The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 08, 1910, Image 1
VOLUME XXI. CAMDEN, 8. 0.* FRIDAY, APfMl* 8,1910.
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NO. 12.
lOOO Girls (Jo On Strike.
Louisville, Ky.-?One thousand
girls and women employed an stem,
mem In factories of the American
Tobacco Company quit work because
of a decrease in wage*.
Mother Dead, Uojr Ends Life,
Brockton, Mass.-?Believing that
Ills mother's constant care for him
during a two years' illness had
hastened her death by apoplexy,
Frederick B. Hall, eighteen years old,
killed hlmHelf by shooting at his home
at North Maston. They were burled
together.
Sued For Theft of Heart.
New York City.?Because the bou)
of the son Bhe loved was robbed of its
heart, Mrs. Mary Hassard has brought
suit for |25,000 against Dr. Timothy
D. Lehane, a Coroner's physician. She
charges that Dr. Lebane performed
an autopsy on the body and in doing
so illegally abstracted and retained
the heart.
Arkansas Governor Renominated.
Little Hock, Ark.?Returns from
the Democratic primary indicate that
Governor Donaghey has been renom
Inated by a large plurality.
Suffragists Turned Down.
?Boatoii.?-The advocates of woman
suffrage lost their annual fight in
the lower branch of the Legislature
by a vote that varied but little from
that of last year.
Matches Kill Hoy, Mother Burned.
Berryville, Vrt.?While playing
with matches at his home, near here,
the young son of J. C. Royston, a
farmer, was burned to death. In
frantic efforts to' rescue her child,
the mother was severely burned and
will lose one of her hands.
Pardon Frees a Slasher.
Woodstock, Va.?Kirby J. Dow?
man, ^ wealthy farmer, who has been
confined in jail here since October,
was released, having been pardoned
by Governor Maun. He was sentenced
for one year for cutting Robert Lantz
over a horse deal.
Congress to Decide Gift.
Washington, D. C.?Congress win
be asked to decide whether the Treas
ury Department may accept a chime
of heavy bells Mr3. Andrew C. Wain
wrlght, of Boston, ha3 offered for the
new custom house here. She proposes
to endow a guild of bell ringers. _ '
Miss Jackmnn Dies, 102 Years Old.
Boston.?Miss Mary Martha Jack*
man, the oldest resident of Boston,
died in Roxbury. She was born In
Newburyport in 1S08.
Sick Man Killed Wife.
Springfield, Mo.?Zach Ward, seri
ously ill, was carried on a cot from
his house to the County Jail here be
cause it was feared he might bo
lynched by indignant neighbors. He
has been bedridden for months. A
few days ago he called his wife to
his bedside and shot her four times.
She died iff a few minutes. He had
hidden a reyolver under his pillow.
Strikers Will Keep Secret.
Washington, D. C.?The War De
partment does not apprehend that
striking workmen at the Bethlehem
Steel Works will embarrass it by
making publio any o: the secrets of
big gun construction. This fear has
been advanced by the American Fed
eration of Labor. The War Depart
ment says It has no secrets of gun
construction; the secrets belong to
the manufacturers and inventors,
Jean Moreas, Poet, Dies.
Paris.?Jean Moreas," French poet,
died here. He was born In 1866. He
was known as the leader of the Deca
dent School, and edited several of the
newspapers of this cylt, such as Le
Decadent and La Vogue.
Princcss to Sue a Baroness.
Brussels.-?The court authorized
the Princesij Louise to begin a suit
for the nullification of Baroness
Vaughan's ownership of two villas in
Ostend, built on ground bought by
King Leopold of Belgium. The daugh
ter contends that the money thus
bpent belongs rightfully to her fath
?r'? heirs.
Pope Receives Mgr. Cerretti.
Rome.?The Pope received in a
private1 audience Mgr. Bonaventure
Cerretti, auditor of the Papal Delega
tion in Washington, D. C.
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Prince Iwakura Dead. ,
j' Toklo.?Prince Tomosada Iwakura,
L. Minister of the Japanese Imperial
ijtHoueehohl, is dead. He was at one
time "Vice-Grand Chamberlain, Privy
Councillor, and Director of the Peer
ige Bureau. He was born In 1851,
ind was the oldest son of the late
ePiinee Iwakura, one of the principal
^Imperialists in the struggle which led
?to restoration.
French Tariff In Qneralion.
""-Boris.?The new tariff law #ss pro.
nlgated in the official journal, and
came legally operative on April K
simultaneously with the Franco
?rllf agreement.
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noovfTfii Dpfftnv ?
-The Young Bgypt com
ittee here hap published a protest
ilnst Colonel Roosevelt's speech at
i*. {H declares that his remarks
... offensive to the whole nation,
_ Jd were made only with- the object
pleasing his official hosts.
Rate Drops.
LondoW.?England's birth rate laot
r ^raaYhe lowest ou record?25.58
__ 100.0 bf population. This Is near
1.0 belpw the rate for 1908, which
jttlMliiM over vtMT|
!?r m?#r
SSSiKfcs .. <? -
BUCKET SHOP RAID
MADE I FIVE CITIES
Leaders of Swindling Game, Na
tional In Scope, Caught ?
MILLIONAIRES IN THE TOILS
Bo|u Stock Operators Amstfd Af
ter Wire-Tupping by Secret Ser
vice Detective* to Secure Kyi
deuce of the Fraudulent Work.
New York (Hty. ? A nation-wide
I campaign, begun by the Department
of Juitice at Washington, D. C., for
I the suppression of bucket shops or
j bogus stock brokerage offices, was
brought to a climax by simultaneous
raids on brokers' offices In New
York City and four other cities, and
on one Stock Exchange, the Consol
idated of Philadelphia, Pa.
For two months tho Government
had been working secretly to obtain
evidence against the "bucket bri
gade," moved thereto by hundreds
of complaints, many of them i from
women, which had been received at
Attorney-General Wlckersham'a office.
Each of the complainants told of hav
ing been swindled by the operations
of the bi)okot ^
In searching for evidence the Gov
ernment had to resort to "wire tap
ping" and several other extraordi
nary means, to strictly had the brok
ers guarded themselves.
The roundrup of the raids showed
eighteen men In the tolls,with twelve
more to come.
The names of the men arroBted
ire:
Richard E. Preusser, Leo Mayor,
Oliver J. Robinson, of New York
City; Virgil P. Welden, James Q. An
derson, Harry M. Randolph, Charles
T. Morehead and William B. Price,
Df Baltimore: GeorgeTurner, of Phil
adelphia; Harry Owens, of New York
City; Marshall F. Parrlsb, of Phlla
Jelpbia; Henry C, Stumf, of Jersey
City; A1 Ford, of Philadelphia, and
Thomas H. Campbell, of Baltimore.
Angelo Celia, of Jersey City, and
Louis A. Cella, surrendered In New
York City. They were all held In
f5000 bonds each.
Edward Everett Taylor, Henry R.
Duryee and Charles R. Alley, of
I Washington, D, C.; Edward Altemus,
!t)scar J. Rappel, Samuel Raymond
knd Robert Hall, of Jersey City;
IVilliam H. Ellis, Edward 8. Boggs,
Uobert Guy, of New York City, were
imong those still at large, but for
whom warrants havo been issued.
New York City's contribution to
the haul was five?Leo Mayer, Rich
ird E. Preusser. Oliver J. Robinson
ind the two Cellas, Of these Mayer
ind the Cellas are counted million
aires. Of the men wanted two more
ire alleged to be in that same finan
cial class,
Mayer and the Cellas have nation
al reputations as bookmakers or turf
(nen. Preusser Is the man who killed
Myles McDonald, a notorious bad
man, In the Hotel Ten Eyck, In Al
bany, N. Y"., some years ago follow
ing a depute over the distribution of
lome of the "profits" of a bucket
ihop transaction. .
LIFE TERM FOll UXORICIDE.
Second Degree Verdict For Man Who
Killed His Wife.
Wilmington, Del.?A sentence of
ife imprisonment followed a second
iegree verdict rendered against Will
lam Simpson, Who shot his wifo at
Richardson's Park last December, the
K'oman dying several weeks later.
, When the verdict was announced
Simpson's three (laughters and two
listers wept bitterly and almost col
lapsed, but the defendant was un?
Moved.
? The defense contended that Simp
ion was not Accountable for the mur.
ler because his head bad been Injured
n accidents and because he had im
>ibed two galls of whisky in tho
our days preceding the ghootlng.
COURT WIPES OUT COLOR LINE.
Kegro Porter Awarded $1000 Dam
ages For False Arrest.
New York City.?GeorgeW. Griffin,
i negro porter, wap awarded $1000
lamages for false arrest and impison
hent from D. M. Brady, a manufactu
rer, by a jury in the Supreme Court,
rhe verdict derived Interest from the,
[act that on a former trial of the case
>efore Justice Dngro the court. In set
ting aside a verdict of. $2500 as ex
cessive, laid down the dictum that a
[olored man could not suffer shame to
(he same extent as a white man as the
tault of falBe arrest.
? In charging the Jury In the present
trial JqstlceMoCall expressed an opin
ion diametrically opposite.
MINIMUM TARIFF FOR ALL,
raft Unable to Find a Nation That
Discriminate".
| Washington, D. C.?President Taft
| saving been satisfied that the United
| Rtates la not being discriminated
| igalqst In tariff schedules by any of
the countries of the world, the Treas
ury Department notified customs edl
I jectors that the maximum tariff rates
i sf the new law are nof to be applied
igalnst Imports from anywhere.
On the contrary, they were in
formed that the minimum rates now
applied are to remalnj(n force. Had
there been an Imposition or the maxi
mum schedules agatmt any nation
! they would have become operative* a*
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~?r Carnegie Talks ?Hrs#ti -
Andrew Carnegie had twer fainting
spells in Pittsburg, where he talk?d
of graft, the Rockefeller Foundation.
and said the submerged -tenth ought
hot to be permitted to ??mr. TV^
C&4- No FlrefTOffcs remitted.* V s
No fireworks will be sold at retail
In New York lK$VC*??n June 1*
and July 10 this year. Mayor Gaynor
ordered Fire Commissioner Waldo to
carry oot a rnle toade a year M
tgo, hut not ei\tm# last j*x.
300,000 BITUMINOUS COIL
MS BECOME IDLE
The Industries of Eleven States
Are Affected.
WAGE CONTRACTS HAD EXPIRED
Miner* Quit Work For an Enforced
Holiday of Unknown Duration on
Anniversary of Eight-Hour Day
??Good Spirit Manifested.
Indianapolis, Ind.?Celebrating the
Anniversary of the institution of the
eight-hour day in the mines of the
country, 300,000 bltumlnouo eoal
miners faced an enforced holiday of
unknown duration.
In many 8tates the two-year wago
contract expired at midnight, and the
miners quit the coal pits, demanding
that their new contract must provide
for a wage increase of 5.55 per cent,
a ton on screened coal and an equiva
lent increase on "run of mine" coal.
President Lewis, of the United
Mine Workers of America, said that
300,000 men had quit work.
"We feel, however," continued the
miners' president, "that the prospect
is very satisfactory for the miners, j
In muiij uiaiiiCin it !b ?Otf Oii<7 r.
question of the miners and operators
sitting down togetherand talking over
business.
"In Eastern Ohio it is reportofpJJflV
ub that three of the largest companies
arfi ready to sign the contract we for
mulated at our recent meeting in Cin
cinnati.
/'In Indiana and the Hocking dis
trict of Ohio we will reach a settle
ment next week. There probably will
be more difficulty in Western Penn
sylvania and In Illinois, where the
powder and shot fliers' wage question
is Involved."
The men affected by the "suspen
sion," according to President Lewis,
are distributed as follows:
Western and Central Pennsylvania,
100,000; Ohio, 47,000; Indiana, 18,
000; West Virginia, 10,000; Illinois,
72,000*,' Iowa, 16,000; Michigan,
3000; Kansas^ Arkansas, Texas and
Oklahoma, 25,000; Colorado, 5000;
Western Kentucky, 5000. Total,
300,000.
The tonnage of the various States
is estimated at: Pennsylvania, 150,
000,000 tons; Illinois, 50,000,000
tons; Ohio, 30,000,000 tons; Indiana.
13,000,000 tons; Iowa. 8,000.000
tons; Kansas, 8,000,000 tons; Mis
souri, 4,000,000 tons; Oklahoma, 3,
000,000 tons; Arkansas, 2,000.000
tons; Texas, 2,000,000 tons; Michi
gan, 2,000,000 tons, and Colorado
and Kentucky with small output,
making the total production In excess
of 272,000,000 tons.
The total bituminous coal produc
tion In-the-Unlted States In the year
1907, which was the banner year, was
894.759,112 short tons. In 1908 the
production, due to the trade depres
sion, fell off about 60,000,000 tons,
but last year It Increased close to thje
1907 total. The production of an
thracite amounts to approximately
80,000,000 tons ajtear. i
News of the first victory for the
miners was received by the National'
officers of the United Mine Workers
from Brazil, the centre of the Indiana
block coal district. At the close of a
secret conference between the miners
and operators of that district, It was
announced that the operators would
grant a wage Increase of five cents a
ton to the miners and that there
would be no strike.
The Western Brick Company, of
Danville. 111., which mines its own
coal and "employes several hundred
men, was granted permission by the
United Mine Workers of Illinois to
Continue mining coal with its present
force, pending the signing of the new
wage contract. The Hegeler plant at
Lasalle also will be permitted to con
tinue to mine forItsown consumption.
OYSTER BATHS MUST STOP.
Jersey Floaters Lose Appeal For Dip.
ping Bivalves.
..Washington, D. C.?Oysters can no
longer be fed, or, as the trade term
goes, "floated in brackish water," be
fore they are ofTered for sale. The
Department of Agriculture has or
dered that the practice must stop at
once. The order affects all the oyBter
trade in the United States and is of
Immense importance to dealers.
Recently the Department gave a
hearing to 200 New Jersey oystermen.
who maintained that the quality of
the oyster (s improved by the floating
process, and that the Department's
ban meant ruin to their business.
The Department, however, holds
that to float an oyster after It la taken
from Its bed, provides means for the
oyster to take In contamlqation from
the water and offera risk of typhoid.
COMMITTEE ON SUB8IDY LOBBY.
Will Investigate Charge Made Against
Merchant Marine League. '
Washington, D. C.?Speaker Can
non announced the appointment of
the committee authorised under the
Fteenerson resolution to Investigate
the charges of lobbying made repeat
edly against the Merchant Marine
League and other organizations Inter
ested in the 8hlp Subsidy bill.
? The members are: J. Van Vdchten
Olcott (Rep.). New York, chairman;
Nleholas Longworth (Rep.), Ohio;
Willis C. Hawley (Rep.), Oregon;
RenjapilQ'' O. Humphreys (Dem.),
Mia*.; Finis J. <3arrett (DenS.), Tenn.
RIGHT XQ STREET CAR SEAT.
Mas Who Gets It Ratified to Hold It.
a Court Deckles.
?? fit. tools, Mo.-?"Title to a seat In a
street car reels la the man who gets It
first.la preference to tka tnan
sees It first," declared Judge Rlelber
In the Municipal Police Court, his de
cision settling a long-disputed point
la the conduct of straphangers.
William Glover, who get a eeat
first and foiiRht to keen it from O*oar
Wsgnsr, who saw U first, was Wiere
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RAILWAY WAGES INCREASED
Freight and Passenger Tariffs Re*
vised to Meet Costs.
KnllroadN Announce Kilse Tit $20,?
000,000 on Payrolls?-High Cost
of Living One of easons.
Chicago, 111.?An increase of near
ly $20,000,000 annually in (lie wage*
of railroad employed hu? boon either
granted or offered by railroads
throughout the country within a com
paratively short period, acordlug to
announcements that followed the de
cision of officers of tho Pennsylvania
Railroad to boost the pay of its army
of employes to the,extent of $7,000,
0p0 a year.
Oeneral prosperity throughout the
country, an unusual increase in the
volume of business and the present
high cost of living were the three
salient reasons aasigned for the Penn
sylvania increasing tho pay of its
workers. It means that 195,000 em
ployea of the company will obtain au
addition of six per cent, to the
amount they have received for their
services on eaoh pay day heretofore.
Information concerning the action of
the Pennsylvania Railroad manage
ment scarcely had been given general
circulation before word waa Hashed
frfim Philadelphia, thai lh? Philadel
phia and Reading Rati way Company
had granted, an advance aggregating
11,400,000 a year to 37,000 em
ployes.
Colnc.dent with the announcements
It was reported that railroads?ICast
and West?intended to advance com
modity carload freight rates follow
ing the wage. Increases. That the
roads will mako every effort to meet
these advances by higher freight rates
is regarded by the shippers as inevita
ble to-prevenfa-cut-In their profits.
Rate clerkB of tho Western Trunk
Line Association have been checking
over tho tariffs for several weeks for
the purpose of demonstrating which
rates may be deemed most susceptible
of advancement. They havo com
pared the. commodity rates with tho
class rates on similar articles and
their figures will bo considered by tho
traffic officers.
The announcement at New Haven,
Conn!, of the proposed increaso
brought forth no official statomont
from the companies, but It was said
authoritatively that tho New Haven
Company had not departed from Its
policy, put into effect in 190G, of a
two-cent8-a-mile rate over all lines.
The new move Is made, It Is said, to
"equalize rates on subordinate lines,
leaving the main lino rates practically
aB they are at present." Being face
to face with an Increase In operating
expenses tho company Is taking this
means to Increase the annual Income
from those lines which, in its estima
tion, can be called upon equitably to
contribute to that Increase.
The faro from New York to Boston
will be $4.75 Instead of $4.65, as at
present.
The recent wage advances made or
offered by railroads are as follows:
Pennsylvania, ? east of Pittsburg.
S4.0ft0.000; Pennsylvania, west of
Pittsburg. $3,000,000; New York
Central, east of Buffalo, $750,000;
New York Central system, west of
Buffalo, $500,000; New York, New
Haven and Hartford, $500,000; other
New England lines, $250,000; trunk
lines other than Ponnsylyanla and
New York Central, $2,000,000; Now
York-Buffalo roads and coal roads.
$1,000,uOO; Southern roads, $1,000,
000; lines west of Chicago, $5,000,
000; Philadelphia and Reading, $1,
400,000. Total, $19,400,000.
N. Y. Central Raises Wages.
New Ycrk City.?W. C. Brown,
president of the New York Central,
announced that the wages of yard
conductors and yard brakemen would
bo Increased three cents an hour. The
wages of all other employes of the
road receiving a monthly salary of
1200 or less will be Increased seven
per cent.
THOUGHT RESURRECTION ON.
Hearse and Body Disappeared Wlien
Undertaker Turned Back.
Boston, Mrbs.?ViBions of the dead
arisen floated before the eyes of Un
dertaker James A. Goudey when a
hody in his charge disappeared.
Goudey had driven his hearse, con
taining the body of-afman, to tho old
Court House and entered the munici
pal offices to secure a burial permit.
When he came out, body, hearse and
hor6e were gone.
A search, however, revealed the ve
hicle around the corner, with another
man on th? box. A suspicious police
man was talking to the man and, af
ter he had heard Goudey's story,
placed the stranger under arrest.
The man, who gave his name as
Donsld Beulslack, said another man
had aaked him to drive the hearse
around the corner.
COLUMBUS INDICTS FIVE.
Forty-nine Counts of Rendering False
Bills Returned Against Them.
Columbus, Ohio. ? The Franklin
County Grand Jury returned forty
nine Indictments against five men on
the charge of rendering false bills
and collecting money thereon.'*
Those indicted are Judge John T.
Gale, president of the Ruggles-Gale
Company, of Columbus; G. L. Rug
gles, its vice-president; George B.
Wood, dark under -ex-Secretary of
State Lalin; Harry E. King, of War
ren, Ohio-, ex-clerk under Railroad
Commissioner Morris; J. E. McCaf
ferty and J. T. Paine. ~
COMMITS HIMSELF TO JAIL.
Reaentfp) Man insists Indictment is
r/\. ***? Conviction.
Columbus, Ohio,?Former Probate
Judge Joba T. Gale, president of tfaft
Ruggles-Gale Company, who was in
dieted on three counts for alleged giv
ing of bribes to George 8. Wood*, ap
reared atfbe Court HooK^Bnd forced
the authorities to lock fcl? up, de
claring:
"I consider this Indictment a con
\lction, and it is now up to tfie court
to aenteact we "
MORE PITTSBURG MF1ERS
One of the Accused, Or. E. R.
Walters, is Health Director.
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Confession of Kx-Whlp Stewart It*
t?>Ivoh Health Director Walters??
Selectmen Took 9100 lo 91000.
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Pittsburg, Pa ?Dr. B. R. Walter*
ex-President of the Select Council,
who now It Director of Public Health
and Charities, was Indicted tor ac
cepting a |1000 bribe. Fifteen other
ex-Selectmen, none of whom hitherto
Jiave been mentioned, were named
also in the Grand Jury's report as
having received amounts from $100
to $1000. The Indictments matte a
total of ninety-one In threo reports of
the Grand Jury within two weeks.
Thirty more officials, directors and
employes of tho six banks alleged to
have paid money to obtain an ordi
nance naming them as city deposi
tories and four local express agenth
were before the Graud Jury, which
van seeking to trace the |4R,000 sent
or taken to New York City to be
passed over thorp to Charlos Stewart,
ex-whip of the Council.
*The Indictments were based upon
the confession of Stewart that he
had distributed to these sixteen men
$12,000 to buy their votes in favor
ths u^K'k 1 ordinance.
T. H. Given, president of tho Farm
?rs' Deposit National Rank, and Presi
dent Emll Winter, of the. Working
men's Savings Hank, were among
those who testified. The progress
of tho Grand Jury in Its probe for
the "men higher up" was not die
closed, but progress was made and
tho naming of bigger men Ib certain
to come soon.
Captain John Klein went lo the
Western Penitentiary, and, following
his Irrepressible attitude sineo his
confession, called Up the Sheriff from
Warden Francis' office and told that
official he had "better como down the
river with his commitment" If he
wished to servo It.
Klein, unless he Is pardoned, which
is not at all unlikely, will serve thres
and a half years. Ills voluntary trip
to tho penitentiary, accompanied only
by two county detectives, was taken
to mean( that tho District Attorney
and Grand Jury wero through with
him, having gained all tho informa
tion the little rlverman is able rto
furnish. ? . .?
ClerkshlpB In different shone havo
been provided at the penitentiary for
William W. Itamsey, Joseph Wasson
and William Brand, who havo begun
serving sentences for participation In
tho Councllmanic bribery scandal.
Ramsey was formerly a bank Presi
dent. Brand and Wesson were mem
bers of Common Councils.
EX-JUDGE JOHN R. BARKALOW,
Ho Presided In Common Pleas Court
For Twenty-five Venrs.
Pateraon, N. J.?John Swartwout
Barkalow, for a Quarter of a century
Judge of the Common fleas Court of
Passaic County, died at his home, No.
2 75 East Eighteenth street, from a
complication of diseases.
Judge Barkalow was born in Som
erville, N. J., on November 11, 1834.
He .was a grandson of Mrs. John
8wartwout, who concealed Akron iBurr
In a closet in her homo after ho had
killed. Alexander Hamilton, and en
abled him to escapo on a s\hlp for
England. His father, Daniel Barka
low, was a noted New Jersey lawyer.
EXPLOSION ON CRUISER.
tight Men Killed at Olongnpo, Phil
ippine Islands.
Manila, P. I.-?A premature ex*
plosion, which blew off the breech
block of a three-inch gun, caused the
ieath of eight men on the cruiser
Charleston off Olongapo, Luton.
The names and resklenoes of the
men who were killed are: Walter
Anstedt, Trenton, 111.; Mail*. Bar
nard, Cave in Rock, 111.: Robs Bark
man, Mckinley, Ind.; Harry I Reeve*
Graden, Chested, Pa.; Henry Almond
Heater, Smithland, ICy.;'Philip John
McKee, West Nanticokd, Pa.; Leo
Remmele, Omaha, Neb.: Edward Al
bert Molln, Rockford.Ill.
ARMOUR REGRETS DEAR MEAT.
He is Sorry For Packers, Who Make
More Money When Meat Is Low.
Omaha, Neb. ? The peoplo of the
entire country have the\ sympathy of
J. Ogden Armour, president of the
Armour Packing Company, in the
trouble they are having'to secure
meat at living prices.
Mr. Armour, who wasvin Omaha on
a trip of Inspection of his packing
plants, saya:
"I am awfully sorry to see the .peo
ple compelled to pay these big prices.
It's too bad. I am sorry for the^pack
ers, too, for we cannot make asjipuch
money when meats are high as we
can when they are low."
Thirty-eight Rankers in Ono Prison.
William H. and Noah Marker,
brothers, were received at the Fed
sral penitentiary, Leavenworth, $an.,
under- sentence for, embezzlement
f^om the First National Bank oi
Tiptop, Ind. There are now thirty
eight bankers In the prison.
Man KfH*d by Lightning;
A bolt of lightning In a shower
struck William Rimcus as he patsed
near a tree on his way home tro^a
work In South Fayette Township,
nrjir Pittsburgh Pa- He wm killed in
stantly, - ?
Masked Men Kin Boy.
Charles Carroll, the sixteen-year
old eon ot a fanner, was ktllod at his
home, at Goffs, Edmonton; County,
Ky.. by a band of twelve masked men.
Carroll was caned to the door of his
home and shot tn the back.
Nearly Fifty Gypsies Drowsed.
A caravan ot fifty gypsies fcroke
through the ice on Charemenetskl
Lake, near Luge, Russia. Of the
men, women and children all but a
tow w#rt drowned, 3
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SOUTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS
Tito Oream of News Item* (lathered
From All Over Boutk Carolina
and Boiled Down.
(Columbia Adopts Commission Form
of Ooverument.
By a majority of 2-1 to 1, Columbia
Saturday adopted the commission
form of government.
City council opposed the change.
The now form has nil the essential
features of the l>es Moines and Coun
cil Bluff plane.
There are a mayor and fo\ir sal
aried commissioners, all elected at
large. They serve four yearn.
There is the initiative, the refer
endum, and the recall.
Southern Railway Rates to Mobile
Reunion.
The Confederate reunion will be
held at Mobilo, Ala., April 2ti, 27 and
28, and the railroads have announced
the usual low rate of I cent a mile
for this occasion. Tickets will he on
sale, April 24 to 28; limited for re
furn until May 2, 1910, but extension
of linal limit may be secured until
. Muu 10 litv i|t<4 # ?*? lial .uit.1. tU
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t Agent and upon payment of 50 ceuta
fee. Stop-overs will be permitted at
all important points on the return
I journey.
The Southern railway has been se
j lected as the ollicinl route by Maj.
Oen. Zimmerman Davis, commanding
I thu South Carolina division, United
| Confederate veterans, and through
Pullman sleeping cars and coaches
will be provided to take care of the
veterans and their friends, which will
he handled on the train, leaving Co
lumbia at 7:15 a. m., April 25, via
Newberry, Greenwood, Anderson ami
Seneca, Atlanta and Montgomery, ar
riving at Mobile early next morning.
The round trip fare from tho prin
cipal points in this State will he as
follows* Abbeville $10.55, Allendnlo
$11.35, Anderson $10.10, Bamberg
-$11.55, Barnwell $11.20, DlacksburK
fj 11.75, Camden $12.55, Charleston
$12.90, Chester $11.85, Columbia
$11.00, Edgefield, $10.85, Greenville
$10.55, Greenwood $10.55, Johnston
$10.00, Newberry $11.15, Orangeburg
$11.90, Prosperity $11.30, Spartanburg
$11.15, Sumter $12.75, Union $11.75,
Winjjsboro $12.05, Yorkville $12.25.
ProjMn'tionately low rate? from inter*
mediate points.
Spartanburg's Mail Facilities.
Mail service on the Carolina,
Clinehfleld & Ohio has been extended
to Spartanburg. The double daily
train service has been put on, and
this brings the postal service of
Spartauburg to a degree of perfec
tion.
, A Water Melon Plantation.
Messrs. A. F. Young & Co., of New
York, who run a number of large
trucking farms in this State, have
decided that Florence dirt is the right
kind for making melons. They will
plant 325 acres in watermelons at
Florence this year.
Live News in a Lint.
Butchers in Yorkville cotfipalin of
the scarcity of beef cattlo.
The railroad commission has order
ed the Seaboard Air Line Hallway
to erect an adequate pasenger station
at Greenwood.
The average valuation at which
real estate is returned in Edgefield
county is about $4.50 per acre.
The musical festival to bo held in
Columbia in Mav is being well adver
tised.
Mr. J. E. Wannamaker, of Cal
houn county, who experimented with
pepper for the government last year
and was successful, will plant a large
crop this year.
The "sociability run" from Pine
hurst, N. C., to Augusta, Ga,, will be
run on April 18 and 39.
Engine Pulls Four Wagons.
R. N. Plexico, a farmer, who lives
eight miles north of Yorkville, pass
ed through town with four wagons
heavily loaded with fertilizers. It
was stated that he expected to go the
eight miles in about an hour and a
half. They were drawn by a traction
engine.
Banks Want Taxes Returned.
The Central National Bank of
Spartanburg baa instituted- suit
against the treasurer of Spartanburg
for the recovery of taxes on certain
bonds. The bonds sued on are the
non-taxable kind pf school holdings
This is a very important matter
and should the banks succeed in these
two suits it would mean that all
other banks in the State could seek
for refunding of taxes on stocks and
bonds.
The position of the State is that
the bonds are not taxed but the shares
of the bank stocks are taxed.
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Asylum Commission Appointed.
Governor Ansel has appointed" the
Asylum commission under the recent
Aet of the General Assembly. U
Under the Aeylum Aet passed
the General Aaaembly, this
aion is authorixed to spend
Which the commission ia M
to borrow for ike improvement of
the property of the Asylum and the
purchase of
This amount is in addition to the
rtfaUr ?pproprt?H<Ml
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Maebington
l'.?. Nicholas Longwortb, ex-Presl.
dent Koosevelt's daughter, will Mil v
about the middle of May tor England,
where she will Join the Rooaevelts
and continue with
Mr*. Ix>ngwortU them until they get
Will Join back to the United
ltooscvclte, States. Representa
tive Longworth will
remain at home. Mr. Roosevelt will
attend the celebration of Frontier
Day at Cheyenne, Wyo., the last week
of August, In accordance with plana
be inado before he went to Africa.
Senator Warren feared that the ex*
President might forget the engage^
inont, so lie cabled him rocontly ask*
Ini? whether ho could attend the cele
bration in the last week of August or
the first week of September. He re*
colved a reply, acceptlug for the ear
lier date.
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Officers will have occasion to long
for the halcyon days of Theodore
ItooBovclt, before "utrenuoslty" was
introduced into the army, If the new
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yil/Oll/OI f auTvioo
GeneralHtnft order of tho Gen
Orders Strenuous oral Staff remains
Physical Tests, unmodified. Not
only must officers
under thlR order do an annual stunt
of nnusunl proportions, but they must
do their turn on the highways and by
ways every day In the year, or approx
imately bo. An average ride of 300
miles a month for twelvo months In
the year Is to be required of all
mounted officers, while the unmount
ed commissioned personnel must
?rlnd out half that distance on foot.
Ix miles a day mounted, or three
miles a day unmounted, is the edict
of tho General Staff, sit days in the
| week and fifty-two weeks in tho year
or thoroabouts. But thlB Is not all.
In addition, there must he an annual
physical test, for which the dally stunt
Is merely practlco. Besides their
dally work on tho road or tho tread
mill, nil field officers of the cavalry
and field artillery must ride thirty-six
miles a day for threo consecutive
days, and all othor officers above the
rank of captain must ride thirty miles
a day for threo consecutive days. A
great concession is made to officers in
tho tropics, for whom the distance
will be reduced one-sixth. Tho now
physical exercise scheme Is to bo tried
out on the officers on duty at the.
Army War College and on those at
Fort Myer, who are now being re- .
ferred to by their brother officers aa
"the dogs,"
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A race la on in the House between
two important committees to placf
wireless legislation on the atatute
booka. Tho Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fiaheriel
To Herniate made a favorable re*
tho Wireless, port on theOreene wire
less bill, and the Naval
Affairs Committee took similar actios
on a measure providing for an invea*
itgation of the entire queatlon by a
board. Both meaaurea go on the
Houbo calendar, and It Is probable
that the Greene bill will be acted on
first. It provides that no one shall
operate a wireless instrument before
obtaining a license from the Depart*
ment of Commerce and Labor, and
that the apparatua shall be under th?
supervision of Inspectors from thai
department, It also provides penal*
ties for Interference with Government
messages or with relief' meaaages
from ships in danger, The Roberts
resolution reported by the Naval Af*
fairs Committee provides that a board
of seven members shall inveatlgata
wireless telegraphy and report lefla*
latlve recommendations at the opsn*
ing of the next session of Congress.
Three experts from commercial com*
panies,* one from the Department of
War, one from the Navy. Department,
one from the Treasury Department
and one outside expert are to constl*
tute the board.
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For the .first time In tbe history of
the Government a committee of Con
gress has recommended that the Uni
ted States take charge of a Confeder
ate cemetery. The Corn
Respect For mlttee on. Military Af
the Gray, fairs reports! favorably
to the Houso a hill which
provides that the Government shall
take charge of and maintain the Con
federate cemetery at Springfield, 111.,
where many Confederate prisoners
who died within the Union lines art
burled.
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The Administration haa decided to
send the scout cruiser Birmingham to
Liberia to render moral support to
the government at Monrovia, which
appears to be seriously men
To Aid aced by an uprising of the
Liberia, natives. Under the treaty of
1862 the United Statee en
joys the privilege, If such it can be
termed, of Interfering Id the affairs
of Liberia to the end that the stabil
ity of the government may be main
tained. It is understood, moreover,
that the failure of the Department of
State to take action on the report of
the Commission which recently visited
Liberia at the Invitation of the Mon
rovian government haa contributed
to the difficulties with which the re
public Is now oonfronted. It ts ex
pected that this report will be sub
mitted to Congress with a special
message from the President in the im
medlftte future, nnd tba?-jfe# will urge
authorization of the atepa recem
Mr. Mellen Will Use
Qcm as thepherd?j?d
fetockbridge, Mass.?Charles S. Me!
jsui'L agk&JassAjgg.
flock of 600 thoroughbrsd Southdown
sheep on his estate, CoaaoH Grove.
Two goata will oare for 100 aheep.
awf are guaranteed to^ scare " "
sheep ehaalag doga.
a bis demand for A