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Smyrna times., 1907-02-27
CLAYTON. .
All orders for Subscriptions or Job Work
or any News Items left with NIL. Nudge
will receive prompt attention.

1t is expected that the entire elevated
system of the Pennsylvania Railroad
through Wilmington will be opened
for service on March %.
Smyrna times., 1907-02-27

Sudden Death of William TweddIe.-Once
more the grim messenger of death has
entered our community, this time lay
ing his icy hand upon our fellow
townsman, Mr.. William Tweddle,
man we'll known and we'll liked by all
who knew him. He was born in North
Umberland, England, November 11th,
1S45, and when quite young left his
native land and went to PIT. Edward,
Canada, where on the 18th of July,
1877, he was united lin marriage to
Miss Clarinda Bice, who still survives
him. In 1888 they came to the United
States and settled near Taylor's Bridge
New Castle County, Delaware, where
they resided for a short time, then
moved to Clayton, where they have
have since resided. Unto them was
born seven children, five of whom sur
vive him as follows: James e. Twed-
die, Wilmington; NJ. Ethel Tweddle.
Wilmington; Blanche M. Tweddle,
Clayton; Stanley T.Tweddle, Clayton;
Carson G.. Tweddle, Clayton. Last
Thursday morning the 21st inst, Mr..
Tweddle went alone With his team to
the woods on the farm owned by r. Y.
Walleu to get load of wood he had
cut, and loaded the wood and was
driving out into the clearing where ht
was stricken with heart failure and fel
backward on his load, and when founC
by the tenant on the farm, only few
minutes later, life was extinct. Flu
neral services were held at his lat
residence on Smyrna Avenue, Clayton
February 25th, 1907, in charge of Rev
DIR. Dickinson, rector of Trinity Prot
estant Episcopal Church, assisted b
Rev. G.lB. McCready, of Maryland
,InteIment at Glenwood Cemetery
Smyrna.
Personal. Mr.. A. Walls, of SudIer,
vile, Md, was in Clayton last Friday
Mr.. Jas. Donovan, of Wilmington
was in town Friday MIR. Frank Smit
of Baltimore, Nd, visited relatives
Clayton over Sunday Geo. ]
Boggs of Wilmington, was in Claytc
Smyrna times., 1907-02-27

At the Fourth Quarterly Conference
of st. Paul M. E. Church, held last
Friday evening. unanimous call was
extended to the Pastor, Rev. &. T.
Smith, to return to Clayton another
year.
Smyrna times., 1907-02-27

A slight fire occurred at the residence
of Joseph E. Jones, last Friday even
ing. In some mysterious manner, one
of their beds caught fire, but was i'm
mediately thrown out the window,
thereby averting what otherwise would
have been a serious fire.
Smyrna times., 1907-02-27

Russell Clough, of Lebanon, n. j.,
has succeeded Ralph Spruance as
Clayton agent for the Adams Express
Company.
Smyrna times., 1907-02-27

William L. Hates, son of J. N. Hates
division operator of the P. B. & W. R.
R., while getting off his engine on the
elevated road in Washington to see if
the connecting rod was working right,
fell thirty-five feet to the ground be-
low and died in the hospital later.
Smyrna times., 1907-02-27

Last Thursday evening Mr.. Ed.
Donovan, farmer living near Bren-
ford, came to Clayton. and left his
horse standing in the implement shed
of W. F. & J. r. Clements. At about
9 O'Clock, on going to the shed for his
horse, he found it missing, diligent
search being instituted, after about
two hours search, the animal was found
hitched to a post near the School house.
Smyrna times., 1907-02-27

AS the annual moving day, March
the 1st, approaches, those of our citi-
zens who intend to move, are taking
advantage of these days of sunshine
A few of those who have moved are as
follows: Mr.. Chas Stewart, from Mrs.
Wrlght's house to Mrs. Mills house.
Mr.. Bennett from Mr.. Casperson's to
Mrs. Wright's. Miss Mary Stevens
from Mr.. Hudson's to Mr.. Benefits.
Mr.. Darby from Wilmington to Mr..
Hudson's. Mr.. Keagy to Millersburg,
Pa. Mr.. Lewis to his house purchased
of Mr.. Keagy. Mrs. R. Powell from
Mrs. Clifton's to Mr.. Maguire's. Mr.
Missimer from the country to Mrs.
McConaughy's. Mr.. Wiley to Mrs
Wells house. Mr.. Minner from Mr.
Spruance's to Mr.. Maguire's. Mrs
Reed from Mrs. McC,onaughy's to Mrs
, Clifton's.
Smyrna times., 1907-02-27

" MI En- #. VtcfIEl1I.
Harrington, Del. Feb. 26. 1907.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-12
FAIR APPROPRI-
ALTON REFUSED
QUARTERLY COURT REFUSES TO
GIVE $500 FOR AN AGRIcUL-
TuRAL EXHIBIT.

Quarterly Court met this morning in
adjourned session for the purpose OF
allowing accounts and making the
quarterly appropriations. The chief
matter of interest was a petition to
the court to appropriate $500 for an
agricultural exhibit at the fall fair, a
committee of the court to have charge
of the appropriation and the exhibit.
The petition was backed by strong
and was argued at some
length, but the court refused the APP
by vote of 8 to 8. The
matter was brought up again at the
afternoon session, but the motion to
reconsider lost by about the same
rote, The accounts and other appro-
1riations were allowed and court ad-
burned,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-12
TO SAVE WHEAT
CROP IN KANSAS
MERCHANTS SIGN AGREEMENT
TO PERMIT CLERKS TO AS
SYST FARMERS.

TOPEKA, kan. July 7.-Eyeryone
in Kansas viii turn out TO help save
the wheat crop. In answer to an APP
peal for harvest hands from the farm
ers OF Kansas City, General Manager
Hurley, of the Santa Fe railroad, is
sued an order today which gives per-
mission to any of that company's
traekmen to go to the harvest fields
and work. Mr.. Hurley says the men
may have their jobs back as quickly
as they are through with the harvest.
The business houses of Dodge City,
Kans., are practically going to shut
up shop for the next two weeks. Mer-
chants have signed an agreement
which allows the clerks of any mer-
camille house to go to the assistance
Of the farmers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-12
Official smuaoIlna.

There seems to be compact be-
tween the Republican officials of the
United States Treasury and our naval
officers that If they smuggle and get
caught they will be let off by the pay
ment of the tariff duty, but IL they are
not caught there is no harm done As
long as the tariff that protects the
trusts is the law of the land, naval
officers have no right to evade paying
the tariff taxes than the rest of us,
and if they persist in smuggling they
should be punished as the law directs.
The Power TO Tax.
The reason why there is at present
so much popular feeling against cor
porations in general is that the men
who manage those institutions make
use of public franchises, which are
really nothing but licenses to serve
he people, as means and Instruments
ST oppression, extortion, and corrup-
ion, and convert their license to serve
nto power to taxa power which |
lone but the government should I
possess or exercise.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-12
Hughes Denatured Democracy.

In his message of June II, vetoeing
| the two-cent railroad fare BILL Gov.
Hughes of New York admits that
those in control of railroad corpora
tons have been guilty of grossly i'm
proper financiering and of Illegal and
injurious determinations in charges. :"
But he insists that these crimes do
not warrant arbitrary reprfsals."
This is, perhaps, true. But the fact
that majority of the New York leg
islature, and probably vast majority
of the people of that State and of the
whole Union, have been irritated by
the crimes of railroad managers, I'M
til they deem such legislation neces-
sary. Is matter for serious thought.
It is very well to be reminded that
in such matters democracy must dem
onstrate its capacity to act upon de-
liberation and to deal justly" But
the fact remains that the earnings of
the railroads are by their own show
ing greater today than ever before;
and that very little deliberation is
to reach the conclusion that,
as a rule, two-cent fare is enough
to insure a reasonable return upon the |
capital invested, after deducting oper-
ating expenses. The democracy of |
which Governor Hughes speaks so
1uently seems to US to be denatured
democracy, altogether different from
he ancient Jackson brand which in
clines man to make reprisals as a
for injuries.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-12
STOLE NICKELS OFF
DEAD MANS EYES
FUNERAL WAS DELAYED FOR
HOURS IN EFFORT TO
CATCH THIEF.

YAZOO CITY, Miss, July 5.-The
funeral of Nick Butterworth, eldest
son of farmer living at Edwards, was
postponed from 10 o'clock in the
morning until almost dusk owing to
the theft of nickels which had been
placed on the eyes of the deceased IN
the usual way to keep them closed
The senior Butterworth asked for the
ielay and the solemn assemblage
vas dismissed until later, while the
9lrent, with the assistance of neigh
hors traced every possible clew Tor
The guilty party but without success.
The community feels outraged at the
tsgraceful act and if the party is
caught there is likely to be another
funeral
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-12
Betting on Governor Folk.

Amongst the Southern men who are
being urged by their friends for the
Democratic nomination for president
it will not do to overlook Governor
Folk of Missouri. He was the origi-
nal prosecutor of grafters and was a
reformer before President Roosevelt
had woke up to the political pOssibili-
ties of that role. In Tennessee there
seems to be Folk boom, judged by
the fact that Late Brown. an enter
prising citizen of Brownsville, has bet
Cyrus Webb $1,000 that Joe Folk"
will be the next president The dis
patch that announces this adds, that:
Following the visit of Gov. Folk to
his old home in Brownsville, there has
been much interest in Folks chances,
and if the South is to provide man
he will receive the support of all in
his section"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-12
CAUSES DEATH
OF 1000
ARRESTS BEING
MADE AT INSTANCE OF qua
TEMALA's PRESIDENT
TROUBLE COMING
WITH MEXICO.

TAPACHULA, Mex, July Sit is
learned that more than 1000 men
have suffered death in Guatemala dur
ing the last few months for alleged
unfriendliness toward the Cabrera adj
ministration Most of the victims be-
longed to the lower class and no out
Cry has reached the outside world over
their fate.
More wholesale arrests of men of
prominence have just been made at
the instance of Cabrera, Many of the
latest prisoners are men of wealth
and prominence in professional and
business circles of the country.
Late arrivals from Guatemala re-
port that DR.. Pedro Molina Flores,
one of the men sentenced to death for
alleged completely in the recent plot
to kill Cabrera, is brother of
Oleganio Flores, minister of public
works of Mexico Guatemala refu-
gees here think the execution Of Flores
will bring the trouble between Mexico
and Guatemala to crisis
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-12
BISHOP CAPERS
VERY LOW
REV. w. 9. cAPERS REACHES
HOME FROM FATHERS
BEDSIDE.
Brief Sketch Of The Life OF This
Soldier-Churchman.

Rev. Walter B. Capers returned this
morning from Cedar Mountain, N. c.,
where he was called two weeks since
on account of the illness of his father,
Bishop Ellison Capers of the Epis-
copal Diocese of South Carolina. Mr..
Capers reports his father in a very
critical condition, but says that in the
judgment of the attending physicians,
if the Bishop does not survive he will
linger for some time. Bishop Capers
is being nursed by his sons and his
daughter, Mrs. Satterlee, but because
of the remoteness of his mountain
home, where he is sick, two of his
sons are always in attendance at his
bedside. =
Because of pressing business at
their respective homes. Dean w. T.
Capers of Lexington, KY. and Rev. W.
B. Capers left Cedar Mountain Thurs
day, when Frank Ellison Capers, Jr.,
took charge.
Bishop Capers was four times
wounded during the Civil war, receiv-
ing two of his severest wounds in Ten
nessee, one at Chickamauga and one
at Franklin. His military record is
most distinguished. From a subordi-
nate Office in the State Militia OF
South Carolina, Lieut.. Capers rose rap
idly to Brig General in the regular
service of the Confederate government
and at the time he was made Brig
General he was perhaps the youngest
man in the service holding such a
being at the time but rs
years of age.
Bishop Capers was elected to the
1piscopate fourteen years ago, and
lnder his wise and self-sacrificing
the Diocese has doubled
is membership, increasing from four
o eight thousand communicates, and
he institutions of the church in the
tate have grown SO as to make d.
ision of the Diocese and two Bishops
Inevitable.
Should Bishop Capers survive until
'ct 14th, he will be 10 years of age.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-12
SEVERE BLOW To
WIZARD EDISON
HE AND ASSOCIATE LOSE SUIT
WHICH INVOLVES SUM
$25,o0o,0oo.

NEW YORK, July Thomas A.
Edison and the various photograph
companies in which he is interested
were dealt severe blow in the SUI
preme court by Justice Martin Keogh,
of New Rochelle. who rendered de-
cision prohibiting the handling or sale
Of any monographs or records by the
National Photograph company.
The dealers through the state, of
which there are nearly $4,000, are or
dered to give an accounting OF all
records sold for twenty years. 1t is
estimated that more than $25,000,000
is involved in the suit. The phono-
graph war has been waged through
the courts for many years and nearly
all the courts have decided against
the Edison interests.
Edison was made to take the stand
and testify in one of the hearings. 1t
is alleged that although the National
monograph company, one or the Ed
son concerns, was ordered by the
court not to sell monographs or sup
plies in this state, the dealers were
encouraged to do so. The New York !
Photograph company maintains 1t
purchased the sole right to sell Edi-
son machines and records in this
state, Justice Keogh granted an in
junction on June %, restraining the
Edison concerns from selling in the
state The Edison interests appealed
md the case was argued last Wednes-
lay before Justice Keogh, who an
iounced his decision today at his
ome in New Rochelle.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-12
TiLLMAN OFFERS
TO FIGHT
CLASHES WITH SENATOR DOLL
YER IN MICHIGAN OVER RACE
QUESTION.
Southerner Has Best Of Sotuation
And The Endorsement OF
Towns-People.

! JACKSON, Mich, July 5.-Angered
because Senator Dolliver took excep
lions to his views on the race ques
tion, Senator Benjamin Tillman, who
delivered an address here tonight, is
sued challenge to Dolliver to fight a
duel Tillman asserting that only by
this method could his honor be vim
Dictated.
Tillman made his usual speech be-
fore large and enthusiastic audience
and at the close he requested all who
conceded with his views to stand up.
Everybody in the audience stood.
Dolliver got into town today and
Immediately began to abuse Tillman.
He ridiculed every statement the
southern senator made. Tillman, who
is the guest of friend at a nearby
lake, hurried into town and inserted a
notice in the evening papers in which
he stated he had been grossly insulted,
that in the south the way those things
are adjusted Is by the duel route.
Dolliver read the story in the news
paper and met Tillman in the lobby
of the Otsego Hotel. A stormy inter-
view was the result and it was only
through the efforts of bystanders that
serious trouble was averted. Dolliver
said he was not fighting duels and
branded him as coward for |
not being able to back up his state
ments and declared the time would
come when he would square things
with the gentleman from Iowa.
Dolliver left town this evening. He
was followed to the station by an an
Try mob of several hundred and the
police had difficulty in getting him
through the mob in the train sheds.
rillman remained in the hotel walkiLg
backward and forward in an excited
mood.
Tillman's speech caught the town,
yhile Delivers efforts at answering
he South Carolinian's arguments met
18th a fiat failure.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-12
The Third Term Menace.

While the leading Republican news
papers of the country are, as a rule,
opposed to the denomination of Roose-
welt by the Republican party. there
| appears to be a systematic campaign
going on throughout the country in
favor of it. Evidence of that cam
paign are cropping out In such papers
as the Washington Herald and the At
lanta Georgian, and in reading mat
ter furnished by press bureaus and
correspondents to many country ma
pers. The plan seems to be to build
up distinct Roosevelt party, some.
thing on the order of Mr.. Hearst's In
dependent League, which will be
able to sandbag the Republican ma
tional convention, as Mr.. Hearst's
League sandbagged the New York
Democratic State convention last year.
The promoters of this scheme are pro- |
ceeding by indirection. Their line of |
argument is illustrated by the follow
ing extract from an article in the
Washington Herald of June rs, writ
ten in reply to an editorial of the
Brooklyn Eagle:
Mr.. Roosevelt is not engaged in
forcing his denomination. His atti-
tude is not at all that of candidate
for third term. He has not even
movement for his re-
nomination. There is really no such
at any rate not In an or.
yanized or tangible form What
exists is a sentiment, or belief, that
he President ought to be renominated
What If this sentiment should domi-
late the Republican national conven-
ion: what If the nomination, instead
4 being forced by Roosevelt, should
re forced upon him. Would not such s
n eventually put the moral aspect of
he Presidents election night declara- T
ion in an entirely different light from il
hat In which the Eagle views it, S
he Eagle has ignored the more prob Ii
BILE contingency for less probable b
not altogether impossible one \
here is vital distinction between a
lie two" d
Such talk as this is appearin gcon. q
antly In a class OF papers which re
ave no claims to leadership In either II
,rty. And It Is true as the Brooklyn
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-12
THE THIRD
TERM TALK
WASHINGTON POLITICIANS SAY
ROOSEVELT is IN, A RecEP-
TIVE ATTITUDE.
Will Bryan Be Choice OF The Demo
Gratis, or viii There Be A
Dark Horse7
From our Special Correspondent

From our Special Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, d. c.. July g.
Since President Roosevelt carted of
Secretary Loeb and his typewriter to
Oyster Bay, we are denied the pleas
ure of reading and commenting upon
the news that originates at the seat
of government and to which Mr.. Loeb
gave the vivid coloring that suited
the strenuous ideas of the Administra-
ton. Deprived of these official COM
munications the newspaper men have
to rely more upon their Imagination
and when all else fails to guess wheth-
er the President will take a third
term, if he can control the convention
through the manipulation of the fed
eral oftice-holders, and if the time
honored opposition to the third term
would lead to his defeat if he was re-
nominated. There is no doubt that
the great majority of the politicians
have now come to believe that Mr..
Roosevelt is scheming for third term
and the newspaper men believe he
will control the convention.
How much of a revolt there would /,
be in the Republican ranks against a |
third term cannot be prognosticated |
at this time and nothing but such a |
third term campaign will develop how
much respect remains in the Repub-
lican heart for the precedent set by /
Washington and endorsed by Jeffer-
son and decided for the time by the
defeat of General Grant for a third !
term
Can Roosevelt get what Grant was
denied? is question of constant dis
cussion in Washington. Thomas JEFF
ferson opposed the third term idea.
When certain citizens of Baltimore
urged him to become candidate for
the Presidency a third time, he wrote
a reply in which he declared that
there was no express constitutional
provision on the subject Yet the ex-
ample of Washington formed pre-
eedent which ought to control the
practice of all future Presidents; and
added that if President should ever ,
serve three terms he might easily
serve for life and even make the Of ,
ice hereditary in his family. No hon =,
sst Democrat ever favored third
ERIN. Those Republicans who fav- ],
red Grant were defeated by the bet !.
er element of their party. But it is
low almost certain that the Lilly !.
White Republicans of the Southern
'tates, aided by the office-holders of
ne North and West, will try to re-
ominate Roosevelt, and there would
e great danger of electing him unless
ne Democrats are able to unite upon
ONE candidate who can win votes
mong Disguised Republicans. =
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-12

MADE
FOR STATE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
FOR REFoRMAToRY.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
NASHVILLE Tenn, July S.-Gov
Patterson today appointed the follow.
ing Board of Trustees for the Tonnes
seee State Reformatory: Judge VIII
liam M. Hart, Nashville; Judge B. d.
Bell, Gallatin; H. Melville Williams,
Nashville; John II. Dewitt, Nashville
and James Palmer, Nashville. The
duties of the Board under the act of
the last Legislature providing for the
will be to locate and pro-
vide for the establishment q the pro.
ostd institution.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-12
GIRL S KIND ACT
BRINGS BIG REWARD

FINLAY, o., July 5.-Miss Ethel
Bish, of this city, today received $780,
600 from Mrs. Mary NJ Kendall of
oswego N. Y, whom she befriended
three years ago in Toledo, o. Mrs.
Kendall was injured on the street and
Miss Bish saw that she was given
proper attention Mrs Kendall prom
ised a reward at the time.