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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
KlDNAPE ED; SAVED $4,000
Daring Attempt to Rob a Chicago
Cashier Baked by Victim.

Daring Attempt to Rob a Chicago
Cashier Baked by Victim.
Chicago.-A carefully planned at
tempt to kidnap and rob M. ]. Wright
of nearly thirty thousand dollars was
successful in every way except get
ting the money.
Wright, who Is cashier Of a butter
company, was walking to deposit s2S,
OPT in a bank when an apparently
intoxicated man stumbled out of an
alley and fell against him. He push
ed the man away from him upon
which four others fell on him and
pulled a sack over his head. A motor
car dashed up to the curb and then
Wright was tossed into it. AS the
bag went over his head, however, he
dropped behind a telegraph pole a
satchel containing the money.
A few minutes later, while Wright
with his head In the sack, was being
whirled across the west side, Ear
Halgren, % years old, noticed the
satchel. He picked it up and finding
the contents valuable, turned it over
to the police.
Wright was set down on an OBJ
scure street six miles from where he
had been held up. The men search
ed him, and demanded his satchel
he said, and when it could not be
found thrust him out of the car with
a warning that he would be killed II
he tried to follow.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
TALE Of OUTRAGES
RELATED TO TAFT
SEVERAL AMERICAN BUSINESS
MEN TELL OF HORRORS
IN MEXICO.
STORY TOLD TO PRESIDENT
II Was a Story Of Outrages, Murders
and Robberies-Many Amer
leans Held Up.

Washington.-President Taft lis
tened to some startling disclosures
about conditions in Mexico. Four
American business men with Mexican
interests, two members of the senate
and a congressman sat in the cabi
net room in the white house offices
and heard the story vouched Tor by
all, told to the president by one OF
the business men who had been in
the southern republic within the last
few weeks. 1t twas a tale of out.
RACES on Mexican women, Of muir
ders and hold-ups of Americans, OF
bandits who seized Americans and
held them for ransom, of general law
lessness and disorder, such as sci
dom has come to the ears OF the
president since trouble began in Mex,
leo nearly two years ago.
The story came out at a hearing
which the president granted a party
of Mexican business men.
They did not ask Intervention, they
said, after the hearing was over. But
they did request the president to see
that life and property be made safe,
After a hearing of an hour and q half
the president promised to take up the
case presented with the departments
concerned.
Senators William Alden Smith, OF
Michigan, and Fall, of New Mexico,
who conducted the Investigation for
the senate of the two Mexican revolu'
tons: Representative Hamilton OF
Michigan; Prince Mckinney Of CleVe'
land; w. C. Pence Of Texas; H. S.
Stephenson Of Los Angelese, and E.
X. Warren of Three Oaks, Mich, were
present at the hearings
White house officials had no state,
ment to make after the conference
but it was understood that President
Taft had no intention Of asking con
gress for authority to intervene. Sena'
tors Fall and Smith did not take up
with the president in detail the re-
suit of their investigation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
BLACK HAND GANG
THREATEN WILSON
BLACK HAND LETTERS ARE
SENT TO PREsIDENT-ELEcT
WILSON,.
SEVEN LETTERS SENT HIM
Three Men Arrested for Threatening
to Kill President-EIect Unless !
He Gives $4,000.
SEVEN LETTERS SENT HIN

Newark, N. J.-Three men, resi-
dents Of Wharton, were arrested at
Dover, n. j., charged with writing a
letter threatening President-elect
Woodrow Wilson with death unless
he caused $4,000 in gold to be left
for them in a designated ~unoccupied
house in Wharton. The men arrest
ed are Peter Dunn, "a years cid, his
brother, Jacob, 26, and Seely Daven'
port, AZ. United States Commission
er Stockton here committed them to
Jail In default of $4,000 bail each,
The letter to the governor was wrs
ten November II, and was signed
New York Gang" Postofice in
spectors ran down the alleged black
mailers and made the arrests.
Seven letters were sent to Gov
Woodrow Wilson, it appears. Their
text indicates the writer's to have
been of a low degree Of literacy. One
of them-the letter dated November
11-reads, in part:
N1l. w OOulo" HlloOAs 1 Jill ~"
agoin to warn you of what We are
agoin to do to you as we did not Ted
dy and Mckinley either they got
shoot up just the same and If we
don't get what WI ask from you you
will get the same say Wilson you
have got the office as presidents yes
and we are death on presidents sc
now Wilson If you have $4,000 in
gold for this party we will spare your
life but if not we will shoot you be
fore you get in the office as sure as
your name Is Wilson"
The letter gave Governor Wilson
until November "a to send the money
The threatening missive was receiv
ed at the governors office in Tren
ton by his secretary, Joseph P. Tu
multy, who promptly forwarded it to
James T. .Cortelyou, chief postal In
spector at Philadelphia.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
Has Jurisdiction Over Wireless.

Washington.-The interstate CON-
merce commission ruled that under
the act making telegraph and tele-
phone companies common carriers, it
has jurisdiction over wireless mes
sages from a commercial station IN
the United States to a ship at sea,
whether a United States or a foreign
ship, but that it has no jurisdiction
over messages between two Ameri-
can ships at sea. The effect Of the
ruling is that the commission may
determine in the event Of complaint,
whether charges are reasonable.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
Federal Control Over Wireless.

Washington.-An system
of government supervision over wire
less telegraphy will become effective
four months from the date Of the
enactment of the law. Plans have
been made to carry out the new sys-
tenn. both as to the shore stations
and steamships operated by CONNER
cial companies and the army and
navy stations. Government licenses
hereafter will be required for all shore
stations and for steamers leaving any
American port. These licenses are
being prepared by experts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
ALSBERG IS FOOD EXPERT
Will Succeed Doctor Wiley as Chief Of
the Bureau Of Chemistry.

Washington.-President Taft and
Secretary OF Agriculture James Will
son, after months of consideration,
have decided Upon the appointment Of
DR.. Carl Alsberg, a chemist in the bu'
reau of drugs and plants, as chief Of
the bureau of chemistry Of the depart
ment of agriculture, a position that
has been vacant since the resignation
last spring of DR.. Harvey Wiley, the
famous defender Of the pure food law.
Doctor Alsberg has been in the de-
partment Of agriculture four years.
He was educated in Columbia univer.
sity and Strassburg university in Ger
many. He engaged in research work
in Germany for. several years. Before
coming to Washington he was in
charge of the department of biologi-
cal chemistry department at Harvard
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
Want Ruler To Assume Title.

Munich, Bavaira.-The demand fol
an actual king instead of the shad W
of a monarch is spreading widely in
Bavaria. The clerical newspapers in
close touch with the Bavarian cabi-
net Joined the Liberal newspapers in
urging the new prince regent to as
sumo the crown. The changes would
involve constitutional alterations, but
the most delicate point is, according
to acquaintance of Prince Ludwig,
the finding of a suitable form In
which to communicate the popular
wish to the regent.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
DECISION IN TILLMAN CASE
Mother and Father Divide Custody OF
Children.

Columbia, S. C.-By the unanimous
opinion of the supreme court of South
Carolina, the custody Of the two lit
tie children of Mrs. Lucy Dugas and
her former husband, B. R. Tillman,
Jr., son of Senator B. R. Tillman, Is
divided between the two.
Under the terms Of the decision,
the children, Douschka Pickens IT'LL
man and Sarah Stark Tillman, are
to remain in the custody of the moth.
err for the greater part of the time.
The father, B. R. Tillman, Jr, is to
have them during two months of the
summer vacation season, during half
the Christmas holidays and during
one week in the spring, each year.
Each of the parties is required to
put up a bond of $4,000 not to remove
the children from the jurisdiction OF
the court, which thus will exercise a
general supervision over their bring
ing up.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
Attack Hiah Cost of Living.

New York.-As a step toward the
solution of the problem of the high
cost of living, Mayor Gaynor's market
commission hopes to find some way
of providing better terminal facilities
for handling perishable produce. 1t
is estimated that under the system
there is an annual waste of $500 OOO,-
600. This is demonstrated by the re-
port of condemnations, showing that
during the year 100000 pounds of
fruit were destroyed, 100000 pounds
Of vegetables, and $4,000 pounds OF
miscellaneous market products.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
PEACE DELEGATES
TO MEET NL0ND0k
LITTLE TO HINDER CONFERENCE
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS
AT ONCE.
GREECE MAY ALSO SIGN UP
The Newspaper Interviews Indicate
Keen Interest In Struggle Over Pos
session of Adrianople.-Will 70.
mania Joint the Conference.

London.-All the plenipotentiaries to
the peace conference which will con
vene here IN the near future with the
purpose of ending the war in south
eastern Europe are assembled in Lon
don. The Turkish ENJOYS arrived and,
unless the continuance of hostilities
between the Turks and Greeks should
prove a hindrance, there seems moth
ing in sight to prevent the conference
getting down to business Immediately.
With regard to a report from Con-
stantinople that the Turks would re.
fuse to meet the Greek p%lenipoten-
tiaries in London unless Greece signed
the armistice the other Balkan States
have subscribed to, the counsellor OF
the Turkish Embassy said he knew
nothing of any such instructions and
did o believe the Greeks would have
come to London unless their country
was prepared to fall in line with the
other Balkan States as to the terms
on which they should meet.
The newspaper interviews given by
the Turkish and Bulgarian delegates
on their Journey indicate that a keen
struggle will take place in the peace
conference over the possession OF
Adrianople. Both sides present an un-
yielding attitude on this point, basing
their claims on the fact that their
armies are in excellent condition to
resume hostilities. The Turks claim
they have 10000 practically fresh
troops behind the Tchatalja lines,
while dispatches from CONSTANT.
nople indicate the war party in tho
Turkish capital is gaining in influence.
No apprehension is entertained in dip
lomatic quarters here, however, that
the conference will be separated with
out concluding peace.
The important question has arisen
as to whether Romania should join
the ambassadorial conference, which
will convene simultaneously with the
peace conference to discuss pending
European questions.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
Would Ban All But Big Pistols.

Athens, Ga.-Declaring that there
IS too general use of pistols, too much
shooting of human beings in Athens
and Clarke county, the grand jury
recommended the introduction of a
bill in the next legislature f%orbidding
the manufacture, sale or carrying
about the person in any name what,
soever of any pistol with a barrel less
than 16 inches long. Despite Judge
Brands declaration to put the pistol
toter on the changing, there has
been more shootings with pistols in
and around Athens the past year than
ever before.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
%ARB|TRATORS ARE NAMED
TO REPRESENT UNITED STATES
AND GREAT BRITAIN IN ARBl-
TRATION OF MONEY CLAIMS.
Schedule of Claims for Submission to
Arbitration Has Been Agreed
Upon.

Washington.-Great Britain and the
United States have agreed upon the
composition Of the tribunal for the
arbitration of pecuniary claims, as
provided in the special agreement re-
Gently ratified by the two govern
ments.
Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, chief JUS.
tice Of Canada and the British mem
Der of the north Atlantic coast fisher
les arbitration tribunal at The Hague
in 1910, will represent Great Britain.
Cander P. Anderson, counsellor of the
department of state, will represent
the United States. These will select
a third member, who will act as um,
pire and vii be a subject Of neither
Great Britain nor the United States.
The third members name will be an.
uounced later.
Cecil ]. B. Hurst of the British for
ign Office will be chief counsel for
Great Britain. Edmund L. Newcombe,
Canadian deputy minister of justice,
will be associated with him. Severe
Mallett-Prevost of New York will be
chief counsel for the United States. He
was one of counsel in the Venezula
boundary arbitration. Robert Lansing,
one. of counsel for the United States in
the fisheries arbitration, and the Alas
ka boundary arbitration, will be asso,
ciated with him.
A schedule Of claims for submission
to arbitration has been agreed upon.
The amount claimed on both sides is
altogether about 100000 1t is un'
derstood that a supplemental schedule
of claims is likely to be agreed upon
before the tribunal meets.
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Invitation to U. S. HortlcuIturists.

Invitation to U. S. HorticuIturists.
Observation-Disclosures Of the
United States are urged to participate
in the international horticultural ex.
position in st. Petersburg, Russia,
next April, the invitation being CEN
veyed through John Snodgrass, the
American co%nsul-general at Moscow.
The exposition is to be as elaborate
affair, including exhibits Of not only
flowers and fruits, but also of the
busy bee and the industrious silk
worm. The czar is to present person
ally the more important of the awards.
and the exposition is to commerate
the Tooth anniversary of the Roman
off dynasty. o., .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
MAKES WAR MOVE
ALL HER BEST SOLDIERS ARE
CALLED TO HEAD OF
THE ARMY.
Lean Of S5o,ooo,ooo Arransed-Aus
trials Attitude Is Causing
Alarm In Europe.

Vienna.-Important changes have
taken place in the Austro-Hungarian
val department. General Auffenberg
minister of war, has resigned. Gen
aral Krobaten, under secretary in the
war office, has been appointed as
his successor.
General Schemua, chief Of the gen
eral staff, who recently paid a visit
to Berlin and conferred with Count
Won Moltke, chief Of the general staff
of the German army, also has resign
ed. He has been succeeded by Gen
eral Won H~oetzendorf, who held the
same post several years ago.
The Austrian government has nego
tiated with a syndicate headed by the
Austrian Postal Savings bank, and in
GLIDING Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and the
National City bank Of New York, fol-
an issue of 4 IL treasury bonds to
the amount of s25, 5000, which viii
be taken at 81, redeemable at pal
London.NNo explanation Is yet
forthcoming of the. sudden resignation
of the Austro-Hungarian minister Of
war, General Auffenberg, and the
chief of general staff, General Sche
mua.
It is supposed that Austria wishes
to exert a strong influence over the
coming conference proceedings al
London and especially to prevent the
entry of Turkey into the Balkan fed
GRAFTON.
1t was reported at Paris that the
entire Austrian feet had concentrat
ed at Pola, the chief naval station Of
Austria Hungary.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
uvde Sentenced to Three Years.

New York.-Charles H. Hyde, Tor
mer city chamberlain, convicted OF
bribery in connection with the manip
ulation of city funds, was sentenced
bv Justice Golf to serve not more
than three years and six months and
not less than two years in the state
prison. The justice. however, grant
ed a certificate of reasonable doubt
and issued a stay Of execution, agree
ING to admit the prisoner to $4,000
bail. pending argument of his appeal
Rail was furnished and Hyde walked
out of court.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
n;x;. claimants Win Their Point.

Washington.-By the terms of a bill
passed by the house, persons in Ken
lucky and other battle-ground states
of the Civil war who have claims
against the United States for prop
erty destroyed by Union troops, will
not have to prove loyalty to the I'm
i'm in order to collect the money,
provided the loss was sustained after
June /, 1865, the date of the cessa'
,ion of hostilities. Representative
Heflin of Alabama introduced the
bill. It Is estimated that upwards
of 81 600 900 worth Of claims.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
Shoots Man About Girl.

Ashburn. Ga.-Tan CleghorE who
figured in the Investigation OF the
death of Minnie Marchman a short
time ago, was shot on the streets
here by w. F. Cochran, a b%rother-in'
law of the Marchman girl. First re-
ports that spread about the town
were that Cleghorn had been killed,
hut Cleghorn is still alive and is not
fatally wounded. Cleghorn was alone
at the time of the shooting. accord
ing to information obtained. Cochran
gave himself up to the sheriff and
gave bond.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
E,o,es CAPTURED by Farmers.

Kinefsher. OHla.--Four big golden
headed eagles we're brought here b!
farmers who captured them and kill
od . fifth in the Gyp hills. northwest
Of here. The farmers said a flock OF
seven of the birds had their aeries
IN the hills an B have been carrying
off small stock in such numbers that
thew ORGANIZED to exterminate them.
rho birds have taken away lambs'and
nigs and some of the residents assert
hat the eagles, instead Of gypsies
carried away an infant child from
the community a few months ago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
middies TO Be Fined for Hazing.

Annapolis, Md.-It was learned that
four midshipment have been recon-
mended for dismissal from the nava'
academy by superintendent Gibbons
after an inquiry by a board of off
GERS covering a period of a month
for alleged m~altreatment of a fellow
midshipman. The four are alleged
to have formed themselves into a
clique, and persistently annoyed their
victim by having frequent fstic en-
counters with him, as we'll as by fore
ing him to perform humiliating acts
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
p,nLer Parker Pleads Guilty.

Blue Earth, Minn.-Berry w. Par
ker, former vice president of the
State Bank of Commerce, Winnebago,
Mimi, who recently was captured In
Georgia, pleaded guilty to the indict'
ment of grand larceny in the first de-
gree, returned by the grand jury. I'm
der the law, his sentence will be an
jndeterminate one, the maximum OF
which is ten years. In a. statement
issued shortly before pleading guilty,
Parker assumed, all responsibility for
the troubles of the bank, which. af'
ter his disappearance, was closed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
Crooks Planned Rescue.

Memphis, Tenn.-That Frank Hol'
loway, bank robber and escaped con
vict. was in Memphis with several OF
his followers to intercept Deputy
limited States marshaIs en- route from
savannah. Ca, to Omaha. Neb., with
Deqgs Nolen, accused Of misuse OF
the mails, and free Nolen at all haz'
ards, developed in connection with
the raiding of a cottage on the out
skirts of Memphis, the capture OF
Holloway and several of his followers
and the killing of another, kinney
BERGEN, ex-convict.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
IUroes Fortifyinq Canal.

Washington.-The immediate FORTH
cation and mobilization Of troops In
Panama and Hawaii for the protection
of American property at those points.
the passage of a national volunteers
bill allowing the draughting of an ef'
fcient fighting force in time of need
and the extension of pay to the Ma
tfonal Guard under the condition that
that body be made available for gen
eral army use were among the major
suggestions made by Secretary III
War Henry L. Stimson in his annual
report to the president.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
Mccombs Preparing for Inauguration

Observation-Disclosures Wllllam r.
McCombs of the Democratic national
committee is in Washington confer,
ring with local Democratic leaders
concerning the appointment of a chair
man for the Inauguration committee
II was said no decision was reached,
but that an announcement might be
made O Vice Chairman William
McAdoo spent some time with Chair
man McCombs as did Senator Gore
and other Democratic leaders in con-
gress. Chairman McCombs will con-
fer with Speaker Clark.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
ei~ preachers on Police Force.

Los Angeles, Cal.-SiX clergymen
were put on the rolls of the police
denartment as special officers. They
wear stars and are empowered tc
make arrests, their special duties be-
ing the enforcement Of the juvenile
laws and the regulation of dance
halls. The minister-policemen are
members of the Juvenile Protection
League. They have beer commission
ed not only to safeguard the young
and prevent the exploitation of girls
but tn arrest and prosecute parents
who neglect their children.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
State Department Puzzled.

Washington.-The new revolution
arv outburst in the Dominican repub-
lie is both puzzling and vexing to the
state department officials. The de-
uartment was in hopes that the ar
rangement made recently by the spe-
cial American commission would pre-
serve a for two years when a
new election vas to be held.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
Train Robbers Make $4,000 Haul.

bakersfield. Cal.-Twenty thousand
dollars in gold was the haul of two
robbers who held up the express car
of the Sunset Western train, bound
from bakersfield for Taft, Cal. The
money was consigned to the First
National bank of Taft by the First
National hank of Bakersfield. 1t was
not nlaced in the express safe. When
the train arrived at Taft, railroad
men were forced to break down the
door of the express car. In a corner
was NJ. w. Handy. messenger, re
gaining consciousness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18
LARGE Sums for Lighthouse Service,

Washington. Bills introduced in
the senate at the request of Secretary
Nagel, would appropriate many hun-
dred thousands for the lighthouse ser
vice, including: For construction OF
lighthouse vessels for the southern
pass and the southwestern pass at
the entrance of the Mississippi, $780,.
600; for the Mississippi river below
New Orleans, $4,000; for the Atcha-
falaya entrance channel, louisiana,
$780, 600.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18

It is maintained by a Boston minis.
ter that 1t is possible to marry and
live comfortably on SIS a week. 1t Il
possible at least to marry on that in.
come.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18

A Bantu tribesman has been discov-
cred with forty-lve wives. II the
tribe allowed suffrage, no doubt he'd
be perpetual king.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18

A New York woman Of eighty Is
starting to learn a trade. A person
is never too old to learn. even in New
York.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-18

All the song birds migrate to the
south except the particular kind that
waits on the big cities Tor the open.
ing Of the opera season.