The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 13, 1905, Image 1
VOLUME XVI,
CAMDEN, S.C., FRIDAY, OCTOHKR 13, HK)5.
NO. 40.
RILUQNS FOR RcGURUVS
fWv C?t $4,500,000 Fr?m Mti- 1
ts'aj In Twenty Year??
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WiVEUTIONS ASTOUND HEARKRS
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I *WM,W *?*>*? Ton. How H# 4?T?oe?d
y7 *?**? 9IM9 s Y*mr MiLtrr lb l sat to
Incor?)<i~I.oul? A.
Th?b?u^, Pr6?l.leu' ai?Cunly'? Son.
U'l.nw, U*<1 Kiuli Flckln**,
New York City.? In an examination
WI?te la <1 t^nlls bo surprising ns to
,-gstound eveiKthe hitherto Jmperturbn*
Hughes, It WfiSc shown before
r ik insurance commission
,_lp9t the stupendous sum of $2,fln2,
031.30 hod bocn received by two incm'
persof the McCurdy futility, ltobprt II.,
tlic President, -and LouIk a.
hebaud, a son-in-law, from the Mu
Bftl LIfo lit less than twenty year*
wild Information Jn, the hands of tb-i
committee shows that tin* President
Ii,C,irtr<l ,I" McCurdy. received
?|T tniarJes alone approximately $l,r>oo.
.^W In tbe Hame period, The vast
pehed by the younger members
?r tuo family were . mainly tbroujrh
S?SrL0,,I/2 nQ1'Cjfen "mI domestic
?SI V P' Well -as for salarv, ?nd
tlie net Income of tbe three members
} ?.f tffif. f<lU>,,y from 1,,e Mutual Life
J. f?PP' "Xj Ilia ted $420,000.
r J.5 Pro?re"e ?,f Robert H? McCurdy
froJU ii minor clerkship to a posit 'on
r# ii L fur In excess of that
f tbe Precis ilw Uirited States
J", "I1? a st0l7 tl?? main feature of
Which was the Almost fabulous dl
KXl0"? ?? t,i0 JMP^'ecclvecl. Kn
Sfn i* * fl"u C- ?? Raymond, a
general agent of tbe Mutual, at twen
|ME?, :/c ?.rn old, fresh from .college,
&a,R''rry ot '100?. Mr. McCurdv tes
tifled that iu the first ten years of bis
the Mutual Ids income
? ' Sk- ,!? ~P WflWMted to more than $200,*
WO, tbat ten years after bis entrance
received In a single year com m is*
^ ajops on foreign and domestic business
r Aggregating ft 10,000 and tiiat In 4hat
I*** "e wis receiving one-half tbe
.. -fronts of- the firm, Which he entered
year, after be began life in
^??rauce work. 1880 lie went nbroad
i.:.? ?rgauj?e the foreign agency of the
^ Mutual, and from that time until re
^ he-" received vast commissions
; on an renewal business, commissions
so. stupendous, iu fact, tbat be bad vol
untarily Vked tlu?t they be reducfcl.
s;V (low stupendous they really were nily
fr be gathered from tbe fact that bis re
* ceipts from thin source alone In 1003,
11 ? ^"<1 Jn?t be<Mi made general
mlnrl Op90,000. umount
" ? ** .WMHHfc rrnrt he was still drawing
. ?q??tue from insurance written while
[5:4.??.^ * member bf O. H. Kaymond &
H although in this year the amount
V b?d become Insignificant.
*?SSS^'"^ mi *eve!at>ou.
dwarfing the remarkable exploits of
even George W. Perkins In the realm
?ajnttond A Co., still drawing there*
2? and tbe
'iS! Mr. Thebaud entered the'
pr?gr?*s lu the Arm estab
1880 ,*?e had a quarter
to 1002 one-half, to 1903 t^vo
tblrdsT and at the present thne tbree
^gartera. in 1002 this netted $12,000,
I.'. IS? Jt waa "Pward of $148,
'v ; 2. ??i? receipts lu eleven years
'r^L J*alpg ^^?.000, The figures for. this
T^a?d -vere supplied by
h;.?; Rny^oiid hlmselt', Moreover, to
B?XW<?iJk Co. the
^JlatuaJ ??o^efl i?lnety.al* i>ee cent, on
- Nw York dJstrict. and gtiftrtnteed this
S ,^U||D?B ,?t $1T,5D0,000o written
arLf/lngJ? p"y %<hls basis
without regard to the possiuflity of the
Sr wrltt?n 'ailing below
b . Mr.. Hughes finally obtained from
- !5e company's counsel a transcript of
J?? cashier's payroll, which showed
that since 1001 Richard a. McCurdy,
as president of the Mutual, had been
receiving $160,000 a year, a sum three
greater than that paid to the
sQmShW the United States.
.T*?f Ap*l Uguree show that Richard
A. McCurdy, his sou, Robert H. Mc
?|Curdy, and his son-ln*Iaw, Louis A.
- ^ alnce their ofUcial connection
*5^ -M?ftyal. Life Insurance Com*
paoj" have jointly drawn from the
/?M?ry of that organisation in the
? rorm of salary^ and commiislons an ag
gregate of $4,584,120,40 aa their per*
r jwnal emoluments.
' *A 9250,000 DAMAGE 8UIT.
Huge Damages For Libel Asked
Against the Ladles* Home Jonrnal.
Auotber maker of pro
does bas *?ued the Ladles'
J for libel. Dr. Hartman.
O-, wbo owos tbe Peruna
?aonfacturlnff Company, ?ie
i f86$OOO^datnages oh ?cc<gQt of
by thai* paper of -ar
toa mttmoDlsl pur
a Repnesen
CataHna.
bau
tHS
TO KIDNAP ROCKEFELLER
Put Crowo Planned to Hold Oil King
Tor $2,000,000 Ransom.
Stkrlttiif fonfMiloi) of <!?? Man tJn?ler
Atretl 1m Montana Kur KIcmIiu : tlie
bun of m Millionaire 1'ncktri
Butte, Mon'. ?That plans had been
laid to kidnap John 1>; Rockefeller and
hold III in for a ransom of $2,000,000 or
W, 000, 000, n ml that (lie scheme was
liot executed because of the tlmidues*
of ono of tlio plot tc i s at the Inst mo
ment, was asserted by I'at Crowe, the
notorious outlaw, under arrest hto* for
Ills connection with the 'kldpaplng of
the Cudahy tioy.
So startling in lis holdups way tkc
lilan to >t(->iii the Standard Oil man
that tlio.se who heard of It were in
I clined to laugh at tiisi. l'.nl as the
boldest Imndi. of this section of tlie
country told the details and cireum
stance* of Ills visit to Cleveland and
the preparations that had been made
for the greatest kidu.tpiug in th? his
tory of the country, all doubt as to
the truth of the story Crowe told vau
ished.
He dazed tlie public by uttering this
amazing story through the bars of his
cell: ^
' I piauvthl to kidnap John D. Rocke
feller and get his son to glvo me $2,
000,000 Afc a ransom!
"It was Immediately after the Cudahy
kidnaping that uiy partner and I?
never mi ml his name? were lying low
!ii Chicago, laughing at th ? excitement
over the affair, .t had been so easy
that I suggested that we j*o big
ger game, with the result that within
a week we took the train to Cleveland
to kidnap Rockefeller.
"We got down there, \. ent out tahis
i>lace at Forest Hill, and sized up\be
place. The. old uian was there.
"We planned to hold up the watch
man, gag him and get Into the house at
night? we had a plan of the efitire
place? and arranged to hustle the old
inpn into a rlg"aud spirit him away.
"We scheduled the job for Wednes
day night. Ahout 0 o'clock my part
ner said he wasn't feeling well and
asked ni? to put it oft .until the next
night. Well, I put it off and at noon
the next day, Thursday, !.e broke do\vi\y
and said he thought we were belli;;''
watched. That settled I began to
-fear he was going to belr?y the Cudahy
affair, so I hurried to New York, an*
from there went to South Africa.
"Rockefeller is holding up the world
and getting his ransom, too." added
Crowe. "Why shouldn't I make hltn
pay if t have the chance?
"I'm not the originator of tlie ransom
business. Caesar was the boss kid
naper. When he was running tlie
world lie used t o send Brutus and some
.of his generals over to Carthage, grab
pue of tlie- big men of that country;
and make diem put up several millions
before they gave him back. They call
It kidnaping nowadays. In those days
It ttai statecraft.
"Rockefeller It the oldest child I ever
had desigmr on. ?
"Maybe," contlhued Crowe wlUi a
sickly smite, "I'll get the old man yet.'*
Curious crowd* flllc^tbe jail, anxious
to see Crowe. Many women carried
fruit and bouquets to the prisoner.
AR RESTED~FOR SCHOOL 43 R AFT.
fatten.
Professor Ditragtiertyr Peoria's Snperln- ?
tendent, Accused of Forgery.
Feorla, III.? The arrest on a forgery
charge of Professor Newton C. Dough
erty, Peoria's foremost citizen, former
President of tlie National Educational
Association, banker, School ' Superin
tendent, ond frieud of Nicholas Mur
ray Butler, of the Columbia University,
of Now York, hai furnished tbls^clty
with the most nul$*lug sensation in its
history.
A second iudlofment, chnrgfng him
with the imbfgsiement of 98000, was
returned against Mr. pougherty, and it
Is now said the stealings will reach the
$250,000 mark, ami perhaps more.
The authorities declare they have
evidence to show that Dougherty's
life has beeq a living He; that whllo
posing as the apost!e of civic righteous
ness, preaching education and good
morals, he has appropriated money
entrusted to him in a business capacity.
Professor Dougherty has resigned as
President of the Peoria National Bank,
thereby staying a "run." He also sent
in his resignation as superintendent of
schools and as director iu the various
commercial lustitptlons lu which he is
Interested.
Dougherty was one of the pillars of
the First Congregational Church and a
member of every clqb of importance in
Lthe city, as -well at the Union dub, of
Chicago.
EIGHT KILLED BY CAVE IN ~
President of the Vermonts'Slnte Coni^
pauy One of the head.
Falrhaveu, Vt. ? Eight ^men were
killed and several were injured In n
cave-In or the Vermont Slate Com
pany's quarry in the town of Paw let,
four tniles from *GtaqvlHe. Hundreds
of tons of waste, '"jrejUtT great
sections of slate, sttflwith a rumbling
AoIm 'down upon the 'gang of men at
work in the pit. f ? '
John O. .Williams, the president of
the company owning the* quarry. was
standing near the edge of the pit, and
was carried down with the mass of
rock, being one of tbo*e killed. ' The
others were Huogert^p laborers.
? 1 * i
Wabash's PrtekJeot Removed.
Joseph "jfitarMy7rlr.i Fas pernor sd
from tbs PTesldeocy of the Wabash by
MURDERS AT A FARM HOUSE
k
list of Victims in the Middletown
T ragedy Now Complete#
AGED OLNEY BROTHERS fcillEO
Tlie Bodies of WIIIU C. utu| Picdeiick i?.
You ml In ft Wood llulf ? Mile Above
Their Xfomev-lliey Had Uceu 81ie,i to
l)eal)i??att|)lpB Veiled Ifn. Ingerlck
and IJiAUfililer, iff
Mtadletown, N. Y.-~ Orange County Is
aroused over the quadruple tragedy on
the Olut^" farm, about four miles from
Uie centre of Mlddletowu. The list of
victims of the worst Bevies of murders
that ever occurred here was completed
when the bodies of Fred It. Olney,
flfty-eSght years old, and his brother,
Willis C. Olncy, sixty-two years old,
were found in a wood about a half mllo
from the Olney homesteud, where the
dead body of nlne-year-old Leila In
gerlek and the unconscious form of her
mother had been found the night be
fore. /
. Unlli& the little girl and her^m^her,
whose/ heads were beaten /ti with a
piece ojf iron pipe, the two Olney broth
?rs bait "been shot, Fred receiving two
bullet wounds In the side under his
right arm and Willis having been shot
through the head, the bullet entering
the rlght'ear.
Besides the two owners and their
housekeeper, Mrs. Ingerlek's daughters,
^ Leila, and Grace, the latter thirteen
years old, lived on the Olney farm.
Willis Olney's wife died a month ago
and Mrs. Ingerlck, about fovty-five
years old, was then engaged to come
in and keep the house, v She was the
wife of Martin Ingerlck, but had sep
arated from her husband. 1
On the morning before "the tragedy
Grace Ingerlck, the elder girl, went to
Middletown on an errand for her
mother. When she left the house the
other members of the household were
all at home.
After doing her errands In town the
Ingerlck girl started homeward about
5 o'clock p. m., in plenty of time for
supper. That was the one idea iu her
mind, foif^he was hungry. The table,
all set, was the first thing she saw.
But nobouy sat there. The child shout
ed her sister's name and then called her
mother. Nobody answered.
The girl wag frightened and went to
the home of Daniel Davis, a neighbor,
a quarter of a mile away, and Davis
went bflck to the Olney house to see
what was wrong.
In tbekitchen he found a crumpled
newspaper lying behind the stove. He
flsbed It out and found inside a piece" of
gas plpe'over a yard long covered with
tylood stains. Then he begau to search
f?the house. At tbo foot of the cellar
stnirs lay the body of Leila Ingerlck.
Davis carried the body upstairs and
went for help.
The next house on the other side of
the Olpey farm is owned by John Fish; -
ft New Yorker. There 4 telephone
there and the police wj^re called' up.
They arrived at the farm with Coroner
Crist about two hours after Grace In
gerlck had returned. ? search was
made of the house and then the men- -
went out to the barn. Under a piljKof
hay they found Mrs. ingerlck uncon
scious. Ther heHfeved at- first that~rhe
was dead, but Dr. A. W. Preston found
signs of life in her body. Although
she had three wounds upon the head,
any one of which might be expected
to have instantly killed her, she ap
peared to be only partly Insensible.
But all attempts to learn from her the
details of the tragedy were Unavailing.
It wftt believed she might know the
identity of her assailant, but that she
was determinedly shielding him, Alex
ftndML Merritt, who took her and the
body of her daughter into town, be
came impressed with this Idea. The
woman made several attempts to ar
range her skirts, and three times in the
half hour's ride raised her head and
groaned.
The finding of the little girl, Leila,
In the cellar, while her mother was
some distance away in the barn, has
caused the police to decide that the
two brothers were killed before the
mother and child were attacked, and
that the murder of the brflthers was
the principal object of the murderers
The police theory Is that, after having
killed the men. tbo murderers returned
to the house In search of tbo mother
and child, intending to kill them to
hide the traces of their crime.
They first made sure of the mother,
chasing her into the barn, and then
Searched for Leila, who was found hid
ing in the cellar. With th? child's
death their object of concealment was
accomplished, and the murderer or
murderers - coming up from the cellar
carrying the iron pipe with which the
mother and daughter were evidently
beaten, dropped It on the kitchen floor,
where it was found.
Willis Olney wa? a Ivldower, whose
wife died last August, anfTKred was a
bachelor. Mrs. Ingerlck b a (The en em
ployed as a housekeeper ? t the farm
for about a month. Her husband lives
at Wurtsboro, a to^An not . far from
Middletown. V
In the house no trees of robbery
(-have been. found. ' The only articles of
value known to have been taken from
the brothers were two silver watches.
The old men owned their farm. They
bore good reputations, although Willie
(L Olney was arrested on suspicion
wnen Mrs. Norah Gre?ry was mur
- t?l
He war neTer tried,
de?iL-MtJftr_fKftin. his jQageto^ J90&
Magulre went to the ctettrlc chair S.
the crime.
Haul Their Cotton Back Home.
Otie theueftnd bales of cotton were
1 K
WASHINGTON.
Attoriiey-General Moody was direct*
ed by tho president to begin proceed*
lng? to brepH up the monopoly exist
ing At St. Louis, Mo., where the owners
of bridge* and ferries have entered
into it combination in restraint of
t lade, exacting terminal charge* from
the railroad* entering St. I,ouK
At the Cabinet meeting at the White
House it w:ii decided that the building
of the Panama Canal should remain
under tlra supervision of Secretary
Taft.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will
ask the Cabinet to consider a plan un
der which small packers may have
meat inspectors us well as the larger
houses. (|
In order that the damages resulting
from the recent typhoon in the Philip
pine Islands mny be at once repaired
the quartermaster-general of the army
has cabled to Manila that an extra al
lotment of 950,600 has been mude to
meet tho expenses.
President Hoosevelt, It was said,
found demoralization in nearly every
executive department on his return to
Washington,
Secretary Hitchcock hos intimated
that the next alleged land conspiracy
case to receive the attention of the
Government probably will be thot of
W. N. Jones, a big lumberman, of Port,
land, Ore. *
OUIt ADOPTED ISLANDS.
The arrival in Hawujl of thousands
of Japanese laborers' has driven out
many American workers from Hono
lulu and the country plantations.
Hawaii is importing minnows to de
vour mosquito larvae.
Government reports show that in
the recent storm at least "SSWJsUJiat ives
and twenty-five Americans aim^fnr*'
elguers were killed in the Philippines.
The losses in life and property caused
by the recent typhoon in the Philip
pines are heavy. The const guard cut
ter Leyto was wrecked, eleven Amer
icans were drowned, and army nosfs
In the Southern islands were destroyed.
Tho loss on hejup plantations Is esti
mated at $1 ,000,000.
All Honolulu drunkards have been
otHclnlly blacklisted, so that they may
be refused drink in the saloons. A cor
respondent states that "nearly all ou
the list are steamship men." /
Jap fpies are studying the defenses ofc
the Philippines, a Spanish correspond-.,
ent at Manila cables..
Fellznrdo, chief of the outlaws in the
Province of Cavite, was surrounded
near the Uatangas border and jumped
over a cliff to his death.
The absence of a lino of freight-car
rying craft between San Francisco.
Cal., Guam and Manila throws all tho
trade of the islands into the bauds of
Japanese.
The commander of the Government
forccs at Gnaw urges the necessity of
a system of water works In order that
bad saultary conditions may be im>~
iwoved. ? Tbo- public. school system is
well established aud attended with
gratifying result?. \
DOMESTIC.
Gladden, on bis third trial
on*!he charge of criminal assault, was
convicted by a Simpson County (Ky.)
jury; The Judge then sentenced him
to. death.
Op President Roosevelt's homeward
voyage from Now Orleans, La., the ar
mored cruisers West Virginia, Penn
sylvania and Colorado will race under
forced draught for 1200 miles.
Secretary Shaw, addressing the Ohio
Bankers' Association, at Cleveland,
urged that a more clastic currency
systeju be adopted,
The second tube of the New Jersey
tunnel under the Hudson River, at New, J
York City, was finished. t
About. 200 delegate^" representing
Massachusetts councils of the Itoyal
Arcanum, at a meeting in Boston voted
to take legal measures to prevent en
forcement of the new rates of assess
ment.
jolin D. Rockefeller gave $10,000,000
in cash to the General Education
Board.
A Coroner's Jury found that Cornel
ius A. Jackson, towerman, and Paul
Kelly, raotovman, are criminally re
sponsible for the wreck on the "L"
train on September 11, In New York
City.
President Roosevelt will visit New
Orleans, La., October 26, returning to
Washington on a wars dp to a void
quarantine.
Judge Tayler, in the United States
Circuit Court, Cleveland, Ohio, ap
proved the report of a referee cutting
down the fees of lawyers who ap
peared in the Cns?it? L. Chftduick
bankruptcy proceeding#.
FOREIGN.
Germany and France have come to
an agreement on the Morrocco ques
tion. regulating police and financial re
forms, but affairs on the Algerian iron
tier are to be under French control.
Foirinsultlng the President of Nicar
agua, William 8. A1 hers, representing a
Chicago mining company, has been sen
tenced to tbree years' imprisonment
by the authorities of that company.
Albers will appeal.
Fifty thousaud Bengalis assembled
at the Temple of Kaligbet, in India,
have sworn by the goddess - Kali, to -
boycott British goods as a protest
against tbo partition of the province
meeting of . the Chamber of Com
merce of the Japanese Empire was be
gun in Tokio to consider the revival
?>f trade and industry now tbrfi the war
Is over. ?
- "Tfcere was mortrrtotlnr at Budapest
university students, and the
of the Socialists to the eool- j
to provoke n*
> CHEAP INSURANCE LOANS
. ? ??? - ?- * ? ?? I M
. ' V?>,
President McOall, of New York Life,
Makes Startlina Statements.
MONEY SPENT FOR LOBBYING
luveslivftlor kihI Allornrjr iltifthri of (he
*l?t? Iuaur?ne? Inquiry Commit t?te
Alitkes N?me KeimtrUtthlo l>Uc<? vcrlea
KfKMr.llitK JTodern Finance"?
How tlio MoCmIU ItMiiuDloAi
New York City. ? Something ap
proaching a definite explanation of the
mysterious legislative activities of
"Judge" A ml lew Hamilton, legislative,
agent ^Hlsr^Mntuiil, Kqnitable and
New YorJPf.lfe companies, and of the
hlthertor Inexplicable "yellow dog"
funds came, when John A. McCall,.
President of the New York Life, tos-1
tilled that three-quarters of Hie mcas-'j
urcs proposed In Legislatures of the
United States were ".strike" or black
mailing bills, designed to "bleed" Insur
ance companies.
Following this frank arraignment of
Legislatures Mr. McCall outlined in de
tail the vast sums that have been
handled by "Judge" Hamilton ih light
ing hostile legislation at various State
capitals in the last live years. From the
New York Life alone ".lodge" Hamil
ton received $7H,y<)0 in this period, in
addition to a slngl^ fee of $1.'M,000 for
counsel services. It will be recalled
that tcfjHiuoiiy of Equitable officials;
revealed "llie face that "Judge" Hamil
ton's expenses were divided between
the three great companies, and if he
received equal sums from llv: other
two his expenditures for "legislative
work" against Insurance legislation In
the last live years would aggregate
over $2, <>00.000.
?Mr. Hughes pressed home the probe
Into this form 06 insurance activity In
a merciless fashion. He not only
turned a flood of light upon the pro
ceedings which permitted an official
of the New York Life to swear that
the company hud made no campaign
contributions in a year when it had ac
tually contributed $."0,0<)0, but he j&vo
Mr. MeCall a bad half hour' explain
ing tho circumlocutions by which Cov
ernor Culberson and tho Texas State
officials were hoodwinked about tills
performance.
Most striking, however, was thejod
louche wrung from the witness
regarding the uses to which the vast
legislative funds were put. In form,
Mr. McCall continued his former dec
laration that so faj: as he knew not a
.cent had been used corruptly to "in
fluence legislation." In fact, he ad
mitted that the money was turned
over to "Judge" Hamilton to use
legislative halls in such a way as "to
produce results." "Producing results"
from \lio insurauoo point of view
meajit nothing more or less than the
stifling of IniuUoal legislation, whether
the ordinary "strike" form of black
mail. or. tho recomroendallQus 0/, Stllc.
insurance departments, , Following
this line Mr, Hughe* led the wltner*
to the ?admission* that while the N*W
York Life officially dealt only wJfrTiat
torneya "Judge" ?amlltou?jqwi fr.ev*
to emp'oy any ond Who couhrinrfttf1
work, whether an attorney or not.
"Entire freedom* were the words with
wlilcli ho described "Judge" Ha mil.
ton's power.
Then Mr. Hughes took aforwafd
step In the tracing of the metho.'.s of
the great Insurance lobby that has
bepn so frequently described as ex
isting at Albany and at other Stat"
capitals. By close cross questioning
he obtained from Mr. McCall tho ad
mission that there were In many States
men in a position to deal with legisla
tive juemgres Jq sui?J|. fashion as to
exerolfo pressure to the extent of pre
-VQulbjg^lh^i'e-electlou-of iuen acting
counter to their Irishes. Mr. McCnll
was not sure th^t those men could
drive vecalcltrflnt legislator* out of
politics, but he admitted their position
would be "seriously strained." That
the system reached to the national
Congress Mr. McCall admitted lu tes
tifying to the employment of an agent
i to tight a Federal bill solely "because
he was a man of very large acquaint
ance In Washington."
..?part .from the legislative phases of
hi* testimony, tho most amazing sin
gle feature of Mr, McCali's examina
tion was his admission regarding the
hitherto unexplained loan of *50,000
to John B, liegeman, president of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company,
a< a nominal rate o* Interest. Mr, Mc
Call, apparently nettled by Mr.
Hughes' questions regarding .the rea
ton for the loan of this sum at a nom
inal rate of Interest^declarM that he
regarded the Interest rate as all fight,
and said with some feeling that be
had obtained a similar loan fiimi MP"*1
Hcgeman at a similar rate. '^Thls ap
parent "brer a" was seized on by Mr.
0 Hughes at once, and the fact ^ehowu
that Mr. McCall, a director in the
Metropolitan, had obtained a personal,
loan . from this company of $75,000,
$50,000 of It nearly three yeari ogo.
-and {hs t the rate had not bees
until after the insurance agitation had
becomo pronounced. When Mr. Hughes
attempted to emphasise an improprl
cty lit this proceeding Mr. MeCall de
clared with evident sincerity that be
would have taken tbe money at f
lower rate of interest if he couhl hare
ohfaiued It.
The yearly Mtary Mil of the McCaU
family drawn from the New York Life
was ahown to be $137JXja
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Collections Improve.
MpwtratUe collections improve aa (be
season advances.
STARVING IN CAUCASUS.
ArmeiMana^l^d^jwnjbjr T\rt>
paltb* bere^Js*?* Sa
WHECKER'S BOLD ATTEMPT
Or
Train From Oreenville Knocks Ob
struction From the Track and the
Noxt Train Finds it Replaced.
Columbia, Special ? Two dastardly
attempts to wreck passanegr trains
Nit. 12 ami No. l^i On t he (.Columbia
branch ot' Mm? Sol^ir/r!! wore made
Sunday morning b>' unknown i>erson?
about two miles north of llimoa 1 'at h.
Neither of the attmepu wax suceess
ful.
Train No. 15 which leaves Columbia
at 7 o'clock in the morning, struck a
pieee of iron known in railroad par
lance as a bumper knuckle, which had
been placed on the rail, and Knocked
the iron from the track! No d sin ago
was done and the train proeeoUtM to
Melton, where trains 12 and l<r) meet.
'I'lie engineer of the train from Oreen
ville was told of what had happened
and cautioned to look out for the ob
st Miction, lie acordingly shaved his
train down when he approached the
s|xd where the obstruction had been
dashed aside by the tlrst train and
found that it had been replaced by the
would-be wreckers. The train was
brought to a standstill and the knuck
le picked np and brought to Columbia.
No one was seen in the vicinity by
the cmw of either train and s?> far
as eovjr.t be learned no clue has been
found or no motive discovered that
?will lead to Itxiug tfA> crime upon the
guilty persons. .It was stated by one
who came to Columbia on the train
that Capt. <1. It. Willis who is the
agent of the Southern at Williamston
was at Hmiea Path and went, accom
panied by seven*! .tthers to the place,
to search for evidence and if possible
to locate the person > who placed the
iron on the track.
Rewards Offered by Governor.
Columbia, Special. ? Governor I lev
ward lias offered a reward of $500 for
the arrest of (lie parties who waylaid
and killed R. A. McDowell on I He
streets of Camden last Wednesday
night, and at the same time indicted
dangerous wounds upon J. W. Porter
in th^ attempt to take his life. Ato
ward of the same amount had been
offeree} by the city council of Cam
den. Governor 4 ley ward received an
appeal from Sheriff Trantham and
this was endorsed by a number of the
most prominent and most reliable' bus
iness men of Camden, amo/fj g 'them
Mayor H. G. Carison, Capt. W. M.
Shannon. Mr, H. 13. Clarke, Mr. C. C
Moore, (Jol. T. J. Kirklaml, Mr. -W, K
Hough, Dr. A. W. Burnet, Mr. K. J).
Blakenev, Capt. K. 0, von Treac.kow,
Mr. L. T. Mills, Mr. Joel* Hough, Col.
W .D, Trantlmm, Capt. M. L. Smith,
Capt. A. p. Kennedy, and Senator J.
T. Hay. JV X
A inward of $100 was offered for the
arrest of Dave Bush, a negro charged
with, a bf a uJt witkiotm^ 4*o. wpe and
highway robbery in Riebland county.
j-Tlie accused is said to be black, 0 feet
8 inches in height, weighs 170 ponds;
is stoop shouldered, and has a swing
ing motion of the shotddert when
walking. ^
prolific family.
The Greenville News says: "W. A,
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, w J- barn ,
the present year. There is no danger
Gurry is the proud grandfather of
three sets of twins and all bijrn within
of race suicide in the vicinity of 6imp
sonville at least and President Roose
velt ought to be informed! of the oc
currence. and perhaps Andrew Coi^
negie might contribute a hero medal.
The eldest set of twins were born Ave
months ago. They are boys, the little
sons of Mr. and Mrs? Arlington Curry?
Two months later Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam.J3nrry becawes the parents of
two "little girls, and three days ago
Mrs. Brazier, a sister of Arlington'
and William Curry, became the motli
?r of the third set of twins in the
family, one a boy and the other a girl.
The children are lusty and bid fair to
develop into sturdy manhood arid- wo
manhood." J . ..
Magistrate Mobley 's Case.
Governor Heyward has declined to
remove Magistrate Jas. G. Mobley of
Johnston who seemed to have excited
(he opposition of some people in
Johnston by his action in regard to
some cotton damaged in the fire at
that place. Governor Heyward stated
Tftfc^there was not sufficient ground
for raqoval. Mr. Mobley made a
stalemenKiii his own behalf and pre
sented a Teh?erfrom Mr. J. W. Brown
agent of the Southern Railway com
pany at Johnston, itKwhich the agent
says that Magistrate Mbklgy was an
"Uqiorizt-d tv remove the coj^ on by the
trance adjuster.
nfegro
| A Ksgro 8bo|t|
- 'Charleston, Special.? A nfcgro wo
man, Christine Moultrie, shot another
negro, Thomas Weathers' Sunday.
The shooting- is declared by both
Weathers and the woman to have been
ao accident, but Ihrlreporte of the wit>
mmsr dont srtre the same version.
The shooting oeeurred in the outskirts
of t lie city. The woman wiis arrest
ed and the man waa'sent 4? tfee'eity
hospital for treatment.
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umrHMM
Recent Lnormoiis Consumption of the
Southern Mills
REPORT ISSUED fOR A FULL YEAR
First Census Bureau Bulletin On the
Subject Shown An Aggregate of 1.4,
46(094 Bales, of Which 61 Per
Oent. Consumed At Home, Leaving
a Surplus of 0 Por Oent.
Washington, ^Special. ? The census
Murium iBsucd-nv bulletin showing the
production and (fi^tributiou of the cot
ton of the United States available,,
between September 1, 1^04, and Sep
tember I, 1 110.'), to bo 1 4,456,004 bales.
Of this 01 jK?r cent, was exported, 30
per cent, was used in domestic con
sumption, leaving a surplus of nine
per cent. The domestic; consumption
includes 30,770 bales destroyed by ?
lire. o
The exportation amounted to 8,
834,020 bales, the domestic cousump
tion 4.315,750 and the surplus 1,305)
300. Of the total 13,003/279 bales
'were included in the crop of 1004 and
tin) jjamphidor in that of 1005. Of the
quantity eonsumed in the MJnited
States, 2,1 38,820 bales were used in
Northern and 2,140,151 in Soutrehn
mills.
BANN1SH 10X1 'OUT YEAR.' '
In addition to the totals given 124,
40!) bales of foreign cotton were im
|M>rted into the United States during
t ho year. The exportation for the
year covered exceeded that of any
previous 12 months by 1,144,462 tottURT ^i
and they exceeded the Hverago for Ihe
past tori years by 2,313,048 bates.
Now Orleans, with a total of 2,405i,421
bales, held tirst rank as an exporting
point, But close pressed by Gal
veston with 2, 38$, 3 18 bales. Savon-'
nab, Ga.y with 1,200,080 bales held
third place. The value of the total
export was .f 104, 200, 203. .
The export of raw cotton was. dis
tributed in, bales os follows: To
United Kingdom, 4,043,090; Bolgium,
101,151; France,' 857,103; Germany,
2,115,072; Italy, 530,02b; Hussia, 125,
403; Spain, 2S0,088; other European
couu tries, 172,112; Japan, 324,008 y- ,
British North America, 126,407; Mexi
co, 73,270; all other countries 9401.
SOUTH'S IIVNORY SPINDLES.
The total ' number of producing
spindles in the United StaJw ijUSir ?1
ported at 2-1,077,624 of which 8,211,* ' ?
734 were in. the SoutJi flnd lSjS^jTW
in the North. Notwithstanding the*
great difference in the number of
spindtos of tl
sumption^ oi
same. The annual consumj
cotton per spindle in the
*?ar,t .
OZ
II
mills is 07 pounds, compared with *34
pounds in the South. The diftftfsneo
8?
n the
cate*
ipihiung' yafSilJf V?iy mi
per spindle to
that the Northern
Qneness than those turned out b
SoutSbai miift. The lanre outnat -s*
the Southern mills this aeSso* ha*
been mainly of heavy ~jf * ->?"
Ply a greatlyCfJicreased
China and t ho Orient,
The report show* that J
the product ion of the Ui
-has. increased from 0,7?
693,279 bales, and that
suraptiop of eoKon in
has increased from 1
to iS78r
tow yi?r#
mim*.
the cotton-consuming
of the Southern Statea have
their consumption from 1,4&S,711 to
2,140,151 balea. During tbeae fire
years the Northern eottonjconsaming
establishments have actually decreas
ed their eonq^ptjon by 16,956 bales;,
explained by theae mills being cjek
?ag*-d during this period in replacing
old machinery by more modern.
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Collision on Pennsylvania.
' Miller? ville, Pa,, Special."
men were killed,
and a cardload 0
either kiled or so
had to be *bot is ;t
lision at the "June
Valley branch of
railroad,, a quarter mil
place Monday.
Pat Crowe V
Butte, Mont., S^aei*!.? I
bas admits that be was
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six weeks ago and
duel with the poB^ during which an
officer wa? shot. He saya
fired 16 shots at him before be :
ind that he opened firs to
own life. He staid
coming here was
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