Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, October 18, 1906, Image 1
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15TH YEAR.
PALMETTO AFFAIRS;
Occurrences of Interest From
AN Over South Carolina
MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS
A Batch of Lhre Paragraphs Cot?in|
a Wide Range?What la Oaing
Oa im Our State.
General Cotton Market.
Galveston, firm 11 1-8
New Orleans, tinn 11
Mobile, lirm 11
Savannah, steady 1011-16
Charleston, Ann ..10 5-8
Wilmington, Ann 10 3-4
Baltimore, nominal 11
New York, quiet 11.40
Boston, quiet 11.40
Philadelphia, iirui 31.63
Houhtou, steady 11 .1-3
Memphis, firm 113-4
St. Louis, firm 11
lxniisville, firm 11 3-8
Charlotte Cotton Market.
These prices represent tlie prices
quoted to wagons:
Good middling 10.30
St.riet noiddlnig 10.30
Middling 10 3-8
Stains ,. 8 to 9
Baltimore Produce Market.
Flour steady with business good
Bye flour firm. Buckwheat ilor steady.
Cent meal barely steady. Rye steady.
Barley steady.
Wheat, No. 2, red 78 1-2 elevator.
Options closed l-4o. net decline. No.
2, red May 84 1-8; Dec. 81 1^2.
(' orn. spot easy; No. 2, 33 3-4 elevator.
Options closed l-8c. net low.
er. .Jan 49 3-4; May 49 1-2; Dec.
51 33-8.
Oats, spot steady; mixed 38 1-2.
Iffief firm; family $12.00 to $12.50;
city extra India mess $1(5.50 to $17.00.
Out meats steady, l^ord firm: Wcs
tern prime $9.40 to $9.50; refined
firm.
Pork (inn. Tallow firm. Protroleum
stead j*. Rosin linn; strained
common to [rood $4.25. Turpentine
lira?. Rice quiet. Molasses, firm.
Coffee, sjiot Rio steady; No. 7, in oice
ft 1-4; mild quiet. Futures 5
to 15 |K>ints higher.
Sugar, raw steady; t'air refining
3 1-2; centrifugal 96 test 4; molasses
sugar 3 1-4; refined quiet.
Bntter steady, unchanged; receipts
*.3G3.
Cheese linn, unchanged; receipts 4,?54.
Eggs stody, unchanged; receipts 1,705.
Peanuts quiet, unchanged. Freights
easier; grain to Liverpool hv steam
1 1 -2d.
Come Back Home During the Fair.
Columbia, Special?Handsome invitations
have been issued to the 38th
annual State fair, about which so
much has been written and for which
Columbia is now preparing. These
invitations have been sent to prominent
people in a dozen States and particular
attention has been called to
the great "homecoming week."' They
read as follows:
You arc cordially invited to attend
the 38th annual Smith t hi ml inn s*tn?n
fair, which will be held in Columbia
??n Oct. 22, 22, 21, 25 and 2(5, on the
splendid new grounds of the society.
(n connection with the "Great Fair
Week" will be held the "Homecom- J
ing Week" for all South Carolinai?s |
who now live elsewhere. They are invited
to come home, back to the old 1
Palmetto State, the State we love so
well; come back to see and mingle
with the loved ones, to renew thies !
that will bind their hearts forever to |
the land of our birth. Help us to get
them to come heme. Fair week will
still be "fair week," only better;
there will be more exhibits, attractions,
amusements, fun, entertainment
than ever before. Come and join us
in the merry-making. We 1m g to enclose
a complimntary ticket for your
use.
G. A. Guiguard,
President.
A. W. J?ve,
Secretary.
Militia Company at Laarens.
Laurens, S. C., Special.?A local
milita company is to organize here
Seventy-live men have signified their
willingness to become members of
I li?- company. They represent tlie
professional and business men of almost
every department of the city,
and the company bids fair to be the
pride of Laurens. The organization
of n militia company here at this
time is due in large measure to the
activity and enthusiastic efforts of
Col. James H. Traynham, who secured
the very large list of names of
the men who ore to com]>ose the company
in one day.
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DEATH 'IN A WRECK
Fatal Collision Near Winnsboro
South Carolina
THREE DIE AT THEIR POSTS
Fast Freight and a Light Engine
From Charlotte Collide on a Curve
and Three Trainmen Meet Instant
Death?A Colored Fireman Fatally
Hurt?Wreck Alleged to be Due
Failure of an Operator to Deliver
vsracrs mougn ine x oung Man
Denies Responsibility?Trains Only
Slightly Delayed by the Accident.
Columbia, S. C., Special.?A last
freight and light engine came together
near Winnsboro Sunday morning on
tlie Southern in a head-on collision.
The dead are:
I>. M. Dixon, white, conductor on
engine.
Jns. T. MePhcrson, ,Tr., white, fireman
on engine.
Henry Pile, engineer on light engine.
The injured are: James Q. Price,
white, engineer on freight.
Charles D. Weir, white hrnkctnau
on freight.
Henry dates, colored, fireman on
freight. Will die.
Orders Never Delivered.
Through freight No. 74, northbound,
carrying a load of lumber and
other goods, left Columbia on time
Sunday morning at 2:10. Orders were
given by the dispatcher here showing
that oxtfu engine No. 102(5,
southbound, had the right of way of
the track to Winnsboro. The order
was never delivered to the crew of the
freight train. The oj>erator at the
tji i:? . -
jjiuuuiu^ mivpi sinuon oi tlie Southern
gave tlie conductor and engineer
of llic freight two other orders and
obtained their signatures, hut he, for
gome reason, failed to transmit this
one. His name is Bolick and he is a
young man just in his 20th year.
Kills an Entire Family.
Houston, Mo., Special.?Barney
Parsons, a farmer, his wife and three
children, were murdered Friday near
Liekington, Mo. A fanner named
Hamilton has been arrested charged
with the murder and is said to have
confessed. Parsons had sold his farm
and crops to Hamilton, and it is
alleged that the men quarreled over
the terms of the sale. Parsons and
family set out from their former home
in a covered wagon bound for Misfonnd
shot lo death and the mother
and three children had bo:n clubb'd
to death, dodn Hamilton, the alleged
murderer, is in the Houston .Tail,
strongly guarded to prevent lynching.
He is said to have made a complete
fession.
CRUSHED TO DRATTT Ttv
FREIGHT TRAIN.
Little Girl, with Fo#t Caught in Cattle
Guard, Cruslied to Death bp
Train While Six Year Old C^uip.n
ion Vainy T .ed to St.?p Train
La Crosse, Wis., Special.?Standing
helpless with her foot caught in
u cattloguurd at Indian Hill crossing,
seven-year-old Mimic Hunt
watched the on rushing train which
killed her while Duguu Sen tad, h -r
six-year-old companion vainly tried
to signal the engineer.
Sitting upon u brake wheel on toj
of* the train was John Hunt, the girls
father, a hrakeman. unconscious that
his child was being ground to death
beneath the wheels.
The girls were returning from
school when the Hunt child's foot
became caught.
Terrorists Executed.
l/odz, Russian Poland, By Cable?
Another Terrorist, condemned to
death by the drumhead court martial,
was executed here. The general
strike is in full swing. There is no
traffic in the streets, no papers were
published and strong detachments of
troops are guading the main thoroughfares.
Police searches have resulted
in a great number of arrests.
$200,000 Incendiary Fire.
Charlottctown, P. K. I., Special.?
More than 50 buildings were destroyed
by a fire which ruined one fourth
of the town of Suminerside, the capital
of Prince county. The total loss
is estimated at $200,000, with insurance
of only about $50,000. A path
three hundred feet in width and nearly
a mile long was burned through
the town. The bnilffings destroyed
included the court house, jail, electric
light station, postoffice, four hotels
and two churches, besides the railway
station and many dwellings. It is
believed that the fire was of incendiary
MBgin.
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LETTER TOSTRIKERS
General Manager Spencer T?
Southern's Machinists
HOPES FOR EARLY SETTLEMENT
General Manager H. B. Spencer, ef
the Southern Railway, Issues Letter
to Striking Machinists in
Which it is Shown That Increase
Aiioaay urraniea Wltiuu JUast Fiva
Years Has Been Out of Proportion
to Earnings?Increases Granted
Hare Been Substantial?Believed
That Differences Will bo Amically
Settled.
Spencer, N. Special.?The tirst
statement from the oilisials of the
Southern Railway Company concerning
the recent strike on its system
was received here Thursday. The
statements is signed by Mr. li. 13.
Spencer, general manager, and is in
part as follows:
To Southern Railway Machinists:
Your action, declining to accept the
proposition offered by the company
respecting rates of pay and rules and
regulations, has been brought to the
attention of ibe operating officers.
Because of the diflieulty of acquainting
a large body of men, by
means of personal interviews, with
the attitude of this company ou these
questions, it is deemed expedient to
present the situation in the form of
this letter.
It is the desire and effort of this
company to pay its employes a rata
of wages fairly commensurate with
the character of service rendered and
flip pnlulit?A?*o a I -
~?....luni suiiuuiiiiiii^ nit? employment.
That this policy is habitually
observed is shown by the fact
that the basis of wages paid by the
company is always kept substantially
standurd. You will also recall that
while the rules and regulations now
in effect stipulate that the rales agreed
upon will remain in effect one
year, the company has from time to
time, without waiting for the oxpriation
of this period, voluntarily advanced
the rates to meet the changed
conditions. The cordial attitude of
the company towards its employes has
been further shown by the fact that
it has from time to time and whenever
desired, received representatives
of the respective trades and occupations,
for the purpose of discussing
adjustments of rates of pay and conditions
pertaining to such questions
have been in all eases amicably adjusted.
For the past two
months the operations of the lines of
this company effected by the increase
demanded showed the following result:
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^ ^111.1* CUllllll^, lU.lII
per cent. Increase in operating expenses
and taxes 17.02 per cent.
Showing a decrease in net earnings
for the last two months of $149,97G.04.
As tlvc aggregate increases in rates
of pay requested amounted to a large
sum, thereby adding largely t<? the already
heavy operating expenses, a
general increase is not considered reasonable.
aud therefore could not be
granted.
In ad .tion u. this, the company is
confronted by a serious agitation before
various State commissions in favor
of decreased rates of freight and
passenger charges, which, if put into
effect, will mean large additional decreases
in the net revenues of the
company.
Under these circumstances it will he
appreciated that the time is not propitious
to consider a general increase
in wages to employes, and the company
feels that its employes should
in fairness realize the situation and
not insist on the general increase in
wages demanded.
In this connection, it must be remembered
that the company has not
been unmindful of the just interests
of the machinists in its employment.
This is shown by the increases of the
rates of their pay within the last live
years, which, as you are aware from
your own experience, have been most
substantial. j
A fair consideration of the above ]
facts will, I hope,, convince you that
there was no reasonable cause for
your action in leaving the employment
of this company.
The gravity of liie situation dea*mds
the most careful consideration
on the part of each and every employe
of this company, and I trust
that, afte,* such consideration, you
will seo that your attitude towards
this company has not been entirely
just and that you will feel that you
ought not only in justice to this
company, but in justice to yourselves,
reconsider your action.
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SDAY, OCTOBER 18,19
HE STOLE h MILLION:
Agent for firm Makes heavy
haul of funds
A CUBAN AMERICAN FIRM FAILS
??%Assignment
of J. M. Ceballos k Co.,
of New York. Bankers and Merchants,
With Liabilities Between
13,000,000 and $4,000,000 is Announced
and Blame Placed Upon
Abscondinf of Manuel SilTerira, of
Havana.
NV'w York, Special.?The assignment
of J. M. Ccballos & Co., bankeri
and merchants. with liabilities between
$3,000,000 and $4,000,000, was
announced in a statement which declared
that, the failure was due to
the defacalcation and ubs?-onding of
Manuel Silverira, of Silverira & Company,
Havana, agents of the New
York company Silverira's defalcation
is alleged to amount to about $1,<>00,000.
lie sailed from Havana on
October 2, ostensibly for New York
city to consult with the members of
J. M. Cebullor. & Company, but has
not reached this aity. Counsel for
|> the asiguce said that Silverira left
on his steamer, the Carmelina, for
parts unkuown, accompanied by bis
wife and children, and that every
effort was mc.de to locate him.
The members of the firm of J. M.
(eballos & Company are J. M. (>I
hallos, John S. Fiake and Anderson
C. Wilson.
The assignee is Wm. 11. Howe, of
the law firm of Sullivan & Crom
11 - 0 At
wen, 01 uus city. Air. Itowe said
that the assets of the firm were of a
very substantial character, but from
a hasty examination it was manifest
that they would require careful bushanding.
Accountants are now at
work on the books of the company.
It was stated unofficially that there
was ground to hope that the assets
would he sufficient to cover the loses
I of the iirm and thut it would be
| enabled to resume business.
J. M. Ceballos & Company was
established about 60 years ago and
has large interests in Cuba, chiefly
hi the development of railroads and
sugar plantations. It operates a line
of steamers between New York and
Spanish European centers and Span,
ish-American citis*.
Urges Negros to Organize.
New York, Special.?"Such men
as Ilokc Smith, John Temple Graves,
Vardaman and Tillman ought never
to be able to obtain any service from
ft colored man," said Osw&rd Q. Vil- |
lard, in an address before the AfroAmerican
council now in session here
Mr. Villa i d also declared that in his J
opinion no negfo slumld think of (
contributing' as raurh as one cent to i
the support of the anti-negro news- i
papers in Georgia. He urged the
negro to organize to band together
for his defence and to fight for his
rights. "The time is ripe for serving
notice on the country," said he,
"that further efforts in any section
of the land to degrade the negro to
a servile position, t<? create that, impossible
thing, a republic with millions
of persons taxed but not represented,
shall be fought from now
on. Leave the murdering in cold
blood to tin* rare that proudly calls
itself the superior, the bettor eivilized."
Augusta "Stock Exchange" Fails.
Augusta, Oa.. Special.?The Augusta
"stock exchange" the local
branch of the Odell Stock ami Provision
Company, of Cincinnati, 0.,
failed to open iis doors. .Manager
Sylvester stated that as far as he
was concerned the closing was per
manent. The official statement shows
liabilities of about $700. The jissets
consist of ofuee furniture.
Cargo of Chinese Seized.
Providence. R. I., Special.?After
having evaded the United States customs
immigration officers for more
than two weeks, the schooner yacht
Frolic, which left Placenti, N. F.,
with a cargo of eontrabrand Chinese
immigrants, was boarded in the
Providence river and confiscated in
the name of the United States gov- 1
rnment. Two Portuj/so merobei>
of the crew were placed under arrest
they being the yily persons found
on board the boat; three men wen
[arrested on suspicion of being con
eemed in the smuggling of Chinvtninto
this country.
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06.
THE RURAL DELIVERY
A Record of Splendid Service
lo the Public
REAL ESTATE VALUES INCREASE
m
Though Rural Free Delivery Hu
Cost an Enormous Sum the Expenditure
in Fully Justified?Facts
and Figures About the Service.
Washington, Special.?At the annual
convention 01 the National Rural
Letter Carriers' Association which
was held at lVruria, 1!!., a letter was
submitted from P. V. DefJraw, Fourth
Asistant Postmaster Ueneral, regretting
his inability to attend the convention.
The communication recites
the status of rural delivery throughout
the country, ami instances its
many advantages to fanners, not only
from the viewpoint of the accomodation,
but from its great educational
influence, the improvement of roads,
and the palpable increase in the value
of lands, and points out how by cooperation
uilli the Department, rural
carriers may aid in minimizing the
many vexatious problems which surround
the establishment and maintenance
of the service. The letter, vi
part, is as follows:
"It is costing the government over
$"3 a year for each of the 13,500,1100 '
persons now receiving the service, but
there is no doubt that the expenditure
is fully justified by the results
obtained. It is generally conceded
that, rural delivery of mail has been
a leading factor in the great increase
in the value of farm lands and rural
real estate in all parts of the eountry.
Some remarkable reports of increased
land values have been received and in
nearly every ease the advance is at
tributed to the beneficial effect of
rural delivery.
"The amount of money appropriated
by Congress for the rural delivery
service for the current fiscal year is
$*28,200,000, for the year ended June
30, last, it was $23,828,300, an increase
of more than $4,700,000 over
the previous year, when it was $21,116,000,
which in turn was an inerease
of $8,000,000 over the fiscal
year 1903-04. In the twelve months
from July 2, 1905, to July 1, ,1900, 3,.
713 rural routes were established,
against 7,439 in the previous fiscal
year, and 91 routes were discontinued.
"The number of routes in operation
September 1, 1900, was 35,<i(i6,
and up to that date 53,901 petitions
for the service had been received,
upon which there were 14,930 adverse
reports, and there were 2,773
pending.
"As to the patronage of a route,
it has been considered that an average
route should handle thret
thousand pieces of mail per month.
"Prior to August 1901 the use of
approved boxes in the rural delivery
service was not required, and some
of the receptacles erected such as
oil and powder cans, cracker and
cigar boxes, stove-pipes, and even
bootlegs were not only unsafe and unsuitable
for the purpose but also a
reproach to the service. It was because
of numerous complaints to tha
jcovermneut against these unfit receptacles
that the present regulations
were promulgated.
"The subject of good roads in connection
with rural mail service is nn
important one. The indifference of
some cuminnuit ic.s t<? tin* condition ??f
roads as disclosed by inspections of
the rural routes, has caused renewed
efforts on tin*, pari ?t" the Department
to create such increased interest in
the improvement of highways that the
work of extending the rural delivery
service throughout the country ean he
salisfactorinly completed.
44During tin- tiscal year (tiding
June 30, 190f\ there were 4,5f>8 rural
carrier examinations held under the
direction of th" Civil Service Commission,
in which there were 30?'l33 competitors.
Ten thousand, six hundred
and twenty-seven appointments were
made as a result of those examinations,
7,489 of which were to fill positions
on routes newly created.
There were only 214 removals for
cause in a total fore? of 32,050, and
only 19 arrests for violation of law."
Telegraphic Briefs.
Governor Swansea pardoned Chas
It, Fishbum, of Roanoke, who killed
Dr. 1/efew two years ago.
In New York negro churches prayers
were offered for more cordial re- t
UtinnR between the whites and the
blacks of the Southern States.
Cotton mills in North Carolina are
experimenting with English opcraives.
John R. Walsh , whose financial col- I
apse last December carried down
liree Chicago banks, i* getting on lit?
feet again.
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KHtlSV GLKANINUS.
The Treasury Departmont Is bu?'
!ng silver.
Harvard opened with lresbn>aa
class of 800.
Tin* navy gained more than IIM
recruits iu September.
With over 50.000 members, ttuv
Baptists of the new State of Qfcfahoma
are in the lead.
The next world's Y M. C. A. coti
wm oe neia a! narmen-ISlbc:field,
Germany, in 1909.
A London paper printed a rumor
of a plot to blow up Lord Rothschild
and other prominent Jews.
More anti-clerical riots occurred at
Valencia. Spain. Troops had to lacalled
out to disperse the mob.
Plnkerton detectives are in Lotdon
investigating matters in conne?tiou
with the Thaw murder case.
The United States Steel Corporation
acquired the Great Northern
Railroad's ore lands in Minnesota.
Two armed terrorists were arrested
in the palace at Peterhof, Russia,
charged with plotting to kill the Hhuperor.
Colonel Fleischir.au. of Cincinnati,
and his brhlo returned from the Ar?
tic, where tiiey hunted and killed pilar
bears.
General Durobadze, commander ot
the troops .1. Sebastopol. was wounded
by a bomb which was throwh ;m
his carriage.
Candy manufacturers were warned
by the apodal Federal commission t?make
only pure candy, hut ma?>.
offered protests.
On the monument to Victor Kn:-manuel
II. In Rome $4,000,000 bar
already been spent and $l,000,0*0o
more will be required.
Tho British steamer Edenhall
reached Uoston a week overdue l'roiiProgreso.
having encountered a tidal
wave and being blown tSO miles out
of her course.
San Domingo Government 8ecure?
Peace.
Washington, Special.?Cable * .vices
received here from San lb
mingo stale tlint an agreement
been reached between the governmen.
and insurgent, forces in the neighbc*
hood of Monte Christ), whereby 1L'
Insurgents will surrender to the. gjn
emment and General Limardo, wbe
conducted the campaign for President
Caeerss, will become Governor el
Monte Cbriati.
ALh HERS.
""1 certainly was shocked," said tb*
stern-visaged woman, *'to bear thai
you weve married. I wouldn't mar
the best man <m earth."
"He never gave you a chance!" r?torted
Mrs. Hcidley, "because he ac
8uro? me 1 was the only girl he eve
proposed to."?Catholie Standard am.
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