The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 01, 1906, Image 3

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V _____ VANISH KING DEAD Christian IX Passes Away Suddenly in Copenhagen. A LONG REIGN IS ENDED Was Monarch Greatly Beloved by His Subjects and Related by Blood to Host of Royal Personages in Europe. t; Christian the Ninth, the aged king of Denmark, who occupied the throne ^sixty-three years, dean of the crowned . heads of Europe, father of King George of Greece, Queen Alexandra of Great Britain and Ireland and of the Dowager Empress Maria Fedoria of Russia, grandfather of King Haakon the S&eventh of Norway, and related by blood or by marriage to most of the ^European rulers, died with startling r suddenness at Amalienberg palace in .. Copenhagen, Monday. Prince Frederick, his eldest son, who will be known as Frederick the Eighth, will be proclaimed king. ? The official bulletin was issued Monday evening: *'His majesty died at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. After his majesty had brought this morning's audience ( to a conclusion, he appeared to be quite well and proceeded to luncheon as usual. Toward the end of the meal he gave evidence of indisposition, and was competed to retire to bed at 2:30 p. m. His majesty passed away peacefully, tlie symptoms. Indicating heart failure." This bulletin tells concisely the story of the death scene, which found every one, even those who realized the increasing feebleness of the king, * unprepared for the sudden shock. The death of King Christian has plunged half the courts of Europe Into the deepest mourning, and. brought a sense of personal loss, as well as of sincere grief, to everyone . throughout the kingdom of Denmark, reaching even. to the humblest cottage, evidences of which are shown everywhere. It has cast a pall over the palaces of the monarchs of Great BritaiD, Russia, Norway and Greece. When the flag flying over the palace was placed at half mast and the hews spread from mouth to mouth, it was not believed by the great crowds which gradually assembled * in the squar in front of the Amalienberg / ' palace, but when uncertainty gave place to certainty, those in the assemblage shed tears and dispersed in respectful silence. King Christian, who was nearing 30 years of age, appeared to be in his usual health Monday morning. Afte/ taking breakfast he held a public audience, which it has been his custom i * * to do every Monday morning. The reception was largely attended, and his majesty conversed freely and affably with a number of officials and other persons. When the function was over the king, though appearing to be slightly fatigued, attended lunchean with the members of his family, among whom were the Dowager jSmpress of Russia and his brother* General Prince Hans. During the - meals his majesty complained of indisposition and was assisted to hl3 bed room by the dowager empress and Prince Hans. Just as the king breathed his last Crown Prince Frederick entered the room and the other members of the royal family arrived shortly afterwards. d|? ? : #7AY IS GRANTED HOWARD. * ??? Mandate Issued by United States Supreme Court. The supreme court of the United States Monday issued a stay of the mandate in the case of James. B. J?? in Xv'ontliolrv nowaru, uxiutJi" scuicu^c m uvuiuvtv to life imprisonment on tlie charge of complicity in the murder of Governor Goebel in Frankfort in 1900. An opinion was delivered by the court on January 2, which was adverse to Howard. . MORGAN AND PE7TUS Announce Candidacy for Another Term in United States Senate. R. E. Niel, editor of The Selma, Ala., Journal, received a letter from United States Senator E. W. Pettus, authorizing the announcement that he is a candidate for re-election. Senator Pettus' term expires March i 3, 1909, but the next legislature will name his successor, as the legislature meets but once in four years. Letters were received from both Senators Morgan and Pettus, an' * 1 1 * 111 ^ nouncing tnai in y y win ut; caumuaic^ for the United States senate to succeed themselves. JAIL GUARDED BY PATROLS. . Crowds Bent on Lynching Murderer Keep Law Officials Busy. Armed patrols of county and city officers are guarding the county jail in Chattanooga, and dispersing crowds as fast as they gather, to prevent any attempt at lynching Floyd Westfield, a negro who shot down an officer in the southern part of the county a few days since. """" ' v THE HEPBURN RATE BILL Favorably Reported in House With Recommendation of Republicans and Democrats. * Chairman Hepburn reported to the house Saturday his railroad rate bill with the favorable recommendations of the entire republican and democratic members of the interstate and I foreign commerce commission. The report is a comprehensive explanation of the measure. Preliminary to giving details as to the intention of each section, the statement is made that the bill is the product of several years' consideration by the committee. The object of the bill is simply to amend the interstate com merce law which has been in force for twenty years. No attempt is made to give the commission power to readjust freight j classification, a power which Hepburn says his committee considers a much greater power over rates than j in the bilL Under a grant of power to establish a system of freight clas- I sification the commission would have j authority to take the initiative. Little j complaint, it is said, has been heard I against classification. In attempting to correct the shipping evils the bill provides for a broader definition of the words "railroads" and "transportation," so as to include within the jurisdiction of the commission the regulation of switch es, private cars and terminal charges. It is section four of the bill whicn confers power on the commission to establish a rate or to declare what ! will be a proper charge in a certain j instance. The report states in this connection that it is just to the commission that none of its members think it wise that authority to take the initiative in rate making should be conferred upon it. Its jurisdiction is confined to cases , where complaint has been made, when it is authorized to declare what shall J be a "just and reasonable and fairly . remunerative rate or rates, charge or charges, to be hereafter obseryed in such case as the maximum to be charged; and what regulation or practice in respect to such' transportation is just and fair and reasonable thereafter to be followed, and to make an order that the carried shall cease and desist from such violation to the extent to which the commission finds the same to exist, and shall not thereafter publish, demand or collect any raie oj cuarge ior sucii uauspynauuu in excess of the maximum ra?e, or charge so prescribed and shall conform to the regulation or practice so prescribed." Additional requirements and restrictions are provided in the matter of awarding damages, receiving complaints an'd giving notice of hearings, etc. A penalty of $5,000 is provided for violation or disobedience of. any order of the commission. Authority is given to the shipper to apply to ^Jie circuit court for the enforcement of the commission's orders. The court is to enforce this order by means of injunction. Appeals may be taken to the supreme court direct, and such cases are given priority over all other exceptional cases. Acfeess may be had at all times to the books of the carriers. A fine of $5,000 or imprisonment for two years is the penalty provided for refusing to allow, experts of the commission to examine' the books of such carrier. The bill provides for two additional members of the commission, the term of service for a commissioner being Increased to seven years and the sal ary to $iu,uuu. * POOR, BENIGHTED PROFESSOR. T~ i Hart Has Only Panacea for Redemption of the South. In an address on "The Heal South, Commercial and Social," before the Commercial Club in Boston, Professor Hart cf Harvard said: "The only way the south can redeem itself industrially is to turn to the long, difficult and most thankless task of elevating to the highest point it can reach the lower element ot its population, both black and white." SUIT AGAINST POPE PIUS. Must Answer In Court Proceeding Brought by Alabama Woman. Under his lay name of Joseph Sarto, Pope Pius X is mentioned as one of the several defendants in a suit brought in New York City to test the validity of the bequests made under the will of Mrs. Mary E. Phelan, who died in 1885. Mrs. Phelan was the widow of Edward Pholaji, a merchant of Mobile, Ala. The pope is resiuuary legatee to a large estate, wnich Is said by a relative of tlie Phelan family to be worth some hundreds of thousands of dollars. DEFICIENCY BILL IS PASSED. Provisicn Anent Alien Labor Incorporated in Measure. In a session of two hours Saturday the house passed the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, carrying $15,216,103, incorporated In which is a provision that the eight hour law shall not apply to alien laborers on the Panama canal. WHEELER AT REST Body Entombed in Historic Arlington Cemetery, FINAL REVEILLE SOUNDED Appropriate and Loving Tributs Paid by Nation?Full Military Honors Observed?Vets of Eoth Sections in Line. " A Washington special says: With full military honors the body or General Joseph Wheeler, the veteran o! two wars, a former representative in congress and a retired officer in the j United. Stales army, was laid at rest Monday in the National Cemetery at j Arlington. The ..spot; selected, for his final repose lies on the grassy slope in front of and to the right of the historical Lee mansion, and is regarded as one ' of the most beautiful sites in the home of soldier dead, as it overlooks the nation's capital across the Potomac. Thousands uncovered their heads in silent tribute as the impressive caravan of mourners made lis way i slowly out Pennsylvania avenue ber.eath a wealtn of sunshine. All along the line cf march the white carnation marked the memory of the late William McKinley, and on the casket wrapped in the folds of the American flag there bloomed a cluster of these pure flowers. They were placed on the altar in St. John Episcopal church. Beside them bloomed the flowers sent j by the president and Mrs. Roosevelt. It was an appropriate tribute which the nation paid. From 10 o'clock Lr. the morning until tw^> in the after | coon, while the body lay in state in the historic little church on La Fayette quare thousands of his friends passed up the aisle to the outer chancel and beamed in silence as they looked for the last time' on his face. His comrades in the great war and in the war with Spain, his friends while in congress and the sons of the veterans of the two wars, the Daughters of the Confederacy were all represented in this silent, steady stream of people that passed through St. j John's. The place of honor to the right of the president in tne ngni irausepi was given to "Wheeler's old cavalry, * . who came on from the south by special invitation of the family. .Bacic of them sat other Confederate veterans. In the body of the church were many veterans of the war with Spain. Lieutenant General and Mrs. Chaffee were among the friends who sat near the family. The cabinet was represented by Secretary Taft.and Postmaster General Cortelyou. Two minutes before the hour for the service to begin the entire congregation arose while the president, preceded by his military aide, Colonel Bromwell, and his naval aide, Lieutenant Commander'Key, In full uniform, and accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, entered the church from the transept door and were assigned to the first pew which they shared with the family, who entered immediately afterward. The president and Mrs. Roosevelt were both in. mourning. The service was brief and impressive, and followed with a few exceptions, the regular liturgy for the burial of the dead. Dr. Ernest Stires, rector of St. Thomas, New York, read the selections beginning, am the Resurrection and the Life." The lesson was read by Rev. Dr. Randolph H. McKim, rector of the Church of the ,nH Rnland Cot Vjyiyu.a uj, uuu _ ton Smith, rector of St. John's, both concluded the service. From the church, the line of march was down Fifteenth street to Pennsylvania avenue, on past the white house and the war department and across the aqueduct to Arlington. The pageant made an impressive picture, witnessed by thousands who stood with tared heads. It was a few ininutes alter four o'clock when it reached the cemetery grounds where a vast crowd had assembled. As the casket was lowered into the ground, the troopers were brought to "Present arms." Rev. Dr. Stires then read the committal service. A male quartette sang "Nearer My God to Thee" and "Shall We Gathfer at the River?" The cavalry fired three shots over the grave, when Fay Wilson, who sounded taps over the grave of President McKinley, sounded taps over the grave of Gen eral Wlheeler. Then a Dugier iruui the regular army sounded reveille. After the services hundreds passed by the grave as a last mark to their affection. STREET NAMED FOR WHEELER. General is Honored by National House of Representatives. A Washington dispatch says: The name of General Joseph Wheeler was honored in the house Monday by the passage of a bill re-naming a local street, "Wheeler street." Mr. Campbell of Kansas suggested that the street was too small and short to do the proper honor to the J name proposed. j SMALL AND HARDWICK. Engage In Lively Joint Debate Over Question of 'Disfranchising Negroes In the State of Georgia. With sleet and snow failing thick and fast, an audience of 500 people gathered in the auditorium at Barnesville, Ga., Friday night to hear the joint discussion of the disfranchisement question between Congressman T. W. Hardwick of the tenth congressional district, and Sam W. Small nf d.pnrpi?i Tho rlphata woe nnonwl by Mr. Hardwick, who is for disfranchisement. . There are suffrage restrictions in many states, he said, but as to negro suffrage, the question is whether it is right or wrong, or, if wrong, let's get the remedy for it. Negro suffrage, he declared, originated in the hellish brain of Thad Stevens. Mr. Hardwick read at'some length from Savoyard against negro suffrage and the political equality of the races. He quoted Abraham Lincoln, to the effect that he had never been in favor of bringing about the social or political equality of the races. If to leave the negroes with the ballot boxes don't leave him with political equality,.where does it .leave him? he asked. The trend of sentiment at the north is now turning against this political equality, he said. Mr. Hardwick consumed some time in reading quotations and supreme court decisions in order to lay the foundation for his argument. The inferiority and criminal characteristics of the pegro race .were dwelt upon at some length by Mr. Hardwick. What do we propose to do about this thing in Georgia? Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana have acted and pointed out the way. Georgia remains the only state with any considerable number of negroes which has not taken steps to protect her white men and women from this inferior criminal race." Mr. Hardwick then read his disfranchisement bill, which was defeated in V"W .-0.~ I "I am not ashamed of it," he said. "I am ready to die for it tonight." Following are some of the shots fired against disfranchisement by Mr. Small: Giving the negro the ballot was the most monumental crime against the nation, but before we can wipe it out two-thirds of the states must be brought to give their assent. Is it wise to invite upon ourselves trouble that Stephens, Toombs and Jenkins and Wofford refused to invite? Toombs and Stephens and others got together and put in the constitution the cumulative tax-paying provision. Crumpacker had told him the author of that provision was the wisest statesman of the age, for it was supreme court proof, and congress could not i change it. Enforce an educational test and you will disfranchise more white men and ' enfranchise three times as many negroes as are going to the polls today. M*r. Small declared Mr. Hardwick and his associates were trying to substitute the educational test for the taxpaying test all the time, and only changed about three weeks ago when they found it would not do. The grandfather clause has never been carried to the supreme court of th#? TTnited States. Every lawyer I whose opinion is worth anything will tell you, when it is carried up there, it will be declared invalid. Comptroller General Wright had said it would take over $3,000,000 to pay the back taxes of the negroes and get them where they could vote. Who is going to pay the back taxes of the , negroes and get them where they can vote? Who is going to pay any such price as that? Whenever you find any dura fools who have got three or four million dollars to throw away, then the negro vote will become a peril and- not till then. He declared the only object of this disfranchisement movei ment was to make an opportunity for men who had been tried in the bal| ance and found wanting to get back into power. "BLUE AND GRAY" REUNION To Be Held in Atlanta February 28. Will Be Third Meeting. The third annual "blue and gray" reunion is to be held in Atlanta, Ga., on February 28. The first reunion was held in St Louis in 1904. The object of the association is to promote good fellowship between the veterans of the two great armies which faced each other in the sixties. T a/>o1 roforona oro rprv much Intpr- ! AJMyai T VbVA UU>J MAW ? J MAMWM ested in the coming reunion, and they will all be present when the meeting is called to order. GREENE-GAYNOR CASE DRAGS. Enters Fourth Week at Savannah With Little Progress Made. The trial of Greene and Gaynor entered upon its fourth week at Savannah with the prosecution having made but slight progress in the introduction of its evidence. A stage has been reached, however, where a more rapid presentation of evidence may be expected. \ r " i "i VALENCIA HORROR Few Escape Doom Aboard Wrecked Steamer. NUMBER OF VICTIMS 121 No Women or Children Among the Rescued, as They Refused to Leave the Vessel ? Frightful Details of Disaster. Latest advices from Victoria, B. C., state that with only 33 out of the 154 persons on board known to be safe up to a late hour Thursday night, the wrecked steamer Valencia now lies submeiged a!id broken "on the Vancouver coast, five miles from Cape Beale. Only a portion of a mast stands above the water, and the fleet of steamers and tugs turned their attention to patrolling the coast in the hope of finding boats, rafts of wreckage still afloat with survivors; but the belief grows stronger each hour that 121 persons, including most of the passengers, are lost Of the 33 persons definitely % accounted for, and these do not include three men believed to be survivors seen on shore by the whaling vessel Orion, six have been taken on the Salvor, bruised, half naked and exhausted. 'Nine others in a similar plight are still camped on Darling creek in a telegraph hut, while the remaining eighteen were picked up by the- City of Topeka from a raft Not a woman or child is among the saved, survivors saying that the women refused to leave the wreck I ovon whon tr?1H tha shin was E^oine to pieces. A dispatch from Cape Beale says the steamer Valencia is no more. Heces of the steamer and the cargo were scattered along the beach. A dispatch from Tatoosh reports that the tug Pioneer arrived at Neah bay Thursday evening and reported that the City of Topeka was following her from the wreck of the Valencia en route.to Seattle with twenty-three survivors on board. These are the eighteen taken from the raft and the five from the Salvor, being the boat's company, which reached Cape Beale on Tuesday and made the first report of the disaster. Survivors of the wreck of the steamship who were picked up from a life raft by the steamer City of Topeka aire of the opinion that Cap? tain O. M. Johnson, master of the Valencia, made no effort to save his own life even when a chance presented. According to their story, Captain Johnson was heartbroken over the great loss of life attending the loss of the Valencia. / MOB MADE SEARCH OF JAIL. Only Desisted When Satisfied That Rapist Had Befen Removed. ? After a vain effort of a leaderless mob at Chattanooga, ranging at times from five hundred to several thousand perspns, to get possession of a negro who assaulted Miss Nevada Taylor, it finally became convinced through two committee of the truth of the county authorities' statement that the : negro had been taken to Khoxville, ; and at 12:30 o'clock had practically | dispersed. "POOH POOHED" ON EVERY SIDE. Fears of Cane Growers Laughed to Scorn by Taft and Others. D. D. Colcock of New Orleans, representing the American Cane Grow- J ers' Association in opposition to the | passage of the Philippine tariff bill, j was heard Thursday by the senate j eonmittee on the Philippines. He ; said that Secretary Taft, when ap- I pealed to,' "poohpoohed" the fears of ! the cane growers that their interests j would be jeopardized. Continuing, he j said: "Not only did Secretary Taft "poohpooh' us, but Colonel Edwards 'pooh- j poohed' us and Colonel Colton "poohpoched' us." SMASHED RECORD MINUS TIRE. Autoist Earp Does Quick Hundred Miles Under Difficulties. At Ormond-Daytona Beach, Fla., Sat- I urday, with the tire or his rear wheel gone before the fortieth mile, running on the bare rim at top speed and cheered by thousands on the beachside, Clifford Earp, in a 90-horse power English car, broke the world's record for 100 miles, making the distance in one hour and fifteen minutes, 40 2-5 seconds. I LABOR ORGANIZATION'S PROTEST Senator Clay Presents Their Memorial Against Rate Legislation. Senator Clay has presented to the senate the memorials sent him by three labor organizations protesting against proposed legislation to give the interstate commerce commission the power to make rates. In each of these memorials the suggestion is thrown out that the result would probably be the cutting of wages of railroad employees. i y-q Six miles is tlie length .of a petition promoted by the British National. Canine Defense League in support of the bill for the prohibition of the vivisection of dogs. The clever cigar rollers of Seville 'k have rivals in the insect world. By the aid of its tiny feet the wevil rods vine ieu\es miu a cyiiutuicui auupe auu . hides itself inside. The Swiss town of Zurich, has taken ^ a step toward the municipalization of J ... medicine,- and puts a poll tax on all the '-<M population over sixteen years old sufficient to make an income of $100,000 --Mj to pay the doctors. Marken, in the Zuyder Zee, is on? jM of the most carious islands In the ; fm world. Horses and trees are unknown. The island produces one crop?hay-: and of this the women manage the -M growing and harvesting. Among the curios preserved in the ||| Eank of England is a banknote that passed through the Chicago fire. The 111 paper was consumed, but the ash held -4% together and the printing is quite lefcible. It is kept carefully under glass. The bank paid the note. After keeping a body in a hermetic* ally sealed coffin for ten years, in the .4^9 hope relatives of the deceased would .JS fulfil their promises and pay for the 'riM burial, a firm of Leadvllle undertaker? |^j| has given up in despair and buried the '|j|| . DEFIES TIME A. Jjiqua, 4icwij jjucuyfrea, xiuit u m True Preservative. -f Tlie Hqngarian chemist Brunn says, he has discovered a liquid chemical *'M: compound which renders certain kinds : }&M of matter proof against the effects of time. He asserts thai it doubles the | yi density of nearly every ki?d of stone yj|'; and renders it waterproof. It imparts ' to all metals qualities which defy oxy- , gen and rust. % It is also a germicide of | hitherto unequaled powers. 1 The professor says that while traveling in Greece some twenty-five.years ago he noticed that the mortar 'in . stones of ruins which were known to be over 2000 years old was as hard. ' | fresh and tenacious as if it had been 'y "made only a year. He secured a piece of the mortar and has been working on.it ever since until now, when, he 'yslfiy says, he has discovered the secret The compound is a yellow liquid, lyR; which the professor has christened .$1 yj zorene. He describes the following experiments: A piece of ordinary and -XjSly easily breakable slag after immersion 13^ in zorene defied the full blow of a hamThere was the same effect on ordi- . nary bricks and a block of red jareab 'y|s wood. All three were then (after,im- -3 J mersion in zorene) immersed in water ,yM for a long time. When tak& out and yj ':xf weighed with delicate scales the pres- ''i ence of a single particle of added p moisture could not be detected. Two. |9 y pieces of steel submitted to an ammonia test equal to five years' expos- y|y ure to the air emerged from the battt vfffsB as they entered it. An oWinary table knife which had lain open five months v|j y did not slftw the slightest stain. Professor Brunn asserts that he will .1 be able to make roads dust, germjand waterproof, thus giving commercial * Ji y value to hundreds of millions of tons iMd of slag which is now useless in tho mining and smelting districts, his discovery will, at the very least be says, double the life of metals exposed ^ to the air, such as bridges, railroads* $4 vessels and tanks.?Brooklyn Eagle. - ' Honeymoon Trips to Avoid. "There, are two pieces of advice I'u like to give about honeymoons," said :j? the man who has had two of them. "One of them is, never go on*a long sea voyage with your new wife. The :"h other is, never take a long automobile ' trip with her. I've tried both, and both have been miserable failures. I would not be guilty of such an unchivalrous comment had both of my - O&B wives not agreed with me in both in- - ' "Just think of having knocked down all the barriers of conventionality; which practically shielded you during" - , Jgfl the courtship to find yourself for eight or ten days in such close companionship with your better half as is offered . on an automobile honeymoon! It's aw- ^1|i ful to think of it. ' . V "When I was on my last honeymoon, i'NjJB xrhir?h was the automobile oner'" we were only three days on the road when ' :<%j? I was reminded of the man who turned /M| to his wife during their honeymoon ftjja and said: 'Don't you wish some friend would come along?' 'Oh, yes, dear/ ,j|| she sighed, 'or an enemy even.' Philadelphia Record. Oil ami Lime Water For a Scald. Heads of other families may like to x||| know what one mother did in an *l|| emergency. Her five-year-old boy up- .r. Ja set a pitcher of boiling water over one ;|g| shoulder, and, while she sent post haste for the doctor, she also ran to '-|fg the storeroom for salad oil and to her washstand for a bottle of lime-water a dentist had recommended for the teeth. Mixing equal parts of the oil and limewater, she soaked a cloth in the resultant and bound up the" wound. When the physician arrived he said she had done really all that was necessary, and: her prompt action had saved the little J|s patient much suffering which his later j'i^f arrival could not have averted wholly* ?Presbyterian.