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Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1910-07-08
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NYTIDS-ROMAN | FIRE DELE.
(Fortsat.)

,Men det er 10 kun mig og like Freken Mariane,
der snakker ON dit code Hjerte, Magnusl var du kun
roligl Diet skal du like tage dig saa narl med Erie
ret var Diet kun min SpSg"-
Brsdrene gk nu fra Bordet, under nogle smaa,
godmodige Drillerier, og forlod Spisesalen. sundby rel
ste sig ogsaa men han ledte efter sin Hat og bley til
bage. Kamilla saa en- usadvanlig Beyagelse hans An
sigt og studsede. Hun ~merkede, at han MATTE have no
get vigtigt at tale med hende ON alene. En- let Rgdme
for ~pludselig over hendes Kinder hun histe ham
hastig, for at b%ortfjerne sig. Hun syntes dog ubestemt,
ON hun Wide gaa eller blive men blew og satte sig
rolig en- Stol we'd ct Haandarbejde.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
TAXES THE
Smokers Will be Forced to Pay In
creased Tar # on Tobacco.

Observation-Disclosures Of all Am
erican-made cigarettes and tobaccos
are being reduced in size by the mall
ufacturers to make up for the in
creased revenue taxes imposed by the
tariff.
Packages of ~seevral w~ell-known
brands which used to contain twen-
ty cigarettes and sold for 10 cents
now contain only fifteen and sell tor
the same price. The first Of the small
Ter size packages have appeared in
Washington and the internal revenue
bureau has unofficial information
that the so-called tobacco trust IN
tends cutting The sizes Of all its pack
age goods in every city in the coul-
try. Packages of cigarettes which
formerly contained ten, it is said,
hereafter will contain eight. Pocket
pounehes Of tobacco, which have been
made in the favorite size Of one and
two-thirds ounces and sold for 8
cents, will be reduced to II and a
quarter ounces, it is understood.
This is due to the fact that under
the old law, cigarettes which weigh
no more than ten pounds per thous-
and were taxed at the rate Of 50
cents a thousand. This classification
covered all kinds Of common cigar
cites. The new tax is $1.25 a thous-
and. Smoking tobacco also was af-
fected.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
LID ON PORK BARREL"
Congressional Method of Making
River and Harbor Improvements
Condemned.

Cineinnati.-"The days of the
pork barrel should be numbered. The
country is reused against the cor
porate or corrupt control Of legisla-
tative agencies, but it is doubtful
whether the constituencies as yet are
able to perceive the higher obligation
on the part of themselves and their
Republicans not to use their votes in
combination to appropriate to a part
that which belongs to the whole"
In thus denouneing the congress
sional "pork barrel" President Taft
urged a reconstruction of the method
Of dealing with waterways improve
ments in. the United States.
The President spoke before the
Ohio Valley Improvement Associa-
ton which met at the Ohio Valley
Exposition here to celebrate the COM
pletion Of a new government dan at
Fernbank, o., a few miles below Gin
%cinnati.
This project was designed to con-
serve a navigable stage of the Ohio
river during the dry months of each
year.
The President referred to the i'm
portance of the proposed impve-
ment of the Ohio river at a cost of
500, 100000 to be expended in twelve
wears.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
A VERY Sad Scene.
Mans Wife and Children Kill
ed With Axe.
BLOODY ROBBER SPARES NONE.
Father Returning Home From Work
Finds His Loved Ones Bathed in a
Pool of Blood.

West Chester, Pa.-Mrs. John Zoos
and her three children, a boy aged Z
years and two girls aged 7 months
and three years, were murdered at
Byers, a small town about II miles
from this place. Suspicion points to
a boarder who has disappeared, but
Who the police officials are making a
desperate effort to locate.
The husband and father was the
first to discover the horrible crime.
While on his way home from the
Plumbago mines, where he is employ
ed, Zoos saw the body Of his seven
year-old son lying in the bushes
alongside the roadway. Upon inves-
tigation, he found that the child had
been terribly beaten about the head
and was unconscious. The distract
ed father took the child in his arms
and rushed to his home, a short dis
lance away. Here a terrible SIGHT
met his gaze. Lying on the floor OF
the little kitchen were the bodies OF
his two little girls and his wife, the
latter still breathing, but with her
brains oozing from a great fracture
Of the skull.
The almost frantic father rushed
from the house and gave the alarm.
A physician was quickly summoned.
but a glance told that there was no
hope for the wife. Attention was
then turned to the wounded boy. He
was placed in an automobile and a
quick run was ordered for the Pheon-
ixville hospital, a distance Of eight
miles. But just as the automobile
was in sight of the hospital the little
fellow breathed his last. 1t was evil
dent that the murderer had gone to
the Zoos home for the purpose OF
robbery, and the fact that the three
persons in the dwelling were disposed
of by the brutal burglar would seem
to bear out the theory Of the police
that the robber was familiar with the
Zoos and murdered the family upon
being recognized.
At the time the women and the
little girls were murdered the boy
was at school. It is supposed he met
the slayer Of his two sisters and
mother when a short distance from
home and the murderer knowing that
the child would recognize him and
give a clue to the authorities, he
placed the little fellow in such a con-
dition that he could not be of any as
sistance to the police officials.
The weapon used by the murderer
vas an axe. the handle of which was
covered with blood and brains from
the mother and children.
The house had been ransacked and
$40 which Zoos claims to have had
hidden in his home is missing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
WORK OF RURAL CARRIERS.
Their Needs and Demands Will be
Placed Before Congress.

Little Rock, Ark.-The members
of the National Rural Route Car
riers' Association f~avoring the Gold
EN- bill providing pensions for civil
employees won out in the convention
when the civil service pension COM
mittee voted to endorse the bill. a
warm fight has been on in the COM
mittee between members favoring the
Golden and the Gillett bills, both Of
which are pending in Congress. The
former grants pensions to the civil
service employees on practically the
same conditions as pensions are
granted to army and navy employees.
President Freys in his report stat
ed that he had petitioned the post
master general for additional COM
~pensation of $3.50 a year for carriers
for equipment and maintenance and
among other things for local parcels
post, for a solution of the penny
nuisance, that carriers be given a
holiday on Christmas and that extra
compensation be allowed for routes OF
more than "a miles distance.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
ROW OYER LEES Statue
Grand Army Encampment Had Warm
Discussion Over Lees Statue
Dollar-a-Day Pension Killed.

Atlantic City.-After a long warm
debate the national e~ncampment Of
the Grand Army OF the Republic at
its final session indefinitely postpos-
ed action relative to the controversy
over the placing of the statue of Rob-
ert E. Lee in statuary hall of the Cap
itol at Washington. The vote was
1873 to 102.
The encampment rejected the pro-
position recommending that Con-
gress be asked to grant each Union
veteran of the civil war a pension OF
a dollar a day for life, but endorsed
the McCumber bill nov in Congress
relating to pensions of widows. 1t
was recommended that the pensions
for veterans 66 years Of age be IN
creased from $ll to $15 a month, 70
years of age from SIS to $50 and 70
years of age from $40 to $25 a month.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Murdered by a Noiseless Gun.

Los Angeles.-While he was enjoy,
ing the moving pictures in a rooflcss
"airdome" here, Rudolph Gastelum.
a visitor from Calexco, was morta.ly
wounded by a bullet fired by some
one whom the police have been I'm
able to find. Gastelum died on the
way to the hospital.
No one in the theatre or its vicinity
heard the shot. One theory is that
the bullet was fired from one Of the
new noiseless guns. These silent
guns are the most dangerous ever in
vented.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
BLUE AND THE GRAY
National Grand Army Com
mander Urges Fellowship
VETERANS ALL UNDER ONE FLAG
Gen. Samuel Van SAINT at Encanp-
ment Makes Speech Praising Pc
triotism of Confederate Soldiers.

Atlantic City.-At the annual en-
campment Of tine National Grand
Army of the Republic Samuel R. C..
Van SAINT, commander-in-chief re-
fected the friendly feeling now exist
ing between the sections that once
waged war against each other and in
lis address he took occasion to urge
Joint meetings of the "Blue and the
Gray and paid his respects TO the
honor and heroism of the men OF the
Confederate Army. .
The commander-in-chief expressed
himself as particularly gratiied az
the increasing liberalization OF the
"Blue and the Gray" He voted his
pleasure at the cordial reception CIV
en- him during the recent official visit
to the Southern departments, not only
from the former, Union soldiers, but
from ex-Confederates.
SIN all cities, when possible he
said. 81 urge Joint meetings OF the
Blue and the Gray. We have many
gatherings Of this character, and ne
more loyal and patriotic sentiments
were ever uttered than by the men
who fought on the other side.
care you not pleased to learn that
our comrades are living in peace and
harmony with our life enemies9 This
is as it should be. Both armies were
composed of brave men and they
should and do mutually respect each
other. We of the North a testify
that no Drawer troops were ever mar
shalled for conflict than our late me
mies-and we now realize that no
men ever made greater sacrifices for
what they believed to be right than
our former foes.
"Comrades, We were the vietos,
and we can afford to be magnani-
nous to Il old foes. It is easy for
the victor to forget, but when the
vanquished absolves himself from all
bitterness he has truly gained the
most cherished trait Of a noble char
acter. We won-they lost. We re-
turned to our homes with the shouts
of victory ringing in our ears-our
cause triumphant. They were de-
feated, their cause lost, and they re-
turned to homes destroyed, barns
empty, money worthless, slaves free
and ruin all about them. Any but a
brave people would have yielded to
these adverse conditions-not so with
them. Bravely as they fought during
the war, they now fought the battles
of life, and the splendid growth and
developments of the South since the
close of the war is the South's grand
est and most enduring monument.
United as We are now, u country
is destined to make a new era OF
progress. We have by u united ef-
forts advanced to the highest pima
Gle of fame, and become q mighty
world power with our influence every
where potential. Who does not re-
ioice that our Union is one and indl.
visible, and will remain so forever"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
RAILROADS. COMPLAINT.
Increased Pay and Shorter Hours for
Employees Have Decreased Eff
cheney of Dollar.

Chirago.-Railroads must adjust
their economical difficulties by some
other means than by asking shippers
to contribute the funds therefor, is
the opinion of Interstate Commerce
Commissioner Franklin T. Lane, e4
pressed during the hearing of the
Western railroads who seek to obtain
a general increase in freight rates.
Railroad officers had declared that
there were only two factors in como
,mically perfect railroad management,
namely, the amount of rates charg-
ed and the method of capitalization
and financing. The elimination Of
the rate question by the
commissioner aroused consider
able interest among the railroad men
and attorneys present. They sought
to learn if the commissioner thereby
implied there must be readjustment
of the method of financing big car
rier systems, but Mr.Lane ignored
the efforts.
The witness was William Ellis,
commerce counsel for the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad. He
testified that his company was suf-
fering from too much business and
that the increase had meant ar in
crease in the unit Of cost which grew
faster than the unit of income.
He told the commissioners that ex-
pense cost was o~vertaking earnings
and would continue to do so as long
as more traffic was handled, as might
be expected.
"Now," said Commissioner Llne,
eve come to what I am beginninSto
call the mysterious cause Of the ap-
parently increased cost of operation.
What is it,"
"IW tell you," was the reply.
"fEvery session Of Congress, or Leg
islature, has decreased the earning
efficiency of the dollar expended upon
labor. Eight-hour days, s~ixteen-hour
~telegraphers, limitations, restrictions
in regard to rest hours, all these have
cut down a dollars efficiency. I still
say that labor is the big factor in in
cerased cost" .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Rich Potentate in America.

Neutrality-suspicious. General Leon
ard Wood, who knows the Sultan of
Sulu, Hail Mohammed Jumbal
Hiram, very we'll, is handling the ar
engagements for the S%ultan's recep-
ton and entertainment. The Sultan
will be met by government rerresen-
t~atives.
The potentate set out from Jolo on
June II, carrying a collection of
pearls estimated to be worth $780,
900. Fourteen persons, including the
principal headmen and hadjis of his
dominion, accompanied him. He is
sued a manifesto just before his de-
p~arture commanding the people to
keep the peace during his absence.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Louisiana to Fight Hookworm.

New Orleans.-As the result of an
agreement with the State Board of
Health reached some two months ago,
Dr.. Wickliffe Rose, of Washington,
D. c., general agent of the Rookie
Teller hookworm commission, arrived
here and Will confer with the health
officials relative to the appointment
of an agent of the commission for
Louisiana. According to the plans
the State agent will appoint deputies
throughout the various parishes. The
commission will pay $1,000 toward
the State agents salary.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
To Honor Unknown Dead.

Westinghouse conformity with
the recommendation made just before
his death by General Oates, Federal
commissioner for marking the graves
of Confederate soldiers and sailors
who died in Northern prisons during
the Civil war, the war department
has awarded a contract for the con-
struction of a monument, costing $20,-
600. in the Confederate cemetery at
Fort Lookout, Maryland, where lie
buried the bodies of 1886 Confed-
crates. Lack of Identification pre-
vented individual headstones.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Baltimore Loses Place.

Observation-Disclosures, which was
sixth city in the United States in
point of population in 1900, has lost
her position in the country's great
cities, according to the census sta
t~istics. and nov becomes seventh city,
having in the last ten years been out
stripped by Cleveland which takes
sixth place. Baltimore's population
is now 559,4S5 as compared with
Cleveland's 560.663. The Maryland
city grew 81 per cent or in numbers
1928 during the past ten years.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
ONE BUREAU SAVES S172, 900.
Economies Are Shown In Printing
And Engraving.

Washington The policy of econ
omy which is the watchword at the
Treasury Department is reflected in
the annual report of the director Of
the Bureau Of Printing and Engrav-
ing. Director J. E. Ralph shows that
the bureau has done IL per cent more
work on about $1,000 less than it
did the year before. More than $780,
900 has been saved by reducing the
size of the internal revenue stamps
for cigars.
All bank notes, revenue stamps
and postage stamps are printed at
the bureau in sheets consisting Of
from 4 to II. The years work is
computed by sheets instead of indi-
vidual pieces. There were 252,710,-
1854 sheets printed and engraved dur
ing the year. It cost $4,375,365.57 to
run the big plant.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Wyoming Democratic Platform.

Sheridan, Wyo.-The Democratic
State convention platform adopted
fayors the initiative and referendum
and recall, the Oregon direct primary
law, the corrupt practices act, r~estor-.
ing the Australian headless ballot sys-
tenn, publicity Of corporation affairs,
and the commission form of govern
ment for cities.
The platform is notable in the abb
sence of any condemnation Of the ma
tional Republican administration.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Life of Emperor Threatened.

Tokio.-A sensation was created
by the publication of the alleged de-
tails of a plot among his own sub
iects to assassinate Emperor Mutsu-
hito.
The startling story appeared in the
Honchi Shimbun, which states that
the plotters, who are under arrest,
certainly will be sentenced to death
after trials before a special secret
court. This is the first time in the
history of the country that the life
of the sovereign has been plotted
against.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Winnings of Fast Horses.

New York.-A tabulation of the
various winners on the Metropolitan
track thi syear shows S. C. Hildredth
in the lead with a total winning of
$140,5O0. This is about equal to his
winnings last year. Second place
goes to James R. Keene, who took
down $61, OO0-a rather poor show
ing. R. T. Wilson, $4,000; August
Belmont $41, 1000; R. F. Carman $751;
500; Newcastle stable $35, 900; G.. W.
Odom $4,000; Beverwyck stable
$21,O Oneck stable $4,000.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Hon. Tom Watson Again.

Atlanta.-To disregard the nominal
ton of Hoke Smith for Governor IN
the ground that Democrats are not
bound by the primary which chose
him, because of the ""ethods by which
the primary was co. acted, was the
advice of Thomas E. Watson, once
Populist candidate for the Presidency,
in a speech at a mass meeting called
by himself at a mass meeting here.
He urged Democrats to vote for Gov
ernor Joseph NJ. Brown for another
form
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Increased Freight Rates Postponed.

Washington.-The Interstate COM
merce commission has ordered the
suspension until January Is, 1911, Of
increased tariff schedules filed re-
Gently by the Chicago and Alton rail-
road, the Chicago and Eastern Hi
nois railroad, the Chicago, Rock IS
land and Pacific Railway company,
the Illinois Central Railroad COM
panv and other western and south
western railroads. A hearing on COM
plants against the proposed tariffs
will be held at a time and place to
be fixed by the commission.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Bryan Bolts Democratic Nominee.

Lincoln, Neb.-In a statement in
which he declares that the crusade
which he feels impelled 10 wage
against the liquor interests of the
State and nation overshadows a per-
sonal and political friendship of 20
years, William J. Bryan announces
that he has bolted the head IF the
Democratic State ticket in Nebraska
and would not support James C. Dahl
man for governor because of position
taken by the Democratic nominee on
the liquor question.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Peculiar Suit Against Hospital.

Anderson, S. C.-Mr. Fletcher Nc
David of Saltwater, Fla, now spend
ing a while here, is the plaintiff in a
rather unusual case scheduled to be
heard in Atlanta. Ga. The suit is
brought by Mr.. McDavid against an
Atlanta hospital where he underwent
an operation some time ago. He al
leges that the surgeons Of the hospital
failed to remove a quantity OF gauze
after the operation had been per
formed. thereby necaSsitating two
other operations.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Uncle Sam Will Punish.

birmingham, Ala.-Federal officers
have arrested four prominent men at
Admission. Ala. on a charge of fraud
ulentlv using the mails. They are:
Lon Price. ST.. l.. l.. Melton. L. NJ.
Melton and P. A. Melton. The men
arrested conduct a number Of stores
in east Alabama towns and it is al
legged that in ordering goods by mail
they misrcpresentcd their financial
standine. This is a serious otfense
against the postal laws and regula-
tons. no effort will be left undOne
to fasten their guilt.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Italians Lynched in Florida.

Tampa, Fla.-While being trans
ported to the county Jail. Castenge
Ficcarotta and Angelo Albano, two
prominent Italians, who have made
themselves conspicuous in the cigar
strike here, were taken from deputy
sheriffs at Howard and Grand Cen
trail avenues. hurried to q heavily
wooded tract nearby, and hanged to
the same limb.
They were charged with being ac-
cessorieS TO the assassination Of J. d.
Easterling, a bookkeeper. several
days ago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Convict to Experiment With.

Munice, Ind.-A chance for free
dom for a life term convict in the
Indiana State prison at Michigan City
by Drawing a death of tuberculosis is
the plan of DR.. o. l.. Roor, Of this
city, seconded by DR.. ". E. COover,
State veterinarian, to determine if
bovine tuberculosis can be contracted
by human through drinking milk or
eating meat of an infected cow. The
plan is to give the convict his free
dom if he should withstand the or
deal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Shot Woman and = ID Himself.

Cleveland.-As the end Of a close
acquaintanceship of unknown dura-
ton. B. w. Yates, a wealthy Detroit
business man, shot and seriously
wounded Mrs. Fred Singer in a
Rocky river wine room and wohours
later himself in the county Jail. Yates
was 4S years of age and married.
Mrs. Singer, formerly a resident Of
Detroit, but lately residing in a
Cleveland hotel, is the wife of a trav-
cling salesman, and is related by mar
riage to men prominent in Cleveland
affairs.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Twelve Gone to Eternity.

Clayton. kansaS.-A dozen persons
lost their lives and eleven others suf-
fered injuries in a wreck Of a west
bound Rock Island passenger train
running to Denver from Kansas City.
All the injured will recover.
The wreck was the result Of a
cloud1urst. which carried out a steel
bridge and turned what is normally
almost a dry creek into q torrent
many yards wide.
The train running at full speed
plunged into the gap.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Wounded Chief of Police Dead.

Richmond, Va.-Chief Of Police
James NJ. Stallings of Spring Hope,
N. c., who was brought here for sur
gical treatment of a gunshot wound
received at the hands Of a negro Sum
day night is dead. The load of buck
shot fred by the negro had riddled
Stallings' lungs and stomach. Nor
man Lewis was taken to Raleigh, n.
c., for safe keeping. He insists that
it was his wife who did the shooting.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Brave Confederate Colonel Passes.

Montgomery.-In his will, filed for
porbate Monday, General William c.
Oates, colonel in the Confederate
army and general in the Spanish
American war, provides that a
bronze statue, with Alabama pedestal,
be erected at his grave. 1t is to be
life size and is to cost not more
than $4,000.
His estate, valued at $2O0,OOo, Is
left to his son, William c. Oates, Jr.,
and his widow. -.
The dead man left also the text of
the inscription