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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
JACK|ES ATTACKED
By Cuban Police While on
Shore Leave at Santiago.
SEVERAL BADLY INJURED
Americans Were Unarmed and Not
One Policeman Was Hurt-lnvesti-
cation Under 'Way-cubans
Were Aggressors.

Confirmation was received both at
the navy and state departments at
Washington Wednesday of the attack
Of the police of Santiago upon par
ty of sailors from the United States
cruiser Tacoma who had been given
liberty and were returning to their
ship early in the morning. A full
investigation is in progress, the re-
suits Of which are awaited with in
terest
Regarding the affair Santiago dis
patch says: The conflict between the
sailors and police followed an order.
ly banquet which was given at the
Cafe Leon de Oro by a party of first
class seamen of the cruiser Tacoma.
At / in the morning the men sepa-
rated and twelve of them went to the
Cafe Union. They were not intoxicat-
ed. A police captain named Lay, who
was in citizens clothes, had been
watching this cafe all the evening,
with seven or eight policemen to sup
port him. At about 2 o'clock in the
morning the seamen started for the
wharf with the intention of boarding
the Tacoma. Captain Lay claims that
the seamen started the trouble and
the sailors claim that Captain Lay,
without provocation, caused the dis
turbance.
AS the enlisted men had been him
dered by the police OH their way
to the wharf, Ensign Brisbin decided
to walk slightly ahead of the party.
Suddenly he heard a revolver shot
and Immediately afterwards the po-
lice charged with revolvers and ma
chetes. Brisbin received an ugly cut
on the arm and was felled to the
ground three times. AS the crowd Of
seamen came up the policemen emp
tied their revolvers at them, at the
same time attacking the Americans
with machetes.
A fierce fight ensued, with the re.
suit that Henry L. Lee, a fireman of
the Tacoma, will probably die of a
compound fracture OF the skull, caus-
ed by machete, and gunshot wound
in the right breast. Ten other mem
bers Of the crew of the Tacoma were
taken, to the ship hospital suffering
from machete wounds and clubbing.
Not one of the policemen was bad
ly hurt, though several of them suf.
fered from fist Commissions.
The captain and all the policemen
who participated in the affair have
been suspended by order of the civil
governor OF Santiago, on the repre-
sentations of Commander Tappan of
the Tacoma, and the American con-
sui, Mr.. Holiday, who affirm that the
lives of the American officers and
men who go ashore are not safe while
such men are acting as agents CT the
law. Mr.. Holiday is making a thor
ough investigation of the incident
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09

of the road. The engineers found, in
fact, that the tropical vegetation
grew faster than tie force of men at
their disposal could cut 1t down. At
ter a number of experiments it was
found that boiling water was most
effective in eradicating this too-will-
ing vegetation, and now, just as the
roadbeds If northern roads are
sprinkled with oil to lay the dust, the
line of the Tehuantepec road is lib
orally scalded at frequent intervals
to keep ,cocoanut groves and sugar
plantations from springinS up over
night between the ties and blockad-
ing the road.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
AFTER THIRTY YEARS FREE
Aged Man is Arrested Under Indict.
ment for Murder.

William G. Graham, an old man
Of 70 years, who was indicted in Mad
ison county, Georgia, at the March,
1877, term of the superior court for
the murder of William King, but who
made his escape from the scene of
the crime Immediately after its COM
mission, was last Friday morning
placed under Arrest, ten miles north
west of Gainesville, Ga, at Bolding's
mill, in the upper part Of Hall coun-
ty, by Sheriff Orr, of Dawson county,
to whom the warrant was sent by the
Madison county sheriff a few days
ago.
The facts of the killing, are, of
course, meagre, but few Of the pres
ent day remembering them. However,
it is said by a former citizen of Mad
ison county, who is now living in
Gainesville, that difficulty arose be-
tween Graham and King, as they came
out of a stream or pond, where they
had been in swimming. It is said that
King came at Graham with an open
knife, when the latter Drained King
with a stick, inficting such serious
injuries that King died shortly there
after. It is also understood that Gra-
ham left Madison county on the night
that the sheriff went to his house to
arrest him on warrant charging him
with murder.
Graham went to Hall county, and
located near where he was arrested.
He has conducted himself properly
since he has resided there. and is held
in estem by the people of that COM
munity. Graham has wife, who is
older than himself, and .he is nearly
blind. The old man took his arrest
calmly.
His neighbors never suspected he
was wanted for murder, and his ar
rest caused much discussion. The
crime has been we'll nigh forgotten
in Madison county, owing to time
elansed since IFS commission
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
TWENTY MEN CRUSHED.
Wall Of Big Dam Gives Way and Mex.
lean Workmen Are Whelmed Un-
der Avalanche of Debris.

A special Of Friday from Chihuahua.
Mexico, says:
Without an instant's warning the
great walls of the Chiuvuscar dam
gave way Thursday, engulfing nearly
forty men under the enormous weight
of masonry and water, between fifteen
and twenty of whom are dead, and
thirteen injured and others unaccount'
ed for Some of the injured will die
All of the victims are Mexicans.
Meager details of the affair reached
San Antonio, Texas, early Friday
morning, when the judicial authori
ties and several surgeons departed
Immediately for the scene.
The disaster is only the last Of a
large number which have recently
claimed nearly 200 victims in that
section, and mostly in the neighbor'
hood of, Chihuahua.
The authorities are making a thor
ough investigation into the present
catastrophe and will severely punish
those upon whom they place the
blame.
According to one version Of the af
fair the men were working on a
foundation close to the foot Of the
main rampant of the dam, which had
already been constructed. The main
wall was weak and gave out under. the
water pressure.
The dam was being put in for fri
cation and stock watering purposes,
and was large enterprise. The loss
will be heavy.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
MAP OF THE ISTHMUS.

route between tho chief commercial
ports of the world. s9 s9
The isthmus of Tehuantepec is sit
uated in the southern portion OF
Mexico, in the States Of Oaxaca and
Vera Cruz. From ocean to ocean the
distance IS 125 miles. Considering
the fact that the Sierra Madre Noun
tain range crosses the isthmus, the
territory is comparatively level.
From the Atlantic, or Gulf of Mexico;
side, the rise is gradual, eliminating
in C1ivela Pass at a height OF, only
730 feet. From that point to the Pa
cific or to the Gulf Of Tehuantepecs:
the descent is abrupt.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
Country Doctors Dying Out.

The country doctor is rapidly be-
coming extinct as species. The men
one meets at their societies .ook,
dress, talk and act as the meh do at
any meeting of city physicians. The
papers presented are quite up to the
city standard, the discussions mark
edly above those of the city men. The
surgical experiences related would; J;
astonish some men who think the
city clinics and clinicians do all OF
this work, or at least all hat is well
dore.-Kansas City Star. s
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
PROBLEMATICAL.

There came a ring at the telephone.
Herbert" asked q feminine voice,
what time are you coming home to
dinner?"
"I don't know, dear" answered
Herbert. Call I can tell you is that
am going to start right now"
A few minutes later, with a more
or less firm reliance upon the pro-
lection CT Providence, he boarded an
elevated train and began his journey
around the loop.-Chicago Tribune.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
ATLANTA SIGNS FOR FAIR.

Contract with Georgia State Agrieul.
tural Society is Approved.
The final plans for holding the Geor-
gia State Fair in Atlanta next ,Oc-
tober were perfected Friday when a
contract was signed by the Georgia
State Agricultural Society and the At
lanta Fair Association on the compile
tion Of the guarantee fund Of $4,000
required.
Under the contract the date of the
fair will be from October 10 to 26,
which will give two weeks for the
fair.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
A CRANKY DEMONSTRATION.

Labor Fanatics in New York Show
Sympathy for Alleged Murderers.
Two long lines Of men and women,
probably 10000 of them, trailed in pa
rade through the streets Of the up
per and lower east side in New York
Saturday as a demonstration of their
sympathy for Meyer, Haywood and
Pettibone, the officials CT the Western
Federation of Miners.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
Writing Table.

A Chicago man has devised and
patented an exceedingly useful COM
>bination writing desk and table, an
illustration of which is shown below.
Although at all times convenient, in
dividual writing desks are not used
to any great extent at the present
time. The ordinary table usually
serves the purpose, paper and pencils
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
DE4TH-DEALiNG MINE DISASTER.

Three Men Killed, Four Entombed and
Several Badly Burned.
Three men were killed, four were
seriously burned and four others are
entombed and probably dead as re-
suit of a mine explosion at the Whip.
pie mines in the Leap creek dis
trict, near Charleston, w. Va, Wed.
nesday afternoon.
The mine where the explosion oc.
Cured is shaft 456 feet deep.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
ANOTHER RAILROAD FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN.
Only About One Hundred and Twenty five Miles Long, But Crosses
the 1sthmus of Tehuantepec-- ---Habors at Each End
For Big Steamships.

At least until the Panama Canal is
completed, many expect that the
greater burden of traffic between the
Atlantic and the Pacific will be
handled by the Tehuantepec Nation
al, on account of geographical ad-
vantages, as it affords the shorter
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
MISSOURI FIGHTING BOOZE.

Legislature Passes Bill intended to
CurtaiI the Traffic.
The house of representatives Of
Missouri Wednesday passed a bill pro-
hibiting brewers, distiIlers and whole.
sale liquor dealers from dealing in. re-
tail liquor. A bill giving the right to
search for liquors in local option coun-
ties was also passed.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09

On the isthmus of Tehuantepec, in
the country through which runs the
new railroad from Salina Cruz on the
Pacific to Coatzacoalcos on the Gulf
Of Mexico, the rapid growth of vege-
tation is said to be one of the most
serious problems in the maintenance
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
ANOTHER PREACHER SINS.

Leaves Wife Of His Bosom anu EIopes
:. With Young Girl.
Members OF the fashionable ST.
George Episcopal church at Hemp.
STEAD, L. L., were astonished Thurs
day when they learned that their pas.
tor, Rev. Cooke, had departed from
hampstead, and that Miss Floretta
Whaley also had left her home and
had written letters saying that she
would not return. The Rev. Mr.. Cooke
is married man. His wife left home
some time ago and returned to her
fathers home on account of his at.
,entious to Miss Whaley.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
GUATEMALA SNUBS MEXICO.
Shows Defiance and Refuses to Turn
Over AlIeqed Assassin.

A City of Mexico special says:
Guatemala has refused to comply
with the request Of the Mexican gov
ernment that Jose Maria Lima and
Colonel Onofre Bcree, charged with
complicity in the assassination OF
General Manuel Lisandro Barlillas, be
eXtradited
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
GOT one THOUSAND PER CENT.

Contractor Was Paid sso,74s and Only
Expended $1,000.
According to the advance report Of
the auditors of the capital Investigate
ing committee at Harrisburg, Pa, Jno.
H. Sanderson & Co., Philadelphia,
were paid s117,25S for the furnishings
of the house caucus room of the new
capitol and SSS,242 for the furnishings
of the senate caucus room.
The most expensive furnishings in
these rooms were the rostrums, for
which Sanderson was paid S90,74S,
and for which he paid $4,000 to the
sub-contractor who supplied them.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
BARON kURCKl ARRIVES.
Noted Jap General REACHES Victoria
En- Route to Jamestown.

General Baron Kuroki, wearing a
khaki uniform, accompanied by a rep
resentative party CT Japanese military
men, arrived at Victoria, B. c.,
Wednesday afternoon on the Aii Maru
on their way to the jamestown ex-
position. They left for Seattle Thurs
day morning.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
ENTomBED MINERS RESCUED.
Seven Men Were Imprisoned in ri,
Nearly Five Days.

Nearly Five Days.
A special from Johnstown, Pa, says:
Taken from the dark corridor Of a
coal mine where they had been i'm
prisoned for over 100 hours, the seven
men taken from the Berwind:White
mine No. SO, 'Foustwell, Wednesday,
are lying in the Windber hospital,
physically exhausted.
The hospital physicians stated that
the men would be able to be out in
a few days, but would be. unable to
resume their regular duties for a
week or more.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09

A professor in Copenhagen Univer-
sity Is said to chloroform plants
After several days they bud In great
profusion..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
NEW ROOSEVELT PORTRAIT.
One Just Completed to Hang in Ro.
man College.

Special CableSram to The Star.
PARIS, January 19.-The Marquise de
Wentworth, a noted American artist, has
just completed a portrait of President
Roosevelt. After being exhibited in the
spring salon, the picture will be hung in the
Catholic College at Rome.
1t is three-quarter length portrait,
showing Mr.. Roosevelt in the gray suit he
sometimes wears in the morning when at
tending to official business.
''All the necessary sittings," the marquise
told your correspondent, were given dur
ing my stay Washington last autumn
/ finished the head and shoulders there but
the greater part of the background was
lacking"
True to her method of painting the least
details from nature, the marquSe brought
back with her from Washington all the
accessories shown in the picture. The win
dows side of the attractive studio
are hung with lace curtains and deep green
draperies taken from the Presidents study
Two hgh-backed chairs and a Louis XII
table are arranged in the back order Of the
original background.
The setting is complete, even to the letter
heads of the executive mansion
Opposite the Presidents portrait is a half
finished picture of the Queen of England,
intended for a Spanish gallery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
GOOD WORK ABANDONED.
J. G. Phelps Stokes and Wife Quit
Settlement Labor.

NEW YORK, January 19.-After an ex-
pertinent extending over many months, j.
G. Phelps Stokes and his wife, Rose Pastor
Stokes, today announced that they would
give up settlement work on the East Side
they were disappointed in the results
achieved Every effort made by them
toward the betterment of the lot of the
poor was met and neutralized. they say, by
counter influences in the interests of the
rich.
THE truth is that the people appear to
be blinded to the real issues at stake" says
Mrs. Stokes. The idle rich are blind to
the fact that donation to charity or
philanthropy can serve no really good pur-
pose so long as the unjust social system
remains.
las for the oppressed. they are blind to
the fact that settlements and churches
can do little or no effective good so long
as there remains this inherent injustice in
the misguided industrial system which
makes people poor and then sees that they
are kept so. 1t shall be our purpose from
this time on to bend all our efforts in the
direction Of an awakening Of earnest men
and women everywhere to q recognition of
the real facts and real tssues."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
ChillS and Fever Cured

Miss May Coyne, a PROM
inent young woman of st.
Louis, Mo-, who was a
great sufferer from ma
laria, ChiIIs and fever, was
cured by DUFFY'S PURE
MALT WHISkEY.
Il was a great sufferer for MANY
months from Malaria, accompanied
occasionally by chills and fever,
brought on from living in a swampy
section of the country. l tried nu-
merous remedies, with little or no
result. A friend advised me to try
DUFFY'S MALT WHISKEY.
with the result that / am now en-
joying perfect health. and do cheer
fully recommend it to any one suf-
fering from this disease. Any one
is at liberty to write to me as to the
good DUFFY'S MALT WITS
KEY has done me.
Hoping this will be of good to
some one, am, MISS MAY
COYNE, 1920 Lucas ave, ST.
Louis. Mo-, Nov. 1st, 1906"
Miss May Coyne joins the thou
sands of men and women who have
been cured by this great family
medicine. and of her own free will
is anxious to tell the people what it
has done for her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
VIEWSOF AN OLD-TIMER
GRADES OF "KEY-POUNDERS" OR
"LIGHTNING-JERKERs."

An old-time telegraph operator In dis
| cussing the published statement concerning
the several grades of key FOUNDERS" or
lightning jerkers,' as operators are some
times termed, In connection with the Terra
Gotta railroad disaster. says the writer OF
the statement had referred TO three distinct
classes of telegraphers These. he said.
were the railroad operators. the commercial
men in the cities and the press operators.
1T was stated that the press operators
are the king pins " the old-timer added
and that the railroad wire is the lowest
round of the ladder; that IL is the place ~
graduate from to something better al d that
the railroad salaries are SO to $40 per
month about as much as "A press opera
tor receives for weeks work. This all
sounds very nice to those who don't hep.
pen to know something about the bus ness.
How Telegraphers Are Secured.
Il speak from years of experience in ali
branches of the business and To eniighte1
you to how the railroads secure their
telegraphers, boy enters railroad Of
flee at the age of fifteen sixteen. Some
times he receives a small salary for act
ing messenger and sometimes no sal
airy, with the privilege OF learning the
business. He watches the older men at
work. picking up a point here and there
and also learning to telegraph. and by being
constantly associated with trainmen he
soon becomes familiar with their duties and
every thing that in course of time he Will
need to know. and When he become
capable of holding Office and before he
is put in charge he must be examined by
the dispatcher. This eXamina ton consis
of test in speed in sending and receiving
and writing accurate and distinct copy; alsJ
the duties of a telegrapher in regard to
handling all kinds of signals. switchboards
ard eyesight and hearing test and color
blind examination. Now they talk about
getting responsible men in these positions.
Where are you going to get them? Can
you adopt any better method of securing
them than that now practiced by the rail
roads. who train them from the boys
cured along their lines and who usually
live near the road and are familiar with
the business when quite young.
The lowest salary paid to an operator
on a tirst-class railroad, to my personal
knowledge. was so per month. and the
highest So per month, and this before the
recent Increases. and / understand there
have heen two Increases. l speaking
for telegraphing and that alone. At the
first-class railroad stations you will find
some of the most expert men in the bust
ness.
''As to the commercial operators of the
cities Well, you can count on your fingers
those receiving over $50 per month out OF
an Office employing fifty men. and you Will
find a great number receiving less than so
per month. Commercial men, IL they have
worked at that business for any length OF
time, do rot make good railroad operators.
1t is too strenuous for them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
GRAFT TRIALS IN RUSSIA.
Grain Scandals to Be Aired THIS
Week

ST. PETER SBURG, January 19-The
trial of Assistant Minister of the Interior
Gurko and NJ. Litvinoff, chief of the de-
partment of provincial affairs in the min
istry of the interior, will begin January p
in the high court of justice on the charge
of criminal neglect of duty in awarding
the Lidval contract for the purchase of
grain to be distributed to the famine suf-
ferers. The procedure corresponds with an
impeachment Of public officials in the
United States, and Is applicable only to Of
ficials of the highest rank and by personal
order of the emperor. The high court of
justice is officially known as the first de-
partment of the senate, and consists of
thirteen members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS HELD.
Declared Responsible for Deaths at
Bad Ford,

WASHINGTON, Pa, January ia
coroner's jury today held the county COM
missioners responsible for the death of Mrs.
jacob Blakey and her son Samuel two
years old, who were drowned in East Pike
run Thursday. They recommended to the
grand jury that the commissioners be in
dicted for criminal negligence and involun-
tary mansaughter.
Mrs. Blakey and her infant son were
drowned while fording the creek Her hus-
pand ana son William, ten years old es-
capped drowning, but the latter is In a seri-
Gus condition. 1t was brought out in the
inquest that bridge over this creek had
been condemned by the grand jury but that
the commissioners had refused to build the
bridge. Others, it is said, have been drown
ed at the ford and many have had narrow
escapes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
PULLMAN CARS BURNED.
Fire in Wilmington Results in a
$114,OOO Loss.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
WILMINGTON, Del, January 19.-Repair
shop No. 3 of the Pullman car works in
this city was destroyed by fire tonight.
Fourteen Pullman cars which were in the
shop, brick building. for repairs were
consumed Superintendent ]. NJ Cannon
places the loss at $4,000, which is covered
by insurance.
The fire started apparently from spontane-
Gus combustion among a quantity of paint
and spread rapidly. The flames, however
were confined to one spot. a fire wall which
separated the building from the general
repair department and the paint shop on
either side, preventing a general distruc-
ton of the plant. During the blaze there
were a number of explosions caused by
gas tanks on the Pullman cars bursting
from the heat. William Brown, fireman.
was painfully cut by flying glass and was
removed to the Delaware Hospital. One
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
COHEN GIVES BOND.
New York Banker, Arrested in Pitts
burg, is Released,

PITTSBURG. Pa, January 19-Henry
Cohen, head of the banking firm of Cohen
& Co. No. IA Broadway New York CITY.
who was arrested last night on a charge
of embezlement made by H. G. Kimmick,
Pittsburg manager of Cohen & Co., Sc
cured bail in the sum of $4,000 today and
was released. His attorney, Homer L.
Castle, went on his bond.
The trouble between Cohen and KIM
mick, the Pittsburg manager, who was
also arrested on complaint of Cohen but
who Immediately furnished $4,000 bail,
is the result of the alleged disappearance
of securities of a railway enterprise in
Armstrong county, Pa, said to be worth
$750.0O0. A hearing in both cases has
been fixed for next Wednesday afternoon.