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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-10
FIRE THEM L
REFUSES TO SUSPEND ORDER
DIsOHARGING THE NEGROES
Roosevelt Cables Taft That Facts
Are Necessary to eecure
Rshearing.

The War Department Thursday is.
sued the following statement con,
corning the negro troops ordered to
be dismissed at Fort Reno:
I'm the matter of the order dis.
charging the enlisted mon of three
companies of the Twenty fifth In
fantry, issued by the President, an
application Was pres snted to the Sec
rotary Of War by q number OF persons
of standing asking for a rehearing by
the President of the ground on which
action WIS taken.
1.-THE Secretary telegrsphed the
President of tho application and de-
layed the proceedings of discharge I'm
TIL the President could Indicate his
wishes. The Secretary was meantime
called out Of town. No answer was
received from the President.
1.-THE Secretary on bis return did
not feel justified in further delaying
the execution of the order OF dis
charge especially in view OF the fact
that tie Secretary learned that the
President had fully and e1haustively
considered tho argument against the
order OF the persons who have now
applied for . rehearing.
Accordingly the Secretary directed
yesterday, Tuesday, that the procaed'
ings for discharge be continued with.
out delay"
Later in the day Secretary Taft re.
ceived . dispatch from President
Roosevelt and issued the following ad.
ditional statement: ...'
A telegram vas received from the
President at IL O'Clock today, AFTER
the previous statement was given out
at the Wal Deparbm ant. In which he
declined to suspend she discharge un.
less there are new facts Of such i'm
portance rs to warrant cabling him.
10 states that his action was taken
after due elaboration, and that the
only matter to which be Gan pay heed
Is . presentation Of the facts showing
the official reports to be in whole or
in part untrue or clearly e1culpat1ng
some individual. II any such facts
later appear he can act as he deems
advisable, but thus far nothing
has been introduced to warrant q
suspension of the order, and he DIRECTS
that it be executed"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-10
Again Get Damages

At Columbia after being out seven
hours tho jury Thursday afternoon
returned q verdiob OF IS 600 damages
for John Alex snder Pickett against
the Southern Railway for injuries 1t
ST. Matthews on Chris mas Day 1901.
The railway will likely ask for q new
trial. The case has BEEN tried several
times. One ny gave the Pickett
boy slO, 600 and the railroad seouIe1
I new trial.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-10
Steamers Crushed.
The steamers Kaiser Wilhelm and

Inc hSlasH VAnoh" euo
Orluoco oollided i Cherburg,
Francs, on Wednesday. Tho shosk
ia described as having been terrific,
causing . panic among the passengers
on bosld the two vessels. especially
among the immigrants. On tbs
Oripooo three men and women were
killed, six women and man injured,
and five persons knot ! overheard
snd drowned, OF tho two steamers
the Kaiser Wilhelm Is said TO haV.
sustained tho most damage. -Four OF
tne + Of tho Kaiser Wilhelm are
reported to have besn killed and
twelve injured, but the exact num-
Der of killed and wounded on that vess
gel Ia not reported.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-10
Poisoned Candy.

At Philadelphia, poisoned by eat.
ing candy which they brought at q
little shop near their homo, e'ght-
year.old Mary Carey, and nor six year
old sieter Annie are dead, and their
three. year. old brother Edward, is
dangerously ill. The girls dad on
Tuesday night within q few hours OF
each other after having suffered for
nearly two days. Tney were Stricken
sfter having eaten the candy on Sun
day.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-10
Address the Commercial College
at Kansas City Thursday.
BIG CROWD PRESENT.
Ameng q Long List of Speakers These
Two Men Had the Lions Share
2 of Attention, Bat Bryan hr "
the Biggest
Crowd.


Leslie M. Shaw and VIM J. Bryan
bad the lions share Of attention
among q long list of speakers at the
three sessions of the Trans Mississippi
Congress. All spoke on sui jscts re-
lating to the increasing Of the com.
mercial business Of the country.
Mr.. Bryan was appointed to head
: committee of former presidents of
the Congress to escort Secretary Shaw
to the PLATFORM. and when these two
distinguished, public men led the way
to the rostrum there WAS great up.
plause. Secretary Shaw declared:
IF this country ever develops In.
ternational merchants IL will accom-.
pliBh 1T by granting them encourage.
ment, not alone BY dredging harbors
and deepening channels, but BY in
surfing them>a merchant marine In
which to carry, under the most favor.
able terms, the products of our farms,
our mines, our forests and our facto-
ries.
Secretary Boot. has gone 3 step
further than I propose to 60 In favor
of Z merchant marine. BE commits
himself to the ship subsidy idea. I
do not say that I am In favor OF .
ship subsidy, but I will say that I
am 10 favor OF anything that will
procure q merchant marine for the
United States"
Mr.. Bryan, whose subject principal.
ly concerned the commercial interests
Ct the Mississippi Valley region, Was
the sole speaker at tho evening sss-
sion.
At . session of the resolutions COM
mitte. = PROPOSAL to endorse Score
tary B oL's suggestion for = ship sub
sidy, p rt!cularly for mail steamento
South America, was adopted. There
Is a strong sentiment In the Congress
fayoring Secretary Roots suggestion.
The crowd that greeted Mr.. Bryan
was the largest Gt tho CONGRESS,
numbering 5000 persons. Mr.. Bryan
said he felt friendly toward the COM
mercial Congress because 1t was the
only body Of which he was ever pro-
sioent :......r ..:.: %
MI. Bryan asked tho adoption Of
resolution endorsing the resolution
unanimously adopted by the Inter-
Parliamentary Uuion Ut It's London
session last July In favor Of interna-
uonal arbitration.
MI. Bryan asked that 3 resolution
affecting trusts be passed as follows:
Resolved, That this Congress is
u~nalterably opposed to private mono
poles and, believing them indefensi'
BILE and intolerable, rSvors the en-.
forcement of existing laws and tho
enactmennt of such new laws - my
be necessary to protect industry from
tho menace Of BRED by tho trusts"
Mr.. Bryan said that he was glad
that 1T last Ill people finally has como
to be opposed to the giving and re-
ceiving OF rebates. he spoke Of tho
tscent O. rv'"+a"- ~ the Sugar Trust
for rec living r6bGtez ''ad attacked
thu Stai usrd on oouap.ny, which,
he declsreo, 10. uuli. up nuch d lts
guinness by operating 10 rebates.
But legislation was needed, he said,
nos only to prevent railways from
granting I, bates, but those other
great concerns from watering their
pfoNk
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-10

Mai. Blocksom, in his report, re.
commended that If satisfactory evil
dence conc.rning the Identify OF the
criminals who ''shot up" Brownsville.
did not come from members OF the
battalion all enlist d men Of the three
companies present on the night OF
Aug. 13 be discharged from service
and debarred from reenlistmens In the
army, navy or marine corps. MAJ.
Blocksom regards 1t particularly I'LL
fortunate for the reputation OF the
battalion that tho officers did not dis.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-16
MANY HURT BY FLYING STONES
SAN FRANcIsco's STREETS ARE
AGAIN THE SCENE OF MOB
VIOLENCE.

San Francisco, May Is. Yesterday
was the worst day of violence in the
street car strike since the Turk street
battle. The forenoon passed with lit
tie disturbance, but throughout the
hours of the afternoon from IL o'clock
until Z, stones few on Mission street
from Fifth street to Twentieth, dis
lance of about three miles
Though nearly 100 policemen, few
of them mounted, were stationed
along Mission street, violence was not
prevented and comparative few ar
rests were made.
Several passengers were assaulted
by the crowds, numerous strikebreak-
ers were struck and panes of glass
were smashed and persons alighting
from cars were chased and in some in
stances knocked down and beaten.
Mayor Schmitz and the committee
of fifty have spent the day in persist
ent efforts to formulate some definite
plan that will make for industrial
peace and the restoration of normal
commercial activity, but without sue
cess.
Gov. Gillett decided yesterday to
make his headquarters in this city in
definitely for the purpose of giving the
situation his personal observation.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPIIOME
DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.
Washington Notes.

The postoffice department has just
completed a parcels post agreement
with the government Of the Neither
lands.
Capt. George Carry, governor OF Sa-
MARIA, Philippine islands, who has
been appointed governor of New Mexi-
co. will sail for Manila for the United
States June 2.
Through the efforts of President
Roosevelt a vigorous campaign is 10
be conducted for the betterment OF
tenement house conditions in Wash
jngton and the District of Columbia.
The plans drawn up by Capt. 0. L.
Wells for the improvement of the
Honolulu harbor have been approved
bv the war department. Specifications
are being prepared for the advertising
for bids. The sum of 100000 is avail
able for this work.
information was given out at the
general land Office by Commissioner
Ballinger that the charges against
Gov. Crawford of South Dakota, in
volving alleged illegal filing OF land
patents. resulted in the canceling OF
all the patents. The land department
has had considerable correspondence
relating to the subject and has com
Melted it's work on the cases. What
ever further action is TO be taken III
the matter is to be determined by the
department of justice.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-16
General.

An appeal for aid for the starving
millions of Russia has been issued by
Gov. Deneen OF Illinois.
The resignation of Prof William l..
Richardson as dean of the Harvard
medical school has been accepted.
Brewer & Co, the oldest plantation
agents in Hawaii, have declared a
stock dividend of $1,000,000, thus dou-
bling the capital stock.
A Franco-Japanese convention for
the preservation of the statu quo in
the Far East is declared in several
quarters to be under negotiation.
Peter Kremer, proprietor of hotel
at Marquette, Mich, is the possessor
of the champion COW of Upper Michi-
gan. Bossy gave birth to three healthy
calves.
Three-quarters of an estate esti-
mated to be worth $5,000,000 is left to
Barnaby college, New York, under the
will of Miss Emily o. Gibbs, wealthy
recluse who died recently.
The annual report of the General
Electric company shows net earnings
for the year of $8,427,841. The gross
earnings for the year were $60,071, 1888
an increase of $17,000,000.
Frederick Auguste Bartholdi, the
sculptor of the statue of Liberty in
New York, is to have a monument
erected to his memory at his birth
Mace. Colmar, Alsace M. Bartholdi
died in 1904.
President Roosevelt, according tc
the statment of DR.. A. T. Cabot of Bos
ton. has consented to become the hon
orary president of the American
School Hygiene association, which has
Just concluded it's first convention.
Representative of the cotton manu-
facturers of Fall River, Mass. and o.
the textile council have agreed upon {
new scale of wages for six months.
John Grier Hibben of the Princeton
alumni committee of fifty announce!
the gift of $1,200,00O to Princeton uni
versity. 1t is understood that 100000
will be utilized for the erection 0
| physical laboratories.
1t is stated on the authority of
member of the board of directors o
the International Rubber compan.
that negotiations for a consolidation
with the United States Rubber com
pany have been declared off.
Love for dog has impelled Jacol
| Sitter, a wealthy retired farmer o
Grundy Center, Iowa, to erect a monu
ment to it's memory at cost of 1,50C
| The dog was a collie and once save'
the life of one OF the children Of 1T
owner.
Clear Havana cigar manufacturer
of the United States are at this me
ment confronting the most serious sit
uation since the Weyler edict, is tn
statement made in the Tobacco Lea
by a writer who has made an invest
cation in Cuba for that magazine. E.
! hausted stocks and a short crop ar
! given as the reasons.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-16
Casualty.

Three children named Dominique
were burned to death in their home at
Blind River, Mich.
Three men were killed by blast in
the United States Steel corporations
Dober mine at Iron River, Mich.
Fire in the four-story warehouse of
the Graham Paper company at ST.
Louis caused damage estimated at
$50 900.
An extra freight collided with the
engine of work train near Piedmont,
Ala, and two men we're killed and
nine injured.
4 brick wall being torn down on the
site Of the new Maryland theater at
Cumberland. Md, fell and killed two
men who were at work there.
A seven-story building at Chicago,
occupied by Morley Bros. wholesale
dealers in saddlery and hardware, was
destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
August Hazeman prominent farm
er near Webster City, Iowa, was in
stantly killed in a runaway. He was
thrown from the buggy and his neck
broken.
While hunting muskrats near Butte
George Gay was accidentally shot and
fatally wounded. He slipped in the
mud and his gun was discharged, tear
ing away his right arm.
The eight-story brick building
known as Warehouses B and CO. of
the Schwarzschild & Sulzberger COM
pany, packers at Chicago, was partial
ly destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
Charles j. Giers, a clerk in the adju-
tant generals office in the war depart
ment in Washington, accidentally fell
over a railing on the fourth floor OF
the building and was instantly killed.
Winfield McKim, sixty-eight years
old. a painter by trade, was smothered
| to death in a heap of rubbish in barn
at Charlotte. iowa 1t is believed
that McKim was seized with fit and
that he fell face downward in the heap
of rubbish and was unable to rise.
Mrs. Honora Mcknight, ninety years
old. a recluse, was found burned to
death at her home in Marshalltown
Iowa. It is believed that she raked
| live Goals out while polling the fire
igniting her clothing, but the coroner
will investigate. Much gold is believed
to be hidden about the premises.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-16
FEDERATION OF
CENTRAL AMERICA
THE PRESENT DIFFICULTIES IN
GUATEMALA MAY BRING 1T
ABOUT.
START WITH A REVOLUTION
BELIEVED THAT MEXICO AND,
UNITED STATES WILL APP
PROVE OUTCOME.

Mexico City, May 15.-As forecasted
in these dispatches May s. there is
now further reason TO believe that the
present difficulties in Guatemala may
lead to the greatest even in the annals
of Central American history, namely,
the federation Of all the republics of
Central America. There is also reason
to believe that such an outcome would
not be unacceptable to either Mexico
or the United States.
The first step to this end will be a
revelation against President Cabrera
of Guatemala. headed by Gen. Toledo
and backed actively by President Ze-
laya Of Nicaragua and the chief exec
utives of Honduras and Salvador
Toledo Will Be Chief.
1t is expected that Cabrera VIII be
driven from the presidency OF Guate-
mala within the next ninety days Gen.
Toledo probably will be the new presi-
dent of the republic, but he win act
only long enough to have the country
agree formally to enter the federation.
Honduras and Salvador will thereupon
follow suit. Zelaya is TO be the presi-
dent of the four republics upon giving
pledge to Mexico and the United
States that he will call a general cleo
ton shortly after the scheme is per
fecteG.
Costa RIGA and Panama Also.
The republics Of Costa RIGA ana
Panama will be invited to join the fed
Grafton, and it is believed that eXpedi-
ency will result in the acceptance Of
the invitation.
Preparations for the revolution
against President Cabrera are being
pushed with activity.
President Cabrera, foreseeing his
danger has endeavored to make con
cessions to the Mexican government.
He has offered to surrender Col. Ono
fre Bone. a witness in the BarrillaS
assassination case, and to try Gen.
Lima, who is implicated in the recent
murder of Former President BaIril-
las of Guatemala. Mexico received
these proposals coldly and replied that
the case is now closed. so far as this
government is concerned
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-16

Rumors that misunderstanding has
arisen between Emperor William and
Prince Won Buelow, the imperial chan
cellor, are denied.
Advices from Havana state that a
report is published there in La Lucia
that ex-President Palma is seriously
i'll at his ranch near Guamo.
NJ Lepine, project of police at Paris,
has accepted the dictatorship of the
Suez Canal company made vacant by
the death of NJ. Casimir-Pe
The population of Cairo is 100000
and that of Alexandria 100000, accord
ing to the census. The total popula-
ton of Egypt is estimated at 12,OO0..
000.
A young Russian woman named Ma
dia Baradon committed suicide at
Florence because she despaired of her
revolutionary ideas ever being adopt
ed. She was an active nihilist
A royal welcome was given to
Prince Fushimi, cousin of the emperor
of Japan, when he arrived at Victoria
station, London, as special envoy OF
the emperor to the court OF st. James
The temporary appointment OF
Count Hermann Won Hatzfeldt-Wilden-
burg, first secretary of the German
embassy at Washington, as counselor
of legation there has been made per-
manent.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-16
Crimes and Criminals.

The manager of a cafe at Brussels
was stabbed and killed by an itinerant
dealer because he playfully refused to
nav a gambling debt of 10 cents. The
murderer escaped.
w. D. Clark has been arrested at
Honolulu on a charge of forgery IS
sued from Hastings, Neb. Clark has
been engaged in missionary work
among the Koreans.
A warrant was sworn out for the ar
rest of John Riplinger, former city
controller and defeated candidate for
rnayor of Seattle last year. He is
charged with embezZlement of city
finds. Riplinger is now in Honduras.
Claiming that the face of man
he had hanged ten days ago was con-
tinually before him, Sheriff K. f.
McCaslan died at Greenville, S. G., as
the result of the shock caused by OIL
ciating at the execution of Joseph
Evans, wife murderer.
William Parks. an inmate of the ma
tionaI soldiers home in Washington
shot and fatally wounded James Les
lie also an inmate, and afterward
committed suicide. Parks had been
drinking. Leslie died few hours
later.
Six prominent merchants of Durant
I. T., and Colbert, I. T., were arrested
on the charge of leading the mob
which 1ynched jim Williams, a negro
at Sterrett, March 80. The specific
charge of murder has been brought
against them.
Judge Winston, in the district court
at Anaconda, Mont, has sentenced six
teen-year-old Frank Carpenter to a
term of fifty years at hard labor in the
Deer Lodge penitentiary for the muir
der of John Johnson at the Parrot
ranch last January.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-16
WHEAT PASSES
THE DOLLAR MARK
MOST SENSATIONAL OPENING IN
HISTORY OF CHICAGO BOARD
OF TRADE.
COUNTRY ORDERS POUR IN
BUYING ORDERS FROM ALL OVER
THE COUNTRY - CROP RE-
PORTS CAUSE 1T.

Chicago. May 15.-In the most SEN
sationaI opening in the history of the
Chicago board of trade wheat yester-
day shot past the dollar mark. Heavy
realizing sales pushed the price back
ward somewhat, but at the close the
market was strong, and, according 10
the majority of the spectators on the
board, the demand upon which the
late advance has been made is still I'M
satisfied. The net advance yesterday
for wheat was 4 cents for the July and
September options and 1-8 cents for
the December option. From the low
point on Monday of last week July
wheat has advanced Is ga cents, Sep
temper has gone up Is "a cents and
in the December option the high point
of yesterday was 16 34 cents above
the low price of last Monday.
Country Orders Pour In.
1t was a certainty that strong
bulge would take place in the wheat
market at the opening. Country or
ders had been poured in seemingly in
an endless stream, and in obedience
to them brokers stood ready to buy
millions Of bushels at the market
price Shorts were in a highly nerv-
Gus condition and were eager to cover
The result was that as soon as the
gong sounded there was terrific roar
of voices. all anxious to buy, and no
body offering to sell The confusion
was so great that for few minutes
but little actual business was trans
acted, the brokers fighting and strug-
Cling in the effort to get hold of wheat
from anybody at any price.
The rush of buying orders seemed
to come from almost every city in the
United States which was situated
along a telegraph line. The country
at large seemed determined to buy
wheat at whatever price it could be
had.
Caused by Crop Reports
There were no claims in any direc-
ton that the market was being manip-
ulated. The general opinion seemed
to be that the advance was based
upon natural conditions. which are
certain to curtail in large degree the
worlds coming crop of wheat. The
advices from all parts of the West
and Northwest confirmed the previ-
Gus reports of damage by weather and
by insects, while kilograms from the
Canadian Northwest declared that
there was still no possibility Of seed
ing in that district and that every
day of delay meant the loss of thou
sands of acres that might otherwise
have been sown in wheat.
Cablegrams reported the markets at
Liverpool and Budapest to be in a
highly excited condition, with prices
advancing strongly.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-05-16
MANY FORTUNES
MADE IN WHEAT
sPEcULAToRs QUIETLY UNLOAD
AT HIGH PRICES ON CHICAGO
BOARD.
GLOOMY OUTLOOK IN EUROPE
ADVlCES FROM ALL PARTS OF
EUROPE, EXCEPT FRANCE,
ARE UNFAVORABLE.

Chicago, May 15.-Many men took
small fortunes from the board of trade
yesterday morning by quietly unload
ing wheat at the high prices made pos
sible by Mondays extraordinary bull
movement. The pit, however, was less
spectacular than it was Monday, and
the gallery, crowded to its utmost ca
pacity by visitors of both sexes, wait
ed in vain for burst of pandemonium
like that which existed for hours Mon
day.
December wheat touched a dollar
for a single sale at the opening, but
promptly retreated from this conspicu-
Gus position The proft-talling move
ment carried July down to SO "a cents
and December to 81 cents.
Slight Change Shown.
The reduced level of prices induced
a wave of new buying near the close,
under which prices rebounded sharp
Nv and the close, considering recent
violent fluctuations. showed but a
slight change from Mondays final fig
ures.
July closed unchanged at IS $50
953 cents, September 3-801-2 cent
down, at 81 1-8097 IA cents and De
cember with a similar drop at SO $50
9S3- cents. i. The volume Of business
was heavy.
Enthusiasm Great.
Speculative enthusiasm showed
scarcely any abatement, for when real
izing sales near the end of the session
had carried the active options to
lower level new investment buying on
a large scale was invited. under which
the market attained the best prices of
the day. There was renewed profit
taking during the last few minutes,
however, and closing prices averaged
slightly lower.
Supply and Demand.
London, May Is. = The European
wheat situation, according to the gen
orally accepted view here. has resolv-
ed itself into questions Of supply and
demand 1t is explained that it is not
speculation alone which has brought
about the present high prices. From
all Europe, France excepted, the adj
vices are unfavorable. The Russian
crops are not only bad. but the politi-
cal uncertainty of that country is also
having depressing effect on trade.