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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-30

During a snow storm Saturday
the American passenger liner,
st. Louis, ran into the British
war vessel, Gladiator, on the
English Coast, sinking her with
% sailors.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-30

The pension appropriation bill,
carrying $163, 053, 600 was passed
by 1.-THE senate today in four
minutes. No change was made
in the bill as it came from the
senate committee. It increases
in amount as each year passes
and there is no telling what it
will be in twenty years from
NOW
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-30
Notice.

All local secretaries of the F.
C. & E. Union will please send
all.cotton pledges and other IN
formation of similar character to
D. M. Mayors, general manager,
Brandon, Miss, so he may COM
pile same to send to G. r. High
tower, state president, Oxford,
Miss.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-30

farming is the one occupa-
ton that a man can engage in
with limited means, and be as
sured of a reasonable degree of
success. That was written by
some city farmer. Success on
the farm depends on the farmer
and the farm, and is not to be
taken for granted in advance.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-30

A car load of grass fed steers
sold Monday in Fort Worth,
Texas, for an average of $75. So.
which is the highest price ever
paid in America for grassers.
Their average weight was 1866
pounds and brought &c gross.
Good cattle bring fancy figures
whether milk or beef breeds.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-30
Lost.

A small day book, with a long
piece Of black ribbon tied to it,
between Miss Eunice Wash
burns store and her residence
Monday afternoon. 1t contained
sales made and a list of monu-
ment cards. Please return to
The News Office.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-30

Grover Cleveland, who is i'll at
hotel in Lakewood, N. j., was
reported today to have passed a
very good night and to be i'm
proving daily.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-30

Many lives were lost Saturday
by a landslide which practically
wiped .out the village of La
Sallette, Canada.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-30
McCalls' Patterns.

We are the exclusive agents in
Brandon for McCalls' unequaled
pattern. Brandon Mercantile Co.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-30

Brandon sent $34 to Hatties-
burg for distribution among the
south Mississippi storm suffer
erS.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-30
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Snow storms prevailed Monday
in Wisconsin, Missouri and Ne
braska.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-01-09
VETERAN OPERATOR DEAD
Joseph w. Katcs, Who Served the
Confederacy Well.

A dispatch from Richmond, Va,
says Joseph w. Hates. for many
years the most prominent telegraph
operator in Virginia and perhaps in
the entire South, passed away Thurs
day night at Manchester. He was at
one time superintendent of the South
ern district of the Western Union
company at Richmond and later gen
eral superintendent of the Postal
Telegraph-Cable company, with
headquarters in this city.
Mr.. Hates was in charge of the of
fee at Manassas, Va, during the
battles of Blackburn s Ford and Man
assas and for several weeks did the
work of the Office by himself. 1t was
he that transmitted the famous mes
sage from President jefferson Davis
to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Win
chester, ordering that officer to make
a junction with Gen. Beauregard at
Manassas.
In the fall of 1861 he was again
transferred to Richmond and in the
spring of 1862 to Columbus, Ky,
where he was operator at the head
quarters of Gems. Polk and Beaure-
gard.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-01-09
USED PARIS GRE5N
Highly Respected Farmer of Aiken
Commits Suicide

Highly Respected Farmer of Aiken
Commits Suicide
Mr.. Samuel Bonnett, one of the
most highly respected farmers of
Montmorenci, committed suicide
Thursday by taking paris green.
Mr.. Bonnett's mind is thought to
have been weak. symptoms of such
state having been in evidence for
some time. Thursday morning he
got up and, it is said, acted rather
strangely. Soon after he took a
large quantity of paris green, evil
IDENTIFY with a suicidal intent.
A physician was summoned by tel
egraph. but before his arrival the
drug had taken such effect that lit
tie could be done to save him,
though antidotes were administered
in large quantities. He died Thurs
day afternoon.
Mr.: Bennett was a good man and
no cause other than that stated can
can be assigned for the act. He was
good farmer, a quiet unassuming
man and a leader in church work
He is survived by a widow and sew
children.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-01-09
SLAIN BY BURGLAR.
Another Burglar Slain While
Breaking In a Store.

George H. Fisher, Newark's Tea.
ement Inspector, Is Shot Leaning
from Window.
A burglar shot and killed George
II. Fisher, Newark s tenement house
inspector. Thursday morning at the
Fisher home. No. 11O Congress street,
Newark. N. ]. At the time of his
death Mr.. Fisher was leaning out of
window shouting for the police.
AT the same hour in Williamsburg,
David Jaffe. bird dealer at No. 146
Messerole street, shot and killed a
burglar who had forced an entrance
to his home.
MIR. Fisher, with his wife and their
young son and daughter had watch
ed the old year out and the new year
IN. Soon after o'clock in the morn
ing Mrs. Fisher was awakened by the
sound of breaking glass. She arous-
ed her husband. and they looked out
OF the window: They saw two men
in the rear of Feindt's store, adjoin-
ing their home. trying to open win
dow.
Mr.. Fisher went to the window
raised it and shouted "Poliee. In
stantly one of the men below the
window fired the bullet going through
MIR. Fishers head. He fell across
the window sill his head and should
erS outside.
Mrs. Fisher screamed, and the shot
awakened the two children who ran
into the room. The mother. son and
daughter drew the body back into
the room and laid il on the floor. DIR.
Frank Devlin. who was called. said
that death had been instantaneous.
The only clue that the police have
was given by a woman who lives
about a block away from the Fisher
house. She said she was with her sick
child when she heard the shot and
screams. She looked out of the win
dow and saw the men running along
Congress street toward jefferson.
They turned the corner and disap-
peared.
The man shot by Mr., Jaffe in Will
liamsburg has not yet been identifi-
ed, but the police are holding a man
whom they believe to have been i'm
pllcated in the attempted burglarly.
Mr.. Jaffe and his brother, Morris.
were asleep in the store and were
awakened by someone trying to open
the door. Several times attempts
have been made to rob the store, and
MIR. Jatfe was certain this was anoth-
ca. He drew revolver from under
his pillow and fired just as the door
swung open.
The bullet struck the intruder in
the forehead and he fell dead. Anoth-
er man who was with him ran to-
wards Graham avenue. Patrolman
Dahler of the Stagg street station.
turning into Meserole street from
Graham avenue, saw man running,
and arrested him. The man said he
was running for car, but the DO
liceman took him to the station.
There he said he was Thomas Bay
ne. OF No. 141 Leonard street, but
refused any other information. He
was held without bail on charge of
burglary. pending an investigation.
DR.. Constantine, of st. GATHERINGS
Hospital, who saw the body of the
dead man, said he had been killed
instantly.
Mr.. Jaffe was charged with homi-
eide and was released on parole.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-01-09
SHOOTS HIS WIFE. =.
And NOther-in-law and Then Shoots
Himself.

Just at the expiration OF the
twelve months pledge he had given
the court not to molest his wife,
Major H. G. Coates Phillips. one OF
the heroes Of Spion Kop, rushed in
to the home of his wife in the vii
lage of Crookham, England. Thurs
day, and, wounding two visitors and
leaving his beautiful wife in the be-
lief that he had murdered her. end
ed his life with two revolver balls
fired at close range. His death
took place in the presence of his
twelve-year-old daughter.
1t was the wife's good fortune to
faint at the first shot fire at her,
which just grazed her head. Her
falnting saved her life. The wound
ed visitors are Mrs. Phillips mother,
Mrs. Lucena, who was visiting her
daughter a London solicitor, who
had hurried to the village to give
his wife legal advice. Mrs. Lucena
probably will die of her wound.
Mrs. Phillips divorced her hus-
band in 1906 cd the ground of mis-
conduct while in South Africa, and
in the course of the hearing Of the
case last December, Major
Major Phillips entered her home and
attempted suicide with gas. After
ward on the last day Of 1907, he
gave his pledge to the court not to
molest his wife for year. his broth
er being his surety.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-01-09
FARMERS FIGHT WITH SWANS.
Flock OF Birds Attacks Japanese and
His Horse.

A Japanese farmer, one of the
many who have leased much land
around Russellville, Ore, on the
Base line road. had most thrilling
adventure with a flock of white
swans last week. He was out plow-
ing in his field, so E. N. Emery
says, when suddenly several hun
dred swans made their appearance.
At first he paid no attention. but
they soon began circling close down
OF him. Then they made sudden
sweep and nearly knocked him
down.
The swans renewed their attack
on the Japanese with more vigor
than ever. They dashed at him
and struck him in passing from all
directions. He sought to drive
them off by swinging his hat but this
had no effect. He then ran to the
nearest fence, followed by part of
the flock, and seizing a rail, defend
ed himself; but still the swans at
ldShCd MIN IilIll nC iictQ hIlOCkcQ
down several.
The horse which the Japanese
had left hitched to the plow was al
so attacked by more than a score of
the angry birds. The animal did
the best he could to defend himself
with his heels and teeth while his
owner was welding the rail at his
assailants. Suddenly the whole
flock by an impulse took flight,
leaving the japanese master of the
battlefield
1t was the most remarkable and
comical fight ever Witnessed" re-
marked Ms. Emery "The Japanese
certainly had his hands full. Part
of the time he was half-covered by
the swans. He fought with the
same determination that his COM
rades fought the Russians. The
ground around where the fight took
lplace was strewn with feathers.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-01-09
TWO MEN KILLED
A Fatal Explosion Occurs in II Steel
Plant.

Two men were killed and thirteen
injured as result of an explosion in
converter No. 3, of the Egar-T -Thomp-
son plant of the Unite States Steel
corporation at North Braddock, Pa.
Thursday. Six of the injured were
Americans and the others Slavs.
No official statement as to the
cause of the explosion has been made
but the old converter men say. the
cause can hardly be other than by
some molten metal shifting through
the soapstone lining of the convert
er and coming in contact with the
steel sheathing which perhaps was
damp.
When the explosion occurred the
bottom of the converter dropped
out, throwing fifteen tons of molten
metal into a pit where fifteen men
were wording at ladels. The force
of the e ;plosion blew a sheet iron
roof off the converter a mile and
caused two walls to collapse.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-01-09

fAS lilc COlleCIOE WIS ABOUT ~ miles
from home wagon in the condition
that he found that was of no use to
him and the parts were left. Later
they will be assembled and then the
negroes will have a wagon for
another year.
For weeks past sewing machine
agents have been securing the coun-
try around Rowesville and there
have been as many as 20 machines
shipped to Branchville and Orange
burg, the nearest large towns on
either side. The negro accepts this
taking away of what might be con-
sidered his property with absolute
StoiciSm.
The writer on a ride day or two
since saw the collector with the
mule that had been used all the sum-
mer hitched to the buggy to be TAX
en- away and then he went into field
where the only COW of the family
vas staked out and drove that away.
The negro woman and half a dozen
children were on the porch of the
little cabin to see them driven away
and there was no apparent feeling
of regret.
There need be none, as they had
paid only a small part of the pur-
chase price and they had had the
use of the animals all through the
summer. In this case the man of
the family had been at work for the
j. H. Blake Lumber company all
summer and earned Sc week and
there was no reason why he should
not have paid for the animals, ex-
cept the lack of thrift and calcula-
tion that marks the entire race.
Last Winier there was call for a
repeal of the lien and chattel mort
gage laws of South Corolina and
the matter is sure to come up again
in the next session of the Legislature.
Last winter it was the question of
the doing away with the old State
dispensary that occupied the time of
the Legislature, which must by law,
adjourn at given time.
All the low country of South Car
olina where the negroes are thickest
has become disgusted with the work.
ing of the law and are solid for the
repeal, while the up country, where
merchants have to deal with that
poor white class. demands that it be
left on the statute books.
! OF the seven merchants doing bus
mess in Rowesville all but two have
ceased to sell goods under a chattel
mortgage or the lien law and the
time is not far distant when the me-
gro will have to pay cash for what
he buys. 1t will be better for both
races when this state of affairs is
brought about. There is labor fol-
every colored man in the State who
will worA, but he will not work al
he can get credit. He lives in anC
for the present alone.
A merchant saw a negro beating
a horse and told him that if he die
not stop the devil would get him
His answer was, You can not scare
a nigger that way by telling him oi
something away off in the future, y
Promise him something will happer
at once if you want to scare him
Another niger was caught in the
act of stealing a pig and was tolC
that he would have to settle for it il
the judgment day. His answer
was: That was long term of cred
it, and he guessed he would go bach
and get another" The negro i,
there to stay and he is needed.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-01-09
DIRE CALAMITY
Predicted by a So-called Proph-
ct In Pennsylvania.
Says the World VIII Come to an
End In the Latter Part Of Dsceaa-

Says the World VIII Come to an
End In the Latter Part Of DsceH.-
Der Next.
A York, Pa, prophet. at least one
who claims to be a prophet and
whose prophecies have attracted the
attention of people who care for
that sort of thing. has issued his
1908 bulletin. 1t is his habit and
his livlihood, Of course, but this one
is more startling than some of those
previously issued. The following is
his last bulletin:
The end Of the world. The end of
this world will come to an end in
winter, in the end of the month of
December on Sunday, in the year
1908. Heaven and earth will pass
away. Nineteen hundred and eight
will be year Of trouble. such as
was never known before, Nation
shall rise against nation. Kingdom
shall rise against kingdom, There
shall be famines and pestilences and
earthquakes.
Rivers will dry up.
The fish of the sea will die.
The sea will boil up with a great
noise.
The cities of the nation will fall,
Mountains will not be found,
Islands will pass away.
The city of Boston will sink.
N0yu Vnrk xuin rrn ~, ~,
People will flee to the mountains.
The land will dry up to get ready
for fire.
The crops will fail and prosperity
will be cut off.
The banks will keep on failing.
This can not be stopped.
Roosevelt will get rid of all his
money.
The treasury will go dry.
People will carry their money in
their pockets and hide it in their
homes.
Families will steal it from one an
other. This is the gold that is piled
up for the last days. This gold will
rust in your pockets. 1t will give
you more trouble than good.
Labor organizations will come un-
der one head and rule the land.
There will be great wrath among
the people. Hatred, killing one an
other, hanging themselves and child
rem will rise against their parents:
two against three, and three against
two; mother-in-law against daughter
in-law. All plaques that are writ
ten in the Bible will be brought
forth.
The land be full of lice. frogs.
and crickets and locusts. Whose
ever be stung of the locust will die.
There will be signs in tha sun, in
the moon and in the stars. In the
end of time the sun will be black,
and the land will be in distress. The
moon will be as blood, the stars will
fall and the heavens will be
shaken. This coming summer and
fall the elect. the saints, will be
gathered together. For unto Je-
sus shall the gathering be-"
The bride is getting ready to meet
Jesus, the bridegroom, and we will
be changed in thestwinkling of an eye
and meet the Lord in the air.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-01-09
LABOR TROUBLES.
Strikebreakers Stoned and Beaten i'm
Muncie.

Muncie.
Rioting occurred on the streets of
Muncie, Ind, between striking en-
ployes of the Indiana Union Traction
company and strikebrakers. Shots
were fired and stones and other miss.
les were thrown.
Nine persons were injured. those
hurt the most seriously being Morris
Maley, who received a bullet wound
in the groin, and Harry Gardner.
who was badly beaten. Others were
hit with stones.
Cars were started Friday withou,
interruption, each protected by from
seven to nine strikebreakers. A crowd
soon gathered at the interruption
station and in 80 minutes 1000 per-
sons surrounded the building. Cars
were stoned as they started out.
At other parts of the city cars
were stopped and the strikebreakers
were driven off. Two cars coIlided
on account of the inexperience of
the motormen and several people had
narrow escapes
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-01-09
WILL RIDE CHEAPER.
The Southern Railway Will Reduce
Its Passenger Rates.

Makes This Concession of Its Own
yolition and In Appreciation OF
South Cardinals Kindness.
South Carolina will get the bene.
fit, so far as the Southern Railway is
concerned, of the reduction in rates
made by Legislative enactment in
other States of the South, but with
out the turmoil of Legislative agita-
tion and without the expense OF pro-
longed litigation.
The Columbia correspondent of the
News and Courier says President w,
w. Finley. of the Southern Railway,
at a conference in the Governors of
flee Friday stated that on April /,
1908, the Southern Railway would
put into effect in South Carolina the
following rates.
For straight tickets, 2 1-2 cents
per mile.
For family mileage books, 2 IA
cents per mile.
For 1,000-mile and 1000 mile mile
age books, 2 cents per mile.
The conference was attended by
Governor Ansel, Attorney General
Lyon, Chairman Caughman. of the
railroad commission, and Commits
sioners Sullivan and Earle on the part
of the State. and by President Finley,
Vice President Culp. General Coun-
sci Thorn and Division Counsel Alb
ney on the part of the Southern Rail-
way. The conference was held in the
office of the Governor and was open,
being attended by the newspaper
men.
Mr.. Finley, in q conversational
way, put the proposition of the
Southern before the Governor, ex-
planning as he went along the rea-
sons for the different rates and the
reasons governing the railroad in
making this proposition. He ex-
planned that the Southern on &C
count of the fairness with which
South Carolina had treated the rail-
roads had a disposition to give the
State the benefit of the reduced
rates, and consequently the South
ern lntencs. without compulSlOn, to
put into effect the rates which it
has proposed as a compromise in
North Carolina, Georgia and Ala
bama. He felt assured that the
agreement entered into would be
made effective in these States, and
perhaps in Virginia also. The same
treatment promised South Carolina
would be given Tennessee, which
has also been liberal in the matter of
legislation
The 2 l-2 cents rate will apply to
ali Interstate passenger business
on straight fares. The 2 Ia cents
rate for family mileage books, which
contain the name of the head of the
family will cover books for 500 miles.
entailing a minimum expenditure of
SLIPS
The 2-cent rate for mileage books
of 1000 and 1000 miles relates to
individual mileage books and also to
what are termed mercantile books.
good for members of firm or bus.
iness concern up to five individuals.
the names of each of whom shall
appear in the book.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-01-09

range few dates for him in Eng
land. The latter replied he feared
it would be impossible. He explain
ed ihat MIR. Bryan was not popular
IN England and he did not think the
public would pay to hear him speak.
The British people did not take anv
interest in American politics .... u,u
not have much respect for American
politicians. while Mr.. Bryan person
ally was practically known in Eng
land because of his sympathy for the
Beers during the South African war.
The writer closes his letter by say
ing that he did not think Mr.. Bryan
would draw three shillings in Lon
don. sent this letter to Mr.. Bryan
and he read it at Franklin, Ohio, i'm
mediately after the lecture that
brought him the largest receipts of
that summer. 1t appealed to his
sense of honor and he replied that it
came just in time to keep him from
getting 'chesty. He said that he in
tended to frame it as reminder. A
month later, while he was in our of
flee in Chicago, | handed him a let
ter from our agent in London stat
ing that he had an offer of five
pounds for one lecture from Bryan
in that city and asked me to cable the
reply. Mr.. Bryan read the letter and
then remarked. That isn't bad in
crease; he has raised the quotations
for my lectures from three shillings
to five pounds in three weeks. Just
watch the market and when the biIs
q fa1r
dates
"Mr. Bryan did not lecture in Lon
don for money" said Mr.. Wagner.
He spoke for the American Society
on the Fourth of July and at the in
ternational peace congress, where he
made great sensation.
Mr.. Bryan has a standing offer
from Winnipeg for two nights for
1000 a night. The managers of the
lecture course there explained that
they could not accommodate all who
want TO hear him at a single lecture.
and insist that he shall give them two
nights, but he has not accepted. We
have on file more than twelve hun
dred applications for the present
winter and for next summer, but
have been compelled to refuse them
because Mr.. Bryan has decided not
to appear upon the lecture platform
again until after the Presidential
campaign. He could get an engage
ment for every night in the year on
his regular terms of 5000 night and
half the gate money. He is in great
er demand than ever. and | think his
popularity has increased instead of
diminished. judging from the ankle
ty of the lecture managers through
out the United States to secure him.
We nave been acting as his agent for
four years and have booked him for
an average of $50 lectures a year
during that time. He has never al
lowed us to book him in Nebraska.
He has never lectured for money in
that State and has declined to do so
repeatedly. In his settlements with
committees he has been more gener-
Gus and considerate than any lectur-
er have ever handled. If his audi
ence is kept away by rain or by any
accident he never insists upon his
full price. He always gives the man
ayers the benefit of all doubts. He
has never had dispute of any sort.
although | have known on several
occasions when he has been very bad
ly treated. Nor will he allow us to
engage in dispute over receipts and
settlements on his account"