The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 11, 1910, Image 3
THEY WIN IOWA
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Imrgents Capture Everytkiaf aad Repadiate
tie Tarif.
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BRANDED AS A FAILURE
With Majority of Three Hundred on
Krwy (Question "InsurKeaUi" (ontrotted
Iowa State ItepubLican ConL
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Traliou.?-Cummins and Dolliver
IS vide Honors.
Republican Iowa wrote herself
vigorously progressive YVednesduy at
a Convention, which was in uproar
most of the time. Dolliver and Cummtugs
and the insurgent delegation
uvuBhiiipinn u-iiK ?*nthusiostically
m 4r f? UMMiliUpi ..
endorsed. The new tariff was branded
as a failure, in the light of the party
pledge of 1908. President Taft received
only a lukewarm endorser<
meat. A sop to harmony was flung
out in the endorsement of Governor
Carroll
Senator Cummins was temporarily
chairman. Senator I>olliver permanent
chairman. The progressive
majority ranged close to 3 00 011 every
question. The resolutions committee
was progressive 6 to 5. The
foregoing is a synopsis of the day's
events. To it may be added cheers
and jeers applause and hisses, music
and bowls of discord.
The appearance and disappearance
of the "steam roller" was one of the
diverting incidents of the day. It
came about through the insistence
of the stand pat members of the platform
committee, in demanding an
unqu&liliod endorsement of the Taft
Administration, the legislative acts
of the 'regulars'"' and hostility to
Cummins and Doiiver.
What may have been an attempt
to stampede the delegates In favor
of the stalwart resolutions was made
when former Congressman Rominger
hoisted a portrait of President Taft
amid stand pat cheers. Rut the olh
er aide answered with silence, or
with jeers. Later another delegate
among the progressives exposed a
pcture of Col. Roosevelt, occasioning
a demonstration.
The Taft portrait was again hoisted
and the two likenesses held so
as to confront each other. The demonstration
interrupted a roll call
for several minutes.
The stand-pat members went down
in defeat with their keys riveted to
the mast. Tehy fought in every committee
where a fight was possible, insisted
on roll calls and battled ereiy
inch for their principles.
Their resolutions incorporated in
the mteority part of the platform and
voted down by the Convention refer
to:
The record of achievement of
President Taft's Administration and
the 61st Congress as unequalled in
oar history and endorses the Taft
policies in fulfillment of the work
inaugurated by his predecessor and
congratulates the party and count y
upon Its achievements in securing
railroad legislation and declares
that Taft's Administration Is entitled
to the wnequivocal support of every
Republican.
It also indorse the action of President
Taft in approving the tariff
I bill," and commends his prudent,
business-like and economical Administration
of all the affairs of the na
I Hon."
In conclusion it endorses the Iowa
delegation in Congressf or all efforts
in support of the Administration and
I' of the President, and for such aid
and assistance us they have given
\ him in carrying forward his adraiuSistratlve
and legislative policies.
Former Congressman Hepburn
j read the minority report. As the
Ii purport of the concluding paragraph
became apparent his voice was
drowned in a chorus of jeers and
hisses. It was only after a pounding
of the gavel by Senator Dolli er
that Mr. Hepburn was able to
conclude. He moved the substitu'
t.ion of these planks for those of
a the same application in the major-Ity
report, and the motion was lost,
D 568 to 815.
' Judges Horace E. Deemer and W.
i). Etivds were nominated for re-election
to the Supreme Court Bench
by acclamation. A. M. Deyoe was
the choice on second ballot for State
euperintendent of public instruction.
The platform adopted renews its
" ? ? Hnntrlna r>f nrrttM*. I
Iy r mi/ in m:?* mi um ,_.i F,
tion; It favors a non-partisan tariff
t t'4^k commission and expresses the belief
]' Uhat when the tariff is again revised
its "schedules should be considered
separately, so that each subject can
be dealt with upon its own merits,
and thus secure fair and impartial
action upon the part of Congress"
The platform commends "to the
nation the type of statesmanship exhibited
by Senators Dolliver and
Cummins and heartily endorses their
work upon the tariff bill, tbe railroad
bill and the postal savings bank
bill."
In referring to combinations, the
platform insists that "there shall be
such competition as will protect the
people against the exactions of unrestrained
avarice and greed."
It also ' congratulates the country
upon the success obtained in the regulation
of our common carriers,",
A GREAT SUCCESS
FIVE MEN RKLKASKD FROM CITV
JAIL ARE CLUED.
Result of the Move to Give I'auper
Inebriates Free JTreatinent Wat*
Satisfactory.
The State says the five inebriates
who have been taking the McKanna
Three Day Liquor cure furnished
free by the city of Columbia, nave
been pronounced cured of the drink
disease and will be let out of the
ward, where they have oeen since
last Thursday.
The men wer;e sentenced to a
term in the city Jail on the charge
of drunk and disorderly. Mayor YV.
H. Gibbes will grant a pardon to
each of them and they will not be
required to serve the remainder of
their sentences. *
As soon as they vacate the ward,
three men, now in the city jail on
like charges, will be taken out and
given the treatment.
The five men who will be released
took their last drink of whiskey
Friday afternoon. Ever since then
they have refused to taste it, although
it has been constantly offer-'
ed to them. To allay any suspicion
J that the whiskey might be "doped,"
a new bottle was gotten sealed
from the dispensary. But they refused
to drink this also. Beer has
i i/ont r?n ino in the ward, where
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the men could get at it whenever
they wanted it, hut since Friday af
ternoon they have not touched
drop of anything containing alcohol.
Positions have been secured by
Mayor Gibbes and l)r. O. E. Thomas,
president of the McKanna company
l of Columbia, for all the men. They
will go to work at once.
The men to be released are the
first to take the McKanna treatment
for the liquor habit which hereafter
will be aministered free of charge to
all pauper inebriates arrested and
jailed in Columbia. The record of
each of the men, treated by the city,
will be closely watched.
MAKE BIG CORN CROP.
Ten Thousand Bushels oil One Hundred
Acres.
A dispatch from Columbia to the
Augusta Chronicle says that farming
pays in South Carolina with the
proper fertilization and cultivation
is shown by the fact that 10,00 0
bushels of corn will be produced orj
100 acres of the asylum farm this
year. This is the indications now
and the prediction will no doubt be
over exceeded provided the seasons
prove Just right.
The field of corn on the asylum
farm is one of the most beautiful in
the State and is attracting much attention.
Some of the land shows
over 25,000 stalks to the acre. The
great crop is being produced under
the management of Capt. J. W.
Bunch, the treasurer of the asylum.
It was thought at the first that the
field had been planted too thick.
The success of the corn is attributed
by Capt. Bunch to deep ploughing.
Good, Sound Doctrine.
"Whether or not one agrees with
Hon. Hoke Smith in all his political
Ideas, there should be few t? dissent
from his sound doctrine so effectively
phrased in the following: "That
people will reach the highest standard
of citizenship where the largest
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proportion own noines, ana especially
where they live upon them anil
make a living out of them To encourage
suoh a policy is to help
make possible a population thrifty
and prosperous, not of men of great
wealth, but of a great number of
men of sufllcient means to be independent.
I long to see Georgia rank
first among the states as havingg the
largest number of citizens owning
land in proportion to residents."
The Progressive Farmer says it
would like for all our public men ?o
get this ideal for our Southern
States?the ideal of a splendid democracy
of thrifty, intelligent home
owners, each man sitting under his
own vine and fig tree. This is what
will make a people groat, and we
should like for our other Southern
Commonwealths to vie with Georgia
for first rank among the States in
proportion of citizens owning their
own homes. One of the wors* features
of factory life is the destruction
of the home-owning influence,
anu the immigrants we need aie
those who will help us realize the
ideal set forth by Gov. Smith.
Don't forgot that when it comes to
raising things the yeast cake is not
a bad second.
but they feel that there is much yet
to be done to secure reasonable rates
and charges to whiuh it is entitled.
The platform concludes with an
endorsement of the postal savings
bank bill. The policy of conservation
of natural resources, income
tax and good roads are upheld.
United States Senators should be
elected by direct vote of the people.
It is urged that the present method
of representation in national Conventions
based upon members of
Congress is unfair. Representation
on the basis of party strength is
suggested.
FIGURES ON COTTON
CHOP OF THIS 8TATK KSTIMATKD-AT
1,050,000 BALKS.
Oil Mill Men Hold Meeting In Columbia
to A?cert?in Crop Conditions
Throughout State.
That, with favorable conditions
r ? ........ ?n?l1 * V> a tiuncnn niKtim
I I U 111 IIU W until I lie
t/nc> cotton crop of South Carolina
may equai that of last season?1,050,000
hales?is the joint opinion
of the South Carolina Seed Crushers
Association, which held a meeting
in Columbia with a view to ascertaining
the crop conditions over
the State.
The Crushers made another estimate
of the crop for the 1910 season.
This is 1,008,000. The manner
of arriving at this estimate was by
compiling an average estimate from
the number of estimates submitted
at the meeting.
At the annual meeting of the
crushers, held at Wrightsville Beach
recently, the estimate of the yield
for the present year for this State
was 957,000. It Is thus seen that
the stock of the yield in the opinion
of the crushers has gone up 51,000
bales.
It had aiready been pointed out, in
reports from various communities,
that the cotton crop has improved
considerably in the last few weeks,
particularly in the last two weeks,
the cessation of rains to some extent
and the general hot weather has aided
the growth of the plant remarkably.
Old farmers are shaking their
heads and wondering how the change
has been brought about. From an
apparently gloomy outlook, crop conditions
may now be said to be fair,
in some communities very good, and
in ntlwu-u cnorl thfi fi^llnrul aVfirilCP
running now up to good.
A poll was taken by the crushers
of the crop conditions in every section
of the State. It was found that
there .had been material improvement
from now on, the crop will equal
that of last season," said Secretary
B. F. Taylor. (Mr. Taylor is president
of the Inter-State Cotton Seed
Crushers' Association.
That the crop will reach the 1 ,050,00
mark, the 1909 crop will depend
on favorable conditions from
now on, was the opinion expressed
by members of the Association. However,
the average guess was 1,008,000
bales for 1910.
In 1907 the cruehers guessed 1,090,000,
and the actual 500-pound
[bales were 1,068,340; in 1908 the
crushers guessed 1,18 4,214 bales, 1
ami thp actual rron wrh 1.1 1 8.460 '
bales; in 1909 the crushers estimated
the crop to he 1,133,555 bales,
and the actual crop was 1,050,380.
Thus the crushers came close to the
actual yield in their several guesses,
made in Tune and July, proceeding
the opening of the cotton season.
COTTON CROP AVKRARK.
Is Is Under the Record for the Past
Ten Seasons.
The average condition of the cotton
crop on July 25 was 75.5 pei
cent, of a normal, according to a
bulletin of the crop reporting board
of t.he Department of Agriculture,
issued at noon Tuesday. The average
condition was 80.7 on June 25;
7 1.9 on July 25 last year; 83.0 in
1908; 75.0 in 1 907, and 79.4 the ten
year average. Comparison by States
follows: 10-year average. 1910.
Virginia 81 80
North Carolina 80 71
South Carolina 80 70
(ieorgia 81 70
I Florida 83 70
Alabama 7 8 71
Mississippi 7S 71
Louisiana 7 8 6 9
Texas 79 82
Arkansas 8 0 73 (
Tennesse 8 2 7 6
Missouri 84 72
Oklahoma 81 87
California 9S
While the average condition in
the cotton crop fell below the aver- age
for June, when it was 80.7, the
decrease did not surpirse experts
who have kept informed of the conditions
that have prevailed in the (
cotton belt. Heavy rains which oc- ,
curred east of the (Mississippi during ,
the month of July were known to be {
detrimental to the crop so that the j
decrease in the average of the con ,
dition wns not unexpected. I
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First New Cotton. f
Georgia's first bale of cotton was t
carried to Albana Wednesday night, i
but not by Dean Jackson, the negro i
farmer, who for years has been the <
"first bale man." This year the bale 1
was raised by M. A. Rainey, of Bak
er jCouuty, and was sold for 3 0 I
cents per pound. The bale weighed l
412 pounds, and was graded mid- \
dling. t
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l>eft a Fortune. (
A telegram from his father in
Laurinburg, N. C., brought good
news to W. M. McEachern in Savannah
Thursday morning, for the '
message was the first intimation that .
he had inherited property worth 1
more than $200,000. McEachern's I
benefactor was his uncle. <
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THE MAN HIGHER UP
IN nitlllKKY CASE IS VICK-PRKSIDKNT
SHERMAN.
Senator Gore Tcstittes That Several
Senator* and Congressmen Wei*
in the Deal.
What happened In the private office
of Un'ted States Senator Thomas
P. Gore, at Washington at noon, last
May 6, formed the basis of sensational
charges involving the names
of Vice President Sherman, Senator
Charles Curtis, of Kansas; Congressman
B. S. McGuire, of Oklahoma, and
others, in a hearing before a special
Congressional investigating committee
at Muskogee, Oklahoma, Thurs
day.
During the thirty or forty minutes
of a conference held in that
office, Senator Gore testified that he
had been approached by Jake L.
Hamon, former chairman of the Oklahoma
State Republican committee,
and that he had been offered a bribe
of $25,000 or $50,000 to remove
certain legislation pending in Con
gress, so that $3,000,000 might be
paid to J. F. McMurray, an attorney
at McAlester, Okla., and his
assistants.
The money was to represent "attorneys'
fees" of ten per cent of
$300,000, which was to be secured
from a New York syndicate for 450,000
acres of coal and asphalt lands
now owned by the Choctaw and
Chickasaw Indian tribes in Oklahoma.
Vice President Sherman's name
was mentioned by Mr. Hamon, Senator
Gore testified, as being interested
in the deal to the extent of approval
by Congress of what are
known as the McMurray contracts
with the Indians.
What happened in another private
room in Washington, and also where
it was alleged Hamon made more
"overtures" relative to the land deal,
was told by Congressman C. E.
Creager, of the 3d Oklahoma distiict.
Congressman Creger supple
mented the testimony of Senator
Gore. He said on June 16, last, he
had been invited by Hamon to meet
11 1 III ill d. jm i * ate i i/utii at tue v/vv/i
dental Hotel, in Washington.
Having gone there, Mr. Creager
testified, he was informed he could
have a substantial "interest" in the
land deal if he would withdraw his
opposition to the approval of th'*
McMurray contracts by Congress.
Senator Gore, in his testimony, asserted
that the offer of bribery went
bo far t-hat Harmon said the $25,09u
or $50,000 would not be paid over
in the form of a check or marked
money, but that it "would be all
clean, hard cash."
The committee that heard the
charges was appointed by resolution
of the House of Representatives to
Investigate the McMurray contracts,
which are declared to have been
made by McMurray individually with
10,000 Indians, each of wbom agreed
to turn over 10 per cent, of his profits
from the sale of land, provided
the contracts were approved by Congress.
Senator Gore testified that Hamo.'
told him that a man "higher up"
in l.h-3 Government was interested
in the approval of the contracts and,
therefore, there was no reason wnv
Senator Gore should not be iha'
when asked who was the man "higher
ni)," Hamon had replied, "Vice
President Sherman."
That Hamon told him Senator Curtis
of Kansas, was "interested" in
the deal.
That Ilamon told him Congressman
McGuire, of Oklahoma, was interested
in the deal.
That Hamon told him an employee
of the department of justice at
Washington was "intrested" in the
deal; that he, (Senator Gore,) knew
the name of the employee, but would
not divulge his name or the name.
:>f his informant, especially because
the latter would lose his position.
FAhhS FAR TO DKATH.
Yeroplane Capsizing Aviator Dnslios
From Height of 050 Feet.
Falling from a great height, Nicholas
Kinnet, the Belgian aviator,
was instantly kill Wednesday after10011
at Brussels. Only three weeks
igo his cousin, Daniel, was killed
11 a similar manner at Ghent. Kinun
was riying at a height of about
550 feet when he was caught in a
squall. A rear wire of his biplane
mapped and becoming entangled in
he motor stopped the engine w.ui
i suddenness that turned the aeroplane
on its side. The machine
jrashed to the ground and Kinnet
was crushed under it.
His wife and brother were among
:he witnesses of the accident and
uished upon the field. The wife fell
inconscious beside the body, while
he brother, in a fit of grief, threw
limself headforemost on the wreckHi
machine.
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Killed by Lightning.
Spencer Lockrow, a Saratoga, X.
V., farmer, and two harvest helpers,
Andrew Ecker and Simon Watson,
were killed by lightn.'ng, the team
they drove was also shocked to
ieath Thursday.
WANTJflM OUT
Ballioger's Presence in the Cabinet is
Gifing Some Trouble
TO THE REPUBLICANS
The Leaders Say the Secretary is
Proving Mn KmbaiTMssnient in the
Congressional Campaign ami lie
Has Iteen Asked to Kesign for the
( ood of the Party.
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A. U1K|)HU'11 4 I V*ill ncvei i/, .nnon,,
says there was increasing evidence
there Tuesday that the recent bombardment
of the President with letters
from Republican leaders in all
parts of the country, protesting that
Secretary of the Interior Ballingcr
was proving an embarrassment in
the laying of plans for the coming
Congressional campaign, is beginning
to have an effect, if not upon the
President himself, at least on the
advisers who are closest to him.
No attempt was made to deny the
reports that Senator Crane, at the
very outset of his political pilgrimage
in the West, had probably suggested
to Secretary Mil linger, at Minneapolis
Monday his duty to the
party might require that he sacrifice
his place in the Cabinet. All Secretary
Norton would say, after .having
considered the matter nearly all day,
was that it would be necessary to
ask Senator Crane.
The statement was re-iterated,
however, that President Taft woulu
not so much as lift his little finger,
if by so doing he could secure tlu
retirement of Secretary Ballinger as
head of the department of the interior.
In addition to the letters he hap
received the President has .heard verbally
from a number of party leaders
regarding the sentiment toward
Secretary Ballinger. They have
talked frankly with Mr. Taft on the
subject, it is said, and while they
have agreed with the President ap->
parently in his position that nothing
has been proved against Secreaary
Ballinger, they -:ave put the matter
purely on a party basis and have said
that the campaign would be much
easier with the Ballinger issue eliminated.
There was no disposition in Beverly
to treat the meeting of Senator
Crane and Secretary Ballinger in
Minneapolis as "accidental." It wasa
clearly intimated, however, that
whatever move was being made
against Secretary Ballinger had its
Inception and being with the actue
party leaders, and not with President
Taft. The President, it can be positively
stated, will never ask Mr. Bailinger
to resign.
If the Secretary should feel called
upon to resign, however, there is
said to be little doubt that his resignation
would be accepted.
What Ballinger Says.
Secretary Ballinger Tuesday denied
that his conference with Senator
Crane, at Minneapolis, Minn., related
to or would be followed by his
resignation, lie said the matter discussed
was not even of direct interest
to him. He denounced his foes
in strong language and said he intended
to ignore them entirely. His
denial was issued after leading the
dispatches from Beverly, which indicated
that Senator Crane's mission
to the West was to carry the hint
that Mr. Ballinger would aid Hie
party 111 forthcoming elections hy
withdrawing at this time.
"There is no resignation on the
card, I can tell you," was Mr. llal ing'v's
r-.'ply to this. Cou'.euing
?o s.aid.
"I am simply on my way to the
coast for a littlo rest. Some waul
me to make xy ^si' permanent, but
It will not so r.s long as the Prcsident
is rr filed 1 met Crane yesterday
morning, through 110 arrangement
of mine, and the matter we
discussed?politics, of course?was
nothing which interested me directly
at all. Mr. Crane wished to consult
me on he matter, and came to
where I was.j that's) all. There's
nothing mysterious about it. I guess
he's gone back East now.
All this vigorous attack by unscrupulous
men, backed by newspapers
with even less scruples, goes off
me like water off a duck's back. That
never will induce me to resign."
( ood-hy Mr. Fly.
Good by.
Housefly; ! !! ?
Health boar s cry
You must die.
You carry germs
Upon your feet,
And drop them In
Tho things wo eat;
Deposit microbes
On our plates,
And scatter them
On shiny pates.
Hurtful atoms /
You dispose
Upon Wopsy
Popsy'e nose.
Good by,
Housefly;
There's reason why,
You must die. '
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TOKEN'S SYSTEM
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WHICH HAH HKEN EMH)HSEI) HV
I THE FARMEK S [TNIO\.
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It Simplifies tJie Transfer of hand
from One Owner to Another ami
Ie?s?ns the Cost.
The State Farmers Union at it?
late meeting in Columbia gave the
Torrens system of land tenures its
endorsement and will ask the legislature
to adopt it at its next session.
The following synopsis of the law,
which we take from the State, will
give our readers a good idea of what
t.he system is and how it would
work:
The Torrens system was devised
by Sir Robert Torrens, and first purt
into operation in Australia, where
so many modern political and legislative
reforms have had their beginnings.
The system abolishes
most or all distinctions between real
estate and personal property, and its
chief object is to remove the difficulties,
delays, and expenses incident
to the transfer of real estate
under the old English system developed
out of the feudal tenures.
In Australia there is a registrar's
office with whom tl\e owner of a
tract of land, held by the old tenure,
deposits a description of hist
property and obtains a certificate of
ownership. The registrar's office examines
the title carefully and the
certificate guarantees its legality,
whether as absolute or with conditions
attached. If the title were toil
life estate, the certificate would
so state. Each applicant for a certificate
pays a small fee out of which
an insurance fund is created. From
this fund the State protects itself
when a title guaranteed by the registrar
is attacked and the State is
called upon to idemnify the holder
of the certificate.
After the land owner has exchanged
his muniments of title under the
older system and received a certlfl
cate from the registrar's office, be
may transfer the certificate by endorsement
as he would a share in
a bank or cotton mill. Of course,
he may p'edge th? certificate for
money borrowed as he would a personal
security. Registration in the
registrar's office with each transfer
of the certificate is required, for
which a small fee is charged. The
necessity for the examination of titles,
it will be seen is eliminated, because
the State guarantees the title
described in the certificate, and the
expense and delay of foreclosure proceedings
are removed, because the
certificate may he disposed of precisely
as may a certificate of shares
in a corporation. The system, with
modification, has been adopted in
Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnessota
and possibly other state and also in
New Zealand and several of the Canadian
provinces. The argument in
favor of the system is obvious. Every
borrowing farmer is familiar
with the expense and difficulty attached
to using his land as security
in a bank. A bank, on account cf
the expense and delaps in foreclosure
proceedings, is reluctant to lend
more than .half or three-fourths of
the value on a small body of real
estate; and when a borrower has
paid the cost of examining the title
and drawing all papers, his interest
charges are in enect materially increased.
One argument against the plan
although based on the weakness of
human nature, is not without force.
It may be said that he very difficulties
of disposig of land, work to keep
it in possession sometimes of men
who would lose it if they could sell
it as easily as they sell a horse or ;*
hog. The manifest answer to this
is that the removal of the obstacles
to the selling of land would make it
more valuable. Lawyers and courts'
fees under the present system are a
heavy tax subtracting from the va?ue
of the land itself. There fore as
the land is made more valuable the
incentive to hold it grows stronger.
Ilesides, the progress of society
ought not to he delayed for t.he sake
of the improvident man who cannot
take care of himself.
Killed by Overdose.
Death from an over dose of brornodia,
administered by her own hands
was the verdict Saturday of a coroners
jury that investigated the find
ing i< riday nig.nt or tne ur.eioss bociy
of Mrs. Charles Marhoffer, formerly
Miss May Kid, of Danville. Va.f in
her home at Norfolk. Va. The husband,
who testified that he first met
the girl in Norfolk, July 4, and married
her in Baltimore, July 14, think*
his wife took the drug to relievo
pain. *
Hurried by Itlue Vitriol.
Fourteen persons, most of them
children, were badly burned by blue
vitriol at Philadelphia on Tuesday
afternoon, caused by the upsetting of
a tire department supply wagon. Two
of the children will die and several
others are believed to be fatally
burned. ?
Dead Man Wins.
Secretary of State of Oklahoma
died of heart disease at Oklahoma
City on Wednesday. He was a candidate
for nomination for state auditor
on the democratic ticket and is
generally conceeded to have won.
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