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SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1906.
New series-Yoi. XXVI. No 21
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WORK OF CONGRESS.
*?OOD PROGRESS HAS BEEX
MADE Di A WEEK.
Senate Has Passed Resolutions Call?
ing: for Information on Japanese
Question and Discharge of Negro
Troops-House Passes Bill Permit
ring National Banks to Loan Mon?
ey on Lands-Next Week Senate
Will Discuss the Smoot Case.
Washington, Dec. 8.-Congress has
already made a good beginning.
In the senate resolutions have been
adopted calling for information on
nhs Japanese question and fe* the
records in the case of the discharged
negro troops.
The house has defeated the bill
abolishing compulsory pilotage on
sailing vessels and passed the bill
allowing national banks to make
-loans on farms. Negotiations have
begun for compromise on the ship
subsidy.
Next week the senate discusses the
Smoot case and the Algeciras treaty
a_;d considers the nominations of
cabinet members. The house will
have a hearing on the currency bill.
FRATERNITY HOUSE BURNED.
A Fatal Fire at Cornell University
Loss $200,000.
Ithaca, N. Y., Dec. 7.-Five men
.were killed, two fatally injured and
several seriously, in a fire which de?
stroyed the Chi Pai Fraternity House
of Cornell University., early this morn?
ing. Two of the dead are students,
?while the other three are volunteer
^firemen.
Twenty-seven students were sleep?
ing in the house when the fire started
in the kitchen range. One was burn?
ed to death in his room and the-other
.was so dadly burned in escapiny that
he died later. Those who escaped
jumped from the windows. A falling
wall crushed the three firemen! In?
adequate water service made it im?
possible to fight the fi?mes. The en?
tire building, which was valued at
$200,000, was destroyed.
WRECK IS MICHIGAN.
Express Train Jumps the Track and
Turns Over in a Ditch.
Detroit Mich., Dec. 7.-Four per?
sons are reported dead and twenty
five injured in a wreck of ?""-express
train on the Michigan Central and
Otter-Lake. The train left the tracks
and overturned in a ditch. Commu?
nication with Otter-Lake is inter?
rupted and few details are obtainable.
ROOSEVELT HONORED.
Norwegian Parliament Confers the
Noble Peace Prize Upon vnm
Christiana, Norway, Dec. 10.-The
Norwegian Parliament has conferred
the noble Peace Prize on President
Roosevelt. This action was due
largely to the President's successful
efforts in ending the Russian-Japa?
nese war.
Worth Thirty Thousand..
Washington, Dec. 10.-The Nobel
Peace Prize, which was conferred on
President Roosevelt, carries a $30,
000 gift Norwegian Minister Krugo
today informed President Roosevelt
officially of his selection.
WOULD-BE SUICIDE.
New York, Dec. 10.-Mrs. Lulu B.
Glover, who attempted to commit sui?
cide, after making a will beqeathing
all her property and two cats to
President Roosevelt, is recovering.
She claims that President Roosevelt
is her kinsman, but wron't say what
led her to attempt suicide. A note
which was found beside the woman
asked that President Roosevelt be
notified and saying that he would
take care of the body.
FISH FIGHTING TRUSTS. !
LATE PRESIDENT OF ILLINOIS j
CENTRAL STARTLES WALL
' STREET.
Stuyvesant Fish Delivers a Speech
Denouncing Anarchistic Rich and
Asserts That High Financial Circles
. Are Permeated With Dishonest*
and Disregard of Law and De
! cency.
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New York, Dec. 7.-Stuyvesant
Fish, the recently deposed president
of the Illinois Central Railroad, has
thrown a bombshell into Wall street
through a speech delivered last night
attacking corporations and the "an?
archistic rich."
It is reported in financial dis?
tricts that Fish proposes to assist
President Roosevelt in his future in?
vestigations of railroads and trusts.
In his speech Mr. Fish declared dis?
honesty is the issue and Roosevelt is
the one to control it.
"That there has been mal-adminis
tration, not to say stealing, in many
of' our corporations is a matter of
common notoriety," he said. "Some
men have ogne to great lengths in :
ridding from the restraints of law,
equity, ethics and even common de?
cency, themselves and those with
them in the higher circles of
finance."
GRAYER CLEVELAND ILL.
Ile is Su?Tering From Acute Indiges?
tion and H*e Condition Canses
Alarm.
Princeton; De- S.-Grover Cleve- '
land is ill w/H ao'it? indigestion. Be?
cause of his advanced years his con- :
dition is causing some alarm. Dr.
Camochan, the attending physician, 3
said that Mr. Cleveland had been ;
srek a week and has shown no im- ?
provement, although carefully at- 1
tended. He is suffering much pain,
although his condition is not neces- <
sarily serious. 1
NEW BANKING BILL. J
Provides for LemJjag Money on Real
Estate as Security-Places Limit on
Such Loans.
Washington, Dec. 5.-The house
today, waiting on the report of ap?
propriation bills, began its legislative
grind by passing ' three measures in?
corporating the National German Al
liance; authorizing th secretary of
the treasury to duplicate gold certifi?
cates in lieu of ones lost or destroyed,
and the bill amending the national 3
banking laws, permitting national (
banking associations to make loans 1
on real estate as security and limiting
the amount of such loans.
The banking bill has been one of ]
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the West's favorite measures and the
leaders in the house from that sec?
tion lined up generally in favor of (
the legislation, which it was asserted 1
would go far toward popularizing the
national banks. The opponents of
the bill, Democrats and Republicans,
insisted that real estate was not a
proper security for a loan, even
though a limit was placed on the loan.
The advocates of the measure were
too strong, however, and the bill was
passed two to one.
EXCLUDE NEGROES.
Bill in House Barring the Black? ,
From Army Service.
Washington, Dec. 4.-Representa- j
tive Slayden of Texas, today intro- <
duced a bill which provides that "on j
or before the 30th day of June, 1907, ,
ail enlisted men of the army who are ;
negroes or of negro descent be dis- ?
charged from the service of the Uni?
ted States and thereafter no negro or ,
person of negro descent shall be en?
listed or appointed in the army of ?
the United States."
In explaining his bill i'r. Slayden
said: "The bill speaks for itself- It
was not introduced for buncombe. My
purpose is to give the congress of the
United States an opportunity to purge
the army of an admittedly dangerous
.element. To say that the negroes are
brave is not an argument against this
measure. Many men have been
brave, in fact most men are in the
matter of fighting. The Comanche
and Sioux Indians were as orave as
men can be. But no one would se?
riously suggest that we ultimately re?
cruit regiments from them, put guns
in their hands and station them near
companies of white troops, toward
whom they entertain inherent race
hostility. The Twenty-fifth infanttry
is manifestly imbued with the same
race hostility and events have shown
it to be quite as dangerous as the
Sioux or Comanche would be."
CHURCH m STATE.
THE RELIGIOUS KOW IS OX, IN
EARNEST IN FRANCE.
Thc Government and the Catholics
Are Expected to Clash O ver the En?
forcement of Law Separating
Church and State-Eviction of
Priests Will Cause Trouble.
Paris, Dec. ll.-The law for the
separation of church and stat? be?
came effective today. As the Pope
has forbidden Catholics to conform
to the law allowing religious societies
to be formed to take over church
property it means that ownership
passes to the state. The churches
throughout France stand on the
verge of eviction.
Serious times are anticipated if
the government moves to evict the
priests from churches, schools and
monasteries and troops will probably
be required to enforce the law.
The cabinet today voted to pro?
ceed immediately to liquidate the
property in churches and rectories.
This shows that the government is
determined to uphold the law vigo?
rously. The next few days it is' fear?
ed will see a religious outbreak, with
bloodshed, as the Catholics seem de?
termined to resist the law.
MARK TWAIN, LOBBYIST.
Tlie Famous Humorist Appears in
Washington in New Role.
Washington, Dec. 8.-Mark Twain,
who is lobbying for the new copyright
law, has made a demand on Speaker
Cannon for the privilege of going on
the floor of the house to buttonhole
members.
In a characteristic letter he says he
let congress alone seventy-one years
ago and is entitled to its thanks. He
said he had lots of arguments with
aim, also a barrel with liquid in it.
Speaker Cannon explained that he
;ould not grant the floor privilege,
t>ut gave Twain his private room,
vhere the humorist is lobbying mem?
bers in support of his bill. . Twain has
ilso called at the White House.
NEW SEABOARD DEAL.
Rumored That the , Southern Will
Give Up Its Charleston Line to the
Seaboard.
Charleston, Dec. 9.-It is rumored
n railway circles: here that the
Southern railway and the Seaboard
Air Line have come to an agreement
oy which the former will turn over
ts line to Charleston, formerly the
>ld South Carolina railroad, enabling
:he Seaboard Air Line to enter
Charleston, which has been planned
"or some time. The story seems im?
probable in a way, but it is being per?
sistently circulated and there may be
50me foundation for it The plans
)f the Seaboard Air Line as generally
mderstood, were to build a direct
ine to Charleston from Lugoff, near
Camden, but the acquisition of the
Southern railway route would be pre?
ferable, it is said, to the construction
)f a new road. It is argued that the
Southern railway has no direct inter?
est in Charleston, its terminals being
it other ports, which ls the cause of
much of Charleston's complaints of
?iscrimnation, and it*is perhaps true,
:hat with the settlement of the form?
er antagonism which formerly pre?
vailed between these two systems and
the Atlantic Coast Line, and the ad?
justment of conflicting interests, the
Southern railway may now be willing
to part with its branch line to
Charleston. Some time ago on a vis?
it of the late President Spencer of
the Southern railway to Charleston
he spoke very assuringly of a proper
realization of the geograpical and
natural advantages of the port of
Charleston, and h6 might have had
in mind the present project of the
Seaboard Air Line taking over this
branch line and making it a part of
its system, and erecting new termi?
nals at Charleston.
None of the railroad people in au?
thority would have anything to say
for publication about the story and,
as stated, it is not known how much
truth .thre is in the rumor.-The
State.
HE IS SINFULLY RICH.
The Stupendous Income That John D.
Rockefeller Receives This Year.
New York, Dec. ll.-John D.
Rockefeller's income for this year
will be sixty million dollars, according
to the computations of Henry H.
Rogers, and John D. Archibald,
Rockefeller's closest friends. This
means a daily income of $164,383, or
$114 a minute.
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LEOPOLD DENIES CHARGES,
KING OF BELGIUM .SAYS ATRO?
CITIES ARE NOT PERMITTED.
The Charges Against Government of
Congo Free State Are Made By
Ignorant Persons Who Do Not
Know the Real Facts.
(Copyrighted by Publisher's Press
Association.)
Brussels, Dec. 10.-The corres?
pondent of the Publishers' Press was
today received in private audience by j
King Leopold for an interview on
Congo. King Leopold denies the
charges of general atrocities practic?
ed on the blacks in the Congo State.
There have been cases of misjudg?
ment on the part of officials, but
these have been punished. Every ef?
fort is made to -protect the natives,
not only from the whites, but each
other.
Leopold complained that he has
been painted as a monster by per?
sons who got their information sec?
ond-handed. Individual cases of cru?
elty have been magnified into gener
alties.
The king asked the correspondent
if he carried a revolver to protect
himself from such a monster, and
how he dared to risk his life thus.
Leopold denied that he has ever
made a cent out of the Congo State.
On the contrary, he has spent mil?
lions in developing the region. The
work will go on and his sole hope is
to improve the country and better
the conditions of the natives.
A Boston Meddler.
Washington, Dec. 10.-Dr. Herbert
Johnson, representing the Congo Re?
form association, Pastor of Warren
Avenue Baptist church, Boston, is
here trying: to get Secretary Root to
intervene with King Leopold to bet?
ter the conditions of the Congo na?
tives. He says untold atrocities are
permitted. He charges that the na?
tives are allowed to kill and feed on
the victims. The promised reforms
will result in nothing.
STIRRING UP TROUBLE.
Washington, Dec. 10.-Senator
Lodge, of Massachusetts, has intro?
duced a resolution in the senate call?
ing for an international inquiry into
the alleged atrocities in the Congo
Free State. 1
KING LEOPOLD'S INTERVIEW.
London, Dec. ll.-The action of
King Leopold of Belgium in giving an
interview on Congo affairs to the
Publishers' Press, has aroused great
interest throughout Europe. The
German paper? take the stand that
this is another indication of the
"American peril." They say the
monarch is discredited in Europe and
is trying to rehabilitate himself in
America. The United States newspa?
pers are-becoming the supreme court
of the world's opinion, and Europe
wont tolerate this. Throughout Eng?
land, Francqf and Italy there is the
fullest discussion of the interview.
Opinion is about evenly divided as to
the gravity of Leopold's offense.
INCENDIAMES ORGANIZED.
Astounding Information Comes From
Newberry-Three Suspects in Jail
Now.
Columbia, Dec. ll.-An astounding
condition of affaira is revealed in a
telephone message from Newberry.
Three negroes, charged with having
burned the barns and stables of Mr.
P. N. Boozer near Kinard's last Fri?
day night, indicate that there is an
organization of negroes there who or?
dered this work to be done.
Louis Burton, colored, has confessed
and it is upon his statement that
the arrest of Ernest Burton and of
Levi Ebaugh was made. There was
a great deal of excitement at the
time and the 'phone message stated
that the sheriff, Mr. M. M. Buford,
deserves great credit for his quick
action, and that th e people of the vi?
cinity deserve congratulations upon
their forbearance, considering the
fact that they were very much work?
ed up.
The fire destroyed 17 head of stock
and 15 bal?s of cotton in addition to
the building.. The moneta ty loss
therefore is considerable, but the fea?
ture of the case is the motive alleged
by the negroes.
Immediately after the burning
Sheriff Buford received a phone mes?
sage calling him to the scene of the
trouble, 15 miles from Newberry.
When he arrived, Sheriff Buford
found Louis Burton in the custody of.
a large body of men who were very
much enraged. Some of these were
strongly of the opinion that the ne?
gro should be dealt with in a sum?
mary nanner.
However, the more prudent men
prevailed upon the others to desist
and the negro was delivered to the
sheriff. Some of the cooler men were
deputized by the sheriff to take
charge of the prisoner while the offi?
cer went in search of Ernest Burton
and the negro was caught. Sheriff
Buford got this prisoner in advance
of a searching party. The two Bur?
tons were then lodged in Jail by Sher?
iff Buford. Levi Ebaugh, who was
charged with complicity, was arrest- I
ed yesterday and is now in jail.
Louis Burton is said to have made
a confession in which he :mplicated
the two now in arrest and several
others. It is alleged that Burton in
his confession stated that he had no
cause for malice against Mr. Boozer,
but the crime was committed because
he and several others had been ap?
pointed to do this work. He alleges
that the burning was planned at a
meeting of the organization held last
Wednesday night. He asserted that
he had no grievance, but that it had
faller, to his lot to destroy the prop?
erty.
Grace Glenn, a negro woman said
to be 103 years old, died in a suburb
of Columbia Saturday.
THE NOBEL MEITZE,
President Roosevelt Will Establish
Permanent Industrial Peace Com>
mission.
Washington, Dec. 1,0.-Mr. Cl
Hague, the minister from Norway?
called at the White House, today, and N
informed President ? Roosevelt that
the Norwegian Parliament had con*,
ferred upon him the Nobel peace^
prize at Christiana,
Minister Peirce was directed by the
president to read a message to the
Storthing from him, extending his
thanks for himself and on behalf ot
the people of the United States.
The president says: "After much
thought, I have concluded that tha_
best and most fitting way to apply Ula?
amount of the prize is by -using it as a..
foundation to establish at Washington*,
a permanent industrial peace cora?,
mission. The object will be to strive
for better and more equitable reten?
tions among my countrymen who?
are engaged, whether as capitalista O?
wage workers, in industrial or agr4>
cultural pursuits."
MORE MONEY FOR TEDDY,
New York, Dec ll.:-Mrs. Lula B*
G-lover, who took poison Sunday, aft?
QT willing all her property and two
cats to President Roosevelt, died to*
day. President Roosevelt will inherit.
?10,000 from her.
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How to Strengthen it so That it WiU
Act as it Should.
The stomach is the principal organ
concerned in the digestion of food. Zt
it is weak, inactive or out of order
and unable to properly digest the
food, the body will soon be in a state.,
of semi-stavation.
Then, too, when the stomach ia
weak, the food is not properly digest^
ed and lies in it for hours, decomnoa
ing, fermenting and forming poison?
ous gases and ptomaines that are ab?
sorbed into the blood, poisoning the
system and impoverishing the blood.
To enjoy good health, it is abso-.
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digestive organs should be strong, and
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strengthening and giving tone tc the
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Relief from the use cf Mi-o-na is
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