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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
CLOSE CALL.
4 Tiger In tho Bedroom When
Nurse Took in Baby.

Grandson of a Georgia Legislator
Comes Near Being Eaten by the
Beast.
A special to the Atlanta journal
from Columbus, Ca, says the little
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas B. Slade
came within an ace Of being placed
in the mouth of a ferocious Mexican
tiger by its nurse a few nights ago,
according to a letter that has been
received in this city from Mrs. Slade
who was Miss Thurza Kirven, daugh-
ter Of R. M. Kirven of Columbus.
The little one who so narrowly es-
capped death is a grandson of Hon.
James J. Slade, one of Muscogee
county's representatives in the Geor-
gia legislature.
The story is a most thrilling one.
Mr.. and Mrs. Slade are in Mexico,
where Mr.. Slade is engaged in civil
engineering work. 1t was in the eve
ming; the twilight had gathered and
the shades of night had gathered.
The nurse of the little one had per-
formed her duty by her charge, by
singing and rocking it to sleep; then
she gathered him in her arms to
carry him to his little bed.
AS she went into the darkened
room and started to lay the little
fellow to rest for the night, she was
arrested by a deep growl. The frigh-
tened nurse hurriedly gathered the
boy in her arms again and rushed to
the front porch, which she had but
recently quilted, where Mr.. and Mrs.
Slade were sitting and in a voice that
gave every evidence Of fright, she
told Mr.. Slade that there was a dog
on the bed.
Mr.. Slade hurriedly grabbed a
with which he had but shortly
before been doing some work In the
yard and went into the room. AS
he did so he noticed two glaring balls
Of fire on the bed in his room. He
had no eapon other than the spade,
his pistol being in a room adjoining
the one in which the ferocious beast
had taken refuge. He seized the i'm
plement which he held with a firmer
grasp, and boldly went into the room,
but strange to say the beast did not
attack him. He slipped into the room
where his pistol lay and seized 1t.
hurrying back to where the least
was, and firing at II. The shot did
not strike a vital spot, and the beast
was in a frenzy. 1t began to teal
around the room in a terribly fero-
cious attitude and Mr.. Slade quickly
emptied the contents of his weapon
into it's body, killing 1t.
Later it was ascertained that some
soldiers in a garrison which had been
located near where Mr.. Slade resided
had had a tiger, which had escaped
from them. 1t it believed that the
tiger that was slain by Mr.. Slade
was the escaped pet.
But this fact did not rob his ex-
perience Of any of the excitement at
tendant upon it, for he did not know
at the time that 1t was such, and 1t
is possible that if the nurse had not
snatched the infant from the bed as
hurriedly as she did, the ANIMAL would
have done it great injury. Mr.. Slade
has had the animal skinned and Will
the skin as a trophy for his
son.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
VICTIM OF
An Ex.Austrian Army Officer Shoots
Young Lady.

Screaming Julius, you wont XIII
mo will vou?" Miss Draga Seigel, a
pretty 2O-year-old girl was snot
down early Wednesday by JULIUS
Hoffman, a former lieutenant in the
Austrian army, in a furnished room
at No. a15 West Thirty-seVentn
street.
This girl is dying in Bellevue los,
initial from three bullet wounds ana
Hoffman is locked up in the Thirty-
fifth street police station. Jealousy
led to the tragedy.
The victim is the daughter OF a
colonel in the Austrian army "ho
died recently, leaving her sloo'ooo'
which she was to receive on her
twenty--frst birthday.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
RESISTED ARREST.
Man and Woman Wounded by
Constable Near Parler.

| lIlC lIOuulC oNSl fAO oht "AD
Law-The Officer Shot to Save Hi
Own Life.
A shooting ARRAY occurred nea'
Parler on Wednesday. AS a result ,
the shooting, Charles Watson, color
| ed, is painfully but not s%eriousl.
wounded, and his wife who was alst
wounded may die. They did no
only resist arrest, but attempted tt
cut and shot the constable who wen
to arrest them.
1t appears that Watson was under
contract with Mrs. M. L. Fielder Of
Parler, but learning Of the recent
decision on the labor contract law
moved away leaving : debt behind
Mrs. Fielder sent her son to see Wat
sosn, who refused to pay the account
and in the meantime returned to
Mrs. Felder's place and gathered the
extra crop upon which Mrs. Fielder
had claims.
Mr.. D. P. Dantzler, a son-in-laW
of Mrs. Fielder, vas sent by her 70
collect the account, but Watson re-
fused to pay it in insulting terms. A
warrant was issued before Magistrate
T. M. Fielder for Watson's arrest, and
also a search warrant for the cotton.
Constable w. C. Griffith and Mr..
D. P. Dantzler were sent to arrest
Watson and take charge Of the cot
ton.
The latter proved to be In hiding
in a woods near his house. These
gentlemen acting under the search
warrant proceeded to seize the cotton
when Watson came up. Constable
Griffith attempted to arrest Watson,
who with opened knife advanced
upon the officer.
Mr.. Griffith fired to scare the ne
gro, who made a dash for Mr.. Girl
fifth, but the next shot the officer. S
aim was more steady and the negro
was shot in the thigh. While this
was happening Watson's wife was
standing in the door, and her shot
gun was leveled on Mr.. Dantzler, but
before the weapon was discharged
Mr.. Dantzler fired at the woman, the
ball taking effect in her side n
ranging downward.
Her wound is regarded as serious.
No further resistance was of1ered n
the wounded negroes were attended
by DR.. P. L. Fielder. Watson was
taken in charge by Constable Gri-
fifth and Mr.. Dantzler and was lodg-
ed in Jail at Orangeburg. watson
and his wife moved to Parler from
Wedgefeld early in January. $500.
Judge Brawley's decision stlli
gives trouble. 1t has caused the
death of several persons. The negroes
seem to have gotten it in their heads
that they have a right to shoot Town
constables who attempt to arrest
them. but when one or two of them
got their necks cracked for murder
ing ~constables they will realize their
mistake. If the woman dies she mas
nobody to blame but herself and nus
hand az the both resisted arrest Oh
+, legally constituted posse and at
tempted to murder the people COM
nosing it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
WAS HIS w CHILD.
The Sad Experience Of a Massachu-
sets Surgeon.

At Springfield, Mass, Pauline H.
Reardon, six and one-half years OLD
the daughter of DR.. Thomas G. Rear
don. was struck and fatally injured
in front of her home "Wednesday by
an automobile owned by DR.. Charles
T. Hooker and driven by Ernest
Southland.
DR.. Hooker, without knowing who
tho girl was carried her into DIT,
Reardon's house. The latter n,st
knowledge of the accident was the
oieht Of his child lying on his opera
ting table. The girl died soon AFTER
ward, Southland was arrested on a
charge of manslaughter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
WAR STILLI0N.
Thu Allied Forces HurI Death In.
to the Moors
AND MANY ARE SLAIN

The Franco-Spanish Army Dashes
Upon the Rebel Camp Under Gov.
er Of Heavy Fog-Many of the
Moors Are Killed and the Others
Took to Their Heels and Made
Their Escape.
The war between France and
Spain on the one side and Morocco
on the other goes merrily on.
The allied Franco-Spanish army
Thursday made a sudden and success.
full move on Taddert where the Moors
were .massed in force.
The camp of the latter was destroy.
ed by bombardment and the enemy
was put to flight, leaving many dead
on the field. The French lost one
man killed and six men wounded. :
The attack was based largely on
the observations of the, sMoors posi-
ton from a MILITARY balloon. The
allied army which was divided into.
two columns, left the camp at six.
o'clock i'm the morning, leaving sew
eral companies of infantry to defend
the base of Casa Blanca.
The first column was composed of
four companies of regular Infantry.
several companies of sharpshooters,
a battery of artillery and all the cav
TRY. The second column consisted OF
six companies of infantry and a bat
terry Of artillery.
The march was carried out under
the cover of a fog until half way to
Taddert, when the fog lifted and dis
closed several large bands Of the
enemy. -"
The allied army then charged sew
eral large bands of the enemy at the
point of the bayonet. The allied In
fantry advanced on the Moorish
camp which was completely destroyed
after a sharp fight the allied army
advanced to Taddert.
After the bombardment Of that
place by the French artillery as well
as by the guns of the French cruiser
Clorie which fired rs shells, the allied
infantry advanced on. the Moorish
camp where the enemy was making a.
steadfast stand.
A short engagement followed and
the Moors fed in wild disorder pur:
sued for several miles by the irregu7
lar Algerian calvary in the French
service. The Moorish camp was COM
pletely destroyed. The exact loss OF
the Moors is not known, as they car
ried away many Of their dead. The
allied army then returned to Casa
Blanca.
When the Moors saw. their camp
in flames they set fire to all the farms
and woods they could reach and soon
the country surrounding Taddert was
covered with smoke and flames.
General Drude, who has recovered
from his attack of fever, personally
conducted the military operations
When d%isastrously beaten, the Moors
disappeared among the hills.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
MARTYR TO
Major Carroll Succumbs to Third In
o~culation from Mosquito.

Major James Carroll, surgeon,
United States Army, who was a mem
Der of the commission sent to Cuba
to study yellow fever just after the
close of the Spanish war, died at his
home in Washington, a martyr to
science. 1t was his commission that
fixed definitely on the mosquito as the
medium of TRANSMISSION in yellow few
or.
DR.. Carroll allowed himself to be
bitten by a mosquito that had been
infected from three distinct yello"
fever cases. He developed the dis
ease four days after being bitten. HIS
last illness was the direct result OF
his work in the study of tropical dis
eas1s.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
Y WILL SPEAK.
The Nebraskan Will Address the
Macon Negro Fair.

William Jennings Bryan has &C
cepted an invitation to deliver an
address at the negro state fair at
Macon, Ca, in October. The invita-
ton to visit Macon was extended to
Mr.. Bryan some months ago, but his
accordance was not received until
recently. 1t is not yet certain what
date he will be there.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
Wholesale Arrests of tho Mleg.
ed Orators in Pennsylvania.
ROBBED THE STATE.
Some High Officials Charged With
Crime-Alleged in the Indictments
That Five Millions of the Total
Was Purely Graft-The Names Of
Those That Are Under Arrest for
the Steal.

Those That Are Under Arrest fol
the Steal.
The long expected arrest of those
held to be responsible for the fraud.
committed in the furnishing and dec
Grating of Pennsylvania $4,000,
600 capitol were made Wednesday
the attorney general causing war
rants to be issued for IA of the 1e
persons and firms named by the cap.
itol investigating commission as be.
ing involved in the scandal. Those
for whom warrants were issued are:
Joseph M. Hudson, architect, and
his active assistant, Sanford B. Lew
is, both of Philadelphia.
John H. Sanderson, Philadelphia,
chief contractor for furnishings.
Congressman H. Burd 8 Cassell,
treasurer and executive officer Of the
Pennsylvania Construction company,
contractors for steel filing cases.
James H. Shumaker, Johnstown,
Pa, former superintendent of public
grounds and buildings, who receipt
ed for the furnishings.
George F. Payne and his partner,
Charles G.. Wetter, both of Philadel-
phia, builders of the capitol and con-
tractors for the 100000 attic.
William P. Snyder, Spring City,
Pa. former auditor general who ap-
proved the warrants Of the contrac-
tors.
William L. Matthews, Media, Pa,
former State treasurer, who paid the
bills Of the contractors.
Charles F. Kinsman, Willis Boz
leau, John G. Neider and Geo. X.
Storm, all of Philadelphia, stock
holders in the Pennsylvania Bronze
company, organized by Sanderson for
the manufacture of the 100000
lighting fixture.
Frank Irvine, auditor in the aud
itor g%enerals's Office, who audited the
accounts Of the contractors.
Nearly all the defendants appeared
during the day, waived a hearing and
entered bail for their appearance In
the Dauphin county court. The
principal defendants were held In
$4,000 bail, which was furnished In
every instance by surety companies.
All the defendants are charged
with conspiracy to cheat and defraud
the State by making false invoices,
which were approved by Huston and
Shumaker. Charges of obtaining
money by false pretense were also
entered against S%anderson, Congress
man Cassel, Payne and Wetter, 1t
being alleged they furnished fcti-
tious bills for a greater amount than
they were entitled to receive under
their contracts.
The action was the outcome Of an
allegation made by State. Treasurer
William H. Berry during the cam
paign of 1905. He startled the State
by charging that, according to the
State treasury books, the building
and furnishings of the State capitol
had cost s13, 5000 900 and not $1,000
600. as had been generally believed,
and that $9,000,0vv went to furnish
the building.
He charged that 100000 of the
5000, 900 was pure graft" Gov.
Pennypacker, other State officials
and contractors denied the charges,
but the agitation for an investigation
which Immediately began continued
until the legislature appointed com
mission to investigate the whole
affair.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
A FATAL JUMP.
Became Panic Stricken and Plunged
From Stone Barge.

From Stone Barge.
Six Italian laborers employed IN
the new government dam in the AL
Ieeheny river at Aspinwall, Pa, lost
their lives Thursday evening when
they became panic stricken and leap
ed from a fiat boat on which they
we're taking some stone from a dam:
The men jumped from one end OF
the. boat into IL feet Of water instead
of stepping from the other end to a
sand bar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
LARGEST ON RECORD
Many People Killed and Wounded in
Climbing the Alps.

Climbing the Alps.
A dispatch from Berne, sWitzer-
land say the toll of Summer victims
of Alpine accidents Is the heaviest
over recorded. Eighty persons were
killed and twenty two injured IN MN
ety accidents this year, as against the
n~revious record, seventy, six fatal
ties in 1906 in seventy n accidents.
Thirty-eight of the eighty persons
killed were guides, thirty-one "ets
spending vacations in the Alps ana
the remainder were native mower
gathers. Three-quarters of the fatal-
tiles we're caused by falls over PREF
ipices. The others were due 10 ava
lanches, snowstorms and lightning
Morris tribune., 1907-03-02
prey Of the sparrow Hawk.

The fact is that the sparrow hawk
almost invariably catches a flying
bird for its meal, even striking down
birds as large as the wood pigeon,
though usually going no higher than .
blackbird. Ii it does not exactly
swoop like the larger hawks, vet it
must have conditions Of chase OF its
own choosing.
That is why the small birds usually
mob 1t with impunity when they are
numerous enough to bewilder It. once,
however. 1 saw sparrow hawk that
had been molested for some minutes
by q perfect cloud Of green hnches
dart among them and secure q vic.
tim. The other day had one ofs.
these birds pointed out as the onS
which a few days earlier had come
close to the house toward dusk and
caught bat on the wing. That,
however, is a very unusual meal
London News. 81
Pays for Own improvements.
Mrs. Frederic Schoff, at meeting
OF mothers club In Philadelphia
talked OF the training Of children.
'tJust as smallpox and yellow fever
are quite rare Diseases she said, $50
will bad children be rare when proper
attention is given to the cause of bad.
ness.
Men," she went on, will. not take
any part in correcting or training chill
dren, though when the children turn
out wei. they are willing enough 70
take the credit.
She smiled.
'sThey remind me In this" said Mrs.
Schoff, 'of certain landlord. He
called on tenant one day and said:
Jones, I'm going to raise your
rent
What for? Jones asked, anxious
". Have taxes gone up?
No. not at ALL the landlord an.
swered: but see you've painted theIj
house and put In new range and
hathtub. That Of course. ought to
bring more rent "--M Minneapolis Jour.
nal.
Courtesy.
The Parvenu stood it till he coull
sttnd it no longer.
James," he cried out, piteously.
''tell me the worst. You find my
table manners exetrable?"
But his new butler, bowling first
with stately condescension, only re-
Piled:
AS matter of professional cour.
tesy, Hi cannot hentertain, much less
hexpress, hany hopinion which might
seem In hanyway to reflect on my presd
decessor ere. v
And bowed again and was silent
fuck. +.
Morris tribune., 1907-03-02
sr,RRlNd UP TROUBLE.

T.. C. Spooner private citizen, lawyer, own
er Of much property in Morris and Stevens
county and president of numberless corpora
tions, has been for years master IN the art OF
setting in motion train of events which would
bring about result that he desired without
disclosing himself as the author In plain Ian
ouaoe, if he wanted to kick person, he would
wait until that person was in close proximity
to the business end of a mule, and then kick
the mule
Hon l.. c. Spooner, representative from the
57th legislative district is up to his old tricks.
At the beginning of the present legislative
session, THE TRIBUNE contracted with one Lynn
Haines, formerly editor of the Appleton Trib-
une, and at present one of the committee clerks
of the House land thereby hangs the tale) to
furnish us with a weekly Legislative letter.
Those letters have been published by us from
week to week, and have furnished interesting
readiug. They have been carefully watched by
Spooner. aud something in one of the early let
tiers aroused Spooners ire. The early letters
were mostly given to setting forth the lmpend-
ing struggle between the corporations and the
people, and contained not one syllable that
could cause any feeling of resentment to arise
in the mind of Mr. Spooner if he is the unset.
fish and unyielding champion of the rights and
interests of the common people which be.
claims to be. Nevertheless he did think that
he had been attacked in those letters, and ire
arose within him
al. c. Spooner, chairman of the railroad
committee in the House, has taken prominent
part in combating the railroad stand against
the two. cent fare measure. In the public hear
ines on this BILL he has repeatedly compiled
and cited official facts which were decidedly at
variance with the "facts" presented by the rail
way attorneys in their attempts to substantiate
their contention that passenger traffic was far
from profitable under the present rate, Thus
far, the public hearings have only proven that
the railroads could easily declare fifty per
cent dividend their duplicity.
"Mr Spooner has also shown his ability in
the fight for the establishment of farm ma
Morris tribune., 1907-03-02

States to see the exhibits and the
races. Stock and other exhibits are
brot from al over the country and
even from Canada to exhibit here.
How much greater this would be ct
an exposition such as Is planned.
This county alone would be greatly
benefited. It is 9 well known fact
that 9 large part of the land in the
county is occupied and farmed By
renters. It must also be admitted that
no permanent prosperity can be had
until the greater part OF the land is
worked by the real owners of it, hence
one Of the crying needs of the county
Is an influx Of farmers who will buy
the land they intend to farm.
Our county is second to none in the
state. It is true that we have had
three or four abnormal seasons, in
which the excessive rainfall has caus-
ed poor crops, but this can not con-
tinue. For years we have had exhibits
at the state fair which all agree are
equal to those of any other county
and better than most. It is true that
we have not always had first prem
ium awarded these exhibits but this
was due chiefly to lack of decoration
and arrangement of the exhibit.
I Now if this exposition can be had
and this county send down county
exhibit such as only this county can
produce and have the same tastefully
arranged, great benefits would accrue.
It is true that at such fairs as this
exposition will be, homeseekers from
all over the country attend. These
people seeing such an exhibit will ma
turally look farther and it would ma
turally follow that Stevens county
could add many good substantial citi-
zens and farmers to its population.
Not only is this true of homeseekers
actually present at the fair but others
who are there carry back to their
homes one of the best exhibits and
this induces others to inquire. Then
If advertising literature is also distri-
buted from the exhibition booth and
this means of drawing these people is
had.
This benefit would accrue in like
respect to all parts of the state but
more particularly here where we have
such naturalresources in our soils to
draw from.
In fact think it evident that this
exposition should be held. The bill
to provide for this exposition is now
pending before both houses of our
legislature and it is strangely enough
meeting with much opposition. The
main reason for this is that our legis-
lators fear to spend SO much money
without knowing that their friends
and others in their home districts will
support them. Hence it would be well
for everyone who believes that such
Morris tribune., 1907-03-02

chinery plant at the state penitentiary This
measure is of the most vital importance to the
agricultural interests of Minnesota, and will
succeed in spite of the opposition
of the mighty harvester trust. So
The foregoing paragraph appeared III Mr..
Haines' letter last week, and after reading it
carefully, sentence by sentence, we concluded
that Mr.. Haines had written the item with so
much care, with every word weighed in order
that It might express neither too much nor too
little that it's publication in The TRIBUgE as
semi-editorial matter would be misleading.
Mr.. Haines does not say that Mr.. Spooner
is man " hom you would have fof administra-
tor of your estate; he doesn't even say that he
IS man to be trusted in a committee room
alone with a railroad attorney and demurrage
bill, nor does he say that he is master of con-
structve legislation. Read the paragI aph
again and you will see that Mr.. Haines is es-
pecially careful to say that Mr.. Spooner is moth
ing more than a man of ability.
When we omitte this article from our col
umns last week Mr.. Spooner kicked up the Sun
to kick up discussion which in the end would
involve Mr.. Haines in trouble. He after Mr..
Haines, and tho he failed once in his attempt to
have him dismissed he still keeps after him.
When Mr.. Haines was denouncing the COM
bines the hardest number of members of
which Spooner was the moving spirit, demand
ed that Mr.. Haines be dismissed. Mr.. Haines
was not to be bluffed, however, and those who
were afraid that he might expose their treach-
cry decided that it wisest to leave him
alone. This matter was mentioned in the letter
of Feb. 8.
The matter then blew over, and for reasons
which we can only surmise, Mr.. Haines put the
above carefully written paragraph in his letter
last week.
But why was Spooner offended whenMr
Haines writing about the corporations and
their methods of influencing legislators?
S
The editor of The Tribune wants it under
stood once and for all that we will not engage
i'll personal controversy with the editor of the
Sun. We regret exceedingly that we were mis-
informed in little news item published in last
weeks issue regarding Mr.. Forkner, and that
the report of his marriage was erroneous. How
ever, their story about us is equally erroneous.