The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, March 08, 1907, Image 1
THE e&MDEN SHR
VOLUMK XVIII.
GAM DION, S. 0.. Kill DAY-, MAIiCII H, litoT
NO. !t.
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Occurrences of Interest From
All Over South Carolina
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MANY HEiyfS OF STATE NEWS
A Batch of Live Paragtapbti Cover
s' ing a Wide Range?What is Going
Ou in Our State.
Caught in Flour Mixer.
Greenville, Special.?While oper
ating a mixer in the ('melon & lire,
bakery in this city, J. F. Burty, out
|'l the bakers, had his hand caught
the machinery and crushed ho se
verely thai, amputation was found t?.?
be necessary. I>ut ry *s cheek bone
was alsi? shattered by a blow from a
ievolving crank attMched to the mix
er and lor a lime it was thought
that his eyoi had been put out and
physicians were slow to believe that
\ injured man could recover at all.
I HeporUs l'rotu the banitarium say
' that Burly is dojjig well and that he
I will recover. His H?ty arm has been
i lakfti off near the shoulder. The mix
er was being diivcn by a live horse
poweK elcvtiic nt<dM\ Unity was
Vitejiiiig the Hour as poured in
and seeing a cord in the hopper lent
over to take it out. .lust then the
revolving blades caught the man's
hand and in a moment his arm had '
been drawn in and crushed to the
khouhler. He was struck in th?? face
at the sain" lime by u crank.
Aged Man Killed Acting as Peace
make;.
Anderson, Special. ? Anderson
county was the :ceno of a horible i
killing, last week, when Asbury
Woolen, a while ir.an ot' 10 years, I
shot Mr. Duke Owens, a white man
of 7ye is, through the heart killing
him i'nttantly. The ^hootim? occur- ,
red on the A. W. (iaHspie place,
three iniie'4 thi< side of Central, near
tli" county line. The lads of the
killing tire meagre, but it is said
that some boys pln\fully rocked
Woolen's home Sunday night. He,
being half-wit ted, became angry. Mr.
Owens, a neighbor and some other
jH'rsoii whose name could 'not be
learned, lie hcuwt to Wooten's
home to tell Ijim the hi y;- meant no
harm, but Woolen <iid not accept
the e.vphuuttiou and ordered Mr.
Owens and his companion off the
place. Mr. Owens remained to re
iiionstralc with Woolen and it was
then I (nil Woolen tired the fatal
shot. Mr. Owens was a piomineni
man in this county, and the tragedy
is greatly deplored.
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New Laur.dry for Chester.
Chester, Special.?In the matter
of what arc called the smaller enter
prises for the investment of enpitai
ami the employment o? labor, Ches
ter is taking a pari. The Chester
Steam Laundry company baa obtain
ed a charter, with a capital stock of
$4,000 and has organized for busi
ness with the following olbeers:
It. B. Caldwell, president; A. N.
Sample, vice president; J. W, Dan
iel, secretary and treasurer. These
officers, with II. S. lleyman and lv.
W. Honey constitute the board of
directors ' This institution will sup
ply a long felt want in this com
munity, the "vashec" business bav
in? become something of a problem.
Checking Up Accounts.
The auditing experts of the Amer
can Audit company are expected
here soon to cheek up the accounts
p>ne over at the state dispensary
by tlie clerks now employed by the
commission. This is done bccanso
flic commission wishes to be abso
lutely correct in the statement oi?
accounts and so that a Plcar idea of
the stock to be disposed of may bo
obtained,?(.'olumbi'a Stale.
Two Member Chosen.
Abbeville, Special.?Mr. 0. A. Vi
panska and T. .1. Price wero reeoin
ineuded by the county delegation
as their two members of Abbeville's
dispensary board. Mr. Visnnska is
70 years old and has been in the mer
cantile business in Abbeville for the
past of) year?. Mr. Price is from
Me.Cormick and is in the stork aiuf
lumber business there.
Marion Victims Total 24.
Charleston, Special. The finding
?f drowned bodies, as a result, of the
burning and sin king of the steamer
Marion in Wadmalaw sound, con
tinues, but the natural aptitude of
colored people to attend a tunerai
is reported to l.c interfering with
tho work of seaivhin;? lor the drown
ed people. A report received heie
(lint tour additional bodies ha?l been
found, blinking liie a^reyate up to
?J4, and lat''r in tJ:s? day i.t was said
- (hat "Hu; toihI will rea<4> 3'J, but the
' latter report was ,tJot s-? well authen
ticated, and it is not liekly that the
(lent'h list will teach this limine,
Better Tel*g?ph
KenUw, Speciel.-rActUJg on tli?
request of tho buaiuos* uitfn of Kev
the TVosuvu tJd^w bai <ltcid
ed to e*tah}i&h ?? i^dapsiuUct office
to commence work, at once. The
building formerly used by the bank
is being remodeled for the location
of tho office. This will meet a long
felt want, a$ the business here would
. hav# long ago jitftilifd this ?tep by
^JfJ'compeny.
1 HE COUNIY I AX LlVY
In Several CountieH Special Provis
ion Made on Account of Change In
Dispensary Law.
< 'olumbia State.
Below is published the principal
details <>!' (ho itnmtal supply l>i 11
passed hy tin* 1 i?07 general assembly.
Being in tlie main a mass of figure.^
the average reader will be inclined to
*tody alone I lie figures relating to
the levy in bis particular county, yet
a careful study of tJie entire meas
ure, particularly of the special levies
mmle by the various counties, will
prove interesting.
The state levy is tixed at l 1-2
Willi, l-~ mill less than lust year. '!'<?
this is added in . every county
throughout the state the constitu
tional .'i mill school tax.
The county levy ranges from 2
mill* in Charleston and Orangeburg
to 11 mills in Lexington, the ex
tremely high levy in the latter comi
ty being re<|uired on account of a
large amount of interest to be paid
vach year on bonds given in aid of
the ( vluinhia, New berry and
Laurens railroad. v
The following counties iYtake spec
ial levy for good roads: Clarendon,
Cherokee, (,'hc?|erlicld, Colleton,
Florence, (Ircenville, Kershaw,
Laurens, Oconee, Pickens, Spartan
burg, and I'nion,
Lnion enjoys I lie unii|ue and com
mendable distinction of being the
single county in the state which
makes a direct appropriation for lis
Coii/edri ate veterans. In addition
to getting their pro rata of the fr2">0,
000 appropriatcil by the state, the
veterans of I'nion receive the bone
lit of a levy of one-fourth of one mill
on all the taxable property of that
county. Charleston likewise occu
pies au equally uui<|iic position in
that a lax of one-eight of one mill is
levied for the militia of that codnty.
The proceeds ot this one-eighth mill
tax is paid to the board of ollicers
<$jlhe state volunteer troops in the
city of Charleston.
The levy in Kichl^nd county is
among the very lowest in the Mate.
Levy for 1907.
By counties the levy I'm county
purposes is as follows:
Abbeville?Ordinary 2 1-^i mills,
debt dm; sinking fund commission
1 mill, for paying inteiest and prin
cipal on debt for new court bouse 1
uii|l.
Aiken?Ordinary 3 mills.
Anderson?Ordinary .'5 1-1 mills.
Bamberg?Ordinary .'5 mills.
Barnwell?Ordinary 3 1-2 mills.
Beaufort?Ordinary 4 3--I mills.
Berkeley?Ordinary 3 mills. A
special tax is levied on all stock
williin the territory exempted from
the operation of the general stock
law, as follows: Three cents per
head-on all sheep, goats ami hoga
and ;"> cents per head on nil cows.
Clarendon?For the militia of the
county, the various local companies
of the state volunteer troops, 1-8
mill; for other purposes 1 7-S mills;
for support of the schools of tho cic>
of Charleston 1 mill, special, on.all
property within tho city and an ad
Hlitional levy of 1-2 mill on city prop
erty for school building fund.
Cherokee?Ordinary II mills, road
tux 1 mill, permanent road tax 1
mill, sinking fund, Limestone, White
and Morgan townships, 3-4 mill;
railroad bonds, same townships, 1-2
mill; sinking fund, Gfowdeysville,
Cherokee and Dravtonville town
ships. .1 mill; for interest on rail
road bonds, same townships, 1 mill.
Chester?Ordinary 3 1-2 mills, in
terest on railroad bonds and for
sinking fund 1 mill.
Chesterfield?Ordinary 3 3-4 mills,
special road tax 1 mill, interest on
railroad bonds and for sinking fund
'2 1-2 mil is.
Colleton?Ordinary 4 mills, road
tax 1 mill.
parlington?1-2 mill interest on
court house, ordinary 4 mills.
Dorchester?Ordinary 4 1-4 mills,
interest on county bonds 1-2 mill,
sinking fund 1-2 mill. Collier'.-?
township 2 mills for road purposes.
Edgefield?Ordinary f> mills; the
wounty commissioners are authorized
to make special levy on property in
Johnston. Pine drove, Pickenj, Wise
and Show townships to pay coupons
on valid railroad bonds.
Fairfield?Ordinary and past in
debtedness 4 1-4 mills, for payment
first installment on $20,000 due sink
iug fund commission 1 mill.
Florence?Ordinary 2 mills, spec
ial road lax 1 mill.
, Georgetown-- Ordinaty 2 .1-2 mills,
with which to pay principal and in
terest or l??an of *10.000 from com
missioners of sinking fund, to be
used in erecting, equipping and fur
nishing annex to coin t house 3-4
i mill, for sinking fund Winyah Indi
i j;o school district 2 mills.
I Greenville?Ordinary 3 mills, f\>i
convicts, roads and bridges I 1-2
mills, interest on railroad and past
indebtedness bonds, for payment to
qommissioners sinking fund on ac
count loan mill.
Greenwood?Ordinary 3 1-2 milU,
uast indebtedness 1 mill, Ninety-Six
township 2 3-4 mills, Cokesbmv
tow?alm> ipilU, Cooper township I)
mill*.
HiiUiptou?Orrtinaiy 3 pa*i
i>)d*biedn<& 1 mill.
Horry-'Ordmery & ^ills, court
btute and joil bo;vd* I mil], rc;lsuaO
bonds in townahipa of Conway,
Bayboro, Green Sea and Sijnpsou
Creek 4 mills each.
Kershaw?Ordinary 3 1-4 mills
intcpfct 1 3-4 mills, road fax 1 mill,
coufrt house bond# 1-4 mill.
Lancaster?Otdinary 5 mills, ?n
terttl on railroad bonds 1 miH, sink
ing fund 12 iitill; I'lensaut JI ill
township \i 1 J mills, (iill Crook 2 3?1
mills; Cane Ciock 2 3 1 mills.
Lauren.*? Ordinary 3 mills, road
tax 1 mill, interest on bonds 1 1-1
mills, tor expenses survey, the pro-,
posed county of Fairview and for ad
ditional road purposes 3-1 mill,
i Lee?Ordinary 3 mills, sinking
l'uml I 3 4 mills.
l.c\i?gtuii<?Ordinary .1 1-2 mili.%
interest on Columbia, Newbery am!
Lmirpns railroad 1 oud* 7 1-2 mills.
Marion - Ordinary I mills, jnil
debt 3-1 mill.
Marlboro?Ordinary ti 1-2 mill*.
Newberry?Ordinary 3 mills.
Oconee?Ordinary, 2 mills, road
and bridges 1 mill, interest on bonds
7-10 mill, sinking fund 1-2 mill, for
bridge at Hurnt Tauyard over Little
riyttr 1 mill, for bridge over Coir.i
I -j-4 mills, bridge over Keo
wel* livty near Chapman Ford I I
mil|, lor fault in court bouse and re
unifying county records I mill.
OrA^geburg?Ordinary 2 mills.
Pickens-Ordinary 4 mills, debt
1-4 mill, sinking Hind 1 mill, chain
gang 1 .1-1 mills, bbridgn over Koo
wce river near Chapman Ford, 3.S
mill.
Kichland?Ordinary 2 12 mills,
J-2 mill in Columbia township for
the payment of principal and inter
est on railroad bonds, and authority
is given to tin; county board of com
missioners of Kichland county to
sell the certificnlc of stock of Co
lumbia, Newbery mid Laurens rail
road, being a certificate for 1.000
shares of the par value of $10,000,
said sale to be made at public or pri
vate sale after due notice in news
papers for the best price obtainable
and the said county board of com
missioners are authorized to use I In
proceeds ot said sale to supplement
the fund now or hereafter on hand,
for the payment of the principal
and interest on outstanding railroad
bonds; and said county board of com
missioners are authorized to use anv
surplus that may remain on hand
from the levy of the half mill lax
above referred to and from the sale
ot said stock, with authority to turn
over to the municipal authorities of
any incorporated city or town in Co
lumbia township, the pro rata share
of suc.li eity or town to be applied to
extra work upon the public high
ways within such cities or towns; an
additional lax of two mills in the
school district of the city of Colum
bia in lieu of special tax authorized
by previous legislature.
Saluda?Ordinary 0 1-1 mills, past
indebtedness 1-2 mill.
Spartanburg?Ordinary 3 1-2
mills, ordinary road 1 mill, interest
on railroad bonds 3-4 mill, to pay
loans to state 1-4 mil!, sinking fund
1-2, mill, for building macadamized
roads .1 mill.
Sumter?Ordinary 2 3-4 mills,
sinking fund debt and interest 1 mili.
Union?Ordinary 3 1-2 mills, road
tax 1 mill, rniltpad bonds 1 mill,
debt 1 mill, permanent road improve
ment* 1 mill, aid Confederate vet
erans 1-4 mill.
Williamsburg???Ordinary- 3 1-2
mills.
York?Ordinary 4 mills, Catawba
township 2 mills," Kbenezer 1 mill,
York 3 mills, to pay "interest on
bonds i-sued in aid of C. C! & C.
railroad. ?'
Alleged Yeggmen Acquitted,
.Marion, Special.?Charles How
ard and Thomas Nolan, alleged yegg
men, charged here with robbing the
Bank of Mullins, in December, 1902,
were tried this afternoon in the gen
eral sessions court and acquitted.
The trial began at 3 o'clock and last
ed until 0:30. The State introduc
ed IS witnesses ?piite a number of
them identifying the defendants and
testifying to their presence in Mui
lins amL previous to the commission
of the iTJuberv.
NKWSY GLEANINGS.
New 8outh Wales has decided to
assist British immigration.
Dominicans are intensely opposed
to the new treaty with the United
8tates. ? ,
Secretary of War Taft will go to
Cuba to study conditions there at
first hand.
Census figures of automobile man
ufacturing show a remarkable growth
in the industry.
Major-General Kelxri asked for a
court of honor to investigate hiB con
nection with tlio German election
scandal.
Reformers plan a Slate League to
watch and expose bad men and bad
measures in the Leglslaturu in Al
bany, N. Y.
Dr. II. W. Wiley, of the Agricultu
ral Department, declared one should
eat each day one per cent, of one's
own weight. v
C'harlea Buclc, the "man without a
country," deported from Canada, was
refused udmission to the insane asy
lum at Trenton, N. J.
The British Admiralty has ordered
all warships at sea to make meteor
ological reports, morning and even
ing, to wireless stations.
W. H. Truesdale, president of the
D ,.L. and \V? *aid tht, present cam
paign agAinKt railroads has its origin
ip high fitcutlvo authority.
The Chicago Motor Club has of*
{?red $10 reward for the arrest and
oonvlction of chauffeurs who yuu
away after caueing accident;.
DlctrcMlng.details of the famine in
China are contained ..in report* of
?xnariean consul*. It is estimated
that 4.000,000 people art actually
starving.
The British Government ban raised
the salary of It* Ambassador to the
United 8tatea to th* exact amount
paid annually to the President of the
United State*. _ ?
HUGE PROFITS POCKETED
RY HJIRRIMAM SYNDICATE
Most Amazing Jugglery of Mill
ions Ever Known.
TOOK $23,724,000 IN 7 YEARS
Validity of the Homls May 1 io (Jucs.
tinned? I,a\vs of Illinois Hold
'I'hal l iltl(Ions Increases of Cm|i>
i(al Stuck Are Void.
If Alt HIM AN SYNDICATE'S PRO
FITS IN ALTON DKAh.
$32,000,000tukenu) ?.i
ami go hi at ubout 90 |S, 000,000
.'itil per cent, dividend 0,000,000
$U2,000,000 bonds tak
en at about 00. sold
at SO 4,100.000
Sal* of preferred from
old to new company. 2,055,000
Sale of Spriugileld-Pco-.
ria branch line 100,0 00
Bonus voted to Mr. \
llnrrimun for sei v- \ |
ices i bo.000
Total in seven years
J ( 1 SI* to 1 H00) . . . 7\M,000 '
N?'w York City. When the Inter""'
state Commerce Commission finished |
ltn Inquiry into (he affair* of the
Union Pacific Hnilroad Hystent there j
stood revealed the enormous financial
power in the >ailroad world of K II.
Harriman, his autocratic domination i
over many great corporations and the
most amazing jugglery of millions
that the country has ever known.
Starting in 1898 with the Union
Pacific, then only emerging from
bankruptcy, lie has piled un issues of
sororities to InindredM of millions.
But standing out clearly and eon
Aiptely above all the oilier operations
in high finance is the astounding
looting of the Chicago and Alton Hail- 1
road.
It has not been noRslhlc. even with
the probe of the Commission, to find
the full extent of iliis profit. The ac
countants of the new management
are struggling over the books. Hut
there has been shown that the Harrl
man syndicate by iis operations has
secured in profits from that unfortu
nate company 823.721,000. How
much more was made by operations
as yet tin divulged can only be snr
mi ised.
The outstanding securities and lia
bilities of the companywe.ro Increased
from $39.93f?,887 in 1899 to $122.
872,328 in 1900. During that time,
according to Mr. llarriman's own tes
timony, only $22,000,000 wore ex
panded in improvt im niH and better
ments. The investigators of the In
terstate Commerce Commission figure
the expenditure as $ IS.000.000, but
allowing My. llarrlman the benefit or
the doubt, the enormous sum of $G1
000,000 watered securities was poured
into this one*? magnificent property.
The Constitution aud the statutes
of Illinois were read out on the last
day of the inquiry by Commissioner
Harlan, son of .luetics Harlan, of the
United State? Supreme Court. The
company is incorporated under, the
laws of that State. Article ll.ot the
Constitution provides:
"No railroad corporation shall is
sue any stocks or bonds excopt for
money, labor or property actually re
ceived and npplied to the purposes
for which such corporation was
created, and all stock dividends and
other fictitious Increase of the caplt*^.
stock or indebtedness of any such cor- '
poratlon shall be void."
This law calls Into serious question
the validity of the bonds so freely put
out by the company under the Harrl
man management. There ere. two
such Issues, the first of ?40,000,000,
of which $32,000,000are out?tandlng.
and the second of $22,000,000, all of
which are in the hands of the public.
The law of the State of New York |
was amended in 1900, through the
Influence of somebody, so that the ;
bonds of the Chicago and Alton road I
were made legal for investment by |
savings hanks.
President Felton, of the Chicago
and Alton, was a witness in the morn- j
lng to verify u statement that the
sum spent in Improving the Chicago I
and Alton property did not exceed I
$19,000,000 since the reorganization ]
of the company in 1S99. This was 1
placed In contrast with the testimony j
that the capitalization of tho com- |
pany had been Increased from $39,- i
935,887 at the end of 1898 to more !
than $122,000,000 by tho reorgani
zation, i
HOW HILL CROWD
MADE $34,000,000.
Philadelphia.?That James J. Hill
and. his associate In the control of the
Northern Pacific acquired a profit of
850 per cent. 011 a stock allotment at
the reorganization of that railroad is
one of the astounding statements 1
made by those who are interested in ;
demanding a probe of tho Hiil-Mor- !
gan financiering of the Northern Pa- I
clflc system. Hill and his crowd have '
been getting annual dividends
amounting to fifty per cent on their
investment of $4,000,000 made at the
time of iho reorganization.
Story of ^k'lrsysl.
Mrs. Viola Hywaters told tlie story
of her betrayal by Wllliftin Bywaters
at tho trial of her brothers, James |
and Philip Strother, at Culpeper, Va.
Spring Lamb Scarce.
Spring lamb is scarce and high, the
hind quarter $5 and the fore quarter
13,
Jfrllroud Are Kcanomlxlng.
fUilroada jrtoenrtly are economic
ing on their txyendllui-es, but there
is plenty of xvork the; r^ust be done
to keep, tho forges auu utile busy
tbrtfugn the y?ar.
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Farm Staple* Steady.
Farm staples are steady in price,
liberal foreign purchases precluding
any possibility of excessive stocks to
b? carried over from last year ? large
croP*
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ILLINOIS FARMER KILLS FOUR
Shocking Murderous Frenzy of
Thomas Baldwin, of Colfax.
Our of tlir Oid Mnii'.i Vitlimh \V.'
Fourteen-Year-oid Niece \\ho..i
He Had Mistreated.
Hloomlngton. lil. ? Ku raged by
(Siand Jury proijefdlnRs to punish
him for tnlulreatlng bis fourteen
year-old niece, Thomas Baldwin, n
wealthy farmer, *m> eight years old,
recently matin e widower, began it
campaign of vengeance, and wheu h<*
concluded four persons had been mur
dered. including the Hide girl whom
he had sc. outrageously wronged.
The child, Cora Kisoman. wus his
lust victim and Ma iunlet* of her wan
most cruel. Sh* had just seen he
lUttther shot to death and wan striv
i 11K t? escape by crawling through .1
thorny hedr.e when Haldwin t;.;: up
nnd shot ho.- to ileal 11.
Ha hi win resides iitvi;* Colfax and
i* one of Hit he?;t known men in the
county. l!<? was one of the Jcadiiu;
merchants of the town until he re
tired io live or. his farm. llis'largo
Ymerests in various enterprises made
bim of important ^ commoi'cinlly, and
-he wan one 01 the moat conapicuou ?
church member:; in the place.
I I/lift Octobc.' his wife died am! he
I seemed to mourn heiv?lt;?plv. iii? lit
| tlo niece. Cora Klsoiuan.^i ved with
I her motiicr and niatrV about tiiree
I miles northeast of, jArrowsmitl*. ten
! miles from IlaldwiirK home. lie went
(here a week after his wife's death
and persuaded Mrs Simeon !')!?em;iii
to let Cora live with him, paying h.
would take the he:?i of euro of hrr
ami provide liberally for her in his
1 will. Soon aft?r the giil became an
inmate of 11?^ liomi* he niist"Of?ted h<r
on a lonely country road between Col
fax and Afrowsmith The nil I told
, her mother, ami Mi*-. KUpuihu, being
! averse tt> iij:< notoriety which would
attend prosecution. refrained fnm
J making formal complaint. Baldwin
| In the meantime rave her S?iOO in wet*
j tlenient.
i lialdwln thtin supposed the nint'e;*
: ha<l been finally disposed of, but the
news of his offense was carried to
StstP H Attorney \V. H. Bach, and h<?
propmtly submitted the case to the
(b and Jury and Haiti win wuh indicted.
On being arrested Baldwin vowed
vnugcanee upon everybody connected
with the proceedings to punish him.
Nevertheless he was released on
j $1000 bond.
j During the morula;; Haldwin took
a revolver, a supply of cartridge!: and
i a quart bottle of whisky and drove to
j Arrowsni'.th. He llrst went to i.lio
I homo of Mr. and Mrs. Clrirl?? Ken
nedy, friends of the Wisemans, v horn
I he suspected of giving the facia to
J the State's Attorney, aud shot them
1 both dead.
I Then lie re-entered his bu:;gy nnd
! drove to the Kite man lioni?. Mrs
i Eiueman saw him coming an.l, fear
! ing him, called ("ova and the other
j children into the house and locked
the door. Presently, however, she
j opened the door and tried to mollify
j Haldwin. but his answer w.n to tiro
two bullets into her breast, killing
her Instantly.
! Corn and tho other children started
to run. Baldwin paid no attention
? to the others, but with ourse<t fed
! lowed the little girl whom ho had
j wronged. She had reached a -.edge
and was crawling through to reach
some neighbors when he reached her.
He shot her dead while :die was beg
ging for mercy.
Haldwin then hunted up a deputy
sheriff at Arruwgpiith and Etjrren
I dered.
llKCKlVEll FOR MRS.' KM)Y.
Relatives Sue to Have llor Declared
Incompetent.
Concord, N. If.?Application wofl
i made In the SuperloV Court of Merri
mac County for an account ins of the
financial affairs of Mrs. Mary Baker
Glover Eddy, the founder oj' the
Christian Science movement au:1 pas
tor mnerituH <?f the Flrfet Church of
j Christ, Scientist, iu Bosom.
'l'he application was In tho form of
a bill in equity and the petitioners
I weffc George W. Glover, a ton of Mrs.
I Eddy by her tirBl husband, whoj?e
1 residence is given ai Dead wood, S,
I J).r hie daughter, Mlas Mary Baiter
I Glover, and George W.Baker, of Han
| gor, Me., Mrs. Eddy ? only surviving
nephew, a sou or '.he late Czo.zc Sal-,
llvan Bauer.
BURNETT DlI S IX ALBANY.
New York Assemblyman 111 J.ess
Than a-Week With Pneumonia.
Albany, X. V. ? Jean La Hue Bur
nett, member of the Assembly from
Ontario County, died at the Ten Eyck
Motel after an illness of less than a
week, of pneumonia.
As the news of Mr. Burnett's d truth
was announced vrord was received
here that a f.on was horn to Mrs. Bur
nett at Canandaigusi.
Assemblyman Burnett was
the bent known, as well an one of the
inpit popular members of iite Legis
lature.
lie was the third member o? the
Assembly to die this session.
King Open* XeiV "Old Wailrj/*
The new }I,GOO,000 (Central Crim
inal Court House, built on the Kit#; of
the historic Newgate Prison, In Lon
don, coftimonly known as tho O'd
Bailey, was opened by King Edward.
It was a semi-state affair and there
iy.
was ginch flwajb
Amaaing KailronU Mlxmaiiutfement.
0. W. Hfill aid, CuijUollev of O?o
Chicago tDd Alton, told the latfiv
(tate Commerce Coromtsilou, in >'?w
York City, that tht Kfcrrlraan wn
ngemeut bad uiortjared a branch
Hue and'told the boa<la before con*
atrnctioa was beguu.
AuwtwAD SfcurltlcM Att.nUWJ.
An attMck on American railway *o
curltlea yaa made In the German
Rilcbetag by a free conservative'
member.
DEATH RATE AND DISEASE
Tuhercu osls and Pnsumonia at
Top of List of FMa! Afflictions.
Army ?>f Cmiw Vlciiins (?rowing-?*
JUsi'iiM' T.:!.???. S<'t*ii(li dace in
InitcdSt;?{<?? Wort;iliil'libli'.
Washington, I). C. Out of only
two-ilfihs of 11)o populatIon of the
Unit ml Suites more than half a million
lives were offered up in 1905 as a
Bacrlfico to disease. Startling as
this death J ft to may seem it was less
than that for the preceding year, but
wa? in excess of the number of
deaths registered for any other year.
The death rate from nephritis and
Rright's disease, aooploxy, caticnr,
diabetes and appendicitis is increas
ing. while that from old ago, bron
chitis, (Convulsions, peritonitis and
scarlet fever is decreasing.
The greatest death rate recorded
for any one disease in 1 i?0r? was that
from pulmonary tuberculosis, amount
ing to 50,770. vihile pneumonia fol
lows closely with a death rate of 39,
068, exclusive i>f broncho-pneumonia.
The much dreaded cancer shows a
steadily growing death rate, the
figures being 24,330.
The above are l he more interest ing
facts brought out in a report, issued
by the Census Hureau. giving the sta
tistics of mortality for 1005. The
statistics Jn this report are restricted
to States in which the laws requiring
the registration of deaths have been
acc--\ted as giving practically ootp
pjetl* mortality returns and to cities
in non-registration States in which
satisfactory lyturuH are required by
the local authorities.
This regiat.rat.lon area i;i 1905 con
sisted of ten registration States, the
District of Columbia and 123 regis
tration cities in non-registration
States. The ten registration States
were Connecticut. Indiana, Maine.
Massachusetts. Michigan. Now Hamp
shire. New .ler.sey. Now York, Rhode
island and Vermont. The population
qt the entire area in 15MJ# was 30.
71>5.6IK, representing 40.5 per cent,
of the total population of the United
Sti'.tfls.
The total number of deaths report
ed from tlie various kindB of diseases
in 1H<>5 aggregated 545,533. and
those for the preceding year amount
ed to 551,35 4. On a percentage ba
sis the death rate was in 1905 ifl.'J
in each 1000 of population. The fol
lowing llgures show the death rat?s
per 10 00 of the rcgultdration States
for 1905:
Connecticut, 16.5; District of Co
lumbia, 20.5: Indiana, 12.8*. Maine,
16.2; Massachusetts, 11?.S ; Michigan,
13.5; New Hamsliipvq* 17; New jer
sey, 15.8; New York; 17; Rhode Isl
and. 17.1. and Vermont, 17.
The causes, with their rates, to
which twenty or more deaths per
100,000 of population were attributed
in 1905, ranked, according to num
ber of deaths per 100,000, are as fol
lows; Tuberculosis of lungs, 1(58.2;
pneumonia, 150.1; heart disease,
132.5; diarrheoa and enteritis, 116.7;
nephritis and Hright's disease, 114.3;
r.poplet.v, 7 2.2; cancer, 72.1; acciden
tal traumatisms, 42.1; old age, 36.4;
meningitis, 34.5; bronchitis, 33.5;
premature birth, 32.9; congenital de
bility, 31.5; typhoid fever, 28.1, aud
diphtheria and croup, 23.8.
Cancer ranks seventh among tho
various causes of death. Of the 24,?
330 deaths from this disease, 0180
were of males, while 15,141 were of
females.
LONQFELLOW HONORED.
Celebrations of the Port's Hirtliuay fu
Maine and Boston.
Boston, Mass.?Tho love lu whirh
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in held
was Riven exprosslon throughout Now
England by oxerclnc? commemorating
the 100th anniversary of tho poet's
birth. In Maine, where tho poet was
born, and in Massachusetts, where
he spent many of the most important
years of his literary life, tho principal
public observances wero held, but
there was acarcely a public school or
literary society In this section which,
did not devote some titua to his mem*
ory.
The most Important features of tho
celebration wero in Cambridge, Mass,,
at Panders Theatre when Rlias Perry,
editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Presi
dent Charles W, Eliot, of Harvard
University; Colonel Thomas Went
worth lllggluson; Professor Charles
Eliot Norton, of Harvard, and others,
took part,
IIARIUMAN ATTACKS FISH.
Says He "Looked Upon Illinois Cen
tral as His Personn! Property."
New York City. ? Overshadowing
all developments having any direct
bearing upou the subject-matter of its
inquiry into the management of the
llarriman raihoad empire, the Inter
state Commerce Commission listened
to a bitter personal attack upon Sluy
vosant I<Msh, former prtfsidept of the
Illinois Central Ilallroad, by Edward
H. H^rriman, once Mr. Fish's closest
business associate, but now his foe.
Mr. llarriman charged Mr. Fish
with having deposited half u million
dollars of ihe railroad funds with the
then bhaUy and tiow defunct Trust
Company of the Republic, or which
he was a director, and asserted that
Mr. Fish hud been forced by the Illi
nois Central directors to withdraw
the mouey. v>\
"He looked upon the Illinois Cen
tral as his own personal property,"
said Mr? llarriman.
Coupb Klein by Robbers.
^Joseph BIWsf, a wealthy French*
Pie wife were both found
dead et Coifex, U. BMei's body,
with til# heed almost <jut off, *m
touiil houee, wh|le his wtfe%
bod/ 14? ie front 1**b with sev
er*! trollst wounds risible, it le be
IIIN4 that robbers killed both, as
916,000 Is nfpslng from the house.
Russians Fight Chinese Bandits.
Russians near Harbin are enfefed
In flfhtljn Chinese baudtts, ^
Tha O*owa,
What i* tho pi if*' dial tho soul must
pa*.
'I\? wear a crown in the fevered racet
What must I barter or give away
That 1 may mount to a cherished
place t
Tho road is long, and ilie light is
strong.
So what, <> world, is tho hattle sont
What i-. the cost to the soul, 0
World,
If I should scale to the dizzy crest,
And there with the Mag to success un
furled,
Find them a bubble, the Fame and
rent 1
What is the price if I should win,
And the soul bo marked with the
stain of sin'/
What of tha lustre, 0 World, of gold
When Sleep comes down to the tired
eyes J
What of tho glory that Famo may
hold
When night shades fall and the sun
light dies?
What will it matter, when ail is done,
Whether the race he lost or won?
(live me the battle, O World of light,
And the eroWus yc have?they may
all decay!
Hut give mo the blood, the strength
and might
To keep from faltering on the way.
All 1 ask when the twilight slips,
Is the crown of love?your aims and
Going !/&ound.
"There are severe pcnaltio^ for
racing motorcars through Hhode Is
land."
'?Well, luckily, it takes only a few
minutes to make tho detour.M
Explained.
Dolly?What do you support) Mild
red means by calling her sweetheart
a great bear.
Polly-?Oh, bears are great for hug
*"*? /
Amendiuont Accepted.
Hicks?That man is positively dis
honest !
Wicks- From what I have heard
you tell I should say that he was
superlatively dishonest.
Didn't Get Any.
"I didn't let Jack kiss mo at all
last, night."
"Why not, dear7"
"Ho didnknow enough to do it
the way 1 told him not to."
The Modern Way.
"I should like to get something in
a fancy vest." said the customer at
I he haberdashery. " Nothing very
loud, please."
"All right, sir," replied "the
ing clerk.
guarantee
per.
iea.se.'
right, sir," replied "the obiig?
rk. "Here's sometbfegjjf we'll
tee won't talk above a wKU* 1
The best thing in the world is to
live about it.?-Latin. So, ]0-'07.
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