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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
CUAN0 MEN CAFFED
Scores Of Corporations and
individuals Indicted.
CHARGE is CONSPIRACY
In Restraint Of Trade, Made by Gov.
ernment-Case Considered Four
Weeks by Federal Grand Jury
at Nashville, Tenn.

The federal grand jury at Nash
Vile, Tenn, which has been inves-
tigating the alleged fertilizer trust for
the past four weeks, concluded it's
investigation Thursday afternoon and
returned In open court Friday morn
ing an indictment against about 80
fertilizer manufacturers, including a
number Of local men. The indictment
contains six counts detailing in spe-
cific form alleged violations of the
antitrust laws and charging the de-
PENDANTS with combining and being
engaged in a trust or combination.
The defendants live in various parts
OF the country, where fertilizers are
manufactured and certified copies OF
the Indictment will be sent to the va
rious districts in which the defend
ants reside, and there served. The de-
PENDANTS will be required to execute
bonds for appearance at the October
term OF court in Nashville, where the
cases are to be tried. The grand jury
examined during the investigation 14o
witnesses and the indictment returned
is a voluminCus document.
The attorneys for the defendants
were present in court Friday whea
the indictments were returned, and
Immediately after they held a con-
suitations as to what should be the
course to pursue in regard TO their
clients.
Four weeks were taken up on tho
investigation, and the cost Of the in
yestigation was about $1,000.
The six counts in the indictment
are in a double series Of three each.
The first charge the defendants with
engaging In conspiracy; the Sec
ond count charges the defendant with
conspiracy; and the third with con-
spring under section 5440 revised
statutes to commit the oifense of en-
gaging in a combination as defined
By the Sherman law.
The punishment under section 5440
is two years in prison and $4,000
nne. The third count is new in form
and procedure. 1t charges the COM
nitting of an offense against the Unit
ed States of engaging in a combina-
tion In restraint Of trade as defined
and prohibited by the Sherman act
Tie style of the case on the dock
ct Indictment is United States vs.. Wiz
ginia-C Carolina Chemical Company, ct
al, and the indictment is described
es indictment for violating act OF
congress, approved July 2, 1890, and
entitled AN act to protect the trade
ard commerce against unlawful re-
straints and monopolies,' and section
5440 revised statutes United States"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
WALLACE DAREs TAFT.

Former Chief Engineer Of isthm'an
Canal Answers Criticism.
Former Chief Engineer John w.
Wallace of the isthmian canal, adj
dressed letter "Wednesday to Senar
tor9Millard, chairman Of the commit
tee on fnteroceanic canals, in reply
to Secretary Taft's recent testimony
before the committee, in which ne
charges Secretary Taft with having
abused his Official position in order
to make a second assault upon him.
and to place in public record state
ments calculated and apparently In
tended to affect my reputation for We
racity, such as he would not make to
me as one man to another, face 10
face"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
CHURCHES ARE MERGED.
Cumberland Presbyterian is Swallow
ed Up IN Union With northern
Presbyterian Church.

II do solemnly declare and Ecre
publicly announce that the basis OF
reunion and union is now in full
force and effect, and that the Cum.
berland Presbyterian church is now
reunited with the Presbyterian church
il tie United States OF America as
one CHURCH"
With these words uttered before
the general assembly at EesMo4nes,
Iowa, thursday, Moderator Hunter
Corbett officially established the un.
ion OF the Cumberland church with
the Presbyterian church in the Unit.
ed States CT America.
The big ecclesiastical assemblage
burst forth into a storm Of rejoic-
ing.
The most dramatic scene Of the
ceremonies attending the formal un-
ion OF the churches was the vote
against union by two commissioners.
Moderator Hunter Corbett put the
question, which was In the form OF
a resolution, and called for rne affirm
ative vote, to be expressed by. the
commissioners rising to their feet. In
stantly the assembly hall was con.
verted into a stamping, cheering
crowd. AS the handclapping and
cheering died away and the commits
sicners took their seats, the modera-
tor said:
Cali who are Of the opinion that
the motion shall not prevail will
please rise"
To the aston;shment of all present,
two commissioners rose to their feet.
Pandenonium broke loose, and it was
feared for an instant that indignity
would be offered the lonely men who
opposed the union. One of the men
was DR.. William Lawrie of Bellefonte
Pa, aid the ether was Rev. Roger F.
Cressey OF Jacksonville, III.
Two representatives from the Cum.
berland assembly were introduced to
the assembly, which came to it's feet
and applauded, cheered and waved
hats and handkerchiefs for five min.
utes. The Cumberland visitors were
PROFESSOR W: Fl. Black of Marshall
NO. and DIT. B. P. Fullerton of St.
Louis.
Sotn men made speeches, express
Ing their qualification at the union
Inc assembly telegraphed the Cum.
Derland assembly at Decatur of the
se'lon en- the question of union i'm.
medlately after the juncture WAS de-
ciared operative, and received a. tel.
esram in reply containing congratuls.
tlons' announcing the official recent
.. the information and adjournment
CT the Cumberland assembly.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
RY FAIR MEANS OR FOUL.
Spies of Standard OH Instructed to
Knock Out Competitors.

Knock Out Competitors.
A total of nineteen witnesses were
called by, Interstate Commerce Com
nissicners Prouty and Clements N
the Standard Oil inquiry, which be-
gun in Cleveland, Ohio, Friday.
The testimony of George Lane IT
Mansfield, Ohio, former employee Of
the Standard Oil company, was re-
gar0ed as pa lticularly important.
According to his evidence, Lane was
for about fourteen months in 1901
and 1892 employed by the Standard
Oil company fer the particular pur-
rcse Of driving all of the independ-
ent oil dealers in dozen or more
of the principal cities and towns OF
northern Ohio out Of business.
He said he was employed by G. M.
Lyons Of the Cleveland Office of the
Standard Oil company. to go to GER
tain designated places and use every
means, fair or foul, to force the in
cependents to quit
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
PURCHASED BY SOUTHERN.

Ship Yard Property at Richmond Sc
cured for Extension Plans.
It is authoritatively stated that the
Southern railway company has pus-
chased the old Trigg ship yard prop
erty at Richmond, for extension OF its
local track and warehouse facilities.
The property acquired covers 16 acres
OF land lying between the city docks
and the James river. The price paid
is said to have been 100000.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
LENGTHY MERCY PETITION

Containing $4,000 Names, Presented
in Behalf Of Alleged Murderer.
A petition more than a mile long
and bearing more than 115,000 names,
was sent to Governor Guild of Mas
sachusetts Tuesday, asking him to
commute life imprisonment the SEN
tence of death imposed upon Charles
I. Tucker for the murder of Mabel
Page, at Weston, in March, 1904. The
sisners include S0,s6O men and 35,-
695 women. An express wagon was
necessary to transport the petition to
the state house.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
A GOLD MINE FOR SHIPPERS.

Kansas City Firms Received LARGO
Sums in Rebates.
Members OF half dozen large bust-
ness firms of Kansas City admitted
Thursday at the trial in the federal
court OF George H. Crosby, the Bur-
hngton traffic manager; George L.
Thomas, the New York freight broker
and the iatter's clerk, l.. B. Taggart,
that they had received thousands Of
dollars in commissions frcm "un-
known sources"
All OF the firms had hired Thomas
TO attend to the shipping CT their
goods.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
OUR TRADE WITH AFRICA.
Total for ZOOS Figured Out as About
s3o,0Oo,oOo.

Trade CT the United States with
Africa in the fiscal year 1905, ac-
cordins to a bulletin OF the depart
ment CT commerce and labor, just IS
sued. aggregated about S30,0oW0o0,
c. which S1l,333,UgO were 1mpcrta-
tons and the remainder expectations.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
TWENTY YEARS FOR YEGGMEN.

Clark and Newman Convicted In For.
syth Court Of Burglary.
Charles H. Clark and Thomas New
man were sentenced to twenty years
each IN the penitentiary by Judge
Reagan at Forsyth, Ca, Friday morn
ing for burglarizing the Trio Manu-
featuring company's Office last Sep
tember.
Newman and Clark are also charg-
ed with assaulting and robbang the
night marshal, ]. NJ. McMichael, who
on the night of the Trio robbery they
bcnnd and gagged, he being found II
dying condition next morning.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
HOME MATERIALS PREFERRED.

Senate Acts on Resolution Anent Pur'
chase Of Canal Supplies.
A Washington dispatch says: The
senate committee on finance Wednes-
day favc:ably reported a resolution
directing that the materials ior the
Panama canal shall be OF domestic
manufacture and production, unless
the president deems the price Tor
same to be eXCr5itant.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
CANNOT TRANSPORT BOOZE.

Mississippi Law is Upheld by Court
in Kansas City.
Judge Smith Mcpherson, in the
United States district court at Kan
sas City, Friday, refused to grant an
injunction sought by the Harvest
King Distilling company Of Kansas
CITY, which asked that the American
Express company be restrained from
refusing to transport packages des-
tined to Mississippi.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
AUTO fRIGHTENs WOMAN.
Aged spinster Receives Shock That
May Result Fatally.

Miss Edgeworth, an aged Gadsden,
Ala, lady, is lying critically Ill at
an infrmary in Birmingham, as the
result OF her first sight Of an auto
mobile.
Miss Edgeworth resides in the
country, near Gsdsden, and, upon a
.r,o to town, was passed by heavy
car for the first time. An acute stroke
Of nervous prostration followed the
tainting spell she experienced.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
JURY ExoNERATEs PERKINS.
Morgan's Man Not Guilty Of Larceny
Anent Campaiun Gift.

The appellate division of the New
York supreme court Friday handed
down decision discharging from cus-
tody George w Perkins, whom the
court had held to await action Of the
grand jury on a technical charge OF
grand larceny in connection with the
$4,000 campaign contribution Of the
New York Life Insurance company
to the republican national commit
tee.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
MADE MERRY AT FUNERAL.
Grand Army Men Carry Out Wishes
of Departed comrade.

~Eat, drink and be merry at my
expense" was the request of Charles
Heller, who died in Jersey City, Sat
urday, to his comrades Of George II.
Thomas post, Grand Army Of the Re-
public. In compliance with his de-
sire, on their return from HeMer's
burial Tuesday tha forty-fve survivors
OF the post marched to the hall where
the feast paid for by their comrade
awaited, and ate, drank, sang and eu
logized their dead conrade.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
ROBBERS LOOT PosToFFIcE.

Secured 500 Cash and a Number Of
Registered Packages.
The postofice safe was blown open
by bandits at Helena, Ca, Friday
night and about s2c0 in cash, togeth-
er with five registered packages and
many valuable papers and documents.
Nitroglycerine was used and the
door Of the safe was blown about
ten feet.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
HENRIK IssEN PASSES AWAY.

Was Norway's Greatest Poet and Cra-
raatist-Died in christiana.
Henrik lbsen, Norway's greatest
poet and dramatist, is dead in Chris
tiana. Although his literary activity
ceased some years ago, when an ap-
oplectic seizure forced him to refrain
from mental effort, he had continued
to be a familiar figure in the life OF
Christiana-
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
NEGRO LOSES HIS MIND

After Being Strung Up oy MOD ana
Later Rescued by Police.
Munroe Talvers, the negro who
after being found under the bed OF a
white woman, was strung up by a
mob, at Rosedale, Kans., a few days
ago, but was cut down b. the police
before he strangled, has become vto-
lently insane as a result Of his e3-
perience.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
USED CHILDREN FOR HORSES.
Farmer Hitches His Offspring to PIow
and CuItivates Field.

and CUItIVateS FIe10.
Complaints have been made against
a farmer living near ,Nenah, Wiscon-
sin, that he has been hitching four
Of his seven children to a plow and
compelling them to drag the imple.
ment through q ten-acre truck gar
den, while he guided the plow and
drove as he would drive a horse. .
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
NOT KNOWN TO BE LOADED.

Boy Of Six Kills four-Year-Old Sister
With Revolver.
Catherine Clutter, aged four years,
was shot and killed at her home In
Homestead, Pa, Wednesday, by her
brother Wiley, aged 6.
The children fotnd an old revolv-
er. which was not known to be load
ed. The parents are nearly crazed
with grief.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-06
Struck His Head.

Little Rock, Jan. 5.-Barney Schimmelpfenning, a well-known Iron Mountain engineer, is at his home, 1420 West Fifth street, under treatment for injuries sus- tained while running the Cannon Ball, southbound, at Vaudeville, seven miles north of Texarkana. Double-tracking work is in prog ress at that point, and while looking out of his cab window, the engineer was struck by a beam and knocked to the deck of the engine, where his fireman found him unconscious.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-06
Deadly Toy Pistol.

Hot Springs, Jan. 4.-Again has the deadly toy pistol done it's work. Little Earl Zimmerman, only son of Fred Zimmerman, a we'll known Malvern avenue gro- ceryman, accidentally shot him. self in the hand with a blank cartridge on Christmas day, the wound being of an apparently small nature and little attention was paid to it. Blood poisoning set in and although everything was done possible the little fel- low died last evening.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-06
DETHRONING OF ALCOHOL.
Being Brought About by the Mod ern Spirit of Scientific
 Research.

Another potent factor in the dethron. ing of alcohol has been the spirit of scientific research of recent years, says an Open Letter, in Century. In the great laboratories scientists have been carefully studying the effects of alco- holic liquors upon the various organs of the body, and, although they differ in their conclusions upon some points, the result is that those physicians who have most closely followed these investiga- tions have, almost or entirely abjured alcoholics as a necessary part of their therapeutic outfit These elaborate studies of alcohol have convinced many that the nourishing and strengthening properties formerly ascribed to alcohol ics existed only in the imagination, and belong to the errors of an age which had no facilities for accurate observation. The food qualities of the grains and fruits. it is now believed by many au- thorities, are destroyed in the process of making alcoholic drinks. Even the stimulating qualities ascribed to alcohol are denied by many, who class it among the narcotics because of it's depressant effect
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-06
FAMOUS FOR INDUSTRY.
Sobriety and Decency of Life Mark of the German Peasant of
 To-Day.

The bauer (peasant farmer) hugs the soil, and will waste none of 1t for hedges. He cultivates his land in ob- long plots, each strip carrying one crop-corn, rye, tobacco, beet, man. gold, turnip or what not, says a let ter in the London Spectator. He works in summer from light to dark; ln winter as it suits him. His fruit trees are planted along the roads and field raths which run through and separate the tillaged acreage whereof his viii lage is the pivot.
 He inherits the land as his father inherited it before him, and each herit' able portion is supposed to furnish sustenance for so many lives. He swinks to keep clear of the money lending shark, and here industrialism helps. For if brothers and sisters throng past ability of support from the land, they take work at the near est factory, infrequently several miles distant. That eases the ancestral lean- ness, and makes readjustment feas- ible However the bauer may moil week III, week out, HIS iluoA I5 opoI- less and his clothes unsettled on Sun days. His wife would scorn herself were they otherwise. Somewhat un- couth, rough, bluff, shrewd, stanch, the military authorities wisely take heavy toll of his sound lungs and muscular limbs They know a man when they see one And women do much of the actual farm work in Germany as a consequence.
 What ard-working mothers, and wives and daughters are the women ot Germany! What splendid women! What does not that great nation owe to it's women! Broad-bosomed, deep chested, wide-backed, big-hipped, rare- ly beautiful, but, however plain, pleas ant-faced, healthy creatures. No shirk- ing of maternity with them. And their husbands comrades and sharers of their troubles always, yet always, it would seem, making Peters injunc- tion their absolute rule of conduct.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-06
EFFECTS OF SPRING FEVER
When the Outer World Is Allowed Once More to Enter the
 Schoolroom.

But, one day in school, the heat that yesterday was nice and cozy becomes too dry and baking for endurance, says McClure's Magazine. The young ones come in from recess red, not with the brilliant glow of winter, but a sort of scalded red. They juke their heads forward to escape their collars moist embrace; they reach their hands back of them to pull their clinging underwear away. They fan themselves with joggerf1es, and puff out: ''Phew!" and look pleadingly at the shut win dows. One boy, bolder than his fel- lows, moans with a suffering lament: Miss Daniels, cain't we have the windows open? It's awful hot!" Frightful dangers turk in draughts. Fresh air will kill folks. So. not until the afternoon is the prayer answered. Then the outer world, so long exclud- ed, enters once more the schoolrOom fife. The mellifluous crowing of dis tant roosters, the rhythmetic creaking of thirsty pump, the rumble of Q loaded wagon, the clinking of ham, mers at the blacksmith shop, the whistle of No. 3 away below town. all blend together in the soft spring air into one lulling harmony.
 Winters alert activity is gone. Who cares for grades and standings now? The girls-that always are so smart --gape lazily, stare at vacancy wish- 'ng-they don't know what they wish. out if he had lot of money, why. then they could help the poor, and all like that, and have new dress every day.
 James Sackett-his real name Is Jim Bag, but teacher calls him James Sackett-has his face set toward: "A farmer sold 16 2-3 bushels wheat for 567s cents per bushel; 19 2-9 bushels oats for" etc.. etc., but his soul is far away in Cummins' woods, where there IS a robbers cave that he and Chuck Higgins and Blunt Rodgers and Turk ey-egg Mclaughlin are going to dig Saturday afternoons when the chores are done. They are going to- Here Miss Daniels should slip up behind him and snap his ear, but she, too, is far away in spirit. Her beau is com ing after supper to take her buggy riding. She wonders. She won- ders. I. Will she have to teach again next fall? She wonders.
Newport daily independent., 1906-01-06
RUIN THE PICTURES.
PEOPLE WHO "BUTr IN" WHEN
 CAMERA IS WORKING.
Scenes Carefully Arranged by Nov. ing Picture Artists Are Dis turbed and Rendered
 Useless.

Our work Is sometimes seriously interfered with by the buttinskis, and then again there are times when their slamming in helps us," said the man ager of a moving picture concern. who himself frames up the incidents and supervises the taking of the pictures Tt Is impossible to guard against the folks with the butting-tn habit for when they see anything unusual com ing of on the street or tn any public place their natural busybody instinct takes hold of them, and they're bound to nudge up and take 6 hand in the proceedings.
 Over in Trenton few weeks age I fixed up horsewhipping scene The first part of the set was easy enough to get. It was a scene In . restaurant, in which 8 pretty girl. seated at table little distance away from another table at which frolic some man with a homely wife Is din ing, falls to making goo-goo eyes at the man.
 "The second scene, in which ar- ranged to have the horsewhipping take place, took place outside the restau- rant. Wed got police permission to take the pictures. and I had two or three men stationed in front of the restaurant to keep the crowd back while the phony horsewhipping was in progress.
 When everything was all set and the machine was snapping away at the homely wife laying the lash across the face and shoulders of the flirta- tious girl-the lash looked like rattan, but 1t was phony, and didn't hurt tt all-our troubles began,
 First big vannigan of man slammed in and grabbed my homely woman by her lash-wielding arm. bawling that he didn't believe in see Ing no woman stinging another wom. an like that, and that queered one set of films. The machine had to be stopped while the big buttinski was being informed that the thing was only tableau, and that hs didn't belong to the picture.
 "He took the gibes of the crowd sour ly, at that, and looked to be in SC much of mind to kick our gear to pieces that had to get cop to walk him down the street.
 When we got all set again and tho horsewhipping of the hirtatious girl was once more going on a scrawny hatchet-faced woman, who had just joined the outer circle of the crowd, and who wasn't up to what was com ing off, rushed into the scene with 8 shriek, grabbed my two acting women by the hair, and started in to rough house them both for their fndecency In fighting on the street. as she yelled at them. The machine had to be stopped again.
 "The incident as had framed 1t up didn't call for anything like that had 1t arranged that after the whip ping had proceeded for space the guilty husband of the homely wife was to rush in and attempt 70 sep arate the two women, when LIS wife was to turn on him with the lash, caus- Ing him to skddoo down the street. The girl with the goo-goo eyes was to seize the whip from the other wom. ans hands and start in to get hunk for the cutting she'd received, the scene ending up that way"
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