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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28
GEORGIA FLOOD is.
RECED|NC; LIST /
OF DEAD, Is
AUGUSTA SlIME.coATED AND
D e S o U r ESTIMATION so
DIRE, GREAT MASS MEETING 10
CALLED FOR RELIEF.

AUGUSTA. Ga. Aug. 2S.-The re-
ceding waters which have Coded
the city for SO hours left ii in ter
rible condition, today. Wreckage and
debris of every description carried by
thew hiring food is deposited in the
streets and over everything where tie
waters had settled there is a thick
coating and over everything where the
waters had settled there is thick
coating OF yellow, Shiny mud. Scores
OF men are at work In various parts
OF the city cleaning the streets and
making conditions as sanitary as pos
-A4Alp--
IL is estimated today that the lass
Will easily be $l,000,OC0 and the loss
OF life lisp laced at fifteen. These are
Ioostly Negro laborers -who-werr-
caught by the rising waters without
means OF escape. Last night aud ear
ly today this stricken city presented
the most miserable and woe-begone
appearance since 1888. when q great
food swept down the valley OF the
Savannah river causing great damage
and high loss of life. Boats swept
through the streets, lanterns waved,
men shouted orders to workme7 who
were either removing goods from
buildings or at work cleaning some
rorti)n OF the streets where the wa.
ters had lately lain. gold wind
swert over the city and the wet, be-
dragged workmen shivered as they
stood in water TO their knees.
So dire is the situation. that a great
mass meeting of citivens has been
called TO consider the situation and
take immediate action for universal
relief. Much suffering has been oc.
casioned not alone in Augusta but In
neighboring communities Today there
are reports thatw hole families are
missing, but these cannot be !nvesti
natQd
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28
puFFEYs FEARING ADJoPRNED

SAGINAW, Aug Special 49,
The examination OF Joseph Duffy,
charged with murder. was taken up
this morning In Justice \ Blaisdell's
court. and after herring few less i'm.
portant witnesses, the Judge ADJOURN
ed the trial until SATURDAY morning.
The chief witness Miss Myrtle len
non. mother Of the enid Duly is &C
eused OF killing. was not examined.
but will be on Saturday morning.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28
TORTOISE MADE PET
IN LONDON SUBURBS

LONDON, Aug. 2s.-Reptiles and
weird amphibious creatures are com
ing rapidly into favor as domestic
pets. Among reptiles the popular pet
is the tortoise, which has obvious mer-
it's. The initial cost of a baby tortoise
is sixpence. II devours snails. is good
tempered and unobtrusive, needs no
care or attention. and suually survives
it's owner. It's one failing is passion
for lettuce, sweet peas and other gar
den delicacles. II is estimated that
between 10000 and 10000 tortoises
arrive In England annually, many OF
which are being hawked from door 70
door in the suburbs of London.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28
BELLEVUE BELDAME
OF 100 CELEBRATES

BELLEVUE. Mich Aug 27.-!n the
presence of so relatives and friends
Mrs. Sophia Ship. a resident Of this
place for upwards Of 80 years. cele-
brated her Tooth birthday Wednes.
day Mrs. Ship was born in the east.
She Is in excellent health and has four
children. 10 grandchildren and -
observation-disclosures
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28
STATE BANK At
ATHENS CLOSED BY
COMMISSIONER
zlMM ERMAN ALLEGES GROSS MIS-
MANAGEMENT AND ATTEMPT
TO DECEIVE PREslDENT IN
cLINED TO BLAME CASHIER.

LANSING, Mich, Aug. 2S.-The
state bank at Athens has been closed
by order of Banking Commissioner
Zimmerman
In explanation, Mr., zimmerman
said:
The examination Of the Athens
State and Savings bank. Athens. just
concluded by Mr.. Van Keuren. one OF
the examiners OF the department
shows a condition OF affairs indicating
gross mismanagement. Evidence was
found TO satisfy me that deliberate
as some of the directors. had been
adopted since the last previous exam
nation, made March 10. 1908. The
manner In which the bank has been
fecently-c conducted. -and-tha- false rep.
resentatios made satisfied me that
the bank should not continue in bust
ness.
The closing of the bank was de-
termined upon after laying the matter
before Mr.. Chase, deputy attorney
general, and action was taken which
the statute provides. AS 10 any fur
Their action TO be taken. of course,
nothing can now be said.
II am unable TO say what the value
OF some of the assets Of the bank is
and, in consequence, no reliable state
ment can at this time be made as to
what will be realized by the deposit
tors
The capital of the bank is $4,000.
to .ta To
ment, the commercial deposits were
$4,000; savings deposits. $4,000;
surplus and net profits, $500; loans
and discounts, $65,442; bonds and
mortgages, $34,510.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28
GIRL STOPS WEDDING
TILL OBEY" rs LEFT OUT

LARAMIE, Wyo. Aug. 2S.-Because
he insisted on having the word obey
in the marriage ceremony Miss Lillian
wilcox today broke off her marriage
with Elmer Cnle.-nf -Elmira.- Y.
-aflcc Lha minister had Started the
ceromony After half an hour OF
wranfAng Cole agreed to waive the
obey part OF the ceremony ard the
marriage was concluded. Cole Is a
travelling man and came here TO mar
ry Miss Wilcox. who is visiting Ia
the city.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28
SOUTH CAROLINA LOSES
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS

COLUMBIA, s. c.. Aug. 27.-With
the heaviest rains in the history OF
South Carolina, the state has suffered
the loss OF millions OF dollars worth
OF property by the present unprece-
denied floods. the burden OF the loss
falling upon farmers The cotton crop
has been damaged at least 80 per cent
and the corn crop even more because
OF the fact that the bulk OF the corn
produced in the state is grown along
the waterways.
Some OF the cities and towns where
the flood is most serious are cut on en-
tirely from the outside world. The
Congaro river at Columbia has reached
the highest stage since ls4O. Inc
great cotton plantations along the
river for so miles south OF Columbia
have been destroyed, the surface sou
being washed away. t1avTrg tfrr "a tftse'-
in an almost worthless condition.
Power Canal Threatened.
The Columbia power canal, when
cost a million dollars, Is giving away,
though hundreds OF convicts aud Ia
borers are feverishly throwing up
bikes TO protect IL.
AT Camden. In the collapse or the
public bridge over the Wateree river.
10 persons went down Ia crash, Ia
OF whom have been accounted for.
The remaining five are believed 10
have been drowned
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28
DEPOs|TORS WAN
MOREPRO7EC1ION
FROM BANKS
-WN. ,. BRYAN.
coMMoNER, IN ARGUING AT TO
PEkA, kAS.. FOR A GUARANTY
LAW, DECLARES HE WOULD
FORBID BIG LOANS.
A FEW BARBED SHAFTS.
-WM. }. BRYAN.

--s.NNh,-s not sssak--t the depesitors see
curcf The United states govern
ment requires the deposit Of specihc
security when IL entrusts money 10
a national hank, although 10 can ex-
anime the bank AT amy time"
"No amount OF criticism Of the
tiInid deposition can change the facts,
the people who deposit money want
mere security than the laws at pres
ent give them. They Will change
banks 10 get more security, and, III
necessary. they VIII send their
= tssesss.s -t.s-sssset heE-ssats-.-
1.-The law should make 10 Grim
tnnl OHensc 10 l0.n more than the
prescribed amount ia one person
and we would probably he able 20
secure the pnssage of a law prohtb-
ting nlnriSet speculation by bank
U-nCfufS.
"Tbc chief cause Of baDk failures
L. the making Of excessive ionns 20
directors DIR officials of the bank.
This IN the fruitful cause of disns-
ter md 81 has been Impossible 90
secure Legislation protecting banks
from their own on cinls and direct
ors. Whyf Becuusr there has been
no mutual responsibility"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28
BY DUDLEY GLASS.

AT WATERS EDGE AT A POS
TAI TELEGRAPH POLE NEAR AU.
GUSTA, Ga, Aug. PA sea OF mud
dy water, reaching the second floor OF
the business houses and driving resi-
dents into upper floors and In some
cases into trees, is Augusta in its flood
today. The highest stage is passed
and the water is rapidly receding.
More than two-thirds of the city In
covered and the submerged portion
includes all the principal business and
residence district. Only that part or
the city south and east OF the first
level of the canal is above water. This
canal, which is higher than the streets.
saved it.
The property loss reaches into the
millions. All the factories along the
canal have been swept by the flood.
and the machinery ruined, much Of 1t
beyond repair.
Fire Adds Its Terrors.
Fire last night broke out in two
warehouses OF the Nixon Grocery Co.
Several lime warehouses were burned,
the fire starting from spontaneous
combustion.
The loss of life is reported to be
heavy but no verifcation can yet be
obtained. There is well-defined story
that TWO women In buggy were
drowned in a street last night, when
the vehicle turned over. 1t is also
reported that a woman and two chill
dren and a Negro cabman were
drowned near-the-unin -depot---Na
bodies have yet been recovered and
: wifi rot be uHttt the food subsidies,
Cotton Mills Out Of Business.
! All of the nine great cotton mills
have been put out of business. Their
thousands of employees are out OF
work. The cotton mill district, where
there are rows of tenements occupied
oy the employees was not flooded.
! Thousands were homeless last
night. Most of them took refuge In
churches which were thrown open.
Many fled TO the hills. Green-st., the
( fashionable residence thoroughfare OF
the city, is entirely under water.
Neither newspaper printed an edition
yesterday or this morning. Their Of
fees are submerged. There is no
street car. telephone or electric light
service and neither is there gas.
No trains are running into Augusta
except those of the Georgia railroad
TO Atlanta. which get within five
miles OF the city. All other railroads
have been cut off.
A food shortage is Threatened owing
to damage to grocery stocks.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28
Hunary. Steals Another's Dinner

II was hungry. was the explana-
ton Frank BrzesN offered Justice
Stein Thursday morning for stealing
FULL dinner pail from Peter Gron-
ct. an honest son of toll. The pur-
Joined lunch will cost Frank s. un.
less he chooses TO work It ont at the
house Of correction.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28
THE WEATHER.

Detroit and viciDityi Partly cloudy
and posstbIy showers tonight ana sat
urdny. fresh sout herly winds.
Lower Michigan Partly cloudy anu
possibly local showers Friday night
and SATURDAY.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28
East aIrEEAI.n-

BUFFALO. Aug IS, Special Cat
tlc--Recefpts hight and steady. Hogs
Receipts 1000. strong: heavy, SluI,l5 81
& rs: pigs. s5.75G6.15. sheep-Reoeipts
2,O00. slow. tops. sG25. Calves-Stropg.
Sl0 % dowp
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Aug. rs
President l. e. Wells offered the fol-
lowing statement relative TO the clos
ing of the Athens State and Savings
bank. --
Il can say nothing about the clos
ing except that | beliece IL was
through a misunderstanding OF the
cashier. II. G. Lewis. with the meth
DDS of the state banking commission.
Before the hearing, which will occur
In the circuit court az Battle Creek.
can say nothing more, beliece the
bank has sufficient assets TO pay all
of the depositors In full. II any at
tempt has been made 10 deceive the
state department, 1t is the fault OF the
cashier
Cashier Lewis had gone ma fishing
trip to Kinyon lake and could not be
located. He was said To seem uncon-
cerned about the banks aaffirS. and
left as II nothing had happened.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28
Alexander. Umbrellas 20 Monree

rstroImnn Hess, OF the Canheid PFC
cinct, fell whue going down stssr-
rie's grocery. Nos. 6g3-6e6 Wood
ward ave. early Thursday morning,
and was bruised about tue hcnd1,
legs and chip. lie continued on duty
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28

II man has money 20 burn he can
easily find a woman willing to furnish
a match.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28

Rusincss-Iikc Printing. No fuss and
no feathers. The plain. neat kind. that
looks right. Times Printing CO.. Is
John R-st Phone lass,
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28

job Printing zone right Times Print
ting CO.. Is John R.-st Phone ties.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28

Business-Iikc Printing. 80 fuss and
no feathers. TIE plain, neat kind, that
looks right. Times Printing Co. Is
John R.-st Phone 1923
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-28

This principle has been applied IN
Oklahoma and the results have been
very satisfactory. The average annual
loss to depositors in national BANKS
during the last 40 years has been less
than one-tenth of l per cent OF the
deposits. and the loss to the fund in
CONTINUED ON Pnge sevcn.D
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-04-10

organized into a guard and command
ed to watch every action Of the girl
day or night.
Day by day the father questioned his
daughter regarding every move she
had taken during the hours he was not
personally on guard, and If her report
did not tally, jot by jot and little by
little, with the evidence contained in
his reports a. storm was sure to burst.
The young sons Of the family were
summoned home from college and add
ed to the guarding force. The situa-
tlon was peculiarly distressing to the
spirited girl, and when she attained
her majority q few weeks ago she as
serted her rights In open revolt.
This sudden expression Of independ-
ence where before there had been only
timorous obedience provoked tenn
pest that shook the aristocratic house
hold to it's foundations. 1t IS said that
the father shut his daughter in her
bedroom, where he kept her under lock
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-04-10
Deaf Mute Conviicts Murderers
BY Gestures He Tells Story of Crime So Graphically That Accused
Man Betrays Himself.

A murder trial at Bordeaux, France,
in which an innkeeper, his wife and
two accomplices were charged with
killing a customer, was the occasion Of
q dramatic scene when one Of the wit
nesses took the stand. This witness,
named Lacampagne, was @ deaf mute
ignorant Of the ordinary finger Ian
guage.
His brother-in-law and two Of his
friends appeared to translate his ges-
lures into words, but their services
were really unnecessary, so clearly did
he express himself by that instructive
m1micry which Is sometimes the ac-
compartment Of speech, but here be-
came its substitute.
During his evidence the deaf mute,
who had been the handy man of the
inn, always designated the victim by
sucking in his cheeks against his teeth,
the landlord by shaking his fist-his
employers usual method Of speaking
to him-the landlords wife by putting
his hands to his hair. one accomplice
by curling his mustache and the other
by striking an imaginary match on his
trousers. as this prisoner was a SNUG
gler Of matches.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-04-10
CIVIC IMPROVEMENT.

A we'll known writer on civic i'm
provement has written that we too
often overdo some Of our beautifyins
by leaving the task too long undone or
until we get so wrought up over the
necessity of its accomplishment that
we continue on to the opposite extreme
too many country roadsides, even
whole villages, are slicked up until all
beauty is slicked out of them. There
is happy medium beyond which we
should not go when dealing with rural
or village scenery, says the Los Ange-
les Times. In the city one may in
dulge himself so far as is possible in
securing everything until its bright
ness shines on all about, but sylvan
scenery will not admit Of like treat
ment.
While in the United States we clean
up natural and artificial alike until
the latter term will apply ITO all, we
much admire the quiet, quaint, whole
some villages of Europe, where In the
very heart and center moss grown
stone bridges arch between banks
whose slopes are covered with under
brush, ferns and other denizens Of the
woodland. Many Of these old European
villages. founded one or two thousand
years ago, have the same tangled wild
wood along either side of their streams
that was present when the first settler
came.
The fitness and charm of such treat
ment or lack of treatment have been
recognized in many towns and cities Of
our country where parkways have been
built along the banks Of streams, often
for stretches Of several miles. No fea-
ture Of civic improvement would add
more of charm to the whole of Los
Angeles than to have the narrow strips
along the banks of the Los Angeles
river planted to suitable trees and
shrubs. Railroads should be compelled
to keep their tracks farther away from
the official river banks and maintain a
narrow park alongside their right of
way. Some eastern cities have so or
dained.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-04-10

Then, with short. abrupt gestures, as
clear as they were rapid, he told bis
story-how the landlady sent him away
on an errand, how he returned to find
the door locked. how he entered by the
cellar door, saw the corpse, saw one
murderer washing blood stained
hammer, another cleaning his face and
hands and the landlady embracing her
husband as If to thank him for what
he had done The landlord caught sight
of him and dealt him q violent blow.
then, changing his mind, made signs
to him to help to get rid Of the body.
At this point the landlord. who clear
ly followed the deaf mute's story.
broke in with That's q lie; that's a
lie"
Lacarpagne turned and looked in the
landlords 8 face: then. stamping with his
foot, LIE raised his hand and stood In
the same solemn attitude In which he
had tHken the oath.
This evidence and confession by
the mustache wearing prisoner were
enough to convict the accused. The
landlord and the match smuggler were
sentenced to death. the others to i'm
prisonmcnt for fifteen years.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-04-10

Mrs. James A. Deering, who was
Miss Violet Pierce, daughter of n. Clay
Pierce, the Standard Oil millionaire,
and who eloped with her sweetheart
and was married to him in defiance OF
frowning parental disapproyal, had as
exciting a romance, it IS now learned.
as seldom falls to the lot Of daughters
of the very rich.
For weeks before she slipped away
from her jailers in the Fifty-seventh
street CNew York; mansion that was
formerly the home of Richard 7. Will
son, Jr., the beautiful Miss Pierce was
q prisoner in her room under the close
surveillance of her parent.
Miss Pierce was debutante just out
of boarding school when she met
James a. Deering and fell deeply in
love- Society looked on and approved
Of the infatuation, for absolutely no
objection could be raised to the young
man in view of his wealth, family and
clean manner of life But when news
of the romance reached the grim old
millionaire In st. Louis he flung HIM
self aboard train and came down ON
the happy lovers like thunderclap.
With words that were short he for
babe the public announcement Of the
engagement. Miss Violets elder sister,
Mrs. Eben Richards, was ordered by
her father to come down from Tuxedo
and keep close watch that the baby of
the family saw nothing Of her Jimmy.
Young Deering was ordered never to
set his foot across the threshold Of the
Pierce mansion. But that was not all.
The servants Of the establishment were
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-04-10
A BUTLER STOOD GUARD AT THE FRONT DOOR ALL DAY.

mo" Then Miss Pierce asked him to
telephone to the garage and learn the
cause of the delay. The butler CON-
piled, and when he had stepped back
to the phone the girl slipped out.
The escape had been planned. jim
my was waiting on the corner with his
car The happy couple motored to New
Jersey to be married, but were unable
to obtain a license with the haste they
felt the situation required.
Returning to New York city. they
managed 10 get one later in the even
ing from the city hall license bureau.
Then they were married by the Rev.
DR.. William C. Rodgers in his rooms
in Seventy-ninth street shortly before
midnight.
Meanwhile Mr. Pierce was securing
the envlrons Of Manhattan Island for
trace of the eloping pair. Now it is
said the father is coming around TO
see that his objections to Jimmy Deer
ing were hysterical
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-04-10
Put Love Above 7 Tainted Money
Standard Oil Heress Deyng Parental Dsapprova and hsk
ing Disinheritance, Evaded Her Bodyguard and
Fled to Wed Her Penn|ess Lover.

and key, neglecting his multifarapus
business duties SO as to remain on
guard.
The excitement of this episode caused
collapse of Miss Pierce's nerves, and
she was confined to her bed for several
days under the care Of nurse. When
she got well she grimly decided that
she would circumvent her parents and
marry the man Of her choice despite
jailers and locks. She made known
her purpose, and the father redoubled
his precautions.
The rear Of the house was barred,
and even supplies and servants were
admitted at the front entrance. Miss
Violet was forbidden to go out unless
upon express permission and under es-
cort of her sister, Miss Burrough, who
had chapcroned her into society. AS
q further reinforcement her eldest
brothers wife, Mrs. Clay Pierce. was
brought on from St. Louis.
Several servants who refused to take
part in this strenuous system Of espion"
age were discharged. and butler stood
at the front door all day like mediae"
val jailer.
But love laughs at turnkeys, and the
vigllant butler was outwitted Miss
Pierce obtained permission Of her fa"
ther to go shopping with her sister-in-
law. His consent contained the provlso
that she should not see Jim. The mo"
tor was ordered for certain hour, but
Miss Violet was ready some time be-.
| forehand.
She went to the guardian butler and
asked If the car had arrived. He said
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-04-10
1t is often difficult to distinguish
between peacemaker and a busy
body.
A Card.

This is to certify that all druggists
are authorized to refund your money
if Foley's Honey and Tar fails to cure
your cough or cold. 1t stops the
cough, heals the lungs and prevents
bad results from a cold. Cures grippe
coughs and prevents pneumonia and
consumption. Contains no opiates.
The genuine is in yellow package.
Refuse substitutes. A. C. Dukes.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-04-10
A Cure For Misery.

"I have found cure for the mis-
cry malaria poison produces" says
R. NJ. James, of Louellen, S. G. tits
called Electric Bitters, and comes in
SO cent bottles. 1t breaks up a case
of chiIls or a bilious attack in al
most no time; and it puts yellow
jaundice clean out of commission.
This great tonic medicine and blood
purifier gives quick relief in all stom-
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-04-10
How Cough Germs Multiply.

When you have cold the mucous
membrane is inflamed and the disease
germs which you breathe find lodg-
ment and multiply, especially the
pneumonia germ. Foley's Honey and
Tar soothes and heals the infamed
air passage, stops the cough and eX-
pels the cold from your system. Re-
fuse substitutes. A. G. Dukes.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-04-10

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