Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f ¥ i - t.* BnpNiMii wi . • ■ vv.-‘'- ; ■». vol. xxxni BAKSnrXLL. 8. a, THTRIDAT. FEBRUARY 3,1910 ROOD RISING | SHOT BY CAR-BREAKER ACCUSED OF LOBBYING BIG SWINDLE PROVES A SUCCESS COPPER TRUST FORIED Buriy ■ P»ris, Bot It Is B»H tk first Hts Bea Pktsed HIS OWN PISTOL THE WEAPON USED ON HIM. REPRESENTATIVE WICKERSHAM SAYS MAJOR RICHARDSON lasaruce Policies Secvd m let Vir- ttailj b Grave EDISON'S NEW STORAGE BAT TERY RUNS A STREET CAR. AMALGAMATED COMPANY SORBS SMALLER ONES. FRANCE ASKS CREDIT Desperate Straggle Against Heavy Odde—Special Officer of Southern Threatened Him for Accusing Him of Lobbying for Special Interests That the Cost of New Corporation to Cbatrol Ctep- THEIR WORK EXPOSED Driving the New Car Will be One per Output of Ooaatry More Than a Hundred Thousand Refugees Being Cared for by the Gorernmeat Mid the Number is Being Increased by the Hundreds Railway at Columbia. A dispatch from Colnmbla says Special Officer S. H. Boyer, employ ed by the Southern railway there, was shot and seriously wounded s few nights ago st the Royster ynrds. some two miles below the city, while attempting to arrest two negroes who and for a $7,300 Job. Scrambling at Washington for ad vantages in matters of Alaskan leg islation has culminated in. a demand by Delegate James Wlckergham that Secretary of War Dickinson to order out of Washington, back to Alaska or to military duty. Major W. P. Cent a Mile. Men of Athletic BcgU Were Kx- an lined In Lieu, of Real Ap plications—Insurance People Have Trotftfte on Their Hands That is Every Hour of the Day, The flood at Paris, France, con tinues. A dispatch from that city on Thursday night says another day has passed, but the inexorable tide' still creeps slowly higher, each Inch of water widely extending the area of destruction, deeolation and ruin. Although the Jbarometer Is rising rapidly, and bright sunshine Thurs day succeeded the raging storms, a feeling of consternation, bordering on panic, prevailed when the authori ties, who the day before promised the maximum of the flood for Thurs day, announced that this would not be reach until Friday morning. The city counsel at a stormy ses sion Thursday night charged M. Lep- Ine, prefect of Paris, with withhold ing the true gravity of the sltua- [\ tlon. The prefect defended his at- tldude by saying that he waa govern ed by the necessity of not unduly alarming the people. In the meantime what Is happen ing is enough to strike terror to the hearts of all. The very crust of the city seems ready to sink into the flooded subterranean labyrinth be neath. Every hour drains are burst ing in new localities, . causing a sub sidence of the street or bulging them up feet above their normal level, while the overflow of gurfac^ water from the river is transform ing the Inundated districts Into for- . midsble lakes and the streets Into canals. In the Bercy quarter the wace* !> six feet deep In the streets, and t he entire left bank of the Sein from above the Islands to Au Teutl, com prising the law court Institute, the fashionable St. Germaine district, the foreign office, the chamber of deputies, and the Champs de Mars Is submerged under from one to 10 feet of water. Some of the deputies left the Palace Bourbon Thurtds* night in row boats, others oi the backs of attendants, the walls of the Invmlldes station are crumbling and both that structure and the win* of the foreign office opposite are in danger of collapse. The strea’s sur rounding the St. Laxare station have sunk three feet, and the sltust.on there Is regarded a's desperate. It Is also feared that the foundation of the two big neighboring depart ment stores are being undermined. The overflow of the broken sewers Into the flooded basements, menac ing the health of the occupants aid the smell of sewage is already per meating the buildings. Soldiers am working desperately by the aid of torches, disentangling drift-woc J 0 ,f erlno and He"' had broken lato a box nar^.. A.t.the. Richardson, chairman of the Alas- Puzzling. Columbia hospital it was said that he could hardly recover, Mr. Boyer was on duty at the Roy- ston freight yards, when he discov ered two negroes taking a quantity of goods from a freight car on a siding. He advanced closely on the thieves before he made any attempt to protect himself In case the ne groes attacked him, and did not have time to draw hit pistol when the negroes dlscovered hlm and over powered him. In the struggle that ensued one of the negroes, wrench ed Mr. Boyer’s pistol from his hand and shot him. the ball entering his shoulder and coursing downward and lodging in his body. Bloodhounds were secured from the penitentiary and placed on the trail of the thieves. An unveri fied report to police headquarters later said that one of the negroes bad been captured but had escaped again. Mr. Boyer is well known In Colum bia, at one time being a member of the police force. He resigned some ten years ago and has bees In the employ of the railroad since. He lives with his family at 2018 Gads den street. DOCTOH GAVE MAN POISON. He Was Asked by the Patient to Administer Deadly Drug. A dispatch from Budapest, Hun- garla, says a sensational murder charge, Involving the ever Intricate problem as to the right of a doctor to kill an incurable patient, is ab sorbing public attention there. The accused mau Is Dr. Joseph Fekete of Roslnjo, Hungary. He admits having given poison to s pa tlent at the latter’s request. The victim has endured appalling naffei^ng toil ten years, and, his malady being without remedy and probably likely to entail many more years of torture, the doctor admin istered poison with the full consent of the family, who were assembled xt the bedside. A nursemaid bad been listening at the door, and on her evidence Dr. Fekete found himself charged with the capital offense. The case Is without precedent In the courts there, but with public opinion wholly In favor of the pris oner it is not likely that be will be severely punished. WORK OF HEROES. ka Road Commission, whom Be charges with exerting too much In fluence upon congressional commit tees. Whye the Alaskan legislative council bill was before the senate committee on territories, Delegate Wickersham charged that Major Richardson was In Washington claiming to be the adviser of the administration on all matters relat ing to Alaska; that he was In fact lobbying in behalf of special Inter ests, mentioning among others the Guggenheim Interests, and endeav oring to perpetuate himself as chair man of the road commission and at the same time legislate himself In to the office of Commissioner of the Interior, an office created by the Alaskan legislative council bill, at a salary of $7,500 a year. In his letter to the secretary of war, Mr. Wickersham says that he was met by Major Richardson as he came from the committee room and In an angry tone threatened by the army officer for what he had said to the committee. Speaking of this en counter Mr. Wickersham says: “He said that only his position as an officer In the army and my position as a delegate in congress protected me. I shall perform my duty as a delegate from Alaska with out fear of assault from Major Rich ardson. but I most earnestly protest against being threatened In the capl- tol by an officer In the army for daring to perform such duty. "It Is bad enough te have him lobbying around the corridors In an effort to Impose himself as a part of a military legislature upon a helpless and law-abiding American community In time of peace, to In crease his own salary and evade his duties In the army, without having him threatening the representative of those people for perfomring his congressional duties, and I protest against his violence and insolence.” WHITE LIGHTH GOT HIM. William Fllgate, of Savannah, Begs New York Judge to Shoot Him. Police Magistrate Breen, of New York city, was considerably surpris ed a few days ago when a well dress ed person on being arraigned, asked that he be either shot or thrown In the river. The prisoner said he was William FUgate, of Savannah, Ga., who went to New York four months ago with $1,100 In cash and was arrested before daylight that 'or begging on the streets. \ whiskey,” said aip here to \ tarried long - r “I believe this investigation now under way will unearth the biggest swindle In the insurance life ever exposed west of New York," said State Insurance Commissioner Bell, of Kentucky, a few days ago as he took up the case of Walter S. Rider, a teamster, at Louisville, Ky., who died January 4, and whose body was exhumed by the coroner on the re quest of cettalfl Insurance compa nies. The death certificate indicat ed that Rider died of intestinal trouble, but is Is reported that the autopsy showed a large portion of the lung eaten away, supposedly by tuberculosis. Commissioner" Bell has taken up the case upon the request of certain life insurance companies in Indiana and Tennessee, who are said to be large losers by reason of the “grave yard” swindle. These companies, which It Is alleged have already paid $10,000 on policies Issued in the Rider case, are excluded from busi ness la Kentucky, yet It Is said have carried on a large business In Ken tucky through an agency at New Albany, Ind., across the river from Louisville. The scheme worked on the companies is to a certain extent an old one, the company Issuing the policy to men virtually In the shad ow of the grave, after having ex amined a man of athletic build who was represented as the applicant. Local Insurance men refuse to say anything regarding the matter, for the reason that they wish to re cover policies now outstanding with the “dummies” Involved In the swin dle. Rider, it Is alleged, carried Insur ance aggregating $16,000, but none cf his relatives Is named as bene ficiary. Mrs. Mary Quill, sister, and James R. Rider, brother, made affi davits several days ago to the effect that they believed their brother came to his death by poisoning and that he was a victim of foul play. The family communicated with the independent Life Insurance Company of Nashville, Tenn., and the matter was taken up In Louisville later by a representative of that company and three Indiana companies. Up on these representations Acting Cor oner Dacher ordered the body ex humed and the autopsy held In the presence of several physicians. After discovering the lesion In the lung, the stomach was turned over to the chemists for analysis. Rider was a teamster and received $10 per week. DYNAMITE KILLS ONE. What seemed In every way a auo- cessful test of a street car equipped with the new Edison storage bat tery waa made on the Orange Valley A Pasalc electric railway at Wear Orange, N. J., recently. Thomas E. Edison himself could not witness the test, but his elec- trlcal expert assistant, Ralph H. Beach, was on board the car with street car men from all over the country. The test was under the auspices of the public service eor poratlon, and T. S. Adams, master mechanic of that organisation, was motorman. The car, which was apeclally con structed for the new batteries, Is 24 feet long and carries 80 pas sengers. One-half the weight of an ordianry car of the same else. It rides on a single track and is pro pelled by a straight drive. It Is equipped with 210 cells, arranged under the seats on both sides. Of these cells 200 are for propulsion and 10 for lighting, wtlh a total force of 50 horse-power. Edison estimates that the cost of driving the new car will be one oem a mile. If the test satisfies the ex perts, the problem of cables and over head wires will be solved for city traction companies, as the new car generates its own power. Mr. Edison believes that the stor age battery will revolutionize auto mobile as well as street car traffic. Not electric machines only will profit by it, for the apparatus should sup plant gasoline motors as well. ENGINE STRIKES WAGON. Explosion in North Carolina Court House Fatal. Two Mules Killed, Driver Hurt and Wagon Demolished. An engine on the Atlantic Coast Line struck s team of Mr. E. Albert Muldrow’s at the Mount Hope Cem etery crossing near Florence Thurs day afternoon about 2 o'clock, kill ing the iwo mules Instantly, demol ishing the wagon completely, cut ting off the leg of the negro driver of the team and seriously injuring Switchman Wilson. The engine, which wsa a switcher, waa carrying a carload of coal to the Jersey's Creek pumping stmt ion. and was running extra, with Engineer Her bert Rowell at the throttle. . The mules had gotten almost en- Merly across the track when Ihe engine struck them. The mules were rolled along the track for about a hundred yards, and were killed out right. The wagon was scattered, in parts,twlce-'that distance, nod. It was a* most miraculous thing Chat Wilson, the switchman, was not In stantly killed, as he was sitting on the front of the engine when It struck the mules and wagon. The negro driver and Wilson were placed aboard of the engine and hur rled back to the city for medical treatment. At this time the driver Is in a precarious (Condition, nnd it Is doubtful If he AvUi survive. A dispatch from New York toys preliminary slept were taken a few days ago to effect the long-looked for merger of the principal copper producers pf the oountrr Into ene gigantic corporation. In Wall street another blllion-dollar company iras frequently mentioned, but the more conservative, believed final canltlU- zatlon would be closer to $500,609,- 000. The Anaconda Copper Mining Com-' pany officially announced that at a meeting of the board of director* a few days ago It had been decided to call a special meeting of the stockholders in Anaconda, Mont, on March 23, to pass on a proposal to Increase the capital stock from $30,- 000.000 to $150,000,000, "fot the purpose of acquiring the property of other companies located in the Butte district.” The Amalgamated Copper Company owns 55 per cent of the Anaconda stock. Following the merger of the Butte properltles, which include the Amal gamated Copper Company and its various holdings, namely Anacon da Copper Company, Boston A, Mon tana, Butte & Boston. Washington, Trenton and other subsidaries, and the North Butte and Butte coalition. It la expected that the new Anaconda with is increased eapttal of $150,- 000,000 will merge with the Guggen heim, Haggln aud other copper In terests. thus effecting a corporation which will not only control the cop per output of the United States but 111 Influence the copper market of the world. Concerning the plan to merge the various copper properties In the Butte district, the Amalgamated Cop per Company, in a statement Issued, says: The reasons for proposed Increase in stock Involve consideration of dif ficult and complicated legal ques tions as well as those relating to the economical and efficient management of business operations of the dicer ent companies. “Some of tbs operating features which have been considered in favor of the proposed transaction are eco nomies which will result from work ing all the mines In aeeorda a general system of development, thus relieving owners from nocsaalty of maintaining numerons expensive surface and underground plants necessary under present conditions of separate ownership. “The Anaconda Company, because of Us site and Its location, la garded aa the logical company to be come the purchaser of properties of the other companies, and the step taken to call a special meeting wa* the first toward submitting the mat ter to stockholders of dlffereat com panies for their consideration. MANY WIVES DESERTED. V, - Said to bo Due to tK^ Increased a nous icor If he /will Cos* b* factor tnddenly day 4a Washington to add to the already sufficiently situation over the Alaska coal on tk# sve of the beginning of the Ballinger - Plnchot investigation, which largely concerns that qoss- tion. John E. BsUains, of Beattie, said to be the largest Individual property owner la proposition In writing to the senate committee on territories, of which Senator Beveridge of Indiana Is chairman, offering to the govern meat a royalty of fifty cents s ton of coal mined, for the lease of 6,000 acres of some of the cboieest coal Mads in Aleska, In the Kstolla and ansuka districts. Such a royalty would net the government, Mr. Ballalne claims, amouats high as 92,000>090 per seres. This proposal contemplates a cal departufh from past the government's disposal AUakfiL coal JandCt and. avowedly to do battle with proposition, designed to sals or lease of such land* of $10 per acre, general features of tbs the approval of officials administration and at members of both hoaooa Including somo of tho Insurgent Repahlleans, and Wickersham, of Alaska. Mr. Beilina, la his tor Beveridge, offers to bead of $1,09•,000 with ernmeot for the part of the poses, sad he mal other interasto** In Washington s former V. B. tbs Mil referred oee provisions, government weald dltlonal guarantee to a railroads which these pose to build la virtually donate to acre one or mo» acres each to be seW Mr. Ballalae asks tbotiae the heed of to be designated to with a coal company ed by him, for 5.000 tahueka cool land under visions for regulation aud monopolistic control stipulated la the bill dueed by Senator N formlty with recom Secretary BalHager’s auanal This coal company would p United ~ 'tea and Alaska a for the coal ."'.1