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AFTER OIL TRUST
President Sends a Special
. Message to Congress.
ATTACKS SECRET RATES
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Rcosevelt Says Giant Octopus Has
Been Holding Up Railroads and
the People?Transmits "Garfield's
Report.
President Roosevelt Friday transmitted
to congress the report of James
w.
R. Garfield, commissioner of corporations,
giving the results of his inves-1
tigation of the subject of transporta- j
tion and freight rates in connection
with the oil industry.
In his message the president expresses
the view that the report is
of capital importance because of the
effort now being made to secure such
enlargement of the powers of the interstate
commerce commission as will
confer upon the committee power in
some measure adequate to meet the
clearly demonstrated need of the situation.
That the Standard Oil company
has benefited enormously, up
almost to the present moment, by secret
rates, many of which were clear
ly unlawful, the president says the
report clearly shows the benefit thereby
secured amounting to at least
three-quarters of a million a year. On
this subject he says:
"This three-quarters of a million
represents the profit that the Standard
Oil company obtains at the expense
of the railroads; but of course
:the ultimate result is that it obtains
much larger profit at the expense of.
-the public. A very striking result of
the investigation has been that shortly
after the discovery of these secret
, rates by the commissioner of corporae
tions the major portion of them were
promptly corrected by the railroads
so that most of them have now been
done away with."
The statement is added that the
department of justice will take up the
. prosecution of at least certain cases.
Continuing, the president says:
"But in addition to these secret
rates the Standard Oil profits immensely
by opqn rates which are so
arranged as to give it an overwhelming
advantage over its independent
competitors."
Commissioner Garfield finds that the
output oi renneci on amounts to aoout i
26,000,000 barrels annually, of which
the Standard Oil company controls
about 23,000,000 and approximately
the same proportion of the other finished
products of finished petroleumContinuing,
the report says:
"The Standard claims that the location
of its refineries and the use of
pipe lines are natural advantages tc
which it is justly entitled. While in a
measure that is true, it must not be
forgotten that these advantages were
in part obtained by means oi' unfair
competitie Jnethcds after years of
fierce industrial strife. The development
cf the pipe line system by the
Standard Oil company was the result
of special agreements with railroad
companies. Furthermore those socalled
natural advantages have been
and are being greatly increased by
discriminations in freight rates, which
give the Standard monopolistic control
in the greater portion of the country.
"An immediate result of this delimitation
of competitive area is shown
by the exorbitant profits shown in the
non-competitive fields."
"In 1904 the secret rate received
from the railroads saved to the Stand
ard Oil company three-quarters of a
million dollars, representing the difference
between the open rates and
the rates actually paid.
"These discriminations," he said,
"have been so long continued and so
secret and so large in amount as to
make it certain they were due to concerted
action by the Standard and
the railroads."
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FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY.
Four Men Engage in Pistol Duel in a
Birmingham Saloon.
As the result of a general shooting
affair Friday night in a saloon,
in Birmingham, Ala., 1 nomas Hewlett
is dead, John Shugart is expected to
die and Frank Lee is shot through
the head, and Leonard Potts is shot
through the ankle.
The fatal shooting was done by
Harry Haynes, who claims that Hewlett
first opened fire on him, and that
Shugart immediately took up Hewyi
lett.'s fight and that he had to shoot
them both. The other two men were
bystanders.
EXCEPTIONS BILL UNFINISHED.
Consequently Greene and Gayncr Get
a Longer Stay in Macon.
At yjicon, Ga., Friday, judge Emory
Speer signed another order extending
a the time of transfer to the Atlanta
federal prison of Greene and Gaynor,
giving counsel until May 21 to complete
the work cn the bill of exceptions,
w_,ch is still under way in Savannah.
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FRIGHTFUL TRAIN CARSH
Takes the Lives cf Ten People and
injures a Score of Others?impact
Terrific and Disastrous.
A special from Altcona, Pa., says:
The most disastrous accident on the
Pennsylvania railroad since the disaster
east of Harrisburg nearly a year
ago, when about twenty persons were
billed, occurred Friday night about 10
o'clock on the Petersburg branch
about 5C0 yards east of Clover Creek
junction.
The Chicago Mail, bount east, and
the Chicago and St. Louis Express,
bound west, two of the fastest trains
of the system, going at full speed,
met head on. Seven cars were wrecked,
and both engines badly damaged.
Six persons were killed outright,
and four died later from injuries.
About twenty of the passengers and
train crew were more or less seriously
injured, but as far as is known
all will recover.
Some hours before twenty-seven
loaded freight cars had been wrecked
on the main line of the Pennsylvania
railroad at Union Furnace, 20 miles
east of Altoona. Debris blocked all
the tracks and fast passenger trains
were run over the Petersburg branch.
The Chicago and St. Louis express
I was sent from Altoona and the Chicai
go mail from Huntingdon.
At Clover Creek Junction, about
j midway between Altoona and Hunting!
don, where a single line traverses a
I heavy curve, the two trains crashed
+r\oro ivith frichtful force, the im
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pact standing the locomotives on end
and piling the cars of the mail in a
heap. One coach contained thirtyj
cne passengers and none escaped injury.
Officials of the Pennsylvania road
state that the disaster was due to a
misconception of orders on the part of
the crew of the Chicago mail. Instructions
had been given to pull on to
a siding near Williamsburg, two miles
east of where the accident happened,
the St. Louis flyer having the right of j
line.
Heartrending scenes unnerved the
rescuers as they worked by the glare
of oil lamps in an effort to extricate
the unfortunates,/who were under the
wreckage. Until a wrecking crew arrived
from Altcona, two hours after
the accident, human hands were impctent
to extend succor to the maimed
and mangled passengers.
MINERS MAKE CONCESSIONS.
Convention Unanimously Votes for a
Return to Work.
On the advice of President Mitchell,
representing the sub-scale committee,
the miners' convention at Scranton, j
Pa., Saturday unanimously voted to
adopt the first proposition of the operators,
a continuation of the award
cf the anthracite coal commission with
the modification of the term for which
it ir to continue to be mutually agreed
upon. The operators' suggestion was
that it should be at least three years.
The action of the convention, together
with a request for a conference
v. as telegraphed by President Mitchell
to Chairman Baer of the operators'
committee, and a conference in New
York was aareed to. The only mat
ters to be discussed are the length of
time the award shall continue, and
the provision that there shall be no
discrimination against the men who
obeyed the mine workers' suspension
crder.
P.LEA FOR THE CHINESE
Made in Resolutions by Methodists
in General Conference.
One of the features of the Southern
Methhodist general conference at Birmingham
Saturday was an address by
Rev. Young J. Allen, a missionary
whoN had devoted his life to the Chinese.
As a result of his plea in
behalf of the people of the Orient,
strong resolutions were adopted by
the conference to be sent to President
Roosevelt, requesting the American
government to give such interpretation
to existing laws as will not allow
discourtesies and hardships to Chinese
students, merchants and others who
may reach the shores of the United
States.
POLICE SHOOT RIOTOUS DAGOES
Bloody Battle With Strikers Occurs
in Passaic, N. J.
In a battle between riotous Italian
strikers and the police in Passaic, N.
J., Saturday, four of the rioters were
slmt and a number of the Dolicemen
injured. One of the men shot may
die. Thirty-two men were made prisoners
by the police.
The riot took place about the building
of the Daily Herald, which is being
constructed and where a strike
of diggers and shovel men was begun
a few days ago.
OBEY ORDER OR FIGHT.
Great Britain Throws Down Gauntlet
to Sultan of Turkey.
A London special says: Great Britain
has delivered an ultimatum to
the sultan through the British ambas
sador at Constantinople, which is believed
to be the last word to Turkey
regarding her refusal to withdraw
Turkish troops from Egypt. French
and Russian interests are with Great
Britain in the ultimatum.
METHODISTS MEET
General Conference Opens at
Birmingham, Alabama.
NINE BISHOPS PRESENT
Feature of First Day's Session Was
the Reading cf the Bishops' Ad.
dress in Which Church Matters
Were Fully Reviewed.
When the venerable Bishop A. W.
Wilson of Baltimore brought down his
gavel, calling the general conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, to order, in Birmingham, Ala.,
Thursday morning, there were but six
absentees. The feature of the day was
the episcopal address, which was read
by Bishop C. B. Galloway.
Immediately upon the conclusion of
the bishop's address, a telegram expressing
love and greeting was sent
to J. C. Berryman of Caledonia, Mo.,
who i3 in his 97th year, and who is
the sole survivor of the Methodist
conference of 1S44.
Dr. J. W. Heidt of Atlanta presented
to the conference, through Bishoy
Wilson, a gavel made from the wood
of the tree under which John Wesley,
the founder of Methodism, delivered
his first sermon in America, near
Savannah, Ga,
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to the delegates were delivered at the
First Methodist church. Governor
Jelks of Alabama made the address
on behalf of the state. The Rev. J. R.
McCoy of Birminigham spoke as the
representative of the Methodists of
the state, Alderman J. R. Copeland
spoke for the city of Birmingham and
Rev. S. L. Dcbbs of Birmingham for
the Methodists of the Birmingham district.
A response in behalf of the
bishops and delegates was made by
Bishop K. R. Hendrix of Kansas City.
Ttye roll call revealed the presence
of nine active bishops. Bishop Fitzgerald
and Bishop Granberry were the
only absentees.
Among those responding to roll
call were the leading foreign missionaries
in the church, including Dr.
Young J. Allen of Shanghai, China
The Tennessee, South Georgia, North
Alabama and the Texas conferences
had practically complete delegations
present at the opening session.
Dr. J. J. Tigert of Nashville, secretary
of the general conference at its
two last preceding sessions, was unanimously
re-elected secretary. After
the adoption of a resolution providing
for the appointment of the fourteen
regular committees, the bishops' address
was read to the conference by
Eishop Charles B. Galloway of Mississippi.
It was quite lengthy, covering
the entire operation of the Southern
Methodist church, both at home and
abroad, since the last quadrennial
conference. The address, among other
things, contained the following:
"The statistical returns are altogether
encouraging. The increase in
members during the past four years
was 109,547, as against only 38,085
during the preceding quadrennium.
We have now 1,164,648 members, 1,039,785
Sunday school scholars and
120,487 Epworth League members.
The receipts qf our board for foreign
missions for this quadrennium were
$1,659,941, an increase over the preceding
four years'of $645,673. The
collections for church extension were
$372,649.30, an increase of $12,833.68
over the quadrennium ending in 1302.
During the past year the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society received
$155,909, and the Woman's Home Mission.
Society $101,728. If these
amounts be added to the receipts by
the general and annual conference
beards, we have a sum total for home
and foreign missions during the year
now closing $955,779."
WALL KILLS STALNAKER.
Ancient Quarrel Ends in Fatal Tragedy
at Augusta, Qa.
Former Deputy United State Marshal
Charles W. Stalnaker was shot
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and Kinea oy jumcs o. ***?*? a*
ta, Ga., Thursday night, as a result
of a row that began at a mgistrate's
election three years ago, when Stalnaker
was defeated by W. A. "WJall, a
brother of the slayer.
DRESSMAKERS ON WAR PATH.
Will Withdraw Their Trade from At
lanta Retail Merchants.
Because the dry goods merchants
of Atlanta have recently cut off the
discount of 6 per cent, formerly given
to dressmakers of tho city on goods
purchased for their customers, the
dressmakers have decided to cut out
the Atlanta merchants.
ON TRAIL OF OIL TRUST.
President Roosevelt Hae Resolved to
Go After Standard People.
The statement is authoritatively
made that the department of justice
will immediately begin an investiga- :
tion of the relations of the so-called
oil trust and a number of railroads
wiith a view of determining whether
there have been violations of the antirebate
law.
SLANDER IS UNJUST
Senator Denounces Slurs On
High Officials.
IN ANSWER TO TILLMAN
Georgia Senator Declares Wb&Have a
Good Government and Assaults' on
Men in Office is Wholly
Unwarranted.
A Washington special says: Th?
close of general debate upon the rate
bill in the senate Thursday was marked
by several very spirited passages,
i in one of which Senator Bacon of
I Georgia figured prominently.
Senator Tillman had devoted much
time to a recital of incidents calculated
to reflect upon some of the federal
judges, citing among other case3 the
granting of an injunction by Judge
Pardee against the state officials of
Florida to restrain the operation of
some law to which the railroads objected,
this injunction being granted
upon the affidavit of a railroad official
that the property of the railroad In
question was valued at more than
$5,000,000, whereas the same .official
had less than two months previously
made affidavit that the same property
was worth but $1,700,000. Other cases
were referred to at length.
Following this portion of his speech,
Senator Tillman got into a, controversy
with Senator Bacon over the question
of the issue of temporary injunctions,
in the course of which Senator Bacon
brought out that while there was an
effort to prevent the issue of tempo
rary injunctions ahead of final hearing
by the circuit courts, there was no
effort to affect the rate during the
longer period while the decision of
the circuit court was under review by
the supreme court. While this was a
legal question, Senator Tillman in his
questioning and his sallies, was not
only general in his attacks upon the
courts, but throughout it all showed
a disposition to be critical of the
Georgia senator and all others who
did not agree with him.
"Whenever it comes to the point,"
said Senator Bacon, with great fervor,
"that the courts of the United
States are no longer to be entitled to
the regard to the conservative element
of their government, it makes
little difference whether the executive
and legislative branches of the
government 'are conservative. Whenever
it comes to the point that the
judges who have the stupendous power
of passing upon the validity of th9
laws are no longer to be trusted for
conservatism or honesty, where is the
protection of the government, however
conservative the executive and legislative
hranrnes mav he?
"Mr. President, another thought
There are great forces working in
the whole civilized world, and they
are forces that need proper direction.
They, may be correct forces, but that
need proper direction. They are forces
which are not entirely quiet in this
country, and, Mr. President, I consider
it to be not only the highest duty of
this body to so act and so speak not
only as to avoid stirring up the passions
of the people and destroying
their faith in their government and
in those who are called to administer
it, but that it is our duty to go to
the other extreme if need be and inspire
even more confidence than their
individual merits may entitle them to.
"Let us, Mr. President, make our
people believe that we have a good
government, make them believe that
while there may be here and there
an unworthy man, the great body of
those who are called upon to administer
this government are honest men
and patriotic men?executive, legislative
and judicial. Let us do away
(a far as we can with this disposition
to decry the officials of the government
and to produce in the minds of
the masses of these people, and especially
of the unthinking people,
the extreme ideal that those who are
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ernment are corrupt and unworthy of
their confidence."
CRAPSEY HERESY CASE. .
Ecclesiastical Court Will Meet to Pre*
pare Finding.
It Is understood that the ecclesiastical
court of the Protestant Episcopal
church, which tried Dr. Crapsey
for heresy, will meet once more
for consultation with Judge Moore of
Batavia, N. Y., where the findings will
be prepared for presentation to Bishop
Walker. It is thought that the
court will meet about May 13, as it
goes out of existence May 15, and as
it will take about fifteen days to
transcribe the minutes of the trial,
which include about 90,000 words.
MAJ. BOWDRE ASSASSINATED. Well
Known Memphis Citizen Shot t*
Death from Ambush.
Major W. T. Bowdre, a prcminenf ,
cotton factor and director of the Cora !
mercial-Appeal cf Memphis, Tenn.,
was shot from ambush ana instantly
killed by an unknown party Tuesday j
night while walking towards his home ?
No motive is known which could have
prompted the assassination. ^
METHODIST DOCTRINES
May Be Chanoed If Recommendations
of General Conference Committee
Carried to Conclusion.
At Monday's session of the general
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, south, in Birmingham, a resolution
concerning the preparation of
a new statement of the doctrinal faith
of Methodism was introduced by VV.
F. Tillett and W. R. Lambuth, of the
Tennessee conference as follows:
"While reaffirming our absolute
faith in our articles of religion, we do
noc believe that in their present form
.they meet the existing needs of our
church as a statement of doctrinal
system of evangelical Methodist Arminianism.
Believing that the different
branches of the world of Meth-'
odism as represented in an ecumenical
Methodist conference can and should
unite in ihe preparation of such a
statement of our . common faith as is
needed, ani believing that.this general
conference should take such steps
as may be necessary to secure in the
early future the co-operation of other
representative Methodist churches in
the preparation of a new statement of
our faith, we therefore offer the following
resolution:
''Resolved, That the college of bishops
be requested to appoint a commission
of five members* one of whom
shall be a bishop, which shall invite
other branches of Methodism to unite
with us in the preparation of such a
statement of. our faith and such an
expression of our doctrinal system
as is called for in our day, and this
commission shall represent our church
in the preparation of the same.
"W. F. TILLETT,
"W. R. LAMBUTH."
With the introduction of the resolution,
a motion was made to create a
special committee to consider it. The
special committee consists of the two
ministers who offered the resolution
and the Rev. C. W. Carter of Arcadia,
La.
A complaint .against the episcopal
administration of Bishop H. C. Morrison
was also read and formally filed
with the episcopacy committee. It
relates to certain differences between
the Wayne Memorial Church of New
Orleans, and the bishop, and is signed
by a majority of the stewards of
that church, who are said to have resigned
because Rev. Richard Wilkins,
pastor, was transferred from Wayne
church to a church in Monroe, La.
A complaint was also filed by the
German Mission conference, by which
the admission of a bishop is questioned.
FATAL DUEL WITH BURGLAR.
Wealthy Staten Island Man KVIeets
Death in Attack on Robber.
Charles L. Spier, a prominent business
man of Staten Island, and said
to be confidential agent of H. H.
Rogers, vice president of the Standard
Oil company, was shot and instantly
killed in a duel with a burglar
in his home in Staten Island, early
Monday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Spier were awakened
by the noise of a burglar wlw was
gathering up the silverware in the
dining room on, the floor below. Arming
himself with a revolver Mr. Spier
ran down stairs and shot at the intruder.
His first shot missed the
man, who drew his own weapon and
fired two bullets into Mr. Spier'3 i
heart The burglar escaped, leaving
behind the booty he had collected.
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Situation Anent Railroad Rate Bill
Takes Another Change.
The situation o? the railroad rate
bill took another decided change In
the senate Monday, and at the same
time there was an additional step toward
final agreement as to what the
judicial review amendment shall bi
The Allison compromise proposition
met with such determined opposition
from those senators who have fought
against a "broad" court review that,
despite President Roosevelt's acceptance
of it, an agreement was reached
by which several restrictions will be
placed on the review proposition.
LEITER'S VAULT ROBBED.
Cracksmen Swipe Bonds and Securl.
ties Valued at $25,000.
The office of Joseph Leiter and
of the estate of the late" Levi S. Leiter,
father of Joseph Leiter, in Chicago,
was robbed Sunday night, and
bonds and securities valued at from
$10,000 to $25,000 stolen. The bur
giars gained entrance iu me umuc u.?
breaking in the door with a sledge
hammer.
ISLAND STRIKE INDORSED.
\men:arr Federation of Labor Espouses
Cause of Porto Ricans.
The executive council of the American
Federation of Labor has given
its endorsement to a strike among
LOOG agricultural laborers in the Arecibo
district. Porto Rico.
The laborers are contending for an
ncreaso of wages which, it is felt
>y the executive council, should be
granted.
The men on strike are engaged
-rmcipally in the sugar industry.
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Russian Officials in Moscow
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Victims of Dynamiter.
ASSASSIN WAS KILLED
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Delegates to First Parliament of Rue.
sians Begin to Assemble Jn St.
Petersburg?Outcome of Uni
versa I Interest.
A bomb was thrown at the carriage
of Vice Admiral Dousbassoff, governor
general of Moscow, as he was being %
driven to the palace Sunday. Ho
was wounded and his aide-de-camp
and a sentry was killed. The man
who threw the bomb was killed. He
wore an officer's uniform. Several
bystanders were wounded. Vice Admiral
Doubassoff's life was savde by ^
the poor aim of his would-be assassin. .3
The bomb exploded on the pavement -|j
several paces to the rear of the car- M
riage, hurling the mutilated corpse ;l|
of the terrorist backward and tear- ' vj
ing off one arm and the face of an ^
aide who was descending from the
carriage. Governor General Doubas- -'-M
soft was thrown from his carriage.
He was burned vand bruised. The ||
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he was taken to a hospital. It la Hi
thought the assassin was a student c?,
who wore an officer's uniform as a
disguise. The throwing of the bomb r||
caused a panic. It is believed that
the terrorists have passed sentence of
death on scores of high Russian offlcials
and the attempt on the life of '"^11
Doubassoff m'arks the beginning of the |9
execution of the death decrees.
First National Parliament Close at '-JiHand?'Delegates
/Arriving. -fci|
The members of the national par- jj
liament and of the council of the em- >||
pire are arriving in St. Petersburg
on every train. Quite a number of ^ 'is
. distinguished foreign visitors and journalists
already have reached the cap- ^
ital to witness a great historic event ||j
?the inauguration of the Russian parliament
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The fears that the government
might attempt to dissolve the parliament
before it had the opportunity of ..-|S
accomplishing anything are vanishing, ''.>15
and despite the bomb outrage at Moscow
and the continued irreconcilable
attitude of the extreme revolutionists,
there is a more hopeful feeling that :J|g
Russia may enter smoothly into parliamentary
life. This is due not only
I to the moderate attitude of the con- .
| stitutional democratic majority,
whose leaders are noicnng me ex- , .*?
tremists. among them In check, but
to the manifest desire of the gowe;a* ^8
ment to avoid a conflict rf:||
The new cabinet has announced a v||
policy of hands off, practically saying
that the parliament shall have carte
blanche, and that so long as it does \|3
not attempt to meddle with the fundamental
laws of the empire the parila?.- /iB
ment will be allowed to offer its .own ' M
solution for the crying agrarian prob- v '%?
lem. With this attitude of ti?e gov- ':?M
ernment,.if it is sincerely carried out,
the constitutional democrats for the ;'^k
present are content Tney believe jf
their final victory when the oilyperor
will be forced to grant a constitution
is not far off?a few months at most . 'iM
?especially if in the meantime they
are permitted to accomplish some*
thing tangible which will strengthen
them with the country.
M. Naboukoff, leader of the con:
stitutional democrats, said frankly
than his party had no desire at present
to have a premier and cabinet
even if it could. Such responsibility 'v|j
i v ould place it upon the defensive, r $
while by remaining in opposition with
the country behind it, the chances of
forcing a complete surrender were
increased instead of being diminish- -J
ed. The little group of socialists cf -'p
the extreme left has not yet shown > .
it? hand; but without the constitutional
democrats who have a clear
working majority it will be powerless |
to force a conflict - gas
SMALLPOX INVADES 2ION.
Bloody Clash May Follow Attempt at
Vaccination of Cult
A physical clash and possible bloodshed
following the outbreak of smallpox
in Zion City, 111., is threatened
if the authorities at Waukegan, a
nearby town, carry into effect their
announced determination to quaran- ' J
tine and vaccinate the inhabitants.
Vaccination means to the Zionitest
a violation of the basic principle of
Iheir religion. To submit to it would,
in their minds, be a repudiation of
divine healing.
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SKY PILOT IN TROUBLE.
Preacher's Endearing Letters to Another's
Wife Leads to Downfall.
"On thy sweet bosom alone can I ?
find rest."
This sentiment expressed in a letter
which Charles F. Moore, a farmer,
fsuad in the possession of his wife
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r.as causeu me uu\.uian wi x?.v?. u.
Taebler, for many years pastor of
the Methodist church at Shell Rock,
Ark.
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