The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, July 06, 1911, Image 1
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Seoalsr Williams Ptfint OjI lacoDsbleicj
of Senator Commings.
THE ('OST OF TEXT IHK)K SOME
WHAT IXCREASEI).
GOVERNOR ULE.VSE SATISFIED
WITH WHAT IT DID.
Derrell Barrison Lest His Life While
Viewing Base Ball (jam?.
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train robbers made mistake in RAFFLES and are awarded
IN STOIM’ING TRAIN. A LIFE PARTNER.
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HE WAS ON BOTH SIDES
Rut Then It I* Presumed That the
Rooks Selected Are Ik'tter Than
the Old One«.
Says the Members in Their Action
Were JuM a* UonjM'ieiitlous as WAS HIGH UP ON A POLE
Swearingen Was.
Only Swag Comes From Registered
Mail, No Express Rein>; on Board.
Posse in Pursuit.
fhi j CU m Thai They Wert Tia|kt H««
it Steal Thia|s Fraa Stem
Iowan \I'liiies Against Can'idian Re-
ciprocit^ and John Sharp Williams
tiles IIMM Speci li in v.!iich Cum-
inJiis I axored Puttiiij; I arm Pro
ducts in Free List.
I he Washington correspondent of
I In News anu C .uricM sax-' the gen
eral opinion of disinterfste l auditors
of the colloi|liy in .liio.tatir ie Thurs
day between Senators Cuuiniins of
Iowa, and. Williams, of .Missjppi, that
the brili'.a! ' South rner touted the
le’.van. li ir.-e, too' and dragoon.
The deed was accomplished by the
apt citation of a speech delivered by
Mi' Cummings sex • ral years ago in
adx o. acx of reriproc :ty. putieularly
w • thj;e . a rdj.p.,! a rr. n rod nets. There
i.s w ide re e.'i.ition rliie fact that
in John Shir > Wi Hants the South
has added ai.o'her u. the galaxy of
g r t at S 11 I’er .
.'senaior t'.immings continued his
argument ag Hist tlte Canadian re-
ciprocity iiili, hut did not conclude.
He attacked this measure from the
standpoint trot only of its alleg'd in-
jusdiee and piltiral 1ne\pedi'Vto>\
but on Hie jroiinds that it was not
properly drawn as a tariff law.
If pass d in its present form, he
Faiil. tlie a g ree men * would give Can
ada the option of reorganizing one-
half of it without acepting it all.
The statement, explained in detail
by tlie Iowan, drew th attention of
the Senate, manC members miestion-
ing the interpretation thus |>nt upon
the hill as FyC-nt to Congress by the
President.
S- nator ('umnrins stiid the passan*
of the hill would tie followed by a
s’orm of disaporox^ij, against which
ttie Rep.iitdican party could not stand
He amid i' would 1"' accepted by the
ngriciilt ura! interests as notice that
tile Conuri -s had de; rmtued tiiex
were not enMtled to the same con
sideration at its hands that is given
to t be o' tar > rodueers of til ■ land.
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tion tlie Cana-
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J The new books adopted by the
State board of education for the free
public schools of South Carolina will
cost the patrons of the school some
more than the books now used ac
cording to comparative figures made
i up at the office of the State superin-
; tendent of education.
The increased expense is shown in
the following comparative statement
, of the cost of new and old books
prepared by Mr. Swearingen:
Primer.
Cost of old Primer 12
Cost of new Primer. ... . . .25
Increase over 100 per cent.
During the five year period 1906-
!91 1 125,000 primers were sold. Up
on that basis the total increase to
the pupils of the State will be $17,-
680.00.
! '^ v Renders.
Cost of old First Reader. . .
Cost of new First Reader . .
incrase 25 per cent
Total number of Fi^st Raiders
, sold during the past five years, 200,-
tnio copies. Aggregate increase to
the pupils $ 1 o.nno.
Cost of old Second Reader. . . .28
Cost of new Second Reader . . .35
Increase 2 5 per cent.
Total number of Second Readers
sold during tlie last adoption period,
I 29,000 copies. Aggregate increase
$!>, 02 0.09.
Geography.
Cost of old Ki m Geographxn
Cost of new Eleni. Geograph
Im rease 22 1-2 per cent
Tola) number sold during last
adoption period. 62,090. Increase to
pupils, $7,560.00.
Physiologies.
In place of a two-book serb s a
three-tmok series has- been adopted.
Cost of old series Klein 2 9
Cost of old series Adv 50
Cost of new serbs, 1st book. . .25
Cost of new series, 2nd book. . 40
Cost of new series, 2rd book H'oi
increased cost to each pupil of the
Serb's, .55 Increase about 60 p'r
cent.
Arithmetic.
In place of a two-hook series < ov-
ering the work up to the high school
i three-hook series has be- n adopted
The first two books cover the work
up to the 7th grade. Kverv put H
therefore who passed into the 7th
crad will have to purchase a new
book for tlie one year at a cost of
II cents.
Cost of old Arithmetic Klein .2 2
Cost of old Arithmetic Adv
Cost of new arithmetic Klein. .
Co-.t of new Arithmetic, Inter
Cost of new Arithmetic. Adx
Inorcas. 0 in cost of the series
ecu’s, about 66 2-2 per cent.
Oxer Txxo Thousand People Who
Were Witnessing Rase Ball Game
Haw tlie Unfortunate Man Fall
Backxxards and Hang Head Doxvn-
W ai d for Some Time.
Tlie State says while perched on
Governor Blease Wednesday after
noon issued a statement in connec
tion with the text book contract mat
ter Governor Blease said:
"i have seen Superintendent Swear
ingen's statement. I have no com
ment to make He is entitled to his
opinion, and I have the highest re
gard for him, and, if he is a can
didate for re-election, he has my best an electric li.ht pole near the centre
wishes for his success, for I think fi.dd fence watching the Columbia-
he is conscientious atpl trying to do Charleston game Wednesday after-
what he believes is right- However. ) )0on a ( je| n ,
wood park, Derrell Har
after a most careful arvd thorough j r i BO n, a voting white man came in
investigation I am satisfied that the contact with a live wire and hung
seven gentlemen who represented suspended from a cross arm head
the. State by appointment oh this downw - ards for abont fivo m i nut()S
board, (and who were appointed by pla | n view of about 2 non horri .
my predecessor,) are equally as eOn- fled spectators. Death result’ d nl-
scientious and as honorable gentb'-J mos ^ instantly
! n, en. and did what they believed wasN xhe accident occurred In the sixth
for the best interest of the •child^rf nrfijng, about 6:40 'o'clock.’ Ham
of South Carolina. son another man. whose name as
"I considered the changing of th. yet hk not been ascertained bv the
- board Certain newspapers were very | authori\-«, were watching the game
loud in their denunciation of me in from the Electric light pole \ light
contemplation of such action and which looked like a hall of fire flash-
spoke in the very highest and lauda-jcd and Harrison t.-xkw r>a >,i ;
hie terms of these gentlemen, and it ie. es catching on the cross-arm. tin-
appeared from their ravings that had other man dropping to the ground
I removed these gentlemen I would His hat then sailed to the street be-
\ Voxel Manner of Haising Money
at a Churdi Ditery Held in Phil
adelphia, Pa..
Apparently mistaking the first sec-: It Is quite the thing in PhHadel-
ur of the north hound passenger phla now for a girl to t;ike a chance
in a husband. That sounds as if it
, , ,, , . were not new, Imt the fact is that a
to he carrying a shipment of $490,- K | r ] nt
BUT THEY GOT CAUGHT
train No. 16 on the Southern 1‘aclfic
railroad for a southbound train said
99n in gold dust from Seattle to San
I-ram sco two robbers hqld up the
northbound train on Thursday night
in I* r West l-'ork. an isolated station in
Cow Creek canyon, Oregon. »
The robixTH rifled the mail car,
blowing up the safe, and made away
with the registered mail They tried
to secure entranco to the express car,
but were foiled by Messenger Robb,
who refused to open Hie door despite
threats that they would use dyna
mite if he refused. The robbers after
fruitless
a fair can put her hand in a
grali bag and pull out a husband if
she is lucky.
Miss Mary Doyle did alhiost that
at the fair for the benefit of St. Greg
ory's Roman Catholic Church Wed
nesday nigtit. She and several thous
and young women bought tickets in
a lotery for a husband whose identity
was careTully hidd n St Gregory's
Arrested in a Department Store Tell
Strange Tale on Inatnirtioi)
Shoplifting.—Won Prize* in Shape
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of Sticks of Candy for I^roAdeBtQr
in Stealing,
I tie New York World aayi the
pretty, starched frock* of two girl*,
each about ten years old, with anoth
er girl, about three toddling between
them, attracted the eye of Mtsa Marie
Young , detective, in the Greenhut-
roctor vouchsafed that the prize r> „ N"“' *“ ‘“7 V ' ,, ”' UUU4 '
»o”,a n,a k o . S 0„ Inihbanc!, and an .tfi and P, “ ! '‘ 1> "‘
pounced that lie would perform the
Avenue Friday after*
noon. At the lingerie counter, Miss
have been subjected to the most se
vere Censure.
"Now', that the adoption is over,
low. It is said that the other man
was not Injured.
In an instant the grandstand and
S fl» prying with a crowbar E | r “ tl ’- *• , Young .ay., ,h. ... on. of tte girl,
.i .li » .v. « .1 a additional Inducement a diamond j 0 . . • *»
the side door of the car, finally de-i . .. . : Ude a slip in her sleeve. A moment
sist’ d and decamped with the loot later the other took a similar rar-
F'ecijred from the mall cay. . _ .. ...J!: |the detect|ve
The""amount taken i>y the robbers * )r /fk '' aK (iS^ch of fTYe ( She fol^lowed them wnd law them
can not he ascertained at this time, headquarters of the church fair com- ta'k’e garment after garment, making
This train carries in its registered 1 Wednesday night. Miss Jen-1 frequent trip* to'the waiting room.
mail the cash from Southern Ongon ' n * e " o°dhouse held a box full of finally Mis* Young invited the chil-
postofficixs to Eugene, Oregon, w hich ’’’'nibers Miss Mary Muray. blind- : dren to tlie office, where Mist Young
is their depository, and this was | thrust her hand In the pox a*rprts she found $9.87 worth of
r’pi'li'ded in t''e mail sto 1 ^’’ Mlf * dfew f'<tu'i a number 1 1’’' i" 1 -ilk and linen slip* pinned under the
The robbers Hoarded the train at ' a0 held that number was the "Bi-jolder girls ckirtfl and one silk gar*
West Fork w hile the engine was tak-j u< ‘ r ^he united heart pit a-pats of ment pinned to the little chlld'e dreaa.
At the police station, where they
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some of these same papers are crlti-1 bleachers were in a state of confus
cising these gentlemen, if they can j(>n. Women shrieked and hundreds
make their position consistent, after | 0 f others rushed on the field for the
publishing these contradictory state- uccnc of ttie accident. John Burke,
meats, all right, for it will onlv| rpn ( r ^ flpi d e r on { be Columbia team,
he in keeping with the easin': of their i was among the first to go to his aid ‘
conscience for their oth r falsehoods \ nian r ]| nlbpd the pole with a
and vituperation in which they havt rope and attempted to tie it around
engaged. f bo dfy ad man's body to lower it to
"On the morning .of the becinnine 1 the ground, hut tiis body was so limn
of the book adoption I was railed , that it slipped out, falling into the
.way from Columbia and, thereforecrowd. Examination showed that he
was not pres nt at the adoption of xvas d ad.
the books on the morning of the first Derrell Harrison was about twenty-
day. Neither was I present when the fixe year old. He was from the
vote was taken on the question raised Horse Creek valley of this State, but
by Superintend-nt Swearingen that has recently been with his broth'r-
enrh man record his vote on each
hook, if I had been present 1 would
have voted for Mr. Swcurin ten's
plan: and. if any one is interest’d
enough to now, I will lie delighted
to state how I voted on each ivook
that was adopted during my presence «■
I think my record in the House of One Man Mortally and Another Se.
R prosentatives and in Hie State Scn-
•vne taken, the older girl* laid they
were HeJen Stewart and Helen Hen-
wood of No. 421 Welt Thirty-ninth
street, and the baby wai Agnea Han
't >, of the same addrea*. When
eharged with gtealing one of the girla
said earnestly:
"No, mister, we didn’t take the
Borne one ju*t put them
in-law. G. T Scott, in the Olympia
mill village His wife was n Colum
bia. After tlie ;icri’](>nt the game
was resumed, imt main left.
1 VT \l. SIDK H IM. SCR \I*K.
ate and in the Governor's office will
Justify me in saying that I have al
ways been free and open in every
verely Wounded.
'oster K. Harper and
Ridgeway, two voting white
William
men of
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act that I have ever committ-d. and prominent families, en.agi
I have no apologies to make to any tol duel near Holliday s bOdg-, An
man or s<q of men. I recognize no derson county. Monday afternoon,
'boss' but the ptople, and. when I each firing 15 shots, and eaeii being
go before Hem to them alon" will wounded, Harper probaMy mortallx
t Hxe an account. The row was a result, of some reports
I refused on several occasions to one of tlie principals started, so it b
see bonk men Notably in this class said. Hut ttie n.uu'r of tlie reports
were the agents of the Aim rican can not lie learned
( \t sF.S SOME COMMENT.
Ill KT BA s \Mi Mi I.E.
1 atlier and Son Both 'feet Death the
Same Way.
t in
News res’ lied L xinrton Monday of
ath of Gus Bouknigh!, a young
farmer of the Chapin section of tlie
county. (!■ t!i resultin: from inju
ries FTistained hr be’ng thrown front
a mule A strange coincidenc’ in
connection w itli tlie death of the
young man is the fact that his fath
er. John Bouknight. was injured in
a runaway last fall by being thrown
from s bfrke-of eoHem, t ho same muie
being hitched to the wagon, that
threw Gus Bouknight on Saturdey.
Ttie father lingered, a few days, when
death'came as a relief to his suffer
in'
Gus HoukoisH.t .was abont 29 years
of age. and. b sides his wife and
child, is survived by his aged mother
and several brother? and sisters. His
remains were laid to rest in Hie Meth
odist church cemetery at Chapin
Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock in
the presence’blNfi very large congre
gation of relatives and friendr.
\ciion of Stale Board of Education
Is Being Discussed.
The State says much inter’st is be
ing manifested in the action ot^ the
State Board of Education in eliminat-
•ng about 89 per cent of the text
tiooks now used bv ttie free public
schools of South Carolina
Tlie members of the State board
of education are: D M O'Driscoll.
Charleston; H F Rico. Jr. Aiken:
H W Daniel, Clemson colleg : \ G
Rembert, Spartanburg; J. L\les
'il nn. Chester: Nathan Toms, Dar-
linvton; A J Thackson, Orangeburg:
1 E. Swearingen, the St ite superin
tendent of education, is the secretarv
of Hie lioard and the governor is the
• x*ofTH'io chairman
■ "r. Swearingen several days ago
issued a statenient in which lie crit-
i-d/ed ttie tmard for Hv sweeping
changes in text-books. He charged
H’M the ho'Td had placed an unnec
essary tax of several hundred thous
and dollars upon the peotde of tiv
State. The actioa^pf the board has
caused much comment and further
developments La conn cell on withtiic
situation are expected.
Book Company, and I have been in
formed that Mr Fair, one of yheir
representatives, was rath r severe in
his criticism of my not allowing hNn
Friends of iiotii men iinHc'pated a
fight and asked Harper and Ridge
way to meet at the home of Bn!
Holliday in order to idiust their dif-
*o see me and discuss his bonks with for neps It is said that both men
I'im When Hook men called. I de-'began tiring when Hiev met and t Imt
(lined ro see them stating to so in Aach emptied Ids revolver three time-
to sop Mr. Swearingen that he was atWl when their pistols were < nipped
State Superintendent of EduraHon. the\ calmly reloaded and began firing
ant! Hint the peopl had elected him agaih.
to perform that dut\ and not me.
As 'o Cinn <C- Co. I guess Mr Wal
ker win hardly say that 1 had any stomach!, Ridgeway
favors for them The only agents bullets in',ids b-g H
with whom I did have
H ith’er was stint thrmi-Hi the liver
and two other tiaiis lodged .In ins.
eceiv* d Hir. e
was move! to
m v con versa- bis liome, Vyli< ’e he wiT attended liy
phvsicians. \Harper was rushed to
Belton in atV aut.omobil p and was
tirought to AmWu'son o\"r the electric
trolley. He wa\ carrie'l to ttie lios-
pital and DrtttoVs Hans, Haynie
ine water. Soon after it had got un- hundreds of gi-'s assembled were
der way they crawled over the tender a l ni0fi t audible. "No. 1695 wins"
into the cab and directed the engineer announced Miss WoodhousA
to stop the train. After much fluttering It was dls-
This done one of the men kept the covered that .Mis Doyle held No. 1 669
engineer and fireman under cover; Her envluos co-gamblers in (hi game
with his revolver while the other j of love thrust her forward and she
one went back and uncoupled the ’ was directed to step on :he perch
mail and baggage car. j and discover imr "winnings" vvno
Then Hie engineer was ordered to was hlden behind a screen j things,
pull these cars some distance up the: An orchestra played the wedding 1 there.’’
tract, where he was again ordered : march from “Lohengrin," With a The police then gave up their ef-
to stop. Ttie robbers went bark to ■ prety, petulant gesture Miss Doyle' forts to learn anything and took the
Hie mail car and lining ttv' mail knocked down the sc-pr*, j three to the Chi dreu’s Society,
clerks up, took the registered mail j There stood William Bowers, From the time the smslleet girl
pounches and dvnaniited the mail car known to a 1 the girls of the (hurch ns . reached the station house she beg&u
safe "the bashful bachelor ’ He was to cry for her mother and father.
The noise of the explosion warned blushing furiously. Besides he wore, All attempts to comfort her failed.
Messeng r Robb of what was takin? evening clothes, except that he had on j The detectives went out to look up
a gren necktie. the address,, which was found to be
‘‘Pshaw ” said Miss Doyle in n tone j fictitious. This was about nine p. m.
that made Bowers Mush a deep’r Soon after they left the West Forty-
irlmson, T know Mr. Bowers is vprv | seventh street station called up the
nice, hut I don’t want a husband that, Gerry agents and asked If they had
costs me only tmi cents.’’ She gave a lost child there, givin; a description
up the diamond ring too of Agnea. An hour later Edward Ah-
B’Owers will he raffled off again,: earn, a city fireman, and his distract-
next time to buy a new organ for, ed wife, appeared at the Gerry room*,
the church. i When they saw Agnes there was no
Mis Doyle may change her mind ! need for identification.- The mtoher
did this afternoon 1‘lty, as well as seized the baby In her arms, crying
again Miss Catherine N. Flanagan hysterically.
budding affection, seems to have in-j Mr. Ahearn said she had missed
spired Miss Flanagan, for she said: ’Agnes in the afternoon, and nelgh-
\ Washington dispatch to The "Nobody loves a fat man, so I’ll hors told her that two little girl* had
State says a bull and In ar war has marry him." She h* Id the ticket that taken the child away as If for a walk.
’Token out again although on a small won Thomas Skelley as husband at j The next morning the babv’g com-
?• ale, bci ausp it developed there on the fair of the Church of the Immacu- panlons were arraigned in the Chll-
U’dnesdav in the hearing of the late Conception. Skelly is six feet dren’* Court before Judge Hoyt,
committee on expenditures in the de- tell and weighs 280 pounds. There "Helen Stewart*’ said she was
partnient of justice that there ha? nj s identity which has been a baf- Helen Birmingham, of No. 541 West
been a studied effort on the part of fling mystery for a week, during | Fiftieth street, and the other said
Northern spinners for the last four which the fair has been in progress, j she was Mary Murch, No. ,641 W«*t
\i ir- to curtail the output of cot- was ddselosGl simultaneously with Fifty-sefond stre<jt- These names
ton goods in onb r to force down the i| 1P announcement that he belonged and addesseg were verified by the
prl ' s of the staple to Miss Flanagan if she wanted him ( detectives.
Books of the Arkwright dub which Skeilv mounted a ehalr and said After telling their right names the
have Jnst boon exhibited to Congress- br . had entered the affair in a spirit; police say the two girls told them
man B> ill of Texas led him to say 0 f f lini hut since he had seen Miss the following amazing story: They
that inioresMn: disclosures might be Flanagan he was willing and anxious j had been taught to steal by a Mrs.
"xpecto’l anv day in view of the nr- to relingulsh his bachelor life. Miss, Kiernan, who lives In Weet Flftletu
Hons of Aftornev General Wicker- Flanagan blushed prettily adn It was street. With other girls about their
sham last year when Hiy- bull and agreed. -> same age they had recelvW a regular
ar movements were the issues of , ! course In shoplifting. To make them
place and when the demand came
lor him to open his door he made no
respOIleo
Ttie conductor of the train as soon
:.s ho discovered what had taken
P!a’o 1 went hack to West Fork where
he notified Glendale and surrounding
points Posses have been organized
ursu ■ the robbers.
t<
DEPRESS PRICE OF COTTON.
\ Plot for That Purpose Said to Have
Been Formed.
Hon of consequence, did not get even
a book, except Prof White.
"As I have said before, in v fight
was for Southern hooks, and we
adonted Thompson's. Kinarls. Wal-
ia - X, White's. Sims's and other Babb and Young \operated on bin
South Carolina authors As to the They say there is vAyv littl nope fn
the day.
While it is too early to say what
the outcome of the matter will be
SHORT WEIGHTS IN fXJLl MBIA.
his revovery Ridgetyav "ill re-over
if no eomplieations se\ in.
JURA I NAT TED TO R VREIN’l E.
\\ heeler reader, while ! was not pres
ent when thev were adopted, thev
are bv a Kentuckian and many of
the other hooks adopted were by
-outhern authors: and in my opinion, «
our people would rather pay allttle But Judge Spear Says They Cannot
more and have their children taught
the truth in Southern hooks, than
to pay le<« and be taught hooks hv
Attend the Affair.
Announcement in Hu* newspaper?
Yankee authors, and faurht to he- fhat fnlir prominent planters of Pul-
1 ieve that their grand fathers, and
Theii great-jrrand-fathers were trait
or? to their State.
A'oiing Brothers Drown.
Alex Doyle, aged 11, and his
brother, J. Doyle. ng<Vl 9. were
drowned in Blue Pond lake Monday
afternoon, near Chattanooga. T‘*nti
The vounger hoy fell Into the watei
and the brother leaped from a 29-
foot embankment Into the water in
an effort to save the drowning boy
Neither could swim. The bodies
lound an hour later, were locked in
ci’ii oHior? vrms.
aski county, who wor - recently ac-
qnilted of peonage in the United
States court at Macon, C,a , ware t\n
"I regret that Superintendent ( . oM , ratfl « hoir acquittal on July t
with a big barbecue and that an in
vitation had bo n extended to the 12
Swearingen looks at Hie matter as h
does
"As for mv part of it. ignorant jllrors t0 bp Km ,. fs nf bonor ba
as I was as to the needs of the chil
dren, 1 did the best 1 could. As for
Hie balance T refer the people to
Prof. O’Driscoll: Mr Rice. Prof nan-
provoked from Judge Fmorv Spear
of the United States court a warning
to the jurors not to attend. Thv.
fudge takes the tins it: on that it b
iels. Prof Rembert, Prof. Tom?. Prof apa , nflt th „ hw fo tam per with a jurv »'>-d:.y at about $290,000.
proficient In the art their Instructor,
they said, converted her parlor Into
a shop. Table* and chair* were plac-
there is a feeling that spinners from Exjierts Find Scale* and Measures j e d In the centre of the room to rep-
hot h the North and South will he resent counters, which were covered
summoned to testify before the com- Inanurat*. .with ribbon* and various article* of
mittei ’Jo ascertain whether thecot-j 'weights and measures used in Co- wearing apparel. Then they were
•on market had suffered because of ] 1)ni bla are generally Incorrect, the told they would “play atore." The
the agre ment of the Northern men errors favoring as a rule the dealer: w-oman’s 15-year-old daughter acted
to curtail their produi tlon and to against the consu m er and, upon! a *t the store de tec 11 v e,
Mm' extent the Southern spinners a p howlng: to tblfl effect by Federal! "You come in as if to buy," the
m iq onJ’-d. exjierts, the city council has set foi girls say their Instructor told them,
♦ ♦ itself the task of remedying matters.! a >'d the one wfco c8n take the most
KILLED AND INJURED The situation Is complicated and without being caught will receive a
Its proper readjustment will require stick of candy-
some time. The promising feature The two children boasted that they
Ry a Terrific Oil Explosion at I ort )s cordial cooperation which the had won four sticks of candy In suc-
merchants themselves offer. It Is re- cession, although the glrle pitted
allz.ed, by city; council aa well as by against In the contest of wits were
At T’ort Arthur, Texas, Iwo lives, the Government agents, that the: much older. Encouraged by this
were lost half a dozen or n.ore men losses Inflicted by short weights and achievement, the detectives say the
were injured some seriously, three measures upon the consumers are in- girls told them, they decfded to "work
oil barges and on<* tug burned to thpjfli Cl ^d innocently and ignorantly by j for themselves” instead of for their
water's edge, about 1 9,000 barrels of i most of the dealers so offending, and 1 instructor and deserted the school
oil (1 st roved and two lane ware-! these merchants say they will he very j and successfully pllfefed article*
houses and over 500 feet of wharves j gi a d to have their standards correct-'from several shops.
burned, in an explosion followed by | ed. » > —
a disustrious fire in the Port Arthur! i n April experts from the bureau j
harbor and. water front Monda. . 0 f standards of th*? natlorja} depart-’
morning. The loss is estimated late ’ ment of commerce and labof quletfiy , .
1 chant and planter, was shot and klll-
.Arthur, Texas.
Caused Double Tragedy.
W. E. Hudson, a prominent m*r-
made an investigation Into the:
Thackston and Senator Glenn
If
Engine Jumps Track.
Fastbound train No. 26, on the
Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, was
wrecked Wednesday evening, one
mile east of Aden, Ky. Th* engine
jumped, the track and turned over.
Mat F. Kelley, of Mount Sterling, Ky..
^ the engineer, was killed, and Edw'ard
A. T. Watkins of Lexington, travel
ing engineer, sustained a broken leg.
None of the passengers was hurt.
Young Man Gone Wrong.
R C. Kuhle, an express messen-
lodged In jail, charged with the theft
day h yDeputy Sheriff Harell and
logded In Jail, dharged with the theft
of articles In his charge while in
transit Kuhle was running between
Florence and JackeonviUe white ip
Man and Wife Killed.
A message received at the sher
iff's office at Ocala. Fla., Wednesday
afternoon giving only mearre Infor
mation of a double murder at Lake
Bryant, in the eastern part of the
county. A man named Higgins and
his wife were found dead, but nu
details of the tragedy were gtven.
Sheriff Galloway left Immediately
for the scene of the tragedy in an
automobile.
this is a Blease board, or If these een- are ln tbp jnrv box VPti thev are
tlemer. were controlled by me. or if Qn thp Jury , |st an d ma v he called
they are corrupt, then lay all 'he U p 0p t 0 ; r y a almiiar case Several
blame on mv shoulders, and I will jurors announce that they will
gladly carry it until the people of a t( en d the 'cue despite the remark?
South Carolina give the command 0 j tbe j u dge
"lay it down." a
He says that the names of the men Capt Frank Weber of the barge j weights and me*asures used In Colum-
ed Monday by Drew Hudeon, the
Humble,'and a man who Is as yet un-! bia under the direction of Mr. m. ado T ,,ed son 0 f, ^
Glbbes knew of I brother of W. E. Hudeon. In turn
Drew Hudson was killed with hle^
identified, lost their lives in the ex- j h. Stillman. Mayor
plosion aboard the Gumble, where 1 the investigation, and, forseelng the|
— Fell Under Train.
Negro m. End* Ills Life. As he ( was alighting from a South-
Jack Etherldee, a negro living in ern train Monday night at the termi-
the Watson vicinity, two miles from ria ' station at Atlanta, after a visit
. Ridge Spring, committed suicide a bis family at Eltenwood, Ga , J. R.
dav or two ago hv beitlnv Ms brains I* ( ' n f° r d’ aged 42, slipped and, fyil He
out against the side of his horse. He was 8fruek b y the train and so badly
had been afflicted with what the at- 1n J ur<1 d 'b a t death resulted ten min
the fire originated. i importance of Its bearing, asked to be own ' vsea P” n jr J.‘. 0r j an K1 U t ’j-
The flamOy swept rapidly over ! furnished with a copy of the report, | third brother. The Ott r*g
smaller vessels belonging to the Tex- 1 embodying the findings of the ex-| occurred V6 j 131 ! «...
as Company aftd spread to two large! perts. This reiiort has just comet Dycrsburg, Tenn., it ^
warehouses of that company. These! to hand, from director S W. Strat- been the outcome Of*® C _
with 600 feet of ton, of the bureau or standard*. had existed for some me wee
two, together
wharves, wo-re soon a mass of ruins
Other buildings wore damaged.
W. E. and T. A. Hudson.
Must H»xe Been Thirsty.
On the voyage over the 75 2 c^bln
pasengers on the Olympic consumed
the following: Champagne, 7,000 bot-
itleer, Beer, 13.00ty bottle*; Mineral
waters, 1,000 bottles; Whiskies, 500
.pottle*; Liquors, 160 bottles.
tending physician pronounced pella
gra, and It Is sunposed his mind be
came unbalanced. ^
utes later. leaves a widow and
ten children. I
Tired of Life.
Capt E H. Jarvir, formerly of rbe
Dispensary Constable* Removed United State* revenue cutter Eofviec,
Gov Blease Monday removed 12 shot and killed himself In a room at
d’spensarv constables, located In'll the AthleMc Club at Seattle, Wash,
drf eountle^ of the State. , on Monday.
Carries Many People.
The largest number of cabin pas
sengers that ever left New York on
a £lngle$ihlp boarded the AVhlte Star
liner, Olympic, Wednesday for Eng
land. The Olympic, the largest
steamer afloat, started the second
i ■ . ' r-
Ignored Governor Blease. „ „ . ,
* . , , Girls Drink Carbolic Acid.
A eitecial dispatch from Atlanta to ^ -t.- - , ,.
the Augusta Chronicle say* the state- ^ *«*cide pact between
ment is made that Governor Blease, waB carrle< l OUt
of South Carolina, being Ignored In wa >'* IN-* when ,J#ee$* l^ObeafMK
sending out invitations to the unveil
ing of the monument to the "Old
Guard” there this fall—and he is
the only governor la the South thus
.half of its maiden trip with 2 , ,2j)^lgnored—is not due to the fact that
perzon* in It* three cabin*. The he did not attend th* conference, but
cost of sailing from Southampton and
back 1* $175,000 and the rotfcirn
| from passenger lam wlQ be $2211,000.
rather la due entirely to hia aetlon
in and conduct in reference to the
•tease.
years oldf, aud Lticy ’Davidson, 18,
years old drank carbolic add Thr
girls agreed % die together if any
attempt was made by the former,*
parents to recover her. A constable
called for J eerie. She asked for time
to drees, hot Instead went to her room
and drank the poison. A mODCftt
latsor her
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