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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06
First Bale Sold.

The first bale Of the new cotton
crop was sold at auction in New York
last week and brought 80 cents per
pound, the proceeds being used as usu.
al for charity. This bale was picked
at Hidalgo County, Texas, weighed
about 4l6 pounds. and was classed as
good middling. 1t was first sold at
Houston, Texas, on June %, for s375,
and was shipped from there to New
York. The cotton purchased in New
York will be shipped to Liverpool
where it will again be auctioned.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06
Fish Pend Washed Away.

The fish pond of Mr.: R. 3. Edwards,
near Creston, which was stocked with
black bass three years ago, was wash
ed completely away last Friday. The
fish were scattered over three acres of
corn about an acre below the dam,
which was completely washed away.
The fish ranged from one-fourth of a
pound to FIVE pounds in weight. 1t is
estimated that it will require $500 to
replace the pond. The old mill pond
on the same place was washed away
also. The damage to this is about
s2oo.-Orangeburg Times and Demo
crat.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06
Bandits Hold Up Train.

Three masked bandits held up the
second section of Oregon Short Line
train No. 1 north, ,ound, which left
Ogden, Utah, at 80 o'clock T uesday
morning. All of the passengers in
the train were relieved of their valua-
bles and the express messenger was
compelled to deliver the contents of
the safe. The exact amount the rob-
bers obtained has not been reported.
Two passengers were injured.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06

A woman's bed room was raided fer
stolen money and $1,000 out of the
$4,000 stolen was found in the mat
tress. The money was stolen from a
Cairo bank at Egypt by the woman
and man accomplice. The man has
not been located.
Three guests were burned to death
in fire which destroyed a hotel at
Seneca Falls, n. Y.
Nicaraguan insurgents captured lm-
portant towns and one Of the chief
ports on Lake Nicaragua.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06
Work "a Hours a Day.

The busiest little things ever made
are DR.. Kings New Life Pills Every
pill is sugar-coated globule of health,
that changes weakness into strength,
languor into energy, brain-fag into
mental power; curing Constipation,
Headache, Chills, Dyspepsia, Malaria.
csc at Kaufman Drug co.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06
Atlanta Robbers Convicted.

Four negroes, Charles Walker, Jim
BLACK, Charles Julian and Ed Weaver,
charged with the murder of Motcrman
Brown, in the Druid Hills street ear
holp-un in Atlanta several weeks ago,
were convicted of first degree murder
on Wednesday.
Although Walker and Weaver had
made written confessions Of their guilt
and implicated the two other negroes,
they swore on the lstand in the trial
Court that the confession was untrue.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06
2sisctad Him; H. Killed Fer,

Because Jennie Minkoff, not quite
1S, rejected his attentions, Morris Ma
thanson, young grocer's clerk, lay
in wait in the hall at her home i'll
New York and shot her through the
heart. She fell dead at his feet. Ma
thanson then walked to q police sta
ticn and remarked that he had "killcd
his gisl."
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06
Severe Sentence.

The up-country is not only part Of
the world where the illegal sale Of
whiskey is punished. In Sumter man
Bill Dutton, is serving a 8 months
sentence for just offering drink to a
customer, according to Dutton's state =
ment at the trial. The prohibition law
makes this misdemeanor.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06
Impuys -cs Cream Made IS I'll.

PSomaine poisoning caused by the
eating of impure ice cream made 95
people i'll in Houston, Tex. Several
Of the victims had narrow escapes from
death.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06
Don't Lsave The Farm

While cotton goes at Is cents,
Don't leave the farm!
Stick to the rural settlements;
Don't leave the farm!
With meat trust prices soaring high
AS clouds that scud along the sky,
Give the glad soil another try
Don't leave the farm!
III summer there is gold to earn;
DON'T leave the farm!
When coal is nigh there's wooj tc
burn;
DON'T leave tho farm.
TAFT left it long ago, they say,
70 take the rocky Office way;
Think of the JOB ne mas today
A33-don't leaye the farm.
F. L. s., in Constitution.
Dia" ha" been reelected pr&5i,;eut o
Mexico.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06
: GI'wslvs sawsG to Ereedem.

Twelve prisoners i'll the Federal Jail
at Mcs:ooer, OKLA, sawed their way
to freedom last week. FIVE others re-
fused 10 go.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06

Baron S;.rlb"rG, Rus5laa corr'-
So ,i:;;ent. Was arrtSfto Dy the sec'eI
20 ito. ,oittc i. -. P.stvlaAVrg.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06
Observation-Disclosures

We have large supply Of 1, and
10 gallon bottles, jugs, kegs and demi-
johns, just the thing for storing syrup1
vinegar, lime, etc. For sale at low
prices. The Kaufman Drug Co.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06

I have been using "Richardson's
Liver Tonic'' in my home for some
months past and find it an excellent
preparation. It has served as a substl-
tute for calomel, giving the desired
effect without the usual nausea follow
ing dose of calomel, and leaving the
liver in normal activity. I recon-
mend it without hesitation.
A. J. OAUTHEN,
Presiding Elder Anderson District.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06

Chiquola Drug Co., Anderson, S O.:
Dear Sirs: In response to your in
auiry, cheerfully state that I have
used E. L. T. in my family for several
years with very beneficial results. I
have personally used it recently for
it's tonic effects and have been much
benefited. For chronic constipation,
indigestion and torpid liver, I do not
know q better remedy.
GEO. L. PRINCE,
Judge of 10th Circuit.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-07-06

pills They only make bad
harmony with nature 1t prevents
Chil Fever.
Dr. prescribing for
will such good
results
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-02
CoNsPIRED TO KILL LAWYER
Evidence That Landholders offered
$1,000 for o, z, Hamilton S Death
tBy Telegraph q The Tribune

Thedford, Neb., May f.-EYidence show
ing that oscar T. Hamilton, an attorney,
who was killed while assisting in hunting
down fraudulent landhOiderg in Nebraska,
was murdered as a result OF conspiracy
among those he was prosecuting, will be
offered when the trial OF Henry Mcintyre
accused Of the crime. opens next Wednes-
day. This evidence has been collected by
the Phil Kearny Survivors Association
AffitIavits will be presented showing that
moro than one man was offered sl.G90 to
Kill Hamilton.
Hamilton, Young attorney, settled i'll
the northN estern part Of Nebraska six
years ago. Al that time much of the land
was held by cattlemen. He discovered that
they had obtained possession Of il by
means of dummies, whose names had been
filed by the large landowners. He wrote
to the department al Washington after he
had made some investiga tons, and egentS
were sent out They verified hts reports
Hamilton was shot at many times at
night and WIS invited By unsigned lettera
TO leave the state before he was killed He
paid no attention TO them. lie disappeared
April 10, 1908. Later Frank Clevenger con-
fessed that Hamilton had been murdered.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-02
sHAo NET THIEVES SHOOT
Three Men, Surprised at Work,
Open Fire and Get Away.

The waters not Tar from Hobolns Raef
were ploughed UP by several fusilIades
about 40 O'Clock yesterday morning
when three thieves in rowboats Wers
surprised at their work Of rif1ing the
shad nets OF Rubin Cadmus- of Bayonne-
In company with his son. Louis, the
owner Of the nets was on his cay 70
"a Use them. He was greeted with an cath
when his boat got veithin tvre hundred
yards Of the nets, and one % the thieves
next stood up and A=ea 2 shot. The
cadrnus beat rot stopping. half a dozen
more shots followed. each of the thieves
taking part in she fusiIIaie. \ bul,eT
struck the beat a few inches from the
elder Cadmus. but al the others vent
wild. John Efintz. Of GireenV1lle, vent %
the aid OF the CadmusRs in his motor
boat. whereuPon the thieves dropped the
nets and headed for shore.
They we're pursued, and again ths-
brought their revoIYer5 into play, and
managed 20 reach the shore AZ Ihe CID
Van Ruskirk farm, now a part OF The
Standard Oil ComPany's plant az Bay
onne.
''If you leave 1T boat III shoot you
dead" cried one Of the thieves as the
elder Cadmus soon afterUard started to
get ashore. Then the men ran alongsid7
standing freight train and escaped 70
Constable Hook.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-02
LOST HIS BRIDE AT ALTAR
Little Italy Outraged When
Bridegroom Is Arrested.

The social circles of Little Italy are agi-
ta1cd to-day, ana her proprieties have been
outraged for dd not Giambatesta VaccaTo,
the handsome stone mason, shamefully dis
appoint the fair Anna AIuria LaCcaTdo the
adored among the bellies of Little italy?
To-day Anna Maria sits alone in her
home: nor will she be comforted by family
or friends Her eyes are alight with the
flame of anger. and it would go hard with
Giambatesta should he approach within her
reach. The man who is accused OF du-
piIcity lies in a cell in the East leah street
police station, and in far away italy wife
and two little children wait IN vain for the
father who went away 20 win fortune IL
America.
All Little Italy knew of the counting of
Anna Maria by Giambatesta. There Wa;
rejoicing when they were united as man and
wife in a civil ceremony on February 10 IT
The City Hall But their happiness changed
To sorrow yesterday when the church we'd
ding was stopped Just as the priest was
about 10 unite them still more firmly,
The little Church of Our Lady of Noun.
Carrnel. "a 115tl} street and First avenue,
vas crowded with friends OF Giambatesta
ana Anna Maria, at o'clock yesterday af-
tcmoon. They stood before the Rcv Fathe
Mullen ana awaited the marriage ritual.
Two detectives stepped forward, tapped
Ganlbatesta on The shoulder, and led him
into the Ye6tibuic
Presently the detectives announced th1t
Gianbatesta was under arrest and started
10 leave the church with their prisoner.
Anna Maria questioned the detectives swift
" she pleaded with Giambatesta 10 tel
her the truth. and as h@ hung his head ara
confessed his wrongdeing. her pleading was
changed to wild fury She tried 10 lean on
The man who had broken her happiness, her
eyes afiamc and fingers elenched- she wa
ted away BobDinE.
The detectives told Fatheg Mu.,on that
Giambatesta had wife and two children
living In Italy. and that when he secured
ms marriage license at The City Hall ae
had made q false statement to the city
Clerk tic had gatd rhar he was Jingle
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-02

TO the Board OF War: Colonel Tsten
HsfeH-C Chang. Of the general staff of the
imperial bodyguard: Colonel Hsu chih-
Shan. councillor to-the imperial body
guard: Lieutenant Colonel Chang Shao-
Yuan chief of section of general stad
of imperial army and secretary OF the
military reconstruction office; Command
ant Fung- Chang. secretary OF the milf
tary equipment department OF the i'm
neriaf badyguafd; Surgeon General WI
Wei-Yu, OF the medical department. OF
the imperial bodyguaFdi His ESeelleney
Chang Yin Tang, Chinese Minister at
washington; YunS h8ai, first secretary
of the legation; Henry Chang, honorable
secretary Of the legatieni Colonel Walter
$. Schuyler. 9th Cavalry. U. S. A. and
Captain Henry A. Lemly, u. :. a. ire
tiredl. Besides these we're many ser
wants carrying all sorts of luggage, con-
spicuous among them field glasses. cam
eras and field equipment.
The pregrs NINE as arranged is some
shat tentative. To-day the prince and
his suite will go to West Point to review
The cadets, and this evening will review
the list Regiment at IT'S arm0rI- To-
morrow afternoon he will visit the Met
ropoIitan Museum and other interesting
points in the city. In the evening the
Asiatic Society will give him dinner at
DslmoniCO's. On Wednesday he Uill take
luncheon with Ciustave NJ. SchWab al
the latter's home in Riverside Drive, and
the Chinese Reform Association viii also
give him a luncheon at the Chinese Tux
edo, and at night he will be the guest OF
Mayor GaynOr at a dinner az Sherrys.
The prince sails for Europe on the
George Washington on Thursday
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-02
MAY DAY IN NEW ENGLAND
Numerous Disagreements Be.
tween Capital and Labor.

Boston, May May Day, generally re-
Sarded as the first day IN the industrial
year, finds In New England numerous dis
agreements between employers ant cut
pioyes Nearly ten thousand working peo'
pie were tonight at odds with their en-
ployers. largely because Of demands fol
wage increases.
The forty-two hundred union trolley men
employees in Springfield, Worcester and in
other places in Western Massachusetts and
Connecticut on street railway lines operated
by The Kew England Investment and Sc
curities Company, trolley holding corr
psny for the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad Company, awaited to-
night only the sanction of their national
officers before calling 9 strike in further
ance of their demands for an increase III
wages.
The building trades in Providence, Paw
tucket, Newport and Auburn, in Rhode ISL
and, and in Fall River, Mass, will be GRIP
pied probably Tomorrow morning by the
declared strike Of about twenty'eight hun
dred carpenters and laherers, seeking prin-
cipally increases in wages. In Fitchburg,
Gardner and Lcominster Mass. end in
Portland, Ne, the carpenters may ct-ike for
the same reason About seven hundred
men are involved in these places.
The trouble In the mills of the I1>terlaa-
tional Paper Company. no@- several months
ed, still continues, although nroportionately
few men are out.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-02

Appeals together as the last possible
step in the ten-year litigation, and the
decision announced now confirms the
81, 800 damages previously allowed to
Raseh and Brown.
Foreclosures, sales and transfers be-
cause of the death of the original own
ers have changed the aspect of many
of the title sheets to property along It'll
CATION row. in Union street. but those
householders who have stuck to the
street since before 1901, when the tracks
were laid. declare that property there
has decrea sed $4,000 lot since that un-
fortunate Sunday in May, 1901.
Even with the precedents of the ten
year legal battle and it's successful end
ing in mind the remaining property own
ers say that they do not expect the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit to hand over the
81 800 lot or anything near it, without
other tedious legal t4- eys through the
courts. but they are hopeful because two
of their neghbors are surely going TO
collect that much each from the trolley
company that grabbed" their street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-02
SALOON TRADE LIVELY
Back Rooms Open as Usual
No Excise Arrests Made.

The excise situation yesterday in this
city was much ike that of last Sunday.
While the barrooms were closed and the
bars properly exposed most of the back
rooms were in full working order, and
habitual and even casual customers had
no trouble in securing drinks. Watchers
We're on duty and passed in the thirsty
ones unless they looked too much like
policemen Or detectives Some saloons
lively few number of saloonkeepers
have hired apartments or rooms directly
over their saloons, aud Yesterday they
served drinks in the new quarters in
preference to the back rooms.
4 canvass of the station houses early
in the evening showed that no excise ar
rests had been made In few stations
it was learned that excise reports had
been made by officers, but the character
of these reports could not be learned. 4
new plan was put into execution in the
fremont. Alexander avenue and Nor
risania stations. Beginning with D. m.
Saturday, the posts of all the patrolmen
OF those stations were changed, and the
officers We're not shifted back to their
own posts until o'clock this morning.
No statement in regard to this shifting
of posts Was given out.
The Raines law hotels did their usual
business with the aid of the time hon
cred sandwich.
Up TO last evening one hundred excise
affidavits had been made out i'll Rich
mond Borough for filing with the Dis
triCt Attorney.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-02
FARMER S MATRIMONIAL JOKE
Advertised for Husband and Got Many
Replies Before His Arrest,

Jefferson city, Mo-. May Id. A Camp
bell, a wealthy farmer of Morgan County.
and his daughter. Mrs Mabel Addison.
were held for the federal grand jury TO-DAY
under sl,oO0 bonds to answer d charge Of
conducting a fraudulent matrimonial
scheme.
4 search OF Mrs. Addsons rooms by
postoffiCe inspectors brought to light more
than four hundred letters from men in all
parts of the United States, Canada and
Mexico. Several Of the letters contained
sums OF money ranging from s. TO $50 for
a wedding outht
Campbell inserted All advertisement in 4
matrimonial pd 1er about six months ago,
giving the name Of Nora johnson. The
advertisement was 30 successful that the
postcffice authorities became suspicious he
cause of the many letters, and the arrests
followed.
Campbell confessed to-day. but said he
inserted the advertisement lust for fun"
and that the replies came so fast he was
unable to return the money as last as It
came in.
Nora Johnson was supposed 10 he sew
enteen years old, an orphan, and heress m
$1,000 in year,
Campbell is siNty-tWe years old.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-02
GROSSCUP GOES BROKE !"
Judge a Heavy Loser at Monte
Carlo, but Not in Play.
CREDIT LETTER IN WASH"
Jurist, Back Home from Abroad,
Says Trusts Haven't Been
Dealt with Properly.

: Judge Peter :. Grosscup of the United
/ States Circuit Court. Nho has been on a
trip through Egypt and Europe, ar
rived here yesterday on the Cunard
! Liner Carmania, from Liverpool. When
! the ship was boarded at Quarantine and
the ship news reporters asked for the
whereabouts of the judge, they were in
formed by several passengers that he Was
in the dining saloon. but, sub rosa, that
he had lost all his money at Monte Carlo
While looking for him the reporters en-
countered the same sort of information
at every turn, and later tho judge him
self said that such was the case.
Yes, | lost all 1 had he said with
a smile, but not in the manner you per-
haps suspect.
Asked to explain, Judge GroSscup said:
Well it was this way: [ had some
Soiied linen that needed attention and L
bundled il I'D and sent II out TO the laun-
dry. In ii was d letter of credit which
represented all the money had with me.
OF course. when l discovered my loss
I sent word by wire 10 have payment
stopped at once Then 1 cabled my bank
er in Chicago for more money. | an
not particularly anxious to meet my
banker on my return to Chicago as he
may make some odd remarks about nay
carelessness in sending out letters of
credit with the wash
Judge Erosscup did not say whether
the letter Of credit was in the pocket of
his pajamas or enc of his wash waist
coats
When the subject of the trusts vas
mentioned the judge talked for them and
against them, and showed wherein they
had a reason for existence and explained
wherein they should De restricted.
|. The trust. :" he said has net been
dealt with il the right Wy thus far
The tendency has been to try, to destroy
it, which. in the first place, is unwise
and, in the second place, Impossible
Tusts are the result the natural course
of human evolution, It is wrong TO stop
evolution 1t is true at they are not
harmless here, but the solution of The
question is in having such legislation as
will cause their profits to be distributed.
The legislation should be 10 restrict the
profit to a living one only. Both parties
have failed to deal with the problem cor
rectly. One OF them pretends to be
against the trusts and is secretly helping
them. and the other is making the false
move Of trying To destroy them | DO
not know if the present attack will solve
the trust question, but experience has
shown that the human race always has
been capable Of meeting its own prob
lens"
Judge Grosscup said he left Egypt
shortly before Colonel Roosevelt arrived
there
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-02
RAID PRISONERS ALL HELD
Fifteen Alleged Gamblers Arrested on
Saturday Night in Court.

All the prisoners, with one exception,
captured in the raids on alleged poolroornz
Ia Cortlandt and West streets were Ia the
Tonbs police court yesterday morning
John Garner, of Bayonne. \. j., VINO was
arrested in the West street place, accord
ing TO mis- attorney. could not come 10 court
because he WAS sick. The other SIX prison
eIs. vino were arrested 81 the West street
place, were released on the station house
bonds Cor appearance on Friday. Tie seven
prisoners taken 81 the raid in Cortiandt
street we're continued on the station house
bonds fGg a hearing on MAY g. w.th the
exception IL Anthony Cune0 ana George
Wilson. who. being charged with felony,
were compelled 30 give new bonds
ABE" Coulter Vas arVaiGned> before
Magistrate O'ConnQr IN jefferson Market
court YESTERDAY and yves nfiG in 3! no for
examination Tuesday on the charge Of con
Quoting q roolroom 81 No. s. East 18th
EtFe-a.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-02
ENGINES QUIET NEAR THEATRE
Whistles and Bells SilenGed and Pos
sihle Panic at the Majestic Avoided.

While answering an alarm due to a fire
in the chimney of PabSt'g Circle Caf[, in
Columbus Circle. last night the engines
that passed through 18Th street into the
circle did not use their whistles or bells. as
the Majestic Theatre. moving picture
house. has its rear on that street Bat
TALON chief Begin gaze the orders for the
silencing Of The apparatus, as he feared
the sound of the whistles and fire bells
might cause a panic ina the theatre AS II
was tho audience did not hear the en-
gines.
The chimney fire was practically out
when the firemen reached the roof OF the
cafe building. 4 few patrons in the restsu-
rant were alarmed bat when they learned
il was only d chimney fire they remained
at the tables.