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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-11
Republican.
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-11

Entered at the postoffice at Marshail
town as second class mail matter
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-11

The Hardin County Citizen says "the
Blythe railroad contingent Is very
anxious to get Perkins In the guoer-
material contest. Perkins is all right,
but we don't like the company OF the
crowd who are pushing him. 1t does
MT seem to us that Mr.. Perkins will all
low them to use him to accomplish
their ends
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-11

The Keokuk Gate City finds "cumu-
lative evidence that President Roose-
Welt would have made his mark as an
editorial writer"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-11

"Either the tariff or congress will be
be revised" declares the Orange City
Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-11

"The merchant marine general sub
sidy scheme is one of the things Presd-
dent Roosevelt damns with faint
praise" notes the Dubuque Times.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-07-26
II Paws to Advertise.

When James Gordon Bennett the
elder was editor of the Herald, Rob.
ert Bonner, publisher of the New York
Ledger, was struggling to build up its
circulation, and decided to try little
advertising. He wrote an announce
ment consisting of eight words: Read
Mrs. Southworth's New Story In the
LEDGER" and sent 1t to the Herald
marked for zone line" Mr. Bonner's
handwriting was so bad that the
words were read in the Herald Office
as zone page" Accordingly the line
was set up and repeated SO as to oc.
cupy one entire page. Mr.. Bonner
was thunderstruck the next morning.
He had not to his name money enough
In the bank to pay the bill. He rushed
excitedly over to the Herald Office,
but was too late to do any good.
In short time the results OF the
page announcement. began to be felt.
Orders for the Ledger poured In until,
the entire edition was exhausted and.
another one was plinted The sue
cess of the Ledger was then estab.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-07-26
achAURIN ON THE DISpENsARY
5E&ssfater Scores The State Liquor
Il, institution III Strong Terms.

Columbia State.
"a great meeting was held at Dillon
Tuesdsy. 1t was a farmers meeting,
and was addressed by several promi-
nent speakers, who discussed the
questions of the day. At length the
ldispersary came in for share Of in
teresting talk.
This HAs. accustomed by the reply of
former Senator MeLahtin to some
questions which were submitted to
him during the course of his speech.
It was understood by some that the
meeting was to be held under the aus
tices and id the interests Of the South
ern Cottoii Association, with politics
entirely eliminated.
5 I. y This rule had been adhered to by
gMr, r. P. Hamer and Senator r. |.
Manning, the two first speakers.
:..E The Dispensary.
FoTnier Senator MeLa1iri1 had spok'
5eu for about ten fiiihutss, following
these lines also, when gentleman
from the audience approached the plat
form and handed the speaker paper.
Having finished his sentence, Mr.. Nc
Laurin real the paper, then read it to
the audience, and the GGpef III anes.
ton was as follows:
!S5" IS, Senator: At our committee meeting
yesterday we decided we we're all of
ona acer6i on the cotton question, hav-
ing read Hitch 6n The subject and hav-
ing many able speakers who will fol-
low you here today. For that reason
we decided that we would remind you
,that the burning question Of the hour
with lis is and will be for the immedi-
ate future, Aispensary Or no dispen-
sary, and if you nave He serious OBJ
jections we would like to hear your
views on the subject. What do you
tlIilk of the dispensary laws as it is
writ On the statute books of this State,
and as it has been, is, and probably
will he, IS lorg as It is = law, executed
by those III dtilllotity?"
Signed: w. r. Bethea, w: M Hamer,
8E. L. Moore, Z. R. Hamer, Wade Stack
house.
81 Mr.. MeLaurin said that he had been
charged tS Sonic as beirg politician,
and this subject WIS dna that politi-
Ecians are now dodging pretty Skill
fully, but that he had stayed in Wash
5ington long enough~to get above that.
HE had never failed to expressed his
opinion upoh any pub1ic question, and
sifSthey wanted to hear him discuss the
5dispensary law he would do SO:
The crowd at once vociferously sig
Snalized desire for this very thing.
gand th a ir,>~- ~--a------
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-07-26
ASKING Advice.

The sheriff of Santa Cruz county,
Ariz., has received the following let
ter from one Of his constituents:
"Mr. Charles Fowler-Dear Sir:
thought l would write you few lines
to ask you few words, and I don't
want to do anything until hear from
you. My stepfather is chussing (prob-
ably chasing or cussing) my mother
all the time, and she don't want him
around here any more and she wants
him to leave but he won't go. he is
Just chussing her all the time and
once he was going to hit her with q
rock but made him lay 1t down. She
is washing all the time and trying to
do right with him and I am going TO
stop this. I am asking you what e
will do and be sure and tell me what
If I would shut (shoot) him / think
I would be in the right because ! don't,
care for him and IL do kill him e
willgshow you that twas tight. Well
/ will close for this time. Be sure
and write and tell me what to do. So.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-07-26
NEwsY GLEANINGs.

Nodicska, it is said, will sell her
ranch in California.
!, Sarah Bcrnhardt vii; make an Amer
lean tour next season.
Miss Ellen Stone recently returned to
her missionary work i'll Eastern Eu-
rope.
A crocodile eight feet long was re-
Gently captured near Cape Florida in
fish.net.
On a crow 1lunt held in Elgin and
Kane Coa-ties, Ill, the record was
1131 CROWS.
About forty varieties Of fantastic fish
from the Bermutas are to be sent to
the New York aquarium. &
The italian Govcrnmenl viii Spend
$23.G00,OO0 10 improve navigation OH
the River po, Italy. and lis tributaries.
a movement to colonizc Il tract of
land three miles from the campus has
been started by the faculty Of the Stan-
ford University, at Palo Alto, Cal.
An Englishman says that the people
Of the United States are nerye-racked,
-bald-heaGed, gray-headed, catarrhal
people, vino do hot know how to live.
The Jersey City authorities have fin
ally voted the Erie Railroad the priyi-
leges Of using about & dozen streets
for it's S5,GO0,O00 terminal improve
mentS.
President Eutlcr, Of Columbia Uni
yersity, announced details Of plan
for establishing Il faculty Of fine arts
with the cooperation of the National
Academy Of Design.
Mrs. Sarah Ann Woolf, Of Utah, who
has died ut the age Of ninety-onc, left
ten children. eighty-one grandchildren,
1S9 grcat-grandchildren and twenty
three at-great-g grandchildren.
For tile first time i'll many months
work in tllc anthracite coal regions
was suspended during the first week
in July, when Tire Lehigh Valley Com
pany shut down its colleries for tile
week
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-07-26
Farmers Rally at Aiken.

Aaiken, Special.-Therc will be
ne meeting TT the Cotton Growers Asso-
citation OF Aiken county att the
house next Saturday atsi1 o'clock. All
the Aiken county clubs are invited to
attend and every citizen, no matter
what his calling may be, who is inter-
es.ed in the prosperity of the South,
is invited to attend and join the as
sociation, the cost of doing so beng
only 25 cents per annum. The matter
of building a cotton warehouse IN Al
ken will be discussed and it is believed
that the plans for doing SO will be
perfected. If this warehouse can be
built, it will greatly reduce the
chances of repetition of the losses
recently sustained by the farmers OF
Aiken county. Other matters of vital
interest to the people will be discuss.
ed. MIR. w. w. Woolsey, president OF
the association, extends a cordial IN.
vitation to all and hopes that every
farmer in Aiken county will be pres
ent. 1t is hoped that President jordan
and others will address the meeting.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-07-26
TO BUILD up sGUppERN0NG TRADE
An Effort Will Be Made to Create a
New Market For These Grapes.

Columbia Cor Charlotte Observer:
Commissioner Watson's efforts to
find a market for South Carolina SOUP
pernongs as initial step toward devel-
oping the scuppernohg industry on
large scale; this state gfowihg the fin
est type OF these grapes in the world,
from the mountains to the. seaboard,
has just resulted in an order for the
first car load from big champagne
and wine-making concern at Hermann,
Mo.
"Of course, on the success Of the
marketing of this first car load" said
Commissioner Watson to The Observer
correspondent, largely depends the flu
ture OF the industry, and it is Of the
highest Importance to get the fruit to
it's destination In good shape: But
have no fear Of Tie RESULTS The finest
:e-Hrcrncno grapes in the world are
grown right here in South Carolina,
and the crop can be produced in great
abundance anywhere in either the
coast, middle or Piedmont sections. If
the fruit can be gotten to market in
good condition Splendid prices can be
obtained, I have every reason to be-
lieve"
This first car is to be made up from
two well known South Carolina vine
yards. and if the experiment proves
successful Commissioner Watson ex-
poets to see a general revival and eX-
tension of the iIidilstiyl atuppsrnong
growing has never been an extensive
industry in this State, though the fruit
grows luXuriantly almost anywhere in
went into effect. forbidding the manu-
factuie and sale. of wine; the few pay
ing vineyards that existed tle,l have
been allowed to run down to a great
extent. The Missouri people intend to
use the South Carolina scuppernong as
"a basic grape in the manufacture OF
champagne, and. if the hopes Of the
manufactures are realized to even any
reasonable extent malket will be
promptly opened for all that South
Carolina can grow, and it is expected
that the success of the experiment in
this State will promptly result in an
extension Of the grape industry into
North Carolina and Georgia, particu-
larly fine scuppernongs heiiis growing
in North Carolina, where, it is said,
there is one vineyard whose rami6ca-
tions covers nearly ten acres.
One of the largest and most prolific
scuppernong vineyards in the State is
that near Columbia, now the property
Of Lieut. Gov. John T. Sloan, Up to
1891 this was operated with great sue
cess by Mr.. e. Nj. Stevber, but with the
coming of the dispensary he had to
abandon the business. The Seaboard
now splits the plantation in twain.
In Darlington county there are
number of large and productive vines,
as there are elsewhere throughout the
State, but there are few vineyards now.
The scuppernong grape was Introduced
into Aiken county over Hffv vea''e I" ar.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-07-26
NEARLY 100 HURT, MANY FATALLY
There Were More Than $50 Men
Aboard the Vessel at the Time, and
Of These is Sailors Are Missing
The Accident Occurred in the San
Diego, Cal, Harbor Just Before the
Vessel Was Scheduled to Leave.

San Diego, Cal, Special.-Twenty.
eight members of the crew of the
United States gunboat Benning-
ton were killed and four.score
sailors were injured, "a seriously, at
4 10 O'clock Thursday forenoon by a
boiler explosion that disabled the YES.
sci in San Diego harbor. Fifteen sail
ors are missing. There were more
than $50 men aboard the warship
when the accident occurred, and many
men were hurled or forced to jump in
to the sea by the terrific explosion.
which lifted part of the deck and com.
PEELED the bleaching Of the ship. The
Bennington, at the time of the acct
dent, was lying in the stream Just
off the commercial wharf at H street.
The warship had received orders from
the Navy Department at Washington
to sail this morning for Port Hartford
to meet the mentor Wyoming and
convey the monitor to Mare lslana
navy yard, San Francisco.
EXPLOSION TERRIFIC.
Steam was up and everything was
In readiness for the departure of the
Bennington when the starboard for
ward boiler exploded with terrific
roar. The explosion was terrific
People standing on shore saw a huge
cloud Of steam rise above the Ben
nington. Columns of water were
forced high into the air. A dozen or
fifteen men were blown overheard by
the force of the terrific explosion.
Capt. Wentworth, who was looking at
the Bennington when the disaster oc-
Cured, says he saw human bodies
hurled over hundred feet upward.
The air was clouded with smoke which
senveloped the ship. When the haze
cleared away, only q few could be,
seen en- the decks. While a number
were found dering in the water. a
boat:Swas lowered from the vessels
side and most Of the pae,a in The ,Matss. al.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-07-26
NO. 81 Z
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

DR.. A. V i. Raymond is president
Of Union College.
The Popc receives between 22,oO0
to $4,000 letters every day. -
Maxim Gorky is said 10 have made
S125,O 900 III the publishing business.
Sawa Morosoff. the Russian wool
king" is dead aged only forty-tour
years.
Alexander Beaubier. The first White
child born in Chicago, is now elshty-z
three years old.
DR.. England, of N1oulton. South Lin
colnshire. still wears a pair Of shooting
boots. thirty years old.
Il. B. De. a full-hlooded Brahmin Of
high degree. Is -::iilNeN III Conna
to study tobacco raising
The first volume of The unpublished
writings Of the late Theodore Momm-
sen has been prepared for publication.
Charles NJ. Bailey. of Baileyville,
Me-. has made from $5,0O0,00D to SlO,-
100000 rs a manufacturer of oilcloth.
Cy Perkins. the New Hampshire mill
lionaire, who died file other day, never
drove anything swifter than pair OF
steers.
No modern occupant of a throne has
travelled more frequently abroad since
his accession than Prince Ferdinand OF
Bulgaria.
Rastamji AIanekji. a native Of Bom-
bay, India. is 4 visitor il, Kew York.
and complains of the heat he is com
PEELED to endure there.
DR.. Ludwig Bolzmann. The eminent
mathematical physicist, of Leipzig, will 4
lecture before the summer school OF
the University Of California this year.
The house in Which ::.arrict Beecher
Stowe lived for Il number of years ln
Hartford is now being torn down to
make room for the advancing factories.
Pope Plus " recently gave audience
to Il poor mali living ut Tivoli, near
Rome, who personally presented the
pontifr with bunch Of asparagus OF
his own growing.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-07-26
.GIIBOHI BENNINGTON BLOWN Up
Frightful Loss Of Life Results From Bursting of
a Defective Boiler on Board.

Andrew Kaherer, Is, fireman, Lon
donville, o.
Joseph Newcomb, ~, seaman, Bos-
ton.
Harry Mosher, 25, fireman, Newark,
Wilbur W. Wright, 80, steward, home
unknown.
Michael G. Quinn, 81, fireman, Kill
kenny, Ireland. :,
clyde Haggbloom, rs, Leadville,
Col.
Mrley F, Morris, "a. fireman, Owens
warren Paris. a8. coal passer. Ian
sing, Mich.
VIM. C. Wilson, 10, seaman, German
town, Cal,
Stephen W. Pollock, "a, coal passer,
Honesdale, Pa.
Emil Dresch, "a, seaman, Newark,
N. J.
VIM. staub, 21, fireman, Bridgewater,
John L. Burns. 20, seaman, Chi
cago.
Glen Brownlee, "a, seaman, Calves
ton, Texas.
VIM. /. Cherry, "a, blacksmith, Salem,
Mont.
Walter G. Grant, %, coal passer, Chi
cago.
John Goika, Is, seaman, Milwau-
kee. ,.,,
John McKone, %, fireman. Leadville,
Col.
Edwin 3. Robinson, Is, seaman, San
Charts S o McKeen, rs, coal passer,
Charles ]. Kuntz, 20, seaman, St.
Louis.
Harry F. Saunders, 10 seaman,
Springfield, Mo.
Jcdie w. Kempton, Is, seaman,
Loveland, Col.
Robert B. Carr, 1872 seaman, Den
yer.
Harry F. Smith, %, seaman. Harri-
sonville, Mo.
Preston Carpenter, 20, seaman, Ara
pahoe, Neb.
Robert L. Savage, %, seaman, Waco,
Texas.
Leroy B. Archer, 20, seaman, Fowler,
Col.
Don c. Archer, 10, seaman, San
Francisco.
Richard t. House, 21, seaman, Colo
rado Springs, Col.
Albert H. schoregge, 81, seaman, New
Ulm. MINI.
John G. Barchus, %, seaman, clarin-
1. j. Guthrles, 25, seaman, New
York.
Matthew G. Chambers, %, seaman,
Lewiston, Idaho. & sssfSss
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-07-26

to board a train for North Caroilnha' h
of Young Arthur Speegle, son OF the
ex.supervisor, whose books are sala
to show various forms Of criminal IT.
regularities, on warrant sworn ouE
bv Chairman Avery Patton, OF the IN
vestigating committee, charging young
speegle with obtaining money under
false pretenses by fraudulently draw"
ing more salary than the act entitled
him to, Governor Hayward has recelV'
ed a request from the committee 1or
reouisition papers for the father, MT
]. q. speegle, who is at Henderson
vile. where he is said to be in a dy-
ing condition. The committee did not
mention any particular charges against
i. E.. Speegle. The Governor was
merely inform93lat tGe>feqtttssts9an. On.
was desired in connection with the
investigation. Young Speegle has
been released on bond of Sl,00O.
Half a dozen other arrests OF promin-
ent people are expected to folio" at
Greenville this week.
A storm Of local politics has been
raging about the supervisors office for
some time. At the last election the
friends Of the defeated candidate,
Walker, who was counted out in the
primary, and in whose behalf neither
the State executive committee nor the
courts would interfere, went into the
general election, after Senator Till
man had taken hand in the matter
and advised them not tc do so, and
elected Walker on the Independent
ticket. Speegles friends claim that
the work of the committee is largely
inspired by politics and that he will
be able. to satisfactorily explain every
thing end account for all moneys. IN
the meantime the committee is pro-
ceeding. to unearth things.
A liyeryman called upon to explain
why he was given $1,145 for certain
Job, showed his books to prove that
he had received only S340. The COM
mittee is looking for the $S05, and is
also trying to find out the wherefore
of an employe of the county receiving
nav. at $40 per month, for 19 months
in 1909 and 1S months in 1904. The
committee is also trying to find out
why 40 bushels of corn meal month
was charged to the county aims house.
whereas the present supervisor only
uses LIS bushels at this place; why
Blacksmith J. Rowley Smith, son OF a
well-konwn politician, was paid Sl,G69
for 75O pairs of shackles and how it
was county physician got in $4,000
worth IF services to gang of 20 men
in the course of year.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-07-26

- Emile C. Hoffman, 25, blacksmith,
|San Antonio. Texas. s3sl
Joseph Hilscher, "a, fireman, Seattle,
Wash.
Edward B. Ferguson, SO, chief ma
chinist, San Francisco.
Elmer u. Brunson, 20, seaman, Chi
cago.
Four unidentified men Of the new
draft, who joined the Bennington at
San Diego.
Seven men, names uncertain, known
to be in flooded compartments OF the
vessel.
Thomas Burke, machinist.
Joseph Hunt, oiler.
George L. Clarke, chief machlnlst.
G. W. Brockman, gunner.
Unidentified number of men stlll
missing.
San Diego, CAL, special.-Forty-sev-
en- Of the gunboat Bennington's dead
were buried Sunday in common grave
in the little military cemetery on the
crest of the promotory Of Iona, hign
above the waters of San Diego Bay on
the one side, and within sound OF the
booming surf Of the Pacific on the oth-
er. Without the crash Of drum or
sound of brass, without pomp or pa
rade, yet with simple impressiveness
all honor was paid to the nation S
dead.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-07-26
Fifteen Injured in Collision.

Portsmouth, N. H., specia].-Fifteen
persons were injured, eleven of them
seriously, and three of them probably
fatally, in collision between two cleo
tric cars on the line of the Portsmouth
electric Railway, near this city, early
Sunday evening. The cars crashed to-
gether on steep grade and while
rounding curve, neither motorman
seeing the other car in time to PIE
vent q collision.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-07-26

ID the North the fact that the cosu-s
ner did not go In with his jury to view
the corpse and the rumor that he said
after the burial that he could not swear
that. Dargan was dead; that-W. +. Dar- Da:,-
gan ordered out Of the mansion two
men who had come with the jury to see
the body; that the grave was bricked
and cemented; that there was a gener-
al effort to avoid publicity on the night
Of the tragedy, and other rumors and
reports too numerous to recount con-
stitute the basis for the widespread
suspicion that it was put-up jo6.
So frantic has gossip grown that tel
ephone message went abroad that the
grave had been opened and touno
empty.
The coroner tells me that on the
night of the 10th, when he got to the.
Office where the deed was done, ne
found the front door and partition door,
locked. In the back room were Pcgram
Dargan, DR.. Edwards and the dead
man. The dead mans jaws were tied
with a towel to prevent his mouth from
falling open. he was sitting IN an
easy chair with his feet upon booK
case. DR.. Edwards said that he was
dead when first examined by him.
Both ". r. and Pegram Dargan asked
the coroner if he recognized the corpse,
and he replied that he did, and that II
was Robert Keith Dargan. They told
him that they did not want crowd
to collect or any publicity, and ne
agreed that they might remove the
corpse to the mansion. When they
were taking it up to bear it to the car,
riagc at the door, the coroner olfereu
to assist them, but Pegram objected.
The coroner thrust an arm under the
body anyhow while they were lifting 1t
into the carriage 1t had not yet ne
said, grown cold. This was the last
time the coroner saw the dead man.
eff l had the authority" he said,
would have the grave opened. Its
the shortest way to stop all this talk.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-07-26
Fireman's Story of the Accident.

Fireman's Story of the Accident.
Fireman E. G. Hopp makes the first
statement as to the cause Of the accl-
dent. He says that shortly before the
explosion one Of the boilers was found
to be leaking badly, and the boiler
maker was sent for to repair the dam
age. Before the latter came the eXp!o-
sion occurred. Hopp saw men all
about him killed outright and he him
self was stunned for moment. The
dead were given military burial sun
day afternoon at the military reser:a-
ton at Point Iona. Services were
held at 3 o'clock on the Point, and
launches will convey across the bay
the living officers and men able to at
tend
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-07-26
Wafford,s New Building.

spartanburg, special.-Work on the
new building, which will be an ex-
tension of the Wofford College Fitting
school, has begun. This will be a
very attractive and substantial struc'
ture, two stories high, OF brick, con-
tanning five class rooms and an as
se1nbly hall. The old building will be
used as a dormitory. The attendance
Of the fitting school for the pet sev-
eral sessions has been so decidedly
increased as to necessitate more
room, and the college authorities wise
ly decided to have adequate facilities
furnished by erecting the new build
ing,