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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
The Field OF Labor.

BARRIERS Protective Union, at San
Francisco, Cal, has $4,000 in its
treasury.
Lynn Mass building trade unions
are getting together for n central
council that will include all.
The Legislature of Massachusetts
Increased the limit OF work for wom-
en- and children in factories from
fifty-four hours a week to hfty-slx
hours.
There is a movement under way to
organize a building trade section or
the American Federation OF labor
In Fargo, N. D.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21

lection into the muscular Tissue in
order to avoid digestive derar cement.
DR.. Wright says:
81 am convinced" he adds chat
in mercury we have a specific for tu-
berculosis, and that the only question
remaining is how long a lime will be
required to effect a cure. We follow
the we'll established rules Of treat
ment during the administration of
the drug-open air, rest, proper food
in abundance, sanitation, personal n.y.
giene and selection OF climate" Sur
g~eon-General Rixey declines to CON-
ment on the tests.
Of course it is not claimed by Dir.
Wright that the new treatment will
restore the lost lung tissue, but where
there is enough lung tissue to support
life hebelieves the victim can be saved.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
POLITICAL RIOTS IN CUBA.
Many Injured at C~oaservati. Meeting
Negro Party Rally Broken Up.

Many Injured at C~o3servati;. Meeting
Negro Party Rally Broken Up
Havana, Cuba.-Political disturb
ances have begun to assume some
gravity in Cuba. A Conservative
meeting at Sancti Spiritus, in Santa
Clara Province, was the occasion OF a
riot at which many were injured. and
IN Havana a meeting of the new negro
party, headed by General. Estenoz.
was: broken, up by Liberals, who kept
up a continuous shouting.
Sancti Spiritus is the home OF
General Jose Miguel Gomez. the for
mer Governor of the province. and
The present candidate of the Miguel
lstas and Zayistas for the Presidency.
The Mayor of the town and the police
are members of the Liberal party.
General Mario Menocal, a former.
Liberal, but recently nominated by
the Conservatives for the Presidency,
arrived here on a special train; &C.
companied by a large number OF fol-
lowers. Thousands Of men, many OF
them on horseback, met the Conser-
yatiye leaders, and it was evident
from the start that trouble was brew
ing, as Menocal did not entirely lack
supporters among the crowds.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Prominent People.

Sven Hedin, the explorer, arrived
at Simla, after a long trip in Tibet.
He says that he made valuable dis
coveries.
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke returned
from Europe with valuable additions
to the treasures of the New York Met
rcpolitan Art Museum.
Northumberland Baden-Powell,
speaking at a meeting in London in
connection with a crusade against
cigarette smoking, said that ELS 1000.
900 (S75,000,0O0 a year was spent
On cigarettes. He thought this could
be easily saved.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Kaiser's Hearts Desire.
Jacob Cartor a Hero.

London.-Jacob Cantor. formerly
State Senator, OF New York. saved a
mans life in the Austrian Tyrol.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Women i'm the Days News.

Boston has a woman pickpocket
aged s~eventy-two.
Miss Palmer, daughter of General
W. J.. Palmer, has adopted nursing as
a career in London.
The will of Jane Blauvelt, who LETT
money to the First Reformed Churcn
at Yonkers, n. Y, has been contested
by relatives on the ground of'"undue
influence"
Attacked in her home by a man
who tried to chloroform her, Mrs.
George Hudson, No. 315 East 20lst
street, New York City, repulsed him
With a. broom.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
The World of Snort.

Sixty-four yachts started in the fall
regatta of the Larchmont Club.
l.. The Dixie II. won the mile cham
pionship for motor boats, showing
great speed.
j. Campbell Thompson's four-in-
hand trotted a mile in $50 in a
coaching ace at Syracuse.
Charles M. Daniels broke the Amer
lean record for swimming $50 and
440 yards across tidal water.
tom" Nicholson, of St. Andrews,
Won the national sod quoting cham
pionship Of America at Van Cortlandt
Park.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
S25,O00,OO0 DROUGHT ENDS
Rain Brings Relief to Parched
District After Ten Weeks.
Weather Bureau Forecasts Sufficient
Rain in Eastern States to
Quench Forest Fires.

Pittsburg, Pa. - The $4,000, 900
drought which for weeks past has
threatened the ruin of every farmer
within 10000 square miles in West
ern Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and
Northern West Virginia, was broken
by rain. In some parts of the district
there had been no rain for more than
ten weeks. In the Pittsburg district
there had not been even a small show
err for more than five weeks, and all
over the district there had been a
world of suffering because the
streams had dried up and cattle were
dying as we'll as the crops.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Kansas MaStodon Tusk
Crumpled When Found.

Concordia, Kan. - A large ivory
tusk, seven inches in diameter, was
found near here in a bed of clay. The
find was made by Frederick Dutton,
who was canoeing in the river. The
tusk crumpled into small pieces when
taken out, but parts Of it were
brought here, and Mr.. Dutton will
make a further search for the skele-
ton of the mastodon, which is believed
to be buried in the bed Of silt and
clay. Years ago the lower jaw of a
mastodon was found in this district.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Five Men Blown to Death.

Five men were blown to bits by an
explosion Of dynamite while working
at Cross Keys Cut, along the Lacka-
wanna Railroad near Tobyhanna, Pa.
The Americans are Harry Broadhead,
married, of Tobyhanna; John Walsh,
married, Firthcliffe, Pa; GodricS
Coyne, eighteen years old, Kingston,
and two unknown Italians. The hVe
men were tamping a hole containing
eighteen inches of dynamite, when
it exploded. The bodies were assem-
bled by means of matching the cloth
ing OF the victims.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
FOUR SLAIN AT CHURCH.
Rioters From Saloon Nearby Shoot
Into Congregation at Jellico, Tenn.

Rioters From Saloon Nearby Shoot
Into Congregation at Jellico, Tenn.
Jellico, Tenn.-One of the blood
lest affairs in the history Of East
Tennessee occurred near the Tennes-
see-Kentucky line north of Anthras
postofice. The scene was a little
Baptist church, within fifty yards of
which is a blind tiger" which has
been operated for months. I
The services had closed and nearly
all the congregation had emerged
from the church, when a crowd of
drunken men who had visited the
blind tiger" began firing into the
worshipers with pistols. John Ben
rctt, J. W. Mckinney and Edward
Thomas were shot down at the church
door and died almost instantly,
streams Of blood from their wounds
flowing down the steps from the little
church. The preacher, the Rev. MIR.
Kind, was shot and MORALLY wound
ed, falling in the church yard.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21

out of the darkness and one twined
about his neck. AS the efforts Of the
men on the surface to comply with
his signal threatened to pull his he'll
met off, Lund was forced to signal
them to stop.
With only his left arm free he
hacked at the tentacles until they
were partially crippled, but he was
being drawn toward the fish when he
saw the outline of the body. Plung.
ing toward it he drove his knife with
all his force into the head, repeating
the blow until he had slashed it into
sections. In it's death throes the &C.
topus frightened its %tentacles until the
diver was almost crushed in its EN-
brace.
Lund finally cut himself free and
was brought to the surface fainting.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Rain Storm Uncoycrs Rich
Placer Pockets of Gold.

San Bernardino, Cal. - Jacob L..
Thomson, of San Bernardino, was
prospecting among the Old Mexican
placers near Hesperia when he was
oyertaken by a furious storm, which
forced him to seek shelter. After a
quarter of an inch Of rain had fallen
in less than one hour, throwing the
into roaring torrents, Thorn
s returned to his work. When the
water subsidized he found scores OF
rich placer pockets, and within a few
hours banned out $4,000 in gold.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
CANE RUSH AND GAME FATAL.
Two Students Succumb to Same In.
Jury, Broken Back.

Worcester, Mass.-Emil F. Gran,
of West Wareham, the student who
had his back broken in the annual
sophomore-freshman cane rush at
Worcester Polytechnic Institute sew
eral days before, died at the Worces-
ter City Hospital.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Murdered in Woods.

Harry Hosmer, thirty-one years
old, Of Fine, st. Lawrence County. n.
Y, was shot and instantly killed IN
the woous near that village. Leslie
Combs, eighteen, is the alleged MUIR
derer, and it is said that be has con-
fessed the crime. No motive Is
known unless it be robbery.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Philippines Army Tragedy.

A tragedy occurred at Camp Jess
man, Manila, P. l., resulting in the
death of Lieutenant Edward Bloom,
of the Fourth Infantry, AMI Private
Suttles, Company K, OF the same
regiment. Suttles for some reason
shot Bloom, and then cut his own
throat. Suttles died Immediately, bus
Bloom fingered until the next night.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Drowned Escaping Burning Launch

Howard T. Smith, eighteen years
old, struck a match to light a cigar
EFT while in a launch in Curtis Bay,
Nd. He set fire to the launch and
lost his own life. The match ignited
fumes from the gasolene and Smith.
who leaned overheard, was drowned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
KING EDWARDS ARMY OF IDLE
Funds Raised Through United King.
dom Against Starvation.

London.-The Government author
tiles estimate that the number of per-
sons out of work in the United King
dom will be greater the coming Win
ter than in many years before, and
they are studying the problem OF pro-
viding occupations or relief for them.
Outside of London, where an enor-
nous number of men have nothing to
do, conditions are worst perhaps in
Glasgow, where $4,000 men are idle.
in Sunderland there are 10000; Bir-
mingham, 10000; Liverpool, $4,000;
Manchester, 5000, and other cities
from 1000 to 5000 each.
These figures do not include the
great army of strikers in the Lanca-
shire cotton trade.
Distress funds are being raised
throughout the country.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Two Women Held For Forgery,

Mrs. Ella J. O'Fearn and her sew
enteen-year-old daughter, Mary, who
disappeared on June II, returned and
surrendered themselves to state De-
tectives Molt and Murray, at Wofces-
ter, Mass. They are Wanted ioI
forgeries of upward OF $4,000.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Farmer Hangs Himself in His Earn;

Charles Argersinger, siXty-iour
years old, a we'll known farmer re-
siding near Glen, Montgomery Coun-
ty, n. Y, committed suicide by hang
ing himself in a barn on his farm.
He recently returned from a sanl-
tarium. The dead man is survived by
a widow and three children.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
WET LEAVES CAUSE sMAsH-UP.
Passengers Thrown From Trolley Car
at Hartford, Conn.,, and Injured.

n dSSCltSStS WIN >Ne
at Hartford, Conn.,, and Injured.
Hartford, Conn.-Wet leaves which
made trolley rails slippery caused a
collision between a work train and a
crowded interurban trolley car as a
result Of which half a dozen passen-
gers were thrown out on the asphalt
pavement. Two Of them, A. w.
Weeks, OF Worcester, Mass, and Wal
ter j. Brooks, Of Springfield, an in
spector for the Postofice Department,
are in a critical condition in st. Fran
els Hospital.
The work train was loaded with
stone, and neither motorman was able
to avert the collision, as the locked
wheels slid along the slippery tracks.
Others injured less seriously are Carl
Void, a small boy living at Wilson
Station; N. S. Palmer, his wife and
child, of New Haven; G. A. Dunbar,
of Wilmington, Del, and Mrs. Void,
Of Wilson Station.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
THOUSANDS DEAD IN FLOODS.
Bodies of Hindu Victims Found
Lodged in Trees Near Rivers.

Bombay, India.-Thousands OF ma
tive houses have been washed away,
and there has been a heavy loss OF
life in the H%yderabad and Deccan dis
tricts az q result of the floods which
followed an unprecedented rainfall.
The River Must rose sixty feet, all the
bridges, were carried away and the
country was devastated for many
miles in either direction. .
Corpses are strewn everywhere,
and scores Of bodies have been found
stranded high in the branches OF
trees, where they were lodged by the
swollen waters.
The native hospital at H~yderabad
was undermined by the waters and
collapsed and all the inmates were
buried in the wreckage.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Turkish Parliament Planned

Constantirople.-The details Of the
program OF action for the future
Turkish Parlianen: as definitely laid
down by the Union and Progress
Committee have been published.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21

Waterbury, Conn. - Wilfred Bal
thazar, the Waterbury High School
football player. whose spinal column
was fractured during a practice game.
died as a result OF the injuries. The
accident had caused paralysis Of the
body from the shoulders down.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Honor Colonel Bailey.

Manila.-A brilliant reception was
held at Fort Mckinley in honor OF
Colonel Bailey, of the Twenty-n!2th
Infantry, who was recently T:omot2d
and Joined his regiment.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Feudist is Killed by a Train.

Tom Cockrill, who, by numbering
Ben Hargis, of Jackson, started q ser
les of assassinations in the Kentucky
mountains, was killed by a train.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
MADE 200 STUDENTS ILL.
Discharged Chinese Cook Doctored
the Food ut Stanford University.

Stanford University, Cal.-Angered
because he was discharged from his
position in Stanford Inn, a Chinese
cook, with a vindictive and ingenious
disposition. placed a powerful irritant
in a large mass OF -four and made 200
students i'll. Two students were taken
to Guild Hospital.
Professor Swain, Of the chemistry
department, will make an analysis
of the poisoned food to discover what
Ingredient was used by the angry
cook.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
National Bank Examiner Dead.

Baltimore.-John U. Markell, Ma
tional Bank Examiner for Maryland
and Delaware, died near Chester,
Nova Scotia. He was forty-siN years
@1S
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
LATEST NEWS
BY WIRE.
For Department CT Justice.

Washington, D. C.-Edwin P.
Grosvenor, of New York, who has
been employed in assisting Special At
torney Taft in the ~so-called Tobacco
Trust cases, has been appointed all
attorney in the Department Of JUS
tice.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Drops Dead in Montreal.

Montreal, Canada.-T. F. DeListe,
sixty-one years old, of Cohoes, N. Y,
dropped dead Of heart disease in the
office of st. Mary's College.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
The Elections in Newfoundland.

st. Johns, n. F.-Tne NeWfound-
land LEGISLATURE has been dissolved.
and Monday, November 2, was named
as the date Of the general election
one week after the election IN Canada.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
HILBERT GIRL A SUICIDE.
Body Found at Chesterfield, Mass.'
With Revolver in the Hand.

Chesterfield, Mass.-The body OF
Esther A. Hilbert, who disappeared
O n September 10, was found in the
woods less than a mile from her
home. There was a bullet wound IN
her head, and a revolver was clutched
in her right hand. 1t is believed that
she killed herself.
Miss Hilbert, who was nineteen
years old, was about to enter Smith
College when she disappeared.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Plot Against SPANS King.

Pau, France.-The police have ar.
rested several dangerous anarchists
who were engaged in a plot to assas'
sinate King Alfonso Of Spain.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Corn Crop Now Safe.

The corn crop now being practi-
cally out of danger Of frosts, holders
have Iiguidated freely, causing d
slump in prices.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Baby browns in Milk.

Springfield, Mo.-The ten-months-
old daughter Of s. o. Middlemas, a
farmer near this city, fell into a
bucket of milk and was drowned be-
fore her parents found her. The
child tumbled into the bucket from
the porch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Peru'S EXecu'

Peru's Executive I~naugurated.
Lima.-Sencr Don Augusta B.
Lesura took possession of the eEecu-
tive power of Peru.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Hot Water Gag Disables Officer.

San Francisco.-A hot water bag
may cost the army one Of its officers.
Captain Edwin G. Davis, commanding
the Sixty-frst Coast Artillery, de-
clares that he has been disabled by
the application of hot water bags to
an ankle that was severely bruised
in the Philippines. +
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
LOCAL OPTION LAW CAUSES
TRoU9LE 70 / MDlANA GOVERNOR
His Demand That Charges Be Sifted
is Granted and Legislator Ac-
cuses Him Under Oath.

indianapolis, Ind.-Governor Han
Iy read a demand to the House OF
Representatives, which was granted,
that a full and rigid Investigation be
made of the charge OF Luther w.
Knisely, Democratic Representative,
that the Governor and Senator Thos.
S. Wickwire had offered Knisely a
position paying from $500 to $4,000
a year for his vote in favor Of county
local option.
Women Parade and Ohio City Goes
"Dry."
Ironton, Ohio.-Hundreds Of wom-
en- and children paraded the streets,
women furnished lunch at the polls,
and the largest vote ever cast here
resulted in both city and county vot-
ing "dry.:" This put forty saloons
and one brewery out OF business.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21

Bank Cashier Indicted.
New Martinsville, W. Va.-W. A.
Lewis, formerly cashier Of the Smith.
field Bank, thirty miles from here,
was indicted by the Grand Jury on
charges of embezzlement and misap-
preparation of $4,000 Of the banks
funds.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Germany's Precautions.

Berlin.-The Minister OF The In
terror has issued orders for the en-.
forcement of the emergency regula-
tions regarding emigrants from Rus
STA. Emigrants will be required to
battle their persons, and all their
clothing and belongings will be 2rmi-
gated.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Saloons

been knocked out.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Lord Tweedmouth Resigns.

Lcrd Tweedmouth resigned as Lord
President of the Council in the Brit
ish Cabinet.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
BY CABLE.
Wright Buying New Motor.

Wright Buying New Motor.
Paris.-Boris Loutskoy, a Russian
motor expert, who lives in Berlin, has
made an arrangement with Wilbur
Wright, the American aeroplanist, to
construct a seventy-fye horsepower
motor for use on the Wright aero
plane.
Grenada's Crew in London.
London.-Captain Watt and the
crew of the schooner Grenada, which
was abandoned in the Atlantic on Au-
gust 26, arrived here from Rotter-
dam, where they were landed by the
steamer Manchester Spinner which
rescued them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Boycott Hits Japan.

Tokio.-The depression OF last
summer in the shipping trade OF the
world did not fail to affect the Nippon
Yusen Kaisha, and officials of that
company are pessimistic with regard
to the immediate future.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Australian Navy is Certain.

Melbourne.-The British Admiralty
has given it's general approval to the
scheme of the Australian Common.
wealth for the formation OF a fotllla
of six torpedo boat d~estroyers. nine
submarines and two depot ships as
the nucleus of an Australian navy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-21
Stockman Shot Dead.

Marble Falls, Tex.-Frank, known
as Bud" Moore, a former banker
and wealthy stockman, was shot
through the heart with a rife about
a mile from his ranch at Miller's
Creek. will" Jackson has surren.
dered and is in custody. .
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-02-13
SIGNS PLEDGE TO
WIN HIS PAhaLE

Uponhis signing paper in whichi,h
agreed not to touch whisky himseA, kor
to sell it to others. and not to beareany
i'll will toward Scott Locknane. ono OF
tho witnesses whose testimony put him
in the penitentiary, John r. Smith of
Steamboat Springs, known as "dyna-
mite Smith was paroled u second time
yesterday by Gov Buchtel. SmithA had
violated his first parol by making slaekSs
against Lochnane and was taken Us ;If|1k
iil-sensetuenee;- ------- = ss
Warden Cleghorn was authority for
the belief that If Smith was released
and allowed to 90 to mining location
which bs ownes. in different part of
the state from his home, that he would
cause no more trouble. providing he
could be induced to leave licqdre alone,
Smith signed the pledge and viii go to
his clane by way of Denver, without
returning to Steamboat Springs or see
ing any of the people who might cause
him to break his parol again.
Denver Republican.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-02-13
WALDEN, COLORADO FEBRUARY ls,

made by the county commissioners is
81, 500 Representatives were i'll attend
ance from the commercial bodies of
Loveland, Berthoud, Wellington and
Walden, in addition to quorum of the
board of directors of the local chamber
of commerce.
The Secretaries Of the bodies represen
ed are to constitute committee which
is to beside npon the best means Of using
the fund TO advertise the county rs n
whole.
Representatives from the other towns
in the county wera pleased to learn that
the Fort Collins chamber of commerce
was willing to let them share in the
benefits of headquarters at the Albany
hotel in Denver This feature OF adver.
tising the resources of the county will
he especially valuable during the De-
mocrat National convention, which
meets in. Denver in July The Albany
hotel will be the stopping place at that
time of men from every section of the
United States Alaska and the island
possessions, and the fame of Laramer
county will be spred abroad through
some effective means to be devised as
a result OF the conference.