The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 29, 1906, Image 3
WADE HAMPTON.
The State Honors Itself by Erecting
a Monumejfc
TO HER HEROIC SON.
Memories of Sixty-Poor,and Seventy-Six
Revived In the Scenes In Colombia
Last Week Attendlof the
Unvelllof of the Hampton
Monument.
The impressive oeremony of the un
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veiling ui tue uauasoirje . a ju,uuu
bronze equestrian statu,Ipf Gen.
Wade Hampton, one of the world's
greatest cavalryman and Soubh Carolina^
greatest Btatosman and most
lovable son, oarrled about fifteen
thousand people to the city of Columbia
on Tuesday of last week.
Main street, beautifully decorated
in Gonfeder&U colors, was thronged
as on a big day of fair week, and tbo
long processslon representing the Confederate
organizations of the State,
the schools and colleges, the National
Guard organizations, the executive,
Judicial and legislative branches of
the State government ^p^sneored to
the echo ae it moved Jf?n Main
street from tlio post omce, theuce
around the capltol building opposite
the stand erected for special guests
by the side of the statute whioh faces
the capitol building from the east.
Tne outpouring of the orowd from
all over the state, and the enthusiasm
whion marked every detail of the
ceremony, manifested an interested
? nrl Vt as If Vin /! vsonlfii f Vi a vtn wf a t
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the people generally to genuinely
honor a really great man. The military
genius of Hampton at the time
of his remarkable campaigns In Virginia
attraoted the admiring gaze of
the world at the time. But that he
Bpent a great fortune as well as exercised
with still greater effect his
splendid fighting oapaolty through
the four yoars' great struggle, was
not what most endeared him to the
hearts of his oountrymen, nor yet was
it his grand work of redeeming his
prostrate state from radical rule and
negro domination in *76, when the
greatest self control and head work as
well as undauuted courage were needed
to bring suooess to & very dtittcult
and delicate undertaking. It was his
great loving heart that prompted him
to give ail?his genius, his whole life,
as well as his property?to his people
that has given him a permanent place
in the hearts of all who know him in
life or are acquainted with his intimate
history.
Hampton was a type of the great
>!n n fr.Vi >a tlmi n rtrfirto iini'tira'a
vUVVi JLI ? V7AV4 VWJi./ 4 1VJVUV j \ "MUWIW O
aristocracy, whose standards are Intellect
and character as well as culture
and retinement and means and
power. lie lived close to nature and
waa strong, being a physical giant as
well as a prince in maimers, lie
wont to war a millionaire, with a big
fortune for those days, and he died a
poor man. But none has died with t
richer heritage in all the things that
make men great and entitle thorn to
respect and admiration. He gave his
genius as a cavalryman to his state
after advising against secession.
Then he oame home and wrested his
state from northern thieves in the
teeth of federal bayonets and became
its strong governor at a time it needed
a big man and rounded out bis
career with many terms in tho United
States Beuato.
Th3 procession, headed by a oordon
of polioj and bands of muslo, was in
charge of MaJ. Theo. G. Barker,
grand marshal of efao day, and himself
a splendid flgurtiof the old times.
It was escorted by y squad of Hampton's
old oavalry under Col. T. J.
Llpeoomb, Governor Hey ward and
staff and Brigadier General Wille
Jones and staff, of the national guard
organization, oame next and these in
turn were followed by the Citadel
cadets, the damson oadets, a company
from Porter Military aoademv
at Charleston and the national guard
organization of the state. Next
Major Thomas Car wile and staff oi
the state Confederate division followed
by the veterans and sons of veterans.
A bevy of pretty women anr
girls bearing banners oiosed this see
tion of tho paradA Next oame Hi
carriages bearing tpeae: Gen. M. U
Butler, the orator of the day; Blshoi
Ellison Capers, himself a distinguish
ed Confederate general; Maj. Lown
des, Chairman J. Q. Marshall, of th<
monument commission, F. W. Huok
stahl, the monument soulptor, Gov
ernor-elect M. F. Ansel, Presldenl
Benjamin Sloan of the South Oaro
Una University, Hon. Rlohard I
Manning of Sumter, Col. B. A. Mor
gan, superintendent A. Coward o
the Olbadel, President D. B. Johnson
of Wlnthrop college, Hon. F. M. Sea
brook and Rev. Mlkell, Hampton'i
grand ohildren in oharge of Col
Wade H. Manning, his ohief aid di
camp, Mayor H. Gibbes, of Co
lumbia, and ivrayor R. Goodwyi
Again Get Damages*
At Columbia after being out save
hours the Jury Thursday afternco
returned a terdioi of 15,000 damage
for John Alexander Piokett agalni
the Southern Railway tor injuries a
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Rhett of Charleston.
II la estimated that there were between
ten and fifteen thousand visitor*
augmented by the olty's population,
all business having been suspended
In honor of the oooaslon. feature
of the day was the parade whloh
was probably the longest ever seen In
this olty. In the line of maroh were
numerous military and olvlo organisations.
Besides three companies from
the military institutions of the state
and about twenty-five companies of
state troops there were the survivors
of Hampton's cavalry mounted, a
long line of Confederate veterans, sons
of veterans and a stream of oarlsges
containing distinguished guests.
There were also three bands of music
In the parade. On reaching the
statue whloh is looated on the state
house grounds, the parade disbanded,
forming in a olrcle around the large
stand erected for the speakers and invited
guests.
The officers and members of the
retiring legislature and the memberselect
of the new legislature, members
of the Olemson faoulty and mombers
of the ohamber of commeroe of Columbia
met in the oapltol building
and prooeeded to the stand outside
under the sergeants of arms of the
senate and house bearing tho official
maca and sword of state.
The unveiling oeremony, proper
was opened with prayer from Bishop
Capers. Then after musio the unyeillLg
was done bv the Hampton grand
ohtldreD, four girls and one boy. A
great shout went up from 10,000
voices as tho folds fell away from the
handsome figure of Hampton on his
dashlDg steed.
The commission then formally turned
tho monument over to Governor
Hayward, who received it In behalf
of tho Rtate and Introduced Gonoral
Butler, the orator of the day, who
oharmed his audience with a two
hours' splendid oration. Gen. Butler
fs one of the South's Rplendid speakers
and his fasoinatlng diction and
touching eloquenoe held the atten
tion of the crowd throughout.
At the conclusion of the address
tho students of Winthrop the Columbia
Female college and tho College
for Women and the aohool children
from this and other oltlcs sung the
"Bonnie Blue Flag" and other patriotic
airs while tho Daughters of the
Confederacy banked the monument
with garlands and wreaths.
When Gen. Butler had oonoluded
the eulogy upon his comrade In armB
and oolleague in oongress, State Senator
Richard I. Manning read a beautiful
poem, dedicated to the occasion,
by James Henry Rice, Jr. A saulte
of ltt guns dosed the exerolses.
Long before time for the parade,
the crowds centered on Main street
and from the state house to the post
ohioo, the streets were lined with people,
vrho seemed oontent to spend the
time standing out In tho warm sunshine,
talking to the many friends
they mot there.
The merchants had spared no pains
to make the decorations attractive,
and to thoao seated on the steps of
i.ho capital it was a beautiful sight.
Tuo blue sky overhead enclosed Mcdu
street, where banners and llaga bearing
the Southern Gross an:l draperies
of red, white and red of the Goofed#
racy blended In the distance with tb
gray uniforms of the veterans gathered
at the post ofllce for the parade.
The crowd on the streets was an
interesting orowd. Tnoro was a good
deal of cheering as the parade passed
1 AWiv Ktil' 4 B > w\\ i>l t I\IV. 1 n\-\ ABO VA
?lUklg) uut VUU 0|liliy VflilUU UilAlA'JUUl
lzed it was one of enj jyment and appreciation
and cordial fellowship.
Seeing the old Confederate digs,
the gray uniforms, the rod shirts, callod
up in the mind of the old soldier*
many an incident and thrilling scent
in whioh perhaps these identic*
rellos had figured. Sculptor F. W,
Ruokstuhl, who designed the statute
was introduced to the audience, anc
reoeiyed a great ovation. The statu*
was erected by the state of Soutt
Carolina and its citizens, the legiila
ture having appropriated $20,000
while the remaining $10,000 waa rals
ed by popular subscription.
Wolf Attacked Lad,
Tearing itself loose from its chain
a half-tamed coyote ran at large oi
the streets of Greenville Thursday
night at^aokiug several people
i among them Luther Rogers, a 1
year-old white lad, wheae leg wa
fearfully lacerated In several place:
1 The wolf was oaught by a big negr
i blacksmith while In the aot of chew
' ing the lad's leg. The blaoksmlt
stunned the Infuriated animal with
blow from his fist and later stampe
I it to death. Several negro men at
Lacked earlier in the evening ha
r their olothing torn by the wolf bu
uttered no injuries. Tne wolf wa
> wrought about a year ago from
Western State. It has generally bee
regarded as tame and docile, and it l
feared that the animal was sufh rin
vith raQles when killed. The be a
vill be sent to a paateur Institute f(
examination.
Harder And Mmcide.
After a trlval quarrol Thursdi
with his bride of three months ovi
the purchase of some furniture, Del
Highland, a farmer living near Ca
novla, Mloh., shot and killed her, 1
then turned the revolver upon hit
self, killing himself instantly. Hig
land was 28 years old and his wi
i 22.
St. Matthews on Christmas Day 19(
Q The railway will likely ask for a n<
n trial. The oase has been tried sevei
is times. One Jury gave the Pioki
it boy $10,000 and the railroad seonr
it a new trial
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FOUL MURDER.
An Aged Widow Who Lived Near
Qaffney Robbed
AND HER THROAT CUT
The Ciime, Which Was a Most Shockioftv
Brutal Oae, Was Committed
About Mid-day. Tom Harris, a
Wonderiof Character Arrested
On Suspicion.
A dispatch from Gaffnoy to The
News and Courier Bays that section
was agatn tbe soene of a most shocking
crime. On Tuesday of last week
between 12 and 1 o'olook, at her horro
on the crest of a hill, two and a half
miles from Gaffnoy, and overlooking
the town, Mrs. Hortenso Morgan, an
aged widow, living all alone, was mur
dered and robbed. Her throat was
cut from ear to ear and several hun
dred dollars Btolen from her person.
As the ctt'Z >us weru returning from
their dinner the news spread thai Mrs.
Morgan bad been murdered and tbe
sheriff and the ohlef of police with the
blood hounds went to the scone, but
they had not been gone long before
one Tom Harris was pointed out at
tbe depot as a man seen at Mrs. Mor
gan's just before tbe crime was oom
mined, several good and substantial
men identified him as having been
ween on the poroh of tho house as they
pa sed coming to town.
Harris was arrested by Officer Cloyla
and Deputy Marshal Philips. Officer
Hull man came up and they took Har
rls to the city prison where he was
searched. On his person was found a
largo knife, very sharp and bloody, and
In two rolls was found $72(3 10. One
roll of bills was wrapped in a white
rag very muoh as a woman would
wrap It. The other roll had been
wrapped In the same way, but the
wrappings were gone. The rag whloh
seemed to have boen wrapped around
this last roll was found between the
house and Gaffney.
Harris, when asked how muoh money
he had, said that he had about
$600, $126 less than he really had. In
addition to the money and knife there
were found on his person stains of
blood, about his hands, and on his
breast there v/as a bruise.
Your oorresponder. t vlshed tho
scene of tho crime and found Mr?.
Morgan on her bed In a pool of h6r
own blood. Ilor throat was out from
av.r to ear and her nlothlnir had been
turned up ml two clotb bags contain
ing the money, which was attached
to her waist, had been out off and
thrown to the floor. The room had
been ransacked, the clothing thrown
about tho fl ior. From Inquiry of the
neighbors the following facts we.ro a3
certalned:
Mrs. Morgan lived alone In her
house on the top of the hill, bub spent
her nights with a tenant on her place,
1 bec&uso she was afraid of being murdered.
Between 11 and 12 o'clock
Mrs. Webb eaw ber about the pl&C8,
nanglng out clothes and feeding the
pigs. At 1 o'clock Mrs. Webb had an
engagement to go with her to see ?
neighbor. After waiting some time
over tho appointed hour she went tc
1 the house to see what had become oi
? her. She looked in the window and
1 saw her on tho bed with her throal
' out. She gave the alarm and soon e
j orowd had gathered.
1 Harris was seen going to Mrs. Mor3
gen's near to 12 o'olook. lie aske("
1 some people along the road how far 11
was to her house. He was seen In thi
1 porch talking to her while she wai
sewing. When he came to town afte:
the murder the first thing ho did wa
to buy a suit of clothes and an over
OOat.
Later Tuesday afternoon his broth
Q or-inlaw, Jim Childress, who work
at one of the mills here, but who hai
been away for some time, returaim
>? to Gaffoey Tuesday morning witl
2 Harris, was arrested as knowim
j something of the orime. Children
i, worked with Mrs. Morgan this fall
o pioklng ootton, and knew of the repor
>. that she carried money on her person
h When arrested he was on his way t
a Blaoksburg, where he was to join Mrs
d Harris, who was <valting there for he
husband to return. It is thought tha
d Childress knows a great deal about th
it affair, as Harris was a stranger in th
,g community.
a Harris is a man of medium size, o
n a low order of intelligence, with sand
Is whiskers over his face. As a boy h
g was considered wild. Rumor has 1
,d that he was at Forest City, N. 0
)r about throe weeks ago working in
mill, but be says that he came hei
from Grove's, N. C. Three years ag
he lived at lliokory Grovj, whero b
\\ was known as a preacher, having bee
L ordained by the Baptist Ohurol
os Another rumor has it that he was
A- Holiness preacher. Anyway, he aske
16 the officers to look in his suit case an
n- get him hii Bible. When asked whei
h- he got so much money he said that 1
fe labored and made it, but afterwar<
said that he made it by labor ar
II Woman Murdered.
3W With head horribly battered by
^ olub and with ber throat blaok ai
blue, Mrs. Sarah Kilnger, aged
years, the widow of a Oiyii war veto
an, was found In her home at Shai
okin, Pa., on Thursday. The m
gambling.
1% la thought by many that If Harris
killed Mrs. Morgan ba was hired
So murder bar? There are Ihoae -?bo
believe that She killing of Mrs. Mor
gan was She execution of a deep laid
plot to put the aged lady out of the
way, and that Harris was the tool
seourod So do the bloody work. The
offlolals of Gaffney are now at work
securing evidence In the case against
Harris, and It is believed that She Investigation
being made may lead t^
the arrest of other parties. In G*ff
ney there Is well founded belief that
Harris was hired to kill Mrs. Morgan
for the purpose of getting her out of
the way. Mrs. Morgan was well-todo,
having about six bales of oottcn,
whloh she had been holding for some
time, several of the bales having been
held over frcm last year. Her land 1*
worth about 10,000.
Harris has been removed to Spar,
tanburg. It was feared that If he was
kept in Gaffney the Jail would be
stormed by an angry ooob and the
prisoner lynched. The exoltement was
great.
It Is believed that Harris was hired
to kill Mrs. Morgan. She was elgbfcv
y*ars of age. She had more than $700
in her house, six bales of ootton and
orned land worth about $10,030. At
the trial of Harris the Stat' will show
that the old woman was murdered for
her property. A man by tho uame of
Childress, a half brother of Harris,
has been arretted as a material wit
nesse8. It la expected that other arrests
will be rasdin shortly.
JblRHJ THEM ALL.
REFUSES TO SUSPEND OUDHIl
DISCHARGING THE NEGROES
Roosevelt Cables Taft That Facts
i , Are Necessary to Secure
Rehearing.
The War Department Thursday isp.ued
the following statement con
corning the negro troops ordered to
be dismissed at Fort Reno:
"In the matter of tho order discharging
the enlisted men of three
companies of the Twenty-tUtli In
i- a i i.i vv 1 ?A
lauvry, iuuuu uy tuu rresiueub, sn
application was presented to the Sec
retary of War by a number of persons
of standing asking for a rehearing by
the President of the ground on whioh
action was taken.
"The Secretary telegraphed the
President of the application and delayed
the proceedings of discharge un
til the President could iudicato h!s
wishes. The Secretary was meantime
called out of town. No answer was
reoeivod from the President.
"The Scorobary on his return did
not feel justified in further delaying
the cxseutlon of the order of dis
oharge eapcolally in view of the faot
that the Secretary learned that the
President had fully and x \ n i l ely
considered the argument against the
ordor of the persons who have now
applied for a. rehearing.
"Accordingly the Secretary directed
yesterday, Tuesday, that tne prcoeed
ings for discharge bo oon tinned without
delay."
Later in tho day Secretary Taft received
a dlspatcn from President
Roosevelt and issued the following additional
statement:
A telegram was received from the
President at 11 o'olock today, after
the previous statement was given out
i at the War Department, in whioh he
i declined to suspend tho discharge un.
loss there are new faots of such imi
portance as to warrant cabling him
> Ele Htates that hi) action was taker
^ after due deliberation, acd that the
I only matter to whioh he can pay heec
i ih a presentation or the facts showing
i the official reports to bo In whole oi
In part untrue or clearly exculpating
- aomo individual. If any such fact)
I later appear he can act as ho deem
b advisable, but thus far nothint
i baa beeu introduced to warrant ?
i tiusponslon of the order, and ho direct
r that It be
8 Kntvred Through Bkyllght.
Frank York la In polioo custody ai
a result of one of the most darini
" burglaries in tho history of Birmlng
j ham, Ala. The robbery in questloi
was that of the Birmingham Arm
J Co. one of the most prominent hard
ware and sporting goods stores In th
J the state. It was entered about 1
o'clock in the night, the BUDpoaec
l motnoa Deing via trie skylight, whlc
was found unbooked. A rope wii
' used to lower the marauder fcw<
stories to where the oontents of t)>
" main part of tho store was accessible
* Nearly $1,000 worth of firearms
knives and cutlery were stolen. Tb
' arrest of York followed his attemp
to pawn goods which the local detee
f tivei think were part of the arm
? the company lost,
y
O Killed by JhJxpLoelon*
t By the explosion ofoellulold in th
plant of the Bouffard Comb oompan:
a on Earo Seventy- tifr.h street, Ne
e York Thursday the owner of the bui
o iness, Charles Bouffard, his wife an
is a boy employed by him were blow
in through the window to the street b
i. low. The woman was Instantly ktl
a ed. Bouffard is dying and the hoy
id seriously injured. The exploslc
id wrecked the third floor and tire thi
re followed, though it was soon extli
le guished badly burned aevor&l emplo;
3s es of adj >imng plants, among 300 <
id whom there was a panic for a time.
man lived alone. The authorltl
* have no olne to the murderer aad a
Q(J not yet able to deolde whether t
00
woman was killed by robbers
n. whetber her life was taken to aooci
ro- plisb some other purpose.
RUNS BABY *'ABM.
LOATHSOME DETAILS OP CRIMINALITY
IN NKW YOKK,
A Woman Accrued of Vileneti bjHer
Daughter! Who Have Her
Arrested.
At New York thespeotaole of two
women denouncing as a murderess
the woman who brought them Into
the world but whom they refused to
call "mother" was witnessed In the
ortioeofthe district attorney Thurs
day The women are Mrs. Marie
S;hoh, recently a resident of Mas*
ohusetta, and MrB Wllhelmla Ihrig of
New York.
The mother whom they accused Is
Mrs. Wllhelmla Bokardt, who was arrested
by representatives of iho county
medloal society on a ohnrge of having
performed a criminal operation. The
arrest was raado upon Information
furnished the society by the daugh
tor anil tho two younger wimm appeared
voluntarily at the district at
torney's < ffloo to amplify the testimony
they already had gIvan agalml
1 their mother.
Both Mrs. Sohooh and Mrs. lhrlg |
declared that th*y had seen Mrs. Kok I
hardt kill hour old infants anil dls
pose of the bodies by burning the
In her kttohen stove. Mrs. Inrlg de
olarod that hor mother had quarreled
with her beoause she refusart to a sl^t
lu burning the bodies of babies.
Mrs. Sohi oh told the district alter
ney that, when she was threo days ohl
her mother wrapped her lu a bucd o
of rags and oast lior in the street
j She was rescued by her grandmother
who reared her and with who to she
remained until she became a woman.
When she came to thin ceuntry she
bald she found her mother conducting
a, disorderly houso and she doclan d
that her mother sought to have her
become an Inmate Ol the plaoe. She
refused. The iirst Bho knew of her
mother's present occupation, sin said
was when Mrs. Eckhardt'? little adop
ted son mado a dlsouvory In the
house whloh led to the exposure and
Mrs. Eekhardt's arrrat.
When she learned of the discovery
mado by the little boy Mrs. Sohooh
said she went to her mother about it
and she deolares Mrs Eokhardt proposed
that they go Into partorshlp
This she did after consulting with
representatives of thooounty medlca
soolety, and with a view of causing
Mrs. Eekhardt's arrest. It was
while occupying this position In her
mother's house, she said that she procured
the evidonoo which resulted In
Mrs Eokhardt's arrest. Mrs. Ihrlg
came here four months ago from Big
enaburg, Germany. She tesc.tl d
that she lived with her mother after
coming here and that in August labt
she saw her mother bum the bodies of
infants,
Four Rloii Ijoat
Four men oaught by a storm on
the crib work fo the new brc>k *at r
at feno ontrauoe to Holland harbor on
Lake Michigan, were washed away by
trio waves and drowned, The four
men with El Bennett went out on
the crib work in a launch and a scow
in the sfternoon shortly before toe
storm broka. When the wind struck
the crib tbe scow with Bennett
aboard, was torn loose. It drifted
up the lake and was finally oust
ashore north of Ottawa b3aoh with
Benuett safe, although In exhausted
condition. The four men loft on the
, crib could not gain the shoro because
i of the Immonao sea. A life savio^
: crow attempted to aid them, but the
1 waves were so high that no boa!
r could live. Attempts were made ti
r shoot a lino to them but tho hurri
i oaue hurled the line baok. Whei
4 night closed the men wore still cling
log dosporatoly to the crib work. A
f daybreak Friday they were gone.
SIiootH k Doctor.
M!sh OJjlllo Schneider, 42 years o
age, Thursday afternoon tired tivo re
volver shots at Dr. Frederick Bier
s hoff, two of whloh struck the doctor
* one In the body and another in tL
- arm, while two ah ts struck othe
a men. The shooting took place in th
b street at Madison avenue and Fifty
* ninth street. Dr. Bierbofl was take
0 to the Presbyterian hospital, wher
1 his wounds wero found to be not es
l peolally dangerous. One of the obhe
h shots took effect In the arm of Out
a Groege, a lawyer, another struoi
"> Paul Sheehan In the baok. Nelthe
e of the latter waa seriously li jurec
5 Miss Sohnelder, who was seized b
i, the police before she could lire aslxt
ft shot, gave various reasons for th
t shooting asserting tirat that she w*
) revenging herself for alleged profet
is slonal malpraocloo, and afterward
8 Id thv.t the doctor bad s olan all tb
ldevi for French waists which she ha
e designed.
flung film t^ulclc.
w They m*da short work of & mu:
a- derer last week at Centre, T?ras. Die
d Garret, a negro killed Dr. M. M. Pai
n on Saturday week ago. The gran
a- jary returned a true bill on Wed
1- uesday of last week, the so&ffold we
Ik constructed the same night, on U
>u public square. The trial took pla(
it on Thursday and Thursday aftvrnoc
i- at half-past one o'olook he was hunj
f- Dr. Paul was killed by Garrett, who
of he was endeavoring to arrest for dl
playing a weapon on tho street.
as The third anniversary of the foun
re Ing of tho Republic of Panama 1b fc
he Ing celebrdted.
or ~
Ten million persons are reported
in*
be facing starvation in Central Chit
BRYAN AND SHAW
Address the Commercial College
at Kansas City Thursday*
BIG CROWD PRESENT.
Among a Long Ust of Speakers Thtst
Two Men Had the Lion's Share
t
it < Mention, But Bryan Drew
the Biggest
Crowd.
At Kt.'saa Oily Mo., on Thursday
Leslie M Shaw and Wm J. Bryan
had the lion's share of attention
among & long list of speakers at the
three sessions of the Trans Mississippi
Congress. All spoke on sutjeota resting
to tho increasing of the commercial
business of the country.
Mr. Bryan was appointed to head
a o i mm it tee of former presidents of
tho Cong oss to escort Secretary Shaw
to the platform, i nd when these two
distinguished public mm led the way
to tho rostrum there was great applause,
S1 cro'ary Shaw declared:
1 'If this country ever develops International
mororiants It will accomplish
It by granting them encourage*
ruuit, not alone by dredging haroors
and deepening ohauneiSj but by Insuring
them a merchant marine In
which to carry, under the most favorable
terms, the products of our farms,
< ur mines, our forests and our facto*
rim.
' Secretary It^ot has gone a step
further than I propose to go iu favor
of a merchant marine. He commits
htllOHolf to I tip. ahln T
lo not say that I aai In favor of a
ship subsidy, but I will say that I
am 11 favor of anything that will
rroouro a merchant marine for the
United States."
Mr. Bryan, who?c subject principally
concerned the o. mmerolal Interesti
wf the Mississippi Valley region, was
the solo speaker at the evonlng session.
At a session of the. resolutions commute,
a proposal to endorse Secretary
B ^ot's suggestion for a ship subsidy,
particularly for mall steam- rsto
S uth America, was adopted. There
>s a strong sentiment in the Congress
favoring Secretary Boot's suggestion.
The crowd that grooted Mr. Bryan
was the largest of the Congress,
numbering 000 persons. Mr. Bryan
<Md he felt frh ndly toward the commercial
Cv>ngTosu b:-o\us!i It was the
only body of whLh he was over president
Mr. Bryan asked the adoption of a
resolution endorsing the resolution
unanimously adopted! by the Interparliamentary
Union at Its Loudon
teoslcu last July In favcr of interna.local
arbitration.
Mr. Bryan asked that a resolution
tffjotlng trusts be passe 1 a-> follows:
"Unsolved, That this Congress la
unalterably opposed to prtvace mono
pones sua, oeneving tnem inherensible
and Intolerable, favors the enforcement
of existing laws and the
onaottnennt of auoh new laws as may
be necessary to protect Industry from
the menace ? (Tired by the trust
Mr Bryan sa'd that he was glad
i that at last all people tlnally has oome
; to be oppoBcd to the yin^ and ra5
calving of rebates. IIa spoke of the
L reoent conviction of the Sugar Trust
) for receiving rebates, and a ticked
the Standard Oil Company, which,
j he declared, had built up muoh of its
ouilness by operating In rebcatea.
t But legislation was needed, he said,
not only to prevent railway i from
granting rebates, but tho e other
great oonoarns from watering their
t otOOk.
Doiio t>y Nt-icroeii.
, Burgiare have become aotlve In
e Pittsburg, Pa., and vicinity again af?\
r tor an abatement of two days. Scores
e of houses wereentersd. a numbor of
people were held up on the streets,
n A m!ij>rlty of tho highwayman were
e negroes. At Washington, Pana,,
Mao Dalansy, & negro 17 years of age
r was stabbed to death while trying to
o rob an Italian. Alfred Murray,
t student at the Washington and Jofir
for ;oq oodege, was seriously cut by a
I. negro whom he oaught ransaoklng his
y room.
^ Coupler HMlud.
3 Robert Hall, while coupling cars on
j a freight la the Kaot Ryuc, ,
s yard* of bhe Southern railway F.lday
t morning about 0 o'clock, wasrua over
(j and mortally Injured. Both le^s were
amhed, and besides bain# fearfully
b'uiaftd, he was Internally irjlired,
and died acou after the aoiidonfc.
r_ He leav ? a wife and one ohti 1, aod
k JUOO vM?itn? 1 riAnfl f>
" no \* ' " 4?J i ? W ] UUUUUUUUU. Lit} HM
Jj abjufc 33 y'ars old.
a
[. Fmsi I'mtol i>aul.
is A special from Dahlia, Ga., says
id Ciarles Gardiner, a white naaa, and
jo an unknown negro were kUlel in a
in p'slol duel at Beaohman's mill, a few
if. miles from Duoltu, early Friday. The
m fight was the result of a quarrel
s Thursday over an unknown differenoe.
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d- Sir Henry Mortimer Duran*, the
,e. Brlttish Ambass'dor to the United ,
States, has resigned, /
The Pen?/lvanla lines west of Plttar /
burg announce a 10 per oent In ore tan'
ia. in the salaries of employes. /
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