The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, September 18, 1908, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextFor Ladles ills J-22 SOUTH CAROLINA LOSES Fight in Liquor Case-~Has No Right to Sell Whisk sy. TEMPERANCE IS NOT AIDED By Dispensary—Holds 11th Amendment Never Contemplated That a State Could Engage in Liquor Traffic. Richmond, Va. —Covering every phase of the South Carolina dispen sary case, in an exhaustive opinion, which deals with the broad question of state’s rights, the Unitea States cir cuit court of appeals handed down an opinion fully sustaining circuit Judge Pritchard in the appointment of re ceivers to wind-up tne aftairs of the liquor monopoly long maintained by the Palmetto commonwealth. The decision is a matter of para mount importance in feoum Carolina, where the dispensary has long been the object of attack. Its failure to serve as a temperance measure, along with charges of graft, caused a revul sion of feeling, wnich resulted in the passage of a law to abolish it as a state institution, at the same time per mitting towns aqd counties to decide by popular vote vote whether or not they desire to retain it under local or county management. The decision is a voluminous one, and holds that the proceeding is not a suit against the state, and that the complainant is not forbidden to main tain his action by the eleventh amend ment of the federal constitution. It holds that the framers of that amendment to the constitution never conceived that a sovereign state could engage in the liquor business and be come a trader by buying and selling an article of common traffic in com petition with the citizens of the coun try. The court questioned, therefore, whether the state was exercising a governmental prerogative or perform ing a function necessarily or properly incident to its autonomy as a state. It declared that the funds in con troversy, which the complainant clams it should be paid from, being in the hands of the commission charged with the duty of abolishing the dis pensary, the state has no interest in so much thereof as lies necessary to pay the just debts. The members of the commission, according to the court, hold the funds in trust for pay ment of all just debts of the state dis pensary and the creditors of the dis pensary ‘have a property interest in the funds in the hands of the commis sion to the extent that the debts are shown to be just and a judicial de termination of the true amount of such debts can in no way effect the rights and interests of the state.” The suit, said the decision, is not against the state, nor is the state an indispensable party. Referring to the opinion of the su preme court of South Carolina that a suit against the dispensary commis sion was a suit against the state, the decision refuses to adopt that con struction. CAR OF POWDER EXPLODED. Seven Persons Instantly Killed and Thirty Others Injured. Windsor, Mo.—Seven persons are dead and thirty injured, four of whom are not expected to live, as the result of an explosion of a car of black pow der at the Missouri, Kansas and Texas station. When it became known about town that a car of powder was on tho tracks at the station, a number of cu riosity seekers, a majority of whom were negroes, assembled. A. F. Hershberger ,a Missouri, Kansas and Texas freight conductor, became aa noyed at their presence. In moving a keg of powder some of the explosive fell over. Seeing it on the ground, Hershberger remarked, “I’ll show you how to scare negroes,” and he lit a match and threw it into the powder. Instantly there was an explosion that shook the town, knock ed one end off the depot and shattered windows and stopped clocks for mile 3 around The car containing the pow der was hurled in every direction. NIGHT RIDERS BUSY IN ARKANSAS. Reported Farmers Organize for Pur pose of Reducing Cotton Acreage Jonesboro, Ark—Night riders are organizing in northeastern Arkansas, it is reliably reported, for the purpose of reducing the cotton acreage for next year and compelling the holding of this year’s crop for the minimum price set by the International farm ers’ union convention, which met at Fort Worth, recently. Three farmers in Craighead coun ty and one in Poinsett county have been threatened by a band oi riders, and considerable anxiety is felt by the cotton buyers and ginners. Great suffering is the lot of all women, who neglect the health of their wo manly organs. No reason to do so, any more than to neglect a sore throat, colic, or any other disease, that the right kind of medicine will 'cure. Take Wine of Cardui for all your womanly ills. It can never do harm, and is certain to do good. Mrs. Sallie H. Blair, of Johnson City, Tenn., writes: "I had suffered from womanly troubles for six teen months, and had four doctors, but they could not help me, until I began to take Wine of Cardui. Now I think lam about well” At all reliable druggists, in SI.OO bottles. Try it. liJD|TC lIC A I L'ITC I) Write today for a free copy of valuable 64-page Illustrated Book for Women. If you need Medical ft iVI 1 L U 3 r\ LC 1 I 1 IV AJvice, describe your symptoms, stating age, and reply will tie sent in plain sealed envelope. LATE NEWS NOTES. General. One man was burned to death, two women were seriously injured and several others more or less badly burned in a fire which destroyed the men’s and women’s buildings of the Philadelphia Cricket club at Chest nut Hill, a suburb of Philadelpria. Rev. Dr. C. Campbell Morgan, the noted English preacher, who has ar rived at New York from Europe, de ciaied in an interview that he is in favor of women suffrage. He said also that the two big political parites in Great Britain are in favor of it, and that both houses of parliament like wise approve, but that for political reasons no big leader in eitheV house can well come out to champion the cause. He believes that very shortly women will he voting in England. Details of the fighting between the French troops at Bedenib, on the Al gerian frontier, and Berber tribesmen, have been received at Paris, France, and indicate a victory for the French so sweeping it is believed the uprising is now ended. Hundreds of Moors surrounding the French garrison were slain by the machine guns. Members of the congressional cur rency commission passing through New York on their return from Eu rope, where they have been making investigations, say that little can be done during the coming session of congress in the wav of financial legis lation. However, there is a strong sentiment that much more important projects in currency reforms will grow out of the commissioners’ work. Half crazed by worry over the con stant threats of revolt, at Lisbon and of attempts on the lives of the mem bers of the royal family, Dowager Queen Maria of Portugal is preparing to leave that country for Italy, where she will make her future home. It just became known that a pack age containing over $52,000 In jewelry, notes and other valuable papers dis appeared in Portland, Ore., on the night of August 21. The package, which was sent over the Wells-Fargo Express company, reached Portland. August 21, at 2 p. m., but no trace of the small package after that hour could be found. Out of approximately six thousand people stricken with cholera in Rus sia this season, more than three thous and died, according to a tabulation which has been made public. The di sease is still raging. The epidemic has been traced to hawkers of bever ages in the cities along the Neva riv er. Berkman, the anarchist, w’as arrest ed in New York when he tried to break up a meeting of labor men by injecting his anarchistic speeches, red flags and bands playing the Marsail laise. One man, waving a red flag, was kicked by the police the entire length of the hall into the street. Em ma Goldman was present, but left be fore the disturbance took place. Captain Lee Cannon, a Cornell grad uate and leader of the Honduras rev olution, is to be put to death, accord ing to reports brought to San Fran cisco by passengers arriving on the steamer City of Sydney from Panama and Central American points. Accord ing to the reports, Cannon killed fif teen men single-handed in his last stand, but was finally captured. The National League for the protec tion and promotion of airships, w'hich recently 'was organized by Rene Quin ton at Paris, has announced that its prize w'iil be awarded to the French aeronaut who shall first double long est flight made hitherto by Wilburn Wright. All the prizes must be con tested for i» France. H. C. Kilmer of Baltimore, Md , was elected president and commander-in chief of the Boys’ Brigade of America, which held its annual convention In that city. H. M. Stratton of New York was elected vice president; A new constitution was adopted in order to better cover the needs -of large organ ization. Four are dead and the bodies of many others are believed to be in the ruins of a fire which destroyed a en-story building in New York City. AH were garment workers. The fire is believed to have been incendiary. Twenty-six men were rescued by the bravery of the firemen and police. Many of these Iliad narrow escapes from death. No women were rescued. There are over fifty groups of Es perantists in the cities and larger towns of Spain studying the new language. Washington. American minister to Salvador, H. Percival Dodge, who went to Tegucig alpa, Honduras, to discuss the incident of the revocation of the exquateurs of Consul Linard and Vice Consul Reynolds at Ceiba, has telegraphed the state department that the matter nas been satisfactorily and amicably adjusted. THREE FATAL WRECKS Railway Accidents in Different States Ciaim Many Victims. 8 KILLED AND 86 INJURED Passenger Train in Mississippi Derailed. Excursion Train in Illinois Telescoped. Alabama Log Train Jumps Trestle. Clarksdale, Miss. —Four persons arc known to have been killed and twenty six were injured in a wreck on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad two miles south of here when two coaches passenger train rolled down an embankment. The known dead are; Mrs. Virgie Graham, Glen dora, Miss.; Miss Amber Russell, 17 years old, Anding, Miss.; Mrs. Rob ert M. Gay, Glendora, Miss.; Unknown White Woman, whose bedy remains under the debris. The train, upon ap proaching Clarksdale, was behind, and, while running at a very rapid rate oi speed, the 9. iair car and a day coach left the track. The wreck, it is said, wa§ caused by the expansion of the steel rails after the engine and ad vance cars had passed over them. Samson, Ala. —The log train of the Henderson-Boyd Lumber Company was wrecked about five miles north of Samson, killing three persons outright and injuring twenty more. The dead are: J. O. Stephenson, white a con vict guard; Joe Wise, white, laborer; Albert England, negro convict. The engine was pushing a train of empty cirs, and the wreck occurred on a trestle with a steep grade on either side. The engineer was scalded, but the fireman escaped unhurt. The en gine and entire train left the track. None worked more faithfully than the convicts, and the three dead bodies, with all of the injured, were removed by them from the wreck, and carried to Richford on a relief train. Chicago, 111.—A Chicago woman is dead and a number are dying and over forty persons were injured as the re sult of a rear-end collision at Ches terton, lnd., between a theater train, running out of Chicago, and the rear coaches of an excursion train, running from Chicago to Indianapolis. At the time of the collision, a great cloud of smoke from the forest fires hung over the tracks, making the rear lights in the excursion train dim and shutting off a view of the tracks even a hun dred feet ahead of the suburban train at the time the trains came together. The subruban train was running at greatly reduced speed, owing io the haze, or the injured list would have been greatly increased. MORE CEMENT Edit CANAL Work on the Locks Will Be Delayed Until July, 1909. Washington, D. C. —A contract for furnishing the isthmian canal com mission with 80,000 barrels of cement in addition to the 4,500,000 barrels al ready contracted for with that com pany, has been awarded to the Atlas Portland Cement Company of North ampton, Pa. It has been hoped that the work on the locks at Gatun Miro flores and at Paco Miguel would be commenced about January 1, as the original invitations for furnishing the commission with cement contemplated that the deliveries in large quantities should begin them, but as the work of excavations for the foundations of these locks has progressed, it has been found desirable to make them deeper than was at first thought nec* essary, in consequence of which ac tual construction work will be delay ed until July next. FENDS FOR VICKSBERG PARK. States Have Made Appropriations for Monument to Soldiers. Washington. D. C. —According to the annual report of the Vicksburg National Military Park commission, a total of $797,000 has been appropri ated up to this time by the various state legislatures for memorials, mon uments and markers, to certain per sons and organizations. Of tfis state appropriations, Illinois leads with $260,000, lowa has $150,000, Wisconsin $130,000 and other states various amounts down to $5,000. Union and Confederate memorials both adorn the park. A warm tribute is paid to the memory of Commission er Lieutenant General Stephen L. Lee, who died May 28, last, and by whose death “the country lost a good and great citizen, the commission an ef ficient wmrker, and each of its re maining members a dear personal friend." It has been proposed to erect a me morial in the park commemorative of the services of the union navy in the operations of the Vicksburg campaign and for the construction of such a memorial an estimate for an appro priation of $200,000 is submitted. STANDARD OIL’S REPLY. File* Answer to Government’s Petition for Rehearing. Chicago, 111.—Counsel for the Stand ard Oil company of Indiana in an an swer to the petition of the govern ment attorneys for a rehearing of the appeal from Judge Landis’ judg ment fining the company $29,240,000 for violations of the anti-rebate laws, upholds the decision of Judges Gross cup, Baker and Seaman of tne United States circuit court of appeals revers ing the judgment and lifting the bur den of tlie enormous fine as good law amply justified by the record in the case. Point by point the answer, which was formally placed on record at the opening of office of the clerk of the court by Colonel W. R. Stewart, gen eral attorney in Chicago, for the Stan dard Oil company takes up the argu ments of the petition for rehearing which set forth alleged errors and particularly suggested that the upper court had erred in its understanding of what the trial judge feally had said concerning the previous offenses by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana or the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. In the petition for rehearing the re viewing judges are charged with as suming that Judge Landis attempted to try and punish the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey in the origi nal proceedings which were against the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. On this point the answer declares it to be a matter of no consequence whether the trial court referred to the New Jersey company or the In diana company was not a “virgin of fender." “The real point is,” says the an swer, “did the trial court in imposing punishment, take into consideration the relation between the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and Stand ard Oil Company of Indiana, and did it base its fine upon the wealth of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and Its ability to pay, instead : of upon the wealth of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana and its abil ity to pay?” To determine this question the Stan dard Oil attorneys assert that a few sentences extracted by the govern ment counsel from the words of Judge Landis are not sufficient and quote at length from Judge Landis’ opinion to show that he referred to the New Jer sey corporation “as the real defend ant" and the Indiana company as the “nominal defendant." The conclusion stated by the answer is “that the enormous fine inflicted upon the defendant was because of its ow'nership of its stock in the Stand ard Oil Company of New Jersey, and because of the financial standing of the corporation, is beyond dispute xvhen the entire opinion of the trial court is considered. INSTRUCTION IN MATRIMONY. Prediction That Preparatory Course Will Be Offered in Schools. Topeka, Kas.—“The time is coming when a course preparatory to matri mony will be offered in our public schools in which young men and wom en will be taught some important mat ter relative to marriage." Professor F. H. Blackmar, head of the department of sociology at the University of Kansas, mftie this state ment here before the superintendents of Kansas charitable institutions. Pro fessor Blackmar believes such a course would go far toward improv ing Americans as a nation and he be lieves it the most expedient remedy for unhappy marriages. Professor Blackmar advocated a strict physical and mental examina tion of all applicants for marriage li censes. Persons afflicted with pul monary or mental diseases should not be allowed to marry, he said. Careful selection is believed by the superin tendents of hospitals for insane and penal institutions and by Professor Blaokmar to be necessary to prevent an increase in insanity, epilepsy and crime. . LRGeThRISTTaN SOCIALISM. Manifesto Issued by Clergymen Ask ing That Scriptures Be Searched. New York City.—Clergymen to the number of one hundred and sixty-one, representing twenty-four religious de nominations and thirty-six states and territories in the United States be sides three denominations and four provinces in Canada, have issued a manifesto to the clergy and churches of America, declaring their belief in socialism and urging a searching of the Scriptures and a study of the phil osophy of socialism upon all who do not now agree with them. The signers of the manifesto an nounce their allegiance to tlje minis ters’ socialist conference, one of whose objects is to show that social-* ism is the economic expression of tho religious life. NEW AIR SHIP RECORD Wright’s Machine Stays in the Air Seventy-One Minutes. DESCRIBES THE FIGURE EIGHT Complete Control of Machine Was Dem onstrated—Traveled at Rate of 39.55 Miles an Hour. Washington, D. C. —In a flight last ing one hour, ten minutes and twenty six seconds, Orville Wright surpassed all his previous exploits for a time and distance flight for a heavier-than air machine. Two flights were made at Fort My er, Va., the first being of ten min utes and fifty seconds' duration, for the purpose of showing what speed he had been traveling during recent flights. The test demonstrated, ac cording to the aviator’s calculation, that the speed of the aeroplane dur ing the record-breaking flights, was 39.55 miles an hour. In the first flight the aeroplane made nine rounds of the drill grounds and then landing within a few feet of the thousand or more spectators, Mr. Wright computed the speed of hia record-breaking flights. The speed was officially announced as 39.55 miles an hour. Fifty-seven times the machine pass ed over the staring points during the seventy minutes and twenty-six see ons that it was up the second time. Twice the areoplanist described the figure “8,” showing for the first tim* during his Fort Myer flights that ho could control his machine in any di rection. A feature of the landing was that he did not stop the motor until the machine touched the ground. Before making another ascenion at Fort Myer, Mr. Wright will make a few changes in his machine in order to secure greater speed. THIRTY-FOER persons injured. When New York Express on the Erie Was Derailed. Meadville, F’a— Thirty-four persons were injured in the wreck of the Erie train No. 4, Chicago to New York ex press, at Geneva, Pa., a small station eight miles west of here, the wreck, railroad officials believe, being due to enemies of the company opening a switch shortly before the passenger train arrived. Thirty-one of the in jured were passengers and three rail road men. Two of the cars, a combination smo ker and baggage, and a day coach, were demolished. A majority of the injured were riding in the combina tion car, being foreign laborers trav eling second closs. The two tracks were torn up a distance of over 100 feet. Railroad officials assert that they are convinced that the switch was mali ciously opened for the purpose of wrecking the train, but think it was done by persons having a grievance against the company rather than for the purpose of robbery. GAS METER STOPPED. Man Attempts Suicide, But There Wa* No Money in Slot. New York City. —After making elab orate preparations for killing himself by gas, including the writing of a farewell letter to his wife, in which he stated that he had spent his last quarter for drink, James Rowan, 41 years old, turned on the gas ar.d lay down. Had Rowan staked his last quarter on the gas meter, he might had his wish. ' The supply of gas, however, was furnished by a quarter meter, which supplies 25 cents worth of il luminating fluid and then stops until another quarter is inserted. The gas in this case stopped flowing just after the man lost consciousness and he was revived by a policemtn who was summoned. Rowan was re moved to a hospital and later locked up for attempted suicide. FINGER PRINT NO GOOD. Judge Refuses to Accept This Meth od of Identification. New York City.—The finger print method of identification by which the police have been cataloguing their prisoners lately failed to satisfy Mag istrate Corrigan of this city. A woman who gave her name as May Curtis was arrested. Detective Wat son declared that she was the same woman who had been twice arfested last June under the name of Maud Allen and Rose Allen. He showed a record of finger prints. Magistrate Corrigan squinted at the Dapers under the magnifying glass. "They look alike," he said, ’but they have points of difference also, to my mind. These things are not conclu sive enough for me. I will give her the benefit of the doubt and place her on probation." Child Sent To Prison. Maysville, Ky.—-Chester Savage, aged 13 years, was sentenced to six vears in the penitentiary for the as sassination of his uncle, two years ago. The boy hid by the roadside and shot his uncle. He is the youngest murderer ever known in Kentucky. Farmer Baled Alive. Hammond. Ind.—Harold McKinney, a farmer living near here, was baled alive in hay and is not expected to live. He was caught in the machin ery and drawn slowly into the press. His right leg was torn from his body, and though a powerful man. McKinney was unable to tear himself loose. He was finally rescued in a crtical con dition.