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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
SENATOR CORES MEMORY
Blind Senator From Oklahoma Sees
Through the Eyes of His Wife
An Episode in Mississippi.

Neutrality-suspicious. Thomas P.
Gore, of Oklahoma, is believed to
have the most marvellous memory IN
the Senate. He is entirely blind, and
has to depend upon his memory for
quotations in his speeches. Never
theless, he is one of the most eloquent
men in Congress, never at. loss for
a word, and the way he quotes the
Congressional Record by the yard and
makes citations from memory is a
marvel to all his colleagues.
1.-THE Blind Senator" is without
sight, but is clear of vision. His eyes
are Mrs. Thomas P. Gore. Around
the Capital she is known as 1.-The little
brown woman who is the sightless
Senator's eyes," She does all the
Senator's reading to him. He knows
what goes ir the Record and what is
contained in all reports or bills worth
while around the Senate. His wife
reads the meat of them to him when
they are together under the student
lamp at night.
At the age of Is Senator Gore was a
candidate for the Legislature in
Mississippi. In that and other cam
paigns in Mississippi before Gore
settled in Oklahoma his marvellous
memory stood well the test. This
same memory was once responsible
for the defeat of Senator Money, who
was formerly a member Of the House.
Representative Money had an engage
ment to speak in a town in h Gore
district, and young Gore wanted to
divide the time on the stump with
him.
"Ill speak as long as I please, and
you may do the same" suggested
Money.
Money talked three hours; Gore
spoke four hours, quoting page after
page Of the Congressional Record and
%ridiculing Money numerically. Money,
whose courage never failed him, ex-
claimed:
"If you were not blind, I would
debate another way with you"
"Blindfold yourself and march out
side, Congressman, retorted Gore.
The challenge was lever accepted.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
SHOCKING TRAGEDY
Three People Murdered and
Burned at Durham, N. c.
THE DEAD MANS WIFE ESCAPED
Negro Charged With Three Capital
Offenses-BIoody Butcher Knife and
charred Bones Tell Shocking Story
Taken to Penitentiary.

Durham, N. C.-The charred bodies
of three. persons, known to be those OF
Miss Matte Sanders, her father, ]. L.
Sanders, and his granddaughter, Irene
Overton, are the gruesome evidence OF
a triple tragedy with complete proof
of three capital elements in it.
Nathan Montague, a negro, Is charg-
ed with the crime.
The verdict of the coroner's jury
was that Miss Matte Sanders was as
saulted and murdered, that her father
was killed and the child of 4 years
murdered, all three being burned with
the house. The alleged murderer has
yet to do his first intelligent thing. He
dropped near the we'll, where four
sides are gummed with blood and hair,
his knife with which he is believed to
have cut the girls throat. The mo-
ment it was found it was recognized
as the weapon that the brute had the
same day when the Overtons were
killing hogs. Both the white girl and
the negro were there.
Mr.. Sanders had asked him to come
Thursday and help him to kill hogs.
The bodies were burned beyond recog-
milton and the poor girl has only whit,
ened bones to publish the story Of her
last fight for her life.
In the yard about twenty-five feet
from the house stands a rickety we'll
house, open and easy to see, on all
sides are hair and blood and or the
ground nearby are the footprints OF
a struggle.
Sheriff Wheeler rushed Montague to
Raleigh, where he is now in the pen
i%tentiary. .
Robbery was perhaps added to a
crime of three distinctly capital feat
ures. Sanders was moderately com
Portable in circumstances, owned his
lands and cultivated tobacco.
Mrs. Sanders accidental absence
saved her life and her granddaughter
of 4 years coming to their home caus-
ed the loss of hers.
There was some euarreling with Sher,
if Wheeler for his protection of the
prisoner, his indication of direction in
travelling having had the effect of dis
concerning the mob. Granville court
meets in January, when Montague will
be tried.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
What One Mule Made.

Tuscumbia, Ala.-A very striking
illustration of what can be done In
the farming line in Colbert county,
during a short crop" year with one
mule, is shown by L. A. Ford.
Seven bales of cotton, weighing 502
pounds each, at IA cents, $496.96; u
600 pounds of cotton seed at $1.25 per
hundred, $3.50; a remnant Of seed
cotton, $37.14; two tons of pea vine
hay; s3S; 80 gallons of sorghum, SIS;
$50 bushels of corn at rs cents,
s262.5O. Total, $929.6o {. Hired labor
in this crop, $1.5O. Net profit, s92S.1O.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
Census Cotton Ginning Report.

Washington-The census bureaus
report on cotton ginned shows $685.
49, bales, counting round bales as
half bales were ginned from the
growth of 1910 to December Is, COM
pared with 9,35S,0S5 for 1909; 1904
269 for 1903, and 9~,2S4,07O for 1907.
: The percentage of the last three
crops ginned to December Is was 92.9
fer 1863; go for 1908, and $40 for
1907.
Sea Island cotton for 1910 is u.s..
10 compared with 1877 for 1909;
8 ,136, for 1908 and 65,26S for 1907.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
Is NAVY ExtraVaqant?

Washington.-The government could
save $4,000, 900 if it could have the
battleship New York built in a private
ward instead of at the New York navy
yard, according to testimony of Chief
Constructor Watt of the navy, before
the House committee on naval affairs.
He declared the saving could be used
to great advantage in the navy and
that there would be a material saving
to the government if 1t would build all
it's vessels by contract. This is a ser
ious charge.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
"Informers" are Multiplying.

Washington-The reward OF $780,
900 to Richard Parr for disclosing the
frauds practiced on the customs ser
vice by the American Sugar Refining
Company at it's New York docks has
so stimulated activities sin the in
forming line" that the Treasury De-
partment has been compelled to ask
for a large appropriation for this
purpose. In asking for a deficiency
appropriation of 100000 Assistant
Secretary Curtis of the Treasury De-
partment said that it vas needed for
this purpose.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
Rockefeller Gives College $4,000, 900.

Chicago.-John D. Rockefeller has
completed the task he set for himself
in the founding of the University of
Chicago. Public announcement has
been made of a Single and final gift
of $4,000, 900, which includes all the
contributions that Mr.. Rockefeller had
planned to make to the university.
The sum, which is to be paid in ten
annual instalments beginning January
l, will make a total Of approximately
$35, 100000 that Mr.. Rockefeller has
donated to the university.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
PITY That All Wives Haven't.

Kansas City, Mo.-In a petition for
divorce filed here, Marvin Minnear, a
book-keeper, alleged he had been
bounded by his wife's spirit and 1t wa
more than he could stand. The wife,
Anna Minnear, says the petition, de-
clares she possesses power to separ-
ate her spirit from her body.
Minnear alleges she accused him OF
inconsistency, basing her charges on
her power to have her spirit shadow
him and make report to her of all his
doings.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
Brave Firemen Die at Post.

Philadelphia. - Four firemen are
known to be dead, twenty were buried
in the ruins, and twelve others are in
hospitals as the result of a fire in the
leather factory Of Freelander & Co.,
1116 to 1920 North Bodine street.
While the fremen were fighting the
flames from the roofs of adjoining
dwelling houses the south wall Of the
big building crashed down on them.
At the time there was at least thirty
five fremen on these buildings and all
were carried down.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
Baltimore Seqreoates Races.

Baltimore.-Henceforth no white
person may move into a block in Balti-
more where the majority of the resi-.
dents of that block are negroes, nor a
negro move into a block where the
majority Of the residents are white.
This is the mandate laid down in the
~so-called E. H. West race segregation
ordinance, which has been signed by
Mayor Mahool. 1t is expected that
the act will be taken to the courts to
test it's constitutionality.
This question has been agitated
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
Veteran and NeWsboy Dead.

Norfolk, Va.-William Ashby, known
to almost every man, woman and child
in Norfolk az Uncle Billie" a veteran
of the Mexican and civil wars and
probably the oldest newsboy in Ameri-
ca, is dead. Uncle Billie" vas nor
than IS years of age. Ashby served in
a North Carolina regiment during the
civil war and for the last 65 years he
has been selling papers on the streets
of Norfslk. He is known all over the
s Sss] ass,s s&t( ! ! sesn!e ns
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
BurIey Tobacco of 1911 Pooled.

Lexington, Ky.-Burley tobacco
growers of Kentucky, West Virginia,
Ohio, ! diana and Missouri, adopted
an agrC ment to pool their 1911 crops.
Conventions will be called in each of
the States for the purpose of electing
delegates to a general meeting here on
January S. More than 100, 900 growers,
producing in excess of 100000, 900
pounds of tobacco annually, are af-
fected. The agreement adopted pro,
vides that no tobacco shall be raised
in 1912.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
viii Buy 5000 Cats.

Sharon, Pa.-Squjre S. S. Gilbert,
of this place, has received a request
from the State of Washington for
1000 cats. The request is made in a
letter from Albert J. Randall, former
ly of Sharon, but now a resident OF
Okanogan COUNTY.
Mr.. Randall has associated witt.
him a number of property owners de
termined to rid Okanogan county c.
gophers that destroy gardens anf
farm lands in that section of tn
State. Five thousand cats are to b.
shipped to Washington by April /.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
YOUNG Girl Gets Fortune.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the terms of
the will of the late Robert BUST, the
wealthy scotsman of this city, Rober-
ia B. DeJanon, his grandchild, who
disappeared from this city with a
hotel waiter last December and was
found in Chicago, is given in trust
the bulk of his estate, which is valued
at about $500, 900. In the event that
Miss De Janon shall die without issue
the estate is to be turned over to
Robert Buist Company. Miss De
Janon's mother is dead.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
The Standard OIL Case.

Raleigh, N. C.-In the hearing in
which the Standard Oil company is
charged with violating the State anti
trust law with lowering prices so as
to raise them when competition is de-
stroyed, the only material evidence
was that there is no difference in the
value to the consumers of the two diff
ferent brands of oil sold at different
prices by the Standard Oil company.
The Standard Oil declined to put
on witnesses. Argument was deferred
until December %.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
SOUTHERN WINS SUIT.
South Carolina Sought to Dissolve
.Merqer( Of Railroads.

Merser( Of. Railroads.
Columbia; 8. Cater a trial last
ing more than three weeks, a jury in
the county court returned a verdict in
favor of the Southern Railway in the
suit in which the State of South Caro-
lima sought to dissolve the merger OF
the Southern and several State roads,
the Asheville & Spartanburg RAILROAD,
the South Carolina & Georgia, the
South Carolina & Georgia Extension,
and the Carolina Midland.
In his charge Judge Ship held that
competition, rs used in the constitu-
tional prohibition of a merger of COM
peting or parallel lines, applies to
lines that compete substantially and
legally. Competition on business
handled by connections with other
lines, at junction points or on short
stretches of parallel line, the court
held, could not be considered within
the prohibitive clause.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
SENATE LUX.URIES
Fastidious Taste of the Ameri-
e. can Senators.
COST TO The AMERICAN PEOPLE
Automobile and Ineldentals For the
Vice President - kilograms and
Newspapers For Members-Furnish'
ings Senate Rooms and Restaurant.

Washington,-The United States
Senate has learned officially the cost
of maintaining itself in the past fiscal
year.
It's price as an institution to the
American people was $2,O12,S74.62 for
salaries, milage and incidental ex-
penses. This does not include the
expense of printing and of the Congs-
ressional Record, nor the outlay for
items under other appropriations.
About one-third of the total was on
account of salaries and mileage. The
second third went in the shape of
pay for the officers, clerks and mes
sengers. The tidy little sum Of $751;
211.22 was voted right out of the
Treasury as one months extra pay to
these same officers and clerks , and
the rest went for contingent expenses,
the cost of the vice-president's auto
mobile, newspapers for Senators from
their home towns and the price Of tel
egrams sent to all parts Of the coun-
try by Senators at the expense of the
Government, the use of the tele-
graph frank having been abolished to-
ward the end of last session.
. Some items:
For La Follette's Magazine, fur
nishing Hon. W. J. Stone from
December %, 1900, to Decem-
Der 81, 1910 ..................$1.eo
For the Morning Reveille, furnish
ed Hon. s. H. Piles from Janu-
airy 1 to June 80, 1910. $500
For the Daily Bellingham Herald,
furnished Hon. S. NJ. Piles.
For the Daily and Sunday Denver
Post, furnished Hon. Simon ,Gug-
genheim January 1 to December
81, 1910. -.
For the Weekly London Times,
furnished Hon. Thomas P. Goer,
January Is to June 80, 1910: ESQ
For Moody's Magazine, furnished
Hon. R. NJ. La Toilette from
March 1, 1910, to February %,
1911 o'VV
A detailed statement of the cost
Of the Ballinger-Pinchot Select Com
mittee so far as the Senate was con-
cerned, is included. The sum of $780,
900 was drawn for this Investigation
and the cost of it to the Senate was
S~13,S44.77.
Exactly Ill lockers were installed
a year ago in the, Republican and
Democratic cloakrooms Of the Senate.
They have ventilated doors, bronze
umbrella pans and are Of mahogany,
with whitewood backs. Theyfcost the
Senate $2,960. AT the same time
"eight mahogany easy chairs" were
bought for the cloakrooms at $40
apiece, totalling $3.50. There are also
~ mahogany armchairs for the cloak
rooms which cost 1872 each, or 1884
foS the lot. Two double mirrors at
SIPS each were bought for the cloak
rooms, total $3.50.
For their restaurant the Senators
bought three gold-frame mirrors at S64
each. Then there are dozens OF
velour soft pillows" bought for the
rooms of Senators in the new Office
building. These cost $3.50 a pillow.
A carpet rug for the Senate Com
mittee on Military Affairs made and
laid to order, cost 500. Two carpet
rugs for Senator SCOTS committee
room, the Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds, cost s213. The
Committee on the Judiciary did not
like carpet rugs, but got 1852 yards
of Wilton carpet, costing $38S.S0.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
Fires Work In Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, O.-Fire destroyed a
block of Cincinnati's manufacturing
district. Recapitulation of the loss in
life and property shows tho disaster
to be larger than any of the estimates
f%agration.
The fiscal count shows Hat three
men lost their lives, six were injured,
enc perhaps fatally, while the prop
erty loss is more than %s2,OOOtOOO, COW
cred by insurance to the axtent Of
$4,000, 900.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
Heart SeWed Up and Lives,

New York.-With a knife wound in
his heart three-quarters of an inch in
length, neatly stitched up by the sur
geons, Samuel Herman, a waiter, has
gone back to work. His case is said
to be the seventh successful opera
ton of the kind known to the pro-
fession.
Herman was stabbed in a brawl
with a customer. He was taken to
Gouverneur hospital and DR.. John F.
Erdman used twelve stitches to draw
the lips of the wound in the heart to-
gether.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
Pullman Berths Cheaper.

Washington.-Tentative approval OF
the Interstate Commerce Commission
has been given to the fixed charge
for upper berths in pullman cars at
80 per cent of the charge now paid
for lower berths.
The new charge is to become eff
fectiye throughout the United States
on or before January 20, 1911.
Commissioner Lane has announced
that the Pullman company had accept
ed the conclusions of the commission
But who uses Pullman berths.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
To Have Clean Mouths in Gotham.

Albany, N. Y.-By the appointment
Of DR.. H. L. Wheeler, of New Yorl
city and DR.. w. A. White, of Phelps
as dental consultant and special lee,
turers on oral hygiene Of the New
York State board of health, Commfs'
sioner Eugene H. Porter has earned
the distinction of being the first State
commissioner of health in the United
States to take an active part in the
crusade for clean mouths and to en-
list the assistance of members of the
dental profession on behalf of the
health of the community.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
Wanted to Eat $1,000 Chicken,

New Orleans.-Unable to resist the
temptation to have a high class
chicken dinner, a negro who wander
ed in where the prize chickens were
exhibited in the poultry show just
closed here, stole Queen Fisheldote,"
the 81, 900 fowl belonging to Julius
Fishel.
"Ah jist couldn't git away from dat
longing to hab dat hen for Christmas
dinnah," was the explanation made
by the negro for his act. The fancy
fowl was delivered to its owner
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
Strange Find in Cold STORAGE

Montreal, Que.-The findinIg of the
body Of an elderly man packed in a
barrel at a cold storage warehouse
here, has furnished a mystery.
The body clothed only in a
suit of cotton underwear anh a pair
of wooden socks, evidently Had been
placed in the barrel not LONG after
death md before rigor mortis set in.
There were no outward marks of
violence and until the body tbaws out,
which will take 4S hours, the physi-
clan will be unable to determine
cause Of death.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
YOUNG Mans Sad Downfall.

Roanoke, Va.-Postofice inspectors
arrested Henry Willis, aged %, a rail-
way mail clerk running between Pu-
laski, Va, and Roanoke, charging him
with rifing the mails and taking
money from letters addressed to Roam
oke merchants. Willis was caught
with a decoy letter containing marked
bills.
He is a native of Culpepper, Va,
and has only been in the mail service
a short time.
He was lodged in Jail.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
Worthy School Teacher Gets Fortune.

Atlanta, Ga.-Miss Anna Stanley
an orphan and a teacher in the pub
lie schools of this city, has become
the p~ossessor of a fortune of $4,000
by the terms of the will of Mrs. Jose
phine Abbott, her g%reat-aunt. Mrs
Abbott, who was regarded as n of
the wealthiest women in the state,
left an estate worth S750,000. OF
this amount her husband, Col. B. F,
Abbott, received $4,000. A large
amount also was distributed to re,
ligious and charitable institutions.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28

The suggestion is made that a good
way to conserve the forests would be
10 use cement and steel to build with
instead of lumber. This nigh, con-
serve the forests. but it would not
conserve either the iron ore and coal
supplies or the builders bank &C
counts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
Coinage at Various Minis.

Gold is coined in Philadelphia and
San Francisco. Not enough Of 1t
zones into the Mint at New Orleans
to make the coinage CT it there worth
while. All three minis make every
denomination Of silver pieces. The
minor coins Of base metal, cents ard
nickels, are all mintcd in Philadelphia,
where nearly 10000, 900 pennies are
turned out annually.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28

With a string Of ~aviators touring the
country like a circus, possibly it won't
be long before we see the sky fenced
pf with canvas and young hopefuls
climbing in under the clouds to see
the show.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28

News from different portions Of the
Aleutian region indicates that there
have been great volcanic activity and
earthquake shocks in that quarter.
The disturbances continued for four
lays. This. information affords fresh
evidence that the scientists are cor
Rect in regarding the neighborhood of
Alaska as a center Of remarkable
seismic activity.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28

People ought to clean house Oft
ener. Now here's a New York man
had an old trunk kicking about the
house for five years before he opened
It and found that somebody had care
lessly left a dead person in it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28
To Safeguard FraternaI Insurance.

New York.-A practicable plan for
safeguarding the $1,000 OO, 900 of fra
ternal insurance now outstanding in
the various States of the Union has at
last been formed, and will shortly be
presented to all State Legislatures,
with the approval Of various State de-
partments of insurance. The an
nouncement was made here following
a conference of the National Associa-
ton of Insurance Commissioners.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28

The dispatches explain that Presi-
dent Taft went all over the Gatun
dam and then add: His visit has dis
PEELED any fears as to the stability of
the dam base" Thus We see the
value of having a chief executive Of
some real weight.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28

A woman in Cincinnati is suing a
car company for damages because an
Injury to her shoulder in one OF the
company's cars has disabled her from
arranging her puffs and her pompa-
dour. And yet what mere damages
could pay for suffering like this7
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28

English lords who object to the use
Of American dollars in the British
campaign will have the full sympathy
sf French counts and German barons,
who think American dollars should be
aevoted to the securing Of personal
pleasure only.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28

A man says that he Is going to
start a paper in New York that will be
free from the faults Of the other jour-
nails there. It ought not to be hard to
start one, but keeping it going is apt
10 be uphill work
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28

An English peer is to marry an
East Indian princess. This precedent
nce established, may introduce dam
serous competition in the matrimonial
little market for American heiresses.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28

A big mackerel jumped aboard a
schooner in Massachusetts, waters and
provided a good breakfast for the
crew. The rivalry Of the Ananias
Club has apparently not hurt the vi
tality Of the familiar 1sh-story tellers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-12-28

A tree trimmer who had to look up
Ill the time In his work has gone in
nne. That ought to be a warning to
hose enthusiastic persons who spend
most Of their time on the aviation
held.