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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
EXPRESS HITS DYNAMITE
Train on the Pennsylvania R. R
Wrecked Near Harrisburg, Pa.
Bodies Blown Into Atoms - Wreckago
Burns For Hours While Many VIC
tins Are Pinned Under Debris.

Harrisburg. Penn.-The Eastern Ex-
press Of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
going west. ran into an e%ast-bound
freight train at Ito o'clock In the
morning in South Harrisburg.
Two cars Of the freight were loaded
with dynamite and three terrific e1-
plosions followed.
Both trains were piled in a mass Of
wreckage, which Immediately took fire,
and many smaller explosions occurred.
The fire resulting from the wreck
was so fierce and the explosions were
so frequent that the fremen could
not get lea to the burning wreck.
The force of the explosion was so
terrific that the passenger train was
demolished.
Many of the people on the train were
blown to atoms and III trace Of them
will yer be found.
Many of those who were not killed
outright were caught in the burning
debris of the wreck and their bodies
were cremated.
Owing to the ierceness Of the fire
and the frequent explosions it was
with difficulty that aid could be given
to the surviving passengers.
All sorts Of vehicles were pressed
into service and the injured were at
once carried to this city and taken
to the hospitals. The disaster occurred
about three miles south of here. 1t
is said that the locomotive jumped
the track and plunged into the freight
cars.
The wreckage was ablaze and un-
approachable at $50 a. m. Many Of
the passengers and some members of
the train crews were pinned in it, and
small explosions occurred continually.
When the first explosion occurred
bodies were thrown clear out Of the
berths in the sleeping cars, many
landing down the railroad embank-
ment and some even being hurled into
the Susquehanna River, which paral-
lels the railroad in that locality.
All the physicians Of the city pro-
durable were summoned.
A fire alarm sounded and the fremen
arrived, to find themselves practically
helpless in the work Of rescue.
The Harrisburg Hospital 0 o be-
came overcrowded. A special train
was made up and. brought injured and
dying to the Union Station. Many OF
the injured were taken to private
houses.
The Harrisburg Traction Company
ran out a number Of cars from its
South Harrisburg barns and used them
to bring the injured to the hospital.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31

believes that time and money can be
saved by discharging the snow direct
ly into the sewer, instead Of carting II
long distances through the city. For
this work there is provided a hopper
mounted on q metallic frame and fitted
with wheels to 10. it along the street
as the snow is taken up. The laborers
shovel the snow into the hopper, where
it is melted by a stream Of water; from
the hydrant, and flows thence through
the bottom Of the hopper into a hose
leading to the sewer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
rAKDONDENIED MRS. MAVERICK;
Asked For in Order to Remove Doubt
. of Her Competency as a Witness. !

Asked For in Order to Remove Doubt
of Her Competency az a Witness. !
Washington. D. G. - Ambassador
Choate has notified the State Depart:
ment that the British Home Office has
again refused TO grant a pardon to Mrs;
Florence Maybrick. She is merely ON
ticket of leave, and there is little like
lihood of her ever receiving a pardon.
This latest application for pardon
was made for the purpose Of removing
any possible doubt as to the compe-
tency and credibility Of the evidence
she is expected to give, in a suit brought
by her mother and herself to recover
their interest in about 2,500.000 acres
of land Tor the value thereof lying Ing
West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky.
The case is pending in the ChancerY
Division of the courts at Richmond!
and a question as to the competency
of Mrs. Maybrick as a witness has BEEN
raised. :
Mrs. Maybrick's mother, the Baron
ess Won Roques, has arrived here from
New York City. where she landed the
day before from Havre. Mrs. May
brick did not accompany her, being de-
tanned in New York City by a fractured
knee cap.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
Prominent People.

Sir Thomas Upton has invaded Paris.
He has opened 4 store in the Place do
rOpera. .
Pope Plus Y. has an only brother.
who continues to fill the role Of village
postnan.
During the coming summer Paris.
France, is to have a visit from the SHAH
of Persia.
Herr Nicholson, the new Premier OF
Norway, was a merchant in Bergen two
years ago.
The Gear gets up at { O'Clock and
breakfasts on tea and toast and works
until II at night.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
SUBMARINE CREW MUTINIES.
Decline to Test the Grampus Under
Ensign Woods Command.

San Francisco, Cal.-The submarine
boat Grampus was scheduled to be
tested in the bay the other day, but
the test was not made because the
crew refused to 90 down in the boat
unless another officer was substituted
for Ensign Stanley Woods.
At an informal court Of inquiry the
crew declared that on q former occa-
sion Woods had lost control of the
boat in comparatively shoal water
and that they would not risk their lives
under his command.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
PUERTO BELLo. BELOW COLON, ON THE PANAMA CANAL.
SEAL For TELEPHONE
TRANSMITTED

The invention shown in the accom-.
panying cut relates to certain new and
useful improvements in telephone at
tachments, the primary object Of
which is to provide means adapted to
be attached to a telephone receiver for
engagements with the telephone trans
mitter whereby the latter may be
closed or sealed against sound until
the device Is detached from the trans
mitter.
1t is frequently desired by those
using the telephone to converse with
others in the Office relative to certain
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
A Great Truth,

"Yes," said the man who occasionally
thinks aloud, chats why so many
are failures"
"Why is it," queried the party with
the rubber habit.
'The average young man thinks q
girl would rather be loved and pitied
than dressed and fed" explained the
noisy thinker.-Columbus Dispatch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31

and cost, will be pushed vigorously
with the aid of modern American *
cavating machinery. The investiga-
tons being conducted include diamond
drill work along the entire line Of the
canal, the character Of the formation
being revealed in this to a
depth of forty feet below the surface.
These borings will give absolute in
formation as to the character Of the
material to be encountered in the canal
work. In addition, shafts are being
sunk at certain points to reveal more
fully the character of the formation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
SUES HER UNCLE FOR ASSAULT.

Cleveland Girl Seeks to" Recover $780,
900 From Mortimer J. Lawrence.
Cleveland, Ohio.-Mortimer J. Law
rence, a millionaire of this city. was
made a defendant in a suit for 100000
filed by his niece, Hazel F. Lawrence,
eighteen years old, for alleged criminal
assault.
On March II last an indictment was
returned against Lawrence for Grim
inal assault. This action was taken
by the Grand Jury on complaint OF
the plaintiff in this later action.
For some time Mr.. Lawrence has
been in Florida. The warrant for his
arrest has never been served. he is
about sixty-fye years old.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
Municipalities.

David Moffatt, of Deaver. is the rich.
est nan in Colorado.
H. +, Watson was the sweet potato
king of Oklahoma last year.
Archibald Forder is in the United
States in the interest Of the poorer
Jews in Palestine.
+. T. f. Lovejoy, tie Pennsylvania
steel magnate, will erect Il palace" in
Colorado Springs, Col. that will cost
about 81, 1000.
Henry E. Huntington. the trolley
king" of Southern California, has
given q $4,000 lot in Los Angeles to
tha InoaI p~raebptaru-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
DEVICE FOR REMOVING SNOW.

The apparatus illustrated herewith
has been designed as an effective
method of clearing the streets of what
soon becomes a menace and source
Of discomfort. AS q common mode Of
Kidding some cities Of snow is to carl
it to the river, to be dissolved and car.
ried away by the current. the inventor
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
TWO KILLED ON ELEVATOR.
Clerk, Apparently Ill, Falls Before
Train-Motorman Crushed.

Clerk, Apparently III, Falls Before
Train-Motorman Crushed.
New York City.-Two men were in
stantly killed in separate accidents on
the elevated railroads. Elijah Jones,
Jr., of 937 East One Hundred and
Fifty-sixth street, a clerk in the Cotton
Exchange, fell before a north-bound
train from the station platform at
Eighth avenue and One Hundred and
Fortieth street directly before a train
at $50 o'clock at night. The two per-
IONS who saw him fall say that he ap.
peared to have been stricken with q
sudden illness.
John Walsh. thirty-fve years old. of
PA West One Hundred and Fifth
street, q motorman, vas crushed be-
tween a shuttle train and the platform
at Third avenue and One Hundred and
Twenty-ninth street in the afternoon.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
Kuropatkin Leaves the Field.

A dispatch from st. Petersburg, Rus
STA. to the Matin, Of Paris, France,
says General Kuropatkin has been
finally relieved of the command Of
the First Manchurian Army and res
called to st. Petersburg.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
BIG New York Police Shake-Up

Police Commissioner 8IcAdOo. of
New York City, retired on pensions
two inspectors, ten captains and forty
five sergeants, the board OF surgeons
having reported all as unfit for further
active service.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31

matters, and oftentimes 1t is not de-
sired to have the person at the other
end Of the line overhear the converse
ton carried on in the Office. Under
these conditions the person speaking
does not desire to return the receiver
to its hook, for the reason that the
line would then be cut off. Neither is
it desirable to allow the receiver to
hang dependent from its wires. and in
case it is desired to close the trans
mitter it must be done by holding the
hand over the same or by some like
inconvenient means.
1t is the purpose Of this invention
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
All Quiet in hlanchuria.

Advices from Feng-Hua-Sien, eighty
miles north of Tie Pass. said that all
was quiet on the front. The japanese
movements Oh the east were closely
screened.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31

General Davis Leaves Panama.
Governor Davis sailed for New York
City from Panama. Colonel Go"Sas,
chief sanitary officer, will be acting
Governor pending the arrival Of Chas.
e. Magoon, General Davis successor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
Alleged EmbeZZler Arrested.

Francis II. Palmer, cashier of the
Peconic Bank. of Sag Harbor, L.. l.,
who had escaped prosecution by the
officers OF the institution for an al
legged shortage Of $4,000. was arrested
at the instance Of the county authorl
fios
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
Mrs AIaYhrick's Mother Here.

Baroness Caroline 0 Roques, moth
er of Mrs. Florence Maybrick. arrived
in New York City to testify in her $50
900 suit against Lawyer d. W. Arm-
strong and others.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
Roiestvensky's Base Discovered.

UJColF 0H3HJ D""e
Russia bought a large tract of anu
on the Mekong River at the outset or
the war. stocked It with coal and other
supplies bought from Japan, and Ro-
~jestvensky has been drawing upon this
base in Indo-China. it is reported.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
President in Denver.

President Roosevelt stopped in Dem
yer. Col. Oh his way back to Washing
ton. D. C. He made speeches at sew
eral places in Colorado, and was cor
daily welcomed. :
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
General Porter Honored.

General Horace Porter, former
American Ambassador to France, re-
ceives, a gold medal from Americans
in Paris as a tribute for his work in
recovering the body Of John Paul
Jones.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31

Is Agent Of Crow Indian Agency.
Major S.. G. Reynolds is the agent
Of the Crow Indian agency.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
CHINA TO BOYCOTT OUR GOODS.

Movement in Retaliation For Exclusion
Started at Shanghai.
Shanghai.-A number of influential
Chinese merchants met and protested
again the American exclusion treaty.
It was unanimously resolved to boy
colt American goods until the treaty
should be modified.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
In Memory Of Schiller.

The Tooth anniversary Of the death
Of Schiller, the German poet, was cele-
brated by German societies in New
York City and Philadelphia. Pa. -,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31

Almost the entire commercial wealth
of India, with its population Of 100000
600, is said to be in the hands Of less
than 10000 persons.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31

saving completed, and the machine Is
in position on the fourth step for cut
ting the worn portion out Of the third.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31

Moscow is situated almost in the geo.
metrical centre of European Russia.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
THE TWO PHOTOGRAPHS.
By May Barton.

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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31

Hen Miss Martin gave Jack
Elton her photograph, he
little thought that it was
one of those trihes which
sometimes go to make the
FRO oaIiac Of Iifp
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DANGER IN SHOOTING BIG GAME
Hunters Bullet May Not Stop the
 Brute,s Advance,

The disturbing element in hunting elephant or seladang or rhino has been always, to me at least, the feeling of uncertainty as to whether or not l could stop the animal if I wounded it and it charged me, as it did on an average of once in three times.
 Based on my experience, therefore, should place the elephant first and the rhino third after the seladang which is fully as formidable as the Cape buffalo, and is miscalled the bison all over India. Each of these animals is dangerous on different and individual grounds; the elephant though less likely to charge than any of the others, is terrifying because of his enormous strength, which stops at no obstacle, and the extreme difficulty of reaching vital spot, especially if with trunk tightly coiled, he is com ing your way.
 1 know of no sensation more awe some than standing ankle deep in clinging mud in dense cover, with the jungle crashing around you as though the entire forest was toppling, as the elephant you have wounded comes smashing his way ill your direction. The seladang is dangerous partly be- cause of the thick jungle he seeks when wounded, but more especially because of his tremendous vitality and his usual though not invariable, habit of awaiting the hunter on his tracks and charging suddenly, swiftly and viciously. It requires close and hard shooting to bring down one of these six-foot specimens of oriental cattle.
 The danger of the tiger and of the lion is in their lightning activity and ferocious strength; but you have the shoulder, in addition to the head shot, if broadside; or, if coming on, the chest, all sure to stop if well placed. The reason the rhino is so formidable is because its vulnerable spots are so hard to reach. It's brain is as small in proportion as that of the elephant, and may be reached through the eye if head on, or about three inches below and just in front of or just behind the base of the ear, according to your position for a shot.-Outing.
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ALPINE GUIDES.
o~NN~~OON~

The Alpine guide frequently risks his health, strength, even his life for persons who may have been them selves the cause of the peril encoun- tered. The qualities of first-class guide, says the author of Adventures on the Roof of the World" include not only skill in climbing, but the ability to form sound conclusions in moments of danger. A certain climber tells an anecdote which bears on the impor- tance of the guides powers of judg- ment.
 A member of the Alpine Club was ascending a peak in company with an Oberland guide. Part of their course lay over a snow field which sank grad ually on one side, sharply ended by precipice on the other. The two were walking along not far from the edge of this preciplce when the English man, thinking that an easier path might be made by going still nearer the edge, diverged little from his companions track. To his surprise, the guide immediately caught hold of him and pulled him back with more vigor than ceremony, well-nigh throw ing him down in the operation. Wrath ful, and not disinclined to return the compliment, the Englishman remon- strated. The guides only answer was to point to a small crack, apparently like scores of other cracks in the neve, which ran for some distance parallel to the edge of the precipice.
 The traveller was not satisfied, but he was too wise man to argue while a desired summit was still some dis tance above him. On the descent, when the scene of the mornings incl dent was reached, the guide pointed to the crack, which had grown percep- tibly wider.
 ''This marks" he said, "the place where the true snow field ends. ] feel certain that the ice from here to the edge is nothing but an unsupported cornice hanging over the tremendous precipice below. It might possibly have borne your weight, though don't think it would" Thereupon he struck the neve on the farther side or the ice sharply with his ax. A huge mass im- mediately broke away, and went roar ing down the cliff.
 The traveller was full of amazement and admiration, and thought how there, on an easy mountain and in smiling weather, he had been very near to making himself into an ava ianche.
Holbrook argus., 1905-02-04
FLOWERS coLORED TO ORDER.
By Simple Method Beautiful Effects
 Have Been Obtained.

Have Been Obtained.
 We know that horticulturists create Almost at will flowers of varied colors by practicing forced culture, artificial selection and hybridiZation, in this way obtaining a very extended scale of col OTIS. Still, in any case, thef color of the flower, although it is possible to give birth to millions of varieties, can only be modified within certain limits. With reference to this fact the colors of flowers have been divided into two great categories, the Xanthic series yellow, yellowish green, orange, red and the cyanic series-blue, indigo, violet. Never has flower of the first series passed into the second, nor has the reverse taken place; never has a gardener, no matter how clever he may be, been able to obtain blue roses.
 The florists, however, obtain this color. The method of the florists is that classic one which has been long employed on the case of violets, for eX- ample, making them green with am NAllc WILL NullOlS Ol Dulphui acid, etc. In this case, however, it is the coloring matter of the flower itself which is modified, although in the pro duction of green carnations the method adopted is that of artifcially int-oduc- ing coloring matter into the tissues of the plant, the coloring matter then being incorporated into the petals.
 When the first green carnations ap- peared in Paris the city was seized with astonishment, and many persons willingly paid as much as two francs apiece for the flowers. The municipal authorities instituted an investigation and soon discovered how the flowers were colored. It appeared that young girl accidentally poured into the water of vase containing white carnations coloring matter with which she was painting a rose leaf green. What was her astonishment to see the carnations lose their white color and assume beautiful green tint; from this to the regular manufacture of the flowers was only step.
 All plants, however, do not lend themselves in an equal manner to these vagaries. The carnation, hyacinth, orange flower, gilly flower, iris, chrys- anthemum and camellia are the most easily colored, and in this respect it is amusing to experiment with the many hues that can be obtained. It is only necessary to prepare coloring solution, then cut the stem of the flow CT and place it in the solution. The plant draws up the water, and little by little the coloring matter is distributed throughout the plants tissues. A com mon gllly flower placed in a solution of light green analine dye is quickly transformed, at the end of twenty min utes the white parts being blue, the yellows green and the reds violet Many other effects may be produced ip the same way..-Cosmos.
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One on Mamma.

Anxious Mother-My dear, you should begin to think seriously of mar riage. l was married at your age.
 Pretty Daughter-Yes, l know you were, mamma; but grandma says you were at my age for nearly five years so I have plenty of time yet.
Holbrook argus., 1905-02-04
Outwitting the Cashier.

Minks-So Gunton's cashier has run off with the funds, eh? Well, it's Gun tons own fault-no management. No one will ever hear of my cashier running otf.
 Winks-How do you manage?
 Minks-Simple enough. l give my wife the freedom of the safe, and it's ali the cashier can do to corner enough to pay his own salary.
Holbrook argus., 1905-02-04
Hard to Arouse.

"Ah heard sermon about Gabriel coming wid his horn," remarked Dea- con Dewberry. Hell sahtinly arouse de people dat morn."
 "Dunno about dat" replied Parson Sweetbean shaking his head. Gabriel will hab to toot an automobile horn to make some ob desc heah sinnahs jump."-Chicago News.
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Proposed in Proper Form.

Old Friend-So you have at last con- sented to marry someone. How did it happen?
 Miss Flippant-Well, every man that has ever proposed before has said, Twill you be my wife" But Harold asked if he might have the honor of being my husband.-Detroit Free Press.
Holbrook argus., 1905-02-04
Grades of Ignorance.

"The trouble with the man who thinks he knows it all Is that he really has only little knowledge"
 Yes, and the trouble with the man who thinks he has little knowledge is that he really has little Knowledge" Philadelphia Ledger.
Holbrook argus., 1905-02-04
Giving Film a Pointer.

Mrs. Neurich-How's my son gettin' song with his lessons?
 Private Tutor-Very nicely, madam; .!lthough it is sometimes difficult for him 70 catch an idea at times.
 Mrs. Neurich-Well, I'd have you Know he dor't have to catch 'em. We can afford to buy him all the ideas he ueeds.
Holbrook argus., 1905-02-04
Not Using It.

Mir. Green-AIiss Passay says she has the prescription for perpetual youth
 Miss Sarcastic-It's a wonder she wouldn't take it to a drug store, and have it put up!'
Holbrook argus., 1905-02-04
When She Is Wise.

A man may break woman's heart
 When sne is young and giddy, But good for nothing is his art
 When she becomes a "widdie." Illinois State Journal.
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Proof Positive.

Employe-I must have more pay MT. Rolltop. My present salary isn't large enough to live on.
 Employer-But you have lived on it for ten years now, haven't you7-Som. arville JourD"
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Hero.

Dusty Dennis-Ah, lady, have fac. ed the dangers of fire many q time.
 Tile Lady-Were you a fireman, my poor man?
 Dusty Dcnnis-No'm smoked ci gar butt in haystack.