Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i i • J € Mr;i Hi ' . i r^fpii • r J if n.. Hr* J BChiriftm Oil t «• k f d 4 wofilet Arthur P. Ford. Editor and Proprietor. AIKEN. S.C.. THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST ■>, 190(;. Eslablisbeil 1881. Price S1.50 a Year, m Aorai cr. PRISE IS ORDERED CURKfAZES FINANCIERS Anent Charges Against Cot ton Association Officers. Salaried Employee of American Ex- prea» Company Purchases .Over Five Millions Canal Bonds. JORDAN TAKES ACTION Allegations of Representative Anderw son on Floor of Georgia Legisla ture to Be Proven or Disprov ed by a Committee. As the result of the charge tnado by Representative Anderson of Chat ham county on the floor of the Geor gia house of representatives, that cer tain officials of the Southern Cotton Association have, under assumed names, been speculating in cotton, a full and complete investigation has . been ordered by Harvie Jordan, pres ident of the Southern Cotton Asso ciation, this investigation to be pub licly conducted. Another development was a card from A. A. Fairchild, publishing man ager of the Southern Cotton Associa tion, admitting that last spring he purchased an eighth interest in the Piedmont Brokerage Company at At lanta because he considered it a good investment, but that later learning that such an investment wels distaste ful to 1 the officers of the cotton as sociation disposed of his interests. He says that he makes this state ment because the name of Mr. Cheat ham had become mixed up in the af fair, being iu some way confounded with his own, and says that he is willing to state again that Mr. Cheat ham has not owned and does not own a share of stock in that company. President Jordan furnished the press with the following statement: “Representative Anderson of Chat ham has publicly withdrawn all ref erence or any intimation to me In his alleged charges on the floor of the house last Tuesday, which Is en tirely satisfactory to me personally. As president of the Southern Cotton Association, however, and In my of ficial capacity, I cannot permit the alleged charges made by Mr. Ander son against unnamed officers or em ployees of the association to stand un challenged. Positive and definite proof must be presented rather than hear say evidence, and the names of the alleged parties or party gfcen out to *the public. 1 have, .therefore, appoint ed the following officers of* the asso ciation,to hear whatever testimony Mr. Andersen o* others rtiaVahave. ative to the matter ana Bring the facts or falsity of the alleged charges to a final decision as promptly as possible. “Colonel W. iL.' Peek, Conyers, Ga., national committeeman; Hon. M. I* Johnson, Atlanta, Ga., president Geor gia State division; Mr. ■ John D. Walker, Sparta, Ga., treasurer Geor gia state division. “These gentlemen hold high posi tions iu the Southern Cotton Associa tion, and are well known to the peo ple of Georgia, and can be depended upon to impartially and thoroughly conduct this Investigation. The com mittee has been notified and request ed to meet here next Monday morning July 30, at 10 o'clock a. m., In the president’s office, 212 People building. “Representative Anderson has also been officially notified of the appoint ment of the above named committee, the place of meeting and requested to be present and testify to his al leged charges. The trial of this mat ter M ill be open to the public, as the Southern Cotton Association has nothing to conceal with reference to the acts and doings of its official work, or that of its officers. "Secretary Richard Cheatham also demands a full and complete Inves tigation of the charges preferred by Mr. Anderson, and every- opportunity will be given Representative Ander son, either to sustain his alleged charges or withdraw them in as pub lic a manner as is necessary. “HARVIE JORDAN, “President Cotton Association.’' A New York dispatch says: The Identity of Samuel Byerley, the suc cessful bidder for $5,800,000 worth of the new Panama canal 2 per cent bonds, has been finally revealed. By erley turns out to be a clerk in the accounting department of the Ameri can Express company. Ever since the bids for the bonds were announced by Secretary Shaw. Wall stree; has been trying to learn something about. Mr. Byerley, and has been speculating as to the Inter ests behind his bid. Byerley was not Inclined to answer any questions atter he had been located. The treasurer of the American Express company said: “This is entirely a personal matter with Mr. Byerley, who is one of our clerks. There is absolutely nothing in the rumor that he represents inter ests in the company.” Byerley has almost taken the breath away from some of his fellow clerks. He had a host of callers Wednesday, who wanted to know how he could afford to bid $3,800,000 tpr govern ment bonds, but he had nothing to say. The general opinion among those in the American Express company's office is that Byerley is taking a lit tle flyer, which has not cost him any thing more tangible so far than nerve. Under the terms of the sale no money need be put up until August 1. Byerley‘made four bids. For $1,000,- 000 of the bonds he offered 104.125: for the second million 103.990; for the third million 105.975 and for $2,819,- 580 he offered 103.867. The New York syndicate that got one half of the $30,000,000 bonds, put up a price on them Tuesday at $104.40. It was fig ured out by the bond experts Wed nesday that should Byerley sell his option at 104 he would clear $2,850 without putting up a cent, save for the postage stamp which carried his bid to Washington. In 1896 Abram White, a clerk In a broker’s office on his own hook bid for a big block of bonds and made a profit of $100,000. As a result of his bid a rule was made by the treas ury department that a cash payment must accompany all bids. This rule obtained until this last bond Issue, when it was either ovei looked or sus pended. WAR ON BAD MEAT Secretary Wilson Announces Plan of Proceedure, GIVEN DAILY RESPITES. REGULATIONS SPECIFIED DetaTV* or Campaign Far Reaching in Effect—All Meats Showing Slight- eat Deterioration Will Be Destroyed. Peculiar Legal Tangles Ward Ofl Noose from Neck of Convicted Murderer in Alabama. com COURT’S ORDER DEFIED. Mayor Johnson of Cleveland Makes War on Street Rahway Co. bt v;ievetaud^Ou»<>7~ti*igai[ j war on the Cleveland Electric Rail way company Wednesday by suddenly putting a force of five hundred men at work tearing up the tracks of the latter company in Fulton street be cause the company refused, or neg lected, to comply with a council res olution requiring it to take up its tracks In Fulton and remove them to the east side of the street. Mayor Johnson was personally on the ground, as was also Chief of Po lice Kohler and a large number of of- fleers. SHORTAGE IN CLERK’S OFFICE. JUDGE STOPS EXECUTION. Grant* Writ of Habeas Corpus After Governor Refused to Interfere. Judge Samuel Weaver of the Jeffer- son county criminal court in Birming ham at a late hour Thursday night, granted a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of John Williams, who was to have been hanged In Cullman, Ala., Friday. Governor Jelks had refused to Interfere. Williams was convicted for the murder of State Senator R. L. Hipp about two years ago while Hipp was trying to serve an ouster doc ument on the old man, which would hate left him homeless. Account* of Man Now Dead Lack $35,- 000 of Balancing. A sensation has been created in Rome. Ga., over the discovery of an alleged shortage in the city clerk's office to the amount of $35,000, which is said to have occurred during the administratlcfn of the late Halste.l Smith. Expert accountants Prom Atlanta audited the books of the outgoing ef- fleers, and discovered the alleged shortage. A Washington special says: Secre tary Wilson of the agricultural de partment, Friday, made public the reg ulations under the new law governing the inspection cZ meat products for interstate and foreign trade. The regulations are stringent throughout, and are in line with the best au thorities on the subjects of sanita tion, preservatives, dyes, chemicals and condemnation of diseased car casses. All animals, carcasses and meat products will be subjected to a rigid inspection. The sanitation regulations require the establishments in which animals are slaughtered, cured, packed? stored or handled to be suitably lighted and to be maintained In a sanitary con dition. Managers of establishments will not be permitted to employ any person affected with turberculosis in any of the departments where carcasses are dressed, meats handled or meat food products prepared. Butchers who dress diseased carcasses are required to cleanse and disinfect their hands and implements before touching healthy carcasses. Employees who are un clean and careless of person wIR not be allowed to handle meats. v The provision relating to dyed, chemicals and preservatives Is strln- gent. No meat or meat food product for interstate commerce shall contain any substance which lessens ItATk TTi wholesomeness, nor any drug, chen^ leal or dye, unless specifically providi ed for by a federal statute, dr any | preservative other than common salt,. sugar, wood smoke, vinegar, "pure spices and,' pending further inquiry, saltpeter. Meats and meat food products for export may contain preservatives in proportions which do not conflict with the laws of the foreign country to which they are exporter^, but all meats,, or meat food products, so prepared for export, must be treajted an<| kept In corupartme’hts of rate e ments separate affd apart *ri>.n-fclf-H* ucts are prepared for i'HfPVstate com merce, specifically labelled and certi fied and stamped with the word "spe cial.” All animals suspected of disease on this ante-mortem inspection shall be slaughtered separately and apart from all other animals under the care ful supervision of federal inspec tors. Soeclal provision is made for de struction for food purposes of all carcasses and parts of carcasses and meat food products which, upon in spection or reinspection, prove to be unclean, unsound,, unhealthful, un wholesome or otherwise unfit for hu man food. Members of the legal profession ot* Jefferson county, Alabama, are in a quandary over the most novel action in a criminal case ever taken in tlte state. Thursday night Judge Samuel L. Weaver of the criminal caurt In Birmingham, granted a writ of habeas corpus in the case of John Wllliams- of Cullman, Ala., just twelve hours be fore the time set for the execution of the prisoher for the murder of State Senator R. B. Hipp. Thd-writ was made returnable Friday. The'pris- oner was convicted in the circuit court of Cullman county, ‘and fhe. su preme court of Alabama affirmed the_ sentence. Williams w'as removed to- the Birmingham jail for safekAeglng. The petition for the wrft of habeas corpus w'as made on an insanity plea, and the question which was argued- by counsel all day Friday In - t thB .i criminal court was whether a Jeffer* :fl«m RUSSIA IS REELING JL T|oops Revolt and Peasants Engage in Outbreaks. — MUTINEERS SEIZE GUNS PalmeltD State News niHlT ■. DIBBLE, JAMES PtWBLL, W. W. MUClfcHFTRfl, PreaUeaL Tie* PrctideaL Caahier. Government is Enforcing Rigid Cen- , sorship to Prevent News of Up heavals Reaching the General Public. ▼ W' v + Wanted in This State. J. F. Alexander, who* is ..in jail in Caroll county, Georgia, on a charge of forgery, is also^. desired in South Carolina for a similar offense. Gover nor Terrell of Georgia received a requisition from Governor . Heyward ; for Alexander, but he will not be , surendcred to the Palmetto State au- i thorlties until Georgia has dwalt with hfti. •» grave outbreak occurred Saturday in the -Sevski regiment, at Poltava, Russia, following the arrest of a pri vate of the first battalion, who was discovered with some other soldiers in a shed, w r here the revolutionists are in the habit of holding meetings, r the arrest the entire first bal lon accompanied by a large crowd, ed the streets in defiance of the litary authorities. ®The soldiers proceeded to the ar son county official has Jurisdicti* and authority to issue the writ. Mean-K ^Vry Varracks,"’where "they seized time the hour for the legal exeoutioin * ^ had expired, and it was thought ft new date for the hanging will ifove to be set in case of failure to sustgteF the insanity plea. V The governor, however, came lo the? rescue and granted the prisoner . Je respite until Saturday. He will grant 1 respites from day to day until the question Is settled. ^ i » -I Sentiment in north Alabama, wrhere the crime was committed, has not been so thoroughly aroused since the- famous Hawes’ riot In 1888. Sheriff O’Rear of Cullman county, ao? several depu^teBi. am'jail tq sla 1 “ jnels. c*r seized • sec- < - cell. n wfho at iqifjie had joiu wer flpnnectlbi "•E3t eral guns and marched with them o the prison-where the political pris- »ers are confined. At this garri- ibers are confined. At this stage all remainder of the Poltava garrison as called out. The loyal troops fired ten the mutineers with machine guns aft they were engaged in breaking flown the gates of the prison. Sev- eral men were killed or wounded. The Wtt tbreak was not suppressed until 2- (ftlock Sunday morning. ’■-fjDispatches of the occurrence have , , , -jfeen suppressed at St. Petersburg, It has developed that Friday nlghb. ^ op]v Ecanty detall8 are obtain ab!e ‘ter the foreign press correspondents fjtrough the regular telegraphic chan- iq realize meant he wc ‘.where. Wife-. i ferenee ugh overt we^e able his -reslsta that the of w^lch they exp€ tb’ Cuilman. The situation at Shusha had be- e so tense that the governor di ed the quarters inhabited by the o races by a “dead line,” which ther faction was permitted to cross. Injunction Dissolved by Court. The decision of*'the supreme court, dissolving the temporary injunction restraining the paying $100,000 in lo cal street paving gives the greatest satisfaction in Spartanburg and means | that the work which was arranged I to begin several months a&o, ,and would have been but for the order of- ! the court, wlll^be at once tajftn up and pushed as rapidly as possible. To Unveil Confederate Shaft. The first band, artillery corps, Sul livan's Island barracks, Charleston, have been ordered to Abbeville, In Au gust, to play for the unveiling of the confederate monument. This band is sent at the request of the Hon. Wyset Aiken, congressman from Abbeville district. The monument Is being built by Butler Brothers of Marietta, Ga., and w-ill be entirely of Georgia mar ble at a cost of $3,000. Tourist Hotel for Greenville. A modern tourist hotel, to cost In the neighborhood of $75,000, w r ill be built on the Verner Springs property, a few miles from Greenville, on the car line. The promoters of the project have purchased all water rights and will The Bank of Aiken, 1IKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA. oit'sr x>« t«»] W, J. RUTHERFORD A CO. DIALERS nr BRICK, LIME, PORTLAND AND BOSMBALE C1XSNT. PLASTEB HAIR AND LATIfa RKAIIT ROOFING ETC. Corner of WatkiMfUB aad BtefMtlifl Street*. kV "VA , — - — Ofe •OX* |( IW AWflliliW ToiM Iron fforts III TV • ilUiiiiUillJl) !sr-=-Wte~'S3Q Agent. Fin. Li, Ciclw, Aooident Insuranoe, and Supply Co., =3s==3s.=^^am Augusta, Qa. and— e Tartars violated the order not , immediately begin the development of him. pros BOMBS THROWN INTO CROWD. GIGANTIC. STAMP FRAUDS. Gang in Wall Street Causes Uncle Sam to Lose $200,000, Five men. who 'were arrested In New York Tuesday night, were Wed nesday held in $1,000 bail in police court for fuither examination in con nection with the washing and resell Ing of state tax stamps. MAY TIE UP PRINTERIES. FOUND HIS LOVED ONES SLAIN. Ghastly Sight Met Gaze of Pearse on Entering His Home. When Samuel Pearse. a well known resident of ; Washington County, Pa., returned to home from a drive Sunday night he found his wife and tw-o children dead, ^nd a third child dying from bullet wounds. Indlca- tions point to robbery as the motive. An attempt had also been made to set fire to the house, but Pearse arrived in time to extinguish a blaze that had been started in a bedroom Chicago Allied Printing Council Join*. Typos In Eight-Hour Fight. All of the printing establishments m Chicago promise to be tied up ow ing to the fact that the Allied Print ing Council have decided to assist the printers In gaining the eight-hour day, for w-hich they have been fighting several months. Bookbinders, pressmen, engravers and others are expected to join, and the probability Is that the shops will be unable to operate, until an adjust ment of the troubles has been ar ranged. Exciting Episode in Trouble Between Unions in New York. While peace negotiations between Local Unions No. 2 and No. 480 of the Plumbers and Gas Fitters’ Asso ciation were in progress at New York Friday night, tw r o bombs or large tor pedoes, filled w'ith bits of stones or metal, were thrown from the Third avenue elevated railroad structure into a group of members of the latter union waiting outside Teutonia Hall at Sixteenth street and Third avenue for a meeting to begin. Eight of the group suffered cuts and abrasions from the flying fragments. •None of the men were dangerously wounded, and most of them were able to leave the hospital after their in- juno* were dressed. A KNOTTY LEGAL POINT. Chinaman Draws Color Line and Sues Street Railway Company. Alleging that while a passenger on a street car July 14, he was ordered twice by the conductor to vacate nis seat in the center of the car and move back iuto the section reserved for negroes and upon the refusal was forcibly ejected from the car by the conducLo. 1 , Hong Kon. an Atlanta Chi naman, wants $5,000 damages from the Gc_.gi_ Railway and Electric com pany. Ucng Kon alleges that he is no negro and ij entitled to all the cour tesies and considerations of a white ma«. iva Get Zion Properties. Neither John Alexander Dowie, the founder, nor Wilbur Glenn Voliva, the present general overseer, is owner of the properties of the Christian Cath olic Church in Zion, including Zion City, 111., and said to be worth from $12,000,000 to $21,000,000, according to a decision handed down in Chicago Friday by Judge K. H. Landis of the United States district court. Judge Landis declared the property of Zion City to be a trust estate, and named John G. Hately of Chicago a member of the board of trade, receiver of the church’s property, and ordered the election on September 18 of an over seer (trustee of the church's prop erty) by members of the church at Zion City. Judge Landis will decida later what compensation Dowie will be allowed for his past services to the church. The court ruled that the capital of Zion properties, contributions of pr&p- erty and money from various persons, was given to Dowie in trust for the church. Judge Landis declared void the conveyance of the Zion City prop erty to Alexander Granger by Voliva under power of attorney from Dowie. The adjudication in the bankruptcy proceedings against Dowie was also set aside so that pending litigation against Dowie may automatically be restrained until the entire litigation is ended. Receiver Hately's bond of $25,000 was approved late in the afternoon by the court, and Hately went to Zion City at once and assumed charge of the property. ' cross and commenced a battle. The irrison interferred when the combat ?ame general and bombarded with- it. partiality both camps with twenty- lo guns. The town is said to have fen, to a large extent, destroyed. ;bels Force Printing of Manifesto. A party of men armed with revolv- E3 forced their way Saturday into Kissel printing establishment in St. stersburg. They made the foreman a tisoner and prevented the composi- jiis from leaving the building. They ien had printed 150,000 copies of the iborg manifesto of the outlawed low- house of parliament. Strangers hlling at the establishment while weredi^, A rumor was current In St. Peters burg at a late hour Sunday night that General Trepoff bad been killed. It could not be confirmed. Death Sentence For Mutinous Sailors. At Sebastopol Saturday morning a naval court-maitial passed sen tences upon the seamen who were ar rested for •complicity in the mutiny of the Black Sea fleet of November, 1903. Four men were condemned to death, one to life servitude, thirty-two to va rying terms of penal servitude, and fifty to imprisonment. Six were ac quitted. Big Sum of Money Taken By Russian Robbers. The postal car robbed on the War- saw-Vienna railroad near Warsaw Sat urday night contained a package of $80,000 in cash from abroad, and at least $50,000 additional funds. The actual amount taken by the robbers cannot as yet be definitely stated, as the documents attached to the money parcels are missing. CHAMPION FAT BOY DEAD. BLOOMERS ARE THE THING. SOUNDS DOOM OF GUILLOTINE. Salary of Public Executive Cut From French Budget. A Paris dispatch #ays: The gov ernment budget committee, in taking up the estimates for 1907. Saturday struck out the salary of M. Diebler, Jr., the public executioner, thus fore shadowing the disappearance of the guillotine. WESTINGHOUSE ASSAILED. Head of Big Corporation is Charged With Misusing Funds. At a sensational meeting of the stockholders of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturers' company, in Pittsburg, Pa., Wednesday, G p orge Westinghouse, president of the com pany, was bitterly assailed and he was charged openly by stockholder* with launching private ventures with the company’s funds. The directors were charged with aiding him in this* RUSSIA BORROWS MILLIONS. ROTTEN SAUSAGE PROVES FATAL Texas Man Ate Canned Product and Died of Ptomaine Poisoning. James A. Boone, a citizen of El Paso, Texas, where he was once sher iff, died at Eureka, Cal., Friday from ptomaine poisoning. He bought some canned sausage and ate heartily. In a short time he became very ill and lingered for sev eral hours. An autopsy confirmed the diagnosis that death was caused from ptomaine poisoning. Dean of College for Women Suggests Elimination of Petticoats. In a lecture at the Wisconsin state university, Miss Abby S. Mayhew, ths dean of women at the university, con demned peek-a boo waists, tight lacing and petticoats. Large shoes, low' necks and round garters were favored. She sa id; “We are never going to be free so long as wo wear petticoats. Woman will never have perfect freedom un less she wears a gymnasium-like cos tume.” TWO-CENT RATE NULL AND VOID SKELETON FOUND IN WELL. Loan is Presumably for Purpose of Carrying or Civil War. A St. Petersburg special says: Pre sumably for the purpose of carrying on probable war against revolution ists, Russia Wednesday borrowed $250,000,000. The loan was negotiated from the Mendelssohns. As a result prices on the bourse recovered some what. Mystery of Boy's Disappearance Over Tnree Years Ago .o Cleared Up. After mo iruing for over three years for lio.* son, Charles, whom she thought had been kidnapped, Mrs. Jama* Flanagan of Fishkill landing, N. Y., 'ientified parts of the clothing of thv skeleton of a little boy found Friday al the bottom of a gas tank well by employees of the local gas plate*. Virginia Commission Holds Church man Fare Unconstitutional. The state corporation commission at Richmond, Va., Friday declared the churchman 2-cent-a-mile fare on rail roads, enacted by the legislature, in conflict with the constitution of the United States, and therefore null and void. The act provided for the sale of 500-mile ticket books on the railroads at *> cents a mile. Was Nineteen Years Old and Tipped the Scales at 406 Pounds. Provie Henry, of Arcala, 111., know., throughout that section as the ‘‘At wood fat boy,” is dead. He was 19 years old and weighed 408 pounds. His waist measurement was 73 ’nches His parents are under the usual size, as bis father weighs but 140 pounds. His death was due to fatty degenera tion of the heart. RECORD BREAKING DOCTOR FEE. Physician Who Attended Millionaire Field Demands $25,000. At Chicago Dr. Frank Billings has filed in the probate court a sworn claim for $25,000 against the Marshall Field estate. The bill is for seven days’ professional attendance on Mr. Field in a New York hotel when he was suffering from an attack of pneu monia that caused his death. The fee is believed to be one of the largest ever charged by a physician in the United States for services that di I not include the performance of a sur gical operation. JOHN D. HAS ARRIVED. ALLEGED MURDERER CAUGHT. Chicago's “Jack the Ripper” Jailed at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Frank J. Constantine, 25 years of age, has been under arrest in the county jail at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., for about a week charged with the murder of Mrs. I^ouis H. Gentry of Chicago. It was not antil Wednesday that the prisoner was positively Identi fied as Frank J. Constantine. Standard Oil Magnate Back From Eu rope.—Lower Prices Posted. The steamer Amerika ai rived at New York from Europe Saturday with John D. Rockefeller and party on board. Coincident with his arrival a break of thr; o e cents in the price of eastern oil and two cents in western oil was posted by the .Standard Oil Company. This is the first change in oil prices in many months. CLERK BYERLY TURNED TRICK Made Profit of $27,024 on Purchase of Canal Bonds. It. was learned in New York Thurs- day that J. S. Bache & Co., bankers, has purchased the $5,800,000 ot Pan ama canal bonds which w f ere recently allotted by the treasury department to Samuel Byerly, the express clerk. ■'The price of the bonds already has :advanced to 104.40, which means a .profit of $27,024 for the clerk. j ' the property. The springs contain large deposits of lithia and quite a reputation locally. Sons of South Carolina. “The South Carolinians” of New’ York city to promote friendly inter course among the sons of South Car olina, to further the state’s interest, “to celebrate her historic anniversa ries” and for kindred purposes, have filed a certificate of corporation at Albany, N. Y. The directors Include: William A. Barber, John C. Calhoun, W, Gill Wyley, Thomas W. Lauder dale, Cornelius L. Winkler, Alfred Henry Wetherhorc, all of Fears Danger from Big Dam. Mr. N. A. Patterson, a brother of Congressman James O. Patterson of Barnwell, writes to Governor Hey ward from Arden, N. C., calling atten tion to what he considers the danger to Andorson and other South Caro lina counties from the big dam at Lake Toxaway. He says the lake Is a con stant menace and that residents be low it will some day have a Johns town flood to go through with. Card Game Causes Tragedy. A tragedy was enacted near Lau rens in which Elbert F. Copeland, a prosperous young farmer, was shot and killed by G. Wash Hunter. The two men were members of prominent families and neighbors. They had met with others at the homo of Lee Hunter and began a game of cards that continued all night. Early the next morning a quarrel arose and It is said that Copeland struck Wash Hunter wbth his crutch and drew’ a knife, whereupon Hunger emptied his five-shooter into Copeland, Idling him instantly. A Word of Warning. The following appeared in a recent j *’ue of the Atlanta Constitution : South Carolinians and Georgians would do well to refrain from giving to a man named Abraham George, clalmmg to be a priest of the Nes- torlan (Chaldean) church, in Kurdls tan, Turkey. He, claims to be collect ing funds for a church and school in that region. I do not know the man personally, but an eight years’ residence as a missionary in Persia among the Chal deans (Nestorians or Syrians) has made me acqquainted with scores who make the same claim as he and a companion, and those men were with out exception, frauds. From an hour’s conversation in Syriac with Abraham j George, I could recognize all the ear marks of the genius. The claim that j those regions are needy is true. But t whatever is given is never likely to | benefit more than the immediate fain- | lly of the recipient. Let those who give do so through recognized agen cies. CHARLES S. BLACKBURN, Pastor Baptist Church, Seneca, S. C. To Boost Immigration. The establishment of a line of steamers between Charleston an 1 European ports is part of the plans of Stale Immigartion Commissioner Wataon in his effort to secure for set- t1em»nt in South Carolina a deslranie class cf immigrants. Colonel Watson calls for Europe cn August 11, an 1 on his itinerary, visiting several t/n migration agencies which he has es tablished, he will personally urge sev eral of the big steamship companies to make Charleston a port of call, and he is certain that the steerage class of passengers and the freight business will Justify later on a direct line ot steamers. Colonel \\ ataon has visited various sections of this and adjoining states and he declares that the success of a lln« of steamers with regular sailings • • • • AIKEN. S. C. STONE! STONE!! Eati/nate* given and order* prompt Ij filled for street curbings, and cross ing*, flower bed border*, aid*walk* in block*, hitching post*, door and ter race steps, door and window sills, cemetery lot copinge, rough and dressed ashler* for front.* of bnild- jng*, hearth atone*, eta. LakerUw •ton* • specislty. Stone *rom otbei ^marries If preferred. H. K. OHATFIELD, Aiken, 9. a between Charleston and Europe will prove a success. Editors in Annual Meeting. The lt|jtet^gcond annual meeting thr- Association was held at the Holel Seashore, Isle of Palms, and was call ed to order by President E. H. Aull of The Newberry New’s and Observer. Addresses of welcome were made by Mayor Rhett, President Gadsden of Thq Consolidated, and Editor Waring of The Evening Post. The attendance was excellent, and the sessions prov ed Interesting. The reading of papers and reports occupied the greatest pait of ihe first day. After the business of the association was completed the party went for a trip on the harbor, taking in the navy yard and spent some hours as guests of the National Schuetzen board at the Schuetzen Platz. From Charleston the party went north for a week In Boston, New York and other cities. Lightning Took Three Lives. A severs storm, accompanied by lighining, passed over Spartanburg) county the past week. The damage oc casioned by the wind was slight, but three deaths are reported to have oc curred in the county. At Enoree, a negro was struck and instantly killed. The clothing was al most entirely ♦orn from the body. At Cross Keys, near Cross Anchor, a farmer by the name of Briggs, was instantly killed. Briggs was well known in his seelion, being an ex tensive planter and a good citizen. A negro boy was killed in the same manner near Hilsville. Telephone wires and telegraph lines were badly damaged b\ the electrical discharges, many telephones and in struments being burned out, rendering communication impossible with seve- -al points until the damage was re paired. Engines, Boilers, Cotton, Baw, Fertlllz*r, Oil and Ice Machin ery and Supplies and Repairs, Machine Tools, Woodworking Machinery, Shaft ing, Pulley*, Hanger*, Leather n.na Rubber Belt'ng and Hose, Railroad and Mill Supplies and Tool*, Steam Pumps, Feed Water Heaters aad Hoisting Engines, Injectors. Capacity for three hundred hand*. Estimates furnished for power plant* and steel bridges, store front*. DON’T FAIL TO WRITE US BEFORE BUYING. .. Southern Churchman, Richmond, Va., -O- THE OLDEST PROTESTANT EPIS COPAL CHURCH paper in the Uni ted States. All Important diocesan and foreign news. Religious miscel lany and interesting and instructive family and children’s departments. $2 a year; $1 for 6 months; 50 cents for 3 months. Trial subscriptions 25 cents for 3 months. To clergy men $1.90 a year. Disease and Health WIFE GETS VIRTUALLY ALL. Mrs. Sage is Willed Bulk of Hus band’s Fortune—Nothing for Charity. A New York dispatch says: Except for a few small bequests to relatives, the fortune of Russell Sage is left to his widow. There is no charitable bequest, in the will, which was pro bated Friday. Theie was nothing in the will to in dicate the value of Mr. Sage's es tate. Each of Mr. Sage's nephews and nieces is left $25,000. Theie is also a bequest of $10,000 to Mr. Sage's sister, Mrs. Chapin, now deceased. This will revert to the es tate. 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