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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-17
MINERS CONVENTION
Early Adjournment of Confer
e'nce Today
FOR ST. PATRICK'S PARADE
Nearly 1000 Delegates Marched in
the Line.
AID FOR ACCUSED WESTERN MEN
Coal Operators Arriving for the
Joint Meeting-Wide Divergence
of Opinion Over Issue.
FOR ST. PATRICK'S PARADE
AID FOR ACCUSED WESTERN MEN

INDIANAPOLIS, March 17-The conven-
ton of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea today voted 5000 for the legal defense
OF I. ii. Meyer, w. d. Haywood and Petit
bone officers of the Western Federation of
miners who are under indictment In Idaho
charged with conspiracy The convention
adopted a resolution favoring woman suf-
frage and defeated a resolution declaring
IN favor of the government ownership of
mines.
A number of resolutions concerning the
scale and the repeal Of the Ryan resolution
were offered, but all were referred to the
resolutions committee without action.
Ihe resolution to vote aid to the officers
OF the Western Federation was offered by
FRANK Hays, delegate from Illinois The
resolution was supported on the floor by
President Mitchell and Vice President Lew
Is. The executive board was authorized to
spend additional funds for the defense of
the men If more money should be needed
Inc convention then adjourned until Mon
gay morning in honor of st. Patrick Near
~ one thousand of the delegates later
marched In the St. Patrick's day parade
Coal Operators Arriving.
Coal operators are arriving for the joint
conference with the miners which will be-
gin Monday.
''i1> iuiiuie GU piluhllilous coal opera tors are
expected. 1t has already developed that
there are wide differences of opinion among
the mine owners as to what should he done
Mr. f. T. Robbins of Plttsburg president
OF the Plttsburg Coal Company is said to
laVor laVor an increase of wages in that district
operators of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois will
oppose any increase
Cniess the Ryan resolution is repealed by
tne miners convention it will be Impossible
Tor the miners to sign a scale in the Pitts
ours district, even though an advance in
wages be given. until all the other districts
nave come to an agreement and are ready
to sign.
). M. Roam, general manager of the Sun
day Creek Mining Properties has arrived
ne expects 100 operators from Ohio to be
mere Monday. Herman Justi of the Illinois
qelegation is expected this evening with O.
l. Garrison, former president of the I'LL
hois operators. These gentlemen, together
win j. e. Colsman, president of the In
olana operators, are expected to lead the
contest against any advance in the scale
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
MURDER IN GREENVILI4E.

Greenville, April 29.-Ben Wells, a
mountaineer from west of Asheville,
who was recently discharged from his
position as nightwatchman in the
American Spinning company and was
under suspicion as a liquor seller, at
tempeted to ambush Deputy Sheriff
Eli Pittman shortly after midnight
Sunday morning in the Sam Poe mill
village. AS result Wells is dead,
with a bullet from a Luger pistol
through his heart. and Pittman lies
mortally wounded at his home with
seven bullet wounds, the most serious
being one which perforated the in
testines in five places. He is not ex-
pected to live through the night.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
Railways the Greatest Givers.

The figures 100000 opposite a
mans name in the list of gifts TO the
San Francisco sufferers are impress
i've. They stick in the memory and
one likes to think of Carnegie, Astor,
Rockefeller and others in association
with them; but the great givers whose
contributions are to these as noun
tains Of coin to widows mites are GER
tain artificial persons, proverbially
soulless, which own and operate the
transportation lines.
The estimate comes from Chicago
that the railway companies OF the
United States are performing free a
service which would have a CONNER
cial value of at least s3,45O,000. The
Hartman lines and their feeders are
alone. doing an average daily service
Of $4,000, which will continue for
not less than month, and their con-
tributions win thus aggregate $780,
600. Freight trains loaded with sup
plies are being handled, at additional
cost, on passenger schedules. Tens
of thousands Of passengers too poor TO
pay the fares will be hauled gratuit-
ously. MIR. E. H. Hartman, it should
be noted, is himself the largest indi-
vidual contributor in cash.
The western emergency is not by
any means the first in which the
transportation lines have voluntarily
gone out of business for the time as
money-makers and become charitable
institutions. At the time Of the Jack
sonville conhagration. all Of the lines
touching that city practically surren-
dered themselves to the relief COM
naittees and the Clyde Steamship Com
pany was memorably unselfish in its
endeavors to help the distressed.
Later on, of course, the railway
companies will haul enormous quanti-
ties Of freight for the rebuilding Of San
Francisco, and the disaster will create
a great deal of business for them, just
as it will for the steel-makers, the
hardware dealers and scores Of trades,
but this does not take from the splen-
dor Of the generosity which the rail-
roads are displaying.-News and Cou-
rier.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02

In the matter Of the Independent Cot
ton Oil Company, Bankrupt:
BY v:,tue Of an order Of sale, made
and filed in the above entitled proceed
ings on the 3rd day of April. 1906, and
by virtue also of certain Order an
c!!lary TO said Order entered in the
office Of the clerk Of az District
Court Of the United States for the
Western District Of North Carolina;
the undersigned VIII sell at public
auction, as an ertirety, and not in
separate parcels, before the Court
House of the Court Of Common Eleas
for the county Of Darlington in the
State oe South Carolina, on Friday,
the Eleventh day Of May. \ L., 19ps,
at - O'Clock m.:
Oil mill plants and glnaer:aS where
respectively located, a. Darlington,
Manning, Marion, Hamer, Che
raw, Kingstree, Timmonsville, Null
Inns, Syracuse, Lamar, Swift
Creek, Auburn, Davis Station,
Summerton and Paxville, in
South Carolina, and at Wadesboro, in
North Carolina, with all the land,
buildings, engines, machinery, gin
neries, side tracks and other appur-
tenances connected herewith aid
forming part thereof, or rights there
with connected as set out in said Or
der Of sale, and also all tools, Office
furniture, safes, seed houses and
scales wherever located, now in the
hands of the trustees in Bankruptcy,
and being formerly a part Of the prop
erty of The Independent Cotton Oil
Company.
Terms cash. No bid less than $780,
900 will be received. The Trustees are
authorized to require deposit Of
$4,000 before receiving any bid. For
a fuller description Of the property to
be sold, and further particulars as to
the terms and provisions of said SALE,
reference is made to the said Order on
file in the Office of the Clerk Of the
District Court of the United States for
the District of South Carolina, in the
City Of Charleston.
John C. Simonds,
C. E. Taylor, Jr.
Daniel T. Mckee tIl;.lls
Trustees in Bankruptay.
12-4t
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
A CANDIDATE FOR LYNCHING.

Salisbury. n. c., April 29.-Conduc-
sor W. A Virgins, of the Salisbury
Street Railway Railway, was mortal
o. wounded this morning by an un-
sSaown negro. The negro was rowdy,
and the conductor told him and the
woman with him to get OFF his car.
The man left the car, drew a pistol
aAd Shot Virgins in the stomach, per-
saorating his intestines in eight places.
ade fred again struck, stranger on
Che arm. The negro fed, and though
oaiawed by several hundred citizens
2aa.s not been captured. Feeling runs
2aigh and the negro will be handled
coughb if caught.
The negro woman, who was the
cause of the trouble. is in jail. and re
ssasss to tell the name OF her com
ssanion. They were occupying white
peoples space, when ordered to va
Ssaae.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
Laborers and Mechar .cs' Club

From The Daily Item April %.
The Laborers' and Mechanics club
met last night pursuant to the call of
President E. T. Windham- A reor-
ganization was effected by the election
of the following officers:
President-E. T. Windhan.
Vice President-D. W. Owens.
Secretary-Charles Thomas.
Member of Executive Committee
H. L. B. Wells.
The following delegates to the
county convention were elected:
H. C. Cuttino, J. 3. Rafield, W. C.
Ivey, J. B. White, H. J. Wilson, H. T.
Edens, w. 7. Edens, Charles Thames,
Geo. Richardson, H. L. B. Wells, R.
A. Weldon, J. S. Richardson, Terry
Owens, J. w. Harper, C. H. Dorm, Joel
Norris, Singleton Bradford.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
THE STATEOF SOUTH CAROLINA.
COUNTY oF SUMTER.

BY Thos. V. Walsh, Esq. Probate Judge.
Whereas. Edgar G. X 5els made suit to
me to grant him Letters Of Administration
of the Estate of and effects of Wm. j.
keels, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admon-
ish ali and singular the kindred and
creditors of the said Wn. j. Keels.
late of said county and state, deceased, that
they be and appear before me, in the Court
of Probate, to be held at Sumter G. H.. on
May 18th, 1906, next, after publication
thereof, at il o'clock in the forenoon, to
show cause. if any they have, why the said
Administration should not be granted.
Given under my Hand, this "a day of
May A. D., 1906.
THOS. V. WALSH,
PIT Judge of Probate.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
Letter E. S. DesChamps.
Sumter. S. c.

Dear Sir: There are several ways Of
cheating in milk. An old fashioned
way is to water it. Nobody waters it
now. A better way is to take out the
cream-rich milk With the cream
taken out is as good as poor milk with
its cream all in.
But we needn't go into particulars.
You don't rob your milk and your
customers
Paint is as eaay as milk to cheat
with. Gooi paint is as rare as good
milk; for human nature is much the
same in milkmen and paint men.
You are just and true with your
milk; so are we with our paint.
Deyoe lead -and-zinc is twice as good
as mixed paints There's twice as
much butter in it.
MrJT Ladd. Cheraw, S G, writes
"When Mr. Evans painted MS house
with Devoe, he figured on how other
paints covered and bad enough left tc
paint three large rooms. He was SC
pleased that De has used Devoe on t%c
other houses -
Yours truly,
F. w. DeVoe & Co.
81 New York
P. S. Durant Hardware Co., sell oul
raint
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
CRUSHED TO DEATH.
Marion GailIard Caught III a Death
Trap Between :. BOX Car and d ,irac-
ton i-ngine-Thc Coroners IN
guest.

Marion Gaillard, colored, WHO was
employed by the Sumter IRON Works
met a horrible death Monday. He was
holding a board between a box car
belonging to the a. c. L. r. r. Co
and traction engine Of the Sumtel
IRON Works. When the board either
slipped or broke and the chest Of the
deceased was horribly mangled. Cor
one- Flowers summoned q jury and
held an inquest over the body Of Gail
lard. The testimony Of the witnesses
are as follows:
John Reese, bcother-in-law OF
Gaillard, said that he was attempting
10 push the box car out of the way OF
the traction engine. He was running
the engine. Gaillard was holding a
board between abe engine and the box
car. when the board slipped off the
engine and Gaillard was caught be-
tween the two The board struck him
in the stomach and he thought that
the blow was abe cause Of his death.
Had often used board for that pur-
pose before; the one used on this oc-
casion was a 2x10.
The testimony Of Andrew Buddin
and Alice Goodman was practically
the same.
DR.. Baker said: II have examined
the dead body Of Marion Gaillard.
The whole upper portion Of the right
side Of the chest is crushed in as
though struck by some heavy blow
from a blunt instrument or a heavy
weight. There seems to be no other
injury to the body. The lung under
meath is evidently greatly mangled. for
exerting pressure over the crushed
chest wall a quantity of bloody froth
issued from the nose and mouth. l
understand he was struck by the end of
plank used as a prop between trac-
ton engine and a heavy car, the plank
bending and breaking in the middle,
and the broken end striking him in
the chest. have examined the box
car, the engine and the plank, and
such an explanation Of the cause Of
death fits we'll with the surroundings
as 1 viewed them. 1t is my opinion
that he died as result of the crush
ing in Of his chest and lung
In accordance with the above given
testimony the jury brought in the fol-
loving verdict: That the said Marion
Gaillard came to his death by the
breaking Of a plank between box
car and traction engine, the plank
striking him in the stomach
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
FOLLOWING FATHERS TRACK.
Son Of Gen. w. T. Sherman Retracing
the Famous March to the Sea.

Chattanooga, Tenn, April %
Father Thomas Sherman, a son of
Gen. w. T. Sherman and priest in
Oglethorpe this morning and tomor-
row will start out accompanied by a
detail of the Twelfth cavalry, follow
ing the rout Of his fathers famous
march to the sea. The detail of the
Twelfth cavalry will accompany him
as far as Atlanta, and at Fort McPher-
son another detail will be assigned to
conduct him TO the sea.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
BASEBALL ASSOCIATION.

Monday the Sumter Baseball AS
sociation met in the Elks' club and
elected officers and a board of direc-
tors.
The following were elected:
President-Willie Bu1.man.
Secretary and Treasurer-E. S.
Miller.
Manager-J. c. Huger.
Assistant Manager-W. L. McCutch-
en-.
Board Of Directors-E. A. Built
man, J. C. Huger, w. L. Lee, E. S.
Miller, w. L. McCutchen.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
sUAINIERToN WON.
Defeated the High School Team By
Large Score.

A gentlemanly and we'll behaved
set of young men comprising the sum
merton Graded school baseball team,
accompanied by a large number of
sponsors and rooters, defeated the
team OF the Sumter High School by a
score of 20 to 1. The Summerton
boys We're much older and larger than
their opponents, and outclassed them
at every stage of the game. Sumter
never had a chance to win.
The visitors were we'll coached, and
ran bases like professionals. and took
advantage Of the weakness Of the
home team at second base. 1t was
surprising to see the swiftness of the
infeld, and the accuracy and speed
with which the ball was thrown.
It is difficult to select from the Sum
merton team any one Or two particu-
larly brilliant players, for they were
all stars. For Sumter, Jones caught
beautiful game and Burgess played
we'll at third.
If Sumter had a good coach the
home team could give the Summerton
boys race for the game.
The line up was as follows:
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02

We care not how you suffered nor
what failed to cure you. HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea makes the pu-
niest, weakest specimen of man or
womanhood strong and healthy. 35
cents, Tea or Tablets. China's Drug
Store.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

A.. apology is a poor excuse at best>
Don't forget that a hungry man
can't eat advice.
Happiness is less to be a matter of
luck than of pluck.
Dyspept.cs Who love to eat love not
wisely bu, too we'll.
People who give themselves away
are rot necesSararily charitable.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
Ran Into Auto.

a runaway horse, belonging to Mr..
w b Boyle collided with the rear
end Of Mr.. D. China's Ford automo-
bile, which was in front Of his store on
Main street The rear springs Of the
machine We're knocked out of place
and the rear lantern smashed. Other
wise. the automobile was not hurt.
The buggy to which the horse was
hitched was badly damaged.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
SUMTER DEMOCRATIC CLUB.
Reorganization anu Election CT Dele
gates to County Convention.

From The Daily Item April 2S.
The Sumter Democratic Club met
in the court house at $50 o'clock last
night for the purpose Of reorganizing
and electins delegates to the county
convention.
The following officers were elected:
ed:
Pres:dent-J. H. Clifton.
Vice President-T. B. Fraser.
Secfetary-H. a. Moses.
Member County Executive Commit
tee-Marion Noise.
A resolution was offered and adopt
ed that the president appoint COM
mittee to revise the club roll and to re-
port to the president with duplicate
rolls on or before May 5th, and that
the club elect delegates on a basis Of
700, the president being empowered
to name additional delegates if the
revision OF the rolls show that the club
is entitled to a greater number Of del
egates than elected.
The old club roll contained nearly
1.0(G nam4s, but at the first primary
of 1904 only about 700 voted, an0 in
order to be perfectly fair to all other
clubs it was deemed best to elect del
egates only on the basis Of the votes
cast in the primary, until the roll can
be thoroughly revised and brought up
to date, hence the above motion was
adopted.
The following delegates to the coun-
ty convention were elected:
J. H. Clifton, r. I. Manning, G. W.
Dick, r. D. Lee, H. 6. Osteen, L. ].
Parrot, E. W. Hurst, S. H. Edmunds,
". B. Boyle, j. D. Wilder, NJ. c.
Kavanaugh, Edgar Skinner, J. L. Al
nut, J. A. Warren, T. E. Richardson,
H. A. Moses. 3. D. Mitchell, Joel E.
Rrunson, r. W. Bradham, VIII
Hough, Marion Noise. E. C. Hayns-
worth, w. o. Bradford, II. c. Hayns-
worth, Neill o'Donnell, ]. W. Nc
Kiever, J. K. Bradford, c. E. Stubs.
The question of having two boxes
at the club polling place in order that
The counting OF the ballots might be
expedited was brought up and discuss
ed
On motion Of Mr.. S. H. Edmunds
committee consisting Of President
Clifton, R. D. Lee and r. I. Manning
was appointed to take the matter un-
der consideration and if they deem
the suggestion feasible and constitu-
tiopal that they be empowered to re-
quest the county convention to au-
thorize the Sumter Democratic club
to have two sets of managers and two
sets of boxes, the club roll being di-
vided alphabetically into two equal
parts, for the purpose OF expediting
the counting of the ballots.
The president appointed the follow
ing committee on revision Of club roll:
J. D. Wilder, T. E. Richardson, Geo.
E. Beaumont, H. A Moses, NJ. C. Kav-
anaugh and w. W. McKagen.
The following executive committee
was eletced: John H. Clifton, T. B.
Fraser, H. A. Moses, L. Y. Parrott.
The secretary was instructed to pur-
chase record book for the perma-
nent preservation of the minutes Of
the club.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
NOTICE.

Any person having claim against
the estate of the late Henry r. Thom-
as viii please present an itelnized ac-
count OF the same TO
Mrs. H. r. THOMAS.
r. F. D. No 3,
4-lS Sumter. S. C.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02

OF coure You pay Your money.
But You get your moneys worth,
For what does money mean to you
When Rocky Maintain Teas on
earth?-China' Drug Store.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02

The sumter Watchasan was founded in
1850 and the True Soathron IN 1866. The
Watchma,. and Soathrom now has the COM
bined circulation and influence of both of
che Old papers, and is manifestly the best
advertising mediam IN Sumter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02

Dr.. Viokers, Osteopatn 81 s. Main
Phone 4S3. 4-25-1m
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fai,y Marker Report.

By Private W.re to The Sumter Cot
ton Exchange.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
NEW YORK COTTON.
Spots II. %; unchanged.

CHICAGO MARKETS.
BY Private Wire to The Sumter Stock
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-05-02
IN THE
District Court Of tle OlitGl States
IN BANKRUPTCY.

Il THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF SOUTH CARO-
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cents,
Store.
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From The Daily Item April 2S.
The Sumter Democratic Club met
in the court house at $50 o'clock last
night for the purpose Of recognizing
and electing delegates to the county
convention.
The following officers We're elected.
n6.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-07
LIBRARY BOARD
WILL FIT UP THE BASEMENT
FOR THE CHILDREN OF
PADUCAH.
VIII Have Art Pictures i'm the Lii
brnry for the Edification Of the
Public.

The Carnegie board met last night
and decided TO fit up the library
basement, place chairs therein and
have two Friday afternoon in every
month as "Children's day" The
children will then be taught from art
studies by ladies OF the city, and the
afternoons are expected to become
very popular.
n was also decided to allow a Chi
cago Art Exchange managed by q
philanthropical society TO place 60
or so pictures in the library fer
thirty or sixty days for the benefit
OF the public. They will be explain
ed by local representatives of the so
ciety.
u was decided TO order shipped nj
once some text books desired for use
by pupils of the public schools. The
books are on the list already ordered
but had not been ordered shipped.
Other business last night was OF
a routine nature.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-07
JACKSON MENTIONED
FOR SIXTH PLACE IN THE X. /.
T. LEAGUE-WANTS TO
GET IN.
Tennessee Fans Are Not Satisfied
With Any thing but Fast
Ball

According to the Jackson, Tenn.
papers, there is move on foot there
to get Jackson back into the Kitty
league. Jackson was in the league
the first season, and had a fine team.
1t tried Independent ball after that,
but the fans were spoiled and the
game was not fast enough for them
hence they have been dissatisfied.
The Jackson Sun of yesterday says:
John Freeman, who held the nit
behind the bat for Jackson in the old
days when James Murray, Fatty
Schaffstall, Teddy Walsh and other
local baseball heroes were playing to
from seven hundred to a thousand
people daily, is in the city trying 90
stir up interest in the organization
OF a team for the Kitty league. Since
leaving Jackson he has had consid-
cradle experience in the baseball
business. He played for some time
with a Memphis team and has starred
with the Canton, Miss, team in the
hustling Delta league.
"He is meeting with considerable
encouragement and it is believed thai
the team will be go. For the ben
eft of those who grow tired of the
article of ball put up here by the X.
|. T. league teams some years ago,
1t should be stated that the league Is
IL a much better shape than former
ly and last year put up first-class
article of ball. II Jackson should Sc
cure a franchise-and one can be
bought cheaply--the city would be
assured % good article of game"