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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
ANOTHER MISSISSIPPI FLOOD.
Crest of the Freshet Approach
ing St. Louis.
The Gauge Wednesday Night Marked
3l.7 Feet and a Rise of 35 Feet is
Expected.

st. Louis, June 3-SloWly the Mis-
sissippi River crept up the leVee today
inch by inch. until. between sunrise
and sunset the gauge marked rise
of six inches and tonight stood at 31.7
feet. The surface of the flowing water
was thickly strewn with driftwood,
which seemed to increase as the day
drew on, indicating that the crest of
the food is approaching. A number
of frame houses, submerged to the
roofs, passed st. Louis, and now and
then dead animal, but no human
bodies were seen, although vigilant
watch has been maintained.
Harbor department. officials look for
thirty-fve foot stage by Saturday.
In South st. Louis several houses
along the rivers edge have been
flooded, but the occupants have re-
moved their property and vacated. On
the Illinois side there is more serious
flood condition. Venice, situated north
of East St. Louis, IS in almost I'M
mediate danger of inundatiou. a rise
of one foot more will submerge the
west portion Of the town and manu-
featuring industries will suffer heavy
losses.
Between Venice and East St. Louis
is a low land area used as farming
lands. Water now covers this area to
a depth Of u feet, forming lake
about mile square. Many squat
ter'' families have been forced out,
leaving everything behind.
People along the river have received
general warning, and it is believed
that all in danger have escaped to
higher ground.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

A question of jurisdiction between
two trades widely divergent from each
other has arisen and may require some
fine splitting of hairs in its solution:
The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen Of America have
chartered a union of pigs feet shavers
at the stock yards, and now that all
the work of getting an organization
on a solid basis has been accomplished
the BARRIERS step in and claim jurisdic-
ton. Walter Mathis, member of the
State board of arbitration, has volun-
teered to settle the vexed question,
John Floresch, president of the Pack.
ing Trades council, and organizer OF
the Pigs Feet Shavers' union,
claims that the barber's contention is
far-fetched, because no soap is used IN
shaving pigs feet.-Chicago dispatch
to New York World.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
MONEY PANIC IN CANADA.
Banking Firm Failed for Ten Mil
lion Dollars.

Toronto, Ont, June "A. E. Ames
G. Co., bankers and brokers, closed
their doors at noon today. On win
dow was posted the following:
ssOwing to the continuous decline
In the securities market we have
found it necessary to suspend payment
and would ask the indulgence of our
friends for few days until we can
prepare statement of our affairs and
decide what is best to be done. ss
"Ames & Co. ~.
The liabilities of the firm are hard
to get at, but rough estimates make
them show as follows:
To depositors in the savings bank
branch about 500, 600.
No estimate can be given Of the liza
bilities to clients whose stocks were
being carried On margins, but they
will be hundredssof thosuands OF dol
lars.
To bankers and financial institutions
on stocks the Liabilities, it is expect
ed, will reach ten millions.
Liabilities under this head are Sc
cured by the stock plus the margins,
so that there is no possibility OF loss
to the lenders -unless all stock values
disappear.
The bank managers OF the city are
optimistic. One banker said,
eve are all right. We have looked
after ourselves and any money advanc-
ed to A. E. Ames & Co, was secured: -
The assets of the firm will not be
known until their statement is given
out, but it is thought they consist ct
its equities in the stocks which it has
been carrying with the help of banks
and other financial Institution.
PANIC CAUSED IN MONTREAL.
Montreal, June 2.-The worst panic
in the history of the Montreal stock
market was caused by the announce
ment today of the failure of a. E.
Ames & Co, of Toronto. Prices de-
clined to the lowest level of the year.
Ames is the son-in-law OF Senator
Cox, one of the wealthiest men IN
Canada. Cox is a director of the
Dominion Coal Company, in which
Ames d Co. are said to have been
trading heavily.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
WILL DOUBLE TRACK.
The Southern to Spend s25, ,o00,-
600 for Besterments.

President Samuel Spencer, Of the
Southern railway company, who is IN
Washington said that the road will be
double tracked between Washington
and Atlanta, and S25, 600, 600 spent on
betterments, including double track
age. 1t will be impossible to complete
ti1is work in one or two years but it
will be prosecuted. until it is finished.
Portious of the line will be doubled
tracked to relieve the present crowded
condition, and then the double links
will be connected.
The shops of the Southern at Alex
andria are among the largest in the
country now, but it has been found
that more is required OF them than
they are equal to at present. A con-
siderable part of the $50, 600, 600 will be
expended in this department. OF i'm
provements. Additional buildings
will be erected and new improved
machinery will be installed, requir-
ing the employment of many addition
al men.
The double track system will allow
the Southern to operate many more
trains daily than formerly and new
and fine rolling stock will be purchased
and placed on the line. It. is probable
that the entire schedule will be
changed. The already fast time made
between Washington and Atlanta Will
be increased greatly, as there willsbe
no delay at sidings and little or no
danger of collisions. 1t is also eX-
ceedingly probable that the blocS
signaling system will be adopted ana
placed in use along the entire line.
This will be one of the greatest I'M
provements of all, as it 1ninimizes the
danger to the utmost.
Many more freight trains will be run
when the two tracks are in service,
and articles shipped from the north
to Atlanta and New Orleans and other
points south of Washington will reach
their destination in much quicker time
than has heretofore been the case.
With the single track system freight
trains are compelled to take the sid
ings at frequent intervals to allow the
fast passenger trains to have the right
of way, and these stops cause much
delay and inconvenience.
This change brings Atlanta and this
part of the south into closer connectlon
with New York and the north than
ever before, making Atlanta the
farthest southern terminus OF a double
track road.
These improvements is have long been
contemplated by the management OF
the Southern, but the congestion OF
traffic on the road within the past
year has rendered it absolutely neces-
sary that steps be taken at once to
remedy the trouble, and the announce
ment that came from President yester-
day settles the matter once and for
ali. The Improvements will be made,
and at cost that assures their being
of the first magnitude. This under
taking practically means new rail,
road from Atlanta to Washington, and
is one of the indications OF the tire.
mendous growth of the business of
the roads that enter this territory.
Atlanta Constitution.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
Worst of all Experiences.

Can anything be worse than to feel that
every minute viii be your last Such was
the experience of Mrs. S. H. Newson, De-
catur, Ala. "For three years" she writes.
81 endured insufferable pain. from indi-
gestion, stomach and bowel trouble. Death
seemed inevitable when doctors and all
remedies failed. At length was induced
to try Electric Bitters and the result was
miraculous. improved at once and now
I'm completely recovered" For Liver,
Kidney, Stomach and Bowel troubles Elec-
trio Bitters is the only Medicine. It's
guaranteed by j. 7. W. DeLorme, Druggist.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

Asheville, N. G., June 2.-Col.
Frank Coke, proprietor of the Battery
Park at Hotel, died at 9 O'Clock this
morning, at his Green River planta-
tion, in Rutherford County, of heart
disease. He was in splendid health
yesterday, and his death is great
snrprise and a matter of wide regret.
BE was one of the most successful men
of Westera North Carolina, being
worth a million dollars or more.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

gin timber sufficient only for fifteen
years of box cutting. The Indifference
With which this destructive method
was everywhere once regarded mas
been succeeded by a conviction that
something must be done for the tur-
pentine industry, that some method
must be found Of extracting turpentlne
which will not prevent similar con-
tinued operations on the same trees.
The present method of boxing is need
lessly wasteiul of the products and
needlessly harmful to the forests. A
box'' or cup-like cavity is cut IN the
base of the tree to receive the resin
which flows from the scarifed face
above. The box itself does not con-
tribute any additional flow of resin; on
the contrary the deep cut, by weaken
ING the vitality OF the tree, really
lessons the flow. 1T is an unnecessary
wound, inflicted in the most vital part
of the tree reducing its vigor, lessen
ing its p wer to stand against the
wind, exposing it to the attacks of
disease, and furnishing an unnecessar1-
ly large amount of exposed. indam-
mable material to feed the next fire
that burns over the frest.
The future Of the forest that has
been heavily turpentined by the box
system is speedy decay and death.
The cup and gutter system is fully
described in Bulletin, 40, entitled I" A
New Method of Turpentine Orchard
ing,,' just issued by the Bureau OF
Forestry, and by Circular "a, which
was sent out to turpentine operators
several weeks ago. Briefly, the equip
ment consists of an earthen cup at
tached to the tree beneath its scarlhed
face and serving to catch the resin
which drips from the two galvanized
iron cutters above. The earthen cup
takes the place OF the injurious box,
or hole cut in the tree, but the new
system may be applied to boxed as well
as to unbo2ed timber.
The cup-and- gutter system works to
great advantage both for the turpen-
tine operator and the owner Of timber
lands. It assures the former an I'M
mediate increased profit at very little
additional expense, and benefits the
latter by inhicting the least possible
damage to his timber. Thesnew sys-
TEN has many additional advantages.
No change is necessary in the labor
of cutting faces on the trees, in which
the negroes Of the turpentine belt are
especially skilful. The placing OF
the equipment, which is extremely
simple in construction and may be
fitted to trees of all sizes, is easily
done by the regular turpentine labor
er. It is held so firmly in place as not
easily to be destroyed by accident,
and yet it may be easily and cheaply
removed at the end of the season.
Turpen5ine operators and timberland
owners who have seen the results OF
the cup-and gutter system are enthusl-
astic about it. II means much for the
turpentine industry; much also for
the owners of southern pine lands,
who have seen their fine timber land
laid waste by the destructive boxing. A
method of turpentining that inhicts SO
little damage on the trees is a most
important factor in the problem OF pre-
serving southern timberlands, and as
such it marks another advance IN the
progress of forestry.-Press Bulletin
Bureau Of Forestry.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
Uncle Sam Paid for Joke.

At the time when some anxiety was
felt ia Washington regarding the
health of Governor Taft, of the
Philippines, Secretary Root cabled an
INQUIRY as to his condition. The Gov
ernor anwered saying that he had just
completed horseback journey Of TWEEN
ty-Gye miles and stood the trip
WE'LL, AS Mr.. Taft weighs 25o
pounds, the Secretary could not resist
the temptation to inquire by cable;
Chow is the horse?s'
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
Kodol Gives Strength

by enabling the digestive organs to digest,
assimilate ana transform all the whole
some food that may by eaten into the
kind of blood that nourishes the nerves,
feeds the tissues, hardens the muscles and
recuperates the organs of the entire body.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures indigestion,
dyspepsia, catarrh Of the stomach and all
stomach disorders. Sold by j. S. Hushson
& G..
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

Anderson, June 2.-The storm here
yesterday cut Off ali telegraphic COM
munication until today. George Ham
mick was killed by lightning on the
piazza of his home at Orr Mills. The
house was badly torn up, but no one
else was hurt. Hammick was about
25 years old and leaves a young wife.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
That Throbbing Headache

Would quickly leave you, if You used
DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Thousands of
suffers have proved their matchiess merit
for Sick and Nervous Headaches. They
make pure blood and build up our health.
Only Is cents, money back if not cured.
Sold by j. F. ". DeLorme, Druggist.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

There is Frenchman in New York
who says he has discovered a process
for making substitute for kerosene
from water, at cost Of one cent gal
lon which gives FIVE times as much
light and heat as kerosene That is
the fellow we have been looking for for
some time. John Rockefeller has been
putting on too many airs since he has
become 3 multi millionaire.
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Driven to Desperation.

Living at an out of the way place, re-
mote from civilization, family is often
driven to desperation in case of accident,
resulting in Barns, Cuts, Wounds, Ulcers,
etc. Lay in supply of Bucklen's Arnica
Salve. It's the best on earth. Csc, at j.
F. W. DeLorme's Drug Store.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

No man can forecast the political
situation twelve months ahead; but
just nov, in the Judgment of the Star,
Judge Parker and Senator German
are the favorites for the Democratic
Presidential nomination. Of the two
Parker is probably the more available
man.-Wilmington Star.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-27
Hundreds OF Deaertions.

Washington, Nov. 24.-Because of
the large number of desertions from
British vessels while in port at San
Francisco, the British embassy has
furnished the state department with
evidence against alleged "crimpers"
in San Francisco, that will, it is be-
lieved, result in a rigid investigation
and possibly number of prosecu-
that the so-called Sailors home" at
San Francisco is headquarters for
"crinpers." Statistics show that
there were 63S desertions from Ga
British vessels carrying 1,77S men
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-27
EXPLOSION IN A MINE.
A Number of Men Were Killed at Fer
guson. Pa.


Connellsville, Pa, Nov. 23.-This
has been a sad day in the little min
ing settlement of Ferguson, nestled
in the hills mile and a half above
Dunbar. When the books of the COM
pany We're consulted yesterday to
determine the identity of the dead
and injured in Saturday nights en-
plosion in the Ferguson mine it was
found there were 21 men in the mine
at the time of the explosion. Ten
bodies were taken fl ON the mine last
night and of the ten injured, one died
yesterday and one man is missing,
whose body is supposed to be still in
the mine. All day long the trolley
cars have been crowded with curious
people going to and from the scene
of the disaster. Hundred have stood
for hours around the little black
smith shop which was turned into a
morgue, Saturday night where the
ten bodies of the unfortunate miners
were prepared for burial yesterday
morning.
Coroner Arthur F. Hagan, of Union
town, went to Ferguson early yester-
day morning and viewed the bodies
as they lay in the blacksmith shop
and summoned jury of inquest.
Coroner Hagan says he will not hold
the inquest until some of the injured
men at the hospital recover. Strange
to say only one of the bodies at the
morgue was disfgured. All the other
bodies were in good condition ana
scarcely n scratch could be found
upon them indicating that death was
due to suffocation.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-27
AN AWFUL CRASH.
Trains Collide in a Deep Cut
Near fremont, Ill.
Thirty-ono Men Killed and liz Others
Injured ON tho Eslg -Four Road
One Boiler Explodes-Wreck-
age Piled 80 Feet High
on tho Tracks.

Peoria, ILL.,, Nov. 20.-Thirty-one
men were killed and at least Is in.
jured in head-end collision between
freight train and work train on
the Big Four railroad between Mack.
inaw and fremont Thursday after.
noon. Bodies of 26 of the victims
have been taken from the wreck,
which is piled 80 feet high on the
tracks. Five bodies yet remain buried
under the huge pile of broken tim
Der, twisted and distorted iron and
steel.
All the dead and most of the in
jured were members of the work
train, the crews on both engines
jumping in time to save their lives.
The collision occurred in a deep cut,
at the beginning of a sharp curve,
neither train being visible to the
crew of the other until they were
within so feet of each other. The
engineers set the brakes, sounded
the whistles and then leaped from
their cabs, the two trains striking
with such force that the sound was
heard f,r miles.
A second after the collision the
boiler of the work train engine ex-
ploded, throwing heavy iron bars
dhu Ol WOOu SUU lteU.
Conductor John w. Judge, of In
dianapolis, who had charge of the
freight train, received orders at Ur-
bana to wait at Mackinaw for the
work train, which was due there at
failed to stop. The engineer of the
work train, George Becker, had also
received orders to pass the freight
at Mackinaw and was on the way to
that station. The work train was
perhaps five minutes late and was
running at full speed. The collision
was witnessed by Russell Noonan, a
farmers boy, ID years of age, who
fastened to nearby house and tele-
phoned to fremont.
A special train with four physicians
was made up in a few minutes and
in less than half an hour was on the
scene. AT the same time another
train arrived from Pekin bearing Su-
perintendent Barnard, of the Big
Four, and three physicians. The sec
ond train bore lot of rugs and these
were utilized to carry out the man.
gled corpses of the victims.
After working two hours the re-
mains of 26 men were taken out.
One of the last bodies recovered
was that of William Bailey, of Mack
inaw, who had been lifted 30 feet in
to the air and held in place by two
steel rails which had been pushed up
between the engine and the tender
of the work train.
The workmen had been engaged
in laying steel rails at different
points along the track and three of
the freight cars were heavily loaded.
The dead are residents of neighbor-
ing towns and the scenes about the
wreck last evening were beyond de-
scription. Wives and children of
men who were missing thronged
around, asking if their husbands or
fathers had been killed. Out of 35
men who constituted the crew of the
work train only four are living and
two of these are seriously injured.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-27
TRAIN WRECKED.
Two Persons Killed and a Half Dozen
Others Injured.

Philadelphia, Nov. 23.-Two per-
sons were killed and a half dozen
others were injured late Saturday
night in a wreck near Gywnedd, a
short distance from this city on the
Philadelphia & Reading railway. The
dead are c. L. Custer, aged 81 years,
a passenger who lived in this city,
Harry Roderick, of Doylestown, Pa,
fireman of the wrecked train. While
the injuries to some of the passen-
gers are serious all of the will re-
cover.
The railroad officials believe the ac-
cident was due to a deliberate at
tempt at train wreclling. The train
was local one from Doylestown,
and had just passed the station at
Gywnedd when the engine jumped
the track and went over an embank-
ment, followed by one car. An in
vestigation, the railroad officials say,
showed that spikes had been drawn
from plate connecting the tracks
and the rails had been spread apart.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-27
HIS HEAD CRUSHED IN.
A Telegraph Operator Is Murdered at
His Post OF Duty.

Elimira, N. Y, Nov. gov. H. Glen
denen, a telegraph operator at
Brown, Pa, station Is miles north
of Williamsport on the Beech Creek
division of the New York Central
railway, was found dead in the tele-
graph tower shortly after I O'Clock
last evening. AT $3.50 the operator at
Oak Grove received this message
Clendenen:
"Send switch engine quick to me.
1 am being murdered by -" The
wire opened and not another word
came. A switch engine was sent to
the scene. The body was found ly
ing under the desk, tbs head crush
ed in. A bloody spike maui lay on
the floor beside it. Robbery appar-
emily was the motive, the watch and
money of the operator being miss
ing.
No trace of the murderer has been
found. Clendenen was 2S years of
age and single. He evidently recog-
nized his assailant and was about to
wire his name when he was struck
dead at the KEY.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-27
VERY SENSATIONAL
Was the Final Session of A. Z.
of l.. Convention.
A Sam Francisco Delegate Declared
that Certain Members of u. s. Sens
ate are Combined to Antagon-
iEe Labor LegisIation''
-GOmpers Re-elected.

Boston, Nov. 23.-Samuel Gompers
was Saturday reelected president of
the American Federation of Labor by
large plurality. =
Boston, Nov. 24.-Just before adj
lourning last evening, without warn
ing the convention entered into one
of its most sensational hours. The
report advocating the 'reappoint-
ment by the executive council of a
Legislative committee to follow the
labor legislation at Washington oc-
casioned one of the most earnest de-
bates of the session.
Delegate Barnes, of Philadelphia,
declared that the committee was I'M
necessary and he was supported by
other delegates. Mr. Duncan, of the
executive committee, defended it and
he was followed by another member
of the committee, Delegate Furuseth,
of San Francisco, the organizer of the
Seamen's union and one of the lead
ing members of the convention. In
justifying the existence of the COM
mittee, Mr.. Furuseth in forceful
and dramatic manner delivered an
arraignment of the United States
senate.
II tell you," he said, land 1 want
TO leave JneSe words WIN you, UnaU
there is in the senate party with
out name, that deliberately and
with malice aforethought, step by
step, is taking from the working peo-
pie every right the men have and
creating conditions which will make
all your legislation in other direc-
tions of no use"
Mr.. Furuseth closed by telling the
convention that Senators Platt, of
Connecticut; Lodge, of Massachu-
setts; Hanna, of Ohio, and Morgan,
of Alabama, should be watched with
the greatest care. "A few more l
could name, but if l don't mention
them l will get along BETTER" were
his words.
The report of the committee was
concurred in.
A resolution was adopted asking
all working people to purchase goods
bearing the union label. The commit
tee on boycott recommended the
greatest caution in establishing boy
colts.
In adiourning the convention Presi-
dent Gompers declared that it has
been unquestionably one of the most
memorable and significant conven-
tions in the history of the whole la
Dor movement and that matters of
the greatest moment had been de-
pj1ed
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-27
Explorers are Re.cued.

New York, Nov. 24.-Telegrams re-
ceived here from Santa Cruz an
nounce, says n Herald dispatch from
Buenos Ayres, Argentina, the arrival
there of the Argentine gunboat
Uruguay with members of the Swed-
ish antarctic expedition under Nor
denskjold. One sailor died last win
ter. With this exception all the mem
bers of the expedition are we'll. The
party was found divided, some of the
members being at Cape Seymour and
the others at Louis Philippe Land.
Nordenskjold's vessel, the Antarctic,
was crushed in the ice February IL
of this year.