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Milford chronicle., 1904-08-05
Another AIIentown Traaedy.

Allentown, Pa. Aug. 2-Not since
the Bechtel tragedy was Allentown so
excited as when Edward Ritter. a
butcher, shot his wife Lille.
On account of many misdeeds on his
part, she was about to leave him. ard
started away from Allentown on a Le-
high Valley express.
At Lehighton he shot her twice with
q revolver. wounding her mortally.
Then he turned the revolver on him
self, sent a bullet through his brain
and died a minute later.
Milford chronicle., 1904-08-05
Fire In Her Coal Bunkers.

Hamburg, Aug. "a fire, which has
been extinguished, started in the coal
bunkers Of the Hamburg American
line steamer Bluecher. just back from
North Cape cruise. The extent of the
damage has not yet been ascertained.
Milford chronicle., 1904-08-05
. WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, July %.


Charles Hartzell. secretary OF Fol'O
pico has announced his resignation'
to take place in october.
Judge Parker, the Democratic presf
DENTAL candidate. will not attend une
democratic demonstration at Cnlcaso
ATS~ Tbs pennsylvania freight station
ord ticket Office at Steelton. Pa was
entered by burglars. who carried away
several express packages
Five valuable horses belonging 70
Col Henry A. Dupont which were
standing in field at Winterthur, Del"
we're struck by lightning and killed.
NJ Marshall Langhorne. of Lynch.
burq Va. has been appointed consul
at Chungking. China, and Frank ,.
Hannah, of Evanston, Ind, eonsuI at
Magdeburg, Germany.
Friday, July 2e.
Bellamy Storer. ambassador TO AUS
tria. and Charlemagne Tower amoas-
sador to Germany, have arrived IN Ne"
York. .s.Ao
Lieutenant James W. Clement, OF the
United States battleship Kearsarge,
died at Trieste, Austria, OF typhoid
fever.
The house of John Harper. at New
Haven. O., was DESTROYED by hre' ana
Mr. and Mrs. Harper, both over 81
wears old. were burned to death.
Jerome Warner, a railway postal
clerk was sentenced to a years IN
nrisonment at Trenton, n. J., for ab-
stracting money from a letter
Saturday, July 30.
Frederick Goodall, the famous artist
and member of the British Royal
Academy. died in London.
The L. S. torpedo boat destroyer
MacDonough arrived at Boston, to re-
main for the G. A. R. encampment
George Hildebrandt and Frederick
Shea were run down and killed by a
B. & 0. locomotive at Locust Point
Md.
Secretary Of War Taft and mum
her of generals will attend the World s
Fair at st. Louis on Philippine day
August 10.
Edward II. Garner, a Pennsylvania
railroad brakeman. was found dead on
ton of a box car at Downingtown, Pa
There are no marks on the body, and
it is supposed that he died from heat
prostration or apopleXy.
Monday, August I.
The grand total of admissions to the
Worlds Fair since its opening is o.
G57.577.
BY an explosion Of natural gas il
the Russell Park hotel, Chicago, seven
persons were severely injured.
Fire destroyed the establishment Of
the Shibest Mercantile company al
San Francisco. Loss, s125. 900.
The dry goods store Of Slight & Al
len. Columbia, S. c., was destroyed by
fire. Loss. sG4O00; partially insured
The drought has almost destroyed
the maize crop OF Roumania, and the
government has prohibited its eXporta
ton
Rev. J. D. Stoop, a Congregations
minister OF East Hampton, Mass. vii
occupy the chair of philosophy a
Grinnell College. Iowa.
Tuesday, August 2.
The Shenango tinplate plant at New
Castle. Pa, will resume, giving EN-
ployment to $500 men.
The balance in the general fund o
the Pennsylvania state treasury, Jul.
80. was S13. 296.S7S.55.
Ex-United States Senator Vest, o
Missouri. is steadily losing strength
although he takes nourishment.
Warrants have been drawn for tn
pay of the Pennsylvania nationa
guardsmen for camp duty at Gettys
burg.
The Paddock Hodge Co. grain eleva
tor at Toledo, O., was totally destroye
by fire. Loss, 100000; insurance
S1S9, 900.
Wednesday, August 3.
The International Conclave. Africa
Knights Templar. opened their annua
session in st. Louis, Mo.
Milford chronicle., 1904-08-05
Pennsy Track Walker Found Dead.

West Chester. Pa. Aug. John
Cogan. a track walker, residing at NAL
vern. was found dead beside the tracks
on the Trenton cutoff of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, east of Glenloch. The
coroner of Chester county is investi-
eating the death. there being basis for
suspicion as to the cause of death Co
gan's lantern had not been lighted,
and there we're no marks indicating
that he had ben killed by a train His
purse and watch were both missing,
and he had not been drinking.
Milford chronicle., 1904-08-05
NihiIists Met In Switzerland.

Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. S.-The
newspapers here report that a confer
ence Of Russian nihilists and terrorists
was held from July 25 to July % at the
residence Of a Russian near the French
frontier. Fifty to so persons are said
20 have attended, mostly from abroad.
Milford chronicle., 1904-08-05
THE FIRST EVICTION
Strikers Wreck Cottage Before Police
Drive Them OF.


Chicago, Aug. 3.-The first eviction
resulting from the stock yards strike
has occurred. A crowd of strike
sympathizers stonedA two constables
who put Mrs. Mary anderson out Of
her home in 44th street for non-pay-
ment of rent.
Mrs. Anderson's husband, a striker,
had left Chicago in search of work.
The wife was i'll in bed when she and
her household goods we're carried out
by constables. Mrs. Anderson was
cared for by neighbors. A patrol wag-
on of police stopped the stone throw
ers.
Before the arrival of the police,
however. the crowd had wrecked the
cottage from which the woman had
been evicted. Nothing was left for
any other tenant except bare walls.
Windows. doors. shelves, plumbing,
etc, were smashed beyond all repair.
Milford chronicle., 1904-08-05
S.g.WUEL j. WTLSON,
Funeral Director and Embalmel

Twenty-Five years experience in the aoov
business with the assistance Of my son. JonR
p Wilson, enables me to guarantee satlsfac.
80, Fvervfhing first class with moderate
sbsrges. Black and white hea es. Bodies
sn;balmed or preserved by the use OF ice.
Wenis black SUITS Bnd robes; lad4cs' dresses
ard robes' children's shrowds always in
stock. No extra charge made for my wlies
services when required. All styles OF cofnns
md caskets constantly in stock.
Telephone and telegraph communication ohs ll
,ron6tIv answered. No. extra charge for
iistaIce. Five per cent discount on all biIls
Maid within thirty days.
We ASK for an examination OF our Furni
ture Department when needing anything IL
this line.
sAML. T. WILSON, MILTON, DBL
Milford chronicle., 1904-08-05
prlvers eo out In sympathy.

st. Louis, Mo, Aug. 3.-Members Of
the Meat Drivers Union of East St..
Louis stopped work in sympathy with
the butchers and meat cutters who
struck some time ago. Managers of the
packing houses say that the strike Of
the teamsters will inconvenience them
but not affect the outcome Of the strike
They say that the butchers Of East St.
Louis have consented to go to the pack
ing houses for their supplies of meat
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-04-13
This is one clipping Mr.. Howard

This is one clipping Mr.. Howard
sends:
1.-THE Hartford Post lightly says:
-Four Waterbury hotels were plum
full the other night when colored
clergyman applied for room in one
after another Of them 1t is for this
reason that so many northerners see
fit to protest against the introduction
of Jim Crow cars in the south. They
have an easier method here. "-Spring-
field Republican.
This is another:
'Tables of figures showing the i'm
migration Of foreigners into New
England during 1903 have just been
completed by Rev. Joel S. Ives of
Hartford, who for the past four years
has conducted census Of the foreign
population of the six States in behalf
of the Congregational Home Mission
ary society. According to his figures,
the influx Of foreigners last year was
as follows: Maine, 1897; New Hamp-
shire, 1861; Vermont, 1,6l1; Massa-
chusetts, IS, 1871; Rhode Island, s,467,
and Connecticut, 21,sl3, total OF
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-04-13
Six End Their Lives.

In New York an unusual number
of suicides, at least half of them due
to dependency because Of inability to
secure employment, were reported to
the police last week.
Three Of the six victims chose car
bolic acid as a means Of ending their
troubles, one chose death by shooting,
another by hanging and the sixth ac-
complished his purpose by turning on
the gas.
The most youthful suicide was Eva
Pocker, 17-year-old Brooklyn school
girl, who drank carbolic acid after
reading a letter, and the Oldest, Jacob
Reiham, SIS, Of Manhattan, who had
been i'll with rheumatism. His body
was found hanging in his lodgings.
The body Of another suicide, a We-
man, who had ended her lie at least
two weeks ago by inhaling chloroform,
was found in a house on east Thirty
fifth street. A note found with the
body said the woman was so deeply in
debt that she saw no hope.
The other suicides reported were:
James Finney, fireman, who lost his
work through drink; Samuel Levy, nc
work, carbolic acid; Egisto Bertone,
stone cutter, shooting, no work; j.
Bender, a crayon artist, gas.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-04-13
Homicide in Berkeley.

A special dispatch from Honey Hill
to The News and Courier says using
a double-barrelled shotgun, loaded
with buckshot, young John Wilson
Sunday afternoon shot and killed his
uncle, Mr.. E. S. Wilson. The young
man went to Monck's Corner Monday
and gave himself up to Sheriff j. B.
Morrison, and it is likely that he will
attempt to get bond. All the parties
concerned are well known and the
shooting caused quite a stir. The
trouble seems to have started over a
dispute about gate, although bad
blood is said to have existed for long
time. The dead man, so it is said,
went Sunday afternoon to the home
of his nephew, and, after tearing down
the disputed gate, went to the house,
and abused, and, some say, cursed, the
father and mother Of the younger
man. The son demonstrated, where
upon Wilson turned upon him. Young
Wilson then shot, killing his uncle al
most instantly. Mr.. Wilson s-said to
have been drinking heavily when ne
went to his brothers. house."
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-04-13
A Mysterious Shooting.

The Columbia State says a mysteri-
GUS shooting affray, in which band
some woman stylishly dressed figured
and also offlciated as target, took
place Saturday afternoon on Sumter
street in front Of the South Carolina
college mess hall while some of the
students were at dinner, and was seen
by a dozen or more people. When first
noticed there were two men with a
woman walking between them on the
sidewalk. That they were quarreling
was plain from their gesticulationS
and facil performances. Presently one
of the men, who seemed to be con-
Quoting the offensive side of the inter
esting controversy, in pantomime as
it were, withdrew from the woman
and the other man suddenly and
quickly, and when he had reached a
distance Of about 80 feet in front OF
them, witnesses say, he wheeled and
drawing a revolver from his hip pock-
ct fired at the woman five times in
rapid succession. She screamed and
ran in the opposite direction, the
other man with her scutting oif in
still another direction. The man with
the revolver unbreached his weapon
and threw the shells out at his feet.
Quickly read-justice it, he placed 1t
back in his pocket and departed hur'
riedly in the direction of the union
station. Nobody could be found Sun
day who could identify any OF the
strange and mysterious trio, and none
could be found who had seen any
member of the little party after lt'
sudden diSmemberment on the oc
casion of the shooting. Neither OF the
parties appeared to have been mt
Nobody had broken the news at police
headquarters Sunday night until a re
porter made INJURY, when private
recalled to the chief that he did have
a recollection Of the matter being re
ported to him by some of the stu
dents.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-04-13
HORRIBLE DEEDS
Told by a Presbyterian Missionary
to the Canso Free State.
THE CANNABAL ARMY MURDERS
Innocent Women and Children Who
Are Captured to Show that
Work of Raiding Villages
ia Well Done,

DR.. W. III. MORRISON, SouGhern
Presbyterian missionary to the Congo
Free State, in an address at Louisville,
Ky., gave an impressive recital OF
alleged barbarities practiced on the
natives of Congo by the authorities,
and of the obstacles thrown in the
way of their correction by the Of
ficials.
He said: II lived with these peo-
pie seven years, and know what am
talking about. King Leopold has
there native cannibal army OF
twenty Thousand men, otficered by
white Belgians and armed with
repeating rifles. They are men re-
presenting the worst and(most savage
type of natives, caught and carried
far from their homes and forced into
military service. In turn this soldiery
is used to compel the natives to bring
in enormous tribute Of ivory and rub
Der. 1t is worth nothing that the
King Of Belgium is today is reputed to
be the largest dealer in ivory and rub
ber in the world:
"As a result of forced military serv-
ice and labor, great and unspeakable
cruelties are practiced on the natives.
I have seen five thousand fleeing to
the forests to escape the cannibal
soldiers of King Leopold. 1 have
seen soldiers securing through the
forests catching men wanted by the
government as laborers and taking
the captives away with ropes tied
around their necks.
Raids upon villages are constantly
made, some are killed. others sold into
captivity and others forced into labor
and military service. One can buy
all the slaves wanted for ten or fifteen
dollars each. In these raids innocent
women and children are killed or cap
tured. Their hands are cut off to be
taken back to the Belgian officers to
show that the work has been we'll
done. On one Of these raids near the
mission stations, one of our mission
aries counted eighty hands cut or,
drying by a fire to be taken to an
officer and forty-fve dead lying near.
'The Belgian government make a
stereotyped denial OF all charges. l
have seen personally the Governor OF
the Congo Free State and have been
in the palace of the King of Belgium;
neither will do anything. The British
government is interested in the situa-
tion. Consul Roger Easement, as the
English and American representative
to Congo, has Just made tour of in
vestigation. His report is now in the
hands of the government at Washing
ton and presents a most deplorable
Sitllaeinn.N -
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-04-13
The New Stamps.

The'new series Of stamps commem-
orative of the Louisiana purchase ex-
position will be placed on sale by the
postohice. department April 30 and
will be continued till December lst.
The designs are as follows: One cent,
with portrait Of Robt. R. Livingston,
United States minister to France,
who conducted the purchase negotia-
tions; two cent, red, portrait of Thos.
jefferson, president at the time the
purchase was made; three cent, pur-
pie, portrait of Jas. Monroe, special
ambassador to France; five cents, blue,
portrait William Mckinley, who as
president approved the act of con-
gresS officially connected with the
exposition; ten cent, brown, bearing
United States map, showing the ter
ritory Of the purchase.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-04-13
Students Shoot q Man.

At Lexington, KY, Coley Hayden,
19 years old, was shot at the State
college baseball park Friday by Lee
Anderson, a State college student,
who was acting as guard at the park.
The bullet entered Hayden's left
shoulder and inflicted a serious wound.
Police Capt. Brown went to the park
to arrest Anderson. AS soon as Ander-
son learned his mission, he pulled his
revolver and declared he would not
submit to arrest. A crowd Of 200
State college students backed him up
in his refusal. Capt. Brown rushed
in before he could shoot, howe yer, and
after a tuSsle, disarmed Anderson. He
was placed under arrest and
the students made no further
attempt to keep him from the
police. Later he was released
on bond. The State college and
Central university were engaged in a
game of baseball, and Hayden was
looking on through crack in the
fence. Anderson ordered him away
when, it is said, Hayden cursed him.
Anderson there. upon shot him with
out further words.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-04-13
A WOULD BE sWINDLER.
Coughed up the Money When the
Doctor Dosed Him.

At Columbia Wash Kinsler. a young
negro man, will be given prelimin-
ary before United States Commission
er Vernon shortly on theIcharge of at
tempting to pass counterfeit money.
The story Of Kinsler's attempt to
escape and bis attempt to evade the
charge is strange. Kinsler walked
into the fruit store of the Syrian,
George Mack, on upper Main street,
Saturday night at 1890. He pnrchas-
ed a pair of cheap earrings and some
fruit and carelessly threw down what
purported to be S2-bill. Mack spott-
ed the counterfeit at once. Officer
Dunning happened to be passing and
was called in. The situation was
taken in at a glance and the officer
grabbed Kinsier. He was just a
little too late, however, for Kainsler
rammed the bill in his mouth and
swallowed it, despite the choaking he
received. Then Mr.. Dunning called
for DR.. Pope, the city physician, and
the rest was easy. A hyperdermic
injection was given Wash, which
acted as an emetic and the bill came
up" in about three minutes. The
negro was searched for more counter.
felt bills. No bills were found, but
a watch he had stolen was recovered
and the negro stands a chance of serv
ing a term for the State for larceny
and for the United States for attempt
ing to pass counterfeit money, the
penalty for the latter, according to
the revised statutes, being from five
to fifteen years. The bill which
Kinsler attempted to pass is an old
Richland Building and Loan certif-
cate, this association flourishing about
1878. The certificate looks very
much like money and there are num-
Der of them floating around. Kinsler
lives on Gates street, near Senate, and
his reputation heretofore has been
very good.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-04-13
Gave Life for Friend.

Four men lost their lives in an ex-
plosion Friday at the Pintsch Gas
Comprising company's plant in south
west Washington. The dead are:
Stephen Henson, Charles W. Grigsby,
Joseph Cumberland and an unknown
negro. Henson, Cumberland and the
negro were instantly killed. Grigsby
was seriously burned and died at the
hospital. His injuries were the re-
suit of an heroic attempt. to rescue
his comrades. He rushed into the
engine room and catching the arm Of
Cumberland, who was buried in the
debris, tried to drag him out. The
flames rapidly enveloped Grigsby but
he released his hold on Cumberland
only after the arrival of the tiremen.
He told the hospital physicians that
the disaster was caused by the gas be-
coming too high and the inability OF
the men to find the leak. 'The
room," said he, must have been full,
the gas kept rising and the roof was
hlnWn 0ff -
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-04-13

lO2, ,5O6. Southern Europe supplied
a great number of these immigrants,
for of the total %, Isl were Italians
and 11,S77 Poles" ."-Springfeld Re-
publican.
The third clipping I give is from
the same paper, the Springfield Re-
publican:
1.-THE south wants white immigra-
tion, but is denied it; and why that
section in vain seeks to attract such
immigration is thus stated by the
Wilmington IN. CO. Star:
"'As long as we lynch in the south,
and Furthermore draw our guns and
shoot each other to death on the
streets, we are wasting time in estab-
fishing immigration bureaus. People
will be deferred from immigrating to
State where big murder record is
made year in and year out
1.-THE Charleston News and Courier
says of this that that is the plain
truth plainly spoken. Only the des-
perately adventurous and most unde-
sirable would seek residence in a COM
munity or State where citizens abil-
ity to draw a pistol and shoot first is
his greatest security Such talk
from southern newspapers Is very en-
encouraging. No situation, however
bad, is hopeless where the truth finds
outspoken and fearless utterance.
Whereupon Mr.. Howard comments
as follows:
There are knitting, cutting, shoot
ing and crimes of all sorts so per cent.
more in New England than In the
SOUTH"
I wish to add that Mr.. E. ]. Wat.
son, the State commissioner, has, in
formed me that it is his purpose to
communicate with Mr.. Howard with
the view of ascertaining how he can
advance the cause of immigration to
the south in New England.
1t is such men as Mr.. Mattheson
and Mr.. Howard and such railroadsas
the Southern that advance in a prac-
tical way the main purposes of the
bureau of immigration. Let them be
encouraged and sustained for the
public good. JNo. 2. THOMAS.
March 80, 1904.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-04-13
A Trust buster"

Congressman John W. Gaines, of
Tennessee, in a speech against an ap-
preparation for building a road in
Alaska, said that his constituents
needed good roads and besides were
oppressed by trusts, but the oppres-
sion Of the ice trust had been relieved
by Chief Justice Alton B. Parker and
others in New York, when the Demo
Gratis applauded the name of Parker,
and Mr.. Gaines again provoked ap-
plause on the minority side by saying:
I'VE are going to put him in the White
House. He is going to crush the bal
ance of the trusts in this country,
which the Republicans will never do"
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-04-13
Located at Last.

Cleveland, Ohio, is still addicted to
the He'll habit. A minister in that
city recently declared from his pulpit
that there is no He'll. AS soon as he
had made his announcement about
He'll, the congregation gathered up
the hymnbooks and began to pelt the
reverend gentleman in the most un-
heavenly manner. We are not told
what effect this unusual argument
had upon him, but if he had any
doubts as to the existence Of Hell be-
fore, the action of his congregation
ought to have dissipated them per-
manently. He'll seems to be very
dear to the hearts of the people OF
Cleveland. 1t may even be that
Cleveland is Hell.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-04-13
Adams Will Hang.

The supreme court Monday
handed down two important decisions
of general interest Throughout the
state. The first was in the case OF
R. A. Adams, a white man convicted
in Colleton county, for the killing Of
Henry Jacques, also white, in Febru-
ary, 1908, sentenced to hang. When
the verdict was rendered an appeal
was taken to the supreme court on
the ground of error in the admission of
certain evidence and error in the
charge to the jury The case was
argued il the supreme court some
time ago, the state being represented
by the attorney general or Mr.. Town
send and the defendant by Howell
and Gruber and J. M. Walker. The
decision Monday simply atfirms the
finding of. the lower court and tue
case goes back now to the lower court
for sentence to be pronounced.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1904-04-13
Can't Pay More i,ent.

General and concerted demands OF
landlords on the lower East Side OF
New York for more rent will send
thousands of people homeless into the
streets within a week. Unable to
meet the demand for increased rents
the tenants, who are the poorest OF
the poor, told the landlords that they
are unable to keep the miserable
novels they call home. Notices OF an
increase of nearly thirty per cent
have been served. Several families
have already bean evicted and a hun
dred other eviction notices have been
secured from the municipal courts
and are ready for service.