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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
A LITTLE MAN.

A Ritz man dwelt in little town
4 little over twenty years ago;
He nained little portion of renown
Within the little crowd he used to know,
He we'd little maid when twenty-one,
And later on they had little son.
This little man had little to regret,
He had but little patience with the weak.
When others fell his eyes were never wet,
With sinners he had little time to speak.
Instead, he went to church little late
And dropped little nickel in the plate.
He drank little coffee now and then,..
But little stronger liquid passed his lips;
II : mingled little with Bohemian men;
Life's wine he drank in stingy. little sips.
When stragglers came to him for lood Oh
bed,
With little pain he shook his little head.
He made little fortune rapidly
BY grinding labor out of little arms,
And by foreclosing a variety
OF little mortgages on little farms. -,
Ee died-and, meath the weeping willow
bough,
A little worm is working on him now.
William F. Kirk, in Milwaukee Sentinel.
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MINOR EVENTS0F THE WEEK
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The Secretary of the Treasury rec
ceived from a person in Brooklyn, NJ.
Y, conscience contribution Of S1OI.oU
and from Trenton, N. j., S20.
The Russian Government intends to
purchase the Russian Embassy on
Scott Circle. The Embassy will be re-:
modelled throughout and ballroom
added.
Speaker Cannon has appointed Rep
resentative Liyernash. Of California, a
member of the Committee on Enrolled
Bills.
Secretary Moody transmitted to the
House with his approval Naval,
Board report recommending site for
naval magazine to cost $5O0.GO0i
seven miles from the Boston Navy
Yard and four miles from Nastasket
Roads.
The Supreme Court of the Unitet
States. after banding down decisions
adjourned until Monday. November BOY
Representatives Underwood (Ala.J
and Hardwick lGa.j introduced joint
resolutions in the House providing for
the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment
Of the Constitution. 8
Frank P. Sargent. Commissioners OF
immigration, suffered an attack Of par
alysis of the left side. -. !,
The board, COMPOSED Of Rear-Ad-
miral Taylor and Lieutenant Com
mander Winslow. appointed to select
site for a naval training station on
the great lakes. have chosen five sites.
the first choice being Lake Bluff, thir-
ty-two miles north of Chicago: the Sec
ond is Racine, Wis; third, Muskegon,3
Mich; fourth. Milwaukee, and fftnss
Michigan City.
Postmaster General Payne directed
the dismissal of several clerks in the
st. Louis postoftice. for alleged con-
spiracy to secure the removal Of Post
master Baumhoff Of that city.
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HHort O pct hIJrt are Won ?"


The curses which issued from the
depths reassured him. The burglars 4
silence since his rapid descent had
evidently been due to amazement and
fear.
Roy could hear him prowling eau.
tiously about inside. feeling the brick
wall, and at last rattling the iron base
ment door. 1t was fast. and then the
man began to plead for mercy.
Let me out young feller! he
begged. Say. I've got whole lot of
money I'll give you if you'll only let
me out; honest. will"
NO" Roy answered. 81 guess you
can lie over with the crackers"
The burglars voice became plaintive:
"Ah, 80 on, let me out. Yon don't
want to ruin a man for life. Say, hon.
est. it's the first time ever done such
a thing. I was drove to it by my wife
and babies starvin'."
You said you had lot of money
you would give me-" Roy reminded
him.
Then the man broke out cursing
again. and Roy slammed the door. The
cursing subsided, and before long Roy
heard a faint and frightened voice Pc
titioning:
LET me speak to you, young feller!
Open the door,"
The boy obliged his prisoner to this
extent, and then the burglar said:
"You amt cruel enough to keep
man down here. I'll be baked alive
There's no fire under the oven.'
Roy told him, land I'll see they don't
light up till after the police get you.
Don't be uneasy. Now I've got to
close the door or the crackers will get
spoiled"
For the remainder Of the night he
was deaf to the entreaties that from
time to time walled up from the inter-
ior of the vault.
At last, in the early morning light,
the foreman and other packers came,
and Roy announced his capture.
HE must have slipped in at the side
door and got up the stairs when the
bakers weren't looking" the boy said.
"And I suppose he didn't hear me be.
cause had on overShoes, and the office
door was pretty nearly shut. He didn't
get into the safe"
The foreman looked at Roy with ad-
miration. boy" he said. you've done
4 good nights work. And you got
here at $50, eh? Well, it certainly is
the early bird that catches the burg
lar"
One of the other boys was for light
ing a small fire under the oven. "just
to SINCE him" but the foreman said no.
and telephoned to police headquarters.
Five minutes later the chief and one
of his men arrived. and when the even
door was opened. and the prisoner
crawled sulkily forth to have the
bracelets snapped on his wrists, the
officers gave cry of delight.
"Slim Jim Mclean" exclaimed the
chief
you'd never have got mer' said Slim
Jim. visiously. Then he took a malev-
olent look at the four boys. II don't
know which one of you young fellers
it was. but when I get out I'll make
one of you pay for this!'
The chief laughed. 81 guess you're
safe for about twenty years, Roy" he
said, land by that time you'll be able
to raise chin whiskers and disguise
yourself. youths Companion.
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FOREIGN.

Manuel Espinosa was appointed q
member of the Panama Junta to sue
ceed FREDERICK Boyd .-
Edward Lord Weeks. the well-knoYR'
American artist, died at Paris. Erahce.
Whalers just returDe to Scotland
report that they Sednd the Danish
Eriksen expeditiA on Saunders ISL
and in a pikShfe state Of destitution.
Count MoEke, THE artist Of the expe-
dition, WITS very i'll.
The Austrian military authorities
have decided in favor Of a special kind
of wrought bronze. from which 5000
new/cannon for the Austro-Hungarian
army will be Manufactured.
The De Beers Consolidated Mines
produced in the past year diamonds
worth S26, ,205, $3.50, giving a profit Of
S1lJ11 400.
Seventeen italian Anarchists have
been expelled from Geneva. Switzer-
land and delivered to the Italian az
thorities.
Premier Giolitti. yielding to the in.
SiStelce Of King Victor Emmanuel of
Italy. has abandoned his intention of
ItslSHtuS.
RusSianssailors at Chemulpo, Korea,
on being attacked by japanese dock
laborers, drove The latter away with
their lists. using no weapons.
4 lire in the mail car of the st. Pet
erShurg-M Moscow mail train is reported
to Lave destroyed property estimated
III value at S3,500,000.
Several hundred persons have been
thrown out of employment by the clos
ing of the iron mines in Santiago,
CuOa.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author,
has received the Conservative nomina-
fiou fur Parliament in the Border
EurghS.
Hils,ias demand on China for the
recall Of the Taotai Yuan q Manchu,
from the Korean border. has been
granted Eader pressure.
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Worlds Fair Pointers.

Indiana Day at the Worlds Fair will
be September Is, 1904.
The Cascade region at the World
Fair is each day taking on a more
finished look.
The landscape around the Mexican
national pavilion at the Worlds Fair
is receiving the finishing touches.
Cardinal Satolli. formerly Papal Del.
egate to the United States, will visit
the st. Louis Exposition in 1904.
The gardens, 1900 feet long, between
the Transportation and Machinery pal
aces at the Worlds Fair have been
finished.
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DOMESTIC.

The first train was runS across Salt
Lake over the new $4,000, 900 cut. -;ss
The total taxable wealth. Of Indian
Territory, according the Governors
report, Is $43.0SS,041.
The nine Sioux Indians held at Doug
las, Wyo., for the murder of officers
who were pursuing them have been
discharged. it being sworn that the
two redskins killed were the murder.
ers. n, Il
Trouble in the oficeNQf the United
States Treasury agent AIT Boston,
Mass, has resulted in the Gansfer OF
Colonel G. j. Smith and his skEc clerks.
Sent to a hospital in San Fran 40,
CAL, because Of mental trouble. r.
Metayer. a merchant from AustraliassFz
cut his throat. ;, ~. 4 &
Nine hundred men were thrown out
of employment at Ensley, Tenn, by q
the closing Of the steel mills of the
Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railway
Company for lack Of orders.
Twenty -four eight-inch and twenty
four seven-inch guns for the navy have
been ordered made at the arsenal at.
Watervliet, N. Y. ~ y.
Arthur wilkins. Of Atkinson, Me-.
registered guide" was shot through
the head by another guide, Charles
Berry. of the Kathardin Iron Works,
and died two hours later.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company
brought suit in st. Louis to cancel poll
,les aggregatlng S250,O00 issued to
James L. Blair. z
Citizens Of San Antonio. Texas, were
In fre1zy Of rage because for twenty
three days they had been isolated from
the world through quarantine regula-
lions.
The United States Court Commits
sioner at San Francisco. Cal, has
handed down q decision in the case Of
Lin Lung Wong, a merchant, to the
effect that Chinese manufacturer
who engages in any kind Of manual
labor about his factory Is a laborer
under the meaning of the exclusion act,
and as such is not entitled to enter into
or remain in the country as a mer-
chant
An explosion Of natural gas at Mar
ion. Ind, wrecked Benjamin Rights
home, besides badly injuring FIVE per-
sons in the house. ,-.s
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Minor Mention.

The deficit on account of the British
postal telegraph is $4,50O,000 for the
year.
The banking capital of New York
City has been doubled within five years.
years.
Otto Weininger. an Austrian. aged
twenty -one, wrote book in which he
made a savage onslaught on women;
then he committed suicide.
The Italian Congress has voted
large sum of money to establish wire.
less station for telegraphic communi-
cation with South America,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
Moro Suits AYainst Dowie.

The return of Dowie from the East
has been signalized by the filing of
more suits for debt against him in the
Lake County Circuit Court and the
Zion institutions at Waukegan, Ill.
Most Of the firms are Chicago ones.
The Weaver Coal Company wants
$4,000 for coal furnished. W. 8. Peck
& Co. have a $500 claim for goods
supplied, and Selz, Schwab & Co.,
$1,000 for goods.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
Half Million Dollar Fire.

Fire practically destroyed the five, so
storv brick building Nos. 127 and l29
North Fourth street, Philadelphia. Pa.
occupied by the Philadelphia Straw
board Company and several other ten
ants The loss on the building is esti'
mated at $4,000 and on the contents
Sl.5 600.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
A Protest to the World.

London.-The Colombian authorities
have cabled to London lengthy pro.
test against the action Of the United
States toward Panama. The cable mes
sage says that President Marroquin has
energetically protested to the United
States and wishes that his protest
should be known throughout the civil.
lied world. The President contends
that the United States has infringed
Article 35, of the treaty Of 1916. which
he asserts implies the duty on the part
Of the United States to help Colombia
i'll maintaining her sovereignty over
the isthmus. He asserts that since
1885 they have granted canal privileges
to different parties no less than nine
times, and that the treaty concluded
with the late General Hurlbut (when
he was United States Minister res
ident to Colombia) at Bogota. July 8,
1870, has been ignored at. Washing
ton.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
PAPER COMPANY ASSIGNS.
Property Of the President Attached For
Alleged Shortage.

Holyoke, Mass.-Thomas W. Holly.
President and Treasurer Of the Amer
lean Pad and Paper Company. is
charged with being between S35,OO0
and $4,000 short in his accounts, and
to protect itself the company has as
signed.
Holly's property, consisting Of a
house, horses and carriage and his
stock in the pad and paper company,
has been attached.
Holly, it is said, has made a state
ment to the company officials in which
he says he has been getting company
money on orders for several years.
Large numbers Of his notes are now
held by local banks. His yearly sal.
ary has been $4,000. but he says 1t
has cost him from $1,000 to $4,000 a
year more than that to live.
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Treatment For Sting OF Bee.

In case a piece Of the sting Of bee
remains in the wound, extract it with
the fingers or a small pair of tweezers.
The best application for the inaamma-
ton is diluted ammonia water, after
which a cloth covered with sweet Oil
should be placed upon the part.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
LORD KITCHENER HURT;
Leg Broken While Riding Alone in In
dia-His Horse Frightened.

Simla, India.-Lord Kitchener, Com
mander-in- Chief of the British forces in
India, met with serious accident
while riding home alone from coun-
try house near here. AS he was pass
Ing through tunnel his horse became
frightened by the sudden appearance
of natives, and collided with the walled
side One Of Lord Kitchener's legs was
jammed against a beam and was
broken in two places above the ankle.
Some time afterward coolies passing
through the tunnel-the original coolies
having fled-found the Commander-in-
Chief lying there helpless, and brought
him to Simla. He is now reported to
be doing well.
Lord Kitchener was alone for the
reason that he told the members of his
staff that he did not intend to ride out,
but later changed his mind.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
Missouri Prosecutor Indicted.

MiRBourf Pro8ecutOf 1HuIcteU'
Four indictments have been found
by the Cole County Grand Jury
against R. P. Stone. the prosecuting
attorney of Jefferson City, Mo. He is
charged with demanding and recelv-
ing illegal fees and accepting rail-
road pass from the Missouri Pacific.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
CHICAGO STRIKE SERIOUS.
Labor Leaders Plan to Defeat the Chicago
City Railway Co.

Chicago, Ill.-The menace of the
sympathetic strike in behalf of the
street car men, postponed recently,
has become real. The firemen or the
Chicago City Railway Company's pow
er plants. who quit work recently,
were joined by the engineers. Ihe
teamsters who haul the coal that sup
plies the power plants are IN an ugly
mood, and may refuse to deliver fuel
at any moment. Such refusal would
amount to a severe blow to the car
company.
With police protection and cars ac-
tually running over the Wentworth
avenue route, at least at intervals. the
labor leaders evidently are consider
ing the use of the sympathetic strike
as their most available weapon.
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YELLOW FEVER IN MEXICO;
Disease Now Beyond Control OF the
Health Department.

disease NO" bCyCuu SoutTUA Va tho
Health Department.
Austin, Texas-The yellow fever cpl
demic in Mexico is now beyond the
control of the health authorities OF
that country, according to adyices
which have reached the Texas State
Health Department. 1t is stated that
the unusually long period Of warm
weather and the failure Of the lower
class of Mexicans to report cases of the
disease to the health authorities, have
caused the epidemic to spread to every
town between Monterey and Laredo.
The United States Marine Hospital
Service is rendering what aid 1t can
to the Mexican authorities in suppress
ing the disease.
It is estimated that the loss Of bust
ness in Monterey alone as a result OF
the epidemic aggregates more than ST.
100000.
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Elkins' Gift Illegal.

The bequest of S24000O for the rrer-
ton of a Masonic Orphanage for Girls
made by William L. Elklns' OF Hhlla, :,
delphia. Pa. has been declared ll!egai
by Register of Wills Croft, Of Mont.
comery County, because the codirI
providing for the gift was made with
in thirty days of the testator'S death
ond is therefore, imperative.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
High Feeling in Bogota.

Washington, D. C.-President Mario
quin, of Colombia, is in danger of be-
ing overthrown by a revolution. and
feeling against Americans in Bogota
is running so high that United States
Minister Beaupre has cabled the State
Department for permission to leave his
post. This permission has been given
him
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
Polish Baron Stabbed.

Waldemar Sorokou MOwski, who
says he is Baron von Friessen. of q
noble Polish family. and who has been
engaged in the cotton business, was
stabbed in a saloon brawl at New Or.
leans, La.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
charsed With Robbins BiItmore.

Daniel C. Champlain. eS-Mayor OF
Biltmore, and cashier OF the Biltmofe
estate, and George K. Ten"ent, hereto
fore timekeeper for the estate, were
indicted by the Grand Jury OF the
Superior Court, ut ASheville, \. g., on
the charge of embezzling $1,000 from
George w. Vanderbilt.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
Girl Poisons Family.

Because the parents of Emma Mum.
mey. fourteen years old, Of Urbana, O..
objected to the company she kept she
put Paris green in the coffee, poison
ing her father. mother. sister and two
brothers. Their lives were saved by
the prompt work Of physicians.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
pr;,,aSs Elizabeth Dead.

Princess Elizabeth of Hesse, the
eight-year-old daughter Of the Grand
Duke Of Hesse and Princess Victoria
of Saxe-Coburg died ut SkierneWlct.
Russian Poland, from caoiera'c
seizure,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
Dvnamiter Asks $500.

Threats to blow up the Plaza Hotel
a large and fashionable hotel fronting
Lincoln Park, Chicago, ILL.,. have been
made TO William Hall. manager of the
building, in an anonymous letter'
which names rs an ALTERNATIVE tue
payment of $500.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
Row Killa His Aunt Accidentally.

Carroll Bailey, sixteen years old. Of
Westbrook, Me-, accidentally dis.
charged a gun and shot his grand.
mother, Mrs. Leighton, and his aunt,
Miss Lydia Leighton. The latter was
killed instantly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
Fierce Fire

Fierce Fire at Pawtucket.
A fire burned the building owned
and occupied by the Pawtucket Baking
Company. at Pawtucket, r. l. Ihe
loss is $30,O00.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
Worlds Largest Carpet.

The largest carpet in the world is
forty feet in breadth and contains 5e,-
$4,000 stitches. 1t took twenty-eight
men over fourteen months to make it.
It ia now at Windsor Castle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-12-02
NEW LAW URGED.
A Bill Aimed Against Get Bich Quick
Insnrance Companies.

A Bill Aimed Against Uee Hfcfh
Insurance Companies.
Washington. D. G. - A bill INTRO
duced by Senator Dryden, Of New !er-
sey, applies the Anti-Lottery. law to
matter sent through the mails by get
rich. quick insurance companies. 1t de-
nies the use of the mails to companies
which are not authorized to 90 Dusi,
ness by the: certificate OF the INSURANCE.
commissioner Of some state.
The passage of this legislation Is
urged by the national convention OF
state Insurance Commissioners.
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Erido and Her Sister Peri sh .

Mrs. Frank Downing, q bride.
iumped into the Mouse River. at Mi
not, N. D., to rescue her young sister.
who had broken through the ice. Both
were carried under and lost.
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Shot Six NEGROES.

Six negroes were shot and several
seriously wounded during a braWi on
the Clanton plantation. five miles west
of Albany, Ga. by George Peak also
coIorn6
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Dies in Florida OF Mosquito Bites.
Walter Johnson, a f1agman Of the
Florida East Coast Railway, died sud-
denly at Jacksonville. Fla, from the
effect of mosquito bites.
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Samuel F. Phillips Dend.

Samuel F. Phillips. Solicitor-General
of the United States under Presidents
Grant. Hayes. Garfield and Arthur.
died at Washington, D. c., aged sew
enty-nine years.
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c;ya Axay whisky.

Crime to Give AWAY Whisky.
The Supreme Court of Missour: h"Na
that the statute prohibiting the 2iFlh=
away of liquor in local option counties
Is constitutional
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COLOMBIA MAKES PROTEST
Says Responsibility For Secession Of
Panama Rests With Washington
WANTS WORLD TO BE JUDGE

This Country For Fomonting Revolu-
tlon and Permaturely Recognizing
Republic OF Pansma-The Movement
Called Barracks Coup"
Washington, D. C.-The Colombian
Government has protested to the
United States against the recognition
of Panama. and has demanded justice.
The protest expresses the surprise of
the people Of Colombia at the precip-
itate recognition of barracks coup"
In the Department Of Panama; cites the
public treaty obligations Of this coun.
try, and ''the traditional principles o.
the American Government in oprosi-
ton to secession movements" and sap.
peals to the dignity and honor Of the
American Senate and people" The
substance of this appeal was cabled
from Bogota by the Minister. of Gov
ernment, Estebah Jaramillo.
The Colombian Government holds
that the main responsibility for the Sc
cession lies with this country, because:
First, we have fomented the separ-
atist spirit.
Secondly. we have hastily acknowl-
edged the independence Of the rebels.
Thirdly. we have prevented the
Colombian Government from using
proper means to repress the rebellion.
A press dispatch from Colon. says
that the Hamburg-American steamer
Scotia when it arrived there brought
several prominent Colombians from the
State Of Bolivar, forming peace COM
mission. The dispatch says that Amer
ican naval officers are boarding all ves-
sells arriving at Colon to see whether
they have Colombian troops on board.
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WHEN THE CRACKERS
LAY OVER.
o~o~o~o~~c~e

z HE four boys who packed
b the barrels of crackers in
6 Bonney's bakery gathered
4 about the foreman. Frank
Morse, as he examined the