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IS PARTISAN BILL[
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Says Towne in Discussing
Rate Measuie in House.
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ROOSEVELT is SPiTTED I
Asserts That President, Shorn of
Power, Was Bound Captive to
Chariot of Aldrich, "Duke of
* Rhode Island."
A Washington special says: Well
filled galleries and a large membership
on the floor listened with great
attention Thursday in the house of
representatives to leaders of opposite j
schools of politics, Representative |
Charles A. Towne of New York and |
Representative John Dalzell of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Towne was in splendid voice
and the democrats applauded him to
the echo. His strictures on the president
were received with continued
hand clapping on the democratic sldo
and when he read the president out
of the democratic party the minority
again applauded.
Mr. Dalzell, who followed Mr.
Towne, spoke of "letting well enough
alone." His speech was enthusiasts
cally applauded by the republicans.
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x>? OU_lJ.ilUL U iCoidiau > c ui,i.vi
was accomplished by the house, the
day being given over to oratory.
Mj. Towne read an extract from the
h - speech of the president, accepting the
nomination on July 27, 1904, wherein
'Mr. Roosevelt said: "That whenever
the need arises there should be a readjustment
of the tariff schedules is
_ undoubted, but such change can with
safety be made only by those whose
. devotion to the principles of high
protective tariff is beyond question."
Having concluded the reading, Mr.
Towne said:
"I refrain at present from producing
the deadly parallel columns from
the same high source. They can be
r produced, I believe, on any subject
he ever gave expression to, including
the rate bill.'" (Great applause.)
When he came into office he had the
sanction of the populace that no elective
magistrate in the history of the *
world has had. It gave him a chance
to recognize that the vcte of the people
was in the nature of a plebescite,
as a vote of public confidence,
r "In that attitude he couid and did
choose his allies to carry cut ideas
t of legislation that he entertained. In
the senate these combinations were
made with seme republicans and many
C :> democrats, and we are informed cn
the record that there was at one time
K: <>.- an arrangement arrived at by which
forty-seven or fifty votes, enough to
pass the law, were assured to the
president upon the basis of an arnend
ment to the rate provisiqn of the socalled
Hepburn law, providing for a
restricted court review and for a suspension
of interlocutory injunction, i
"Within twenty-four hours after the
agreement was reached, without notice
io his allies, even to his ally
in his own cabinet, the attorney general,
the settlement of that arrangement,
which is now known to be eminently
satisfactory to the senator from
Rhode Island had triumphed. The
democrats were thrown out.
* "This vauntedly non-partisan rata
legislation became a partisan republican
bill as far as they could make
it one, and the president of the United
States, shorn of his barbaric, ork
ental powers, like another Caratacus,
manacled and humbled, followed the
chariot of the duke of Rhode Island.
"What is one of the results? Henceforth
our fight is against th9 repubs
lican party and its iniquity and Roosevelt
is out of the way. He has repudiated
his democratic allies and he is
now bound hand and foot to the coteries
at the other end of the capitol
that dominates the republican policies
in that body, and he can never again
act independent of his party, having
abdicated formally and sunmitted himself
to the party yoke."
LENGTHY MERCY PETITION
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Containing 115,000 Names, Presented
in Behalf of Alleged Murderer.
A petition more than a mile long
and bearing more than 115,000 names,
was sent to Governor Guild of Massachusetts
Tuesday, asking him to
commute life imprisonment the sentence
of death imposed upon Charles
I* Tucker for the murder of Mabel
Fage, at Weston, in March, 1904. The
signers include SO,$60 men and 35,695
women. An express wagon was
necessary to transport the petition to
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ROBBERS LOOT POSTOFFICE.
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Secured $200 Cash and a Number of
Registered Packages.
The postoffice safe was blown open ,
by bandits at Helena, Ga., Friday
night and about $2C0 in cash, togeth>
er with five registered packages and
many valuable papers and documents.
Nitroglycerine was used and the
door of the safe was blown about
ten feet
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[MORE TROUBLE IN HOUSE.
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I Messrs. Hepburn and Cooper Clash
Over Question of Veracity?Lie
Microbe Seems Prevalent. *
A Washington special says: Seine
> where down deep in the vitals cf the
rate biil the lie microbe seems to be
imbedded. Every tinif* the bill is given
a good, sharp shake that microbe
is brought to the front to disturb legislative
tranquility. Last week the prevarication
bug was busy at the senate
end of the capitol, and at every
turn the country heard about deliber
. tie, willful and malicious liars. Just
show that it knows no favorites,
the lie microbe got busy in the house
at Friday's session, and succeeded in
iurnisliing another sensational scene.
This time the dramatis personae
were chairman Pete Hepburn of the
interestate commerce committee,
whose name the impregnated bill i
bears, and the stately and scholarly j
Representative Cooper of Wisconsin.
Did or did not Chairman Hepburn
give somebody assurance that the con
ferees upon the rate bill would see
to it that express companies would
be taken out of the rate bill? Rep- *
reseseniative Cooper told the hous9
that he had been told Colonel Hepburn
did give such assurance.
He did not tell who had told him
this, but vouched for the standing of
the men who had told him.
Colonel Hepburn did not resort to
the good eld English word "liar" in
branding this false, but he said as
much in other language, and said,
moreover that unless Mr. Cooper did
give his authority he would be com
pelled to believe tne wncie iniug was
a figment of the Wisconsin man's
imagination.
Then the situation became red-hot.
Shaking his lists at Cooper, he declared
this to be the first time in his
life, in congress or out cf it, that any
man had impugned his veracity. The
two men, who have seats not far apart*
on the republican side, were at white
heat, and a personal clash was feared.
Oil was finally poured upon the
troubled waters, but there were no
retractions.
BY FAIR MEANS OR FOUL.
Spies of Standard Oil Instructed to
Knock Out Competitors.
A total of nineteen witnesses were
called by, Interstate Commerce Commissioners
Prouty and Clements in
the Standard Oil inquiry, which begun
in Cleveland, Ohio, Friday.
The testimony of George Lane of
Mansfield, Ohio, a former employee of
the Standard Oil company, was regarded
as p; i ticularly ympoijtant.
According to his evidence, Lane was
for about fourteen months in 1901
and 1002 employed by the Standard
Oil company fcr the particular purpose
of driving all of the independent
oil dealers in a dozen or more
of the principal cities and towns of
?'-1- ~ r\f KiiclriQca
V 1HJ UUl ui u uoiuvww.
He said he was employed by C. M.
Lyons cf the Cleveland office of the
Standard Oil company, to go to certain
designated places and use every
means, fair or foul, to force the independents
to quit
PURCHASED BY SOUTHERN.
Ship Yard Property at Richmond Secured
for Extension Plans.
It is authoritatively stated that the
Southern railway company has purchased
the old Trigg ship yard property
at Richmond, for extension of its
local track and warehouse facilities.
The property acquired covers 16 acres
of land lying between the city docks
and the James river. The price paid
is said to have beert $107,000.
CANNOT TRANSPORT BOOZE.
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Mississippi Law IS upnc.u uj V?
in Kansas City.
Judge Smith McPherson, in the
United States district court at Kansas
City, Friday, refused to grant an
injunction sought by the Harvest
King Distilling company of Kansas
City, which asked that the American
Express company be restrained from
refuetr.g to transport packages destined
to Mississippi.
A GOLD MINE FOR SHIPPERS.
Kansas City Firms Received Largs
Sums in Rebates.
Members of half a dozen large business
firms of Kansas City admitted
Thursday at the trial in the federal
court of George H. Crosby, the Burlington
traffic manager; George L.
Thomas, the New York freight broker
and the latter's clerk, L. B. Taggart,
that they had received thmisinrio
dollars in commissions from "unknown
sources."
All of the firms had hired Thomas
to attend to the shipping cf their
goods.
NEGRO LOSES HIS MIND
After Being Strung Up by Mob and
Later Rescued by Police.
Munroe Talvers, the negro whc
after being found under the bed of a
white woman, was strung up by a
mob, at Rosedale, Kans., a few days
ago, but was cut down by the police
before he strangled, has become violently
insane as a result of his experience.
A DEF! FROM CZAR
Read in Russian Congress
Stirs Wrath of People.
ALL DEMANDS REFUSED
Answer to Reply of Douma to Throne
Speech Widens Breach and Cleans
Civil War or Backdown by
the Government.
A St. Petersburg special says: Before
a house more crowded than on
the opening day, with every member
in his seat and the press and public
galleries crowded to suffocation, Premier
Goremykia Saturday afternoon
read to the lower house of parliament
the expected declaration of the
government's policy, pronouncing the
imperial negative on the most cherished
hopes and plans of the people's
representatives. The scene before the
opening was one of great but suppressed
excitement. All present were
aware that the response would utterly
fail to meet the wishes of the
lower house.
Gauntlet Thrown Down.
At the end of a memorable sevenhour
session the lower house of parliament
Saturday evening indignantly
rejected the government's policy as
presented by Premier Goremykln and
with only seven dissenting voices voted
a lack of confidence in the ministry,
practically throwing down the
gauntlet to the bureaucracy with a
demand for the retirement of the
present cabinet and its suppression
by a ministry approved by the majority
in the house.
The spirit of absolute revolution is
in the air and a conflict between the
crown and nation now appears to be
inevitable. While the house avoided
the appearance cf delivering an ultimatum,
the government seems to have
no alternative except surrender or
war. The gloomiest forebodings are
everywhere expressed, and. the general
impression is that the country Is
on the verge of a gigantic struggle
which may be delayed but not averted.
Dispatches received from the interior
indicate that the struggle possibly
may be inaugurated at once
with a general strike, when the people
learn that all amnesty has been
refused them.
While the premier's statement
premised co-operation with the lowea
house "In so far a3 the latter does
not transgress the limits of the fundamental
laws," it recognized the
agrarian question as paramount, prc*
posing to remedy the deficiency In
land through the operation of an agrarian
bank and migration of Siberia.
It proposed the introduction of universal
and compulsory education, the
reform of the administration and the
realization of the four liberties.
Premier Goremykin's statement,
however, returned a noii-possumus on
the burning question raised by the
house in its reply to the speech from
the throne, It declared that the government's
fiat and exceptional laws
cannot be withdrawn until murder
and terrorism cease. The expropriation
of appanages of the crown and
church and private lands was declared
to be inadmissible. The right of
investigation of administrative acts,
he statement declared, belonged to
the crown, the house having only
the power of interpellation. Amnesty,
Premier Goremykin said, was solely
the prerogative of the emperor.
Such briefly was the government's
reply to the address of the house, and
the premier's words seemed to arouse
all the latent resentment in the hearts
of the members of the house. The
constitutional democratic leaders, for
the first time, gave free range to their
passions and with flaming words orator
after orator declared the government's
program inadmissible and sakl
tbat. the ministry must give way to a
cabinet, in which the people had conBrtenca.
M. Koditcheff announced
that the government's reply had.dashed
to the ground all his hope cf working
in harmony with the administration.
M. Kovalesky enacted the role
of Mirabeau, practically parphraslng
tho Frenchman's words: "We are
here by the will of the people and
nothing but bayonets can disperse
us," while half a dozen peasant members
hurled defiance at the minis- J
t?y. 1
Even Count Hayden, the leader of
the right, deserted the government's
side, saying that inasmuch as the 1
government had refused to redeem '
its promise to repeal the exceptional
law his vote also was for censure, i
With breathless anxiety, society '
awaits the government's response to <
the bold action of the lower house. 1
OUR TRADE WITH AFRICA.
Total for 1905 Figured Out as About
$30,000,000.
Trade cf the United States with
Africa in the fiscal year 1905, ac- ,
cording to a bulletin of the depart- ,
ment cf commerce and labor, Just is- <
sued, aggregated about ?30,00ujoui>, '
cf which $11,333,000 were Impcrta- ]
tions and the remainder exportatiens. j
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GUANO MEN GAFFED
Scores of Corporations and
Individuals Indicted.
CHARGE IS CONSPIRACY
In Restraint of Trade, Made by Government?Case
Considered Four
Weeks by Federal Grand Jury
at Nashville. Term.
The federal grand jury at Nashville,
Tenn., which has been investigating
the alleged fertilizer trust for
the past four weeks, concluded its
investigation Thursday afternoon and
returned in open court Friday morning
an indictment against about 80
fertilizer manufacturers, including a
number of local men. The indictment
contains six counte detailing in specific
form alleged violations of the
anti-trust laws and charging the defendants
with combining and being
engaged in a trust or combination.
The defendants live in various part3
of the country, where fertilizers are
manufactured and certified copies of
the indictment will be sent to the various
districts in which the defendants
reside, and there served. The defendants
will be required to execute
bonds for appearance at the October
term of court in Nashville, v.fhere the
cases are to be tried. The grand jury
examined during the investigation 140
witnesses and the indictment returned
is a voluminous document
The attorneys for the defendants
were present in court Friday when
the indictments were returned, and
immediately after tiiey held a consultation*.
as to what should be the
course to pursue in .regard to their
clients.
Four weeks were taken up on the
investigation, and the cost of the investigation
was about $7,000.
The six counts in the indictment
are in a double series cf three each.
The first charge the defendants with
engaging in a conspiracy; the second
count charges the defendant with
conspiracy; and the third with conspiring
under section 5440 revised
statute* to commit the offense of engaging
in a combination as defined
by the Sherman law.
The punishment under section 5440
Is two years in prison and $10,000
nne. The third count is new In form
and procedure. It charges the committing
of an offense against the Unit- |
ed States of engaging in a combination
in restraint of trade as defined
and prohibited by the Sherman act
The style of the case on the docket
indictment is United States vs. Virginia-CaTolina
Chemical Company, et
al., and the indictment is described
?s "indictment for violating act of
congress, approved July 2, 1S90, and
entitled 'an act-to protect the trade
and commerce against unlawful restraints
and monopolies,' and section
5.440 revised statutes United States."
NO GRAFT; NO BUSINESS.
?oal Company Ruined by Roads
Through Withholding Cars.
Several interesting developments
marked the closing session at Philadelphia
of the interstate commerce
commission's investigation into the
alleged discrimination by railroads in
the distribution of cars in the bituminous
coal fields.
Sensational testimony was given by
the general manager erf the Reakert
Brothers' company, coal operators. He
stated that within the last two and
a half years his company's car sup-.
ply had been so inadequate that the
business had been practically ruined.
He declared that other companies had
been favored in the distribution of
cars, and said he had no doubt that
discrimination had been practiced,
against his company, because it had
failed to make gifts of stock to the
railroad officials. He gave it as his
opinion that President A. J. Cassatt
was responsible for the alleged discrimination.
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TWENTY YEARS FOR YEGGMEN.
Clark and Newman Convicted In For.
syth Court of Burglary.
Charles H. Clark and Thomas Newman
were sentenced to twenty years
each in the penitentiary by Judge
Reagan at Forsyth, Ga., Friday morn
In.? for burglarizing the Trio Manufacturing
company's office last September.
Newman and Clark are also charged
with assaulting and robbing the
light marshal, J. M. McMichael, who
in the night of the Trio robbery they
bennd and gagged, he being found in
a dying condition next morning.
HOME MATERIALS PREFERRED.
Senate Acts on Resolution Anent Purchase
of Canal Supplies.
A Washington dispatch says: The
senate committee on finance Wednesday
favorably reported a resolution
directing that the materials for the
Panama canal shall be of domestic
manufacture and production, unless
the president deems the price for
same to be exorbitant.
CHURCHES ARE MERGED.
Cumberland Presbyterian is Swallowed
Up in Union Witn iMoruiern
Presbyterian Church.
"I do solemnly ueclare and here
publicly announce that die basis of
reunion and union is now in full
force and effect, and that tile Cumberland
Presbyterian church is now
reunited with tne Presbyterian church
in the United States of America as
one enurcn."
With these words uttered before
the general assembly at JJesilOines,
Iowa, Thursday, Moderator i-iunter
Corbet! officially established the union
of the Cumberland church with
the Presbyterian cnurch in the United
States cf America.
The big ecclesiastical assemblage
burst forth into a storm of rejoicing.
The most dramatic scene of the
ceremonies attending the formal union
of the churches was the vote
against union by two commissioners.
Moderator Hunter Ccrbett put the
question, which was in the form of
a resolution, and called for the affirmative
vote, to be expressed by. the
commissioners rising to their feet. Instantly
the assembly hall was 'ponverted
into a stamping, cheering
crowd. As the handclapping and
cheering died away and the commissioners
took their seats, the moderator
said:
"All who are of the opinion that
the motion shall not prevail will
please rise."
To the astonishment of all present,
two commissioners rose to their feet.
Pandemonium brolce lcose, and it was
feared for an instant that indignity
would be offered the lonely men who
opposed the union, une of the men
was Dr. William Lawrie of Bellefonte,
Pa., and the ether was Rev. Roger F.
Crossey of Jacksonville, IU.
x wo representatives from the Cumberland
assembly were introduced to
the assembly, which came to its feet
and applauded, cheered and waved
hats and handkerchiefs for five minutes.
The Cumberland visitors were
Professor W. H. Black of Marshall,
Mo., and Dr. B. P. Fullerton of St.
Bonis.
Both men made 'speeches, expressing
their gratification at the union. #
The assembly telegraphed the Cumberland
assembly at Decatur of the
action cn the question of union immediately
after the juncture was declared
operative, and received a telegram
in reply containing congratulations.
announcing the official receipt
of the information and adjournment
cf the Cumberland assembly.
MORE EVIDENCE OF GRAFT.
Commission is Making It Warm for
Railroad Officials.
Additional evidence of discriminaI
tion of cars in the soft coal field was
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vuiuuiission in session at Philadelphia,
Thursday.
John Lloyd, a banker and coal operator
at Altoona, who Is one of the
members of the banking firm of Cassatt
& Co., testified that the Columbia
Coal Company was forced to sell
the Alexandria mine because of the
shortage of cars, and George E. S.
Scott of the Puritan and Crescent
Coal Companies, declared that he paid
for the use of railroad cars when he
tailed to secure his allotment, and
that during a period of twenty-three
days the railroad had furnished him
with only one car. He also asserted
that Michael Trump, general superintendent
of transportation, had told
him the company had intended to protect
the Berwind-White company at
all hazards.
USED CHILDREN FOR HORSES.
Farmer Hitches His Offspring to Plow
and Cultivates Field.
Complaints have been made against
a farmer living near Xenah, Wisconsin,
that he has been hitching four
of his sever, children to a plow and
compelling them to drag the implement
through a ten-acre truck garden,
v/hile he guided the plow and
iro\e as he would drive a horse. MADE
MERRY AT FUNERAL.
Grand Army Men Carry Out Wishes
of a Departed Comrade.
"Eat, drink and be merry at my
expense," was the request of Charlea
Holler, who died in Jersey City, Saturday,
to his comrades of George H.
Thomaa post, Grand Army of the liek
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pUDiic. in compliance wiui uj? uesire,
on their return from Heller's
burial Tuesday the forty-five survivors
of the post marched to the hall where
the feast paid for by their comrade
awaited, and ate, drank, sang and eulogized
their dead comrade.
HENRIK IBSEN PASSES AWAY.
Was Norway's Greatest Poet and Dramatist?Died
in Christiana.
Henrik Ibsen, -Norway's greatest
poet and dramatist, is dead in Christiana.
Although his literary activity
ceased some years ago, whan an apoplectic
seizure forced him to refrain
from mental effort, he had continued
to be a familiar figure in the life of
Christiana.
GRAFT IS ADMI1TE0
How Coal Companies Bought
Good Will of Ro^cs,
PATTON GIVEN BIG SUM
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Stock to Amount of $3C7.CC0 is Secured
by Railroad Official Without
Paying Out a Cent?Revela- f
tions Most Startling.
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Further- revelations concerning the
stock holdings in soft coai mining
companies by officials of the Peansyi
vania railroad were made Wednesday
when the interstate commerce commission,
sitting at Philadelphia, resumed
its investigation into the alleged
discrimination by railroads ia
the distribution of cars.
Three high officials of the railroad.
Vice President John P. Green, Third
Vice President, Samuel Rea and William
A. Patton, assistant to the president
at Philadelphia, were the important
witnesses ci tnc uuj.
Patten* was under examination the
greater part of the morning and was
an unwilling witness.
The persistent questioning of Attorney
Glasgow for the commission, however,
brought out the fact that Mr,
Patton had acquired stock, the par . #
value of which is $&)7,000, in various
coal companies without cost to himself.
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He explained, however, that he had
signed notes obligating himself fcr
his share of the losses, and declared
his belief that it was proper tor
him to accept the stock under those ;
conditions.
Vice President Rea read a statement
to the commission in which he .\--j
explained all of his stock transaotions,
stating that he did not believe
he was debarred from such ownership
because of his connection with,
the railroad company. Mr. Rea said
that most of his stock was acquired 1
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tnrougn ms as sue 12. uo a witu i&uu
purchasing syndicates for davelopment.
Vice President Green said tljat
twenty or thirty years ago, It was /jjj
not considered improper for an official
of the railroad to own coal company
stock, but that conditions had /
changed, and such holding might not
now be regarded in the same light as
formerly. He informed the commis* .
sion that the board of directors of ; 'S
the Pennsylvania railroad, acting tip*
on the information that had been
brought out at the bearings, appointed
a committee of five directors ta
make an investigation into the con- V ^
nection of its officials with coal companies.
Mr. Green said that he did
rot own a dollar's worth of coal com- . Kjjjj
pany stock.
Other witnesses testified to stock
ownership and to discrimination in
the distribution of cars. ?
WALLACE DARES TAFT.
Former Chief Engineer of Isthmian -,':M
Canal Answers Criticism.
Former Chief Engineer John W.
Wallace * of the isthmian canal, ad- * ' |
dressed a letter Wednesday to Semvtor^Millard,
chairman of the commit? >
intcr/wwor)i/> r>xr>fl 1 s in renhr
to Secretary Taft's recent testimony
before the committee, in which he '
! charges Secretary Taft with having
abused .his official position in order
to make a second assault upon him,
and to place in a public record statements
"calculated and apparently Intended
to affect my reputation for veracity,
such as he would not make to .' ^
me as one man to another, face to
face."
NOT KNOWN TO BE LOADED. |
Boy of Six Kills Four-Year-Old Sitter
With Revolver.
Catherine Clutter, aged four years,
was shot and killed at her home In
Homestead, Pa., Wednesday, by her
brother Wiley, aged G.
The children foilnd an eld revolv- rfyj
er, which was not known to be loaded.
The parents are nearly crazed
with errief.
JURY EXONERATES PERKINS.
Morgan's Man Not Guilty of Larceny
Anent Campaign Gift
The appellate division of the New
York supreme court Friday handed
down a decision discharging from enstody
George "Wl Perkins, whom the
court had held to await action of the
grand jury on a technical charge of
grand larceny in connection with the
$75,000 campaign contribution of the
New York Life Insurance company
to the republican national commit
tee.
AUTO FRIGHTENS WOMAN.
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Aged Spinster Receives Shock That
May Result Fatally.
Miss Edge worth, an aged Gadsden,
Ala., lady, is lying critically ill at
an infirmary in Birmingham, as the
result of her first sight of an automobile.
Miss Edgewcrth reeide3 in the
country, near Gadsden, and, upon a
trip to town, was passed by a heavy
car for the first time. An acute stroke
of nervous prostration followed the
fainting spell she experienced.
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