The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 28, 1907, Image 3
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NOT YET SETTLED'
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Jap Question Continues to
Engross Attention.
PASSPORT FEATURE IS NIL
How Southern Senators View Immigration
Amendment Which is
Alreday Claimed to E$e
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Ineffective.
A Washington special says: The
Japanese passport amendment, which
places within the power of the president
the exclusion of Japanese coolies
from the continental territory of
the United States, recently rushed
through congress in the in migration
hill over the protest of southern senators.
has not accomplished wnat was
claimed for it.
It has already been developed that
the Japanese are not satisfied and
l'eel that the injury done to national
rride by the exclusion of Japanese
from the California schools has Deen
followed by an insult in the shape of
exclusion of Japanese working men
from American shores.
The right of entry into the public
schools is held by the Japanese to be
a right accorded tb^m under the ex*
isting treaty. The people of California
insist that no such interpretation of
the treaty is possible, and, furthermore.
that the interests 01 the An.er'
' ican working man on the Pacific coast
require the exclusion of Japanese coolies.
If under the amendment authorizing
s him to exclude Japanese laborers coming
to this country zo the "detriment
of labor conditions herein," the president
is unsuccessful in securing a
Japanese exclusion treaty, it is rumored
that he may urge upon congress
the passage of a straight out
f Japanese exclusion acc.
As usual, momentary public interest
" " c. was centered in the outcome of the
conference between President iUose'
velt, Mayor Schfnit.z and the members
of the San Francisco school 1 oaiu,
ireld to reach a solution of the vexed
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question in which considerations of
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child protection and morality ana the
rights of American labor and the sacred
rights of a sovereign state, as
well as the wider problems of na
-tic-mil trade and international comity,
were intricately woven.
The talk of war was injected inco
* the discussion, and for a time the eu.
tire American press as well as the
.papers in Tokio, Berlin, Paris and London
were discussing such an eventu
ality. Of course nothing has come of
it, but it served to accentuate the importance
of the issues involved aal
? ' to show what might happen. The cairying
out of that plan of settlement
ifinally agreed upon was lodged in tne
.hands of President Roosevelt.
Southern senators charged that the
Japanese passport amendment was ia*
jserted fo secure the support of senators
as well as of a public sentiment
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lor a Dili mm iuuiu j-v*. V?u..?...v
pass on its merits because of the incorporation
in it of many unjust '.revisions.
Senators Raton and liliuian
iy argued that it would restrict imu-.igiation
to the south by forbidding the
continuation of the South Caroilaa
plan of bringing in immigrants. Tins
obejction was 'discussed at a cabinet
meeting at white house and the opinion
was given out that the bill was
not subject to such a conbtruccum.
Later the immigration commissioner
of the department of commerce and
labor said there was no intention on
v' V . the part of the department to estop
Commissioner Watson in his work of
f:,: bringing, over immigrants on* the
Wittekind.
These interpretations are contrary
. to the views held by Senator Lodg**,
Representative Gardner and members
of the conferees on the immigration
, * bill. They would stop such importa
tions and believe that even when this
wcrk is carried on by an officer of
the state, it is contrary to, law. They
seek to, show that it is in violation
of tne contract labor law.
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NJCARAGUANS VICTORIOUS.
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Win Decisive Battle and Capture Honduras
Town.
The Nicaraguan forces, on February
20, captured, without opposition,
. the town of Eltruinfo, in Honduras,
and Ihursday after six hours' hard
figiuing, the Nicaraguan army occupied
San Bernardo, an excellent po
sition, in connection wnn tne i\icaraguan
base of operations. Many Hondurans
were killed or wounded and
the retreating army left quantities
of ammunition and many rifles on
the field. The casualties on the Nicaruguan
side were a few men wounded.
CHICAGO STANDS BY DUNNE.
Present Mayor Seems to Have Won
Another Term of Office.
Unofficial returns from the democratic
primaries which were held in
Chicago Thursday indicate a victory
for Mayor Dunne in the mayoralty
contest. Dunne is credited with 655
delegates, former Mayor Carter H. Harrison
with 239 and Roger S. Sullivan
with 62. Four hundred and ninety-four
delegates are necessary for a choice.
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MOST PECULIAR WRECK
Famous Fast Flyer is Ditched and
Sixty-Seven People Injured, But
Not One Fatally.
In one of the most remarkable and
miraculous wrecks that has ever occurred
on the Pennsylvania railroad,
fifty-five passengers and a crew of
eleven trainmen were more or less
injured Friday night when the Pennsylvania
Special, the eighteen-hour
train net ween New York and Chicago,
was wrecked while roundi'og a sharp
curve near South Fork, six miles lrom
Johnstown, Pa.
;>!' the injured passengers, seven
sutained serious hurts, necessitating
their removal to hospitals.
The train was running about fifty
minutes late and was traveling over
ab miles an hour when it reached
the cm ve. The , accident was caused
by a brake rigging dropping to the
truck on Die first Pullman coach, following
the engine and combination
smoking car.
Much disorder followed the accident,
and in the midst of the confusion
a number of foreigners were detected
plundering the Pullman cars.
One was arrested and the others driven
away by a display of firearms.
Considerable jewelry and valuable
wearing apparel was lest as a result,
however.
The engine and combination smoking
car remained on the rails, but the
i.1 rvliincrori nvf-r a ?ill
inree ruuuiaiio piuu^vu v. w.
foot embankment into the Conemaugli
river. Fortunately the cars were not
submerged.
A scene of wild confusion resulted.
All the passengers were2in their berths
and were thrown promiscuously
around the cars.
All the passengers of the train were
injured more or less, but with the
exception of John F. Kline of Joliet,
it is said none of the injuries are
dangerous. The train was running 5J
minutes late and was trying to make
up lost time. Nobody seems to know
what really caused the accident, but
it is said it was caused by the springing
of a bolt connecting one of the
rails to the steel tie. The injured
were taken to hospitals at Altoona,
Greensburg and Johnstown. A majority
of them, however, proceeded west
on a special train.
The attire of some of the passengers
who arrived in Johnstown on
the special train was comical, as they
were wearing somebody else's clothing,
unmindful of the rightful owner.
Following the wrc-ck great disorder
prevailed. Until late Saturday there
was no official representative ol' the
Pennsylvania railroad at the scene of
the accident, except a man wno is
said to be P. H. Robinson, a detec
tive.
All attempts to obtain information
from the railroad officials were met
with rebuffs at every hand and at
an early hour Saturday morning, while
it was reported that fifty-four passengers
were on the train when it left
Altoona, only forty were said to have
been accounted for.
From the scene it was learned by
telephone that the train was tryiag
to make up lest time.
The Pennsylvania %Railroad company
issued a statement Sunday in explanation
of the accident. The
statement is the result of an investigation
conducted by A. C .Shad, chief
engineer; L. R. Zollinger, engineer
maintenance of way, and H. M. Carson,
assistant to General Manager Atterbury.
It is said that the ciily tangible
evidence of the cause of the accident
found was tho broken brakehanger,
as previously stated by the
manager.
"MARCH OF THE PITCHFORK"
Is Title of Piece of Music Sent Senator
Tillman.
A Washington dispatch says: Senator
Tillman has received a copy of
the music of "March of the Pitchfork,"
composed by Frank L. Bristow
of Nashville, .which is dedicated
to the South Carolina senator.
The senator says he will immediately
get his daughter to play it over
tn him and see if it is properly pitch
ed to the pitchfork time.
WRONG MAN WAS NABBED.
Sleuth Hotel Keeper Thought He Had
Absconding Banker.
Ilarry Buckley, of the White House
at West Point, Ga., won't get $5,000
or any part of it for the sleuth act
he played a few days ^go, an act resulting
in the arrest of a man in OpeiiVa,
Ala.. Friday, who, Buckley declared,
was William F Walker, the
defaulting New Britain, Conn.; bank
cashier.
After massing twenty hours in the
Opelika jail the prisoner, who gave
his name as W. Harper, was released
by order of Mayor Williams.'
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CARWORKERS' STRIKE ENDS.
Advance in Pay Conceded, But the
Union is Not Recognized.
The strike of the car workers of
the Georgia and Charleston and Western
Carolina railroads was settled
at Augusta, Ga., Wednesday, the companies
conceding practically all the
strikers' demands, except recognition
of the union. More than six hundred
men have returned to work.
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' NOT A SOUL SAVED'
Ocean Horror Takes One
Hundred and Forty Lives.
STEAMER TORN ASSUNDER
Disaster Occurred Off Holland Coast
During Heavy Gale?Wreck Was
Near Landing Place, But
Rescue Was Impossible.
A special from Rotterdam, Holland,
says; A disastrous steamship wreck,
attended with great less of life, occurred
Ihursday morning at G o'clock,
off the Hook of Holland, and at the
entrance of the river Maas, when the
Great Eastern railway company's
steamer Berlin, bound from Harwich
to the Hook of Holland was lost.
All on board, one hundred and forty-one
persons in all, of whom ninetyone
were passengei-s, were drowned.
A terrific southwesterly gale was
blowing right in shore, and drove
the Berlin on a sandbank close to
the northern jetty as she was trying
to enter the new waterway. Heavy
seas quickly pounded the vessel to
pieces. She broke in two, her for- .
ward part sinking immediately, while
the doomed passengers and crew could
be seen for a brief space of time
clustered on the after part. Then the
afterpart slipped off , the ledge and
disappeared in ihe mountainous
waves.
Tugs and lifeboats, when the alarm
was sounded, promptly put out to
tfie assistance of the Berlin, but the
violence of the gale and the heavy
seas made it impossible to approach
the wreck, and the helpless wouldbe
lifesavers saw the steamer break
up and the crew and passengers washed
away without being able to render
the slightest assistance.
The Berlin left Harwich at 10
o'clock Wednesday night, upon the
arrival there of the London train ?
with the greater number of the passengers,
who subsequently lost their
lives The steamer should have reached
the Hook of Holland at 6 o'clock
Thursday morning, and would then
have proceeded to Rotterdam.
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A2> LUC JLJLA nu n uo vmvv**?*9 w
terway at the entrance of the river
Maas, she apparently became unmanageable
on account of the force
of the wind, and was driven ashore.
The alarm was given, and lifeboats
from the shore went to the assistance
of the stricken steamer, but the seas
were so high that the boats were unable
10 approach close enough to take
03 any of the passengers? or crew, and
the lifeboat men had to sit helpless
while the steamer pounded until
she broke in two, and every soul on
board was carried down.
The waterway in which the disaster
occurred is a new one, on the
north side of which is the pier and
the railroad station. The steamer must
have been within a few minutes of
tyina tip after her rough passage
across the North Sea, when she was
overtaken by the disaster.
Land was but a few yards away
and except in the roughest weather,
those on board the Berlin could have
been rescued without difficulty, especially
as the waterway is navigable
I at ail times.
The Berlin was a steel steamer,
twelve years old, and popular with
travelers to the north of Europe. Jh
summer she usually was crowded with
passengers, but at this time of the
year her average was about as it
was Wednesday night, the number being
equally divided between first and
second class.
Much difficulty is being experienced
in obtaining the names of the passengers,
as the tickets were purchased
from many agents in London and
other cities, while some of the travI
elers may have had return tickets.
The only names the company can be
sure of are those of passengers who
secured reserved berths. The company's
agents are being asked to send
in immediately to headquarters the
names of all such persons.
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SMALLPOX MENACES SOLONS.
Member Stricken With Disease in
Missouri House.
A special from Jefferson City, Mo.,
savs: Representative M. J. Saltz of
Phelps county was taken down with
smallpox while in his seat on the
floor of the house Friday. Much commotion
amone the other members
ensued. The chamber was fumigated.
The house then adjourned until
Monday. A resolution adopted amid
confusion and with but half of the
members in their seats provided for
the thorough fumigation of th& capitol.
POLICYHOLDERS BADLY LEFT.
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Administration Ticket of Mutual Lifo
Won by Big Majority.
The administration ticket of the
Mutual Life Insurance company was
elected by a majority of approximately
130,000 in the recent policyholders'
election, according to a statement
made by the election inspectors at
New York Wednesday to the proxy
committees.
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ROCKEFELLER'S FORTUNE
Not Over Three Hundred Millions,
and Annual Income is Only Pittance
of Twenty Millions.
The magnitude of John D Rockefeller's
fortune was developed in an
inquiry made in New York Thursday.
In reply to a question, Frederick T.
Gates, Mr. Rockefeller's business rep
rosentative, said:
"There have been a great many
amusing misstatements on this subject.
Several years ago, Senator Hoar,
in the senate, accredited Mr. Rockefeller
with a fortune of one thousand
million of dollars. Quite recently a
statement has been made, and published
widely, throughout the country.
that his annual income exceeds
one hundred millions of dollars. Now,
the facts are that Mr. Rockefeller has,
at various times, himself, authorized
a statement that his fortune cannot
exceed two hundred and fifty to three
hundred millions of dollars. Furthermore,
his income, instead of being
one hundred million of dollars, or
anything like it, cannot in his most
prosperous year have exceeded fifteen
to twenty millions of dollars. The
public generally are under the impression
that he owns a majority of
the Standard Oil stock. The facts are
that Mr.* Rockefeller's holdings of
Standard Oil stock are about 20 per
ceDt."
BAILEY IS MAGNANIMOUS.
Says He Should Be Praised for Not
Using Shotgun on Enemies.
A dispatch from Austin, Texas,
says; United States Senator J. W. Bailey
occupied the stand during the
entire day Thursday in the Bailey
investigating committee of the Texas
legislature. He continued to deny all
the charges against him, and when
Prosecutor Cocke interrupted him to
object to a question, Senator Bailey
turned his back and said:
"Don't you speak to me. You address
the chairman.''
The seuator denied that he had
used underhand means to coerce
'the legislators to vote for him. At
another time he said that he deserved
great praise for not taking a shotgun
and going out and shdoting his
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pujiuca: cuciino?. ou.u "V .....
cheerfully resign his seat in the senate
if he could arrange it so that he
could meet all his enemies at one
time and finish them then and there.
CHICAGO HAS SENSATION.
Millionaire's Wife Shoots Man Dead
for Alleged Blackmail.
At Chicago Thursday, Webster H.
Guerin alias Fisher, of 625 West Harrison
street, and proprietor of the
Harrison Art company, was shot and
killed in his office in the Omaha building
at LaSalle and Van Buren streets
by Mrs Flora McDonald, wifO of Michael
C. McDonald, a millionaire, who
was for many years the democratic
political boss of Chicago.
The motive for the killing is not
exactly known. Mrs. McDonald became
hysterical immediately after tho
shooting, and was unable to make a
connected statement. From what she
said, hcrtvever, it is believed that for
some time Guerin had obtained money
from her by the threat of making disclosures
to her husband unless paid
for keeping silent
v NEW AMBASSADOR ARRIVES.
James Brice, British Representative,
Lands at New York.
James Bryce, the new British ambassador
to the United States, and
Mrs. Bryce landed at New York on
Tnursday on the Oceanic. They were
n ct at the pier by the local British
consul general and several attaches
of the British embassy in Washington.
THREE GIRLS AND TWO BOYS
la Presentation of Kentucky Woman
to "Happy" Husband.
Mrs. Pete Zeabrokski, wife of a
miner at Pork Ridge, Olairborne
ccuntv, Kentucky, has presented her
husband with quintuplets?three girls
and two boys. Mother and babes are
reported as doing well.
GUNS HAD BEEN USED.
Strong Evidence Against Negro Soldiers
Given by Lieutenant.
Ia the Penrose courcmartial at San
Antonio. Texas, Saturday, Lieutenant
I.awrason testified under cross-examination
that when he inspected the
guns on the morning after the "shooting
up" of Brownsville, he i'ound
seven men with guns that had evidently
been in use.
"At an order from Major Penrose I
who just then camo up," said Lieu
tenant Lawrason, *T went oft an an
other duty, leaving those seven men
and guns to Penrose and Captain Lyon
for further inspection."
TEXAS GETS PIERCE.
Governor Folk of Missouri Honors
Requisition for Him.
Governor Polk of Missouri Thursday
afternoon honored the requisition
of Governor Campbell of Texas
for H. Clay Pierce, chairman of the
board of the Waters-Pierce Oil compiny,
who i? wanted in Travis county,
Texas, on a charge of making false
affidavits. :
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FOR FAIR SERVICE!
At the Hands of Railroads
Fruit Growers to Act.
WILL APPEAL THEIRCASE
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Order V/ill Ee Requested of Interstate
Commerce Commission Requiring
Refrigerator Cars and Other
Accessories.
The convention of the Georgia
Peach Growers' Association held in
Atlanta the past week was generally
conceded to be one of the most ir.t
portant in the history of the association.
The action taken by the con\er.tion
in the matter of the following
resolution, unanimously passed, it
is believed will lead to very beneficial
results. These resolutions are as follows:
"itesolved by the fruit growers of
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee
and South Carolina assembled in Atlanta,
Ga.,
"That, whereas, in all lines of trade
except refrigeration the seller is required
to measure or weigh out to the
buyer the product sold, while in refrigeration
the shipper pays whatever
price is asked without knowing either
how much ice is used, bow ofteu it is
placed in cars, nor, which is more itnpoitant
than all, how much refrigeration
is secure:
"Sow, therefore, be it resolved, That
the committee on transportation be in
structert to secure an order from tne
Interstate Commerce Commission, or
an act of congress, if that be found
to be necessary, requiring that all refrigerator
cars used by interstate commoii
carriers in transporting products
under refrigeration from one state into
another state be equipped with recording
thermometers of such type as may
be approved by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, which shall record
ir duplicate the' temperature of the
car at all times from the time the
product to be shipped under refrigeration
is loaded uutil it reaches its des-.
tination, and that the consignee shall
have the privilege of examining such
taennometer, and taking therefrom
one of the duplicate records, the other
duplicate record being retained by
the carrier or the refrigerator company.
'And that this action be taken in
time for the equipment of cars with
thermometers that are to be used in
I transporting* the 1907 fruit crop from
Georgia.
-Resolved, further, That the order or
act so secured shall provide that the
Interstate Commerce Commission shall
as soon as practicable ascertain and
adopt a certain standard or maximum
degree of refrigeration suitable for the
proper and safe transportation of
fruits and other perishable products
shipped under ice, and snaii require
all refrigerator companies to maintain
and furnish such degree of temperature
as may be so adopted as the
standard '*
The fac's, figures and suggestions
made in the report of W. H. Harris of
Foit Valley also made a great impression
on the fruit growers present.
Not only fruit growers, but all shipi
pers o? produce will be certain to
| share In the benefits in the carrying
out of these same suggestions by Mr.
Harris For this and other reasons,
there are a very great many Georgians
wno are vitally interested in the pas?'
ing of the legislation proposed by this
delegate from Fort Valley. With the
installation of the registering thermometers,
according to the testimony
of the fruit growers and shippers at
the convention, there would be a sure
and certain way of holding the transportation
companies responsible, and
in this way thousands of dollars
won Id be saved to the Georgia fruit
and produce shipers every year because
of the exact records of the registering
thermometers.
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A KiCK FROM CANNON.
Speaker Opposed to Location of Immigrant
Station at Charleston.
It is reported that Speaker Cannon
will refuse to allow consideration at
this session of the bill reported Tuesday
by the immigration committee of
the house for the location of an tmmlj
grant station at Charleston, S. C. This '
measure was urged in view of the im- (
portance Charleston has assumed as
an immigrant port. The speaker professes
to believe this money could
be better employed in the erection of
immigrant hotels at the large immigration
centers of the country.
SWETTENHAM CONDEMNED
By Irate Jamaicans for Action in Barring
Financial Assistance.
A mass meeting of citiens of Kingston,
Jamaica, has condemned Governor
Swettenham for preventing monetajy
assistance coming to the island.
The meeting adopted a petition to parliament
for a grant of $750,000 and
a loan of $5,000,000 to assist in the
rebuilding of the city.
POSTOFFICE BILL PASSEfcfB
Ninety Per Cent of Employes of 8ervice
Are Granted More Pay?Appropriation
Largest Ever. ^
A Washington special says: The1'* ^
postoffice appropriation bill, the -3
est ever reported from the commit* ; ||
tee on postoffices and postroads, pass*
ed the house Wednesday. Afl the**! '%
(provisions relating to increased pay, aMJj
afi.eci.iug 90 per cent of the postal rM J
employees, which were stricken
on points of order, were restored tor>^S j
tlie bill. This action was accomplished
by a rule presented by the committed
on rules' after the bill had been re*-,-|?
ported to the house by the commit* ^|aM|
tee of the whole. - 4 ;
Mr. Clayton of Alabama presented/JK||
?? omAn/lmant' nrAXM H i n C that- fnn
au aiuuuum^iic |/i \j * ~
class postoffices should not be discoa--'^.^
r.inuca uniess fifteen days notice had >1 JJ
been given to the representative opJ8';'J|
delegate in congress from the dia^
trict in which such postofflce is lo--JL^||
cated Ihe amendment was ruled
on a point of order.
When the item appropriating $17,- ^ J|
4J9,00o for the pay of employees' otSIBIi
the railway mails was reached M??$9pjfl
Macon of Arkansas made the point ! |3
of order against the paragraph vthafc^';||
it increased salaries. i||
Mr. Overstreet of Indiana,
charge of the bill, earnestly proteift-^^^
erl against the point for the reason
that if the appropriation be stricken^
out it would do away with the '^?k
way mail service and cripple the enr^ljjH
tire postal system. --vJh
Mr. Macon said it was migMfr||j|s
strange how some persons could make:t|*^S
points of order, even to the exteia^^^|
of protecting the railroads; he m&j^HpE|
a point of order clearly within hijf||Kfl
right and for the purpose of protect*'^>^H
lDg me JJUUlie ueasuiv ue nas viam.^
cised and even condemned. He pro^||S|
tested against sacli actions.
Before the bill was put upon IfjjgiljM
final passage, Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylr|?||w
vania, from the committee on rule^^^ja|
reported a rule restoring all the pmfrrjgffiB
agraphs stricken out Tuesday, havingiaj^jH
relation to the increase in salariesclerks
in first and second class
city and rural carriers and railwj^g.^jj
mail clerks and malting a numbeH^CTj
of importanat changes from the
as reported to the house to the coaa^a '^B
mittee on postoffice and post roads^p c|lB
By the terms of the amendnieh^^^^H
seven grades of clerks are estantifflB^H
ed with salaries ranging from SfiOreffiISB
to $1,200. City letter camera are;*dHjfljjjffl
vided into five grades, with ealarie^aswB
ranging irom $600 to $1,100. The$ljM| 0
salaries being omitted. Railway mfl8@EHS
clerks are divided into six grades^
low that of the chief clerk, a iln ijjwffaM
in each grade being increased- $100|?|B
and ranging from $800 to $1,700. Twj
maximum salary is fixed at $84bv Pej0hJ0
year for rural carriers.
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BAILEY TELLS. HIS STORY.''
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Texas Senator Unbosoms Himself
fore Investigating Committee.
Before the investigating comnritt||H|j9
of the Texas house and senate Wed<^:^S
nosday, United States Senator Joseoh^fSw
W. Bailey continued the story of
financial deals with John H. Kirb?ffll^8
the'Texas millionaire lumberman; G,
Bane, president of the SeaboftjjjMB^M
National Bank of New York;
Clay Pierce,. president of the
of directors of the Waters-Pierce ^
company; P. F. Yoakum, who is
the head of two railroad system, and^IgS
with various other financiers.
One of his most important state^^
ments was that he had been askei<?|i^B
by the Standard Oil officials in New^J|M
York immediately after the Beaumo^^| '-"JS
oil boom, to give them an opinion as
to what the opportunities were forV-vJjB
them to re-enter the state again
"I gave them a written opinion fa^sElS
which I stated that if they attempted
to do business in the state they
be put in the penitentiary, and tli^^-fSj
property absorbed in fines and peiu$^|S
ties," said Senator Bailey. ... | * ^
Senator Bailey told an interesti^Ej^ ^
story of his adventures in the finan^||tj|
cial world and firmly maintained"
all of his acts and deeds had 'beeii(^/^j
honorable and above reproach. i
NEGROES BUYING WINCHESTER!? ||S
1-r/Mihi* is Feared in the "Black
of Alabama. 'jM
In the Alabama senate Thursday; "fj|
Mr. Hinson read a letter
Lowndes county stating that negroes^
of the black belt were arming with '-~A
Winchester rifles, and fears-of trotr-;'r|^
ble were felt. Mr. Hinson was at a loss. ^
to understand it. In discussing a bin?'jk
to prevent carrying pistols, Senator l||?
Reese said that it would be the best
thing ever known for his county if T?S
some respectable citizen was hanged .
for murder, which, however, he did
not expect to see,
AUSTRIAN STEAMER SINKS. .|jjH
Many of Her Passengers and Crew |||
Supposed to Have Drowned. 7.
The Austrian Lloyd steamer lmper-^^H
atrix, bound from Trieste to Bombay,, $j?]H
ran onto a rock Saturday evening near '
C.ipe Elaphonisi, on the Island
rrptP and sank soon after. In tha
absence of definite news the number
of drowned is unknown. The passea> sBM
gers and crew on board numbered