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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-04-18
ARMED MOB ROBS BANK
twenty-five Men Get $432,5OO
From a Moscow Institution,
ESCAPE WITH THEIR LOOT

The Credit Mutual Bank in Heart OF
tho City Robbed in Broad Day
Light in a Manner That Was Ex-
ceptionally Daring - Guards Seized
and Disarmed.
Moscow, RuSSia.-The Credit Mutual.
one of the largest banks in Moscow,
was robbed by masked men at dusk,
the robbers getting S432, 500. Circum-
stances raise the suspicion that the rob
berry was committed under the direc-
ton of some m at present or previous
:, employed in the institution.
The bank is in Ilinka street, in the
heart of the city. The last Of the clerks
had just departed, leaving a guard Of
three men inside. while under the COW
cred driveway outside were 4 police
man and the house porter. The street
was crowded with people hurrying
homeward. According to the story of
the guards they were suddenly con-
fronted with revolvers in the hands of
twenty masked men. who had entered
silently by the main door, which had
been locked when the Office force left
the building.
After a command to the guards to
hold up their hands not a word was
spoken. The guards were quickly
bound and gagged and thrown into a
dark corner. The robbers then took po-
sitions at all the entrances; and the cur
tains of the windows were lowered.
The chief Of the robbers, who directed
the operations of his associates by geS-
lures, showed thorough familiarity with
the location Of the vaults. When all
was ready he went to the heavy. burg
lar proof safe and with a few whirls Of
the knob threw the combination of the
lock, the heavy doors swung open and
the treasure of the bank was revealed.
The plumber, consisting Of gold, sill
yer and notes, was speedily thrust into
sacks. When not a kopeck was left the
robbers departed as silently as they
came, making their exit through the
main entrance, leaving no trace behind
them. They had been in the bank less
than half an hour. Twenty minutes
later one of the guards succeeded in
freeing himself and gave the alarm.
The policeman and house porter, who
had been standing in front of the bank
throughout, said they had seen no n
enter or leave it. An immense crowd
was attracted to the scene by the Jews
of the robbery.
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SNOWSL|DE BUR|ES MINERS
MANY Lives Lost in an Avalanche at
SiIverton, Col.
COLORADO TOWNS ENGULFED

Twelve Miners Employed at tho Shen-
andoah Mine Were Caught by a
Were Fleeing to Silverton to Escape
Starvation.
Silverton, Col.-Twelve miners en-
ployed at the Shenandoah Mine were
caught. by a great snowslide and swept
to their death. Their bodies have not
vet been recovered. Assistance has
been summoned from Silverton to help
dig the victims from the snow. Twen-
ty others are reported lost near Ouray.
The men killed were members Of the
force employed at the Shenandoah
Mine, and were on the way to Silver
ton to escape starvation at the mine,
the supply Of provisions having u
short. They left the mine, breaking
a trail in the deep snow as they went
along. At a particularly dangerous
point on the trail, in the side of a
steep mountain, one of the trail break
ers stumbled. This started the snow
sliding and the entire side of the noun
tain seemed to be moving.
The twelve men were engulfed al
most Immediately. One of nine men
who escaped hurried on to Towards
vile, three miles down the gulch, and
telephoned to SilVerton for help.
All the miners here took refuge in
the tunnel. They reached Ouray, COM
ing over the mountain on snowshoes.
Communication had with several other
mines shows that the men employed
at those mines are safe.
Durango and the other towns in the
San Juan region in Southwestern Col
orado have been cut off from communi-
cation by train nearly q week, but
the management of the Denver & Rio
Grande Railroad is making strenuous
efforts to reopen its branch line in that
part Of the State, which is blockaded
by heavy snow on the Cumbres Range.
The main transcontinental lines have
been kept open and through train SER
vice has not been much delayed dur
ing the storm. The heavy snowfall in
the mountains insures an abundance of
water for irrigation.
. Ouray. COLT is feared that at least
twenty miners have lost their lives
in the snow slides which have cut off
from all outside communication six
hundred miners employed in the yari-
GUS mines within a radius of twenty
miles from Ouray. The exact number
of deaths will not be known for days.
AS many as twenty-five mines are
completely isolated. The damage may
reach $1,000,0 900. ......
At the Camp Bird mine, four miles
from the Bird mill, a snowsllde COM
pletely isolated fifty or more miners.
The body of William J. Cressey, an
Englisbman, who lost his life in the
slide at the Camp Bird mill, has been
recovered.
1t is said there is sixty feet of snow
at the high tower Of the tramway of
the Camp Bird, and the snow is deep
all along the route of the tramway.
In the Imogene Basin the snow is from
$50 to 300 feet deep. This will pre-
vent work on the reconstruction Of
the tramway for several weeks.
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sCHEAPER TO KILL LABORERS.'

Costs Less Than Protecting Them at
Work, Contractor Tells Dr.. Strong.
New York City.-A contractor Of
prominence, according to Dr.. Josiah
Strong, recently told him that the kill
ing of workingmen was cheaper than
protecting them.
The statement created 4 stir when
made by Dr.. Strong, who is President
Of the American Institute of Social Ser
vice, at the Municipal Art Society din
ner.
Mine men are killed every day in
New York" he continued, sin accidents
which are for the most part avoidable.
Our city is fast becoming a veritable
human sbambles."
Coal mines and railroads, he said,
were slaughter houses for the laboring
men. Last year there were $500 acct
dents to laboring men that the public
knew nothing about.
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Sporting Notes.

Lafayette College and Princeton
have severed football relationship.
The spring meeting of the Maryland
Jockey Club will be held at Pimlico
track April 16 to %.
Eugene Hildebrand returned to the
saddle at Hot Springs after eight
months on the ground.
Harvard football coaches are critic.
lied in the annual report of the sradu-
ate treasurer for their extravaganza.
In the committee substitute for the
Frelingnuysen Automobile bill in New
Jersey the obnoxious features of the
latter are retained.
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Women of the Hour

y A Cincinnati woman has 1000 ca
naries.
Girls Of the 90 class at Barnard Col
lege, New York, gave a college circus,
"The Dippydrome."
1t is not true that woman lacks Gre
alive genius. In fact, the inventive
talent is marked in woman.
In one weeks mail Miss Helen Gould
received requests for money calling in
the aggregate for S1,500,000.
Mrs. Craigie John Oliver Hobbes)
suggests Summing expeditions among
the idle and thoughtless elements of
the upper circles"
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Labor World.

Indictments against twenty-five coal
companies for conspiracy in Cincinnati
have been dismissed as the present
ments were too defective to risk a
trial.
President Lynch, Of the international!
Typographical Union. says that 59OS
printers are ON strike. There are Al
2S3 members Of the union and its al
lied crafts and '3G,98S are working
eight hours a day.
President James NJ. Lynch, of the
international Typographical, has prac-
ticaily been reelected as no nomina-
tons have been made against him.
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To Reapportion South.

When the legislative bill was taken
up in the House, Washington, Mr.. kei-
fer took the floor in advocacy of his re-
apportionment bill reducing the repre-
sentation in Congress as follows: Ala
bama, 9 to 5; Arkansas, Z to 5; Florida,
8 to 2; Georgia, IL to 6; Louisiana, Z
to 8; Mississippi, 8 to 8; North Caro-
lima, 10 to G; South Carolina, Z to 3;
Tennessee, 10 to 8; Texas, 16 to II, and
Virginia. 10 to s.
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BURGLARS MURDER WIFE.
While Two Robbers Hold Husband
Third Shoots Mother in Bed.

Tamaqua, Pa. - Three masked men
entered the bedroom Of John Morrison,
a night foreman at the Eagle Hill col
liery, DIT Cumbola, at $50 o'clock a. m,
and while n stood guard over the
wife and infant the other Two took
Morrison down stairs and forced him
to give up $685..
A shot was heard from the bedroom
and Morrison'S two guards forced him
in the parlor and locked the door. He
smashed the door and rushed to the
bedroom to find his wife lying dead
with a bullet hole in her right temple
and the infant with its arms around
her neck. There is no clue.
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frequently and with a burning sensa-
ton. They showed sediment. I be-
came discouraged, weak, 1anguid and
depressed, so sick and sore that I
could not keep up AS doctors did not
cure me I decided to try Doan's Kid
ney Pills, and with such success that
my troubles were all gone after using
eight boxc::, and my strength. ambt-
ION and general health is fine"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-M ilburn Co.. Buffalo, N: Y.
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News of the Hour.

An agreement on Morocco is in sight.
Earthquakes continue in the West
Indies.
One million dollars is to be the cost
of the new st. Thomas Church. New
York City.
The British War Secretary favored
retrenchment in army expenses at
home and abroad.
The Bank of Montreal, Canada, has
decided to open 4 branch in Mexico
City, and enter the banking field.
Russia plans to make V~ladivostok
take the place Of Dalny in her projects
for the development Of Manchuria.
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MOST, THE ANARCHIST, DEAL
Passes Away at a Friends Home in
Cincinnati.


Cincinnati, Ohio.-Johann Most, the
Anarchist, died at moor at the home of
Adolph Knaus, 1926 Cutter street, in
this city.
The family with whom Most had
been staying since his arrival here is
poor, but attended to all Of Most's
wants gladly, Withholding no expense.
as Knaus and Most were old friends.
Most came to fill a lecture engagement,
but was ill when he arrived and was
not able to appear on the platform.
The body will undoubtedly be taken
TO New York for burial.
Johann Most was born at Augsburg.
Bavaria, on February 5, 1916. His
father was a court officer and gave the
boy a good education.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-04-18
HEARD SUICIDE so MILES AWAY
Lover Fired Fatal Shot While 'Phon-
ing to His Fiancee.

Frankfort, Ind.-Though fifty miles
away at Indianapolis Miss Buchanan,
of that city, over the telephone heard
her f~lancee, DR.. Ellison Dixon, a we'll
known dentist Of this city, kill himself
with a revolver in his office.
DR.. Dixon and Miss Buchanan had
had a falling out and he told her over
the wire that he intended to take his
life. Then the terror-stricken girl
heard the pistol shot and the sound OF
a falling body. She at once notified
the Indianapolis police, and they COM
municated with Frankfort. When DR..
Dixon's Office was broken open his
body was found lying near the tele-
phone, the receiver hanging by its
cord.
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Fought Duel to Death on Raft.

On a raft in the middle Of the Ken
lucky River near Valleyview, KY,
Wingfeld Grove and Nelson Horne
fought a duel to the death with knives.
For nearly an hour the men struggled
on the raft trying to cut each other to
death. Toward the end Horne lost his
knife, but he managed to stransle
Grove into semi-consciouSness. He
then got a pistol from his coat and shot
Grove three times. The duel was wit
uessed by fifty persons on shore.
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KILLS SEVEN LABORERS.
Foreman With Crowbar Effectively De,
tends Himself From Attack.

Bristol, Tenn.-A band of foreign Ia
borers on the construction work of the
Southern and Western Railway at Ma
rion, N. c., attacked a foreman In
resisting the assault the foreman seized
a crowbar and dubbed seven Of the in
furiated Hungarians to death within
three minutes.
The foreigners became enraged over
the conduct of the foreman, thinking
he was taking advantage of their ina
bility to grasp English. While the fore
man was seated on a bank they sprang
on him and slightly injured him before
he got the bar. Thousands Of Hunga-
rian and Italian laborers employed in
the construction of the Southern and
Western Railroad have become enraged
over the killing and more trouble is
feared.
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no CRIME IN CAMPAIGN GIFTS.

District Attorney Jerome Says He
Can't Find Any Felonious Intent.
New York C%ity.-In Il brief which he
fled with Judge O'Sullivan in the
Court Of General Sessions District At.
torney Jerome holds that the giving OF
political contributions to political par
ties by officers Of insurance companies
waS not q crime. because it cannot be
shown that such payments were made
with felonious intent.
To be larceny. Mr.. Jerome says, such
appropriations of policyholderS' money
would have to have been made, under
the Penal Code. with intent to deprive
or defraud the true owner Of his prop.
erty, or the use and benefit thereof"
Mr.. Jerome is of the opinion, as he
says in his brief, that that was not
the case in the political contributions
from the insurance companies.
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Two Killed at O Crossing

Erie train No. 20 struck a cutter con-
tanning Mrs. Jane Phelps and Charles
Hemstraught, just west of Bingham
ton, N. Y, killing both Of them. They
were eighty and seventy years of age,
respectively. A binding snowstorm
probably diverted their attention while
attempting to cross the tracks.
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Two Little Girls Drowned.

Two little girls, Ada Lamb, thirteen
years old, and Myrtle Lockwood, elev-
en-, of Clean, N. Y, were drowned in
Clean Creek. The sled on which one
was drawing the other was found on
the thin ice through which they went,
a single hole neal the thicker ice tell
ing the story of their deaths. Their
bodies were recovered.
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CHers Bible 10 Church..

King Edward has offered an appro-
priately bound and inscribed Bible to
the Protestant Episcopal Church at
Williamsburg, Va, the second oldest
church in the United States, in COM
memoration Of the 30Oth anniversary
of the establishment Of the Church Of
Virginia.
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In the Public Eve

King Alfonso is expert in running an
automobile.
The late General Wheeler was q de-
vout Christian.
Richard Croker refuses to go into
English politics.
J. P. Morgan is seeing Rome and
vicinity in an automobile.
The Rev. John Talbot Smith de-
nounced the plays of Ibsen as i'm
moral.
Richard Mansfield advises university
boys to select some great man as q
model.
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MORE r A ON HAND.
Larger Proportion of Crops Uncon'
sumed Than in Former Years.

Washington, D. Gin the farmers
lands on March 1 were 15S,403,00O
bushels of wheat. or 22.9 per cent.
Of last years crop, according to the
Crop Estimating Board Of the Bureau
Of Statistics. Last year at the same
time there were 111,055,0 900 bushels on
hand.
Corn on hand is estimated at about
1,10S, 900, 900 bushels, or 40.1 per cent.
of last years crop, as compared with
954,6S6,000 bushels at this time last
year. Of oats there are reported on
hand about 379, S05, 900 bushels, or 1913
per cent. of tie crop.
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Newsy Gleanings.

Geza Won Fejercary, the recently ap-
pointed premier of the Hungarian cab.
met. has received alomst every decora-
ton his country can bestow.
Rufus Bullock, who was a recon-
struction Governor Of Georgia, is
spending his declining days at AL
bion, n. Y. his boyhood home. He
Is helpless from paralysis.
Captain Stubs, secretary Of Liver
pool Orphan institution, is one of the
few living persons who served on Mel
sons flagship Victory.
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Astor 70 Give Son Cliveden.

1t is asserted that Waldorf Astor will
marry Mrs. Iiannie Lanshorne Shaw
at the end of April in Virginia and that
they will live at Cliveden, the Thames
residence of William Waldorf Astor,
which will be the wedding gift from
Mr.. Astor. He will also beStow upon
his epn an income of 100000 yearly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-04-18
HEAD BLOWN OFF BY HIS SON.
Farmer Dies the Victim Of an Acct.
dental Shot.

Suffolk, Va.-Henry Spivey. a fifty.
year-old farmer living near Carrsville,
Va, had half his head blown away by
his son, Mills Spivey, aged nineteen
years.
The shooting is claimed to have been
accidental. Mills. who had been hunt
ing, was cleaning his gun when it
went off, the entire charge entering thd
back of his fathers head. The old
man fell from his chair, dying.
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Landslide in Brazil.

A storm in Brazil caused landslides
and foods. Twenty persons were
killed or injured at Rio Janeiro, and
landslides at Petropolis. capital of the
State of Rio JaneirO. killed fifty per-
sons and injured many more
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Insurance Official Warned.

Samuel Urtermyer, counsel to the
York Life, has written a letter to Pres
ident Orr warning him that be and his
fellow officials will be held personally
responsible for all moneys expended
in their campaign for proxies.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-04-18
Electric Shock Kills Student.

While making electric experiments,
the results Of which were to be used for
his commencement thesis, Perley K.
Dodge, Of the senior class Of the Mas
sachusetts Institute Of Technology, was
killed by an electric shock in the power
plant of the United Shoe Machinery
Company at Beverly, Mass.
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torture :.wentthrough
nov seems to have
been almost unbear-
able Lad back
ache, pains in the side
and loins, dizzy spells
and hot, feverisi
headaches. There
were aring-down
pains, and the kidney
secret,ons -assed too
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AustraIasian Gesture Language.
Gesture language still exists in partak
Of Australasia. Some tribes possess
so excellent a code that it is almost as
efficient as a spoken language.
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Peasants Steal Trees.

The peasants Of the Province of
Tomsk, Siberia. are in many places
cutting down trees on the crown lands
and in forests belonging to the land
owners of TomSk.
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Froze to Death in Mothers Arm

Froze to Death in Mothers Arms.
John Cook, called as a juror, with
his wife, drove through a eve storm
from Elk Mountain to Hanna, Wyom-
ing, that he might reach the court on
time. Mrs. Cook carried their young
baby, which froze to death in her arms
before the railroad was reached.
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Cracksmen Kills Policeman.

Craftsmen Kills Policeman.
Policeman Fred Booth was shot dead
while 4 party Of officers at Jackson
Mich, were trying to arrest three men
suspected of having robbed the safe il
the p~ostoftice at Brooklyn, Mich. The
thieves escaped.
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NO MORE JERSEY HANGINGS.

Dill SuDSlIlUIIHS TIeClTICIly TUI tHC
Rope Passes the Senate.
Trenton, N. J.-Senator Minturn's bill
providing for the putting to death
by electricity of prisoners convicted OF
murder was passed in the Senate.
This will end hangings in this State.
One feature of the law which makes
it different to that Of New York is
that it stipulates that all executions
shall take place in some secluded spot,
selected by the keeper of the State
Prison, and shall not be carried out
in the prison bounds. New Jersey is
the fourth State to adopt this method
Of executing murderers.
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New Railroads For the Firms.
The Finnish Senate has ordered q
loan to be raised to the amount Of e.
600, 900, which is to be spent. in the
various railway projects.
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Roosevelt For Peace in Coal War.
President Roosevelt entered the fight
for peace in the soft coal regions by
threatening the railroads which were
for j strike with drastic legislation.
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Succeeds Miss Anthony.

At a family council, Rochester, N.
Y, it was decided that Mary Anthony
should continue the late Susan B. All
thongs suffragist campaign in Oregon.
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639 RUSSIANS PUT TO DEATH.
Two Months Bloody Record in the Bal.
tic Provinces.

st. Petersburg, Russia. Lettish
newspapers analyze the repressive
measures of the Russian Government
in the Baltic provinces from December
ID to February IA. The military hanged
eighteen persons and shot 621. Three
hundred and twenty were killed in
armed encounters and 251 we're logged.
Ninety-seven farm houses, twenty-five
dwellings, four schools, two town halls
and three clubhouses were burned.
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Killed Carrying Fathers Dinner.
While carrying his fathers dinner,
Carl Wolfe, aged eleven. was run down
by a Baltimore and Ohio train. at
Portsmouth, Ohio, and so badly
mangled that death soon resulted.
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Settling Disputes With Canada.
Rapid progress is being made by
secretary of State Root in settling all
disputes between the United States
and Canada.
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Tried 10 Save Moro Women

Advices from Manila say that the
American troops in action at Mount
Dajo made every effort to save women
and children, and that many Mcros
aided General Woods forces in the ut.
tack on the outlaws.
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Lieutenant's Mother a Suicide.

Lieutenant'S Mother a Suicide.
Mother of Lieutenant Carl Bussche,
of the Eighteenth Infantry, killed her
self in her sons quarters, at Fort
Leayenworth, Kan, while suffering
| from melancholia.
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Palma Elected President Of Cuba.
The Presidential electors of the six
provinces met in their respective CAPT
tails in Cuba and elected Tomas Estra-
da Palma President and Domingo Nell
DEE Capote Vice-President.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-04-18
public Phones on Berlin Streets.

The German postal authorities have
decided to erect public telephone sta
tons in the streets Of Berlin to be
operated on the penny-in-the-lot sys-
fem.
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TelephOne War in Iowa

Three hundred independent telephone
companies have combined in Iowa to
fight the Bell Company.
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Earthquake in Formo

An earthquake at Kagi, Formosa,
destroyed hundreds of buildings and
killed many hundreds of people.