The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 15, 1906, Image 3

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PUT THE FLAG AWAY Is the Gratuitous Demand of Grand Army Men. DISLIKE STARS AND BARS Southerners Consider Arbitrary Action Taken By Department of Potomac as Absolutely Unworthy of # Consideration. A Washington special says: Resolutions protesting against the display of the confederate flag on public oc casicns were adopted at the annual - f encampment of the department cf the Potomac, grand army cf the republic, Saturday night. v The resolutions, which were unanimously adopted, read: "Whereas, it is creditably report- i ed that the flag of the late so-called J Confederate States of America is ber ing displayed in public places and on public occasions; and, ' ."Whereas, to all defenders of the stars and stripes and all who were loyal to the union, that was, is and ever will be, tbe insignia of an attempt by force of arms to divide our country and destroy our government; and, "Whereas, if in this reunited land there is room for but one flag, and that one the star-spangled banner; therefore, be it > r "Resolved, by the department of the Potomac, grand army of the republic, That we view with regret and sorrow the public display of an emblem which tends to keep alive the bitterness and animosity engendered by tlje J v. war, which it should be the aim of every good citizen to allay. "Resolved, That such a course serves to instill in the minds of the ! coming generations aversion, if not hostility, to our national emblem, and is not in accordance with the oft-repeated profession made by the southern people of their love for the national emblem. "Resolved, That in the interest of the peace and good will to all, which j we earnestly desire to promote, we earnestly request all ex-confederate j soldiers, once our gallant foes, but | now our fellow citizens, and sharers | with us in the pride of American! ? Talor and heroism, and all the noble- i - 7 ? j spirited people of the beautiful south- ! land, to abstain from all public dis- j platy of that emblem, which tends I 7' - only to keep alive feelings which ought to be buried." The publication of these resolutions j - ** Sunday morning attracted some atten-: - tion among southerners in Washing- j 7- r ton, but the general feeling among y fex confederates is that they are not s worthy giving serious consideration: Southerners feel that the action of this .grand army of the republic post serves to show how little'the real feel ?: - ?? rajja Ui. suuiucixicis aic api/icvKHw ai> > the north. ..V; " CANE GROWERS NAME OFFICERS. A'' * President Purse of Savannah Again Heads Organization. i The convention of the Interstate Cane Growers' Association, which was r held in Mobile, Ala., elected the following officers. D. G. Purse of Savannah, Ga., was unanimously re-elected president, and * the other officers chosen are as follows: First vice president, R. E. Rose, Tallahassee, Fla.; treasurer, J. A. Holloman, Tallahassee, Fla.; secretary, T. O. Hoffman, Mobile, Ala.; assistant secretary, John W. Jackson, Palmetto, Fla.; assistant secretary, H. * ; B. Ellis, Scranton, Miss. Vice Presidents by states we#e atee elected. I ^ Heavy Loss Caused by Flame?. Fire early Monday completely destroyed the car barns and power house of the Canton-Akron Traction com pa^ Hrirs -?1 T V\oO _ * - UJ ai v^auai iabvj, vuiu. uuvo yivv|000, with $00,000 insurance. PAT OROWE ON TRIAL. Kidnaper of Young Cudahy Faoes Jury in Omaha Court. The jury was secured at Omaha, . Neb., Thursday for the trial of Pat Crowe, charged with robbing E. A. . J Cudahy of $25,000 in connection with the kidnaping of the latter's son in 1900, the introduction of testimony was begun just before adjournment. Edward A. Cudahy, Jr., the boy who was kidnaped, was the first witness called. He gave an account of his experience while a prisoner, and was still on the stand when oowt adjourned for the day. COTTON BURNS ON SHIP. * Steamer Alberta Catches Fire and the Cargo is Oamaged. A lighter with 410 bales of cotton from the Austrian steamer Alberta, which arrived at Trieste, Austria, February 2, from Galveston, Texas, caught fire Thursday and sank alongside the wharf. * Two hundred and fifty of the bales were damaged by fire and water and Tk number were destroyed. x ? v k QUERIES WORRY BILL. Plain Citizen Robinson of the itshmua of Panama Comes Back .at War Secretary Taft. "Are you a Caesarian atavism or reincarnation of some turbaned, robed, sworded despot of the Orient?" This question has been put to Secretary of Vvlar Taft by no less a person than Mr. Tracy Robinson, former resident of New York, who, for fortyfive years has been a resident of the isthmus of Panama. Mr. Robinson has a grievance and Secretary Taft is it. He does not at all like the references to himself in the secretary's very pointed comment upon the socalled expose of Panama conditions written by Poultney Bigelow. Mr. Robinson confesses that he did give Mr. Bigelow much of the material for that article to which Secretary Taft took such strong exception. "Mr. Bigelow can take care of himself. He can doubtless apply a ready antidote for the venom from your capacious distillery,", lie writes^ "I am obscure, more easily crushed by your great weight." He resents the suggestion of having "an animus against the government," because he failed to get a good job * under the canal commission. Mr. Robinson calls ; him "brave. Poultney Bigelow," and says he told the truth about the swamp conditions at Colon. "You," he says to Secretary Taft, "are posing as a great man which you are not."- And thereupon he puts to the secretary these questions: "Are you above and beyond the law of libel? Do you hold the fair fame of men in your keeping? Have you expropriated 'for canal use the vast outlying jungle of lies?"'. Secretary Taft wears a worried look. He is wondering whether it can he true that he is a Caesarian atavism. He is wondering, al^>, what a Caesarian atavism is! There is some mystery about this letter. It has been sent to the press as coming from Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman, the author, to whom' Mr. Bigelow in his testimony referred as a close friend of Mr. Robinson, but Mr. Stedman has repudiated any connection with it YOU MUST CLAIM KIN. Or Be Deprived of Invitation to Wedding of President's Daughter. President Roosevelt <authirized the following statement, which was given out at the white house Friday: "The president and Mrs. Roosevelt ask the kind consideration of many friends who would under ordinary circumstances receive invitations to Miss Roosevelt's wedding. The capacity of the white house required that under existing circumstances invitations be limited to the closest kinsfolk, the personal friends of Miss Roosevert and Ml*. Longworth and certain classes i of officials in Washington. No f-iends of the president or Mrs. Roosevei* are being asked unless they also come within one of those classes; and even with these limitations the number of guests threatens to overtax the capacity of the white house." DEAD BODY IDENTIFIED. Remains Found in Virginia Wcods Were Those of Missing Cashier. The badly decomposed body of a mail with a bullet hole through his head, which was found In a thicket 4-V* fy rtiifnlrWo A? DAQ nol/fi \T O ?C UU IUC uuioiux I/O vi iivnuvnv) ? that of Sturley C. Armstrong, cashier of the Washington National Bank,who mysteriously disappeared from Pittsburg on January 2. The identification was made possible when the number 243241, attached to a bunch of keys, which were found on the body, was identified as the number of the accident insurance policy carried by the missing cashier. "Mr. Armstrong was well known in banking circles. His accounts were found to be entirely correct He leaves a wife and four children. Mail Carrier Arrested for Robbery. The chief inspector's office in Chattanooga has been notified of the arrest of Rural Route Carrier James P. Warren. The charge is robbing the mail. TWSNTY STATIONS PLANNED. L. & N. Road to Establish Towns Along New Branch Line. Bnn/Minn/smant iff ma/io hr VUiVMi auuvuuvvouvuv *w ~ j the Louisville and Nashville that twenty stations will be established cm the Knoxville-Cartersville line, south of Etowah, where the old Atlanta, Knoxvttte and Nashville lines diverge to Blue Ridge and Marietta, and the new Hue goes direct to CartersviHe. Five stations will be in Tennessee, and fifteen in Georgia. Station houses will be erected at the majority of the points, but some w?H be only flag stations. * JOHNSON FOONO GUILTY. Public Sentiment Against Negro Will, It is Said, Cool Down. The jury at Chattanooga in the case of.^Bd Johnson, the negro charged with assault, on the fourth day of the trial, reached a verdict of guilty. For some time they stood eight to four for conviction, but became a unit in their action. Public sentiment, which vaa much wrought up, will now subside. comic cotton New York Syndicate Will Buy Halt Million Bales. TO PAY THIRTEEN CENTS J / Spot Holders Have the Option of Releasing at That Figure or Awaiting Advance to 15 Cents?The Plan as Outlined. By the announcement that the Southern Cotton Association has completed arrangements with an eastern syndicate to turn over to the latter before July l of this year half a million bales of cotton from southern planters at a minTmum price of 13 cents, one - of the most magnificent steps in the history of the association, was made public. The step, if successfully carried out. and elaborated in the- future, will practically complete the scheme of the Southern Cotton Association, that of restraining the supply of staple and so controlling its appearance on the market that the planters will be enabled to secure a good profit bearing price for their product. E. R. Thomas of New York, well known as a banker and financier, is at the head of the syndicate to take the 500,000 bales this spring. This agreement further carries provision for the syndicate's taking ail cotton ready for market in August and September of this year at the market price then obtaining, to be not less than the minimum fixed by the Southern Cotton Association. The agreement is not to affect those who are holding their staple for 15 cents. It is stated by President Jordan that the New York bankers are fully prepared to finance southern bankers in assisting the holders for higher prices. Following is the official statement prepared and submitted Monday by President Harvie Jordan: '1 have secured an agreement with a syndicate of eastern capitalists, headed by Mr. E. R. Thomas, the well known banker and financier of New York, to take 500,000 bales of middling ccttcn from southern plant ers at a minimum price of 13 cents per pound, deliverable at interior points or the ports 15y or before July 1, 1906, the deal to be closed so soon as options on the'syndicate's requirements have been secured. The agreement further provides for the taking of all cotton ready for market next August and September from the crop of 1906, at the then market prices, to be not less than the minimum price fixed by the Southern Cotton Association. This agreement is not intended to affect holders who are demand ing a maximum of 15 cents at tne present time. New Pork bankers are also prepared to fully finance all southern bankers in assisting holders of cotton for higher prices. Option contracts will be at once forwarded, upon application, to all cotton growers whose addresses are not already in my possession." : "I agree to sell to the order of Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton Association for the E. R. Thomas Syndicate of New York City, bales middling cotton at TZ cents per pound at interior points, and further agree to ship same on demand on or before July 1, 1906. The title to an<f possession of said cotton to remain with owner until purchase money Is paid. Following is the form of contract agreed upon by Thomas, his associates and President Jordan: "I also agree to sell to said syndicate all cotton made by me during the months of August and September at the then market price, to be not less tnan me minimum price rj ue fixed for the new crop by the Southern Cotton Association. "The essence of this contract is the securing from the planters of the south not less than '?00,000 bales of cotton of the present crop at the above mentioned price. . "Name "P. O. Address "I also retain bales of cotton, which I will pledge to hold for a maximum price of 15 cents. "Name "Acceptance of this proposition will be mailed you immediately upon the completion of the syndicate requirement of 500,000 of spot cotton." Alice is TwentyTwo Years Old. President and Mrs. Roosevelt entertained a large party of friends at the white house Monday night to celebrate Miss Alice Roosevelt's twentysecond birthday. SOLDIERS ARE SURRENDERED. Turned Over to Georgia Authorities on Charge of Murder. A Chattanooga dispatch says: .Pri vaica V/i coo auu juu&o ui jl. ? United States cavalry have been turned over to the civil authorities at Lafayette, Ga., on the charge of killing Private Kane of Oglethorpe, Ga., on February 4. Their cases will be investigated by the grand jury. ] "A ftMUTOAt'r'"'ARREST. I = i I Captor and Prisoner Handcuffed To. gether Attract Attention on the j | Streets of St. Louis. ^ ' i Two men, shackled to each other, j one being further secured by hand- ; I | cuffs, walked through the streets of 1, 3t. Louis, Mo., Monday, followed by J curious crowds. They were siglitsee- I i i ing and their route included the four j courts and many saloons. One was i E. W. Martin, aged 50, a farmer of i t Spring Place, Ga., and the other, Wil- j liam H. Barnes, aged 31, of Pleasant j Kill, 111. Barnes was the prisoner. By mutual J , consent, and without warrant of lay, i . the strange pair entered the four j courts. The other man, ercTTed and j nervous, asked to see the chief of police. To an officer he said: "This man is my prisoner. He ; stole my horse and buggy and I'm taking him back to Georgia and I want you to hold him until 3 o'clock, j when my train goes out. I haven't j got a warrant for him, and he hasn't i been indicted, but here are the pa- j pers." He . showed a document signed by j himself and by Barnes, according to j the terms of which Barnes agreed to j accompany Martin from Pleasant Hill, j 111., to Spring Place, Ga., witnout j requisition. "Now he's balking and he. says Missouri is such a good place that { he wants to stay here, and so I guess j I'll have to have him locked up," said Martin. His request was refused, because there was no warrant authorizing the St. Louis police to hold the prisoner. After being requested to leave the chief's office Martin said to a reporter: "This young fellow was working in | a Spring Place sawmill last September j and boarded at my house. He was j known there as Larry Crockett. He j complained that the work was too j hard, and I hired him to sell poultry | food for me. He left my house with j my horse and buggy and forty packages of the food September 26 and ! never returned." WHIPPING POST LOSES OUT. Wife Beaters in District of Columbia Will Not Be Disturbed. A Washington special says: The house, Monday, had sport with the TTil establishing a whipping post for wifebeaters in the District of Columbia, | and then laid it on the table, effect- j ively disposing of it, by a vote- cr j 153 to 60. The most impassioned speech for the measure was delivered by MT. Hepburn of Iowa, who depicted the brutality of the man who would beat his wife, and declared that to be whipped was hardily adequate punishment. Mr. Adams opened the discussion with a serious speech in favor of the bill. All the opposing speeches partook of levity, and Mr. Adams received more than one fling because he is a bachelor. ivir. aims 01 Tennessee, opposing the measure, predicted that it would get one vote only in the house. The president, he said, had advocated increased punishment for wife-heaters a year ago, "but he is a year older . now, and his last message said nothing about it." He made the further point that the report of the local chief of police indicated that "common lav.' wives and other females" received most cf the beatings. "Some one has suggested we amend the bill to apply on wife chasers," he declared further, "I don't know who that would hit." (Laughter.) For five minutes Mr. Stanley of "LTAnfn/il'Tr fun rvf fVia Kill ori/1 4 n_ JL\^Ul-UV/i\/ UJUU^ IU1I Ui. Ulil UUU i.\l~ cidentally took Mr. Adams to task for never marrying. It was, lie said, ' a "brutal measure of brutalizing a brute." Mr. Gaines of Tennessee asked what the gentleman would do if he were to witness a husband beating his wife. "It would depend," replied Mr. Stanley, "on the husband and on the wife. If she was redheaded even my southern chivalry would not tempt me to interfere." (Laughter.) FOUR LIVES TAKEN BY FIRE. Conflagration in Portland, Oregon, Deals Death and Destruction. At least four persons lost their lives in a fire that swept a busy commercial district in Portland, Ore., on Monday. Eleven person were seriously injured. The fire started in the Mount Hood saloon, and consumed that place and the lodging house above, in which a majority of those killed and injured were sleeping. Twenty-two horses, property of the East Side Transfer company, were destroyed. OATES ENTERS THE ARENA. Alabama Ex Governor Will Try for the United States Senate. , General W. C Oates, ex-governor o! Alabama, and a former member of the lower house of congress from the third district of the state, announce Monday that he would he a candidate in the democratic primary, August 27, for alternate United States senator. ' - 'V >'vX-j?.. tm IS BUNCOED' 3oni Played Havoc With Cash | of Gould's Daughter, i SPENT$2,017 EVERY DAY; Story from Paris Tells of Some of j Count Casteilane's Crazy and Sensational Propinquities as the King of Spendthrifts. A Paris special says: Count Bonl ! ind his family are striving by every., means in their power to induce the countess to withdraw her suit. They | know that if Jay Gould's daughter pushes her suit Count Boni will be left practically penniless. Even if Count Boni effects a reconciliation with the countess, his income will be so cut down as to practically extinguish one of the greatest spenders that even prodigal Paris has ever known. Of all the American investments in Old "World titles, Anna Gould's has probably been the most costly. .Reduced.to cold figures, the price .of her title has been approximately $2,017 each and every day for the eleven years they have been married, or the equivalent every four week3 of President Roosevelt's salary for a year. Recently Frank Work, the New York millionaire, and his daughter had a dispute that led Mrs. Roche to leave his home because for a time she spent about $350 a day, one-sixth of the daily expenditures of the count. Furthermore, Mr. Work permitted his daughter's extravagances for only a few weeks, while George Gould's titled brother-in-law has hammered away until he has made the record $9,000,000 for the eleven years of his married life. The count has smilingly spent $4 for a cherry and cheerfully given enough to pay the bonded indebtedness of a small city for a piece of brica-brac. He has made for himself a reputation as a spender that caused the famous literary men of this and other capitals to write dbout him, and he has inflamed the Parisian populace more than once so that he has had nlnnatn /%1+V VlV Crrdot CH ft tfl LU plAVydVU tU^ VitJ Q* v'v*v Q**v?? w charity. One of his little foibles was a vaudeville performance given at Auteuil when, for 350 guests, he presentad an all star bill, no act of which cost him less than $500. Eclipse! That has been the one idea of the count from the moment he got his hands on the Gould fortune. He waited for others to give fetes or to buy jewels or antiques only that he might eclipse them, and generally he has succeeded. He has lived to hear his praises sung, and the countess paid the cosu For his world-famed mansion on tho Avenue Bois de Boulougne, known as the "Red Palace," Boni spent more money than he can accurately tell. He liked the location so well that he paid $740,000 for the land alone, and before he got through he had produced a palace that any king In Europe might envy. Here are some of the ways Castellane made money fly: Bought $150,000 equipage and employed the outrider Montjarrett, for merly in the service of the president of France; bought $60,000 clock; bought $280,000 antique cabinet; bought cherries at $4.00 per cherry; purchased mantelpiece for $50,000 ; purchased necklace at $100,000, .half of which he gave his wife; spent a fortune monthly on clothes; built the Little Trianon at $1,500,000. JUDGES INAUGURATE REFORM. All Legal Lights In Minneapolis WH1 Scorn Annual Passes. All the judges in Minneapolis, Minn., will henceforth scorn railroad passes. A movement started recently by the district bench of Hennepin county has resulted in all the judges in the state sending back their annual passes. TILLMAN CARRIES HIS POINT. Senate Adopts Resolution Providing for Probe of Railroads. The senate at Monday's session adopted a joint resolution reported bv* Mr. Tillman of South Carolina from the senate committee, which directs the interstate commerce commission to investigate the charge of discrimination and combination in restraint of trade made against the railroads. Mr. Tillman practically charged that the administration was not proceeding in good faith to secure railroad legislation, because he was not satisfied with the president's advisers. Among those he mentioned Secretary Root and Senator Knox. MERIWETHER IS PARDONED. President Extends Clemency to Middy Convicted of Hazing. A "Washington dispatch says: Midshipman, Minor Meriwether, Jr., of Louisiana, a member of the third class, convicted and sentenced to dismissal for hazing, has been pardoned by the president. V v. '/*: ' ??*. .1 :% . -v.. Negro Suspect Lynched in Alabama Because Jelks Sommutcd Death Sentence of His "Pal." ' Bunk Richardson, colored, charged with the murder and assault of Mrs. * Sarah Smith, July 15 last, was forcibly taken from the jail at Gadsden, Ala., ?S| at an early hour Sunday morning, . and hanged to the bridge .of the. Louisville and Nashville railroad, which ',Jj spaus the Coosa river. Twenty-four masked men 'went to the jail, overpowered the sheriff and jailor, and made short work of the ^| prisoner. ? Four negroes were charged with -*?? the crime against Mrs. Smith, two of whom have been" legally executed. The third, Will Johnson, was recently convicted, and sentenced to death, but a few days ago Governor Jelks, believing there was strong doubt cf :> ; the prisoner's guilt, commuted the ne- jgH j gro's sentence to life imprisonment Richardson, the man lynched, had not yet been indicted, but Was in " ; jail awaiting the action of the grand ^ At the coroner's inquest, held to in- Jf|fj vestigate the lynching, the only wit- ' nes8es to testify were Sheriff Chandler and Jailor William Dixon, who said they were overpowered, and Police OfBcer Sam 0. Brandon, who said '-rfpg he heard the shooting, and ordered by the members of the mob to go M back to town. The verdict of the i coroner's jury was as follows: "We find that the deceased, Bunk Richardson, came to his death by ..^?S strangulation from hanging, or a wound in the head, at the hands of i a party or parties to us unknown." Governor Jelks states that he will use every power of his office to bring to justice the lynchers of Richard* .Jl| son. He left Montgomery Sunday night for New York, and on his return in about a week he will offer rewards and do everything possible to :;^H| discover the lawbreakers and to deal l out to thorn every punishment for the PROPRIETORS OR EMPLOYEES? ;l|9H Florida Times-Union Caustically Comments on Strike of Its Printers. Apropos of the strike of union prillters on the Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla., because of the refusal of the \ M proprietors to discharge a foreman who is alleged to have violated all precedents, rules and . regulations which must obtain in offices under the jurisdiction of the typographical union, that paper prints the following: /'<? Let it be clearly understood that -:M the Times-Union is not fighting the '% Typographical Union-?-the union is fight the Times-Union. iraS The paper claims and has advocated ; ^ for many years the right of men to in thoir mutual Interests and 1 Vi QUJUAJJV AAA VAAWM A? ? . v for the maintenance of their rights, MvM justly and equitably administered, hut " has as vigorously denied the right of* any organization to inaugurate unjust J rules and manipulate them for wrong. . ^||M The issue forced upon the Times- /j?j Union is, who shall run the business y ^|9h of the paper as applied , to the me-' chanical department, whether the ~'.:*|?| union shall dictate arbitrary Mid un- . just rules as to the method and the fashion of conducting this business, or whether the management shall assume jv||S its inherent privilege and right of do- y The management, while requiring " .jig nothing unreasonable, has decided vjaB Jrmly upon the latter course, and this decision shall be maintained at all hazards tD the end, without amend- . % ment or concession. PROMINENT ALABAMIAN SUICfOES Captain Norman Webb of Birmingham Js Blows Out His Brains. Captain Norman EJ. Webb, a well known capitalist, took his life at his home in Birmingham, Ala., by firing a pistol bullet through his forehead ~:J|| Sunday. He had been in ill health ^|?Bj for some time. Webb was one of the weal thy and public spirited men of the V - >|S| district, having large holdings of ore lands on Red mountain. MOVE IN RIGHT DIRECTION. ? Alabama Ex-Governor Will Try for the Against Poverty-stricken Dukes. Prominent women of New York city have become aroused over the threat made in Paris that unless the Countess de Castellane becomes reconciled ifB to her* husband her children may be taken away from her by the courts. ;'-||| The agitation and indignation is _ spreading rapidly and the outcome will probably be an organized effort to educate American girls against the marrying of titled foreigners. . ]or<ro num. Old.USW^o o.iuniug iu& iaibu ber of unhappy marriages of American girls with poverty-stricken dukes, counts, ?tc., are to be gathered, and thn facts sent broadcast. It is already pointed out that in sorr*3 forty marriages of American girls to titled money-grabbers that many are divorced and many more separated. In these forty marriages alone nearly 225,000,000 good American dollars have been handed over to the spendthrifts with handles to their names.