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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XIII., No. 265
m MOPPED
0011. CIHASKELL
ANNOUNCEMENT MADE AFTER
AN ALL NIGHT CONFERENCE
WITH THE COMMITTEE
HASKELL'S ATTITUDE
Resigned to Prevent Any
Embarrassment to the
Democratic Party.
CHICAGO.—William J. Brvan has
dropped C. N. Haskell, governor of
Oklahoma, as treasurer of the demo
cratic national committee. The an
nouncement was made Friday, after
an all-night conference of the com
mittee. in the Auditorium Annex.
Haskell admitted that his forced
resignation is the direct result of the
steel trust and oil trust charges made
public by William R Hearst and by
President Roosevelt. Hp did not ad
nj.it the charges were true.
Governor Haskell came to China
go with Robert Rose, private secre
tary to Mr. Bryan. He went to the
Auditorium Annex where he met Jose
phus Daniels, national committeeman
front North Carolina, and Martin .1.
Wade, national committeeman from
P-\va. They declared <hat, in view of
the exposures by William R. Hearst
with regard to Haskell's connection
with the Standard Oil company, and
the alleged attempted bribery of A'
t( rney General Monnett of Ohio, ;t
was Imperative tha the treasurer
should step down and out.
Mr. Daniels argued that as Presi
dent Roosevelt had followed up Mr.
Hearst's exposure with a erusad
agains- Haskell, the effect would be
sur- io be ruinous to M- Bryan’s
chanrrs.
A' first Haskell urns inclined to
be rbslioate and advanced arguments
of ri feusc.
When it was reported that Haskell
was in the city a crowd of political
reporters gathered at the Annex and
b-ndegi .1 the treasurer's room. He re
fused to see them and they sent in a
l-tst rs questions to him. The first
ua.v 'Have 'ou resigned?”
The sheet of paper came back with
“No” in large hold characters writ
ten opposite the question.
Ten minutes later word came from
the council that Mr. Haskell had re
signed.
When Mr. Haskell came front the
council he Had in his hands a written
resignation addressed to Norman E.
Mack, and the answer to the ques
tions which had been given him.
After giving affirmative replies to
the questions whether he had resign
ed, but denying that Mr. Bryan had
asked for the resignation, thq ques
tions a- /answers were as follows:
■J' von know whether Mr. Bryan
k‘ of charges made against you
by Mr. Hearst before you were ap
pointed treasurer?
"I do not see how he could.”
"Do you think your further con
nection with the campaign, regardless
of the truth or falsity of the charges
would tend to embarrass Mr. Bryan
or injure his cnances?”
"it might. At any rate, I would
not be a good citizen if I risked any
embarrassment in the fight of the
honest people against the special in
terests.”
"Do you Intend to reply to Presi
dent Roosevelt?”
"1 have not done so yet.”
FALSE lllllS ARE
CUUIMIE
Friday night about 11 o’clock an
alarm came in from box 76. The fire
man had a long and exhausting run
and whan they arrived, it was a false
alarm This is the second false alarm
that has been sent in during the past
few days and the authorities are de
termined to break up the practise.
The city offers a standing rewrd of
$25 for a person with proof to convict,
that has turned in a false alarm. The
police have no clue to work on.
THE LADY'S DRESSING
MATTER FOR DIVORCE
Juat How Lavender Lady
Dressed Explained in the
Conrt.
ST LOUIS, Mo.—Just how Mrs.
Lillian Handlan Loup, the "lavender
Lady.” dressed when she offened the
tastes of William J. Lemp, Jr., the
brewer, lwhom she is suing for di
vorce, a demand made in court
yesterday,.
Her atfi.ney asked I-emp to specify
whether her dresses were too high or
too low, or whether her stockings or
outer apparel were reduced
Judge Kingsley reserved his denis
,on until Monday when be also will
decide whether Lemp must name her
sister to whose presence at his home
he objected
The Judge decided it unnecessary
now for Ump to name the man to
whom he alleged he had found a let
ter written by hit wife in endearing
terms.
WEALTHY BURGLAL
LODGED IN JAIL
WAS SITTING ON LAWN AT
HIS COUNTRY HOME WHEN
HE WAS ARRESTED
LED TWO LIVES
His Partners in Crime said
That at Night He Was
Crooked and in the Day
a Wealthy Idler.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.— While
sitting on the lawn of his beautiful
country place at Khinebeek with his
wife, his mother and his baby, Her
bert R. Clark, son of A. 1., Clark,
wealthy grain operator, ot New
? ork, was arrested Friday afternoon
charged with burglary und arson.
As Sheritt Chattier, District At
torney Mack, under Sheriff Townsend
and Chief of Police McCabe advanced
toward Clark'and Sheriff Chanter
told him he was under arrest, the
accused man fell in a swoon. He was
revived and brought to this ciTy in
an automobile. Here he was placed
in jail.
The charge on which Clark was ar
rested is concerned with the fire of
mysterious origin which last Feb
ruary destroyed the mansion of Rob
ert Huntington at Khinebeek. The
mansion und $75,000 worth of fur
nishings were destroyed. The burn
ing of a tool house on Clark's SJO -
000 estate recently led to an inves
tigation m which Clark's name be
came connected with those of Roy
Tracer. 19 years old: f?t< rllng Triv
et', aged'ls, and A. B. Ellsworth,2l,
all ol whom have been arrested,
charged with burglary.
Mr. Mack says he has obtained
evidence which, unless disproved,
shows that Clark led a \<* • in which
iliere were contrasts as vivid as
those which existed in (he dual ex
istences of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde.
That until night fall each day
Clark 3 conduct has been irreproach
able lias been vouched for lit his
family and triends. He has been de
voted to liis wife and child and lias
pursued a life of leisure on Ins beau
tiful estate. He was fond of book 3
and pictures, hut found time to per
lorni many charitable acts.
According to the story told to the
authorities by the two Traver boys
and Ellsworth, the night life of
Clark was not at all like the life he
led hy day. These witnesses charge
that supplied them with beer and
whiskey and encouraged them to
steal chickens for the midnight
feasts which th ■! were shared
by him and ti
They said II -id helped
them to rob tin I: ,i mansion
before they started the lire which
consumed that valuable property.
They said that prior io the rohborv
and destruction of the Huntington j
place they and Clark had committed
other burglaries.
Tne police, acting upon the con-1
fissions, went to Clark's estate with
out his knowledge and searched the
place. Thhj declared they found
there property which had been stol
en from houses in and near Rhine-1
beck. Roy Traver and Sterling Trav-i
er said that the toll house on the
Clark estate, which was burned re
cently, had contained property which
had been stolen.
TO NOTIFY HUGHES
OF RE-NOMINATION
NEW YORK.--Governor Hugh's
will be formally notified of his re
nomination as the republican eandi
date for the office of governor of
the Empire state at a meeting to
be held in the Union League club,
Brooklyn, Saturday night. Immedi
ately after he will open the state
campaign at a meeting in Brooklyn,
under the auspices of the Brooklyn
Young Men's Republican club.
AN EftRTHQUfIKE
SHOOK VIESTA
FOWiIA. Italy A violent earth-,
quake shock Friday night threw the
[residents of Viesta Into panic. Th-
Umlldlngs were shaken on their found
aliens and a number of chimneys fell,
but no one was hurt. Many of the
residents deserted their homes and
fled to the open fields.
THIRTEEFIiIIED
111 I* WRECK
BERLIN —A wreck, with terrlbla
consequences followed the Ignoring of
a danger signal by the engineer of a
fast passenger train Saturday. Thir
teen persons were Instantly killed and
were injured, many of them fatal
,iy- t ~
Local Forecast f or Augusta and Vicinity—Fair tonight; Sunday probably showers.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 26, 1908.
*
COLLAPSING!
(From Color b Bulletin.)
SUMMARY OF POLITICAL NEWS TO-DAY
NEW YORK.—Senator Foraker gave out a long statement defending his course in acting as attorney for
the Standard Oil Company when it re-organized to comply with Ohio laws, quoting many letters, said he re
fused to represent it in other matters, and assailed Roosevelt and Taft.
Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma arrived in Chicago at midnight, said he had not resigned as treasurer of
the Democratic national committee, and had not been asked to do so by Mr. Bryan. Half an hour later he
announced his resignation.
S. B. Sauires dictated a statement saying he did not offer a bribe to Attorney General Monnett, of
Ohio, in behalf of the Standard Oil company, that he did not name Governor Haskoll in the matter, and that
Monnett’s affidavit was false in its reference to him. Monnett dented Squires' statement.
Mr. Bryan introduced a novelty in his Indiana speeches by reciting an Imaginary cross examination of
Mr. Taft on the republican platform.
T. Coleman Dupont resigned as chairman of the speakers' bureau, and member of the republican na
tional committee, because of criticism of his campaign activity, due to his connection with the alleged powder
trust, now being sued by the government.
Mr. Taft in better voice made several speeches In lows. He repeated parts of his Chicago address
dealing with labor record.
Vice Presidential Candidate Sherman addressed the Commercial Travelers’ Sound Money League, of New
York, on the gold standard.
Arthur I. Vorys was disbarred as an attorney by the pension office in 1882 for withholding money be
longing to a woman client paid the money and 15 years later was reinstated.
The executor of Grover Cleveland's will pronounced the posthumous letter published by the New York
Times to be a forgery.
NEW CHARITY COMMITTEE
WAS NAMED SATURDAY
Work of First Committee
So Nearly Complete that
All Future Work ia Put
Into Hantla of Three Cit
izens Six Thousand
Dollars on Hand.
The relief committee held its reg t
larly constituted meeting In the
Uhamher of Commerce Saturday at
noon. Present were: Messrs. W. It
Young, E. B. Hook, W. M. Rowland,
F. P. Pope Thomas Barrett. Thos.
W. Ix>yless, E. S. Johnson and Silas
X. Floyd.
Mr. Hook reported $10,27739 In the
treasury.
Au. Rowland read his report. He
staled that 722 people have been aid
ed after the usual manner since Wed
nesday, and of that number 80 per
cent were whites.
Silas Floyd asked for an appropria
tion of S3OO. to he used by the col
ored committee, and It was voted him
Capt. Young reported correspon
dence with Mayor Dunbar touching
upon the question as to whether or
not more employment may be pro
vided for the city’s Idle In any one
or all of the various departments of
municipal construction It developed
that, the Riverside mill people want
negroes, not white people, and that,
therefore, the relief committee will
have no use for their negotiations,
because whitP people have applied
to the relief rornmlff.ee for work. In
stead of negroes. Mayor Dunbar sta’
ed, In a letter to the committee, that.
Capt. Twiggs will need 20 men Mon
day morning at 7 o’clock. He said
he was under the impression, also,
that more men were needed at the
Oliver canal repair works.
Capt. Young proposed that a contri
bution of $4,000, made by the board
of charities, be returned to that or
ganisation, to lie used as they sri.
fit, as the relief committee has not
at yet found a need for It. On mo
tion of Mr. I'ope tb<- chairman's sug
gesiion was unanimously adopted.
Leaving $6,000 in the treasury, Mr
Thomas Barrett moved that, $4,000 of
: this remaining fund be approprlat
to the Associated Charities, to bo
dispensed as charity In whatever
manner they see fit. And, further,
that the balance be turned over to
a committee of three, to be used as
they, also, need It. for charity calls.
That Ibis committee of ihreo repro
sent and supplant the relief commit
tee, being empowered with all its au
thority. On motion of Mr. Barrett,
this new committee consists of
Messrs. I’ope, Hook and Johnson.
Mr. l/oyless moved that $250 of the
balance fund be appropriated as a
remuneration to Mr. E, B. Hook for
his services as secretary and treasur
er of the relief committee. The mo
tion was unanimously adopted.
Home discussion followed as to
whether or not the relief committee
should notify the city that their orig
inal $5,000 appropriation will nut lei
needed The appropriation was made
In accordance with a resolution auli
mltted In council hy Mr. Bothwell,
and provided that all or any part,
thereof should be used by the relief
committee in case It was ever need
ed. The relief committee saw 111 to
appropriate SI,OOO of the money to
tin- iwo hospitals. The remainder,
Vreordlng to the adoption of Mr. Bar
rett's motion', shall be held In readi
ness for the rail of the new commit
te () of three, should they ever need
It.
The thanks of the committee were
voted rapt. Young for having so fnlth
folly and efficiently served as chulr
man of the committee.
BASEBALL BULLETINS
• »*; WaP; *«■- ■ - ■
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Hcoro hy innings: |f. j|, ft,
i 'incinriati 000 010 010 2 0 H
New York ' _ —OO4 001 h o 011 |
Ewing and Kr-hei; Matthcwson and Brc.miahan.
Score by innings: If. H. ft.
Chicago 000 010 ILM f> 0 0
Brooklyn (KM) 000 (KH)— 0 t 5 U
iteulbach and Kling; Wilhelm and Dunn.
UNA HOUSE
PASSED LIQUOR
BILL
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind By a vote
of 55 to 45 Hie house of representa
tive* passed the anil saloon league’s
county option liquor hill. The same
had already passed the senale and
was one of the objects for which
Governor Hanley called Ihe special
session of the legislature.
Till lillo
TRIAJJY JURY
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y At one
o'clock Justice Mills denied Thaw ,
motion tor a trial by a Jury, but
granted him the right, however, for
a trial before the Justice himself
without a Jury.
DAILY AND SUNDAY SG.OO PER YEAR.
STUMERS COLLIDE
,1 THE DENSE FDS
;ANK THE VOLUND OFF RACE
ROCK IN LONG ISLAND
SOUND NEAR NEW
HAVEN
l
MANY PASSENGERS ABOARD
Tliey Were Asleep Wben
the Crash Came; Were
Kept in Control by
the Drilled Crew
NEW YORK. llk' Fall Rlvor
steamer Commonwealth early Sat
urday ran down and sank the Nor
weglun steamer Volund, of Herzen,
m a collision in the dense to*? off
Race Rock, in
near New Haven.
The Commonwealth had tu board
a full coini-lomeni ot: 1,000 passeim
ers, most of whom were asleep in
their bertha when <he crash cann .
Only the prerence of mind of the
captain and crew prevented a wild
rush for the bunts and the panic
dial n suited was soon quieted.
'I he Volund sank in two minutes
after the Common weal «h s ruck and
thirteen of her crew of seventeen
w»*rc left holph.s* amid a lauglo ot
wreck aye.
Captain Sohutt and four of his
unn managed to gain the deou of tin*
Commonwealth white die sound
liner had her nose poked against the
Volund's side, but the rest were in
tin* forecastle, from which they rush
ed only to be overwhelmed as ties
iron steamer swirled to the
tom.
NEWS BY WIRELESB.
The first news of the accident got
out by a wireless message from the
Commonwealth to the station tut
Newport, it. I. This said that, the
Commonwealth was fn great distress
and asked that help be s nt to he*.
I’he message buhl that the vessel
was off llvee Rock.
The sound liners Puritan and
Maine were advised by wireless of
the plight of tlie Common wealth, al
i hough tin* exact, nature of the trou
ble was not known and tliey steam
ed to Iter assistance
A half hour later the Newport
station got another message from
tlie Commonwealth stating Unit she
was making her way slowly and
would probably be able to reach Now
York. It was figured that I lie crip
pled boat, should be dockod at. her
North River pier around It o'clock.
SMALL BOATS TO THE RESCUE.
After the disorder on tin* Coin
rnonwealth had been calmed all bet
small boats were ordered out and
for 4 half hour search was made In
the thick smirk for the survivors
One hy one ail of the other thirteen
of the crew of the Volund were dis
covered clinging to bits of floating
timber. One or two were saved by
clinging to III# preservers, scores of
which were thrown overboard from
the Common won till.
The search of the small boats took
them a quarter of a mile In all dl
motions, the last of the thirteen men
being picked up nearly half a mile
from whore the Volund sank.
The Commonwealth was on tier
way from Kali River, which port she
left, on her regular trip last even
ing. Her commander was feeling libs
way most carefully down the Hound
as the weather was as thick from fog
as the crew had ever experienced.
BLEW FOG 81 REN.
Sharp lookout was being kept, and
the Common won lUf's fog siren was
blown continuously, but at 3:30
o'clock hundreds of the sleeping pas
sengers were hurled from their
beds hy the shock of the boat
ploughing head on Into th'* port quar
ters of the Norwegian steamer, tear
Ing a great rent In her side. As the
Commonwealth surged back from th<*
reaction of the blow, Captain Hehiitt
and the four men leaped aboard from
their own clerk. The Volund fill'd
at oner, arid almost before Hie Coin
monwealth's engines hud la on slop
ped the freight ship was beneath
the surface,
CREW WELL DRILLED
The crew follower! their drill In
excellent shupe avfd p;»Mu,< d among,
Ha* frightened na n and women as
Muring them that 'here was no dan
ger.
The Common wealth Ik th crack
steamer of the Kali River line, own !
ed by the New York, New Haven and 1
Hudson company. It is one of tho
The Short Cut to Failure!
The newspapers of Buffalo, N Y . have been having great fun
In reporting the failure of a chain of retail meat markets In that
city The firm of W. L. Davies Company was a syndicate of Canadian
operators In iikiilh a 1 retail, and tip concern opened tip four different
More of great pretensions In as many parts of the city. But, as soon
ii established, t 4 let II In known that Aeli policy was to refrain
from all newspaper and other advertising. Naturally, they have
reap'd the Inevltabl harve t Thcv went out of business the other
day, never having been able to pay expenses,
It Is not merely th- fact that lie failure to advertise leaves
a large section of the public In the dark as to what a business firm
may lie doing, or what It lies to offer The American people, as a
rule, are not in favor of Hie non enterprising. They are suspicious
of those who want to run Iheir business "on the cheap," and , they
have no udielratlon for tin.- alb ," d business concerns whose policy
Is not to advertise.
FfIHIKEi REPLIES
TD ROOSELUELT
MAKES AN ATTEMPT TO EX
PLAIN HIS CONNECTIONS
WITH THE STANDARD
OIL CO.
ASSAILS TAFT
Charges Him With Being
the Gucat of Several
Trusts ou Many Occas*.
ions.
CINCINNATI, O.—Senator Foraker
has Issued a statement In reply to
President Roosevelt In which he at
tempted Io explain Ills connection
with (lie Standard Oil Co., and In
which he also makes a mild attack
upon Roosevelt uud assails Taft,
The senator riivo out what ho saya
Is all the correspondence that passed
between him and John D. Archbold.
Including the loiters made public hy
William Randolph Hearst that made
known his connection with tho oil
trust.
Senator Foraker endeavors to prove
with tho letters that the $50,000 ho
received from tho mandat'd Oil com
pany was for the purpose of buying
the Ohio State Journal, and tliat after
it was sold to others, the money was
returned to tho oil company,
Senator Forttker'a attack on Roose
velt oonslsts of crltlolsms on tho con
duet of the president In takiiiK notice
of tho letters made public by Mr.
Hearst, hut In ids attacks on Taft he
makes dlatinct charges.
He declares that last August dur
ing the republican candidate's vaca
tion Mr. Taft wua the guest of C. T.
Lewis, a Standard Oil attorney, dur
lur his stay in Toledo und at Mid
dle Bass island. The senator ad flu
Hint Mr. Tuft was also tho guest ot
a RitiHS trust magnate named Richard
son, and accepted an InvitHtlon on tho
hitler's yacht. Ho also alleges that,
the candidate traveled on the private
cars of (he officials of the railroads
over which he traveled during his
trip.
Foraker declared that employment
in a "decent IriiHt" Is not objection
aide, and If Is to Taft's credit tlml he
Indorsed John 11. Doyle, a Standard
OH lawyer, to preside as a Federal
Judge.
■NEW CASES
IN CHOLERA
. DISTRICT
t
ST, PHTEIIHHURO.—Three him
died and twenty new cashs of cholera
and one hundred and fifty three
deaths for twenty-four hours ending
ni noon. The situation is improv
ing.
NO MORE RESIGN
AFMONT
NEW YORK. Chairman Illtrhcock,
jibe republican chairman, stated that
no other resognalions would follow
that of T. Coleman Dupont.
HURRICANE IN WEST INDIES
STILL MOVING WESTWARD
WARHINHTON. A hurricane In
the West Indies, according to the
weather bureau Is still moving west
ward and Hnlurduy Its center Is
Porto Kleo.
most palatial coastwise ships ever
Imlll and Is largely patronized, as
Is her alternate boat, the Priscilla.
The Volund Is owteftl by a firm In
Bergen, Norway.