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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-01-11
BIG ORDER FROM SOUTHERN.
Contract Given Out for Total Of e,729
Cars for Freight Service.

One Of the first steps taken by the
Southern railway for theg> year 1906
was the placing of an order for S,72s
cars for the freight service. This or
der has been necessitated by the tre'
mendous growth of freight traffic IN
the large portion Of the south fed by
the Southern railway. While the exact
figures could not be learned, 1t Is
known that the contract exceeds $5,-
5000.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-01-11
AUTOS FOR RURAL CARRIERS.
Postmaster General corteiyou a
proves Such Suggestion.

Postmaster General Cortelyou mas
annroyed 2 recommendation OF Fourth
Assistant DeGraw for the use OF rural
carriers of automobiles In serving
their routes. The postmaster general
however. reserves the right to re-
ouire rural carriers to discontinue the
usa Of vehicles prescribed by the reg
u,ations, if complaint IS made Oh un'
satisfactory service arising from 'ns
use of automobiles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02

gne nevertheless. One such, truly infer
nal in workmanship and potential force,
was delivered by a duly licensed commits
sionaire" messenger boy of forty years. to
M. Hottinger's dwelling, the gentleman be-
ing chairman of the Russian loan COM
mittee.
The thing was in the form of an expensive
Turkey leather valise, red, with gold-plated
trimmings. The clock ticking was not at
all audible. Only the suspicion of watch
full valet saved 1t from exploding at its
hour.
The valet, Jean Lebreton, on whom the
grateful banker has now settled a life pen
sion, ran with It himself to the police sta
ton. There they did not hesitate. That
valise is mighty heavy" they said.
'Alloi allo the laboratory? Quick, voy-
ons, do you want US to grow old waiting on
you? Send your van-and quicker than
thati'
The van got to the police station in ten
minutes. The chemist clerc carried it from
the back courtyard behind an ash barrel
to the van. Within twenty minutes it was
being photographed at the Levallois bomb
farm, just beyond the fortificatfons.
Danger Hour Had Not Arrived.
Then they opened the valise fearlessly.
There was no danger at all-yet The dan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02

ger hour had not arrived. You see the
photograph disclosed the wire from the In
duction coil to be fxed for contact with the
minute hand at twenty minutes after the
hour. There would have been still twenty
minutes of safety The makers must have
given a full hour when they set 1t and con-
fded 1t to the commissionaire. The latter
must have delivered 1t within some ten min
utes Only the unhesitating suspicion Of
the valet saved some one from risking q
blowing up.
Every newly discovered bomb is radio
graphed, and until its general character is
known you can be sure that no one loafs
uselessIy IN its neighborhood. He who does
the radiographing works behind armor-plate
screens.
Still more extraordinary is the bomb
farms second room. The partitions are
earth walls fifteen feet thick. IN front Of
the entrance door IL a vast mound of earth,
behind which hide the chemist and Is aids
while the hydraulic press II operating.
The hydraulic pressl 1t gets blown to
Emithereens several times q week at pres
ent.
immediately bomb Is photographed thsy
put 1t in this press. All quit the room ex-
cept one practiced man. and he, with one
leg outside the door, shifts the fatal lever
The press begins very SLOWLY descending
And the bomb does the rest. 81
Then why do they put the bomb In the
press2 10 begin with. they have got to
put 1t somewhere. II 1t has to explode, it
had best explode In the press.
Not all dangerous bombs explode In the
press. 1t works 10 slowly and gently,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02
BIG BOMB EPIDEMIC
Paris Threatened by DirefuI
Explosions.
MILITANT WORKlNGMEN
Try to Initiate Disappointed Russian
Revolutionists.
SOME DEADLY NOVELTIES
Bomb-Letters and Dangerous valises
PLOTS Against French Banks
Russian Personages.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PARTS, May 10, 1905.
BY the time these lines are printed, an
important Paris bank may be blown up.
Or big factory.
Or two banks and two factories; or build
ings in course of construction; or palatial
Paris homes of foreign aristocrats; or ho-
tells wherein stop foreign functionaries; or
the moderate apartments Of contractors
foremen or scab-employing overseers.-
OF one thing only you may be certain In
advance Strange 1t may seem, the das-
tardIy explosions will not be the work Of
anarchists This is the grave Characters
tic of the new bomb epidemic of Paris.
The Argenteuil railroad bridge was blown
up by militant workingmen to prevent
troop-trains reaching Paris for the labor
agita tons of May l.
Benz Katz-Stryga, who accidentally blew
his own towels out while carrying a bomb,
was not an anarchist, but prominent
Russian revolutionist, TO whom had fallen
the lot of taking revenge on French banks
floating the new Russian loan.
The unknown persons who placed the
bomb in the vestibule of M. Bambergers
palatial home worked for the same definite
revenge, because NJ. Bamberger is the head
of the Banque de Paris, one of the loans
underwriters.
Joseph Lafont. the Lyons carpenter who
wounded himself while making bombs, is
prominent Lyons labor agitator.
And the Habert brothers who, with ALI.
Bouchard, accidentally blew up their bomb
factory in the Rue des Plantes, were we'll
known speakers of the general confeder-
alton of labor while Bouchard is no other
than tn secretary-adjoint of the feder-
alton of French carpenters.
Dreams of Vengeance.
Here Is a dual bomb danger of utterly
new types. Up to the present it has been
understood as a creed article that Russian
revolutionists, plotting abroad, attack only
Russians. The article has been modified.
Paris Geneva and Brussels are now full OF
refugees who. few months ago, felt fame
and fortune in their grasp, great men
of a Russian republic. Indeed, 1t was such
q close shave that the action of the bank
ers turned the scale. The dream is shatter-
ed-and the dreamers dream of vengeance:
vengeance on particular Franch banks,
vengeance on Russian personages when
they come to take luxurious repose in Paris
from their 'labors." Here is one Infintesi-
NAL detail: Sophie Speranska, the beautiful
girl who was of KatZ-Stryga's accom-
plces, has two younger brothers now rot
ting in the underground cells of the for
tress of St. Peter and Paul.
Still more grave is the new departure of
French syndicated labor. Away back in
1904 the Bourges congress voted it. I'm
our efforts to obtaining legislation and will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02
RESCUED IN NICK OF TIME.
Two Picked Up by Captain of Norfolk
Steamer

James Edward Burch aged twenty, OF st.
Mary's. Md, and Garfield Adams colored,
aged fourteen years. OF the same place. the
latter totally unconscious and being held
In the arms of the former. who was al
most overcome after seven hours spent
with the boy In a half-sunken twenty
eight-foot sailing boat, were rescued in
the nick of time by Captain Cason and the
crew of the Norfolk and Washington
Steamboat Company's steamer Washing
ton near the mouth of the Potomac river
yesterday.
The steamer was on her way from WASH
ington to Norfolk when Second Mate Doug
las Ross heard cries Of distress in the dark
ness. Capt. Cason being informed. the
searchlight was brought into use and the
man Burch was seen standing In his SUBJ
merged boat up to his neck IN water hold
ing the apparent lfeless body of the COLI
ored boy In his arms. The steamer was
brought to a quick stop, and approaching
near the submerged skiff Capt. Cason first
ordered ropes thrown out, but Burch being
too weak to cling to these, ladders were
lowered, and Mates Willie Gtoghegan and
Douglas Ross, both of Washington. de-
scending on these. caught Burch and the
boy and took them aboard the Washing
ton.
zone half an hour more" said Capt. Ca
son today, and both would have persisted.
AS It was the boy was almost gone, and
II was only by tht most heroic means that
he was resuscitated."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02

Through the night his sleep was rare and
feversh. The apprenticeship of terrorism
is Itself terrifying!
Bomb Letters.
Terrifying-yes-yet there must be diet
tamil of terror to arrive at the dainty re-
fnement of the bomb letter!
1t is the very latest piece of dastardliness
devised by Russian revolutionists DESTROYS
10 give absent treatment to functionaries in
Moscow and st. Petersburg They take a
simple corrugated paSteboard card, OF the
kind used to protect photographs through
the mails, you understand. With penknife
they open up as much as possible some of
the corrugations. These they FIJI with
certain illuminate. l shall not be one to
give its true name, no.
Over each layer of illuminate they paste
light sheet of protecting paper. Then
they take some of those pulling crackers"
the kind found in dance favors. With
strong paste, they paste one on each side
of the card, bending over to form a slight
loop. This they repeat at each corner of
the card.
The card is now ready to be put into an
envelope of its exact SIZE. The looped pull
ing-crackers" touch the interior borders
You see? II the party receiving the letter
uses letter-opener, or rips the envelope
open even with his fingers from a corner
inward, he will fatally pull on the loopsd
pulling -cracker'-and explode the charge
of fulminate-and go blind for the rest of
his life!
The watching of ones chance to place
time-bomb must be the most awful of pos
sible experiences How can the terrorist
count on walking across Paris with It?
Suppose on arriving at the desired spot he
should find servants standing round?
1t Is al once horrible and comic-the pic
.ture of terrorist promenading Paris with
bomb set to go off, say, in an houri He
is prevented from placing it here He dare
not place it therel Time pressesl This -
how a certain anarchist got blown up in
the Madeleine Church.
When it is reversible bomb. II is Just as
terrifying in another way. So long as he
keeps 1t upright all right. But suppose he
should forget himself and stoop to tie his
shoe? Suppose he should slip on a banana
peel? Suppose it should turn over simply
in his pocket? Suppose Il has turned? Did
bend over a while ago? Are the liquids
meeting through the cotton? Quick Put
1t any old place! STERLING HELLO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02
News Of Upper Marlboro.
Correspondence Of The star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO. June 1. 1905.
John Hardesty. white man. about thirty
years of age. of Bladensburg, with a wits
and three small children. was brought 70
iail here yesterday being unable to furnish
bail in the sum of $500 on the charge OF
larceny of chickens from Walter NJ. Shomo
of BIadensburg the night OF May 20.
Arthur Davidge, young colored man. OF
Bladensburg has been placed In the mouse
of reformation at Cheltenham, this county,
as an incorrigible It is alleged that Day
idge attempted to set fire to the old Lee
house. on Sand street Bladensburg. He De,
MED the charge. claiming that he went to
sleep while smoking cigarette In his ped
room and the bed clothing caught fire.
The case of the board Of liquor license
commissioners created by an act OF the
state legislature. against B. d. stephen.
clerk of the court. is being heard here to-
day before Judge George G. Merriek. Re-
Gently the clerk of the court secured an ip>
function against the board Of license com-
r11issioners restraining that body from is
suing any liouor licenses in the county. Mr..
b. D. Stephen thereupon issued licenses
under the old law. and the board filed p
cross bill asking that the clerk be entoineq.
1t Is understood that the liquor commissions
ers propose to attack the constitutionality
of the new law affecting Bladensburg and
Hyattsville districts. as the result of which
the liquor license fee was increased to 300,
and certain restrictions placed on the grant.
ing of licenses. which put about six of the
dozen saloons in the Bladensburg neiehbors
hood out of business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02

THE ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEvERELy
History of Father and Son. BY
George Meredith. Revised Edition.
New York: Charles sicribner's Sons.
Washington: Woodward s. Lothrop.
RECOLLECTIoNs OF A LIFETIME. BY
John Goode of Virginia. New York:
The Neale Publishing Company.
SOME FANCIEs IN VERSE. BY Mary
Pettus Thomas New York: The Neale
Publishing Company.
POEMS. BY Henry Lynden Flash. New
York: The Neale Publishing Company
MORGAN's CAVALRY. BY Basil w.
Duke. illustrated New York: The
Neale Publishing Company.
TRUTH DEXTER. BY Sidney Mccall. au-
thor of The Breath of the Gods" IL
Illustrated Edition. Boston: Little,
Brown & Co.
THE BOOK OF COMMON WORSHIP.
Published by the Authority of the Gen
Church in the United States of Amer
lea. For Voluntary Use in the Church.
es. Philadelphia: The Presbyterian
Board of Publication and Sabbath
School Work.
THE ORIGIN OF LIFE, It's Physical Ba-
sis and Definition. By John Butler
Burke New York: Frederick A. Stokes
Company.
THE BRIDAL OF ANSTACE. BY Eliza
beth Godfrey, author of The Winding
Road" New York: John Lane Com
pany.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN Po-
LTIICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS at
it's Second Annual Meeting, held at
Baltimore Md, December 20 to 70,
1905. Lancaster, Pa: Wickersham
Press.
ER PEECHCRAP AND WIFE AT THE
FAIR; Being the Experience of Resi-
dents of Poison Ridge, Arkansaw, IN
St Louis. By Herb Lewis. New York
and Washington: The Neale Publish
ing Company.
sPRIGs o. MINT; Verses and Sketches.
BY James Tandy Ellis. New York and
Washington: The Neale Publishing
Company.
EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY AND
ANATOMY; for High Schools. By Wal
ter Hollis Eddy chairman of the de-
partment of biology, the High School
of Commerce, New York City. New
York: American Book Company.
MODERN LOVE, an Anthology. New
York: Mitchell kennerley.
IMPERIAL PURPLE. BY Edgar Saltus.
New York: Mitchell kennerley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02

ways one of the six chemists OF the iabora-
tory In shifts of one week each-one week
of danger and five weeks to recover nerve.
Indeed. the work Is considered SO heroic
that the policemen, Geoffrend. Is to be both
promoted and decorated for taking the
second bomb from Katz-Stryga's pocket
after the fatal explosion In the Vincennes
park.
saw them take the bomb from the Neu-
lily perfumery works. little crowd on
the pavement talked bombs In awed whls-
pers Up dashed the two automobiles. The
chemist Clement directed Ramez, the chauf-
feur to bring the bomb van inside. close to
the spot. He knelt beside the deadly engine.
looked at 1t without touching 1t, then nfted
II vertically. very gently.
His care was obviously not to let II slant.
much less to turn ii horizontally; because
1t Is the nature of a great class OF oomos
that they explode only when their position
Is once changed. and this by the uniting OF
two liquids arranged in tubes
The laboratory's so-called bomb van Is q
heavy twelve horsepower automobile. oou-
BILE phaeton. refitted from the tourist trade.
with a pneumatic spring device for gentle
running. and 120-millimeter tires The bomb
box is just over these rear springs, open
ing on the outside by let-down from be-
hind.
1t lie filed with threaded wood fiber. and
into 1t, as in a nest, Clement deposited the
bomb. The fiber all around II was packed
and braced, the door shut-and the auto
bomb van started off-swift
1t went swift, and to one of the queerest
farms in any city suburb.
The "Bomb Farms"
There are four such "farms"-bomo
farms-on each of the four sides of Paris.
They dash for the nearest
They dash because the vast majority OF
propaganda" bombs, unlike the bombs OF
war, explode, not by shock, but by the pass
ing of time-when not by change OF posi-
ton Their original position being safe
guarded, time becomes the vital element
Now and again they find clockwork en-
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At Washington Grove.
,ial Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star
WASHINGTON GROVE, Md, June 2, 1906.
At the annual election held here wednes-
day the following officials were chosen:
President, Percy Foster; vice president,
John Davis; treasurer, LeonIdas Hunt; Sec
rotary Edward Cook. President Strany
declined reelection, as did DR.. Ell
mer Wtber. Mr.. John Davis will
continue to act chairman of the com
nittee of grounds. Other members of the
board of control are DR.. Edward Huntley.
Cabeil Williamson, DR.. Wiber. G. Maurice
Talbot and l. G. Fulks of Gaithersburg
Miss Lillian Palmer of Palmers Landing.
St Mary county, Md, is the guest of Miss
Edith Carter of the Plaza.
Mr.. Carleton Hughes of Grove avenue
was the memorial orator at Rockville GENE
terry at the request of the Womans Civic
Club and Ladies' Auxiliary.
Mr.. Paul Buckler is here for a brief visit
to his mother. Mrs. Sarah Buckler of LIST
avenue.
Mrs NJ. E. Dorsey of 9Th avenue is en-
PERTAINING her sister, Mrs. john Warfield,
Miss Emma Marsh and Mrs. Erwin J. Cra-
mer.
Mr.. Harry Craig and family of George
town spent Memorial day with Mrs. Nellie
Logan Of 9th avenue.
Mr.. James McCathran and family spent
Memorial day at their summer cottage
Mr.. John Achey and wife were among the
midweek visitors. They are planning for an
addition to their Circle cottage.
Mrs Florence Selby is located at her 9th
avenue cottage. She has with her Miss
Beall of Southeast Washington.
Mrs. Thomas Bowling spent Wednesday
at the Grove, overhauling her cottage on
Sd avenue.
Dr. Elmon Cooke and family have moved
out Of town and are domiciled for the sea-
son at the corner of Grove avenue and Gem
ter street.
Mr.. Baldwin Hardy has leased Maple cot
tage, the Grove property of Alfred Wood
where. with her family, Mrs. Hardy viii be
a nearby neighbor of her father, Major
Walker of Rest cottage. Grove avenue.
Mr.. Harry Whites cottage. on 9Th ave-
nue., Is being put in order for occupancy.
Miss Ode Calhoun, accompanied by Miss
Gould of Washington, was among the re-
cent visitors.
DR.. Ritter has applied to the board of
trustees for deed for his handsome villa
property, located on Grove avenue
In common with all cottage owners, DIR.
Ritter holds a ninety-nine-year lease, but,
under the enactment of '88. claims deed
in full OF all his holdings within the Grove.
w. H. Hall Of Washington was recent
guest of Mr.. John Davis of Keystone cot
tage.
Mrs. Robert Kaiser and her sister. Miss
Bette Reed, were among the Grove visitors
on Memorial day.
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act directly to coerce capital" The general
strike was to be the great means-and 1t
failed on May to May 10 Just past. Since
then the coercion OF scahs and weak breth-
rem has reached the chronic disorder point.
And there is no blinking the clear and net
syndical character of the just-discovered
Lyons and Paris bomb factories.
Every day new bombs are discovered. The
cable tells only of those that explode.
Even the Paris papers, not to give desired
advertising to bomb-placing labor agitators,
pass In silence the majority Of the engines
picked up before they have been able to DO
damage; but at the municipal laboratory
the service of explosives is constantly tele-
phoned:
'.Allo! allol bomb In the Tenor square!"
"Allol allo! bomb in the new building
Place de fAlma!' The service Immediately
investigates every call. 1t finds plenty OF
practical joke bombs, but It has also nulli-
fed so many deadly ones in ,--e p4st fifteen
days that their explosion would have tems
porarily ruined the already bad reputation
OF Paris as a tourist town In the present
sAIlo! allo. bomb at the perfumery
works, rue des Hufssiers, Neuillyi''
Heroic Work.
It is like a fire call. NJ. Girard jumps into
his swift sixteen-horse- power. racing bod
led automobile, and the regular auto bomb
van, like the fire engine. arrives a few min
utes after the chief is on the spot
The first person to touch bomb is al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02

though irresstibiyi Several important
classes OF bombs can be thus gently pull
verified without exploding.
Why have the bombs not done more
harm? Wait They are not done yet
For the rest. everything Is against the
unhappy terrorist Ravaehol. their father,
started out with vaiise containing dyna-
mite, sebastine and illuminate. He took
the omnibus: and arriving at the rue de
Clichy. he discovered that the stun had
shifted. Trying to arrange II he spilled
the sebastine and fulTninate-the slightest
shock would blow him to smithereens His
haste was great Therefore he chose a
bad pface-and blew out only a few walls
and injured only five persons
According to the admissions of today's
labor agitator terrorists, they could not
work In Bouchsrd's apartment because OF
the presence of his wife Working with
makeshift tools In the Habert brothers
wretched rooms, they slurred single de-
tail-and blew up the shop But can you
not see them reduced to tearing out the
mantelpiece for a smooth chemical mixing
stone?
Katz-Stryga made his bombs In mlsera-
BILE hotel bed room for which he was paying
81 per week. He worked with wash basin,
broken bottles and any old stuff. Every
few moments he was hiding 1t and listening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02
Active Military Plans in Russia.

The active military preparations taxi
ing place in the province Of Kherson,
son, Bessarabia. Poltava, Yekaterino-
slav and Taurida indicate the expec-
tation of the possibility of grave disturb
ances In the near future. 1t is learned
from an authoritative source that 400 ma
chine guns will be distributed in kherson
province, in which Odessa is situated. with
in a month.
In view of the fact that all the garrisons
artillery of the regulation calibers, this exc
traordinary provision for portable quick
flrers is causing widespread apprehension
among the peaceful portion Of the popular
suspects are actively proceeding. One htin-
bred and eighty-seven persons were arrest
ed In Odessa alone during the last weak
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02
FORMER DISTRICT MAN DEAD.
Died in Almshouse-Relati Address
Unknown.

William Quigley. an ager white man.
a bricklayer by trade. is dead at the aims
house at Portsmouth. Va. He originally
went to that city from Washington and
is believed to have relatives now living
here. The Portsmouth authorities have no
means of finding out the Washington adj
dresses of these people, however. and It IS
probable that as they are unaware OF the
death of Mr.. Quigley his remains will have
to be inferred in potters' field.
He was about seventy years OF age and
worked at his trade until Illness compelled
him to deslst. He was attended during his
last Illness by Father Brady OF ST. Paul's
Church. but he was communicative, and
gave no clue to his relatives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02
Private of Marines Drowned.

Harry Johnson, a private Of marines, was
drowned yesterday, falling overheard from
the United States ship Santee. at anchor at
the Annapolis Academy wharf. Johnson
was on duty at the time. and It is supposed
that in the storm he walked overheard
His absence was discovered by the COTS
poral who came with the relief about an
hour later, but the body was not recovered
until morning. johnson was about twenty-
three years OF age and enlisted a little over
a year ago. His home was Grand Rapids
oh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02
Short Story Club Election.

The Short Story Club has elected officers
as follows: Capt. F. v. De Coster, presi-
dent. reelected for third term; Mrs. Chris
tine w. Dunlap, vice president reelected
for third term; Mrs. N. M. Metcalf, re-
cording secretary, reelected for tenth
year; Mrs. P. J. Hofiiiser. corresponding
secretary, reelected: Mrs. c. 8. Fork,
treasurer, reelected
A vote Of thanks was extended TO Mr.
and Mrs H. w. Selah, the host and hos
teas OF the evening. and similar vote
was given The Star for courteous treat
ment.