Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V Off Il'e~i. Dear Sir: As a Policy Holder you will be Franoisco our company suffered Our Reserve and Surplus of el have occurred you will see the wl no other company, because, even the*privAte fortunes of stockholdei $40,000,000. These facts make the Pacific h\ I append a copy of letter receh Yo r PEDERAL DIVORCE DEOISION. Decision 18,000 Words Long in Had-. a dock Case Has Reached Hero But Not Studied Yet. vi The Columbia Record. di The recent decision of the federal da supreme court in the Haddock Ji- t vorce case, in which the bro4d doe trine i- laid down that the constitu tion of the United States does not re quire the courts of one state to give t "full faith and credit" to the de- a crees of another state, where juris- tb diction of the subject matter or of the 1% th person is lacking, and that a decree t of divorce obtained where that con- m dition exists cannot be enforced in er another state, affects a. number of a South Carolinians living in. this state or removed to other states, who have t gotten released in North Carolina or th Georgia or elsewhere from degrading l and intolerable bonds, and some of a whom have remarried and are living Pi happy and useful lives here or in oth- m di Just to what extent the South Carolina situation is affected is not t quite clear yet to even the best in- ls formed lawyers. The decision is quite fo lengthy. Advance proofs of the print ed ease have just reached here, but as there are about 18,000 words in the thing nobody has had time to more D1 than skim over it. Attorney Gener.l Youmans has been requested to ren der an opinion on the matter, but,it will likely be several weeks yet be fore he can get this out. He has not oc yet read the decision and is not in position to express himself, even in an off-hand way. er Facts of Case Appealed. jo Some understanding of the points te covered by the decision may be had, Or however. from a recital of the facts Or of the case in which it was rendered. m< They are simple: John Haddock, as who married his wife in New York, in subsequently left her and removed to th Connecticut, where he secured a di- of vorce and contracted a second mar riage. The first wife, however, re- at mained domiciled in New York and er entered suit against him for support, th 'with the result that the New York or courts refused to recognize the Con- R. neeticut divorce and held that Had- B< * dock must support the plaintiff as his, as only true and lawvful wife. The lhus- chi band appealed to the supreme court re under the provision of the federal :*a constitution that full faith and credit thl shall be,given in each state to the ju- he dicial proceedings of every o-ther ne~ state, bitt that tribunal sustained the ani New York judgment, holding that as all Mrs. Haddock was not within that jurisdiction of the Connecticut court pr the courts of the sister sta.te were not an bound to give credit to the Connecti- fo ci;t decree, he Juistice Brown, in a dissenting opin. by ion on behalf of himself and Justices tu Harlan and Brewer, characterizes the th majority opinion as ''a step back- pa ward in American jurisprudence,"' and Mr. Justice Holthes, in an inde- Al pendent .dpinion, said: 'I do not suppose, that civilization will come to an end whichever way T this case is decided; bntt as the rea soning which prevails in the mind of co the majority does not convince me, wi and as I think that the decision not en only reverses a previous well-consid- ne ered decision of this court, but is like-- i ly to. cause considlerable disaster to W innocent persons and,. to 'bastardize Da children hitherto supposed to be the ' fr< offsprings ef legal marriage, I think nia it proper,to, express my views." ini NUt Void But Voidables -Others -have taken. the view that ai the decision does not make these mar- his riages "'null and, void," but merely gi *voidlable, that'it does not put beyond hi: tepale of legitimancy 'at one full an swoop children of another union of a couples, one or both of Mhom may leu have secured ''an ex parte decree.". J on It is not likely'that "'mpny vietims" of ''one-sided" divorces will,. avail mu themselves of the opportunity for wl: "r'elief'' or '"revenge t' thme decision da puts in reach.,. tht No L.ooseness Fa'tored Here, ric It id likely that uthstake a Q~ C whole still prides itself on its unique hie AL LIFE N 1 Agency 0S Ne Interested to know that in th rio financial loss. even millions of dollars is nt sdom of our legal organiz4tic had. the eleven million dolla .s behind us and these fortui lutu'al the STRONGEST life red from our President, Col. urs very truly, ROBERI isition of allowing no divorce fo: iy cause, and permitting perfee eedom in marrying in most ill-ad sed instances. But the intelligen .ment is by no means a unit along adual tendency toward a restricte< vorce law. But for the. relief ob inable in- neighboring states it iE rely that the well founded among ese cases would'have found expres )n in some sort of divorce law ere is, though the state is practicall) unit against any looseness along is line. Editor A. B. William, formerly o: is state, expresses his views in com 3mting in the Richmond News Lead on the recent decision in favor of universaI and uniform divorce law ''As to indirect effects, one of then xy be, and it is to be hoped will be e hastening of agreement among e states on a rigid, uniform divorce w, which would prove the sures evention of hasty and ill-considered arriages, and consequently of the vorce evil. As we see it, the decis i has all to commend it and nothing condemn it, and, to say the least in harmony with public policy and r the highest good of society." TURBULENT CONVENTION. ,sorder The Feature of Tennessee'i State Democratic Convention. Nashville, May 20.-The State dem ratic convention which met here to y to nominate candidates for gov nor and railroad commissioners, ad urned at 6.10 this evening unti a o'clock tomorrow morning with .t having effected even a temporar) ganization. It was decidedly th< >st turbulent body of the kind evei sembled in Tennessee. Pandemon m and fights ruled and it was witl e utmost difficulty thtat any recor the proceedings was made. An adjournment was reached aftex understanding between the lead s of the opposing factions that th ree gubernatorial candidates, Gov nor John T. Cox, Congreesman M Patterson, and Judge John .B md, each name four representatives a committee to agree on temporar3 airman. Before this agreement wvam ached a battle over contested dele. tions occupied the entire time ol e convention for more than sib urs. The service of the police wam cessary to p)revent serious fighting a to quiet those already engaged ir eations. When Chairman Abernathey, th< esiding officer, laid down the gave] d advanced to the front of the plat rm to make himself better heard, returned to find the gavel taker1 a Patterson supporter, who ne sed to surrender it. From then on1 are were two presiding officers ani ndemoniuni reigned. i 000NEE FARMER COMMITTED SUICIDE e State. Seneca, May 29.--Mr. Henry HeIms mmitted suicide by hangig himnseli th a wire some time last night oi rhy this morning. He was a promni nt farmer of the Conneross see in, and lived four miles north c1 estminister. Mr. Hess was at Mr ivis Abbott's house, a half mik m his home, at 10 o'clock lasi 4ht. g6roner Harbin is holding th< luest 'today. His body was found dangling fron ~ree this morning with a wire about neck. No definite causje can be ren. More than a yeau' ago he lost large barn and contente by fire d this'calamity seemed to have had depressing effect upon him. e Lves a wilfe and several children and e sister. John Sheldon, a' well/to-do colored ~n, living three rmiles from Seneca, tipped his 14-yeareold boy yester y evening. A few hours afterwvards boy shot himself, inflicting a so us wvound in the head Dr. Me tehen attended the boy, and thiinks may recover. 5URANCE CO., ath Carofina. wberry, S. C., 1st May,- 1906. e recent disaster that befell San act. In the light of what might n, an organization possessed by rs been "wiped out," we have ies are conservatively placed at insurance company In the world. W. S. Tupper. r NORRIS, General Agent. A Criminal Chase [OrIginail.] I was walking along a country road. 'The leaves were budding on the trees, the bir'.ls were singing, the sun was shining down with a grateful warmth. I was thinking what a happy world this Is, after all, and how pleasant it is to live. * A man was walking briskly toward me, and there was a distant sound of wheels behind me. Then in a twinkling I beard a re-.ort. The man, Who was within a doze- yards of me, dropped. Naturally my first impulse was to look about me, and, casting quick glances, I saw a thin smoke floating from behind a tree to my right. After hesitating a moment in which direction to turn I ran forward to the fallen man. Bright red blood was ooz ing from a wound in his left breast and trickling over his coat. Directly behind me I heard a thud as *f some thing falling on the road and, ty4rning. saw a revolver lying within ten feet of me. Of course it had been thrown 'here by the murderer to divert sus picion from himself to me. Meanwhile the sound of wheels drew nearer, and a buggy in which a man was seated turned a bend in the road. In the wood to the right was a sound of crackling underbrush. The murder. er was about to escape, and I was standing over his victim with a pistol lying near. I ran like a deer in the direction the crackling indicated, feel. Ing that my escape from a halter de. pended upon my catching the murder er. As I ran I could occasionally hear him breaking his way through bushes or over twigs. Then I heard a shout behind me: "Halt or I'll firel" It all passed through my mind like a flash. The man in the buggy must have heard the shot. At any rate, he had seen me run away, had driven on, found both the body and the revolver lying in the road, had picked up the latter and was now threatening me with it. My mind was bent on one object catching the murderer. Fear of the bullet, fear of the scaffold, drove me on, but, singularly enough, there was another. p..asion that spurred me far more than fear. It was rage-rage at the 'man who had sought to make me suffer for his crime. No thought of turning to explain matters to my pur suer entered my head. Such a course would avail nothing. The murderer would go on and I be left with those who. would scorn my story while he secured safety. Thus far I had not caught sight of the man on whose capture my life de pended, but now the wood grew thin nor, and occasionally I got a glimpse of a figure already darting around the trunks of the trees, occasionally jump ing a fallen log. The mind is quick and- keen in danger, and it occurred to me that when the pursuer came up with me in this open space he could shoot me. I cursed the moment that I had neglocted to pick up the weapon mysekt, not so much that I feared the disadvantage which would come to me when my pursuer should enter the more open wood, but that the weapon would have enabled me to bring down the ma~n I wanted. A bullet fired from behind cut a twig over my head, and at the same time I heard the crack of a pistol. A moment later I entered a newly plowed gield and saw my man ahead disappear be hind a barn. Beyond there was more wood, flanked by fields, but I did not see him enter either. I was in the cen ter-of the plowed field, stumbling over the furrows-for I was getting exhaust ed-when my man behind reached the edge of the wood, I fe&t something strike my arm, like a stone, but' I felt no blood and con cluded it was a spent pistol ball. It urged me on,- and, reaching the' barn, I cast a glance over the strip of wood ' beyond and its flanking fields. I saw1 no one. My blood was still hot for the chase, but my heart was pounding and my strength was exhausted. Cainhlng I at a straw, I turned into the barn. In the loft above I heard sounds as of a struggle. Climbing a ladder, I saw a sight that astonished me. A man badi anoti'er pinned to the floor by lying upon him and holding a wrist with I each of his own hands. "Help to arrest this man," cried the one on top.. "lie has comthitted murs der." 'The man below relaxed his efforts and in a moment was passives between 1 us. "Explain," I said to the man I as slsted. "I was standing on the edge of the< wood when-this man-I lioppose it was he---fired at the man in the road. I I saw teYltiCf ll andsawos gd up 1opY Of Prewtientm Tuppoet Mr. Robert'Norris, General Ae Pacific Mutual Life li bear Sir: Let me first of all give you ti one single ross of life among at Although gur Home Office E our vaults containing all our pg We are now making preparg will be, at least for the present, Although San Francisco ha except our Home Office Buildi The loss of life was really not had no life insurance, at least i During the next few weeks, we ask for your indulgence for enforced removal to our new I We feel sure that our field rr Very sincerely yours, to him. Then I neard a sound in the bushes, and, thinking it might be. made by the man who had fired the shot, I ran toward it. I heard you coming be 11ind, and it occurred to me that If I didn't catch my man you would catch me and I would be convicted of mur der. le ran in here, and I got him." "And I knew that if I Aidn't catch you I would be convicted of murder." There was a sound of some one be tow, and presently a hand holding a revdvr was tirust up the trap, fol lowed by a ma's head. "Don't sht I 0de. 10We've got him."' "Thank heavml e ft fti -iWay just as I was driving up io the corpse, leav [Ug me td suffer for hs crime, the vil 16ini" "After starting, I concluded I was in for that," said the man I had followed. "I was following you for my life," I remarked. "You tarnal fools," said our prisoner. "I own this farm and was up here throwin' down hay. Reckon yer ran's rot away. I saw him just now run Into the wood there." ARTHUR TWEEDI Military Kitchen Car. The secretary of war has approved the recommendation of the quarter master general and the commissary general in favor of a kitchen car for military purposes, says the Washing ton Star. This car will be used on oc easions of the transfer of large bodies 3f troops over distances which require a period of forty-eight hours or more. It has been found by a practical exper Iment that money is saved and the men provided with better food by hav ing an improvised kitchen attached to the train which carries them long dis tances, such as is involved in the trans fer of troops across the continent. Hitherto there has been more or less dependence upon the restaurants and other facilities en route. Rebuilgng' San Francisco. They wil build it well, they will build it strong; Its streets the children of men wiU throng; It will be superb with its lofty domes And its marble halls and its stately homes, But never again can it ever be 'The city I journeyed far to see. They will make it great, they will make it fair, And fortune seekers will gather there; Its Wharfs will call to the wide world's fleets, And traffic will roar through its hand Borne streets, But the hands of men can never restore The far famed city that is no more. They will leave no trace on its flame swept hills Of the twisted beams or the blackened sills, And over the haunts where vice was bred The realm of bountiful trade will spread; But, however they build and whatever the cost, They can never give back what the world has lost. They will build with hope, they will build withi pride. They will build it long, they will build it wide; With quenchiess courage and splendid zeal They will build a marvel of stone and steel, But the city that stood by the wide blue bay P'orever and ever iu swept away. They will build it strong, they will build it well, And a greater city than that wiche fell Will gleam on the hills that are desolate, And richem will strea.ei through it. Golden Gate, But no man mvr again may se The city that was and has ceased to b. --9. E. KCiwer in Chieeg. Reoord-Erald. 3XEN TO PULL AUTOMOBILE [Cx-senntor La Rtoche Want. a Yoke to Make HiJI Machine Go. William J. La Rebhe, a former New rork state legislator and leading mnew er of the Montauk club, Brooklyn, mes advertised for a yoke of oxen and chaiuffeur who understands the neaning of "Gee" and "Hlaw" to draw its automobile from the garage in 3rooklyn to the agent that induced him o pay $3,500 for the machine, says the Jew York Herald. "I like autoinobiling well enough," bir, La Rloche said at the Montauk club he other night, "but I want an auto nobile that will go. I have had to do lo much walking since I bought this nachine that I believe I could qualify a a six day match. I am afraid the igent - passed out a stationary engine o me, for the only thing It has Over lone Is to make'a noise. This automo ile pias 'lost enough things out of it to milld a subway, and I have used so niuch lubricating oil and gasoline that benry H. Rogers ought to put me right in the #tock market. "All'I want now is a yoke of oxen hat will plli that machine over toth gency where ..I. pufchaqe.d ..It, IbTen I im# going to hat.,a vaal antomsidias "'****' San Francisco ent, is. Co., Newberry, S. C. ie good news that in the recent c9 y of our people. luilding was gutted by fire it was fu pers and records stand uninjured. tion to remove these records to L< and where you know we own an, 5 been practically destroyed, yet ng which, as I said above, was great, and was chiefly among the iot with us. So you see, we have 6vhile we. are moving our records ai such delays and inconveniences a eadquarters. en will push with vigor and fidelit3 (Signed) WILBUV THE MUTUAL BENEFF THERE IS A VAST DIFF "SETTING" AND "MEE on the cardina Security, Econo The Mutual Benefit not only sets the c< bound to security by its high reserves, Boi ment by its low rates of premium, and Boi holders by its liberal policy contract. The insure his life has a right to expect econoi mani will always insure where all;his right tual Benefit has fully recognized the "rigi ""Pee Boo: B. 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