The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 02, 1911, Image 3
MERELY A BLUFF
Gn r^meat Brisgi Suit ! Break Dp Ike
* Naltrkns Sled Tro*t.
FOOLING THE PEOPLE
Bweoping Anti-Truwt Action Taken in
^ the Courts, in which Many Millionaires
are Named as Defendants.
But It Will All Dikely Knd In
WothiiiK But Smoke.
A dispatch form Trenton, N. J.,
gays the government's suit to break
up the socalled "steel trust" has been
begun in the United States circuit
court. It is the most sweeping anti-trust
action ever brought by the
department of justice.
The government asks not only for
the dissolution of the United States
Steel cornorafion but for the disso
lution of all constituents or subsidiary
companies which are alleged to have
combined in violation of the Sherman
law to "maintain or attempt to
maintain a monopoly of the steel
business." There are 3G subsidiary
corporations named as defendants.
J. Plerpont Morgan, John D. Rockfeller,
Geo. W. Perkins, Andrew Carnegie,
Charles M. Schawb, H). IT. Gary
r John D. Rock feller, Jr., Henry C.
Frick, Sbas. Steele. James Gay ley,
Wm. H. Moore, Edmund C. Converse,
Percival Roberts, Jr., Daniel C. Reid,
Norman R. Ream, P. A. 13. Widener,
?.nd Wm. P. Palmer, named individually
as defendants.
The United States Steel corpora
lion, Carnegie Steel company, Carnegie
company of New Jersey, Fedoral
Steel company; National Steel
company; American Steel and Wire
company of New Jersey; National
Tube company; American Tinplate
company; American Sheet and Tinplate
company; American Sheet Steel
company; American Steel Hoop company;
American Bridge company;
Fake Superior Consolidated Iron
Mines, all of which were organized
under the New Jersey laws, and
P the H. C. Frick Coke company; Tennessee
'Coal & Iron Railroad company
and the Great Western Mining
company are named as corporate defendants.
Louis W. Mill, James N. Hill.
Walter J. Hill, K T. Nichols and J.
H. Gruber are named as trustees in
connection with ore companies.
The steel corporator's lease of
the Great Northern Railway's ore
k properties, which the directors of
the steel company formally decided
to camel, is alleged to be illegal.
This action of the directors
was taken but a few hours before
the filing, of the bill.
The governmen acknowledges that
3t was advised of the steel corporation's
mion in this reepesct but states
that under the terms of the lease,
^ no cancellation would be effective unit
Januaryl, 1 905, and here is no
limit upon the amount of ore that
can be taken oil in the meaotime.
Sensational allegations fairly topple
over each other in the government's
petition which is an equity
proceeding paying for injunctons to
uton continuance of he alleged nio
^ unply and such other relief as tho
court may grant.
The steel corporation's acquisition
of the Tennessee Coal Iron .company
during the panic f 1908 is declared
illegal and scathingly criticised. The
petition declares tha E. H. Gary and
Henry C. Fr'jck misled former President
Roosevelt when they told him
"that but little benefit will come to
the steel corporation from the purchase."
"Tho president," it says, "was not
made fully acquained with the state
of affairs in New York relevent to
the transaction ae they existed. If
lie had been fully advised, he would
Shave known that a desre to stop
the panic was not he sole moving
v cause but that there was also a de^
taire and purpose to acquire the control
of a company that had recently
si?BiiTriPt1 ft nnfllHrm r>f rmtontlnl
competition of great significance.
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QUANTITY OF MEAL SEIZED.
J/libelled Water Ground When It Was
Electric Ground.
One hundred and twenty-eight
packs of corn meal, shipped by an
.Asheville, N. C., milling company to
two mercantile firms at Greenwood S.
have been confiscated by the United
States, by virtue of the decision of
a jury in the Federal court. The meal
was seized upon the grounds that it
was labelled in violation of the pure
food laws of the United States. Upon
the sacks, in red lettering was stamped
"water ground" meal. Facts
brought out in the Federal court
went to show that the meal was really
ground by electric power.
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Daughter Greatly Shocked.
When Miss Ruth Hibbard, at Tampa,
Fla., Friday morning joined a
curious crowd wtoiich had gathered at
the engine house of a drawbridge to
view the body of a man who had been
killed, she discovered that the victim
was her father, Marion M. Hibbard
a machinst, while repairing the
machinery, was caught and crushed
to death.
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY
WONI>ERFU L GROWTH OF THIS
GREAT TRUNK LINE.
What It Im Doing for the South Generally
and the Towns Along Its
Lines Specially. 't <
The financial and Commercial
Chronicle^ reviewing the annual
statement of the Southern Railway
Company, issued this month, connects
the showing made in that report
directly with the recent marked
development and commercial and
industrial advancement of the South,
and characterizes the report itself as
"a record of marvelous growth ana
development." Either is interesting
comment to the Southerner; both
are more so, in view of the fact that
gross revenues, net revenues, trade
and trallic statistics are the best in
the company's history.
The lengh of road operated in
1900 was 6,306 miles, which earned
a gross operating revenue of $31,200,870.
In 1911 the total mileage
was 7,04 2 and the gross operating
revenue $61,696,181. Thus, with on<
ly 10 per cent additional mileage
there has been an expansion according
to quotation from the annual report
of over $30,000,000 in gross receipts,
the ratio of gain being almost
100 per cent. In 1900 the gross revenues
per mile of road were $4,94 8;
tor 1911 they were $8,761 per mile.
The net earnings per miie (after the
deduction of taxes) in th? same interval
increased from $1,4 86 to $2,437.
As a result of this great growth,
the Income account for the year under
review is of a highly gratifyiag
character. The balance over and above
all expenses and fixed charges
for the 12 months is $6,670,003.
This is more than twice the full 5
per cent dividend to which the $60,000,000
of preferred stock is entitled.
Dividends were resumed on
these shares during the year, but action
was very cautious and conservative,
1 per cent having been pa.'d
last April and another 1 per cent
the present October, the two together
calling for only $1,200,000 whereas
the surplus above the fixed charges,
as we have seen was $6,670,003.
Of the remainder of the surplhs a
round $3,000,000 has been chargeu
off to represemt the discount, on securities
sold, which at the end of the
previous year had stood at $4,853,154
and which now a year later (after
allowing for some slight, alterations
during the 12 months) has been
reduced to $1,688,029; $66,045 was
also appropriated for additions and
betterments. Even after these various
deduetjons and allowances, an undistributed
surplus of $2,4 03,957 remains
on the operations of the 12
months over and above the 2 per cent
paid out in dividends. Commenting
on thie showing the Financial and
Commercial Chronicle says:
The results here recorded could
not have been achieved except for
the advance in operating efficiency
and the broad and liberal policy pursued
in the management, and conduct
of the property. Of course the South
itself has enjoyed wonderful growth,
but this growth has followed in large
measure from the building up of the
lines embraced in the Southern Railway
system and the development of
their efficiency as public carriers.
Some figures regarding growth i&
population which we find in the report
bear out this statement in a
striking manner.
These show that the population of
the stations on the lines of the
Southern Railway?or at least the
stations of sufficient importance to
be returned separately?in the 10
years from 1 900 to 1910 increased
O A O /I i OA i,An?n
Of .JWI n;t?iiL.f HIIVI in tut? j uu.i o
from 1 890 to 1 91 0 75.3 per cent. But
the fact to which we wish to direct
especial attention is that the growth
at these Soutliern Railway stations
has in every state l>een larger proportionately
than the growth in
population of the state as a. whole, indicating
what the building up of this
system of roads has done for the
communities served.
In Virginia tho growth in population
for the entire state during the
last decade was 11.2 per cent, but
that of the Southern Railway stations
was no less than 42.2 per cent;
in North Carolina the growth for
the entire state was 16.5 per cent,
that for Southern Railway stations
60.5 percent; in South Carolina 13.1
for the entire state and 25.4 for the
stations; in Georgia 17.7 for the state
and 83.2 for the stations; in Missis
sippi 15.8 for the state and 47.9 for
1he stations, In Tennessee 8.1 for the
state and 3 4.7 for the stations; and
In Kentucky 6.6 for the state and
13.6 for the stations.
If one looks at the traffic and train
statistics, a record of achievement is
found fully as striking as the growth
in traffic and iivcome. For example,
we find that in 1911 the number of
miles run by the freight trains was
almost precisely the same as in 1904,
seven years before?the comparison
being 16,999,638 miles in 1911 and
16,955,900 miles in 1904. Yet, with
the mileage practically unchanged
5,111,331,177 tons of freight (including
company material) were carried
in the latest year as against only
3,812,864,988 ton-miles in the
earlier year. In other words 1300,000
ton-miles more of freight were
moved in 1911 with no addition to
HESTER ON COTTON
GIVES ALL THE FACTO ABOUT
THE GREAT STAPLE.
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Some Figure# That Will l'rove Interesting
Reading to All Who
Plant Cotton.
Secretary Hester's weekly New Orleans
Cotton Exchange statement Issued
before the <close of business
Friday Bhows an Increase in the
movement into sight compared with
tUie seven days ending this date last
year in round figures of 71,000 an
increase over the same days year before
last of 103,000 and an increase
over the same time in 1908 of 70,000.
For tlio 27 days of October the totals
show an increase over last year
of 225,000, as increase over the
same period year before last of 128,
000 and an increase over the same
time in 1908 of 209,000.
For the 2 7 days of tlio season
that liavo elapsed the aggregate is
ahead of the 57 days of last year
046,000, ahead of the same days
year before last 373,000 and 1908 by
581,000.
The amount brought into sight
during the past week has been 67 1,042
bales, against 600,534 for the
seven days ending this date last
year, 586,171 year before last and
601,495 same time in 1908; and, for
the 2 7 days of October it has been
2,886,311, against 2,1 01,302 last
year, 2,258,2 98 year before last and
2,117,456 same time in 1 908.
The movement since September 1
shows receipts at all United .States
ports 8,039,065, against 2,487,324
last year, z,680,4 9 4 year beror? lest
and 2,386,634 same time in 1909.
Overland across the Mississippi, Ohio
and Potamac rivers to northern mill?
and Canada 72,721, against 95,429
last year, 97,097 year before last
and 17 0,817 same time of 1908; in-j
terior stocks in excess of those held
at tlhe close of the commercial year
45 9,143, against 3 71,969 last year,
4 23,760 year before last and 4 63,202
sarnie time in 1 908; Southern
mills taking 409,000 against 379;3
55 last year, 4 05,83 7 year before
last and 379,424 same time in 1908.
These make the total movement
for the 57 days of the season from
September 1 to date 3,979,929;
against 3,33 4,077 last year, 3,607,148
year before last and 3,3 98,597
same tiin? in 1908.
Foreign exports for the week
have been 400,807, against 285,274
Inst year, making hhe total thus far
for the season 218,4 97, against 1,690,33
8 last year an increase of
487,149.
Northern mills takings and Canada
during the past seven days ahow
a decrease of 16,022 as compared
with the corresponding period last
year, and their total takings since
September 1 have decreased 4 9,75 4.
The total takings of American mills,
North, South and Canada, thus far
for the season have been 775,336,
aganst 797,822 last year. These include
3 61,828 by Northern spinners,
against 41 1,582.
Stocks at the seaboard and the 29
leading Southern interior centres
have increased during the week 1 15,34
5 bales, against an increase during
the corresponding period last season
or HD.'iuu ana arc now zjy.ijui more
than at this date in 1910.
Including stocks left over at ports
and interior towns from the last crop
and the number of bales brought into
sight thus far from the new crop,
the supply to date is 4,266,9 63,
against 3,5 82,629 for the same period
last year.
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SKAJIC1IING FOR KWFF/THNAKT.
Comely Norwegian Woman at Savan?nail
l.ooking for Finance.
Miss Theresa Just, a comely young
woman from Frimstad, Norway, has
arrived in Savannah in search of Otto
Matheson, her finance, whom alio
has come to wed. Three years ago the
couple were living in Mobile and became
engaged. Miss Just went back
to her homo in 'Norway and has been
corresponding with Matheson, who
said he was in Savannah. She came
back lo this country and wired him
she was going to Savannah. Arriving
she was unable to find any trace of
him and is now at the rooms of the
Y. W. C. A. She says she is certain
her sweetheart did not get her wire
and that as soon as he knows she is
in Savannah he will come to her.
Matheson is supposed to he employ
ed on tho river front.
Injured In Auto Colli son.
At Jacksonville, Fla., Robert Van
Ness and L. T. Milton, tire vulcanizes,
wero seriously injured when
the automobile in which thoy wero
riding collided with a trolley car on
tho Adams street viaduct, Van Ness,
who was riding next to Milton, who
was driving died from his(injuries.
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Wild Oats.
What awful crops are sown?and
reaped?by the idle rich! Robert W.
Chambers tells about them in "Tho
Danger Mark." Thrilling, absorbing.
Formerly published at $ 1.50; now
fifty cents at Sims Rook Store.
the miles run. This means that' in
the seven years the average trainload
has been raised from 224 tons
to 300 tons.
QUEER CASES
Lost af I?u; br Ywa Mta Far Maay
Years JUpoiUd la Seattle
BOTH ARE NOW ALRIGHT
Extraordinary Cases of Forget fill 1news?Itiganiy
Revealed by an Accident?The
Guilty Husband Says
He is Sorry of ILis Forgetfulness
A Seattle dispatch to The New
York World tells the curious story
of two instances of lapses of mem
ory which coino to light there. George
Scott, a rich lumberman of Vancouver,
supposed himself a bachelor
until 1909, when he married.
Now he suddenly remembers that 2 0
years ago he left a wife and children
in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The other case Is that of S. Chandler
Rogers, who was beaten so badly
in New York 14 years ago that he
forgot his name. He drifted to Seattle,
and has been known as George
Kelly. An oporator recalled him to
himself.
In all the years that Scott was
piling up a fortune he seemed heart
proof until a musical company visited
Vancouver two years ago. lie
then capitulated to Jane Patterson
of Allegheny, I'a., one of its members.
Although their gase were far apart
thoy lived happily. (Scott finally
met with an accident which fractured
his akull and brought on, in addition,
a serious illness through which his
wife nursed him.
Memory of his youthful domestic
life came with his recovery. In tellIn
his wifo of it he said his name
was always George Scott and that he
never had a physical mishap or illness
to explain a loss of memory. All
the same his mind had been utterly
blank as -to the wife and babies in
Scotland.
Mrs. Scott didn't question his good
faith, but said his story dictated a
plain course for her, through the divorce
court. They talked it out thoroughly
and it was Anally arranged
that she should bring action for divorce
and Scott return to Scotland
and learn what has become of his
fmriilv Slionlfl ho fi iwl i ho (irct wifo
ho miifit make proper amends to her.
If she had died he will come bajck
fo Vancouver and the later Mrs. Scott
will marry him again.
Rogers or Kelly was taken to a
hospital October 10, suffering from
an attack of acute insanity, with
which ho had been taken in IiIe
homo. The doctors found that a portion
of the skull was pressing 011 the
brain. Surgery soon relieved him and
ho became perfectly normal.
lie called for pen and paper and
wroto, "I am in hospital and all O.
K.' addressing the envelope to Miss
Florence Douels, No. 418 West Thirty-second
street, New Yosk. A post*sript
to the letter asked that Father
Doherty of the Paulist Society, be
sent hi in.
Picking up a newspaper after he
had finished his note, and seeing the
date lino "Seattle, Oct. 20,1011," he
turned wonuenngiy to Dr. .Milton u.
Sturgis and his nurse and said: "Am
I really in Seattle " Then he broke
down with a fit of sobbing.
lie told his story when he had
composed himself. The hospital staff
think it one of the most remarkable
on record. For fourteen years, he
said, he did not know where lie had
been or what he had been doing. He
was born in New York in 1880 and
lived with his grandmother. Mrs.
Elizabeth Douels, in New York. Ills
naime was S. Chandler Rogers.
On May 1, 1 807 with a boy friend
and two girls, he went to the theater.
Having seen his girl to her home he
started to walk to his own. Three
men stopped him and asked for a
match. Ho said he was no match factory
and the men pounced on him.
On struck him with blackjack. The
next thing ho knew he was in the
river, naked and swimming.
He said he remembered clutching
aft something in the river and being
dragged out, but that was the last
ho knew of himself as Rogers until
he awoke in the hospital after the
skull pressure had been lifted from
his brain. ,
MAIL CARRIE It R.\1)LY HURT.
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His Wagon Ran Into From the Rear
by an Auto.
At Columbia on Friday Rural
Mail Carrier Swift Sligh, longer in
service than any other of the other
carriers there, was badly injured his
wagon was smashed, and his horse
so badly hurt that he had to be shot,
when his vehicle was struck from
tho rear on North Main street by an
automobile, which tho drfver, William
Long, had taken without permission
from the Etheridge garage
where I^ong was employed. Up to
this hour the police havo not located
I^ong. Ho brought the car baick to
the garage and then disappeared.
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A Perfect Widow.
That's what a great many people
called the heroine of Lilian 'Bell's
novel "The Concentrations of Bee."
Formerly published at $1.60; now
fifty cento, at SIms Book Store.
BETTER COTTON
FARMERS URGED TO PLANT
LONG STPJLE VARIETY. ... .
Lewis W. Parker, Rig Cotton Mill
Man, Sends Out Letter to the
Farmers. |
Cloth manufactured by the South
Carolina mills from long staple cotton
produced In the State this year
will be shown at the State fair next
week by the State department of agriculture.
"The exhibit," said Commissioner
Watson, "will be the final
word in cotton." There will be an exhibit
of long staple cotton f all va
rietles up to ono ana three-fourths
inches.
The department will next year
prosecute a vigorous campaign to interest
the farmers in the growth of
long staple cotton. Results have already
been secured.
Lewis W. Parker, head of the $15,000,000
cotton manufacturng company,
is very much interested in the
prduction of the lug staple cotton.
He has pened a market for the dotton
in this State. Mr. Parker has
stilt out of the follwing to the faaniers
of South Carlina:
"We wish to advise you that we
use at several of the mills in which
we are interested staple cotton rangng
in length from full inco 1-8 to
full inch 1-4, and will be glad to get
into communication aith you with a
view of pdrchasing yorr crop of
same.
"Our plan is to buy this cotton direct
from he farmer where nractica
ble, an(j we suggest that if one or
more of you will get togeher 1n any
community 25 or more bales nt will
send our expert staplers, who will examine
your cotton on the spot, and
mak full market offtrs therefor; but
if it be not practicable for you to
congregae your cotton, as thus suggoseed,
we would advise that you
ship your staple cotton to the Standard
Warehouse (Company, at eiher
Greenville or Columbia, advising I
us of the shipment, and we will have!
cur staplers to examine tiie same and
mako yu full market offers therefor.
"We further suggest that if practicable
you have all staple cotton
ginned on a roller gin in ordtr to
avoid cutting or napping the stapple.
This will likewise add to till ltngtli
of the saple, and correspondingly to
its value and price; but if it be not
convenient to you so ouse the saw
gin, we advise that you watch the
roll clsedly and have the speed regulated
s as not to cut the staple. Itun
the gin slowly.
"Whtlier you use a saw or roller
gin we would urge hat you s?e that
the ins are free from ordinary staple
before allowing your Ion staple cotton
to be put in it.
"e\V shall be lad to cooperate with
you in every way possible in the
preparations of your staple for the
market, in! oirdieri o secure you the
best possible results. It is all important
that staple cotton should be
handled and ginned with greatest
care in order that you mad compete
with the Mississippi sections and secure
tht prices paid them.
"If we can be of any service to you
we shall gladly assist you and give
you information upon request.
"Parties in the eastern par of the
State will fin(| it to their advantage
to communicate with J. L. Colter &
Co., llartsville, who will buy cotton
for our account at full prices."
DIONIIOS Til 10 WHOLE THING.
Gaffney Grocer Itepltos to Sensational
Story.
A story came from Gaffney some
days ago to the effect that a man living
in Gaffney was suspected of having
committed a, ;brutal crin\e in
North Carolina some years ago. The
story was to the effect that a boy
had been murdered in North Carlina
by two men one of them whom
had since died. The article stated
that a minster of Gaffney was in possession
of facts which strongly indicated
that the other guilty party
was now a resident of ttiis city. In
reply to this J. G. Simmons, a grocery
man of Gaffney, says:
"Your paper of October 24 contains
an article which Interests every
citizen of Gaffney, and especially me.
One sentence, by its indeftniteness,
involves every minister in the city,
and at least one merchant. In response
to a direct request, your reporter
has given mo the name of the
minifltsr to whom reference was
made. Feeling convinced by all the
circumstances that 1 am the merchant
referred to in that article, in
.instice to myself, my family, my
church, my friends and tlie city
which has so kindly received me as
a citizen, I bog that you give me
space, in order that I may defend
myself against an underhand attack,
the reason for which I have not the
remotest idea 1 have been living in
Oaffney since the 11th day of May,
1908. 1 think that I am as well and
favorably known as is lie who is trying
to blast my name, blacken my
character and bring shame on the
church of which I am a member. Let
me say that there is not one particle
of fact for the gross insinuations
contained in that article and appar.
ently aimed at me. Had I been such
' a vlllian, fleeing from justice, would
ANTITROST SUIT
TAFT DENIES THAT HIS MOTIVES
AKE UNWORTHY. ? ..
The President Ix*ts Off Some Hot Air
Chicago About Uie Wicked Trusts.
Trusts.
In a speech at Chicago Friday
night President Taft in vigorous
language denied that the administration
was being influenced by political
motives.
"I would rather cut off my right
hand," he exclaimed, "than do any-'
thing to disturb the business of this
country, especially with a motive of
cultivating political success."
The president said ho wanted it to
be understood for all time that he
intenhed to enforce the anti-trust
law to the letter.
"Statements as to what I may bo
responsible for in bringing about
business troubles, however regretful
it may be that it is so, can not turn
me from duty that lies straight before
me," continued Air. Taft.
He spoke to an immense throng in
the First Regiment armory hall, and
his anti-trust declarations caused
much applause and cheering. Thero
was no doubt as to what was in the
president's mind when lie said:
"I come to the subject of the
trusts at a time when the matter is
boiling." The president had declared
he believed the railroads of the country
had brought themselves within
the law and were conscientiously trying
to keep within it.
"I hope that at some no far distant
time the same thing can be said
of the great industrial combinations,"
he said. "Mere zigness of plant
mere bigness of company or corporation,
does not constitute a violation
of the law. It is the purpose to restrain
trade, to suppress competition
and control prices that transgresses
1 l\n oial nt/\ o ? wl a a ' ^ 1
?.??vy ouiuiii; aim uju cuyicil.'t' ^uuri
has declared that these practices
must end.
"Through my career," the president
continued, "1 have always conducted
myself and promoting prosperity. If
there is anything that arouses disgust
in me it is the calamity howler
the man who attacks business and
seeks to arouse prejudce against it.
Prosperity we all need. We are all in
the same boat."
It was here that the president declared
he would rather cut off his
right hand than disurb business for
political motive "but," he added, "we
have a kind of lawlessness to deal
with. We have had it for 20 years.
We have gone on organizing combinations
in violation of the anti-trust
law 011 tlio theory that it either could
not or would not be enforced.
Mlist Stop Lawlessness.
"The supreme court has held that
this lawlessness must be stamped out.
There is 110 discretion in the executive's
enforcement of a statute. It is
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ins uuiy iu emorce ana uiroci me
prosecution of those who violate the
law.
"I am just now in the remarkable
position of being charged with ail
attempt to destroy business by enforcing
the anti-trust statute and of
having set up the supreme court to
emasculate the statute in the interests
of the trusts.
"I am hopeful this period of
strain soon will end, that business
will soon adjust its self with the
law. 1 believe a majority of business
is square with the law. There is only
oen wan that 1 know to cure the corporations
of disease, and that is to
eradicate the disease. The law will
be enforced to the letter. Now I hoi:?
that it will be understood."
TUBMAN MOmriUS It MM ARKS.
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Says He Said More Than the Report
or Said He Said.
The following 110(0 from Senator
Tillman to the Augusta Chronicle explains
itself:
In today's Chronicle your correspondent,
Mr. McWliorter, has fallen
into a serious mistake or omission,
lie makes me say "if he (Jones) does
that and makes his fight 011 Mease's
record, he will win." I went on to
say and I now repeat that as the
record now stands under the indictment
as drawn by the newspapers, I
do not believe Jones or any one else
ca.11 defeat him. Something new and
disgraceful must be brought out
which will shock the people and
arouse State pride.
Very truly yours,
H it. Tillman.
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Fires In Scotland.
.Rut they were fires of merriment
lighted by three jolly American girls,
who took a literary historical and
social saunter through the land of
the heather. Nothing more laughable
than "Penelope's Progress" by Kate
Douglas Wiggln. Formerly published
at $1.25; now fifty cents, at Sims
Pook Store.
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Dies In the Electric Chair.
Norval Marshall, colored, was
electrocuted at the North Carolina
State's prison thie morning at 10.30
o'clock as the penalty for criminal
assault upon a white woman, of Warren
county, on September 19.
I have stopped in Gaffney, so near
my former home and the plaos of
the alleged crime?"