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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
How Split.Log Drag Works.

Dragging the roads of Marsnaii
County, Illinois. with the split-los drag
has caused many business and profes'
sional men of the Illinois Valley town
to buy automobiles. Clifford Ha"s,
who owns and operates one of the best
appointed garages in the State, says
that auto sales have been greatly slim
ulated by the action of the road author
tiles. One of the townships is largely
populated by Quakers, who run some
of the most modern farms in the Mid
die West. They have rural delivery,
Telephones and automobiles, and all or
them believe in the efficacy of d. Ward
King and his split log. Henry, Ill.,
has only 1900 population, but it has
ten automobiles.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
KEPT TROLLEY OFF.
Mississippi's Famous Shell Highways
Not to Be Profaned.


Not to Be Profaned.
Pass Christian. Miss.-"We will walk
rather than have trolley tracks on our
shell roads,. was the decision of a re-
cent town meeting, and President
Jones, of the Gulf and Ship Island
Railroad Company. had to promise to
lay his roads new trolley feeder on a
private right of way. The shell ROADS
of Mississippi's coast have been ia
nous for eighty years. Shaded by
lines of beautiful live oaks, they wind
in and out, now showing an old-tlme
Southern mansion, now a glimpse or
the blue Gulf. Locally they are said to
be the best in the country. The many
winter visitors from the North seldom
dispute this claim.
The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad,
which controls transportation IN South
ern Mississippi. is building trolley
line for thirty miles along the coast as
a feeder. Pass Christian people are DE.
termined that the trolley must keep on
their roads. Other peoples roads die
not matter. but the shell roads must
be sacred to the horse and. under pro-
test. the automobile.
AS the rails came nearer interest
grew, until the town had not so been
stirred since the war. and town meet
ing resulted. The sense Of the meeting
was that, while trolley roads can be
built anywhere. shell roads can be
built in few other localities than the
Mississippi coast. Captain Jones prom.
ised that no profaning pick should
touch the beloved shells. but that the
line would be built as near the highway
as possible. And so Pass Christians
chief pride and ornament will remain
untarnished.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

Movements for the sanitation of
Porto Rico since American occupation
have been begun in San Juan.
The drydock Dewey has been sighted
in the Indian Ocean and has reported
all we'll.
The disastrous effects Of the typhoon
upon the hemp crop in Manila are now
evident.
About ninety-fve per cent Of the
Filipinos are enthusiastically at work
putting down the last traces of dis
order and disaffection.
Albert Judd. representing the Ha-
waiian Planters Association. has ar.
rived at Manila to negotiate with the
Philippine Commission with the view
to inducing Filipino families to work
on the Hawaiian sugar plantations.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
Fornd Lost Coins After Fifty Years.

Mrs. William Maine. Of North Ston-
ineton is the owner Of some gold coins
which have come to her In a peculiar
manner.
Over forty-fve years ago John RoD-
inson, in company with three or four
other men, was trying different feats
If strength, among them being jump
ing contest. Mr.. Robinson had $o2.oo
in gold in his vest pocket at the tlme'
and after the contest he missed the
money. A search was made, and two
$50 gold pieces were found, but notn-
ing of the remaining $3.50.
Last fall Mr.. Maine, who now lives
nm the farm, saw something glistening
in the hen yard. Picking up the object
he discovered it to be $3.50 gold coin,
and upon telling the story of his hnd
to his naighbors learned of Mr.. Robin
sons loss so many years before. Dig
ging and raking Of the grounds rol'
lowed in the hope OF obtaining the re-
mainder of the money, but no more
was found.
A few days ago, however, Mr..
Names small daughter was playing
in the same spot where the first discov-
ery was made and happened upon an
other gold coin. Upon furthersearch
81 coin and $3.50 came to light, making
the total $3.50 finally recovered. The
gold nieces were remarkably we'll pre-
served after lying in the earth TOT
such a long tlme.-Hartford, Comm
Times
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
ALUMINIUM PATENT EXPIRES.
Hall Process of Making White Metal Now
Open to ALI.

On April 2, 1906, the patent Of
Charles NJ. Hall on a process for max
ing aluminium expired. This patent
was granted to Mr.. Hall on April 2,
1889. It protected the use Of an elec-
trolyte composed of cryolite as SOL
vent for bauxite, and one of its special
features of value is that it possesses
the important property of being easily
fusible. Charles NJ. Hall is connected
with the Pittsburg Reduction Com
pany, of Niagara Falls. and this patent
has given the Pittsburg Reduction
Company a practical monopoly of the
manufacture of aluminium in this coun-
try. While the Hall patent has expired
it is stated in Niagara Falls that the
method of operation Of the Pittsburg
Reduction Company is still protected
by the patent granted to Mr.. Bradley,
one of the early pioneer workers in the
aluminium field, and which does not eX-
pire until February 2, 1900
Naturally, the expiration of the Hall
patent will inspire others to enter the
field to manufacture the metal that has
such a wonderful demand as has alum
inum 1t is intimated that competing
works are already projected. but it may
be that any marked progress will be
delayed by the Bradley patent, which,
it is acknowledged. is Of fundamental
Importance in the manufacture OF
aluminium, as it covers the use of the
electric current, as we'll as keeping the
electrolytic bath in molten condition
and effecting its decomposition and set
ting the aluminium free at the cathode.
In Niagara Falls the Plttsburg Re-
duction Company has contracted WitA
the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power
and Manufacturing Company Tor
block Of $1,000 electrical horse power,
to be available in 1907. During the
present year the Jmpany proposes
erecting a very large new works on
the lands Of the power company men-
toned, and considering the fact that
the Hall patent has expired and the
Bradley patent will expire, the activity
may indicate that within few years
aluminium will be wonderfully plentiful
and cheap Still. it is generally ad-
mitted in business circles that for all
the Pittsburg Reduction Company has
had monopoly of the manufacture Oh
aluminium in the United States, 1t has
never used this power to unduly boost
the price, but ever since the late Cap
tain Hunt established the great works
ut Niagara Falls the price of aluminium
has steadily declined.
The demand is far greater than the
supply at present. Should aluminium
be made in much larger quantitiesNn
Niagara Falls or other localities, and
4 lessening of the price follow, 1t may
be expected to affect the price OF cop
per, which metal it has already sup
planted in many fields.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
LIGHTNING KILLS FIVE.
More Than Score Hurt at Ball Game
Near Mobile, Ala.

Mobile. Ala.-During a bali game in
an open field three miles from this city
Il thunderstorm came up, accompanied
by vivid lightning, which struck in the
midst of crowd of spectators, instant.
ly killing five and injuring some TWEEN.
ty-fve more or less seriously. The
dead: John Green. negro; Arthur
Moody. nineteen years old; Charles
Thomas, negro; Donald Touart. TWEEN
ty-one years old; Steven Touart, nine.
teen years old. Those seriously in
iured were: Fred Johnson, John Io.
kers. Among the painfully injured
were: Fred Burch, George Cleveland,
Joe Dolkar.
At least fifteen or twenty others
we're shocked and knocked down by
the stroke. but quickly recovered and
were able to leave the scene. The
field was strewn with bits of shoes
and clothing from those who were
killed or seriously injured. and the
bodies of the dead were burned in
numerous places.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
DEMANDS OF THE DUMA
REJECTED BY CAR
Russia's AutoCrat Refuses Am.
nesty and the Land Scheme.
CONFLICT THOUGHT INEVITABLE
Resignation of Ministry Demanded
by Parliament Grant Of Univer-
sal Suffrage Fails to Satisfy Now
-Terrorists Resume Operations

st. Petersburg, Russia.-In the Duma
Premier Goremykin read the Minis
terial program, which is a reply to the
Dumas address to the Car. The pro-
gram included universal suffrage, self
government for. cities and the zemstvos
and abolition of the income tax. 1t
promised special laws for the peas
antry, rejected the demand for full
amnesty and confirmed the inviolabil-
ity of property.
An animated discussion followed the
reading, Deputies Nabokoff, Rodichell,
Anykin and Lednitzy. the last named a
Polish deputy, severely criticising the
program. Several speakers warned
the Government in the plainest terms
of the consequences that would likely
ensue if it failed to grant the peoples
just demands.
AS the debate progressed the eXas-
peration of the Duma at the Govern
ment's program become most acute.
The members of the Cabinet were pres.
ent and many of the speakers demand
ed their resignation. The whole as
sembly was greatly excited.
Goremykin read the Ministry's ad-
dress in rapid, indistinct tones, but the
document was Immediately distributed
throughout the Chamber in printed
form. 1t proved to be, as had been
expected, typical product of auto
cracy. 1t asked all to cooperate for
the good of the country. but declared
that the ideas of a Parliamentary min
istry must be abandoned. because the
authority of the Council Of Ministers
was defined in the Fundamental Law,
which expressed the Emperor's will.
The members Of the Duma listened
in absolute silence. The Duma then.
as on the occasion of the first days
session, rose in enthusiasm as its own
ora tors asserted that the Parliament
was the only legal basis of constitu-
tion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
SPEECHES BY ROOSEVELT.
Veterans of Both Sides Cheer His
Memorial Day Addresses.

Memorial Day Addresses.
Old Point Comfort, Va.-President
Roosevelt Joined here with surviving
members of both the Blue and the Gray
in paying appropriate and impressive
tribute to the Nations dead.
In the morning the President deli7-
cred a patriotic grafton in the beautl'
full grounds of the Naval Hospital at
Portsmouth and directly afterward un-
yelled handsome marble shaft. erect
ed by the Army and Navy Union IN
the cemetery adjoining the hospital
grounds, to the memory of its fallen
comrades.
The ceremonies at Portsmouth were
under the auspices of the Army and
Navy Union. The memorial exercises
were preceded by an imposing parade
through the principal streets of Ports
mouth. Nearly 1000 sailors and ma
rines of the North Atlantic fleet par
ticipated in the parade. In addition
there were organizations representing
the Army and Navy Union, the Grand
Army of the Republic. the United Con.
federate Veterans and many civic anu
patriotic societies.
Portsmouth was elaborately decor
ated with a wealth of patriotic colors'
Business houses and residences were
ablaZe with bunting.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
RELIEF FOR IRISH POOR.
Mr.. Bryce Introduces Bill to Erect
~ 25,0O0 Cottages.

Mr.. Bryce Introduces Bill to Erect
25,0OO Cottages.
London.-James Bryce. Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland, introduced in the
House of Commons a bill authorizing
a loan of 22,5OO,0OO to provide labor
ers' cottages in Ireland. Mr.. Bryce
explained that after what had been
done in behalf of the tenants in Ireland
the laborers had q grievance, and it
was hoped that the proposed improve
ment in their dwellings would help to
arrest the physical decline of the pop
uIation and restore new hope to the
Irish laborers. Mr.. Bryce estimated
the cost of a cottage and land at about
$3.50, so that between $4,000 and 10000
cottages would be erected.
John E. Redmond Irish Nationalist,
congratulated Mr.. Bryce on bringing
in a bill which would mitigate the
present evils, and said he accepted the
measure as an honest effort to deal
with grievances Of great magnitude.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
The Field Of Sports.

There are over 450 horses training at
Lexington, Ky, for the coming sea-
sons harness races.
The Boston Driving Club will make
mule racing one Of the amusing feat
ures of it's matinees this season.
The value of the thoroughbred colt,
De Mund, owned by Paul !. Rainey.
increased in value from 5000 to S4o.-
600 in eleven months.
S. Fl. Terry, the University of PENN
sylvania's great runner, who ran The
fastest half mile in the country this
year, is dead after an operation for ap'
pendicitiS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
Good Roads Bill is Signed.

Governor Higgins signed the several
bills of the joint highway committee
relative to good roads, the most impor'
tant of which is the one which carries
with it an appropriation of S3,O0oOoo
for this years portion of the work un'
der the constitutional amendment
which provides for a S50,00o,ooo bond
issue by the State for such improve
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
LAWYERS Card Illuminated.

\ journal published in the Northwest
contains Il lawyers advertisement, fill
inc a space of about five inches by
eight advertising consultation on all
points. specifying laws of husband and
wife and various other subjects. while
most of the space is filled by a cut
showing Il fierce battle between a man
and woman. each tiercely pulling the
others hair. Under it in large type it
saws: Had this couple read the above
ad. in the classified columns OF the -
they could have settled their trouble
more satisfactorily. Case and Com.
npnt
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
Labor Notes.

Paris coach builders have decided
to continue the strike and employers
are equally determined not to yield.
The signing of the scale brought 2ooo
miners back to work i'll the mines OF
Belmont County. Ohio.
President John MITCHELL Of the Mine
Workers of America, has refused
100000 position on the staff OF New
York real estate concern.
Four thousand workmen are en-
ployed in the manufacture of straw
braids and hats at Florence. Italy, and
$4,000 women and children devote their
spare time to braiding and pleatlng.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
Feminine News Notes.

Mrs. jefferson Davis family Is now
confident of her complete recovery.
Anna Winters. aged seventeen. saved
her five-year-old brothers life in New
York by sezing a mad dog by the
throat and stranglinS 1t.
Mrs. Howard Gould made a balloon
ascension from Wandsworth, England
in company with Lord Royston, Pro
fessor Huntingdon and others.
Mrs. Hanna has decided to sell Glen
mere. the beautiful country home OF
tne late Senator Hanna, near Cleve-
land She will live in New York with
her son.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
H1rcHED CHILDREN TO pLoW.
Farmer Compels Four Little Ones to
Drag a Ten-Acre Garden.

Drag a Ten-Acre Garden.
Oshkosh. WiS.-Complaint has been
made against farmer living five miles
southwest of Neenah that be has been
hitchins four of his seven children to a
plow. which he compelled them to drag
through a ten-acre truck garden While
be guided it.
After securing substantiation of the
facts. DR.. Wilkie, agent of the FOX
River Valley Humane Society, went to
the farmer and compelled him to send
five of the children to school. Five are
of school age. The farmer. it is al
legged, was rearing them in ignorance
The majority of the children are girls.
The eldest is not over fourteen years
of age.
Dr.. Wilkie says the plow had harness
attached to it which was put about the
shoulders of the children. The farmer
says the corner plow or cultivator IL
very light and was used merely TO SUI
UP the top soil.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04

Exposure of Packing Industry Urged.
Upton Sinclair. who exposed the
dreadful conditions in the packing In
dustry i'll Chicago, urged President
Roosevelt to make public the investi-
CATION of Commissioner Neill.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
OUR BEEF SCANDAL ABROAD.
Question of Protecting British Public to
BE Raised in the Commons.

London.-The revelations regarding
the beef packing industry in the Uni
ted States have caused sensation
here. Questions will be raised in the
House of Commons with view to as
certaining how far it is in The Govern.
ment's power to protect the British
public. The sale of these goods al
ready has been considerably affected.
The London newspapers praise Presi-
dent Roosevelt for his courage in prob
ing the matter.
Inquiries at Liverpool in the Amerl.
can Provision Exchange elected the
view that the local supervision was too
keen to permit of bad goods reaching
British importers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
Cornell Beats Harvard Eight

Cornell, after leading from the start,
defeated Harvards varsity eight in a
two-mile boat race, ut Cambridge.
Mass. by three lengths in 10 minutes
Il So seconds. Harvard's time was
10 minutes 80 seconds.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
CHICAGO AND RACE SUICIDE.

School Census Takers Avoid the FASH
ionable Districts rs Unprontable.
Chicago. Census takers for the
School Board assigned to the fashion
able precincts Of Lake Shore Drive and
Kenwood, and who are paid one cent
per child located, gave up their posi-
tons because their returns were so
small Every enumerator wanted to
be assigned to the Ghetto. or the stock
yard district, where work continued nj!
day and is still incomplete. Special
terms will have to be made for the
race suicide" districts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
CHEWs FINGERS-LOSES HAND.
Negro. Saying He is Apostle, Forces
Boats CAPTAIN to Eat Digits.

Boats Captain to Eat Digits.
Seaford, Del.-Saying that he was
an apostle of Christ and that he was
sent to deliver a personal message to
Captain Edward Jones that, as sac
rifce, he must eat four Of his fingers
en- unknown negro, whom Jones had
given passage from the mouth of the
Nanticoke River to come to Seaford to
pick berries attacked the captain, and
at the point of q revolver tried to
make him eat his fingers. The cap.
tain. seeing that it was life or death.
chewed two of his fingers. The negro
turned his head at sound. and Cap
tain Jones srrang upon him. In the
struggle both fell overheard. The
mate, hearing the cries, for help, res
cued the captain, but the negro was
drowned. The captains hand was am
putated.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
SAW HIS SONS DROWN.
Father Floated to Safety on Oar and
BOYS Sank.

Halifax. Nova Scotia.-In sight Of
their home two lads named Slanon-
white were drowned by the capsizing
of their small boat during a squall i'll
Terrance Bay.
Their father. who was with them.
escaped by clinging to al oai, which
kept him afioat until lie reached Il
rock 4 little way off shore. The boys
sank almost Immediately.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
Fertilizer Trust Indictments.

The Grand Jury of the United States
Circuit Court which has been investl
eating the alleged fertilizer trust at
Nashville, Tenn. returned indictments
against about eighty fertilizer manu-
facturerS
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
MICHAEL DAVITT is DEAD.
Irish Patriot and Leader of the Lana
League.

Dublin.-Michaal Davitt, the Irish
leader, died after an illness of several
weeks. Blood poisoning, following ne
crosis of the jaw, caused death.
Michael Davitt was born in the VII
lage of Straide, County Mayo, Ireland.
His mother was of American birth,
having married Davitt's father Whiie
the latter was living in Scranton, Pa.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
Gypsy Moth Parasites Imported.

The Government arranged to import
100000 parasites to prey on the gypsy
moths that have become very destruc-
tive in New England.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04

The smallest Quadruped in the world
is ,he uvgmv mouse of Siberia.
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Hearst,s Good Roads Bill

A BILL to promote the construc-
~ ton of q national system of
! good roads, facilitate the exten.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-03-05
Nearly 1000 Firms and Families
Adrift on Ice in the Baltic Sea
And Now Probably Drowned.
Boise City, Idaho, Heavily Guarded
Dynamite Having Been Stolen
-=Further Atrocities Feared.
TROUBLE EXPECTED.

Portland, Ore, March A special
to the Oregonian from Boise says:
On the heels of Steve Adams con-
fession comes the startling news that
between 500 and 500 pounds of dyna-
mite caps have been stolen at the Star
powder house, located in the hills east
of the city. Gov. GOoding has had a
hundred or more guards thrown over
the city and especially around the
penitentiary.
These guards We're placed because
almost all of the men whose names
have been mentioned in connection
with the prosecution of the officers of
the Western Federation of Miners had
received threatening letters signed
Knee Bone" the name alleged to have
been adopted by the ''inner circle to
strike terror to those whom they wish
to frighten.
Armed men We're also last night
placed around the homes Of Gov. Good
ing, Special Prosecutor james II. Haw-
ley. w. f. Borah and number of
others.
In all there are Il half dozen powder
magazines situated in the hills and all
are said to have been entered and
powder stolen.