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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-02-11
FOREIGN.

Three Of the most important locomo-
tive building concerns III Scotland Were
amalgamated.
It was denied In Vienna that Arch.
duke Eugene. n cousin OF Emperor
Francis Joseph. would marry q confec'
toner's daughter.
DR.. Won Holleben. the retiring Ger.
man Ambassador to the United states,
arrived in Berlin from Paris.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain.
while ..trekking" to Mafeking. South
Africa. received a welcome from Cen
eral Dclarey and 4 commando OF Beers.
Great dissatisfaction was expressed
In Great Britain over the clause In the
Cuban treaty relating to sugar.
A confasration in Armagh. Ireland.
did S300.000 damage.
In consequence OF the spread OF the
bubonic plague thousands or native
! servants aud laborccs are leaving Dur
ban. Natal.
The Italian Government will ask for
s15O.O 600 TO establish q wireless tcle-
graph system between Italy ana Ar
gentina.
The King and Queen attended the
baptism OF the infant son OF the Prince
Of Wales ut Windsor Castle. London.
The child was christened George Ed
ward Alexander Edmund.
Blu Hamara. the Moorish p~retender.
sentenced the Jews Of Mellilla to pay
a fine Of 10000 durcs. The Jews sent
three delegations to implore clemency.
None Of the delegations returned.
Queen Helena Of Italy received Am
bassador and Mrs. Meyer most cor
daily in private audience. n eA-
pressed the fricndliest sentiments LOT
America and Americans.
The second anniversary OF Queen
v~ictoria's death was appropriately 3D.
served in England.
King Oscar Of Sweden. under med
ical advice, temporarily made over the
Government to the Crown Prince. WIG
will again act Us Regent.
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The Crusade In Brief.

The duty OF temperance workers i 10
go steadily forward independent o! results.
The Hoiston Christian Advocate says
that the bioodIcst battle for the next ten
years is that against the liquor traffic.
The United States Government conducts
at the present time unlicensed saloons IN
seven OF ia eight branches OF the National
Home Tor Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
Whi,!:y males Il goat out OF a man.
The nabltual drunkard never looks up.
His thoIgh,s. his emotions, desires, all
dip. His eyes are bent in the direction
~ the ground. lie knows nothing about
ihe stars.
The d.y for action has come, and moral
suas'on has IT. part to play. The young
people. esI .cialiy. should be enlisted on
the side OF total abstinence from all that
irt"&icltcs.
The liquor business. the greatest iniquity
Of earth. "a framed by law" and the only
propc method OF unframing is by the
same process. Ballots placed the beer
business before the people, and ballots
must remove the sinking, pestilen,ia
beast.
But the poor fellow who seeks refuge
in drink finds 4 hell instead Of 4 refuge.
He breaks down his physical strength more
by one hour in the saloon than by 4 week
in the ditch. He ruins his home. ne
beSsars his wife. He de1radss his Shi.-
dreu
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DOMESTIC.

Because Of O coal train being too
long to take q siding. the passenger
train from Wichita to Kansas City was
wrecked at Yates Centre, Kan. and
two men killed.
Carbolic acid taken with suicidal In
tent caused the death at San Fran
cisco, Cal. Of Paul Weiss. a noted Hun.
garian vlolinlst.
When Edward Stewart. at Niles.
Mich, failed to throw up his hands. as
told to do by two thugs. they shot him
In the abdomen and escaped.
Representatives Of Massachusetts.
Connecticut and Rhode Island adopted
rules for the selection Of Rhodes schol-
ars.
An attempt will be made to break the
will of the late A. C. Hutchinson 80
fur as his bequest Of over $5O0.OO0 to
Tulane Medical College. New Orleans.
La. Is concerned.
The tax voted by Springfield. No.. to
maintain the Carnegie library was de-
cided In the Circuit Court to be illegal
because the levy exceeded the debt.
making power Of the city.
While being taken from the train to
the hospital, City Attorney Charles E.
Miller. Of Ironwood, Mich, died in Chi
cago. I'll.
Mrs. Deppert, a disciple Of Christian
Science. at indianapolis. Ind. died OF
smallpox. She refused to allow q ply
sician to attend her.
Ell Rogers, while temporarily insane.
killed a negro boy and n white girl at
Charlotte, 8. c. He had been dis
charged from q hospital as improved.
One million FIVE hundred thousand
converts were made by the Methodist
Church during the four years Of the
Twentieth Century Thank Offering
movement.
Four teachers and two Of their pu.
pills were badly hurt. n probably IA
tally. while coastins at Muskego. Mich.
The residence Of Archbishop Elder.
at Cincinnati. Ohio. was plundered by
burglars Of $500 worth Of silverware.
The birthday OF Robert e. Lee was
generally observed throughout the
South.
For the first time In the history OF
the Territory. every member OF b
New Mexico Assembly. now In session.
speaks English fluently.
The funeral OF N. G.. Gonzales. the
editor whom Northumberland TILL
man shot at Columbia. 8. c.. was b
occasion Of a demonstration OF public
feeling against the crime.
Rev. DR.. Langdon C. Stewardson.
professor Mt Lehigh University. was
elected President Of Hobart College.
Geneva. N. Y.
Robbers forced an entrance into the
City Bank at SomertOn. Ohio. and
blew open the safe. They secured
$4,000 and escaped.
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tzation Of q. long cherished ambition
with Mr.. Cannon, and an honor when
has been won through exceptional ser
vices. He WINS born at Newgarden.
near Guilford Courthouse. In 1886. He
went to Indiana eariy with his parents,
where he received only q common
school education. At fourteen he hired
cut as q clerk In q country store. and
ave years later began the study Of law.
Deciding that there was not much
sonor for a prophet In his W country
he concluded to 50 to Douglas County.
Illinois. to begin his practice. That
frst year in his profession, 1855. was
pretty hard. pulling for the future
Speaker Of the House. and there Is no
denying that he would have come to
actual want u q friend had not stood
for his board bill. II was not In the
young lawyers makeup. however. to
allow difficulties to daunt him. BY
hard work and untiring perseverance
each succeeding year saw his influence
broaden and his practice enlarge. With
his Unborn aggressiveness he was soon
identified with his party's politics. and
In 1851 he was elected States Attor-
ney. q position he held until 1863. His
experience as counsel In cases Of every
conceivable kind. during those fourteen
years before he became q member Of
Congress In 1872, undoubtedly fitted
him for the useful place he has filed
there.
. Mr.. Cannon Is n Of the Oldest and
ablest veterans in public lfe-indeed.
he viii be the oldest man who has ever
occupied the Speakers chair. Through
al Of his long career his bitterest enc
mics have never been able to connect
his name In the remotest way with any
scandal He Is Q rough-and-tumble
fighter: In debate he Is not choice In
the 8 Of his adjectives. but he has a
keen intellect. unimpeachnbie honesty.
and a character Of sterling worth. He
n well known as one Of the most con-
sentative members Of the House. As
Chairman Of the Appropriations Com
mittee he has had control Of the supply
bills. and with SO jealous care has he
watched theproposed expenditures that
he has fallen heir to the late Mr.. Hol.
mans sobriquet. The watch dog Of
The Treasury"
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OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

The dispute over the church property
In the Philippines between Aglipay
and the Roman Catholics was taken
into the courts.
A volunteer force in Zambales Prov.
ince. Luzon. Philippine Islands. was
defeated by ladrones, among the killed
being three Americans. including Mr.
Osborne. q teacher.
The Porto Rican Legislature passed
O resolution to memorabilia the Senate
Of the United States to insert In the
Cuban reciprocity treaty o clause pro-
viding for the free entrance Of Porto
Rican coffee into Cuba.
Alexander Newton Dassett. lands
man, of Durham. N. c., and James
Garfield Patterson. landsman. Of Pitts
burg. Pa, Of the b~attleship Massachu-
sets. who were injured by the explo-
sion January 16 in one OF her turrets.
died In the Military Hospital at San
Juan. Porto Rico.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-02-11
INSANE WOMEN DIE IN FIRE
Over Fifty Victims of q London
Asylum Blaze.
Burned In Their Beds In Their Dormi.
torsss-Fought Nurses ~ Firsms1
who Tried 70 Rescue Thea.

London.-More than fifty lnsare pa
tients were burned to death by a fire ut
the CoIney Hatch asylum. The out.
break was in the Jewish wing Of the
institution. The flames spread with
great rapidity. and before they could
be got under control FIVE wooden build
ings. including dormItories and the doc.
tors apartments. were burned out.
All the efforts Of the officials were
directed to removing the insane In
mates, but the latter became wild with
excitement and so panic-stricken that
not only were they unable to help
themselves. but greatly impeded the
operations Of those trying to save
them. There were nearly 600 women
in the burned annex ut the time the
fire was discovered. and most Of them
were safely transferred to the main
building. which was uninjured.
The nurses had a terrible experience
In trying to assist the insane people.
who were so panic-stricken that they
had literally to be driven to a place OF
safety. The infammable premises al
most Immediately became a furnace.
Nothing was left standing. The CORFU.
gated iron roofs of the dormitories and
the bedsteads Of the patients were
melted nv the intense heat. Some Of
the lunatics were burned In their beds.
and the charred remains Of others were
found huddled together In corners.
while groups Of partly consumed bod.
les on the site Of the corridors showed
that many persons lost their lives and
sacrificed those Of others In their fran
tic efforts to force q passage through
the main building.
The work of searching the ruins was
begun. About fifty bodies soon were
recovered. All the victims We're luna
tics. and their charred remains present.
ed a horrifying spectacle.
The asylum was besieged by anxious
relatives or friends of the patients.
who arrived from all quarters. Pitia-
BILE scenes were witnessed. as weeping
men and women left the premises af-
ter ascertaIning that relatives or
friends had persisted In the flames.
The latest estimate of the superin-
tendent Of the asylum places the num-
Der of deaths at ifty-two. All the vi"-
Tins were women.
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WIFE TRIED TO SAVE HIM.
A R~smarkablo Instance of the Dsvotio
OF wronSsd Woman.

A Remarkable Instance OF b DEVOTION
OF wronssd Woman.
Washington. D. CA remarkable in
stance Of the devotion Of a wronged
wife ended when the President re-
fused to commute the death sentence
Of Homer Bird. .
Six years ago Bird was a wealthy
resident Of New Orleans. He had a
beautiful wife. but deserted her for q
woman named Naomi Strong. He or.
ganized an expedition to Alaska and
took Naomi Strong with him. There
he became jealous Of his three COM
panions and killed two Of them.
The woman ran away with the one
who escaped, and On their statement
Of the shooting Bird was arrested.
He was convicted Of murder. largely
by the evidence Of the woman who
ruined him. and sentenced to be
hanged.
As soon as she heard Of his c0nvic.
ton the deserted wife exerted every
effort to save her husbands life.
She came to Washington to make q
personal appeal and engaged attorneys
to fight his case. She obtained two
new trials for him. but he was again
convicted.
Then her money gave out and she
was forced to give up the fight.
Through Senator McEnery she made a
final appeal to the President.
Bird will be hanged at Sitka March
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Bew to Start . Balky Horse.

A halky horse and a load Of coaI
caused considerable excitement ut the
railroad station. and by the arrival Of
Garrett Duryea. an experienced horse
man. bystanders were taught a practk
cal lesson In starting equines with a
bad temper. The horse refused to
draw the load and would not move IN
inch despite all kind Of endeavors and
suggestions until Duryea arrived and
compenced to apply the whip lightly
to the animals fore legs. Suddenly
the horse started ahead on n trot for
C%ni0ndale. where the coal was to be
taken. Duryea walked away uncon.
cerned with the plaudits Of the specta-
tors who witnessed his successful feat.
II eve kHcw that trick to fall In
starting n balky horse" he said. They
can't stand any whipping OH the fore
legs. II you ever have a horse that
viii not go. just try it.~"-Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-02-11
ALASKA BOUNDARY TREATY
Secretary Hay and Ambassador Her
bert Sign a Convention.
PROVIDES FOR MIXED TRIBUNAL

The Commission Will Have Three on .
Side. With Nc Odd Man to Break .
Tie . It Has Taken Three Years to
Reach the Present Agreement Ne
Washington. D. C.-Secretary Hay
and Sir Michael Herbert. the British
Ambassador. have signed q treaty pro-
vlding for the settlement Of the Alaska
boundary question. Efforts In that di.
rection have been put forth for a long
time. the pressure coming from both
sides. the Canadian miners being anx-
ious to get through the Klondike to the
sea without passing through American
territory and the Americans insisting
upon their right to the coast line and
the control of the ports.
The treaty provides for the reference
of all these boundary questions to q
mixed tribunal. three on each side. to
determine the Interpretation to be
placed on the treaty Of 1925 between
Great Britain and Russia. which de.
fined the boundaries between British
America and Alaska. This proposition
is virtually the same as that brought
forward by the American members Of
the high joint commission which met
In Washington three years ago. but
which then was rejected by the British
and Canadian representatives. 1t has
taken three years to obtain the consent
Of the British and Canadian govern.
ments to adjust the boundary dispute
on the present basis.
1t Is understood that the treaty has
been drawn up after thorough CONSUL
'tation with the leading members Of the
Senate Of both political parties. the Ad-
ministration desiring to do everything
possible In advance to make certain Its
ratification.
The commission proposed Is curious
in composition. consisting of an equal
number Of members upon each side
without an umpire or odd man to cast
the deciding vote. No other terms OF
arbitration would have been accepta.
bic to the people Of the Northwest, who
See In this arrangement a praShral ex.
tinction Of any chance Of a decision
hostile to their plans. On the other
hand. to get q verdict favorable to the
American claim u case must be so
strongly presented as to win the sup
port Of at least one Of the Canadian
contingent.
The treaty will be submitted to the
Senate and the effort will be made to
ratify it before the expiration Of the
present session.
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Torms OF Canal Treaty.

President Roosevelt has sent to the
United States Senate the treaty with
Colombia for the construction Of the
Panama Canal by the United States.
The treaty provides for the payment
to Colombia OF S1O.O00,O0O and an an
nuity OF S25O.OOO. to begin In nine
years. and leases I strip six miles
wide across the Isthmus OF Panama to
the United States practically In per
netuitY
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rho Sporting World.

St. Louis Is to have q big trotting
meeting this season.
Some horsemen are picking King
Direct as the champion four-year-old
PAGER of 1908.
In an exciting ice yacht race at
Red Bank. N. j.. the Witch won from
the George by seconds.
Internal d%issension broke out in the
Philadelphia National League Baseball
Club over the so-called peace treaty.
The University Of Wisconsin has ap-
propriated $500 for the purchase Of two
four-oared gigs for the boating de-
partment.
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PoeE's OLD NURSE DEAD.
Mariana Moroni Was 1ol and Proud oi
Having Once Carried Leo XIII.

A~larianna Moroni Was lol and Proud OF
Having Once Carried Leo XIII.
Rome. Italy.-Marianna Moroni. who
proudly asserted that she carried the
Pope In her arms when he was q boy.
has Just died in her 10lst year. Her
death was the result Of an accident.
She was sitting at her freside alone,
when her clothes ignited. She was un.
able to call for help and was terribly
burned.
The Pope received her In q private
audience in October. and they were
mutually delighted at seeing and talk
ing with each other. The woman sub
sequently said:
HE Is a fine old man. but he is not
70 we'll preserved as l." The Pope re-
marked after the interview: "She Is
frail looking for her years" ,,s....
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Why Drunksrds Sec Double.

The reason Q man sees double when I'M
der the influence of liquor is that the
nerve centres are changed by the action
of the alcoholic poison. The muscles that
move the balls do not act in harmony.
Consequently instead OF both eyes being
focused at the same time upon an object
one eye receives an impression independ-
emily of the other. Both impressions arc
flashed to the brain by the optic nerves.
Consequently the object is seen twice.
The infiamed condition of the brain cen.
tres and the loss of energy from overdoses
Of alcohol account for the staggering gait
OF q drunken man.
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Poisoned Liquors..

Forty-one cases OF delirium trcmens at
one time in the city workhouse in Chicago
Official investigation. One of the physi-
Clans visited a liquor den of the vicinity
and purchased something which went by
the name OF bourbon" He did not ven
turc to experiment on his own stomach,
but poured some Of the liquor on a piece
OF raw beef. Immediately the meat turned
black. The connection was next tried on
the top OF 4 varinshed desk, and the var
ni,h soon softencd. The physician de-
ciared the stuff rank poison and wondered
that the men who drank it did not die
outright.
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News OF the Tolloys.

Syracuse (N. W bakers will demand
day work after May 3. 1908.
The Montreal. Canada. Longshorc.
mans Union has decided to affiliate
with the international union Of that
craft.
1t Is estimated that 10000 Irish agri.
cultural laborers cross the Channel an.
nually for haying and harvesting il
England.
Journcymcn plumbers at st. Louis.
Mo-. have been granted their Ccmal id
Of S. a day. an increase Of 81 over the
old crala-
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Acting and

To n group Of friends Ellen Terry
once said: Acting is not like dra wing.
You make a line. II 1t Is wrong. you
rub 1t out at once and make another.
With acting that Is impossible: there
Is no altering--it must stand. l often
feel as II I must cry to tie audience.
oh. that IL wrong. not Us I meant 1t
to be; let me act that part or sentence
over again.'"-San Francisco Argo-
naut.
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bandits Kill Detective.

In a fight ten miles north OF Sullivan.
Mo-. with two men suspected of being
the robbers who looted the Union Bank
at Christmas time. Charles ]. Schuma-
cher. 4 Pinkerton detective. with head
quarters In st. Louis. was killed. Schu-
macher had been on the trail ever since
the robbery and had finally located two
suspects. The murderers eluded PR
Suif
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FATHER SAVED SON FROM JAIL
Judge Sends Young Man Home to Sup
port Mother and Sister.

port Mother and Sister.
st. Louis. MO.-Convicted OF counter
feiting and called for sentence. father
and son stood before Judge Adams In
the United States District Court. each
trying to assume entire responsibility
for the crime and shield the other.
Martin Ferguson. former Treasurer
of Butler County. Mo-. declared that as
God was his judge his son William vas
blameless. and Judge Adams took the
same view OF the case. for he fined the
elder nan 81 and added Ave years in
the p%enitentiary. The son was then
given 4 sound talk and released on the
promise that he would return to his
home Mt Poplar Bluffs 10 support his
mother AMI sister while the father
served the sentence.
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WHITE HOUSE COSTS MORE NOW.
Recent Changes Make It Three Times -
Expensive TO Keep Up.

Washington, d. C.. - Colonel Theo.
dore Bingham. Superintendent Of Pub.
lie Buildings and Grounds In Wash
ington. In his report to Congress asks
for an appropriation OF S1l0.264 for the
White House for the coming year.
against $4,000 for the present year.
The report says:
THE recent changes In the White
House have resulted In n building far
more expensive 20 maintain than for
merly. The character of the new At.
tings and furnishings Is such that re-
pairs and replacing will be more ex.
penslve than before. and It will be
more expensive to replace specially de-
signed silver door knobs and escut-
cheons. silver and gilt hinges. etc.
Hard wood floors and thing will. re.
Quire extra labor to keep In order.
More help will be needed In the laun.
dry owing Il the large family which
occupies the White House and the
large amount Of entertaining done"
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TwELvE.!NcH GUN exPLooEs
Catastrophe Expected. So No One Was In
Any Way Hurt.

Sandy Hook. N. J.-During a test
with shells loaded with high explosives
q twelve-inch gun exploded at the ex-
perimental grounds here. No was
hurt. as just such an accident as &C.
Cured was thought possible and every.
one was under cover.
The gun destroyed was an old twelve
inch rife mounted on a cradle. 1t had
been hauled two miles down the range
SO as to reduce the danger to other
guns. The heavy breech block was
found half a mile away. while great
fragments were thrown In every GIrec.
ton.
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A WOMAN BURGLAR.
Confssses That She Helped Her Husband
Rob Cleveland Dvsliings.

Confseses Thst b Helped Hsr Husband
Rob Cleveland Dwellings,.
Cleveland, Ohio. - Mrs. Rose Hough.
a really pretty woman. confessed to
the police that she had helped her hus-
band commit twenty burglaries in
apartment houses. She Is twenty years
of age and was married last October.
She said that within a week after her
marriage she began helping her hus.
band commit burglaries.
When arrested she wore several hun.
dred dollars worth Of jewelry. The
pair operated with skeleton keys and
they did their work early in the even
ing. Mrs. Hough belonged to a respec-
table family before her marriage.
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DEAF MUTE CONVICTED.


Chicago. - Judge McEwen. of the
Criminal Court. has imposed a sen
tence of fourteen years imprisonment
on Bessett Rolooger. a negro. who is
deaf and dumb, cannot read or write.
and does not understand the sign Ian
guage.
A picture OF the p~enitentlary was
shown Rolooger. next n picture Of a
man behind the bars; then the figures
"a" ware held up before him. and
finally by means Of the 1855 leaves Of a
calendar an attempt was made to give
him an inferential idea of the length
OF a year.
RolOoger was found guilty Of killing
one man and shooting another.
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carnecIe Gin 10 Science,

1t Is announced at Edinburgh that in
f%urtherance OF his educational scheme
for Scotland Andrew Carnegie has de-
cided to endow q trust for scientific re-
search. The sum Of S5.OOO.O00 will be
expended OH the scheme.