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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-06-22
AFTER WHOLESALE GROCERs.
Action Under Antitrust Law--South
Carolina Firm Included.

Washington, June 15.-Another
action under the Sherman antitrust
law was started by the Department
OF Justice to-day when Oliver ID.
Street, United States attorney for the
Northern District of Alabama, was
instructed to file in Birmingham a
petition against the Southern Whole
sale Grocers' Association, it's officers
and members. alleging that the asso-
citation constitutes a combination
and conspiracy in restraint OF trade
and asking that it be dissolved.
Mr.. Street was in conference for
several days with the department
and left last night for Birmingham.
The issue will be pushed to speedy
trial, the officials believing that they
have ample evidence to substantiate
the charges made.
The following statement regarding
the matter was made at the Depart
mcnt of Justice:
''rhe petition alleges that the com
bination was organized for the pur-
pose OF and has resulted in coercing
and preventing manufacturers from
selling the actual necessaries OF life
direct to the retail dealer or con-
sumer or to any wholesale grocer in
the Southern States, unless said gro
Ger is listed in So-called green
book published and distributed by
the association; that manufacturers
are persuaded. urged and coerced by
the association to fix limited selling
prices at which staple articles of food
are to be sold and to refuse to sell
such commodities to any wholesale
grocer who does not maintain the
prices SO fixed and listed; that in
certain lines manufacturers and pro-
ducerS have been induced to bill their
goods at an enhanced price and to
turn over a percentage to the presi-
dent Of the association who rebated
the same to the jobbers maintaining
such limited selling price; that no
firm coulG become a member Of the
association to be listed in the green
book unless the other firms in the
locality gave their approval; and
that unless such firm was duly listed
it was unable to secure direct buy
ing privileges from those manufactu-
rers who observed certain rules of
practice adopted by the association.
There are many other allegations
set forth as to the general scheme
and plan by which this combination
sought to prevent the free flow Of
competition among the members
thereof and to restrict trade and
commerce.
The department for some time has
received complaints as to the bur
dens suffered by the people Of the
Southern States because of the ope-
ration Of this association. After a
careful investigation, the department
believes that the association operates
to increase the cost Of the necessa-
rleS OF life, such as coffee, sugar, ce-
reals. soap and many other lines.
rho association co. ,. :, A..
no,i,;o, or ,,u
SiSts OF various firms and corpora
tions ena,yod IN ,,o u.,,,a.alo
cary h,.i,a., u.i,n,,, ~. t,.Y
or ,loho,o ,,,.a
Florida. Georgia, Indian Territory,
| ,oui.ion, Norv,ona ,,;...;.;,
North C,ro,ino Orlobon,, co,,,h
Carolina Tnnncssoo rovo. y;roin;n
and the Distric, Of Con,mhio
,o,;r.t ,no o,o,,,.., 10 -.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-06-22

j. w. Bell.
tiOn to make them come. Emerson
was right when he said that every
man who comes into a city with any
purchasable talent or skill in him
gives to every mans labor in the city
a new WORTH" and If an ignorant
negro slave in the old days was
worth $1,000, certainly we may as
sumo that thrifty and intelligent
white Westerner, bringing not only
him self, but in most cases substan-
tial accumulationS as we'll, should
he worth many times as much as an
asset to the State
The last census year NORTH Caro-
lima had only 100000 white peo-
pie. 1t should have 100000.
Sou tn Carolina had less than GOO
600 whites when 1t should have g.
600 ,0O0-and would then be, even
with its 100000 negroes, only one
third as thickly settled as Massa-
how much more influential our pap
ers would be, how much more i'm
portant every institution in the
State would be, how much more va
ried would be our Industries. how
much easier 1t would be to get good
DIS in counties in which the white
population is now too small to main
tain them, how easy it would be to
double the usefulness Of our public
sch ools, how quickly we should build
railroads in sections which must 9th
erwise remain dormant and back
ward for long, long years, how i'm
portant our cities should become,
and how much more attractive would
be country life in our thickly set
tied communities, and how much
easier it would be to get telephones
and watcrworkS and trolley lines
and local Libraries and all the ad-
vantages OF twentieth century rural
life.
Let us take as our watchword
"Etlucation and mmigraiion-Bo
Of the Right Sort"
Dream of South Cnrolina's Future.
In the last census year 234 .062 ma
tive sons and daughters OF South
Carolina were living in other States
Ito say nothing OF the million sons
and daughters OF South Carolina
immiSrantsD, while South Carolina
had received from other States and
countries only G0,7ll settlers.
For seventy years now our Caro-
linianS have been going West to
bui Ill up The new States OF that great
mpir" Now let MS welcome back
! neir children and ncighborS TO help
us build two great, prosperous and
populouS commemorative. where the
masses Of The people. trained to as
nigh standards OF efficiency as any
where in the world. shall develop a
symmetrical and wcil-roundcd civili-
Zation; splendid and f0rcciul dem
ocracN OF trained, Intelligent and
thrifty hom"-owncrS from among
whom shall come not only a JcMer-
son and a Marshall. not only
James j. l!iil and Il Thomas \. Edi-
son ana seaman 4. Knapp, not
only men whom all The nation Shall
know az leaders in industry and in
public affairs, but poets and Socrs.
IN - MI
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-06-22
HOW TO BUILD UP CAROLINAs.
Address of Clarence Poo Before the
8. c. Press Association.

Editor Of the Progressive Farmer,
ut its recent session .eld at Glenn
Springs:
Both Carolinas need and must
have larger proportion Of white
people. The whole Sou =, in fact, is
still too sparsely settled. Our eleven
Southern States, excluding Texas,
support only 100000 people of
both races, and only 100000
white people, while the same area in
Europe supports over 60,000,OOO
white people. And it must be re-
membered that up to a certain point
which we shall not reach for centu-
ries yet, and other things being
equal, prosperity depends upon den
s4ty OF population. Population
makes wealth, provided that it Is
normally intelligent and efficient.
Sort OF Immigrants Needed.
OF course, we do not want the
lower-class European immigration.
If we can get immigration from
England, Scotland, Ireland, Ger
many, Holland, Sweden, etc--the
countries whose blood has gone to
make up our vigorous American
stock-it would be of great help to
us. We are all of us such immi-
grants ourselves or descendants of
such immigrants. From some coun-
tries of Southern and Eastern Eu-
rope, on the other hand, immigra-
tion Is of decidedly lower order
and Objectionable because Of low
standard Of intelligence and eff
cheney.
On the very same principle, how
ever, immigration of a normal or
high standard of intelligence and
effciency Is desirable. Such immi-
grafton can be had, and ought to be
had--in some measure perhaps from
our English, Scotch, Dutch. and Irish
kinsfolk across the sea-but chiefly
from our Northern and Western
States. For years now hundreds Of
thousands Of the most enterprising
and progressive farmers in the Mid
die West have been going into Cam
ada with its long hard winters and
bitter climate, not only giving up
American citizenship, but actually
paying two or three times as much
for land in that inhospitable region
as land OF the same fertility COM
mands in the South. We ought to
have brought these men to the
South. They know our institutions,
our language, they are Industrious,
thrifty wide-awake, and many Of
them are Of Southern ancestry who
should naturally come back home.
Let's bring them baGk
Will Solve Race Problem.
If there were no other reason for
advocating such immigration from
the North and West, | should favor
IT as our sureSt dcliverancc from our
race problem. The proportion OF
negroes to whites is too large I'm
every southern state. and my hope
Is that ultimately the tides OF mi
grafton and immigration will equal.
1ze population until the proportion of
negroes in no State will exceed 20
per cent. We must train the negro
-the more ignorant he is the great
er burden on the SouIh---but at best
the process will be slow, and at
I,r :,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-06-22

What Everybody Ought to Know.
That Foley Kidney Pills contain
Just the ingredients necessary to
tone. strengthen and regulate the ac-
ton Of the kidneys and bladder.
J. w. Bell.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-06-22

stops earachc in two minutes;
tOothache 0" pain of burn or scald in
five minutes; hoarsencss, one hour;
musclcache, two hours; sore throat,
'welVc hours-Dr Thomas Eclectic
Oil, monarch over pain.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-06-22

itching piles provoke profanity, but
PROFANITY wont cure them. DOan's
ointment cures itching, bleeding or
protruding piles after years OF suffer
ing, AT any drug store.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-07-28
STRIKERS ACCEPT PEACE PLANS.
Grand Trunk Trainmen Are Willing to
Arhitrate Their Trouble.

Montreal, Quebec.-NiCePre sidont
James Murdoch, representing the gen
cral committee of the Grand Trunk
aud Central Vermont conductors and
trainmen, In a telegraphiC message to
Ottawa, accepted Minister Of Labor
Kings suggestion for arbitration Of
the Grand Trunk wage dispute by a
board to be named by the government
mutually satisfactory to both parties
involved.
An official statement issued by the
company says;
THE situation continues to improve
Every scheduled passenger train on
this division is now in operation Way
freight left Montreal for the west and
a fast freight for the south, Way
freight left Portland and another left
Gorham, n. H."
Belleville, Ont. July 23.-Violence
has entered into the Grand Trunk
strike. AS the result of an outbreak
here on the arrival of a Grand Trunk
train from Toronto, John MCMann
its acting conductor, and NJ, Donovan.
brakeman, are lying In a hospital, In
critical condition. AS the men left
their train they were set upon by n
hundred or more persons and severe
ly beaten. The injured men were car
riod into a hotel. which was shortly
atterward bOmbardcd by stones and
considerably damaged
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-07-28
Thackeray a Prophet.

Thackeray's suggestion of possible
flight from London to Armagh In an
aerial machine makes interesting read
ing at the present time. In THE Irish
Sketch Book" published in 1S43,
speaking of Armagh Cathedral, he
wrote: 1T wants a hundred years
at least TO cool the raw colors of the
stones and to duh the brightness Of
the gliding; all which benefits, no
doubt, time will bring to pass, and
future cockneys setting off from Lon
don Bridge after breakfast in an
aerial machine may come to hear the
morning services here, and not re-
mark the faults which have struck a
too susceptible tourist of the nine
teenth century"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-07-28
THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY,
just What the Honor Means, How IL
Originated and its Recent
Application.

During the stay of Americas Ia
nous hunter statesman and publicist,
ex-President Theodore Roosevelt in
London he was extended the freedom
of the city" To Mr. Roosevelt this
honor conferred on him by the magis-
trates Of the British metropolis was
nothing more nor less than an appre-
citation of a great man.
1t is a custom prevalent both IN
American and European cities of con-
ferring on a distinguished visitor the
privileges connected with municipal
citizenship. The names of such honor
airy citizens are entered upon the reg
lister of municipal electors bus they
are not entitled, when non-residents
or not engaged in business, to exercise
the municipal franchise.
This custom can be traced back to
medieval times when to become
citizen one had to go through a long
term of apprenticeship, about seven
years. In view of such long and
cumbrous process a city, by vote or
its magistrates generally conferred its
freedom upon any particularly Illus
trious visitor whom they desired on
their list of burghers.
This custom has come down to us
81 the present age but really means no
more than an expression Of apprecia-
ton
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-07-28
PAIR, TIED, SEEK DEATH
IN MISSISSIPPI RIVER
Rich Farmer and Woman Bind Selves
Together and Leap From
Boat at ST. Louis.

st. Louis. - Brice Wommack the
father OF five children a resident
of near Troy, Mo-, and reputed to be
one of the wealthiest farmers in Lin
coin county, and Mrs. Mollie Ander-
son, bound themselves together with
two steel chains and IS feet of rope
and weighted with a valise filled with
sand, jumped from rowboat into the
Mississippi river near the Chain OF
Rocks with the avowed intention OF
ending their lives together.
Through the bravery of James Ian
ders, city employee at the intake
tower, they were rescued.
Wommack is held by the police
charged with the theft of the skin
from which he and the woman leaped
to what they believed to be death.
Mrs. Anderson is In the city hospital.
1t is feared that the nervous shock
has unbalanced her reason.
The near tragedy was the result OF
a suicide pact. Every detail of their
plan to kill themselves and bury their
bodies and all evidences of their
fate at the bottom of the Mississippi
had been carefully gone over before
they left st. Louis.
After sinking twice beneath the
Mississippi's wind-swept waters, Mrs.
Anderson hastily reversed her decision
that death with Wommach was better
than life without him. She cried for
helD and Landers went TO the rescue
Of the couple.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-07-28
STRIKERS RIOT At
SOUTH BEND, IND.
Militia Are Ordered to &c Raady
for Call.
CANCEL PASSENGER SERVICE
Attempt Is Made to Derall Grand
Grand Trunk Train Filled
With People-One Man
Is Shot.

South Bend, Ind - Captain Charles
3. Calbert, company F, Third In
fantry, of this city, has been ordered
by Governor Marshall to hold his
troops in readiness to assemble at
moments notice. The superintendent
of the Grand Trunk in this city tele-
eraphed Governor Marshall to send
troops here to protect railroad prop
erty, as the local authorities seemed
powerless to cope with the situation.
This request was sent to the governor
after serious rioting in the railroad
yards.
Grand Trunk officials announced
that no attempt will be made to move
any passenger trains through South
Pend. orders having been issued 10
cancel all passenger service to or
from the city. Advices from all along
the Grand Trunk system Is to the ef-
feet that strikers are quiet at all
points except at South Bend.
Strikers, or their sympathizers, at
tempted to derail east.bound passen-
Ger lItlu NJ o at cilNtA9 D. wv 80 ~ -''
ton at which Grand Trunk trains stop
when entering South Bend. The
engineer saw the thrown switch just
in time to bring his train to a stop
and prevent heavy loss of life.
J. I'reel of South Bend was serious
ly wounded by John Peck, detective
Of Battle Creek, Mich, who with
Eldridge Graham and William Mickey
nolds, also OF Battle Greek, are under
arrest. t'reel was shot in the back
and is at Epworth hospital mob
burned two cabooses and attempted to
destroy several freight cars but the
arrival Of police and fire department
ioiled the plan.
A freight train Of so cars was
stalled for seven hours by some one
cutting the air hose and taking the
couplings, and it tied up five passen-
ger train The police are authority
for the statement that the stallng Of
the freight may not have been the
work OF strikers but Of men in the
employ Of the company, the police
believing that the move was brought
about as a part of q plan to get state
troops in the field and thus break the
backbone of the strike by turning
public sympathy away from the
strikers.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-07-28
FOG PASSENGERS DROWN
Japanese Steamer Sinks Off Chindo
Corea, Only Forty Being
Rescued.

Tokio.-The Tetsurei Maru, ply
ing between Kobe and Dairen, sunk
Saturday night off Chindo, Corea.
The steamer had 246 passengers
aboard, of whom forty were saved.
The others are missing. Warships
have been sent to the rescue.
Direct reports from Chindo state
that two of the Tetsurei's lifeboats
landed forty passengers, VINO told
of narrowing scenes when the be-
logged vessel struck. Six lifeboats
were launched and filled with pas
sengers.
The captain and the majority OF
the crew We're unable to leave the
steamer. Six first class passengers
were saved, including W. Cunning
ham, the British vice consul at Osa-
ka, as we'll as thirteen second class
passengers.
One hundred and five third class
passengers and fifty-nine soldiers
were taken off in lifeboats, and it is
believed that these boats either
reached land or were picked up by
WarshipS
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-07-28
GEN. WOOD HAS PRAISE FOR
FORT MONROE HEROES
Lieutenants HAYES and Van Deusen
Are Especially Commended for
Heroic Conduct.

Washington. - Officers returning
from Fortress Monroe detailed at
length to General Wood, chief of
staff of the army, and other depart.
ment officials stories of valor and sac
rifce when the explosion of the big
gun at battle practise at the fort oc'
Cured.
These personal reports were aug
mented by further telegraphic reports
from Lieut. Col. C. p, Townsley of the
coast artillery corps, commandant of
the fort.
Lieutenant Halves is praised by the
commandant for having eXtinguished
with his bare hands burning material
that threatened to ignite the second
charge, which was on its way to the
emplacement.
Conspicuous in the group of those
whose heroic conduct attracted atten-
tion was Lieutenant Van Deusen, who
suffered a briken leg from the body
of one of the men being hurled
against him. His body also was burned
by gas. He was the timekeeper dur
ing the target practise.
Following the receipt of the reports
General Wood sent a telegram to
Fortress Monroe expressing his sym
patty for the bereayed and suffering
and his appreciation of the excellent
conduct" of the officers and enlisted
men.
The war department has begun a
rigid investigation to determine the
cause and fix the responsibility for the
explosion OF the gun.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-07-28
BURNED FOR KILLING OFFICER.
Negro Is Hauled by Neck to Pyre-
Two Others Escape.

Bolton, TeX.-Henry Gentry, a ne
gro. eighteen years Old paid the pen
atty of his crime-murder and intend
ed assault-at the stake. Two others,
a brother and companion, charged
with implication, missed a like fate
only through the pleadings of Sheriff
Burke and several citizens.
Gentry attempted to force an en-
trance into the home Of Mrs. Lamb,
widow, but was frightened away
with a shot by the womans daughter
Several hours later, while Gentry was
being hunted by a posse headed by
Constable James Mitchell, Gentry, fir
ing from ambush, killing the leader.
The posse surrounded the fugitive.
Gentry made a dash for liberty and
was shot and crippled. He was
dragged behind an automobile to Bel
ton, where several thousand men and
boys waited.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-07-28
Shows School Report to Royalty


Hilda Chaplin, thirteen years old,
who attends an orphanage school in
England, submits her school reports at
stated intervals to King George and
Queen Mary of England. Both are in.
terested keenly in the progress Of the
girl, and are eager TO help her In any
way they possibly can. They knew
her father, now dead who was a
stableman I nthe royal household in
SandrnEham. and because of his un-
timely death felt an obligation to keep
a watchful eye on his child. when
! 20 home for the holidays said
Hilda Il take my school report with
me Sir Arthur Bigge comes to our
house and asks for my report, which
he takes away to the king, Shortly
afterward the report Is sent back TO
my mother, who always keeps and
takes great care Of il. ! take a report
home. as all the girls do, twice a year,
and the king always asks to see it..
He has done go since | came to the
orphanage school, almost two years
ago"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-07-28
STEAMER STILL BURNING
Fire on Morgan Liner Under Control
and Vessel May Proceed Under
Its Own Steam.

Key West.-Wireless messages re-
ceived here from the big Morgan
liner Menus, which experienced a
dangerous fire in its afterhold early
Saturday morning while off the Flor
ida coast. en- route from New York
to New Orleans, are to the effect
that the fire was still burning at
noon on Sunday, though practically
under control.
After transferring its passengers
and baggage to the steamer Comus,
without mishap, the Momus an
chored off Cape Canavarel, $50
miles north of Key West, and the
crew of 120 was at once put to work
fighting the flames.
1t is believed that the Momus will
be able to resume its voyage to New
Orleans under its own steam, the
last messages indicating that the
fire was practically extinguished.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-07-28
OFFER $1,000 REWARD
IN THE RAWN TRAGEDY
Former Chauffeur Proves Himself to
Be innocent of Crime and
Is Discharged.

Chicago.-The family of Ira G..
Rawn, the former president of the
Monon system, is more firmly con
WINGED that Mr.. Rawn was the victim
of burglars bullet than ever before
following the release of his former
chauffeur and the discovery that the
blood" spots in the vicinity of the
Rawn home were nothing more than
splotches of red paint.
Within an hour after the release of
Ernest Stevens, the negro chauffeur
arrested Friday night, they announced
an offer Of a reward of $4,000 for the
arrest and conviction Of the person or
persons supposed to have broken into
his home and to have fired the shot
that resulted in his death.
In the midst of these developments
a new theory was offered as a posi-
BILE solution of the mystery, that Mr..
Rawn met his death accidentally. 1t
was pointed out by Charles l.. Schaef-
fer, superintendent of local detec-
tive agency, that a plausible solution
was on the theory of accident.
Mr. Rawn might have slipped on
the highly polished stairs or on his
dressing gown, Mr.. Schaeffer said, and
discharged his revolver and killed
himself, in his haste to discover the
source of the noise that had awakened
him.
Members of the family did not look
with favor upon this new theory.
Acting Chief Schuettler and Captain
of Detectives Wood announced that
they had abandoned their hunt for a
murderer"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-07-28
SCORES SAVED BY WIRELESS.
Sister Ship Comes to Relief Of Liner
Momus When Burning.

Charleston, S. C.-The snap and
flash Of the wireless, sending out
the IS. O, S." the call that has super
seeded the &C. @. D."-the high sea
cry for help-resulted in the saving
Of scores of lives from the burning
coast liner Menus, owned by the
Southern Pacific company, off the
Florida coast. News of the rescue
was brought by wireless dispatches
received here.
The Comus, a ship belonging to the
same line, answered the call, standing
by while the passengers were trans
ferred. The advices sent out while
the vessel was ablaze in twelve faith
oms Of water said there was a mini
mum of confusion among the passen-
gers, and that nearly all, especially
the women, acted with heroism from
the time the flames were discovered
until they were safe aboard the relief
ship.