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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-01-10
LAWYER HUMMEL GUILTY
Sentenced 10 a Year in Prison and
live Hundred Dollars Fine.
Sensational Trial For Collision in Dodge.
Morse Divorce Suit Case
Ends.

New York City.-The jury in the case
OF Abraham Hummel, The noted law.
yer, accused Of conspiracy in connec.
1ion with the Dodge-Morse divorce and
marriage annulment, returned a YER.
dict of guilty. The jury retired at 1910
=. m. and brought in it's verdict at 5
O'Clock.
Conspiracy is a misdemeanor punish
able by. $500 fine Oh: n year in the peR-
i%tentiary. or botll. He was sentenced
Immediately to one year in the peniten-
tiary and a fine of $500. Hummel is
also under,two indictments for. subOr-
nation of perjury in the Dodge-Morse
tangle.
Justice Rogers. in the Criminal
Branch of til. Supreme Court, began
his charge to the jury at 1855 o'clock
in the morning and finished at 1885.
The Justices charge was taken as be-
ing decidedly favorable TO the defense.
He said that the jury should believe
the testimony of Dodge. the accom-
plice and confessed perjurer, if there
was any testimony that tended to cor
rpborate, it. He declared that there
was such testimony, and that it re-
manned for the jury to decide IS to it's
truthfulness.
The Justice also asserted that Cap
tain Jim Morse had no right to inter-
fere with the marriage. of his nephew,
which upon the face of the court rec
ords appeared to be legal. Counsel for
the defense asked that this charge be
changed so as to admit the right of the
children and blood relations to inter-
:fere.7 They: declared that Captains
Morse was acting for them. Justice
Rogers first refused and then accepted
the amendment. Assistant District At
torney Rand offering no objection.
The prosecution accused Hummel Of
conspiring to invalidate the legal d.
vorce of the present Mrs. Morse. wife
of G.. W. Morse, the banker and former
ice magnate, from Charles f. Dodge,
n ne'er do well. who jumped rapidly
from one part Of the country to an
other, being employed at various times
as brokers'. clerk, waiter, hotel mana
ger and restaurant proprietor, Hum
mel had the divorce set aside on the
ground that Dodge had not been served
in the divorce suit. Dodge has since
confessed that he was served and the
divorce and Mrs. Dodge's marriage to
Morse which had been annulled have
been reinstated. ... ..
, Hummel was employed by Captain,
Jim Morse. as uncle of CIV. Morse,
to break the marriage. The retainer
for the lawyer, $4,000, and the fight
to keep Dodge from being brought
back here on an indictment for perjury
cost Captain Jim more than $4,000.
The case is, in many respects, a re-
markable one. Aside from the spec
tacular fight in Texas to bring Dodge
back here, District Attorney Jerome
caused additional interest in the trial
by asking that the jury be locked up,
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FOREIGN.

The Moscow Postof1ce, says q special
cable dispatch, has resumed work.
After an exciting debate in the Ital-
ian Chamber Of Deputies, at Rome,
the Forts Ministry rendered its reslg'
nation.
A great celebration was held in Toxic,
japan. n honor of the armies returning
from Manchuria.
Prince Bulow, 1.-THE, imperial, Chancel.
lor. has ordered ships to Revalt and
Libau to deport any German subjects
who may wish to leave Russia.
The Cabinet of M. Ralli, at Athens,
Greece, resigned as the result Of the
defeat of the Government in the cleo
ton Of a President of the Chamber OF
Deputies. King George has sum-
.noned the former Premier, M. Theo-
Aukis, to form q new Cabinet.
The correspondent Of the London
CEnglaDdD Standard at Kobe, Japan,
says that the Marquis Ito has accepted
an appointment as Resident General in
Korea.
Advices from Batoum, in the Trans
caucasus, tell of fierce fighting, III
which many persons We're killed.
There were also encounters at Potl and
KutaiS.
The Council of Spanish. Ministers,
sitting at Madrid, has decided to order
an investigation Of the allegations
made in the Chamber Of Deputies &C.
cuslng Senator, the Marquis Mayo Rey,
Of implication in gigantic treasury
frauds, involving q sum Of $7,2OO,OOO,
by means of falsely stamped securities.
According to a special cable dispatch
the Berlin authorities have received q
report from the Captain of the Pan
ther. and consider the incident closed.
The Duke and Duchess Of Aosta,
cousins of King Victor Emmanuel or
Italy. while on an automobile trip ran
over q woman The car was mmedi-
ately stopped and the Duchess TOOK the
woman with her to the home of a doc
tor who said that she was in a dan
gerous condition.
The death Of William Sharp, the au-
thor. was announced in q Eng
land.
After a month without any sessions
the Cuban House met in Havana to
discuss the killing of Congressman
Villuendas.
Prince vc<l Buelow replied to a So
cialistic attack on the Emperor at
Berlin, Germany, denying that he was
a "~disturber Of the peace
According to a special cable dispatch
from Caracas, President Castro mas
withdrawn his counter protest to inc
French Government in regard to the
Taigny incident.
The agent of the Asphalt Trust left
Caracas after failing to induce Presi-
dent Castro to interfere in the damage
suit.
Reports from Tsarskoe-selo, Russia.
were that the Gar would support
Count Witte, the cabal under General
Ignatief having been defeated.
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BITS o. Ne WIS

'Ty--

Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter OF
the President, has been the recipient of
a constant stream of callers, kilograms
and other messengers of congratnla-
ton upon the announcement of her
engagement to Representative Long.
worth.
There are 25.4S1 persons in the Gov.
eminent service i'll Washington. their
salaries a%ggregating SGT, 145, TOO annu.
ally.
The Bureau of Insu!ar Affairs is ar.
ranging to ask for bids on steel
wharves for Manila, to cost about
100000.
A resolution has been introduced in
the House calling upon Secretary Shaw
for his opinion as to how. the money
market, may est3be'relieved.
The President has nominated Will
lam F. Willoughby., of the District of
Columbia, to be treasurer Of Porto
Rico.
Conferences on hazing were held be-
tween Secretary Bonaparte and Rear.
Admiral Sands, and Attorney-Generai
Moody was. asked to define the Navy
Departments powers Of dismissal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-01-10
FOUR KILLED IN THEATRE FIRE
Woman and Her Two Children Among
the Victims.

Lorain. Ohio.-Four lives were lost in
a fire which destroyed the Verbeck
Theatre here early in the morning. The
dead are James Dwyer, t~wenty-eight
years; Mrs. William Marsh, twenty
four. and her two children Grace, three
years old, and Clifford, seven months.
The Marsh family had apartments in
the front of the building on the third
floor. William Marsh was stage man
ager. Dwyer, another employe, slept
in the basement, where the fire orig
mated. Mrs. Marsh and her children
were sunocated by the smoke which
poured up the narrow stairway.
Mrs. John Vesper was rescued by the
fremen after she had tainted and was
leaning out Of a window. The loss on
the theatre, which was a comparatively
new one, is Ss5,O00. The loss. on the
building is $4,000. The theatre was
owned by the Verbeck Amusement
Company, Of Oil City. Pa. and leased
by Fl. II. Dykman, Of Elyria, Ohio.
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NeWsy GleaningS.

A Chicago clergyman performed a
marriage service in nine seconds,
The Nelson statue in Trafalgar
Square. London, Eng. is decaying.
Cape Town authorities are extend
ing the conveyance of mails by camels.
Work has begun on the railroad
which will carry passengers to the top
of Mont Blanc.
Three hundred hairdressers' shops in
Madrid, Spain, were closed owing to a
strike of the assistants.
A Long Island City lawyer who de-
frauded a client has been sent to Sing
Sing Prison for seven years.
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Panic In White Ministry.

The news from Moscow has caused
patnic among the Witte Ministry. n
one OF the first results of the word OF
the mutiny was the report that White
himself had resigned. This has been
officially denied, but the revolutionists
say that the first bloodshed in the cap
itai will mean. Whites downfall. The
only loyal troops remaining in Moscow
are the Cossacks. So grave is the situ-
ttion there that a Cossack regiment has
been rushed through from here on a
special train. All the men of the line
regiments in the old capital if not IN
open mutiny are bordering on it, n
freely express their opinions.
An ultimatum formally presented to
General PlavoffSki, a division COM
manaer.' not only demands service re-
forms, but political freedom. The doc
ument' probably is the most important
yet drawn in the fight against the Car.
as it means the loss of his strongest
weapon in the army. Accompanying
the demands is a threat that if all
points are not conceded the mutineers
will parade the city and arouse the
entire populace into active rebellion.
In preparing for this contingency the
mutineers have issued an appeal to the
citizens. The appeal is as striking in
it's way as the ultimatum delivered
into the hands of Plavoffski. 1t was
distributed through the city printed on
handbills.
The Rostoff grenadier regiment to a
man held possession of the barracks. in
defiance of assault, until early In the
evening. when the detection OF two
battalions with a machine gun detach-
ment led to the end of the active mu'
\ tiny.:.a The men later paraded under
. command of their officers. but before
they were marched back again to their
quarters they made known through a
deputation that they did not withdraw
from the demands they had presented.
{. The regiment while technically loyal
: actually is still in a state of revolt, and
it is impossible to predict what may
come out of the position.
1t is certain that not 4 man in the
regiment will be punished, as the mrti-
reers had the sympathy Of the three
other grenadier regiments-the Ekater'
Inoslav, the Taurid and the Nesvich
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DOMESTIC.

Mrs. Brouwer, wife of DR.. Frank
Srouwer, Of Toms River. N. j., died in
commissions, and her brother applied to
have her body exhumed and the con-
tents of the stomach analysed. The
statements of two trained nurses
aroused his suspicious.
Enraged because his father objected
to his drinking, George Gibson killed
his parent at Hills, Ga.
Several persons were hurt at Water
loo, Iowa, on the Rock Island road,
when a south-bound mail took a siding
and plunged through a string OF load
ed box cars. -, p. ..-,-. ID
General Herman Haupt, oldest grad
uate' of the United States Military
, Academy, dropped dead ION a train
while jpurneyingEsto Westinghouse D. @.
&. Jealous of his wife, William Clark. a
prominent farmer at Paris, Mich.
killed her as she lay in bed and then
shot himself to death.
Ex-Governor Yates, Of Illinois, an
nounced that he was a candidate for
the United States Senate, and that he
would begin an active campaign later
in the month.
The new Alnaden quicksilver mines
near San Jose, CAL, are to be closed.
it being claimed that they have been
sufficiently developed.
From opium taken several days ago.
J.. D. Flennek, Of -Shinetown, W. Va,
is dead at Corning, Iowa.
Ore shipments for the season on the
great lakes ended one day later than
last year. o..
The Supreme Court of Illinois at
. Springfield affirmed the verdict against
Johann Hoch,, the bigamist and wife
murderer. .
The Federal Grand Jury at Kansas
City: Mo. Observation-Disclosures ithe
rebate prosecutions against the pack
ing firms of Armour, Swift and Cud.
ahy, and accused a local broker OF re-
ceiving heavy rebates from the Bur-
lington Railroad. .
George W. Perkins resigned as vice
president and chairman Of the Finance
Committee Of the New York Life,
Alexander E. Orr and John Clafln be-
ing elected to the Offices.
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The Field of Sports.

The Army-Navy football match Of
1906 is likely to be played in New
York.
Columbia and Cornell played a tie
game of Association football at Amer
lean League Park.
The University of Michigan Athletic
Association Melted $4,000 profit on the
1905 football season.
!. An American racing automobile of
250 horse power is nearing completion
for Alfred G.. Vanderbilt.
New Zealand defeated England at
Rugby football before a crowd Of &c..
600 at Crystal Palace, London.
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Feminine FancieS.

Queen Christina Of Spain is the only
sovereign who has ever made a bal
loon ascension.
Mrs. John F. Spencer, living in Ma
RON County. South Carolina. is a liv'
ing daughter of a Revolutionary sol
der.
Miss Mary TiIlinghast. of New York
City. is one of the most successful de-
sicners of stained glass window: in
America.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, wife of the
President Of the Southern Confeder
acy, still keeps her residence in New
York City.
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Labor World.

Another general strike in Russia is
threatened, beginning January l.
The growth of trade unions in France
during recent years has been very no.
ticcable.
During the nine completed months
of 1905. 335.507 seamen were shipped
in Great Britain.
The strike of arsenal employees in
France has been broken up by the
Minister of Marine.
The American Federation has re-
fused to giant a charter to the Ma
ticnal Stogie Makers League.
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Good American Business.

The march Of good American bust
less goes. on; no delay, except from
shortage of cars. Electric railway
from Camden, N. j.. to Atlantic City,
N. J., seventy-five miles, to be built by
the Pennsylvania system, and $1,000
100 worth of electric apparatus ordered
for manufacture in Schenectady; the
Erie Railroad to build an electric rail-
way from Binghamton,'N N. Y, to Corn
ing.+-N. y, scventy-six miles, at an
outlay of 81, 500, 900. e '"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-01-10
PROCLA|NS MARTIAL LAW
Car Believed to Have Haste ned the
Crisis in Russia.
RETURNS TO his OLD METHODS

Army Asks the People to Bach the Rev
olutionary Party-Emperor In Terror
in Tsarskoe-Sele White Again lse-
I ported to Have Resigned as Prelnier-
Troops Support the People,
st. Petersburg. Russ;a.-All his con-
cessions, and promises of concessions
having failed, to stay the wrath of his
awakened subjects. Emperor Nicholas
has entered on an aggressive campaign
of repression. He has turned absolute
ly around from his attitude Of a ruler
amenable to public opinion. and has
pitted the autocracy in open fight
against the proletariat. By the sign
ing of an imperial proclamation pCac-
tically declaring martial law over all
OF Russia the Car has made all his
official acts toward the enactment of
3 constitutional liberty 4 tragic farce.
1 Nicholas has willed that the semblance
! of freedom which had been wrung from
him is to be taken away again, and his
ceign of despotism made more arrogant
and oppressive than ever.
This amazing return 70 the plan Of
government which brought about the
present discomfort. and the news of
the spread of mutiny in the Moscow
garrison, has caused a tremendous SEN
sation all over the capital. 1t is be-
heved that the crisis which will settle
the fate of Russia has been reached
andthat auy hour will bring desperate
fighting in the streets and on all sides
of the Winter Palace. The popu!ace is
6iled with rage against the Gear. and
crowds have been parading all day and
iefying the soldiers to fire on them.
The Emperor has estranged the small
minority that remained loyal to him.
The leaders of the reyolutionists assert
that his latest decree will go down in
history as his death warrant. 1t is ar
gued that he has violated all his
pledges. and that. sooner or later he
will 60 to as miserable q death as
Louis XVI.
The first intimation of the revival Of
the "white terror" was in the arrest
late at night Of many Of the revolu-
,tionary leaders. Hundreds of police
were set on the hunt for men of all
:. classes who had been known to be
joining in the active agitation against
the antocracy.' Only'one of all the Of
6cers of the Workmen's Council es-
capped arrest. but in half IN hour after
the roundup by the police a new body
Of officers had been elected, with NJ.
Lenient. editor of New Life, as Presi-
dent. Before midnight the same as
sembly had issued q call for q general
strike. This was the answer to the
Cars drastic act. and it has been re-
sponded to with the greatest enthusi-
asm by the workmen.
1t is hard to realize to what length
the Emperor has gone in his attempt
to steady his rocking throne. He has
given over the government of the EN-
pire into the hands of thousands of
military officers, scattered over as
many districts. In an imperial order
sent out from Tsarskoe-Selo Palace all
governor,generals, governors and pre-
fects throughout the country are
+. clothed with. almost dictatorial powers.
being authorized without consulting st.
Petersburg. to declare a state Of siege.
and even martial law.
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Prominent PeOple,

The Sultan Of Morocco plays both
tennis and cricket.
The King Of Siam revels in fine
clothes, and is quite a dude.
King George of Greece is said to be
the most muscular king in Europe.
Sir Henry Irving furnished the mod
ell for the typical actor Of the comic
papers.
It is perhaps rot generally known
that King Edward holds a diploma for
forestry.
The Mikado of Japan is a good hunt
er and fisherman and an excellent shot
with q rifle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-01-10
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

Since the recent outbreak Of cholera
IN the Philippine Islands the American
doctors have been investigating its
source. DR.. Victor G. Heiser, in a re-
port just made public, says in this con-
nection: "The belief is rapidly gaining
ground among medical men that the
disease is indigenous to the islands"
Owing to the extensive coral reefs
which encircle the Island of Zambo-
ango, in the Philippine Islands. which
have repeatedly cut the telegraph ca
.bles connecting. the island with Jolo,
the Government has'decided' to Instata
space telegrapRsystem. which is prom
ised for operation early next year. =,
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CUBA AIDS q. S: STRIKERS.
House Passes $4,000 Appropriation

House Passes $4,000 Appropriations.
For Key West Cigarmakers.
Havana, Cuba.-The House of Repre-
sentatives passed an appropriation or
$4,000 to assist the striking Cuban
cigarmakers at Key West.
Since the introduction Of the latter bill
fhe Cuban newspapers have been alrg-
ing it's immsdiate passage and there
was not the least opposition to it IN
any quarter, with the exception OF the
American newspapers here. which ven
tured to oppose the granting of GoV-
erament aid to the strikers.
The Havana Provincial Council ap-
propriated $1,000 and the Havana City
Council $1,000 for the aid of the Key
West strikers. ~ s-E
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HEARST IS

Prevailing Opinion Is Against a Re
count by Mandamus.
Albany, n. Yin a sweeping decis'
ion the Courtof Appeals completely sus'
tanned the contention of counsel for
Mayor Mcclellan and the Corporation
Counsel of. New York in the William
r. Hearst ballot-box case which was
argued here. that the courts have no
right under the election law to order
the opening Of ballot boxes and a re-
count of. the vote by mandamus.
The decision Of the highest court in
the State thus renders futile every step
the Hearst attorneys have so far taken
with 4 view Of gaining access to the
ballot boxes, and leaves the matter eX-
actly where it stood before the litiga-
ton in connection with the contest be-
can.
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Iroll and Steel.

Two gratifying features are noted in
reports regarding the iron and steel in
dustry. New business continues to
come forward, raising the rate Of pro-
iuction above all previous records,
while conservatism prevails as to quo
tations, and there is still no evidence
IF the reckless imitation that has
brought q sudden setback in 80 many
previous periods of similar activity.
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Dunn at White House.

Colonel George w. Dunn, OF Bing-
hamton, N. Y. formerly Chairman of
the New York Republican State Com
mittee, took luncheon with President
Roosevelt at the White House. IN
Washington, D. c., and had a long
conference with him concerning the
conditions confronting the Republican
party in the State.
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no RING.
Miss Alice Roosevelt Says She Will
Dispense With It.

Washington, D. C.-Miss Alice Roose-
welt, in answer to the request Of her
friends to see her engagement ring,
has surprised every one by replying
that she has dispensed with thattusual
formolity, and does not purpose having
any engagement. ring I
, She is, however, wearing a beautiful
antique ring presented BY: rMr.@Lbng-
worth, some people say. at the outset
Of the Philippine trip. The jewel is a
sapphire a dull gold, very deep and
clear in color, and Of unusual bril-
Iiancy, and was an heirloom in the
Longworth family.
Mr.. Longworth will spend Christmas
In Washington, leaving the following
day for Cincinnati, Ohio, but returns
to town for New Years Day.
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OREGON's NEW SENATOR.
John Med. Gearin, a Democrat, Named
to Succeed Senator Mitchell.

Portland. Ore. - John McDermot
Gearin, Of Portland, was appointed
United States Senator to succeed the
late John H. Mitchell. Mr.. Gearin is
a Democrat, but is in accord with the
views of President Roosevelt's railway
and trust ideas. .
Gearin was born in an emigrant
wagon shortly after it had crossed the
Oregon border, on August Is, 1851.
He is a graduate of Notre Dame Uni
versity, Indiana. In 1872 he entered
the law Office of Mitchell & Dolph,
both of whom afterward served in the
United States Senate. Ex-senator ST.
mon was also a student in the same
Offices and is now a partner of Gearin.
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Killed bY Shot.

Charles B. Eames, founder and Vice
President of the st. Louis (Mo.) Credit
Clearing House, vas instantly killed
at his home in that city by a shot from
an old rifle which he placed in a fur
mace to burn off the stock.
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RiotiuC in China.

A riot in Shanghai in which thirty
Cinnamon were killed and several for
cigners were. wounded. is regarded at
Washington. n. c.. as 4 forerunner OF
another Boxer rising throughout China:
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Gusts r.. S. ATTORNEY

By direction of the President, the At
torney-General. at Washington. D. c.,
has removed from Office William B.
Johnson, United States Attorney for
the Southern District of Indian Terri
tory
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To Build Philippine Railroads.
Bids for the construction Of railroads
in the Philippine Islands were opened
at the War Department in Washing
ton, D. G.
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Hughes Still AT It.

Mr.. Hughes uncovered the financial
workings of the Life Association Of
America, the President. Henry p
Townsley, being on the stand, in thS
Investigation being held in New Yo1
City.
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Denies Patrick'S Motion.

Governor Higgins, at Albany. n. Y,
denied an application for stay of exc
cution and release from solitary COIL
fnement in order that he in person
might prepare q new appeal to the
courts.