The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 10, 1906, Image 2
THE WEAVER.
Beside the loom of life I stand
And watch the busy shuttle go:
The threads I hold within my nard
Make up the filling: strand on strand
They slip my fingers through, and so
This web of mine tills out aoace,
While I stand ever in my place.
One time the woof is smooth and fiio,
And colored with a sunny dye:
Again the threads so roughly twine
And weave so darkly line on line
My heart misgives me. Then would I
Fain lose this web?begin anew?
But that, alas. 1 can not do.
TSome
day the web will all be done,
The shuttle quiet in its place.
From out my hold the threads be run;
And friends at setting of the sun
Will come to look upon my face.
And say: "Mistakes she made not few,
Yet wove perchance as best she knew."
?The Independent.
V
!"> ?' 'I' I' 'I* 'I' 'I* 'I1
<8*iHg"gHgni<l> 'H* >'t'
***** Martvr Pio *****
tiit,it.iV?% 1 &CL1 l.y A & Ax?
-
*X* C" "I" **1" *1' 'I* ?? %**%*+ *"*%*"* * "I* *?*
* \
What girls, art student girls, would
feed to their pigeons?so that he
might imitate and thus win the good
will of the flock?had become suddenly
a tantalizing mystery to Burrick.
He stopped his sketching and meditating,
gazed out of the window, over the
four tin roofs, with their square orchard
of chimney pots, to the opposite
window, in which sat the several girls I
?-his ladies of the pigeons. A fortuitous
architectural blessing had pro's
* vided that the buildings in which
& v , Burrick and the girls had their separate
studios were four stories high, j
while the intervening structures had j
ignobly and fortunately but three j
jjff ' floors to their credit.
NT<?T?r?io untTi'ictori hprsplf from the
UUV ?? IVVVU MV. w. ?
model's chair when Burrick's crayon
.paused. Nannie did not merit a
model's throne?her nose was out of
kilter, her hair was stringy, she had
H small eyes and large freckles. Burrick's
experience with her had proved
that her disposition was fairly good,
however, and he could not understand
how she had ever come to assault the
policeman on her beat with a heavy
- % skillCt.
8? i \
The assault on the officer had merited
for Nannie newspaper notoriety.
Her picture had to be published and
H Burrick was detailed to make the
sketch. Nannie had found posing for
> him such a pleasure during the five
minutes of his stay in the kitchen that
she had volunteered to appear at his
? studio evbry day, if he wished. She
made a convenient model, and did not
Insist on the regular rates. She would,
too, wash Burrick's steins on the
morning after his chums visited him.
She had a deal of information, and
; ; had always been eager to answer
%- [ \ questions put by the youth. She
might know the diet of pigeons.
He put the mystery to her.
"Nannie, what do you think those
t girls feed their pigeons?" He waved
his crayon toward the open windows.
"Cake and stuff," answered the
girl, in her succinct fashion. Then,
with a raucous note in her voice, she
- commented on the art girls. "They
look like dead ones to me, sure. Do
youse know them?"
"No such luck."
"Youse couldn't get acquainted wid
them as easy as wid me, eh, Kid?"
the girl asked quaintly.
"Every one'isn't as sociable as you,
Nannie," Burrick put in discreetly.
It wouldn't do for her to develop a
contrary strain which might lead to
| expensive mutiny. "Let's get back to
our picture."
He sketched intently and in silence
for some minutes. White pigeons
'm' flirting by the window aroused him
again to the interests over the roofs.
"Say, Nannie, do you think we could
grab one of those birds?"
"Oh, gee, and kill 'em; that would
P be great! Wouldn't them girls be
fierce, though!" Nannie was enthused
n Viof Tt'oe inovn1ir>9hlp tr? in
Wliu a j\jj iuai tiuo IUVA1>?VV.W.V
& nocent Burrick.
In an instant she was off the model's
sft ' chair, had gone to the cupboard and
IPfi gathered a handful of doughnut
crumbs. She scampered out of the
?; window suddenly, and "when Burrick
looked she was crouching behind a
brick chimney. A snare of doughnut
? remnants was alluring a rash pigeon
beneath the girl's hand. There was a
. flurry of wings, a desperate fanning of
the air and Nannie scrambled into
fthe room again, holding a beautiful
pigeon in her hard little hands. She
'swung the bird by one leg. "Shall I j
wring its neck?" she asked calmly.
"Lord! Stop?don't?you're hurtIng
it."
"Why not? It belongs to them girls j
there," replied Nannie, superiorly,
making a face across the canyon which
intervened. She had that infallible
logic which only comes to savage little
?!?* * s*ris"Let
me have it." cried Burrick.
making a sudden grab. He held the
trembling thing so tenderly that its
r fluttering ceased. He caressed the
bird, and then slipped it into the huge
. -* pocket of his jacket, while he fumbled
among his papers and uncovered a
I* calling card rather fresh. On it he
scrawled, "How d*3re do!"
"Give me a piece of your hair'ribbon,
Nannie," he pleaded. The girl
obeyed automatically.
Having acquired the ribbon, Burrick
mercilessly slashed off its cleanest
edge, and by that thread attached
th( card to the bird's pink leg. Nannie,
in a rage, nearly fell out of the
window as she made a dash for the
escaping homer. (She stamped her
foot and said a naughty word, a very
naughty word for a seventeen-yearold
little girl to say in the presence of
. a young man. She slammed the door
fiercely as she went out.
Without a thought of the girt's irritable
departure Burrick gave his
4
I
eyes to the flignt or tne pigeon. tt I
winged a direct way to the window
where the other art students were at I
their work. Covertly peering across
the abyss the young man saw the bird
received in the arms of its patronesses.
He knew that the engraved
name upon his card would be effective.
With great self-restraint Nannie
did not refer to the pigeon nor the
pigeon girls when next she came. Burrick
was afraid she would not return
at all, but she did appear the next
morning, and after much coaxing and
flattering agreed to pose. In a fortnight
she was herself again.
Then Fate grew careless. One
morning a white pigeon flew into the
window. From one of its legs fluttered
a red ribbon and a card. Nani
nie pounced on the bird and endeavor- |
I eel to read the message. A portion ot J
it was clear enough. "Miss Yanaane"
was engraved decently on the pasteboard.
But in a corner, in the sprawling
confusion of the art ncuveau of
chirography was written, "Thursday
evening?pinochle."
"What does that stuff in the corner j
say?" aslted the nuzzled Nannie.
" 'Thursday evening?pinochle.' That !
means 'come around Thursday evening ]
and we will feed you on pinochle,' "
Burrick explained.
"Oh," said Nannie. Then she lapsed
into deep thought and later went
home.
While preparing for the pinochle
function Burrick discovered unmistakable
signs that his room had been
ransacked during the afternoon. He
found that all his belongings were
intact, with the possible exception of
some stationery and a doughnut. He I
put the offence at the door of some
! friend and was undisturbed. He forI
got all about his trival loss when
I he later learned from Miss Vandane
j that her pet pigeon was missing. The
- 1 ?? Tlio mvctprv
i gin Wits mtUU2u;auiv, a. a*aj w..? J
was tragic.
It was more tragic the next morning
when in his mail Bu;rick received
a card reading: "Miss Nannie, Friday
evening?pigeon pie."?Arthur Price in
San Francisco News Letter.
THE FIGHTING GERMAN ARMY.
Largest and Most Efficient Military
Organization is the World.
The German army of today is the
largest and most efficient fighting organization
that world has ever seen,
and it has served as a model for the
armies of most other countries, says
the World's Work. The Austrian
army has been organized on methods
copied exactly from the German system.
The Japanese army also took
its methods in organization as well
as in strategy and tactics from Germany
and German officers. The
Chinese army has now adopted German
methods. Nearly all the smaller
countries of Europe with aspirations
to military efficiency have borrowed
officers from the German army
to instruct their troops. The Turkish
army was so organized.
In the recent war the largest forces
met which had ever opposed one another
in any conflict. The German
army, however, could put in the field
a perfectly equipped military force
eight times larger than the victorious
Japanese army which gained the battio
r>f Mutton it consists of more
than four millions soldiers. But in
addition to four million trained soldiers,
Germany could enroll six million
more men who, although not
trained for service in the fighting line
would nevertheless forma valuable
reserve for the protection of lines of
communication, and such duties. A
t very large number of these reserves
have had at least some military training,
and in case of necessity could
also be employed in active service
after a brief period of drill and military
exercise. Thus the stupendous
number of ten million able-bodied
men could be mustered under the imperial
banner of the German Empire;
hence the statement that all Germay
is an "armed camp."
The German Emperor, who in times |
of peace shares the authority over '
the army with his fellow-German sovereigns,
the Kings of Bavaria, Sax*
ony, and Wurtemberg, becomes in
I time of war supreme and commander- j
in-chief, or "war lord" of the entire I
military forces of the Empire.
The standing army of Germany !
consists approximately of 600,000 |
men. xvearxy nan ui iuis uumuci i>o.oo
out of the standing army every year
and are replaced by an equal number
of fresh recruits. Germany thus produces
year by year more than a quarter
of a million trained soldiers. The
first reserve consists approximately
of 1,100,000 men, and the "Landwher"
consists of 1,700,000 men, of
whom 900,000 are in the first class, j
and 800,000 are in the second class.
The organization of the army is as
simple as it is efficient. The unit of
organization in the infantry in the
"section," consisting of 20 men under
the command of a corporal. Two sec- j
tions form the "semi-detachment," or
40 men under the command of a sergeant.
Two semi-detachments form
a "detachment" of 80 men under the
command of a lieutenant. Three de- j
tachments form a company of 240
men under a captain. Four companies
make a battalion of 960 men under
a major. Three battalions form
a regiment under a colonel, and two
regiments form a brigade under the
command of a major general. The
"Army Corps," which is the largest
military unit, consists of two or three
divisions.
Eugene Vallat, a well know United
States engineer, with a long and fare
rible military record, died recently
it Detroit. In 1864 he was appointed
hief engineer by President Abraham
Lincoln.
i
f <r.'
[> A A A A A A A A A A A A 4
jPalmetto State News;
! 4
^ v VVftVfftff I 1
.
Demand "Jim Crow" Bleachers.
I A petition has been prepared, numerously
signed, asking the Charleston
baseball club to provide separate
accommodations for the races on the
bleachers.
*
* *
Pardon Asked for Bush.
A petition is being circulated asking
that Jesse Bush, who shot and
killed James Israel, be pardoned. The
| petition will be presented to the
I board of pardons at its next meeting.
The paper is being generally
I signed.
I Bush killed the man who it was
I said was the father of a child born
to his fourteen-year-old daughter, ana
l'or which crime he was tried and
given a sentence of two years in the
penitentiary.
i
To Purchase Water Powers.
A party of Pittsburg, Pa., capitalists.
consisting of J. C. Slack, R. M.
Drnvo, F. H. Knox, R. C. Crawford and
Oscar Shanks, were in Spartanburg,
the past week, the object of their visit
being to purchase several valuable
water powers in the county, which
thev nronose to develop. The idea is
to establish electric power plants and
sell electric power for industrial and
business purposes.
*
* *
Fought Duel on Train.
Dr. Rowland K. Smith and T. M.
Brown, prominent citizens of Chapin,
engaged in a sensational shooting affray
in the baggage coach of the Columbia,
Newberry and Laurens train
as it was leaving Chapin.
Although the two men emptied their
revolvers at each other, none of the
k shots took effect It is understood
that the shooting grew out of domestic
relations. President Childs of the
road declares that he will have the
men prosecuted for using arms on a
loaded passenger train.
* *
Saw Their Monuments Unveiled.
The monuments at the empty
graves of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Covington
were unveiled in the beautiful
Hebron cemetery, near Bennettsville,
Marlboro county, in the presence of a
large gathering. The aged couple
were present to participate in the exercises
and hear the eulogies of themselves.
J. P. Gibson, member of the
house of representatives, was the orator
of the day. Captain Frank Manning
presided, and made an approprifltp
sneerh. and a beautiful essay was
read by Miss Jean Cameron of Virginia.
Some time ago Covington had the
graves for himself and wife prepared
and tombs erected bearing appropriate
inscriptions.
*
* *
Final Dispensary Settlements.
Although the Spartanburg city and
county dispensaries have been closed
for several months, the final settlement
of the profits of the business
transacted for December was made
only a few days ago. The money was
turned into the county treasury shortly
be ^e the close of the December
! transactions, though settlement was
not made at that time. The profits
1 for the last month of the dispensary
! amounted to $5,081.66 and of this the
city received one-half, the other half
going to the county. No portion of
this sum went to the school fund for
the reason that no provision was made
for the schools to receive their share
* *
; Read Supports New County Movement
The committee from the mass meet
ing which was held in North Augusta
recently, called upon Vice President
James U. Jackson and was assured
of ihe support of the AugustaAiken
railway jr.nd allied interests
in the fignt. for the new county, and
further the commit roe has been assayed
b coint house and jail, together
with ten acres of land, for the purpose
of erecting a county heme cm
should the new* county be carried.
The railroad has made a liberal offer,
and it is believed that those at the
head of the movement for the newcounty
will work hard to carry theii
point.
* *
Col. Elliott in Washington.
Headquarters have just been established
in Washington by Coiouci
William E. Elliott of Charleston, who
was appointed by Secretary Taft commissioner
"to ascertain the location
and condition of all graves of confederate
soldiers and sailors who died
In federal prisons and military hospital*.
in the north, and who were buried
near their places of confinement.''
Colonel Elliott was appointed pursiant
to an act which passed congress,
and which the president approved
March 9, 1906, and will cause
to be prepared, registers in triplicate,
one lor the superintenden. office
in the cemetery, one for the quartermaster
general's office, and one for
the war record's office, confederate archives,
showing place of burial, number
of graves, name, company, regi
... ... ^ ^ ' . . -. .
I
| 7uent or vessel, aril state of each coni
federate soldier aiyl sailor who so
I died; to cause to be erected over said
i
graves, white marble headstones similar
to those in the "confederate section"
at Arlington, Va.. similarly inscribed.
For carrying out this project $200,00C
have been appropriated, and it is
e>pected that the work will be completed
within two years, when a re
port on the subject will be made tc
congress.
Socialists to Put Out Ticket.
Carolina Socialists have finally decided
to put out a state t.CKCt, t:ioug-i
it has not been fully determined yet
whether the ticket will be full or
only mer. for the leading places nominated.
The idea of holding a state
i convention has been aoanaonea on
j account of the expense. The ticket
| will be arranged for bv correspond!
ence and announced later.
The object is merely to test the
strength of the party in the state and
provide for a thorough organization
by cocDt.es later with this purpose
in view. The Columbia Socialists are
now taking up the matter of a state
ticket with members of the party in
Charleston, Greenville, Anderson,
Spartanburg, Orangeburg, Florence
and other leading towns of the state,
taking the vote for the nominations
by correspondence as it were.
*
* *
State T. P. A.'s Win Prize.
j The South Carolina division of the
! Travelers' Protective Association has
i won the prize offered by the national
association for the largest increase
in membership for the year. Tn<*
states as arranged in groups show
that South Carolina, New York, Ohio,
Minnesota and Arkansas are among
the leaders.
South Carolina led with 112 new
members;*New York with 59; Arkansas
with 51; Ohio with 28, and Min
x- ? a.-u i n
nesoui wi?u xz.
The South Carolina division has set
the membership to 1,000 for 1907, and
j will adept a label button to read
"South Carolina division, Travelers'
Protective Association, 1907."
*
*
Figured in Historic Race War.
j Will Jennings, a negro 45 years of
j age, who about eight years ago figI
ured in the race war at Rehobcth and
Phoenix, in Greenwood county, is in
jail at Augusta, Ga., on a charge of
forgery. It. will be recalled that a
prominent white merchant, Lee Etheridge,
was shot to death by some negroes
at an election at Phoenix, because
of the fact that Mr. Etheridge
was trying to stop an illegal ballot.
Immediately after his murder, by
some unknown negro of the party, the
entire community was so incensed that
a general raid was started on all ne{
groes and the entire locality, in fact
j the whole of the state was stirred to
hot heat and some 14 negroes killed.
The day following the murder, ten
negroes who had been corralled were
set upon by a mob and eight of them
shot to death. Two made their esI
cape into a swamp and Will Jennings
was one of the two.
BRIDE NOT FORTHCOMING.
] Parson Dczier, Fleeced Through Matrimonial
Paper, Squeals.
Miss Lucile PatLCi sen and her niece.
Kiss Edna Kirk, both of Lewistcn,
Pa., are charged with fraudulent use
of the mails.
2v means of a matrimonial paper,
the government secret service agents
say these women collected sums ot
money from men all over the United
States who wanted wives.
In the very peaceful community of
Ashburn, Ga., the Rev. J. B. Dczier
read that Mrs. Patterson was seeking
p. loving husband, and he forthw'th
wrote her. |
ft
Several letters were enchanged, the |
clergyman proposed and was accepted. !
The bride-to-be wrote, asking for car
fare from Lewiston to Georgia. The
pastor sent $30, but the bride was
not forthcoming.
The Rev. Mr. Dczier grew nervous,
and when his letters remained unanswered
he appealed to the postal a<*
I thorities at Washington.
Other men who had sent money and
received no bride as" per agreement
also wanted explanations.
\ large number of other victims to
the tune of from $20 to $35 each,
have complained to the postal authorj
ities of Mrs. Patterson's matrimonial
negotiations. Miss Kirk is alleged tc
be an accomplice.
WARSHIP TO GUADALOUPE.
American Interests on Island Menaced
by Uncontrollable Mob.
Guadaloupe, the French West Indian
island, is under mob rule, according
to a dispatch received at the
state department Monday from G. Jar- J
vis Bowens, the American consul ai
that point His dispatch says thai
the mob is in control and the authorities
are unable to restrain it. Election
troubles are the cause of he disturbance.
At the request of the state department,
the navy department has ordered
Commander Southerland of the
fleet at Sa.n Domingo to send a warship
to Guadaloupe to protect American
interests.
~ ."A*' ?; K ' '.'
. - ' i - . * ' * ' y ' '. .
RATE MEASURE ASSURED
i President Satisfied With Compromise
and All Obstacles to Passage of
Bill Are Removed.
A Washington special says: President
Roosevelt Friday afternoon made
formal announcement of his approval
of the amendment to the railroad bill
proposed by Senator Allison, which
solves the much discussed question of
judicial review by simply conferring
full jurisdiction upon the circuit courts
m 11 - -a - ' ***- a a. Ars.
oi me Lnuoa siaies 10 near u.uu u^=termine
all complaints brought by the
railroads against the orders and regulations
of the interstate commerce
commission and places no limitation
v hatsoever upon the scope of the
court's review.
This announcement was made to a
j number of newspaper men summoned
to the conference at the white
! house. Some weeks ago the presi|
dent announced to a similar, conference
that he was giving his support
to the amendment of Senator Long
I providing for a narrdw review. In
order to explain his reasons for the
j apparent change of position on his
part he talked freely and frankly with
[ the representatives of the press at
Friday's conference. Briefly stated,
the position of the president is that
the Allison amendment does nothing
more than affirm what he believes is
already in the Hepburn bill. While
seme of the advocates of that measure
have contended that it provided
no review, the president holds it did.
Tc meet the objection that without
specific conferring of jurisdiction the
bill might be held to be unconstitutional,
he favors the Allison amendment,
though he would prefer the
t /inff nmpndment restricting the
courts to the consideration of two
questions, first, whether the commission
exceeded its authority; second,
whether any of the constitutional
rights of the carrier had been invaded.
He admitted that it had been found
impossible to get the so-called narrow
review republicans to agree to
the Long amendment, so the Allison
amendment was agreed to as the simplest
possible solution.
The broad review element of repub*
licans naturally regards this in the
nature of a victory for them, since it
leaves to the courts to determine for
themselves the trend of the review,
with no legislative restrictions placed
upon them.
ARMY MEN KEPT BUSY.
Soldier Boys Have Been of Great Assistance
to 'Frisco.
The army people at the Presidio,
San Francisco, have accomplished
wonders in the way of straightening
out the badly mixed up condition of
affairs in the stricken city. In an interview
on the subject Friday General
Funston said:.
"This is the largest rescue work
ever attempted by the army. In the
east they speak of the fire as the
greatest catastrophe of the age,' but
1Loi?e who have been engaged in the
work of relief on the ground do not
vet realize that 200,000 people were
ir.ade homeless and penniless, and
have been fed and sheltered for two
weeks, and no man, woman or child
has gone hungry."
STRIKE SEEMS A CERTAINJY.
Little Chance of Amicably Settling
Trouble With Miners.
A dispatch from Scranton, Pa.,
says: There was but little hope of settling
the controversy in the anthracite
coal field Friday morning. Delegates
to the miners' convention express the
opinion that a strike is their only alternative.
President Mitchell is endeavoring
to find a way of obviating
extreme measures.
PALMA RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT.
Head of Cuban Government Duly Installed
by Island Congress.
The Cuban congress in joint ses
sion ai Jtiavana. cauvasscu mc ciwiwjal
returns and proclaimed Tomas Estrada
Palma and Mendez Capote unanimously
elected president and vice
president, respectively. All the liberals
and also the independents of the
provinces of Santa Clara and Santiago
signified their protests by their absence.
WANTS FOREIGNERS THANKED.
\
President Appreciative of Offers to
Aid San Francisco.
President Roosevelt sent a message
to congress recommending the passage
of a resolution expressing the
gratitude of the United States government
to foreign soverigns and countries
for their expressions of sympathy
on account of the California disaster
and their offers of relief.
BIG DEAL IN TIMBEfl LANDS.
Saw Mill and 12,000 Acres of Land
soia tot
A saw mill deal involving $200,000
was closed at Moultrie, Ga., Thursday
by which R. J. Corbett and Dr.
G. F. Taylor acquire the T. N. Baker
Lumber company's holdings at Ticknor.
The property includes 12,000
acres of very fine timber, a mill with
a cutting capacity of 103,000 feet of
lumber daily and all the running
equipment.
ff
'Vim crow cars |
Touched Upon in Discussion *
of Railroad Rate Bill.
PROTEST BY DEMOCRATS J
Senator Forakcr Precipitated Lively
Racket by Coupling Jim Crow
Feature with Anti-Pass ' JJ
Amendment.
--i_ jt j ?
Jim crow cars were uiseuaseu iu .
the senate for several hours Monday
in connection with the rate bill, with,
the final result that, with the aid of*
twelve republicans, a provision for
"the same or equal acocmmodations"
was stricken from an amendment in- '
troduced by Senator Foraker.
The Onio senator presented a
strong anti-pass amendment, but coupled
with it was this jim crow car
feature. Senator Bacon led the fight
against it, insisting that its. intro
duction was for the purpose of em
barrassing southern senators in their
action upon the pass question. He argued
for a division cf the Foraker
amendment.
Senator Money, Senator McLaurin ^
and other southerners took virtually
the same stand.
Senator Bacon based his objection,
not so much on the merits of the
r?T./\r?/\e*fi/vn fnr fh? r?<jsr?r? that thft
laws of all the southern states which
call for separation of the races upon *
trains also provide for equality of ac- \ ^
commodations, but he argued that the
effect of the incorporation of such a
provision in the interstate law would .
be to act as an incentive to people - JgSB
seeking to stir up strife over the race :
question, a thing that should be ' 'i:0
avoided. ;
Senator Culberson introduced a sub* "s
stitute for the Foraker anti-pass v p
amendment even more stringent on
its terms than that of the Ohio senator.
but shorn of its reference to the
jim crow question, and this was adoptr
ed by a vote of 38 to 36.
The twelve republican senators who
joined with the democrats were
Messrs. Knox, LaFollette, Frye, Dotliver,
Clapp, Burkett, Long, Warner,
Nelson, Southerland, Nixon and Kittiedge.
The senate spent the major portion
of its time on one amendment
to the Hepburn railroad rate bill, but
instead of accepting It, adopted a '-.' M
substitute.
The discussion took a broad range
covering first the pass question and
then the race question in the southern
states. The race issue was rais- /vjlf
ed in connection with the clause relar ~J1|
tive to discriminations which was inr .
terpreted as referring to separate cars for
the races.
"Can it possibly be the design of
the senator to incorporate this sub- :
ject of discrimination with that of
free passes in order to strengthen it?" ,
asked Mr. Bacon, referring to the separate
car system of the south for negroes.
The provision, he said, touchr
ed upon a matter of vital importance
to the south. "There could be no
question raised of more vital importance
to that section," he said. He
insisted that the two matters should
not be coupled together. .1
"Does the senator object to equal
accommodations for the same pay?"
asked Mr. Foraker.
"No," responded Mr. Bacon, "but
I do object to giving the interstate
commerce commission supervision
ever the matter." "And
that I insist upon," declared r
Mr. Foraker.
"In view of the fact that two-thirds
of the senate are republican, I presume
that he can make good this c,
boast," said the Georgia senator with
warmth.
Mr. Foraker disavowed any purpose
to bo~st, and Mr. Bacon proceeded
with his argument against the coupling
of the two propositions.
Jury Will Probe Insurance.
The special grand jury which is to
investigate insurance matters and es^
pecialiy political campaign contributions
was empaneled at New York
Monday. District Attorney Jerome,
who asked for this jjury, wa3 present
when it was sworn.
Boston Cigar Makers Strike.
A strike of union cigar makers
of Boston, Mass., was inaugurated
Monday. It is estimated that about
1,200 men are out in an effort to force
an increase in wages. -. '
.
A SEMI-CATASTROPHE.
? "? ? ?A !? Aiiour*! Hu.r
I wo men meet i/cam w<?
a Couple of Cats.
William Cox and his son-in-law, William
Miners Carney, of Smithfield,
*
Ohio, quarreled over the possession >
of two cats. As Carney was leaving
the yard, Cox seized a shot gun and '
shot him dead. He then turned the
weapon on himself, dying almost instantly.
M,
' ^ J