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FORT MILL TIMES. ! VOL. XIV. FORT MILL, S. C? WEDNKSDAY,rOCTOBEIt 18,1905. NO. 30. | IS LIKE LYNCH LAW President Spencer Speaks on Railway Fate Legislation TAKES A FIRM STAND AGAIINST IT Declares Government Regulation is Unfair, Unjust, and Opposed to the Fundamental Principles of AngloSaxon Jurisprudence. Newark, N. Special.1?That government control ?<t' railroad properties as proposed in the Esch-Townsend bill, which was considered at the last session of congress, is unfair, unjust to the railroads, opposed to the fundamental principles of Ansrlo-Saxon jurisprudence, and is equivalent to providing l>v statute for the enforcement of commercial lynch law, is in substance the replay of the railroads to the agitation for railroad rate legislation, as outlined by President Samuel Spencer, of the Southern railway, in an address before the Newark board of trade. Mr. Spencer said in part: "Up to the present time shipper and carrier have been free to work together, without political interference to facilitate the establishment of new industries; to reach out for new markets for our farmers and manufacturers; to create new communities and to maintain the prosperity of those already established, and to cooperate to the fullest possible extent to enlarge the volume of both our domestic .and foreign trade. Propose to Change System. "It is now promised to change this system and substitute for it one in which artificial bureneralie methods will take the place of the natural laws of trade and commence, which have been the controlling force and evolution of the present system. "And it must be borne in mind that it is proposed to give those enormous powers to a body on whom 110 responsibilities rest or can rest, for the preservation of maintenance of the railroad property, or for the discharge of financial obligations, or the fulfillment _ 4% A 1 1 " ?I ol us amies 10 tin* public as an otliciont common carrier. "The president, in his last annual message,' laid special emphasis upon the necessity for doing awav with rebates and for the keeping ol' the highways of transportation open to all upon equal terms. There is no issue I or controversy before the people or congress as to whether or not rebates or secret discriminations should lie stopped. No one desires more than the railway managers themselves that there should be an end to all such practices. No Rational Suggestions. "No rational suggest ions have been made, however, as to how the planting of rate making power to the interstate commerce commission sould be effective to this end. A rebate or any secret discrimination device can. of course, be applied to a government rate as well as to one made by the carrier. "One of the most serious objections to the legislation proposed is that., under it a rate once fixed by the. commission would continue in force indefinitely, unless changed by the coinmission or by the court. The enrriei would, therefore, have no power to make either reductions or increases to meet new conditions. "To plucc in the hands of one triImi II ol trlii/ili io r? i? iv? ntr Ka r\rACA/??i >?* jury and judge and at the same time executioner is equivalent to boing one statute for the enforcement of commercial lynch law." Wisconsin Central Sold. Milwaukee, Special.?The Journal says: "The Wisconsin Central bus been sold and tho new interests are in full control. They represent big Eastern financiera and the change menus that the line will finally ont??r Milwaukee Southern and that it will become part of a great railroad system. '' Judge Solicitod for Campaign. Washington, Sjiecinl.?Tho charge of soliciting and accepting campaign -contributions in the campaign of 1902 made against United States Circuit Court Judge Baker, of Indiana, by the Civil Service Commission, has been referred to the Iiepartment of ustice by tho commission. In connection with the refernce the commission gave out an official statement of the ease in which it was said "the statute .of limitations is the only defense which cau be opposed to the charge." OFhEktl) $100,000 REWARD Offered For Conviction of a Gan3 of Brutes. Now York, bpeeinl.?Isidore Wprmser, the millionaire banker, offered $100,000 reward for the conviction of a gang of men who recently assaulted Annie Thornton, a c miestic employed in his household. In court when five men were arraigned for the assault Mr. Wormser said: "I will {rive $100,000 to have the perpetrators of this dastardly crime convicted and sent to prison." Recently, on Miss Thornton's birthday Mr. Wormser {rave her $50 and a holiday as a reward for several years service in his household. That evening while passing a stable on the West Side, she said she was seized by two men and dragired into a stable - -- 1 Al._l.-t- i ' 41 * * aim mat uuout u dozen otners joined them there. She did not escape from the stable until the next morning. Her health was seriously utTectI ed by her experience. The five men arraigned were held in $2,000 hail each and the police announced that they expected to arrest nine more men in connection with the assault. Mutiny on High Seas. Wilmington, N. C., Special.?A special to the Star from Southport says the schooner Blanche II. King, Captain .1. W. Taylor, Brunswich, tin., September 23rd to Philadelphia, put in there bringing in irons three negroes, all that remain of the crew of the four masted schooner IIarrv A. Berwind. Captain Uumill, from Mobile, September 23rd, to Philadelphia, the captain, mate, cook and an engineer having been ostensibly murdor! ed in a mutiny at sea and their bodies thrown overboard. The body of a fourth negro of the crew was found lying on deck where he, too, had evidently been murdered. Captain Taylor, of the schooner King, sighted the Berwind early Thursday morning about thirty miles off the Cape Fear bar, and was attarcted to her by the manner in which she was being steered, having several times come very near running down the King. A nearer approach to the Berwind showed that she had been practically abandoned. Captain Taylor and crew boarded the vessel and placing the two vessls off the bar, whence one of them was towed in by Wilmington tugs, which have now gone for the other schooner, a gale prevailing on the outside. Tho Italian Earthquake. R?>iv Special.?According to the latest official reports dOO villages were destroyed by the recent earthquake in the province of Calalria. Reconstruction work, it is estimated, will cost about $.'10,000,000 and funds contributed up to the present time amount to $100,000. The pope is much distressed because if the situation, especially now that the severity of the autumn weather is felt among the inhabitants of the stricken district, llis holiness received the Right Rev. Francis Borune, Roman Catholic archbishop of Westminster, in audience and thanked him warmly for opening a collection among the clergy of Westminster, adding: ''All good Catholics throughout the world should imitate him." Governor Wright to Retire. Washington, Special.?By reason of what appears to he dissatisfaction with the situation in the Philippines, Luke E. Wright, governor general of the Philippine commission, will retire from that jn>sition about the 1st of December. General Wright is expected to arrive in the United States during that month and is entitled to six month's leave of absence prior to the formal relinquishment of his la bora as governor general. Hearst Accepts Nomination. New York, Special.?William Randolph Henrst has made public a letter addressed to Judge Samuel Seabury, of the Municipal Ownership League, accepting the league's recent tender of a nomination for mayor of New 1 York. The municipal convention of the organization will be held Thursday, but Mr. Hearst was offered the nomination at a meeting some days ago. His aceptnnce assures three mayoralty tickets in the field this fall ?the democratic, the republican and municipal ownership League. To Force Mixed Schools. Topeka, Kns., Special.?The State supreme court issued a writ of alternative mandamus against the board of education of Kansas City, Las., returnable November 7, requiring said board to show cause why colored pupils nro not allowed to at turn! school at the same Honrs and in the same I buildings as the white pupils. A STRANGE OPINION Would Declare Life insurance to Be a Charitable Business POLICY-HOLDERS'CLAIMS NOT FIRST Mrtual Life Insurance Comranv's President Makes Startling Declaration in Testimony Before Committee That Lite Insurance Concerns Are Charitable Enterprises Founded to Benefit All Mankind. New York, Special.?The sessions of the insurance investigating committee were terminated l'or the week at the adjournment, because of the death of S. ifred Nixon, Speaker of the Assembly of the Legislature of New York, at his home in Westfield. The testimony ?li?l not elicit any information of a sensational nat.ire beyond what had been discounted in the testimony of previous witnesses. The feature was the presence as witnesses of the executive oflicers of the Mutual Life Insurance Company. These were President Richard A. McCurdy and Vice Presidents (5iannis and Gillette While it had been hinted last week that some expendi'ures charged to legal expenses might have been contributions *o campaign committees, it was announced detinitely by D\ Gillette that the Mutual Life contributed $40,000 to the Republican na ional committee last fall, that in 1900 $23,000 was contributed and in 1390 $15,000 was given for campaign punxisos. Dr. Gillette testified that be paid these amounts personally in ens'-, and later in the day Mr. McCurdy said that while he knew campaign contributions had been made he did not know the amounts. lie said that no contributions had been made to campaign committees before 1890 and that no contribution to State or municipal campaigns had ever been made in this or any other State. The contribution of $2,500 to the Congressional campaign committee Mr. McCurdy said he knew nothing about until it came out in the testimony last week. Vice-President Grar.nis knew little about the contributions to campaign funds, but justified them on the same grounds as President John A Met'all, of the New York Life, that the free silver plank In the Democratic platform was a menace to the interests of the policy-holders. When Mr. CTimmms was called he assumed the entire responsibility for the terms of the contracts with C. P. Raymond and Co., by which that firm made such large profits. When the method of expenditure of the $23,000 items was inquired into, Mr. tJmunis admitted that the general so icitor could set $23,000 any lime he wanted it without disclosing for what purpose he wanted it and without rendering an\ account of it lie further said he never knew where a cent of tlie money sj>ent by the scleral solicitor went. Jn takins up u detilcd list of the company's exjienses Dr Gillette said that the company last year paid $72.01)0 for luncheons for the employes. It is the custom for the company to furnish their clerks with luncheon This is at the rate of about $230 a day. Toward the close of the session Mr. Mct'urdv made the startlins statement that an insurance company was not an institution founded to make money for the policy-holders, but was, or should be, a great philanthropic enterprise found*d to increase and spread its benefits orer the entire earth. "There has been a groat mistake made," he said' "about the real province of life insurance companies in these latter years. People have been l"-\ to believe that the main purpose was to make money for its poliey-hol deis. In my view, that is not tlie pur- 1 pose of such companies. They arc elecmosynarv. When a man i.ivures in a eompanv he should take into consideration the fact that lie has entered a groat philanthropic concern that is in duty bound to spread itself, even though this growth prevents him from realizing as mr-di as he expected." Vesuvius Al^nungly Active. Naples, By Cable.?The northwest crater of Vesuvius is very active. A great quantity of lava is flowing down the side of the mountain and columns of smoke are sect ascending to an immense height, scattering red hot ashes over the district in the vicinity. The stream of lava is assuming alarming proportions and the eruption iaccompanied l?y loud detonations, which shake the houses ir. surrounding villages. It is believed the eruption has some physical connection with the earthquake shocks, which are now going on in Southern Italy. 9 at . M\[[ NEW8_0F INTEREST Notes of Southern Cotton Mills and Other Manufacturing EnterprisesWare Shoals, S. C.?Another big Southern mill, the Ware Shoals Manufacturing company, is Hearing completion. Its buildings arc now completed, the machinery has been ordered and is being received at the plant for installation. This latter work is expected to bo completed bv November 20, anil then tin.' spindles and looms will begin to produce. The mill building is four stories high, 150 by 277 feet in size, and will have 25,000 spindles, together with SU0 looms, from the Draper Company, of llopedale, Mass. There wil then remain suflieii ent space in the building to double the spindles when the company desires to increase its equipment. The corporation owning this mill is capitalized at $500,000, and N. 11. Dial, of Laurens, S. C., is its president. Gaffncy, S. C.?It is expected that the work of developing Gaston Shoals, a property on Broad river, about live miles from Galtney, will be started at once. This property and other water privileges were acquired by the GatTnoy Manufacturing Company sonic time ago, but were sold recently to a company that Mr. .1. It. Cleveland, of Spartanburg, is said to be at the head of. This company had a corps of surveyors at work at the property last week and it is thought here that the work of developing will be begun in the near future. This property is considered very valuable and if properly developed it is thought that these falls will furnish water jlower sutlicient for the manufacturing plants at Gaffney, Spartanburg, Cherokee Falls, Blneksburg, in South Carolina,? and Shelby and other points in North Carolina. Nashville, Tenn.?A meeting of the stockholders of the Warioto Cotton Mills, was held on September !ll) to consider plans for that company's enterprise. Ollicers were elected as follows: President, W. 11. Odell, of Concord, X. C.; vice-president, William Nelson: and secretary-treasurer, J. B. Morgan. Directors were chosen as follows: M .1. Smith, Edward Warner, Joseph II. Thompson, 11. G. Lipscomb and A. II. Kobinson, and the three officers named. This comnnnv will not be iii a nosition to make its building ready nor to install machinery until next summer, as it lias purchased the cotton mill property of tlio Tennessee Manufacturing Company, which is under lease for some months yet, as stated recently. Durham, N. C.?The Durham and Southeastern liailway will soon he running trains from Durham to Apex, N. where this road will cross the Seaboard Air Line and connect with a road already running to a point on the Atlantic Coast Line a few miles north of Eayetteville. This road will be a great convenience to the Erwin Cotton Mill interests at Durham which have already established a large new mill and commenced the erection of a line new town at Duke, which is on the line of this road only a short distance from its eastern terminus at Dunn, N. C. It is probable in fact that the Duke and Erwin interests have been the chief factors in the building of this road which will he of great benelit to a section of country heretofore seriously lacking in facilities for transportation of its products. Spartanburg, S. C.? The Sun "Mills will be incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $.">00,000 to build and operate a cotton-rope and twine mill. John TL Cleveland, John A. Law, Walter S. Montgomery and A. W. Smith will be the directors and in cnarge 01 construct em wm-* nun installation of machinery. Mr. Montcomery will be president. San Hartonia, Texas.?The contract with Del Rio people ami Kastcrn capitalists for the erection of a large cotton mill at this place was closed on the 20th ami Colonel S. (j. (Iritnshaw, representing the capitalists, left at once for Fall River, Mass., where he will make arrangements for work to begin on the building. The plant will cost $1 .",0,000, and work is to begin within four weeks. Muscagce.?The Commercial Club is negotiating with the representative of New York capitalists relative to the erection of a large textile mill, probably a cotton factory. Marion, S. C.?It has been but a few months since tho Marion Manufacturing Company began operations with its 5,000 spindles, hut already it finds it necessary to add to that equipment. 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President Diaz is not so wealthy as accredited. His fortune Is short of a million. Lord Cnrew. the English nobleman, is a farmer of renown, and owns a herd of Jerseys of rare strain. Swift MucXelll, who is regarded as the champion questioner of the British House of Commons, Is u barrister by profession. King Edward has revived croquet in England, it Is said. This ladylike game has suffered a decline uutil the recent royal boost. King Charles of Portugal has the reputation of being the stoutest monarch alive. He weighs JOO pounds, yet Is wonderfully active. Recently Sir William Crooks lectured twice at Kim her ley. South Africa, on the making of artificial diamonds. The lectures cost $ljooo, for they included elaborate experiments. SiinQp Guggenheim^ worth $13,000,OOo, and 011O {if the wealthiest men In the Stpie Colorado, at one time conducted a Tittle sU?P ft?1' (he sale of embroideries and laces in Philadelphia. Tt is announced at Washington that former President Grover Cleveland will be one of the live representatives of the United States to attend the second peace conference called at The Hague by the Czar. I)r. Amorctte Reedier, n cousin of Henry Ward lieecher and Harriet Reoelier Stowe, and well known as a lecturer, teacher and physician, is living in Santa Barbara, Cal., at the age of eighty-three. River Craft's Fatal Mishap. Yieksburg, Special.?Heavily loaded with freight and with a crew of men, (he steamer Fdk, while barking out from the city landing struck a snag and sunk in 2."> IVet of water. From live to ten negro roustabouts were drowned, hut the exact number w ill probably not he known for several days. 'I he loss ol the boat and cargo is estimated it ^lio.OOO, pari I v insured. flic F.Ik is a local steamer, which has been plying between this point and Davis Bend. Neck Broke But Went Mile. Cincinnati, Special.?After falling into a Dig Four gravel pit near Lawrenceburg, bid., and breaking his neck an Italian laborer, assisted by a friend, walked nearly a mile to his tent, holding his head in his hands the whole distance. Physicians found that the man's neck had been fractured at the tilth vertebrae and declared tli" injuries will undoubteiUy prove fatal. Farmers Holding Cotton. Norwood, (in.. Special.? Farmers in this section refuse to sell their cot ton for less than 10 cents and arc hauling it back home, la'ss than tci bales of cotton have been sold in boll Warren ton and Norwood so far the week, and tht? buyers are sit tint, around with absolutely nothing to ?h> The farmers in this section are nJI it good condition, and are able to hob indefinitely. Crops are abort, aboui 70 per cent of last year's yield. P< ary snys that his expedition may open tip 3.000.000 square miles of country hitherto Inaccessible. 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The Pattern Makers' League of North America, In session at Pittsburg, Pa., raised the assessment of the members from twenty-tive to fifty cents a week. Among the propositions defeated at the recent convention of the International Typographical Union was a resolution declaring against the National (Junrd. A general strike in the electrical < t works at Berlin was ordered; ninny employes of the power companies Joined the movement, and the street car senior was hampered. t Sympathetic strikes in Chicago probably will bo more prevalent in the near future through an alliance between the teamsters and the railway freight handlers. The name of the new federation is the Shipping Trades Alliance. thousand t nion carpenters in1 Boston aiul its vicinity have had their wages advanced twenty-eight cents a day. The change becomes operative under a decision of .fudge fJeorge L. Wentworth, of the Municipal Court, ipj arbitrator, given about a month ago. The Master Carpenters' Association has agreed to accept the Judge's decision. The l'atiloff Iron Works, which have continued as the principal source of industrial disorders in .^t. Petersburg since the beginning of the movement started by l-'ather Capon, were finally closed, after a two weeks' warning to that effect. A small crowd of workmen and agitators attempted to make a demonstration, and a bomb was thrown, which failed t?> explode. The manifestauts wihv dispersed by Cossacks. Was There Foul Play? New York, Special.?Police dragged the llarlem river lor the body of Mrs. Kaiberine 1 Licit, who was drowned under circumstances so suspicious as to cause the arrest of Mrs. Puerr'a husband, Otto, and his friend Charles 11 alln. Knymomt Mcssmer and hit* wife, Mary, parents of the ilrowni'd woman, declared to Coroner O'dorrnnn tliat they believed she had been, a victim of foul play. S10.000 For Tuskcgce. Boston, Special.?Public bequests amounting to $245,000 are contained in the will of Cileries Tidd Baker, a Boston insurance broker, which was filed in the probate ofilce. The bequests become operative on the death of the testator's sister, Susan P. Baker. Among them is one ol $10,000 to the Tuskcgce Industrial Institute of Alabama Memphis. Tenn.? Makers of textile machinery are invited to correspond i with the Shelhv Cotton Products (!o., relative to the purchase of machinery for manufacturing cotton yarns and blacking that product. "ho Shelby 1 enterprise e iiitcmpl.ilcs adding a yarn i mill to its present plant to utilize tho linters and waste cotton, and is prei pared to receive information and estimates on the cost of the required i equipments for tho purposes named. i EXPLAINKTX "How does., it happen that you never Wave any trouble in totting lecturora for Chautauqua circuits?" "We generally pick out men who 1 have a hobby oT some kind or an1 other, an.! they've just got to havo somebody to talk to, you know."?? Chicago Tribur.o. ?