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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
POSSE SHOT TWO ROBBERS
Desnerate Battle With Three
Craftsmen in New j5rsey.
Had Blown Open Safes i'll Two Post
Offices in Gloucester County and
Set Il Building Alire.

Woodbury.. n. - After blowing
open the safes in the p%ostofices at Pc
dricktown and Bridgeport three yegg-
men engaged in a hot battle with a
posse of twenty-five or thirty resi-
dents of Gloucester County in a
clump of woods a few miles away.
After the robberies they stole a team
from a livery stable and started off.
At : o'clock a. m. they were seen en-
tering Woodbury. and Policeman Mer-
chant opened fire and wounded one
of them. The robbers then left their
team and took refuge in the woods
near Sewell. They we're armed with
IA calibre revolvers and seemed to
have plenty Of ammunition.
Merchant alarmed the authorities,
who quickly organized a posse, which
surrounded the men. Seeing that
CAPTURE was imminent, the yeggmen
fled to a barn. The farmers gathered
in a nearby cornfield and exchanged
shots with them. Then the men made
a dash toward Woodbury..
Opposite the water works the posse
closed in on them, and after a hand
to hand fight succeeded in capturing
two. The third man got away.
One of the captured men was shot
in the groin and to DR.. Stout, who
treated him, he said that he was WILL
lam Mccoy, thirty-eight years old,
and had no home. He had S134 in
his pockets and a IA calibre revolt
yer. empty. He was committed to
prison without bail.
The other prisoner said he was
John Burns, seventeen years old. He
wa wounded in the face and body
with buckshot. In a tobacco bag tied
around his neck was S57 in bills and
in his pockets 500 in bills and s1.37
in change, together with a IA calibre
revolver. Burns before being cap
tured threw a bottle Of nitro glycer-
inc at his captors. 1t did not explode.
A few minutes after midnight the
men made their appearance in Pc
dricktown, about twenty miles below
Woodbury.. They went to the livery
stable of J. B. Caventa, forced an
entrance and stole a team. Then
they went to the postofice. The safe
was blown open and $3.50 in stamps
and money taken.
The force of the explosion was so
great that it wrecked the entire post
Office and set fire to the building. The
robbers fed with the stolen team. In
a very few minutes the entire popula-
ton of Pedricktown vas in the street
in front of the p~ostoffice. The volun-
teer iremen got to work on the blaze,
but before they extinguished it $4,000
damage was done.
At 2 o'clock the yeggmen reached
the Bridgeport p%ostoffice. The family
of William Brown lives over the post
office, but this did not deter the rob-
bers from forcing entrance and in
serting a charge OF nitro glycerine in
the safe sufficient to almost wreck the
building. Brown armed himself with
a revolver and rushed down stairs,
and when he went into the ~postoftice
he ran against the barrels of three re-
volvers. He was told to retreat un-
der the threat of death, and did so.
The robbers then packed up 5000
worth of stamps and taking $50 in
money made off in the direction OF
Woodbury., near where the fight and
capture took place.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
NINE GUILTY OF MURDER.
Chinese Convicted of Deaths Of Tong
Men in Boston Fights.

Boston.-Nine Chinese who took
part in the tong fight which resulted
in the killing of four other Cinnamon
here on August 2 last year were
found guilty of murder in the first
degree.
Chief among the convicted is
Wary Charles, a highly educated
A~mericanized Chinaman, who is said
to have been the leader of the Hip
Sing Tong in this city. He is said to
have been the chief mover in a plan
to wipe out the members of the On
Leong Tong. -.
Eight Ratchet men" were brought
here secretly and commenced opera
tions on the night Of August 2.
Many OF the On Leongs were sitting
quietly in their doorways in Oxford
place when the strangers appeared
and opened fire with Ievolvers. More
than forty shots were fired.
During the trial Lee Watt, n Of
ten prisoners on trial, was found dead
in his cell of natural causes, it was
reported. The men convicted are:
Wary Charles, zee Jung, Dong Box
Ling, Joe Guoy, Wong How, Min
Sing, HON Woon, Laong Gong and
Wong Duck.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
PANAMA CANAL MUST FAIL, SAYS V
of IsthmIan Waterway Gives Reasons
For Prophecy.


Panama Canal cannot hope to become
anything more than an expense. 1t
will not meet expenses and it will cost
more than is expected. 1t will be an
advantage, yes, but an advantage to
European countries and not to us.
The idea of. the canal being. of
great value to us in times OF warfare,
since our naval forces can be quickly
sent from one coast to the other, he
says, is utterly absurd. 1t would take
days for the ships to get around, n
during that time hostile shells could
have done their work. Mr.. Stevens
believes that it would be a far wiser
plan of defense to put the money that
the canal will cost into a greater
navy.
Mr.. Stevens is not unique. however,
as a prophet of evil for ship canals.
Forty-odd years ago many British n
other mercantile economists were
cocksure that the Suez Canal could
never pay expenses. Yet for years
the directors of that work have had
periodically to reduce their tolls on
shipping in order to keep their net
yearly profits from exceeding the
twenty-five per cent. permitted by the
charter, and the s20,000,000 worth
of shares which the British Govern
ment purchased in 1875 are nov es-
timated to be worth fully S155,000,-
900. There is no objection to Mr..
Stevens keeping company with those
who went so wide of the SueZ mark.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
THE DOCTORS GIFT
Food Worth its Weight in Gold.

We usually expect the doctor to
put US on some kind OF penance and
give US bitter medicines.
A Penn. doctor brought a patient
something entirely different and the
results are truly interesting.
1.-TWO years ago." writes this pa
tient, Il was a frequent victim OF
acute indigestion and biliousness, be-
Ing allowed to eat very few things.
One day our family doctor brought
me a small package, saying he had
found something for me to eat. at
last.
He said 1t was a food called
Grape-Nuts. and even a. Its golden
color might suggest. It was worth Its
weight in gold. was sick and tired,
trying one thing after another to no
avail, but at last consented to try this
new food.
We'll! 1t surpassed my doctors
fondest anticipation, and every day
since then | have blessed the good
doctor and the inventor OF Grape
Nuts.
IL noticed Improvement at ou1e,
and In a months time my former
spells of indigestion had disappeared.
In two months | felt like a new
My brain was much clearer and keen
er, my body took on the vitality of
youth, and this condition has contin'
ued."
.1here's a Reason" Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read THE Road to MELVILLE" in
pkgs,
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The Best He Knew.

Gladstone, a jamaican negro, was
assistant to a district physician in
the Canal Zone, and being rather poor
in his Latin, the bottles had been
numbered for his benefit. One day
a Spanish laborer came in for medi.
cine, and the doctor told his worthy
assistant to give him two pills out Of
number six. After he had gone the
doctor asked:
"Gladstone, did you give the man
q dose of number six?"
"Oh, no, sab, doctor; numbah six
war finished, so I just give him one
pill out of numbah foah and one ont
of numbah two."-Lippiacott's.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
BAN ON BETTING NEWS.
Los Angeles Council Passes Ordinance
Affecting Newspapers.

S1l1CStiIS -NShSpopNAS
Los Angeles.-The City Council,
over the veto of Mayor Harper, passed
an ordinance which will prohibit SELL
ing or giving away in Los Angeles
any newspaper or any publication
containing information regarding bet
ting on any contest of any sort. This
not only covers horse race , but all
forms of athletics.
The new law prohibits tips on any
event and entries may not be pub
lished unless they I'll in alphabet
ical order, uniform type, flush with
the left side column rule. If en-
forced, this would bar nearly every
newspaper in America containing
sporting news.
The ordinance also prohibits pub
LEGATION of betting odds on Presiden-
tial elections or baseball games. 1t
also takes away from sporting editors
the time honored right to decide all
the bets in the universe.
The general impression here is that
the Law will be ignored by the daily
newspapers.
The recent murder of Mrs. Char.
Iotte l.. Noyes after a quarrel over
race betting created sentiment in
favor of the new law.
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Longest Gable Ropeway.

Work is at present in hand on the
construction of what is claimed to be
the longest cable ropeway In the
world. 1t is being constructed by a
German firm, and is intended to con-
meet the collieries Of the Societe de
IIndustrie Charbonniere ct Miniere
de Turkestan, situate about eighty
miles from Samarcand, Russian. Turk
estan, with the nearest railway sta
ton. Hitherto the coal has been
transported by camels, the journey,
on account of the very billy district,
occupying five days. The new rope
way, which will be ffty-four miles
long, is intended to carry from eight
to ten million pools a year, and the.
trolleys, which will each hold twenty
pools, will travel at a speed of six
miles an hour. -Philadelphia Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
A Big Mistake.

A fool, a barber and a b~aldheaded
man were travelling together. Los.
Inc their way, they were obliged to
sleep in the open air, and to avert
danger it was agreed to watch by
turns. The first lot fell on the bar
Der, who for amusement shaved the
Door fools head while he was Sleep
ing. He then woke him, and the
fool, raising his hand to scratch his
head, exclaimed: Here's a pretty
mistake. You have awakened the
~baldheaded man instead Of me-
Liverpool Mercury.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
CHINA HAS MADE APOLOGY.
Regrets That japanese Flag Was
Pulled Down.

London. "A special dispatch re-
.eived here states that China has
lpologized to Japan for hauling down
The Japanese flag when the steamship
ratsu Maru was seized.
The dispatch further states that
China later will reply to the japanese
Government regarding the seizure Of
he steamer and its cargo.
Confirmation of this dispatch was
given at the Japanese Embassy, where
It was said that China had expressed
ieep regret for hauling down the Jap
anese flag on the Tatsu Maru, and
had promised to punish the officials
responsible for this act. 1t was fur
.her stated that China had promised
to reply later concerning the seizure
If the ship.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
Teeth at Two Weeks Old.

Two weeks of age and with two
fully developed teeth is the unique
phenomenon Of the babe Of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. King, Of 1880 Thirtieth
street. At birth the child's gums
were normal, but the teeth develoued
before the child was two weeks old.
At this extreme young age the babe
was compelled to undergo a dental
operation for the removal Of these
malformations or forced growths.-
Des Moines Register and Leader.
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New York City.-In a statement to
the Acknowledgement tho receivers
for the Oriental Bank reported the
discovery of many irregularities and
crimes among the banks assets and
books.
Priest Commits Suicide.
Waterbury, Conn.-The Rev. Will
lam T.. Dunworth, assistant pastor OF
st. Mary's Star of the Sea. New Lon
don, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head.
Louisiana Republican Split.
New Orleans.-Louisiana will send
two delegations to the Republican
National Convention, one to repre-
sent the Lily Whites, the other the
Black and Tans.
Virginia Electrical Execution.
Richmond, Va.--The Senate con
Cured in the House bill providing
for the execution Of condemned GRIM
inals at the State ~penitentiary by cleo
tricity.
Europeans Going Home.
New York City.-There was a net
reduction of 1891 in the laboring
population of the United States dur
ing the last sixty days as a result Of
emigration.
Target Practice For Grew.
San Francisco.-The cruiser South
Dakota sailed for Magdalena Bay,
where the crew will engage in it's
first target practice. The South Da-
kota is carrying supplies for the bat
tleship fleet.
Crane Begins Work.
Boston.-Senator Crane has taken
personal charge of the Hughes move
ment in Massachusetts.
Calls Patent. Office Rotten.
Washington.-That in the Patent
Office, involving property rights
worth millions, patents have been
wrongly granted and that it has de-
generated into a postgraduate school,
where employees work only to perfect
a technical education, is charged by
Chairman Currier, Of the House Com
mittee on Patents.
Gets $4,000 For His Leg.
New York City.-A jury in the
case Of Hendrick L. Petersen against
the j. B. 6 j. M. Cornell Company,
OF trial before Justice Burr in the
Supreme Court, Brooklyn, has found
for the plaintiff a verdict for $4,000,
the full amount claimed.
Lieut.-Gov. Sherman Marrics.
Chicago, observation-disclosures
Lawrence Y. Sherman was married in
Montrose to Miss Mary Estelle Spit
Ter, whom he has konwn since she
a a child, he being twenty-seven
years her senior.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
The Rex. Y, ). Campbell
to Establish New Sect.

London.-The Rev. RI. Campbell,
The pastor of City Temple, publishes
a letter addressed to all free church
mel and other sympathizers, propos-
ing to form a new sect and organiZa-
ton for an active propaganda in be-
half Of his New Theology" the cen
trail idea Of which is the denial Of the
divine origin Of Christ, whom he re-
CARDS only as q social reformer.
The Rev. Mr.. Campbelss reason
for this step, he says, is the hostile
attitude Of the official clement in the
churches to the new movement.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
Trustees of Northampton Academy
of Music Report Gain Of $4,000.

Northampton, Mass.-The trustees
Of the Academy Of Music have made
public their annual report showing
for the financial year, which CORE
spends with the calendar year, a
profit of $4,000. This showing is the
more satisfactory when it is consid-
cred that it covers a part OF the pres
ent season Of hard times. n last
two annual reports have shown a
profit of $4,000, and have done much
to justify Northampton's experiment
of maintaining a municipal theatre.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
Halls Of Congress.

Advocates of woman suffrage made
arguments before Senate and House
committees.
The bill increasing the pay of
officers and enlisted men in the AIRY
was passed.
The Lodge bill to ~reorganize the
consular service of the United States
passed the Senate.
The House Committee on Naval
Affairs voted for the construction OF
two battleships, rejecting the Presl-
dents recommendation that four be
built
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
The Field Of Sports.

Brown concluded its basketball
season, losing to Williams by ~
to IA.
No pitcher in the big leagues stud
les opposing batters more closely
than Christy Mathewson.
There will be no betting on the
Readville trots this season. New
England breeders decided to holu the
Grand Circuit races without pool SELL
ing or bookmaking.
The Harlem Regatta Association,
of New York City, voted to ask for
the National Association races TINS
year.
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Gambling III Stocks Dcriisll,
Says Senator TiiIG.an.

Washington, D. Ex-senator Till
man in a resolution wants to have the
Comptroller of the Currency send to
the Senate a detailed statement OF all
loans made by national banks in New
York City on collateral security from
June l to December l. 1907, with the
full names of borrowers and amounts.
Stock gambling" said Mr.. Till
man, is recognized by a great many
people as one of the most pernicious
and devilish things Of all the PERM
cious and devilish things that are be-
ing done in New York"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
King Edward on Vacation.

King Edward on Vacation.
Lon1on.-King Edward left Lon
don for Biarritz for a months holi-
day, after which he will make q
cruise of the Mediterranean in COM
many with Queen Alexandra.
Japan Peaceful.
Tokio.-Japan does not mean to 60
to war, but unless China promptly
atones for selling a Japanese ship the
Government at Toxic may ask Eng
land or America to mediate.
Has Solidificd Heiium.
London.-Professor Sir James De-
war has received a telegram from
Professor H. Kamerlingh Onnes, OF
Leyden University, announcing thai
he has succeeded in solidifying the
chemical element helium.
New Congo Treaty.
Brussels. The new Congo annexa'
ton treaty was submitted to the Bel
gian Parliament.
hin IrlcS New DanKInS.
Pekin.-The throne has approved
series of laws which are intended tc
foster the Western system Of bank
ing in China.
Portugal's King to We'd.
Lisbon.-Newspapers here say thai
negotiations are afoot to bring about
the marriage of King Manuel ano
Princess Victoria Louise, only daugh'
ter Of Emperor William.
To Entertain Z. s. Fleet.
Honolulu, Hawaii.-Governor Freal
has appointed a committee to prepare
en- entertainment OF Rear-Admira
Evans ba:tleship fleet when it ar
rives here.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
Collier Will Be Constructed at
Mare Island i'll Ten Months

Vallejo, Cal.-In an endeavor to
make a record for the Marc Island
Navy Yard, which will result in a bat
Ileship being constructed here, work
I'll the collier Promethcus. being
Euilt here at Il cost of ~S1,550,000, is
icing rushed, and will be completed
by the construction and repair de-
partmentS in ten months.
This will be the greatest record
ever made in shiDbuilding either in I
Government OF private yard in the
United States.
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Chicago Museum Seeks to Remove
25O-Ton Relic From Egypt

acknowledgements from Assou-
an, Egypt, state that negotiations
have been begun there BY a represan-
tativc of a Chicago museum. probably
the Field Columbia, for the transfer
ence to that city of an ancient tomb
weighing $50 tons.
The tomb is situated near the Ply
ramid of Sakkara, twenty miles from
Cairo, and q ~favorita resort OF tour
lists. The Chicago museum authcE!-
ties wish to remove it in its entirely
from Egypt.
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Harry Orchard Pleads Guilty.

Harry Orchard, before Judge Ere
mont Wood, in the District Court, a.
Caldwell. Idaho, withdrew his former
nlea of not guilty and entered a plea
or guilty to the charge Of murder o.
G~,yernor S~teunenberg by the eXplo,
sion of a dynamite bomb at the side
gate Of his residence on December 80
1905.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
Swift Interests buy 100000
Acre and 20. 1000 Cattle in Texas.

Austin, Texas.-Major George w.
Littlefeld, of Austin, closed a deal
for the sale of his 100000 acre ranch.
which comprises nearly all the land
in Lamb and Hockey counties in the
Panhandle of Texas, to a syndicate OF
Chicago men closely identified with
the interests of Swift C Co., packers,
prominent membersof the Beef Trust.
He disposed Of 10000 cattle and
500 saddle horses with the land. The
total consideration was approximate
" s3,000,OO0.
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Saloons in DAYLIGHT Only.

At Lincoln, Neb., the excise board
adopted a rule providing for all day
light saloons, beginning at the new
municipal year in May. The hours
for opening and closing are 7 a. IN.
and 7 p. NJ. and the license fee is to
be $500.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-04-01
New Planet Discovered.

The discovery of a new planet Or
satellite was announced in a cable
dispatch received from the obserya-
tory at Kiel, Germany, by the astron-
omers at the Harvard observatory at
Cambridge Mass.
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Brewers Fight Local Option.

New York City.-Brewers Of this
section met at the Hotel Aston and or
ganized the Manufacturers and Deal
ers' League to fight local option. The
members represent breweries worth
S25,000,000, which manufacture
enough beer every day to float a bat
tleship.
Fast Work on Canal.
Panama.-The newspapers here
comment fayorably upon the extra
ordinary amount Of canal excavation
for the month Of February, which, if
continued upon the same scale, would
make possible the opening of the
canal before 1912.
Cheaper Ice Coming.
Strouds5urg, Pa.-The ice harvest
on the Pocono Mountains is nearing
completion, and nearly 100000
tons of twelve and thirteen inch ice
have been stored to supply the mar
kets of New York City and Philadel-
phia. 1t is believed that the present
conditions will warrant a decrease in
price next summer.
Rockefeller Buys Georgia Home.
Augusta, Ga.-John D. Rockefeller
likes Augusta so well that he has de-
cided to make his home here for the
three winter months each year. With
that end in view he purchased the
Warner property.
Penolcgy in Illinois.
Lincoln, Ill.-To the Legislative
asylum investigating committee Mrs.
Louis Ebbinger, for six years a
matron at the asylum for feeble
minded children, told how attendants
endeavored to solve the punishment
problem" Her method" she said,
was to hold a small boy while a large
n beat him.
Two Negroes Lynched.
Hawkinsville, Ga.-Two negroes,
Curry Robertson and John Henry,
were lynched near here and their
bodies burned. They were charged
with the murder of Mr.. and Mrs.
Warren Hart.
prosperity Convention" Ends.
BaIi;more.-The prosperity con-
Vention" came to a close when the
delegates were guests at a theatrical
performance at the Lyric.
Regulate Racing in Canada.
Toronto, Ont.-Notice was given in
the Ontario Legislature of q bill,
which, when it becomes law, will vir-
tually mean the closing down Of Fort
Erie as a racing resort during the
greater part Of the season.
Loss Placed at $50.
Cleveland. - From the burned
school building at Collinwood 161
bodies have been recovered, and it is
believed the total loss Of life was 1870.
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MONEY FOR TOXIC FAIR.
appropriation of 100000 by Con.
grcss For Exhibit in 1912.

Observation-Disclosures peace
salve, to cost $4,000, is to be ap-
piled by Congress to the japanese sit.
nation. The House Committee on
Industrial Arts and Expositions de-
cided to report favorably a bill ap'
propriating 100000 to make pos
sible the participation OF the United
States in the International Exposition
in Toxic in 1912.
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NEWS BY CABLE


Berin-On account of the large number of children of Ger
man-American birth, estimated according to cablegrams at seventy
per cent, among the victims of the Coninwood, Ohio, fire, the
catastrophe occasions horror-strcken comment throughout the
Fatherland. The papers publish brutaly frank references to the
cheapness with which life is held in America, and ask how many
more death-dealing experiences like the Iroquois, Slocum and Col
lnwood disasters are necessary before the Nation is sufficiently
aroused to pay some attention to the protection OF human life that
Europe has long regarded as the elementary principle of govern
ment,