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. *' *? *** ' 'il'?!'" .'i . I.- ?? - V . VOL. V. NO. 16. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1908. SL60Per Year * almetto Affair* The News of Soc4h Carolina in Condensed Form Free Delivery System Delayed ii' Florence. | Florence, Special. ? The free deliv ery system of mail which was to have been inaugurated in Florence about the middle of the present month has been postponed until June 1, as will been seen from an extract from a let ter received by the postmaster here: "Owing to the failure of the civil service commission to furnish the eli gible register so that the carriers and substitute carriers could be appoint- ' ed at your office in time for them to ' procuro bonds and uniforms by the 15th of May, the establishment of the city delivery service will be postpon ed to June 1, 190S." This is a source of disappointment to the people of FloVenee, who were looking forward ito the immediate beginning of the free delivery, in view of the fact that as a result of a competitive examina tion held hero sevral weeks ago all of the carriers and substitutes were appointed. . i Strychnine in An Egf . Bennettsville, Special. ? Mrs. W. II. Peters recently discovered among some eggs which she had bought one which contained strychnine In break ing the eggs she noticed that it had a little hole in it and she bi^ke it in a separate saucer. Her husband, Mr. VJ. H. Peters of the Marlboro Drug company, analyzed the mixture and found that it contained enough stry chnine to kill several people. The egg came through the hands of R. l>. Rogers & Bro. and had been bougiit by them from the country. TIk'V were, of course, entirely ignorant of the whole matter and thought that the egg was fresh and bought it for such. It is probable that the egg had been fixed by the person who sold it for a dog and that it became mixed up in the number of fresh eggs which were brought to town and sold to R. D. Rogers & Bro. It is fortunate that Mrs. Peters discovered the matter in lime,, else there might have been a dif- j ferent tale to tell. I Appeal in Salaries Case. Columbia, Special. ? Attorney Gen eral Lyon has filed with the supreme court his appeal in the ease recently decided by judge Gary, which over ruled his opinion and held that the State house officials who received 1 raises iu salaries* by the last general Assembly were entitled to these rais es. The attorney general held that because of the wording of the act these raises could not bo granted, but Mr. Lyon wishes the supreme c;?urt to pass upon the entire mailer before tiie comptroller general can issu:? the additional warrants. Those afT-ctcd ?thereby are ihe clerk of the supreme court, llie chief clerk in the comptrol ler general's office and the private secretary lo the governor. New Dispensary. Columbia. Special. ? Thomas L. Foreman lias been appointed dispen ser at North Augusta by the Aiken county dispensary hoard to fill the vacancy caused by the removal of the former dispenser, who was found short in his accounts. If is said that the former dispenser made good the shortage and that no action will he taken against him. The dispensary was closed pending the election of a dispenser and the city of Augusta felt tho effects of the drought. The former clerks in the dispensary have been retained. Although they were not connected in the reports with the shortage of (lie former dispenser's accounts, the dispensary board has been eritised, it is said, for retaining them. New York Life Refuses to Pay. Columbia, Special. ? The New York Life Insurance company has refused to pay to Commissioner McMaster the $50 assessed by the State for the maintenance of I he office of insur ance commissioner and it is under stood that the company will contest the payment of (he county and Stale taxes as they arc now assessed against the insurance company. Jim Malloy To Han? May 22. Renncl tsville, Special. ? The ?t??7"o murderer, Jim Malloy, in jail hnt un der sentence of death for killing hi* wife, will be hanged on the 22d in sfn'M. The sheriff is beinj; h?v.?"d with applications for admission cards. Only a very few will be per mitted to see the execution and more thr.n 1,000 have applied. The .'allow* is r.ow being erected. Jim is spend in* his remaining days quietly and with seeming apathy is awaiting the end. He ha? written a history of his life and ha-? left instructions to have it published. Harris Buys White Stone. Spartanburg. Sprcial. ? It was an nounced last week that J. T. Harris hod purehfSfd from local bonks thf "White Stooe Sprines property and will puobably rebuild the scceotly de stroyed hotel. The brinks purcbeserl the property at public auction here several days ago. The price is not ma le known. Mr. Harris at one time o;wncd the property and made it one of the popular resorts of this section. Board Honored by Qot. Ansel. Columbia, Special. ? Got. Ansel has removed from office J. L. Bass and J. M. Parker, members of the Williams burg county dispensary board. The removal was the result of an investi gation made in which it was charged that the board had purchased certain brands of goods without the legal ad vertising and that these goods were purchased at a higher price than those offered by other houses. The particular firm interested in this in vestigation was Bleumenthal & Biek ert, formerly of Atlanta, and now of Baltimore. It was charged by the clerk of the board, Mr. J. D. Oilland, that the members had violated the law in this respect and that the goods furnished were of a lower grade and quoted at higher price than other liquors supposed to be of the ?5ame quality. Nine Children Bitten. Greenville, Special. ? Nine children and a negro nur9e were bitten bv a collie puppy here and, fenring that the animal was suffering with rabies, (he attending physician directed that the (log bo killed and its head sent to the Pateur Institute in Atlanta for a careful examination. The dog was undoubtedly suffering with some dis ease; one of the physicians said it might be noute indigestion. The par cuts of the children are naturally very much disturbed and the result of the examination of the dog's head is awaited anxiously. Several weeks ago another child was bitten and as a result of examination the offend ing dos was declared rabid. The child was treated at the Pasteur I r? stifute and no ill effects have appear ed. The Railroad Commission. Columbia, Special.? The railroad commission insists upon the railways in this State furnishing neces sary baggage trucks at all stations. A number of complaints have been heard by the commission, to the effect that baggage is roughly handled, and the? commission, to Avoid any rouirh handling to which burgage may be subjected, has insisted upon (lie rail ways furnishing neccssarv hngyage and has issued an order accordinlv. The commission has sent out notice to effect that the commission will en force the rules and regulations rel ative to the changing of schedules on railroads, saying that the railroads must give timely notice, both to the public and to the commission, ?>f any change of schedules, and at lenst five days before the change is mnde. Railroad Employe Choked and Rob bed. Florence. Special. ? News was re ceived in the city of serious trouble at Pee Dee Junction, about 12 miles from here. The story which comes here as far as can be gathered is that about 5 o'clock last Friday afternoon a white man named Blake \V. Ood bold. who is station day pumper for ? he Atlantic Coast Line railroad at lee Dee. had drawn his month's sal ary. about $30. and was walking up the track towards Dillon, attending to his lamps when he was ierked backwards off the track and choked into insensibility. His assailant se cured the money and made off and ha* not been heard of since, although | he is thought to be hiding in the swamp around the scene of the crime. Cotton Boll Fifty Years Old. Greenville, Special. ? Alderman Stephen King has at his store ,,n Hampton avenue a cotton boll f>0 years old. picked from (he site where th<- plant of the Mills Manufacturing company now stands. The place was then. owned by Capt. Brooks, an ex- I tensive cotton planter. The .boll is! in a remarkable state of preservation and was picked by Miss Kliza Powell. Express OTder Will Stand. Columbia. Special. ? The railroad rommi?j<i?n declined to amend or change their order relative to the la beling of express packages. Sotne time ago tin* commission ordered t lint cxpris* packages shall be labeled with 11 ticket on which wns "amount," "weight," "date" nnd "paid" or "collect." This order went into ef fect Mov 10th. The express company asked the commission to amend the ?ndiT wo rs to limit to to prepaid shipments nnd they also asked for an extension of time before the order was rallied out. Both request* have been refused. The Tatnm Robbery. Bennett -viMe. Special. ? There bav.' been nr> further development* in th* Tatnm robbery. On last Friday night norao one broke into the depot there and stole 10 gallon* of liq'ior and r crate of beer. Ttoey also entered thr store of H H. Stanton and took a ' watch. There in no clue to the prepe- ' trntors of the deed, although evcr\ I effort is being made to catch the guii Ity parti M. A CRHTCONRRENCE Governors of Ma py Stales and President Meet in Council IS A NOTCWORTHY~GATHER!NG Notable Conference, the pint 0f Re Kind* In the History of America, Begun Utd^r Auspicious Oircum ?tancee in the White House. JS1*10"' Special. ? Two ideas destined to mark material progress in Amenca s future resulted from the thTwlil w day8' conference at r ? ,.e HoLU8e at whicch President RooseveU, the Governors of 44 Co* *8' ? ?ablne* officers, Supreme tiveTaiJ? /**' .Senators? Representa are participating, in best #COnclu8ion8 on the oest methods of conserving the nat "tLTT6*..0' tbe 0nited States. i t; 18 th*J a permanent organ nation between the States and the na tion is necessary and will likely result from the present conference to ac omplish the end sought. The sec ojad suggested by Secretary Root, is that there is no limitation by the con titulion to the agreements which maj be made between two States subject to the approval of ConroS.' The two ideas fully developed ft i* predicted, would result in the' con ervntion of the energies and re sources of the nation through uniform *";! isr"'*""* l,ws- bo,h The idea that the conference should be perpetuated developed in the form ? i resolutions adopted for later con North' p" r Goveri,or Olenn, of orth Carolina, Governor Folk, of Missouri, ami many others, but a nir 'ZTy ,""V0 ?-?? time sent .hem to a committee for considera l-orty-four Governors of soveriirn Mates of the Union sat on ~ild?d he ' W 1 I'i't 1 Hr h,8t0ri,C ^nst Ko?? of ?o 11 111 J eL?nd eiiatted from JO ' * lve hundred other -oom nK TiaX<>d the <!aP?eity of the j They were Cabinet officers supreme Court Justices, sS Repiesentatives and experts in all ? ,Wi,h ? flourish"" rumpsts the President and vice nres .''"l' at !1 oVIoek n^The oiif.rei.ee, the t|l5t of ila kj | . ' ?be i history ot the nation, been,, ' , of the President was to t ,,( of ,h(. dny H<> 0iij?? ; .. . i'c ?""? Boon, at 11 o'clock ns , Marine Band rendered the mi.wi lontial honors. The Governor ?J Ti','!'P<i """r they shont demonstration heenme t?. null nous. Then f?||?,v?| ? hu",, he venerable Or. Kduar.l Everett 'rom (?. ap'a"! ?f the Senate, rend ;Mho,fL?nPtU/Vhe description :he children ?f i i'6 lantI l)roniised viil. n r Israo,? n,1(1 f?ll?wed it he presenT f'1?0! -f?r ^,,idunpe ?n nt present undertaking. >v, in Roosevelt here begun his *l'lnnnt,nn of the reason for , ?fcrence. His fifty., nim?c speech vas mnnv |lm,? ilitpm fcP sen lls'point "of ,Vl",n hP ",,allv roachcd J ! '1 ',f nn??.e to the inland wa vi m i and declared ?J, , character, s,ic vigor that should gi ess n< gleet to perpetuate the ca pi u rod' ' ' Yl " d" ? mfdf." to p urecl the assemblage. The ,ir.r""r,V*'00d "" Ken 'Ois and Congressmen added a laiit-h " I heir applause, and ecneral f, ?ent ?as Ku-c? the sentiment The President's Address. _The President Sp?kc in p?r, ns fo|. "Sr ?f 8w?1 ?"<! Ocn. sarcMm inin t *" that we mav >f the ?h? -luesrion ? 'Smation and use of the "e at fundamental aourcccs ,,f wealth t this nation. s? viial is thi, ? n, that f?r the ||r,t tim(. In StSel. "f oniccrs of the r?e hVT"M-V' ?f "'<? States ??.,r 'orminp the n?tion, ?et to consider it. t,}ovPr"ors COfn* men from ach State chosen for their special ac quaintance^ with the terms of the ?In ,hnt iK boforo ?"? Among hem are exports i? naturn, resourc"? an representatives of ??,ionft| or w<n? T concerned in the develop went and use of these resources; the ?rr Z fir* R?Prcsen^*ives in C?n : b , Supreme Court, the Cabi mission ' n, ,nd W*ferways (Tom mission have likewise bee,, invited to be conference, which is therefore national in a popular sense. A Weighty Problem. This conference on the conservation of natural resources i* in effect a meeting of the representatives of all !hc people of the 1'uited State* called to consider the weightiest problem now before the nation; and the occa sion for tlie meeting lies in the fnet that the natural resource* of onr country are in danger of exhaustion if we permit the old wakeful methods if exploiting them longer to continue. With the rise of peoples from ?av nprery to civilization and with the con sequent growth in the extent and va riety of the needs of the nvoraee man, there come* n steadily increasing growth of the amount demanded bv this nveraeo man from the nrtupl re sources of the coun'rv. Yet. lather curiously. nt th* >?me time the aver age man is apt to lose hi* realization of thin dependence upon nature. Ravages, and very primitive peoples I generally, concern thqjpselvas only with (wperfloial natural rwwriw ; With those which they obtain from the ?otual surface of the ground. As peoples become a little less prufctive, their industries, although in a rude manner, are extended to resource* be ZZ ^ .""J***: then, with what we call civilization and the extension of knowledge, more resources come into use, industries are multiplied, and foresight begins to become a neces sary and prominent factor in life Crops are cultivated : animals are do mesticated; and metals are mastered. Mankind's Progress. Everr step of the progress of man kind is marked by the discovery and use of natural resources previously Without such progressive knowledge and utilization of Natural resource population could not grow nor industries multiply, nor the hid f e" k *?* earth 1,6 developed tor the benefit of mankind. th* *? ^innings of civili zation, on the banks of the Nile and the Euphrates tha industrial progress of the world has gone on slowly, with u ' but the whole steadily, through tens of centuries to the present day. But of late the rsp ty of the proce* has increased at n tbat more "Pace ba? been actually covered during the centurv and a quarter occupied by our nation al life than dunng the preceding six thousands years that take us back to the earliest monuments of Egypt, to plain Ci,iM * the A Difference of Degree. m rth/ f?U"ders of this nation met at Independence Hall in Phila delphia the conditions of commerce had not fundamentally changed from keek W^Cn, the Phoon'?an of hi m J^rr?Wed t,1C ,one,V waters of the Mediterranean. The differ kind* r;VW ?f de*ree' not of kind, and they were not in all cases c*en those of degree. Mining was famed on fundamentally as it had >een carried on by the Pharaohs in the countries adjacent to the Red Boston Z7eA ?f, <he merel?ants of of t hn Charleston, like the wares f the merchants of Nineveh and Si Ion. if they went by water, were ear ned by boats propelled by sails or ?ms, if they went by land were ear ned I m wagons drawn by beasts of draft or ixi packs on the backs of ? rosl'd ?tL h"rien' The ships ,l,at rossed the high seas were better than AeManDK f A ?nC? crnssf'd the Aegean but they were of tho same type, after all ? they were wooden thePS?5^?Pe d by Sail8J and 0,1 ,and' roldl nf\rTl DOt *9'*?od a8 l,'e roads of the Roman Empire, while interior *Ce ?f ^ P?StS Was Probab,.v co? Z"?"*100'* time a?thracite b?lik Z know" only as a useless olaok stone; and the great fields ?,f bituminous co.l were u?diSc?vt-ed ' , wat unknown. Ihe ,l!<0 ,,f toJ !??' Production was 0t practically labor "f VK", save the labor of men and animals; and this SivH "-d only in' J ? primitive fashion. But a few small ?ron deposits had been found in this country, and the use of iron by our untrymen was very small. Wood was practically the only fuel, and what lumber was sawed was consum ed locally, while the forests were re Uement J* ob8tr"ction" to set tlement and cultivation. ? The mere increase in our consump Hon of coal during 1907 over 190(5 ex tbc ctn? ,0-n! oonSumption in 1876, stores nf r?r; *he er,ormous pOies of mineral oil and gas are largely gone. Our natural waterways "nTurM h?*' ^ th?y hcf>n s? s?on nf y nPffl S: and b-v tho Jivi *'0n ?f respons.bility and utter lack of system in dealing with them, that here is less navigation on them now than there was fifty years ago. ' Fin nled fe?rtnTa" '1"' 8?i,S ?f Unf>xnm P frrt^ity and we have so im povenshed then, by injudicious Z and bv failing to cheek erosion that heir crop producing power is dimin ishing instead of increasing Such was the degree of " process ainoi" ? nv!]u\ze(i 'nankind had at tained when this no I ion began its ca in i'l- . 18 ? moMt irnPossibIe for us this day to realize how little our revolutionary ancestors knew of the jreat store of natural resources whos? discovery and use have been such vital factors in the growth and great ness of this nation, and how little the* require,! t() from thj / order to satisfy their needs. After speaking upon the various ESS h ?,n 0nr1nfttnral resources P ' bo conserved the President colsed as follows: "inrnt Finally, lot us remember that tho conservation of our natural resources, though the irrnvest problem of to-day, is yet but part of another and greater problem to which this nation is not vet awake, but to which it will awake in time, and with which it must here after grapple if it is to live ? the problem of national efficiency, the pa triotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. When t lie people of the United State* con sciously undertake to raise themselves ns citizens, and the nation and the ^'ates in their several spheres, to the Inchest pitch of ex'-ellence in private. State, and national life, and to do 'liis bcca'is'' it i# the first of all the duties of true patriotism, then and v>\ till then the future of tbis nation, in ounlity nnrl in time, will be assur Govornor Glonn's Groat Speech. O'lVMT.or H. R. Glenn, of North Carolina, covered himself iritb glory before the President and the Gover nors. He made a very delightful I speech, taking as his subject the Ap paSaahWn-Whlu Mountain p'.rV pro Ject. The Times calls it the one startling feature of the session. Among other things. Governor Glenn said: "When the Civil war closed you of the North told as that we were yeur brothers. Ton said thst if we wanted anything to come to you and we would get it. The very first time we have come to you to assist us in preserving a great industry we are rebuffed." This statement brought forth round after round of applause from Governor* from all parts of the United Slates. Governor Glenn's reference to old war times was made during the course of nn impromptu address in which he followed the lines of Presi dent Roosevelt in condemning Con gress for its inactivity. "We have come here year after year," said Governor Glenn, "and asked that something be done to reg ulate the industry of inter-State for estry. We cnn regulate intra-State forestry, but we cannot regulate the inter-State industry. And every time we come to our Representatives in Congress they say, 'Wait until next session,' that is the answer we have been fretting for years. GOVERNORS ADJOURN The Set Programme of the Last Day Swept Aside and the President, With OharasteriHic Progressive nsss. Lets it be Known That Action is What is Needed and There Will be no Halting for Precedent or Red Tape. Washington, Special. ? The first conference of the Governors of the States of the American Union ended Friday. The final accomplishment of the confercncec, which has been iD progress at the White House for three days cannot be set forth with mathematical precision. That it-s im mediate results are more than ample is the expression of President Roose velt tnd of the Governors who par ticipated. The printed record of the confer ence, which will later be available to every American home, will be a com pilation of fa?t'i. startling in their meaning, convincing in their univer sal conclusion that the States must act, and that the States and the na tion must eo-operate that to the end the whole people of the nation may accure the lasting beuetit of its nat ural resources. "Declaration of Co-operation." Besides the compilation ol' facts by the experts and the freely ex pressed opinion of the Governors, t lit conference leaves as its permanent record a thousand word "declaration of co-operation." Perhaps greater in importance than all else was the determination of the Governors of the States to perfect a permanent organization whereby a neretofore unknown intimacy may be developed among the Executives ot the forty-six soverign States, made strong by a common purpose and made potent, by a pro-announcements which may not lightly be disregarded. Of the last day the story is one of many features. The set pro gramme was swept aside. The Pres ident presided hroughout. The pre pared papers were not presented, but they will be printed in the permanent record. Their places were taken lirst by the "declaration" which was adopted after discussion which brought to light no serious objection to its affirmations. President Itoosevelt himself an swering the one criticism ? that of Governor Folk, of Missouri ? to the declaration, aroused the conferenc<> to its warmest demonstration of ap proval . He swept aside the "aca demic question" of where the line of authority should be drawn between the States and the nation. He want ed action, and what he said received endorsement at each period. It was this: Roosevelt for Action. "Just a word on what has been called the twilight land between the powers of the Federal and State gov ernments. Mv primary aim in the legislation that 1 have advocated for the regulation of the great corpora tions has been to provide some effec tive popular soveroign for each cor poration. I do not wish to keep this twilight land one of large and vague boundaries, by judicial decision that in a given ease the State cannot act, and then n few years later by othsr decisions that in practically similar cases the nation cannot act either. 1 am trying to And out where one or the other can act, so there ahall al ways be some sovereign power that on behalf of the people can hold every big corporation, every big in dividual, to an accountably so that ? its or his act*, shall be beneficial io the people as a whole. In matters that relate only to the people within '?l.o State of course the State is to sovereign and it .should have the tower t o a f t . Tf the matter is such 'ha' the State itself cannot act then wish on behalf of all the State* i la: he national povernment should act. The declaration, upon which the President remarks were predicated, was presented to the conference by Governor Blanchard, rA Louisiana, at (he opening of th? session. The de claration begins: "We, the Governors of the States and Territories of the United State* iff America, in conference >? mbled, do hereby declare the conviction that ! the great prosperity of oar country rests upon the abundant resources of the land chosen by our forefather? for their homes and where they laid the foundation of this great nation." The declaration states that the nat ural resources of the country are the common heritage of all the people, and that the duty of the government is to censure the same for future gen erations. Reclamation work is advised and the streams and watercourses should be protected and improved. Forestry ought to be encouraged by the States and the general government. The final work of the conference was tc make it a permanency. Late JVebuj In "Brief ^ MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST In pursuance of a harmony deal with Aldrich, Mr. Forakcr suspended his llmwiisvillc tijrht until after the election. Governors, jurists. Senators and inanv famous men gathered at the first National Resources Conference, which began at the White House. The Taft managers are said to have made a deal with the corpor ation interests that is expected to in sure his nomination. The Wright brothers made a iliprli t of three miles at Manetoe, N. C. The African Methodist Kpiseopal General Conference, iu session at Norfolk, decided to elect five bishops. Virginia Odd Fellows will raise a ivuMUHIO endowment fund for their orpi.-a.ingi and old folks' home a' Lynchburg. Two ??( jjii s, members of the Sul fclk chain u.sng. saved the life ?t* their puaid and were pardoned by Mavn No:?l< tt. Another tornado in the South has done much damage. More entertainmen s were given in San Francisco for the officers and men of the fleet. A three-cornered fight is on in Pennsylvania among the adherents of Bivan, Johnson and (Irav. An autopsy was performed on "The" Allen, the New York sjmrt ?ng man, H> see if there were any grounds for the theory of foul play. Bishop Hoist man of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, died of heart failure. Twenty-nine prisoners were killed jind .'ill more wounded in an attempt ; o escape from a Russian prison. A tidal wave i-- said to have cost 10,000 lives at Hankow, China. Allen Gard, Governor of a IMiilli pine provineee is dead, bolo wounds at last proving fatal. Congress passed the agricultural bill on Monday. House and Senate conferees are in ;i deadlock over the Pension bill. One more body was dug up on the Guinness farm near Laporte, Ind. Japan is expected to inaugurate a still more aggresive policy in Korea. King Manuel of Portugal took the oath of allegiance. Ludovic Halevv, the French novel ist and dramatic author, is dead. Four prisoners escaped from the Spartanburg, S. C., ciiaingang Mon day. but two were recaptured. The General Conference of the Northern Methodist church, in ses sion at Baltimore, had a busy day. Jews were accused iu the Douma of mutilating themselves to escape military service. Prince Philip 7.11 Kulenhcrg was placed under arrest on a charge of perjury. The House adopted the conference report on the Army bill, granting *7,000.000 increase in pay. Secretary of the Navy Metcalf re viewed the great armada in San Francisco Hay. Two business blocks in Atlanta, Ga., were burned, the loss bciii? esti mated at $1,2">0,000. The Schuylkill river rose 10 feet and caused much damage in Philadel phia suburbs. AH of J hr 72 wreokors and mem hers of the crew on the ship Poter Kiokmern wore saved. After n hot debate. the Hoijw do oided to exclude tho rnnlrt'ti from soldiers' homos. The battleship Hoot enfpred the (Joldon (into and Son Frnnoisoo wont wild with delight. Tho Conneetieut Kopnblican con vention turned dnwu both Senators .-is deleirnles and indorsed Tnft. Kx-Prosident Cleveland who has indigestion, is said to ho vrainintr rap idly. A 10-vear-old Italian boy,, with a razor slashed five persons mi Now York, and two may die. The American loo Company inves l juration wns ordered continued in .??pite of President Oler's appeal. HEARTLESS "P.lljrer Hoped with hi* <w>k. unfodirg wretch!" "Well. I don't know. Why ?boukl* n't bo Lf he wan ?d to?" "But hJs wlf? was jur* going t? give n dinner party." ? Life. 8 poo VI v.l.. . . . ,) .v i : < < I * 1 1 up only onre In l^1* ?Ny>?, ire now oaaoufacturod In .MuoiUa BIG BANK DEFUNCT Pittsburg Institution Unable to Recover From Big Steal WILL NOT HURT OTHER BANKS Allegheny National Will ,Not Re Open Ite Doors ? Institution Can not Weather the Storm* ? Will Have No Effect on Business. Pittsburg, Pa., Special. ? It is of ficially announced that the Allegheny National Bank, whose former cashier, William Montgomery, is in jail, spc :ifically charged, with the misappro priation of $T>04.000 while officers pf the bank and of the Treasury De partment are trying to fathom still larger apparent discrepancies in the bank's funds, will not re-open for business Monday. Instead a notice >11 the door will announce that the fompt roller of the Currency has tak ?n charge and will close tip the a flairs :>f the bank. T'ntil late Sunday it had been ex pected that tlr.' institution would weather the .storm and be able to continue business. To this end a number of strong tinancial institu tions nud prominent capitalists of the ?ity offered assistance and provided f2f>0,00n cash while the directors pro vided a like amount to meet imme diate needs or provide for p >ssib!?* ?mergencies. At the same time a complete re-organization was decided upon. A hitch occurred in thes't plans and all of the day was spent in conferences attended by Kvamin er Folds, represent ins; the Treasury Department, the bank \ directors and financiers who had proffered ai l. Af ter a careful review of the situation ?suspension of th ? hank v as decided upon as the onlv lexical course, hut this decisi \ ...iiiounced until a new ray of hope appeared. The announcement was withdrawn fiiul the conference reconvened t<> dis cuss tin- new suggestion for continu ing business. Finally, however, it was agreed to stand by the earlier decision ami to 1 it |ii i.lii 1 ?*. The su>p"nsiou of the haul;, >1 is believed, will have practically no ef fect upon conniiercu:l or financial in stitutions oft he cily. President to Methodists. Washington. S| 1. ? "Good eiti zcmdiip'' was lli<- subject of an ad dress l?v President Rosevclt in which he paid a 1 1< >t >i l>!<* tribute to inothcr liooil before ;i large gathering of Methodists ill tin* American Cnivr sitv, in course of cons! met inn. just, outside of tin* eily limits. Tin1 assem blage was composed principally of the delegates to the (ieneral Confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal ehnreh, now in s? ?nioii in iSaltimore. What was to hnve heen a feature of the occasion ? a reception of the delegates by the President and Mrs. Roosevelt in the college <?(' history ? was abandoned owing ! < > an engage ment which th'' President previously had made. Perhaps no feature of the exercises occasioned I lie Presi dent more real delight than the sing ing by the German member's of the General Conference of "Ein Keste Hurk Isk I'nser (Soft" (A Mighty Fortress is Our God"), a hvinn snng by the adherents of Martin l.nfher during the period of reformation. "That's fine." exclaimed President Roosevelt when the singing of this old hymn began. He added that it was his favorite song. The President then repeated a portion of the first verse of the song in German- -to the evident delight of the assemblage. Telegraphic Briefs. After a !ive!v d<bat< the Senate re ported Senator liayner's Stewart in quiry resolution t<> the Military Com mit t ee. Hundreds of visitors saw a Vir ginia couple married in the rotunda of the Capitol. Governor Fort, of New .Jersey, is being boomed as the l{<'pnhlic;tn nom inee for Vice-president. Work or Panama Canal. Charleston, S. Special. The lion. William II. Te ft. Secretary of War. arrived in Chailevf m harbor 'it noon Sunday on l>?ard I he cruiser Praitie and alter >? p ? 1 1 ? I i 1 1 ?_r a t"\s hours in the *it* . during which time lie win me' and grccied bv a nundvr of officials and /fiend*. lfH t!:e cl.v l'ov Washington at : 1 ?"? p. ni. via ' ii'j Atlantic Con.-' Line. The Secretary expressed him. /-If as exceeditjcly w?l| pleaded with tin* progress of tl:e ca nal work. Monster Cotton Mill Engine Ruined. Greenville, S. C., Special. ? Owins to ? derangement in t lie engine, the cylinder head of the six hundred horsepower engine which pulls some of the machinery of th ja Spinning Company blew out and engine wat> praeticaUy rujunH. B will be necessary to shijt do?*) the mill for several day* or un#il the damage is repaired. The mgitieer was out of the room at the tine and bo one wa4 injured.