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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
SHOTS AT SPANISH PREMIER.
An Organized Plot to Assassinate
Senior Maura.

Madrid. Spain.-Premier Maura, who
arrived here, was shot at, but was not
wounded, while on his way here from
the Balearic Islands.
The official report of the incident
given out by the Minister of the In
terror says:
LAS the train was running between
Alicante and San Vincente some per.
sons fired and others threw stones.
The gendarmes accompanying the train
returned the fire. Neither the Premier
nor any of the other passengers was
hurt. Two arrests were made"
Later details show that the attempt
on Senior Maura's life was an organ-
lied plot, in which between thirty and
forty men armed with revolvers were
concerned.
A regular fusllade was exchanged
between the gendarmes accompanying
the train and the miscreants. Many
marks Of bullets were found in the
train afterward.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
THE LETTER FROM MOTHER.
BY HOLMAN F. DAY.

Rip and sniaa and hutter and hirt-
The morning mail Is in, =,
The typewriters rack-tack right and lef
With bruSque. staccato DIN.
Opier and tally. statement and bill,
Credit, receipt and dun;
He slaps them open with hasty hand,
Asserting them one by one.
Respected Gentlemen" I" Honored Sirs,
Formal and snug and trite,
Empty phases of business life
To start the letters right.
Sincerely yours and with respect"
"O6edient servant" too
Satire tucked in a rebate claim
Or angry threat to sue.
Down through the thick of the stack b.
With the business snarl on his brow;
There is never a smile in postman's bat
You'd imagine, to see him now.
But under a letter of formal cut
And sickly commercial hue,
Here is a missive that's trinity plump,
With envelope honest blue.
And he opens the flap with careful hand
He pushes the others by;
The faltering lines and the faded ink
He studies with softened eve:
There's truth in the words, My preciou:
boy"
For they're penned by mothers hand
And there's something else between the
lines
His heart can understand.
Forgetting the cares of the business day
And the roar of the city's throat.
His thoughts go back to the farm the
while
He reads what mother wrote.
'eWe all are we'll, and your fathers smart,
Hes down in the woods to-day:
Tell Joe I'm filling the woodshed up
He said as he went away.
ASK him ii ever he's found spot
That's quite so cosy and snug
As the corner in front of our fireplace
With his back on the braided rug?
Tell him there's plenty of birch and beech
That's hanllering now to burn,
And lots of things in the bins downstairs
Waiting for his return
I've had fine luck with all preserves
And all my pickles, too.
The house is full Of the smell of spice!
Sniff hard at this paper" True!
He closes his eyes on the Office walls,
And the perfume the letter brings
Wbispers of lars on the cellar shelves
And apples in festooned strings.
He scents the SAVIOR OF autumn fields
And the fragrance of hcaped up mows,
The spicy waftings from cellar bins
And the dewy breath OF cows.
Then down at the end there's the same
sweet thrill
He found in the words above:
"Come when you can, our precious BOY.
From mother, with all her love-"
And somehow the tasks of the busy day
Are full of snarls and frets;.
His thoughts are slow, and things move
wrong,
He blunders and he forgets.
For the call of home is in his ears,
In his eyes the old home place;
In his heart the yearnins for two old folks
Who are longing. to see his face.
And he heaps on his wondering partners
desk
The whole of the business pile. go,
''You must run it week, old mani" ne
says; -. >,
'I'm down with the folks while"
Youths Companion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
TEXAS TOPS sIX-POUND RECORD
Makes Eleven Hits a Minute, the Best
Individual Score.

Washington D. C.-Reports received
here relative to the target practice Of
the battleship Texas show the average
made by the twenty-four siX-pound
gun pointers was equal to the best in
dividual scores made by six-pound
gun pointer on the Texas last year.
The average number of shots per min
ute for the .siX-pounders is given at
8.S3, with an average of 4.04 hits per
minute.
1t is said that G single six-pound gun
pointed made fifteen shots per gun per
minute. with eleven hits per gun per
minute, the best individual score for
the six-pound battery. The percentage
of hits out of shots with the twelve
inch guns is given at S1.S, while the
average number of shots per gun per
minute Is given at 0.97.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
GERMAN LOSSES IN AFRICA.
Enormous Percentage Of Won Glase-
napp's Officers Incapacitated.

Berlin. Germany. - Captain Damn
hauer, the Lokal.Anziegers correspon-
dent with Major von Glasenapp's COL
ulnn in Southwest Africa, has sent a
dispatch by heliosraph via Windhoek,
announcing that the losses of the COL
umn through deaths. wounds and Sick
ness since March Is have been, officers,
siXty-three per cent. and privateS, thir-
ty-five per cent. Fortyfour men are
now sick with typhus, besides those
sent to Windhoek.
The column was not molested by the
enemy. but is apparently unable to un.
dertake military operations. The
troops are suffering from the night
frosts and heavy rains.
A report in Reichstag circles is that
further large reinforcements are about
to 90 to Southwest Africa under Lieu
tenant-General Won Trotha.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
Newsy Gleanings.

No appreciable damage has been
done to the peach crop in Georgia by
the cold wave.
The farmers trust, with $50000,00G
authorized capital. has been incorpor-
ated in South Dakota.
The Indian budget shows a surplus
of $15,347,743 for the year, or $1,G35.'
900 more than was estimated a few
weeks before the year came to 4 close.
Whisky drinking is given as one Of
the causes Of typhoid fever by Dr.
George w. Webster, president of the
Illinois State Board Of Health.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
Still Crossing the Yalu.

Paris.-A dispatch to the Temps from
st. Petersburg says:
1.-The japanese continue to cross the
Yalu River in small squads. The Rus
sian tactics seem to be not to seriously
oppose these preliminary movements.
The staff of the Ministry Of Marine
gives credence to. but does not posi-
lively confirm. the report that the
Vladivostok squadron sank two Japan
csc transports bound for the Island of
Sakhalin."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
Japan'S Third Army.

London. - It is announced from
Shanghai that the third Japanese army
now mobilizing will comprise the Fifth
Division, from Hiroshima; the tenth,
from Hinieju. and the eleventh, from
Zentsuuji. Preparations are on foot
to mobilize a fourth army should it be-
come necessary.
The Tientsin correspondent of the
Standard sends a report that 1000 Rus
slams are harassing the Chinese vii
lagos west Of the Shuang-Tai-Su River,
midway between Chin-Chow and Ying.
koW.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
The jolly Modern Wedding.

Weddings are much jollier things
than they used to be. No tears! They
are considered quite dowdy. All is fun
and light heartedness. How different
from the old style of things! The
change is typified by that which exists
between the heavy, old-fashioned wed
ding breakfast and the light-very light
somctimes-refreshm OF to-day
London Truth
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4 otonous chant, coushed
~S~ once or twice and sub
sided into a state of silence, and,
alas! immobility. In moment the
chauffeur was off his seat and poking
about in the machinery. Then he went
to the door of the carriage and touched
his hat.
Beg pardon, MISS" he said, "but
she's broke down anil have to go to
the shop. I'm sorry, but you'll have to
get around the city some other way"
The girl Oh the back seat-a tall,
handsome blonde with the bluest OF
blue eyes-uttered an exclamation.
"If this isn't too bad! And I've got just
two hours to see Washington before
my train goes: Can't you call another
auto for me?'
The chauffeur glanced around him.
"Oh, yes'm." he said. "Of course.
There ought to be some here on the
stand now. only there amt But I'll
60 in an telephone for one right
away"
DO. Or stay, there's one waiting
at the postoftice door now. Maybe
it's for hire
The man looked doubtfully at the
machine indicated. Don't think so,
miss" be answered. That's a pri-
yate machine, or I miss my guess;
still, I'll ask" Leaving the girl he
walked over to the curb and ad-
dressed the young man sitting on the
box of q handsome automobile.
No one familiar with the new horse
less vehicles would for one moment
have supposed that the one in queS-
ton was for hire. Racer appeared
in every line Of its build and costli-
ness in the exquisite nicely Of its COL
struction.
That anything but an instant mega
tive would be the answer to his query
whether that machine was for hire?'
had never passed his brain, so his as.
tonishment may be guessed when the
young man on the box started, glanced
at the girl still sitting in the injured
vehicle short distance away, flushed
deeply, and replied in the affirmative
Then, without waiting for further eX'
planation, he promptly ran his machine
to the side of the other, and halted to
permit the girl to climb in. The next
moment they were swinging down the
avenue at a lively gait
The girl leaned forward. "!Ahem!
she said. did the other man tell yor
where I wanted to go?"
Said you wanted to see the city
ma'anl," returned the young man, re
spectfully, but in a curiously mufiet
tone. He had kept his head averted
almost as if he wished to conceal hi!
features-a wish-if it were wish-il
which he looked at the machine but no
at the driver.
When the chauffeur spoke she start
ed and glanced curlously at him, a
though his voice struck some dorman
chord in her memory. Yes sh
said. Il do want to see the city, but
want to get to the depot BY thre
o'clock. My train goes out then"
"Yes'm. I'll get YOU there in tins
Going East, ma'am:'
Again the girl looked at him curious
". Yes" she answered slowly. I'm
on my way to college,
"Oh--er-you believe in the highc
education of women, then?"
The girls eyes were dancing Wit
fun now. Under certain circum
stances" sic said. us that the Cap
fol?' r>iE { 80. T. 49,
"Yes'm. that's the Capitol. Unde
certain circumstances. What circIn
stances Tor instance"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
Russia Strengthening Her Navy.

Paris.-According to a report, the
truth Of which it is impossible to YER
ify, the sum Of 105,G0O000 rubles has
been appropriated by Russia for the
purchase of several torpedo boats in
France, two Argentine cruisers and
two German transports.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
Drought Killing Cattle in Texas

Cattle are dying by the hundreds on
the ranches in West Texas for want
of water and grass. The drought is the
severest experienced in that section
for many years. Thousands of head Of
cattle are too weak to be moved to
more distant pastures. and they have
been abandoned to die on the range.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
Harris Dexter Not Guilty.

Harris E. Dexter. the fourteen-year-
old Randolph boy who has been OH trial
in the Superior Court at Dedham,
Mass, on a charge, of causing the
death of his brother Parker, was found
not guilty
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
DEATHFoR"LoRD" HARRINGTON

Murderer Of McCann Almost Collapses
When Sentence is Pronounced.
st. Louis. Mo. - Sentence of death
was passed upon Lord" Frederick
Seymour Darlington in the Circuit
Court in Clayton. Darlington was con-
victed Of numbering James P. McCann,
his benefactor. Judge McElhinny
granted a stay of execution until July
%.
Darlington entered the court room
smiling and bearing himself with the
self-possession that has characterized
him throughout his trial.
When the sentence was pronounced
Darlington almost collapsed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
Hagerstown Women Clean Streets.

About thirty women. the wives Of
well-known residents Of HagerstoWn,
Nd. turned out one morning recently
with shovels. hoes and brooms and
cleaned the streets in the south end Of
Hagerstown. They said they grew
tired of waiting for the street cleaning
department
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
SULTAN HONORS AMERICANS.
Bestows Decorations and Engages
Captain Buchanan as Naval Adviser.

Constantinople, Turkey.-The officers
and crew Of the Turkish cruiser Med
jidieh, which was built at the Cramps
shipyard, Philadelphia. and was deliv-
cred to the Turkish naval officers at
Mytilene, were invited to the Yildiz
Kiosk. the Sultain's official residence,
and many decorations were bestowed
on them.
AGeneral Williams, who represented
the Cramps, received the Order Of the
Medjidieh of the first class. Captain
Buchanan received the Order of the
Osmanieh of the second class. The
Sultan engaged Captain Buchanan to
be naval adviser to the Ministry of
Marine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
Drought Ruins Bank.

The Farmers and Merchants Ma
tional Bank, Of Hobart, Okla, failed
for $125,O00 as a probable result OF
the continued drought and the disquiet
created by numerous recent bank fall
uroS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
LONDON HAS $5Oo,OO0 FIRE.
Historic Church of the Holy Trinity is
For a Time Threatened.

London, England.-Four of the Lon
don and Northwest Railroad Com
pany's warehouses, in the Memories dis
trict of this city, we're burned out in
the night. While the financial loss is
only $5OO,OOO, the conaagration threat
ened at one period to spread to adJoin-
ing warehouses and factories filed
with cork, gelatine, cartridges and SIM
liar highly combustible materials.
The historic Church Of the Holy
Trinity, famous for its connection with
the Washington family. was for time
in considerable jeopardy, but the nre-
men from its roof managed to stem
the approaching flames.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
Japanese Blow Up Railway.

London.-The Daily Telegraph's cor
respondent at Irkutsk. Siberia. says
that Japanese have blown up portion
of the railway at Khailar, in North
west Manchuria, but that the resultant
damage is insignificant.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
DYNAMITE Kills Two.

While thawing dynamite at the
kitchen stove William Francis and his
baby We're killed at Owosso, Mich. and
Mrs. Francis and two children badly
hurt
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
Safe Blowers Cause S6O 900 Fire

Safe Blowers Cause SOU,UUU FIRE.
The fire that destroyed the Art Study
plant at GAINESVILLE, Wis, was caused
by burglars blowing open the safe.
The loss by fire was $G0,0O0; insurance,
$4,000. There was no money i'll thc
G., fp
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FOREIGN.

The Turkish embassy at London,
England issued report that Arme-
nian malefactors had attacked the Ma.
hometan village Of Latchghian, in the
Sanjak of Mush. Asiatic Turkey. They,
committed horrible crimes on the in
habitantS, men, women and children
alike.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that
the Chinese warship Haitien is ashore|
on the rocks Of the Elliott Islands,
which lie off the easterly coast OF thel
Liaotung Peninsula.
A number of men who are fttingI
out the iron freighters at CollingWood,I j
Ontario, Canada. placed a rocket on
a post and lighted it. Thinking thei
fuse had gone out, they again ap1
preached the rocket, which suddenly
exploded. killing Thomas McLaughlin2
and Thomas Stanford, of the steamer
Newmarket.
Count Hans Won Koenigmarck,
lieutenant on the general staff. sued
his father. Count Karl, in the Potsdanf
Law Court. for an increase Of his year
ly allowance. The Court directed tho
father to pay him S14,2oO.
Leader Watson, of the labor party
of Australia. has been summoned t
form Ministry.
The Grand Trunk grain elevator, a
Midland. Ontario. Canada, was struc
by lightning and totally destroyed.
had capacity Of 100000 bushels.
The Prussan Diet has sanctioned a
appropriation of 5,33j0.O0O marks Isl
273.3OW for the erection of a palac
for the Emperor ut Posen.
The Federal Government Of Austrd
liza was defeated in the House of Ref
resentatives Oh Labor Party amend
ment making the bill providing for til
arbitration Of labor disputes applies
BILE to State employees.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
AIinnrs Enil o0O0 Feet

The collapse Of a cage in the Robin
son mine. at Johannesburg, South
Africa. precipitated forty-thrce natives
2OOO feet to the bottom.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
Fourteen Buried Alive

A fall of earth occurred in the Ce"rt
Plata quarter of Madrid, Spain, E@"y
inc fourteen men.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
POLES KILL OFFICIALS.
Deputy Police Chief and Commissary
Slain at Warsaw.

Warsaw. Poland.-While several po.
lice officers were attempting to enter q
house in the Dvorsky thoroughfare
they were attacked by band or men
armed with revolyers and knives.
Two of the officers. deputy chief CT
the secret police and Deputy Commits
sary, were killed and two others were
wounded.
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DOMESTIC.

Owing to the inability Of the Fore
River Ship and Engine Company, OF,
Quincy, Mass. and their striking en-
ployes to settle their difficulties, the
launching of: the batt!eship Rhode Isl
and has been indefinitely postponed. i
1t has been discovered that vandals
had entered the French Pavilion at
the Worlds Fair and destroyed two
of the most beautiful of the marble
statues in the sculpture exhibit.
At the close of hearing which last,
ell two days, Charles L. Tucker.
charged with the murder CT MabeS
Page in Weston Oh the last day OF
March. was held for the Grand jury
by Judge Enos T. Luce, Of the Dis
trict Court at Waltham, Mass.
While resisting arrest. Floyd Chapt
man, moonshiner, was killed by Officer
William Shafer, who was in turn killed
by Chapman. who fired just as thei
officer did, at Charleston, w. va.
The little hamlet of Devon. located
on the Norfolk and Western Railways
fifteen miles east of Williamson, W.
Va, was almost wiped out by fire.
William CASTOR. twenty-five years,
old. shot and almost instantly killed.
his mother Sallie CASTOR, at Court
land. Va. He says it was an accident,
but they had quarreled violently a.
short time before.
A severe tornado struck Mcpherson,
Kan. demolishing six residences and
causing more or less other damage to
property. Three persons were injured,
one seriously.
James Broderick. president. and w.
L. Collins, cashier Of the Indiana Ma
tional Bank, at Elkhart, Ind, were
sentenced by Judge Anderson, Of the
United States District Court, on the
pleas of guilty of violation of the bank
ing laws which resulted u the failure
of the bank for $4,000. Broderick
was sentenced to ten years and COL
lins to six years in the penitentiary.
In the municipal election at Peoria,
ILL.,, the Republicans elected five Alder
men and the Democrats three. Inc
contest was close In all the wards. !
More than 1900 lead Of cattle were
killed Sy hailstones in the storm which
swept through the Las Cruces district
in the State of San Luis Potosi, Mex
leo, a few days ago. The corn crop
was destroyed.
TR. Curtis came from New York to
Chicago to confess that he killed Har-
vey Van Arkel on March %, and thus
ease troubled conscience that would
not permit him to sleep in peace. =
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Japan's Mercantile Fleet.
The mercantile fleet of Japan ranks
seventh in the worlds shipping.
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- CUPID, -
CHAUFFEUR

EUF! Teuf! Teuf! Teuf!
Z Hrrr! Wough, The au-
tomobile ceased it's mon
otonous chant, coughed
once or twice and sub
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-09-03

through the thigh. and the wounded leg
withered while the young staff officer of
Is grew. Daniel doesn't look like the
dashing young officer of 500 who made
the dash on our lines, but the one short
leg tells the story.
= Among the picturesque onlookers at
st. Louis was Dr. Mary Walker. who for
90 years has been regarded as a joke by
the American people. remember the
doctor well. as she appeared in the army.
In 1863 Secretary Stanton gave her the
appointment of assistant surgeon of
volunteers and ordered her to report to
Gen. Thomas at Chattanooga. Thomas
suspected that Stanton sent her west to
get rid of her, and he ordered her 10 re-
port to Stantons friend Col Dan Nc
Cook, and Col. Dan ordered her to re-
port to Maj. J. T. Holmes, commanding
his old regiment the Fifty-second Ohio.
and so il happened that DR.. Mary came
to us while we were at Gordon's Mills.
She found little to do in camp but there
were many families needing physician
living near camp, and to these Dr. Mary
extended her ministrations. shrewoly
managing at the same time to gather n
great deal of information as to the move
ments and places OF the confederates.
I'm this way DR.. Mary. being enthu-
siastic and venturesome. made herself
very useful. But she was everlastingly
getting lost, and riding in an irrespon-
sfble way into the confederate lines.
Finally the confederates arrested her
and sent her to Atlanta as prisoner OF
war. She claimed to be an immune
and so hectored the authorities at At
1anta that they sent her to Richmond
There it was reported she made il so
unpleasant for Davis and his cabinet
that they recommended her exchange
] didn't see her again until after the
march of Sherman's army through the
Carolinas to Richmond, when, as a num-
Der OF us were sitting in front of the old
Spottswood hotel, DR.. Mary, respondent
in officers uniform and with dainty
silver spurs on her boots came up in
ambulance. BY this time she was known
for her intense loyalty. and no one
grudged her the medal of honor she re-
ceived after the war"
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HE BEAT AND KICKED HER.

and of new start In domestic life
were at last abandoned.
Neither of the deserted pair had at
that time any thought of divorce They
grieved together, or tried to comfort
one another and at first hoped to
build one new home on the ruins of
the two destroyed. In this they were
not successful. Frying, unkind neigh
bors, the sense of disappointment in
the old scenes of their happiness, the
Irresistible hope that in new scenes
and new snvironmsa< tesSV c1gex 4zrs
get their sorrows and live in peace
and mutual pride prompted them to
come to Chicago.
Here for more than year they have
been happy and prosperous, but both
their business and social achievements
since coming to Chicago have con-
spired to put new meaning and add
unforeseen difficulties to their condi-
ton They began to see that If they
were to begin freely as at the begin
ming they must be absolved from en-
tanglements or from any claims that
the sad past and its legal conse-
Quences might entail. And to this
end they discussed every phase and
angle OF their mutual predicament, and
at length determined To bring action
simultaneously and to fight side by
| side for what they believe their rights,
even as they had endured together
what they believe to have been their
wrongs.
The sons complaint against his wife
goes no farther than the charge of de-
sertion and absolute refusal to return.
The burden OF ne mothers charges
| against her husband includes habitual
drunkenness, brutality, and an at
tempt upon her life in April, 1901, a
year before he deserted her.