The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 19, 1910, Image 5
VERY BAD MESS
Co?ernment Employee Makes Sensational
Statement About Tall
AND A CERTAIN LETTER
Stenographer in Secretary Hallihger's
Oflice Declares that President's
^ liOtter Exonerating lialliiiger was
Substantially Prepared by Man in
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His Ofltce.
There was made publ'c In Washington
on Saturday afternoon what
purports to he a statement of Frederick
M. Kerhy, a stenographer in
the oflLce of Richard A. Balling-er,
Secretary of the Interior, to the effect
that he and other stenographers
in the department wrote from the
dictation of Oscar Rawler, assistant
Attorney General for the interior department,
a letter w'hich he alleges
to have been substantially the foundation
for President Taft's letter ex
onerating Secretary uaninger rrom
the charges of L. It. Glavis.
The Kerby statement further alleges
that the original drafts of the
Lawler letter were burned In a grate
In the Interior department, at the
suggestion of Don M. Carr, Ballinger'a
private secretary.
The statement attributed to Kerby
says in part, that after the visit
of Secretary Ballinger and Lawler to
the President's summer residence at
Beverly, in the week beginning September
5, Lawler returned to Washington
and "took up his quarters in
Ballinger's private office, calling in
Massey and me for dictation."
Kerby says that what Lawler dictated
referred to Ballinger as "you"
in each case, and the personal pronoun
"I" was used throughout. From
the context the "I" could be 110 other
than Taft himself.
"There could be no question,"
?ays the Kerby statement, "that
Lawler was drafting a letter for
^Taft's signature, reviewing the Glavis
charges and exonerating the secretary.
It was written in such form
that TaCt might have adapted lit
bodily.
"As I have eaid, the letter was
-dictated in Ballinger's private office
by I ^awler. Probably half a dozen
drafts were made before the final
one was accepted. Each time a fresh
draft was completed it would be tak?n
to Lawler, who would reviso it.
For two days Masse y and I did
nothing but help rush this work.
Lawler frequently consulted E. C.
Finney, assistant to Ballinger."
The statement goes on to say that
the draft was the subject of several
conferences, in which participated,
the st-ytement sayg, "Ballinger, Lawler,
Finney, Commissioner Frederick
Dennett, of the land office, Chief of
Field Service Schwartz, and, I
think, First Assistant Secretary
Frank Pierce, and Private Socrotary
* Carr."
Kerhy is quoted as saying:
"Without attempting to forco my
own conclusions upon any reader of
this statement, I want It to bo remembered
that it was the draft of
the letter exonerating Ballinger in
the charges Glavis bus made against
him."
Th^o statement says further:
"Early in the work Lawler had
given Mossey and myself instructions
^ that all rough draft copies discarded
In the composition of the final drafts
^ were to he retained by us.
"We all understood from the form
of the letter that it was to he the
basis of Taft's letter covering the
<jlavis charges. It was understood
by lis that this work was of special
Importance.
"The 'general arrangement of facts,
the order in which they come in the
President's letter is pracucaily identical
with the arra .jemenfs of facts
in the final Lawler draft or to-culhd
mamornndum."
Korhy is quoted as saying
"Certain parts of the T.ift letter
T can identify as being in substarce 1
the thoughts of the Lawler letter.
For instance, there is the passage I
in tho Taft letter, which cer.ainly 1
embodies Lawler's thought: 'The i
general responsibility of Cabinet '
positions demands the selection,
therefore, of men of the highest
character and integrity.
" 'Possession of these qualities, as *
well as an ability and experience
> -which have especially fitted you to
direct the affairs of the department
of the interior, warranted your ap- (
pointment as Secretary. c
"In general, Taft softened Lawler's I
draft, and doubtless very materially 1
^*Vior?cr?H tlirt wnrdinc in that he sub- r
?tituted for certain Lawler phrases, ji
phrases of his own, meaning t.he same t
thin/g." c
When news of the sensational 8
statement issued by Frederick M. t
Kerby reached the interior depart- t
ment, an emissary was sent by the -e
department to Kerby, who was off s
duty, to ascertain the verity of the t
report. He admitted that the story c
was true, and that he had Issued t
such a statement. I
Kerby reported at the department c
for duty next morning and obtained t
permission from Private Secretary t
LAWLER WROTE LETTER
PORTION OF WHICH PRESIDENT
TAFT USED AS HIS.
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This Is Sliown by a Comparison of
the Two betters, Notwithstanding
the Denials.
Jt Is said iii Washington that O3car
Lawler, assistant Attorney General
for the interior department, of
w.hich Itichard A. Balllnger is the
head, did in fact prepare a draft of
a letter addressed to Secretary Bai
linger and in such form and phrase
what it might have been adopted verbatim
and signed by the President,
as Mr. Taft's exoneration of the Secretary
from the charges of L. R.
Glavis, and authorizing the dismissal
of Glavis from his position of
special agent of the interior department.
This draft by Mr. Lawler was delivered
Saturday afternoon to the
Ballinger-Pinchot committee, and ordered
spread upon the records of the
(investigation.. Careful comparison
of the Gawler draft with the letter
of t.be President shows that Mr. Taft
did in fact adopt practically verbatim
two short paragraphs of Mr. Lawler's
language. The substances of
the two documents is otherwise wide1
I J ii i r>D i in i icii
Almost slmultanoously with the
publication of the Kerby statement,
Attorney General Wickersham sent
to the Ballinger-Pinchot investigating
committee, then in session, a
copy of the Lawler draft, accompanied
by a letter to Chairman Nelson,
in which Mr. Wichersham declared
the document had been overlooked
In sendirug the papers requisitioned
by tho committee at the
request of Attorney Brandeis.
When Hal linger emerged from
the conference .he showed signs of
angry concern, but declared vehemently
that there was "nothing to be
ashamed of."
"With reference to the published
affidavit of F. M. Kerby, a stenographer
in the office of the Secretary
of the Interior, to the effect that
the President's letter of September
13, 1 909, exonerating Secretary Ballinger,
was substantially prepared for
the President's signature by assistant
Attorney General Lawler, it was
said at the Wtiite House Saturday
that there is absolutely no foundation
for any such statement. The President
dictated his letter personally
as the result of his own investigation
of tho records, and consideration of
documents and papers in his posession
at the time, and upon the report
to him of the Attorney General."
Taffc Owns the Corn.
Mr. Taft declares not only that
Lawler did prepare such u letter as
Kerby said he did, but that he hid
so by the President's specific direction.
When he received it he found,
h* says, that it was not what he
wanted to issue, and ho wrote tho
letter .himself in tho form in which
he desired it, using from Lawler's
draft only 011.0 or two general statements.
The President 'goes still further
and takes up the question of the
"hack dating" of Attorney General
Wickersham's summary of the Giavis
charges, to which Attorney Ixmis 1).
Brandeis has drawn attention. Mr.
Taft says Uhat the Attorney General's
letter was in fact "back dated," and
that this was also done by his specific
direction.
Carr to be off duty Monday.
When Mr. Carr was seen Saturday
afternoon he said he had nothing to
say at the present time, but later,
after he had fuller read Uio story,
would make reply.
<"I made the facts public because
1 had decided that loyalty to Mr.
Q 111 n c n H i rl ti inctl fv rl i a 1 n \r o 1 t tr
1 #C4 I 1 1 11 ?> Vs i VI 1 VI 1XWO J Uiwv/J tut;
to the country," said Frederick M. '
Korby Saturday night.
He added that in view of what he
had heard of "snake killing" he
assumed he would be dismissed from
tho interior department. 1
"If the Secretary of the Interior
believes that my statement of facts,"
he continued, "calls for my seperaiion
from the service, It is up to him.
I have only stated the facts. He
lias said that he wants the publica- }
tion of all the facts. I have only
made by contribution of what he
has failed to make public." * I
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STUDENT FOUND DEAD,
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4. O. Fleming, of Davidson, Expired ^
Suddenly. fi
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'At Davidson, N. C., Mr. Samuel I
). Fleming, the twenty-year-old son r
>f 'Mir. and Mrs. J. O. C. Fleming, of h
Laurens, S. C., was found dead in
lis bod Thursday night. The cause
>f .his death has not been positively
iscertained, but it is supposed to
lave followed an attack of acute in- e
I 1 ~ II. A - 1 I A
ii?,t-?nwii. nf wtiiii 10 nis room u
ihortly after dinner to take a nap, c
laving stood a fatiguing examina- d
ion in the morning. He was miss- 1
d from supper and his roommate, 1
leeking to find the cause, entered
he room and found him dead. The
leabh of young Mr. Fleming is paricularly
sad because he was a pros- h
lective honor man of the senior 11
ilass of Davidson College, with only 11
wo examinations between him and d
lis diploma. ?
THE DEATH TOLL
Most Be Paid ia the Meter Races at Brightoo
Beach, New York.
ONE DEAD AND TWO HURT
The Frist Fatality Occurred About
Midnight Friduy Night.?Another
Serious Accident Shortly Afterwards.?Miraculous
Iflscapes Ordinary
Incidents.
'Ono mail killed and another painfully
maimed and three more badly
bruised was the record for the tirnt
ten hours of tlio 24 .hour race held
at tlio Brighton Beach motordrome
track Friday night and Saturday. At
the end of the tenth .hour the Fiat
car led with 4 97 miles to its credit
and the Rainier was only one mile
behind. The cars, with the Buiek
pair in t.ho load, ran without serious
mishap until midnight, thus disappointing
tlie arguries of those who
criticised the starting of the contest
on Friday, Uio lsth.
Eighteen minutes after midnight
the looked-for crash came. The Marion
car, drived by Hubert Anderson,
tore through the feuce on the turn
into the homo stretch and turned
turtle. Anderson jumped clear of the
wreck, but his mechanician, William
Bradley, was so badly mangled that
he died an hour later in the emer
gency nospuai at uoney island from
concussion of tho brain and a fracture
of the skull.
T.ho second accident happened at
two o'clock Saturday morning, when
tho Huick car Xo. 2, driven by George
Dewitt, crashed through the inner
fence on tho turn into the back
stretch. The driver escaped unhurr,
but the mechanician, Jack Towers,
sustained a fracture of the leg and
internal injuries. Early Saturday
morning the doctors at the emergency
hospital, said that Towers was
resting easy and would probably recover.
At 9.50 the driver, sustained a
severe injury to 0110 of his legs and
Mechanician John C. McGruder cut
on <the shouldor. The physicians
say tho Endicott will not bo able to
continue in the race. *
CKEIGHTON'S APPEAL.
Was Not Passed On by the General
Conferonoo.
The following letter from Rer. C.
W. Creigton explains itself:
The Associated Press dispatch sent
out from Ashovillo, stating that the
committee of appeals by a roto of
1.1 to C sustained th? decision of the
South Carolina conference which
tried the complaints against me in
'06 was erroneous. My appeal t?
the goueral conference was not heard
and, hence, the questions involved
in the case were not passed on by
the committee of appeal. T.he bishop
held that as I had preached since
I took tho appeal I had forfeited the
rDg.ht to appeal. In this view he succeeded
in .having a majority of the
committee agree with him.
The report of tlio committee was
as follows:
"Your committee on appeals has
had befbre It t.he appeal of C.
ii* n l?i. i - a i i- r* i ? s-* *
w . ureigmou or uio oouwi uaronna
conference, and the appeal was disallowed.
Eugene R. Hendrix,
"R. A. Meok, President.
"Secretary."
'This leaves the Issues involved
just where they were four years ago.
T hope the papers which published
the dispatch sent out from Asheville
will also publish the statement that
the true facts may appear.
C. W. Creig4iton.
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IA)ST HIS FAITH IN WOMEN.
I
L'ji ion town Merchant Will Not Wed i
Just Now.
Gannon Thomas, 51 years old, a 1
nerchant of Uniontown, Pa., who {
>rocured a license to marry Carrio *
lelle Hrown, a widow 4 2 years old. (
eturiKd the license, saying that it
vjis worthless mk tho wl/lnw hnri
lown after persuading .him to buy
ler trouseau and advance her a good- <
y sum of money. The courtship
covered 12 hours. She said she was
toing to the hotel, but instead was
peeding to Pittsburg! "I will trust j
vomen no more," .he added. "Ono (
had to work for me at Uniontown }
an away with $500, but this ono (
las almost broken my heart." j
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Kills (?irl and Self. j:
John Going shot and instantly kill- a
d his sweetheart, Miss Baton, Sun- 8
ay in Amherst county, Virginia, be- t
.inao .hi"> fnniitl the vnnnff womnn
riving with his brother. Ho then "
urn'e?d the revolver upon himself,
lis wounds will probably prove fatal.
Perish in Flames. y
At Faribault, Minn., Bert Sperry, o
is three children, and their grand t
nother were burned to death in a i
re which destroyed their home Fri c
ay. Mrs. Sperry and two children 5
fere saved. v
EAGLES ATTACK MEN
AUK DESPERATE WHILE FORAGING
FOR THEIR YOUNG.
Attacks on Lire Stock Are Becoming
Frequent in the Northwest
and Rirds Are More Numerous.
fEagles, now busy gathering food
for their young, are creating no end
of fear in the Northwest. Scarcely
a day passes without reports of attacks
upon men, women, children
or upon the smaller animals of the
farms. It is said more eaglos are
LlUbLlllg mining I, HO VI dgh Ul HIV V i?scade
and Olympic mountains than
ever before and that the reason for
their presence is the increased number^
of lambs, pigs, dogs, eats and
poultry. Many of the big birds havo
been shot, but few farmers will &hoot
to kill unless tho giant birds become
too bold.
'Maddened eagles attacked and tore
the flesh of George Hartman, a hunter.
in the vicinity of North Yakima,
Wash. A day later a stage driver
was attacked as he sat on the seat
of his coach and was drivii.g toward
Hartford, Wash. His face was badly
torn by the bird's talons.
Farmers near Hrlnnon declare the
thieving eagles are causing thorn
great loss among their young stock.
A big rooster in Mason county is re.
1 t ? 1. ,, ?n I.? t I 1 ? ? ., n.v.o11
jiu i c^u iu uavu gi y oil imtno it1 a muitii
eagle and to hare beaten off the marauder.
In all parts of the country
eagles are said to be swooping down
ami carrying away many ducks and
geese.
(Fanners in tho vicinity of Blaino
report having seen eagles carry off
two-days-old laiubs. In one pen the
flapping of their wings caused such
terror that the sheep rushed from
their enclosure and 15 were drowned
in a nearby stream.
Near Enumclaw, a young eaglet
fell from its nest 300 feet into the
valley. Children passing tho place
were set upon by the old eagles and
driven to their homes. T.he birds
were routed by the iiring of shotguns
as they circled over the houses. In
the Cascade mountains on the Pacific
slope great inroads are being made
on tho pigpens, and near Seattle,
Wash., one eaglo was killed while
trying to capture a dog in the city
pound. *
TWO DEAD IN PISTOL DUEL.
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How Over tho Closing of Saloon Ends
Faintly.
As a result of a duel between Daniei
Hanson and his sou, on one hand,
and Policemen Hiers and Amnions,
nil nthpr flirt <u1,toi* Thiun.i un I
Policeman Hiers are dead, a woru in
companion of Danson s?r'?ua!y
wound-ed and Harry Hanson is it jail,
charged with murder.
The light was ca -s j i by Policamna
Amnions attempting to el Hanson's
saloon, which was in operation alter
ho u r8. After everything diss aad
failed, the policeman start .d to eiuW
the elder Danson, when his son Hivd
the first shot, shifter.ug Ammons'
hand.
The policeman c'-en drew his re 'olrer
and coir.n.^ica ' sir) ding h
fired six shots at Hanson, everyone
taking effect. Policeman Hiers, attracted
by the reports, came up and
was shot through the head by the
younger Dan so a. *
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ODD FELLOWS ELECT.
Wade Hampton Cobb, of Columbia,
Is Next Deputy Grand Master.
The grand lodge of South Carolina
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
adjourned Thursday morninig
after a two days session at Spartanburg,
t.he most satisfactory and the
most largely attended in its long history
of seventy seven years, to meet
next year in Greenville.
The election of officers at the ^
morning session resulted as follows:
Errand Master, Wade Hampton Cobb,
Columbia; Deputy Grand Master,
James G. Long, Jr., Union; Grand
Warden, James II. Craig, Anderson; 1
EJrand Secretary, S. F. Killingsworth, (
Columbia; Grand Treasurer, II. En- *
lei, Greenville. (
OFFFICER KIIjIAS WATCHER 1
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)f a Negro (.'ambling I>oti at Dur- (
bam in Self Defence. j
At Durham, N. C., in a gun con- b
iict Friday night, Policeman W. A.
}obb shot and instantly killed Tom
lawk ins, a desperate negro, who
>arely missed blov/ing Sergeant Pen- c
lergrast's head off with a shotgun ll
erore dropping aean rrom coot) a 11
istol shot. The officers wore raiding I
gambling den which Hawkins
oenis to have been (guarding. When
hey appeared two women cried out,
'Policemens is in the house." The a
tegroes ran like rats.
KoblHMl the PassengersI
At Seattle three highwaymen held
ip a "pay as you enter" street car N
n the South park line of the Seat- u
le Electric company Thursday morn- o
n? and escaped with money and oth- e
r valuables estimated at between 1?
>1,500 and $2,000. Their victims o
vere twenty male passengers. n
GOT TOO HOT
And the Band of Robbers Fled From the
Citizens and Police.
SAFE BLOWERS WORKED
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While Their Leaders Fought Oft* tJie
Citizens Who Attempted to Stop
Them, Having IUtii Brought to
the Scene by the fcx plosion Which
Wrnkwl lliv Postollice.
A gang of robbers in endeavoring
to rob the postofllce at Scottsburg,
Intl., on Saturday practically wrecked
the building and fired at citizens
who had been aroused by the explosion
and escaped without, it is
hollered, securing any money. Posses
wore quickly organized and sent in
pursuit.
Fire alarm there are sounded by
revolver shots and in response to a
fusilad? the whole town turned out
to find, not a house ablaze, but a
band of safe blowers busy with the
strong box at the postofiiee and exchanging
bullets with men in a hotel
across the street.
Yells of the robbers and redoubled
shots kept the crowd back for a
while, but it grew and surrounded
the postoflico building, the robbers
lost their nerve, dropped their tools
! and lied into the darkness. They
had not yet cracked Uie innermost
vault.
The robbers blew off the door of
the safe with nitro-glycerine and the
explosion jarred the hotel and awakened
the men aslerp there. T.he
guests that had revolvers shot from
the windows and doors.
One of the robbers, evidently the
chief, was stationed in the street. He
stood his ground and tired rapidly in
return, calling to his comrades: "(let
the money quick or I'll blow your
brains out."
As the street began to fill with
peoplo it was this man that gave the
order for the retreat. *
DBAGUKD TO DRATII.
Most Horrible Fate That Befell a
Bright Young Boy.
Anthony Howard, t?ho 13-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Howard of
Pink Hill Township, Lenoir county,
N. C., met a mo?t horrible death in a
runaway Saturday afternoon while
riding a mule from the field to the
house to get shelter from an ap- <
proachlng storm.
The lad was ploughing in the
field a half mile from the house, and
seeing tho storm approaching, ho
hastily unhooked the mule from the ,
plow, t.hrow the trace chains across
the mule's withers, mounted and (
started home. The mule shied and
threw tlip boy oft.
Tho boy's legs became entangled
in tho chain, wJiich held him fast.
This frightened tho mule and ho ran
away, dragging tho entangled boy
along the woods road which was full
of roots and stumps. Thus dragged
along young Howard's head and body
were dashed against tho ground,
roots and stumps until life was extinct.
Ilis skull was crushed in
several places and the bones of the I
upper part of his body were broken. (
To add to the horror of the situ a- ]
tion the young boy's mother, seeing t
the mule coming dragging her son.
ran ?to render him assistance, but j
was powerless to do so and the panic j
stricken mule dashed by her and (
leaped the fence, with the boy dang- liiug
to the plow eJiains. * i
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TURKIC >1KN KILLICD. I
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lly the Accidental Kxplosion of a x
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Powder lllast. I
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At Copper Hill, Tenn., three men .
vere killed and considerable damage .
ione throughout the vicinity, is the
xjcovd of an explosion which occurred
at the furnace of Kershaw
Irothers, of Atlanta. The dead are:
Engineer Greene, Atlanta; Craneman
^ook, Atlanta; Laborer Abe Dillard,
Copper 1H11. The accident resulted 1
rom the striking of an unexpected a
>last of powder by the teeth of a
, ii a
team shovel.
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Rods His Life. ''
A man about twenty-five years old,
ommitted suioide by drinking carolic
acid Sunday morning, on the
Lorthbound Missouri, Kansas and f,
'exas Railway "flyer," shortly after j,
ho train left Temple, Texas. A s)
f bor oI oa r nn un uj ?i a n r> / I t . i
rrn Mil Vy|^>ni \.uov IT no iv/utivi vn t u V. r?|
ody with the name C. J. Smith, Q
nd a railroad ticket from San An- tj
onio to Kansas City. f(
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liovod the Kinit.
At Minneapolis Mrs. Sarah J. P.
Iobley, aged 70 years and reputed T
wealthy, is dead, according to Cor- g
ner Seashore, of heart failure cans- I:
d by reading of the death of King a
Jdward. "King Edward is my Ideal w
f a man," she often said to her d
eighbors. _ ? u. ^ . | F
ma CO IT ALONE
BAPTISTS AGAINST MERGING IN
MISSION WORK.
Northern Baptist** Want Southern 9
Baptists to Help Them Help the I
Brother in Black.
Home missions furnished one hundred
topics for consideration at Friday's
session of the Southern Baptist
Convention, now in session at Baltimore.
The Rev. Dr. Burrows reported
that there was a general increase
during the past year of $1 14,000 for
the home and foreign mission hoards.
The board of home missions endorsed
strongly the policy of tho
Southern Baptist Convention of havng
no "entangling alliance" with other
Christian bodies that can in any
way endanger the Baptist doctrines
or practices as Baptists.
This utterance referred specifically
to the labors of the ooard iii Panama
and Cuba, where it was stated
that the work was progressing rapidly,
but that difficulties in the way
of the work of both the Sundayschools
and other phases have developed
in the trend towards "socalled
c.hurch union efforts and the
obliteration of denominational lines."
"We report." the board adds, that
the lives of professing Christians who
go to the Canal Zone for money-making
are a hindrance instead of a help
to the Baptist church. Then, too,
the efforts of some Cnristian workers
to discredit denominational work in
the interests of an undefended Christian
union are adding to tlio difficulties
of our missions."
The report, though not stating
specifically, was aimed at the Young
Men's Christian Association, according
to a statement by the Rev. E. C.
Pargan, of Macon. Ga., member of
the Cuba and Panama committee.
After the session ho said:
In Cuba and Panama the Y. M. C.
A. stands for undenominational presentation
of Christ; the Baptist
Church has always, and will always,
stand for the Baptist presentation.
I do not mean to speak disparagingly
of the Y. M. C. A. I only meau that
the Baptist Churoh ought not to
merge with anybody in work among
the missions."
An appeal from the Baptists of the
North, asking that their brethren of
the South aid them in taking care
of the negroes, created a stir in
the Convention. The matter was referred
to a committee and will come
up later for discussion.
TJie communication came from the
American Baptist Home Mission Society,
headquarters in New York. It
declared that two-thirds of the negro
Baptist ministers have had no
more than the merest rudiments of a
common school education, "and are
deplorably deficient in qualification
for spiritural edification and leadership."
TJie Northern society desires th?
co-operation of the Southern Baptists
in the management and maintenance
of its schools in the South and pro
poses the establishment ot a number
of summer schools there for the
benefit of thy negro Baptist ministry.
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BUILT COMET PltOOF CAVE.
Callfornian Expects to Bo Earth's
Solo Survivor.
When 11 alley's comet approaches
the earth Stephen Hartor, of Pasalena,
Cal., is likely to be the only
liuman survivor, according to his
iecl a ration.
I-larter, who is a gardner, has dug
i cave in his back yard, which he
las stocked with canned goods and
jther provisions and provided with
i system of ventilators, controlled
iy strings leading to the inner cham>er.
There he will hide when the
leavenly wanderer conies.
Barter believes all life on earth
vill be snuffed out by the deadly
pises which compose the comet's tail,
lo does not propose to bo snuffed
nit, and each night ho retires to
?ed in the Inner chamber, the strings
ontrolling the vontilatiou hanging
loso behind his head.
Two Will Go.
Adjutant General Boyd was auhorized
Friday to send two regilents
to the encampment at Chicmanga.
The 3d regiment has aleady
been designated. It is option1
with the 2d regiment between Anerson
and Chicaniauga. The 1st
egiment will go to Greenville or
partanburg.
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Fell Between Cars.
While returning to Dawson, Ga.,
*om a Sunday school picnic to Colmhus,
J. H. Armstrong was inantlv
killed when he fell between
le cars when trying to pass from
no coach to another. Portions of
te body were strewn along the track
>r a considerable distance.
Married IIis Grandmother.
William Pounds, of Heflin, Ala.,
hursday married Mrs. John T. Buress,
who is legally his grandmother,
iurgess was Pounds' grandfather,
ml was over seventy years of age,
hen he married several years ago,
ying shortly afterwards. Mrs.
>ounds is now twenty-two. i
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