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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-29

ST. LuKEs METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH. Clinton aVenue-James NJ Taber.
j. d, pastor 1899. Holy Communion; rs.
D.. Taber VIII preach. sunday school go.
Adult Bible Class for Men 2;30. Epworth
League 6:45. Young Mems Union a:i5 a. NJ.
The music in the morning will be the COM
munion service Tor the Methodist Church. and
the anthem, With fearful Eyes" by Otis.
Evening. anthem, THE Beautiful Morn
West. trio for soprano. contralto and tenor.
Father, Lead Me by Thy Hand, =" Butterneld
quartet. THE Homeland sullivan.
ST. pAUL,s METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
CHURCH, corner Broad and Marshall streets
William c. O'Donnell. minister, 1890 a. m.
communion services and reception Of members.
$50 p. ~. Sunday school. 345 p. M, Epworth
League. 7:4s p. m, first Of a series Of SER
mons on 'tIllustrious Christians" March /.
Paul the Jew" March s. Luther the Ger
man." March 10. Patrick the Irishman. .
March q, Wesley the E~nglishman.' March
20, ''Beecher the American Friendly greet
ings. All welcome.
The music will be as follows: Morning. pre-
Jude. Prayer" Salome; ~uffertory, Nocturne
In + minor. Chopin: postlude, Wagner. Even
ing. prelude, Pastorale. Gordiglani; o~ffertory.
Mildenberg; postlude, Whiting.
James Phllipson, organist.
TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH-Tomorrow morning. short sermon
and Holy Communion, The Rev. pr. W. s.
Galloway Will preach in the evening.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10

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 a reminder. A
month later, while he was in our Of
flee in Chicago, / handed him a let
ter from our agent in London stat
inc 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 q 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 bids
reach reasonable figure take few
dates
"Mr Bryan did not lecture in Lon.
don for money" said Mr.. Wagner
He spoke for the American Society
on the Fourth Of Juy and at the in
ternational peace congress, where he
made q great sensation.
Mr.. Bryan has a standing offer
from Winnipeg for two nights for
81 900 night. The managers Of the
lecture course there explained that
they could not accommodate all who
want to hear him at 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 or
his regular terms of 5000 q 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 fol
four years and have booked him foi
an average Of $50 lectures a yeal
during that time. He has never al
lowed us to book him in Nebraska
He has never lectured for money il
that State and has declined TO do Sc
repeatedly. In his settlements will
committees he has been more gencr
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 hi
full price. He always gives the man
ayers the benefit Of all doubts. H'
has never had a dispute OF any sort
although | have known on severa
occasions when he has been very bad
| ly treated. Nor will he allow us t
engage in a dispute over receipts ant
settlements on his account"
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10
TWO MEN KILLED
A Fatal Explosion Occurs In steol
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 United 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 cs molten
metal into apt where fifteen men
We're working at ladels. The force
of the explosion blew sheet iron
coof off the converter q mile and
arused two walls to collapse.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10
BENNETTsvILLE, S. G., FRIDAY, JANUARY TO- 1908
siIoors HIS wIEp.
And Mothsr-ia.Iaw and Then Shoots
Himself.

Just at the expiration of the
twelve 1n0nths' pledge he had given
the court mot to molest his wife,
Major Fl. Coates Phillips, one of
the heroessof Spion Kop, rushed in.
to the hone Of his wife in the vii
lage Of CrSokham, England, Thurs
day, and Grounding two visitors and
leaving ,di2 beautiful wife in the be-
lief that HI, 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-yeae-oId daughter.
1t was tie wife's good fortune to
faint at thf first shot fire at her,
which jus. grazed her head. Her
falnting stS9ed her life. The wound
ed visitors are Mrs. Phillips mother,
Mrs. Lucena, who was visiting her
daughter 4 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 Philips 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 q year, his broth
er being his surety.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10
FARMER's FIGHT WITH SWANS
Flock Of Birds Attacks Japanese and
His Horse.

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 a 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
on him. Then they made a 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 selling q rail, defend
ed himself; but still the swans at
tackled him until he bad knocked
down several.
The horse which the Japanese
had left hitched to the plow was al
SO attacked by more than 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 fight,
leaving the Japanesc master Of the
battlefield
1t was the most remarkable and
comical fight ever Witnessed" re.
marked Mr.. 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 tool
place was strewn with feathers"
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10
QUEER ACCIDENT.
Blow from Stove LITTER Caused
an Explosion.

Mrs. Josephine Cominsky, 18 years
old, Of No. II Pearsall street, Long
Island City, became angry Thurs
day night with Caster Gussus, who
boards with her, and and struck him
on the side with an iron stove litter.
Immediately there was loud report
and Gussus fell to the floor scleam-
ing with pain.
Mrs. Cominsky called an ambu-
lance from ST. Johns hospital. The
surgeon found that'Mrs. Cominsky's
blow had exploded a cartridge that
Gussus had carried in his pocket,
and the bullet, striking against a
twenty-five cent piece, had driven
the coin partly in his side.
The hospital doctors cut out the
coin and Gussus will recover. The
coin undoubtedly saved the mans
life. Mrs. Cominsky was not arrest
ed, as Gussus corroborated her story
Of the accident.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10

stoicsm.
The writer on 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 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. II. 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-
ton that marks the entire race.
Last winier there was a 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 Rowesvile all but two have
ceased to sell goods under q chattel
mortgage or the lien law and the
time is not far distant when the ne
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 for
every colored man in the State who
will wora, but he will not work as
he can get credit. He lives in and
for the present alone.
A merchant saw a negro beating
a horse and told him that if he did
not stop the devil would get him.
His answer was, You can not scare
nigger that way by telling him of
something away off in the future, .
Promise him something will happen
at once if you want to scare him
Another nigger was caught in the
act of stealing pig and was told
that he would have to settle for it in
the judgment day. His answer
was THAT was long term of cred.
it, and he guessed he would go back
and get another" The negro is
here to stay and he is needed.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10
DIRE Cal AMITY
Predicted by a So-caIlsd Proph-
u ct In Pennsylvania.
Says the World viii Come to an
|, End in the latter PART Of Deoem-

| s1Au Al LAG LHttSr larC OF UeCopl
her Next.
! "A York. Pa, prophet. at least on'
who claims to be a prophet ant
whose prophecies have attracted th'
attention of people who care fol
that sort of thing, has issued hi
1908 bulletin. 1t is his habit ant
his livlihood, Of course. but this one
is more startling than some Of those
previously issued. The following il
his last bulletin: .
The end Of the world. The end Of
this world will come to an end il
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 @ great
noise.
The cities Of the nation will fall.
Mountains will not be found.
Islands will pass away.
The city Of Boston will sink.
New York will 60 up in smoke.
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. i
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.
ren will rise against their parents
two against three, and three against
two; mother-in-law against daughter
in-law. All plaques that are sWrit-
ten in the Bible will be- brought
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 tina 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 theltwinkling of an eye
and meet the Lord in the air.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10
USED PARIS GREEN
Highly Respected Farmer of Aiken,
Commits Suicide

Mr.. Samuel Bennett, 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
a 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
q good farmer, a quiet unassuming
man and leader in church work.
He is survived by a widow and sew
children.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10
LABOR TROUBLES.
Strike breakers Stoned and Boaten in
Mlmcic.

Roting 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
Malcy, who received a bullet wound
in the groin, and Harry Gardner
who was badly beaten. Others were
hit with stones.
Cars were started Friday without
interruption, each protected by from
seven TONNE strikebreakers. A crowd
soon gathered at the interruption
station and in 30 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 strikebrcakers
were driven off. Two cars collided
on account of the inexperience of
the motormen and several people had
narrow escapes
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10
VETERAN OPERATOR DEAD
Joseph W. Hates, Who Served the
Confederacy Well.


A dispatch from Richmond, Va,
says Joseph w. Kates. for many
years the most prominent telegraph
operator in Virginia and perhaps in
the entire South, passed away Thurs
day night Mt 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 tile Postal
Telegraph-Cable company. with
headquarters in this city. ,Fr
Mr.. Hates was in charge of the Of
flee at Manassas, Va, during the
battles Of BiacKburn,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-
carl
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10
VIII |! RIDE CHEAPER! cH!!EE:!!! Err.
The Southern Railway viii Reduce
itsRassenger Rates.
Makes This Concession OF 'Yts Own
volition and in Appreciation Of
- ." '.'e Si.
South Cardinals Kindness.

Volitlon 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-
ton and without the.expenseof 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 l.,
1908, the Southern Railway would
put into effect .iH.South Carolina the
following rates.
=. For straight tickets, 2 1-2 cents
per mile.
For family mileage books, IA
cents per mile.
For 1,000-mile and 2,000-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 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 ac-
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 intends, without compuision, 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 Se( given Tennessee which
has2M zen liberal in the matter of
The 10 cents rate WIN Apply TO
all Interstate passenger business
on straight fares. The 2 la cents
rate for family mileage books, which
contain the name Of the head of the
family will cover books for 500 miles.
entailing 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
mess concern up to five individuals,
the names of each Of whom shall
appear in the book.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10
White Man Hanged.

A dispatch from Lake Charles, La,
says l.. II. Coleman, white, was hang
ed there Friday for the murder of
Deputy Sheriff William Shoemaker,
at Dequincy, La, on October "a,
1906. Coleman killed Shoemaker
when the deputy attempted to arrest
him on q minor charge.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10

A dispatch from New York says
Pythagoras, the toad, took his first
meal in one thousand years at the
Bronx Zoo. Four flies and an earth
worm constituted the meal Of the
little black creature that had been
buried for so many centuries in
limestone rock, 500 feet down in the
silver mine at Butte, Mont.
The ancient toad is slowly recov-
ering his eyesight and the use Of
his limbs, and is gradually turning
green again, as he was in the mid
die ages. He has already emitted
several feeble sounds. but the croak
had not come back.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10
His Escape and is at Large

blood, WIN -wuUIIiqg M Il :,
head and the Ratchet lying near
him. He was Sin an Unconscious
condition. She set up an alarm
and 1t was not long before q crowd
gathered. So:
Mrs. Lawrence says that she would
know the negro. If she saw him
again. He was a tall fellow with
long mustache life CARRIED
heavy stick which Was Hanging on
his arm while .he.s'was taking the
money from the drawer. One. hand
trembled as if ne were afflicted with
rheumatism. GIIe was a 'stranger.
Mr.. Henderson, keeps store on
North Liberty street, near the over
head bridge. He lives alonesin the
about fifty years Of age. 1t. is'not
known how much money was In the
drawer.
The policeman went to work on
the case at once. a negro bX the
name OF Wallace Williams, who At
ted the description Il the robber
given by Mrs. Lawrence, was ar
rested and taken before her, but
she said that he was not the one.
and he was then released. Will
liams is the negro who was tried for
the murder Of Doc Westfield. COLOR
ed, several years ago and . came
clear.
| Mr.. Henderson, skull Is fractured
In three places as a result Of the
blows inflicted by the robher. Z The
hatchec with which tho work was,
done was found beside him. 1t was
covered with blood. A report from
the hospital at an carly hour Thurs.
day morning says that Mr.. Hender-
sons condition Is critical ~
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10
-Four Persons Murdered.

A report has reached the coroner
at Pittsburg, Pa, that four mem
bers of family living at Grays Mills
near there, have been found mur-
dered. No details accompanied the
report. The coroner has started an
investigation.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10
Train Wrecked.

A Pennsylvania railroad express
which left Buffalo Thursday night,
which was due in Philadelphia at 1882
a. M, was wrecked at Montandon,
Pa, early Thursday and more than a
dozen passengers injured.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10
Aged Couple Killed.

William B. Dick, aged 80, and hiq
sister, Emily Hortage, aged 76 wer3
killed Thursday by an express traA
on the Reading railroad near
den, N. j., while crossing the
in q carriage.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-10
Two Tramns Killed.

Two tramps were report
Friday in a wreck on the
tain Railroad at SwarZ
cars Of a freight train
trestlh bridge over a laE