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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
INTEREsTIN THE SOUTHWEST
Many People Receiving Information
About This Section.

About This Sectloh. g.
Chicago.-Great interest about the
Southeastern states was aroused by
the exhibits made this fall by the
Southern railway system at Northern
fairs and expositions, over a quarter
of a million desirable people seeking
and receiving information regarding
the and opportunities of
the Southeast, according to reports
received from representatives of the
railway in charge Of the exhibits.
The various exhibits made extended
over a period of two months and in.
cluded the country north Of the Ohio
river from New York mad Pennsylva-
mia to Iowa. There were twenty
seven separate exhibits made at dis
trict and county fairs in the North
ern states in addition to a fine dis
play put in at the Canadian Interna-
tional exhibition at Toronto. The ex-
hibits everywhere attracted attention.
AS a rule v~isit~rs pronounced them
finer than those made gy local ex-
hibitors, and it was usual to hear the
statement from a man that he had
no idea that the Southeast was a
country of such wonderful resources
and opportunities. The fine displays
of fruit, of corn, wheat and other
grains, and the showing about other
products Of the Southern soil were
things that especially appealed to
great numbers of Northern farmers.
Not less than two representatives
of the Southern railway and its as
ISOLATED lines we're present at each
of these exhibits, explaining condi-
tions in the Southeast and the oppor-
tunities offered to the homeseeker as
we'll as the attraction Of the South
ern country for investors or for visit.
ors. Reports Of these agents show
that the total attendance at the va
rious fairs and exhibits visited
amounted to over 1,S50,000 people,
that about 100000 visited the South
ern railway exhibits, over 10000 PEG:
ple were personally talked with about
he Southeast and nearly $50 5000 cop.
les of literature advertising this C
ton were distributed. In addition to
these exhibits special dairy exhibits
were made at the Chicago and Water
loo, Iowa, exhibition, and a special
exhibit on live stock opportunities
will be made at the International Live
Stock exhibition at Chicago in De-
SSoSn &
cember.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
EIGHT TRAlNME EN- ARE KILLED
Through Passenger Trains Collide In
North Carolina.

Nortn CdTOiiHd.
: Norlina, N. C.-Eight trainmen
were killed and three badly injured
near here when Seaboard Air Line
through passenger trains running be-
tween New York and Jacksonville,
Fla, collided head-on. Both locomo-
tives and three passenger coaches
were demolished. Further deaths and
injuries were prevented by the fact
that there were no passengers in the
coaches demolished. -,
The wreck, which occurred seven
miles north of here, happened at four
o'clock in the morning just as train
No. 81, southbound, was coming out
of a long curve in a deep fill. Both
trains were running at full speed and
the engineer Of neither could have
e the approach of the other for
more than a minute before the crash.
The wreckage did not catch fire
and there was no panic among the
passengers.
Shortly after the wreck occurred,
nearby farmers brought coffee to the
scene for the benefit Of the chilled
passengers and injured.
One of the women passengers was
hurled backward from her berth to
the compartment back Of her. She
tore a hole through the thin partition,
but escaped injury.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
RAID ON DOCTORS
AND DRUGGISTS
USING MAILS TO PROMOTE GRIM
INAL PRACTICES is THE
80,
CHARGE.
173 PERSONS ARE INVOLVED
United States Inspectors Make Ar
rests in Many States-Prominent
Men Involved.

Washington.-A nationwide raid
involving the practically simultaneous
arrests of 173 persons in the princi-
pal cities of the country, was made
by p%ostoffce inspectors. and United
States marshals upon doctors and
drug oncerns charged with the mis-
use of the mails to solicit criminal
medical practice, or to dispose OF
medicines and instruments connected
with such practice.
The raid, the most extensive and
f%ar-reaching eve made by any de-
partment of the government, was un-
der the personal direction Of Post
master General Hitchcock and Chief
Inspector Robert S. Sharp Of the post
office department. So carefully had
its details been guarded that until
the first of the arrests were. made
at Indianapolis, practically nothing
was known of the governments con
templated action.
Working with clock-like precision,
the inspection force spread over ~
states, carried out the pre-arranged
plans and the ~postoffce department
has received word tl2L nearly all OF
the designated persons have been ar
rested.
Chief Inspector Sharp and a large
part of his force of 800 inspectors had
been engaged for seven months, IN
der the orders of the postmaster gen.
eral in working up the scores OF in
dividual cases in which arrests were
made.
Many OF those taken into custody
were members of prominent whole
sale and retail drug concerns, or ply
sicians well known in their own com
munities. y
The government will prosecute the
cases vigorously, according to a state
ment by Postmaster General Hitch
cock. II .,
"The work of the p~ostoffce inspec-
tors is the elimination of the cru
SADIE Instituted more than two years
ago against the fraudulent and I'M
lawful use of the mails, said Mr.,
Hitchcock. I'm that comparatively
brief time we have wiped out of exist:
ence concerns which have mulcted
the people of this country out Of more
than one hundred million dollars by
frauds perpetrated through the use
of the mails, and the courts have sent
many of the promoters of the fraud
ulent SCHEME to the ~penitentlary'
where they are now serving time. The
wide publicity given to the arrests
made will do more to put an end to
this particular sort'of criminality than
any number Of practically unknown
prosecutions of widely separated
cases."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
TO marx GRAVES OF
ALL C0NFEDERATEs
CONGRESS HAS GIVEN 100000
TO PLACE TABLETS OVER
SOUTHERN SOLDIERS (
REPORT OF GENERAL BERRY
The Suggestion Came Originally From
Late President Mckinley IN a Speech
Made in the south.-Report VIII Be
Transmitted to Congress.
REPORT OF GENERAL BERRY

Washington.-So far as an earnest
and> careful search by one Of their,
own leaders on the field Of battle cani
assure, every Confederate soldier and
sailor who died in a Northern prison
and was buried nearby now lies be-
meath a headstone or monument OF
marble. Gen. James II. Berry, ex-
Senator from Arkansas, the only sur
,yiving member Of the commission 81
trusted by Congress with this task, has
just reported the completion of his:
work to the Secretary Of War.
The suggestion that the National
Government mark these long-neglect-
ed graves came originally from the
late President Mckinley in the course
Of one Of his speeches delivered In
the South and took form in an act of
Congress of March q, 1906. This ap-
pr%opriated $1,000 900 for marking the
graves and created a commission to
do the work. In the past six years two.
commissioners ex-Representatiye Ell
lott Of South Carolina, and Governor
Oates of Alabama, have passed away,
and it has remained FOR General Ber-'
ry, one Of the few living Confederate.
Generals, to carry out the work.
General Berry's report will be
transmitted to Congress. 1t shows that
the Geenrai found end marked by
headstones and tablets the bodies Of
22,401 Confederate dead, including all
positively known to- fall within the
terms of the act. In every case where
it was possible each of these graves
was marked with a white marble
headstone similar to those splacedsoyer
the graves in the Confederate section
of Arlington National Cemetery.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
co,,r HGunmenr Found Guilty.

New York.-"Gyp the Blood LIEF
ty Louie" "Dago Frank and whitley
Lewis" killed Herman Rosenthal, the
gambler, at the instigation of Charlese
Becker and must pay the penalty of
death in the electric chair. The jury
which has been hearing the evidence
against the four gunner so decided,
when it returned a verdict of murder
in the first degree, after but 90 min
utes of deliberation. The gunner
heard the verdict pronounced against
them without show of emotion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
TURKS CAPTURED
MoNAsTIR, THE GREAT MosLEM
STRONGHOLD, Is FORCED
TO SURRENDER.
Powers Once More Asked to Stop the
War-choiera Is Raging in
Turkish Army.

Belgrade, Servia.-The Turkish
fortress of Monastir has surrendered
to the Servian troops. e.-
Fifty thousand Turkish soldiers and
three generals laid down their arms.
Monastir Is the headquarters of the
Sixth Turkish army corps, command.
ed by HFethi Pasha, but many other
Turkish troops, fleeing from surround.
ing towns which had been captured
by the Servians, concentrated there.
david Pasha, the commander of the
Seventh Turkish army corps, went
there with many of his soldiers after
the fall of Uskup to the Servians.
Fethi Pasha, former Turkish minis.
ter to Belgrade, was one of the first
to hand over his sword. At the be-
ginning of the war he made the re-
mark: I'VE will soon invite our
friends to dinner in Belgrade"
London, England.-Any idea that
the Turkish government may have
had Of benefting by continued re-
sistance must be shattered by the
news of the fall Of Monastir. In the
capture of that important town the
S~ervians took three pashas, including
the commander-in-chief, Zekk Pasha,
$4,000 men and f~orty-seven guns, thus
achieving the greatest individual sue.
cess of the war.
With cholera and typtlus raging
within her demoralized army, and a
powerful enemy hammering at her
gates, Turkey again appeals to the
allies for terms. - :
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
TO PREPARE THE MILITIA
ACTING SECRETARY OLIVER IN.
vITEs COOPERATION IN WAR
COLLEGE PLANS.
Important Move Proposed by War De.
partment to Governors of
All States,

Neutrality-suspicious. of the most I'M
portant moves in recent years to pre-
pare the national militia for use in
time of war is proposed in letters
addressed by Acting Secretary oliver
to the governors Nof all the states
and territories, inviting their cooper
alton in the val college plans for the
organization Of the militia into sixteen
tactical divisions.
The letters point out that IL the
militia Is to be used as a field force
effectively in var time, it can only be
done by this system of divisions and
that to insure the proper working OF
the plan all Of the details should be
worked but in time of peace.
In the outline of the sixteen d.
visions no place is given to separate
companies Of infantry, which, 1t is
said, should be absorbed into regi-
ments or other larger organizations,
Field armies would be formed by the
grouping of two or more divisions OF
Lue milllld VI Wy COA1plnlhS oHS VI
two divisions of militia with one Of
regular troops.
Regular organizations would form
the fourth brigade of any division as
signed to a field army, for the reason
that the organized militia is localized
while the regular army must go any.
where Upon call.
Some money will be available for
the assistance of state authorities. The
war department also proposes to de-
tain Inspector instructors to assist the
state officials and war material for
the militia will be distributed and
stored in suitable depots to be at hand
locally when mobilization is ordered.
General oliver plans to have the
first four Of the sixteen tactical .di-
visions composed entirely of regular
troopsj with the District of Columbia
militia assigned to duty as regulars.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
MAN CAPTURES
POLICE STATION
FOR HOURS MANIAC HOLDS Po'
LICE FORCE AND THE COURT
, OFFICERS AT BAY.
HAD AN INF ERNAL MACHINE
Terror Reiqned in Los AneeIese Pc
lice Headquarters and in the
City Jail.

Los Angelese, Cal.-Armed with an
Internal machine, containing enough
dynamite to destroy an entire city
block, a bottle of nitroglycerine and
a 45-calibre revolver, a masked man
took possession of the Central po-
lice station, and held it for more than
an hour, while hundreds OF occupants
of the building and those fJr blocks
around, panic-stricken, sought safety
When Detective James Hosick
knocked the man unconscious with a
feather ''billy," after slipping up be-
hind him, the fuse Of the Internal ma
chine was automatically ignited, but
Detective Samuel L. Brown grabbed
the box, with it's fuse sharply splut-
tering, and hurled it into the street.
Sticks Of high power dynamite scat.
tered yer the pavement, while hun
dreds of spectators stood apparently
paralyZed by fright. Through a freak
Of chance, there was no explosion,
and Brown continued kicking the
sticks of dynamite and jumping on
the fuse until he had broken the con
nection and extinguished the fire.
Davis entered the outer office Of
Chief Of Police Sebastian. His face
and head were completely covered
with a grotesque mask
Manacled to a cot in ne receiving
hospital the would-be dynamiter, who
gave his name as Albert Henry Davis,
is suffering with several severe scalp
wounds, but the police surgeons say
his injuries are not serious.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
sIashes Throat Before His Wife.

Macon, Ga.-Despondent over con-
tinued i'll health, DR.. Alphonso R.
Price, a veterinary surgeon and the
brother of the late Daisey Price, one
time mayor of Macon, slashed his
throat with a caseknife while sitting
in. his home, 354 Edgewood avenue, in
the presence of his wife and several
friends and neighbors. He was rush
ed to the Macon hospital and, after
examination, the attending physician
stated there is little hope Of recov'
cry.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
Moonshine Leaders In Prison.

Nashville, Tenn.-Melvin Dodson
and Luther Roberts of Van Buren,
county, alleged TO be members Of a
powerful gang of moonshiners, which
some months ago fought a desperate
battle with revenue officers, were
brought here and placed in Jail. They
were indicted at the recent session Of
Federal court at Cookeville for at
tempting to assassinate G. S. Marsh
a posseman. Both mel were held ir
the sum of $4,000 to answer to the
next term of Federal court.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
MOTHER AND CHILD KILLED
Mrs. Bessie lyle and Daughter Ara
r Thrown Under Trolley.

Atlanta.-Catapulted into the air
from the tonneau of an automobile
and hurled underneath the tracks OF
a trolley car when 1t collided with
her husbands machine directly in the
front of their Luckie street home,
Mrs. Bessie Lyle and her two-year'
old daughter, Margaret, were killed,
as they started on a pleasure trip
Her husband, w. Richard Lyle, who
was at the steering wheel of the fatal
auto, and their other daughter, Olivia,
who sat beside her father upon the
front seat, escaped unhurt
Two wheels of the forward trucks
of the trolley car passed over the
legs of the little girl, severing them
near the abdomen. The body OF her
mother was wedged underneath the
front platform and dangerously near
the trucks. Mr.. Lyle, selling the
small tire pack from the toolbox OF
his wrecked automobile, lacked up
the forward end of the car to extri
cate his injured wife.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
Storm Sweeps Over Jamaica.

Kingston, Jamaica. - The storm
which struck sections of Jamaica in
dictate hat great damage has been
done. Banana planters seem to be
the heaviest losers, although railway
and telegraph properties also have
suffered greatly. Telegraph and rail-
road communication generally is de-
moralized, making it difficult to esti.
mate the exact state of affairs in
parts of the island. Reports say a
hurricane passed over the northwest
coast Of Jamaica
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
"Dead" Husband Faces "Widow."

independence, kans.-Mrs. EVellne
stalnaker, suing the Modern Wood
men lodge of independence, to force
payment of a $4,000 policy on her
husbands life, was confronted by Stall
maker in the district court here. The
case was dismissed with the costs
assessed against Mrs. Stalnaker. Mrs.
Stalnaker earlier had taken the stand.
She said her husband was the broth.
er of her first husband and that when
she married him he was 10 years old
and she 40. In 1904, she related, he
left her and she claimed he vas dead.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
Resnite Is Granted Aliens.

Richmond, Va.-The date for the
execution of Floyd Allen and his son,
Claude S. Allen, for participation in
the Hilsville courthouse murders, was
postponed by Governor Mann from
November % to December 10. The
respite was granted so that Claude
Allen might take an appeal to the
United States supreme court on the
constitutional ground that his life had
twice been placed in jeopardy. In
announcing the stay Of execution
Governor Mann said he granted 1t
upon request of Judge Staples.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
Money For Road Work in States

Washington-The s500,0O0 appropri.
ated by congress for improvement Of
roads will be distributed equitably
among the states that cooperate with
the federal government in this work.
The question has been under discus
sion by the cabinet ald it has been
agreed that the amount shall be al
lotted among all the states on the
basis of $4,000 to each state that
agrees to spend on it's part $4,000 Of
it's own funds. 1t is anticipated that
a number of states will not be able
to raise the required amount.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
Terrell Buried at Old Home.

Greenville, Ga.-The body of Joseph
Meriwether Terrell. former governor
and United States senator, who died
In Atlanta, was buried in the old Gem
etery here. The interment was at
tended by hundreds Of G%eorgians who
had known and honored Mr.. Terrell
since his early manhood and had
watched his love and interest his rise
in life. The funeral was held in the
Greenville Baptist church. Among the
n%allbearers and the honorary escort
were many Atlanta friends who ac'
companied the body from Atlanta.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
AoJv Jumpers Hurt.

Durham, N. Cone woman was ia
tally injured and a score Of women
and men seriously burned or bruised
when an overturned lamp set fire to
a building in which the Holiness
church, sometimes known as the
"Holy Jumpers" was holding its an
mail convention. A panic followed.
Mrs. ,Jud Pope, one of the many who
Jumped from the second story win
dows, is expected to die. Some dele
gates we're burned as they fought
their a out of the building. and
others we're injured by falling glass.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
eoo+ powder for u. S. Soldiers

Washington.-The war department,
which is looking after the feet of en-
listed men with renewed vigilance,
has lust ordered through the surgeon
generals office 10000 cans of foot
powder to be used in connection with
adhesive plaster, both of which ar
ticles will be supplied on requisition
of medical officers. The provisions of
the general order, which provides for
the proper protection of the feet of
enlisted men. have attracted wide at
,ention in the military service.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
Father Causes Boys, Death.

Mount Vernon, Ind.-Parental adj
monition resulted in the death OF
Ralph Conner, aged II. The boy and
his brother, Mckinley, aged IA, were
going nutting. The father urged the
older boy to take a gun with them
TO be used in case they should meet
a mad dog that had been terrorizing
the neighborhood. The boys had fill
ed I'D their sacks, and Mckinley had
picked up the gun to start home,
when it was discharged, the contents
striking the younger brother in the
neck. He died in 30 minutes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
hompson is sworn II.

Neutrality-suspicious. A. Thompson
was sworn In as Treasurer of the
United States, succeeding Lee Nc
Chung. In accepting his comm ssion
from Secretary Macveagh, Mr.. Thomp-
son said he would retire from political
life with President Taft on March A.
The, committee appointed by Secre-
tary MacVeagh to count money and
securities in the Treasury in ordersto
verify the accounts Of the retiring
Treasurer, has taken entire charge OF
the caults and safes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
Hebrew Farmers IN Convention.

New York.-The fourth annual con-
vention of the Federation of Jewish
Farmers of America opened here
with delegates in attendance, repre-
senting fifty local societies scattered
over seven states. All the problems
confronting the 1000 Jewish farmers
in the Eastern states will be discuss
ed. Supreme Court Justice Samuel
Greenbaum, president Of the educa-
tional alliance, welcomed the dele
gates. He congratulated them for re-
turning to the occupation of their
forefathers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
VIII Review Trust Busting Record

Westinghouse complete resume
of the trust" prosecutions program
of President Taft's administration,
will be contained in the forthcoming
annual report Of Attorney General
Wickersham. Particular emphasis
will be laid upon the antitrust record
of the past four years among which 70
antitrust suits were instituted, while
the combined total Of the administra-
tons Of Presidents Harrison, Cleve-
land, Mckinley and Roosevelt was 81.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
War CRY Raised In Canton

Chicago.-A special dispatch to the
Chicago Daily News from Canton,
China, says: "The governor general
has designated Lieut.. Gov. Chank Wing
Ming commander OF the Cantonese
force going to Mongolia to hold the
territory of the republic. Red Cross
societies are preparing to follow the
army. Let is fight and end once for
all these foreign inv%asions, is the war
cry that has been raised in Canton.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
Nuns Save Girls as Convent Burns.

Washington, Ga. - One hundred
girls narrowly escaped death when
the st. Joseph's academy, the only
Catholic college exclusively for girls
in Georgia, was totally destroyed by
fire. The damage is estimated at $751;
600. The confagration was discov-
cred at $3.50 o'clock in the morning
by Miss Jennie H~ollenshead, aged 16,
a student. who spread the arm and
probably saved the lives of many Of
the inmates. Sisters Secelia, Raphael
and Vita formed the girls in line and
led them to safety.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27

A boy, mistaken by an enthusiastic
hunter for an opossum, was shot and
killed. One remarkable thing about
these accidents, which now make a
regular feature Of the shooting season.
is the accurate aim Of the hunter whe
never fails to hit when he aims at a
mistake.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27
Want Positions In Consular Service.

Washington. - Aspirants for posi-
tons in the consular service already
are bombarding the state department
and members of congress for appoint
ment to foreign shores, although the
service is one of the most difficult
branches of the government to
achieve. Applicants for foreign COM
mercial posts must pass an extremely
rigid examination must be versed in
at least one language other than their
native tongue and are examined along
any other lines, both commercial
and academic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-11-27

The statement Of the comptroller Of
the currency that a dollar bill usually
last about fourteen months is not in
line with experience out this way. A
dollar bill lasts just long enough to go
downtown.