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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
W asbin6fon.
News of the National Capitol Briefly Noted In
Passing for the Reader.
Congressman Not Higher Than Law.

Congressman Not Higher Than law.
Declaring that the court was en-.
tirely within its authority when it
issued the writ Of mandamus order
ing the joint Committee on Printing
of Congress, to show cause why it
should not consider the bid of the
Valley Paper Company, Of Holyoke,
Mass, Justice Wright, in a decision
in the case declared that to have re-
fused to issue the mandamus be-
cause some of the persons sued oc.
cupied the exalted position OF SEN
ators "would have been to betray
the law"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
To Reimburse Carriers.

The Senate has passed a bill,
which, if passed also by the House,
will mean much for a large number
Of letter carriers in different parts
Of the United States. The purpose
Of the bill is to reimburse carriers
for services, found by the Court Of
Appeals to have been performed by
them in excess Of eight hours a day
some years ago. Several attempts
have been made 10 get the House to
take favorable action but without
success up to the present time.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
The Price of Persistency.

Boston, Mass, Special.-After a
legal battle, which has been dragged
through state and federal courts for
fully twenty years, Mrs. Eva A. In
gersoll has received a certified check
for .$195,551.9s, representing a fee
which she claimed was due her hus-
band, the late Robert G. Ingersoll,
for services in breaking the will Of
Andrew J.. Davis, a millionaire miner
of Montana.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Statue to Calhoun.

In the two houses Of Congress.
South Carolina and Massachusetts,
joined hands over the grave of John
C. Calhoun. The occasion was the
unwilling of the statue of the great
South Carolinian which sixty years
after his long continued struggle for
state rights has been set in s~tatuary
hall. The handsome statue was the
gift of the State of South Carolina,
to the National government.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Aged Distiller Gives himself Up.

Baltimore, Special.-George I.
Gambrell, the aged president Of the
Roxbury Distillery company, want
ed by the police m charges of fradu-
lently issuing. whiskey certificates up
OF which he was alleged to have OBJ
tanned loans amounting from $780,
900 to 100000 surrendered himself
to the authorities here. He was
later released in $4,000 bail. Gam
brell, who had been missing since
February "a, returned from Ensley,
Ala. His distilling company is in the
hands Of receivers.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
New Railway Company.

The secretary Of state chartered the
Grcenville, %Spartanburg and Ander-
son Railway company with a capital
stock of 100000. The company is
given the right to increase the capital
to So, 0 900. The line will be
operated by electricity and will ex-
tend from the, city Of Anderson to
Spartanburg,- a distance Of about -65
miles.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
New Record for Pistol Shot.

Spokane, Wash, Special.-Frank
Frome, national indoor pistol cham
pion, established a new worlds rec
ord here when he scored SO out of
a possible 100 at 20 yards.
The old record was SO. The shoot
ing was done under artificial light,
while the old record was made under
natural light.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Orangeburg to Keep Cool.

The ice factory plant Of the
Crystal Ice Company was sold at
public auction in O%rangeburg by
the trustee in bankruptcy. Joseph
A. Berry Of the Crystal lee company,
by order of the United States court,
and was bid in for $4,000. Already
a new company has been organized
to take over the plant and to engage
in the manufacture of ice.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Sympathetic Strikes Unlawful.

Richmond, Va. Special.-Sympa-
thetic strikes are unlawful, accord
ing to a decision handed down by the
United States circuit court of ap-
peals in which it sustained a recent
judgment Of Judge Dayton, of West
Virginia. The case was that of the
Hitchman Coal and Coke Company
VS.. the United Mine workers Of
America.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Miss Gerald Stands Firm.

Ignoring a letter of dismissal sent
to her by Mrs. Matthew 7. Scott,
prssident.general of the Daughters
of. the American Revolution, Miss
Agnes Gerald reported for work as
usual at the headquarters of the So
ciety in Washington.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
After 80. Years.

The familiar face Of Alonzo
Stewart, who has been an employee
Of the Senate. for tbirty-two years,
is now missing. The fact that
Stewart is no longer an officer of
the Senate was disclosed by Senator
Hale, who introduced a resolution
providing for the payment of six
months salary to him. His resigna-
ton was requested.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Got That Much?

Got That MUCH?
Have You $34.87 in your pocket
or in the bank? If you have not,
then you are shy on the per capita
circulation Of money in the United
States, as shown by the books of
the treasury department.. The de-
partment, in reaching this calcula-
ton, estimates the population at 3d.
$4,000, and announces the amount
of money in circulation on March /
as $3,134,O93,25O, which, if equally
divided, would give evry man, woman
and child in the country $34.S7.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
schoolmates to Avenge.

Kansas City, Mo-, Special.-Deter-
mihea 20 a7enge an attempted assault
on Miss Cora Downs, II years old:
by a negro in Kansas City, Esn
so high school classmates of the gin
joined a sheriff's party in a searcL
for the fugitive.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
To Build New Depot.

Jamison & Morris, contractors, are
awarded the contract for building
tile new passenger and freight depot
of the Charleston & Western Caro-
lima Railway company at Greeuville,
The amount of their bid being. $37,-
1890.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Killed hY Trolley Car.

An inquest was held over the re-
mains of Irving McGhee, well known
white man of Aiken, who was run
over by an Augusta-Aiken trolley
car, some distance from the city.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Brick Wall Falls on Workmen.

P%ittsburg, Pa, Special.-Three men
were killed and seven were seriously
injured here by the collapse of a 80
foot brick wall, left standing as the
ruins of a fire. Twenty workmeH
were buried in the debris, most OF
whom were foreigners.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
After the c., n. & L.

That tue Columbia, Newberry and
Laurens Railway Company has no
regular passenger station in Colum-
bia has caused the railroad commits
sion to take up tue matter of the
sale of tickets by this road.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Laughs When Told He is Dead.

Rome, By Cable. Pierpont Nor
gan enjoyed a hearty laugh when lie
heard for the first time OF the rumor
that he was dead. 81 am accustom-
ed to such tricks. l have never felt
as we'll as | do now.o
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Presidential Nominations.

Nominations sent to the Senate
by President Taft include the follow
ing: Consuls: Arthur B. Cooke, Of
South Carolina, at Patras, Greece
Philip E. Hollande, of Tennessee, at
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
Ralph J.. Totten, at Maracaibo, Vene-
uela,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Cheek Bone Broken.

S. R. Suber, in Gaffney, while
starting from in front of his store
Oh Frederick street, was thrown from
a wagon and sustained sever in
.iuries and bruises. Mr.. Suber's
cheek bone was broken
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Confesses Murder.

Ell ,Paso, Tex, Special.-Declaring
that he had killed an intruder who
had attempted to rob him, Charles
Phillips, a carpenter, surrendered to
the police here.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
To Abolish Office.

The Southern Express company
has applied to the railroad commits
sion for permission to abolish its
agency at CASTOR. The company says
that an agent cannot be secured for
that place.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Apnointed Judge Advocate.

Firts Lieut.. E. W. Sturdevant, of
the marine corps, has beea appointed
Judge Advocate of a General Court
martial, 10 be held at Charleston, and
is detailed there for temporary duty.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Couple Form Suicide Pact.

Philadelphia, Pa, Special.-Seated
opposite each other at the beautiful
table in their apartments here Dr..
Charles c. Benson, 70 years Of age,
and his wife, Isabelle, 81, drained
two glasses containing poison.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
This Negro Gets 99 Years.

Kansas City, Mo-, Special.-Wil-
liam Jackson, negro ianitor, charg-
ed with attacking six young white
girls, was convicted in the criminal
court and sentenced to 90 yeaA' I'M
err .r,,n,ort
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
.. s. viii Construct New Maneuver

The United States government will
clear 400 to 500 acres of woodland
in C~hiekamauga park near Fort
0gletbrope, Ca, to provide a new
army maneuver ground. About so
army prisoners will do the work,
some 35 being brought here from
other post prisons 1t is planned to
have the work completed for the
army maneuvers in July.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
To Manufacture Automobiles.

John G.. Anderson, president of
the Rock Hill Buggy Co., is about
to embark in the wholesale manufae-
ture of a high class automobile.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Representative Perkins Dead.

Washington, Speeial.-Representa.
tive James Beck Perkins, of Roches.
ter, N. Y, died last Friday at Gar.
field Hospital, after an illness OF
~saunral weeks
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Bail is Granted.

Bail has been granted to W. F.
Vance who killed Horace Hammond
on the public square in Edgefeld.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16

Agricultural Bill Passes.
The senate has passed the agricul-
tural appropriation bill, carrying
$l3,5OO,OOO.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
To Mark Battlefield.

The battlefield of Peachtree Greek
Georgia, will be marked by the gov
eminent. This was practically as
sured by the promise made to Rep.
re~sentative Livingston by Chairman
Hull, Of tho house committee on
military affairs. The amount to be
authorized for this purpose is ST.
900. Senator Bacon feels no doubt
that he will be able to secure favor
able action in the senate.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
Bill For Salaries Cut Down.

The Legislative, Executive and Ju.
dietary Appropriation bill, carrying
S33,895,765, has been reported to the
House by the Committee on Appro-
priations. The bill is a reduction of
$5S4,124 from the estimates submit
ted by the various departments and
a decrease of $549,754 from like ap-
preparations for the current fiscal
year. There r 1859 salaries pro-
vided for in the bill, or liz less than
for the current year.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
swiped a Marriage Certificate.

Stealing a marriage certificate was
the novel charge OIL which a negro
was in the recorders court in Sum-
fer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
COL. W. W. LUMpKM DEAD.
One of South Cardinals Best Known
Public Men Dies at Asheville.

Col. W. w. Lumpkin Of Columbia,
S. c., who has been ill in Asheville
for more than ten days, died Sunday
morning at 7:45 o'clock. His death
was expected; in fact his remark
able vitality kept him alive for two
or three days. Colonel Lumpkin was
an old-time Southern gentleman, and
was bofn in Oglethorpe county, Ga.
sixty-one years ago. He was a Con-
federate veteran, leaving the cause
of the Confederacy with the surrend-
er of Lee as a lieutenant colonel on
the staff of General Ward. Colonel
Lumpkin was a lawyer by profession
and was of counsel. for the Georgia
Central Railway of Georgia. Colonel
Lumpkin was -a-candidate in South
Carolina for United States Senator
last year being defeated by Senator
Smith. He was a Mason of high
standing and was here attending the
reunion Of. the Oasis and Omar
Temples of the Shrine.
Rev. R. w. Patton Ends Campaign
Rev. R. W. Patton, of Atlanta, sec.
rotary of the fourth department OF
missions Of the Episcopal church
closed his campaign in Charleston on
Sunday, after conducting many meet
ings and delivering addresses which
have stirred much enthusiasm and
done the cause much good. AS a
result of the address which he made
before the Churchman's club ON the
resolution of Rt. Rev. Bishop w. A.
Query, it has been decided that the
five Charleston churches will double
their contributions to the mission
fund, making the annual sum this
year $1,000.
Tillman to 60 Home.
Although the improvement in the
condition of Senator Tillman who
was stricken with paralysis a few
weeks ago, has been very satisfac-
tory to his family, the Senator is not
strong enough to travel but if his
present rate Of c~onvalencence con-
tinues it is expected he will be able
to go to his home at Trenton, S. c.:
this week. He is still under the CON-
slant attention of his physician. The
Senator is able to sit up in a chat,
every day, but he cannot walk and.
while he is able to talk, does not in
dulge much in conversation. His
friends hope that after a years rest
he will be able to return to the Sen-
ate.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-10-07
SPECIFIC CHARGES AGAINST LAWYER
Little Rock Attorney Faces an Ugly
 Accusation.

Little Rock-Following the charge of abuse of practice filed in the cir cult court of Pulaski county by Cir cult Court Judge Guy Fulll against H. G. Wernimont. a local attorney, the grievance committee of the Lit tie Rock Bar Association filed charges in circuit court against Wernimont. making specific the accusations against him. An order was made by the court requiring Wernimont to file an answer in 20 days and receive a hearing, or his name will be strick- en from the rolls.
 Wernimont is also charged with inn properly retaining money collected by him as attorney for clients, and that he is now under indictment for the alleged offenses. The charges are filed by Ashley Cockrill and eight other prominent attorneys, composing the grievance committee.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-10-07
Infanticide Is Charged.

Harrisburg.-An old bee hunter'9 dog treed in a hollow tree near Tru- man and the man went to it and dis, covered the dead body of baby. It had evidently been strangled to death, and the coroner's jury held Camille Pepper, George Cobb, Ben Rice and John Fuller for the murder of the child. They were arrested by Dep uty Sheriff J. c. Schel of Truman and placed in jail, where they will be held to await the action of the grand jury. The girl in the case Is not more than IS years Of age.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-10-07
A Nearo Barber shoo Is Dynamited.

Prescott-A stick of dynamite was exploded in the barber shop of Tom Clemmons, a negro. and several hun dred dollars damage was the result. The authorities have no clue to the perpetrators of the act. Clemmons says he has received several threal- ening letters lately, and it is pre- sumed the persons who wrote the anonymous letters threw the stick of dynamite into the building. A brick was first thrown through a window in the barber shop, and this was fol
 lowed by the explosion of dynamite
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-10-07
State Capitol
 News Notes |
THE SINKING FUND TAX MAY BECOME OPERATIVE AFTER
 JANUARY i. 1911.
The Sinking Fund Tax of Quarter Mill Was Suspended in 1907
 for Four Years.

Attention has been called in the statehouse to the fact that the sink ing fund tax of one-quarter of a mill will become operative again next year unless the Legislature extends the time of suspension of the levy. At the present time it is not believed that this will be done, however, as the indications are that the legtsla- ture may have to borrow from the sinking fund, with the result that the levy would have to be re-established to reimburse the fund. There is now about $90,000 in the fund and about $30,000 of this amount will be need ed next year in paying interest on bonds, so that the legislature might draw about $60,000. The tax of one quarter mill was suspended in 1907 for four years. While State Auditor John R. lobe and Governor Donaghey were discussing state finances, the governor asked MT lobe about the financial prospects for the state by the first of the year. Mir lobe in- dicated that he believes the general revenue fund will be hard on it's up pers" by the first of the year and in formed the governor to that effect. It has been expected that the gen. eral revenue fund would be fund.- less" by the first of the year, and as the result the governor has been spending considerable time figuring on what can be done. That there will be a serious deficit in the fund at that time has been assured for months.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-10-07
Engine Goes on a Rampage.

Marked Free-Quite commotion was caused here when engine No. 5S of the Frisco, and which pulls tha Tyronza Central passenger aeeommo
 dation train, threw it's own throttlo from an overload of steam and came tearing ur the track at a terrific rate. The engine was on a siding, and the watchman had gone to wake up the crew. It ran into a string of cars on the siding, carrying all ahead of it down the line. It ran two and half miles, when the steam became exhausted and the engine stopped.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-10-07
For Four-Year Terms.

A suggestion has been made to Governor Donaghey that he recon mend in his next message to the leg iglature terms of four years for all representatives in the legislature, thus giving the people men who are we'll informed on all subjects, and not have to devote half their time to becoming acquainted with the af- fairs of state after being inaugurated. Governor DCnaghey has not commit ted himself upon the suggestion, al. though he has promised to give it consideration.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-10-07
TAX COMMISSION IS WORKING HARD
Will Add About s15,oooooo to tn.
 Taxable Property of the State.

Little Rock-The Arkansas Tax Commission is st the present time doing much work and saying little, During the past two weeks it has placed over half million dollars on the tax books of the state, and be fore all the counties have been checked over merchandise amounting to about $f5,000,000 will probably be added to the taxable property of the state. Commissioner Gates has just returned from Clark county, where he had the board of equalization add about $110000 to the merchandise values of the county. A few days be- fore that he dug up about $S0,000 in Jefferson county. The other com missioners are doing the same, and it will take only $20000 in addition in each county to make the total of s15,000,0G0, but the commission will probably find considerably more than that
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-10-07
WANT A MONUMENT FOR WCKSBURG
Arkansas Iiieksburs Commission WE!
 Ask Legislature for $25,ooo.

Ask Legislature for $25 5000. will be made to the Arkansas legisla- ture at it's next session to appropriate $25,000, or possibly $35,00o, for the placing of suitable monument in the park at Vicksburg, Miss, where the Arkansas troops fought in the battle of Vicksburg.
 The Arkansas commission, com posed of ex.Govemor Dan W. Jones of Little Rock, Capt. C. C. Scott of Philadelphia and J. P Faneher of Berryville, which went to Vicksburg to mark the location of the Arkansae troops during the battle, has returned to Little Rock and it will be the rec ommendation of this committee that will go before the legislature.
 I've had no trouble at all in locat- ing the places where the Arkansas troops fought during this battle, , stated J. Polk Fancher of Berryville after his return, flor all menberS of the committee remembered the coun- try too well. We were taken over llie olu UdttlelIe4Q by Idptdln RlSSOH and found in many places small tan lets marking the position of the Arkansas troops in the battle, but we did not need them. We found many fine monuments erected by the North ern states, and We do not hope to compete with them for magnlficence, but Arkansas can show it's apprecia- tion in a modest way, and in keeping with the other Southern states, by erecting a $25,000 or $30.GO0 monn- ment I am in favor of spending all we can upon it."
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-10-07
STRANGER ENDS LIFE ON MOUNTAIN
The Body of James Dixon Is Found
 at Hot Springs.

Hot Springs.-James Dixon, a mid dle-aged white man, apparently in good circumstances during his life, was found dead on Hot Springs noun. tain, his body being in a badly dc composed state. He had killed him. self probably week ago, taking car bolic acid. His identification was made through a bank book showing a deposit of $14S in local bank. Where the man was from and the cause of the suicide are mysteries unsolved, The body was found by negro, and was so decomposed that an immediate burial was ordered by the coroner.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-10-07
GETS CONWAY COUNTY POLL BOOK
Secretary of State Ludwig Finds Only ASA Voters in Howard Township

Little Rock.-The poll book O. Conway county, sent for by Secretary of State o. C. Ludwig to determine the number of legal voters in How ard township, in which Plumerville is located, has been received, ami Secretary Ludwig has taken up with the election commissioners of that county the matter of stralghtenirg the discrepancy in the vote cast there in the recent election. The book shows 464 poll tax receipts were issued in that township and oi these only 90 white voters were reg istered The returns fror; Howard township show 500 votes cast for the candidates for governor. and about 300 votes for the balance of the ticket.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-10-07
1ao.ooo Textile Men Locked Out.

Manchester, England.-The Federa- tion of Master Gotten Spinners has declared a lockout of 130,000 opera tives and closed the doors of The TOO mills owned by it's members. This tying up of the Lancashire industry is the result of trivial dispute aris- ing from the discharge of a single employe at the Fern mill in Oldham. The total of men idle in England as a result of differences between enl- ployer and employe is now over 200,- 900, and it is feared that thousands of others will shortly be idle.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-10-07
Threshes a Car of Rice Daily.

Pine Bluff-Col. John M. Oracle, the well-known planter of this section of the state, has gone to Stuttgart to look after his rice crop. MT. Oracle states that his ricu crop is making good yield. He is now threshing a car a day and is placing it on the market. He states that he expects to have 15 or IS cars out of his crop. This is his first experience with rice, but the colonel says that he is very we'll pleased with the outcome of his venture, and will probably plant an increased acreage next season.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-10-07
Charae Police With Theft.

Little Rock.-Chief of Police Nc. Mahon has suspended Patrolmen J. r. Parker and Al Fortner, night roundsmen, stationed in the vicinity of the Rock Island aepot. They are charged With taking negro's buggy and beating him with clubs. The police committee of the city council Will make a thorough investigation