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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
ADD 36,03S MORE Wards
PRESIDENT TAFT TO SHELTER
ALL THE FOURTH CLASS
PoSTMAsTERS.
Order Placing Fourth Class Postmas-
ters In Classified Service VIII
3 Be Issued.

Washington.-It has been practical
ly decided that President Taft will
soon issue an executive order placing
all fourth class postmaster in the
classified service. This order, reliev-
ing 36,O3S postmasters from the un-
certainty Of political appointment,
will be one of the most comprehen-
sive and fa~r-reaching, as affecting the
civil service ever issued.
That the president would take this
step, his frat act toward putting into
practice his often expressed belief
that all government officers below the
grade of cabinet members should be
removed from the influence Of politics
and placed under the civil service, be-
came practically certain, after a dele
CATION of postmasters returning from
the annual convention Of their asso-
citation at Richmond, Va, had been
received at the white house, and by
Postmaster General Hitchcock. The
visitors submitted a monster pet1-
ton signed by about 10000 postmas-
tiers, asking that they be placed in
the classified service.
After discussing the matter briefly
with the delegation, President Taft
referred the executive committee OF
the association to Mr.. Hitchcock for
further consideration Of che matter.
Later the committee called upon the
postmaster general to discuss the
subject with him.
Mr.. Hitchcock will submit to Presi'
dent Taft a formal recommendation
that the petition be granted and the
president is expected to act promptly
and favorably upon the recommends
ton.
In the entire country there were
4s,672 fourth class postmasters at the
end of the last fiscal year. BY execu'
tive order issued July, 1905. President
Roosevelt placed all the postmasters
Of the New England sta:es and of
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan AID Wiscon'
sin In the civil service, a total OF 49,
634. Those still without the service
number 36,038.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
LEVEE ASSOCIATION MEETS
They Favor Levees to Curb the Mis-
sissippi River.

Memphis, Tenn.-The construction
and maintenance Of an adequate sys-
tenn Of levees along the Mississippi
river as the only means Of holding
the waterway within bounds is pri-
marily a national problem, was agreed
by speakers at the first sessions OF
the annual convention of the Inter
state Levee association. Complete
Federal control was urged by several,
and this suggestion found favor with
probably the greater number of the
delegates.
President Taft sent a message urg-
ing the necessity Of cooperation BY
the Federal government and the states
and suggesting that the needs of the
Mississippi valley during the next few
years will be so great as to require
all of the funds that can be spared
from both the national and state
treasures"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
Confer About Parcels Post.

Observation-Disclosures OF the
five largest cities of the United
States came to Washington in re-
sponse to a summons from Postmaster
General Hitchcock, who desired them
to confer with the special committee
he had appointed to work out plans
for establishing the parcels post. They
will be in conference with the post
master general and his committee for
several days, giving advice on a mum,
Der of subjects affecting operation OF
the parcels post in larger cities, ucn
as warehouse and terminal facilities
and the utilization of the present car
rier force in the parcels post. The If
teen division superintendent Of the
railway mail service were here con-
ferring on plans that are being per-
fected for handling parcel mall on
the railways.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
LAWRENCE Scene
Of textile STRIKE
FULLY 10000 WALK OUT AS PRO
TEST TO TRIAL OF TWO or
THEIR LEADERS.
SOME DESTRUCTIVE WORK
The Strikers Appear to Be Only
Waiting For the Leadership Of Sec.
rotary William o. Haywood.-MIld
to Last Winters Strike.

, Lawrence, Mass.-Practically $4,000
textile operatives here has been al
fected by the great strike inaugural,
ed by Industrial Workers of the World
to show their sympathy for Joseph j.
Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, leaders
Of that organization and as a protest
against their trial in connection with
the killing Of Anna Lopinzzo, during
the strike last wilter, which Is to be-
gin in the neal future in Salem. It
is feared there will be an extension OF
the strike. Mill owners were said TO
be ready to close down the plants IN
event Of further walkouts, Or II dis
orders develop.
Mayor Scanlon announced that p
mill owners probably would shut down
Il the situation became worse. But"
he added, 81 do not think it will" (
In a comparatively mild degree
Lawrence experienced a REPETITION OF
the scenes, enacted last winter. Only
mild disorders resulted however.
Some Of the more eager strikers in
attempting to get workers to leave,
their machines caused slight disturb
ances in several mills. Reports OF q
number Of injuries were received by
the police but none of the injured
was seriously hurt. Clubs and IN one
a a revolver were fourished 70
intimidate working operatives, ana
mill machinery at several plants was
damaged. A few windows also were
broken. The police made only three
arrests. These were on charges OF
assault or destruction Of mill prop
erty.
OF the 1900 operatives who quit
work probably one-haf did 80 as e
protest against the trial of Ettor and
Giovannitti. The others were forced
out, either because Of intimidation or
a result Of the closing Of their De
partments.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
Bank Robber Indicted.

New Orleans.-Howard E.. Edwards,
the highwayman who held up and
robbed the New York limited train
of the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road near the city on the night Of
September 4, was indicted by the
grand Jury. He is charged with as
saulting mail clerks on the train and
with the theft Of mail matter. Ed
wards, who has been in the hospital
here with a fractured skull as the re-
suit of blows struck by Engineer
Baer, was removed to the parish pris-
on to await trial.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
covernor Foss Renominated.

Boston.-Gov. Eugene T. Foss was
renominated by the Democrats in the
primary election. Returns from one
half of the state, including the city
of Boston, gave him a lead of nearly
1000 votes over his opponent, Jo-
seph C. Pelletier, district attorney of
Suffolk county. In the same cities
and towns Joseph Walker, formerly
speaker of the Massachusetts mousse
Of representatives, has a lead
Of about 5000 e Everett G.
Benton, a former member Of the gov
errors council,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
BANKS FOR FARMERS
FAVORED IN A REPORT SUBMIT.
TED TO THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT.
Report Based on Study of Credit Sys.
tenn to Farmers In
Europe.

Paris, France.-Sweeping recommen,
dations for legislation designed to
help development Of agriculture in the
United States are contained in an
elaborate report forwarded to Wash
ington by the American ambassador,
Myron T. Herrick, who has complet-
ed an exhaustive investigation of the
systems Of agricultural cvredit facil-
tiles in operation in Europe. The am
bassador wrote the document after re-
ceiving reports from other American
diplomatic representatives In Europe
and comforting with others.
The work Of gathering and compil-
ing material for the formulation of
the plans Of efficient land and agricul.
tural system has been carried on un-
der instructions from President Taft
and Ambassador Herrick has been as
sisted by a commission which reach
ed here from the United States in
July.
The ambassadors report recon-
mends the adoption by the United
States of the reiffeissen system Of
agricultural cooperative credit socie-
ties. This system has been particu-
larly successful in Germany, where its
operations represent half the business
of the commercial banks. 1t includes
organizations composed Of small co.
operative societies where farmers are
able to borrow money for a short time
on their collective guarantee. These
societies have become the NUCLEUS Of
a series of central cooperative
banks.
The report also recommends that
persons interested in the welfare of
the farmer should form a general COM
mittee to direct a movement for the
loning of money to farmers for a long
period of lower rates than they now
obtain.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
e.rk Clerk confesses Robbery.

Pensacola, Fla.-William H. Bell, a
2O.year-old bank clerk, confessed that
he robbed the local First National
bank of a package containing $4,000
NJ the Louisville and Nashville pay
roll and substituted a bogus package
in its place. Fear that the officers
would suspect his brother caused
Rell to confess. The young bank
clerk has been in the employ OF the
local bank for two years. In his n
fession he declared that he had plan
ned to secure the money a week be-
fore the payroll was mad up.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
Sailors and Negroes Clash.

Norfolk, Wa serious race riol
between a hundred United States sail
ors and negroes of South Norfolk, a
suburb. was averted by the prompt ar
rival of a provost guard, o5 strong,
from the local naval training station.
The sailors went to South Norfolk to
secure revenge for having one of their
comrades struck by a stone, thrown
by a negro when a column of blue
Jackets were returning from a base
ball game. The sailors first invaded a
negro tenement, doused the lights and
then threw the occupants out.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
Man Shoots Four Persons.

London.-A man who gave his name
as Tits and claimed to be an American
citizen, shot and seriously wounded
four persons with a revolver and Tor
a time caused a semi-panic. Titus,
who speaks English poorly, had a dis
pute with a barmaid Of the hotel where
he was staying in the Tottenham court
road. He drew his revolver and shot
her and a second barmaid and then
rushed to the street. On the way out
be shot down two men who tried to.
stop him and also fired at a third man.
He was finally overpowered.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
Dies In Electric Chair.

Boston.-Chester S. Jordan, entenc-
ed to death for the murder four years
ago at Somerville of his wife, Homo
rah, whose body he cut UP and pack
ed in a trunk, was executed in the
electric chair at the Charlestown
state prison. Jordan went to his
death calmly and without making any
statement. A suspicious cabman was
reasonable for the discovery Of the
murder Of Mrs. Chester S. Jordan.
for which Jordan was executed. The
murder was committed at their apart
ments in Sommerville.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
THREE KILLED IN WRECK
Southern Passenger From Chicago to
Jacksonville Derailed.

JdCksonNlije De'o''~o'
Plainville, Ga.-Three persons were
killed, three are seriously injured, one
is missing and six others were slight
" hurt, when Southern passenger
train No. IA, bound. from Chicago to
Jacksonville, Fla, was derailed two
miles north of here. TWO day coach
es. one Pullman and the baggage n
express car were thrown from the
track y
The wreck was caused, it is report
ed. by a truck breaking while the
train was travelling at a high rate OF
speed. The engine, the mail car and
the diner did not leave the rails, but
the rest of the train turned over into
an embankment. -
Relief parties were rushed to the
scene in automobiles from Rome. All
Of the injured were placed on a reller
train, rushed to the scene from Rome
and sent to Atlanta.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
uprIs,no In Vera Cruz.

Observation-Disclosures Wilson
reported to the state department from
Mexico City that General Aguiiar, 9
former oflcer in the Mexican army,
was at the head of an uprising In the
state of Vera Cruz. The crusier Des
Moines has arrived at, Vera Cruz from
Tampico and will remain until the sit
uation becomes more quiet. The am
bassador also reports the Federals
getting control of the situation ! n
Oaxaca.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
Killed His Foe and Hanged Self.

Boldenville, Okla.-David swihart
was stabbed to death at Wewoka,
Okla, during a political debate, and
Berry Schrimpacher, under arrest in
connection with the killing. hanged
himself in the Jail at Wewoka,
ing. in a note, found in his cell. that
he died happily in the knowledge that
swihart, whom he described as his
political opponent, was dead. The
tronble arose when Swihart announc-
ed his APPROVAL of arguments advanc.
ed by a political speaker.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
uores For ORPHANS In the West.

Chicago.-Bumper crops in the west.
are opening homes to orphans from,
the east. Sixty youngsters ranging in.
age from 1 to IA years from New York:
rounding asylums passed through
Chicago on their way to Omaha and
other western points where they are
to find homes with farmers. One Of
the children, Edward Devine, wept.
when he reached Chicago because he
thought it was New York and that he
had been taken back there without
ever seeing the west. He was not.
pacifed till his mistake was explained.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
Reduction of Loans.

Neutrality-suspicious. banks in the
East and South show reductions Of ex-
cessive loans in reports Of their con.
dition. 1t is likely that the Comp
troller Of the Currency will impose
more frequent examinations upon the
banks that do not reduce excessive
loans. The excessive loans in force
September 4, were aggregating s1S,476
excess; Eastern States ia loans ag-
gregating $4SS7, 1853 excess; and South
,rn States, ia loans aggsregating $685.
SGT excess.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
Held for Ransom by Rebels.

Salt Lake City, Utah.-The seizure
Of a. young man for ransom by Mexi'
can rebels is announced in a telegram
received by the first presidency OF
the Mormon church from Junius Rom
new, its representative at Ell Paso'
X The dispatch says: "Rojas'
rebels looted Bowman's camp in So
nora day before yesterday. Took De
mar Bowman for ransom, $1,000. Reb
els. about 500 in all, marched south
from Colonia Pachecho."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
lJsed Apron to Save Train.

Bluefeld, W. Va.-Miss Beulah
Chandler, aged 1S, prevented the
wrecking of Norfolk and Western
messenger train No. 1 when she dis
covered tons of rock on the track at
a curve near here. She was walking
beneath the spot when she discovered
the debris and heard the train ap'
n~roachine. She took off her apron
ran down the track and tagged the
train. which ran up to and touched
Tho slide of rocks. Passengers cneer-
cd her and took up a large collection
for her.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
Ran ) aFaoinu School.

Rochester, N. Y.-By the arrest OF
Charles Kurmonies, 16 years old; ia
cob Lombardo, Is, and Louis Sterling,
10 years old, the police believe they
have discovered a school for instruct
ing boys in thievery. The Fagin OF
the outfit, they declare, Is Sterling.
Fifty-six skeleton keys were found on
the boys at the time Of arrest on q
burglary charge. Sterling Is said to
b., from Brooklyn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
Count Pardoned to Spend Honeymoon

Count Pardoned to Spend Honeymoon.
Chicago.-Count John Drashkovltcn
Orloff of Croatia was released o
parole by Municipal Judge sabath to
hermit the count to spend a honey
moon of several months In Europe
with his wife, who was Miss Mary
henrietta Sparrow, a wealthy Chicago
woman. Creditors caused much trou'
,ble for Count Orloff just before and
after his wedding here. Finally a
tvpewriter nee had him arrested
on a charge of larceny as ballee' ana
Judge SABBATH placed the count on pro-
baton for one year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
u.does Nominated For Governor.

Saratoga, N. Y.-Job E. Hedges OF
New York was nominated as repub-
lican candidate for governor of New
York. Three ballots were taken. A
motion to make the nomination unanl-
nous was carried with enthusiasm.
James W. Wadsworth. Jr., was nomi-
mated for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS without
opposition.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
Three Nations Chase Robbers.

Chicago--United States authorities
and the English government and the
police department Of Greece have
Joined in the effort to u down the
missing members of the bank of safe
robbers who looted the Bank of Mon
treal. New Westminster, Of S272,OO0,
and. after making their way to Chica-
20, flooded the underworld of the city
with Canadian bills. The escape of
the men created one of the greatest
police scandals in the history of the
Chicago department. 2"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
Bore ccmrade So Miles on Back.

New York.-For SO miles afoot
through the northern woods, W. S.
Cowing, 6. teacher, carried on his
back a companion, Charles Claxton,
,Jr., who was helpless from an at
tack of pneumonia. Cowing and Clax-
ton, near starvation, reached the lit
tie French village, st. Pomphilo, Que
bee, and travelled thence by rail to
Bangor, where Claxton, son of a ply
stefan in Philadelphia, lay near death
in a hospital. The men were eigh-
teen days in reaching civilization.
Thew had been on a canoe trip.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
Shots Fired at the State Troops.

Charleston, w. Va.-Events are
moving rapidly in the big mine strike
of West Virginia. Conferences were
started by Governor Glasscock, and
military commanders looking to a re-
duction of the number Of state SOL
diers now on duty in the martial law
district of Kanawha county. A COM
pany of state militia was attacked at
an isolated point near Dry Branch.
Over fifty shots were fired
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

A New York woman In Reno seek
ing divorce accused her husband of
swearing at her in seven languages.
Such conduct In her was most unwife-
~. She should have been proud OF a
husband whose record in the swearing
linguistic line SO few men could hope
to equal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
cIansmen Carried to Scene Of Tragedy

Hillsville, Va.-Sidna Allen and his
nephew, Wesley Edwards, arrested in
DesMoines, Iowa, after having eluded
for many months, found a
great crowd, many from distant parts
of the country, waiting to get a
o1impse of them, when they arrived
here from Roanoke under detective
ouard. They will be arraigned before
1udge Staples, in the Carroll court, the
scene of the shooting in which they
are implicated.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

Now 1t is said that the common
housefy carries the egg Of the parasite
that causes the ,hookworm disease.
The fy's terrors are increasing SO
that we may soon consider it a worse
pest than the mosquito.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
Shot Wife and Children and Himself.

Shot Wife and Children and Himself.
New York.-Anthony Debs, the po-
liceman who arrested Harry K. Thaw,
after the latter killed Stanford White,
on the Madison Square roof garden,
shot and probably MORALLY wounded
his wife, sent bullets into the thighs
of two small girls and then comnitteW
suicide. The shooting took place IN
front of the Debs home. *
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

Since a New York man has estab-
iished a farm to raise butterflies, 1t Is
reasonable to suppose that some other
man win soon start to raising butter
Inc flies.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

Another actress has obtained a d.
vorce from her husband, but will not.
we fear, cause the press agents to
cease complaining about the populari-
ty of the moving picture shows.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

An inventor has completed a ma
chine for making cheap cigarettes at
the rate Of Is a minute, and now all
that is required is a cheap, noncorros-
i've machine to consume them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02
IT COSTS TO KEEP EATING
U. s. Bureau of Labor Shows How
Food Prices Have SCARED.

u. 8. Bureau OF o Sho"e no"
Food Prices Have SCARED.
Washington.-The most marked up
ward trend Of the cost CT living is
disclosed in the Federal bureau OF Ia
b. g report of an Investigation OF
p, les for the past ten years conduct
ed in the important industrial cen
tiers of ~thirty-two states. Fifteen
most important articles Of food, as
we'll as. coal, comprising tWo-thirds OF
a workingman's needs, We're investi'
gated.
On June 5, 1912. the report shows,
fourteen of the fifteen articles of food
were higher than a year before, and
ten had advanced in the past ten
years more than fifty per cent. over
the average retail price for the ten
year period 1S90-1S99.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

pie" says an exchange, els an ex-
preston Of the soul" Yet most of US
have been under the impression that
the expressions were due to night
mare.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

Man Is a queer animile. He arises
in righteous indignation at the
thought Of a woman wearing socks,
~and yet risks an eye when one climbs
on q street car.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

II you do not believe this Is a telka-
tive nation you should note that sc
per cent. Of the worlds telephone
calls in 1911 were registered in the
United States.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

When Eve dolled up in the new
spring style fig leaf Adam, no doubt
wrote a letter to the newspaper COM
planning about the shocking styles OF
the day.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

Some women are born beautiful, but
statistics show that a great many more
have beauty thrust upon them by So
ciety reporters who write up their
weddings.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

After a Brooklyn woman had run
the house t~hirty-fve weeks on $55 her
husband left her, saying that she was
no wife for a poor a Evidently
she overfed the brute!
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

If stimulating the thyroid gland will
make men taller, scientists ought to
be able to tap something Or other to
make men wiser. handsomer and bet
ter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

Woman in New Jersey, whose hus-
band refused to take her to a moving
picture show, deity hit him on the
head with an ak. Ak and you shall re-
ceive, as 1t were.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

1t has been established that the an
Client Egyptians had the hookworm.
And despite all their wisdom they ap-
parently lacked thymol and epson
salts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

According to n estimate, 1t costs
$4,000 a year to keep a h%ydroplane
in commission. One could keep a
white elephant for that sum, and not
have half the trouble.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-02

An English physician says that in
300 years the majority of the people
on earth will be insane. Judging by
the political arguments, a lot Of them
won't have to wait that long.