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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-17
The Crime Of ClrcumsiantialE Evidence

History is full of instances where
innocent men have been hung for
murder and other crimes on circum-
stantial evidence, the facts of the
case frequently not being known
until many years after the tragic
mistake has been made. but proba-
bly DO circumstance of this kind has
ever carried with it more shocking
realization OF the. enormity of mans
life being taken by the law because
circumstances are apparently against
him than a. case the details of which
have recently been published.
In Richmond, Va, on October the
third, John Wesley Hicks, con-
victed Of the murder of Milton
Bourne, his son in law, was hanged
at Louisa Courthouse.
just twenty years ago, man was
hanged in Virginia because circum-
stantial evidence pointed 70 the con.
clnsion that he had murdered for
their money an old man and his wife
named Massey. So strong was the
evidence that everyone believed that
the prisoner committed the crime
but the sequel proves that lawyers
Judge, jury and public were wrong
The sequel is this: Just before
Hicks paid the death penalty last
week he publicly confessed that he
had committed tho crime for which
another had paid his life, detailing
the circumstances IN snch manner
as left no doubt in is hearers mind,
as to his own guilt and the martyr
dom Of the man who had died assert
ing his innocence.
A good Lesson this for Judge an,
jury -Ex.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-17
Only a Penny.

"Only penny" heard them say,
A penny for Jesus, if given each day,
Would send the Gospel to every soul
Now sitting i'll darkness, from pole to pole,
Only penny from every one
Who bears the name Of Gods own Son.
Only pennyl How silall sum,
BY the side of millions that 90 for rum,
TO ruin the bodies and souls of men,
Or the millions that end in smoke and
then,
A penny apiece from every one
Who is saved by the death of Gods own
Only penny from young and old.
From the little lambs within the fold;
From the orphaned and widowed ones
who share
With all Gods poor, i'll the Shepherds
care,
Only penny apiece from every one
Who prays III the name of Gods own Son
Only penny to show our love
TO Him who left his home above
For this very work; and whose last com
mand
Left this mission to Christians in ever,
land;
Only penny from every one
To send the Gospel of Gods own Son.
! Exchange
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-17
ANYTHING ANYWHERE.
br'ef Paragraphs Giving nome OF the
happ ntnEs of the World Of Men,

Two men we're killed, four fatally
aud others seriously injured in u
mine explosion at Pawnee, Illinois,
Monday afternoon. The explosion
was caused by too much powder in a
blast, the concussion causing the coal
dust to explode with great force.
Those killed were 1000 feet away
from the point where the shot was
fired.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-17

Alexandra Young, corporation
counsel of Hudson county, N. Y,
has been arrested for kidnapping his
own child. After the granting of a
divorce to Young and his wife, Mrs.
Young was given custody of the
child, and this makes the third at
tempt of the father to steal it.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-17


Alfred Walters, president Lehigh
Valley Coal company.
A note appended to the statement
reads:
"The schedule referred to in this
statement was not brought from New
York rs it had not been completed.
PRESIDENT M1rouELL,
of the mine operators union, when
seen by a representative of the Asso.
ciated Press on Tuesday, the day
following the proposition Of tho
operators given above, gave out the
following statement:
81 fully appreciate with what anx-
iety the people of our country are
awaiting the end of the coal strike.
The coal operators have not ad.
dressed the miners union or it's
officers in making their public state.
ment 1t is therefore impossible for
me to state the attitude of the min
ers at this time. I am now, us I
have always been, deeply solicitous
of the interests of the public and the
welfare of the mine workers who
have been on u strike for the past
five months. A formal statement
defining our position and intentions
Will be issued just as soon as we are
in possession of the full meaning of
the proposition of the operators"
This statement was made by him
at 8 o'clock after a silence lasting
all day. He had no intention of
making it until the correspondents
representing newspapers all over the
country called on him in body and
informed him that the general pub.
lie desired to have an answer to the
proposition Of the operators. After
giving it he was asked many ques
tions regarding the attitude of the
mon and the probability of the ac.
ceptance or rejection of the new
offer, but he had no reply to make
to any of these questions He de-
MED that he had any knowledge of
what the new offer of the operators
was until it became public property,
and also denied that he was in tele.
phonic communication with Presi-
dent Roosevelt. His attention was
called to the fact that most of the
information from Washington indi-
Gated that the proposition would be
accepted and that the strike was
near at an end, but he stoutly main
tanned that neither his officers nor
the rank and file Of the mon had done
anything to cause such an impress
sion TO 60 out.
The district presidents also main
tain silence as to their personal
opinion on the proposition, except
ing President Fahy, who after he
arrived from Boston today gave an
inkling as to how he viewed the new
turn of affairs. In reply to query,
he said
"The strike cannot be settled with
out the consent of the men. We
are not dealing in gold bricks of any
kind, and you can make any deduc-
ton from that you want"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-17

The extensive sale Of fine liv,
stock at auction during Fair week
will give all an opportunity to i'm
prove their stock. Sales are positive
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-17

A north bound fast mail, running
at speed of forty miles an hour,
left the track near Greensboro, N. c.,
on Tuesday, and went jumping on
the cross ties for more than two hun
dred yards, part Of the distance in
clnding a high embaukment, steel
trestle and sharp curve. The train
WAS loaded with passengers, and it ia
almost miraculous that no one waa
hurt and the train very little dam
aged.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-17

Clarence II. Mackay has been
elected president Of the Commercial
Cable Company and the Postal Tele-
graph Cable Company, to succeed
his father.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-17

Ambassador { .oate and Gems.
Corbin, Wood and Young we're the
guests of King Edward at lunch
con at Buckingham Palace on Mon
day i'll honor Of Lord Kitchener,
prior to the latter's departure for
India. The health of Roosevelt was
proposed.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-17

1t is thought that at least one hun.
dred graves in Indianapolis have
been despoiled within the last three
months by medical students. Four
dead bodies were found tied in sacks
in dry goods box in the rear of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons
this week.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-17

Governor Odell opened the New
York State Republican campaign in
Brooklyn with number of speeches
on Monday night. He asserts the
right OF the State to intervene in the
coal strike.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-17

An aerounaut, De Bradsky, and
his engineer, NORM, were killed by
falling from a dirigible balloon near
Paris on Monday. The ropes by
which the car was fastened to the
balloon broke from some unknown
cause, and the occupants were dashed
to the ground, meeting instantaneous
death. The balloon disappeared in
the clouds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10
DYNAMITE EXPLOSION
Four Miners Killed and Several
Injured in the Lehigh Mine at
South WiIkesbaTe.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Dec. 9-Four men
were killed and ten injured, three prob
ably fatally. by the explosion of box
of dynamite in No. mine of the Lehigh
& Wilkesbarre Coal company at South
Wilkesbarre today. The killed:
Robert Humb!ebee, carpenter, aged
50, married.
Arthur Jones, company hand. aged
IS, single.
Matthew Phillips, miner. aged Sc,
married.
James McGlinn. laborer. aged IS. mar
ried.
Fatally injured: George Knorr,
Charles Stafford, Thomas Evans
The most seriously injured are: Neil
Sweeney. John Rustin, Dominick Hart,
James Peckems.
The men had lowered into the shaft,
which is ITO feet deep. a box of dyna-
mite weighing fifty pounds. When the
bottom of the shaft was reached Phil
lips took the box off the carriage. 1t
slipped from his hands and fell to the
ground. The conclusion exploded the
dynamite and the twenty men who
were in the immediate vicinity getting
their tools in readiness to go 20 their
respective chambers, were hurled in all
directions. The wooden work at the
bottom of the shaft was also torn and
scattered about. As soon as possible
word was sent to the surface and 2
rescuing party was sent down.
The mire has the reputation of being
the most gaseous in the entire region.
and at first it was reported that the
gas had exploded. that a score of min
ers had been killed outright Fortu-
nately, however. the gas did not ex-
piOde. The accident caused the big col
liery to suspend operations for the day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10
TRAIN SINKS
TO THE WATER
Engineers Trying to Fill Up a
HoIein Salt Lake.
NEW CRIPPLE CREEK ROAD
NEW LINE WILL USE ELECTRIC
ITY OR AIR FOR POWER.
(special to - HeraId

OGDEN. Dec 9.-Owing to the set
Ting of a stretch of track on the
Ogden-Lucin cutoff work oppo-
site the mouth of Bear river last even
Ing, sixteen cars and one engine
dropped to the water and traffic across
to and from the Promontory has been
suspended most of the day. The
stretch Of track where the setting oc-
CURED is the same piece where a SINH
tar accident has happened so many
times before and where for weeks the
ballast train has been dumping hum
dreds Of carloads of rock in an effort
70 make the track solid enough to sus-
tain the heaviest loads. The bad
stretch is but a short one-probably
not over twenty car lengths in extent
and could be readily bridged How
ever, the scheme of the entire work is
Tor permanency, and believing that the
bottom can be reached some time, the
engineers in charge have continued the
dumping in of rock. Light trains go
over the stretch, but hardly a week
mas passed since the laying of the rails
that two or three accidents similar to
the one last night have not happened,
though the number of cars involved
mas never been so great as on this
occasion A curious circumstance of
rCw-bOats and timbers which were
floating beside the track when the cars
went down were suddenly landed in
the mud as the bottom bulged up be-
meath them.
The train which came to grief last
night was one of sixteen cars and all
out the rear car went down. Before
the line could De cleared the ballast
cars, which were heavily laden with
rock, had been unloaded and as they
could not, after the accident. be au-
tomatically dumped. they had to be
cleared by hand work-a tedious and
expensive process.
Persons in a position to keep tab on
the filling in state that not less than
1.5OO cars of rock ballast have been
dumped into this apparently bottom
less hole. One of the average loads of
the material was weighed and showed
$4,000 pounds. But throwing off a
couple of tons from this. the computa-
ton shows that not less than 142, 500
tons of rock have already been trans
Ierred from Little mountain to this
one hole heretofore filed with the soft
mud and silt washed in by Bear river.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10
HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMITTEE WILL
REPORT AGAINST SHIP SUBSIDIES

London, Dec. 9.-The report of the Sc
Iect committee of the house of com
mons on steamship subsidies was is
sued tonight. Its general tenor is dis
unctly against the principle of granting
subsidies The committee finds that
BRUSH shipowners have not suffered
much from the fostering effects of sub
sIoles paid by foreign governments;
mat subsidies are merely minor fac
tors, and that commercial skill and in
dustry were the major factors in the
recent development of the shipping and
trace or certain foreign countries. not
aDly Germany. 1t is also found by the
committee that subsidies restrict free
competition and facilitate the estab-
hshment of declarations and shipping
rings, and that therefore a general sys-
TEN OF subsidies, except for services
rendered, and without government con-
troll of the maximum rates on freights.
Is costly and inexpedient
Only in Rare Gases.
In rare cases, where, in view of the
special imperial considerations, subsi-
dies may be desirable, the committee
declares, the condition must Include
adequate speed and forbid the sale or
hire of any subsidized ship without the
permission of the government
The committee considers that in or
der 10 give British shipowners a fair
show against their foreign rivals the
board of trade regulations should be
enforced against foreign equally with
British ships; that all light dues should
be abolished, the cost being betrayed
by the nation, and that means should
be adopted to secure the removal of
regulations by which British ship
owners are excluded from the coasting
trade Of foreign countries. The COM
mittee suggested that regulations
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10
PROGRESS OF The WAR
ON SPOKANE GAMBLERS

Spokane, Wash. Dec. "a warrant
was issued today for the arrest of Police
Commissioner H L. Li1lieEthal. Charging
MN with refusing to prosecute the gam
blers of the city in accordance with the
Jaws. The commissioner promptly inter-
posed a demurrer and was released on his
own recognizance. The warrant was
granted on application of s. w Greene.
Wno was recently serving as a special
put whose star was taken away by Com
missioner Lillientbal on a .char ge of i'm
proper conduct The commissioner also
recOmrne nded that the license of the
Stockholm be revoked. The proprietor
or the Stockholm has. declared that II
MS house Is closed, ali other gamblers
must be shut 30.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10
SHE ESCAPED The KNIFE.
Ten Months of Peace After Dreadful
Suffering.


Operations are becoming 8 fed;
every young man as soon as he is
graduated from a medical college con-
slders himself capable of undertaking
the most serious end complied J. sur
gieal work and hundreds OF lives al e
sacrificed annually TO this mad frenzy
Of incompetent men TO rush into xoi k
which should only be undertaken as a
last resort and then only by the most
experienced and careful surgeons.
1t is pleasure in vaVw OF these
Facts to read the following letter from
a woman who has been saved from one
OF these dangerous operations. I
know / should have informed you long
ago regarding my case of piles and the
good done me and believe I an cured.
Last December / sent for your hook.
I have never been bothered since then
and before ! had suffered for the last
eleven years, and at the time I wrote
1 had given birth TO a child. ard they
came down, with the delivery of the
child, by the handful l could not get
them back and 1 suffered everything:
and the doctor said nothing but an
operation would ever relieve me; but
l read of your remedy in ou- daily
newspaper and ] told my husband to
get me box and L would give il a
trial before consenting to the knife,
and thanks be to your wonderful med
icine, I was saved from the operating
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Every person suffering from piles
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we recommend your wonderful meGi-
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book describing the cause and cure OF
Piles.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10

should be imposed on foreign vessels
particularly in the British and coIonial
trade of the empire, as a means for
securing reciprocal advantages for Brit
ISL shipowners abroad.
Foreign Ownership.
The committee discussed at some
length the effect on British trade of
the transfer of merchant vessels to for
elgn ownership and enumerates the
Brltlsh lines sold to Americans, incIud-
ing the Morgan syndicate, and TO Ger
mans Dealing with the Morgan trans
fer, the report says:
II the American railway manage
hent unites with the steamship man
asement very influential undertaking
may perhaps be formed, but too MANY
interests are often involved to make
such com binations quite as powerful as
they might be supposed to be. It re-
s-alns, however, quite certain that the
transfer OF British ships TO foreign
nags, whether owning foreign subsidies
or otherwise, may cause serious re-
SUITS, such as developing new trades in
which British shipowners, without gov
eminent backing, cannot engage. and
the substitution of foreign officers and
crews for British,
British Coast Line.
The report points out that as the
coast line of the British empire is the
greatest Of any country in the world.
Great Britain has no need to fear eff
fectlVe retaliation if she reserves the
British and the colonial coastwise
trade and imperial coasting trade.
which would include voyages between
any two points of the empire. to Brit
ISM and colonial ships and to vessels
or nations opening their coasting trade
to British and colonial ships
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10
-Four Lines Use Double Track

St Joseph, Mo, Dec. 9.-The Gazette
this morning says: Positive Information
that the Kansas City. Mexico & Orient
railway will enter st. Joseph over the
double tracks of the Union Terminal
company was obtained today An
nouncement was made last week that
the Chicago &, Alton. Wabash and
Frisco would enter the city over the
Union Terminal tracks. and now. with
the addition of the Orient railroad. four
new roads will enter this city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
JAILED COUNTY CLERK

Forsythe- Mont, Dec. 9.-As a result
of a further defiance to the orders OF
Justice of the Peace Roderick McRae,
the entire board of county commission
ers, together with the county clerk.
were for the second time thrown into
jail for twenty-four hours and fined
$50 each.
The trouble follows the institution OF
election contests to Gust all the can
didates, who were elected, 1t is alleged
through the colonization of voters in
Rosebud coucty. The county commits
sioners. by resolution, declared the JUS
tees Office vacant and the county
clerk, under instructions of the board,
refused TO produce a docket. The JUS
tice then committed them
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10
Learns in Paper Of Death.

John W. Trewhela, travelling freight
agent of the Rock Island, returned to
the city yesterday after a northern
trip. While reading the morning paper
he saw the announcement of the death
of his sister, June Trewhela. Efforts
had been made to reach him with tele-
grams. but this plan was not success
ful. His sister had been in Memphis.
Tenn. Last Friday he received a tele-
gram from her saying that she ex-
Dected to start for home In crossing
the mountains the altitude affected her
heart. and she arrived in the city I'M
conscious. to die later.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10
Pensions For Twenty.
lsneciaI Id ~ HeraIdl

NNIVIIe-I % 7 IEt TIT HUI
Cheyenne, Wyo.. Dec. at is said
there are TO less than twenty men on
the eastern end of the Wyoming divi-
sion of the Union Pacific who viii re-
ceive pensions after the first of the
year under the system that viii go into
effect then. These men have reached
the age of SO years and have been in the
service of the company twenty The
pension does not deprive them of the
right of continuing in the service so
long as they are competent, or of en-
gaging in any business they see fit
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10

United States, or of all governments,
by violence
While the debate on this motion was
in progress, Mr.. Hoar remarked that
there are some governments whose de-
struction by violence he would accom-
plish if he could
The senate then, on motion of Mr.
Cullom, went into executive session,
and at $40 p. m. adjourned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10
New short Line scheduIe.

new time table viii go into effect
on the Oregon Short Line on Sunday.
Such a change of schedule was antici-
pated in this department of The Herald
several days ago as probable as re-
suit of the new deal with the st. Pail.
The new schedule, which shows some
important changes, will be published
tomorrow by the company.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10
Railroad president Die.

Chicago, Dec. 9.-James c. Clarke,
president of the Mobile & Ohio rail-
road. and one of the most widely known
railroad men in the United states. died
last night at the home of his daughter.
Mrs f. T. Jeffery. 1912 Michigan
avenue, OF Bright's disease. with which
he was attacked nine months ago. Mr..
Clarke was also the father of Mrs. Ho-
ratio .. stone
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10
DR.. J. N. Rice.

scranton, Pa, Dec. 9.-Dr. ]. n. Rice
prominent independent coal operator
VINO took conspicuous part in the
present arbitration proceedings. died
To-Day from heart trouble. DR.. Rice was
member of the committee which went
10 New YORK ten days ago which re-
suited in calling off the proposef setf1e-
ment negotiations
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10

great preparations are being made by
the local branch of the army to re-
eeive the chief. He will be accompa-
MED by Consul Booth Tucker, daugh-
ter of the general. and also Colonel
John LAWYER, his constant companion
for years.
Dur1ng the course of his trip he will
visit Denver and other Colorado cities
and from there he will go to Los An
geies- He Will reach this city on his
return from the California trip while
on. his way east.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10
Croker Elected Director.

New York. Dec. 9.-George Croker.
son of Charles Croker. one of the
builders of the Central Pacific. and
himself at one time a vice president of
the Southern Pacific, has accepted
membership in the board Of directors
of the Kansas City. Mexico 4 Orient
railroad, the new transcontinentaI
route building from Kansas City to the
Gulf of California, across northern
Mexico