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now LONG THE ROAD.
. The woman-need is gone thait made tfev
kiss
My manna, and a heaven of thine eyes:
The patience-preaching years have made
me wise.
/ /Till, in the woods and fields, the sturdy
bliss
Of fellowship and work. I cease to miss
The throbbing acl\e of those old ecstasies,
Save to remember with a wan surprise.
Sometimes, how long the road that led to
this.
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But to be sure that somewhere, strong and
whole.
Thou livest, striving, noble though beset,
\Cact*?7- inrflin rvf thp psspntial snill.
> I doubted when my cruel wounds were
wet?
This long my deepest, direst need of thee,
O, once beloved! it is granted me.
?Charlotte Wilson, in Metropolitan Magazine.
2 REPAIRS 2
BOB A CHARACTER SKETCH. SOS
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going to see Father William 1
about repairs to his cottage," said
the agent, checking his dogcart.
Tfln T fnvo vrm'a lift0"
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I agreed that he could, and we
|V drove together. Father William met
ns by the gate. In one hand he exm
? hibited a rat that he had just taken
. * from the spring trap ^t the garden's
end; the other hand nursed two fine
&T; ' "lettuces. He responded to the agent's
S greeting, but ignored mine, for I am
< in disgrace.
"I've come about the repairs," said
'the agent, cheerfully,
t "An' well ye might," replied Father
William, in acid and reproachful
> tone. "Sixty-five years I've lived
f'ere an' pide me rent reg'lar, an' th'
place tumbling' to pieces. I'm shamed
~ " on ye, an' no mistake. Do ye make
x th' ole place fit f'r a man what's in
years 'fore we gits another winter,
fr I feels th' cold, an' that's a fact."
"Well," said the agent, cheerfully,
" 'we'll soon make things right for you,
anyway." He took out his notebook.
"To begin with, we'd better have the
thatch stripped and put tiles or slates
on," he suggested. "It's very ragged
fj;, tip there."
"Do ye leave th' patch to bide
where it be!" interrupted Father
William, sharply. "It ain't 'armed
;> ye, as I'm aware. An' don't ye come
bringin' y'r nasty old tiles nor slates
either, for I never couldn't abide
they. Th' roofll do, an' it's me what
lives under it, an' pies for 'ut
g; reg'lar."
?&., ^"Certainly, if you^wish," replied
the agent, crossing through the note
i in his book. "I don't want to aril
range for anything you don't want
done. May I come inside? The pony
g Will stand quiet."
f "Do ye both confe in," said Father
William, depositing the rat on the
g top of the close-clipped hedge, that
|?' all who passed down the road might
see it. "I was jest a-comin' from
. picKin up tn gre t oie rat out o me
p trap, an' it's wery many on 'em I
catches, an' nobody can't deny ut.
There's folks," he continued, after
^ ' a brief pause to recover wind,
4 "there's folks what says, 'Do ye don't
leave they t^aps 'bout v'r garden,
| Father William, 'cos they catches me
< dogs.' An* I say to sich as they,
'It's the fault o* y'r dogs, or y'r gre't
fool of a boy what don't look after
- * 'em; it ain't no concern o' mine, an'
| I'll set me traps so long as there's a
? nasty gre't rat left.' "
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t . eyes were bent against me, but I
: ? made no sign.
"Come in, both o' ye," he repeated.
"I ain't got nothin' to 'ide an' nothin'
W4 to be shamed on. I'm open most all
th' time to rightfor'ard men, an'
wimmin, too, though I don't take
much count o' they, an' that's the
truth. Ye can look Into me parlor
i an' into me garden an' see me wege/
ties growin', same as these lettuces
p;' what I've just cut and fine 'uns they
be. There ain't no concealment 'bout
> me, an' never was."
We entered the cottage. - CertainTy
the ceiling was black, and Father
William had put hooks in every raft"
er and had hung household treasures
from them. Kere was the frame
of a butterfly-net, there was a piece
of waterproof, and I saw scissors and
ggv gardening tools and a crook that
looked twin brother to the one that
brought the old man's shepherding
staff to an end. The wall was decorated
with pictures from various illustrated
journals presented by me
frcm time to time and pasted over the
paper.
"Ceiling whitewashed?" queried
|?: the agent.
" 'Taint likely"' snapped the right
forward man. I am t goin to ave
all me things covered wi' lime-wash.
' I couldn't never abide that, an' I ain't
goin' to."
"Walls repapered?" said my companion,
successfully hiding a smile
from the lawful tenant..
"Ye shan't toach they walls, an'
don't ye try/at**' said Father William.
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I doubt, an' gi'e me suthin' what ain't
as pretty. I'm s'prised on ye. Do ye
leave me walls alone, an' see to th'
t'other things what wants doin' up."
"Well, let's go into the scullery
and upstairs," suggested the agent;
but before he could move more than
a couple of steps in that direction
Father William's hand anticipated
him with surprising energy and
barred the way.
"Don't ye try ut!" he cried; and
went on, with outsretched hand and
flashing eyes, "Do ye keep where ye
are, or go outside 'fore 1 makes ye."
He sparred for wind.
' "Sixty years an' more I've lived
'ere,' he cried, "an' pide me rent, an'
well ye knovts ut. An' now ye come
*ere an' want to walk all o'er me
ouse, same as it b'longs to ye, an' go
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into me scullery an' up into me bedroom,
an' that ye shan't. Do ye g?
y'r ways now, 'fore I takes me crookstick
to ye. There ain't been nobody
in me bedroom this forty years,
an' shan't be, nor in me scullery neither."
"But, my good fellow, how can I
see to repairs if I don't see your
rooms?" cried the agent.
"Do ye don't call me a good feller
o' yourn," snapped Father "William,
"for I pies me rent an' b'longs to
meself. Aa' don't ye ast me to teach
ye y'r business, for I 'on't do ut; I
never come to ye to ast ve to teach
me shepherdin'. An' ye couldn't ha'
taught me if I 'ad, I doubt. I sent
f'r ye to make me place fit an' right,
+<-. vaK ma a' ma thatch, an' cni 1P
me walls an' mess me ceilin', an' go
a-spyin' in me scullery 'an me bedroom.
An' I'm tellin' ye to go quick,
'fore I "
"Don't get excited. Father William."
said the agent, closing his book
with a bang and picking up his hat. |
"I'm not going to stay. Good day."
So saying, he turned to the door,
mounted the dogcart and drove away.
"An' right glad I am ve're goin',"
remarked Father William, following
him into the road. 'Th' fool," he
added, as the agent drove off. "Fancy
sich as 'e earnin' a good livin'!
Lord," he concluded, turning to me,
"seems now I'm in me nineties there
ain't nothin' but fools in th' parish. ,
'Cept rogues," he added, as an after- '
thought, glancing to where my hedge'
screened the garden.?London
Sketch.
MARKETING WESTERN FRUIT.
Shipments Directed by Wire to Point
of Greatest Demand.
Until 1S93 California fruits were
sold through commission merchants,
to whom the individual growers consigned
their entire crop. The expense
for transportation and the keen
competition, as well as the immense
outlay for commissions, resulted in a
number of the large growers of California
organizing the Southern California
Fruit Growers' Exchange.
Since 1893 this has been reorganized
several times, but it is still in
existence under the title of the California
Fruit Exchange. It is co-operative
and has only a nominal capital
stock. According to Moody's Magazine,
it performs every duty for the
growers belonging to it from the
time they bring their harvest to the
packing house until they get their
f?rnn m rmov
It takes complete control, grading,
packing, stripping, finding buyers
and selling, so that its members do [
nothing but the agricultural part. Its
representatives throughout the districts
receive and receipt for the
wagon loads, and the horticulturist
goes home to attend to his orchards
and wait for his check. The chief
competitor of the California Exchange
is California Citrus Union.
By the present method of marketing
fruit daily wire reports on the
condition-and whereabouts of every
shipment are sent to Los Angeles.
Like a train despatcher the manager
at headquarters guides every car
from the side tracks in the orchards
over the branch lines and the trunk
lines. He has the power to 'divert
shipments into the most available
markets.
Hundreds of cars leave California
daily with only a general destination,
and these cars must be sent to the
point of greatest demand. If through
his wire reports the manager finds
that New York is receiving too much
fruit, that there is danger of a break
in the price, he diverts a part of the
New York shipment to Philadelphia
or Baltimore or Pittsburg.
He must see to it that every district
has enough fruit, but not too
much. He must keep the market
even. He must get the top prices
and yet sell all his fruit. He must
figure against changes in the weather
in each district and againet competition
from Florida, Europe and other
California shippers.
Fisherman's Luck.
"Perhaps my most amusing fishing
expetience in Italy was during a week
in Naples,'' says the author of "The
Salt of My Life," and gives the story
in these words:
"Toward sunset one afternoon I
was strolling toward my hotel along
the parade, when I came across a
ragged sportsman angling with a very
long bamboo from the pavement. He
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myself on the parapet beside him.
We were soon deep in as comfortable
a conversation as is attainable be*
tween broken Tuscan and pure Neapolitan.
We discussed rods, and I
asked him to let me feel the weight
of his, which must have been thirty
feet long. With native courtesy he
handed it to me as if it were mine,
and no sooner was it in my hands
tian down went the top, and I was in
a good fish, which circled in vain on
the unyielding line, and I soon raised
a black sea-bream of probably three
pounds.
"Of a certainty none of his other
fish weighed more than as many
ounces. He was too amazed to do
more than stammer his thanks, and
as I turned away I fancy that he
crossed himself, regarding the black
bream as the fruit of black magic."
Change in Bill of Fare.
"The bill of fare for Sunday dinner
will be shredded chicken, instead of
baked chicken," announced the old
farmor to the group of city boarders.
"H'm!" grunted one pessimist,
"what caused the change?"
"What caused the change? Why,
by heck, one of them thar racing automobiles
just ran through my whole
itbck of .poultry." ? Chicago Daily
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Spartanburg Shews Increase.
The total taxable property in Spartanburg
county?real, personal and
railroads?will amount to $17,OOC.Oo?
this year, being an increase of something
like $600,000 over the figures
of last year.
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Arrest Caused Sensation.
ine arrest 01 h. vv. inomson, tor
merly a well known stock and bond
broker of Spartanburg, by United
States Postoffice Inspector H. T. Gregory
on the charge of using the United
States mail for fraudulent purposes,
caused a big sensation in the city.
The case against Mr. Thomson grew
out of a business transaction with
the S. Morgan Smith Co. of York,
Pa., over the sale of fifty shares oi
stock of the Aiken Manufacturing
company.
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Electric Power for Spartanburg.
J.'C. Slack and F. R. Dravo, capitalists
of Pittsburg, Pa., and officers
ana directors ot tne nuectric rower
and Manufacturing company engaged
in constructing electrical power plants
at Gaston Shoals on Broad river and
Xesbitt Shoals on Tyger river, spent
a day in Spartanburg the past week,
making arrangements to open general
offices. The company will be ready
to furnish electric power for commercial
and manufacturing purposes early
this winter.
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Social Clubs on Anxious Bench.
The blind tigers and social clubs
in Charleston are much exercised
about the next steps to be taken .by
the state and municipal authorities
in the stricter enforcement of the dispensary
law. Inspector West has
been in that city for several days,
and it is thought that his visit has
connection with some move against
the many social clubs, some of which
are, in fact, regular bar rooms or blind
tigers, doing business in the name of
a social organization. The increased
activity in the enforcement of the
law is worrying the blind tigers and
those in sympathy with the violation
of the dispensary act.
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Another Chance for Mrs. Blair.
Mrs. Ethel W. Blair, convicted of
manslaughter cn the charge of killing
her husband, will get another chance
to prove her innocence. Before the
adjournment of court at Columbia,
Judge Johnstone announced that he
would grant the new trial, basing his
action on discovered after-evidence.
When Mrs. Blair realizing the sig
nincance of the judge's words she
swooned and was carried from the
court room to the judge's room where
a physician was summoned and she
was revived.
While the penalty, under the law,
is from two to thirty years, Mrs. Blair
will not go to the penitentiary any
time soon, if at all.
The strongest testimony against
Mrs. Blair is the dying declaration
of her husband, made to the physician.
that his wife had shot him
while they were quarreling about
Conductor Arms.
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Last of tne rairneuo Didnu.
A Columbia dispatch says: Tho
state of South Carolina is finally out
of the liquor business.
On the first of last February there
was in the warehouse in this city
about $700,000 Worth of liquors belonging
to the state. When at that
time the legislature determined to
abolish the system, a commission was
created to close up the business, and
the last has just been sold. So, after
fourteen years one month and fifteen
days, the " Palmetto brand" is known
no more.
This was the first experiment of
government ownership" of the liquor
privilege in South Carolina, and the
fruits have been such that it is likely
to be the last for many a year. Xei
ther municipality nor state is likely
to embark upon that sea while memory
of the state dispensary lives as
a "terrible warning." Advocates of the
system promised that the dispensary
profits would eliminate state taxes.
That was an unrealized dream. The
thing got into politics and stayed
there: and there corruption was so
appalling that the strenuous personal
efforts of Senator Tillman could not
stem the tide of revolt.
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Will Probe Western Union.
The state railroad commission has
filed a decision sustaining the complaint
of the Columbia Telegraphers'
Union, that the Western Union Telegraph
company is violating its charter
in mailing out telegrams and
turned the matter over to the attorney
general to begin proceedings to
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revoke the company's charter if he
can find law enough on which to
base such proceedings.
A complaint from John T. Leonard,
a Charleston broker1, says that tele- |
graph service in that city, both state
and'interstate, is unsatisfactory; that
for five weeks he has not handled
a single telegram that has not been
delayed from eight to twelve hours.
A copy of this letter was sent to
Superintendent Maxwell of the Western
Union, at Richmond, with this ,
statement from the commission:
"We beg to relate that unless these
complaints are remedied we will tiirn
the matter over to the attorney general
or solicitor, to force your company
to handle your business with
dispatch and regularity."
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To Advance Sea Island Prices.
The Sea Island or long staple, cot- ?
ton farmers have decided to take an :
additional step in the control of the
market and the advancement of 1
! prices. The farmers are all to be assessed
$2 a bale on the new crop,
netting a sum of $20,000 to $30,000,
with which warehouses are to be
erected for the storage of the staple
for better prices. The idea of advancing
the poor farmers money on
their crop, holding the cotton, is also
suggested in the general scheme, of
keeping the cotton off the market until
satisfactory prices are offered. The
promoters of the warehouse scheme
say that they have tired of the control
of the buyers and the warehouse
project offers the only plan of independence
of which they propose to
avail themselves.
Some time ago the long staple planters
made plans for the erection of a
cotton oil mill to be run by the association
in furthering the scheme of
control of the seed, and now comes
the plan of the warehouse for the
better and more convenient holding of
the staple for higher prices.
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Berry Again Under Arrest.
G. R. Berry, former school superin
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arrested in October,1905,charged with
forgery, but who afterwards forfeited
his bond of $2,400 is again under arrest.
It was alleged that Berry forged
the names of school trustees to teach-ers'
pay certificates and appropriated
the money to his own use.' He was
also charged with having defrauded
several book companies. Berry left
Marion and went to Tampa, , Fla..
where he lived under the name of R.
H. Mclntyre. * k
j He was finally arested and brought
| back to Mariom, giving bond in the
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for Tampa, and was not heard of
again until he was placed in the Mcj
rion jail a few days ago, having been
brought back by a Florida officer. The
prominence of Berry and his capacity
for evading arrest has caused his
case to become conspicuous.
EVERY STATEMENT FALSE.
Woman's Affidavit Anent Goebel Murder
Denied by Sanford.
Captain Cassius M. Sanford, oniy
son of the late John Sanford of Covington,
Kv., who was referred to in
nf \i>? T.iiin Williams
Clark In Sunday's newspapers as
"John Sanford," and as having been
present in the statehouse at Frankfort
when Governor Goebel of Kentucky
was killed, has issued a positive
denial of every one of the statements.
Captain Sanford, who is now
living in Xew York, after a residence
of eight years in China and the Philippines,
said:
"Every one of the statements of
Mrs. Clark is absolutely faise. I
never knew her (Mrs. Clark) or Ger.trude
King, to whom it is said 1 paid
attention, or Turner lgo, or any one
else mentioned in the affidavit. At
the time of the killing of Governor
Goebel, February 8, 1900, I was in
tne fniuppmes un uuaiucsa, hmus
with a number of army officers by
whom I can prove my residence there
at that time. Subsequently I entered
the Philippine constabulary, rising to
the rank of captain. I resigned my
commission in March of this year of
my own accord and have since been
in business in this city. I have
never been connected .in any way
with the Goebel murder or known
anything about it. I shall gladly appear
in court at any time or place
to refute these falsehoods.''
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Twenty-Five Thousand Go Out on
Strike in St. Louis.
A conservative estimate places the
! number of strikers who are out as a
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result of the general strike instituted
in St. Louis by the shoe factory workers
at 25,000.
The demands are for a nine-hour
working day, the rate of pay to remain
on the basis of the ten-hour
day.
The officers of the companies operating
the eighteen factories, have decided
not to accept any demands made
, by the strikers.
CRUSHERS AROUSED
Over Export Losses Caused
by Foreign Tariff.
HOLD SPECIAL MEETING
Convention in New Orleans Will Attempt
to Have Duties on Cotton
Seed Products Lowered?Expert
Benton Reports.
Facts from both sides in the controversy
as to why southern cotton
seed products exporters lose thousands
of dollars monthly from negligent
handling of their goods in steamships
were presented at Monday's extraordinary
session of the Interstate
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New Orleans.
Action was taken to combat foreign
tariffs, which are claimed to
have cut down southern business in
these products by $2,000,000 annually.
The convention nominated Albert
G. Perkins of Memphis, Tenn., for
United States expert abroad on the
subject of cotton seed products. This
nomination is to be an appointment
which will be made by Secretary
Strauss of the department of commerce
and labor. Professor J H.
Connell of Dallas, Texas, was the
only other candidate Jor nomination.
Mr. Perkins succeeds J. L. Benton of
Monticetlo, Ga., resigned.
Mr. Benton reported to the convention
his observations upon the causes
of the losses of southern shippers.
Mr. Benton told of the enormous
waste in cotton seed products, due
to careless handling by steamship
lines, ?id of the loss to American
shipers thereby, estimated as high
as $1,000,000 in a single year. As an
example of hew this waste occurred
he said:
"We find in New Orleans today
waiting for export 5,000 tons of meal
from five different firms. This meal
includes five different brands. Of
the total amount 4,000 tons of it is
choice meal. The remaining 1,000
tons is dark, badly ground and with
an excess of lint and hulls. All
this meal is loaded into a vessel at
New Orleans without regard to the
classification shown on the marks indicating
the brands. As a result it
is pretty well scattered over the ship.
Since tills cargo does- not mi uie
bqat's capacity, a few thousand barrels
of cotton seed oil are rolled in on
top of the meal. A few of the barrels
break, a few of the sacks are torn,
and both cargoes, oil and meal, are
more or less damaged.
"Upon unloading, the meals sacks
are foisted by a single rope from the
hold of the vessel and are dragged
along the floor until they reach the
warehouse, by which time several
more bags are broken. Having been
loaded without regard to brands, the
meal is unloaded in the same manner.
So many bags, moreover, have
been ruined that it is useless to at
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to its classification. . Instead, the
meal is piled indiscriminately in
heaps of a ton each of mixed meal
for weighing and sampling. The loose
rrteal from the broken bags is appor-1
tioned to those piles which may be
short in weight. At this stage, a cargo
which left the United States consisting
of 4,000 tens of choice meal
and 1,000 tons of off meal, is now
reduced to all one grade, and that the
worst.' There is just enough lint and
hulls in it to cause reclamation.
"The importer therefore does not
get the grade he has bought. If we
could guarantee him the grade we
could get more for southern cotton
seed cake than is paid for any other
cake in the world."
Mr. Benton said it will be a difficult
task to extend southern cotton
seed products trade abroad until the
delivery is improved.
TABLES TURNED ON CALHOUN.
Another 'Frisco Promoter to Be Tried
on Bribery Charge.
The California supreme court has
sustained the validity of the grand
inrv which indicted Schmitz, Ruef
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and Patrick Calhoun, head of the United
Railways, and others, in 'Frisco,
for corruption.
The decision means that Calhoun,
who is now out on heavy bond, must
stand trial on a charge of bribing city
officials to secure franchises for his
street railway
ALLEGED TO BE INSANE.
Man Who Instigated Vancouver Riots
Placed Under Arrest.
A. E. Fowler, secretary of the Seattle
Anti-Asiatic Association, has
been arested at Bellingham, Wash.,
charged with insanity. Fowler took
part in the anti-Japanese riots at Vancouver,
a week or so ago, and many
claim that he incited them.
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Minnesota Judge Ties Up New Commodity
Rate Law of State With
a Sweeping Order.
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Judge Lochren of the United Statescourt
at St. Paul, Minn., Monday, issued
an order for an injunction which
absolutely ties up Minnesota's commodity
rate law pending a final decision
in the case, or until the lower
court's decision is overruled on appeal
by the state. I
The order is sweeping in its terms,
taking in not only the defendants at-' ' V
bar, including the attorney geperaL
and shippers who were made parties
to the actions, but all other persons
as well.
This means that, even though the
county attorneys throughout the state,
whose duty it is to institute and.
prosecute criminal actions under the
law, were not made parties defendant
in the suits instituted by the railroads
through their stockholders, yet the .
county attorneys and everybody else
are warned to keep their hands off
the railroads while Judge Lochren's
order is in effect
Not only is everybody enjoined \
"from taking of instituting or causing
or advising to be instituted any
action, suit, step or proceeding for.
the violation of said act, but anybody
and everybody is enjoined from
demanding that any of the rates con
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The order issued Monday relates to
the Northern Pacific case. Similar
orders will be drawn in the other , J
eight cases, and injunctions will be
served in pursuance with the orders. .<*'
? It is reported that the state of- f:
ficials are planning to violate the'
injunction in such a manner that / ?
habeas corpus proceedings will have
to be instituted in which event the
case will at once be appealed to the
United States supreme court, and the
whole matter determined, there instead
of going through the usual
routine, lasting probably three years.
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SIX PARHAMITES INDICTED.
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Death Must Answer.
Six persons were held to the Lake
county grand jury by the coroner's
jury sitting at Waukegan, 111., in con- 1%
nection with the death of Mrs. Letitia
Greenhaugh at the hands of fa- . >
natical followers of Parham in Zion
City. They were:
Harold Mitchell and his wife, charg- 7
ed with manslaughter as principals in ;
the tragedy j William and Jennie
Greenhaugh, son and daughter of the
dead woman, and Mrs. Louis Smith. ,
Jield as accessory in the commission
of the crime, and B. Hopkins, undertaker.
,
Health Commissioner Larose of Zion
City, also camq in for a scoring at
the hands of the jury, which called
the attention of the board of health
to the laxity that is' alleged to exist Ui
Zion City in the reporting of deaths.
Undertaker Hopkins admitted to
the corner that he knew the bqnes
of Mrs. Greenhaugh had been broken
by the treatment she endured, but f
said that he suppressed the fact on
the request of members of the family.
Hopkins is a Parhamite.
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COMPRESS COMPANY OUSTED.
Given One Year to Close Up and Retire
from State of Mississippi.
At Vicksburg, Saturday afternoon, v
Chancellor n.icKb uaimcu uu.c uu^
Compress company an illegal trust,
and gave the corporation one year to
wind up its business in the state and
withdraw. He denied the application
for a receiver. #
This decision is a victory for District
Attorney Thames: who filed suit
against the company asking that a
receiver be appointed, and ihat it be
declared an illegal combination in restraint
of trade.
The Gulf Compress company owns
or controls thirty-one compresses in
the south, eighteen of which are lo
cated in Mississippi.
PUBLISHERS HAVE GRIEVANCE.
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Want President Roosevelt to "Bust"
the White Paper Trust.
Members of the American Xewspa- iSi
per Publishers' Association, which met
recently in New York, appointed a
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committee and instructed it to call
the attention of President Roosevelt
to what the association asserts is an
unlawful combination of paper manu- .<
ta keen ud the price of
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white paper and to demand relief
from what they consider an oppressive
burden.
TRACE OF SNOW IN CHICAGO.
September Flakes Were Plainly Visible
for Brief Time.
A few flakes of snow fell in Chicago
late Monday afternoon. The fall
was not sufficiently large to be recognized
by the weather bureau, but for
several minutes it was plainly visible
in the air
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