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BOYS WERE SHOT A General Strike May be Expected of all Philadelphia Union. RIOTING IN STRET Three Buys Were Shot and Probably Fatally Wounded and Several Other People \\ ere More or Less Seriously Injured in Fights About* the City. Three boys were shot and probably fatally wounded, while several received less severe wounds Tuesday In riots which followed the resumption of service by the Rapid Transit company. The shooting occurred In attacks on cars in the northeastern section. Market street, the principal business thoroughfare in the heurt of the city, was the scene of disturbances during the ?ntire day. Cars were stoned and two policemen were roughly handled by a mob of several thousand persons. A dozen arrests were made and the prisoners placed in a trolley car. This was stormed and two of the prisoners escaped. President Murphy of the Central Labor Union still regards a general strike of all trade unions in the city as inevitable, although Organizer Pratt is rej)orted to be opposing this move. A delegation of labor leaders left for Washington Tuesday to ask Senator Penrose to use his influence for a peacuble solution of the trouble. Members of the State Fenslbles, an Independent military organization of about 200 members, were placed on duty Tuesday n.'ght, armed with loaded musketB. They were detailed In t ho ICIncrcitKrtnn mill rl iafrlnt In i the northeast, which is a hotbed of union sympathizers. In their first skirmish they were badly beaten by the mob, who paid no attention to the drawn bayonets and snatched the muskets from the hands of the' young militiamen. Members of the State Fencibles, according to Mayor Reyburn, acting as though they were on a picnic, allowing girls in the mill district to wear their caps and cut the brass button off their clothing. At one point a group of rioters captured a ^ member of the Fencibles and carried him several hundred feet from his post, where they stripped him 9 of his coat, hat, cartridge belt and gun and threw him into a sewer. A nonunion conductor was badly hurt at Sixth and Market street late Tuesday afternoon when a crowd attacked his car after a boy had pulfed the trolley pole from the feed wire. Policemen drove back the crowd at the point of revolvers and started the car. It had gone but a short distance when a heavy iron weight, thrown from a window, crashed through the roof of the vehicle. Fifteen policemen quartered in the barn of the Philadelphia Rapid tran Bit company at Ridge avenue and York street narrowly escaped death when the entire northwest corner of the building was blown away with dynamite. The explosion occurred just as C. O. Pratt was about to address a meeting of car men at a hall at Ridge avenue and Dauphin , streets. This building, as well as others in the vicinity, was shaken by the shock. How the dynamite was placed in the car barn is a mystery. The State Fencihles, after being harrassed and beaten all day by a mob of thousands of strike breakers along Lehigh avenue, were withdrawn nt nightfall. The militia had been powerless against the mob, but a half dozen mounted police had ridden up and down driving the rioters before them during the afternoon. Only two cars were run on this line during the afternoon, and both wpre badly shattered by stones. Policemen In this locality wen fired npon by a strike sympathizer, who had concealed himself In St. Simean's church at Lehigh avenue and Hutchinson street. This enraged the guardians of the peace and they returned the fire, hitting W. E. Collins In the groin. He was remov ed to the Episcopal hospital. It Wm a Mix ITp. Fivo hundred persons attending a small theatre at Pattan, Pa., Saturday night were precipitated Into the basement of the building when the floor collapsed during a fire. Men, women and children were struggling In the debris and to add to the panic y ^ the firemen were forced to turn streams of water Into the basement where the crowd was struggling to escape the flames. No one was killed. Have Hotel Fight, At Beaux Bridge, Ba., In a dlspnte .over the ownership of a mosquito bar, Ed Hodges shot and instantly killed August Smoker shortly before midnight Monday night. They were roommates in a boarding house and were employees of a lumber .mill. * NEW IIOUSF, FURNITURE t Resolution Passed Provides for Some Needed Improvements. The House before adjournment passed by a vote of 65 to 31 Mr Gasque's resolutiou authorizing the sergtant-at-arms r.o nurchiss furniture similar to tha' i> the senate. The resolution also provided that should any of the members wish to purchase their old desks they could do so, the price being $5. There was a great deal of debate on the proposition on both sides. The resolution was finally adotit>1 by a vote of 65 to 31, although there were a number of amendments. One provided that the chairman of the wnvs nilil mpnna nnmfnn act nlBo In the purchase of these supplies. Another provided that the old desks should be sold to the present members at eacfi. illoth of these were udopted. An amendment by J. W. Ashley that the desks remain in the hall between sessions was killed by a vote of 54 to 116. The effect of this resolution would have cut out all public gatherings where it was necessary to remove the desks. BAD DOLLAR HILLS OUT. Hankers Warned as to a Dangerous Counterfeit. Warnings have been sent to the officials of the banks here, as well as to banking institutions throughout the country, putting them on guard against a counterfeit one-dollar bill, so skillfully made that it can hardly be detected by the most experienced eye at a casual gnnce. The counterfeit is said to be an unusually dangerous one. The soles is that 011 1S99, and the cheok letter, it is elated, is "B." The fron. plate number is given at 4,810. The description of the spurious bill sent to the bank cashiers states that one of the most conspicious faults about the bad bill is the fact that the Lincoln and Grant portraits are printed in a much darker ink than they are on the genuine notes. Some of the letters on it, as, for instance. the words "United States" near the Lincoln portrait, are Imperfectly formed. Local bank cashiers are keeping their "eyes peeled" for the imitation bills. AFTER NEGRO ROBBERS. They Hroke in Dry Goods Store After Setting Fire to House. A dispatch from Fulton, Ky., says a mob of forty men nrmed with shotguns nrrived in that city early Tuesday on the trail of two negroes, who broke into the Mathis Duke Dry Goods store at Martin, Tennessee, Monday night and ransacked the premises. It is believed the negroes are headed for Cairo, 111., ?iiu in? ^uiro omcers were*notified to lie on the lookout. It is not believed thnt the mob will proceed to Cairo as such an armed body arriving there at this time would be liable to create an exciting scene. A telephone message from McCornell, Tenn., three miles south of Fulton, Ivy., late Tuesday night said that the two negroes had set fire and robbed a residence there. TllltKi: IXJl'ItHI) IX WKECK. Passenger Met Freight Head-on Both Truing Going Slowly. A dispatch from Valdosti, (la., says the first collision to oceu^ on the Georgia and Florida raiiroa 1, the new line from that place to Augusta, happened Monday morning at Remiss, a station eight miles a!.n\e that place, when the souUioiun 1 p-.ssengt r train coTlded with a northbound freight train. ( The freight train haJ gone he- > yond Remiss expecting to in on the side track there, and let the passenger pass. It is said the brakes refused to wor'- and tlia train could not be brought to a stop. The incoming passenger train 'an hua it, both trnlns being pretty ba.lly demolished. On account of thn speed of both trains only three were injured. Shoots Students. Harrison Hlgbee and I.eslio I,orrt, young college men and socially prominent, were wantonly shot down and | fatally Injured by an infuriated negro in a smoking car of a New Jersey Contral train near New Yora Wednesday. The negro accused th^ young men of making remarks about a mulatto woman companion. To llang for Assault. Haas Rutler has been refused a new a new trial and will be execut"d at some future date to be set by the court in Pickens county, on the charfTfl nf ??? ?'**- * 0_ ~. .... aoonuii. wuii intent to I rape a young white woman of that county last yenr. The decision was rondered Wednesday by the State Supreme Court. It was futile of Mr. Taft to try to smooth the fur of the "good" trusts tn his New York bpeech. Nothing will suit 'em until Congress returns to the old habit of passing approi priation bills and then going home. m rr'-r*gfi*yKf*vVe WBBWgg wujwnnHNnggS - , W*' FIGHT THE TRUSTS BY BUILDING FACTOBIES IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. They Will Double and Treble the 1 Value of Our Haw Materials, Says Terrell. For years the thrifty North has sold us our necessitltles, and now it is also selling us our luxuries. Take ! the item of automobiles alone. You i see them everywhere. In some , towns the bootblacks have them, i They are growing in popularity be- 1 yond any invention of recent years. 1 Texas is navinir nut h nn.i m/io thousands of dollars for them, but not one to my .knowledge is manu- ' factored In a Southern state. "We sell cows and buy butter; we ' sell steers and buy beef; we sell fruit and buy preserves; we sell hides and buy leather; we sell wool and buy blankets; vf:* sell cotton and buy calico; and then we stand up 1 like brave men and cuss old man 1 Aldrich and the little state of Rhode ' Island. Would that we could sell a great many demagogues and buy a few statesmen. To be plain about it ' I would like to purchase Aldrich himself and keep him down here a few years. I believe it would be a great investment. He would certainly turn things upside down. I would enjoy hearing those New England 'Yankees' groaning and complaining that the South was getting all their money. "Gentlemen do you wonder that the South is dissatisfied? Are you surprised when you hear complaints? Do you wonder that her newspapers are constantly telling of hqr woes? Whose is the fault? Where is the cause and where is the cure? Can conditions be reversed by con- ' stantly abusing the northern manu- ! facturers? We have tried that plan 1 for more than a quarter of a cen- 1 tury, and our hearts are weary. "Can it come from political con ventions, from silver-tongued ora- 1 lura, i rum nign Bounding platform declarations? Alas! we have already ) had more of these things than any other hand under the sun. "Can we reach it by abusing the trusts? The trusts care but little how we abuse them so long as we continue to buy from them. Has anyone quit buying from them. Has will not permit them to do business in Texas, but we send them our dollars just the same. If we had a few trusts ourselves they might worry the people of some other State, but they would bring their money 1 here. They would create a balance of trade in our favor. I have noticed few complaints of the trusts from the state in which they are 3it- ' uated. An old farmer friend once declared to me in a confidential way that most of his troubles arose from the fact thatr he paid more for the things he bought than he received for the things he sold. He seemed surprised when I told him that much of the trouble of the world arose from the same cause. "And yet the case Is plain and the remedy is easy. Build fa?' ?rles in | im- Douinern stat s. not w:?i* for a new generation; built' them now let their smoke i'.so lik?- incense. I.et them double an.I treble the value of our i.?.v materials, and let the money of the S. ,;t 1 remain at home. SHOT VP FAST TRAIN. When Smoke Cleared Two Passengers Found Shot. Three negroes who hoarded the smoaker of a New Jersey Central train as it was leaving the Jersey City terminal early Wednesday, pulled out their revolvers a few minutes later and proceeded to shoot up the car in wild western fashion. When the smoke cleared, it was found that two passengers had been seriously hurt. One had a bullet in his abdomen and the other was shot through the breast. The negroes, apparently sobered by the result of their work, took to their heels, jumping front the rear platform as the train whirled through the surhurbs of Jersey City. The train was quickly stopped and the Injured sent to the city hospital. A squad of policemen sent postiioste j to the scene were unable to find any | trace of the assailants. I.nd Dost liifo. At Somerville, N .T , E.lwin DunRnn, the nine-year old son of Col. Nelson Y. Dungon, was found dead with his neck broken in the stables bark of the Dungon residence at noon Wednesday. The young lad and his sister had been playing in the hay-mow, and he dropped his shoe, in leaning over to recover it, he fell and broke his neck. Mi'.n Killed in Itiot. A man was killed as a result of a riot at Fourth and Market streets. Philadelphia, Wednesday afternoon. The man was walking along the street when caught In a crowd that was attacking two cars, and was pushed under a heavy wagon's wheels , having his life crushed out. * kC' '' *.'jl r * t sSfc>,' . j |||- 4^1 ' . \ THE TRUE BASIS % OF GENUINE WORTH IN A YOUNC MAN IS CHARACTER. # Got. Hughes on the Young Men; Christian Association's Platform uuu 0VIV1VC* We are her today upon a platform upon which all good citizens car stand because there Is a know' dge in this association and In any gathering of American citizens that character is the basis of industry, the surety of the endurance of the Republic. What a noble thing it is to see a man well equipped for life's work, uot a narrow-minded man, not ine who trios to shield himself from ill pleasures of life that go to make well rounded and symmetrical character, but a young man who realizes that he is here in the world to do something and before he can do something worth while, he must be something worth while. What a noble thing it is to see In a demosratic community, with the development of the capacity for work, which tend to interfere with proper enforcement of legislative work, to see at the same time the soundness of the views of our people on what stands for decency and for justice. We honor every organization which attempts to keep men up to the responsibility of their obligations, which attempts to make cl ar the iluty that is placed upon them as free citizens of this republic. Every one of us knows how soon is the relapse if we are not held steadfast to our ideals bv social rohii. ment. It is a remarkable thhig that the Young Mens Christian Association lias been so successful in providing bo many different fields of activity for young men. Educational, or physical improvement, social, religious; it seems to comprehend about everything that a young man needs. 1 heard, some years ago, a distinguished educational expert say that the object of a liberal education was the wise conduct of business ind the noble employment of leisure That seems to be the object of this issociation; -fitting men to play their part in life with^ability, providing them resources for the noble employment of leisure, and giving them proper notions of how life sholtf be spent. We have had a good deal of overemphasis In the past on what has lieen called success. The young \merica has started out fired with imbition as he has frequently read >f the adventures of those who have proceeded him to obtain what he calls success; and too frequently, that goal has been defined in terms af accumulation of material benfits ind of prominent position. In these days, I think, we are taking a truer view of life. It is a splendid sight to see the young man of today eoing forth to make the most of himself, not for himself alone, but for the benefit of his fellow men. There never was a time in our history when mere wealth gavo i:n posessor so few advantages as it does today, in the opinion of h'^ fellows. There never was a time .. ! mete piui- or omoo, mere tltU to distinction, gave a man so li .1as it does today . The attention of the counrry is riv eted upon wor?li rather than u,.on position, ui>on *he means by whicl an end has been attained tuin npor aecumulation. That is a moat whole some thing. There has been a moral riv'va'. ; sharpening of the sense of justice, i clearer view of the man's obligatioi to those around him, a trurer per ception of the limits which a mar should sot for himself in the pur suit of his ambition, a quiet deter mination on the part of the people at large that no man shall overstei those limits and bo faithless to his obligation to the community as ? whole and at the same time cijoj the public respect. There is noth ing in this country that is wortl having which involves any forfeit ure of that self-respect which con ditions all true results and ever] real achievement. ( irl Drinks Acid. "See this poison? Well, here goes,' said 11-year-old Julia McMillan or i uestiay morning at Jesup, Ga.? t< hor sister at th-ir home. Then thi girl, because her parents would"t le her stay at home from school, drani carbolic acid. She lived less thai an hour afterwards. Her father i proprietor of a hotel at Jesup. The Law Upheld. The constitutionality of the stat nte of South Carolina, as construct ed by the state courts, requiring th railroads doing a local business t pay a penalty of $.">0 if they fail t adjust within 00 days a claim fo loss of goods in transportat'on wa Monday upheld by the supreme cour j of the United States. . IiOSt Ills liCg. Tillman Mobley, a young whit farmer of Chester County, was acc dentally shot by his brother, wliil hunting rabbits. The load entere one of his leys, which necessitate the member being amputated. BIG DAMAGE SUIT I MRS. MARCIA SILVER IS SUING THE SOUTHERN ROAD. Alleging that She Was Arrested anil Searched Illegally by an Employee ? of the Railway. Mrs. Marcia Silver of AugusM, through her attorneys, c. H. and 1 R. S. Cohen, Saturday Hied a suit ; 1 for $r>,000 against the Southern ' Railroad for damages. She allege5! in her petition that si e was illen ally arrested by an employee of the road at Branchvillo, S. C. It is alleged In the petition I hat Mrs. Silver was on her way from Charleston to Augusta and at Branchville, a lady stated that she had lost $10. The night watchman for the road charged Mrs. Silver's little boy with having the money and seached him and later searched Mrs. Silver's suit case. She alleged that she was subjected to much embarrassment and that she has been damaged to the extent of $r?,000, and the suit against the railway has been brought to recover that amount. It will be tried no doubt in the United States court at Charleston or Columbia. This case has been fully reported in this paper before, and it will be remembered that the money supposed to have been lost was at last found in the satchel of the young iady who thought she had lost it Tiie lady was a young school teacher and was also passing through the town of Branchville. Sometime ago she published a card in this paper giving her side of the unfortunate affair, in which she admitted substantially the facts as set forth in Mrs. Silver's petition but denied that any one had accused that lady ? stealing the money. The case is an interesting one and will be watched with interest. EYE BAPIA" lNJlltED. Young Spa rt?n burg Girl May Ix?s4> Member From Snowball Hurt. The Spartanburg Journal says Catherine Johnson, aged 10 years, daughter of Z. G. Johnson, a salesman at the Carolina Cash Company, may lose one or ner eyes as the re- 1 suit of being struck with a snowball several weeks ago. The Injured eye * is in a serious condition, several hemorrhages having followed the in- * jury. The little girl is now being I treated by a physician who fears that 1 the child may lose the sight of the eye. The little girl was snowball- ( ing with a number of her friends 1 during the snow several weeks ago, and was hit in the eye with a hard 1 snowball. She suffered intense pain at first but soon recovered and no 1 more attention was paid to the in- ( jury until a few days ago when the eye became very much inflamed and 1 bled profusely. Becoming alarmed * the parents of the girl took her to ' 1 an eye specialist, who, after a cure- '' ful examination, declared the eye to be in a very serious condition. DREAM CAUSES ACCIDENT Uses llis Revolver to Fell Imaginary Pursuer. "I'll get you, shouted Bowman B. Seybert, aged eighty as he slept In i the olllce chair of Il< dick's livery i stable at Butler, Pa. ; "I'll get you," he kept repeating - and drawing a heavy revolver from bis pocket he began firing. Two buli lets struck tlic> olllce wall and as a i tlurt hit his own head, Seybert rolli ed from the chair and awoke from a - sleep to 11 nd himself 011 the floor 1 bleeding. At the first shot John - Conrad, a stable hand, fled out of a window. Seybert says he was dream > ing that he was pursued by a man > who wanted to kill him and that he * fired in self defense. His wound is 1 serious. r ? ? COUGHS IP TWO PINS. 1 ? Suffers Pains for u Year lb-fore Getf ting Relief. Since last spring,1 Sid Smith of Ruby has had sudden, acute attacks ? of agonizing pains. Some days ago, j in bne of these attacks he became ^ suddenly nauseated, and vomited two n pins, one of which had a fleshy t growth around it; the head of the t other was worn nearly in two near j the point. Mr. Smith had no inteng tion of using his internal anatomy as a pin cushion, but was forced to do so for nearly a year because of a lit- 1 tie thoughtlessness on the part of J Mrs. Smith, who in fixing some her- I ries in a dish accidentally dropped several pins in it. e * liTjivcg the Penitentiary. r W. R. Avnnt was released from 3 the penitentiary Tuesday, his bond t being signed by I). \V. Avant and Lewis A. Parson. Ho left Columbia for his home at once. e Stamp Out White Slaves, j. Secretary Nagel is submitting ese tlmates to Congress declares that <1 the expenditure of $100,000 for d stamping out the whtie slave traffic would be money well spent. 0 Bin ti -A . t 5 SOME NEW ACTS. Signed by the Governor and Will Becoise Operative at Once TITLE OF THOSE SIGNED Many Hills l'lissiil on by the Governor in the Past Few Days, and Several of General Interest Aproved by llim and Given His Signature. Governor Ansel lias been busy signing up Acts passed at the recent session of the General Aessmbly. Among the Acts signed was U?e Asylum resolution providing for a commission to nurchase lltllrta lha State Hospital for the Insane. ? , To amend an Act entitled "'An . i\ct for the establishment of a new school district in the county of York :o be known as the Hock Hill school district, and to authorize the levy and collection of a local tax therein, ipproved December 19th, A. D., 1887," by prescribing the manner af electing trustees, their powers ind duties and term of olllce. To declare the unlawful sale, barter, exchange, storage and keeping in possession of alcholic liquors, a common nuisance. To provide for a commission to examine and revise the school law >f the State and to recommend any changes in same. To authorize the settlement of the shorftcge in thy county treasurer's cilice of Edgefield county. To make the issuance of a false certificate by a bank officer a misdemeanor and to prescribe the punishment thereof. To provide for the examination ind registration of trained nurses. To authorize municipal corporaions containing five thousand lnlnhitants to establish or permit the establishment of slaughter pens be;ond their corporate limits, and to crescribe regulations in regard thereo. To provide for the manufacture ind sale of certain alcohol within his State. To provide for holding Com *ts in he Fourth judicial circuit. To amend the law relating 10 magstrates and their constables, their cowers, duties, jurisdiction, salaries, ilc. To create a commission fo pur'hase lands for the uso of thy State Hospital for the Irncio aiul erect mildin^s thereon ar t provide means herefor. To establish a public service commission to fix and esiao'lsh in all dties in this State rat?s and charges for the supply of water, gas or dec* Lricity furnished by any firm, perion or corporation to such city, and the inhabitants thereof, and to prescribe penalties. ? In relation to the Courts of the '2d, 3d, and 5th Judicial circuits and to fix the times for holding the same. To encourage and aid in the construction of adequate public school buildings in the respective counties of this state, and to make an appropriation for same. Ratifying the sixteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. To amend Section 14 of an Act entitled "An Act to establish Dillon county," approved February 5, 1910, relative to the trial of ens s. To fix the times for holding the Courts of the 8th judicial circuit. To provide for tlie payment of Ernost Moore as special Judge foe 'he 6th judicial circuit for the fall terra of 1909. To p ovide fqr the transfer and annexation of a certain portion >f Berkeley county to Orangeburg county, and to alter the county lines o? said counties to conform thereto. To appropriate $60,000 to the pub- ^ 1 1a A?U 1 - ? ? ? iil mil units in somn uaroilna. To direct the State Trotii' * r to hold funils turned over to him hy the dispensary commissi ?. To further provide for winding up of the affairs of the State dispensary. For the regulation end control of fraternal benefit associations. To protect benevolent, humane, fraternal or charitable corporations in the use of tle-lr names and emblems and providing penalties for violation thereof. Providing that collectors of premiums, dues, assessments for any fraternal Insurance or association, whether foreign or within this State, and now or hereafter operating within this State, shall he deemed agents of such society, order or association. To provide penalties for violation of the Insurance laws of this State. To regulate insurance corporations claiming a Hen upon the property of the Insured to establish upon trial solvency and that prot- ction had been had and received. Many Kscftpp Jail. C. A. Conlin, wanted In San Fran elsco on a charge of grand lgrceny, escaped front the county prison at Hot Springs. Ark., Wednesday night at the same time releasing 16 other prisoners. Conlin Is believed to have left the city in a automobile. A posse has taken up the chase. %