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THE FORT MILL TIMES. fl
16TH. YEAR. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1907r no. 26
? GIVES HIS VIEWS
Senator Tillman Talks on Questions
of the Day.
TOURED MANY STATES
8ajm Plutocrat Press Has Misled People
Regarding Heal Ishucs?Thinks
That American People Will Never
Be "Bamboozled" by Corporation
Interests?Says Centralization Will
be Vital Issue in CominK Campaign
Senator Benjamin It. Tillman, af
tor visiting thirty states since the
adjournment of congress, and meeting
thousands of people, gives the
Hearst New Service at San Francisco
his observations on the vital questions
of the hour and issues that will
predominate in the coming presdential
campaign. He does not discuss
candidates or politicians, because he
says he does not know anything
about what they are doing in the
way of political combinations and
tickets.
The one significant transaction or
fact that has come to the front since
the adjournment of congress last
March is the apparent clash, or
threatened clash, between state and
national authority, in the effort to
control corporations and railroads.
Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska,
New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina
and Alabama have passed twocent
fare bills and taken other prominent
action in the direction of regulating
charges for freight and passenger
transportation. Governor
Hughes vetoed the New York bill.
The Pennsylvania railroad, which
owns the State, set al>out annulling
the two-cent fare bill. People of other
States felt grateful except in
North Carolina and Alabama. United
States Circuit Judge Jones issue 1
sweeping injunctions restraining the
state officials from enforcing the laws
The constitutionality of the law was
not attacked. It could not be attacked,
except upon the plea of conI
??
iiBcaiiuu. 1
While the matter was in the public
mind, the plutocratic press teemed
with editorials and cartoons, all intended
to direct the attention of the
eople to the ghost of state rights,
which we were told was shot to deatn
In '61 and '65. The country was led
to suppose that North Carolina *nd
Governor Glenn were at tempting a revival
of the old ante-bellum doctrine.
In truth, these organs of Morgan.
Harrlinan, Rockefeller, et al.,haveattempted
to misleud the people and
bolster up the Root idea of national
authority ujion absolutely false
grounds.
} When Judge Prichard and Jones
btand up and proclaim in thundering
denes "We are the nation; we have
jthe power and authority to protect
Rested interests and the state shall
not destroy the property of the railroads,"
they wave their arms frantically
and the ghost of Calhoun is conjured
from under the bed. The bid
it be gone. People who have eyes
and who exnmlned This affair closely,
saw, looking over the judges shoulders.
the grinning faces of the railroad
magnates?and the judges are
'mere mannikins, obeying the orders
of their former employers.
The American people will never be
baml>oozled and driven by fake ap
peals to the national spirit, invoked
to protect the Harriman, Morgan
Rockefeller gang in their efforts to
comp?l producers of the country u
pay tribute to them and dividends oi.
watered stock.
The ursurpations of power by th?
federal judieary and the absolute
sovereignty by many federal judge?
in the interests of the trusts and th?
necessity for congressional action in
rlnarlv dofinincr and lavine down the
Jurisdiction and power of federal
courts, will attract more attention
than the great question of regulating
trusts themselves.
Judical usurpation and trust alms
es and co-relative questions?the tw
are interlocked and one hinges on th?
other, as President Rooscveld recent
ly recognized when he made the is
sue in 1004 and 1906, that the railroad
rate fixed by the commission
should go into efTect Immediately an 1
stick there till reversed by the courts
Of course, we^all know he surrendered
on this Important point and tha\
Aldrlch came off victor. This bit of
legislatives history turns the lght on
the striking fact that in North Carolina
the attempt was made to do
just what the president declared
all railroads ought to lie compelled
to do. H?it the federal court hutted
in and said they could not do it, hut
.they did.
The Root Idea of centralization
) will be the vital issue in the next
' presdential campaign. The Root idea
't will l>e prevred l>v the Repuhlioan'and
Roosevelt; the Democrat-* v. 111.
naturally and Inevitably, tako the
other side.
j This nation must spealc th'-ongh
! congress and define the powers ot
^ f federal courts that are clutching
i states and everything else by the
/ throats.
1 The real and proper meth??d ol
) government control and regulation ot
( trusts is the other Important f.ues1
tlon which must be determined in the
I next campaign.
L Whenever the people give up local
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RESISTED ARREST.
Man and Woman Wounded by
Constable Near Parler.
The Trouble Over the Contract I>ahor
Ijaw?The Officer Shot to Save His
Own Life.
A shooting affray occurred near
Parler on Wednesday. As a result of
the shooting, Charles Watson, colored,
1b painfully but not seriously
wounded, and his wife who was also
wounded may die. They did not
only resist arrest, but attempted to
cut and shot the constable who went
to arrest them.
If onoooea lUnl J
np|rcuio tiiat vr aiouit nan iiiiut'r
contract with Mrs. M. L.. Feider of
Parler, but learning of the recent
decision on the labor contract law,
moved away leaving a debt behind.
Mrs. Feider sent her son to see Wat808n,
who refused to pay the account,
and in the meantime returned to
Mrs. Felder's place and gathered the
extra crop upon which Mrs. Feider
had claims.
Mr. D. P. Dantzler, a son-in-law
of Mrs. Feider, was sent by her to
collect the account, but Watson refused
to pay it in Insulting terms. A
warrant was issued before Magistrate
T. M. Feider for Watson's arrest, and
also a search warrant for the cotton.
Constable W. C. Griffith and Mr.
D. P. Pantzler were sent to arrest
Watson and take charge of the cotton.
The latter proved to be in hiding
in a woods nea? his house. These
gentlemen acting under the search
warrant proceeded to seize the cotton
when Watson came up. Constable
Griffith attempted to arrest Watson,
who with opened knife advanced
upon the officer.
Mr. Griffith fired to scare the negro,
who made a dash for Mr. Griffith,
but the next shot the officer s
aim was more steady and the negro
waa shot in the thigh. While this
was happening Watson's wife was
standing In the door, and her shot
gun was leveled on Mr. Dantzler, hut
before the weapon was discharged,
Mr. Dantzler fired at the woman, the
ball taking effect in her side and
ranging downward.
Her wound is regarded as serious.
No further resistance was offered and
the wounded negroes were attended
by Dr. P. L. Felder. Watson was
taken in charge by Constable GriftUh
and Mr. Dantzler and was lodged
in jail at Orangeburg. Watson
and his wife moved to Parler from
Wedgefleld early in January.
Judge Brawley's decision still
gives trouble. It has caused the
death of several persons. The negroes
seem to have gotten it in their heads
that they have a right to shoot down
constables who attempt to arrest
hem, but when one or two of them
J get. their necks cracked for murdering
constables they will realize their
mistake. If the woman dies she has
nobody to blame but herself and husband
as the both resisted arrest of
a legally constituted posse and attempted
to murder the people composing
it.
POSKD AS MKK.MAIl?.
In a Lily I'ond and Photographed by
Photographer.
The fashionable North Riverside
'ark district of Wichita, Kansas was
'hrown into a turmoil when the residents
saw n young woman scantily
clad, posed iu a lily pond, while a
nan with a large camera made severil
exposures. Twenty-flve calls were
eceived at police headquarters and
he people rushed out of their houses
o the spot. The girl. Miss Mona
ayton, nineteen years old. was sent
tome, and the photographer. J. J.
Todd was arrested.
Todd said that he wanted a picture
o enter in a photographic contest.
Me said he wanted to take the picure
of the gill's head and shoulders
nd convert it into a picture of a
nerinaid basking In a pond of lilies.
>Vonien who discovered the photog apher
at work declare thev found
her clothing on a park bench. The
nilice have taken charge of Todd's
camera, and the plates he made.
self-government, we shall lose the
- ?i. a.. rt/.tRincr Kill
substance 01 iineny uuu nvv.....n
the shadow will be left. When states
are hampered by federal interference,
when the people are harrassed and
plundered by corporations, we must
look ahead and steer away from disaster.
I do not think there is any likelihood
of war with Japan. Japan is
too busy heading off bankruptcy to
think about fighting us. It might
be difficult if we were persecuting
Japan like Russia did. when Japanese
national pride would immediately
out thc.n to fight if they were on
their knees when the scrap began.
Occurrences in Bi Itlsh Columbia
nd the Dominion of Canada and the
demand for exclusion will help out
in settling the question. Japan is
not going to rear up and tear around
with her ally, England, and when
she gets through pleading with England
they won't try to bluff old
Uncle Sam. The Japanese diplomats
are acute and alive men, and, of
course, they are not going to be disadvantaged
by us if they can help it.
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MADE A HAUL
Wholesale Arrests of the Alleg
ed Grafters In Pennslyvania.
ROBBED THE STATE.
Homo High Officials Charged Wit)
Crime?Alleged in the Indictment
That Five Millions of the Tota
Was Purely Graft?The Names o
Those That Are Under Arrest to
the Steal.
i
The long expected arrest of thos<
held to be responsible for the fraud:
committed in the furnishing and dec
orating of Pennsylvania's $13,000,
000 capitol were made Wednesday
the attorney general causing war
rants to be issued for 14 of the 11
persons and Arms named by the cap
itol Investigating commission as be
ing involved in the scandal. Thos<
for whom warrants were issued are
Joseph M. Hudson, architect, ant
his active assistant, Sanford B. Lew
is, both of Philadelphia.
John H. Sanderson, Philadelphia
chief contractor for furnishings.
Congressman H. Burd Cassell
treasurer and executive officer of th<
Pennsylvania Construction company
contractors for steel filing cases.
James H. Shumaker, Johnstown
Pa., former superintendant of publit
grounds and buildings, who receipt
ed for the furnishings.
George F. Payne and his partner
Charles G. Wetter, both of Philadel
phia, builders of the capitol and con
tractors for the $303,000 attic.
William P. Snyder, Spring City
Pa., former auditor general who approved
the warrants of the contractors.
William L. Mattheus, Media, Pa.
former State treasurer, who paid th*
bills of the contractors.
Charles F. Kinsman, Willis Bolleau,
John G. Neider and Geo. K
Storm, all of Philadelphia, stockholders
in the Pennsylvania Bronze
company, organized by Sanderson for
the manufacture of the $2,000,000
ngnting nxture.
Frank Irvine, auditor In the auditor
generals's office, who audited the
accounts of the contractors.
Nearly all the defendants appeared
during the day, waived a hearing and
entered bail for their appearance in
the Dauphin county court. The
principal defendants were held in
$60,000 ball, which was furnished in
every instance by surety companies.
All the defendants are charged
with conspiracy to cheat and defraud
the State by making false invoices,
which were approved by Huston and
Shumaker. Charges of obtaining
money by false pretense were also
entered against Sanderson, Congressman
Cassel. Payne and Wetter, it
being alleged they furnished fictitious
bills for a greater amount than
they were entitled to receive under
their contracts.
The action was the outcome of an
allegation made by State TrecBurer
William H. Berry during the campaign
of i905. He startled the State
by charging that, according to the
State treasury books, the building
and furnishings of the State capitol
had cost $1 3,000,000 and not $5,000.000,
as had been generally believed
and that $9,000,0o* went to furnish
the building.
He charged that $5,000,000 of the
$9,000,000 was pure "graft." Gov
Penn.vpac.ker, other State official:
and contractors denied the charges
DUi tne agitation for an investigatlor
which immediately began continued
until the legislature appointed a com
mission to investigate the whoh
n ffnir.
NIR8K, WIFE AXI) WIDOW.
Tile I'miMinl Experience of a Younf
New York Woman.
To have been nurse ami bride ant
widow all within a few hours is the
unusual experience of Mrs. Alfrec
Adler of New York. Mr. Adler wai
a wealthy Hroadway glove manufac
turer.
He was taken with typhoid fevei
on the way back from a trip to Yel
lowstone Park with his fiancee, wh<
was Miss Joanna Hartung of Nev
York and a party of friends.
On being taken to the hospital
Miss Hartung. to whom he had beei
engaged eight years, became hi
nurse. He succumbed to the disease
but before his death he and Mis
Hartuna were married.
The wedding took place at 8:3(
and he died at 10 o'clock. Fo
three nights previous to his deatl
Miss Hartung did not leave his bed
side.
A FATAL JI MP.
Became Panic Stricken and Plnngei
From Stone Barge.
Six Italian laborers employed i
the new government dam in the A1
legheny river at Aspinwall, Pa., loe
their lives Thursday evening whe
they became panic stricken and lear
ed from a flat boat on which the
were taking some stone from a dan
The men Jumped from one end c
the boat Into 12 feet of water instea
of stepping from the other end to
sand bar.
S
CLOSE CALL
_ A Tiger In the Bedroom Whon
Nurse Took in Boby.
Grandson of a Georgia Legislator |
Comes Near Being Eaten by the
Beast.
( A special to the Atlanta Journal 1
from ColumbuB, Ga.t says the little
s son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Slade
J came within an ace of being placed
. in the mouth of a ferocious Mexican
I . .. - - -
tiger Dy lis nurse a lew nights ago,
r according to a letter that has been
received in this city from Mrs. Slade
who was Miss Thurza Klrven, daugh^
ter of R. M. Kirven of (Columbus. <
The little one who so narrowly escaped
death is a grandson of Hon.
James J. Slade, one of Muscogee
' county's representatives in tthe Geor^
gia legislature. I
The story is a most thrilling one. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Slade are in Mexico.
a where Mr. Slade is engaged in civil
. engineering work. It was in the eve- 4
j ning; the twilight had gathered and >'
the shades of night had gathered. ,
The nurse of the little one had performed
her duty by her charge, by 1
singing and rocking it to sleep; th^tL
she gathered him in her arms to m
j carry him to his little bed. <
As she went into the darkened,
room and started to lay the little
fellow to rest for the night, she was
^ arrested by a deep growl. The frigh- <
* tened nurse hurriedly gathered the <
boy in her arms again and rushed to 1
the front porch, which she had but
[ recently quitted, where Mr. and Mrs. 1
Slade were sitting and in a voice that ?
gave every evidence of fright, she ?
told Mr. Slade that there was a dog s
[ on the bed. a
Mr. Slade hurrtodly grabbed a t
spade with which he had but shortly
before been doing some work in the t
\ yard and went into the room. As H
he did so he noticed two glaring balls c
of flre on the bed in his room. He e
had no weapon other than the spade,
. his pistol being in a room adjoining e
, the one in which the ferocious beast j
. naa taicen reiuge. He seteed the Im f
i plemont which he held, with a firmer c
grasp, and boldly went Into the room, a
. but strange to say the beast did not ?
, attack him. He slipped Into the room
where his pistol lay and seized it. f
[ hurrying back to where the beast a
I was, and flri.ig at li. The shot did (
not strike a vital spot, and ihe b*-ast t
was In a frenzy. It hegan to tear c
around the room in a terribly fero-' a
clous attitude aud Mr. Slade quickly
emptied the contents of his weapon, t
I into its body, killing it. s
I Later It was ascertained that some i
soldiers in a garrison which had been a
j located near where Mr. Slade resided r
had had a tiger, which had escaped t
| from them. It it believed that the r
. tiger that was slain by Mr. Slade fi
was the escaped pet. j
But this fact did not rob his exi
perience of any of tho excitement at- j
. tendant upon it, for he did not know ?
at the time that it was such, and it t
, is possible that if the nurse had not c
. snatched the infant from the beef as
. hurriedly as she did, the anmal would f
, have done it great injury. Mr. Slade c
. has had the animal skinned and will y
r preserve the skin as a trophy for his ^
I son.
NARROW ESCAPE. F
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A York Conntjr Man Had a dose Call
With Traiu.
i A dispatch from Rock Hill to The |
State says Mr. W. Edwin Walker of r
1 the Neelv's Creek section is suffer- j
' ing from a bad leg sprain which he v
received in an accident which nar- u
rowly missed being a fatal one for 1
him. He was driving to Leslie Sta- [
tion with a pair of horses attached to c
his wagon and the early morning i
passenger train having just passed
* the crossing not more than the fourt h r
of a mile distant he had no idea that i
another train was near. He proceed- a
I ed on his way and when almost up- ?
? on the crossing, he saw approaching c
1 and engine and cab. He was upon c
3 the rails and so ht whipped up in ci
- the effort to clear the track before
the engine passed. 1
r Just before the cowcatcher struck i
- the rear of the wagon Mr. Walker \
> jumped and was not struck by the i
v train, but the wagon was thrown up- ^
on him. injuring him severely. The c
, train was a special one. otherwise j
i the injured man would have been f
s more upon the alert. {
g MARTYR TO SCIKNCK. '
0 Major Carroll Succumbs to Third Inr
I, ovulation from Mosquito.
Major James Carroll, surgeon,
United States Army, who was a member
of the commission sent to Cuba t
j to study yellow fever just after the '
close of the Spanish war, died at his (
home In Washington, a martyr to 1
science. It was his commission that J
n fixed definitely on the mosquto as the f
'* medium of transmisson in yellow fev ?
lt er.
n Dr. Carroll allowed himself to be 1
bitten by a mosquito that had been
y infected from three distinct yellow '
' fever cases. He developed the dis- '
"J ease four days after being bitten. His
last Illness was the direct result of *
a his work in the study of tropical dis- '
esses.
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WAR STILLlON
The Allied Forces Hurl Death In- 1
to the Moors
AND MANY ARE SLAIN
Tne Franco-Spanish Army Daebeg
Upon the Rebel Camp Under Cover
of Heavy Fog?Many of the
Moors Are Killed and tho on.. ??-r
I
Took to Their Heels and Mado
Their Escape. i i
The war between France and 1
3pain on the one side and MoroccaJ
3n the other goes merrily on.
The allied Franco-Spanish army
Thursday made a sudden and success- *
ful move on Taddert where the Moors
<
were massed in force. (
The camp of the latter was destroyed
by bombardment aud the enemy 3
was put to flight, leaving many deaad J
an the field. The French lost one ,
man killed and six men wounded.
The attack was based largely on 1
the observations of the Moors position
from a miliatary balloon. The
illied ar*?y which was divided into .
two columilS. left the camp at six f
>'clock lu the onorning. leaving sev- ?
?ral companies ^infantry to defend e
he base of Casa n'^nca. t
The first column \V?s composed of
'our compauies of reguT*ir infantry,
several companies of shai-T^iill'oters.
i battery of artillery and nil the*?***- j <
dry. The second column consisted o?( ^
tlx companies of Infanl-y and a batr
cry of artillery.
"i he march was carried out un<ier
he cover of a fog until half way, to 0
raddort, when the fog lifted and <Jts- (
dosed several large bands of the
meray. t
The allied army then charged eev- ,
sral large bands of the enecmy at the
oint of the bayonet. The allied in- ^
autry advanced on the Moorish (J
amp which was completely destroyed
ifter a sharp fight the allied army
idvanceu to Taddert. o
After the bombardment of that r
dace by the French artillery as well
is by the guns of the French cruiser ,
Jlorie which fired 75 shellB, the allied ^
nfantry advanced on the Moorish
:amp where the enemy was makfrig a '
teadfast stand.
A short engagement followed and
he Moors fled in wild disorder pur- t
tued for several miles by the irreguar
Algerian calvary in the French
lervice. The Moorish camp was coon- .
>letely destroyed. The exact loss of '
he Moors is not known, as they carled
away many of their dead. The
tilled army then returned to Casa
llanca. ?
When the Moors saw their camp
n flames they set fire to all the farms
md woods they couid reach and soon
he country surrounding Taddert was J
overed with smoke and flames. *'
General Drude, who has recovered
rom his attack of fever, pernonally ?
:uuuuuiuu uie military operjitions.
\'hen disastrously beaten, the Moors* f'
llsappeared among the hills. a<
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DEATH OF A LARUE WOMAN. ai
ilie Weighed Seven Hundred and
ui
Twenty-Five Pounds. tl
d!
So large that her casket could not r{
>e taken in a hearse, but bar to be
enioved to a cemetary on a truck, jl(
drs. Walter Short, aged .18 years, g,
vho weighed 725 pounds, was buried
it Smyrna, Delaware. Fourteen pall- g
learers were necessary. Over 1,000 ^
>ersons witnessed the interment, the tj.
orpse being the largest ever buried
n Delaware.
Mrs. Short, who lived on a farm
lear Smyrna, was the largest woman T
n this part of the country. She was
iftlictcd with tumors, which grew to
dgantic proportions. This did not
ause her death, however, she having
Iropped dead last Friday from heart
lisease. ^
The woman was short of stature,
>ut her arms were forty-six inches
n circumference. The casket was ai
nit four feet six inches in length. ^
jut was three feet five inches in
vidth. The combined weight of the
:orpse and casket was 925 pounds. ^
dra. Short was able to move about 11
reely until the day of her death. The kl
asket was one of the largest ever s'
nade in this country. 11
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VICTIM OP JKALOto*. ct
In Kx-Anstrimi Army Officer Shoots
Young Lady. M
Screaming "Julius, you won't kill
ne, will you?" Miss Draga Seigel, a
iretty 20-year-old girl, was shot
lown early Wednesday by Julius la
-loffman, a former lieutenant in the of
\.ustrian army, in a furnished room ei
it No. 215 West Thirty-seventh kl
itreet. et
Ths girl is dying in Bellevue hos- pi
dtal from three bullet wounds and ti
Hoffman Is locked up In the ThirtySfth
street police station. Jealousy kl
ed to the tragedy. sj
The victim is the daughter of a tl
lolonel In the Austrian army who gi
lied recently, leaving her $100,000, it
?vhich she was to receive on her If
twenty-first birthday. la
TERRIBLE DISASTER
Qa Board of a Largo Japanese
Battleship.
Curly of the Officers and Enlisted
Men Killed and Wounded by tire
Accident.
A dispatch from Tokio tells of a
terrible disaster on a Japanese warship.
The dispatch says forty of the
crew including nine officers, were
killed and injured on board the Japanese
battleship Kashima by the explosion
of a 12-inch shell within the i
shield after, target practice near Kure
at 4 p. iu., on Septemebr 9.
The Kashima, under command of
Ciapt. Koizumi, reached Kure a'. 6
3. m., where the wounded were placid
in the hospital. The fatalities included
a lieutenant, two cadets and
>ne staff officer, the rank aud name
>f whom is not given.
The exact detail regarding the effects
of the explosion are lacking
nit it was terrific and the ship is
adly damaged. A majority of the
?ystanders were fearfully mutilated.
The cause of the explosion is under
nvestigation.
It occurred inside of the shield of
he 8tarlK>ard after 10-inch gun. It
vas not the shell which exploded but
>owder which evidently caught fire
rom the gas emitted from the
reeoh when opened for the purpose
>f reloading the gun. The hull of
he Kashima is not. damaged.
/ SPKM'K COTTON.
Consul Griffiths Tells of An Must Indian
Cotton Tree.
InittT'itei'y consular and trndo re,ort
0f vvYrrtnesdav the department
f commerce and*S^!^" Washingon
says: | i
"Consul John T,. GrifflthsNti^'fS i
nai prominence has been given^TVMi
he Liverpool newspapers to an anfll
ouncement of the sale on that mailE
et of a sample of tlvo hales of lti^|
ian 'Spence cotton' at 15 cents pe^H
ound. The consul sends the foIlow^E
ag on this subject, concerning whic^fl
onslderahle has been printed froi^H
onsuls in India: wB
" 'The sample of cotton referred tHl
s the result of three years' expei^H
nents with an indigenous India^^
atton by J. R. Spence, formerly
lemher of the Liverpool Cotton asHj
relation. The product is stated t(^|
e strong and wiry, with a staple oHj
to 11-4 inches in length. It iiH
nggested that the sale of the samplfH
f "Spence cotton" at the price
ldlcates important possil>ilities inH
te vast cultivable area of India. aH
>cal paper says: jjgjj
" ' "There arc now coneiderablyH
ver 20,000 trc.-s on Mr. Spence'sH
lantntion at Deosa, Bombay presil
ency, in a most flourishing condi-H
on, growing to a height of from r>l
> 7 feet, full of buds and bolls audi
earing cotton daily. The yield ofl
10 first year has proved to be 2 I
unces per tree, and as there tire ovel
,000 trees to the acre, this gives th<-l
rst year's yield 800 pounds perl
ere. The second year's crop has I
roved double that of the first,I
[in it uicreanes every year. Egg
" 'This cotton it Is claimed is ahlcfl
> withstand long periods of drought.I
id has so far escaped the ravages offl
le troublesome boll worm. The Tn-fl
ian cotton tree does not appear t->B
squire much attention after it hu*fl
?en once planted, and it grows to ;il
eight of six or seven feet. It^B
reatest production is in Its thirdB
jar. An effort is now being made Infl
ngland to organze a company forB
V production and exploitation of
lis cotton.' " n
WAS HIS OW N CHI 1.1). w
c
he Sad Experience of a Massacliu- c
li
setts Surg<*on. h
At Springfield. Mass., Pauline 11.
eardon, six and one-half years old. a
le daughter of Dr. Thomas C. Rearin,
was struck and fatally injured
i front of her home Wednesday by
1 automobile owned by Dr. Charles '
. Hooker and driven by Ernest
juthard. 11
Dr. Hooker, without knowing who ,
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le gin was carried ner into nr.
eardon's house. The latter's first
nowledge of the accident was the
glit of his child lying on his opening
tahle. The girl died soor after- ^
ard. Southard was arrested on a
large of manslaughter.
LAIMIEST ON RKCORI* k
any People Killed and Wounded in "
('limbing the Alps. ti
A dispatch from Berne, Switzer- j
nd says the toll of Summer victims
' Alpine accidents is the heaviest
rer recorded. Eighty persons were
tlled and twenty two injured in nin- 1
y accidents this year, as against the
evious record, seventy, six fatal ies
in 1906 in seventy one accidents.
Thirty-eight of the eighty persons
Hied were guides, thirty-one were
lending vacations in the Alps and "
le remainder were native flower *
itliers. Three-quarters of the fatalies
were caused by falls over precdces.
The others were due to avainchec,
snowstorms and lightning.
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TRAIN RUN DOWNH
And Many Passengers Are KiHed
and Wounded. jHH
FAULT OF OPERATOR.
A Heavily Loaded Fveursion Train
on the Iloston and Maiue Railroad
Returning From the Canadian
Provinces Almost Telescoped by a
Long and Heavily leaded Freight
Train.
A fearful head-on collisslon between
the southbound Quebec and a
northbound freight train on the Con- ^ _?*
cord division of the Boston & Maine
railroad occurred four miles north of
Canan Station, Vt., early Sunday,
due to a mistake in train dispatcher's
orders and from a demolished passenger
coach there were taken 2 4
dead and dying and twenty-seven
other passengers, most of them seriously
wounded. Nearly all those
who were In the death car were returning
from a fair at Sherbrock,
Quebec, 160 miles north.
The conductor of the freight train
was given to understand that he had
plenty of time to reach a siding by
the night operator at Canaan Sta- ?
tion, receiving, according to the superintendent
of the division, a copy o\ A
the telegraph order from the train
dispatcher at Concord which confused
the train Nos. 30 and 3 4. The
wreck occurred just after the express
had rounded into a straight
stretch of track but, owing to the
early morning mist, neither enginerr
saw the other's headlight until It was
too
According to W. R. Ray. Jr., di- yflraaS
vision superintendent; J. R. Crowley,
the night train dispatcher nt Jg
Concord, sent a dispatch to John M
Sreely, the night operator at Canaan.
'hat No. 3 4 was one hour and 10 jgj
loved to Concord during the day. ,
The most seriously injured who
rere taken to the Margaret Hitchock
hospital, at Hanover, N. H., inlude
an unknown boy with lK?th
sgs broken and arm torn out and
ead injured, dying.
Mrs. S. Saunders, Nashua, head'
nd back injured.
Mrs. C. N. Saunders, Nashua,
rounds on head. ?
Mrs. C. Saunders, Nashua, contus-.
ins on face.
Miss I). Saunders, Nashua, hit
i juries.
Fred Saunders, Nashua, shoulder
ijured. . if
Mrs. Hester Saunders, Brockton,
iass., head and back injured.
Charles St. Pierre, Isle Verte,
pie., internal injuries.
Arthur Jacques, Millbury, Internal
njuries.
E. A. Batchleder, Somervllle. anle
broken.
Philip Gagnion. Sherbrooke, interal
Injuries.
John Barrett, Manchester, N. H ,
AO el fl r* A l-i-e-'fi ^
Miss Ahhy Jansen, Nashua. broken
rontal bono. I
lilt VAN WIMi SPFAK.
rho Nehraskaii Will Address the
Macon Negro Fair.
William Jennings Bryan has aeepted
an invitation to deliver an
iddress at the negro state fair at
ilacon, Ga., in October. The invitaion
to visit Macon was extended to
Jr. Bryan some months ugo, but his
icccptance was not received until
ecently. It Is not. yet certain what >
late he will be there. ^
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