Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, October 03, 1907, Image 4
* VERY
SAD CASE.
Could Not Boar to Soo His Beloved
Wife Go Out
TO WORK FOR OTHERS
Ijoh! His It cm son and KIIUhI Her and
Himself?The t'-ouple Had Lived
Happily Together Until the Husband
Iiost His Health and Spent
His Savings in boctor'H Hills and
Medicines in Trying to Let Well.
A pathetic case happened in New
York on last Wednesday night, when
Harry Dhemock awoke and found
that in his sleep or in a trance he
had stabbed his wife Mollie, four
times, he leaped from a third-story
window and crushed out his own life
on the stone pavement.
Mrs. Dhernock, who is in Bellevue
hospital, may not recover. The couEle
lived with the wife's mother,
ena Goodman, and their five-vearold
child. They had been married
six years and Wednesday was their
wedding anniversary.
They came to this country from
Russia five years ago. The couple
were very happy until six months
ago, when Dhernock was taken ill
and had to give up his work. All the
money they had saved went for physicians
and medicine.
When the funds were exhausted,
Mrs. Dhernock, 25 years old, and
pretty, went out to work to earn a
paltry sum to support the little family.
The young husband brooded
constantly over his ill health, and the
fact that his wife had to work.
Dhernock was more cheerful Wednerday
and when his wife was about
to start for her daily toil, he said;
"Come home early today, Mollie* you
know this is our wedding anniversary
We will have a little celebration; a
dinner."
Mrs. Dhernock was home promptly
and they had a merry little party.
They retired early and shortly after
3 o'clock Wednesday morning the
young wife was awakened by her
L 1 1
uusuanu.
His eyes were open, but glazed.
He appeared to look at her, but there
was no gleam of intelligence in his
eyes.
"Mollie," he said, in an unnatural
voice, "1 am going to kill you."
I "You wouldn't do that Harry, said
l the wife, terrified.
I Without another word Dhernock
1 got out of bed and went to the dressm
' er. He took a pair of scissors from
r a drawer while his trembling wife
watched him, too frightened to utter
a word.
Returning to the side of the bed
he plunged the scissors into her left
breast, just over the heart.
Mrs. Dhernock gave one scream,
which aroused her mother.
Dhernock, apparently unconscious
of what he had done, walked calmly
into the kitchen, sat in a chair and
lit a cigarette.
He was smoking indifferently when
neighbors, aroused by Mrs. Goodman,
rushed into the flat. Then
Dhernock was awakened by the
noise.
"What's the matter?" he asked.
"Oh, you have killed her," shouted
Mrs. Goodman.
Dhernock, dazed, walked into the
bed room. His wife, still conscious,
lay dying on the floor, while their
little girl was weeping beside her.
"What's the matter, Mollie?" asked
Dhernock. his voice trembling.
"Don't you know Harry, you stabbed
me." whisr>ered his wife weaklv
"But I know you didn't mean it." '
"My God! Did 1 do that?" shrieked
the husband.
r Looking: intently at his wife for a
moment, Dhernock rushed to the
window and leaped out. He landed
on his head in tne yard, four stories
below. His skull, his legs and arms
were broken and he received internal
injuries.
Meanwhile somebody had telephoned
to police headquarters and
policomen from the East Twentysecond
street station hurried to the
house. Dr. Mears came in an ambulance
from Bellevue hospital.
Mrs. Dhernock was carried down
the stairs to the ambulance. Her
husband was taken from the yard
' and placed beside her.
The young wife, with a great effort,
placed her hand on his face and
pattea him affectionately.
"Oh. Harry, you didn't mean to do
it, did you? I know you didn't," she
said softly.
But he did not answer. He was
_ unconscious and never spoke again.
WJ At the hospital lie died, and it is
r*? only a question of a few hours when
she will follow him.
After the dying couple had been
removed from the house the wife's
mother became hysterical and she,
too, was taK?n to neucvue in an ambulance.
Immigrants Hridcs.
(Those American cities where the
big passenger steamers land thous- (
ands of immigrants each year witness
many ronfentic marriages hep>
tween long par$d lovers. Years bef
fore, the men have left their sweet- '
hearts to build a home in the land of '
If)romise across the sea. There is a
ong period of drudgery, and there
are aching hearts on both sides of the
great body of water. But in no other
land is industry so quickly and surely
rewarded. In time there is enough
of money to bring pver the promised 1
bride. The meeting at the landing
is one of joy. After satisfying the
official at the landing that the bride s
has come to America expressly to i
marry the man who claims her there <
is a hasty marriage, with friends of i
their own nationality as witnesses,
and the happy couple proceed on i
their way to live better and broader \
lives than was possible in their na- i
tire land. ^ ,
"|K
WWTE SUPREMACY
Vital to the Nation, Says an Emv
Inont German Visitor.
There Can Be No Equality of the
Races, and the Negro Question
Will Give I k Trouble.
"Supremacy of the white race
must be maintained. Otherwise the
American Republic will go on the
rocks."
This opinion was expressed by Dr.
H. Schauinsland, one of the most eminent
German scientists who is now
making a tour of this country. He
is in Washington making a study of
the scientific departments of the
Government, on which he will make
a report to his government when he
shall return to nis home in Bremen.
"It is my belief," continued Dr.
Schauinsland. "that much trouble is
in store for your people in the handling
of the negro question. Equality
of the races does not exist, except in
theory. You may as well understand
now that the Anglo-Saxon and Ethiopian
will not work in common. Their
differences in constitution, in customs,
in habits, in education?and
merely in color?make them substantially
incompatible. In the whole
history of the world there is no instance
of the domination of the superior,
by an inferior race. I use
the term 'superior' and 'inferior advisedly.
but in no offensive way. The
time will come when a definite line
of demarcation will be drawn between
the white and black races in
America. It is possible, although
not certain, that before that line is
drawn it will be necessary for the
whites to demonstrate their physical,
as well as their mental, superiority.
To my mind, this is a problem
pregnant with serious posibilities
for Americans. In the end, of
course, the result will be the triumph
of the white race. The blacks necessarily
will have to take a subordinate
position. That will be as it
should be and will make for the best
in all respects and for all peoples.
"1 have been most impressed in
this country by your marvelous educational
facilities. They have a
wealth of material to work upon and
r?K* * w> rl r* M 1 4.L A *
auuuuaia wtiiiui 10 promote your institutions,
to carry on your experiments
and to make original investigations.
Already America, in some
respects, has surpassed Europe and
now we are forced to come to you
for new great works of original research.
The scientific, literary and
industrial successes achieved by America
are forming a new class in this
country?a class of brains?from
which nothing but good can come to
all the world.
"One thing I hesitate to speak
frankly lest I mav be misunderstood.
I fear many of your newspapers are
giving too much to the publication
of sensational matters-?matters that
appeal rather to the emotions than
to the reasoning power of readers.
In America, the newspapers are more
widely read than in other country on
the globe. They are, therefore, the
most powerful educators. In making
as they do of murders, elopments and
all sorts of purely sensational subjects
of no permanent value they not
only are adding nothing to the total
of human knowledge, but are, in
fact, detracting from the moral power
of the press."
Dr. Schauinslaud, who is accomp- 1
anied by his daughter, is making a
tour of the world in the interest of (
the German Government, as well as !
of the great educational institution (
in Bremen, of wnich he is the director.
!
KWOICK A'ENCiKANCK. 1
(
A Str?ii|?c Proceeding in the City of
New York. 1
1
Kneeling beside the body of Epi- <
rania Arcara, who was stalihed by a 1
mysterious enemy, his father, mother 1
two sisters, brother, wife and two j
sons swore to avenge his murder.
This weird ceremonial took place 1
In the parlor of the Arcara apartments
at No. 400 teust 108th street.
New York, with a small shrine of St.
Kocco at the head of the bier and (
with the tall candles flickering about <
the dimmed room. ,
Little Pietro, the youngest son of
the dead man. did not at first under- ?
stand the oath, but his grand-father i
then for the first time explained to (
him the meaning of the vendetta,
that he must not rest until he had :
avenged in blood the murder of his j
father. j
The lad eagerly took the oath with
the rest of the family, swearing to
the stature of St. Kocco that he
would never be content until he had
slain the slayer of his father.
AIlKIYIOI) AT SF.ATTLK.
Two lluiidivri and Forty-Two Survivors
from Wrecked Ship.
The revenue nillnr o ? *
v??vvv I * UVUO, V it I M .
J. Henderson, arrived at Seattle,
1
:>n last Thursday night bringing LM2 j
survivors of the wrecked American i
ship John Currier,, which, in a fog, !
went aground at Bristol Bay, Alaska,
an Augusts it. The work of rescue j
constitutes the greatest saving of
lives with a single exception in the
history of Pacific shipping.
The Thetis took over the survi- j
rors at Uralaska, where they were <
Drought by the cutter McCulloch af- (
ter they had spent thirty-four days on
a l>arren beach. Had not assistance ^
arrived an attempt would have been ,
made the following day to reach a
settlement a feat considered so im- ,
possible as to have been a failure and ]
caused the death of many of the par- '
tjr. i
Among the rescued are 130 Orien:al
cannery hands and 110 Caucasian ]
fishermen. Capt. Murchison's wife \
ind five young children endured the \
privations of the adventure. j
IS DEATH THE END? |
Or, If a Man Diss Shall Ha Uva I
Again.
The If earning After Perfection is the
Honl's Prophecy of its Own 1 rumor
talfty.
Renan says one evidence for the 1
truth of immortality may be found
in the nobility of behavior it inspir- ;
es. The idea that man is but?
"The pilgrim of the day.
Spouse of the worm and brother 1
of the clay.
Frail as the leaf in Autumn's yel- 1
Iojv bower,
Dust in the wind or dew upon the |
flower.
A child without a sire
Whose mortal life and transitory
fire,
Light to the grave his chance created
form.
As ocean wrecks illuminate the
storm."
And then?
"To-night and silence sinks forevermore!"
does not kindle great deeds
and strength for any sublime endeavor.
Cicero said of the Epicurean
creed that it was utterly to be rejected
because it led to nothing worthy
or generous.
If death ends all, what an imposture
our system of laws on which so- I
ciety is founded! If we must wholly
perish, the maxims of charity and (
justice and the precepts of honor and
friendship are empty words. Why \
should they be binding if in this life
only we have hope? What duty do ,
we owe to the dead, to the living or !
to ourselves, if all will be nothing? '
If retribution terminates with the '
grave, morality is a bugbear of hu- ,
man invention. What are the sweet
ties of kindred if we shall not live
again? What sancity is there to the ]
last wish of the dying if death is a ,
wall instead of a door? What is ob- ,
edience to laws but an insane servi- <
tude. justice an unwarrnntjihlp Jn.
fringement upon liberty, the laws of !.
marriage a vain scruple, and govern- ,
ment an imposition upon credulity, ,
if death ends all? I
There was one nation and only one <
that ever tried to destroy belief in ?
God and in immortality. France de- '
creed in national convention that
there was no God and death an eter- (
nal sleep. The Sabbath was abolish- ?
ed. churches were turned into tern- ,
pies of reason, the Bible was drag- <
ged along the streets by way of de- ,
rision and contempt. Infidelity then ,
reigned and frightful was its reign, \
Its crown was terror, its throne the |
guillotine, its scepture the battleaxe, ]
its palace yard a field of blood, and <
its royal robes dripped with human \
gore. Gutters were filled with the ,
torn shreds of human flesh. Prop- ,
erty was confiscated. The morning {
breeze and evening wind bore across
the vine-clad hills of France theories (
of suffering and the shrieks of terror,
and to carry the metropolis and (
the kingdom from utter desolation t
the infidel authorities had to insti- $
tute the Sabbath and public wor- t
ship. Were the belief in God and \
immortality to die out in the human {
heart, the flood-gates of vice would ?
open wide, plunge the world into
the grave of despair, and consign *
humanity to the dungeons of the j
damned. c
All the arguments that go to prove ?
the existence of God?a God endow- g
ed with such attributes ?s are essen- j.
tial to our very conception of His
eharacter, {joint out the moral nec
:a... _* - * * * -
^oaity ui a iuiure state ot existence
and inequalities of the present moral
government will not only be redressed,
but the whole will be shown
to be holy and righteous.
There is sin and there is punishment
for sin, which we dally witness.
But there is not for all sin *
such a reckoning in this world as ''
meets the claims of righteousness r
and justice. Do we not see evil do- 11
ings go undetected and many bad r
men pass unpunished? See how often
the righteous suffer and the wicked
flourish. When we take a deliberate
view we are naturally led to exclaim:
"Wherefore do the wicked live, become
old, yea, are mighty in power?
Is there no reward for the righteous?
Is there no punishment for
the workers of iniquity? Is there no s
God that judgeth in the earth?'! ^
And indeed were there no retribu- n
tion beyond the limits of this present p
life, we should be necessarily obliged
to admit one or the other of the n
following conclusions: Either that e
no Moral Clovernor of the world ex- j.
ists or that justice and judgment J
are not the habitations of His throne. \\
If the moral government of Clod, n
the existence of which our experi- t
ence avouches, is ever to have its ad- f(
ministrations perfected and wrought (.
to a complete actualizing of its own 0
manifest principles, it can only l>e in
another state of existence, and the |
tlouble conclusion presses upon ps a
that there is a future life, and that ^
that life is one of rewards and pun- jj
ishment. a
Earthly providence is a travesty of r
justice on any other theory than that j.
it is a preliminary stage that is to be
followed by rectification. God must fj
!?% inoftAA ir ? *1 u
juonv.1-- iu iiiuiscii, ueiore tne as- : ^
?embled universe, send the evil-doer | c
to desolation, and crown suffering p
goodness, to show that Me was al- j t
ways on the side of right. Sin is n
often in honor here, and goodness in c
dishonor, and that God may demon- ^
strate that He is both just and good,
man must stand again after death,
rhe crown must be put upon right- a
eousness and injustice driven to its j.
own place, that iustice may again
grow bright and the universe rejoice t
in its Righteous Ruler.
A future life is needed for the ^
working out of that moral completeness
which the present never brings.
We are cut off when we begin to dc <
ready to do something in the world, o
Goethe says his belief in the im- a
mortality of the soul springs from t
the idea of activity?"for | have the *
most assured conviction that our soul ?
Is of an essence absolute, indestruct
/
*W ; a-S s? ? /
KILLS 10,618.
In 1906 the Roads Inflict Injuries j
Upon 97,706.
The Commerce Commission's Report (
Shows a Great Increase in Milage
and in the Vnmtwr of U'nriim.n
Booking almost a quarter billion
more of gross earnings than in the
preceding year, with an increase of I
97 round millions in net earnings the t
railroads of the cpuntry, in the year }
ending June 30, nevertheless, killed j
or injured more persons than in any
other 12-months of their history. The *
casualties totalled 108,324, of which t
number 10,618 persons were killed *
outright. How many of the other ,
97.706 died from their hurts is .
not revealed by the Interstate Com- ,
merce commission in its report, made ,
public recently containing the foregoing
figures. Perhaps it was be- ,
cause they made a new record in ac- !
cidents that the companies piled up
such profits.
With adequate protection for passengers
and employes, the stock- )
holders might have less money to divide.
Anyway, the report gives the 1
lie to E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill .
and other calamity howlers, who
thought President Roosevelt's policy 1
would ruin the railroads. Seemingly (
neither the roads nor the shippers (
were as badly frightened by the Pres- !
ident as the false prophets would have !
the nation believe.
Most of those who met instant
death in the year at the hands of the r
railways were employes. Only in 359
rases were the victims travelers, a 1
gratifying decrease from the 537 j
passengers killed in the preceding :
year. But the railways injure more ;
passengers than in the year before. [
They hurt 10,794 persons, who had j
paid for transportation.
The report shows that one passenger
was killed for every 2.217.041 c
carried, while in 1905 one passenger
was killed for every 1,375,856 car- f
ried. One person was injured for !
?very 74,276 passengers carried, as :
against one injury in every 70.055 J
passengers carried in 1905. For onoh 1
passenger killed 70,126,680 passenger !
miles were accomplished, agrinst ony
44,320,576 passenger miles in 1905 ?
3ne passenger was injured for every I
2,338.859 oassenger miles, against 2,>76.002
miles in 1905. c
The report shows an average of J
584 employes per 100 miles in line.
There was an increase of 47 employ- ?
?s per 100 miles of line over 1905. I
Wages and salaries paid to employes w
aggregated $900,801,653, but it is 0
stated that this amount is deficient c
ay more than $27,000,000, because of h
.ha loss of railway records in the San j
Prancisco earthquake. There were '
2,213 railway corporations for which
mileage is included. During the year 8
railway companies owning 4,054.46 c
niles of line were organized, merg- *
id or consolidated.
The number of roads in the hands a
)f receivers was 34. 8
The number of locomotives and 1
:ars in the service of the railways .
iggregated 22,010,584, of which I,- ?
127,780 were fitted with train brakes ^
ind 1,989,796 with automatic coup 11
ers. Only 1.45 per cent, of cars in ?
he passenger service were without 1
lutomatic couplers.
r
? ? b
ble, an essence that works on from J1
iternity to eternity. It is like the ?
tun, which, to our earthly eye, sinks
ind sets, but in reality never sinks, v
>ut shines on unceasingly." ?
Browning says: r
"1 know this earth is not my tl
sphere, b
For I cannot so narrow me, but
that ii
I shall not exceed it." a
This high ideal which is not reach- p
?d on earte intimates an immortal
ife. which may afford time and sco]>e j
or its realization. Lowell nobly says fj
i his elegy on the death of Chan- ^
?ng: 0
"Thou art not dead; in thy higher ?
sphere ?
Thy spirit bends itself to loving
tasks. 1 n
And strength to perfect what is w
dreamed of here ?
Is all the crown and glory it asks."
Theodore Parker on his death-bed ?
aid to a friend. 4'I am not afraid a
o die, but I might wish to carry on c<
iy work. I have only half used the ?1
owers God gave me." Emmanuel
lant argued from the existence of a p;
loral law unrealizable here the nec- "j
ssity of some after-life. Perfection a'
3 the heritage with which God has e]
ndowed me, and since this short
fe does not give completeness, I P1
lust have the immortal life in which ?r
o find it. This yearning after per- 's
ection and completeness is the soul's v
ualification for and prophecy of its C1
wn immortality. I know no view- &
oint from which the grandeur of pf
fe is more impressive. The high
sparations of the soul are no longer tc
lasting mockeries. The problem of,
fe is solved. It is the precursor of
possible perfection which to be
ealized will lay all eternity under ('
ribute.
The vast strides man has made
uring the short compass of his presnt
earth-life in his march toward a]
>>..iuHkiuii aiu a pi ujmctj' Ui. LIU" 1 finite
possibilities before him in fu- 81
ure, and death is only a stage in til
lan's evolution upward, only anoth- o:
r name for birth, introducing him {
[ito another grander sphere of the
tcrnal process moving on.
Your past life has been down hill
nd toward gloom; your future is up n
till toward the glorious sunrise. X
Dying is throwing open the door jj
hat the bird may fly out of his net- o1
ed cage and be heard singing in fr
igher flights and in diviner realms. j(l
Although there are only eighteen
lags used In the International codo
if signals, which Is used by warships ai
nd merchant ships all over the world,
hey can be made to represent no few- hi
r than 20,000 distinct signals, and by *t
tae of the code something like 50,000 re
hips can be designated. 1c
W*: . ' " " Wl
HOLD THE COTTON.
In Urgent Address to the People
of the South.
|
2lear Presentation of Case as Seen in
the West by President Smith of
Cotton Association.
The State says Mr. E. D. Smith, r
jresident of the South Carolina Cot- {
;on association, has returned to Co- <
umbia and found hundreds of let- <
ers awaitincr him asking for advise J
JL - i.1 It - *
is w me disposing ol cotton. To j
ill of these Mr. Smith replied, 1
'Hold your cotton." Other letters <
irged him to issue an address to *
iie people and accordingly the j
following was given to The State (
Friday: e
"After a trip through the West, I ?
md on my return numerous requests r
from different parts of the State (
isking me to urge the people to 1
lold their cotton from the market \
intil the price set by the Southern c
Dotton association and the Farmers' ]
anion is reached.
"If ever there was a time when t
:he conditions were clear and un- t
nistakable, without there being any a
:omplications, it is now. It is a
dear case of pure speculation against t
:eal conditions. To put the case as ^
t is, so that any one may see what \
tribute we are paying to gamblers ]
oecause we are not organized to t
vithstand them, the facts are these: c
The mills have sold their output for c
nonths ahead on a basis of 15 cents a
3er pound; the demand for goods at
;hese prices increasing; the price of ^
;he manufactured article actually r
idvancing; thejsupply of cotton in r
sight, the present crop unquestiona- r
)ly short, probably 2,000,000 bales v
ess than last year; the demand for t
rotton for the current year far in ^
?xcess of the supply; the condition i
>f the crop steadily deteriorating; a
he mills running full time eager i,
'or cotton; no alarming conditions; c
n the money market; no complicaions
at home or abroad, particular- fc
y with the spinners 20 days ago a
)uying cotton cheerfully and profit- g
ibly ot 14 cents and 14 1-2 cents per e
>ound. Yet in the face of all these Y
'avorable conditione the price has o
Iropped from 2 1-2 cents to 2 cents ^
jer pound. Why? Because a few t
(peculators, who neither grow nor F
pin cotton, nlease to h?v?> it I ~
rhe question is squarely up to the t
South, the whole South, the mer- r
ihant, the banker, farmer, lawyer, | e
loctor, preacher and laborer in. any a
ind every vocation, avocation or h
)rofession, whether they will tame-js
y submit to this outrage, whether q
hey will allow these gentry to ex- a
ict a toll from us, at their pleasure, e
>f from $10 to $26 per bale or S
whether they will put their price on f
heir property and refuse to accept c
my other. The only answer to this y
bsurd decline is to^refuse to take
he prices offered. o
"In the West they are making a e
>rave stand. They are complaining , ?
Utterly that the Atlantic States are 11
tot standing for the price agreed up-1 i
>n. How true this is, I am not able a
o say. Let every man in South c
'arolina who has cotton to sell drop IS
ne a postal card saying how many \
tales he has and how many he will t
old. I will compile the number and t
ive it to the public, so that we may c
now what to depend upon. If we
muld absolutely refuse to sell a bale >1
f cottod now, stop receipts, then i p
eaction would be immediate. s
"The only possible way to remedy j b
his outrageous condition is to refuse ! a
o submit to it. 1)
"With present conditions warrant- m
lg 15-cent cotton, acknowledged by ~
11 parties to be worth 15 cents, if
he people put it on the market at
resent prices, then we acknowledge
hat neither the law of supply and emand,
the condition of trade and [
nance, or the cost of production
ave anything to do with the price a
r value of cotton, but simply the )(
aprice of a few millionaire gamlers.
Surely we are paying dearly t<
>r the privilage of being disorgaized,
for being without warehouses, r
rithout organized capital to hold
ur cotton. ?
"Can not each community meet at
nee and devise means, where there
re none, to help each other to hold
5tton. It will take organized co- g
peration to accomplish our purpose. {
"Every bale sold at the present
rices means a gift of $15 to $20 per
ale to the gambling bunch to enble
them to take a like or a greatr
amount from your next bale.
"Ex-Gov. D. C. Hey ward, who is
resident of a warehouse company
i this State, informed me that he
doing all in his power to secure
inds and to provide warehouse falities
for the farmers in this emer- L
^ncy. So that all parties interested
in communicate with Ex-Gov. I). ,
Mpvixro rri ir\ A A '
. ..v.rni>iu uiicicrciiw to tne matt."
"E. D, Smith."
EXPLOSION PLAYS HAVOC.
as Accident Wrecks a Block and
Kills Several Persons.
F
Two men are missing, several more
*e in the hospital, half a score are
iffering from injuries and a whole
lock is wrecked as the result of an
(plosion of gas In the cellar of No.
4 8 Delancey street Thursday at New
ork.
The building was occupied by Siion
Weinberger as a liquor store,
ext door on Delancey street Is a big
ve-story tenement house. The walls
f the latter structure are ripped
0111 basement to roof as if they had
een rent by an earthquake.
One man was blown over a high =
nee and fell fifty feet into the Delrccey
street subway excavation. Anther
was blown clear out of the
isement of the saloon into the p
reet. The cigar counter and cash pi
agister were blown out of the sa- P'
on and clear across the street. i
igms /
REFORM OF TARIFF
Will Be Chief Issue in Next Presidential
Election.
itates' Rights and Regulation of
Trusts, the Other Questions Most
Likely to Figure in the Campaign.
A dispatch from Washington to
rhe Charleston Post says gradually
;he sentiment of the people of the
country with respect to the Democratic
nomination for the presidency
lext year is taking form. Definiteless
is being brought about not so
nuch by men, as by policies. The
feeling emong Democrats of the
country is practically uniform in all
lections that during the next nationil
administration, something will
lave to be done regarding the tariff
juestion. That feeling is not confined,
to be sure, to the Democratic
>arty, but the sentiment is more honogeneous
and definite among Dem>crats
than it is among Republicans.
strong "stand-pat" sentiment exsts
among the Republicans and the
lifferences of opinion among Repubicans
on the tariff renders it the easer
for the Democrats, who substanially
are a unit on the proposition,
0 make headway with their propagmda.
It daily is becoming evident that
he tariff revision question is to be a
>rominentt perhaps the paramount,
ssue of the next national campaign,
n the selection of a candidate for
he presidency, therefore, the Demoiratic
party, particularly, will enleavor
to name a man who has been
1 consistent and able tariff reformer.
This is the situation which, to a
rreater extent than any other, is diecting
the finger of destiny at one
nan. The man, in the opinion of
nany of the prominent Democrats
vho recently have visited Washingon
is William T 13**im?-? U? * ? ??
?-, .w ? ??out u, uijuii, iic 10 rerarded
as the ablest advocate of tarff
revision in the Democratic party,
ind when the tariff question as a
eading issue he would be the logical
andidate.
Some apprehension has been felt
>y the party leaders as to Mr. Bryin's
strength in the South, but asuranee
is given by prominent Demrats
of that part of the country that
le would receive the cordial support
if the party, of the South on such a
datform as is now likely to Ik? adoped.
Senator F. M. Simmons, of
^lorth Carolina, voiced the Southern
entiment well when he said a day or
wo ago that the people of his section
egarded Mr. Bryan as "the greatst
advocate of the people's rights
,nd interests which this generation
ias produced.' Senator Simmons
aid that with the elimination of the
luestion of Government ownership
,nd that of the initiative and referndum,
on which the people of the
louth differed from Mr. Bryan, the
Nebraska leador would be able to
ommand the support of the South
fitnout serious opposition.
That seems to be the concensus of
ipinion among the Democratic leadis,
all of whom agree with Senator
limmons in believing that, in addiion
to the tariff question the two
mportant issues of the next nationd
campaign will be "Federal encroachment
upon the powers of the
slates"?an issue which has been j
necipitated by the present adminisration?and
the regulation and con-1
rol of trusts and combinations of
apital. I
On all three of the questions now
iresented Mr. Bryan is regarded as
larticularly strong, and unless the
ituation should ohono-o
>efore the convention, it is regarded
s very probable that he again will
e selected as the standard bearer.
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ELEVEN KILLED.
Cage Plunged Down Shaft Causing
Death to Occupants.
IN A MICHIGAN MINE
Seven Were Fatally Injured?Some
Pathetic Scenes?Brake Gave Way
An Caice Was Descending, and It
St?ot to the Bottom of the Shaft
With the Speed of a Ballet. PilUng
Dead and Injured in a Mass.
By the plunging of a cage 675
feet down the shaft of the Jones pud
Laugh 1 in Steel company at Xegaunee.
Mich.. Saturday, eleven men were
killed and seven fatally injured.
The cage was making its first descent
for the day when the brake on
the hoisting drum gave way. Two
other men sprang to the assistance of
the one at the brake wheel but their
combined efforts did not avail and
the wire cable continued to unreel
front the drum like a weighted threat
front a lubricated bobbin. The cage
shot down 200 feet before a kink in
the rushing cable caused it to part.
Then the cage dropped with a thud
to the bottom- of the shaft, the safety
catches failing to operate. The
surging of the cable in its mad flight
tore out part of the side of the engine
house and ripped out several sheaves
about the shaft house.
The machinery installed is not entirely
new. but it had been thoroughly
ly overhauled. Workmen at the bottom
of the mine immediately set
about removing the dead. The fall
had hurled the bodies together and
they lay in one mass, from which
several still breathing were taken.
They are fatally hurt.
Thousands of persons soon congregated
about the mine shaft. In the
crowd were the wives and c.iildren of
the two hundred men employed In the
mine Each thought, that her loved
one was in the cage. Ii was fully
two hours before the cable was adjusted
so that the cage could be
raised to the surface and the dead
turned over to relatives.
When the miners caine from under
ground and many anxious wives
and mothers were relieved of suspense.
their joy added to the sorrow
of those bereaved, made the scene
awful. Priests and preachers moved
among the people consoling them and
begging them to he calm, hut it was
hours before a semblanei of quiet
came to the excited miners and their
families.
FATAI, At'tlDKNT.
Tipped Foul Hull Kill* Voting Man at
Itase Hall dame.
While standing directly behind the
catcher, witnessing a game of hall at
his home at Walnut drove. X. C., C.
T. Willis was struck on the temple
just above his right ear hv a foul
which escaped from the catcher's mit
and received a blow from which he
died later. *
A postmortem examination showed
that his skull had not been broken,
but an examination of his brains
showed that he had several hemorrhages
from them. He was "1! years
old and is survived by a wife and
four little children.
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