The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 20, 1911, Image 5
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AWFUL CRASF
aaj KIM aal Vaaaltl at Fatt Trail
w Flaagat Ortr Vialact.
y BAD FIRE BREAKS OUT
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The Federal Express Running From
? Washington to Boston Over the
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New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad Wrecked at Bridge
port With Great Loss of Life. Many
lives, probably twenty, were
I crushed out in an instant and probably
three timee as many persons were
frightfully hurt Tuesday when the
Federal Express running from Washington,
D. C. to Boston, over the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad was hurled over a eonviaduct
at Bridgeport, Conn., by an
open switch.
Fire broke out in the wreckage
but the Bridgeport fire department
quickly put this out and the men
lent assistance to rescue the Injured.
Ambulances and doctors hastily summoned
did their best to save those
who were under the debris. At 6:3 0
W. o'clock the bodies of 15 dead had
been taken from the wreck and lorty
other passengers were in the local
hospitals severely injured,
w The more severely injured are:
Unidentified woman, eye gouglied
out, face terribly bruised, leg fractured.
l.VIichael Fury, conductor of train,
New Rochelle, N. Y., fracture of
skull, internal injuries, will die.
David Kissner, New York, brakeman,
fracture of the left leg, other
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injuries, win yruuu/uiy uie.
Mrs. James B. Joyce, of Maury, a
suburb of Washington, fracture of
the left wrist, back injured, shock,
condition serious.
Sarah Czalobro, 931 South Pennsylvania
street, Philadelphia, head
badly cut, body bruised, shock, condition
serious.
Christie and Antony Czalobro, her
two children, five and eight years,
Christie, bruised about head and
y body, internal injuries; Antony,
fractured arm, scalp wounds, inter^
nal, may die.
John F. Von Pfeiffer, McDonald St.
Dead vile, Mass., fracture of skull,
condition critical.'
Frank Von Pfeiffer, cousin of
John, 227 East North street, Philadelphiade-lphiag
fracture of ribs, dislocation
of shoulder; condition serious.
Miss Lucy Note, 222 Washington
$ ^ avenue, Washington, internal injuries,
condition critical.
George Rogers, Washington, D. C.
His young son was killed and another
son, Frank, badly hurt. Mrs.
Rogers is thought to be one of the ,
women who were killed.
Charles Frazier. Navatree Green,
IMd.
j Mrs. Emily Wilson, Philadelphia.
Miss Bertha Monroe, Cliftondale,
Mass.
Miss Mary McCann, Philadelphia.
The express left Harleu River
about an hour late. It was going at
high speed when the open switch a
mile and ta half west of Bridgeport
station was struck.
The switch was near the tower at
f the junction of Fairfield avenue and
State street. There was one tremendous
cnash, an Instant of Intense silence
and then the groans and shrieks
of the wounded. /
The wreck was almost complete,
live cars having gone over, only three
cars of the long train being left on
the track.
The engine, twisted into junk, was
two hundred feet south of Fairfield
avenue. Behind were the mall and
(baggage cars while the Pullmans and
coaches were in a mass tat the rear.
| The day coach wtae entirely crushed
and in it the deaths were many,
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Ill vt; uuu1co l/ciiig i?iuvivu u< u..w,
Three Pullmans were almost completely
crumpled up, but appear\
ances indicated that the passengers.
In a measure were protected by the
strength of the cars.*
With firemen, policemen, and doctors
working as fast as possible the
dead and injured were laid out upon
J the lawn of a residence in Fairfield
avenue. As fast as the ambulances
came the injured were sent to the
hospitals.
In the wreckage of the engine was
a body thought to be the engineer
who had died at his post. A babe
about a year old was found in one
car. It was alive and had become
separated from its mother, Mrs. W.
V. Cleppane, of Cherry Creek, Md.,
and its aunt, Mrs. Beatrice Cleppane, 1
both of whom escaped with minor in- 1
juries, chiefly wounds on the head. ?
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iln anotner cotacn a mrs. wnaion,
of Philadelphia, was taken out alive
but her child was dead under her.
Mrs. L. W. Page, of 2223 Massachusetts
Avenue, Washington, D. C., who
\ was with her maid and child escaped
^ with minor hurts.
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Two Hundred May Perish. i
A dispatch from Surf, Col., states
that of the two hundered passen- 1
gers and eighty-five sailors on the
wrecked Santa Rosa, only 85 had escaped
to shore. It added that little
hope was held out for those who re- <
mained on the vessel. Eleven pas- 1
sen gers and five of the crew were lost
by the capslslng of the life boat. :
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GOAT HELD BY HORNS
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IN A' FENCE BEFORE HE WAS RELEASED
FROM IT.
Train Crew on the Augusta Southern
Railroad Stopped the Train and
LoomhI Him.
The Augusta Herald says the travelers
on the Augusta Southern road
are telling quite a funny ,but pathetic
little story about a goat who butted
into a fence and stayed until the
crew of No. 44 came to his assistance.
Col. Henry S. Jones, of HephizN
,bah, while returning home from his
office in Aug.usta Thursday afternoon,
noticed a goat patiently standing by
a wire fence on Mr. W. W. Hack's
place at DeBruce, a small station just
beyond the old Richmond Factory
pond, and remembered that he had
seen it there for the third day standing
sentinel-like with its eyes steadfastly
fixed upon the Augusta Southern
tracks which are only a few feet
away.
He looked carefully and saw that
the goat had fastened himself In th*
wire fence and had seemed to aban
don all efforts to giain his freedom.
The poor goat stood in the one spot
for three days and nights, lonely and
cared for by no one. He was almost
dead of starvation. 4
Col. Jones, taking pity on the goat,
tasked Mr. iM. S. Bridgers, chief train
dispatcher of the Augusta Southern,
who was on the train Thursday afternoon
with him, to have the next
train stopped and some of the train
men get off and relieve the animal
from its serious and uncomfortable
condition.
This Mr. Bridgers did. He notified
pasenger train No. 14 cominig to
Augusta Thursday night to stop near
the Richmond Factory pond where
the unfortunate igoat was being held
and to have some of the crew get off
and let the poor anlmial loose. The
billy goat's life was saved by the
crew of No. 14.
DISAGREE WITH THE GOVERNOR.
Demand That Hosiery Mill Re Abolished
Refused.
Disregarding the demands of the
governor, the board of directors of
the State penitentiary Thursday refused
to abolish the hosiery mill, and
the entire controversy will be left
with the general assembly for <a decision.
The contract is for five years
and provides for the employment of
from 200 to 350 prisoners. J. M.
Graham holds the contract with the
State. A letter embracing the position
of the board was (addressed to
the governor. The governor has on
several occasions stated that if the
hosiery mill was not abolished that
he would pardon all of the 300 men
and women employed in the mill.
The board finds that J. M. Graham
has observed every provision of the
contract. That failure on the part
of the State through its officers to
perform its duties toward the convicts,
should not be allowed to work
a hardship on J. M. Graham nor justify
the State in breaking the aigreerent
with him.
That the hosiery mill Is In a thoroughly
sanitary condition and the
converts therein work under more
favorable circumstances than employes
In similar industries conducted
by parties or corporations.
That deaths from tfibercrlosls in
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the wnoio pemienuury, mciuuiu^
hosiery mill, has decreased from 58
durinigi the years between 1 900 and
1905 to 22 during the years between
1906 and 1910.
Thiat a ig.reater number of convicts
are brought to the penitentiary already
aiflcted with tuberculosis than
those contracting the disease within
the prison walls.
That as soon las a convict shows
ab ihlchdeT bm-orniartlflhSo
any symptoms of tuberculosis he or
she is placed in one of the finest
tuberculosis hospitals in this section
of the country.
That the board stands ready to
make any cluanges In the buildings
that may bo necessary to further
safeguard the health of the convicts,
whenever they ascertain through the
board of health and their own investigations
the same is desirable.
That the board invites inspection
by private citizens of the State at
any time, of all the buildings within
the walls of the State penitentiary.
Killed by Caisson.
Elbert J. Baum of battery A. Third
U. S. field tartillery, was killed during
target practice Thursday near
San Antonio, Tex. Baum was drlved
of a caisson. His horses took friigbt
at the firing and in endeavoring to
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fell from his seat and was run over.
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IiOt8 of Cotton Burn.
A dispatch from St. Peatersburg,
Russia, says the fire that broke out
a'mong the cotton bales in the port
section of the city was extinguished
after damage (aggregating $500,000
had never been to town, although lived
in the loss.
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Terrifflc Explosion.
Near Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany
ten persons were killed and
twenty others seriously injured by an
explosion In a dynamite factory Wednesday.
WHAT HE SAYS
Sweariagcr Die* Hit Heel Ciapubiis
liit by Ibe Bid
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PEOPLE MUST DECIDE
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Claims .That he Was Ignored by Other
Members of the Board, by Not
Having Chance to Express His
Opinion When Adoption of the
Books Were Made.
State Superintendent of Education
Swearingen returned to Columbia
Tuesday night from Rock Hill, where
he had gone Friday to attend the
Conference of County Superintenof
Education. He declared that he
had no intention or desire to prolong
the controversey regarding; the text
book adoptions made by the State
board of education.
"If the people of sfouth Carolina
are willing to believe," he said, "that
they can now exchange old text books
for new ones at an additional cost of
only 2-3 cents per child each year,
they will be undeceived when the
time comes to buy new books.
"I have not counted tne woras in
the primer or in any other book, but
the new txaaal reader contain 159
pages and sells for 35 cents. The
new basal fifth reader contains 3 68
pages and sells for 3 5 cents. The
diffrence is interestintg.
"Of the old basal first reader, 131,000
copies were sold from 1906 to
1911, and this book has been displaced.
Twelve thousand copies of
the physical geographies were sold,
and this book has been retained. As
far as the titles on the list are concerned
these two books are equal,
but -as as far las the pupils and patrons
of the State are concerned,
there is a difference of nearly 11 to
1, or more than 1,000 per cent. Illustrations
might be multiplied indefinitely,
for readers, arithmetics,
and geographies form the most idI>ortiant
part of a text book (adoption,
and these three series show that 76
per cent of the mere titles even were
thrown out.
"If the members had made up
their minds as to the best and most
desirable books, I am at a loss to understand
why they were unwilling to
point out the poor books now In use.
It is claimed that lample preliminary
discussion of text books was had In
pie books had been made. This admission
is highly gratifying to me,
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slon -and comparison lat the board
meetings led me to suppose and hope
for this condition. They, therefore
seem to admit the fact that the real
discussion of text-hooks was had ine
Jerome Hotel. I do not presume to
set my opinion aeiainst the opinion of
seven distinguished educators, but
being the secretary of the board and
member directly responsible to the
people, I thought there should be a
frank, full and open discussion in the
meeting of the board itself.
This admission proves that the
adoption wias decided on before the
State Superintendent of Education
was given a chance to express an
opinion. It must not be forgotten,,
also, that my request for a record of
these changes was promptly refused.
I was prepared to recommend several
changes and to support these recommendations
with argument. The
board made sweeping changes, but
declined to indicate the necessity for
these chanes, by pointing out the inferior
and undesirable books now in
use. The assertion that better books
have been adopted does not suffice,
but should be supported by evidence.
Every change of text books is unnecessary
unless a logical reason can be
assigned therefor.
"I have not questioned the integrity
or impugned the motives of a
majority of the board, because posi
tive proof of improper Influence cannot
be adduced. The private character
of every man belongs to himself,
alone, but bis public acts belong to
his constituents. The new policies of
the board were expensive, unexplained,
and without record, land aigainst,
these three charaiteristics I protested.
"There are other points inviting
interesting comment, but I leave this
to be made by others. The determination
of the issue rests with the people."
Clemson's Ilig Income.
Clemson College will this year receive
about $260,000 from the sale
of the fertilizer tags. Since the first
of the year the sum of $242,683 has
been received, as compared with
$216,703 on the same date of last
year. The total amount received by
the school last year was $248,098.
Convict Was Killed.
While trying to escape from the
Ota+A rtrfertn at Mill All GrAVilla. fia.. W.
H. O'Neal, a whit? convict, who hiad
served one year of a three-year sentence,
was shot to death by guards.
O'Neal was sentenced for stabbing
nls wife.
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Killed by Lightning.
While working in a field near Arthur,
Tenn. ,two little boys, Will
Pierce and Link Eads, suffered severe
shocks, and the latter is not expected,
to live.
FARMING FIGURES '
MUCH INTERESTING DATA COMPILED
BY WATSON.
In the Value of Crops Per Square Mile
South Carolina Ranks Second of
All the States.
Some interesting statistics on the
agricultural situation in South Carolina
have been prepared by Commissioner
Watson from the recent federal
census. As has been announced
this state jumped from 21 to 13 in the
rank of the states in agriculture.
The value of the agricultural products
of the state increased by 2 8.4
per cent, in one year. The value of
the crops In 1910 w-as $140,000,000
which was an increase over 1909 of
$31,000,000, and increase over 1906
of $63,288,000 and an increase of
$88,685,000 over 1900, all of which
show th>at the value of the crops has
increased over 100 per cent, during
the past decade.
With reference to the value of the
crops per square mile, South Carolina
ranked second of all states, with
$4,518. Other states in comparison:
Illinois, $5,122; Georgia, $3,743,
Texas, $1,3 69.
All other Southern states show the
value of crops per squire mile to be
less than $3,000.
The cotton crop of the South, according
to the statistics gleaned ror
1910, went on the market for $9 63,180,000.
The crop of 1 909 was
worth $81 2,000,000, and for 1908
$681,23 0,000. It will be seen that
the cotton crop of 1910 was worth
$1 51,000,000 more than 1 909. There
are in the South 440,000,000 acres of
land available for cotton and only
one out of 12 acres are planted. Of
the cotton crop 1 9 per cent, was consumed
in the United States, 49 per
cent, was exported -and 3 5 per cent.
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remained in tnis country up iu reuruary,
1911.
Concerning the value per bale of
cotton, the following comparative table
is given:
Value per bale, 1 91 0 $87.15
Value per bale, 1904 50.37
Value per bale, 1898 30.22
It is pointed out that the sum of
$60 4 was received for twenty bales of
cotton in 1 898, while the farmer received
$1,743 for the same number in
191 0.
In South Carolina there were in
1910 176,180 farms, or an increase
of 13 per cent, over the preceeding
decade. The value of the lands and
buildings increased ,by 162 per cent.;
implements and machinery, 112 per
cent.;lands, 169; increase in labor
bill, 76 per cent. These statistics
show that there were 20,825 farms
added. There are 64,227 owners, or
an increase of 4,810, and of these
farms 19,987 are mortgaged. The
tenants number 1 1,097. The increase
in the number of tenants during
the decade was 16,113 and the
same preceeding decade 26,000.
TWO VERY FOOTilSH MEN.
Blew Themselves up by Carelessly
Handling Powder.
In their efforts to divide a keg of
powder in a fair and square manner,
Vendring Goolisli was blown to atoms
and John Memenieh is dying of
terrible burns in a Pittsburg, Pa.,
hospital. The men were friends and
worked together as miners near
Greenburg., Pa.
One day they were dividing a keg
of powder. They knew but one way
way to make a fair measurement.
Placing the keg on the table the men
stood before it. Goolish took out a
handful and placed it on the table
beside him. Semenich did the same.
This tedious process was continued,
until one handful remained. At a
loss how to divide it, it was finally
decided to set it off. Unthinking
Goolish touched a match to it. There
was a puff iand two piles of powder
also exploded. Goolish was sent
through the roof and was killed.
Semenich was probably fatally burned.
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WOMAN AND MAN DROWN.
Giant Iaike Wave Sweeps Them from
Rescuing Arms.
At Auburn, N. Y., a gigantic wave
on Owasco Lake swept Miss Adelaide
McCarthy, 1 8 years old, land her cousin,
Edward George Burke, 2 2 years
old, of Philadelphia, from the grasp
of rescuers, to death in the lane on
Wednesday night.
Burke, a good swimmer, had battled
for the life of his companion for
half an hour and was preparing to
assist her to the hands of four men
in a motorboat when a wtave swept
them away, half filled the boiat, silenced
the enigine and set the craft
adrift.
"Save the girl, fellows, don't try
to take me in," shouted Burke, who
was treading water with the girl in
his arms. A moment later the wiave
blotted them both from view. Their
bodies still lie at the botom of the
lake.
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Fatal Boiler Explosion.
At Sulina, Roumania, as an attempt
was being made to re-float the
stranded river steamer Queensborough
Monday, the boiler exploded,
killing twelve persons and wounding
tour others.
THEY TRAP TAFT
Bafliager Sceis fa Hare Played Slick
Sckeae ike Prcsideaf.
WILL BE LOOKED INTO
Alleged that Taft on Advice of His
Brother, Ilallinger and Ryan Restored
Alaskan Bands to Domain
So Guggenheim Interest Might
Grab Them.
Published charges that the president
had been induced by three persons?his
brother, the then Secretary
of the Interior Pallinger and Itichard
S. Ryan of New York, a representative
of the Guggenheim Interests?to
restore to the domain lands surrounding
Controller bay, in southern
Alaska, mot with quick action in Congress.
The house committee on expenditures
headed ,by Representative Graham,
of Illinois, immediately summoned
Commissioner Dennett, of the
general land office, to appear before
the committee to explain what he
knows about the matter, and Representative
Cox, of Indiana, one of the
democratic leaders of the house, introduced
a resolution calling on President
Taft for all the information
he can furnish on the subject.
The Cox resolution requests President
Taft to submit all papers and
information in his posession relating
to his executive order of July 2 8,
1010, restoring to public domain the
lands surrounding Controller Bay.
It sets forth published charges intimating
that Ryan, through Secrereary
Ballinger and Charles P. Taft,
induced the president of the United
States to sign the order.
It points out that through this order
the Guggenheim syndicate
"has now or will get control of Controller
Bay or harbor," and requests
the president to advise the house
whether Messrs. Ryan and Ballinger
and C. P. Taft induced him to
sign the order restoring Controller
Bay land to public domain, which
previously had been set aside as a
natiomal forest reserve whether the
president had Information that Ryan
was working in the interest of the
Guggenheim syndicate.
"I am going to push this resolution,"
said Representative Cox. "If
the rules committee fails to act 1
will bring it up on the floor of the
house. There is something radically
wrong about this whole transaction.
Balked by the refusal of the
government to allow the Cunningham
coal land claims, this gang in
Wall street evidently is determined
to secure control of this coal land.
They filed on the Controller bay land,
the only available harbor through
which the Alaskan coal can be shipped
before the government could even
have it surveyed after the president's
order withdrawing it from
the Chugash reserve.
"Failing to secure the land, they
have now gone after the only means
of transporting coal and with a railroad
from the coal lands to Con
troller bay they could absolutely dictate
to the owners of the coal land."
Representative Graham, chairman of
the interior department, expenditures
committee, also has been looking into
the matter. Acording to the belief
here and in Alaska, Ryan, in
his efforts to obtain railroad terminals
at Controller bay, has been
working in the interest of an English
syndicate.
SCAMP WAS CAUGHT.
Negro Wrote Obscene Letters to Ladies
and is Trapped.
Ned McGehee, a negro, was arrested
several miles from Nashville,
Tenn., this week, on the Murfreesboro
turnpike, and is being held be- '
fore being turnd over to the Federal
officers on the charge of sending obscene
matter through the mails.
It is charged that McGehee has recently,
on several occasions, sent the
most obscene letters imaginable to
two of the most prominent ladies living
on the Murfreesboro road. In
these letters the negro is said to
have asked the ladies to meet him at
a given place at a set time.
Ill U1 UU1 IU Cll V.AHII I ' I 1 rt I 1 H1U Ul vut
of the man, decoy letters were used
with good results, these being written
by some of the male relatives of
the ladies who had been so grossly
insulted. In those decoy letters an
appointment was made to meet the
negro at the place indicated by him.
The time for the meeting was this
week. The astonishment of the fiend
when he went to fill the appointment
can be imagined upon coming face
to face with the detectives and a
number of prominent citizens of tho
neighborhood.
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Refused Tainted Money.
By a six to three vote the city
council of Jacksonville Florida refused
to appropriate money for the
maintenance of a Carnegie public library.
The philanthropist had offered
$25,000 if Pensacola would
raise one-tenth of that amount. The
people turned down the proposition
several weeks ago on a referendum <
vote. The argument was advanced ]
that Carnegie's money was "tainted." 1
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VOTE BAILEY DOWN
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THE SENATE KILLS HIS FREE
LIST AMENDMENT.
Heyburn Says the Republican Party *'
Is on Its Death Bed Because of its
Divided Ranks.
Senator Bailey's free list amendment
to the Canadian recirocity billwas
defeated in the Senate late Wedday
by a large majority. So evident
was the margin against it that Mr.
Bailey did not ask for a roll oall.
Pursuing the policy of forcing the
opponents of reciprocity to proceed
without delay, Senator Penrose urgnrl
Spn;itnr ltnilov to Intrndiirn hi?
wool tarig amendment a tonce. The
latter did so.
"Semi-Democrats" "borrowed
Democrats" and like terms were applied
to the Republican Senators supporting
the bill, by Senator Heyburn,
of Idaho, in a speech against
the measure. He declared that when
a vote on the bill is taken, all 1 tout
Republicans in the Senate will be opposed
to it, when the "Semi-Democrats"
will vote for it, along with tho
"fee-simple Democrats."
"How can we educate the leader of
the party back to Republican principles,"
asked Senato rNelson, of Minnesota.
"Who is the leader of the Republican
party?" asked Heyburn.
Senator Rtailey declared that tho
Republicans were in a stato of mutiny
and did not know their leader.
Mr. Heyburn declared that the reciprocity
bill came to Congress wrapped
in the flag of a pirate.
"Here's the hill; now you pass it
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burn.
lie declared that ho opposed all
amendments to the bill as well as
the bill itself, because "every amendment
is ia splinter off the Republican
flag staff of protective policy."
"That can't be," interjected Senator
Cl-app; "the flag staff has been
broken and the flag pulled down."
"I'll bet you 7,000,000 Republican
votes that is not true," said Heyburn.
He added that ho believed
that the Republicans would ultimately
come tog/ether again on protective
principles.
Asked by Senator ttailey how ho
would classify the insurgents, Mr.
Heyburn said they were "tnavericks"
waiting to be branded.
"If they can be rounded up In the
White House lot, I know they will be
branded," said Mr. Railey.
Senator Heyburn characterized
some of the progressives as "progressing
as a crab; you can't toll that
they're going."
"This is the deathbed of tho Republican
party," said Senator Heyburn,
referring to the split in tho
Republica ranks, "but it will be tho
death.bed of may of the men who aro
supporting this reciprocity bill, when
tho people realize that it means put
llllg down Ol ine proieouvw ayaiuui.
CHARGE LEWIS WITH FRAUD.
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dialled With lT?ing the Mails to
Defraud People.
A dispatch from St. Louis says
E. G. Lewis, until recently publisher
of ?a number of magazines and
promoter of enterprises, was Indicted
hy a special grand jury in the United
States district court on charges
of fraudulent use of the mails. Tho
indictment, containing twelve courts,
covers four points in which Lewis
is alleged to have obtained several
million by misleading statements circulated
through the mails.
It is charged he sold unsecured
notes on the Woman's Magazine
Building and the Woman's Daily
building in the University City, ol
which I^wis is Mayor, unsecured
notes of the University Heights Realty
Development Company, operated
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misrepresented the condition of the
Lewis Publishing Company in selling
siock in the concern.
Lewis recently put his corporations
into the hands of trustees with solo
power to handle them for five years.
Creditors have asked that a receiver
bo appointed. Lewis was indicted
in 1905 on charges of conducting a
scheme to defraud through his operation
of the People's United States
Hank, one of his corporations. Other
indictments charged him with defrauding
the government of postal
funds. He was acquitted on several
of these charges and all were dismissed
liater by the government.
It is charged in the indictment
that, by the debenture plan, Lewis
endeavored to recover securities in
his different companies and obligation,
most of which were due at early
dates, amouting to $7,160,000.
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uiuesi r/n^innT iftwi.
Renjamin E. Roboisnn, the oldest
locomotive engineer on the Southern
Railway, and according to his brothers,
the oldest In point of service of
any locomotive engineer in the United
States, died in Charleston after an
illness lasting about two weeks. At
the time of his death Robinson was
72 years of age. He entered the employ
of the old South Carolina Railroad
in 1852, and has run on it ever
since. Mr. Robinson was known to
many people between Columbia and
Charleston and Augusta.