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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, JANUARY tl, TWT.
18 TILLMAN IN A HOLE?
Thi- action of the upper hnu*f of the
lcr-'i) Assembly,
■tled in annual »> n-
ri'f.-i'.uMon pndnr*-
m Roosevelt in
t< r in ! requesting
r!<*.>gallon ill Con-
, South Carolina (
which ha* Jusr ronv
aion, in adopting a
Ing the act lor, of f»r<
. the !trow :is . :; o.
t 1 .<• South Carolina
gress to support his course. give*
promise of creating an Interesting sit
uation as well as reviving the old and
Interesting question relative to the ob
ligation of i I'nited States Senator to
obey the Instructions of h!s creator—
tl.c body that elects him to the office.
It appears a little significant that the
tlon of the South Carolina State Sen
ators was taken on the very day that
Mr IV.raker, the mos- malignant and
It.vet-rate foe of the South, looked to
" Senator Tillman, t .• most blatant
of negro balte-s. arise in his place In
tie I'nited Slates Senate and support
i him in his motion to condemn the
T'-csideat of the United States for
‘Tiring” out of the United States army
a battalion of negro soldiers, some of
tie members f which perpetrated a
midnight raid on a Southern .•ommun-
Itv. tt may he significant that S.•' t-
t' r Tilirnnn. after the present fashion
with great men in critic ii .-me: gci.eies
happened lo he Indisposed on this
occasion, to the disappointment of Mr.
TV.raker and '.U'h the result of a post
ponement .if further step- In the
Brownsville matter. It may he signifi
cant that an nnti-ditipenssry Governor,
despite the wishes and opposition of
Senator Tlllma'j, Was 'elected and is
about to be Inaugurated In the pres
ence of an anti-dispensary Legislature*
flt Columbia. I* may he significant
that Charleston- -tlte obi conservative,
antl-TIHninn “ironghold- has triumph
antly elevated one of her young, ag
gressive men to he speakership of the
State’s House of Representath s,
after sixteen years ef political ostrn-
5-dsm and exclusion from office. All these
things coming together may be of suf
ficient significance to give the bold and
reekless, but withal shrewd Tillman
pause, His conspicuous silence In the
ftenatc so far thus session Indicates
thnt he is giving bis thought-moulders
gome much-needed exercise. It Is very
possible his deliverance on the
Brownsville matter will indicate the
final result and create a situation.
If he should denounce the President's
course it will not be tin- first time a
I nitrd Stales Senator has defied thp
Instruction of hi- State's Legislature,
bill it will be the first instance of one
having done so while Ills election was
pending.
MR. GILLESPIE’S USELESS PRO
POSAL.
Since 1S20 twenty-five million! of
Immigrants have arrived in the United
States from Europc. The exact figures
are 2i.6H9.SbS. The vast majority of
these have • one to this country ,-ince
the war f 1S61-5. In the single fiscal
year ending June 30. 1906. immigrants
came to the United States to the num
ber of 1.16T.3r.3. In 1900 there were
10,460.0S5 persons of foreign birth liv
ing in this country.
These vast migrations to the United
States have been unequalel, so far as
Is known, in the history of the world.
Other voluntary migrations ancient or
modern, and the forcible- deportalior.s
known to history, such as the carrying
away and dispersion of the ten tribes
of Israel a' the command of the As
syrian conqu-ror, Sargon, were small
affairs in comparison. We may safely
conclude that no such migrations
across seas have ever been kn >wn,
even If anything approximating them
have occurred on lar.d.
WEALTH OF THE SOUTH.
The true value of property in the
fourteen Southern States in 1906 may
be conservatively estimated at $19,-
377,304,710. says the Manufacturers’
Record. In 1860 the true value of prop
erty in the whole country. Including
the South, was only $16,160,000,000.
The increase In real wealth In the
South during the year approximates
$2,666,956,156. which means an increase
at the rate of about $7,280,000 a day,
including ,Sundays and holidays.
Judge "Plain Dick” Russell can at
least congratulate himself that “youth
is" his “only crime.”
Possibly Mr. Cortelyou was afraid he
would get the political funds mixed up
with "Uncle Sam's" potty cash if he
carried his party chairmanship into
the treasure with him.
Mr. Hardman’s physicians say he
needs absolute rest for perhaps a week
or ten days more. Ry that time the
commissioners' inquiry will doubtless
have passed him. It was a close shave,
though.
Tolstoi sees signs indicating that the
millennium is about to begin. This
marks the passing-
est, but most imp
of the age.
of one of the great-
ractieable. intellects
Xow Ren Tillman is fearfully exer
cised over what the United States ne
gro troops will do to the Filipino ne
groes when they get over there. They
: can't do any worse than Wood.
Thf
q at theii
ttius emigrations of poor
• own expense from Eu-
to the Ij
- r T ’O
nited States show what
car; he done \
vhen there is the desire
and tho determination. It i.« said that
about
one-oic^
ith of our population is
foreig
n born
of comparatively recent
iirrhai
ii. The
negroes are oniy about - (
one-n
inth of
our population. The
Bun ;
"•ms* win
3 have settled among us
unaid
til in the
course of twenty years
■ s outnui
<
tth'-r the negroes. The ,
latter
could th
i
erefore emigrate, if they (
had tl
same c
lesire and determination,
pnrtic
uiarjy if
they were aided by the <
Govcr
nmont a:
rd a suitable place of j
sett lei
tipiu wer
e provided for them. It j
Is nbf
;urd to n
ontend that it would he
Impos;
siblo.
r
P.ut
they hnv
• ■ no such desire, and as
forcible deporr
atlon will not he re- i
sorted
to. Con
grotsman Gillespie, of
Texas,
will wa
Ste his lime introducing
EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY ACT.
Two Federal courts have declared
unconstitutional the act recently
passed by Congress "relating to the
liability of common carriers," and pop
ularly known as the “employers’ liabil
ity act.” The law was enacted under
the commerce clause of the Federal
Constitution and it provides that every
common carrier engaged in trade or
commerce between the States or with
foreign nations "shall be liable to any
Its employer, or. in the case of his
rub, his personal representative,
r all damages which may result from
the negligence of any of Its officers,
agent-, or employes, or by reason of
any defect or insufficiency due to its
iarence in its cars, engines, anpli-
-s. machinery, track, roadbed, ways,
corks.” It further provides that in
ins brought to recover damages
personal injuries the fact that th
Senator Tillman’s tender regard for
the welfare of the Filipinos as mani
fested in his objecil- n to sending the
brutal negro soldiers there is most
beautiful to see.
Bigamist Osborn says the women
can’t resist him. He Is such a manly
i man. Victimizing and robbing women
are new attributes of manliness.
STATE PRESS VIEWS
IS 6116 WAY
10 FEAR
XEW YORK. Jan. 10.—The steam
ship Ponce, of the Xew York and Porto
Rico Steamship line, which sailed from
Ponce. Porto Rico. Dec. 26, and was
due at this port on Jan. 1. is still miss
ing, and the belief that the vessel’s do.
"Liliian Russell's voice is still sound
and smooth,” says the Virginian-Pilot.
Yes. but is Lillian hor-elf "sound and
gentle" and warranted to work
smoothly In double harness? That is
the question.
Hog-killing time in
with Christmas. Two
once.— Fort Gaines Be
For eigh: weeks we
tend that it is winter.
me
Georgi
good things a
-tine!.
11 a: least pro
Then we’ll
due to some m
giving away tc
ten
rn.—Ameri cu-
et
fimes-
The New York American i= now-
having some of its reporters duly cer
tify to the truth of their published
statements by. affidavits made before
a notary public or other officer whose
business it is to administer oaths.
negligence, shall not bar re-
Opposition to the confirmation of
George B. Cortelyou to be Secretary
of the Treasury is said to be forming
■ under the leadership of Senator Aldrich,
the "boss” of the Senate. Cortelyou
must be the right kind, after all.
a bill jn Congress providing for the ac
quisition by the United States of suit- !
able territory In Africa wherein to
found a negro colony and for the ap- j
proprintion of funds wherewith to aid I
American negroes emigrating thither, j
If the blacks were like the whites, if
they had t’ne same feelings, the same
desire for complete freedom of oppor
tunlty, the same race pride and similar
determination to achieve supremacy
they would leave this country in t
steady stream as soon as the way were
opened. But they are different.
FAULTY AMERICAN METHODS IN
FOREIGN FIELDS.
Consul H. W. Harris, of Mannheim,
gives the following concrete examples
of the cumbersome methods sometimes
adopted by foreign agencies—probably
of their own choosing—that he says
would no: be tolerated a day in the
United States.
This consulate has knowledge of a
small American life insurance policy-,
handed to the applicant five weeks
after the medical examination, with
no question in dispute .and no word of
information in the meantime whether
policy would be issued or not. AVith
the issue of this policy and the pay-
' ment of the two first premiums upon
it, the offices at Now York, London,
Paris, Berlin and Frankfort, together
! with a local agent, have each had
to do.
The consulate has knowledge of an
American resident of this district who
desired an American file case for bis
office. He applied to the local agent
in the town in which he lives and was
SOUTHERN IMMIGRATION.
Taere has been tnueh comment on
tiie important decision of Secretary
Strain in the South Carolina case, that
State Governments can aid in bringing
laborers from Europe for ibe good of
the State, under the law, while private
employers cannot do this without vio
lating the law. Discussing the sub
ject, “Raymond.” writing from AA'ash-
ington to the Chicago Tribune, point
edly observes:
In the South, and in many of the
AVestern States, it would be a
blessing to the community if the
States would systematically en-
courage bringing in to their own
borders first-el.tss industrial and
agricultural lab rers. The threat
and curse of tile whole Immigra
tion situation today lies In the fact
that hundreds of thousands of gen
erally undesirable Immigrants from
south Italy from the Balkan Prov
ince. and from the Jewish pale of
Russia come to this country of
their own motion without any as
sistance whatever and till up the
slums of Xew A’ork and Boston.
It Is believed by Commissioner-
General Rarg' tit and others that if
the Southern States cm secure the
establishment of permanent steam
ship lines to Savannah. Charles
ton, Mobile end Xew Orleans from
the northern ports of Europe, as
well as from the Mediterranean, a
good deal of tlte tide of immigra
tion which is clogging Xew York
nnd Boston wid 1„> diverted to
ward the South. There is an im
mense field of Jab r there which
never can he -a’isfW by negroes
Tlte South never can ho developed
as it should he developed tint:!
white labor can he induced to come
-into the Southern States In large
numbers. The only people who
would have a right to complain
this would he the colored men them
selves. berausr i: might drive some
of them out of emolovinent. The
nrohahie result on colored peonle
however. would he to stimulate
them to work, because when they
no longer form toe sole lahor sup-
ph nf that section they eottid not
afford to remain In Idleness.
This Northern writer shows that ho
comprehends the true conditions as
. 'early ns does the observant South
erner when, he adds: "This today is
the greatest curse of the lahor - dun -
lion in the South. The negroes have
no competition. They work a little
while and knoek off whenever they
choose because they understand only
ton well their places will be waiting
for them when their vacation time is
o\ er, when bacon and oorn meal arc
out. and when they have to go to work
to satisfy their hunger. With a white
element in the labor field the tendency
v ill almost surely be hv sharp compe
tition to teach the negro that he must
«ork steadily and well to escape star
vation. so that in the long mn the di
version of immigration toward the
south ought first of all to relieve con
gestion along the Xorth Atlantic sea
board: secondly, it would have a vast
effect In building up the resources of
the South: thirdly, it ought to uplift
the industrial capacity of the negro
and at the same time, by reducing his
numerical proportions, take away from
the South the old hogyman of negro
domination.”
He 1 -'might well have added that the '
hope of the South industrially and oth
erwise Is In the influx of white labor- rt is now said that the Marlboroughs
ers and in the romhined mierations of have agreed to “speak as they pass
told that application to the agent at
Berlin for price would be made. Six
days later price was furnished with the
explanation that he had to write the
agent at Frankfort. The Frankfort
agent wrote Rerlin and the answer
came back through the same channels.
He further added that the case could
ho delivered in three weeks. All this
between two
a prt rt.
The sam
writer and there being
the town where he live,
chine to which he was accustomed he .directly to encourage negligence and
Judge Walter Evans, of the United
tates District Court for the AVc-stern
istriet of Kentucky, decided a case
efnre him adversely to the act on the
round that Congress exceeded its ju
s-diction in passing the act. ns it does
ot purport to "regulate commerce
pong the States,” but merely imposes
liability on common carriers.
Judge McCall, in the Federal District
Court at Memphis, Tenn.. reached a
similar conclusion in a case brought
before him under 'the act. The court
said:
T am unable to bring my mind
to the conclusion that the liability
of a common carrier to its employe
for injuries is interstate commerce
or commerce of any character
within the meaning of tthe com
merce clause of the Constitution.
My eonclusison it that Congress is
not authorized under the commerce
clause of, the Constitution of the
United States to enact this legisla
tion. for the reason that the rela
tion of interstate common carriers
engaged in interstate trade or
commerce to their employes and
aheir llabality to them in damages
for injuries sustained in their em
ployment as tlte result of the neg
ligence of any of their officers,
agents or employes is not com
merce within (he meaning of the
Constitution. But if It were the
act does not undertake to regulate
this relation or liability, but sim
ply announces by an act of Con
gress a new law on torts limited to
a special class of those engaged In
interstate commerce.
It is perhaps a* little significant that
the two Federal judges who have had
occasion to pass on the constitution
ality of the act. and who have decided
adversely thereto, are Southern Judges
who may be presumed to be infected
in greater or less degree with the
Southern fidelity to constitutional
principles. It appears to The Tele
graph that the jurisdiction in actions
for damages for personal injuries to
employes and others are proper sub
jects for the State courts and that
the rights of thp employes are pretty
th'oroughly protected under the com
mon law provisions as to torts which
prevail generally in the respective
States. The common law, which has
been described as the essence of “com
mon sense,” holds employers responsi
ble when through negligence, defects
of machinery, and such like, the em
ploye or others are Injured, but It has
always drawn the line at mulcting the
employer for the benefit of the em
ploye when the latter came to his
injury nnd hurt through “contributory
Air. Cortelyou. the Republican chair
man. is said to have a scrap book con
taining pages which are marked
"Truth,” says the Washington Post.
For the sake of the G. O. P. they
should be kept locked up.
Senator Bacon is quoted as express
ing his belief that President Roosevelt
did not exceed his authority in the
discharge order and there is no better
versed authority on Constitutional law
than the Georgia Senator.
ready to plant
Recorder.
Kansas has a poet who goes about
; In sandals." AA'e have some in Georgia j
who go about in—well, they are here, j
all right!— Ocilla Star.
From the commentaries wo hear on
I the work of our so-called statesmen
j one would think they were till ob-
| tained at the bargain counter.—Car-
tersville News.
Members of the Georgia Legislature !
| will have to sit back and watch Con
gress until the good old summer time,
when they have their turn again.— ;
Pike County Timev-Dispatch.
AA’e repeat that Teddy did right, ab- |
solutely right, in dismissing the negro
troops, the opinion of Foraker and ,
Tillman to the contrary notwithstand- |
ing.—Swain-boro Forest Blade. ;
Taft Is not a 'candidate for the Re
publican nomination but it is evident •
that he is too big a man to rush into a
cyclone cellar should the nomination
come along his way.—Darien Gazette.
The white school population of
Georgia in 1990 was 365.570. The aver
age white daily attendance was 190,-
363. The male population of voting
age was 509.572: of these 158,247 were
illiterates. Isn't this r, strong argu
ment- in favor of larger appropriations
for education?—Blakely Reporter.
Georgia’s new Court of Appeals is
without a home of its own. The Leg
islature, in creating the court, failed to
provide for its housing. Probably no
member thought of the necessity of j
providing a court room. All they
wanted was the court.—Lumpkin In
dependent.
; tav was
• dent is
| she is lc
She w
i by the
j nothing has been seen
The strong hope to *.\
to steamship company
arrival th, steamVi
Trinidad, now four fiti
schedule time. The M
course is th
as
■chanicaj accl-
the fear that
nil December 2S
th, since which
hich officers of
ling is the non-
Afaraces, from
vs behind her
tineas' ordinary
that usually
eoen Gim
REID MESSAGE
REDUCTION IN PASSENGER FARE
AND INSURANCE WERE THE
FEATURES
RALEIGH. X. C., Jan. IP.—Over the
protest of certain members, who held
that it was unconstitutional. Governor
Glenn today appeared before the joint
session of the Legislature and person
ally read his bi-ennial message. Tlte
message deals with (State affairs, the
most important being that two and a
half cents l>e fixed as the maximum
passenger rate iti Xorth Carolina.
Much
reforms,
made. Tne Legls
tablish a bureau
■an annual appn
large to secure 1
farms and fa.'tori
At this session
:io radical
•e-olcct Un
Simmons, whos
Jd
term
insurance
'stions are
e is urged to es-
mmigration with
lion sufficiently
:n labor for the
Legislature will
; Senator F. Ai.
expires March 4.
the Ponco for a considerable
;e voyage and it is hoped that
fallen in with the probably
Porto Rican vessel and is tow-
> some port. Until the Mara-
and disproves this theory.
taken bv
part of tl
she lias
disabled
ing her t
cas arrives
hope for the Ponce’s safety will not b
abandoned. The most disquieting re
port that has reached here today was
a message from Governor AA'inthrop.
of Porto Rico, who says the steamer
Mara* as reported sighting a dereli
150 feet long near the location the
Ponce was sighted by the Shenandoah
December 28. The dimensions of the
reported derelict, however, do not agree
with the Ponce, which is 317 feet long.
IIDENT
RT ELEVATED STATION
OVERCROWDING FORCED FRONT
OF LINE AGAINST MOVING
CARS
Cured of Lung Trouble.
“It is how eleven years since I had a
narrow escape from consumption,”
writes C. O. Floyd, a leading business
man of Kershaw, S. C. "I had run
down in weight to 135 pounds, and
coughing was constant, both by day
and by night. Finally I began taking
Dr. King’s Xow Discovery, and con
tinued this for about six months,
when my cough and lung trouble were
J j entirely gone and I was restored to my
normal weight, 170 pounds.” Thou
sands of persons arc healed every year.
Guaranteed at all drug- stores. 50c
and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
NEGRO BOY SHOT AND 'V'-'
KILLED NEGRO MAN
Sending those dark-skinned regi
ments to the Philippines is not, how
ever, to be recommended as a sure
means of winning the Filipinos over to
a respectful admiration for the Ameri
can brand of civilization.
Judge Appealed
for Military Aid
XEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Overcrowding
of an elevated railroad station cost one
man his life today and-caused injuries
to another which may result in lils
death. The tragedy occurred on the
One Hundred and Sixty-first street
station of the Third avenue line.
ATLANTA, Ga-, Jan. 10.—Joe Lumpkin,
a young negro man, was shot and killed
today by Lowe Little, a 15-yoar-oM negro
. boy. The killing occurred on Piedmont
avenue, near Cain street. The two. It
: seems, had a quarrel Monday last and
■ met today for the first time since then.
! Litlo drew a pistol and fired one shot
at Lumpkin, which took effect. He was
sent tc the hospital, where he lived less
| than an hour. The young murderer has
been arrested and placed in jail.
j SAUER KRAUT AND BUTTERMILK
KILLED AN ATLANTA MAN
ATLANTA. Ga.. Jan. 10.—Sauer kraut
I and buttermilk was a combination that
proved as deadly to John Green, the dri
ver of the Piedmont bus. as an overdose
of morphine. Tuesday night, after living
When the train started those in tho i '’'.V 1 !, 1 ' r ! : In ’’ ? ecat 'T
ont line, unable to withstand the L^ut^ and^drank an abundanceVbufter-
FRAXKFORT, Ky„ Jan. 10.—Attor
ney B. P. Jouett, of counsel for the
prosecution in the Hargis trial at Jack-
Fat-Fryer Cortelyou resigned the ! son, Ky„ reached here today to secure
chairmanship of the Republican Xa- ! °!
tional Committee only because
United States Senate declined to con- 1
firm him as Secretary of the Treasury
prohibition to restrain Special Judge
the i Carnes from proceeding further with
the trial. He says that a dozen men
now at Jackson are in danger of being
j shot- down before State troops can be
! PYittpn nnrl thnf hlnn/1 will ppr-
front
rush from behind, were borne against
the side of the moving cars and roiled
and tumbled about.
William F. Newman, a Bronx busi
ness man
ter, were caught between the side of
the train and one of the heavy sup
porting pillars of the station and
knocked under the moving train. New
man’s body was terribly mangled by
the wheels and he died instantly.
AVehnz sustained internal injuries,
which may result fatally.
while he held t|ie office of party col- gotten there and that blood will cer
tainly flow if the trial is proceeded
lector.
The Columbia. S. C., State is telling
its readers “why Columbia lost the
sub-treasury.” Oner of. its implied rea
sons is that its senior United States
Senator is too busy helping Senator
Foraker punish the President for dn act
of justice to a Southern town to bother
with a trivial practical matter of that
sort.
The Bellamy Storers must have been
delighted when they saw that cabie
dispatch from Rome stating that the
appointment of Archbishop Ireland to
the cardinaiate “Is now unlikely, in
spite of the fact that President Roose
velt has urged another American pre
late to approach the Vatican privately
to this end.”
I with. His request was granted by th
I court because of conditions at Jack-
: son, and Judge Carries hns been in-
t strueted to stop the trial. Special
Judge Carnes is trying James Hargis,
- Edward Callahan, John Smith and
- John Abner for the assassination of
! Dr. B. D. Cox at Jackson, Breathitt
County, four years ago. Late last
: night he wired Governor Beckham and
1 asked that fifty soldiers be sent to
guard him against assassination.
Judge Carnes says his life is ;n dan-
: ger, civil authorities being powerless
I to protect him. Jackson is filled with
| armed men.
Governor Beckham has sent Adjutant
j General Lawrence and State Inspector
. Hines to Jackson to investigate tho
j situation there before ordering out the
I militia on request of Judge Carnes.
milk to top It off.
His hunger vanished and he went .to
Jones’ stable. In a few minutes he whs
taken violently ill. Jn a few minutes
and Carl Wohnz anlmnor- i more he. was dead. An inquest was hold
anu uari wennz. an impel , , )y the Corom . r an( , the verdict was death
from acute Indigestion.
jBURGLARS IN ATLANTA
I HAD “SMOOTH SAILING”
ATLANTA, Ga.. Jtin. to.—As evidence
of the estimate in which the members of
the local police force are held by the av-
: orage Atlanta burglar, it is only neei-s-
I sary to state that one of the light lingered
professionals walked into a pawn shop on
j Marietta street this morning, and while
| the proprietor and two city detectives
: were engaged in conversation, robbed the
cash drawed of $21. end then walked out.
1 The man appeared to be carelessly ex-
■ aminlng the stock of goods In tho show
; case, and little attention was paid to
i him.
Men Armed Lined Court Room.
LEXIXGTOX, Ky„ Jan. 10.—A spec
ial from Jackson says:
Judge Carnes held a session of court
for fifteen minutes this afternoon.
He said he w-ould hold a short session
| tomorrow. 1-Ie also announced that he
, „ , , ~ . I had asked for troops to protect himself
A. Foraker has abandoned the at- j an( j attorneys in the case. Neither
tack on the President for exceeding his ; Hargis nor his attorneys, W. A. Young
PROTESTED AGAINST WIDENING
HALSTEAD STREET ON WEST
SIDE.
authority in' dismissing the negro sol-
and J, J. C. Bach, appeared in court.
I The cause of the trouble is the same
diers and proposes only to investigate j that has brought about, all previous
Brownsville people for the purpose of
exonerating the negroes from the
charge of shooting them up, Senator
Ben Tillman will be by his "lonesome”
when he opens up in his denunciation
of Roosevelt.
Mr. John D. Rockefeller confided to
i interviewer the other day that
I “great wealth is a terrible burden.”
| Most Americans_would like to have
scarcely 250 miles , negligence” on his own part.” To wipe the opportunity to sweat under such a
out this bar to recovery. ’ it appears I burden, but every reflecting man must
American desired a type- -j to The Telegraph, would be not only a j sep that Mr _ Rockefeller is right about
m agent in patent injustice to the employer but it j this. The multi-millionaire must part
for the ma- would put a premium upon and tend ! company with the simple and peaceful
life.
wrote the factory In the United States
explaining why he wrote and he wished
that particular machine. Throe weeks
later he received a brief letter from
the Berlin agent stating that the ma
chine was an excellent one which he
was prepared to sell tit a certain price.
Of effort to sell, or to follow thp mat
ter up there was none. Similar facts
mu-i have conic within the observa
tion of all Americans living abroad.
American products known everywhere
in the United Suites are kept before
ihc public there by the constant expen
diture of large sums for advertising.
Tho same goods are offered in a for
eign market and take the chances
without any advert sing matter what
ever.
inefficiency nnd militate against the
public safety and welfare.
Dr. R. c. Flower, the colossal mine
swindler of the age, has been captured
IVhen dls-
foon of Col. Henry tVatterson sitting I covered in Philadelphia under one of
behind stacks of white, red and blue
trouble—the feud between the Hargis
I faction and their opponents—the inci
dents of last night and today revolving
' about the trial of former County Judge
1 James Hargis and former Sheriff Ed
ward Callahan on the charge of mur-
. dering Dr. Cox four years ago. The
i jury in the case has not been selected
as it has been impossible to secure
twelve men from Breathitt County who
I are not afraid to pass judgment upon
| their fellow townsman and most potv-
; erful 'citizen. The people of Jackson
j want the trial removed from Jackson
i as far as possible.
Jackson is filled with mountain men
1 fully armed. Attorney W. A. Young,
i who is conducting the defense, is
greatly alarmed and will not venture
1 on the street. During yesterday's ses
sion of the court twenty men, armed
with revolvers, were lined up on each
side of the court room.
CHICAGO, Jan. 10.—An excited crowd
of West Side citizens took forcible pos
session of tiie Council Chamber in the
city hall today and virtually compelled !
the members of a Council committee to
flee from the place. The members of the
crowd were protestants against the wid
ening of Halsteaul street on the West
Side, a project which has been before the
Council for some time. The committee
having the matter under consideration
met today in the Council Chamber, and
the meeting was attended by many of tho
citizens interested. The committee finally
postponed action until June of this year.
This was highly satisfactory to many <»f
the citizens, who wished the matter set
tled at once. Cries of “coward," "thief”
and “robber” were hurled at the members
of the committee as they hurriedly Toft
the apartment. The citizens came rutfl
ing down from the galleries and poured
-sassod oio[dtuoo Stit^m 'suntt ot|i ttio.ij ui
sion of the chamber. They organized a
meeting of their own and formally pro
tested against further delay in the settle
ment of the question.
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FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL
MARRIES 19-YEAR-OLD BOY
ATLANTA. Ga.. Jam 10.—With a desire
to commence married-life as early as pos
sible, Miss Fannie Scott. 14 years of age,
and a member of the eighth grade in tho
Walker School, Friday last married Wal
ter I* Brown, 19 summers and an even
number of winters. They secured a li
cense upon the representation that tiie
bride-to-be was 19 and tlte prospective
groom 23. The couple were married bv
Dr. Cornelius Parker, who runs a drug
store on Peters street, and as a side line,
preaches occasionally. Dr. Parker says
thnt the couple looked young, but that he
had no idea of their age.
The Washington Post prints a car-, j after a two years’ cha
chips “squeezing" five cards and say
ing "We grow old when we stop play
ing." The Post should not tell tales
out of school.
The Right Name.
Mr. August Sherpe, the
overseer of the poor, at Fort Madison,
la., says: "Dr. King’s Xew Life Pills
are rightly named; they act more
agreeably, do more good and make one
, fee) better than any other laxative.”
.us aliases he was engaged In securing ! Guaranteed to cure biliousness and
How to Cure Chilblains.
“To enjoy freedom from chilblains,”
writes John Kemp, East Otisfield, Me.,
“I apply Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. Have
also used it for salt rheum with excel
lent results.” Guaranteed to cure fever
sores, indolent ulcers, piles, burns,
wounds, frost bites and skin diseases.
25c at all drug stores.
Not More Than Sixteen Con
secutive Hours Can Be
Required
The Society for the Advancement of
Science has discovered that the human
, frame shrinks one foot every 200,000
< years. Very short people need not
, worry as they will scarcely live long
■enough to make their shrinkage visible
j to the naked eye.
money from investors by representing
that he had a wonderful chemical pro
cess whereby he could make diamonds
and other precious stones. The world
is still in its gullible stages.
■constipation.
ot all drug stores.
ALLEGED WIDOW OF STEELE
TO CLAIM SLAYER’S BODY
But the case
whole
by no
means a discouraging one. On the
contrary no one can survey America's
foreign trade without seeing abundant
evidence of the splendid organization
and enterprise which have pushed it
forward. That the limits have been
approximately reacted, no intelligent
man will believe. Rather does such
survey give a faint forecast of what
this trade will be when this same or
ganization and enterprise have been
carried into all fields as they have in
tome.
A “stray bullet killed an unsuspect
ing wayfarer” in a Xew York street
Sunday night. A severe penalty ought
to be imposed on the owners of "stray
bullets.”
Harry Thaw is reported to be afraid
of his mother-in-law. Xo encourage
ment for the insanity plea in this.
negroes to the Northern States.
by,” but that is about all.
The Terrorists are systematically
and surely exterminating iheir marked
men in Russia. The once great White
Czar must tremble to see how close to
himself the fatal shots are falling.
; When the Panama canal is com-
j pleted no part of the temperate zone,
measuring by transportation lines, will
be nearer to the markets of the whole
world than the Southern States. Thus
J Charleston, as a speaker in that city '
\ recently pointed out. will be nearer to !
: the western coast of South America \
. than San Francisco, the distance from j
Charleston through the canal to Guay- j
aouil, Ecuador, on the Pacific being
j only 2.463 miles, while the distance of
i that point from San Francisco is 4,137 j
miles. I
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10.—Superin
tendent of Police Taylor today received
a telegram from Mrs. J. B. Steele, of
Chicago, informing him that she was
on her way here to claim the remains
of her husband. J. Rolio Stee’e, who
threw the bomb in the Fourth Street
National Bank, killing Cashier TV. Z.
McLear and blowing himself to pieces.
It is necessary for her to make official
identification of what remains of the
bomb thrower, the police officials say.
to lay claim to benefits said to be
nearly $2,fiOP payable on his death as a
member of the Modern Woodmen of
America. Mrs. Steele will be a witness
at the inquest in the case, which is set
for tomorrow.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.—By a vote
of 70 to 1. the Senate today passed a
bill providing that railway employees
engaged in the handling of trains shail
not work more than sixteen consecutive
hours, which period is to be followed
popular | by ten hours off duty. The one nega
tive vote was cast by Senator Pettus.
This accomplishment was reached
after an entire day in consideration of
the subject. The'parliamentary situa
tion was confused during the entire
time, caused by the forty pending
amendments and the three substitutes
for the original bill, all of which was
to be disposed of. The bill, which was
finally passed, was a substitute offered
today by Senator LaFollette and not in
print. It was amended in several re
spects by the Senate. The bill pro
vides that under certain contingencies
and in case of accident the time fixed
may be exceeded. The enforcement of
the law is placed in the hands of the
Interstate Commerce Commission and '
the Federal courts, the penalty pro- i
t ided being a fine of not less than $190
nor more than $1,000. The act is to
apply to trains doing an interstate or
foreign commerce business.
Martin Held for Train Robbery.
RICHMOND. V.I., Jan. 10.—At the
examination today a.t Boydton, of
Charles Rowley and Percy Martin,
charged with robbing a Seaboard pas
senger train near Lacross, Powiey was
released and Martin was held for tho
grand jury.
HOUSE WHERE M’KINLEY DIED
PRACTICALLY BURNED DOWN
BUFFALO, N. Y., Jari. 10.—The form
er residence of John O. Alilburn on Dela
ware avenue, to which the late President
McKinley was taken after he was shot
at tlte Pan American Exposition, and
where he deid, was badly damaged by
fire this morning. The tire practically .
consumed everything within the four
walls. The loss is estimated at $25,000’.
The property had been sold recently by
Mr, Millburn to Phillip M. Shannon.
TO COUNT BALLOTS CAST
IN MUTUAL LIFE ELECTION
| NEW YORK. Jan. 10.—The ballots cast
by President Peabody of the Mutual Life
Insurance. Company, and Richard Olney,
representing the policyholders’ commltaie
in the annual meeting of officers of the
company, will be counted under a ruling
announced by the inspections of electors
who have charge of canvassing the votes.
Tiie votes were cast by Mr. Peabody and
Mr. Olney, who protested on the day
the election was held on the ground that
they had not been received in the proper
way. At the same time this announce
ment was made, the inspectors made pub
lic their ruling on a number of technical
questions bearing upon the legality of
individual ballots.
MAN FRIGHTENED TO DEATH
BY EXPLOSION OF METAL
Mr. E. H. Harriman, who has Just
undergone a double operation under
the probe of the doctors and of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, is
reported to be a very sick man. One
operation at a time is enough for the
ordinary man.
i It is said that "Bill” Shakespeare
j could not have written his plays be-
; cause he got drunk every Saturday
I night at the Mermaid Tavern. The
same argument applies to De Quincy,
•: who could not have written "The Con-
' fessions of an Opium Eater,” because
he was a "dope” fiend, to Edgar Allen
Poe. who could no't have written “An-
i
nabel Lee” because he died drunk, and
in fact to many another wayward child
of genius who alternated between the j
FAILURE OF MEMBER
N. Y. COTTON EXCHANGE
NEW YORK. Jan. 10.—The failure nf
W. E. Miller, of Bolton, Tex., member
of the N’ew York Cotton Exchange, to
meet his financial obligations to mem
bers of the exchange was announced to
day on the floor of the exchange. Mil
ler's obligations, which it is said will
not exceed $100,000, were balances
due on closed contracts.
Miller has been a member of the ex
change for several years.
REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT
IN HONDURAS IS WEAK
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 10.—The fol
lowing cablegram from President Bo
nilla, of Honduras, descriptive of the
revolutionary difficulty there, was
made public tonight by Consul Gen
eral Ferdinandez, of Honduras:
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. Jan. i0.—Albert
Lindsay was frightened to death and two
men were severely burned by an explosion
of molten metal In the finishing plant at
Baldwin’s Locomotive Works today. Frank
Sakaiowski and Patrick Dolan were
burned about the head and face and body
by the hot metal which flew over them,
and Lindsay, who was standing near, was
so frightened that he collapsed. He was
picked up unconscious, and when taken
to a hospital with the injured men, was
dead. He was 48 years of age. ,
TEXAS LEGISLATURE HAS
NOT ACTED ON BAILEY MATTfR
AUSTIN. Tex., Jan. 10.—No action was
i taken today by thp Legislature relative
"The revolutionary movement which i to ll *, e resolution providing for the inves-
i i.e re; ..miono. v mo\emeni ui V cn tig^ation of certain char«;es_made against
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has been brewing for some time ha.
not taken proportions of any charac
ter: confined to a small number of dis
satisfied people, who remain at the
frontier under command of D. Guitter-
rez, and is confronted by superior
forces. The Government is strong,
with a numerous and well supplied
army.”
United States Senator J. W. Bailey and
l Attorney-General Davidson, in consider
ation of the measure being postponed un
til tomorrow. Consideration of the reso‘-
lution was opposed by friends of Senator
Bailey.
GUNBOAT MACHIA8 RAISED
AND IN DOCK FOR REPAIRS
PENSACOLA, Fla., Jan. 10.—The
gunboat Machtas, which sunk in the
stone basin at the navy yard during
the September hurricane, has been
raised and today was taken in the
steel floating dock for repairs. The
vessel is badly damaged by coming in
contact with the sides of the atone
basin.
DECAPITATED MOTHER-IN-LAW
FOR TALKING TOO MUCH
MILWAUKEE, Wis„ Jan. 10.—
Geo»ge C. Wapp, supposed to be insane,
today killed Mrs. Frederick A. Freund,
his mother-in-law, by cutting off her
head with a razor. The body was not
found until Wapp volunteered to look
for the missing woman with one of her
sons. He confessed the crime. to the
police, saying his mother-in-law talk
ed too much. He was recently
Jeased from an insane asylum.