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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-09
U. S. MAIL ROBBED OF ss5e,oOO.
Registered Pouches Missed From
Burlington Train. +,

Omaha, Neb.-The biggest robbery
in the history of the United States
mails took place between Denver and
Omaha last Thursday night, when
three :. through registered pouches
which contained s250,000 were stolen
from the Burlington fast mail train
that runs between Denver and Chi
! cago. r.'
The robbery took place on Thurs
day night, but the news of it did not
come out for several days, although
postal inspectors of Salt Lake City,
| Denver, Kansas City, Omaha, st.
Louis and Chicago have been at work
since the robbery.
Every postal inspector and Secret
Service man in the West is working
on the case.
On Thursday night seven through
registered pouches were sent from
the Denver postof1ce to the depot for
the Burlington fast mail train.
These were receipted, for by the
mail clerk. When the train reached
McCook, fNeb., 1T was found that
three of the pouches were missing.
One Of the missing pouches was
destined for Omaha, another for Chi
cago and the third was an empty fol
Lincoln. Although the Omaha pouch
was valuable, that to Chicago con.
tanned a heavy shipment Of cash from
a Denver bank to one in Chicago.
The shipment is said to aggregate
more than S250,000.
AS soon as the loss was discovered
the inspectors were notified and a
search begun. At first it was thought
the missing pouches had been sent to
a wrong train, but it is now known
they were stolen.
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ARSON TO COVER TWO MURDERS
Women Killed While a Barn Was
l.. ,. Burning.


Philadelphia.-While the attention
of Edward Horner, a farmer between
| Collingswood and Merchantville, neal
| Camden, was diverted by a fire start
ed in his barn at 4 o'clock a. m, an
assassin entered his house and with
an axe murdered Mrs. Horner and
the hired girl, an Italian named Wit
toria Natoli. Mrs. HorRer was sixty
three years old.
.rhe Italian woman, Vittoria, was
working on the farm with her hus-
band, Tomaso, to whom she had been
married a year ago. The detectives
suspected a negro TaSnhand who haG
been discharged by Horper two weeks
before. His name is Charles Gibson.
and he is now in custody in Camden
charged with the murder.
1t was found that the fend who
killed the women had also robbed the
Horner home, carrying away two re-
volvers, some money and two gold
watches. When Gibson was arrested
one of the revolvers was in his basket
and so were two pawn tickets, each
for a gold watch. The tickets were
taken to the pawnbroker, Joseph
Rieder, Of 12S Market street, Phila-
delphia, and the watches were recov-
| cred.
Rieder was taken to Camden,
where he picked Gibson out of a long
line Of prisoners and identified him
positively Is the person who had
pledged the watches. When Gibson's
pockets were searched s14 was found
in them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-09
TAFT STATES HIS POLICIES
Opens Campaign With Praise Of
Rooseveirs Doctrines.
Advocates Administrations STAND
Against Railroads, Trusts, The Grim
inal Rich and Swollen Fortunes.

Columbus, On a 15,000-word
speech before the Buckeye Republi-
can Club Secretary Of War William
Howard Taft outlined the national
policies he advocates. This was his
initial utterance on this subject since
he avowedly became a candidate for
the Presidential nomination.
The Secretary's speech was a re-
affirmation Of all Of the policies of
President Roosevelt in all matters Of
the railroads, the trusts, pursuing the
criminal rich with prosecutions and
curbing swollen fortunes. He advo-
Gated a revision Of the tariff, but not
until after the next Presidential cleo
ton. and then only as regards lex
cessive schedules" Free trade, he
said, would lead to disaster.
Throughout his long speech Sec
rotary Taft many times referred to
utterances Of William Jennings
Bryan, and took pains to- show at
great length that the Bryan policies
had not been taken owe by Roosevelt
and that there we're radical differ
snces in the forms Of government pro-
posed by the two men.
No promise of an abandonment OF
any part Of the Roosevelt anti-cor-
poration policy was given anywhere
In the Secretary's speech. Fully TO-
300 of the $1,000 words were devoted
to explaining and justifying the
Roosevelt policies on three subjects
alone-the railroads, the trusts and
, swollen fortunes. The concluding
paragraph was a eulogy of the Presi-
dent. Roosevelt's radical policies are
accepted by him in their entirety.
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POSTAL LIGHTS SHOT OUT.
-Four Employees Dodge Bullets Il
Hiding at Ash Fork, Ariz.

Four Employees Dodge Bullets by
Hiding at Ash Fork, Ariz.
Los Angeles, CELEBRATING win
dows and firing bullets into the build
ing, an armed mob attacked the re-
peating station of the Postal Tele.
graph Gable Company in Ash Fork,
Ariz. Four employees in the office
were in great danger Of being killed,
but managed to dodge the bullets by
hiding. The shooting began at 1
o'clock, and as the Postal employees
were unarmed they made no resist
anee.
Superintendent Lewis, in charge OF
this district, wired the following to
Governor Gibney:
Last night an armed OBJ attacked
our Office at Ash Fork, shooting into
the Office with revolvsrs and endan-
gering the lives of our employees.
They threatened to renew the attack
tonight. l call upon you to protect
the lives of our employees and the
property Of the company at Ash Fork.
Please act promptly"
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MRS. EDDY SUIT WITHDRAWN
Chandler Files a Motion For Dis
missaIin Court at Concord, NJ. H.
Streeter Asks to Have Woman's Com
potency Fully Determined Now
to Avoid a Will Contest.

concord, N. H.-A sudden though
not wholly unexpected ending of the
masters hearing in connection with
the suit in equity brought by rela-
tives for an accounting Of the prop
erty of MIS-. Mary Baker G. Eddy,
leader of the Christian Science faith,
anne in the Superior Court
here when former, Senator William
E. Chandler, senior counsel for the
relatives, OF next friends, announced
to the board Of masters that they had
filed a motion with the Superior
Court to dismiss their action.
The announcement that a petition
for the dismissal of the suit had been
filed with the Superior Court had
been anticipated on account of many
private conferences which had been
held between opposing counsel.
The reason for the petition for
dismissal, as made known at the
hearing by Mr.. Chandler, was the be-
lief that success along the lines de-
sired could not be obt.. ID and the
appropriateness of any Immediate re-
suit of a decision in favor of the next
friends in the exact issue as now
framed, compared with the burdens
and disadvantages to be endured
both before and after such a decision.
General Frank S. Streeter, coun-
sci for Mrs. Eddy, objected to a dis
missal of the ~case9before the question
of competency had been decided by
the masters, in view Of t. disability
that after Mrs, Eddy's de.-h attempts
might be made In behalf of the rela-
tives to break her will, in which, he
minated, provisions had been made
for carrying on the work in which
she is interested. The masters de-
cided, however, that under the in
structions given them by the Court
they could not proceed in view of the
filing of a motion with the Court to
dismiss the case, and announced that
they would so report.
., With the termination Of the pro-
ceedings before the masters the case
reverts to the Superior Court on the
question of petition to dismiss the
original suit. There is little doubt
among those interested that Judge
Chamberlain, before whom the action
was brought, will grant the motion.
The suit withdrawn was brought in
the Merrimack County Superior
Court on March 1 last by George w.
Glover, of Lead, s. D., Mrs. Eddy's
son, and his daughter, Mary Baker
Glover, and other relatives Of the
Christian Science leader, as next
friends, against Calvin A. Frye, secre-
tary of Mrs. Eddy; Lewis Strang, as
sistant secretary; Herman Herring
and Irving C. Tomlinson, Of Concord:
Alfred Farlow, Ira c. Knapp and
Joseph Armstrong, of Boston;
Stephen A. Chase, Of Fall River, and
Edward A. Kimball, of Chicago, all
prominent in Christian Science cir
cles.
Alfred Farlow, of the Christian
Science Publication Committee, one
of the defendants, after the dismissal
of the suit, gave out a statement in
which he characterized the suit as a
Gigantic farce, an effort to annoy
and discredit Mrs. Eddy and stigma
tie the religion of which she is the
founder"
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caused these mel to contrive to Drlng
as much financial strife as possible in
| order to discredit the policy of the
| Government and thereby secure a re-
| versal of tat policy so that they may
enjoy unmolested the fruits OF ene'r
own evil doings.
They have misled many good peo-
pie into believing that there Shouio
be such reversal Of policy II possible.
If so I am sorry. but it will not alter
| my attitude. Once for all let it be
| said that as far as | am concerned ana
| for the eighteen months of my Pres
| dency that remain there will be l.
| change in the policy we have steadily
pursued CT let-up in the efforts to
| secure the honest observance OF the
| law. for I regard this contest as one
| to determine who shall rule this free
| country-the people through their
Governmental agents or a few ruin
less, domineering men, whose wealth.
makes them peculiarly formidable be-
| cause they hide behind breastworks
| of corporate organization.
II wish there . be no mistake on
| this point; it is idle to ask me not to
prosecute criminals, rich or poor. but
desire no less emphatically to have
| it understood that We have sanctioned
| and will sanction no action of a via
| dictiye type, and above all no action
| which shall infict great. and unmer-
tied suffering upon innocent stock
| holders and upon the public as |
| whole.
"Our purpose is to act with mini
mum harshness compatible with at
tanning our. end. In the man OF great
wealth who has earned his wealth
| honestly and uses it wisely we recog-
| nize a good citizen of the best type,
worthy of all praice and respect.
Business can only be done under
J modern conditions through corpora
lions, and our purpose is heartily to
favor the corporations that do well.
The Administration appreciates that
liberal but honest profits for legiti-
mate promoting, good salaries for
| able and right management, and div1-
| dends for capital employed, either In
founding or continuing wholesome
| business ventures, are the factors
necessary for successful corporate ac-
| tivity, and, therefore, for generally
prosperous business condition. p.
Gall these are compatible with fair
dealings as between man, and man
and rigid obedience to the law Our
aim is to help every honest man,
every honest corporation, and our
| policy means, in the ultimate, healthy
and prosperous expansion of business
! activity, honest business methods and
| honest corporations" d T. ~.
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EPITOHE OF NATIONAL POLICIES
EXPOUNDED BY SECRETARY TAFT

All of the Roosevelt policies for
! Government regulation OF the rail-
roads, controlling the trusts, curbing
| swollen" fortunes, are reatirmed by
the Secretary of War.
He favors extending the Rate law
oy amendments prohibiting over-cap-
italization of railroads, the purchase
| Of stock in competing lines and the
| election of common directors by COM
peting roads.
He is opposed; to Government own
| ership of railroads because it would
| cost $4,000, 900, 900 to acquire them ;
/ they would not be managed effective
ly or economically, and a reckless
chief executive could use them to
control business. and politics.
He favors the criminal prosecution
and sending to Jail Of wealthy Of
tenders against the Rate law and the
Antitrust law.
He defends combinations of, capt.
| tal, declaring that, legitimately con-
Quoted, they add to the prosperity OF
the country.
To curb swollen fortunes he would
| not have the Federal Government
impose a graduated inheritance tax
or an income tax until some exigency
requiring additional revenues arose.
; Roosevelt, instead of being an adj
of %socialistic measures, he de-
clares, would stop the growth Of So
cialism by demonstrating the Govern
ment's ability to stamp out evils
which have caused social unrest.
OF the Wall Street slump he as
serts, 1T is not true that the Presi-
dent is engaged in a raid against all
corporations"
He denies Roosevelt has "out-
Bryaned" Bryan, claiming many rad
ical differences in the policies favored
by the two men.
OF the tariff, he says free trade
twill certainly lead only to disaster, "
but, that it is the duty Of the Repub-
lican party to prevent excessive tariff
rates. There are many excessive
! schedules, but no attempt at revision
! should be made until after the next
| Presidential election.
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b t People.

Peary has abandoned his search for
the Pole for another year.
John D. Rockefeller says he is har-
messed to the cart in which the people
ride.
The death is announced of Profess
sor Berthelot, the famous French
che"~:St.
Cardinal Gibbons preached at
Southampton, England, on the misery
of the wealthy who have nc friends.
Admiral Baron Yamamoto is one of
the few Japanese who wear a full
beard trimmed in .Yandyke fashion.
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Oil From shale.

It may surprise many readers to-
learn that naphtha, Illuminating, oil.
gas oil and lubricating oil are OBJ
tanned in considerable quantities
from certain varieties OF ahale rock.
"Oil shales abound in the Scotch
Lothians. A recent memoir of the
British Geological Survey records the
discovery of an important new field
Of shale near Duddingston. In the
year 1901-'02 $4,000 tons OF oil
shale were mined In Scotland, and
yielded 62,932,000 gallons of crude
oil. The Scotch oil shales we're arst,
made generally known to biologists
in 1SS5.-Youth's Companion.
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SEEK final TEST OF THE BOYCOTT Big LAWSUIT
Action Begun at Washington Against the American
=" -. ,s~s.5 Federation Of Labor.
Manufacturers Would Stop Use of the "Unfair !" and the
-~-~-z.~,-- "We Don't Patropize" Lists.

of the Metal Polishers' Union, No.
10, of st. Louis, in the employ Of the
stove company, struck in a body and
without notice to the company, which
action is said to have been in viola
ton of an agreement between the In
ternational Union of Metal Polishers
and the Stove Founders National De-
Tense Association, of which the
Bucks company is a member, under
which all differences have for four
teen years been successfully adjusted
by a conference committee.
Stirs St. Louis Unions. =.
On the failure of the strike the In
ternational Union of Metal Polishers
declared a boycott against the Bucks
company and its product, inserted
the company's name in its unfair"
list and published it in the union pa
per. The local union, No. IS, also
joined in the boycott and gained its
Endorsement by the Central Trades
and Labor Union, Of st. Louis, and
the Metal Trades Council, also Of st.
Louis, both subordinate unions of the
American Federation.
In November, 1905, at the annual
convention of the American Fedora
ton in Minneapolis. the products of
the company we're placed on the we
don't-patronize" list of the fedora
ton, and it's name was published in
this list in the American Federation
ist in the June and July, 1907, issues.
The complaint sets forth that by
reason of the federation's great mem
bership and wide distribution and its
extraordinarily complete and power
full organization, the placing Of the
company's products on its "we-don't-
patronize" list injured greatly the
complainant's business.
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Feminine Notes,

Pauline Spender Clay, granddaugh-
ter of William Waldorf Astor, Is heir
ess to $1,000, 900.
Mrs. Catherine Gilligan, oldest
woman in the Bronx, died in New
York City July 80, aged LOT.
Mrs. Dick-Waaler, a newspaper
woman Of Christiania, Norway, Is
visiting friends in Minneapolis.
There is but one Indian woman in
the world who is :. lawyer, viz, Miss
LYDIA Conley, of Kansas City, Kan.
Mrs. Eddy has demonstrated that
she is in astonishing physical health
for a woman nearly ninety years Old
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Baseball BrevitIeS.

Grimshaw is proving valuable to
the Boston Americans as utility man.
There are few first basemen as
good as Bob Unglaub, of the Boston
Americans, at digging up low throws.
Lajoie says he will play first base
for the Clevelands until the club finds
a better man. He may have to wait
for some time.
The Northwestern League appears
to have the star base runner of the
country. His name is Rowan, and
he plays with the Spokane Club. He
has stolen ffty-four bases IN eighty
four games.
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WHAT'S THE USE?
To Pour in Coffee When 1t Acts as q
Vicious Enemy

Fasters have gone without food for
many days at a time, but no one car,
90 without sleep. For q long time j
have not been sleeping well, often
lying awake for two or three hours
during the night, but now I sleep
sound every night and wake up re-
freshed and vigorous" says a Calf.
woman.
do you know why? It's because
I used to drink coffee, but l finally
cut it out and began using Postum.
Twice since then l have drank coffee,
and both times l passed a sleepless
night, and so I am doubly convinced
coffee caused the trouble and Postum
removed it.
my brother was in the habit Of
drinking coffee three times q day.
He was troubled with sour stomach,
and I would often notice him getting
soda from the can to relieve the dis
tress in his stomach; lately hardly a
day passed without q dose of soda,
for relief.
FINALLY he tried a cup Of Postum
and liked it so well he gave up cofeei
and since then has been drinking Posi-
tum in it's place, and says he has not
once been troubled with sour stom1
ach."
Even after this lady's experience
with coffee her brother did not sus1
pect for a time that coffee was caust
ing his sour stomach, but easily
proved 1t. i
Coffee is not suspected in thou
sands Of cases just like this, but It'll
easily proved. A ten days tria1
works wonders. There's a Reason.
Read the famous little book. 9TH
Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs.
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LABOR TO FIGHT.
Gompers Says Manufacturers Sought
to Delay Criminal Action.

Washington, D. C.-The injunction
proceeding brought in the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia
against the officers of the American
Federation of Labor by the National
Manufacturers Association will be
answered by a conspiracy suit. from
the labor organizations against the
Manufacturers Association. The au-
thority for this statement is Presi-
dent Samuel Gompers, of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, who said
that he was authorized to instruct the
attorneys of hiS organization to pre-
pare the papers in the action.
Another development In the con-
test between organized labor and the
Manufacturers Association is likely
to be an application to the Postofice
Department for a fraud order against
the American Federationist. This is
the organ Of the American Federation
of Labor that prints the unfair list"
against which an Injunction is sought
by the Manufacturers Association.
Daniel Davenport, of Bridgeport,
Conn. one of the attorneys Of the
Manufacturers Association, took
steps to bring the complaint to the
attention of the P~ostoflce Depart
ment.
President Gompers declares that
the officers of the Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION began their suit hurriedly
to forestall the criminal prosecution
of themselves by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. He insisted that
the American Federation has had
under consideration plans for the
prosecution of the Manufacturers
Association for some time, and that
by some means President Van Cleave,
of the Manufacturers Association,
learned of the Federation's purpose
and brought the injunction proceed
ing to counteract the effect of the
contemplated suit,
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England Is pageant mad"
Pittsburg now claims a population
Of 600, 900.
London is full of Americans unable
to obtain passage home in ,overcroWd-
ed liners.
Advices received in Washington,
D. c., showed that Russia is chang
ing her military base in Siberia from
Hardin to Irkutsk.
Henry C. Ide, former Governor Of
the Philippines, expressed the opinion
in an interview that the newly elected
Assembly for the islands would prove
a success.
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Antiquity of Tennis. /,

Among all the popular games OF to-
day none perhaps is of greater antiq-
uity than tennis, for 1t is said to have
originated in the. ball games Of the
ancient Greeks and Romans.
In the first place the ball was
struck by the hand, later on heavy
gloves were worn or cords strapped
round, the palm, and the racquet was
contrived during the fifteenth CEN
fury in France, where the game was
very popular, and thence introduced
into England.-The Captain.
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The World of Sport.

B. R. Day, who calls himself the
worlds champion runner has sent a
challenge from Seattle, Wash, TO" :
mile race with Alfred Shrubb for
$4,000.
John w. Gates is to make his home
in England, where, like Richard
Croker, he will live the life of a coun-
try squire, with a large racing estab-
lishment. 49,,
w. J. Clothier and w. A. Larned
defeated Beals G.. Wright IND R. D.
Little in the lawn tennis tournament
at Longwood for the Eastern doubles
championship.
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Trees Lost Bet.

At a big luncheon Beerbohm Tres
sat next to the Dean Of Manchester.
Said a guest: well MI. Tree, what
have you been doing to-day?r aOh,y
replied the actor-manager, 4 went
for a long motor ride this morning
and lost a bet" Indeed, remarked
the Dean. MAY I ask what the bet
,was?" Certainly, said Mr.. Treef
II made a bet that we should pass
through 400 different edors and we
only Encountered &c.," "Ah," was the
quick reply, you missed the odor oil.
sanctity. "-Argonaus.
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I could not do Homework, and for
two years did not get out Of the
house. The kidney secretions were
irregular, and doctors were not help
ing me. Doan's Kidney Pills brought
me quick relief, and finally cured me.
They saved my life"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, y. =.
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New Law on Trading Horses

The last Indiana Leg1sIature PASSED.
q law on horse-trading which Com
tains the following feature:
whoever shall sell or offer to sell
or exchange any horse or mule.
knowing the same to be AFFLICTED with
CHAMBERS or any infectious or con
tagious disease, or knowing 1t TO pc
afflicted with the 'heayes' OF to be
broken winded' or a. 'cribber and
shall conceal the existence OF such
disease from the, person to whom he
is offering the animal, shall be fined
not more than $500, to which may be
added imprisonment in the JAIL or
workhouse not longer than six
months"
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Consolation Somewhere.

They had been husband and wife
for three months only when the
young wife commenced to show signs
of disappointment with the bargain
she had made.
II am so unhappy" she conhded.
10 a girl friend who paid her a visit.
"Why, dear?" inquired the other.
81 am beginning to think that my:
husband married me for my money!"
WELL" remarked the philosopht-
cal confdante, cit ought to be some
consolation to know that he isn't
such a big fool as he looks.-Tatiar..