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Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-05-12
killed while FirinT q salute.

Chicago, May 4.-While firing a
salute in honor of Admiral Dewey at
Lockport on the drainage canal Quar-
termaster's Sergeant Richard Popp, of
Fowler's battery, was fatally injured
by the explosion of charge with which
he was serving a brass 96-pound Ma
poleon gun.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-05-12

A supplemental seat has been de-
signed to allow three persons to ride
in a wagon intended for two, skele-
ton. steel frame being attached TO the
under side OF a narrow seat TO lift it
above the Level OF the main seat. al
loving plenty of room on. eIthcrvsids
of the frame for the other two per-
sons
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-05-12
reed,ng-,n-Transi. Re-Establi.hed.

Omaha, Neb., May 2.-The Union
Pacific has given notice that on Nov.
3 it would re-establish the feeding-in-
transit rule. After the date indicated
cattle and sheep from points west of
North Platte may be unloaded at
any point east of North Platte and fed
until ripe for market with no addi-
tional freight charges, except switch
inn
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-05-12
Rumors Enected the Excbanre.

London, May 5.-Prices become buoy
ant on the stock exchange after dull
opening. This was due to variety of
rumors, all, however, requiring con-
frmation, including an important
British victory in South Africa, the
death of President Kruger and the
relief of Mafeking.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-05-12
Rure.n Chief Jobnson Resirns.

Washington. May Claude n
johnson, chief of the bureau of en-
craving and printing, has rendered his
resignation to Secretary Gage. Neither
he nor the treasury officials are in
clined to discuss the reasons for his
retirement
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-05-12
Cures Talk
Great Fame Of a Great MedIcIn
NaE.- -. AA..I 49,

Great Fame Of q Great Medicine
Won by Actual Merit
The fame Of Hoods Sarssparilla has been
won by the good It has done to those who
were suffering from disease. It's cures have
excited wonder and admiration. II has
caused thousands TO rejoice in the enjoy
ment Of good health, and it viii do you the
same good 1t has done others. It VIII ex-
pei from your blood all impurities; viii
give you good appetite and make you
strong and vigorous. 1t Is Just the medi-
cine to help you now. when your system Is
IN need OF 4 tonic and inYigorator.
ScFofIka had scrofula sores al over
my back and face. took Hoods Sarsspa-
rilla- used Hoods Medicated Soap and
Hoods Olive Ointment, and was cured -
OIEo B. MOORE, Mount Hope, Wis.
HOODS SaF-SaPaHeEEEa
Is Americas Greatest Medicine.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-05-12

The Sundry civil bill passed by the house
carries slightly more than SOL 500, 900: about
sIo. O0O. 900 more than ever before The general
deficiency and military academy bills are now
the only general supply bills that the house has
not acted UPON
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-05-12
MAY SEVENTH.

Appointment OF conference committees took
some OF the Senates time
Senator Teller after repeated trials in pre-
cedinR sessions Of the Senate. found chance
to make speech on his resolution OF sympathy
with the South African Republics
The Senate canal committee had its first sit
ting to consider the Nicaraguan bill which
passed the house last week
It is the purpose of the Senate to adjourn
early in June and the intention is that nothing
will be permitted TO delay adjournment beyond
June 15.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-05-12

The Senate and the house have both passed
the Lacey bill to prohibit interstate commerce
In game in violation Of local laws The bill
also gives the department of agriculture power
to prevent the introduction OF undesirable for
eiRn birds
Both the Senate and the house agreed TO the
conference report on the joint resolution con-
unulng the government OF Puerto Rico in the
administration until the new government is
fully installed
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-11-02

Garuood's SaIsap sr'Ua-rOr the blood
-yuAr ntSed to cure. A, B RAMS
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-11-02
AN ASSASSINATION Plot.
Alleged Discovery of a Plot to Ass
sassinate President LOubet
ON Ills Visit TO Lyons.

Lyons, Oct. 2S.--'lhe Nouveliste de
Lyon says plot to assassinate Presi-
dent Loubet has been discovered.
1t appears that a working electrf
clan named Couturier burglanously
entered the electric company's prem
Uses ut Mines. stealing $500 francs.
He was tracked to Orange, near
Lyons, where he was arrested. Docu-
ments found on his person revealed,
the paper says. an anarchist conspira-
cy to assassinate President Loubet on
his coming visit TO Lyons to unveil a
monument erected to the memory OF
President Carnot. Couturier is said
to have committed the burglary in
order to obtain funds to carry out his
project. He has, it is added, con-
fessed TO the police, who are now
tracking his accompliees and watch
ing anarchists in order to prevent any
attempt 20 carry out the scheme.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-11-02
Snake Dies from Biting a Whisky
Orinkpr-

William Vandem ark. of Hallstead,
Pa, while in an Intoxicated cOndi-
tion, was bitten by a rattlesnake II
the Hartford fair. Vandemark t.
alive, but the snake Is dead from the
effects of the bite. Vandemark ma kes
n living catching and handling rat.
tlesnakes. He was giving a public
exhibition of his power over the rep
tiles VIII. n one buried it's fangs in his
arm. He was at the time we'll under
the influence of whisky, but mis-
friends f. d him another pint aud hi
started for mis- home in Snaky Hol-
low. He became 80 Intoxicated he
fell out of the wagon in which he was
riding and nearly killed. sustaining
several severe cuts and bruises. DIR.
+. l.. Smith attended him aud found
the arm badly swollen, bat it was re.
duced and nothing serious resulted
from the bite. On the other hand
the snake, which had been replaced
in its cage, sickened and died. Elk
per's say the serpent's death WAS
caused by the alcoholic accumula
ton in Vandemark's flesh and the
loss of It's fangs.-Bingham ptOn, n.
Y. telegram to the New York Sun.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-11-02
THE NOBLEST MEN.

The noblest men that live on earth,
Are men whose hands are brown with
toll
Who, backed by no ancestral graves,
Hew down the woods and till the soil F.;
And win thereby prouder name
Than follows kings or warriors fame.
The workingmen, whate' er their task.
Who carve the stone or bear the bod,
They wear upon their honest brows
The royal stamp and seal of God
And worrhier are their drops of sweat 4
Than diamonds in coronet.
God bless the noble workingmen
Who rear the cities of the plain,
Who dig the mines, who build the ships,
And drive the commerce of the main
God bless them for their toiling hands
Have wrought the glory of all lands
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-11-02

at Shelbyville. Can any one justify
this policy and Gail il fair treatment?
This is not only the policy of these
two big systems, allied as one, upon
whose lines are located one million
of inhabitants i'm Tennessee, but OF
several Southern systems besides.
. The Louisville and Nash
Vile Railroad has been hauling
alone from one spot annually
"a phosphate tonnage yieldine
81 200 600 in freigbts. Ting
Louisville ald Nashville Railroad
recent report discloses the startling
fact that this corporation has ex-
tracted from the pockets Of princI-
pally Southern people the enormous
sum Of s27, 7l2 S7S IN one year, or one
fourth Of the original cost OF the en-
tire property, which the same report
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-11-02

admits To be Sill, Jap $50.
This i'm itself Is sad enough pic
ture, but what makes 1t perfectly
horrible Is TO realize (scc6rding TO
nv brothers argnment) that the
humane" management Of President
Milton Smith Of this 1873 miles Of
commercial thumbscrew has wrung
from our writhing countrymen the
enormous sum OF 81 507 235 a pure
surplus over aud above operating *
Venseuses, interest charges, aud
dividends on watered stock.
, lit is too much to ask that the or
binary mind read the foregoing
story and be patient under its sng-
gestions.
NOW, let us take a broad view of
the railroad situation in the South,
- The South, between the
Mississippi and the Atlantic. the
Ohio aud the Gulf, il divided like a
great empire between principally
four large systems controlling about
20 900 miles of railway. They have
divided this territory among them
selves for relf protection, spells. n
profit, as Caesar, Crassus, and POM
pey separated the Roman Empire
for personal acknowledgements and
selfish ends. They have an unwrit-
ten polity and comfy between them
selves that not only prohibits them
from building into each others ter
ritory, but requires all to become
the vassals of the one when his do
main is invaded or threatened by a
stranger; and in furtherance and
maintainan of their ends they do
not stop at commercial control of a
captured and conquered district
but go beyond their chartered rights
and powers and undertake to domi
nate and dictate the political and
private policies of the community il
which they exist, regardless Of the
preferences and rights of the people
until, in many instances, liberty OF
the press and freedom of speech
| have become mockery and farce
because of the ownership of the one
and their commercial power ovel
the other, until existence under such
ban of communication has al.
ready bt come unbearable. The con
dition in Tennessee reminds me oil
the historic statue known as the
LAGOON, composed of three figure:
AN old man and his two sons
strangled 10 the coils of twin ser.
pents, known POLITICALLY as the
marble prophecy Adam and hi'
children in the tolls of sin and suf
fering. 1 have long since giver
another Interpretation to the group
The old man is Tennessee; The two
children are craftsmanship ana
Commerce, choked and throttleC
into submission by the twin serpents
the two great common carriers here
tofore referred TO, acting together
with a single understanding, pros
porous, powerful, pompous, but pitt
| less.n
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-11-02

on amount con-
sumed ......... 49, 100000
Would be Il loss of = $50 900
amount used for steam coal
ia 10 years ..... 30,000,00O bu.
Average price paid 7. o. b cents.
Crawford proposition go. q cents.
DlHeIenCS s..s.. ,.... ..'. 1 ccHLS'
on amount con-
snmed ....,. 80 ,OOO,OOO
Would be u loss of $500 OOJ
Making IA total loss OF .,....,$ l,65O,00) 90
The followin transactions will
also show che power these two sys-
tens, operated in conjunction, have
over the commercial lives of citizens
marooned alOug their lines. Coal
was recently purchased for the
homeless aud ildigent Confederate
soldiers now sheltered by the hands
OF rarity at the Hermitage, and the
lrelk ut charge on the same from Bon
A ir 10 Nashville, n distance of l40
miles, was 81 per ton, while 1t costs
67R cents per ton TO carry the same
coal from Nashville TO the Hermit
age, u distance of twelve miles, on
the Lebanon branch of the Nash
vile, Chattanooga and st. Louis
Railway. In Iurther illustration of
freight Discrimination, l call your
attention to the folio wing:
|. Gar of IRON was shipped over
| Louisville and Nashville Raiload
from Iron City to West Nashville, a
q stance of 1870 miles, for Sl8.
"Car of Cedar was shipped from
Waterloo WI to Nashville, IA distance
OF forty-tw0 miles, for $l8, So Of
which was paid To the Nashville
and Knoxville (Crawforu) Railroad,
and $l3 to the NASHVILLE, Chattanooga
anu st. Louis Railway.
2 The l. Duisville and Nashville
will haul barrel of -four from Evans
vllle or Terre Haute. Ind, to Birm-
ineham, Ala for the same sum as
| to Nashville.
"rhese are only afew Of thousands
of sue b instances that l might have
incorp Grated in this tcle.
The following facts will show
that the Soath suffers by comparison
with the North in the matter of
freight rates, and that the territory
controlled by the Louisville q Nash
vile and the Nashville, Chattanooga
& st. Louis roads is III a more de-
plorable condition in this regard
than the rest of the South. In otner
words, our district is the doomed
one. The South, per capita, pays
per ton per mile IL 10 per cent
more than the North. The South,
per capita, pays per passenger per
mile 48 per cent more than the
North. The Louisville & Nashville
and the Nashville, chattanooga Il
ST. Louis railroads sep IRA ed from
the general South will compare even
more unfavorably.
Comparison of freight rates be-
tween the Chattanooga Road and
the Cincinnati Southern. Rate per
| mile per 900 pounds:
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-11-02

And the losses that have been en-
forced upon our citizens by reason
OF the high price Of our coal, due to
the heavy freight rates, have not
only been the basis OF gripping our
manufacturing industries, aud caus-
lug untold suffering among the poor
during a protracted winter season,
but have resulted in a totel loss of
81 $50 600 in the last fifteen years,
taking the present amo1nt annually
consumed by the city as the basis of
consumption, and the prices offered
by Mr.. Crawford in his proposition
a. the means OF calculation, as will
be seen by the following figures:
The city has consumedin 10
} wears, domestic coal 100000 bu
Average price paid, T. o. '.I2 cent?
Crawfora's proposition .... Gel Is
Difference $4,000. s-.......
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-11-02
SANCTUM SENTIMENTS.

Archimedes said, Give me a place
to put my lever and I'll move the
world. Hanna remarks, Give me
$50 0OO, 600 and the right kind Of a
purchase and I'll carry this coun-
try.-Philadelphis Times.
All sorts of electoral tables are be.
ing put out. All that Is certain Il
that the tables will be turned on
somebody some weeks hence.-PhIl.
adelphia Times.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-11-02
Death From a KISSING Buq.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA, Oct. 10
Thomas b. BOykin, a prominent
whole sale commission merchant,
died this morning of septic pneumo
MIA, caused by blood poison. The
blood poison was the result OF the
bite of a kissing bug, commonly
known as an electric light bug. Mr..
Boy kin was in the Morris Hotel
lobby one mig hit eight days ago, when
one OF these bugs pit him on the lip.
The wound stung him at the time,
but he thought little a it until three
days ago, when the lip swelled aud
corruption set in. He then called
in doctors and a surgical operation
was performed, but 1t was too late
The blood poison was complete, and
death ensued.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-11-02

A Georgia colored preacher has more
than one way of making sure that
aone of his parishioners let the con-
tribution plate pass unnoticed. We
have a collection for foreign ana do
nestle missions dis morning. bredren
and sisters" he announced one Sun
dag, "and for de glory Of heaben.
whieheber one OBJ you stole Widow
Johnson's sheep. don't put q cent on ds
PLATED"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-11-02

The, above figures are compiled
from actual freight bills on the basis
of 100 pounds, but raised above to
COO pounds for convenience of cal
culatIon.
Other examples:
A box of clothing shipped from
Now York to sparta, Tenn, cost
in re ght from New York to
Chattanooga ...... .......$4 rs
And from Chattanooga to Sparta
over the N. y. " st. l.. Railway. 36
Is that xcessive?
the North has one mile of rail
way to every six square miles of
territory. Tennessee has ouly one
mile OF railway to six miles of terri
tory. The North has only 602 PEG
pie to one mile of railroad, while
Tennessee has $50 people to one mile
of railroad. And yet no country in
the world affords more inducement
to the construction of railroads than
does Tennessee, barring its seques.
tered condition OH account of the
present system uf railway monopoly,
and their hostile intentions toward
every newcomer.
"And do you not imagine that,
had these six different railways re-
ferred to in his speech remained in
| dependent and uncOnsolidated,
struggling with each other as rivals
in the development of contiguous
territory, more miles would have
! been constructed, accruing to the
! benefit of our country and our peo-
pie? The Louisville and Nashville
| L.. u D..
ly published, admits the collection
OF more than 1927 900 900 in one year
from principally southern people.
and the expenditure of only $36 800
in construction, or about enough to
build one and one-half miles Of new
road, in the entire Southern terri
tory to their lines.
Our city il situated In the center
Of the forbidden district. The Mid
land approached from the west and
stopped at the Tennessee river, now
leased by the Nashville, Chatta
noOga and st. Louis Railway Com
pany; the Chesapeake and Nashville
approached from the north, and be.
came palsied ut Gallatin; the Nash
vile and Knoxville, from TIE east,
which has been hesitsting for ten
years at Lebanon, thirty miles away,
not daring to enter the lions den
alone; while the Shelbyville and
Decatur was making its way toward
US from the South, but became the
p property of this great combination
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-11-02

STOPS THE COUGH AND
WORKS OFF THE COED.
Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure a
cold in one day. No cure, No Pay.
Price . cents. oot4-ly
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-08-08
To the Voters Of Anderson County.

vt this late date, when aspiring COM
pctit0rs arc already in the field, have
complied with the solicitations of my
friends and have announced myself q,
candidate for the House of Representa-
tivcs i'll the Democratic primary.
shall expect the votes of all the
best citizens Of Anderson County; and
an optimistic enough to believe that
the majority of our people are on the
side of law, order and refinement.
l'y this law would comprehend
total prohibition. No compromise on
high license, local option, dispensary,
OF the illusive term, "best solution of
the liquor question:
deny that the best solution of any
moral proposition protects itself by
bnyoncts, or Il band Of otherwise peace
able citizens armed with "Winclester
rifles, and pistols CT largest cniibre'' 10
wantOnly destroy the lives of misguid-
ed fellow beings.
l believe in the removal of the cause,
and the effect will take care of itself
believe and assert tho liquor dis
pensaries must go in order to remove
from the State of South Carolina the
stigma OF lawlessness and ignorance.
] promise and assert should be elected
to the next Legislature to use every
effort in my power and influence to eff
feet that reformation.
! shall show half measures never
complete reforms, and that only in total
prohibition is the salvation of our peo-
pie from mob rule. shall cast no vote
for any.law short of total extermina-
tiOn of the liquor traffic in this State.
Should be elected, the best Of ny
powers and ability are at the service of
my friends who assist me in this can
vass. shall also be unsparing in zeal
for the whole State, and especially for
the interests of Anderson County.
No influence of mine or of any con-
stituent of mine in this campaign shall
purchase one vote for me by the bribe
of whiskey, brandy, or other fermentcd
peace destroyers.
Situated as am cannot enter this
campaign on my own behalf. there
fore take this means of proclaiming my
position that my friends may know Just
how stand.
leave the canvass to my friends and
their friends, that they may say for me
what Ill lily absence cannot say for
myself.
If am elected shall keep all prom
ises according to my private character
and public honor known, trust, to the
public. If am not elected thank my
friends the same, but shall carefully
guard that no vote of mine shall fur
ther the continued decentralization Of
our State by the continuous reign of
our present lawless moral reform.
VM. +. LEE.
Piedmont, 5. C,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-08-08

At the last session OF the Legislature
the following joint resolution, propos-
ing an amendment to the Constitution
of the State of South Carolina, author
izing and empowering the General AS
scmbly to provide by law for the con
dcmnaton and equitable assessment OF
lanh fordrainagc purposes, was adopt
election next November. IT is Il very
important matter to the landowners
throughout the State. and the proposed
amendment should receive the ailrnla-
tive vote Of every citizen. Read he
Joint resolution, call the attention Of
your ncigllbor to it and ur..c every yotr
for il:
SECTION /. I;c il enacted by the
General Assembly OF the State of South
Carolina, That the following amend
mcnt OF the Constitution of the state
styled rs "\rticlr |. of amendments to
the Constitution" be submitted to the
qualified electors Of the State ut the
next general election, and if Il majority
of he electors, qualified to vote for
members of the General Assembly.
voting thereon shall vote in favor of
such amendment, and Il majority of
each branch Of the next General AS
srmby shall, after such election and
before another, ratify the said amend
ment, it shall be Il part of the COnsti-
tuition of this State, to wit:
Article L.. of amendments to the
Constitution"
The General Assembly shall provide
by law for the condemnation, through
proper official channels, of all lands
necessary for the proper drainage Of
swamp and low lands of this State; and
shall also provide for the equitable as
scssIncntOf all lands SO drained, for the
condemnation and drainage.
Approved the 18th day Of February,
\. u. 1900.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-08-08
Poison in Pea Soup.
Piedmont, S. C,

HUNTSVILLE, GA, Aug. 5.-The
family Of Lewis Connor, farmer, mar
rowly escaped being wiped out with
poison last night. AS it is two chill
drcn of the family are dead and Mrs.
Connor and a third child arc critically
i'll, though it is believed now that they
will live. For dinner yesterday Mrs.
Connor cooked pea soup in new tin
vessel. Several hours after the soup
was eaten the mother and three chill
dren were taken violently ill. Two of
the children died before physician
could reach them and the woman and
other child were saved only after many
hours suffering. Physicians say the
poison was metallic.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-08-08
The Blue and the Gray.

ATLANTA, Aug. 1.-Gen. John B.
Gordon, commander in chief of the
United Confederate Veterans, will be
guest ut the Hth annual encampmcnt
OF the Grand Army of the Republic at
Chicago, Aug. %. Gen. Gordon was
extended an invitation at the request
of Gen. Albert ID. Shaw, commander
n-chief of the Grand Army.
Gen. Gordon replied, accepting the
invitation conditionally OH the state of
his health. He and his staff will be
furnished private car and will 90
from Atlanta with the o. NJ. Mitchell
Post No. /, G. A. r..
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-08-08
FOR SHERIFF.

l respectfully announce myself q candidate for
reelection to the Office of Sheriff. subject TO the
resals of tho Democratic primary election.
NELSON H. GREEN
At the request Of many friends and feeling fully
competent and willing to discharge the dutiss n
Gu bent upon me, respectfully announce myaelf
ssndidate for the ONCE OF Sheriff for Anderson
Democratic Primary. I am In position not only
10 know what the people want but what they need.
l SOLICIT your hearty support. Respectfully,
JAMES II. MCCONNELL.
! hereby announce myself a. candidate for the
office OF Sheriff for Anderson County, aubject to
the action OF the Democratic primary.
THOS, B, EARLE