Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' GIGANTIC SALARIES r . . ?- - I "Pocket Change" is Plentiful i | With Insurance Officers. ! I M'CURDY GETS $150,000 t ? Son Says Old Man Was Not Paid Any More Than He Earned?Enor* *: . . mous Commissions Raked in by Managers. Closing a week, every day of -which ! has produced a sensation that has j * stirred the country, the special legislative committee investigating the methods of insurance companies adt. i journed at 'New York Friday until Tuesday. ? i v'In the day's testimony the sens a- * tional development came when Mr. Hughes demanded the pay roll of the executive officers of the company. , ? This was produced, and showed t/fc Salaries of these officers since 1S77. For the year 1904, President McCurdy j received $150,000; two vice presidents were paid $50,000 each, a sec ond vice president $17,500, the third vice president $10,000 and the general manager $25,000, who this year will receive $30,000, and the treasurer $50,000. :'C Robert McCurdy said he never knew the salary of his father until t - . ^ Friday, when He neara it reaa mc i committee room. He thought, how- ) : ever, that there should be no limit to the salary of such positions, because they should be in accordance with the accumulations of the company. | , When asked if it was any benefit to the policy holders to increase the f * president's salary, Mr. McCurdy said t he thought the trustees had considered that when they increased the president's salary. No increase, however, had ever been considered when he was present at the trustees' meettr-V'* ing. Mr. McCurdy said he did not know What Mr. Thebaud received from thfi? j business, and had never talked with him about his personal affairs. He said it was a "large reward for larg?2 achievements," and that all business of large magnitude were built upon that principle. The statement of large commissions , paid to the managers of the Mutual - Life's agencies in the foreign department and its city agency do not surprise people who are familiar with the immense amount of the total business transacted by the great life ; companies. In 1904 the sum paid for | commissions on first year's business i nroa in +>>a Xfaitnol T.ifo S!R rinS Rfi7 Til I U UC AU Wiv Ali'VIVUUpi V T vjvv V . . - ? the Equitable $3 312,027, and in the New York Life $7,276,853. or a total of $17,147.74S. As was explained to the legislative committee, in life in- . surance, as in every other business in America, there are large rewards .for great and successful work. The new business in 1904 of these companies amounted to $865,397,387. SIXTEEN NEW FEVER CASES. Was Friday's Record in Pensacola. Outlook is Rather Gloomy. Friday's report showed little change ' , . In the fever report at Pensacola. One ^ of the new cases is British Vice Consul Frederick Bonar, who is in a very dangerous condition. y While the outlook is anything but bright, Dr. Porter and the health of \ fleers are putting up a fine fight, and have not for a minute expressed any . discouragement over the situation. They are meeting with some opposition on the part of a certain class ?. of citizens, who do not seem to be impressed with the importance of the situation, but despite this opposition they are going on with the work of fumigation and screening. The official fever summary for Friday was as follows: New cases 16, total cases to date 219, deaths Friday 2, total deaths to date 37, cases discharged 75, cases under treatment 103. NEGRO SHOOTS INTO CROWD. > * Vv Enraoed at Ridicule He Uses Pifttol With Deadly Effect. Wild with rage because of the ridicule of several small boys in front o? the Bijou theater in Memphis, Mpn> day, an unknown negro emptied his revolver into a mass of people. On? boy is dying, another is dangerously wounded and a negro girl received slight, injuries. Several small boys greeted the negro with ca-t-calls and obstructed his passage. The negro became infuriated, and, drawing a revolver, fired at his annoyers. He then made a hasty flight. < FEVER STATUS IN VICKSBURG. I Three New Cases and One Death the Official Record for Friday. Three new cases of yellow fever, one new focus and one death was the fever record in Vicksburg for the 24 hours ending at 6 p. m. Friday. * The death was Gustav Schultz, a well known merchant tailor. Two of the new cases were outside the city limits. i % FEVER BEYOND CONTROL. Pensacola Authorities Can Only Depend on Jack Frost to Eradicate Scourge from the City. Nineteen new cases of yellow lever developed in Pensacola Sunday, showing a large^ increase in the number heretofore reported. This is initially due to the rigid inspection which was made during the day t>y what is known as the citizens' committee, which was appointed Saturday, eucu ciwieu u?louiu f.o a block. This inspection revelled manv cases which had not been reported to he physicians. All of these cases were among the lower class residents, but the physicians reported several cases which had been under surveillance for several days. The prevailing opinion is that the fever is beyond control, that it will remain in Pensacola until frost. The efforts of the doctors are now centered principally in preventing a spread and keeping the number of cases as small as possible. No deaths occurred during the day, although \here are a number of patients in the hospital and other places .who are likely to die. The obstacles thrown in the way f the health officials by ignorant parties have prevented the former iom stamping out the disease and conducting the campaign against the mosquito as It should be conducted, .s a consequence there are now nearone hundred cases under treatment. Many persons have left the city since the establishment of the detention camp by the marine hospital service and more will follow, as the fever seems to be spreading to all portions of Pensacola. Sunday's report, up to 6 p. m., was as follows: New cases 19, total cases to date 253, deaths none, total deaths to date3S, cases discharged 8S, cases under treatment 126. TO SELL SIRUP FACTORY. Government to Give Up Experiment Plant at Waycross, Ga. A Washington dispatch says: Goveminent experiments into the pro cess of cane sirup making have been brought to a sensational conclusion and Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture, ordered the saie of the government factory built at Waycross, Ga., three years ago. This plant wa3 built for the purpose of giving a course of study to the manufacturers of the gulf states. These manufacturers had experienced trouble in making sirup of uniform color, preventing its reverting to sugar or fermenting. A plant was established by Dr. H. W. W(iley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, and his experiments proved entirely successful. The p'ant cost the government less than $15,000 and resulted in the improvement of an annual production of nearly 200,000 gallons of sirup. RETURN FUNDS OR GET OUT. This i6 Edict of Missouri to Insurance Company President McCall. State Superintendent of Insurance W. D. Vandiver of Missouri has sent a communication to John A. McCall of the New York Life Insurance com- ! pany, demanding that the $148,702 ! campaign fund contribution were placed in the treasury of the company ^roder penalty of revocation of the company^ license to transact business | in Missouri for failure to comply with! the demand. In the communication Superintendent Vandiver also informs President McCall that the Missouri department insurance will insist on a new president, vice president and financial committee for the 'New York Life Insurance Company just as soon as the directors can possibly effect the reorganization. Castro Orders French Guns. The Venezuelan government has ordered from the Creusol works, | France, thirty batteries of field artillery and twelve batteries of mountain gunc. PRINTERS' STRIKE UNBROKEN. Secretary Alexander at Charlotte Issues a Signed Statement. Secretary T. M. Alexander of the Charlotte Typographical Union has given out the following signed statement concerning the strike: "The strike of union printers in Charlotte for an eight-hour day is not settled, and the shops will not be 'open' until so declared by the International Typographical Union, which action is not within the range of possibility. Of forty strikers, three only have deserted Charlrvtte Tvrvwr->n>t?. cal Union." NOVEMBER COTTON REPORT. Secretary Wilson Announces Decided Departure from Custom. Secretary Wilson announces that a November cotton report will be issued by the department of agriculture, probably early in the month, but the exact date lias not been decided. This is a departure from the custom of the department, no reports having been issued in the month of November heretofore. | EIGHTEEN INFECTED; ! ! - T , ! * v'v': ; ! ; The Record for One Day in! Fever Stricken Pensacola, j i ! j CITIZENS ARE AROUSED.! i | I ! , I | More Assistance is Given Health.Au. ! thorities?Summary of Situation | i j in New Orleans and State of Mississippi. ! ? ' I j The official fever summary for Pen- j i saco'.a Thursday was as follows: New i I i cases IS deaths 3. The somewhat in- i ' ; creased number of new cases is ac- | | counted for panly by the fact that j | the physicians have been able to lo- j : cate and diagnose cases that were | i . .. . _ I not reported in tne early stages, ah! other canse is believed to lie in the : fact that the people who at first op| posed the efforts of the health au; thorities are now realizing the seriousness of the situation and are givi ing some aid in reporting new oases. | Only sixteen persons went to the : detention camp Thursday, and the lat; ter now has only forty-nine occu- ( j pants. ; The original excitement over the i fever and the desire to get away from i the city has practically subsided and only such persons are leaving as have business elsewhere or were caught i when the quarantine went on. At New Orleans, i A "New Orleans special says: With ! the number of fatalities daily from j yellow fever reduced to almost insignificant figures, the public has reachI ed the conclusion that the number of new cases is unjustifiably large, | and that there is being included in ! the official list cases classed as yei' low fever that are simply ordinary i fever. I The marine hosptU: service officials j admit this as probably the case, but | disclaim responsibility for the errors | which occur in the official figures, which they furnish. The blame is placed at the doors of certain physicians who find their excuse for reporting such cases in pretended fear of arrest, if they should make a mistake and fail to report an actual case. The authorities say that there is no reason why ! such Jul extreme view should be i taken of the measures formulated for ; the campaign against the disease. I The official repov up to 6 p. m. | Thursday was as follows: New cases i 28, total cases to date 3,122, deaths | Thursday 3, total deaths to date 403, ; under treatment .198, discharged 2,526. Situation in Mississippi, i The Mississippi yellow fever sum' maiy for Thursday was as follows: ; Port Gibson, thirteen new cases, one ' death. Dr. Acker states that he discovered several nests of infection, and j is now establishing a hospital. Hami burg, three new cases, one suspicious | case, two patients expected to die. Additional trained nurses have arrived. Drs. Magee and Rourke are worn ! out by the constant strain of work. Natchez, six new cases, five new foci, no deaths. Vicksburg, two new cases in city, two Gases in county, no deaths. Gulfport, three new cases, no deaths. Roxie, four new cases, no deaths. Rosetta, three new cases, two deaths. MANIPULATED SCHOOL FUNDS. rroTcssor uougneny Mrresiea on indictments for Forgery. Professor Newton Dougherty, superj intendent of the city schools of PeI oria, 111., for more than twenty years, i president of the Peoria national bank I and capitalist was arrested Thursday ; on two true bills returned by the j grand jury, charged with forgery and | embezzlement. The arrest followed an investiga| tion by the grand jury of charges | brought against Professor Dougherty j that the accounts of the school funds, which were deposited in his bank, were being manipulated. FOURTEEN QUARRYMEN KILLED. Cave4n at Slate Mine* Buries Many Unfortunate Hungarians. Fourteen men were killed Friday by a cave-in at the Vermont Slate Company's quarry, about two and one half miles from Granville, N . Y. Among the dead is J. B. Williams, president of the company. The others were Hungarian laborers. Sixteen men were buried in the cave-in. David Cadwallader and Fraser Queen, the foreman of the quarry, were rescued. The latter is ex| pected to die. Four bodies have been recovered. UNION TO BUY AUTOMOBILES. Will Be Used Wherever a Street Car Strike is in Progress. The national convention of . street railway employees, in session at Chicago Friday, appropriated $20,000 for the purchase of ten automobiles to be uhed by the union to convey passengers wherever there is a street car strike, the profits from fares to go into the defense fund, where the $20,000 came from. HUGHES DECLINES HONOR Thinks Acceptance cf New York Mayoralty Nomination Would "Queer" Insurance Investigation. Charles ifugnes. counsel for the insurance investigating committee, has declined the republican nomination for mayor of New* York city. In stating his grounds l'or refusing v - : ? .:^? Mr- Wi-i-rhps said! tne r?oiiunaLiw/u, ma. aa.a0a.? "In this dilemma I have simply tc do my duty as I see it. In my judgment I have no.rigut to accept the nomination. A paramount public duty forbids it. "It is not necessary to enlarge upon the importance of the insurance investigation. This is undisputed. II is dealing with questions vital to the interests of millions of our fellow citizens thioughout the land. It presentan opportunity for public service sec end to none and involves a co-relative responsibility. This work com mands all my energies. It is impar alive that I continue it. "The non-poiitical character of the investigation and its freedom from bias either of fear or favor, not only must exist, they must be recognized "Were 1, with the best of intentions, to accept the nomination, it is my conviction that the work of the investigation would be largely dfs credited by the public at large; its mo tives would be impugned and its in tegrity assailed. To many it woub appear that its course would b< shaped and its lines of inquiry would be chosen, developed or abandoned a; political ambition might prompt o: political exigency demand. "Such a situation would be intoler able. There is but one course open The legislative inquiry must proceec with convincing disinterestedness. It: great opportunities must not be im perilled by alienating the support t< which it is entitled, or by giving th< slightest occasion for questioning th( sincerity and single-mindedness witl which it is. conducted. "For your expression of confidence I thank you. The honor you wouk confer upon me I most heartily es teem. Your most generous approva and the unanimity and enthusiasn with which the nomination was made I warmly appreciate. But I have as sumed obligations of the first import ance. which make it impossible fo me to meet your wishes. I must therefore, respectfully decline th< nomination." FUGITIVES BEHIND BARS, Greene and Gaynor Ensconced in Sa vannah Jail?Wives Greeted Them on Arrival in the City. The welcome of their wives await ed Benjamin D. Greene and John F Gaynor when in the custody of z quartet of officers, they arrived in Sa vannah at 6 o'clock Monday morning at the union station after their long journey from Montreal. An affectionate greeting was ex changed between the alleged conspir ators and their wives. After a brie interchange the prisoners and Mar shals White and Doyle left in on( carriage for the Chatham county jail while the ladies took another for th< DeSoto hotel, where they are stopping The prisoners were not handcuffed. Arriving at the jail, the party hac some trouble "breaking in." Green* and Gaynor commented upon this ap parent difficulty. Finally the marshal! were able to make the custodians within hear and the gates were open ed, to close later to confine Green* and Gaynor. The prisoners were installed in s special room on the top floor. The] wiH furnish it comfortably, and ever] morning a negro barber is to appeal to shave them. An-angements hav< been made for them to receive theii meals from the DtSoto. Many caller? appeared at the jail. Among then was P. W. Meldrim of Garrard & Mel drim. attorneys, who have been en gaged by the prisoners. Colonel Mel drim gave them instructions not t< talk, and efforts to secure interview? were bootless. It is said that an at tempt to obtain their liberty on bat will be made. NOTED BREEDING FARM SOLD. Attorney Dioklnson Buys Two.Thirds Interest in Famous 3elle Meade. Judge J. M. Dickinson, general counsel of the Illinois Central rail road-, has purchased a two-thirds in terest In Belle Meade farm neai Nashville, Tenn., for many years a famous nursery for running horses; under the management of the late General W. H. Jackson. Judge Dickinson has also acquired a lease on the other third interest and it is said contemplates retiring from the law and making Belle Meade his home at no very distant data PACKERS TO ADMIT GUILT. Willing to Be branded as Consplrators in Festering Monopoly. A Chicago dispatch says: The packers whose recent attempt to abate the indictment found against them charging conspiracy to monopolize the meat industry of the country ended in failure, will enter pleas of guilty before Judge Humphrey. To all othei counts in the indictment against them demurrers will be filed. , jTAFT WHOLE THING i . ? ... .. Secretary of War to Be Abso t lute Boss of Canal Work. ; J i ^ ^ r? ma Ha nrnr n iWILL NUI bt tlAIVirtHtu I > Says if Responsibility Rests on Him He Must Have Free Hand?Will Report Only to President Roosevelt. t ' i . j A Washington. special says: Secre jtary Taft \\ ill sail on a naval vessel i from New Orleans for Panama about . j November 1. It is not his intention 5 | :c remain "very long on the isthmus, . j his main object being to talk with . j Governor Magoon and Engineer Ste. j vens and to look over the situation . as it now* exists in the way of coiv struciion and preparation. ; At the conference with the resident engineer when it was decided :o leave the administration of the canal in the war department, Secretary . Taft made it plain thet if he w*as to j have the responsibility for the canal 5 he would be supreme in its man agement, and tiiei-e would be no intermediary between himself and the president. j The secretary will take absolute g charge of all the important business j transactions regarding the construction and its management, operating through the isthmian commission. A dispatch from Colon says is The members of the advisory board of the consulting engineers of the Panama canal devoted the whole of Monday to an examination of the EmpireCulebra cut, going over the ground and inspecting the dumps and the work already accomplished and now in progress. The party of engineers, at the same time, went to Panama to re-examine the district around LaBoca and other matters at the Pacific terminus of the canal. Later in the afternoon the party went to the canal offices at Panama, where they examined the canal papers, charts and plans, more especially those bearing ov the localities recently visited. All the visitors are In good health except that they have been annoyed H by the bites of grass lice. HOW SOUTH'S COTTON IS USED. ( Census Bureau Shows Production and n ^ n _ Lsiau muiiun ot oiapie. The census bureau at Washington Monday issed a bulletin showing the production and distribution of the cotton. of the United States available * between September 1, 1904. and Sep' tember 1 1905, to be 14,455,994 bales. 1 Of this 61 per cent was exported, 30 * per cent was used In domestic con' sumption, leaving a surplus of 9 per ' cent. The domestic consumption includes 36,776 bales destroyed by fire. ' The exportation amounted to 4,315/ 756 and the surplus 1,305,309. Of the f total 13,693,279 bales were included in the crop of 1904 and the remainder i in that of 1905. Of the quantity con> sumed in the United States 2,138 829 - bales were used in northern and 2,' 140,151 in southern mills. In addition to the . totals, 14,469 ' bales of foreign cotton were importef 3 into the United States during the * year. 3 3 MRS. ROOSEVELT WITH PARTY. 3 President's Wife Will Accompany Him as Far as Atlanta. i r A letter from Secretary Loeb to the r North Carolina state fair authorities r at Raleigh says that in the party with 3 President Roosevelt on his visit td * Raleigh, on October 19, and on his 3 southern trip will be Mrs. Roosevelt ? and maid, Secretary Loeb, Surgeon General Rixey, H. C. Latta, John L. * McGrew; John Mcllhenny. John L. * Greenway, L. S. Brown, representa> tives of three press associations, one 5 photographer, two secret service men and two messengers. Mrs. Roosevelt I v/ill accompany the party as far as Atlanta. COURT HELD ON TRAIN. i Novel Plan to Protect Negro Rapiat from Mob in Kentucky. I An L/\0 n/4 + V? onmo fro i r? An TltlllAh t V/u uv/aiu tuo qoui ^ uaiu vu ttuiv.u he was returned to the scene of his alleged crime, James Fowlker, color ed, charged with assault on a white i woman at Clinton, HUckmarr county, , Kentucky, was tried convicted and > sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. [ Court was held In the baggage coach on an Illinois Central train be| cause the authorities were afraid that , Fowlker would be lynched if he were allowed to be taken off at Clinton. SUBSIDING AT NEW ORLEANS."* Only One Death from Fever Occurred in Crescent City Monday. The continued successful progretw of the government authorities in their ' efforts to stamp out the fever in New 1 Orleans was again manifested Mon! clay in the comparatively low report of new cases and deaths. The official record for the day was as follows: New cases 17, total 3,212, 1 deaths 1, total 411, cases under treatment 187. cases discharged 2,614. j ASK REVISION OF TARIFF i A Reduction of Customs Duties on j Imports Demanded by Republicans of Mas&chusetts. | . . With only one voice raised in opI position the republicans of Massachu setts in state convention at Boston I * j Friday declared for a revision of the j tariff. { Contrary to expectations, the radij cal wing of the party, under the lead1 e:ship cf Eugene N. Foss of Boston ! did not offer a substitute for the plank ; in the platform relating to the tariff, ; although in a speech to the delegates ; Mr. Foss declared that the revision ! of the tariff favored in the state plat; form was not sufficiently wide in its ' ;V:j j scope. Mr. Foa? said, however, that he and his followers were encouraged at the i concessions made to them and that ; next year they would expect to have sg j the convention accept their proposi| tidn in its entirety. One of the surprises came when, q ' General William F. Draper, former j ambassador to Italy and a leading member of the Home Market Club, op- s j posed, in a vigorous speech, the adop| tion of the tariff revision plank of the platform. KJeneral Draper saii he would not offer any substitute plank, for the reason that he knew V ^$1 there was no chance of his or any other substitute being accepted. .*jf General Draper contended that tar- t: ' | | iff revision would be followed by finan- -y j cial and commercial depression, and j speaking as a manufacturer, he could ! see no reason why there should be a revision. In his speech Chairman Weeks de- . j-'yg clared that the country under the .. masterful guidance of President ' y Roosevelt has reached a position of 5 power and prestige never equaled be- -yf j fore, and that projection has been yg | and would continue to be one of the '/,? | main principles of the republican The following state ticket was ' nominated: For Governor?Curtis Guild, Jr. For Lieutenant Governor?Ebon S. Draper, Hopedale. Secretary of State?William M. .. - fl Olin, Boston. Treasurer and Receiver General? Arthur B. Chapin, Holyoke. Auditor?Henry E. Turner, Maiden. ;yl Attorney General?Dana Malone, ^ Greenfield. CANAL IN TAFT'S CONTROL. Big Ditch Affairs to Remain Under j&v Authority of War Department. i A Washington special says: The -JiM j management of the isthmian canal af- M j fairs will remain under Secretary 1 Taft, who will go to Panama in No- yf| j vember to investigate the situation jig i the>e and thornnarhlv inform himself ri&S of the conditions in the canal zone. The decision to keep the control of 113 the' canal in the war department InJ stead of transferring it to the state^ y!" (| department was definitely reached' fJJ I Friday in a discussion that followed | the cabinet meeting. * Now that the work is to proceect i under his direction, Secretary Thft/\ I will proceed to Panama, go over the v'3?l | situation in detail and return to '^ISM Washington about the time congress , v| convenes. Early next week the secretary will take up the subject of finances and decide as to what recommendations *.?g should be made to congress respecting the issue of bonds which have ~ ' -Wx been provided. for by congress. Secretary Taft will give every fea- / ture of the canal administration his , careful personal attention. COUNTY TREASURER OUSTEb. Governor Heyward Takes Vigorous \~jjM Measures Against Whetsell. Upon information furnished by the. v$| comptroller general Governor Bey* . ^ ward of South Carolina Friday sus- " 7^ pended J. M. Whetsell, treasurer of ' % ijm i .Dorchester county. Whetsell is short in his accounts to the amount ofv$2, 164.94. The office will be in the band3 .4; :p! of the county auditor until a successor r i| named by the legislative delegation. DOCTOR HELD FOR MURDER. > -ym Charged With Maltreatment of Girl WWch Caused Death. v [Jm Dr. Oliver B. Hart, millionaire's son, . f-Jp| I would-be suicide and husband of 16- 4 year-old wife, was formally charged at Chicago.Saturday with the murder , . of 10-year-old Irene Klokow, waif from 'Jra au industrial school, and companion - y;i||| to his wife. The doctor, who is said to be ad- ' dieted to morphine and cocaine, gazed ^ stupidly at the walls of the court room when arraigned and did not^ \. 49 speak a word. ALABAMA CROP IS SHORT. V > So Reports President of State Cotton V Growers' Association. In a report Monday of the cotton crop conditions in the state up to 'V-v^ October 1, President w. h. seymour of rhe State Cotion Growers' Association of Alabama shows that the con- * - ^ dition as compared to last year Is 67.6 per cent, that is counting last year at 100. On his estimate the crop ' of the year will be 976,568, as com- ??*>? pared to over a million last year.