The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 26, 1906, Image 3

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I ' WORLD'S SYMPATHY Expressed for the People of ' 'Frisco in their Misfortune. MESSAGES FROM RULERS Pour In Upon President Roosevelt # from All Quarters of the Globe. Congress Appropriates Million Dollars for Sufferers. A Washington special says: Soon after the senate was called to order on Thursday Mr. Perkins introduced a joint resolution authorizing the sec retary of war to use rations and quartermasters' supplies for the relief of destitute persons in the region devastated by earthquake and fire in California and making an appropriation of $500,000 to relieve the sufferers. The resolution was unanimously adopted and transmitted to the house, where it was amended by the house committee on appropriations, the amount being increased to $1,000,1*0. President .Roosevelt is in receipt of cablegrams expressing the sympathy with this country of foreign rulers and foreign countries on account of the appalling disaster at San Francisco. Following is the text of the messages k thus far received: From President Fallieres of France: :'The overpowering disaster at San Francisco causes France great sorrow and we join with all our heart in the sorrow of the great republic of the United Statec. I extend to you, > Mr. President, my most sincere condolence and convey to the sorrowing families of the victims my sympathy.*' From President Pardo of Peru: "My government and the Peruvian people share keenly the grief of the people of the United States over the catastrophe of San Francisco. I convey my heart-felt sympathy in these * sad moments." From King Frederick cf uenmarK: "I feel impelled to express my most heart-felt sympathy in the immense sorrow which has befallen you and the American people by the catastrophe c? San Francisco." From King Haakon of Norway: "Please accept deepest sympathy in terrible disaster which has befallen .San Francisco." Frcm Premier Seddon of New Zealand: A "It is with profound sorrow we learn of the disastrous earthquakes at San Francisco. We people and government of New Zealand tender your great nation and especially the bereaved and sufferers, the whole of our "heartfelt sympathies." From the King of Portugal: "Deeply moved by the terrible catastrophe of California, I send the expression of my most sincere condolence and sympathy." i From Emperor Nicholas of Russia: "Deeply impressed by terrible disaster in San Francisco, I express to you and the American people my warmest sympathy and condolence." .. iFrom the King of Italy: "I convey to you and your countrymen the profound sympathy which the terrible disaster which has befallen San Francisco has evoked in Italy and my condolences with those who Lave suffered." TOWN WIPED FROM MAP. Little Village of Brawley Obliterated by California Earthquake. Reports from Brawley, a town fourteen miles south of Los Angeles, Cal., state that the town was practically wiped out by earthquake. The following buildings the.ie, all brick structures, were destroyed: Brawley bank building, Paulin building and the principal merchandise buildings of the town. In addition, dozens of adobe houses were razed. So far as known there were no fa* talities. Brawley is about two years old, and had a population of about 500. SESSION ENDED HILARIOUSLY. i Mississippi Solons Finish Work in " Shower of Paper Balls and Peanuts. rnv_ lt?Pn slfttlire a(l? ilJC JUC010?>iyt/t ?vo* ? journcd at Jackson Saturday, A final effort to reconsider the vote on the i corporation chapter of the new code was without success, and the entire code was adopted. While the vote was being taken, members found diversion in hurling paper balls and peanuts at each other. WILL IT EVER BE PAID? Railroad and Two Officials Fined $60,- I 000 for Granting Rebates. i The Chicago. Burlington and Quin- | cy railroad, Darius Miller and Claude G. Burnham, of this road, were found guilty in the federal court at Chicago of granting rebates in violation of law. The railroad corporation was fined $40,000, and the two officials $10,000 each. m SUFFERING LEVELS ALL Rank, Birth and. Race Are Forgotter by Homeless Thousands of Devastated Golden Gate City. olden Gate Park was the mecca o the destitute. This immense play ground has been converted into a vas mushroom city that bears striking re semblance to the fleeting towns locat ed on the border of a governmen reservation about to be opened to pub lie settlement. The common destitution and suffer ing have wiped all social, financia end racial distinctions. The man win 011 Tuesday was a prosperous mer chant is occupying with his family i plot of ground that adjoins the ope: air home of a laborer. The white o California has forgotten his antipath; to the Asiatic and is maintaining f'.iendly relations with his new Chi nose and Japanese neighbors. The society belle, who Tuesday night was a butterfly of fashion a the Grand Opera performance, was as a:sting some factory girl in the prep aration cf daily meals. Money has hat little value. The family who had th< foresight to lay in the largest stock c foodstuffs on the first day of disaste is rated highest in the scale o wealth. A few of the families who coul< secure willing expressmen are pusse-: sors of cooking stoves, but over 95 pe cent of the refugees are doing thei: cooking on little campfires made ou or brick or stone. Kitchen utensil that last week would have been re garded with contempt are just nov articles of high value. Many of the homeless people ar< in possession of comfortable clothim ar.d bed covering, but the great bull of them are in need. The grass 1: their bed, and their clothing their on!; protection against the penetratin? fog cf the ocean or the chilling dev of the morning. TEDDY ISSUES PROCALAMATION Asks That Contributions Be Mad< Through National Red Cross. President Roosevelt, after a confer ence with Miss Mabel Boardman, oi the American Red Cross, has issuec an appeal to the American people t( aid San Francisco. He asked tha' all contributions be made through th< officials of the American National Ret Cross, who have effected systemath arrangements to distribute needed as sistance. The full text of the president's proc lamation follows: "In the face of so terrible and ap palling a national calamity as thai which has befallen San Francisco, th( outpouring of the nation's aid should as far as possible, be entrusted to th( American Red Cross, the national or ganization best fitted to undertake such relief work. A specially appointee Red Cross agent, Dr. Edward Divine started Friday from New York foi California to co-operate there with th< Red Cross branch in the work of re lief. In order that this work may b< well systematized and in order thai the contributions which I am sure wil flow in with lavish generosity, may be wisely administered, I appeal to the people of the United States, to al cities, chambers of commerce, boards of trade, relief committees and indi viduals to express their sympathy anf render their aid by contributions tc the American National Red Cross They can be sent to Hon. Charles Hal lam Keep, Red Cress treasurer, Wash Ington, D. C.; Jacob H. Schiff, Ne-w York Red Cross treasurer, or other lo :al Red Cross treasurers, to he for warded by telegraph from Washingtoi to the Red Cross agents and officers In California. (Signed) "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." Southern's Liberal Offer. The Southern railway has issued a sotice to the effect that contributions for the San Francisco sufferers, wher addressed tc duly authorized agencies ar committees, will be carried fret yf charge. GEORGIA LABOR FEDERATION. Will Hold Eight Annual Conventio in City of Augusta. An order has just been issued b W. C. Puckett, secretary, and G. HA Cohen, president, of the Georgia Fee eration of Labor, announcing that th eighth annual convention of the Fee eration will be held in Augusta o June 20th. The convention will be in sessio three days. The Planters' hotel wi be headquarters, and the sessions wi be held at the courthouse. MONEY SENT BY TELEGRAPH. Secretary Shaw Orders Ten Million for 'Frisco Banks. The secretary of the treasury ha authorised the telegraphic transfer : $10,000,000 from the sub-treasury < 'New York to San Francisco. The cash will be deposited in Ne York and immediately paid out on th order of San Francisco banks entitle to the same. ?a??a??1 iiibui nwa i?pm? [DUE TO REBATING I: > f ; i J Alleged Embezzler Strohbar | Puis Up Unique Plee. f c SHORTAGE PAID SHIPPERS ' _ i t Tells Jury in Atlanta Court That At* . ! lantic Coast Line Officials Are Guilty of Criminal practice. 1 ' 5 Alleging that secret rebates would t account ior disbursements made by ] i | him as agent of the Atlantic Coast i ' I Line railroad at Gainesville, Fla., J. 7 i X. Strohbar, placed on trial in th3 r 1 Fulton county superior' court at Atlanta Monday morning, charged with r the embezzlement of two checks, t amounting to $1,710, and which it is alleged, he cashed at the Atlanta Naj tional bank on August 30, last, the ( ? defendant in liis statement to the Jury f said: f "When I turn the searchlight upon ' the Atlantic Coast Line officials," said the defendant, "consternation will * reign in the camp. If my lips are not sealed by a conviction or by death, r I shall make public the manner in | r which rebates are given by that line " in- order to obtain traffic. Upon ship3 ments of minerals, fruits and vegetas bies, it is.the unwritten law that no 7 vouchers shall be issued, 01; a scratch of the pen made with regard to tran35 ; actions which are in violation of the ' interstate commerce laws, and might v become evidence against them in an s investigation before the interstate ' commerce commission." * This utterance of ;the defendant 7 was made in explaining that large sums had been paid out by him in rebates, for which sums, so disburs ed, he had vouchers. The defense interposed a demurrer 5 to the indictment on the grounds that it did not charge a crime under the w law, and that the alleged offenses r were net set forth with sufficient parj ticularity. The court overruled the demurrer and the trial proceeded. The state introduced several of the t officials of the road, J. S. Kennedy, j paying teller of the Atlanta National 1 bank, and Jacob Fox of Atlanta. Fox % remembered identifying Strohbar to ' * au. A i.1 4.^ \t^ the paying lener at uie aluuiul rational bank, but could not remember the date, and the paying teller who - cashed the two checks, amounting to $1,710, could not. positively identify Strohbar as the man he paid the t money to. } ! The defense relied upon the evidence of several witnesses from Flor[ ida, the strongest one, perhaps, be[ ing Miss Anna Fischer, clerk of the s New Victoria hotel at Jacksonville, j who testified that Strohbar and his wife registered at that hotel on the ' night of August 29 last, and left for ' the depot to catch the 9 o'clock train on August 30. } Other witnesses testified to seeing t Strohbar cn the train from Jackson^ ville to Savannah, which arrived in , Savannah on August 30, the day that Strohbar is alleged to have cashed the checks in Atlanta at 12:50 p. m.? just one hour and ten minutes before the bank closed in Atlanta. A number of character witnesses were also put up by the defense, after which the defendant took the stand to make a statement in his own behalf. He was composed, and his lengthy statement, expressed in choice and clear language, seemed to make a distinctly favorable impression. He denied that he fled from justice to j Canada, and made a general ano eoi! phatic deniel that he had wrongfully converted a cent of the railroad's money to his own use. Ke closed | by saying: "May a just and merciful God dlj rect your deliberations." 4 ' I FOREIGN CONCERNS HARD HIT. i , Millions cf Insurance in San Francisco Carried by Outsiders. Fire insurance on San Francisco property is carried to the largest ex tent of any foreign or domestic com! panv by the London Assurance of n j London, which received in 1905 $87,| 719 in premiums on risks in that city. y I The heaviest insurance in the whole state of California is carried by the Fireman's Fund of ?San Francisco, with total of $27,542,577. The Liverpool e and London and Globe company of j. Liverpool, is second in total amount ? of insurance carried in California with n SIS,518,106. The London Assurane company, which leads in 'San Francisn Vneinojo r??arriac a total of il 212.702 in the whole state of Call11 fornia. ' ARGUMENT OVER FUMES. i j Famous Ducktown Case Comes Up ! in Supreme Court. ' The case of the State of Georgia 3 against the Tennessee Coper compa^ ny and the Ducktown Sulpher, Copper and Iron company (limited) was reached in the supreme court of the United States late Monday afternoon. A number of attorneys were presi(j ent from different parts of the country, representing interests directly or indirectly affected fcy the ease. SOAKED BY STORM 1 Deluge of Rain an Added Horror to Homeless. (j rHOUSANDS' DRENCHED J c t Women and Babes Among Refugees L at 'Frisco. Without Vestige of 11 Gheiter, in Most Woeful f Plight. c I A drenching rain fell upon San ^ Francisco Sunday night. From mid- ( night until 3 o'clock \Eonday morn- ( ing it poured and drizzied at inter- i vals while a high wind added a mel- 1 anchcly accompaniment, whistling j and sighing about the ruins of the } buildiflgs in the burned district. It I caused indescribable suffering to the 1 tens of thousands of people camped en the hills and in the parks and open places of the city. Few of these \ were provided with waterproof cover- , ing. For the most part their only pro- . tection from the wet was thin cov- ] ering of sheeting tacked upon impro- i vised tent poles. Through this water poured as through a sieve, wetting the \ bedding and soaking the ground upon j which they lay. 1 When it is understood that thou- \ sands upon thousands of delicately < nurtured women and infants in arms, i and old and feeble people were In 1 this plight, nothing need be added to 1 describe the misery of their condi- i tion. The downpour has aggravated ] the already unsanitary condition of ! the camps and will doubtless add < great numbers of pneumonia cases to those already crowding the regular and temporary hospitals of the cr?7Prominent Citizen Murdered. ' H. C. Tilden, one of the most prominent members of the general relief committee, was shot and almost instantly killed in his automobile early Monday morning at Twenty-second 1 street, while returning from Menio 1 Park. He was shot by men supposed to be members of the citizens' patrol. * A coachman, who was in the auto- ! mobile, was cut in the face by a ' bullet, and another ball passed through the seat and struck in the 1 back of R. G. Seaman, acting lieuten- 1 ant of the Second company of the Signal Corps. The force of the bul- J was snpnt. and Seaman suffered no injury. Several policemen came running up, and arrested three of the men who did the shooting. They were j turned over to General Funston. One ^ cf the men arrested says the automobile party ignored orders to stop when challenged. WORD "NEGRO" DISCUSSED. j Argument of Congressman Sims of j Tennessee in the House. A Washington dispatch says: The house had under consideration Monday a bill increasing the salaries of the school teachers in the district of Columbia, reorganizing the board of education. The bill provided for a . board of education of nine members, three of whom "shall be of the colored race." Mr. Sims of Tennessee said it was time to get away from miscalling the negro race. He said the word "col- . ored" included the yellow, brown and led people, as well as negroes. He said the word "nigger" was a cor ruption of "negro," and wholly incorrect, in the description of the rs^3 of people provided for in the bill. He said that Secretary Taft, one of the ablest and greatest men of his time, in his recent address at Tuskegee institute, had used the words "negro and negro race" twenty-five times and "colored race" but four times. . This fact Mr. Sims thought, was luminous. Mr. Sims' amendment to the bill, striking out the word "colored" and inserting "negro," wherever it occurs, was defeated. The bill was amended c'> hnorH tinn shall OV? tunt C UV MVUAU v*. vv??v?? consist of nine persons without regard to color. A VALUABLE BOX OF CHERRIES. Fruit Sold at Auction for 'Frisco Sufferers and Brought $2,240. Probably the highest prices ever paid for California cherries were realized at Philadelphia Monday at a local commission merchant's establishment, when a box of the fruit was sold at auction for $2,400. The money was added to the relief fund for the earthquake sufferers. The cherries were the first received this season from California and each cherry being offered for sale singly. About 500 commission merchants and others attended the sale. The first cherry was sold for $105. ANOTHER JAR AT 'FRISCO. Slight Earthquake Shock Throws Afflicted People Into Panic. A special from San Francisco states that a schnrp earthquake shock was felt there at TO:30 o'clock Monday night. It lasted about three seconds tnat a snarp earinquaae shock was west. ;No damage is reported, though the people were thrown into a panic by the shock. DEAD BEING CREMATED. ? Two Hundred Bodies Found in One Gection of Po:rer District of 'Frisco 3urned by Authorities. At San Francisco Sunday, two liunircd bodies found in the poorer disrict south of Shannon street in the -icinity of the Union Iron Works were jrcmated at the Six Mile house by he order of Coroner Wulsh. Some >f the dead were victims cf falling >uildings, some were killed in the ire. but it is believed by the board )f health that the majority died of itcmaine poisoning. So many dead were found In this imited area that cremation was deemabsolutely necessary to prevent lisease. Names of some of the dead vere learned, but in the majority of cases identification was impossible >n account of the mutilation of the 'oatures. A systematic search for the lodles of victims is now being made jy the coroner and state board of lealth inspectors . The city has been divided into santary districts, and squads of search?rs have been sent out to every quarter. Had it not been for the sight 3f the rude altars set up in the open air wherever San Francisco's homeloss thousands were camped, one vould have some difficulty in finding any of the peaceful associations of the Sabbath in the city throughout the day. Everywhere throughout the burned as well as the remaining sections of the city there was the greatest activity. Streets were being cleared of debris, laborers were repairing broken water pipers, sewers and gas mains, electricians everywhere were seeking to unentangle the almost hopeless confusion of wires?in fact, 3an Francisco was in the first stages Df its regeneration. CONGRESS COMES AGAIN. Another Million Appropriated for Sufferers in San Francisco. A Washington dispatch says: The louse Saturday passed a resolution appropriating $1,000,000 in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated to the San Francisco sufferers. Mr. Tawney reported the joint resolution making an additional appropriation of $1,000,000 for aiding San Francisco. According to the resolution, special authority is given the secretary of war to use this and former appropriation for the purpose not only to buy additional supplies which may be needed for the relief of the sufferers, but also for the purpose or replacing by purchasing such subsistence, quartermaster's and medical supplies which may have been furnished by the secretary of war for such relief from the stores on hand for the use of the army. This resolution was adopted. The speaker laid before the house the message of the president relating to the additional appropriation for the sufferers in San Francisco and other cities on'the Pacific coast DOWIE SECURES INUNCTION. Vofiva and Followers Estopped from Further Proceedings. Following the filing to set aside the conveyance of property in Zion City valued at $21,000,000, Judge Wright of the circuit court at Rockford. 111., has granted an injunction restraining Voliva and others from interfering with or in any way preventing Dowie from going to Zion City and remaining there or entering his house or barn at will. The injunction also gives Dowie the right to hold religious services in the tabernacle, and his opponents are further enjoined from doing anything to effect title to Zion City property. STOCKHOLDERS APPROVE PLAN. Acquiesce in Scheme of Southern to Issue $200,000 of Bonds. The stockholders of the Southern railways in special session at Richmond, voted an Issue of $200,000,0(00 fifty-year 4 per cent. The stockholders adopted resolutions approving the scheme devised by the directors for the general improvement of the different lines of the Southern system. BAD FIRES IN PHILIPPINES. Two Towns Wiped Out and Many Thousands Rendered Homeless. A dispatch from Manila says: Fire has swept the town of Mariquina, in Rizal province. Many thousands of persons are homeless and starving. Two thousand dwellings are in ruins. The government is rushing assistance to the sufferers. Fire, also destroyed Pasil, near the town of Cebu. Two hundred dwellings were burned and many persons are homeless. SOUNDS SOMEWHAT FISHY. Report That Gapon Has Been Secretly Hanged In Russia. An extraordinary story is published by The Manchester Guardian from a correspondent in Russia asserting that Gapon was hanged secretly April 10 by four revolutionists who overheard him admit that be was spying on his former revolutionary colleagues in behalf of the Russian police. PURSES OPEN WIDE ; wniversal Move for Aid of P i'jrfcfSrs in 'Frisco. *-4|| CASH FLOWS LAVISHLY Jj uympathy of Whole Nation is AroucsJ i .... ? ,-rir.hifnl nali.mitv V/ieit^rl Upon uie People of San Francisco. A New York special says: E. H. Gary, chairman of the board of directors ui tne United States Steel Corannounced iriday that the $jj? : ucaru has aucuomied the contribution. .. < oi $100,ObU to tne san fTancisco relief fund. President jesup of the chamber ? oi commerce also announced that thd Standard Gil company has subscribed $iU0,000 to the cnamber of commerce San Irancisco relief fund. President ? Peabody of the mutual juiie Insurance company has been directed by Wiliiani Waldorf Actor to iorward $100,- : '% uuu to tne mayor oi San rranciaco Lot tne relief of tne eartnquaae sunders. Wulliam K. Vanae. uiit and ivuhn, i-oeb rm & Uo., banners, contributed $jo,vOO ' % each toward tne relief iund. The Na- vM tional federation of uhurcnes sent out jM an appeal to the churches in behalf \ji I of San Francisco sunerers, saying: "Wle recommend to* ail religious or- ^2 ganizations that at their first Sabbath meeting they take a generous coilec- Ifm tion for such aid and tne contributions 'M be sent to their proper denominational representative or to tne Hed Cross So- * ciety at Washington." The Citizens' jfermanent Relief As- '^ sociation at Philadelphia wired Gov- .'^j| ernor Pardee, autnorizing him to draw on Drexel & Co., for $25,000 additional, making $75,000 in all. Governor Pennypacker issued a proclama- *JK|j tion calling on the people of Pennsyl vania to contribute to the relief of ; the San Francisco sufferers. :'j|j A Boston dispatch says: The amount of the Massachusetts relief fund for San Francisco sufferers is ^ $100,000. Peabody & Co., the treasurer of the funds, wired their representatives in San Francisco authorizing them to place the entire amount at the disposal of Governor Pardee . :i??H and Mayor Schmitz. .,ij| Secretary Taft of the war department, who is also president of the Na- ffilrf] . ticnal Red Cross Association, wired ; Ig F resident William H. Smith of the New Orleans cotton exchange, In ansver to a query how and where to send contributions to the San Fran- .-|| cisco sufferers. It is as follows: ||j "I have appointed Edward Divine, of New York, as special agent to take . JM -;M charge of the operations of the Red Cross Association. He started for San Francisco this (Thursday) afternoon at 3 o'clock. Money will be sent to >|jjj him by telegraph as it Is received. I suggest that contributions be made in the form of money to Charles Hallam Keep, the national treasurer, at Washington. Should you conclude to send provisions instead of money by special train, se^d some one in charge, * -j :f: of them to be delivered to Edward Dl- .tjaBaM vine, above named, at* Oakland." Jj At a meeting of Jacksonville, Fla.f ^ citizens held for the purpose of raie- \? ing money for the alleviation of suf- '' < fering from earthquake and ffre In 3 California the sum of $7,070 was con- ' .: tributed in an hour. At the rate at v|rap which contributions are being sent to ;hg|H the committee it is believed that over ||3 $10,000 will be raised. At a meeting of citizens of Colum- . bus, Ohio, at the board of trade, $20,000 in cash was subscribed for the re- J lief of the sufferers in San Francisco within an hour,. Reports from the Union Pacific and entral Pacific offices in Chicago state ;&|| that an enormous amount of supplies 'iM is moving in and on its way to San - . Francisco. Packing houses started i eight trains of meal Friday. Minne- >^j apolis is sending flour and in fact every part of the country is moving for the relief of the stricken city. RATIONS FOR A MILLION. /||B Government Moves Promptly in Effort v to Avert Starvation. Orders have been issued by the war ;?i| department to army officers to purchase at Los Angeles, Cal., 200,000 rations and at Seattle 300,000 and hurry them to San Francisco. The department was informed that there was 120,000 rations at the Presidio; that ^ thousands of refugees are being slipltered there and that the army is feeding them. One million rations had al- -IgM ready been started to San Francisco . a. by the department. 80LDIERS USE THEIR GUNS. "^JS Cnur-tAAn WouId-Be Mint Looters Aro Filled With Lead. Fourteen men were killed in one night by soldiers guarding the mint at 'Frisco and Policeman Joseph M. Myers was bayonetted and killed by a national guardsman over a dispute as to authority. The men at the mint were killed for 'j'Jj attempting robbery.