The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 14, 1907, Image 3
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a boomTorgrant
As Democratic Candidate for
President Launched,
MOVE WELL UNDER WAY
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Party Leaders Think Youngest Son of i
Great Union General Good Timber
and Campaign is Being
; Pushed.
The Atlanta Constitution publishes
cue i UIIUW1U3.
That a well-organized boom is being
launched for the purpose of securing
, the democratic nomination for the
presidency for Jesse R. Grant, the .
youngest son of farmer President
Glyases S. Grant, the great union
commander, was the interesting intelligence
brought to Atlanta yesterday
by Hon. G. V. Gress of Heartsease,
Ga., who has just returned from New
York, where he was in close touch
with the democratic leaders.
Colonel Gress, who will always be
remembered iu Atlanta as the donor
of the Grant Park Zoo, andw ho is
quite a figure in Georgia politics, having
represented Wilcox county in the
legislature at different times, has frequent
business in New York in connection
with his extensive lumber interests,
and during his trips to the
metropolis has become intimately acquainted
with the strongest men in
tb/i rtemnrratic organization.
Ocionel Gress 'declares that there
is no doubt a3 to the deteriaination
of the Grant. Park Zoo, and who is
name before the democratic convention,
and he believes that by the
time the convention meets Mr. Grant
will have a large number of delegates
- . .? pledged to nis support,
v ^ , "A better man to head the ticket
would be hard to find," declares Colonel
Gress. "A lifelong democrat and
a man whose life has been spotlessly
clean, the New York leaders believe
that he is the best man available to
i -oppose Roosevelt, for they arc certain
that Roosevelt will again head the
republican ticket.
v r.rant ihnuzrh fortv-eisht years
of age and for twenty years a power
in the democratic councils of New
York, lias never held public office. He
/ oould have had any place he desired
in ihe city government, but he refused
all offers, as he did the foreign
jmssion which was tendered-him by
President Cleveland. Mr. Grant has
kept himself in the background waiting
for the proper opportunity, and
he and his friends think this has now
oomc-. All along he has done yeoman
service for the party, and I can
*ay with the greatest certainty that
he now has the enthusiastic backing
of nearly all the democratic leaders
of New York whose influence counts
/ tor anything.
"New York and New Jersey and
> some of the other eastern startes are
already enthusiastically for him, and
prominent democrats declare that,
should he be nominated, he will have
no trouble in swinging those states
into line. Ihe question of Mr. Grant's
oandidacy is now being put before
the democratic leaders of other states,
and the most favorable expressions
have been heard. A number of southern
states are counted oi^to come into
the Grant column.
"The eastern leaders with whom 1
have talked feel that they can get the
support of the south for Mr. Grant,
despite the sentiment which has become
widespread in the south that it
f is time for a southern man to lead
the democratic hosts. They think that
just now no southern man could make
- ' anything like the showing which they
are sure Mr. Grant could make. They
speak of wishing some prominent
southern man named for vice president,
but as to just who he shall be
nothing definite has been said, of
course. Mr. Grant's friends feel that
the south will come into its own in
due time, and it is with this idea
that they are going to go out for
southern delegates.
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DON'T LIKE THE DECISION.
Louisiana immigration Commissioner
in a Quandary.
Charles Schuler, Louisiana state
commissioner of agriculture and immigration,
has expressed the opinion
that the decision of United States Attorney
Bonaparte, regarding South
Carolina immigrants, will seriously
interfere with the plans of his de
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LICKING HELPED SPAIN.
New Spanish Minister to Washington
Says His Country's Defeat by
U. S. ProveJ a Blessing.
"My mission to the United States
is to help cement new ties of friendship,"
said Senor Don Ramon Pina,
the new Spanish minister, who arrived
in Washington Friday. "I have not j
come here to remind the American
government that it defeated us in a
conflict, hut. I have come here on a
mission to help both countries live
down the unpleasant past."
When his attention was called to a
recent communication Admiral Dewey
addj&sscd to a correspondent, in
which the hero of Manila Bay said
that that he had won his victory over
the Spanish fleet by "divine aid,*' Senor
Pina said:
"Please do not consider me irreverent,
but if Admiral Dewey won his
victory over the flee* of our navy in: 1
Manila Bay by 'divine aid,' I think
it must have been the god of war?
the aid that iron gave him in conquering
wood."
Senor Pina says his country has
prospered greatly since the war, and
intimated that defeat by America really
developed in a benefit to It, rather
than a disadvantage.
"It caused the people to awake to
the realization," he said, "that they
must be up and doing to keep pace
with the times, particularly with
American progress, and following this
both political and commercial chang- J
es have greatly improved."
Senor Pina was presented to Sec- j
retary Root Saturday and warmly
welcomed. His presentation to the
president will be delayed for some
time because of the illness of the president's
son, Archie.
RURAL MAIL ROUTES. ?
Report Shows That 37,323 Are at the j
- Present Time in Operation.
vcmnri- nn the operations of j
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the rural delivery service up to March
1. 1907, made public at Washington
Friday by the fourth assistant postmaster!
general, shows that the total
number of petitions received up to
that date was 50,020, upon which 15,701
adverse reports have been made,
and there are now in operation 37,323
routes, on which 37,174 regular rural I
letter carriers are employed.
On March l of last year there were
pending 3,130 petitions. During the
year 2,693 petitions were filed, making
a total of 5,823 petitions handled,
and now only 705 are pending. Of this
number 284 have been favorably act- j
ed on and ordered established, leaving j
the net number of petitions pending l,- j
411.
COLOR LINE IN BARBER SHOP.
Connecticut Tonsorial Artists Are Not
Obliged to Shave Negroes.
Tho r-nnnecticut supreme court ha3
just handed down a decision to the
effect that the barbers in that state
need not shave negroes. The decision
was reached on an appeal from a superior
court decision in Bridgeport,
by a colored man, who brought suit
against a barber of that city. The
barber refused to shave the negro,
his defense being that his barber shop
was not a place of public accommodation
within the meaning of the law.
The supreme court upholds that contention.
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GUTHRIE GETS BIG PRIZE.
Guessed Exact Number of Paid Admissions
to World's Fair.
After two years of litigation, decision
has been rendered by Judge
Mcllhenny, in the circuit court at
Clayton, Mo., awarding to M. Logan
Guthrie of Fulton, Mo., the prize of
$25,QUO in a contest to the person who
entered the nearest guess to the total
number of paid admissions into the
world's fair. Guthrie guessed 12,804,616,
which was announced as the exact
number of admissions. Several j
partment. About six hundred Italian
; agriculturalists were being arranged
for, the state government to pay the
passage of such newcomers and the
employers of such labor to reimburse
the state for expenses incurred.
EIGHT SCOTCHMEN ARRIVE.
First Installment of Proteges of the
; Georgia Immigration Association.
A bunch of six Scotchmen reached
Savannah, Ga., Friday, constituting an
installment of those the state hopes
to get to help out in supplying the
demand for labor from which it is
suffering. Two others arrived Thursday.
and the eight will go to Columgus.
They were met cn arrival and
j tu.L u nearly welcome.
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other claimants appeared and pay- I
ment of the prize was held up pend- j
ing settlement of the different claims.
Guthrie instituted suit in 1905.
JUDGE BLECKLEY ENTOMBED.
Funeral Services Held in Supreme j
Court Room at Atlanta.
All that was mortal of Judge Logan
E. Bleckley, eminent jurist, patriotic
citizen, profound scholar, humanitarian
and dreamer of beautiful dreams,
was laid to rest in Oakland cemetery.
at Atlanta Thursday. The services in |
the supreme court chamber were
chamber, Atlanta, Thursday, were
marked with that degree of simplicity
which best befitted the last chapter
in the life of a man who ever frowned
on ostentation and display.
THIRTY-FIVE MEXICANS KILLED.
Dynamite Explosion Takes Lives of
Men, Women and Children.
Advices received from Chihuahua,
Mexico, state that thirty-five persons
?men, women and children?were
killed San Andoes, sixty miles from
there, Friday, by the accidental explosion
of a large quantity of dynamite.
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TO CUT OUT TRAINS
Southern to Make Change in
Passenger Service.
TO DECREASE EXPENSES
Order Goes Into Effect Sunday, March
24th. According to Authentic Report?Details
Are Being
Withheld.
According to the Atlanta Constitution
arrangements are being made for
ihe dropping off of a number of passenger
trains on the Southern railway
on March 24, and these iu a
position to know state that these
plans will affect the Atlanta division
particularly. Except for the' information
that a number of passenger
trains are to be cut off, none of details
could be learned.
The cutting down of expenses is
given as the reason for this contemplated
cut. So far as the service is
concerned, it is a matter or general
knowledge that so heavy has been
the passenger traffic lately that the
present number of trains has really
been inadequate for the handling of
the business. For this reason, it
seems a difficult problem to understand
just how the Southern railway
will be able to still handle its present
nn^pn-rpr business with even few
er trains than they now operate, especially
in face of the fact that this
passenger business is constantly
growing.
No reasons have been given for the
cutting down of expenses, but in Atlanta
railroad circles, where the coming
cut on March 24 is being discussed,
it is generally believed that fears
011 the part of the railroad executives
regarding coming legislation is
principally responsible for this curtailment
of passenger trains. It is the
opinion cf several passenger officials
that the railroads mean to put the
public on .notice that any drastic
legislation will be met with curtailing
the present service and equipment,
which is being provided.
In other words, there are many officials
who insist that if Georgia legislates
a 2-cent per mile passenger
rate, the railroads will retailiate by
giving a much cheaper equipment and
a schedule with comparatively but
a few trains where now many are
operated. The plans which are being
made for the coming cut is thus explained
as the first move by the railroads
to put the public on notice as
to what they intend to do in case of
drastic legislation on the part of
Georgia.
Another reason, which is given l'or
1 a ? *\v tV* a noo.
rne cuiung uui ui. soiiiv \jl me
senger trains on the Southern railway
is because of the tremendous increase
in the amount of the opeiating
expenses of the road. Very recently
the conductors, trainmen,
switchmen and other employees have
received increases of wages, while
the telegraph operators and signal
men have applied for such an increase
and have been assured that
their petition will be granted to the
extent of a substantial increase, and
the locomotive engineers are preparing
to make similar demands.
The railroads also state that their
operating expenses in other ways, materials,
etc., have increased tremendously,
and while the monthly reports
show big increases in revenues, these
increases in the expenses are such as
to have cut down the net profit very
materially. The railroads declare that
as the prices of living expenses, clothing
and practically in every other line
of business have been increased, it
is impossible for the railroads to be
the one exception in this era of unprecedented
prosperity, and in the
face of greater expenses be expected
to reduce railroad far S. For which
reason the Southern railway is preparing
to even up matters by reducing
expenses by cutting out some of
the passenger trains.
SWALLOWED PRUSS1C ACID.
Short in Accounts Preston Decided on
Self-Destruction.
All mystery in the death last
Thursday night of Leonidas M. Preston
at tlit Hotel Cumberland, in New
York, was dissipated Saturday at the
coroner's inquest, when it was learned
that it was practically certain
Preston was short in his accounts
as secretary and Xew York manager
of the Tinken Roller Axle company.
He suicided with prussic acid. The
shortage is expected to aggregate
from $50,000 to $iuuu,uuu.
PARIS STRIKERS VICTORIOUS.
Darkness Aided Them in Winning
Their Fight.
The strike cf the electricians -of
Paris, France, which threw the city
into obscurity for the best part of
two nights, came to an enfi as abruptly
as it began. Through the intermediary
of M.^DeSelves, the prefect
of the Seine, the electrical companies
finally conceded the principal de,
mands of the strikers.
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"WE ARE BEING RUINED'7];
Is Plaint of Railroad Magnates cf the
Country?They Send Morgan for
a Conference with Roosevelt.
J. Pierpcnt Morgan, the New York
financier, arrived in Washington in j
his private car Monday night, aiul {
went immediately to the White House, I
where he was in conference with
President Roosevelt for more than
two hours. The object of Mr. Morgan's
visit was to urge the president
to take some r.ciion to "allay
the public anxiety now threatening
to obstruct railroad investments and
construction."
Mr. Morgan pointed out to the president
that the financial interests of
the country are greatly alarmed at
the attitude of the administration toward
corporations, and particularly
the railroads.
At Mr. Morgan's earnest request
President Roosevelt has agreed to
have a conference with four leading
railroad presidents, Messrs. McCrea,
of the Pennsylvania; Newman, of the
New York Central; Mellen, of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford;
and Hughitt, of the Chicago and
Northwestern, to determine if some
agreement can be reached as to the
relations between the railroads and
j the administration. It is probable
that E. H. Harriraan. head of the
Harrimaa lines, may also participate
in the conference, which, it is understood,
will take place at the White
House.
After boarding his train shortly after
midnight to return to New York,
Mr. Morgan dictated the following
statement:
i -At fhn rpniipst of many business
j men, before leaving for Europe, I
crime to Washington to see the president
to discuss the present business
situation, particularly as affecting the
railroads. I suggested to the president
that it v/ould be greatly in the
public interest if he would seo-'Mr.
McCrea, Mr. Newman, Mr. Mellen and
Mi. Hughitt and confer with them ns
tc what steps might be taken to allay
the public anxiety as to the relations
between the railroads and the government.
I he president said he would
be glad to see the gentlemen named
with this end in view."
P. F. Yoakum, chairman of the
ktard of directors of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific railroad, also
had an interview Monday with President
Roosevelt and members of the
interstate commerce commission regarding
the railroad situation. He toid
President Roosevelt that the agitation
and legislation in various states
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regarding two rent iares auu iuc .cdiicticn
in freight rates have ha J
the effect of making it almost impossible
lor the railroads to negotiate
loans en their securities and he
i declared "the railroad men are willing
that the supervision of the railroads
bo centralized in the national
government.
I "That," he added, "would restore
confidence and give the pecs^le to
understand that the railroads wish
to observe the laws and it would
stop the hostile legislation in various
states '
ROOSEVELT MAKES COMPLAINT.
Says Act;on of California Legislature
Bars Settlement of Jap Guestion.
i r,nvpnior Gillette of California has
seat to -ho state senate a message
from President Roosevelt, eompiaiv
ing that .*l\e recent action of the iegislaturo
would have a most urlortunate
ettoct oa the president's efforts to
secure exclusion of* Japanese laborers
by friendly agreement. The president
asked the governor to secure suspension
of further action until receipt ?;f
a letict from him
GINNERS MAKE REPORT.
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Number cf Bales Ginned to March 2
Officiary Placed at 12,716,000.
The National Ginners' Association
issue;! a bulletin at Memphis. Tenn.,
at 1 o'clock Monday showing the number
of oales of cotton ginned, up to
March 2. 1907, to be 12.7lG,C00.
The report is signed by J. A. Tay,
lcr, president of the association*
CANNOT DRAW COLOR LINE.
Whits Postal C'erks in West Are
Given Cold Comfort.
The posi office department dees not
| intend co draw lhe color line in the
matter ol' white and negro railway
mail cle:l:s working tcgethe; on ihe
same runs Although an intimation
has been given ibat v.liite cierks in
the- mid lie. west are pifj.ariag to request
**?c deiarinurji to effect a
change so as to put. ihe negroes on
runs wnich will not bring them m
proximity to the whites, it was given
our. that nc such discrimination could
or woulu be made. .
ENG'NE -BOILER LETS GO.
Two Men Kil'ed, Several Hurt and ,
Tcwn Badly Shaken.
Two men were killed, two mortally
injured, a number of others more or
less seriously inpired and Metticheu, i
N J., was snaken and threatened
with many fires Monday, when the
boiler of an engine of the Pennsylvania
railroad exploded while drawing
a long freight train through the towq
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NO HURT TO SOUTH
Bonaparte Explains Ruling
on New Immigration Law.
BUGABOO IS ELIMINATED
Smith Carolina Men Call cn Roosevelt
and Attorney General to
Straighten GuL Matter?Outcome
is Satisfactory.
A Washington special says: South
Carolina official!* and others interested
in the attitude of the administration
towaids assisted immigration,
held a conference Monday with President
Roosevelt and Attorney General
Ponaparte at the White House and
with Secretary Straus at the department
of commerce and labor.
The result of the conference with
the president and Mr. Bonaparte, according
to statements made by for6
mer Governor D. C. Hey ward and
Commissioner of Immigration Watson,
of South Carolina, was entirely
satisfactory to all concerned, and the
opinion was expressed by Mr. Heyward
that according to the explanations
made by the government officers,
the new immigration law will
not denrive the states of any rights
conferred by former laws which may
not nave been appealed or by the
existing laws.
Early in the day Messrs. Hevward
and Watson had a brief conference
with the president. This was followed
late in the afternoon by a second
meeting, at which in additioin to those
named there were present^ Attorney
General Bonaparte, R. G. Rhett, mayor
of Charleston, and Thomas F. Parker,
the chairman of the immigration
committee of the South Carolina
Manufacturers' Association. At its
conclusion the attorney general and
his visitors said the conference had
been a satisfactoi y one.
These conferences grew out of
a request made by Mr. Heyward, who,
with Mr. Watson, is about to start
for Europe: to make an eft'out to secure
the permanent establishment of
the line of steamers which the North
German Steamship Company has been
operating to Charleston, with a view
to turning' the tide of immigration
southward.
The opinion of Attorney General
Bonaparte, rendered- last- week on the
immigration question, they fearel
was calculated to upset their plans.
At the meeting the entire matter
was reviewed carefully and Mr. Bona*
nnri-? Pvnb.inei the exact meaning of
his opinion
, Messrs. Hey ward and Watson enplained
that the state did not wish
to do anything not absolutely legal
in securing immigrants needed in
South Caiolina.
"The result," said Mr. Watson after
the meeting, "is satisfactory to
all. We do not* feel that the movement
for immigration to the south
will be retarded in any way' as a
result of ihe attitude of the administration
and I am sure that the labor
interests will not only not be injured
in any way, but will be benefited.
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Former Governor Hey ward said:
"The construction of the law as
given by the attorney general today 13
absolutely satisfactory tc the movement
for imiSigration to the south.
It has never been the purpose of this
movement to bring in contract or
cheap labor. The question of the
rights and power of the state as to
prepayment of the passages of immigrants
will doubtless be set forth
later by the attorney general. It
seems certain that the new law will
not deprive the states of any rights
n^nfflrrAri tw tho former or nresent
laws.' T ^as very much gratified at
the interest shown oy the president
and all the officials in our movement
to upbuild the south on practical lines
and i feel that they all r.ow have
a clearer idea of its economic value
to the entire country."
PERKINS RETURNS MONEY.
Given by New York Life for Republican
Campaign Purposes.
George W. Perkins, former first
vice president of the New York Life
Insurance company and now a member
of the firm of J. P. Morgan &. Co.,
has sent to the New York Life his
personal check for $54,019.19 to reimburse
the company for the repub
lican * campaign contributions made
from its funds in 19C4, in connection
wit'a which Mr. Perkins recently was
made defendant on a charge of larceny.
FUZZ MACHINE A FAKE.
Alleged New Cotton Delinter Does
Not Exist.
The department of agriculture at
Washington has been besieged during
the last few days with inquiries from
all parts of the south for further information
as to the machine which
will delint cotton seed. Investigation
develops the fact that the whole thing
is a fake.
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FAKE PROPHET DEFUNCT. Jj
i Death Claims John Alexander Dowiet 1
! Who Posed as Elijah the Third,
and Fooled Many Followers.
John Alexander Dowie, self-termed
Elijah III, and prophet of divine se- "
| lection, died Saturday at what was .
! once his palace in Zion City, 111., Shii
loli House.
I Hii death was lingering. The faithfill
prayed until the very end that he .
might yet be spared. He led them
continually in their supplications until
at last his feeble voice ceased and he 4*
breached his last.
About ins oea siooa. ssvckii ojl mc ^
faithful and one or two men who have
fought him with great vigor in his ,j?Jb
last months of life. These men repented
at the deathbed; they asked -^0
for forgiveness.
Some of the faithful asked him if
he would permit a physician to attend - :\M
him, in the hope that the life might
l^e prolonged. * , Mjjm
"No, my dear friends. God is calling /^jj?
me to Him. I am going to my reward, jjg
Call the faithful about me that they
may see the end."
Word was sent to Dr. Gladstone
Dowie, the son, and his mother, the
other two of the family. In the hour /J|?
following the struggle they had de- ||g
sorted him.
To the last moment Dowie did not
asked for either of them. He had
quently had words with his son.
There was no forgiveness. He died ^$1
with a feeling of anger against theai.
feeling of anger against them.
Dowie came to his end in the
house in which he ruled the strarfgest ^
city the world has ever known. He' /J
died there a poor, broken cld( man,-^|
shorn of his power and influence,
where once he stood the leader. *
Jon a Alexander Dowie, who claimed ." -j|
to be the Prophet Elijah reincarnated,
I general overseer of Zion City, and tne ^
! head of the Christian Catholic Chtfrch,
was born in Edinburg. Scotland;. in
1847, and went with his parents' to
Australia in 1860.
He first began to advance his doc?|| 1
trines in Sydney. While preaching on YjMstreet
corners he became so bolster- -yJ
ous and obnoxious that he was ar- ^;
rested and. put in jail.
He was actually driven out of Ans^lJ ?
tralia, and landed in San Francisco
in 188$. Finally, in 1892, he thought
it best and safest to move again, and.
went to Chicago.
In spite of his previous moyes^. jM
Dowie had done well fifinancially. Ho
always took excellent care of that
end of his religion, and he was pres^|ffl
pared to make a great battle in
r cago. It was in Chicago that success
began to come to him.
The downfall of Dowie may be said >1j
to date from October, 1903, when he, .,3t
with the hosts of Zion, invaded
Xew v3
New York would not take Dorriese^;^
rioiMlv. The little red-faced fat man, ;i?S
hopping about on a platform, clad in
gaudy robes, was taken as a joke and
his audiences laughed at bim. The
T-k/M?r?o'c! vanifv wn<5 a severe lis?!
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one, and after a dismal campaign, lie
gave up the fight and returned :>f
to Zion.
The next scheme of the "Prophet* vis
was a "New Zion" to be located in &?
Mexico. He sought to establish a
branch of the "Christian Catholic ;|f
Church" there, but Mexico would ^
have none of him. The tide had set J||
against him.
Then Zion arose and asserted its :|S
independence. "The Prophet" was :>||
hurled from power and Overseer Voliva
was put in charge of the city,, its.
resources and its immense debt, to l|
save what he could for the people.
DESPERADO IS RIDDLED. ' M
Negro Killed by Americus Officers ^
While Resisting Arrest.
Surrounded in a house at Americas, M
Ga., and fighting to the death llko %;' *
a demon at bay. Bill Reese, the negro ^
desperado who Sunday morning mor- ,'.J
tally wounded Police Officer William
| Morris, was shot to pieces at seven
o'clock Sunday night, his body bein$ ^
fairly riddled with buckshot and pistol
balls.
SNOW STORM IN GOTHAM. |
New Yorkers Experience March Bliz- };
zard?Ditto Quaker City.
Leaden skies and the ominous east *;j|
wind to which New Yorkers awoke :^|
Sunday, dashed any hcpes they may V
have entertained that the backbone
< - %jfi
of the winter, locally speaking, had
been broken. The city's thirteenth Jj
big snowstorm materialized.
The storm seems to have centered J
ninn^r the New Jersey coast and east
j era Pennsylvania. Snow fell continui
onsly for fifteen hours to a depth of
seven inches in Philadelphia.
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SIX NEGROES BURIED ALIVE.
Caught in Cave-in of a Sewer and ^
Died Standing Bolt Upright.
By the caving in of a sewer ditch
at Stntesvllle, X. C., Friday afternoon,
six colored men were buried alive
under tons o? dirt. The rescue parity
t'oiznd the six standing bolt upright ;
when the earth was removed and life :
was extinct. All the men leave faml- /