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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-29
ONE DEAD, | DYING
IN LAURENS DUEL
UNKNOWN YEGGMAN AND OFF,
GER FIGHT NEAR RAILROAD
CARS AND THE YEGGMAN is
INSTANTLY KILLED.
Special Dispatch to The JournaI9

LAJRENS, S. c., Jan. 2S.-An unknown
yeggman dead at the city station house.
and Patrolman McDuffie Stone at the
point of death, are the results of a dead
ly encounter at 2:15 o'clock this morning
in the railroad yards of Laurens.
The unknown burglar is shot through
four times, while Officer Stone has five
wounds. Only one, however, is serious,
and that is through the bowels.
Patrolman Stone and W. Frank Walker,
in the course of their early morning
rounds, went to the depot when the
through freight from Spartanburg came
in at PIP.
Reaching the standing train Of cars,
Stone walked down one side of the cars
and Walker the other.
Accosted by Officer
Seeing a man with a sack in his hand.
Stone accosted him and inquired his bus
mess.
1T am a trainman,' said the burglar.
Where is your lantern said Mr.. Stone.
Train hands don't walk around without
lights
Then Stone stepped a little nearer the
stranger, who whipped out a 45-calibeE
magazine pistol and emptied it. five of the
eight shots taking effect in the body OF
feshys part of the leg. and one in the
lower hip.
So close was the encounter and so quick
the movements of the stranger that Stone
never had an opportunity to draw, so he
clinched him, and together they fell RI
the ground.
Fellow Officer Gives Aid
So terribly shot, Stone was about to
lose his hold on his antagonist, when
Patrolman Walker crawled from the 9TH
er side of the train; reaching the scene,
Walker was about to shoot when tbs
burglar said:
Don't shoot; am already shot to
pieces"
This being . bluff to gain time in re-
loading for in an instant he had showed
in another magazine, and fired straight
at Walker, missing him, however. There
upon Walker opened fire, hitting the
stranger four times.
The burglar lived for about three-quar-
tiers of an hour. He never spoke word,
and there is no clue to his identity.
Two Burglars Seen
One of the train hands says that there
were two burglars, but Mr.. Walker states
that he saw only one. The dead man had
a yegggmans outfit of tools with nitro
glycerine, dynamite, 'etc.
Patrolman Stone is perfectly rational
this morning, recognizing all his friends
who are many.
DR.. Query, of Columbia, has been sum-
moned, and If Mr.. Stone lives until ]
o'clock an operation win very likely be
had. The dead yeggman has been pho
tographed. '-~ ss srs
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-29
RIOTERS ARE FINED.
IN WAYCROSS COURT.
FIVE MEN, CHARGED WITH
SHOOTING UP" TOWN OF
BEACH, PLEAD GUILTY AND
COMPROMISES CASE.
Especial Dispatch to The Journal.l

Especial Dispatch to The Journal)
WAYCROSS, Ca, Jan. 2S.-The trial of
five young men indicted by the grand
jury at the adjourned term Of the supe-
rior court this week on the charge OF
riot and assault with intent
to murder. came TO a close this morning.
One case only was sent to the Jury, that
OF Lee Smith. which was sent TO the jury
last night. This morning the defendants
lawyers decided to allow the entire num-
Der to plead guilty, which was done, and
the case was compromised.
The defendants received fines vary
ing in amounts from SIS to 500. Stewart
Lee was fined 500, and Lee Smith and
Jack Sweat, $40 each; Estill Sweat and
Bob Lee, SIS each.
The case has excited considerable at
tention, this being the first alleged might
rider case" from this part OF Georgia
The affair took plac eDecember Is. The
party OF the young men were riding
through the little town Of Beach, II is al
legged, and were in a hilarious mood. Late
in the evening some or all of the crowd
got in a humor to shoot up" the town,
and coming around the corner began fir
ing pistols.
In the fray Miss Maggie Taylor. daugh-
ter OF Leonard Taylor, near that place,
was shot and seriously wounded. The
young lady was i'll several weeks, but
has about recovered now.
Besides wounding the young lady, the
party also fired into several houses. 1t
is said one negro house was partially rid
died with bullets.
None OF the men had any grudge
against Miss Taylor, and II is said were
sorry she had been hurt. The
young lady was coming from the train
and was about to start in the country
when wounded.
At the time the affair took place, it is
said that the party had grudge against
the town OF Beach, on account OF the
fact that one of their friends had beer
charged with carrying concealed weap-
ons. after coming up to answer charge
OF drunk and disorderly.
The state was represented by Acting
Solicitor John W. Bennett, assisted by l..
A. Wilson and W. w. Lambdin. The de-
PENDANTS were represented by Crawley
& Crawley and Levi Osteen, Of Doug
las.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-29
SENATE WILL PROBE
BIG STEEL MERGER
Understood That Light Will Be Turn
ed on Absorption of Tennessee Coal
and Iron Company
Especial Dlsps tch 70 The Journal.I

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-There is much
speculation over the action of the SUBJ
committee Of the judiciary committee in
formally washing its hands Of the Culber-
son resolution of inquiry into the absorp-
ton OF the Tennessee Coal and Iron COM
pany by the United States Steel Corpora
ton last summer.
The subcommittee, II is understood.
proceeded far enough to discover that the
matter should be developed under the eyes
OF the full committee, and its action
forces the resolution upon the attention
OF the Judiciary committee as a whole.
The Culberson resolution, which brought
from the white house the statement that
the attorney general should not furnish
the desired information, as 1t was none
Of the senate's business, called upon the
attorney general to furnish any written
opinion he may have rendered anent the
absorption OF the Tennessee Coal and Iron
company, and II he did not supply the
president any opinion in writing, to trans
NIT the substance OF any oral opinion he
may have delivered on the subject
The object Of the resolution was To
show that the president has been dis
eliminating in his investigation of trusts
and the industrial mergers. When the
president jumped in between the attorney
general and the senate resolution, the
matter was referred to the judiciary com
mitteee of the senate, which sent It to a
subcommittee. composed of Senators
Kittredge. Hemingway, Clark, and Gull
berson and Overman.
This subcommittee is said to have dis
covered something in connection with the
action big and important enough to nee
essitate their consideration by the full
committee.
It is also understood that the commit
tee will order a complete hearing of the
deal. and to that end will summon Henry
G. Prick, Charles NJ. Schwab and Judge
E. G. Gray, of the United States Steel
company. and several New York bankers,
one of whom, It is said. has declared that
the transaction was a merger pure and
simple, and was not done to avert a A.
nancial crisis in New York, as the presl-
dent has stated was presented to him by
officials Of the Steel company.
The drift Of speculation is how is the
president going to look when the light If
the Tennessee Coal and Iron absorption
is turned on by an official investigation?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-29
JOE BROWN KISSED
BY BRUNSWICK TEACHER
Especial Dispatch to The Journall

BRUNSWICK, Ca, Jan. @.-Govrnor-elect
Joseph M Brown left Wednesday morning
over the Southern for Jesup where he spoke
today. At the station in the presence of a
large crowd he was kissed goodbye by Miss
Mildred Thompson, one Of the teachers here
in the public school.
Miss Thompson was formerly neighbor to
the Browns in Marietta.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-29
WISCONSIN BALLOTS
FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR
(By AaaoeIatad Rreas.

MADISON. wis, Jan. 2s.-The second
joint ballot for United States senator was
scheduled to take place at noon today
and the friends Of United States Senator
Isaac Stephenson, who lacked but one
vote OF election yesterday believe he
will win out.
The Blaine senate substitute senatorial
primary investigation resolution was ex-
pected TO come up in the assembly again
today and 1t was said would be passed in
a modified form.
II Is said that the assembly viii demand
that the investigation be confined to SEN
ator Stephenson and State Chairman Ed
monds.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-29
THREE-MASTED BARGE
SINKS OFF NEW JERSEY

NEW YORK. Jan. 8.-With but a brief
breathing spell after aiding the White
Star liner Republic during her last hours
before she sank and later bringing the
captain and crew to this city, the derelict
destroyer Seneca is today searching for
the three-rnasted barge sunk off the coast
of New Jersey, northeast of Barnegat
and directly in the path of coastwise
steamships.
II located, the wreck will be destroyed
by the Seneca. After leaving on her new
mission last night the Seneca anchored
off Highlands, n. j., unable to continue
the search in the darkness
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-29
MACON SOON TO PASS
PAVING ORDINANCE
(special Dispatch to The JournaL)

MACON, Ca, Jan. 2S.-A paving ordi-
nance which provides for extensive i'm
provements in the city of Macon has just
been read for the first time before city
council, and in one more week il VIII be
finally passed, and the work started. Pop
lar street is the first one to be improved,
and brick will be used. throughout the
work.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-29
THOMAS NOT GUILTY
OF TRAIN WRECKING
Jury at Rome Acquits Defendant OF
Causing Death of Two Atlanta
Trainmen
Especial Dispatch to The JournaL)

ROME, Ca, Jan. fisherman Thomas.
charged with train wrecking, which re-
suited in the death of two Atlanta train
men, has been acquitted by jury in the
superior court here.
A second indictment for murder against
Thomas. growing out of the same case,
will probably not be taken up at the pres
ent time.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-29
SCHOOL BUILDING
BURNS AT THOMSON

THOMSON. Ga. Jan. 2S.-The school build
ing here was totally destroyed by fire at I 80
O'Clock this morning. 1t is supposed 10 have
caught from a spark Of the roof when the
janitor was building fires One piano and a
few desks were saved.
The insurance Is two thousand dollars and
the loss four thousand The building was
owned bv eleven trustees.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-29
FREE BOOK on CANCER.

An eminent specialist has written DVOS
on the best method of treating Cancer. Il
should be read by evCsy person VINO has
Cancer This hook mailed free to anyone
interested. Address DR.. B. E. Johnson,
1888 Grand Ave, Kansas City, Mo.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-29
ROOSEVELT WANTS
MAINE WRECK REMOVED
fRv Associated Presa.l

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-President
Roosevelt has sent to congress a message
approving the recommendation of Gov
ernor Magoon that an appropriation be
made to remove the wreck OF the battle
ship Maine from Havana harbor.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-29
Governor Signs Warrant for
$s39,579 to Pay Pensions
of Veterans for This Year
in Full.
BIG HOLE WILL BE
LEFT IN TREASURY,
1T is FEARED
Rumor Has 1t That Teachers VIII
Not Be Able To Get Their Money
As Promptly AS They Did Last
Year.

Warrant for the states pensions for
1909 was signed by Governor Smith
shortly after noon Thursday-for
S939,579, for payment in advance OF the
amounts due to the pensioners for the
present year.
While the money was in the treasury
to meet this draft, 1t is reported around
the capitol that the effect of it's pay
ment in advance will be TO leave the
treasury in a less satisfactory condi-
ton during the present year than it
was during 1908.
Rumor also has 1t that the treasury
will find it hardly possible to meet with
the same promptness the payment for
services rendered from time to, time by
the teachers of the state, with the full
pension roll paid in advance for the
entire year. But more money, it is I'm
officially promised, will be paid in
claims of teachers between now and the
first of July than was paid in 1907 dur
ing the corresponding period. In 1907,
it will be remembered, while the teach
ers were nominally paid in advance, the
amount appropriated was not sufficient
to pay them all, and nearly $50. 900 that
was due them had to be paid after the
first of July and after the Inauguration
OF Governor Smith; but no pensioners,
III 1SVtB T0CelNSu any money unLl1 the
latter part OF that year.
Pensions by Counties
Pension Commissioner Lindsey's force
has been working hard for some days
past. compiling the figures for the gov
ernor's warrant. The warrant went to
the state treasurer Thursday AFTERNOON.
and from that office the credit will be
given to the pension commissioner
which will enable him to sign checks to
each county ordinary for the respective
amounts due. According to Commits
sioner Lindsey, 1t is entirely probable
that the pensioners in every county of
the state will draw their money by Mon
day or Tuesday. =
Last Years Pensions
Last years pension payments amount
ed to 1882, 306.60. The figures of this
years payment are accepted as being in
excess, to a small degree, of what the
actual payments viii be, as for various
reasons-death. removal of residence, etc.
there are many pensions left unpaid
each year and. the money turned back
into the treasury.
The oRprov,r;, to-. Co., 10Oo L. eoEn non
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-29
/ cArh Blooms at Dalton
SneriaI 1ispstch 10 Tic Journal.

INIleVIdI NIsIlaICH 10 TT 't0T Ii"is'
DALTON. Ca. Jea. 2s.-Peaca blooms ap-
peared at Dalton en- the PEND. Mr.. W. F.
summerour gathered quite a number of them
on his place.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-29
AGED MAN MEETS DEATH
UNDER FALLING TREE

WESTMINSTER. s. c., Jan. 2S.-Mr. Henry
r Williams was crushed to death by falling
tree rear his home today. He was sixty years
Of age
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-08
Free Silver Again.

Mr.. John Hayes Hammond, the
celebrated engineer, recently paid
visit TO Denver. and while there made
. speech at q luncheon given by the
Chamber of Commerce. Among other
things MIR. Hammond said:
"One of the things that will help
Colorado and the entire Rocky noun
tain region is to restore bi-metallism.
The silver question that many have
thought a dead issue for the last
few years. is causing more serious
discussion than ever. The great
financiers want to restore bi-metail-
ism Jas. Hill is taking an interest in
silver, as are other great men.
There is now al work committee
endeavoring to bring around the con-
dition whereby silver will be restor-
ed to it's place. Because Of the
present gold standard and the rate
Of exchange, the United States and
England are getting the worst OF 1t
in the Oriental trade and if we wish
TO continue our commercial suprem-
acy we must restore bi-metallism.
In commenting on the speech the
Denver News says. 1T was the cause
of considerable comment after the
luncheon and many were there pres
ent who think that if Mr.. Hammond
is not the real leader Of the move
ment to restore bimetallism, he is
at least cognizant of the fact that
the great captains Of industry are
beginning to realize that something
must be done to uphold American
commercial supremacy in the far
East and the solution is to restore
silver to its proper place" 1t looks
like Bryans advocacy OF the free
coinage of silver is being endorsed
by the Republicans. who will eventu-
ally steal that plank from the Dem
ocratic platform of 1896.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-08
The Danger in Flies.

To warn people of the dangers OF
flies. and to show them how to get
id of the pests, the Chicago health
department has issued bulletin,
in which the pesky nu;sances arc
called all sorts Of bad names. Flies
are the dirties; and tilthiest OF YER
min" the bulletin says. They are
born in filth, live in filth and carry
filth around with them, only to be
scattered upon those whom they
tounch. Now is the time to build
your lines of defence. Prepare to
fight them as you would wild beasts
seeking your life
A good fly poison, not dangerous
to human life. the bulletin adds, is
:! solution OF bichromate OF potash,
one dram dissolved in ounces Of
water and sweeteued with little
sugar. Put some in shallow dishes
and place throughout the house.
Another is cobalt chloride, one dram
dissolved in . ounces Of water, plac-
ed in shallow dishes as above. 10
clean rooms in which there are large
numbers of flies burn pyrethrum pow
der or blow black flag into the air
OF the room. These do not Kill the
flies: they are merely stunned and
fall to the floor. They must then
5c gathered up and destroyed.
Seven different varieties Of flies
are found in our houses, 9S per cent
of which are represented by the COM
mon house fly. Flies lay their eggs
only in fermenting or decaying sub
stanccs-by preference in horse man
ure. Hence, as writer in Harpcr's
Weekly points out, every stable is
center Of infection unless periodical
" disinfected. The fly maggot is also
hatchcd out in latrines and ash-pit
refuse. such as bedding. straw, rage,
paper. scraps Of meat, fruit, etc, Oil
which substances the larvae subsist
after they hatch. which occurs in
about twelve days after the egg has
been laid. 1t is estimated that
single fly. laying 120 eggs at a time,
will produce progeny amounting
to sextillions by the end of the sea-
son.
The number OF bacteria upon a
single fly have been proved to range
all the way from $50 to 100000.
The average for Ala flies which were
examined at the agricultural expe-
riment station at Storrs, Conn.,, last
year. was 1.150,00O bacteria apiece.
This represents about the number OF
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-08
A MAGIC WORKING PLANT.
The Cowpca, Which Enrichcs Impov-
crishcd Lands.

The cowpea is child of the South,
a lover OF the sun, shrinking away
at the first breath Of winter or the
slightest touch Of frost, but grow
ing green and fresh and vigorous,
lifting new leaves toward the sky,
sending out new tendrils in all dl-
rections through all the heat of the
long fervid summer days, says the
Progressive Farmer. And when the
soil has become warm and the breez-
es stir lazily with their load of sun
shine, how rapidly it grows and how
quickly it changes the bare stretches
of up-turned earth into swards OF
tangled verdure, dense, deep-glowlng,
fruitful, full of promise.
All, wonderfully full of promise;
For the slopes over which the cow
pea has grown are not only rich With
the food of herds and fiocks, with
potential fat porkers and ripening
steers, liberal-uddered COWS and frol-
icsome colts and calves and lambs
and pigs growing through all their
days of rich-fed contentment into
early and vigorous maturity. They
yield also a stranger and more sig
niticant fruitage. Wherever the cow
pea grows there follows-as IL in
some tale Of magic from past cred
ulous years-a soil richer and more
productive for all that has been TAX
en- from it.
Those fields where the cowpea
grew and spread and fruited and fed
the hungry stock are. by reason OF
that very fact, ready to grow corn
! taller and greener and more heavily
laden with dropping ears; harvests
of ripening grain, deeper and of rich
er hue; cotton more beautiful COW
cred with the snowy locks whose
whiteness commerce changes into
gold. 1t is one Of Natures every
day miracles of goodness that this
plant should reach into the air and
gather from ii the ethereal food that
is to feed future harvests, and
through these havests the beasts of
the field. and man himself.
Truly. we of the South have de-
spised the precious gift bestowed us
the magicwork1ng plant which.
like the tabled fountain Of youth, re-
stores and reireshs and re-fertiliZeS
our soils, bringing to even the aged
and long-barren fields more than
virgin capacity for fruitfulness-the
opulent friend that with ineXhausti-
BILE liberality offers to the farmer on
one hand the richness of its own pro-
ductivity and on the other the more
abiding wealth OF an increased fer
tilty OF the soil from which its sus-
tcnance was Raleigh On.
c.. Progressive Farmer.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-08
CATCHES HORSE By HOOF.
Driver Adopts Novel Method OF
Checking Runaway Animal.

W. 3. Peden, of Peden Brothers,
of Spencer, Ind, land owners, took
an unusual and dangerous plan for
checking a runaway horse.
The horse had kicked off the dash
board of the buggy, and was reaching
for the driver when Peden, watching
his opportunity, caught the animal
by the hoof, and, sinking down i'll
the bed of the buggy, hugged the
animals leg TO his breast and held
on until it had run for three block
on three legs and stopped. Mr.. Pc
den was completely exhausted and
fell out of the buggy.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-08
The Laws Delays.

Il understand that You called on
the plaintiff, MIR. Barnes. Is that So?'
questioned Lawyer Fuller, now chief
justice. says Success.
Yes" answered the witness.
What did he say" next d"mand-
ed Fuller
The attorney for the defense jump
ed up to his feet and objected that
the conversation could not be admit
ted in the evidence. A half hours
argument followed and the Judges re-
tired to their private room TO con-
slider the point.
An hour later the Judges flied into
the court room and announced that
Mr.. Fuller might put his question.
We'll, what did the plaintiff say,
MI Barnes?'
He wcrn't at home, sir. came the
answer without Il trcmor.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-08
A PERTINENT QUESTION.
Will You Pay for Nitrogen or Get
1t Free?

1t is question. says the Progress
sivc Farmer, whether the farmer will
let nitrogen impoverish him or make
ii help enrich him. Can any one con-
ceive Of any good reason for buy
ing at 20 cents per pound what he
can get for nothins-can even get
paid for taking?
For the legumes not only supply
nitrogen. they make the finest feed
for all sorts of, stock: and if one
third the land planted in cotton were
each year devoted to leguminons
crops. in five years there would not
only he more bales OF cotton made at
a much smaller cost per bale. but
there would also be more ana hcttcr
live stock in the South. better crops
Of all kinds. fewer bills to pay for
feed and supplies, more money
coming in and less getting ont, rich
er farmers and more prosperous
country.
The most osprrous farmers Of
The South. almost without exception.
get their nitrogen by growing leg
umes; the poorest ones get theirs
from the fertilizer bag. One way
leads to poverty, the other leads to
prosperity; and it is for each man
&c choose ;:;A:2!: ;:::;A.:::2c!!:: p":h &c "ill travel.
Lets Make It."
At an experiment station the
yield of corn Immediately following
crop of crimson clover was in
creased from 35.7 bushels per acre
to 55.1 bushels. or over 5.4 per cent.
ne Progressive rarmrr Says with
these facts, and hundreds of others
equally convincing before us, why
do We buy commercial nitrogen, and
why do We not grow more legumcs?
By the use of the summer legumeS
for making hay to feed to live stock.
anG the use o. the winter icgui,es
for cover to plow under-by these
alone-that $500 More Year is
easily within the reach Of the aver
age Southern farmer. Let's make
il!
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-08
Notice rr Sac.

Pursu uanl to III o:i'r of Ino. :.
HGW lan. .ir.. referee ln Bankruptcy.
made at OrangrDut'r. : c.. July 3.
1909, | will sell to the highest bid
der. for cash, at Jamison 5. c..
twelve o'clock noon. July Is, 1909.
"G!it" of F. S. Saul: L. "nd 20 s:.;"-
ing crop upon Is acres Of land, more
or less. Orange township. Orangeburg
county, South Carolina
j. J. HOFFMAN,.
I-I-2t Trustee