The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 17, 1907, Image 3
SOUTH S DAILY GAIN ~
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In Accumulation of Wealth
Estimated at $7,280,000.
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A PHENOMINAL SHOWING ;
Every Line of Industry in Year 1906
increased Immensely Agriculture
Kept Pace With
Manufactures. '
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'The south is now in the midst of
a prosperity that every day is adding
to its wealth $7,2SQ.OOO, and which
has brought that wealth close to $20,000,000/'
says the Manufacturers' Rec*
ord (Baltimore) in its current issue.
Continuing it says:
"Consideration of increasing wealth
in the south must add to the $2,000,000,000
worth of farm products now
raised each year, $2,225,000,000 worth
of manufactured products and $260,000,000
worth of mineral products.
/'Such annual productivity, now aggregating
about $4,485,000, accounts
for an increase of nearly $50,000,000
in the deposits in national, state, savings
and private banks and loan and
savings companies in that section,
and the general progress has an erppssion
in and is immediately contributed
to by railroad construction.
'In 3006, 3,065 miles were added
to the south's mileage, 26.7 per cent
of the total addition since 190G, and
bringing the total to 64,035 miles.
That is more than double the railroad
mileage of the whole country in
and within less than 30,000
of the total mileage of the country
in 1880.
';Tpyjis alonp has 3.600 miles more
railroad than the whole country had
In 1S50, and during the past year it
led in increase in the south, 810 miles,
the state nearest to it in new construction
having been Louisiana,
with 472 miles. Arkansas ranked third
. in new mileage, the promise of an
enormous advance in the farther
south, but it is almost equally significant
to note *162 new mileage in
Virginia, 192 in No^th Carolina and
236 in West Virginia, showing mine
and timber development in those
states.
"In six years, with an increase in
the population of about 2,400,000, or
, ^omething more than 10 per cent, the
south has increased the value of its
farm products by $728,0)0,000, or 57
per cent, and the value of its manufac
: ; tures $761,00-0,000, or 52 per cent. It
has added 3,493,000 spindles to its cotton
mill output, an increase of 55 per
cent, and its mills used in 1906 about
2,375,000 bales of American cotton,
or 48 per cent more than in 1900.
"In tne SIX years me si/utu s annual
pig iron production has increased
by 873,000 tons, or 34 per
cent; its coal production by 34,202,000
tons, of 60 per cent; the value
of exports at it3 ports $177,000,000, or
38 per cent.
"With all this money-making going
on, it is not surprising that the south
- Sa spending millions of money for improvements
of many kinds. Counties
are building better roads, better
bridges and better school houses. Municipalities
are erecting modern public
buildings, installing water works
and sewerage systems, and using up
to date methods and materials in improving
streets.
"Railroads are double-tracking
their old lines, and extending new
ones, are building baudsome passenger
stations, increasing terminal facilities
and adding to rolling stock. Individuals
are devoting their earnings
to improving their homes in town or
country, or in building new ones; in
enlarging barns, in buying stock, farm
implements and machinery in installing
fencing and in adding to the machinery
for manufacturing.
"These investments are likely to
increase during the coming year and
to keep pace with the increasing earning
capacity of the south."
steamer ponce is safe.
Vessel Picked Up in Disabled Condi,
tion and Drifting at Sea.
The eleven days overdue steamship
Ponce, which left Porto Rico on
December 26th for New York, was
towed into harbor at Hamilton, Bermuda,
Friday, by the German steamer
Rickmers, which picked her up
disabled. , ,
On the afternoon of DecenVer 20,
the tail end of the shaft of the Ponce
broke and she drifted at the mercy
of the wind and current until the
night of January 7, when she was
sighted by the German steamer.
PHILIPPINE ELECTION LAW.
Island Measure Becomes Effective on
January 15.
v A Manila dispatch says: The general
election law was passed Tuesday.
It becomes effective January 15, and
the election for which it provides will
take place January 30. The law provides
for the election, of municipal
and provincial officers and assemblymen.
Six months' residence is required
to become eligible to office.
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WE ARE NO "REBELS."
Senate Substitutes "Civil War" fop
"War of Rebellion" in Pension
Act After Listening to Bacon.
A Washington dispatch, says: After
two hours' debate the senate Friday
passed Senator McCumher's service
pension bill without division, after
amending it at Senator Carmack's
instance so as to make it apply to
survivors of the Mexican war as well
as those of the civil war and so as
lo prohibit pension attorneys from receiving
fees for securing pensions under
the bill.
The words in the bill "war of the
rebellion," were changed to "civu
war," after some discussion as to what
the war of 1861 to 1865 realy was.
Messrs. Money, Bacon and Patterson
contended that it was "war between
the states," while Mr. Teller
said it was either a civil war or a
rebellion and he saw no opprobrium in
the word "rebel."
The bill grants a pension of $12 to
survivors of the civil and Mexican
wars who have reached the age ci
62; $15 to those who are 70 years
of age and $20 to those who are 75
or over.
Senator McCumber estimates that
if the bill becomes a law it will increase
the pension expenditures of the
country to about $6,000,000 annually,
while the commissioner of pensions
thinks that the increase will be between
$10,000 and $15,000 a year.
In. his remarks Senator Bacon rose
and entered an earnest objection to
the use of the term "war of the rebellion,"
and insisted that the proper
designation should be "the civil war,"
c? Anl -.IQPH
&UCI U1GC lllio 11UC .fcuvuiu %w + uv-?
whenever that struggle was referred
to in official papers.
In defense of his contention, Senator
Bacon, having the undivided attention
of the senate, proceeded with
a legal explanation of the reasons
for his stand, and a careful statement
of the legal and constitutional
phases of the question. He declared:
"I say that the term 'rebellion' Is
not a proper designation. A rebellion
is resistance to an acknowledged authority.
It was a much greater war
than a 'war of rebellion.' It was a
great war between the people of the
foremost nation now aftd among the
foremost nations then of the earth
on a great question about which they
had been divided for nearly a hundred
years, in which there was no resistance
to a recognized authority, but
in which there was an insistent and a
great struggle over the question as
to what was the intention of the gov
eminent from its foundation.
/It was a war in support of a claim
of legal right, claimed on the one
side and disputed on the other. It
was a war, not a rebellious faction,
but one between two great peoples
who were made one indivisible by
the result of that war. The senator
from Colorado says that every one
who was a confederate soldier should
acquiesce in it, and be wiling to abide
by the designation of the 'war of rcbelion,'
and of himself as a rebel. I
was a very humble soldier in that war,
a confederate soldier, and I object
to it, because it is not correct, and,
not being correct, it is more or less
offensive." concluded Senator P.acon.
In reply to the senator from Colorado.
Mr. Teller, who called attention
to the use of the word "rebellion,"
in the fourteenth amendment to the
constitution, Senator Bacon said: (
"It proves nothing, except that in
the heat and tempest and flame of
ill feeling, I started to say hate,which
was imediately consequent upon the
war, terms were used both north and
south, which were designed to be offensive
and odious. The term 'rebellion,'
is odious, and what is odious,
must be in a degree offensive."
THE BRUNSWICK WELCOMED.
By Officials ana IsUlZeriS UJ navanaAtkinson
Dubbed ''Admiral."
The steamer Brunswick of the
Brunswick Steamship company's new
line, arrived in Havana harbor Friday
morning with flags and colors
flying and was .given a royal welcome
on her maiden voyage to that
port.
A dinner was given on board the
steamer, which was attended by prominent
officials, leading merchants and
jnewspaper men, the speakers welcoming
President H. M. Atkinson as 'Admiral"
of the new fleet.
In the newspapers of the city President
Atkinson is termed "El Almirante."
The inauguration of this new line
is looked upon in Havana as the
most important move in years in
the matter of promotion of commerce
between Cuba and the United
'States, particularly 'the states of the
eouth.
; The visiting party aboard the
Brunswick were royally entertained.
mandamus against road.
Court Orders Central to Accept Lumber
Cars from the Coast Line.
:An order was passed by Judge Cann
in the superior court at Savannah,
Ga., Thursday night, directing the
Central of Georgia railway not to reiuse
to accept carloads of lumber
from the Atlantic Coast Line. The order
was an injunction that partook of
the nature of a mandamus.
ROW IN THE HOUSE
Between Gaines of Tennessee
and Mahon of Quaker State.
NO GORE WAS SPILLED
Tennesseean, Branded as Liar, Made
a Rush for His Opponent, But the
Members Interfered?Ended
In Hand-Shaking.
A Washington dispatch says: The
house late Thursday took on the appearance
of the closing days of the
fifty-fifth congress, commonly known
as the "war congress," when altercations
between members were frequent
Late in the session Mr. Gaines of
Tennessee, and Mr. Mahon of Pennsylvania,
were only prevented from
meeting in a personal encounter by
the intervention of members.
Mr. Gaines was making a speech
cn liis bill to "dock" members* pay
for absence from the house, and was
being twitted by both sides of the
chamber to his evident embarrassment,
when he charged Mr. Mahon
with being absent from the house 93
per cent of the time.
Previous to this sweeping assertion,
Mr. Gaines had read excerpts
lrom the record in relation to the
nf jiav in the fifty-third
congress, and tlie part
YvHen Mr. Gaines had concluded,
Mr. Mahon rose. He explained hov;
from the fifty-third and fifty-fifth cor.,
gresses he had $7,000 due nini, and
that the then speaker, Crisp, had giv.
en him an order on the sergeant-at
arms for the amount, which was paid
Then coming to the remarks of Mr
Gaines' charge, Mr. Mahon thun
dered:
"Any man who charges me with be
ing away from this house 95 per cent
of the time tells an untruth."
Mr. Gaines started down the aisU
from his seat "No man can tell ino
I lie," exclaimed Mr. Gaines.
Both men were ordered to theii
seats. Mr. Mahon obeyed the com
mand, while Mr. Gaines stood twc
scats away from the center of the
chamber shaking both list and head
at the Pennsylvanian.
When order had been restored Mr
| Mahon again arose. Having been can
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ULHit^U. Uj< Uic vnau umt aw ? ?-.
the rules to address a member in the
second person, he measured hi3 word;
?saying he would speak in the fourti
person. He then said:
"The charge of the gentleman free
Tennessee that I am away from thi;
house 95 per cent of my time is i
deliberate falsehood."
With a rush, Mr. Gaines reached tin
center of the chamber, making direct
ly toward the gentleman from Penn
sylvania, insisting that no man coulc
call him a liar without personal chas
tisement
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The house w:as in an uproar by thi;
time, the chair adding to the noise, i
not to the occasion, by pounding tin
desk with his gavel. His efforts final
ly caused the head of the gavel tc
fly off, and it bounded into the bod:
of the house, almost striking one o.
the members.
The rush of Mr. Gaines upen his ad
' versary brought a dozen or mon
members before the speaker's desk
Messrs. James of Kentucky, Taylo:
of Alabama, Bell of Georgia, Wil
liams of Mississippi and Stafford o
Wisconsin grabbed Gaines, who, re
sisting vigorously, was borne back t<
his seat.
Mr. Mahon, standing in the firs
aisle, on the republican side, seeinet
to wait for the impact, which neve:
came. With Mr. Gaines back in hiseat,
the Pennsylvania!! made hi.4
speech of explanation as to how h<
became connected with the invoking
of an old statute compelling mem
bers to forfeit pay lor the time ah
sent from the house.
Later both "belligerents" mad<
apologetic statements and ciaspet
hands amidst applause.
RINGLEADERS OF RIOT SHOT.
Mexican Government Makes Examph
of Trouble Instigators.
Late advices from the OrizaDa strike
district in Mexico are to the effec
that 5,562 of the 7,085 men which wer<
out have now returned to work. A1
though everything is -iuiet at present
swift punishment was inflicted by th<
government upon the men who wen
the leaders in the late rioting. Th(
ringleaders were shot in the sight o
hundreds of eye-witnesses. The gov
eminent is determined to make exam
pies of these men in order to detei
others, ^
RTPAMER LONG MISSING.
The Ponce Sailed from P-rfco Rico or
December 26 and Disappears.
The steamship Ponce of the New
York and Porto Rico line, which saii
ed from Porto Rico, December 2G, am
was due at New York, January 1, h
still missing and the belief that tilt
vessel's delay was due to some ac
cident to her machinery is givins
away to the fear that she is lost
She was last spoken on December 25
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| ROAD OFFICIALS HELD.
Eight B. & 0. Employes Will Be Called
to Answer for Many Lives Lost
in Washington Wreck Horror.
At Washington. Wednesday night,
the coroner's inquest over the Terra
Cotta wreck of Sunday night, December
30, held for the action of the
grand jury, Iiarry H. Hiidebrand, engineer
of the "dead" train j? rank
T. Hoft'mier, conductor of tnat train;
P. F. Dent, night train dispatcher at
Baltimore; William E. McCauley, division
operator for the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad; B. L. Vermillion, engineer
of local train jlNo. tiu, into
which 2120 crashed; George W. Nagie,
conductor of train Ao. U6; J. W.
Kelley, Jr., train master of tne Baltimore
and Onio, and William M. Dutrow,
the telegraph operator at Silver
Springs.
The verdict of the jury was that
r the deaths were caused by impact, due
to the excitement of Operator Dutrow,
in displaying an improper signal to
th? crew of traid 2120, and directs
that Dutrow be heid ior the action
of the grand jury. The jury also held
for the grand jury the others already
mentioned as responsible in a lesser
1 degree tor the deaths. The jury ar1
raigned the block system on the Baltimore
and Ohio as not affording sat1
isfactory protection to the lives and
properly 01 its patrons, arraagnea uie
system of wages paid the operators
and signdlmen on the road, and rec'
oinmended that all block signal sta.
4 * ft
' lions be kept open 24 hours a day,
[ and no additional duties given the
operators aside from working tne sig'
nals and attending to their telegraphic
duties.
Charles VV. Galloway, superintend1
ent of tlie Balimore and Ohio, was
asked by the coroner if he had heard
all the testimony, and he replied that
he had. He was asked if he could
' point out any rule which had been
violated by any witness in the case.
Mr. Gaiioway replied: "They have
all been violated; all the rules re'
lating to the movements of trains."
He was asked if he was surprised
' at the disclosure apparently showing
) laxity among the operators regarding
the rule? governing their positions.
Ijie said;
"I am surprised at their disregard
} of their trust. I can only say that
in operating a railroad you must depend
upon the fidelity and trustworthy
ness of the employees. If they are
' lacking in that, I know nothing thai
. -cyill pnmnfrsatp for it."
4 ^ When William L. Moore, the operator
at Washington, in his testimony
in connection with the letting of
No. 18 in on the block between Kensington
and Silver Springs, on the
night of the wreck, characterized the
operator at Silver Springs as '"incompeteEt,
wild and reckless.'5
Coroner Nevitt asked him who gave
him confirmation thai the block wan
clear and Mr. Moore replied: 'This
j young fellow from Silver Springs,"
meaning Dutrow.
Mr. Moore said he was not positive
^ that the block was clear,
j "I told the engineer that I could
l not trust the party" (referring to Op[
erator Dutrow). "I told the engineer
j 'You go down there more carefully.'"
\ ROOSEVELT IS ENDORSED
By South Carolina Legislature Anent
, Brownsville Affair.
By a vote of 21 to It; the South
' Carolina senate, Wednesday, adopted
a resolution endorsing the action of
f President Roosevelt, in the Browns_
ville affair and requesting the South
j Carolina delegation to uphold him.
Some of Senator Tiilman's friends |
t opposed the resolution.
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p INSPECTOR AFTER EXCHANGE.
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5 Cortelyou Begins an Investigation of
3 Charges of Fraud.
Representative Livingston has been
' advised that an inspector has been
. sent to'New York by the postofiice
department to investigate the charges
y made against the New York cotton
j exchange on account of fraudulent
and debased contracts sanctioned by
the exchange.
A CONSCIENTIOUS GOVERNOR.
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Believes Graft Money Should 3e Re3
turned to North Carolina,
t Much discussion has been indulged
5 I in hv southern senators in Washing.
* ton over the position taken by Gov*
' ernor Elod of South Dakota in regard
3 to the return by South Dakota of
2 $25,000 secured by his state in a suit
2 against North Carolina to recover
a
1 bonds issued under carpet bag government
by North Carolina, and later
pronounced fraudulent by the state.
r The governor wants the money returned.
BONDS GIVEN BY TRAINMEN.
l Engineer and Conductor Causing the
Wreck Near Washington, Liberated.
l At Washington Engineer Hilde
brand and Conductor Hcffmeier or
i the equipment train, who wore arres3
tod after the coroner's jury inquiring
J 'into the Terra Cotta wreck had held
- ;t l with six others responsible for
; ;th. wreck, have been released, the
. fori', t under SlO.COrt bond and the lat.
ter under $5,000 bend.
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IN A MOLTEiTfiDEj
Of Furnace Metal TwentyFour
Workmen Die.
IRON FOUNDRY HORROR
Majority of Victims Vanished Entire*
lyt Not Even Their Bones Being
Left?Only Eleven Out of
Thirty-Five Accounted For.
A disastrous explosion occurred
nlcrhf 7 nVlnok at
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the Eliza furnaces, of the Jones &
Lughlin steel works, in Pittsburg? Pa.,
when a large quantity of gas which
had accumulated at the base of the
furnaces became ignited. Tons of molt- i
en metal was showered around the
furnace for a radius of forty feet
Out of a force of thirty-five men
employed at the furnace when the
explosion occurroJ, three of them, !
Jonn Cramer, Andrew Featherka and
Gustave Kessler have been taken to
the morgue, their bodies horribly mutilated
by the fire. Seven men are
in hospitals fatally injured and twenty-four
others have not been accounted
for. While the mill officials are
inclined to believe that all of the
missing men were not cremated in j
the molten metal, nothing definite is
known as to their present where- !
abouts. I
Only one man, George Cox, has
turned up since the explosion, and
lie says evtrr^ ming uai^cucu ou ijiuva
that he doubts whether the men escaped.
Chief Peter Snyder of the fourth
lire district, was seriously injured,
while directing the firemen to extin- j
guish the fire, which followed the explosion.
The officials at the mill refused to
allow any one to enter the yard
where the furnace is located. All information
was refused to newspaper
men, the officials saying that later |
they might issue a statement. A
heavy guard of foreign workmen were
placed at the yard entrance, and even
the police were powerless to get past
the foreigners,
j Charles Bennett, a yard brakeman,
who was passing near the furnace
on a freight train when the explosion
occurred, gave a graphic de- j
scription of the disaster.
"Our train was right near the furnace,"
said Bennett, "when the metal
poured out of the furnace over the
ground. I saw the men running for a j
place of safety. To the right of the
furnace I saw a party of ten. men,
all of them running wildly, and their
clothes a mass of flames. Apparently
some of them had been injured when
ihe explosion occurred, as they could
hardly run, and several of them tripped
and fell. The hot metal ran over j
them in a moment. Just at this lime
a second explosion occurred. I again
looked to the right of the furnace
for the men, but I could not see any
of them, and I believe all were burned
to death. My train was in the path
of the metal, and I was compelled to
uncouple the train and signal the engineer
to pull ahead."
PRAYER MEETING AT LYNCHING
Mob of Prominent Citiens Hangs a
Lunatic for Double Murder.
A crowd of more than one thousand
men" Wednesday night battered
through the walls of the county jail
at Charles City, Iowa, and took James
Cullen cut and lynched him for wife
murder. Cullen murdered his wife and
stepson Tuesday morning. The mob
took Cullen two blocks from the mala
part of the city and hung him to the
county bridge ever Cedar river. The
mob conducted prayer meeting and
asked Cullen to pray. Cullen had been
demented for over twenty-five years.
The mob was composed of many
of the leading citiens of the town,
and even the leaders made no attempt
to disguise themselves. Four or Ave
ministers and a large number of women
were in the crowd.
SCHOOL TOTS IN RACE RIOT.
Black and White Pupils of Chicago
Schools Engage in Fight.
Race feeling, which has stirred the
pupils of the Copernicus school in
Chicago for more than a week culminated
in a riot Thursday between
the negro and white children and at
a dozen of the pupils were in
jured. Between two and three hundred
children took part in the fight that
waged about the doors ci the school,
stones, clubs and hat pins being used
before the police arrived.
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MILLION LOSS BY FIRE.
Tobacco Warehouse and Other Property
Burned in Lancaster, Pa.
A fire, which started in the tobacco
warehouse of S. R. Moss & Co.,
at Lancaster, Pa., Friday, spread to
adjoining property and caused a loss
estimated at $1,000,GOOi The delay in
turning in the alarm gave the fire
a good start, and when the firemen
arrived it was beyond their control.
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BIDS FOR CANAL OPENEH
William Oliver of KnoxvIHe and An- |
thony Bangs of New York CHy
Offers Lowest Proposals.
When the bids for the constrofr|i?
lion of the Panama canal were opea8^|?
by the commission at Washington J
Saturday it was found that the lowest :^
was that of William J. OUverr
Knoxville, Tenn., and Anthony
Bangs, of No. 4 Nassau street,'
York, at 6.75 per cent of the totifl01
estimated cost.
George Pierce and Company
Frankfort, Germany, and New York If
City, constructors of the East
tunnel in New York, were second ?t. JI
7.Id per dent: the MacArlhur-Giflte^Hl
pie Company, composed of le&disgvfp|
New York financiers and contractonj||||
was third at 12 1-2 per cent, and
fourth and last bidder was the Nortk, ^
American Dredging Company of
Francisco, the largest contracting ftjSH
on the Pacific, at 28 per cent M
Under the form and contract <pw|;|
which bids were received the cannl^Ji
contractor undertakes to dp
dredging, clearing and excavating
the ends of the canal to deep
ter; to construct the Gatun dam anjMfi
the dam or dams to be bnUt on
Pacific end and all locks and ngn|ijHiji
ing works wherever located. jjl
The commission will furnish all I4^||?|
com chives, cars, steam shovel* a?@B
other machinery of heavy characiwrayM
but the contractor must furnIsb^jB| ^Jj
The proposals were as low as
been expected by experts on r j
struction work. For some Hmejjn *||
ha3 been known that several
bers of the commission^ believed 7 naHpS
cent upon the estimated cost of tHwl
construction would be a fair rempi^vJI
eration under the form of contracf?H- JB
pared by the commission. The Son^fll
est proposal, that of Oliver and I&QgjnBfl
falls even lower than had been-jSpT^
Granting that the estimate of
000,000 for the construction
canal which has been frequently spp^ raj
en of in congress is accurate^
remuneration of the Oliver-Bangs.tiapjl
bination would be $9,450,000 in
it was fo be awarded the conttftw^^Js
Much discussion has been cahae^S^^^
tne great amereuce in uie wi/ .fwjUBfsw
bids received as they rangeg
6.75 to 28 per cent
William J. Oliver and Ansoj|?|9
Bangs have both been in the c6ntrjjA||9
ing business for many years and a&Rw||g|
ments they furnished with theti^^^^m
jiiuch important work. Mr.
posals show that they have -dcw^j
slates that he has completed! ipHB
100,000 worth of work in the^a^aJpigM
years, and now has $31,500.000
of work in progress. He gives 1 19
assets at $3,033,000. Mr, Bangs gjSpffiM
his assets at $2,000,000, and etattj fl
that he was the contractor for tire;*^^8
lock at Sault Ste Marie, Mich., vluH|l|9
ware breakwater and Buffalo hreakiig^|
tor, * the contract price for eac|yB^H
these being $2,500,000. . ; >JH
The actual work of i o mil in ffi^
canal i3 to begin sixty days
signing the contract, and the
tor will take aver all emplo^cej^flKn
the isthmus which the commi8d|jfc^e
docs not wish to retain. It te iESpffl
provided that no American empkflfelsK^
to work more than eight hours. Thdfjfi&ta
is no time limit for the complcti(nKaj^|
the canal in the contract
The percentage system of frayig<?j(Kl>8
wa3 adopted because this xpetho^f^f^Si
being employed increasingly by tiMRa
most successful corporations
Negro Soldier Turned
James Duncan, colored, one of ;
members of Company D, Twenty
Infantry, discharged without honorlw|||
[ El Reno, applied at the recruiting.
flee in El Paso, Texas, Sunday
re-enllstment, but was rejected uimImHH
the orders of the president
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Death and Disaster in Tidal
A tidal ware has devastated soa3H|
of the Dutch East Indiau islan.ls eOutjf&B
of Aichin. The loss is very
cording to a brief official dispatX5^H|
three hundred persons perished-. dmH
the island of Tauana. ?
REPORT ON COTTON GINNE&>|M|
Bureau Places Output of Bales
January 1, at 11,750,944. A
The census bureau Wednesday
sued a report on the cottcfc/ ginniiij^^^j
showing that up to January 1 thim|9
were 28,399 active ginneries la
eration, and that 11,750,944 bales
ginned, compared with 9,725,428 baHjBl
*? im\(i T?rv.?r?/i haloa were countrall"
1X1 XJUU. 1IVUMU as
half bales. ''M
The number of sea island bales pk .-1
eluded is 54,158. The sea island
ton for 1906 distributed by states -&fe|9
Florida 23,144, Georgia 23,596, Soutpj||
| Carolina 7,428. /J
AVALANCHE OF PENSION BILLS, ^
Total of 628 Passed by House in Spac*3;J|
of One Hour and 35 Minutes.
The house in an hour and thirty4^|?|a
minutes Saturday passed 628 priyafc0t"i;^J
? an airnrftva nf SAVSttiiiM
pei'.SlUll L'lHO, v/i u? t. w- ? - bills
per minute, exceeding the ?
est record ever made before. - ~;i||
The house also passed a bill to.
crease the limit of cost of five lighthouse
tenders, making the total
$200,000 instead of $135,000. ygl