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SATURDAY, JUNE lz. AUGUSTA WON AND GAME ENDED IN A NEAR-RIOT Umpire Bailey Called Fisher’s Long Drive Down Third Base Line a Foul, and Fans Poured on the Field. COLUMBIA. —Friday’s game with Augusta was lost by the home team, the score being 3 to 2, and the mati nee would have ended in mob vio lence had not Umpire King Bailey got inside the club house before the crowd caught him. With one out in the ninth inning and Klernan on first, Fisher hit a long drive down the left field line. It looked fair and Kiernan scored, Fisher taking third. But Bailey saw the ball foul, and the runners were recalled. Fisher fanned and Breiten stein went out by the same route, ending the game. As the last strike was called the crowd swarmed out on the field, and Umpire Bailey ran for his life, guard ed by a cordon of players and police authorities. Once inside the club house he was safe for a little while, but the police patrol wagon arrived in the nick of time and he was hustl- [ ed away to town. The episode stirred up intense ex-i citement in fandom, and as the sole topic of conversation in baseball cir cles Friday night. Numerous rumors were noised abroad, one of the most notable being that Bailey is said to have declared before the game start ed that he would probably need po lice protection before it closed. The box score follows: Augusta. . AB. R. H. PO. A. K. McLaurin, If 4 .1 1 0 0 0 Bierkotte, ss 4 0 0 3 7 0 Hohnhorst, lb 3 0 1 10 1 1 Henn, cf 4 0 1 3 0 0 Coles, rs 3 1110 0 McMahon, 3b 2 0 0 2 1 0 Carson, c 2 0 0 4 1 0 Castro, 21) 3 0 0 3 1 1 Hannifan, p 3 1 1 1 1 0 Totals ...1.. ..28 3 5 27 12 2 Columbia. AB. R. H. PO. A. E. Grofer, cf 3 0 0 2 1 0 Biebee, 2b 4 0 0 3 8 1 O’Leary, c 3 0 0 2 3 0 Wchleben, lb 4 1 1 12 1 0 Granville, ss 4 0 1 6 3 1 Kiernan, If 3 0 2 1 0 0 Fisher, rs 4 0 0 1 0 1 Breitenstein, 3b. .. 4 1 2 0 1 0 Lewis, p 3 0 2 0 3 0 Totals 32 2 8 27 20 3 Score by innings: R Augusta 000 000 012 —3 Columbia 000 010 001 —2 Summary.—Three base hits, Mc- Laurin. Two base hits, Breitenstein, Wohleben. First base on balls, Lewis 1: Hannifan 1. Struck out, Lewis 2; H'ifiiifan 3. Left on bases, Columbia 6;' Augusta 1. Sacrifice hits, Kter nan, Grofer, Hohnhorst. Stolen base, Grofer. Batter hit, Carson. Double plays, Grofer, O'Leary and Granville; Granville and Wohleben; Henn and Carson. Don't overlook the Sunday excur sions to the seashore via. the Char leston & Western Carolina Ralway. Trains leave 6.50 a. m. I m?6-tu-th-sat 4% The Planters Loan And Savings Bank, 70S Broad SL, Augusta, Qa. The Pioneer Savings Institution of Augusta. (In Operation 88 Years.) Resources Over One Million Dollars. This bank pays 4 per cent Interest to depositors and gives the tame careful attention to email aocownte, as to the larg er ones. Safe as the “Safest.” The aoeounta of thrifty, ener getic eoneervatlve people solic ited. Deposits may be made by mall. L. 0. HAYNE President CHAS. C. 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Pittsburg 33 12 .727 Chicago 28 18 .608 Cincinnati 23 23 .500 New York 19 18 .500 Philadelphia 18 22 .450 Brooklyn 17 22 .486 St. Louis 17 26 .495 Boston 14 26 .350 Take Isle of Palms Flyer Sunday 5 a. m., for Isle of Palms and Sullivan’s Is land. High tide in after noon—special program, Ist Artillery Band—S p ec i a 1 splendid service Southern Railway, $1.75 round trip. Ten hours at sea shore—2 trains, 5 a. m. and 7:10 a. m. Join the crowd for Sul livan’s Island' and Isle of Palms. Third excursion Sunday, June 13th. NATIONAL LEAGUE At Cincinnati — R. H. E. Cincinnati . . .002 130 OOx —6 11 2 New York . . .000 100 020-—3 9 2 At Pittsburg— R. H. E. Pittsburg. . . .102 021 02x—8 13 0 Brooklyn ... .000 000 100—1 7 2 At Chicago— R H E Chicago . . . .001 010 000—2 5 5 Boston . . . .000 0001 300—4 9 2 At St. Louis— R H E Philadelphia . . 200 001 010—4 10 1 St. Louis . . .000 000 000—0 3 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE At Cleveland— Cleveland . . .010 000 200—3 10 1 Boston 000 100 000—1 2 5 At New York— R. II E. Chicago . . . .010 000 000—1 7 7 New York . . .000 000 000—0 3 2 At Washington— R. H. E. Washington . . 001 000 000—1 7 0 Detroit 000 000 000—0 4 0 At Philadelphia— R H E Philadelphia .000 000 010 01—2 10 0 St. Louis . .000 000 100 00—1 7 0 Accounts of Children Every child should have a bank account. The child who receives an early training In saving small amounts will acquire a habit that will be Invaluable in later years. The Responsibility for Starting Child Right rests on those who love the child best. We offer the opportunity. Children’s accounts especially de sired. Four per Cent. Interest START TO-DAY Irish American Bank “The Bank lor Your Savings” THREE POSES OF PHIL M’GOVERN, BANTAMWEIGHT FRIERS OF TIFF Bill lIISIICEfiE Mr. Overman Charges that Measure is Framed For Privileged Few. WASHINGTON—DecIaring that he believed the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill to be one of the most inqultous tariff bills ever passed by congress, if it is passed, Mr. Overman, of North Car olina, attacked the sincerity of .the framers of the tariff bill. He an nounced himself in favor of Senator Bailey’s income tax amendment and declared that he proposed to offer an amendment placing a head tax upon immigrants and another one giv ing the president the power to abro gate the collection of duties on ar ticles similar to those manufactured by a corporation which controls fifty percent of the American output and than in the United States. Mr. Over which offers its goods for sale in foreign countries at lower prices .man also discussed the steel and lumber schedules. Against Bill. Asserting that he would vote against the bill he claimed it was unjust, and lull of inequalities, Mr. Overman charged that the meas ure was framejl in the special Jnter est of ihe privileged few, while the great mass of the consumers of the country would continue to groan un der the heavy burden of increased taxation. He said that the voters all during the campaign understood that there was to be a revision down ward, and that he believed that the tariff plank of the republican party was written with an honest and sincere purpose to give the people the relief thoy demanded. "The president of United States is today as he was in the last campaign, in favor of an honest revision of the tariff downward,” added Mr. Over man. Interested Men Present. “All during this extra session—and especially sinoe the bill was reported Ifrom the house to the senate—an army of men, representing tbe great interests and trusts, have been here filling these halls and hotels with j selfish greed, lobbying with senators, asking for more protection,” con tinued Mr. Overman. "They have followed us to our office and to our homeß by day and by night, while the people at home are looking forth and expecting us to carry out our promise to give them a genuine re form. It Is charged upon this floor by some of our friends on the out side (and I have not heard it denied) that some of those schedules have actually been written, not. by the fin ance committee, but, by those repre sentatives in their own interest. Tariff a Scheme. "This high protective tariff is a part of the great scheme, devised more than a century ago, whereby a moneyed aristocracy has been creat ed In this country, and under Its blighting system discontent and social lsrn have grown and strikes become frequent. It is a system by which tolls are taken from the vast majority of the people to enrich the few.” Can't Fool Farmers Discussing the tariff in its relation to the farmer, Mr. Overman said that the time has passed when the farmer can ho deceived by levying a duty on corn, wheat, tobacco, cotton, and! other things raised upon the farm. I “They know they can sell abroad and feed and clothe the world,” he said. “They have learned that they rieedj no protection, and such a provision in a tariff bill in this day and time | Is a shame. Under the cover of this I THE AUGUSTA HERALD pretended protection, whloh affords little or no protection on that which the farmtr has to sell, he is beginning to understand that he has to pay an average of forty-five per cent or more on his cotton bagging, tin plates, milk pans, cooking utensils, furniture, window glass, his earthern anr stone vessels, his chains, wire fencing, axes tools and farming utensils of every description which he has to purchase and that much of this tax, which he pays goes into the Treasury of his country to swell the revenue, but into the pockets of the beneficiaries of such a system” Immigration Tax. Speaking to his amendment, propos ing a head tax of ten dollars for every alien entering tne United States, Mr. Overman said that it. had the hearty endorsement of sate legislature and various national associations, “It has held by the supreme court to be a constitutional tax,” he said. “It is a just tax. Such an amendment as this means not only revenue to the treasury, but it meanß a more select class of immigrants and therefore the protection of American labor and everything American.” He said it would probably raise a revenue of nine or ten million dollars. Regard ing his amendment for the control of trusts and combinations, Mr. Over man said that there could no longer be any doubt about the constitution ality of its provisions, and he quoted several supreme court decisions in support of his contention. His amend ment provides that whenever the president of the United States shall be satisfied that any company is pro ducing more than fifty per cent of any product consumed in the United States and that, its products are ex ported and sold In a foreign market at a less price than in the home mar ket, he is authorized to suspend by proclamation to that effect, in whole or In part, the collection of custom duties on any products of a like char acter which may be imported into this country for any period he may designate. Metal Schedules Mr. Overman discussed the metal and steel schedules, saying that, ev erybody expected groat/Iy reduced rates to be provided in those sched ules, but that he had been told by a government expert that the senate bill, taken as a whole, made no sub stantial reductions from the duties imposed in the Dingley bill. In this connection, he took occasion to con demn the absorption of the Tennes see Coal & Iron company by the United States Steel corporation and the Roosevelt administration. Ho al so criticised the International Har vester company, which, he said, was protected by the senate blli, Mr. Overman also deplored the duties on lumber as being an instance where in the farmer is made to pay a vax on what he buys. In explanation of the differences ex isting lurtween democratic senators, Mr. Overman said, “we have honest ly differed aa to whether some few articles should not go on the free list, or the dutiable list. But, how ever, we may have differed in this respect, the party has been united on the fundamental principles of a tariff for revenue." South Rich In reply to an assertion made by Mr. Aldrich recently that, the South was a wilderness twenty-five years ago, Mr. Overman reviewed the dark days of reconstruction, denied Mr. Aldrich’s statement, and declared that, the South today is far richer than the whole country was before the war. “It has more money than its hanks, more miles of railroads, more iron and coal mines, more cot ton mills, than the entire country had prior to 1861. All the South asks is that, she be given Justice, be treated fairly and not discriminated against. She has no monopolies, no S. A. k i. RAM WILL BE COMPLETER SAYS DAME RUMOR Believed That Latest Move in Affairs of New Line Means Great Project will he Pushed to Conclusion. Twenty-Five Miles Fin ished. It develops that the appointment I of a receiver for the Savannah, Ati-j gusta and Northern railway was the result of a bill filed with .fudge Speer late Thursday night. The bond of the temporary receiver, Mr. Bowdrej Phinizy, has been fixed at SIO,OOO. Tlio bill was filed by the Caniogiej Trust company, of New York, through! Brown & Randolph, the Atlanta law| firm, well known In the railroad world as assistant counsel for the grout. Seaboard receiverahip. The Carnegie Trust company was trustee for the bondholders of the new road under a deed of trust executed to secure an issue of $11,000,000 in bonds, to be floated as the construc tion of the road demanded. The construction of the road was commenced about one year ago, at. Statesboro, building in a northwester ly direction, says The Georgian. It, has track laid for 25 miles, with grading completed for 32 miles addi tional. Tne construction work was being done under a contract, with W. J. Oliver, the big Knoxville contrac tor, who bid on the Panama canal. It. was ultimately proposed to extend the new road from Savannah to Chat tanooga, forming the shortest and most direct route between the great port and the busy railroad center. About $400,000 in bonds have been issued thus far for work already done. During the panic, the enter prise lagged and suffered, and recent ly Oliver entered suit, to foreclose his contractor’s lien The Immediate cause of the trustee’s bill of fore closure was the lapse of the regular Interest payment on the bonds Is sued to date. Ilowdre Phlnlzy was ap pointed Thursday night, as temporary receiver, the road being ordered to show cause before Judge Speor on July 5 why the receivership should not be made permanent. Such, in skeleton form, are the de tails of the latest, move In connec tion with the great, project—the life’s dream, it. might well he termed- of ex-Senator S. R. Lynn, of New York. To establish an air lino route, over which trains might rut. on the rails of one road from Chattanooga, to Sa vannah—that has for yburs been the cherished project of ex-Senator Lynn. Recently the circle of believers In tills project, has been widened to In clude others, capitalists who readily saw the possibilities of the new route, the shortest, by many tulles be tween the Tennessee railway center and river port and the Georgia sea port. Thus It came about, something like two years ago, that the project, took definite shape. A company was form ed, headed by S. R. Lynn as presi dent, and backed by Eastern capital ists arid Southern financiers. Plans were formulated and perfect ed for the route of the proposed road and the more they progressed the better they looked to Lynn and his “robber barons,” plutocrats or aris tocratic bosses. They will not live In that, climate.” co-workers. Savannah. Statesboro, Louisville, Athens, Gainesville —all were in the direct, line mapped out for the course between Savannah and Chattanooga. Then it ran through the northern part of Dawson county nnd the southern part, of Lumpkin, whore there was no other railroad for miles upon miles of rich hut un developed country. Thence north went the air line, through the heart lot the wonderful marble section of I north Georgia, through Gilmer and | Murray counties and on Into Chatt.a --j nooga. Straight as a die, through one or the finest sections of Georgia, It was proposed to build the short i line from Chattanooga to the coast. A deed of trust was executed to secure the issue of bonds to the amount of $11,000,000; the Carnegie Trust oompnny was named as trus tee; a contract for the construction work was let to the biggest contrac tor in the South, W. J. Oliver, of Knoxville. Beginning at Statesboro. 57 miles of grading was finished and 25 miles of track laid. Right of way had al ready been secured from Savannah to Chattanooga, hold either through absolute purchase or options, it. Is underslood. j Then came the panic and with it came trouble for the new enterprise. Fearing for his remuneration, Oliver filed a suit, to foreclose his contrac tor’s lien. Then Interest on the bonds already issued $400,000, was passed up. and the trustee moved. Acting through Brown & Randolph, of Atlanta, a hill of foreclosure was prepared, calling for the appointment of a receiver to take charge of ev erything connected with the road, In the Interests of all concerned. This, In the nature of things, primarily se cured the bond holders, In whose In terests It was devised. Thursday evening 11. N. Randolph, of Brown & Randolph, went to Macon, presenting the hill at a. late hour on Thursday night to Judge Emory Speer, of the Federal court of the Southern district of Georgia. After consideration, Judge Speer appointed ilowdre Phinizy, of Augusta, tempor ary receiver, ordering the road to show cause on July 5 why the re ceivership should not ho made per manent. . The road was represented by Judge .1. K. Hlrtes and Branne A. Booth, of Statesboro. Henry Cohen and Lamar & Callaway, of Augusta, represented Contractor Oliver, while the trustee was represented by llrown & Ran dolph. Among those best Informed the move of the Carnegie Trust, company Is taken to mean that the great, pro ject. of ex-Senator I,ynn will be car ried out and pushed to a conclusion. The purpose of the trustee, and thus of the bond holders, appears to he to hold the entire matter In statu quo until steps can he taken to complete the construction of the road under the receivership. There appears to be no disposition to "hack down” on the part, of the bond holders, and the $600,000 already Invested Is taken as an earnest of future work. The most recent move of Contrac tor Oliver to have the read sold to satisfy his claim of $286,515 appeal's to be effectively blocked by the last move of the trustee In securing the appointment of a receiver, and Oil ver’s next move In the matter is a matter of conjecture. Don’t overlook the Runday excur sions to the seashore via. the Char leston & Western Carolina Railway. Trains leave 5:60 a. m, May 26, Tiles. Thttrs Sat Cheney’* Expectorant cuts coughs and colds short. Cures babies and grown people. 25c„ all druggists. PAGE THREE GO TO ) SUNDAY $1 i Round ■ Trip —— VIA—- Central of Georgia Railway Train Leaves Union Station 7:00 A II EVERY SUNDAY
