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SOUTHERN HIT
• BY ALABAMA
License to Do Business in the
State is Revoked.
NEW LAW IS VIOLATED
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Action Has No Connection With Present
Fight Before Federal Courts But
May Beach That Stage.
A Montgomery special says: The li
cense of the Soulhern railway to do
business in the state of Alabama has
been revoked by action of Secretary
of State Frank N. Julian, who has !
caused to be entered upon the stub
of such license, in the records of his
ofilce, the statement that for violation
of senate bill No. 86, approved March,
1907, and effective July 1, just passed,
the said South:rn railway has been
deprived of its right to do business
in the state.
it is also a fact that the action of
the secretary of slate is not in resist- !
anco to restraining orders issued by
the United States court of the fifth
circuit, as this luw is not among those
combatted by the railroads and not In
cluded in any of the litigation now
pending in the court of Judge Thom
as G. Jones of the middle Alabama
district. Hence the situation is not j
that of conflict of the slate and the \
federal tribunals. While it may come !
to this in the end, tin re is nothing of
it yet.
The case upon which the revocation
was made catne from the circuit court
of Taladega county, in the shape of a
uotlflcatiou from Clerk J. U. McN'eel
that a suit had been removed from
the state court to the federal. Secre
tary of State Julian looked carefully
into the law and found that there
was nothing else to do but mark the
license cancelled, as the action of the
statute is automatic.
So far there is no contest between
at least, there is no contest be:ween
the state and the federal court. It is
also hard to figure out just how the
matter will come to a hi ad, as the
Southern does not run into Montgom
ery and service in any sort of con
tempt proceedings would have to made
on tile line of the road somewhere, it
;
is thought.
The act requires that after July 1,
every corporation outside the state
shall pay a license of $lO a year, for
the balance of this year, six months
$5; Unit the secretary of state shall
keep a complete record of moneys col
lected, and that it will be unlawful
for any corporation to do business ;
In the state without paying this li
cense.
Section 4 provides that when any
foreign corporation is sued in the
state courts and removes such suit
from the state to the federal court,
the clerk of the court from which the
removal was taken will at once cer
Ufy such action to the secretary of
state, “who shall thereupon immedi
ately cancel said license and make
and enter upon the stub thereof an
order iu substance: ‘This license is
c&uci led for a violation of the act
under which issued by the removal of
a civil cause from the court of this
slate to the federal court.' ” This shall
Ike evidence of the revocation of the
license in any court of the state. It
also says that after such revocation
“a*iy contract .agreement or undertak
ing with or by or to such corporation
shall be utterly null and void.”
After a license is canceled in this
way it can only be renewed by the
payment to the secretary of state of a
sum iu cash equal to one-tenth of one
per cent of the capital stock.’ After
rent wal in the way indicated the new
license can be revoked iu the same
way aud for the same reason as the
otC.
INSULT TO WIFE RESENTED.
Gilmore Went After Burnside in Sleeping
Attire and Shot Him Dead.
Thursday night W. Ui'.mure shot
and instantly killed N. A. Burnside
<a the D. M. Den farm, ten milt-s from
Baxley, Ga.
Gilmore claims Burnside made an
buiiropcr proposal to his wife.
Gilmore arose from his bod in his
night clothes. He took a shotgun and
wetn to the house of Burnside, who
had jus*, retired, and killed him. Later
Burnside surreudtred to the sheriff.
NEW YORKERS FURIOUS.
Arcussd to Ljn thing Spirit Over Murders
of Women and Little Girls.
Three Men Mobbed.
Another murderous assault was add
ed Sunday to the police record of re
cent crimes agaiust defenseless wo
men and girls* in New York. Tee vic
tim was Miss Ellen Bulger, a woman
of middle age, who was attacked in
her aparcment3 in the Bronx, cruelly
beattu, and left in a helpless state.
The woman was removed to a hospi
tal,where it wa3 found that her skull
had apparently been fractured, her
face and hands lacerated, and her
body otherwise braised. Thera was evi
dence that the woman had made a
courageous light. From what the po
lice were able to learn from her, she
was surprised by a 3tuoo h-faced stran
ger, perhaps forty years of age. He
was ceatless and wore an outing shirt
and dark trousers. He escaped.
The dangerous temper of the peo
ple, particularly in the foreign quar
ters, who had ben arcussd by the re
ports of attacks upon women and girls
was exhibited Sunday night in repeat
ed Instances. A cry that a stranger
had approached a child with familiar
ity was enough to star; a mob.
Sadie Hamberger, aged eight years,
playing in the hallway of her tene
ment home in East Fifty-ninth street,
late in the evening, cried out that a
man had seized her. The child s fa
ther seized George Keshner, a Rus
sian bookbind r, by the throat. The
excitement attracted 500 men and wo
men, who fought with each other- to
get a chance at tna—Hussian. Thirty
policemen rescued Keshner, bleeding
from a score of wounds, when all his
clothing but his shoes had been torn
from him. The poiice wrapped the
prisoner in a blanket and hurried him
away. Sadie's sister corroborated the
story of the attack, and the father
says that he saw his daughter in th 9
grasp of the Russian.
About the same time Hyle Saloda,
nearly lost his scalp iu Thirty-fourth
strtet. He was accused of having of
fered pennies to a girl of 12 years.
The father wanted to know why, and
Saloda showed fight.
He slashed about him with a pen
knife, and then knocked down a po
liceman. A crowd of perhaps a thou
sand persons attempted to reach Sa
loda, but police reserves beat them
back and took Saloda to the station.
Louis Concalia was the victim of
vircunistances. A man and wife quar
reled iu One Hundred and Seventh
street, and their youthful daughter
went out to the sidewalk and wept.
A passing boy slapped her, and ran
away. The girl’s cries and the running
boy aroused the neighbors, who chas
ed the lad. The boy escaped and Oon-
colia, who had outfooted other pur
suers, was mistaken by the mob for
the glri’s assailant.
Overtaken ai last Concolia was set
upon and knocked down and kicked
until he was nearly dead. The police
rescued him after he was dang rcusly
injured.
This wave of crimes against women
and children has reached a stage
where severe measures are called for.
Acting Police Commissioner O'Keefe
late Sunday issued orders directing
that every plain clothes officer on the
force lay aside all other work and
devote himself entirely to an attempt
to brlug to justice the perpetrators
A FRENCH RAILWAY HORROR.
Crowded Train Plunges Into River and
Forty Passengers are Drowned.
Forty passengers In a third class
railroad car and the engineer of the
train were drowned Sunday afternoon
in a allroad accident, near Anglers,
Fance.
The locomotive jumped the track
when entering the bridge over the
river Loire. The stone railing gave
way and the engine plunged into the
river fifty feet below, dragging with
it the baggage and third class cars.
WASHINGTON IS ALL ACO3
Over Coming Marriage of U S. Grant 111
and Daughter if Secretary Root.
The announcement of the engage
ment of Miss Edith Root, daughter of
Secretary Root, to U. S. Grant 111,
thrills Washington with the expectan
cy of a grand wedding in the fall.
‘ However, no plans for the eveiit have
; been allowed to leak out as yet
Miss Root is a girl of high intellec
tual attainments, and has never cared
a gr at deal for sccle y.
GIVES A PERFECT SKIN.
Sulphur in Liquid Form Adds to the
Beauty of Women.
“Beauty is only skin deep,” but you can
not be beautiful if .you have any Skin Dis
ease or a bad complexion. Hancock'S
Liquid Sulphur quickly cures Eczema, Tet
ter, Sores, Eruptions, Blotches, and ail
Skin Diseases. Apply Hancock’s Liquid
Sulphur Ointment to the face just as you
go to bed, and it will soon give you a
smooth, velvety skin.
Taken internally, Hancock’s Liquid Sul
phur purifies the blood and clears up the
complexion. A few spoonfuls iu hot water
makes the finest of sulphur baths. All
druggists sell it. Sulphur Booklet free, if
you write Hancock Liquid Sulphur Cos..
Baltimore.
Dr. W. \V. Leake, of Orlando, Fla., who
was cured, says: ‘Tt is the most wonderful
remedy for Eczema I have ever known.”
Dogs in Nightgowns.
At the Crystal Palace dog show,
where Queen Alexandra’s Borzois
and basset hounds took first honors,
the toy dogs were fixed up absurdly.
One or two wore embroidered night
gowns. A pug sat up with an em
broidered shawl around his should
ers, displaying on his breast five sil
ver medals oil a dainty silver chain,
and still another, sitting on its mis
tress' lap before a woman artist,
was struggling frantically to seize
the mouthful of chicken held just in
front of its nose by its mistress in
order to keep its face turned to the
portrait painter. —Detroit Free Press.
Argo Red Salmon is packed by The
Alaska Packers Association, the larg
est Salmon canning firm in the world.
They pack over 65,000,000 cans a
year. At all grocers.
To Plough Up the Missouri.
The only way to control the Missouri
River is to plough it up. That is
the opinion of C. Eacrett, of Strahan,
la., who has unburdened his mind on
the subject of the improvement of
that incorrigible stream, which has
been bothering him for years.
Mr. Eacrett’s plan is to plough up
the bottom of the river, and the cur
rents created thereby will do the
rest, he says, toward scouring out a
channel In which boats of the heavi
est draught might navigate.
The Congressional committees had
never thought of this before and
the new inland waterways commis'-
sion, which just organized today, may
take up the idea for consideration
more or less seriously.
The Eacrett idea, to go more into
detail, is to construct a boat of light
draught, fitted out with implements
something like a “lister plough
which is the kind used on big farms
of the west, to be fastened on long
beams that could be raised and low
ered from the stern of the boat. The
boats are to ply up and down the
river, stirring up the mud and sand,
thus allowing the currents to clean
it out and make a well defined chan
nell. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
What Strawberries Really Are.
The pulpy portion of the straw
berry is not really a fruit or even a
berry, but it is a cluster of dry seeds
slightly imbedded in a mass of pulp.
The little seeds are the true fruit.
It is surprising that the pulp en
larges, that it does not remain small
and dry. By some wise provision
of nature the pollen not only directly
gives life to each seed on which it
falls, but also stimulates the surround
ing portion.of the receptacle (orig
inally small and hard) to grow into
the soft, juicy and luscious form
SOAKED IN COFFEE
Until Too Stiff to Bend Over.
, “When I drank coffee I often had
sick headaches, nervousness and bil
iousness much of the time, but when
I went to vi6lt a friend I got in the
habit of drinking Postum.
“I gave up coffee entirely, and the
result has been that I have been en
tirely relieved of all my stomach and
I nervous trouble.
“My mother was just the same
way. We all drink Postum now and,
without coffee in the house for 2
years, we are all well.
“A neighbor of mine, a great cof
fee drinker, was troubled with pains
in her side for years and was an in
valid. She was not able to do her
work and could not even mend clothes
or do anything at all where she would
have to bend forward. If she tried
to do a little hard work she would
get such pains that she would have to
lie down for the rest of the day.
“At last I persuaded her to stop
drinking coffee and try Postum Food
Coffee and she did so. and has used
Postum ever since; the result has
been that she can now do her work,
can sit for a whole day and mend and
can sew on the machine and she nev
er feels the least bit of pain in her
side, in fact, she has got well, and it
shows coffee was the cause of the
whole trouble.
“I could also tell you about several
other neighbors who have been cured
by quitting coffee and using Postum
in its place.” “There's a Reason.”
Look in pkg. for the famous little
book, “The Road to Wellville.'*
FINE IMPOSED
IS $29,240,000
Standard Oil Company Given Tre
mendous Whack b/Judge Landis.
Decision is Rendered in Notorious Rebating
Case —Rockefeller's Corporation De
clared Worse Than Counterfeiters.
Judge Kennesaw M. Lmdis, in the
United Slates district court at Chi
cago fined the Standard Oil company
of Indiana $29,240,000 for violations of
the law against accepting rebates
from railroads. The fine is the larg
est ever assessed against any individ
uals or any corporation in the history
of American criminal jurisprudence,
and is slightly mere than 131 times
as great as the amount received by
the company through its m bating op
erations. The case will be carried to
the higher courts by the defendant
company.
The penalty imp6sed upon the com-’
pany is the maximum permitted un
der the law, and it was announced at
the end of a long opinion in which
the methods and practices of the Stan
dard Oil company were mercilessly
scored. The judge, in fact, declared,
in his opinion, that the officials of the
Standard Oil company who were re
sponsible for the practices of which
the corporation was found guilty, were
no better than counterfeiters and
thives, his exact language being:
“We may as well look at this sit
uation squarely. The men who thus
deliberately violate this law, wound
society more deeply than dees he who
counterfeits the coin cr steals letters
from the mail.”
Judge Landis commenced reading
his decision at 10 o'clock and occu
pied about one hour in its delivery.
He reviewed the fac g in the case,
took up the arguments of attorneys
for the defense, and answered them
and then passed judgment on the com
pany, which he dec.ared violated the
law for the sole purpose of swelling
its dividends.
The court held that the roads have
no mere right to make a secret rate
for a shipper than a board of assess
ors would have to makg a secret as
sessment of any particular piece of
property.
The court expressed regret that the
law failed to provide m:re serious pun
ishment than a fine, out insisted that
the penalty should be sufficiently targe
to act as a deterrent and not of such
a size as to encourage the defender
to persist in lawlessness.
At the conclusion of h s opinion ar.d
after announcing the amount of the
fine, Judge Landis directed that a spe
cial grand jury be called for the pur
pose of inquiry into the ficts in the
Chicago and Alton Railroad company,
it having been proved in the case just
closed that the oil company accepted
rebates from that corporation. This
jury is summoned for August 14.
This decision of Judge Landis arous
ed almost as much public interest as
did the presence of John D. Rocke
feller and the other officials of the
Standard Oil company in the court
room on July 6. The crush wa3 so
great that a large force of deputy
marshals had much difficulty in con
trolling the crowd that was anxious
to force its way into the courtroom.
The case will be appealed and it is
expected that it will be heard during
the January term of the United States
court of appeals.
Under the seven indictments still
pending against the Standard Oil com.
pany an additional fine amounting to
$88,440,000 may be levied against the
company if it is found guilty on trial.
There are in these seven indictments
a total of 4,422 counts, and the maxi
mum fine in each suit would be $20,-
000.
NEW ATTORNEY FOR THAW.
Former Tennesseen Will Have Charge of
Defense on Next Trial.
Martin W. Litileton, former presi
dent of the borough of Brooklyn, a
lawyer and an Grator of wide reputa
tion, and a native of Tennessee, will
be chief counsel for Harry K. Thaw
when he again faces a jury to nswer
to the charge of killing Stanford
White. Thaw announced the selection
of Mr. Littleton Thursday, after a
conference with his mother and his
wife. It is said that Mr. Littlpton’s
tee will 6e $25,000.
buffalo McKinley jioxum Es ß
To Bo Dedicated During “Old-Honß
Week,” September 5. c
The beautiful white marble shall
erected by the State of New York *9
Niagara Square, Buffalo, N. Y ifl
the memory of President McKinlerl
is to be formally dedicated ThurJl
day, September 5, and the event wfl
be the central feature of Buffalo*
Old-Home Week, September l to ;■
Former residents of Buffalo and th.l
public at large are cordially invitefl
to attend the dedication and the ga*
carnival that will run all the week A
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The McKinley monument wai
planned and executed under the di
rection of a commission of prominen
men at a cost of over $150,000.
Buffalo’s Old-Home Week will
a succession of civic and military pa
geantry, carnival, sports and games
and the electric city will be ablaz
with twinkling lights and patriot!
decorations. Former residents o
Buffalo are asked to send thei
names and addresses to James \y
Greene, chairman Old-Home Weel
Committee, Buffalo, N. Y. A beauti
ful souvenir invitation will be mailei
to each. The railroads will offer ei
cursion rates to and returning frou
Buffalo.
THE POINT OF VIEW.
“You can’t get in here on a ha!!|g
ticket,” exclaimed the door-keeper a||
the circus.
“I thought I could,” apologized th||
small-town citizen. “I have a tuijj
eye, and I only expected to see halS
of the show.”
“Theh you’ll have to get two tick*
ets,” said the door-keeper. ‘‘lf yofl
only have one good eye it’ll take yofl
twice as long to see the show.”-8
Harper’s Weekly.
Argo Red Salmon can be prepare||
in nearly a hundred different waysj
It is one of the most nutritious anil
healthful foods sold. At all grocer;
The Chief Trouble.
“It is a sad fact,” said the statlffl
tician, “that the ordinary waste o!>-
food in an English middle-class fan®
ily would be sufficient to rnaintaiii
wholly a French family of similai
station.”
“True,” said the epicure. “And i|
is also a gratifying fact that the aver
age French family couldn’t be hired
to eat it after it had been cooked bj
the average English middle-class fam
ily, so that, after all, it i3 not wasted
as far as France is concerned.”-
Harper's Weekly.
FEARFUL BURNING SORES.
Boy in Misery 1— Years—Ezrema in
Bough Scales, Itching and In
flamed—Cured by Cuticiira.
“Cuficura has put a stop to twelve years
of misery 1 passed with my son. As an in
fant 1 noticed on his body a red spot and
treated same with different remedies foi
about five years, but when the spot begat
to get larger I put him under the care ol
doctors. Under their treatment the diseam
spread to four different parts of his body
During the day it would get rough and
form like scales. At night it would
cracked,'inHamed and badly swollen, witpf
terrible burning and itching. One doct®j
told me that my son's eczema was incurs
ble, and gave it up. 1 decided to give Cub
cura a trial. When 1 had used the first but
of Cuticura Ointment there was a great i®
provement, and by the time I had use-1 :h
second set of Cuticiira Remedies my chit
was cured. He is now twelve years old
and his skin is as tine and smooth as ad*
Michael Steinnian, 7 (Sumner Avenui
Brooklyn, JN. Y., April 16, 1995.”
KEPT HIS WORD.
There was a young king from Madrid
Who promised his people a kid;
When, true to his word,
It came, they were stirred
To remark with delight: “Well, 1
did!”—From Life.
Drop a postal card to The A lasi
Packers Association, Advertising D*
partment, Atlanta, Ga., if you
"Argo” and get their Argo Red sa
mon Cook Book, with thirty-n' lll
ways of preparing Salmon.
VERY CLOSE.
Church—Did you ever try any o
these “elpse to nature” methods?
Gotham—Well, I’ve used a porot
plaster!—Yonkers Statesman.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for
teething, softens theguins.reducesmff
tion. allays pain, cures wind cohc, -oc a
- IDEA OF IT.
Mistress: “And in your last
was there much entertaining
Butler: “No, madam. We was
lowed no company at all. = "
I left.”— Brooklyn Life.