFUGE. The most efficient agent for eradi cating Worms from human beings Mothers should send for pamphle “Something About Worms” free on ap plication. This remedy is guaranteed to give satisfaction If used according to the directions, cm money refunded. Price, 25c per bottle, or 5 bottles for 11.00. Ask your dealer for it; but if not •upplied send to David E. Fouti, Sol\ Baltimore, Md. COSTLY DEPOT TOTALLY BURNED City of Louisville Loses Union Passen ger Station—Loss is $350,000. The union passenger station at Tenth and Broadway streets, Louis ville, was destroyed by fire Monday night, entailing a loss of over $-^5o,- f 000. The amount of insurance is not ■ known. The fire was discovered on the top j floor of the four-story stone structure, and although every fire engine in the city except the reserves was on the scene in half an hour the building was eaten to a shell, only the walls being left standing. Engines, Boilers, Cotton, Saw, Fertilizer, Oil and Ice Machin ery and Supplier and Repairs, Machine Tools, Woodworking Machinery, Shaft ing, Pulleys, Hangers, leather and 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 plants and steel bridges, store fronts. DON’T FAIL TO WRITE US BEFORE BUYING - . . RESIGNS AS PEACE ENVOY. I Muravieff, Chief Russian Plenipoten- tiary Throws Up Job. A St. Petersburg special says: M. Muravieff has resigned his position a.r chief peace plenipotentiary. It may be regarded as practically certain that he will be replaced by M. Witte, who, all along has been considered the Rus sian statesman pre-eminently qualified to undertake the difficult task of ne gotiating peace with Japan. Johnson’s Bakery. TEN DEATHS FROM HOT WAVE. Chattanooga College of Law Law Department of Grant University. Two years’ course, conferring degree of LL. B.. with thorough preparation for admission to the bar of any state and of the United States. Strong faculty of fourteen members. Terms reasonable. FWie law building In center of city. * Students may be self-supporting. Lectures open September 20.1905. For free catalogue and literature address Major C. R. Evans, Dean, (Dept. I.) Chattanooga, Tennessee. c Was Record In New York Wednesday. Three Score Prostrations. Undiminished heat and humidity marked the day Wednesday, the fifth of the torrid wave which has aflict- ed New York. Ten deaths and near ly three score cases of prostration was the record of the day. A brisk breeze afforded gome mitigation, but hardly tempered the Intensity of the heat in the crowded quarters <5f the city. INDIAN GIRLS AS SERVANTS. A Problem Being Solved by People of Appleton, Wisconsin. The servant girl problem in the Appleton, Wisconsin, district has been partially solved by the employment of Indian girls who have graduated from the government school. Several are now in the kitchens of various families, receiving the same wages as white girls. ‘Ar> Cleanliness am Purity of Materials Are characteristics of all the Bread, Rolls, l akes. Pies, Etc. made at JOliNSO.Vs BAKKKY, 1’ark Arenue. The Choicest Confectioneries and Can* dies always *n hand. STONE! STONEtt Estimates given and orders prompt ly ailed for street curbings, and eroaa- ings, flower bed borders, sidewalks la blocks, hitching posts, door said ter- race steps, door and window sills, cemetery lot copings, rough and drossed ashlers for fronts of build ings, hearth stones, eto. Lakoviow atone a specialty. Stone from other quarries if preferred. H. K. CHATFIELD, Aiken, 9. Q*