Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, October 18, 1905, Image 1
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
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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.
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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. The company's directors
met and ordered that 2,000 spindles he
installed, and William Stackhonse
president, left at once for the North
to buy the new equipment.
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PROMIN E N T 1 * lit) r I.E.
Premier Balfour is not like his portraits.
The Countess of Jersey is described
as being a clever, cultivated woman.
Pius X. lias finally succumbed and
hah had a telephone put in the Vatican.
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. It will
be some time, however, before the
"why pay rent" sign follow? his trail,
predicts the Washington Star.
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THE LABOU WOULD.
A training school for carpenters has
been started by the Heading Carpenters'
Union.
These are the days when no really
skilled laborer in New York Is seeking
n job. In fact, there's more work iu
town for such men than they can do.
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.
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