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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XIII., No. 258 HALF A DOZEN STATES UNDER SMOKE PALL DUE TO FOREST FIRES FOLLOWING DROUGHT NEW YORK—Despatches from points in the northern part, of this state, from Maine cities and Utica and near-by towns and from Michi gan bring news of forest fires raging unchecked owing to the long drought and for the lack of rain. Property worth millions of dollars anti several lives have already been lost and unless rain comes soon it is feared that the loss will be enormous. Smoke covers a half dozen states, reaching to this city. Inhabitants of the devasted sections arc worn out fighting the continuous blaze and help is being asked from towns and cities many miles from ihe scenes. OUTLOOK IS DISTRESSING. UTICA, N. Y. —Reports front raanv sections indicate that the arena over which flames are sweeping in the Adirondacks is being rapidly ex tended and in the continued absence of rain the outjook for the sub duing of the fires is distressing. In the vicinity of the upper lake two fires have assumed alarming proportions and the fire warden cannot se cure enough men to work at them More than 1,000 acres have tieen burned over in the last three days. To the north and west of the city of Rome there are a number of forest fires of extensive proportions RAILROADS AND CIGARETTES. ALBANY, N. Y. —The railroads in the Adirondaeks are using their fire trains continually and are setting fires going at the same time Hunters are also charged with setting many fires through carelessness in extinguishing their camp fires Two calls have come from Westport for assistance. G. B. Richard*, town clerk, telegraphed that many fires had been started there by the Delaware and Hudson company’s locomotives. TWENTY-TWO TOWNS. OTTAWA —There is much anxiety throughout Canada, as probably 22 towns and as many villages are enshrouded in smoke. There arc scores of bad bush fires, all due to the long spell of extremely dry weather. . . The steamship service on Lake Ontario is demoralized. A number of lumber camps in northern Ontario are wiped out and the men are fighting to save others. Two lives were lost at Parry Sound. The flames have approached very near to Ottawa and several of the suburban districts are threatened. SUN AS IF ECLIPSED. WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.—The heavy pall of smoke, completely ob scuring the sun still overhangs all this region. Ten million feet of logs of the Central Pennsvvania Lumber company are in danger. The mountains along the west branch of the Susquehanna elver are hidden by smoke and at night the red glare can be seen for miles. The gloom of night settled over this city at least an hour earlier than usual last evening. Standard Oil Company Offered Bribe to Attorney General Former Attorney General of Ohio Tells How the Standard Oil Co. Tried to Get Him to Drop Suits. new YORK.—a Columbus, Ohio, dispatch says in part: Monnett, attorney general of Ob o, from January 19, 1896, until Janua y 1 1900. last night told your co* respondent of the offer made to him by alleged agents oftheStandard Oil company to pay him SSOO-000 f he would drop the suits which he had instituted in th" courts of Ohio to have the company ousted from the Et “He told of a conference at the home in Washington of Senator Jos. Benson Foraker, and of how forc *l ful the argument was put to him ot the power of the Standard Oil conv rjany in the world of politics and of finance: of the mysterious visit to his office here by a representative of the Standard, who offered to deposit to his credit in any bank that he would name a fee of $500,000. and asked for his trouble the small fee of SIOO,- 000. Senator Foraker at Home. Monnett gave the following state ment: In January, 1899. I stopped at the Arlington hotel In 'Washington, the day before I appeared In the unit ed States supreme court in suits against the National Bank of Chi cago 1 found a card in my box after being there a short time from Senator Foraker. asking me to call at his home on Sixteenth street. I called him up by telephone and made the engagement to call that evening. When I called at his home, and af ter passing social exchanges with members of the family, 1 was taken into his library and he produced cer tified copies of my petitions in the Standard Oil ouster cases In Ohio. They Included papers in the case of the state of Ohio against the Stand ard Oil company, the state of Ohio against the Buckeye Pipe Line, and the state of Ohio against the North western Natural Gas company, and as he laid them down he told me that he was an attorney for the company 1 at first discussed the impropriety and danger of his representing these trusts, criminal and civil violators of his own state laws, as long as he, as well as myself should he interested in the welfare of the people of Ohio Standard Oil Co. Powerful. He told me that he never allowed hlB law practice to Interfere with politic* or hi» politics with hts law practice, and added that he was a judge of the ethics of our profession. He then took up the cause of action against these companies and remind ed me of the great power, financially and politically, of the Standard Oil trowd. After talking a short time be asked me to have the proceedings delayed. In order to accommodate hltn. I firm ly declined to concede anything wha ler. and told him so He recalled the great power of the oil trust to anyone oi£%cd to It. After tPi Interview we dealt at arms length and not as political al lies I received at the same time while In Washington. I think possibly the next day a telegram from C, H Squires, at Cleveland, In which h* said: "Make no agreement with anyone in Washington about important busi ness matter until I ran see you" it was after this that, 1 brought the FOLKS ON AEON All ALIVEAND WELL SYDNEY. N. S.—Five of the crew of the British steamship Aeon which sailed from San Francisco for on July 6 and has been overdue, have arrived at Fanning Island. They report that th e Aeon went ashore on the Christmas Island on July 18, and was a total loss. All the crew and passengers, among whom were the wives of several Amer ican naval officers, are safe and well. They are camped on Christmas Is land and have ample food and water. A house has been built for th e wo men. All the ship’s boats excepting two were smashed to pieces on the reef and it took a month to remove the cargo and prepare a boat for the voy age to Fanning Island. The Chinese members of the crew refused to work because of short ra tions of rice. The Aeon was a ship of 4.221 tons and was owned by the Howard Smith company, Ltd., of Melbourne. She was commanded by Capt. E. A. Down. She had a crew of thirty-nine and car ried a general cargo. She wa s not supposed to carry passengers, but ten passengers were shipped and appear ed on the books as sailors and deck hands. Among the passengers were Mrs. Patrick, wife of Chaplain B. R. Pat rick, U. S. N.. and their children, and the wife of Lieut. W. K. Riddle, U S. N C. S 0. FIST TUI ITCHED TOW RICHMOND, Va—The fast train over the Chesapeake and Ohio from Newport News to Richmond due here iat 11:45 was wrecked between Wal kers and Lanexa about 11 o'clock to day. The wreck Is between stations and only the most meager news is obtainable. suit against Squires and the other men,and began taking depositions In the case, when I was ordered by the courts to stop any further proceed lugs. Defeated by Foraker. I was defeated for a renomlnstion by Senator Foraker and his friends and only received 87 votes In the convention out of over 400, I could not bring the cases to trial before my term was ended, and the first thing that occurred after John M. Sheets was elected was the dismissal of all the rases against the Standard and other oil companies, which 1 had been pushing so bard. Local Forecast for Augusta _aiirt Vicinity—Fair tonight; Sunday probably showers. AUGUSTA. GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 19, 1908 EXTRA SESSION ENIinODIf ATLANTA, Ga.—The extra session of the legislature called for the pur pose of enacting legislation looking to a discontinuance of the present convict lease system In Georgia, at 1:20 tills afternoon passed the com promise bill and adjourned sine die. The hill as it goes to the governor is not entirely satisfactory to those who brought about the recent investi gation. and caused the governor to call the extra session of the legisla ture. While it provides for a discon tinuance of the convict lease system on March 31, 1909, the prison com mission and the governor, who is made a member of the commission by the bill, are permitted to lease to pri vate concerns all overs," or all con victs remaining after th e needs of the several counties in their public works have been supplied. RUINED BOTH HIS DAUGHTERS MOBILE, Ala.—Confessing to have ruined both his daughters, Joe Fos ter, formerly a well to do plantation owner, near Meridian, Miss., is be ing hunted by the authorities of the county. Foster’s brother had been in dicted by the grand jury for the crime and to save him from being convicted of a crime of which he was Innocent I the father confessed. The young women are 1C and 18 years of age. Attorneys for the man’s brother received a written confession from Foster, which is witnessed by ! several persons. The whereabouts of the father is unknown. LUG MALE BABY FOUND HOE BOX NEW YORK.—A living male baby, only a few hours born, was found in a shoe box in a garbage can in front of 2124 Eighth avenue by John Mor rick, a street sweeper, early today. In emptying the can the man noticed the box was heavy and opened it, hop ing to find a pair of shoes. The baby whs wrapped first in a pillow case and then in a hath towel. Morrick hailed Policeman Dowling and the officer hurried to the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street station, where ati ambulance from Harlem hospital was called. The am bulance surgeon removed it and or dered it sent to the Bellevue hospi tal, where they say It will live. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION BANQUET SPEAKERS ATLANTA Ga —Dr. Elmer E Brown United Slates commissioner of educa tion; Secretary James Wilson, of th-: department of agriculture, and Dr. Carroll D. Wright, will be among the speakers secured for the banquet at the coining convention of the National Society for the Promotion of Indus trial Education, which banquet Is to be given November 19 and the regular sessions of the convention will begl i Ihe following day Vice-president W. M. Alexander, of Ihe National society, has advised Secretary Walter Cooper, of the At lanta chamber of commerce that the speakers have been secured. DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE’S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ATLANTA, (la, —For the purpose of discussing [dans to tiring out as larg • vote as possible for all the demo cratic nominees, the executive com mittee of the Young Men’s 11.-moera lc league has been called to meet nex' Tuesday night, September 22, at S o'clock In the council chamber at tin city hall. Shelby Smith Is chairman of the commltteo. The committee appointed to drafi a new constitution and by laws will make Its report at the meeting. MAYOR JOYNER’S YOUNGEST SON WAS OPERATED UPOI? ATLANTA, (la.- It will be a SOure of gratification in the monv friends over the state of Ralph Joyner, tie youngest son of Mayor W. K Joyn-tr, to leatn that !'• has successfully tin dergone an operation at the Atlanta hosp Pat. The young man will prob ably be able to be out during the next few weeks. FIRE IN SPARTANBURG. ('OLrMItIA, H. (' Starting prob ably by tin explosion of blank cart ridges us—l In Initiations by the Wood men of the World. In an adjoining lodge room, fire Friday night damaged busine■* houses In th«- Liles block *t .Spartanburg to the amount of $25,- WU, practically covered by insurance. Suing an Aged Inventor For breach of Promise *v ■ , Miss Nellie Licklider, whose picture is here shown, is the Twenty-Five year old Kansas City girl who is swing John W. Free, age Eighty-Eight for Fifty thousand dollars breach of promise of marriage. • Bridwell May Be Discharged On Account of Court's Error ATLANTA, Ga.—Attorney Felder, representing W. L. Brldweil, convict ed Thursday afternoon in the city criminal court of violating the pro hibition lnw, created a sensation this morning when he moved that his client he discharged. Mr. Felder's motion was based on the fact that the verdict of the jury was not announced . MUIESHOrWELLTO NED SMIIMI SAVANNAH, Ga.—Chief of Police W. G. Austin left today for New York where lie goes to wed Mrs. Marie Shot well Halsey,, of Brooklyn. Mrs. Hal sey, whose stage name Is Marie Shot we.l, was leading lady in “The Lion and the Mouse" last season. The wedding will take place In Brooklyn next Thursday. Miss Shotwell will be remembered by Augusta theater-goers as th, ahlr ley Rossmore who in two perform ances here amused herself und fel low actors by caustic comments upon the audience. Her remarks were at times plainly audible to the occupants of the front orchestra chairs, und ex cited so much wrath that complaint was made to the manager of the troupe. She |g a remurkahly pretty woman. james McFarland HAS DISAPPEARED f ■■ i ■ ■'» Was Arrested a Few Days A(?o and was out on Bond CHICAGO, 111- —Word was received! from Toronto that James McFarland,, the book agent charged with having swindled Mrs. James A. Patton out, of tlpi.OQO In notes and cash on an <-dl I tlpn dc lux f deal, had disappeared fr- in that city. McFarland was ar rented two days ago and was released (on g.jOO ball following his arraign j menj on a vagrancy charge a short I time later detectives from Chicago arrived with paps-rs to arraign him on the charge of having obtained Mrs. I baton's signature under false prt- I tenses. Jose|di K Hadden, Mr. Patten's at ! torriey, when h f . learned of McFar land's release, said: *| can't under J stand the attitude of the Toronto au thurifies. We depended on the state s !attorneys office to bring the man bock to Chleago. lie'll |,„ caught again, 1 I ve no doubt." ! e , MADMAN FOUGHT POLICE. SKW YORK Found wandering on l Manhattan street near 'Asterdiuji ave nue, early today, a maniac fought the police of the West, 125th street sta tlon and when an effort was made to take him to a cell hi knoeked down | Michael burns, a doorman, and wreck-1 i td the rear room of the station house, i i In open court; that It was handed un sealed to the clerk .and the jury dis charged without giving the defendant Ills constitutional right to poll the j jury. Judge Calhoun admitted that a grave error had been committed and set the hearing of the defense's mo i lion for i* o’clock Saturday morning. ORVILLE'WRIGHT IS RECOVERING WASHINGTON. While Orville Wright passed a comfortable night In the Fort Myer post hospital, when day broke tills morning he became rest lesa and the strain, bolh mental mi l physical, to which ho lish tysui put In the past few duys began to alTeet his condition. Mr. Wright’s condition, however. Is not at all alarming, and the army surgeons were rather glad to find that he was Irritable and quite easily an gcred. This, they say, Is one of the best indications that tie- aviator Is on the road to recovery. The knit ting of the bones In his broken thigh is held responsible for the menial attitude of Mr, Wright. Mr Wright has undoubtedly been buoyed up by the visits of hla friends, by the message from tils brother WII bur, and by the coming of hls sis ter. Miss Catherine Wright. Alias Wright arrived In Washington yester day a(f<-rnonn, and will help to nurso her brother at the military hospital. MILLIONAIRE MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING. NKW YORK. Word was cabled from Paris today that Charlton Itog erslturnett. tin- millionaire grandson of the late Kdwln Klanton, Lincoln's secretary of war, had mysteriously disappeared from his hotel in the French capital, and that tin- Parts police feared lie bad met with foul pluy. ♦ a* ♦ LOST LIFE TO SAVE COW. ♦ ♦ ALTOONA. Pa Frank \l< ♦ ♦ Mullen J 7 tears old, a Penn yl • ♦ van in railroad freight hrak "nan ♦ ♦ forfeited Ills life tear h harm ♦ ♦ at. Tyrone last evening to save a ♦ ♦ cow Ills train was moving ♦ ♦ lo —ly when Hi- aa a,a, wa ni n * ♦on tin tr; k v|, Vtulh a ran ♦ ♦ ahead to it - tie iow iff tin 0 ♦ track and ~ ■ truck by a train « ♦ moving In tb- < nposite d - ’ion ♦ ♦ « MOROSINI’S FUNERAL NKW YORK Tl,, fan. rat of Clovaiinl P, Moiaslnl, the millionaire banker, took Place today In the strictest privacy from the Moroalnl "noun- of mystery" at Ktv crdiile, on the Hudson. Kvcrybody bat n few of the relatives were lun -O hack ut the aatewny to the grounds by private guards who laid been hired to polio* Up place. DAILY AND SUNDAY $9.00 PER YEAR. INF LIS LIST IH FOIST rare rinta PITTSBURG, Pa. Many lives have been Unit ami much valuable properly has li-'i-n destroyed by forest fires In Somerset county. It is reported that three lumber camps have been en tlrely destroyed l>> fire. It Is Impos sible to estimate the damage accur ately .owing to the dense smoke. It. Is known that at least in.fioo.ooo feet of lumber have been consumed, the value of which Is $150,000. It is quite probable that many peo ple in these rumps may not have es capeil. The lumber company has had 1,200 men there for the last 48 hours working continuously without food or sleep to subdue the flames. JILTED LOVER SOOT GIRL, HER MOTHER AND SHERIFF WAUKESHA, Wls. Jilted by an 18- yenrold girl, John Smith, of Calhoun, Friday night shot and fatally wound ed the mother of the girl, wounded the girl herself mid then wounded the sheriff, who cam,, to arrest him. Smith Is barricaded Hi the house where the shooting took place. He fired a number of bullets at a party of farmers who tried to capture him after he had shot the sheriff. The father or the girl refused to listen to Smith marrying Ills daughter and Smith, becoming drunk, enterod the house amt the shooting took place. The posse has thus far been un able to rnpturc the would tie mur derer. BLINDED BY LIGHT BOYS MET DEATH PITTSBURG, I’ii Hllnded by thn headlight of the Ujjiontown KxproHH, and heedloHa of the approach of a went hound wreck train, two boys were killed and a number had nar row encHpett at Lambert wtreet croM ing of the Pennsylvania railroad last nlKht. The dead: ULYI)K HTOKWU, l(> yeara old. THOMAS CONLKY. If> yearn old. Stoker and Conley were members of a football acpiad which wan In I practice during the evening. They had roughed it In the twilight acrlrn magea and at K o’clock darknesa com i polled them to give up playing. In | groups of four and five Ihe boy a started home. Several had reached the croHHlng when the cxprcHH train bore down on them. All leaped to safety except. Stoker and Conley, who became confused at the glare of the headlight, stepped to the westbound track and were ground to pieces by the locomotive of the wrecking train. SIBLEY DENIED EVER WRITING ARCHBOLD Says Ho Dirt Not Write President Not to Offend Stnndarrt Oil Co. FRANKLIN. I'm Former Congress miiti Joseph C Hlbley it.-nteil most emphatically Ihat he hail ever writ ten a letter to John M, Archlbold, vice president of t in- Htandard Oil Company, telling Archlbold he had warned President Roosevelt not to offend the Htandard fill company. Combings of Woman's Hair Figured in Divorce Suit HT 1.01118, Mo The c/unblngs of a woman's liulr, sometimes a bru nette's, at other times a blonde's, tig jure In the reply of Mrs. William .), Lemp makes to the cross hill filed by -the millionaire brewer n\ her divorce , suit. The hair Is mentioned In a deelatu 'lon made l» Hallle ('rye, a former servant, presented In lii-liaf of Mrs 'Lemp. It was round, says the deposl I tlon, In the Lemp home while Mrs Id-nip was away, not once, but five or six times According to the witness she saw The Successful Advertiser Must Use Brains as Well as Space The alwiiyspnicee it til dally newspaper advert is-r Is that man who keep. «-v--rta tiiigt.- at It no- oi-lv - -i it--nth in the year, but 1 " i -It-' In tie - -r, wtin -b mi ic • tin- character -d bis advertising at a- iineemeiits v !:h in - - 1 .■ i ■] i i— to their opp-irtuticriess, and ho. 'll" 1 I, --i 'i I- him ImbTittltely by means of - - good tn tin- nt, i clo price a o-I veals m, ean be furnish* —l.--Syracuse (N. Y.; Post Standard. !FORAKER OFFENDS ! FRIENDS OF TAFT CINCINNATI, O. Taft’s Ohio trlomls were biiteip angry Friday bo cause Senator J. It Foraker has ad mitted that in 1900, while a United States senator, he accepted largo fees from the Standard (Jll company for his ability as a power lu politics to prevent the Ohio legislature taking ac tion unfavorable to the trust. As Taft men view It, the thing Is an enormity. They have not yet had time for second thought. Apparently, they do not want a second thought. After weeks of dickering Foraker has just succeeded In getting on the lass hand wagon, and persuading the Inti leaders that lie Is u good man to have In their midst, because of his willingness to work for the national ticket and also because of his desire lo support Ihe ROosevolt policies as set forth In the republican platform. Naturally, therefore, when he ad mits In reply to the charges of Wil liam R, llearst, that he received mon ey from the "mother of trusts" to use IBs power a H the head of a great political machine In Ohio to scotch and kill all the legislation In the Ohio legislature not desired by the corporation, Taft and the friends of Taft are put in a disadvantageous light merely because Foraker stands before the state as their friend. Threats are hoard on every hand. There Is the threat that although the engagement bus been made, Foraker shall not be allowed to speak from the platform with Tuft at the big meeting of the republican league of clubs on September 22. There Is the threat that all alllunce with Foraker shall be openly repudiated. Thu Taft men hi,, lu un ugly mood, and they make no attempt to disguise It. LETTER IS 0. K. SAYS J. C. SIBLEY FRANKLIN, I’a. Relative to the letter from former Uongressinan Jo seph C. Hlbley to John I). Archhold, vice president of the Htandard Oil company, which William K. Hoarst read In Columbus, Mr. Hlbley suid: "I luiv,. no doubt Ihe letter Is gmr ifino. I wish Mr. Hearst had given the date of It bo that l could look It up In my file. I also wish he had published the letter In full. Separat ing (he texi from the context is un fair Ihil the publication of the lot tor does riot bother me. I uin willing |that Mr. llearst or any one else should go to the Standard Oil offices and get any letter I ever wrote to them. As lo my reference to the "nibble" I hav,. only to point to the Instance of rabble rule that recently manifested Itself In Kprlngflold, Ills." HANGED HIMSELF TO ESCAPE TRIAL Drug Clerk Charged With Stealing Opium From tho Warehouse. NEW YORK. Rather than face trial on a charge of grand larceny, Charles Knappel, a drug clerk, caught taking SSOO worth of opium out of tlm warehouse of Lehn and Fink, 120 William street, hanged himself to the door of his cell In the Tomba today. A pier,, of manllu paper that had contained his lunch of the day be fore was found on his pillow bearing the following note: "1 hope Jesus will forgive me. Even If f am freed, [ will go to the mad house and that Is worse than the gravy. God will forglv,, me." I There Is no address or signature. I I'litp entertaining women In hls home after hls wife left. Aeeurdlng to the deposition the witness heard one woman sing "Treat I s All Alik#, liuliy," while others laughed. She al leges sin- hhw n woman stouter than Mrs I gimp at Mrs Letup's wash bowl, washing and dressing (Hasses and bottles were there, she alleges. One-, sweat tin witness, she foil -id a woman'll < off pin tn one of the rooms Lemp asked her about It and when i,he showed ll to him, he said: I'm glad you found It; that’s the on# I want."