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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-01-16
BITS or NE WIS
WASHINGTON

The Senate adopted both the For
aker and the Penrose resolutions Of
inquiry after Senator Foraker had
declared that the President had ex-
ceeded his constitutional rights in
dismissing the battalion of negro SOL
dfers.
Senator's Lodge and Crane have
asked the President to speak at
Provincetown, Mass, next summer,
when the cornerstone of the new
pilgrims monument Is laid.
The new secretary Of the British
Embassy, Rsme Howard, was pre-
sented to Secretary Root.
Ten cents for the Conscience Fund
reached the Treasury from Rowan,
Iowa.
The President has nominated
Chaplain Frank B. Rose, retired
with the rank of captain, to be chap
lain, retired, with the rank OF rear
admiral.
February 4 has been set for the
trial of Congressman Binger Herr
mann, of Oregon, accused Of Destroy
ing letter-press copy books when he
retired from the General Land Office.
Rumor has it in Washington that
both Herbert w. Bowen and Francis
B. LOOMS soon are to re-enter the
diplomatic service.
Secretary Metcalf has asked Con-
gress for $4,000 to build two rort-
able contagious disease hospitals at
Ellis Island, New York.
.>--- that D1n1sIo 4t
Roosevelt has made several unsuc-
cessful attempts to induce Messrs.
Cortelyou and Bliss to restore money
paid by the ''big three" insurance
companies toward his campaign
fund.
The President has promised an adj
dress before the National Convention
for the Extension of Foreign Com
merce, which meets in Washington
| January 16.
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How e Get Good Roads,

We have no doubt. that Governor
Woodruff will recommend s8numberS
Of measures OF judicious economy,
based on business methods, and We
have faith to believe that the Gem
serai Assembly will put these into
effect. He Is quoted as fayoring 81
radical reduction Of expenses fn Scer-i
tain directions where, with the Ispseit
of time, it has been developed that
too much goes out for what comes in;
All this Will be- fully approved by the
people; every business-like step; will.
be welcomed BY a~business people,
But we incline to hope that along
with economies there may come some
broad measures of expenditure
worthy of Connecticut and her In,
telligence and civilization. There
are ways to save and ways to spend
The latter can be as true ecoaomysas
the former.
No other thing could do more, IT
any other could do as much, for the
State, as a system of intelligentlys
planned and honestly developed high
ways. It is a tried maxim that roads
measure a civilization, but 1T is as
true as ever. We have started in, In
a small and haphazard way, to I'm.
uroye our roads. What has been,
done has already suficed to silencel
the. objections so plenty at hrst. we
all know now what q good road Isl,
and realize what a benehtit may De-
But the little that we have Is Only
an invitation to more, and onsa more
comprehensive scale. Suppose that2
instead Of cutting off such q slice as,
seems available from our yearly mi
come and turning that into roadbeos,
we should deliberately create a Statel
eood-roads debt, put out bonds for
The nurpose, and go in to build good;;
roads all over the State on such q,
scale az would give us a real system,
within a few years. A representatives
of The Courant once asked Murray
Crane. q wise, conservative man,
when he was Governor OF Massacnu-i
setts, If he did not think the SLOWLY
ooo a wear which that State was putt
ting into good roads was a big lot OF
money to go that way, and the Cow
~arnor;s answer was that he wished It
was 100000.
It sounds very neat and thrifty to
eav we have no State debt; but a.
debt for which we have got more
than our moneys worth i~ndicatest
better business management tnan NO
debt and a lack of desirable-evenf
necessary-things that we could have
II we would use our credit CO. get
them.-Hartford Courant. y
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-01-16
THE LIFE LINE PARTED,
TWO DROWNED IN POND
Davis, of Morristown, N. J., Tried
to Rescue a Skater.
HIS WIFE SAW THE TRAGEDY
Tied q Rope About Her Husband Be.
fore He Entered the Water, But
Tt Broke When She Pullcd-The
Bodies Recovered.

Morristown. N. J.-Eight-year-old
John Arke and George Davis, who
was twenty-five, we're drowned in tho
grist mill pond in the Rockaway
River, after a hard struggle for life.
the latter victim dying before tho
eyes, of his wife, who fought to savo
him. Arke, while skating on the
pond with other boys, suddenly fell
through a hole in the ice. Davis
lived near by, and the boys ran to his
home for assistance. Both MI. and
Mrs. Davis hurried to the pond.
Young Arke was then struggling in
the water and crying pitifully to be
saved.
Mrs. Davis brought a clothes line,
and before she would allow her hus-
band to go near the hole through
which the boy had fallen she tied the
rope around his body and held fast
to the other END of the rope. In a
few, seconds Davis was at the edge
Of the hole and slowly slid, into the
cold water. He seized young Arke,
who by that time was exhausted.
" When Davis tried to lift the limp
body to the surface he encountered a
task that was too much for him.
Each time he got the body to the sur
face 1t slid back into the water. Soon
overcome by the cold, Davis was un-
able to render further assistance and
bent what little strength he had left
10 getting himself out. He could not
10 it.
"Pull, for Gods sake, pull" he
cried to his wife who, with the help
Of several Of the boys was .tugging
on the rope fastened TO his waist.
Just as the man was about to crawl
to safety on the ice the rope broke
and he went back into the water and
| under the ice. He came up once, but
only for a second.
Although several men had been at
tracted by the cries Of the woman,
they stood on the banks like statu-
airy. Crazed by the sight of her hus-
bands drowning, Mrs. Davis endeav-
ored to make a dash for the hole,
and would have jumped in, but vas
prevented by the crowd. ID.
The bodies of Davis and Arke were
recovered.
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Not q Two-Headed Snake.

A full grown adder may measure
two feet in length and about six
inches around the thickest part OF its
body. It's movements are sluggish
and of course the universal idea pre-
vailing among the natives OF this
country that it is capable OF trans,
ferring its head from one extremltya
to the other once every six months is
due simply to superstition. The TACT
is that the tail of this snake does
not terminate in a point, as Win
ophidians generally, but Is stumpy
and resembles the head SO much tnat
it is difficult for an observer situated
at a distance of a few yards to dis
tinguish the one from the other
hence the story Of its being two
headed, the fallacy Of which no In
telligent observer could fail to detect.
The Pioneer.
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CAsTELLANE DEBTS ADJUSTED.
Money Lenders Claims Thrown Out
Mime. Gould Pays Some.

Paris.-The decision of the court
In the suits of the creditors of Count
de Castellane against him and his for
mer wife, Nine. Anna Gould, was de-
livered. All the claims of Seigler,
tho money lender, amounting to
100000, were rejected.
The Count and Nine. Gould are or
dered to pay the bill of Hartog, the
jeweler, jointly. TIE court, how
ever, refused to allow the full claim
of s137,200, and appointed an expert
to examine into it with a view to re-
ducing the amount, as though Nine.
Gould has the jewels now she was
not in a position to judge Of their
value at the time of the purchase.
The Count and Nine. Gould were
ordered to pay Jointly $4,000 to the
actress, Mile. Nimidof, for diamonds
which the Count got from her under
the ~pretence that the Countess would
buy them for that sum and which he
sold for half that amount.
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The Field Of Labor.

In the anthracite coal regions 49,
600 boys less than fourteen years
old are employed in mines in Penn
sylvania.
The establishment of the postofice
savings banks has been an enormous
inducement to the cultivation of
thrift among the w%orkingmen of
England.
Wage-raising appears to have be-
come epidemic. Even the Standard
Oil Company has caught the infection
and added ten per cent. to the pay
of all its employees earning less than
500 per month.
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About t People.

, Archbishop Ireland is sixty-eight
years of age.
John D. Rockefeller has taken to
playing golf with his Italian work.
men.
Nicholas Longworth, the Presi-
dents son-in-law, wears chiefly Eng
lish clothes.
Ferdinand Brunetiere, the writer
and member of the French Academy,
died recently in Paris.
Jeffries Davis, the new Senator
from Arkansas, has never o a
s%wallowtail coat and vows he never
will.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-01-16
FATAL RACE RIOT
IN MISSISSIPPI
Negroes and Whites Killed in
Fight Near Meridian.
TROOPS ORDERED TO SCENE

Eight of the Nine Men Killed Are
Negroes - Militia Withdrawn
After the First Trouble-Two
Whites Arrested.
Meridian, Miss. - Nine dead and
three wounded is the record Of the
race riot in Kemper County since the
trouble started. Eight of the dead
are negroes, while but n white man
was killed.
When the troops arrived at Waha-
lax they found the little town in a
fever of excitement over the clash be-
tween the races earlier in the day.
Colonel ,McCants, the commander
Of the Second Regiment, was in
formed that the negroes had fortified
themselves two miles from Wahalak,
and a party of soldiers went out to
dislodge them, but when the troops
arrived on the scene the blacks had
disappeared. Two negroes were
killed neal Wahalak by whites, but
no further trouble occurred there
during the night or next morning.
All of the negroes in that section
had either fled or secreted them
selves in their homes, and believing
the trouble at an end, Colonel Nc
Giants returned to Meridian with the
soldiers.
At night rioting broke out at Scoo-
ba, a town in the same county, five
miles south of Wahalak, as a result
Of which five negroes were killed.
The Sheriff Of Kemper County was
unable to control the situation and
sent Governor Vardaman an urgent
appeal for troops. r~.rs.... a.
The Governor Immediately mott
fed the militia at Meridian, Macon
and Columbus to proceed to Scooba
by special train t -
Reports from Kemper County by
long distance telephone state that all
of the white people in the county are
up in arms. The negroes Ire armed
with rifles and shotguns. s. T. -
Two Of the alleged slayers of the
negroes at Scooba have been placed
under arrest, and Governor Varda-
man has ordered a company of State
troops from this city to prevent their
escape. ,. ...,
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FOREIGN.

The Spanish Chamber of Deputies
has ratified the convention for Mo-
roccan reforms.
Admiral Thierry is to command
the French squadron at the James,
town Exposition.
The House of Commons has ap-
proved the grant of Constitutions to
the Transvaal and Orange River
Colonies.
Galicians who had emigrated to
the United States sent to their homes
in Austrian Poland during 1905 al
most 100000 in money orders
alone.
Young clericals drew the carriage
of the Archbishop of Paris from his
palace to the residence Of a Deputy
who had offered him an asylum.
There was an upward movement
in security prices on the bourses OF
st. Petersburg and Moscow as a re-
suit of Premier Stolypin's announce
ment Of the Russian Governments
plans for reform.
The elections to the German Reich
stag have been set for January 20.
A large band Of terrorists held up
a train near Bialystok, Russia, killed
three guards, wounded twelve, and
released a number of political pris-
oners.
The British House Of Lords, by a
vote of 1872 to So, rejected the con-
cessions offered by the government
in the matter of the Education Dill,
and the measure is dead.
Soldiers at Lola, Ecuador, mu-
tinted, killed three officers and TWEEN
ty-fve citizens and pillaged the town.
According to a special despatch
from Teheran, the Crown Prince has
arrived in the capital and practically
rules in Persia.
A number of prominent Britons
and Americans met in London to
celebrate the 300th anniversary OF
the sailing of the first British colony
for Jamestown.
Constitutional Democrats in Rus
STA are rerplexed by the action OF
the Project of Police in dispensing
their convention after having given
it his sanction.
Fire at Hardin, Manchuria, de-
stroyed the quarters Of the general
staff, the museum, the library and
| many warehouses.
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The Field of Sports.

Robert Weir won the golf tourna-
ment at Lakewood, N. j.
Steiger, the new pitching acquisi-
ton of Detroit, Is a southpaw.
DR.. Schurman, president of Cornell
University, strongly praises the re-
vised game of football.
President Charles ". Eliot, OF
Harvard, while praising rowing and
tennis condemns football.
Mordecai Browne, Of the Chicago
Nationals, has only three fingers on
his pitching hand, but he is taking
the place of the mighty Mathewson
as the best pitcher in the country.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-01-16
Newsy Gieanings.

Roumania has accepted an invita-
ton to participate in the jamestown
Exposition.
It is reported that the United
States recently purchased a war bal
loon in Paris.
Water Register Padden reported
an increase of nearly $1,000 in the
water revenues.
Alexander Greger, Russian diplo-
mat, horsewhipped Count Rodellec
du Porzic in Paris.
The most complete veterinary col
lege in the world is contemplated by.
the University of Illinois
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-01-16
M690HBRAAdael
Value Of Good Roads.

In an address by John Craft, OF
Mobile, 1t was stated thatstIe cost
to the farmers of the South Is fifty
cents per bale or cotton for an aver
age haul of eight miles.
If there were good roads the cost
would be reduced to sixteen cents q
bale. Estimating a crop2at a million
bales, this would mean a saying OF
$4,000 annually.
It costs under present road condf-
tions twenty-five cents to- haul q ton
Of fertilizer mile. with good roads
the cost would be eight cents a ton.
'I have studied for some years the
problem Of working convtcts on our
public roads," said Mr.. Craft, "and
they have proved to be the most eco
nomical,road builders to be had. The
convict has long passed the expert
mental stage for road-makingy
Judge Eve, Of Georgia, who has had
twenty years Of experience inswork-
ing conyictsS SIS road builders, says:I
"They are The best and cheapest
road-builders."
While working convfcts not a sim
gle overt act was committed, or a
single child, woman or man molested,
or one dollars worth OF property dep
redated on. :
MecklenburE County. NC, has
the finest macadamtzed roads. and it
Is being done with conYictSlabors It
costs an average ofstwentY-1ve cents
a day to guard feedsanf care for cons
vict labor, VIXEN it is managed on
business principles,
AS for the convict himself stalls
tics show that sixty PEI. cent. OF thosss
whoSare worked.in the sopensalrSspfop-s
Ferly fed and guarded, return to their
families and cease to be ascharge or
menace to the State, whileeof those
who are Fkept In prison o. worked
IN mines, at sawmiIls or other simi-
lar places eighty-fFe per cent. be-
come hardened criminals.
Nor doIsthink it right to put the
honest wage-earners in competitions
with convict labor, or heemanufac-
turing Industry in competition with
the one that hires cheap convict
labor. 49,
Indiana has abou. 1900 miles OF
good grayeIroads. remember when
Indiana was considered one OF the
il~literate States Of the Union
day she is prosperous, and her people
arefno longer ignorsnt, but the State
is dotted with finest schoolssand col
leges. 81
Massachusetts spends more money.
than any other State on her public
roads. New York has just voted 10
issue s50,000s9e0 for her roads to be
used in the next ten years. New,
Jersey has fine roads, which are the
best investments the State has. Miss
souri, Is agitating q bond Issue OIL
s25, 600, 000Ff for her public roads,
The province of Ontario, Canada, has!
$50, 900. miles OF good roads, and from
that phenomenal Improvements has
been prosperity to its farmers.
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Feminine Notes.

Mrs. Parsons theory Of trial mar
riages has been scornfully received.
The English suffragettes continue
to show heroic temper and quality.
A woman in Virginia has offered
to sell her brain to medical students.
At Hazelhurst, Miss, Judge Miller
sentenced Mrs. Angie Birdsong to
serve five years in the penitentiary
for killing DR.. Butler, who was al
legged to have slandered her.
One of the fads of the Duchess of
Marlborough is the study of philoso-
ply
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-01-16
MARYLAND NEGRO LYNCHED
Henry Davis Confessed to As
sauIting Mrs. Reid.
Doors Of Jail at Annapolis Battered
Down-Body Riddled With Shot
Governor Denounces Crime.

Annapolis, Md.-Within sight Of
the United States Naval Academy a
masked mob of sixty men, with faces
blackened, battered in the door Of
the Jail here, held up the warden and
his deputies with pistols, then
dragged Henry Davis, alias Cham
bers, a negro prisoner, to the street
and lynched him.
AS the negro's body dangled from
a pole the lynchers, with shotguns
and pistols, fired a shower of bullets
into it. Then cutting down the
corpse they ripped part of the cloth
ing off and divided that and the rope
used Is souvenirs among them.
Before being put to death Davis
confessed that he had attacked Mrs.
John Reid, in Brownsville, last Fri
day, the crime for which the mob
sought vengeance. He added de-
family that he would have committed
the assault either dead or alive. This
Infatuated the crowd, and he was
beaten and kicked as he "a rushed
along to the gibbet.
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LYNCH1NG A sCHooLBOY LARK.
Evidence That Students Were Con-
cerned in Killing Negro.

Annapolis, Nd. - Accommodating
evidence Is making it clear that
Henry Davis, the negro who as.
saulted Mrs. John Reid, was lynched
by two score of schoolboys as a huge
lark. There seems to be little doubt
that few residents of the section in
which the crime was committed, or
even mature men from any section,
took part in the lynching. The evil
dence is overwhelming that the
crowd, which numbered about forty,
was composed largely Of candidates
for the Naval Academy and students
at St. Johns College.
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BOAsTED RIGHT TO KILL WIFE.
'She Was My Woman" Declared
Brutal Slayer.

Butler, Pa.-Roused to frenzy dur
ing a quarrel with his wife, Max Cas-.
tie struck the woman with a bottle
and killed her instantly. When ar
rested he did not deny he had killed
the woman, and in extenuation of the
crime said: She was my woman
and I could do as I pleased with her."
The woman leaves three children,
one a baby of five months.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-01-16
CONSTITUTION IN TRANsvAAL.
Letters Patent Granted by King
Chinese Labor Excluded.

London.-Letters patent were is
sued granting a constitution to the
Transyaal. The terms were fully out
lined by Churchill, Under Secretary
for the Colonies, in the House of
Commons July 81. 80.
There is no change in the provis-
ions as finally approved by King Ed
ward. Members of the Legislature
will receive a salary of $500 yearly.
The recruiting of Chinese for work
in the Transvaa1 will immedi-
ately and the entire system Of
Chinese labor must be stopped a year
after the first meeting of the Legis-
lature. The latter has a right to put
an end to the system earlier.
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KILLED IN TRAIN E
Six Passengers Fatally Injured in
North Dakota.

St. Paul.-Nine passengers were
killed, six fatally injured and TWEEN
ty-five suffered broken bones and
bruises in q head-on wreck on the
Minneapolis, St. Paul G Sault Ste.
Marie Railroad in Enderlin, N. D.
An accommodation passenger train
crowded with persons bound on
Christmas visits from Moose Jaw,
Canada, ran into a freight train in
the Enderlin railroad yards, and the
six coaches we're hurled down a steep
embankment, where they caught fire.
Many lives were saved by the
switchmen and other railroad work
ers in the yards. They succeeded in
running two lines of hose to the
wreck, and quickly quenched the
flames. Two Of the passengers were
suffocated, however, and n man
was terribly burned on the right
side. The suffering Of the injured
was intensified by the zero weather.
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GROOM RESCUED BY POSSE.
Virginia Farmer Makes Elan Marry
His Daughter. ...t= .

Richmond, Var. E. Chandler, a
farmer, procured a license at Bridge
town for the marriage of his daugh-
ter and Richard Elan, a young
farmer, then returned home, and,
with his brother, forced young Elan
to marry his daughter, Bessie Chand-
Ter.
Watson Elan, father Of the young
man, with a party of twenty neigh
bors, all armed, went to Chambers
house, and, after surrounding it, de-
manded the surrender Of young ELAN.
He was given up and taken home.
ELAN swore out a warrant against
the Chambers.
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DIE IN SUSPICIOUS FIRE.
Neighbors Come Too Late to Save
Riverdale Family.

r. Paterson, N. IA fire, the origin
of which Is unknown, at Riverdale,
near Pompton Plains, at Q o'clock a.
M, destroyed the home Of Louis Nc
Whitney, a New York engraver. Mrs.
McWithey and their two children,
Helen six, and Elizabeth, four years
old, we're burned to death. Mrs. Nc
Whitney was subject to fainting spells,
and it is supposed that she got up in
the night to attend to her children
and was seized with one Of these at
tacks while carrying a lamp N her
hand.
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ESCAPED Convict Returns.

Edward Ness, who, with eight 9TH
ers escaped from the Hamilton Coun-
ty Jail, at Cincinnati, Ohio, surren-
dered himself at the Jail. He said
he was tired of being hunted like a
wild animal and preferred to serve
his sentence.
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st. Regis Indian Kills His Father

At the st. Regis Indian reservation,
at Malone, N. Y, Peter Gray, an In
dian, murdered his father, Tom Gray,
by cutting his head open with an axe.
They had both been drinking and
had a quarrel over some property.
Gray Is under arrest.
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FARMER STARTED RIOTS.

Wahalak, Miss.-Robert Harrison,
a conductor on the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, who was ambushed and Sc
riously wounded by a negro, Is dead.
The origin of the racial troubles here
was caused primarily by the meeting
in a narrow roadway Of wagons driy-
en- by a white farmer and negro re-
spectively. The negro abused the
white man, who reported the occur
renee to the white villagers at Waha-
lax. .a
The whites Immediately organized
themselves, and in a fight with the
negroes of the community several
white men were killed, including one
of the most prominent of the villag-
ers. ..' p.
Dead negroes have been found in
many parts of the settlement since
the trouble started.