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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-05
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WASHINGTON.

Commander j. G.. Fremont has
been appointed naval attache at the
American embassies in France and
Russia.
Opinion is growing in Washington
that the United States agents on the
seal islands acted too hastily in kill
ing Japanese poachers.
Assistant United States District
Attorney S. Easby-Smith has ten
dered his resignation. He was for
many years Pardon Clerk of the De-
partment Of Justice. He is native
of Alabama.
A rumor that the nations fighting
ships we're in want Of spiritual ad+
visers brought the Navy DEPARTMENT.
a food of letters applying for situa<
tions as chaplains.
Lieutenant Edward H. Dunn of the
Navy has been ordered to appear be-
fore a court martialEat Mare Island
Cal, on a charge of "scandalous COM
duct"
George B. Rafferty,, son Of Gilbert
T. Rafferty,, a wealthy coke operators
of Pittsburg, who was in Jail threat!
ened with indictment for passing bad
checks, has been discharged from
custody.
According to a decision handed
down by Judge Stafford, OF the SUI
preme Court of the District of Colum-
bia, the Smithonian Institution is q
national gallery Of art
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10-Year
LYNCHER GETS FIFTEEN YEARS.
First Conviction For Offcnse in His
tory Of North Carolina.

Salisbury, N. C.-What is said to
be the first conviction for lynching in
the history of the State took place
here, when George Hall, white ex-
convict of Montgomery County, who
was one Of the party which lynchea
three negros in Jail here for the muir
der of the Lyerly family, was found
guilty of conspiracy in connection
with that crime and was sentenced to
fifteen years in the penftentiary.
The jury was out only thirty-iVe
minutes. Judge B. r. Long sentenced
Hall to the maximum term provided
for by law. The evidence against
Hall was overwhelming.
The State sprung a surprise in the
trial when the offense against the
prisoner was changed from murder
to conspiracy. David w. Julian, a
deputy sheriff, testified that he saw
Hall leading q mob of about thirty
men, some of whom the witness
knew. The officer had in custody
man he had arrested at the jail.
Hall, said the witness, carried ham
mer, and threatened to brain him If
he did not liberate the prisoner.
Other testimony was offered and
the case speedily given to the jury.
Hall had been cotton mill opera
tive
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FAST TRAIN KILLS FOUR EOYs.
They Were Struck by Pennsylvania
Express at Elizabeth.

Elizabeth, n. -Four boys we're
leilled on the Pennsylvania Railroad
tracks here. They were run over by
an eastbound express on their way
home from a ball game. Two of the
bodies fell on the tracks of the Gen.
trail Railroad Of New Jersey, and one
landed in Broad street. The fourth
rolled down the embankment OF the
Pennsylvania tracks. The train was
travelling so fast that although the
power was shut off before the boys
were struck the train ran almost to
North Elizabeth before it could be
stopped.
The dead boys are Lloyd Griffin.
ten years old, and his brother Wal
ter, eight years old. sons of John
Griffin, of Ill Catherine street, this
city; Willie Griffin, nine years old,
son of Michael Griffin, Of Wilkes
barre, Penn, and Raymond Daubner,
of 148 Catherine street, this city.
The Griffin boys were cousins.
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HIGH RECORD WHEAT YIELD
Prediction of a Crop of 772,264,-
600 Bushels.
Beats Production Of 1901 by $4,000
0OO-Thc Corn Estimate Exceeds
the Best Previous Year.

Washington, D. C.-The Govern
ment crop report estimates the win
ter wheat crop at 493,434,00O bush
els, as compared with 429,534,000
bushels previously estimated. The
indicated spring wheat crop is 27S,-
$4,000 bushels. This compares
with 293,221,OO0 bushels estimated
last month, 2S5,3St,OOO bushels, the
estimated crop on August 1, 1905,
and the final 1905 crop of 264,516,-
659 bushels.
The total indicated wheat crop is
772,264,000 bushels, which is great
er by 24,000,000 bushels than that
of 1901, the greatest on record. Last
months figures were 722,755, 1000
bushels; 709,6S1, 900 bushels were
estimated on August /, 1905, and the
final total crop of 1905 was 692,979,-
4S9 bushels.
The report shows that the condi-
tion of spring wheat as of August 1
was 86.9. This compares with OLA
last month, 1872 on August 1. 1905:
S7.5 on August 1, 1904, and TIL on
August /, 1903.
The condition of oats was 82.S.
This compares with 81 last month,
9O.S on August l, 1905; S6.6 on Au-
gust 1, 1904, and 1915 on August 1,
1903. The indicated oats crop is
852,482,000 bushels. This COM
pares with S74,625 900 bushels esti-
mated last month, 933,000,000 bush
els estimated on August 1, 1905, and
final 1905 crop Of 953,216,197 BUSH
els
The condition of corn was SS.1.
This compares with S7.5 last month.
50 on August l, 1905; S7.3 on Au-
gust 1, 1904, and 1877 on August l.
1903. The indicated corn crop is
2,713, 100000 bushels. This COM
pares with 2,703,641, 900 bushels es-
timated last month, 2,69S,000,000
bushels estimated on August 1, 1905,
and the final 1905 crop of 2,707,993,-
$40 bushels. The indicated crop as
compared with final totals in preced-
ing years is greater by 100000
bushels than that of 1905, which was
the largest on record.
The following table shows for the
five principal spring wheat States the
condition on August in each of the
last three years, with a ten-year av-
erage:
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BOSTON ICE MEN INDICTED
Politicians and Contractors Are
Caught in the Net.
Seventeen Dealers and Six CompaE-
les Are Held For TriaI-Graft
Cases Brought Into Court.

Boston, Mass.-Thirty secret in
dictments, including those against
seventeen ice dealers and six ice
companies, returned by the Suffolk
County Grand Jury were made pub
lie in the Superior Court. In addi-
ton to the ice indictm ents, four in
dictments were returned in connec-
tfon with the alleged violation Of the
building laws in the construction OF
the new normal school building fol1n-
dation in the Fenway, and three in
dictments we're found in the Chelsea
Aldermanic graft" cases.
The ice dealers are charged with
having unlawfully conspired "to reg
ulate, advance and fix the price Of
ice for public sale," and the ice conf
panies are charged as corporations
with conspiracy. The dealers in
dicted are President Lewis G.. White.
of the Massachusetts, Ice Dealers As
ISOLATION; Secretary Charles w. Hal
lustram, of the association, and the
following members of the organiza-
ton: Louis A. Holt. Marcus Esta-
brook, James M. Gill. William Fl.
Barney, J. Edward. Kimball, Marshal
S. Coolidge, Edward A. Davenport,
Charles A. DaFis, Reuben w. Hop
kins, Frank W. Homans, John g.
Bennett, Frank H. Atwood, Jarvis w.
Ferris, John o. Porter and Silas
Boyce.
The companies indicted are the
Boston. Independent Union. Fresh
Pond, Cambridge and Highland Co
operative companies. The dealers
when arraigned pleaded not guilty
and were held III bonds of $1,000
each.
In the normal school case the in
dictments are against the G. w. Carr
Company, Of Worcester, contractors:
John B. McAllister, superintendent
of the works and the Gem ent founda-
tion of the building. and Roger Tan
sey and Nicola Gentilla, employees OF
the Carr company. The three msn
were held in $500 each on the charge
of conspiracy. q q. v-.,s
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SPECIAL OFFICERS DRAG
PASSENGERS Off TRAINS
Brooklyn Road ignores Justice
Gayn0r's Order.
FIGHTING ALL DAY LONG
Women Nearly DroWn-swept From
Trcstle-Trolley Service Stops
at Night-Thousands Stranded
Great Disorder on the Cars.

Brooklyn, N. Y.-The Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company charged ten
cents fare to Coney Island, notwith-
standing the decision of Justice Gay
nor of the Appellate Division of the
Supreme Court, who ruled that the
company was entitled only to five
cents.
The company did this with the aid
of $50 special policemen and corps
of heavyweight inspectors. A SINH
lar number of real policemen were
on hand to preserve order. but failed
to do so.
Fully 1000 persons. men, women
and children, = :rc forcibly elected
from the trolley cars; 500 walked
nearly half the way to the island; the
first steps were taken in scores of
damage suits, and the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit representatives defed
Deputy Police Commissioner O'Keeffe
of Brooklyn. Lawyers and lawyers
clerks swarmed about the points
where passengers were put off and
took the names of witnesses.
AS an outcome of the days doings
a committee of citizens is being
formed in Brooklyn to enforce JUS
tice Gaynor's ruling. Sheriff Flah-
erty of Kings County was informed
of the purpose of the committee, and
that the committee intended to call
on him, as Sheriff, to protect them as
citizens in upholding their rights.
Sheriff Flaherty said:
"G have not been requested to act
as yet, and I have not taken the mat
ret under advisement. If such a de-
mand was made and I felt that 1
should act. my force OF deputies is
so small that I would be compelled
to call upon the Governor of the State
to give me some of the militia. "
When the trolley cars bound for
Coney left Gravesend after the B. R.
T. officials had finished their rough
treatment of passengers, a long open
stretch of tracks was in front of
them, and to make up time they
Travelled at terrific speed. Mary and
Helen Walsh, cousins, of No. 4O5
Tenth avenue, nineteen and twenty
three years old respectively, when
walking across the bridge over Co.
ney Island Creek, were struck by a
car in charge of Victor Conomos.
They were knocked into the creek
ten feet below. Passengers leaped
into the water and saved them.
Helen Walsh was injured internally,
and was taken to the Coney Island
Reception Hospital. Her cousin was
bruised about the face and shoulders.
but was able to go to her home.
Conomos was placed under arrest.
Bird S. Coler, President of Brook
lyn Borough, was one of the thou
sands of passengers who went to Co.
ney Island. He and his wife were
passengers on Nostrand avenue car
for Coney Island. He was RESPONSE
BILE for carrying the case against the
B. R. T. before Justice Gaynor. He
said the actions Of the inspectors and
special policemen were disgraceful,
and that they should not be per-
mitted to wear the uniforms of the
city police, and thus give persons the
impression their actions were those
of the city police. He said he would
advocate an ordinance to deprive
them of the privilege.
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CHINESE PIRATES SEIZE
VESSELS AND LOOT THEM
British Lighter With Valuable
Cargo Boarded by Coolies.
R0BBER HELD FOR TORTURE
Ship Talcn-Crcw Ovcrpowcrcd by
Native Passengers, Who Then
Set About killing the Whites
Pursuit Begun.

Native Passengers, Who Then
Set About killing the Whites
Pursuit Begun.
Victoria, l3. C.-Advices brought
here by Captain Robinson and Off
GERS of the Canadian Pacific steam
ship Monteagle say that daring pir-
acy is being practiced along the
China coast.
At Kobe an armed party of coolies
boarded a large cargo lighter filled
with valuable freight for India for
shipment by the steamship China,
overpowered those on board, pulled
the lighter out of the harbor, looted
it and set it adrift.
While the British coasting steam
ship Sainam, Joslin master, was en-
route to Canton by the West River,
and at a point just below Samshiu,.
eighty of the native passengers at
given signal took possession Of the
ship, all being provided with fire.
arms. They terrorized the native
crew and would have put to death all
the whites on board but for the pres
ence of mind T.. Captain Joslin and
Chief Engineer McTavish. These two,
with an East Indian quartermaster.
were running the steamship with a
coolie crew, and were the only for
eigners on board, with the exception
of DR.. Mcdonald, medical mission
ary of the Wesleyan Mission in WI
chow.
Captain, engineer and missionary
were enjoying an after-dinner smoke
and chat when the pirates took
charge, the first intimation Of trou-
BILE being revolver shots and the
sight of the Indian quartermaster
holding the horde at bay with a
heavy oar. with which he knocked
over half dozen before he was shot.
In attempting to rescue the quar-
termaster Captain Joslin was shot in
the chest. Mcdonald and McTavish
dragged him into the dining saloon.
which was hastily barricaded and
held until windows were broken in
and raking revolver fire directed
upon the three whites, who had TAX
en- shelter under the dining table.
In making a dash for the upper
deck DR.. Mcdonald was shot through
the head and instantly killed. Nc
Tavish gained the engine room and
secreted himself above the boilers,
where he was undiscovered, although
he narrowly escaped being burned to
death.
Captain Joslin, weak from his
wound, could not flee, and threw
himself upon the floor as if dead.
The robbers stripped him and left
him with a parting kick. The crew
were robbed and beaten or killed if
resistance was offered.
The pirates then made off in five
native boats waiting at their rendez-
vous. The Chinese pilot took the
ship to Samshiu, where the affair
was reported to Commander
Vaughan, Of the British cruiser
Moorhen, which within an hour
started on the trail Of the pirates.
One of the pirates has since been
taken and the Chinese authorities
purpose to torture him until he di-
vulges the names of the leaders.
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FOREIGN.

Bulsarians attacked Greeks at
Philippopolis and seized two churches:
Two persons were killed and several
wounded, and further disorder IS ex-
pected.
The Cuban Congress at its recent
session appropriated $1,000 to
be used for the purpose of inducing
Immigrants to come to Cuba from
Europe and the Canary Islands.
The police of Aracaju, capital OF
the State of Sergipe, Brazil, reyolted
and attacked the Governors palace.
Services over the body of Admiral
Train we're held at Yokohama. Ad-
miral Togos aid represented the
japanese Government.
Secretary Root and his party land;
ed at Monteyideo. Uruguay, and were
warmly welcomed by all classes.
Signor Arnaldo Vassallo, a jour
nalist, who was celebrated under the
pseudonym Of "Gandolin,' died IN
Genoa, Italy.
Advices from st. Petersburg ara
conflicting. Leaders Of the labor
parties have decided not to call a.
general strike, but have issued proc
lamations to the nation, the peasants
and the troops, urging them to rise
TO gain liberty.
Emperor Nicholas has directed the
Crown Lands Department to make
report of lands suitable for division
among the Russian peasants.
Japan's attitude concerning the
collision between poachers and Aleu-
tian guards on the seal islands so
far has been friendly, though re-
served.
M. Krondreschuk, who represent
ed the province of Grodno, in the
Russian Duma, was arrested on his
return from Viborg. The charge
against him is melting the peasantEy
to rise. .
r. A. Hadfeld, the president, and
the other officers Of the British iron
and Steel Institute gave a reception
for the members of the American In,
stitute of Mining Engineers, in Lon
don.
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PULAJANES OF LEY7E
TO Be EXTERN|NATED
Gen. Wood Commands Expedition
to Punish Them.
OFFICERS KILLED WITH BOL0S
Bandit Leaders to Receive the En-
treme Penalty-Farmcr Recruits
to BE Treated LenientLy-Gov-
ernor IGe'S New Plan.

Manila, P. I.-Governoc Ide re-
turned after a conference at Taclo-
ban, Island of Leyte, with Major
General Wood, Brigadier-General
Lee, Governor De Veyra, fifteen pres
identes and Colonel Taylor. OF the
constabulary.
The presidertes promised to sup
port the American authorities and to
furnish information that will lead to
the determination Of the Pulajanes.
There are various causes for Pu-
lajanism in the Island Of Leyte. dat
ing back to Spanish times. The dis
arming of the municipal police by
Governor De ,Veyra. his political op-
ponents say, caused the recent dis
turbances.
1t is asserted that had The late
First Lieutenant John F. James. Of
the English Infantry, possessed COR
rect information he would not have
gone out with a small force
The fight occurred in the darkness
and the troops were the victims of a
bolo rush of superior numbers. dur
ing which their rifles were of no use.
The bodies Of Lieutenant Jaaics, Con-
tract Surgeon Calvin D. Snyder, Pri-
Yates William J. Gillick and Mathies
Zeck have been buried at Taclobal.
Governor Ide has decided to ap-
point commission consisting of Gov
ernor De Veyra. General Lee. Colonel
Taylor and three presidentes to visit
the disaffected districts and hold
meetings of the town councils to i'm
press the people with the necessity of
cooperation in eXterminatins the Pu-
lajaneS.
The outlaw band numbers about
100, and is being greatly increased
by forcing peaceful farmers to par
ticipate in raids. threatening them
with death if they refuse. These re-
cruits are armed with bo!os, as the
real Pulajanes do not trust them
with guns.
A special term of the co"rt has
been ordered at TaclonGn 10 try the
prisoners. It is understood that the
leaders will get the extreme penalty
of the law, but that the miSGHided
natives will be dealt with leuienely.
Governor Ide and General Wood
consider that the situation is well in
hand and expect no further sighting.
1t is probable, however. that addi-
tional troops will be pu: in the field
temporarily, to establish mountain
garrisons. The hotbed of the dis
turbances covers an area approx
mateiy thirty by twenty miles. Mar
tial law is deemed unnecessary, for
General Lee is practically in control.
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Tho Labor World.

President Gompers wants 81 g.
head from the 100000 members Of
labor organizations for a war fund.
Health Commissioner Darlington
ordered a sweeping investigation OF
the foul bakeshops in New York City.
The Southern Pacific conductors
and brakemen are to ask at once q
wage increase and an eight-hour day.
A joint appeal to Russians to take
part in a national strike was issued
by certain Duma members, commit
tees of Poles and Jews and sundry
regularly organized revolutionary
bodies.
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FIFTY HURT IN TRAIN WRECK.
Two Cars Roll Over an Enlbankment
in Texas.

Bowie, Texas.-Half hundred
passengers were injured, but none
mortally, when a north-bound pas
senger train on the Fol< Worth and
Denver City Railroad was wrecked, q
few miles south of Fruitland, Texas.
A sleeping car and a day coach
rolled down an embankment.
There was no panic. although most
Of the occupants Of the derailed cars
were women and children. Soon
after the wreck occurred a relief
train was sent from Bowie with sur
geons. The more severely injured
were taken to Bowie and Fort Worth.
All the injured live in the Southwest.
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100000 ACRE LAND DEAL.
Oregon Central Military Road Grant
Changes Ownership.

Portland, Ore-Ownership OF al
most one-hundredth part of the State
of Oregon changed hands. The
greater portion Of the land included
in the old Oregon Central Military
Road Grant was transferred from the
California and Oregon Land Com
pany to syndicate composed of East
ern and California capitalists. APP
proximately 100000 acres are in
cluded in the sale, and the consid-
Grafton involved is about S7o0,000::
The tract sold is strip of land
running from Cascade forest reserve
to the Oregon-Idaho boundary, cis-
tance Of approximately 325 miles.
It has width of thirteen miles.
The purchase is for an extensive
colonization project.
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OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

After March /, 1908, no one but
the Government Will be permitted to
import opium into the Philippines.
Papa Islo, the bandit and, religious
fanatic who caused so much trouble
in Occidental Negros, Is the latest
claimant for posthumous existence.
There was placed on. file in the Su-
preme Court of the United States an
appeal by Homer E. Grafton, a Uni
ted States soldier, convicted in the
Philippines Of homicide and SEN
fenced to twelve years in prison for
killing a"native.
Director of Health Victor G..Hei-
ser reports that deaths in the city OF
Manila, P. T., show an annual rate
of 1854 per thousand inhabitants.
Nearly half Of the deaths were in
fantS. ry~r7 ...at
Eight Of the past and present
American officials OF Porto Rico. in
cluding Governor Beekman Winthrop.
and Ex-Governor William H. Hunt
are accused Of conspiracy in dam
age suit which has been brought
against them in the Supreme Court
in Brooklyn by Hobart S. Bird. a
lawyer.
Fifteen provincial governors at
tended the opening of the Moral Pro-
gress League at Manila. The league
will endeavor to devise measures for
the suppression Of cock-fghting. II,
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DOMESTIC.

Six indictments were returned by
the Federal Grand Jury, which has
been investigating alleged rebatins
by the railroads entering New York
City. ....y
To prevent the Ice Trusts repeating
high prices another year Mayor J. p
Studley, of New Haven, is consider
ing plans to build dam near his
Sprngside home.
DR.. James Weir, aged fifty, of Ow-
ensboro, KY, former medical pro-
fessor and author Of several medicaf
works, died at Virginia Beach, Va.
Of dropsy.
Joseph Likens, of Mount Holly. N.
j., said Charlie Ross was living In
Galveston under the name of Van
Hodge.
James s. McClelland, of Philadel-
phia, caused the arrest of Mrs. Helen
Hamilton, of New York City, on a
charge of matrimonial sWindling.
The Corporation Counsel's office OF
New York City served notice on the
Interborough Railway, that it would
begin ''on to have the courts or
der the removal Of the third elevated
track in Third avenue.
Father Paul Ryan. a Carmelite
mission preacher whose early life
was spent in Erglewood, N. j., died
of typhoid fever contracted while
seeking rest at Gallatzin, Pa.
Emil Streub, father of John, the
twelve-year-old boy whose body was
found in the woods near H"usatonic,
Mass, was arrested. cha Led with
the murder Of his son.
Edgar Brown, siity-four years DID,
q pioneer iron man who few years
ago was worth from seven to ten
million dollars, died in the County
Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie.
Prosecution OF the alleged Ice
Trust came to an end at Jacksonville,
Fla, by the Ice manufacturers enter
ing into an agreement with the Pros
ecuting At orney whereby they prom
ise to at once dissolve the Jackson
Vile Ice Delivery Company. -
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Newsy Glcanings.

The cabbage crop promises well.
John the Orangeman," Of Har-
ward, is dead.
Council Bluffs. Iowa, will build Its
own ice plant.
Grand Duke Nicholas refused the
supreme command of the Russian
Army.
Shower baths and plunges are to
figure in new New York east SIDE
church.
Arriving from their honeymoon
trip abroad, the LongWorths went d.
rect to Oyster Bay.
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Peopie in the Public Eye,

Plus x. celebrated the third ami
Versary of his coronation.
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria
left Cowes to visit Lord Leith in
Scotland.
Judge E. K. Gates. Missouri man
with a beard five feet long, is visiting
In Colorado Springs.
Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng, the
Chinese Minister. attended the con-
ference at Northfield.
An English artist, Sir William
Richmond, P. A., is modelling de-
sign for a more beautiful motor car
than the presept sbanes