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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
Feminine Notes.

Miss Helen Gould and Mrs. Russell
Sage are often seen shopping in New
York City.
Mrs. Mary X. l. ;chael, of Hamilton,
Ohio, is an expert plasterer and pa
perhanger.
Mrs. Caroline Dana Howe, poetess,
died in Portland, Me. She was eighty
seven years old.
The girl ushers at the Manhattan
Opera House, New York City, are
studying to be singers.
Nine. Zola is grieving for the loss
OF souvenirs of the late Emile Zola, o.
which she has been robbed,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
About Noted People.

]. J. Hill says m en- should sleep a
long time and awak with both eyes
open.
King George of q reece is the poor
est Of all European Kings. His in
come is about $500 IA day.
Frederick Massoh, former secre-
tary of Prince Napoleon, issued a
statement that no relics of Napoleon
remain at st. Helena.
The German Cro4n Prince contin-
ues his work at tH Astry of the
Interior, and will al curse Of
lectures on Govern1 Ssat
the University of Bel ~ "
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
CraWls in Cypress Log to Die.

The body of Oscar Taylor, prom
!nent young man, of Hawkinsville.
Ga, was found in a hollow cypress
log in the swamp near the city by
Eearchers. Taylor, disappeared from
home and haG era wled into the log,
made pillow of his coat and fired a
bullet into his heart.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
OFFICIALS ASKED TO QUIT.

Wholesale designations on Ashevillc
Division of Southern Railway.
Asheville, N. c. - Superintendent
Ramseur, Roadmaster Ramsey, Cen
eral Trainmaster Fortune, Chief Dis.
patcher Johnson and others of the
highest officials of the Southern Rail-
way of the Asheville Division have
been asked for. their designations as
the result of a row among officials
for which no cause is given other
than fractional differences" They
have one week to comply.
Superintendent Ramseur . woulG
give out no statement for publication
other than to say he was discharged
None of the other officials would talk
about the affair. General Superin-
tendent George A. Loyal arrived
from Knoxville and held conference
with General Agent Hayes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
GoLDFIELD PROMOTER KILLED.
Editor Who Advocated His Being Run
Out Of Town Shot Him.

Goldfeld, Nev.-Francis L. Burton
was shot and killed at Nina by j..
Boltman Buck, editor and proprietor
of the Western Nevada Miner. Buck
printed in his paper an article as
serting that Burton had been run out
of the town of Rawhide by com.
mittee, and counselling the same
treatment by the citizens Of Nina
Burton took Buck to task and in the
quarrel ensuing the former was
killed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
HIBBARD MAYOR OF BOSTON.
City Gives Him 1000 Plurality Over
Democrat and an Independent.

Boston.-In the closest and hardest
fought election contest Boston has
known for many years the city went
Republican by about 1000 votes.
Postmaster George A. Hibbard, Re
publican, defeated Mayor John F.
Fitzgerald, Democrat, who was can
didate for reelection. The revised
returns show the following vote cast
for the Mayoralty candidates: John
A. Coulthurst. Independence League,
1871; Fitzgerald, 36,054; Hibbard,
3S,067! ..
The city voted to license the sale
of liquor by a large majority, though
somewhat smaller than in previous
years, owing to hard campaign on
the part of the clergy and others in
an endeavor to keep the saloons out
of the suburbs.
Worcester, Lynn and Woburn were
won by the temperance voters. -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
American Sent to Prison

Charles P. Baird, of Philadelphia,
whose motor car ran over and killed
a boy at Neuilly, France, on October
10, was sentenced to months i'm
prisonment and a fine of $40. He
must also pay $4,000 damages.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
Cleveland Wants 1908 Convention.

Mayor Tom L. johnson, who has
declared in favor of w. J. Bryan as
the Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent, has raised fund Of 100000
in order to induce the National Com
mittee to hold the convention at
Cleveland.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
SHOT THREE IN STATE HOUSE,
Lunatic Went to HILL Massachusetts
Governor But Turned on Labor Men.

Boston, Mass.--Governor Guild
narrowly escaped death at the hands
of John A. Steele, lunatic, recently
paroled, who visited the State House
for the sole purpose, it is believed.
of killing him. Finding the Governor
engaged in the executive chamber,
Steele turned on three prominent la.
Dor leaders who were in the ante.
room waiting to see the Governor
and fired three shots at them, fatally
woulding Edward Cohen, OF Lynn;
seriously wounding Dennis D. Dris.
coll, Of Boston, and injurinS with the
muzzle of his revolver Arthur M.
Huddell, Of Boston.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
ITALY FIGHTS EMIGRATION.

Movement to the U. S. Checked by
the Government.
Rome, Italy. - The Emigration
Bureau is dissuading emigration to
the United States and consequently
this movement is practically at a
standstill.
An increase of destitution is feared
throughout Italy next year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
KILLED HER GRANDCHILDREN.

Shocking Crime Of Mrs. Emery Hunt.
ley at Somerville, Mass.
Somerville, Mass. Announcing
that she had killed her two grand
children, Mrs. Emery Huntley walked
into a police station and gave herself
up.
The bodies of the children, Ray
mond Shomo, six years old, and Car
oline Huntley, four years old. were
found at Mrs. Huntley's home.
The children had been stupefed
by Illuminating gas and then placed
in a bathtub and drowned. They
were on visit to their grandmother.
They were brother and sister, who
on the death of their parents few
years ago were adopted by others.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
Lieutenant Cordier in Peru.

First Lieutenant Constant Cordier.
CT the Fourth Infantry, the American
Military Attache, went to Lima, Peru.
to witness the maneuvres of the Pc.
ruvian Army as the guest Of the Min.
lister of War.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
Famine in Turkey.

Famine prevails in Turkey, accord
ing to cable dispatch received in
New York City by the Christian Her
aid from Secretary Peet, representa-
tive in Turkey of the American Board
of Foreign Missions.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
Grain Receipts Large.

With the easing in the money pitu-
alton has come more LIBERAL ms sRet-
ing Of the country's products and
grain receipts at interior markets arc
larger.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
Full Time in Pennsy Shops.

The Altoona workshops of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. it is
announced, will be; operated Oh full
time this winter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
GoebeI Murder Predicted.

Judge D. D. Field testified at the
Powers trial at Georgetown, KY.
that Governor Goebel's murder was
openly discussed before it took place
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
GUSTAVE '. RE|GNS;
KING OSCAR DEAD
New Monarch Accepts Homage
of State Officials.
DEATH OF PEOPLES FRIEND
Swedes Bowed in Grief by loss Of
Democratic Ruler Who Was
Proud of Family's Low Origin
Oscar Was o Hero and Scholar.

Stockholm. - Oscar H., King of
Sweden, died in the royal apartment
of the palace, where, surrounded by
! the members of his family, including
| Queen Sophia and the Crown Prince,
Oscar Gustave, and high Ministers of
State, the end had been awaited. Out
side the palace great crowds stood
with bowed heads and fearful eyes
long after the announcement came of
the death of their well loved sover-
eign. 80
The whole country is bowed with
grief, for King Oscar was something
more than a ruler of his people, and
had endeared himself to them as an
| intimate and personal friend. When
the flag on the palace was dipped to
half-staff there was moan Of an
guish from the assembled multitude.
| and many of them cried: "Our dear
| old King is dead
The death certificate was worded
as follows:
eve declare upon oath that His
Majesty King Oscar II. expired peace
fully at 80 o'clock in the castle at
Stockholm at the age of seventy
eight years, nine months and seven
| teen days, as the result of calcifica-
tion Of the cerebral and cardiac blood
| vessels.
BERG,
"EDGREN,
"FLENSBURG."
- Lo ~
| Sweden now passes to Oscar Gustave
Adolphe, Duke of Vermland, the old
est son of the late King. At meet
ing of the Council Of State the new
King took the oath of allegiance un-
der the title of Gustave ", and
! adopted the motto, with the Peo-
pie for the Fatherland." The princes
took the oath of allegiance and the
new monarch accepted the homage Of
the State officials.
The King received degrees from so
many universities in Europe that he
might fairly be called, so far as de-
grees indicate, the most learned man
in Europe. He was an author, a
translator, a learned man in political
|. economy and the science of. govern
ment, a musician, 3 historian and a
playwright. All the great master
pieces of literature historical, philo-
sophical and religious, he translated
into Swedish. One of his novels, the
one which has become the most wide
ly known OF his wor KS of fiction, deals
with the rise of his own Family of
Be,nadotte and the accession to the
throne of Sweden Of his grandfather.
With all his accomplishments as a
scholar King Oscar was brave man
and wore upon his breast on State &C.
casions a medal bestowed on him ~
the French Government when he WAS
a young man.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01

Japan Will Stop Emigration.
It is stated in Toxic that Japan will
announce its decision to limit all en-
i2ration to America pending the adj
iust1nent OF existing differe
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13
COYOTE SOON
TO TRY SPEED
LOCALLY BUILT CAR is NOW
NEARLY READY
Air-Cooled Motor Develops Eighty-siS
Horse Power, According to Read
ing Taken in Recognized
Manner

Within a day or two the Coyote "Spe-
cial' will be out on the streets, and as
soon as the motor can be turned to
high pitch it will be put through some
hill climbing and speed stunts on the
road that will demonstrate what the
makers have in the car.
Several radical departures have been
made in the construction of the eight
cylinder air cooled car and the trials
of the machine are being awaited with
interest by those who have seen the
motor and had the new ideas ex-
planned.
The transmission is through a null
tiple disc clutch and the difference in
speed on starting and in climbing hills
will be taken up by the slip of the
clutch without slowing down the mo-
tor.
The clutch is made UP of a series of
discs that greatly exceed the usual
number used on other types of cars.
The motor is very interesting and
is made up of two rows of four cylin-
ders, each set at an angle of 80 de-
grees to each other.
The reverse motion is attained by
a friction disc such as is used as a
transmission in several makes of well
known cars, only that it is on q some
for only one ratio.
The car that is now being completed
is of the roadster type and will be used
as demonstration. AS soon as the
factory is completed at Redondo work
will be started on regular models. Con-
struction of the factory began last
week and will be rushed to compile
ton.
M. G. Tunnison is the designer of thg
| 0aTrind q FIIn131nr
of his own original ideas as well as
using the best accepted ideas that pre-
vail at present in up-to-date automo-
bile construction.
A card was taken from the motor a
few days ago to get a reading of the
horse power and to the surprise of
those who witnessed the test 1t fig
ured up as Sc. which will be far more
than the car will require for any or
binary purpose, but will make 1t pos
sible for the car to slow down and
pull q hill with ease on its unchange-
able direct gear.
The constant tatque of the eight
cylinder motor is expected to make the
car practically vibrationless and easy
of control.
Lightness is another feature that the
car will have in conjunction with its
! high power. Mr.. Tunnison easily lifted
a front wheel clear of the floor in
demonstrating that the car was not
heavy
The car is nearly ready for it's final
tuning up The body is ready to place
and then it will be taken out on the
road and its PAGES tried out.
The company is well financed and
will not be handicapped in getting out
its product for lack of capital, and
from the optimistic tone of the hackers
and the machinists who are engaged
in building the car, it will be record
breaker and a decidedly practical and
popular machine.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13
TIMING MACHINE
GREAT. SUCCESS
GIVES SPEED AND POSITION OF
CARS AT A GLANCE
Chart Shows Complete Record for
Whole Race and Photographic Re-
productions Make Dissemina-
ton of Result Easy

H. F. Cuntz, M. E.. of the Associa-
ton of licensed Automobile Manufac-
turers, donated the use of a specially
| devised chart to the Automobile Club
of America for recording on Thanks
giving day the results of the first grand
prize race of America. Direct tele-
graphic communication from the TIM
ing stand at Savannah, Ca, gave the
results of the race at the banquet hall
of the club on West Fifty-fourth street,
New York, a few minutes after each
car had passed the grandstand.
By an ingenious arrangement of
speed curves, one for each lap of the
race, a marker bearing the number of
the racing car was Immediately pasted
on the chart, indicating at a glance the
point on the respective lap curve which
represented the speed of that car. III
this way no figuring at all was neces-
sary. AS the race progressed the order
or standing of the different racers as
they finished each lap could be seen at
a glance. Also at a glance the speed
in miles per hour or in kflometers per
hour could be read from the chart. 1t
showed when two or more cars were
very closely punched.
When the last lap was completed the
| leading car at the head of that lap
curve was indicated by a large pointer
and the national flag of the maker of
the car indicated the country whose
car had won.
A number Of the members and guests
of the club witnessed the returns as
entered on the chart, and the novel rec
ord proved to be of great interest.
Stars Used to Indicate Accidents
In the case of cars which had met
with accident or dropped out of the
race for any reason, a star appears
opposite their number in the last lap
in which. they were recorded, and a
subnote explains the cause of the acct
dent.
The chart is designed on the basis Of
horizontal distances representing time.
which is noted in minutes and frac-
lions of a minute, and vertical dis
tances indicating the speed in miles
per hour or in kilometers per hour. In
this way the position of the racers from
first to last is read on each lap curve
from top to bottom, the highest having
the highest average speed, and so on.
AS a record of the race, the chart
contains all the information in the way
of time and speed and standing on
the one sheet. Photographic reproduce
lions of this show on small sheet the
complete history of the race, the aver
age speed of all the drivers each lap,
and in fact all that data which in the
past it has been attempted to show in
three or four disconnected tabulations.
Any number of tabulations. however,
do not bring the information together
in such a way that the results could
be compared in any such manner as
is apparent in a glance at the single
sheet of this novel record chart.
Mr.. Cuntz states he has no doubt
that as soon as the racing committee
here. as well as abroad, become aware
of this chart, it will be used univer-
sally for recording automobile races Of
this character.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13
SCOUT CAR TESTS
SPEED OF ANIMALS
JAcKRABBIT PAGES AUTO FOR
ELEVEN MILES
Studebaker Driver Times Speed o
Animals Met with on Scouting
Trip and Incidentally
Bags a Few

Testing the comparative speeds of
various animals by speedometer has
been one of the pet diversions of Dom
aid Mcintosh, driver of the Studebaker
Scout car, now ferreting out pros
pective Glidden tour for next summer
through the west.
Animals both wild and tame are
plentiful along Missouri, Kansas ana
Nebraska roads, according to Mcln-
tosh, who declares incidentally that the
major part of the tremendous prosper
ity of the western farmer is due to the
fact that he utilizes the public high
way for a feeding ground and prone
made de luxe for his domestic animals
and poultry.
Incidental to his story of compare
tive speed of animals, Mcintosh says
that an average days hunting with
thirty horse power Studebaker, taxing
roads as one ndfis them in Kansas and
Missouri, nets him six chickens, one
turkey, two guinea hens, sucking pig
and a couple of squirrels. Last week
he bagged but one goat to every three
sheep, due to the fact that the goat
tribe seems to have less curiosity to
study the workings of a gasoline en-
CINE, judging by the observations up
to date.
Reverting to the relative speed quail
tiles of different animals Mcintosh de-
clares that he was paced for eleven
miles by jackrabbit over a fine piece
of Kansas road near Leavenworth,
and the speedometer fiuctuated from
thirty-seven to forty-two miles. Near
the town the road improved and the
speed of the "scout" was increased to
forty-seven miles and the Jackrabbit
sulkily jumped hedge and gave up
the road to the Studebaker.
The cottontail rabbit, Mcintosh de-
clares, does we'll for about two to
three miles at about twenty-three to
twenty-six miles an hour, but cannot
exceed twenty-eight miles an hour.
He is a sprinter, pure and simple, and
never attempts to ego the route" in
competition with an automobile.
OF the bovine tribe observations
show that the two-year4old steer is
most agile. He is capable of about
three miles at an eighteen-mile pace
and hates to be conquered. In this
characteristic he differs from the
horse, which invariably seeks a side
road when chased by an auto. The
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13
sAWDUsT ECONOMICAL SOURCE
FOR ALCOHOL PRODUCTION

A we'll equipped technical laboratory
will be erected in new building that
is being added to the Tarrytown fac
tory of the Maxwell-Briscoe Motor
company. Though the laboratory will
serve various ends, its principal pur-
pose is the carrying on of fuel tests.
1t is known that the Maxwell people
have been experimenting with alcohol
as a motor fuel for some time, but the
difficulty of finding substance that
can be produced cheap enough to make
the substitution of alcohol CONNER
cially profitable has been the chief OBJ
stacle in the way of an adoption OF
alcohol for use in internal combustion
engines. The Maxwell people after
series of experiments extending over
two years are said to have succeeded In
producing alcohol from sawdust at a
manufacturing cost of cents per gall
Ion. This news certainly opens up I'M
limited possibilities and if the tests
turn out as we'll as it is hoped the
success OF the Maxwell-B riscoe Motor
company will be hailed with delight.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13
ENDURANCE RUN HARD
TEST ON DIAMONDS
No Tire Trouble other Than Four
Punctures Encountered in an Ag-
eregate of 22.eoo Miles in
ChaImers-Detroit Run

About as thorough a test as possible
Of the uniform quality of tire, which
is essential to it's general success, was
made recently when on los Chalmers
Detroit cars on election day each made
200 miles on Diamond tires and Marsh
rims, rolling up an aggregate of 226O0
miles with total tire trouble for the
108 cars of only four punctures, when
the varied conditions. climates and sur
faces are considered, the testing out
of 1OS sets with absolutely no tire trou-
BILE that can be attributed to the tire
itself is found, it is an unusual test, and
the Diamond Rubber company is par
ticularly proud of the showing of the
new Mountain Tread tire, which was
the type used on the cars that day.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13

The director of public safety of
Philadelphia has asked for twenty au-
tomobile patrol wagons.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13
BUICK TRIUMPH
IS SPEED WONDER
MECHANICIAN RISKS LIFE TO
SAVE GASOLINE TANK
Fastest American Auto Among Savan-
nah Light Cars Shows Its
Heels to italian
Machine

Official figures of the 196-mile light
car race at Savannah, Ga, November
%, prove conclusively that the Buick
is the fastest American car nominated
in that contest. Since that memorable
day when Robert Burman drove his lit
tie car made in Lansing, Mich. across
the tape second to the Italian car which
won, beaten by a scant six seconds in
the greatest international small car
event ever held in this country, none
have been more keen to accord credit to
the little Buick than the big contingent
of foreign experts attracted to the
Georgia city by the grand prize event.
The fastest three laps in the race
were made by Burman's Buick. Sew
enteen of the twenty laps were trav-
ersed by the Buick in less than eleven
minutes each. What the result might
have been if the Buick had not been
crippled during the last sixty-three
miles of the race, not even the most
enthusiastic of the 436 owners of Buick
cars who Travelled to Savannah with
their rigs to see the work of the little
Buick may venture to say.
The springs suddenly went out of
commission. Burman stopped long
enough to tighten up nut. The pre-
cious seconds lost in that operation
were more than enough to have en-
abled the plucky driver to finish ahead
of the italian machine and win the
race. Not only was Burman handi-
capped by the accident to the car
springs, but he came near having to
quit the race entirely. Something
thrown up from the roadway struck
the Bucks gasoline tank, loosening it,
The mechanician was ordered to seize
the wabbly tank and hold on for dear
life. Obeying, the daring fellow chung
to that tank for seven laps, on all Of
which the Buick averaged more than
fifty-five miles an hour.
Burman had supreme confidence IN
the car of lowest priced American con-
struction, as exemplified by the Buick
in that race He felt the speed OF the
machine right from the jump and be-
fore the first lap was two minutes old
had a lead. Keeling off the circuits OF
nearly ten miles in less than eleven
minutes. Burman kept ahead OF the
Italian car. For more than half the
race the foreigner took his dust.
Those who were at Savannah say
that even in finishing second-beating
all the other American cars in the field
the Buick achieved triumph never
before accorded an American car.
"Buicks ahead of us, Bucks behind us,
Bucks all around us" was the refrain
Of the hundreds of owners of the Buick
cars in the stands. They had gathered
to see a Buick victory, and for twenty
minutes after the official result was an
nounced these loyal Buick owners and
drivers permitted free rein to their
jubilation.
The ovation that greeted Burman
was unparalleled. Even the Italian
contingent, forgetting for the time the
victory of the imported car, Joined IN
the demonstration for the Michigan
made machine. The joy of the shout
ing, enthusiastic owners of Bucks was
CONTAGIOUS. There was nothing Of
"treason" about the demonstrations of
the Italians-they were eye witnesses
of the most wonderful performance
ever made by low priced car.