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ra? SUMXXB watchman, Established April, 1850? "Be Just and Fear not?Let all the Ends thon AInis't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." the true sodthkon , Established Jone, I s 66 Cosoli?a?ed Ing. S, 1881. SUMTER. S. C. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 19, 1908. New Series?Tol. XXII. No. 16 Clje Morten n? Pablisiisd Sto? Ved&esday, -b? JXT. Cat-. Osteen, 3UMTER, S. C. es ms : $1 50 per annum?io advance. a. s y s s s : Ose Square first insertion.$1 00 1 very subsequent insertion.* - 50 Contracts for three months, or longer wili be made at reduced rates. ?ll cotnniQcic&rions which snbserve private interests will be charged for ss ad verdemente. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. WHACK AT THE LILY WHITES. Why an Alabama Republican Lost His Job Monday. Washington, November 10.?Julian H. Bingham, collector of internal re venue for the district of Alabama, has been removed from his office and Joseph O. Thompson appointed to succeed him. The change was made as result of a political condition which recently arose in Alabama. Colored Republicans were excluded from participation in the Republican State Convention and Collector Bingham was held responsible, at least in a measure, for the exclusion. Postmaster General Payne visited the White House today and, as he left the executive office, made public the following statement assigning the rea sons for the change : "The change in the office of collect or of internal revenue for the district of Alabama in no wise reflected upon the integrity of Mr. Bingham, the in cnmbent of the office. It is one of . those things which occasionally hap pen in politics. The position taken by the Republicans of Alabama at . their recent State Convention, as un derstood by the Bepublicns of the North, is looked upon as a perversion of the fundamental principles of the Republican party, and Mr. Bingham is, in a measure, held responsible for that action ; hence the change. "Neither the Administration nor the Republican party of the North will stand for the exclusion of any section of our people by reason of their race or color, when, in other respects, such persons have complied with the laws and are eligible under the law to full and free participation in political ac tion and are of a high standard of per sons! character. In other words, there are a few hundred colored men in Alabama < who come up to the re quirements of the recently adopted State Constitution and are eligible for participation in political affairs, and the action of the Republican State Convention referred to, in arbitrarily excluding them, is not approved; no more than such action wocild be ap proved if it were taken in Ohio or Indiana." Mr. Thompson, the appointee, is a brother of Representative Thompson, of Alabama. He is a Republican, although his brother represents a Dem ocratic district. FIRE 355 FEET IN TIE Most Spectacular Conflagration Ever Seen in New York. New York, November 10.?The new East River bridge, in process of con struction ? between New York and Brooklyn, was damaged to the amount of at least half a million dollars to night by a fire that for four hours raged three hundred and fifty-five feet in the air, on the summit of the stee} tower on the New York side. Three men who were at work on top of the tower when the fire broke out are re ported to have fallen into the river. Owing to the enormous heigth of the t?wer it was impossible to reach the fire with any apparatus in the fire department and the flames, after de vouring all the woodwork on the top of the tower, seized on the timber false work of the two foot bridges suspend ed from the main cables, burning away the supports, until nearly a mil lion feet of .blazing lumber fell with a mighty splash and hiss into the stream. The fall of the wooden bridge carried away scoes of lighter cable and guys, which trailed in the water, rendering it necessary for the police to jstop ail traffic up and down the river. The Fall River steamer Puritan and several j other craft had narrow escapes while i running the gauntlet of fiery brands ! that fell in showers from the burning ! bridge. The fire was the most spec- j tacular conflagration that has ever been seen in New York. The fire started in a woodshed and from this spread to the great timber frame work. Within five minutes af ter the first discovery of the fire the whole top of the tower was in a blaze. Then the foot bridges fell, carrying with them many tons of bolts, rivets, nuts and tools. At that moment the Brooklyn fire boat was just D9?ow the bridge and a heavy steel team fell on her, breaking her rudders and send ing her drifting helpless down the stream. Sound steamers and all other up river navigation was stopped. Newberry, Nov. 13,?Not long ago Mr. Samuel Atchison of Whitmire re ceived a letter from a man who claims to be James Lindsay and #ho was supposed to have been killed in the war 37 yeare ago. He now resides in Cievleand, O. Startling, But True. "If every one knew what a grand medi- I cine Dr. King's New Life Pills is." writes D. H. Turner, Dempseytown, Pa., "you'd sell all you have in a day. Two week's use has made a rew man of me." Infallible ! for constipation, stomach and lirer trou- j bles. 25c at J. F. W. DeLorme's drug store. ANSWERS OF THE RAILROADS. Hoi Shot From the Inter-State Commerce Commission. Washington, November 11.?Several more of the railroads which were made defendants in the complaint made by the Kentucky railroad commission, charging merger of interests, which threatened to place the entire South ern territory under the domination of a single-firm, filed their answers in t-be Inter-State commerce commission today. The answers in the main, like those of the Illinois Central and the Texas and Pacific filed yesterday, deny the allegations. The Louisville and Nashville Eailroad, however, goes further and its answer styles the complaint a "m?re fishing bill," and disputes the jurisdiction of the Inter State commerce commission over such matters. The Louisville and Nash ville's anwser says the commission has no right nor title to institute or pro secute the complaint; has no juris diction t? require the filing of copies of contracts or arrangements with other common carriers, except such as relate to the traffic affected by the In ter-State Commerce Act. which the railroad says, does not apply to the contracts, arrangements, etc., referred to in th? complaint, nor jurisdiction to inquire into personal transactions of individual stockholders, nor to ascer tain whether any particular individual or firm has acquired a majority or any other proportion of the capital stock of a railroad. The answer denies that J. P. Morgan & Co. have acquired control of a ma jority of the Louisville and Nashville stock and says the commisssion has no jurisdiction to inquire into the motives or objects of any one selling or pur chasing shares, nor whether the stock of the Southern is controlled by a voting trust with Morgan & Co. at its head. The Atlante Coast Line Railroad admits contracting with the Morgan Company to purchase by December 31 next, and that the Morgan Company has contracted to deliver to the Atlantic Coast Line by that date 306, 000 shares of the capital stock of the Louisville and Nashville for $50,000, 000, and that the Louisville and Nash ville has assented thereto. The Southern Railway Company, the Southern Railway Company in Kentucky and the Southern Eailway Company of Indiana, in a direct answer, deny that the two last named lines are under the "management" of the Southern. They admit that about June 21, 1900, Morgan & Co.. and the Southern Railway made an agree ment with practicallly all of the hold ers of. bonds .secured on properties then belonging jjo the Louisville, Evansville and the St. Louis Con solidated Railway Company, whereby it was proposed to reorganize that road to vest its control in the Southern. This plan was executed by a fore closure. It is also admitted that in pursuance of an agreement the South ( era jointly with the Louisville and ! Nashville has acquired 95,000 shares of the capital stock of the Chicago, j Indianapolis and Louisville Railway ! Company. . The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific not only denies the jurisdiction of the commission, but submits'that there is no law of the ; United States nor of the States men I tioned in the complaint " which forbids the same person or firm to hold stock in two or more railways." ? Liberal Offer. The undersigned will give a free sample of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab lets to any one wanting a reliable remedy for disorders of the stomach, biliousness or constipation. This is a new remedy j and a good one. Dr. ?. J. China. Booker Washington, Referee. It has been suggested in dispatches received from Washington that Presi dent Roosevelt will be largely interest ed in his selection of a Collector for the port of Charleston by the advice of Booker Washington, the principal of the Tuskegce institute in Alabama. The Columbia Reord says : "President Roosevelt is free to con sult anybody about his appointments in South Carolina, and if lie desires the advice of a negro Of Alabama rather than the men who represent the business interests of the State, he can have it and .accept it, but we are sure that he will lessen the respect which thousands of white political opponents in this State and the South have heretofore had for him when he does." It would be very remarkable, indeed, and not more remarkable than infam ous, if the President should be in fluenced in his choice of a Collector at this port by the advice of a colored man living 500 miles from Charleston and in no way whatever interested in the business and commerial welfare of Charleston. If Dr. Crum should be appointed Collector at Charleston up on the advice of Booker Washington, and after the protests which have been filed with the President by the business men and represenative citizens of this community against such an appointment, the President will disappoint the expectations of his friends at Charleston and do violence to his own conscience. Things will have come to a pretty pass if it shall turn out that the President has placed the Federal patronage in the Southern States under the supervision and direction of Booker Washington.? News and Courier. Luck in Thirteen. By sending 13 miles Wm. Spirey, of Walton Furnace, Vt., got a box of Bnck len'e Amica Salve, that wholly cured a horrible fever sore on his leg. Nothing else could. Positively cures bruises, felons, ulcers, eruptions, boils, burns, corns and piles. Only 25c. Guaranteed by J. F. W. DeLorme, druggist. CUBAN RECIPROCITY TREATY. Conditions Said to Have Chang ed in the island. Washington, Nov. 12.?An import ant conference bearing on the subject of the Cuban reciprocity treaty was held at the war department today, the participants being Secretary Hay, Secretary Eoot and Gen. Tasker Bliss. Before the conference at the war de partment Secretary Hay had talked on this subject with Senator Collona, chairman of the Senate committee on foreign relations, and also with Sena tor Quesada, the Cuban minister here. It appears that the cardinal objection of President Palma- to the treaty as it stands is the insufficient rebate of 20 per cent, proposed to be allowed on Cuban imports into the United States, and Secretacry Hay's purpose is to ascertain, if possible, how far he can yield in that matter and still be able to rely upon the suppoort of Congress next session, when the treaty is submitted. So far his ad vices do not favor any increase of the rebate and, indeed, he has been as sured by some persons with whom he has talked that under no conditions would Congress consent to any sub stantial increase of this rebate. It is "understood that the Cubans are entirely unwilling to accept any small increase. In the face of a great shortage in the European crop and a rapidly rising market, they have ac quired confidence in their ability to get alcng for an indefinite period of time without reciprocity with the United States, and so it is understood they are showing an indifference in the prosecution of the treaty negotia tions, which is serving in turn to stimulate the efforts of our own nego tiations. President Palma makes the point that conditions have changed in Cuba, so that whereas the 20 per cent rebate might have served when it was first proposed, it would at present afford so little relief as not to warrant the sac rifice of Cuban revenues that would be involved in its acceptance. Secretary Hay has determined to clear up that point and to that end, after talking with Secretary Root to day, it was decided that Geh. Bliss should be sent at once to Cuba to make a personal investigation of the industrial situation fand the fiscal possibilities of the island. A Judge's Domicile. A dispatch from Newberry yesterday reportea that somewhat of a sensation had been sprung there by the Bar Association in "calling off theterm of Court of Common Pleas," and went on to explain : The reason for this action, it is be lieved, is the fact that Judge O. W. Buchanan, who was to preside, does not live in the circuit from which he was elected and is, therefore, in the opinion of the Newberry Bar, dis qualified under the statutes from hold ing Court. Judge Buchanan presided at the Court of General Sessions held here last week. It is a most interest ing question that has been sprung and one that may affect other counties. There does not appear to be much room for a doubt as to the propriety of the Bar's action. The constitu tional provision (Art V. Sec. 13) is very piain and very pertinent. It reads: "Foreach circuit a Judge shall be ?lected who 'shall hold his office for the term of four years ; and at the time of his election he shall be an elector of a county of, and during his continuance in office he shall reside In, the circuit of which he is Judge." The dispatch states it as "a fact" that Judge Buchanan does not live in the circuit from which he was elected If this be so, he as plainly, if not in contempt of the Constitution, at least, hard up against an unqualified require ment of that instrument. Wheter his breach of the requirement disqualifies him from holding Court we cheerfully leav.e to legal authorities. It is to be noted, however, that it is an irre mediable breach. Removal to the circuit would not now meet the con ditions of the case. The only choice appears to be between accepting Judge Buchanan's non-residence in his circuit as forfeiting his position, or disregarding the plain letter of the constitutional provision as being of little or no practical consequnce.? News and Courier. Three New Major Generals. Washington, Nov. 12.?The slate for the promotion to major generals to fill vacancies caused by retirements which will take place next year has been ar ranged. There will be three vacancies, Gen. Hnghes retiring April 11, Gen. Davis July 26 and Gen. Miles August S. The latter is lieutenant general and will be succeeded by Major Gen. Young. The brigadiers to be pro moted to be major generals are James F. Wade, Samuel S. ' Sumner and Leonard Wood. These men are now the three ranking brigadier generals in the order named. Gen. Wade has been a brigadier general since May, 1S97, and has seen many advanced to the higher grade while he has remained stationary. It is presumed that he will succeed Gen. Davis in command of the Philippines, when the latter re tires next July. It is expected that Col. H. C. Hasbrouck, of the arillery, will be made a brigadier general and that Col. M. Moore, of the cavalry, will be selected for a long service. A Startling Surprise. Very few could believe in looking at A. T. Hoadley, a healthy, robust blacksmith of Tilden, Ind., that for ten years he suf fered such tortures from Rheumatism as few could endure and live. But a wonder ful change followed hi* taking Electric Bit ters. "Two bottles wholly cured me,'' he writes, ''and I have not felt a twinge in over a year. They regulate the Kidneys, purify the blood and cure Rheumatism, nervous ness, improve digestion and give perfect health. Try them. Only 50 cts at J. F. W. DeLorme's drug store. . . THOMAS VS. RAILROADS. He Goes Before Commission and Makes Serious Charges. Columbia^ Nov. 12.--The railroad commission is in session today. Among other things an investigation into the death of Tyler Nash, at Hardeville, last August, on the Southern Railway, was made. The commission's duty is to find out if the railroad was at fault. If so they make a report to the Legislature ; if not., that is an end of it so far the commission is "con cerned. The commission this afternoon had quite a lively session in considering Mr.-H. R. Thomas' complaint against the Southern Railway. Mr. Thomas was at times very angry and severe in hi?. denunciation of the railroad and officers, and Mr. Emerson warmed up in reply. Mr. Thomas'complaint was that bills of lading would not be granted him at his station, at Clare mont, on the Camden branch, and that he was compelled to go to King ville to get them. He said he had been ruined in his business and would demand $5,000 damages, though later on he showed when he made $500 in one month and claimed that he would have made double had the railroad treated him ri^ht. He said a rival in business had been put to no trouble about bills of lading and he claimed that he had been especially singled out f?r discrimination. He intimated that the railroad had tried to settle his damages by offering to appoint him agent at his station. Mr. Emerson and Mr. Tripp both denied that Mr. Thomas had been sin gled out for discrimination, the form er saying Mr. Thomas was not so im portant as all that, and if his compet itor had gotten a bill of lading it was done by the agent on his own accord, and if it could be proven he would be discharged. Superintendent Heather,, of Charleston, smoothed things over by promising to try to get Claremont established as a station, where bills of lading could be obtained by Mr. Thomas. Naval Fight at Panama. I Panama, Nov. 12. ?The first Ameri can casualties as a result of the re volution, occurred yesterday. The Colombian fleet captured a boat having on board correspondence showing the whereabouts of two revolutionary schooners loaded with provisions. The Government ; warships headed for the place and on arri?j$g there the Bogota, (formerly the Jessie Banning, ) manned by an. American^ciew, commanded by Capt. .-Marmaduk?j? low^djtwo boats with armed menrou?^s^B^sc^oners were aground they awaited until high tide to attack. In the meanwhile che revolutionists were discovered in ambush close t? the beach and when the Bogotas' boats pulled ahead the second time the reb els opened fire on them, killing the ship's armorer, Richard Kane, of Washington, and wounding George Walker, who was shot through the legs. A seamen named Clark and Lieut. Vasquez were also wounded, but not seriously. The Bogota and Chucuito then open ed fire on the enemy and killed every man in sight One shot fired at a group of ten rebels, who were most actively engaged in shooting at the boats' crews, killed every one of them. Gunner Cross, of the Bogota, thinks that from forty to fifty rebels were killed. One of the schooners, the Helvetia, loaded with rice, was captured, but the first shot at the second schoon er set her on fire and she was com pletely destroyed" with her cargo. Cholera in Manila. Manila, Nov. 12.?Cholera made its appearance among the men of a detach ment of the 5th inafntry which is sta tioned here. Seven men have already died and a number of others are seri ously ill. The detachment of the 5h infantry in question had been placed on guard along the Maraquina- River, whence Manilla receives its water supply, as it was deemed necessary to protect the stream from possible pollution. The cholera developed while the men were on this duty. It was believed that cholera had en tirely disappeared from Manila, and its reappearance has created feelings of apprehension. Edgetleid Incendiary Shot. Johnston, Nov. 11.?A telephone message from Edgefield is to the effect that another incendiary attempt was made three tonight and one of the fire bugs was severely shot and then cap tured. Two others escaped, but one is thought to be wounded and a party of several armed citizens have started in pursuit of the scoundrels. The report indicates that the incen diaries attempted to fire an unoccupied building but were caught in the act be fore accomplishing their fiendish pur pose. They were negroes. If caught their trials will probably be outside the court hcuse. Question Answered. Yes, August Flower still has the largest sale of any medicine in the civilized world. Your mothers' and grandmothers' never thought of using anything else for indiges tion or biliousness. Doctors were scarce, and they seldom heard of appendicitis, nervous prostration or heart failure, etc. They used August Flower to clean out the system and stop fermentation of undigest ed food, regulate the action of the liver, stimulate the nervous and organic action of the s} stem, and that is all they took when feeling dull and bad with headaches and other aches. You only need a few doses of Green's August Flower, in liquid form, to make you satisfied there is noth ing serious the matter with you. You can get this reliable remedy at China's drug drug store. Price 25c and 75c. OUT FOB BEAR. The President's Journey to Hampton's Hunting Ground. Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 12.?President Roosevelt passed _through Pittsburg at 10.30 this morning, en route to a point in Mississippi where he has ar ranged to spend several days hunting black bear, as the gnest of President Fish, of the Illinois Central Railroad. He is travelling on a special train of three cars, and is accompanied by Secretary Cortelyou and his physician, Dr. G. A. Lung, of the navy. He will go direct to Memphis,^ Tenn., without stop. From Cincinnati to Louisville the train will run over the Louisville and Nashville, and there will shift to the tracks of the Hlinois Central. The President will reach Memphis tomorrow, where he will be joined by President Fish, and the journey to Mississippi will be made over the Yazoo and Mississippi Rail road. The next destination of the President has been kept secret. Hunt ing with a gallery is riot to the taste of a sportsman like President Roose velt, and it was for that reason that he vetoed the hunt to which Gover nor Longino invited him. A camp has already been prepared in North ern Mississippi, a few miles from the line of the railroad, and it is under-, stood one of the best pack of hounds in the South is waiting to be slipped on the trail of old bruin upon the Presi dent's arrival. Bears are reported to be plentiful and there are also said to be some panthers in the vicinity, so that the President is looking forward to this sport with much pleasure. Electioneering For The Bench. A gentleman who keep3 up with snch things predicted today that Asso ciate Justice P?pe would be elected Chief Justice by the Legislature, it having been "ijjQfnounced that Judge Mclver would design. Acting on that supposition there are some ten or twelve prominent lawyers throughout the State actively at work now among legislators to secure the place on the Supreme Bench which it is expcted Justice Pope will vacate by reason of his promotion.?News and Courier, Nov. 12. Another Valuable Find. In the old Revolutionary records at the State cap?tol another valuable find has been made by Record Clerk Mc Cown. This consisted of the rolls of the sailors "5W51 'soldiers-from France" who served on the old frigate "South Carolina" under Commodore Gillon on the Carolina coast. The complete rolls of the men, native and French, were found, together with the full ac count of the prize money and pay due each one. Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 12.?Nina K. Danforth, the deformed Framing ham girl, pleaded guilty here today to manslaughter in causing the death of Andrew J. Emery, whom she shot and killed at his home in South Framing ham, on May 17 last. - It was claimed that Emery had led the young woman to believe that he was in love with her and would marry her, and that she shot him upon learning that he had a wife and children. Bristol, Va., Nov. 12.?The special commission, appointed to resurvey and remark the boundary line between Tennessee and Vriginia, has completed its work and filed its report. The commission has until January 15 next in which to file the accompanying map. The report will have to be ap proved by the Supreme Court of the United States. Washington Nov. 12.?W. Godfrey Hunter has tendered his resignation as United States minister to Guate mala ; the President has accepted the resignaion and has selected Leslie Combes Jat present United States pension agent at Louisville, to suc ceed Dr. Hunter as minister at Guate mala City. Dr. Hunter also is .min ister to Honduras and Mr. Combes, will likewise assume that position. A Berlin cablegram to the Phila delphia North American says: "The historians who recently unearthed the fact that William descended from a simple Huguenot lady on his mother's side now announces that his oldest discoverable ancestor on the father's side was a simple robber knight, named Christopher Von Zeutsch, who was drawn and quartered for holding up merchants and other deeds of violence about 1300. Zeutsch was a<so the sire of the Imperial Russian family, and of the Dukes of Mecklenburg, Weimar, Oldenburg and Leuchtenberg. After five years absence from the United States, daring which time it amused and amazed scores of crowned heads and myriads of uncrowned ones in Europe, the Greatest Show on Earth got home on Saturday. It came back on the Atlantic transport steamer Minneapolis and it took up every inch of room on that mammoth ship. The whole show, with the exception of a hundred or so work horses, which were left on the other side, came back in the one ship, and no vessel ever cross ed the Atlantic with such an interest ing and marvellous company aboard. Asleep Amid Flames. 1 Breaking into a blazing home, some firemen lately dragged the sleeping in mates from death. Fancied security, and , death near. It's that way when you neg lect coughs and colds. Don't do it. Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption j gives perfect protection against all Throat, < Chest and Lung Troubles. Keep it near, ] and avoid suffering, death and doctor's \ bills. A teaspoonful stops a late cough, 1 persistent use the most stubborn. Harm less and nice tasting, it's guaranteed to r satisfy by J. F. W. DeLorme. Price 50c a and $1.00. Trial bottles free. ? I ELASTIC 8URRFN?Y DEMANDED. Bankers Go On Record in Favor of a Flexible System of Currency. New Orleans, Nov. 12.? The atti tude o? the American Bankers' As sociation towards the currency ques tion was fixed at the session today. No decisive stand was taken on the "ques tions of assets, currency and branch banking, it being considered unwise to act until a solution of the questions has been evolved, but provision was made for the appointment of a com mittee carefully to consider the entire subject and report at the next meeting. The same resolution stated th? asso ciation's approval of a law imparting a greater degree of elasticity to the currency system to make it responsive to the demands of the business inter ests of the country. < The discussions of those questions today were very thorough and inter esting. Former Comptroller of the Currency Chas. G. Dawes, Congress man Charles N. Fowler, of New Jer sey, and Editor Horace White, of the New York Evening Post, were the stars in the discussion. No two of them agreed fully, though Mr. White was on the side championed by Mr. Fowler. Mr. Davis made a vigorous speech against a permanent system of assets currency, though he approved the idea of an emergency currency. Mr. Frame's effort to get the con vention to go on record against ine propositions failed, as his resolution was sent back to the executive coun cil. Congressman C. A. Pagsley and Willis S. Payne, of New York, con cluded the day's programme with ad dresses on''An Emergency Currency.'' John L. Hamilton, chairman of the? committee on fidelity insurance, took up the report of that committee which was formally presented yesterday. The call of States was deferred until later. The discussion of the currency ques tion was then begun. Congressman Chas. . Fowler spoke on assets cur rency and branch banking. He dis cussed the features -of his bill ex tempore. Congressman Fowler did not spare the bankers but criticised them with a freedom which, however, won ap plause. He was given an ovation when he had concluded although more than once when he asked if the convention did not agree with the doctrine he was expounding he was answered by cries of "No." At the afternoon session a resolution favoring the Louisiana Purchase Ex position was referred the executive CSuncilP' "" ' Wonderful Rescue at Niagara. Buffalo, . Y., November 13.?Mrs. Helen Costello, of Buffalo, was rescued from the brink of the American Falls today by employees of the State reserv ation. This afternoon word was re ceived at the reservation that a wo man had attempted to commit suicide and was floating down stream toward the fails. Superintendent Perry secured a quantity of rope and hurried to the bridge which connects Green Is land with Goat Island. The woman was seen clinging to a submerged log at a. point a few feet below the bridge. noose was fitted about the body of JohnMarshall, a reservation employee, and he was lowered into the rushing^ waters. He succeeded in reaching the woman's side and placed a rope about her waist. The two were then slowly hauled to the stone abutment of the bridge. A ladder was lowered and the woman was landed safely. Mrs. Costello is very weak from ex posure, but the hospital pbysicans say she will recover. Domestic troubles caused the woman to seek death. Andrew Carnegie has been telling stories at Greenock, Scotland, about his forefathers, of whom he is very proud. "We were great Radicals," he says, "not to say incipient Repub licans in Dunfermline in the early days. I remember the cavalry parading the streets of Dunfermline to quell riots. An old lady recently sent me a copy of a handbill, in which an appeal is made for ?300 to defend my uncle from the charge of conspiracy in hold ing a Chartist meeting which was dis persed by the sheriff. I bad it framed as my best title of nobility, that one of our family was in jail for defending the right of public meeting." Washington, Nov. 12.?Assistant Secretary of the Navy Darling left his afternoon for Norfolk, Va., to be ab sent several days. While there the assistant Secretary will have the op portunity to inspect the North Atlantic squadron now assembled there on its way to Culebra Island for the winter manoeuvers. Philadelphia, Pa., November 13.? The Pennsylvania Railroad Company today annonaced an increase of 10 per cent in the wages of all employees of the company east of Pittsburg and Erie and now earning less than 6-00 a month. This advance became opera tive November 1. This increase, which was decided upon at yesterday's meeting of the directors of the Penn sylvania Railroad Company, will, it is estimated, affect about 59,000 em ployees. The cost of the increase to the cc.npany will be heavy. Estimat ing the average wage rate per month at $60 a month, the additional expense to the company would be $351,000 a month, or about $4,250,000 a year. Cured of Piles After 40 Years. Mr. C. Haney, of Geneva, Ohio, had t he riles for forty years. Doctors and doll ars :ouid do him no lasting good. DeWi tt's iazel Salve cured him permanently. In minable for cuts, burns, bruises, sprains, acerations, eczema, tetter, salt rheum, and ,11 other skin diseases. 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