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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-09
TO COVER CRIME.
A Father Suspected Of Numbering His
Wife and Two Little Girls.

A Father Suspected Of Numbering His
Wife and Two Little Girls.
The South Side Fire Department, Pitts
burg, Penn, was called out at 2 o'clock
a. N. to extingush slight fire In the house
of John Smaus, who lived on Oak alley ON
the side of the hill. The men had no. diffi-
Guilty In extinguishing it. Some Of the mem
house, found three dead bodies. They were
those OF Smaus's wife and his two children,
Mary, aged four, and Maggie, aged two.
There were three deep dents In the woman,s
head. -
Smaus vas at once surrounded by the fire.
men, and the police were sent for. Hetold q
storyto the effect TINT he had been sleeping on
the floor down stairs. but was awakened by
smoke and ran up stairs to extinguish the
flames. It was then, he said, that he first dis
covered the dead bodies Of his wife and two
children. The police, however, have O
different idea OF the crime, and at once
placed Smaus under arrest. They were con-
fdent triple murder had been committed,
and say that the murderer set fire to the
house to conceal the crime. Smaus Is
laborer, thirty-fve years OF age, and ap-
psrently very ignorant. D'sEsa.5s
The family consisted Of four children and
the parents. A boy, eight years old, and o
thirteen-weeks' old infant were uninjured,
but were left In the building after Il had
been set on fire. The family has occupied
the miserable quarters about three yoorss
Quarrels have been 80 frequent that the
neighbors gave them little attention.
On the floor were two hammers covered
with blood, q broken lamp, and blood on
nearly every piece OF furniture and every
foot of the foor. The room was In terrible
disorder, showing that desperate battIe
took place between the murderer and Mrs,
Smaus. -a.5 - ss:sf;8E
It Is reported that the boy told the police
that his father killed bis mother. "He hit
her on the head three times with the hatchet,.
sobbed the little fellow. NeiShbors think
jealousy was the cause OF the deed.
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oorks. Sheet cork for hat lin

manufactured oorks. Sheet cork for hat lin
ings Is shown. and thicker leaves for insoles
for shoes There are 1,2o0, 900 acres In Al
geria covered with cork trees. which will be
in full production in five or six years, when
the crop will be enormous. Algerian cork ID
equal to that Of Spain, 1t Is asserted. Growth
of the free ia limited to lands in the Mediter-
ranean basin. There are 260, 900 French
people in Algeria. the same number OF per-
sons OF other Nations, and $500. 900 natives.
A curious product OF the country is alfa. q
fbrous grass from which ropes are made. It
pups readily, and fine paper is made: much
OF which is exported to England. AS evil
dencing the Importance OF Algeria.s com, m
merce, goat skins to the value OF $500, 900
were exported to the United States In 1892.
This industry is of recent growth. as, four
years ago, none were exported. Wool Is
another important product. while the grain
of the colony is of superior quality.
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TESTS WITH EMMENSITE.
1t Is Said to be Even More Efficient
Than Melinite.

The ordnance officers OF the United States
Army are making some interesting tests OF
high explosives at Sandy Hook, N. J. Shells
filed with gun cotton and with emmensite
were fired from the twelve-inch mortars.
The purpose was to demonstrate that this
could be done without danger Of explosion
in the gun. and the tests were convincing
upon tnat point
The onmensite she'll carried bursting
charge OF eighty-seven pounds, and IL the
further trials that will be made to find
nroner fuse are successful the Army and
Navy will have secured an explosive even
more efficient than the famed melirite OF the
French artillery.
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without edglng around thousands OF show
cases, you will find nine main aisles east and
west each $50 feet long, total length OF
675O feet. The north and south aisles, eleven
in number, are each 1850 feet long, making
\ total length OF 1920 feet. This makes
&C, 900 feet, u trifle less than five miles. The
minimum estimate for the gallery on the
same basis is 12500 teet. This does not
allow for passing through the narrow aisles
OF open exhibits. 1t refers only to what
might properly be called the streets and ave-
nues Furthermore. it does not allow for
doubling up on each thoroughfare. The
visitor must see both sides ut the same
time.
Machinery Hall has five east and west
aisles, each 1900 feet long. TO pass through
these requires $500 feet OF travel. There ara
eight main ais!es north and south, each 500
feet long, making 1000 additional teet or TO-
500 in all 70 do" the building thoroughly
these transverse aisles should be covered.
On this basis the necessary travelling distance
is called 10, 500 feet. The same rule is fol-
lowed in the case of each building.
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South and West.

TIE Commissioners of Agriculture OF tho
Southern States, In session at Atlanta, passed
resolution calling for the adoption Of
uniform system of control and regulation Of
the manufacture and sale OF commercial
fertilizer.
SwEDEN's day ut the Worlds Fair was
celebrated by big procession and g. con-
cert; Columbiss Building was opened the
same day.
NUMBER of striking miners. with their
wives, attacked the strip pit mtnsrs in one OF
the mines near Weir City, Kan. A fierce
fight ensued, in which clubs and firearms
were used. About 100 shots were fired and
number on both sides were injured. No
one was killed.
IT is estimated that ten thousand persons
in Denver, COL, and twenty thousand out
side of 1t have been thrown out OF work by
the cessation OF silver mining. They are In
great distress.
A HANDSOME monument to the Confederate
soldiers Of Nottaway County, Virginia. has
been unveiled at the Richmond Court House.
The shaft is surmounted byn Confederate
veteran, life size and on the base the names
of 500 soldiers are inscribed.
THREE young men sons Of Frank Lund.
gren Of Genesee, ILL.,, were drowned by the
capslzins OF boat.
THE cotton crop all over Texas is in critical
condition.
The Commercial Bank, OF Milwaukee, Wis,
has failed The bank assigned to A. B. Cen
fuss, the ca: hier, who filed bond OF 81 $780,
00o.
AS q result OF the long-continued disputes,
charges and counter-charges between Presi-
dent Turner and Professor Ogden, OF the
West Virginia State University, Morgantown,
Lior oil Of
The private Russian exhibits in the Worlds
Fair Manufactures Building were closed, the
exhibitors being inoensed ut the search
made by the customs officers.
THE ruins Of a prehistoric temple, 460x260
feet, with great granite columns. have been
discovered In the Colorado Desert.
FoRJ:sr fires have been raging in North
ern Wyoming, where no rain has fallen In
nine Toeks.
LEO WALKER, colored, who assaulted Miss
Mollie McCadden, near Bond Station, Tenn,
and on the same day assaulted a colored
girl, was Iynched at Memphis in spite Of the
fact that twenty-five we'll armed deputy
sheriffs guarded the jail. The body was
cremated after hanging in full view OF ons
thousand men, women and children.
THE closing OF the Worlds Fair on the first
Sunday after "Heroes' Day" was absolute.
There was no clamorous multitude at the
gates, nor was there single instance OF pro-
test such as happened when the six-dsy Fair
was In progress.
FIFTEEN persons, including eight Federal
employees, were indicted in Oregon fcrsmug-
Cling Cinnamon and opium into the United
States.
A FIRE in the Transportation Building st
the Worlds Fair caused furry Of excite
nent.
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ATTACKED BY PIRATES.

The Captain, Mate and Twenty-Five
Sailors Ola Dutch Ship Killed.
A despatch from Singapore, India, says
that piratcal outbreak occurred among tho
Achnesc passengers on board the Dutch
steamer Rajah Kongsee, trading On the east
coast OF Achcen.
The Achnese attacked the crew OF tho
steamer. killing the English Captain, mate
and twenty-five OF the Asiatic sailors, and
wounded fifteen others.
They thcn quilted the vessel, taking some
OF the passengers as captiyes. The steamer
with the wounded is now In Dutch hands.
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MINERS FLYING EAST.
Starving Men Take Possession Of q
Train. a..r ttl

Starving Men Take Possession OF q
Train. ..g Etl
Boone, Iowa, had visit from $50 Colorado
nihers on their way East. They captured
he Chicago & Northwestern fast freight at
Council Bluffs and took possession.
The railroad company made no effort to
eject them, but carried them on. The city
authorities were notified that the men were
coming, and, further. that they were hungry,
having had nothing to eat sincs the day be-
lore. Arrangements were promptly made
10 give them meal. and when they arr we'd
about o'clock they were fed on the ground
east Of the roundhouse.
The men were nearly famished. They were
An orderly set and took the first train out,
:he railroad company permitting them to
ride. .e
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TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
a Fight ut a Tennessee Picnic Costs
Three Lives.

Three Lives.
Information he's been recelyel Of TRACE ~
at Bon Aqua, Tenn, that caused tho death o.
three.
There was picnic at Bon Aqua, given bv
the young people of Warner, and during the
picnic fight occurred in which the three
men were badly cut. Ons Of these died al
most instantly. His name was Yates. An
other whose name was unknown WAS fatally
injured.
The Third person in tho fight and the one
who cut the two named above was "l!"n
Reddiny. a Young man OF the highest stand
ing, and after the fight Redding disappeared
and was thought to have gon, to Nashville
However, word was received that the body
Of Redding had been found In the woods
near the place where the cutting was done,
he having died from his wounds.
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The grand total is something in excess OF
1900 feet or nearly twenty-three miles. At
the same time the estimate does not include
State, Government or private buildings; the
Plaisance is ignored and no account is taken
of the long jumps from one building to an.
other. Let the reader figure for himself
whether by walking forty miles he could gee
every nook and corner OF the Exposition
from the washy head OF the pier to the west
ward end Of Midway Plaisance.
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Washington.

TIE Department of State has just issued q
register containing come new features. One
of these is historical sketch OF every secre-
tary and Assistant Secretary. Another is a
record OF the persons in the diplomatic and
consular service.
ALTHOUGH it has not been officially COM
municated to the Secretary Of State, it is
known as fact that the President OF the
Swiss Confederation has compiled with the
Joint request ofthe Governments ofthe United
States and Chile for the appointment OF a
member OF the International Commission to
arbitrate the claims and dcounter-claims which
have been pending betwees the United States
and Chile for many years.
SECRETARY CARLISLE. accompanied by his
family, returned to Washington after an ab-
sence Of three weeks spent at the Worlds
Fair. The Secretary was much pleased with
the Exposition.
TRUE bills were found by the Washington
Grand Jury charging Colonel Ainsworth and
the engineer, superintendent and contractor
OF the Ford's Theatre building with man.
slaughter.
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IT Is reported that within a few months
twenty-four carloads OF hogs, raised in North
Dakota and fattened on wheat, have been
sold at st. Paul, Mimi, by wheat growers,
who declare that by this process they have
made their wheat yield them 81 Dc. busheI
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rHELABoR WORLD.
sr. LOUIS has colored unions.

Sr. Louis has coiored unions.
ST.. LOUIS claims 10000 union men.
OHIO jewellers held State Convention \
THERE are 1000 union green glass blowers.
MASSACHUSETTS, law protects union labels.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. has 5000 unemployed.
THERE are 74oO union flint glass workers.
THERE is general cutting Of wages at
Denver, Col.
A BROOKLYN musical union wants street
musicians abolished.
THE Lancashire Eneland) cotton strike
cost the union $500, 900.
FALL RIVER, Mass. is to have trades
procession on August Is.
RMS (spain) coopsrs won strike and
fined every employer S25.
PHILADELPHIA plsstersrs get forty-fve
cents an hour and work elgb! hours.
THE shoeworkers' convention at Lynn,
Mass. represented thirty-eight States.
ST.. LOUIS letter carriers have been probib-
tied from E7orkine In their shirt sleeves.
AT LivarpooI. England. twenty workmen
and twenty bosses comprise an arbitration
board.
The Federal Labor Union OF Portland Me-.
Is to be composed OF laborsrs OF every occu-
patton.
OPERATIVES have been imported from Ala
bama to take the places Of Denver (Col. cot
ton mill strikers.
ALL German workmen in Russia Poland
have been ordered to learn the Russian Ian
guage by January, 1894.
MASSACHUSETTS, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut Knights OF Labor have indorsed
Governor Altgeld's anarchist pardons.
FALL RIVER (Mass. mills talk Of shutting
down for a week or two each summer. This
would relieve the market and give the hands
a rest.
SOME Concord IN. H. laborers struck be-
cause their pay was not given them before It
was due In order that they could attend the
circus.
New YORK. NEW HAVEN i HARTFORD RAIL.
ROAD conductors have been advanced to S9i
month. Baggage masters will get S2. 10
and brakemen 80 day.
TIE average wage per week Of women In
Kansas and Wisconsin is 95.27 In Mime
sofa. $500 In indianapolis the sum paid for
shirt-making ranges from thirty cents to
sixty cents dozen.
A DURHAM (England) mine owner got
damages from wOrkingmen who refused to
labor with non-union men. They refused to
work unless special elevator was provided
for non-union men. and the boss sued them
for absenting themselves from work.
STATISTICS gathered by the German I'm.
perial Commission on Labor show that in
many parts OF tie Empire the duration OF
work exceeds fifteen hours daily. In north
west Germany the percentage OF workpeopl1
Aborfng thus LONG is 1858 o. the whola
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-09

TIE State Of Georgia will spend 81 ,06S,-
651.s1 for the public schools this year more
than ever before In It's history.
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lines OF business, Connecticut'S principal
summer industry. the garnerins of little
neck clans, is prospering. The catch along
the shores of Connecticut averages about 800
barrels u week. for which wholesale dealers
in New York and other cities pay SO to $40 Il
onrrel. There are usually about $500 clans
in barrel, so ut the prevailing rates Of
twenty five to forty cents for seven or eight
of the little bivalves. tho retailer sells them
for something like 5000 per barrel.
The morning call., 1893-08-28
FICTION VS.. FACTS.

Wilson of West Virginia closed the
opposition side of the debate on the bill
to repeal the !silver-purchasing clause of
the Sherman act with the following deduc-
tiOns:
The bill proposed here would not demonetize
a single silver dollar now circulating In any
part of the country, The bill had come not to
destroy but to save. Ii had come not to strike
down silver. but TO place it at once and forever
on an impregnable basis with gold in the circu-
lation OF the country.
1t might give Mr.. Wilson some trouble
to show how his bill will place silver on
an imDregnable basis with gold in the cir
culatlon of the country. There is n 9th er
law now in existence authorizing the coin
age OF silver dollars. The Bland-Allison
act did authorize limited coinage, but
the Sherman act repealed the Bland-Alli-
son act. When the House votes. as Ii
probably will to-day, TO repeal the silver
purchasing clause of the Sherman act il
leaves the country, so far as its action is
final, without a law authorizing the coin
age of silver dollars. Ii is true the repeal
of the Sherman. act may pave the way for
bill providing for more extensive use
of silver. But The country has no assur-
ance that such bill would receive the
Presidents signature. On the contrary,
Mr.. Cleveland's state papers indicate that
be would veto any bill intended to place
silver with gold as'the basis of our finan-
cial system
The morning call., 1893-08-28
EQUITY AND JUSTICE.

B0urke Cockran's speech on silver seems
to have made quite a sensation in the
House. Cochran of course is gold man.
He especially represents a group of bank
ers who. according to Cochran. might
make So, ,000.00 by the remonetzation of
silver, but are too honest to do it. But
Cochran and Wilson should agree upon
the points of their opposition to the silver
purchasing act. Wilson said that the pur-
chase of silver had failed to increase the
currency, while Cochran said that it mad
increased the currency. On a question Of
arithmetic even Democratic orators should
agree. Cochran closed with fair exhibit
ton Of oraJorical fireworks. His demand
for equity and justice as the basis OF gov
eminent tai policy was bold in view Of the
fact that he was doing his best to make
debts payable in a more valuable kind of
money than existed when the debts were
created. When the country went upon the
gold basis in 1873 the prices of commodities
were determined by the fundamental fact
that there was about 81, 600. 600, coo of money
in the world. 1t occurred 10 somebody
that if One-half of this amount of money
could be stricken out of existence the
other half would rise in value. The gold
men have been working on that proposition
ever since. And vet Mr.. Bourke Cochran,
their advocate. rises in Congress and asks
that justice and equity be the basis of gov
ernmental poicVi
The morning call., 1893-08-28
ovERCROWDED NEW YORK.

If rapid transit at low rates out Of New
York could induce its inhabitants to cease
struggling for house accommodation in the
citv and to take up their abode in suburban
places they would be a good deal better
off, though the house and ground-r rent
owner might consider himself injured.
The New Yorker in good circumstances
pays more for fat of few rooms than
people in other cities do for house of
considerable size. While disposition is
shown TO cling to the city. no matter what
the accommodation is, the lot of the poor
in one or two rooms of tenement houses,
where scores and hundreds are huddled
together, is extremely depressing.
There are only 37,604 families out of a
total Of 312. .706 who have the boon of a
separate house to themselves. There are
twenty persons and over in one-fourth of
the houses, and below Fourteenth street,
east side, one-half the dwellings are in
this condition of gregariousness. Tene-
ment-houses indeed constitute over AZ per
cent of the city's dwellings. leaving the
great apartment t-houses out of the calcula-
tion. BY going into the country rents are
considerably easier perhaps not more
than half those of the city; but railway
fare has to be reckoned a an extra. Under
the fierce system of competition for accom-
mediation in the city it is no wonder that
rents are extremely high.
The demand for intra-rapid transit may
lead to more facile transportation out OF
the city. At present the preference is for
city life, relieved by an occasional run TO
Staten Island or some Of the resorts on
The morning call., 1893-08-28
FEET HAVEN'T CHANGED.
Comparison With Greek Casts Shows
No Ill Effects From Footwear.
n eW YOrk Sun


A study of feet and toes in the casts of
the museum is uncommonly interesting
and instructive. The Greek statuarv.
much of it dated centuries before Christ
seems to prove that the Greeks had feet
much like those of the modern New York
ers. The most beautiful of the Greek feet
are followed out well. both inside and out.
they have short heels, high nsteps and
long, straight toes, slightly spatulate at the
ends. That is the type of tie most beauti-
ful modern feet. Ii Is, on the whole, a
foot not frequently seen in its perfection,
Tor often one or the other element of
beauty is wanting. The rarest point of
beauty is the following of the outside of
the foot. 1t used to be that the shoe
makers lasts were made upon Greek prin-
cipes, but for several years last-makers
have been making a hump on the outside
of the last just above the point where the
slight hollow should be. If any one would
convince himself that the hollow on the
outside of the foot is rare, let him watch
the prints that seaside bathers leave
when they step on dry plank walk.
Most of such footprints show a greater
or smaller hollow son the inside nf
the foot, but nearly every one shows a
straight wet mark on the outside.
The sandaled feet of the Greek ood-
desses in marble are much like the feet of
the modern woman-at anv rate of the
mOdern infant before the feet have been
10 cd fed by leather shoes. All the god
desses have the fifth toe much smaller
than the others, and in every instance this
toe shows the snail-like twist so often as
cri5ed TO modern pointed shoes. The an.
The morning call., 1893-08-28
A NEW SCHOOL PLAN.

School Principal Joseph o. Connor has
devised a new plan for the government of
the School Department. He proposes to
hand the business Of the department over
to the Board of Supervisors and to create
a paid Board of Education composed Of
expert educators. Only holders of life
diplomas should be eligible to serve as
members of this board. There is a sur
face of justice in this. The prizes of a
profession should properly be the exelu-
sive heritage of the profession. The
proposition to elect Judges who have
never practiced law has not been found to
work well. Most of our bankers began
at the lowest round in the ladder and
worked up. It is true that in Congress
and in State Legislatures are found men
who have had no especial training for the
duties of such Offices, but the result of
their labors is not such as to establish a
rule. There seems, therefore, from the
education point of view no grave objec-
ti0ns TO expert educators as managers OF
the School Department. On the other
hand, most of the evils our schools are
afflicted with are the result of expert in
f1uences ID the direction of studies. The
processes of teaching have been clogged
by so many forms that the teacher
is mere disciplinaran. Physical
yigor is more in demand than brain
power. The school grades are lncum bered
with so many branches that the child who
has but four or five years for school educa-
tion gets smattering of branches that are
of little use. and comes out of school woe
fully deficient in the essential branches
The school course is designed for children
who expect to 60 through all the grades.
The danger of an expert board is that the
schools will be carried still further in a
line that produces the best results for the
school m anagers and the worst for the
pupils. There is nothing to be said against
what is termed the higher education. But
there is order in everything and the higher
should be made to wait upon the lower
1t is of vastly more Importance that al
children shall be we'll grounded in the
rudiments than that the few should emerge
from the high schools in flying colors
while the masses stumble over simple
sentence in English, spell by the ear rather
than by the mind. know only the arithmetic
they have picked up out of school and are
but little more familiar with the earth and
the records of nations than with the doirgs
on one of the other planets.