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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
JAIL SENTENCE FOR e
Toledo BUSINESS MEN
Convicted of Pooling Agreement
to Maintain High Prices.
SIX MONTHS IN W02KH0USE
Sentenced Men Are All Wealthy and
Prominent in the Commercial
Life of the Ohio City-Lumber
and Brick Men and Bridge agents.

Toledo, Ohio. - Some OF Toledo u
wealthiest citizens, and the most
prominent socially, were sentenced to
the workhouse for six months for be-
ing members of the lumber and bridge
trusts and conducting their business
enterprises in restraint of trade and
competition. All had pleaded guilty.
Twenty-one members Of the Lum-
Der Dealers Credit Association, nine
members of the Brick Dealers Asso-
citation and two bridge agents were
lined up before the bar to hear their
fate.
The sentence created more of a
sensation than that imposed a year
ago on the Ice Trust men. In that
case the hired agents were punished.
The court has 10Y landed the capital
lists themselves.
Judge Lindley W. Morris lectured
the defendants before imposing SEN
tence, saying:
what does a nominal fine signify?
It is wrong that you mel Of means,
with capital back of you, can so con-
troll prices that the poor are COM
PEELED to pay more than you have a
right to ask, and more than you
would have to pay yourself. 1t Is
time the courts of Ohio impose such
punishment as the offense merits.
"Fines are only makeshifts, and do
not bring prominent citizens to a pro-
per realization of their positions. At
ter full consideration I've determined
that the proper punishment Is impris-
onment in the workhouse. The SEN
tence, therefore, on those who have
generally pleaded guilty will be that
they be confined in the w%orkhOuse."
The brick men pleaded guilty to an
indictment under a different section
of the Valentine Antitrust law and
the penalty could only be a fine, the
maximum being $1,000. The Judge
gave the maximum.
Marcus v. Barbour, Of the lumber
firm of Barbour G Starr, counts his
fortune in excess Of half a million
dollars. He is one of the men who
must go to jail. George L. Freeman,
of Kelsey G Freeman, lumber dealers,
is a local social lion. His partner,
Hiram Kelsey, is equally prominent.
John H. Puck, vice-president of the
Western Manufacturing Company, Is
wealthy and a widely known politi-
clan. Frederick e. Wilker, president
Of the Wilker Manufacturing Com
pany, is also a big hotel owner. Harry
G.. Hammond and w. N. Cleveland
are well known bridgemen, the for
mer with the Canton Bridge Com
pany, his home being in this city.
Mr.. Cleveland's home is in Cleveland,
and he is president Of the Cleveland
Bridge Company.
The sentences to the workhouse
were suspended for ten days owing to
that institution being quarantined
against smallpox.
Having pleaded guilty, the defend
ants are, according to the rules of
customary criminal procedure, denied
the right of appeal to the higher
courts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
new SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR
Or. Edward R. Taylor, Dean of Law
School, Succeeds Schmitz. :
Eminent Citizen Will Endeavor to
Stamp Out the Municipal Graft
ers-Committee Of Safety Retires.

San Francisco, Cal.-Edward
Robson Taylor, D. D., LID, Dean
of Hastings Law College, in this city,
was elected Mayor Of San Francisco
by the Board of Supervisors, to sue
coed Charles Boxton, appointed to
the place temporarily after the con-
yiction of Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz
Of extortion.
Mayor Taylor is n of the fore
most Of the city's legal authorities
and has achieved some distinction in
literary pursuits. He has never fig
ured as a politician, belongs to no
class or faction, and his selection was
a big surprise. He vas selected for
the position by the graft prosecutors
after the refusal Of the commercial
labor union bodies to participate on
an equal basis in a convention to Sc
lect Bottoms successor.
DR.. Taylor is n of the city's best
citizens and has the esteem Of all
classes. He is a man of brilliant in
tellect and high ideals.
With the election of Taylor the
graft prosecution will retire from the
conduct of municipal affairs and de-
vote itself exclusively to the prosecu-
ton of bride givers and bride takers.
Mayor Taylor will select a new Board
Of Supervisors to replace the con-
fessed boodlers and will make a clean
sweep Of all municipal commissions
and departments. Every one con-
nected with the Schmitz's regime Is
expected to take the count.
Schmitz, endeavoring to act as
Mayor from his cell in the county
jail, refuses to recognize the election
of his successor. He announced that
he would at once remove the present
Board of Supervisors and appoint a
new one selected from the ranks of
union labor.
DR.. Taylor is a physician as we'll
as a lawyer. He is siXty-nine years
of age and was born in Springfield,
III. He took his degree in medicine
at the Toland Medical College, which
is now the medical department Of the
University of California. He went
to California in 1862 and was adj
mitted to the bar ten years later. He
was private secretary to the Govern
or of California from 1857 to 1871.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
FOREIGN.

The French Minister of Finance,
M. Caillaux, spoke in support of the
income tax bill before the Chamber
Of Deputies.
An open attack on the French Gov
eminent and on M. Bompard, the
French Ambassador to Russia, was
printed in the Move Vremya," at st.
Petersburg.
Major Lemsir, a Belgian, who
served eighteen years in the Congo,
has published an exposure of alleged
revolving conditions in the local
army.
A coroner's jury in London ex-
onerated the Rev. W. S. Hancock,
formerly of Chicago, of poisoning his
wife.
English papers in China upheld the
right of the Americans to send their
fleet to the Pacific.
The French Parliament has ad-
journed.
The authorities of the Congo indie
pendent State have requested the i'm
mediate opening Of negotiations for
annexation, and will appoint a COM
mission to meet representatives of
the Belgian Parliament.
At Madrid General Primo de Ri
vera was appointed Minister Of War
in the Maura Cabinet to fill the port
folio made vacant by the death, on
June 80 last, Of General Lono.
The economic war between Greece
and Rumania has ended and diplo-
matte relations will be at once re-
sumed.
According to a special Antwerp
despatch the law of desertion has
done much to discourage the Belgian
stokers' strike.
The strikers in the Transyaal min
ing regions will appeal to Premier
Botha to force arbitration.
The Canadian Railway Commits
sioners have ordered freight rate dis
elimination abolished on traffic from
Detroit and other American cities as
compared with rates from Western
Ontario frontier points.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14

Machine, Leaping Embankment at
7O.AIiIe Gait, Crushes Chauffeur.

e. Pittsburg.-Death was the winner
In daring dash against time made
by J. w. Davis, a chauffeur, OF this
city. Davis was employed by an au-
tomobile company which had planned
to sell a machine to T. c. jenkins.
Two of Jenkins employees TOOK seats
in the car to see the trial run. cong
out of P~errysville avenue DAVIS
turned on all the power, determined
to show his passengers that the car
was UP to specifications. Speeding
seventy miles an hour down hill the
machine got beyond his control. IL
left the road and leaped over a twen-
ty-foot embankment. Davis sprang
from the machine, but the car, turn.
ing over, crushed him so badly that
he died a few hours later.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
KILLED BY YOUTHS FOLLY.
Girl Into Whose Lap Firecrackers
Were Throw ~ies.

Paterson, N. Fannie Turner,
nine years old, died at the General
Hospital as the result of burns re-
ceiyed on July 4, when a young man
threw a bunch Of lighted frecrack-
ers in her lap as she was sitting on
the stoop of her home watching the
fireworks. Her clothin" taught hre
and she was badly bur! - before her
father could subdue the flames. Sne
suffered intensely from the time she
was taken to the hospital.
The name of the young mar who
+hrew the frecrackers Is unknown.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
Women In the Days News.

Square parasols fringed with little
silver novels are fashionable. The
idea m from the Riviera.
Mrs. John Hay, widow of the
former Secretary of State, and her
sister, Mrs. Samuel Mather, have
given to Adelbert College, Cleveland,
a memorial chapel in memory of their
father, Amasa Stone.
In Belgium girls are expected to
give five weeks out Of each school
year to learning Homework. The girl
Is required to know not only how to
cook a dinner, but to clean up and
care for. a kitchen. da marketing,
wash. and iron.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
A Useful

A witness was being examined as to
the sanity of one of the inmates of the
asylum. "You hold that this inmate
is insane, do you?" a lawyer asked.
Il do" was the firm reply. "Why
are you SO sure?" 1.-THE man." the
witness said, "goes about asserting
that he is Santa Claus" And"
said the lawyer, "you hold, do you.
that when a man goes about assert.
ing that he is Santa Claus, it's a clear
proof of his insanity" 81 do"
"Why?" Because" said the wit
ness, in a loud, indignant voice, II
happen to be Santa Claus myself
San Francisco Argonaut.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
The Labor World.

San Francisco (Cal.) Painters
Union has a membership Of 1921.
France has 1925 local unions, with
an aggregate membership Of 1884,
A new union of the theatrical en-
ployes was lately formed in Cali
fornia.
Detroit, Mich, secured the 1905
convention of the Steamftters' and
Helpers Union.
st. Cloud, Mimi, has a new union.,
composed Of nearly all the printers
in that city. A charter has been re-
ceived from the international, and q
permanent organization Effected
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

The controversy over property. of
the Catholic Church in the Philip
pines has been settled by Secretary
Taft.
Monsignor Averso, the Apostolic
Delegate to Cuba, received a treasury
warrant for $~1,3S7,083 in payment
for land bought by the American Gov
eminent from the Catholic Church.
The strike Of the Havana cigar
makers has been on for about six
months. Unless it Is soon brought to
an end the stock of Havana cigars
must be exhausted. Some brands and
sizes are already out of the market.
Faustino Ahlen, the Pulajane lead
er, who was wounded and captured
On the island Of Leyte on June 6, Is
recovering. He advises his follow
ers to lay down their arms.
. Roland P. Falkner, Commissioner
Of Education in Porto Rico, has re-
signed. Prof. Dexter, Of the Univers-
ity of Illinois, will succeed him as
Commissioner. I'd,
Registration for the Philippines
elections closed with only 1900 voters
registering in Manila, when $4,000
were expected. Only one resident out
of thirty-flve qualified. -
Six hundred Japanese laborers on
the Honomu plantation, island of Ha-
wall, have struck because of differ
ences with the Japanese overseers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
CONVICT 10 YEARS BY ERROR.
Girls Plight Not Discovered Till She
Vas Dying.

Montgomery, Ala. - Rena Rivers,
who died a few days ago in the prison
at one Of the mines, had served as a
convict for nearly twenty years on a
sentence of only twenty months. A
clerk in making out the papers made
the mistake of writing years for
months.
The girl was twelve years Of age
when arrested for larceny. She had
almost served out her long term
when she died. The white man for
whom her mother worked became in
terested in the case and discovered
the mistake, but too late to help the
woman. Her mother, who Is old and
needy, has asked the Legislature to
reimburse her for her daughters SER
vices
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
BOMB REMOVES ALIKHANOFF.
General GIieboff'S Wife and Coach
man Of Party Killed.

Alexandropol, Russia. - General
Alikhanoff, former Governor-General
of Tif1is, and Nine. Glieboff, wife Of
General Glieboff, together with the
coachman who was driving their r
riage, were blown to pieces by bombs
flung at them in Beboutoff street at
$50 a. m. A 0 of General Alik-
hanoff and a daughter of General
Glieboff sustained serious injuries.
The party were returning to the
residence of Alikhanoff from his club.
General A%likhanoff was nicknamed
"the wild beast" by the Caucasian
members of the Duma on account of
his cruelties in the Kutais district.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
Newsy Gleanings.

Count Itagaki cabled to the New
York World that the Japanese believe
peace will continue.
The $4,000 surplus of the Jerome
campaign fund, in New York City,
was given to charity.
Nine out of thirty-eight auto ace
completed the course at Dieppe.
Secretaries Metcalf and Straus are
going to Hawaii to look into the for
rifcations and Japanese immigration.
The Japanese are becoming more
and more convinced that San Fran
cisco merely reflects race hatred. In
america
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
Has Fit and browns.

Thomas Smith, sixty years OF age
a teaming contractor, Of Chicago. was
seized by an epileptic fit while riding
on Spring Lake, Grand Rapids, Mich.
He fell into the lake during the SELF
IRE and was drowned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
WHOLE STATE DRY TWENTY DAYS
Texas Law Provides Il, But Saloons Refuse
to Close. F" 50

Dallas, Tezas.-The new State I.iq-
uor law, which practically provides
that the State shall go dry for twenty
days, became operative. 1t reyOkes
all licenses, and while getting new
ones saloons must close for the TWEEN
ty-day period.
Liquor and brewery interests claim
this closing clause is unconstitutional,
BIS it enforces State prohibition with
put the consent Of the people. Three
fourths of the sa~loonkeepers defied
the law and remained open. The bet
ter class closed. .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
Black Hand Secret Service,

Because of the large number of
Black Hand crimes in New York City,
Police Commissioner Bingham de-
cided to ask for an appropriation of
$4,000 with which to establish a
secret service devoted to detecting
Black Hand offenders.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
SAY HE TOOK $4,000.
City Council Accuses DR.. Ira G. Lee
dom, Treasurer Of Bordentown. .

B%ordentown, n. J.-Dr. Ira G. Lee
dom, City Treasurer and Collector Of
Bordentown, left his wife and young
son recently, and no one, except his
lawyer, seems to, know where he is.
The Finance Committee of the City
Council charges that DR.. Leedom is
$4,000 short in lis accounts with
the city. If this be true, he has left
only $7S.41 rafting in the bottom Of
Bordentown's Golfer.
DR.. Leedom has been highly es-
teemed by his fellow citizens, but cir
cumstances hitherto unknown now
lead them to believe he has been lead
ing a double life. A warrant was is
sued for his arrest.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
SENATOR BACON LOST FORTUNE.
Failure Of Macon Bank Takes About
All He Had Saved.

Macon. Ga.-About half of United
States Senator Bacon's small fortune
was swept away by the failure of the
Exchange Bank last week. The Sen
ator was worth about $4,000, half
of which was represented by Elk.
change Bank stock. This stock is not
only worthless but it is said the Sen
ator and other stockholders will be
assessed heavily to pay depositors.
1t is feared that when the affairs
of the bank are wound up Senator
Bacon's fortune will be entirely gone.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
w. r. Hearst Wins.

The Appellate Division in Brooklyn
decided that W. r. Hearst is entitled
to have the ballot-boxes of the May
orally contest of 1905 opened and
the ballots recounted.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
New Director For Mint.

Secretary Cortelyou recommended
to the President the appointment of
Frank A. Leach, the present supe:in-
tendent of the mint at San Francisco,
as director of the mint.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
Trro Painters Fall to Death.

The staging from which John Ba-
ker, Of Worcester. and F. B..
we're painting the sixth story OF La
France Hotel at Holyoke, Mass, col
Iansed. Both men were killed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
DOMESTIC.

. The White Star Line Adriatic, on
her arrival at New York from Queens
town, reported running through a
snowstorm in mid-ocean on July 4.
Pinkerton detectives were notified
that $4,000 worth of diamonds had
disappeared from the safe Of J. M.
Ceballos, in New York City.
Edward M. Shepard addressed the
Illinois Bar Association in Galesburg
In favor Of removing the dollar mark
from capital stock of corporations.
BY the capsizing Of a rowboat
Misses Nellis Noe and Mary Com
stock, Jacob Pargiew and a negro
boy were. drowned at Springfield, KY.
Extensive exceptions were fled in
Concord, N. H., by counsel for Mary
Baker Eddy and the trustees under
her deed Of trust, which probably
will take the case to the Supreme
Court.
Acknowledgement Jackson, of New
York, began an action to annul the
charter of the Interborough-Metro-
politan Company, alleging that it Is
an illegal monopoly.
Judge Parker declared that the
common law was adequate to cover
all present Federal prosecutions, but
that officials were inactive before Mr..
Roosevelt's time.
At Fond Du Lac, Wis, four chill
dren Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jason Field,
ranging from eight months to four
years, were burned to death by the
explosion of a gasoline stove.
The National Educational Associa-
ton declared in favor Of peace and
simpliied spelling. .
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad was indicted at Chicago on
sixty-fve counts on the charge Of re-
batting.
American coal dealers declare bat
tleships taking the Magellan route to
the Pacific will find coal scarce and
very high.
Fire destroyed two hundred houses
and devastated an area of ten acres
in Bisbee, Ariz.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
Cranks After Roosevelt.

Two cranks tried to get at Presi.
dent Roosevelt, in Oyster Bay. One.
a woman, wanted 10,000,000; the
other said he was Satan.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
Indian Chief Claims Mo?tauk,

Chief Wyandunk Pharaoh, repre-
senting the last of the Montauk In
dians, sued to recover the tribal lands
at Montauk Point, now worth mill
lions.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
Cashier Had $500 Left Of 500, 900.

The police of Palermo. Italy, ar
rested the cashier and two Of his &C
completes who were concerned in the
recent robbery Of a bank at kien,
Russia. When taken into custody
the cashier declared he had only
$4,000 out of 100000 left.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14

William street, in New York City,
was known as "Horse and Cart
street" back in the eighteenth CEN
fury.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
Plot to Smuggle Russians.

The United States immigration au
thorities discovered a plot to SNUG
gle Russians into this country.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
Corn Backward. Wheat Good.

Corn is backward-two weeks late
and half the usual height. Wheat
yields in the Southwest are light, but
quality is good.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-08-14
YamamotO Meets Roosevelt.

Admiral Yamamoto and President
Roosevelt had an interview at Saga
more Hill which, it was officially an
nounced, confirmed the fundamental
friendliness" between this nation and
,JaDan.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-27
RIVERSIDE TAXES TO BE
INCREASED FOR DEFICIT
Rate for Year Will Be $3.50 Because
of Indebtedness Left by
Previous Boards Of
Trustees

RIVERSIDE. aug. 26-The Riverside
tax rate for the coming year, the first
under the new charter, will be $780, as
against S1.10 for last year. 1t should not
be put down altogether as the fault OF
the new charter that the rate is so high.
Previous municipal administrations have
left the present councilmen of Riverside
a nice little deficit of S26,000- and this
deficit the present board proposes to wipe
off the map, so that another year will
start clear. This deficit makes necessary
the greater part of the increase in the
rate.
And then the present board of council
men are planning largely for Riverside
better streets, better street lighting,
more trees on the streets. a more efficient
fire department-and these things cost
money.
The following paragraph from one Of
the papers of this city, reporting the
mined upon, will be of interest:
"a number of interesting facts devel-
oped in the course of the discussion. one
of which is that the rock crusher is at
present being operated at a loss of about
$1,000 yean to this city and is so nearly
worn out that it will have to be aban-
doned before very long. The crusher is
now so far from the available rock in
the North hill that it is very expensive
to get the rock to it. The council has
under consideration the abandonment of
the quarry crusher and the purchase of
the crushed rock needed by the city on
contract. If rate can be secured lower
than what it is now costing the city to
produce"
The Redlands rate will probably be
s1.10 this year.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-27

FRENCH FREE
IN MOROCCO
GERMANY WILL GIVE RIVAL FULL
SWAY
MooRs TO BE sUBDuED, is PLAN
OF NATIONS
Representative Of Kaiser Says His
Country VIII Not interfere and
VIII Ask No Embarrassing
Questions

BY Associated Press
BERLIN, Aug. 26.-Jules Cambon, the
French ambassador to Germany, returned
here today from Norderby, satisfied with
the results of his visit to Chancellor Won
Buelow.
The ambassador had three long CONVEX
sations with the chancellor, covering the
entire field of international politics. Most
Of the subjects were touched upon some-
what lightly, nothing in the way of fresh
proposals or serious suggestions being
made.
Possibly the most interesting subject
to the French government at present was
the Moroccan situation, upon which the
chancellor talked freely, repeating and
celebrating what had already been COM
municated to France through the foreign
office at Berlin, namely, Germany's will
inRnsss that France should use her own
discretion at Casa Blanca with the knowl-
edge that Germany will not raise embar-
raising questions or will in anyway place
dificulties in her way or hinder the French
work Of restoring order and secure the
future safety of Europeans In Morocco
SAN SEBASTIAN, Aug 26.-The joint
French and Spanish note insisting that
measures be taken for the formation of
Morocco police as per the Algeciras agree
ment was handed to the Moroccan minis
ter of war yesterday.
TANGIER, Aug 26.-The minister of
war has appealed to the French legation
to secure loan in order to pay soldiers
who are clamorous for their back pay.
PARIS, Aug. 26.-Premier Clemenceau
conferred with President Fallieres today,
also with various ministers concerning
Morocco No statement was issued. The
cabinet will meet Wednesday and Satur-
day