The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, October 15, 1908, Image 1
VOL. XXXII
HARWELL. S. C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1908
XO.7
SOUNDS ALARM
Htary Wittirson Discrlbei Sit-
MUtn ■$ Hi Sin It
SCORES THE G. 0. P.
With His Inimitable Wealth of D/o
tlon the Famous Kentucky Etfjtor
Makes a Vigorous Assault on iW-
pelican Ramparts in His First
Campaign Speech in Sixteen Years.
A dispatch from Louisville. Ky..
says Henry Watterson was the prin
cipal speaker at a Democratic rally
in the Masonic Theatre Thursday
night. As this was Mr. Watterson’-
flrst political speech since 1892, and
will probably be his only platform
utterance during the present cam ,
paign, much interest was manifested.
He spoke in part as follows:
“I truly rejoice that I have lived
to look upon a reunited Democracy.
I was born in a Democratic camp
during what proved a bad year for
Democrats, and attained my majority
Just in time to see the party go over
the precipice of sectionalism to what
seemed its ruin. -
“The politicians tell us there are
many issues, but I see only one. If
we cannot change our rules at will
if an organized and deflant > minority
inside a fortress can Withstand the
siege of an undisciplined and HI
equipped majority on the outside,
how shall talk about trusts and tar
iffs, al>out rebates and bank deposits, i^uiug a i ol id warning to all his
about money and morals and stocks 1 holders to .keep out of p»lii,bs
and bonds profit us? during the campaign, is the principal
md worst violator of his o« n nil"
6 Because the President was not
WILL BOLT TAFT
- z 1
A REPUBLICAN FAMILY DISCU8S-
„ ' Y /
ES POLITICS
And as a Result Will Vote for
Bryan—They Give
the Change.
Reason for
The following letter, whl-h wn>,
published in the Xew York Wr rid
one day last weak, shows the tenden
cy of Republicans at the North to
vote for Bryan and Kern this year
To the Editor of The Worldr
My father (who-has voted the lie-
publican ticket since the organiza
tion of the party), my three broth-
era and myself (all of whom have
vdted the Republican ticket since
we turned twenty-one) have been
discussing the campaign. Last night
we made our decision, and It is that
we shall vote for Mr. Bryan, for the
following reasons: ^ »
1. The “Republican party has been
in power twelve years and has* fore
od upon the country an Iniquitous
tariff (the cause of all our trust'
trouble), and now only because of
public clanfor It promises a “re
vision.”
2. Republican administrations
have constantly been more and more
wasteful of the public funds.
3. Because every trust In the
country is arrayed on the side of tho
Republican party. Why? .
4. Because we are tired of Speak
<*r Cannou overriding the will of th>
people who elect what th<-y Intend
to be their representatives In cou- |
gress.
T>. Because the President aHcr
CAMPAIGN FUND.
Official Llst,af Ameuots and
Glvars ta the Bemecrets
TO BE MADE ON OCT 15
There Have Been Fourteen Contri
butions of $1,000 Fact to Demo
cratic Campaign Fund—One Cent,
the Kmnilest Contribution,'Receiv
ed from One of the Vnterrifled.
fhe Democratic national comml*-
*
tee is preparing to announce this
I week (lie amount , of its campaign-
behotd now an almost repro
duction of the evil condition of fifty
years ago. The Republican party,
grown corrupt' and arrogant, is put
ting forth a tremendous effort to
retain the power which it has s >
much abused. If it succeeds it wl.l
WfT "suni'inU‘1 1 H shorl 'of son:
"dire cataslysm. making its exit tli-
signal for. it may be. a civil war
To that all its itoliries of militarism,
favoritism and class distinction hav*
long been tending I pray God tha’
this may never come. The way to
a-vert it is by occasional change of
party, bringing home to our public
men their subordination to the peo
pie. .
' “If I were a Republican I should
vote for Bryan. If I were a Ro
honest In his answer to Mr. Bryan
7. Because the President hs»
created or attempted to create a
crown prince.
£ -Because w.c U'lLxm in guuian.
fund and the indjvidual contribu
tors of amounts of one hundred dol
lars and over. The lists, which have
been compiled to date and sent to
New York from Chicago .show that
the campaign fund is a little ovir
$220,000. t>f—this fund something
over $180,000 has been collected
from contributions, which with $.42,-
000 of the Denver Convention fund,
is the total fund now In the Demo
cratlc treasury.
It Is learned that there have
been 14 Individual contributions of
81,000 each. There have been no
-'ontributlons of sums between $1,-
000 and $5,000 to date. The Den
ver headquarters of the. national
committee has collected $3,000 t
which is said to include a check b!
,$1,000 from former Senator WilUam
A. Clarke, of Montana. The simplest
centributlon received was ong^cem.
, which came in the mail from Monroe
j Wash. The largest contributions to
Democratic campaign fund fol-
lows:
Delaney MI^dII, New York oily.
$1,000.
Jacob .Ruppert, New York city,
$1,000.
| .Nathan Straus, New York city.
CAUGHT HIM AGAIN
TEDDY TAKEN TO TASK BY
JUDGE PRIEST.
BRYAN AND TAFT
tee of hank deposits
u
Jl.'lOT
-National Democratic Club.
Because of the hypocritical ( Vork cH |2>5 ^
■Rude of the Republican platform ,
New
•>n publicity of campatg i funtribn-1
tlons.
We shall vote for a Demoer«.it
governor because In case a kind
Provldenfe should, remove one ot
both of the “dead ones” occtHoing
the New York seats In the United]
States senate who will assist Mr i
Bryan
We shall vote for Democratic
New York city.
of Bridgeport
publican I should let the chief with mprab4 , ri( thf . for t |i
hik ‘big stick' go- hang. If «» were
a Republican I should turn my back
on a candidate, no -tffWTeir koaL-per
»onally acceptable, who represent-
the vicious methods of ring rule aud
the steam roller.
“Whatever usefulness the Repub
Bean party possessed It has for tin
time outlived. It stands today •
menace to equal taxation and econ
omie administration, if not to orderlj
government and free Institution*-
Its leaders know this and kuowlffg'if*
they ix-gan early to prepare for th»
coming Presidential battle .to for"
tlfy a field which they thought t ■>
make impegrnable by the outlay oi
vast resources and enduring ijkill.
“They expected to draw "us fnl*
this bloody ambuscade and to slaugh
ter us like sheyp in the shambles
Disappointed iu their plan, what de
we now see? We see all disguis-
of decency thrown aside; the blac)^ 1
flag of trustism run up to the tnasr >’amp:
head; tht* decks crowded with corpo
ration counsel. The occupant oMhi •
W. F. Sheehan
| $l.U00.
. Archibald McNeil
Conn.. $1,000.
Guy B. Tucker, Little Rock. Ark.,
i $ l.000.
M. F. Dunlap. Illinois, $1,000.
Roger Sullivan, Chicago. $1,000. •
Perry Belmont. New York cit.\
$1,000.
Robert Owen. Oklahoma, $1,000
J. J Hogan. LaCross. Wls., $1,000
E. O. Wood. Flint. Mich., $1,000.
K. F. Goltra, St..Louis. $1,000.
Moses C. Wetmore. Sc. Louis.
ti.oOo,
Norman ri- Matk. Buffalo, $l,00»t
Melbert Cary, Connecticut, $500
Jeffvreou Levy, ‘New York city,
$500.
Dr John.Cox. Connecticut, $50o
^ ! William F. Burns. New York ettr.
That William Jennings Bryan will | |-qq
make anotfier address in New Yor'J ' K . S. D Mallory. fWrna. Ala^.'^O
|~md visit up-State cities was an Nathan Cole . Los Angeles. Cal .
same reasoh. And we shall vote foi
Democratic, congressmen.
THOMAS BNDICOTT.
New Yor^Sept. .30. *
GOING TO NEW YORK.
I
Bi-yau Will Again Visit uml speak
in That State.
White House summons the unspeak -•oratic headquarters 'hat John W
able Hearst as his star witness Th
honest rich are Invoked to malt'
common cause with the lawless rhl
All the perspective of truth and so
berness and common sense are lost
amid the roar of rant and cant o*
self-glorifying laudation and self
accusing promises of reform, wlti
Aldrich and Cannon, with Payne and
Dalzell and Sunny Jim Sherman fo
their examples. r v
“Having pitched the campaign or
a false note, starting out with a man
of straw oil a platform of impoj
ture, no argument is too absurd, n<
Illustration is too rank for the mo-:
and the interests that do not mean
to be dislodged If fraud and force
can save them."
Referring to a reported speech o
Congressman Longworth at Rod;
Island, III, where it was alleged that
Mr. Longworth spoke of President
Roosevelt as successor of Taft at
President eight years hence, Mr.
Watterson, said:
"Nicholas Longworth^the Presi^
derit’s son-in-law, says he did not say
it. But five thousand listeners say
ne did. The notes of two stenogra
phers say he did. What boots ii
whether he did or did not? No
one who knows what is going on in
the National Capital amkthas beeft
going on for a long time, needs tc
be told that they are undermining
nouncod Thursday by Vice‘Chairman
Hudspeth, of the Democratic natlohnl
‘ommittee . Brya... he said, will-
peak in Madison Square Garden on i william
October 26.On Brooklyn- on OotoUei
27, it: Albany. 28; Syracuse. 29
Buffalo, 30, Chicago, on November
Hudspeth added that it is now
jo ted that Bryan will wind tip the
campaign with speeches In Omaha oi
'he night before the election.
It was also announced at Demo-
Kern will make his first address of
he campaign in New York city on
»ne night of October 13. In Tanmtanv
Hajl. Kern also will speak In Brook
lyn, Boston, several Connecticut
‘itlea-, ^Newark and Jersey City ot
Intes yet to bo flvpd.
The national committee, it was an
nounced. Thursday, will make publi
in October comrftitilt'Oflw^'tb
he campaign funds. **
$51)0.
P. W. Burns. Chicago. $500.
| _ Jos. Fels. Pennsylvania, $500.
B. Rodgers, Pittsburg
Carl S Vroonfan, Cot nit. Mass.
$.->00
Mt Ivin E. Ingalls, Cincinnati, $500.
W R Burt, Saginaw, $.->00.
Murray Carleton. St. Louis, $r>00
F. B. Lynch. St. Paul. $500.'
T. J. Walsh. Helena. Mont., $50J.
W B. George, Billings, Mont.,
$500.
R S. Ford, Great Falls
$500.
. The major part of the Democratic
‘ampalgn fund has come from dollar
rttltributors and from the Demo-
'Vatic press, which started campaign
subscriptions! *
Who Says Roosevelt’s Friend and
Not Him Was Standard Oil Attor-
———,— ■—_<»_ —, :
ncjr in Missouri.
In his last rejoinder to Mr. Bryan.
In the debate growing out of th«*
case of Governor Haskell, President
Roosevelt responded to Mr. Bryan s
challenge to "name a single official
connected with a .law-defying corpo
ration ’ who had declared or will
declare that he is supporting Mr
Bryan, by quoting from a St. Louis
paper an interview with Judge Henry
Priest,'-eL, St. Louis, who, according
to the President, represented th**
\\ aters-Pierce OH Company, the
Western subsldary to the Standard
Oil Company, in which he stated that
ne would support Bryan."
Judge Priest has taken notice of
the matter In an intervlew'ln The
St. Louis Republic, and his state
ment illuminates a little more Mr.
Roosevelt's recklessness of his own
exposure when he ialys about amonz
his enemies. Judge Priest says that
he is not nor has he ever been an
official of the Waters 1 Pfjy<*e company,
nor or any othet 6iL company. Iu
1904, he states, his flrnr'was retain
ed by H. C. Pierce to represent his
minority interei-k the cjpmpany
m ji suit ( Instituted by the Attorney
^General of Missouri-against the Stan
dard OH Company, as the holder
of the majority interest in the Wv
iters-Pierce Company. The Standard
Oil Interest in the stilt, lie states,
was represented by the firfn of
Finkelnherg. Nagel A Kirby.
While the suit was pending, spy*.
Judge Priest, President Roosevelt
appointed .*ir. Finkelnherg, Unit*;/
States district judge . Mr. Nagel, con
tinning as senior member of the fir*
interests, is now Kepuuucan nauon'd
committeeman -for --souri and i.
engaged actively In l u e management
of Judge Taft’s campaign tor i..
Presidency. Senator "Foraker has
pointed out that Judge Taft recom
mended to the President the appoln*
ment of a Standard Oil attorney m
Ohio to the Federal befk-li. and Judg-
Prlest has now shown that the Pren
lent actually api>ointed an oil tru r .t
representative to the bene., in Mis
souri, while a suit against the com
pany, wljlch he was defending, w .s
pending, and that another member of
fhe same firm is and has been i »
a long time prominent In Republican
party affairs in Missouri.
The Charicston Evening Post sav.
Fillow Guests at tha Chicago
Association Dinner
/
EXCHANGE GREETINGS
In Friendly Fashion and Engage In
Mutually Animated Conversation
as Two Gentlemen Would Who Had
Met to Discuss •I’resrnt Day Prob
lems Witfr Mutual Friends,
Winianvj ,Bryan and William II
Taft, rival candidates for the presi
dency. of the UnLted States met
Wednesday night at the fourth an
nual banquet of the Chicago As
sociation of Commerce. The meeting
is said to have been the first of its
kind.
/
Mr. Bryan, having been in Cuieago
all day, was the first to arrive h<
the banquet hall in the Auditorium
hotel Mr. Taft having delivered a
speech at the opening of the Deep
Waterway convention in the fore
noon, went to Galesburg, 111., to de
liver another address during the
afternoon, and returned to Chicago
tonight after the banquet was weli
MADE BAD BREAK
RIDICULOUS MISTAKE OF A RU*
a e .1
PUBLICAN NEWSPAPER.
under way.
(Intense I
interest in the meeting ban
been manifested since It first be
came known that the two candidate.-,
were to meet In public, and evurv
seat in the banquet hall was occu
pied when the first course was served
save only a commodious chair reserv
ed lor Mr. Taft.,-
AL the--speaker's table during the
speech-making were the followihg
LaFayette Me Will lams. H. N. Higgin-
Ixjtham. John V. Farwell. Waiter H
Wilson (representing Mayor Busse),
Dr Emil G. Hlrsch, David R. Forgan
\kr. Taft. President Reinhardt C
Hall of the chamber of commerce,
t . Mr. Brvan, C. Bartlett. Governot
' Denoen of iffinois. Torn b. nnaaa.
Chari* s H. Wacker. President Kav*
anaugli of the Deep Waterways as-*
aociatlon and Don Farnsworth
An <*:ir-spllttlng shout gave warn
ing of the arrival of Mr. Taft. Mr.
Bryan, in common with every on-
else, rose and looked towacd the en
trance. A huge frame, moving like
a ship amongst a swarm of tugs, was
moving slowly up the narrow aisl-
between two tables. Those at a dis
tance occasionally could catch K
glimpse of a smiling face acknow ledg
Ing greetings. A policeman in uni
form and assistants In plain clothes
aided in the progress of the distin
guished goesi. Mr. Bryan, who had
ceased on the destruction of span-
PREACHER KILLS NEIGHBOR.
■■■>'■'<»-i - ***•-'* -i - *. -• - *i •* *i »*i -i -'.-'i«i**i -
CARNEGIE GIVES TO TAFT FUND.
Chnti'Hiution of $20,000 from Steel
King is Announced.
The fact that Andrew Carnegie
has contributed to the campaign fund
of the Republican national commi'-
♦ee’ was announced Friady ~by New;
York State Chairman Timothy *L
Woodruff . Mr. Woodruff also an
nounced that Mrs. Russell Sage has
contributed $1,000 to the same ,fund.
There have been no other large Con
tributions from ^ individuals,’*' Mr.
Woodruff said, but samll sums are
coining in from various sources. *
the popular-foundations eTonrjDem- Thrred to reaist It, why shpiild 1>*^
ocratic Government and convert
ing It into an Imperial republic, with
nothing wanting of monarchism and
tpn'-r nobility, except the nome-
naclature. ,
“The White House is already the
palace of a king. The President
already a sovereign In everything ex
cept the name. Why should not a
member of the Ciurt circle blurt It
out. that Taft is expected merely to
bold down the job for Roosevelt,
line* B thought premature to
run Roosevelt .for
succession?
the immedla'^
i
Mont.
Family Feud in Alabama Results in
Tragedy.
News has just reached AthencT
Ala., of tho killing late Friday of
Andrew Jackson, living near the
Lauderdale county line, by a preach
er named Livingston. The men an*
said to have disliked each other for
a long time, and when they met
Friday Livingston fired on Jackson.
Livingston was later caught wander
ing about the woods barefooted and
clad only in his underwarments. La
ter in the night he made hls^escape.
It is thought that his mind is” un
balanced. ? *
SLID INTO THE MISSISSIPPI.
“The campaign was, aiwj it is. »
and it ii
achine wl
family affair. If dhe machine which
ribifFlnated Taft was so mhrciless
toward the Republican allies who
counted on to share our free in
stitutions after eight addlHonal years
of moneyed accretion and augmented
power. ,
“Only this can account for the per
sonal interposition of the President
who throws duty and dignity to the
winds and gets down like a matador
into the bull ring, mud-stained and
powder smirched, swearing like a
trooper at all- who come within the
aouud of the voice and tbe reach # of
his inflamed fancy/’ ♦
\
$75,000 Worth of Property lyost at
New Orleans.
for every remote affiliation with the
trusts Mr. Roosevelt has attemptei
to show against the Democratic party
there has been uncovered a hundred
fold greater and closer associations
with the Republican party. Even in
the cast 1 of Governor Haskell it was
shown that the protection of the
Standard Oil which Mr._i_Roosevo't
cited against the Governor as proof
of his'control by such interests, was
originally instituted hy the President
himself, during the territorial, regime
in Oklahoma. In the very natur?
rf—Hungs it necessarily dollows th?t
such developments must result from
an exposition of the ‘trust’ situatio i
iu its relation to public affairs, foi
the Republican party is and has been
for years, and especially during the
trust growing ‘period, in .almost un-
lisputed control of the country's af
fairs, and whatever advantages an
enjoyed by these great corporations
against the public Interests are. dit
to the complacency of the party in
power.
This is so inevitable and so utterly
beyond dispute that it Is utterly
futile and fatuous for the PresidcM
-or any other protagonist oL.Juilsp-
Taft to attempt to argue iL^therwis*,
hut It is peculiarly.-‘brazen In Mr.
RoosevpJjU w^^fias had intimate as
sociations with trust magnates and
lifted laws tor their benefit and ap
[minted their agents to high of
fices, who is, in fact, surrounded vith
the,representatives of such interests
and obligated to them enonponsly ior
financial support to his candidates
But Mr. Roosevelt has wle’deu ab
solute authority so long and has
become so accustomed to have his
lightest word prevail against t’.
most solemn truths, from other sourc
es, that he has thrown JHmse’f into
the campaign melee without regard
to consequences, and he can not yet
understand how It is that h^e is cov
ered-with ‘wounds.. .A4f. be continual
his 'participation in the campaigi
at close range the Roosevelt 'lege id
is likely to’ he hacked to pieejs by
the enemies he is kicking up from
every bush.
( -: y
^eyentv-five
WIFE WANTS DIVORCE
thousand
property
dollars
-sHd- inter
- <7
From Husband for Failure to Hath*-
cause. The cars and two'(ff the
tracks belonged to the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad, and the other two
tracks belonged to the "Public. Belt
Railroad. • — *
■ hi KfruTn VeaVW
sort of a chop suey masquerading
under a French name, turned his
head slowly as, his political rival
drew near, smiling slightly. Tin
dramatic moment which had been an
ticipated with such deep interest war
soon over. Mr. Bryan's hand await
ed that of Mr. Taft. A single ling
ering pressure, a word or so which
none.could overhear because of tin-
tumult, and the Republican leader
passed on to a chair at the right
of Mr. Hall. The cheering continued
for a minute or so after those a:
the speaker's table had taken their
seats. At the first moment the noise
subsided Mr. Bryap, leaning to'one
side and jsmiling broadly, asked Mr
Taft if he had had a good day.
This display-mi.Friendly feeling on
the part of the two candidates stirre-l
the crowd to renew cheering and
words were useless in the din. Mr,
Taft stroked his throat for an answer
Then Taft laughed and the applause
increased.
“What is the matter with Bill?
cried some in stentorian-t^pos.
“He's all right.” - *
“Who's all right?”
*1 "Trill's all right.”
It took music by the orchestra an 1
a song by the gqests to restore a
se nrhl a nee of quiet. W hen talking
In ordinary tones became possible th>
two candidates entered into an ani
mated conversation? in which Presi-
lont Hail joined. The speeches ot
both Mr Taft -and Mr. Bryan were
nonpartizan. This was in conform!
ty with the wishes of the Chicago
Association of Commerce, which i»
a nonpartizan organization.
Besides Mr. Taft and Mr.- Bryan
the speakers of the evening were
A. C. Bartlett and David R. Forgan
Mr. Bartlett was the first speaker
and Mr. Forgan was sandwiched be
tween Mr Bryan and Mr. Taft. In
Introducing Mr. ’Bryan, President
Hall said:
“As I look upon my distinguished
associates I am forced to resort to
the familiar protestation- oi’ the. per
plexed lover. 'How happy* could
be with either,, were t'other dea
cnarmer away.’ The evolution of
[Folities has bujught to a commapd
ing place in the eyes and regard o
his countrymen a citizen of Ne
hraska* _ Uie Hie has heea .^a hono r
J .
Quoted Alleged Utterance* of Mr.
Bryan and Later Found It Had
(Quoted a Republican Plank.
The people of Nebraska are having
a good laugh at tbe expense of Mr.
Victor Rosewater, edltQr^of the Oma
ha Bee. Mr. Rosewater is a mem
her of the Republican National Exe
cutive’ Committee and head of the
Republican bureau, and is considered
the leading Republican of Nebraska
The Bee, which is the leading Repub
lican paper of .the State, one da\
last , week published an editorial
criticizing aij abstract from a sup
posed speech of Mr. Bryan's qn th-
tariff question.* The words comi>hilii-
ed of in (fie editorial• were;
“In all tariff legislation the true
principle is best maintained by th<
Imposition of such duties as wl I
equal-the difference between the cos'
of production at home and abroad
together with reasonable profit ti
American industries.”
The Bee stated editorially:
■'Nothing prettier In the catch-ali
line has been’ offered In this cam
paign. The most IHQe-bound stand
patter In the country can accept thm
as satisfactory and tire rankest fre<
trader can find delight In It. Th<
declaration means-simply nothing
an attoatf^t to legislate along that llm
would simply open the way to Inter
minablc wrfingle as to wh'at. const!
tutes 'a reasonable profit,’ for halt
splitting on wages on the industry
price of raw materials on another
rebates or drawbacks In a third an
so on through the list of thousand
of articles that are now on the tarif;
revision at Hryan'a direction would
serve only to halt industrial an*
comtnerrial progress and keep bus.
ness unsettled during his term o:
office."
The World-Herald, a Democrat!)
paper published at Lincoln, Mr. Dry
an's home city, called attention ti
he fact that the words complaine*
of by The Bee are not a part of an>
speech made by Mr. Bryan but an
part of the Republican N'ationa
platform, on which Mr. Taft is sun
posed to be running. Then all Ne
braska laughed at Mr. Rosewater t
expense. i..
Commenting on the ludicruom
mistake made by The Bee Mr. Bryar
said:
"Mr. Rosewater la right in mak
ng fun of the language, he la riglP
MANY KILLED
By a Terrific Exploited Hi Largo
Grain Etevator.
A BIG FIRE FOLLOWS
n
saying that ‘nothing 1 prettier t*
the, catch-all line hga been offer*': [ while she to-aa btactlcinf at tha pl-
in this campaign.’ He la also rig’r
in saying that ‘The most hide-boune |
stand-patter in the SoUntry can ac
cept that as satisfactory and th*
rankest free-trader can find dellgh'
Failure to bathe in the 11 yeard
of his married, life, is* the principal
the •MisalsBippi river Friday when a
section of earth 300 feet long and
about 200 feet wide caved in be-
tyveon WafMngton avenue and 4th , , „
street. New Orleans, carrying alongt* roun(, _ ,0r d ‘ vo « e all ** Rd hv Mrt ’
seven freight cars -and four lines
of railroad tracks. Undermining of
the bank by high water was the
it *■' ■ ■ i';;"'! a,-
Ellse Erny, in her suit against Will
iam P. Erny, wherein the master's
report was filed Thursday. Mrs
Erny declared that to the best of
her knowledge and belief*, her hus
band declined resort to tuft nr show
er. Th« master recommends that a
divorce be granted. '♦
The Concussion .Blew Up the Large
Elevator Building, and the Debris
Immediately Took Fire and the
Whole Structure Was Destroyed.
Entailing Heavy Los*.
At Riehford. Vermont, with a con
cussion which shook the entire vll-
age a large* grain elevator, having
» capacity of 500,000 bushels, ex
ploded late Wednesday, causing tho
leatli of sev*n workmen and a wo
man . • /-
The explosion blew off the entlae
oof of the building, scattering tim
bers in all directions, and almost
instantly flames-burst .out all over
he structure. . _
Twenty-one men were employed
u tin* building of whom eleven are
iilmlng and tM^oubtedly perished.
VII lived in Riehford.
•Mis. John Jelifore, who was walk-
ng with a companion along the
’an.tdlan Pacific railway track close
o t!io elevator, was burned to death
md an unknown woman who was
vlth her was burned so serlousiy
hat her life Is despaired of.
The elevator was owned jointly by
he Canadian Pacific and Boston and
dainc railroads and was occupied h?
he (junker Oats Company of Chicago.
The amount of grain It contained was
ery large.
Tbe flames, which are supposed to
iavr been started by spontaneous
ombustlon in the dry dust of the
train, spread so quickly that tha
imited fire apparatus of the village
vae of no avail.
The heat set fire to a flour shad
tear the elevator and the shed, to-
;eth**r with 75 freight cars standing'
iear It, was burned.
Late Wednesday night the Are wax
.till borning. but no other propertv
was threatened. The total loas Is
•stimated at $400,000.
POSSE HUNTS FRIEND.
Negiu Janitor Attempts an Ai
on a White Teacher.
CIHscns of Greer and surrounding
ountry .are searching for a frend by
he name of Atrhur Johnson, a negro,
xbo. up to last Saturday, was the
ianitor of the Greer graded school.
)n the afternoon named he seised
» young woman teacher of tbe school
•no ;
Jackson slipped up behind tbe
young woman, grabbing her about
he neck and pulled her on his breast,
isking If she did not want to reel
in It.’ He is right again In saying I n his arms. The girl screamed loudly
hat an attempt to legislate along
that line would simply open the wa>
to what constitutes a rensonabl*
profit for hair splitting on wages on
one industry, price of raw material:,
n another, rebates and ^draw-back-
n a third and so on throffgh’^hr
or help, and Jackson fled from tbe
school buUdlng^ The young woman
lurried to her boarding douee,
where she told of the occurrance.
A mob was organised and thf
ountry was scoured all night Rat-
rrday and Sunday, but no trace^of
fackson was found. It reported
list of thousands of articles that ar*
now on the tariff list.” I aere__that he went to Asheville and
Mr. Ronewnter, who had gone to 11 party of citizens of Greer are hut
Chicago, said when his attention war J-ying Into North Carolina.in search
called to the mistake which ha* I >f the negro.
been made on his.paper: I a dispatch from Greenville says
“It 1b quite possible that one of|.4herlff Griffith and a 'party in an
my editorial writers niaFTi’are mad* j vuto have Just reached the city with
break as charged. Fersonally, ’ I he negro Johnson, wanted nt Oreere,
first heard of the matter after 11 ’or assault on a young woman mimic
reached Chicago today. I do not J eacher In the public school. The
think Mr. Bryan should charge me j ,o 9 8 P has been hunting since Satur
with personal responsibility foi | lay afternoon and the capturing
everything that ajjtpears in my pape-
an* more than I should charge Mr
Bryan with everything that happened
while he was engaged In dally)
Journalism.”
party came, into the city with the
negro ip kn a nth-at a forty-mile
:lip. Johnson has been taken to
he penitentiary for safe keeping.
WOMAN KILLS HERSELF.
—FATAL FAMILY RUMPUS.
Fearing That She Would (»o to th*
Poor House.
Wife l*ft Him, Shot Her Sister and
Father and Left.
, .. . t _ .. . ^ , John \\\ Richardson, a young far-
Fearing that she would be sen' j
to a poor house, Mrs. Cffollpa j ,n *.r living In the Lamberts Point
Fisher, 68 years of age, committed | tectlon of Virginia. Wednesday shot
suicide at her home in the base I ind ymed his sister-in-law, Mrs.
ment of 692 East Fifteenth stree* J Josephine Cromwell, bis father-la
st New York, by Inhalllng gas. Mrs. law Reverely Cromwell, and coip-
Barbara Alberts, a friend, found herj mlttpd suicide after he had killed
body in a chair. Until three month-I father-in-Ia'wUa'horse. Following
ago Mrs. Alberts had lived with hei J 1omestlc troubles Richardson and hi*
son, who was a butcher. She left]
there after a quarrel with her daugh
ter-in-law.
lows:
“In the fortunes of war we a;
qulred alien and subject races. 0 ,ir |g^ p
ble .progress-from the day he re,
ceived his degree from his* a"
mater to Jthe hour of
standard bearer of one of the great
national parties by legions of -en-
thusiasti(sL„fiQJiht;r^nien. _JVJUJ) .tke
principles of an An^rlcan-'he has
sought and' held leadership ‘ in a
career of courage, fidelity and kind
ness-. Millions accept his captaincy,
the energy of-his service, the pqriry
of his patrtaUsm- Gentlemen, Mi.
Bryan.”. , ..
Tbs Introduction of ilr. T»f» fo]*
government assumed the task ot
leading them to the .lofty eminence
of American civilization. For th
►accomplishment of this puropse th
^president, sent to the FUipinos a typ
Meal citizen, an eminent connselo*.
and a man Hrith the courage of his J f[* d rt
cnnvtctlQiia. He .accompllshM th
wife, a young daughter of Mr. Crom
well, separated last Friday. Mrr.
Cromwell was returning with the
five-year-old son. of the Richardsons
to the house when Richardson rushed
out with his giiu and shot her twice,
fell deadj^, The f^ther-ln-lsv*
purpose of his mission, winning both
the confidence of hia countrymen and
the )ove and, gratitude of a nation
to be. Success and honor have
was approacning in buggy when
Richardson rushed into the Held,
met and M&fef.him by blowing the
aged man’s fpceW pieces. Richard
son then killed the Cromwell hors*
his farm yard and
blew out his own brains,
a Xnnboy qmfwyshrdlnbgkqjxnfwyp
Schooners Wrecked.
Tbe schooners Lucia and Solidad
crowned bis every effort In an active!were wrecked on the eaast of Mirdon
life as citizen. , jurist, peace-maker I during the storm on September IT,
and cabinet officer. Through all hi*land all the passengers and
career and IB etjr insular possession I tbe Solidad Wl'Sno wots
he has stood for the integrity of his leapt. J. C. Helnacbeln and alao
government and tho majesty of right.Ibors of tho crew of the
Gentlemen. Mr Taft.” ' |alan drownod.
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