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Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-12-23
BIC BRIpGE coLLAPsEs

Charleston, w Va. Dec. 49,
Two persons were killed and five
others seriously injured to-day by the
collapse of the suspension bridge
across the Elk river which connects
East and Wesr Charleston.
uamie Rigging gotham, II vars old.
Annie Humphreys, y years old.
The injured are:
Zella Smith. y years old, compound
fracture OF elbow.
William Holnes, coloied. driver cut
and bruised.
-.enry Ft lder, driver serious internal
injuries.
Ollie Gibbs, IS years old both hips
and arm broken
Elma Ticker, 10 wears cid, both arss
and leg broken
On the bridge when il w-nt
down were six children on their
way to school and number Of other
pedestrians, together with six teams.
The bridge went down without
warning, but a mum aer Of those who
where near the end OF the structure
I managed to reach land heiore it col.
lapsed Those who went down with
the wrecksge fell distance OF 40 feet
into the ice covered waters OF the
river.
The steamer Baxter broke the ice
to allow small boats to reach the
scene and the fescne work bagau i'm
niediatsly The i.jutsd were Grst as
sisted to shore and la'er search wac
made Of TIE river for dad bod es The
bodies OF Mamie Higginbothan and
Annie HUMPHREYS were takea out
and the search continued until night
tall. but no others were found.
The bridge a Jor was covered with
several inches Of ice and snow.
The accident was caused by two
large cables Of the bridge pulllug
away from their moorings, til,ipg the
floor and sliding people and Wagon
off Later the strain snapped one Of
the two cables on the lower side. the
floor turning completely over as 1t
dropped All the rescued were numbed
and chilled and suffering from the
shock. OF The i horses on the bridge
but one escaped. The FIRE department
did good work and The steamer Bax-
ter broke ice IN order to get small
boats up. The crash was heard al
over Charleston and in the country.
The bridge has been considered nm
safe Tor heavy loads for several months
and last Labor Dsy the officers would
not allow the floats in the parade to
cross the bridge on account of its
supposed unsafe condition.
/ Eneinee Thomas Jeiiries has ar
rangec Tor a government diver to
search the bed OF the Elk nver for
bodies
The span for the bridge which fell.
was about 500 feet long. The bridge
was built in 1881
During the Civil war a cable or
this bridge was cut by General Wise
when be evacuated Charleston. the
bridge at the same time being partial
ly burned. The safne.eable was after
wards spliced and has beenin use ever
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-12-23
HINTS AT ALL LEGGsL AToRs.
81 Louis Republic.

Now that January the meeting time
Of legislatures end busy days OF lot-
oyi~ts, Is drs wing neal. our newly elect
ed public servants may well give heed
to some old wise SAW: A legislator ia
known by the company he keeps.
Bribers discover many new ways to
pay nlembe,s' Did debts Eternal vigi-
lance is the price Of reputation. Repu-
1ation'i is tie better part of valor. A
scandal has nine lives
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-12-23

Mr. w. G. Scheu, vac n2s bee in
this city ioi some time III the int~rsbt
OF the Spencer ovedless Apple Geu-
papy, was called 10 his home, at
Grand Junction Col. on last Wednes-
day BY The sad ne as Vi The death of
mis- youngest cnlid.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-12-23
\ GUARAN Ted CURE FOR
PHI ES.

Etching, Bl nc. Bleeding or Protrudiug
Piles. Druggists refund neney If Pazo
Ole ment fails to cure any case. no
matter of how long ) anding, in 6to IA
days. FIRST applicable gives sa'- and
rest. soc. If ysor druggist hasn't i send
soc in stamps and it will be fcfwardt d
postpaid by Paris Medicine Co., 5t.
Louis Mo.
Il-lS-6
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-12-23
POWERS GRANTED NEW TRIAL.

Caleb Powers. former secretary Of
state, was granted a new trial by the
kentucky appellate court. Each
the seven judges OF the court wrote
an opinion in the case. Four coueu,-
red in ordering a new trial. They
were Judges Barker. Settle. Buns
and o Rear. The three who dissented
were Judges Paynier, Mum aud
Hobsou.
Powers was charged with compiled
"; IN the assassination OF Governor
Coeoel. On The first trial he was con-
vieted ard given life sentence. The
second trial res ult,d IN a conviction
and sentence to death.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-12-23
GOOD MEMORY AND EyEsIqHT

Prof G. W. Humphreys, of the Uni-
versity Of Virginia. while at Beckley.
Raleigh county, NOT long since y.
p'enloere oeing engaged In 1861 In an
artillery duel on the hills where the
town ls now located. His recollection
was very distinct. tn i as sergeant of
q pun detachment he had fred at a
cetsain spot where some of the enemy
Were seen, shel, which to bis sur
Prise, did not explode. I he ex-sergeant
determined TO investigate and climeeo
the hill, His search was soan reward.
ed oy hndng the identical unex ploded
she'i lying on the spot under the leave
OF iorty-three winters. He could have
sworn to his shell,a brought ii home
as a race souvenir. stanton Specta-
tor.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-12-23
FIGHT WILL BE BITTER.

Those who will persist In closing
their ears against the continual recon-
mendatien of Dir. Kings New Diseov-
cry for Consumption will have long
aud bitter fight with their troubles, II
not ended earlier by fatal teruinatisu.
Read what T. X. Beall " Beail, Miss,
has tosat; Last fall my wife had
every symptom Of consumption. She
TOOK DIR. Kings New Discovery after
everything else bad failed. Improve
ment came ~ once and four bottles En-
her. Guaranteed by NJ. A
Snodgrass, Druggist. Price zoe and
LEO Trial bottles free
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-12-23

Love will find the way. even If it is
nothing better than the instal,nent
plan
Love is sweet dream that matri-
mony turns into Horrible night :
mare
After girl passes twenty five. she
might as well marty; she will "a de
anyway.
Il is always case 81 loves labor
lost unless it becomes a member of
the union.
A girl may FORGIVE man for kiss
ing her, but never for apologizing
atterwafd.
Miss Roberta Henshaw came home
from Baltimore this week on account
of the illness of her father.
The growing wheat has been KEEP I
back by the dry weather during the
fall but the present heavy snow will
be of great benefit to it.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-12-23

How little man knows Of his
c1untrymen. urless he lives in
c. untrv village
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-12-23

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.

Take Laxative Bromo Quluine tab
iets All druggists refund the NJ oney IL
u fails to core. T.. w. Groves signature
Is on each box. 25e
ll-ls-ly.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-12-23

Man proposes. woman imposes, aud
the divorce ecu exposes.
Love may be blind. but the ueip h.
hors generally have their eyes og.eu.
Woman's inhumanity to man
makes countless thousands to die old
bachelors.
II had running, itching sore on
my leg. Suffered lortures Doan $
ointment took away the burning and
itching Instantly, aud quickly effected
permanent cure, c. w. I.enhart
Bowling Green. Ky,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-01

trine of government ownership of rail-
roads. It also in effect denounced the
Panama canal, now in process Of con-
struction The result is that the lead
ing aspirations OF American citizens
were condemned and a government re-
version TO an antique and exploded
type, inconsistent with American in
stitutfons, advocated.
Hearst will not and Parker, the re-
Spectacle though unknown leader of
the negative quantity IN American
politics, will be nominated. But Theo-
dore Roosevelt. the representative of
positive and advancing Americanisn1,
within the lines of the constitution and
of definite and successful politics. will
not only be nominated but elected. The
result has long since passed beyond the
region of uncertainty.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-01
MORE ABOUT THE
MOORISH BANDITS

TANGIER (Morocco), May 20.-Ion
Perdfcaris' family has received a, letter
from the brigands requesting food and
clothing for the captives, the wealthy
American and his stepson, Cromwell
Varley, a British subject, stating that
both are well. The captives are detain-
ed four hours outside of Tangier,
where Correspondent Harris of the
London Times was confined A tribe
loyal to the Sultan has offered TO
rescue the captives, but the offer was
declined, because the Sultan feared
that it would imperil the captives'
lives.
WASHINGTON. May 20.-Mr. Per-
dicaris, the wealthy American resident
of Tangier. Morocco, and his stepson,
a British subject, who were captured
by brigands, have been CO led into the
mountains, where pursuit is almost
impossible. The State Department has
been advised to this effect by Mr.
Gummere, United States Consul-Gen-
eral at Tangier, in cablegrams reach
reports that no terms have been receiv-
ed from the brigand chief. Gummere
said that the Moorish authorities are
assisting in every way they can, and
adds that a war vessel will be of great
assistance.
PARIS, May 20.-The French Gov
eminent does not intend to send a war
ship to Tangier or otherwise intervene
f11n Of
Perdicaris and Varley by brigand7.
The right of France to intervene would
raise direct issue with the Sultan of
Morocco concerning the exercise of
police powers Moreover. the Govern
ment advices are that Mohammed Ell
Torres. the representative of the Sui
tan at Tangier, will meet the brigands'
demands in order to secure the pris-
oners release.
Unofficial advices say that Moham- !
med ell Torres has already recalled the /,
Moorish troops, as the brigands de- |
manded.
United States Consul General Gum |
mere, at Tangier. Morocco, telegraphs !
the reports that the brig |
and band which captured Perdicaris !
and Varley is the same that captured !
Harris, the London Times correspond |
ant, last year. Besides capturing the |
men, members of the band attacked !
he women of the Perdicaris party The
British and American representatives
1t Tangier are taking energetic meas
lres 10 obtain the release of the cap
lives and the MooSissh authorities are
assisting them.
GIBRALTAR, May 20.-A British !
boat, No. So, sailed today for |
Tangier in connection with the kid
tapping of Perdicaris and his stepson,
L British subject, by armed Arabs,
leaded by Raissouli the notorious
,rigand chief.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-01
A. GOOD SHOWING.

Despite some desultory notes of de-
preston in the past year, there has
been a large net increase in the ex-
ports of manufactures from the Unit
ed States. Tables have just been is
sued by the Department of Labor and
Commerce through it's bureau of
statistics, which include all manufac-
tured articles or groups of articles
whose expectation aggregated, in the
last fiscal year. as much as one million
dollars in value, or seem likely to ag-
gregate that sum in the present fiscal
year In one table are brought to-
gether all items showing an increase
for the nine months ending March 81,
1904, as compared with the nine months
ending March 81, 1903, and in another
table the decreases are exhibited.
The first table comprises twenty-five
articles or groups, with an aggregate
value of $3.50, 762, 453, for the period end
ing in 1904, against $241, 844,9O2 for the
period ending in 1903, an increase OF
s39 1851. There are but seven articles
or groups in the table showing de-
creases, the aggregate value for the
last nine months given being $36,3O7,-
O76. against $44, 1886, 1897 in the cor
responding period of the previous fiscal
year. The total decrease is SS,52S,02l.
Thus the net increase in export of |
manufactures, taking articles or groups
of articles up to the million mark, Is |
$50. 1888, 1856. It should be said here that
the twenty-nine articles tabulated in
clude about 90 per cent of the total
exports of manufactures. Among the
groups showing an increase is that OF
sugar and confectionery, with value
of s2,56s ,526 in 1904. against s2,31O,66o
in 1903. Nearly eight millions of the
decrease was in manufactures of cot
ton.
Altogether the showing is not bad
one to be made in presidential year.
1t will have it's value in neutralizing
any efforts Of the calamity howlers
to cry down the Republican admins
tratiOu
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-01
MIGHTY BATTLE COMlNG

There is every probability that the
attack on Port Arthur which the Jap
anese have planned for just a fort
night hence, viii involve an encounter
to make one of the greatest battles of
history We know already the deter
mination and unfiinching courage of the
Japanese. also the Importance of the
position to both sides. The following
report of an order issued by General
Stoessel, who commands at Port Ar
thur, to the defenders will give good
idea of what is expected of the Rus
slams when the hour of decision strikes:
Il shall never give the word to sur
render. Further, we have absolutely
no place to retire to. Even the most
tirnid must appreciate these points, and
/ warn you all that you must fight to
the death Those that go into battle
ready to lay down their lives are the
men that accomplish great things and
who shrink from the combat and seek
to save their own persons,
these, too. must die, but die inglorious-
y, for from this fortress there is no
escape 1t has the sea on three sides
and the enemy on the fourth. There
IS nothing for it but to fight, and the
our soldiers will give them.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-01

One of the blacklist features of the
science of war is the fathomless depth
of treachery into which it drags men.
LIE Martin, Paris newspaper states
that "eighty-five genuine plans of the
Notifications of TouIon have reached
NJ. Cambon, the French Ambassador in
London. They had passed through the
hands of two Italians, who are acting
as spies for several of the Powers, in
Guiding Germany" How did they reach
the hands of che spies?
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-01
NEW TRIAL ASKED.
Cotton Brothers Will Argue Motion
on Friday.

A new trial in the Territory VS.. Cot
ton Brothers case, in. which plaintiffs
were awarded $4,000 for the loss of the
Government dredger at Pearl Harbor,
has been moved on the ground that the
jury failed to deduct from the amount
awarded the sum of s10,S00 shown by
admitted testimony to be the value of
that portion of the property. returned
by defendants to the plaintiff"
Argument on the motion will be pre-
scented before Judge Gear on Friday
morning by A. s. Hartwell; Assistant
Attorney General E. c. Peters for the
Territory.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-01

It is satisfactory that there is not
going to be an interregnum in the Su-
preme Court. All sorts of injustice
might run loose should a hiatus occur
in the continuity of the highest decid-
ing tribunal of the Territory. Even if
an appeal, for instance, be i'll taken
ON the legal merits it may serve a pur-
pose of real justice in restraining undue
impetuosity of men in getting their
adiudicated pound of flesh"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-01
JAPAN'S AIMS.
Baron suyemstsu Defines Her Policy
If Victorious.

A cablegram from London says: Bar
on Suyematsu, son-in-law of me Mar
quis Ito, and former japanese minister
of the interior, who recently arrived
here by way of the United States, in
the course of an interview with refer
ence to the fears expressed on the con-
tfnent as to the effect of japanese sue
cesses on Japan's policy after the war,
said emphatically that Japan's policy
was well defined, and that her success
would not change it.
The future status of Korea would be
that of a Japanese Cuba. or Japanese
Egypt. To Russia would not be al
lowed the least political or territorial
hold there.
Regarding Manchuria, Japan desired
no rights there beyond those enjoyed
by other powers. Manchuria would be
given back to China, but under condi-
lions rendering those before the war
impossible. Manchuria might be made
a buffer state under China's sover-
eighty.
Discussing Chinas neutrality, NJ.
Suyematsu said the chief danger was
Russia, which was either willingly or
unconsciously irritating the Chinese,
thus tending to a breach of neutrality.
n did not believe that any change in
China's attitude would involve France
or Germany in the issues Of the war.
Japan's aims, he said, were perfectly
legitimate, her policy being to insure
absolute freedom for all the powers
in the far east. and no occidental pow
er need have the slightest anxiety that
Japan would suffer from 'swelled
head as a result of the conflict.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-01
INTELLIGENT ENDORSEMENT.

The Republican State Convention OF
California, which endorsed Mr.. Roose-
welt and elected delegation to the
Republican National Convention, pre-
scented a striking contrast to the Demo-
cratic State Convention, held at Santa
Cruz. which, by a very narrow major
ity. instructed the delegates to the
Democratic National Convention to aid
in the nomination of William R.
Hearst
The Republican Convention was
practically a unit. It's chairman was
Judge Burnett of Sonoma, whose in
troductory speech was one of the most
cogent arguments for the choice of the
Republican party that has appeared
during the present campaign. He re-
ferred to Mr.. Roosevelt in a manner
that effectuany answered the only
point that has really been suggested
against him, by emphasizing the fact
that he had quened all the doubts
that had accompanied his translation
~ the UISuSSI O1llSS III Tic 4ECPuOAAS
by rigid adherence to the policy of
President Mckinley, which has been
sanctioned throughout the country, and
by "a calmness and conservatism and
equipoise Of temperament that have
shown him to be one of the safest as
well as one of the strongest men who
ever occupied the presidential chair"
Neither capital nor labor" added
Judge Burnett, has any just ground
to fear the administration Of this
patriotic and fearless leader, because
he will treat them both with absolute
fairness and an unselfsh desire to do
right
These are the keynotes to the sue
cess that is already assured. Mr..
Roosevelt has declined utterly to use
his exalted position with any reference
to his own political future and his adj
minfstra ton has been stamped by judi
ciaI fairness. by genuine conscien-
tiousness. and by a firm reliance upon
the people. These are elements that,
in a presidential year especially, in
American history have always proved
to be controlling.
The Democratic Convention, on the
other hand, simply illustrated the
political atavism that has character
lied the Democratic party since 1892.
On the first day of its session, the
Hearst forces were beaten and an anti
Hearst chairman elected In a single
night, through methods that have been
justly excoriated in the California
press a sufficient number of plastic
delegates were secured to pass the in
structions for Hearst, which antago-
nized the action of Democrats in nearly
every great state in the Union. The
platform adopted had scarcely any
evidence of identity with American
democracy, as it formerly existed 1t
advocated the election of Federal SEN
ators by the direct vote of the people,
which fs not party question, and
which eminent lawyers and statesmen,
of both parties, consider a serious dis
turbance of the constitutional balance.
1t further presented the socialistic doc
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-01

A lock of Napoleon's hair is on ex
hibition at St. Louis. What is the mat
ter with Russia's taking the cure, for
her military distempers, of a hair of
the dog that bit her? No difference
though the bite nearly killed the dog.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-01

If the present season of social festivi-
ties is not brisk enough for Honolulu,
will not some one kindly suggest what
NAV be lacking?
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-01

When the great are mean, they are
return of SANDER for the kind offices of
American Navy men at Chemulpo is an
instance,
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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-04-14
HORRIBLE cRuEhTIEs.
they Arc prsotised on III Natives of
the Congo Free State in
Interest of Leorbo!d.

Louisville, Ky, April 1.-Dr. w. NJ.
Morrison, a southern Presbyterian min
to the Congo Free Skate. IN speak
ing to the Presbyterian Ministers ass
ISOLATION here, gave an Impressive re-
cital of alleged barbarities practiced
upon the natives of the Congo state by.
those holding power
Il lived with these people seven
years. said DR.. Morris9n, king Leo
pold has there a native fcannihal army
Of 20, o00 men, differed by white Bel
gians. II armed with repeating rifles.
These men, representing the worst and
most Savage type OF natives. were first
caught, then carried far away from
their homes and forced into the mill
tary service. This sold;ery is used to
compel the natives To bring an enor-
nous tribute of ivory and rubber.
1t is worth noting that the king OF Bel
GUM is today reputedl to be the largest
dealer III ivory and rubber in the
world.
U~nsreakable Cruelities.
LAS a result of this forced labor and
military service great and u~nspeakable
crueltieS are practiced on the native
people. have seen so. 900 fleeing into
the forests to escape from the cannibal
soldiers. have seen these soldiers
securing through the forests, and after
catching a number Of men whom the
government wanted at laborers, going
away with the captives tied together
by ropes around their necks. Raids
upon the villages are being constantly
made. Some of the people are killed and
eaten. others are carried away into cap
tivity ard sold. ] can buy all the slaves
you want at Luebo, at from $40 10 SIS
each.
innocent women and children are
killed or captured and the hands cut
off to he taken back to the white Bel
gian officers to show the work has been
We'll done and great sections are being
1apopulated.
Severed Hands.
after one of these raids one of our
missionaries counted eighty-one hands
cut off and drying over Il fire to be
taken back to the Belgian officers.
Forty-ive dead bodies were counted
near by"
DR.. Morrison said he has appealed 10
the governor of Congo state II promi-
nent officials at the Belgian capitol, TO
have these atrocities stopped, but al
ways they said they could do nothing
and denied all the charges. Consul
Roger Garment, the English and act
ing american representative in the
Congo state, has just made a tour of
investigation, and his report is i'm the
hands of the government at Washing
ton. 1t presents a most d%eplorable Sit
uation of affairs.