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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
MANY LIVES LOST
RIOTOUs ACTS FOLLOW A STEAMER
 CATASTROPHE.
Consul-General Harris Reports to De- pertinent on Sinking of the StambOuI in Turkish
 Water.

Washington, Oct. 2S.-Riotous acts followed the loss on Sept. 30 of the | steamer Stamboul, plying between Smyrna and the suburban town of Cor delio, Turkey, by which a large num- Der of lives were lost. according to a ! report made to the State Department by Consul General Ernest L. Harris at smyrna. supplementing press dis patch es.
 On the evening of Oct. an exas- perated mob seeking revenge for the catastrophe. attacked three piers of the Hamidieh Steamship Company and destroyed them by fire before the milt- tary could interfere. A number of the rioters were badly stabbed with bayo- nets. A half dozen of the steamers of the company, whose officers were afraid they would meet the same fate as the piers. were taken into the inner har- bor, where they were protected by the guns of battleship.
 The steamer Stamboul collided with the Kassandria and sank almost imme- diately.
 At the time of the report. Mir. Harris said 140 dead bodies had been taken from the sea, and divers declared the cabin of the Stamboul and the stair way leading to it was choked with eorpses.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
ASKS FOR DECISION
LABOR LEADERS WILLING TO An.
 VANCE BOYCOTT CASE.
GOmperH and Others Want the Bucks Steve Company Mstter set- tied Before Day of
 the Election,

Washington. Oct, 2s-To facilitate a quick decision before the general election in the contempt proceedings against President Gompers. vice-Pres- ldent John Mitchell and Secretary Morrison. of the American Federation of Labor. growing out of the alleged boycott of the Buck Stove and Range Company, of St. Louis, counsel for the labor leaders today gave notice to the counsel for the Bucks Stove Company that they will adduce no further evl- dence in behalf of themselves and sub init the case on the evidence as al- ready produced.
 They already submit to court that they are entitled to an immediate de- cision.
 The case has been set for a further taking of testimony in this city next Thursday before an examiner, the thirty days first allowed and twenty days additional allowed for the pur- pose of taking the testimony expiring on Thursday.
 Mir. Gompers and his associate lead. CTS are anxious that the decision be reached and announced immediately.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
FUNERALS AT NIGHT.
Alton Ministers AIliaHee Would Make
 Reforms.

Alton Ministers AIuance Would Flake
 Reforms.
 Chicago, Oct. 2S-A dispatch from AL ton. H., to The Record Herald, says:
 Funerals at night are the latest idea in Alton. Thirty members of the Min isterial Alliance, in session here, unanimously endorsed the idea as ad- vanced by Rev. F. S. Eitelgeorge. pas tor of the Henry street German Meth odist Church.
 It would be much better to have fu- nerals at night" he said. and there should be no Sunday funerals. either by day or night Funerals nowadays are too extravagant. Too much money is spent on flowers and carriages. and there is entirely too much display. From an extremely solemn function. the funeral has developed into an oc- casion for vulgar show.
 Mir. Eitelgeorge also said there should be a radical reform in funeral sermons. He thinks there Is too much promiscuous eulogizing.
 The safe thing to do would be to preach a gospel sermon" he said. q would say nothing good about the de- ceased unless 1t were justified by the facts. Even then. would make 1t very brief"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
OATES SEES
 ROOSEVELT
 --. ; .e .-4 .Alabamian Visits the President. DISCUSSES SOLDIERS GRAVES Doing Good Work in His New
 Office.
DISCUSSES SOLDIERS GRAVES
Resting Places of the Confederate Heroes Are Being Claimed By Him and Are Being
 Marked.
BY ALFRED .. sTOFER.

Wash hington, Oct. 2S.-(Special.)- General ". c. Oates, of Alabama was one of the callers on President Roose- welt to-day.
 General Oates. a former member of the House from Alabama, Is superin- Intendent of the marking of graves of Confederate soldiers wno died in Fed cral prisons. He wanted to tell the President of the progress of the work upon which he Is engaged.
 Congress appropriated $200,000' for marking the graves of Confederates who died in Northern prisons the law intending that they should be given the same attention as the graves of Federal soldiers who died in Southern prisons. The law provides that sim pie headstones, like those In ArlingtQp General Oates has placed before tA General Oates has placed bfore the War Department an instance where 1t Is impossible to follow the law, and he says there are many other in- stances.
 In the Federal prison at Camp Nor ton, near Indianapolis, 1,620 Confed- crate soldiers died and were buried near the prison. Careful records were kept of the names and regiments of the soldiers although the individual graves were somewhat carelessly marked. Some years ago a railroad desired to run its tracks through the cemetery and was given permission to do so. provided 1t would re-inter the bodies in the western part of Green lawn. Cemetery, at Indianapolis. In making the re-interment no records were kept and the bodies were damned two or three in a single opening. Not even the names of the bodies were preserved. As result there can be no individual marking.
 General Oates wants auth ority to erect a simple marble shaft upon which shall be inscribed the names and commands of all the soldiers buried in the spot.
 There are a number of other in- stances like this throughout the coun- try" said General Oates but we have been able to do much work. At Camp Chase, near Columbus. O., are the graves of 2.2S0 Confederates and these have been carefully marked,
 Senator Foraker. who introduced the bill providing for the marking oi these graves, was painstaking in the matter when he was Governor of that States It uas by his order that the cemetery where the Confederates were buried was cleaned of unsightly weeds and brush "
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
BRYAN ON PLATFORM
 WITH DAVID B. HILL

Ernest Rice. special deputy. and a squad of men left here this morning for Tiptonville to take Tod Burton from jail there to Union City. Rumors have reached camp here that an effort may be made to lynch Burton. but Sheriff Haynes of Lake County, who is here. thinks no such effort is likely. Burton was the first man arrested on the arrival of the troops here one week ago. He Is charged with being implicatd in the whipping of Squire wynne of Lake County some months ago, and according to the confession attributed to him. is member of the night riders clan.
 Editor is Released.
 Major J. Bright Horton. leading q detachment of soldiers sent out tnls morning. returned to camp late today having in charge James M Brice. edi- tor of The Troy News-Banner. ar. Brice was immediately ordered re- leased, as it was clear that mistake had been made.
 Mir. Brice is not only a law-abiding citizen of his town. but one of the best-known newspaper men in West Tennessae, and has relentlessly and fearlessly denounced night riderism ever since 1t appeared in this section. Colonel Tatom gave out statement to the effect that the arrest of Brico was a result of misunderstanding of orders. Colonel Tatom added that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
Pursuit of Night Riders
 Continues.
WOMEN HAVE BEEN WHIPPED
Remarkable Developments Are Ex-
 pected.
Tod BurtOn's Confession Is Said To BG Far ReRching-Hundreds Of Men Implicated In
 Crimes.

Camp Memo, Reeifoot Lake, Tenn, Oct. 2S.-The blood of Capt. Quentin Rankin, which has been crying aloud for vengeance from the lonely hollow below Walnut Log for the past week. has at last heard an echoing cry, and justice 1t seems. Is about to gather into Its hands the assassins. Within one week from the time the soldiers of Tennessee. under personal direction of Governor NJ. R. Patterson. spread their tents in the heart of the night rider district. evidence of the most convincing and damaging nature has been unearthed, and tonight there is ample reason to believe taat possi- blv A dozen men under guard in Camp Memo will dangle at the end of rope.
 Frank Ferriner has confessed and has implicated ten or twelve men now in custody. He gave names and 1t is understood went into full details.
 It is gathered on reliable authority that he will be taken for safe keeping at once either to Nashville. Memphis or Jackson, with the probability that he will go to Nashville.
 Today and tonight Ferriner has been carefully guarded in an isolated tent. Ferriner's confession came after long. gruelling examination in Colonel Tatom's tent last night which lasted three hours. Governor Patterson in person probed the witness. and his questions were most searching.
 Secures Strong Evidence.
 Evidence Is developing daily in a most satisfactory degree. and the Gov ernor expressed himself tonight as highly pleased with what has been brought out.
 we are getting some mighty strong evidence" he said and I am confident we will discover this marauding band
 convictiOns
 Resides Ferriner. four other men are guarded in separate tents tonight. They are Tom Johnson of Hornberk. alleged to be one of the night rider captains; his cousin. Garrett Johnson. of Spout Springs. also alleged to be captain of the crew: VIII Watson. cantured yesterday who Is under in- dictment in Lake County for whipping old man Wynne. and Fred Pinton and a man named Thorn.
 About twenty three additional pris- oners were brought in today. Most of them are wanted as witnesses, but three who were apprehended are re- garded as important witnesses. They are Fred Pinion, l. A. Johnson and R. L. Knight.
 On the arrival at camp tonight of Major R. F. Martin and his detach- ment. bringing eight or ten prison CTS Governor Patterson conducted a court of inquiry in his tent, examin- ing singly those brought In. The ex- animation lasted several hours. It is believed that more important evidence was elicited.
 round up. since the troops arrived here. is eighty-fve. and of this number 1t ia alleged that half. or one-third. be- long to the night riders band.
 Sheriff Dawson of Dyer County and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS.
More Money For Democrats From Ala
 hama,

More Money For Democrats From Ala
 bama.
 Chicago, Oct 2S.-Campaign contri- buttons aggregating &5,S85, received on October 27 in sums of S100 and over were announced at Democratic head quarters today as follows:
 Columbia Democratic Club, District of Columbia. $500; Samuel Untermyer. New York. $1,5O0; J. Sergeant Cram. New York. $1.000; Judge Preston K. Ewing. Texas, $225.
 Among those who contributed $100 each are; Jefferson County Bryan and Kern Club. Alabama; J. J. Mural. Louisiana; H. G. Fields, Mississippi Lawson Puerdy, New York; Bryan Kern Club, Waco, Texas; W. Weiss of Texas, and Wyatt Aiken. South Car olina.
 A total of $12.600 additional contrI. buttons to the Democratic Presidential Fund were tonight announced at Dem ocratic headquarters as having been received. Among the contributors were: c. O. Slaughter. Texas. $125: Bryan Kern-Lamb Club. Richmond. Va, $250; and Thomas Mcclellan. Alabama, $1OO.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
ENGINEER PEASE KILLED
 IN WRECK NEAR ROME

Rome. Ga. Oct. 2s.--A northbound freight on the Southern Railway this morning dashed into an open switch in the suburbs of Rome. killing En- gineer Charles Pease, and a negro fireman, Watts Pardue. both from At Ianta.
 The switch lock had been broken and stolen, evidently the work of ma licious wreckers. No clue has yet been obtained, but the officers are working on the case.
 The engine and seven cars were smashed. Traffic between Atlanta and Chattanooga was temporarily stopped, but was restored In the afternoon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
Ridders blvd es7 .OOo.

New York. Oct. Zs.-Announcement was made by the Democratic National Committee that campaign contrib utions in addition to those announced in Chi cago today. aggregating over s4000 were received at the New York head quarters on Oct 27
 The list sh ows that $37.0Oo was con- tributed by Herman Rider, Treasurer of the National Committee, and his three sons. The list follows:
 New York: Herman Ridder SIC. 900 Victor F. Ridder, $9.O00; Bernard H Ridder, $9,000; Joseph B. Ridder, 5000: Mike Forgerty. 5000; Morgan J, o'Brien $50Oi Robert arier Monroe. Sl0O.
 Pennsylvania: J. ODonnelI, s10o
 Missouri: Edward F. Goltra Ss.0oo,
 Nebraska: W. A. Woodward. $200.
 Delaware: Willard Salisbury, $2OO.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
Cbriuty NHatthewson speaks.

New York. Oct 2S-christy Mat thewson, the famous pitcher of the New York National League team. was one of the speakers at a emocratic mass meeting in the Twenty-third assem- ply District tonight.
 John J. Hayes. winner of the Mara thon race at London. md a number of other members Of the American Olym- pic team. occupied seats on the plat form.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
GADSDEN IS SHOCKED
 BY HEAVY EXPLOSION

people with white people there was of frequent occurrence.
 MT. Watson repeated criticisms he has made previously about the Univer. sity of Nebraska, as a social equality school"
 He also reiterated the statement that negroes are circulating a letter which they claim that for weeks they have been in communication with Mir. Bry- an and that he has made them "satis- factory pledges"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
Captain Reaves .t Amov

Annoy, Oct. 2s.-Capt. James 1T. Reaves, the American military attaebe at Pekin, and Taotais Tsoa Wong and Li, delegated by Viceroy Twan Fang, of Ranking. arrived here today to al. tend the reception to the American bishops. The supply ship Culgoa put out to sea today to communicate with the fleet by wireless telegraph. She will return tomorrow morning.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
SENSATIONAL SHOOTING.
unstable Went to Arrest Two Brothers

Constable Went to Arrest Two Brothers
 in Tennessee.
 Chattanooga Tenn. Oct. 2S.-In a sensa tional shooting affray at Ross vile, a suburb of Chattanooga. today. Constable John Carlock was painfully injured, Oscar Henderson received wounds which caused his death few hours later. and G. s. Henderson was seriously wounded.
 The fight, it is said, was the result of an attempt of Constable Carlock to arrest the Henderson brothers on the charge of trespass.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
WATSON SCORES BRYAN.
Threshes over His "sOciaI Equality
 BuRabOO.

Doug1asVille. Ga, Oct. 2s.-Thomas Watson. Peoples Party candidate Far President, m a speech here to- niaht. attacked what he termed the as1and Pat Republican Senate" which he said would block remedial legisla- tion should the Republican Party be victorious. He also assailed MT. Bry- an. calling him "an extremely danger oS his record on the negro question"
 He said that Mir. Bryan. an Illinois man bv birth, grew up fin the honest beIief that the South was wrong on inc negro quesetion. and with the be. lief that there should be no objection to social equality. He said that Ne- braska had no law against miseegina- Son and that the marriage or black
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
AN UNKNOWN ASSASSIN.
West VIrgInian Shot Down Whll
 Leaving Home.

Leaving Home.
 Charleston. W. Va. Oct 2S-Grafton Starbuck, aged 70, a prominent miller of Gauley Bridge, was shot and i'm stantly killed as he was leaving his home today by an unknown assassin, who was in ambush nearby.
 Mir Starbuck was active in the re- cent fight against saloons in Fayette County, and 1t is said that his life had been threatened on this account. It Is known that the murdered man has been afraid of trouble since the county has been dry.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
Brandenburg Goes East.

Dayton, O., Oct. 2S.-Broughton Brandenburg consented today. and left for New York with the officer from District Attorney Jerome's office with out requisition papers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
BOYS ROBBED BANK.
Mystery of Mexican Theft |. Cleared

MyHteFy OE WeAHNa" 1HSIt ls OEVWEVu
 Up.
 Mexico City. Oct. 2s.-A dispatch from Chiahuahua says:
 Moizes Navarro and Martin Matues. both clerks in the Banco Minera and Manuel Nolinar, all boys of less than 2i years of age. are under arrest and the mystery of the robbery of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
MAN DECAPITATED BY
 RED HOT "

RED HOT WIRE. Cleveland. O., Oct. 2s--Erick Els was decapitated today at the } American Steel and Wire Com pany mills.
 } Els was a wire drawer. While } drawing the red hot wire. 1t } broke The end struck him about the neck and the wire. released from tension suddenly coiled } about his neck,
 } His neck was burned through } in a few seconds by the hot wire. , completely severing his head
 , from his body
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29

bank of s1S5. .06s sa the night of March 1 last. is solved. One hundred and seventy thousand dollars of the money has been recovered. leaving only $I5.000 still missing.
 Navarro was arrested last week and disclosed the hiding place s of the money.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-29
THE WEATHER.

Washington. Oct, S6-FOr Alabama Fair Thursday and FrIdayJ light to freah north winds, becoming variable.
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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-17
Adelaide Thurston

THE Woman's Hour in which
Adelaide Thurston is starring this
season, will be the attraction at the
opera house tonight. The Shreveport
Times says:
THE production of The Woman S
Hour marks another epoch in the
stage history of Shreveport. Freder-
lex Spaulding, the author, who also
plays the lead, is to be commended
upon his construction and dialogue.
The story told, even though it may
not be of the most original nature,
is nevertheless complete in itself, as
it is satisfying to it's audience Mr..
Paulding does not waste any time
in the telling, he does not divert to
superfluism or padding, to which so
many authors resort; he simply tells
his story, and every line sreverts d.
rectly to the story proper.
Miss Adelaide Thurston as Hes
ter Temple is seen at her very best
We have seen Miss Thurston in plays
in which she represented parts of a
more juvenile nature, but in the
present case she is the ideal Of wom-
anhOod. She plays the woman, and
she plays it to perfection. The char
acter represents the unsullied wom-
an Of the world, and one who knows
the world, but who has not been
contaminated by it. In every gesture
and in every word she shows this; .
her unselfishness to the other
woman whom she Is told is loved by
the man she loves, is grand, and
shows wemanhood in it's highest
type. And that is the sort Of woman
every good man loves"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-17
FIGHTS DEVIL FISH.
Diver Attacked by Giant Sea Monster
Under Thirty Feet of Water

I San Francisco, Dec. 17.-The story
! of life and death struggle that re-
calls Victor Hugo's 'Toilers of the
| Sea- has just been brought to this
city. Wrapped in the tentacles of a
giant devilfish, Martin Lund, diver
! ecmpolyed by the Coast Wrecking
company, fought four hours against
strangulation in the hold of the
wrecked steamer Pomona which lies
! in 80 feet of water in Fort Ross cove
off the Marion COUNT coast. Lund ar
rived here after an experience which
comes to few men, and he will take
prolonged vacation before again
! DOMINIC divers dress.
The devilfish had evidently enter
ed the vessels hold during the night,
| and Lund was at work some time be-
! fore he became aware Of it's pres
ence. A giant tentacle, four inches in
diameter first gripped one leg. Befoee
Lund could realize what had hap
pened another had encircled his
thigh.
The diver began to chop frantical-
| ly at the rubberlike bonds and at
the same time signaled to the barge
above that he wished to ascend. I'm
dUIG " CC IA tIlACs A1IOi .
tentacles squirmed out of the dark
hess and one twined about his neck.
The efforts of the men on the sur
face to comply with his signal threat
ened to pull his hemlet off and he
| was forced to signal them to de-
sist.
With only his left arm free,
Lund hacked at the tentacles until
they were partly crippled, but he was
being drawn toward the deadly beak
when he saw the outline of the devil
fsh's body. Plunging suddenly to-
wards it, he drove the knife with all
his force into the head, repeating
the blows until he had slashed it
into sections.
In its death throes the octopus
frightened its tentacles until the diver
was almost crushed in It's embrace.
Lund finally cut himself free and was
brought to the surface In fainting
condition.
Another diver brought some of the
severed tentacles to the surface,
and it is hoped to raise the body and
bring it to this city for exhibition.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-17
a q Great Chance to Secure Christmas Presents q

very many stock companies formed
during the Japanese Russian war,
when money was plentiful was a
wire nail mill The very latest up
to-date automatic machinery was
brought out from the United States,
and everything that money and
skill could command was secured to
make the mill a great success. As a
final step a superintendent was
brought from large mill in Cleve-
land, Ohio, and put in charge. In
spite of all this expenditure of tai
ent, money and time. that man is not
able to make nails at price that at
all interferes with importing and
selling at satisfactory profit
When asked why he can not make
nails as cheaply as he did in Cleve-
land the superintendent replies: 1T
is simply question of labor. In
Cleveland one man tended and kept
running four or five machines; here
it takes four or five men to tend one
machine. and they don't keep it run
ming as it should at that"
A large paper mill is having SIM
liar experience. Labor is cheaply
paid, but being inefficient it is more
expensive than much higher paid
efficient labor. / met three Belgians
who had been some months in ia
pan endeavoring to get a window
glass factory on a successful money
making basis so as to be able to
compete with imported window
glass. They had abandoned the en-
terprise and were returning home
thoroughly convinced that Japan
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-17
Lena Rivers

1t is not generally known, but
Mrs. Mary j. Holmes wrote her
book, Lena Rivers" which has
made such a popular and successful
play, around scenes which she had
actually visited, and modelled her
characters after people she knew in
those localities. Mrs. Holmes taught
school in the south for several
years, and while there studied the
people and their mannerisms with
the result that she impaired the
southern air to her book. At the OPP
era house Saturday matinee and
night
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-17
JAPANESE LABOR.
The Comparative Efficiency at tn
Low Wages Paid.

Writing from Vladivostok OF a
visit to Japan, Special Agent Ronald
r. Dennis advises as to the efficiency
OF labor in that country.
A visit to Japan tends to disprove
the theory that cheap labor insures
cheap production of output. The
Japanese in many directions, espec-
tally in cabinet making, is an expert
and finished workman. Although he
uses an infnitesimal plane and
planes toward himself, and his
handsaw looks like an overgrown
butcher knife with sawteeth cut In
its edge. he produces fine work. But
give him machine nearly automa-
tic to tend and he is not a success.
Wire nails are used exclusively In
Japan, and hence thepE1s i'm
mense demand for thSm. Among the
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-12-17
Guilty of Counterfeiting.

Passing counterfeit money Is no
worse than substituting some I'M
known worthless remedy for Foley's
Honey and Tar, the great cough
and cold remedy that cures the most
obstinate coughs and heals the
lungs. B. W. Fearis. d