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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
SCOTCH EXPRESS WRECKED
Crowded Special Jumps the Track
at Grantham Curve.
Flying Midnight Train Dashcs Over
Embankmcnt-CoaC Burst Into
Flames - All England Shocked.

London. - Just getting over the
shock of the terrible railroad catas-
trophe at Salisbury England was
Mortified to read that the crowded
Scotch express train on the Great
Northern Railway, from London, was
wrecked. at midnight outside of
Grantham, a railroad junction twen-
ty-three miles southwest of Lincoln.
The train should have stopped at
Grantham, but failed to do so.
Shortly after passing the station
the train left the rails and jumped a
bridge. The engine and several
coaches were dashed over the en-
bankment, the engine turning turtle.
Several coaches Immediately took fire.
There are many passengers be-
meath the debris. Of ten extricated,
five have died. The number of lives
lost is not known, but is believed to
be large. Many were injured.
The coaches caught fire and the
fire brigade was called out.
At the spot where the express was
derailed there is curve, and it is
supposed the brakes failed to act.
The train appears to have gone up a
siding. smashing the parapet of the
bridge, which was completely shat
tered.
A later report states that the engi-
neer and fireman are dead under the
engine, that the superintendent of
the mail car Is missing and that seven
injured persons have been taken to
the hospital.
At S o'clock a. m. it was officially
stated that ten persons had been
killed and sixteen injured.
A dispatch from Grantham stated
that the fire was we'll under control.
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SUCH CROPS NEVER KNOWN
Nine Principal Staples Estimated
10 Be Worth $2,s98, 100000.
A Year Like This Does Not Come to
Farmers More Than Once
in a Decade.

New York City.-The estimated re-
turns available at,this season for the
nine principal crops of the United
States, excepting hay, indicate the
unparalleled total value, at Decem-
Der prices of $2;S9S,72O,oOO, which
is about $130,740,4S7 more than the
wealth produced by the farmers last
year in these staples. Although it is
usual for final returns on the princi-
pal cereal crops to show diminution
from the September estimates (Which
last year amounted to 8,924,000
bushels in corn and 11,467,511 in
wheat), the concensus of opinion
among the experts seems to be that
this year the final estimates will show
even higher yields than are at pres
ent indicated, so that the final total
of values which will be issued in De-
cember may be expected to show even
higher figures. Further 1t is not
higher prices, but record-breaking
production that makes this year the
greatest in the country's history.
The following table compares with
last years figures the estimated
yields and values of the nine princi-
pal agricultural products:
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Not For Publication.

The engagement between a wealthy
Baltimore belle and an impecunious
clubman of that city was at one time
last winter perilously near the
breaking off" point, and all by rea-
son of the unfortunate mistake of a
florists assistant of whom the young
man had ordered flowers for his be-
loved
1t appears that the young fellow
had hastily dispatched to the florists
establishment two cards, one bearing
al order for roses to be sent to .he
young lady's address, and the other
intended to be attached to the flow
ers.
What was the astonishment and
Indignation of the beloved one when,
on taking the roses from their box,
she found affixed the card bearing
the legend:
"Roses. Do the best you can for
S3."-Harper's Weekly.
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It will be noticed that this years
crops, both in production as we'll as
In value, are far in excess of those of
1905 with two exceptions, oats and
buckwheat. It is also expected that
the returns from the hay crop, when
they are in, will make poorer show
ing than last years. Hayiwas dam
aged by the same July, and August
rains which were the salvation of the
corn.
Such a year as this, with new
records established in so many sta,
Piles, does not come to the farmer u.s.
ually more than once in a decade,
though last year, too, established its
own records in wheat and corn and
produced a cotton crop which had
been only once exceeded.
The banner year of the nineties
was 1891, not in point Of total yields,
but in the distribution of fine condi-
tions and the establishment Of new
records. That year saw new high
records fixed for wheat and cotton,
while corn was only surpassed by the
great year of 1889. Wheat broke
all records in 1898, though cotton
was second in the list of years and
corn fourth. In 1879! wheat produc-'
ton exceeded the best previous reg
ord by %, 100000 bushels, corn beat
it's previous record by 159,700,000
bushels, and the cotton crop jumped
6S7,00O bales ahead of the greatest
precedent
= OF these record years" all marked
were periods of great prosperity ex-
cept 1891. Last year was the only
one in which there was great money
stringency.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
School-Made PHILOSOPHERS.

One of the earliest American sa-
Isists was Francis Hopkinson, a
signer of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence. The following parody by him
Is said to have had the result which
it is evident he intended-the effect
Of altering the style Of questions
asked in the examinations Of that
day.
Professor-"WhatSi salt-box?"
Student-"It is box made to con-
tain salt" -
"How Is it divided" j.
Unto salt-box and box of salt"
"Show the distinction"
"a salt-box may be where there Is
no salt; but salt is necessary to the
existence Of box Of salt" q
"Are not salt-boxes otherwise di-
vided?"
yes, by a partition"
,"What is the use Of this parti-
tion?" A.. Z
""To separate the coarse salt from
the fine"
l1OW lutuh lltllc. -
''To separate the fine from the
coarse" @l
''To be sure; to separate fine from
the coarse. But are not salt-boxes
otherwise distinguished?
eyes, into possible probable and
positive" a. - g.
Define these, sorts" +,
"a possible salt-box, is salt-box
yet unso1d,, in the hands of the join
er." s.SlgFS s
why so?"
because it hath never yet become
salt-box in facilitating never had
any salt in it," Z.
Very true. Now what is the prob
able salt-box?" -
'It is a salt-box in the hand of one
going to a shop to buy salt, and who
hath sixpence in his pocket to buy
it with; and positive salt-box Is one
which hath actually salt in It,"
"Is there no instance of positive
5alt-box which has no salt in .it2"-
This proves little puzzling to the
student. The professorE helps him
out by observing, There is one men,
toned by some authors. tits where
3 box by long usage has become i'm
pregnated, as for instance, an empty
mackeral kit"
And so it continues for eight or
ten pages of this exhaustive method. \
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OHI0ANS IN PANIC TO
SEE MRS. LONGWORTA
She Pulls Flag Off Mckinley
Statue to Divert Crowd.
WOMEN WERE TRAMPLED DOWN
Terrorized Thousands Stampeded in
Columbus and Exercises Arc
Postponed and Completed at
Night-ScrambleS For Relics.

Columbus, Ohio. - To prevent a
panic and save human life the eXer-
cises attendant upon the unveiling of
the monument to William Mckinley
were brought to an abrupt close.
The thousands of people that
packed the Capitol grounds and ad-
joining streets to witness the unveil-
ing of the monument became so un-
ruly in their efforts to see at close
range Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long
worth that she was compelled to re-
lease the drapery which covered the
statue and withdraw. The addresses
On the program were postponed until
night.
Nothing like the wild rush that the
people made was ever seen in Ohio
before, and no such crowd Of women
was ever gathered here. More than
$4,000 people, at least 10000 OF
whom were women, pushed and
showed, yelled and wept in a mad
fever to gain vantage points when
the guests appeared On the platform.
Five acres of swaying persons scram-
bled and pushed until those in front
were jammed against the stand.
Scores of women tainted. while
thousands were pulled and tossed
about in the surging throng. Two
women were trampled on and re-
moved in ambulances. Their gar
ments were torn, their hats tossed
askew and their hair disheveled.
At last Mrs. Longworth, without
ceremony, stepped to the front of the
speakers stand and tugged at the
ribbon till the flags that veiled the
statue of the late President fell. A
cheer went up, and Mrs. Longworth
stood smiling and bowing.
1t was thought that, her part in
the program over, order would be re-
stored Instead, the crowd made a
rush for the ribbon with which she
had drawn the veil. 1t was torn into
,shreds, and then a dash was made for
the wire which had held the ribbon
in place. The brass rings were torn
from it. Many were in danger OF be-
ing cut by the wire, which the mob
was trying to tear into pieces for
souvenirs.
Unable to proceed, Governor Har-
ris announced the suspension of the
exercises until night.
The program of exercises was car
ried out at Memorial Hall. The i'm
mense hall was filled with people.
Governor Harris presided. The
speakers were William R. Day, Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court Of
the United States; John W. Daniel,
United States Senator from Virginia.
and General Joseph Mckay, of Brook
lyn, National Commander of the
Union Veterans Legion, and General
r. B. Brown, Commander-in-Chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic.
Mrs. Mckinley was unable to attend
the dedicatory exercises, but she was
represented by her niece, Mrs. Ida
Mckinley Day.
! The Mckinley Memorial was built
at a cost of $4,000, half of which
sum was raised by public subscrip-
tion, the other half being provided by
the Ohio Legislature.
The memorial is in the form of
semi-circle, In the centre of which is
the pedestal, surmounted by figure
of the dead President, nine feet four
inches in height. On either side OF
the semicircle are categorical pieces.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
PASSENGERS KILLED IN CANADA
Fatal Collision Between Regular and
Harvesters' Excursion Trains.

Sudbury, Ont.-Thirteen persons
were killed in the wreck of two
Canadian Pacific Railway passenger
trains near here. Seven were killed
outright, the other six dying Of their
injuries since.
The accident occurred near the
village of Chelmsford, just past
Azilda, twenty miles west of here.
The Winnipeg east-bound train was
due to pass a harvesters' excursion
train at this point. The harvesters'
train was already on the siding when
the regular from the West, dashing
along at high rate of speed, came
up to the station. The brakes were
set, but failed to work, and as re-
suit the two engines came together
with a fearful impact.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
FOUR KILLED IN A TORNADO.
Others Fatally Injured in Storm
. Which Passes Over Nebraska.

Tecumseh, Neb.-Two violent and
seemingly distinct storms swept over
Johnson County, causing the death OF
four persons, the fatal injury of two
and the painful injury of five others.
The dead are: o., L. Giel, August
Zieman, Royal Carmine and George
Koehler.
The first three crawled under a
threshing machine, which was shat
tered by lightning. A companion was
severely shocked.
The second storm, q tornado in vio-
lence, passed west of Tecumseh, de-
molishing a school house, killing
George Koehler and fatally injuring
two other school children and inflict-
Ing severe injuries on four others in
the school house. Many barns and
windmills were blown down.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
Danger in Drinking Ice Water.

1t is as unscientif1c to cool of the
human body by flooding ones inter-
nails with ice cold water as It is to
cool off a stove by dashing cold
water on it. Water fresh from the
well or faucet is good deal better
for a person than water from the Ice
pitcher. In Europe they never put
Ice into water but set a vessel con-
tanning water in the, refrigerator,
When it soon becomes as cold as
should be taken into the stomach.
The ice water habit has done the
American people lot Of harm The
slavery of some people to fceSwater
would be amusing If it wasn't amaz-
ing.-The Epitomist.
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for six months I co:ld not get out Of
the house. I 7as nervous, restless
and sleepless at, night, and lame and
sore in the morning. Sometimes ev-
erything would whirl and blur before
me. I bloated so badly I could not
wear tight clothing, and had, to. put
on shoes two sizes larger than usual.
The Urine was Sdisordered and pas
sages were dreadfully frequent.
got help from the first box Of Doan's
Kidney Pills, however, and by the
time I had taken four boxes the pain
and bloating were gone. have been
in good health ever SINCE"
Sold by all dealers. m SO cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
NJ Y
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
Prominent People.

John D. Rockefeller says his for
tune is less than one-third of billion
dollars.
James Henry Smith, the richest
bachelor in the country, is to wed the
divorced wife of William Rhinelander
Stewart.
All the property possessed by Mr.
Seldom, Premier Of New Zealand, who
died recently, was a $1,000 life in
surance policy.
Dr.. Frederick Hegar, the foremost
Swiss composer, has retired from
public life after forty years activity
AS q conductor
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
Labor World.

One hundred thousand machinists
will be involved in the demand for an
eight-hour day.
, Tie City Auditor Of Cincinnati has
issued an order requiring Union
label on all city printing.
The Wabash offices in Pittsburs
advertised for 5000 mechanics and
laborers for Western extension of
the Gould lines.
Organized labor has protested
against the plan of Postmaster OW--
ems, of Milwaukee, to equip street
United States mail cars.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
The National Game.

, Overall and Walsh are the only
bachelors ON Chicago's payroll now.
/ 1t is announced that Patsy Dono-
van will again manage Brooklyn next
season.
/ Jake Weimer wants to be the best
;battiSs pitcher in the National
League,
After winning fifteen straight
games the New York Americans were
defeated by Boston.
| When Flynn, of the Holy Cross
College, joins the Boston team there
will be five college players on the
team.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
CRIPPLES FORM A UNION.
Composed of Men Who Have Lost
Arms or Legs.

Chicago.-The only union of Grip:
pies in the world was organized here.
The union is composed exclusively of
the one-armed and the one-legged
men who tend switches or wave flags
at railroad crossings.
In the citr there are about 1900
cripples who earn a living by acting
as switch tenders and fiagmen. They
complain that advantage is taken of
them because of their physical de-
fects. They work from twelve to six
teen hours a day and seven days in
the week at wages ranging from $40
to $50 a month Most Of them are
old railroad men who have lost leg
or an arm in an accident. and they
are regarded as pensioners by the
railroad companies.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
FIFTY FORGERs CAUGHT.
Band Included Sons Of Prominent
Frenchmen-Made $4,000.

Paris.-The police discovered a
band of expert coiners having inter-
national connections, and fifty mem
bers of it were arrested, including
several Latin Quarter students whose
parents hold high official positions.
The students are implicated on ac-
sount of having passed the money,
most Of which was in ten and twenty
franc pieces.
The process used by the counter
letters was a perfect one. the coins
Being electroplated with gold dust.
1t is estimated that 100000 francs of
his money has been passed in the
last six months.
The band operated also In England
and Germany and was making prepa-
.ations to open business in Chicago
and Buenos Ayres.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
Her Age Still Unknown.

Rather than tell her age, Miss
Tenie Fristoe went to Jail at Colum
bus, Ohio. She was defendant in an
attachment suit, and one of the first
questions put to her was, How old
are you?"
Its none of your business Miss
Friscoe promptly replied.
The Court ordered the woman tc
answer, but she steadfastly refused
and was sent to jail for contempt.
She was released that afternoon on
a writ of habeas corpus, but her age
Is still a mystery.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
WINSTON CHURCHILL BEATEN.
Floyd Nominated For Governor Of
New Hampshire on Ninth Ballot.

Concord, NJ H.-Charles M. Floyd,
Of Manchester. was nominated for
Governor. on the ninth ballot at the
Republican State convention, receiv-
ing 404 votes out Of total of 799.
1t was the most exciting political
convention ever assembled in New
Hampshire. The delegates were
called to order at II a. m, and it
was not until after 10 p. M. that ad-
iournment was reached. The con-
vention was marked by disorder
throughout, and progress was delayed
by ballot-box stufing, three votes be-
ing declared void by reason of the
total exceeding the humber of dele
gates entitled to seats.
The feature Of the convention was
the fight put up by Winston Churchill,
the novelist, for the Gubernatorial
nomination.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
Kansas Chiggers.

' Mrs. McCown is experimenting the
chigger department of picnic this
afternoon at Fiat Docks, whereat the
Steeles, Mrs. Borton, the Harises, the
Kenneys, and the John Steeles OF
Kansas City are disporting them
selves.-Emporia Gazette.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
The Field Of Labor.
India has no labor unions.

Indla mas no IdDOT uHlOuS.
New Orleans, La, union plumbers
have been on strike since the first OF
the year.
Slate workers in Maine have OBJ
tanned a nine-hour day and ten per
cent. increase in wages.
William Foley, of Boston, Mass,
is the new head of the International
Steel and Copper Plate Printers.
San Francisco, Cal, is to have a
building trades temple.
Employment in the British build
ing trades shows general improve
ment as compared with year ago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
DowIE oUsTED, 1911 TO 6.
Voliva Made Zion City Overseer-
Heavy Vote by Women.

Chicago. Wilbur Glen Voliva was
chosen by the people of Zion City as
their leader by the overwhelming
vote Of 1911 to for his opponent, A.
E. Bills. The election was held un-
der the direction of Judge Lands of
the United States District Court, who
was asked some time ago to settle
the controversy between John Alex
ander Dowie, founder of the church,
and Voliva, as to who should have
control of Zion City.
About half of the total vote was
cast by the women of Zion City, who
went to the polls singing hymns and
DrayinS
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
NEW YORK PRIMARIES.
Murphy Retains Tammany Leader
ship, Parsons Defeats Quigg.

New York City. In one of the
hardest fought primary elections iE
the political history Of Greater New
York in which the organizations Of
both the Democratic and Republican
parties were threatened, Charles F.
Murphy, of Tammany Hall, and Her.
bert Parsons, with the Roosevelt
backing, won sweeping victories
Murphy over the McClellan-O Brien
forces, and Parsons over the Odell-
Quigg faction.
Both the Democratic and Repubii-
can primaries were turbulent. There
was much repeating, many assaults
and money was openly used.
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been exposed again
and again to changes
Of weather. It is no
wonder my kidneys
gave out and I went
all to pieces at last.
For five years I was
fading away and
finally so weak that
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
Pulujancs Broken Up.

Reports from the punitive expedl>
tions sent into the interior of Leyte,
Philippine Islands, in pursuit of the
Pulajanes state that as the result OF
recent attacks by troops the Pula-
lanes have broken up into small par
lies. The large band near La Paz
has been dispersed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
Stricken While Preaching; Dies.

Rev. DR.. Frank Woods Baker, of
New Haven, Conn, died at Islesboro,
Me. He had been spending his vaca-
ton at Castine and went to Islesboro
to officiate at Christ Episcopal Church.
During the service he was stricken
with heart failure.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
DIED UNDER X-RAYS.
NJ. F. Murphy, Pennsylvania Banker,
is Strangely Stricken.

is Strangely Stricken. (
Philadelphia. While undergoing
an X-ray examination, Martin F.
Murphy, a banker of Remove, this
State, died suddenly.
Mr.. Murphy was fifty-eight years
old. He had developed what was
thought to be cancer Of the throat
and was sent to the Polytechnic Hos
pital for examination. He had been
examined exhaustively before the
rays. were turned upon him, and no
organic weakness of any kind was
found. His body was barred to the
waist and the rays were turned dag
onally down upon him, striking the
throat on the left side two inches be-
low the ear and penetrating down
ward toward the right to point of
emergence below the eighth rib. At
the very moment the rays were
turned on Murphy he rolled from the
chair. Death was instantaneous.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
Baltimore Fire Jubilee Ends.

The week of the jubilee celebrating
Baltimore's recovery from the fire OF
February, 1904, ended with an auto
mobile and bicycle parade and a car.
nival. About $4,000 persons in gro
tesaue costumes participated. A fund
has been started to erect a $4,000
memorial commemorating the tre
and rebuilding of the burned district.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
Cuban Congress Meets.

The Cuban Congress met in special
session without quorum in either
house, and by party vote granted
President Palma means to carry on
the war. Marines from the cruiser
Denver remained on board their ship
in Havana Harbor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
EioI;t-Hour Law Extended.

President Roosevelt extended the
eight-hour law to apply to all public
work under the supervision of any
department of the Government. This
order from Oyster Bay, n. Y, affects
more particularly work on river and
harbor improvements.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-10-10
CLOUDBURST SWEEPS VALLEY.
Wave Seven Feet High Does $780,
600 Worth of Damage.

Jackson, Neb.-Water from
cloudburst rushed down the valley,
sweeping away hundreds of tons OF
hay, drowning hogs, flooding cellars,
washing away railroad tracks and
doing other damage, aggregating
100000. The wave of water in the
creek when it struck Jackson was
seven feet high.
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Laughed Herself to Death.

Mrs. George D. Baker, a we'll
known summer resident of New Lon
don. Conn, laughed too heartily
while attending aplay in the Lyceum
Theatre and as a result died at the
CTocker House.